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The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs. Two franchises connected by their fate of futility that is as inexorably linked to their identities as their famous logos and cherished ballparks.
Fenway Park. Wrigley Field. Curse of the Bambino. Billy Goat curse. Heartbreak in October. Or sooner.
The Red Sox last won the World Series in 1918, against the Cubs, behind a pitcher named Babe Ruth. The Cubs earned their last title 10 years earlier and have not even won a preliminary postseason series since.
Their histories are crowded with enough bad breaks, near misses and superstitions to keep a storyteller busy through Halloween. But this year, like Charlie Brown lining up for another football kick, many of their fans are trusting their hopes won't be pulled out from under them.
The Red Sox, with their most wins since their last trip to the World Series in 1986, have the best offense in baseball. They set the big-league record for slugging percentage (.491), breaking the record held by the 1927 New York Yankees, a.k.a. Murderer's Row (.489).
The Cubs, behind new manager Dusty Baker, won their first division title in 14 years and have a starting pitching rotation as formidable as any in the playoffs.
"Feel free to believe in us. Don't worry about getting hurt," the Cubs' Mike Remlinger, a New England native, tells Chicago fans. "History is great, but we're here to make some new history."
After the Red Sox came from three runs behind with two outs in the ninth inning to beat the Baltimore Orioles last week, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy wrote: "It's nights like this that make you wonder ... maybe this really is the year."
The commentary is particularly noteworthy because Shaughnessy is the author of The Curse of the Bambino, which brought the legend additional prominence. It details the hard luck of the franchise since owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees in 1920 for $125,000 and a $300,000 loan to finance production of his Broadway play No, No, Nanette.
The Red Sox have come tantalizingly close several times since, losing four World Series in Game 7:
• In 1975, Carlton Fisk's memorable homer won Game 6, but Cincinnati took Game 7, scoring the winning run on Joe Morgan's bloop single in the ninth.
• The Red Sox were one strike from winning the championship against the New York Mets in 1986, only to lose Game 6 when a ground ball trickled through first baseman Bill Buckner's legs. No one had any doubt who would win Game 7.
Cubs fans, arguing heartbreak is one winning season in 20 years (1947-66), have their own demons:
• In 1945, tavern owner William Sianis declared he put a curse on the team when it refused to allow his goat into the World Series at Wrigley. The Cubs blew the lead in that Series and haven't been back since.
• In 1984, they were one win from returning, but San Diego took three in a row to capture the National League Championship Series. The Padres tied the fifth and deciding game when a grounder shot through first baseman Leon Durham's legs for an error.
The Sianis family, whose Billy Goat Tavern & Grill inspired the Saturday Night Live "Cheeseborger, Cheeseborger" skits, has tried to break the curse. And last week three fans — inspired by a proposal by WGN radio talk show host John Williams — tried to reverse the curse by transferring it to the rival Houston Astros. They flew to Houston, bought a goat and game ticket and were denied admission with the animal.
Baker dismissed the legend in spring training, telling reporters he eats goat, but he might believe in a little magic of his own. He was spotted the morning of a critical September game against St. Louis spreading a mysterious dirt-like substance in the infield and outfield at Wrigley. The Cubs came back from a 6-0 deficit that day and were on their way.
Baker refuses to explain the ritual.
Suffering succotash of misery
So which team's fans have suffered the most? Naturally, opinions vary geographically.
"The Cubs, of course," says Chuck Cali, 51, of Chicago, who bundled up for Sunday's regular-season finale in 50-degree temperatures. "Getting a curse of Babe Ruth is a lot better than getting a curse of a goat."
Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer managed the Cubs to the 1989 NL East Division title and the Red Sox to the one-game playoff against the Yankees for the '78 AL East title, won by New York on the seventh-inning homer of light-hitting shortstop Bucky Dent.
"It's the Red Sox fans," Zimmer says of the pain leader in the clubhouse, "because they have come close so many times and not won anything. They've had more to lose than the Cubs."
Counters Cubs fan Judy Ryno, of Evanston, Ill: "How long has it been since we've even had a chance?"
The two teams have been in the playoffs together just once since that 1918 Series. They both qualified as wild cards five years ago, but neither was given much chance of advancing and won just one postseason game between them.
This year's road to the Series is seen as wide open. The Cubs return to Chicago tied 1-1 in their series with Atlanta. The Red Sox, picked by The Sporting News to advance to the World Series, lost their division series opener against Oakland late Wednesday.
Both teams exceeded preseason expectations in part because their first-time general managers emphasized building a supporting cast for their established stars instead of adding high-priced superstars.
Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, only 29, acquired players, including designated hitter David Ortiz, third baseman Bill Mueller (who won the AL batting title at .326) and second baseman Todd Walker, to complement Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez.
Cubs GM Jim Hendry, 48, who assumed his duties in July 2002 and is a leading candidate for executive of the year honors, acquired Eric Karros and Mark Grudzielanek from Los Angeles for unproductive catcher Todd Hundley during the winter.
In midseason, as the Cubs staggered following an injury to outfielder Corey Patterson, Hendry brought in outfielder Kenny Lofton, third baseman Aramis Ramirez and first baseman Randall Simon from the Pittsburgh Pirates in two deals.
Chicago's symptoms of pennant fever are more pronounced. Banners proclaiming "Cubs Win!" and a countdown of victories needed to defeat the Braves hang from a downtown office building across from City Hall. The Chicago Tribune declared "Hello, Next Year" on Page 1 the day after the Cubs clinched the NL Central. Some buses have added "Go Cubs" to the electronic billboard that typically scrawls their route number.
Boston is more reserved, perhaps because this is the fourth time the Red Sox have qualified for the postseason since baseball expanded the playoffs in 1995 and perhaps because their oft-deflated fans are more cautious.
"I'd like to see them win, but I'm not going to get on the roller coaster of hope just to end up at the hopeless bottom," says architect George Kelso, 60, at Harvard Square. "A lot of the fans right now would be devastated if they didn't win."
Levi Linton, 73, of Boston, says: "You know it's not the year. You know that. ... We're holding back (our emotions) until we see how far they go."
Celebrating while they can
The playoffs started just two days ago, but already the media and others are dreaming of a Cubs-Red Sox World Series.
It would be the Fall Classic.
"I think it would probably be one of the highest (TV) ratings and the best World Series you'd ever see," says Pittsburgh first baseman/outfielder Matt Stairs, who has played for both teams. "I know I'd come to it."
The New Brunswick, Canada, native, an avid Red Sox fan growing up, does see one downside: "One team has to suffer again."
"I don't ever look at it that way," says Cubs reliever Remlinger, who grew up a Boston fan in Plymouth, Mass., and whose mother, Ellen, is still a die-hard. "There would be a lot of happy people knowing at least one of them would have to break the curse."
Many Chicagoans would say a World Series title would be bigger than the Bulls' six NBA championships and the Bears' 1985 Super Bowl team rolled into one. After all, the last time the Cubs won, in 1908, folks were still shooting hoops into a peach basket and pro football was still tinkering with that newfangled forward pass, legalized two years earlier.
Some Bostonians fear the celebration if the Red Sox break their drought. When the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in February 2002, "people were rioting, jumping on cars," says Scott McNeil, 27, of Newtown, Mass. "This would be 100 times worse."
More optimistically, fan Alex Ross, 29, says, "Boston would close down for two or three days."
There also could be an unexpected consequence if one team goes all the way, and leave it to a Chicago White Sox fan to bring it up.
"The Cubs are lovable losers. I think they'd lose something by winning the World Series," says Sean Greaney, 34, a computer network engineer at Chicago's Rush Presbyterian Hospital.
Sean Day, 21, of Norwood, Mass., who took a class in which the psyche of a Red Sox fan was discussed at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., has the same question on the Bosox:
"If they win it all, then what?"
For the next week or longer, though, baseball's most hapless fans aren't worrying about losing sympathy. And their bond of suffering suddenly takes on a different tone.
"The last couple weeks I've been furiously rooting for the Cubs because they're probably the only team we can beat," says Ben Schmidt, 23, of Newton, Mass.
"They're the only ones who have had worse luck than us."
Contributing: Mel Antonen in New York, Jon Paul Morosi in Boston


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Nationals' Bryce Harper requests beer sales to be donated to Celena Hollis's family
Bryce Harper's Facebook page.
Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper's infamous response to a question about his favorite beer has inspired numerous jokes and parodies over the past few weeks, not to mention his very own Denver beer, Clown Question, a Canadian lager-style beer brewed by Denver Beer Co. The name is based on the (tongue-in-cheek) assumption that the rookie phenom was simply answering the reporter's question and naming his favorite beer.
"You just have to change the emphasis of the words in his comment," quipped brewery co-owner Charlie Berger.
Denver Beer Company's Facebook page.
But Harper has proven to a be a good sport about being clowned. While in town for a four-game series against the Rockies, he learned of the tragic death of Denver police officer Celena Hollis and decided to reach out to Berger and ask that his namesake beer be used for a good cause.
"We were contacted by his camp, who said Harper was struck by the gravity of the situation and was wondering if we would consider donating proceeds from Clown Question, Bro sales to the Celena Hollis Memorial Fund," Berger says. "Of course, we said yes."
The beer is currently on tap, and Berger estimates that it will last until the middle of next week. "The more attention for this cause the better. Hopefully, our small contribution can make a difference."
Despite his game-tying home run in the ninth inning, Harper's Nationals lost to the Rockies last night in the final game of the series. But Harper wins big in the hearts of friends and loved ones of officer Hollis, whose funeral will be held at 11 a.m. this Saturday at the Denver First Church of the Nazarene, 3800 East Hampden Avenue in Englewood.
Further donations to the Celena Hollis Memorial Fund can be mailed to:
Celena Hollis Memorial Fund Account Number 23012705 Rocky Mountain Law Enforcement FCU 700 W. 39th Avenue Denver, CO 80216 303-458-6660
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I am still here... just haven't checked in for a while because I knew we didn't have any July Birthdays. Hope all is well with everyone! August birthdays should be going out soon!
Is anyone interested in doing a virtual swap of Christmas card ideas? I am trying to make a variety of Christmas cards to send out this year but I am having a hard time with inspiration. I am looking for ideas to scrap lift. Does anyone want to have a weekly or biweekly challenge to make a card and then post pictures to share the inspiration? I seem to do better with challenges that say like use only scraps, or use a certain technique or use this layout, etc.
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Dater X: Mourning Friends And Family After A Breakup
After a relationship ends, you prepare yourself for hard nights missing the other person. Your friends comfort you by telling you someone else out there is even better for you, and that happiness is just around the corner. But no one prepares you for the loss of the people who come with the breakup; the innocent bystanders left in the dust. What happens to them? Friendships end and family ties are severed, all with the understanding that it would make things easier. But does it?
Last night, my sister called to tell me that my ex-boyfriend's mother passed away— a woman who I was very fond of and close to for the more than three years I dated her son, Pete.* We were in high school when we met. Pete was the class clown, star athlete, smart and very handsome— the kind of guy any parent would dream of their daughter dating. I was a sophomore, assigned to a study hall with Pete. He sat down next to me on the first day of the semester, leaving his football buddies behind. Before I knew it, we were inseparable. We spent every spare moment together — doing homework together after school, attending our respective sports practices, and hanging out almost every night, rotating between his house and mine. On nights we weren't together, we talked on the phone until the sun came up.We were high school sweethearts. We fell hard and grew up together. It was that kind of love.
About a year into our relationship, Pete told me he was worried about his mom, how she was sneaking off to mystery "appointments" and receiving phone calls from doctors he'd never heard of. Then one day, Marge* came home with her husband on her arm and a tube in her chest. She told Pete she had breast cancer and would begin chemotherapy and radiation immediately.
For the next couple of years, I became family to them, and them to me. We were just kids, but his mom's diagnosis forced us to be adults, pushing us even closer together. Even now looking back, our relationship was one of my strongest yet. I was there through the hard times, when Marge became violently ill from the chemo. I consoled Pete after hours of holding his mom's hair out of her face while she threw up on the bathroom floor, leaving clusters of her blonde locks in his palms. I helped Marge find a wig that brought out her pretty eyes when it came time for her to buzz her head. I went there every Sunday night to watch "The Sopranos" with the family, but I arrived an hour early so Marge and I could sit and chat over hot tea and biscotti. They were my second family: the one that belonged to the person I loved.
When I graduated, I went off to college and Pete took a semester off to help take care of his mother. We didn't know how to be without each other, yet a small part of me yearned for independence. This sparked Pete's possessive side. He became manipulative in order to keep me close, and in reaction, I began to lie to get out of plans with him, and spend more time with my friends. It got to the point where he was showing up to my dorm room unannounced, insisting I wasn't picking up his phone calls because I was cheating on him with other guys. I wasn't. If we argued, he would throw his mom's illness in my face until I backed down, making me feel guilty about trying to stand my ground. The more jealous he became, the more it pushed me away. I knew that my only option was to end things.
Over the years, he reached out once or twice, and I chose to leave his emails unanswered because I didn't feel emotionally ready to reconnect. I heard about him and his family through the grapevine. His brother got married! His mother was in remission! HE got married! Naturally, I checked out his new wife on Facebook the second I heard the news (and she's gorgeous). I was happy for him. When James Gandolfini died earlier this year, "The Sopranos" nostalgia helped me muster up the courage to reach out and let him know I hope he's well. He ignored me…but I guess I expected it.
I had no idea that Marge had gotten sick again. We remained in touch for about six months after my breakup with Pete. I would drop in clandestinely when I knew Pete wouldn't be home, and I sent her holiday cards (in disguised handwriting) so she knew she wasn't forgotten. It finally became too painful for me to keep up a relationship with Marge while trying to emotionally heal from my split from Pete. I knew that moving on from him meant moving on from his family, too. And I did move on. But my memories of Marge, and of Pete, are far from gone. In fact, every time I drive through my hometown, I think about stopping in to say hello, but never do. And now I wish I had.
Finding out that Marge had passed, I felt like I was going through my breakup with Pete all over again. I had lost Marge once before, and this was round two — a permanent round two. My heart ached so terribly for my ex and his family, that I felt foolish feeling so sad about her death myself.
At first, I found myself torn about whether or not it was appropriate to attend the services. The last thing I would want to do is make the family feel uncomfortable by attending, but would they even notice I was there in their haze of misery? Would I be welcomed with open arms? Talked about? I have no idea. Years had passed without seeing Marge, but like her son, she holds a special place in my heart. He was the first boy who truly made me feel loved, and despite the fact that I refused communication over the years, I will always care about him. He taught me to love myself, respect my body and to always be honest about my feelings, even if I was scared. He was the one who always told me to follow my heart and stick to my gut, which is why I felt confident enough to finally end things. And why I know exactly what I have to do for Marge.
I have to mourn. I will skip the viewing and attend the wake this weekend, sitting quietly in the back of the church where I can pay my respects to a woman I very much cared for. I sent Pete a private Facebook message letting him know how sorry I am for his loss, and that I'll be at the memorial mass along with my mother, who also cared for Marge.
Mourning doesn't necessarily mean forgetting. And, really, the same goes for my relationship with Pete and all of the others who've followed. Breakups happen. Deaths happen. Fallouts happen. It's impossible to move forward in life without leaving people behind, but it's important to pay your respects for what they brought to your life. I realize that now more than ever.
*Names have been changed.
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As most of you know, I enjoy good mysteries, especially those well grounded in historical realities of the given period. 'The Prince of Darkness' is such a mystery written by the prolific novelist and headmaster of a Catholic school in England, P.C. Doherty. I have enjoyed getting to know the redoubtable Paul and his novels, of which there are many. He and I share various things in common, not the least of which is a fondness for Durham (no not the one in North Carolina).
This particular novel is the fifth in the Hugh Corbett series, and you can get it second hand through Amazon for a pittance, which is a pity as Paul deserves better royalties he writes so well. His Hugh Corbett novels, of which there are now 17 or so, are real the cream of his crops of novels, which are in various series. This particular novel is a Devil of a tale, to say the least and could have been named 'Get thee to a Nunnery' because the vast majority of the novel takes place in a nunnery at Godstowe in Oxfordshire. The period is still the reign of Edward I, in this case in the year of our Lord 1300. Corbett, his man servant Ranulf, and a new companion, Maltote, must solve the mystery of various murders in and around the nunnery all without disturbing the crown, its delicate relationships with the French monarch, the volatile Prince Edward (and his male lover Gavescon) and a few other complications.
Doherty has skill in plotting, but he really excels in his descriptive powers and medieval life comes alive from the stinking back alleys of London to the perfumed courts of Westminster to the love Oxfordshire countryside and more. If you want to get a feel for medieval life, you could do worse than read these novels which are full of historical nuggets and intrigue (for example the second of the male lovers of Prince Edward was one Hugh de Spencer the ancient ancestor of Lady Diana!) I especially enjoy the comradery of Hugh and Ranulf the lusty but reliable right hand man, and the tender relationship between Hugh and his wife Maeve, now great with child in this novel. Corbett is portrayed not only as a master lawyer, clerk, spy, but also as a Christian person with a conscience, which among other things drive the man to find the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. He cares about truth as part of his commitment to his God.
This novel is breeze and is a quick read compared to others in this series, as it is only 247 pages and does not have a lot of confusing subplots, though it will keep you guessing to the end. Oh what a subtle web we weave, his mysteries to perform….. This makes for good summer reading, but it also deals graphically with some dark subjects like evil incarnate in the form of murder and poisoning. Nevertheless, as long as Hugh Corbett is on the case, 'the Prince of Darkness' will be kept at bay, or at least baying. Try this one first if you have not read the others, as its brevity and levity commends it as a good Whitman's sampler of the genre.


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The Blair Family of New England Revisited
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The long-awaited update and expansion to The Blair Family of New England, published in 1900, and used as a bible for New England Blair researchers, is finally completed.
The current volume attempts to document the undocumented text in the earlier book, updating and expanding the data contained, and providing new connections between the early Blairs. It takes the family back to northern Ireland and Scotland, and shows the immigration in 1718 of Robert Blair and Isabella Rankin, and of William Blair and Mary Gray, and greatly expands and follows down the lines of their children.
Robert and Isabella had eleven children and at his death in 1774, he left 209 living descendants. These have multiplied into thousands of descendants today. These descendants are followed into the frontiers of New York, Ohio and points west as they settled and helped to build towns and cities across the country. Many spouse and female lines are covered, especially those of the Nova Scotia female Blair lines (Archibald, Whidden, Higgins, Lynd, etc.) through the meticulous work of Elsie Thoresen; Robert and Isabella's daughters' lines are brought down in the early generations (Hamilton, Watson), connecting many other early New England families to the Blair family. Several as yet unconnected Blair lines are touched on (Robert Blair and Janet Combs; John Blair and Ann Pepper, etc.).
The book is 580 pages including a source list and extensive every-name index with over 6,500 names. It is hard cover, casebound, 8-1/2" x 11". To order, send your check or money order payable to Mary J. Powers to: Mary J. Powers, 41 Beech Hill Road, Blandford, Massachusetts 01008-9531.
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Part One - Origins of the Blair Family of New England - Scottish Roots; Immigration to Ulster Province; The Movement Towards New England; The Earliest New England Blairs; Connections, Capt. William Blair of Boston.
Part Two - Robert Blair and Isabella Rankin - their eleven children's lines: Matthew Blair of Blandford, Massachusetts married Mary Hamilton and Jane (nee Knox) Alexander; David Rankin Blair of Western (Warren), Massachusetts and Mary Howard; John Blair of Western (Warren), Massachusetts and spouse, Mercy Hayward; Sarah Blair of Blandford married to John Hamilton; Dolly Blair; William Blair of Nova Scotia married to Jane Barnes; James Blair of Rutland, Massachusetts; Robert Blair, Jr., of Blandford and Hannah Thompson; Mary Blair and John Watson of Spencer, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Blair and Oliver Watson; Joseph Blair of Worcester, and Mary Duncan.
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Part Four - Other Early Blair Families of New England as yet unconnected - Robert Blair of Western (Warren), Massachusetts and Angenette "Janet" (Mc)Combs; Other Early New England Blairs.
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JD Power released their Competitive Information Study on motorcycles today. Among the highlights is this:
The population of motorcycle buyers is aging, with the average rider age increasing from 40 to 49 years since 2001—an indication that many owners may soon exit the market. Additionally, the percentage of first-time buyers has declined for a second consecutive year, making it more critical now than ever for manufacturers to focus on attracting new customers.
So, motorcyclists are getting older every year, and new entrants to the sport are down for the last two years. These are bad trends for the industry as a whole, of course.
The key for manufacturers and dealers is to deliver on the best customer service practices they can. For the manufacturers, this means a laser-like focus on build quality, and delivering a solidly reliable product. For the dealers, pro-active communication with customers, and quality service are key. Missing out on any one of these seems to have a sharply negative effect on customer satisfaction, and on the chances of return business. Manufacturers and their dealers really do have to work hand in hand–now more than ever–to ensure a seamless and satisfying customer experience.
Those that don't may find that surviving the current economic doldrums increasingly difficult.
The full JD Power press release is below the fold.
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By using m0n0wall, am I correct in asuming that I wil not need this rule ?
NAT for inside clients will be handled by m0n0wall.
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For emerging bands and musicians, a performance in Austin during South By Southwest (SXSW) can be a once in a lifetime opportunity to grab the attention of hotshot record executives. Unfortunately, performance space is limited during SXSW, and without a great marketing team, the chances of being heard are slim.
To help up-and-coming artists gain credibility and generate buzz that turns heads at SXSW, the young entrepreneurs and staff at Terrorbird Media, a Brooklyn-based boutique music marketing company, rigorously publicize their clients on non-commercial and college radio stations across the nation, building momentum and legions of die-hard fans.
Having played the records of their favorite and generally lesser-known bands at their respective college radio stations, co-founders Jessica Caragliano (pictured) and George Corona established Terrorbird in 2006 out of impulse-driven youth and a desire to help mold the future of the music industry.
"I was 24 at the time, and I wanted to work with the bands I wanted to work with, make my own rules, use my own techniques, and not have to answer to anyone," Caragliano says. "I told myself, 'I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a family yet, and I don't have the same responsibilities as I would have if I was trying to start my own business if I was older'. So, I thought that if I fail at this point in my life, what's the worst that could happen?"
Since opening in 2006, Caragliano, Corona, and the Terrorbird crew have helped further the careers of numerous artists, including Regina Spektor, Animal Collective, and Moby. They've also expanded their business operations beyond non-commercial and college radio promotion, to include social media marketing and licensing services.
Though, much of the work in today's marketing industry has shifted online, SXSW is a unique opportunity for artists and businesses of all levels to network.
"SXSW is the one event of the year that most people in our industry attend," Caragliano says. "Attendance-wise, you get a full picture. If you want to meet someone, they will be at SXSW."
For people within the music industry, attending concerts is just a part of the job, but SXSW brings in a breath of fresh air and new talent, just waiting to be discovered by record labels and marketing groups such as Terrorbird.
"I see so many bands on a regular basis," Caragliano says. "So, to me the most exciting experiences are stumbling upon new bands, reliving that experience of having my mind blown by bands that I haven't heard before. If you're seeing shows every night, like I do, the allure can wear off. But in Austin, I can become a fan again, and relive that spark!"
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Employment gap between rich, poor widest on record
An analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press shows the gap in employment rates between America's highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago.
Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families - those earning less than $20,000 - have topped 21 percent, nearly matching the rate for all workers during the 1930s Great Depression.
U.S. households with income of more than $150,000 a year have an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent, a level traditionally defined as full employment. At the same time, middle-income workers are increasingly pushed into lower-wage jobs. The analysis shows that many of them in turn are displacing lower-skilled, low-income workers, who become unemployed or are forced to work fewer hours.
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Missing Ohio family found safe in Everglades
Authorities have found a missing Ohio family in good condition after they didn't return from an airboat trip in the Florida Everglades.
"Took a wrong turn," said Scott Schreck, 44, speaking to reporters after the ordeal Friday. He said it was his first time out in the Everglades.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino said Friday the family of five was spotted by a helicopter after searchers heard an air horn and whistles. Pino says the vegetation was too dense to spot the family at ground level.
The family was identified as 44-year-old Scott Schreck; his 42-year-old wife, Carrie; and their three young children. They launched their airboat Thursday.
"Took a wrong turn. Had a great fishing trip. Boys had fun, wife was having fun. Came to the end of one canal, took a right and couldn't get the boat turned around," said Schreck, who said the family was fishing and "taking pictures of 'gators" when they got lost. He said the family had "plenty of food and water" but he was worried when he couldn't find his way out of the swamp.
The searchers used aircraft and airboats to scour a vast marshland that covers more than 1,000 square miles.
Schreck said the mosquitoes were "awful" although he did set a fire to keep them away. He also said his wife wasn't "getting in that boat for a while."
The family's airboat was painted in camouflage and difficult to see. The area also had heavy thunderstorms and rain Thursday.
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WITH less than four weeks to Christmas Day, Santa's most popular gifts look set to include a mermaid's tail and a book of photographs portraying dogs under water.
But two of the biggest selling toys reflect the digital times in which we live.
The online game Moshi Monsters and the new app-activated Furby toy are tipped as two of the season's best selling toys.
A survey by the Commonwealth Bank predicts Australians will each spend about $475 on gifts this Christmas.
The most sought after children's toys are predicted as the games console Wii U, Razor Electric scooter and anything to do with Moshi Monsters, an online game where children adopt their own pet monster. Lego remains a perennial favourite, but Meccano construction sets are gaining popularity.
Merfins, a glamorous take on flippers in the shape of a mermaid's tail are ''going nuts'', said Jennifer Jackson, the owner of Hopscotch Toys in Mosman.
Ms Jackson added the educational value of a toy is emerging as a seasonal trend. Parents want toys to occupy their children away from computers, so jigsaw puzzles and do-it-yourself kits, such as the Construct-A-Clock, are emerging as big sellers.
In bookstores, Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook, Jamie's 15-Minute Meals, is predicted to continue its run on the bestseller lists, alongside Who I Am, the biography of Who guitarist Peter Townshend, and Kylie Minogue and William Baker's Kylie Fashion.
David Gaunt, the owner of Gleebooks, predicts Michael Leunig's new book, The Essential Leunig, will be very popular.
Coffee table titles Underwater Dogs by the photographer Seth Casteel and How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You by Matthew Inman from the popular comic website theoatmeal.com have been selling quickly. Retro Sydney, a collection of photographs of Sydney in the 1950s and '60s by Ian Collis, is predicted as a hot seller according to Abbey's book store in the city.
DVDs are always popular and JB Hi-Fi tips the final part of Christopher Nolan's Batman series, The Dark Knight Rises, Seth MacFarlane's Ted and the new Pixar film Brave will appear in lots of stockings this year.
At ABC Shops, David Attenborough's Kingdom of Plants, Rake and Great Southern Land are the top selling DVDs. At David Jones, the Irish sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys is top of the list, while David Attenborough makes it into the top three with his documentary series Life.
Top perfumes are harder to predict. For men, Acqua di Gio by Giorgio Armani, Issey Miyake Sport and Dior Homme were proving popular, while for women it was the relaunched version of Dolce & Gabbana Pour Femme, Chanel No. 5 and Jimmy Choo's Intense.
For families, gingerbread house kits have many fans. Similarly, cookie cutters and cake or ice-block moulds are popular gifts to keep the family busy in the kitchen. Sue Jenkins, owner of Accoutrement in Mosman, said the foodie gift of the year is the Microplane Meat Tenderiser.


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A group of leading Catholic activists and academics has renewed criticism of The Catholic University of America over a large gift from the billionaire industrialist and conservative funder Charles Koch and over a school official's statements that seem to endorse Koch's questioning of climate change and the right of public workers to unionize.
In a letter sent Monday to CUA President John Garvey and Andrew Abela, dean of CUA's new business school, more than 50 Catholic signatories said Koch and his brother, David, "have a clear political and ideological agenda."
The Kochs' libertarian-leaning positions, they said, "are in direct conflict with traditional Catholic values."
CUA's announcement in the fall that the Koch Foundation had given $1 million to the School of Business and Economics to fund lecturers and courses in "principled entrepreneurship" sparked concern among some faculty and champions of Catholic social teaching.
In December, dozens of them wrote to Garvey and Abela expressing concern that "by accepting such a donation you send a confusing message to Catholic students and other faithful Catholics that the Koch brothers' anti-government, Tea Party ideology has the blessing of a university sanctioned by Catholic bishops."
CUA, based in Washington, has an especially high profile in part because it sits in the nation's capital and it operates under the aegis of the U.S. bishops.
The university responded with unusually pointed and personal criticisms of the signatories, calling them "presumptuous" and accusing them of trying to "to manufacture controversy and score political points."
Abela, who is an exponent of conservative free-market policies that are gaining traction in some Catholic circles, also gave an interview in which he said that "Catholic social teaching says nothing" about public sector unions. He also said that while Catholic teaching affirms respect for the environment, "it doesn't say if you question global warming or climate change that's a sin."
Joseph Fahey, head of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice and chief organizer of the latest letter, said the assertions were misleading when it came to long-standing church teaching on unions and misconstrued repeated church and papal pronouncements on the environment.
"In the face of growing threats to workers' rights, Catholic university leaders should be especially mindful not to give moral cover to well-funded anti-union activists," Fahey said. "It's essential that universities protect Catholic identity when it comes to worker justice and the common good."
The critics' letter noted that Pope Francis has been outspoken on the Christian duty to protect the environment -- a cause the Koch brothers have strongly opposed.
On global warming it also quotes former Pope Benedict XVI, who wrote: "Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change, desertification, the deterioration and loss of productivity in vast agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers?"
CUA said it would have no statement beyond its response in December to the initial letter.
Other CUA defenders have said the Koch critics are themselves tainted because they received help in publicizing the letter from the progressive religious lobby Faith in Public Life, which receives some funding from the Open Society Institute backed by liberal-leaning billionaire George Soros.
Faith in Public Life says it receives about $200,000 a year from Open Society, about 13 percent of its annual budget. Officials there say they work with Catholic leaders in support of Catholic teaching, whereas Koch money is used to oppose Catholic teaching.
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New TSI Motorcycle Safety Course Helps State-Level Planners
While highway safety experts are celebrating record seat belt use and improved safety performance by drivers of passenger vehicles, the number and rate of motorcyclist deaths on U.S. roads are rising dramatically. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), motorcycle rider fatalities rose 115 percent between 1997 and 2005. During the same time, fatality numbers and rates for passenger car crashes dropped. In just one year, 2005, motorcycle crash-related fatalities increased by 13 percent (to 4,553), making motorcycle rider fatalities a significant contributor to the slight overall increase that year in the national highway fatality rate.
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Trends accompanying the rising motorcyclist death toll that are cited by FHWA include a dramatic increase in motorcycle ownership, particularly by riders over 40, along with changes in other factors such as motorcycle size and rider experience. The rate of increase in fatalities has outpaced the rate of increase in motorcycle registrations among middle-aged riders. Per-vehicle-mile traveled in 2004, motorcyclists were about 34 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a motor vehicle traffic crash and 8 times more likely to be injured.
To reaffirm its commitment to motorcycle safety as a major component in comprehensive highway safety programs at the state and federal levels, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has partnered with the National Traffic Safety Division of the Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) to develop and deliver a Motorcycle Safety Program Coordination training course.
This course is intended to provide training to state highway safety office (SHSO) program personnel and NHTSA Regional Program Managers to enable them to better facilitate and support comprehensive motorcycle safety programs in their states or regions. Coordination of motorcycle safety programs requires a multipronged approach to reduce motorcycle-related crashes, injuries, and fatalities. Going beyond rider training and motorist awareness initiatives, this training delivers information on how to integrate and implement NHTSA's Uniform Guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs, Highway Safety Program Guideline #3: Motorcycle Safety.
Course content covers various aspects of motorcycle safety programming, such as a history of motorcycle safety in the United States, a discussion of NHTSA's Highway Safety Program Guideline #3 dealing with motorcycle safety, discussions of problem identification in highway safety programs, identifying program resources and stakeholders, and proper implementation and coordination of comprehensive motorcycle safety programs.
The first pilot offerings of the course took place July 22–24, 2008, and during the first week of September at TSI in Oklahoma City. The pilot course participants stated emphatically this course meets the needs of the people who are eager to establish motorcycle safety programs. As a result of these two successful pilot courses, TSI will offer this course four times to state and NHTSA highway safety program managers and four times to U.S. Air Force traffic safety managers in Oklahoma City during fiscal year 2009. Please contact National Traffic Safety Division at (405) 954-3112 for dates.
Michael Jordan, of NHTSA's Safety Countermeasures Division, was the lead developer for the course, working in conjunction with Alyson Coyle, course manager for TSI's Traffic Safety Division. Jordan and Coyle are both avid motorcycle enthusiasts and bring years of riding experience to the development of this course.


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Watching telly with the kids I sometimes find myself irreverently drawing on cartoon philosophy. The wisdom of Homer Simpson may not be everyone's cup of tea at a policy seminar or funeral, but their thoughts do cross one's mind.
In this spirit of irreverence, I could not help wondering what Wallace (not that Wallis – the one made of plasticine ) would have said about events in the news, noting the appearance of certain persons before a parliamentary select committee this afternoon.
"Don't worry Gromit, everything is under control!" he calls out in The Wrong Trousers, just as his aerobatic disarray is telling us that nothing could be further from the truth! The emollient PR adviser's tone is there for all to see, though none of the protagonists seem to fit the role of the obedient Labrador.
How far the same caption could apply to the Government's welfare to work policies is a question more suitable for this blog. There are doubtless other more straightforward parallels but the argument that "Everything is under control" while the world is manifestly in a spin, seems too good to miss.
First, the economy seems in an uncertain state. The Government is in a position where its successes and failures can no longer be put down to the deeds of the previous administration. The Ernst and Young forecaster Item Club offered its prognosis yesterday of a growth rate bobbing along at 1.4 per cent with a "sub par" 2.2 per cent predicted for 2012.
What this means is that the private sector is unlikely to generate the new jobs needed to replace the many that will be lost in the public sector. Britain's austerity measures will result in 495,000 jobs being lost, according to the Office for Budgetary Responsibility – though research by organisations like the CIPD has put this much higher.
This is not good news for those whose role it is to find work for the workless. The growth figures due later this month seem likely to be bad too and the Chancellor's deficit reduction strategy is destined to come under closer scrutiny.
Larry Elliot writing for the Guardian suggests George Osborne's luck may be running out. Economists don't necessarily agree of course – as George Bernard Shaw commented "…if all economists in the world were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
But if the economic scenario is remotely as predicted, what then will happen to the Government's new Work Programme? The size of the change coming to the welfare to work industry has to be appreciated. On the face of things, the business of getting people back into work is due to assume more sense of purpose than before.
For example, anyone currently on incapacity benefit could in future be placed on Jobseeker's Allowance and end up being expected to find work. The Work Programme will be the vehicle of support but major doubts have been raised as to whether it will succeed in economically weak areas.
Last month the Work Foundation brought out a report arguing that a major problem was the programme's failure to take into account regional differences in availability of work.
In short, they argued, it failed to give welfare to work providers credit for the fact that getting people back to work may be immeasurably more difficult in Merthyr Tydfil or Thanet than in other more affluent parts of the country. (See the Telegraph article)
One of the problems with the programme is likely to be that there will be a generic test to determine individual capacity to work. CESI, the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, has pointed out that the Work Programme will not give welfare to work providers the information they need to support the varied needs of customers.
So, it was probably always going to be tough to make the Work Programme deliver the returns claimed for it. Harder to help groups like lone parents and older workers will be particularly vulnerable to this generic "all singing and all dancing" form of needs assessment.
Older jobseekers tell TAEN of the difficulties they have in gaining reentry to work, stories amply borne out by the labour statistics. (Older job seekers represent the most intractable group of long term unemployed.) Without special measures and incentives for the providers it may be difficult for them to succeed.
Of course TAEN is aware of these issues and is eager to speak to the prime providers that will be delivering the programme. We reckon we have the know how to support them and are confident we can make a difference to their effectiveness with our age cohort.
But that still leaves the economic issues – if the jobs just aren't there, it is going to be hard work.
But leave the last word to Wallace "There's no use in prevaricating about the bush. Get on with it."


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Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 ' 26 December 2009)
Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader
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This vital original collection of interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader is the first book of its kind to bring together the full, forceful range of his work.
Brutus, imprisoned along with Nelson Mandela, is known worldwide for his unparalleled eloquence as an opponent of the apartheid South African regime. Since its fall, he has been a voice for justice and humanity, speaking and writing extensively on issues of debt, poverty, war, racism, and neoliberalism
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Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison (Heinemann, Oxford, 1968).
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Institute, Austin, Texas, 1970).
A Simple Lust (Heinemann, Oxford, 1973).
China Poems (African and Afro-American Studies and Research Centre,
Austin, Texas, 1975).
Strains (Troubador Press, Del Valle, Texas).
Stubborn Hope (Three Continents Press, Washington, DC and Heinemann,
Oxford, 1978).
Salutes and Censures (Fourth Dimension, Enugu, Nigeria, 1982).
Airs and Tributes (Whirlwind Press, Camden, New Jersey, 1989).
Still the Sirens (Pennywhistle Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1993).
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Upton Park, venue for the Socceroos' clash with England, has been integral to English soccer for almost 100 years. Michael Lynch reports.
For most of the world, London's East End may be synonymous with low-rent villains, big-name gangsters, colourful characters of the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels variety and the archetypal chirpy cockney of 1950s British movies.
But for soccer fans, the district is best known for one thing: being the home of English Premier League side West Ham United and its Upton Park home ground, venue for the historic clash between England and the Socceroos on Thursday morning, Melbourne time.
The Hammers have been playing at the stadium - whose official name is the Boleyn Ground - since leaving their original home in Canning Town, another part of the East End, in 1904.
The area was then a cabbage patch, occupied only by a Catholic church and a reform school. Down the decades, the Hammers have had their share of bad boys and sinners - more on the terraces than on the pitch - and their infuriating lack of consistency would have taxed the patience of a saint, so the legacy of the original occupants might have lingered a little with the club.
Formed in 1895 as the works team for Thames Ironworks, a well-known local shipbuilding company, West Ham entered the Southern League in 1900 and eventually came into the old English second division.
It was as a division two side that the Hammers featured in one of the most famous games in English soccer history when they played Bolton in the first cup final at Wembley Stadium in 1923, the so-called White Horse final: record crowds (estimates put it at over 120,000) spilled into the new stadium for the game and most of the pictures of the match feature thousands of people massing on the pitch where a lone policeman on a white horse is valiantly striving to preserve public order and clear the playing arena.
Needless to say, West Ham, having crashed the big day, failed to make the most of its chances and lost 2-0 to the Lancashire team.
It has been one of the yo-yo teams of English soccer since the Second World War, spending long periods in the top flight before brief descents to the second tier and a rapid return to the elite.
But throughout its long history - in which it has won the FA Cup three times and the European Cup Winners Cup once, but never the championship - Upton Park and West Ham have invariably been bywords for soccer with style, verve, panache and skill.
The West Ham way became a phrase for teams that like to play with wit and invention, who epitomised the spirit of the sport. While other more successful clubs took a results-oriented pragmatic approach, the Hammers have always attracted the support of the neutrals and romantics to Upton Park for the way they played the game.
The club's golden era was the 1960s when, under the respected coach Ron Greenwood and with three players - the incomparable Bobby Moore, World Cup final hat-trick hero Geoff Hurst and midfielder Martin Peters - they became one of the top teams in the country, winning the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners Cup a year later.
In 1966, the West Ham trio played key roles in England's World Cup victory, the photograph of Moore perched on the shoulders of his smiling teammates clutching the Jules Rimet Trophy a lasting image of success that sunny July day.
The best-known Australian connection at Upton Park has been Socceroo wing-back Stan Lazaridis, who spent four years there before moving to Birmingham in 1999. Another Socceroo, centre-back Hayden Foxe, spent a year and a half there before moving on to Portsmouth last May.
Previous manager Harry Redknapp thought so highly of the ginger-haired Foxe that he gave him Moore's old squad number - six - but off-field indiscipline cruelled the defender's chances with the Hammers.
West Australian midfielder Richard Garcia is still at West Ham. The 21-year-old has made a handful of first-team appearances but has spent long periods on loan at minor East London club Leyton Orient.
Melbourne youngster Michael Ferrante also spent time at West Ham but he is now in Italy's Serie C.
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|Message to the Senate and House of representatives of the United States [signed: Th. Jefferson. February 19, 1806]--Extract of a letter from Captain Meriwether Lewis, to the President of the United States, dated Fort Mandan, April 17th, 1805.--A statistical view of the Indian nations inhabiting the territory of Louisiana and the countries adjacent to its northern and western boundaries. [By Meriwether Lewis]--Historical sketches of the several Indian tribes in Louisiana, south of the Arkansas river, and between the Mississippi and river Grand. [By John Sibley]--To General Henry Dearborn [account of Red river and the country adjacent, by John Sibley]--Observations made in a voyage commencing at St. Catharine's landing, on the east bank of the Mississippi, proceeding downwards to the mouth of Red river, and from thence ascending that river, the Black river, and the Washita river, as high as the hot springs in the proximity of the last mentioned river, extracted form the journals of William Dunbar, Esquire, and Doctor Hunter.
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Police have charged David Brooks with second-degree burglary, second-degree unlawful imprisonment, and first-degree sexual abuse. Brooks is accused of breaking into a home at the East Hill Apartments in Watertown and forcing a 25-year-old woman there to have sexual contact with him. He is being held on $2,500 cash bail or $5,000 bond.


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I appreciate Betty Weir sending me the following news regarding the death of Paul Guffey of Cooper. The community extends its sympathies to the Guffey and Benefield families. Paul passed away at the V.A. Hospital Monday night July 22. He was born in
Delta County to Paul Alford and Bessie Mae Bell Melton Guffey on Feb. 15, 1939. He graduated from Cooper High School in 1957 and served in the US Air Force from November 1957 through March 1970. He married Betty Lou Benefield on June 27, 1958. She survives. Also surviving are daughter Cindy Davis and her husband, Benny, of Cooper; and son, Charles Guffey and wife, Lori, of Lake Creek. Grandchildren are Chris Davis and wife, Lauren, of Austin, Joney Davis of Arlington, Kristi King and husband, Mike, of Enloe, and Jamie Long and her husband, Sammy, of Lake Creek. Also surviving are six great-grandchildren. Additional local survivors also include brothers-in-law Floyd Benefield, and wife, Teresa, and James Watkins. Family visitation will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday July 25, at the Delta Funeral Home in Cooper. Military graveside services will be held at Aiguier Cemetery at 10 a.m. Friday, July 26, with Hopkins County Military Coalition providing honors. Memorials may be made to Aiguier Cemetery Association.
Brenda Allen and Yvonne Weir took a road trip to the Hall ranch in South Dakota from June 30 until July 11. Yvonne reports, "The weather was cool and everything was green and beautiful."
On July 12, Robert, Yvonne and Wesley went to Dallas for the night. Dacy Campbell and the grandkids visited them and swam. Wesley rode the elevator up and down numerous times. On Saturday, they had lunch with Dustin and Natalie Weir. On Sunday July 21, Dakota Weir celebrated his birthday a day late with Stacy Ricker and the Weirs. He requested chicken and dumplings and an ice cream cake. Dustin and Natalie spent the night on the 22nd.
Sandra Wester enjoyed lunch and visiting with Carolyn Miller at Joe's Crab Shack in Mesquite on Thursday. Saturday afternoon, Sandra attended the 70th birthday party for her friend, Virginia Julie Miller, in Como at the Como Fire Station. Her family had decorated for a luau and each guest received a lei and the ladies all received a flower for their hair. Over 100 of Virginia's friends and family attended the celebration. Sandra reported that there was a lot of good food and a grandson had made a presentation of photos through her life for everyone to enjoy. After everyone sang Happy Birthday to her and two of her friends who have the same birthday, a band provided good country music. North Hopkins school friends who were also there to celebrate included Wynelle Belz, Catheron Camper and her husband, Don, Mary Sue Clayton, Red Ferrell and his family, and JoNell Willis. Everyone had a great time.
On Sunday, Linda Andrasko came to visit Sandra. They went to Dallas Monday morning. They had a good visit with Ina and Glyn Withrow in Garland Monday afternoon. They stopped to do some shopping in Rockwall on the way home and ate at Olive Garden before heading to Tira.
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There are lots of reasons people start to smoke. Maybe a friend or someone in the family smokes. Whatever the reason, once you start, you soon learn a nasty little secret: smoking is an addiction and it's really, really hard to stop. That's the reason for this website—to give kids and teens the facts about tobacco and provide them with games and activities. Check out the Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK) Week section to plan your activity.
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Much-loved St Kilda independent record store, cafe and music venue Pure Pop will close its doors on August 17. The decision follows a long battle with noise complaints and lengthy discussions with the local council and landlord, which ultimately failed to keep the doors open on the live music hotspot.However, plans are in place to find a new location and continue the Pure Pop legacy that started at 221 Barkly Street nine years ago. Last year Pure Pop raised more than $68,000 through its 'Buy a Brick' crowd-funding campaign to cover costly soundproofing. Proprieter Dave Stevens last week notified supporters about the closure and explained that renovations had been halted by the landlord's refusal to sign the building permit when everything else was in place to commence the soundproofing of the courtyard. He is optimistic that Pure Pop will reopen at new premises, saying: "All of the plaques for the brickbuyers have been made and engraved. They've been sitting here at the store just waiting to be put up on the new wall for a year now. All it means is that they'll be going up on a different wall." In the meantime everything at Pure Pop is up for sale including the shop fittings as well as CDs and vinyl.
Highlights of this year's Melbourne Festival program include a free open-air concert at Federation Square on opening night, techno DJ Jeff Mills collaborating with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Pat Metheny Unity Group. Irish American supergroup the Gloaming will also be in town for October's festival and composer Clint Mansell, who started his career as frontman of Pop Will Eat Itself, will perform a retrospective of his film scores includeing Requiem for a Dream, Pi and Black Swan. The multi-level Foxtel Festival Hub returns on the banks of the Yarra hosting shows by Berlin composer and pianist Nils Frahm, the Saints and Bad Seed guitarist Ed Kuepper, Melbourne soul collective the Bamboos, the Pop Crimes tribute to the late Rowland S. Howard led by his former Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey and brother Harry Howard, nine-piece US hip-hop group Snarky Puppy, plus local crooner Mikelangelo launching his Melbourne album. The popular Hub venue will also host producer Urthboy with guest musicians, New Orleans jazz phenomenon Tuba Skinny, Canadian rap renegade Buck 65, Texan troubadour Josh T Pearson (pictured) and the Avalanches' landmark album Since I Left You reproduced live by Jonti and a 17-piece orchestra. Melbourne Festival runs October 10-26. For more information visit melbournefestival.com.au
After a five-year hiatus, Augie March returns to the live stage, performing in Brunswick, the same suburb where the band played their first show. . In late 1995 when they were simply friends with a notion of being a band, Augie March was invited to play the opening of a friend's art exhibition at a gallery in Brunswick. That started a journey that saw them create a much-loved body of work, winning multiple awards and fans all over the world. Augie March's fifth studio album will be released later this year. The first single, After the Crack Up is available now on iTunes. Augie March play Howler in Dawson St, Brunswick, on October 27.
Triple R will broadcast live from the Melbourne International Film Festival Lounge at the Forum on four consecutive days between 4pm and 7pm from August 4. Each afternoon will focus on MIFF's music component known as Backbeat; this year shining the spotlight on Nick Cave, Elliot Smith, Shep Gordon and more. The public is invited along to catch on-air panel discussions as well as performances from Jen Cloher, Early Woman, White Hex, Friendships, Banoffee, Andras Fox and Oscar, Key Sung, Stephen Cummings, Broadway Sounds and Remi. Otherwise tune in at 102.7FM or live stream at rrr.org.au. Coming up in two weeks is Triple R's annual radiothon subscription drive and the theme this year is Local and Vocal.
Another live music hub is under threat due to noise complaints. Tago Mago on High Street in Thornbury needs acoustical improvements to the tune of $23,000 to keep operating as a venue. On August 2 at 1pm10 Melbourne acts including Spencer P Jones & the Escape Committee, Sons of Lee Marvin, Suzie Stapleton, the Submarines, Fiona Lee Maynard, Brian Hooper and more will donate their time and talents to help raise funds.
Monthly party Soul‐a‐Go‐Go is stepping things up tomorrow night in honour of Vince Peach who is celebrating 30 years of broadcasting on PBS FM. His Wednesday afternoon show Soul Time is the longest-running soul show in the world. Peach is a Melbourne icon for fans of Northern soul, Motown, original R&B, southern grooves and related styles, and DJs regularly in clubs. Soul-a-Go-Go will run over two rooms at the Corner Hotel from 9pm with the Bamboos performing live, plus joining Peach on the decks will be fellow PBS announcers and DJs Manchild, Miss Goldie, Richie 1250 and Matt McFetridge.
Gotye, Tex Perkins and Nicky Bomba are performing at the Melbourne Town Hall August 1 in support of the Thin Green Line Foundation. The organisation - the subject of a recent episode of Australian Story on ABC TV - supports park rangers around the globe who protect the world's natural systems and endangered species, but often live under poor conditions surrounded by the threat of poachers. The concert coincides with this week's World Ranger Day and the Thin Green Line Foundation is supported by Prince William and Dr Jane Goodall. For tickets go to thingreenline.org.au


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As usual Obama looked out for us fairly well. All you folks in the financial industry who are weeping and wailing can just pound sand, cash in some stock options, sell your Lincoln, cry me a river.
The biggest thing is earned income tax credit and medicaid, neither of which were touched. Looks like we lost 2% on Social Security contributions but that is more than made up by the earned income credit (EIC)
I should do more to define poor. By poor I mean lower than median income down to, well, to really really poor. Median is around 40K.
Obama's Deal From a poor Person's Perspective
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I have a serious problem styling an element so that it looks right in IE7. I always thought that referring to an element by id in the CSS style-sheet will always take priority over all the other CSS rules that refer to that element via other channels i.e. descending selectors. Here is the code:
I have a div that contains a ul with li's inside.

Now I am trying to style the ul (id="social_media_icon_list") with a CSS selector that looks like this:
#social_media_icon_list { }
but it's not working. and every time I firebug to check what's going on I find that another more general, descendant selector is overriding/taking priority over the above mentioned rule. The culprit is this:
#socialmediaicons ul {}
Problem is, I can't just remove the
because it has important general rules that affect the style of other parts of the site. It refers to all lists of social media icons elsewhere. So HOW do I make
take priority over
and why is this problem happening in the first place if selecting the id of an element in CSS is the highest priority way to style something?
Thank You
Thanks everyone. That explains it. Love these forums when it comes to CSS
Noonnope's suggestion is likely the right approach for overriding the specificity. The parent ID always trumps a child ID... so you need the parent ID in the declaration.
Though I would have to see the whole page, but is there even a NEED for the second ID. (or is it the other way around and you have a div for no good reason?)
Usually when I see a div around a UL and ID's on both, my gut reaction is SOMETHING there is completely unnecessary... I'd either lose the ID on the UL, or lose the DIV entirely since it is very rare that you would ever need both. Are there other UL's in that div you are targeting as well? Are you mistakingly using the same ID's more than once?
If you have two conflicting declarations that can both apply to a particular element:
In this case - neither is specified inline, so move onto the next one.Both declarations include 1 ID, so move onto the next one.Neither of the declarations include a class, so move onto the next one.A-ha ... one of them has 1 element (ul) in it, so it beats the one that has 0 elements.
Have a look at my section on specificity which shows you how to calculate an elements specificity exactly. There is a step by step example that shows you how to calculate which rule will win out. It may seem awkward or difficult at first but is is really quite straight forward once you get into the details.
All selectors are given a weighting depending on type and the more elements there are in the path the heavier (more specific) the rule becomes. If you use two ids in a rule it will outweigh a single id.
"#id ul" will always outshine a single id and you would need to add something else to it to make it more specific. As noonope suggests just adding the previous id to the rule as well will ensure that the new rule trumps the first rule.
have you tried
#socialmediaicons #social_media_icon_list {}
and a selector weight is also given by the number and type of the actual selectors used in it. and you have an id vs. an id and an element.


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> As with any two different solutions you're comparing, the PIX can do some
things m0n0wall can't, and the reverse is true as well.
Right, I am thinking we should/could provide a more comprehensive comparison
between the two directly. PIX OS 7 added a lot of new functions to the PIX.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Jimmy Bones (Mhottie)
> <mhottie at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > Hey Manuel and Guys,
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> > Been using m0n0 for a long time now and happy to see 1.31 out.
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> > This has been asked many times in the past (last reference I could find
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> > in 2006) and I think we should re-visit the topic briefly.
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> > PIX Vs m0n0wall -
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> > You can get PIX OS 7.2 on the 506e hardware easily. This is a Pentium III
> > 300 (600 in my case) and 256mb Ram (upgradeable comes with 32mb).
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> > Using 7.2 as a reference point and m0n0 1.31 - can we can get a good
> > compare/contrast/performance going for this?
> >
> Things really haven't changed since it was last discussed. As with any
> two different solutions you're comparing, the PIX can do some things
> m0n0wall can't, and the reverse is true as well. It depends on what
> you specifically need in your network as to which is a better fit, or
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|Keep It Simple, Stupid
Array to Stringby amexmythili (Novice)
|on Jan 26, 2009 at 14:39 UTC ( #738944=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
amexmythili has asked for the
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Hi Perl Monks,
Any body help me to know this.
I want to split an array in to string. iam having an array like this.
@array=(balack, white, green, red);
iam want to insert some tagging in starting and ending of the each element and store it in a string.
for example:
<tag>black</tag>, <tag>white</tag>, <tag>green</tag>, <tag>red</tag>
Any body help me in this.
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NOTE: Support for MP4 Downloader has been discontinued.
I don't have the time anymore to keep up with all the changes that YouTube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo make that affect video downloading, along with keeping up with the latest changes in Firefox.
The codebase has been left in the middle of a complete rewrite (see the Source Code section of the Development page). That codebase, and this website, are left here for archival purposes.
MP4 Downloader is a simple, cross-platform, open-source browser add-on that downloads videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Facebook Video, and Vimeo as MP4 files. This add-on can currently run in Mozilla Firefox (as an add-on) or in any browser as a bookmarklet.
A good reason to download videos in the MP4 format is that this format is iPod-compatible without additional conversion. All videos downloaded using MP4 Downloader can be easily transferred to an iPod (or almost any other portable device). See the Sync to iPod page for details.


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The Crap We Missed – Tuesday 4.17.12
Both classy and beautiful. Hard to come by in Hollywood.
… but even easier to come on.
doing her impression of the wicked witch of the west
It appears that Carmen Sandiego is in New York City.
She looked great in "Sin City." I'd love it if she were my parole agent. I would be such a good boy…
"The love shack is a little old place where we can get together!"
I really like her. Especially in Sucker Punch. And Watchmen. And Sin City.
Good call, SW
…and Californication
One sexy, classy woman right here. She should be a bigger star than she is. Loved everything I've ever seen her in.


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Use the Venn Diagram, with two intersecting circles. One circle is for Marshall's arguments in the section of his opinion quoted in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the other for Madison's. In the intersection between the two circles put those arguments that are essentially the same for both men. Begin by making a list.
As a class or in small groups, with each group assigned one section only, look at seven elements of the office of President in Hamilton's words. Compile a list of the powers and responsibilities of the President based on Hamilton's essay and/or additional resources. Can be used with the curriculum unit: Before and Beyond the Constitution: What Should a President do?
Use the Venn diagram to show both similarities and differences in the two men.
Compare the policies, personalities, experience and views of William Henry Harrison and Martin Van Buren in the Presidential campaign of 1840.
A timeline of the events that lead to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1867.
Beyond the obvious material destruction, there was more to reconstruct in the South than buildings, farms, manufacturing and railroads—there were social and political relationships to rebuild. Yet, it is impossible to understand Reconstruction fully without a grasp of the social and economic upheaval the war brought with it. For the people living through the times, this upheaval created a situation that demanded immediate attention.


text: i got the 2 Homespun Knitwear henleys in the mail today Oldtimer longsleeve in natural - size small - excellent material fit is good with a little extra room in the body Coalminer shortsleeve in bluestreak - size small - again i can't say enough about the material...feels awesome, very high quality, love the color of this one fit is too small. this one fits a little too snug through my chest/torso. length is great, sleeves are tight to my biceps... exchanging for a medium.


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by Alyssa Oursler | September 28, 2012 9:45 am
It's never a good sign when a company beats expectations but still posts a loss.
Or when a company surges on such news … but is still in the red nearly 50% year-to-date.
But that's exactly what's happening to crumbling tech company[1] Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM[2]).
In its earnings report yesterday, it announced that it only lost $235 million and brought in revenue of $2.9 billion. That made for a loss of 27 cents per share, while analysts had been bracing for a whopping 47 cents per share in the red.
Wall Street had also been expecting sales of only $2.47 billion. And so, shares of RIMM opened up 12%.
The company also surprised investors this week by announcing around 2 million new subscribers[3].
Still, the stock has been on a downward trend thanks to the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[4]) iPhone 5 release, along with its sliding market share and phone sales.
In fact, despite the higher-than-expected 'earnings,' the company still saw a 30% drop in smartphones shipped from last quarter, and a 40% fall year-over-year.
The company is betting on the release of its Blackberry 10 — now slated for 2013 — to turn that trend around.
There is also chatter than Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ[5]) could be eyeing the company for an acquisition[6].
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The holiday purchasing dilemma is here: What's worse — having too much inventory on hand — which languishes if not sold in time — or not having enough product and coming up short during the most crucial sales season of the year? This question will plague inventory managers all season long.
Right now, according to recent Department of Commerce reports, manufacturers and wholesalers are more fearful of having too much inventory than not enough. The reports also show a positive increase in wholesaler inventory and retail sales and future projections.
If sales continue to substantially outpace inventory numbers it could lead to a holiday crunch. Consider the following:


text: Hi all, Exactly what is the difference between a job and a session? I couldn't find any concrete documentation on them. I'm more interested in an implementation oriented definition -- for Linux, it seems like jobs are executed within processes, and sessions are denoted by PIDs. So are sessions simply the execution containers of jobs? Can there be multiple jobs per session or vice-versa? My apologies if this is common knowledge. Thanks, Diwaker -- Web/Blog/Gallery: http://floatingsun.net/blog


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Illinois statutes provide that a municipality or county may regulate wind farms within its zoning jurisdiction and within the 1.5 mile radius surrounding its zoning jurisdiction. A county or municipality may not require a wind tower or other renewable energy system that is used exclusively by an end-user to be setback more than 1.1 times the height of the system from the end-user's property line. A setback requirement imposed by a municipality on a system may not be more restrictive.
There must be at least one public hearing not more than 30 days prior to a siting decision by the county board. Notice of the hearing must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.


text: Britain's Got Talent's biggest ever launch is most-watched show of 2014 ITV ruled Saturday night with an FA Cup penalty shoot-out, BGT and new game show Amazing Greys Comments Written By Paul Jones 10:30 AM, 13 April 2014 Viewers were made to wait for their fix of line-dancing, salsa grannies and Simon Cowell as Britain's Got Talent returned to ITV for a new series on Saturday night. But an overrunning FA Cup match didn't appear to dampen the nation's enthusiasm for the weird and wonderful acts the country, and the world, have to offer, with record numbers tuning in for the launch, to make it the biggest show of 2014 so far. Arsenal's semi-final penalties win over Wigan Athletic pushed BGT's start time back from 7:15pm to 8pm but the talent show appeared to capitalise on the football's peak audience of 10.58 million (a 48.5% share) during the penalty shoot-out, with an average rating of 11.07m – a staggering 47.3% of the viewing public between 8pm and 9:15pm. That made it not only the biggest overnight audience of the year – overshadowing other big-hitters Coronation Street (10.07m), Call the Midwife (9.61m) and Sherlock (9.18m) – but also Britain's Got Talent's most successful launch show ever, with the previous high of 10.6m (44%) back in 2010, according to figures provided by audience research board BARB. The Saturday-night success continued for ITV immediately after BGT, with Amazing Greys – which saw youngsters take on talented veterans – pulling in 4.47m (21.8%) to win its slot against Rob Brydon's rival new game show The Guess List on BBC1, with 3.10m (15.3%). Figures include +1 and HD where applicable Follow @RadioTimes Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email