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When Strawberry Crest coach Todd Donohoe looks around, he wonders:
What is not to like?
He has a new field, new uniforms, polite kids who he says still open the doors for him, young talent, a great coaching staff, supportive fans and a smoke machine and tunnel to usher his players onto the field Friday nights.
And, his first real win.
Apparently no one told the Chargers they are scheduled for homecoming for a reason. Last week, the Chargers beat St. Petersburg Catholic 45-44, their first win over a program that wasn't either smaller or younger.
Tonight, they are homecoming guests at Middleton.
"That's the way (we get scheduled)," he said, chuckling.
The Chargers may not be ready to make a playoff run this year — shhhhh, don't tell them that — but they have enough young talent (like freshman quarterback Trey VanDeGrift) to think that day is quickly approaching.
For Donohoe, things couldn't be any sweeter. At his last stop as head coach, his last Dunedin team in 1998 went 0-10. If anyone can sympathize with Leto's current predicament, it's Donohoe — his outmanned Falcons were outscored 421-35.
He was just a kid then, all of 26 years old when he took the job, and after he left in '98 he assisted at Largo, Clearwater and Armwood, where he was the strength and conditioning coach for four seasons before landing the Crest job.
What he learned? Hire a great staff. In fact, most of his are former Hawk assistants and players.
"When I was at Dunedin I coached offense, defense, special teams … I did it all because I wanted to know it was done right," Donohoe said. "It was too much. Now I know, it's all about the staff. When you have a great staff, you can build."
With so many Hawks on his staff, something like missing the playoffs, no matter how old your program is, doesn't sit well. Last year was the first time the majority of his staff paid their way into games Thanksgiving weekend.
"We want to be there," Donohoe said. "Right now, we're just trying to stay under the radar and shock them all."


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The latest count in the Vendée Globe virtual regatta is over 184,000 participants. So, it's a huge success... and the impressive software seems to be working faultlessly. At the present moment, as we start to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, my son and I are respectively among the top 9,000 and the top 4,000 virtual vessels.
My son's yacht is named Kerouziel, and mine is Gamone.
There has been TV coverage of this game, which has become a significant social phénomenon in France. Office workers are organizing sweepstakes among their colleagues, with monetary prizes for the participant who reaches such-and-such a spot on the globe in first position. The set of wind data is updated twice a day, at 11 o'clock in the morning and 11 o'clock of an evening. A woman has sent a letter of complaint to the organizers of the virtual regatta saying that her love life is suffering, because her husband won't crawl into bed with her until he has examined the late evening wind data and set his night-time bearing accordingly.
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Subject: James George, Jackson Co., IN
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:19:47 -0400
Good Afternoon and is anyone researching the following George family:
On the 1880 Census James George was 51 Years with wife Emly age 50, son James M. George age 20, Emma A. George age 14, and Andrew J. George age 13
Also was informed that Emly Smith George died 1882 and that the second wife was Maria Conner.
I have an obit for a James M. George who died in Idaho with death cert. having almost no information nor does his obituary from Wilson Co., KS. He married in Norman, Cleveland Co., OK per his wife Christine Olson George obit.
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Published: September 10, 2010 at 9:57 AMNext week, I will be in Orlando for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. I WISH that I had the guts to try Universal's Horror Nights (no pun intended), but I am too big of a wennie. For the last few years I have watched the behind the scenes of their creation for each year's theme and it just blows me away with their attention to every detail. I loved being able to see the last twenty years online and wish I could take it in person. I suffer from so many Halloween related phobias, that it used to ruin the night for me as a child. I even stopped trick or treating at the age of seven. My heart just can't take it.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 11:30 AMI went to HHN in '08 and had a lot of fun. It tickles my terror bone a lot, but it was worth it! I really, really, really want to go to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party so I can dress as a bum!
Published: September 10, 2010 at 12:35 PMI go to Busch and Kings Dominion each year but my number one is not really Halloween but rather a Harvest Festival and it is held at Dollywood. We spend 3 full days at that event each year and see it as a Highlight in our theme park visits each year.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 3:44 PMSo let me get this straight because Legoland promoted your poll, and therefore promoting your site you took it down? Disneyland also has a FB page and is just as able to promote you also, but looks like are chosing not to. Guess they already know how the poll is going to go.
[Editor note: Poll was down for several minutes, but is back up now.]
Published: September 10, 2010 at 1:39 PMRoob Alvey being in the Knott's Scary Farm almost makes me want to fly out to SoCal just to see it!
Published: September 10, 2010 at 1:54 PMBrick or treat is great fun for the younf ones and adults as well. I have been to brick or treat for 3 years in a row and there is a lot to look at and it is just a lot of fun.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 3:30 PMUmmm, I was directed here by way of Legoland's post, but didn't vote for them...so your 'warning' isn't justified.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 3:43 PMIt's a tough balance, but I'm trying a new policy of letting readers know when I know that parks are directing people to the site for polls. If people think that helps provide context for the poll results, I'll stick with the policy. If folks think it a distraction, I'll junk it.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 3:52 PMI agree with the others, just because I was directed here by way of one park, doesn't mean I am going to vote for that theme park. I will vote exactly as the question asks 'what I want to attend' not what I want to attend because Legoland told me so.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 4:08 PMWhen I came to this site, for the first time, I saw a huge Disney add. No bias against Legoland here. There are only really two legitimate Halloween options in So Cal. Knott's if you're older and Legoland if you're younger. Just my informed opinion. (Be warned: I do not get endorsements from Disney) When Disney or Sea World put in the same energy and really turn their parks into spooky options, they can be in the conversation. They are still great places to visit all year!
Published: September 10, 2010 at 5:15 PMWe have gone to Legoland the last 3 years and don't plan on doing anything different this year. Next year we will have our Disneyland passes back and may try to visit theirs... but for now.. Brick or Treat is the place for us!
Published: September 10, 2010 at 7:11 PMAll of theses events you pay for admission. So think of this, are you getting your money's worth. Disney is just later hours, fun atmosphere and a few special opportunities. LEGOLAND is a place for 2 -12 year olds to have a Halloween party event. Knott's and Universal are for those for the suspense and thrills. Six flags park is more of late nights and spooky atmosphere and entertainment. So keep that in mind and look at the different event websites to see what is happening and how much it is.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 8:01 PMWe attend Mickey's at least once each year, but Halloween for us is all about HHN. This year we're doing a three night run from Oct. 29th thru Halloween. If we lived in Florida, we'd probably go at least once a week during it's run!
Published: September 10, 2010 at 8:15 PMHey, I'm working at Kings Dominion!! :-)
Anyway, I object to the notion that in other markets, there is only one choice. It's just a bit further to drive.
I live in Manassas, Virginia. I have 5 haunts I know of to choose from within 4 hours:
Kings Dominion
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Six Flags America
Dorney Park
I'm thinking there are a few other places in the country that might more than one choice; I know Ohio has two choices, maybe 3 if Kennywood has something (don't know).
Anyway, I'm going to Dorney Park and Busch Gardens, and of course Kings Dominion (where I am also working this year). I'm also going to Hershey Park, but not on a halloween day. I've never been to HerheyPark's halloween, but we did do Six Flags America one year.
Published: September 10, 2010 at 9:38 PMIf you really want scares? If you want to live in a horror movie? Go to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. I love the movie "Saw" and went last year to see all the traps from the movie. USH is having it again as well as Freddy Kreuger, House of a 1000 Corpses, and La Llrona from Mexican Folklore.
Published: September 11, 2010 at 4:26 PMYou should let the people vote freely the way they want to. If someone suggest their park it is still the voters decision who they want to vote for. Your company should not manipulate votes.
Published: September 12, 2010 at 6:33 PMI'm going to Orlando Halloween Horror Nights and Busch Tampa's Howl O Scream in early October - I didn't consider going to any of the other events as I prefer the really scary ones.
This will be my first time at these events and I'm going with the VIP options and also doing the upcharge Alone maze at HOS. On the same trip I'm doing Hollywood HHN and Knotts Scary Farm (which I did for the first time last year) before Orlando.
I love the Halloween events (based on last year's experience) and consider it well worth the trip from Australia.
Published: September 13, 2010 at 10:41 AMThis Saturday we are going to Mickey's NSSHP and next weekend to HOS in Tampa for the passholder's weekend. Not going to HHN until the middle of October. I like HOS just for fun, but for serious Halloween lovers HHN beats it year after year hands down.
I remember a few years ago there was a Vampire house at HHN that was set up like one of the scenes from the 1st Blade movie with the all white tile room. It was one of the best houses they have ever had. I think it was the last year that the event was held in both IOA and US. I also remember from that same year there was a show at the entrance to IOA that was set up like a sacrifice. They "picked" a plant from the audience to be in on it. It was fantastic.
Published: September 15, 2010 at 5:52 PMI love Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party especially for the fact that it is not so scary and the parade is top notch. I love seeing everyone dressed up in cute costumes, not seeing who can more creepy or gross. I am too much of a chicken to attend Halloween Horror Nights or Hallo-Scream. Besides, the only party adults can dress up in costumes is at Magic Kingdom!


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At our core, or coeur, we humans are spiritual beings. Spirituality can be viewed in a variety of ways from a traditional understanding of spirituality as an expression of religiosity, in search of the sacred, through to a humanistic view of spirituality devoid of religion. Health is also multi-faceted, with increasing evidence reporting the relationship of spirituality with physical, mental, emotional, social and vocational well-being. This paper presents spiritual health as a, if not THE, fundamental dimension of people's overall health and well-being, permeating and integrating all the other dimensions of health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, reflected in the quality of relationships that people have in up to four domains of spiritual well-being: Personal domain where a person intra-relates with self; Communal domain, with in-depth inter-personal relationships; Environmental domain, connecting with nature; Transcendental domain, relating to some-thing or some-One beyond the human level. The Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health and Well-Being embraces all extant world-views from the ardently religious to the atheistic rationalist.
Human spirituality is increasingly being recognized as a real phenomenon and not merely a "mental illusion" [
Many and varied attempts at defining spirituality range from religious to humanistic ends of a spectrum (see Spilka, cited in [
Much debate about the nature of spirituality has occurred for centuries. However, writers have had difficulty in defining the concept [
Spirituality can mean many things in popular usage, and is often understood differently by different people. While retaining a certain ambiguity, its current range of application extends from traditional institutional religion to occult practices. In general, the term appears to denote approaches to discovering, experiencing, and living out the implications of an authentic human life [
Twenty-four separate meanings for the word 'spirit' are listed in the
Literature on spirituality reveals several points of agreement about its nature, as well as divergent opinions, which are worth noting:
Consensus is reported in the literature for spirituality being posited at the heart of human experience [
The notion of spirituality is emotive [
A variety of opinion prevails on the nature of any relationship between spirituality and religion. Some people equate spirituality with religious activity, or use the words interchangeably (e.g., [
"A relationship to the sacred
Abraham Maslow, reputed by many to be the father of humanistic psychology, and John Dewey, a founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism, both consider spirituality to be part of a person's being, therefore, prior to and different from religiosity [
This kaleidoscope of viewpoints illustrates how people's worldviews and beliefs can influence their understanding of spirituality, a key feature in the model of spiritual health presented later in this paper.
Spirituality has been seen as personal, or subjective, lacking much of the objective nature considered necessary for its investigation via the scientific method [
In order to balance an over-emphasis on the subjectivity of spirituality, Thatcher argued that there is a "crippling price to pay for misidentification of spirituality as inwardness" and we need to go beyond the inner search to fully understand spirituality [
"The spirit is dynamic. It must be felt before it can be conceptualized" [
Five types of spirituality are believed to exist in the United States, namely "humanistic spirituality" with focus on human spirit with no claim to a higher power; "unmoored spirituality" focusing on energy, connection, and nature; and three types of "moored spirituality" based on Eastern religions; or Western religions with evangelical, or conservative, bases [
An attempted integration of the divergent views described spirituality as the ancient and abiding human quest for connectedness with something larger and more trustworthy than our egos—with our own souls, with one another, with the worlds of history and nature, with the invisible winds of the spirit, with the mystery of being alive [
This definition has many similarities to this author's functional definition:
Spirituality is concerned with a person's awareness of the existence and experience of inner feelings and beliefs, which give purpose, meaning and value to life. Spirituality helps individuals to live at peace with themselves, to love (God and)* their neighbor, and to live in harmony with the environment. For some, spirituality involves an encounter with God, or transcendent reality, which can occur in or out of the context of organized religion, whereas for others, it involves no experience or belief in the supernatural. (NB * These words were placed in parentheses as they will be meaningless to those people who do not acknowledge a relationship with God.) [
Although it must be kept in mind that there can be negative as well as positive expressions of spirituality [
The nature of health needs to be addressed, before investigating the relationship between spirituality and health. Even in Greek times, educators considered the total health of each individual as having a sound spiritual base [
It has been suggested that there are six separate, but interrelated, dimensions that comprise human health (e.g., [
Ellison suggested that spiritual well-being "arises from an underlying state of spiritual health and is an expression of it, much like the color of one's complexion and pulse rate are expressions of good [physical] health" [
In the framework definition of spiritual well-being (SWB) proposed by the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging (NICA), in Washington DC, four main themes appeared as SWB was seen as "the affirmation of life in a relationship with God, self, community and environment that nurtures and celebrates wholeness" [ relation with self, in the Personal domain relation with others, in the Communal domain relation with the environment, in the Environmental domain, and relation with transcendent Other, in the Transcendental domain.
relation with self, in the Personal domain
relation with others, in the Communal domain
relation with the environment, in the Environmental domain, and
relation with transcendent Other, in the Transcendental domain.
Principles of Grounded Theory qualitative research methodology were used to develop detailed descriptions of these four domains of spiritual health from interviews with 98 educators from 22 secondary schools (State, Catholic and Independent) in Victoria, Australia. Up to five senior staff were interviewed in each school to elicit their views on the nature of spiritual health and its place in the school curriculum. Surveys were also collected from 23 Australian experts in fields related to SWB [
A, if not the, fundamental dimension of people's overall health and well-being, permeating and integrating all the other dimensions of health (
Personal domain—wherein one intra-relates with oneself with regards to meaning, purpose and values in life. Self-awareness is the driving force or transcendent aspect of the human spirit in its search for identity and self-worth.
Communal domain—as shown in the quality and depth of interpersonal relationships, between self and others, relating to morality, culture and religion. These are expressed in love, forgiveness, trust, hope and faith in humanity.
Environmental domain—beyond care and nurture for the physical and biological, to a sense of awe and wonder; for some, the notion of unity with the environment.
Transcendental domain—relationship of self with some-thing or some-One beyond the human level (
This definition outlines the inter-connective and dynamic nature of spiritual health, in which internal harmony depends on intentional self-development, coming from congruence between expressed and experienced meaning, purpose and values in life at the Personal level. This intentional self-development often eventuates from personal challenges, which go beyond contemplative meditation, leading to a state of bliss, perceived by some as internal harmony.
Morality, culture and religion are included in the Communal domain of spiritual health, in accord with Tillich's view that the three interpenetrate, constituting a unity of the spirit, but "while each element is distinguishable, they are not separable" [
In this model, people's worldviews are seen to filter the knowledge aspects of spiritual health, while their beliefs filter the inspirational aspects. A key feature of this model is the partially distinct nature of, yet interrelation between, the 'knowledge' and 'inspirational' aspects of each of the four domains of spiritual well-being.
The quality, or rightness, of the relationship that a person has with themselves, with others, with nature and/or with God constitutes a person's
The notion of
When relationships are not right, or are absent, we lack wholeness, or health; spiritual disease can grip our hearts. The quality of relationships in each of the domains will vary over time, or even be non-existent, depending on circumstances, effort and the personal worldview and beliefs of the person. Not many people hold the view that they are sole contributors to their own spiritual health (relationship in the Personal domain only); most at least include relationships with others in their world-view of spiritual well-being. The notion of progressive synergism implies that development of the Personal relationships (related to meaning, purpose and values for life) is precursor to, but also enhanced by, the development of the Communal relationships (of morality, culture and religion).
Ideally, a person's unity with the environment builds on, and builds up, their Personal and Communal relationships. Cultural differences apply here. Many people from Western societies do not hold the same view of environment as other people groups, for example First Nations people and adherents to many Eastern religions. Westerners are more likely to have some awareness of environmental concerns rather than the deep connection or a sense of wonder and oneness with the environment that is evidenced in some non-Western cultures.
The relationship of a person with a Transcendent Other embraces relationships in the other three domains. For example, from a theistic point of view, a strong faith in God should enhance all the other relationships for SWB, reflecting Macquarrie's assertion, "As persons go out from or beyond themselves, the spiritual dimension of their lives is deepened, they become more truly themselves and they grow in likeness to God" (cited in [
People known as Rationalists would be willing to embrace the knowledge aspects of 'spiritual' well-being, but not the inspirational aspects. These people would hold atheistic or agnostic worldviews.
Just as spiritual health is a dynamic entity, it is similarly through the challenges of life that the veracity and viability of a person's worldview and beliefs will be tested, together with the quality of their relationships in the domains of SWB considered to be important. Spiritual health will be enhanced or emaciated. When we have ways of assessing the current state of a person's spiritual health, as clinician, friend, counselor, parent, or teacher, we have a basis from which to help nurture relationships appropriately, to enhance our own, and others', spiritual well-being.
The four domains model of spiritual health and well-being purports to provide a clear conceptual framework which embraces the diversity of views expressed in discussions of spirituality in the general populace. SWB is the expression of the underlying state of spiritual health of a person. As such, spiritual health, spiritual well-being and the composite, spiritual health and well-being, all encompass the same field of enquiry, namely the quality of relationships people have with themselves (Personal domain), with others (Communal domain), with the environment (Environmental domain) and/or with a Transcendent Other (Transcendental domain).
Spiritual well-being should not be confused with positive psychologists' notion of psychological well-being. Although these two aspects of well-being are inter-related, psychological well-being focuses on headspace (
This 4D model has been employed as the theoretical foundation for a number of empirical studies, investigating spiritual health and well-being of youth in the U.K. [
Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health and Well-Being.
filtered by world-view
filtered by beliefs
human spirit creates awareness
reaching the heart of humanity
ultimate concern Tillich
cosmic force New Age
God, for theists
|Expressed as
joy, fulfillment,
peace, patience,
identity, integrity, creativity, intuition
hope & faith in humanity
sense of awe and wonder
valuing Nature/Creation
|adoration & worship, being:
at one with Creator
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Taylor Swift Talks Red Tour
She's made quite a name for herself with her amazing live shows, and Taylor Swift can't wait for her fans to see her forthcoming Red tour.
The "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer, who hits the road March 13th through September, told press, "I didn't think I could be any more excited about my Red album, but then I start thinking about how I'm going to put the new show together for the Red Tour."
"I have so many ideas about how to really bring this music to life, and I can't wait to share the new show with all my fans!"
As for her opening act Ed Sheeran, Taylor gushed, "I was in Australia when I first saw Ed Sheeran's music video for 'Lego House' and I was so blown away by his voice that I found a way to get his album, the entire album, even though it was not on sale in the U.S. yet. And became a huge fan."
Additionally, Swift will co-host the CBS "Grammy Nominations Live!" special with LL Cool J on December 5th at 10pm.
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The standard cross-cultural sample is a sample of 186 cultures, used by scholars engaged in cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural research entails a particular statistical problem, known as Galton's problem: tests of functional relationships (for example, a test of the hypothesis that societies with pronounced male dominance are more warlike) can be confounded because the sample of cultures are not independent. Traits can be associated not only because they are functionally related, but because they were transmitted together either through cross-cultural borrowing or through descent from a common cultural ancestor.
George Peter Murdock attempted to tackle Galton's problem by developing a sample of cultures relatively independent from each other—i.e., with relatively weak phylogenetic and cultural diffusion relationships. Murdock began with the twelve hundred or so peoples in his Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock, 1967), dividing them into roughly 200 "sampling provinces" of closely related cultures. Murdock and Douglas R. White chose one particularly well-documented culture from each sampling province to create the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS) (Murdock and White, 1969). The number of cultures is large and varied enough to provide a sound basis for statistical analysis; the sample includes 186 cultures, ranging from contemporary hunter gatherers (e.g., the Mbuti), to early historic states (e.g., the Romans), to contemporary industrial peoples (e.g., the Russians) (Template:Harvcolnb; Template:Harvcolnb).
Scholars engaging in statistical cross-cultural analysis are encouraged to use the set of cultures in the SCCS, since each new study adds to the number of coded variables capable of being used with already existing variables. By focusing scholarly attention on this sample of 186 cultures, the data have steadily improved in scope and quality. The open access electronic journal World Cultures, founded by White, published by William Divale, and now edited by J. Patrick Gray, functions as the repository of the SCCS, archiving the now nearly 2000 coded variables and publishing a number of papers on cross-cultural methodology. The journal moved in in 2006 to the University of California eScholarship Repository.
Murdock also founded the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale in the 1940s, but the SCCS contains a different set of cultures, uses a different set of ethnographic sources, and can be considered entirely distinct from the HRAF.
Cultures in the standard cross-cultural sampleEdit
See alsoEdit
- Divale, William. (2000). Pre-Coded Variables for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample from World Cultures. Volumes I & II. York College, CUNY, Spring 2000.
- Divale, William, Daria Khaltourina and Andrey Korotayev. (2002). A Corrected Version of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample Database. World Cultures 13(1): 62-98.
- Hoy, Andrew R. (1994). "The Relationship Between Male Dominance and Militarism: Quantitative Tests of Several Theories." World Cultures. 8(2): 40-57
- Mace, Ruth; Pagel, Mark (1994), "The Comparative Method in Anthropology", Current Anthropology 35 (5): 549–564 .
- Murdock, George P. (1967). Ethnographic Atlas: A Summary. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Murdock, George Peter and Douglas R. White. (1969). "Standard Cross-Cultural Sample." Ethnology. 9:329-369.(2006 On-line edition) [1]
- Naroll, R. (1965). "Galton's problem: The logic of cross cultural analysis." Social Research. 32: 428-51.
- Silverman, Philip; Messinger, Jacquelyn (1997), The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, California State University, Bakersfield: Unpublished Manuscript, http://www.csub.edu/ssric-trd/modules/sccs/sccs.html .
- White, Douglas R. (1986) Focused Ethnographic Bibliography for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample World Cultures 2(1):1-126. (Reprinted 1989 Behavior Science Research 23:1-145 and 2000 by William Divale)
- White, Douglas R. (2007) Standard Cross-Cultural Sample Free Distribution Site (UC Irvine)
- White, Douglas R. and George P. Murdock. (2006). Pinpointing Sheets for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
Further readingEdit
- Variables in SCCS
- Ethnographies used to code variables in SCCS
- Resource page for SCCS
- SCCS inventory and UC Irvine library citations
External linksEdit
Pinpointing specifications for each cultureEdit
- Public Domain Release 1: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 1-18
- Public Domain Release 2: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 19-36
- Public Domain Release 3: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 37-59
- Public Domain Release 4: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 55-65
- Public Domain Release 5: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 66-80
- Public Domain Release 6: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 81-113
- Public Domain Release 7: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 114-141
- Public Domain Release 8: Exact Pinpointing for societies SCCS 142-162
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It might seem like a great idea – spending the day punting the market from the comfort of your own home. But day trading is not for everyone, and it can be a lot harder than it looks.
Day trading has increased in popularity in recent years with big advancements in technology, shrinking brokerage costs (thanks to increased online competition) and a trend among Australians to more actively manage their investments. But the stampede into day trading belies the fact that it needs many ingredients to succeed: enough capital, the right tools, an intimate knowledge of the market, and above all, a healthy dose of luck.
Since the global financial crisis, there have arguably been two key developments that have pushed investors towards the active-trading approach: equity markets have been disappointingly range-bound, and within that range, they have been exceptionally volatile. This the worst possible combination for investors who stick to the traditional buy and hold approach, as they have been stuck on a roller-coaster ride without being rewarded for their patience.
Meanwhile, foreign exchange markets, previously the exclusive domain of big institutions, have opened up to retail traders at a time when seismic shifts in the global economy have been occurring. The Australian dollar has set new post-float records, broken though parity with the once mighty greenback and gone much further than many market watchers expected. For many day traders taking their first baby steps into the world of currencies, this has been a very profitable one-way bet.
"It's pretty easy to fall into the trap of believing I'm very good because I'm making a lot of money and it's been pretty easy to make money in the Aussie over the last year," says IG Markets strategist Ben Potter. "But what usually happens is when tougher times come [new traders] can have a tendency to give a large chunk of it back. They've only seen the market move one way and they're not prepared for what can happen."
Active trading requires a different mindset to investing. While an investor might scour the market looking for a company that has good growth prospects, or a stock that is undervalued relative to its intrinsic value – these factors are often irrelevant to the day trader.
Of far greater importance to the trader is whether a security is liquid enough to trade in and out of, so that quick profits can be realised and losing trades can be extinguished swiftly. The last thing a day trader wants is to be stuck in a trade – unable to realise a quick profit or cut a quick loss – because the security being traded is too illiquid. This rules out many stocks at the smaller end of the market traditionally favoured by retail investors searching for big gains. Many are even agnostic about what market they are participating in – it doesn't matter whether it's stocks, currencies or commodities – if it is sufficiently liquid and volatile, all can be fertile ground for the trader.
Potter says that while dissatisfaction with the traditional buy and hold approach has seen many equity investors embrace day trading, most of the growth he has witnessed has been in currencies.
"Foreign exchange has shown the most growth because it's a better market in terms of liquidity and it trades 24 hours," he says.
One advantage of trading foreign exchange is that the only transaction costs are the bid-offer spreads, which can be as low as 1 "pip" – or 0.01¢.
But one disadvantage of trading currencies is that it almost always requires leverage. Currencies are volatile but they don't offer the big percentage swings that shares do. So investors need to be prepared to risk large amounts of capital, or use leverage in order to magnify returns and make it worth their while.
But equities still offer plenty of avenues for day trading. One of the hottest areas of the market over the past couple of years has been mid-cap miners, which are in a rare sweet spot: they are liquid enough to trade frequently, volatile due to their close correlation to commodity prices, and they still offer the potential for big gains over short timeframes.
"The popularity of foreign exchange is quite extraordinary, but with Australian equities one of the most popular areas of the market is the single commodity, mid-cap miners," says CMC Markets strategist David Land.
While the fundamentals of investing are important, day traders need to have a solid grasp of technical analysis. Often dismissed as a voodoo science by long-term investors, technical analysis involves studying chart patterns to time the entry and exit points for trades.
"We are basically studying psychological and human behaviour and looking at chart patterns that repeat themselves over time," says Fat Prophets technical analyst David Thang. "It's essentially a tool for traders to time exit and entry points for trades."
He says while fundamentals often drive share prices over the long term, technical analysis often determines prices in the short term. Two technical indicators he keeps an eye on are the 50 and 200-day moving averages, which he says can provide a good indicator of momentum.
The field of technical analysis is based on relatively straightforward concepts like trends – an uptrend being a series of higher highs and higher lows, a downtrend being the opposite – but it can often descend into more esoteric concepts like Fibonacci retracements and Elliot Wave indicators. To an extent, traders need to be aware of market technicals and key chart points simply because so many other traders adhere to the discipline, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. One of the oldest and most common strategies is trend following, where the rules "the trend is your friend" and "don't fight the tape" apply.
Land says as a general rule, people considering day trading for a living should have the equivalent of at least two years of their previous net salary set aside to cover expenses. He says investors who pay rent and other expenses from trading profits often put themselves under too much pressure and don't succeed.
"The key thing is to not be withdrawing money for bills and so forth," he says. "Your trading account can't be used as your daily expense account. Whatever the [dollar] amount is, you need to have enough set aside for your living expenses to give your trading account the opportunity to grow."
Land says the top priority for wannabe traders should be capital preservation, which means positions have to be sized appropriately, and stop losses have to be in place to minimise risks. "It shouldn't be thought of as an idea of having one or two very successful trades and then retiring on that," he says. "You may be trading for the short term but you have got to be planning to do it over the long term."
Potter says day traders need to be able to control their emotions, and to cope with highs and lows that are an inescapable part of financial markets. "The shorter the trading timeframe, the harder it is on the emotions and the more it comes down to discipline and risk management," he says.
When you are trading frequently, there will inevitably be losses, something that needs to be overcome emotionally.
"If you take three of four losses in a row, you've got be able to put the next trade on," Potter says. "You have got to have a system or an edge in the market that allows you to win a reasonable amount of time. Anyone with a strike rate of six or seven out of 10 is doing very, very well, and you rely on the fact that your losses are much smaller than your profits."
He says traders should never risk more than 5 per cent of their account on a single trade. But above all, he says day traders need to treat their trading as a full-time profession.
"You are replacing one job in an office with another, it's not easy, it's full time, and you've got to have your wits about you," he says. "It's not a game, it's a business."
He says good traders know fairly quickly when a trade is working against them, based on their time frame, and will cut the positions accordingly. Those that don't are "just punting", and not adhering to proven risk-management techniques. Successful traders will size positions and place stop losses around these factors. "A good trader will look at a trade and say 'where would my stop-loss be', and work their trade around that," Potter says.
He adds it may be that the stop loss is too far away so the trade isn't made. A successful trader asks "how much am I going to lose and how much am I risking here; is there a good chance that I can make a lot more than I am risking?"
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Mr. Medvedev's announcement, which came a day after a 90-minute bilateral meeting with President Obama in France represents a pronounced shift in Russia's tone on Libya. Russia's criticism of NATO attacks had become increasingly tough over the last months, reviving a longstanding critique of American unilateralism that had quieted since Mr. Obama took office.
By attaching Russia's prestige to the effort, Mr. Medvedev is taking a gamble. If Colonel Qaddafi could be convinced to leave, Russia would win international plaudits but would also bear some responsibility for guaranteeing his safety. If he cannot, Mr. Medvedev might find it more difficult to keep his distance from the military campaign, which is not popular in Russia.
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The security service of Egypt succeeded in freeing a Christian girl who had been kidnapped by a terrorist group, reports Linga with reference to its own source in the department.
On February 2, head of the security service of muhafazah (one of the governorates of Egypt) Kena Muhammad Kamal received a report from a police department about the kidnapping of a young woman named Esther Kaddis, who lived in the village of Bahjura, Nag Hammadi.
The Christian woman was abducted on the road, leading towards the village church, where she was going on Sunday.
A task force was formed at once, and after a brief search, the location of the girl and her kidnappers was found. At the present time, E. Kaddis is alive; she is staying at the Nag Hammadi police headquarters and is providing evidence. On their part, respective departments filed a petition to the public prosecutor's office regarding the institution of a criminal case (article: "kidnapping of people").
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In many ways, dormitory life at Amherst College is the same as it has long
been—roof-raising parties, frantic study sessions, philosophical debates
that last into the wee hours of the morning. But a new policy ensures that one
aspect of dormitory tradition will disappear. In an e-mail to
all students on Nov. 18, President Anthony W. Marx announced the expansion of
an indoor-smoking ban to include all campus buildings, including dormitories,
starting with the Spring 2004 semester.
"As you know," Marx wrote to students, "all of our dormitories
are now smoke-free in public areas, and several dormitories are designated as
smoke-free even in private rooms. I have decided to prohibit smoking in private
rooms in all the dorms because of my concern about the health problems caused
by direct and second-hand smoke and my desire to do all we can to ensure the
long-term health of all of our students."
According to The Amherst Student, Marx's decision came after a parent asked
about smoking in residential buildings during a Family Weekend forum. The prohibition,
which was supported by the College Council (a committee of faculty, students
and administrators), is in line with the policies of most of the other members
of the Five College consortium (according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Mount
Holyoke and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts have all adopted
similar policies in the past three years). Marx's
e-mail, which came two days before the American Cancer Society's annual
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smoking), also announced a smoking-cessation program being offered by the Student
Health Service. The program will provide nicotine patches to interested students
in combination with individual counseling.
Student response was swift and impassioned. Some lashed out at the decision,
both in newspaper articles and in online forums. Complaining about the notion
of smoking outdoors during the winter, junior Daniel Graves told the Gazette, "This
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But others supported the new policy on smoke-free dorms. "I tend to think
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Target: John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon
Goal: Apply Good Samaritan laws to those individuals who intervene in order to help and save animals
Several concerned citizens of the state of Oregon are calling for Good Samaritan laws to be put in place for animal welfare. These individuals, including members of the Roseburg Humane Society, are asking the state to extend Good Samaritan protections to not only include attempting to save humans but animals as well. Currently, the state of Oregon has no such legal protections, and individuals have found themselves facing criminal charges simply for trying to protect animal life.
Good Samaritan laws protect those acting in good faith and with the intention to help victims from liability for damages that may occur when these individuals try to perform good deeds. These laws most traditionally protect individuals who attempt to perform first aid on injured individuals. The rational behind these laws are that people should not be punished for trying to help someone who is in need. However, there are little to no protections for individuals who try to help animals in need.
Good Samaritan laws need to be passed in order to protect those individuals who care enough about animals to respond quickly and act in a way to improve the state of the animal. In Oregon, an 84 year-old man was charged with felony theft after walking a neighbor's dog that had been left outside on a very hot day. The neighbor had left the dog in the yard while she was at work, and the dog was apparently acting lethargic and overheated. The man returned the dog after the walk, but he was still arrested over the incident. The charges were only dropped after the arresting officer failed to appear in court.
Sign the petition letter below, and tell the state of Oregon that being caring and compassionate should never be a crime. Those who try to help animals should not have to worry about being sued over their good deeds. It is accepted that those who act with good faith in helping human beings are protected by law, and that same protection needs to be extended to all creatures. A life is a life, no matter if it is a dog or a human being.
Dear John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon,
The United States has a very long legal tradition of Good Samaritan laws. We accept that those who act in good faith to try and save an individual's life should have special protection under law. As a society, we reward compassion and value life.
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You would never hear a story on the news about an individual who was facing charges after trying to save a fellow human from an abusive situation; why should animals be treated any differently? Good Samaritan laws need to be applied to protect the caring individuals who go out of their way to prevent further harm from occurring to animals.
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Sun Yat-Sen University or Zhongshan University is a prominent university in the southern part of China, located mainly in Guangzhou. The university is named after Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, a physician and later president of the Republic of China. The university consists of 4 campuses (South Campus, North Campus, East Campus and Zhuhai Campus) with a total area of 6.17 square kilometers.
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Sun Yat-Sen is a comprehensive university with four campuses. The School of Business is divided into the East Campus (undergraduate program) and the South Campus (Master's programs). The School of Business is relatively new, but has grown tremendously and achieved high rankings in China. More than 60 professors are on faculty and the School of Business is known for outstanding research. The university has several libraries, a sports complex, a swimming pool, a student activity center, and several cafeterias and canteens.
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Guangzhou is located in the North of the Pearl River Delta, an important trading center for the Guangdong province. Guangzhou is a metropolis with more than 2,800 years history and has a population of 6.7 million. There are many museums and sights to see in the city, and the weather is generally mild year-round. The city is large and public transportation is good. It takes only a little more than1 hour to arrive in Hong Kong by train.
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Estimated Costs
$1000 per month.
Assistance will be provided in finding suitable off-campus housing. For students who want to arrive first and then search for housing (recommended), accommodation can be granted for a week or two at one of the campus hotels/guesthouses. There are many nice apartment options (single or to share) within walking distance of the campus. It is standard to use a real estate company/real estate agent to help you find a place; your SYSU buddy can also help with translation and negotiation. Most foreign students live just outside the campus North Gate and pay between $250 to $300 USD per month for a very nice apartment. You will also be required to pay the real estate agent a finder's fee of approximately $220 USD.
Travel Opportunities
Daily ferries take passengers from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, as the third largest city in China, there are many activities in the city center and surrounding area.
Contacts Abroad
Ms. Connie Yan
Coordinator of Intl Exchange Program
School of Business, Sun Yat-Sen University
No. 135 XinGang West Rd.
Guangzhou, 510275, P.R. China
Tel: 8620-84112697
Fax: 8620-84036924
Email (yandh at mail.sysu.edu.cn)
Ms. Annie Ding
Coordinator IMBA Program
Tel: 8620-84110660
Fax: 8620-84113626
Email (Happiness233 at 126.com)


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[Plugin: Automatic Post Tagger] What about custom post types?
Another suggestion, I don't know if it would be better for this plugin or for the suggested plugin that will assign tags or any other taxonomy:
Work not only with posts, but also with custom post types.
My use case: I'm pushing a lot of external content into my site (importing RSS through Feedwordpress), kind of creating a database of content. Automatic tagging/taxonomizing of posts/custom types would allow me to create an actual database of content, searchable and indexable, so I can let users do stuff like "get a list of external news (not our own posts) referencing this location and this subject". It could be done with the tagger we have now, but it would be more powerful with these improvements.
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Thousands of DVDs are available at Olin Library. Most of the collection is shelved on Level B, with a few behind the Checkout Desk on Level 1. Level B DVDs are fully browsable. Level 1 DVDs may be requested at the Help Desk by providing the title or call number to a staff member at the desk. The link below will take you to a page of DVDs by subject or language. These categories are not comprehensive, so if you are looking for a particular title and you don't find it, search for that title in the Classic Catalog. There are also some DVDs in the Music and Art & Architecture Libraries.
Graduate Lockers:
Graduate Lockers may be checked out for 1 year. Keys are obtained from the Check-out Desk, Olin Library Level 1. You may search the library catalog to see if any are currently available.
There are a few reference-type CD-ROMs; most have been shelved in Reserve, and can be checked out. Please ask at the Help Desk for assistance in using these resources. Audiobooks and some sound recordings are in Olin Reserve. Most audio CDs and other sound recordings are located in the Music Library.
VHS videos are arranged as a browsing collection in Olin on Level A. Departmental libraries may also have small video collections related to their subject areas.
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Audiobooks are shelved behind the Check-out Desk, Olin Library Level 1. You can search for them in the Classic Catalog by author or title, and limit your search to spoken recording as the material type. But if you just want to browse what we have, try these links:
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Of course not!
Any movie lover should know and value Steven Greydanus' thorough and thoughtful reviews, featured at his website Decent Films. If you're Catholic then that goes double as he always takes pains to look at films through a Christian lens, without making faith a necessity for a good film.
My only problem has been that I tend to forget to check his blog and until now there has been no RSS feed. Well, that is a problem no longer. The whole site has been redesigned and you can read here about the improvements.


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Very interesting thread. I think this might be the only country where consumers complain about having more choices (see some posts above).
By the way, there will be minimum 4 engine choices when new diesel specs are made public. Great time to be shopping for a new BMW 3 series.
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I don't expect it to be a great time selling them. It's bad enough now trying to configure/order cars for stock with all of the lines and packages. The combinations number in the thousands. And now, were going to add a whole 'nother car to the mix? Just imagine trying to sell from stock...
It used to be so much easier. It is brutal nowadays. And with the current glut of inventory, and all of these offerings, combined with buyers who are unwilling to wait 60-90 days for a custom order, and selling for invoice or less. The caliber of qualified CA's is sure to continue to drop.
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Pop diva Mariah Carey has pledged to "live life" and enjoy herself following a tough year both in her professional and private life.
The US singing star, who received a multi-million dollar pay-off from her EMI recording studio earlier this year following poor sales of her album Glitter, made the promise near the end of a year in which she was hospitalised for exhaustion and lost her father.
"The way I bounce back is by not taking myself too seriously. My father died in July and we'd just become closer," Carey told the Sunday Mirror Magazine.
"It made me realise you should live life each day, celebrate it and enjoy yourself."
The 32-year-old singer denied rumours she attempted to commit suicide or had a nervous breakdown following critical reviews of her movie Glitter.
"I'd been hospitalised for exhaustion, the press were saying I'd tried to commit suicide - which is such crap, I'm way too much of a spiritual person to ever think about killing myself," she said.
"I was working 22-hour days for two months without enough time for sleep or even breaks for food."
It was a photo finish between Harry Potter on his broomstick and James Bond
in his Aston Martin at the box office over the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the regular weekend with $US32.2 million ($A57.45 million) from Friday to Sunday, compared to $US31 million ($A55.31 million) for the latest Bond flick, Die Another Day, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Die Another Day led for the full Thanksgiving holiday, taking in $US46.3 million ($A82.6 million) Wednesday to Sunday, compared to $US45.8 million ($A81.71 million) for Chamber of Secrets.
Rankings could change when final numbers are released tomorrow.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne plan to make New Year's Eve a quiet night - with about 600 of their closest friends.
The couple are renewing their wedding vows in Beverly Hills, California, in honour of their 20th anniversary. They got married on July 4, 1982, but delayed the celebration because of Sharon's battle with colon cancer.
"We'll write our own vows and have our marriage blessed again," the 50-year-old Osbourne family matriarch told People magazine.
"It will be one New Year's we'll never forget."
Sharon has brought MTV's cameras along for chemotherapy sessions during the second season of The Osbournes, which opened with a bang, drawing 6.6 million viewers, MTV says.
Ratings for the show were up 84 per cent compared to the first season's premiere.
Sharon's cancer is no longer detectable in blood tests, and the chemotherapy, which had been scheduled until April, will end in February.
More than one in five pregnant women thinks Posh Spice Victoria Beckham is the best celebrity mum, a survey has found.
The 28-year-old mother-of-two topped the poll to beat Changing Rooms interior designer Anna Ryder Richardson - on 13 per cent - and supermodel Kate Moss, who was the envy of only seven per cent of expectant mothers.
The survey was commissioned by detergent company Persil to investigate the skin care concerns of mothers-to-be and mothers of new-born children.
The study also showed that 35 per cent of pregnant women admire celebrities, such as Victoria, who sport tight, midriff-baring tops during their pregnancy.
Other firm favourites in the pregnancy poll included tennis star Tim Henman's wife Lucy and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is currently pregnant with her second child.
Legendary actor Sir John Mills was today honoured with a British Academy fellowship at a special Bafta tribute.
The fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed on an individual in recognition of an outstanding contribution to world cinema.
The 94-year-old joins film greats such as Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick and Warren Beatty, who received the award last year.
Sir John has graced stage and screen for more than 60 years, starting as a chorus boy at the London Hippodrome in 1929.
His movie career began in the 1930s, with films such as The Midshipmaid in 1932 and OHMS in 1937, but it was his role in Goodbye Mr Chips in 1939 that first brought him to international prominence.
Sir John will probably be best remembered for his patriotic roles in such films as Ice Cold in Alex, Above Us The Waves, Dunkirk, Scott of The Antarctic and Tunes of Glory - one of his personal favourites.
Shania Twain, possibly on her way to becoming the first female singer with three 10 million-selling albums, can afford to be a little contradictory.
"I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," Twain told Time magazine.
"I have no need to do that."
A few hours after that October statement, the 37-year-old Canadian was singing her signature ballad, You're Still the One, with an aspiring singer on Star Academy, a French reality game show in which amateur singers share a house and vote each other out on the basis of their musical progress.
Twain's pop-country Come on Over, released in 1997, sold 19 million copies to become the most popular album by a female singer in American history.
Twain and Whitney Houston are the only women to have two albums sell more than 10 million copies each. And Twain's newest album, Up, released on November 19, sold 874,000 copies in its first week, giving her a good head start toward reaching eight digits for a third time.
Actor Federico Castellucio had a successful career as a painter before landing
a role in the hit TV series The Sopranos.
It shows when he talks about how he became interested in joining the show.
"I saw the pilot in 1999 and I was blown away. It had all the elements of something great, like a well-composed painting," Castellucio told Newsweek magazine.
Castellucio's "modern renaissance" style paintings have been exhibited in galleries around the world, but it has been playing henchman Fiorio Giunta that has made his face recognised on the streets.
"It's harder to get from point A to point B because you're talking to people (strangers on the street) you wouldn't usually be talking to," Castellucio said.
Actor Michael Caine says even after 48 years in the entertainment business,
with more than 130 films and television shows, poverty remains his greatest
In a recent talk to members of the Screen Actors Guild, Caine said a childhood horror of returning to his poor roots drove him to make some less-than-inspired career choices.
Among them, he said, were roles in Jaws: The Revenge and On Deadly Ground.
"I never thought I was going to get another (movie), so I always took 'em," said Caine, 69.
"If you come from a very poor family, everybody around you is poor. It's the old cliche, he's a young boy, he's got to buy his mother a house. I bought everybody a bloody house."
Caine's latest movie, The Quiet American, is based on the 1955 Graham Greene novel about a CIA operative in Vietnam. It debuts this month.
While some rappers focus on pain, Nelly tries to look at the fun.
The Hot in Herre hip-hopper, born Cornell Haynes Jr and raised in inner-city St Louis, saw plenty of strife in his childhood. When his divorced parents couldn't support him, he abandoned his dream of playing professional baseball and turned to street crime.
But the 24-year-old's music remains light and uplifting.
"People have enough to think about right now," Nelly tells Rolling Stone.
"I'm just trying to free their minds and have a little fun with it. I know you got your own problems; I got my own problems. Let's think of something else for a change."
Nelly's 2000 debut album, Country Grammar, sold more than eight million copies. His latest, Nellyville, went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart when it was released earlier this year.
Nelly starred as a gangland rapper immersed in a world of intrigue and murder in the movie Snipes, which played the festival circuit this year and comes out on video in January.
When Courteney Cox Arquette went back to being just Courteney Cox, people wondered whether something was wrong with her marriage to actor David Arquette.
But the Friends co-star says she started going by her maiden name in some situations out of respect for her father, Richard Cox, who died of cancer last year.
"When I was a kid, I wanted to change my name so badly because I didn't like it. Now that my dad's gone, I don't want to lose it," the 38-year-old actress told InStyle magazine.
"It's not an issue for David. I am an Arquette, but I'm also a Cox. My social security card says Courteney Cox Arquette. And when we have children they will not be Cox-Arquettes, they will be Arquettes."
Cox met Arquette, 31, on the 1996 movie Scream, but they didn't start dating until the following year, when they made Scream 2. They married in June 1999.
Despite his friendship with Steven Soderbergh, actor George Clooney wasn't
always the director's first choice for Solaris.
Soderbergh told the Orange County Register he first considered casting Daniel Day-Lewis to play the hero of his space station romance.
But the actor was busy with Martin Scorsese's epic Gangs of New York.
Soderbergh said he didn't initially approach Clooney about the role, even though the two are partners in the production company Section Eight.
"I thought he could do it, but I didn't know if George thought he could do it now," the director said.
"Maybe in a year or two, when he was in a place in his career when he was more comfortable and had more faith in his skills, he would realise that he could do it."
A few months later, Soderbergh received a letter from Clooney. "It said, 'I think I would like to try to do this,"' the director recalled. "As soon as I read the letter, I knew he was ready to play this role."
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Acting Palo Alto Fire Marshal Gordon Simpkinson said corrosive action of soil can lead to leaks in 50- or 60-year-old gas lines.
"If (homeowners) don't take care of it, it could reach the point where it causes a problem similar to what happened on Maureen," Simpkinson said, adding that, if residents smell gas, the Utilities Department has a program to inspect homes free of charge.
Before their Maureen Avenue house literally exploded last September, Andrew and Yvonne Ware had consulted with their furnace installer about a natural gas-like odor.
The installer, from the now defunct Dahl Plumbing, did not smell natural gas and told the couple the odor probably emanated from a dirty-diaper pail, the Wares told fire inspectors.
On Sept. 30, Andrew Ware was finishing up his morning shower when he heard a big boom and saw smoke, flames — and blue sky where his bathroom roof had been. He escaped the burning home through a bathroom window. Yvonne Ware already had left to take the couple's child to day care.
Investigators determined the fire had been fueled by a gas leak.
"That's the only thing that can lift the roof of a house like that," Simpkinson said.
However, inspectors listed the fire as "undetermined" in their final report because they were unable to pinpoint precisely the source of ignition.
They speculated it could have been a water heater cycling on to supply hot water during the shower. Another possible cause could have been the thermostat of a wall furnace.
Inspectors estimated property loss to be $375,000 in the Maureen Avenue fire, with another $100,000 in contents loss.
The fire, which quickly consumed most of the house, could be seen from the sixth floor of City Hall, more than 3 miles away.
For residents concerned about possible gas leaks, Simpkinson said, "If somebody's got something where they occasionally smell it, they're not quite sure, they can call the Utilities Department and they will come out with gas-detection equipment and go through the house room-by-room. This is free of charge to the homeowner."
However, if residents notice a strong smell of gas, they should call 911 so the fire department can immediately come and turn off the gas, Simpkinson advised.
For easier repair, leaky underground gas lines can be disconnected, capped off and re-routed through garages or walls, he said.


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On 12.09.05 21:03 +0200, Christoph Siess wrote:
> When a bad https key & cert is uploaded m0no0walls webserver isn't
> able to handle requests. Maybe a http fallback whould solve this
> issue....
When you reset the LAN IP address through the console (even if it's
to the same value), it'll ask you whether you want to revert to HTTP.
- Manuel