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But joss gave me my first job in Hollywood, which was writing a TV show for him.
I spent a year with Branagh on Ivanov and Wallander and Thor, and then joss wrote me a fantastic part in Avengers.
The hottest film franchise in the world is one giant, sprawling work of fanfiction run by King Fan joss Whedon.
Plus, watch video for joss Whedon's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Once Upon a Time In Wonderland, Kyle Killen's Mind Games, and more.
This is a joss Whedon production, which means lots of snappy dialogue.
He was fat and crass and ugly, that joss, a fit deity for such a den, and he seemed to nod and to listen!
The result was that joss learned to read and write before the voyage was over.
So Harry stood waiting while the joss stick throwing went merrily on.
Every time she attempted to start playing, shouts were raised for joss.
They put him in moth balls and they ask joss to join their tong.
"Chinese figure of a deity," 1711, from Chinese Pidgin English, from Javanese dejos, taken 16c. from Portuguese deus "god," from Latin deus (see Zeus). Colloquially, it came to mean "luck." Joss stick "Chinese incense" first recorded 1883.


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A group of engineering students from a university in Sonora spent the past month in Tucson training with engineers from the University of Arizona.
The students are majoring in electrical, industrial, mechanical and software engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus in Sonora.
On Friday, the group got to tour the Universal Avionics manufacturing facility, where instrument panels and aircraft "black boxes" are made — although they are orange in color.
"Talent and technology are now global," said Alex Rodriguez, Southern Arizona director of the Arizona Technology Council, who helped organize the tour.
"The engineering students visiting Tucson from the Tech de Monterrey bring this notion to life in a powerful and impactful way," he said.
By visiting with UA engineers, students have the opportunity to judge applications of different processes and methodologies, said Sandra Esther Perez Dueñas, coordinator of the exchange program, called The Systems Process. They also get to understand the dynamics of teams and their roles in creating successful projects, she said.

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Seeing conservation in action might sound as exciting as watching paint dry, but try not be enthralled when talking to the mechanical engineer who's restoring the Daimler that carried Queen Elizabeth II during her 1954 Australian visit.
Or try not being hooked watching a paper conservator unveil a beautiful but neglected 150-year-old lithograph to work out the pH level for cleaning.
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is adding a tangible human element to its conservation program by taking some key objects from its 200,000-strong depository and putting them on display – along with their caretakers.
The exhibition, called Museum Workshop, aims to place the conservators on the same stage as the precious items they look after.
The largest object, requiring the greatest number of conservator hours, is The Queen's Daimler – or the DE 36hp Daimler landaulette, 1948, to be precise. The car might have been at its stylish best when it ferried her royal highness around Australia in 1954, but now it has seen better days.
"After the vehicles had been used by royalty they were sold off to the public," engineer Ian Stewart says.
"In fact, funeral directors often bought them because of their size, but this one went to a private person to use as a family car. And boy he used it. He dragged two trailers around with it on his vineyard in the Claire Valley in South Australia."
After the engine failed the vehicle was discarded and stored in an open shed in all sorts of weather. The museum acquired it in 2009. While the damage isn't insignificant, Stewart says the good thing about this car is that all the parts are original.
"Everything is there, it hasn't been chopped and changed," he says. "But it needs a lot of work, it breaks my heart a little bit. A lot of the wood is beautiful, so once that's treated it will be like brand new."
Over the next two years the engineers and conservators plan to get the Daimler back to its original working condition.
"We're hoping when the car is finished you'll be able to drive it around," Stewart says.
Given that he once owned an engine reconditioning business and helped cars race their best at Bathurst, the Daimler is in good hands.
Moving from the largest object to some of the smallest, the paper and textiles lab shows how to preserve some of the most fragile pieces of Australia's history.
Some of the restored items on display in the workshop include a billboard poster of the FJ Holden from around 1953, a flag of the Australian Imperial Forces Cricket Team from 1919 and a photo of pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.
Jess Wignell has spent about 60 hours working on just one of the 12 sections of the FJ Holden poster, and says it's one of her greatest achievements so far. It was her love of photography that led her to paper conservation.
"I've always loved photography but realised I wasn't that good at it," she says. "So I wanted to preserve photographs, it's just so rewarding."
As well as passion ("I used to smell books and magazines as a kid"), Wignell says good hand skills, patience and an eye for colour are essential for her job.
"You also need to know about chemistry, what's going to react with what, the pH levels, so quite technical things, too."
During the exhibition, Wignell will work on a new acquisition – 200 hand-coloured lithographs of the gold rush in Australia in the mid-1800s.
Vicki Humphrey, the head of conservation at the museum, encourages visitors to the workshop to ask the experts how to preserve their own precious objects or antiques at home.
"The [conservators] are so proud of their work and they're happy to show people how to care for their things, to give them some guidance," she says.
It's also a valuable chance to show the general public the specialised skills required to preserve historical objects, and perhaps inspire the next generation.
"Unfortunately, these skills are not being taught as a trade any more, so it's important to pass them down yourself," Humphrey says. "The skills are just as valuable as the objects themselves."
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:03:03AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > Regression introduced by recent freezing fixes - we should > not hold the ilock while waiting for I/O completion.
I find this existing code and the use of marker pointer macros a bit hard to follow. Can you explain where "earlier on in the flow of the function" we've inserted the marker pointer (and unlocked the inode-list lock).
Obviously whenever we release the inode-list lock, we have to insert the marker first (which is what IPOINTER_INSERT does). But in what cases do we need to release the inode-list lock (m_ilock).
Having a stab in looking at the code: * before xfs_finish_reclaim * before VN_RELE which can call xfs_inactive * in the vnode reference case, prior to locking inode ???? * prior to unlocking the inode and calling one of the flush or toss pages routines. * prior to unlocking the inode and reading in its buffer * Prior to flushing the inode (xfs_iflush) * Every so often if we loop a lot in the code (preempt variable and mask)
We don't seem to remove the marker afterwards always although we do so on each iteration if we make it to the end of the loop.
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The growing season was longer than usual as mild spring weather resulted in early bud-burst, but was followed by cool nights which prevented excessively rapid growth. We had good accumulation of summer heat and a long, dry autumn. Harvest was, as usual, in April. The fruit was beautifully physiologically ripe when picked, but yet had good levels of natural acid without excessive concentration of sugar.
In making this wine we have employed traditional Burgundian techniques. After picking the fruit was put into open top vats, our aim being to retain the individual berries whole, we also include about 10% whole bunches. The vats were kept cool for 4 or 5 days and then allowed to gradually warm. At this stage primary fermentation commenced by the action of the grapes' own yeasts and we started by hand plunging the floating cap of grapes to keep it moist and healthy twice daily. This was carried out very gently to avoid excessive extraction of rough tannins and it was continued throughout the 6 days of the fermentation phase. After this there followed a period of post-fermentation maceration, during which we pushed down the floating cap of skins once per day with our hands. The total time in vat or cuvaison, varied from batch to batch but was in the order of 3-4 weeks. The time of pressing for each vat was decided by daily tasting to assess to tannins. The new wine was then put into barriques, 30% new, of French artisan coopers.
When the winery warmed in the summer after harvest, the wine in these barriques underwent spontaneous secondary or malo-lactic fermentation by the action of their own natural indigenous micro-organisms. It remained in barriques for a total of 18 months. The multiple individual batches were then tasted and the final blend or assemblage made prior to bottling.
This wine was made from a selection of our best barrels which were, as usual, from our oldest vines.
The wine has a vibrant carmine hue. Its aromas and flavours are a complex interplay of fruity and savoury elements, suggesting cherries, raspberries and blackberries, intermingled with roast game, grilled mushrooms, black olives, liquorice and coffee. There is a dense core of fruit in the mouth that is supported by a backbone of firm, ripe tannins which flow evenly through the palate and should help the wine age gracefully. While ready to drink on release it will develop additional fascinating nuances and become increasingly mellow with careful cellaring.
Rated one of the best Pinot Noirs in the world (outside of Burgundy)
"…immense purity and is terrifically crunchy. There are red cherries at the core, dark spices, earth and fine chocolate at the edge. It's very long and direct. Will age magnificently"
"….rich and complex wine with impressive weight and intensity….Powerful wine with obvious cellaring potential".
Pegasus Bay's winemaking team uses traditional Burgundian methods, including small vat fermentation and ageing the wine in French oak barriques for 18 months. Made "in small quantities in the best vintages from the oldest vines", this flagship pinot noir is a powerful combination of intense plum, cherry and berry flavours with haunting floral notes, Oriental spices and an intriguing savoury, forest floor, rustic character. A delicious pinot with ageing potential.
A composed, svelte and powerful pinot with terrific focus and a real sense of freshness. The complexity has been cleverly engineered into place and is all spicy, brambly and foresty. The palate has sheets of tannin tilted upright, is very linear, focused and composed, long and uncompromising, yet smooth and polished. A class act.
"… opens to reveal complex scents of raspberry, cola, musky spices and flowers. Sappy and fresh, with
terrific depth and intensity to the lightly saline flavors of raspberry, bitter cherry and spices. This very firmly built wine finishes with a youthfully bitter quality and solid tannic spine for aging. Give it a double decanting if you plan to broach a bottle any time soon--or, better yet, cellar it for five years…."
"Medium-bodied, the palate is led by a solid structure of medium to firm grainy tannins and crisp acid supporting the muscular red berry and savoury flesh, finishing long."
"Top Wine of NZ tasting (100's tasted)" "…downright Chambolle-like. Sweet and densely packed but youthfully tight, with impressive inner-mouth energy giving the intense red berry and mineral flavours terrific penetration. The superb rising finish saturates the palate with mineral-driven fruit. This is painfully backward today and may yet merit an even higher score with a few years in bottle."
"This is crazy pure with strawberry, flowers, raspberries and licorice. Full and very dense with fabulous tannins and length. Chewy yet polished. Drink or hold."
"... should flourish for a decade. Deep and youthful in colour, it is powerful and finely fragrant, with dense cherry, plum and slight liquorice flavours, deliciously rich and well-rounded.
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Today, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) applauded the passage of a temporary one-year extension of vital Secure Rural Schools Payments included in surface transportation legislation. As a primary negotiator, DeFazio fought to include the temporary extension of county payments for Oregon counties in the legislation. The legislation also prevents Stafford student loan interest rates from doubling for over 7.5 million students, including 120,000 students in Oregon.
DeFazio statement is below:
"The passage of a transportation bill is a huge victory for tens of thousands of Oregonians.
"First and foremost, it contains a one-year extension of county payments. That's $100 million to counties in southwest Oregon and rural schools, to help them deal with their financial difficulties. This means counties may be able to restore critical services like jail beds and sheriff's patrols.
"Secondly, the bill contained one year of lower interest rates for 120,000 students in Oregon who are getting Stafford student loans. Without this fix, their interest rates would double on July 1st. We have staved off that disaster and I've introduced a bill to make their lower interest rates permanent.
"And finally the jobs. Millions of jobs across the country will be created or saved because of this 27 month surface transportation bill. It means a tremendous investment in Oregon's roads, bridges, highways, and transit systems. At home, it means thousands of people will be put to work and it helps small businesses that supply the industry. This bill also contains the same formula I negotiated six years ago in the last major transportation bill that means Oregon will be a net-beneficiary. That means we will get more dollars to fix our roads, bridges, and highways than we send to Washington, D.C. through the gas tax.
"All in all, this is great news just in time to celebrate our nation's birthday on the 4th of July."
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text: The Vasara wiki last edited by Gabri9094 on 06/07/17 08:01AM View full history OverviewVasara is a Shoot 'Em Up developed and published by Visco for the Arcade platform. Vasara was never released outside of Japanese arcades.StoryVasara is set in the year 1600 A.D. The current ruler of Japan, Hideyoshi Hashiba has died and Ieyasu Tokugawa is planning on taking over. The three main heroes are tying to make sure that Tokugawa does not assume control as they battle their way through a series of warlords sent by Tokugawa to stop them.GameplayVasara uses a two-button system for attacking. The first, and primary attack involves rapidly pressing the first button which will fire the normal bullets. Each character also has a melee attack that can be used by holding the button down. The melee attack will not only damage an enemy, but will also deflect any bullets in the way.The second button is used to deploy a bomb which will clear the screen of small enemies and do damage to the larger ones.The Full Vasara MeterThe third method of attack uses a meter called the "Vasara" meter. Once the Vasara meter is full it can be used by holding down the primary attack button for a small amount of time and them released. The Vasara attack is a larger version of the melee attack which does large amounts of damage. The Vasara meter can be replenished by collecting various items dropped by the enemies such as red jewels.CharactersThere are three selectable main characters in Vasara. All three of the characters are based on real life people who also fought against Tokugawa. Each characters attacks, speed, and specials are different from each other.Yukimura SanadaYukimura SanadaYukimura Sanada is the well rounded character of the three. Yukimura has a more concentrated main attack, which when upgraded will also shoot homing daggers. Yukimura's melee attack is a katana attack. The Vasara powered melee attack is a very large katana attack which will attack around half of the screen.Stats:Speed - 2Power - 2Saiga MagoichiSaiga MagoichiSaiga Magoichi is the speed based character in Vasara. Saiga's main attack is more of a spread attack than a concentrated attack, which when upgraded will also shoot homing fans at the enemies. Saiga's melee attack is a set of flaming fans that spin around the ship. The Vasara powered melee attack is a much larger flame that will also hone in on the enemies automatically.Stats:Speed - 3Power - 1Keiji MaedaKeiji MaedaKeiji Maeda is a power based character. Keiji's main attack is a very concentrated, forward shooting attack. When Keiji's attack is upgraded it will also fire missiles that also only fire in a straight line. Keiji's melee attack is a giant spear attack that attacks out in a V shape in front of the ship. The Vasara powered attack is simply a very large version of the normal melee attack.Stats:Speed - 1Power - 3


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The assembled group was desperate to talk to the mayor about their increasingly dire situation post-Sandy, including no power, heat or hot water and a growing mold problem, more than a month after the storm. Bloomberg simply brushed them off and headed into his waiting SUV, leaving many in the group angry.
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Hello, It could be a small letter "h" or a capital " H " that might have to do with Hertz or the frequency of the power supply.
I know Germany would be a 50 Hz supply and Kore could be a 60 Hz supply. So that could be a problem with frequency sensitive appliances.
It has something to do with the speed of the motor that would increase if it becomes 60 Hz or would decrease if it was plugged to a 50 Hz frequency, even though you have the same voltage .
Please look at some name plates of local appliances there in Korea and tell me what is the voltage rating of the appliances stamped on the name plates. It would tell us if it is a 50 Hz or a 60 Hz supply.
If the problem is difference in frequency, then it is a big problem. You can not use your washer and drier there unless, you would contact a local electrical company and ask them if they have a frequency converter. This is a device that would convert the frequency of the power supply.
yes 60 Hz is stamped on the microwave here. Since both the washer and dryer have the same error, motor speed being affected makes perfect sense. Are frequency converters common items old? I've never needed one so I'm not sure if they are sold locally.
I can not tell if it would be readily available in your area because it would really not supposed to be needed but they are popular on marine suppliers since boats travel to different parts of the world that is why it is a common accessories for boats.
You can maybe order online. It would look like this. There would be power rating and voltage rating. So please get the power rating of both units, add them up. multiply by two, and that would be the unit to buy.
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Research Study across Organisations in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya Highlights Considerable Investment in Cloud within Next Year.
Johannesburg, South Africa, 28 November 2013 - Cloud computing uptake is about to explode in Africa's major economies, as businesses gain confidence in both the security and reliability of the Cloud. This was the key finding of the Cloud in Africa: Reality Check 2013 research study¹, released today by World Wide Worx and Cisco. The study was conducted among a small but representative sample of senior information technology decision-makers in medium-sized and large companies in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
Survey Key Findings:
- The most significant finding from the study was that, while South Africa currently leads the continent in Cloud uptake, it is about to be overtaken - dramatically - by Nigeria.
- In 2013, 50% South African medium and large businesses are using Cloud services; while a slightly lower proportion - 48% - are using the Cloud in Kenya. Nigeria lag's substantially behind, with only 36% of businesses there currently using the Cloud.
- A significant 44% of Nigerian businesses say they will embrace the Cloud in the coming year, bringing the total in that country to 80% by the end of 2014. This compares to 24% of organisations in Kenya and only 16% in South Africa saying they will be taking up Cloud.
- The key to the rapid adoption of Cloud computing in Nigeria and Kenya can be found in the growing confidence that IT decision-makers have in the environment. Even where confidence is not high, distrust in Cloud has almost entirely disappeared.
- The survey showed that 57% of decision-makers across the three countries had high confidence in the security of the Cloud, while a further 34% were neutral - meaning they would wait and see, but were not negatively disposed towards it. Only 1 in 10 respondents did not trust security in the Cloud.
- An even higher level of confidence was expressed in the reliability of the Cloud: 73% of respondents across the three countries expressed high confidence, while most of the rest - 25% - were neutral on reliability.
- Private Cloud is the most popular in 2013 with 25% or organisations surveyed currently deploying this compared to 13% opting for Hybrid Cloud and only 7% of companies opting for the Public Cloud. In 2014, this trend is set to continue with 32% of companies opting for the Private Cloud compared to 18% for Hybrid Cloud and 16% for Public Cloud.
- The most popular category for cloud use today is storage (28% of companies) followed by SaaS (10% of companies surveyed).
"Cloud computing is the next big step in the evolution of computing and the Internet," says David Meads, Cisco's Vice President for Africa. "The broadband revolution sweeping Africa and the continent's reputation for innovation add up to tremendous appetite for services that will drive this evolution. Looking ahead, the Internet of Everything represents the largest online trend today. As more people, things and devices connect to the Internet in Africa, more data from more places will be introduced across corporate and service provider networks, which will open up new opportunities and increased demand for the Cloud."
"The fact that no one is expressing doubt about the reliability of the Cloud means that the final pieces of the puzzle are falling into place," says Arthur Goldstuck, managing director of World Wide Worx. "Now the Cloud becomes real in Africa."
Cisco Global Cloud Index Projects Cloud Traffic to Dominate Data Centres
In the third annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2012 - 2017), Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold - a 35 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) - from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017.
Approximately 17 percent of data centre traffic will be fuelled by end users accessing clouds for web surfing, video streaming, collaboration and connected devices, all of which contribute to the Internet of Everything, which is the networked connection of people, data, process and things.
"People all over the world continue to demand the ability to access personal, business and entertainment content anywhere on any device, and each transaction in a virtualised, cloud environment can cause cascading effects on the network," said Meads. "Because of this continuing trend, we are seeing huge increases in the amount of cloud traffic globally within, between and beyond data centres over the next four years."
From a regional perspective, the Cisco Global Cloud Index predicts that through 2017, the Middle East and Africa will have the highest cloud traffic growth rate (57 percent CAGR), followed by Asia Pacific (43 percent CAGR) and Central and Eastern Europe (36 percent CAGR).
Supporting Resources:
- Visit the Cisco Global Cloud Index website
Editor's Note:
- ¹World Wide Worx conducted a telephonic research study in November 2013 among IT decision-makers in medium and large enterprises in Africa, in order to establish trends in the Cloud arena, to be shared with the media:
- Methodology: Telephonic interviews with IT decision-makers at 150 medium and large companies in three African countries.
- Scope: Interviews conducted in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
- Definitions: In Africa, a medium enterprise ranges in size from 50-200 employees, and a large enterprise above 200 employees.
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Actress Marian Mercer (left) recites lines for a 1958 scene from Show Boat at Musicarnival in Warrensville Heights while Lind Lee checks the script and actress Charlotte Finan watches. (Beacon Journal file photo)
Akron native Marian Mercer wears an owl coat for her role as Marge MacDougall in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises. Mercer won the 1969 Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical. (Beacon Journal file photo)
In 1981, the cast of Its a Living (briefly renamed Making a Living) featured (front row) Ann Jillian, Paul Kreppel, (back row) Barrie Youngfellow, Marian Mercer, Gail Edwards, Earl Boen and Louise Lasser. (ABC)
Marian Mercer (1935-2011) played many memorable characters in theater, film and television. (Beacon Journal file photo)
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Reluctant to deal with the hassles of airport security, sales executive Michael D'Souza generally packs the syringes he needs for his daily medication in a bag that he checks when he travels.
The strategy backfired for the Toronto resident recently when he needed the medication while he was stuck during a four-hour delay at Newark Liberty. D'Souza found new needles when an airport customer service rep told him about a pharmacy that opened late last year in Terminal C.
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"I don't think I've ever seen a pharmacy at an airport," he says. "But I thought: What a good idea. People are traveling sick all the time."
Pharmacies and walk-in health clinics are opening at more airports in the USA, hoping to capture a sizable portion of travelers and airport employees who want access to basic primary health care and to fill their prescriptions at the last minute.
Such facilities are common at large foreign airports, but domestic airports have mostly focused on services that cater to travelers' immediate needs. Several entrepreneurs are betting that there's pent-up demand for such services at airports in the USA.
While similar to primary care physician offices, walk-in clinics generally focus on a limited range of medical services and medications. Nurse practitioners typically deliver the services.
Harmony Pharmacy, which launched at Newark Liberty late last year, will open another airport shop at the much-anticipated JetBlue Terminal 5 at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in September.
AeroClinic, which runs a walk-in clinic at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, will open its second branch at Philadelphia International in the spring.
Solantic, which operates walk-in clinics at several Wal-Marts, will expand into the airport market by opening at Orlando International later this year. Atlanta-based AirportMD opens its first store in Miami next month, followed by another in Minneapolis in the fall.
"Airports lend themselves as an ideal market for retail-based care because (there are) a lot of people in between flights or who have downtime," says Tine Hansen-Turton, executive director of the Convenient Care Association, a trade group for retail walk-in clinics. "You also have employers who have hours not conducive to going to primary care providers."
Several factors are driving the trend:
•Greater marketing emphasis. Airports are increasingly looking for non-aviation revenue to offset discounts and promotions given to airlines to court new flights. As a result, a greater array of services and retail shops that consumers normally don't associate with flying are starting to appear between gates, including health and wellness services.
•Longer waiting time. Airports have always been a potentially attractive market, says Rosemary Kelly, marketing executive of AeroClinic. About 1.2 billion people traveled through the top 20 airports last year, not including the 500,000 employees who work there. "It's the largest consumer venue anywhere in the world," she says.
With more stringent security, fliers are arriving earlier, which gives them time to receive basic health services that wouldn't otherwise be feasible.
•Growth of the retail clinics industry. Airports are a new market for an already fast-growing industry. According to the Convenient Care Association, there are about 950 clinics in the USA, and more than 500 more will open by the end of this year. Many of them are at strip malls or in big-box drugstores, but transportation hubs are seen as an attractive growth market, says Hansen-Turton.
AeroClinic says its shop at Atlanta Hartsfield focuses on 30 of the most common requests among travelers. They include ear infections, stomachaches, flu shots, antibiotics, asthma inhalers and heart medication. It also offers some preventive care for people who have more time, including diabetes monitoring, cholesterol checking and drug testing.
While they take most insurance policies, including Medicare, a distinct feature of walk-in clinics is the menu pricing rare in other doctors' offices or hospitals. At Solantic, most services fall into one of three categories. The Level 1 category — seeing a nurse practitioner and getting a prescription — costs $59. Level 2 service — more complicated procedures, such as strep tests, EKG or injections — costs $109. Level 3 procedures — such as stitches and X-rays — are $169.
Harmony Pharmacy has a narrower focus on pharmaceutical products, though it has some basic primary care services delivered by nurse practitioners. It specializes in filling prescriptions and selling sundries and other travel products. It has about 1,100 types of prescription drugs, says Ken Corroon, Harmony's CEO. "People go on vacation, and they forget their heart medication or Viagra. People have varying needs."
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Starting the high school day later would be better for adolescents' health, according to a report that Fairfax County school leaders are expected to discuss Tuesday.
A later start to the school day for teens would be "more reflective of adolescent biorhythms," according to the report by Fairfax County Public Schools' School Health Advisory Committee.
A growing body of research shows that adolescents' biology causes them to fall asleep later than adults, said committee Chairwoman Marie Reinsdorf. However, most high schools in Fairfax start at 7:20 a.m., forcing students to fight their natural rhythm.
The resulting sleep deprivation can lead to poor academic performance and a tendency to make impulsive decisions, said Therese Tuley, chairwoman of the local advocacy organization Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal, or SLEEP.
The advisory committee has endorsed later school start times since 2005, and the county School Board passed a resolution in April 2012 favoring a later school day.
But if all goes according to plan, the later school day could finally become reality in a little more than a year.
The problem has been finding a practical solution that everyone likes, said Fairfax County School Board member Jane Strauss, who represents Dranesville.
Buying enough school buses so that neither elementary nor middle school schedules would need to change is not financially feasible. Other options -- pushing start times back across all grade levels or starting elementary schools at 7:20 a.m. so that high schools can start after 8 -- create logistical problems for parents who need to get to work or who can't leave work early enough to meet young kids at the bus, as well as for students who have extracurricular activities or jobs after school.
"The other problem that we have is just congestion and traffic. I know in some parts of the county, even if we changed high school start times by 30 minutes [or] 35 minutes, we couldn't change the bus pick-ups [and still get students to school on time]," Strauss said.
Fairfax County Public Schools contracted earlier this year with Children's National Medical Center to study the issue and come up with possible solutions. The findings are expected in the middle of the coming school year, so that -- if the School Board and the community like the solutions -- high schools could have later school days as early as the 2014-2015 school year, said Assistant Superintendent Kim Dockery.
Fairfax is the latest school system to join the movement to implement later start times. Parents in Montgomery County also have been fighting for later start times, and Arlington County already has them.
"I just hope for thousands or tens of thousands of students, that they have something that is more in keeping with their health," Reinsdorf said.


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|It was a cold rainy morning as Ward delivered a mouse to June while she sat on the nest box floor. This type of room service does not normally start until she lays her first egg, but there was no egg. It was starting to look like she had tricked him until she started making the egg cough sound that she always makes while she is laying an egg. Five minutes later, she stood up to reveal her first egg of the season. It had come on exactly the same date as last year's first egg! She must have quite a calendar built into her head. Ward is apparently doing a good job with the hunting as June was so well fed that she did not eat the mouse for several hours and did not call to him all day. She did, however, leave the nest at sunset in response to Ward's call and will probably be out for most of the night. Serious incubation does not start until the second egg is laid. Let's hope that this is the start of another good year for the owl family.
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text: Culture 20 August 2010 Limbo This bleak new world has artistic gravitas, writes Iain Simons. Sign up for our weekly email * LimboXbox Live Arcade Limbo is one of those releases that people like me show to grown-up sceptics when attempting to convince them of the breadth and promise of the video game. Often, showing "mature-content" video games to non-gamer adults can be embarrassing. Eager to demonstrate that they can participate in the grown-up entertainment media, developers and publishers have pushed "adult" content to extremes over the past few years. This has been pioneered by Rockstar, the self-styled bad geeks of game development, who have produced some of the best work of the past decade. But much as Rockstar's work is emblematic of video-gaming's maturity, it also clearly demonstrates its thematic myopia. Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt and latterly Red Dead Redemption display an adultness almost entirely informed by cult American cinema and trash pop culture. To find games where "mature" means something other than gangsters running over prostitutes (while swearing), we need to look somewhere other than the blockbuster releases. Sensitive to this opportunity, Limbo wears its artfulness on its sleeve. Uncompromisingly bleak and unforgiving, this strictly monochromatic game plays out within a mistily rendered Fritz Lang world. Can it be that an Xbox Live Arcade game has snuck in that directly celebrates German expressionist cinema? (Do the shareholders know?) Through its explicit referencing of Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Limbo channels an aesthetic gravitas with which it proceeds to assault you. You're a young boy who awakens alone in a dark forest. The game offers no context, no speech, no exposition, no clue why. This being a video game, you assume you need to do something, so you stand and start running to the right. Skipping along, the animation creates a palpable vulnerability, and the game quickly forces a remarkable and essential empathy between you and the boy. Within the first few minutes of play, you fall into a pit of wooden stakes that you had no way of seeing. You're impaled and your body breaks into pieces. It's genuinely unsettling. It soon becomes clear that you're going to have to solve some puzzles in order to stop this repeated dying. While the challenges you face are often utterly unfair - you won't be aware of them until they have decapitated you - they are generally fastidiously fair in their solution. The persistence of the world and the physics that govern it usually reveal the solution to whatever obstacle you face. This is a game of rehearsing solutions until you find the right one. Equally persistent is the cruelty of the game, which remains undiluted throughout. At one point you catch sight of other young children, evoking Lord of the Flies as they set traps and hurl rocks at you. Ultimately, however, you "win" as you employ one of their dead bodies as a makeshift bridge. Mario, this is not. Perhaps most satisfying about Limbo is that it has an end. In a commercial culture in which value is often directly linked to the longevity of a game's duration ("Over 30 hours of first-person mayhem!"), it is refreshing to be tethered to a complete arc of experience. It's (just) short enough to be played at one sitting, inviting you to play and replay the game in the same way you reread a novel or gather round to watch a favourite film. This isn't simply about discovering more hidden gameplay secrets, but about the richness of the aesthetic experience being more than enough to satisfy repeated plays. Surely that's a sign of real maturity? Iain Simons is director of the GameCity festival. Iain Simons writes, talks and tweets about videogames and technology. His new book, Play Britannia, is to be published in 2009. He is the director of the GameCity festival at Nottingham Trent University. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 23 August 2010 issue of the New Statesman, Pakistan More


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From: "Wendy Mclean" <>
Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] Surname Warden
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:11:23 -0400
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I have the descendants of Samuel Warden and his wife, Nancy Byers. Samuel
was born "probably in County Antrim" in about 1756. He eventually settled
in western Pennsylvania. I have learned throught the Westmoreland County
list that there is actually a place out there called "Wardentown".
This line of Wardens is well documented from Samuel forward, but I have
nothing earlier than 1756. I got most of my data from the Ancestry World
Tree and records within the family. One of Samuel's descendants became
partners with John Rockefeller in Standard Oil.
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Subject: [Sc-Ir] Surname Warden
> Are there any Warden's on this list doing Scotch/Irish research? If so,
> I would appreciate you contacting me and comparing information. I am
> particularly interested in a John, Eleanor (maiden name unknown),
> William and Philip. I only have facts on Philip, born about 1763
> somewhere in Northern Ireland.
> Any collaboration on the Warden family will be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Buel Warden
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The parking was on ground floor and convenient, glad we didn't have to go across the street. WE were able to walk around easily, room was clean but not drop dead gorgeous but nice. Staff VERY friendly and accommodating. I agree with breakfast issue. Reminded me of the free breakfasts at other chains. I would not have paid $13 unless I had a per diem, was hungry and in a hurry.
Beautiful hotel rooms impeccable Service wonderfull I will recomendé to friends and family and will like to go to another in another city
Clean room, very comfortable bed, great location. It was an easy walk to the waterfront and the historic district. I would definitely stay here again. I would have liked a coffeemaker in the room.
I was not aware that the hotel was under construction. It was kid of a mess and I wouldn't have booked a reservation for our anniversary here if o had know that. I was pretty disappointed.
Love the modern rooms Mint scented shampoo
The location is nice Everything else is horrible. Major renovations under way. They even renovate on Sunday's which is horrible. The bed is probably a 2 on a scale of 1-10. Room is small and no parking because you cannot park in the garage
The indoor pool is small , and on the cool side , but it was January.They are under construction,but it was quiet and is in NEED of updating .Clean , staff was super friendly,breakfast cafe is low quality,outdated,had the feel of a motel.Had I not got a great deal on this hotel,I would've been hugely disappointed.My Daughter goes to S.C.A.D ,So I've been to many hotels in the historic center,this is on the bottom of my list of places to stay.
Great location, lovely and helpful staff, clean rooms Half of hotel was undergoing renovation, and while they maintained a fairly clean and quiet atmosphere, walking into a hall rented with plastic and filled with power tools was a bit unsettling. Travelers ought to be advised of such things prior to booking...and given a steeper discount.
The hotel was a really great deal, especially for the quality of hotel. It was a little on the outskirts of the downtown area.
The coffee maker Desk staff rude. Renovation took over the complete hotel - our hallway on 5th floor, temporary lobby nasty, Madison room terrible. Such a hotel should not be charging for a breakfast pastry esp under these conditions. Cleaning staff did not address our room at all. Bed too soft. Live and learn - the hard way
Beautiful hotel, comfortable beds, clean room, and facilities. The location and parking situation is uncomfortable. Check in is too late in the day.
Bed was comfortable and the room was comfortable overall. Was in a room that had a door that adjoined to the next room that seemed very thin. At 5am could hear the people in the adjoining room so clearly it sounded like they were in the room with me. TV remote did not work, and the clock had not been set for the current time. Most hotels will allow a 1hr late checkout . . . Not here! And noticed what appeared to be a small patch of mold in the bathroom.
Location is great. Quiet and secluded, but easy walk to city center. Warm and welcoming staff. Very pleasant gathering room and garden courtyard. Guestrooms somewhat small, but comfortable. On your own for on-street metered (during weekdays) parking.
All the staff was extremely helpful and friendly. The front desk staff seemed to show a genuine interest in our day or plans to come, Kelly always mentioned other ideas or have her view of ours. We will definitely be staying here again.
Kelly who worked at the front desk was so nice and accommodating. She immediately made us feel at home. I will definitely return to the Eliza Thompson House -- such a special place!
absolutely beautiful! great room, comfortable bed, friendly knowledgeable staff. wish the breakfast went a little later we missed out on it sadly
the architecture and the breakfast room was not clean enough. Jacuzzi tub was dirty.
The staff Hotel needs urgent renovation. Now i know why it isn't a relais & chateaux anymore.
I wish that we could've made our checkout time later than 1pm.
Located across street from Civic Center. Even on 5th floor we could hear red light green light traffic all night.
Fairly close to the city market and river street. $5 UBER ride back and forth or about a 4 block walk. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Valet parking only, and it's $18 per day.
Very clean, spacious rooms. the staff with extremely nice and valet was very convenient. The location is perfect for river street and the other tourist spots. This was my first time staying at courtyard Marriott and I will definitely stay again.
Staff We did online check in and they didn't use it
Good location. Lack of details. Towels are old with stains. Seems to be below Mariott standard.
We really liked the walking proximity to everything. If you walk, bring a backpack for water and stuff you buy. The staff was Southern hospitality at it's Savannah best. The hotel was clean and they provided plenty of towels for the pool. For downtown, the rate wasn't bad. The railroad museum, a revolutionary war battlefield, and the Savannah Visitor's Center are right there. I thought there could have been a continental breakfast in there and some clarification on how/where to park would be nice. If you don't do the $18 for valet, then you'll pay about $5 less (a day) for the city parking garage across the street ( it does depend on what part of the week it is for what you pay). There is only one choice of pillow and that's squishy.
old savannah tour was the best
The room was charming, spacious and nice. The bed was comfortable. Breakfast was very good and the staff excellent. If you like a hot shower...you're not getting one here. The water was warm at best. We didn't even turn on the cold side and it was still just warm. The building is old (charming) so you can hear the people above you moving around.
The hotel itself is in a great location. Check-in was easy and parking was not too expensive although there is no self parking. The hotel is definitely old and way overpriced. We understand that it is a Hilton but for the price on a fairly average weekend I could've stayed even closer to downtown and probably had a newer and cleaner room.
The staff was very friendly and helpful. The valet staff was excellent. The room's shower head needed replace and the shower drain was very slow and could not keep up with the shower.
location is great Lobby bathroom was filthy.
Nothing Everything! We booked a king and gave us a double! Hotel was extremley loud could not sleep what so ever!!!!
The bed was comfortable and the room had a nice view. My room was close to the elevator and you could hear the people getting on and off plus the elevator operation vibrated through the walls. Also, the shower head dripped
Great location, had a newly renovated room, quiet stay event though right across from elevators, nice staff at check in, clean hotel, nice bathrooms Smelled like paint and was strong right at first but eventually didn't notice it
Comfortable beds. Nice view. Extra fees for parking. Expensive breakfast buffet that was just average. Maids forgot to leave hand towels and washcloths.


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The team at uencounter.me is getting ready to pitch the site to a group of investors so we've been on a whirlwind of learning the ropes of putting together a pitch deck (a slide presentation) and refining our message. As the idea curator and CEO, this responsibility falls primarily within my job description or in my lap depending on which way you look at it. We've grown enough that we could use more people on the team with experience that would compliment what we have but we are not yet big enough to look at serious funding. Essentially, this 'pitch' will be for practice. The great part of spending (large amounts) of time on this endeavor is that I've been able to generate a more succinct way of describing uencounter.me.
In the beginning when people asked me what the site was about, I would spend a fair amount of time trying to explain how the idea first came about and then verbally move through the elements that were included. I've said before that starting a web-based business has been similar to entering another graduate program and I've learned so much since those first days. Today, my explanation of uencounter.me is simple….
Uencounter.me is the virtual experience of the tried and true concept of the wall and tack maps that allow you to geographically visualize what is important to you, wrapped within the culture of social interaction and collaboration.
That's it; one sentence. The next challenge is to explain who uses uencounter.me. This is a bit more difficult because I cannot think of anyone who does not have any use for a geographic visual of 'something'. In my mind (one that loves geography), everything is more interesting if you can see it on a map! Of course, many of our users are travelers; maps just naturally lend themselves to travel interests. A great number of our users are Genealogists; using the map to plot family migrations and tracking surnames. The fastest growing segments of our user base are businesses. They are mapping customers, business locations, sales, and promotions. There are maps depicting prayer chains, memberships in churches, clubs, and organizations. I personally created a map to help my future daughter-in-law keep track of potential wedding venues – again, something more easily visualized when it is laid out geographically! I could go on and on about the ways that people can keep track of things via a map but I was guided to choose just three areas of interest to present in the pitch deck; a little frustrating when I can think of so many possibilities.
Finally, I am asked to respond to why people will want to use it. I pretty much described that as I talked about who uses it but here I will outline and highlight the social elements that are so heavily woven into the uencounter.me fabric. Uencounter.me was originally conceptualized with the idea of serendipitous discovery in mind; accidently discovering old friends, ancestors, or even business contacts simply based on pins that are entered in the same place representing a common time frame. Maps containing pins of favorite restaurants, sports venues, or activities is a collaborative function between users and offer valuable information to people with similar interests. Uencounter.me does not solve a world problem but it is interesting none-the-less to look at ones' interests based specifically on the basis of geography. Before traveling anywhere, I look at the pins on the map and may post a question to someone who lives or has already been there. I know my personal map will be a treasure to my children or my old mind when it comes time to remember where I lived, or worked, or vacationed. I'm likely to trust a business when I can see the reach it has established.
In my research, I ran across an article that suggested founders share with their readers and users, their vision. This Founder's Reflection blog post is truly just that… a glimpse of what I believe is the description, intent, and value of uencounter.me. I will be attempting to communicate this same message in a couple of weeks when I talk with investors – wish me luck! And… the article also suggested letting our users know when we need something. Uencounter.me will be even more engaging with another 10,000 users! Can you help? Share the site and how you use it with friends and family! Think of what would be interesting to you to see visualized geographically and start a map! Thanks in advance!
Leslyn and the entire UE Team!
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Ok, there's still a little more room in the blawger fantasy baseball league. I'll give it another week, and then I'm going to close it out and get ready for the draft.
So, quit being shy about it. If you want to sign up and I already sent you the info, do it. If I haven't set you the info yet, email me or leave a comment.
My computer was messed up for the past week or two, but it looks like it's fixed now, so I'll try to get the info out asap.


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A page already exists for this weapon, and it should be removed. Grand Theft AJ 23:24, January 30, 2010 (UTC)
Either moved or a redirect to Satchel Charges.--Gta-mysteries 23:28, January 30, 2010 (UTC)


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IMAX France to release The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet pick-up continues IMAX's focus on tailoring programming to specific regions or countries.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, will be the second French language feature to be released by IMAX. It will be released in IMAX cinemas across France, from October 16, with the possibility of extending to other territories.
Sold by Gaumont, it is the second French language film to be released by IMAX following HOUBA! On The Trail Of The Marsupilami. It continues the company's focus on tailoring programming to specific regions or countries.
IMAX is also working on its first Russian local release, Stalingrad and its first local language Indian film, Dhoom 3, later this year.
The Young And Prodigious T.S Spivet is an adaptation of Reif Larsen's novel about a 12-year-old cartographer who embarks on a solo journey from his Montana home to pick up an award at the Smithsonian Institution.
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At the Nashville Comic & Horror Festival, Thanos creator, Jim Starlin talked about what he's read about Thanos in the Marvel movies. But according to ComicBook.com, he also stated that
Jim Starlin revealed that he's working on a top secret project for Marvel Comics. While Jim Starlin couldn't reveal the name of the character that he was working on for Marvel, he did provide some hints.
The new project with Marvel apparently came about while coming to an agreement with Marvel over the use of Thanos in various Marvel Studios movies. Jim Starlin will be both writing and penciling the new project, and Tom Brevoort will be the editor.
Starline also told Sequential Highway;
I've currently got a job I've written for Marvel that's in the pipeline, being drawn. But that's about all I can say about that project presently.
Which might back that up. So…. guesses anyone? This is hoiw they left it last time… from Jim Starlin;
"We were finishing off the sixth issue [of Thanos] and I suggested we do a Warlock series. They said, 'No you can't use Warlock, and in fact you can't use him in 'Thanos' anymore because we are pulling him out to do his own thing.' I suggested that they let me do 'his own thing.' They said, no, we're giving it to someone else… I thought about it over the weekend and I called up Monday and said, you know, this is not cutting it. You're pulling this character (Warlock) out of this book that's selling very well. I know you guys do things differently than we did back then, but this is not right. I can't remember which assistant editor it was, but he said, 'Well if you don't like it, you can quit.' And I said, That's a really good idea. And that was the end of it."
And from Tom Brevoort;
I don't hate Jim Starlin. I've had some disagreements with him, and I think he characterizes my then-assistants Andy Schmidt and Marc Sumerak unfairly and wrongly in his recent book, but that's the extent of my complaints.
And from an old Lying In The Gutters;
"At this point in time I do not see myself working for Marvel on any project. Events, that occurred during my last stint on Thanos, make it difficult for me to even consider such a move…
"This is ancient history, as far as I'm concerned. So all I'll say is that my departure from Marvel involved Adam Warlock, who was appearing as a supporting character in Thanos…
"Yes, I was informed I need to apologize for something I did before I again get any work up at Marvel. But I have no idea what I should apologize for, so…
Maybe he found out?
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Sally Pearson's dream of double gold in Glasgow is over with the track superstar expected to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games 100m sprint.
The Olympic hurdles champion injured a hamstring while training last month and doesn't believe she will be in shape to contest two events at the sporting extravaganza, which starts today with 12 disciplines in action.
And Pearson, who is among the leaders of a 100-strong track and field team, is also seething over Athletics Australia's decision to fine her for not attending a pre-Games training camp.
Pearson, 800m runner Alex Rowe and discus thrower Benn Harradine were sanctioned by the governing body for not joining teammates in Gateshead, instead opting to compete in a major meeting in London.
"I have to bite my tongue a little bit today," said Pearson, who was hit with a $1300 penalty.
"It was disappointing obviously but it is out of my control now.
"I'll be waiting until after the Commonwealth Games to deal with those situations.
"It is a distraction and a distraction that I don't want right now. I'm focusing everything I can on what I can do to win and be in the best shape possible.
"I'm trying not to think about the unfortunate things and I'll be able to speak a bit more clearly after I race."
Officials from AA are adamant the fines won't be withdrawn.
The main reason Pearson wanted to race in London was to test the hamstring she strained early last month.
The Olympic hurdles champion also relished the opportunity to compete with England's Tiffany Porter, her biggest threat to the Glasgow gold when the hurdles campaign starts tomorrow week. The women's 100m starts on Sunday.
However, the recent event, in which Pearson finished second behind her rival, convinced the 27-year-old she wasn't in shape for the flat sprint.
"The latest I can pull out of the 100m if I'm going to is 48 hours before and I think I'm going to leave it to that," Pearson said.
"Right now it is more likely I am going to pull out."
Pearson has been earmarked to supply one of the expected 152 medals for the Australian team in Glasgow.
And Australia could have success from the outset with Emma Moffatt and Emma Jackson strong contenders in the opening event of the Games - the women's triathlon.
Perth cyclist Scott Sunderland will strive tonight for one of the 18 gold medals predicted to come from Sandgropers when he rides in the men's team pursuit at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodome.
"The latest I can pull out of the 100m is 48 hours before it is more likely I am going to " " *Sally Pearson *


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Windows XP supports wireless networking without the need for additional software, as long as you have the latest operating system Service Packs installed. Installing your wireless card on your laptop consists of two main steps, installing your wireless card and configuring your wireless card for AU's wireless network. Most laptops purchased within the last three years will have wireless networking already built-in.
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The Arizona Cardinals have a mascot named Big Red. According to the team's official web site, Big Red was hatched at the 50 yard line on October 4th 1998. He has a wingspan of 7 feet, and prefers to eat birdseed and gummy words.
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Financial planner Marissa Broome has several younger clients who are becoming wealthy without owning a home. Daunted by the big deposits needed to buy Sydney property, they are turning to other investments to generate the wealth they will need to eventually own their own home.
But they are in the minority.
For most people home ownership makes the difference between living from day to day and getting ahead. But it's not four walls and a ceiling they have to thank for it. It is the forced savings discipline imposed by having a mortgage. And a sympathetic tax system doesn't hurt either.
"The returns from housing and alternative investments such as shares are quite similar over the longer term," said Shane Oliver, the chief economist with AMP Capital Investors. "But it's quite common for people to go without other things so that they can pay their mortgage each month. Australians have a good track record of paying off their homes as quickly as they can. The same discipline doesn't apply to other investments."
Dr Oliver has compared the returns from shares and Sydney housing as far back as 1926. He said shares had generated an average return of 11.8 per cent a year in this time (including dividends but not including the tax benefits of franking credits) while Sydney houses had returned an average 12 per cent (including rent).
Over the past 20 years, he said, Australian shares had returned 13.2 per cent. In that period Sydney house prices rose 8.8 per cent a year and returned 11.6 per cent a year allowing for a net rental return.
However Dr Oliver said the lack of reliable data on real estate in Australia made it difficult to compare homes with other investments. In particular, he said, figures on house price growth were not adjusted to account for the money home owners spent improving their homes.
"Back in the 1970s, family homes typically had two bedrooms, a lounge room, one bathroom and maybe a carport," he said. "Now the average home is a mansion by comparison."
Ms Broome said her non-home owning clients were doing things such as borrowing to buy shares and were often generating returns much higher than they could get by owning the average Sydney home. Most planned to buy their dream home later, but in the meantime had an investment that was more liquid and didn't attract the high costs incurred when you bought and sold property.
But even if home ownership doesn't match the returns of other investments, it's given a handy head start because, unlike other investments, it is not subject to capital gains tax.
Over 20 years, if both shares and property grew by 8.8 per cent a year, a $100,000 investment would grow to $540,000. But whereas that would be tax-free in the hands of a home-owner if they decided to sell, a share investor on the 30 per cent marginal tax rate would lose about $70,000 in gains tax.
However Paul Maddock, the general manager for investment and technical services with MLC, said buying a home was not the only tax-effective way to build wealth. He said people who borrowed to invest could claim tax deductions on their interest, while superannuation was taxed concessionally.
Mr Maddock said while most home owners ploughed extra savings into their mortgages, it could pay them to use the money to build investments that could be sold without affecting their lifestyle.


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U.S. Geological Survey names Paul Hsieh '77 Federal Employee of the Year
Paul Hsieh, a research hydrologist with a specialty in underground water reserves, was named 2011 Federal Employee of the Year by the Partnership for Public Service. At an event in Washington, DC, Sept. 15, he was presented with a medal that "recognizes a Federal employee whose professional contributions exemplify the highest attributes of public service."
After the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2011, Hsieh was called upon to weigh whether a cap that had been installed on the well would hold and stop further leakage or rupture beneath the seabed, causing an even greater disaster. After making complex calculations using modeling software and data sent to him via a cell phone picture, he concluded that the cap would hold. Based on his calculations, federal officials left the cap in place and it has held ever since.
"Paul's model provided the confidence for the government team to keep the cap and stack closed," said Rear Adm. Kevin Cook, director of prevention policy, U.S. Coast Guard. "It was a real game changer."
"Paul was the one person who had the piece to the puzzle," Cook added. "He had credibility earned over years as a scientist. I don't think that it could have been done by just anyone."
It was also Hsieh's calculation totaling the oil spillage at 4.9 million barrels that the U.S. government is using as a basis for determining damages.
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The one thing that Republicans learned in the last election is: ignore the polls at your own peril. Most people, especially Republicans, have learned over the last couple of election cycles to that we should probably just ignore polls. They have been told that most Republicans are at work when these polls are taken, that most people feel guilty, and racist, telling a pollster that they don't approve of the nation's first black president, but that when it comes time for them to close the curtains, they'll vote against him. That all turned out to be wrong in 2012, as we now know well, and Republicans learned a valuable lesson from it.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, it could be said, is the most self-destructive politician the world has seen in some time. He's admitted to smoking crack, buying crack, drinking and driving, he's knocked a little old lady down in Toronto's legislature, and he was caught in a presumed drunken stupor threatening to kill someone on video. He has become such a laughing stock, that Toronto's city council stripped him of most of his mayoral power. Yet, even with this laundry list of self-destruction, Mayor Rob Ford is currently polling higher than the president of the United States.
Some could say that with a population of 1,049 people, it's much easier to get relatively decent poll numbers in Toronto than it is in a nation of three hundred plus million. Some could say that Torontonians may find Mayor Rob Ford entertaining, and amiable, and that they're more liberal when it comes to judgment on foibles, drug use, and otherwise unprofessional, destructive behavior. Some could also say that this comparison is entirely unfair, because, the president of the United States is held to a higher standard than any mayor of any city, and that the slightest hiccup can cause Americans to temporarily turn against a president, while a mayor of a city, any city, is defended by loyalists trying to maintain pride in their city. Whatever the case is, the Obama administration should see this fun, or funny, comparison as a barometer requiring action.
Even the most ardent supporter of President Barack Obama would admit that some of the stories that have come out about the administration, since his 2012 re-election, are at least troubling. The administration has seen stories of its IRS attempting to intimidate, and delegitimize, Obama's opponents in the Tea Party, a questionable role of the administration's State Department in the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya, troubling questions about its NSA engaging in widespread snooping, a concern regarding some snooping into the discussions of a Fox reporter named James Rosen, and of course the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Obamacare). Are all of these stories as scandalous as those in blogosphere, talk radio, and some quarters of the national media would have you believe? It's debatable in some cases. What we do know is that a narrative is being built for this administration that has led it to being less popular than the most destructive politician the world has seen in some time.
The president's job approval rating released over the past three weeks, ending on Wednesday, November 20, 2103, show him polling as low as 37% in a CBS survey, and as stated by CNN it is as high in numerous other polls as between 40% and 42%{1}
The drop in Obama's approval rating comes entirely among suburbanites," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Compared to the October CNN poll, positive views of Obama held steady among people who live in big cities and rural areas. But in the suburbs, his approval rating was 45% a month ago but has dropped to just 37% now."
A poll released on November 22, 2013 Toronto May Rob Ford has the approval of 42 percent of 1,049 Toronto voters surveyed by Forum Research.{2}
It's a fun comparison, but not an apt one," Tobe Berkovitz, an associate professor of advertising at Boston University, told Newsmax. "It's a contrast that does a disservice to the level of popularity of Barack Obama," he added. "It's basically saying that a clown hasn't fallen as low in public opinion polls as the president of the United States."
Studies on polling dictate that most people are conformists, and that they will give a pollster an opinion that they believe the pollster wants to hear, that makes the person being polled appear intelligent, informed, and compassionate to the pollster. For this reason, among others, some politicians ignore polls. Some believe that all polls are relatively temporary, and that with the fickle nature of the American public, it doesn't take much to get poll numbers back up. Others state that a politician, in our Republic, is a representative, and that the people elected him to represent them based upon a general listing of the politician's views, with the understanding that that politician is not going to change his opinions based on temporary polls.
With that in mind, Tobe Berkowitz stated that the rollout of Obamacare is at the heart of the low approval ratings. The conclusion that the reader of Berkowitz's statement is left with is that once Obamacare, and the Healthcare.gov website, are fixed those approval ratings will go right back where they belong. Possibly, those of us on the outside are forced to admit, but if this ineffective rollout hadn't been preceded by all those stories/scandals listed above, would the American public have given him low poll numbers in the first place?
If those prior stories hadn't littered the news, and begun to illustrate something of a narrative for this administration, many of us believe Obama could've played the role of the victim in the negative news Obamacare is receiving, and he probably would've gotten away with it. He could've said, I'm just the figurehead, and I know nothing about building websites. He could've said, I thought we hired the right tech guys for the job. He could've said, we've talked to them, and this will get fixed. He could've rightly said that any that have paid attention to his modus operandi would tell you that I'm a delegator, and I can't possibly hope to control a body of people as large as the federal government. He could tell you that most of the blame for the ineffective rollout is the fault of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius. If he did that, however, he would have to lay the blame for Fast and Furious, and the James Rosen scandal, at attorney general Eric Holder's feet, the IRS scandal at IRS official Lois Lerner's feet, and the NSA scandal at the feet of General Keith Alexander. If Obama started down that road, he would also have to answer for the fact that most of those apparently inept, incompetent, and possibly corrupts officials were appointed by him. If he started down that road, and claimed he was simply a figurehead, he would leave the impression that he is leading a chaotic administration of his own making.
Anytime you speak of polling, you have to account for the fact that Americans are volatile, high-minded, low-minded, fickle, and forgiving. What appears to be an outright catastrophe one month, can appear glowing and rosy the next. Americans love to tear down authority, celebrity, and any high-profile figure, until they feel more comfortable with them. After that tear-down is complete, Americans often take a step back from the story, re-evaluate, and turn forgiving, and reach a point where they're cheering on the resultant "comeback kid" story.
As Berkowitz says:
You'd be a fool to "think that there's not chance that Obama is going to recover — that he's down and out," Berkovitz cautioned. "The real question is, if he recovers, when, and will it be before the 2014 congressional elections?"
If Obamacare is "at the heart of Obama's low approval ratings" as Berkowitz suggests, will moving it back until after the 2014 mid-term elections prove to lift Obama's approval ratings, and thus the chances of Democrats in 2014? Will taking Obamacare off the table as an issue in the 2014 mid-term, delete it as an issue, or will it only give power to the speculation of its failings?
Most politicians would tell you that the speculation of pain is often far more powerful than the realization of it. Particularly, they would tell you, when that speculation is directed at the pocketbook, and the speculative loss of financial freedom? This speculation, if the Republicans engage in it, will also be founded in the number of stories we've already heard of people that have lost their insurance policies, the premium and deductible increases, and the number of stories of doctors opting out. How much more speculation can be drummed up by individual politicians telling old people that young people won't be signing up for Obamacare, and thus paying for their healthcare? How much more speculation can be drummed up on Obamacare's effect on the debt, the future of young Americans, and the effects Obamacare might have on America's future overall? As opposed to what most politicians in Washington may be thinking, it might actually work out better for Democrats if the pain of Obamacare is fully implemented, and the pain is fully inflicted on them, and the nation, than the speculation that can be drummed up about it.
At this point, Obama has done everything he could to minimize the pain Obamacare could have on Democrats, he's delayed the Act, given waivers for it, redefined it, attempted to meet with members of the media to have them help in the rebranding of it, attempted to demonize dissenters and insurance companies that speak out against it, and anything and everything but fix it with any true resolve. It may be fun to compare Obama's current poll numbers to one of the most self-destructive politicians the world has known in some time, as Tobe Berkowitz says, but it should also be a big red beacon in the night for the administration to heed. Republicans didn't heed such warnings in 2012, and they learned that some of the times the tide rolling back in isn't as regular as it is in nature. Some of the times, the tide doesn't come back, until it's much too late.
{1} http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/21/obama-approval-rating-sinks-to-new-low-in-cnn-poll/