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For breast cancer survivors, the national Pink Glove Dance video competition offers a good chance to celebrate.
"It's a big celebration of life and of hope," said Linda Haney, who participated in the video shoot for Baptist Health Paducah's entry Tuesday morning. "And it's good to get together with other survivors. It just brings you strength."
Baptist Health Paducah chose the song "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors for its video, and participating breast cancer survivors each held up a sign noting the best day of their lives. Among the 24 women holding signs, some wrote the day they learned they were cancer-free and others wrote "today" or "every day."
Haney has been cancer-free for five years. She was diagnosed during the ice storm that hit western Kentucky in January of 2009.
"We didn't have electricity for days, you know - some people, weeks - and that wasn't really my biggest worry during that time," Haney recalled.
Tracy Skinner, another participating survivor, wrote the date of her first-ever baseline mammogram. She said that was the day "they found my lump and saved my life." She emphasized it's important for women to fight the urge to put off their first mammograms.
"I'd never had one before, so you can't ever say, 'Oh, the first one's not going to save me,' because I'm here to tell you it can," she said.
Skinner, who also battled uterine cancer in 2008, went for her first mammogram on March 24, 2011.
"My life changed on this date," she said. "But I look at it as a blessing and not a curse."
Fellow survivor Mildred Jones attended the video shoot with Skinner. Jones said she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, and then again about four years later. Like Skinner, Jones said she chooses to see the positive side of the experience.
"I tell you, it's a blessing. It's really a blessing from God that he took me through all of this. And, you know, I just thank him every day for all the blessings that He has given us and watching us through all of this," Jones said.
Jones said she encourages other women to do breast self-exams and to have clinical exams and mammograms. For those currently facing breast cancer, she said, "Hold in there, because I've made it this long."
Jones and Skinner each praised the number of people who came out Tuesday to participate in the video - both their fellow survivors and the hospital staff and public safety staff from western Kentucky. Sometimes people battling cancer feel like they're alone, they said, and it's important to show that isn't the case.
"They say one in eight women are going to get it, so even if you don't have (cancer), it's good to come and be supportive of those you know who are either facing it or going to face it," Skinner said.
This is the fourth year the national video competition has been held. Baptist Health Paducah has participated each year, placing in the top eight videos each year. Video teams in this year's competition are each entered into one of three categories: health care system, stand-alone health care provider and non-health care organization.
The competition raises money for charities chosen by winning teams. According to the Pink Glove Dance U.S. website, the first-place team in each category will receive $10,000 for its charity, second place will win $5,000 and the overall winner will receive an additional $5,000.
Baptist Health Paducah's video will support the Kentucky Cancer Program's Horses and Hope breast cancer education program. Those who want to help the hospital raise money for the program can vote for the video once a day from Sept. 9 through Sept. 23 at http://PinkGloveDance.com.
Contact Leanne Fuller, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8653.
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Lamb: Police fund's shoddy setup resulted in potential for fraud
Sloppy accounting six years ago allowed the potential for fraudulent use of money funneling through the Pittsburgh police bureau as a surcharge for moonlighting officers, current and former city officials say.
City leaders talked about tacking on the surcharge as far back as 2005. Then-Chief Nate Harper established the fee in 2007 at City Council's suggestion to recoup administrative costs and legal fees incurred by officers working off-duty security details at bars, sporting events and grocery stores, according to city officials.
"We were being sued, and I didn't think it was fair that the taxpayers should have to pick up the tab on a lawsuit for detail work," Council President Darlene Harris said. "I requested that we put a pot of money aside that would take care of any lawsuits."
But nobody put the pot aside. Instead, the fee money — $4.6 million since 2007 — was intermingled in a city account with money from businesses for officers' overtime.
That set up the potential for fraud, Controller Michael Lamb said on Tuesday, because the city can't distinguish between reimbursements for overtime and revenue from the $3.85-an-hour fee, which averages about $700,000 each year.
The FBI and city officials are investigating whether someone diverted money to an unauthorized account at the Greater Pittsburgh Police Federal Credit Union. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Harper, whom he ousted last week because of the investigation, gave officers including the mayor's bodyguards debit cards from the credit union to pay for trips, restaurant meals and hotels.
"The (fee) money that came into that (city) account basically padded that account," Lamb said. "If someone would have pilfered checks, there would have been money in there to cover that."
Lamb, who is running for mayor, blames the Ravenstahl administration for allowing a situation in which someone could misspend money. He acknowledged this week that he did not begin an audit of the money until this month, even though officers brought concerns to him in November.
It's unclear why officials did not make separate accounts for the fee money and overtime money. Ravenstahl's Finance Director Scott Kunka said the controller's office under then-acting Controller Tony Pokora told the finance department how to direct the funds. Pokora, now Kunka's assistant, said he couldn't remember how or why the accounts were set up.
Lamb's Chief Accounting Officer Marty Elikan, who was in the same position under Pokora, said he was unaware of the $3.85 surcharge.
"The system was set up by me, but I didn't know anything about the $3.85," Elikan said. "I would have told them to (account for) the $3.85 as revenue."
Acting police Chief Regina McDonald said Harper instituted the surcharge in April 2007 at her recommendation.
"We felt the city should receive some funds because we were absorbing all the costs for liabilities, for compensation if an officer gets hurt, court costs if an officer makes an arrest while on the detail," McDonald said. "It was basically to offset the cost to the city."
She wasn't sure how the bureau decided on $3.85. It includes the surcharge in bills businesses receive once a month, she said.
"We get a monthly total, and we pay the city," said Tom Williams, general manager at Hofbrauhaus in the South Side, which hires officers on weekends. "It's all in the same invoice."
Williams said invoices say "special events" office or department. FBI agents seized records from the police special events office this month.
McDonald said officials have no plan to separate the funds, though that could change, depending on Lamb's audit findings.
Common Pleas Judge Tom Flaherty, the controller from 1984 through 2005, said some of today's problems could have been averted if council had approved the fee.
"Any incoming money to the city treasury has to have an account approved by City Council," he said. "That's where the problem is. If council would have approved that, they would have set up their own code account for that and it wouldn't have been intermingled."
Harris said she assumed the city was using the money as a legal defense fund for police officers.
"We don't have oversight of money," she said. "We put the budget in place, and all the checks-and-balances go through the departments, and the controller does the auditing. I assume that all of the city's money is accounted for."
Lamb said his office has a hotline for people to report anonymously suspected government fraud and abuse. Whistleblowers can call 412-255-4777 or visit the website pittsburghpa.gov/controller/.
Staff writers Margaret Harding and Bobby Kerlik contributed to this report. Bob Bauder is a Trib Total Media staff writer. Reach him at 412-765-2312 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Good. Carry all the times, not just part time.
This is a discussion on Turned in the paperwork within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Well, I turned in my paperwork last Tuesday. I meant to post but then I went on a camping trip. Anyway, the PD told me ...
Well, I turned in my paperwork last Tuesday. I meant to post but then I went on a camping trip. Anyway, the PD told me that it would take about 2 weeks for it to come back. I didn't have to interview with an officer or anything. They made it sound like it was an assumed thing that I would be getting the permit.
I don't know how much of this was standard policy or is due to the fact that I know the entire police force and work with them regularly as a Deputy DA.
Anyway, I will post again once I have it. Then will start the interesting part. I have never carried a weapon regularly before. I plan on carrying most of the time (because otherwise what is the point). Do you just get used to having it there all the time to where it is like a cell phone or keys. I am hoping that I become comfortable but not too comfortable because it is a firearm. Any tips for that first few days?
Good. Carry all the times, not just part time.
You either always carry or you never carry. That's my motto.
George Washington: "A free people ought to be armed."
Welcome from another CA member!Originally Posted by cali-da
I've had my permit for awhile now and it's a real positive. It is a huge responsibility, but I find I feel more serene and certainly more cautious. Here is a thread I posted after my first few days carrying.
What county are you in? I would hope most counties would issue to a deputy D.A.....unless you are in the Bay area.
Let us know how it goes.
Pardon my ignorance , but since you are an "officer of the Court" ,
do you get to Carry on the Job?
-SIG , it's What's for Dinner-
know your rights!
"If I walk in the woods, I feel much more comfortable carrying a gun. What if you meet a bear in the woods that's going to attack you? You shoot it."
{Bernhard Goetz}
Unfortantely no. The title of officer of the court just is a bunch a fancy words that include certain obligations of integrity and professionalism when I am performing legal work. There are a lot of attorneys out there who ignore said obligations and their only motivation is to win and to get money. This group of ethically bankrupt attorneys makes a bad name and reputation for the rest who try and help people or people like me who like to put slime behind bars.
I am hoping eventually, due to the fact that DAs deal with the same kind of trash as police officers, the legislature will at least make it easier for DAs to get a CCW or place DAs in a new category where we can carry at all times without a permit. All a DA would need is his badge and ID.
However, for now, DAs pay for the weapons, the training, and the fees and continue to get CCWs
Sounds good to me and hope the wait is no longer than expected.
Oh and yeah - as much as law permits, make your carry dedicated at all times.
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
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is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
As for the first few days of carry I can offer this advice. Learn to carry with out worring about the weapon. If you find yourself checking to see if it is still there others will take notice. Look in the mirror while at home and carrying the weapon and dressing in several styles to find what works best on your body type. Carry as much as possible even at home for the first few weeks until you just accept that the weapon is there and you are comfortable in your carry.
I know all this sounds simple but basics are what it is all about. Practice all above until it feels good and it will be.
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Security via CCW
and a lot of practice
Dispatchers have the best jobs
we tell the police where to go and they have
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I have had mine for a short while and I must say it sure feels weired the first few trips out with a gun on your side. Good luck and be safe.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
The one thing that helped me get over the odd feeling of carrying concealed was to carry at home while waiting on my permit. It's basically just a matter of getting use to the added weight on your hip.
As was already said, I check the concealment in the bathroom mirror before heading out the door to make sure printing is at a minimum. Any time I get out of my truck I try to make sure my shirt tail is still covering the gun while standing between the truck seat and partially opened door, after that I try really hard not to "fidget" with anything.
I'd like to think your position with the DA's office would ensure your permit gets approved, let us know how it goes for you.


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In 2013, the Nobel Prize in economics was shared by Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller "for their empirical analysis of asset prices". The work of Fama and co-author, Ken French has changed the way people think about passive investing and, consequently, interpreting the performance of active investors. I wanted to dig into the data Fama's work is based on, and see what (if any) conclusions I could draw from it.
Ken French graciously posts much of the data the Fama-French (hereafter FF) model was based on to his website. I used the monthly, value-weighted data in the "6 Portfolios Formed on Size and Book-to-Market" file, along with the market and risk-free returns in the monthly "Fama/French Factors" file. The 6 portfolios that are typically used to construct the FF factors are created by annually dividing stocks into two groups based on size and into three groups based on price/book (which they flipped to book/price, and referred to as book-to-market). The size groups are called big and small, and the book-to-market groups are called value (high book-to-market), neutral (medium book-to-market) and growth (low book-to-market). The term "growth" is just a label given to stocks with low book-to-market ratios, without regard to whether or not they were actually growing.
First, let's look at the relative performance of these six portfolios:
The graph shows the performance of each portfolio relative to the market. When a line goes up, that portfolio outperformed the market; when a line goes down, that portfolio underperformed. For instance, someone who stayed invested in the Small Neutral portfolio for the entire period would have ended up with about 16 times the assets of someone who stayed invested in the broad market (assuming they started with the same amount), and Small Value did nearly 4 times better than that. Both the Small and Big Growth portfolios underperformed the broader market, as indicated by their values that are below 1. All the portfolios generated positive returns over the 86+ years. (If you graph the portfolios themselves, you mostly get six lines that look a lot like the market itself, which is not that interesting so I didn't include it). During the Depression, Big Growth outperformed, and in the 1999 dotcom bubble, Small Growth spiked and everything that is not growth dropped sharply. The stats, calculated for the entire period and the most recent 22 years, look like this (excess returns are portfolio returns minus the risk-free rate, as measured by the one-month T-bill):
If you are familiar with FF, then you have some idea of what to expect: Value outperforms Growth, and Small outperforms Big. Small Value, in particular, does extremely well. However, there are two features of the graph worth noting: 1) Among Growth stocks, the size premium has worked in the opposite direction for the last 30+ years - Big Growth has outperformed Small Growth. 2) Over about the same timeframe, the difference between Big Value and Big Growth has been close to flat. In English, the value premium in large-cap U.S. stocks has been very small in recent years.
FF next use these six portfolios to construct two more:
High minus Low (HML):
1/2 (Small Value + Big Value) - 1/2 (Small Growth + Big Growth) =
1/2 (Small Value - Small Growth) + 1/2 (Big Value - Big Growth)
Small minus Big (SMB):
1/3 (Small Value + Small Neutral + Small Growth) - 1/3 (Big Value + Big Neutral + Big Growth) =
1/3 (Small Value - Big Value) + 1/3 (Small Neutral - Big Neutral) + 1/3 (Small Growth - Big Growth)
Note the HML and SMB portfolios are "market neutral" in the sense that they are 50% weighted "long" and 50% weighted "short" for a net weight of zero. The top equation is how they are defined on French's website; the bottom one rearranges the terms in a way that makes more sense to me. HML is the average difference in performance of Value and Growth stocks over the different size groupings; and SMB is the average difference in performance of Small and Big stocks over the different value groupings.
At this point, FF take a portfolio's excess returns and regress them onto three variables: the market excess returns, the HML portfolio, and the SMB portfolio. The intercept is alpha. As a sanity check, we can take the six portfolios used in the construction of HML/SMB and see what we get. In addition to all of the data, I chose a sample with January 1992 as a starting point because the FF data from the 1993 paper ended in December 1991, so I thought an out-of-sample test would be a good idea.
The results are, to me, problematic. Our six portfolios were constructed entirely on size and value and so we would expect them to have zero alpha. But four of the six portfolios - all those not in the 'neutral' category - show statistically significant alpha. The Big Value portfolio over the last 22 years, for example, has an alpha of -0.21 percentage points per month, or about 2.5 percentage points a year. If someone were using the 3-factor model to evaluate their performance, and had exactly matched the Big Value portfolio, the FF model would give an alpha of -2.5% per year, even though we know if they exactly matched a passive benchmark, alpha should be zero. And if they had actually outperformed the Big Value benchmark portfolio by 2.5%/year with identical factor exposures, the FF model would give an alpha of zero.
When we look at the performance of the portfolios via which HML/SMB are constructed, it is not hard to see what's going wrong here. FF create HML by averaging the value premium among large and small stocks. The value premium is substantial among small stocks, but almost nonexistent among large stocks, and the average is halfway in between. The Big Value portfolio has a positive HML loading, and the Big Growth portfolio has a negative HML loading. For the model to work, Big Value needs to outperform Big Growth by a considerable amount. It doesn't, and this gets picked up incorrectly as negative alpha for Big Value and positive alpha for Big Growth. It doesn't work to try to use a single factor to capture HML, when the effect is clearly different for large caps vs. small caps. Similarly, SMB is clearly very different for growth stocks than value stocks, but the model only allows for one SMB factor, which turns into a muddied combination of what seem to be multiple forces at work, and this contributes to positive alpha for the Big Growth portfolio, and negative alpha for the Small Growth portfolio.
To be fair to FF, this is MILES ahead of what preceded it, which was the same regression but without any factors for HML or SMB. And when you look at the six portfolios, it's almost impossible to argue that size and value don't matter - they clearly do. But, they interact with each other in a way that the functional form of the 3-factor model does not capture.
The simpler and more intuitive way to incorporate size and value into performance benchmarking is to simply measure a portfolio against a benchmark with similar size and value characteristics. This poses some practical challenges, however. Size and value are continuous, and any attempt to create portfolios based on them requires a decision about how many categories to divide them into. FF chose three for value and two for size. On pg. 9 of 1993's "Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds", they have this to say on the topic:
Our decision to sort firms into three groups on BE/ME and only two on ME follows the evidence in Fama and French (1992a) that book-to-market equity has a stronger role in average stock returns than size. The splits are arbitrary, however, and we have not searched over alternatives. The hope is that the tests here and in Fama and French (1992b) are not sensitive to these choices. We see no reason to argue that they are.
Morningstar uses a 3x3 split, which seems to work reasonably well. Another issue is the so-called "style drift"; you can get a snapshot of a portfolio's size/value composition at any given time, but it might be very different at a different time. This can even happen without turnover; Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) was the classic growth stock twenty years ago, but is probably more of a value stock today. Which benchmark should you use if you held it the entire time? I don't know.
For passive investors
First off, for passive investors, simply owning the broad market still seems like a very reasonable approach to me. Small and value stocks are included in the market, so you are still getting some exposure to them. Their history of outperformance certainly seems tempting, but there's some saying about past performance and future results that may apply here. Also, FF seem to argue the higher returns for Small/Value are related to some sort of risk. Possibly these stocks would fare the worst in a serious economic downturn. So, in spite of their past performance, by not overweighting them you may be limiting your exposure to so-called "tail risk".
For those who do want more of that Small Value performance in their portfolio, there are options. The FF portfolios are theoretical and cannot be invested in directly. To see how well some investable options actually track FF Small Value, I ran simple regressions for five passive small value instruments, using the actual fund monthly returns as the dependent variable and the FF SV monthly returns as the independent variable. If you are not too familiar with regression, what we are hoping for in this case is a multiple close to 1; an intercept close to 0; and an R-squared close to 1.
Not surprisingly (Fama's on the board of directors), Dimensional Funds' DFSVX tracks SV the most closely, with an R-squared that's noticeably higher than any of the alternatives. However, both Vanguard alternatives VIOV and VTWV submit perfectly respectable performances over their unfortunately short histories. RZV is a different animal; in part because the S&P "Pure Value" indices weight stocks by their Growth or Value score rather than by market cap. It actually looks like a slightly leveraged version of SV; but the R-squared is much lower, so there may be other things happening there too. JKL's multiple of SV is significantly (four standard errors) lower than 1, so it's not giving investors the same exposure to SV as some of the others. If you want the Cadillac of Small Value, DFSVX is probably the way to go; otherwise, I'd say VIOV's low expense ratio and slightly higher R-squared make it the best of the rest.
For professional benchmarking
As a disclaimer, I have no idea if anyone doing serious portfolio measurement actually runs regressions on the FF factors, or the more recently-added UMD (Up minus Down; for momentum) or QMJ (Quality minus Junk; for gross profitability) factors. The above analysis suggests they probably shouldn't but certainly isn't the last word - there may well be a way to make it work. If anyone has, I would be really interested in what/how they do so.
The portfolio-specific approach of trying to benchmark against a portfolio of similar stocks, as Morningstar does, is a reasonable way to proceed, but in addition to the problems discussed earlier, it's in some danger of becoming hopelessly convoluted. FF's most recent paper uses five factors (market, SMB, HML, QMJ, and they added CMA, which is Conservative minus Aggressive, for firms that invest a little or a lot), and if you add momentum, that's six. You can also get passive exposure to low-volatility now (which seems to outperform as well), so that's a total of seven. Hypothetically, one could be comparing a fund manager to a portfolio of, say, large-cap, low-profitability, medium-volatility, high book-to-market, moderately-aggressive losers, which seems absurd. But I don't really have any better ideas.
For personal benchmarking
I don't have much to say here, other than I don't recommend the 3-factor model, based on the above analysis. If you choose to not benchmark at all, I think that's fine. It may help you focus on your process as opposed to your results, which can only be a good thing. The downside is if you turn out to be terrible at investing, you may be costing yourself money without ever realizing it. Otherwise, you can use the broad market, choose a Morningstar index that you feel matches your style, or pick a combination of passive funds that would be your "next-best" choice if you couldn't buy individual stocks. It's really up to the individual.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Weeping Tile Replacement .vs. Install Sump Pump
We have a late 1950's bungalow and the basement has been leaking water in a few areas. No heavy flooding, just leaks... but enough leaking and water to cause mold and concern.
We want to finish the basement, but need to address this matter first. We received a quote from a company which does not dig on the outside, rather they recommend installing a full sump pump solution. Including the sub floor and vapor barrier, it'll come to just under $18K CAD.
I've been advised by an Engineer that this is not solving the problem, because it allows water to continue to get in. He advised that we should replace the weeping tiles instead. We don't have much landscaping around the house (not a costly replacement on that front), but we do have a concrete front porch.
There is a considerable amount of water around the house as runoff from the neighbours' comes our way, and we definitely will benefit by fixing the grading outside since it's in bad condition.
I've heard nothing but horror stories about sump pumps, especially since we already have a weeping tile system.
Any recommendations/thoughts for:
1 - replacing weeping tiles .vs. adding sump pump
2 - cost we should expect, house is under 2000 sq. feet
3 - recommendations for contractors in Toronto
4 - anything else we need to consider
One would be to seal the stem walls on both sides. There is also a fabric material that is used after the sealer is applied that blocks moisture. It is put ont he outside. If you have excess water running in from the neighbors also consider yard drains and piping them to the gutter system. if not pipe them to a more suitable run off area.
Surface drainage can often be fixed by regrading and keeping landscaping away from the house. I built up around a house with what we call road base and this material sheds water nicely. One problem there is it may take a few years to decide if the fix worked. Another thing I would be interested in knowing is if there is any ground water beneath the house. Ground water will rise in a wet year and surface drainage probably won't help. I'd be looking for more opinions on your particular problem and if your not in too big a rush you can probably figure out what is really going on.
If you're 'weeping tile' system outlets to daylight, and the outlet point is not subject to being submerged during storm events, then my opinion is the tile system is better. Pumps are always subject to failure and only fail when they're needed (otherwise they're not running).
Permanently drying up the basement is a multi-prong process that includes adressing the surface issues noted in the posts above. In a nutshell you'd want to seal the exterior of walls, install horizontal foundation drains, install vertical wall drains, place controlled foundation backfill, properly grade surface, install apprpriate roof drain system and landscaping.
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Jail Diversion Program
If you are arrested on a felony for misdemeanor non-violent drug
Jail Diversion is an alternative sentencing program for non-violent drug and alcohol offenders. Jail diversion combines the following principles:
– offer valid drug reduction for offenders
– provide education on resisting drug and alcohol abuse
– prevent reoccurrence with residential treatment
– only non-violent drug and alcohol offenders are eligible
Benefits of Jail Diversion
Jail Diversion is the preferred approach for non-violent offenders because it enables them the chance to:
– keep their job
– continue to earn a living
– support their family
– contribute and be a productive member of society
– avoid unnecessary prison or jail time
– expunge their record if they complete their treatment
– reclaim their life
Though not a new concept, jail diversion is gaining popularity as an alternative sentencing option because:
– jail diversion has proven to be more effective in providing rehabilitation
– there is reduced recidivism among jail diversion participants
– jail diversion ensures vital treatment for drug and alcohol abuse for addicted individuals
– it potential to provide critical relief to over-crowding in jails
– offers budgetary savings when compared to housing non-violent offenders
Who Qualifies for Jail Diversion?
It is important to note that not all defendants are candidates for jail diversion.Jail diversion programs are reserved for the following:
- Non- violent drug or alcohol related offenses that did not involve the use of a firearm.
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How to install trim around stair treads
We recently purchased a home that had some renovations done to it.
drywall was installed on the stairwell walls and they cut around the stair treads so now there is a gap where the drywall and stairs meet.
Also the bullnose is rounded so unsure as to how to cut molding to go around this and it still look good. Some of the gaps are pretty big so cauking is not an option. Any Ideas on what to do?
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Install base trim following treads and risers. Pieces will be appox. one foot long each with 45's(+-) on each end. You must cut nosing out the thickness of you trim with flush cut saw to the riser. Looks really nice and custom when someone takes time to do a nice job.
I don't know why you would have the drywall wrapped around the treads and risers. The treads and risers are in a stringer, why wasn't the wallboard brought down to that? Then you install a molding to cover the stringer wallboard interface.
Jingle, you can install a skirt board, here is a good way to do it.
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A team can look as appealing as gold on paper, but unless it actually transfers to the playing field, all efforts to put together a winning team go for naught. Would this be the case in this, the 86th season since our last title, or would the Sox win the luck of the draw?
Things did not start off on the right foot. The White Sox were swept in the first series of the season at Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City. Fortunately the next 10 days provided the Sox with much-needed feastings on Cleveland and Detroit—two of the games current bottom-feeders. Of course, everyone plays the Indians and Tigers as well; and, games like those are the ones you have to win if you are going to contend. They eventually got a little revenge for their first series loss to the Royals by taking a series from them in Chicago. The four-game series against Cleveland from April 18-21 was a tale of day and night. Friday and Saturday's games provided great light, as the Sox played things right, while Sunday and Monday's games brought darkness, as the Sox couldn't do much on the field. After that, they went into Baltimore and took the first game before embarrassing themselves in the other two games of the series. Fortunately, they countered the series loss to Baltimore with a series win against Minnesota. After looking pathetic on Friday night, the Sox put forth two solid efforts on Saturday and Sunday, which gave the Sox Round One of the Sox-Twins war this year. The month didn't end on the right foot, as the Sox followed with two losses to Oakland. But, then again, should we expect the Sox to do well against the A's? I mean, they have lost around 17 of the past 20 games against them, so should anything be different? The Sox finished the month of April with a record that isn't anything close to something we should be writing home about: 14-13. So, indeed, April provided many showers for our Sox.
The month of April presented various highlights, lowlights and question marks, which I will note:
1. Esteban Loaiza - Loaiza has notoriously had good outputs in the month of April, but who ever would have guessed that he would exit the first month of the season posting a perfect record of 5-0, along with his league-leading 1.25 ERA? Loaiza pitched lights-out all month long, winning AL Player of the Week honors during April's final week. Hopefully he will continue at this pace.
2. Kelly Wunsch - Wunsch pitched 7 1/3 innings out of the bullpen during April and did not allow a single run charged to his name. In fact, Wunsch only gave up one hit and walked five. Wunsch has been our best pitcher in the bullpen so far.
3. Gary Glover - Glover looked rather spotty as a starter in previous seasons, but it seems as if he's found his niche in the bullpen. Glover pitched 11 1/2 innings in April, posting a 0.77 ERA. Glover has appeared very relaxed on the mound, which has translated to a formidable performance.
4. Jose Valentin - Valentin has been the Sox' best positional player so far. Tying the team with six home runs, Valentin has been our main clutch-hitter. Whenever Valentin is on his game, it seems as if the rest of the team is sparked, so we have to hope that Valentin won't have many "off" days, or we may be in trouble.
5. Carlos Lee - After starting off cold in the first week-and-a-half, Lee pulled it together and began to hit. He has been known to be a defensive liability, however, he is trying hard in left to improve. He's tied for the team lead in both home runs and RBIs. He also became the youngest Sox player ever to hit six career grand slams. Hopefully Lee can continue to improve.
1. John Garland - Garland has had some troubles this season, posting a 2-2 record with a 6.53 ERA. At times, it seems as if Garland has totally lost his confidence. I think he's putting too much pressure on himself to pitch well, since there were high expectations set on him during spring training, that he doesn't just go out there and pitch. If Garland can pitch a game like he did last year in Boston, I think he can pull himself together and still have a successful season.
2. Billy Koch - Kenny Williams traded for Koch simply to solidify our roster at the closer spot; however, Koch hasn't done the job yet. He's only recorded three saves and has a relatively high 7.82 ERA. Nearly every outing of his has put runs up on the board for the other team—Koch has had a knack for serving up home run balls. Sometimes when I see Koch pitch, I see flashes of Keith Foulke before my eyes. I hope things don't turn out that bad for Koch.
3. Paul Konerko - Is this the same Paul Konerko who was selected to the All Star game last year? This so-called "all star" ended the month hitting .244, which isn't anything stellar. His speed on the base paths is nothing to write home about. It's good to see him display some emotion in the dugout, but it would be better for him to transfer that energy into his play. Konerko still can turn things around this year if he starts to see the ball better.
4. Aaron Rowand - On the message boards at www.soxtalk.com, a poster known as 'Baggio' coined a new term known as the "Heather Line." The Heather Line is named after yours truly, and is reached when a batter's batting average reaches my weight of 125 lbs. Rowand actually did that on the last day of April, and finished the month off with a measly 0.133 average. It is fitting that he found himself in AAA Charlotte soon after.
Question Marks:
1. Mark Buehrle - Buehrle came into the season as the ace in the pitching rotation. He, however, has posted a 2-4 record thus far, which leaves a question mark in our minds—is he losing some of his "steam" that has won him nearly 40 games in the previous two seasons? Buehrle, unfortunately, hasn't been getting much run support, which puts more pressure on him to pitch better. Hopefully our offense will be able to help Buehrle get more tallies on the left side of his won-loss record.
2. Magglio Ordonez - Yes, Ordonez has been producing with regards to his batting average (0.284), and is tied for the lead in home runs and RBIs. But, Ordonez could have more RBIs if he wouldn't constantly hit into double plays. It seems as if he's hitting into double plays every game, which means he's the opposite of being clutch. Perhaps he's putting too much pressure on himself since the media had high predictions for him this season. Once he learns to stop hitting into double plays, we might not cringe as much when he comes to the plate with runners on base.
The month of April provided us with several surprises, some things the Sox wish would go away, as well as questions that remain unanswered. There is an old saying that "April showers bring Mayflowers". The Sox certainly had some bad showers during the month of April. Hopefully that old saying is the case here, and that we Sox fans will smell a nice bouquet at the end of the next month.
Heather Marsala is finishing her junior year at Illinois State University, studying to become a high school mathematics teacher. She avidly supports her Blackhawks, Bears, White Sox, and Bulls. Heather plans on writing monthly columns appraising the month that was here at www.soxnet.net. Look for another one of her columns around this time next month. If you wish to contact her, you may email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LED exterior light options and advice? HID headlights
Hey guys,
I haven't posted in a while. Been on The Hamb lately or working my butt off.
I picked up a 38 Ford Truck to use as a daily driver. It's one of my favorite trucks so I am super happy about the way things worked out.
The car has the original lights on them, front turn signals, rear brake lights/signals.
They are clean and look good, but they are NOT bright at all.
The truck is now running a different engine and transmission, so it is on a 12volt electrical system.
I was wondering what people think about those LED bulbs that plug right into the incadescent light fixtures?
It's either the above options OR pay Hundreds of $$$ for complete new lens with LED lights built for those lens.
Next, I want to upgrade the lights to HID headlights. Again, so increasing visibility of the road. So I need to change the headlight itself? Or can I just buy an HID conversion kit which adds the ballast, bulbs and mounting gear?
I got a complete replacement harness for about 200 and there is an outfit called flip flop led here locally that seems reasonable for the LED lites and I got the lighting for my trailer there so i think you can do this project and have good wiring and lights at a reasonable cost..
I have tried most all of it and now do what is known to work..
If that '38 Ford has the original wiring, it after 73 years is a fire hazard. The cotton covered insulation is shot. Do yourself a favor and replace it with a good system using a cross linked insulation. There are several threads here extolling the virtues of the different name brand kits.
As far HID lighting - you might be disappointed in the results after spending hundreds of dollars - but of course it's your $$$ and decision (and the old wiring WILL NOT support that wattages required)
Dave W
Irelands child
The entire car has been re-wired. I guess I should have stated that.
So back to the topic on hand. Does anyone have any experience with the LED light options out there?
Here is an option for the LED light conversion, retinaing the factory plug in method:
Here is another LED tailight. I don't know how it is wired in because the picture doesn't show the plug
And here are Zephyr taillights that cost 4 times as much. I dont understand the additional cost:
I'd like to know if these are much brighter/better than the others? Or do they just cost more because they are for a Zephyer
IRELANDS CHILD: Why would I be disappointed in the HID headlights? If you are speaking from experience, what approach did you take to install these headlights? I think the headlight lens are crucial to the enhanced lighting.
Reasons for not installing:
- Cost. Why spend hundreds for a "quality" kit when some $30 a pair 9003 Sylvania Ultra Vision will give me more light then I need. Ebay or similar HID - cheap, yep. Any good? Maybe
- Reliability. Most HID conversions have a crappy ballast and maybe a harness that has a low survivability. I don't care how little their cost is or that the Ebay seller has a 100% rating. I can buy a 9003/H-4 replacement bulb at WalMart. How long will it take to get a replacement HID? Is the seller still viable? And in the USA?
- Status symbols/bragging points aren't needed. My car can speak for itself with plenty of other features (lights?? HID's? Who really cares!!)
Please don't take this wrong. This was my thought process when I made my decision when I went with, IMO, the best kind of halogens.
Now, LED's - you can either purchase just a bulb or you can go the after market complete assembly. My rears are '50 Pontiac clone assemblies, the front parking/directionals are '30/'31 Ford cowl lamps converted to LED by just changing the bulb. You will need an additional load for directionals to work or cruise control to shut off. That can be either a pair of resistors (mine came from Watson's Street Works) or use electronic flashers - which would not work for me.
You can purchase LEDs here . My 3rd brake light as well as some LEDS in my 5th wheel camper came from here as they are often more reasonably priced then, say, Speedway for a standard bulb replacement.
Dave W
Irelands child
HID's are a fad. Put in a good bright 4000k Halogen and be done with it. The dimness may be due to it possibly having incandescent bulbs, but a good 4000k Halogen will be pure white on low and slightly blue on high.. HID's legally require a projector housing. Speedway Motors does sell a 7" projector retrofit kit for HID's, but they also state that it does not fit in any 7" light that they sell due to being too long for the housings, so if your going to do a retrofit, the $500 kit might not even fit.
The light output from a good HID is far and above ANY halogen light. Just no comparison at all.
I've raced offroad for years, had the best of the best in halogen lights and the HID's just smoke them. Absolutely no comparison. I was truly shocked at the difference when we could A/B them.
I've also done HID upgrades in most of my street vehicles for the same reason, more light is ALWAYS better at night. Just make sure you don't go with the high Kelvin rating that the tuner crews do to get that blue/purple light. You want a light in the 4000-6000k area.
Yep there a fad...90% of the time you do not need a light that bright, if you do, it is likely that you have a severely tinted windshield ( yep, that's a fad too ) or you should just stick to daytime driving.. 90% of the people I know that run HID's, did it because they think the blue color of the 6000K HID's add style..
I run low beams 95% of the time, with the exception of my '74 Super Beetle which has incandescent bulbs, I run high beams on that more often. I see just fine
Do you not wear seat belts because you are afraid of being trapped in them... or you want to be thrown free in an accident? Those are the excuses made by people that thought seat belts were a fad too.
(ps..who tints their windshield? )
Nope, my seatbelt is always on. BTW, if you blind someone with HID's ( goten blinded by them MANY times ) and it causes an accident ( thankfully, hasn't happened to me ). now who is being the unsafe driver?. Most of these HID conversions are done without projectors and are blinding to other drivers. Projectors are required for legallity, now why would that be? BTW, low beams are perfectly safe. if they were not, auto manufactures would equip only with high beams.
As far as tinted windshields, certinly not me but.. there out there
This is gotten way off topic
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No point in getting into "what if's". I can blind people with halogens too. Improperly setup lights are a safety issue no matter what type.
Just like how halogens are better than incandecents (as you already know), HID's are better than halogens. Eventually...it'll move on to LED headlights for the same light output as HID's and a bulb that lasts longer still.
Right, but HID's need the projectors, legally/ to keep from blinding people. they focus the light down the road as it should be, rather than all over. The correct achievement is not a brighter light, but a light to see farther. there is no proper way to allign a HID without a projector. if you allign them so you can see farther, you blind others, if you aim them down so people don't get blinded as bad, you are just lighting the road in front of you like a landing strip, hindering the light projection they were designed for
If you only change the bulb.....that could be the case, but there are lots of full light kits with replacement reflectors and lenses. That's what's on both my "new" cars... full kits, not just a bulb in an old housing.
I even found a kit for my 59 chevy.... I'm considering it, just don't care for the look of the lens on the older cars.
Irelands Child: I have seen that LED site before, but I never thought of checking them out.
Does the LED taillights and marker lights that SpeedWay sells have a special/different lens that helps project the LED light? Or are there complete LED light sets simply an LED bulb that plugs into the incadescent bulb holder?
You guys are whining like like girls and Hijacked my thread to do so.
I wanted to get opinions FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVE USED THE KITS to let me know how they have used them and if they were happy with them and what brands are better than others.I have no interest in hearing you cry about HID's bliding you or any of the other B.S. this thread had gathered.
Thank you to those of you who have provided some constructive feedback.
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Yeah, the introduction of the smaller left-side modifier keys had puzzled me for a while, but these days, I find it hard to go back to the full size set. This is partly as a result of using, for lack of a better term, a screwed up design in the form of a speedlink keyboard. It' was not like going from a standard English layout to something like a Dvorak or AZERTY, but more to do with function key placement and size.
From the pics, you should be able to see that the ctrl and alt (it's well worn) are the same size as any other key. On the right side, you should notice a lack of ctrl key, replaced with the Del key - why? Because the Del key was replaced by the backlight key, lol. Yes that keyboard took a while to get used to, but i used it for 5 years. It's only recently I've had to ditch it due to poor key registration and general wear and tear.
The thing with the small sized Ctrl and Alt keys took a while to get used to. But a couple years later when i started to take graphic design seriously and making heavy use of Illustrator and such, those compact keys really paid for themselves, as strange is it seems. Maybe it was just familiarity with its idiosyncrasies, but when you have to stretch your hand over ctrl, alt, shift, space, Z, C, V and F for hours at a time in Illustrator, cramp becomes a massive issue. Those small keys meant less stretching. I didn't pick up on that till after I had to work in a print studio with the old style MAC keyboards.
But before getting into graphic design, why did i use it for so long? Because it was one of the lightest key responses I had come across, near featherweight. For some, it was insipid with no feedback, to me it was fine. I could type away on that thing for hours and feel absolutely no strain at all. I still enjoy using it.
A couple years ago, I knew the problems were getting pretty bad, so I looked into replacing it and actually picked up a german built Cherry keyboard, a bargain basement £15 thing, but with the laptop style keys. It was very solidly built, very surprising for a cheap keyboard.
But after a few days of use, I started to get fatigue in my hands and couldn't figure out why. Basically, it came down to the key response, while the keys didn't seem heavier at first, they actually required a fair amount of effort and over the days, it became quite apparent. So I ended up switch back again anyway and resigned the new one to a backup on the server.
Any new keyboard will require an adjustment period, and personal preference does play a major role. I know plenty of people that HATE these laptop style keys, not enough feedback for them. The problem is, they also tend to be deaf and love those loud typewriter style mechanical keyboards. Nothing says 'Office' more that the stale smell of coffee and 15 people typing away at irregular intervals with an orchestra of mechanical clicking...
Jamie, thanks a bunch for reviewing a keyboard. It's not often we see that happen outside the mainstream gaming keyboards. And yet the keyboard is my de facto computer tool, second only to the computer itself.
The price actually isn't that far off from what I see on professional -- typist if you will, or work -- keyboards a little all over the place. And I've payed more for worse. This keyboard seems to be all I usually want on a keyboard (with one exception below). The scissor key switch is always a pleasant addition to rubber dome keyboards. It gives a pleasant tactile feeling, adds some life to the keys as you well point out and... maybe a little known fact... also helps to maintain the low noise level for longer (simple rubber dome keys tend to become louder just after a couple of months of use). It's also a sizable chunk of those $60. The build process also seems to indicate a great deal of care in making a durable keyboard; not something you hear everyday about rubber dome keyboards. I'd always pay for that!
The one thing I didn't like: This irritating trend of reducing the size of the function keys. It's very clear from the pictures there's enough vertical space to have had made those keys standard size. It was just and simply a stylish decision. At least they kept the standard 4 key interval (some keyboards don't even respect that anymore). But still, function keys should never be smaller than regular keys on professional keyboards. They sit far from normal finger positions and require the most attention. Why this trend started and why it hasn't died already is one of my pet peeves with modern keyboards.
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I just got 4 new tires for my Opel "Lemons" car. I wanted wide with low profile and as most know 13 inch wheels and tires are becoming history. I got brand new Sumitomo
225 X 50 X 13 for only $57.00 each. The company is Discount Tires, Custom Wheels, Rims, Goodyear, Michelin, Cooper Tires. They also have 215 X 50 X 13 for $54.76 each. They are under staffed so if you call on the phone expect long waits for someone to answer the phone. I picked up my tires so I got to see their facility. First rate.


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A Brief History of Birthday Invitations
Most people send birthday invitations at least once a year, and sometimes more if they hand out birthday invitations for their children, friends or family members. And yet, even though nearly everyone sends or receives birthday invitations every year of their entire lives, hardly anyone knows the origin of this cherished stationery custom.
It turns out that birthday invitations have roots that reach all the way back in a few prolific early civilizations. Both the ancient Chinese and Egyptians commemorated important events, like the beginning of the New Year, by exchanging some kind of paper greeting card similar to the modern day birthday invitation. The practice was spread through trade and travel, with early semblances of birthday invitations popping up in European cultures before long.
The biggest strides made toward the development of the birthday invitations of today happened during the Industrial Revolution, when new technologies for printing and mechanization made it possible to mass produce stationery. These huge leaps forward, coupled with the introduction of the postage stamp in the nineteenth century, made it easy for American consumers to start their passionate love affair with stationery—and birthday invitations in particular!
When the printing of color cards became the norm after World War I, birthday invitations finally cemented their place in history as a timeless tradition. They might have their roots back in ancient civilizations, but even today birthday revelers can hardly imagine blowing out their candles without a stylish birthday invitation nearby!


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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Facing its second straight ranked opponent, the Cal Lutheran women's tennis team dropped a 9-0 non-conference match to No. 18 Sewanee (Tenn.) Friday afternoon at the Poulson Tennis Center.
The No. 1 doubles pairing of Sarah Baker and Emily Werman played the closest match of the day, falling 8-4 to the sister duo of Jenny and Lindsey Liles.
Carly Mouzes and Lindsay Murphy were defeated 8-0 by Bronte Goodhue and Amber Garland in the No. 2 doubles match while the Becky Drake and Jacqueline Ramsay fell by the same score in the No. 3 pairing.
The Tigers were equally as dominant in the singles matches, sweeping each set for the third time this season.
Murphy gave the Regals their best chance at salvaging a point in the No. 2 singles match, taking J. Liles to 6-4 in the first set. Unfortunately for CLU, Murphy was unable to close the gap set as J. Liles took the match with a 6-1 second set win.
Cal Lutheran (4-5) won't have to wait long to get back on the court, hosting Kenyon (Ohio) tomorrow, March 9, at the Poulson Tennis Center. The first matches are set to get underway at 11:00 a.m.
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text: Home- Campus Life- Shaw Wellness Institute Shaw Wellness Institute The Shaw Wellness Institute is the university's health promotion office and fosters the holistic development of students and the Colgate community. Menu Menu About the Institute Alcohol and Other Drug Services Bystander Intervention Co-Sponsorship Dietitian Resources Peer Health Educators DAPAs Health and Wellness Information Library On-Demand Programs Staff 8 Dimensions of Wellness Our holistic view of health encompasses eight dimensions of wellness: emotional, environmental, intellectual, multicultural, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual. Emotional Wellbeing Allowing for, recognizing, and developing healthy responses to the full range of feeling experienced in life. Includes developing effective strategies for dealing with stress. 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Our work lives are more of a vocation of "calling" rather than a job. Environmental Wellbeing Respecting the environment, developing habits that allow us to live in harmony with nature. Financial Wellbeing Our ability to manage our financial behavior and outcomes in a responsible manner and in order to live contently within our financial means. About the Institute The Shaw Wellness Institute provides programs and services that promote a range of healthy behaviors among the Colgate community. The institute also addresses eight different components of wellness: emotional, environmental, intellectual, multicultural, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual. The Institute features a schedule of events and programs that help Colgate students and staff develop skills to lead healthy, balanced and purposeful lives. By providing information through interesting and creative means, we help develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that become the foundation for a lifetime of healthy behaviors. LEARN MORE Hours Visit us at 113 Broad St. (campus map) Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Phone: (315) 228-6403 Contact Us CONTACT SHAW WELLNESS STAFF Find us on the campus map Wellness Assessment Looking for a quick wellness assessment that provides an evaluation of your personal wellness? Try the National Wellness Institute's site. There are assessments for college students and adults and an overall score, strengths and areas for improvement are detailed in the report. Resources Find both on and off campus resources and helpful advice. eNewsletter and Blog Stay up to date on campus and wellness events, sign-up for our weekly e-newsletter. Wellness Calendar VIEW MORE EVENTS Frequently Asked Questions: Where is the Shaw Wellness Institute located? We are located in the bottom of 113 Broad St. Complex, between Huntington Gym and Whitnall Field. Campus map Can I make health appointments at the Wellness Institute? No, Student Health Services is located at 150 Broad St. (Route 12B), between Reid Athletic Center and Community Memorial Hospital. For appointments, call 315-228-7750. What does the Shaw Wellness Institute do? We provide health promotion services to students, faculty, and staff in order to foster healthy and balanced lifestyles. What do you offer? We offer on-demand programming for clubs and organizations, as well as nutrition appointments, monthly brown bags, stress reduction programs, and more. What is the Institute's role in sexual health on campus? The Institute promotes sexual health from a holistic and preventative model, providing students with knowledge about safer sex, healthy decision-making skills, and access to resources. At the Institute, we offer free and easy access to condoms, dental dams, and lube. 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MADAM MIAOW'S CULTURE LOUNGE on RESONANCE FMListen to all the programmes in Anna Chen's Resonance FM series.
Reaching for my GnuReaching for my Gnu Anna's collection of poetry is available at Amazon as an eBook and paperback. US readers can buy the ebook here.
Resonance 104.4FM Radioplayer
Madam Miaow SaysAnna Chen's Orwell Prize shortlisted blog.
Anna May Wong Must Die!Anna Chen's funny & fabulous one-woman show — a personal journey through the life and crimes of Hollywood's first Chinese screen legend with satire, songs and a few laughs.
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- BBC Radio 4 Extra to repeat ST IVES AND ME Wed 21st Dec 6.30am, 1.30pm and 8.30pm: presented by Anna Chen
- Helena Bonett's Tate film of Barbara Hepworth's Trewyn Studio in St Ives screened
- Anna May Wong: A Celestial Star in Piccadilly, BBC Radio 4 Extra tomorrow then iPlayer for 30 days
- British Born Chinese documentary panel discussion at the LSE: audio
- Anna May Wong Must Die! in China: Anna Chen's radio interview on Beijing's Studio Plus
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Photos of The Steampunk Opium Wars
The first photos in from The Steampunk Opium Wars staged Thursday 16th February 2012 to almost 300 people at the National Maritime Museum. Photographs by Jan Jefferies taken on my Lumix TZ20 camera except where stated. More photographs of the … Continue reading
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LIVE STREAM The Steampunk Opium Wars
Get ready from 6.30pm on Thursday 16th February because we have a live stream of the show from the National Maritime Museum. Show kicks off at 6.45pm. It'll be just like you were there. Click on these links: New MLEC2flashios … Continue reading
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Twin tear tracks spilled down Chloe's reddened face. "I'm sorry!" she cried.
She'd just gotten in trouble for throwing a toy at her brother. I told her she had to sit in "time out" for the offense.
I don't know about you, but I have a hard time considering "time out" a real punishment. Especially when you consider that as a child, I got a spanking for all of my various misdeeds (at least the ones my parents found out about). I only wish my parents had heard of — and practiced — "time out" when I was coming along.
Having said that, however, Amy and I have discovered that "time out" is the only thing that seems to work with Chloe. She hates having to stop what she's doing and go sit in a chair away from all the activity. She can't stand the time of quiet, inner reflection.
Which brings us to her crying fit. She'd thrown a toy at Cole. Now, at 4 years old, it's not like she has the arm of a major league pitcher. Or the aim of one. The toy lobbed through the air like a marshmallow and missed Cole by a good 4 feet. But the fact that she had thrown something with the intent of hitting him required some corrective measure.
"Chloe, you're in time out for throwing a toy at Cole. Go sit on the couch."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The tears started immediately. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
The apology is a new addition. I'm used to the screaming. I'm used to the crying. I'm even used to her falling on the floor and refusing to move. Only in the last week has she been saying she's sorry.
The first time I heard her say it, I was proud of her. She recognized on some level that she'd done something wrong and was expressing remorse for it. But as more "time out" events occurred, I started to realize something. Chloe wasn't apologizing for her actions. She wasn't sorry for what she'd done. She was sorry she'd gotten caught.
This is not the kind of repentance I was looking for. Nor is it the kind of repentance our heavenly father expects (2 Corinthians 7:10). Saying you're sorry means nothing if you're not truly sorry for what you've done.
When we tell God we're sorry, what do we mean? We're sorry he calls our actions sinful? We're sorry we're being convicted of our sins?
We must remember that Jesus gave his life so that we could be forgiven of our sins. When you consider the magnitude of his sacrifice, is it really too much to ask of us to take responsibility for our actions and say to God, "I'm sorry"?
Parrish Myers is pastor of Pine Crest Baptist Church in Gainesville. His column runs every other week in Sunday Life.


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Robert Del Tredici is an artist, photographer, and teacher with a BA in philosophy, an MA in Comparative Literature (University of California, Berkeley), and an interest in the dynamic between image and text.His first sustained artwork was a series of 100 pen-and-ink illustrations to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, done in the early 1960s. He studied under Tibetan teacher Chogyam Trungpa in the early 1970s, who gave him the name "Good Eye of Enlightenment."
Del Tredici began documenting the nuclear age in 1979. His first book of photographs and interviews, The People of Three Mile Island (Sierra Club Books, 1980), was part sociology and part critique of nuclear power. His second book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb (Harper & Row, 1987), documented the US nuclear weapons industry and won the 1987 Olive Branch Book Award for its contribution to world peace.
In 1987 Robert founded The Atomic Photographers Guild. In 1991 he began documenting the nuclear weapons industry in the former Soviet Union.
During the Clinton administration, under Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, Del Tredici became principal photographer and designer for three government reports on the present, past, and future of the radioactive cleanup of the US nuclear weapons complex.
In 2000 he published an expanded series of his Moby-Dick illustrations under the title Floodgates of the Wonderworld:(Kent State University Press). Since September 11, 2001, he has been working in collage in an effort to put the post-9/11 world into perspective. He teaches photography, drawing, and the history of animated film in Montreal.
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Kadner: New mayor offers 'hope' to The Island
There are 80 comments on the The Southtown Star story from May 22, 2013, titled Kadner: New mayor offers 'hope' to The Island. In it, The Southtown Star reports that:
"My maternal great-grandmother died on a roadside after crossing the border with her children during the Mexican War," Vargas, 51, said.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at The Southtown Star.
#1 May 23, 2013
Congrats...Generation's later,200 yards further from the box car to an apartment and threw in the race card.
#2 May 23, 2013
Kadner and the Southtown are no longer a newspaper they are a local tabloid not worthy of reading. Kadner has a history of kissing ass when he has too. "Hope" Kadner was singing a different tune when Peloquin was Mayor.
#3 May 23, 2013
A vacant car dealership and factory near 119th Street and Vincennes Avenue also have been vacant for a long time.
(Generally, brownfield sites exist in a city's or town's industrial section, on locations with abandoned factories or commercial buildings, or other previously polluting operations. Small brownfields also may be found in many older residential neighborhoods. For example, many dry cleaning establishments or gas stations produced high levels of subsurface contaminants during prior operations, and the land they occupy might sit idle for decades as a brownfield.
Typical contaminants found on contaminated brownfield land include hydrocarbon spillages, solvents, pesticides, heavy metals such as lead (e.g., paints), tributyltins, and asbestos. Old maps may assist in identifying areas to be tested.)
Those buildings are in the 7th Ward, where Vargas ignored, lived, and served as alderman/mayor pro tem for 20+ years.
I recently learned that we may be able to repair one bridge at a reduced cost, and were looking at that. But we need money from the state, and Im working on that.
(Alderman/mayor pro tem; voted and passed appropriations for 20+ years ignoring basic community needs.)
#4 May 23, 2013
No Embarrassment, No Apology, No Guilt, No Remorse, No Shame.
#5 May 23, 2013
But he is actually doing something. He's painting.
#6 May 23, 2013
Why should he have any? No need to. He was only an alderman, just one of 14. Despite what you think, an alderman and even a group of aldermen, really don't have much power. Ever work in government of any kind? Tons and tons of red tape and stumbling blocks at every step. The state is broke, the Feds are broke....hard to do anything that costs money when there isn't any available to spend and every city and state needs it. Don't blame him but if you must blame someone then blame state politicians for making Illinois a highly taxed and super expensive state for companies to operate in and blame the last several presidents and Congresses for companies moving their factories out of the country and along with them, good paying manufacturing jobs that made our country what it used to be. It's only been a week now, give the new mayor a chance! Sounds like he has already put a lot of time, thought and effort into getting things going for the town. Could you do better? Then run for mayor the next time and lets see what you can do. In the meantime, you can always offer up your ideas and suggestions of viable solutions to any and all of BI's problems instead of just complaining and judging.
#7 May 23, 2013
He has been a mute for 20 years.
#8 May 23, 2013
Mayor "Mingo the Mute"
#9 May 23, 2013
It all started three weeks ago.
#1 power washed city hall and walks
#2 paint hand rails and stairs
#3 clean up landscape and add new mulch
I thought it was a change for the good of our city, a real work in progress.
The truth... It was all for the South town photo shoot for Vargas.
Where is the photo of all whom took a new position?Where is the group photo with ALL council members?
Domingo is a self centered prick thinking only of himself, he learned from the best. One term dirt bag Hispanic..
#10 May 23, 2013
Does anyone know what the color he chose?
I hope he gets rid of all the Notre Dame crap.
United States
#11 May 23, 2013
Mario gomez, the cities building inspector painted the office and second floor afternoons and after work hours .still want to suck Domingos ass! Vargas stated in the article he personally painted it .mario is a town drunk sucking the dick of a man who promised him a higher city position in 90 days.
#12 May 23, 2013
Maybe Vargas will do something about drunken city workers.High doubt that will happen,if anything Mr.Gomez will be protected while driving around town all boozed up.
#13 May 23, 2013
A lack of money also resulted in the closing of the Chatham and Division street bridges over the Calumet Sag Channel, closing two key north-south streets to residents and potential consumers traveling to the city.
The city administration had a ten year warning to repair the bridges. They chose not to. There was plenty of money, but they spent it on something else.
#14 May 23, 2013
Streets First Ordinance Violations should be issued regarding both bridges.
#15 May 24, 2013
Mayor Vargas stop short of telling the truth in the Kadner interview. He is afraid to implicate himself, Pam Frasor, Don Peloquin. We can expect more of this half truth tactic going forward. He knows all to well, where the proverbial bodies are buried.
#16 May 24, 2013
Moving forward the people want answers. Vargas the previous alderman/mayor pro tem, and mayor has none.
#17 May 24, 2013
Drug and alcohol drop all employees operating a motor vehicle or machinery, save taxpayer money and save many lives.
#18 May 24, 2013
Nothing is worse than the Forum
#19 May 24, 2013
Any revelations regarding "The BIIP Plan"?
#20 May 25, 2013
Vargas is still a puppet, he never changed Peloquin's commissioners at all. Same folks running all the departments. Same fraud and hiring schemes. Vargas is just great at keeping a lid on everything.
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Productivity Slips—Good News for the Jobless
Americans' productivity—that's the value of their output per hour of work—fell in the first quarter. For people seeking work, that's a good thing. It means companies have gone as far as they can in squeezing more work out of their existing workforce. To meet rising demand, they'll have no choice but to hire.
I spoke about the Department of Labor's report today with Joseph LaVorgna, the chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York. He was dead-on in his estimate that nonfarm business productivity would decline at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the first quarter, vs. a 1.2 percent rate of increase in the last quarter of 2011.
Here's what he said:
• "We had tremendous productivity growth in the latest cycle," up until a year ago, "but it's the bad kind of productivity. It simply reflects the fact that companies were super cautious and afraid to hire." Now, "companies are stretching the limits to how much incremental output they can get from their existing workforce."
• The good kind of productivity is new technologies that not only make workers more efficient, but induce companies to invest more to exploit the technology and increase sales. That kind of productivity can actually increase employment. "You want a new technology that becomes so diffuse that it makes people more productive while also creating demand for goods and services. People find new uses for the new technology that put people to work."
• There's one number in the government's report today that seems likely to be revised—the 5.9 percent rate of increase in manufacturing productivity. Employment growth in manufacturing has been too strong for productivity growth to be that high, LaVorgna says. And if that number gets revised downward, "overall productivity should even be lower."
• Slow productivity growth shouldn't be confused with low productivity. In fact, productivity is high. "We'll have a very lean workfore that can produce a lot with a little. From now on, companies need to hire more people."
On Friday the Labor Department will report the April change in payrolls and the unemployment rate. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News is for the unemployment rate to stay at 8.2 percent and payrolls to grow 160,000. LaVorgna says the government may revise previous months' job growth upward. It has done so in 20 of the past 22 months, he says.