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The last name Weymouth has an interesting history in the UK dating back to the middle ages. Records dating back to 1153 suggest there was a contingency of Weymouth's in the county of Suffolk. The word Weymouth is thought to have come from a Anglo-Saxon term. The surname went global in the sixteenth and seventeenth century with the boom of the British empire.
Weymouth is currently at number 1797 of the UK's most popular last names. There are approximately 72419 with the surname Weymouth living in Europe. If history is to be believed the early 19th century Weymouth's liked a drink or six. In 1914 a man named David Weymouth was jailed for reasons unknown.
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Previous families of Weymouth's have been spoken of as a happy bunch. The common traits associated with Weymouth's are egocentric, reliable and complex. Switching horses in the middle of the stream is another small quirk in the Weymouth personality which makes decision making, and carrying out a decision difficult. 101

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Mangaluru: A gang of three arriving in a car and a bike robbed a businessman of a huge amount near the Thokkottu junction on Sunday night.
Harish Shetty, who operates a bar at the same junction, was getting into his car with the day's collection in his bag. Three unidentified persons surrounded the car.
One of them is said to have smashed the window glass of the car and demanded money from him. He also tried to snatch the gold chain in his neck, which, with the force used, snapped and fell in Shetty's pocket.
In the meantime, the other two snatched the amount of Rs 1.68 lakh which Shetty had with him. Immediately thereafter, all of them fled in the vehicles.
When Harish's scream from help was heard by passersby, they came to his rescue but it was too late.
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The police in Edo state have arrested a 16-year-old teenage mother for allegedly abandoning her baby in an uncompleted building in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
The teenage girl who put the baby in a cement bag said because she had no money to take of her child hence her reason for abandoning the baby confessed to being a prostitute.
Luckily the baby was saved by good Samaritans.
The teenage mum, who said she stopped schooling at primary five and that her father chased her away from home and asked her to look for real father spoke about being a prostitute saying: "I went to Umelu village and met a friend who told me to follow her to Abeokuta, Ogun State, and that I would work there. "I did not know that she was going to introduce me to prostitution.
"It was in Abeokuta I conceived. I don't know if the man is still in Abeokuta. "He knew that I had a baby for him. I used to sleep with about 10 men in a day. I spent six months as a prostitute.
"I left him at the uncompleted building because I didn't have any money to take care of him.
"My elder sister came to take the baby from me so that she can be collecting money from my mother but when I went to collect my baby she sent me away.
"I was arrested after I decided to go back and check on the baby. The people knew who I was and they took me to the traditional ruler, who handed me to the police."
Police Commissioner Foluso Adebanjo said the suspects would be charged to court after investigations.
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I haven't written an essay for 4 months and usually my first one for the year kind off sucks. I'd be very grateful if you could have a look at it and correct my mistakes, suggest other ideas and help me reduce the word count cos it's supposed to be 300-350 words and this one is 449. (normally I use 380, but never nearly 450, but like I said, first essay of the year, so I'm not in my best shape).
What else? I'm in the second class of proficiency. I'm going to take the CPE this year (May-June). Without further ado, here's the instruction and then my letter
You have read the text below which is an extract from a magazine article on the declining role in the family of fathers today. You decide to write a letter responding to the points raised and describing a person who, in you opinion, has been an ideal father.
A father is more than a male parent. Fathering a child is easy - being a father is not. Many people say that fathers no longer have a clear role in the family. They spend most of their time outside the home and never really get to know their children. Without models to follow, how can today's boys understand the concept of "being a father"? Are there no real fathers today?
My letter
I am writing with regard to the article published on your magazine about how they fatherhood and how it has lost its meaning along the way. I would like to pose certain arguments which support that true fathers do exist in this day and age. I would like to describe one man who has show nothing but caring devotion to its family and should be a paradigm of a real father.
More specifically I am going to describe my father who at the age of 18 left his own country to live and immediately create a family here, in Greece. He was accepted at the medical school as he was an honour student. However, he did not graduate until the age of nearly 40 because he was the one who sat home and raised his children, me and my brother while my mother had to go to work to financially support us. We were brought up with the high importance of education and that we should live an honourable life without hiding away from the big world out there. Self-confidence was also one of the first things he passed on to us and I still live by his words of wisdom.
Of course, being a parent should mean taking financial responsibility, feeding and clothing a child and teach them how to behave. Nevertheless, fatherhood goes beyond all that since my father was the one who helped form me into a decent human being. He always has a way of making a point without having to dictate or ground me. For instance, whenever he advised me to do or not do something, he never ended up forbidding me to do it. I was made to learn from my mistakes and move on. He also taught my brother how to never quit when things were not looking well, because despite the many difficulties my father encountered during his studies, dropping out was not an option. I was his dream to become a doctor but he is now proud of being one because that means he could take better care of us, his family.
All in all, I still believe that there are father figures and not all hope is lost. I am certain that my brother, who has followed my father's example and become a teacher, is going to put his family needs before his own and his children will most certainly have the same moral up-bringing he and I have had when we were young. I feel lucky that we do not celebrate father's day in Greece because I could never think of a proper present to give to a man who represents everything that a real father should be.
Thanks a lot in advance
ps: I already know that "Father figure" is a bad choice since it doesn't mean an actual father, but i didn't know what else to say.
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On the back of last year's sell out concert series, Apia are proud to bring you the 2014 Apia Good Times Tour that will have audiences rocking in their seats featuring a brand new iconic all-star lineup never seen before in Australia. Music legends Joe Camilleri, Richard Clapton, Russell Morris and Leo Sayer will tour around the country singing their legendary hits with tickets to go on sale Monday 3rd March through various outlets.
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Back by popular demand for this tour is one of Australia's most loved musicians Joe Camilleri, aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent. Camilleri is celebrating 50 years in Australian music in 2014 and doing so with the release of his 45th album, Certified Blue (April 2014). Camilleri has achieved numerous Top 20 hits recording as a solo artist with both Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows including Hit & Run, Taxi Mary and Chained to the Wheel among others. He has also produced records for countless artists including The Sports, Paul Kelly & the Dots, Renée Geyer and Ross Wilson as well as his own bands. Camilleri was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Vice President Biden speaks at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse in La Crosse, Wis., Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)
Romney will give a spending and deficit speech next week.
Bill Clinton is all over the 2012 campaign trail.
Early voting is on the rise.
Colleges work toward higher voter registration.
Romney left the state often as Mass. governor.
A Va. mailer from his campaign talks about health care.
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Now think about ways to build the link reputation of this newfound social web address. For example, you can integrate your Twitter URL into your website by placing a call to action on the site for your customers to follow you on Twitter. You could also integrate your Twitter URL within your site's Global Footer, which appears at the bottom of every page of your site. Both of these options offer usability to your site visitors and help drive your Twitter URL up in the search engines.
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Countdown To Kickoff: Five NCAA Players Destined To Be Superstars in 2009July 23, 2009
Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy—these are names everyone already knows.
Then there are those few players who some may have heard of. They may have even earned All-Conference status, but now they are about to become the biggest players of 2009.
These are college football's new superstars. Get used to hearing their names.
Charles Scott—RB, Louisiana State
As far as running backs in the SEC are concerned, 2008 belonged to Knowshon Moreno. Some may be surprised to learn that Moreno's SEC-leading 18 touchdowns in 2008 were matched by LSU's Charles Scott.
Scott's 1,174 yards and 18 touchdowns didn't receive much in the way of national attention, partly because his team struggled in key games and partly because of a lack of production late in the year.
Still, folks in Baton Rouge took notice, and SEC defenses should be on high alert. With a strong offensive line returning and what should be an improved passing game, Scott should be in the hunt for 20 touchdowns and well over the 1,200 rushing yards he accumulated last season.
Thaddeus Gibson—DE, Ohio State
The Ohio State defense is loaded with very good, very sound players—players that will make the routine plays but won't come up with too much flash. The exception is Thaddeus Gibson, a defensive end in the mold of former Buckeye superstar Vernon Gholston.
Gibson, who led the team in sacks last season, is built like an outside linebacker and will likely play there in the pros, but he's tough enough to handle himself well on the end and quick enough to wreak havoc on opposing quarterbacks.
Gibson could be dominant this year on a line that is good and deep enough to take the pressure off. He could be the star of one of the nation's best defensive lines.
Kendall Hunter—RB, Oklahoma State
Kendall Hunter quietly wracked up 1,555 yards and 16 touchdowns last season coming off a 696-yard, four-touchdown freshman campaign. Those numbers are good enough to make Hunter third on the list of the nation's leading returning rushers.
Ahead of Hunter on that list are Cal's Jahvid Best, who must prove he can stay healthy all season, and Ball State's MiQuale Lewis, who will have a hard time repeating last season's success with the departure of so many key pieces of the Cardinal offense, including four starters off the line.
Oklahoma State has all the key parts back on offense, including most of the starters on the line, meaning Hunter should get past the 1,500-yard mark again and be in the hunt for the Doak Walker Award from the start.
Sergio Kindle—DE/LB, Texas
When a linebacker only makes 45 tackles in a season and is still on the short list for all the All-America teams, then that linebacker must be pretty special.
Kindle is very special. Late in the year when Texas' superstar pass rusher Brian Orakpo went down, Kindle took over on the end and finished with 12.5 tackles for loss and 10 sacks. Now consider that Orakpo compiled 11.5 sacks on the season, and you can see just how special Kindle is.
This season Kindle is expected to spend most of his time as a pure pass rushing end, where he should blow up and get the press Orakpo received last year. He could move back to linebacker from time to time, but for the most part he'll be a terror in the backfield and could become one of the nation's sack leaders.
Case Keenum—QB, Houston
As far as the rest of the country was concerned, Colt McCoy and Graham Harrell were the only quarterbacks from the state of Texas worth knowing about in 2008. But lurking just below the large shadow of McCoy and Harrell was Houston signal caller Case Keenum.
Keenum threw for 5,020 yards and 44 scores in 2008, finishing second in the nation in passing behind Harrell. While he only threw for 252 yards in the Armed Forces Bowl win over Air Force, he threw for 360 yards or more in the other 12 games last season and threw for over 400 yards five times, including the final three games of the season.
Keenum will get a chance to make a name for himself early with September shootouts against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.


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A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
The holidays are upon us, and people across the nation are scrambling to finish up Christmas shopping, preparing for Hanukkah, and making plans for New Year's Eve. Unbeknownst to most, however, there is another holiday this month that deserves equal importance. December 15 is Bill of Rights Day, and Friday marks the 215th anniversary of the ratification of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Though many of the rights contained in the bill are now taken for granted, they are the bedrock of our nation's founding and the freedoms we continue to enjoy, so they warrant an appropriate measure of reverence.
The amendments that were eventually to be known as the Bill of Rights were drafted by James Madison and modeled closely after the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), written by fellow Founder George Mason. They came about as a response to criticisms leveled by the "Anti-Federalists" that the Constitution created too powerful a central government, one that would encroach upon fundamental individual liberties. As Mason argued in his Objections to This Constitution of Government (1787), "There is no Declaration of Rights, and the Laws of the general Government being paramount to the Laws & Constitutions of the several States, the Declaration of Rights in the separate States are no Security." Other Anti-Federalists included Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, and Richard Henry Lee.
The Constitution was ratified only after acceptance of the Massachusetts Compromise, under which Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Virginia agreed to ratify the Constitution with the understanding that it would be amended to explicitly protect our most basic rights.
New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights on November 20, 1789. Virginia was the final state to ratify them. Three of the original thirteen states—Connecticut, Georgia, and Massachusetts—did not "ratify" the Bill of Rights until 1939. In 1941, on the 150th anniversary of the Bill's passage, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared December 15 "Bill of Rights Day," a national holiday. That he was the one to do so is rather ironic, considering that FDR ignored the Bill of Rights and promoted the encroachment of the federal government on individual rights—through his unconstitutional expansion of government programs and powers and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II—perhaps more than any other in American history.
Nowadays, some of the Bill of Rights amendments are highly venerated, while others have been essentially relegated to the scrap heap of history. Chief among these neglected declarations are the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. The Ninth Amendment was intended to clarify that the Bill of Rights was not intended to limit the rights of the people to only those rights contained within it: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The Tenth Amendment, while equally ignored, is arguably the most important of them all. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1791, "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the Unites States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people' [Tenth Amendment]. To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition."
The Anti-Federalists were, sadly, prescient in their criticisms of government power under the Constitution and the tendency of men and women of ambition to find ways to expand that power at the expense of the governed. While they are to be credited with the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, even this action only delayed the inevitable erosion of individual liberties.
The Founders must be spinning in their graves. Nearly everything the government does today is unconstitutional under the system they instituted. Governmental powers were expressly limited; individual liberties were not. Now it seems it is the other way around. If the Bill of Rights is to regain its meaning, we must rededicate ourselves to the principles it asserts and be mindful that a government powerful enough to give us all we want is powerful enough to take away everything we have.
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Berlin Hauptbahnhof Train Station
Address: Invalidenstrasse 10557 BerlinOpening hours: Monday to Sunday: 6am to 12am
Trains operating in and from this station:
High speed trains (ICE), InterCity, Regional trains (RegionalExpress, RegionalBahn and S-Bahn trains)
DB rail agents, Assistance for disabled persons and junior travellers, Lost and found, Police station, Tourist Information Point, Toilets, Luggage storage, Wi-Fi Internet, ATM and Phone cabins.
Travel inspiration in Budapest and Berlin
Budapest, the capital city of Hungary
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and also its largest city. The city is divided in two parts by the Danube River. The left bank is called Buda whereas the right bank is called Pest. Many European roads and railway lines lead to Budapest, which makes it an important city in terms of traffic exchange. Budapest is generally not our first choice destination when we are thinking holidays. Contrary to what most of us think, Budapest is an exciting city which can without doubt match the other capitals of Europe. With its architectural wealth, global flair, rich culture and spas, Budapest is a booming metropolis.
An interesting fact about Budapest is that is the only capital city in the world which has thermal springs. Indeed approximately 125 springs produce 70 million litres of thermal water a day. The thermal springs are known to have medicinal effects due to their valuable mineral contents.
Berlin, capital of Germany
Berlin is the capital of Germany and also its largest city. It is located in the northeast of the country and is home to more than 4 million people. Did you know that Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris and has 1,700 bridges, more than Venice?
After the World War II, the city was divided into two parts surrounded by the Berlin Wall. In 1989 the wall was destroyed, followed by the German reunification in 1990. As a result, Berlin regained its status as the capital of Germany. Having bounced back confidently from 20th century division, Berlin is has become one of Europe's most exciting destinations.
Today Berlin, home to a multicultural population, is a city of culture, media, science and creativity.


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Canvas and Leather Goods Makers
Canvas and Leather Goods Makers work with canvas and leather materials to make and repair products such as boots, bags, shoes and garments. They may use a variety of tools to shape and mould materials and assemble products.
Quick summary
- Starting salary: $26,000 P/A Senior salary: $54,000 P/A Average salary: $35,500 P/A Wages will vary according to your level of skill, experience and employer Employment level: 3,200 as of November 2012 (Projected employment levels in 2017 of 2,500)
Average weekly hours: Average weekly hours worked for a full time Canvas and Leather Goods Maker is 36.9 hours
Employment by region:
The top three regions for employment as a Canvas and Leather Goods Maker include:
Courses you may be interested in
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Employment trends
Employment for Canvas and Leather Goods Makers has risen by 2% over the past 5 years, however is expected to decline through 2017.
Employment growth
Total employment growth over the past 5 years for male and female, employed part-time and full-time has declined by -1,400
Gender (including full time and part time)
The percentage of males and females working full time and part time are:
- Male Full Time: 75.1%
- Male Part Time: 4.6%
- Female Full Time: 13.1%
- Female Part Time: 7.2%
Other relevant information
- Design patterns for boots, tents and other leather and canvas products by implementing design ideas
- Fabricate products by cutting, sewing, gluing and bonding different sections of canvas and leather to make tents, awnings, rugs, etc.
- Mould, shape and line leather and canvas pieces using hand tools and machines
- Repair damaged or broken leather and canvas goods and alter individual pieces
- Use a variety of tools such as hammers, sewing machines and adhesive materials to create and repair products
- Use patterns, drawing and specifications to prepare leather, canvas and other similar materials needed for making products
- Work with customers on specialised requests and orders as well as large commercial orders, processing payments and understanding specifications of orders
- Hand-Eye Coordination and Manual Dexterity
- Organisation Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Strong Attention to Detail
- Time Management
Working conditions
Canvas and Leather Goods Makers typically work regular Monday to Friday hours, but may need to work evenings and weekends in order to complete orders on time. They typically work in workshops with a variety of tools and machines to aid in canvas and leather work and production. They must use upper arm strength to mould and shape materials.
Professional associations / Industry information
Related jobs and job titles
- Cabinetmaker
- Clothing and Soft Furnishing Production Worker
- Fashion Designer
- Furniture Polisher
- Industrial Designer
- Industrial Textiles Fabricator
- Saddler
- Textile Designer
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Economic development officials in Ohio say they will check whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. violated terms of a tax agreement by closing an optical lab near Columbus.
Ohio gave the world's largest retailer a $1.8 million job-creation tax credit in 2001 on the condition that the company create and maintain jobs there.
Wal-Mart on Friday announced that it will close the lab, cutting 650 jobs. The lab makes eyewear for vision centers in Wal-Mart stores.
Kelly Schlissberg, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Development, says the agency is reviewing its agreement with Wal-Mart to determine if the state can recoup money.
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Ayden Came, Unassisted, At Home
A home birth story... my second.
I knew in my heart that I didn't want, nor need any midwife at this birth. I had an intuition that told me my son would come early, water would break, and birth would be fast. Yet Dean wanted someone to be there "just in case something happened".
Once it was obvious that no one with "skills" would be coming, Dean prepared himself a bit. My water broke the next day, 12 days before my estimated due date. Contractions came on and off that night but they only felt like Braxton-Hicks contractions. I only got three hours of sleep that night.
I finally decided to get out of bed at 5:15 am. I chatted with Dean a bit and told him to go to work, but he would have to come home in a few hours. I sat down in the rocker and drank some pregnancy tea. At 6 am I checked my cervix... three centimeters but ovalish and fitting on the baby's head. I could feel the suture on his head, which told me his face was to my inner right thigh. My water was still leaking clear with vernix specks in it. The heartbeat was fine. By 6:40 his head was so low I felt the need to have a bowel movement. Contractions were peaking fast now and were suddenly uncomfortable.
By 7:30 contractions were every two minutes, yet I really didn't think this was labor. I decided to get in the shower so I wouldn't tense up anymore. I moaned loudly and woke my daughter who came in to ask why I was breathing like that.
I got out to get her something for breakfast when Dean called to say he'd come home in about an hour. I told him to hurry. I was so into the contractions I could barely pay attention to Hannah, yet I thought at that time it would be hours before the baby would be born. I just needed his support and help with Hannah.
By 8:50 I was in the tub. Contractions were harder now and only a minute apart. I was moaning and wailing! I thought I was exaggerating, but it hurt! Dean walked in at 9:10 and I asked him to listen to baby's heartbeat during and after a contraction. It was fine.
I was four-to-five centimeters and the head was two inches away from the perineum. At 9:36 I was seven centimeters. Dean said the baby was an inch and a half away. I said I couldn't take much more and was crying. I just searched to escape the strong pulling, trying every position to see if it would ease it. (This was so different from my labor with Hannah.)
As the contractions came I felt my cervix open with my fingers, which helped me realize what the pain was all about. The cervix came right down to my perineum, I'm sure you would have seen the thin skin if you looked.
At eight and nine centimeters, I helped push it up manually and by bearing down in a squat. It felt better. The aching pain was lessened because I was now working with my body and opening up more. At 9:53 I was fully dilated, and I knew instantly that the baby was coming. It felt almost like all that congestion in my vagina would come barreling out, and I felt an urge to push at the same time.
I quickly said "The baby's coming!" Dean shook his head "no" to my girlfriend. One small push and he could see the head right there. Now he believed me. He asked if I wanted to go to the bedroom but I just wanted to rest. Only a minute later and the baby moved right down and out. I had to pant to try to slow it and cupped his soft head to control the stretch. I was so afraid I was going to tear because he crowned so fast. His head was born looking at my thigh, so there was no rotation. (This is probably why I felt like I was going to rip, due to the width of his whole head.)
After his head was out, Dean checked for a cord and said he felt something. I went in and felt a hand, right on his neck, but I wasn't able to move it. Dean then looked at me with a serious face, yet calm voice and said, "You need to get the baby out." Something wasn't right, and I trusted his judgment.
I stood up and felt the baby's head sink in. It was the worst feeling and I knew it was bad. I instantly felt a deep ache in my belly, like when you hear terrible news. I squatted and pushed! Nothing. I got over on my knees and squatted and pushed. Nothing. I said in my head "Please don't let this happen to me!"
I got on hands and knees and when I felt a sharp splitting pain in my vagina I pushed. It was his arm coming out. Then another pain. I pushed again, although I had no contractions yet, and he slid out. Instantly I felt relief. Dean passed his wet, slightly purple body to me. I remember the feeling of vernix between my fingers and the instant thought of "We did it."
There were only drops of blood and the placenta came out about 15 minutes later. It was the easiest clean up and the only supplies we used were the clamps and scissors. Our 8-pound son was born at 10:15 am. I remember my girlfriend saying, "That was so fast!" To me it seemed like hours and hours had passed during my time in the tub, yet it had only been a little over an hour.
I am so happy that I listened to all my "little voices" telling me I didn't need to pay for help, and that the birth would go fast.
And I am so grateful to have had such wonderful information from the New Nativity newsletter, which instilled "the will to do it" in me. I needed the testimonials of others. It helped me see how differently births can be when left alone, yet so much alike. From now on, after this birth, my life will never be the same... I long for the next births with the rush and power I will feel by believing in, and doing it by ourselves.
August 1, 1999
After he was born we noticed in the pictures too that his arm was white where it had been pinched and cut off his blood. For a few weeks we noticed his arm and hand turn slightly purple if it was dangling with nursing or had slight pressure on it from even holding him.
A short while after the birth we also noticed some bruising on his face and broken blood vessels in his eyes. We debated on the vitamin K but I decided to watch it and his behavior before running to the doctor. Not only for fear of a scolding but also for fear of having him admitted against my will. His color was fine by that night and he was a wonderful baby. I massaged his eye on and off to get the blood to break down and it was gone after a couple weeks.
Ayden has never been poked for any reason. (Not even to check his blood type, which we did through the cord blood and an Eldon card due to me being RH negative. He did turn out to be positive, so I decided to go get a shot two days later.)
His penis remains the way he was born with, perfect. He is now cloth diapered, and he continues to nurse contently at my breast, well, until Hannah comes and tickles him. My deepest support to all who are reading this, trying to decide what they should do next. I say listen to your heart, it will bring you home, one way or another.


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Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition and Population
Source: World Bank
The World Bank Group's support for health, nutrition, and population (HNP) has been sustained since 1997—totaling $17 billion in country-level support by the World Bank and $873 million in private health and pharmaceutical investments by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) through mid-2008. This report evaluates the efficacy of the Bank Group's direct support for HNP to developing countries since 1997 and draws lessons to help improve the effectiveness of this support.
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beautiful trim and very reasonably priced. the trim requires an inexpensive valve.
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Sebastian Sherbrook, a self-proclaimed scoundrel and the newly minted Marquess of Manwaring, returns to London after his estranged uncle dies, intent on reforming his rakish image once and for all. Yet through no fault of his own, he's soon embroiled in the biggest scandal of the Season, and his secret plans to court the only woman he's ever wanted are in shambles.
Lady Katherine Manwaring knows her poor opinion of her late husband's nephew isn't about to change, even if the Times has dubbed him "The Single Most Beautiful Man in London." When fate casts Sebastian upon her mercy, however, she learns two shocking truths: he may not be the scoundrel his reputation suggests, and he's hopelessly in love...with her.
But an irate squire, an even more irate dog, several dawn appointments, meddling friends, and a touch of blackmail aren't the only things that stand in the way of their happy ending. Can Katherine accept Sebastian's love - and will he still want her if he learns her own dark secret?
©2015 Margaret Cooke (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved
"Great book/terrible narrator "
I adore looks like this. but, unfortunately by listening to the Books, instead of reading them; you can be listening to a perfectly good story, that's completely ruined by an terrible narrator. I can't believe they actually paid this woman to absolutely ruin my enjoyment of this book. I could not complete it. she had no talent at all. so I'm unable to read the book. I have to read it myself. note to authors. if you have a book worth reading, please choose a narrator who can do justice to it. or it will be impossible to finish for the listener.
"Maggie Fenton is a wonderful, delightful writer"
Even though this is the second in series, it stands alone. But don't miss the first one because books 1 and 2 in the series are both really good. Maggie Fenton is a funny writer. The conversation among the writers is witty and entertaining. In this book the hero and heroine are both likable. She is his late uncle's wife, but he always loved her and is trying to overcome his undeserved bad reputation in order to win her love. The dogs play a big role in the plot and are very entertaining. There is a villain who has a hard time with the use of words - which is very funny. This is feel good book that kept my attention. I really liked it.
"Uproariously funny"
I tried to focus on the romance in the story but I laughed so hard I don't remember the couple.
The story was very comical and gave me my cheer for the day. The scenes were so ridiculous I am wondering how these characters truly function as adults .
"Fun Romp through a Victorian Romance"
I loved this book and her previous book. They both had me laughing out loud. Wish I could find more like them. Perfect escapism for me, light, but still well developed and a feel good ending! Thanks
"Charming, funny, sexy."
My only complaint is that I now must wait for Maggie Fenton to finish her next book! Virtuous Scoundrel is a joyful continuation of the story from The Duke's Holiday with the added bonus of some excellent dogs. Sebastian and Katherine are just star-crossed enough to make their happy outcome particularly satisfactory.
"Almost perfect"
Totally delightful!!!
I had forgotten how much I enjoy this author's work. Brilliant writing and a cute story! The characters are witty and smart and get themselves into predicaments. Well, mostly Sebastian. I enjoyed the appearance of the Duke and Duchess from the previous book. The ransom notes are laugh out loud funny. Truly a most enjoyable book. I can't wait for the next one.
The only reason I withheld a 5 star rating is the narrator, in my opinion, did not do a good job with Sebastian's voice. Made him sound like an idiot instead of a charming "rake." I still loved him though.
"Absolutely hilarious"
This is a must-read for romance fans who need something lighthearted! There are a couple of way-too-serious parts for such a fantastic tale, thus the 4 stars, but other than those, this is a wonderfully written farcical comedy.
The woman who read it was amazing. She brought this (outrageous and) wonderful story to life!
"So Funny!"
This Audible book was practically perfect. The narrator lisped occasionally and two of her male characters had identical voices but otherwise she did a fantastic job. The book had several LOL places particularly a scene with 3 Regency gentlemen and a baby and the scenes involving an illiterate dog napper who thinks of himself as an 'entremanure' and meets in a 'corpse of Burch trees' to make the exchange. The book was not all lightness and fun though. There were adult references and a couple of intimate scenes which while not erotic were still descriptive. The heroine is a bit of a judgemental twit but she isn't too bad.
"Best Ever!"
This was the most entertaining book I've experienced. I haven't laughed so much while reading.
"Extremely Enjoyable"
I read a lot. There is nothing better than a book with romance, humor and a interesting story line.
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Author: Jon Rundle
Jon Rundle is a designer and partner at Treble; a Canadian mobile design and development shop. Previously, senior interface designer and front-end developer at ResIM. He has experience working with a wide range of clients including Samsonite Canada, 3M and Seneca College.
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Counting down the top 50 players in the American League:
No. 39 Alex Gordon
Position: OF
Age: 29
Team: Kansas City Royals
Lowdown: A lifetime ago – or so it seems – Gordon was one of the country's top third base prospects as the No. 2 overall pick out of Nebraska in 2005. But after four miserable seasons in the majors, the Royals moved him to left field and watched Gordon transform himself into a Gold Glove-caliber defender. In fact, Gordon won his third defensive award in 2013 and also appeared in his first All-Star Game as the Royals made a legitimate playoff push. For all the talk about 1B Eric Hosmer's upside – just outside of our AL Top 50 still – it's Gordon who has been the dependable producer, slashing .265/.327/.422 with his second 20-homer season in three years. He has also driven in more than 80 runs in two of the last three years.


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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The painful story of a free black man lured from his home in New York in 1841 to be sold into slavery, now the basis of the movie 12 Years a Slave, has a little-known connection to a slave site that still stands near the nation's capital.
Alexandria's one-time slave pen complex, based out of a colonial-style rowhouse, was once the epicenter of the domestic human trade in the United States after the importation of slaves was banned, according to historians. The last slave trader at the site, James H. Birch, was the same dealer who paid kidnappers $250 for Solomon Northup of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and sold him into slavery in Louisiana.
Northup's story of 12 years in slavery, published in 1853, is the basis of the film from British director Steve McQueen. Curators hope the movie will spark new interest from visitors and historians. The site has been open to visitors for five years as the Freedom House Museum, a place to learn about American history.
"What's very unique about this building is it's one of the few remaining buildings that the slave trade actually took place in," said curator Julian Kiganda, who designed the exhibits. "Everyone who's come through there, they feel moved."
Northup's story is among several narratives illustrating the slave trade at the time. Exhibits in the brick basement that once served as slave quarters include artifacts found there, along with the original bars and door of this slave jail.
While there's no evidence Northup was sold through this particular site, Kiganda said it's similar in design to other slave jails at the time. Northup wrote about being held at Williams' Slave Pen, located near the National Mall. In the film, his cell is depicted within view of the Capitol.
Northup was captured at a time of rising demand for slaves in the Deep South to cultivate cotton. The slave-trading firm Franklin & Armfield began operating in Alexandria to help move a surplus of slaves in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware to selling centers in New Orleans and Natchez, Miss., either by boat or by land. Later, Birch operated the Alexandria slave pen until Union troops liberated the area, according to a history of the site.
Today, the house stands on a busy commuter corridor in this wealthy Washington suburb. An outdoor plaque provides a brief explanation of the National Historic Landmark site, but most passers-by likely never notice.
"I think a lot of Alexandrians would be shocked to know their city was a major hub of the country's slave trade," Kiganda said. "It's a story that's not told often enough."
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When you go
Freedom House Museum is at 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Va.; nvul.org/freedomhouse/visit.html. Free admission; donations accepted. Self-guided tours, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Guided tours and weekends by appointment, 703-836-2858.


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Have lunch with Garrison Keillor at Frasca Field!
11:30 am Wednesday, May 7
Frasca Field, 1402 Airport Rd. Urbana
Come have a box lunch and listen to Garrison Keillor, who will read from his new book and answer your questions during his stop at Frasca Field. Make a $50 gift to WILL to get a ticket to the event, plus lunch!
He'll be signing his book, The Keillor Reader, and you'll be able to purchase a copy at the event, which takes place inside a hangar full of vintage airplanes and cars.The Keillor Reader brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, and newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, the book also presents pieces never before published, including the essays "Cheerfulness" and "What We Have Learned So Far."
Keillor—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet— has hosted A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul, Minn., since 1974. Today, some 4 million listeners on more than 600 public radio stations coast to coast and beyond tune in to the show each week. Keillor has been honored with Grammy, ACE, and George Foster Peabody awards, the National Humanities Medal, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In addition to The Keillor Reader, his many books include Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, and Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny. He is the host of the daily program The Writer's Almanac and the editor of several anthologies of poetry.
Tickets purchased after May 2 will be emailed, or if necessary, provided for pick up with a photo ID at Will Call at the event. Tickets can also be picked up Monday or Tuesday at WILL's Campbell Hall. Tickets must be purchased with a credit card.


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The collapse of Lake Cataouatche in St. Charles Parish into an open waterway with little vegetation protecting its perimeters is alarming. One of the purposes of our coastal restoration program is to keep vegetation along our shoreline to protect our coast.
Now it seems many of the waterways in south Louisiana are ready to slide into the Gulf of Mexico. When there is little vegetation and the waterways along the coast are subject to invasion by the Gulf of Mexico, we can wave goodbye to the protection it provides to the areas in which we live.
One of the major elements is to keep the Mississippi and other rivers flowing through our coast to build it up to resist the tides of the Gulf. This, to a major extent, is expected to be done with freshwater diversions provided along the rivers that will replicate the olden days when bayous and rivers in south Louisiana, unprotected by levees, overflowed regularly and left their fresh water to build up the coast.
Our coastal restoration plan calls for those diversions to push river water and sediment into the wetlands and build them up to where they can support vegetation and coast-saving wetlands. It is probably the only way our coast can be saved.
But the diversions put fresh water into our marshes and shove the salt water further out. In so doing, it puts the salty waters that are more attractive to oyster production further from the river.
Whenever a solution is found to an environmental problem, there is always a reason why it should not be done, provided by those who could suffer thereby. Such is the case with opening up the freshwater diversions along the coast of Louisiana.
The oyster fishermen claim that freshwater diversions, such as the one we have in St. Charles Parish, would push the oyster production out toward the saltwater Gulf of Mexico.
As a result, only 25 percent of the river water available is let through it when it should be open 100 percent.
We should, of course, all be anxious to help our oyster fishermen produce those delicious crustaceans that make life in South Louisiana so delightful. However, the diversions give us what we need in keeping a healthy coast with vegetation and sediment from the river to keep it solid.
We want to keep our oyster production alive also but that can be done in other ways that will not interfere with our efforts to build up our coast with the diversions. We need to proceed in that direction.


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This quilt is named "Abbey's Family Tree." It is made for my 10 yr old niece, Abbey. I'm having family members sign their names on the tree in the center of the quilt...
This was made using a panel in the center, surrounded by One Block/Month Swap blocks. Thank you, everyone, who traded blocks with me. As you see, it made a stunning quilt.
The flying geese were made with Ricky Tim's 3D Flying Geese method, out of scrap fabric from the Boomerang Swap. Every other FG is black and white.
Abbey's Family Tree


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Do you think that a McDonald's Fruitizz drink contributes to your five-a-day? I only ask, because a recent newspaper investigation has shown that food companies are using the famous government-backed health campaign to sell us processed products that may have fairly tenuous links to fruit and vegetables.
The five-a-day campaign started off with good intentions: to lower the risk of strokes, diabetes, obesity and heart disease. The premise is simple – eat five portions of fruit and veg, for health and vitality.
But something has gone seriously amiss, if your five-a-day could theoretically comprise a Robinson's Fruit Shoot, some tinned peach slices, a can of Heinz spaghetti hoops, a Yo Yo roll and a Kiddylicious Strawberry Fruit Wriggle.
Our lifestyles have become characterised by nutritional pseudo-science. We love nothing more than a badge of honour stuck onto the food we buy: low GI, organic, low-sugar, fat-free, five-a-day. We suck it up, and pay a premium for these supposed health foods.
But lo and behold, a label is not going to stop a stroke. As the newspaper investigation showed, some of these healthy 'five-a-dayers' have high sugar contents; the consumption of which is linked to the very diseases they were meant to prevent.
Why do we continue to be surprised by this? At this time of the year, with all the 'foodo-science' frothing about, I find it helpful to remind myself of what the terrific food writer Michael Pollan says in his book Food Rules:
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
This is more or less all you need. And by food, Pollan means whole fresh foods, rather than processed, 'edible food-like substances'. Worth bearing in mind when you're next confronted with a McDonald's Fruitizz.
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Snow White and the Black Lagoon
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a show of new paintings by Camille Rose Garcia. Using the familiar fairy tale narrative from the famous Grimm Brothers' story, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", this series of paintings and drawings creates a modern day allegory for our delusional relationship with nature, and the fantasies we tell ourselves about our own involvement in its destruction.
Referencing the classic German Fairy tale, as well as the animated film by Walt Disney, Garcia weaves a monstrous modern and dysfunctional narrative using cartoony, Jungian archetypes, a psychedelic saturated color palette, and an obtuse combination of action-painter brush strokes and carefully controlled, calligraphic line work. Gold leaf and black glitter hang out together on the paintings in an uncomfortable but tolerated relationship. Leaking black castles, oily witches, and a gang of tired and dizzy dwarf miners accompany the Snow White and her fragile entourage of forest and lagoon animals as they traverse through caves, lagoons, and compromised natural landscapes, searching for an elusive happy ending.
Garcia's omnipresent themes of the delusional fairy tales we tell ourselves, and the monsters required to maintain them, mirror the ongoing horror-show created by the military-industrial complex as it intersects uncomfortably with our natural world.
Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been displayed internationally and is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Resnick Collection, and the San Jose Museum of Art, which held a retrospective of her work, entitled Tragic Kingdom, accompanied by a catalog of the same name. Garcia's latest project, The Illustrated Alice in Wonderland (published by Harper Collins,) was a New York Times Bestseller. The recipient of the Stars of Design award from the Pacific Design Center, she recently moved to the Pacific Northwest after 38 years in Los Angeles.


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Landscape and Nature Photography
Hi there! I'm really surprised to see you here! This site is currently undergoing a complete makeover after several years of neglect. While I'm working on this site, above are some images from my Flickr pages. I hope to be updating both Flickr and this site soon!


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The Nye County sheriff is investigating the discovery of a pipe bomb in a Pahrump home where a 33-year-old man is accused of assaulting a woman and three children with a loaded rifle, a knife and a baseball bat.
Sheriff Tony DeMeo says Joseph Mulcahey remained jailed Tuesday pending an initial court appearance on felony charges including attempted murder, assault, and domestic battery with a deadly weapon.
DeMeo says a 12-year-old boy was treated for an elbow-to-wrist stab wound, and the woman was struck with the bat before deputies arrived about 10 p.m. Monday.
The sheriff says neighbors were evacuated until a bomb squad arrived from Las Vegas, 60 miles away, to defuse the 12-inch metal and gunpowder pipe bomb.


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My current station desk is attached to an "exterior" wall, so the wire going from the ground rod to the station is not even 2 feet long. I plan on setting up a second station in another room (one, a modern station, the other, a vintage or boatanchor station), which will be about ten feet from a wall with access outside for connection to a ground rod. My question is whether, in this second situation, the wire leading to the ground rod is too long? How do other people on this list handle the lead-in wire from the ground rod? Tom W6EIJ ________________________________________________________________________ Where do you get ICE bandpass filters & beverage matching boxes? The same place that pays for the hosting of this list: The eHam Store. Order online at http://store.eham.net. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com Administrative requests: email@example.com Problems: email@example.com
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I know what you're thinking. That this fudge is the coolest and prettiest fudge you've ever seen. The folks over at Rock Ur Party give step-by-step instructions on how to make this awesome Rainbow Fudge. All you need to make the fudge is white chocolate, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, and food coloring. Just mix and pour the fudge layers by color, allowing each layer to set before adding the next one. After all of the colors are layered, chill the whole thing for about 12 hours. Then, you're ready to cut and eat your fun-colored fudge.
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Surface-mount inductors target VRM circuits
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Boca Raton, Fla. The Coiltronics high-current HC9 surface-mount inductors from Cooper Bussmann Electronics Technologies, a business unit of Cooper Bussmann, are designed for VRM (multi-phase buck regulator) circuits that are used in higher speed switch-mode applications that require lower inductance, low voltage and high current.
Designed for next-generation processors, high current DC/DC converters, PCs, workstations, routers and servers, the HC9 surface-mount inductors offer an inductance range of 0.2 to 47.0 microhenries (μH) with a current range from 95.0 amps to 3.65 amps. The frequency range is 1 kHz to 500 kHz. They feature a maximum total temperature operation of up to 155°C.
The HC9 design uses a high temperature powder Iron core material with a non-organic binder to eliminate thermal aging. The inductors are RoHS and WEEE compliant.
The HC9 surface-mount inductors are priced at $0.430 in volume. Delivery is four to six weeks.
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An anti-gay Mexican politician is arguing that marriage rights should be limited to couples who are capable of having sex face-to-face:
La diputada local por el Partido Acción Nacional en Puebla, Ana María Jiménez Ortiz, afirmó en un foro realizado en ese estado, la semana pasada, que "sólo debe considerarse como matrimonio aquellas relaciones en las que los integrantes sostienen relaciones sexuales mirándose a la cara", lo cual, según ella, "no ocurre entre las parejas homosexuales."
The local legislator for the National Action Party in Puebla, Ana Maria Jiménez Ortiz, said in a forum held in that state last week that "[you] only should consider as marriage those relationships in which the members have sexual relations looking at the face," which, according to her, "does not occur between homosexual partners."
Watching gay porn might give poor Ana Maria Jiménez Ortiz a heart attack. So maybe Hal Sparks should give her a call, take her out for a drink, and share with her what he learned playing a gay man on teevee...
"Before my role on Queer As Folk I didn't know gay men had sex facing each other. That was a big surprise."


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Thanks for joining me on this epic adventure that I find myself in as I explore some of the amazing places throughout Southern Africa. I plan to travel from the North (near the border of Swaziland) down to the southern most tip at Cape Point. Interestingly Cape Point is actually not the most southern point of Africa, there is a nature reserve somewhere close to Port Elizabeth which apparently is the closest. I will post the name soon as I cannot recall off hand. I spent my childhood in the UK so you can imagine how exciting it is to spend time in a continent with so many wide open spaces and, of course, the sunny blue skies which you can almost guarantee for the most of the year.
Although there are some interesting places to visit where you can view game and the big 5 that is not really my primary goal. I do love to spend time in these parks but I have been there and done that I am looking for a different adventure this time so I plan to visit areas seldom seen by humans which are well off the beaten track.
My main concern will be my safety – this is for two reasons really. The first is the lack of medical facilities close to areas I plan to visit, if I happen to break my arm or get sick out in the wilderness it will be a life threatening situation as I would have my satellite phone to call for help. I do plan on keeping a friend informed of my location so if I do not check in they can send in some help! The other concern is for the amount of crime that the country suffers. It is a major problem and I just have to keep my fingers crossed that I stay safe and manage to avoid any major incidents.
Last year I had the opportunity to visit the Blyde River Canyon, a spectacular place with scenery you can only dream of – check out the video below to see an aerial view (someone submitted this video for a competition, thanks )
I actually stayed in this area for a little under a week and squeezed in some rock climbing, mountain biking and found the time to hike around the lake. The area is close to Pilgrims Rest (a place you should visit if you find yourself in the area) as one of the original mining towns in South Africa. Much of the history is preserved and you can even have a go at panning for gold in the river! Close to the canyon are some other tourist attractions and view points that are worth checking out.
I plan to begin my adventure sometime around the first week of November, as South Africa will be just getting into Summer at that point and although it is the rainy season it is the best time for serious adventure as there is likely to be water around if things should go wrong.
I hope you will find the time to check back and keep an eye on my journey over the coming six months.


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Margin Debt Creeps Back Toward All-Time Highs
Margin Debt data from NYX Data shows that over the past month market participants who aren't large institutional investors have increased their borrowing to buy stocks hand over fist regardless of the weather impact on economic data. Margin debt, as frequent readers may know, doesn't lead the S&P 500 index, it follows the index. The monkey wrench that is Margin Debt works very simply; once brokerages no longer feel the interest they are paid by borrows covers the risk of lending, they will call the Margin Debt back in. Usually it's no problem to do so when sufficient cash exists in margin accounts. The problem in this post 1999 world we live in is that people love to borrow without the assets to back it up. Should we continue on this corrective path back toward economic equilibrium, the elephant in the room (aside from the FED taper and rate hike) will be the timing of margin calls, something Deutsche Bank hopes won't happen all at once. As ZeroHedge notes from the DB release:
"this kind of speculation is highly alarming as a large amount of margin debt makes the market vulnerable and, potential, highly volatile".
Margin Debt Since 2005 (Click To Enlarge)
Investor Net Worth (Click To Enlarge)
BZ NOTE: Investor Net Worth = (total Free Credit Cash + Credit Balances In Margin Accounts) - (Margin Debt)
How much longer can this last?
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New Orleans' post-Katrina gentrification is touchy
NEW ORLEANS With Isaac bearing down on New Orleans, the city finds itself at a delicate moment in its rebuilding since Hurricane Katrina struck seven years ago.
Private and government investment is fueling the push to overhaul some of the city�s troubled but culturally rich neighborhoods near the French Quarter, where poor families are being replaced as wealthier ones move in. While the city�s in a boom and even gentrifying, some question whether it will wither the roots that grew the city�s distinctive identity.
�New Orleans is becoming a boutique city like San Francisco,� said Gary Clark, a politics professor at Dillard University. �You may see black middle class moving in, but with gentrification there�s overwhelmingly white individuals of means who become the new urban pioneers.�
The number of whites, although smaller than before Katrina, has grown as an overall percentage from 28 percent to 33 percent of the city�s population. The city has its first white mayor since the 1970s, while the City Council now has a majority of white members.
On the flip side, blacks say there�s danger that their community will be diminished in a city that owes deep cultural and economic debts to its Afro-Caribbean roots. Since the storm the African-American community has shrunk by about 118,500 people, dropping from about 68 percent of the population to about 60 percent.
�(Blacks) don�t see themselves as being a part of the recovery economy and getting real opportunity,� said Nolan V. Rollins, the Urban League of Greater New Orleans president.
It�s not clear what effect Isaac could have on the city. On Tuesday morning, Isaac was still a tropical storm packing top sustained winds of 70 mph in the open Gulf. Forecasters said the storm was on the verge of becoming a hurricane Tuesday.
Isaac was expected to come ashore near New Orleans by early Wednesday, the seventh anniversary of Katrina�s devastating strike on the city.
This winter the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to demolish the last of the New Deal-era public housing still standing in New Orleans � the 850-unit Iberville complex. It was erected over the slums of what was for a time the nation�s only legal red-light district, Storyville.
The demolition is part of a $31 million HUD �choice neighborhoods� project, a concept pushed by the Obama administration across the nation. HUD hopes that by starting the process of gentrification, private investment will follow and the communities will become desirable places for all races and classes to live in.
Linda Couch, a public housing expert at the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, said the new approach �has the elements of success.�
Meanwhile, another $4 billion in private and government investment has been pouring into the historic neighborhoods of Iberville and Treme, the hearth of the city�s African-American culture.
The 1.4 square miles where much of the redevelopment is occurring has long been known for gumbo, jazz, voodoo and civil rights pioneers. Immigrants from around the world lived side by side with blacks in Treme and Iberville, where Louis Armstrong once walked the streets and delivered coal as a boy.
But the entire area fell on hard times after the 1960s, as whites moved to the suburbs and bad urban planning took its toll. By the time Katrina hit, it was struggling and looked like an urban desert of blight, drugs and abandonment in many areas.
The plan for redeveloping the area could include the removal of a noisy concrete interstate expressway that runs through Treme with the hope of restoring what was one of the city�s main streets for black commerce. Work is already underway to turn an unused rail corridor into a miles-long walking and bike path called the Lafitte Greenway, turning old schools into new charters and opening �fresh-food� supermarkets.
Taking down the Iberville housing complex is crucial, planners say, to connect Treme with the downtown�s theater and business district on Canal Street.
�I think we can retain the soul of New Orleans and in fact enhance it by going through this process,� said David Gilmore, a HUD housing expert leading the planning effort.
Many residents see a chance to save neighborhoods that have fallen prey to drugs, poverty and blight.
�We�re happy if someone moves down the street into a blighted property,� said Jennifer Jones, the self-styled �queen of the second-line� and member of a Treme family of musicians. �No one�s angry about whites moving in. When we grew up, there was a lot of mixing going on,� Jones said.
But others are apprehensive.
�Maybe they�ve got their reason,� said Lionel Glenn, a 69-year-old retired laborer who ended up at Iberville after another project he was in was torn down after Katrina. �I�d like to stay, but I�ve got to move.�
A recent article in a black community newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, blared: �They�re here� in referring to whites looking to buy up inner-city property. The headline read: �Gentrification: The New Segregation.�
Unlike the other redevelopments after Katrina, HUD promises to find housing for all the 440 families at Iberville within about 1 mile of the project.
After Katrina, most of the city�s projects were torn down quickly and families were dispersed across the nation. Advocates charged that policy forced poor families out of New Orleans. Public housing units were cut in half at those complexes.
�What has happened is exactly what many people predicted would happen,� said Lance Hill, who runs the Southern Institute for Education and Research, a race relations center at Tulane University. �Blacks have ended up in apartments ringing the city.�
Mayor Mitch Landrieu says there is no reason to fear the redevelopment.
�We�re building it back better than it ever was before and the way it always should have been.�
In Treme, there are about 200 more white households than before Katrina, Census data shows. Newcomers and old-timers have clashed, even at times over the noise from the impromptu second-lines, the cherished musical parades, which routinely break out. Also, longtime residents worry about the closing of neighborhood bars.
�They are looking for a French Quarter look-a-alike but with a bedroom community feel,� said Al Jackson, a Treme resident and historian.
One newcomer is David Williams, a 49-year-old school administrator. He bought an historic home that for now he rents out. The last batch he rented to was a group of young people with Americorps.
Once their son leaves home, he and his wife have talked about moving into the city and living in the house they�ve bought.
�In 10 years (this neighborhood) is going to look like Treme does a block away from the French Quarter,� he said.
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[AMERICANS ABROAD] Jozy Altidore suffered a bruised back but no head injuries when he slid into a sideline concrete
barrier during AZ's Eredivisie match at NEC on Wednesday. The U.S. forward said he'd be ready to play in the Dutch club's league season finale on Sunday.
Altidore, AZ's top scorer with 15 league goals and 19 overall, challenged for a ball with with NEC defender Pavel Cmovs in the 29th minute of their 1-1 tie in Nijmegen and he hit his head and back against the wall.
"Thanks for all the support from you guys. Very painful accident but ill be ok and ready for the weekend if called upon by the manager," Altidore said on Twitter.
AZ wraps up the 2011-12 league season Sunday against Groningen.
Eredivisie Top 6
1. Ajax 73 (champion)
2. Feyenoord 67
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AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani admits he's surprised by the spending power of Brazilian clubs. Galliani sold striker Alexandre Pato to Corinthians in January.
He revealed: "When I was between Christmas and New Year in Sao Paulo for the sale of Pato, I realized how the market had changed.
"Before you'd go there to buy, now you go to sell. The €7 million paid for Kaka wouldn't go far now.
"Currently the nation that seems to produce most talent is Colombia.
"Robinho? He's great at Milan, he does not want to go to Brazil. He wants to be here. Alternatively or as a family he wants to return to Santos. And they're the only team in which he would like to go. But he is happy here as we are happy to have him with us."
Is Galliani right about Brazilian football? Are they now major buyers in the transfer market? Give us your shout below...


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Euro Truck Simulator 2
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When you finish refuelling your truck at a service station; instead of driving away, save your game and exit. Start the game again, reload your save and drive away. The game will have forgotten to charge you for the fuel which normally happens when you drive away from the bowser.
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Steam Achievements
|Take and complete jobs with at least 30 different cargo
|All is possible
|Have at least 10 female and 10 male employees of maximum level in your company
|Aspects of professionalism
|Reach an average daily profit of €450,000
|Bath of success
|Complete 5 jobs in a row - in-time, without taking any damage and without using autoparking
|Use the train to cross the channel
|Complete deliveries with all trailer types (Mashinery, ADR cargo, Container, Refrigerated, Liquid cargo, Fragile cargo, Construction, Bulk cargo)
|Experience beats all!
|Use automatic parking
|Friends are always here to help you
|Buy a truck online
|From the comfort of your home
|Use a filling station
|Gas, no petrol!
|Discover all recruitment agencies
|Head hunter
|Use quick travel to return to your headquarters
|Honey, I'm home
|Discover more than 60% of the map
|I am a GPS
|Complete a perfect delivery (no damage, no fines, in-time) for a job that is at least 1000 km
|Job is only worth it if it's done well!
|Take an urgent delivery for a minimum of 550 km and complete it with less than 30 minutes remaining
|Just in time!
|Complete a delivery that was greater than 2,000 km
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|Design and apply to your truck a custom multi-color metallic paint
|My precious
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|Drive at least 999 km with each truck brand featured in the game. Only your owned trucks are counted. (MAN, DAF, Majestic, Renault, Iveco, Scania, Vol
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|Achieve 100% of productivity for at least 5 large garages at the same time
|Working with the elite
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road bike needs better hill climbing gear ... I replaced the Ultegra cassette with a XT, no change to the chain or deraileru (105) ... now the drive train makes a funny chain noise, especially when the chain is on the larger cogs ... original chain is Shimano something ...checked the chain tension and the deraileur action - looks OK. Upper pulley is not contacting cogs. is the Ultegra casette interchangible with an XT cassette in terms of chain ?
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There are two possible results when a decades-old band go on tour but play no new material and haven't even bothered with reinvention for years. One is the dreaded zombie show best personified by the Beach Boys and doo-wop groups with no original members, the kind of shows at which the average concertgoer is on the cusp of Social Security and the band desperately riff through hits as if playing them might give them a chance at eternal life—pathetic.
Then you have Yo La Tengo, husband/wife duo Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley with James McNew, pioneers of geek rock. They won't be performing any newly written material on their first (!) Orange County appearance—the closest they'll come to anything fresh is perhaps playing something live they never have before. But how they're determining what they're going to play is downright genius: At the start of each show, Yo La Tengo will channel their inner Vanna White by spinning a wheel that has a number of options for what they'll play from their catalog for their first set, followed by a second set of songs to balance out what was played first. Genius!
Those options include Condo Fucks (their lo-fi, cover-band pseudonym that released the scrappy album Fuckbook in 2009), Dump (McNew's solo moniker), the Freewheeling Yo La Tengo (a question-and-answer session with fans in which the answer leads to a song played), the Name Game (a set of songs with names in the titles), songs starting with S, the Sounds of the Sounds of Science (an instrumental score by the band that was originally done to accompany undersea documentary shorts by French filmmaker Jean Painlevé), and, last but not least, the option to see the band and a crew act out a classic sitcom. While some fans may really want to see Kaplan play Archie Bunker, those hoping for music need not worry—they haven't landed on the sitcom option yet, and if they do, they promise to follow with a set of "hits."
Yo La Tengo and William Tyler play at Detroit Bar, www.detroitbar.com Thurs., Feb. 24, 9 p.m. $25. 21+. jesper eklow
"That will be more of an apology set," Kaplan says.
If some of those ideas seem ill-advised, it's still within the Yo La Tengo framework for the band to pretty much do what they want at this point, whether it's writing and performing 15-plus-minute psychedelic compositions alongside their poppier material, covering songs they barely know (as they did on the 2006 benefit album Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics for New Jersey's freeform titan WFMU-FM, for which they took requests), or trying their hand at stage acting.
"It's a tightrope that you walk," Kaplan says. "On the one hand, we're always very appreciative and excited when people like what we're doing, but we've tried not to define ourselves by it. We've done things along the way that people like less than other things. I feel like if you get too caught up in what's selling better than other things and what people like better than others, then you have to take that just as seriously when it's a failure in that regard. In the 1960s, if a record was a hit, it was a good record, and if it was a flop, it was a bad record. Not having hits, we don't have the 'luxury' of thinking that way."
Kaplan and drummer/vocalist Hubley formed Yo La Tengo in Hoboken in 1984; McNew signed on in the early '90s. The band have turned out numerous albums of blissful guitar pop that touch on early-'80s college rock, the shoegazer sonics of My Bloody Valentine and Brazilian tropicalia via Hubley's honeyed voice. More recently, on albums such as 2006's I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass and 2009's Popular Songs, the band have shown a yen for Burt Bacharach-style strings, horns and pianos, influenced by their work on film soundtracks over the past decade.
"Working with directors, working with writing music that has a different purpose than writing a song, all of these things contribute to what comes out," Kaplan says. "We've been more free with strings and horns on some of the soundtrack work, and I think that has doubled back on the songs we write.
"It's been a long time since we were 'make a record, go on tour, get off tour, make another record,'" he adds. "We haven't done that in quite a few years. The time between records has gotten longer, and it's starting to look like it'll be longer still 'cause we haven't begun to work on something new. To the best of our ability, we do things with as little planning as possible. . . . It sort of contributes to us staying as excited by it as we remain."
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This greatest-hits tour, however, has a limited shelf life: After it's over, Yo La Tengo will regroup and probably start writing new material.
"This is our job, and it's a job we love," Kaplan says. "But one of the things that's great about this job is that we don't have some of the resentment that can come from being told what to do and when to do it. We're our own bosses, and I think it helps us stay excited."
This article appeared in print as "Watching the Wheel Go By: Yo La Tengo are ready to play sitcoms, apology sets."


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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years behind bars on Tuesday. In the courtroom Sandusky gave an 18 minute statement in which he spoke about himself. NBC10's Lu Ann Cahn was there during the hearing.
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Today you can hear our wild backstage podcast with Visqueen's Rachel Flotard, recorded but a couple hours before her 2010 Bumbershoot performance.
The smart and funny Rachel Flotard — not the other Rachel Flotard that you might have been hoping we'd talk to — donned one of her "male ballet dancer" t-shirts and let 'er rip for a non-stop 25 minutes.
Full disclosure: When Rachel's in the house it's hard for us to stay focused, there's lots of laughter and references to skinless nuts and other double entendres. Best show ever!