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Josef Skvorecky ( left) congratulates then-Czech Republic Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus (right) in 1997. Skvorecky was the was a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Department of English at the time. (Reuters)
Josef Skvorecky passed away on Tuesday, January 2, after a battle with cancer. The noted Czech-Canadian writer won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1984 for his comic novel, The Engineer of Human Souls.
Skvorecky was also an influential translator, publisher and academic. In the 1950s, he translated many prominent English works -- including books by Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett -- into Czech. His own early works, including The End of the Nylon Age and The Cowards, were banned by the Czech Communist government.
In 1968, Skvorecky's hometown of Prague was invaded by Soviet tanks, in a military offensive that put an end to the revolution known as the Prague Spring. At the time, Skvorecky was a prominent essayist who wrote passionately about democracy. So he fled his country and began a new life and career.
After coming to Canada in 1971, Skvorecky formed the publishing company 68 Publishers and began to publish the banned worked of many Czech and Slovak writers, including Milan Kundera and Vaclav Havel. He would go on to become a writer of detective novels, a radio host and an English professor at the University of Toronto. In 1992, he received the Order of Canada for his writing and advocacy of freedom of speech and democracy.
On January 22, 1978, Skvorecky spoke with Bob Oxley on CBC's Sunday Magazine about the political repression of artists in Czechoslovakia and his personal experience. It was this fight against repression that propelled his dynamic career and would come to define his work in later years.
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This may or may not be correct depending on your application. If you adjust the valvetrain to give you minimum scrub this is actually incorrect. The roller tip will be furthest to the outside on the valvestem tip during MIDLIFT and will be the furtherest on the inside during zero and peak lift. That is the whole idea behind the midlift method- minimizing the scrub and side loading.
You can do it the way depicted in the picture though, and you usually end up with something like this if you adjust your rocker arms to have a centered wipe pattern rather than the smallest wipe pattern.
There are arguments on both sides, I follow the method of least scrub.
The illustration from Comp Cams is not only the WRONG thing you want, it is the worst thing you want. It is the anti-mid-lift scenario. The correct "symptom" that would be illustrated in the valve motion atop the valve tip would be A to B then back to A, there is no C. The roller sweeps out to its farthest point at precise "net" valve MID-LIFT, then rolls BACK to the inside of the valve as it reaches maximum net Valve Lift.
Secondly, any reference to the "middle of the valve" for setting, seeking, or designing is NOT correct, and it is not why MID-LIFT sets up the way it does. I have said it a million times, "where the roller sits atop the valve means nothing, providing it stays atop the valve." Because of the myriad of dimension variables involved, setting mid-lift geometry correctly, AND trying to get the roller in the middle of the valve is nearly impossible. It doesn't matter anyway, PROVIDING you have the rocker set at precise mid-lift.
The whole purpose of MID-LIFT is for CAM timing, NOT reduced wear on the guides, or valves, or minimum sweep atop the valve, or reduced drag coefficients in the rotating valve train. But these are all the "symptoms" that are beneficial, because you get ALL these when you set for mid-lift geometry. The main purpose, is to convert as much of the CAM'S information accurately, through the radial arc process with the least amount of radial converion loss. IT "standardizes" all cam testing data. Without setting the rocker geometry accurately, to mid-lift, you are wasting SEVERAL degress of cam information in the excessive motion of an overarcing pushrod and roller tip
Please NOTE that I said "pushrod" AND "roller tip." All your theories for setting rocker geometry on the valve tip, by measuring the sweep, getting it as least as possible, and making a variety of different little tools to measure this, do NOT have anything to do with what is happening on the other side of the rocker, and the MOST IMPORTANT side: the pushrod cup. This is where all the trigonometry is taking place. THIS is where ALL THREE of the cam's dynamics are either being fully "captured" for translation through the radial process, or LOST -- and the element that determines this is a 90 degree tangent point in the pushrod ball AXIS at precisely "MID-CAM-LIFT".
So when you are setting the valve side with a Comp Cam rocker, or a Jesel, or a (gag) Scorpion rocker, you're NOT setting the pushrod side TOO. You're only setting the valve, and the more important side is still over-arcing, because the position of all the other rockers, compared to the Patented mid-lift design, are TOO high in the body, so the pushrod has already passed through its mid-lift, and it is overarcing trememdously, and the pushrod is moving in out about .050" or .100" -- when it should be only moving about .013" in and out, so its harmonics are like a BASS guitar's E-string, and you've just lost about 6, 8, 10, 12 or more degrees of your camshaft THROUGHOUT the entire valve lift cycle. So that 265 degree cam (@ .050) is now only 255 degrees.
The difference can be felt and seen with an old fashioned needle torque wrench. An engine of bad rocker geometry will typically take 15 to 40 lbs more torque to turn over (without spark plugs of course), than a MID-LIFT system, properly installed. I want to emphasize this last point "properly installed." If you are off by as much as .020" of an inch (1/2 of 1 turn on an adjusting screw) you will lose 2 or 3 degrees of your camshaft. God only knows how many engines are running around, blindly happy because they don't throw their parts out the headers (yet), with .050", or .100" or .150" too long a pushrod (or worse), and stand heights all over the place.
Cam information! Getting it all through the system to the valve, with the least amount of wasted motion, so that a "standard" was set that would measure EACH cam tested without having its differences be diluted by a rocker arm stealing the information.
THAT is why I designed mid-lift. Hope this clears up some of the rhetoric. Good luck! --JM
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I'm sure everyone knows point #1, but the good news is that while nobody like a price increase, most of our customers seem to understand. Before we sent the newsletter out (here's a copy), I sent personal emails to our top clients asking for their feedback directly. They all responded and gave volumes of information. I couldn't have been more pleased. Some of the suggestions will absolutely result in real action.
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But the biggest concern that echoed throughout all the comments was that the new structure was complex and hard to understand. That's obviously of great concern, so we need to figure out how to present it best. In the newsletter, it was all text, but I'm confident that we can come up with a better way to display it using a combination of website design and images to make it clear. The reality is that the new pricing system is not actually that complex, but clearly we aren't doing a good job of explaining it so far.
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In a newspaper article, the 61-year -old owner of Bannatyne's Health Clubs claimed he was at a "distinct disadvantage" to Mr Caan, who is backing a new chain called Nuyuu Fitness.
He said Pakistan-born Mr Caan's non-domiciled status, which means he does not have to pay UK taxes on his overseas earnings, "unfairly penalised" his competitors.
He added: "As I pay UK tax on all of the earnings that fund my lifestyle I am clearly at an unfair disadvantage. It's just as well James and I get on so well, and there couldn't be a nicer man to be in competition with, but you can see my point. And what about all the other health club operators up and down the country."
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He added non-doms can also "export" much of their UK profits to an off-shore company to minimise their tax bill. Mr Caan was unavailable for comment. In the past he has said: "I pay local tax in whatever jurisdiction I make money."
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One of the banes of my existence is test matrices. Everywhere I look, it seems, another matrix is lurking, impatiently waiting to lob another set of mind-numbinginly boring test cases at me that are guaranteed to suck up two more weeks' worth of the extra time I don't have. Matrices, matrices, matrices galore, all focused on me and mine. No sooner do I vanquish one but two more pop their squirmy heads out of a trans-dimensional rift and splat themselves all over my office.
Since my current product requires Longhorn, I escape (this release, anyway) the dreaded Platform Matrix. This is perhaps the most well-known of the species, dreaded and hated by testers everywhere. Let me give you a typical example. I'll include only Microsoft products just to keep things simple (ha ha):
- Windows 2000 Gold (the original, un-SPd version)
- Windows 2000 SP1
- Windows 2000 SP2
- Windows 2000 SP3
- Windows 2000 SP4
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows XP Gold
- Windows XP SP1
- Windows XP SP1a
- Browser
- IE 5.01 Gold
- IE 5.5 Gold
- IE 6.0 Gold
- .Net Framework
- 1.0 Gold
- 1.1 Gold
- Office Suite
- Office 2000 Gold
- Office 2000 SP1
- Office 2000 SP2
- Office 2000 SP3
- Office 2000 Developer Gold
- Office 2000 Developer SP1
- Office 2000 Developer SP2
- Office XP Gold
- Office XP SP1
- Office XP SP2
- Office XP SP3
- Office 2003 Gold
- Your app here
- Current version
- Previous version
- Version before that
To well and truly test this matrix, you have to test every single combination. Let's see…9 OS x 10 Browser x 4 .Net Framework x 12 Office x 3 versions of your app…that's 12,960 different configurations you need to run all of your tests on! If you can get through 36 configurations every day, that's still a year's worth of working weekends and holidays (and don't even think about vacation).
Of course, some of these combinations aren't valid — you can't get IE5 on Windows XP, for example. Even with these removed, however, there's still a huge number of configurations to cover. It's so huge, in fact, that most teams (at Microsoft and elsewhere) don't even bother trying. Instead they'll take a (vertical, horizontal, and/or diagonal) slice or two through the matrix, add in a few additional configurations that seem likely to be popular, and leave it at that. This is pretty much voodoo testing, however, and your chances of missing a particularly gnarly bug because you chose to skip some particular configuration is pretty high.
Even if you happen to have the luxury of testing on just a single OS with a single web browser and a single version of Office and your app, you still aren't safe. Test matrices are a resilient breed that can live off just about anything. If your app supports richly formatted text, then you have a matrix of font, font size, the various font styles (e.g., bold, small caps), and so on. If you have a method in your API with more than one parameter, you have a matrix of the various test values for each parameter. Matrices are everywhere!
All hope is not lost, however. Starting with Siddharta Dalal and company in 1997, people started to realize that many bugs are caused by either a) individual incorrect values, or b) particular pairs of values. A Google search on "pairwise combinatorial test -gene" (the "-gene" weeds out a bunch of bio-results) will tell you more than you probably want to know about the gory details of how pairwise testing works. The short version is that pairwise reins in test matrices like a champion calf roper.
Here's how it works: since most bugs are a result of a particular pair of values, you don't need to cover the full test matrix but rather need only hit every individual pair. If you have more than two axes in your matrix, you can cover multiple pairs in each test case. As you can imagine, this makes for a rather large reduction in the number of test cases (the more axes you have the bigger the reduction you'll see). Taking the above Platform Matrix as an example, pairwise whittles the 12,960 configurations a straight multiplicative combination gives you down to just 126 combinations. Here's the first five my tool spat out:
- Windows XP SP1a, IE 5.01 SP3, .Net Framework 1.0 Gold, Office 2000 SP3, Previous version of your app
- Windows XP Gold, IE 5.5 SP1, .Net Framework 1.1 Gold, Office XP SP3, Current version of your app
- Windows 2000 Gold, IE 5.5 Gold, .Net Framework 1.0 SP1, Office 2000 Gold, Version of your app before the previous one
- Windows 2000 SP2, IE 6.0 Gold, .Net Framework 1.0 SP2, Office 2000 Gold, Previous version of your app
- Windows 2000 SP1, IE 5.01 SP3, .Net Framework 1.0 SP2, Office 2000 Developer SP1, Current version of your app
Combining disallowing invalid combinations with a few judicious decisions not to support particular configurations reduces this number even further.
It's very important to note that you *must* test every combination the pairwise tool spits out. If you decide to skip a particular configuration for some reason (it contains an invalid combination, for example), you're skipping not only that invalid combination but several other pairs of values as well. Live dangerously if you want, but you're much better off adding that combination to your matrix definition's "Don't do this" restrictions and generating a new set of combinations.
It's not too hard to write your own basic pairwise combinatorial tool, but to generate really efficient results requires some fancy math. Luckily for those of us who aren't math geniuses, pairwise tools abound on the Web. I found the following without trying very hard; I've only glanced at them and so can't vouch for how well they work, but they should get you started:
- If you have smallish matrices, check out the precalculated pairwise matrices at http://www.freequality.org/beta%20freequal/fq%20web%20site/Tools/Tagarray_files/tamatrix.htm.
- If you can wrangle a Perl script into doing what you want, give AllPairs (http://www.satisfice.com/testmethod.shtml) a try.
- If Java's your game, try http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~awilliam/.
- If all points lead toward the C, give http://burtleburtle.net/bob/math/jenny.html a look-see.
- If you have loads of money, Telcordia Technologies (http://aetgweb.argreenhouse.com/) will generate "robust and efficient test cases faster and more comprehensively than ever before" for a mere $6000 per year for two users. (They do have a free two-week trial.)
*** Comments, questions, feedback? Do test matrices excite you? Or do you just want a fun job on a great team? </g> Send two coding samples and an explanation of why you chose them, and of course your resume, to me at michhu at microsoft dot com. I need testers, and my team needs a data binding developer, program managers, and a product manager. Great coding skills required for all positions.


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Before any ford owners get all hyped up, my friends have a 97 cobra himself, 01 cobra svt, 01 lightning with built motor and kenne bell charger, another 01 lightning, and an 89 fox body style 5.0. I don't know everything about mustangs, and I certainly respect them, but this guy had "SMOKE U" for his license plate...
I wouldn't put "SMOKE U" on my license plate unless I was rocking a 10 second street car or something to that effect. Of course I gotta see what this guy has, I just put a few gallons of 103 octane in the car yesterday to mess around, so timing couldn't be better.
We get on the highway, and just paced him for a few, then I pull up alongside him. I try to get him to race, and he points and laughs at my car. Then his father in the passenger seat proceeds to taunt me and tell me I have a small member. Why? I don't know? Mud slinging isn't a requirement for me to walk on him.
So finally he jumps on it, after much coaxing. He jumps forward but I was high in the rpms and start to pull and he lets off. I push him further to get on it and finally he does and I let him jump ahead to make sure we're gonna go at it this time and I jump on it. As I pass him, I make sure to give him and his father a wave as I pass him.
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It's not that they didn't have a place, it's just that every trend runs its course. Here's the top 5 trends that I'd gladly see the back of. It's like enough already!
5. Big slogan tees. Thanks for all you've done, but here's the door.
4. Boombox. I know I'm shutting the stable door after the horse has been sent to the knackers yard (London's most fashion fabulous night is now going under 18s only) but the whole self-satisfied "this is the club you'll be telling your grandchildren about" posturing was beginning to grate. Only because they were right of course.
3. Cardigans. The light-weight kind, not the big chunky ones, which still have legs. I feel like we've just grown apart. It's not you, it's me. I still love you, I'm just not IN love with you.
2. Pete Doherty hats. Love him or loathe him, you've got to admit he's got charisma, but you cant get a piece of it by wearing one of those hats. Got it?
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If you were an early adopter of the Roku Media Player, you might've been feeling a tad gloomy about the fact that the new model Rokus could handle 1080P streaming and your classic XR model could only eek out 720P. Well, fret no more, loyal Roku fan. The mothership is getting read to beam down a firmware update (if it hasn't already) that brings glorious 1080P streaming to your Player. Not that there's an awful lot of 1080P content available on the XR models yet, but it doesn't hurt to be ready and we can hope for an updated Netflix app that supports 1080P (1080P Netflix streaming is already available on the Sony PS3).
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In addition to bumping the max resolution of XR Rokus, the update has some bug fixes and enhancements for all Roku Players. The Hulu Plus channel has been optimized to support faster starts to streams and better performance on high latency networks. There was a bug that causes some Roku Newcaster content to rebuffer at the 25 minute mark. That's been fixed as well. If your Roku hasn't auto-updated to version 2.9 b1509 yet, you can manually update it by hitting the Settings menu from the Roku home screen, then Player Info and Check For Updates. That should get you the new version. For complete details on what has changed, check the Roku Forums.
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RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. – Living in rural North Carolina, Linda Sue Jones doesn't see her teenage son as the archetype of a national trend.
But 15-year-old Josh, as a boy who lives in the South in a household headed by a single woman, is characteristic of the exploding numbers of children in the USA living in poverty — numbers exacerbated by the recession that has pushed many families into poverty for the first time.
Twenty miles away, Kenneth Moody, 70, and his wife, Margie, 65, say they, too, are struggling, especially because of high out-of-pocket medical bills. They stay off the poverty rolls because of the $2,000 they receive from Social Security every month. They pay more than $300 a month for prescription drugs but say their medical costs would be even higher if they didn't have Medicare.
STORY: Many elderly who qualify for benefits don't apply
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"It's life," says Margie Moody. "That pays our bills, buys our food, pays for the doctor."
The two families highlight a national trend over the past three decades as child poverty steadily rises and poverty among seniors, aided by social programs, steadily drops.
By Steven Exum for USA TODAY
Volunteer Margaret Jones passes out cornbread at a senior center in Asheboro, N.C. Margie and Ken Moody go to the center every day for a free lunch and fellowship.
The ratio of senior-to-child poverty was close in 1980: There were three counties with more than 20% of children living in poverty for every four counties with 20% of seniors in poverty.
Now the two are reversed, and the gap has widened considerably. Eight counties have high child poverty for every one that has high senior poverty.
Nationally, official Census numbers show 9% of seniors in poverty. Among children, 22% — 15.6 million — live in poverty.
The official numbers show the poverty trend among seniors and children over time and by county. Geographically, counties in the South and Southwest show the highest concentrations of poor children.
The recession has added to the numbers of poor children as parents lost jobs and families lost homes to foreclosures.
Beth Mattingly, who researches family poverty at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, says child poverty is spreading.
"This seems to be a story of social policy," she says. "Social Security and Medicare are keeping seniors out of poverty."
The same is not happening for children, she says, even though they benefit from programs and tax credits designed to help low-income families with children.
A 2011 analysis by the Urban Institute, a public policy and research center, found public spending per child was $11,300 over the course of a year. The spending included federal and state programs for education, health such as Medicaid and nutrition, social services and housing. The report said some of those programs are being cut as states wrestle with dwindling budgets. By comparison, public spending on seniors was about $24,800 per person, mostly in federal funding for Social Security and Medicare.
"But it's not about elderly vs. children," says Olivia Golden, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. Instead, she says, it is important to see what can be learned from the lower poverty rates for seniors and apply it to reducing child poverty.
Otherwise, the future looks bleak for this generation of poor children, researchers and advocates say. Poor children are more likely to suffer from health and emotional problems, mediocre educations and fewer job opportunities that will keep them in poverty, they say.
University of New Hampshire demographer Kenneth Johnson, who with Mattingly analyzed counties with persistent high child poverty, says solving the problem is crucial. "Children are the nation's future," Johnson says. "If more and more of them grow up in poverty, and if that poverty persists for generations … then what is the future going to look like for our country? … You have to wonder what kind of chances these kids will have."
Struggling in Randolph County
Jessica Stevens, 22, grew up poor. She says she can't remember a time in her life when her family didn't receive public assistance of some kind.
Now a single mother of two children, she receives public assistance in the form of food stamps and a $272 check every month from the state of North Carolina.
She says she doesn't want the same fate for her 3-year-old daughter, Kmarie, and 1-year-old son, Necota.
"We struggled for a long time," she says of her upbringing. "I don't want my kids to be like that."
After a rocky start — she's getting a divorce from her husband, and she and her children have bounced around different homes — she's attending a community college with financial help from the state and Randolph County. She lives with her mother and brother in a threadbare three-bedroom house where she shares a room with her children that has no door.
She hopes her circumstances — and by extension, her children's — will improve when she graduates next year with a degree in accounting and business administration.
For now, though, her children are among the increasing numbers who are poor in Randolph County.
In fact, no community in the country exemplifies the poverty trends among children and seniors more than Randolph, where the high number of seniors living in poverty in 1980 switched with that of poor children in 2010.
In 1980, 10% of the county's children lived in poverty, and 23% of seniors were poor. In 2010, 27% of children lived in poverty, and 11% of seniors were poor.
It's not surprising that child poverty rose in Randolph County because the community has been buffeted by factory closings and job cuts, says Gene Nichol, who heads the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina. Those jobs once provided stable salaries and benefits for parents and their children, he says.
The rural county of 138,000 people is known for textile, hosiery and furniture manufacturing. Since 1999, 64 plants have closed or downsized, resulting in more than 6,300 jobs lost.
The recent poor
In communities such as Randolph County, "the pockets of poverty reflect … the new poor," Nichol says.
The jobs that replaced the factory work are fewer and require more specialized training or are in the service and retail industries, which pay less, says Bonnie Renfro, president of Randolph County Economic Development.
Linda Sue Jones says she had worked since she was 14 years old, but two years ago, she was laid off from her manufacturing job, and she and her son began their slide into poverty.
"It worries you, how you are going to feed him, keep a roof over his head," says Jones, 49.
When she was laid off from her job making ball bearings, she says, she wasn't sure how she would take care of her son. Few places were hiring, and factory work was all she'd known.
She relied on her unemployment checks, but those ran out in the summer. She got help from the state, so she and her son wouldn't lose their mobile home to foreclosure. They receive food stamps, and she gets financial aid to attend community college, where she's earning a degree as a surgical technician.
Jones says she wants her son to take this experience as a lesson.
"I don't want to see the cycle repeated," she says. "Children learn what they grow up in."
In that spirit, Jones says she's talked her son into attending college.
Josh hadn't thought much about it before, but seeing his mother's struggles, he says he plans to attend community college, then apply for a license to drive commercial trucks when he's 21.
He says he doesn't see his future diminished because of his family's situation. "Sure, there's no money to go to college, but my future will be fine," he says. "Just because my mom was laid off, it doesn't mean it will happen to me."
Their financial circumstance has meant Josh goes without new clothes or school supplies or outings to the mall or the movies.
Last winter, the heat pump broke, and they were without heat until his mom found a repairman who would let her pay in installments.
"There have been some days when we did not know how we'd get by," he says.
Still, his mom says, "he gets three meals a day, a roof over his head and he's not cold. He doesn't complain."
She says his school has helped. Jones couldn't afford a new bookbag when school started. A teacher, who noticed the shoulder strap of Josh's bag was ripped, gave him a new one.
Schools in Randolph County are overwhelmed by the children who have become casualties of the recession and the larger shifts in the local economy, says Todd Henderson, director of a school district initiative that provides student support and social services.
The district's 31 schools have seen an increase in the percentage of its students who receive free and reduced-cost lunch. In 2002, almost a third of students were eligible. Today, more than half of its 18,780 students receive free and reduced-cost lunches.
"The amount of need in our schools is ridiculous," Henderson says.
One of the biggest demographic shifts in the county, the increase of Latino families over the past 15 years, has also led to a rise in child poverty, says Nancy Redding, the district's lead social worker. The number of Latino students in the district almost tripled in the past 11 years, from 900 students in 2000 to 2,500 in 2011.
Many Latino parents have young children, some are undocumented and some do not speak English, conditions which contribute to poverty, she says.
Lessons from seniors
Official Census data for seniors in poverty indicate people 65 and older have fared better.
"Since 1960, senior poverty has been dropping, and dropping pretty steadily," says Richard Johnson, a senior fellow with the Urban Institute who researches income and health policies for older Americans.
He says Social Security, which was signed into law in 1935, has been expanded, and as the system matured, more people received the benefits for longer periods of time.
Medicare, established in 1965, has also made a difference because it makes access to health care a universal right for all Americans once they reach age 65.
Those who work with children say federal and local governments need to develop public policy that shows the same commitment to children that programs such as Social Security and Medicare provide to seniors. They say improving access to health care and early education, expanding tax credits for low-income families and helping parents with child care subsidies so they can go to work will help poor children in the long run.
Pauline McKee, executive director of the Randolph County Partnership for Children, says developing programs for children under 5 years old is particularly important in order to mitigate the physical and emotional toll of poverty on kids.
"We don't fully acknowledge the importance of getting to these children early," she says. "By the time they are 5, it's a done deal."
In Randolph County, her agency works one-on-one with families, helping parents learn English, obtain driver's licenses, get GEDs or attend community college.
"Our focus is on the whole family moving forward. … What are the barriers that keep them in poverty?" McKee says.
She says the high cost of child care is one of those obstacles. In Randolph County, 700 families wait for child care subsidies. Before the recession, the waiting list hovered at 200 families, she says.
As more families seek help, state and federal budgets are squeezed, resulting in cuts to programs that benefit the poor, McKee says.
And economic shifts eliminate unskilled jobs that used to keep families out of poverty.
For the sake of its own prosperity, the country needs to figure out how to help these families, McKee says.
"When we look at the economic restructuring that is happening everywhere," she says, "this has serious implications for where we are headed as a country."
Contributing: Paul Overberg in McLean, Va.
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Happy Friday everyone! Another jam packed weekend...whether you like getting outside, or taking in a show indoors.
If you could use a few laughs to start your weekend, we have some good news. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is in Gainesville. The Brooklyn native, known for his popular television sitcom, will be performing his stand-up routine at the Phillips Center. Show time is 7 this evening at the performing arts center located just off SW 34th Street in Gainesville. Website
If you like chili, Ocala is the place to be Saturday. Teams will bring their recipes and face off at Marion County's 31st Annual Chili Cook-Off. You'll get a chance to sample...and vote for...the chili of your choice. There'll be other food as well. Add in live music, bounce houses and other activities for the kids and you've got a good family outing. The Chili Cook-Off goes from 9 to 5 Saturday at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Ocala. Website
Also in Ocala, Silver Springs is hosting the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. The fundraiser is designed to honor breast cancer survivors....while raising funds and awareness of the disease. There will be a 5K walk, with participants encouraged to wear their pink bras in support of the fight against breast cancer. The walk begins at 8:30 Saturday morning at Silver Springs. Website
The Marion County community of Citra will be hosting Orange-A-Fair on Saturday. Citra is known as the home of the Pineapple Orange and you'll notice a citrus theme to the event. There'll be a citrus cook off, live music, food, and lots of family fun. Orange-A-Fair runs from 9 to 3 Saturday at the Citra Community Center on County Road 318, just east of U.S. 301. Website
Crystal River is the site for the annual Stone Crab Jam Saturday. The street festival is a great place to get some seafood and hear local bands performing on three stages. Stone crabs, burgers, and kettle corn are just a few items on the menu. The event kicks off at 4 pm Saturday on the south side of Citrus Avenue up to the waterfront in Crystal River. Website
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The Fall Gold Raspberry is a large, non-crumbling sweet golden berries. Vigorous and productive canes. Fall Gold Raspberries are not recommended for extreme northern areas due to late ripening time but hardy to -25 degrees Farenheit. Requires well drained soils to survive. They should produce 2 to 5 lbs of fruit when mature. Two year cane
Sold as a bundle of five raspberry canes
USDA Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Harvest Period: Late
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Storage: A few weeks
Uses: Canning / Preserves, Desserts / Pies, Fresh Eating
Origin Date: 1945 and beyond
Pollination Requirement: Self-Fertile
Years to Bear: 1 year
Mature Size: 4-6 ft.
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During the past five hundred years people have been migrating from one continent to another and today there are about 200,000,00 migrants living in another nation. One of the ongoing issues is allowing an immigrant to be united with family members who remained home while the migrant sought work. The European Union has made it clear to the Danish government it can no longer prevent immigrants from being reunited with spouses. EU regulations state if a person has been working in a EU nation, then a spouse must be allowed to enter their home country. It is presently estimated nearly a 100 Danes are compelled to move to Sweden each month due to strict immigration procedures.
The beauty of being a member of a union is being able to travel anywhere within its boundary and to bring along a spouse. It is about tme Denmark joined the movement of free travel.


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Thoroughly silly and highly entertaining.
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I love Kidby's artwork! He does fantastic work, and I enjoyed reading the little character tidbits that Pratchett threw in as well.
Beautiful artwork! It was nice to solidify the vague, murky appearances of the characters from my imagination. Paul Kidby really renders the Discworld universe faithfully in his captivating illustrations.
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The Appearance, and size is very comparable to Sevruga caviar but Kelley's is American, less expensive and easily available online!
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Born an OG
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I wake up and got four or five bitches in the bed Smokin weed, Drinkin liquor by da keg I was born an O.G. if yaint heard about me I put four or five bullets in ya head Yea, Luda! As if the gilatene chopped off my noggin I got my head gone, got the pedal to the metal and my lambo poppin in the red zone, speedin like keenen is breathin heavin and breathin hard, but I roll with killas that just just don't seem to believe in god, Ill whip yo head boy, put ya body in the bottom of the ocean, mean while ludacris is in the MIA with hatred somewhere smokin, got a pound of the purp and the smell on my shirt so I'm lookin like roll it up, I be swimmin in a pool of blood cause the AK super soke it up...hahaha nahh **** that imma come back with it like this... Come back wit it, ha ha ha ha, nasty Ludacris on the track with it, got enough ammo to blow you out of proportion and put a mutha****a on his back wit it. I'm so wrong, I'm so Gudda, I'm so dangerous, ain't I? I'm so gone off these suckas but the ??? will bang ya, cause I'm a silent aima, the fat lady got a song to sang ya, mean while I stashed all yo bricks in ????? I'm so high, I'm so fly, that is a ****in shame, smokin weed by the bush with that kush, and you a ****in ??? I wake up and got four or five bitches in the bed Smokin weed, Drinkin liquor by da keg I was born an O.G. if yaint heard about me I put four or five bullets in ya head (x2) In ya head nigga. Young Gudda. Ace Hood homie. And Ima ball like a dawg and I'm never gone fall you can call me jollin baby, and I'm never givin drop top, and I can't stop myself from stuntin lately
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This weekend LMC Racing was back at Indy for the SVRA race and finished 2nd with Peter and Al Unser Jr behind the wheel.
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The 42nd convention of the Shelby American Automobile Club was held in Indianapolis June 8-11
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Constant Aviation has received Mexican Civil Aviation Authority endorsement as an approved aircraft maintenance organization at its Las Vegas facility. "With the proximity of our Las Vegas location to Mexico, we had a significant number of maintenance requests from operators of Mexican-registered aircraft. These requests solidified our goal to secure the DGAC endorsement," said Kevin Dillon, vice president of operations.


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MIAMI - That's three titles for a town and two crowns for its king.
With a season, a playoffs, an NBA Finals and a Game 7 that will echo for years to come, the Heat defeated the San Antonio Spurs, 95-88, on Thursday night at AmericanAirlines Arena to win its second NBA championship in a row.
LeBron James played stunning, brilliant basketball to earn the NBA Finals MVP for the second year in a row, and Dwyane Wade, who played throughout the playoffs despite knee problems, saved his best for the final game of a gruelling post-season. James finished with 37 points, 12 rebounds and four assists. Wade had 23 points, 10 rebounds and an assist and made 11 of his 21 attempts.
"Listen, I can't worry about what everybody says about me," James said on the stage as an arena rocked around him and white confetti and streamers floated through every inch of air space in the building. "I'm LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I'm not even supposed to be here. That's enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No.6 with James on the back, I'm blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don't matter. I ain't got no worries."
People won't think about criticising James' game after Thursday. Beginning now, he begins his march to become not only one of the greatest ever to play the game but the best.
To repeat as champions, the Heat had to win back-to-back games for the first time since Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. Miami won Game 7s in back-to-back series, providing South Florida with one of the exhilarating rides professional sports can offer.
It was the Heat's first Finals Game 7 in the 25-year history of the franchise and it was a classic, every bit as good as the entire series as a whole. The teams seemed to swap the lead on nearly every possession throughout the third quarter and the final period provided nail-biting drama until the final minute. Game 7 was tied 11 times and the lead changed hands seven times.
"This was a tremendous game," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It wouldn't end any other way."
James, who scored 22 points in the second half, nailed a 19-foot jumper with 27.9 seconds left to give the Heat a 92-88 lead and then, to seal the championship, stole a pass from Manu Ginobili after a timeout. He then made a pair of free throws to kick-start the celebration.
For Tim Duncan, the four-time NBA champion, it was his first time to be defeated in a Finals series in his career. Duncan finished with 24 points, going 8 of 18 from the field,
Alongside the 1972 undefeated Dolphins, the 2013 championship Heat will go down as one of the greatest professional sports teams in South Florida history. The unforgettable run began with a franchise-best 66-win regular season, which included a 27-game winning streak, and ended on a makeshift stage in the middle of AmericanAirlines Arena with Heat owner Micky Arison raising his franchise's third Larry O'Brien Trophy.
James' transcendent stretch of greatness since the beginning of the 2011-12 regular season has been a masterstroke of legendary athletic excellence. He's won it all two years running - the championship, the MVP and the NBA Finals MVP - becoming the first player to win all three in back-to-back seasons since Michael Jordan in 1991 and 1992.


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Los Angeles rapper Abstract Rude is all about blunts, but not bitches and money. He rhymes about real things, which makes his clever delivery that much easier to embrace. Whether he's rapping about smoking herb (it's for his arthritis, he says) or our screwed up political system, he spits with heartfelt honesty and a soulful cadence. He also offers tight narratives that stick in your head, like on "Sadly Ever After," a track about a depressed mother, her abusive alcoholic husband and her emotionally distant son. It paints the perfect picture—albeit a dark one—of the ultimate dysfunctional family.
Ab Rude, a longtime vet of the SoCal indie hip-hop scene, is as impressively dope as his rhyme schemes. Besides having a slew of releases on notable indie rap labels, he also helped form Project Blowed, a collective of MCs and producers that includes underground legends like Aceyalone and Myka 9. If you like conscious rap with a strong dose of realism and no sign of shallowness, you won't want to sleep on seeing this wordy wizard in action.
Abstract Rude plays The Palace Sat., Jan. 14, with Shames Worthy, Winstrong, DJ Zole and Zoo Effort. $7/$5 advance at Ear Candy, with a $5 surcharge for those 18-20.


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Your child is learning the mechanics of reading at school. At home, you can make reading fun and continue to develop your child's love of reading. Here are some great activity ideas for your intermediate reader.
Because children learn in different ways, we've arranged these activities by learning style. But any child can benefit from the suggestions in all three categories.
For physical learners
Make a family newspaper Have your child write stories about what's happening in the family. Need some ideas? Recent birthdays, outings, and events at school all make good subjects for "articles." Then encourage him to read the paper to others.
Discover words to grow on Go to the library and check out a gardening book or buy one at the bookstore. Read through it to find plants, flowers, or vegetables that look interesting and then buy some seeds or plants from a local nursery and watch them grow.
Make your own bookmarks Cut a long rectangular strip out of white cardboard, punch a hole in the top, and let your child decorate each side with markers, stickers, sparkles — anything he wants. Then choose a ribbon and tie it through the hole as a tassel.
Write a letter to a favorite author To help your child get started, ask him a few questions: What do you like about this author's book? How do you feel when you read these stories? Who's your favorite character? When it's ready, you can send the letter to the author care of the publisher. Check the title page of the book to find out who that is.
Make a dictionary As your child comes across words he doesn't know, have him write them in a blank book or notebook along with the meaning. This is a great way to help build vocabulary.
Give out book dollars If you don't want to use real money, you can draw your own. Dole out the cash for chores or other good deeds at home. When your child earns ten or 15, take a trip to the bookstore and let him spend the money.
Go to a book signing party Popular children's authors often make appearances at bookstores. Check local papers and bulletin boards at bookstores to find out who's coming next.
Build a reading fort In your child's bedroom, drape blankets over a couple of chairs to create a tent. Invite your child to grab a book and a flashlight and climb in for story time in the dark. In the summertime you may be able to do this outside.
Serve a meal from a book Use food coloring to make green eggs and ham, try to re-create parts of the Grinch's Christmas feast, or make your own batch of porridge for the Three Little Bears. You can even get a basket and fill it with goodies for Little Red Riding Hood to take to Grandmother's house.
Throw a book-related party Read over your child's favorite book and think about what elements would work at a party. Can you decorate his room in a jungle theme to resemble Where the Wild Things Are? Can you collect hats and host a Cat-in-the-Hat party? You'll get your child and his friends talking about books.
Keep a diary Let your child pick out a diary with a lock and key and encourage him to write in it every day, even if only for a few minutes.


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Santana, Mets blank Reds
Johan Santana tossed a complete-game shutout to earn the win in the New York Mets' 3-0 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night.
New York cashed as -175 home favorites, while the teams played UNDER the 8.5-run total listed by oddsmakers.
Santana homered at the plate for the Mets, who got two runs batted in from Jason Bay in the win.
Matt Maloney allowed three runs over 5 2-3 innings to take the loss for Cincinnati, which managed only three hits on the night.


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An identification card (Tiger Card) verifying employment with the University may be obtained in the University Card Center in the Memorial Union. This identification card includes full user privileges for Forsyth Library and Tiger Wellness Center.
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Fists and four-letter words were flying fast just a few days before Christmas in the south part of town, according to police, though only one man was arrested in the fracus.
A pistol class on Saturday, Jan. 18, will benefit the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life in Levy County.
In the span of about a day, it's not often that a person gets arrested, taken to jail, let out and then arrested and taken to jail again.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests from Dec. 23 through Jan. 5:
A person had to be cut from a vehicle Dec. 18 at an accident involving a car and a dump truck at State Road 121 and County Road 320.
At the annual LCDPS Christmas Dinner Dec. 19, Paramedic Mandy Willis was awarded Employee of the Year as voted by her peers.
In addition to her regular position as an Out of Class Captain and Paramedic, Mandy manages all of the public relations events for the department, including coordinating the Employee Christmas Dinner.
She has been an employee of the department since 2007 and continues to show her commitment to serving others and dedication to the department every day.
On Dec. 21, the Levy County Department of Public Safety (LCDPS) Firefighter I class received hands-on training with a live car fire.
Captain Jerry Horton instructed the class with the help of Captain Joe Rinaudo, Instructor Mark James, and Mentor Dennis Russell.
The class was broken down into squads of four, and each squad went through the live scenario twice. This training provided the recruits skills to handle a live fire and scene control.
A 67-year-old woman died following a crash on Tuesday, Dec. 24, shortly after 6 p.m. at the intersection of State Road 26 and County Road 341, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests for the week ending Dec. 22:
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