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Ms Yingluck spoke one day after she announced elections, and one day after the main opposition leader ended a massive protest rally of 150,000 people by insisting his movement had assumed broad political power.
The streets of Bangkok were quiet on Tuesday, a national holiday, after weeks of sometimes violent political turmoil as the protesters demanded Ms Yingluck give up power to an unelected "people's council".
The protesters accuse Ms Yingluck of serving as a proxy for her brother, former prime minister
Ms Yingluck told reporters on Tuesday that "I must do my duty as caretaker prime minister according to the constitution . . . After the parliament is dissolved, there must be elections according to the constitution.
"Then, the newly elected prime minister can assume his or her position."
She grew teary-eyed when asked about her family's role in Thai politics, saying she did not understand why her family had become an issue.
Her brother, a former telecommunications billionaire, was toppled by a 2006 military coup that laid bare a deeper conflict between Thailand's elite and largely urban middle-class on one side, and Mr Thaksin's power base in the countryside on the other. That base benefited from his populist policies designed to win over the rural poor.
Ever since, the two sides have been duelling for power, sometimes violently. Since the latest unrest began last month, at least five people have been killed and more than 280 injured.
The latest round of protests started when Ms Yingluck's party tried to pass a bill that would have granted amnesty to Mr Thaksin and others.
The protesters were not calmed by Monday's announcement of new elections, saying they cannot win the polls because of corruption. The opposition Democrat Party, allied with the protest movement, has been defeated by Thaksin-allied parties in every election since 2001.
A decree from King Bhumibol Adulyadej scheduled the elections for February 2 and named Ms Yingluck as interim prime minister.
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He claimed his movement was assuming some functions of government, citing a clause in the constitution stating "the highest power is the sovereign power of the people".
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The University of Wales Lampeter's Welsh Department runs a number of e-learning courses which can lead to degrees in Welsh or Welsh Studies. The courses are delivered mainly over the web, but students are encouraged to go to summer schools at Lampeter.
Recently a retired telecommunications engineer from Nottingham was awarded the Lampeter's first e-learning degree in Welsh Studies. He didn't speak a word of Welsh before he started the course in 2002, but got interested in the language when his son married a Welsh-speaker. He now speaks Welsh well and there is a regular Welsh class in Nottingham thanks to his enthusiasm. He graduated in July last year at the tender age of 74.
So don't let anybody tell you that it's too late to start learning a language!
I myself was originally planning to study German and Swedish at Lampeter and was offered a place there. Later I decided to study Chinese and Japanese at Leeds instead. I plan to attend the Welsh language summer school at Lampeter in June this year, and am considering having a go at some of their e-learning courses.

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Leyla Hussein Co-Founded or Daughters Of Eve which is a non profit organisation set up in 2010 which works to protect girls and young women who are at risk from female genital mutilation (FGM). She is also Chief Executive of Hawa's Haven which is a collective of Somali women campaigners and community activists who have come together to raise awareness about gender based violence particularly in Somali communities in the UK and the horn of Africa .She is also the newly appointed Community facilitator at Manor Gardens and recently completed a 1 hour documentary film with channel 4 " The Cruel Cut" on FGM in the UK.
Leyla Hussein has over 11 years of experience in working with women/girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, she has a background as a youth outreach worker and recently has been working as an Independent Training Consultant specialised in FGM. She works now as community facilitator at Manor garden Health advocacy Project and partnered with Maya center, to set up set up a support therapy group for FGM survivors "Dahlia's Project", the only existing group in the entire EU. Leyla sits on the trustee board for The Special FGM Initiative Advisory Group and Naz Project London.
Leyla is a qualified psychotherapist and she has recently started working as a Counsellor supporting survivors of sexual violence and other vulnerable children and adults. She practices at a local school.
Leyla Hussein has completed her Post Grad diploma in Psychotherapy in 2010. Currently named for BBC 100 women of 2013.She has been awarded Cosmopolitan Ultimate campaigner Women of the Year Award 2010, in 2011 she won the Emma Humphrey Award ,The Lin Groves Special Award for her work in raising awareness of violence against women and children. Also awarded the 2012 True Honour Award "by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Right organisation for recognising her work on preventing honour based violence, protecting victims/survivors and bringing perpetrators to justice
She works closely with the Young Africans and Friends (YAF) group, formed by youth working together to tackle issues that are considered taboo in African communities such as HIV/AIDS and female genital mutilation.
In 2005, as part of the Somali youth forum (SYF) Leyla organised a massive conference that gathered over 400 people as a response to the backlash against Somalis in the UK following the devastation of the London bombings. As young British people of Somali origin, the SYF wanted to portray a more positive image of their community and showcase the talent and contributions of young Somalis.
Leyla Hussein is very passionate about supporting young people and strengthening their voices. Her achievements include:
She runs saviour groups for women/girls who have undergone female genital mutilation ( Dahlia's Project).
Due to her work with young people, Leyla has been awarded the Ambassador for Peace Prize by the Inter-religious and International Peace Federation. Ambassadors for Peace are individuals who dedicate themselves to promoting universal moral values, strong family life, inter-religious cooperation, international harmony, renewal of the United Nations, responsible mass media, and the establishment of a global culture of peace.
She was invited to Downing Street twice by Mr and Mrs Cameron to take part in International Women 's Day alongside high profile British women
Leyla Hussein has spoken at many national/international conferences.
She works very closely with the Metropolitan Police (Project Azure).
In July 2008 she won the Primary Care Trut , "The breaking down barriers award".
L. H. acts as advisor of the END FGM - European campaign which is supported by Amnesty International, Ireland.
As a strong voice of END FGM - European campaign, she has spoken at the houses of parliament of Vienna, Cyprus and London.
L. H. has been invited to speak on Somali issues on several local, national and international television and radio news programmes including the BBC world radio service, World has your say, BBC Today and Five Live, Universal TV (Somali TV), Channel 5, Al Jazzeera, Islamic channel, BBC 24 and took part in a dispatches documentary on refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Featured on a glossy "Look" and Cosmopolitan magazine and National/local Guardian.
L. H. has visited Senegal (Dakar) as a UK leader on an Interaction Leadership Programme which is an innovative programme of learning, great conversations and action in leadership by committed people of all ages who are passionate about Africa and leadership.
L.H. also sits on the committee Board for Naz Project London organisation and The FGM imitative advisory board UK.


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As part of the upcoming Mashable Awards, we're taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is "Best Use of an API." Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact email@example.com for more information.
Application programming interfaces, better known as APIs, let third-party developers utilize the power of web platforms like Facebook and Twitter to create amazing applications and features on top of them. By tapping into the Twitter streams, Facebook Likes, or YouTube playlists of millions of people, startups and independent developers are creating some incredibly innovative apps.
We wanted to take a little time to highlight some interesting apps that really demonstrate what you can do with a great API and some elbow grease. While there are thousands of apps worth recognizing for their innovative use of an API, we can only highlight a few here today.
Here are five of the most innovative uses of a social API. If you want to learn more about APIs, we suggest reading our piece on the evolution of the social API.
1. WeePlaces (Foursquare's API)
Foursquare has some incredible location data and launched an API last year. We've seen a lot of apps built off of Foursquare, but none that really made your checkin data useful.
Enter Weeplaces, a service built by the Movity team that visualizes all of your Foursquare checkins across the world. The moving timeline lets you see when and where you've checked in over time. It's also a fantastic tool for figuring out where you spend most of your time
Movity isn't done with Foursquare's API, either. They recently launched Ratio Finder, which visualizes the ratio between male and female checkins at locations in San Francisco and New York.
2. FriendShuffle (Facebook & Twitter's API)
FriendShuffle is a very simple app to use, but that's what makes it so powerful. By connecting it to your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, you can kill a few hours by "shuffling" through the links your friends are sharing.
It's nowhere near as powerful as StumbleUpon or Flipboard, but it is an effective use of Facebook's Open Graph API to really tap into what's hot on the social web, and specifically, across your social graph.
3. YouTube Instant (YouTube's API)
Only two days after Google Instant was revealed to the world, a computer science student from Stanford University, Feross Aboukhadijeh, decided to create an "instant" version of YouTube.
YouTube Instant immediately became a hit. In fact, it got so much attention that YouTube CEO Chad Hurley offered Aboukhadijeh a job (he accepted).
With just a day or two of coding and a great API, anyone can create a viral app like Aboukhadijeh.
4. Paper.li (Twitter's API)
Information overload is a serious problem in the social web, and there are a lot of companies trying to tackle the problem. One of them is Paper.li, a service that organizes the links shared on Twitter into mini-newspapers.
The app is simple — just connect it to your Twitter account or choose a keyword or Twitter list as the basis of your new newspaper. Paper.li will then generate a summary of the most popular and relevant links based on your keyword or friend list, and it wil be updated every day, week or month, depending on your preference.
With just a few APIs, Paper.li has figured out a smart way to curate the most popular links on the web.
5. #NewTwitter (Twitter's API)
Yes, the most popular user of the Twitter API is none other than Twitter itself, through its new version of Twitter.com.
Wait how does this make any sense? Isn't Twitter the source of its own API?
The New Twitter is unique among all of the social media juggernauts because its interface is built entirely off of its own API. That's right; Twitter.com uses the exact same APIs that TweetDeck, Seesmic and thousands of Twitter apps utilize to make their apps function. It also doesn't hurt that the New Twitter is an improvement from the old interface in almost every single way.
The New Twitter is one of the best examples of being your own best customer, and that's why it tops off our list of innovative uses of an API. But now we want to hear your thoughts; what apps do you think are being innovative with their usage of APIs? Let us know in the comments.
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Russia's newest military helicopter unit has gone through its final testing phase to be officially "combat ready". Equipped with the Ka-52 Alligator, the Mi-28N Night Hunter and the Mi-35M Hind the military attack helicopter squadron of the Southern Military District underwent its flight-tactical exercise near Kuban in the Krasnodar District.
The unit's Ka-52s arrived late 2016 to reinforce Mil choppers and get a total combat strength of 20 rotary wing, plus reserves. Flown by 60 pilots and navigators combined, and supported by 150 ground crew and other personnel, the full squadron embarked on relocation exercises, tactical airborne assaults in mountainous areas as well as attack of armoured and soft targets using the onboard guns and missile systems.
The Russian Ministry of Defence is not elaborating too much on details other then saying 60 unguided missiles were fired on 20 different kind of targets.
Russian War games
Also at other locations in Russia, attack helicopter units are engaged in war games. An army aviation brigade in the Pskov region (Western Military District) was brought to the highest state of alert, flying 30 sorties a day for four days in row with its Ka-52 and Mil Mi-8AMTSH helicopters.
It is believed that in the case of an armed conflict Russia will be able to quickly attack and control large areas – for example cities like Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius or parts of Kiev – by flying its very mobile assault helicopter units in from forward operating locations in Russia or Belarus, supported by Russian Air Force combat fighter jets and jamming capability.
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The Bulgaria, operated by a local tour company and marketed to Russians, sunk Sunday in 65 feet of water about two miles from shore.
According to the Wall Street Journal, about 58 remain missing, including dozens of children. About 80 survivors were rescued by a passing ship, while others were retrieved by rescue workers or scrambled to the river's edge on makeshift rafts.
The New York Times is reporting that there were at least 59 children onboard -- most of which have not been rescued -- and that 36 of those children were listed as having the same birthday, suggesting that forms were filled out improperly. The exact number of children that were onboard remains unknown.
A spokeswoman for Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, speaking on Russian TV, said that the chances of finding more survivors was unlikely.
The ship went down at 2 p.m. local time (6 a.m. EDT) near the village of Syukeyevo in the Tatarstan region while on its way to Kazan, about 450 miles east of Moscow. The cause is unknown, though it was reportedly raining heavily at the time of the incident.
According to the Associated Press, a spokesman for the regional Emergencies Ministry told the state news agency RIA Novosti that numerous survivors have said the ship was leaning to starboard during a turn and a wave washed over the deck. And a survivor who spoke to a Russian TV station said the boat "tilted to the right and sank within minutes."
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for an investigation of the tragedy and for a full inspection of the country's other passenger vessels, said the AP. The Bulgaria was built in the 1950s in what was once Czechoslovakia. Though the vessel is said to have had dozens of cabins and two restaurants, the ship was most likely on a day-long outing on the Volga, a popular summertime pasttime for Russians.
This is the peak season for tourism on the Volga, which is lined by many of Russia's largest cities.
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Prepared by the Department of Food Economics, Armour and Company. The front features a large ham below an orange and black title. There is a light orange frame. A manuscript name and date are on the front cover, "S. M. Gaska, September 18, 1922." The back reads, "Index for quick reference. It's so easy to be sure-Armour and Company." Req. No. 498275. 16 pages.View this piece: jpg pdf
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U.S. Refuses to Back U.N. Gay Rights Measure
The issue of gay rights was not just front-and-center on a national scale in news and politics this week; it was also a topic of concern for the United Nations General Assembly. Unfortunately, the U.S. didn't exactly blaze the trail for civil rights in that arena either.
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An unprecedented declaration seeking to decriminalize homosexuality won the support of 66 countries in the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, but opponents criticized it as an attempt to legitimize pedophilia and other "deplorable acts."
The United States refused to support the nonbinding measure, as did Russia, China, the Roman Catholic Church and members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The Holy See's observer mission issued a statement saying that the declaration "challenges existing human rights norms."
The declaration, sponsored by France with broad support in Europe and Latin America, condemned human rights violations based on homophobia, saying such measures run counter to the universal declaration of human rights.
"How can we tolerate the fact that people are stoned, hanged, decapitated and tortured only because of their sexual orientation?" said Rama Yade, the French state secretary for human rights, noting that homosexuality is banned in nearly 80 countries and subject to the death penalty in at least six.


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Six more Brett Lee no-balls yesterday; 53 in his past three matches. Indian openers Akash Chopra and Virender Sehwag ruled not out, both having edged to Adam Gilchrist at crucial junctures of the fourth Test. And the nation's pre-eminent bowling coaches are confounded, trying to solve the overstepping problem that has plagued Lee since his comeback from an abdominal tear last month.
Yesterday, as Australia strived for quick wickets, Sehwag was granted a telling reprieve after umpire Billy Bowden ruled no-ball to a Lee delivery - one that caught the Indian opener's edge and thundered into Gilchrist's gloves, almost identical to Chopra's let-off on day one.
In all, Lee surrendered 24 no-balls during the fourth Test, 13 during the Boxing Day encounter and 16 in his recent Pura Cup game against Tasmania. Is the quest for extra pace to blame, or a staccato run-up? Or has Lee's rhythm suffered following his extended injury-enforced lay-off?
The answer, according to fast-bowling icon Dennis Lillee, could be a combination of factors.
"The guy has recently been injured and when you come back from injury it's very difficult to slot back into your best bowling," Lillee said. "It affects rhythm and all kinds of things. It's complex and there can be any number of reasons why it's happening."
NSW pace bowling coach Geoff Lawson questioned the wisdom of altering Lee's run-up during the match - a possible factor in the rash of no-balls committed by the 27-year-old since Friday.
At the conclusion of the Test, Lawson expects to work with Lee on restoring his action. And mending his long, flowing run-up will be the top priority.
"All I'll say is that you shouldn't be stuffing around with run-ups in the middle of a game," Lawson said. "Run-ups are the most finicky, touchy, difficult things to do. People think it's easy, but it's not ... especially for Brett, who has got a long-ish run-up.
"You wouldn't fiddle with it during a game. I notice today he is back to his normal run-up. After the first day, he changed. He was putting his foot that far behind the bowling crease, so they obviously did something overnight.
"If you're trying to bowl fast, you're going to bowl a few [no-balls]. You have to deal with those issues, but not in the middle of a game. He's got to go back and do some work on it."
Two deliveries after Lee's crucial no-ball, Sehwag received another reprieve. This time, captain-in-waiting Ricky Ponting dropped a regulation chance in the slips, prompting Lee to crumple to the turf in despair.
Sehwag would race to 45, India would post a quickfire 2-211 (dec). Australia would be dealt a daunting challenge - now needing a mammoth 433 on the last day for victory.
Meanwhile, Lee will attempt to resolve the no-ball scourge besetting his career, hopeful of arresting the problem ahead of the one-day VB series, which commences this week. Lillee, for one, believes the solution could be simple.
"There is a routine I teach all young fast bowlers to help [stop overstepping]," he said. "I have taught it for 20 years and invariably it helps guys with no-balls. It's easy to revert to and everyone knows it.
"I suppose the public expectation is if a guy comes back, he's ready to go. People assume you are 100 per cent fit, but sometimes that may not be the case."
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The Saami Herd at South Naknek (1931 - late 1940s?)
By the 1920s, the village of Naknek was rapidly becoming the region's economic and transportation hub due to the success of the canneries and fishing industry. Thus, Saami reindeer herders who were seeking to supply local residents and cannery workers with a fresh supply of meat established the second reindeer herd in the Naknek region. Saami or Lapp herders Per Thuri, Matti Anderson, Lars Nelson and Ole Polk drove their deer to Naknek from the Kuskokwim River region in the early 1930s. Many Naknek residents still remembered these men who quickly became part of the community. Several Naknek residents remembered that their parents ordering a quarter, half or whole reindeer from the "Lapps". Carvel Zimin explained that the Saami would butcher reindeer in South Naknek, just adjacent to his current home and across from the school.
According to Naknek residents who were children when the Saami herders sold meat locally, the herders traveled with reindeer and had a coral at Johnson's Hill. Naknek resident, Alvin Aspelund explained in an interview in spring of 2012:
Per Thuri was pretty much what they call the hancho, he was in charge of them…They were stationed here…but each one had an interest in [the herd]. They'd tag their ears and each guy would know which was his when they had young ones. They traveled with them all the time, they had reindeer pulling sleds with their tents and equipment, and when the reindeer move, they move with them.
Later during the interview, Alvin continued to describe how he understood the yearly routine of the Saami herders:
They had collie dogs that helped them, you know, and they used skis in the wintertime. What they did in the summer, I don't know. It'd be pretty swampy, they'd travel and then, sometimes in the summer, they must have got them located in good feeding areas because they'd go fishing for a month and then they'd go right back to them.
Passage of the 1937 Reindeer Act by the US government restricted reindeer ownership to Alaska Natives only. Thus, Saami herders were forced to sell their reindeer to the US government. Ironically, after selling his herd, Per Thuri was hired by the Reindeer Service to manage the Naknek herd. Alaska Native herders were also brought in from the Kuskokwim region but eventually, by the 1950s, herding around Naknek ended.


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A YOUNGSTER rescued by Matt Cardle after suffering serious head injuries has helped to raise hundreds of pounds for the air ambulance.
Haydn Vaughan-Peacock, 14, fell off his bike trying to perform a stunt at the skate park in Ramsey Road, Halstead.
He was not wearing a helmet and suffered severe bleeding on the brain.
X Factor star Matt and his friend Tom took the Ramsey Academy pupil to his home, in Parker Way, Halstead, and he was later airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, by the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
He underwent a three-hour emergency operation and has been on a recovery programme.
It happened in August last and since then his family have been determined to raise money for the East Anglian and Essex air ambulances as a thank you.
They decided to outdo their usual Christmas lights display and covered as much of their home as they could with lights, snowmen and festive signs.
Visitors came from far and wide to see the festive decorations and began signing hundreds of baubles to put on the Christmas tree in the family's front garden.
Mum Mariea said: "It was really nice and it was sad having to take all the baubles down after Christmas.
"Due to people's generosity, we have so far raised a total of £443 from our display.
"The Ramsey Academy, which has been supportive of Haydn since his accident, also raised £444 with a nonuniform day."
Haydn is now able to go back to school full-time.
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An Economic Analysis of Consumer Expenditures for Safe Drinking Water: Addressing Nitrogen Risk with an Averting Cost Approach
This article presents a procedure for estimating averting expenditures through the analyses of two data sources: (1) packaged water sales from 18 national supermarket chain stores in the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area (COMA); and (2) treatment expenditures for both high and low service water from a local drinking water treatment facility owned and operated by the Columbus, Ohio municipality. The averting behavior results from a nitrogen advisory for drinking water for 1/3 of the COMA. The study concentrates on estimating these averting expenditures as representative of averting behavior for a market and non-market good trade-off. This article concentrates on the economic consequences of the nitrogen pollution problem as it affects households through the water they drink. It measures the private and public averting for the remedies available to address this problem. Major findings are that consumers make significant expenditures on packaged water both inside and outside the nitrogen advisory area and the municipality also makes considerable averting expenditures. The results represent an averting behavior effect emanating through an area having experienced recent and historic nitrogen advisory events with significant implications for government and industrial strategies for identification and prevention of nitrogen contamination incidents.
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- Bryan J. Hubbell & Jeffrey L. Jordan, 2000. "Joint Production and Averting Expenditure Measures of Willingness to Pay: Do Water Expenditures Really Measure Avoidance Costs?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 82(2), pages 427-437.
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- Olof Byström, 2000. "The Replacement Value of Wetlands in Sweden," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 16(4), pages 347-362, August.
- Carlsson, Fredrik & Frykblom, Peter & Liljenstolpe, Carolina, 2003. "Valuing wetland attributes: an application of choice experiments," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 95-103, November.
- Bystrom, Olof & Andersson, Hans & Gren, Ing-Marie, 2000. "Economic criteria for using wetlands as nitrogen sinks under uncertainty," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 35-45, October.
- Charles W. Abdalla & Brian A. Roach & Donald J. Epp, 1992. "Valuing Environmental Quality Changes Using Averting Expenditures: An Application to Groundwater Contamination," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 68(2), pages 163-169.
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The excellent 2006 Razor's Edge Cabernet Sauvignon (about $15 at wine shops) is the first release of the varietal for the up-and-coming Australian winemaker, but don't call it beginner's luck. To date, this McLaren Vale winery has produced three well-received vintages of shiraz, one of a shiraz-grenache blend and one of a nice unoaked chardonnay. They don't grow their own grapes, but somebody obviously has a good eye for production from surrounding vineyards in this prized region.
The Razor's Edge cab manages to combine silky mouthfeel and texture with a complex balance of fruit and nicely developed but subtle tannins. On the nose we enjoyed the pronounced aroma of prune asserted by a smidge of licorice. On the tongue that prune comes through again, as do flavors of dates, dried cherries, a bit of clove for spice and — ready for this? — beet root. Though young and soft, the wine finishes cleanly with a lingering hint of black tea.
What to eat with this juicy but nuanced beauty? We racked our brains before we came up with a dish as unabashedly traditional as any in the canon: Julia Child's version of boeuf bourguignon, a hearty (one of the ingredients is a 6-ounce chunk of bacon) beef stew, featuring three cups of good red wine; not cooking wine, mind you, but the stuff you'd drink with the finished dish. Being America's favorite French chef, she naturally suggested a Beaujolais, Cotes du Rhone, Bordeaux-St. Émilion or Burgundy, but we think our New World cab will fill the bill nicely.
By Colette and John Bancroft. She is the Times' book editor, and he is a freelance writer specializing in food, wine and travel.


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SAN MARCOS - There are no school bells ringing at Tracy Shepard's home, but her three children, Allison, Max and Faith, know exactly when it's time to review math equations and when the daily language-arts lesson will take place.
By 7:30 a.m. sharp, all three are either at the kitchen table or in a spare room in the family's home to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and hit the books.
Their daily routine is that of many local families who have decided to take an alternative route to education and home-school their children rather than sending them to one of the 17 public school sites in the 16,500-student San Marcos Unified School District.
Shepard, who studied education at San Diego State University, said the decision to home-school her children was simple.
"I wanted to teach my own kids," said Shepard. "I am the only one who can tailor their learning needs and find their true strengths."
San Marcos Superintendent Kevin Holt said he believes in giving parents options and respects the fact that some choose not to enroll their children in the district's schools.
"Home-schooling meets the needs of many families," said Holt. "Although I am an advocate of public K-12 schools, I understand there are students that have specific needs and home-schooling is their best option."
A personal approach
According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 1.1 million students are being home-schooled in the United States. In 1999, the number was estimated at 800,000.
San Marcos resident Marina Karavokiris, who home-schools her two children, Dimitri, a kindergartener, and Lea, a second-grader, said she joined the growing number of parents after she observed as a public school teacher that students were not challenged by the curriculum and did not get the individual attention that they needed.
Karavokiris said she found that home-schooling was the only way to ensure her children get a "one-on-one" education.
"When a teacher has 20 or more students in a classroom they can't meet all of their individual needs," said Karavokiris, who has two master's degrees and teaching credentials. "That is why so many kids fall through the cracks."
In her home, Karavokiris, like Shepard, has set up a mock classroom where she conducts daily classes based on curriculum she has handpicked from online home school programs.
The curriculum varies from advanced math lessons from Asia to Christian language arts lessons.
Karavokiris said that although her family lives within the boundaries of Discovery Elementary, she has chosen to follow the home-schooling path despite positive comments she hears about the school and its academic programs.
"The neighbors are all happy with Discovery," said Karavokiris. "But I see a big difference in academics and behavior when I compare my kids to theirs."
For example, Karavokiris said, since she began home-schooling, her daughter has memorized multiplication tables and her son has excelled in penmanship. Both have also scored two grade levels ahead in tests that are given as part of the home-school curriculum, she said.
"At home, there no interruptions or disciplinary problems," said Karavokiris. "The kids sit down and work until they are done. There is no waste of time."
Other parents, such as San Marcos resident Wendy Garrett, said she has home-schooled her son, Justin, a seventh-grader, since he was in kindergarten because of her older son's experiences in public schools.
"My oldest loved to learn and as a result was picked on at school," said Garrett. "Once I started home-schooling him, he just flourished."
Garrett said her younger son, Justin, struggled with learning at an early age and that home-schooling worked well for him.
"I think if I'd put him in public school, he would've gotten lost," said Garrett.
Supplemental support
Although all three mothers, Shepard, Karavokiris, and Garrett, have taken charge of their children's education, they have not tackled home-schooling alone.
Their children attend the Classical Academy, a charter school in Escondido that caters to more than 700 home-schooled children in the region.
Similarly, 254 students from around the region attend the San Marcos charter school Bayshore Prep that opened in 2005 and caters to home-schooled students in grades K-12. The students attend a number of classes at the school once a week that supplement their curriculum at home.
There are about 210 San Marcos families who use the Classical Academy campus to supplement their children's home-schooling curriculum, according to officials.
The charter school, which has been open since 1999, offers home-schooled students optional weekly workshops and Friday labs in subjects such as Spanish, music or computer classes so that they can spend time with other children their age and become motivated to take more courses.
Michelle Stanley, marketing director for the school, said it has become very popular among San Marcos parents and home-schooled students in recent years because it helps meet socialization needs.
Stanley said the charter school hosts park days, movie nights, musical theater and numerous other extracurricular activities so that home-schooled students are able to socialize with one another.
"The interesting thing is, home-schooling families are very busy with activities," said Stanley. "They have a lot more time than other parents. They get a lot more involved with their communities and church groups."
Shepard said her two children are actively involved with The Movement, a nondenominational Christian church in San Marcos, as well as with the Classical Academy.
"They do a lot of socializing when they're at school," said Shepard. "They also participate in community Bible studies with others."
In addition to the classes at the Classical Academy, home-schooled students and their parents make the short drive to the Escondido campus every five weeks to meet with an educational specialist, Stanley said.
The specialists are in charge of reviewing all completed course work and making sure they meet state standards.
"It's a huge difference from having to meet with a public school teacher twice a year," said Karavokiris. "This way, if there is a problem, you can tackle it earlier."
Kavarokiris said she is planning to continue home-schooling but would consider public schools in the future if her children want a traditional school setting.
Meanwhile, she said she wants to make the most out of home-schooling.
"I want to be able to say I produced two outstanding citizens," said Kavarokiris.
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The FAA last month issued another airworthiness directive related to the Primus Epic avionics system, this time calling for GIV and GV operators to revise their flight manuals to include crew procedures should the cockpit displays go blank.
Honeywell, maker of the Primus Epic PlaneView and EASy cockpits installed in new Gulfstreams and Dassault Falcons, is developing a software modification that will address the glitches that are the subject of the ADs. Gulfstream has already issued similar flight manual revisions for operators of the G350, G450, G500 and G550, which were targeted in an earlier AD. This latest action, effective March 13, covers the earlier Gulfstreams affected by the malfunctions.
This most recent AD was prompted by a report that all four cockpit flight displays simultaneously went blank during flight in a GV-SP. The displays did not recover until the crew pulled the circuit breakers associated with the displays, after which three of the afflicted screens again started functioning normally. An initial investigation revealed discrepancies with the "reversion logic" of the advanced graphic modules that drive the displays. Similar failures occurred during ground testing, leading the FAA to conclude that urgent action was needed.
The AD requires flight manual revisions that describe new procedures for crews to follow in the event that the flight displays go blank or malfunction. Also affected are weather minimums, which have been increased to mitigate the potential effects of display failures on takeoff or landing, the FAA said.
Earlier airworthiness directives issued a year ago pertained to EASy-equipped Falcon 900EXs and 2000EXs, PlaneView-equipped Gulfstreams and the Embraer 170. The ADs called for integrity checks of the aviation standard communications bus (ASCB) and installation of avionics software updates.
The FAA at the time said it issued the ADs after engineers discovered that ASCB faults could lead to a near total system shutdown of the Primus Epic system in flight, causing all the cockpit displays to show invalid information–or go blank–and disrupting autopilot, autothrottle, radio communications and other cockpit functions. The directives also required changes to the aircraft flight manuals with instructions on how to deal with the malfunctions.


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The Politics of Parking: Revenue Enhancement Versus Turnover, the Cage Match
At the Ward 1 meeting, the room at the Northside Community Center was bright, cheery and not nearly filled to the capacity it is when needly neighborhood residents come out twice weekly to pick up food from the pantry located there. On AnnArbor.com, reporters David Jesse and Tina Reed continued on with what I consider some of the most important reporting being done locally. It's a series titled: "Ann Arbor's Hidden Poor." Jesse and Reed have been reporting on the "hidden poor" in Ann Arbor intermittently for several months now. As a rule, their pieces don't attract the number of comments say, a piece about the real estate woes of U of M coach Rich Rodriguez would, but that could be because people are simply at a loss for words when it comes to realizing that there are, yes, poor people struggling to feed their children, keep their homes, jobs and dignity in one of the most prosperous cities in Michigan.
In the course of walking door-to-door over the past few days in the modest neighborhoods around Wines School, I saw empty houses and talked with residents who were struggling to pay their property taxes thanks to lost jobs. There was an AAPS teacher unsure whether she and her son would be in Ann Arbor next year thanks to cuts proposed in the upcoming AAPS budget. She pieces together a full-time salary from several part-time jobs. The modest neighborhood through which I walked is beloved by its residents, but the edges of the cohesion are beginning to fray.
According to Money Magazine, between 2000-2008, our city lost almost 9.25 percent of its total jobs. Unemployment rose from 7.4 percent in February of 2009, to 8.9 percent in February of 2010, according to labor force data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In February of 2007, there were 8,847 people unemployed in Ann Arbor. By February of 2010, that number rose to 16,202 individuals, again according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are thousands and thousands of Ann Arbor residents struggling with job loss, job retraining, family income declines, and holding on to their dignity by a thread.
In the 2009 Money Magazine list of the top 100 places to live in the United States, Ann Arbor didn't crack the top 100. Interestingly, Saline (68), Tecumseh (93) and Plymouth Township (28) did. Compared to the top 10 cities that Money Magazine selected as the best places to live, Ann Arbor fell short in several categories. The median price of a house in Ann Arbor was pegged at $206,707 and the average property tax bill totaled $4,641, a full $1,000 per year higher than in number 1, 2 & 3 cities on the list. Both property crime and personal crime rates were well above those reported, on average, in the top 100 cities that made the list. Ann Arbor has significantly fewer restaurants, bars, movie theaters, libraries than the average reported by the top 100 cities. This last statistic was the most interesting. The median age of a resident in Ann Arbor was listed as 29.2 years old. Within the top 10 towns singled out by the magazine as the best places to live, the media age of residents was between 34.9 years old and 40.9 years old.
All this being said, and with the caveat that I am a data junkie in my day job (higher education policy and publishing), it's good to remember that magazines publish features such as these to sell advertising, single copies and subscriptions. Issues such as this 2009 list of the top 100 best places to live is meant to appeal to those looking to relocate obviously (in truth, a smaller and smaller percentage of Americans than ever before, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau).
At an early-April meeting of the First Ward Democrats, I listened as First Ward Council member and Downtown Development Authority Board member Sandi Smith told neighbors in attendance that the proposed extension of downtown parking meter enforcement until 9 p.m. had nothing to do with revenue enhancement; it was all about increasing "turnover" at downtown parking meters. The politically damaging discussion initiated in December of 2009 based squarely on the idea that extending meter enforcement hours was necessary to generate more money, has morphed into a parking "plan" that revolves around seven "strategies" not a single one of which, by some miracle, mentions increasing revenues.
The first stated "strategy": Downtown curbside public parking should be managed to create turnover at the most convenient, commercial locations so these spaces can be more easily used by a large pool of downtown users.
Just in case you temporarily lost your ability to see through a blizzard of a snow job, increased turnover is meant to lead to enhanced revenue generation. Furthermore, City Council foisted off the dirty job of coming up with the brightly packaged gift of increased turnover to benefit Ann Arborites who want to park at a meter, on the Downtown Development Authority, a Board of political appointees, along with Sandi Smith and Mayor Hieftje (elected officials). Keep in mind that those same two elected officials, as members of the DDA, voted to approve the DDA's new parking plan that calls for extending parking meter enforcement hours until 9 p.m. to increase "turnover." On April 19th, Smith and Hieftje will walk into City Hall, and on behalf of the citizens who elected them, evaluate the merits of their own plan which they already approved over at the DDA.
Feeling taken for a ride? You should, but for heaven's sake don't park in downtown Ann Arbor. Several of the "strategies" put forth in the DDA's new report focused on "managing parking" revolve around making it ever so much easier to pay the parking tickets you'll get. How about paying right at any of the snazzy $15,000 solar-powered parking kiosks where you put your money in to park? In 2008, the city of Baltimore bought 280 of the same kiosks, but paid $8,600 per kiosk.
In December of 2009, Smith brought forth a resolution to City Council to keep the City from dealing parking on the DDA's turf, as it were. City Administrator Roger Fraser had proposed installing meters in city neighborhoods in the First, Fifth and Third Wards to generate revenues. Smith's resolution proposed extending downtown meter enforcement from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., and giving the revenues from the old YMCA lot (Fifth and William) to the city. In exchange, the DDA's monopolistic control over parking would remain intact.
I wrote about the resolution proposed by Smith in December of 2009 here. On December 21, 2009 I wrote:
There are 1,750 curbside meters. Click here to see a map of DDA meter coverage that includes the Council/DDA fantasy projection (in green) of extending parking meters outside of the DDA area into our neighborhoods. In May of 2009, when Council members and Roger Fraser came up with the bright idea to proliferate parking meters, the Ann Arbor News editorialized that the move "smacked of desperation and poor public policy." On January 3, 2010, AnnArbor.com editorialized that, "…expanding metered parking hours into the evening to bring in $380,000 a year (and even the DDA is skeptical that much money would be generated) is a risky proposition that could backfire. It could ultimately cost the city more in lost tax revenue if it pushes even just a few more merchants to shut down because of lost business."
On April 19th, the DDA's parking report (parking hikes dressed up as a favor to Ann Arbor residents tired of having low-paid restaurant workers, bartenders and diswashers take up the city's 1,700 parking meters) will be presented to Council for its approval. The AnnArborChronicle.com reports that,
"At the DDA board's joint transportation and operations committee meeting the previous Wednesday, March 31, 2010, committee members hashed through a number of issues related to the parking report. Those ranged from presentational issues to more substantive questions. Among the presentational issues was the question of whether to include parking rates in the body of the report or put them in an appendix. Putting actual numbers in the body of the report, suggested Newcombe Clark, would make the report immediately dated. Transportation committee chair John Mouat suggested putting the numbers in an appendix. Board chair John Splitt feared that if they did not include the numbers for rates, they would lose control of the discussion: 'They're real numbers, why not put them in there?' The rates will be included in an appendix."
Is it any wonder the parking rate information is being stashed in the index? Talk of parking rates and money, you see, is so far removed from the DDA's report on parking so as to make the report appear innocuous, at worst.
In talking with Main Street merchants, it's pretty clear that they see this proposed meter enforcement extension as an attack on the viability of their businesses. Commenting on behalf of the Main Street Area Association (MSAA) Tony Lupo told the DDA Board that the MSAA had participated in the DDA's process for soliciting feedback on the parking report. Lupo said that there was overwhelming opposition to extending the meter enforcement hours. However, he allowed that the MSAA understood the context under which extended hours were being considered—the city's need for revenue.
On April 12th, city staff member Sue McCormick, the city's public services area administrator, stood before Council and advised them to raise water and sewer rates because Ann Arbor's $1.40 cost per 1,000 gallons of water and $4.02 cost per 1,000 gallons of wastewater placed the city at second lowest in the state, according to a report McCormick prepared. No matter that Ms. McCormick's Water and Sewer Fund is already sitting on a multi-million dollar surplus, and that the current budget as proposed has multi-million dollar surpluses built into the allocations proposed for several departments under her direct control:
Stormwater Sewer System — $400,000 budgeted surplus (proposed)
Water Supply System — $2.52 million dollar budgeted surplus (proposed)
Sewage Disposal System — $2.9 million dollar budgeted surplus (proposed)
Our water rates are low, the logic goes among Ann Arbor city staff, so they need to be raised. Our parking fine structure hasn't been revisited in five years, so went the logic of Roger Fraser and City Treasurer Matt Horning, in November of 2009, so we needed to "revisit" and raise the parking fines (after I questioned in an A2Politico entry the logic behind the need to "revisit" parking fines and the validity of the data in Fraser and Horning's "study" presented to support their proposal, the idea was dropped). Now, parking "turnover" has suddenly become a problem, so we need to revisit the enforcement hours of metered parking. This kind of logic employed by city staff, and the DDA Board members, unchecked and unquestioned by City Council, simply leads to public policy decisions formulated and based on the supposition that the taxpayers exist to support city government above all else.
Some city has to have low parking fine rates and water charges, right? Evidently, according to our city staff, it sure as heck can't be Ann Arbor. They need their accumulated and budgeted surpluses and additional revenue from parking.
The DDA's sham report should be recognized for what it is: a power grab and snow job based on the purely anecdotal stories of DDA Board members like Smith who tell us because the mix of businesses as changed over the past 25 years from retail to restaurant, more blue collar workers are parking at the meters long-term for "free." Purportedly, the idea behind extended enforcement hours is to move more people who are parking at meters long-term after 6 p.m. into the structures.
It won't happen. Why?
Since Smith brings up parking meter use from 25 years ago (1984), I thought I might dig up a little data from the era. Data from a 1987 (Ann Arbor had 102,000 residents then) multi-day, observational study done by a University of Michigan researcher found that street occupancy hovered between 95-98 percent day and night. Furthermore, (and interestingly) the study concluded that metered parking was not impacted by the availability of off-street (garage) parking. The average stay was 42 minutes at a 2-hour meter. In 1987, the researcher concludes that:
"One of the major goals of on-street parking meters is to provide short-term parking at a short walking distance close to the final trip destination (i.e., for shopping, personal errand, etc.). As the length of stay becomes shorter, more drivers can utilize this premium limited space, which is so vital to bringing patrons to downtown. Tables 5 and 6 indicate that the average stay was of 41.5 minutes (standard diviation. Also, the median of 40.0 minutes was close in magnitude to the mean. Based on this measure, one has to conclude that the meters seem to do what they were designed for, to provide curb, short-term."
Translation: People will circle like vultures for on street parking even if there are 5,000,000 open spaces in the parking garages. It's the animal instinct— flight, flight or circle for parking. Garage parking signifies a long-term commitment, like an engagement ring. People don't use meters long-term. They park near their destination for short term periods. At least they did in 1987. Have 25 years, a different mix of businesses, and 10,000 more residents completely changed the parking behavior of people in A2?
It's time to stop treating Ann Arbor residents like their cash cows, and accepting city staff/DDA proposed fee increases on the flawed logic that Ann Arbor simply can't have lower charges for services, hourly parking, parking fines, and fees for services and facilities than other communities. Why can't we? Evidently, because the City Administrator believes, and City Council supports the policy that the DDA, Sue McCormick and other city staff need not only money for operating expenses, but mad money budget surpluses—tens of millions of tax dollars stuffed into the mattresses that are the DDA, Fleet, Water & Sewer and Solid Waste Funds.
Oh, and can I please see a show of hands from those who have little trouble finding a place to park downtown at meters after 6 p.m., and who are tired of being treated like golden geese?
Mine's up.
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My Hat Travelogue
- By Viki Spector
- June 7, 2013
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It's summer again. My mind is wandering. Summer = vacation, right? After many years working in a hat shop, I have quite the hat collection. I started to think about where my hats would take me if they could choose the destination.
Sticking close to home, my Helen Kaminski straw hat is the perfect hat to wear for an afternoon of wine tasting in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. My husband can wear our (yes, sometimes I sport this hat, too) Borsalino Panama. We're picture-perfect – wandering through the vineyards, a cool glass of chardonnay in hand – never underestimate the value of a day-cation, or a good hat.
Some days you just want to get away from it all. I think my VHS Pith Helmet would take me someplace exotic. Egypt. Pyramids. Nile River cruise. Sitting comfortably on my head, this rigid hat will protect me from the sun and the occasional flying monkey. Made of pith, I can soak my Pith Helmet overnight for an even cooler day exploring – maybe even from the back of a camel.
Made for the outdoors, my Sunday Afternoon Hat is always on the go. With its full face, ears and neck coverage it's a perfect hat for playing on the beach, watching any sporting event (those bleachers can get hot!), or looking for hidden treasures at an outdoor antique faire. For this vacation, we're hiking through the Yosemite Valley to Half Dome. Maybe we'll attempt the 16-mile round trip hike, or maybe we'll admire the magnificent rock from the Valley. Either way, with its soft, pliable wide brim, the Sunday Afternoon hat can take you places your stiff wide brim hats cannot. Any day of the week, my Sunday Afternoon hat is my go-to hat.
You don't have to live in Texas to wear a cowboy hat. But just for fun, my Shady Brady cowboy hat and I will head out for San Antonio. Strolling along the Paseo del Rio (River Walk), we'll enjoy the numerous cafes and art galleries – with its tanned straw and distressed look, my Shady Brady will fit right in with the local scene. And don't forget…Remember the Alamo.
I'd let my Outback Trading Company hat take me 'down under'. There's a big red rock there I'd like to see. In addition to shielding my head and face from the hot sun, my Outback has a quick dry sweatband which will come in handy as I cross the desert. And if I'm one of the lucky ones to see it rain on Uluru/Ayers Rock, this hat is made from waterproof oilskin that will keep me high and dry.
The raffia straw of my Scala Crocheted Floppy Hat has already traveled around the world, from Madagascar to me. We spend a lot of time in my garden, this hat and me. Now is a good time to check out a bigger, grander garden – the San Francisco Botanical Garden. From woods to wildflowers, this garden has it all – just like my Scala Crocheted Sun Hat which features a wide floppy brim to give me shade and an adjustable chinstrap to keep it comfortably on my head. Gardens and hats go together naturally.
Yes, it's summertime and there's a whole world out there waiting to be explored. You can be ready to go at the drop of a hat.
About the author
Viki Spector has worked at Village Hat Shop since 1999 as Manager of the Old Sacramento store and in recent years, General Manager of all the 'brick and mortar' stores. Now turning her knowledge of the hat industry and retail to writing and editing for the online channel. Born in the Missouri Ozarks and landing in northern California via Chicago with a background in art, advertising and raising 3 kids, Viki brings a unique perspective to this side of the business. And people have always told her she looked good in hats.


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-Tsukiji Fish Market (visit only retail market when wholesale market is close. If the retail market also close, visit Hamarikyu Japanese Garden.)
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-End at Yurikamome Fune-no-kagakkukan Station(U08) (3:30 pm)
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Lab #6.3b Mechanics: Chapter 6 the Weight
Posted on January1,2011 by Arbor ScientificIn this activity, you will investigate the relationship between weight and mass. Mass and weight are different quantities. Mass is a measure of an object's inertia, the extent to which an object resists changes to its state of motion. Weight is a measure of the interaction between an object and the planet the object is nearest to. Usually that planet is the earth. The weight of an object is related to its mass. In this activity we will find out what that relationship is.
This post was posted in Supplementary Conceptual Physics Labs and was tagged with mass, newton's laws, mechanics, weight, 2nd law
The Firing Squad Demo
Posted on January1,2011 by Stephen ReaEvery day we have to make choices. Sometimes these can be life changing. In the Firing Squad Demo the student you pick to be the target, will have to choose between two dart guns to be shot with!
This post was posted in Labs, Energy & Work and was tagged with mass, newton's laws, Firing Squad, Demo, dart guns
Lab #6.3a Mechanics: Chapter 6 Putting the Cart Before the Horse
Posted on January1,2011 by Arbor ScientificIn this activity, you will observe the motion of a variety of objects under a variety of conditions. You will interpret your observations to learn the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.
This post was posted in Supplementary Conceptual Physics Labs and was tagged with Motion, force, mass, electromotive force, newton's laws, mechanics, 2nd law, cart, horse
Balloon Helicopter
Posted on January1,2011 by Arbor ScientificThe balloon helicopter is a classic toy with a simple design. The physics that explains its motion, though, can be difficult to explain. Students will observe the motion of the helicopter and study its construction before applying Newton's 3rd Law twice to explain how it moves. Newton's 3rd Law says that every force is opposed by an equal and opposite force. This lab will reinforce the idea that the two forces involved in this law are applied to different objects.
This post was posted in Labs, Forces and was tagged with force, newton's laws, balloon helicopter, 3rd law of motion
Buckle Up!
Posted on January1,2011 by Arbor Scientific
Chapter 3 Lab #7:
Using collisions, students will demonstrate Newton's first law of motion.
Pulley on Rod with Clamp
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Dynamics Carts (pair)
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100g Hooked Mass
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No-Stretch Pulley String, 25 meters
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Car and Ramp Lab
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Physics Workshop Stand
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This post was posted in Conceptual Physics 4th Edition Lab Manual and was tagged with newton's laws, collisions, Buckle Up, laws of motion
Introducing Newton's Laws with Learning Cycles
Posted on November1,2002 by Chris ChiaverinaThis exploratory's emphasis is on the introduction of Newton's 1st, 2nd and 3rd laws. At each station students are asked to perform one or more activities and answer questions based on their observations. These stations use a variety of manipulatives. Some stations feature common household items; others use either commercial devices or teacher-produced apparatus. I would like to share some of our students' favorite stations with you. During the last 30 years, Dr. James Hicks and I have assembled exploratory activities that we've used to introduce each major topic (for example, forces, energy, optics, wave phenomena, electricity, magnetism, etc.)
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Best Bank Account Interest Rates - Summary for Week Ending April 6, 2014
Friday's job report was below expectations, and that's never good news for savers waiting for the Fed to hike rates. However, the jobs report was viewed favorably by many economists. One economist was quoted in this Reuters article as saying "The Fed will be very happy with this type of jobs report." That article reported that more economists now think the Fed will raise rates in the first half of 2015. The jobs report along with other economic data from last week is showing that the economic slowdown that we've seen in the last couple of months was probably just due to the severe winter weather. This temporary slowdown shouldn't be a factor in the Fed's decision making. Nevertheless, we've been disappointed in both the economy and the Fed many times over the last few years. So I'm not holding my breath for rate hikes in early 2015.
The change in Treasury yields and Fed funds futures in the last week are shown below. The following numbers are based on Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates and the CME Group FedWatch.
Treasury Yields:
- 1-month: 0.03% same as last week
- 6-month: 0.05% down from 0.06% last week
- 2--year: 0.43% down from 0.45% last week
- 5--year: 1.71% down from 1.74% last week
- 10-year: 2.74% up from 2.73% last week
- 30-year: 3.59% up from 3.55% last week
Fed funds futures' probability of rate hike by:
- Jan 2015: 16% down from 18% last week
- Apr 2015: 41% down from 49% last week
- Jul 2015: 75% down from 82% last week
- Oct 2015: 94% down from 97% last week
Savings & Checking Account Rates
Last week was another quiet week in the savings and money market accounts that I track below. There was just one change, and it wasn't a savings or money market account. It was the checking account at Capital One 360 (formerly ING DIRECT). The rates of its top two tiers fell by 5 basis points. The rate for balances of $100K and above is now 0.80%, and the rate for balances from $50K to under $100K is now 0.75%. The previous rates had held for more than a year. Capital One 360's savings account rate held at 0.75%, That rate has held since 2012.
I include Capital One 360 Checking in this list of savings and money market accounts since it can be viewed as a money market account without checking or withdrawal limitations. Unlike reward checking accounts, it doesn't require certain activities to qualify for a higher rate. Typically, banks offer higher rates on money market or savings accounts than on their checking accounts. That's not the case for Capital One 360. The top tier rate of its checking account has always been higher than the savings account rate.
The number of institutions offering a non-promo 1% savings or money market account continues to be five. SFGI Direct is the latest one in this club with its 1.01% APY savings account. Three of those five are MySavingsDirect savings account, the iGObanking.com money market account and the SmartyPig savings account. All of these are offering a 1.00% APY. The highest rate continues to be at Connexus Y.E.S. Money Market Account which has a top-tier APY of 1.15% for a $100K minimum balance. An important downside of this account is that it requires an active checking account and direct deposit. Note, I exclude EverBank and Salem Five Direct. Only new customers can earn over 1% at these banks.
Out of the above five, the accounts at Connexus Credit Union and SmartyPig have the longest history of top rates.
Reward Checking Accounts
Last week was also a quiet week for the nationally available reward checking accounts. None of the institutions that I track below changed their rates.
I reported on one new reward checking account last week. However, it's only available in four northeastern states. It's a Kasasa Cash account that's offered by Manasquan Savings Bank in New Jersey. The nice feature of this new account is a $25K balance cap. That is rare these days. It seems like $10K and $15K balance caps are now more common for new reward checking accounts. It has a 2% APY which is a little low, but the $25K balance cap helps to offset this. The highest rate for a nationally available reward checking account with a $25K cap is 2.05% APY at Security Bank.
There continues to be six banks and credit unions in my table below offering reward checking yields of 2.00% or above for balances of at least $15,000.
To find the highest reward checking rates and balance caps in your state or nationwide, please refer to our reward checking rate table. If you're new to these tables, my rate table guide should be useful. If you're new to reward checking, please refer to my blog post, 10 Common Traits of High-Yield Reward Checking.
Rate Hikes:
- none
Rate/Balance Cap Cuts:
- Capital One 360 Checking - 0.80% ($100K+) 0.75% ($50K+) [was 0.85%/0.80%]
Certificate of Deposit Rates
My recap of CD rate changes and the list of CD deals will now be in my survey of the best CD rates. This recap will now focus on banking news of the week and liquid accounts.
Recap for the Week - Links to Last Week's PostsBanking News/Resources
- How to Go Cash-Only
- What Can This Lynyrd Skynyrd Song Teach Us About Economics and Kindness?
- Favorite Credit Unions of Savers
- Nothing new this week
- Survey of the Best CD Rates for April 5, 2014
- Barclays Rasies 5-Year and 4-Year CD Rates
- Special CD Rates at America's Credit Union in WA - Easy Membership
- 13-Month CD Special with a Top Rate at Quorum FCU - Easy Membership
- Nothing new this week
- Another Michigan Savings Account Promotion at Flagstar Bank
- First Republic Bank Raises Long-Term CD Rates in Several States
The rates listed below are based on Annual Percentage Yield (APY). No minimum balances are required unless noted. MMA next to the rates indicate a money market account. Most MMAs have check writing and ATM cards. Online savings accounts usually lack both of these. Previous weekly summaries are available at this page.Rates as of April 6, 2014
Checking/Savings/Money Market Accounts:
- Best Savings Account Rates (Nationwide & by State)
- Best Money Market Rates (Nationwide & by State)
- Best Checking Account Rates (Nationwide & by State)
- Noteworthy Accounts Available Nationwide:
|Connexus Credit Union
|MMA - active chk required
|1.10% (6mo intro rate) 0.61% ongoing rate
|MMA/Checking - account review
|SFGI Direct
|savings account, account review
|savings account - account review
|savings account (no check writing) account review
|savings account - account review
|Salem Five Direct
|savings, for new customers only
|First Trade Union Bank
|FT High-Yield Savings, account review
|GE Capital Retail Bank (formerly MetLife)
|Incredible Bank
|0.95% ($2.5K min)
|MMA account review
|CIT Bank
|savings account, account review
|Bank5 Connect
|0.90% (min $100)
|online savings account (not available for MA and RI residents)
|GE Capital Bank
|online savings account
|Sallie Mae Bank
|MMA account review
|Union Federal Savings Bank
|0.90% (min $2.5K)
|MMA account review
|Savings account review
|Redneck Bank
|0.90% (up to $35K) 0.50% (over $35K)
|AmericaNet Bank
|0.90% (up to $35K) 0.50% (over $35K)
|Evantage Bank
|0.90% (up to $35K) 0.50% (over $35K)
|Palladian Private Bank
|0.90% (min $10K)
|savings account
|Ally Bank
|Ally Bank
|Discover Bank
|0.85% (min $500)
|savings account, account review
|Colorado Federal Savings Bank
|0.85% ($2.5K min)
|savings account, account review
|FNBO Direct
|savings account
|GE Capital Retail Bank (formerly MetLife)
|Mutual of Omaha Bank
|0.85% (min $25)
|MMA, account review
|Capital One 360
|360 Checking
|American Express Bank
|savings account, account review
|Sallie Mae Bank
|savings account, account review
|0.80% (min $5K)
|0.80% (min $1K)
|Bank5 Connect
|0.76% (min $100)
|checking account (not available for MA and RI residents)
|Bank of Internet USA
|Capital One 360
|360 savings account
|Clear Sky Accounts
|0.70% (max $250K)
|savings account, account review
|Alliant Credit Union
|0.70% (min $100)
|savings account, account review
|Nationwide Bank
|0.66% (min $1K)
|Incredible Bank
|0.66% ($1K min)
|checking, account review
|Alliant Credit Union
|Checking (req's elec. dep & e-stmts) account review
Reward Checking Accounts:
- Best Reward Checking Account Rates for a $10,000 Balance - Nationally Available
- Best Reward Checking Account Rates for a $25,000 Balance - Nationally Available
- Noteworthy Accounts Available Nationwide:
|Consumers Credit Union
|4.09% (up to $10K) 0.20% ($10K-$25K) 0.10% ($25K+)
|Rewards Checking - with cc requirements
|INOVA Federal Credit Union
|3.00% (up to $20K) 0.15% ($20K+)
|Ovation Checking (not available to PA residents)
|Lake Michigan Credit Union
|3.00% (up to $15K) 0.00% ($15K+)
|Max Checking
|Great Lakes Credit Union
|3.00% (up to $10K) 0.05% ($10K+)
|Ultimate Checking
|Belvoir FCU
|2.53% (up to $15K) 0.05% ($15K+)
|CUXcel Checking
|Lee Bank
|2.50% (up to $15K) 0.50% ($15K+)
|Kasasa Cash
|Capital Educators Federal Credit Union
|2.50% (up to $10K) 0.20% ($10K+)
|High Yield Checking
|Security Bank
|2.05% (up to $25K) 0.30% ($25K+)
|Security Bonus Checking
|XCEL Federal Credit Union
|2.01% (up to $15K) 0.30% ($15K+)
|Kasasa Cash Checking
|ABCO Federal Credit Union
|1.76% (up to $25K) 0.20% ($25K+)
|Premiere Checking
|Provident Credit Union
|1.76% (up to $25K) 0.11% ($25K+)
|Super Reward Checking
|Connexus Credit Union
|1.75% (up to $25K) 0.31% ($25K+)
|Xtraordinary Checking
|First Tech Federal Credit Union
|1.58% (up to $10K) 0.16% ($10K+)
|Dividend Rewards Checking
|Aspire Federal Credit Union
|1.51% (up to $10K) 0.25% ($10K+)
|Kasasa Cash
|First American Bank
|1.50% (up to $15K) 0.15% ($15K+)
|Everyday Rewards Checking
|Community Bank of Raymore
|1.50% (up to $10K) 0.10% ($10K+)
|Rewards Checking
|Community Bank of Pleasant Hill
|1.50% (up to $10K) 0.10% ($10K+)
|Rewards Checking
|Redneck Bank
|1.50% (up to $10K) 0.50% (over $10K+)
|Redneck Rewards Checking
|AmericaNet Bank
|1.50% (up to $10K) 0.50% ($10K+)
|AmericaNet Rewards Checking
|Evantage Bank
|1.50% (up to $10K) 0.50% ($10K+)
|Evantage Rewards Checking
|West Texas National Bank
|1.26% (up to $25K) 0.25% ($25K+)
|Ultimate Checking
|Heritage Bank
|1.26% (up to $25K) 0.10% ($25K+)
|eCentive Account
|Bank of Blue Valley
|1.25% (up to $15K) 0.10% ($15K+)
|$1K/month debit card req (account review)
|Bank of Internet USA
|1.25% (up to $150K) 0.00% ($150K+)
|Rewards Checking
|BankFirst Financial Services
|1.25% (up to $25K) 0.15% ($25K+)
|Kasasa Cash
|Avidia Bank
|1.06% (up to $25K) 0.05% ($25K+)
|Legence Bank
|1.05% (up to $25K) 0.25% ($25K+)
|Kasasa Cash
|North Country Savings Bank
|1.05% (up to $25K) 0.75% ($25K+)
|Advantage Checking
|First New England Federal Credit Union
|1.01% (up to $15K) 0.10% ($15K+)
|extra 1% w/relationship
|State Bank of Toledo
|1.00% (up to $25K) 0.15% ($25K+)
|Hometown Rewards Checking
Certificates of Deposit:
- Best CD Rates (Nationwide & by State)
- Best IRA CD Rates (Nationwide & by State)
- Survey of the Best CD Rates for March 28, 2014 (Nationwide & Local)
Various Deposit Account Deals
- Bank Promotions
- Best IRA CD rates, local and nationwide deals
- Latest CD and Savings Account Deals with No Major Deposit Limitiations
Bank Account Alternatives - NOT FDIC Insured
|Ally Financial Demand Notes
|Ally Demand Notes review
|Duke Energy PremierNotes
|1.25% rate for $50K+
|Duke Energy PremierNotes review
|Ford Interest Advantage
|1.10% rate for $50k+
|Ford Interest Advantage review
|GE Interest Plus
|1.05% rate for $50k+
|Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund
|0.01% 7-day yield
|Vanguard Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund
|0.01% 7-day yield
|Fidelity Money Market Fund
|0.01% 7-day yield
|reviews on Fatwallet
|Fidelity Municipal Money Market Fund
|0.01% 7-day yield
|TIAA-CREF Money Market Fund
|0.00% 7-day yield
- FW Thread on Treasury Bills
- Series I Savings Bond Purchases from October to April 2014, I Bond Article, I Bonds as CD Alternatives
Historical Rates from the Federal Reserve (Federal funds, Treasury bills, CD's)


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A Comparative Study of Two Patterns of Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation in Mid Follicular Phase or Early Luteal Phase for Egg Donors
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Apple iPad mini with Retina display now available, starts at $399
8 Comments
1. guyguya (Posts: 8; Member since: 14 Aug 2013)
Just ordered mine.
32 GB with Cellular in Space Gray
2. LiquidGalaxy (Posts: 332; Member since: 03 Jul 2013)
Just got an order in for a 32gb wifi in Silver - not for me though however. I'm being a greedy sod and hoping to make a profit by selling it on if they become as popular as i'm expecting / hoping...
3. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
Sadly I'm doing the same. If it doesn't sale I'm keeping it because I traded my wife's iPad 1 for the $200 target deal. But I have a feeling that everyone is thinking about doing this which will kill the deal. I still remember all those Chinese people returning iPad 3's in shopping carts.
4. LiquidGalaxy (Posts: 332; Member since: 03 Jul 2013)
True - although like yourself, i'll not be too dissapointed if i 'have' to keep it :) I might even prefer it to my Air..
5. darkkjedii (Posts: 25068; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Picking up mine ASAP.
8. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Gonna have to wait at a minimum 5 - 10 business days. It seems that stock is only available on line at apple.com, and that is with the wait. Stores are no-shows. Apple should have delayed the release to end of November and built up inventory.
6. greathero1 (Posts: 576; Member since: 13 Jun 2008)
I thought they said it was going to be the end of the month. I went ahead and picked up the larger version. Oh well, I will probably just keep what I have instead of returning it seeing as how light and easier to handle the Air model is.
7. darkkjedii (Posts: 25068; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Has it been 14 days?


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