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- Correct 283 cubic inch Chevrolet V8 / Dual-quad induction
- Venetian Red and Shoreline Beige paint / Venetian Red hardtop
- Featured in a 2013 edition of Auto Enthusiast Weekly
- Correct Powerglide 2-speed automatic transmission
- Red vinyl interior / Power windows
- 15-inch steel wheels
- The beneficiary of a frame-off restoration that was completed in 2013
- The beneficiary of a frame-off restoration that was completed in 2013
- Featured in a 2013 edition of Auto Enthusiast Weekly
- Correct 283 cubic inch Chevrolet V8 / Dual-quad induction
- Correct Powerglide 2-speed automatic transmission
- Venetian Red and Shoreline Beige paint / Venetian Red hardtop
- Red vinyl interior / Power windows
- 15-inch steel wheels
Flashy muscle cars are fun, and crazy customs are nice, but there's really nothing cooler than well-done '50s Americana. Comfortable, polished and acutely detailed, classic Chevrolets just ooze style. And this striking Corvette is a carefully restored stunner that mixes 265 cubic inches of dual-quad V8 with a proven driveline and clean, traditional aesthetics. If you're looking for a first class collector car that's road ready, show-ready and just plain fun, here's the perfect way to enjoy the scene!
The beneficiary of a quality, frame-off restoration that's logged only 26 miles since its 2013 completion, this highly polished drop-top has been lovingly coated in a crisp combination of Venetian Red and Shoreline Beige 2-stage. At the front of its silky panels, an aggressive chrome grille floats chromed guards between chrome-trimmed parking lamps, bright T3 headlights and convex bumpers that bend around peaked fenders. Between those fenders, an ornate header emblem leads the eye to a sculpted hood, like-new glass and classy stainless frames that are sealed under a color-keyed hardtop. Below that top, traditional handles and a correct mirror perfectly complement chrome vents and stainless-trimmed coves. And at the back of the car, an ornate trunk emblem reflects flashy taillights, two more bumpers and vertical trim spears that center small exhaust pipes in dramatic quarter panels.
Tilt this roadster's lightweight hood and you'll find a correct, 265 cubic inch Chevrolet small block that proudly displays a dual-quad/high performance/2-speed (FG) assembly stamp in front of a familiar 3720991 casting number. GM's ultimate hot rod option for the 1956 model year, this 225 horsepower mill features the proven square bore/hydraulic lifter set-up that put Chevrolet performance cars on the map. At the top of the block, reliable Carter carburetors, which breathe through small, louvered air cleaners, funnel life in to a correct Winters intake. At the sides of that intake, cast iron heads hang painted Corvette valve covers over fully restored exhaust manifolds. Behind those tubes, a chrome-capped ignition system shoots fire through stainless sleeved wires. And in front of those wires, a tagged Harrison radiator circulates coolant through reproduction GM hoses and correct squeeze clamps. In addition to its killer powerplant, this Corvette offers a thoroughly detailed engine bay that's complete with stainless fluid lines, an AC fuel bowl, a Delco-Remy generator and a reproduction Delco battery. And the car's first rate aesthetics, which mix smooth, Satin Black framing with a bright, Chevy Orange core, create great texture and excellent contrast.
Toss this Corvette on a lift and you'll find a carefully restored X-frame that's bolted to clean floor tubs that have been thoroughly sealed in fresh, Satin Black paint. Behind the stout small block, a correct Powerglide 2-speed funnels torque through a highway-friendly axle. Holding that drivetrain in place is a restored and marked double A-arm front and rear leaf suspension. Smooth and solid stops come courtesy of 4-wheel drum brakes. Exhaust is handled by coated, true-dual pipes, which flow in to coated, glasspack-style mufflers. And at the corners of the chassis, stainless-capped steelies twist fresh 6.70-15 BF Goodrich Silvertown whitewalls.
Inside this magazine-featured Vette, a clean vinyl interior is built around great looking buckets that have just enough break-in time to be exceptionally comfortable. At the front of those seats, a 2-tone dash centers a pushbutton radio between rebuilt gauges and a small mirror. At the sides of that dash, stylish door panels front factory power windows. Below those panels, sleek Daytona carpet floats Corvette-branded mats at the sides of a short chrome shifter. And in front of the driver, a big steering wheel, which is clearly inspired by race cars of the period, features matching paint, drilled spokes and a highly polished horn button.
When it comes to comfort, performance and timeless style, nothing beats a storied GM classic. Thanks to a high quality restoration, this awesome Corvette wraps a storied drivetrain in a correct chassis and head turning aesthetics. If you're in the market for a cool cruiser that's fully detailed and ready to hit the road, welcome to the Chevrolet family!
- Year
- 1956
- Make
- Chevrolet
- Secondary Make
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- Model Name
- Corvette
- Secondary Model
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- Vehicle Type
- Passenger Car
- Hobby Segment
- Sports Car
- Mileage
- 26
Engine / Transmission
- Engine Type
- Gasoline
- Engine Size
- Engine Number
- 3720991
- Heads
- Stock
- Fuel Specification
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- Fuel Delivery System Type
- Dual 4 Barrel
- Transmission Type
- 2 Speed Automatic
- Transmission Spec
- Powerglide
- Transmission Number
- 3708134
- Entertainment System Type
- AM Radio
- Battery Location
- RH Engine Compartment
- Battery Shut Off
- n/a
- Battery Charger
- n/a
- Power Steering
- No
- Air Conditioning
- No
- Interior Color
- Red
- Seating Type
- Bucket
- Seat Material
- Vinyl
- Shifter Type
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- Center Console
- No
- Body Style
- Convertible
- Doors
- 2
- Safe Body Color
- Venetian Red & Shoreline Beige
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- Stripes
- No
- Front Suspension Type
- Double A-arm
- Rear Suspension Type
- Leaf Spring
- Axle Specification
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- Front Wheel Specification
- 15"
- Rear Wheel Specification
- 15"
- Front Tire Specification
- 6.70-15
- Rear Tire Specification
- 6.70-15
- Front Brakes Specification
- Drum
- Rear Brakes Specification
- Drum
- Spare
- n/a
- Exhaust Type
- Dual Exhaust
- Muffler Type
- Factory Replacement
- Restoration Status
- Restored
- Mileage Since Restoration
- 26
- Awards Summary
- Featured in Auto Enthusiast Weekly.
- — 2013.
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Case Conclusion Date: 03.01.1988
Practice Area: Estate planning
Outcome: The IRS accepted the retroactive claim, saving the heirs $550,000 in estate taxes.
Description: Marcella died in early 1987 with a substantial estate. The $1M GST tax exemption had just been passed in 1986, while the client was alive, but due to illness she never changed her estate plan to take advantage of the tax exemption. I obtained written evidence from Marcella's doctor that she was incompetent at the time the GST law was passed, told the IRS that had Marcella been competent she would have amended her trust to take advantage of this exemption, and submitted that evidence to the IRS on a form I created (no form was yet available from the IRS to claim this exemption).


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Spending a summer away from home is often a highlight of college life, but rarely does it involve participating in seminars and lab research at an Ivy League university across the country. For Caroline Arellano-Garcia, a senior biotechnology major at California State University, Northridge, such an experience only enhanced her college years.
Arellano-Garcia is one of only 40 undergraduate students nationwide taking part in the 2014 Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Internship Program, which provides participants with a challenging summer research experience in a cutting-edge stem cell science laboratory. Since early June, she has conducted research in the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in the laboratory of HSCI-affiliated faculty member Sandra McAllister.


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The defense strategy described in this paper pairs each useful data element $k$ with a camouflage value $v$ and simultaneously transmits both $k$ and $v$ over the channel. This releases an emission $e(k,v)$. We wish to select the camouflage values $v(k)$ as a function of $k$ in a way that makes the quantities $e(k,v(k))$ as {\\sl indistinguishable} as possible from each other.
We model the problem and show that optimal camouflage values can be computed from side-channels under very weak physical assumptions. The proposed technique is hence applicable to a wide range of readily available technologies.
We propose algorithms for computing optimal camouflage values when the number of samples per trace is moderate (typically $\\leq 6$) and justify our models by a statistical analysis.
We also provide experimental results obtained using FPGAs.
We show that, assuming {\\em trapdoor permutations}, there exist families of {\\em robust unobfuscatable functions} for which even approximate obfuscation is impossible. That is, obfuscation is impossible even if the obfuscated $\\tilde{f}$ only agrees with $f$ with probability slightly more than $\\frac{1}{2}$, on a uniformly sampled input (below $\\frac{1}{2}$-agreement, the function obfuscated by $\\tilde{f}$ is not uniquely defined). Additionally, we show that, assuming only one-way functions, we can rule out approximate obfuscation where $\\tilde{f}$ is not allowed to err, but may refuse to compute $f$ with probability close to $1$.
We then demonstrate the power of robust unobfuscatable functions by exhibiting new implications to resettable protocols that so far have been out of our reach. Concretely, we obtain a new non-black-box simulation technique that reduces the assumptions required for resettably-sound zero-knowledge protocols to {\\em one-way functions}, as well as reduce round-complexity. We also present a new simplified construction of simultaneously resettable zero-knowledge protocols that does not rely on collision-resistent hashing. Finally, we construct a three-message simultaneously resettable $\\WI$ {\\em argument of knowledge} (with a non-black-box knowledge extractor). Our constructions are based on a special kind of ``resettable slots\" that are useful for a non-black-box simulator, but not for a resetting prover.
cycles for a full 160-bit scalar multiplication on an 8-bit ATmega128
microcontroller, which is 2.78 times faster than the widely-used TinyECC library. Our implementation also shows that the energy cost of ephemeral ECDH key exchange between two MICAz (or IRIS) motes amounts to only 38.7 mJ per mote (including radio communication). A mote with a standard AA battery pack could theoretically perform up to 174,278 ECDH key exchanges before running out of energy.
for a hash function. If we consider only hash computations, it is
easy to compute a lower-bound for the complexity of near-collision
algorithms, and to build a matching algorithm. However, this
algorithm needs a lot of memory, and makes than 2^{n/2} memory
accesses. Recently, several algorithms have been proposed without
this memory requirement; they require more hash evaluations, but the
attack is actually more practical. They can be divided in two main
categories: some are based on truncation, and some are based on
covering codes.
In this paper, we give a new insight to the generic complexity of a
near-collision attack. First, we consider time-memory trade-offs for
truncation-based algorithms. For a practical implementation, it seems
reasonable to assume that some memory is available and we show that
taking advantage of this memory can significantly reduce the
complexity. Second, we show a new method combining truncation and
covering codes. The new algorithm is always at least as good as the
previous works, and often gives a significant improvement. We
illustrate our results by giving a 10-near collision for MD5: our
algorithm has a complexity of 2^45.4 using 1TB of memory while the
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$\\Enc(x)$ of a value $x$ and a secret key $\\sk_f$ corresponding to a
circuit $f$, it enables efficient computation of $f(x)$ without revealing any additional information about $x$. Constructing functional encryption schemes with succinct ciphertexts that guarantee security for even a single secret key (for a general function $f$) is an important open problem with far reaching applications, which this paper addresses.
Our main result is a functional encryption scheme \\textit{for any general function $f$ of depth $d$, with succinct ciphertexts} whose size grows with the depth $d$ rather than the size of the circuit for $f$. We prove the security of our construction based on the intractability of the learning with error (LWE) problem. More generally, we show how to construct a functional encryption scheme
from \\textit{any} public-index predicate encryption scheme and fully homomorphic encryption scheme.
Previously, the only known constructions of functional encryption were either for specific inner product predicates, or for a weak form of functional encryption where the ciphertext size grows
with the size of the circuit for $f$.
We demonstrate the power of this result, by using it to construct a
\\textit{reusable circuit garbling scheme with input and circuit privacy}: an open problem that was studied extensively by the cryptographic community during the past 30 years since Yao\'s introduction of a one-time circuit garbling method in the mid 80\'s. Our scheme also leads to a new paradigm for general function obfuscation which we call token-based obfuscation. Furthermore, we show applications of our scheme to homomorphic encryption for Turing machines where the evaluation runs in input-specific time rather than worst case time, and to publicly verifiable and secret delegation.
Different flavors such as sender-deniable and receiver-deniable encryption, where only the Sender or Receiver can produce fake random coins, have been considered.
Recently, several open questions regarding the feasibility of deniable encryption have been resolved (c.f. (O\'Neill et al., CRYPTO, 2011), (Bendlin et al., ASIACRYPT, 2011)). A fundamental remaining open question is whether it is possible to construct sender-deniable Encryption Schemes with super-polynomial security, where an adversary has negligible advantage in distinguishing real and fake openings.
The primitive of simulatable public key encryption (PKE), introduced by Damg{\\aa}rd and Nielsen (CRYPTO, 2000), is a public key encryption scheme with additional properties that allow oblivious sampling of public keys and ciphertexts. It is one of the low-level primitives used to construct adaptively-secure MPC protocols and was used by O\'Neill et al. in their construction of bi-deniable encryption in the multi-distributional model (CRYPTO, 2011). Moreover, the original construction of sender-deniable encryption with polynomial security given by Canetti et al. can be instantiated with simulatable PKE. Thus, a natural question to ask is whether it is possible to construct sender-deniable encryption with \\emph{super-polynomial security} from simulatable PKE.
In this work, we investigate the possibility of constructing sender-deniable public key encryption from the primitive of simulatable PKE
in a black-box manner. We show that, in fact, there is no black-box construction of sender-deniable encryption with super-polynomial security from simulatable PKE. This indicates that the original construction of sender-deniable public key encryption given by Canetti et al. is in some sense optimal, since improving on it will require the use of non-black-box techniques, stronger underlying assumptions or interaction.


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Wednesday night, Ed Schultz of MSNBC announced that his The Ed Show would be moving from weeknights to weekends. It will now fill two hours every Saturday and Sunday, 5-7 PM. The show has always struggled to find its audience, bouncing around the dial since its debut in April 2009. Schultz painted the move as voluntary:
I raised my hand for this assignment for a number of personal and professional reasons. My fight on The Ed Show has been for the workers and the middle class. This new time slot will give me the opportunity to produce and focus on stories that I care about and are important to American families and American workers.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin is playing along, congratulating Schultz on the move. "It's an exciting time for MSNBC, and I'm looking forward to having Ed's powerful voice on our network for a long time," said Griffin.


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I can still remember the first time I listened to Steve Vai's Passion and Warefare album. I was only 15 and had been playing guitar roughly 4 years and that album opened my eyes (or ears as it was) to a completely different approach to guitar. One in which the instrument was not limited by the laws of physics with pitches soaring well beyond conventional limits nor by the fact that we only have 10 fingers. I didn't understand in my youth the complex rack units of pitch shifters, delays, and pitch shifted delays he utilized. As the years rolled by, I continued to lust after many of the unique effects Vai crafted on that album but it has always been cost prohibitive. Enter the Digitech TimeBender Digital Delay.
As you might expect from the title, or my prolonged intro, the Digitech Timbender is a device which offers not only a multitude of delay types but also the ability to intelligently pitch shift the delayed signal. So what exactly does that mean? Baby steps…let's start with the general features and work our way up to that.
Now that you've got your basic delay set up, things get a little more interesting. As you might expect, tap tempo capability has been included. However, Digitech has also included a new technology called musIQ Smart Strum which allows you to hold down the tap pedal, mute your strings, and strum the tempo. Too Cool!
The TimeBender offers 10 different delay types: Digital, Analog, Variable Speed Tape, Moving Head Tape, Dynamic Digital, Dynamic Analog, Dynamic Tape, Time Warp (wide delay time modulation), Reverse, and Envelope as well as a 20 second looper. Think of the different types as your starting point with digital sounding the cleanest, analog and tape degrading with each repeat, and the head types having unique modulation and pitch artifacts emulating their real world counterparts. The dynamic (ducking) variations minimize the level of the repeated notes while you are playing to keep things sounding cleaner. Reverse is exactly what it sounds like while envelope is a very unique mode more akin to a tremolo or modern chopper type of effect than a delay. Once you've set a type, the TimeBender offers up the traditional controls over time, repeats, and mix. A (somewhat limited) modulation control rounds the high level features out.
Now that you've got your basic delay set up, things get a little more interesting. As you might expect, tap tempo capability has been included. However, Digitech has also included a new technology called musIQ Smart Strum which allows you to hold down the tap pedal, mute your strings, and strum the tempo. Too Cool! Digitech has also included a tone control which operates in a unique way. Rather than simply rolling off high end, 12 o'clock represents a neutral setting and clockwise rotation reduces bass response and counterclockwise reduces treble response. In concert with the preset coloration of each delay type, this allows a very fine level of control over the delayed tones. Another interesting control is the Multiplier which allows subdivision of the user set delay time. Nice touch…but wait there's more! The TimeBender is also a multi-tap delay capable of up to 6 taps using the Time Pattern dial. Each notch on the dial has a symbol which depicts one of 11 rhythmic patterns. I could try to describe the rhythms of each but there's really no point as pattern 11 incorporates the previously mentioned musIQ Smart Strum allowing you to strum whatever multi-tap pattern you want. This power becomes extremely apparent when using the envelope mode allowing you strum in a pattern for a syncopated tremolo effect. Sweet!
And now ladies and gentlemen, the pièce de résistance…intelligently pitch shifted delay. So what's this all about you ask? It's a unique effect like no other. For example, you could hit an open A string and set the delays to harmonize an A major chord. Think Ballerina 12/24 from Vai's Passion and Warfare. It's an almost ethereal effect which creates the illusion of many more notes being played than actually are. Pitches are controlled by the Voicing knob with 100 different options the majority of which trigger different pitches for each delayed note. Also, by setting the unit to the minimal time and minimum multiplier, the TimeBender can function as a standard intelligent pitch shifter pedal. Ah, but how does it know what key to play in? MusIQ to the rescue…you simply strum a chord and it automatically sets the key signature.
Well now that I've gushed on and on, I should take a moment to point out a few downsides to the unit. For all the power and tonal variety available, Digitech has only allotted 4 memory locations. Booooo! Granted, its expandable to 8 using an external expression pedal by allowed different settings for both toe and heel however that increases the already oversized footprint of the pedal. An even more glaring omission in my eyes is the exclusion of MIDI control, a feature which should be standard on a pedal of this caliber (and price).
The Digitech TimeBender Delay will very well be many delay aficionados dream come true. While the ~$299 price may seem high for a delay pedal, referring to the Timbender as just a delay is like saying Steve Vai can kinda play guitar. Honestly, it's at a price point well below similar pitch shifting delay units (most of which are of the rack variety) and will more than likely be the last delay…and pitch shifter…and chopper you'll ever need.
Price: ~$299Pros: Unique effects and controls, most affordable pitch shifting delay pedal on the market.Cons: No MIDI, limited presets


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by Ed Wetschler
�Bad break,� I said when Yankees left-fielder Hideki Matsui bobbled a pop fly at Yankee Stadium. Californian Gary Milne wasn�t buying that. �It�s his own fault � Matsui should have held onto that ball,� he declared, and the other out-of-towners in our group agreed. Tough crowd.
We were on Sports Travel & Tours� East Coast Sampler, a package that fits four great baseball shrines and four games into five busy days. The trip began in Boston, made all the right stops in New York (at the risk of offending certain readers, this means we skipped Shea Stadium), and ended in Baltimore. Let others walk barefoot to Lourdes; our pilgrimage was to Cooperstown, where Abner Doubleday is believed (by some) to have invented baseball in 1839.
Most of the 22 participants in the tour were guys with a profound love of baseball who flew in from other parts of the country, but there were some notable exceptions. Jo Petronio came along to humor her husband, Dom, an East Coast Red Sox fan; Jerry Bible did likewise for his wife, Diane, who�s on a mission to visit all 30 Major League ballparks. And Nadine Blanshei was treating her grandson, ten-year-old Joey. �I�m not really a fan,� she admitted. �This is a labor of love.�
For my wife, the Yankees booster, this would be a test of character. Who would Carol root for at Fenway Park? And would bygone rivalries against tough Baltimore teams of the 1970s, �80s, and early �90s harden her heart in Baltimore?
After checking into the Best Western Longwood in Boston, everyone got on the bus so promptly that it left early for Wednesday evening�s events. Now, when�s the last time you heard of a tour group who boarded their bus ahead of schedule?
Sports Travel hosts John �JD� Davis and Billy Canavan, two moonlighting schoolteachers, handed a microphone to driver Paul Finn, a moon-lighting fireman. As Finn pointed out the sights while he took us to a get-acquainted dinner at Cheers, we soon realized that his Boston accent was a thing of beauty. Responding to a dig from Billy, he exclaimed, �Wow, there�s an �R� in �Gahden�?�
The home of the Boston Red Sox since 1912, Fenway is a jewel. Granted, it�s a jewel with lousy sight lines � the overhangs block fans from seeing fly balls from some of the seats � but the park�s old green walls bespeak baseball tradition. The concourse, a closed-off street behind left field, is a carnival of Sox shops, food stands, music makers (or unmakers, depending on their skills), and locals getting their faces painted with the team colors.
A few years ago, the folks at Fenway installed new seats on top of the right field roof � there was no other place to put them � and that�s where Sports Travel put the East Coast Sample gang. I sat next to Jeff Singleton, a Cincinnati Reds fan from Ohio. �I�m rooting for Boston,� he confessed. �Terrible, huh? But it seems natural here.�
Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield threw strike after strike, a rare feat for a knuckleballer, and Boston�s batters kept punching hits between Blue Jays fielders. The fans did an immaculate wave and the ladies screamed for center fielder Johnny Damon. This was fun.
We were privy to an anthropological phenomenon, too: a sort of eighth-inning stretch during which Fenway fans belt out �Sweet Caroline.� None of the locals we talked to had the faintest idea why they sing this tune (made famous by Neil
Diamond � a New Yorker), but they were awfully good-natured when we asked about it. With two outs in the 9th, Boston reliever Keith Foulke almost gave away a 6�2 lead. When Damon stopped the bleeding at 6�4 with a dramatic catch, all of us, including Carol, joined Jo and Dom in an ovation. Sometimes we surprise ourselves.
Our bus left early Thursday morning for Cooperstown. JD kept us loose by telling tales about his encounters with baseball royalty. Once, when Yogi Berra refused to sign a photo properly, JD showed him up by getting spitballer Gaylord Perry to autograph a jar of Vaseline.
Full disclosure: I don�t find the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as compelling as its own road show, Baseball As America, which toured the country a few years ago. But clearly, mine is a minority opinion; my bus-mates loved it all, from the old film clips to the all-time records to the Hall of Famers� plaques.
And they didn�t just find history in Cooperstown, they found souvenirs. Our crew wandered through stores buying bats, balls, pennants, jerseys, caps, cards, kids� clothes, the works. Babes in ball-land. After spending Thursday night in Kingston, New York, we got up early again to head Bronx-wards for the morning tour of Yankee Stadium, and it was worth the effort. Not only did we get to sit in the press seats (what a view!), but we were allowed into the Yankees dugout. Yes, our fannies touched down where A-Rod sits. Two degrees of separation.
After that we walked down the left-field line without being arrested, and we communed with Yankee ghosts in Monument Valley, the area beyond the left/center field fence that�s chockablock with plaques of Yankee greats. I caught Jeanne Grippo, one of the few other East Coasters on the tour, rubbing the Babe�s bronze head for good luck. Hey, it worked for Roger Clemens, the Yankee pitcher who used to follow this ritual.
Sports Travel distributes little guides to restaurants and sights in each city on its itineraries, but for New York it also hired a guide to board the bus and show everyone the highlights. His name was Darryl, so in honor of New York�s most infamous Strawberry, we got his attention by chanting �Daaaaarryl.�
Home base for the next two nights was the New York Hilton. The hotel is smack in midtown, but by 5 p.m. it had been six hours since any of us had seen a baseball field, so these folks were happy to head back to the Bronx.
Our seats were in left field, which is why we had such a good view of Matsui�s flub, not to mention a barrage of line drives off Yankees pitchers. In the seventh inning a power failure silenced the P.A. system and darkened the scoreboards, while the Yankees suffered a power failure of their own, so Anaheim won 5�0, to the delight of the many Californians in our group. And you had to love the sign that the electric company flashed during the partial blackout: �Con Ed: ON IT.� Yeah, right.
We returned Saturday afternoon for a second Yankees game. This time the Angels scored three runs in the first three innings. Then a storm caused a three-hour, 42-minute rain delay.
Most of the fans went home, but not our crew: Nothing the heavens could throw at these people would chase them from the ballpark. Eventually, the Californians got to enjoy another Anaheim win, which they celebrated that night at Manhattan�s best steakhouses.
When the bus pulled up for the ride to Baltimore at 7 a.m. Sunday morning, everyone was still in an upbeat mood. �Where do you get your energy?� I asked Gary Milne. �This trip is easy,� he told me. �I go to all these places, and I don�t have to drive.�
JD had warned us, gently, that we might not find our first stop, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, endlessly engrossing. He was right, so Carol and I followed his excellent advice to visit the Inner Harbor before strolling back to Camden Yards.
Sportscasters often call this the perfect ballpark, and they�re right. From fans-only Eutaw Street, which is Baltimore�s answer to Fenway Park�s concourse, to the old-style architecture, cozy size, clean restrooms, reasonable food prices (!), and friendly staffers, the Orioles� home field is a winner. Tour participant Joe Herrera, who knows both baseball and the food biz, judged the hot dogs to be the best he�s had at any ballpark.
We had great seats in the Club level, replete with food courts, lounging areas, and waiters who offer prompt and cheerful food and beverage service. The ballpark�s bandbox proportions encouraged lots of runs and fielding heroics, so it was an action-packed game with a final score of Blue Jays 8, Orioles 5. A few people spent Sunday night in Baltimore; our bus took the rest to the airport. Carol and I headed home with a deeper appreciation of baseball�s past and a better understanding of what makes the game great at three very different, first-rate ballparks. In fact, when Boston beat the Yankees for the American League Championship and then won the World Series (for the first time since 1918), Carol and I surprised ourselves by feeling downright happy for the underdog Red Sox.
Sports Travel and Tours packages such as the East Coast Sampler cover lodging, tickets and transportation to games and museums, information about destinations, a get-acquainted meal, plus knowledgeable hosts and guides. Because of baseball schedules, each season�s two or three East Coast Sampler tours are a little different. (Some include a Mets game; some even squeeze in a Broadway show.) This one cost $1,175 per person, double occupancy.
For information about the various scheduled and custom baseball packages, as well as tours for fans of auto racing, basketball, football (both NFL and college), golf, tennis, and more, contact Sports Travel and Tours: Tel: 800-662-4424 or 413-247-7678; Fax: 413-247-5700; E-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com; Website: www.sportstravelandtours.com.
BASEBALL GAME � Travel Tips
� Sports Travel and Tours can arrange flights to trip starting points and hotel accommdations for extending stays as well as entirely customized trips.
�Some of the company�s itineraries, such as Southern Exposure and West Coast Express, include air as well as bus transportation because of the distances involved.
�Most intriguing package? The Mystery Baseball Tour, which includes six or seven ballparks. Of course, the starting and ending point offer some clues, but the rest is a surprise.
�Sports Travel offers a Passport to Baseball for fans who want to see all 30 ballparks. When a passport is stamped at all 30 parks, Sports Travel invites its holder to Cooperstown during Induction Weekend, and he or she is inducted into the Baseball Stadium Hall of Fame.


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The first two installments in Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas's semiautobiographical trilogy explore a boy's grim childhood, as he and his family struggle to survive in a destitute Highlands mining town. First, in "My Childhood," a young boy's difficult life with his half-brother and grandmother is improved when they befriend a German POW. Then, in "My Ain Folk," the boy's two grandmothers die, so he's sent to live in an orphanage.


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National Geographic has released this soon-to-be classic photograph of one shark eating another shark whole.
The photo comes from Daniela Ceccarelli, of Australia's Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Ceccarelli was working with fellow researcher David Williamson on conducting a "fish census" off Great Keppel Island, part of the country's Great Barrier Reef. That's when Ceccarelli thought she spotted a brown-banded bamboo shark hanging out near the ocean's floor.
"The first thing that caught my eye was the almost translucent white of the bamboo shark," Ceccarelli told National Geographic in an email. Instead, as Ceccarelli moved in for a closer look she noticed a camouflaged wobbegong shark emerging from seclusion with the same bamboo shark partially wedged inside its jaws.
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Shove It! The Warehouse Game (Genesis)
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DescriptionShove It! The Warehouse Game is a top-down puzzle game based on the original gameplay of Soko-Ban Hiroyuki Imabayashi wrote for Thinking Rabbit. The player controls Stevedore, a warehouse keeper, from a top-down view. As shown on the title screen, shoving boxes will earn him money to make his dreams come true, a lovely girlfriend and a fiery red sports car.
The game consists of 16 stages with 10 rounds each. At a certain stage, any of the 10 rounds can be selected while playing but a new stage will only be opened up when all rounds have been successfully completed. To complete a round, Stevedore needs to push all boxes on the designated spots. This will turn them into a different colour. This is no easy task as the level design will obstruct many moves and cornered boxes can no longer be moved. While playing it is possible to restart the round, undo the last step and the game keeps track of the number of steps taken.
The game supports passwords and includes an edit mode where new levels can be designed and played.
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- "史上最大の倉庫番" -- Japanese spelling
- "Shijō Saidai no Sōkoban" -- Japanese title
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|Power Play
|Apr, 1990
|85 out of 100
|Video Games
|Mar, 1990
|81 out of 100
|ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)
|Apr, 1990
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|6 out of 10
|Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)
|Jun, 1990
|13 out of 40
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TitleThe game's Japanese title, Shijō Saidai no Sōkoban, translates as "History's Greatest Warehouseman".
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Designer: Benjamin Hubert
Benjamin Hubert's terracotta pots are a multi-functional storage and serving series for the design-conscious individual. Glazed internally and sealed tight with silicone lids, the pots are great for storing pasta, cereals, beans, and other foods.
Materials: Terracotta (pots), Silicone (lids)
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George Farquhar was born at Londonderry in 1678, and is believed to have been the son of an Irish clergyman.
Greencastle village was a small summer resort for the people of Londonderry.
Could "any one" passing over to Ireland be expected to deliver letters in Cork or Londonderry?
Londonderry, after an heroic contest, was at length relieved.
Above four thousand of these miserable objects were driven under the walls of Londonderry.
This occurred at Wynyards, the seat of the Earl of Londonderry.
"We shall stop to-morrow at Moville, the port of Londonderry," said Mr. Beal.
Arrived in Londonderry he had scarcely any strength to stand.
The defenders of Londonderry were men of two nations and of two religions.
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What Does Usher Really Think of DJ David Guetta?
Usher has been pushing dance pop for years. Now a legion of upstarts–including David Guetta–is challenging his domination of the genre. Usher is poised to release a new album titled "Looking 4 Myself." But what if he looks around and all he sees are kids dancing to David Guetta?
What does Usher think of Guetta and some of the other dance pop sensations out there? Check out this video interview.


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Event Date: June 22nd, 1986
Event Description: Falling Stars
Source: Gettysburg News
The Stars missed out on the final playoff spot as Jeff Wickersham threw for 237 yards with one touchdown on 24-of-38 passing to lead the New Orleans Breakers to a 33-24 win over Philadelphia.
Frank Lockett caught six passes for 84 yards and Mark Schellen had 98 rushing yards and scored a touchdown for the Breakers (15-1), who could potentially host the championship game on July 13th.
Chuck Fusina completed 17-of-28 passes for 186 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions for the Stars (7-9), who are out of the playoffs for the first time. Ken Dunek had five catches for 65 yards and a touchdown in the setback.
"We had fate in our own hands and we didn't come through," said Fusina. "We can't have all those turnovers. I can't make all those turnovers, not against a team like New Orleans. That's the bottom line."
The Breakers entered the fourth quarter trailing 24-20, but scored the final 13 points of the game.
Napoleon McCallum scored his second touchdown of the season in the third quarter...New Orleans will host Arizona next week in the first round of the playoffs.
In other early games, Chicago upset Jacksonville 26-24, Michigan topped Houston 16-10, and Birmingham won at home 31-10 over Orlando.
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Rudolf word search
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This puzzle uses words from the Glyn Robbin's adaptation of Rudolf the Red nose Reindeer.
Some of the puzzles that people list for the public get indexed by the search engines (like Google). Some people find those puzzles and cannot figure out how to make a puzzle of their own. So this page now has the navigation sidebar.
There are now buttons on the puzzle so that you can get a clean page, in either HTML or PDF, that you can use your browser's print button to print. The PDF format allows the web site to know how large a printer page is, and the fonts are scaled to fill the page. The PDF takes awhile to generate. Don't panic!


text: Ashton-Warner's novels (Spinster, 1958; Incense to Idols, 1960; Bell Call, 1964; Greenstone, 1966; and Three, 1970) met with favourable critical response, and several of them became best-sellers. Her works of autobiographical nonfiction (Teacher, 1963; Myself, 1967; Spearpoint: "Teacher" in America, 1972), however, did not fare as well critically or commercially. She also wrote short stories and poems, a number of which appeared in New Zealand periodicals. One of her novels, Spinster, was the basis for a British film, Two Loves (1961).


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Committee Charge and Membership
Position Table
Position Request Form
January 24, 2005
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Room 428 Main Library
Present: Paula Kaufman (Chair), Bill Mischo (Vice-Chair), Lynne Rudasill (Secretary), Jane Block, Cindy Ingold, Janis Johnston, Kathleen Kluegel, William Maher, Lynn Wiley, Kim Reynolds (Recording)
1. Minutes – The minutes of the January 4, 2005 meeting were approved with changes.
2. Question Time – John Wagstaff, new Head of the Music Library is on campus. Kaufman will check to see if he received the new employee packet from Library Human Resources with the contents that had been agreed upon at an earlier meeting of the Executive Committee.
The spouse of the candidate for the position of Head of Rare Books and Special Collections is here and giving a talk at 4:15 p.m. today.
Another draft of the budget document should be available by tomorrow morning. Kaufman is accepting additional comments on the document.
3. Appointment of committees – A committee was appointed to review papers for the new Head of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Two faculty members have indicated their intent to go forward for promotion to full professor. Committees will need to be assigned to review their papers.
4. CLIR Fellows Proposals – The "History of American Popular Performance to 1940," submitted by Kathleen Kluegel and Mary Stuart, was chosen to be the project for the FY06-08 CLIR postdoctoral fellow.
Members of the sub-committee reviewing the applications will create a template for future proposals.
5. Wording for Administrative Council Composition – The Executive Committee approved, with one dissenting vote, the following wording for the composition and appointment of members of the Administrative Council:
Membership. The membership of the Administrative Council shall be comprised of the University Librarian, the Division Coordinators, the Associate/Assistant University Librarians, a representative from LSSC, and other persons selected by the University Librarian in close consultation with the Executive Committee.
Maher will transmit the decision to the Bylaws Committee.
6. Personnel Requests –
The Executive Committee confirmed an earlier e-mail ballot to fill a visiting position in the Business and Economics Library. The Executive Committee approved a proposal to fill several new positions in the Law Library. The proposed positions come with a commitment for most of the funding coming from the Provost and the Dean of the Law School, with the University Library contributing a small amount so as not to take funds out of the salary pool.
7. Newspaper Library Proposals –
After further review of two proposals for the future of the Newspaper Library, including one from Central Public Services, the Executive Committee unanimously approved the proposal from Mary Stuart to combine the Newspaper Library with the History and Philosophy Library. An implementation/ advisory group will be formed to guide the process of combining these two libraries.
8. John 'Bud' Velde Professorship -
Mr. Velde was an alumnus who left his $1.3 million farm to the University Library. He was very interested in both preservation and rare books. Kaufman proposed the money be used to finish the preservation lab, support visiting scholars, provide a graduate fellowship for Rare Books and Special Collections, provide a Velde scholar/professorship, and/or enhance the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room and staff area. The Executive Committee will discuss this further.
Action List:
Budget Discussion –
The Committee will continue this discussion at the next regularly scheduled meeting. The Budget Implementation Task Force report is expected to be finished by the end of January.
Assistant/Associate University Librarian –
The Committee will begin a conversation concerning the implications of this title in the near future
Kaufman announced that she has asked Katie Clark to take on part of the scholarly communications duties.


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"Egan: Right-wing media in decline" By DYLAN BYERS at Politico
Egan: Right-wing media in decline
By DYLAN BYERS at Politico
Rush Limbaugh, who sits atop the right-wing media food chain along with Drudge, has compared the president to Hitler for years. On Fox News, Hitler allusions are less overt, but crazy talk about Obama... is the stock in trade. The good news is that these people are talking mostly to themselves, from inside the much-ridiculed bubble that burst in spectacular fashion last November, while fewer and fewer voters are listening to them.
Yes, the pyramid of political dissemination is still in place: from Drudge, to Rush, to Fox, to Republican politicians in green rooms, trickling down to all the lesser Drudges and Rushes in the wacko-sphere. ... [but] the lash, Mr. President, is now a straw. ... In truth, Drudge, though admirable as a bootstrap story, is a tool. Limbaugh is a tool. Fox is a tool. They are used to punish dissidents, people who actually try to govern and a range of enemies. ...
Fox and friends can still crush their own, as Obama noted. But that only drives the Republican Party further to the fringes. Virtually everything the broadcast bullies are against sensible gun measures, immigration reform, raising taxes on the rich are favored by a majority of Americans.
This takes the conventional wisdom about the 2012 elections -- that conservatives are withering in a new era of "Barack Obama, gay marriage, weed, and a new focus on climate change" -- and applies it to the media. There's a great deal of truth to that: As Egan notes, and as we've reported, Fox News hit a 12-year-low in the key demo recently and Drudge accounts for a mere two percent of the nation's political media diet.
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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:14 PM
zbdent (35,392 posts)
1. one can hope ...
but remember ... the dems were dead after 2002 ... 2004 ... 2010 ...
and the Repugs were dead after 2006 ... 2008 ...
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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:26 PM
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2. As with smallpox, polio, and syphillis; the organism tends to find a way to innoculate itself ...
against destructive influences.
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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:33 PM
bluestate10 (10,942 posts)
3. Hate is a difficult to sustain human condition. It ultimately eats up the people that embrace
it and push fair minded people away from the hater.
Response to applegrove (Original post)
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:46 PM
pscot (20,521 posts)
4. Why give politico the hit
when you can read Tim Eagan himself in the Times?
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In Family Guy, he was the voice of a clerk in "Holy Crap" and Randall Fargus in "Running Mates".


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Focus on Economic Data: Employment and the Unemployment Rate, March 5, 2010
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases data from the monthly "Household Survey" conducted by the Bureau of the Census, providing a comprehensive body of information on the employment and unemployment experience of the U.S. population, classified by age, sex, race, and a variety of other characteristics.
The BLS also conducts the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, surveying about 150,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 390,000 individual work sites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls.
The BLS compiles information from these sources and announces the monthly "Employment Situation," reporting the current U.S. employment and unemployment data estimates. The monthly announcement reports employment data from the previous full month.
This lesson is about the March 5, 2010, BLS announcement, "Employment Situation: February 2010." This lesson will also look at regional employment and unemployment trends, similarities, and differences.
- Review the most recently reported U.S. employment and unemployment data.
- Determine the changes in U.S. employment and unemployment from the past month and year.
- Determine the factors that have influenced the change in the U.S. unemployment rate.
- Explain the implications of the employment and unemployment data for individuals, population groups, and the U.S. economy.
The March 5, 2010, BLS announcement of the U.S. unemployment rate in February 2010 was "inconclusive" at best. It was not as bad as many expected, but it was not good news. There were 36,000 more job losses, but that was not enough to increase the unemployment rate. Bad weather across much of the nation in February may have skewed the numbers. All-in-all, it didn't give us much information to decide if the health of the economy is improving or getting worse.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics News Release "The Employment Situation – February 2010"
Released March 5, 2010
"Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction and information, while temporary help services added jobs. Severe winter weather in parts of the country may have affected payroll employment and hours; however, it is not possible to quantify precisely the net impact of the winter storms on these measures."
Unemployment - Household Survey Data
"In February, the number of unemployed persons, at 14.9 million, was essentially unchanged, and the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent. Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (10.0 percent), adult women (8.0 percent), whites (8.8 percent), blacks (15.8 percent), Hispanics (12.4 percent), and teenagers (25.0 percent) showed little to no change in February. The jobless rate for Asians was 8.4 percent, not seasonally adjusted."
- Is it good news that things did not get much worse?
Employment for every demographic group seemed to remain the same. No group's unemployment rate changed much better or worse than others. One trend continued. Unemployment for minority groups (except Asians.) was significanly greater than for whites. Women faired better than men.
- What factors do you think account for the differences among groups?
"The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was 6.1 million in February and has been about that level since December. About 4 in 10 unemployed persons have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. In February, the civilian labor force participation rate (64.8 percent) and the employment-population ratio (58.5 percent) were little changed."
Again, little change in the number of long-term unemployed, or labor marker participation. One change was in the number of people working part-time (not by choice). At least they are working.
- Is that good or bad news?
"The number of persons working part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) increased from 8.3 to 8.8 million in February, partially offsetting a large decrease in the prior month. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job."
"About 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in February, an increase of 476,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey."
"Among the marginally attached, there were 1.2 million discouraged workers in February, up by 473,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.3 million persons marginally attached to the labor force had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities."
The year-over-year increase in the number of marginally attached and discouraged workers continued. Many people have simply given up on finding employment. Clearly, few will choose to enter a labor market when they see little hope of finding a job.
- Should discouraged workers be counted as unemployed?
- Are we undercounting the size of the real labor force?
Figure 1, below, shows the recent history of the U.S. unemployment rate.
Payroll Employment - Establishment Survey Data
"Total nonfarm payroll employment was little changed in February (-36,000). Job losses continued in construction and information, while employment continued to increase in temporary help services. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, payroll employment has fallen by 8.4 million."
The BLS detailed the employment numbers by industry.
"Construction employment fell by 64,000 in February, about in line with the average monthly job loss over the prior 6 months. Job losses were concentrated in nonresidential building (-10,000) and among nonresidential specialty trade contractors (-35,000). Since December 2007, employment in construction has fallen by 1.9 million."
"Employment in the information industry dropped by 18,000 in February. Since December 2007, job losses in information have totaled 297,000. In February, employment in transportation and warehousing continued to trend down."
"Employment in manufacturing was essentially unchanged in February. Small job gains in a number of component industries were offset by job losses in motor vehicles and parts and in chemicals."
"Retail trade employment was unchanged in February, after a sizeable increase in January. Over the month, job gains in building material and garden supply stores (7,000) and in department stores (6,000) were offset by declines in food and beverage stores (-9,000)."
"In February, temporary help services added 48,000 jobs. Since reaching a low point in September 2009, temporary help services employment has risen by 284,000. Health care employment continued to trend upward in February."
"In February, employment in the federal government edged up. The hiring of 15,000 temporary workers for Census 2010 was partially offset by a decline in U.S. Postal Service employment."
- Is the increase in "temporary help services" an indicator that firms want to increase output, but are uncertain about committing to new full-time employees?
- What do you s have to say about these industry employment trends?
- Is one of these industries dominant in your area? Has it hurt your area more or less than the average?
Average Workweek
"The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.1 hour to 33.8 hours in February. The manufacturing workweek for all employees dropped by 0.4 hour to 39.5 hours, and factory overtime decreased by 0.2 hour over the month. In February, the average workweek for production or nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls fell by 0.2 hour to 33.1 hours; the workweek fell by 1.0 hour in construction, likely reflecting the unusually severe winter storms."
"In February, average hourly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 3 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $22.46. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by 1.9 percent. In February, average hourly earnings of private production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 3 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $18.93."
On average, people were working slightly less in February, but their hourly wage increased.
- Is the standard of living gap between the employed and the unemployed widening?
Monthly Data Revisions
"The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December was revised from -150,000 to -109,000, and the change for January was revised from -20,000 to -26,000." After the revisions (based on more accurate or current data), the estimated total number of job losses during the recession decreased by 35,000.
The BLS Commented on the Effect of the Severe Winter Storms on the Employment Estimates
The BLS commented on the impact of the winter storms in February. "Major winter storms affected parts of the country during the February reference periods for the establishment and household surveys. In the establishment survey, the reference period was the pay period including February 12th".
"In order for severe weather conditions to reduce the estimate of payroll employment, employees have to be off work for an entire pay period and not be paid for the time missed. About half of all workers in the payroll survey have a 2-week, semimonthly, or monthly pay period. Workers who received pay for any part of the reference pay period, even one hour, are counted in the February payroll employment figures. While some persons may have been off payrolls during the survey reference period, some industries, such as those dealing with cleanup and repair activities, may have added workers."
"In the household survey, the reference period was the calendar week of February 7-13. People who miss work for weather-related events are counted as employed whether or not they are paid for the time off."
- How did the February weather impact your area?
- Do you know people who lost some income during the winter storms?
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment – January 2010
"Thirty states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases (in January), 9 states registered rate decreases, and 11 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The national unemployment rate fell from 10.0 percent in December to 9.7 percent in January, but was up from 7.7 percent a year earlier."
"In January, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 31 states and the District of Columbia, decreased in 18 states, and remained unchanged in 1 state. The largest over-the-month increase in employment occurred in California (+32,500), followed by Illinois (+26,000), New York (+25,500), Washington (+18,900), and Minnesota (+15,600). The District of Columbia experienced the largest over-the-month percentage increase in employment (+1.0 percent), followed by Alaska (+0.9 percent), Washington (+0.7 percent), Minnesota and Utah (+0.6 percent each), and Illinois (+0.5 percent)."
"The largest over-the-month decreases in employment occurred in Missouri and Ohio (-12,800 each), followed by Kentucky (-11,800), New Jersey (-9,100), Florida (-6,100), and Nevada (-5,700). Kentucky (-0.7 percent) experienced the largest over-the-month percentage decrease in employment, followed by Missouri and Nevada (-0.5 percent each), and Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, and Ohio (-0.3 percent each). Over the year, nonfarm employment decreased in 48 states and increased in 2 states and the District of Columbia. The largest over-the-year percentage decreases occurred in Nevada (-6.9 percent), Arizona (-5.4 percent), Wyoming (-5.0 percent), and California (-4.8 percent)."
- What do you think accounts for the differences in employment trends among the states?
- Nevada, Arizona and California were among the worse states for job losses? What do yu think they have in common?
Hint: How fast did they grow prior to the recession?
Regional Unemployment
"Among the nine geographic divisions, the Pacific continued to report the highest jobless rate, 11.7 percent in January. The East North Central recorded the next highest rate, 11.3 percent. The West North Central registered the lowest January jobless rate, 7.2 percent, followed by the West South Central, 8.0 percent."
"Four divisions experienced statistically significant unemployment rate increases from a month earlier, the largest of which were in New England and the South Atlantic (+0.2 percentage point each). All nine divisions reported significant over-the-year rate increases of at least 0.8 percentage point. The largest of these occurred in the East North Central and Pacific (+2.4 percentage points each)."
- Where does your region fit into the national trend?
U.S. Unemployment Rates (%) by Region
|New England
|Middle Atlantic
|South Atlantic
|East South Central
|West South Central
|East North Central
|West North Central
The States (including the District of Columbia) that compose the various census divisions are:
New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Middle Atlantic: New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
South Atlantic: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia
East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee
West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin
West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Mountain: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
Pacific: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.
State Unemployment
"Michigan again recorded the highest unemployment rate among the states, 14.3 percent in January. The states with the next highest rates were Nevada, 13.0 percent; Rhode Island, 12.7 percent; South Carolina, 12.6 percent; and California, 12.5 percent."
"North Dakota continued to register the lowest jobless rate, 4.2 percent in January, followed by Nebraska and South Dakota, 4.6 and 4.8 percent, respectively."
"In total, 25 states posted jobless rates significantly lower than the U.S. figure of 9.7 percent, 11 states and the District of Columbia had measurably higher rates, and 14 states had rates that were not appreciably different from that of the nation." Link to BLS Regional and State Unemployment Release for January 2010 , see Table 3.
"Six states reported statistically significant over-the-month unemployment rate increases in January. New Mexico experienced the largest of these (+0.3 percentage point), followed by California, Florida, Idaho, and Utah (+0.2 point each) and Maryland (+0.1 point). The remaining 44 states and the District of Columbia registered jobless rates that were not appreciably different from those of a month earlier, though some had changes that were at least as large numerically as the significant changes."
"West Virginia and Nevada recorded the largest jobless rate increases from January 2009 (+3.5 and +3.4 percentage points, respectively). Six other states reported rate increases of 3.0 percentage points or more: Florida, Illinois, and Wyoming (+3.2 points each), Rhode Island (+3.1 points), and Alabama and Michigan (+3.0 points each). The District of Columbia also registered a large over-the-year unemployment rate increase (+3.6 percentage points). Thirty-five additional states had smaller, but also statistically significant, rate increases. The remaining seven states reported jobless rates that were not appreciably different from those of a year earlier."
- Is your state doing better or worse than the average?
- What factors may strongly influence your state's unemployment rate?
Nonfarm Payroll Employment (Seasonally Adjusted)
"Between December 2009 and January 2010, 11 states experienced statistically significant changes in employment, 9 of which were increases. The largest statistically significant job gains occurred in California (+32,500), Illinois (+26,000), and New York (+25,500). Statistically significant decreases in employment occurred in Missouri (-12,800) and Kentucky (-11,800)."
"Over the year, 48 states experienced statistically significant changes in employment, all of which were decreases. The largest statistically significant job losses occurred in California (-701,700), Florida (-303,200), Texas (-287,800), Ohio (-222,000), and Illinois (-219,700). The smallest statistically significant decreases in employment occurred in Vermont (-4,500), South Dakota (-8,100), and New Hampshire (-8,700)."
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Tables
Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by census region and division, seasonally adjusted
Table 2. Civilian labor force and unemployment by census region and division, not seasonally adjusted
Table 3. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and selected area, seasonally adjusted
Table 4. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and selected area, not seasonally adjusted
Table 5. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, seasonally adjusted
Table 6. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and selected industry sector, not seasonally adjusted
HTML version of the BLS Employment news release
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Technical Note
The BLS added a section to the report, answering some "Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates."
Why are there two monthly measures of employment?
"The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates of employment and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey employment series has a smaller margin of error on the measurement of month-to-month change than the household survey because of its much larger sample size. An over-the-month employment change of about 100,000 is statistically significant in the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change in the household survey is about 400,000. However, the household survey has a more expansive scope than the establishment survey because it includes the self-employed, unpaid family workers, agricultural workers, and private household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey. The household survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups."
Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys?
"It is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants. However, neither the establishment nor the household survey is designed to identify the legal status of workers. Therefore, it is not possible to determine how many are counted in either survey. The establishment survey does not collect data on the legal status of workers. The household survey does include questions which identify the foreign and native born, but it does not include questions about the legal status of the foreign born."
Why does the establishment survey have revisions?
"The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by incorporating additional information that was not available at the time of the initial publication of the estimates. The establishment survey revises its initial monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 2 months, to incorporate additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey and recalculated seasonal adjustment factors. Please visit this site for more information on the monthly CES Employment Revisions ."
"On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that re-anchors estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax records. The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors in the estimates. Visit this site for more information on the annual Benchmark Revisions ."
Does the establishment survey sample include small firms?
"Yes; about 40 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business establishments with fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is designed to maximize the reliability of the total nonfarm employment estimate; firms from all size classes and industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal."
Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses?
"Yes; monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for the net employment change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment comes from an econometric model that forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the net impact that can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages."
"The establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because the survey is not immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There is an unavoidable lag between the birth of a new firm and its appearance on the sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new businesses to the survey twice a year."
Is the count of unemployed persons limited to just those people receiving unemployment insurance benefits?
"No; the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey."
Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who have stopped looking for work?
"Yes; however, there are separate estimates of persons outside the labor force who want a job, including those who have stopped looking because they believe no jobs are available (discouraged workers). In addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (discouraged workers and other groups not officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in The Employment Situation news release."
Again, the March 5, 2010, BLS employment report did not reveal much change in the economy - good or bad..
"Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent..." "Employment fell in construction and information, while temporary help services added jobs." "In February, the number of unemployed persons, at 14.9 million, was essentially unchanged, and the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent."
Does no more bad news mean good news is coming?
Traditionally, employment and unemployment are seen as a lagging indicators. The real GDP estimate for the fourth quarter of 3009 showed growth at a 5.9 percent annual rate. This was a significant reversal from the GDP losses in much of 2009.
The nagging question is whether or not this will be a "jobless recovery" driven more by technology and productivity improvements. If it is, and we have growth without replacing the lost jobs, there may be structural changes in employment. What began as "cyclical" unemployment in this downturn may actually be "structural" and more long term.
Next, answer the essay questions below on the interactive notepad.
What do you think accounts for differences in the unemployment rates between states and regions?
- What does the trend in the unemployment rate tell you about the health of the economy?
The BLS regularly releases employment and unemployment data on metropolitan areas, states and regions. This data is not quite as current as the national data that is released monthly – given the extra time required to interpret more localized data.
On March 10, 2010, the BLS released the newest data on "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment for January 2010
"Thirty states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 9 states registered rate decreases, and 11 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The national unemployment rate fell from 10.0 percent in December to 9.7 percent in January, but was up from 7.7 percent a year earlier."
"In January, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 31 states and the District of Columbia, decreased in 18 states, and remained unchanged in 1 state."
"Unemployment rates were higher in December than a year earlier in 371 of the 372 metropolitan areas and lower in 1 area, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Nineteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 10 areas registered rates below 5.0 percent. The national unemployment rate in December was 9.7 percent, not seasonally adjusted, up from 7.1 percent a year earlier. Among the 369 metropolitan areas for which nonfarm payroll employment were available, 356 areas reported over-the-year decreases in employment, 12 reported increases, and 1 remained unchanged.
Take a guess. What metropolitan area had an increase in employment in the last year?
You can find it in the report on metropolitan areas.
Read the two BLS announcements.
- How does your state compare to the national average and surrounding states?
- Are there regional patterns of unemployment in your area that are higher and lower than the national average?
- Which five states had the highest unemployment rates last reported month? Lowest?
- Did the unemployment rate decrease in any states last reported month?
- Why do you think your region or state differs from other regions or states, or the national employment and unemployment trends?


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Penny Smith is the associate director of the Early Childhood Leadership Academy (ECLA). She served as a consultant for the Illinois Early Childhood Fellows (IECF) program until 2013 and served as the program manager for both IECF and the Illinois Senior Leaders program until 2015. Previously, she was a program manager at The Chicago Community Trust (the Trust), where she managed two high-profile fellowship programs: The Fellowship in Arts & Culture Management program and the Chicago Community Trust Fellowship program.
Prior to joining the Trust, Smith was the technology and student vocational trainer for Chicago Lights, a community outreach program. There she developed the curriculum for the job training program and provided technology training for both children and adults participating in all areas of the Chicago Lights program.
Smith, a former industrial engineer, has also been a consultant providing recruiting, process improvement, software training, and database design services to both private and public sectors since arriving to Chicago in 2000.
- Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP®), Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly ASTD)
- B.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Cincinnati
- 2-year Program Certificate (performance evaluations, interviewing, employee development), Cintas Corporation Management Trainee Program
- M.B.A. in Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago (2 years of coursework completed)


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May 13, 2013
Coach says: Pens down Sens in six games
By BRUCE GARRIOCH, QMI Agency
PITTSBURGH - The Senators have had time to rest, relax and get ready. Now, they face a huge challenge.
After sending the Montreal Canadiens packing in five games in Round 1, the Senators have their work cut out for them against Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, James Neal, Paul Martin and Jarome Iginla, just to name a few Penguins.
This will the fourth time the Penguins and Senators have met in the post-season. The first time in Round 2.
"This is a different animal from the standpoint that Pittsburgh isn't going to fold under the pressure of a series," an Eastern Conference coach enlisted by the Sun to breakdown the teams said. "They showed it against the Islanders.