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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is on track to grow at a 4.3 percent annualized pace in the second quarter, rebounding from a 0.7 percent increase in the first quarter which was the weakest in three years, the Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDP Now forecast model showed on Monday.
This is much faster than the latest second-quarter gross domestic product estimate of 2.33 percent from the New York Federal Reserve.
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There's nothing better than finding travel quotes that speaks to your soul; quotes that capture little moments of clarity that highlight truths about travel, adventure and life. The ones that make you say, "This is what I want to do" or "This is what my life lacks".
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To start off, with AP rengar I will usually go top or bot. This is because if I go mid there are no real good brushes to jump out of so you will have no surprise factor for the enemy. If you go top or bot in urf you will always have a teammate due to the meta so let your teammate poke them while you farm or wait in a bush.
Your W is your main source of damage on AP rengar. You want to max your W first then max your Q due to the fact that your Q works with lich bane so you could get even more burst on them!
In laning phase, I usually don't go in for kills unless I have built Luden's Echo. The reason fot this is, Luden's Echo gives so much burst and it works with your W so you could assassinate people even faster.
Now, if you want to get a kill make sure to build up 5 ferocity before going in!!!!
This is really important because it makes you do twice the damage you would normally do with your W due to the fact that you could cast it twice.
So pretty much all I do in laning phase is farm. If they have ranged champions I sit in a bush and wait for them to come in range of my leap then I jump on them and use my W for some nice damage.
A nice way to farm is to sit in a bush and jump on a minion that is low, then run back into the bush. Another way is to jump from the bush then use w to clear the mage minions.


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I have a 3D wing which i need to analyse for lift and drag. Mach = 0.18 or V=58m/sec.
ICEM CFD determinant 3*3*3 quality of mesh is 0.8 to 1.
Wing span = 0.5715m
mean aero chord = 0.13m
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air-constant density
upper, lower and front face of far fields are velocity inlet in positive x direction, with turbulence = 1% and length scale of 0.015m
Back surface of far field is pressure outlet..everything is at 1atm
Solution method is at SIMPLE scheme and default options
Initialization done from the inlet values.
The calculation proceeds smoothly until 1000 iterations. It almost starts to converge but suddenly reverse flow starts and urbulent viscosity limited to viscosity ratio of 1.000000e+05 is also displayed..they keep increasing
I have no clue about the reason!!!!...Pls help..
what are dimensions of domain extend ? I mean X, -X, Y, -Y and Z, -Z
X is -1.1916m to 2.6183m
Y is -1.27 to 1.27m
Z is 0 to 0.991m
@Far, the wing is the same one which i had posted earlier
I would like to know these dimensions as chord (or any appropriate characteristic length) * X etc.
i think you wanted to know if these values are calculated based on some characteristic length??
If so, yes..the far field was created as a multiple of chord length (5)
The back surface of the far field is 20times (100) from the leading edge corner.
The upper lower and front faces are 10 times (50) from the leading edge corner.
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The latest SIR is available now from Microsoft. You can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx
Industry wide vulnerabilities continue their downward trend. However High Complexity vulnerabilities rose a bit ( http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/keyfindings/default.aspx#section_4_1_3 ). Is this a good thing? Maybe. Low and medium vulnerabilities continued downward, this means that common easy to attack vulnerabilities such as XSS and SQL Injection are on a downward trend. The trick though is that complex vulnerabilities requiring a high level of attacker skill are rising. This indicates that general code and app scanning mechanisms are being used more in development efforts to identify and remove the low hanging fruit. But there is still a problem with non-tool identifiable bugs getting through.
So while we seem to be taking better advantage of security tooling, which is indicated in the reduced application focused vulnerabilities (http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/keyfindings/default.aspx#section_4_1_4) we aren't doing enough in the manual code reviews and the comprehensive understanding of security isn't being applied as deeply as it should.
For malware infected and plain old malicious sites, China leads the world by a huge margin.
One of the most encouraging trends though is the decline in security breaches. While negligent breaches (lost laptops, theft, emails to World.All etc) are still far more common than intentional attacks they have come down dramatically in recent history. This indicates that the message is finally getting out and that organisations are starting to get a grip on security policies and how to promote and enforce them. But the easiest way and largest cause of these is still Theft. It's easier to steal a company laptop and get the data from it than it is to break in. Sometimes these thefts are just for black market resale of the hardware itself, but some are for information gathering. In any event, it presents a strong case for full volume encryption mechanisms such as BitLocker.
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As an authority on stress and work/life balance, Dr Posen has been featured in a wide range of newspapers, magazines and news programs. His most recent book, Is Work Killing You? attracted media attention from across North America.
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'Is Work Killing You?' David Posen, a Canadian physician and stress management specialist, asks a question on the minds of many.
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Don't get bogged down by your job while soaking up the sun. While working adults don't have the luxury of a three month vacation, they are afforded a week or more to escape the grinding pressures of their job. But instead of exploring the finer points of a travel destination, many cater to employer requests and client emails.
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Dr. David Posen, an author and former family doctor in Oakville, Ontario, started noticing a pattern almost 20 years ago: Patients were coming into his office with symptoms like high blood pressure, heart problems, panic attacks and depression. When he pressed for a sense of what was happening in their lives, the patients shared tales of burnout, overwork and abusive managers.
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My Generation is Quitting Church and I'm Considering Membership, or Why I'm Not a None
This past week a number of writers, including Rachel Evans and Christian Piatt, have taken to their blogs to elucidate why young people (in some cases themselves) leave the church (note the ever-important lowercase "c"). Coincidentally, this past Sunday The Daily published an op-ed by me about why I'm considering actually joining the Episcopal Church. Here's that piece in full…
In a 2011 Gallup poll, independent voters made up 40 percent of the electorate, the highest ever. Politicians, and presidential candidates in particular, understand that while primaries are about appealing to a political base, general contests often come down to wooing the uncommitted. In other words, it is the independent vote that wins elections.
This move toward unaffiliation isn't restricted to politics. In last week's issue, Time magazine profiled the "10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life," including trends like living alone, the "cloud" and food that lasts forever. Coming in at No. 4 was "The Rise of the Nones," whom Amy Sullivan defines in her article as people who "have not given up on faith," but "have given up on organized religion." They are not atheists or agnostics; they believe in God, but they want to be able to express their belief in unorthodox ways. And, just as independent voters are on the rise, Sullivan reports that the Nones are the "fastest-growing religion group in the U.S."
I was a None once. Growing up outside of Boston, where Irish or Italian heritage (both of which I have) all but guarantees Roman Catholic membership, I struggled to explain just what brand of Christian my family was. As a student at a Catholic high school in the 1990s, I sometimes simply called myself a Christian. But my Catholic friends would counter by saying that Catholics are Christians too. Then I tried saying I was Protestant and leaving it at that. But my friends inevitably asked what denomination I belonged to, forcing me to admit that I didn't belong to one. Saying I was nondenominational, however, was never an option; it would have been more like identifying what I was not. In the end, I settled on something like "spiritual, but not religious," the categorical antecedent to the Nones. (It was only later, in college, that we nondenominational Christians got neatly lumped together under the term "evangelical.")
This classification endures. Earlier this year, a nondenominational Christian spoken word poet named Jeff Bethke uploaded to YouTube a video titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." It went viral, and there was a backlash from those who don't hate religion, including a Catholic priest who countered with his own video, "Why I Love Religion, and Love Jesus." Nevertheless, Bethke connected with millions of people who shared his distaste for what he identifies as the hypocrisy of religious people who, among many other failings, claim to love their neighbors but fail actually to care for them.
Although I grew up sharing this sentiment, being a None failed me. My family learned the hard way that without some kind of denominational structure, without some measure of the order and tradition we had intentionally shunned as simply "spiritual" people, church authority can easily become centralized in one or two leaders. Often, their agendas become the church's orthodoxy, and I witnessed more than my share of abuses of pastoral power. After experiencing this again and again in our tiny nondenominational congregation, my family left, and hopped around from church to church throughout most of my teenage years.
Looking back, I can see that our unaffiliated status was not evidence of a more true or original conception of Christianity as we imagined it, but a way around the difficulties that come from being subject to tradition. We believed we didn't need the wisdom of the historical church fathers, and it followed that we didn't need any of the strictures of organized religion. But we were wrong. We were aimless and lost, simultaneously reinventing the wheel and making up the rules as we went along.
Now, after spending much of my adulthood trying to find a place to belong, I've turned into the opposite of a None — I've become a proud Joiner. Since college, my own search has found me desperate to join. I have considered Roman Catholic confirmation, Presbyterian church membership and, most recently, Episcopalian identification. To that end, I have been attending confirmation classes at my local Episcopal parish since last month.
As I look around at my fellow Joiners, I see that it is specifically those who have lived the life of the unaffiliated who have decided, Sunday after Sunday, for several hours following Mass, to gather and discuss the rhythm of the liturgical calendar, the purpose of baptism, the history of the church and the beauty of the Book of Common Prayer. I'm not sure whether I'll be confirmed when the class ends in eight weeks, but there is certainly something attractive about the prospect.
It would be foolish to think God requires affiliation as a means of access. We humans however tend to corral into formal groupings, whether it's organized religion or political parties. In the absence of tried-and-true tradition, we begin to create our own. My guess is that, as the numbers of Nones continue to increase, they will begin to develop traditions, create rules and define their orthodoxy until, ultimately, something like a new denomination will arise. Perhaps in 2022 someone will declare "The Rise of the Joiners" as one of the life-changing ideas of the moment.
This piece originally appeared in The Daily.
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Brooke says:
Honestly, churches have hurt me a lot more than they've helped me–within nondenominational as well as within specific denominations. A combination of self-righteous busybodies and abuse of power were my cues to get out. My mum keeps telling me, "Not all churches are like that…" As if I don't know. Of course not all of them are like that, but I haven't reached a point where I'm comfortable to try again. It has essentially become a case of ecclesiophobia.
Gary Horsman says:
It's understandable that many people feel left out when it comes to church life. But there is value in belonging to a community of believers. It may be worth the search if you don't feel at home where you are.
Jody+ says:
Great reflection. There's a lot there I can identify with (and even more that I see in the experience of others in my life).
As a fellow joiner–maybe a hyper joiner as a 31 year-old Episcopal Priest–I can only say that I think folks in our generation who do join or remain in churches are going to have to become adept at finding the good and building the personal relationships that are key, while avoiding the injuries that will come from the inevitable flailing about of dying/painfully transforming institutions.
Of course, I think something similar is actually happening to our political institutions… the GOP primary seems to be evidence of that. So it won't just be the joiners of religious institutions who will need to take that advice, but perhaps anyone who chooses to engage in existing civic or social institutions.
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"Looking back, I can see that our unaffiliated status was not evidence of a more true or original conception of Christianity as we imagined it, but a way around the difficulties that come from being subject to tradition. We believed we didn't need the wisdom of the historical church fathers, and it followed that we didn't need any of the strictures of organized religion. But we were wrong. We were aimless and lost, simultaneously reinventing the wheel and making up the rules as we went along."
This is a really powerful paragraph, and brave to write in a context where people are either unwilling to challenge the problems that come along with organized church structures or self-deceptively basking in their status as a None. Bravo!
solidwifey says:
I encourage you to join!!!!! Commit! Be a part of the body in an all out way!!!! Thank you for sharing your journey.. as a Christian for only 7 years i can already relate. My husband and i have joined the joiners though and in the fall are even beginning at a denominational school. We don't miss the days of noners… there is a solidity found here.
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Betting On College Sports
April 3, 2001
Alone among the 50 states, Nevada allows betting on college sports contests. And while federal laws ban transferring bets across state lines, the laws are rarely enforced unless there's an organized ring involved.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association wants to end all gambling on college sports and has tried to enlist the help of Congress for a federal law to ban it. College coaches argue that it puts strain on their players. Indeed, some participants have become embroiled in scandals involving betting in recent years.
But the American Gaming Association -- representing gambling interests - wants the federal government to avoid any action on the issue.
- While sports betting represents just one-half of one percent of gambling company revenues, industry interests fear that outlawing betting on college games will lead to other federal regulatory incursions into gambling.
- Nevada's legal sports books bring in about $2.3 billion in betting each year -- estimated to be a mere 1 percent of total organized gambling on sports nationwide.
- Sports gambling in the U.S. has traditionally been governed by states and -- even though collegiate wagering is illegal outside Nevada -- it goes on elsewhere, sometimes even on college campuses.
- Foes of federal action argue that a federal law banning gambling nationwide would only drive the practice further underground.
When the NCAA approached influential senators and congressmen with its plea several years ago, it initially received pledges of support, it reports. But its bill died in the last Congress and support has reportedly melted away in this Congress.
The organization notes that the gambling industry has deep pockets and gives generously to political campaigns. The NCAA, however, is a tax-exempt organization and is forbidden by law from making campaign donations.
Source: Tom Hamburger and Christina Binkley, "Bid to Outlaw Betting on College Sports Faces Very Long Odds," Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2001.
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Hardness (Janka): 1450; 12% harder than
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Dimensional Stability: Average (change coefficient .00353; 4%
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Durability: Dense, strong, tough, stiff; excellent shock
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Markedly resistant to abrasive wear.
Sawing/Machining: Density makes machining
Sanding: Sands satisfactorily.
Nailing: Fair resistance to splitting; good holding ability.
Finishing: Takes neutral finish well; does not stain
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Welcome to my AM Tube Radio DX logbook. Below is my listening log. The distances are in kilometers and the power in kilowatts. My antenna is a 120 foot piece of wire about 10-20 feet off the ground.
The distance is in kilometers and the power notations in kilowatts.
The receivers used are ones that I built and are shown in my tube radio section. Since I list the radio by the tube number, I have a couple of pages with my tube radio schematics.
The points refer to the scoring for the 1AD Receiving contest. Unfortunately the contest was discontinued. Perhaps someone will pick it up again.
The notes are for my own use to help me identify a station on the frequency based on past reception. These may be out of date as the formats change now and again. So your mileage may vary.


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"This is a great meal that you can literally cook in about 20 minutes and it's absolutely fabulous! The ingredients are all subjective and can be varied to whatever you have in the fridge! Another note, we like the whole garlic and if you cook it well, it isn't overwhelming at all but do it however you like it!"
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- 8 ounces whole wheat spaghetti
- 8 -10 roma tomatoes, quartered
- 1 cup of hand torn fresh basil
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic or 8 garlic cloves
- 1 bell pepper, chopped fairly large
- 1⁄2 cup pine nuts (optional)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- balsamic vinegar
- Prepare spaghetti according to package directions.
- Sauté whole garlic cloves for 5-7 minutes over medium heat. (start these when you put the spaghetti in the boiling water.).
- If you use the minced garlic, add it after you toast the pine nuts.
- While the garlic is cooking and the spaghetti is boiling, cut the bell pepper and tomatoes up.
- When garlic is soft and spaghetti is almost done, add the bell pepper to the garlic and sauté about one minute. You don't really want to cook it, just heat it up a little bit.
- After a minute, add the pine nuts and sauté them for about one minute, until fragrant (if using minced garlic, add now).
- When pine nuts are done, remove from pan heat, add the tomatoes and basil and cover then drain the spaghetti.
- Drizzle noodles with olive oil to add a little bit of flavor and keep it from sticking then add the garlic mixture to the noodles.
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Emergency Motion For Sale of Property under Section 363(b) / Debtors' Emergency Motion for Order, Under Bankruptcy Code Sections 105, 363, and 365, Bankruptcy Rules 2002, 6004, 6006, and 9007, and Local Bankruptcy Rule 6004-1, Approving Sale of Merlin Assets Free and Clear of All Liens, Claims, Encumbrances, and Interests Filed by Debtor GT Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order # 2 Exhibit B (Declaration)) (Grogan, James) (Entered: 02/23/2016)
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Lord Clinton-Davis: I wonder whether my noble friend would agree with this. It is not so much a question of a balance of language; it is a balance of commitment and attitude. The way in which certain Ministers in the Home Office in the past dealt with their responsibilities, in my view, fell short of what is desirable or even acceptable. I do not know how we legislate for that situation.
I have every confidence that, as a Minister, my noble friend shows every indication of sympathy for the arguments adduced on these issues. I am sure that in so far as it falls to him to administer these matters, they will be dealt with sympathetically. I would feel aggrieved, in fact, if any Minister in this Government adopted any position other than that. The difficulty arises in being able to formulate this commitment in a statutory form acceptable to the community at large. It is important that we generate within the community a respect for and understanding of the way in which refugees arrive in this country. We must not do anything to create a rift or lack of understanding--there is enough misunderstanding already. It is the job of government to try to deal with that situation, but not necessarily by statute.
That is the appeal I make to my noble and good friend Lord Judd. I share his sentiments, though I am not sure I arrive at the same conclusions in relation to whether or not the statutory form giving rise to those sentiments can be set out. There is considerable difficulty in imposing that duty. My noble friend dealt adequately with that point and I accept his reasoning in relation to it. I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Alton, will accept that I agree with much of what he expressed but do not feel that he necessarily chose to go down the right route.
Lord Dholakia: Perhaps I can add a further question to that asked by the noble Lord, Lord Judd. Will the Minister accept that we are dealing with an unusual situation? We have a backlog of between 70,000 and 80,000 asylum applications. Many of them, on his own estimate, are people who may be economic migrants to this country. However, the present Bill locks all doors through which asylum seekers can come to this country. At some stage, before long, we shall be dealing with only a handful of refugees and asylum seekers. Why therefore do we need a voucher system which has not worked in other parts of the country? Why do we need effectively to create a bureaucracy on the basis of the inability of the previous and present governments to clear the backlog and one that will cost more to run than the system presently available to asylum seekers?
The Lord Bishop of Ripon: As we seem to be putting a number of questions to the Minister at this stage, perhaps I can press him on one further matter in relation to the figures with which he provided the Committee on the levels of benefit. He claimed that with additional resources being made available the benefits payable were
I believe I am right in saying that with the additional provision, the Minister said that around 90 per cent of the true benefit is being paid. The claim is being made elsewhere, on good grounds, that that figure should be 80 per cent. Furthermore, that is a level of income benefit which is widely recognised as being inadequate for the proper and reasonable support of people in this country. The Minister is therefore taking a figure which is widely regarded as low and reducing it further. Under those circumstances, is it not going to be difficult for people to maintain, with any dignity and reasonableness, the kind of life to which they ought to be entitled in this country?
The Earl of Sandwich: My noble friend is itching to get back on his feet once the Minister has sat down. I shall try not to anticipate what he is going to say.
What is not in dispute is the courtesy of the Minister; a courtesy which, as my noble friend said, was shown when we came to see him in his office. But he did not use the big guns that he has just brought out; he was using more moderate tones and, in particular, as my noble friend said, the word "flexibility". But it was the noble Baroness, Lady Oppenheim-Barnes, who suddenly brought me back from the idea of flexibility to the principle that we are facing when we are thinking of the universality of children and the best interests of the children. Those phrases lead me back to the Children Act; they do not lead me to the asylum support directorate.
We are talking about a different kingdom when we go along that route. I recall the words of the noble Lord, Lord Judd. He asked what signal the Government were sending. I refer briefly to one small signal in Written Answers this week in reply to the noble Baroness, Lady Jeger. On the question of free school meals for children of asylum seekers, the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, said
Baroness Williams of Crosby: Before the noble Lord, Lord Alton, considers his final remarks in response to the Minister perhaps I may raise another issue. The Minister has quite fairly pleaded with us to limit ourselves very much to particular points in further amendments. Therefore, in a sense he has invited us to talk more widely on these two amendments and to limit ourselves thereafter. I shall abide by that.
There is one other issue which is very close to the one raised by the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, which relates again to children. We welcome what the Minister has said
My noble friend Lord Dholakia has pointed out that in the much more stringent system which this Bill will introduce those who are likely to arrive in this country will probably be the most extreme cases of desperation among refugees. This country responded relatively generously to the refugees from Kosovo. They were literally run out of their homes, some with 10 minutes notice, and took nothing with them. Evidence has attested to the fact that they did not even bring another set of clothes, a pair of shoes, a handbag or anything of that kind.
More than anyone else, children require the replacement of essential articles. Children grow out of their shoes. They need replacement nappies. They need new clothes as they grow. They need to attend school without being stigmatised as the kid that comes wearing nothing but a pair of old gym shoes with holes. That is another aspect of our concern about children. The replacement of goods for children is particularly acute. Alas, the singling out of children by their peer group is often an act of common child cruelty with which most of us are familiar.
The right reverend Prelate pointed to the way in which vouchers stigmatise children and so they do. Yet, if the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, is correct, they will have no access to school meals and there will be problems in receiving the kind of support they need. In his response perhaps the Minister can address this aspect of a problem which concerns many of us.
Lord Williams of Mostyn: I shall. I hope that I shall not be accused of bringing up the big guns. I am saying that we have to bear in mind that there are competing demands that need to be attended to. A great number of the questions which have been raised I addressed in a quite lengthy letter to the noble Lord, Lord Alton. I shall come back to them because it may be that some Members of the Committee have not seen them.
In the second paragraph of the letter I set out the nature of the accommodation that will be provided. It states,
Questions have been raised about the accommodation of asylum seekers in unsuitable areas. I said in that reply,
All those points depend entirely on the points that the noble Lord, Lord Judd, raised. I did not read them all partly because I sent the letter so recently. I do not believe that one can say that one is bullying, intimidatory or using the big guns. I am simply saying that we are approaching this matter in a humane way.
I turn to one or two other points that were made. There are other questions discussed in our meetings with the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, about access to medical attention and care. The noble Lord, Lord Dholakia, also raised them. I hope to be able to give some positive news about some of their queries.
Perhaps I may deal with one or two questions and phrases used. The noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, asked about school meals. I intend to bring forward at Report stage an amendment to allow asylum-seeker children free meals. I am not claiming that as a virtue; I am simply saying that we have genuinely listened to the kinds of questions, including the general spectrum, raised recently by the noble Baroness, Lady Williams.
When I was replying at some length earlier I said that we would be looking to provide a full range of support and assistance, education, free school meals, milk vouchers, healthcare, free prescriptions and access to the social services. Both my noble friend Lord Judd and the right reverend Prelate said that some of the figures were in dispute. I do not believe that an up-to-date calculation has been made on the figures that I gave this evening because it was not possible to do it. Both the right reverend Prelate and my noble friend Lord Judd said that I was comparing something that I was offering with something which is fairly minimalist anyway. That underlines my point.
In this country we have a system of support for those who would otherwise be destitute. I am saying--I hope not in a disagreeable way--that what we are trying to offer people who come to these shores in need is something roughly comparable in terms of support to what we give our own citizens who are also destitute and who can sometimes be seen sleeping rough in London or begging at railway stations.
When I say that no government can deliver what Amendments Nos. 152 and 153 demand, I am simply telling the truth. It may be a disagreeable truth, but I am not prepared to say things which are hopelessly unrealistic and which raise and then cruelly shatter people's hopes. I appreciate that we are discussing amendments, although by general consent we have gone off into a wider review on a Second Reading basis.
As regards Amendment No. 153, the child's welfare should be the paramount consideration. But it is not unkind or threatening to say that no government that I know of can deliver that. There is no point in putting matters in Bills which become Acts of Parliament to make us all feel better. That helps no one.
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Why Not Change the Name to 'the Obama Islands' and Get it Over With?
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Hawaii already has the "SnObama," but where the trend will end after that is anybody's guess.
Headline from the Honolulu Advertiser:
That's Obamariffic, Baracktastic and Husseinsational! Too bad Don Ho(pe) isn't around for all this change.
A push is even underway to make Obama's birthday, August 4th (if it falls on a weekend, the following Monday no doubt), a Hawaii state holiday.
There are a few other changes under consideration:
Changing the name of schools to honor Obama always perplexes me. The intent is to show kids where hard work and study can get them in life, but the unspoken message sent by the man whose name is on the building is "why study and work hard when everything's gonna be free?" Peggy agrees. Or at least, she used to.
I'd also respectully suggest that the cover of all Hawaii Five-O DVDs sold from this date forward be slightly altered to honor the president:
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Payback is the amount of time needed for an investment to earn its cost, undiscounted. For example, if you buy a dividend stock for $100 that pays a $5 annual dividend, the payback is 20 years (100/5). Though not very sophisticated, payback can still help you screen for good, solid dividend growth stocks.
When applying this concept to dividend growth stocks, the calculation is a little more complicated than the simple example above due to the annual dividend increases. Nothing that can't be quickly modeled in a spreadsheet.
Companies with a very short payback are often troubled or have been highly discounted due to the market's lack of faith in them. At the other extreme, do you really want to wait 30, 40 or 50 years to earn back your initial investment? As a compromise, a 9 to 13-year payback should be acceptable for most long-term investors.
Once you earn back your investment, some might say you are in a no-lose situation. I wouldn't go quite that far, but you have found an investment that that has provided you a good historical revenue stream, and hopefully it will continue to do so in the future.
This week week, I screened my dividend growth stocks database for select stocks with a 9 to 13 year payback (at the current yield and dividend growth rate) and yield of 2% or more. The results are presented below:
Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) - Walmart Stores Inc. is the largest retailer in North America and operates a chain of discount department stores, wholesale clubs, and combination discount stores and supermarkets.
Yield: 2.8% | Payback Years: 13.0
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) - AT&T Inc. (formerly SBC Communications) provides telephone and broadband service and holds full ownership of AT&T Mobility (formerly Cingular Wireless). AT&T Corp. was acquired in late 2005 and BellSouth in late 2006.
Yield: 6.1% | Payback Years: 12.9
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) - Target Corp. operates operates about 1,500 Target and 250 SuperTarget general merchandise stores across the U.S.
Yield: 2.2% | Payback Years: 12.6
T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (NASDAQ:TROW) - T. Rowe Price Group Inc. operates one of the largest no-load mutual fund complexes in the United States.
Yield: 2.7% | Payback Years: 12.5
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) - McDonald's Corporation is the largest fast-food restaurant company in the world, with about 32,500 restaurants in 117 countries.
Yield: 2.8% | Payback Years: 12.2
Walgreen Co. (WAG) - Walgreen Co. is the largest U.S. retail drug chain in terms of revenues. It operates more than 8,000 drug stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Yield: 2.2% | Payback Years: 12.1
Waste Management Inc. (NYSE:WM) - Waste Management Inc. is the largest U.S. trash hauling/disposal concern.
Yield: 4.6% | Payback Years: 12.1
Lowe's Companies Inc. (NYSE:LOW) - Lowe's Companies, Inc. sells retail building materials and supplies, lumber, hardware and appliances through more than 1,700 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
Yield: 2.7% | Payback Years: 11.2
AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE:AFL) - Aflac Incorporated provides supplemental health and life insurance in the U.S. and Japan. Products are marketed at work sites and help fill gaps in primary insurance coverage. Approximately 80% of earnings comes from Japan and 20% from the U.S.
Yield: 3.5% | Payback Years: 11.0
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) - Intel Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of microprocessors, the central processing units of PCs, and also produces other semiconductor products.
Yield: 4.1% | Payback Years: 10.6
ConocoPhillips Co. (NYSE:COP) - ConocoPhillips Co. was formed in 2002 when Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merged and is now is the fourth largest integrated oil company in the world.
Yield: 4.2% | Payback Years: 9.9
Watsco Inc. (NYSE:WSO) - Watsco Inc. is the largest U.S. distributor of air-conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment, and related products.
Yield: 4.2% | Payback Years: 9.9
Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) - Lockheed Martin Corp. is the world's largest military weapons manufacturer and is also a significant supplier to NASA and other non-defense government agencies. LMT receives about 93% of its revenues from global defense sales.
Yield: 4.3% | Payback Years: 9.7
As with past screens, the data presented above is in its raw form. Some of the the companies would be disqualified for poor dividend fundamentals. However some of the others may be worth additional due diligence.
My database, D4L-Data, is an Open Office spreadsheet containing more than 20 columns of information on the 210+ companies that I track. The data is sortable and has built-in buttons and macros to make it easy to use. Companies included in the list are those that have had a history of dividend growth. The D4L-Data spreadsheet is a part of D4L-Premium Services and is updated each Saturday for subscribers.
Full Disclosure: Long WMT, T, MCD, INTC, COP, LMT. See a list of all my dividend growth holdings here.
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On February 4, 2015, FDA released draft guidance around its "Expanded Access" program, also known as "compassionate use." The guidance proposes a greatly streamlined application form that physicians may use on behalf of individual patients to request access to investigational drugs that have not yet been approved by the FDA as safe and effective.
Generally, drugs that are not yet approved by FDA are not available to patients outside a clinical trial. However, in certain circumstances under the Expanded Access program, FDA allows Investigational New Drug (IND) sponsors to provide their drug products to individual patients or broader patient populations outside of a clinical investigation for treatment purposes.
Previously, a physician requesting expanded access on behalf of an individual patient was required to submit an extensive IND form, used by all sponsors, including drug manufacturers. FDA's proposed guidance would change this process by providing a new, simplified application form for physicians. Furthermore, FDA proposes that, in emergency situations that require patient treatment before a form can be completed, a treating physician may call an FDA review division, certify that all regulatory requirements are met, and agree to submit the form within 15 days of FDA's authorization of expanded access use.
In a blog post about the draft guidance, Associate FDA Commissioner Peter Lurie, M.D., M.P.H., estimated that physicians can complete the proposed Form FDA 3926 in approximately 45 minutes, as compared to the 100 hoursrequired under the previous IND form. Lurie notes that the previous form was originally designed for drug manufacturers seeking to begin human testing, not individual physicians and their individual patients.
The simplified process, however, will not change the otherwise applicable FDA requirements for authorization of Expanded Access for individual patients, namely: (1) that the patient have a serious disease or otherwise immediately life-threatening condition, (2) there is no other comparable alternative treatment available, (3) the potential patient benefits justify the potential risks, (4) those risks are not unreasonable in the context of the disease to be treated, (5) providing the investigational drug outside a clinical trial will not otherwise interfere with ongoing clinical investigations, and (6) the patient cannot obtain the investigational drug through another IND sponsor or protocol.
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The Khoury family, which has operated JJ&F Food Store at 520 College Ave. since March 2011, said Thursday they've lost their month-to-month lease. They have to be out by Sept. 19.
"It sucks," Ronnie Khoury said as he rang up a steady stream of customers, adding that everyone who works at the store will lose their job.
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"The surprise was how quick it was, how it just kind of caught us off guard, the lack of communication," he said.
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But some customers were outraged Thursday to learn that the family was being shown the door.
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The family, meanwhile, is planning to run the store through Sept. 19.
"They're still relying on us. They might not have a clue what's going on. Not everybody reads the local papers," Khoury said about his regular customers. "People still need their bread and their milk and their steaks. They've gotta eat. They've gotta drink. We're gonna run it until, you know, we get to that final day and they say, 'Alright guys, get the heck out.'"
The family runs similar neighborhood stores in Half Moon Bay and Windsor, but they aren't capable of absorbing the employees who will be laid off.
"They're established. We can't just go work there," said Khoury, adding that many of his employees have families. His own wife is due to give birth to his third son the day before the lease expires.
The only other business left on the project site, World Centric, has also received an eviction notice. However, the provider of compostable plates and utensils was already planning a move, said CEO and founder Aseem Das. A new office was opened this week in Petaluma.
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It's been an up-and-down year for grocery stores in Palo Alto. In April, Miki's Farm Fresh Market was shuttered after a run that lasted less than six months; Grocery Outlet has since been named as a replacement. Meanwhile, the Fresh Market opened its second California store at Edgewood Plaza.
The JJ&F name will likely disappear with the Khoury family's eviction, but a similar neighborhood market must take its place, Reich said. That was a condition of the city council's approval of the College Terrace Centre project.
Khoury said his family would do it all over again.
"We don't regret coming into this place, doing what we did and making a living, making friends — people I consider my family nowadays," Khoury said. "There are no regrets at all."
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Forums > General Industry > How do I get anyywhere without an agency!?
I just do not understand how people get anywhere without being signed to an agency, I know a ton of people do it but I just have no idea how to go about doing it by myself. I do not do glamour/nudes or lingerie so it is harder to find REAL paying jobs! I need advice/help! And I would just apply at an agency but they need a certain height which I am not
Jan 31 13 12:25 pm Link
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Network, network, network. Work your ass off and network some more.
Jan 31 13 12:28 pm Link
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Royal Oak, Michigan, US
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
The real world answer is that 95% of paid fashion work goes to agency models in most markets. There may be some boutiques that pay models for advertising work that may be more flexible about height, but most are not. Glamour, swimwear, nude, and promotional work is a much better opportunity for paid work for most models under 5'8".
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Miami Beach, Florida, US
DivaEroticus wrote:
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Plainview, Texas, US
DivaEroticus wrote:
That. Work the social media for all it's worth. The successful non-agency models I know all keep very active on Facebook, Twitter and the rest. Be sure you have a FB modeling page, work to build a fanbase, and update regularly at least 3 or 4 times a week.
Jan 31 13 12:37 pm Link
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Los Angeles, California, US
Well, you're in Milwaukee besides the other things you've and others have mentioned.
Chicago is just 1.5 hours away.
Jan 31 13 12:41 pm Link
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I think with your height limitations & the fact you're not willing to shoot glamour, lingerie or nudes you'll find it very hard to get paid work.
Just my thoughts ~ MR
Jan 31 13 12:43 pm Link
1. Pose nude.
2. Network.
3. Travel.
4. Impress every photographer you work with.
5. Network more.
= $
Jan 31 13 12:44 pm Link
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Bath, England, United Kingdom
Michael Pandolfo wrote:
Jan 31 13 12:46 pm Link
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
Then I would have to ask...who would you expect to hire you? You don't meet fashion standards. You don't shoot glamour, nude or lingerie. What is left? Fitness? That's a very small niche so unless you're a bodybuilding or published national champion fitness competitor, I don't see the demand.
-B-R-U-N-E-S-C-I- wrote:
Nooooooooooo! I hear Eliza C's footsteps coming!
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New York, New York, US
-B-R-U-N-E-S-C-I- wrote:
I just choked on my coffee laughing at that. ~Shakes fist~ Damn you!
Jan 31 13 01:01 pm Link
Thank you all for replying! You are absolutely right- beggars can't be choosers! I need to be more open to different types of modeling
Jan 31 13 01:06 pm Link
I should have said published work instead of paid - I don't have rates, I just love the idea of ny images being published but its hard to land those "published gigs" without an agency, networking is my best bet
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Berkeley, California, US
Basically, you are going to have to spend a lot of time online.
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
There is no magic answer for that.
Jan 31 13 01:11 pm Link
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Biloxi, Mississippi, US
DivaEroticus wrote:
You know... every once in a while Diva says something really smart!
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
yes. Don't do anything that goes against your morals or that you really don't want to do. But the more you're willing to do, the more opportunities you will have coming your way.
Jan 31 13 05:11 pm Link
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Chicago, Illinois, US
Milwaukee is quite an active "fashion" town with a lot of work for Carsons (and all their sub brands) and Kohl's being shot there. Many times they look for the "every day girl" type from the agencies and there are a few of those in Milwaukee. If that doesn't work for you try working with the top drawer people such as Taylor, etc. And then there is Chicago, about an hour south. There are tons of good people here, photographers as well as agencies.
I like your drive and dedication that you feel for your baby; even half of that energy poured into your work as a model is going to pay off. Go make a lot of different pictures with new photogs.
Jan 31 13 05:14 pm Link
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Charlotte, North Carolina, US
-B-R-U-N-E-S-C-I- wrote:
Jan 31 13 05:15 pm Link
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Los Angeles, California, US
Most successful freelance models generally live in decent sized markets and/or travel extensively. Location is really important.
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Orlando, Florida, US
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
I don't know much about the greater industry, but from what I do know, the bold part is the trouble part. If you DID do glamour/nude, you can make a perfectly good living without representation. But to really get into the fashion/commercial work without a reputable agency, you're going to need to know the right people, be at the right place at the right time (and be available for it) and hustle your butt off.
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Decatur, Alabama, US
I beg to disagree somewhat, I do have a couple non exclusive agencies but my Mom actually gets me most the work I do. Am I making bank...no but hey my shoots are paid enough to suit me for now, I model for companies all over the world, have fun and make some at workshops- trade shows- do extra work on tv and film- and do portfolio shoots at art colleges. But you do have to network your butt off to get noticed and hired
Oh, and clothing stays on too lol
oh and one last thing I live in Po-dunk Alabama haha
Jan 31 13 05:25 pm Link
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Salem, Oregon, US
one of my models does art nudes and has been exhibited in a gallery. she works both the west coast and the east coast and travels frequently between the coasts.
what kind of magazines are you hoping to get published in?
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
Jan 31 13 05:41 pm Link
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Decatur, Alabama, US
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
Have also been several times published nationally
Jan 31 13 05:49 pm Link
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Boston, Massachusetts, US
WhitneyNoelle wrote:
You will understand when you look at it from the point of view of your potential clients, or at least the market you are trying to attract.
Jan 31 13 05:57 pm Link
Thank you all for replying!! You have helped me a ton!!
Feb 01 13 06:33 am Link
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Catskill, New York, US
Work hard and develop a product that someone needs. Agencies are able to give you work because they have a team of people out getting the work through networking, crafty marketing or whatever. You have to be all of that yourself.
It's like owning your own business. There's no company writing you a paycheck each week. You have to go find the work and make the check yourself.
Feb 01 13 06:36 am Link
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Portland, Oregon, US
All starting out Creatives have the same issue, how to be noticed and get work.
If you're an independent/freelance model then you're in the same boat as the average independent/freelance (semi) professional photographer, MUAH, artist and the like.
You have to sell yourself. You have to knock on doors and you have to be assertive in making yourself known.
I always recommend creating images of yourself that are representative of your versatility and commercial appeal. Have images made of you with products and props. Create situational scenes and cosplay for images of you.
Create images that emulate the successful ones that you see in publications and online.
Network like crazy. If you see models in ads, promotions or publications produced by local businesses, look into who is responsible for booking the models for those ads. Many family friends, acquaintances and friends are business owners that may give you a break.
Your MM profile states:
But your portfolio shows none of these except one b/w for that's sort of safely "art".
Something to quickly read and save: http://www.purestorm.com/elements.aspx
Feb 01 13 08:38 am Link
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Sacramento, California, US
Silver Mirage wrote:
Great tips! I used to have a FB page and then deleted it, but my day job is working social media, so I probably should get it back up and get it promoted (One of the big benefits about having two jobs in social media marketing) I also live in one of the nations biggest cities...so no issue there. I definitely agree that commercial and promotional are the ways to go. No agencies will sign a model under 5'9" unless you are extremely lucky.
Feb 01 13 09:56 am Link
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Alexandria, Virginia, US
an aweful lot of models don't really get anywhere *with* an agency either....
my area is at best a secondary market but I know quite a few models who have opted for free agency and been more successful as a result...
Feb 01 13 10:02 am Link
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Portland, Oregon, US
In my experience with legit modeling agencies, only about the top 10% of agency models actually make a living and/or money. The rest are basically filler to allow the agency to have "possible" options in the event that the 10% isn't available or isn't exactly what a client needs or can afford.
Few of the other 90% make a living from it, and if anything end up paying the agency for ever new head shots, portfolio images, and "classes".
If you're going to make modeling a living then it's going to have to be on your own. If you're going out on your own you're going to have to be smart and be assertive. If you're not making it after being smart and assertive then make it a hobby and make a living another way.
Feb 01 13 10:26 am Link
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Saint Louis, Missouri, US
You'll find the very best answers to your question here:
Several of my model friends highly recommend this book - and one told me that, if the book had been available when she started out, it would have kept her from wasting the first five years.
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Feb 01 13 10:31 am Link
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Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom
Most published work comes from doing Glamour/Lingerie or if you can fit into Alternative Modelling and know how to dress for Gothic/Steampunk/Pin Up projects then you can get into lots of specialist magazines, Im doing published work for SteamPunk on Sunday.
these specialist themed magazines dont care about height/weight etc as long as you can rock any outfit they put you in
just a thought
Feb 01 13 10:35 am Link
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
-B-R-U-N-E-S-C-I- wrote:
Now _that_ was funny!
Feb 01 13 10:36 am Link
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Phoenix, Arizona, US
Lil Miss Jade wrote:
so your MOM is acting as an Agent would ... YOU are not getting the work yourself, she's acting as AGENT ... managing your work ... totally NOT what the OP is asking ...
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