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Verizon Wireless and Comcast have added a set of new markets in which the two will market each other's services.
The two have made available their combined quad-play bundle into various markets in California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
The two are offering a range of incentives to customers that include Visa prepaid cards valued up to $300; a Comcast HD DVR at no additional cost for six months; and/or a complimentary 12-month upgrade to Blast!, the Xfinity Internet service that provides download speeds of up to 50 Mbps.
Verizon Wireless bought fallow spectrum owned by Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks and has been co-marketing with all four.
Verizon Wireless and Comcast have previously introduced offers in other cities in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Washington.


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Alumna Tells New Undergraduates How to "Be Awesome"
Amy Anda knows a little about being awesome.
Anda, BS/BSBA '02, has been honored for her business savvy and philanthropic work by such organizations as the Smithsonian Institution of Young Benefactors, WUSA-TV9, and the Apex Society. She's currently the director of Credence Management Solutions, LLC, an advisory consulting company that had 10 employees when she started two years ago and now employs more than 70.
"I've always believed in giving back to the spaces and places that gave to me," Anda said. "We all have a duty to keep making the world better where we can."
Anda recently shared what she believes are the three points to being awesome with the incoming freshmen of Kogod's Class of 2017 and transfer students during her speech at Academic Welcome.
Part One: Passion
The ingredients of awesomeness aren't equal, according to Anda. Some pieces of the pie are bigger than others—and the biggest part is passion.
"Having a passion for what you do and sharing that passion with others, that's truly what makes any business successful," she told students.
Anda encouraged the freshmen to explore Kogod and American University beyond the classroom to find what makes them passionate, highlighting the numerous clubs and organizations open to students.
"I'm a builder and a fixer. Whether it's helping a client be more efficient in his technology practices or working with Habitat for Humanity, I feel best when I'm finding a solution to a problem," she said. "AU helped me discover that about myself."
Part Two: Partners
Passion is only effective when it's shared, said Anda. Businesses are collections of relationships: from the client and contractor to the mentor and mentee, collaborations are everywhere.
Relationships aren't conjured out of thin air, Anda cautioned students. They take work and effort. She praised the advances of social networks and the ways the Internet has made it easier to find others with similar interests, but emphasized taking the first step.
"You can't be shy," she said. "You have to be the one to put yourself out there and send that email or hand out that business card."
More than improving business savvy, relationships also improve the whole person, Anda said, and that makes them priceless.
"Everyone needs to find that partner that can praise and push them at the same time."
Part Three: Bravery
The final piece to the awesome puzzle, according to Anda, is a little bravery.
Not every business venture is a success but the failures can't prevent future attempts, she said.
"You have to dare to try and then to try again. Dare to come back when you get knocked down and dare to turn the situation around."
Anda ended her talk by encouraging the new students to add their own pieces to what it means to be awesome during their time at Kogod.
"I can't wait to see all of you in four years and see what the new awesome looks like."

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla - The Children's Christmas Party of Jacksonville, a yearly tradition in the River City, was held Saturday to give local children an early chance to celebrate the holiday.
Each child is given three tickets to choose three presents from the many booths.
Tiki Boland, 10, has been coming to the party since he was old enough to remember. Every year, he has wanted a bike and, every year, he walked away without one -- until this year.
"All these years I've been there, it's never happened to me. I'm so happy right now," said Boland.
A few hundred tickets for bicycles were handed out at random. The children who didn't receive a bike still had plenty of other toys to choose from.
Tonya Powell got in line at 4 a.m. Saturday. Once inside, she let her children choose gifts for each other, so on Christmas morning there will be plenty of surprises.
"Times are tough. The jobs aren't there and for a community to come together and be able to help families out like this and donate toys so children could have a Christmas, it's awesome," said Powell.
Organizers said there were about 75,000 gifts available, including Barbie dolls, trucks, stuffed animals and even a microphone. But not everyone came for the gifts.
"Just to come out and just to mingle with the people standing in line was part of the Christmas spirit," said Donta Grant.
"It's just nice to see that Jacksonville is doing something. You know, they ain't just sitting back and watching everybody fail, you know," said Jackie Cooper, who has two young children. "At least they can help somebody get a good Christmas."
The Children's Christmas Party began 13 years ago. Diane Halverson is the lead organizer. She said 26 companies either donated toys or money this year.
Each year, Halverson said something happens to remind her why the Christmas party is so important.
"Usually, it has to do with a child being happy as can be or some parent coming up and saying, 'You know my kids would not have gotten any toys really unless I had come to this party,'" said Halverson.
Last year, organizers ran out of toys and some children went home empty-handed. On Saturday, everyone who came went home with at least one gift.
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It's easy to get lost following all the turns in direction and developments in the satellite navigation field this year.
The sector has been rapidly commoditised by the inclusion of satnav in automotive dashboards and GPS-enabled mobile phones.
Google's introduction of its free Navigation application for Android phones in October has also disrupted the sector – it makes TomTom's $100 turn-by-turn app for the iPhone look decidedly expensive. Read more


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Street Chic: David LaChapelle's American Jesus Opening
People tend to take their Pringle of Scotland very personally. For actress Tilda Swinton, the iconic knitwear line brings up memories of her late grandmother, who wore a forest green cashmere twinset riddled with cigarette burns on the sleeves. Art star Ryan McGinley played in Pringle pullovers as a child in early-'80s New Jersey. As Scottish mixed-media artist Luke Fowler puts it, "I don't know anybody who hasn't got a Pringle jumper in his or her wardrobe." To celebrate its 195-year legacy, the brand teamed up with London's Serpentine Gallery—codirectors Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist are fans of the brand and represent many Scottish artists—and asked art-world influencers (including the aforementioned) to design their takes on the twinset. The limited edition results are $450 to $1,950 and available at Net-a-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman. "Heritage is society's baggage—if you're being cynical," says humorist David Shrigley. "But a Pringle sweater fits very comfortably. Not too tight, not too loose."
Left: Actress Jean Simmons in a Pringle twinset, circa 1950
Design: "I go to the beach a lot, and the idea behind this sweater was just when you look up into the sun and see the silhouette of a seagull."
Inspiration: "My photographic philosophy is `Free as a bird.' It sounds kinda corny, but it's really important to me, the idea of freedom."
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The Supreme Court's Gladue decision is 13 years old and is as wrong today as it was then. Rendered by the best of Canadian legal minds, the decision is not only wrong-headed, it's been ineffective.
The groundbreaking ruling was hailed as a way to reduce the over-representation of aboriginal people in jail. But instead of taking measures to reduce the amount of crime committed by aboriginal offenders, the Supreme Court took a simpler route -- some suggest an embarrassingly simple route.
It tried to reduce jailed aboriginal numbers to politically acceptable levels by deflecting away from personal responsibility and focusing on the plight and "systemic or background factors which may have influenced (aboriginal people) to engage in criminal conduct." The message was clear: If the offender is aboriginal, find alternatives to jail.
The court's initiative hasn't panned out. The rate of jailed aboriginal offenders remains out of whack with their total population. A recent count says that only four per cent of Canadians are aboriginal, yet they make up 25 per cent of the prison population.
There are other problems, too.
Many justice players don't like the "Gladue discount." It's viewed as distasteful in a system where justice is supposed to be blind and consequences meted out fairly with regard to the act, not the identity of the accused or victim.
The Gladue slope is slippery and creates a class of second-class victims not entitled to the same brand of justice other Canadian victims might reasonably expect if the offender were non-native. (And it's worth noting that many victims of aboriginal offenders are also aboriginal.)
Over the Christmas holidays, one victim -- a white man -- was subjected to a cold, callous and brutal attack and became one of those second-class victims in an Ontario courtroom.
For years, a land dispute between the citizens of Caledonia, Ont., and some First Nations created an atmosphere of lawlessness that neither politicians nor cops could get a handle on. Violence, destruction, blockades with fictitious borders, demands and frustrations set the tone for all concerned.
Against a backdrop of struggle for power between native and mainstream Canada, Richard Smoke, from one of the nearby reserves, and a few of his buddies broke into an area home under construction. The Ontario court would later rule that the break-in had nothing to do with land claims, saying, "There was no necessity for this crime... it didn't advance any ideology or idea."
The owner of the property, Sam Gualtieri, 56, a hard-working family man, discovered the break-in as it unfolded and was set upon by Smoke, who attacked him with pieces of lumber, leaving him on the floor a bloody, broken and brain-damaged mess.
The Superior Court judge hearing the case convicted Smoke of aggravated assault, calling it "senseless and vicious" and "just a notch below culpable homicide." That's the serious end of the most serious assault charge in the Criminal Code, the kind that carries a potential 14-year federal prison sentence.
But in this case, Gladue became a key factor. The court ruling said there are too many aboriginal people in jail. Smoke's lawyer said her client had been affected by a culture of racism and had been damaged by the "intergenerational impacts" of residential schools (translation: someone in his family went to a residential school and the fallout continues to fester.)
The sentencing hearing was supposed to take part of a day, but stretched to three. The Crown, whose duty it is to be objective, hopelessly offered that six to eight years in prison was the appropriate sentence target.
But no. Taking into account the few months Smoke had spent in pre-trial custody -- and the Gladue decision -- this straightforward matter came to a very unsatisfying end, with the assailant being sentenced to just two years in a provincial jail.
The judge tried to convince whoever may have been listening that this was not a "get-out-of-jail-free" card. But, with early and statutory release provisions, that's exactly what it was.
Unable to function or work as he once did, Sam Gualtieri received second-class consideration as his life changed for the worse forever.
What has become clear in the last decade is that Gladue was a botched attempt at social engineering by technicians whose expertise lies in legal technicalities. Equally clear in this case was the devaluation of damage caused to Sam Gualtieri by Richard Smoke.
It all leaves questions that beg for answers. Did 13 years of Gladue make Smoke a better man? Will the few brief weeks that Richard Smoke spends in a provincial jail make him a better person? Has Gladue improved the lot of First Nations people? Is Canada a better place because of Gladue?
The smart money says "no" on all counts.
Robert Marshall is a retired
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A city in Colorado. Despite the seemingly perfect appearance, things in Greenwood Village are far from the ordinary. Cops have nothing better to do than write tickets for tobbaco, minor in possesion, or skating tickets. Every one who lives there is sure to make at least 400,000 a year, in order to afford the drug rehab their kids are sure to have to go through. Garages and cars are run bare from the punk-ass teens constantly looking for more money then daddy or mommy gives them. The main school is Cherry Creek High School. Your typical oversized suburban high school with more than their fair share of preppy bitches and misfits. The teachers and security gaurds are bribed easily with a bowl of ganja. Parties that are thrown are sure to be no more than 30-40 people getting fucked up and stupidly dancing to KS. 1075. Some hoe is going to end up sleeping with an equally hoeish girls boyfriend, which will be "the latest news" for the next 3 weeks, until it happens again, at the next shitty party. This place, is truly a shit-hole in a urinals clothing.
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As sure as death and taxes, spring is coming to Manitoba. And so is another flood.
We don't know when or how much, but it's now a certainty, given the sun's increasing warmth on the existing snowpack. Flood officials are optimistic it won't be as wild and costly as the billion-dollar flood of 2011, but they also admit Manitoba is at the mercy of the weather.
Or is it?
Maybe in the short term, but with six, possibly seven,of the top 10 floods to hit this province since 1800 occurring within the last two decades, there are many asking whether there is something else going on. Climate change, maybe?
Or could it also have something to do with the surge in drainage activity as farmers have tried to get water off their land earlier in spring, and drained wetlands to put more acres into production?
Whether there is a correlation between drainage and increasing flood damage or this is just a coincidence is still the subject of hot debate -- at least among farmers who are anxious to do more drainage and those who are at the receiving end of the floodwaters.
We wouldn't have farming in much of Manitoba if we didn't have drainage. As environmental historian Shannon Stunden Bower argues in a 2011 book called Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba, soggy bogs and drains played a pivotal role in defining the politics of this province. Settlers were given free land, but what good was it if they couldn't count on getting a crop off it?
However, after a century of drainage culture, there is growing consensus that the concept of holding water back could play an important role in flood mitigation, as well as potentially providing drought relief and economic development.
U.S. scientists have even coined the phrase "re-naturalizing the hydrology" to describe a new planning tool for restoring the historic water-storage capacity of a watershed. Researchers with Oregon State University found they could capture the runoff from 29 per cent of a watershed using 1.5 per cent of the land base.
Ducks Unlimited Canada estimates southwestern Manitoba has lost 100,000 hectares of wetland ecosystems over the past 40 to 60 years and they continue to disappear at a rate of six hectares per day. The science is showing that when wetlands are drained, it virtually eliminates the surrounding watershed's ability to store water.
"On average, for every acre of wetland that is drained, four additional acres of surrounding lands are also drained. This greatly increases the amount of water moving downstream, as well as the speed at which that water travels," Ducks Unlimited says.
That runoff water is often loaded with nutrients and other contaminants, which feeds the deteriorating quality in Manitoba's rivers, lakes and drinking water. Provincial records show that in 2010, there were more than 100 rural communities in Manitoba that exceeded provincial water-quality standards for trihalomethanes, a suspected carcinogen created when organic matter in water combines with chlorine disinfectant.
Storing water is complicated. It delays farm operations or takes farmland out of production. It isn't the sole solution. There is also the sticky question of who should pay for it. Should landowners bear the cost or should society pony up through programs that reward farmers for supplying ecological goods and services as well as food? It's a principle worth discussing. But the darker reality is that whether or not governments come through, farmers and their communities are the ones with the most to lose if the flooding continues.
Governments haven't finished paying for the last flood and they are ill-prepared to pay for another one.
But aside from that, the human cost of flooding is a distinctly rural issue. Rural Manitobans live the stress, the lost livelihoods, the washed-away dreams, the inconvenience and the uncertainty. For most people in Winnipeg, floods are something on TV.
This is one reality TV show in which rural Manitobans would happily bypass having a leading role.
Laura Rance is editor of the Manitoba Co-operator. She can be reached at 204-792-4382 or by email: email@example.com


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Paws & Reflect by Maui Humane Society
October 21, 2011 - Mark Vieth
Ohana Bound Hounds
October is Adopt-A-Dog month, and MHS is celebrating "Ohana Bound Hounds." We want to see more homeless dogs placed with a loving ohana and more lost dogs returned to their homes. Reuniting a pet with its people is a saved life, and we love those kind of happy endings. Make sure you i.d. your pet with a collar tag or dog license, or even better, a permanent tattoo or microchip i.d. Keep the contact info updated. If lost, that could be your pet's ticket home! And call MHS right away, so we can help find your lost pet.
If you are ready to bring a canine companion into your ohana, visit our shelter. MHS always has many wonderful puppies and dogs awaiting adoption. For Adopt-A-Dog month, we are offering some extra incentives to adopt a shelter pet. Through the end of October, adopt a senior dog (7 years or older) and pay no adoption fee! Or adopt a shelter puppy or young dog and "Spin to Win" a great discount off the adoption fee. Our standard adoption fees range from $50 to $125 (details on our website) and include spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, a health exam, and other goods and services valued at around $400.
Even though it's "Adopt-A-Dog" Month, we don't ever forget our precious feline friends. During Halloween weekend (Oct 29-31), adopt two cats or kittens, and "poof'" the adoption fees are gone! (Free to qualified loving homes only, of course.)
Adoption hours at the Maui Humane Society are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week. Come and see us!
This column was sponsored by a donation from Logan's Linens: "The Bed and Bath Experience," 210 Alamaha Street, Kahului, 893-0650.
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Part of the fun of forming an opinion on a free-agency transaction is the detective work and discovery that goes hand in hand with it.
Last week, the Free Press reported that Marcellus Bowman had surgery less than a week ago and was facing, "months and months" of recovery time. According to what was said by Joe Mack during a conference call that day, due to the extent and severity of his injury, Bowman would be lucky to be receiving a contract at all, yet, because of his performance and character displayed while with the Bombers, he was going to be offered a subsistence deal to keep him part of the team.
This is where it gets interesting. Lo and behold, on the third day of free agency, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats stepped up and signed him to a new deal, knee surgery or not, which gives us several possibilities about what has actually transpired here:
1. There is a difference in opinion between the Bombers doctors and the Hamilton physicians in terms of the severity and recoverability of the injury. The Ticats staff thought it to be a much less severe problem than the Winnipeg crew, so they signed him to a new contract.
2. Both sets of team doctors agree on the severity of the injury and rehabilitation time, the Ticats thought Bowman was worth the risk and a roll of the dice, and are gambling on his full recovery.
3. The severity of the surgery was overstated by Mack, so he could bluff away any potential interest in Bowman, thereby eliminating any leverage he may have had in free agency, and could henceforth sign him to a minimum salary contract.
4. Mack simply has an aversion to linebackers or players with a history of multiple injuries -- see Joe Loebendahn -- which is not necessarily a bad trait for a GM to have though this is the first knee surgery Bowman has had in his career.
So that was my veiled attempt at giving you a balanced and researched opinion, in light of the fact that possibilities No. 1 and 2 are not what happened here. Take my word on it.
What happened with Bowman is either option 3 or 4, or both. All you have to do is decide how much of which.
This is how I know it is not option No. 1 or 2.
While for the life of me I could not get Bowman to reveal what his operation was, I did discover that his knee injury is not as serious as an ACL tear. If you need a point of reference for an ACL tear, it's what Adrian Peterson had, the all-star running back for the Minnesota Vikings. The same running back who had reconstructive surgery on his knee and won the MVP and offensive player of the year for the NFL in 2012.
Now, nobody is saying Bowman has the recovery powers of Peterson, and nobody is saying that Peterson's results were atypical. But if Adrian could recover to the point where his knee operated better than it had before, and Bowman has an injury of a lesser degree, I would probably hedge my bets on him too.
In time, all will be revealed, as to what his injury was, and whether he will go on to be an impact player and physical force in Hamilton like he was in Winnipeg.
Due to the timing of his surgery, his full participation in training camp is highly unlikely, no matter what the procedure was. And while I've never had surgery before, I do know from my prior environment, that there are no certainties or guarantees about any recovery.
That being said, I hope this is simply a case of a GM who shies away from players with histories of injuries, and not one who overstated Bowman's condition to limit his free-agency options.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and game days in the Free Press.
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For athletes, precious metal is still the reward for outstanding achievement.
And a vehicle that successfully maintains its undisputed leading position as a Sports Car among SUVs deserves something special. That is why we have redesigned the Cayenne once more. Both enhanced it and refined it. The Cayenne Platinum Edition models are now here. With selected materials. For an even more stylish feeling. With outstanding details such as the Porsche Crest on the headrests. For that certain something.
One thing holds true for every Platinum Edition model: it is a Cayenne through and through. But just a touch more elegant. After all, it is an exceptional moment when an athlete is recognised with precious metal.
The Cayenne Platinum Edition models.
Accomplished performance.
How can you recognise trailblazing design?
By the envious glances that follow you.
Some people want to stand out, others prefer to leave a lasting impression. It is all a question of style. The up to 21-inch wheels in a distinctive design are impressively highlighted by the wheel arch extensions in exterior colour. And the dynamic Porsche contours also make sure that all eyes will be following you. In a nutshell, Fascination Sports Car.
Highlights of the extended standard equipment.
• Bi-Xenon main headlights with Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS)
• Wheel arch extensions painted in exterior colour
• 21-inch Cayenne SportEdition wheels in Platinum (satin-gloss) for the Cayenne S Diesel Platinum Edition and Cayenne S Platinum Edition
• Privacy glazing
• Automatically dimming interior and exterior mirrors
• ParkAssist at front and rear
• Exterior package Black (high-gloss)
The basis for an outstanding appearance: inner values.
The cockpit as a complete work of art: sporty, comfortable, connected. The multifunction steering wheel allows fast, ergonomic gear changes. The 8-way sports seats with high, strongly contoured side bolsters offer optimum support. The BOSE® Surround Sound System with a total output of 665 watts supplies the appropriate sound experience. New possibilities are offered by the Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system with online navigation module. Standard for the Cayenne Platinum Edition: the Connect Plus module, including LTE telephone module, Apple® CarPlay, the Porsche Connect apps as well as numerous other Porsche Connect services. These are inner values – in many different forms.
Highlights of the extended standard equipment.
• Porsche Communication Management (PCM) with online navigation and Connect Plus module
• Sports seats (8-way, electric) with seat centres covered in Alcantara®
• BOSE® Surround Sound System
• Porsche Crest on front and rear outside headrests
• Heated seats at front
• Analogue clock on dashboard
• Door entry guards at front with "Platinum Edition" logo
• Floor mats
Fuel Consumption/Emissions* Cayenne S Diesel Platinum Edition: Urban in l/100 km 10,3 - 10,1; Non-urban in l/100 km 7,2 - 7,0; Combined in l/100 km 8.2 - 8.0; CO2 emissions in g/km 215 - 209.
© 2017 Porsche Centar Zagreb. Pravne odredbe.
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The Drill blend hip-hop and R&B for a unique sound bringing together samples, beatboxing, and instrumentals.
The four-piece have been making music for about a year, and recently turned down an offer to audition for the X-Factor.
The members were contacted by an ex-manager of the So Solid Crew, but couldn't be lured by the opportunity to enter the limelight.
They all graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, where they studied various music and performance related courses.
Singer and guitarist Hayden Brenen hails from Sutton, while beatboxer and vocalist Harry Child is from Worcester Park.
The pair are joined by rappers Scatti-B and Le Vac, from Elephant and Castle and Brighton respectively.
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All of the members are 18 and gig all over London, as well as venturing out to Southampton.
Brenan says: "We are currently competing in the Gigs Big Busk- the biggest busking competition in the country.
"We've been performing in various places like Stratford.
"I think Sutton is a lively enough place for music, but there aren't any venues, we used to play at this thing called Rock Stock in Carshalton, but that's about it.
"There's talent here, but it needs a platform.
The Drill- You Don't Know Me
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Anterior temporal lobectomy is the removal of part of one of the
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This type of surgery is used to treat people with
temporal lobe epilepsy when medicines fail to control
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For a person who has seizures that do not get better with
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McWhorter falsely claimed African-American child poverty rates decreased under GOP majority
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On Hannity & Colmes, Manhattan Institute senior fellow John McWhorter claimed that the poverty rate of African-American minors has decreased "ever since 1996," a trend he credited to "the Republican party, who created welfare reform." In fact, according to U.S. government census data, the poverty rate among African-Americans under 18 began decreasing in 1992 and continued to do so until 2002, midway through President Bush's first term.
John McWhorter, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank, claimed in an appearance on the February 21 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes that the poverty rate of African-American minors has decreased "ever since 1996," a trend he credited to "the Republican party, who created welfare reform." In fact, according to U.S. government census data, the poverty rate among American-Americans under 18 began decreasing in 1992 and continued to do so until 2002, when the rate increased. McWhorter is also the author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham, December 2005).
McWhorter made his claim about Republicans and welfare reform during a discussion with host Sean Hannity and Democratic strategist Michael Brown about February 7 comments by Bryant Gumbel, host of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, who said: "Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter [Olympic] Games look like a GOP convention." Hannity said that Gumbel's remarks "insinuate[d] that a group of people are racist," as Media Matters for America noted, while McWhorter referred to declining poverty rates among African-Americans in order to refute the notion ascribed to Gumbel that Republicans are "anti-black," calling it "an old-fashioned idea."
U.S. Census Bureau data show that the poverty rate for African-Americans under the age of 18 ranged throughout the 1980s between 42.3 and 47.6 percent. Beginning in 1992, the rate began to decline from 46.6 percent, and reached a low of 30.2 percent in 2001. The rate increased the next two years -- to 32.3 percent in 2002 and to 34.1 percent in 2003 -- then declined half a percentage point, to 33.6 percent, in 2004.
From the February 21 edition of Fox News's Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: Michael Brown, let me go to you. There's nothing about being overly sensitive to or tongue-in-cheek about basically insinuating that a group of people are racist, and that's what Bryant Gumbel did here. And he is overtly playing a race card, which is despicable and ought to be condemned by people, because it's inaccurate, number one; it's not productive, number two; and it's offensive to people that are Republican that -- that, you know, when we look at a president that has appointed more people to higher positions that are African-American than any other president --
BROWN: Sean, you and I have talked about this a million times before.
HANNITY: -- it's offensive. It's offensive.
McWHORTER: And when we look at the Republican Party, who created welfare reform, which is decreasing black child poverty rates and has ever since 1996, the idea that Republicans are anti-black is also just medication. It's an old-fashioned idea. If we all vote for one party, we're powerless.
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Airport workers may get a raise following City Council expansion of 'living wage law'
More people who work for contractors at Philadelphia International Airport may soon be covered by the city's "living wage law" following approval by City Council.
The measure is designed to help out airport workers employed by small contractors. While rules now apply to contractors with 25 or more employees, the bill backed by City Council would extend it to companies with at least five workers.
Baggage handler Tamir Elliot says he can't make ends meet on his salary.
"Baggage handlers help make the airport run, but we are treated like we are at the bottom of the barrel," Elliot said. "I make $7.25 an hour and have four kids to support and I also pay student loans."
Not all the council members were convinced of the need for the change.
"I don't think the way to go continuously is to turn low-wage jobs into better and better paid jobs because you are going to lose more and more low-paid jobs that way," said Councilman David Oh.
Cheryl Friedman, who works as a wheelchair attendant and security officer at the airport, would be getting a raise if Mayor Michael Nutter decided to sign the bill into law.
"When I started 12 years ago, I was making $10 an hour. Now it's down to $7.25 for wheelchairs, $9 an hour on security," she said. "It's difficult for me to live on this low income. I have 15 grandkids and six sons."
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Well Blizzard should have kicked him way before. Atleast they would have stopped millions (including me) from unsubbing. Hope to able to play shaman like TBC!!
Ah yes. Cause he is the sole responsible for millions to unsubscribe. *facepalm*
Did Gc twitter go dark this morning? The page seems to be gone.
I won't get into all the reasons I stopped playing this game, but the design decisions made by GC and the team are at the top of the list. Primarily the decisions that catered this game for casuals. Unfortunately unless you cut the head off the snake (Chilton), nothing will change.
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It may take a while for the vast majority to notice something is amiss with the federal government. But for some families, the impact on their household budgets could be severe, according to White House officials.
Two bills were considered in Congress this week to prevent the sequester, automatic across-the-board budget cuts brought on by a failure to reach an agreement on reducing the deficit. Those bills ultimately failed to garner the necessary votes, so as of Friday, government agencies began enforcing spending cuts under the policy.
"It will affect different families differently, and not everyone will know the thing that affected their budget was the sequester," says Jason Furman, principal deputy director of the National Economic Council. "When you pull $85 billion out of the economy in a seven-month period of time, you get slower economic growth and less job creation."
Here are some of the groups that the White House says will be affected, according to Furman.
- Federal workers: If you work for the federal government, you may be getting a furlough notice that will mean fewer hours and ultimately, less income.
- Parents with school-aged children: Funding cuts may hit programs for young children such as Head Start, which provides educational and nutrition assistance. Parents of special-needs children also may see programs serving their kids in public schools cut.
- College students: Some students may see their work-study programs reduced or eliminated.
- Employees at federal contractors: Some federal contracts may be delayed or canceled, forcing layoffs.
- The unemployed: Recipients of emergency unemployment compensation benefits could see their checks cut, Furman says.
- Recipients of housing aid: The budget for all federal housing programs will be affected, Furman says.
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I have multiple CSV files which were generated from a keyword based SQL query. I now have to write a code which will read in a CSV file and take a keyword as input and display an output in terms of how many times the keyword appears in said file and where it appears. I have uploaded a sample file and below is the beginning of my code that I have so far.
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import csv
import collections
mRNA = collections.Counter()
with open('mrna.csv') as input_file:
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Attorney General Eric Holder praised Friday's unanimous vote by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to reduce the sentences of 46,000 inmates currently serving time for drug offenses.
"This is a milestone in the effort to make more efficient use of our law enforcement resources and to ease the burden on our overcrowded prison system," Holder said in a statement reported by the Los Angeles Times.
While Holder chose to back the commission's decision, he had formerly been critical of the scope of the possible sentence reductions. The attorney general, along with a number of prosecutors and other Justice Department officials, had supported a narrower approach that would in theory weed out drug traffickers who were poor candidates for early release. As is, the decision will not go into effect for a year, which the Justice Department says will give judges time to review each candidate and ensure their early release does not pose a threat to public safety.
Congress could still block the decision, although it must do so by November 1, and the plan has received support from both sides of the aisle. Sarah Eberspacher
Investor Carl Icahn announced Friday that he had stepped down from his advisory role to President Trump. Icahn was counseling the president regarding regulatory reform issues, but he said he was announcing his resignation after a conversation with Trump earlier Friday in which the president "agreed" with his decision.
In a letter to Trump to "confirm" their conversation, Icahn emphasized that he "never had a formal position" with the White House. "I chose to end this arrangement (with your blessing) because I did not want partisan bickering about my role to in any way cloud your administration," Icahn wrote. "I sincerely regret that because of your extremely busy schedule, as well as my own, I have not had the opportunity to spend nearly as much time as I'd hoped on regulatory issues."
Icahn has long been a supporter of Trump's, writer Sarah Kendzior notes. Read Icahn's full letter announcing his resignation below. Kimberly Alters
JUST IN: Carl Icahn says he will "cease to act as special advisor to the President on issues relating to regulatory reform." pic.twitter.com/JNCRrs9zdq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 18, 2017
White House staffers apparently didn't know what Bannon did 'other than stab his colleagues in the back'
President Trump fired his chief strategist Stephen Bannon on Friday, and it sure seems like no one in the White House will be torn up over his departure. Shortly after the news broke, Politico published a particularly brutal post-mortem of the Bannon era, with Bannon's now-former colleagues ripping the staunch conservative's tendency to inflame personal tensions:
[Chief of Staff John] Kelly didn't understand what Bannon did, why he had a PR portfolio, why he seemed to cause so much trouble with colleagues and why he was so widely disliked. He asked many questions about Bannon in his early days at the White House and found widespread disdain.
"No one liked him," a senior White House official said. "People didn't know what he did other than stab his colleagues in the back." [Politico]
Bannon was a "disruptive force" who "wouldn't follow process" in the White House, another unnamed White House official said. Nevertheless, he was apparently still "in denial" about his impending ouster, even as rumors of his demise intensified this week.
Read more about Bannon's final days at Politico. Kimberly Alters
If you find it nearly impossible to keep up with the news these days, CNN's Brooke Baldwin has a handy summary of President Trump's past four weeks in office. Only, it takes Baldwin nearly three minutes to read through the entire list of bullet points.
"Let's all just take a moment, just remind you what has happened. Incredibly significant events, one after the other," said Baldwin. "In no particular order, President Trump in the last four weeks has: fires his chief strategist; fires his chief of staff; hires a new one; hires a new communications director; fires him — "
That would be enough for an entire summer, but Baldwin is barely getting started. Watch the entire recital below. Jeva Lange
.@BrookeBCNN reminds us what's happened in the past four weeks of the Trump administration https://t.co/7U8yPYAwlM
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 18, 2017
Trump's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities put a secret message in their resignation letter
There is a secret message waiting for readers of this resignation letter, penned by the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities:
Dear @realDonaldTrump, attached is our letter of resignation from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities @PCAH_gov pic.twitter.com/eQI2HBTgXs
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) August 18, 2017
The first letter of each paragraph spells "RESIST," keen-eyed readers on Twitter discovered. Kal Penn, who sat on the committee, confirmed the Easter egg was intentional.
The entirety of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned Friday over Trump's handling of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. "We cannot sit idly by, the way that your West Wing advisers have, without speaking out against your words and actions," the committee wrote. "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions. We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Other eagle-eyed readers might have caught one other awkward thing about the letter: As Soledad O'Brien points out, first lady Melania Trump is the committee's honorary chair. Jeva Lange
Chief strategist Stephen Bannon is out at the White House, but in the words of The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, "Bannon is much more of a problem for the White House staff from the outside than inside it."
That's putting it mildly, at least if you ask people in the orbit of Bannon and Breitbart, the far-right publication Bannon might soon be returning to lead. In the words of Breitbart editor Joel Pollak, after all, this means #WAR.
Here are six dramatic quotes about the coming storm. Jeva Lange
One source close to Bannon tells me: "Winter is here."
— Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) August 18, 2017
2. Bannon "has a 'killing machine' in Breitbart News." [Axios]
3. Breitbart and Bannon will go "thermonuclear" against the "globalists." [Axios]
4. "Get ready for Bannon the barbarian." [Axios]
No, silly. We aren't going to #war now. I really wish Trump well for the remainder of his one term ;)
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) August 18, 2017
6. "If they get rid of Bannon, you know what's gonna happen? The motherlode. If Bannon is removed, there are gonna be divorces, because I know about the mistresses, the sugar babies, the drugs, the pill popping, the orgies. I know everything. If they go after Bannon, the mother of all stories is gonna drop, and we're just gonna destroy marriages, relationships — it's gonna get personal." [Alt-right leader Mike Cernovich via The Daily Beast]
When President Trump began to build his team back in November, he filled the ranks with loyalists, generals, and CEOs who were going to shake up Washington.
But just seven months in, it's the Trump White House that seems to be suffering the most upheaval.
Take this this photo from Jan. 28, which shows Trump surrounded by five members of his team:
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Less than six months later, just one — Vice President Mike Pence — still has his job, as political writer Yashar Ali pointed out in a tweet.
As for the rest? Well, let's take a spin around the circle, from left to right: Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was ousted on July 28, chief strategist Stephen Bannon is out as of Friday, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned on July 21, and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned on Feb. 13.
Pence? How you feeling over there, buddy? Lauren Hansen
On Friday, America learned that Stephen Bannon is packing up his conspiracy board and leaving the White House for good. Bannon's ousting has been rumored since the spring, with President Trump finally conceding his aide's future was uncertain earlier this week. Even Bannon admitted he'd didn't think he'd last more than eight months in Washington. (He was sworn in seven months ago next Tuesday.)
The former (and perhaps returning) head of Breitbart, Bannon has been vehemently opposed by the left since he was appointed. "Homophobia, misogyny, anti-Muslim fearmongering, fat jokes — no matter who you are, Bannon probably thinks you're inferior," The Huffington Post wrote last month.
Here are some of his most telling comments since entering the White House. Jeva Lange
On the chaos on Charlottesville, Virginia: "Just give me more. Tear down more statues. Say the revolution is coming. I can't get enough of it." [The New York Times]
On the far right: "Ethno-nationalism — it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more … These guys are a collection of clowns." [The American Prospect]
(Reportedly) on Jared Kushner: A "cuck" and a "globalist" [The Daily Beast]
On his late-night conversations with former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus:
"We talk a lot, pretty much all day long," Priebus said. "And then we communicate at night —"
"Until we fall asleep," Bannon interjected with a laugh.
Priebus cut in, "Until somebody falls asleep … You fell asleep last night."
"I did," Bannon said.
"I think, like, a quarter to 11," Priebus added.
"I did," Bannon said.
"He became unresponsive," Priebus laughed. [New York]
On why former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stopped doing televised press conferences: "Sean got fatter." [The Atlantic]
On his to-do list: TAXES
On his hit list: "[Bannon] has told the president to keep a s--- list on this," one official said. "He wants a running tally of [the Republicans] who want to sink this … Not sure if I'd call it an 'enemies list,' per se, but I wouldn't want to be on it." [The Daily Beast]
On conflict in the White House: "I love a gunfight." [Axios]


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I just starting with Python, been doing HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL for 8 years. Moving my way towards computer based programming.
Now that my past is out of the way, here is my problem.
Challenge # 4 on Euler, find the largest Palindrome number from the product of two 3-digit numbers. I did a flowchart, and I think it will work, but it's not printing anything. Here is my code:
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def ans_rev(ans):
return int(str(ans)[::-1])
def main():
i = 9
while i <= 9 & i > 0:
a = 9
ans = a * i
pal = ans_rev(ans)
if ans == pal:
print('. ')
i = i - 1
I was going to start small (1 digit numbers), and work my program up to 3-digit numbers. I know I will need to cycle a for when i reaches 0, but I know the largest here is (9 * 6 = 55). Question is, why doesn't it print anything? If I understand the why, I can solve for that problem.


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Who better to dish on entertaining tips than Mr. Americana himself, Michael Kors. The designer recently re-launched his lifestyle site, Destination Kors, highlighting a new digital video and blog series, "Living the Kors Life." Here he gives ELLE his food, fashion, and music musts for the 4th of July.
"I always say wear black and drink white! Ketel One Vodka on the rocks is always perfect."
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Emma Watson in a bikini
Because perverts make up 98% of The Superficial's traffic – And 110% of the editorial staff. (I have a conjoined twin.) – here's a bikini-clad Emma Watson in Jamaica this morning. For any young Harry Potter fans accidentally stumbling upon this post, you're probably experiencing strange feelings you've never felt before. But don't worry, those feelings are perfectly natural and are only going to send you to Hell for a fiery eternity spent wishing you only thought about baseball and free market capitalism. No biggie.
NOTE: Did I tell you guys James Dobson is covering the site today? Probably should've mentioned that.
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The Youth Performance Award winner for September is Grant County High School junior Kaira McKinnon. As a young woman of faith, she looks for opportunities to tell others about Jesus Christ through her church's music ministry where she plays drums for the youth praise and worship bands at Family Worship Center.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Retired police officer Ed Hashbarger is watching in anger as drillers converge on his part of eastern Ohio, at times gaining access to coveted oil and gas deposits through a state law that can trump objections of individual property owners.
The U.S. Army veteran contends the practice called mandatory pooling violates his constitutional rights, his Catholic faith -- which calls for safeguarding the environment -- and what his country stands for.
"We do not defend the United States of America so the government can strip me of my rights to my land," said Hashbarger, who expects his land in Bloomingdale will soon be pooled as such deals engulf neighboring properties. "I'm furious over the whole thing."
Mandatory pooling gives drillers the ability to overcome a landowner's objections to drilling on his property if enough neighbors have agreed to the well drilling. The resisting landowner is paid for the oil or gas taken.
Laws allowing mandatory pooling began springing up across the nation in the 1960s in response to what was seen as wasteful over-drilling.
Such laws are drawing new criticism as hydraulically fractured wells reach more heavily populated areas, and public attention rises over oil and gas drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations that lie under Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and other northeastern states.
Natural gas drillers are swarming eastern Ohio -- where Hashbarger lives -- as new horizontal drilling technology has allowed access to previously unavailable oil and gas deposits in the shale. Ohio is among states that have been revisiting their drilling laws in order to capitalize on the investment and job creation potential.
Laws on mandatory pooling were intended to assure that profits from drilling were shared among both willing and unwilling property owners, said John Keller, a Columbus lawyer who represents Ohio drillers in their pooling requests.
The arrangement prevents neighbors from allowing drillers to suck resources from under another's land without compensation, while allowing interested landowners to exercise their mineral rights.
He said they were dubbed "conservation statutes" that would discourage several neighbors from each drilling wells extending down into the same deposit "like several straws going into the same Coke bottle." That was seen as both blighting the landscape and shrinking profits for everyone involved by reducing the underground pressure that dictates how much oil or gas is produced.
"People were spending more money and getting less as a result," Keller said.
After Marcellus Shale exploration took off in 2008 and 2009, natural gas industry lobbyists in Pennsylvania put pooling at the top of their priorities list, but no legislation has been introduced. Gov. Tom Corbett, who is viewed as an industry ally, has said he opposes it, calling it tantamount to "private eminent domain." Pennsylvania has an unused and outdated pooling law that applies to a different gas formation below the Marcellus Shale.
Louie Chodkiewicz of Broadview Heights, a Cleveland suburb, unsuccessfully fought a mandatory pooling request from 2007 to 2008. He said the royalty checks he now receives don't make up for the negatives from the well that sits 175 feet off his property. He did not disclose his royalty agreement.
He said the well has marred the air in his neighborhood, the view and quiet enjoyment of his property. He's now saddled with a ruling that he said appears to make him legally responsible for spills and other damage.
Chodkiewicz said he felt he didn't have a chance before the state board that considers mandatory pooling requests, the Technical Advisory Council, because it is dominated by energy industry executives.
"They put their well in and got their way, and they are taking my minerals against my wishes without any signature, like eminent domain," he said. "They're nothing but a bunch of buddies. It's the fox watching the henhouse down there."
Records obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request show the eight-member council has sided with the oil and gas industry in 43 of 56 recommendations since 2009, in cases where private landowners opposed drilling under their land.
Five more requests were put on hold, and four others were resolved. The council recommended denying just three industry requests for mandatory pooling, the data show. One request was rejected before it was heard.
Six of the council's eight members represent oil and gas producers; one represents landowners' royalty interests; and one represents the public. All are appointed by the governor.
The council's recommendations can be accepted or rejected by the chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' mineral resources division. The department says the division chief has agreed with the council all but twice since 2009.
Property owners have a right to appeal the chief's decisions to the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission.
Commission executive director Linda Osterman said the panel has heard six mandatory pooling appeals since 2009. Three were ultimately withdrawn, one was thrown out, and one is pending. The only case decided by the commission in that period affirmed the chief's decision in favor of pooling.
Doug Gonzalez, chairman of the Technical Advisory Council and an executive at Canton-based GonzOil Inc., said the group's pro-industry stances don't indicate a bias by the council.
He said most cases the board reviews have a high percentage of neighbors already on board. Sample maps from recent cases showed anywhere from 70 percent to 95 percent of neighbors in favor of drilling before the Technical Advisory Council agreed to the pooling of holdout properties.
"Should one person with 5 percent of the land prevent the other 95 percent from going forward?" he asked. "Generally in our country the majority rules."
But Chodkiewicz said he's seen where landowners have been told their neighbors have already agreed to drilling leases when that wasn't the case. Such reports of deceptive lease tactics have prompted Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to offer an educational website about oil-and-gas leasing for landowners.
Gonzalez said land is most often pooled when a landowner is opposed to the drilling, can't be found or just wants to be left alone.
Hashbarger said he's among those who just want to be left alone.
"I'm not interested in signing a gas lease, and I don't like the idea that the state has a law that can include me in that kind of agreement," he said.
Associated Press writer Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa., contributed to this report.
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MORE young people are opting to go to university again - despite a dip in numbers last year.
According to Ucas figures, the number of students accepted by the University of Worcester has bounced back in 2013-14 after a drop in 2012-13.
The university accepted 2,890 students for the academic year in contrast to the 2,530 who went there in 2012-13.
The rise shows a return to the university's previous high in 2011-12 when it accepted 2,940 students.
Worcester College of Technology also saw a dramatic rise in its students accepting 65 students to its courses for the academic year 2013-14, in marked contrast to the five it took in 2012-13.
This year's rise has even surpassed the 45 students who went to the college in 2011-12.
The rise in the number of students going to universities and colleges was reflected across the UK, with 495,596 students accepted to full time undergraduate courses, an increase of 6.6 per cent and the highest total ever recorded.
Ucas chief executive Mary Curnock Cook said: "With 19 year old admissions up by 18 per cent in England, we can see that the dip in demand in 2012 was perhaps a pause for thought – more of those who were 18 in 2012 have now started university than those who were 18 in either 2010 or 2011."
Professor David Green, vice chancellor and chief executive of the university of Worcester said 2013 was an all-time record year for the university.
He said: "New courses such as biochemistry and occupational therapy flourished whilst many long-standing favourites in art, business, sport, psychology became even more popular.
He also said Ucas's report came in the best week ever for applications to study at Worcester with over 2,200 applications made in a single week.
He added that employability was the secret of the university's success.
He said: "We are delighted that our graduates have proved to be highly employable, despite the long recession, with 15 out of every 16 in work within six months of graduation."
Anne Daniel, of Worcester College of Technology, said: "Students are opting to come to Worcester College of Technology as they are looking for exceptional value.
"This means quality of teaching, lower fees, and support they are given to achieve their potential.
"Students are making a positive choice after considering all of the options."


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The Silverado changes little for 2013 as Chevrolet prepares a redesign for the 2014 model, which will be introduced later this month. The Silverado has a wide range of styles and powertrains, making it a solid competitor in the all-important full-size pickup market in south Louisiana.
With a maximum payload of 1,701 lbs. and a towing capacity of 9,600 lbs. the Silverado 1500 Crew Cab 2WD comes in five trims, with five engine offerings and five suspension systems. There are also three cargo boxes: short, standard and long. It doesn't take a math major to determine the Silverado offers choices aplenty when it comes to selection of a proven full-size pickup.
Let's start with the basics: the WT (work truck) model is a regular cab truck for people who don't need any of the frills that some urban cowboys desire. The LS and LT models have a "pure pickup" interior, as Chevy calls it. The LT includes more premium seating materials and a leather steering wheel, while the LTZ adds many of the premium interior features available in trucks. Finally, an XFE model delivers the best fuel economy of the bunch.
The five engine choices include:
- 4.3-liter V-6 rated at 195 hp and 260 lb.-ft of torque
- 4.8-liter V-8 E85-capable rated at 302 hp and
305 lb.-ft. of torque
- 5.3-liter FlexFuel V-8 with Active Fuel Management
rated at 315 hp and 335 lb.-ft. of torque
- 5.3-liter FlexFuel V-8 with an aluminum block,
rated at 315 hp and 335 lb.-ft of torque.
- 6.2-liter V-8 E85-capable with an aluminum block,
rated at 403 hp and 417 lb.-ft. of torque
Our choice would be one of the V-8 engines, particularly the 5.3-liters variants. Our test truck had the 5.3-liter V-8 with the iron block, mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission. It was an excellent powertrain with plenty of muscle for tough jobs.
The Active Fuel Management feature of these engines boosts mileage by disengaging half of the cylinders while the engine is under light loads at highway speeds. Mileage estimates for our test Silverado were 15 miles per gallon in the city and 21 mpg on the highway. With a 26-gallon fuel tank, our test Silverado's range was well over 500 miles.
Chevrolet also offers five different suspension systems, including:
- Z83 for a smooth ride with monotube front and
twin tube rear shocks
- Z85 for enhanced handling and trailer towing
- Z71 for enhanced off-road capability
- Z60 for maximum street performance
NHT or maximum towing capability
The inside of our LTZ trim Crew Cab was fine like wine, with power and heated leather seats, automatic dual-zone air, a 60/40 rear bench, premium Bose sound, a leather steering wheel with controls and other premium interior features. The base price was $39,290. About 5-grand worth of optional equipment added navigation with XM radio, a power sliding sunroof, chrome steps, a rearview camera, a power sliding rear window and a locking tailgate with EZ Lift.
The Silverado is a time-tested and proven pickup truck. We put 200,000 miles on one that we owned years ago. With choices ranging from the WT base "working man's truck" all the way up to the LTZ, and with five engine choices and five suspension selections, it would be hard to go wrong with this pickup.
2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 2WD Crew Cab
- Engine: 5.3-liter V-8 with Active Fuel Management
- Transmission: 6-speed automatic
- Horsepower: 315
- Test model LTZ trim base price: $39,200
- As-tested price: $45,090
- EPA mileage rating: 15 mpg city / 21 mpg highway


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Hello again, and I am back from hibernation. After two months, I almost drowned in my primary task of doing workshops, product launches, and planning for more events. And of course I also managed to insert a sweet diving holiday in may, that's why i disappeared for a while (again).
The past month I've been going around, meeting customers, talking about InDesign, InDesign Server, and Adobe's technology (anything from Flash, to PDF to our new AIR). These are the things that get me to wake up in the morning and my brain just starts whirring while I enjoy my cup of coffee. The possibilities of what you can do with these wonderful technologies are endless. From just being able to seamlessly deliver information in a file format that you are comfortable and confident in, to creating simple scripts to help automate some repetitive tasks, to building a full-muscled runtime managing data… it's almost like magic…
But then, i finish my coffee and I dump my cup on the sink getting ready to leave for the office. The reality hits me. My customers might not be as excited. There are many reasons. Some of them obvious, some of them are not. Some of them reasonable, some of which I don't quite understand.
It could have something to do with the corporate culture, the attitude towards technology, the feeling that creeps up when we think of changing something. For those who know how things work at the back end… how to read some lines of code, and how to tinker and tweak settings here and there, its unquestionable that updating and using new technology is the way to go. Only because we trust and we are confident that it works… in fact, not only does it work, it makes everything so much better.
It streamlines the workflow, it makes it easier to access information, it secures your data, saves versions, fixes errors, traces history, all sorts of things you can think of. A system can make a process feel like heaven.
So maybe it's not the question of whether the technology is good enough… but it's a question of whether our customers have the confidence (and the budget) to trust that an upgrade will bring them a better way of doing things and in return allow them to scale their business and earn more revenue. No company would like to spend money as an expense. They'd like to spend it and consider it an investment.
If we can prove that to them, by handholding, or just by giving them that confidence… we may be able to finally convince them to change the way they do things. Give up manually doing things and pushing paper, and believe that the computer can automate and that technology is there to back it up and make sure things are in working order.
After all, even if the current way our customers are working works… it doesn't mean that they are doing it in the best most efficient way there is… and yes, we don't have to fix what's not broken, but maybe we have to improve what we can. At the end of the day, when the customer sees how streamlined a process could be, they're happy… and you'll be proud you've helped them realize it.
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February 3, 2013 2:25pm UTC
Heat Source Expanding with time!
I have a model for EDM process in which I need to put an heat source which would be expanding with time. But it shows error if I give time dependent position of a point under boundary conditions. Laser example shows a moving heat source but how can I build a heat source expanding with time???
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February 3, 2013 4:46pm UTC in response to Kushan Gajjar
Re: Heat Source Expanding with time!
if you have a transient solver you can define a function (Model - Definitions - Functions) that depends on the time. If the area is constant you need only to multiply the Heat source flux / power density value by the time, appropriately, but if your surface heating is also expanding with time, you might use a Gaussin function over the coordiates that depends on time.
Note COMSOL has a particular way to normlaise it's default Gaussian function, it's in the help but today, you must still do a search over the help to find the correcct formula
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The beginnings from 1988 until 1990
During 1988 Dr. Peter Edvi together with some friends started to help refugees from the deceasing communist German Democratic Republic who via Budapest were seeking for personal freedom in the West. For more than one year a merely loose alliance of highly motivated volunteers, this group rapidly became famous for its success. Thus, they also received information about the hair-raising conditions in Rumanian orphanages. For the first time after the collapse of the totalitarian Rumanian regime Dr. Edvi and his friend Dr. László Kövér were given the opportunity during the 1989 Christmas-days to convince themselves of the saddening truth right at the scene, to obtain first-hand evidence and to verify reports by their Transylvanian friends. All efforts to render help on a private basis proved completely insufficient. It was absolutely necessary to turn to the public and to organize help; hence the International Children's Safety Service was founded in Hanover/Germany. The members initiated a comprehensive press-coverage in March 1990; together with moving photos of the misery of the institutionalised Rumanian children the articles went around the world and produced a wave of international help.
In Budapest, too, volunteers became organised. In a historic hour, the constituting session of the first free-elected Hungarian Parliament on May 2, 1990, a group of politicians decided during a session-break to found a charity organisation to help children beyond all political, religious and nationality-related aims. Among the founding-members were well-known politicians as Dr. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, Dr. László Kövér, speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, Dr. Gábor Demszky, Budapest former Chief Mayor and Dr. Gábor Fodor, former Minister of Education and later Environmental Protection.
ICSS patrons are Dr. Heinz Fischer, former president of the Republic of Austria, Dr. János Áder, President of Hungary, Dr. László Sólyom, former president of the Hungarian Republic and Horst Köhler, former president of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Goals and Organisation
Under ref. No. 6.PK.63395/1. the Budapest civil court registered the "International Children's Safety Service" (ICSS) as a Hungarian association on July 3, 1990. Its non-profit status
was recognised under the taxation-No. APEH 7120286376.
The statutes and articles postulate the priority of giving financial, social and health-related support and subsistence to children in need, irrespectively of national, political or religious affiliation.
After a modification of the statutes the organisation is directed by a nine-member chair. The two co-presidents Dr. László Kövér and Dr. Peter Edvi have five deputies: Mr. Attila Antalóczy, Dr. László Csáky, Dr. Sándor Csányi, Dr. Gábor Demszky, Mr. Péter Harrach, Mr. Gábor Kuncze and as secretary Péter Fáth.
ICSS currently has 317 members from all parts of society. Among them we find members of the actual Hungarian government as well as of the former governments, e.g. the former Minister of the Interior Mr. Gábor Kuncze, many former ministers, leading members of all political parties elected into the Hungarian Parliament, moreover famous Hungarian artists as well as professors of medicine and therapeutic pedagogy.
In order to co-ordinate the international charitable work, another non-profit organisation, the ICSS Foundation was registered by the Budapest civil court under the ref. No. 9.PK.66561/2. on October 16, 1991, and it was granted the status of a charity under the taxation-No. APEH 7120773904. Since then Dr. Peter Edvi as president and the other four board members Erik Bánki, Dr. László Madarász, Károly Szadai, Dr. József Szájer have managed this foundation.
On January 4, 1991, the independent organisation "International Children's Safety Service in Rumania" was founded. It was admitted and registered by the civil court of Timişoara/Rumania under the ref. No. 35/PJ/1995. Its non-profit status was acknowledged by the district authorities under ref. No. SC096003564. The Rumanian ICSS closely co-operates in relief actions with its Hungarian sister organisation.
For six years the German ICSS in Hanover had worked as a non-registered association with legal capacity according to German laws it was founded anew in September 1996 in order to obtain its registration which was done by the Hanover civil court under ref. No. 7155 on December 23, 1996. It was granted the non-profit status by the Hanover-Nord revenue-office under the taxation-No. 2520640361 on March 6, 1997. The founding of other independent organisations in compliance with the ICSS ideas, functions and missions has been envisaged for Austria, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and the US.
The ICSS is financed in small parts by member fees, mostly however by honorary activities and donations. Single projects are sponsored by companies, banks, artists and sportsmen.
Fundraising is regularly done at benefit-events: in his life on the occasion of his birthday pianist Zoltán Kocsis - well known beyond Hungary - recited each year at the Budapest Art Center. At Christmas-time there is a performance for the benefit of ICSS on the Hungarian State Opera stages or in the Comic Theatre of Budapest.
In March 1995, ICSS for the first time organised the 'Ball of Balls' in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts.
In financial co-operation with the city of Budapest ICSS organises the annual events with several hundred thousand participants on the occasion of the International Children's Day. It also organises annual Christmas celebrations for 4.000 to 5.000 children of low income families and special gift-actions for some 300 other.
Despite its nation-wide activities, among them a branch office in the town of Pécs and Pápa, ICSS limits its number of staff to the minimum. Therefore it can guarantee that 95% of its receipts are employed for the persons in need whereas only 5 % of the receipts are used for organisation and management. The annual audits are open to everyone and they are published.
Over the years ICSS has been established as one of the most important non-government welfare organisations in Hungary. The scope of its work is extremely versatile:
1. Healthcare Programme
ICSS covers the costs of remedies, medicines and medical aid and meets the needs of Hungarian and foreign children for their examination and medical care as well as for their hospital care or operations.
Starting in September 1995 ICSS has operated its own dental ambulance-bus in Hungary and in the neighboring countries. This mobile dental practice is completely equipped including an X-ray apparatus; it is self-supported and independent from localities. The bus is employed for dental examinations and treatments of children and juveniles to secure dental basic care.
International Children's Safety Service opened its free specialist outpatient surgery for children in need in September 2002. At present we offer paediatrical and child neurological specialist's consultation, special therapy for hyperactive children and for children having behaviour problems. Depending on our financial situation we would like to start our child ophthalmological, child gynaecological, dermatological and orthopaedic consultation.
2. Children Feeding Programme
ICSS pays for and ensures the lunch of children of socially deprived families in schools and kindergartens. For many of them it is the only chance to get at least one hot meal once a day.
3. Foster-Parent Programme
ICSS in a self-financed pilot program supports Hungarian children from state-owned orphanages in rural areas who are now raised by foster-parents.
4. Codification Programme
ICSS has published a collection of international legislation and guiding documents dealing with child protection during the period prior to the creating of the child welfare law. Between 1992 and 1994 together with the Prime Minister's office we have been creating and running a Child-, Youth- and Family-Law Codification and Deregulation Committee which in co-operation with the Ministry of Welfare has developed a child protection law, approved by the Parliament in 1997.
We have suggested and together with the Ministry of Law we have developed a modification of the Penal Code concerning the early jailing of youth, our modification was accepted by the Parliament. We have approached the appointed responsible by Parliament on the matters of citizens rights, asking for commenting on whether the fact that the national highway codes did not include the issue of compulsory child seats, would not harm the citizens rights of children, by including experts in the investigation. The responsible body appointed by Parliament has agreed on the suggestion and has accepted it.
We have initialised the modification of the child welfare and media law and we have participated in the development of the modification.
5. Holiday Programme
ICSS ensures the opportunity of organised holidays for institutionalised or otherwise disadvantaged children.
6. Educational and Post-Graduate Programme
ICSS offers training-courses for foster parents. It also furthers the post-graduate training of foreign doctors, paediatricians, therapeutic pedagogues, laboratory technicians, and staff-members of child-care institutions. ICSS supports the education and intellectual development of children in state-care or of other disadvantaged children.
Through our scholarship programmes we help the maintaining of talents of children in need, by providing scholarships and support for educational equipment.
Through our Riding for the Disabled programme we organise training courses for instructors with theoretical and practical training.
7. Relief Shipments
ICSS takes relief shipments mostly to Romania and to the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, but has also carried out relief actions in Bangladesh, Russia, and Ukraine. It also gives long-term support to various foreign - mostly Rumanian - institutions. In 2010-2011 we provided significant help and support for families affected by the flood in Northern Hungary and by the toxic sludge catastrophe.
8. Co-operation with and Support of Other Organisations
Employing the precise Central-Eastern European knowledge of its members, ICSS frequently assisted other relief organisations. Hence e.g. it took part in preparing the UNICEF and UNESCO programmes for Romania and established the proper contacts and conditions for many Western European relief convoys.
ICSS helped in the planning of reconstructing or reorganising hospitals and children's homes and secured the logistical background. One of the most ambitious projects was the reconstruction of an orphanage at Sinmartin/ Rumania in 2003: this co-operation with Austrian, German, Rumanian and Swedish organisations runs up to costs of DM2 Million.
9. Events
ICSS organises events for Christmas-time, Children's Day, Mother's Day, etc. to entertain children who in case of indigence are guests of ICSS. Each year several concerts and other events at the Hungarian State Opera House are organised for the children's benefit.
10. Programmes for Information and Advice
ICSS regularly gives information and advice to children, youths and children's institutions about legal, medical and other issues concerning children. A publication-series dealing with legal questions, self-organisation and planning of life, drugs, smoking, and sexual education was started in 1995 and will be continued with publications on other child-related topics. ICSS organized from 1998 several international conferences on the "Effects of the Media on the Children and Young people".
11. Film, Television and Photo Documentation
The everyday life of socially disadvantaged children as well as the problems, which arise in child welfare on the part of hospitals, schools and other institutions for children are documented in a tv-serie every year.
Late in 1996 the ICSS-owned 'Centre for Infant Development' in Budapest was taken over by public authorities and Hungarian health insurance companies. This centre had been designed and founded as well as financed and operated for more than five years by ICSS. Its physicians, psychologists, therapeutic pedagogues and teachers treated physically and/or mentally handicapped children. The big success of this centre did not only justify the conception and its realisation; its integration into the public health-care proves that ICSS' ideas and the transition into pilot-projects can trigger off public initiatives.
If you want to support the work of ICSS, please do it as a visitor to one of our events, or as a member (minimum annual fee for private members HUF 1.200).
In case of any questions please contact the following address:
International Children's Safety Service (Nemzetközi Gyermekmentő Szolgálat)
- Hungarian registered non-profit association -
H-1066 Budapest, Teréz körút 24 I./1.
Phone: + 36 1 475 7000
Fax: + 36 1 302 4136
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.gyermekmento.hu
Banking account No: IBAN HU87 1179 4008 2002 2002 0000 0000
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