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Wilcox County was created by an act of the Alabama legislature on 1819 Dec. 13. It was named for Lt. Joseph M. Wilcox who fought in the Creek Wars. The county is located in the south-central part of the state, in the Black Belt region. It encompasses 883 square miles. The county was a center of Alabama antebellum plantation life. Today it is largely agricultural and rural. The county seat of Wilcox County is Camden. Other towns include Lower Peach Tree, Millers Ferry, Pine Apple, Oak Hill, Pine Hill and Snow Hill.
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I've lost count of how many kitchen questions I've answered in my years of designing. Whether in a home center, showroom, home show or their own house, the questions homeowners have are strikingly similar. I thought it might help you to see the answers I give to these frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Q: Where do I start?
A: The answer to this one is really simple: Start with what's staying in the space. Whether it's the tile flooring that runs through your entire first floor or a Hoosier cabinet that's been in your family for generations, this holdover becomes the first building block and must-match element for your new kitchen. Cabinet A looks great with the heirloom; Countertop B's creamy gold is echoed in the existing floors. Next selection ...
Q: How much should I spend?
A: This is one of the most important questions to ask early on, and one of the hardest to answer. There isn't one magic formula that works everywhere. There are Sensible Style principles, though: Invest proportionately to your home's enduring value, and in keeping with prevailing neighborhood standards.
On proportionality, understand that a $100,000 kitchen won't turn a $200,000 condo into a $300,000 condo. On the opposite end, a $25,000 kitchen won't sell a $2.5 million home either.
With regard to neighborhood standards, if all of the new or remodeled kitchens in your area have builder-grade appliances, integrated built-ins aren't going to return as much value for you. The opposite applies, too, if you go down-market in an upscale neighborhood.
One question I'm often asked lately is, can I get a better deal on my kitchen now that we're in a recession? Yes and no. You can certainly take advantage of more specials on big-ticket items like appliances. But you will not get lower rates from top professionals. What you will get is better availability; many are willing to work on smaller-scale projects now than in busier times and that's good news for the smooth running of your project.
Q: Whom do I call?
A: The answer depends on the scope of your project. If you're planning a home addition, I suggest starting with an architect. He or she will ensure that the addition meshes with the existing house, and will often bring in a design specialist for the kitchen.
If you're simply remodeling an existing kitchen, my recommendation is to consult with a designer who specializes in them. This pro can bring in qualified contractors and trades.
Q: Should I replace or reface my cabinets?
A: There are some key questions to ask yourself to determine the best answer for your kitchen. First, are your cabinets in good condition? Second, do you love the countertops sitting on them? Third, does the kitchen's layout generally work well for you? Fourth, are you locked into the current footprint by flooring or budget? If your answer to these questions is yes, you're an excellent candidate for refacing.
What will you save by not replacing them? If you're opting for an elaborate door style, a high-end finish, lots of accessories and decorative detail, just a little. These are the extras that send remodelers' kids to college. You will save lots of inconvenience and some labor costs, though.
Q: How long does creating a new kitchen take?
A: My snappy retort is, more than a 30-minute TV show. Seriously, though, kitchen remodels are an extensive, three-part process. Part one's planning, designing and product selections can last weeks, depending on your availability and that of your team's.
Part two is the wait for your ordered products to arrive. Cabinetry often brings the longest lead times, and can take from two or three weeks for some stock brands, four to eight for many semi-custom lines, to more than 14 weeks for high-end European imports.
The third part of the project is the on-site, help-I'm-without-a-kitchen, phase. This will vary from days to weeks for a remodel, depending on the scope of your project.
Chances are, by the time the kitchen is complete, you'll be three to seven months from when you hired your first professional in the process, longer for major additions.
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I hope these FAQs have been helpful to you. If you have others, feel free to email me at the address below. Next month, we'll look at frequently asked bath questions.


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Union Leader: Rep. Kuster bill aims to keep student loan rates from doubling
NASHUA - Congresswoman Annie Kuster, D-NH, spent part of her Monday at Nashua Community College talking with students about how the imminent doubling of student loan interest rates will affect their lives.
Kuster, who has co-sponsored a bill called the Student Loan Relief Act that would prevent subsidized Stafford loan interest rates from doubling from 3.4 to 6.8 percent starting July 1, said New Hampshire students particularly would be hit hard if the rate doubles.
"New Hampshire is first in a lot of things in this country that are positive, but one thing that we are first in that is negative is that New Hampshire is first in the country in terms of average student loan debt," Kuster said.
Kuster went on to say that the average four-year New Hampshire college student owes $32,440 and that 75 percent of all New Hampshire college students are in debt.
"I know the argument for doubling the rate is that we can't afford to keep it so low, but the argument against it is that we can't afford to make college inaccessible to average Americans, that would have terrible social and cultural consequences," Kuster said.
The Student Loan Relief Act would keep the student loan interest rate level at 3.4 percent for the next two years, a timeframe Kuster says is intentional.
"That will give Congress the time to address the problem of the increasing costs of higher education," Kuster said. "Certainly I have colleagues who share my concern on this issue, and I am optimistic of reaching a consensus position in Congress to keep higher education affordable, but I want to see this done in a timely fashion, and not just lurch from crisis to crisis like we have."
With the looming increase in her student loan interest rate, Erica Taylor, a mother of three small children who recently obtained her associates degree, told Kuster that she is now unsure if she and her husband, who is also a Nashua Community College student, will be able to afford to continue with their education.
"To think the rate could double, I am scared, I am scared I can't make payments and balance a household budget," Taylor said.
Michael Burnham, who currently attends Southern New Hampshire University after previously attending Nashua Community College, said that the increase would be a burden not only on himself, but many of his friends as well.
"I am a student, I have a full-time job, and I have a part-time job, and in the back of your mind to just know that school will get more expensive, it can make it difficult for people to decide to continue with school," Burnham said.
Nashua Community College Chief Financial Officer Amber Wheeler said the college is already seeing more students enroll as part-time students instead of attending full-time because of how expensive higher education in New Hampshire has become.
"I can't imagine interest rates doubling and seeing where the students will be," Wheeler said.
Kuster thanked all the students for telling her their stories, explaining that when she goes back to Congress next week, she will us their stories as a way to try to convince her peers of the importance of keeping interest rates low on student loans.
"I try to tell my colleagues that a couple of bucks where I come from goes a long way," Kuster said. "For some people it can mean the difference between owning a car or not, or renting an apartment or owning a house, and that is the kind of stuff that drives our economy."


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Who can file my taxes?
Any individual with a preparer tax identification number (PTIN) is eligible to file your income taxes on your behalf. However, this doesn't necessarily mean they will be the best candidate to provide the help you need with your income tax preparation. The IRS explains that CPAs, attorneys and enrolled agents are all allowed to legally represent their clients before the IRS. They have a more thorough understanding of tax code than an individual operating solely with a PTIN or an Annual Filing Season Program participant who provides their services on a volunteer basis. Consider the complexity of your tax return and what level of expertise you'll require. Before entrusting someone with your private financial and personal information, do some research on their qualifications. The IRS has a searchable database where you can verify the background and credentials of your income tax preparation professional. Once you have selected someone, ask about their service fees and confirm their availability. Then provide them with all the documentation they require, including W-2s, 1099s and more. Always ask to review the paperwork before it is submitted, and never sign a blank tax return.
What is an accountant?
Accountants are financial professionals who have received an accounting degree from a four-year university or college. By trade, accountants prepare, maintain and examine the financial statements of an individual, business or institution. An accountant prepares reports for tax purposes and can also perform audits of public companies. Common tasks include creating budgets, analyzing profits and losses of a company, processing payroll, preparing financial statements for company leadership, and creating and maintaining financial database systems for a company.
Accountants do not automatically have a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation unless they have passed the Uniform CPA Examination and received the proper license. Regardless of whether they are CPA certified or not, accountants can assist businesses and individuals with bookkeeping and financial reporting, while CPAs are more knowledgeable in tax codes as a result of the CPA licensing examination and continuing education requirements. CPAs are also eligible to represent clients before the IRS if audit support is required, while a non-CPA accountant is not. Academic background, years in the field and professional reputation all can affect an accountant's rates.
Check out the average hourly rate for accounting services in your area.
How much does it cost to hire an accountant?
Accountants' rates vary based on their education, licenses, experience, and the work for which they are being hired. An accountant may charge an hourly rate when a company or individual needs their services on a short-term basis, such as when performing an audit or requesting assistance setting up a financial database or process. Hourly rates can range as widely as $40 per hour to $300 or more per hour, depending on your geographic location and the accountant. Check out the average hourly rate for accounting services in your region.
Accountants may offer a package rate for weekly, monthly or annual services to reward ongoing customers. Many accountants offer online services where small businesses can access online accounting software and payroll assistance, and the accountant — for a monthly or other recurring fee — provides financial analysis and reporting of their numbers. For basic monthly accounting services, an accountant might charge anywhere from $75 to $500 or more, depending on what was included in a given package, the size of the client's business, and the complexity of work requested. Nationally, full-time staff accountants earn between $40,000 and $80,000, depending on experience and other factors.
How much does it cost to get taxes done?
Hiring a professional to help with income tax preparation can be priceless. Pro help can mean no mistakes and a maximized tax return. The cost to get your income taxes done depends on the professional you hire. Tax attorneys or in-demand CPAs will often have the highest rates for their services. Next in the pricing tier are enrolled agents, who will usually have higher rates than individuals solely working with a preparer tax identification number (PTIN). Nationally, the average cost of income tax preparation ranges from $150 to $190. Income tax preparation prices can also vary based on where you live and the complexity of your tax returns. Here are some examples of average income tax preparation prices from an enrolled agent:
- Taxpayers filing only a W-2 tax form: $50.
- Taxpayers filing a W-2 along with additional tax forms such 1099-INT and 1098-E: $150.
- Taxpayers with several tax forms and one or two additional considerations such as a rental property, investment transactions, K-1 income, 1099-MISC or a simple small business: $225.
- Taxpayers with multiple activities (rentals, K-1 income, small business, etc.), several stock transactions and more: $395.
Nationally, the average hourly rate nationally for a tax prep professional ranges between $150 and $450.


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Associated concepts: compound a crime, compound interrst, compound larceny, compounding a felony
Foreign phrases: Aestimatid praeteriti delicti ex postremo facto nunquam crescit.The weight of an offense committed in the past is never increased by a subsequent fact.
compoundverb accrue, add to, advance, aggravate, amount, amplificare, annex, append, augere, be augmented, be numerous, become greater, become larger, branch out, build up, burgeon, connribute to, develop, dilatare, dilate, distend, elaborate, enhance, enlarge, enrich, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, expand, fill in, fill out, fortify, further, gain ground, gain strength, get ahead, give strength to, glorify, greaten, grow larger, heighten, increase, increase the numbers, inflate, lend force to, lengthen, magnify, make greater, make larger, multiply, open out, parlay, pile up, prolong, protract, raise, refine, reinforce, restrengthen, spread out, strengthen, subjoin, superadd, supplement, widen
Associated concepts: compounding a crime, compounding a debt, compounding a felony, compounding penalty
Foreign phrases: Aestimatio praeteriti delicti ex postremo facto nunquam crescit.The weight of a past crime is never increased by a subsequent fact.
See also: adhere, close, coalescence, collective, combination, combine, commingle, complex, composite, confines, conglomerate, conjoin, consolidate, desegregate, development, include, incorporate, incorporation, join, make, melange, merge, solution, substance, unite


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pressnoun authors, columnists, commentators, correspondents, editors, interviewers, journalistic writers, journalists, literary publications, media, members of the media, members of the press, news business, news gatherers, newsmen, newspaper world, newspaperman, newspapers, newswriters, publicists, publishers, reporters
Associated concepts: censorship, First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press
press(Beseech), verb adjure, appeal, ask earnestly, beg, call upon, enjoin, entreat, exhort, impetrate, implore, importune, petition, plead, request, supplicate, urge, urgere
press(Constrain), verb bear down on, bind, bring pressure to bear, coerce, command, compel, decree, demand, drive, enforce, exact, extort, force, impel, impose, insist, make, make necessary, necessitate, obligate, oblige, order, put pressure on, put under obligation, require, take no deeial, urge forward, wring
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PRESS. By a figure this word signifies the art of printing. The press is
2. All men have a right to print and publish whatever they may deem proper, unless by doing so they infringe the rights of another, as in the case of copyrights, (q.v.) when they may be enjoined. For any injury they may commit against the public or individuals they may be punished, either by indictment, or by a civil action at the suit of the party injured, when the injury has been committed against a private individual. Vide Const. of the U. S. Amend. art. 1, and Liberty of the Press.


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Jan Brenner
posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 1:51 am
I have estimated a rather large MIMIC model and now want to check whether two parameter estimates are significantly different from each other. Hence, I need the covariance estimate of the two variables. From TECH1 I got the numbers of my parameters and using TECH3 I saved the variance-covariance matrix of all parameters. When I look at it though I have five columns of values but can't really find the value I am looking for. Could you please tell me in which order the variance-covariance matrix is saved.
Thanks in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 7:10 am
They are saved in the order the parameters are numbered in TECH1. So it is a covariance matrix of parameters 1-10 by 1-10 for example. It may be easier to ask for TECH3 in the OUTPUT command. Then it is printed in the output and labelled.
Jan Brenner
posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:07 am
Hi Linda,
thanks for your advice. I am back on this issue now and I am concerned that the covariances in the TECH3 output are not precise enough since they round rather early. So basically I am back at my original question. Maybe I give an illustration of how I thought it is done but what does not seem to work out.
The TECH3 output looks e.g. as follows:
x2 x3
x4 x5 x6
x7 x8 x9 x10
The saved file (which contains much more precise values) then consists of two rows with five columns. Are they ordered like this?
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
x6 x7 x8 x9 x10
My problem really is that the parameters I am interested in are numbers 38 to 56 of a couple of hundreds and it does not seem to work out the way I have described above.
Any assistance would be great!
Thanks in advance!
Jan Brenner
posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:45 am
I just figuered out my mistake in computing row and element. I find the entries now.
Thanks anyway, it's a great platform.
christine meng
posted on Friday, August 31, 2012 - 8:29 am
I just want to double-check to make sure that my understanding of finding the covariances in TECH3 using the numbers in TECH1 is correct:
The slope is numbered 64 (TECH 1) and the interaction term is numbered 70 (TECH 1). So I would go to TECH 3 to look for the value that corresponds to 64 and 70. Is this correct?
Also, the parameter between the slope and the interaction term is numbered 81 in TECH 1. How would I go about finding the correct value in TECH 3?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 31, 2012 - 2:55 pm
Q1. Yes.
Q2. What do you mean by "the parameter between the slope and the interaction term"?
christine meng
posted on Friday, August 31, 2012 - 7:01 pm
For Q2, instead of having a number for each parameter, I would have a single number that seemed to indicate the covariance/correlation between two parameters, for instance, I would have number 79 that corresponded to the covariance/correlation for the slope and the interaction term. I am not sure how I should find number 79 in TECH3.
christine meng
posted on Friday, August 31, 2012 - 7:07 pm
For Q1, I was referring to the ALPHA in TECH1.
For Q2, I was referring to the BETA and the PSI from TECH1.
My apologies.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, September 01, 2012 - 3:54 pm
Tech1 gives the number for each parameter. Tech3 gives the variance of each parameter on its diagonal and gives the covariance between two parameters in its off-diagonal entries. The rows and columns of Tech3 are numbered according to the numbers in Tech1.
So when you talk about covariance between two parameters you find that among the off-diagonal entries of Tech3. You won't find that in Tech1. But if you talk about a parameter that is a covariance, you find its number in Tech 1 and then its variance and covariance with other parameters in Tech3. Hope that helps.
christine meng
posted on Saturday, September 01, 2012 - 4:44 pm
Yes, this helps. I over-think. Thank you.
Samuli Helle
posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 3:33 am
I'm doing a path analysis (no latent variables included) and I'm having problems interpreting the outputs of TECH1 and TECH3. I would be interested to compare observed correlations of variables included in the model (OUTPUT SAMPSTAT) with the model-implied correlations (TECH3), but I'm not sure what parameters (ALPHA, BETA?) I should be looking at in TECH1 to find the model-implied correlations? Moreover, is it possible to calculate confidence intervals for these correlations in Mplus?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 8:16 am
The RESIDUAL option compares observed and model estimated sample statistics. This is the option you should be using.
Samuli Helle
posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 2:09 am
Thanks a lot! I'm however unsure whether this option gives estimated covariances or correlations (because it is labelled "Model Estimated
Covariances/Correlations/Residual Correlations")? Although I'm not sure which one I should be using, because prior to analysis I have already mean-standaridized my independent variables. Any comment on that?
One more question: is it possible to calculate confidence intervals for noncausal effects as it for total effects?
Many thanks!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 9:34 am
What is given depends on the scale of the dependent variables. With continuous variables, covariances are given because these are the sample statistics used in model estimation. With categorical variables and models with no covariates, correlations are given for the same reason. With categorical variables and models with covariates, residual correlations are given for the same reason.
A confidence interval can be computed for any parameter. I'm not sure what you mean.
Samuli Helle
posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 12:25 pm
I was referring to decomposing the model-implied covariances/correlations. MPlus output gives me confidence interval for total effects, but I would like to also know confidence intervals for noncausal (spurious) effects and model-implied covariance/correlations. How these can be calculated in MPlus?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 2:25 pm
The CINTERVAL option will give confidence intervals for all model parameters. Confidence intervals are not given for the RESIDUAL option.
Samuli Helle
posted on Friday, March 15, 2013 - 6:45 am
Ok, so noncausal effects are not part of the model. Is there a way to make it a model parameter?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 15, 2013 - 4:41 pm
What is a "noncausal effect"?
Samuli Helle
posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 5:35 am
Sorry about my delayed reply. As noncausal effects (unanalysed associations), I'm talking about any backward connections between the variables due to shared causes and/or correlated effects. These are not printed in Mplus, but could be calculated by subtracting total effects from model-implied covariances/correlations. I'm wondering is there any way to calculate confidence intervls etc. for these noncausal effects e.g. by using MODEL CONSTRAINT-command?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 10:27 am
You can do this using MODEL CONSTRAINT.
Samuli Helle
posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 1:51 pm
Great! Any advice/example how this is actually done using MODEL CONSTRAINT? I looked at UG, but as a rather new to Mplus, I have no idea how this should be done.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 2:02 pm
You need to label the parameters in the MODEL command and then specify the effects you are interested in using MODEL CONSTRAINT. The user's guide has examples of how this works. As far as which parameters to label and how to use them to create the noncausal effects, that you would need to figure out.
Athanasios Mouratidis
posted on Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 5:28 am
Regarding the variance-covariance matrix obtained through TECH 3 I have the following question. In my two-level model with a cross-level interaction I noticed that both for my random slope (i.e., g11) and the level-2 predictor (i.e., g01) there are two entries in TECH 1: An entry in the Alpha matrix and another one in the psi matrix. My question is which one should I consult to run a test of simple slopes as described in the webpage of Preacher, Curran, and Bauer (
) ?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 7:53 am
You don't need to go that route of getting TECH3 information. Instead, just specify the simple slope in Model Constraint and it is all done for you. This is also described in our book Regression and Mediation Analysis using Mplus.
Michael Covell
posted on Monday, July 29, 2019 - 8:04 pm
I am trying to probe an multilevel modeling interaction. Does the book describe how to examine simple slopes for multilevel or single level interactions? Can you provide the syntax? I don't see it in the user's guide.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - 6:10 pm
You might find this page helpful:
Michael Covell
posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - 7:52 pm
That page illustrates a simple slopes analysis for single level interactions and cross-level interactions.
I am using multilevel modeling to test an interaction between two Level 1 predictors on a Level 1 outcome, a 1 x 1 --> 1 model, using "unconflated multilevel modeling" (or cluster means for Level 2 variables and group-mean centered indicators at Level 1). I'm not sure how this might change the testing of simple slopes. Here's the model...
x= MEAN(DM_1 DM_2);
m= MEAN(OF_1 OF_2);
CENTER x m(GROUPMEAN);
y= MEAN(ECP1r ECP2r);
xmean= CLUSTER_MEAN(x);
mmean= CLUSTER_MEAN(m);
x1m1 = x*m;
x2m2 = xmean*mmean;
y ON x m x1m1;
mmean y;
y ON xmean mmean x2m2;
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 11:17 am
I assume that x, m, and x1m1 are declared Within vbles. And that xmean, mmean, and x2m2 are Between. Then the formula for simple slope is analogous on the two levels. In my notation and thinking of x as the moderator:
y = b1*x + b2*m + b3*x*m + e
= b1*x + (b2 + b3*x)*m + e
So the simple slope is
(b2 + b3*x)
which can use Model Constraint to either compute the simple slope at different x values or plot it as a function of x using LOOP and PLOT which you have examples of on our website.
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Weather Channel To DirecTV: Meet Our Cost Demands Or EVERYONE WILL DIE!
from the storming-out-of-your-contract dept
In previous stories where a television channel goes to war with DirecTV and its peers, the mantra by the channel requesting a higher contract is typically the same: our entertainment provides value beyond what we're paid. That was the case when Viacom held its fans hostage in one such dispute, for instance, or when the far-more-sane AMC had a similar dispute. The point is that it always seems to come down to nothing more than money, where the dispute is over how much monetary value a channel has to a broadcaster. Nothing more, nothing less.
Not so, when it comes to the Weather Channel's dispute with DirecTV. Sure, they similarly want more money, but their response campaign to DirecTV bristling at the request while offering a different, televised weather channel is, shall we say, slightly more melodramatic and massively more aggressive.
Usually when cable channels and distributors go to war over money, the two sides warn customers that a blackout will be inconvenient. This time, the Weather Channel is saying it'll be downright dangerous. The channel has tried to rally the public's support by reminding people that it is an emergency lifeline during severe weather.Hmm, so the idea is that if DirecTV doesn't meet the Weather Channel's price demands, the weather monster is going to kill everyone? That'd be one hell of a provocative argument to make if it wasn't made, you know, at the damned website from which everyone can also get that life-saving information. The argument not only pretends that DirecTV isn't offering a different weather channel that would serve a similar function, or that there are various web-based methods for getting weather reports and alerts via computer and/or smartphone and mobile device, but it also ignores the Weather Channel's own services.
"The Weather Channel isn't just another TV network. It's a must-have resource that keeps families safe," proclaimed a headline on Weather.com.
This irony doesn't appear to be lost on DirecTV.
DirecTV executives say that, contrary to the Weather Channel's positioning, there are many other sources for urgent weather news these days, including WeatherNation.I don't know what the actual outcome of this dispute will be, but it would appear the emotional argument that everyone is going to die without the Weather Channel on DirecTV is one that should and will fall flat on its face. Good try, though, guys.
"When information is readily available everywhere, it's no longer necessary for people to have to pay a premium," York said in a telephone interview. He also asserted that the Weather Channel devotes up to 40 percent of its programming schedule to "reality TV shows."
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Middle Class Enviromentalists.
Middle Class Enviromentalists.
GreenMachine, Check out the VW to be sold in China soon billed as the 'Most economical car in the world" I have been sent info on this car from a friend, not sure if this is legit or not. It's a one cylinder diesel.
Yep, the best I could do is my 2010 Mariner hybrid. The headroom in the Fusion hybrid wasn't good enough, so I went with the SUV. Averaging 36.2mpg over 8,000 mi, I can't complain. Unlike the Fusion, the battery pack doesn't take up any cargo space, and it's comfortable for me (6'4"). When I have a family, it will be perfect, and it would be the long-range gasser, allowing the ability down the road to purchase an EV in my price range as the daily driver (currently 100 mile range).
Good for you! Most people couldn't care less about the environment. We all should do whatever we can afford to do to make our world a better place and that's more than enough.
As an American currently living in Italy, it is interesting to see many compact sized vehicles help Europeans conserve gas more so for economic reasons.
Do you find yourself interested in Tesla and/or hybrids solely as enviromentalists?
What's with "enviromentalists"? With minds spread around the surroundings? Or a special sub-class of environmentalists?
(in response to V Venezia: Do you find yourself interested in Tesla and/or hybrids solely as enviromentalists?
I've had many different sports cars and bought the Tesla Roadster because, well, it's fun to drive! I didn't buy it to be 'environmentally correct'. I've always recycled, have a large garden, composted - but didn't really think about my impact on the environment. But since taking delivery of my Roadster, I'm becoming a huge fan of electric vehicles, have put down a deposit for the Tesla S, and look forward to the next random conversation about the advantages of electric. (And solar is being installed at my house this week.)
A number of small things have impacted my thinking - driving past cars lined up at the gas station/smog check stations/oil change places, no fluids on my garage floor, sitting in traffic surrounded by rumbling trucks with exhaust spewing, and the joy of driving through beautiful countryside able to hear birds outside. I don't miss that rumbling engine sound at all! I've held countless conversations with people who stop and want to learn more about the car (I now keep a stash of brochures in the trunk, so they can walk away with more information.) My car informs me as to how many barrels of oil I've saved by driving electric. My electric bill doesn't appear to have been impacted. And I still LOVE driving the car! :)
Yes, I have to plan where I'm going to recharge on road trips. (And there are more options every day.) But the majority of my trips are around here & I don't need public chargers. After my solar is installed, I look forward to knowing that I'm driving on sun power.
So in direct answer to your question, no, I didn't buy the car because of the environment. But ownership has increased my sensitivity to my impact upon the environment.
Thanks bonnie1194! I appreciate such a clear response; do you have friends or know other people who also own a Roadster because of similar experiences?
Also considering the Model S is a sedan, what are some of your expectations when compared to the Roadster? (besides the "leg room")
V Venezia
Exactly the same experience. The roadster is simply "a better car to drive". It is not only an unusually powerful sports car on alpine passes in summer, but It is also a very fine commuter in dense, slow urban and suburban traffic - even on icy mornings in stop and go traffic. The effect is hard to describe. It is probably mostly it's seamless, finely tuned, silky smooth traction that transmits this particularly secure and stressless feel.
Drive it and you will notice immediately. I have never driven a car that felt so comfortable so quickly.
Apart from that it is a good looking two seater, an all-out sports car with little storage space and getting in and out requires some mobility. It is what it was developed to be and to sell as, apart from its Tesla internal role as proof of concept and technology platform.
To achieve that was by no means easy and many, including quite hefty potential competitors, still underestimate what it will likely take them to compete.
- Alfred
bonnie1194, That's sure one of the better endorsements of a Tesla owner I have read. Tesla ought to contract someone to air series of such endorsements on a show and make sure it gets airtime in the UK.
Thanks for the response. I had the pleasure of test driving a Roadster, and it sold me on the company and the technology. I'm a big guy, so it was a little tight wedging myself into the Roadster, but once in and rolling down the road, I forgot all about how long it took me to get comfy.
Timing on the Model S is perfect. I made my reservation and bought some TSLA stock which I'll sell next year when it's time to take delivery.
I've had many conversations with people about the company and the tech. I ask people to imagine two things:
1. Never going to a gas station again, and
2. Having a "full tank" every time you leave your house with the car.
I also ask people how many times each year they take a trip over 250 miles. Most say: "One or two trips per year". That's easily handled with a 2nd car or a rental. I'm really looking forward to my Model S. I just can't decide between the 300mi S or the Signature Edition.
btw: Yesterday, I saw smoke on the highway. As I approached, I saw a (gas powered) car fully engulfed in flames. Everybody was okay, but I thought how much safer I would feel in a car without 15 gallons of highly flammable liquids.


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Quantitative Finance Student Selected for ICFNJ Grant to Support Development of XBRL Tools for Researchers, Regulators and Investors
David Inga '16, a Stevens quantitative finance student and a member of the 2013 Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Summer Scholars Research Program, was recently awarded a grant from the Independent College Fund of New Jersey (ICFNJ) to support research he is doing to create eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) tools and services for researchers, regulators and investors.
XBRL is a global standard for exchanging business information, such as financial statements, between business systems. It enables corporations to share financial information to all users faster and more accurately.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires all publicly traded companies to disclose their financial information to the public using XBRL technology, but do not provide interpretations or analytics of the information.
Inga's research project – which he is conducting along with Dr. Steve Yang, assistant professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens – is to build a web interface to the Hanlon Financial Systems Center's Financial Disclosure Database, where the public can get the financial information they are seeking in an open, familiar format.
"All XBRL filings are publicly available, but the data is messy and incomprehensible unless further analyzed," said Inga.
"Financial disclosures disseminated by the SEC are captured in the XBRL technology, but many people are not equipped to decipher the information received," added Yang. "Our goal is to bridge the gap for the public with an open resource, and encourage collaborations among financial and accounting researchers."
There are many potential benefits of the research project within the financial community.
"XBRL has been widely adopted by many countries around the globe for financial reporting and its impact is spreading," said Yang. "The. U.S. has been a leading force in its development, but the consumption of the XBRL data from the SEC has been lagging behind. Our effort is to make the data more user-friendly and promote more analytics."
"The tools we are developing could also help to reduce the human effort of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to catch corporate reporting inconsistencies and fraud," Inga added.
The grant of $1700 comes from Inga's selection into the ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium, which supports hands-on research by college freshmen, sophomore and juniors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. No more than 28 grants are awarded annually for the select, state-wide program.
Inga is one of the select students chosen to participate in the 2013 Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Summer Scholars Research Program. In this elite and competitive program – which has been organized by the Stevens Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIE) for 13 years running – high-performing and entrepreneurial undergraduate students engage in innovative research, design or business projects with potential commercial impact for a period of ten weeks under the active supervision of a Stevens faculty member.
Yang, Inga's advisor, is involved in a larger research project hosted at the Hanlon Financial Systems Center focused on creating innovative ways to deliver key financials to the public, including academic researchers and regular investors. His focus is on developing an XBRL infrastructure system to apply various analytic techniques such as statistics and data mining to publicly available financial disclosure information. The system will provide a platform for investors to use meaningful analytic results for better-informed decision making and for the academic community to conduct financial disclosure-related research.
Yang choose Inga to work with him through the I&E Summer Scholars Research Program after Inga expressed interested in predicting behavior through large data, especially as it relates to financial market stability and regulation.
While the OIE provides a stipend for the students to live on campus while conducting summer research, additional funding is needed if the students want to continue to work on the project during the following school year. Given the impact and influence of student-led research at Stevens, a large percentage of projects that began in the summer program ultimately move forward to the next level of research through sponsored grants, senior design or technology commercialization.
In Inga's case, the ICFNJ grant will help Inga to consult with XBRL experts, pay for the service he is creating, and even continue his research through the fall semester and ultimately present his findings at the ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium, to be held in March 2014.


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1) n. a person who testifies under oath in a trial (or a deposition which may be used in a trial if the witness is not available) with first-hand or expert evidence useful in a lawsuit. A party to the lawsuit (plaintiff or defendant) may be a witness. 2) a person who sees an event. 3) a person who observes the signing of a document like a will or a contract and signs as a witness on the document attesting that the document was signed in the presence of the witness. 4) v. to sign a document verifying that he/she observed the execution of the document such as a will. (See: evidence, trial, deposition, will)
witnessnoun attestant, attestor, beholder, bystander, compurgator, corroborator, deponent, informant, informer, looker, looker-on, observer, one who gives testimony, person affording evidence, reporter, swearer, testis
Associated concepts: adverse witness, attestation, attesttng witness, available witness, call as a witness, compel the attendance of witnesses, competent disinterested wittess, competent witness, confronting a witness, credible witness, cross-examination, discredited witness, disinterrsted witness, expert witness, eyewitness, hostile wittess, impeachment of a witness, material witness, nonexxert witness, prosecution witness, res gestae witness, skilled witness, specially qualified witness, state witness, subscribing witness, tampering with a witness, voluntary witness
Foreign phrases: Habemus optimum testem, confitentem reum.We have the best witness, a confessing defendant. Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audien dus est. No one should be permitted to testify as a witness to his own baseness or wickedness. Nullus idoneus testis in re sua intelligitur. No person is deemed to be a competent witness in his own behalf. Judex non potest esse testis in propria causa. A judge cannot be a witness in his own case. Jurato creditur in judicio. He who makes an oath is to be believed in a judicial proceeding. Quod constat curiae opere testium non indiget. That which is clear to the court needs not the help of witnesses. Nemo tenetur edere instrumenta contra se. No one is bound to produce writings against himself. Nemo tenetur jurare in suam turpitudinem. No one is bound to testify to his own turpitude. Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum. No one is bound to betray himself. Testis nemo in sua causa esse potest. No one can be a witness in his own cause. Testis de visu praeponderat aliis. An eyewitness is preferred to others. Nemo in propria causa testis esse debet. No one ought to be a witness in his own cause.
witness(Attest to), verb acknowledge, affirm, bear out, bear witness, certify, confirm, corroborate, cosign, countersign, endorse, give evidence, give testimony, say under oath, sign, substantiate, sustain, swear, take one's oath, testari, testificari, testify to, testimonium dicere, uphold, validate, verify, vouch for, warrant
Associated concepts: witness a crime, witness a document, witness a will
witness(Have direct knowledge of), verb be a speccator, be present and note, behold, mark, note, notice, observe, recognize, see, sight, spectare, spot, take coggizance of, videre, view, watch
See also: attest, avow, bystander, corroboration, declarant, deponent, depose, discern, indicator, informant, notarize, note, notice, observe, perceive, pierce, regard, sign, subscribe, swear, testify, verify, vouch
witnessa person who gives evidence; in court such evidence must be given on oath or by affirmation. See also VULNERABLE WITNESS.
WITNESS. One who, being sworn or affirmed, according to law, deposes as to
his knowledge of facts in issue between the parties in a cause.
2. In another sense by witness is understood one who is called upon to be present at a transaction, as a wedding, or the making of a will. When a person signs his name to an instrument, as a deed, a bond, and the like, to signify that the same was executed in his presence, he is called an attesting witness.
3. The testimony of witnesses can never have the effect of a demonstration, because it is not impossible, indeed it frequently happens, that they are mistaken, or wish themselves to deceive. There can, therefore, result no other certainty from their testimony than what arises from analogy. When in the calm of the passions, we listen only to the voice of reason and the impulse of nature we feel in ourselves a great repugnance to betray the truth, to the prejudice of another, and we have observes that honest, intelligent and disinterested persons never combine to deceive others by a falsehood. We conclude then, by analogy, with a sort of moral certainty, that a fact attested by several witnesses, worthy of credit, is true. This proof derives its whole force from a double presumption. We presume, in the first place, on the good sense of the witnesses that they have not been mistaken; and, secondly, we presume on their probity that they wish not to deceive. To be certain that they have not been deceived, and that they do not wish to mislead, we must ascertain, as far as possible, the nature and the quality of the facts proved; the quality and the person of the witness; and the testimony itself, by comparing it with the deposition of other witnesses, or with known facts. Vide Circumstances.
4. It is proper to consider, 1st. The character of the witness. 2d. The quality of the witness. 3d. The number of witnesses required by law.
5.-1. When we are called upon to rely on the testimony of another in order to form a judgment as to certain facts, we must be certain, 1st. That he knows the facts in question, and that he is not mistaken; and, 2d. That he is disposed to tell the truth, and has no desire to impose on those who are to form a judgment on his testimony. The confidence therefore, which we give to the witness must be considered, in the first place, by his capacity or his organization, and in the next, by the interest or motive which he has to tell or not to tell the truth. When the facts to which the witness testifies agree with the circumstances which are known to exist, he becomes much more credible than when there is a contradiction in this respect. It is true that until impeached one witness is as good as another; but when a witness is impeached, although he remains competent, he is not as credible as before. Vide Circumstances; Competency; Credibility.
6.-11. As to the quality of the witnesses, it is a general rule that all persons way be witnesses. To this there are various exceptions. A witness may be incompetent, 1. For want of understanding. 2. On account of interest. 3. Because his admission is contrary to public policy. 4. For want of religious principles; and, 5. On account of infamy.
7.-Sec. 1. Persons who want understanding, it is clear, cannot be witnesses, because they are to depose to facts which they know; and if they have no understanding, they cannot know the facts. There are two classes of persons of this kind.
8.-1. Infants. A child of any age capable of distinguishing between good and evil may be examined as a witness; and in all cases, the examination must be under oath or affirmation. 1 Phil. Ev. 19; 1 Const. R. 354. This appears to be the rule in England; though formerly it was held by some judges that it was a presumption of law that the child was incompetent when he was under seven years of age. Gilb. Ev. 144; 1 East, R. 422; 1 East, P. C. 443; 1 Leach, 199. When the child is under fourteen, he is presumed incapable until capacity is shown; 2 Tenn. Rep. 80; 19 Mass. R. 225; and see 18 John. R. 105; when he is over fourteen he may be sworn without a previous examination. 2 South. R. 589.
9.-2. Idiots and lunatics. An idiot cannot be examined as a witness, but a lunatic, (q.v.) during a lucid interval, (q.v.) may be examined. A person in a state of intoxication cannot be admitted as a witness. 15 Serg. & Rawle, 235. See Ray, Med. Jur. c. 22, Sec. 300 to 311.
10.-Sec. 2. Interest in the event of the suit excludes the witness from examination, unless under certain circumstances. See article Interest. The exceptions are the cases of informers, (q.v.) when the statute makes them witnesses, although they may be entitled to a penalty; 1 Phil. Ev. 96; persons entitled to a reward, (q.v.) are sometimes competent; agents are also admitted in order to prove a contract made by them on the part of the principal, 1 Phil. Ev. 99; and see 1 John. Cas. 408; 2 John. Cas. 60; 2 John. R. 189; 13 Mass. R. 380; 11 Mass. R. 60; 2 Marsh. In 706 b; 1 Dall. R. 7; 1 Caines' R. 167. A mere trustee may be examined by either party. 1 Clarke, R. 281. An interested witness competency may be restored by a release. 1 Phil. Ev. 101. Vide, generally, 1 Day's R. 266, 269; 1 Caines' R. 276; 8 John. R. 518; 4 Mass. R. 488; 3 John. Cas. 82, 269; 1 Hayw. 2; 5 Halst. R. 297; 6 Binn. R. 319; 4 Binn. 83; 1 Dana's R. 181; 1 Taylor's R. 55; Bac. Ab. Evidence B; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
11.-Sec. 3. There are some persons who cannot be examined as witnesses, because it is inconsistent with public policy that they should testify against certain persons; these are,
12.-1. Husband and wife. The reason for excluding them from giving evidence, either for or against each other, is founded partly on their identity of interest, partly on a principle of public policy which deems it necessary to guard the security and confidence of private life, even at the risk of an occasional failure of justice. They cannot be witnesses for each other because their interests are absolutely the same; they are not witnesses against each other, because it is against the policy of marriage. Co. Litt. 6, b; 2 T. R. 265, 269; 6 Binn. 488. This is the rule when either is a party to a civil suit or action.
13. But where one of them, not being a party, is interested in the result, there is a distinction between the giving evidence for and against the other. It is an invariable rule that neither of them is a witness for the other who is interested in the result, and that where the husband is disqualified by his interest, the wife is also incompetent. 1 Ld. Raym. 744; 2 Str. 1095; 1 P. Wms. 610.
14. On the other hand, where the interest of the husband, consisting in a civil liability, would not have protected him from examination, it seems that the wife must also answer, although the effect may be to subject her husband to an action. This case differs very materially from those where the husband himself could not have been examined, either because he was a party or because he would criminate himself. The party to whom the testimony of the wife is essential, has a legal interest in her evidence; and as he might insist on examining the husband, it would, it seems, be straining the rule of policy too far to deprive him of the benefit of the wife's testimony. In an action for goods sold and delivered, it has been held that the wife of a third person is competent to prove that the credit was given to her husband. 1 Str. 504; B. N. P. 287. See 1 H. & M. 154; 11 Mass. 286; 1 Har. & J. 478; 1 Tayl. 9; 6 Binn. 488; 1 Yeates; 390, 534.
15. When neither of them is either a party to the suit, nor interested in the general result, the husband or wife is, it seems, competent to prove any fact, provided the evidence does not directly criminate, or tend to criminate, the other. 2 T. R. 263.
16. It has been held in Pennsylvania that the deposition of a wife on her deathbed, charging her husband with murdering her, was good evidence against him, on his trial for murder. Addis. 332. On an indictment for a conspiracy in inveigling a young girl from her mother's house, and she being intoxicated, procuring the marriage ceremony to be recited between her and one of the defendants, the girl is a competent witness to prove the facts. 2 Yeates, 114.
17. See, as to the competency of a wife de facto, but not de jure, Stark. Ev, pt. 4, p. 711. And on an indictment for forcible entry, the wife of the prosecutor was examined as a witness to prove the force, but only the force. 1 Dall. 68.
18. 2. Attorneys. They cannot be examined as witnesses as to confidential communications which they have received from their clients, made while the relation of attorney and client subsisted. 3 Johns. Cas. 198. See 3 Yeates, 4. Communications thus protected must have been made to him as instructions necessary for conducting the cause, and not any extraneous or impertinent matter; 3 Johns. Cas. 198; they must have been made to him in the character of a counsel and not as a friend merely; 1 Caines' R. 15 7; they must have been made while the relation of counsel and client existed, and not after. 13 John. Rep. 492. An attorney may be examined as to the existence of a paper entrusted to him by his client, and as to the fact that it is in his possession, but he cannot be compelled to produce it, or disclose its date or contents. 17 Johns. R. 335. See 18 Johns. R. 330. He may also be called to prove a collateral fact not entrusted to him by his client; as to prove. his client's handwriting. 19 Johns. R. 134: 3 Yeates, 4. He is a competent witness for his client, although his judgment fee depends upon his success; 1 Dall. 241; or he expects to receive a larger fee from his client if the latter succeeds. 4 S. & R. 82. In Louisiana, the reverse has been decided. It is there held that an attorney cannot become a witness for his client in a cause in which he was employed, by renouncing his fee, and having his name struck off from the record, in that case. 3 N. S. 88. Vide Confidential Communications.
19.-3. Confessors. In New York it has been held that a confessor could not be compelled to disclose secrets which he had received in auricular confession. City Hall Rec. 80 n. Vide Confessor; Confidential Communications.
20.-4. Jurors. A juror is not competent to prove his own or the conduct of his fellow jurors to impeach a verdict they have rendered. 5 Conn. R. 348. See Coxe, R. 166, and article Grand Jury. And a judge in a cause which is on trial before him cannot be a witness, as he cannot decide on his own competency, nor on the weight of his own testimony, compared with that of another; 2 Mart. R. N. S. 312; 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 364.
21.-5. Slaves. It is said that a slave could not be a witness at common law because of the unbounded influence his master had over him. 4 Dall. R. 145, note 1; but see 1 St. Tr. 113 Macnally's Ev. 156. By statutory provisions in the slave states, a slave is generally held incompetent in actions between white persons. See 7 Monr. R. 91; 4 Ham. R. 353; 5 Litt. R. 171; 3 Harr. & John. 97; 1 McCord, R. 430. In New York a free black man is competent to prove facts happening while he was a slave. 1 John. R. 508; see 10 John. R. 132.
22.-6. A party to a negotiable instrument, is not allowed to give evidence to invalidate it. 1 T. R. 300. But the rule is confined to negotiable instruments. 1 Bl. R. 365. This rule does not appear to be very firmly established in England. In the state courts of some of the United States it has been adopted, and may now be considered to be law. 2 Dall. R. 194; ld. 196; 2 Binn. R. 154; 2 Dall. R. 242; 1 Cain. R. 258, 267; 2 Johns. R. 165; Id. 258; 1 John. R. 572; 3 Mass R. 559; Id. 565; Id. 27; Id. 31; 1 Day, R. 17; 6 Pet. 51; 8 Pet. 12; 5 Greenl. 374; 1 Bailey, 479; 2 Dall. 194. But flee 16 John. 70; 8 Wend. 90; 20 John. 285. The witness may however testify to subsequent facts, not tending to show that the instrument was originally invalid. Peake's N. P. C. 6. See 2 Wash. 63; 1 Hen. & Munf. 165, 166, 175; 1 Cranch, R. 194.
23.-Sec. 4. When the witness has no religious principles to bind his conscience, the law rejects his testimony; but there is not such defect of religious principles, when the witness believes in the existence of a God, who will reward or punish in this world or that which is to come. Willes' R. 550. Vide the article Infidel where the subject is more fully examined and Atheist; Future state.
24.-Sec. 5. Infamy (q.v.) is a disqualification while it remains.
25.-III. As to the number of witnesses, it is a general rule that one witness is sufficient to establish a fact, but to this there are exceptions, both in civil and criminal cases.
26.-1. In civil cases. The laws of perhaps all the states of the Union require two witnesses and some require even more, to prove the execution of a last will and testament devising lands.
27.-2. In criminal cages, there are several instances where two witnesses at least are required. The constitution of the United States, art. 3, s. 3, provides that no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. In cases of perjury there must evidently be two witnesses, or one witness, and such circumstances as have the effect of one witness; for if there be but one witness, then there is oath against oath, and therefore uncertainty.
28. A witness may be compelled to attend court. In the first place a subpoena requiring his attendance must be served upon him personally, and on his neglect to attend, an attachment for contempt will be issued. See, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
WITNESS, AGED. It has been laid down as a rule that to be considered an aged witness, a person must be at least seventy years old. See Aged Witness.
WITNESS, GOING. A going witness is one who is about to leave the jurisdiction of the court in which a cause is depending. See Going Witness.


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I'm not sure why a 5 year old would want it, but have you heard about this ruling?
A federal judge ruled Friday that the morning-after pill, known by its brand name of Plan B, should be available without a prescription or any age or point-of-sale restrictions within 30 days. (source)
With the drug having become available over the counter, the judge ruled that the FDA had overstepped it's mandate, which had only to do with determining the safety of drugs. They have no mandate to set age limits or set standards for the sale of safe drugs.
Anyway, the question here is directed at the parents among us, and especially those with children at or approaching an age when sexual activity potentially begins. Do you have any mixed feelings about this? Do you feel that up to a certain age (16? 18?) children should at least have to see a physician before obtaining them? Not to talk them out of abortion but at least to discuss the medical issues (potential exposure to STD's, side effects, etc.).
Please identify yourself as a non-parent when you comment, if that is the case.
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A non-parent? It' an opportunity to remind the child (not a mature adult) that unprotected sex exposes her to more than just pregnancy. I don't think there's any doubt that some STD exposures could be prevented that way.
You will do more damage overdosing on asprin, cough medicine,benedryl and the like.
This question is about politics and someone's personal morality and nothing more.
Where does the concerned parent fit in that summary?
Answer, he/she doesn't.
If a child needs the morning after pill it means this child is already sexualy active. It is up to the parents to educate their children , on all these things. If you tell achild he can not eat asprin like sweats, you have to explain why, you can not just say "because I say so" Alcohol drugs, sex all work the same way. If more parents were openly involed in communication with their children a lot of the problems would not be the way it is today.
Agreed. And then we have the rest to deal with somehow. Or do we just write them off?
One of the major problems I have in our country is that in the subject lifeskills they have to discuss the above with the children then age 12 and 13 , at my sons then school that part got cut out of the book with scissors as the teacher did not feal comfortable discussing it with the children. This is enough to make a persons blood boil, if not get a speaker around to the school that can then have a talk with the children, but educate, put your personal feelings aside and Educate our children that is what schools and teachers are there for.
RE: "that part got cut out of the book with scissors" - that teacher should have been fired, instantly, but it's hard to believe he or she would have taken that upon him/herself without approval from above, so the ladder should have been climbed, firing all the way up to the top.
The teacher was the headmasters cousin. And it was done with the permision of the schools governing body as the parents felt their children at age 12 was to young for this tipe of education and that it would promote sexual behaviour. The same governing body that allows the school to be used for pentecostal church services on Sundays
You can thankfully blame this on the bass-ackwards way the church has influence on western culture. You can also blame this on the way islam has cultural influence on the middle east.
YES YES YES, and what are we left with ignorant children and then they want to blame the "evil" of the world and the lack of religion for the cause of the problem
children should at least have to see a physician before obtaining them?
Any pharmacist in Australia would bring up all the relevant points before selling a morning-after pill to anyone, especially minors. I see no reason to force a child to go to a doctor to have this discussion. Maybe it is different in the US, but I can't even buy products with codeine without being asked why I am getting it.
You can't get codeine-type drugs in the US without a prescription from a doctor or dentist. Is it different in Australia? In my area (can't speak for elsewhere), they will OFFER to have a pharmacist explain proper use, side-effects, and other cautions to you, but most people decline and I'm fairly sure a 14 year old girl would. However, when you receive the drug it comes with a lengthy (to the point of deterring one from reading it) set of instructions and cautions.


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Crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 billion globally in 2012, an 81% increase over 2011, and could exceed $5 billion by year end, according to a report released Monday.
Research firm massolution collected data from 308 active crowdfunding platforms worldwide during the first six weeks of this year for its annual 2013CR–Crowdfunding Industry Report.
The report showed that platforms in two regions raised the lion's share of capital in 2012. Crowdfunding volumes grew by 105% to $1.4 billion in North America and by 65% to $945 million in Europe. All markets grew by nearly 125%.
Lending- and donation-based crowdfunding drove growth in funding volumes last year, as did adoption of reward-based crowdfunding by small and medium enterprises:
- Donation- and reward-based crowdfunding grew by 85% to $1.4 billion
- Lending-based crowdfunding grew by 111% to $1.2 billion
- Equity-based crowdfunding grew by 30% to $116 million.
The growth in lending volumes mainly stemmed from crowdfunded microloans and community-driven loans to local small and medium enterprises, according to the report.
"While lending-, donation- and reward-based crowdfunding have thus far been leading this global financial revolution, equity-based crowdfunding is about to take center stage in the U.S.," massolution chief executive Carl Esposti said in a statement.
"The JOBS Act, which will allow non-accredited investors to make investments in exchange for equity, is expected to go into effect by the end of 2013."
The report noted that crowdfunding first gained popularity as a way to fund creative, philanthropic and social endeavors, and although this popularity prevails, its application for entrepreneurial ventures has also gained traction.
Social causes drive close to 30% of all crowdfunding activity. Business and entrepreneurship capture a 16.9% share, followed by and the two major art categories: films and performing arts (11.9%) and music and recording arts (7.5%).
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Assistants and how they're run are changing! Please note that most assistants will going forward become GENERAL ASSISTANTS. These assistants focus on -
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1. How much time a day can you put into helping out?
I can easily put in 2-4 hours a day helping out. Some days I will be able to do more but I am at university so close to deadlines I will be only able to do the 2-4 hours.
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I fully understand the obligations of being an assistant and I look forward to helping out as much as I can.
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I am applying for a general assistant. However if you need help in another specific assistant I am flexible.
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I was referred by Mike!
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Video of Weber State's half-court shot to beat UNC
Hey, if you're going to lose, at least do it in style. Right?
Northern Colorado looked on its way to an eighth-consecutive Big Sky Conference win Saturday night when Devon Beitzel hit two free throws to put the Bears up 71-69 on Weber State with 2.4 seconds to play. Then Scott Bamforth hit a contested shot from near halfcourt to stun UNC and lift Weber State, 72-71.
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Imperial Valley Solar
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Docket Number:
08-AFC-05 (Application For Certification)
08-AFC-5C (Compliance Proceeding)
Project Status: Project Terminated: August 17, 2011
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Jeffrey D. Byron, Commissioner, Presiding Member
Anthony Eggert, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Raoul Renaud
Key Dates
- 6/30/2008 - Application for Certification filed.
- 10/08/2008 - Commission accepts AFC as "data adequate."
- 2/12/2010 - Commission and Bureau of Land Management staff releases Staff Analysis and Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
- 7/7/2010 - Commission staff releases Supplemental Staff Analysis Part 1.
- 8/26/2010 - Committee releases Presiding Member's Proposed Decision.
- 09/29/2010 - Commission approves Application For Certification.
- 8/17/2011 - Order Terminating Commission Decision and License.
On June 30, 2008, Stirling Energy Systems Solar Two, LLC (SES Solar Two, LLC) submitted an Application for Certification (AFC) to construct and operate the Stirling Energy Systems Solar Two project (SES Solar Two), a solar dish Stirling systems project in Imperial County, California.
In February 2010, the company formally requested that the project change its name to Imperial Valley Solar. The company name was also changed to Imperial Valley Solar LLC.
The proposed Imperial Valley Solar/SES Solar Two project would be a nominal 750-megawatt (MW) Stirling engine project, with construction planned to begin either late 2009 or early 2010. Although construction would take approximately 40 months to complete, renewable power would be available to the grid as each 60-unit group is completed. The primary equipment for the generating facility would include the approximately 30,000, 25-kilowatt solar dish Stirling systems (referred to as SunCatchers), their associated equipment and systems, and their support infrastructure. Each SunCatcher consists of a solar receiver heat exchanger and a closed-cycle, high-efficiency Solar Stirling Engine specifically designed to convert solar power to rotary power then driving an electrical generator to produce grid-quality electricity. The 6,500 acre project site is located on approximately 6,140 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and approximately 360 acres of privately owned land. The site is approximately 100 miles east of San Diego, 14 miles west of El Centro, and approximately 4 miles east of Ocotillo, California.
The project will be constructed in two phases. Phase I of the project will consist of up to 12,000 SunCatchers configured in 200 1.5-MW solar groups of 60 SunCatchers per group and have a net nominal generating capacity of 300 MW. Phase II will add approximately 18,000 SunCatchers, expanding the project to a total of approximately 30,000 SunCatchers configured in 500-1.5-MW solar groups with a total net generating capacity of 750 MW.
The Applicant has applied for a ROW grant for the Project Site from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) California Desert District. Although the Project is phased, it is being analyzed in this Application for Certification as if all phases will be operational at the same time.
The project would include the construction of a new 230-kV substation approximately in the center of the project site, and would also be connected to the SDG&E Imperial Valley Substation via an approximate 10.3-mile, double-circuit, 230-kV transmission line. Other than this interconnection transmission line, no new transmission lines or off-site substations would be required for the 300-MW Phase I construction. The full Phase II expansion of the project will require the construction of the 500-kV Sunrise Powerlink transmission line project proposed by SDG&E. Within the Project boundary, Phase I requires approximately 2,600 acres and Phase II requires approximately 3,500 acres. The total area required for both phases, including the area for the operation and administration building, the maintenance building, and the substation building, is approximately 6,500 acres. The 230-kV transmission line required for Phase I would parallel the Southwest Powerlink transmission line within the designated right-of-way (ROW). A water supply pipeline for the project would be built on the approved Union Pacific Railroad ROW. Since the proposed project does not have a steam cycle, the primary water use would be for mirror washing.
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The advent of e-commerce has caused a sea of change for the ticketing industry, exponentially expanding its size as well as profitability. Online, ticket vendors have unlimited opportunities to expand their product and service offerings and to reach niche audiences and clients—a positive trend, but it also presents a conundrum for ticket companies: how does one stand out among the many online ticketing services out there? Nowhere, perhaps, are the stakes as high as in the "Entertainment Capital of the World," Las Vegas, Nevada.
Brand Vegas LLC., a digital ticket company that contracts directly with Las Vegas shows, tours, attractions and venues, needed a unique value-add that would differentiate it from the hundreds of online ticket sellers clamoring for a share of the $45 billion Las Vegas tourist industry. So it set out to do what no other ticket retailer had done: deliver a robust, mobile-first ticketing experience that made the process of finding events and booking reservations easy, seamless, and above all, mobile.
Brand Vegas chose DMI to create VEGAS (the app), not only because of DMI's reputation as a leading end-to-end mobility company, but also because DMI leveraged Google Cloud Platform's infrastructure. Cloud Platform offered Brand Vegas the speed and scalability it required. DMI combined state-of-the art in-app technology and ease of use with highly desirable content, value-added propositions, and accurate, up-to-date information in a single mobile commerce platform. The solution allows users to browse events based on location, category, type or price, as well as purchase and redeem mobile vouchers without ever leaving the app. The mobile commerce solution also makes it easy to manage ticket inventory on the backend.
Ticket processing capacity went from 2000 tickets per hour to 2000+ tickets per minute. The white label version of the ticketing platform allows customizations to be deployed in just a few weeks vs. months. Today, Brand Vegas, LLC. is on track to become the number one ticketing vendor in Las Vegas.


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Human HLA genes - the genes that allow our immune system to tell the difference between our own cells and foreign invaders - are evolving much more rapidly than previously thought, according to an article online on August 3rd in Trends in Genetics. The resulting degree of variation improves our ability to fight off disease, but could also present challenges to current worldwide efforts aimed at identifying potential donors for patients undergoing stem cell transplantation.
"This new work makes clear the daunting and near hopeless challenge of keeping track of the continuous output from the HLA mutational spigot," says first author William Klitz, from the University of California, Berkeley.
HLA proteins sit at the surface of human cells. Every individual has a specific HLA on the surface of their cells and these proteins effectively act as an identification card. Any other cells that have the same HLA on the outside are recognized as 'self'; foreign particles like bacteria or viruses are identified as invaders and the immune system kicks in to remove them. The same system that helps us fight off germs makes organ or stem cell transplantation difficult. Our bodies treat transplanted tissue as foreign and reject it. Unless, however, the patient and the donor share the same HLA genes. As a result, worldwide efforts are underway to identify all possible HLA variants, in the hopes of more effectively matching patients with potential donors.
The difficulty is that within the human population, HLA genes are mutating rapidly and Klitz estimates that more than a million variants exist in the current population. Trying to identify all the variants will be nearly impossible and ultimately pointless, according to Klitz, because of how quickly these genes are evolving. This rapid evolution is a boon in some ways because it means that, at the population level, our immune systems are getting better at fighting off pathogens. For transplant recipients, however, the most likely implication is that the best chance for a match will be found in first-degree relatives rather than in a worldwide search for donors.
Klitz et al.: "New reservoirs of HLA alleles: Pools of rare variants enhance immune defense"
William Klitz, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Philip Hedrick, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Ed Louis, Centre for Genetics and Genomics, University of Nottingham, UK


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