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Focus on Economic Data: Consumer Price Index and Inflation, October 15, 2010
This lesson focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and rate of inflation reported October 15, 2010, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of September, 2010. Students read the BLS report, analyze the meaning of the CPI data, determine the change in consumer prices, and explore the impact of the change in the price level on themselves, their families, consumers, and producers.
Business Cycles, Causes of Inflation, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Cost-Push Inflation, Demand-Pull Inflation, Inflation, Inflation Risk, Macroeconomic Indicators, Price Stability
- Identify the rate and change in the consumer price index and rate of inflation in the United States in September, 2010.
- Identify factors that have influenced recent changes in the price level.
- Describe how inflation impacts different groups in the economy.
- Distinguish between the CPI-U, core rate and other measures of inflation.
Current Key Economic Indicatorsas of November 30, -0001
Each month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an estimate of the level of the consumer price index (CPI) and the rate of inflation in the United States for the previous month. The report provides the most recent current and seasonally adjusted consumer price indexes for all urban consumers, urban wager earners, and the chained index, plus a breakdown by major expenditure groups. The BLS also collects price level data for major metropolitan areas and regions.
This lesson focuses on the October 15, 2010, BLS press release of data on the consumer price index for the month of September, 2010.
For the latest updates on U.S. economic indicators, go to:
[Note: You can subscribe to receive monthly BLS email news releases. To subscribe, go to the BLS News Service Subscription Page .]
[Note on the CPI and Inflation "Focus on Economic Data" Lessons: During the first semester of this school year (September-December, 2010), EconEdLink will publish four lessons on "Consumer Price Index and Inflation." During this time period, the Focus on Economic Data will begin with the "basics" in September and progressively focus on more complex data, issues, and comparisons. All monthly lessons will include the current data and significant recent changes.
- September: CPI and inflation (deflation) basics: What is the CPI? What is inflation and deflation? How are they measured? What do they mean?
- October: Details and issues about the measurements and meaning of the measurements of the price level, adding additional concepts. March: Detailed breakdown of the data by region and other criteria (trends, identifying trends and comparisons of regions and demographic groups).
- November: U.S. regional and global price level and inflation comparisons.
- December: The relationships of CPI and inflation data to other economic data, such as GDP, employment. etc. and the business cycle. End of year price level summary and potential issues.]
BLS Employment Situation News Release for September 2010: News release for September released October 15, 2010.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Current Population Survey (CPS): This site contains a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the: labor force, employment, unemployment and persons not in the labor force.
Ranks of Discouraged Workers and Others Marginally Attached to the Labor Force Rise During Recession: This report addressed the long-standing issue of the importance of including discouraged and marginally attached workers in determining the real level of unemployment.
Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Labor Force Series in 2008: This is a BLS article on seasonal data adjustments.
Historical Changes in Employment: This BLS site provides employment percentages dating back to 1939.
Historical Unemployment Rate: This BLS site provides unemployment data dating back to 1948.
BLS Glossary: This glossary provides economics terms used by the BLS in their reports.
NBER FAQ's: This site provides National Bureau of Economic Research answers to frequently asked questions related to their Business Cycle Dating Procedure.
Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions: This BLS site provides answers to FAQ's about the employment situation press releases.
Key Economic Indicatorsas of October 15, 2010
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.1 percent before seasonal adjustment.
Employment and Unemployment
U.S. nonfarm payroll employment edged down by 95,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent. Government employment declined by 159,000 jobs, reflecting both a drop in the number of temporary workers for Census 2010 and job losses in local government. Private-sector payroll employment continued to trend up modestly by 64,000 jobs.
Real GDP
U.S. real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2010, according to the "third" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 3.7 percent. (
Federal Reserve
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and continues to anticipate that economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations, are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.
For the past year, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy statements have referred to U.S. inflation in terms such as "stable" and "subdued." Even the Fed's monetary policy actions to keep interest rates rates as low as possible have not resulted in any significant upward pressure on the overall price level.
As usual, energy and food prices have fluctuated more than most other prices, but have not risen enough to result in a significant rise in the consumer price index over the time period. This month's CPI announcement specifically mentions a small rise in both energy and food prices, but not enough to merit concern about inflation at this time.
Some people fear that current U.S. low interest rate monetary policies, along with federal budget deficits, will eventually result in pressure on prices, but few suggest that any inflation problem is eminent.
Take a look at the BLS CPI announcement for the month of September for the most recent price level data.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index - September 2010
Released October 15, 2010
"The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.1 percent before seasonal adjustment."
The September price data seems to confirm that inflation has not been a problem in the U.S., with a rise of just 1.1 percent over the past year. Again, gasoline and food prices were singled out as contributors to the small price level rise. Read on.
"Increases in food indexes and another rise in the gasoline index contributed to the all items seasonally adjusted increase this month. Four of the six major grocery store food group indexes increased in September as the food index posted its largest increase since October 2008. The gasoline index rose again in September, leading to a third consecutive increase in the energy index despite a decline in the index for household energy."
The "core' rate of inflation, less energy and food, showed even more price stability. The BLS summarized the sectors that increased and those that decreased in September.
"The index for all items less food and energy was unchanged in September, as it was in August. The shelter index was unchanged for the second month in a row. The indexes for apparel, household furnishing and operations, recreation, and used cars and trucks all declined in September, offsetting a sharp increase in the index for medical care and a slight increase in the index for new vehicles."
"Over the last 12 months, the index for all items less food and energy rose 0.8 percent, the lowest 12-month increase since March 1961, with the shelter component down 0.4 percent. The food index rose 1.4 percent, with both the food at home index and food away from home index rising the same 1.4 percent. The energy index rose 3.8 percent over the last year, with gasoline up 5.1 percent."
Gasoline prices are up, but not near their highs of recent years. Medical care costs continue to rise, as they have over the past several years. Take a look at some details about the key spending categories.
[Note: For more information about the "core" rate of inflation, see the BLS Frequently Asked Questions" page . Students can discuss the pros and cons of the reported CPI-U and the "core" rate as reliable measures of inflation.]
Consumer Price Index Data for September 2010
"The food index rose 0.3 percent in September after a 0.2 percent increase in August. Both the food away from home and the food at home index increased 0.3 percent. Within the latter group, four of the six major grocery store food groups posted increases, with the other two unchanged. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose the most, increasing 0.9 percent after declining in August. Within that group, the eggs index rose 7.2 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products rose 0.8 percent in September after a 0.1 percent increase in August. The indexes for dairy and related products and for fruits and vegetables posted slight increases in September, while the indexes for nonalcoholic beverages and for other food at home were unchanged. Over the past year, the indexes for cereals and bakery products and for nonalcoholic beverages have declined, while the indexes for the other four groups have increased."
Have you noticed the increases in food prices? Ask those who do the grocery shopping in your household if they have noticed higher food prices.
[Note: Have your students noticed changes in food prices - either in grocery stores or restaurants? It may be interesting to look at the history of prices in this category. See Table 2 .]
[Note to teacher: In November, 2007, the BLS published an interesting report on Thanksgiving Food Prices - at home and away from home . The report also mentions other Thanksgiving Day activities, such as time spent watching football games.]
"The energy index rose 0.7 percent in September after a 2.3 percent increase in August. Following a 3.9 percent increase in August, the gasoline index rose 1.6 percent in September. (Before seasonal adjustment, gasoline prices fell 1.4 percent in September.) In contrast, the household energy index declined in September, falling 0.6 percent, primarily due to a 2.3 percent decrease in the index for natural gas. The electricity index also declined, falling 0.3 percent, while the fuel oil index rose 0.8 percent. The indexes of all the major energy components have risen over the last 12 months."
You may have noticed the recent rise in gasoline prices. Note, though, that on a seasonally adjusted basis, gas prices fell in September. The increase was not as great as usual during this time period.
[Note to teacher: Assign a category of spending to individuals or small groups of students , They can access BLS data to research the history of prices for the category. The individuals or small groups can write a summary and report to the class. It will be interesting to see how they try to explain the reasons for price changes over time. Some categories, such as apparel or household furnishings may be difficult to explain. ]
More September Price Level Details
"All items less food and energy The index for all items less food and energy was unchanged in September, as it was in August.
The shelter index was unchanged for the second month in a row. The rent index rose 0.1 percent while the index for owners' equivalent rent was unchanged and the index for lodging away from home fell 0.2 percent.
The medical care index rose sharply in September, increasing 0.6 percent. The index for medical care commodities rose 0.3 percent while the index for medical care services increased 0.8 percent with the hospital services index rising 1.8 percent.
The index for new vehicles posted a slight increase in September, rising 0.1 percent, while the index for airline fares increased 0.2 percent. Offsetting these increases was a downturn in the index for used cars and trucks and continuing declines in several indexes. The used cars and trucks index fell 0.7 percent in September, its first decline since April 2009.
The apparel index decreased 0.6 percent following a 0.1 percent decline last month.
[Note to teacher: BLS report on the apparel manufacturing industry , including apparel prices.]
The index for household furnishings and operations fell 0.4 percent in September and has now declined in three of the last four months.
The recreation index decreased 0.3 percent in September, its third consecutive decline."
[Note to teacher: For a simple visual representation of the price changes for different categories of spending in September, 2010, go to this BLS site, "Consumer Prices in September" .]
Figure 1, below, shows the "Percent Change in the CPI, All Urban Consumers, U.S. City Average, September 2010." Note the spending categories that increased and decreased in September.
Figure 1: Changes in CPI All Urban Consumers
12 months
|All Items
|Food at home
|Food away from home
|Energy commodities
|Fuel Oil
|Energy services
|All Items Less Food & Energy
|New vehicles
|Used cars and trucks
|Medical care commodities
|Transportation services
|Medical care services
Not seasonally adjusted CPI measures
"The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 1.1 percent over the last 12 months to an index level of 218.439 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index rose 0.1 percent prior to seasonal adjustment."
If your are an average U.S. urban family, the cost of your market basket of goods and services that cost you $215.97 in September of 2009, cost you an additional 1.1 percent in September 2010 - up to $218.44. Is a $2.47 increase over one year significant to your family? Did your family income rise as much as this? If yes, you may be okay. If not, your purchasing power has declined.
"The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 1.4 percent over the last 12 months to an index level of 214.306 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index was unchanged prior to seasonal adjustment."
"The Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) increased 0.9 percent over the last 12 months. For the month, the index rose 0.1 percent on a not seasonally adjusted basis."
The "chained" index, adjusted for inflation, increased less than the unadjusted index. The low rate of inflation has reduced the impact of the market basket price level change.
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)
The all urban consumer group represents about 87 percent of the total U.S. population. It is based on the expenditures of almost all residents of urban or metropolitan areas, including professionals, the self-employed, the poor, the unemployed, and retired people, as well as urban wage earners and clerical workers. The CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) is the index most often reported by the national media.
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W)
The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is based on the expenditures of households included in the CPI-U definition that also meet two requirements: more than one-half of the household's income must come from clerical or wage occupations, and at least one of the household's earners must have been employed for at least 37 weeks during the previous 12 months. The CPI-W population represents about 32 percent of the total U.S. population and is a subset, or part, of the CPI-U population. The CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is the index most often used for wage escalation agreements.
The CPI inflation calculator allows customers to calculate the value of current dollars in an earlier period, or to calculate the current value of dollar amounts from years ago.
Consumer price indexes often are used to escalate or adjust payments for rents, wages, alimony, child support and other obligations that may be affected by changes in the cost of living. The BLS has published a fact sheet explaining how to use the CPI for escalating contracts.
Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U)
The C-CPI-U supplements the other two CPI indexes. The C-CPI-U is designed to more closely resemble a true "cost-of-living index" by taking into account observed consumer behavior, technological changes, and product substitutions. The C-CPI-U is chained monthly, using expenditure data to average price changes across item categories between a base period (1999, initially) and the current period. Data are national, not seasonally adjusted, and subject to revision.
The CPI may not be applicable to all population groups. For example, the CPI-U is designed to measure inflation for the U.S. urban population and thus may not accurately reflect the experience of people living in rural areas. Also, the CPI does not produce official estimates for the rate of inflation experienced by subgroups of the population, such as the elderly or the poor.
The CPI, Inflation and the Cost of Living
A BLS online publication, "Frequently Asked Questions: Is the CPI a Cost-of-Living Index? ," explains the relationship of the CPI to inflation and the cost of living.
"The CPI is the most widely used measure of inflation and is sometimes viewed as an indicator of the effectiveness of government economic policy. It provides information about price changes in the Nation's economy to government, business, labor, and private citizens and is used by them as a guide to making economic decisions. In addition, the President, Congress, and the Federal Reserve Board use trends in the CPI to aid in formulating fiscal and monetary policies."
"The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in important ways from a complete cost-of-living measure. BLS has for some time used a cost-of-living framework in making practical decisions about questions that arise in constructing the CPI. A cost-of-living index is a conceptual measurement goal, however, and not a straightforward alternative to the CPI. A cost-of-living index would measure changes over time in the amount that consumers need to spend to reach a certain utility level or standard of living.
Both the CPI and a cost-of-living index would reflect changes in the prices of goods and services, such as food and clothing, that are directly purchased in the marketplace; but a complete cost-of-living index would go beyond this role to also take into account changes in other governmental or environmental factors that affect consumers' well-being. It is very difficult to determine the proper treatment of public goods, such as safety and education, and other broad concerns, such as health, water quality, and crime, that would constitute a complete cost-of-living framework."
[Note to teachers: The "Virtual Economics" CD includes a basic explanation of "inflation" through a video clip. If you have a copy of "Virtual Economics," open the "Browse Economics Concepts" section and click on the key word "inflation" in the macroeconomics section.]
The "Core" Rate of Inflation and the "Headline" Rate
"The 'core' CPI measurement represents changes in the consumer price index minus items which typically fluctuate widely from month to month - food and energy. From the January 19 BLS announcement: " The index for all items less food and energy fell 0.1 percent in January. This decline was largely the result of decreases in the indexes for shelter, new vehicles, and airline fares."
Extra attention is given by forecasters to the core index as it tends to show more lasting trends in prices. The rates of change in the core index were higher in the early part of the year and that did cause concern about the trend in inflation. The concern was that the increase in energy prices over the last several years may have started to influence rates of increases in all other prices. While that concern still exists, core prices are increasing at relatively slower rates.
The "headline" rate - the rate reported in the media includes energy and food. Adding the more volatile energy and food prices often shows greater rates of change. In some cases, a drop in energy prices added to inflation in other categories will end up showing a net "no change."
Calculating the Rate of Inflation Over a Period of Time
The CPI Inflation Calculator allows customers to calculate the value of current dollars in an earlier period, or to calculate the current value of dollar amounts from years ago. The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.
The BLS has published an online reading, "The Consumer Price Index —Why the Published Averages Don't Always Match An Individual's Inflation Experience ." This may answer some of your questions about your experiences with price level changes.
For additional BLS information about the CPI:
- "How BLS Measures Changes in Consumer Prices "
- "Frequently Asked Questions About the CPI "
- "Resources for Student or Teacher "
Short Answer Question
1. How does inflation impact your life?
[Students should be able to connect their spending patterns to price level changes. One common comment should be about gasoline prices over the past year. Students may also commonly comment on changes in the prices of apparel and entertainment. They should use the terminology of the CPI (as found in this lesson) accurately.]
To review, the BLS reported that the "Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis...Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.1 percent before seasonal adjustment."
An October 15, 2010, New York times article by Sewell Chan, "Bernanke Signals Intent to Further Spur Economy," (nytimes.com) reported on a speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke to a meeting of economists. Bernanke commented on the Fed's sometimes conflicting mandates to promote maximum employment and price stability. Bernanke said that current rate of inflation was "too low" by the historically standard of the desired rate of "about 2 percent or a bit below," and that the unemployment rate was "clearly too high."
Do we need a little inflation?
Some economists and policy makers suggest that some inflation, fueled by either strong consumer demand (demand pull) or increased demand for productive resources (cost push), is a positive sign of growth of the economy. Deflation, on the other hand, may dampen the economy and result in a downward spiral.
The good news is that prices are stable and consumers are not struggling to pay higher prices.
The bad news is that prices are stable (if not decreasing) and and the economy is not strong enough to create jobs.
The BLS provides more detailed information about how price level changes are measured for different demographic groups, sectors, and specific product groups.
One resource that may be of interest to students is the BLS online publication, "How BLS Measures Price Change for College Tuition and Fees in the Consumer Price Index."
Take a look at the reading. Link: www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifacct.htm
How might the prospect of inflation impact your post-high school plans - working or more education?


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Because of an increased occurrence of identity theft, new laws were passed to protect birth and death records from misuse. This law went into effect July 1, 2003. At that time, the steps necessary to obtain a birth or death record changed significantly.
Find out more:
Requesting a Certificate Older than Two Years
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Ph: (209) 385-7627
January 2014
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*Please note that the fee increase was due to Assembly Bill 1053, a state mandated fee increase of $2.00 per certificate. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Karan goes to Montessori, and Sandhya will follow next year. We're happy with the school. In fact with Karan, we've opted to keep him there for Kindergarten.
Firstly, the term Montessori is very liberally applied and one Montessori school may bear very little resemblance to the next. Some schools are more true to the philosophy than others and that's not necessarily a good thing. Make sure you like the specific policies/attitudes at your particular school. Karan's teacher is Montessori certified but she doesn't agree with all Montessori principles and tells parents about her views right upfront.
I like the fact that its a 3 year cohort (3-5) rather than by age. Socially I like the mix of older and younger kids and the fact that the older ones "mentor" the littler ones. And the curriculum is individually based - so each student spends one on one time with the teacher every day and she assigns tasks that are specific to their level, regardless of age or where they "should" be. For Karan, he is quite a bit ahead in some areas - he knew all his letter sounds and could count objects before he was 3 - so he needs a challenge and enjoys learning. He's a very good reader at age 4. Sandhya on the other hand is going to be way behind her peers at age 3 but again since its an individual curriculum, there will be something for her to learn at her own level while she's enjoying the company of other kids.
I know for some kids it can all be a bit too serious. I am always amazed at how quiet Karan's classroom is considering its 20 3-5 year olds. They do 30 minutes of circle time, 1 hour of "work" (maybe 15 minutes per task - a mix of language, math and practical life skills), 30 minutes of snack/play outside/games. But Karan enjoys it, and he has the rest of the day to run around and play and be crazy.
I know kids don't need preschool, but my kids enjoy being out of the house for a couple of hours every day (and I enjoy having them out of my hair!)
I just looked at the montessori school that is right next to my job - tuition would be 17,000 for BK for full day and that does not include the 8 weeks in the summer.


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well i've been telling myself i'd go do it forever, and i finally went out and did it. holy smokes that is a blast. a guy from church took us out, and we played around for hours shooting. i can definately see myself getting into it pretty hard here soon. the guy just bought a new matthews (which shot amazingly, heck even i was getting them into a decent group at 20 yards) so he could set it up to shoot ambidextriously, so he said he'd sell me his parker with all it's stuff for $250. unfortunately i forgot to ask him the model and how old it was (seemed fairly new), but he said he just had it restrung and serviced by parker. so good deal? i dunno, but the guy is pretty into archery and God, so i dont think he'd sell me a piece of junk and try to rip me off.
i also got to shoot the long bow he made out of hickory (i think) and bamboo and that was pretty fun. he said that they are easy enough to make and he'd show me how to make one if i wanted to do it, so that might be kind of fun also.
like i already didnt have enought addictions as it was.


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Nineteen Wayne Community College students were selected to receive spring semester scholarships through the Golden LEAF Scholarship program for the North Carolina Community College System.
Curriculum (college credit) recipients and their programs of study are
Elizabeth Audela, Criminal Justice;
Ru Xin Huange, Associate in Arts;
Jason O'Neal, Associate in Arts; and
Pamela While, Medical Laboratory Technology
Paige Morning, Associate in General Education
Devin Best, Automotive Systems Technology;
Bobby Carter, Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration; and
Esther House, Early Childhood Education
Pink Hill
Yesenia Garnica, Dental Assisting
April Izcoa, Associate in Science
Recipients enrolled in Continuing Education Occupational Extension programs are
Jessica Outlaw
Lottie Darden,
Lauren Davis,
Hannah Ellis,
Susan Lynch,
Kelly McLamb, and
Chelsea Wong
Mount Olive
Margaret Dube
Kelsey Daw
All of the Continuing Education recipients were studying in the Nurse Aid I program.
The scholarships can be used for tuition, fees, books, supplies, transportation and childcare expenses related to attending classes, and industry-recognized credential testing expenses that address skill gaps upon course completion. Recipients demonstrated financial need and resided in rural counties that are tobacco-dependent and/or economically distressed.
The Golden LEAF Scholarship program, which is designed to help North Carolinians attend the state's community colleges, is funded through a $750,000 grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. The scholarship program is administered by the N.C. Community College System.
"The Golden LEAF Foundation is proud to have awarded over 6,400 Golden LEAF Scholarships to help North Carolinians attend our state's community colleges," said Dan Gerlach, Golden LEAF president. "Our hope is that these scholarships will help build the talent, knowledge and skills of our current and future workforce, especially in the rural areas of our state."
To find a list of participating community colleges and eligible counties of residence, visit www.nccommunitycolleges.edu or www.goldenleaf.org.
The Golden LEAF Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to help transform North Carolina's economy. The foundation receives one-half of North Carolina's funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with cigarette manufacturers and places special emphasis on assisting tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and/or rural communities across the state.
The Golden LEAF Foundation works in partnership with governmental entities, educational institutions, economic development organizations and nonprofits to achieve its mission. The foundation has awarded 1,248 grants totaling more than $548 million and more than $29 million for scholarships to over 12,000 students from rural North Carolina since its inception.
For more information about the foundation, visit www.goldenleaf.org or call (888) 684-8404.
Wayne Community College is a public, two-year college with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, NC. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 15,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 100 college credit programs.


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Pre takes a bite out of iPhone in new Sprint ad
12 responses to "Pre takes a bite out of iPhone in new Sprint ad"
Perfect timing to get a 3GS no?
Does anyone at Palm really think someone would want to go from the iPhone to the Pre? It's awesome for a Sprint phone, but I just don't know too many really dissatisfied iPhone users. Most of them are still prone to gushing when asked how they like their phone.
@ #2 – if they didn't think that, they wouldn't have bothered making the ad.
Comedian Jim Norton bitches about his iPhone all the time. The biggest gripe is the terrible AT&T server that doesn't even work in NYC. Which I guess you'd think would have good coverage.
I wish Palm luck. I think a lot of iPhone users are looking at their phone through rose colored glasses.
I agree, glasses manufactured by Jobs and his marketing team. Some people don't like to know that those cool,great feelings and desires for Apple are marketing manipulations.
Not that they don't make good stuff , It's just that some people act like it's a religion.
This discussion crystalizes the Pre's raison d'être: the iPhone is the perfect phone — for some. Those whose needs are incongruent with the market leader's approach to things at last have an alternative of a similar caliber.
The drawback, of course, is that it's Sprint. Sprint is the dog dung on the sneaker of the cell phone industry.
Yeah. The Pre can Multitask. A .5 advantage since the iPhone can to. Now let's see what else for Pre…………. That's it. LOL
I have an iPhone 3G…what is this multitasking you speak of? I can listen to music and do other things, but that's about it. The Pre has actual multitaksing – multiple programs can be going at once. I have heard that the battery suffers because of that, though…
Anyways…happy with my iPhone, but the Pre is a fine looking alternative.
@7: Curious as to why Sprint's dog dung. I switched from Verizon to Sprint, and although I have to force roaming inside my work (which I believe ends up using Verizon towers) the Sprint coverage elsewhere has been great. Having an everything plan for two people for $129 a month is a pretty good deal, and while their customer service can be a pain, you CAN wrestle with them with most things. I think they've got some of the better rates of the industry, and I love my Touch Pro. The Pre… I was pretty disappointed by the latest commercial where it shows it in action. The sliding movement looks choppy and people have complained about it being slow… I'm sure the next version will be better but I'm worried Palm may have shot themselves in the foot with a phone/OS not ready for primetime.
That said, I'm not looking forward to the S.O. wanting an iPhone by years' end, either. I'll have to pony up the majority of cash to pay my own way on Sprint ($99 for single everything? ehhhh….), or switch to AT&T, at which time I'm not sure if I'd get the next HTC WinMo incarnation or just give in and get an iPhone myself considering we'll be paying out the nose anyways. I don't WANT to drink the juice, but having one of the more usable phone browsers is a huge plus for me.
I've heard good things about the Pre, but the ad underwhelms me. I would've left the gross apple core out. It's a simplistic visual, and the last thing Palm needs to do is get into an overt hissy fight with Apple.
This ad coming soon to Photoshop Disasters thanks to that awful reflection. The phone is almost excusable, but that apple is just embarrassingly wrong.


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So, today I'd like to tell you about my best friends. I currently have seven.
I think some people find this weird, like you can only have one best friend because the superlative "best" implies "the one and only who is better than everyone else." But I always use the term "best friend" to indicate a status, or, really, the depth of a friendship. Once I reach a certain level of friendship with a person, I just call her my best friend. To me, saying you can only have one best friend is like saying you can only have one sibling.
There are a few ways I might start calling someone a best friend. Knowing them a long time helps, because that means they knew me when I had any or all of the following: big glasses, huge boobs, a mushroom-shaped short haircut, and/or a really overdramatic personality…and yet they loved me anyway. Another thing that I look for in a best friend is someone who can out-talk me. I…talk. A lot. I There's a line in a David Sedaris book when he says, "I tend to exhaust people" and I feel like I understand where he's coming from. When someone is excited as I am to talk about any and all aspects of life for hours without a moment of silence…yeah. Best friend right there. Beyond that, what it really comes down to is this unspoken understanding that we can tell each other anything. We might say, "Sorry if this is TMI…" before we launch into a really personal/disgusting conversation, but we know there is really no such thing as TMI with each other; if something needs to be shared, it is shared. (That said, we also respect this and don't just share personal/disgusting details just for the hell of it.)
I love all my best friends and they are a huge part of who I am, so I'd really like to introduce you to them. Here they are, in chronological order!
Heather and I have known each other since third grade and we had always been friends, but I didn't start calling Heather my best friend until high school, when we went on an intense retreat together and really got to know each other on a new level. It was then I kinda realized that this girl I had known for so long was like…so much better of a person than most of the other people I knew. I love Heather because she is a little bit hippie, a little bit sorostitute, a lot feminist, extremely smart, and can laugh at herself. We both love writing (she also writes a blog) and talking about women/body image/the media. She's writing and training in Chicago right now and looking to go to to California for grad school in the next couple years. I also love that we can go weeks, months, or even a year or two without staying in touch, but then we can head back to Grand Blanc and spend six hours in a Starbucks catching up, until they kick us out, so we go to her parents' house to finish, and do this until about 2 AM. Now we tend to start early, just because we know it'll be a long night if we don't.
Beth. Like many good friends, Beth and I didn't get along at first. (Why is that a thing!?) When I was in seventh grade and she was in sixth, here was an incident at play practice after school. Apparently, she had seen my pencil bag sitting out, open, with some pretty, fruity, lip gloss on top, and had examined it and then rubbed a little on her hand to smell it. This got back to me, and I confronted her, surrounded by my posse, Regina George-style, and was all, "Did you use my lip gloss as hand lotion?" in my bitchiest tone. She defended herself, but I was having none of it, and then I just decided to hate her. (Ridiculous, I know.) A year or so later, we were in another play together and I don't know exactly how or why but suddenly we just realized that we were pretty much just meant to be best friends and totally bonded.
Beth and I were friends through high school, which means we were friends when we were both doing a lot of those awkward things you think are really cool but in hindsight actually aren't. (Well, I was doing those things. Beth was actually cool in high school and we went to different schools.)
The most important thing I want to tell you about Beth is not that she's so incredibly funny, a very talented actor, gorgeous, or political…it's that she's the first person who ever made me feel like I was really funny. When we first started hanging out, I remember thinking, Oh my gosh, this is the funniest girl I've ever hung out with! And then she just thought I was really funny too. She told me I was funny. And so I started thinking, Hey…maybe I'm funny. And that was a really big deal because up until that point, I thought only boys were funny.
Jacki. Jacki's family moved back to Grand Blanc right before we started eighth grade, and I got to know her from cheerleading. She was quiet at first, and I am honestly not sure how we became friends, but we did. Freshman year of high school we became best friends, but then junior year, her family moved to Florida. Later we became Facebook friends and then got back in touch via messages; when we both ended up back in Grand Blanc living with our families a couple years ago, we really, really bonded. It's amazing how that happens. I love Jacki because she just…gets it. We can have really shallow but necessary conversations about relationships, followed by deeper conversations about God, family, and femininity. And…Jacki is my homegirl. I don't know exactly how to say this, but it's really important to me to have white people in my life who get black culture and who I can have funny, frank conversations with about it. And she just got engaged last weekend and I'm so happy for her! Because we're best friends, I would don a hideous bridesmaids dress for her, but because we're best friends, she'll make sure I don't have to.
David. David and I met in the summer of 2005 when we both worked at Victoria's Secret together. It was love at first sight on my part. I saw him and thought, I think we could be best friends. I'm not sure quite how it happened, but at some point in the middle of a shift, we just were laughing and then making plans to hang out, and then we were suddenly inseparable.
David and I are practically the same person; one of the reasons it was so clear to me that we were going to be best friends was because he reminded me so much of my dad, but all the good things about him. My mom noticed it too. (Seriously, if there was any possibility that his dad wasn't his real dad, I would have had us get our DNA tested.) When we go out together, people aren't sure if we're dating or brother and sister. We have the exact same style of speaking and the same…face! We like to tell people that David is the pre-op version of me.
The summer we met is the one I refer to as "the summer of love." David taught me to go after guys like he goes after guys. Have you ever watched guys hit on each other? It's not subtle. That summer I really began to understand my sexuality and it was the beginning of me transitioning from theater kid who was just an idiot around guys to the person I am now.
Julia. At the end of my sophomore year at MSU, I was really good friends with a girl named Kelly in my sorority and we were planning to live together in the house the next year. When we realized we couldn't get a good double, we decided to look for a third person to be our roommate and Kelly suggested Julia, who she also worked with at a cafe on campus. Apparently, Julia liked quoting Anchorman and eating guacamole as much as we did. I was sold. Over the next year, I became way better friends with Julia than I did with Kelly. Julia had a double major, was president of Sigma Kappa, president of MSU's Panhellenic Council (the sorority governing board), and just kicked ass in every way possible. Last spring, she graduated from Georgetown with her Master's in social policy; she's still living in D.C. but eventually wants to move back to Michigan and fix Detroit. And I have no doubt that she will.
Julia is my no-bullshit friend. I mean, all my friends are no-BS type people, but Julia is one of the most frank people I know, and that was never more apparent than when dealing with Greek life, or, more likely, fraternities. I feel like she's always embodied Rule #1: don't be ridiculous. (Read her Owning It post to get an idea!) When some frat guy was just being ridiculous, I loved just watching Julia make her "Are you fucking kidding me?" face. She's fearless when it comes to challenging the crap that needs to be challenged and she really helped me find that in myself. Unfortunately, for much of college, I was ridiculous, so I didn't appreciate her as much as I should have, but those times when I got my act together and we teamed up? Oh my God, we were unstoppable. And I still feel that way today.
Lauren. Lauren and I met in 2008, when she was the director of Greek Week and I was the administrative director. Basically, I was her right-hand woman. Lauren was someone I had seen around a lot the previous Greek Week and someone I just knew really had her shit together. I knew this not only because of her behavior during Greek Week 2007, but also because she was in the business school and she always looked so fantastic and businessy in her crisp shirt-dresses and pointy-toe heels when we had to dress up for Greek events. (Clearly, I'm easy to impress. Dress like a businesswoman, study business, and I think you mean business. In Lauren's case, though, I was right.) When we started working together senior year, we bonded so quickly. Before I knew it, we were best friends. That Greek Week was so ridiculous and it often felt like the world was against us, so I think that solidified our friendship, but All my friends have been very successful, but I'm really proud of Lauren. Last year, she quit her job to take on a new job that was a better fit for her, even though it meant a pretty big pay cut. This year, way before she was up for a promotion, she got an awesome promotion. She's a boss, both literally and in the way Kelis uses it.
Lauren, like Julia, believes in making the world a better place; Julia does it through work, while Lauren does it through charity. Both of them inspire me to be less selfish and just be a better person. I love the conversations I have with Lauren; she is the friend started using the acronym DIK ("delusional, I know") with.
Leah. In early 2009, I was living in New York, when I hurt my hip running and had to take a week or two off of work. It was pretty crappy; I was stuck in my tiny apartment in a lot of pain/drugged up on painkillers. That was when I discovered healthy living blogs. I read a bunch of them and with each one I thought, Uh, this is terrible; how do people not know how to blog!? and moved on to the next one. Eventually, I landed on Nutritionista. And I loved it. Like, so much that I went back to the beginning and read every single post. I was so inspired — to eat real food, to find out where my food came from, to try new things. It was exactly what I needed to hear at that time in my life, when I was surviving on all diet foods and fake sugars. Also, after reading all her posts and realizing that not all health blogs were juvenile and ridiculous, I decided to start my own, and later that day, I started Shedding It & Getting It.
Leah doesn't talk about herself a lot in her blog, but as I was reading every post, I caught some references that made me think she was from Michigan. All the blogs I had seen at that point where from Florida or somewhere else warm and sunny, so I was really surprised. I e-mailed her to say I loved her blog and asking if she was from Michigan. She responded that she was, and I said I was thinking of moving home and if I did, we should meet up. That happened about six months later; we went out to dinner in Ann Arbor.
We still weren't best friends right away; that didn't happen until later in the year when we decided to do the Outside the Box challenge on our blogs and started talking more on G-chat. We'd talk about prizes or challenges, but then move on to boys or blogs or career, and eventually, we were just best friends.
Leah is a year older than I am, and I feel like she's that much wiser. Somehow, she always manages to inspire my biggest decisions. Like I said, her blog is the entire reason I started Shedding It, and she also helped me re-brand Shedding It, telling me to just buy RachelWilkerson.com and run with it. Oh, and then she introduced me to Eric, which I appreciate.
What I love about Leah is that she brings be back to my more Bohemian upbringing and gets me more in touch with my crunchy, liberal self. That said, we've had some amazing trips to Sephora.
What's funny is that my best friends aren't best friends with each other. Heather, Beth, Jacki, and I were actually all on the middle school cheerleading squad when I was in eighth grade. (I think I have the picture scanned, actually, but I'm pretty sure I'd not be anyone's best friend if I posted it. In a related story, thanks to everyone's parents for paying for dental work around that time!) Lauren and Julia are friendly from Greek life. A lot of my best friends have met each other, but it's not like they'd go and hang out without me.
Having a lot of best friends is a lot of work! I have seven people to update when something good happens and seven people to stay in touch with. But that's what social media is for, right? (I see most of them in person just once every year or even once every two years!) I love them all so much and am so incredibly grateful for their love and friendship that I don't even think about the work it takes to make it happen.


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We have been among the countries with the highest medal count at the last two Olympic Games (11th and 13th out of some 80 participants who won any medals). Also, at the recent Paraolympics in London we have come in fourth.
There are some very good athletes living among us.
For instance, we have two big dudes who have been controlling the heavyweight division in professional boxing for years. And we have one little dude who can do 4,000 pushups in two hours at the age of seven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKakIUxDMvQ&feature=player_embedded
We also have some of the best football players, although this may not say much because we often are disappointed in them – in their game and in their political choices.
But, all in all, we are a nation of great sportsmen. And it often bewildered me why….
When it comes to sports we can finally be achievers.
So what is it? The Cossack blood? Could the gene of the restless and brave ancestors has lasted in us this long?.. Then why are there so many inglorious, conniving, lying, fearful, vile, weak and despicable men out there? Just look at Verkhovna Rada… But then, again, they are no athletes. In parliamentary brawls they go for the throat and hit the weakest colleagues hardest.
No sportsmanship there.
Yes, the ancestry is one explanation for our achievements in sports, but there is one more. One singular factor that towers over the rest, like having a good trainer, good genetics, supportive family, and the government who tells you to do sports and not drugs.
That factor is this: how well the athlete deals with pain.
That's it.
Enduring those invariable hurts and aches that your body is signaling back to you when you try to overwork it is key. Knowing how to overcome pain or even put it to your advantage is very important.
The success of our paraolympians in London is especially telling in this respect. Disabled people who bravely compete in sports at this level have to endure double the pain.
And, thankfully, most Ukrainians are no strangers to it.
There are few nations in the world with a less tortured history.
It is often said that Ukrainian essence is acquiescence.
Before God, before parents, before tradition and even before one's own cantankerous wife. Ukrainians are survivors a lot more than anarchists no matter the mutinous traits instilled in their character by the free and endless steppes. They know how to keep the mutiny in check till more opportune times come, how to endure. As Rilke once wrote, "Who speaks of victory? To endure is everything."
That must be about us.
And to be a survivor one has to know pain.
Our folks do know a thing or two about it. They even know how to live with pain, because they have learned how to befriend it.
When I hit 40, I decided to pick up running. Like they say you should when are over the hill already. Zhenia, my buddy from the old weightlifting years in Kyiv, suggested longer distances. |Тhis way you can run away a lot farther from whatever it is you are running away from."
He pointed to a higher dune I could barely see along the Atlantic shore we vacationed at with our families.
It took us an hour to reach the dune. Zhenia arrived there with his immutable enthusiasm of an athlete; I, with pain and whining. I had never run this far before.
My buddy laughed at me and said that pain was a good thing. And that I should know it.
"Just ask Leopold von Sacher-Masoch," he said. "A native of Lviv."
Oleksiy Opanasiuk is a freelance writer in Kyiv.


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An employee of the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese was ostracised by the clergy and lost his job of ten years because he supported his son, who was the victim of a paedophile priest.
TranscriptEMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: The New South Wales Special Commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse was today told that an employee of the Maitland Newcastle Diocese lost his job because he supported his son who was the victim of a paedophile priest. The employee known as B.I. had a senior job with the diocese for more than 10 years. His son was abused by Father James Fletcher who was convicted and died in jail in 2006. The whistleblower police officer who sparked the inquiry, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox gave evidence today that BI told him that after his son reported the abuse to police he was ostracised by senior clergy and treated unfairly by Bishop Michael Malone.
PETER FOX, DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR (voice over): He confided me very early on that. He felt the diocese would ultimately refuse to renew contract and try to terminate his employment as such, which is ultimately what occurred.
EMMA ALBERICI: DCI Fox also told the inquiry that the victim's mother had told him that Bishop Malone felt he'd been handed a poisoned chalice when he became bishop of the Maitland Newcastle diocese in 1995.
PETER FOX (voice over): He felt that he had walked into a blind and was made a scapegoat for a lot of indiscretions and bad decisions that had occurred at an earlier time.
EMMA ALBERICI: Bishop Michael Malone will give his evidence tomorrow.
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Submitted to: Hydrological Processes
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Publication Acceptance Date: 1/21/2009
Publication Date: 3/31/2009
Citation: Shields Jr, F.D., Simon, A., Dabney, S.M. 2009. Streambank Dewatering for Increased Stability. Hydrological Processes, 23: 1537-1547. DOI 10.1002/hyp.7286. Interpretive Summary: Streambank erosion is a major source of sediment in disturbed stream systems. To reduce the amount of sediment being eroded from streambanks without relying on large-scale, expensive earth-moving operations to flatten bank slopes, methods to increase bank resistance by removing water were tested. Two techniques were employed and tested on Little Topashaw Creek, Mississippi: drains, and pumps. Both measures were installed in an eroding bank and monitored along with a control plot with digital instruments to determine (1) the amount of water that could be removed by each technique, (2) the increase in bank strength resulting from the removal of water, and (3) rates of streambank erosion. Results showed that dewatering of the bank generally reduced bank-retreat rates by a factor of two, indicating that these low-cost techniques may be appropriate as an in-channel conservation measures in eroding channels.
Technical Abstract: Streambank erosion is often the dominant source of sediment leaving watersheds disturbed by human activities. Collapse of high, steep banks is one of the most serious forms of streambank erosion. The risk of a given bank experiencing mass failure is a function of bank height, angle, and soil strength, which is governed by soil moisture. Bank stability may be improved by maintaining lower levels of soil moisture. Two methods for bank dewatering were tested in adjacent sections of streambank bordering a deeply incised channel in northern Mississippi: a low-cost submersible pump system and subsurface horizontal drains. Pore-water pressures (matric suction) were continuously monitored for two years at the pumped site, at an adjacent untreated control section, and for one year at the site stabilized with horizontal drains. Resulting data were used to calculate a time series of the factor of safety using a computer model. Over the course of two wet seasons, average bank retreat for the control, pumped and drained plots were 0.43, 0.21 and 0.23 m, respectively. At the pumped site, matric suction (negative pore-water pressure) was 3-4 kPa higher than at the control site during the most critical periods. Accordingly, computed factors of safety were above the failure threshold at the pumped site, but fell below unity at the control site on 11 occasions over the period of observation. Similarly, the drained site displayed generally higher values for matric suction and higher safety factors except for two events when drains were evidently overwhelmed with the volume of local surface and subsurface flows. Initial cost of the dewatering treatments were significantly less than orthodox bank stabilization measures, but operation and maintenance requirements may be greater.


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Hi everyone,
My friend ran into a problem with his alternator that i believe is relevant for all of us here.
A little history may be useful before i get to the point. Basically, the alternator failed, and stopped charging the battery. The car ran fine on the battery's charge for a period of time, after which it completely died when the charge became fully depleted. Fortunately, when this happened, the car's door was not locked if not he might not have been able to get in and check it out. The car had to be towed to the wshop for the alternator to be replaced.
This is a real doozy, as its one of those things that happens without warning and can leave you totally stranded somewhere at a super inconvenient time. Towing services may then have a field day with you, as well as workshops which understand that you're unlikely to argue with quotes when you can't easily drive off to the next workshop. Furthermore, an alternator failure will likely damage the car's battery which will could cause inconvenient problems and increase costs down the line. Our batteries are not deep-cycle batteries which can tolerate total discharges. One full premature discharge (i.e. a discharge before the batteries natural death date) will create permanent damage to its reserve charge capacity. I've known of two new maintenance-free batteries which were discharged in full within the 1st year of operations due to light being left on etc. (the cars were jump started and were taken on a long drive and used daily, but the batteries failed again 1 week later, this time without any help from lights being left on foolishly.)
There's an excellent article on how an alternator should function at this link :
Basically, it says that the voltage across a battery's terminals when the engine is off should be around 12.6-12.8 volts, and should rise to between 13.7-14.5 volts once the engine has started. The extra 1 volt you get when the car is running is the charging voltage from the alternator. A higher charge is needed to overcome the battery's internal resistance to an external current. If the voltage while the engine is running is not at those levels, your alternator is probably bad (could be other problems too). Basically, when the alternator is not functioning, the voltage reading when the engine is one should be about the same as when it is off.
It occured to me that it should be possible to rig up a system to alert the driver when the voltage consistently falls below 13.7volts, such as when it falls to 13.2 volts or lower. This alert will enable the driver to test his charging voltage immediately, note any problems, and arrrange his car to be taken to the workshop for a closer inspection. Being stranded unexpectedly is thus totally avoided. This system could be centred around some kind of a fuse, or voltage regulator, or something. It should produce a light on the instrument panel, a chime, noise, or something.
The point of this post is this : how can such an alert mechanism be created cheaply? Any ideas?
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When I was a (much) younger man, quality cars came fitted with Ammeters and/or Volmeters in their dashboards.
The Ammeter gave you an instant indication of power draw (positive or negative) when the engine was running. Switching on the headlights would cause a dip in the Ammeter reading. You could therefore see instantly if your Generator/Alternator was charging sufficiently to keep the battery charged. If it was always in the negative then the battery is being drained.
The Voltmeter gave a readout of the battery voltage and would indicate if the battery was not receiving a proper charge, although it would drop so slowly that you usually only realised there was a problem when it was too late.
I see no practical reason why either of these gauges couldn't be installed in an E34.
Tourburging, that's a good idea. In fact, its the solution.
The only thing is that these meters are clearly not in the right style for the e34. They would look odd on the dashboard. Is there a way to rig up a system that creates a chime or alarm when the charging current falls below a certain level, and can be hidden away? Or some other way to achieve the same purpose? And cheaply of course.
I'm not sure about the circumstances that surrounded the failure of youre friends alternator, but I've seen it 100 times in bosch alternators. I would say out of those 100 times I've seen a BMW not charging 86-92 of the times it has been related to the voltage regulator. It takes two screws to pop out typically and when you do you'll have two copper sticks that are supposed to push out into the commutator on the alternator shaft. This is how the current is transmitted from a spinning shaft to a fixed wire. These two sticks push into the round commutator on the shaft and as long as there is spring life and length available on the sticks you'll get charging as you are supposed to. The problem arises when after 100K miles or so that those sticks wear down to the point where they loose contact or have intermittent contact with the commutator (commutator wears as well but not nearly as bad as the sticks). You swap out the 15 dollar voltage regulator and get yourself another 100K miles out of your charging system, and you don't have to spend the big bucks for a rebuild or a replacement.
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Chocolate is 9 years old, with the stature of a beagle(so i put beagle) and I did the dogage test(from the creators of realage) today. the process is pretty extensive and they have all these different questions like is your dog overweight, how often is he fed, does he look like this, this or this, can you feel his ribs, how often does he gets bursts of energy,does he have medical problems so on and so forth.
It said he was basically 39.9 years old in dog years. yay!
Heres what they say is good about his health:
Ideal weight
Nonsmoking home
No general health conditions
No canine disease
No infections
No parasitic conditions
Proper nutrition
Good training and well behaved
Safe yard
Leash use
Heres what they don't like
Missing vaccinations
At risk of heartworm, fleas, or ticks
May be lacking proper nutrition
Not enough exercise
I don't like the may be lacking proper nutrition part. hmm. well this site is powered by purina. and it said do you feed premium dog food(kibbles n bits pedigree), or super premium (iams,purina,Hills), and there was nothing that mentioned holistic that i feed him (wellness CORE reduced fat) so i just threw my hands up and put super premium. They also asked which of the following people food snacks do you give your dog and i checked raw red meats,dairy,and vegetables. Maybe thats why they said he may be lacking, and once again, it's purina, so it's predictable for them to not like me giving him frozen raw meat once a week and low fat yogurt daily.
Haha but I do agree i need to walk him more often. and i use a homemade flea remedy, where I boil orange peels in water, let is steep them get out the peels and put it in a spray bottle and lightly spray once a week. he hasn't gotten fleas in a while. hmm. And I put down he had shots for bordetella and rabies, but i didn't check parvo because he's not a puppy, and it's most common in kennels which ne never goes to .obviously i got docked 4 that.
haha but overall they said he's 17 year younger than the average dog his age so hooray
Yay! the vet was able to force his hip back into the right place(he was sedated of course), so he has a cast which he will wear for a week, then it will be taken off. The following three weeks we aren't permitted to let him jump on the bed or take long walks or hikes. If he dislocated it again we would have to do an actual surgery in which the vet cuts the ball part of Chocolate's bone off and put a prostetic one in(yikes), so we have to follow vet's orders!
Poor wittle Chocolate got his foot stuck in a pipe, tried to get himself free and dislocated his hip. He was in so much pain he didn't even move an inch, and he was drooling. Luckily, he's on pain meds given by the emergency vet and is doing fine, even walking around on the three legs he can use right now. The vet is going to sedate him and try to get his hip back into place tommorow.
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Postmortem toxicological analysis is often an important tool in autopsy in determining the cause of death. There are circumstances however when traditional samples such as blood and vitreous fluid are unobtainable. In such instances, alternative body fluids such as synovial fluid may be useful adjuncts. However, synovial fluid has not been accepted as a widely used alternative. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between blood ethanol content and synovial fluid ethanol content. To this end, synovial fluid was obtained from 98 cases presenting to the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico over a 4 month period. Of these, 20 cases had measurable blood ethanol content at the time of demise, and were selected for use in the present pilot study to determine the viability of using synovial fluid as an alternative specimen for postmortem toxicology screening. Analysis of synovial fluid ethanol content (SEC) was performed using gas chromatography and compared with similarly obtained blood ethanol content (BEC). BEC and SEC were found to have a strongly positive linear relationship, with a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.96 and a p-value of <0.0001. The present study confirms prior research which indicates synovial fluid is a suitable substitute for the analysis of blood ethanol content particularly when traditional toxicology samples are unavailable.
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I hear you Chrondi!
A Sunfish would not have been my first choice to learn to sail on, at least not now that the old bones are beginin' to creak and groan a bit
Hard to turn down 'free' for your first boat though.
But indeed, when the budget gets bigger and the belly gets smaller..more sailing will be on the horizon! And I may start checking the weather reports for the next few weekends. Perhaps that cove won't look so big or be quite as intimidating in a nice lil 5 to 10 knt. blow..compared to last time
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|... and remember that a dinghy is the best (only?) way to learn sailing. On the other hand, you waste your time and energy trying to manage it with 15+ knot wind speeds. Rather try reefing techniques first with somebody else on a two-sail open boat when it blows at the 4 to 5 force range and then move to heavier stuff with a keel, where you do not need constant balancing by displacing your body i.e. move from racing to cruising mode (more adapted to people in their fifties!)
Thanks for the encouraging words. You know I felt so foolish after asserting to my family and all that I knew the 'basics' of what I was doing and I was rather determined to get out and try to really sail the Sunfish as soon as there was some decent wind. We had had about 3 weeks of 105+ temps and 1 or 2 knots of wind. So when the front came through and it cooled off to about 95 ( Hah!) with a stiff steady wind, I was set to go. I knew I would rather have it blowing softer, but I also knew I needed more wind than there had been so even though I was a bit nervous to launch I was again..determined.
Determination is not always the best deciding factor perhaps
Very happy to know I'm not alone in my overenthused first time out, and it sounds as if others have had worse experiences! Not that I'd wish that on anybody, but it does help to ease the pain and want to try again..on a more appropriate weather day!
I could see your story unfold as soon as you said 20-25 kts. of wind with a Sunfish. Although it can be a blast running downwind in a Sunfish or Sailfish, even in those winds, they don't like to tack back home in heavy winds. They are just too overpowered with no ballast to keep them up. It can be done, but if you went a mile downwind you would probably have to tack back about 8 miles in those winds. If you could stay upright to do it.
Sunfish are a great learning experience, but try to learn in 10 kts. or less and then step up to 15 if you feel lucky. I always told my kids when it was blowing and they wanted to use the Sunfish or paddle boat that they needed to go upwind and let the wind bring them home. Of course they were sometimes way to smart for this old man and then learned to walk a boat along a soft shore for a mile or so. After that they always told their friends to go upwind first. Amazing how fast you learn.
I would imagine that your Whoopee in a little gust of wind became a Whoopee and Holy %^&*8 going downwind, and then an Aw %^&*8 when you turned back into it.Live and learn. Have fun!!!!!!!!!
You did better than you may realize. A Sunfish, lacking a jib, can be kind of twitchy if you're trying to beat upwind in a strong breeze, it either starves out on speed and steering responsiveness if you pinch it too close, and heels and makes leeway if you bear off to get her moving. Too easy to lose your headway, and kind of volatile getting it back. In a really honking breeze (like yours), may be better to close-reach it rather than close-hauled, a more forgiving point of sail, though your upwind progress will be much slower.
As a beginner, you did the right thing, you hung on to that tiger by the tail downwind, and then waited for a wind shift rather than beating back into a 25-knot wind, which is not the Sunfish's strong point, and will wear you out. This is what the clipper ship captains did in the old days.
But learn to sail comfortably on this thing in 5-15 knots of wind, and the bigger boats you graduate to will be a walk in the park.
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And get my "feet wet"on this forum, so to speak
Brand new to sailing, although I have read about it and learned a few tidbits I had never been on a sailboat in all my goin 'on 50yrs..until last month.
I became the unexpected owner of a freebie Sunfish clone. It was in very sad shape, however it was complete and functional. I spent an afternoon cleaning it up and then my brother and I took it down to the cove, rigged up and pushed off. The wind was about 2 knots, when it blew at all. We actually managed to catch a few good puffs of wind and when I saw the boat making a tiny wake with me at the controls I let out a whoop. It was really fun, and we sailed back and forth on the cove as best we could in the near calm for a couple hours.
Spent the next few weeks really cleaning and polishing and refitting what there is on a Sunfish, and waiting for the weather to either cool off or the wind to blow. Finally the day came that the weather was up and there was *plenty* of wind. We moved the boat to a larger cove and my brother left me there to do my thing. Lots of other boats around so I wasn't truly alone, but I felt like it. I rigged up and got the Sunfish in the water, climbed on and wiggled the sheet and rudder until suddenly...the 20-25 knt. wind caught that old ratty sail and..
I was planing across that mile wide cove faster than I could imagine that surfboard with a sail could move!
Halfway across I realized I may have an "idea" of what to do to turn it around and head back but I was in WAyy over my head. At that point I just held on and hoped I made it across without drowning. ( Yes, I had a brand new life vest on..but)
I made it, and spent the next 2 hours trying to calm down and paddle or catch the wind right and beat back across the cove. No way, I finally had to tie up and go for help. I don't know if I was more embarrased or in semi shock from the experience, but the boat stayed on the "blown to" side of the bay for that night. The next morning I went back and finally managed to paddle back across. The Sunfish has been sitting on it's trailer ever since, and it's gonna stay there until I am ready and the weather is not too much or too little or too damn hot again
After reading some of the other first time and learning experiences on this thread, I must say I feel much better about my little voyage of terror now. Perhaps it wasn't that bad after all!
MobyD, hopefully in a boat big enough to sit down in and not on..one of these days.
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One thing I'm learning is that time goes fast.........my first year as little puppy I don't remember too well.....but this last year I've grown up..I've learned that bees can sting...some plants I shouldn't eat...cheese is the greatest thing on the planet..tug of war is my favorite game....I shouldn't chase moms birds away...if I put on a sad face I get anything I want...but mostly importantly I realize that I am truly blessed to have made so many wonderful pup friends and am thankful for each and every one of them.
Copy this diary entry, and paste it into your own diary. Read and then delete my answers. Then you can fill in your own! We can get to know our pals better ~~ Have fun with it ~~ Then send a rosette or pawmail to 4 pals and ask them to post it in their diary too!
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I have 2...one is pink...and one is red......
2. What kind of food do you eat?
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3. What are your favorite treats?
I love the sweet potato sticks moms gets for us......
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When is your Birthday?
July 18th
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9. Do you have a favorite color?
Do you hope all your pals put this in their diary? Golly, I hope so, it's truly fun to *howls* "getting to know you, getting to know all about you, getting to like you, getting to hope you like me!"
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I was naughty Tagged by Abbey
I am supposed to name 5 things about me that are naughty..
BOL - that shouldn't be too hard..
Here goes...
Well I think I"m pawfect so this won't be easy for me...BOL...
1 - When mom feeds Thatch and I ...I try to eat really really fast...just gulp it down and then I try to get into Thatchies bowl.
2 - When I want to play...I take a toy and keep putting it in front of Thatchies face..but as soon as he goes to grab it...I turn away...I'm a such tease.
3 - I have two sissy cats who stay mostly in the screened in patio...but I wait and watch for them to come through the doggie dog to the living room....and as soon as I see them..I chase them down the hallway.
4 - When some people come to the door...mom tells me to sit and be quiet...but I don't listen cause I"m just so excited.....Thatch is the same way...and mom can't ever open the front door...she has to go out the garage....
5 - As long as I"m awake...I never let Thatch sit, stand, or lay next to mom...I push him out of the way........I'll always have to be first and get all the attention....
I am supposed to tag 5 pups and have you share your naughty side... Be watching for a rosette - to see if you get tagged!!!
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I often come across the terms delivery and non-delivery.What do they mean?
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Delivery means you buy the stock but "hold" it overnight. In cash segment, you have to wait for two business days after transaction to receive the actual delivery.
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July 30, 2014, Washington, DC: Happy summer, neighborhood nomads! What better way to celebrate the season than by visiting family and friends in New England, an area of the country we called home for many years and have revisited ever since. This month, we followed the scents of salty air and charcoal grills up the East Coast during our ten-day vacation, stopping to play in its parks and waterways along the way. On the itinerary was a wedding in Portland, Maine, brunch in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, and a paddle with my dear sister out of Connecticut's Southport Harbor. All around not a bad way to embrace the heat of July.
The Summer of the Shared Bicycle
August 10, 2013, Washington, DC: I am a saner person on a bicycle. There are strong arguments to be made for bicycling as a money saver, a time saver and a healthy choice, but the bottom line is that my blood boils less when I'm biking rather than driving and I actually enjoy getting from Point A to Point B. This summer more than ever before, it's apparent there are a lot of us out there.
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April 17, 2013: Hello, NoMad! This place so deserves a shout out here on Neighborhood Nomads — not only for its name, but for that picturesque ivy that creeps around a streetscape otherwise full of cement and for the two bicycles on their kickstands in the lobby parked on those oh-so-New York City tile floors. Not to mention it's not just the hotel, but the entire neighborhood that's called NoMad, named for the area north of Madison Square Park. How perfect is that? Husband and I picked up some coffee and walked north up Broadway to NoMad Saturday morning, circling back through the Shake Shack in the park. How could we not? An entire neighborhood called NoMad just feels like the right place to wander.
Related Posts on Neighborhood Nomads:
- Map of Mornings: Union Square & Gramercy Park (November 13, 2011)
- A Breathable Street on a New York Morning (October 21, 2012)
- Miles from Monday: Public Hotel (January 28, 2013)
- Those Hotels Down The Street (October 21, 2011)
- Designing the Third Place: A Conversation with Two Architects (February 24, 2013)
Saturdays in the City
April 13, 2013, New York: Early on in high school, my art teacher started taking groups of us on outings known as Saturdays in the City. Every month or two, we'd take a train trip into Manhattan to go to an art exhibit, walk around New York, and head out to lunch. They were easy afternoon trips — in retrospect, a simple way to take advantage of New York for students who lived in a nearby town but weren't yet ready to navigate a city they didn't live in on their own. Funny that I hadn't given much thought to those trips, let alone noticed their presence among many influences that have unconsciously shaped Neighborhood Nomads. Not until this morning, that is, when I woke up and looked out a window onto New York and thought, This is just the type of day that reminds me of Saturdays in the City.
Whichever city we're in, Saturdays in the City are old hat these days. But isn't it nice to see them like we used to, full of something fresh and different that we've never laid eyes on?
Related Posts on Neighborhood Nomads:
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- Jane Jacobs in the Age of Twitter (July 11, 2011)
Designing The Third Place: A Conversation With Two Architects
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February 24, 2013, New York: My friends Robert Stansell and Tim Welsh are two talented architects who spend a lot of time thinking deeply about the power of place. After ten years working in corporate architecture jobs and designing local watering holes together on the side, they recently struck out on their own to open Emporium Design, a design-build firm with projects under its belt including New York City establishments Ella Lounge, The Blind Barber and Gallery Bar. Over the Christmas holiday in New York, I caught up with them for the opening night of their latest creation, Boulton & Watt, a gastropub on the corner of 1st St. and Ave. A on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Robert and Tim are part-owners of the pub alongside partners Darin Rubell, Jaime Felber and chef Dave Rotter. "We love this neighborhood, and we wanted to create a bar we were proud of," the group declares on its new website. Needless to say, I was intrigued. My fascination with the sociology of the "third place" — those spots in which we congregate beyond home and work — made me want to learn more about the process behind creating one. I believe third places that exude camaraderie and comfort are imperative in strengthening our communities, so I was eager for Robert and Tim to tell me more about what goes into designing and building an aesthetically pleasing gathering spot where the neighbors want to linger as long as possible.
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December 23, 2012, New York: At home in Washington, we buy a little tree that looks full-sized from the street below when we place it on the table in the window of our second floor apartment. We hang our stockings on the fireplace and carry the tree home from Eastern Market in early December so we'll have time to enjoy it before heading out of town. We decorate with ornaments our moms have sent us — pinecone owls we made in elementary school, miniature mice and horses collected in our childhoods, meaningful additions gathered along the way. We top the Christmas tree with an ornament of the Capitol Dome that my dad picked up long before we moved to the neighborhood and made it our own.
The 20 Nomads of 2012
"We need to be reminded of what it means to have a relationship with a place. To help us fall in love with our cities again, we need to see others who are in love with their communities. These people are a rare breed, and, I believe, critical to the overall love of their places."
-Peter Kageyama, For The Love of Cities
December 18, 2012, Washington, DC: 'Tis the season for year-end, wrap up stories. It's time to reflect on what happened in 2012 and tie a bow around the year's most notable markers.
To mark the occasion last year, I featured my top ten places of 2011 and reflected back on a year that revealed the power of place. This year I've chosen to focus on the people I interviewed throughout 2012 who have made these 365 days on Neighborhood Nomads a true joy. It's the people, after all, who make these places all that they are.
Meet the 20 Nomads of 2012 and click on their names to read their stories…