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The Earl of Lauderdale: My Lords, before the noble Earl sits down, perhaps I may say to the noble Earl that I used the term "wrongdoing" in a rather general sense. Of course he is quite right that "criminal" is the word I should have used.
Earl Russell: My Lords, I thank the noble Earl for that.
Baroness Miller of Hendon: My Lords, some of your Lordships will be aware of my own endeavours over many years to secure the advancement of women in public and political life. It is therefore with personal confidence that I can confirm to your Lordships that my party is opposed to any form of discrimination, whether it be on the grounds of race, religion, sex, age or, indeed, on the grounds of sexual orientation.
On 14th July 1995 when I wound up for the then Government on the Second Reading on one of the previous Bills on this subject introduced by the noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden, I said that we did not believe that legislation was the most effective way to overcome entrenched prejudice.
I said I believed that such legislation amounts to a form of coercion to conform and would add another piece of legislation to an already overregulated society. I added that we preferred instead to explain
In some ways it is embarrassing to be quoting from my own speeches, but I shall do so again, because in the same debate I said that protecting the interests of one particular group through legislation sends a signal to every group, however small and however narrow and partisan their cause, that they, too, could be candidates for specific legal protection.
My views on that aspect have not changed. I believed then that the burden of proving the need for legislation rests on those who are making the case that we ought to have legislation. I still believe that that case has not been made. I doubt whether the case will ever be made that we will be able to persuade a majority of the public to
The previous Acts prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of race and sex have undoubtedly provided a remedy for those who have been unfairly or improperly treated for those reasons. There can be little doubt that because of the sanctions that the Acts imposed the law has also protected untold numbers more by inhibiting any such improper and distasteful conduct. Yet, on the other side of the coin, they have also generated a culture of litigiousness which has resulted in a number of cases which really should never have been brought. It is all too easy for someone who has been refused a job or passed over for promotion or has not received a raise to allege that it was on some grounds of discrimination. In some cases it is simply due to the inability of the so-called victim to recognise either his own lack of qualifications or the superior qualifications of the persons with whom he was competing.
There is also the problem that there is no risk, because the tribunal does not award costs against the loser, however frivolous the claim or however flimsy the defence. The costs incurred by employers, both in terms of money and managerial time in fighting unjustifiable claims, are a considerable burden. This means that the complainant might just as well launch speculative proceedings in the hope that the nuisance value will encourage the respondents to settle. Some of the well publicised and ludicrous cases that have been reported in the press that ought to have been thrown out by the tribunals but were not may very well also be a factor. Then there have been the astronomical and wholly disproportionate damages that have been awarded in some cases, damages far in excess of what the victim might have received if he or she had suffered some severe injury in an accident.
Again, I should like to remind your Lordships that it was I who piloted the Race Relations (Remedies) Act 1994 through your Lordships' House, so there can be absolutely no question of my being personally opposed to the award of proper and reasonable damages in cases of wrongful discrimination. So the caveat I wish to enter is that I hope that the good intentions of the Bill will not be spoiled, should the Bill ever reach the statute book, by providing yet another source of ill-conceived claims. I hope that those responsible for administering the Bill, if it should become an Act, will do so with discretion, by rejecting out of hand the more improbable claims and thus discouraging others from launching similar implausible claims. I hope when it comes to awarding damages that the tribunals in all cases of unfair dismissal, on whatever ground, and in cases of improper discrimination, also on whatever grounds, will bear in mind that their function is to compensate the victim for his loss and his humilation, his mental suffering if you will. It is not their function to award punitive damages.
If I may indulge myself for the last time in my speech, I should like to quote what I said in 1995: we believe that people should be dealt with on the basis of their
I was very pleased to hear what the noble Lord, Lord McCarthy, and the noble Earl, Lord Russell, said in answer to the difficulty mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Moran. I understand his concern--we all share that concern: I am sure that the noble Baroness, Lady Turner, shares that concern--about children in children's homes. But paedophilia has nothing to do with the Bill. I have read many cases of dreadful things happening to children in children's homes which were definitely done by heterosexual men and not homosexual men. So I really do not think that we should introduce that kind of idea into this Bill.
This is the third attempt of the noble Baroness, Lady Turner, to introduce this Bill in one form or another. I believe that her persistence certainly deserves full marks and, if I may say so, my congratulations. I hope that she will not mind if I say to her that we shall most certainly not oppose this Bill at Second Reading, but that it is not one that should be included on the statute book because we do not believe it is a matter for legislation.
The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Baroness Blackstone): My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Miller, I wish to pay tribute to my noble friend's longstanding, energetic and knowledgeable commitment to equal opportunities in general and to her championing of this cause. I agree with her that it is a cause very well worth fighting for. I also wish to acknowledge the important role which has been played, and continues to be played, by Stonewall. In the 1995 debate on the previous Bill of the noble Baroness, Lady Turner, one noble Lord referred to Stonewall as the most moderate and most intelligent of lobbying groups which recognises the changes of culture in our society and the pace at which they are taking place. It still deserves that accolade. The position of the Government--which is not to support the Bill--is not taken lightly, given its valiant supporters. The reason that the Government are unable to do so has nothing to do with the arguments made against it by speakers in the gap.
The equal opportunities movement in this country is a vibrant one, I am glad to say. For instance, the Institute of Personnel and Development is leading a campaign among employers and personnel professionals intended to promote a positive approach to equal opportunities in the round, including sexual orientation, and to bring out the skills and experience of all employees. The Government welcome and endorse that campaign. I am delighted that more and more employers, including the Government themselves, and 75 per cent. of all health services have equal opportunities policies which specifically include sexual orientation.
During our presidency of the European Union, Ministers have repeatedly said that, in order to create a Europe which is "inclusive", we must promote equality of opportunity in education and training and at work. That means combating discrimination and promoting access to employment and equality of opportunity; and providing security at work, while remaining adaptable enough to respond to economic change. It was for these reasons, and because we deplore unjustified discrimination of all kinds, that a very early action after the election was to negotiate the Amsterdam Treaty, containing the new Article 13 which gives the Community new powers to oppose discrimination on much wider grounds than the existing one of sex.
The Government's position is clear. Our manifesto reads,
That remains our firm intention. I am very aware that in comparison to discrimination on grounds of sex, race and disability, there is a gap in the protection that we offer some individuals.
Let me remind the House of some government activity. The Government's legislation giving further effect in our domestic law to the rights in the European Convention on Human Rights law will emphasise the positive rights of individuals, with all their varying characteristics, and is a historic initiative.
We have changed the UK's immigration provisions so that same sex partners in established relationships have a right of entry and then of settlement after another year together. We look forward to the new treaty powers in Article 13 being put to good use when all member states have ratified the treaty, bearing in mind that we will have to proceed by unanimity.
The Government have stated their intention to repeal Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 as soon as a suitable legislative opportunity arises. Section 28 was introduced to ensure that local authorities did not intentionally promote homosexuality, publish material with that intention or promote the teaching in their schools of the acceptability of homosexuality as a "pretended family relationship". The section has been widely perceived as discriminatory and we believe that it serves no useful purpose.
As regards homosexuality in the Armed Forces, the Government have committed themselves in the course of this Parliament to reviewing the position. We will take account of the weight of the evidence, of the UK's laws and of the views of the European Court and of the Armed Forces themselves. The review will start with the position agreed in the last Parliament and will look in detail at the findings of the thorough survey which was undertaken by the MoD in 1995-96. A way forward will then be established.
The Government have agreed that there will be a free vote on whether the age of consent for homosexual sex should be equalised at age 16. This could be debated at the Report stage of the Crime and Disorder Bill if a Beck-Bencher tables such an amendment.
I would also like to remind the House that the new White Paper, Fairness at Work, proposes reducing to one year the length of time which an employee must be in work before gaining protection from unfair dismissal. It his hard to imagine circumstances in which an industrial tribunal would find sexual orientation fair grounds for dismissal.
I hope that, having assured your Lordships of the Government's genuine concerns, I may now give the reasons why we are unable to support the Bill. First, your Lordships are aware of the importance that this Government place on the family and on the need to consider how all our policies impact on the family. We recognise the central value of the family and marriage, but also acknowledge that there are other forms of partnership and other ways of bringing up children which are also valid. For generations, marriage has provided for millions of people a strong and stable base for the bringing up of children in a rapidly changing world. This is not to deny, however, that there are strong and mutually supportive families and relationships outside marriage. This Bill goes to the heart of that issue. It invites us to treat same-sex couples as the equivalent of a family unit, which leads logically to treating all mixed-sex unmarried couples as the equivalent of a family unit. What we must do is tread a careful path between taking account of social reality and at the same time ensuring that we do not undermine the family.
Secondly, I come to one of our major concerns. The Bill would outlaw not just direct, but also indirect, discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. This could mean that it would be unlawful for anyone covered by the Sex Discrimination Act--not just an employer--to apply to someone a,
In every case, applying such a condition would be in principle unlawful. The burden of proof would be on the defendant to prove that it was objectively justified.
No one can be sure what "requirements or conditions" this Bill would make unlawful in principle, but perhaps the most obvious one is marriage. It would become unlawful in principle to base any treatment or benefit on the fact that someone is married. This is a massive change from the present. In the employment field, for instance, currently the SDA specifically allows an exemption so an employer may recruit a married couple. This Bill leaves it unclear where that exemption would end up. Looking much more widely than work, I am advised that it might even be that favouring married couples would be held to be direct discrimination and therefore incapable in law of being justified.
In its judicial capacity, your Lordships' House has ruled that there is direct discrimination if, but for her sex, a woman would have received the same treatment
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Hello all - I have to create a program in C - I have very less experience in C. Could somebody help me in writing this program?
Here are the details:-
Suppose N stations are waiting for another packet to finish on an Ethernet.
All transmit at once when the other packet is finished, and collide. Write a
program to simulate the continuation of these attempts, and to determine how
long it takes before one succeeds. Make the following simplifications: ignore
interframe spacing, ignore variability in collision times (so that
retransmission is always after an exact integral multiple of the 51.2microsec
slot time), and assume that each collision uses up exactly one slot time.
Model the time, T, in units of slot times, so a collision at time T followed
by a backoff of k=0 would result in a retransmission attempt at time T+1.
Find out the average delay for N=20, N=40, N=100, and maybe some larger values
too. Do your data support the notion that the delay is linear in N? (It should.)
I appreciate any guidlines or help.

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text: I have been a semi-auto fan for most of my days but decided to broaden my experiences, so I just ordered a Smith & Wesson 642. It'll be here by Friday, and I got a really good price on it ($350 brand new). I'll post pics when it comes in. And I'm already thinking about changing the grips, so any recommendations would be appreciated. FWIW, the gun comes with the standard Hogue grip.


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Rated 2 / 5 stars
kinda alike a bunch of other games
Drop me a link to that bunch please. Thank you !
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Interesting game!
I had to go through the initial instructions twice because I easily ignored them, but after the third level it got pretty interesting. I would like to see sound effects added, which would help to engulf the user into the environment.
Thanks for very good rating! Do you think that the first two levels are inapropriatelly easy in comparison to the rest of the game? Should they be removed? There are basically two groups of you guys - total haters and total lovers and I suspect that haters might have finished only the first level, concluding it is just not a worth of time... What do you think about it?
Rated 1 / 5 stars
I don't like it when game makers review their own games because it makes my expectations high. This isn't pure joy or even fresh.
Did you finish the game? Or was it the first level that dissapointed you? I would really like to see similar game, which is as playable as this - if you know of any, do not hesitate to post it to me, since I would be very interested! Thanks anyway for the comment. And hope you will find some better game to review soon!
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
I was genuinely entertained by this. It was a pleasure to enjoy your work here. Brilliant and simple! Just the kind of game that I love - like the games Bounce and Big Bubble.
In terms of improvement, you could try some background sounds (I think a techno might be suitable). And, of course, more levels. Bigger levels. Different enemy types. Also can be quite troublesome the face that the mouse leaves the game screen, paralizing the bubble.
Keep up the good work!
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
It entertained me i must say. One thing that I liked about it was how the larger circles became attracted to you once you went near them, adding to the difficulty. I first died at level 7, and then after that I had to fight to stay alive. Since this is a short game perhaps amping up the difficulty a tad would add to the appeal. I liked how the sphere moved, not too fast not to slow. However, the game seemed to be missing something. The most obvious of these (which I'm sure you are aware of) would be sound. Even if sound is kept simple, such as a "negative" sound when you eat a larger circle and a "bing" or other "positive" sound when you eat a smaller one, it would add a lot to the immersion. The game is pretty simple now, no flashy colors, no crazy power ups, and that is absolutely fine. Its a simple entertaining game and you could add those things in, it might make it even better, or they could make it worse. Without anything for me to really go "Wow, that really added a lot to the game", or the gameplay was "that" good I can't give it a fantastic score. Anyway, to sum it up, It entertained me, but could be improved. Good job.


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With proponents of gun control emboldened and opponents of gun control embattled at the Federal level, it was probably only a matter of time before states started trying to flex their muscles over the question of any new regulations.
Last week, Wyoming fired the proverbial first shot. Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee followed soon. And now, the battle has spread to a state that President Obama himself carried: Virginia.
The Virginia Pilot reports the Virginia House of Delegates recently voted a bill out of committee that would effectively ban Virginia's law enforcement community from enforcing any new regulations on gun rights by the Federal government.
This experiment in what looks an awful lot like the constitutionally discredited tactic of nullification, however, may be less inflammatory than it appears at first blush. The original Virginian-Pilot story suggests that Virginia's gun rights advocates think the bill is simply a symbolic bit of posturing with no actual power:
For at least one gun enthusiast, the measure has a laudable intent that doesn't go far enough.
"If we don't put some teeth into it, it'll be useless," Mike McHugh of the Virginia Gun Owners Coalition told the committee. "I think we're coming to a point in this country where the states are going to have to finally decide – and I hope it doesn't end up like years ago – that we're going to have to face down Barack Obama's federal plantation."
Asked what sort of "teeth" he meant, McHugh cited a proposed measure in Texas that would "put in jail any federal officer that dared to violate the sacred soil of Texas."
So who's right? We took a look at the bill itself, and it looks as though any alarmism over a constitutional crisis is probably unwarranted. It says something, for instance, that the bill is so short that we can post the full text:
1. § 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, no agency of the Commonwealth as defined in § 8.01-385 of the Code of Virginia, no political subdivision of the Commonwealth as defined in § 8.01-385 of the Code of Virginia, and no employee of either, acting in his official capacity, shall:
(A) knowingly aid any employee or entity of the federal government of the United States in any investigation, prosecution, detention, or arrest, nor participate in any search or seizure, relating to any, criminal, civil, or administrative restrictions on firearms, firearm magazines, ammunition, or components thereof, based on any federal statute enacted, or Executive Order or regulation issued, after December 31, 2012; or
(B) knowingly aid any employee or entity of the federal government of the United Sates in conducting, or the enforcement of any requirement for, any background check related to any intrastate sale, loan, gift, or other transfer of firearms between citizens of the Commonwealth who do not possesses any federal firearms license under 18 U.S.C. section 293.
Readers should notice an important omission in the bill: It does not specify any punishments for transgressing it. As such, law enforcement could arguably treat the bill as meaningless, symbolic dictum, and there's no legal guarantee that any sort of repercussions would be forthcoming. Then again, the absence of teeth may be what makes the bill passable in the first place.
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The Location and Characteristics of U.S. Affiliates in Asia
Market size and growth rates, per capita income, distance from the United States, and tax rates on U.S. affiliates accounted for about half the variation among developing host countries in most aspects of U.S. FDI activity. Residuals from the equations for one period add greatly to the explanatory power of the next period's equations, suggesting that there are long-run characteristics of the host economies, omitted from the equations, that are favorable or unfavorable to U.S. investment and FDI activity. There are considerable differences in the determinants of U.S. FDI activity between industries in which U.S. affiliates are export-oriented, such as machinery, and industries in which the affiliates' sales are mainly local. In the export-oriented industries, market size and distance from the United States were unimportant, and high per capita real income was the most consistent favorable influence. In the industries oriented to local sales, large market size attracted U.S. firms and long distance from the United States discouraged them. Among the ten Asian countries studied, Singapore and Malaysia had the largest U.S. affiliate shares of aggregate output while India, China, and Korea had the smallest. The countries with the largest shares were also those that ranked high on measures of institutional characteristics, including low levels of corruption. Measured by deviations from the equations, however, the relation to the institutional measures was blurred, suggesting that the institutional measures are correlated with the economic characteristics used as explanatory variables in the equations.
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Homeboy Sandman "Fat Belly"
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Homeboy Sandman drops some serious food knowledge on you suckas – the likes of which haven't been heard since Q-Tip & Phife Dawg went back and forth on "Ham N' Eggs" – in his new music video for "Fat Belly." The track serves as the second single from his Stones Throw release White Sands.
Homeboy invites viewers into the ultimate cookout, with friends kids and all munching along while he runs through lyrics like "If you ain't eating no falafel you mental fam / That's like tryna eat pussy with a dental dam."
Check out the video in the player above and look out for Homeboy Sandman as he's set to tour through America in the month of June.


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Arsenal out of Europe: Memes and jokes as Gunners' season takes predictable turn for the worse
Despite it not yet being over, it's surely going to be another campaign of what could have been for Arsenal.
Falling behind in the Premier League, an FA Cup exit to newly-promoted Watford, followed with a Champions League last-16 drubbing by Barcelona – the sixth season in succession they have been dumped out of the competition at this stage – has left rival supporters delighted.
And after last night's result, Twitter was as ever quick to poke fun at Arsenal's failures, and we've put together the best reactions – check them out below…


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Bergersee lake (2182m), 800m above the Virgental valley is probably the most visited lake of the Group because of its nice hut and the fine view to the higher mountains of the other side of the Virgental valley. The glacier mountain on the left is Weissspitze (3300m), directly above the hut are Hoher Eichham (3371m, with sun) and Wunspitze (3219m, the sharp one in the shadow). More to the right are Saulkopf (3209m) and Rauhkopf (3070m) that both can be climbed on marked routes. (August 1985)
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Discussion in 'Cuttlefish Care' started by Henry100, Jun 1, 2005.
What size of aquarium is appropriate for breeding S.Officinalis and for keeping the babies?
i'd say at least 300 - 500 gals for breeding them, preferably round plastic ponds and as large a tank as possible for rearing larvae... with a good source of food!
Welcome to TONMO.com, what have you got in mind?
Yeah, please share!
Thanks for the quick reply and your useful advice.I think about getting two of them by fishing and then introducing them to a 210 ltrs marine aquarium that I recently baught.In future,I wish to have the chance of owning such a big tank.
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In Greece.We have a lot of Sepia Officinalis in our coastal waters.They are found literally in all beaches of my coyntry.
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Saturday, July 22, 2017
Come to Danville, PA for the River Towns Race Series' Montour 24! Whether you're ready to compete at the 12-hour (day or night options), 24-hour ultra-endurance level, the 6 hour solo or the 24-hour four-person relay team level, the Montour 24 will be a true test of your mid-summer fitness. Run at one of the most historic and beautiful parks in central Pennsylvania, the Montour 24 will be the newest addition to your must-do list each year.
Saturday, July 22, 2017
7:00am Saturday start – 7:00am Sunday finish (12-hour nighttime race begins at 7:00pm EST)
Hess Recreation Area, 300 Meadow Lane, Danville, PA 17821 USA
Hess Recreation Area, 300 Meadow Lane, Danville, PA 17821 USA
$45 for 6 hour ($55 after 5/8/17)
$70 for 12 hour ($80 after 5/8/17)
$70 for 12 hour night run ($80 after 5/8/17)
$95 for 24 hour ($105 after 5/8/17)
$180 for four-person 24 hour relay team ($220 after 5/8/17)
70 for the 24-hour
50 for the 12 hour (daytime)
50 for the 12-hour (nighttime)
30 for the 6-hour
15 four-person relay teams
5:15am – 6:45am race day; 6:00pm – 6:45pm for 12-hour nighttime race (Hess Recreation Area); NO DAY-OF-RACE REGISTRATION
- Custom t-shirt
- Full race support (beverage/snack/food stop, restrooms/showers, volunteer/staff support)
- Free on-site camping (in your gear)
- Free parking
- Custom awards (see below) for overall male and female finishers of each race as well as winning 4-person relay team
- Custom finishers' awards for all race finishers
- Medical support provided by the Geisinger Sports Medicine/Orthopaedic Institute
The Montour 24 offers 6, 12 (day or night versions) and 24 hour individual endurance trail runs or four-person relay 24 hour endurance trail runs on a fully supported loop course in the Hess Recreation Area in Danville, PA.
The 1.50 mile loop course is entirely on non-technical single and double-track with the exception of the grass field crossing to access the aid station and start/finish line. The course is entirely traffic free. The trails are wide enough to run next to another runner or easily pass them throughout most of the course.
- Distance: 1.50 miles
- Surface: 100% non-technical single and double-track grass/gravel trails
- Type: loop
- Course elevation (max/min): 485ft / 460ft
- Course records: male: Paul Riley, age 32 of Tomball, TX 120.69mi; female: Charlotte Vasarhelyi, age 38 of Kitchener, Ontario, 105.79mi
NOTE: The Wine in the Pines Festival will not be held on the same weekend as the race in 2017.
This race is not for the faint of heart or the weekend warrior. This is a serious mid-summer endurance challenge, suited only to those who have put in the time and training to compete in an event of this magnitude. Racers are not required to qualify for this event, but race organizers and medical staff will carefully monitor the condition of all racers throughout the event and will retain the authority to stop any participant deemed medically unfit to continue.
The trails and features at the Hess Recreation Area celebrate over 115 years of history as Danville's premiere outdoor recreation destination. Since 1897, Danville residents have maintained the former line of the Catawissa (Reading) Railroad as what may be the oldest rail-to-trail in the United States. The Montour 24 is a great opportunity for racers and supporters alike to have a great time in a beautiful and historic setting.
The relay option will be span the entire 24 hours. The team will rotate 1 runner every hour, in a predetermined order, to complete the 24 hours. Each team member at the end will have run a total of 6 hours.
Relay teams will need to elect a team captain who will be responsible for registering and paying for the entire team. Once the team has been activated, the remaining team members will then need to complete the registration process after they are invited by the team captain.
There is plenty of space for you to set up a tent or canopy directly along the course, which is what the majority of participants will do and we encourage you to do the same no matter which time option you are competing in. The park will be open Friday night and you may camp for free. Relay teams are encouraged to decorate their team tents and bring tailgating games to play between your turn to run.
Would your fans rather sleep somewhere a bit less 'rustic'? We have just the place for them. The Pine Barn Inn in Danville has all the amenities they might want and offers a 20% discount to any River Towns Race Series racers or fans. Mention the discount code 'MARC' or enter it as your discount code when booking online and enjoy a 20% savings off the regular room rate!
Food and water will be available every 1.5 miles located just past the start/finish line. The aid station pavilion will be fully stocked and will include a variety of foods such as fresh fruit, chips, energy bars, sandwiches and snacks. We will also have special items such as grilled cheese, pierogies and soup throughout the race day. Relay team members will have access to the aid station while they are running but all teams should plan on bringing their own food to eat while they are waiting for their turn to run again.
To help keep this race from producing unnecessary trash, please bring your own water bottle to use during the race!! We will provide coffee mugs and cups along with iced coffee cups for our delicious Bason Coffee but feel free to bring your favorite travel mug from home!
Porta-potties will be placed alongside the course and camping area. A restroom building with indoor facilities, sinks and hot/cold showers is located less than 100 yards from the main pavilion.
The awards for the Montour 24 are as unique as the history of the area! Each overall male and female winner in each time option, along with the winners of the 4 person team relay, will receive a custom forged railroad spike knife. Each knife will be hand stamped with the race name and time option won. Every participant, no matter the distance run, will receive a custom finisher award.
The course is designed so that you may, at any time, have access to the aid station and tenting area directly after completing a lap. You may rest as long as you want and start back running when you want. To make it as fair as possible, we ask that you do not leave the race site unless you absolutely must do so. If you decide that you must leave the event during the run, you must check out at the official "Check-In and Out Table," located near the start/finish line and timing tent.
We expect relay teams to also stay at the race site for the majority of the 24 hours. It would be an unfair advantage for relay members who are local to go home and sleep in their beds when runners who have traveled from far away are sleeping in tents at the site. Relay team members are permitted to leave the race site for the purposes of obtaining food, additional gear, etc.
Runners must have a headlamp at all times from dusk until dawn – no exceptions! The course will not be illuminated during the night except at the aid station and start/finish line. We will marshal the course throughout the night for your safety.
Runners may have crews and can access them through the tenting/canopy area and through the aid station pavilion. Pacers will be allowed for 24-hour runners only during the dusk to dawn period. Pacers will not be allowed during the daylight hours.
The Montour 24 strives to be cup-free to the extent possible. Please bring your own water bottle to use during the race. We'll provide coffee mugs and iced coffee cups for our delicious Bason Coffee, but bring your favorite travel mug from home.
To review the 2015 race results, please click here.
Congratulations to everyone who endured 6, 12 or 24 hours of racing with us at the inaugural Montour 24 Endurance Runs! It was an exceptional weekend of racing with a fantastic group of racers. We could not have asked for a better first-year event. Special thanks to Dave Walker and our many volunteers who made it all possible and Bason Coffee Roasting and Geisinger Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine for helping us get through the day.
Photos are now available at http://rstoudt.smugmug.com/MARC/RiverTownsRaceSeries/Montour-24 and https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.920311866202.1073741836.72100104&type=1&l=c8714c9b0c . You're sure to find one of your favorite runner.
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Thanks again to everyone who made the Montour 24 such an amazing success. We'll hope to see everyone in Danville again in 2015!
– Bob
The race is full, do you maintain a wait list?
The wait list is now closed. No changes, additions or deletions will be made.
What is your refund policy?
The refund period has ended. No refunds, deferrals or bib transfers will be made.
If I am a registered runner but cannot participate due to an injury or illness can I defer my entry to the following year?
No. We do not allow deferrals, rollovers, or bib transfers, but depending on when you withdraw you might be eligible for a partial refund of your entry fee.
Are headphones allowed?
Yes, we'll allow headphones, though we don't necessarily encourage their use. If you're going to run with headphones on, you've got to run responsibly and remain aware of your surroundings at all times. We want you to have fun, but we want you (and our other racers) to stay safe too.
Where can I find information about local lodging for friends or family members who are coming with me but who don't want to camp out?
Our partners at the Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau have all the information about food, lodging and other local events that you could possibly need. Please visit their website at http://www.ITourColumbiaMontour.com for more information.
I left something at a race. What should I do?
Either contact us or wait a day or two and check the race website. We'll likely post a "Lost and Found" page on the race updates page. There you can browse photos of items left at the race and see if your missing item is among the photos.
What if I get hurt?
Racing can be dangerous! No person should enter a race of any type without carefully considering the risks involved. Your consideration should include factors that are completely out of the normal range of consideration. You could be hit by a car. You could fall. You could run into another runner or be run into by them. You could be hit by lightning. Although the organizers of the race spend months putting systems in place to make the race as safe as possible, there are ALWAYS RISKS. You should participate in each race at a level that keeps you in control of your safety. Always exercise caution and restraint on the course. Any racer found by the Race Director to be behaving irresponsibly will be disqualified immediately and asked to leave the race. WHEN YOU SIGN-UP FOR THIS RACE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE POTENTIAL FOR INJURY AS PART OF THE EXPERIENCE. You are saying that you alone accept this potential risk and are willfully participating at your own risk. You are accepting ANYTHING that could happen on the race course regardless of events leading to the dangerous condition, including negligence. YOU ARE AGREEING TO HOLD ALL PEOPLE, GROUPS, BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATION HARMLESS AND AGREEING NOT TO SUE IN THE EVENT THAT YOU BECOME INJURED.


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*All assignments are in Basic Technical Mathematics With Calculus 7th edition by Allyn J. Washington, 2000.
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Recognize quadratic equations and solve by factoring using the zero principle .
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Be able to solve quadratics by completing the square, using square root principle.
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Be able to use the quadratic formula to solve any quadratic.
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Use the discriminant to determine the character of the roots to a quadratic.
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I'm actually a Dove girl. I use Dove deodorant, because I love the smell. I also use Dove body wash. I used to buy the green variant, but now that I'm preggy and have sensitive skin, I use this sensitive skin variant which I bought from Duty Free and I love it.
This week, I got a call from my friend and she heard about a short play called Unspeakably Yours: The Underarm Monologues. I heard about it, and that it was sponsored by Dove the previous week from a PR agency, but I only decided to go when my officemates told me that she had tickets and some of my friends wanted to go, too. So, I agreed as I was curious as to what the show was. The tickets said 6:30 pm, so we all had to rush to Greenhills from our office. Even if we were there on time, the show started at 8:00 pm. 🙁 The event was organized by Dove, and they were still waiting for some media people to come in. Anyway, my friends and I patiently waited and after an hour and a half, the host, Cesca Litton opened the show.
She introduced three lovely ladies, Caisa Borromeo, Angela Padilla, and I forgot the other girl's name (but she was my favorite), the stars of the show.
The topic was of course, our underarms (duh! :>). The show started off a bit 'slow', but picked up, and was quite amusing and funny (although my husband didn't care so much— i think the show was really made for women). The writers, Joel Trinidad and Cathy Azanza-Dy did quite an amazing job at filling in the details of what our underarms would say if they could talk. One of my favorite part was the monologue about how our boyfriends/husbands feel about our underarms. Another funny exchange was the 'arch-enemy' when they mentioned that Enthusiasm was the enemy of our under arms, since we tend to show enthusiasm by always raising our arms. 🙂 That part was hilarious!
The show was quite unique. I so much wanted to try the new products from Dove (after all that prepping and encouragement to take care and be proud of our underarms) and was happy that they mentioned about giving samples to the audience, but they didn't. 🙁 Anyway, it was a cool experience. Kudos to Dove and upstart productions for the great concept!


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Just over a year ago, Vanessa's husband, who is in the Navy, was deployed to Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom. Vernon's tour was expected to last about 11 months. Vanessa prepared herself for all this would entail and how she would balance her job, her role as primary caregiver to their two daughters, and management of the household expenses. To make things even more difficult, Vanessa and Vernon had a variable-rate mortgage on their San Diego home that was due to reset.
"I had a husband overseas and two children to worry about every day," Vanessa said. "Worrying about my mortgage every month just added to my stress." When Vanessa and her husband realized their mortgage payment would rise to nearly $2,300 each month, and they were only paying down interest, she decided to contact her bank to see what options were available.
"I contacted my servicer and did a lot of research online. That's where I learned about the Making Home Affordable © Program, and I asked my servicer about our eligibility," Vanessa recalls. "I completed and mailed all of the required documents."
Vanessa and her husband applied for a trial modification under the Home Affordable Modification Program SM (HAMP SM) and began making reduced payments in June 2010. "I read all of the paperwork and directives very carefully," Vanessa said. "As soon as my trial payments were finished, I reached out to my servicer again to confirm my permanent modification."
Vanessa made two additional trial payments and kept following up with her mortgage servicer. "At first I was patient with my servicer," she said. "Then I became worried that my modification was not complete. I called them every day." Vanessa's persistent calls and letters were successful. Her trial modification became permanent in January 2011.
"My monthly payment dropped by almost $400 and now includes principal, interest, taxes and insurance. I was so relieved," Vanessa said. "It really was a Happy New Year for me!"
Vernon returned home to San Diego in February 2011. "I'm so happy to have my family together in our home," Vanessa said.
Before the HAMP program, little meaningful assistance was offered to struggling homeowners like Vanessa and Vernon. For many of these homeowners, HAMP offers the most sustainable assistance available today.
HAMP is not designed to prevent every foreclosure. But currently, between 25,000-30,000 additional homeowners receive a permanent HAMP modification every month. HAMP is part of the Administration's efforts to help the housing market recover fully from an historic housing crisis and has been carefully designed to protect taxpayer interests. Money is only spent when a homeowner gets assistance and is able to continue making their payments on time.
As Congress considers a bill to terminate HAMP, it is important to remember the homeowners across the country like Vanessa and Vernon who continue to benefit from the program. Foreclosure has devastating impacts for families, communities and our economy. In the midst of the worst housing crisis in a generation, eliminating such vital assistance as some in the U.S. House of Representatives have proposed, would be a terrible mistake.
Phyllis Caldwell is Chief of Treasury's Homeownership Preservation Office.
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Hot on the heels of landing the NBC pilot "Casino Eye," "All My Children's" Josh Duhamel (ex-Leo) will star in a comedy called "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!"
Shooting begins next month. The very busy Kelly Ripa (ex-Hayley), not yet returned from maternity leave as co-host of "Live With Regis and Kelly," appears to be the choice for an ABC pilot called "Hope and Faith." The show was created by former "B&B" star Joanna Johnson (ex-Caroline), and also stars former "Another World" and "Murphy Brown" cast member Faith Ford. Production is scheduled to begin in May.


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These are hard tickets, so you will need to come downtown to the Mercury office during regular business hours next week to pick them up. If you are not able to do this, please don't enter. This contest will close Tuesday at 9 am.
Not sure if you like the Naked and Famous? Watch the video above, in which a bunch of stuff happens in suuuuper slooooowwwwww mooooootionnnnnnnnn. Not sure if you like winning stuff for free? You can pay hard-earned dollars for tickets right here.
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Latin American Expert Shannon O'Neil to Speak at Doane
The Hansen Speakers Series will start out strong with its first guest Shannon O'Neil at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 in Heckman Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
O'Neil is a Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher.
"She is incredibly engaging," said Sam Ritchie '14, chair of the Hansen Leadership Advisory Board. "When she speaks, she commands attention."
The advisory board helps select the speakers in the series every year. The group thought O'Neil was a good choice because she would appeal to students from a variety of majors, including political science, business, sociology and psychology, given the work she has done.
O'Neil has expertise in U.S.-Latin America relations, trade, energy and immigration. She is also the author of "Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead." The book analyzes the political, economic and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why these changes matter for the United States.
Ritchie said she hoped students get a better understanding about relations between Mexico and the U.S. from O'Neil. "I think a lot of people have a misunderstanding about the relations between the two countries," she said. "I think (O'Neil) will enlighten a lot of people."
O'Neil is an incredible leader. She has testified before Congress on U.S. policy toward Mexico, is a frequent commentator on major television and radio programs, as well as had her work published in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, among others.
O'Neil's other achievements include being a Fulbright scholar; a Justice, Welfare and Economics fellow at Harvard University; and a professor of Latin American politics at Columbia University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, a Master of Arts in international relations from Yale University and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.
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Our practice offers a variety of health-related pet supplies for sale. This includes dental items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, oral rinse, and dental chews. We also offer items which can aid in medicating pets, such as pet pillers, pill splitters, and pill pockets. For pets with anxiety, we offer a variety of pheromone therapies such as Feliway and Adaptil. Finally, we carry both plastic and inflatable e-collars.


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Take the tablet wherever you go and use it wirelessly with the accessory kit. Turn your Mac or PC into the ultimate tool for creativity by adding your personal touch to everything you do. Retouch and manage your profile pics and add funky effects to them with the full version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 or 10 (Small or Medium tablet version) that is included. Sketch, doodle and paint with the real pen-on-paper feeling with ArtRage 3 or Corel Painter Essentials (comes only with Fun M) software which also comes free with Bamboo Fun.
Use the power of the pen or the stroke and swipe of your fingertips - great for navigating, rotating and zooming in and out on websites, documents and photos. Thanks to Bamboo Fun, your computer is now an on-the-go digital canvas with free up-to-the-minute creative software. A variety of exciting, fun Bamboo apps inside Bamboo dock are kept ready for download and are part of this package.
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Self Script
Started by mvi, Jun 23 2005 05:59 PM
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Posted 23 June 2005 - 05:59 PM
Just wondering if there will be some form of scripting tool, where a server admin can script in diiferent scenarios. For example, some form of racing, jetpack fighting (if possible), and also will there be some sort of team functionality, with friendly fire off?
Posted 24 June 2005 - 04:16 AM
There's not really a 'script' but a configuration file that will allow some limited gamemodes to be defined. I guess the server configuration could later evolve into a scripting language that allowed more flexibility, but initially it's going to be very simple.
Posted 25 June 2005 - 12:52 AM
If this kinda thing is pretty simple to use it would be smart to have scenes such as alien attacks, natural disasters, and maybe the world ending, causing peds to panic, rioting, and just all-round nastiness before the big meteor comes crashing down
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LONG BEACH >> Several prominent mayoral candidates have come out publicly against a plan to rebuild the Civic Center.
In comments made during a forum Tuesday evening at the Houghton Park Community Center in North Long Beach, Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske, City College Trustee Doug Otto and Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal each said they would not support the current version of the project.
The strongest language came from Schipske, who was the lone dissenting vote when the City Council voted 8-1 on Oct. 22 to begin a request for proposals process to build a new Civic Center complex. Officials say the current complex would be unusable after a major earthquake.
Schipske called the plan a "farce" and a "boondoggle" absent an estimate on retrofitting the buildings.
She also said elected officials will not get to see the proposal before it goes out and criticized the public engagement process, which includes only two informational sessions.
"This is a sham, asking the public to go to these sessions," Schipske said.
Otto invoked William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to show his displeasure with the Civic Center plan to a crowd of about 100 at the forum.
"There's something rotten in Denmark," he said.
With Long Beach coming off a decade of deficits in which services were drastically reduced, it's unlikely enough voters would support a long-term outlay for a new Civic Center if given the choice, Otto argued.
Lowenthal agreed.
"It seems impossible to talk about the development of a new building until we restore those services," Lowenthal said.
Another candidate at the event, Willmore City Heritage Association Treasurer Jana Shields, was also against a rebuild.
The remaining participants in the forum, Vice Mayor Robert Garcia and real estate investor and former NFL player Damon Dunn, were more measured in their comments.
Both said more public engagement is needed.
"I think that we should expand the process as much as possible," said Garcia, a supporter of the project when it has been before the council.
Dunn, a commercial developer, said the current debt payment and operating expenses for the Civic Center total $12.6 million annually, money that could absorb the cost for a new facility.
City staff have taken a similar stance while repeatedly citing scientific studies that have shown that retrofitting the Civic Center would strengthen it against an earthquake but would still result in it being uninhabitable after a sizable temblor.
A peer review of a 2005 analysis that found seismic weaknesses in City Hall's concrete wing panels, vertical trusses, columns and beams identified deficiencies that included excessive movement between the fourth and seventh floors could lead to structure collapse in an earthquake.
Though no formal evaluation of retrofit costs have been done, city staff members have said the total could be as high as $264 million over 35 years, including maintenance.
An estimate given by the city to the Press-Telegram in October for a new Civic Center was about $230 million, not including parking garage or park renovations.
The complex would be built in a public-private partnership and may include a new Port of Long Beach headquarters and private development.
Contact Eric Bradley at 562-499-1254.


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Have R4 card and never have any problems, have you tried card in any other ds?
ace kard 2.1 tryed akaio 1.5 and 1.51 firmware with latest loaders and older loaders and i can only get 3 games to work. games keep freezing after they tell you to press start or "a". i even tryed the official firmware. all games start up then freeze. is there only a few games that work?? anyone have any ideas thx
yeah both my kids have ds lites. neither work. both lock an freeze after loading screen. had a couple games work . like 3 of over 100 that i tryed. its funny because all the step by stepsset up guides seem like no brainers, but i guess the ds is much harder to set up then wii


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Akron Children's Lewis H. Walker, M.D., Cystic Fibrosis Center provides diagnosis and treatment to children and adults with CF, including respiratory therapy, physical therapy, genetic counseling and nutrition counseling. The center also actively participates in clinical trials to research new drug therapies to manage cystic fibrosis. Read More...
Akron Children's cystic fibrosis center is one of six in the state that provides comprehensive care, including respiratory therapy, physical therapy, genetic counseling and nutrition counseling.
Cystic fibrosis treatment depends on the stage of the disease and which organs are involved.
Most therapies are designed to clear the lungs of the thick mucus to make breathing easier, minimize the bacteria that cause respiratory infections and provide the missing digestive enzymes for food absorption.
Children with CF must eat a healthy, high-calorie diet supplemented with vitamins and, usually, medications that contain pancreatic enzymes to help aid food absorption.
Many children with CF also require daily respiratory therapy, where a parent or caretaker is trained to perform vigorous percussions on the back and chest to dislodge thick mucus from the lungs.
Lung and liver transplants, stronger antibiotics and medications that thin mucus have contributed to the increased life of CF patients.
If you or a family member has cystic fibrosis, we recommend:
Akron Children's Lewis H. Walker Cystic Fibrosis Center actively participates in clinical trials to research new drug therapies to manage CF. Our goal is to improve treatment and quality of life for children and adults affected by cystic fibrosis.
The drug pipeline at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has more than 2 dozen potential therapies in development. One of the categories generating the most excitement and hope in the CF community is CFTR Modulation. These therapies are designed to correct the function of the defective CFTR protein made by the CF gene, which would allow chloride and sodium to properly move in and out of the cells that line the lungs and other vital organs.
In February 2011, the CF Foundation and Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced that VX-770 showed promising results in a Phase 3 clinical trial for patients 12 and older who carry at least one copy of a CF mutation G551D. Compared to placebo, patients who took the study drug showed a marked improvement in lung function, as well as a reduced likelihood of having a pulmonary exacerbation, decreased respiratory symptoms and weight gain.
A Phase 3 trial in children ages 6 to 11 with one G551D mutation also demonstrated positive results. These children showed marked improvement in lung function through 24 weeks of the 48-week trial, compared to children who received a placebo.
Vertex and the CF Foundation announced promising results in June 2011, for patients who have 2 copies of the Delta F508 mutation, the most common CF mutation. In CF patients with 2 copies of the Delta F508 mutation, the CFTR protein does not move to its proper place at the cell surface.
In this ongoing Phase 2 trial, patients are given a combination of VX-770 and VX-809. VX-809 is designed to help the protein reach the cell surface. VX-770 aims to help the protein function more normally once it's at the cell surface.
In the first phase of the trial, adult patients who took the drugs in combination showed a decrease in sweat chloride levels. Akron Children's center will be participating in the second phase, and we hope to enroll patients in fall 2011.
The basic entry criteria are: 2 copies of the Delta F508 mutation; 18 years or older; FEV1≥40% predicted; and in stable health at the start of the trial.
We are also enrolling patients in 2 other clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of MP-376, an inhaled form of the antibiotic levofloxacin. Mpex 207 is a 10-week trial comparing 28 days of MP-376 to placebo in patients 12 years and older who have a positive culture for Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
In the Mpex 209 trial, patients with the same entry criteria will receive 3 cycles of the MP-376 or TOBI®. The objective is to compare the safety and efficacy of the new inhaled antibiotic to TOBI® in treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
We will also be recruiting for a new study in September 2011 called the ALPINE (Aztreonam Lysine for Pseudomonas Infection Eradication) study. The study drug is Aztreonam Lysine for inhalation, called Cayston®. The study population is children ages 3 months to less than 18 years with CF and newly detected Pa pulmonary infection.
To learn more about any of these trials, contact Debbie Ouellette, CF research nurse coordinator, at 330-543-3089.
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BROOKSVILLE, Fla. - Police say a Florida woman faces manslaughter charges after giving birth in her shower and placing the newborn in a trash bag that she hid in her room.
Brooksville Police Chief George Turner says 27-year-old Maria Macdalena Castillo told detectives she didn't know she was pregnant when she gave birth April 28. The baby girl's cause of death was listed as asphyxiation, hemorrhage and inattention at birth.
Castillo was arrested Wednesday and remains in the Hernando County Jail.
Turner says they waited to arrest Castillo until the medical examiner's report confirmed that the child was alive at birth.
The Tampa Bay Times reported that Castillo shared an apartment with her mother and adult siblings. No one knew she was pregnant and didn't learn of the birth until hours later.
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WASHINGTON -- The number of women-owned businesses, many of them one-person enterprises, grew at twice the national rate for all private companies from 1997 to 2002, with the biggest increases in Nevada and Georgia.
About 28 percent of private companies were owned by women in 2002, according to the report released Thursday by the Census Bureau.
The report focused on privately owned companies, as opposed to those with publicly traded stocks.
"I think we're making tremendous progress," said Sharon Hadary, executive director of the Center for Women's Business Research. "What I would like to see is more progress in expansion of the businesses, with more access to capital, networks and markets."
The report is based on the Census Bureau's 2002 survey of 1.9 million business owners. It defines female-owned businesses as firms in which women own 51 percent or more of the interest or stock.
The report identified 6.5 million firms with female owners, an increase of 20 percent from 1997. About 13.2 million businesses were owned by men, an increase of 16 percent. The number of all private businesses grew 10 percent to about 23 million. About 2.7 million firms were owned equally by men and women.
The number of women-owned businesses grew by 43 percent in Nevada and 35 percent in Georgia during the five-year period.
Most of the women-owned businesses had no employees other than the owner. But that's true for all private businesses. According to census data, 76 percent of all private businesses had no employees other than the owner in 2002.
Margaret Smith, who owns a large kitchen and home accessory store in Los Gatos, Calif., has 25 employees and sales in the millions.
She has owned the store, called Domus, for 10 years, yet she still gets mistaken for the owner's wife. She took her husband on a trip to a trade show last year and several exhibitors ignored her and tried to do business with her husband.
"Of course, he knows nothing about my business, but they had a very hard time accepting that," Smith said.
Smith, who had been a business lawyer for 15 years before buying the store, said she was helped early on by a loan program for women entrepreneurs.
Susan Phillips Bari, president of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council, said businesses owned by women can have a hard time accessing capital and markets.
"The number of women-owned businesses is astounding," Bari said. "Our issue is not with the number of businesses, but rather with their access to contracts in the government and private sector, which would allow them to grow."
Bari said women-owned businesses landed fewer than 3 percent of federal contracts and about 4 percent of corporate contracts last year.
Among the census report's findings for 2002:
Nearly a third of women-owned businesses were concentrated in health care and social services.
There were 117,069 women-owned firms with receipts of $1 million or more.
There were 7,240 women-owned firms with 100 or more employees.
The counties with the most women-owned businesses were Los Angeles County (265,919), Cook County in Illinois (130,418), Miami-Dade County in Florida (88,173), New York County (86,364) and Harris County in Texas (86,042).
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Members of the drumming group Tanbou Mele will join the Pierrot Youth , other members of the public youth from Vieux Fort North generally in a traditional drumming games night, at the Pierrot Parish Hall tomorrow Saturday evening from 7pm. The event is one of the activities to mark the 2016 observance of Emancipation and the Vieux Fort North Drumming Festival.
Hon. Moses Jn. Baptiste Parliamentary Representative for Vieux Fort North , the main organizer of the event indicates that the evening will feature games which were famous, during the days when electricity and electronic games were not with us.
Many of those games and activities have been lost and forgotten.
Tanbou Mele , a drumming group formed in 1987 , of which the MP is the leader, has compiled scores of those games and have held participatory sessions all around Saint Lucia over the decades.
The sessions are both learning opportunities and healthy fun.
The highlight of the Emancipation 2016 , drumming festival will be a lecture by Dr.Kentry Jn. Pierre on August 6th 2016 at the Belle Vue Human Resource Development Centre.
Dr. Jn. Pierre will focus on the impact of emancipation resilience in rural communities in Saint Lucia and the Caribbean. Local poets and drummers will also have their work on display.


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Minds Are Like Parachutes. They Work Better
When They Are Open
In the arts communities, Process is valued over Product. In other words, a working, living, flexible state of creating is favored over something that was only considered once, made, and never reconsidered.
A Closed Mind is a Product. It is a withering vessel that allows precious little in or out. It is comprised of boxes that are only filled once and afterwards are locked and abandoned.
Many things cause people to close their minds. I believe that fear is one of the factors. People who are afraid of the unknown–who are afraid of change–have a tendency to restrict the amount of data that they process.
Hurriedness is another reason that people close their minds. We live in an age of multi-tasking. The people who do the most, multi-task to do so. Multi-taskers are prone to review a matter once, make a decision, shut that door, and move on. While that might be a quick way to get things done, I feel sure that multi-taskers make many mistakes. I often question my own decisions that I made in haste, and upon further contemplation, I often discover that my hasty decisions require a second thought.
A more effective practice requires continued thinking on a matter and continual reflection. An open-minded person would revisit one's plan time and again, and he would check and balance his behavior. Anything less is like working with blinders on. It is a fast trip to denial, where a person attempts to function with partial information. I have written several posts about denial, and I believe that anger is a cause of denial–and likewise, a reason for closing one's mind.
When we get mad, we have a tendency to stop listening, and when we stop listening, we lose empathy, and we end our thought processes. The person in denial has the tendency to slam the door on any further consideration. Then, he throws away the key, and he never looks back again.
Healthy people can become frustrated and angry. In her book the Artist's Way,Julia Cameron says that Anger can actually be a good and helpful thing. The key is that of not making it the final response. Anger should lead us to another, healthier behavior.
"Anger is meant to be listened to. Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand. Anger is meant to be respected. Why? Because anger is a map. Anger shows us what our boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go. It lets us see where we've been and lets us know when we haven't liked it. Anger points the way…." Cameron, Julia. the Artist's Way, p. 62.
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"Anger is the firestorm that signals the death of our old life . Anger is the fuel that propels us into our new one. Anger is a tool, not a master. Anger is meant to be tapped into and drawn upon. Used properly anger is use-full.
"Sloth, apathy, and despair are the enemy. Anger is not. Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. …It will always tell us when we have been betrayed. It will always tell us that it is time to act in our own best interests.
"Anger is not the action itself. It is the action's invitation." Cameron, Julia. the Artist's Way, pgs. 62-63.
Unhealthy people elect to remain stuck in anger. If a person who is stuck in anger is prone to denial, he may no longer realize that he has become stuck. Especially when anger and failed relationships are in play, I believe second or third or fifth or tenth thoughts are worthwhile. Before we throw people away, we should examine our behaviors and scrutinize them. Forgiveness may be in order. Our states of denial may be preventing us from recognizing our needs for forgiveness.
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
For whatever reason, a closed mind is a sad or even a dangerous thing. People who are close-minded view life as a box with walls–as being finite. Open-minded people see life as filled with infinite possibilities. I prefer a more flexible plan for living.
Minds Are Like Parachutes. They Work Better When They Are Open!
In life and in art, process is better than product. If there is a final word, it is that there is NO final word. We never move beyond our needs to process and re-evaluate.
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USDA - CTE or Nothin'
It hardly needs to be said, but the USDA aren't the compromising types; as far as Jeezy and his crew are concerned, they'll accept nothing less than the coefficient of thermal expansion. Wait, what? The "CTE" in CTE or Nothing refers not, as Wikipedia led me to believe, to a technical term in thermodynamics, but to the rapper's label, Corporate Thugz Entertainment? Sh*t, next you'll be telling me that Jeezy isn't actually the head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Anyway, leak numero uno off the group's forthcoming mixtape finds DJ Pain1 and DJayCas cooking up a slow-rolling, bass-bumping backdrop for some characteristically gritty hood talk from the Trap King and his cohorts. Slick Pulla heads up the pack, followed by 2Eleven, Boo Rossini and finally the big boss, each of whom packs his 16 with all the paper-stacking braggadocio and hard-nosed stunting it can hold. If you're digging this street-ready cut, keep your browsers locked – while USDA's latest street release has yet to receive a drop date or title, you'll be first to know when that changes.