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When Ian Burford and Alex Cannell became the first gay couple to have their relationship recognised formally by the state earlier this month, they were keen to point out that this was no 'pink wedding'.
"We're steering clear of any sentimental marriage imitations," declared Cannell, a senior nursing manager at a London hospital. "There will be no flowers, no confetti and no declaration of vows."
All the same, it was a joyous occasion for guests and campaigners alike when the two men signed Mayor of London Ken Livingstone's London Partnership Register. "There was so much gloom and terrifying things happening in the world that week it was nice to see something so human and happy," recalls Angela Mason, the solicitor chief executive of lesbian and gay pressure group Stonewall, who attended the ceremony.
According to Burford, a former member of the English Shakespeare Company, the event was "not a marriage, but a recognition of the value of a partnership. For 38 years I've had the love, friendship and support of Alex, and throughout whatever years are left to us he knows that he has my love, friendship and support."
The ceremony took place at the Greater London Authority headquarters in Westminster and the couple received a bouquet of flowers from the guest of honour Ken Livingstone.
For gay rights activists, the campaign for the legal recognition of couples of the same sex continues apace this year with two bills on cohabitation rights, which are expected to be introduced in Parliament in the coming months. "The lesbian and gay movement is growing up and people are looking to change the terms of their everyday lives," claims Mason. "It's not about the great flag-waving issues, but those that affect how you live."
Mason advises Livingstone on issues relating to homosexuality in the capital. She believes that the London Register has put the issue of partnership rights "back on the agenda". Every Wednesday and Saturday, for a fee of £85, gay and straight couples will now be able to get 'hitched', and take home a certificate as proof. So far, 75 couples have made appointments for their registration and more than 300 applications have been made. It is an idea that is expected to take hold beyond the M25, with Brighton's, Manchester's and Liverpool's councils expected to follow London's example.
"It's not about the great flag-waving issues, but those that affect how you live"
Angela Mason, Stonewall
Speaking before the ceremony, Livingstone acknowledged that neither the certificate nor the ceremony conferred any legal rights upon the parties, but he expressed hope that it might help, for example, with tenancy or immigration disputes.
As he pointed out: "MPs have voted that their own partners will qualify for full pension rights, and we're asking them to give to the community what they've given to themselves."
"It has no legal effect whatsoever, but it is truly symbolic," says Mark Harper, a family partner at City-based firm Withers. "In fact, it's value as a symbol is huge insofar as it's the first time that there is such a register in this country, and it's likely to lead to yet more calls for law reform to give cohabitees more rights."
Andrew Newbury, a partner at Manchester firm Pannone & Partners and a member of the Solicitors Family Law Association (SFLA), welcomes the register, but he also sounds a note of caution. He believes that a non-legally-enforceable register could add to the confusion that exists around unmarried couples. "My concern is that it perpetuates the myth of the 'common law wife'," he argues. "There's no such legal concept, and just by someone registering their relationship will not grant any additional rights as far as cohabitees are concerned – whether heterosexual or homosexual."
As Newbury points out, over the last two decades the number of people living together who are unmarried has trebled, from 9 per cent of the total to around 33 per cent. There are in the region of 1.6 million cohabitees.
"So a significant proportion of the population is living together," Newbury continues, "and from that, another significant part believe that they have legal rights which aren't there, and the only way we're going to deal with that is through legislation."
Next month, the Liberal Democrat peer and tenant of Blackstone Chambers Lord Lester will sponsor a Private Members' Bill in the House of Lords. It is expected to recommend a civil partnership register offering unmarried couples the same legal rights as their wedded equivalents. Jane Griffith, Labour MP for Reading East, is also planning to seek the approval of the House of Commons for a 10-minute bill on 24 October.
Harper detects a building momentum in the movement for change. As campaigners take their fight to Westminster, the Law Commission is expected to publish a consultation paper on home-sharing, including cohabitation rights, which it has been looking at for six years; and north of the border, the Scottish Executive has pledged to reform its law.
"I hope as every year passes more and more people realise that the present law for cohabitants is grossly unfair and needs to be changed"
Mark Harper, Withers
"I hope as every year passes more and more people realise that the present law for cohabitants is grossly unfair and needs to be changed," Harper says. He has been involved in recent proposals from both the Law Society and the SFLA on reforming cohabitation law.
According to Harper, Lord Lester's bill is still in draft form. "It's actually a very radical proposal, because it is in effect treating those who register their partnerships in exactly the same way as those that get married," he says.
According to Harper, the SFLA and the Law Society proposed "opt-out" schemes which provided "blanket rights to everyone", whereas Lord Lester's bill provides for a system of registration whereby "only if you sign up do you get the rights".
Andrea Woelke, a solicitor at Anthony Gold who advises same-sex and unmarried couples on such issues, argues that the intention of any future legislation must be framed "to protect the vulnerable party and stop people from escaping their liabilities".
"The only way to achieve that is to introduce rights for all people that are living in a committed relationship, whether they register or not," he says. "There could be an opt-out if they'd thought about what they want to do and for some reason they didn't want those rights."
Under the SFLA proposals, cohabitants could apply to the court for financial relief where the parties have been living together for two years, unless there are children, in which case there would be no minimum. The SFLA recommends that the courts make property adjustment orders and short-term financial support available for not more than three years, and argues that an opt-out provision should be available to provide freedom of choice for cohabitants.
For Mason at Stonewall there are two distinct reasons for law reform. First, she believes that many lesbians and gay men want to feel "part of the process" in the same way as many of their heterosexual peers do. "There's no public recognition of your partnership," she says, "and people do want public milestones in their lives."
"Is it fair that you can live with someone for 40 years and not be entitled to a pension as their dependant, when you could be married for a couple of years and automatically be provided for?"
Gill Butler, Butler Wade
The second reason is the discrimination that homosexual and unmarried couples face in looking after their own affairs. Gill Butler, a partner at London firm Evans Butler Wade, spends a lot of time dealing with the inequalities that her gay clients face over pensions, inheritance tax or housing succession (see box).
For example, many pension schemes, including all public sector superannuation schemes, provide for a widow's or widower's pension if one partner dies before their spouse, but this is not the case for a gay or lesbian partner. "Is it fair that you can live with someone for 40 years and not be entitled to a pension as their dependant, when you could be married for a couple of years and automatically be provided for?" asks Butler.
The newly-registered Burford and Cannell have been a couple for almost four decades, and when they first met they purchased a house together for £8,000 in Battersea. Mason points out that it is now worth "God knows what", but one day they would be liable to pay tax on it at 40 per cent over the £242,000 threshold. She adds that, in similar situations, couples have been forced to sell their own homes to avoid such a bill.
On the Continent, new laws which recognise same-sex marriages are rapidly leaving the UK isolated. Gay weddings were introduced in Germany this August, more than 10 years after Denmark became the first country to give homosexual couples a legal status. Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway and France have all introduced similar laws. Earlier in the year, the Netherlands went a step further and legalised same-sex marriages, which allowed couples to adopt.
Butler believes that the Dutch model comes "closest to what is both fair and reasonable". A number of her clients are lesbian couples with children and the partner who is not the birth mother cannot jointly adopt the child.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Butler is not confident about the likelihood of any legislation making it through the House of Lords without the strong support of the Government. As she points out: "In France last year partnership rights were introduced, and French society hasn't come to a standstill and Sodom and Gomorrah hasn't overrun Paris."
Mason hopes that the bill will receive a more sympathetic ride through the House of Lords than past gay rights issues have had. "It's a very different issue from Section 28 or the age of consent," she says. "This is about how consenting adults with responsible and committed lives can administer their own affairs and how they shouldn't be treated differently from anybody else."
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Dean Pelton's Rap in Community
Let's have fun this weekend with this hilariously weird freestyle rap in one of my favorite shows the other night: Community. One of the oddball characters, Dean Pelton, broke it down in an increasingly weird fashion on the mic… which is true Community fashion. I wasn't even fazed at Pelton's costume, but I can only imagine a casual viewer's reaction to this. I thought it was good, I won't be surprised if you don't though. Give the quick-hit video a watch above.


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Wiring in an electric fan
I'm trying to install an electric fan out of a different pickup into my truck. Specifics really don't matter about which cars etc. I'm just trying to figure out how to add an electric fan to a vehicle without one stock. Can anyone here help me out?
I don't need it to activate at a certain temperature, just needs to turn on when the vehicle is on. I don't know if I need relays, or if I can just hook her up directly to the fuse box, etc...
Thanks for any help.
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Electric Fans are high current devices, You should Always use a relay when installing one to keep from frying a harness.
If you just want it in "Run" all the time the best way to do it is get a relay that will handle the draw of the fan , whatever that might be, I think usual is 30 amps.
Locate and wire the Coil for the relay, one wire to a hard ground, and the other to about a 2 amp fuse, then to any source that is hot when the key is on. This is your control circuit.
Locate the Normally open Contact and the Center wiper of the relay, wire the center wiper to the Fan motor, and the normally open side to a properly rated fuse for the motor, then to any Battery source, or the harness side of the fusible link.
That's it. You will have a fan that runs when the key is "On" at all times.
Are you sure you don't want to temp control it?
In some cases running a fan continually, can cause over-cooling which is as bad for the engine as under-cooling...
You can add a manual switch by either adding a switch between the relay fuse and the switched 12 volt source to manually control the temps. Or between ground and the ground side of the relay coil...But this too has pitfalls, If you forget to turn it back on...you can overheat.
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The natural vibration of fluid-structure interaction systems subject to the sommerfeld radiation condition
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A fluid-structure interaction system subject to a Sommerfeld condition is defined as a Sommerfeld system in this paper. It is well known that the natural vibration of a dynamic system is defined by the eigenvalue problem of the corresponding idealized system with no material damping assumed and external forces. From the defined eigenvalue problem, the real natural frequencies and the corresponding natural modes of the system can be derived. What are the characteristics of natural vibrations of a Sommerfeld system? This paper intends to address this problem by investigating three selected fluid-structure interaction systems. The systems chosen involve the solid structures with one, two and infinite degrees of freedom coupling to an infinite fluid domain subject to a Sommerfeld condition, respectively. The governing equations describing these coupled systems are presented using the theory of continuum mechanics. The theoretical solution for each problem is derived and discussed. The analysis demonstrates that a Sommerfeld system undergoing a natural vibration behaves energy dissipative characteristics although there is no material damping in solid and fluid of the system. The natural vibrations of a Sommerfeld system are governed by a complex eigenvalue problem which has only pairs of complex conjugate natural frequencies. The number of the complex conjugate natural frequencies and corresponding natural modes of this Sommerfeld system equals to the number of the degrees of freedom of the dry solid structure in the system and it is independent of the infinite fluid domain. The natural vibration forms of the solid structure in natural vibrations do not satisfy the orthogonal relationship. The findings in this research reveal some common dynamic characteristics of Sommerfeld systems. An approach for the dynamic response analysis of a Sommerfeld system is proposed based on the orthogonal natural modes of the dry structure in the system which is more efficient for engineering analysis.
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It was a wise choice last night while my excitement was over the top to prepare two days worth of meals. I had to make an unexpected ride to the airport to pick-up family that arrived two hours early from rain battered Florida. And that brought me home one hour late for dinner.
Tonight I was instructed to keep the already prepared meal simple for The Wife. She had me heat up her Chardonay Herbed Chicken thighs and Corn cobs. And the Pasta salad was served cold. I was given a kiss and told the meal was wonderful; I had followed directions !
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Who'd a thought this would happen? Delta Air Lines and Frontier Airlines have lowered and/or dropped some fees. Also, Ryanair has raised bag fees, but that should surprise no one.
Let's get to the good news first.
Delta Drops a Frequent Flier Fee
Delta Air Lines says it will stop charging SkyMiles members the stiff $150 fee to redeem award tickets within 20 days of departure (it had been free only if you made plans to fly 21 days out).
However, at the same time, the airline has raised fees for canceled or rescheduled award tickets from $100 to $150 (but these fees are waived for Diamond and Platinum Medallion members). All in all, I'd say that's progress.
Frontier Airlines Drops/Lowers Fees
More good news: Frontier is lowering or dropping airline fees.
Change Fee: Frontier Airlines has lowered its "change fee" – the money you have to pay to change your ticket – from $100 to $50.
Phone Reservation Fee: Frontier also dropped its $25 fee to make airline ticket reservations by phone or at the airline counter (as opposed to making reservations online); cost of phone/counter reservations now is $0.
New Assigned Seating: Plus, the airline has added "advanced seat assignments at time of booking for Economy AirFairs customers" – nice.
Why Not Tell Oprah?
So did Frontier trumpet this great news on the homepage of the airline's website? Take out full page ads in the New York Times? Go on Oprah to spread the good news? No. There's just a little announcement in the hard-to-find media section of the site – and our thanks to Terry Maxon at the Airline Biz Blog, or we might have missed this.
I don't know why they're keeping it quiet – I'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Meanwhile, Bag Fees Rise at Europe's Ryanair
Attention European travelers: Ryanair has announced new, higher bag fee rates for summer – on flights during July and August:
For online bag check-in
- First checked bag fee: price rises from about $21 to $36 one-way
- Second checked bag fee: price rises from about $51 to $58 one-way
For airport bag check-in:
- First checked-bag fee: price rises from about $51 to $58 one-way
- Second checked-bag fee: price rises from about $109 to $116 one-way
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Ryanair also has a chintzy bag weight limit; whereas most U.S. carriers allow you a weight limit of up to 50 pounds, Ryanair only allows you about 33 pounds.
An employee of mine who recently saw her child off to a college Study Abroad Program in Eastern Europe knows all about the dangers of over-packing – but I'll let her tell you about it:
"I told my beloved college student to keep it under 50 pounds," she said, insisting on anonymity. "And my child swore it would be so. But at the Delta counter, we got the bad news: the bag weighed a whopping 63 pounds, so Mom had to fork over a whopping $150. Could have been worse, though. Ryanair would have charged me an incredible $377 in overweight bag charges."
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Machine Learning + Love
Log onto an online dating site and you are asking a machine for romantic assistance. That's cool, but you might as well understand how it works, right?
There's an algorithm picking and choosing which profile to put in front of which users, and sometimes it works—roughly a third of marriages these days begin online—and other times it doesn't. On this week's New Tech City, host Manoush Zomorodi tracks down some smart people who are writing, and improving the matching systems of dating sites.
Kenneth Cukier, data editor at The Economist, explains "you'd be a fool to try to do online dating without machine intelligence, without machine learning." So we get him to explain what that means.
Kang Zhao, professor of management sciences at the University of Iowa, is a very smart guy who has a plan to make sure the matches in front of you are people you'd actually like, and who will actually respond to your messages. "There are ways to improve [profiles] because the information you have in your profile is sometimes just too much."
And then we put all this to someone responsible for a whole lot of online meetings, VP of matching for eHarmony, Steve Carter, who says a few unexpected things, including that dating sites only work if you shake up your rigid mindset and embrace the real life, offline magic of face-to-face dating.
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New Hampshire Economist and Chancellor of the Community College System Ross Gitell is looking at the major demographic and economic differences between the rural and more urban parts of our state - a divide he says is growing. We're talking about that, and his ideas on closing the gap.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Transportation have unveiled the Location Affordability Portal (LAP), a cost calculation tool that allows users to estimate housing and transportation costs for neighborhoods across the country.
Increasing Energy Efficiency In New Hampshire: Realizing Our Potential
This report is the result of a study funded through a competitive grant provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's State Energy Program. The report assesses six potential ways for the state, its citizens, municipalities and businesses to realize the economic benefits that would result from policies that support more investments in cost effective energy efficiency.
What's old is new in N.H.: Wood, pellets gain steam in energy market
By Rik Stevens
There's renewed enthusiasm in heavily forested New Hampshire for the idea of homegrown heating sources, primarily wood and – more recently – wood pellets.
For the first time, the state's Office of Energy and Planning is posting the cost of wood pellets to compare with other main heating sources. That outreach combined with a supportive regulatory structure have put wood back on the front burner as an environmentally attractive, inexpensive and local alternative to oil, gas and electricity.
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Liberty Utilities, in partnership with Merrimack County Savings Bank and Meredith Village Savings Bank, is offering a 2% Home Improvement Loan to participants of our Home Performance with ENERGY STAR (HPwES) program. This is an unsecured loan for adding insulation and air sealing to your home.
The Stewardship Network: New England
The Stewardship Network: New England is a new regional effort to increase the capacity of conservation organizations, agencies, and researchers to engage with volunteers in the care and study of ecosystems, lands and waters. The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension is leading The Stewardship Network: New England initiative, expanding the successful work of The Stewardship Network in the Great Lakes region, to meet the needs of our local conservation partners and volunteers.
UNHCE will be hosting regional meetings to learn more about the interest, capacity, leadership, enthusiasm and challenges for creating a local collaborative effort in your region. The sessions are designed to learn more and share ideas on how this initiative can meet your needs for stewardship of our lands and waters.
The 2012 population estimates for NH towns and citeis are available on the Population Estimates page.
NH's Wood Energy Support Team Receives USDA Grant
On September 11th US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, identified NH as one of five states awarded funding to support the development and work of a statewide wood biomass energy support team. NH's Wood Energy Support team has been meeting since last January developing a program of educational, technical and financial services that will now be implemented. NH has had a strong network of organizations, institutions, businesses, agencies and individuals developing wood biomass energy for many years. This grant award represents years of work and will provide a new capacity to help NH residents, communities, institutions and businesses utilize wood biomass thermal heat technology that is right for NH.
Selected energy and planning legislation from the first session (2013) of the 163rd General Court
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Weatherization Program Annual Plan
The Office of Energy and Planning held a public hearing on the state's Weatherization Program Annual Plan on May 23, 2013, at 9:00 at the Office of Energy and Planning.
State Government Efforts to Reduce Energy Recognized
On Friday, April 19th at the Annual State Energy Conference the Governor's Excellence in Energy Efficiency Awards were presented to the Police Standards and Training Council, state employee Jim Poisson of the Department of Environmental Services (DES), and the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery. Presenting the awards were NHDES Commissioner Tom Burack and Administrative Services Deputy Commissioner Mike Connor. The conference is held annually for state agency energy coordinators and facility managers, as well as other state employees interested in reducing energy use and energy costs.
New Hampshire CORE Utilities receive ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award!
On April 29, EPA and DOE honored businesses and organizations for their outstanding contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency at the 2013 ENERGY STAR Awards ceremony.
Four Berlin homes receive solar thermal systems
Berlin Better Buildings teamed up with BAREI (Berlin Area Renewable Energy Initiative) and PAREI (Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative) in a collaborative effort to install solar thermal systems in four Berlin homes to qualified homeowners.
$1 million loan from EAP is an option to help TCCAP
Writing special legislation to authorize a one-time $1 million long-term loan from the Electric Assistance Program (EAP) to help Tri-County Community Action Program (TCCAP) is under discussion as a potential way to solve the agency's oft-reported cash-flow problems.
Provided by nhenergy.org, the NH Energy Calendar offers guidance to local energy commissions established under RSA 38-D for the advancement of an energy-related project at a traditional March town meeting in New Hampshire.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy (EESE) Board calls for comprehensive energy policy highlighting energy efficiency and local renewable resources
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TAB Sportsbet, too, saw no cause for alarm, saying it would continue to field on games in which one side might be seen to lack winning motivation.
TAB Sportsbet's Gary Davies said the agency already took unequal motivation into account. "We might bet accordingly, but we would never not bet," Davies said last night. Not to bet would reflect adversely on the integrity of the clubs and the players.
In the match, Fremantle surrendered meekly in the second half, the loss ensuring the club gained two priority draft picks. One of these selections was used to secure Paul Hasleby.
Fremantle kicked six goals straight in the second term to lead by nine points at half-time but added only three more to Geelong's 14 in the second half. The Cats kicked the last 11 goals of the game to win by 51 points.
Writing in yesterday's Age, former Geelong player and present media caller and commentator Dwayne Russell wondered whether Fremantle had protected its draft picks.
Ross Smith, the former North Melbourne player and then assistant coach at Geelong, sat in the coach's box with Gary Ayres that day. Garry Hocking, who was injured, watched. Michael Mansfield made his last appearance for the Cats.
None of them saw or heard anything that made them suspect Fremantle had not put in an honest effort to win the game.
Smith said he had a stronger memory of the match at Subiaco Oval in round six that year when "we capitulated to them". Geelong led at every change then, but seven goals to two in the final term gave the Dockers their first win of the season.
Of the round-22 game, Smith said he had not heard any comment in the box about the manner or commitment of the Fremantle performance.
"There was no thought about it at the time," Smith said.
•As a result of yesterday's Age report, Fox Footy will replay the Geelong-Fremantle round-22, 1999 match in its entirety, starting at 9.30 tonight.
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Shortly after, I found a pin on Pinterest by "That girl....That quilt" for this non-slip headband TUTORIAL for the same type of headband but this gal used up some of her leftover scrap fabric. And well, I have lots of that!
So off I went to Hancock Fabrics and found these spools of 7/8" wide velvet ribbon. I figured since this ribbon would be on the underside of the headband, that matching the colors to the fabric would not be crucial. These are ribbon rolls sold by Simplicity and they are sold by the roll (not yard).
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Capital, The (Newspaper) - September 11, 1986, Annapolis, Maryland Inside Weight program boosts IE Severna Park IJCIds find home iway from home. Bi Cl Ci HOWELL MICROFILMS P. 0. BOX 1558 LAUREL MD 2O7O7 For jMQt 11. VOL. Cl NO. 214 SEPTEMBER 25 Ctnts QOHTFOfiQfT At a.m. tomorrow Chief lattice Warren Burger and 4BilJK. Harry Hughes wifl start celebration of the Annapo- 1k Convention Bicentennial at the opening of the Constitution Resource Room at the State The public is welcome. Other events follow. See THE DEPARTMENT of Util- ities to inspect septic systems. DR.QOTT KNDOMETRIOSIS affects 15 percent of women. Page is. SALT WAS recognized in tjrjjr Anne Arundel County as I Important part of person's V-1 ettisens reacted an- grHrto plans la seD the Arna- our A. Mftdattand begin PRIME MINISTER Shimon of Israel and President Mubarak meet to talk about peace. Ptgei. TV MOVIES that try to pre- I vent teen suicides may have the opposite effect. Ptgt 3. I SAILING I THE CEDAR Point Race I hjd a stow pace. I SSSS ER CLEMENS had a trouble beating the Orl. SarttgttMa and tbe E StraetJMad are putting finish. they Blade durmg I the liit 10 years. r ma- terial spans J8pr i DII teen's entire recording In- Iclodleg hii ikta Col- said yesterday. to ha taBed stoi IH I Street WS.06V' wiO be Ife late fan Fa toot at otter Oft Hf 4 -MM Shady Side woman gets 15 years By JOANNA RAMEY Staff Writer Anne Quetel received communion and wept at the funeral of 82-year- old Aloyse Cameron in Shady where both women were known for their generosity. Mrs. Quetel again cried uncontrollably as a judge sen- tenced her to 15 years in prison for murdering the widow in 1885. one can understand my Mrs. told Circuit Court Judge Raymond 6. Thieme Jr. is a part of me. She will never leave me. I loved Mrs. Quetel pleaded guilty in May to second-degree murder for striking Mrs. Cameron in the bead with a 7- pound rock. The blow came after the widow accused Mrs. com- pulsive of stealing HOOD in county police said. Like many small the south county community of Shady Side is known for being relatively crime- free. Both Mrs. Cameron's murder and the arrest of Mrs. Quetel stunned residents. Mrs. Quetel worked four hours every Tuesday for Mrs. driving her to the beauty shop and grocery according to the widow's family. Throughout the Mrs. Quetel was known to stop by her employer's house to visit and bring hi the mail. Mrs. who was married to an Associated Press recip- rocated by sharing a pot roast or pie witt the woman. It was Mrs. Quetel who called county police to report finding her employer's body two days after the murder. The telephone lines in her modest Steamboat Road home were cut. Her purse was hi the according to police accounts. For seven months police thought that Mrs. Cameron's murder was prompted by a Mrs. Quetel had been but suspicions were not immediatelyj-aised. Detectives then learned that Mrs. Quetel had tried to hire someone off an old They also out that the Friday before her Mrs. Cameron had called her nk about missing checks. BOLD Mrs. Quetel cannot remember ac- tually striking Jin. but she vaguely recalls an argument with the psychologist Eric English testified yesterday. English said that Mrs. Quetel was not prone to violence. Although men. turning that her gambling is under he made no reference to why Mrs. Quetel took money from her employer. The psycholgist blamed Mrs. Que- tel's in on being abused as a child by a on Page Cd. Meetiiig here of Constitution ByLAlTRAINE WAGNER feauanafty News Editor Two hundred years ago a handful of learned men nut at Mann's Tavern in Annapolis to discuss problems of commerce. They wound up giving direction to a faltering new nation. The Annapolis Convention of 1788 was hardly large enough to war- rant its name. Only five of the 13 seat delegates and Mary- land was not included. But the convention's impact on creating one nation from the divid- ed and squabbling states was enor- mous. The leaders met to unravel the tangle of trade and commerce problems among the realising that the nation was in a serious they made firm and broad recommendations that be- came tbe catalyst for the drafting of the Constitution in Philadelphia months later. Annapolis Convention real- ly made tbe Philadelphia Conven- tion said Gregory assistant state archivist and director of the Maryland Of- fice tor the Bicentennial of the U.S. ConsUfntion Ha has headed a year-long effort to publicise and celebrate Annapo- lis' rote in America's early history. historical and entertainment events are being held in Annapolis and at Fort George G. Meade this weak- end and exhibits at Smithsoni- an Institution focus on the MANN'S TAVERN on Conduit Street waa the alte df the Annapolis Convention of 1766. Thla taken In ahowa at far right MwylMNl tttte the building that now houaaa the Masonic Lodge No. 89. Mann's Tavern burned In 1919. celebration. Tbe Annapolis Convention has been called the successful failure in American be- cause it did not resolve the trade but did lead to the creation of the Constitution. five states were represent- but they took bold steps in drafting the even naming 'the date and place May in said. The Annapolis meeting came less than two years after the ratifi- cation of the Treaty of Paris end- ing the a signing that took place at tbe State House when Annapolis was briefly the nation's capitoL Independence had been won. but freedom without direction at first seemed to be more a curse than a blessing. Under the Articles of Confedera- tion there was no real central government for the new nation of 3.5 million people. There was no provision for common no decent and unreliable postal service. Printed money was becoming Revolutionary soldiers bad not been and debtors' prisons were filled. States were functioning as free squabbling and battling over everything. There was no no unity they were not becoming a nation. States were reluctant to pay taxes to support a central govern- tbe very concept they had fought against They needed firm and fair and the first effort to provide that came from the Annapolis meeting. It became the candle that lighted the way to Philadelphia. in a nejLfora of government was outlined in tbe Constitution of the United States. It has survived to become the world's oldest and most successful governing docu- ment The Annapolis Convention came from a meeting in 17S5 at George Washington's Potomac River home where Maryland and Virginia rep- resentatives agreed on mutually It Cat Debtbusters work on federal budget Local players raise taxes ByJUDIPERLMAN Staff Writer axed tod wheeled aod and reluctantly made some tradeoffs all to achieve a budget. In Uw pieiKio- tlaabed tbe nation's by domes- tic programs by 115 feUlioB and Social Security programs by just I billkwi Then they for a whopping IT MDfca tax toerease It waa all part of a national organised by RooawvtJt Center for American aiared to state are ttsaa. Pa I.C. executive vice president of the partisan think unk. won't face up to it because it can't get the president to give support But if you put in their they will make that Sixteen Maryland government and businest the tame in tmtinest own- George Benson and Cynthia Me- dentlit Edwin f former Mayor Richard Hill man and Aaaapolis Attennan Carl Saowdee. aoea forget it's a game. Your on issues you support cotae forth said Me a former tam gtrl who triad to nratoet botl tantoaas and agriettl- AkMt fMM ntjafja across tka an ana of already lave pUyed the srofrasaa. 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In this report:
- Acknowledgements
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Part I - Demographic Trends in Katrina-Affected Areas and Their Impact on the 2010 Census
- Part II - Census Procedures and Operational Challenges to Getting an Accurate Count in the Aftermath of a Catastrophe
- Part III - Operational and Policy Recommendations for a More Accurate 2010 Census in the Gulf Coast
- Appendix A
The U.S. Census Bureau produces an official count of the U.S. population once every 10 years as required by the U.S. Constitution. The count is used to allocate representation in the U.S. House of Representatives among the states; to draw congressional and state legislative district lines; to direct the distribution of trillions of dollars in federal, state, and private spending and investment decisions; and to assist in the evaluation and enforcement of civil rights protections.
Under the best of circumstances, compiling an accurate count is an enormous and complex undertaking with huge stakes for individuals and communities. It is important to note that racial and ethnic minorities were disproportionately undercounted in previous censuses, and are more likely to live in areas designated by the Census Bureau as hard-to-count (HTC). The uneven accuracy of previous census counts – particularly for racial and ethnic minorities, people with low income, people with limited English proficiency, and others – raises serious civil rights concerns about equality of political representation and economic opportunity.
For the 2010 Census, the task will be both particularly important and especially daunting in the Gulf Coast region, which is still recovering from the unprecedented and catastrophic combination of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the multiple failures of government preparation and response that have impeded recovery.
Consider the scope of devastation caused by the storms and their aftermath. The Federal Emergency Management Agency designated 117 counties along the Gulf Coast as disaster areas in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The storm affected a wide area: residents of 31 parishes in Louisiana, 49 counties in Mississippi, and eight counties in Alabama were eligible for Individual Assistance.2 Low-lying counties closest to the Gulf of Mexico suffered the greatest damage and displacement of individuals and families. In New Orleans alone, 80 percent of the city was flooded, 107,000 occupied housing units were flooded and an additional 27,000 sustained wind damage. The city lost about half its pre-Katrina population of 455,046, and in spite of relatively rapid population growth in recent years, is estimated to have about 100,000 fewer residents than before the flooding.3
The most recently available data from the American Community Survey (ACS), reflecting conditions in 2007, support the concern that the road home for displaced homeowners, a characteristic that indicates longer-term ties to a community, has been difficult and slow, and that rental housing for residents seeking temporary housing in the area while they rebuild is in shorter supply than before Hurricane Katrina. For example, in Orleans Parish, the rental vacancy rate was about three and a half times the homeowner vacancy rate (7.9 percent v. 2.2 percent) in 2000. In 2007, while both vacancy rates were significantly higher in the storm's aftermath, the homeowner vacancy rate had more than tripled and the rental vacancy rate was less than twice as high as the homeowner vacancy rate (11.7 percent v. 7.1 percent). In Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, the rental vacancy rate of 7.2 percent was virtually the same in 2000 and in 2007, but the homeowner vacancy rate almost doubled, from 1.2 percent in 2000 to 2.3 percent in 2007. A similar pattern occurred in the hardest hit Mississippi communities. In Harrison County, homeowner vacancy rates were less than a fifth of rental vacancy rates in 2000 (1.9 percent v. 10.6 percent), but jumped closer to half in 2007 (3.4 percent v. 8.7 percent). These data suggest that many homeowners were still working to return home two years after the hurricane; the 2008 ACS estimates will help researchers evaluate this trend further.
Demographic and socio-economic conditions in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states put them at high risk for an undercount even before Katrina, and that risk fell disproportionately on minority communities. For example, in Louisiana, 41.5 percent of Blacks and nearly 30 percent of Asian Americans lived in HTC count areas in 2000, compared to 8.0 percent of Non-Hispanic Whites. In Mississippi, 36.6 percent of Blacks lived in HTC areas, compared to 7.8 percent of Non-Hispanic Whites. In Alabama, nearly 30 percent of Blacks lived in HTC areas, compared to 4.5 percent of Non-Hispanic Whites. These racial and ethnic differences point to the potentially destructive impact of distorted, uneven counts on equality and economic opportunity, and the importance of efforts by the Census Bureau and its partner organizations to invest in reaching HTC populations.4
Unless an alternative source is cited, the U.S. Census Bureau is the source of population, housing, and socio-economic data in this report. The source for data from 2000 is the 2000 decennial census. The source for population and housing estimates for intercensal years (such as 2005 and 2007) is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program, as noted. The Census Bureau publishes data from the American Community Survey (ACS), which replaced the traditional census long form starting in 2005, in late summer of each year following the year of data collection. For example, 2005 ACS estimates were released starting in August 2006. The Census Bureau produces one-year ACS estimates for all places with a population of 65,000 or greater, and three-year estimates for places with a population of 20,000 or greater (starting with 2005-2007). Data users can access all of these data most easily through American FactFinder on the Census Bureau's web site.
Next Section: Importance of the 2010 Census to the Gulf Coast Region
2. Federal Emergency Management agency website section on 2005 disaster declarations. http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema?year=2005 See Katrina declarations for designated states and counties.
3. Spencer, Naomi, "Three years since Hurricane Katrina," Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2008.
4. O'Hare, William and Edwin Quiamboa, Analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Tract-Level Planning Database With Census 2000 Data, based on "hard to count" scores of 60 or higher, Annie E. Casey Foundation, April 2009.


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Blush is big this year in everything from dresses and linens down to dessert. This pale pink ice cream complements the couple's color choices.
Seeds of Change
Northern California event designers Going Lovely created blush-colored programs to welcome guests to this wedding.
Rosy Outlook
Pasadena, California-based Skybox Event Productions placed votives near blush-colored rose centerpieces to cast a warm glow.
Menus to Match
At this reception, styled by Santa Barbara's La Fete Weddings, an intricate, cream-colored plate pops between a blush-colored napkin and tablecloth.
Grey's Heyday
Once considered drab and lifeless, gray is working its way into weddings for its rustic tones and neutral qualities. For this wedding table, styled by Poppy & Plum Events, grey adds a cool base hue for the flowers and candles.
Gray Bouquet
Succulents and other gray-toned flowers make this Krista Jon-designed bridal bouquet sexy and subtle.
Dessert Duty
This dessert table, styled by Los Angeles-based Gather Events, uses a gray tablecloth as a backdrop. Notice how it complements the blush-colored flowers and cake trays.
Made in the Shade
For this outdoor Texas wedding, styled by Bourbon and Bloom, chic gray umbrellas offer some stylish shade.
Beautiful Backdrop
Gray chairs and table runners make a beautiful background for centerpieces of purple flowers created by Southern California floral designers Hidden Garden.
Go Green!
There's no such thing as too much green. One of the hottest colors for weddings this year, green is breaking out of the background and adding rich jewel tones to couples' color palettes. These bouquets, created by Krista Jon, show a variety of shades.
Altar Ego
Styled by Bluebird Productions, gorgeous greenery drapes this altar at an outdoor wedding.
Center of Attention
Green florals and branches in stair-step square vases make a simple, modern centerpiece at this Houston, Texas wedding.
Field Trip
The most natural way to work green into a wedding is to head outdoors. Rows of plants and vines—plus rolling hills in the background—make the perfect landscape for a quiet couple shot.


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There's no indication that any of the nearly half-million gallons (2,200 metric tons) of fuel oil has leaked from the ship's double-bottomed tanks, the news agency said, citing Nicastro.
There are 185 tons of diesel and lubricants on board, AP reported.
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Minimom3, Sorry your Mom has that attitude about the quilt. My Mom had a bit of that streak in her, but I think it was because she was brought up to NOT praise kids for good work. Crazy, huh? Your Mom is using the quilt, which is quite nice.
As for telling her friends that you made that 'ratting looking thing', some folks simply don't deal with compliments very well and minimize the subject of the compliment with comments like that. I've heard many people say similar things about 'stuff' I know they love and would have a very hard time parting with...but that compliment shakes them up.


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The four-bedroom, three-bath home at 8541 Hamilton St., will be made available to eligible Rancho Cucamonga residents.
Mandatory orientation meetings will be held to explain the program and take initial applications. Arrangements can be made at 909-596-7098 on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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This is week 55 in my series of Shape Up! The weekly post on what I did over the last week in my quest to getting healthier.
First off; congrats to the Baltimore Ravens for winning Super Bowl 47. This Super Bowl will be forever nicknamed as the Blackout Bowl as the lights went out at the New Orleans Superdome. I predicted the Ravens winning 35-31 on Saturday on Geek Alabama. The Super Bowl 47 final score was Ravens 34-31. I should go to Las Vegas because I almost picked the correct score! There were several funny pictures created because of the blackout. One was the Super Bowl logo renamed as the Blackout Bowl. The other was from Oreo and it reads, You Can Still Dunk In the Dark. Very creative!
So, I know you get tired drinking water all the time. Who wouldn't? If you only drink water you will get tired of it after a while and that means people will turn to drinks with a lot of calories. I like to keep several bottles of water in the fridge. Nothing is better than ice-cold water during a hot day. But I also prepare other drinks as well. I like to brew my own sweet tea which is easy to do. You can buy a box of tea bags for $1 and sugar is not expensive as well. Here's how I do it!
What are the benefits of drinking water? Your body is composed of about 60% water. The functions of these bodily fluids include digestion, absorption, circulation, creation of saliva, transportation of nutrients, and maintenance of body temperature. Drinking water helps to maintain this balance of bodily fluids. Water can also help control calories, helps your kidneys, helps to keep your skin looking good, and helps to energize your muscles. Basically water is essential for life! As long as you drink something that is a fluid, it will help your body run efficiently! You can try good alternatives like juices and milk if you get tired of drinking plain old water.
Make sure your drink enough water in your day! As for me in the last week, well I have been walking and eating one meal a day. That's all I can do since I have been unemployed for over 19 months! Searching for my 14th job in seven years has been a pain. This is what I did last week in Anniston. You know you are desperate when you walk around wearing signs saying "looking for work."
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Saturday: Chicken Wings, Sweet Tea.
Sunday: Pork Chops and Brown Rice, Sweet Tea.
Monday: Pizza, Sweet Tea.
Tuesday: Hotpockets, Sweet Tea.
Wednesday: Grilled Chicken and Brown Rice, Sweet Tea.
Thursday: Pork Chops and Brown Rice, Sweet Tea.
Friday: TV Dinners, Sweet Tea.
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So momma has told me a lot about how she came to get me. Ppl think b/c she calls me momma's boy I am her favorite, but that's not how I got that nickname. Nija is much braver than me & momma loves him just as much, but he is very independent. I don't think he is afraid of anything but the horrid vacuum cleaner! I have always been pretty shy but I am great at alerting momma to any noise or thing that doesn't seem right. Momma realized I was scared of lots of things, noise, the outside, people, & much more. If I am not right by her most of the time I am hiding. I feel braver at night, then I come out & play, get into stuff, cause messess, & play with Nija. So she calls me momma's boy b/c I have needed her & my soon to be daddy (momma just got engaged to her long time friend & boyfriend, I am very happy he loves playing with us!) to work with me getting over being afraid of things. It has taken 4 years, but I am getting there. I will even go out on the balcony during the day now if the plants are out there & the stereo doesn't always need to be on now to drown out scary sudden noises!
Before momma got us she lived with 4 other cats! She moved into a basement apartment with Chan & Vladimir. Upstairs lived Alley & Diablo. Vladimir passed away first. No one was sure what was wrong with him & his dad was very sad. Then his brother Diablo got sick soon after so they all got suspicious & Diablo lived upstairs. His mom & dad took him to the vet & it turned out he had an enlarged heart :( Diablo passed away very quickly after the trip to the vet momma said despite everyones best efforts to care for him around the clock (he left the vet with some pretty specific doctor's orders!). Everyone thought Chan was in the clear, momma took her to the vet, explained everything had her checked out & everything but then Chan's daddy got sick & momma had to take her to a foster home (momma didn't have anywhere to live so this was the only option.) The foster home was actually an animal clinic & adoption agency & even they checked her out while she lived there. Well Chan's daddy started getting better & Chan got to come home! But then momma said Chan started loosing weight (it was hard to tell at first b/c she was a long hair tortis shell calico)... it was becoming clear chan suffered the same condition as her brothers. Momma wasn't there when it happened but she found out Chan had passed also :( Momma said they were all so devastated; she hadn't adopted Chan or Vlady but had come to love them very much, as well as Diablo & despite everyones efforts & once finding out what had been wrong with the boys, even their preemptive measures had failed to keep Chan alive. Momma says Alley was very sad, Diablo was his best friend & they used to get into all kinds if mischief outside & Vladimir & Chan were good buddies of his too. Well Alley's momma moved back to Washington & took Alley. Momma & my soon to be daddy moved to a place of their own. They waited 2 years after Chan had left them before they came looking for us! They loved them lots (chan & vlady) & were pretty upset, then they didn't want to adopt any kitty that hadn't been thoroughly examined for some time( Nija & I spent a whole week being watched & examined before we could even be adopted)...
Well momma came & got us & it was about time! We've had a couple daddy's but momma never leaves us & now it looks like we have a permanent daddy & he is very good to us (he spoils us lots!), she has never married any of her pets daddy's & we think he is a good pick! He spends hours playing with both of us & then cuddling us when we get tired of playing! (He wears us out & i know momma enjoys the help b/c we can be a handful for just one human!) She has known him 11 years, I think they must be pretty old that seems like a long time! He even knew her first cat she got as an adult (cremesicle but his daddy had to keep him but that's another story!)... meowyou if you got through all of this. I will be
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Gov. Pawlenty issued a letter to the commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget telling him to stop funding to ACORN unless the state is legally obligated to provide such funding. Pawlenty said he's ordering the review after reports surfaced about alleged illegal activity from group. The only problem is there is no state funding currently Read more →
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Margaret Anderson Kelliher officially announced her campaign for governor this morning in Mankato. Kelliher, who is also the MN House Speaker, joins a crowded field of candidates who hope to win the open seat. Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced in June that he will not seek reelection. You can listen to Kelliher's announcement here:
Despite being the candidate who has been in the race the longest (18 months), Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner has not officially announced her campaign for governor. The DFLer will kick off that part of the campaign on October first at her new campaign headquarters in St. Paul. Gaertner's campaign sent notice of the event Read more →
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Our Constitution is being discarded by a Progressive/Populist movement. It started with Theodore Roosevelt and
has been embraced by Pres. Obama. They (Democrats or Republicans) systematically pass legislation
to "progress" away from the Constitution, towards total govt, and discount/discredit the
principles which found this great Nation under GOD. They are taking God out of the equation - then who are we getting our
rights from? The government? They will do whatever it takes to "transform" our country, as evident by Health Care reform,
education and environmental initiatives, and bailouts. Now they have disguised themselves as Liberals.
How do you know who is a Progressive/Populist? Easy, they embrace Climate Exchange, State Capitalism (rebranding of National Socialism=Fascism), social justice, Net Neutrality, economic justice, global governance, spread/redistribute the wealth, Internationalism, EPA/Faith Partnership, collective salvation, and Citizen/worker of the World. Some organizations funding/supporting this attack are: Open Society Institute (George Soros), Media Matters (Hillary Clinton), Center for American Progress (Soros), Green Alliance (Van Jones), many Democratic and Republian Senators/Representatives, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, New America Foundation, Midwest Academy, and American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Those of us who have served in our military swore to defend the Constitution, so help us God. Senator's, the VP, and the Pres swore the same. It seems some of our elected officials have a different agenda; to progress away from our Constitution. They're systematically undoing what we've fought/died for.
Red, symbolic of Socialism, represents the Progressiveness of bills with big govt and reduced freedom that our elected officials have voted for. Why RED? President Obama's Organizing for America, an indoctrination program in public schools, requires our children read Marxist Saul Alinsky's, "Rules for Radicals", Dakota Voice. Why RED? There are many White House appointees with Communist/Marxist/Maoist and anti-Capitalist backgrounds (Dunn, Van Jones, Lloyd, Montgomery, the rest). A special thanks to That's My Congress, a Progressive scoring site. (It's amazing how this site makes you think Progressive is good.) The Pres, VPs, and Sec'y of State's scores are from their 110th Congressional score.
|AL Progressive/Liberal - Score 23 Jul 11
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I show MD because I was born and raised there. Guess what? You're screwed with those scores and they're going up! You're also in the Top 8 of states bringing our country down.
So happy to be an AL resident.
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The Progressive's own definition of a high Progressive Score: The percent of a slate of progressive policies (promoting freedom, knowledge, an economy of opportunity, peace and environmental security). The hidden, true definition is total government.
Progressivism and the Current Crisis"The present crisis did not appear out of nowhere, and didnt simply begin with the election of Barack Obama. Politicians of both parties spent the better part of the 20th century disregarding the Constitution, as they looked to have government step up to solve every conceivable human problem. Thus it ought to be no surprise that the Constitutions limits on government arent even part of the conversation today as our politicians debate the new interventions in our economy and society that seem to come daily.
Early progressives believed that the role of government should be determined not by our Constitution, but by whatever the needs of the day happened to be. This is why they sought to eradicate talk of the Constitution from our political discourse; today, that goal seems to have been realized. The second connection between the original Progressive Era and our situation today has to do with policy. The progressives knew that our original system of government was not capable of handling all of the new tasks that they had in mind for it. So they envisioned creating a vast set of bureaucratic agencies. They argued that Congress should enact very broad and vague laws for supervising more and more facets of the American economy and society, and then delegate to the bureaucratic agencies the power and discretion to enact specific policies. Both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt conceived of government in this way.
The New Deal certainly went a long way toward implementing this progressive vision, and what we have seen in our own situation with TARP and the various other interventions is simply greater steps toward the progressive plan. Our Congress has simply said to the Treasury agencies: heres a trillion dollars, heres all the legal authority you need, now go out, determine what is in the public interest, and spend and regulate accordingly. That is the progressive vision of government, in a nutshell." R.J. Pestritto, Shipley, Professor of the American Constitution at Hillsdale College.
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