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Divorce after-care planning came up in conversation this morning as a friend and I rehashed a case. Here's the thing about divorce in Florida: judges have a ton of discretion if your case goes to trial. And you rarely get your "best day" in court. You don't even get your best day at mediation all that often.
When you do not get what you think you "should" have received in your divorce, you have two choices:
- Complain about how you were wronged
- Put together a divorce "after-care plan"
As a social worker, clients always received an after-care plan. Attorneys don't work that way, unless you have a collaborative divorce team. So that means that you will be on your own to develop your post-divorce after-care plan. Because, let's face it, it is what it is. The decisions have been made. Now you need to move on with life.
What is A Post Divorce After-Care Plan?
In general, an after-care plan sets out the issues or problems to be addressed, a time frame for addressing them and the resources and methods for how they will be addressed, along with how to measure the success. Divorce after-care plans are no different. Make a list of the issues you now face, the resources you will use to address them, the time frames and how you will measure success.
Maybe your issue is not having enough money after the divorce and having to re-enter the workforce. With the change in how Florida child support is calculated and the reluctance of judges to allow anyone to stay at home with the children, even when daycare costs more than what is earned, it's quite likely that you will be working after divorce. Even if you haven't worked for a long time. What are the barriers to you becoming employed? How will you work around those barriers? How long will it take you? Answer these questions and you will have your own personalized post-divorce after-care plan.
Need Help Creating Your Post Divorce After-Care Plan?
You can visit my optimal living site for more information about working with me on your post divorce after-care plan. You can also listen to the recordings from the Divorced Parent Telesummit to get started. If you know other divorce coaches, check with them about developing your after care plan. My co-host of the Divorced Parent Telesummit is Shelley Grieser who is a Christian Divorce Coach if you want that special perspective incorporated into your divorce after care plan.
Divorce After-Care Plan Alternative
Divorce is a process that does not end with your final judgment. Recognizing this is an important part of the healing process after divorce. You need to move into action and make smart decisions after divorce. No matter whether you work on your own or with a professional, developing a post divorce after-care plan is a great first step. A divorce after-care plan will help you make better decisions and move into action.
Allow yourself time to grieve your relationship, but recognize that you cannot dwell on your losses. As soon as possible, move into an examination of the good and the bad from your marriage so that you can become a better person. And you won't make the same mistakes twice either. Work through your feelings with a journal, a counselor or a divorce coach or support group. Letting go is essential if you want move on with your life.
Develop a written post divorce after-care plan when you are ready to move on and get ready to start the next chapter of your life. Remember, if you need help with you post divorce after care plan, contact me.


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The tight-knit cycling community suffered a tear in its fabric on Thursday when cross-country rider Burry Stander was killed while training in his native South Africa.
Check VeloNews.com for updates to this story
According to reports, Stander, who rode to a fifth-place finish in the London Olympic Games, was struck by a taxi near Shelly Beach, south of Durban, and died from his injuries. He was 25 years old.
The news reached teammate Todd Wells, who met Stander when the South African came to the United States as a junior, early Thursday. Wells recalled a young Stander winning a junior race in Snowmass, Colo., by 15 minutes. Stander soon joined Wells at GT, "and we've been great friends ever since," Wells told VeloNews. "We traveled the world together. We shared a lot of great success and failure. He was kind of this young punk kid from South Africa. But right from the beginning we just got along great."
Wells and Stander would later join Specialized together.
Stander was the 2009 U23 cross-country world champion and won the fifth round of the 2012 World Cup in Windham, N.Y. Wells said Stander could have stayed in South Africa and raced, but that the young rider was driven to be the best in the world. Stander certainly had the tools.
"He was fearless," Wells said. "He was a great descender. He had a lot of great skills and he would push the limits. He would probably crash one time per race. He wasn't afraid to take risks. And in addition to that, he was just a phenomenally talented athlete."
Wells couldn't recall a particular moment he cherished with his friend; there were just too many.
"We have so many moments," Wells said. "We spent the last six years ... we won't see each other for seven months, eight months ... right when we see each other, it's like no time had passed. We'd just pick up right where we left off."
Like many, countryman and road professional Daryl Impey took to Twitter to offer his condolences:
Rest in Peace Burry Stander – a true legend on and off the bike. Thoughts and prayers for his Cherise and his family. He'll always be a hero
Canadian cross-country racer Geoff Kabush (Scott-3Rox) offered similar thoughts:
Shocked, saddened, speechless…Burry was a true personality that we'll all miss dearly in many ways. Condolences to his family & friends.
The death is a blow to the South African cycling community, which was shocked in January 2011 by the death of top young professional road racer Carla Swart. Swart died from injuries suffered in a car/bike collision after she reportedly turned into traffic to retrieve her computer while riding in the Free State Province.
Swart's 2010 Commonwealth Games teammate Jay Thomson (MTN-Qhubeka) called Stander a true champion:
Sick to my stomach to hear of @africanmtbkid being killed out training today..True Champion..Another Great lost before there time..#RIPchamp
Stander won the overall at the Absa Cape Epic in 2011 and 2012 with partner Christoph Sauser. Sauser wrote on Twitter on Thursday that he was empty upon learning the news of Stander's death:
never felt so empty since my dad passed away when i was a kid. @africanmtbkid i will never ever forget you!
Wells tended a pained perspective.
"It happens to everyone. It happens to racers, recreational people. Some guy just crossing the street ... it's just kind of random," he said. "It's part of life ... it happens to everyone, and it's part of life but it just sucks."
It's too early for Wells to think of riding and racing without Stander, but the impact the South African had on the American in their time as teammates was profound.
"For me personally, I feel like he kind of breathed life into my career as a racer. And he taught me to believe in myself and helped give me a lot of confidence," Wells said, his voice wavering. "I feel like without him I wouldn't have achieved what I've achieved. I probably wouldn't be racing. I'm really going to miss him."
Specialized's director of sports marketing, David Hyam, wrote in a letter that Stander's "legend will live on forever":
Dear All,
It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to our friend and cycling legend Burry, who was tragically snatched away in the prime of his life while training in his home town of Kwazulu-Natal this afternoon.
We have lost not only a friend, colleague and team-mate, but a true sportsman. He will long be remembered for his humility, his prowess and the gentle manner in which he conducted his life!
Our heartfelt sympathies, thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Cherise, his parents, family and all who were privileged to know this gentle giant.
Life is short, life is sweet but his legend will live on forever ...
Sincere condolences to all.
David Hyam and the Specialized S-Racing Team

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - The governing Conservative Party gave Justin Trudeau no honeymoon in his new role as leader of the Liberal Party, with attack ads launched on Monday that questioned if he has the judgment to run Canada.
Canada's next federal election is not due until October 2015 but the Conservatives clearly are concerned that Trudeau, 41, may be able to consolidate the left-of-center votes that are now split between the Liberals and the opposition New Democrats.
The ads, on television and on a Conservative website, www.justinoverhishead.ca, show Trudeau stripping down to his undershirt during a cancer fundraising gala and highlight controversial comments from the new Liberal leader, whose father Pierre was Canadian prime minister for a total of more than 15 years between 1968 and 1984.
"We know Justin Trudeau has a famous last name, but does he have the experience to be prime minister?" the narrator in one of the ads asks, pointing to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's record in dealing with the recent recession.
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The Conservatives also refer to Trudeau musing about wanting to make his home province of Quebec a separate country if it became much more conservative, as well as a remark in which he questioned the use of "barbaric" to describe spousal abuse and so-called honor-killings of women. He later apologized for his comment.
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Succession planning always has been an important topic in entrepreneurial industries. Whether or not the founder has children, or whether or not more or fewer family members want to purchase the founder/owner's interest in the business, the various "exit strategies" are long-time topics of operator conversation.
In fact, the case study given to participants in the National Automatic Merchandising Association's Executive Development Program seems to have been crafted, in part, to encourage such conversation. It presented an imaginary vending company founded by an entrepreneur who had expanded it steadily and successfully. His health and advancing age made it clear that he no longer could exercise the kind of hands-on management that had allowed the company to continue thriving despite a changing environment. His managers wanted to buy him out and keep running the company. The EDP students were instructed to work up a business plan for those managers.
The team I was on at the most recent EDP session (see VT, February) was inclined to see the "old man" as a potential obstacle or, at best, a passive element in the situation. So my teammates were astonished when I spoke up for that mythical pioneer. "After all, this business wouldn't exist in the first place, if it hadn't been for the imagination, hard work and dedication of its founder," I argued vehemently. Surely his achievement, the imprint of his life and personality on the thing he built, is worth something in its own right. He has won the respect and trust of the company's clients; surely this counts for something? If we are assessing the company's strengths and weaknesses, is not the fact that it is the founder's masterpiece to be considered one of the real strengths?
My teammates were surprised by my passion, but as a member of the much-discussed "second generation" as a daughter of the late, great Victor Lavay, my life experience has made me aware of the creative force, the uncommon imagination, of the business-builder. The animated discussion that took place among us may have been outside the strict scope of our assignment, but it certainly raised some important questions about transferring company ownership.
How do you pass the proverbial baton, ensure a smooth transition and protect the valuable employees who have worked with you to create something you love? If you don't have a buyer, how do you find one? Your objective is to establish a source of tax-deferred income for retirement; do you also want to give your employees a stake in the company? If the business itself represents the bulk of your assets, how do you arrange for fair inheritance by family members who are, and are not, involved? How do you do this without selling off or breaking up the business, and without provoking resentment?
Perhaps an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) is the answer. This is an attractive option for the founder of a company who wants to keep it together and functioning after his or her retirement, while securing retirement income and taking care of the heirs. I'm not a financial advisor, but I do have a lot of personal experience – and a tale to tell.
About 12 years ago, our majority stockholder and founding partner, Morris (Tiny) Weintraub, wanted to cash out his stock in VENDING TIMES and retire on the proceeds. My father, who then was serving as the executive publisher and minority partner, wanted to buy him out, but couldn't raise sufficient capital on his own. Weintraub had received several offers from prospective buyers interested in purchasing his stock, but my father knew that such a sale might put the jobs of several key employees in jeopardy. He also didn't want VT to become part of a large publishing group, which would impair its integrity. He needed a way to finance the acquisition, give VT the best chance for continued success on its own, plan for his own retirement, and provide for his family. He was, among many other things, a trained accountant who kept up to date, and recognized the ESOP as the solution to all of these needs.
Briefly, an ESOP transfers ownership of an enterprise to the employees by borrowing money with which to purchase stock for issue to them. The stock's value thereafter varies with the fortunes of the company, and the participants' control over their shares is limited to their right to sell them back to the plan when they retire, or if they leave. ESOPs came into their own in the mid-'70s, when the government recognized their value as employee benefits. The tax advantages of an ESOP are defined in the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. You can learn more at www.nceo.org.
My father was able to raise enough money to purchase the majority shares of VT from Weintraub by mortgaging his home. He then held the controlling interest (51%), and the remaining stock was sold to the employees through a carefully-phased-in Employee Stock Ownership Plan financed by Merrill Lynch & Co., It took seven years for the employees' stock to be allocated. During that time, the principal remained in escrow, but Weintraub was able to begin enjoying the interest immediately, without the tax burden. That escrow account served as collateral for the loan, and the interest payments were a tax deduction for the business as it went forward.
A few years later, after the first ESOP was successfully paid off, my father was able to sell some of his stock back to the company. He wanted to pull some cash out of the business for estate planning purposes. My mother and I would inherit my father's stock, and my four older sisters would be given an equitable amount of cash. This was an effective way to provide for the child involved in the business, the children not involved in it, and good employees who aren't relatives. My father died suddenly 21⁄2 years ago, but because he had a well-thought out succession plan in place, we are able to continue the VENDING TIMES tradition, just as he had wanted. Today, my mother and I control the voting stock, and the majority of VT's stock belongs to the employees under the Plan.
So, if I went to bat for the "old man" in the fictitious case study, perhaps you will now understand why. I do feel very strongly that a business with a history of entrepreneurial imagination and achievement should regard that history as a source of pride and a strong point in its marketing, while at the same time working hard to secure its future. If you've done a good job of providing for your customers, your loyal employees and your heirs, you and they should tell the world about it. What's your company's legacy, and shouldn't those who inherit that legacy tell your story?


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He's well-known for his singing chops, and Hugh Jackmanbroke into song during his appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" last night (February 20).
The "Real Steel" hunk showed up on the Ed Sullivan Theatre stage wearing a bushy beard and tall top hat as he explained his reasoning for the getup.
Hugh shared, "The truth is, I wanted to sway a few last-minute Oscar voters. I'll be honest. I mean, really, can Daniel Day-Lewis do this?" before singing, "Four score and seven years ago…."
Jackman, of course, was referring to his aspiration of beating Lewis for the Best Actor Oscar at this weekend's 85th Academy Awards.
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Toronto Sun 2008- Sunshine Girl
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VIA Rail Magazine- Modeled with twin sister for an Ottawa "girls only getaway weekend" advertisment
Autobody's Calender 2010- Calender model
Dixie Outlet Mall- Modeled chic clothing for online usage, catelogue, and mall advertisments
Outdoor Survival Canada- Modeled winter coats for website and advertising.
"Dead Reckoning" Harlequin book cover: Modeled as a main character on the books front cover. See it at: http://www.crackingthecover.com/6723/zo … reckoning/
Barcard Xpress: Main model in club environment
Too Hot To Handle Firefighter calender 2013: Calender model
Eufora International: Hair model for product advertisements
Persona Jewellery Spring Campaign: Modeled jewellery for brochures, online usage and billboards
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Novoguard Staffing Solutions: Modeled for website and print usage
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Contessa Hair competition: Hair model
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Abroad TV Pilot- Played a Swedish twin along with my twin sister. Also played a young royal for the same episode.
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Rides Again Music Video- Played a vampire role
Guinevere "Crazy Crazy" Music Video- Played a sexy business women role
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Quote from: Brian D. Bray on December 29, 2008, 04:27:04 PMTime to build a buckboard and buy a horse. Let the Horse manure fall where it may.I don't know Brian I saw where they wanted to tax livestock for greenhouse emmisions :roll:Looks like they gotcha coming and going :-DKeith
they could stop building leaky Chinese tea gardens and ponds, and use the money on roads. they could stop building light rail that does not pay for itself and repair roads. they could stop remodeling state buildings and opening up the bathrooms in city hall so the homeless have a place to _____, and a space to trash, and repair roads. or...maybe they shouldn't have spent all that money to make all of Portland a free wireless zone, and then not finished the project, and spent the money on roads.i bet if they let 4 or 5 housewives/husbands at the budget, they could fix it!
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The pair's demand to be taken seriously as a band (as opposed to the enforced anonymity of most techno acts, and something of a new concept for American dance producers) extended to incessant live performances, and Crystal Method's increasing popularity both in the clubs and among radio jocks led to a deal with Geffen affiliate Outpost Recordings in 1996. The group's debut LP, Vegas -- an unabashed party record bathed in acid, funk, rock, and big beat hip-hop -- appeared in mid-1997 and sold very well. The follow-up Tweekend was released four years later, and the duo inaugurated a series of mix albums, titled Community Service, in 2002. Third album Legion of Boom followed in 2004, and their soundtrack to the film London landed a year later. In 2006 released Drive. The mix was made to accompany any aspiring athlete's workout session and was re-released on CD in 2008 with four bonus tracks. In 2009, they released Divided by Night, the first album to be recorded at the duo's state-of-the-art recording studio, Crystalwerks. A self-titled, fan-funded album -- one that embraced their role in the development of EDM -- arrived in 2014. ~ Sean Cooper
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A few weeks ago I read an LRC column (by Chris Floyd I think) talking about how Bush people are worried they'll be prosecuted for war crimes. At the time I thought that was ridiculous, but after reading this news story I'm not so sure. Ah, isn't it nice to live in a land of freedom and justice, where a major news article has lines like this?
As part of the administration's efforts to protect intelligence officers from liability, Bush last week called for Congress to approve legislation drafted by the White House that would exempt CIA officers and other federal civilian officials from prosecution for humiliating and degrading terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. Its wording would keep prosecutors or courts from considering a wider definition of actions that constitute torture.


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Thank you for your excellent coverage on the local football team ["Illegal procedure," April 12]. It's nice to know the University of Montana football program's high jinx have hit the big time. Forget panty raids, bonfires and keggers like the good old days. Bring on the pistol-whipping, home invasion, jaw-fracturing and sex, sex, sex. The latter, of course, only under the conditions of forced, non-consensual and drugged.
Which makes one realize that UM is looking in the wrong direction. They don't need a new athletic director or football coach, they need a producer to promote the latest reality TV hit, "Jizz Nation"! Follow the sexploits of the errant few Jizzlies as they go from one sex crime to another. Watch school officials bob and weave, as if running the gauntlet of an NFL combine, to avoid blame and responsibility for the actions of players. Faster than you can say "felony sexual assault," watch the new show displace "The Kar-trashians" as the best in reality TV. Go Jizz!
In all seriousness, the $2 million collected by the Grizzly Scholarship Association should be divided equally and paid to the men and women who've been on the receiving end of the assaults, sexual and otherwise, by the street thugs UM keeps trying to pass off to the paying public as upstanding college football players—thugs who are an embarrassment and disgrace to the students and players of UM whose pursuit in attaining victory in life and on the field is done so by playing by the rules on and off the field.
The UM president and provosts should put UM's status as an institution of higher learning to good use in the form of a half-time program featuring the names and mug shots of all the Grizzly players convicted of crimes up on the big screen. What better way to educate the public, particularly the young Grizzly fans, about the real world of big-time college football programs? Moms and dads in the stands watching with their children can point to the mug on the big screen and remind their kids that that is the type of person they never want to be in life.
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(KRT) - I'm less intrigued by Karl Rove's ultimate fate than I am by how White House-allied strategists have responded to the scandal threatening to engulf him. Never before has the dark magic of the Republican spin machine - and the willingness of loyalists to embrace it - been so nakedly obvious.
This rare glimpse came courtesy the alternative Web site Raw Story, which obtained a copy of the "special" July 12 Rovegate edition of Republican National Committee's D.C. Talkers memo - the infamous party Talking Points sheet. View it at www.rawstory.com (link is under "Blogs/Media").
It took two days for the RNC to figure out how to respond to the July 10 Newsweek report that Rove, often called the brains behind the presidency, indeed had spoken with Time reporter Matt Cooper about Valerie Plame, the CIA-operative wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Wilson had raised White House hackles in July 2003 with a New York Times essay asserting that he had personally debunked the claim President Bush used in that year's State of the Union address regarding Saddam Hussein's efforts to purchase weapons-grade uranium ore in Niger. Wilson believes his wife was outed in retaliation.
The 48-hour silence from the Right was almost deafening. White House spokesman Scott McClellan had no answers to offer at a July 11 press conference. But by the next day, the Right burst forth with its coordinated counterattack, based heavily on the Talking Points assertion that Rove was actually encouraging reporters not to fall for Wilson's purported lie that he had been sent to Niger by Vice President Dick Cheney.
The memo cites an interview Wilson did in 2003 with CNN's Wolf Blitzer in which Wilson said, "What they did, what the office of the vice president did, and, in fact, I believe it now from Mr. Libby's statement, it was probably the vice president himself ...''
But in the full transcript of the program (at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/03/ le.00.html), Wilson states explicitly that Cheney didn't know Wilson was the one being sent to Niger. When Wilson's comment above is put back into context, it's clear he was only speculating that it was Cheney who had asked the CIA to send someone to check out the Niger story.
But it sure must have sounded good to the Right. The Wall Street Journal, in its July 13 editorial, hailed Rove for honorably attempting to save reporters from Wilson's alleged lie - the Talking Points' chosen spin. The Journal didn't explain why, if Rove was so concerned about setting the record straight, he didn't just hold a press conference rather than whispering in a few selected ears. Could it be because he knew what he was sharing was classified?
Talking points, generically speaking, are the inverse of analysis. To analyze, you assemble the known and circumstantial facts and apply logic to reach a conclusion. When using talking points, you start with the desired conclusion, and then - as the Downing Street Memo so elegantly phrased it - you fix the facts around the policy. You cherry-pick details. If necessary, you dissemble and distort.
The very first of the July 12 RNC Talking Points shows how, faced with crisis, the neo-con spinmeisters almost instinctively turn to attacking the critics' motives, in an attempt to deflect attention from the substance of their assertions. It reads, "Once again, Democrats are engaging in blatant political attacks." They're being - omigod - partisan!
But in what universe is being partisan, in and of itself, proof of a lack of credibility? And how can the accusation of "partisanship" taint one side but not the other?
It's a bit like a defense attorney asking for a mistrial because the prosecutor is trying to prove his client guilty. The very act of raising a challenge at all makes one partisan - the only way to avoid the label would be to acquiesce in all matters. Thus, we glean insight into this administration's core psychological makeup: In the neo-con mind, allies are supposed to back you without question, and the "partisan" opposition is discredited by nature. Get it? In the perfect neo-con world, there are no legitimate critics.
Being partisan doesn't necessarily mean you're incapable of seeking or discerning the truth. That's what analysis is all about; the talking points phenomenon flips analysis on its head. Talking points are designed to spin the opposition into irrelevancy, not to answer questions.
That may be the ultimate way in which the Bush administration has divided America: We've become a nation of those who ask questions versus those who avoid them.
Robert Steinback is a columnist for The Miami Herald. Readers may write to him at: One Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla. 33132, or via e-mail at email@example.com.
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Excellent article. Watch 'Orwell rolls in his grave' and see how rare it is that the main stream media report real news about topics of great concern, starting with the Downing Street Memo/Minutes...
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Loyalty is everything, truth means nothing....it cannot last. It will go from the bizarre to theatre of the absurd.
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Socket to me, Mic (or, getting bent over a pin)
Joel, Did you ever find a Raymarine part or good substitute for the helm mike socket for a RayMic? We too have bent a pin, and I can't believe that we are the only ones to have done that, or that marine supply stores don't sell these like hotcakes. -Ken
|Negrini, I remove it every time I leave the boat. I hadn't thought about permanent wiring. I could simply stow it in the cockpit locker. Simpler is better! Thanks.
No advice, Joel, but I feel for you.
We had a similar problem with the mic plug on a radio in the cockpit. It unplugged regularly because it was placed just out of reach of the helm, and the pins bent when we plugged it back in. You know the story, soon the pins were completely broken and the mic no longer worked. Tough when you're calling bridges on the ICW. We're just going with a handheld vhf at the helm for now. There's another below if we need more power.
Thanks, SD, for the link. Now I know where to look for a good solution if we decide the handheld isn't doing the trick.
|Joel, my previous ICOM was a bit delicated too, but apparently used a more robust plastic, if compared to my actual RayMic. I got used to handle it delicatedly, afraid of benting pins. Anyway, I had problems of water/moisture intrusion even with the receptacle closed, that forces me to apply contact cleaners almost every week. Like you, rarely I use main station, so I'm considering to maintain RayMic permanentely mounted on cockpit, and would remove it only when docking in a strange area. Have yu fixed yours ? How frequently you remove it ?
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We recently installed a Ray55 VHF and the RayMic remote microphone at the helm. The RayMic wire includes a socket for mounting on a bulkhead in the cockpit with the corresponding plug on the end of the RayMic's cord. Unfortunately, it's a plasticy POS. The socket has 10 pins (I believe) in a square recess. The plug on the cord has the corresponding females receptacles. There is a tab on the plug that is supposed to line up with a groove on one side of the square socket to assure proper alignment. The problem is that the plug makes contact with the pins before the tab/groove has confirmed proper alignment. My third attempt to plug the unit in resulted in three bent pins which then broke off when I attempted to straighten them. To make matters worse, the socket is plastic and is held in place by a plastic nut that fits over the whole assembly. Simply pushing the plug into the socket strips the nut and the socket falls back into locker whose sidewall is where I've installed the thing.
By contrast, my old Standard Horizon remote mic connector was made of metal, the plug and receptacle were round, but the alignment tab had to be correctly aligned before anything could touch the pins. It would have been very difficult to cause damage, as evidenced by how many years (and owners) it lasted.
I use the cockpit-based remote mic much more often than the base unit. I purchased the Raymarine gear because Practical Sailor rated the remote mic highly, apparently not paying attention to the connectors.
I'm anticipating a lack of response from Raymarine and expect to have to replace the plug and socket myself. My usual sources for such things, McMaster-Carr and Grainger, don't seem to have anything suitable. Any suggestions as to a source? Thoughts in general?
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Former Berlin mayor Leo Ouellet remembered for vision for city
By JOHN KOZIOL
Union Leader Correspondent | July 15. 2014 8:12PM
Ouellet, who was born Aug. 6, 1924 in Lebanon and who served as mayor from 1978 to 1982 and again from 1990 to 1994, will be remembered for many things, said Mitchell Berkowitz, who is the Berlin's former city manager, but foremost for his being able to see that the city was headed into an uncertain future and for trying to position it to best deal with a declining population and labor force as well as the resulting decrease in municipal revenues.
As mayor of Berlin, Ouellet established the Business Enterprise Development Corporation, whose duties are now handled by the Northern Community Investment Corporation and the North Country Council; and helped get the Cleveland Bridge built.
Berkowitz, who was Berlin's city manager from 1983 to 1998, said on Tuesday that he was saddened by the death of his former boss.
"He was a visionary in that respect," said Berkowitz, adding that Ouellet was a champion of containing costs given Berlin's diminishing population and tax base.
"It's a shock and as I reflect back, I am saddened at his passing, I thought he would go on forever."
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2 Timothy 1:13 – The Pattern of Sound Words
Man has ever sought to be free of divine restraint. In the early days of the church, a philosophy known as "antinomianism" &> was prevalent. It was the ideology that argued: "We are not under law."
The concept is not dead even today. There are some, even in the church of the Lord, who allege that we are under grace – not law. It is claimed that the New Testament is a collection of "love letters," and not a legal brief.
Some openly repudiate what they call "pattern theology." The apostle Paul did not, however. To Timothy he wrote:
"Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 1:13).
Does not the expression "pattern of sound words" indicate that there is a law (cf. 1 Corinthians 9:21; Galatians 6:2), or a rule (Galatians 6:16) by which we are to live? Assuredly it does. (See "Are We Under "Law" or "Grace"?" and "Is Christian Worship Regulated by New Testament Law?")
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NEED HELP. I am new to the cadillac brand. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong. I am going to provide as much information as possible incase I am the cause of the problem.
Car: 2004 Cadillac Deville DHS 24,000 miles.
Temperature controls set to Auto: 72* with passeger set to hi.
1) when I am driving the vehicle and I activate the cooled or heated seat button, the drivers seat does not cool and or heat. The door keys light up but the seat does not cool and or heat depending on which feature I want to activate. If I stop, turn the vehicle on, restart the vehicle and IMMEDIATELY push either heat or cool. The seat cools or heats up. If I turn it off, drive 10 miles, then turn the heating or cooling on. The system does nothing.
2) This also happens on the passenger side.
3) The back heated seats NEVER have this problem.
:This is what people have told me:
1) I have been told by some people, that if I am running the heater 72 degress in 60 degrees exterior temperature that the cooling would not work as it circulates air from the vents(main A/C system), it does not have its on cooling A/C and therefore they can only cool when the A/C is running? Is this true?
2) I also have been told that by setting the memory system, it also stores the seat temperature, main car temperature setting at the time it was programmed/stored. So this would affect it.
ther things I have noticed that might be related in someone helping me:
When I picked up the vehicle from the dealership where I purchased it, the seats cooled and or heated. Also when I put the car in reverse, the passenger mirror would tilt down. I noticed that the passenger mirror "sometimes" tilts down and other times it does not. I "attempted" to program the memory functions on the car, and they said that perhaps I messed up or turned off the heated seats/cooled seats or changed how they work, same thing on the mirror. If I messed up the seating, how would I return the car to "factory" defaults?
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Forrest, 30, made his appearance at Eastbourne Magistrates' Court in East Sussex less than 24 hours after being extradited to Britain.
He was charged with child abduction by Sussex Police after spending eight days in France with the pupil last month, triggering a highly-publicised Europe-wide search.
A European Arrest Warrant was issued for the married teacher and he and the pupil, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were eventually found in Bordeaux on September 28 after he was recognised from media coverage.
Scotland-born amateur musician Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, south east London, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address in court.
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He sat and listened intently as no bail application was made by his solicitor, Phil Smith.
Forrest was remanded in custody by magistrate Nick Letherby and will reappear in the same court via video-link on October 17.
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At Enfield, we are told, a man was obliged by trade union regulations so to regulate his work that he did not earn more than 1s.
The trade union has its counterpart in what are termed the "upper classes."
The extracts are quoted from the annual report of the trade union.
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Freshman Anna Schueler discusses why putting on her No. 9 jersey for the first time at Villanova was so special and explains what the team is looking to improve upon for the home opener on Friday vs. Marquette.
On putting on her No. 9 uniform for the first time, which she wears in memory of her brother Henry ... "The first thing I thought was 'I wish he was here.' It was really cool because my parents flew out from Chicago. I think for everyone, in terms of putting on that Michigan uniform for the first time, it was special because it was something that not many people get to experience. As the day progressed, people were getting more and more excited. But of course when I put on the No. 9 jersey, I immediately thought of him (Henry). I'm upset the way the game turned out, but it was a really, really cool experience."
On the different emotions of playing the first game ... "When Kelly Kubach did her pump-up cheer that she does before every game, everyone was so ready to get out on the field and play. I think Tess (Korten) scoring that first goal so quickly settled us down and reassured us that we can compete at this level and we belong here. It was our first official game and it all became very real that we belonged there. I think that goal settled people down, but it also just excited people for the whole season to come -- it was a really good starting point for our season."
On tallying her first two career goals at Villanova ... "It was definitely really cool. I didn't really think about it when it happened -- you just score and go back to the circle. I was proud that I was able to do that and it was exciting to score my first two goals, but overall I was more upset that I didn't contribute in other ways."
On what the team took away from its first game ... "The only way you can take that game is as a learning experience. It was really exciting, but we all know that we did not play as well as we could have. I think people are pretty upset about that and it's only going to motivate us more for Marquette on Friday. What we took away was that we made mistakes that are very fixable so we just need to continue to work harder in weeks to come."
On the learning curve with the X's and O's at this level ... "I think the big thing our coaches were telling us in the fall was about the effort it was going to take at this level and I honestly think people really do see that know. Right now it's about getting down the X's and O's. We're all freshmen so the coaches are doing a good job of not throwing too much at us, but they are slowly implementing scouting reports and day-by-day we have to familiarize ourselves with the next opponent. Each player on the team is watching film whenever they can on our individual iPads, which is really helpful. We're learning that to play at this level, it takes a lot of effort, but also a lot of strategic thinking. We're becoming more and more accustomed to that and need to continually progress and take in more and more each game we play."
On preparing for the home opener vs. Marquette ... "Everyone has been talking about it since the end of the Villanova game. We were all upset about what happened, but cannot wait to play Marquette and get a chance to redeem ourselves. We didn't show what we're capable of against Villanova. I think playing at home is huge. Playing Marquette, we know they're a team we can compete with; we just have to play at a level we know we're capable of."
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Happy Wednesday everyone! It's that time again! Time to linkup for Wonder Mom Wednesday with myself, A Mom Who Tris and Mom Swim Bike Run!!!
I've been loving reading all of your posts! Encourage some friends to join us, we'd love for this to get huge!! Don't forget to follow the rules and link back to your hosts and/or grab the button! Today's topic is kind of fun and for me is totally non-running related! Today's topic is:
Favorite Mom Moments from last week!
Now you really get a look into the
crazy wonderful mom and kid moments that I had this week….guaranteed to either a) not be a surprise because you've been there and done that, OR b) it will be the best damn birth control you could ever have!
Favorite moment #1.
The first day of school for this little guy! Don't get me wrong, I love this guy to death and want to embrace every
sleeping waking moment with him, but he is a 2 year old. And two year old are angels terrors. He needed some serious socialization time with people who get paid to deal with it. I get paid by getting to watch him develop into such an amazing person (and I feel like that even when he's taking a dump on my kitchen rug….oh but wait, that's another favorite mom moment.)
We weren't excited AT.ALL. I even put on real clothes to celebrate the occasion and it also happened to be my birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Favorite Mom Moment #2:
Let me introduce you to Mr. & Mrs. Smith:
That's right. These two lovebirds are nothing but trouble (see Favorite mom moment # for more). The are pretty much boyfriend and girlfriend. Mini #2 calls her "my girl". Oh yea, it is so stinking cute when they aren't terrorizing something. They were in the gym daycare last week and when myself and Mrs. Smith's mom went in to get them they were trying to break into a storage closet. The daycare provider who has known them both since they were babies said, "Thank gosh you are back, get Mr. & Mrs. Smith out of here."
Favorite Mom Moment #3:
Mini #2 did the grocery shopping for me! He was so thoughtful to remember the wine for me.
Favorite Mom Moment # 4:
Both kids are at school and I decided to go out and do a little window shopping. I can't remember the last time I got to do that. I was finishing up and walking back to my car, and reached into my purse to grab my keys. This is what I grabbed and I even attempted to put it in the ignition until I realized it wasn't keys. Where is the wine?
Favorite Mom Moment #5:
So many of the above involve Mini #2 because Mini #1 is at school full time now! So I decided to take him on a special date night. We went to see the Marvel Superhero Live show. So much fun. We put on our superhero shirts and had a fabulous time.
Favorite Mom Moment #6:
At the Race for Every Child this weekend I had signed the kids up for the kids race. They love getting to race like mommy. Mini #2 was ready for his 100 yard dash!! Mr. & Mrs. Smith got to race together on this one and took 1st and 2nd place respectively! He won first place in his age division! He is so much better than those 1 year olds that were running like frankenstein behind him! I mean the kid threw the competition down! Oh my, did I just say that? I am THAT mom that brags about her freaking TWO year old winning a 100 yard dash?! Hells ya and proud of it For those that don't know me personally I hope my sarcasm is shining through. I WAS kind of excited for him though, I can not tell a lie!
Mrs. Smith took 1st female and 2nd overall! Ohhhhh yeaaaaaa. And in Toms for goodness sakes….who needs running shoes? Not this girl. A match made in heaven.
Favorite Mom Moment #7:
And you should be glad I don't have photos to prove this one. We all know that running gets our bowels moving. It's no secret to runners. And we aren't ashamed to talk about it. It happens. Well, now that Mini #2 is a REAL runner (winning his 100 yard dash solidified that), we got home and he decided he wanted to go go #2 on potty. Halleluah. This kid needs to get out of diapers. He went up stairs with his dad, sat down on the toilet and went #2. He was so proud. His prize was an M&M. Yes, we bribe our kids with candy when we are potty training, WHATEVER.WORKS. Anyway, he came downstairs to retrieve his M&M from me. I hand him the M&M in the kitchen and he walks over to the kitchen table (diaperless I might add) and proceeds to FINISH taking his dump on the kitchen rug. Does he stop when he realizes what is happening? Oh hell no. Yep, that just happened.
Favorite Mom Moment #8:
This guy. With him being in school full time, he get's a little jealous that I get to spend so much time with Mini #2 like I said before, so I try to have as many one on one moments that I can. He loves to help out with cooking, so we made pizzas together!
Favorite Mom Moment #9:
NO.WORDS. Clearly he will be the life of the party at the frat house in a few years.
Favorite Mom Moment #10:
No photo to prove this one either but I was babysitting Mrs. Smith while her mommy got a well deserved break to get her hair did. I had to go out to the garage to get something out of the freezer, so out I went. When I went to go back in, the door was locked. The Smith's had locked me out. That's right. 2 two-year olds locked me out of the house. Oh yea, after about 10 minutes of sheer panic, Mini #2 figured out to unlock the door and let me in. I'm lucky I didn't get duct taped to the wall to be honest with Mr & Mrs Smith at the helm. I should have had a bottle of wine duct taped to both hands however, that would have helped a little!
Ahhh, yes. So there you have it. Crazy isn't it? Yep, that's my life on a daily basis. Despite all of my sarcasm and snarkiness, these kids are the light of my life, and even when they make me so mad, at the end of the day it's still the most rewarding thing I've ever done.
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Lake Wylie residents' pleas to stop development go unheeded
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Homeowners lost their fight to keep hundreds of new homes from being built in Lake Wylie.
A group called Save Our Coves rallied outside the Government Center before Monday night's City Council meeting.
In March, a Charlotte-based developer, Crescent Resources, requested permission to build more than 500 single-family homes near Shopton Road.
Neighbors said the plan goes against the city's plan to protect the lake.
"This is the last corner of Mecklenburg County that isn't heavily developed. The city has the opportunity to leave it that way," said homeowner Nancy Nibert.
More than 100 residents attended the meeting in protest.
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Tornadoes Blast Property Insurers
RALEIGH, N.C.—A string of violent tornadoes that coursed through the South has put U.S. home insurers on track to suffer their most expensive year ever for thunderstorm damage, industry experts say.
The years 2008 through 2010 were already the industry's costliest for thunderstorm damage—which includes hail, tornadoes and other severe storms— with a total tab of $30 billion, said Robert Hartwig, president of trade group Insurance Information Institute.
The current year, however, is shaping up to be even more expensive than any of those three, according to Peter Lore, associate vice president for property technical claims with insurance giant Nationwide Insurance. As of April 18, 617 tornadoes had been recorded, compared with 419 and 203 by April 30 of 2009 and 2010, respectively, according to the insurance institute, citing data from the National Weather Service. An assessment of damage in dollar terms won't be produced until industry-wide data are collected at mid-year, Mr. Hartwig said.
The tornado count so far suggests that "2011 could produce higher losses (and tragically deaths) than any of the prior three years," Mr. Hartwig said in an email, but that would depend on storm activity through June, he added.
Nationwide has received more than 12,600 claims from North Carolina, which bore the brunt of damage from a three-day string of twisters last week that demolished or damaged schools, big-box stores and homes from Oklahoma to Virginia, killing at least 45 people, on top of hail storms the previous weekend.
"It's unprecedented for us to have this many claims in this short a period of time from spring storms," Mr. Lore said.
The reason for the spike in storm-related costs over the past few years is unclear. Though the number of tornadoes is up sharply this year, many in the insurance industry say the higher expense stems from increased development, and more expensive property, sitting in harm's way these days.
Insurers were still settling claims related to the hail storms in Charlotte when the severe weather struck the central part of the state last weekend.
As the tornadoes swept through on Saturday, Tim Adams was at a Nationwide office in Raleigh, on a conference call wrapping up disaster planning with colleagues throughout the Southeast. A few hours later, he drove through the city's darkened streets to deliver a check and hire private security for a damaged Harley-Davidson dealership.
"It was like driving through a war zone," said Mr. Adams, a catastrophe coordinator for the insurer.
The major home and commercial insurers compete against each other in part on their ability to respond quickly to disasters, with standing plans for bringing in workers from other parts of a state or region to rapidly assess damages and cut checks. Employees from Nationwide drove a 45-foot motor coach from headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, to Sanford, N.C., over the weekend, and set up shop in a grocery-store parking lot.
Nationwide says it also rented four motor homes to park in other parts of the state. The insurer's employees, some from as far away as Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Texas, have handed out water, ice and even diapers in addition to coordinating claims adjustment.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the biggest home insurer by premium in North Carolina and other hard-hit states, has 1,700 employees who specialize in disasters, traveling from event to event and often arriving ahead of the damage, as they anticipate the path of violent weather, the company said. As of Wednesday, State Farm had received more than 10,400 claims from the tornadoes and severe storms that struck a large swath of the U.S. in the past week.
Storms Barrel Through South
Despite the large number of claims, "insurers are in very good shape to weather this" latest spate of bad weather, said Mr. Hartwig. That's partly because while claims are up sharply from thunderstorms, the industry experienced just one punishing hurricane between 2008 and 2010: Ike, which caused $12.5 billion in insured losses in 2008.
Tornadoes don't pose as many logistical challenges as hurricanes and some other disasters, which can be so devastating that authorities block off access to the affected area for days. Adjusters typically are on the scene within 24 hours of tornado damage, armed with sophisticated technology.
Nationwide has used social media to help guide where to offer resources, sending a team to Jacksonville, N.C., after policyholders there posted comments on the insurer's Facebook wall. It also monitors outlets like Twitter.
Mapping software, meanwhile, allows insurers to pinpoint the location of damaged property within a tight radius, so adjusters can be assigned more efficiently for assessments.
Nationwide has contracts in place with third-party vendors who can be immediately dispatched to put tarps over damaged roofs and make emergency repairs, Mr Lore said. For those with uninhabitable homes, Nationwide hands out pre-paid debit cards, which provide hundreds of dollars or more for lodging, clothing and other items.
Another element of the response is less technological, said Brian Maness, a Burlington, N.C.-based property-claims manager who is helping with the response. A quarter of the damaged homes in North Carolina have sustained more than $25,000 in damage, and adjusters have been trained how to handle a range of responses, from rage to despair.
"Whether they're aware of it or not, they've been traumatized," he said. "You can't just walk up and say, 'Here's what I'm going to do, then I'm going to cut you a check and then I'm going to leave.' There's a lot of psychology to it."
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At a press conference this afternoon, President George H. W. Bush singled out the Walton Family for their generosity to Katrina relief efforts:
I don't think anyone would mind if I singled out the chairman and CEO of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, who is right here. He told us that they gave the Bush-Clinton fund a total of $23 million…$15 million from the company and then $8 million more from the Walton family, the marvelous philanthropists that they are.
Let's put that in perspective. The Walton family's net worth is $90 billion. So $8 million dollars represents .009 percent of their total.
The average family's net worth is $86,100. If an average family contributed at the same rate as the Waltons, they'd donate $7.74.
There are thousands of families all around country that are being far more generous to Katrina victims than the Waltons. Few of them will be personally thanked by a former President.
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Posted by Judd September 5, 2005 2:20
[might have added that the $23 million was stolen from the undercompensated labor of many people, some of them victims of the hurricane because they could not afford automobiles or health care.]
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Newspapers would benefit from reform of cross-media ownership laws, writes Gregory Hywood.
Sydney and Melbourne are two attractive cities on the outskirts of Western hegemony with vastly different characters. Sydney has its startling landscape, iconic structures and global pretensions. But critics say take away the harbour and culturally it's Kansas.
Melbourne is not known for its nature, but for its compact diversity. It gave up claims to national dominance as its finance sector drifted north and it ceased to house the head office of a major media group. But basking in economic buoyancy after almost sinking in the early '90s, the city strikes a legitimate claim as the nation's cultural capital.
Different in so many respects, these two cities share one attribute - they each enjoy two robust metropolitan newspapers. It is a precious gift to the quality of public debate.
Forget London as an equivalent test of diversity. That is a national market feeding off a population of more than 50 million.
The apt comparison is the US where cities in the 1 million to 5 million range - Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, St Louis, San Francisco - typically have one dominant paper. Quality varies but all are monopoly businesses suffering the circulation difficulties of modern newspapers, but dominant in local advertising markets.
Sydney and Melbourne are unique because News Ltd and Fairfax share the spoils.
Fairfax, which owns The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, years ago carved out most of the high-end AB market attractive to advertisers - those well-to-do newspaper readers who fall within the top 20 per cent of the population as measured by income and education. News dominates the mass market with The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun but has been unable to grab control of the upper-end ad dollar.
This strict market segmentation, underpinned by its traditional classified market, has enabled Fairfax to hold back the trend to single-paper markets despite the much lower circulation of its publications.
For the public it's a good deal. Both cities benefit from depth of coverage, debate, analysis and transparency.
Labor and the Democrats have prevented media reform in the bizarre belief that newspapers can be preserved in aspic, immune from market forces.
In fact, the newspaper markets in both cities are undergoing significant structural change. The rapid fragmentation of the mass advertising market is putting pressure on the papers and makes the cross-media and foreign ownership debate not just an academic discussion of diversity but a determinant of the health of the industry.
The conventional wisdom among editorial staff is that the Howard Government's legislation, now poised to pass the Senate next year, will be the death of diversity.
The opposite is true. Even if ownership becomes more concentrated, and that is far from guaranteed, the legislation would enable a broadening of the media companies' revenue base, placing papers in a co-ordinated mix of media assets. That would serve newspapers well, particularly the Fairfax titles.
It's a long way from the times when newspapers ruled.
A hundred years ago, people barely knew what occurred outside their neighbourhood until the paper slapped down on the front porch. This captive audience vested huge power in newspapers allowing proprietors and editors to define the public debate.
The immediacy of radio changed newspapers profoundly. Merely reporting news was no longer enough. Context was needed.
Television, a visual medium, forced newspapers to improve design, photography and broaden content beyond news. But adapt as they have, competition has taken its toll.
The circulation of metropolitan newspapers is now 15 to 20 per cent off the peak of 30 years ago. Papers have managed to partially offset weaker sales by lifting readership through sectionalisation. The more sections the greater the pass-on rate, the higher the readership.
Despite falling sales, advertisers still saw papers as the best method of speaking to a mass of high-quality customers every day.
And until the 1990s, classifieds were a newspaper monopoly. Proprietors could raise ad prices even when a weak economy caused classified volumes to fall. But over the past decade, competition has been fierce.
Papers have been less suited than magazines to their advertisers' need to narrowly target their audiences and have suffered poor revenue growth as a result.
Local publications and classified-only publications have eaten into classified volumes, particularly real estate and cars.
The internet is a powerful new classified tool for the media companies but they have allowed other players to emerge and in some key areas establish market leadership. The newspaper job market is of particular concern. And what if it is a similar story in real estate and cars?
Less well-resourced papers? Perhaps only one paper in each city?
The implications for public policy are profound. Despite their relative decline, newspapers continue to shape the public debate by providing a forum for detailed analysis of community events and issues.
They do so by sheer dint of resources. Newspapers have hundreds of journalists, television and radio stations a handful.
Some would argue that it doesn't matter - structural change occurs in all industries and discourse is not about to die because the platforms change.
And for those who confuse diversity with ownership, the status quo is preferred.
But for those who consider the daily newspapers central to quality public debate - and the more the better - cross and foreign ownership media reform is essential.
Gregory Hywood is a former editor-in-chief of The


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Israel's Barak quitting politics
Israel's Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, said today he was quitting politics, a surprise decision that deepens uncertainty over how Israel will confront Iran's nuclear programme.
Barak's political fortunes appeared to be on the rise after Israel's eight-day Gaza offensive ended in a truce, but polls predicted his centrist party, a junior partner in right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu's government, would win no more than four seats in Israel's 120-member parliament in a Jan. 22 election.
A former head of the centre-left Labour Party, Barak has insisted he and Netanyahu have been united on policy toward Iran, an issue that has often put the prime minister at odds with U.S. President Barack Obama.
But as the only centrist member of the governing coalition of right-wing and pro-settler parties, Barak has frequently visited Washington for talks with top U.S. officials and had criticised Netanyahu for airing differences with the United States.
At a hastily-called news conference, he said he would not be a candidate in the national ballot that Netanyahu's Likud party is forecast to win.
He said he would remain in his post until a new government was formed in about three months' time, signalling his decision would have no immediate effect on Israel's calculations on how best to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"The Iranian issue remains very important, even after I leave my position in three months. It will remain a central issue on the agenda," said Barak, who was often seen as a moderating force in considering possible military action against Iran.
The 70-year-old ex-general said he wanted to spend more time with his family. Politics, he said, "has never been a particular passion of mine, and I feel there is room to allow other people to serve in senior roles in Israel".
Barak said he would be prepared to offer advice to the next prime minister, if asked, remarks that swiftly raised questions in Israel over whether he might consider serving in the next government as a political appointee.
"As long as my advice is asked for and held in high regard, I will make it available to the prime minister and to the heads of the establishment, on any defence or diplomatic issue," he said.
Barak has been defence minister since 2007 and served as prime minister from 1999 to 2001, taking time out from politics after he lost the election to the Likud's Ariel Sharon.
In a statement, Netanyahu said he "respects Defence Minister Ehud Barak's decision and thanks him for his cooperation in the government and highly appreciates his long-standing contribution to the security of the state".
The Hamas movement ruling Gaza saw Barak's decision to quit as proof that this month's Israeli assault on the enclave was a disaster.
"This is evidence of the political and military failure that the government of Netanyahu and his defence minister suffered," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum.
Israel has called its offensive a success, saying it destroyed most of Hamas's long-range rocket arsenal and killed the Islamist group's top militants.
A former commander in an elite commando unit, Barak tried unsuccessfully to make peace with both the Palestinians and Syria during his time as prime minister.
He was at the forefront of Israel's campaign for stronger international sanctions against Iran to halt what Israeli and Western leaders fear is a drive to produce nuclear weapons, allegations Tehran denies.
He has cautioned that Tehran was nearing a "zone of immunity" that would put deeply buried and fortified nuclear facilities out of reach of Israel's military capabilities, stoking international concern it could opt to strike Iran.
But last month, Barak told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that an immediate crisis was avoided when Iran chose to use more than a third of its medium-enriched uranium for civilian purposes earlier this year.
He told the paper that the decision "allows contemplating delaying the moment of truth by eight to ten months".
Listing his achievements, Barak said he had led the defence establishment and the Israel Defence Forces through a rehabilitation after the second Lebanon war in 2006 and the building of capability to deal with the threat from Iran.
Barak's decision to call a news conference, with only two hours' notice, had touched off speculation he might announce the formation of a new centrist bloc to challenge Netanyahu's frontrunning Likud in the upcoming ballot.
Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have been widely touted as possible candidates to lead such a bloc. Neither has announced their intentions, with only Livni widely expected to run.
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The first Vol to be honored as an All-SEC selection while wearing the No. 97,>Malik Jackson is currently with the Denver Broncos after being a fifth-round selection in the NFL Draft in April 2012.
Jackson, who played in the Senior Bowl in late January, was named to the All-SEC First Team by the media in 2011 and the All-SEC Second Team by the coaches. Also a 2010 AP All-SEC second team honoree, Jackson led the Vols in tackles for loss (11), sacks (2.5) and quarterback hurries (10) in his senior year. His 56 tackles were a career-high, ranked tied for third on the team and positioned him as one of just two defensive linemen to rank in the SEC's top 50 in tackles per game with an average of 4.6 each outing.
He began his career at USC and played two seasons with the Trojans before coming to Knoxville in 2010.
"Coming out of high school, I wore 15. I wore 97 at USC so I just decided to keep the same number when I got to Tennessee. I'm wearing 70 up here in Denver, but I'm actually hoping that will change pretty soon. I got a call when I signed and they asked me what number I wanted. They told me 97 wasn't available and I could have 56, 60, 70 or 72, so 70 was the number."
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Re: Axis in two scales
Hi Nacho
You could certainly draw the graphic you want if you spend a lot of
time building it from scratch with graphics primitives -- I suggest
you start by drawing the x-axis you want with Lines.You might be able
to get close to what you want by experimenting with GraphicsGrid. In
either case you risk creating a graphic with a misleading x - axis, so
don' t forget to put some indication of the break of scale at x ==
Or, you could use ListLogLinearPlot[t] and get close to what you are
asking for with no fuss or tricky programming, and get on with your
Mark Westwood
On Oct 6, 9:13 am, Nacho <ncc1701... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I have a dataset in pairs (x,y) that I would like to plot. The main
> problem is that the data set has interesting parts in the beginning
> that I would like to view clearly.
> As an example, create the following table:
> t = Table[{x, If[x < .5, Sin[100*x], Sin[x]]}, {x, 0, 5, 0.001}];
> ListPlot[t]
> You have a very detailed sine in the beginnng and the rest is less
> interesting.
> I would like to "split" the X axis in two, so the left half of the
> plot covers x={0,0.5} and the second half x={0.5,5}] in the same plot
> and with the right ticks.
> It is like a piecewise axis... is it possible?
> Thanks.


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