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I apologize for the paucity of posts in January folks, and will re-dedicate myself to 2-3 per week again. I was buried in a work project for much of the past six weeks, so my energy was elsewhere to say the least.
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I'm sitting in an airport waiting for a delayed flight, wearing bright orange compression socks, thinking about the latest book I'm writing. It's been harder to write.
The main character is divorced. She was pregnant when her husband left her for her friend and she had to quickly get a job. She goes back to school to get a secondary education degree because her bachelor's was in English.
She had planned on getting a Master's and possibly a Doctorate in English but then she met John. They fell in love. He got a job and they got married and she didn't get a Master's. When she got pregnant with their first child, she kept working. Then the two of them together decided she would stay home with their son. After childcare costs, it made more sense. And he made enough. Plus, she believed her kids would be better off if one of them could stay home. He made more, so she stayed home. She often thought about getting her Master's, but then a kid would get sick and she wondered how she would do it all. She kept putting it off.
Until the day her husband came home and said he wanted a divorce.
She doesn't think much about her choices (Why bother? It won't help) until she has to work with a graduate of hers who has just finished her bachelors and wants to go get her Master's. But she met this guy….
So Grace looks over at all of her decisions.
And this is where I'm stumped.
Of course women should get an education and support themselves. Of course they should accomplish all they want to accomplish. But what if the two spouses decide that one parent could stay home. They think it would be better for the kids. But then the spouse who stays home loses potential income. Loses years of experience. May pass up on education that would help because they put their trust in their spouse.
Is this possible anymore?
Do both parents need to always work because relationships seem to be so fluid these days?
I stay home. Yes, I've had different jobs and done different things, but when I thought of applying to be a substitute teacher and saw they wanted 3 professional references, I started to cry and didn't finish the application. I couldn't think of a professional reference. Sure, I had people who would give me a reference, but I hadn't worked for anyone in years.
At the same time, I think having one parent able to stay home is great for a family. I think I'm slowly going insane, but besides that, I think it's a good idea. If possible.
I had a parent home until I was about 12 or 13 and then I would come home and be alone for about an hour. It wasn't that big a deal. I would do my homework and watch Days of Our Lives. The worst thing I did was eat a whole box of Kudos and then throw up. I never ate another Kudos again and I'm not even sure they make them anymore. They probably heard my story and realized they didn't have a future.
But I remember when I missed the bus and I couldn't get a hold of anyone. I was scared. I thought I'd have to stay at the school over night. My neighbor came and got me and it wasn't a big deal except for the 30 minutes when it was.
I'm around if my kids forget their lunches or nice clothes for a presentation. I pick them up for appointments and make sure things generally run smoothly.
Except for those times when I mix appointments up and I show up at the right time a day late. Or when I give each kid a different kid's lunch so when I see one on the counter and it says my youngest's name but I know I gave him something, I just eat that lunch myself.
I'm not a very domestic stay at home mom but I'm a "I'm here if you need me" one.
As I write from my character's point of view, I wonder if this is still a good idea.
If I went back into the workforce and actually used my law degree, I would never make the money I would've made had I stayed working. I'm so far out of the game, I wonder if I could get a job.
Some people volunteer and keep up their resume that way. I haven't kept a file of what I've done. I think I was taught you don't get credit for volunteer work. It's a service. (And if it gets around that I'm a helpful person, people may actually ask me for help. No one wants that.)
So what's the answer?
Is staying home still a viable option?
How does one make the perfect choices in life? And never regret them?
I would love to hear your views.

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Myth: Food allergies begin in childhood
Fact: "Food allergies are often diagnosed in childhood, but they can develop at any time in a person's life," says KT Park, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Although kids can outgrow some food allergies—like eggs and soy—shellfish and nut allergies last a lifetime. Food allergies that develop later in life usually don't go away.
Myth: If a food doesn't agree with you, you have a food allergy
Fact: "People use the word 'allergy' as a catch-all phrase, but technically not all reactions to food are allergies," says Rachel Begun, R.D., spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Only about 6 to 8 percent of kids and 3 to 4 percent of adults have true food allergies, but around 25 percent of people think they do because they've experienced discomfort—such as bloating—after eating a particular food. "A true food allergy is when the immune system believes a food to be a foreign [substance] and attacks it in an attempt to remove it from the body," says Begun.
If you have a true allergy, the immune system reacts abnormally to a food, usually within a few minutes to hours of eating. Symptoms vary but can include itching in the mouth, hives or vomiting and abdominal cramps. Severe allergic reactions, called anaphylaxis, consist of trouble breathing, a feeling that your throat is closing or chest tightness. Anaphylaxis can be life-threatening if not treated immediately, says Dr. Park, so call 911 immediately.
Myth: A food allergy and food intolerance are the same thing
Fact: Food intolerance may occur because you lack the digestive enzyme to process a certain component of food such as the lactose in milk. Or, it may be that your body is reacting to naturally-occurring components of food, such as sulfites, or flavor-enhancers, like MSG. The symptoms of food intolerance are usually mild gastrointestinal distress—bloating or diarrhea—after eating or sensations of warmth or flushing. While the symptoms of food intolerance are uncomfortable, they're not life-threatening, says Park.
In some cases of food intolerance, you may even be able to eat small amounts of the offending food without trouble. Or you may be able to take enzyme supplements to improve digestion, such as lactase (Lactaid) if you have lactose intolerance, for example. On the other hand, with a food allergy, you must avoid the offending food forever.
Myth: A simple allergy test can tell me if I have food allergies
Fact: Whether you have a positive skin test or a blood test that shows you've produced antibodies to a particular food, you still need a physical reaction to a particular food to be diagnosed with an allergy. "The only reliable diagnosis is based on a thorough, detailed history," says John Leung, M.D., director of the Food Allergy Center at Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children in Boston. "Lab work is [only] used to confirm the diagnosis." Your doctor may also suggest an elimination diet—you stop eating the suspected food to see if your reactions cease, or a food challenge, during which small amounts of the suspected food are introduced into your diet and your reactions are observed under strict medical supervision.
Myth: If you think you have a food allergy, just avoid that food
Fact: If you suspect you have a food allergy, see your doctor immediately. A mild reaction once could mean a serious reaction the next time. "True food allergies are rapid in onset," says Dr. Leung. "You can develop life-threatening anaphylaxis within minutes after eating, so you need to carry medication, such as an Epi-Pen, for severe reactions." On the other hand, once you're thoroughly evaluated, you may discover that what you think is an allergy really isn't. "Often we see patients who have been avoiding foods they don't even need to avoid," says Leung.
Myth: Artificial flavors and additives cause most food allergies
Fact: It's the foods themselves, rather than the additives, that cause most true food allergies. And it's eight foods that cause 90 percent of all food allergies: Milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (such as walnuts), fish, shellfish, soy and wheat. "You may experience some sort of food intolerance from additives such as MSG or sulfites," says Park "but your reaction isn't going to manifest itself as anaphylaxis as it would with a true food allergy."
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DAMIEN HIRST has designed the 2013 Brit Awards statue. The artist is the third British creative to give the music prize a makeover, following Dame Vivienne Westwood in 2011 and Sir Peter Blake in 2012. "I am honoured to be asked to design this year's statue," said Hirst. "It has become such an iconic award, I love the Brits." Hirst's statue is covered with bright multi-coloured dots – a signature motif of the artist. The trophies will be handed out during the ceremony […]
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DETROIT (AP) - The Jeep Cherokee is back, with a surprising design that could win some new buyers but lose some old fans.
The 2014 Cherokee midsize sport utility vehicle (SUV) made its debut on Wednesday at the New York International Auto Show. The remake is so radical that observers might not realise it's a Jeep.
The new Cherokee ditches Jeep's traditional boxy look for a more aerodynamic style. It replaces the brand's signature round headlights with sharply angled slits. The interior is plush and full of luxury options like automatic parallel parking. Even Jeep's seven-slat grille didn't go untouched - it's much smaller and creased in the middle to fold over the Cherokee's nose.
It's a look more reminiscent of a Honda CR-V than the model it replaces - the Liberty - and past Cherokees that helped establish Jeep as a symbol of toughness and off-road adventure.
All this isn't sitting well with some Jeep fans, who say the 72-year-old brand is straying too far from its rugged, utilitarian roots. They bemoan the new styling and softer ride, saying it's more suited for a trip to the mall than the Rubicon trail.
"It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen on the road and to put a Jeep badge on it, let alone call it a Cherokee, is an insult to the name and heritage that Jeep has always delivered," says Mr Micah Myers, a longtime Jeep fan from Lexington Park, Maryland, who drives a 13-year-old Cherokee.
Chrysler Group, Jeep's parent, acknowledges that the design is polarising. But Jeep needs to win back the suburbanites who have spent the last decade defecting to a newer batch of car-like, fuel-efficient competitors like the Chevrolet Equinox and Toyota RAV4. The new Cherokee goes on sale this fall.
Jeep President and chief executive Mike Manley said the new Cherokee is a capable off-road vehicle that also performs well on pavement.
"It's true to Jeep, but now will have all the attributes that those customers that may have bought an import brand, for example, or a different vehicle, have been looking for," he said.
In 2002, after Jeep replaced the aging Cherokee with the cheaper, smaller Liberty, a record 171,212 were sold in the United States (US), according to Ward's AutoInfoBank. Last year that fell to 75,482. The CR-V outsold the Liberty by more than three to one.
"They need to do something different, and that kind of vehicle is something different altogether," says Ms Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst at the car-buying site Edmunds.com. "They have to stretch that brand."
Jeep - and other automakers - are also under pressure to meet increasing US fuel economy requirements. That explains the aerodynamic style and the new nine-speed transmission under the hood. The all-wheel-drive Liberty currently gets 9.35 kilometres per liter (kpl) on the highway, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, making it one of the worst performers among midsize SUVs. The new Cherokee will get up to 13.18 kpl on the highway.
Finally, Jeep needs the SUV to appeal to customers around the world, not just adventurous types. The Cherokee will be built in Toledo, Ohio, but exported to more than 150 countries, including China.
"We wanted a design that is fluid and efficient yet still rugged and looks at home on the trail or at the theatre," said Mr Mark Allen, Jeep's design chief.
The Cherokee first went on sale in 1974, when Jeep was still owned by American Motors Corp. In 1984, American Motors released a new Cherokee that was smaller, narrower and lighter than the original, essentially inventing the SUV.
Sales soared. More than 100,000 Cherokees were sold each year between 1986 and 2001. Off-roaders were big fans because of the Cherokee's capability.
In 2001, Jeep's new owner, Chrysler, revamped the SUV again. It changed the name to Liberty, which tested better in focus groups and helped attract new buyers. The Liberty initially sold well, but then struggled as the midsize SUV market got more crowded and Chrysler - which went through bankruptcy in 2009 - invested little money in it.
Krebs says bringing back the Cherokee name makes sense, since it fits neatly under its larger sibling, the Grand Cherokee SUV. It will also save Chrysler money, since the vehicle has always kept the Cherokee name in international markets.
But purists complain that the plush new model is nothing like Cherokees of old. For one thing, it shares a car underbody with Fiat SpA, instead of a platform designed for off-roading. Nearly 900 fans have already "liked" a Facebook petition asking Chrysler not to call the new SUV a Cherokee.
Mr David Silecchia, who has owned three Cherokee XJs from 1988, 1998 and 2000, thinks the 2014 Cherokee will sell, but not to rock-climbing adventurers like him.
"Jeep now seems to want to appeal to the people who go to the mall, throw a bunch of shopping bags in the back, drive home and read a book," said Mr Silecchia, a student and information technology worker in Georgia. "The 2014 Cherokee is a nice vehicle, don't get me wrong, but not a suitable 'rebirth' of the Cherokee name."
Chrysler disagrees, saying the new Cherokee has more low-gear power for towing and climbing steep grades than the 2001 Cherokee. At 184 horsepower, the base, four-cylinder engine is slightly less powerful than the 2001 Cherokee's base V6, but it's much more efficient. The new Cherokee also offers a 271-horsepower V6 and can tow up to 4,500 pounds, which is more than any other vehicle its size but about 500 pounds less than the 2001 version.
A Trailhawk edition of the new Cherokee carries Jeep's "trail rated" badge, which means it can handle a series of challenging off-road conditions, including fording water.
Mr Dave Sullivan, an analyst with the consulting firm AutoPacific, says the higher-priced, fully-loaded versions of the Cherokee should be very capable. But he thinks the drastic redesign will cost Jeep some loyalists.
Jeep, like Toyota, has been successful partly because its design changes are usually subtle, Mr Sullivan says. The two-door Jeep Wrangler, for instance, has changed little since it went on sale in 1987, but it's by far the best-selling small SUV in the US.
"This is not an edgy brand. It should not be about spending money on outrageous design," he said. "It's all about the off-road design and capability."


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Trevor Slattery (played by Ben Kinsgley) is still one of the best creations from the Marvel movies. And the latest new clip from this upcoming Mandarin short film makes our heart yearn for more Trevor! He's just so good.
The new short "All Hail The King" shows what life is like behind bars for The Mandarin. It's just so delightful to have this character back (really in any form) and we beg Marvel please, please, please consider giving this character a revival in Phase 3 or something. Just don't lock this gem away forever. Ultron Vs. Trevor!
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With a vacancy on the Michigan Supreme Court, it's time to look at undisclosed spending in judicial campaigns and how replacements to the high court are selected, says Rich Robinson, from the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, and Susan Smith, from the League of Women Voters.
The two are planning four forums in February and March to push for changes to Michigan campaign finance law and to the selection process for filling vacancies on the supreme court.
One of the forums will be held at 7 p.m. March 11 at Oakland University. Other locations will be in Ann Arbor, northwest Wayne County and Lansing, with the possibility of additional forums to be added.
They hope the forums will encourage the public to push state lawmakers to make changes.
Among their beefs is that three-quarters of the millions spent for advertising in the state supreme court races in November came from undisclosed sources.
Robinson says much of the television advertising was patently false and attacked the candidates' characters through so-called 'issue ads.'
'The issue ads were the equivalent of a drive-by shooting,' says Robinson, mentioning one that characterized newly-elected Justice Bridget Mary McCormack as helping free a terrorist.
They'd also like to see greater transparency in filling supreme court vacancies through a change in state law.
Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder will be appointing a replacement to the high court at some point in the coming weeks after the Jan. 21 retirement of Justice Diane Hathaway and subsequent federal charges for mortgage fraud.
Although Michigan Supreme Court justices are technically nonpartisan, they are nominated political parties.
Hathaway was a Democratic Party nominee and elected to the bench in 2008.
But Snyder will likely fill the seat on the seven-member court with a Republican nominee.
Robinson and others give the inside track to Oakland Circuit Judge Colleen O'Brien, who was an unsuccessful Republican nominee in the last election.
The amount of undisclosed money spent on advertising in judicial races 'has come to be the dominant feature in these campaigns,' Robinson says. 'The candidates are spectators in the campaigns.'
Robinson said he'd like to see Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson make a declaratory ruling that the sources of advertising have to be identified, but he said he's not yet ready to formally ask for one.
As secretary of state, Johnson is also the state's chief elections officer.
The upcoming forums will address recommendations by the Michigan Judicial Selection Task Force made last April.
Those recommendations include: • Full and open disclosure of campaign spending in Michigan judicial races.
• Open nonpartisan primaries to select judicial candidates.
• Creation of a Citizens' Campaign Oversight Committee to curb misleading attack ads.
• Production of voter education guides by the Michigan Secretary of State's Office to help voters make educated choices in judicial candidates.
• And creation of an advisory screening commission to send a qualified list of candidates to the governor when vacancies arise. Currently, the choice is exclusively left to the governor.


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Some people have described Dan as a "sarcastic so-and-so," which he usually scoffs at before responding with a mocking comment, such as, "Really? Is that so!? How perceptive of you, the human race should be proud of your amazing insight!"
X360A's Editor-in-Chief is possible the most random and sarcastic writer of the bunch, and Dan looks after X360A's day-to-day jobs like making sure Rich doesn't use the last of the tea-bags and that everything is in order. He often can be found stalking trolls in the comments, stroking his white cat as he rocks back and forward in his huge leather chair – no, that is not a euphemism – and doing whatever needs to be done.
When he's not off trekking the world searching for the next big thing, Dan has been said to be a "jack of all trades, master of all" – well, that's how he puts it – and can usually be found smothered by a stack of the latest gadgets. Tech whore, Mass Effect-ite, music maestro and film fan sums up this wonderfully dry person. He's British, so just don't challenge him to a drink off.
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Welcome everyone to the latest episode of the Spotlight featuring the best of the levels posted in the level Showcase and Recommendations forum over the past two weeks. Thanks to Sandro8708, bonner123 and kingerbrocku for their recommendations. In fact bonne123 recommended three great levels by mpggsmpggs but to avoid overload were holding over the last of the 3 until our next Episode. Keep the awesome recommendations coming!
As usual, given the crossover between the Spotlight Crew and the Contest Crew judges, were also holding over all the LBPC12 levels posted in the Showcase until after the results have been announced.
Finally, we wanted to let you know that given the (hopefully temporary only) slowdown in the number of levels being posted on LBPC at the moment, we are contemplating moving to a monthly rather than a fortnightly Spotlight until things pick up again. Any feedback or suggestions would be gratefully received.
In the meantime, without further ado, on with the Spotlight!
...byPublished on 04-27-2014 08:47 PM
Welcome everyone to the latest Episode of the Community Spotlight featuring the best of the levels posted in the Level Showcase and the Recommendations forum in the past fortnight. Please do check out the honourable mentions as there are some excellent levels in there too, some by creators who deserve more exposure. Thanks to all the creators for continuing to produce such great levels. Youre doing amazing things still with the game.
A special thanks too to Dragonvarsity, AVundCV and Sandro8708 for recommending some great levels. Keep up the great work xD
...byPublished on 04-13-2014 09:09 PM
Welcome everyone to the Easter Episode of the Spotlight. We have some great levels for you to enjoy. From epic adventures to awesome level series (both in LBP2 and Vita), classic platforming and a stunning shooter. Theres truly something for everyone. A huge thank you to all the talented creators out there who keep producing these gems and thank goodness for holidays which give everyone extra time for creating and playing!
Talking of holidays, Jauw is giving the hub an Easter makeover so be sure to give it a play when it's published tomorrow!
Without further ado, on with the Spotlight: ...byPublished on 04-06-2014 08:21 PM
Welcome to the postponed Episode 133 of the Community Spotlight featuring another helping of wonderful and entertaining levels for your playing pleasure. Once again Cogmonkey has kindly captured highlights of the LBP2 levels for you to sample in his latest video.
Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to recommend some of the great levels featured this fortnight. Please keep the awesome recommendations coming!
Enjoy! ...byPublished on 03-16-2014 08:09 PM
Hey everyone! Were back with a new contest for you. Before we get into the details, though, wed like to say farewell to thespacemonkey187 who is leaving the Crew to spend more time with his family In his case, though, its true as the birth of his daughter means he has his hands full for a while. Congratulations to him and a huge thank you for everything he has done for the Crew. Well miss him A LOT! ...byPublished on 03-16-2014 08:04 PM
Welcome everyone to the latest Episode of the Spotlight, full to the gunnels with awesome, amazing and action-packed levels from the Level Showcases. Adventure is definitely in the air this fortnight, as we feature a number of the entries in LBNs Sackquest contest. And if you have had your fill of epic stories and voyages of discovery, theres plenty to savour in the Vita and Karting Spotlights too. As we are so flush with levels this Episode were holding over the LBP2 levels from the Recommendations sub-forum until next Episode but please keep the recommendations coming.
Once again, Cogmonkey has very kindly put together a video of the LBP2 spotlights for you to sample. Any feedback on this would be welcomed.
Without further ado, on with the Spotlight. ...byPublished on 03-02-2014 08:56 PM
Welcome everyone to the latest Episode of the Spotlight featuring levels posted in the Level Showcases and Recommendations forums in the past fortnight. A big thank you to everyone who rallied round and posted recommendations for us to try. We had great fun replaying some old favourites and discovering some new ones too. Great job and keep them coming xD
A couple of bits of good news to announce. First, we are very happy to welcome yugnar to the Crew. He will be playing and reviewing Vita levels for us. Awesome to have him on board!
Secondly, Cogmonkey has very kindly put together a really cool video showcasing the levels featured in the LBP2 Spotlight. Its awesome of him to do this for us and we hope you enjoy sampling the spotlights this way. Cogmonkey is very keen to get any feedback on the video, suggestions for improvements, what you would like to see featured etc. so please let him and us know what you think! He will also be uploading the full videos for each level over the course of the week. A big thank you to him for doing this! Just a note to say that the Ghost Ship is not included in the video because we only reached a final decision on that level late in the day due to erm...OHLOOKANOTHERSQUIRREL! ...byPublished on 02-16-2014 09:09 PM
Welcome to Episode 130 of the Spotlight! This Episode is different from all previous Episodes because for the first time we're featuring not just the best of the levels posted in the Level Showcases over the past fortnight but also the pick of the levels posted by members in the Recommendations section of the site during that time. Even though were now casting our net wider, we still only have 3 full spotlights in the LBP2 section of the Spotlight. We dont want to get too apocalyptic here. With any luck this dip in levels posted in the Showcases is only temporary and the new LBPHub may bring in lots of new creators. In the meantime, though, for the Spotlight to continue to thrive we're going to need you all to help by posting any awesome levels youve come across in your gaddings in the Recommendations thread (assuming they arent already in the Showcases). So get playing and keep the Crew busy playing the gems you have uncovered xD
Without further ado on with this fortnights small but perfectly formed Spotlight! ...byPublished on 02-02-2014 09:28 PM
Welcome one and all. Grab a drink, pull up a chair and tuck into the best offerings from the Level Showcases over the past fortnight. Congratulations to cakito123 on getting a spotlight in both the PS3 and Vita sections! Also a huge thanks to all the creators featured for keeping the LBP flame alive!
...byPublished on 01-19-2014 10:49 PM
Welcome to the latest Episode of the Spotlight featuring the brightest and best of the Level Showcases over the past fortnight. It may not be biggest ever Spotlight but what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality. From a feisty Grandad off in search of his beloved hat to an oldskool adventure with some urban flair and a heady adventure in the clouds theres plenty on the PS3 side to keep those January blues away and the Vita and Karting Spotlights have lots to offer too. I have to say that Girly Gamble track sounds really intriguing
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Iike this. WG announced they have no intentions of adding training rooms. For some players this will not effect you or your time playing WoTs. For others such as clans this will be a huge upset and disappointment.
wg I am making this post to show you that this is the wrong move and myself and many others would like you to change your plans for training rooms. Wether or not clan wars is being looking into or worked on clans would like training rooms, they do a multiple of things to further this game and help it get better. With training rooms clans will be able to learn set ups, spots to go on maps, what tank to run together, what players have the best chemistry, it also allows for us to see what angles to approach a situation and how to handle certain situations, it also allows clans to help other clan members and help advance there skills.
what does this do for the average player? This can do a multiple of things as well. It will allow for players to go into games with their buddies and maybe see why something they don't understand happened the way it did so they can learn from that mistake. It will also help the players not as skilled at the game go in with players who are more skilled and allow them to help that lesser player. They can also go in and learn how to use there tanks a little bit before heading right into a game not understanding their tank and then going against more veteran players blind.
what can this do for WG? WG will also benefit from training rooms. If a player has experience a issue they think occurred they may go and see why this may have happen. Maybe this was a issue on WGs side or maybe it was just something they didn't understand. This will help players understand your game better making it so players have a more enjoyable play experience which results in a bigger and better player base.
To all clans out there and even just players wanting to try and understand some of the aspects of the game. Please cast your vote and also please upvote this so it may become a popular topic and show WG that we as a community would like change.
Thank you from Amazing Royce and everyone in WAR.


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Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in Cwmaman, Wales. The band currently comprises lead vocalist and guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist and backing vocalist Richard Jones, drummer Javier Weyler, guitarist and backing vocalist, Adam Zindani and touring member Tony Kirkham (keyboards), the group having originally also included Stuart Cable on drums. Stereophonics have released seven studio albums, five of which have topped the UK Albums Chart. Their seventh, Keep Calm and Carry On, was released in November 2009 but did not make the Top 10. A successful compilation album was also released in November 2008 – Decade in the Sun charting at number two in the United Kingdom. The band is part of the Cardiff music scene.
Described as "classic UK rock delivered with whiskey vocals," the band have been summarised as possessing a sound akin to the genres of alternative rock and "British traditional rock." Stereophonics' debut album, Word Gets Around, was released in August 1997 and instantly charted at number six in the UK, aided by the singles "Local Boy in the Photograph", "More Life in a Tramps Vest" and "A Thousand Trees", all of which failed to affect the top 20. The band reached mainstream success with the release of Performance and Cocktails (and its promotional singles "The Bartender and the Thief", "Just Looking" and "Pick a Part That's New") in 1999 and have achieved a total of ten top-ten singles as well as one number-one: 2005's "Dakota". The band have also been praised for their live performances, which have landed them headlining slots at many of the UK's most high-profile music festivals, including Reading and Leeds in 2000, Glastonbury in 2002, V festival in 2002 and the Isle of Wight in 2004 and 2009.


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Complacency and compliance are a dangerous combination. What worked last year may not work this year. Compliance is an ever-evolving process. It is critical that an advisory firm's chief compliance officer keep abreast of all regulatory and examination changes.
Even more critical is for the firm's senior management to support the compliance process. They can do this in several ways. First, by example: Compliance starts at the top, not the bottom. Senior management should also provide the necessary resources to enable the CCO to effectively discharge his or her duties. If the CCO doesn't ask, then management must inquire. Ultimately, it is ownership and senior management that will suffer the consequences of a deficient compliance process. Don't wait until the firm receives notice that the regulators are coming to ascertain the status of the firm's compliance processes and exam readiness. Be proactive.
Senior management should meet with the CCO on a regular basis to address compliance efforts. Moreover, the CCO should be involved in the firm management process. If advisors are leery of including the CCO, then they likely have appointed the wrong person.
There are several ways management can include the CCO in the management process. One way is to schedule a regular quarterly meeting between senior management and the CCO. Management could also have the CCO attend management meetings (of course, he or she can be excused for certain issues such as compensation, etc.). Finally, to the extent maintained by the firm, have the CCO attend standing committee meetings on investment, marketing or technology. Of course, if the CCO is already a member of senior management, then access issues are mitigated.
No other exercise can assist a firm in determining its true exam readiness than a mock exam. Note that a mock exam is not simply an intensive document review followed by a written report, but a hands-on review of how to respond to each exam issue. To do otherwise can not only prove to be both an imprudent and costly use of firm resources, but can potentially backfire because unless conducted by an attorney, the report is subject to turnover to the SEC or to plaintiffs' lawyers.
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Especially the part about 2:256. A verse hated by islamophobes, and one that has been the cause of much irritation and embarrassment for them.
Now, this verse pretty much single-handedly disproves the image some people are trying to paint of islam, so obviously those people have to make this verse go away somehow. After all, if you don't have to worry about muslims forcing anything on you, there's no reason to fear, and thus no reason to buy their books. Whether these people are genuinely islamophobic or just charlatans I can't say for sure, but they usually try to make the verse go away with one these four ad hocs:002.256
YUSUFALI: Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.
PICKTHAL: There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who rejecteth false deities and believeth in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.
SHAKIR: There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error; therefore, whoever disbelieves in the Shaitan and believes in Allah he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
1. It is a meccan verse revealed when muslims were weak, and has been aborgated by later verses.
2. The verse was situational, meant for the muslims when they were in a weak position.
3. It means that you cannot compel deep inner belief, but you can compel outward conformity.
4. Mass-quotiong other verses which seem to be in contradiction.
The article in question is guilty of #2 and #4.
They usually sprinkle one of these arguments by accusing the one who brings the verse of propoganda. This, of course, is just an admission of the fact that they have no real response to it.
1. It is a meccan verse revealed when muslims were weak, and has been aborgated by later verses.
This is actually a medinite verse revealed when the muslims were in power. I'll just quote the letter 136 muslim scholars sent to the pope
Now, I looked far and wide, and I only managed to find one commentator, Abdullah ibn Mas'ood, who believed the verse has been abrogated. (by 9:73, which doesn't say anything about forced conversions.) Also, this contradicts Umar, a more promiment companion, who said "O Allah, bear witness! There is no compulsion in the Religion". He said this in repentance after he had compelled an elderly woman to accept islam, and she felt coerced. This has been recorded in al-Bayhaqi in his Sunan (1:32 =A7128) and Ibn Hazm in al-Muhalla (11:196)You mention that "according to the experts" the verse which begins, 'There is no compulsion in religion' (al-Baqarah 2:256) is from the early period when the Prophet "was still powerless and under threat," but this is incorrect. In fact this verse is acknowledged to belong to the period of Quranic revelation corresponding to the political and military ascendance of the young Muslim community. 'There is no compulsion in religion' was not a command to Muslims to remain steadfast in the face of the desire of their oppressors to force them to renounce their faith, but was a reminder to Muslims themselves, once they had attained power, that they could not force another's heart to believe. There is no compulsion in religion addresses those in a position of strength, not weakness. The earliest commentaries on the Qur'an (such as that of Al-Tabari) make it clear that some Muslims of Medina wanted to force their children to convert from Judaism or Christianity to Islam, and this verse was precisely an answer to them not to try to force their children to convert to Islam.
I haven't found any other commentators other than Abdullah ibn Mas'ood who believed it has been abrogated. So unless someone can show that this is more than an obscure minority opinion, stating that it has been abrogated is simply unprincipled.
2. The verse was situational, meant for the muslims when they were in a weak position.
First of all, the muslims were in a position of power when this verse was revealed. Muhammad was the most powerful person in Medinah. Second, every commentator I've come across, other than Abdullah ibn Mas'ood, saw this verse as a general ban against forced conversions.
Ibn Kathir
There is no compulsion in religion), meaning, "Do not force anyone to become Muslim, for Islam is plain and clear, and its proofs and evidence are plain and clear. Therefore, there is no need to force anyone to embrace Islam. Rather, whoever Allah directs to Islam, opens his heart for it and enlightens his mind, will embrace Islam with certainty. Whoever Allah blinds his heart and seals his hearing and sight, then he will not benefit from being forced to embrace Islam.''
There is no compulsion and coercion in regard to religion.285 The right thing has been made distinct from the wrong thing: now whoever rejects taghut 286 and believes in Allah has taken a firm support that never gives way. And Allah (Whose support he takes) hears everything and knows everything. Allah is the Helper and Protector of those who believe in Him: He brings them out of the depths of darkness287 into the light.
There is no compulsion in, entering into, religion. Rectitude has become clear from error, that is say, through clear proofs it has become manifest that faith is rectitude and disbelief is error: this was revealed concerning the Ansār [of Medina] who tried to compel their sons to enter into Islam; so whoever disbelieves in the false deity, namely, Satan or idols (tāghūt, 'false deity', is used in a singular and plural sense), and believes in God, has laid hold of the most firm handle, the tight knot, unbreaking, that cannot be severed; God is Hearing, of what is said, Knowing, of what is done.
Ibn 'Abbâs:
(There is no compulsion in religion) no one from among the people of the Book and the Magians should be coerced to believe in the divine Oneness of Allah after the Arabs' embrace of Islam.
Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi:
(There is no compulsion in religion…) [2:256]. Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Muzakki informed us> Zahir ibn Ahmad> al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Mus'ab> Yahya ibn Hakim> Ibn Abi 'Adiyy> Shu'bah> Abu Bishr> Sa'id ibn Jubayr> Ibn 'Abbas who said: "The women of the Helpers whose boys always died in infancy used to vow to bring up their boys as Jews if they were to live. When the Banu'l-Nadir were driven out, they had among them children of the Helpers. The Helpers said: 'We will not leave our children!' Upon which Allah, exalted is He, revealed (There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error …)". Muhammad ibn Musa ibn al-Fadl informed us> Muhammad ibn Ya'qub> Ibrahim ibn Marzuq> Wahb ibn Jarir> Shu'bah> Abu Bishr> Sa'id ibn Jubayr> Ibn 'Abbas who said regarding the saying of Allah, exalted is He, (There is no compulsion in religion…): "The woman of the Helpers whose boys never survived used to vow that if a boy of hers survived, she would raise him as a Jew. When the Banu'l-Nadir were driven out of Medina they had among them children of the Helpers. The Helpers said: 'O Messenger of Allah! Our Children!' Allah, exalted is He, therefore revealed (There is no compulsion in religion…)". Sa'id ibn Jubayr said: "Those who wished to leave with the Jews did leave, and those who wished to embrace Islam embraced Islam". Said Mujahid: "This verse was revealed about a man of the Helpers who had a black boy called Subayh whom he used to coerce to become Muslim"
3. It means that you cannot compel deep inner belief, but you can compel outward conformity.
This opportunistic, desperate argument flies in the face of classical scholarship. I didn't manage to find a single muslim who believed this. It is supported by exactly nothing. Pure desperation. As gullible as some xenophobes are, it seems they actually buy into this. Anything to support their irrational fear, I guess.
4. Mass-quotiong other verses which seem to be in contradiction.
Another straw man. As shown, 2:256 clearly forbids forced conversions to islam. This is how muslims always interpreted it. If something seems to be in contradiction with it, then it's their understanding of those verses there is something wrong with. I'm not going to bother going through every verse or hadith they can use.
Now, I'll finish with some more verses, which are quite clearly against forced conversions,
Had Allah willed, He would have brought them all together to the guidance; if thy Lord had willed whoever is in the earth would have believed, all of them, all together. (10:99)
Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion (109:5)
And if they belie you, say: "For me are my deeds and for you are your deeds! You are innocent of what I do, and I am innocent of what you do!'' (10:41)
Say: The truth is from your Lord;
So whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him disbelieve. (18:29)


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Nearly $1 million a day is spent providing low-cost housing, social services and other support to vulnerable residents of the Downtown Eastside, a Vancouver Sun investigation has found.
The news outlet compiled, for the first time in recent history, a list of every agency that operates in the Downtown Eastside or provides a service there, and also tallied the organizations' annual revenues.
In 2013, $360 million was spent by 260 agencies and housing sites to help roughly 6,500 people. Most are poor; many have addictions or mental health challenges.
Three-quarters of that money comes from taxpayers, as the agencies received funding from the provincial ($231 million), municipal ($15 million) and federal ($17 million) governments.
More than 100 of the names on The Sun's list are social housing buildings and emergency lodgings, or the non-profits that run these services. And there are at least 30 health care providers, covering mental illness, addictions, detox/recovery, HIV/AIDS, and methadone treatments. Another 30 offer services to parents, children and seniors, including daycares, school-support programs, activities for teens, recreational programs, and immigration services. There is even a food bank for pets. Other organizations offer free food, drop-in programs, employment assistance, improved safety, and arts and culture programs.
The list also includes government programs that respond to the crisis in the neighbourhood, such as emergency services and welfare.
The annual revenue of the agencies ranges from the $4,790 for tiny Strathcona Community Gardeners Society to $34 million spent yearly by the mammoth Portland Hotel Society.
It is difficult to track or compare the social and financial investment in the Downtown Eastside for several reasons, including:
• The provincial government compiled a list in 2008 of 150 agencies working in the Downtown Eastside, but refused to release it to The Sun.
• The Vancouver Province added up money spent in the Downtown Eastside five years ago and came up with a similar $1-million-a-day figure, but that was inflated by expenses The Sun did not include, such as $16 million for St. Paul's emergency room (which is located outside the DTES) and $63 million for the province to buy old SROs (capital costs). Five years later, The Sun's tally was reached by counting more agencies and focusing only on annual operating costs strictly spent within the area's boundaries. If we had included other items, such as capital costs, hospital expenses, and standard city operations, then The Sun's total would have been significantly higher.
• Experts interviewed for this series could think of no other Canadian city with a similar concentration of services in one small area.
Julian Somers, an associate health sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, researched spending in the Downtown Eastside several years ago and found it was impossible to pinpoint because of a lack of co-ordination and collaboration.
"To date, it is not much improved," Somers said.
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Few question the good intentions of the charities, non-profit agencies, churches, governments and foundations behind the agencies in the Downtown Eastside, which grew in response to decades of poverty, homelessness, mental illness and addictions.
But many also believe this small portion of the city — home to just three per cent of Vancouver's population — has been overloaded with services for the sick and poor, and that it is time for other areas of Metro Vancouver to do their share.
On every block in the neighbourhood's core, a half dozen or so agencies offer overlapping services, while there is a dearth of comparable organizations in other parts of the city.
This ghettoized the historic community, which is often much loved by residents who don't feel judged there but is also pigeonholed as a place where vulnerable people live.
The Downtown Eastside has about 6,700 social housing units, and city hall's new 30-year plan for the neighbourhood seeks to add 6,000 low-income units through construction, renovation and rent subsidies. This is two-thirds of the new social housing the city plans to create in the next three decades, and it will be located in the Downtown Eastside for several reasons, including the high number people on the street or precariously housed, the services nearby, relatively cheaper land, and neighbours who complain less.
Much of the new social housing will offer some type of support to residents, which will undoubtedly bring even more services to the crowded neighbourhood.
Mike Harcourt, a former B.C. premier and former Vancouver mayor, believes it is time to battle the not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) syndrome and insist housing and services be spread out across the city.
"Should we be putting everybody in the Downtown Eastside? The answer is no.
"We should be putting low-income homeless and mentally ill people who are from the rest of the city, in (their home) communities," said Harcourt, who is now part of the new Building Community Society, which aims to "contribute positively" to the future of the Downtown Eastside.
A century ago, the Downtown Eastside was Vancouver's political and financial hub, teeming with high-end hotels, fancy restaurants, and popular retailers such as Woodward's.
The entire Downtown Eastside, which stretches from Richards Street to Clark Drive, and from Burrard Inlet almost to Terminal Avenue, has been home to low-income workers, families and seniors, many of whom feel a close bond to the working-class neighbourhood.
But the scene along Hastings Street — the core of the DTES — has evolved: turmoil was created by the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1970s and 1980s; the rise in homelessness sparked by the federal Liberals' 1993 refusal to build more social housing; and the 1990s' epidemic of overdose deaths and HIV infections, Harcourt said.
"All those things together created a place that became quite unacceptable and led to a proliferation of groups and services, a magnet for people who wanted to do good and help. So we're trying to unscramble the omelette. And I think we should," he said.
Other major Canadian cities, such as Toronto and Calgary, have services for the poor spread out across many neighbourhoods. Parts of Southern California follow state laws requiring every community to offer shelter and services for homeless people, but still also have downtown skid rows with large clusters of these agencies, said Jennifer Wolch, dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wolch, whose research focuses on urban homelessness and the provision of services to the poor, argues the best model is "dispersed concentration" — a hub of services grouped in the heart of multiple communities, instead of nearly all services bunched together in one neighbourhood.
"Concentrating all the services in one location is not a great idea, either for clients of the services or the community in which all those services are concentrated. ... (And) then people in other parts of the city don't have very good access to those services," Wolch said.
"There's also the issue of being in a place that eventually gets stigmatized as a place where 'certain kind of people' go or ought to be found. So, it's not integrating people into the community if you've created a giant service hub in one location."
Vancouver City Hall is aware of this debate. In its just-released local area plan for the Downtown Eastside, it calls for 9,400 new social housing units for the city in the next 30 years, two-thirds in the Downtown Eastside and one-third in other neighbourhoods.
These numbers mirror the wishes of residents who participated in the planning process: Two-thirds said they wanted to stay in the community to be close to all the services in the Downtown Eastside, while one-third said they'd like to return to another neighbourhood but couldn't find affordable housing, said Andrea Reimer, the Vancouver councillor who spearheaded the in-depth report.
But there is often pushback to social housing in other neighbourhoods. Developer Concord Pacific, for example, struck a deal earlier this year to reduce the required number of social housing units in a large-scale False Creek complex by giving the city a plot of land in the Downtown Eastside to build affordable housing.
And the Mount Pleasant community plan calls for new social housing units over the next 30 years but only enough to meet an estimated 25 per cent of the demand in that community.
Another challenge is in areas like Marpole that have not added enough social services to keep up with population growth. Marpole's community plan will look at "how do we make sure that the community centres, and the schools, and the medical and the other services" reflect the 1,085 new or upgraded units of social housing called for in that community's plan, Reimer said.
It is a complicated issue for a city, though, when senior levels of government are mostly responsible for those social services, she added.
The recent five-year, $110-million national At Home/Chez Soi study, which provided housing and support services to 300 chronically homeless people with mental illness and addictions in Vancouver, concluded those placed in scattered apartments throughout the city achieved stability and comfort outside the Downtown Eastside.
But of the estimated 26,000 affordable housing units city hall hopes to have by the end of its 30-year plan, only 1,900 are slated to be scattered, supported sites like those used in the At Home study.
"Scattered sites worked awesome for (At Home participants), except if they needed high medical support, either physical or mental illness issues," Reimer said.
"In a place like Marpole, which is quite far removed from the downtown core, it is a pretty long hike on transit if you are already physically compromised or feel socially fragile."
It would surely cost significant money to bring social services to neighbourhoods outside the Downtown Eastside. Would it be worth the investment?
The At Home's final report on the Vancouver portion of the study, released to The Sun this week, found supplying housing and outreach support for the highest-needs participants cost almost the same as leaving them on the street. For example, the intervention costs were, on average, $28,282 a person per year, and their reduction of social service use — fewer visits to hospitals and medical clinics, reduced stays in shelters, and a slight decrease in interaction with police and the courts — saved $24,190.
It is difficult to tally the exact spending per capita in today's Downtown Eastside. City hall's local area plan said the community has 18,500 residents, with more than 6,300 collecting social assistance and 124 who live on the street.
If one assumes, therefore, there are about 6,500 folks who rely on social services, then each person's share of last year's $360 million investment in the community is more than $55,000.
That figure is a rough estimate, but it is nearly double the cost of supplying housing and outreach, in neighbourhoods outside the Downtown Eastside, to the At Home study participants.
So, if the question is how best to spend money and where best to spend it in order to help the most vulnerable in our society, perhaps we need to examine whether the current model is working. Especially in light of the fact that Vancouver's mayor had hoped to wipe out homelessness by 2015, but that this year's homeless count showed the number of people without lodging went up instead of down.
B.C.'s veteran housing minister, Rich Coleman, acknowledged there is concern about ghettoizing the social housing and service organizations in the Downtown Eastside, but argues the current model has been effective.
"I'll go down for a walk in the Downtown Eastside, night time or day time, and it's dramatically different than it was. It's incredibly better than it was five, six years ago," he said.
Coleman is proud of the Liberal record of providing new and refurbished housing in the DTES, especially in old rundown SROs that his ministry bought and renovated.
"In many cases," he said, "the stability of housing is enough to turn (the residents') situation around."
Poverty activists with the Carnegie Community Action Project, though, argue the community has lost far too many of the rooms that can be rented at the meagre amount welfare provides for housing: $375. Existing low-cost lodging in the Downtown Eastside, it adds, needs to be protected for the poor — not torn down and replaced with more modern, mixed-income buildings — because affordable rental stock has disappeared in other "gentrified" neighbourhoods such as Yaletown and Main Street.
The Carnegie Project also argues so many social services would not be necessary to support DTES residents if welfare rates had kept up with the cost of living over the past 35 years.
Jean Swanson, a longtime Downtown Eastside poverty activist who fights to try to save the area's basic but affordable housing stock, argued the amount of money poured into her community would never have been necessary if the government had raised welfare rates with the cost of living.
"In 1980, the purchasing power of welfare was the equivalent of $940 a month in today's dollars. Today welfare is only $610 a month," she said.
Swanson estimated the provincie government has "sucked" about $27 million a year out of the Downtown Eastside. She reached that figure by multiplying $330/month by 12 months by the number of DTES residents on welfare, which she estimated to be 7,000.
"If that money were put back in the neighbourhood, people would be able to pay rent and buy nutritious food and a bus pass to look for work," said Swanson, who is with the Carnegie Community Action Project.
Laura Case, chief operating officer of Vancouver Coastal Health which pumped $57 million into the Downtown Eastside in 2013, does not think the Downtown Eastside is overloaded with agencies. But she believes more communities should offer similar low-income services as the DTES.
"The concentration is a reality of meeting the service needs of the complex client mix there. The Downtown Eastside has a large percentage of the population that is very, very ill in terms of their addiction, their disability, their mental illness, their past trauma," Case said.
"The next question might be, is this a self-fulfilling prophecy? If you create the services, will people come? No, the people were there and we created the services."
It is an interesting debate.
"We're seeing successes every day," Case insisted. "But we've got a larger societal problem that we need to address, and that is, how do we embrace all people in our local communities and create the right mix of health services and community services for them in their local communities?"


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Dow Tumbles in 'Cliff' Hit
U.S. stocks tumbled as investors lost hope that politicians in Washington could hammer out a last-minute deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. WSJ markets reporter Jonathan Cheng has the details.
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... oh ... oh and welcome to Digits I'm on Jethro go to the doubters industrial average barcode reader five straight days of decline ... losing a hundred sixty points is a C on the chart here for you now joining me is Jonathan Cheng ... on Markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal ... says Jonathan five straight days of the declines ... the market has come to a station that the fiscal cliff ... is approaching and Washington is doing quite frankly nothing about right ... I mean look the debate we've known about the fiscal cliff for months now in fact even at the beginning of this year a lot of ... people were already thinking that this might be an issue ... we saw what happened last August so we had to raise the debt ceiling ... and we saw how close we came to the edge that ... people didn't think that this would happen again because of that example that we have last August they said look ... we know that people want to compete each other but we also know that they want to wait exactly what happened last year so that was ... forgiven if I need to see that from the Nov up to up to ... the beginning of this week really ... you could see that stocks were really just coming up reflecting a lot of optimism and now ... we spend our days I mean how bad is it he says five days we can look at the scope of this and the numbers the ride was just talking that are ... pretty frightening Lucy for a while this is the worse the Phillies had since November nine we are now at a one-month low ... and it's out of the ... things they're actually not look like they'd December's usually Friedman for the stock market but we're now in negative territory and ... it doesn't look like with and be able to ... hold positive unless we get a rabbit out of a hat ... when now ... the House meets on Sunday night to get that so it's a right now ... leaders from all the Republican and Democrat party I mean with the present Brock Obama in the county as a meeting to spend it and so far I mean look this is this is in no time in five o'clock confided that were speaking now but ... if it doesn't look like any details of a week that if atheists two-week fits that these two sides are still ... far apart we haven't seen a lot of progress and to the next three years here we have Sunday evening ... the boathouse comeback before during a roughly five or six on the evening they could potentially ... if things would progress possibly in these ... waning twenty four hours something could happen to me than ... I would bet the farm on it but it's possible I mean the fact is you have to have some sort of a ... proposal yet to have something to vote on ... when you need right now it doesn't look like there's anything to vote on percentage but ... again it's Friday afternoon right now to sell about forty hours and told that the vote comes ... presumably somebody will be working this weekend in China figure out ... some sort of a proposal that they can at least talk about the scale when they ... when they meet new capital buildings will see it that I will say this is a direct hit on the U S economy speaking of the U S economy was look at some of the day we have this morning ... we had a Chicago PMI report on manufacturing in the region ... we have more data on home ... home pending home sales heading home sales ... how are these reports while the headlines from both were actually quite strong the better than expectations ... that isn't the focus today I mean I think the fact is that the economy is still fried tell people know that ... I don't know that these data points with a sweet people in either direction ... we also have ... a tougher for next Friday the monthly jobs report for the very closely watch the again all of this is in the shadow ... of the fiscal cliff because we know that ... if they don't do anything about it the combination of tax increases and spending cuts ... is gonna wipe off while ... you can debate ... how much is the life of GDP but it's it's only overshadow ... the awesome these little ... numbers or getting to that ... this is fascinating to look at this and we've we've had these ... on a series of events that held the mark and ransom on to secure a price isn't great the situation ... in currency markets right now it's concessions a law that and the prime minister in Japan ... in their markets if the fiscal cliff ... when this eventually at some point in the hope is what saying Jamie were some that come to an agreement ... is gonna be something else that takes its place we just sort of go it's ... like ... since two thousand a crisis to crisis trade and we have a good idea what that might be the might be the debt ceiling again because ... um that is scheduled to come up again in late February or early March unless they bundled together ... with the debt ceiling negotiations which not many people are expecting where it ... can be looking down the barrel of that crisis ... in just a matter of weeks really when you when you think about it says that that's really frightening thing so much for joining this cotton costs and our Jonathan Cheng reporter with of the last return or using a flashlight ... to look for some of the frightening and dark corners of the market in politics as we come up ... on what's been a testing year for ... the Dow I thank you so much for joining us inhabit that we can ...


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Hungry for the Holidays?
Help Combat Food Insecurity
With Thanksgiving here, its easy to be thankful for the great meals many of us will be sitting down to enjoy. But what if you cannot afford to buy healthy foods for Thanksgiving dinner? Or for that matter, healthy foods for any meal? We call this condition food insecurity, and I thought this week Id tell you more about this unfortunate situation that affects many in our community.
One in five Vermont children live in homes that are food insecure, which means they are going without food altogether for some meals or existing on inadequate food. Many families that work in entry level jobs or make close to minimum wage cannot afford to feed their children nutritious food.
Why is this a problem? Food insecure homes can put children at risk of malnutrition and in turn worsen their physical as well as psychological well-being, resulting in increased aggression, anxiety and depression, not to mention interfere with brain function and development, resulting in poorer school performance. In addition, food insecure families will often buy inexpensive, high-calorie, nutrition-poor foods resulting in their children becoming overweight or obese.
So what can we do about food insecurity? If you are experiencing food insecurity in your home, dont be embarrassed but realize that there are more than a hundred food support programs in this region to help you and your child have better access and quality of food, including school meal programs, food shelves, food stamps (otherwise known as 3SquaresVT) and many more. If you need to find a program in your area, simply call Vermont or New York 211, the Vermont or New York Health and Human Services hotline. Or, you can logon to the website for the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger (http://www.hungerfreevt.org/). If you are in New York, logon to the website for the Nutrition Consortium of New York (http://www.nutritionconsortium.org/). Your childs doctors office can also help find a food resource program for you.
If you are food secure, be thankful for that and then consider supporting one of those food resource programs by donating food, volunteering, or even making a charitable monetary contribution during this holiday season.
Hopefully helping those who are food insecure will be a cause every one of us can gobble up when it comes to keeping all our children healthy. Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for helping those who are food insecure, because in this way, you are truly being First with Kids!
Lewis First, M.D., is chief of Pediatrics at Vermont Children's Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. You can also catch "First with Kids" weekly on WOKO 98.9FM and WPTZ Channel 5, or visit the First with Kids video archives at http://www.FletcherAllen.org/firstwithkids


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Cisco SPA112
From VoIP.ms Wiki
- There have been some reports of issues with this device, from both customers of VoIP.ms and other providers.
- Make sure to install the latest firmware from http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10024/prod_release_notes_list.html.
- Version 1.1 or later should be used for proper Caller ID support.
- Some People have reported issues using Firefox to Configure this device please try Chrome or IE.
Configuration Details
Step 1
Attach the Cisco SPA112 to your network and attach an analog phone to one of the phone ports, then do the following:
- Dial **** from the phone, even though there is no dial tone.
- When you hear "System Configuration Menu," dial 1 1 0 # slowly. The current IP address will be read back. (e.g. 192.168.X.X)
If you hear 0.0.0.0, check your network connection and DHCP server. If necessary, a static IP address can be assigned by using option 111# at the IVR, then entering the IP address with your phone's keypad (for example, 10*1*27*2 for 10.1.27.2). The network mask can be set with option 121# and the default gateway can be sent with option 131# Learn more about the IVR menu options from the https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-9900 document.
Be sure to allow at least a minute or two for the box to initialise; even a correctly configured and installed SPA112/122 will give no power to the 'phone or no dialtone until initialisation is complete.
Note that the SPA122 is basically a SPA112 with a second network port, intended for installation between a local network hub (LAN) and an upstream Internet (WAN) connection. The SPA122 may be configured as either a "NAT" or "bridge". Depending on configuration, this leaves the SPA122 with two addresses; a local area network address (such as 192.168.15.1) and an outside Internet address. Dialling ****110# will give one address, ****210# will give the other.
Step 2
Open your web browser and go to the IP address you obtained in step 1 (for example, http://192.168.2.1). The default username is admin, and the default password is also admin.
For the SPA122, if one address does not return the web interface (or has some functions greyed/disabled), try the other.
Step 3
The remaining steps are identical for both SPA112 and SPA122.
Go to Quick Setup and configure Line 1 as follows:
Proxy: atlanta.voip.ms (You can choose any of our multiple VoIP.ms servers)
Display Name: Your name
User ID: Your VoIP.MS SIP Account number (or subaccount)
Password: Your VoIP.MS SIP Password
Dial Plan: (911S0|<:1555>[2-9]xxxxxx|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|*xx|*xx.|[3468]11|822|0|00|[2-9]xxxxxx|4xxx|**275x.|xxxxxxxxxxxx.)
(note: Replace 555 in the dial plan with your area code, See Dial Plan for Linksys ATAs for details.)
Click Submit to save settings.
Step 4
Click on Voice, then Line 1
Set NAT Mapping Enable to Yes, then set NAT Keep Alive Enable to Yes. If your environment does not use NAT, you can leave these settings disabled. These features can usually be disabled on the SPA122 if it is connected directly to your modem since its traffic will not be subject to NAT in this configuration.
Under Proxy and Registration set Register Expires to 180, Proxy Fallback Intvl to 180
Also confirm the following settings:
Use DNS SRV: NO
DNS SRV Auto Prefix: NO
Click Submit to submit these changes
Step 5
Click Network Setup, then go to Basic Setup, then click Time Settings
Set your time zone and (optional) NTP settings. A good time server choice is 0.pool.ntp.org. Setting the proper time zone will ensure that the time which appears on your Caller ID display is correct.
Click Submit to save the changes
Step 6
Click Voice, then go to SIP.
Set SIP Timer Values (sec)
Set RTP Parameters
- RTP Packet Size: 0.02
Cisco's defaults (SIP T1 = 0.5 sec, RTP packet size 0.030 on most Sipura adapters) respectively may cause unnecessary retransmission of commands over connections with high latency and create issues with outbound audio "breaking up".
Click Submit to save the changes
Firmware upgrade
SPA112 and SPA122 adapters were distributed with outdated (1.0.x) firmware at least as late as 2012; affected boxes will not show Caller ID on any inbound call, even though the caller names and numbers are visible in the call detail record on the VoIP.ms (or other provider's) web interface.
Updated firmware is available from the Cisco site [1] as a .ZIP archive which contains two files (a .BIN with the actual firmware and a .PDF with documentation). Download and unZIP this file. Go to the 'administration' tab on the web interface (on the SPA122, this needs to be done from the LAN side with SPA122's built-in networking set to NAT mode). On the left sidebar, click 'update firmware' (as most of the administration menu does not appear for Firefox users, downgrade to MS IE or another browser temporarily). Click the 'upload' button and indicate the location of the unzipped .BIN file. A box will appear with a progress indicator and a warning not to interrupt the upgrade. When the upgrade is completed, the SPA112/122 will reset and will likely take a minute or more to reinitialise, reconnect to the network and restore dial tone. SPA122 users who have installed the device in-line between the local PCs and the Internet will be disconnected from the Internet until reinitialisation is complete.
Once the new firmware is deployed, call display will operate normally and the configuration web page will display in Firefox without missing options in the administration menu.
A manual for Cisco's SPA100 series adapters is online at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/csbpvga/spa100-200/admin_guide_SPA100/spa100_ag.html


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WASHINGTON >> Legislation to restore jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed has cleared a final Senate hurdle before a vote on passage set for Monday.
The vote was 61-35 Thursday to advance the bill, one more than the 60 needed.
Most Republicans voted against advancing the bill, citing a Democratic refusal to permit any votes on their proposed changes.
The White House-backed legislation would resurrect a program of benefits for the long-term unemployed that expired in late December. In general, it is designed to help those who have been off the job more than 26 weeks.
While Senate passage seems certain for Monday, the bill faces strong opposition in the Republican-controlled House. House Speaker John Boehner has made no commitment to permit a vote.


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Alcoholism rehab centers refer to places where people addicted extensively to alcohol can be helped to start new lives through treatment. What is alcoholism? This is a condition in which a person, over time, becomes reliant on alcohol and often has to take it in order to feel normal enough to work and go about life.
Alcohol addiction is a global problem, affecting not only Americans, but millions, probably billions, of people all over the world. You may connect with one of our counselors now at 800-234-8334 and discuss your situation. We are available 24/7 to speak with you.
Just as is the case of drug addiction, set laws and regulations have not been much help in reducing cases of alcoholism in the United States. As it is right now, the rates of drinking in America are among the highest in the world. And with practically each of the fifty states suffering gravely from an increasing number of alcoholic addictions that are completely out of hand, the necessity of alcoholism rehab centers cannot be undermined.
The most recent research indicates that nearly 60% of all Americans over eighteen were habitual drinkers in 2011, while another 13.6% of the population took alcohol at lesser intervals. These statistics are very worrying and call for an immediate response to the needs of the addicts. Alcoholism rehab centers offer the best possible way out of addiction. They allow an alcoholic to decide and chart a new way forward in life.
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At the same time, many alcoholics fail completely to take action or do so too late and in the process put themselves at risk of suffering the consequences of drinking. They could also put their own families and friends in danger, physically or otherwise. These reasons explain why it is paramount that alcoholics seek medical help as soon as they realize the addiction is present instead of waiting too long and suffering for no apparent reason.
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"In London's triumphant year and the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Simon Callow returns to the West End stage in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed play The Mystery of Charles Dickens...
In a celebration of some of London's finest storytellers, The Mystery of Charles Dickens sees 49 of Dickens' best loved characters brought to life by one man in an exhilarating performance which echoes the recitals Charles Dickens himself once gave. As Dickens' remarkable life unfurls on stage, prepare to encounter some of Victorian England's most memorable and intriguing ladies and gentlemen. Travel to a land of pompous beadles and drunken midwives, and on through Europe and America to adventures and the most fashionable society parties.
Witness love, hatred, comedy, passion and despair, in the company of one of the greatest writers of all time: the creator of The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale Of Two Cities and David Copperfield."


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Drowned In Sound are media partners at this year's Latitude festival, bringing you interviews, sessions and daily updates from the site. Here, Dom Gourlay relives his highs and lows from Friday's bill.
Lloyd Cole
The Word Arena, 1pm
Having spent four hours on the road from not-so-sunny Nottingham, my first duty of the day after pitching the tent and unpacking the wellies was to relive the golden days of my youth. Or something like that. Despite having to compete with Cold Specks incestuous noise drifting over from the Lake Stage, his set was a delightful mixture of old and new material that buoyed the sizeable crowd. Assisted by his son Will on guitar, 'Weeping Wine' and 'Perfect Skin' were particular highlights of a set that didn't only roll back the years, but also taught the new breed of singer/songwriters a thing or two.
The Word Arena, 2:50pm
Daniel Bejar might not resemble your typical indie demigod, but as frontman and multi-instrumentalist for his Destroyer project he's a captivating presence. Backed by a seven-strong band, his set concocted images of Cat Stevens moonlighting with The Flaming Lips, i.e. heavenly. Heavily drawing on material from last year's Kaputt long player, the title track in particular raising temperatures as the audience join in with the "chasing girls like chasing cocaine" in reverential unison.
The War On Drugs
The Word Arena, 3:50pm
Making a rare UK appearance here, Philadelphia's The War On Drugs proved a soothing mid-afternoon alternative to avoiding the rain. Straddling the psych-rock and alt-country borderline while never really sounding like either, 'Your Love Is Calling My Name' and 'Black Water Falls' delivering a pastoral ambience over Henham Park's muddy veneer. Someone behind me remarks if Arcade Fire made gospel shoegaze rather than studious chamber pop it would sound like this. I couldn't put it any better myself.
The Antlers
The Word Arena, 4:55pm
DiS loves The Antlers, and with good reason as their last two near-flawless long players ably demonstrate. Earlier in the day we'd sat down for a brief chat with keyboard player Darby Cicci where he told us about the band's future plans. He also revealed what was in today's set but even with the element of surprise extinguished, it did nothing to dampen the spirits when the likes of 'Two' and 'Parentheses' arrive in all their glorious wisdom. New song 'Drift Dive' off the forthcoming Undersea EP suggests the creative well is far from dry just yet, and while this is the only new song aired in a Burst Apart heavy set, its nothing short of a revelation. A rousing 'Putting The Dog To Sleep' closes the show, and for many possibly steals it. Band of the day by far, if not the entire weekend. Yes, that good.
The Word Arena, 6:05pm
Kevin Rowland's latest incarnation of Dexys might have disgarded the Midnight Runners tag, but there's no faulting his showmanship. Performing what feels like a theatrical adaption of the band's back catalogue, he's in fine voice regaling classics both old and new to an audience of a similarly diverse demographic. Sadly we don't get 'Geno' but a near ten minutes long version of 'Come On Eileen' kind of makes up for it, even if the middle class clientele and paunchy overweight dads dancing fervently makes it resemble a wedding reception. Of the Royal variety of course...
Lana Del Rey
The Word Arena, 7:30pm
This year's great white hype she may be, yet for forty-five minutes she held the packed Word Arena crowd in the palm of her hand. Despite previous criticisms of her live performances, tonight she displayed an engaging charm and unfased demeanour that delighted all those present. Opening with album favourite 'Blue Jeans', the as-yet unreleased 'Body Electric' suggests the next record could be somewhat darker than its predecessor, her velvet croon a plausible yin to Chris Isaak's dusky yang. The biggest cheers are reserved for 'Born To Die' and 'Video Games', the latter preceded by a front row meet and greet culminating in Ms Del Rey sparking up a cigarette and flaunting the smoking ban in erroneous style. Those still unconvinced really had to be there. Sensational.
White Lies
The Word Arena, 10pm
Possibly the least cool band on the bill, and faced with the unenviable task of having to go head to head with Bon Iver, White Lies actually pull it off with stylish aplomb. Love them or hate them - although judging by the sparse crowd it seems most would rather just ignore them - it takes precisely eleven minutes and three songs for the realisation to kick in that they're actually an excellent singles band. 'To Lose My Life', 'Death' and 'Farewell To The Fairground' might not be flavour of the month with uber trendy hipsters, but here in this setting they create a perfect atmosphere to bring the first day of Latitude to a close.


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