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Spanish language in the Philippines
Spanish is a language that was imposed in the Philippines. Spanish was used as required under King Philip, and it remained so for over four centuries (1565-1987). Following the Philippine-American War (1899-1903) the First Philippine Republic was abolished and the US forces implemented and imposed English as the language of education and government, leaving Spanish and Tagalog as co-official, then Spanish later being abolished in 1987.
There are thousands of Spanish loan words in 170 Philippine languages, and around 13 million Spanish documents in the Philippine archives. Courts of law still recognize documents written in Spanish. However, the language is no longer commonly spoken in the country. According to the 1990 census, there are 2,658 fluent Spanish speakers and 607,200 creole (Chavacano) speakers in the Philippines. A 2006 study conducted by the Instituto Cervantes Manila and the Consejería de Educación de la Embajada de España (English: Education Council, Embassy of Spain), in coordination with the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española (English: Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language) produced a higher figure - 2.9 million Spanish speakers including non-native speakers - but this constitutes only a small minority in a country of more than 85 million citizens.
In recent years there has been growing interest in the Spanish language throughout the country, including re-establishing a sense of nationalism amongs the Filipino people and also a large demand in business process outsourcing in the Philippines, where businesees are seeking to employ fluent Spanish speakers in the country. In some universities, including the University of Santo Tomás in Manila and the University of San Carlos in Cebú, Spanish is a required 3 unit subject.
The Spanish colonial era
Spanish was first introduced to the Philippines in 1565, when the conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi founded the first Spanish settlement on the island of Cebú. The Philippines, ruled from Mexico City was a Spanish territory for 333 years (1565-1898).
Although the language was never compulsory while under Spanish colonial rule, and its learning was in fact discouraged or explicitly prohibited from the natives by the Spanish colonial authorities, Spanish was at one time spoken by around 10% of the population. It was the first and only language of the Spanish and Filipino-Spanish mestizos minority, and the second but most important language of the educated native Ilustrados. The stance of the Roman Catholic Church and its missionaries was also to preach to the natives in local languages, and not in Spanish. The priests and friars preached in local languages and employed indigenous peoples as translators, creating a bilingual class known as ladinos. The natives, generally were not taught Spanish, but the bilingual individuals, notably poet-translator Gaspar Aquino de Belén, produced devotional poetry written in the Roman script in the Tagalog language. Pasyon is a narrative of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ begun by Gaspar Aquino de Belén, which has circulated in many versions. Later, the Spanish ballads of chivalry, the corrido, provided a model for secular literature. Verse narratives, or komedya, were performed in the regional languages for the illiterate majority.
A reason that Spanish did not expand as much as it did in the Americas is attributed to the fact that the archipelago was not a direct colony of Spain, but instead was administered from Mexico City (in what was then New Spain) thereby lessening the possibility of large scale Spanish migration to the Philippines. Another reason is the large distance separating Spain from the Philippines as compared to the Americas. Yet another is the actual population of Spaniards in Philippines was believed to be quite less than that of the Americas.
In 1593, the first printing press was founded. A great portion of the colonial history of the Philippines is written in Spanish. Up until recently, many land titles, contracts, newspapers and literature were still written in Spanish, and though it is no longer an official language legal documents in Spanish are still recognised in Filipino courts of law.
The Universidad de Santo Tomás, the oldest educational institution, was inaugurated in 1611 and continues to this day as the property of both Spain and the Roman Catholic church. Hence, the words "royal" and "pontifical" are part of the university's official title.
In 1863, Queen Isabel II of Spain decreed the establishment of a public school system.
A 17th century book to learn Castilian
In the early seventeenth century a Tagalog printer, Tomás Pinpin, set out to write a book in romanized phonetic script to teach Tagalogs how to learn Castilian. His book, published by the Dominican press where he worked, appeared in 1610, the same year as Blancas's arte. Unlike the missionary's grammar (which Pinpin had set in type), the Tagalog native's book dealt with the language of the dominant rather than the subordinate other. Pinpin's book was the first such work ever written and published by a Philippine native. As such, it is richly instructive for what it tells us about the interests that animated Tagalog translation and, by implication, Tagalog conversion in the early colonial period. Pinpin construed translation in ways that tended less to oppose than to elude the totalizing claims of Spanish signifying conventions.
The role of Spanish in rising nationalism
Spanish is a language of historical importance. Propagandists during the Spanish era spread nationalism through Spanish. Noli Me Tangere and La Solidaridad and other material in awakening nationalism, were written in Spanish. The country's first constitution was written in Spanish. The constitution proclaimed Spanish as an official language. According to Horacio de la Costa, nationalism would not have been possible without Spanish. It is through Spanish that natives became aware of nationalistic ideas and independence movements in other countries.
During the Spanish colonial era, and also through the early American period, Philippine nationalism, government reforms, the country's first constitution and historic novels were written in Spanish. While not widely understood by the majority of the population, Spanish at this time was nonetheless the unifying language since Tagalog was not as prominent or ubiquitous as it is today and each region had their own culture and language, and would rather speak in their local languages. Denizens of each region thought of themselves as Ilocano, Cebuano, Bicolano, et cetera, and not as Filipinos.
Throughout the colonial era the term "Filipino" originally referred to only the Filipino-born Spaniards and Filipino mestizos; while Malay natives (who were derogatively referred to as Indios) referred to them as 'Castila' or 'Cachila'.
The Ilustrados or "The Enlightened Ones", which included Philippine-born Spaniards, certain Mestizos, Sangleys (or Chinese mestizos) and prominent Malays, were the educated elite who promoted and propagated nationalism and a modern Filipino consciousness. The unifying force is primary reasons historians say that the Spanish authorities did not want to promote the language.
José Rizal propagated Filipino consciousness and identity in Spanish. One material highly instrumental in developing nationalism was the novel Noli Me Tangere (Latin for "Do not touch me") which exposed abuses of the Spanish government and clergy. Rizal of course, wrote in Tagalog also and did promote Tagalog. However, the majority of his works are in Spanish.
The novel Noli Me Tangere's very own notoriety among the Spanish authorities, government and clergy, propelled its popularity even more among Filipinos. Reading it was forbidden because it exposed and parodied Spanish clergy and government authority.
The American era
With the era of the Philippines as a Spanish colony having just ended, a considerable amount of media, newspapers, radios, government proceedings, education, etc. were still in Spanish. Ironically, the public school system the Americans established served to further promote Spanish-language literacy among the masses. Even in the early 20th century a hegemony of Spanish was still in force.
Although English had begun to be heavily promoted and used as the medium of education and government proceedings, the majority of Spanish literature by native Filipinos was produced at this time. Among the great Filipino literary writers of the period were Fernando Ma. Guerrero, Rafael Palma, Cecilio Apóstol, Jesús Balmori, Manuel Bernabé, Trinidad Pardo de Tavera and Teodoro M. Kalaw.
This explosion of Spanish language literature occurred because the upper class minority were educated in Spanish. For the first time, Filipinos experienced a greater degree of freedom of expression and even support, since the Spanish authorities weren't too receptive to Filipino writers and intellectuals during the colonial period. As a result, Spanish became the most important language in the country despite that the majority was comprised of non-Spanish speaking natives.
The new Philippine Republic established Spanish as the official language in the constitution of 1898, drawn up during he Constitutional Convention in Malolos, Bulacán. The language was then free to be taught and learned by all the natives, and not just by the select few. Its officialisation was in an attempt to increase its speakers so it would serve as a common language in a nation of over 80 different local languages, each with its many dialects
In his 1899 book "Yesterdays in the Philippines", the American John Early Stevens wrote: Spanish, of course, is the court and commercial language and, except among the uneducated native who have a lingua of their own or among the few members of the Anglo-Saxon colony, it has a monopoly everywhere. No one can really get on without it, and even the Chinese come in with their peculiar pidgin variety. (Page 11).
While the 1903 census officially reported the number of Spanish-speakers at only 1% of the population, it only considered those who were monolingual in the language and had Spanish as their one and only tongue, ie. Peninsulares (Spanish-born Spaniards), Insulares (Filipino-born Spaniards), and other Europeans (Filipino-born, Spanish-speaking Italian families, among others). It completely disregarded the bilingual Spanish-mestizo and multilingual Chinese-mestizo and Chinese minorities who - although spoke two or more languages - utilised Spanish as their primary language of business and culture. Furthermore, the native-Filipino illustrado class, who were academically instructed in the Spanish language, also used Spanish as their primary language despite having any one of the many native languages as their mother tongue. These together would have placed the numbers at 10% of the 8 million Filipinos of that era as Spanish-speakers.
The 1916 report by Henry Ford to President Woodrow Wilson says
- ...as I travelled through the [Philippine] Islands, using ordinary transportation and mixing with all classes of people under all conditions. Although based on the school statistics it is said that more Filipinos speak English than any other language, no one can be in agreement with this declaration if they base their assessment on what they hear...
- Spanish is everywhere the language of business and social intercourse...In order for anyone to obtain prompt service from anyone, Spanish turns out to be more useful than English...And outside of Manila it is almost indispensable. The Americans who travel around all the islands customarily use it.
In 1924, the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language was created. In 1936, Filipino films in Spanish began to be produced.
Decline of the Spanish language
Nevertheless, the disbanding of the Philippine Republic after the Philippine-American War, which cancelled the constitutional decree that established Spanish as the official language in the country, proved a turning point in the popularity of the language. Spanish has been in decline since then, because the Americans gradually pursued an aggressive campaign of de-Hispanicisation and promotion of English as a universal language which has resulted in the loss of Spanish as the major language of commerce and government. As Spanish was substituted by English as the language of education and government, the number of Spanish speakers steadily declined. The bombardment of Intramuros by US warplanes during World War II, also reduced the number of Spanish speakers significantly.
After World War II and during the Marcos regime, many of the centuries old Spanish-speaking families of Philippines migrated to Spain, Latin America and the United States. By 1940 the number of Spanish-speakers in the Philippines was approximately 6 million, however, as a percentage of the total population the numbers had actually dropped. By the 1950 Census Spanish-speakers constitued 6% of the population, down from a 10% peak. However, down through the 1960s and 1970s, Filipinos were still being exposed to the Spanish language through print and audiovisual media even before they learned to speak Filipino or English.
Spanish was abolished as a compulsory school subject in 1968 and as an official language in 1973.
The state of Spanish today
Today, Spanish is only used for cultural heritage purposes and on an optional basis.
The 1990 Census found that the language was spoken by less than 0.1% of the population; 2,658 speakers (1990 Census), though recently there seems to have been a resurgence in interest in the language among educated youth as seen in recent survey by the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española (English: Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language), which showed that there were roughly 2,900,000 Spanish speakers in the Philippines (as a first, second, third, or fourth language) in 2006. The language is maintained mostly by mestizo families, and thousands of people around the country, particularly in the province of Cebú and in the cities of Zamboanga and Bacolod. The Philippine President, Gloria Arroyo is a member of the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language. Furthermore, certain universities, most especially the University of Santo Tomás in Manila, a Spanish Royal University, and the University of San Carlos in Cebú, requires its students to take up at least 3 units of Spanish.
Debate over the status of Spanish
The propagation and/or imposition of Spanish as an official language is still in heavy dispute. On one side, much of the history and culture is embedded in the language. There are an estimated 13 million manuscripts from the 16th century to 1898 which include government documents, economics, trade disputes, legal matters, patriotic material, religious material, registrations etc. Up to the 1960s, birth certificates were printed in both English and Spanish. There is still a very strong need to translate a great number of historical documents.
Spanish is viewed by some as representing colonization and has less relevance than English for practical usage or Filipino in terms of nationalism. However, Spanish was used by the first Filipino patriots like Jose Rizal, Andrés Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo, who chose Spanish as the national language of independent Philippines. Spanish was used to write the country's first constitution, Constitución Política de Malolos, the original national anthem, (Himno Nacional Filipino), as well as nationalistic propaganda material and literature, like Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere. Indeed, Philippine nationalism was first propagated in the Spanish language and for these reasons many believe Spanish should be considered a national language.
Manila is home to the main East Asian branch of the Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish government's official overseas institute for the promotion of Spanish language. The Spanish language enjoys popularity as a language of choice for learning a foreign language among new generations of young Filipinos.
Proposals for reinstatement
In recent years, there has been some increased interest in the Spanish language. Also, there is a growing demand in the Philippine call-center industry for fluent Spanish speakers.
Recently, the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines, composed of Philippine local government adminisrators, appealed to Philippine President Gloria Arroyo to enforce the requirement of Spanish in the curriculum of all schools and colleges (both public and private) throughout the country. If Arroyo agrees with the plan, this will soon pave the way for the re-establishment of Spanish as one of the country's official languages and possibly, one of its national languages alongside Filipino and English.
Guardia Civil
The city of Ozamiz announced plans to recommission the Guardia Civil, who will be required to take Spanish language courses and whose first task will be to guard a local 250-year-old fortress.
Spanish as is used in the Philippines
Since the Philippines was administered by New Spain (Mexico) rather than Spain itself during the colonial period, the Spanish language spoken in the Philippines had a greater affinity to Mexican Spanish (ie. Spanish as spoken in Mexico) rather than that of European Spanish (as spoken in Spain) and indigenous Philippine languages. Nowadays, however, there is a strong tendency among newer generations of speakers (i.e. those learning the language) to conform with European Spanish grammar (use of vosotros forms), phonology (pronouncing z and soft c as [θ]; however, see section on Phonology below), and vocabulary, due to the strong presence of the Spanish media and the Instituto Cervantes. Despite this, variations primarily in pronunciation and intonation abound.
When pronouncing Spanish words (such as names of people or places), there are tendencies among the majority non-Spanish-speaking population to:
- Stress words differently than would Spanish speakers,
- Raise the mid vowels /o/ and /e/,
- Insert a glottal stop [/] before stressed syllable-initial vowels,
- Palatalise (or affricate) alveolar sounds when they appear before [j],
- Seseo, as in Latin America and Andalusia (where the tendency originated from). The modern European Castilian phoneme IPA /θ/ as in ciento, caza (interdental voiceless fricative, like English th in thin) does not exist in traditional Philippine Spanish nor in any native Philippine language; it combined with /s/ as in siento, casa,
- Pronounce d as [d] in all positions,
- Pronounce g as [g] in all positions,
- Pronounce both b and v as [b] or differentiate between the two, resulting in v sounding as in English,
- Pronounce z as [z],
- Pronounce sce and sci as [se] and [si] respectively,
- Not distinguish between r and rr,
- Pronounce the h,
- Pronounce au as [o],
- Pronounce eu as [ju],
- Pronounce sr as [sr] or [zr] ,
- Pronounce final m as [m].
Ll is invariably pronounced as [ʎ].
There are Latin Americanisms, archaisms and borrowings from indigenous Philippine languages. In fact, of the great number of Spanish loan words that exist in the various Filipino languages, a few are actually of Nahuatl origin that were first incorporated into Mexican Spanish, and which do not exist in European Spanish. These include nanay(nantl), tatay(tatle), bayabas [from guayaba(s), guava], abokado (avocado), papaya, zapote, etc.
Diacritic marks are almost always left out, save for the tilde on the ñ. Spanish words however are vocally stressed as they would be by Spanish speakers, by older generations and an increasing number of younger Filipinos.
Philippine computer keyboards currently and have always used the US standard layout, which includes neither ñ nor combining diacritics. Typewriters sometimes include the ñ but not accented vowels.
Influence on the languages of the Philippines
There are approximately 4,000 Spanish words in Tagalog, and around 6,000 Spanish words in Visayan and other dialects. The Spanish counting system, calendar, time, etc are still in use with slight modifications. Archaic Spanish words have been preserved in Tagalog and the other vernaculars such as pera (coins), sabon [jabón (at the beginning of Spanish rule, the j used to be pronounced as [ʃ], the voiceless postalveolar fricative or the "sh" sound) - soap], relos [reloj (with the j sound) - watch], kwarta (cuarta), etc. The Spaniards and the language were referred to as either Kastila or Katsila (especially in most Visayan languages) after Castilla, the Spanish name of the Spanish region of Castile.
Chabacano, also called Zamboangueño, is a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Philippines. Chabacano is concentrated mostly in the South, in the provinces of Zamboanga, with some speakers found in Cavite. As a large number of workers to build military and other Spanish establishments in Zamboanga and other areas in the South, were imported from different linguistic regions, Chavacano developed as a lingua franca.
Meaning changes
While many Spanish words have made their way to Philippine languages, many of these words have had a shift in meaning from the original Spanish. This has resulted in false friends, related words that exist in two languages with different meanings. A sampling of these words are shown below:
|Meaning in the Philippines
|Original Spanish word
|Spanish meaning
|denotes past tense
|already, now
|Tagalog, Chabacano, Cebuano, Ilokano, Hiligaynon
|secure, stable, sure
|Tagalog, Chabacano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon
|of course
|Hiligaynon, Cebuano, Chabacano
|firm, steady
|Tagalog, Chabacano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon
|as long as
|basta ; hasta
|enough!, stop!; until
|spirit causing temporary madness(originally elemental spirit from the earth)
|impact, shock
|maske, maski
|Tagalog, Chabacano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon
|even if
|por más que/ más que
|as much as; even if; even then;/more than
|toilet, outhouse
|Tagalog, Cebuano, Chabacano, Ilokano
|toilet, toilet seat, to excrement
|squares, cube, hut
|Lamierda, lamyerda
|paint the town red
|la mierda
|the shit
|Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano
|group of friends
|Tagalog, Cebuano
|to play, to gamble
|Tagalog, Cebuano
|fluffy bread
|mamón (de "mamar"), mamón (de "mamas")
|suckle (from mamar "to suckle") mammary glands (as in the English word "mammaries")
|silver coin; pear
|Tagalog, Cebuano
|to serve
|Tagalog, Cebuano
|snobbish, snooty, stubborn(child), brat
|Tagalog, Cebuano
|contra vida
|against life
|Tagalog, Cebuano
|clothes cabinet
False cognates
The following words do not fall under false friends and their similarity is purely coincidental. They are still a source of confusion:
|Meaning in the Philippines
|Similar Spanish word
|Spanish meaning
|Tagalog, Ilocano
|house lady,also:He or She loves
|ground, earth
|magnifying glass
|Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilonggo
|Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Ilonggo
|a type of rice cake
|man-whore, homosexual (derogatory)
|Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilonggo
|pungent, smelly
|low, short
|to say
|to know
|Kasí, kasé
List of Spanish words of Philippine origin
Although the greatest linguistic impact and wordloans have been from Spanish to the languages of the Philippines, the Filipino languages have also loaned some words to Spanish.
Following are some of the words of Philippine origin that can be found in the DRAE (the dictionary published by the Royal Spanish Academy):
- abacá
- baguio (from bagyo), typhoon/hurricane
- barangay
- bolo, a big knife or short sword
- carabao
- caracoa, small barge
- cogón, a grass
- gumamela, a flower
- paipay, a kind of fan
- palay, unhusked rice
- pantalán, wooden pier
- sampaguita, a flower
- yoyó
See also
- Hispanic culture in the Philippines
- Spanish-Filipinos
- Diglossia in the Philippines
- Latin Union
- Chavacano language
- Spanish language
- Literature of the Philippines
- Black Legend
- Language shift
- About History:
- About Philippine Spanish
- Spanish in the Philippines, by Ian Mackenzie
- Philippine Spanish Literature by Professor Resil Mojares
- Chabacano, Spanish and the Philippine Linguistic Identity, by John M. Lipski
- About the influence on the languages of the Philippines
- Others:
External links
- Instituto Cervantes Manila, Philippines branch of the Spanish government agency devoted to the study the teaching of Spanish language and culture
- Círculo Hispanofilipino, group which aims to preserve and revive the use of the Spanish language in the Philippines
- Semanario de Filipinas, Philippines news and information to the Spanish-speaking audience, but from a Philippines point of view
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Cheat Sheet Q&A:
Today's topic: Choosing between different types of investments
Here's the entry:
Brian, I am a husband, and a proud father of two. I have spent the last 10 years paying off medical debt, credit card debt, and chipping away at my student loans, all while trying to be the provider of the household. Kids aren't cheap!
Through our struggles, my wife and I have managed to buy a house in 2011, create a Will, set up Life Insurance, and create a 'rainy day' fund. I now have a better paying job and my wife has since started her own successful business. With this increase in gross income, my wife and I have focused our attention towards retirement planning and have contributed roughly 10% each towards IRAs and 401Ks for the last two years. I am interested in investing in the Stock Market to add another vehicle to our portfolio. So here is my question(s) assuming our income-stream stays constant…
A) Should we work towards contributing more to the IRA/401Ks to try and max for the year? or...
B) Start investing in the stock market?--I recall you referring some good reading materials; however, I can't seem to locate them. I have a very basic understanding of the stock market and need more fundamental knowledge to feel comfortable. And if so, what is a decent monetary amount to have in the bank to start with? or…
C) Is there another retirement vehicle that you may suggest or way of keeping our portfolio well-rounded given our age?
Bottom Line: Before we get started… Congrats! You timed the housing market perfectly. You've been paying off debt. You've been saving and investing. That's all outstanding! So let's get started.
I'll take the last question first. The two best performing investment classes historically are the stock and housing markets. Given that you're young and you already own your home; I'd stay with stocks for additional investment income. As for the stock investment vs. IRA/401k questions…
The odds are that you are investing in the stock market via your IRA and 401k investments. Unless you've selected investing in a bond fund or money market option in your 401k, all of the other options are going to be stock based investments; the same is most likely true of your IRA based investments as well. So that's where you should start. Figure out what you're actually invested in currently and where your new contributions are going. You should be able to talk to a representative from the administrator of your 401k and an investment advisor from the company who holds your IRA. Once you have a better grasp of those investments you'll then weigh access vs. taxes.
Generally speaking I'd suggest you max out your 401k first, prior to investing additional money in a traditional and taxable investment account. Let's compare the two types.
The advantages of an IRA and 401k account:
· In a 401k account you get to invest gross proceeds and don't have to pay taxes on gains until you withdraw money in retirement
· In a traditional IRA you get a tax deduction for your contributions in each year you make them and you don't have to pay taxes on investment gains until you withdraw money in retirement
· In a Roth IRA you don't ever have to pay taxes on investment gains even when you withdraw money in retirement
The disadvantage of these retirement accounts:
· You can't withdraw money prior to age 59.5 without significant penalties and potential tax consequences
The advantage of a traditional (taxable) investment account:
· Access to your money at any time without penalty
The disadvantage of a traditional investment account:
· Any investment (capital) gains you realize along with dividends and interest accrued are taxable events in the year and each year they occur
So it comes down your vision of what your near, medium and long terms needs are and what you expect them to be. I keep a majority of my investable free cash flow allocated to retirement accounts (IRA's and 401k allocations) with about a third of it going to a general taxable investment account for example.
In terms of reading material… Here are two places to begin:
- The Motley Fool "You Have More Than You Think: The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance"
This particular Motley Fool book, which was released in 2001, is good for you to evaluate your current financial situation, create plan (including debt elimination) and to begin to invest. It's easy to read, fun in presentation and full of good information.
- "Beating the Street"
Beating the Street was written in 1994 by legendary investor Peter Lynch. While much has changed in the investment world in 20 years the principals he outlines are complete relevant. Among important topics covered: How/when to buy and sell (the most difficult decision an investor has to make). What types of companies to invest in as you're getting started. He also discusses some personal philosophy such as investing in companies with low debt, etc. that are mostly consistent with my philosophies regarding investing.
I hope that's helpful & best wishes to you and your family!
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It's not just for a car... There is a new home premium as well:
Bottom Line: We all know that there is a price you pay when you buy a new vehicle. I'm not referring to whatever the purchase price is… I'm talking about the instant depreciation that occurs the moment you drive your vehicle off the lot. When buying a home I don't think people look at accepting significant and instant depreciation but they should.
From the National Association of Realtors – 40% of all interested home buyers want a new home and home builders are taking advantage of the opportunity. I don't blame home builders at all for getting as much as they can for their newly built homes. The surviving home builders went years without turning a profit and see an opportunity to put themselves on solid financial footing given the high demand for new construction. That being said the premiums that are being charged are the largest I've seen and it doesn't represent good relative value.
· The average existing home price right now: $198,500
· The average new home price: $290,000
More directly to the point… There is a new minimum premium that's being built into new home construction. Home builders are pricing at a minimum of 20% above the comparable existing home prices in similar communities. On the average home sold that's about a $50,000 premium! In other words you're in essence taking a 20% of so hit on your home the moment you close on it, not unlike driving off of a car lot with a new car. The numbers are clearly just bigger. Instead you may consider buying a like existing home and doing a little home renovation with some newer touches. That would likely be a much better value.
Audio Report:
GM's unadvertised best pricing available for new vehicles:
Bottom Line: The best pricing that is ever offered from General Motors is their employee pricing. Allegedly it's significantly below invoice price and below wholesale cost. If you own a GM vehicle that is part of the myriad of recall notices issued this year you likely have an opportunity to buy a new GM vehicle at employee pricing. GM is not advertising this but they are sending notices out to owners of recalled vehicles indicating the employee pricing option. So if you want a new car and have one of these recalled cars keep an eye out of the notice and/or touch base with your GM dealer of choice to see about getting the best possible price on your next car.
Audio Report:
If you want to upgrade to a new iPhone… wait … at least for a day or two:
Bottom Line: Part of me feels guilty for even passing along a rumor, except that it looks like Apple is gearing up for a big promotion and you shouldn't have to wait long to find out what it is.
Apple has raised it's in store inventory of iPhones and accessories and are rambling up staffing over the next week in much the same way they do with a new iPhone release. Now the iPhone 6 likely isn't going to be ready until late summer so it appears as though they're getting ready to blowout a bunch of iPhone 5C's and 5S's. So it's worth waiting, at least a day or two, to see what Apple is gearing up for at their Apple stores before buying a new product.
Audio Report:
What we can all learn from a recent promotional experiment:
Bottom Line: The popular food service for college campuses "Mr. Delivery" conducted a promotion and simultaneous experiment on Cinco De Mayo that I think is very instructive. They sent out a coupon for 10% off delivery service on Monday. They also included an additional four lines of fine print (smaller font just below the 10% of offer code). In the "fine print" they included another offer code for 15% off. So of the coupons redeemed on Monday how many do you think were at the 15% off level?
Only 12% used the 15% off code. 88% of customers used the 10% off which means they didn't even bother reading through the additional four lines in smaller font. There's a lesson in here. How often to we sign a contract without reading fine print. Download programs with seeing what's in there. Opening accounts, etc. Who knows what we are missing because we only absorb what's fast and easiest. We should all take the extra moment or two to truly take in the fine print. Especially when we're signing contracts…
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text: Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW) today announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement for the acquisition of Sagemcom's machine-to-machine (M2M) business. Sierra Wireless has submitted a binding offer to acquire substantially all of the assets of the business for €44.9 million in cash consideration plus assumed liabilities. The proposed acquisition remains subject to completion of the consultation process with employee representatives. This process is expected to commence immediately and, when complete, Sagemcom will be able to enter into a definitive agreement with Sierra Wireless. The companies expect this to occur in the third quarter. Sagemcom, a leading French high-technology group active in broadband, telecom, energy, and document management, was an early entrant in the M2M market. The company has successfully built a growing M2M franchise that includes 2G and 3G wireless modules, as well as industry-leading rugged terminals for GSM-Railway (GSM-R) applications. Sagemcom M2M offers Sierra Wireless a significantly enhanced market position in key segments, including payment, transportation, and railways, as well as new geographical expansion into Brazil. "Combining Sagemcom's M2M business with Sierra Wireless is a unique opportunity for us to enter new markets and bolster our leadership in wireless M2M communications," said Jason Cohenour, President and CEO of Sierra Wireless. "With a strong market position in key segments, a culture of innovation, and experienced teams based in Paris and Shenzhen, Sagemcom M2M is an ideal fit for Sierra Wireless." Sagemcom's M2M business generated approximately €39.9 million in revenue and was solidly profitable during the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2011. Sierra Wireless plans to fund the purchase price out of cash reserves and the acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to Non-GAAP earnings. More detailed financial information will be provided when Sierra Wireless presents its second quarter results on August 2. Conference Call, Webcast and Instant Replay Details Sierra Wireless President and CEO, Jason Cohenour, and CFO, David McLennan, will host a conference call and webcast with analysts and investors to review the announcement on Monday, June 18, 2012, at 8:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (5:00 AM PST). A live slide presentation will be available for viewing during the call from the link provided below.


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Data allowance
Broadband without phone line limits on data and downloads
Choosing the right download limit
Exceeding your download limit
A download limit is the amount of data you can access on the Internet every month. It is sometimes also referred to as a data allowance.
The choices available vary between providers, and between the type of broadband without phone line you choose. Mobile broadband, for example, has far more restrictive download limits than cable broadband, which is unlimited.
Below we give an idea of the type of usage you can expect with the various download limits available. The advice in summary, however, is to purchase the option with as much data as your budget allows.
We make this recommendation because of one of the biggest trends on the Internet at the moment is watching television and films online. This covers everything from catching up on television via the BBC iPlayer, to watching films on services like Lovefilm, to allowing your children to watch episodes of Peppa Pig via Youtube on your iPad.
Another big trend on the Internet is online gaming, which is another type of usage that uses a lot of data.
Things like browsing websites, sending and receiving emails and using social networking sites are not heavy on data. Nor is downloading music heavy on data. If you are sure these sorts of things are all you will be using the Internet for any of the options featured and reviewed on Broadband Without Phone Line will be suitable, with the exception of the very low data options available from some of the mobile broadband providers.
Choosing the right download limit
Below is a guide detailing the different download limits that are available when choosing broadband without phone line.
An unlimited data limit offers great peace of mind, as there is no risk of being charged more for exceeding a limit. This is the ideal choice if you plan to watch films, television or play online games. Prices for unlimited packages are also coming down, so excellent deals are available. Unlimited data limits are available on all broadband without phone line options - cable broadband, satellite broadband and mobile broadband.
One thing to be aware of is fair usage policies. Unlimited data means you there is no limit on how much data you can access. However the broadband providers feel they have to have a caveat to this to protect themselves against those who use the Internet for dubious purposes, particularly heavy (and usually illegal) file sharers. They do this via fair usage policies, which in effect apply a data limit on unlimited packages. These limits are usually set very high so will not be reached by the vast majority of genuine Internet users, even those who use the Internet very regularly. If, however, fair usage policies are breached, the penalty is usually a limitation on your broadband, rather than an extra charge on your bill. This limitation typically involves slowing down your broadband speed.
12 GB to 16 GB
This option will be suitable for most active Internet users. If all you did on the internet was stream television or watch films, you could watch for about 1 hour 30 minutes per day with 12GB to 16GB of data per month. This would also be suitable for moderate online gamers. Things like using Facebook or downloading music on iTunes are all easily covered by this level of download limit.
8GB to 10GB
Data limits of 8GB to 10GB will give you 45 minutes of video streaming every day, a lot less than the options above. This level of data is suitable for occasional online gamers and for people who use the Internet daily for browsing purposes (viewing websites, using social media sites like Facebook, downloading music), but only occasionally for streaming television or films.
Keeping to the video streaming comparison above, 5GB of data access will allow you to view a maximum of 30 minutes of streaming video per day – if that was all you used the Internet for. This is not, therefore, suitable for online gamers or for people who plan to stream television or films online regularly. That said, 5GB limits (and below) are only available as an option on mobile broadband. This means you get the benefits of your broadband being mobile – you can bring your broadband with you wherever you go – and of being cost effective. The important thing to note is you can still stream video on mobile broadband while staying within your data limit.
Only mobile broadband providers offer 3GB options. This is not really suitable for streaming video or playing online games with any sort of regularity. What you will be able to do, however, is browse thousands of websites, download up to 40 albums, or send as many emails as you like. Choose 3GB if every day you use email, use Facebook and other social media, and surf the web.
Like the 3GB version above, 2GB options are only available from mobile broadband suppliers. You will be able to do two-thirds of what you can on 3GB packages. So, for example, you could download 26 albums on a 2GB package. While downloading music is unlikely to exceed your limit, anything more intensive (like streaming video) most certainly will. Therefore 2GB download limits are for light internet users.
We are now in the realm of very light usage. Only mobile broadband providers offer 1GB per month options. This level of data access will be suitable if all you plan to do on the Internet is moderate levels of surfing websites, sending and receiving emails, and using social networking sites. If you want to do anything above this (like use Facebook for several hours a day) you should consider a higher level of data allowance.
Less than 1 GB
Anything less than 1GB per month is for very low Internet users or for people looking for a second connection to give them access while away from their main broadband. If you select an option with less than 1GB of data it is unlikely you will be able to use the Internet daily.
Exceeding your download limit
Going over download limits can be costly. All providers apply extra charges once download limits are exceeded. They will usually email or notify when you are getting close to the limit so your Internet usage can be tempered until the end of the month.
Unlimited packages do not have download limits, but they do have fair usage policies. Generally if you are on a package with a fair usage policy you will not be charged if you exceed the level of the fair usage policy. Instead, the provider will restrict your broadband, usually by slowing it down.


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DB: Did you get any flack from folks who wear WWJD bracelets?
Two years later, she got flack for another Castro ad that featured Gadot twerking in a pair of jeans.
While King got some flack from PETA for the killing, he also got considerable support from the NRA.
Republicans in Hollywood seem to get a lot of flack and be a bit marginalized.
Mr. flack's tone was ever that of keeping the poor gentleman mildly but firmly in his place.
Get some of the servants to give you a description of him, and 'phone it through to flack at the Yard.
"Watch your mouth, Criswell," advised Admiral flack, tightlipped.
"Well, they're like me then," said Mr. flack with friendly cheer.
"Westby was unfortunate enough to foul flack at the start; that was all there was to it," he said.
"You draw me out and then you gibe at me," Mr. flack returned.
"publicity or press agent," 1945, also as a verb by that year, said to have been coined in show biz magazine "Variety" (but this is not the first attested use), supposedly from name of Gene Flack, a movie agent, but influenced by flak. There was a Gene Flack who was an advertising executive in the U.S. during the 1940s, but he seems to have sold principally biscuits, not movies.
1938, from German Flak, condensed from Fliegerabwehrkanone, literally "pilot warding-off cannon." Sense of "anti-aircraft fire" is 1940; metaphoric sense of "criticism" is c.1963 in American English.
: The flack description is also worth quoting
: his publishers, who flack it into a best seller/ He's not flakking for ulterior motives
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THIS RESTAURANT HAS CHANGED LOCATIONS The Phoenix
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THIS RESTAURANT HAS CHANGED LOCATIONS The Phoenix Restaurant Review: This oft-recycled Restaurant Row space has been reborn as The Phoenix, an unstuffy cocktail-centric concept from entrepreneur Adolfo Suaya. Specialty cocktails include the Pegu Club made with Gordon's London Dry Gin, Grand Marnier, lime juice and bitters. In addition, there are craft beers and a small, attractively priced menu with the likes of seared ahi tacos, a fried chicken sandwich and the house's signature steak frites in mustard sauce. In terms of décor, the wood-clad accordion ceiling adds a rustic-modernist aesthetic to the laid-back scene. The bar is rough-hewn wood and there's a nice patio, too, where happy hour reflects the kind of prices usually foreign to Beverly Hills.
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Sedalia City Hall
200 South Osage Ave.
Sedalia, MO 65301(660) 827-3000
Hours of Operation
The Sedalia Community Center opened in 1974 in a former school building and began its role of assisting the community by housing a Missouri Valley Human Resources Head Start Program, the Boys' & Girls' Club and the Senior Center as tenant agencies. Head Start, the Boys' & Girls' Club and Senior Center all remain at the heart of the Community Center's operation today.
The Head Start program occupies the entire basement and four classrooms on the first floor of the Sedalia Community Center. The basement includes office space, counseling facilities, a full-service kitchen and cafeteria space.
The Boys & Girls Club utilizes the second floor of the facility.
The gymnasium is available for use by other tenants and can be rented to community organizations through the Community Center office. The facility offers basketball, volleyball, indoor tennis, a portable dance floor and can be used as a large meeting room.
Sedalia Community Center
314 S. Washington Avenue
Sedalia, Missouri 65301
Facility Reservations: (660) 827-3000 ext. 1117
Phone: (660) 827-3747
Fax: (660) 827-7818


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The following article is from Canadian Real Estate Wealth Magazine.
Whether it's long weekends at the cottage, weeks spent on the coast exploring Atlantic Canada, or months travelling across the vast mainlands, holiday-makers have numerous options to choose from. So, too, do investors looking for vacation properties in some of Canada's most sought-after markets.
Here are the top markets to consider when you're thinking of investing in vacation homes.
1) Banff & Canmore Kananaskis region
Peak season: July to August
Best buy: Tourist-zoned townhouse accommodation complexes
Average rent (1-bedroom): $1,200 a month
Banff National Park, the first national park in Canada, has been drawing tourists from all over the world for decades. Each year, the park plays host to four million visitors, not to mention the influx of migrants who work in the tourist industry in the summer months.
Eternally popular with visitors all year round, the nearby region of Canmore Kananaskis is abundant with opportunities for investors to house these visitors. Situated 15 minutes south of the park, Canmore is home to 12,000 permanent and 6,000 part-time residents. The town's close proximity to Calgary makes it a great stopover for regional visitors from the city, and its nearness to Banff draws visitors from the world over. The real estate market has undergone significant gentrification in the past nine years and is expected to continue to grow as the area bills itself as an all-season crowd-pleaser.
Banff itself has a permanent population of 8,300, and this grows during the tourist season, which peaks in July and August. Skiing, snowboarding and dog-sledding bring visitors to the area in the winter, while hiking, climbing, spas, fine dining and shopping are a pull for guests in the summer months.
Property types in Banff are varied, ranging from hostels to campgrounds, to inns, bed and breakfasts, chalets, condos and backcountry lodges. That said, owning rental property in Banff Park is somewhat restrictive, given its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Christopher Vincent, of Sotheby's International Realty Canada, explains that because Banff is a national park there is a Need to Reside Clause that permits ownership of property in the park only as long as the specifications of the clause are met.
In order to own property in the national park, the person living in the residence has to work in Banff, own a business in Banff, or have worked in the park for the last five years prior to retirement. This requirement can sometimes make purchasing an investment property challenging. That said, if you qualify, the returns are huge and the vacancy rates are consistently below 1 per cent.
Cap rates in Banff and Canmore are generally around 3–5 per cent, and properties in Canmore do not have the same restrictions. However, there are zoning requirements that investors should be mindful of, depending on their target tenant demographic.
According to Vincent, anything zoned as residential cannot be used for short-term rentals, therefore any rentals would have to be for more than 28 days. Vacation accommodation zoning allows for nightly or weekly rentals of up to 28 days maximum. The zoning of tourist home properties allows for both short-term and long-term stays.
"For the most flexibility, investors may consider tourist-zoned townhouse accommodation complexes, which allow for both long– and short-term rentals and fetch high rents," says Vincent.
Rentals in Banff National Park will fetch a premium, but properties just outside in Canmore are also lucrative. A 650–700 square foot one-bedroom plus den generally rents for about $1,200 per month, and a three-bedroom apartment will rent for about $2,000 a month.
"The rental rates in these regions are definitely higher than the surrounding areas," says Vincent.
Housing prices have declined slightly over the past few months, but have remained stable in the long term. In January, 2013, the average price of a single-family home in Canmore was $821,000 and the average price of an apartment was $260,000. One-bedroom units in popular condo-hotel developments can be picked up for as little as $160,000, and property management companies in the area will run them on behalf of the investors. Property taxes are generally low, and Alberta does not have a land transfer tax.
The variety of property types leaves investors with many options. "They could also buy into regular accommodation – anything from an entry-level regular two-bedroom apartment starting as low as $180,000, which will rent for about $1,100 a month, right through up to single-family homes," says Vincent.
"Banff and Canmore are two communities where people choose to come and spend the winter, and they tend to be short-term tenancies of about six months to a year," he explains. "It's a good, consistent turnover, and people are willing to pay a premium to spend that season in the mountains."Report Typo/Error
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Union, Enstar at impasse in negotiations
Enstar employees appear closer to going on strike.
Wednesday evening, sources with the United Association Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Local 367 told KTVA negotiations between Enstar and the union had broken down and are unlikely to resume.
Union reps said the two sides are at an impasse after two days of negotiations. A strike is likely in the near future, they said.
Enstar and the union have been trying to hammer out a new contract for months. The sticking points include cuts to the workers' benefits and pensions.
The union said it has been willing to make concessions, but so far Enstar has been unwilling to budge.
Enstar was unable to comment Wednesday night.


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Undergraduate Bulletin
The online Undergraduate Bulletin, updated annually by The Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, is a single, comprehensive source of information about undergraduate study at the University at Albany. Topics include general degree requirements, requirements for majors and minors, and undergraduate course descriptions.
Honors College
Students in the Honors College collaborate with each other and professors to complete undertake intensive coursework, research, internships, and field-placements.
Project Renaissance
Students enrolled in Project Renaissance experience aspects of a traditional small college environment (some small classes, close acquaintances with faculty in the program, and community living) during their first year at U Albany.
Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
The responsabilities of the Office for the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education include the academic experience of undergraduates, the general education requirements, student's transferring into U Albany, University internships, and withdrawal and readmission.


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Sam, Jason and resident Imperial Trouble Whovian Beau Brown review the Doctor Who Season Finale. Other topics include the Air Bud canon, the terrible fate of Sam's former website The Police Box and the sitcom Designing Women.
Tag Archives: Amy Pond
I'm Sure His Skeleton Will Have Time Lord Bones: A Review of "Doctor Who Series 6"
This review contains spoilers.
The Doctor is in America! He has a cowboy hat. But River Song shoots his hat off his head. This woman is so reckless with guns. I saw her shoot a dude that was just walking behind her without even looking over her shoulder. Everybody on the show just seems to accept it, like "Well she seems to know what she's doing." It's like if a little kid had a flamethrower and a handwritten note that said "FLAMTHOWER XPURT" and he was lighting houses on fire but all the adults just shrugged and said, "Who are we to stop him? He has certification."
Anyway, the Doctor gets shot in the face with a laser by a little girl in an astronaut suit and dies before he can regenerate. Man, they just let the kids run wild at Space Camp these days. But it's a version of the Doctor from two hundred years in the future, so whatever. I'm sure his skeleton will have Time Lord bones or something and another British guy will emerge from his ribcage.
Then the current Doctor goes to the White House and meets President Nixon. He fights some aliens called the Silence because you forget them after you see them. Also, a bunch of stuff happens with River Song and Amy Pond being pregnant and the little girl in the space suit again. There was way too much going on in one episode. It was like being on the haunted house ride at the fair where things keep getting thrown out at you while you ride in a cart. Hideous aliens! Amy's mysterious pregnancy! President Nixon played by a man who looks nothing like him! Now the little girl is a time lord?! Also, Rory! Come to think of it, things getting thrown out at you while you ride in a cart is considered a traditional wedding in my hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia.
The Doctor ends up on a pirate ship because a beautiful siren surrounded by glowing green light is luring sailors away after marking their hands with a black spot, much like the girl stamping hands for reentry at any rave near a naval base. I went to a rave on New Year's Eve once and danced all night by myself while my friend drunkenly sat in a nearby chair. Of course, dancing all night by yourself while your friend sits drunkenly in a nearby chair is also considered a traditional wedding in my hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia.
Turns out the siren is a spaceship's medical bay artificial intelligence and it thinks the sailors are sick or something so the Doctor says hey pirates want some advanced technology and gives them the ship even though up to this point they were the robbing and murdering kind of pirates. Then the Doctor answers a distress call on a trash planet and the TARDIS gets put inside a woman, marking the first time that phrase has been used to describe the actual transmutation of the TARDIS software into a living human's brain and not a Doctor Who fan's nickname for her vibrator.
Then the Doctor goes to a factory where people are having clones made of themselves and using them as avatars for dangerous factory work. But the avatars come to life! I wish my Xbox Live avatar would come to life, maybe it would justify the five dollars I spent on Mass Effect 2 dragon armor for him. Also, the two dollars I spent on the lightsaber he waves half-heartedly when I turn on my Xbox. "Oh hello! Yes, I'm…really enjoying…this lightsaber you bought for me. And the armor. There's no one for me to fight here, but it's nice to just…wave it. Back and forth. Whoosh. When the inevitable war against Xbox Live avatars comes, I'll be the first line of defense."
The mid-season finale was particularly crazy. First of all, Amy Pond has been a fake avatar Amy this whole time. Second of all, the real Amy is pregnant with a baby version of River Song. Third, the baby River Song is a Time Lord because she was conceived inside the TARDIS. Fourth, a woman with an eyepatch has stolen the baby River Song to use her as a weapon against the Doctor. It could have been worse, though— usually when an old woman missing an eye steals a baby, it's to put in a stew.
You know, it seems like just because you conceive a baby inside a vehicle doesn't mean the baby would take on the traits or abilities of said vehicle. But far be it from me to go against Doctor Who's airtight baby genetics logic. See you in September, Doctor Who!
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The study of Technology can be most plainly described as the study of our "Designed World". By that we mean the things in our environment that have been created by people. These things allow humans to be more productive; extending one's capabilities and satisfying needs and wants. Things such as exercise equipment, surgical tools, electronic fuel injection, hydroponics gardening, new drugs and even Gatorade, are the result of the application of The Design and Problem Solving Process. This also requires the application of knowledge from other areas such as Math and Science. Courses in Technology Education afford students the opportunity to increase their level of technological literacy. Students will better understand how to live and work with current and future technologies and understand the careers available to them in an ever-changing workplace.


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There are a lot of subtleties and international variations but that's the gist of it. If you create something, and it fits the definition of a creative work, you get to control who can make copies of it and how they make copies, with some important exceptions.
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Making copies,In its simplest form making copies is making copies. Computers have added some recent complications, like the temporary copies in packet buffers or on screens, and copies left on backup tape. But you can go pretty far by assuming that just about any computerized operation on a work involves copying it. And simply, the copyright holder gets to say if you can do this. But that's where it all gets modified by the issues of ...
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OTTAWA, Ontario -- Olympic hockey veteran Hayley Wickenheiser will be Canada's flag-bearer at the Sochi Games.
The Canadian Olympic Committee made the announcement Thursday on Parliament Hill. Wickenheiser was in Europe and unable to attend. This will be her fifth Olympic appearance.
Hockey Canada says the women's team will march in the opening ceremony despite playing their opening game the following night against Switzerland.
Other candidates said to be in the running to carry the Maple Leaf at the opening ceremony included hockey star Sidney Crosby, speedskater Charles Hamelin and skiers Alexandre Bilodeau and Erik Guay.
Long-track speedskater Clara Hughes was the flag-bearer at the 2010 Vancouver Games.


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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Girl, 17, Faces Paralysis Thanks to Gov't Health Care Waiting ListA young lady in Ireland fears she may be paralyzed for life because Ireland's government-run health care service hasn't gotten around to putting her on the waiting list for the operation she needs -- and the waiting list is a year long.
From the Dublin Herald:
A teenage girl will be left paralysed if she does not get urgent surgery on her spine.Ah, well, she's 17. Her best years are already behind her, right?
Lauren Browne (17) told the Herald that, despite the seriousness of her situation, she is not even on the year-long waiting list for an operation.
Lauren suffers from idiopathic scoliosis and is struggling to get on the list for the life-changing procedure at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, due to severe budget cuts imposed by the HSE.
The operation would drastically improve Lauren's quality of life and the teen runs the risk of becoming paralysed without it.
"I'm not even on the waiting list. I'm on the waiting list for the waiting list. My surgeon told me that I cannot wait a year. My vertebrae is rotating so rapidly that I have the risk of being paralysed if I wait for the surgery that long."
Lauren's quality of life has deteriorated since the diagnosis and she hit out at the HSE for what she feels is its lack of concern.
Lauren said: "The HSE just don't seem to care. Our cases are not qualified as life threatening, but I have no idea how they don't consider this to be life threatening. They have no idea what it's like for me.
"When I was told I would have to wait at least a year, I nearly started crying. It was horrible to hear," she said...
Read the rest here.
Watch for The National Center for Public Policy Research's upcoming new book, Shattered Lives: 100 Stories of Government Health Care, for more on the way waiting lists affect the lives of people living in countries with government-run medicine.
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Former My Chemical Romance Frontman Gets Frances Bean Cobain Endorsement
Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, normally stays out of the spotlight. She was even MIA when her father was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in April.
But, she's not afraid to share an opinion.
That is particularly the case when it comes to her favorite music and her friends. Cobain is close with former My Chemical Romance singer Gerald Way.
Way just released his first solo song on YouTube. It's called Action Cat. Listen to it below.
Frances likes it. She tells NME:
"I'm really excited for Gerald. He's been working on this project for a while and its sound and vibe is the polar opposite from My Chemical Romance. I've watched him evolve over nine years of friendship and I think this is the best music he's ever produced. It's gritty, stripped down, raw and lyrically poetic in a way he hasn't explored before."
flashback with this guy @gerardway #ecstatic pic.twitter.com/EQoUh26tQX
— Frances Bean Cobain (@alka_seltzer666) February 15, 2014
Frances Bean Cobain is an interesting follow on Twitter. There are plenty of selfies and other things you'd expect from a woman in her early 20s. But, there are also occasional gems like this.
@OfficialKat @RuPaul burning bridges. RU for President. pic.twitter.com/6NBCDlK5GS
— Frances Bean Cobain (@alka_seltzer666) January 11, 2014


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Construction on orangutan center halfway done
Construction crews have reached the halfway point in building a new orangutan center at the Indianapolis Zoo.
The zoo says in a newsletter that construction is expected to be complete by December.
The exhibit will feature an aerial gondola ride for visitors to see the eight orangutans.
The zoo has emphasized the need to protect orangutans and educate the general public about the primates.
The World Wildlife Foundation says the two species of orangutan numbered 230,000 a century ago. The eight apes from the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra living at the zoo will be among about 50,000 remaining.
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LETTERS: Tuesday, December 18: Second Class Thursday, December 20: First Class
PARCELFORCE: Friday, December 21: for express9, express10, expressAM, express24 Thursday, December 20: for express48
AIRMAIL: Wednesday, December 5: Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia, New Zealand Friday, December 7: South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa and Middle East Monday, December 10: Eastern Europe, USA and Canada Wednesday, December 12: Western Europe
THE Swindon Scout Christmas Post service has begun.
The 7th Swindon Scout group, which covers North Swindon, will be selling stamps for Christmas cards at Asda Walmart in the Orbital Retail Park.
Stamps cost 25p and will be on sale on sale at Asda Walmart on December 7 from 7pm until 8pm, and on December 8 and 9 from 10am until 4pm.
Delivery areas include Badbury, Bishopstone, Blunsdon, Burderop, Chiseldon, Draycott Foliat, Elcombe, Hannington, Highworth, Hinton Parva, Hodson, Inglesham, Langton Park, Liddington, Overtown, Red Barn, South Leaze, South Marston, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stratton St Margaret, Thorney Park, Wanborough, West Leaze, Wroughton.
They also deliver to Royal Wootton Bassett, Purton, Lydiard Millicent, Bushton, Clyffe Pypard, Tockenham, Broad Town, Cricklade, Latton, Ashton Keynes, Shrivenham, Watchfield, Bourton, Idstone, Ashbury and Kingston Winslow.


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Wicked Cactus Sauce Head Hunter's Paradise Hot Sauce Review
Spot a bottle of this Wicked Cactus sauce up on the shelf, pull it down, and boom! You're sucked in by the time you finish reading the first line on the label. While the aesthetically pleasing label and bold, assertive typeface don't hurt its cause, it's the deep, pigmented color of the sauce on the other side of the glass that will initially catch your attention.
Once you find yourself cracking beyond the safety seal and pouring a generous helping of the sauce onto your eggs (mine were scrambled with mushrooms and onion), you'll next notice its salsa-like consistency and appreciate the flecks of spices dotting the liquid. And upon lifting a bit of smothered eggs to your mouth, you'll discover that the sauce has an unusually wonderful, thick texture and a bold, smoky taste.
The ingredient list surprised me and contained a few firsts for this reviewer, including pineapple, apple cider vinegar, smoked habanero, oranges and red bell peppers (along with salt and other mystery spices). Wicked Cactus Sauce creates their sauces by hand in small batches – meaning that you can count on quality and freshness in each bottle. Every bottle boasts a tiny "made on date" label and an accompanying date, which I felt added a unique quality to the bottle verses those of the other sauces in my kitchen's arsenal. The end result is one I would highly recommend to hot sauce connoisseurs and novices alike. Bold in flavor and substantial in heat, Wicked Cactus Head Hunter's Paradise Hot Sauce contains a garden of earthly delights that I was more than happy to take a bite from.
Buy Wicked Cactus Sauce Head Hunter's Paradise Hot Sauce
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The purpose of this project was to design a workspace for IDEO, an industrial design company. I explored the conceptual idea of sliding and static spaces by creating a building that has two inversely sliding pieces. These pieces each contain program and a central static hallway. The materials of the building follow the concept. On the sides of the building and deck spaces, light translucent materials are used. The central static hallway and stairways are shown in a different heavier material.
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Clinical Associate Professor
Division Head of Audiology at Callier Center for Communication Disorders
Dr. Martin oversees clinical audiology services offered at the Callier Center. He also teaches several courses in the doctor of audiology program and serves as a research mentor to AuD and PhD students. He previously served as an assistant professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Research by Dr. Martin and colleagues evaluating complexities in central auditory assessment and diagnosis have been recognized by the Hearing Journal as being one of the top peer-reviewed research articles appearing in the hearing science and audiology literature. He is a licensed audiologist in Texas and currently serves as the Past President of the Texas Academy of Audiology. Dr. Martin earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Texas at Austin, and his PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Martin J.S., Gibson K.Y., Huston L.C. (2012). Dichotic listening performance in young adults using low-pass filtered speech. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 23(3):192-205.
Davis T., Martin J., Jerger J., Greenwald R., Mehta J. (2012). Auditory-cognitive interactions underlying interaural asymmetry in an adult listener: a case study. International Journal of Audiology, 51(2):124-34.
Brown D.K., Cameron S., Martin J.S., Watson C., Dillon H. (2010). The North American Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences test (NA LiSN-S): normative data and test-retest reliability studies for adolescents and young adults. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 21(10):629-41.


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Standing on the slippery, blood-spattered floor of Hong Kong's Sheung Wan Market, surrounded by dangling cow carcasses and plastic bins brimming with de-feathered chicken parts, Daniel Calvert is unfazed, despite a wicked hangover. The twenty-eight-year-old chef of Belon, the Parisian-style bistro that has quickly become one of Hong Kong's buzziest restaurants since opening in March, is here to show me his birds.
We weave our way through the aisles—past lines of flip flop-clad ladies drooping with plastic produce bags, and vendors in gumboots wielding cleavers—and into the market's underbelly, where every day Ivan Wong, the fourth-generation owner of Hop Wo Poultry, sets aside his twelve best, plus a dozen individual wings, for Calvert.
The chickens are beautiful, with bright red crowns, gray-tinged wings, golden-yellow plumage, yellow beaks, and extra-long lizard-like yellow feet. At 1.2 kilos, and seventy to eighty days old, they are corn fed and farmed indoors. There's not a single commercial free-range chicken in Hong Kong, says Wong, with risk of bird flu and all. They have a thick skin that rarely rips, and a lot of fat, and an equal leg-to-breast ratio that Calvert says is ideal for roasting whole.
The roast chicken is one of his two signature dishes at Belon. The other is the infamous—his word—chicken wing, which comes stuffed with rice, smoked eel, foie gras and costs thirty dollars. On the occasions it includes matsutake mushrooms, it's a forty-five dollar chicken wing.
On the menu a month after Belon's opening, the wing was immediately revered for its taste and reviled for its elitism. An August review in the South China Morning Post ("Belon in SoHo – home of the HK$358 chicken wing") created such an Internet frenzy that Calvert has no choice, really, but continue to make it.
"Even if we take it off the menu for a night, we still sell as many as we do when it's on, he says. "People will come in and not even look at the menu. They'll just hold up their phones, show us a photo." He's capped orders for the wing at ten per service, though. "It's not fair to the team to have to cook the same thing all night."
The wing is both a nod to traditional Chinese chicken wings, which are sometimes filled with glutinous rice and fried, and Calvert's time at three-Michelin starred Epicure, in Paris, where he stuffed morels with sweetbreads, serrano ham, and foie gras.
Back at Belon's tiny kitchen, Calvert dons his chef coat and sets to work, methodically deboning the wing with a paring knife, separating the meat from the skin by scraping the miniature humerus. He lays out the skin like a taxidermist, and squeezes in the precious stuffing of rice, eel, foie gras, and mushroom out of a piping bag. He then seals the wing in plastic and steams it in the oven while a saucepan of smoked eel and bacon sautés with shaoxing wine, an oxidized Chinese wine fermented from rice, to make the glaze that coats the wing after it's removed from the oven and pan fried.
During service it takes three cooks to make one wing—one guy on sauce, one guy on glaze, one guy on plating. "That's me," says Calvert, as he gently lowers the cooked wing onto a scalloped white plate, careful not to smudge the glaze, as if the thing just got a manicure. It's clearly a labor of love. He stands back and gives it a good look, and spies half a grain of rice stuck to the skin. He lifts it off with tweezers, Operation-style, then snuggles in a spoonful of spinach. Wilted in butter and orange zest, it's intended to offset the richness of the rest of the dish.
Which it does, just barely—the first bite is an overwhelmingly sticky, chewy, umami experience. But is it worth it? "That's what the wing costs," says Calvert, at this point bored by the question. "If people don't like it, they don't have to order it." But they do. Sometimes twice.
Calvert recently added an equally labor-intensive dish he hopes will become Belon's new star: the pigeon pithivier, a meat pie served with figs and amaretto sauce, topped with a claw-like roasted foot. It's seventy-three bucks—but at least you get the whole bird.