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If you're in the over 40 crowd, working hard on a good job and wondering why in the world you still aren't where you thought you would be by now, you're not alone. You've tried hard to play by the rules and made sacrifices, but you just can't catch a break, or catch up.
A new survey from Ameriprise, the Money Across Generations II study answers the question to where the
heck your money is going. Your family. According to the study, more than half of baby boomers admit they've allowed their adult kids to move home and live rent free — but the support most provide their kids and aging parents is much, much more than a cot and a few hots. Truth is, boomers are putting their families' needs over their own, despite the fact that they have no clue how they are ever going to realistically retire in a style in which they've spent decades fantasizing about. [More from Forbes: The best cities for raising a family]
"Boomers are feeling the pressure financially and emotionally," said Suzanna de Baca, vice president of wealth strategies at Ameriprise Financial, in a prepared statement. "In many cases they're sandwiched between children who are unemployed or struggling to pay down their student loan debt and aging parents who are facing complex health and financial issues. At the same time, they're trying to prepare for their own retirement. The demands on their time and money can feel endless.
The news is depressing for sure. In 2007, when the original Money Across Generations study was conducted, 44 percent of boomers claimed they were trying to grow their saving. This time around, only 24 percent say are salting away money for the future. In fact, some 24 percent say they are simply trying to maintain what they have. Even maintaining the status quo is challenging because more than half said they helping mom and dad in some way, be it buying groceries or paying medical or utility bills. [More from Forbes: 20 crucial money questions to ask before marriage]
But boomers only have themselves to blame when it comes to their children. It's understood that you're going to provide some help for their college education, but more than 50 percent helped them buy a car. Many are also helping with health insurance, rent, utilities and car payments.
Boomers are in a bit of denial. Only 10 percent said helping their parents has slowed down their retirement savings, though one-third did admit that helping their kids has come at a price.
What's troublesome, is that while charity begins at home, truth is, many don't have the cash to afford them the luxury of being so generous. They're tapping savings, and because they have less wiggle room, they aren't
doing things like taking advantage of the opportunity to plunk down extra money with catch-up contributions in their retirement accounts. [More from Forbes: A financial checklist before starting a family]
No doubt, there are tough decisions to be made. It's family after all. While nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said they would keep on contributing to their retirement savings instead of helping a child pay off a credit card, it's tough to say no to an elderly parent. More than half said they would help a parent pay for long-term care insurance instead of contributing to their own retirement savings.
Even though boomers see themselves falling way behind in reaching their goals, nearly 90 percent that if they could push replay, they would again help out their kids, and some 20 percent said they felt guilty about not being able to provide financial assistance for them now. Meanwhile, boomers say they worry that their children haven't learned to be financially responsible. [More from Forbes: A 10-step financial plan for new parents]
Hello, bailouts lead to more bailouts, to more bailouts, no?
But the family saga gets even more interesting, when the survey reveals what the boomers' children say.
They blame mom and dad for their lack of financial savvy. More than half gripe that while growing up, their parents rarely talked to them about how they budgeted the family's money or the importance of saving for retirement. And while a majority say their parents' approach to spending and saving was fairly balanced, 30 percent feel their parent's attitude toward money was "live for today." Only 11 percent said their parents encouraged preparing for the unexpected. [More from Forbes: 5 places to save cash]
For sure family is a priority, but keep in mind what they tell you when you fly. Apply your own oxygen mask first.

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Footprints In The Sand: Massachusetts Beach Access Law
I read a BLOG today at The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog. An accurate and sometimes humorous explanation on MA beach use and laws.
In summary:
Limited Public Beach Access Between Low and High Tide Area for "Fishing, Fowling and Navigation"
The Colonial Ordinance reserved three specific and important rights of public use within the private tidelands for "fishing, fowling and navigation." Those permissible uses have been broadly interpreted by Massachusetts courts to include: (1) the right to fish or to collect shellfish on foot or from a vessel; (2) the right to navigate, including the right to float on a raft, windsurf, or sail; and (3) the right to hunt birds for sport or sustenance, on a boat or on foot. (Though there is no court decision on point, the Attorney General maintains that this right also covers bird-watching.)
Entire BLOG available at The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog
Enjoy the summer and be sure to bring your binoculars if a fishing pole not available
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As an early childhood educator it comes naturally to me to be hopeful because I see potential in the eyes of students every day. When I started getting into researching and writing about early childhood policy I started to get a little more tarnished if not actually jaded. I ran into people who didn't think pre-K was a good idea. I felt the same way my friend Marsha Ratzel, an economist turned teacher did:
"No duh is what I always want to say. I'm no EC whiz kid, but it only makes sense. After listening to a report a few years back on the long term impact of Project Head Start on people 20+ afterwards, I'm sold. What else do people need besides common sense and a little data to nudge them over the edge?"
It was a no brainer to me too but then I ran into Jo Lynne DeMary who challenged my thinking in an educational policy issues class to convince her that funding pre-K is important without only using the economic argument. She had been the State Superintendent of Virginia and even though she supported the beginning of state funded pre-K during her tenure, when it came down to money, pre-K was always the first place to look at for a cut. To her it made sense, in a pragmatic way, to invest in kids in middle school who might drop out or might not depending on what we do instead of kids who had most of their educational career ahead of them. Since then I have tried to take a different track. I have tried to tell stories about why pre-K is important and use a more palpable logic in my arguments to support pre-K. Still, it does make me happy and thankful when a respected conservative finally gets the head-slapper and agrees with most early childhood people when he says invest in pre-K. Some day I hope to personally thank Mr. Kristoff for saying this publically,
"the question isn't whether we can afford early childhood education, but whether we can afford not to provide it. We can pay for prisons or we can pay, less, for early childhood education to help build a fairer and more equitable nation."
I also want to take a second to thank Arne Duncan. I have had many misgivings with Mr. Duncan's tenure as the Secretary of Education, but thankfully not as many as I had with the last Secretary of Education. Just recently Duncan's office announced it was creating an office of Early Childhood Education and appointed Jacqueline Jones to lead it. The office will focus on supporting education Birth to age 8. I am thankful for Arne Duncan because he is the first Secretary of Education to acknowledge the critical important of early childhood by speaking at a NAEYC conference and now he has created an office in the department of education. For years public pre-K has been grant grant funded and always the first on the chopping block. This move makes it even more likely that funding for pre-K will become more systemic and embedded in state funding structures.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To become pregnant with (offspring).
- transitive v. To form or develop in the mind; devise: conceive a plan to increase profits.
- transitive v. To apprehend mentally; understand: couldn't conceive the meaning of that sentence.
- transitive v. To be of the opinion that; think: didn't conceive such a tragedy could occur.
- transitive v. To begin or originate in a specific way: a political movement conceived in the ferment of the 1960s.
- intransitive v. To form or hold an idea: Ancient peoples conceived of the earth as flat.
- intransitive v. To become pregnant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To develop an idea.
- v. To understand someone.
- v. To become pregnant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
- transitive v. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate.
- transitive v. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
- intransitive v. To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
- intransitive v. To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To apprehend in the mind; form a distinct and correct notion of, or a notion which is not absurd: as, we cannot conceive an effect without a cause.
- To form as a general notion in the mind; represent in a general notion or conception in the mind; hence, design; plan; devise.
- To hold as an opinion; think; suppose; believe.
- To admit into the mind; have a sense or impression of; feel; experience.
- To formulate in words; express: as, he received a letter conceived in the following terms.
- To understand.
- To become pregnant with; bring into existence in the womb in an embryonic state.
- To generate; give rise to; bring into existence.
- To take in a mental image; have or form a conception or idea; have apprehension; think: with of.
- To hold an opinion: with of.
- To understand.
- To become pregnant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. become pregnant; undergo conception
- v. have the idea for
- v. judge or regard; look upon; judge
Middle English conceiven, from Old French concevoir, conceiv-, from Latin concipere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)From Middle English conceiven, from Old French concevoir, concever, from Latin concipere ("to take"), from con- ("together") + capio ("to take"). Compare deceive, perceive, receive. (Wiktionary)


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Xbox Live Turns 10 Today
Posted By Richard Hay On November 15, 2012 @ 10:15 am In All Posts,Gaming | Comments Disabled
When you were a kid the best parties to go to were the ones where you received a goodie bag as you left. It was usually filled with treats and prizes and just nicely capped off the entire day.
Well Xbox Live is holding a celebration today to mark their 10th Anniversary and guess what – they have a goodie bag!
According to Microsoft's Major Nelson, aka Larry Hryb, everyone will find something in their goodie bag and some will find a bit more if they enter the #XboxLIVEis10 Twitter giveaways.
The first item in the goodie bag that everyone will get is a free Xbox 360 Kinect Arcade download of Wreckateer.
As well as the free game download for your Xbox 360 console there are also half off deals for other popular titles Castle Crashers, Battlefield 1943, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Bastion, Peggle and Full House Poker.
On top of all that Major Nelson is also conducting two separate giveaways on Twitter throughout the day:
PLUS: Today only (Thursday, November 15th) I am giving away 10 free One year subscriptions to Xbox LIVE Gold every hour for 10 hours. Starting at 11a ET/8a PT I'll be looking at Twitter for @replies to @MajorNelson tagged with #XboxLIVEis10 where you tell me your favorite memory, game or experience you had on Xbox LIVE over the past 10-years. If you have room, throw in your Gamertag as well.
Every hour from 10a ET/7a PT until 7p ET/4p PT I'll be giving away 10 Xbox LIVE One-year Gold Subscriptions. Remember you must be following me so I can DM you a code if you are randomly chosen. The contest is open to my twitter followers in all Xbox LIVE regions. I am not doing the random giveaway at the same time every hour, I'll be mixing it up a bit to make it interesting. You also don't have to keep track if you won or not, if you are chosen, I'll DM you a code. One entry per person please.
Sounds like a great party. Happy Birthday Xbox Live!
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Sharia in action in Pakistan: Heavily-armed Muslims storm wedding, demand end to "anti-religious" celebrations
Posted by Robert on December 6, 2012 11:49 AM
Music: haram. Disrupting a wedding function, destroying musical instruments, and threatening those attending: pleasing to Allah.
Hadith Qudsi 19:5: "The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance." (The Hadith Qudsi, or holy Hadith, are those in which Muhammad transmits the words of Allah, although those words are not in the Qur'an.)
Muhammad also said:
(1) "Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance."
(2) "On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress."
(3) "Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage."
(4) "This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones." Someone asked, "When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?" and he said, "When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful."
(5) "There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ...." -- 'Umdat al-Salik r40.0
"'Unreligious music': Over two dozen militants storm wedding function," by Riaz Ahmad for the [1] Express Tribune, December 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Twenty-five heavily-armed militants stormed into a wedding function in Hamid Machine village late Tuesday night and demanded the 'anti-religious' celebrations to stop.The militants, carrying rocket launchers and machine guns, destroyed musical instruments in the hujra of a resident Younas, whose wedding was scheduled for Friday.
"Around 10 men entered the hujra where the mehndi was taking place and 15 others waited outside the building," said a local elder, requesting anonymity. He added that militants had said that this was against religion and not allowed in 'their' area. Locals said it was the first time such an incident had happened.
Residents added that the militants' hostile attitude towards Adezai villagers was well-known but it is the first time that militants had interfered with people in Hamid Mahcine on Azakhel road. The incident has sent a wave of panic across the region.
Former head of the Adezai Aman militia, Dilawar Khan criticised the police for not handling the situation. "The police is entirely responsible," he said, "they are reluctant to take action against militants and their sympathisers in the area."
Dilawar said the act was alarming as it indicates the presence of militancy in the area despite his militia having been disbanded. "The writ of the government is limited to the daytime after which militants freely roam the area," he said.
Mattani police said that they have had no information about the incident and that no one had approached them in this regard.
Militants have previously declared the people of nearby Mattani village 'neutral' and have pledged time and time again not to target them. Inhabitants of other nearby villages were also expecting the same, but after their call to bar playing music, locals have become fearful....
Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/sharia-in-action-in-pakistan-heavily-armed-muslims-storm-wedding-demand-end-to-anti-religious-celebr.html
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Momo and Sumire join the art club at school at the same time, but the two girls couldn't be more different. Flirtatious Momo is interested in oils, while the quiet, peculiar Sumire prefers to paint in the traditional Japanese style. And when Momo discovers Sumire's interesting habit of burning any painting she completes, she decides to get to know the girl further.
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Rebates for Consumer-Friendly LED Light Bulbs Coming Our Way?
October 10, 2012 - Consumer rebate programs for products using new efficient technologies don't guarantee market transformation. A good example of this is the low adoption rate of disappointing CFL light bulbs in California since the early 1990s, when the state's utilities introduced their first CFL rebate programs.
To prevent history from repeating itself, the California Energy Commission (CEC) recently published a staff report (Proposed Voluntary California Quality Light-Emitting Diode Lamp Specification) that suggests minimum performance specifications for general service LED screw-based lamps. The goal is to provide some basic LED lamp performance requirements to utilities to ensure that the LED lamps covered by future utility rebate programs will meet or exceed customer expectations.
The proposed specification applies only to LED lamps that are designed to replace screw type incandescent bulbs in light fixtures. Excluded are colored LED lamps, LED light strips and rope lights, linear LED pin-based lamps, and LED integrated luminaires.
The CEC report proposes harmonizing with a number of requirements under consideration by the U.S. EPA in their ENERGY STAR Lamp Program, Version 1, Draft 2, including luminous efficacy levels and a minimum rated life of ≥25,000 hours. The report suggests a tighter requirement for residential LED lamp power factor, raising the EPA requirement from ≥0.7 to ≥0.9.
To download a copy of the proposed Quality LED Lamp Specification, click here.
The Commission plans to hold a workshop on October 11th in Sacramento for stakeholders and other interested parties to discuss the proposal. For information on attending the workshop (it will also be streamed live on the web for those who can't attend in person), click here.


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This could change things significantly and has all sorts of useful applications. It would seem to go without saying that they're not going to be "less than lethal," but that's kind of the point. 28 pounds and 50,000 rounds with minimal acoustic signature? Sounds like a winner - if this thing actually works. The fact that it basically fires golf balls should make the air force very happy also.
By David Crane
Editor, DefenseReview.com
Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?
That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might be wondering, "how big would it be," or "how much would it weigh"? Others might want to know what it's ammunition capacity would be. These are all good questions, assuming of course that a weapon like this were actually possible.
According to its inventor, not only is it possible, it's already happened. An updated version of the weapon will be available soon. It will arrive in the form of a tactically-configured pre-production anti-personnel weapon firing .308 caliber projectiles (accurately) at 2,500-3000 fps, at a variable/programmable cyclic rate of 5,000-120,000 rpm (rounds-per-minute). The weapon's designer/inventor has informed DefRev that future versions of the weapon will be capable of achieving projectile velocities in the 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty. The technology already exists.
The weapon itself is called the DREAD, or Multiple Projectile Delivery System (MPDS), and it may just be the most revolutionary infantry weapon system concept that DefenseReview has EVER come across.
The DREAD Weapon System is the brainchild of weapons designer/inventor Charles St. George. It will be 40 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 3 inches high (20 inches high with the pintel swivel mount). It will be comprised of only 30 component parts, and will have an empty weight of only 28 pounds. That's right, 28 pounds. The weapon will be capable of rotating 360 degrees and enjoy the same elevation and declination capabilities of any conventional vehicle-mounted gun/weapon.
The first generation DREAD (production version), derived from the tactically-configured pre-production weapon, will most likely be a ground vehicle-mounted anti-personnel weapon. Military Humvees (HMMV's) and other ground vehicles (including Chevy Suburbans) equipped with the DREAD will enjoy magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo.
But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun." So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.
According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator's trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.
One of the ammunition types the DREAD will be delivering downrange is the "Collision Cluster Round," or "CCR," that will be used to penetrate hard targets. The Collision Cluster Round (CCR) is explained in more detail on the munitions page of the DREAD Technology White Paper (links below). The DREAD Advantages Sheet also lists all the other advantages that the DREAD Weapon System enjoys over conventional firearms.
And, all this from a weapon that doesn't jam. Remember how at the beginning of the article I wrote "no stoppages or jams"? The DREAD won't jam because, according to its inventor, it can't jam. The DREAD's operating and feeding mechanisms simply don't allow for stoppages or jams to occur. It thus follows that the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon will be the most reliable metallic projectile launcher/ballistic device on the planet. DefRev is not at liberty to publish exactly why the DREAD can't jam, since Mr. St. George hasn't given us permission to describe the gun's operating and feeding mechanisms in any detail.
The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn't likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.-- doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn't generate any high pressures. So, there's virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.
Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD's ammunition doesn't contain any propellant. There's no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle's). Nothing's foolproof.
There's more. Since the DREAD/MPDS (Multiple Projectile Delivery System) is a centrifuge weapon, projectile velocity can be adjusted instantly back and forth between lethal and less-lethal/non-lethal modes. This means it can be utilized just as effectively for embassy security and peacekeeping roles. As an embassy security weapon, the less-lethal/non lethal mode would most likely be the way to go, in most cases. Less-lethal is usually adequate for any crowd control or riot control situations. However, let's say the crowd starts storming the gates, and now presents a lethal threat to the occupants inside. Well, just pull your Marines inside, switch your remotely-operated battery of DREAD's on over to lethal mode, and make survival above ground impossible for anyone outside the embassy. No one gets in. Same thing goes for military base security. Remote DREAD Centrifuge Gun Pods can be outfitted with heat and motion sensors, and left in unmanned areas. These remote pods can be either human-operated, or pre-programmed with both less-lethal/non-lethal and lethal protocols that will function automatically and not even require human operation. Mobile robotic platforms, including remote-controlled Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles (UGCV's), could also be outfitted with DREAD systems. And, the list goes on. The technology application possibilities/potential uses are virtually endless.
So, what's the upshot? It's DefenseReview's opinion that, if the DREAD Weapon System works as advertised, it will have a profound impact on U.S. infantry warfare capabilities. It has the potential to literally change the way we fight on the ground, and perhaps even in the air. No question, it will revolutionize both ground and air vehicular armament and firepower capabilities. The DREAD will have a similarly profound impact on U.S. embassy security and military base perimeter security capabilities. This paradigm shift in firepower isn't limited to the ground and air, either. The DREAD's complete lack of recoil will allow it to be fired from space-based platforms, i.e. satellites, without knocking them off of their respective orbital paths. Zero recoil, plus 8,000 fps projectile speeds, 5,000-120,000 rpm capability, and huge on-board ammunition supplies, equals a viable and relatively inexpensive option for satellite defense (and enemy-satellite neutralization), and possibly even a fast-realizable armament solution/alternative for a U.S. Space-based defense network.
Leader Propulsion Systems (LPS) just informed DefRev that it has signed up with a large U.S. "defense entity" (i.e., a large U.S. defense contractor) to fully develop the DREAD technology for both lethal and less-lethal applications. This strategic partnership will also enable Leader to begin developing a family of gas-operated lightweight weapons chambered in .50 BMG (12.7x99mm), .338 Lapua, .300 Winchester Magnum and 7.62x51mm Nato (.308 Win.). According to Leader, this new development program will result in a family of weapons that will utilize, according to the company, a "revolutionary" and proprietary recoil attenuation/mitigation system. This system will also be used in a man-portable 25mm lightweight weapon system that LPS will also be developing. Defense Review is not currently at liberty to disclose any additional information on the DREAD development program to our readers. However, once we are, we'll inform our readers immediately, and continue to do so regarding any new significant developments, so stay tuned.
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DREAD: The Skinny
DREAD Weapon System
Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System
Killer Features:
* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo


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Would it be alright this season if we just had an all-male American Idol?
No one wanted to see a girl win Season 10 more than I did. We haven't seen a female win Idol since Jordin Sparks four seasons ago -- an eternity in pop music. But after 12 uninspiring song choices and/or bland, ordinary, forgettable or off-key performances from the Top 12 girls, I'm convinced a guy's winning Idol again.
I'd hate to be stuck on a long car ride with any of these girls if they had control of the radio. Their taste in music is awful. A bilingual Hero. ¡Que horror! Alicia Keys' banal Fallin' on the Idol stage. Again. Zzzz. The Pretenders' sappy I'll Stand By You. An unrecognizable Fiona Apple song. (Natalie Cole did a good cover of Criminal on one of her CDs. Listen to that one instead.) Christina Aguilera. It's 12 Steps Into Musical Hell.
Of the 12, five automatically make the finals based on viewers' votes. That should mean Lauren Turner, America's Got Talent contestant Thea Megia, Naima Adedapo, Lauren Alaina and Pia Toscana move forward. No one else deserves a Wild Card save. The judges should give two of the guys the Wild Cards if they must use them.
Of those five, Naima has the most imagination. She chose the overdone Summertime, forever owned by Fantasia on the Idol stage, but she did it as an uptempo, jaunty swing number and it was at least fresh. She has some flair.
Thea, the youngest at 15, has the best voice. She chose the tired 1980 Fame ballad, Out Here on My Own (a song her parents probably slow danced to in junior high) and she sang it sweetly and in tune and with some nuance. Still, it wasn't exciting. She's talented, though.
Turner has the most potential if she can really tap into her inner Bette Midler. J.Lo had compared her to the younger Divine Miss M, but she needs to own it considerably more than she revealed tonight. Her jazzy cabaret-like number, Seven Day Fool, was the right kind of song for her voice but it lacked sass and attitude. If Turner can tear the inner bawdy babe from within, she'll be worthy.
Pia sang that godawful Pretenders ballad I'll Stand By You and Alaina chose the all-time worst Reba single, Turn On Your Radio, and both were major step backs from the huge promise shown in the audition rounds.
The rest of the contestants really don't merit a mention. What does merit mention, however, is the much improved performance of Randy Jackson as a judge. Randy's bringing it this season. The dawg's a JUDGE! His criticism is constructive. He's really listening and he's demanding. Steven Tyler, however, proved he can't say no to a lady. He was useless tonight.
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Utz S, Humphreys G W, Mc Cleery J P, 2011, "Brain activity during encoding of centrally and peripherally presented visual search targets in adults and children" Perception 40 ECVP Abstract Supplement, page 66
Brain activity during encoding of centrally and peripherally presented visual search targets in adults and children
S Utz, G W Humphreys, J P Mc Cleery
The detection of pre-defined targets in visual search tasks becomes increasingly less efficient as the target is presented at more distant field eccentricities, which is reflected in increased reaction times. To date, however, the neural mechanisms underlying visual search for targets presented in different spatial locations are quite unclear. In the current study, adults and children performed a complex conjunction search task (searching for a red "X" with green "X" and red "T" distractors), and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to a 200 ms long pre-presentation of the visual search field. In both groups, ERPs to centrally presented targets revealed that the occipito-temporal cortex discriminated targets from distractors, the target was kept in visual working memory by the occipital cortex, and then the target's spatial location was encoded in the parietal cortex. Unlike in a simple visual search task, no such effects were found for peripherally presented targets, perhaps reflecting that peripheral targets are not detected during the initial fixation (initial 200 ms) of visual search. Interestingly, in children, the effects of central target processing were larger in the left versus the right hemisphere. Overall, however, similar mechanisms seem to be operating during visual search in children and adults.
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You're a sneaky person. You've snaked your way through terrorist infested islands and helped save the world from nuclear annihilation countless times. Don't just sneak around these message boards. It's time to be heard.
This seems to be the general feeling on this site regarding this game but I can't help but think mgs4 might have been laying the ground work for mgs5.
For instance, I don't have to tell anyone by now about the Rising connection at the very end a mgs4.But what about the other pmcs? Through codec transmissions in mgs4 you may have caught a couple conversations about the french man who runs one of them.
Another revealing development I caught was in the epilogue when they were talking about how many soldiers were going through sop withdrawal , which seems like a pretty obvious set up for the next uprising, perhaps for the replacement of the sop system. Anyways what do you think? I just want to talk possibilities or lack of.
PS, to anyone who payed better attention to those codec transmissions, I'd like to know what I missed.
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As konami is presenting, the series is not over dude ! The Rise of Raiden is about to begin and continuing the MGS saga
For me, I would really love for Kojima to make the franchise rest for a while after the release of the 3DS remake and MGR.
NO. in fact they are releasing a new game. its called metal gear solid rising and will become availible for ps3 on friday november 2 of 2012.....meaning we have a little under a year. This game is a highly anticipated game for me and i would be glad to give you or anyone else the updates!
DOn't worry bro, Hideo Kojima already talked about MGS5 and NO MGR is not MGS5 Rising is just Raiden's story, and a bridge between MGS2 and MGS4 in the eyes of Raiden, plus ojima is not in charge of that game, he just gave Platinum the go ahead to make what they want. PSM had an interview with Kojima, and he said he already is starting to work on MGS5 though he doesn't have an idea, if make a game with Big Boss or Solid Snake or another character, he said that it may not be the sequel of MGS4, but he is not sure. You can find information going to Playstationmagazine.com or just google it 'Kojima confirms MGS5'
MGSR does not take place between MGS2 and MGS4... it takes place several years after MGS4.
If you bred HK-47, Shale, Chai Ka and Wrex, the gaming world would explode from sheer badassery.
So you are trying to tell me, that what Kojima said it ain't true, the Rising story, is the story of how Raiden becomes a cyborg, it takes time between MGS2 and MGS4 look it up...
No, I'm telling you it changed. Once Platinum Games took over the timeline changed. The story is no longer about how Raiden became the cyborg. Look it up. In fact, check the article that GI did on this site about it after Platinum took over. Or the article in Game Informer magazine. Or the wiki. Or pretty much any current info about the game.
yeah, well I don't want to say that GI is wrong, but I haven'r read that so I dn't know if its true, but why don't you look the info up, in face, the interview that PSM did to Kojima, they talk about that bridge between MGS2 and MGS4 Kojima is not in charge of RIsing, but he still in charge of the story tell and the timeline, cause that's his series. Go see for yourself at playstationmagazine.com and look it up. Besides, how come that be a sequel by Raiden still been a cyborg, when in MGS4 in the end, Raiden's new body is human like? lol you think I will post something in here if Im not 100% sure? I talk facts bro.
Apparently you would post incorrect info. Because you did.
There are 4 links to current info about the game.
Time Paradox is all I can say!!!
@maxiboy77, Not really . Honestly, we can officially think of Rising as a cancelled title, and Revengeance as a completely different MGS themed Bayonetta styled action game. Think of it like that people and you won't feel crushed this fall.
Plus, that could be really really awesome, if you can get past what I'm assuming is going to be pure blasphemy for the series in terms of story telling.
yeahh, is so sad a lot of people hate on a game that hasn't come yet, and technically I am one of those,but is just when i saw the first trailer launched at 2010, I was so excited, like seen that stealth combined with slicing action, and the ability to cut whatever you want, i said Kojima did an excellent job maintaining realism with the stealth and new action to the games, when hear the series was passed on I was scared, and when i saw the new trailer, that you need like 20 slashes to cut a single soldier, I just panicked lol jk jk, but still I'm still thinking about giving it a chance, all will depend on the reviews and feedback it has...
A sequel should not follow MGS 4, and there should not be too many more prequels. In my opinion, Raiden can't fill the colossal shoes of Solid Snake or Big Boss. He definitely shouldn't continue the series. Honestly, I would kind of like the series to be over. Ground Zeroes and Rising might be cool, but milking a series as amazing as this wouldn't be a good idea.
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I agree man. They better tread carefully if they don't want to screw up the great ending they gave Snake for MGS4. Raiden is just average, so I don't see him being worthy of the Metal Gear name for too much longer before he gets tiresome. I'm still really really looking forward to Ground Zeroes, as long as its the last Big Boss game for a long time. One of these days, they're just gonna have to come up with some new Snake.


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In response to a recent blog question about climbing Mt Kinabalu in Borneo, we asked Intrepid's Karen Porter for advice. Not just because she's got the right name, but she's been there, done that and loved every challenging step!
"Further to your comparison regarding Nepal's Annapurna trek and Mt Kinabalu, it would be my personal opinion that if you can trek the Himalayas, you should have no problems with Mt Kinabalu. I have trekked the Annapurna Circuit, Mt Kinabalu and Mt Kilimanjaro and while all 3 treks require a certain level of fitness, with some physical preparation there's every chance your mountain dreams will be realised.
Mt Kinabalu is still a difficult 2 day trek. I would compare it to some of the harder days of the Annapurna circuit (for example similar to the day hikes leading up to and including Poon Hill or perhaps if you took the high route when you reach Pisang. Upper Pisang and Ghyaru, before Manang.) The main difference with Mt Kinabalu is that the weather can be quite HOT making the climb a little more arduous and the climb is continuous.. Up up up… and very steep in parts.
There are plenty of rest spots on the way but no tea houses or lodges to stop and refuel. But the good news is you have the full day to climb and you can rest that night at the lodge before summiting the next morning….so take your time and should have no problems…. and after the 2 days the hard work is all over! The good news is the effects of altitude should be less too (as you are just reaching above 4000m, compared to over 5000m on the Thorung La Pass).
At the very least I would attempt the hike and if fit and healthy try to summit the following day. At the very worst you can turn around and come back down if you are feeling unwell or the climb becomes too difficult. But in my honest opinion, if you have trekked the Annapurna's you will have a great chance of summiting Mt. Kinabalu and witnessing an amazing sunrise (and sunset the night prior).
Keep up your aerobic fitness, dress prepared, carry enough water and you will have an amazing experience on Mt Kinabalu."
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This looked intriguing and since I had been turned on to the use of kale in various recipes I decided to give this a shot. I love onion – it doesn't matter what kind – because I think it does so much for flavor and so the sweet onion here turned out to be a great flavor combination with the kale and swiss cheese.
What you'll need:
1 large sweet onion
1 lb very lean ground beef (the leaner the better)
1. 5 tsp garlic powder
4 slices low fat swiss cheese
8 red or green kale leaves, stems removed
2 tsp olive oil
4 – texas toast, toasted
1. Peel and cut onion into 4 – 1/4 in thick slices. Shape meat loosely into 4 1/2 thick patties; sprinkle with garlic powder, 1/3 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp pepper. Press one onion slice into the center of each patty and shape meat around onion until top of onion is flush with the surface of the meat patty (this was really tricky for me).
2. Place meat, onion side up on the rack of an uncovered grill and cook to desired doneness, turning once halfway through. Brush kale leaves lightly with oil and add to grill the last minute or so of grilling.
3. To serve, place two kale leaves and slice of cheese atop each bread slice. Top with a burger, onion side up and serve with choice of side (I did sweet potato fries). Makes 4 servings.
1. I could have melted the cheese on the kale in the oven for a minute or two.
2. The onion didn't completely grill the way I would have liked.
But overall, the taste was a success. Just keep in mind that this is definitely a fork and knife type burger
Nutritional Information:
Calories: 321
Total fat: 10 g
Cholesterol: 78 mg
Sodium: 387 mg
Carbohydrate: 22 g
Fiber: 2 g
Protein: 34 g


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What's the best way to check for HDD errors and early signs of failure on CentOS?
I would recommend installing smartmon (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki) to your machine this is some software which can check the health of your disks otherwise its going to be checking /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog for any mentions of scsi errors | |||||
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UNITY Vice President Multiplatform Editor,Universal News Desk
The Washington Post
Doris Truong works at The Washington Post as a multiplatform editor on the Universal News Desk. She focuses on editing stories for the Web and the newspaper, as well as publishing blog posts and writing captions for online photo galleries. She has been The Post's deputy Metro copy chief for the Extras, shepherding a staff producing 13 weekly suburban sections, and she was in the National and Style departments as a copy editor/slot. She helped edit The Post's 2010 "Top Secret America" project and worked on the Jack Abramoff investigative reporting package that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Before coming to The Post in 2003, she was a copy editor/slot on the universal desk of the Dallas Morning News. She is the 2011-12 national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and is an active member of the American Copy Editors Society. She is a Maynard Media Academy alumna, a former fellow of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and a graduate of AAJA's Executive Leadership Program. She has been a faculty member at the Poynter Institute and has presented sessions during multiple journalism conventions. She is on the Board of Directors for UNITY: Journalists of Color.
Doris is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and a native of Western Colorado. Away from the office, she's likely to be planning her next road trip (fewer than 10 U.S. states left to visit!), testing a recipe in the kitchen, playing board games or looking for people to accompany her on a karaoke outing.
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Paul Cheung AAJA President Global Interactive Editor The Associated Press New York, NYPaul Cheung is AP's Global Interactive Editor for its New York City headquarters. The interactive editor manages a global team of visual journalists who produce multimedia and information graphics for all formats, including print, online and mobile.
Cheung also teaches a visual narrative class at Columbia Journalism school and is the editorial advisor for Newspanion, a start up looking into fixing the online commenting system.
Prior to joining the AP, Cheung was The Miami Herald's Deputy Multimedia Presentation Editor. In 2009, he managed MiamiHerald.com site redesign in 2009 and was responsible for the conceptualization, creative direction and visual look of MiamiHerald.com. He was The Miami Herald's graphics editor from 2004 to mid-2007.
Prior to joining the Miami Herald, Cheung was a Senior Graphics Editor at The Wall Street Journal. During his eight-year tenure at WSJ, he produced graphics for WSJ's front page one, Marketplace and National sections, helped launch the Personal Journal section and assisted with the 2002 redesign of paper.
Cheung served on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). He was the National AAJA convention co-chair in Miami 2007 and programming chair for the past three years. He is the programming chair for the UNITY 2012 convention.
He co-developed the AAJA Executive Leadership Program demonstration project in New York City. A hyperlocal news blog focused on Chinatownhttp://www.OurChinatown.org/).
Cheung, a 2007 Newspaper Association of America Breakthrough fellow, graduated from New York University where he studied journalism, sociology, science and photography
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Janet Cho Business Reporter The Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio
Janet H. Cho, AAJA's National Vice President for Print, is a business reporter for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. Her beats include retail, marketing/advertising/branding and about 20 local companies. Prior to joining The Plain Dealer, she worked at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; the Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. and at USA Today.
Cho is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and AAJA's Executive Leadership Program.
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Sharon Chan
City Hall Reporter
The Seattle Times
Seattle, Wash.
Sharon Chan is city hall reporter for The Seattle Times. She has covered the mayor, city counsel, Fortune 500 companies, Christina Aguilera, Medicare fraud as the University of Washington and accounting tricks at the regions largest Internet firm.
Ms. Chan focuses on political coverage that holds elected officials accountable and safeguards the public's money. She has worked on police accountability stories that led to changes in Seattle's system of civilian oversight. During the last local election, she broke news that a political candidate had been arrested for driving while intoxicated.
At The Seattle Times, she has worked as a business reporter, education reporter, assistant features editor, weekend metro editor and with the investigative team. Previously, she served as managing editor for Orange Coast magazine.
Ms. Chan joined the UNITY board in 2009. She has previously served on the national governing board for the Asian American Journalists Association.
She graduated from Pomona College and is a frequent speaker for the Investigative Editors and Reporters.
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Mary Hudetz NAJA President West Desk Editor Associated Press Phoenix, AZMary Hudetz is an editor on The Associated Press West Regional Desk in Phoenix. She files national breaking news as well as daily stories on a variety of topics in the West. She also serves as an advisor on the AP's Native Peoples beat team and currently is an interim member of the Native American Journalists Association's board of directors. Hudetz joined the West Desk in June 2009 after working as an AP reporter in Portland, Ore. She is a member of the Crow Tribe. She graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in dance and later shifted her focus to writing as she entered the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, or AIJI, and the University of Montana's School of Journalism graduate program in 2006. She was selected as a Chips Quinn Scholar the following year. In 2010, Hudetz served as a mentor on the NAJA student projects in Minneapolis. She also teaches at AIJI and this year served as a mentor at the Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop.
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Suzan Shown Harjo Columnist Indian Country Today Media Network Washington, DCSuzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land and numerous sacred places. She has developed key federal Indian law since 1975, including the most important national policy advances in the modern era for the protection of Native American cultures and arts, including the 1996 Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites, the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the 1989 National Museum of the American Indian Act, and the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
Harjo is president and executive director of The Morning Star Institute, a national Native rights organization founded in 1984 for Native Peoples' traditional and cultural advocacy, arts promotion, and research. A leader in cultural property protection and stereotype busting, Morning Star sponsors the Just Good Sports project, organizes the National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places, and coordinated The 1992 Alliance (1990-1993). Harjo is one of seven prominent Native people who filed Harjo et al v. Pro Football, Inc., regarding the name of the Washington football team, before the US Patent & Trademark Board in 1992. They won in 1999, when a three-judge panel unanimously decided to cancel federal protections for the team's name because it "may disparage Native Americans and may bring them into contempt or disrepute." The District Court reversed their victory in 2003 and the case is now before the US Court of Appeals. Harjo's essay, "Fighting Name-Calling: Challenging 'Redskins' in Court," is published in Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy (University of Nebraska Press, 2001). She also wrote "Just Good Sports: The Impact of 'Native' References in Sports on Native Youth and What Some Decolonizers Have Done About It," a chapter in For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook (SAR Press, 2005).
An award-winning columnist for Indian Country Today (2000-2006), she wrote the foreword "Camp Criers Speaking Across the Generations" and eleven columns featured in America Is Indian Country: Opinions and Perspectives from Indian Country Today (Fulcrum Publishing, 2005). Founding co-chair of The Howard Simons Fund for American Indian Journalists, she was news director of the American Indian Press Association and drama and literature director and "Seeing Red" producer for WBAI-FM Radio in New York City. A keynoter for the 2000 Journalism & Women Symposium, she was a 1998-99 Brain Trust Member for UNITY Journalists of Color and an organizer/presenter for UNITY '04 in DC, '99 in Seattle, and '94 in Atlanta. Her essay "Redskins, Savages and Other Indian Enemies: An Historical Overview of American Media Coverage of Native Peoples" is in Images of Color: Images of Crime (2005).
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Tara Gatewood Host & Producer Native America Calling Albuquerque, NMTara Gatewood (Isleta Pueblo & Navajo) joined the Native airwaves in 2005 with Koahnic Broadcast Corporation's Native America Calling close to New Mexico's Pueblo of Isleta where she is from.
For 20 years she has worked in Indian Country in the arenas of health and community development. She has more than 19 years of experience as a journalist. Beyond radio broadcasting, her palette of experience also includes working in Washington, D.C., South Dakota, Minnesota, Massachusetts and New Mexico. She was a reporter and photographer for several major news organizations. Her past works can be found in the Boston Globe, Aberdeen American News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Transmission Magazine, Albuquerque The Magazine and Native Peoples.
She currently sits on the board of UNITY: Journalists for Diversity and has received awards from the Native American Journalist Association for her work.
Before stepping on board at Native America Calling, Tara also specialized in print, photo and video marketing as well as, as a public relations consultant for several Native American organizations and Native American artists. She has also worked on video documentaries and in music production. Tara is a visual artist and has participated in her family's legacy of Native American jewelry fabrication.
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Margaret Holt NAJA Standards Editor, Chicago Tribune Chicago, ILMargaret Holt is standards editor at the Chicago Tribune, working closely with reporters and editors about issues of accuracy, fairness and ethics. She has a particular interest in urban issues and diversity of coverage and regularly meets with community leaders and groups to discuss coverage. Also, Holt has a background in training and staff development; she is a past chair of the Mid-America Press Institute and represents the Tribune on the MPI board. Additionally, she works with colleagues at other Tribune Co. newsrooms on the company's editorial ethics code and practices.
A graduate of the University of Missouri, Holt has held a variety of reporting and editing jobs. She joined the Tribune Co. in 1987 when she became business editor of the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. In 1993, she joined the Chicago Tribune as sports editor and, in 1995, began working on customer and accuracy matters for the newsroom. She is a frequent speaker at media workshops and conferences on accuracy and credibility. A member of the Native American Journalists Association, Holt represented NAJA in planning for the 2008 UNITY convention in Chicago, serving as co-chair of programming.
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Jen Christensen
NLGJA President
Investigative Producer & Documentarian
Atlanta, GA
Jen Christensen is a Peabody-award winning producer for CNN Special Investigations & Documentary Unit. In that role, Christensen has produced a variety of in-depth investigative stories and compelling long-form documentaries for CNN Presents, the most honored documentary series in cable news. She is based at CNN's Atlanta headquarters.
Christensen served as a producer for the Peabody and DuPont award-winning CNN Presents: God's Jewish Warriors; and the award-winning documentaries about Martin Luther King Jr., Words That Changed a Nation; Black in America: Eyewitness to Murder; and Obama Revealed; Sarah Palin Revealed; and Christiane Amanpour's Generation Islam. She also produces regular investigative pieces for CNN's primetime programs. And has been a regular freelance reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Professional Photographer's Association Magazine, the Advocate, Pain Solutions, and Sirius OutQ News.
Previously, Christensen ran the investigative unit for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., and started the investigative unit at WTVQ in Lexington, Ky. where she also worked as a line producer. While still in college, she started her broadcast career at WXIN in Indianapolis running the assignment desk and as a line and field producer.
Prior to her broadcast journalism career, Christensen worked in London on nuclear non-proliferation issues for NATO's Atlantic Council and worked re-drawing voter redistricting maps at the Chicago Board of Elections. She is listed as a co-author for two books: Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1993) and Women Confronting Retirement – A Nontraditional Guide (Rutgers Press, 2003).
Christensen severs on several non-profit boards. She is the Vice President for Broadcasting with the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association, a KEYS core team member at Turner Broadcasting, and the Secretary for GirlsRockCampATL.
She holds a bachelor's degree from Butler University in TV/radio and political science with a gender studies minor and also attended the London School of Economics where she studied foreign policy and economics.
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Sarah Blazucki NLGJA Vice President Print, Digital Writer-Editor The Peace Corps & the Resume Place Washington, DCSarah Blazucki is the vice president for print and digital media for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is the former editor of Philadelphia Gay News, the oldest LGBT newsweekly in the country. During her tenure from 2006-12, PGN reported on LGBT homelessness and domestic violence, produced an annual Gay History Month series and interviewed presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Under Sarah's direction, the staff won more than 35 awards for news writing, arts and entertainment, columns, photos and advertising. Sarah was co-chair of the NLGJA 2011 annual convention in Philadelphia and was on the programming committee for 2012 UNITY Journalists Convention, a quadrennial conference of minority journalist organizations.
In 2012, she led the development of a website to find LGBT rights (lgbtrights.me) by address or GPS locator on a smartphone.
In addition, Sarah is a freelance résumé writer and career coach and has served as a contributor, editor and proofreader for several résumé writing books. Prior to that, Sarah served as news editor for the LGBT biweekly The Baltimore Alternative. She received her B.A. from Towson State University in mass communications, with a concentration in journalism and a minor in women's studies. In her free time, Sarah runs, bikes, and practices yoga. She now lives in D.C. and is an editor for The Peace Corps.
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Sharif Durhams Reporter Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Milwaukee, WISharif Durhams is the Journal Sentinel's social media editor and a digital strategist, working with reporters and editors to restructure their beats and departments to focus them on interaction with readers and preparation for digital platforms. Durhams oversees the Journal Sentinel newsroom's social media accounts. In this position, he oversaw social media coverage of shootings at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012. He also oversaw the social media coverage by more than 30 reporters for the Journal Sentinel's 2012 Election Day coverage.
Durhams was one of the initial reporters on the Journal Sentinel's breaking news desk when it was created in 2008. In that job, he created the Journal Sentinel's main news Twitter account and was the Journal Sentinel's first news reporter to use social media extensively in covering breaking news stories. He has overseen news coverage on the desk and is regularly consulted on news breaking news decisions.
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Ken Miguel NLGJA Vice President of Broadcast Special Projects Producer KGO-TV San Francisco, CAKen is a Segment Producer at KGO-TV, the ABC owned station in San Francisco. A three time Emmy award winning producer, Ken has been active in NLGJA for over a decade. He served as President of the Northern California Chapter and as a member of the NLGJA National Board.
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UNITY: Journalists for Diversity Interim Executive Director McLean, VA
A diversity professional with more than 25 years of experience in diversity-focused work in media companies, and a print and broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience, Swanston served as the executive director of UNITY: Journalists of Color and spearheaded the fundraising and operational activities of the UNITY '94 and UNITY '99 conventions, the first two joint conventions of the Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic journalism associations.
She also has served as executive director of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and has directed diversity programs at the Newspaper Association of America Foundation. She also worked as a diversity consultant, designing and delivering training programs for Knight-Ridder Inc., Gannett Company Inc. and dozens of other newspapers and media companies throughout the country.
Swanston also was Director of Diversity Management for National Public Radio (NPR) from 2003 to 2009. Most recently, Swanston was interim Director of Diversity for the American Society of News Editors, where she developed two, two-day sessions, entitled "Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent and Revenue."
Swanston is a winner of the NABJ Ida B. Wells Award for promoting diversity in the media industry; the Honor Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; a Lifetime Achievement Award form San Francisco State University School of Journalism; the Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Outstanding Service to Scholastic Journalism Award from the Journalism Education Association.
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Kathy Chow Executive Director Asian American Journalists Association San Francisco, CAKathy also worked for six years as a public affairs representative for The Sacramento Bee where she was in charge of their employee volunteer program, managing charitable contribution, special projects, and the development of client relations with businesses such as the Asian, Hispanic, Black and Metro Chambers. Kathy has also consulted with companies such as VSP and lead workshops on multicultural marketing. Kathy is certified by the Newspaper Association of America as a Diversity Facilitator, and has served on the advisory council for the National Corporate Volunteer Council and the National Hands On Schools Council for Hands On Network & Points of Light Institute.
Kathy has over ten years of experience in program development and nonprofit management with various non-profit agencies. Prior to coming to AAJA, Kathy was the Director for Hands On Sacramento, a volunteer action center that provided volunteer opportunities in three counties.
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Pamala Silas NAJA Executive Director Chicago, ILPam has an impressive background, with more than 20 years of experience of working with a wide variety of community-driven projects and membership organizations.
She served as the CEO of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society in Albuquerque for eight years. She also has provided leadership on many community initiatives, such as Streetwise Newspaper in Chicago and Working Mother Media's Best Companies for Women of Color. As executive director of the Metropolitan Tenants Organization of Chicago, she organized tenants and community groups to improve housing conditions in Chicago's most impoverished neighborhoods.
While at AISES, Pam grew and strengthened the organization, built up its membership and led the relaunch of the award-winning magazine, Winds of Change.
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Michael Tune NLGJA Executive DirectorNational Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
2121 L St. NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20037
Tel: (202)588-9888
Michael Tunecurrently serves as Executive Director of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA). He is entrusted to implement NLGJA's programs which are designed to strengthen and aid our network of members from across the country. Michael's passion is in business development, employee growth, and organizational success.
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City Hall and Schönbrunn Christmas trees!!!
Christmas is over, the new year is not quite here, what to do with the old Christmas tree? more details
New Years Resolution Package 3=2
"New Year's Resolution" To be more economical:-)
Start with it in Vienna! more details
Vienna's annual fair
From Friday the 25th until Monday the 28th of May, Vienna's Rathausplatz will be transformed into a large funfair area.
There will be cultural and artistic programmes, a beer garden and booths where you can play different games, such as throwing soft balls into a pyramid of cans, carousels and children can ride a pony. There will be a lot of Austrian culinary delights. The official opening will be on Friday at 4pm held by Vienna's major Dr.Michael Häupl. You can visit the annual fair daily from 10am to 11pm.
Rathausplatz (in front of the City Hall) is only a few stops by tram 49 away from Boutiquehotel Stadthalle.
We wish you a pleasant time and lots of fun for the entire family!
Wiener Eistraum – ice skating in Vienna's city centre
Experience Vienna differently; Ice skating in Vienna's historical centre! Enjoy the beautiful scenery of Rathaus (town hall) and Burgtheater while skating around on 7000m2 of ice. There are music, culinary delights and children's entertainment and you can rent ice skates and lockers. In the evening our Rathaus is beautifully lit and ice-skating becomes a fun activity for both, children and adults.
Vienna game-festival
The game-festival is an annual event that offers the opportunity to try out and play all sorts of games. It is a celebration for everyone who likes to play games and get informed about the novelties in this field, children just much as adults. The festival is the largest event for families in Austria.
Energy and environment week for children
Our planet's future depends on us!
The energy and environment week for children between 8 and 12 years of age will take place from November 8th to November 11th 2011. Children will get the opportunity to learn about the activities and measurements companies and public organizations take in order to act save our planet's resources.
With the help of various presentations and creative workshops firms will portray what they invented and developed in order to save our planet. Our hotel will also be represented on Wednesday, 9th of November 2011. Find out more about the programme and registration.
The events will take place at the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna
Waldviertel pur
Waldviertel is a region in lower Austria, close to Vienna. Every year a large celebration takes place on Heldenplatz in Vienna, to celebrate this region. 90 exhibitors from the various areas in Waldviertel get together to present and celebrate Waldviertel's culinary, traditional and regional specialities. Different types of beer, wines and schnaps, local food specialities, lots of information about the regions and about interesting tourist destinations –day trips, as well as holidays- are presented there. But there will also be a lot of action present. Children can try to milk cows, different handcrafts are shown such as basket making, there will be a fashion show of Austrian traditional "Trachten" dress and of course many music acts during these 3 days.
Visit Waldviertel pur from August 29th to August 31st at Heldenplatz, just opposite of Rathausplatz and its film festival, and enjoy some delightful local snacks or buy an Austrian Dirndl!?:-)
Boutiquehotel Stadthalle wishes a pleasant experience!
Children's museum ZOOM
"Hands on, minds on, hearts on!" is the idea of Vienna's children's museum ZOOM. Interaction is what makes learning an individual and a creative process.
On 1,600 m2 the museum offers various exhibitions, suitable for children of different age groups.
Madame Tussauds' in Vienna
On April 1st you will be able to visit a new attraction in Vienna: Madame Tussauds' will open its doors. Located in Prater – Vienna's famous amusement park, it is the 11th location around the world that displays Madame Tussaud's famous wax figures.


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New billet QFT fuel bowls satisfy fuel demand for the thirstiest of engines.
While today's race engines have increased horsepower more than threefold, tuners are trying to meet these increased fuel demands with a single inlet needle and seat assembly and the same fuel bowl capacity. This problem has been bandaged with oversized fuel pumps, high-flow regulators and fuel lines, but the fuel bowl has remained the basic bottleneck. Quick Fuel Technology (QFT) has solved the problem with its all-new billet aluminum fuel bowl that features single inlet, increased bowl capacity, and dual needle & seat assemblies that flow twice as much fuel as traditional fuel bowls. The new QFT Billet Fuel Bowl (P/N 34-114, $249.99 racer net) fits all 2300-, 4150-, and 4500-style modular carbs.The new QFT bowls are CNC-machined from T6061 billet aluminum, hard anodized for corrosion protection, and feature a center baffle to reduce side-to-side fuel slosh. They feature dual sight glasses for easy float adjustment, they attach with standard factory length fuel bowl screws, and accept both 30cc or 50cc accelerator pump assemblies.Source:Quick Fuel Technology270-793-0900www.QuickFuelTechnology.com


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The story of Brian Banks preceded him for years before he joined the NFL. He spent 10 years in prison for a wrongful conviction. When he was released, his desire -- even at 28 -- to have an NFL career had never died.
USA Today profiled Banks, who is now a rookie linebacker after signing a free-agent contract with the Atlanta Falcons. His story, according to the report, has had an impact beyond the field.
Because of his remarkable saga, he's mulling over 100 book and film offers. But he also sorts through a stack of mail from many who say they, too, were wrongly found guilty.
"I get letters from many guys who are still incarcerated who say I've been an inspiration," Banks told USA TODAY Sports. "One from Edward Contreras, who is incarcerated in Southern California. I know the California Innocence Project is working on his exoneration now.
"He said I'm definitely giving him hope that he might be able to come home from prison one day, too."
Banks has become involved in the California Innocence Project, which helps inmates prove they were wrongfully convicted.
"Brian literally helped with two," said Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project. "Brian spoke out about Danny Larsen's case. (Larsen) was wrongfully convicted of possession of a dagger in a Los Angeles parking lot. Brian spoke at a march to the attorney general's office, and Danny was exonerated last May. Brian did the same with Jason Purasal, an American locked up in Nicaragua — one of these cases more about politics than law. Brian helped bring a lot of media attention."
Brooks noted how Banks and his mother, Leomia Myers, took part in a 712-mile march from San Diego to Sacramento in May to protest the incarceration of Contreras, whose case parallels Banks'.
As for his on-field fight, a spot on the 53-man roster might come down to the Falcons' last two preseason games.
"If he doesn't make it, Brian knows he gave it every chance," said ex-NFL coach Jim Fassel, who coached Banks for two games in 2012 with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the now-defunct United Football League. "The guy will be successful in anything because of his amazing attitude."
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor