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Second Friday Movie
Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma as he sets out to make the film.
This 2013 film stars Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette and Jessica Biel. It runs 98 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some violent images, sexual content and thematic material.

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American Foreign Economic Policy
Daniel Sargent
Foreign economic policy involves the mediation and management of economic flows across borders. Over two and a half centuries, the context for U.S. foreign economic policy has transformed. Once a fledgling republic on the periphery of the world economy, the United States has become the world's largest economy, the arbiter of international economic order, and a predominant influence on the global economy. Throughout this transformation, the making of foreign economic policy has entailed delicate tradeoffs between diverse interests—political and material, foreign and domestic, sectional and sectoral, and so on. Ideas and beliefs have also shaped U.S. foreign economic policy—from Enlightenment-era convictions about the pacifying effects of international commerce to late 20th-century convictions about the efficacy of free markets.
U.S. Foreign Trade Policy from the Revolution to World War I
Economic nationalism tended to dominate U.S. foreign trade policy throughout the long 19th century, from the end of the American Revolution to the beginning of World War I, owing to a pervasive American sense of economic and geopolitical insecurity and American fear of hostile powers, especially the British but also the French and Spanish and even the Barbary States. Following the U.S. Civil War, leading U.S. protectionist politicians sought to curtail European trade policies and to create a U.S.-dominated customs union in the Western Hemisphere. American proponents of trade liberalization increasingly found themselves outnumbered in the halls of Congress, as the "American System" of economic nationalism grew in popularity alongside the perceived need for foreign markets. Protectionist advocates in the United States viewed the American System as a panacea that not only promised to provide the federal government with revenue but also to artificially insulate American infant industries from undue foreign-market competition through high protective tariffs and subsidies, and to retaliate against real and perceived threats to U.S. trade.
Throughout this period, the United States itself underwent a great struggle over foreign trade policy. By the late 19th century, the era's boom-and-bust global economic system led to a growing perception that the United States needed more access to foreign markets as an outlet for the country's surplus goods and capital. But whether the United States would obtain foreign market access through free trade or through protectionism led to a great debate over the proper course of U.S. foreign trade policy. By the time that the United States acquired a colonial empire from the Spanish in 1898, this same debate over U.S. foreign trade policy had effectively merged into debates over the course of U.S. imperial expansion. The country's more expansionist-minded economic nationalists came out on top. The overwhelming 1896 victory of William McKinley—the Republican party's "Napoleon of Protection"—marked the beginning of substantial expansion of U.S. foreign trade through a mixture of protectionism and imperialism in the years leading up to World War I.


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- Retirement
- Defined Benefit Plans (including Cash Balance)
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- Individual Accounts / IRAs
- Plan Trends and Participation
- Retirement Security Projection Model
- Saving for Retirement
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- What's New at EBRI
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EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model
The EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model® is used to model the expected retirement income derived from Social Security and retirement plans for birth cohorts from 1936-1965 with results broken out by gender and family status. This is combined with a hybrid model for analyzing retiree expenditures: stochastic for some expenditures (e.g., home health care and nursing facilities) and deterministic for others (e.g., housing and food). This results in a tool capable of analyzing the retirement income adequacy of various demographic groups under baseline assumptions as well as various policy scenarios. Studies using the model are presented.
"EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model®(RSPM) - Analyzing Policy and Design Proposals" [June 2018, EBRI Issue Brief #451]
"How Does the Probability of a 'Successful' Retirement Differ Between Participants in Final-Average Defined Benefit Plans and Voluntary Enrollment 401(k) Plans?" [October 2015, EBRI Notes, Vol. 36, No. 10]
"How Much Can Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contracts Improve Retirement Security?" [August 2015, EBRI Notes, Vol. 36, No. 8]
"Auto-IRAs: How Much Would They Increase the Probability of 'Successful' Retirements and Decrease Retirement Deficits? Preliminary Evidence from EBRI's Retirement Security Projection Model" [June 2015, EBRI Notes, Vol. 36, No. 6]
"How Much Needs to be Saved for Retirement After Factoring In Post-Retirement Risks: Evidence from the EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model" [March 2015, EBRI Notes, Vol. 36, No. 3]
"Retirement Savings Shortfalls: Evidence from EBRI's Retirement Security Projection Model" [February 2015, EBRI Issue Brief #410]
"Contributory 'Negligence?' The Impact of Future Contributions to Defined Contribution Plans on Retirement Income Adequacy for Gen Xers" [August 2014, EBRI Notes, Vol. 35, No. 8]
"'Short' Falls: Who's Most Likely to Come up Short in Retirement, and When?" [June 2014, EBRI Notes, Vol. 35, No. 6]
"What Causes EBRI Retirement Readiness Ratings to Vary: Results from the 2014 Retirement Security Projection Model" [February 2014, EBRI Issue Brief #396]
"The Role of Social Security, Defined Benefits, and Private Retirement Accounts in the Face of the Retirement Crisis" [January 2014, EBRI Notes, Vol. 35, No. 1]
"How Much Would it Take? Achieving Retirement Income Equivalency between Final-Average-Pay Defined Benefit Plan Accruals and Voluntary Enrollment 401(k) Plans in the Private Sector" [December 2013, EBRI Notes, Vol. 34, No. 12]
"Reality Checks: A Comparative Analysis of Future Benefits from Private-Sector, Voluntary-Enrollment 401(k) Plans vs. Stylized, Final-Average-Pay Defined Benefit and Cash Balance Plans" [June 2013, EBRI Issue Brief #387]
"What a Sustained Low-yield Rate Environment Means for Retirement Income Adequacy: Results from the 2013 EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model" [June 2013, EBRI Notes, Vol. 34, No. 6]
"A Little Help: The Impact of On-line Calculators and Financial Advisors on Setting Adequate Retirement-Savings Targets: Evidence from the 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey" [March 2013, EBRI Notes, Vol. 34, No. 3]
"All or Nothing? An Expanded Perspective on Retirement Readiness" [November 2012, EBRI Notes, Vol. 33, No. 11]
"Increasing Default Deferral Rates in Automatic Enrollment 401(k) Plans: The Impact on Retirement Savings Success in Plans With Automatic Escalation" [September 2012, EBRI Notes, Vol. 33, No. 9]
"Is Working to Age 70 Really the Answer for Retirement Income Adequacy?" [August 2012, EBRI Notes, Vol. 33, No. 8]
"Retirement Readiness Ratings and Retirement Savings Shortfalls for Gen Xers: The Impact of Eligibility for Participation in a 401(k) Plan" [June 2012, EBRI Notes, Vol. 33, No. 6]
"Retirement Income Adequacy for Boomers and Gen Xers: Evidence from the 2012 EBRI Retirement Security Projection Model" [May 2012, EBRI Notes, Vol. 33, No. 5]
"Modifying the Federal Tax Treatment of 401(k) Plan Contributions: Projected Impact on Participant Account Balances" [March 2012, EBRI Notes, Vol. 33, No. 3]
"Tax Reform Options: Promoting Retirement Security" [November 2011, EBRI Issue Brief #364]
"The Importance of Defined Benefit Plans for Retirement Income Adequacy" [August 2011, EBRI Notes, Vol. 32, No. 8]
"Capping Tax-Preferred Retirement Contributions: Preliminary Evidence of the Impact of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Recommendations" [July 2011, EBRI Notes, Vol. 32, No. 7]
"The Impact of Deferring Retirement Age on Retirement Income Adequacy" [June 2011, EBRI Issue Brief #358]
"Retirement Income Adequacy: Alternative Thresholds and the Importance of Future Eligibility in Defined Contribution Retirement Plans" [April 2011, EBRI Notes, Vol. 32, No. 4]
"A Post-Crisis Assessment of Retirement Income Adequacy for Baby Boomers and Gen Xers" [February 2011, EBRI Issue Brief #354]
"The Impact of Auto-enrollment and Automatic Contribution Escalation on Retirement Income Adequacy" [November 2010, EBRI Issue Brief #349]
"Retirement Savings Shortfalls for Today's Workers" [October 2010, EBRI Notes, Vol. 31, No. 10]
"Retirement Income Adequacy for Today's Workers: How Certain, How Much Will It Cost, and How Does Eligibility for Participation in a Defined Contribution Plan Help?" [September 2010, EBRI Notes, Vol. 31, No. 9]
"The EBRI Retirement Readiness Rating:™ Retirement Income Preparation and Future Prospects" [July 2010, EBRI Issue Brief #344]
"Measuring Retirement Income Adequacy: Calculating Realistic Income Replacement Rates" [September 2006, EBRI Issue Brief #297]
"Americans' Future Retirement Security: Implications of the EBRI-ERF Retirement Security Projection Model" [February 2004, EBRI Issue Brief #266]
"Can America Afford Tomorrow's Retirees: Results From the EBRI-ERF Retirement Security Projection Model" [November 2003, EBRI Issue Brief #263]
Note: Please use the "Search" function to locate earlier publications on this topic.
- 401(k) Valuations Published: September 4, 2018 401(k) Balances and Changes Due to Market Volatility
- President's Letter Published: February 20, 2018 Insights from EBRI's President and CEO


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Software productivity tools company JetBrains has announced the general availability of its code-centric web IDE WebStorm 2.0, a product which acts as a JavaScript/HTML editor to suggest JavaScript-specific code optimizations, quick-fixes, and refactorings. WebStorm 2.0 also provides Zen-coding support and DOM-based auto-completion for HTML/CSS coding environments.
"We work to provide developers with tools to stay on top of the web's fast-evolving standards. In this release we focused on adding support for the latest JavaScript specification -- ECMAScript 5, HTML 5, LESS, and SASS extensions for CSS," said Maxim Mossienko, project lead at JetBrains. "We have also continued to improve the environment itself by redesigning the UI and making it easier to work with issue trackers and version control systems right from the IDE."
The key changes in WebStorm 2.0 include support for ECMAScript 5: "use strict", a JavaScript libraries organizer to provide sophisticated JS code-completion, a leaner offering for CSS (LESS) and SASS/SCSS extensions for CSS, better Git integration, added Mercurial support, and Relax NG for XML.
The company offers a 30-day evaluation from its website and says that separate personal and commercial licenses are available. Each license includes free WebStorm updates for 1 year after the purchase date, covering major new releases.


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Phoenix Area Kitten & Cat Rescues & Shelters
The Option Everyone is Talking About in Phoenix - Adoption!
Have you ever seen an adorable cat or kitten up for adoption and featured on your local news channel? Those great cats and kittens aren't rare finds! They are the norm, and just about everywhere – including right here in Phoenix, AZ; there are too many pets and not enough homes choosing to adopt them. Unfortunately, many animals are still not spayed or neutered resulting in thousands of unwanted cats and kittens each year.
You might see a cat or kitten for sale at a Phoenix pet store and assume that buying a cat is the only option. Or you might, as many people do, believe that a cat for sale from a store or a breeder in Phoenix is somehow "better" than one you might find for adoption in a Phoenix animal shelter. This is a common misconception, and it couldn't be further from the truth. The cats and kittens available for adoption at your local shelters and rescue groups are wonderful, sweet, healthy companions who are homeless through no fault of their own. Many times, animals end up in shelters simply because their former owner encountered a financial hardship and could no longer afford to care for them, or perhaps even lost their own home. Whatever the reason, most cats and kittens in shelters are great former pets who have lived in homes, and are often already litterbox trained.
You may be looking at the options, and wondering what the difference is between buying a cat or kitten you see advertised for sale in the Phoenix newspaper, for instance, and adopting a cat or kitten from a shelter. One main difference is the feeling you get from knowing your choice is actually saving a life. When you adopt a cat or kitten from a Phoenix-area shelter or rescue group, you'll not only save the life of the cat you'll call your new best friend, but you'll be helping another cat by creating an open space at the shelter. And your new cat will show you vast amounts of gratitude every day!
For Sale? Or for Adoption? Three Great Reasons to Adopt Your Kitten or Cat from an Animal Shelter or Rescue Group in Phoenix:
Some Phoenix Area Kitten & Cat Rescues
Below you'll find many Phoenix focused rescue organizations. This is not a complete list! If you are a Phoenix focused rescue and would like to be included, please sign up for an Adopt-a-Pet.com account here, then submit your request using the Contact Us link after you login to your Adopt-a-Pet.com rescue or shelter account. Thank you!


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Why Antidepressants Don't Work
By Michael A. Smith, MDDepression is a serious mood disorder that affects millions of people every year. In some cases, the cause is something that happens in life — like the death of a loved one, a divorce, or illness. But in a majority of cases, we don't know why depression develops.
And this is where a huge drug market comes into play — the antidepressants. Big Pharma believes that their drugs are the cure-all for depression and all of its potential consequences. But here's an interesting fact: Less than 50% of patients prescribed antidepressants actually get better.1
That means that more than half of the people taking one of these so-called "cure-all drugs" are still left suffering from this debilitating mood disorder. In baseball batting 500 is considered a success, but when it comes to treating depression, we think this is completely unacceptable.
Conventional Medicine's Failed Approach to DepressionAntidepressants for the most part work by preventing the removal of one neurotransmitter from the brain — serotonin, the "feel-good" neurotransmitter. Studies have shown that higher brain serotonin is associated with a sense of well-being and low levels are associated with depression.
So naturally, Big Pharma focuses on serotonin. But their approach fails for two big reasons:
- The most popular class of antidepressants does not increase serotonin production. The drugs only prevent its removal from the synaptic cleft — the space between two brain cells. Do you see the problem? If depression is associated with low serotonin, simply preventing its removal doesn't address the deficiency.
After taking the drugs, you still have low serotonin. It just hangs around between brain cells longer. This may help a little, but it doesn't correct the serotonin deficiency.
- The "one mechanism" approach fails to recognize the complexity of the brain itself. There are probably several neurotransmitters involved, working within several brain centers to produce mood.
Brain Food for Treating DepressionSuccessfully treating depression is possible if you feed your brain the nutrients it needs to function properly. Here's what we suggest:
- Optimize vitamin D — Studies show that low levels of vitamin D are associated with depression.2 So take vitamin D daily. Most people will need between 5,000 and 8,000 units a day of vitamin D3 to reach optimal blood levels.
- Take B vitamins — The research is inconclusive, but B vitamins seem to help certain populations, like preventing depression in patients who have suffered a stroke.3
- Supplement with Omega-3 fats — Omega-3 fats are essential to brain health, including mood. Although most of the clinical studies are small, omega-3 oils have shown benefit in treating depression.4
Do you battle with depression? Have you tried antidepressants? Please share your experience in the comments!
- Nature. 2011 Nov 15;479(7373):278.
- Psychiatry Res. 2011 Dec 30;190(2-3):221-5.
- Ann Neurol. 2010 Oct;68(4):503-10.
- J Clin Psychiatry. 2009 Dec;70(12):1636-44.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Two years after discovering she had a rare form of ovarian cancer, Olympic champion gymnast Shannon Miller is expecting her second child.
Miller is due this summer. She and husband John Falconetti also have a 3-year-old son, Rocco.
The most decorated gymnast in U.S. history was hoping to get pregnant again when doctors discovered a germ cell malignancy, a form of ovarian cancer, in late 2010. Germ cell malignancies are not the same as what most people think of as ovarian cancer, generally occurring in teenagers and women under 30. But the consequences can be just as dire. The ovary with the tumor was removed in January 2011, and Miller then had nine weeks of chemotherapy. She says she is now cancer-free.
Miller is a two-time world all-around champion. She won seven Olympic medals and nine at the world championships.


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Meeting HighlightsAAPT 2006 Winter Meeting — Anchorage, Alaska
Jan. 21-25, 2006
The 2006 Winter Meeting was held in Anchorage, Alaska, January 21–25, 2006. The meeting served as the "kick-off" event commemorating AAPT's 75th anniversary, which, incidentally, will be a major focus of the 2006 Summer Meeting in Syracuse, New York. Approximately 600 participants braved a long plane ride and cold temperatures to attend. The temperature rarely rose above 10°F; nonetheless, many attendees enjoyed the beautiful scenery and even participated in some winter activities, including dogsled rides, cross-country skiing, as well as automobile and airplane tours of the incredibly scenic mountains bordering Anchorage. Due to fewer paper sessions, attendees had more time to meet informally with colleagues and friends, whether in the pleasant surroundings of the Egan Conference Center or at one of the many nearby restaurants. Many also volunteered their services in support of AAPT and the greater physics community by serving as section representatives or participating on one of the association's many committees.
AAPT Provides Structure for Advances in Physics Education
The section representatives met on Sunday evening to elect new officers and to discuss the general membership and other issues of concern. The AAPT Council, which is composed of section representatives and Executive Board, met on Monday evening to hear reports from AAPT officers and to recognize retiring Executive Board members Jim Nelson and Chuck Stone. Furthermore, the Council selected the University of Alberta, Edmonton, in Canada, as the host site for the 2008 Summer Meeting. The Council also voted to hold a joint meeting with the AAAS in Chicago during February 2009, pending approval of AAAS's governing board.
Workshops and Continuing Education Opportunities
Many of the lessons garnered from Physics Education Research (PER) were evident in some of the workshops, including "Using Case Studies to Teach Physics," "ClassAction: Interactive Classroom Materials for Introductory Astronomy," "Preparing Pre-College Teachers to Teach Physics by Inquiry," "Physics for Elementary Teachers: A New Curriculum," "Tutorials in Introductory Physics," and "TIPERS (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research)." An additional seven commercial workshops rounded out the many educational opportunities that were available to participants.
The Paper Sessions
"Physics in Alaska" served as a theme for a number of well-attended sessions, such as "Hot Topics in Alaska," "Lessons from the Good Friday Earthquake," "Contributions of Women in Physics in Alaska," "Hot Topics in Physics: The Physics of Global Warming," and "Physics and Geophysics in Alaska." Another well-attended session was "Life After Retirement," featuring invited talks by Richard Jacob, Edwin Taylor, Ken Ford, and Norman Chonacky. Sessions exploring the uses of technology in the classroom included "Distance Learning and the Impact of the WWW," "Best Practices in Teaching with Technology," and "Connecting Physics to Emerging Technologies in the Introductory Course." Several sessions featured the international nature of physics: "Physics Teaching Around the World" and "Physics Education in Africa."
Sessions devoted to pedagogical issues included "Attitudes and Beliefs," "Physics Education Research," "Assessment and Research Instruments," "Astronomy Education Research," and "Thawing the Frozen Curriculum." Undergraduate students engaged in outreach and physics research was the focus of contributed papers organized by SPS. The physics education community's increased interest in the preparation of future teachers was examined in "Reducing Teacher Isolation: Induction and Mentoring" and "Topics in Pre-College Physics Teaching."
Abstracts from the 2006 Winter Meeting (as well as abstracts from national meetings covering 1998–2005) are available online in a searchable database at www.aapt.org/AbstractSearch/.
Award and Plenary Sessions
Kenneth Ford, retired CEO of the American Institute of Physics, is the 2006 recipient of the Oersted Medal. In his talk "Love Them to Death," Ford recounted his teaching odyssey, which encompasses seventh graders to graduate students. Ford suggested that a real affection for students of all levels goes a long way toward ensuring teaching success. Ford feels strongly that physicists need to overcome their priesthood syndrome and that teaching physics to ninth graders (PhysicsFirst) makes good sense. The Oersted Award, AAPT's most prestigious award, recognizes notable contributions to the teaching of physics.
Five AAPT members received Distinguished Service Citations. They were selected based on their many contributions over an extended period of time to the association in particular and to the teaching profession in general. The recipients of the 2006 Distinguished Service Citations include: Mario Belloni (Davidson College), Steve Iona (Univ. of Denver), Zigmund Peacock (Univ. of Utah), Gregory Puskar (West Virginia Univ.), and Frieda Stahl (California State Univ., Los Angeles). The citation to each award will be published in the April 2006 issue of The Physics Teacher.
Earl Blodgett, SPS Council president, presented David Brown of the University of Louisville with the Outstanding SPS Chapter Advisor Award. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) presents this award annually at the AAPT winter meeting to faculty members who have excelled in the role of SPS advisor.
In his Retiring President Address, Dick Peterson invoked the "curse of Lake Woebegon" in a tongue-in-cheek review of his presidential year in which 30 percent of the Executive Board underwent major surgery. Peterson highlighted the many positive AAPT activities of his 12 months as AAPT president, including the establishment of AAPT's first topical group (PERTG), the co-sponsoring of the "open access" online journal Physical Review Special Topics: PER, the hiring of Charlie Holbrow as Senior Staff Physicist, NSF funding for ComPADRE, and establishment of an Advanced Laboratory Task Force. Under Peterson's leadership, the Board began preparing for a strategic planning retreat of AAPT leaders in June 2006, with the assistance of Past-President Karen Johnston.
Three excellent plenary sessions contributed to the physics and cultural content of the meeting. Nadya Mason from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provided an overview of the dynamic field of nanotechnology in "Over the Moon with Carbon Nanotubes." Mason described how these nanotubes are synthesized and their amazing mechanical and electrical properties. Potential applications of this technology range from quantum computers to a nanotube-based space elevator.
Hans Christian von Baeyer, College of William and Mary, delivered AIP's Gemant Award Lecture entitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Schrodinger's Cat." According to von Baeyer, making sense of the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics can be accomplished by introducing information theory into the study of quantum mechanics. AIP's annual Andrew Gamant Award recognizes persons who have made significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics.
In his fast-paced talk "A Tale of Two Universes," Paul Steinhardt, of Princeton University, discussed two divergent views of cosmic history—the currently accepted cosmological model of an eternal expanding and accelerating universe and the revived model of a cyclic universe that evolves from big bang to big crunch once every trillion years. Problems with earlier cyclic models related to entropy have been finessed using new ideas resulting from string theory. Future measurements may distinguish between the divergent views of cosmic history.
In Conclusion
The exhibit hall was a good place to meet friends between paper sessions or view the poster papers. Refreshments were provided during session breaks to encourage attendees to visit the exhibits and posters. Mary Creason won a contest by correctly guessing the weight of a piece of glacier ice after it had been allowed to melt for one and a half days. The Multicultural Luncheon featuring a talk by musher DeeDee Jonrowe attracted 120 participants. Jonrowe has both the fastest time of any woman in the history of the Iditarod as well as 13 top-10 finishes in her career.
The 2006 Summer Meeting will be held July 22–26 at Syracuse University. The call for papers, list of workshops, housing information, registration forms, and the most recent information about the 2006 Summer Meeting and all of AAPT's activities are available on the AAPT website at www.aapt.org.
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Visits to nursing home prove popular for Unity studentsBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
February 03. 2013 8:13PM
UNITY - Sullivan County Health Care & Nursing Home resident 92-year-old Isabelle Langner looks forward to the twice-monthly visits from Unity Elementary School students.
Friday afternoon Langner only had one letter to write, but two "happy, cheerful girls" to help her. While she dictated a letter that 13-year-old Shania Nichols wrote, 10-year-old Jazmyn Roy was ready to help with the wording of the message or read the address out of Langer's address book.
"I always need something written," Langner said.
Thanks to the Unity Elementary School visits, she gets some help.
"I can't always come up with enough letters to have written. I have two girls here, they could each be writing a letter. They take turns," Langer said.
Roy said she loves writing letters for residents.
"I think it's fun 'cuz you can hang out with the older people and see what they are like and help them do what they need to have done," Roy said. "I love writing. It's my favorite thing."
Down the hall, a group of residents sit around in a circle as 10-year-olds Michael Gasbar and Samantha Hagar engage the residents in a game, bouncing a big red balloon around the circle.
"I like helping out the residents, writing letters, playing games or singing," Hagar said.
Gasbar said he enjoys the visits; it's more fun than going home and watching TV.
Resident Carole Shaw, 65, said she enjoys spending time with the children whether playing a game or working on a craft project.
"They are very well-behaved children and helpful and fun," she said.
On another floor of the county nursing home, a group of students is singing to Alzheimer's patients.
At the end of the afternoon, Laura Love waits for her son Michael Love, 10, who is in the middle of an exciting game of checkers with 88-year-old Rudy Bruberube.
It is only Love's second visit to the nursing home. His first visit, he was surprised by a resident who beat him at Wii bowling, his mom said.
"He said, 'Mom this woman's an ace. She really kicked my butt,' " Laura Love said.
Jennifer Thompson, teaches language arts and social studies at Unity Elementary. She is also the community service coordinator who has organized the visits for fourth- through eighth-grade Unity students for years.
So many students have wanted to be involved this year that the trips to the nursing home were bumped up from once a month to twice a month, she said.
"The students often develop relationships with these older folks and in a way it helps them understand the life cycle," Thompson said. "I think it exposes them to the concept that life is fragile, but these people have had a great last few years."
Eighteen students visited the home Friday, a big number for a school of only 110 students, Thompson said.
"I'm so proud of them and I'm so proud of the outreach of these students at such a young and I'm so happy they get the concept of paying it forward and doing good for others on a consistent basis," Thompson said.


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Voted Best Gym in America by Fitness Magazine, Equinox Fitness Clubs operates 48 upscale, full-service facilities in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Florida, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington DC that cater to over 160,000 members.
Equinox's data warehouse allows managers at all clubs to run reports that help them with everything from monitoring their daily results to managing customer service and revenue opportunities. However, its single Microsoft SQL Server database was struggling to handle the hundreds of daily reports run by hundreds of unique users.
Equinox's Director of Enterprise Data, Elliott Cordo, told us, "Our data warehouse is critical to our operations. It is used by nearly everyone, from personal training managers, sales managers, and regional managers running reports for daily operations to power users reporting for in-depth analysis and strategy."
Job running time was growing and often not completing before business hours. When this happened, Equinox's IT team had to re-run them the following evening, which meant that managers didn't have the information they needed to run at their best.
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Elliott said, "Some of our query loads that used to run at a couple hundred rows per second now run at three to five thousand rows per second, regardless of whether operations are inserts or updates. Database performance is regularly ten to twenty times what it used to be."
Improving the database performance translated into dramatic improvement on reporting job time. Elliott said, "Our data warehouse load, which used to take four to six hours to complete, now completes in under an hour. We can now publish reports much earlier and dependably."
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Not only did the ioDrive solution offer unmatched I/O performance, it cost less than a disk-based system.
Elliott said, "Getting the I/O we needed from a SAN or NAS solution would take a refrigerator-sized system. A disk-based solution that just met our performance needs would have cost more than the SanDisk solution. The ioDrive cards give us so much more I/O headroom that we won't need to upgrade for performance for some time."
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Elliott told us, "Our old system had to support a sustained 2,000 IOPS. That takes a lot of conventional drives. Since installing the ioDrive card, I have never seen a significant queue, even under our heaviest loads. The Fusion ioMemory solution does this without the additional complexity of a SAN, which would increase colocation fees and use more power."
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In addition to its data warehouse, Equinox maintained a legacy reporting system that was being slowly migrated to the data warehouse. As a short-term fix, Elliott added an ioDrive card to the system. The results were remarkable.
Elliott said, "A lot of reports on the legacy system could not render fast enough to make them functionally useful. We added an ioDrive card and the reports now run so fast that a lot of the users think we migrated them to the new platform ahead of schedule—and we didn't need to do a thing to the application."
This benefits more than just the business users. As Elliott noted, "Because we can now run legacy reports at high service levels, we can focus on projects with higher business return instead of putting out system slowness fires."
Implementing the Fusion ioMemory solution gave Equinox the following benefits:
Faster reporting made Equinox a more powerful and flexible organization that was always armed with the latest intelligence. Elliott told us, "By ensuring reports always complete overnight, we greatly improve the effectiveness of our operations. Personal training managers can always be on the floor at 9:00am conducting business, knowing the active sales promotions and the members they need to contact. Sales managers can start the day with the latest customer and lead data instead of sitting in their office reviewing yesterday's results."
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No doubt about it, electronic trading has changed the world, and mostly for the better. It has allowed the trading industry, and volume, to grow exponentially; it has lowered the bar to entry and brought in new, vibrant players; and it has opened the world of trading from what some would call an old boys' club to a global, multilateral, multi-platform business of tighter spreads and discovering the best price for all.
But not everyone sees it that way. Some don't believe electronic trading has been an industry savior, but has, in fact, introduced new problems to the marketplace. For example, would the Flash Crash have happened without electronic trading? And would the new boogie men have appeared, such as high-frequency traders and index funds, groups that definitely provide liquidity, but not perhaps the right kind.
Dan Dicker, a former New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) local, believes electronic trading actually has ruined the energy market, more specifically crude oil. He believes the premium in crude oil is now around $26....all brought about by HFT and funds buying and selling crude on fear and not anything tied to true fundamentals (see "How electronic trading changed (ruined) crude oil prices," page 14).
Realize Dicker isn't a former floor trader who couldn't let go. He left the exchange floor a multi-millionaire, because of the Nymex initial public offering, and has moved on to become a successful television and web commentator, author, analyst and provocateur. And he still does well trading, having learned how to change his style to adapt to the world of upstairs trading.
And as would be expected of a former floor trader, especially an energy trader, Dicker doesn't hold back. He thinks the futures exchanges have been blinded by HFT and have forgotten their purpose of providing a fair and orderly market. He notes that West Texas Intermediate crude oil hasn't been priced correctly in the last couple of years, stating that it hasn't mimicked any other global crude oil, and the result is every oil consumer is paying too much for it and the byproducts.
But crude oil pricing is only part of the energy conundrum. He says the natural gas market has been mismanaged by government, environmentalists and especially drillers, and is a travesty. The United States already should be a natural gas-based economy, but it isn't, Dicker says, because of this massive mismanagement. We should be able to thumb our nose at problems in the Middle East and other crude hot spots, but can't because we're still a crude-based economy.
And he's right. The mismanagement becomes apparent when seeing how natural gas is priced elsewhere in the world, but is in the doldrums in the United States where the mad dash to drill and frack resembled the 1849 gold rush. The result is over drilling and the need now to cap wells. Meanwhile, natural gas prices languish around $3.50 per MMbtu.
And where are oil prices headed? Our analysts provide their forecasts in "USA: Energy producer to the world?" With the United States fast becoming a key exporter of products, as well as growing self-sufficient in energy production, the days of oil price shocks might be over. Still, the recent troubles in Syria, albeit a small oil producer, still have caused a "fear" premium in crude oil. After all, global supplies are down overall and China is still hungry. And possible military action still is a factor that currently is pushing prices higher, and probably will for some time.
The energy complex is one of the most interesting to trade because of all the drama. In this issue, we cover all its aspects, even looking how the big boys trade in, "Got volatility? Use OTC markets as a guide to arbitrage". Even if electronic trading has caused havoc in crude oil, it's certainly not more dramatic than the events that make this commodity pulsate on a daily basis.


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HIGH POINT, N.C. – Conference Carolinas will christen men's and women's indoor track and field championships as teams head to Winston Salem, N.C. this weekend to fight for the first ever conference team championship titles. JDL Fast Track in Winston Salem, NC will host the eight men's and eight women's teams this Saturday that include Barton, Belmont Abbey, King, Lees-McRae, Limestone, Mount Olive, North Greenville, and Queens.
Feb. 11 (Week 4) Regional rankings:
Team Top-10 | By Team | By Event | Rankings Central
"We are excited to be able to kick-off our first ever conference indoor track and field championship at such a highly-touted facility," mentioned Conference Carolinas Associate Commissioner Brook Patterson. "Once again our student-athletes will be able to compete at their highest level to enjoy a quality championship experience."
Stay up to speed on the championship details throughout the league at the Championships Central page.
Location: 2505 Empire Drive, Winston‐Salem, NC 27103
Directions: From Interstate 40, take exit 189 – US 158/Stratford Rd. At the top of the ramp, turn
right onto US 158/Stratford Rd. Go approximately 1.5‐2.0 miles and turn left on Kimwell Drive. JDL Fast Track is located at the corner of Kimwell and Empire Drive.
Inclement Weather: In the event of snow or ice storms, JDL Fast Track will post any delays or cancellations on the JDL Fast Track homepage (www.jdlfasttrack.com) as well as our Facebook page. We will make every attempt to provide as much notice as possible.
Parking: Spectator parking is located in the front and side of the building. Athlete entrance is in
the rear of the building. Buses may park in the parking lot at the rear of the building or on the street.
Facility: JDL Fast Track is a 200m flat Mondo track. The field event areas consist of two pole vault runways, two long/triple jump runways, a single throws area and one high jump apron. The oval contains six 42" lanes on oval, eight 42" lanes on sprint straightaway. Additionally, there is a 100m warm‐up straightaway with Mondo surface inside facility.


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Profiled Inlays
Decorative banding within moulding adds a distinctive detail.
By Rutager West
Pages 41-43
For my very first veneer project, I decided to make a curved-top jewelry box. I knew I would need to use solid wood on the edges to protect the fragile veneer and I also wanted to embellish the box with some geometric inlay bands. At the same time I was drawing up some inlay ideas, I was staring at a new moulding plane that was on my bench. A light bulb went off in my head and I thought, "why not make my edgebanding from my inlay blank?"
The process seemed easy enough: Cut a rabbet in the corner and fill it with a thick slice from my inlay packet then run the profile with my new plane or a router bit. Well, I did a bit more thinking and realized that many if not most profile bits and planes cut at 45˚ degrees, so just placing the banding in the rabbet at 90˚ and cutting a profile that slants at 45˚ would skew the inlay detail – it would be longer on the side.
I determined that in order to work, the inlay would have to be presented at 45˚ too. Easier said than done. After several attempts (all successful – some difficult and others wasteful), I have settled on the following method: Rip a board at 45˚ and insert the inlay strip in the cut.
In this example, I'm starting out with a holly and ebony checkerboard inlay packet no thicker than the middle section of a 3⁄16″-radius corner bead profile my plane or router bit could cut. I wanted the rest of the profile to be filled in with holly, so the board I ripped at 45˚ was holly.
Because both holly and ebony are expensive and sometimes hard to find, I wanted to conserve my stock. I did so by attaching scrap stock to the edge of the inlay packet and the edge of the holly. Edge-gluing the scrap to the holly also adds a safety margin for the rip by moving the work away from the tilted table saw blade, which makes the offcut safer to handle. Adding the scrap to the inlay maximizes the yield of the packet since you need a large width to fill the rip cut but only really need about a 1⁄4″ of the inlay for the profile.
Wood: Buy ebony and holly blanks to make your own inlay banding.
Article: Learn how to make diamond-shaped inlay banding from Rob Millard in an article from our October 2011 issue.
Article: Read a review from our April 2008 issue of the Bridge City moulding plane used by the author in this article.
In Our Store: "Woodworker's Guide to Veneering and Inlay," a 168-page book by Jonathan Benson.
In Our Store: "Creating Veneer, Marquetry & Inlay" DVD, a compilation of nine videos from master craftsmen.
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Talk: The Campden Wonder of 1662: The Murder and Miraculous 'Deliverance of William Harrison'
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Talk by Professor Jackie Eales (President of the HA).
On Thursday 16th August 1660 William Harrison, an elderly gentleman, disappeared without trace from the prosperous market town of Chipping Campden. All that remained were his slashed hat and bloodied neckbands lying in the highway.
His servant and two accomplices were later hanged for the murder. The case raised accusations of kidnap and witchcraft, and provides a fascinating insight into the early modern English justice system.
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On my way into work yesterday about5:45 at the 630-30 interchange there were about 7 highway department vehicles with flashers on sedating sand, generally fricking up traffic, with the outside air temp @37' and rising. With dry roads and no precip on the way....
Had the sand been upset about something?
It was being a beach.
I thought you assholes said we couldn't get hit by tornadoes if we lived in the hills!?!
I don't know where folks get that from. Cincinnati, AR got hammered last year.Who got hit last night?
Last week snow, this week tornadoes.....in February..
BransonWhat Spanish name are they giving global warming this year? El Guapo?
Would you say we are going to have a plethora of catastrophic weather events?
Once upon a time, big fat titties, and they all lived happily ever after. The End
No joke, third Three Amigos reference I've heard today.
Lucifer's Hammer
I am not claiming I am right, I am saying I don't get it.
Consider the source. Gosh.http://woopig.net/board/index.php?topic=64496.msg1386084#msg1386084
This is the storm that ripped through Harrisburg, Il as it moves into Kentucky. I live only twenty miles NE of Harrisburg.
I have a buddy who lives SE of Eldorado and it missed him by about a mile. He was going to buy a cellar until I told him that any self resPecting prepper uses containers.
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Samovar is a truly national symbol of Russia. Originating in the 18th century, this metal container for boiling water quickly became popular among all social classes. Heated using coal, wood, and kerosene, it was a handy tool in a nation so fond of tea, which finally became affordable to everyone since being first introduced to Tsar Michael I by a Mongolian ruler back in 1638. Early samovar makers were based in Tula. Subsequently, the city with many of its now-famous residents (Lyalin, Lomov, Rudakov, Batashev, Teile, Kapyrzin) became the center of all production. Variety of shapes, volume, and decoration rapidly increased. Nowadays, electric heating elements in samovars are replacing traditional parts due to basic usability. In addition to plain nickel-plated brass models, we are offering beautiful hand-painted sets.
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NAIROBI, Kenya – The Kenya Red Cross says at least 200 people have been killed in violence in Kenya's southeast since August in fighting that could be related to political tensions ahead of March elections.
Red Cross Secretary General Abbas Gullet said Saturday that in the past there had been skirmishes between the semi-nomadic Orma and the farming Pokomo communities in the Tana Delta over resources, but the current violence was unprecedented. Gullet said 36,000 people have been displaced from their homes and schools have been closed
Kenya police say the motive behind the violence could be to displace a certain tribe ahead of the elections. At least 18 people died this week in tit for tat attacks between the two groups. Leaders from the region on Saturday said they had united to preach peace.


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FoundationDB uncloaks ACID-compliant NoSQL beta
Lets developers have infinite cake and eat it in ACID-compliant bites
A tool for Google-scale problems
No decent ideas are born in a vacuum, and FoundationDB's heritage can be traced back to ideas conceived at Google after the web giant ran into problems with its own systems.
The technology's proposition is roughly equivalent to Google's "Spanner", a globe-spanning database that Google developed after Mountain View engineers ran into problems with a NoSQL storage substrate called BigTable.
Both Spanner and FoundationDB are designed to run in a distributed manner and can house large amounts of data. Google's Spanner is expected to eventually scale to embrace millions of nodes. FoundationDB's beta can handle many nodes and terabyte-scale databases at launch, but expects to eventually scale by "a couple of orders of magnitude," Rosenthal said.
"We're not quite at the data volume that a massive Hadoop installation would be at today," he told The Reg. "That's because ... we're not targeting analytics directly. The thing that is special about FoundationDB is it can do a lot of reads and writes in a transactional way."
How many reads and writes?
The company has published detailed metrics based on running off of a $39k 24-machine cluster across a dataset of two billion key-value pairs. It reports a stable 500,000 operations per second of 90 percent read and 10 percent write, 150,000 operations per second if 50/50, and up to 1,080,000 writes per second across blocks of 140 adjacent keys.
The system is available for download beginning on Monday.
"I think FoundationDB is evidence that as organizations have dabbled with NoSQL, they miss features and consistency guarantees that they've grown to expect from conventional [SQL] databases," Mike Lyle, the CTO for TransLattice, a PostgreSQL-based technology that implements some spanner tricks with a SQL flavor, told us via email.
But while FoundationDB's techniques may be solid, the demand for it may be limited, as other companies can implement ACID-like capabilities without going the whole CAP-ACID hog. Some applications may not need its magic.
"DB guys say they love ACID, but most developers don't care – they just want to be comfortable their DB won't lose their data," Bradford Stephens, the CEO of Drawn to Scale, a massive SQL database set on top of Hadoop, told The Register via email. "You can do that by minimizing bugs, choosing good hardware, etc. If you're doing credit cards, ERP, tracking shipping containers, etc. ... then you need ACID/transactions. The average web/mobile app doesn't."
Whether the size of its market is large or limited, FoundationDB's approach to the storage of data is representative of a shift that is percolating through the industry: companies have spent a few years drinking the NoSQL scaling Kool-Aid and are now trying to redesign them to better fit with enterprise models of data consistency and reliability (ACID), or to be easier to deal with to the layman (SQL-query engines).
How this shift will play out will determine not only the scaling properties inherent to future websites, but also the types of massively distributed applications that can be built on top of them. ®


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UPDATE: This is now a part of a larger SSMS Add-In called SSMS Tools Pack
I thought I'd post something special as the last post of this year and i was thinking about what it would be.
Fellow SqlTeamer Rockmoose said he'd like to have an add-in for SSMS that would genereate basic
CRUD (Create - Insert, Read - Select, Update, Delete) stored procedures for a table.
And he'd like to have it on the context (right-mouse-click) menu of the table in Object Explorer in SSMS.
It sounded like a very cool little project and with the help of this excellent post about SSMS add-ins
I've decided to...
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I was playing with some historical data (family tree) and i wanted to store data in sql server. When looking into family trees you reach the minimum datetime value of 1753-01-01 very soon. But .Net can save dates from 1.1.0001 on. So i went looking into using SQL CLR user defined datatype (UDT).
UDT's are interesting because you have to serialize them.
There are 3 ways of doing that:
- Format.Native
- Format.UserDefined
- Format.Unknown
When Format.Native is used you can only use blittable datatypes. Bol says these are:
bool, byte, sbyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, float, double, SqlByte, SqlInt16, SqlInt32, SqlInt64, SqlDateTime,...
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I've come across an interesting thing today that i didn't even think could be an issue:
Case senstive object names (tables, columns, triggers, views, etc....).
If your database is created with a Case Sensitive collation then all object names will be Case Sensitive.
I always thought that collations are used for data and not schema but i guess i was wrong.
We had an issue with a view that had a lower case column name in it when it should be uppercase.
A bit of code to prove it:create database testCollation collate Latin1_General_CS_AS -- case sensitive collation
use testCollation
create table Test(Col1 int, col2 int)
insert into...
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Having started programming in c/c++ i've always been used to casting between types using () operator: int i = (int)x With the coming of .Net framework ValueTypes and ReferenceTypes were introduced and we started hearing about boxing and unboxing. if you're not familiar with these terms pick a link from this search and read up. Also we've been introduced to System.Convert class and IConvertible interface. But old habits are hard to break and i've been preffering the (int) to Convert.ToInt32. For all thing considered i've been treating them as equals. But i've been reminded that they're not with a nice little error...
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In a previous post I've shown how to use High precision timer.
That method had a drawback of working for whole server not distiguishing between connections.
So if you ran the time measurement in 2 different windows in SSMS the times would be incorrect.
You'd get the correct time in the window which was run last.
This of course isn't very usefull for proper performace diagnosys.
So with little experimenting i've managed to fix the timer to work properly for each connection.
The code is self explanatory. For each function run I return the spid to which it belongs and i store the HiPerfTimer objects in a...
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Lately i've been doing quite an amount of work with Exchange and WebDAV access to it.
Documentation on WebDAV and Exchange server is ok for simple tasks but if you want anything concrete done examples are impossible to come by.
That's why I posted a lengthy article about WebDAV and my experience with it.
Two tools are indespensible when doing any kind of Exchange access development:
Outlook Spy and Exchange Explorer that comes with the Exchange SDK.
But neither of those help in any way with forming correct WebDAV XML requests. OK, they give you the name and namespace of the properites but that's it.
Well PFDavAdmin Tool to...
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Is YouTube Really Competing With Traditional TV?
One thing is certain: With its new paid subscription plans, Google is leveraging its saturation of the mobile device market.
When YouTube (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently revealed plans to introduce a pay-for-content subscription model, a single question sprang to mind among market investors: Why bother?
Hadn't Google heard about the unprecedented subscriber losses seen by TV providers like Cablevision (NYSE:CVC) and DISH Network (NASDAQ:DISH) in 2011? And did the company know that those losses portended a massive beating -- specifically a 58% decline in annual viewership -- for the popular Web-based streaming video site Hulu (NASDAQ:CMCSA) in 2012?
It's plausible to say Google is leveraging its 70% saturation of the mobile smartphone market. One projection has smartphones accounting for more than 69% of the entire global mobile phone market by 2018. Pair this with the popular belief that -- as reported by NPR -- the next billion people to "go online" will do so via a mobile device. Then consider the following comment made by YouTube's Director of Product Management Shiva Rajaraman at GigaOm's Mobilize conference in September: "Back in the day, YouTube was synonymous with the desktop. Now we're seeing people's first experience is on tablets and smartphones."
Globally, 25% of YouTube's traffic is driven through mobile devices. As to whether or not this percentage will grow, Rajaraman sees South Korea -- where roughly 50% of YouTube traffic is driven by mobile -- as an indicator of "what's to come."
For content distributors like Machinima, Fullscreen, and Maker Studios --which create YouTube channels based on online talent -- Google's plan to charge anywhere from $1 to $5 for select, premium content could be a boon. Scott Weitz, CEO of Driver Digital, a video content aggregator and production company with 135 million unique YouTube hits in 2012, appreciates the advantage of Google's move.
"Google is creating a massive market to compel a lot of content creators to make great content, which viewers have expanded access to," Weitz says. "They're focused on building a platform and working with companies like ours to make sure that we're discovering new talent, and making new content that the end user is passionate about."
Weitz believes Google is developing tools to help content producers better monetize that audience, and beyond subscriptions, he predicts Google will be developing methods for users to better socialize content, like subscribe and share buttons within video windows.
But what Google is decidedly not doing is stealing the spotlight from old school TV companies, as some media stories have implied.
AdAge, which broke the story of YouTube's shift into the pay-for-play space, called the move "an attempt to lure content producers, eyeballs, and advertiser dollars away from traditional TV, according to multiple people familiar with the plans."
Gunther Sonnenfeld -- a digital brand strategist who has built content, analytics, and transmedia platforms for Toyota (NYSE:TM), the US Army, and Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE), to name a few (more on Sonnenfeld's professional background can be found on his blog) -- doesn't see Google transforming into a media empire anytime soon. In fact, he believes that, at least for now, YouTube will be unable to access higher quality content pushed out by top-tier television and film makers, which is the kind of content that drives serious revenues.
"Of all the premium content creators that went to YouTube from Hollywood, about 60% flew the coop," Sonnenfeld says. He explains that for a number of production companies who owned the first set of channels YouTube launched last year, the economics simply didn't work out. YouTube doesn't pay its providers based on ticket or content sales, but instead on ad impressions -- the number of times an advertisement is viewed on a webpage. And for many studios, this cost-return model simply didn't cut it.
"So, yes, Google is leveraging its saturation among mobile devices, but this is a short-term strategy. They are basically saying, 'We are going to eradicate the problem with scale of adoption, not incremental value,'" Sonnenfeld says.
What this means is that Google is looking for a way to monetize its massive video inventory, much like it has monetized search with ad sales. Sonnenfeld sees YouTube utilizing the scale offered by the Android's market saturation to offer people a lot of content with a pay wall. The one thing the company has forgotten to improve, he believes, is the quality of the content itself.
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text: The Garland Summer Nutrition Program was recognized by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) in February for its "Innovate Collaboration and Site Enrichment" in the provision of summer meals to children. The recognition reads as follows: In recognition of distinguished performance associated with the Summer Food Service Program, the Texas Department of Agriculture awards the City of Garland for Best Practice: Innovative Collaboration and Site Enrichment. The Texas Department of Agriculture applauds your commitment to healthier futures for Texas children. Your efforts hold great promise and potential for advancing the 3E's of Healthy Living – Education, Exercise and Eating Right. The Department looks forward to growing this partnership as we prepare today's children to be tomorrow's leaders. Todd Stapes, Commissioner Feb. 27, 2014 The "innovative collaboration" recognizes the Summer Nutrition video production, which captures the program in action at various sites throughout the city. Produced by the Public & Media Relations Department, the video highlights meals and activities and the City's role in the community program. Through its many partnerships with City departments, churches, apartment complexes, parks, recreation centers, and community agencies, the summer meal program symbolizes the synergy of many entities working in concert in delivery of a community goal. The "site enrichment" effort recognizes the partnerships with the many partners who make the Garland Summer Nutrition possible, including Saturn Road Church of Christ and its Care, Play and Read program. Each year, more than 100 to 250 kids and their parents receive daily meals at Saturn Road Church of Christ, located at 3030 Saturn Road. Church volunteers provide enrichment activities such as reading, computer lab time, and play time. Participating children get to play and fellowship in a safe, supervised environment while the parents receive a meal courtesy of the church. The Garland Fair Housing Services Department, which administers the Summer Nutrition Program, was honored to receive the recognition. Staff members Pamela Harris, Summer Nutrition coordinator, and Deborah Garza, Summer Nutrition assistant, received the recognition at the 2014 TDA Summer Food Service Conference in Austin. "We're honored to receive recognition for the commitment and efforts of our staff and community collaborations, and in being recognized at a statewide level for our program," said Priscilla Wilson, senior managing director, who oversees the program. The 2014 Summer Nutrition Program will be offered June 9-Aug. 8. Consistent with TDA's goals, the Garland meal program seeks to provide activities that "Promote the 3E's of Healthy Living – Education, Exercise and Eating Right." Each site coordinates its own activities, and examples of activities include: chalk art; art poster contests; reading contests; City library information to encourage families to get library cards; spelling contests by grades; cooling misters at outdoor sites; exercise program by a Parks & Recreation staff member; jump rope competitions; environment protection information; West Nile Virus informational video; a confidential social service referral process; and PepsiCo Food Service Activity Kit and Prize Boxes as incentives for participation. Supporters and Sponsors: The City also would like to recognize the many program supporters and sponsors, which include: Garland Power & Light; General Dynamics; Interceramic Inc.; Garland Human Resources Department; Garland Purchasing Department; Garland Parks & Recreation Department; Garland Water Utilities; and The Dallas Cowboys organization. Funding: The City of Garland and the Texas Department of Agriculture provide program funding. Information: The public is invited to participate at any of the 28 sites. For information on how to become involved, please contact 972-205-3300.


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As a parent, one of your jobs to teach your child to behave. While this can take time, try not to get frustrated when your child does not behave. Instead, learn effective ways to discipline your child.
When your child does not listen, try the following:
You will have days when it seems impossible to get your child to behave. But there are ways to ease frustration and avoid unnecessary conflict with your child.
The American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend spanking. Although most Americans were spanked as children, we now know that it has several important side effects.
It is true that many adults who were spanked as children may be well-adjusted and caring people today. However, research has shown that, when compared with children who are not spanked, children who are spanked are more likely to become adults who are depressed, use alcohol, have more anger, hit their own children, hit their spouses, and engage in crime and violence. These adult outcomes make sense because spanking teaches a child that causing others pain is OK if you're frustrated or want to maintain control—even with those you love. A child is not likely to see the difference between getting spanked from his parents and hitting a sibling or another child when he doesn't get what he wants.


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Escalon, CA
Marion "Jeff" Gonzales
May 27, 1918 - December 31, 2012
Jeff was born in St. Louis, Missouri on May 27, 1918, and entered into Heaven on December 31, 2012, at English Oaks Convalescent Hospital in Modesto. She was preceded in death by parents Thomas and Leota Mackedon, sister Gertrude Alexander and husband Tony Gonzales. Jeff is survived by her daughter Vickie Mello (Bob) of Escalon, son Dick Gonzales of Escalon, grandchildren Rick Mello (Crystal) of Ripon, Rich Gonzales of Escalon, Roxanna "Punkie" Gonzales of Escalon, great grandchildren Chloe, Elise, Emily, Kylie, Dawson and numerous nieces and nephews.
Jeff was a lifetime member of Escalonia and El Rio Chapters of the Order of Eastern Star. She was an integral part of the initial fundraising efforts to purchase Escalon's first ambulance.
Jeff grew up in Riverbank and attended Cardosa Elementary School and Oakdale High School. In her younger days she loved playing sports. In 1941, she moved to Escalon with her husband Tony and was a homemaker as well as running the family trucking business for fifty-five years.
Jeff enjoyed traveling, Oakland A's games, gardening and taking part in the various activities of her children and grand children. She also loved to decorate for the holidays, especially Christmas.
The family wishes to extend their sincere thanks and appreciation to the staff at English Oaks for their compassionate care for nearly three years.
There will be a graveside service at Burwood Cemetery in Escalon, on Tuesday, January 8 at 1:00 p.m., followed by a memorial service at Trinity Church, 1900 California, Escalon at 2:00 p.m. Visitation will be at Deegan Funeral Chapel, Escalon on Monday, January 7 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Charitable contributions in
Marion's name may be made to the Escalon Fire District Memorial Fund or to any animal rescue group.


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COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AP) — South America's leftist leaders rallied to support Bolivian President Evo Morales after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board and they demanded an apology from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Spain's foreign minister insisted Friday that no apology was needed, insisting that Spanish airspace was never closed to Morales.
The presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Suriname, Venezuela and Uruguay joined Morales in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba late Thursday to denounce the treatment of Morales, who warned that he would close the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia if necessary.
Morales again blamed Washington for pressuring European countries to refuse to allow his plane to fly through their airspace on Tuesday, forcing it to land in Vienna, Austria, in what he called a violation of international law. He had been returning from a summit in Russia during which he had suggested he would be willing to consider a request from Snowden for asylum.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Friday that his nation and other European countries were told Snowden was aboard the Bolivian presidential plane. He did not say who supplied the information and declined to say whether he had been in contact with the United States.
Garcia-Margallo insisted, however, that Spain did not prevent Morales' plane from landing in its territory.
He said Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca gave him written assurances that Snowden was not on the plane.
"Spain does not have to make any apology," he told public Television Espanola. "The airspace was never closed."
Latin American leaders were outraged by the incident, calling it a violation of national sovereignty and a slap in the face for a region that has suffered through humiliations by Europe and several U.S.-backed military coups.
"United we will defeat American imperialism. We met with the leaders of my party and they asked us for several measures and if necessary, we will close the embassy of the United States," Morales said in the city where he started his political career as a leader of coca leaf farmers. "We do not need the embassy of the United States."
Morales' government has had a conflictive relationship with Washington.
It expelled the U.S. ambassador and agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008 for allegedly inciting the opposition. The Andean nation restored full diplomatic ties with the U.S. in 2011. But relations soured again amid mutual distrust on drug war politics and hit an especially low point after Secretary of State John Kerry referred to the Western Hemisphere as Washington's "backyard" in April 2013.
Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development in May for allegedly seeking to undermine his government.
In a joint statement read after the summit, the presidents also said they would back Bolivia's official complaint with the U.N. Human Rights Commission
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said that he and other leaders were offering full support to Morales following the rerouting of the plane, calling it an aggression against the Americas.
"We're not going to accept that in the 21st century there's first, second and third rate countries," Correa said.
"The leaders and authorities in Europe have to take a lesson in history and understand that we're not 500 years behind. This Latin America of the 21st century is independent, dignified and sovereign."
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro protested alleged attempts by Spanish officials to search the Bolivian presidential plane and accused the CIA of encouraging several European countries to deny the presidential plane their airspace.
"A minster of one of those European governments told me personally that it was the CIA who gave the order to the aeronautical authorities, the one who gave the alert that Snowden was on the plane," he said at a rally at a sports arena ahead of the summit. "The CIA is more powerful that governments."
Maduro also said that the U.S. was applying strong pressure to countries in the region to avoid asylum for Snowden.
He said Kerry himself had called Venezuela's foreign ministry to block what Maduro described as "humanitarian aid for this youth of 29 years who has made incredible revelations."
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Latin Americans treasured freedom after fighting for their independence from Europe in the 19th century and then surviving Washington's 20th-century history of backing repressive regimes in the Americas.
She then demanded an apology for the plane ordeal.
"I'm asking those who violated the law in calm but serious manner, to take responsibility for the errors made, it's the least they can do," Fernandez said. "To apologize for once in their life, to say they're sorry for what they've done."
Morales has said that while the plane was parked in Vienna, the Spanish ambassador to Austria arrived with two embassy personnel and they asked to search the plane. He said he denied them permission.
Morales received a hero's welcome in an airport in the Bolivian capital of La Paz late Wednesday night. His return followed the dramatic, unplanned 14-hour layover in Vienna.
Ahead of the meeting, Morales said that his ordeal was part of a plot by the U.S. to intimidate him and other Latin American leaders and urged European nations to "free themselves" from the U.S.
France sent an apology to the Bolivian government. But Morales said "apologies are not enough because the stance is that international treaties must be respected."
Amid the tensions, the U.S. embassy in La Paz cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Thursday. In the eastern city of Santa Cruz, Bolivian government sympathizers painted protest slogans on the doors of the American consulate.
Morales said he never saw Snowden when he was in Russia, and that Bolivia had not received a formal request for asylum for him.
Bolivia has said that it will summon the French and Italian ambassadors and the Portuguese consul to demand explanations.
Despite the complaints, there were no signs that Latin America leaders were moving to bring Snowden to the region that had been seen as the most likely to grant him asylum.
Although Latin American presidents sympathized with Morales and condemned his ordeal, several key regional leaders missed the summit.
Brazil was represented at the meeting by President Dilma Rousseff's top international adviser but Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota missed the summit because he is attending meetings in Europe.
The presidents of Colombia, Chile and Peru, who have strong ties to the U.S., did not attend.
It's still unclear whether European countries did block the plane and, if so, why. French, Spanish and Portuguese officials have all said the plane was allowed to cross their territory.
The emergency stop in Austria may have been caused by a row over where the plane could refuel and whether European authorities could inspect it for signs of Snowden.
The U.S. has declined to comment on whether it was involved in any decision to close European airspace, saying only that "US officials have been in touch with a broad range of countries over the course of the last 10 days," about the Snowden case.
"The message has been communicated both publicly and privately," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday. "He should be returned to the United States."
Snowden remains out of public view, believed to be stuck in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries.
Associated Press writers Carlos Valdez and Paola Flores in La Paz, Bolivia, Vivian Sequera in Bogota, Colombia, Marco Sibaja in Brasilia, Brazil, Bradley Brooks in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Luis Andres Henao in Santiago, Chile contributed to this report.


text: eMarketer attributed the growth to the cost-effectiveness of programmatic ad placements, increasing advertiser familiarity with the automated bidding system and the need to better target prospects. The company projected that programmatic spending on display ads will continue to experience double-digit growth through 2017, when it will hit $8.69 billion and account for 29% of all U.S. digital display ad expenditures. "Programmatic enables advertisers to reach audiences who are much more likely to be interested in a product," Fredricksen said. "You don't use programmatic just to buy an ad on PCWorld, for example. It has to do with whomever just arrived at that site, the data and profile they fit in, their IP address, plus what their cookie says about them, and, for example, if they've also been to Cisco.com, Intel.com and IBM.com." Fredricksen said advertisers may still want to place ads on specific premium sites that are most appropriate to a particular topic. Also, a programmatic ad buy—which follows the user around the Internet regardless of site content—may not resonate with that user at a certain time and place, he said. Programmatic ad buying—sometimes called real-time bidding, although RTB is just one component—has gone through a rapid metamorphosis in its short life. It rose to prominence with ad networks that aggregate unsold ad space from publisher sites and place ads suitably within the network. User demographics and target segments are also taken into account. Ad exchanges take this further, taking unsold display space and auctioning it off to the highest bidder among advertisers, networks and agencies. Internet users are then served these ads wherever they might be on the Web, based on signals from their browsing behavior. All this is automated, in real time, based on a previously indicated bid—and so the expression "real-time bidding." "There are a lot of ways to look at this approach," said Sean Muzzy, CEO of [email protected] North America, the digital media and performance marketing arm of Ogilvy & Mather. "One of the big shifts has been an increased push toward more premium inventory. Larger publishers are more open to having those conversations." This has spurred the fastest mutation in the digital ad world, the advent of the so-called "closed fence" ad exchanges erected recently by a number of publishers. The reason: Instead of having their unsold inventory pushed off at low prices by third-party exchanges, premium publishers seek to maintain higher pricing by offering programmatic ad placements within their own network of brands. Last month, News Corp., owner of more than 50 brands (including the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and MarketWatch), launched a private programmatic exchange to automate the placement of ads solely within its own media properties. Federated Media Publishing, a network of independent brands that includes numerous technology sites, plans this month to launch a programmatic platform that will automate the buying and delivery of native advertising within its network. The platform, which Federated calls Content Reachtargeting, will allow advertisers "to distribute ... stories to just the right people at just the right time, in just the right context," said John Battelle, Federated CEO-executive chairman, in a recent blog post. "The possibilities are quite diverse and very exciting," Battelle wrote. "You could create concentric circles with branded content at the core, identifying audience members who have shared the content, viewed the content or simply visited sites where the content is hosted. ... Or you can narrow down your messaging to just those who have shared the branded content. "Imagine that—intelligent banners that speak directly to an individual. It's now possible with the combination of content marketing and programmatic infrastructure." "Where this is getting interesting is leveraging some of the underlying technology capabilities that are part of the programmatic world for direct programs," said Mike Kisseberth, chief revenue officer at TechMedia Network, a technology and science publisher that relies on programmatic advertising to reach subscribers to the publications in its network. Its brands include BusinessNews, Laptop, Tom's Hardware and TopTenREVIEWS. Kisseberth said native advertising—the serving of ad units that resemble editorial content—is a natural for programmatic advertising in the tech world. "Marketers will never move away from that deep dive, to connect with the audiences of specific publishers that have germane expertise and insights; but there is so much efficiency to the programmatic buying process and the ability to fine-tune the audience with real-time buying capabilities. We're all in on it."


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By Austin Chappell
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Every player on a football field has his friends, and he has his enemies.
The enemies can be three defensive linemen waiting to stop the run like a brick wall, or a couple of defensive backs targeting a hard hit over the middle of the field. A player's enemy can even be a referee, who can turn a career-defining touchdown into a 15-yard penalty with the flick of the wrist.
Oklahoma State's Kye Staley has a different on-field nemesis, though.
Staley, as well as thousands of other football players throughout the years, has been haunted by a career-ending injury more so than any obstacle on a football field. He suffered a brutal knee injury during fall camp of 2009 that left him with severe nerve damage and an ailing sense of confidence.
Most injuries can last anywhere from a week, to a few months, to a year, but as the 2009 season faded into the following season's fall camp, Staley still wasn't ready to play.
"I felt like all my work over my entire life was for nothing," Staley said. "I thought the world hated me, and I hated the world. My mindset was all messed up."
Being on the bench as long as Staley was can put a real damper on a player's career, especially after one with great potential.
Coming out of high school, Staley was arguably one of the best players of the 2008 recruiting class. Many considered him the best player in the state of Oklahoma after running, catching and passing Guthrie to the state championship. Some recruiting websites had Staley ranked as high as the sixth-best athlete in the entire country.
As much as it hurts to have a full season taken away due to injury, Staley knew he had nowhere to go but up. He spent the entire 2010 season rehabbing, getting his strength back and working to get back on the field.
"One of the main things I've learned is to not quit," Staley said. "It was tough coming back from that injury. I didn't believe in myself, and I felt like some of the coaches didn't believe in me either. Patience is a virtue."
Staley's time spent recovering not only gave him time to heal his knee, but it also allowed to him to become more comfortable in a new role with the team. Although he lead the team in rushing in Oklahoma State's 2011 spring game, Staley settled into the role of a fullback once the season began.
His new role gave him a starting job on a team that would eventually become one of OSU's greatest. He recorded his first-career catch in the second game of the 2011 season against Arizona and gradually became a bigger part of the offense throughout the year, paving the way for an offense that finished out the season ranked second in total offense.
Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy said Staley's success itself earned him enormous amounts of recognition, but his comeback is what makes him a special player.
"What Kye does is a special reminder of what college football really is," Gundy said. "Kye had a really difficult situation, but he worked his way back. Kye is a big part of our football team."
Staley's ability to come back from a devastating injury and contribute to the team helped OSU achieve its first Big 12 championship, first 12-win season and its first BCS bowl game victory.
While Staley's comeback in itself highlights an entire journey, one moment helped Staley know that era of his life was complete. With his family in the stands and a massive crowd watching, Staley caught a pass from Brandon Weeden and rumbled into the end zone during the 2011 homecoming game for his first career touchdown.
As illustrious as Weeden's career has been, the former Cowboy quarterback said the play will be especially memorable in his mind.
"Playing fullback is tough and you don't get many touches," Weeden said. "But for him to actually catch a touchdown and score, well I'll never forget it that's for sure."
The score ended two years of hard work, rehabilitation and the fear of never being able to play again.
Staley's comeback was complete.
"I think that's definitely a memory I will never forget," Staley said. "We got the win and we were undefeated. I'll never forget it."


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The following recall has been announced:
DETAILS: Master Forge Gas Grills imported by LG Sourcing Inc. of North Wilkesboro, N.C. and manufactured by Guangdong Vanward Electric Co., Ltd. of China; sold exclusively at Lowe's stores nationwide from November 2011 through May 2012. The four-burner gas grills have a single-door base and "Master Forge" written on its hood. The model number is located on a label inside the door of the grill's base.
WHY: If improperly installed, the hose connecting the gas tank and regulator to the burner control can touch the burner box and cause the hose to melt and rupture when the grill is lit, posing a fire and burn hazard.
INCIDENTS: Guangdong Vanward is aware of two reports of hoses melting and rupturing. No injuries reported.
HOW MANY: About 37,000 in the United States.
FOR MORE: Contact Guangdong Vanward Electric at 888-584-3648 Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. through 6 p.m. EDT, or visit the firm's recall website at www.94227info.com .


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Go! Technology in Action
Prentice Hall, 2009 - Computers - 703 pages
In today's technological age, computer literacy is important for everyone, and now learning the basics is easier than ever. A Computer Concepts Text Focused on Today's Student! Technology in Action engages students by combining a unique teaching approach with rich companion media. The sixth edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments in computer technology. New interactive learning tools have also been added to enhance student engagement.
Student CD is included with every text, containing:
Why Computers Matter to You: Becoming Computer Literate; The History of the PC; Looking at Computers: Understanding the Parts; Using the Internet; Ethics; Application Software: Programs That Let You Work and Play; Using System Software: The Operating System, Utility Programs, and File Management; Understanding and Assessing Hardware; Networking and Security: Hackers and Viruses; Protecting Your Computer and Backing Up Your Data; Mobile Computing; Digital Entertainment;ĀSystem Hardware