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Benefits and Programs
In 2000 many countries were concerned about the long-term stability of the various social protection programs. Public debate, reform proposals, and actual reforms were guided by this concern. The pros and cons of the involvement of private elements in public social protection schemes were discussed, and governments and social security administrators continued their efforts to modernize schemes. New approaches, including new technology, were used to improve welfare delivery and to promote fairness and opportunity.
North America
Election-year pressures in 2000 generally dictated social protection activity in the United States. Though a torrent of proposals and much debate occurred, lawmakers postponed passing most new legislation in the partisan-divided Congress.
Two of the strongest threads in the social safety net—Social Security and Medicare—were among the top issues of the presidential campaign; candidates pushed ideas that reflected their respective parties' views of public versus private responsibility. Both Medicare and Social Security received good news early in the year when new projections indicated that they were in better financial shape than had been thought. Trustees of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund estimated that Medicare would be solvent until 2023, eight years longer than they reported previously. It was the longest solvency projection for Medicare since 1975. Social Security trustees extended the solvency projection from 2034 to 2037; even if no action was taken, Social Security would be able to pay all promised benefits until 2037 and 72% of promised benefits after that date. Behind the revised projections were the continued strong economy and, in the case of Medicare, government efforts to contain costs and eliminate waste and fraud. Despite the improved outlook, both programs continued to face problems, especially as 76 million baby boomers headed into retirement over the next few decades, with increased life expectancy and soaring health care costs. Social Security, for example, would begin paying out more in benefits than it received from payroll taxes in 2015, and Medicare was expected to reach that tipping point in 2010.
The better-than-expected outlook did not halt all efforts in Congress to make changes in the programs. The most significant new legislation was a repeal of the earnings limit for Social Security recipients over age 65. By an overwhelming vote, Congress ended the practice of deferring Social Security benefits for people aged 65 through 69 who continued to work and earned more than a defined threshold of income each year.
Aside from this, however, most action took place on the presidential campaign trail. Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican nominee, proposed a major shift in Social Security from a program of government-guaranteed benefits to one in which private markets and investment risks would be involved. The Bush plan would allow young workers to divert some of their payroll taxes into private savings accounts through which they could invest in stocks and bonds.
Democratic nominee Vice Pres. Al Gore supported a less-radical change in which the federal government would match contributions from eligible individuals with tax credits that varied according to a person's income. Gore proposed to use excess payroll tax revenue—an estimated $2.4 trillion over 10 years—to pay down the national debt, arguing that this would bolster the economy and make it easier to meet future Social Security needs. A number of bipartisan groups also recommended moving toward private accounts, but most plans guaranteed a minimum benefit to make sure that recipients did not fall into poverty. Still others suggested dealing with the looming threat to Social Security's solvency by raising the retirement age and/or payroll taxes or by lowering benefits. The retirement age was already slated to rise from 65 to 67 in slow incremental stages.
When it came to Medicare, both major party candidates offered plans to deal with a widely recognized shortcoming in the program—the lack of coverage for prescription drugs, which was the fastest-growing form of health care costs in the United States. Almost one-third of Medicare recipients had no drug coverage; the other two-thirds bought private insurance or received drug coverage through Medicaid (the federal-state health care program for the poor) or "medigap" plans that supplemented Medicare.
As with Social Security, the Republican plan would involve the private sector, creating a system in which private insurance companies competed with the government to provide coverage for beneficiaries. The elderly could use government subsidies to purchase government-approved private insurance, including drug coverage, or stay in Medicare. The plan proposed by the Democrats earmarked $253 billion over 10 years to add prescription drug benefits to Medicare.
Another continuing health care issue was how to help those who had no health insurance. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that after rising for 11 years, the number of people who lacked health insurance fell from 16.3% of the population in 1998 to 15.5% in 1999, primarily as a result of government programs such as Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for youngsters whose families could not afford private insurance but made too much money to qualify for Medicaid. That left, however, an estimated 42.6 million Americans, including about 10 million children, without insurance. A report released by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Research Council, warned that health care assistance for the poor provided through sources such as local clinics, public hospitals, and charitable organizations was overburdened and underfunded and could collapse without an infusion of more money and attention. Gore proposed spending $146 billion over 10 years to expand SCHIP. Bush's solution was to use $75 billion over the same period for tax credits to help people buy private insurance. Congress considered some legislation dealing with the uninsured, but most of it did not pass.
As welfare reform marked its fourth anniversary, the Department of Health and Human Services reported that the rolls continued to shrink—to 2.4 million families at the end of 1999, compared with 2.7 million at the start of that year; the number had stood at 4.6 million when the overhaul was enacted in 1996. The report revealed that for the third straight year every state had met standards required by law for the proportion of welfare recipients who were working or preparing for a job. Independent studies found that those left on the rolls increasingly were minorities and children who did not live with their parents.
With Congress slow to move in the social welfare field, Pres. Bill Clinton took some actions on his own. To combat the tight housing market in big cities, he announced that the federal government would increase the value of subsidies given to low-income renters under the "Section 8" housing program, one of the government's largest housing programs, serving three million households. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that a record 5.4 million low-income renters paid more than half their incomes for rent or lived in "seriously distressed" housing.
Clinton also announced help for community and faith-based organizations to expand facilities where teenage mothers could receive support. The government reported that teen birthrates were down in 1999 for the eighth straight year—dropping to 49.6 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, the lowest level in the 60 years the data had been kept.
There was other encouraging news about the segment of the population at whom most social programs were aimed. A Census Bureau report in September noted a decline in the percentage of Americans living in poverty. According to the report, 2.2 million households moved above the poverty level (defined as $17,029 for a family of four) in 1999, and the proportion of those living in poverty fell from 12.7% in 1998 to 11.8% in 1999—the lowest point in more than two decades. Seven states and the District of Columbia registered declines in poverty population, while none had a statistically significant rise. A separate study by the National Center for Children in Poverty, a nonpartisan research centre at Columbia University, New York City, found that the child poverty rate fell significantly in a few states. It also revealed, however, that in most states and in the country as a whole, child poverty was higher in 1998—the last year for which figures were available—than in 1979.
In Canada too the main concern was the country's strained health care system. After nearly a year of wrangling about financing and reforming health care, federal and provincial ministers agreed on a plan in September. Under the compromise, the federal government would restore more than Can$5 billion (Can$1.48=$1) a year in contributions to health and social programs by 2005, bringing its transfers to $21 billion annually. In addition, Ottawa would provide Can$1 billion for medical equipment and Can$800 million for health care reform. Federal transfer payments to the provinces had been cut in 1995 in an effort to eliminate the deficit, and this caused the Canada Health and Social Transfer block fund to fall to Can$11 billion in 1996. The debate over what to do included a push by Health Minister Allan Rock for a new home-care program that would relieve hospitals. In the end, the ministers settled for a plan that gave provinces more money to keep the existing system going and did not change federal and state jurisdictions. For their part, provinces gave up demands for automatic yearly increases tied to economic factors. In another area Canada's employment insurance rules were altered to extend parental leave from 10 to 35 weeks. The benefits were available to either the mother or the father.
Concern about the long-term financial viability of Belgium's old-age scheme led the Belgian budget minister to propose the creation of a reserve fund for the partial financing of social security retirement pensions. In Ireland legislation was introduced to establish a National Pensions Reserve Fund to partially fund the future cost of pensions. Ireland also discussed the creation of personal retirement savings accounts.
In Slovenia legislation paved the way for the establishment of second- and third-pillar pension schemes; meanwhile, the existing system underwent a major reform to stabilize it for the future. A voluntary pension-fund program could not be implemented as planned in Lithuania owing to inadequate funds to set up a regulatory regime. In Croatia a pension law enacted in June delayed the implementation of the reform process that had been put in place in May 1999. It was considered that extra time was needed to build the necessary infrastructure for the replacement of the existing pay-as-you-go system with a three-pillar system that would include voluntary forms of saving.
In Germany tax-reform legislation—which had been considered a precondition for pension reform—was enacted in July and substantially reduced personal and company taxes. Consensus was not yet reached, however, on a proposed pension reform that would introduce a funded pension component. Tax reform in Austria created new opportunities for taxpayers to add a tax-efficient third pillar to their old-age provision, such as a voluntary supplementary insurance within the framework of the statutory pension scheme. A new flat-rate tax plan, designed to combat tax evasion by strengthening the collection process, was signed into law in Russia. The Tax Ministry was given the authority to assess a single social tax, including payments to the state-operated retirement, unemployment, and health insurance programs. Previously these programs had been administered by separate entities that collected their own contributions.
The future of the entire social security system was heatedly debated in France among the social partners. Throughout much of the year, MEDEF, the employers federation, threatened to withdraw from the comanagement of the country's social protection programs. It sought changes that would make French companies more competitive in world markets and protested against certain regulations in relation to the introduction of a 35-hour workweek. The situation became particularly difficult when in July the government refused to ratify an agreement between the employers federation and the two main private-sector unions concerning a radical reform of unemployment insurance; an appeal was denied in August. The large public-sector unions would not sign the agreement, and the government was concerned about the creation of a "two-speed" unemployment insurance, in which a distinction would be made between people who easily found a new job and those who were penalized for refusing unattractive job offers.
Many European countries also attempted to contain costs to keep health systems viable. Liechtenstein made it mandatory for health insurers to offer their clients a "family doctor system," in which people who limited their free choice of doctor and agreed to see the family physician first would pay reduced insurance premiums. The Hungarian National Assembly passed a health-reform plan involving privatization. The first step would be to allow Hungary's family doctors to buy their practices. Germany's Health Reform 2000 turned out less comprehensive than initially intended. It proved impossible to reach agreement on such points as the overall budget and organizational reform of the associations regrouping physicians under the social health insurance system. The main changes were in entitlement to benefits and compulsory insurance and contributions. In addition, the federal Ministry of Health was empowered to give out a list of prescription-approved medicines. In The Netherlands, system stability was sought by an increase in the insurance base. The social health insurance that covered employees was extended in January to the self-employed. (See also Health and Disease: Special Report.)
Industrialized Asia and the Pacific
Australia began overhauling its welfare system. Following consultations across the country, a Reference Group on Welfare Reform proposed the establishment of a system with the following features: individualized service delivery; a simpler income support structure that would be more responsive to individual needs and circumstances; incentives and targeted assistance to encourage and enable participation; social partnerships, including a role for employers and communities; and mutual obligations, with sanctions applied, as a last resort, to noncomplying income-support recipients. The Australian government also continued its efforts to reduce future spending on public health care. Under a Lifetime Health Cover program, favourable premiums were offered beginning in July to people who took out insurance for treatment in private hospitals; low premiums were guaranteed for life if the insurance was uninterrupted.
A management-consolidation process in the health sector in South Korea culminated in July; the National Health Insurance Corp. became the sole insurer in the national health insurance system. At its peak the system had been operated by 500 insurers who separately took care of the health insurance needs of different types of workers.
New Zealand reversed its policy on workers' compensation. Less than one year after the workers' compensation market had been privatized, the state Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation (ACC) was reinstated as the sole provider of workplace accident insurance. The Accredited Employers Programme was also revived; under that plan larger employers with good injury-prevention records and rehabilitation systems could accrue some of the risk themselves, in return for cheaper ACC levies.
Beginning in April, Japan embarked on another reform of its pension system. The main objective of the new reform, which would be implemented in stages, was to ensure that the existing public pension system could be maintained in the future while at the same time avoiding a sharp increase in contributions. It was decided, inter alia, to reduce benefits, to make workers between 65 and 69 years of age pay contributions beginning in 2002, to gradually raise the retirement age from 60 to 65 (between the years 2013 and 2025 for men and between 2018 and 2030 for women), and to increase the government subsidy to the National Pension scheme.
Emerging and Less-Developed Countries
An unfavourable economic environment led to financial imbalances and adversely affected a number of social protection systems in Africa and Asia. Nonetheless, reform efforts were made to extend benefits and coverage and to provide better service delivery.
In Cameroon—where some 10% of the population was covered by a system providing old-age, disability, and survivors' benefits, as well as family allowances and benefits in the event of occupational accidents and diseases—authorities discussed ways in which to extend coverage. Measures included the introduction of new insurance branches and, in the area of pension insurance, a movement toward a mixed system—pay-as-you-go coupled with funding. With inflation running above 50%, Zimbabwe had plans to raise the contribution ceiling under the Pension and Other Benefits Scheme so that benefits could also be adapted. The South African Ministry of Labour introduced a draft law to broaden the insurance base and extend the benefits paid by the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
Minimum pensions payable under the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution were increased by almost 50% in Pakistan. The Social Security Organization of Iran started to systematically assess its health care centres to improve services and contain costs.
The Gulf States began requiring expatriates to contribute to the health care system. Kuwait implemented legislation to this effect starting in February. In Bahrain the government was studying ways in which to recover the full cost of health services provided to foreigners. Saudi Arabia announced that its new compulsory health insurance scheme for foreigners would come into effect in early 2001.
The Latin American countries continued to experiment with totally or partially privatized retirement pensions. In Chile the introduction of "Second Funds" under the Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs) was announced. These were aimed at older AFP members (people within 10 years of retirement age) who were seeking more stable investments. Second Funds' assets were to be invested only in medium-term fixed-interest securities. Ecuador was considering introducing a mixed-pension scheme, partly pay-as-you-go and partly capital funded, with mandatory participation in both components. In Venezuela, where a 1998 framework law that paved the way for the privatization of the country's social security system had never been implemented, the establishment of a mixed system was also discussed, but not before a large budget had been set aside in January to help sustain and restore the Venezuelan Social Security Institute.
Human Rights
Major issues receiving attention during 2000 were criminal accountability, gender-based abuses, self-determination of minority groups, and economic and social rights in the context of growing demands for changes in the loan and trade policies of international financial institutions in regard to the less-developed world. Particularly notable were two newly emerging approaches and methods for human rights enforcement. First, the criminal proceedings in the United Kingdom and Spain against former Pres. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte of Chile helped to establish the principle that every nation in the world, not just the specially constituted international criminal tribunals, was authorized to take legal action against torturers and other major human rights abusers. Second, mass public demonstrations in the U.S. and Europe protesting the financial practices of the World Bank and other international lending and trade-regulation institutions focused significant worldwide attention, for the first time, on economic and social aspects of human rights.
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
War crimes and other major human rights abuses and the accompanying principle of "universal jurisdiction"—the responsibility of every nation to ensure that torturers and other persecutors are prosecuted and punished—were prominently featured in human rights developments throughout the year. Building on the international criminal indictments against war criminals engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Rwanda in recent years, the international community expanded the concept of criminal accountability by applying it to the abuses that occurred in Kosovo (a province of Serbia, Yugos.), East Timor (a former Indonesian province under UN administration), Cambodia, and Sierra Leone and by proceeding toward the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court to provide criminal penalties for major abuses wherever they might occur in the future.
The movement in support of criminal accountability also received substantial support from the decision by the Law Lords of the U.K.'s House of Lords that Pinochet was subject to criminal extradition to Spain for acts of torture and other atrocities committed during his regime. The Pinochet decision set in motion a new method for holding human rights abusers accountable—the initiation of criminal proceedings by individual governments under international human rights treaties, such as the Convention Against Torture, without requiring the establishment of special international criminal tribunals. As a result of the Pinochet precedent, criminal cases against human rights abusers were filed (or considered) in a number of countries during the year, including the prosecution in Senegal of the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré; the arrest in Mexico of Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, who supervised a "torture chamber" in Argentina during the period of Argentina's military dictatorship; and the continued investigation of former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla and nine other leaders of the "dirty war" in that country.
Notable with regard to the development of criminal accountability was the upholding of the first official verdict by an international court (the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) that rape and other gender-based abuses occurring in the context of situations of armed conflict can constitute crimes against humanity. Anto Furundzija, a commander of a Bosnian Croat military police unit, had been convicted in 1998 of having failed to intervene to stop a knife-wielding subordinate from torturing and raping a female prisoner. The concept that those types of gender-based sexual abuses are war crimes was also embodied in the statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda and in the future International Criminal Court, which would be formally established following ratification by 60 countries.
Equally groundbreaking in criminal accountability efforts was the first subpoena issued against Western armed forces by a war crimes tribunal. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia summoned U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki, former commander of the NATO forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a pending hearing to inquire into unlawful arrest and abductions of suspected war criminals, while the World Court was asked to look at possible war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to alleged NATO bombings of Serbian civilian targets in connection with the Kosovo campaign.
Minority Rights and Self-Determination
The growing trend of minority groups toward demanding increased autonomy and perhaps even self-determination and independence from their home governments continued to escalate throughout the year, with particularly important developments in Chechnya (the breakaway Russian republic), Kosovo, Nigeria, and The Sudan.
Chechnya renewed its battle for independence from Russia, begun in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. An uneasy truce in 1996 was broken in the summer of 1999 when Chechen guerrillas launched an attack on a neighbouring province. Russia responded with a harsh military crackdown. The UN Human Rights Commission criticized Russia for "widespread and flagrant" human rights abuses committed during its most recent military campaign in Chechnya, abuses that involved "disproportionate and indiscriminate use of Russian military force, including attacks against civilians."
Kosovo, which had become the focus of massive armed conflict and human rights violations in 1999, began the slow process of recovery and movement in the direction of greater autonomy. Elections on October 28 represented the first time that the 90% ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo had been able to select its own representative government.
Nigeria experienced a growing religious conflict between the Muslim population in the northern part of the country and the predominantly Christian south. As part of a movement to reassert Islamic identity under the newly democratic government of Nigeria, eight mainly Muslim states in the northern part of the country began enforcing strict religious laws, which, among other things, barred women from working outside the home, forbade the sale or consumption of alcohol, and imposed strict penalties for violations. These developments ignited Muslim-Christian fighting in both the north and the south that killed hundreds of people and threatened Nigeria's 15-month-old democratic government of Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo. Christians in the north became concerned that they would not be allowed to practice their religion and that their freedoms would be limited.
The Sudan, the site of a brutal and long-lasting civil war accompanied by human rights abuses, found itself subject to an even more savagely abusive conflict in the latter part of 2000. The predominantly Arabic and Muslim government began subjecting the civilian population of southern Sudan, made up primarily of black African Dinka and Nuer peoples, to almost daily aerial bombardments, aimed at denying the opposition military forces food and supplies. International humanitarian efforts in the south also became targets of attack. In addition, the Sudanese government threatened to cut off UN-sponsored humanitarian relief flights and thereby placed thousands of civilians at risk of starvation. These abuses, together with alleged support for terrorist activities, resulted in The Sudan's being denied the seat in the UN Security Council that it had been slated to fill in October.
Economic and Social Rights
Human rights advocates, especially those in the less-developed world, urged that more attention be paid to the economic aspects of the issue. They maintained that the emerging principle of "universality" demanded that equal attention be paid to economic and social concerns, such as the right to health care, food, housing, and employment; they also stressed that violations in these areas that were occurring in the Western democracies should be addressed—that the focus should not remain almost exclusively on abuses in the less-developed nations.
In 2000, for the first time in an international context, a consistent effort was made to bring attention to a major concern in regard to economic and social rights. Public demonstrations were organized to criticize the policies and practices of the major international financial and trade-regulation agencies, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Questions were raised as to whether they, and the industrialized governments of the developed world that support and control them, were doing enough to provide assistance to less-developed nations to help them meet the basic economic needs of their people and to advance economically. Advocates urged the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, and other international institutions and their member countries to forgive or substantially reduce up to $220 billion in international loan debts that had been accumulated by poor countries that needed the funds to feed, house, and employ their own citizens. Less-developed countries also sought the lowering of trade barriers so as to give them more favourable treatment in selling their resources abroad and in obtaining products from industrialized nations at lower cost. Demonstrations began at the WTO meetings in Seattle, Wash., in November 1999, continued at IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington, D.C., in April 2000, and culminated with protests at the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, Australia, on September 11 and at the Prague Summit Meeting of the World Bank and IMF on September 26.


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FIFA 12 Has Sold An Estimated 3.2 Million Copies Since Launch
Whether you call it soccer, or football, or fútbol, I think we can all agree one one thing. It is truly the world's most played and enjoyed sport. At least that's what early estimates of FIFA 12 sales indicate.
Electronic Arts have announced an estimate of how many copies of FIFA 12 have been sold since the game's North American launch on September 27th. In one week's time, early figures suggest a staggering 3.2 million copies of FIFA 12 have been sold across all platforms, including 879,000 for IOS devices. That's an estimated increase of 23% over the launch of FIFA 11 last year.
"FIFA 12 is a stunning achievement by our team at EA Canada. The massive FIFA online community has overwhelmingly connected to the new live services in the game, including EA Sports Football Club, and we intend to keep them engaged all season long as FIFA 12 follows the heartbeat of the football season," said Andrew Wilson, Executive Vice-Present of EA Sports, when talking about FIFA's revamped online mode.
More than 200 million minutes of online games have been played since the game launched in September, indicating soccer hooligans have nothing better to do with their lives.


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Jee Main Result 2016 : Join Entrance Examination (Jee) Mains examination result is going to declared on 27th April - 2016. All those who already given the examination and waiting for the result have good news. Examination held on month of april - 2016. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) this time result is also going to declared on Jee Main Site to CBSE. Jee Exam every year taking by the CBSE. All those who want to take and admission in engineering college can give this exam.
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Why I won't be spending a penny on my son in 2013
Hattie Garlick has resolved to strike a blow this year against 'kiddy consumerism' – and she's not alone
First came a photograph of a stranger's drying rack. It pinged into my inbox at 10.04 on a Monday morning, laden with a family's sodden laundry, and lying beneath it, delighted by dangling socks, was a happy baby. "Look," read the accompanying email, "A free baby mobile!"
Then, ping: a picture of three children in school uniform, sitting at the bottom of the stairs barring the way of a crawling baby. "Our makeshift stair gate!" read the message. "We support you!"
By the evening, nearly 200 strangers had been in touch and more than 2,000 had read the blog – entitled Free Our Kids – that I'd published that morning, announcing to the ether my New Year's resolution for 2013: to raise my son cost-free for a year.
It is not exactly a revolutionary idea. On December 19, with the new year in sight, our son Johnny turned two. We were on holiday and so had avoided any present-buying hype. Instead, we pulled into a garage on the day and bought him a 50p water pistol.
He was ecstatic. It was a weapon, then it was a tool for watering plants; no wait, it was definitely, actually, something to feed bedraggled dogs from. The Smyths stockroom could not have made him happier. And that's when I had my eureka moment.
It was all superfluous.
Clothes: a child's only requirement is to be warm and dry. We would use only swaps from friends or bundles from Freecycle, the website that matches people who have things they don't want with people who can use them.
Toys: ditto. Food: out with the kiddy rice cakes, little cheeses and special squashes. He would just eat his share of the three meals a day that we cook for ourselves.
Cloth nappies (given away via "swap or sell" pages on Facebook); kitchen haircuts; activities concocted at home instead of at soft-play centres. We could go a whole year without engaging in any kiddy consumerism, barring essential items such as medicines. Johnny wouldn't even notice.
Back home, I recounted my vision to Dot, my elderly neighbour. She leant against my garden wall, had a think, and summarily burst my bubble. "I don't get it," she said. "Isn't that what mothers have always done?"
Right. Oh dear. Was I the only one suffering from kiddy overspend? I thought back to our antenatal classes: a group of excited and nervous first-time parents, all dutifully pursuing the "must-have" €600 buggy.
Not representative, I realised. So I thought about the queues in Baby Gap, the supermarket aisles devoted to snacks for babies and toddlers, the parenting magazines rammed full of adverts for the latest infant accessories and trinkets.
Then I looked at the statistics. Last year, the average cost of raising a child to their 21st birthday rose to €257,250. Another survey found that families spend more than €11,800 on toys before their child turns 19.
No, if I was mad, then I wasn't alone. It wasn't even a middle-class madness. It may not have existed in previous generations, but all the symptoms pointed to a nationwide epidemic.
Still, as I pressed "publish" on my blog, laying out my sketchy and amateur plans, the best scenario looked like a few sympathetic comments from friends, some sneers and the usual plethora of spam adverts for Viagra.
Instead, people I had never met began saying that they would take the challenge with me. They added to and improved my rules, suggesting places to find free clothes and ways to source second-hand shoes that would fit properly. But the biggest surprise was the range of people attracted to the idea.
"My first baby is eight weeks old and I have been on a bonkers spending spree – travel system alone, £1,000!" wrote Charlie. "She has also been showered with gifts. I'm now thinking it's all a bit mad, am mortified at the extent of the baby wardrobe and plan a slightly less 'cold turkey' change along your lines."
"I grew up in a low-income family," wrote Laura, "and know first-hand that cloth nappies and second-hand/hand-me-down clothes and toys never hurt anyone. I'm also very careful not to get drawn in by advertising for 'must-have' items, because a background in child care has shown me how few things children really need."
I hope she is right. The day after we gave Johnny his water pistol, I was made redundant. An initial enthusiasm became more of an imperative as our income could no longer support frivolous spending.
The statistics, at any rate, are on our side. A survey of typical homes last year found that two-thirds of toys were not being played with.
Could it be as simple as keeping up with the Joneses? "We moved to rural France a couple of years ago," wrote Sharon. "Hand-me-downs and second-hand things are completely normal for everybody here. I can honestly say I am a different person – more content and less highly strung."
There is a more complex, emotional dynamic to modern shopping, too. One woman recalled visiting a toy shop with her colicky baby and sweeping the shelves of toys that promised to "soothe".
'How silly," said Dot when I told her. "What happened to 'mother knows best'?" For lots of modern parents, however, it has become all too tempting to hope instead that "advertisers know best".
Not every comment on my blog is positive. "He's only two, for God's sake, he doesn't know what consumerism is," tweeted one reader. Yet Tim Gill, one of the leading writers on childhood, says: "There is evidence to suggest that brand recognition starts at a very young age."
Other readers worried that it would be joyless and restrictive. That, I really fail to understand. Did I miss something, or didn't Veruca Salt's "I want" bring her to a sticky end?
We are only at the very beginning of the year, and we are by no means experts.
The one and only time that I have tried to cut Johnny's hair, someone asked if he'd had an accident. So I suppose anything could happen.
We take delivery of the reusable nappies next week. I am not looking forward to it but I am determined to try.
And however battered our resolution has become by next Christmas, I hope there is at least one empty cardboard box under the tree. And I hope it is still the favourite.
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Jaguars offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter was in Idaho when he called me on Tuesday, enjoying the 80-degree, low-humidity weather. He and the coaches are off until July 25th, but if the lockout ends soon, they'll be called back before that.
Koetter has spent a lot of this offseason watching film. I asked if it was frustrating to not be able to pick up the phone and call a player when he noticed something to tell them on tape and he provided a glimpse into what these past few months have been like for him.
"Yeah very frustrating because coach Del Rio always has us in the offseason make teaching tapes for every position, things they did well, things they need to improve. When we had an offseason program, you'd be able to make sure the coaches were going over those things with those guys. ... just to be able to go over things with them. We're always studying other teams, new concepts, we're wanting to tweak concepts. I love to run that stuff by those guys. Very frustrating. Heck Dave [Garrard] and I even live in the same neighborhood."
Did you see them doing their workouts in your neighborhood?
"Yeah I saw them out there a couple times. I saw when it was a couple few times when it was a small group, I saw quarterbacks and receivers. I saw a huge group once, it was one of their first team workouts. A huge group of guys."
Do you think those player-organized workouts are beneficial in the long run?
"I've been around football my whole life and I think football is a very hard sport to train for because it's hard. The training part of football is hard. I think it's very difficult to train without the coaches whether it be the strength coach... when the guys come to the building, they come to the stadium, they work with the strength coach and that staff. A guy tweaks his hamstring, rolls his ankle, how are they doing that?
"Film study, I promise you 95 percent of the players out there aren't studying film like they would if they were with the coaches. There's a lot of theories out there about what works better than that. I'm sure some of them are doing it ok. I don't think it's the same as working out with the coaches.
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Are you in the market for a high-speed, micro-centrifuge? You can get a Scilogex beauty from Amazon for $4,850. How about a foot-long, ceiling-mounted Safe Glow Photo Luminescent Exit sign? Amazon has one for $203.00.
This is not your father's Amazon.com, the world's largest consumer e-commerce site. These industrial goodies come from an inventory of more than 500,000 items that are available at Amazon's newly launched business-to-business e-commerce site, AmazonSupply.com. If you can't find it there, it probably can't be found.
Unveiled on April 23, AmazonSupply.com offers a broad selection of parts and supplies to business, industrial, scientific and commercial customers. Customers can shop by product, material and brand for items across 14 categories, including lab and scientific equipment, cutting tools, fasteners, office products, pneumatics, plumbing supplies and fleet and vehicle parts.
AmazonSupply will provide free two-day shipping on orders of $50 or more, free returns within a year, corporate lines of credit and a dedicated customer service number, complete with a prominently displayed 800 phone number for ordering, a feature long lacking on Amazon's consumer site.
This is not Amazon's first foray into the wholesale business. Through its SmallParts subsidiary, the Seattle-based company has been offering products to the business, research and scientific communities since 2007. While continuing to sell more than 10,000 items branded as SmallParts, Amazon picked the name Amazon Supply to indicate that the company has grown well beyond its original focus on tubing, parts and fasteners for the medical supply and research industries.
Amazon is taking on a huge market, one that has the potential to overshadow its consumer business. An interpretation of U.S. Commerce Department data by Internet Retailer, an e-commerce publication, suggests that wholesale e-commerce grew at a 34 percent compound annual rate from 2000 to 2009, reaching $352 billion, more than doubling online sales to consumers of $145 billion in 2009.
"We're excited to offer a wide range of items, from basic supplies like drill bits and automatic hand dryers to hard-to-find parts like laboratory centrifuges and miniature polyimide tubing, enabling business and industrial customers to streamline their buying processes," said Prentis Wilson, vice president of AmazonSupply. "Low prices combined with fast, free shipping and a vast selection make shopping on AmazonSupply a great experience for customers."
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November 4th, 2015, 07:11 PM #1Article: "5 Ways To Get Your Blog Content Shared"
Here is a short, concise, and excellent article for bloggers to get more exposure:
5 Ways To Get Your Blog Content Shared
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I usually prefer story-telling pact, and have an intution that starting with a story will grab more readers. Though I never tried the humour thought, I think I need to keep my temporal cerebrum senses high to think a humour for more readers. Ouch!! Though I love to read humoured blogs and incapable to get one for myself.. Honestly loved your idea about it
November 21st, 2015, 01:10 PM #3
#6. Use compelling images (best if you can shoot them yourself) and locate them near the "top" of your narrative (so Facebook is more likely to use that image if the post is shared there).
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December 22nd, 2015, 05:45 AM #4
Hi Phil,
I click the links and get a great message from it. The simple 5 points you made that we often forget or ignore are:
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2. Story
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But I would like to add that your content should be unique and not plagarized.
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Legal Question in Construction Law in Michigan
We erected a building in ND.and have not been paid the contract was for 39,000 dollars. What should we do
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J. Norman Stark J. Norman Stark , Attorney, Architect
Dear Contractor: (1) Review the terms of your contract, which will govern your rights, will define breach, payment terms ,etc., including the venue, i.e.the jurisdiction of the proper courts, etc.
(2) You may have to resort to filing sauit in the Federal court system..(3) Contact an experienced Attorney to assist and advise you, which you should have done in the first place, even before undertaking this project.
Good luck and God Bless....
Sincerely, J. Norman Stark, Cleveland, Ohio.,
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NEW YORK -- The bold decision to sit Matt Stajan last night opened the door for Jeff O'Neill to skate back into the Maple Leafs lineup.
Whether O'Neill is back next season, however, remains to be seen.
In a surprising admission that caught many observers off guard, O'Neill yesterday hinted that he might not play any hockey in 2006-07 -- at least not at the NHL level anyway.
"It has been a tough time focussing (this season)," said O'Neill, who was minus-1 and failed to register a shot in the Leafs 5-2 loss to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
"At the end of the year I'll decide if I'll keep going. I'll take time to decide.We'll see what happens."
For the record, O'Neill is contractually obligated to the Leafs for one more season. Acquired last summer from the Carolina Hurricanes for a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2006, the King City native signed a two-year, $3-million US deal with Toronto.
But the return to southern Ontario hasn't gone anywhere near as planned. Still haunted by the death of his brother Donny last summer, O'Neill has only 30 points this season and has found himself in coach Pat Quinn's doghouse at various times.
O'Neill had been a healthy scratch for the previous three games before suiting up last night.
Meanwhile, Stajan was caught off-guard when he discovered he would be watching the game against the Rangers in civvies. He, Tomas Kaberle and Alexei Ponikarovsky were the only Leafs to have participated in every game entering play last night.
"Obviously I never expected to sit," Stajan said. "I (didn't miss a game) last season in St. John's and it was a goal of mine not to miss any this year either.
"What can I say? Obviously the coach is tinkering with the lineup in order to get wins.
True, Quinn has not blessed Stajan with a lot of ice time this season. At the same time, you can bet the Leafs bench boss was aware that Stajan has just two points in his past 19 games.


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Sonic Boom Six returned to Newcastle for a sold-out show supporting The King Blues.
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As the evening concludes, I find myself becoming more at ease. Sure, I think, couchsurfers could be anybody, but at least they seem like nice anybodies.
But I still know next to nothing about the actual practice of couchsurfing, and so, via email, I arrange to meet Villa and Pike at Rancho's in North Park for a quick bite of Mexican food. As we gather around the table, I learn that both are professionals, not the squirrelly wanderers I imagined — I will admit I thought the average couchsurfing host would appear as haphazard as me. But no, both are smartly but casually dressed and well styled; I almost wish I had bothered to change my pants.
Villa works as a regional account manager at, ironically, a travel dotcom, while Pike does business development for a women's health-care company. Both have been on the CouchSurfing site for around a year and, between them, have hosted over 100 people.
"When I heard about [the website] CouchSurfing," Pike says after the waiter takes our order, "I thought, 'This is the coolest idea!' I set up a profile with the intent to host people and had no specific plans to travel. A couple months later, I got a message from a young American-Japanese married couple who had just moved to San Diego from Japan and were looking to meet some new people in the area. So the first people I met from CouchSurfing, I wasn't surfing [with] or hosting. A month later, they moved in and were my roommates for nine months."
During the couples' stay, Pike hosted his first couchsurfer, a chef from Cannes, France. He was, Pike reports, "an extremely nice, soft-mannered 38-year-old man" and "cooked us one of the best meals I've ever had." He is coming back to visit Pike and Villa in January.
The food arrives, and over what looks like a delicious enchilada, Villa, who learned about couchsurfing from San Diego's previous ambassador, Carissa Peck, relates the tale of her first surfer, a German man with an around-the-world ticket and a GMAT study plan.
"He was a young guy from Ulm, Germany. He was supposed to stay for three days, but we got along so well I told him he could stay as long as he needed to — it ended up being a week." Villa puts down her fork. "He was following the sun, basically, with a one-year, round-the-world ticket, so he was here during our summer and then went to Australia and New Zealand during their summer. He came back to visit again after that and stayed with me [for] I think three months. So, needless to say, we became very good friends. I spent a lot of time with him, talking about his life back home and comparing it to mine, sharing interesting sociocultural facts, learning we had a lot in common — I learned a lot about Germany without ever going — from a primary source in my home thousands of miles away!"
Villa estimates she and Pike host one to two people a week.
"I've had four people stay with me at once, and I've had ten people stay with me at once. If there's room on the floor, couchsurfers will sleep wherever — they can rough it — and we don't mind. The more the merrier is what Daniel and I say! Most [of the surfers] are backpackers that are used to making do with what they have, on a budget, so anything is appreciated. We do what we can to help them out, just like we would like someone to do for us if we were traveling through a new city."
Another of those I met at the Bamboo Lounge, Lance Trammell, who recently left a job in the auto industry, meets me late one morning at the spacious Cream Cafe on Park Boulevard. Trammell recalls the first time he hosted someone from the site.
"My first couchsurfer was a Spanish girl. She was 21 years old, and I think her parents were a little nervous about what she was doing. So I went and picked her up — Daniel [Pike] came with me — and [she] had met another [woman, from the Netherlands] on the bus who was traveling on her own and had never heard of couchsurfing and was staying in hostels."
Pike, Trammell relates, offered to host the other woman, who was in her mid-40s. She ended up enjoying herself so much that she joined the site as well. Back in her home country, Trammell says, the woman has started hosting couchsurfers herself.
"I looked at her profile," he says, "and she's so booked with people that she's hosting she's got [a message up that says,] 'Please don't email me about hosting for another three or four months because I don't have any room.' We email back and forth, and she says, 'Thank you, this has been the best experience.' "
Trammel heard about the site through Pike, who is an old friend from high school. One of his most memorable surfers was a lucky traveler who, on very little money, made it all the way across the country.
"One of my first couchsurfers — I think he was my fourth — had made it from New York to San Diego on 70 bucks," he recalls. "He ended up getting a really cheap, eco-friendly bus, and he took it to Chicago. So he went couchsurfing with a guy there, and this guy turned out to be a pilot for an airline and flew him to Denver. And, I think, somewhere in Denver, the story was that he ended up with a stewardess who got him as far as L.A., and then he took a bus or Coaster down to San Diego."
Colorful characters and experiences of such kismet are not uncommon for couchsurfers, nor are outlandish destinations or plans. Eliot Clingman, who was also at the Bamboo Lounge meeting, has had his share of interesting guests. He and I convene at Cafe Bassam in Banker's Hill to discuss his couchsurfing experiences. Amidst the antique oak chests and crystal dishware that abound in the cafe's crowded interior, he tells me of his own surfers.
Couchsurfing is something I herd about a year ago when I was hanging in LA and met some folks from Europe. We partied all night and exchanged emails and now I have an invite to go to Switzerland and ride motorcycles around Europe with this guy and his girl. Highly recommended for the true travelers. See you on a couch somewhere in the world.
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@rapax - he will keep going back and forth as you can see. It is one of the reasons why he ultimately was deleted from the site.
I hope one day he understands, I really do. Unfortunately thick skulls like these prevent advancement and progress in many parts of the world (including ours), but I have faith we will get there one day!
I have so much to say about what I experienced, but short and simple: CS is definitely better without you, and you were just a drop in the bucket! CS is full of wonderful caring people, and it is why I am so in love with this project.
C'est la vie.
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Now how about these four animated bad guys, from four popular animated series. Their ethics don't necessarily match ours but they are so wrapped up in their own vileness, so appealing in their personal contempt toward the human race that sometimes we accidentally root for them ... yes, they're so 'bad' we can't help but love them?
Which of these four characters, would you say, is the most 'delightfully evil'?
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Smither: "People see you as somewhat of an ogre." Burns: "Why I ought to club them and eat their bones!"
Eric Cartman"Mmmmm! Let me taste your tears of unfathomable sadness!"
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You can do a theme from the previous week at any time. The every week thing is really just when I post a new theme and you can look at it.
There's no due date. Do whatever theme that's posted up on the journal, whenever you want.
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Any questions, please feel free to ask either by note or by comment on this journal. I don't bite, I promise.
Yaoi/Boy Love is allowed, naturally. Anything hardcore must have the proper mature contents, etc.
MPreg: No. Sorry, but no. I do enjoy it (sometimes/most times), but I actually think I made it a club rule that there will be No MPreg. So no asking on it. HOWEVER. If you have a piece of artwork that, originally, had been during the early stages of said MPreg-ness, and he doesn't show and it doesn't even remotely look like he's pregnant, and it fits the theme, then send me a link via note to my personal dA account with the title "Theme Week, maybe?" and give me your argument on why you think it should be allowed into the gallery. This is also for the other folders.
No sex. I mean, yes, yaoi and boy-love is allowed, but if you are DRAWING a picture- for the love of god-- NO SEX. I'll die from either laughing and crying in embarrassment or from laughing my ass off in amusement.
American holidays will be themes. If there are any foreign holidays you'd like to have for a week, suggest via note like any other suggestion. Even though Sacred doesn't take place in any designated Country (thatweknowof--), I see no problem of having world-wide holidays. But, since I'm American-- Please? o3o
So, anymore questions--? No? Very well then...
Themes Week starts NOW.
Week of Monday, March 12, 2012
Theme 1: Saint Patrick's Day


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What Will My Kohler Standby Generator Run During a Power Outage?
By: Norwall Power Systems, an authorized KOHLER Generators dealer
The number of appliances a Kohler standby generator can power at one time depends on the generator's output capacity and the amount of power each appliance uses. During a power outage, your first priorities are most likely personal safety and protecting your home. It may be less important for your electric stove to work than it is for your sump pump to keep the basement from flooding. As time passes and the outage continues, you may want to choose different appliances to supply with power. Knowing how much power your generator can produce will help you determine which appliances can run at the same time and which ones can wait.
Understanding Electrical Power
Electricity is measured in amps (A) and volts (V). Amperage, also known as a current, measures the amount of electrons moving within an electric circuit. Voltage measures the amount of potential energy or force those electrons are under, which creates a current. Electrical power, which expresses the amount of electricity being used by appliances, is measured in watts. Wattage equals your volts x the amperage. For example, an appliance plugged into a 120-volt outlet and drawing 10 amperes of current is using 1200 watts (120V x 10A). Sometimes watt is converted to kilowatt (1kW = 1,000W).
Appliances that are powered by motors are measured in volt-amps (volts x amps) instead of watts. Sometimes volt-amps is converted to kVA (1kVA = 1,000volt-amps). When calculating power for appliances that have motors, such as air conditioners and refrigerators, you have to consider the motor's running and startup current. An appliance with a motor will typically use more power for a few seconds to turn on before dropping to a lower, steady running current. To estimate a startup current, simply multiply the running watts by three for most motors or by six for heavy duty motors.
Standby generators are rated in kilowatts to disclose the amount of power the unit is capable of producing. Kohler standby generators can produce their rated power continuously and also supply additional power to support starting motors for a short period of time. Kohler's 14kW generators can supply 35kVA, and the 20 kW models can provide 40.5kVA to support startup currents of motors as mentioned above.
Power Requirements of Appliances
The amount of power required by an appliance varies by manufacturer. Most appliances have their electrical needs posted on product tags or in an owner's manual.
The list below estimates the running watts and starting watts of some typical home appliances. This list is intended to service as a basic guide; however, we recommend you consult with a professional electrician to measure the electrical requirements of your appliances.
Appliance Run Watts Start Watts
Refrigerator 700 2100
Freezer 700 2100
Coffee Maker 1200 n/a
Crockpot 200 n/a
Toaster Oven 1550 n/a
Electric Lights 13 – 300 n/a
1000 Watt Microwave 1200 n/a
1 Ton Central AC 2000 4000
3 Ton Central AC 4500 9000
12,000 BTU Window AC 1700 5100
Furnace Blower 875 2625
Sump Pump 800 2400
Well Pump 2000 6000
Standby Generator Power Management
Work with your local Kohler Generator authorized dealer to choose a transfer switch and load control module for your system. During a power outage, your Kohler transfer switch will automatically transfer power from the utility grid to your generator. However, once the power is transferred some systems require load control. Load management is very important to prevent overloading your generator. By equipping your home with a load control module, you can have a smaller generator and still have access to every appliance in the house, but not all at the same time.
The load control module will manage and turn on your appliances based on how you prioritized them at time of installation and how much power is available. Good choices include the sump pump that keeps your basement dry, the refrigerator and freezer to prevent food spoilage, and the heating or cooling system. Add up the power for each appliance and remember to include the starting watts for motors.
However, you may still want to do some of your own power management to keep power flowing efficiently throughout your home. For example, if your AC unit does not start and the temperature in your home is climbing, take a look at the appliances you are running and shut some off. As you consume less power, more becomes available and the load control module will allow the AC unit to turn on.
Kohler's generator sizing calculator is a great tool to help suggest a generator for your home, based on the amount of electricity your appliances need. Use the calculator and work with your local Kohler Generator authorized dealer to determine which generator best suits your needs.
Norwall Power Systems was established in 1997. The company specializes in selling emergency backup power generators and associated equipment.
Norwall Power Systems sells and supports many different types of power systems. They have thousands of standby generators, portable generators, marine generators, automatic transfer switches and replacement parts in stock in multiple warehouses throughout the US.


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Summer Learnin' (Had Me a Blast)
Case Study on the Horizon Education Centers' Innovative Summer Learning Program
There is a reason that traditional summer school is viewed as a punishment. Early mornings and time spent in desks, these programs are focused on remediating deficits instead of building mastery.
High-quality summer learning programs goes well beyond summer school or summer camp. These programs both engage youth and make connections around a focused set of outcomes. You can walk into a high-quality summer program and see connections through youth-produced work generated within a focused learning environment; you can hear connections across activities, field trips and projects; and you can feel connections in the rituals and traditions used to unite and bond staff and youth. They can take place anywhere and focus on a variety of topics, but they are defined by a commitment to relevancy and to broader, forward-thinking applications of skills and knowledge.
The Horizon Education Centers, which consists of nine school- and community-based sites serving 750 school-aged youth in the greater Cleveland, OH area, is an example of the benefits of fully embracing the global learning concept in summer. The program serves a diverse population of students, 70% of which are low-income, from a former steel town that has seen both drastically decreasing economic opportunity as well as dramatically increasing immigration over the past 30 years.
The program started with a global theme through its summer program, and then expanded the theme to its afterschool programs in the fall for children from preschool through eighth grade. This past summer, each youth group chose a country and learned about its culture, language, and history. The focus was on how we're all the same around the world, but yet within those commonalities, we are all very different. For example, we all have homes, language, and food, but there is enormous variety within each of these.
At Horizon Education Centers Summer Camp, their standard configuration was to offer lessons linked to a field trip each week. This summer, each week focused on an aspect of culture and globalization. The students studied cooperation by examining different games from around the world and differences in how they are played. Agriculture was explored through a cooking club that looked at ingredients and where they come from, and how agricultural products are exported and imported from/to Ohio.
A lesson on transportation and world commerce provided the opportunity to rethink the traditional field trip to the Steamship Mather, a Great Lakes steamship that once shuttled between Cleveland's steel mills and the iron ranges in Minnesota. This year, the field trip was reconceived as an opportunity to talk about water displacement in the context of deep-water ports and what it takes to move trade, both on the Great Lakes as well as across the world's oceans. Students learned about today's global intricate supply system and how these shipping routes enable Ohioans to provide exports, like corn, to the world, as well as receive products from the world.
Horizon Education Centers found they were able to make the case for how global learning could strengthen their program across all three priority areas of their funder, the state Department of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Centers: academic achievement, youth development, and parent engagement. As Executive Director David Smith states, "We didn't leave behind what we've always done. Global learning is a framework that tied everything together."
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INCREASED neighbourhood warden patrols and a weekly drop-in market stall are some of the short-term measures unveiled for a town hit by two devastating fires.
Durham County Council has also briefed a dedicated officer to work with the owners of fire-damaged properties in Stanley.
Several business were forced to close following an arson attack in Front Street, on Friday, December 13. The blaze came a month after another fire leading to the destruction and demolition of the Elite buildings.
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The latest moves build on a series of steps already in place, with the county council, firefighters, Durham Constabulary, Stanley Town Council and local councillors working together.
These include more than £1m set aside for street and shop front improvements and a new Customer Access Point. The Shop Watch scheme in the town recently switched from analogue to digital to give retailers even quicker contact with CCTV operators.
All key partners met yesterday (Thursday, January 9) and went on a walkabout in the town for a first-hand look at immediate problems. The meeting was called by local members and chaired by Stanley ward councillor Carl Marshall.
Coun Marshall said: "It was a hugely constructive meeting and reinforces the fact that we are all working together to help the continued recovery following the recent fires.
"Ensuring the town is a safe place to live, work and visit, both now and in the long-term, remains a top priority."
He added: "The short term measures, along with the work already being done or planned, demonstrate our commitment to Stanley and we will also be looking at medium and long-term plans."
The landscaping of Front Street is already underway and there are plans to improve the links between the town's car parks, bus station and Front Street area. New street lighting is set to installed later this month.


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Trading games is such a bull-crap travesty when it comes to places like Gamestop. You trade your game in for 50 cents and then they turn around and make someone pay $10 for it. Well, there's no longer a need to rely on the shady tactics of the brick and mortar thieves. SwitchGames is a new trading solution for gamers who want to trade consoles, accessories and games without all the dodgy prices.
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The Weston town clerk is extending the hours her office will be open for absentee voting in the presidential election.
In addition to regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 9-4:30), the Town Clerk's Office at Weston Town Hall will be open on the following days:
- Tuesday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Monday, Nov. 5, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Donna Anastasia, Weston town clerk, said as of this week, she has already received about 75 requests for absentee ballot applications and more are coming in every day.
Absentee ballot applications and voter registration forms may be downloaded by visiting westonct.gov. They should be mailed to the Town Clerk's Office, P.O. Box 1007, Weston CT 06883.


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"We are very concerned about the deteriorating situation in Iraq. We are positive that starting a dialogue to promote national reconciliation and peace is the most important thing at the moment."
"The draft includes points that effectively lay the groundwork for sanctions against Iran. We will hardly be able to support this version."
"The deadlines outlined in the proposed draft are quite categorical and provide a foundation for sanctions against Iran. We consider it all premature."
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Stage Right presents 'Bugsy Malone'
ANTIOCH — Stage Right Conservatory Theatre Inc. presents the musical comedy "Bugsy Malone" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Nick Rodriguez Community Center, 213 F St.
Bryan Anthony directs this gangster film noir, where the weapons of choice for the gangs are cream pies and flour bombs. Musical numbers include "You Give a Little Love," "My Name is Tallulah" and more.
Additional performances are 7 p.m. July 18-19 and 2 p.m. July 20
General admission is $10, students and seniors $8, and children 5 and younger $5. Seniors pay only $5 on both Sunday matinees. For tickets and information, call 925-216-4613 or go to www.srctgrp.org.
Rock and blues guitarist comes to Pittsburg
PITTSBURG — The Pittsburg Pops features Shane Dwight performing rock and blues on guitar at 8 p.m. Saturday at the California Theatre, 351 Railroad Ave. Admission is $15 plus a $1.50 facility fee; dinner package $40. Purchase tickets at www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com. For information, call 925-427-1611.
Auditions set for 'Beauty and the Beast'
ANTIOCH — Stage Right Conservatory Theatre will hold auditions for "Beauty and the Beast" on Monday and Tuesday at the Nick Rodriguez Community Center, 213 F St. The beloved fairy tale will be directed by Bryan Anthony.
Auditions are open to actors ages 8-18. No previous experience is necessary. Performances are Aug. 29, 30, 31 and Sept. 5, 6, 7. To receive an audition time, register at www.srctgrp.org.
There is a $75 participation fee if cast. For more audition and show information, call 925-216-4613.
Antioch summer concerts continue
ANTIOCH — The Arts and Cultural Foundation of Antioch presents the Saturday Summer Concert Series with Frankie G & Conviction performing rhythm and blues. The performance is from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Waldie Plaza, Second and I streets in downtown Antioch. The free concert series is hosted by the Arts and Cultural Foundation of Antioch, The Lesher Foundation, East County Times, city of Antioch, Republic Services, NRG, Clay Millias & Co., LLP and the Antioch Chamber of Commerce.
Seating is not provided, so bring blankets or lawn chairs.
Alcohol is not permitted.
Contact Diane Gibson-Gray at 925-325-9897 or go to www.art4antioch.org/Summer_Concerts.asp.
Magic with style, flair
at El Campanil
ANTIOCH — NewMagic starring Alex Ramon will perform at the El Campanil Theatre, 602 W. Second St., at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The show features magic with a new style and a new flair. Ramon will introduce the world of magic, all of its most incredible marvels and some of its newest miracles, to the latest generation of audiences. Friendly enough for kids but edgy enough for the adults.
Ramon toured the globe as the Ringmaster for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and is the star of Disney LIVE Mickey's Magic Show. For information about Ramon's magic performances, go to www.alexramonmagic.com
All seats are $35. To best accommodate seating for young children, only seats in the orchestra (ground level) are being offered for sale at this time.
For tickets and information, call 925-757-9500 or go to www.elcampaniltheatre.com.
'Peter Pan' children's summer camp
PITTSBURG — The Bay Area Children's Theatre presents the "Peter Pan" Summer Camp from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 14-25 at the California Theatre, 351 Railroad Ave.
Children ages 7-14 will learn acting, singing and dancing skills as they rehearse the classic story of "Peter Pan."
Whether you are a novice or seasoned performer, the fast-paced musical theater production camp will prepare children for a final performance for family and friends. Skill building and stage confidence will be emphasized along with group participation.
The cost is $200 per child. To register, call Carolyn August at 925-427-1611 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Las Vegas-style show comes to El Campanil
ANTIOCH — The Dance Network presents The Golden Follies' "Music Makes Us Dance" at 2 p.m. July 20 at the El Campanil Theatre, 602 W. Second St.
The performance is a high-energy Las Vegas-style revue featuring fabulous senior performers ages 55-88. The dancers kick, strut and tap to all the classics. Admission is $25 for adults, $22 for seniors (62 and older) and $12 for youths 12 and younger.
For tickets and information, call 925-757-9500 or go to www.elcampaniltheatre.com. For information about the The Golden Follies, go to www.thegoldenfollies.com.
Blues Review show slated for July 26
ANTIOCH — Golden State-Lone Star Blues Revue featuring Mark Hummel, Little Charlie Baty and Anson Funderburgh is a cross country meeting of the minds between California and Texas musicians. All have known each other for years.
The rhythm section has played in bands since high school, and all share a deep passion for real blues.
The performance is 8 p.m. July 26 at the El Campanil Theatre, 602 W. Second St.
Admission is $27 for adults, $25 for seniors (62 and older), and $15 for youths 10 to 17.
Tickets can be purchased by calling 925-757-9500 or online at www.elcampaniltheatre.com.
Film series presents "Elsa y Fred"
ANTIOCH — The International Film Showcase presents "Elsa y Fred" at 2 p.m. July 27 at the El Campanil Theatre, 602 W. Second St. A retired 77-year-old hypochondriac widower, Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, and eventually meets his next-door neighbor, Elsa, an elderly and feisty Argentinean, whose behavior is unorthodox, to say the least.
The film is part of a collaborative effort with the International Film Showcase, which has a successful foreign film series in Orinda.
The Spanish film has English subtitles.
General admission is $8; seniors (62 and older) $7; and free for ages 10 through 17 with a paying adult.
For tickets and information, call 925-757-9500 or go to www.elcampaniltheatre.com.
Celebration of Art exhibit continues
ANTIOCH — The Celebration of Art, again being co-hosted by The Arts & Cultural Foundation of Antioch and the Antioch Historical Society, continues through July 16. The 10th annual exhibit is being held at the Antioch Historical Society Museum at 1500 W. Fourth St.
This is a nonjuried exhibit with no required theme. The exhibit is open 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Admission is free.
For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com, call 925-325-9897 or go to www.art4antioch.org/CelebrationofArt2014.asp.
ACFA hosts exhibit
at Umpqua Bank
ANTIOCH — The Arts & Cultural Foundation of Antioch is hosting an exhibit at Umpqua Bank, 3700 Lone Tree Way. The exhibit is open and continues through July 25.
Umpqua Bank is at 3700 Lone Tree Way and is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., excluding holidays.
Featured artists are Beverly Knight, Diane Klein Gwynne, James Waters, Karen Nelson Kelly, Vicki Dendy and Victoria Heisler. For more information, email email@example.com, call 925-325-9897 or go to www.art4antioch.org.
Starry Night concert series continues
BRENTWOOD — The city of Brentwood is hosting the Starry Nights in Brentwood concert series.
The series continues July 18 with the Blues Healers featuring blues and rock. The music will be at City Park, 710 Second St., beginning at 7 p.m. Ample parking is available in the parking garage at 150 City Park Way. Bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic basket, and enjoy the first of eight summer concerts in the park.
All patrons are asked to follow park rules before, during and after the concerts. That includes no dogs, no glass containers and no audio/video recording devices. For more information, contact the Parks & Recreation office at 925-516-5444.
'Wine in the Bay' comes to St. Anne Church
BYRON — The St. Anne Church Women's Fellowship hosts "Wine in the Bay" from 4 to 8 p.m. Aug. 16. The event will feature hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer, olive oil tastings, a silent auction, music, art and more. Vintners will have wine available for purchase. Cost is $40 per person ($45 beginning Aug. 1); the event address will be printed on your ticket.
Attendees must be 21 or older. For tickets and information, contact Linda Thomas at 925-634-3439, email@example.com, or Peggy Ann Valley at 925-890-5255, email@example.com.
Proceeds will benefit the St. Anne Parish Women's Fellowship outreach programs.
— Nan Hargis
To submit items for On Tap, email email@example.com. For additional events, go to www.theeastcountytimes.com


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Hyperbaric bed systems were for patients undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). HBOT is the medical use of oxygen at higher levels than atmospheric pressure. The bed system was used for postoperative care where patients require an oxygen-rich environment. Patients could watch television, listen to the radio and communicate via loudspeaker or telephone type handset while using the bed system.
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