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In 1980, Sandy Satterberg stepped into room 12 to teach her first math class at Jesuit. Thirty-two years later, Satterberg has left a legacy as a principal, teacher and confidante.
Besides guiding Jesuit to many successes in athletics and academics, Satterberg is the first female principal at an American Jesuit high school. However, she remains staunch that her greatest accomplishment was more than an award or label.
"I think my greatest accomplishments are maintaining our commitment to the Ignatian identity of our mission and getting good people in positions where they can do what they love to do," said Satterberg. "When you always refer to the mission in decision making and have good people who are passionate and committed to their vocation, the school runs smoothly, students excel, and community is formed."
Although the decision was difficult, Satterberg announced that she would step down as principal of Jesuit High School last fall.
"I truly love being principal and believe there are always things we can do to make Jesuit a better place," she said.
Satterberg will still be in the classroom two periods a day doing what she loves: being with Jesuit students.
After a nationwide search and many interviews with administration, faculty and even student government, Paul Hogan, Jesuit's academic vice principal, was named principal effective July 1.
Hogan has held the position of Academic Vice Principal for 15 years. Being part of the Jesuit community for such long a time brings "continuity" and "stability" as Hogan describes it. Over the years, he has had a hand in many of the biggest projects and will see those through next year.
"You will see some changes that just happen to be coming because of timing, and then there are a few things I might do a little differently," said Hogan.
Working under Satterberg for 15 years, Hogan was granted the opportunity to learn more about a job from someone students and staff consider a legend.
"I think Sandy Satterberg has been a prophetic voice and a real pioneer and groundbreaker," said Hogan. "It's not because she's a woman principal of a Jesuit school, it's because of her vision for the kind of school Jesuit could be."
A baccalaureate Mass for the class of 2012 is set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 2 in the school's Knight Center gymnasium. Commencement takes place at 11 a.m. Sunday, June 3, also in the Knight Center.
Valedictorians, who earned grade point averages of 4.0 through seven semesters, are Olivia Artaiz, Bryce Eng and Natalia Redyk. Salutatorian is Anna Mai.
The writer is a senior at Jesuit High School.
Here are the graduates: Camille Adams, Antonio Albanese, Mitchell Allen, Thomas Amling, Mitchell Anctil, Jane Andersen, Alexander-James Andrada, Aysa Andresen, Sierra Arlauskas, Olivia Artaiz, Natalie Auger, Anton Axelson, Ivana Baricevic, John Barr, Katherine Barrer, Martin Barrett, Emily Bednark, Kirsten Bell, Leah Bensching, Kristin Beyrle, Nicholas Biggi, Douglas Blair, Allison Blaskowsky, Megan Block, Kevin Boehnlein, Elizabeth Boshears, Constantine Bratanata, Megan Brauser, Rebecca Brennan, Zoe Brenneke, Sarah Breuner, Austin Brown, Danielle Brown, Harrison Bruce, Emily Brugato, Jordan Bruhn, Bianca Bumpers, Michael Burger, Erin Butler, Madison Cameron, John Carlos Jr, James Carlson, Kori Carpenter, Isabella Carr, Eric Cech, Daniel Chalmers, Harrison Clair, Anna Coccodrilli, Mary Cole, Jackson Coleman, Madelyn Collins, Jordan Colson, Megan Conchuratt, Sean Connell, Ryan Cope, Anna Copic, Corbin Craven, Kathryn Craven, Jordan Croll, Kelly Cronin, Raul Cruz, Kelly Culleton, Soren Cullivan, Joseph DaSilva, Peter Davis, Madelyn De Rego, Annalee Delaporte, Andrew DeMarco, Adrienne Demaree, Peter Dempsey, Keenan dePinna, Shannah Dibb, Christopher DiMarco, Brianna Dixon, Jill Doyle, Riku Driscoll, Joseph Ducharme, Emily Echevarria, Henry Ehlen, Bryce Eng, Joseph Enger, Karin Erbling, Wyatt Fay, Edward Fitzgibbon, Halley Flake, Mark Fleckenstein, Connor Fogarty, Nora Fogarty, Samuel Forstag, Maddison Franck, Sarah Freepons, Euphemia Frie, Virginia Gabo, Christopher Gadowski, Dominic Galluzzo, Michael Gilbert, Christina Gill, Andrew Gist, Emily Glaser, Angeline Glaspey, Patrick Gonzalez, Joseph Graham, John Graham, III, Kendall Gray, Megan Greeney, Austin Griffin, Aily Grimaldi, John Hackman, Carson Hall, Rachel Hallett, Jaima Halliburton, Cameron Hamburg-Anderson, Paige Hamilton, Jackson Handkins, Emily Hansen, Caroline Haslach, Lauren Hatch, Keenan Hatfield, Eileen Heilman, Byron Held, Cassie Heller, Konrad Herrera, Devin Hill, Eric Ho, Kyle Hodge, Sydney Hoffman, Conor Hogan, Todd Holce, Nicole Holden, James Holland, Samuel Holt, Henry Hornecker, Dena Horstkotte, William Houlihan, Richard Hunnicutt, Aidan Jasperson, Tess Jennings, Collin Jewell, Dylan Johnson, Charles Johnson, III, Casey Jones, Spencer Jones, Mackenzie Joseph, Meghana Kalavar, Kristen Kalez, Tyler Kamerer, Olivia Kantor, Amelia Karakas, Catherine Kelley, Kyle Kern, Madeline Kinsman, Genevieve Kirkpatrick, Anton Klee, Kirsten Klein, Kahnery Kreitzberg, Kennon Krieger, Mallory Kruse, Samuel Krygier, Kelsey LaMont, Catherine Landgraf, David Leavy, Janssen Levin, Victoria Lindsay, David Louie, Samantha Lubben, Alicia Machuca, Erin Madden, Richard Maddock, Brian Mader, Anna Mai, Colin Maloney-Dunn, Rachel Manning, Ruth Manthey, Samuel Mariucci, Madeleine Marquard, Ann Martel, Gabrielle Martinez deCastro, Mackenzie Mathews, Ixchel Mazer, Marissa McBride, Jacob McCarthy, David McCaslin, Madison McCoy, Ian McDougall, Edward McGrath, Allison Meek, Rachel Mendelsohn, Hollin Metz, Shane Mileham, Caitlin Monahan, Mackenzie Moon, Maxwell Mooney, Dominic Mori, Daniel Mottice, Kathleen Mueller, John Muessle, Ignacio Mugica, Nicolas Mulflur, Taylor Murphy, Megan Murray, Lucas Myers, Emily Nelson, Victoria Nguyen, Vincent Nguyen, Tatiana Nicola, Conor Nistler, Werner Nistler III, James O'Brien, Kaitlin O'Donnell, Brenna O'Neill, Alexander Olsen, Emma Onasch, Luke Packan, Jean Parker, Nicholas Parker, Zuhair Parvez, Lillian Pelletier, Derek Pemberton, Katrina Penaflor, Madison Pengra-Watanabe, Josi Petersen, Mark Petrusich, Michaela Phillips, Ellen Rall, Natalia Redyk, Madeline Regan, Alexander Reinhart, Alexander Reiten, Nicholas Rigert, Laura Ritacco, Whitney Rogers, Nicholas Rohlman, Daniella Romanaggi, Nicholas Rothstein, Patrick Roy, Amanda Ruesch, Daniela Ruiz, Claire Rutledge, Natalie Sajal, Connor Salzman, Lauren Sander, Andrew Schmidt, Calvin Schneck, Megan Schneider, Gabriel Schnitzer, Morgan Sellers, Mark Seton, Grace Shaffer, Saloni Shah, Sahar Shamsian, Bryan Shaw, Brian Sheedy, Gabriella Shirazi, Ryan Sidley, Laurel Skinner, Matthew Soisson, Collin Spickerman, Ryan Stevens, Brett Strader, Catherine Strauser, Winston Stromme, Robert Strys, Riley Sullivan, Scot Sutton II, Kyle Sweeney, Amy Tennant, Jessica Timm, Nathaniel Tucker, Christopher Turina, Beau Ueland, Kimberly Uong, Pierre Van Rysselberghe, Alexander Varde-Gallegos, Aishwarya Vardhana, Danielle Vethany Villanueva, Kimberly Voelker, Catherine Waldram, Ian Walters, David Wanner, Cassie Weil, Hannah Weil, Andrew Weiss, Matthew Weivoda, Samantha Wellington, Marian Wendel, Coleman Wheeler, Connor White, Jenna White, Noah Wilskey, Claire Wilson, Adam Winterling, Michael Woodruff
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After ____ months of suffering, Mr. J. S. Hurst breathed his last Jan. 8 (1905). He was twice married, first to Miss Amelia Seale in 1865, who died in 1889, then to Miss Atlie Freeman in 1893, with whom he lived until his demise.
Five of his nine children are left to mourn his loss. Brother Hurst was a consistent and faithful member of the Baptist church. Tuesday January 9, he was laid to his last resting place in the family burying ground three miles north of town near his home. Our departed friend and brother was ready to die. With joy and full assurance he looked forward to the happy hour when he would see his Lord. "Blessed assurance Jesus is mine; O what a foretast of glory devine. Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of his spirit, washed in his blood" The funeral services were conducted in the presence of relatives and friends who were of one mind. They all feel that a good man is gone--his body to the ground whence it came; his spirit to God who gave it.
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Sources: The obituaries, I got from my cousin, Harold Miller, who lives in Russellville. The births and marriages were from many different sources including the tombstones at Robinson Cemetery, records from the Russellville Library, death certificates, my grandparents tombstones in the Decatur City Cemetery and their marriage record from the Courthouse in Russellville, I got some of the birth and marriage info from a book written by Robert Hurst, called "Hurst Families of Georgia" and from census records,family records, etc. I assume those obituaries were printed in a local Russellville newspaper. They are cut out of a newspaper but you can't see the name of the newspaper. My cousin Harold had them and I borrowed them and copiedthem. He found a trunk of his grandmother's which had a lot of pictures and letters, etc in it. He has the original family Bible of our GGGrandfather, Major Hurst. We are third cousins. He descends from one of my great grandfather's sisters. Paula Hurst
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Great Cruise: Coral Princess Cruise Review by rfinn5
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Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Embarkation was a snap. Our son drove us over dropped us off. Traffic was really efficiently handled. They took our bags and from that point on we had minimal delays. They were measuring the time to get through the check in process so we were given a card with the start time (12:00 pm was penciled in—it was actually 11:55 am by my watch). We handed the card in when we were given out room keys/cards at 12:02 pm. It was handled quickly and I didn't see the value in writting a wrong start time down to make it look better.
We were able to go directly to our room to drop off the carry on (C602). The room was comfortably large without a sofa. The closet area was also large. The only complaint was the truly tiny shower. I'm 6; 3" tall and about 250 lbs. More There was not enough room in the shower for me to lift my legs up to wash my lower legs and feet. I dropped the wash cloth once and had to shut the shower off and step out to bend over to pick it up. The steward was friendly and did a fine job in keeping the cabin nice. The bed was very comfortable.
The Horizon Court was very nice. We never had trouble with seating or waiting in line. I believe the ship had some number of empty cabins but I don't know how many. In any case, crowds were never an issue. Breakfast in HC had very little variety. I have complained in past reviews about the eggs. I originally thought they may have been powdered but this time I spotted a carton of frozen eggs. They are not inedible but they are certainly not very good—there is a marked graininess to them. There was a fair amount of variety to the other meals. They were all uniformly good—especially for buffet food.
The dinners in the main dining room were all good. I confess to being a bit put off by the descriptions in the menu. I felt they were stuffy—i.e. macerated strawberries, infused garlic, etc. A little simplicity would have been more appropriate. I found I had to study the menus for a bit to determine what would be the best selection. I always came up with something I liked though. I recommend the sorbets for desert—the apple cider sorbet is outstanding,
We ate at Sabatini's one night. We ordered the Lobster Three Ways and were very disappointed. We were served a lobster tail (way one), a spoonful of Lobster bisque (way two) over the lobster and a pile of orzo with a ½" by 1" piece of lobster on top (way three). This was definitely not what I expected and had to ask them to point out the three ways. The lobster tail was appropriately cooked but was tasteless. There was none of the natural sweetness I expect with lobster. I gave half of mine to my wife who left it and most of if hers on the plate. I did complain and was asked if everything else was satisfactory—it was, in fact the service was excellent. I do advise others to stick with the main dining room.
The entertainment was all good to great. I really enjoyed the production shows, especially "On the Bayou". The magician was good. The first show for the mind reader was great but the second was a bit of a letdown. I felt it was a bit obvious how the tricks were done on the second show. The comedian was very funny. He repeated a joke in the second show and it seemed to unsettle him. He walked back and forth, took a sip of water and finally got his mind back in order and continued on. I did enjoy his act.
Princess did a great job with filling our days with activities.
The tours we took were a disappointment in that the busses were severely uncomfortable. In Cartagena there was absolutely no legroom—even for the shorter people. The Panama tour had more legroom but the seats were extremely narrow. When a fellow sitting in the back got on there was no room for him to pass down the aisle as people were over hanging the aisle and had to put their feet in the aisle due to the lack of leg room.
Disembarkation was a mess to my way of thinking. Princess blamed it on a lack of customs people. The start was delayed by 45 minutes. By the time we got out, we had been delayed for nearly two hours. I found it very irritating to see the Princess people moving passengers to the line for those with disabilities. I am 100% in favor of giving disabled people a break. My daughter, who is in a wheel chair, often travels with us. Managing a wheelchair, luggage and paperwork through customs in a real strain—help is welcome. This time I saw people who hired baggage handlers bumped to the head of the line, I also saw small parties pulled out of line after talking to a Princess rep and moved to the front. Line jumpers should not be tolerated. Less
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Cabin review: C602
The room was comfortably large but without a sofa. The closet area was also large. The only complaint was the truly tiny shower. I'm 6; 3" tall and about 250 lbs. There was not enough room in the shower for me to lift my legs up to wash my lower legs and feet. I dropped the wash cloth once and had to shut the shower off and step out to bend over to pick it up. The steward was friendly and did a fine job in keeping the cabin nice. The bed was very comfortable.
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Families and comrades of two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been paying tribute to them.
Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and Trooper Josh Hammond died when their car hit a roadside bomb in the Helmand province on Wednesday.
Six other soldiers were injured in the blast. In total, 171 British soldiers have died in the country since 2001.
The news came on the same day the US army announced a major attack against the Taliban.
Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thornloe commanded the First Battalion, the Welsh Guards. He is the most senior Army officer to die in action since the Falklands war in 1982.
The head of the British Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, said he was "an outstanding commanding officer."
Trooper Joshua Hammond, 18, from Plymouth, of 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, died just a week before his 19th birthday. He was engaged to be married.
He was described by senior officers as "a superb soldier".
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memoQfest is coming statesideWritten by ForeignExchange Translations on Thursday, November 15, 2012
Kilgray will kick off 2013 with the first-ever memoQfest USA, to be held on January 31 and February 1, followed by a training session on February 2, in San Antonio, Texas.
Peter Reynolds sent an email invitation:
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We have a full and interesting program for the conference. The Keynote presentations are Mike Dillinger, former president of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, who will discuss making MT work for you, and Gábor Ugray, head of development at Kilgray, who will discuss technology innovations coming from Kilgray for memoQ and other products.Anyone who has been at a memoQfest before will know of the excellent social and networking opportunities. And everybody else - well, put on your cowboy boots, make your way to San Antonio, and find out!
Other highlights will include presentations from Emre Akkas of Globalme, Jose Palomares of OpenMints, Balázs Kis of Kilgray Translation Technologies, Rochelle Carlin of Chasse Consulting, Stefan Gentz of TRACOM, Bob Donaldson of Carson Strategy Group, and Tamara Kislak of Venga Corporation. memoQfest USA will be the first time we have introduced memoQ Huddles to the conference. Three of four of these small group sessions will be led by Kilgray founders and provide an intimate look at memoQ and other Kilgray software. The fourth will deal with Games localization and be led by Béatrice Compagnon.
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51s Face Salt Lake in Conference Championship Series
51s will host the Bees on Friday, Sept. 6 at 7:05 p.m.
By Jim Gemma / Las Vegas 51s | September 4, 2013 5:25 AM ET
LAS VEGAS: The Las Vegas 51s professional baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets and the 2013 Pacific Southern Division Champions, will open the PCL Conference Championship Series (Best-of-5), against the Salt Lake Bees (78-66), Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Pacific Northern Division Champions, on Wednesday, September 4 at 5:35 p.m. (PT) at Spring Mobile Ballpark (15,411) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Game # 2 will also be played in Salt Lake on Wednesday, September 5 at 5:35 p.m. (PT). Games #3, #4, #5 will be played at Cashman Field (games 4 and 5, if necessary) and all three games will feature Dollar Beer at the Ballpark.
- The 2013 PCL Playoffs -
Conference Championship Series Schedule (Best-of-5):
Game 1: Wednesday, Sept. 4: Pacific Southern (Las Vegas) at Pacific Northern (Salt Lake), 5:35 p.m. (PDT)
Game 2: Thursday, Sept. 5: Las Vegas at Salt Lake, 5:35 p.m. (PDT)
Game 3: Friday, Sept. 6: Salt Lake at Las Vegas, 7:05 p.m.
Game 4: Saturday, Sept. 7*: Salt Lake at Las Vegas, 12:05 p.m.
Game 5: Sunday, Sept. 8*: Salt Lake at Las Vegas, 12:05 p.m.
Game 1: Wednesday, Sept. 4: American Northern (Omaha) at American Southern (Oklahoma City)
Game 2: Thursday, Sept. 5: Omaha at Oklahoma City
Game 3: Friday, Sept. 6: Oklahoma City at Omaha
Game 4: Saturday, Sept. 7*: Oklahoma City at Omaha
Game 5: Sunday, Sept. 8*: Oklahoma City at Omaha
PCL Championship Series (Best-of-5)
Game 1: Tuesday, Sept. 10: Pacific Conference Winner at American Conference Winner
Game 2: Wednesday, Sept. 11: Pacific Conference Winner at American Conference Winner
Game 3: Friday, Sept. 13: American Conference Winner at Pacific Conference Winner
Game 4: Saturday, Sept. 14*: American Conference Winner at Pacific Conference Winner
Game 5: Sunday, Sept. 15*: American Conference Winner at Pacific Conference Winner
*if necessary
2013 Gildan Triple-A Baseball National Championship Game
Tuesday, September 17: Pacific Coast League Champion vs. International League Champion
at Coca-Cola Park (10,000) in Allentown, Penn. (Home of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Triple-A affiliate of the
Philadelphia Phillies)…broadcast live on the NBC Sports Network at 4 p.m. (PDT) and Sports 920 The Game.
51s Playoff Tickets for the PCL First Round (Friday-Sunday, Sept. 6-8) are on sale now at the Cashman Field Box Office and tickets can also be purchased through Ticketmaster (1-800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com). Ticketmaster outlets are located at selected Smith's Food & Drug. Individual Single Game ticket prices are: $14.00 (Field), $13.00 (Plaza) and $10.00 (Reserved).
The 51s, under manager Wally Backman, finished the 2013 campaign with the second-best record in the 16-team PCL with an 81-63 (.563) mark (Oklahoma City was 82-62, .569).
Las Vegas finished the 2013 campaign over the .500 mark for the second consecutive year (2012: 79-64). The last time the 51s recorded back-to-back over .500 seasons was 2002-03 (2002: 85-59; 2003: 76-66).
Las Vegas 80-win seasons - The Las Vegas franchise has won 80 or more games in a season four times: 85 (2002, franchise best 85-59 record (.590); 83 (1983 inaugural season, 83-60 (.580); 81 (81-63, .563 in 2013); 80 (1986 PCL champions with an 80-62 mark (.563).
2013 ATTENDANCE: In 70 dates, Las Vegas' total was 328,266 for an average of 4,690. Las Vegas' season-high crowds, which included four sellouts, were 11,776 against Round Rock on May 10 and 11,522 for the 10th Annual School Day Game against Albuquerque on May 14 at Cashman Field. The Las Vegas franchise has reached the 300,000 plateau in "home" attendance in all 31 seasons (1983-2013) and the all-time attendance total now stands at 10,314,780. The 51s organization have the proud distinction of being the longest enduring franchise in the history of professional sports in the state of Nevada.
The 51s will broadcast all games on Lotus Broadcasting on Sports 920 The Game, which carried live all 144 regular season games. Also, all games will be available on the 51s website (Major League Baseball Advanced Media, MLBAM) at www.LV51.com. Russ Langer, the eight-time Nevada Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA), is in his 14th season behind the microphone calling 51s baseball.
All 51s games will also be broadcast on MiLB.TV via LV51.com.
1983 - Albuquerque Dukes defeated Las Vegas 3-to-2
1984 - Hawaii Islanders defeated Las Vegas 3-to-0
*1986 - Las Vegas defeated Phoenix Firebirds 3-to-2
- PCL Championship Series - Las Vegas
defeated Vancouver Canadians 3-games-to-2
1987 - Albuquerque Dukes defeated Las Vegas 3-to-0
*1988 - Las Vegas defeated Albuquerque 3-games-to-0
- PCL Championship Series - Las Vegas
defeated Vancouver Canadians 3-games-to-1
1992 - Colorado Springs Sky Sox defeated
Las Vegas 3-games-to-2
1996 - Phoenix Firebirds defeated Las Vegas 3-to-0
2002 - Edmonton Trappers defeated Las Vegas 51s
Las Vegas all-time PCL playoff record: 17-23 (.425) *PCL Champions
Season tickets for the 2014 season and mini-plan packages (10 & 10-Game You Pick'em, 20, 33-game plans) are available by calling the 51s office at (702) 798-7825.
Official licensed 51s team merchandise is available on the "Team Shop" section of the website.
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The Iowa Senate shamelessly sold its soul for a mess of servers yesterday, passing a package of tax breaks (HF 912) for the company with a motto of "Do no evil, but it's ok to shake down the states for giveaways." ZDNet has more:
Google is playing its you need us more than we need you card with the Iowa state legislature, and seems to have a winning Googley hand. Not only has Google once again achieved its Google only special "top secret" government privileges, it has apparently succeeded in wooing a legislative representative to serve as a prime Google spokesperson, Senator Bill Dotzler, a Democrat from Waterloo.
According to Dotzler, the trend now is away from having a computer with all the bells and whistles — the software programs — and toward "server farms" which give computer users access to a wide variety of options they'd be hard-pressed to store on a single computer.
Senator Dotzler has to be on the top of the list of every business that wants to be subsidized by Iowa taxpayers since he led the charge for the recently-passed filmmaker subsidy. But he is an expert on this sort of technology, clearly:
Dotzler has undoubtedly been well coached by Google:
"Really, the biggest problem with these server farms is the heat that's generated in them. Just one server panel generates the equivalent of a seven-foot-high pile of toaster ovens, so can you imagine the amount of heat?"
Google has buried the legislature in seven feet of something, but it's not toaster ovens.
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This week the month-long Yorkshire Medieval Festival turns its attention to early combat methods. As MATT CLARK discovers, they are surprisingly familiar.
MARTIAL arts conjures visions of little Johnny winning his brown belt or Bruce Lee in those Seventies movies. So it may come as a surprise to learn that codified systems of combat were prevalent in England hundreds of years before the dragon entered these shores.
Indeed they helped to keep our longbowmen in such prime condition that they were feared across medieval Europe. Not only as archers, the men also trained with the sword and buckler, which made them outstanding shock troops once the supply of arrows had run out.
The term martial arts may derive from Mars, the Roman god of war, but combat activities such as single cudgel, double cudgel and long lance weren't the exclusive preserve of professional soldiers. Late Medieval German fechtschules became like gentlemen's clubs, where it was more about the art; about beating your opponent or putting on a show for spectators.
And there was a set of rules to ensure nobody was hurt.
Christopher Halpin-Durband is on a mission to bring back these ancient activities. Not as historic re-enactments, or theatrical stage-fighting, but as a modern sports discipline. It's a lost heritage, he says. One that still has a great deal to teach us.
Christopher is master of York's chapter of the Hotspur School of Defence, which is dedicated to promoting and teaching these art forms. This week, as part of the Yorkshire Medieval Festival, he and his team will be running workshops at the Guildhall, to show how the principles behind medieval martial arts relate to modern fitness and self-defence training.
"Western warriors were taught from childhood to use the same set of body mechanics to elite athletes or marines: namely, strength and stamina, timing, balance, and speed," says Christopher. "Training techniques, the manufacture of arms and armour, and expertise in the martial arts all reached such a pinnacle in the Middle Ages, that they cannot be surpassed today. "
Knights were not just part of a savage mob waving swords around: they were tactical, cunning and exceptionally skilled. In fact, squires could spend years learning techniques such as running or lifting weights, before being allowed to wield a sword.
We can still read about the tactics they used in a surprising number of Middle Ages combat manuals. It's fascinating stuff and don't be fooled into thinking sports science is a modern invention, either. Many of its principles are preserved in manuscripts from the 13th century, but they go back even further.
"It's an age-old thing. These people trained day in, day out, from childhood and that included diet," says Christopher. "Indeed, we know that Roman gladiators ate a lot of barley and vegetables, to pack on muscle and gain a layer of fat that would absorb blows. They were strong but deliberately bulky."
In the Middle Ages bespoke techniques were even designed to help ordinary folk beat stronger opponents or ones in better physical condition; literally punching above their weight .
Martial arts schools, or scholes of fence were known to have existed in England at least as early as the 12th Century. Many types of weapon skills were taught, often alongside one another; some we don't know much about, such as seax, forest bill and black bill. Others are more familiar including the chivalric tradition of training in plate armour both on foot and on horseback.
Now these traditional disciplines are making a comeback.
"This is the fastest growing sport across Europe," says Hotspur instructor Neil Tattersall. "And we've got all these wonderful sources with superb illustrations. But they are just snapshots of the play as it progresses. We have to look at the most efficient way of making them work."
Many of the texts are written in High German and Latin. Now scholars are translating them and trying to make sense of the missing bits. But there are more than enough clues to piece together how these ancient moves would have looked to contemporaries.
"As you look through the pictures a lot of [wrestling] locks and holds are just the same as you'd find in jujitsu," says Neil. "They are quite possibly 1,000 years old. Body mechanics don't change, we have two arms and two legs and we can only move in a set number of ways."
The manuscripts also describe in detail how to perform unarmed grappling, quarterstaff and pole arms, not to mention wrestling, at which we apparently once excelled and is now a favourite with Abi Smith, Hotspur's newest recruit.
"It's very unusual, that's what's so appealing and it's just so much fun," she says. "I didn't know about medieval martial arts before I joined and it came as a shock to realise it was so big a thing."
The pinnacle of medieval martial arts was longsword fencing and Johannes Lichtenauer's medieval treatise Fechtbuch still forms the basis of Germany's school of swordsmanship.
"Fencing is always about being nimble," says Christopher. "This Hollywood idea of two grizzly heroes striking into the binder of the sword and grimacing at each other never happens in the manuscripts. You never fight strength with strength, every manual tells us to be quick and agile."
They even have a word for fighters who prefer brute force to skilled endeavour: Buffaloes.
The swords used by the school are the real thing and in wrong hands could cause serious damage. Indeed Christopher will be giving a lecture tonight entitled Lacerations and Perforations: The Physical Effects of Sharp Force Trauma, which draws parallels between medieval and modern combat.
But his wife Emma says don't get the idea that medieval martial arts are dangerous. Training at the school follows methodologies laid down in historical texts, with an emphasis on achieving a solid grounding in the basic footwork and body mechanics before techniques are introduced.
Wooden knives and swords are then used by beginners, not only for safety, but because they are lighter and easier to use. Only when a new student has proven their worth with these practise weapons are they are allowed to use ones forged from steel.
"It's all very safe, though" says Emma. "Occasionally you get a bang to the hand but that's it."
The same goes with wrestling, boxing, long knife work and all the other weird and wonderful skills being revived from a millennium ago. The emphasis here is on winning with grace, not through strength.
"Western martial arts have huge relevance to today," says Christopher. "This is a unique discipline and a living heritage that should be championed. Why shouldn't these skills be taught in our leisure centres?"
Fact file
Daily medieval combat classes with Hotspur School of Defence will take place Monday to Friday this week between 11am and 5pm at York Guildhall. Prices £7 adult, £5 concessions, £20 family of 4, £25 family of 5.
Emma Halpin-Durband will deliver her lecture Lacerations and Perforations: The Physical Effects of Sharp Force Trauma tonight at 6.30pm in the Mansion House.
Another lecture Hollywood & The Sword: Dispelling Popular Myths about Medieval Combat will take place on August 22, again 6.30pm in the Mansion House.
Tickets are £4 Adult, £3 Concessions for each event,


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
The Novel Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Vaccine: Low Rate of Seroconversion after Vaccination in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Borba4, Eduardo F., Saad5, Carla G. S., Calich5, Ana Luisa G., Pasoto5, Sandra G., Viana5, Vilma S. T., Timenetsky2, Maria do Carmo S. T., Precioso3, Alexander R.
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Adolpho Lutz, Brazil
Instituto Butantan, Brazil
Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
To evaluate efficacy and safety of a single vaccination with a novel split virion, inactivated, non-adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine (A/California/7/2009/Instituto Butantan/Sanofi Pasteur S.A.) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients.
173 SLE patients (ACR criteria) of a single tertiary center and 159 healthy age-matched subjects were immunized with H1N1 influenza vaccine. Exclusion criteria were: fever, egg allergy, and autoimmune neurological diseases. At entry SLE patients and controls received a single dose of influenza vaccine containing A/California/7/2009 H1N1 strain. Patients and controls were evaluated at baseline (immunization day) and 21 days post-vaccination. Disease safety was monitored by SLEDAI. Antibody titers were evaluated by hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) assay. Seroconversion to vaccination was defined by either an antibody titer of 1:10 or less before and of at least 1:40 after or at least 1:10 before and at least four-fold increase in antibody titer 21 days after single vaccination. Vaccine adverse effects were also analyzed.
Before vaccination, 8 (4.6%) patients and 20 (11.1%) controls (p=0.01) had a HAI titer of >=1:40 and 21 days after vaccination 115 (66.4%) patients and 136 (85.5%) controls (p=0.0001) had a HAI titer of >=1:40. Seroconversion rate for H1N1 was significantly lower in SLE patients compared to controls [108 (62.4%) vs. 123 (77.35%), p=0.0041]. Vaccine-related side-effects were only mild and transient with a similar frequency in both groups (p>0.05).The comparison of the 108 seroconverters patients with 65 nonresponders revealed a similar mean age, female predominance, mean disease duration, mean number of SLE criteria and mean SLEDAI score (p>0.05). In contrast, nonresponders were more often under mycophenolate mofetil than seroconverters (27.7 vs. 12.9%, p=0.02) with a tendency of higher frequency of immunomodulators (78.5 vs. 64.8%, p=0.062) and prednisone (64.6 vs. 50%, p=0.082) therapies. Regarding lupus safety at the time of immunization the mean SLEDAI was 3.5 ± 4.2 (024) and only 12 patients had an increased in SLEDAI scores (6.9%) whereas 133 remained stable (76.8%) and 28 had decreased (16.2%). Forty patients (23.1%) had SLEDAI >= 6 at baseline and none, except one, had an increase in SLEDAI.
The pandemic vaccine is safe in SLE patients regardless of disease activity but seroconversion is lower than in healthy subjects, particularly in patients under MMF therapy. Further studies are necessary to determine if a second dose will increase the seroconversion rate. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01151644
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Borba, Eduardo F., Saad, Carla G. S., Calich, Ana Luisa G., Pasoto, Sandra G., Viana, Vilma S. T., Timenetsky, Maria do Carmo S. T., et al; The Novel Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Vaccine: Low Rate of Seroconversion after Vaccination in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :481
DOI: 10.1002/art.28250


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Heinz College Hosts the 2010 Keith Block Entrepreneurial Pitch Competition
Apr 28, 2010
Seven teams of Carnegie Mellon University students delivered their very best elevator pitches to a panel of judges for Heinz College's 2010 Keith Block Entrepreneurship Fund Competition.
Made possible through a contribution by Heinz College alumnus Keith Block, the competition challenges students to develop and pitch a proposal for an entrepreneurial venture that solves a problem, has a significant IT component, and represents a viable growth-oriented startup with national and international appeal.
The 2010 Keith Block Entrepreneurship Fund Competition Winners:
1st Place: Lama Lab
Team Members: Tracey Chiu (MSHC), Lukas Bouvrie (MBA)
Prize: $1,000
Idea: A cloud-based platform to help small and medium online retailers in real time. This platform uses proprietary algorithms to optimize retailers' efforts in three important areas of e-commerce: Pricing, Inventory Management, and Marketing. For each area, Lama Lab will recommend actionable items, allow users to implement these recommendations with the click of a button, and track the effects of the implemented recommendations.
2nd Place: Only in Pittsburgh Network
Team Members: Brett Wiewiora (MSPPM), Ajinkya Ratnaparkhi (MISM)
Prize: $750
Idea: An online social network that visually connects people to what is going on in and around Pittsburgh. By providing a platform for local businesses and organizations to publicize specials, events and other promotional information along with a platform for individuals to see where their friends are, organize parties, meetings and events, OIP creates a unique online "neighborhood" in a way that no other current social network is doing successfully.
3rd place – Sociofins
Team Members: Kartik Bhatia (MISM), Sandeep Francis Earayil (MISM), Sreeja Meluveettil (MISM), Sunil Joseph (MISM)
Prize: $500
Idea: A platform that utilizes specialized social networking to provide microfinance to small and medium business.
This year's judges included Reed McManigle, manager of Carnegie Mellon University's Technology Transfer Office; Chris Labash, who teaches communication, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Heinz College; and Greg Lagana, director of projects at Heinz College's Center for Economic Development. This year's competition was organized and hosted by Babs Carryer, who teaches entrepreneurship at both Heinz College and CMU's Tepper School of Business, and advises student and faculty entrepreneurs from the Institute for Social Innovation and Project Olympus.
Carryer sees the competition as an important chance for students to try out the role of entrepreneur.
"The Block Competition gives students the opportunity to present innovative ideas for new technologies and products," said Carryer. "By working together, cross discipline, students have the chance to solve real world problems using what they learn at Carnegie Mellon."
"The competition is part of the university's efforts to stimulate entrepreneurial activity across the campus," she said.
Keith Block is executive vice president of Oracle's North American Sales and Consulting.
"My experience at Carnegie Mellon instilled in me a lifelong spirit of entrepreneurship," noted Block when he originally presented his gift. "For that, I will always be grateful. Entrepreneurship is a crucial element for success at any level -- regardless of company size or industry."
"It's about never settling, constantly driving for innovation and always striving for new and better ways of doing things," said Block.
For more information on the competition, read the Keith Block Entrepreneurship Fund submission guidelines.
(Photo: 2010 Block competition winners Tracey Chiu and Lukas Bouvrie.)
Interested in supporting Heinz College students and initiatives like those featured in this story? Click here for more information.


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Will a CIA Veteran's Book Save a Terrorist?
The defense of Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri -- the mastermind in the bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole in 2000 -- has received a boost from a surprising source: Jose Rodriguez, a former high-ranking CIA official.
Thankfully, the prosecution has voluminous evidence -- confessions from al-Qaeda members and even interviews with Nashiri himself -- that contradict Rodriguez's version of history.
In a new book, Rodriguez takes responsibility for initiating the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists including Nashiri, and says that waterboarding "saved lives." He also downplays Nashiri's importance, writing that " 'mastermind' was not an apt description of Nashiri" and endorsing a colleague's characterization of Nashiri as "the dumbest terrorist I have ever met."
Such talk is, of course, music to Nashiri's ears: How can he be prosecuted as the planner of a complicated plot causing the death of 17 U.S. sailors if he's a fool?
Although the term "mastermind" is often overused when it comes to al-Qaeda, it is very suitable for Nashiri. I spent years as part of a team of FBI and Navy investigators looking into the Cole bombing. We gained confessions from two members of Nashiri's cell -- Jamal al-Badawi and Fahd al-Quso (who was killed by a U.S. drone in Yemen this week) -- detailing their boss's meticulous planning and ruthlessness. Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, Abu Jandal, described Nashiri to my partner and me as efficient and evil, a man who would "commit a terrorist act in Mecca, inside the Kaaba itself, if necessary." Salim Ahmed Hamdan, bin Laden's personal driver, also gave us details of Nashiri's lead role in the Cole attack.
The Ships Operation
By the time our investigation was complete, we had the full story of Nashiri's actions from the point bin Laden asked him to take control over what they called the "ships operation." We know how he experimented with his plan, refined and changed it, and handpicked his entire team. In putting together the personnel, Nashiri even maneuvered to ensure that his choices, rather than those favored by bin Laden, carried out the suicide mission. Despite such insubordination, bin Laden recognized Nashiri's talent, and kept promoting him, ultimately to head of operations for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
I don't find it surprising that Rodriguez would want to play down Nashiri's importance. His reputation is at stake. Rodriguez is best known for having ordered the unauthorized destruction of videotapes of the interrogations of Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, who ran an independent terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. (Despite a Justice Department investigation, no criminal charges were filed against Rodriguez, although the Central Intelligence Agency gave him a reprimand.)
Nonetheless, the government has my investigative notes, as well as daily reports, and the inspector general also found instances where Rodriguez's team went far beyond what they had approval for and the legal guidelines set forth by the George W. Bush administration, including holding a drill to Nashiri's head.
More broadly, Rodriguez's claims that the enhanced- interrogation program was effective have been convincingly discredited by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Department of Justice and the CIA's own inspector general. (Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee chairman, has even issued a news release detailing the flaws in claims by proponents of enhanced interrogation.)
Inexperienced Interrogators
The CIA inspector general's report found that those put in charge of the program, including Rodriguez, had little if any experience with al-Qaeda or interrogation techniques before the Sept. 11 attacks. As a consequence they didn't know what detainees should know, or how to get accurate information.
Rodriguez inadvertently admits to the failures of his techniques: He notes that in late 2002 when Nashiri was asked for details about a coming al-Qaeda attack, the suspect "insisted that he didn't have any additional information." Six months later, Nashiri's former lieutenants in the Arabian Peninsula group struck: They stormed a compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing at least 31 people, among them nine Americans.
It has been a long wait -- far too long -- for the families of the 17 sailors killed aboard the Cole to see Nashiri face justice. It's unfortunate that Rodriguez may have unintentionally aided in the defense of a cold-blooded killer. Luckily, thanks to the hard work of professionals, there is more than enough evidence to lock Nashiri up for several times over.
(Ali H. Soufan, the chief executive officer of the Soufan Group, a strategic consultancy, was an FBI special agent from 1997 to 2005. He was the case agent for the USS Cole investigation and interrogated al-Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere. He is the author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al- Qaeda." The opinions expressed are his own.)
Read more opinion online from Bloomberg View.
Today's highlights: the View editors on Greece's political deadlock and saving the Volcker rule; Clive Crook on France and the EU; William Pesek on Asia's wealth divide; Peter Orszag on the income swings of high earners; Edward Glaeser on the new urban flight.
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JOnetavious, born July of 1998, is better known as Sebastian. He is easy to smile and has a great sense of humor. Sebastian is very bonded to his brother and often uses humor as a good-natured way of teasing him. Although inquisitive and capable, he has difficulty applying himself in school. Sebastian gets along with his peers, loves music and plays the baritone saxophone. He also likes to play basketball, video games, and go swimming.
Jontavious and JOnetavious are closely bonded brothers. They need a kind, loving and committed family who is able to establish clear boundaries. Most importantly, they need a family committed to keeping them together.
J'ONETAVIOUS HAS BEEN PLACED. Jontavious is still available.


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Read for Ready Cash
Earn "cash" during the summer by keeping a reading log, then spend your "cash" to bid on prizes during the auction at the end of the summer.
- Sign up and record all your reading on your "ready" cash log.
- At the end of the summer, the number of pages you've read will be the balance in your ready cash account.
- On Wednesday, August 26 at 6:30PM. we will hold an auction. You can use your ready cash to bid on fabulous prizes! The more you read, the more you'll have to spend.
- Free Pizza and Pop during the auction.
Read whatever you like - fiction, non-fiction, mysteries, histories - any book at or above your own reading level can be recorded.
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Reading logs will be available June 1.


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I am endlessly amused by this cultural notion that men ought to be terrified or disgusted by discussion of menstruation or other women's health issues.
truth! But wasn't everyone also outraged and disgusted when I said that I noticed some menstrual blood at the bottom of my t-shirt? Why is it such a big thing? Like we have made no progress since the 15th century.


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Markets Might Be Left Waiting for Their Man.
They're probably not standing around all twitchy up on Lexington and 125th, but down on Wall Street they're waiting for their man.
Judging from the chatter around the markets, traders and other Wall Street types are getting increasingly focused on another hit of, well, something as the economy shows real signs of a serious slowdown. QE3? QE2.5?
Yesterday's Journal update on former Fedheads talking about the prospect for another policy fillip from the Fed was probably what pushed stocks into positive territory and kept us from hitting the dreaded nine-straight down days.
But here's one reason not to start warming up Ben's helicopter just yet: The Fed's favorite gauge of inflation. That's the "five-year, five-year-forward" break-even rate, which measures inflation expectations starting five years from now and running five years from that date. Translation: This tells your roughly what financial market thinks inflation will be in five years.
Here's a chart, from Barclays Capital interest rate strategist Michael Pond. The dark blue line is the BarCap version of the five-year, five-year. You can see, it collapsed during the financial crisis, as the markets were pricing in a Great Depression-like deflationary death spiral, that prompted the Fed to act. Then, last summer, it started tumbling again. Falling below 2%, which the Fed seems to see as the danger zone for the possibility of deflation. That's when got QE2.
Now the inflation expectations aren't anywhere near that low, which would likely give the Fed pause, when considering the possibility of another round of action to try to jump start the economy. That's not to say they won't do it. There are folks at the Fed that will make the argument that if the economy continues to weaken, inflation will have to start tumbling again. And inflation expectations have been weakening lately. But it's hard to make the case that we're in the exact same situation that we were in when Mr. Bernanke made his famous speech at Jackson Hole in 2010.
By the way, he's scheduled to step to the podium again at Jackson Hole later this month.


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2013 Dacia Logan
Beside Sandero Stepway SUV model, Dacia also shown their latest sedan model named 2013 Dacia Logan at 2012 Paris Auto Show last week. This model is cooperation result from French automaker Renault and Dacia automaker from Romania.
2013 Dacia Logan will be powered by various gasoline and diesel engine line-up. First option is three-cylinder TCe turbocharged gasoline engine delivers 66 kW (90 horsepower) at 5,250 rpm and generates 135 Nm from low engine speeds (90% from 1,650 rpm). The second option features 1.2 16V engine developing 55 kW (75 horsepower) is also available in an LPG version. While for diesel engine, this model will be powered by 1.5 dCi engine with 55 kW (75 horsepower) and 66 kW (90 horsepower). With a torque increase of 20 Nm – 200 Nm of torque at 1,750 rpm for the 75 horsepower unit and 220 Nm at 1,750 rpm for the 90horsepower unit -the 1.5 dCi engine is responsive from even the lowest engine speeds
For body design, the new Logan will get a modern design to make it even more attractive and borrows styling cues such as its grille and its sculpted flanks from the previous model and can be fitted with extras such as alloy wheels and metallic paint, a first for the model.
On the interior, Dacia Logan feature a new dark-carbon or two-tone dashboard (according to model and version) home to comprehensive and contemporary-style instrumentation, with chrome-surrounded dials and latest-generation, eminently functional controls.
The air-vent surrounds, steering-wheel logo and gear-stick handle label are chrome-finished (according to trim level). The central fascia is highlighted by a color wheel trim embellisher (according to trim) that matches the door handles and the design strip on the steering wheel. Aesthetic quality has been enhanced through the clever choice of materials and flusher fit.
The simple and user-friendly MEDIA NAV system, fitted seamlessly in the central fascia, comprises in-car navigation, a radio, Bluetooth® hands-free connectivity and audio streaming, all controlled via a 7-inch (18-cm) touch screen. Navigating the system is easy, via the Menu page. Occupants can also hook up their nomad devices via the USB and jack sockets, mounted on the central fascia for enhanced access and ergonomics, and play them using the touch controls on the screen or the buttons on the steering wheel.
For European market, the new 2013 Dacia Logan and Sandero model will available in early next year . Pricing detail will be announced closer to its release date.


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Led Zeppelin at peak power – mixing hard rock bombast with deep, genuine love for blues and folk guitars! Houses Of The Holy is the essential the blueprint for countless imitators to come – but it's also got smarts, subtleties and creative ambitious that's just plain lost on the watered wannabes that floated up in Zeppelin's wake. Titles include "The Crunge", "Over The Hills & Far Away", "The Song Remains The Same", "The Rain Song", "Dancing Days", "Dyer Maker", "No Quarter", and "The Ocean". © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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text: Video: Will social media sway U.S voters? Add to ... The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Nov. 05, 2012 1:02PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Nov. 06, 2012 8:44AM EST Globe media reporters Simon Houpt and Steve Ladurantaye examine some of the social media highlights of the U.S. election campaign, and debate whether the viral videos and memes will carry any weight with voters. Watch More Video: The boomtown where Obama went bust Comments Share via email Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on LinkedIn Print More Related to this Story Audio Slideshow The boomtown where Obama went bust media New media, old-fashioned debates prove decisive Infographic The race to 270: Electoral map Follow us on Twitter: @globeandmail


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A friendly conversation that turns toward the topic of money can quickly become uncomfortable.
To help consumers navigate such pitfalls, Utah's Ally Bank has teamed with author and New York Times "ethicist" Randy Cohen on a six-week video series that addresses financial etiquette.
The first video is available on the bank's "Straight Talk" blog at http://community.ally.com/straight-talk. The series will run through the week of Jan. 21.


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Politico lets Gingrich attack public health insurance plan without disclosing financial ties to insurance companies
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Politico quoted Newt Gingrich's criticisms of including a public health insurance plan option in a health care reform proposal without noting his financial ties to several major health insurance companies.
In an April 14 article, Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reported that Newt Gingrich -- identified as "the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia and founder of the Center for Health Transformation" -- "argues that government intervention in the financial and auto industries will sour voters on a deep reach into health care." Budoff Brown went on to quote Gingrich's criticisms of the inclusion of a public insurance plan option in a health care reform proposal, including his remark: "There is always interest in it in general -- until you start describing it, then it collapses." But Budoff Brown did not note that the Center for Health Transformation is a for-profit entity that receives annual membership fees from several major health insurance companies, which have a direct interest in whether a public insurance plan is part of health care reform. Moreover, Gingrich himself reportedly profits from his involvement in the Center for Health Transformation. Indeed, the group's website notes that "[t]he Center for Health Transformation and The Gingrich Group are corporate for-profit organizations not affiliated with any other corporation or organization" [emphasis added].
According to the Center for Health Transformation's website, members pay tiered annual membership fees, providing varying degrees of "[a]ccess to Newt Gingrich on your company's strategy," among other benefits. Insurance groups UnitedHealth Group, the parent of UnitedHealthcare, and WellPoint Inc. are listed as "Charter" members, BlueCross BlueShield Association is listed as a "Platinum" member, and AHIP is listed as a "Premier" member.
Additionally, Gingrich has reportedly profited from his work with the Center. In a January 16, 2005, article, The New York Times described Gingrich as "a well-paid broker of ideas and influence in the field of health care policy" and reported that "[b]ase camp for Mr. Gingrich's health policy work is his Center for Health Transformation, a for-profit organization that occupies new office space overlooking K Street, the main street for Washington lobbyists." The Times also reported that the center's members "pay yearly fees of up to $200,000." Further, The Washington Post reported in a July 13, 2004, article (accessed via Nexis) that according to Gingrich aide Rick Tyler, the center's for-profit status -- as opposed to being a registered as a nonprofit lobbying group -- enabled Gingrich to operate " 'under the radar.' " The article further quoted "former adviser Rich Galen" saying of Gingrich: "He's making more money than he ever thought possible and doesn't have to tell everybody where it's coming from."
From the Post article (accessed via Nexis):
Gingrich's center is a "brilliantly packaged way of offering his services as former speaker and a man who can open doors to push along what he calls health transformation," said Joseph Antos, a health policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "In other words, lobbying."
Gingrich is not a registered lobbyist. The think tank is for-profit, he said, because "you get more drive and energy" from employees when money is at stake and "I believe in entrepreneurship."
Aide Rick Tyler, however, acknowledged there were political reasons for diverging from the standard nonprofit lobby group model.
Having been formally reprimanded by the House in 1997 for violations associated with the political use of tax-exempt organizations -- which were structured similarly to the new center -- Gingrich decided that a nonprofit would have invited enormous scrutiny. Organizing as a for-profit company, however, permits him to operate "under the radar," Tyler said.
"He's making more money than he ever thought possible and doesn't have to tell everybody where it's coming from," marveled former adviser Rich Galen. "He has the amount of influence he chooses to have. I suspect there is virtually no one in this town of either party who will not take a call from Newt Gingrich, if only to hear what he has to say."
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Oh, about 8 months ago I stopped for gas at Sheetz, when a young fellow in his early 20's approach me about the same time the employee was coming over to tell him he had to leave. He was previously going from pump to pump asking for money.. Understanding how so many people are hurting economical today I told the Sheet's employee "that's ok I'll talk to him."
The young man went in to a story about how he had to get back to Pennsylvania, someone stole his money and he couldn't afford the gas to get back home. "Are you married?" I asked him.. Sure enough, married with a 3 kids at home.
I took out my cell phone out and asked for his phone number so I could call his wife. He got a little nervous at that point, but I'm sure he decided if he gave me 'a' number I wouldn't bother calling it anyway. So he gave me a number. I did dial it and a woman answered. I explained to her how I was standing here talking to a man that claimed to be her husband. She said, "What, I don't have a husband, I'm not married."
Well the guy quickly said never mind and headed for a car with another man sitting in it.. I walked behind him to his car telling him, "the next phone call was to the police, you are conning people as the Sheetz employee suggested."
So I dialed 911 and gave them his license number and informed them of which way he was heading as I watched him turn on to I-70, westbound. .
I don't know if anything every came of it. But it might be a way for honest people to save a few dollars before you go handing out money to the 'panhandlers'. There are enough legitimate people out there that can use help.
PS, I'm presently livig in Israel and if you'll like some pictures I'd be happy to email them. Shalom.


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Thursday, 28 November, 2002, 15:24 GMT
Pre-Budget report: Digesting the measures
All Budget and pre-Budget speeches tend to leave unanswered questions.
Here are a few thoughts on what wasn't said and what therefore might be coming up next time.
The Economy
More borrowings in the pipeline and no immediate signs of tax increases... but if all does not go well over the next year or so, further tax rises beyond the National Insurance rises scheduled for April cannot be ruled out.
Business tax
The fairly major reforms to Corporation Tax are still being considered. If carried through these could result in shifts in the tax burden between sectors - for example, reduced capital allowances could hit manufacturing at the expense of the service sector.
This is definitely an area to watch. Oil companies welcomed the abolition of the royalties they pay on North Sea oil productions (some compensation for the extra tax levied last April).
But foreign companies who operate in the UK through branches (typically banks) will be disappointed that changes to their tax regime are not going to be watered down as hoped. The extra cost could well affect viability.
Value Added Tax (VAT)
The document on "protecting indirect tax revenues" sets out what to me is quite a shift in direction of the way Customs & Excise will tackle losses of VAT and duties.
Not that they haven't always pursued defaulters - but you can see a different, more businesslike manner coming in.
Evaders beware - and let's hope the innocent aren't caught by more administrative routines.
Mr Brown talked about "simplifying radically" the tax treatment of pensions.
The current mish-mash of different rules for tax relief needs rationalisation.
The chancellor's comment that there are no plans to tax lump sums taken on retirement, nor restrict tax relief on contributions was welcome - clearly the chancellor's view (and mine) is that he needed to scotch rumours of change to avoid further damaging confidence.
Share schemes
There is a useful relief for companies who contribute shares to employee share schemes but this could be outweighed by the tightening of tax relief for contributions to employee benefits trusts (to attack abuses).
It is to be hoped that it does target abuses rather than impose a blanket constraint and thus discourage contributions.
Environmental issues
We had some greenish measures in the speech and it is good to see that the chancellor is well committed to consultation.
The projected significant rises in Landfill Tax need to encourage recycling rather than adding to burdens on business.
Meanwhile the planned Lorry Road User charge is progressing - the intention is to make all lorries pay for use of roads in terms of distance travelled rather than simply charge only UK-registered lorries for their tax disc.
The dogs that didn't bark in the night
The inexorable rise in house prices is dragging more and more people into the Inheritance Tax net.
But no change was announced - the Chancellor is probably just sitting back and anticipating more revenues.
We did get some inkling of figures for 2003 to 2004, such as the blind person's allowance and the main earnings limit for National Insurance, but, as yet, we have no changes to the income tax bands.
It remains possible that the amounts of income subjected to the 10%, 22% and 40% tax rates will stay as now rather than increasing - which would mean a stealthy tax rise of course.
There had been speculation that the Chancellor would raise stamp duty to get more money from the housing market and help dampen house prices.
This cannot be ruled out for the future. Meanwhile a general reform of this archaic duty is proceeding.
Nor did we get any changes to the rules on domicile, which allow those whose real home isn't the UK to escape tax on non-UK income.
The issue hasn't gone away completely but it does seem as if there is recognition that trying to close what might be perceived as a loophole would overall cost the UK money as various wealthy foreigners (including many footballers?) took their talents and investments elsewhere.
And finally...
Often a Chancellor takes the opportunity to whisk a populist rabbit out of the Budget hat - ranging from Norman Lamont's tax on mobile phones through to Gordon Brown's abolition of TV licence fees for the over 75s.
We didn't get one this year - apart from a reannouncement on bingo tax - perhaps we deduce that life is too serious for such gestures nowadays.
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Moses And The Veil
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
The Moses And The Veil Bible scriptures located in 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 explains directly from God's Word the Moses And The Veil topic.
2 Corinthians 3:12
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2 Corinthians 3:13
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:15
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2 Corinthians 3:16
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Rain Affair Dominant Favourite In Apollo
The feature $250,000 Group Two Hako Australia Apollo Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday continues the preparation of some of Sydney's senior gallopers with the expected challenge from progressive sprinter Rain Affair.
Rain Affair was dual nominated by trainer Joe Pride for the Group One Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield but has chosen to remain in Sydney for the Apollo Stakes (1400m) and the softer track conditions at Rosehill after Sydney's persistent rain.
While fine weather is now expected in Sydney this week, the track was rated a Heavy 8 at acceptance time and despite expected improvement in the rating it might be doubtful if a Good 3 track can be reached in time.
Nevertheless, TAB Sportsbet has opened the Apollo Stakes market with Rain Affair the firm favourite at $1.40 over Shoot Out at $8.00.
Rain Affair has drawn out at barrier 12 for regular rider Corey Brown.
Shoot Out is one of four Chris Waller trained runners and the most forward with the others, Danleigh , Rangirangdoo and Hawk Island continuing their preparation towards further assignments. Shoot Out has barrier three for Hugh Bowman.
Commencing their preparation towards the BMW Sydney Carnival are the John Thompson trained pair Trusting and Gathering and the Gai Waterhouse pair Tullamore and Herculian Prince .
Rain Affair's stablemate, multiple Group 1 winner Sacred Choice , continues her campaign after an unplaced run in the Group 2 Expressway Stakes over 1200m at Rosehill on February 11.
The Grahame Begg trained Secret Admirer is the top-weight with 59.5kg for the $125,000, Group 3, Mad Mex Southern Cross Stakes (1200m) which has a field of 10. The Group 1 winner has barrier seven with Brenton Avdulla riding.
Caulfield's former Thousand Guineas winner Yosei has 57kg and barrier two for regular rider Michelle Payne.
There is a field of 15 for the $100,000 listed The Geoff & Beryl White Triscay Stakes (1200m) for fillies and mares with the Waller trained Little Surfer Girl the top-weight at 58kg. Kathy O'Hara rides from barrier three.
There are a total of 100 acceptances for the eight race programme commencing at 12.50pm. The Apollo Stakes is Race six at 4.10pm. The rail is in the true position for the entire circuit.
There is a $120,000 TAB Quaddie jackpot on the last four races commencing with Race five, the Southern Cross Stakes at 3:30pm.
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