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Updated 10:40 pm, Monday, April 8, 2013
A House bill that would curtail the number of early voting days in Texas - an effort labeled by Democrats as the next wave of Republican-led voter suppression efforts in the state - is headed nowhere.
State Rep. Patricia Harless, R-Houston, said she intends to pull the proposal from consideration in the House Elections Committee and have the idea turned into an interim study after it was confronted with staunch opposition at a hearing Monday.
The bill, HB 2093, would reduce the number of early voting days for Texans to seven from 12. Supporters argued that trimming the number of early voting days would ease the financial burden for staffing at poll locations and would also make it easier to recruit volunteers.
The bill quickly drew fire from Democrats, who labeled the push to shrink the number of early voting days in Texas as part of a national move by Republicans to make it harder for people to vote.
Florida and Ohio have passed laws reducing the number of early voting days. Both laws, however, have been mired in court challenges, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott has called for his state to revert back to 14 early voting days.
Senate measure takes new shot at accountability
The legislature took another jab at the state's accountability system Monday when the Senate passed a measure that would continue to suspend parts of its implementation.
Just a year after the state implemented a new high-stakes standardized test, called the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, the legislature has introduced a flurry of bills to reform it and other elements of the state's accountability system.
Senate Bill 1109 maintains that the commissioner of education would continue to implement sanctions and interventions for schools identified as unacceptable in the 2010-2011 academic year and still would report performance indicators after 2012-2013. The bill would make an exception for schools that have improved performance ratings had the standards been applied in 2012-2013 school year.
It now moves to the House for consideration.
Incentive grants have been good to 3 at the top
Texas' top three lawmakers have collected more than $3.6 million in contributions from donors affiliated with companies that received millions in grants from a state incentive program, according to a new study from a state watchdog group.
The study, released Monday by Texans for Public Justice, dives deep into the political spending of folks associated with 38 projects that drew a total of roughly $307 million in state grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund, a job creation program that has drawn the ire of lawmakers this session because of a perceived lack of transparency.
Specifically, the study found Gov. Rick Perry has collected more than $2 million in related contributions since the fund was created in 2003. Perry's biggest donor related to the fund is Houston Texans owner Robert McNair, who is a major investor in Lexicon Pharmaceuticals. Lexicon is a partner with the Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine, which received $50 million from the enterprise fund in 2005.
Dewhurst raked in $1.3 million contributions, with San Antonio's James Leininger coming in as his top enterprise-fund contributor. Leininger invested in biotech firm Gradalis, which was awarded a $1.75 million grant in 2009 from another state incentive fund.
Joe Strauss, who did not start helping oversee the fund's grant-awarding process until he took over as House speaker in 2009, racked up the least enterprise-fund contributions. According to the study, he brought in $232,800 in enterprise-fund contributions, with 90 percent of that total coming since he was elected House speaker.
Reporters Jayme Fraser and David Saleh Rauf and the Associated Press contributed to this notebook


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Franklin content as Cards closer, for now
Franklin content as Cards closer, for now
But none of that can make his lower lip quiver like what happened Tuesday, when Franklin's 5-year-old daughter looked at the Cardinals' closer with her puppy-dog eyes and said, "Daddy, I wish you had another job where you were here."
For reasons like that, the 36-year-old right-hander is seriously considering hanging it up once his two-year deal with the Cardinals expires after next season.
"That just tears on you, you know?" Franklin said after the Cardinals' second full-squad workout at Roger Dean Stadium on Wednesday.
"I've got this year and next year here, and we'll see after that, I don't know. That might be it. ... I feel strong, I don't feel old, and I've been healthy. We'll see. But I'll let myself and my family decide on that."
Franklin's family consists of his wife, Angie Romberg, a son who will be 14 by the time the closer's current deal is up, and two daughters, ages 10 and 5.
Franklin talked Wednesday about how his son is now starting to enjoy baseball more -- "he can use my help," Franklin added -- and how he wants to be a bigger part of his children's lives before it's too late.
So far, Spring Training, road trips and night games have been in the way.
"I feel like I might owe that to them, because I've been away from them half their life, pretty much," Franklin said. "That's the main thing to me is family, anyway, so that's going to weigh in kind of heavy."
But while Franklin admitted he's "definitely" given retirement after the 2011 season a lot of thought, he's got an entire season to worry about, and that's of course his primary focus while currently training in the warm climate of South Florida.
"I think that's what I was put on Earth for, is to take care of my wife and kids," Franklin said. "And that's what I'm doing right now. But it's fun, and I enjoy it, and I love everything about it. But when it's time, it's time."
Franklin's 2009 success was well documented, and so were his late-season struggles.
He started Spring Training in competition for the closer's spot, then sported a 1.05 ERA and went 35-for-37 in save chances before things quickly went downhill in September. During that last month of the regular season, Franklin had a 6.75 ERA and blew three of his six save chances. Then, he gave up two ninth-inning runs in Game 2 of an eventual three-game National League Division Series sweep suffered at the hands of the Dodgers -- though the runs were unearned because of Matt Holliday's infamous error.
Despite that, Franklin still finished off the season with a 1.92 ERA and more than doubled his previous career high with 38 saves.
Though his struggles pretty much began after signing a two-year, $6.5 million extension at the start of September, the Cardinals haven't wavered from guaranteeing him the closer's role in 2010.
"Being able to perform at the level that he did [in '09], that's unreasonable to expect that this year," Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said. "But the reason we're confident in him is he understands how to pitch, he understands how to prepare, he's smart, he's studied, and all those things will contribute to allow Franklin to pitch well.
"I think the key is that he has to be someone who can stay sharp. ... And I look at him, how he showed up in camp -- he's in great shape, he's very confident about this year -- and I think those are all important factors."
Perhaps role security for the 2010 season is just what Franklin needs.
"I think knowing your role and knowing the guys have confidence in you helps you, and he's got that going for him," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said.
"That means a lot," Franklin added. "It means that they have faith in my ability and what I can do."
Franklin said he isn't really making any changes from last year, except trying to put a more concerted effort into using his cut fastball against right-handed hitters more often.
As for what led to Franklin's sudden late-season drop, it could've been a result of the workload earlier in the year; or maybe it was not being used as much in September; or maybe he was putting too much pressure on himself after signing that contract.
But Franklin said he can't point to one specific thing. And neither could his catcher.
"I didn't notice anything," Yadier Molina said.
"He was struggling at the end of the season, but that's part of baseball. Everybody has a problem."
One thing Franklin doesn't have a problem with, however, is moving on.
"I learned that you don't sit there and dwell on what happened in the past," Franklin said. "You forget that and move on. You worry about what you can do today to get yourself ready for this season."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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At least one set of doors on the northbound Green Line train opened shortly before arriving at the Greenbelt station at 7:22 p.m. on July 26, according to a rider who documented it with a photograph on his smartphone.
Metro officials investigated after The Washington Examiner started asking questions. They now believe the door opened because of a person, not a mechanical problem such as one that occurred this spring on a Red Line train.
"The operator has been identified and will receive appropriate disciplinary action once the investigation is final," said Metro spokesman Philip Stewart. "We will also issue a safety bulletin to all operators specifically addressing proper and safe door operations."
No one appears to have been hurt during the July incident. But the independent safety oversight group charged with monitoring Metro, the Tri-State Oversight Committee, considers door openings to be "very serious" safety issues, said Chairman James Benton. Riders could be exposed to the electrified third rail or moving trains nearby.
The openings have two primary causes: commanded openings, in which someone is opening the doors, or uncommanded openings, in which something goes wrong mechanically.
After a May 15 incident, in which doors opened on a train twice while moving, Metro inspected all of its 5000-series rail cars for an electrical short believed to have caused the problem. Benton said he believes the agency has since resolved those uncommanded door problems.
"There will be reports of doors opening one inch or less because of the push-back springs," he said. "But they will not open to the point where someone is able to fall out."
The commanded door openings also can be fixed with more than just a safety order, including an engineering solution, which he said Metro officials are working on.
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The company that has operated North Augusta Country Club since 2007 closed the club last week after losing insurance coverage and having its assets frozen, its manager said.
Club Manager Janet Meadows said the club shut down Thursday at the request of the new owner, Donnie Thompson. Meadows said the request came after Thompson learned that the managing company's liability insurance had lapsed.
"Mr. Thompson came in and said it would be best if we shut down, considering the circumstances," Meadows said.
Thompson, who purchased the 131-acre property for $1.2 million on June 27, said the decision to close wasn't his.
"It wasn't me," he said. "I'm just the landowner."
Meadows said she learned from Regions Bank that all the club's accounts had been frozen, so she has no access to operating money. She said the bank would not say why the accounts were frozen.
Meadows said the only person who has the ability to close the accounts is Fred W. Layman III, the Martinez businessman who bought the country club in April 2007.
Layman is serving a 16-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to federal mortgage fraud charges. He was accused of having his stepdaughter falsify financial information on mortgage loan applications involving the federal lender Fannie Mae between December 2006 and December 2007.
Meadows, who served as the club's controller before Layman was charged, said that as far as she knew, her former boss did not owe money to the federal government.
"He doesn't owe anything," she said. "He paid his taxes."
Thompson said he has had limited contact with the current managers since he became owner and was waiting for their proposal to continue operating the club when events forced its closure.
"We really didn't get a chance to sit down and talk," he said.
For the past three weeks, Thompson said, he has had a crew at the club making necessary repairs.
"It has really been allowed to run down in the past few years," he said.
Thompson said it appears the current management would need a big infusion of cash to resume operations.
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Snowmelt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream. A new study shows this is due to increased dust caused by human activities in the region during the past 150 years.
The study, led by a NASA scientist and funded by the agency and the National Science Foundation, showed peak spring runoff now comes three weeks earlier than before the region was settled and soils were disturbed. Annual runoff is lower by more than five percent on average compared to pre-settlement levels.
The findings have major implications for the 27 million people in the seven U.S. states and Mexico who rely on the Colorado River for drinking, agricultural and industrial water. The results were published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research team was led by Tom Painter, a snow hydrologist at both NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and UCLA. The team examined the impact of human-produced dust deposits on mountain snowpacks over the Upper Colorado River basin between 1915 and 2003.
Studies of lake sediment cores showed the amount of dust falling in the Rocky Mountains increased by 500 to 600 percent since the mid-to-late 1800s, when grazing and agriculture began to disturb fragile but stable desert soils.
The team used an advanced hydrology model to simulate the balance of water flowing into and out of the river basin under current dusty conditions, and those that existed before soil was disturbed. Hydrologic data gathered from field studies funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, and measurements of the absorption of sunlight by dust in snow, were combined with the modeling.
More than 80 percent of sunlight falling on fresh snow is typically reflected back into space. In the semi-arid regions of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, winds blow desert dust east, triggering dust-on-snow events.
When dark dust particles fall on snow, they reduce its ability to reflect sunlight. The snow also absorbs more of the sun's energy. This darker snow cover melts earlier, with some water evaporating into the atmosphere.
Earlier melt seasons expose vegetation sooner, and plants lose water to the atmosphere through the exhalation of vapor. The study shows an annual average of approximately 35-billion cubic feet of water is lost from this exhalation and the overall evaporation that would otherwise feed the Colorado River. This is enough water to supply Los Angeles for 18 months.
"The compressed mountain runoff period makes water management more difficult than a slower runoff," Painter said. "With the more rapid runoff under dust-accelerated melt, costly errors are more likely to be made when water is released from and captured in Colorado River reservoirs."
Prior to the study, scientists and water managers had a poor understanding of dust-on-snow events. Scientists knew from theory and modeling studies that dust could be changing the way snowfields reflect and absorb sunlight, but no one had measured its full impact on snowmelt rates and runoff over the river basin. The team addressed these uncertainties by making systematic measurements of the sources, frequency and snowmelt impact of dust-on-snow events.
"These researchers brought together their collective expertise to provide a historical context for how the Colorado River and its runoff respond to dust deposition on snow," said Anjuli Bamzai, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences in Arlington, Va. "The work lays the foundation for future sound water resource management."
Painter believes steps can be taken to reduce the severity of dust-on-snow events in the Colorado River basin. He points to the impact of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 for potential guidance on how dust loads can be reduced.
The act regulated grazing on public lands to improve rangeland conditions. Lake sediment studies show it decreased the amount of dust falling in the Rocky Mountains by about one quarter.
"Restoration of desert soils could increase the duration of snow cover, simplifying water management, increasing water supplies and reducing the need for additional reservoir storage of water. Peak runoff under cleaner conditions would then come later in summer, when agricultural and other water demands are greater," Painter said.
"It could also at least partially mitigate the expected regional impacts of climate change, which include reduced Colorado River flows, increased year-to-year variability in its flow rate, and more severe and longer droughts," he added. "Climate models project a seven to 20 percent reduction in Colorado River basin runoff in this century due to climate change."
Other institutions participating in the study include the National Snow and Ice Center in Boulder, Colo.; U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Center in Moab, Utah; University of Washington in Seattle; Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies in Silverton, Colo.; and the University of Colorado-NOAA Western Water Assessment in Boulder.
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Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 6:48 AM
Fair-Weather Comrades and the Misguided Deification of Mandela
I am fond of saying that I have as much love and admiration for Mandela as any non-South African could. But my record of political activism and published commentaries (dating back decades) bears this out.
This is why I am so seized with contempt for those who appear to have acquired more love and admiration for him in death than I could ever possibly have had for him in life.
The problem with this unqualified and unquestioning hero worship we are witnessing is that it risks whitewashing Mandela's legacy in popular consciousness. This was brought into stark relief yesterday when I heard a putatively well-educated person express incredulous indignation at a video clip of Mandela warmly embracing Fidel Castro.
She clearly had no clue that Western leaders once condemned Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC) the way they condemned Castro and his revolutionary Communist Party.
The ANC is a typical terrorist organization… Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land.
This, according to the July 9, 1996 edition of The Independent, was how British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ridiculed Mandela as a way of voicing her unabashed support for South Africa's racist Apartheid regime.
What's more, I suspect there are many others among the newly converted who would be just as bewildered by images of Mandela embracing Castro more warmly than he has ever embraced any American president.
But such images serve as enduring testaments to the fact that Castro and others in the communist/non-aligned world were hailing Mandela as the freedom fighter he always was long before it became fashionable for leaders in America and England to do so.
For example, based on all of the pictures former President Bill Clinton has been tweeting of himself and Mandela, you'd think Mandela actually bought into the Clintonian folklore about them having a father-son relationship.
Except that those pictures betray:
Clinton's work to undermine the economic foundation of the nascent Mandela-led South African republic…
After Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994, then-President Clinton pressured the nation to adopt trade policies that benefitted U.S. corporations while restricting South African access to drugs treating HIV and AIDS.
(Huffington Post, December 6, 2013)
I have often argued that the least Clinton could do to amend for this after leaving the White House was to use his Clinton Global Initiative to get big pharmaceutical companies to make antiretroviral drugs cheaper and more accessible throughout all of Africa. And even then I have always felt constrained to cite facts from my June 20, 2005 commentary "President George W. Bush Has Done More for Africa than Any Other President," noting in particular that – through his President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative – the United States has funded over $46 billion in HIV/AIDS programs since 2003.
But how genuinely could we expect a humanitarian like Mandela to embrace a politician like Clinton – who willfully denied life-saving drugs to millions of Africans, when it was politically expedient to do so, even if Clinton is now helping to make those drugs available … to enhance his political legacy?
Therefore, as you see the most powerful people in the world falling all over themselves to sing Mandela's praises in the coming days, bear in mind that the people Mandela himself loved and admired most (outside of family members) are old comrades – most of whom you will never see on TV or social media.
Indeed it spoke volumes about Mandela's character that he always reserved greater affection and appreciation for comrades like Castro – who stood with him during his struggle to free South Africa, than for politicians like Clinton – who rushed to his side to bask in his post-Apartheid reflected glow.
That said, I honestly don't know what to make of the most powerful (White) people on earth hailing this (Black) man as the most revered and influential figure of the twentieth century. Everyone from Jomo Kenyatta to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave.
A developing meme in this respect is that Mandela was a combination of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Mahatma Gandhi, which only makes me wonder about their unwitting discrimination against the more apt inclusion of Martin Luther King Jr.
Let me hasten to clarify: Mandela deserves every praise hailed in his name and every monument erected in his honor for prevailing upon Whites in South Africa to relinquish power. It's just that MLK deserves even greater praise and more monuments for prevailing upon Whites in America to fully recognize Black civil rights.
After all, in the early 1990s, Whites in a beleaguered South Africa, on the poorest continent in the world, faced the existential choice of either relinquishing power peacefully or facing a race war the likes of which the world had never seen. Moreover, even if they had used their superior armaments to kill millions of Blacks and overcome the rest, White South Africans still faced an existential threat from U.S.-led economic sanctions that would have rendered them even poorer and more isolated than North Koreans are today.
By contrast, in the late 1960s, Whites in a superpower America, on the richest continent in the world, never faced this existential choice. And even if Blacks had rioted in every city in America, they would have done more to harm themselves than pose any threat to White power. To be sure, the Soviet Union tried to exploit the Civil Rights Movement to advance its Cold War agenda against the United States. But nobody ever thought for a moment that the Soviet Union would (or could) do anything to threaten White authority in the United States, let alone pose an existential threat.
This is why it took MLK's divine art of moral suasion to overcome far greater odds than Mandela faced.
Unsurprisingly, MLK published more inspiring words about the universal struggle for freedom during the 11 days he spent in Birmingham jail than Mandela published during the 27 years he spent in Robben Island prison. And don't get me started on who delivered the more inspiring speeches.
What's more, as much as we admire Mandela for spending all of those years in prison for his cause, and then forgiving his jailers; surely we must admire MLK more for dying for his, and then forgiving his assassin:
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive… It is also necessary to realize that the forgiving act must always be initiated by the person who has been wronged, the victim of some great hurt, the recipient of some tortuous injustice, the absorber of some terrible act of oppression.
("Loving Your Enemies," King Center Archives, November 17, 1957)
Anyway, the point is that, given the inferiority complex Whites tried to systematically impose on Blacks throughout much of the twentieth century, I hope the irony inherent in Whites deifying Mandela is not lost on you.
But if we must deify any Black political leader, I still think it should be Frederick Douglass. I delineated some of the reasons why in "Mall At Last! Mall At Last! Thank God Almighty, a Black Is on the Mall At Last!" (November 14, 2006):
- Douglass was born in slavery; MLK was born in freedom.
- Douglass spent his formative years on a plantation scrapping with his master's dogs for food to eat; MLK spent his in relative luxury dining with America's Black elite.
- Douglass effectively taught himself to read and write; MLK was educated at America's best schools, including Morehouse College and Boston University.
- Douglass escaped from slavery, settled in the North, and began his political activism by personally challenging Jim Crow segregation laws that were as strictly enforced in the Antebellum North as they were in the Deep South; MLK graduated from university, settled in the South, and began his political activism by accepting the call to lead Blacks who had already begun the now-seminal Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- Douglass was the undisputed Black leader agitating for the abolition of slavery; MLK was challenged by Malcolm X and Stokeley Carmichael – whose message of self-defense and Black nationalism resonated more with Black youths (for whom 'by any means necessary' was more liberating and empowering than 'I have a dream').
- Douglass, who died aged 77, lived long enough not only to see his dream of the abolition of slavery fulfilled, but also to become a professional man (as a U.S. Marshall and recorder of deeds), an international statesman (as U.S. Ambassador to Santo Domingo and Haiti), and a political champion for yet another cause (Women's Rights); MLK, who died aged 39, saw his dream of racial equality deferred so long that he did not live long enough to see it fulfilled to any significant degree.
- Douglass's published essential writings and speeches on the fight for freedom from slavery are far more voluminous than MLK's on the struggle for Black civil rights (see articles from one of Douglass's many newspapers North Star, as well as his autobiographies Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Life and Times of Frederic Douglass. And eyewitness accounts by the likes of notorious abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison suggest that Douglass was every bit the orator MLK was. Having read the text, I suspect that his 'What to the slave is the 4th of July?' speech, which he delivered on July 5, 1852, was even more provocative and inspiring than MLK's 'I Have A Dream' speech.
But I digress.
To his credit, Mandela himself will probably be rolling over in his grave if the deification of him now underway continues. Not least because I heard him say in his own words, in a BBC documentary narrated by David Dimbleby yesterday, that from the time his comrades first elected him head of the ANC, while they were all still in prison, he worried about people treating him like a "demigod."
So mind your hosannas people, and know that Mandela was not God.
NOTE: I am sensible enough to appreciate that this global zeitgeist of Mandela worship is such that virtually nobody will be interested in reading anything not related to him. And, as indicated above, I prefer to limit my public grieving to my published commentaries supporting the causes he lived (and, admittedly, was willing to die) for.
Therefore, as I am loath to contribute to this funereal frenzy (oxymoron intended), this will stand as my last commentary until it all comes to an end with Mandela's burial on December 15.
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World Records are set here and there. Philip Osenton shows his own skill: stacking up wine glasses, using only one hand.
In Beijing, China, Osenton broke the record for holding the largest number of wine glasses in one hand twice in just a single day. In three attempts, he managed to hold up 40, 45, and 51 wine glasses, respectively. However, at the 52nd glass, things got a bit unstable and the glasses started slipping.
In any case, Osenton now hold the world record for this particular skill, beating the previous record set in Spain in 2007.
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Baylor to Sponsor Arts and Crafts Fair Nov. 20-21Nov. 18, 1997
Baylor University's Department of Student Activities will hold its annual Arts and Crafts Fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 20-21 in the Bill Daniel Student Center lobby.
There will be approximately 20 exhibitors featuring home-made crafts and holiday items for sale.
The arts and crafts items will include wreaths, bookmarks and other handmade gifts featured at craft shops and galleries.
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Nationwide has become the first high street banking institution to offer annuity advice to its customers, the building society announced today.
The service has been launched to help consumers get the best deal when converting their pension savings into an income by helping them shop around for the highest annuity rates and products that meet their needs.
A report commissioned by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) last month stated that consumers could get an uplift in their retirement income of at least 20% by shopping around, yet one in three retirees are failing to do so. The news also comes as a new code of conduct for insurers launches to help consumers shop around for a better annuity.
Small pension pots welcomed by Nationwide
Those who have relatively low levels of pension savings for their retirement suffer disproportionately, as they are less likely to pay for advice and, consequently, do not shop around for the best rates.
Nationwide's new annuity advice service will provide advice to anyone with pension savings of £18,000 and above. Given that the national average for pension savings is currently around £25,000, this should open up access to advice for a significant number of prospective retirees in the UK.
Nationwide looks to enhanced annuities as the default
One encouraging feature of Nationwide's new annuity advice service is that it will discuss medical histories and lifestyles with each of its annuity customers, to see if they will qualify for an enhanced annuity.
Enhanced annuities pay higher levels of income as, in the eyes of the insurer, you're likely to die sooner, and rates increase based upon life expectancy. It's estimated that 40% of retirees could qualify for an enhanced annuity, which could give your retirement income a significant boost.
Limited annuity panel through Nationwide
Nationwide has a panel of six leading annuity providers, from which their advisers can recommend products. They are currently Aviva, Canada Life, Just Retirement, Legal & General, LV=, and Partnership.
Nationwide states that they have been selected on the 'basis of their financial strength, customer service and competitive rates'. Between the six providers, they account for 88% of the entire annuity market.
Which? welcomes Nationwide's annuity service
Which? pensions expert Ian Robinson commented on the launch: 'While a panel of six falls short of a whole market search, Nationwide's new service is good news for consumer choice. Accepting pension pots as small as £18,000 will help thousands of people unable to afford an IFA to get professional advice.
'Those who qualify for an enhanced annuity should be particularly encouraged to shop around as their current provider may not offer one. Annuity choice is important too, so advice on different types and working out what you need is highly beneficial.'
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- New annuity code of conduct announced – how shopping around will be made easier
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The Orthodox rapper mashing up culture
He may wear a kippah and tzitzit but Eprhyme is a fixture on the New York hip hop scene.
First Matisyahu fused Orthodox Judaism and black music with his kosher version or roots reggae; now an observant hip hop artist is causing a stir on the rap scene. At first glance, Eprhyme - aka Eden Pearlstein - seems an unlikely hip hopper. He comes not from the 'hood but from a middle-class home in Washington state. But he started to listen to hip hop as a child and by the age of 14 (he is now 30) he was rhyming and freestyling. The religion part came later, he says, speaking ahead of his concert at Sandys Row Synagogue in London next week.
He certainly does not see himself as a haimishe novelty act. Since moving to New York a year ago, he has become a regular at the city's premier hip hop club, SOB's. He sees his role less as bringing hip hop to the Jews and more bringing Judaism to the hip hop scene. "Most of my career has not been in the Jewish world, mainly because up in Olympia, Washington, there are not a lot of Jews. I have been touring and releasing albums for six or seven years and mainly on the West Coast underground circuit. So I took a different trajectory."
His music has gone down well with both crowds, and he has been accepted as an authentic rapper, despite the kippah and tzitzit. As he says, being a Jewish rapper in New York City is not such a big deal. "There have always been Jews in hip hop. There are a lot of African Americans in New York but also a lot of Jews. It's only natural that Jews should be a subculture in this movement."
Besides, he believes that bringing in Jewish influences is in tune with what hip hop is all about. And there is much more than just Judaism in his records - he has also spent a lot of time listening to punk, jazz, klezmer, reggae and Middle Eastern music. "The hip hop sensibility is sample based. We mash up cultures and put them together - it's really exciting to take something from somewhere, juxtapose it with something else which would seem totally unrelated and find that it really fits."
Eprhyme had what he describes as "a standard non-Orthodox West Coast Jewish upbringing - Hebrew school, barmitzvah and summer camp. It was not very intriguing to me and I just walked away from it after my barmitzvah.
"But I've always been a creative and spiritual person. I studied comparative religion and psychology and eventually through a long and winding path I got tripped back on to Judaism almost accidentally."
Although he does rap about "obscure kabbalistic concepts", his goal is to make his lyrics universally accessible by giving them what he calls "multi-levels of meaning".
Obscure references or not, what is important is that he is good at what he does. "You really have to be able to rap. I happen to be a Jewish rapper but if you are not good, it doesn't matter what your niche market is."
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Surnames in complicated families?
Hi there,
Was just wondering what you all thought about the idea of changing surnames of children in families with complicated parentage... For example, myself and my twin boys from a previous relationship have a different surname from dh, our son and his son from a previous relationship. We are now expecting a daughter who will have dh's surname. I kept my maiden name when we got married originally so the twins wouldn't feel our little family group hadn't changed... Now we are gelled as a whole unit (all be it a complicated one!), I'm now wondering whether to change it to dh's and poss the twins too. What do you think?
Thanks, Sarah
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Re: Surnames in complicated families?
I have a family member with the same situation. She ended up hyphenating the last name for herself.
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Re: Surnames in complicated families?
When I married, I didn't take my husband's last name. I remained Owen; he remained his name. Our children were hyphenated, with my name first. When we moved to Canada, this was no big deal. Many children had hyphenated names. However, when my children and I moved to Florida, it became a big deal. Many computer databases couldn't take a hyphenated last name and the kids' names ended up in these weird versions, even though both kids have Social Security cards and passports with the correctly hyphenated name. And people insisted on calling me Mrs S, instead Ms O, because my kids were O-S.
Ultimately, my daughter has decided to stick it out. My son, however, has changed his last name to solely mine. In a way this is nice, because my father was an only child, and he had four daughters. But my ex would have a cow if he knew.
Ultimately, you need to do whatever will make you all happy. And try not to be irritated as much as I have been when computers do weird things, lol.
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Re: Surnames in complicated families?
I'd say it depends a little on your twins relationship with their father. My niece and nephew kept their father's last name after my sister remarried and had children with her new husband. It's never seemed to cause any problems with them. My husband, on the other hand, was given his father's last name, while his mother, brother and sister had a different one. He never had much contact with his own father, and always resented that he'd been given his name. He changed it to his mother's maiden name when he turned 18. Are your twins old enough to express a preference? Family names are a very emotional issue for a lot of people. Personally, I wouldn't make any changes to the children's surnames until they're old enough for input.


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Microsoft paid Jerry Seinfeld 10 million dollars to appear in their new ads but now after only two commercials, the wholly unpleasant campaign starring Seinfeld and Bill Gates is being taken off the air. Valleywag says...
In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected."
Honestly, who in the fuck thought Jerry Seinnfeld should be the choice to make a company seem more hip and in-touch. And then put him in ads with Bill Gates. Every god damn second of these things was just awkward and uncomfortable, like watching your parents make out.
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I've just wanted to let you know that I try hard to make the::unwired a better (and spam-free place). ;-) At least I try hard not to spread spam through my comments page. Maybe you have seen in the past comments like "Online Casino" etc which includes many links to sites, not really related to the article.
In fact these comments are spam, provided by spam-bots which are crawling through the web and enters comments automatically.
This spam is not necessarily to get the::unwired visitors to click through on the links they submit, but rather to get search engines to count those link towards their link ranking scores. This makes the identification of user-submitted comment essential. :(
The search team over at Google approached with the idea of flagging hyperlinks with a rel="nofollow" link attribute in order to alert their search spider that a particular link shouldn't be factored into their PageRank calculations. The Yahoo and MSN search teams have also indicated they'd support this new spec and therefore I've also updated the comments code in the forum now to support this hyperlink flag.
As much as I'm bothered by spam, I'm sure you are bothered not less and therefore I'm sure you support this initiative as well. The downside is, that links in you comments will not counted by Google, MSN or Yahoo bots anymore nor will site visited from this link. :( However, the search engine results all of us get from supporting this initiative is more valuable then what we lose.
Cheers ~ Arne
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Arne:Appreciate all your efforts in keeping SPAM away from your website. This is a "great turn-of" anytime I enter any website. Keep up the good work !
donbacardi wrote:Arne:Appreciate all your efforts in keeping SPAM away from your website. This is a "great turn-of" anytime I enter any website. Keep up the good work !
First of all I agree with what donbacardi says and I want to thank you Arne for all your great work to tis site.
Arne:It's truly unfortunate to see "bigoted, racist idiots" such as this one still in existence here in the year of our lord, 2005. Just shows how much progress mankind has done. Truly unbelievable ! Only advise I can provide you with is to block folks from entering comments here if they're unregistered. I ran into a similar situation once with this MSN group that I created. Once I had folks apply for membership and I had a chance to screen them prior-- all my troubles were gone as well as SPAM. I also had the option as Manager to delete these type of messages.


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We binge-watch our favourite dramas, humblebrag about exciting experiences on Facebook and occasionally show off some side-boob, but hey, yolo.
These are some of the new words that have found their way into OxfordDictionaries.com.
Many of the new entries have evolved from our changing viewing habits - binge-watching refers to compulsively watching episode after episode of a television show - a practice made possible by on-demand streaming services such as Netflix.
Social media users are often guilty of humblebragging - boasting about something in a self- deprecating way.
Yolo - a favourite word with teenagers - is an acronym of the phrase "you only live once", while side-boob refers to the display of the side part of the breast, often in a provocative way.
New words, meanings and phrases are added to OxfordDictionaries.com once editors have gathered enough independent evidence from a range of sources to be confident that they have widespread currency in English.
Other new entries include the verb vape, for inhaling the vapour from an e-cigarette - itself a new word added in 2012; adorbs, a shortened version of adorable; and neckbeard for the unsightly hair on a man's neck, a sign of poor grooming. - Daily Mail


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Mobile Website of the Week: Diablo Valley College
With the mobile market constantly changing, we will never stop learning new and exciting tips and tricks to making mobile websites. This week, we found a winning site that actually taught us a thing or two about the fundamentals of mobile web design.
Congratulations Diablo Valley College, your mobile site was top of the class and is therefore the winner of this weeks Mobile Website of the Week!
What did we love about this Mobile Website?
Did you see the likeness of the navigation menu on the regular and mobile website? When the Dudas first saw this, we were stumped, and we loved it. You'll be surprised at how Chrisanne, from Diable Valley College, was able to get the navigation menu from her regular website to her mobile site.
Take a few seconds and flip through each flawless page of the Diablo Valley College mobile website. We absolutely loved the design and detail of each one. It looks like Chrisanne doctored each page up through the advanced editor. Would you be surprised if I told you that she didn't??
How was this mobile website made?
After the initial conversion, Chrisanne wanted to be sure to preserve the information and design from the regular DVC site on the mobile site. Since the navigation menu on her regular site is comprised of small images, each image transferred over with DudaMobile.
Chrisanne added links to each "image" of her navigation menu in the advanced editor.
First, she opened the advanced editor and selected a bar of the navigation menu. Under Properties on the right hand side, she selected Edit Target Page. Chrisanne selected New Page Design in the drop down menu then clicked next.
This opened up a new page which could then be edited further with the advanced editor. Chrisanne navigated between each page of her mobile website in the advanced editor through the drop down menu on the top left.
We pawed through each page of Diablo Valley College's mobile website and couldn't find any glitch in design or media malfunction. How was Chrisanne able to pull off making such a flawless mobile website? "The key to good mobile design is great website design. The DVC [regular] website was so simple that we had no problem converting it over".
Except for deleting some links and a little content, Chrisanne barely touched the pages of her mobile website with the advanced editor.
We could not believe this. All of the content converted nearly perfectly onto each page of the Diablo Valley College mobile website.
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Thought you all might like to see a few more of my "etchings." Recently I have been doing a lot of smaller projects as I have been unemployed for rather a while and these are more marketable. I have lots of fabric to keep me busy and sane - fortunately....
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STOCKTON - After making bail on a murder charge out of Las Vegas, Robert Cox of Manteca walked out of San Joaquin County Jail Monday afternoon.
Cox spent a week incarcerated after being arrested at his church, Place of Refuge, in Manteca, last week. He has been charged for an altercation with a Las Vegas man from about a year ago in which Cox insists he was attacked and acted in self defense. The other man, Link Ellingson, fell during the incident, hit his head and went into a coma. He died in December.
"I was attacked last year, and now I feel attacked again this year. I don't understand," Cox said. "In October, I got a letter from the district attorney and thought it was over. Everyone thought it was over. Tuesday, I got arrested at my church in front of my students and school."
Cox' Las Vegas attorney is baffled as well, saying the only thing that's changed is Ellingson's death. Warren Geller said every eyewitness to the altercation declared Cox was strictly defending himself during an attack.
Cox has a court date in Las Vegas on June 13 on the murder charge. Geller said if the district attorney doesn't drop the charge, a trial is entirely possible, since Cox insists on proving his innocence.


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I'm laughing out loud at myself. Yes, I wanted to add my time because I didn't make the board! Now, if I would just take the time to read my own comments! mea culpa! Here it is as it should have been!It reminds me of those fat colorful toys you give to small children.....a car or airplane even. I know, that is nutty, but it sure looks like one to me! LOL Thanks, Pat. It was fun!!1:57
Actually, we were always able to remove our comments, and the word "remove" was there, just not in red, I think, so it might not have been as noticeable. But it was there, because I mistakenly copied/pasted it myself long ago, along with my name and the time I had posted the original comment! Fortunately, because there was so much that obviously didn't belong, I noticed it right away, and so I could remove it before anyone else saw it. :-)))Thanks so much for your compliment, Rosie! I have several people whose puzzles are always part of my day, too, or it doesn't feel complete! :-)))
I always have to do at least one of your puzzles every day or I have an incomplete day--yours, Jiggy's, Barbara's, Gails', etc,etc.etc. I have lots bookmarked and do extra ones when I need a good, squishy toy feeling. Thanks for your wonderful fantasy puzzles. And the remove is a new thing the guys added when they last updated the site---which was just before I joined the group this last Dec. so it shows up on every comment I leave.
Oooooops, now I posted the comment before finishing it! Perfect! LOL!!! Thanks,,Jan, Ardy, and Katie--I consider every day a good excuse for insanity, so I get to celebrate all the time! I just spent several hours with Timmy, and he has lots of toys that look like this--colorful and confusing to someone who grew up with dolls and blocks and a quacking duck pull toy...! :-)))
Oh, Jan, I'll bet you posted a comment, then saw something to correct or change, and so copied and pasted that comment to fix it. Either that, or you let your real feelings slip, with your request to "remove" this!!! LOL!
This great mix of colors made for a lot of fun! Thanks Pat!
If you had visited Mandy's site today you would know it is Temporary Insanity Day. So nutty is right in order. Thanks, Pat. This was fun.
Ooops! LOL! I do sometimes like to use a cryptic title, but then I always try to explain it, because I know how frustrated I get when I don't understand something! Thanks, Edie! :-)))
I'm glad you explained that Pat because for the life of me I couldn't see the 'C's' . Ovals and circles I can see so I'm not totally out of touch yet. Even though sometimes it feels that way. Thanks for this little 'pick me up'.
Thanks, Mandy and Barb! OCD is my middle name/initials! LOL! (The title refers to ovals and circles, but I like your interpretation better.....!). I'm glad you liked it, and tomorrow I'll try to remember to post a "real" swirl to start off the day! :-)))
I agree with Mandy ... it just wouldn't be a complete day without a Pat puzzle, whether it be ovals, swirls or whatever. LOL Thanks for another fun puzzle, Pat. :-)
I think it's more O C D where I'm sitting... certainly in my life, if no-one else's. Thanks Pat, I keep bookmarking your puzzles, and plan to have a Pat's Puzzles Party one day soon!


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Self Mastery for Developing Intra – Psychic Health: Insights from Indian Tantra System
Updated on: 30.07.2015
Series of 3 seminars on
Integrating Modern Science and Spirituality for Social Wellness:
A Challenge of 21st Century
Seminar "A"
Consciousness and Knowledge: Scientific and Spiritual Perspectives
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Session III: 17.00-17.30
Self Mastery for Developing Intra - Psychic Health: Insights from Indian Tantra System
All of us want to enjoy life; there is no doubt about it. However, this enjoyment or bhoga is generally looked down upon or denounced or renounced as it binds or restricts the self, keeps it chained to the objects of the world. The Tantra affirms that bhoga recoils on us because here we are not free to enjoy but are at the mercy of the things of enjoyment over which we have no control. "bhoga na bhukta vayameva bhuktah" meaning thereby we have not been able to enjoy the objects of enjoyment, instead we have been eaten up or devoured or enjoyed by them. Hence, the aim of Tantra is to make our enjoyment free and absolute by establishing a complete mastery over the objects or forces of Nature. In the absence of mastery we have allowed ourselves to be chained by pasa or fetters, through which we have been turned into pasus (beasts or slaves). The tantras are, therefore, in search of power and their approach is known commonly sakti-sadhana. The author in her present paper will discuss the internal mechanisms to remain healthy that have been mentioned in Indian Vedic and Buddhist scriptures.
PhotosProf. Sunita Singh-Sengupta was not present - paper not presented.
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(PRNewswire) 3D Surgical Solutions, LLC and Wheaton Franciscan-The Wisconsin Heart Hospital Campus announced that the first case ever using the Leonardo 3D VisionT System was successfully conducted in a surgical robotic procedure. The system provides stereoscopic 3D visualization to personnel at the bedside, as well as the entire surgical robotic team during the surgery. The Leonardo 3D VisionT System was used in conjunction with the daVinci Surgical System.
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In addition, the Atlanticus 3D RecorderT (a component of the Leonardo 3D VisionT System) was used during the case to digitally record stereoscopic 3D-HD video for presentation at symposia, other clinically-oriented events, and teaching purposes.
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Im back again with the summary update..so here it goes..continuing from summary (2)..
Pari goes to the temple n seeks for answer from God about her confusion n on return she meets aditya surprisingly who takes his mom savitri for puja but she doesnt c pari.. her confusion is cleared by his advise n thr she ties him a rakhi infront of the temple itself.. dani maa was totally against pari's idea of sacrificing her love for khushi n tried to explain both the sisters separately.. khushi keeps arguing n doesnt listen.. earlier she had proposed to rohit but he refused saying that he was in love with someone whom khushi thought was pari so she finds a chance to emotionally blackmail pari n dani maa (by trying to kill herself) whn jd, sheena n neha had gone to attend a wedding in delhi.. khushi succeeds n pari decides to sacrifice her love for her not-so-sweet sister n made khushi aware of rohit's middle-class status by taking her to his place.. pari then sends her in the college play as the main lead instead of herself.. earlier the play's theme had been decided on one of muskaan's poem n the script was written by khushi as she wanted to impress rohit.. on the day of play, when pari doesnt appear n calls rohit tht muskaan will b acting instead, rohit gets excited n finally he met his muskaan.. both rohit n khushi were very happy but dani maa was upset with pari's sacrifice.. khushi is a changed person, she used to b so rude to pari n dani maa but after goin out with rohit she returns home overjoyed n thanked pari n apologizes dani maa for all the rude behaviour till date.. pari n khushi r invited to rohit's place n during dinner rohit has an argument with his dad on the same issue about generation changes n all.. the next day in college pari asks khushi to explain rohit to try n understand his dad n share out his feelings.. rohit realizes that these were pari's words which made khushi feel bad.. but it proved to be good bcoz rohit shared out his feelings with his dad n all the misunderstandings were cleared n his dad was ready to accept rohit's views about his career of becoming creative director.. khushi now wanted to marry rohit asap coz she was scared if rohit knws the truth tht she is not muskaan n dint know anything about poetry.. as for rohit, he always liked pari as his best fren n khushi was also scared that if rohit falls for pari (the real muskaan) even though pari dint have such intentions n had been helpin her out with the poetry stuff.. khushi tells everyone about her decision when they return from delhi.. all r shocked, then pari n dani maa convince jd n he agrees to meet rohit's family..sheena n neha did not agree as they always had this mentality about middle-class people n tried to make khushi understand but khushi was madly in love with rohit n was ready to leave everythin for him knowin tht she had to live with a middle-class family.. rohit's family cum over n the marriage is fixed n they get engaged..
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SITEX 2011 - Temp Cashiers Needed Urgently
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A Patience anagram puzzle from Sharon Brindle:
And a cryptic question from David Duffey:
Let me set a Patience puzzle. The answers, which are connected, are a quotation and two characters. A copy of the text is needed...
Look, parallel fertility problems; another blundering broad crashing lover turned the wrong way.
Supplied by Steve Sullivan
Patience at the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
Supplied by David Duffey
1881 was a census year in UK. The results were not published for five years, but when they were the census authorities deplored the high proportion of unmarried women of childbearing age and the growing fashion among parents for spacing out the birth of their children. It was noted that this was most common among the rich and better educated and that: "the poorest third of the nation is breeding and rearing two thirds of the British race." It went on: "Family limitation might be appropriate for atheists, papists, and Frenchmen, but not for English artisans and yeomen, whose historic mission is to populate the globe.".
On the subject of atheism, the House of Commons rejected a Bill permitting Members of Parliament to affirm their loyalty to the sovereign (as an alternative to taking an oath on the Bible). The Bill passed both Houses in 1883.
The Boers defeated the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill.
James A. Garfield was inaugurated as 20th President of the US; he was shot and killed and was succeeded by Vice President Chester Arthur.
Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli), one of the most remarkable politicians of British history, died.
P. G. Wodehouse, probably the most inventive user of the English language of the 20th Century, was born; as was Pablo Picasso, ditto of the paintbrush.
"Oh South Kensington" the Natural History Museum was opened, as were the archives of the Vatican well, "selected" records for accredited scholars.
Brahms published the Academic Festival Overture; and Henry James Portrait of a Lady.
The Chat Noir cabaret was opened in Paris.
Surely Bouncer sings, "... the cat in the Army's abolished"? Well here it says in plainest print that the Act abolishing flogging in the Army and Navy was passed in 1881. Oh, I get it, they used an implement different from the cat perhaps? I must research further into that.
Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskee Institute; University College, Liverpool was founded.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company was formed.
30 September: "Responsible agent asks me to enquire if you will consider offer he makes by letter for fifty readings, beginning November first. This is confidential. Answer." R. D'Oyly Carte
1 October: "Yes, if offer good." Oscar Wilde.
October 27: "To the Library of Oxford Union, my first volume of poems, Oscar Wilde".
November 12: "The poet is Wilde, But his poetry's tame." Punch.
December 24: Oscar embarks on SS Arizona.
City populations (in millions): London 3.3; Paris 2.2; New York 1.2; Berlin 1.1; Vienna 1.0; Tokyo 0.8; St Petersburg 0.6. (Anyone visited all those?)
Sharon Brindle's anagrams:
David Duffey's cryptic question:
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