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Indian economist Aparna Mathur, whose work I've featured here before, writes about it in Forbes magazine.
The fabric of our society is changing. In 1980, approximately 78 percent of families with children were headed by married parents. In 2012, married parents headed only 66 percent of families with children. In a new report, Bradford Wilcox and Robert Lerman explore the role of family structure with new data and analysis, and document how this retreat from marriage is not simply a social and cultural phenomenon. It has important economic implications for, amongst others, men's labor force participation rates, children's high school dropout rates and teen pregnancy rates. Since these factors are highly correlated with economic opportunity and the ability to move up the income ladder, this suggests that income inequality and economic mobility across generations are critically influenced by people's decisions and attitudes towards marriage. Understanding the role of family structure is therefore key to understanding the big economic challenges of our time.
[…]Wilcox and Lerman document how the shift away from marriage and traditional family structures has had important consequences for family incomes, and has been correlated with rising family-income inequality and declines in men's labor force participation rates. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors find that between 1980 and 2012, median family income rose 30 percent for married parent families, For unmarried parents, family incomes rose only 14 percent.
These differential patterns of changes in family income have exacerbated family-income inequality. Since unmarried parent families generally expand the ranks of low-income families, while high-income, high-education adults increasingly marry partners from similar socioeconomic backgrounds, inequality trends are worsened. Comparing the 90th percentile families to the 10th percentile families in 2012, the top 10 percent had incomes that were more than 11 times higher than the bottom 10 percent. However, if we restrict the sample to married families with children, the ratio drops to nearly 7, suggesting that within married families, income inequality is less stark. The authors estimate that approximately 32 percent of the growth in family-income inequality between 1979 and 2012 is associated with changes in family structure. Other research, studying the period 1968-2000, finds that the changing family structure, accounted for 11 percent of the rise widening of the income gap between the bottom and top deciles.
Another interesting observation relates to the trends in employment participation by men. The Wilcox-Lerman study finds that for married fathers, employment and participation rates have remained consistently higher than for married men with no children and unmarried men with no children. The authors speculate that between 1980 and 2008, about 51 percent of the decline in men's employment rates can be associated with the retreat from marriage.
And why is single motherhood so ascendant today? Well, part of it is the loss of morality caused by secularism. If there is no God, then there is no way we ought to be, so let's just do whatever makes us feel good, and pass the bill to the taxpayers. That only works, though, if we elect politicians who want taxpayers who are responsible to pay for the ones who are irresponsible.
So have we done that? Yes – Robert Rector explains in The Daily Signal.
He writes:
It is no accident that the collapse of marriage in America largely began with the War on Poverty and the proliferation of means-tested welfare programs that it fostered.
When the War on Poverty began, only a single welfare program—Aid to Families with Dependent Children —assisted single parents.
Today, dozens of programs provide benefits to families with children, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Women, Infants and Children food program, Supplemental Security Income, food stamps, child nutrition programs, public housing and Section 8 housing, and Medicaid.
Although married couples with children can also receive aid through these programs, the overwhelming majority of assistance to families with children goes to single-parent households.
The burgeoning welfare state has promoted single parenthood in two ways. First, means-tested welfare programs such as those described above financially enable single parenthood. It is difficult for single mothers with a high school degree or less to support children without the aid of another parent.
Means-tested welfare programs substantially reduce this difficulty by providing extensive support to single parents. Welfare thereby reduces the financial need for marriage. Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, less-educated mothers have increasingly become married to the welfare state and to the U.S. taxpayer rather than to the fathers of their children.
As means-tested benefits expanded, welfare began to serve as a substitute for a husband in the home, and low-income marriage began to disappear. As husbands left the home, the need for more welfare to support single mothers increased. The War on Poverty created a destructive feedback loop: Welfare promoted the decline of marriage, which generated a need for more welfare.
A second major problem is that the means-tested welfare system actively penalizes low-income parents who do marry. All means-tested welfare programs are designed so that a family's benefits are reduced as earnings rise. In practice, this means that, if a low-income single mother marries an employed father, her welfare benefits will generally be substantially reduced. The mother can maximize welfare by remaining unmarried and keeping the father's income "off the books."
For example, a single mother with two children who earns $15,000 per year would generally receive around $5,200 per year of food stamp benefits. However, if she marries a father with the same earnings level, her food stamps would be cut to zero.
So you see, the thing the left complains about the most is actually the thing they do the most to cause. They are all about taxpayer-funded welfare programs and growing government to make more and more people dependent. They are causing the income inequality and then complaining about what they cause.
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Once there was an old railway station. Built in 1900, the Gare d'Orsay was the Grand Central Station of Paris, crossroads of Europe before the Wars changed everything. It was a monolithic structure, built on numerous levels serving Central Paris for travelers coming into the City or moving, by other means, to the great directional stations, such as the Gare du Nord. Following World War II, time and traffic caused the old station to fall into disuse.
After being sold off, various proposals for its future fell through, and by 1962, abandoned, it sat by the Seine, thought by many an eyesore. There was talk of tearing it down.
Enter a hero of mine: Orson Welles. He, too, at age 47, was beginning to feel his age, gaining weight but not quite yet the size of a railway station; working harder than five men still, but slowing down. He had agreed to make a motion picture for the Salkind Brothers of Franz Kafka's seminal novel of modern angst, The Trial, the story of a young man who finds himself in a bureaucratic labyrinth in which he is accused of a non-specific crime, for which he can neither make amends nor escape punishment.
Welles, as usual, had written most of the adaptation, planned the sets, hired a cast of international and personal favorites (Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, Romy Schneider), storyboarded the camera movements. Shooting was to begin in Paris, then move to Rome, and on to Yugslavia for principal photography. As often with Welles, he experienced one great problem. The producers ran short of money. The extensive locations leased in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, had to be abandoned.
Welles had no place to make the rest of THE TRIAL.
As he describes it in a delightful book, This is Orson Welles (with Peter Bogdanovich, Da Capo Press, 1998), feeling desperate one night in Paris, he returned to the Hotel Meurice (perhaps from Fouquet's, his favorite hangout on the Champs Elysee). As he prowled around his sitting room, pondering what to do, he stopped to glance out the window, hoping to see the full moon over Paris. He was puzzled to see two moons! Then, he realized that one moon was the still illuminated great clockface of the Gare d'Orsay.
It was his answer. Where better a place to make THE TRIAL, about people waiting, than a railway station?
The Salkinds were able to hire the huge structure for relatively little, and within that great cavern, Welles constructed law offices, cathedrals, courts, and over the next several months shot most of his film.
Incidentally, it postponed the destruction of the old place long enough for a group of people, including Welles, to persuade the Ministry of Culture under Andre Malraux to begin a long, slow bureaucratic process of turning the station by 1982 into . . . The MUSEE d'Orsay!
So now, perhaps on a Sunday morning (when its free), having had your cafe e croissant, the tour boats passing nearby on the Seine, you may enter the grand portals of the Museum.
(And say a small, "Thank you, Orson Welles.")
You find a huge space, rising four levels, and almost as long as a football field. At the far end, high up, is an interior clockface, and behind its translucence are what appear to be ants. They are people!
[UPDATE: March 14, 2006 -- It occurs to me that I have unconsciously invoked a recurring Wellsian image: people appearing to be ants. You will find it in his THE STRANGER, in THE THIRD MAN, and other films made by, or related to Welles. But in those films, the image is a fascistic one, first expressed by Mussolini's airman son dropping bombs, godlike, on helpless peasants in Italy's 1935 Ethiopian invasion; of people who can be destroyed or ignored because they don't count. But at the Musee d'Orsay, it is the ants who are the gods, scrambling ever upward over, and feasting on sublime treasures. Might Welles have had one vision for his bleak film and another for a democratic society? Or both? Another question for your Sunday morning.]
The main floor, as has been noted by many, is dominated by large sculptures by Rodin and others. (It rather resembles an immense artist studio.) On either side, rising up in galleries (once passageways for travelers), the length of the structure, are superb collections of French Impressionist Art from 1848 to the Beginning of the First World War.
Here are bays containing heroic paintings (e.g., Millais, Ingres) from which the Impressionists provided a ferociously criticized departure. You climb higher to find collections of Empire and Art Nouveau living rooms, furniture, tapestries, screens, glass, pottery, etc. Higher still we reach the works of Manet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, P-ssarro, Seurat, Van Gogh, Monet . . . .
These were the paintings which reminded chagrined Parisians (and the World) that ordinary people, not just gods and great figures, might be involved in important and romantic acts.
Not every Impressionist painting you have ever seen is in the Musee d'Orsay. (My favorite, Edouard Manet's "Bar at the Folies Bergeres," is in the Cortauld Institute in London.) It just seems that way.
For those of you who might want to explore Orson Welles' meditations on Modern Art and its Classical and Impressionist origins, I recommend his 1973 film essay F FOR FAKE, starring himself and a work of art he brought back to Paris with him in 1962 from Zagreb: his longtime collaborator, Oja Kodar. Picasso is featured, presumably without his direct participation.
Anyway, if you are in Paris, be sure to save time for the Musee d'Orsay.
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Welcome to the AFFI Honor Guard
Providing honorable services for fallen AFFI members.
Honor Guard Oath
Written by Thomas J. Matousek Jr. Forest Park Local #2753
Here's what's new:
you to all who attended the Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial.
Hopefully, you all had safe travels home. Hope to see you all
next year!
Watch for events.
Click HERE to view our upcoming events for the year.23 Annual AFFI Honor Guard Convention, Collinsville, IL, January 23-25, 2015
IL Fallen FF Memorial, Springfield May 12, 2015.
IAFF Fallen FF Memorial, CO, Sept. 17-19, 2015
Our Mission
The Mission of the AFFI Honor Guard shall be to Promote the Associated Firefighters of Illinois, the Locals therein, and the fire service as a whole, to the public, in a positive and proper fashion. To Provide, as a line of duty death benefit, dignified, honorable services for fallen AFFI members, their surviving family members, and union brothers and sisters through organization of and participation in funeral and memorial services.
Our Oath:
AFFI Honor Guard Oath: The AFFI Honor Guard Oath was written by former State Commander Thomas J. Matousek Jr., a retired member of Forest Park Local #2753. He was asked by the Honor Guards first State Commander Jay Bishop of Springfield Local #37 to come up with an Oath for the Honor Guard. The Oath is memorized by each and every Honor Guard Member who swears to uphold the traditions which are exemplified by the words written in this oath.
TO HONOR, TO CHERISH, TO REMEMBER, TO SALUTE, WITH OVERWHELMING PRIDE FOR YOU, MY COMRADE I WILL: These are the words that help guide each Member of the AFFI Honor Guard as they train, teach, and finally assist in services for our fallen Comrades.
Looking to Host the 2017 Honor Guard Convention
Please inform you District Members that if any local or district is interested in hosting the 2017 HG Convention, Commander Bruno will need a letter from their Local President or Executive Board indicating their approval. Nominations will take place at Convention on Friday at the business meeting.
2014 IAFF Fallen FF Memorial
Thanks to all of those who came to Colorado Springs, CO for the 2014 IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial, where the IAFF placed 168 names on the Wall. Two of those names, were those of the former District 7 Commander Daniel J. Bower, Freeport L-441, & Firefighter Mike Wurtz, Woodstock L-4813. Thier families were there to accept the IAFF Flag, and to see their loved ones etched onto the Fallen FF Wall in Colorado Springs. Here is a picture of the Illinois AFFI Honor Guard with the Bower & Wurtz spouses.
Former Northern Deputy Commander assigned to Honor Flag
Congratulations to former Northern Deputy Commander Joesph Baumgartner, who has been appointed as a US Honor Flag Marshall. Joe will work with the families and departments of the fallen police, fire and military. Baumgartner states, "I will be the representative for the Honor Flag and as needed, travel with it to the site of the services. To say the least, I am incredibly honored to have been appointed to this position." You can visit the U.S. Honor Flag web site by clicking here: U.S. Honor Flag
Training Reminder:
This is a reminder that if you will need to complete 3 required trainings (One can be Convention), prior to October 31, 2014 in order to qualify to go to Convention in 2015. Please go to the Districts page to see upcoming drills in your area to meet your required trainings for the year. If there are any questions as to what these requirements are, please refer to the By-Laws. Remember, you can always attend another District's Drill location if it is closer to your home.
Welcome to the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois Honor Guard!
On January 24-26, AFFI members gathered at the Sheraton
Hotel & Resorts in Lisle, IL for the 22nd Annual AFFI Honor
Guard Convention. Naperville Local 4302 hosted this years
event and did an outstanding job. Our sincere thanks and
appreciation goes out to Committee Chairman Jim Kabinski,
Convention Committee Members and volunteers for all their
time and planning to host a great event. In front of close
to 800 guests who were in attendance, 82 new inductee's took
the oath to Honor, Cherish, Remember and to do "Whatever It
Takes". This years Honored Guest was Eamonn Walker (aka,
Battalion Chief Wallace Boden) from the hit TV series
Chicago Fire. He was joined by fellow cast member David
Eigenberg ( aka, Herman). Eamonn addressed the guests by
telling them about his story of Steve Chikerotis from the
Chicago Fire Dept. He spoke of how Steve is an advisor for
the show and taught all of them the basics of firefighting.
He spoke of the camaraderie that the fire service has and
the close ties of being a family. And in good times and bad,
it's family that sticks together. Eamonn spoke of Captain
Herbie Johnson from Tower Ladder 39 in Chicago, who was a
close friend to Steve Chikerotis and who paid the ultimate
sacrifice on November 2, 2012. Eamonn and others on the show
knew that they needed to be there for their friend so they
stopped filming the show and went to the funeral to bestow
the dignity and honor to Captain Johnson, and to show their
support for Chikerotis. That was the reason they went to
Herbie's service, Walker passionately stated. Walker
concluded his speech with reciting the Firefighters Prayer.
(photo courtesy of Stephan Bates)
Eigenberg also touched on the family theme and compared it to his days serving his country in the USMC. He also reflected back when his father passed away years ago; who also was a Veteran and it was the Honor Guard that stood shoulder to shoulder to pay tribute to his father. He also rendered a final salute to his father, honoring, remembering his service to his country.
As a tradition in honoring our fallen Brothers & Sisters from the previous year, a black ribbon was tied into the Honor Guard flag in the memory of District 7 Commander Daniel J. Bower, Freeport L-441, a red ribbon for HG Member Chris Brown, Bloomington L-49 who lost their lives in 2013. May their memory live on forever in our hearts.
Last year the Honor Guard created a new award, the AFFI Honor Guard Commitment To Excellence Award for commitment & dedication above and beyond. An individual who lives the motto "Whatever It Takes" and realizes the purpose of the Honor Guard is bigger than any one individual. An individual that embodies the selfless spirit of the Honor Guard Family. That award was presented to Dist 7 Commander Daniel J. Bower Freeport L-441. Brother Bower died November 12, 2013 due to complications with cancer. The Command Staff overwhelmingly decided to rename and dedicate the award in memory of our fallen Brother. This year the AFFI Honor Guard Daniel J. Bower Commitment To Excellence Award was presented to outgoing Northern Deputy State Commander Joseph Baumgartner Bolingbrook L-3005, for his many years of loyal and dedicated service in honoring our fallen comrades. Joe is a true role model for others to follow in doing "Whatever It Takes".
The AFFI Honor Guard is over 650 strong consisting of dedicated members that continuously train throughout the year, with the commitment to Honor, Cherish and Remember our Brothers & Sisters when they make the ultimate sacrifice.
We will continue to be there for you in your time of need.
Jeff H. Bruno, State Commander
AFFI Honor Guard
2014 AFFI Daniel J. Bower Commitment To Excellence Award
Departing Northern District Commander Joe Baumgartner is
embraced by Commander Jeff Bruno.
(photo courtesy of Stephan Bates)
This year the Honor Guard renamed the AFFI Honor Guard Commitment To Excellence Award to the Daniel J. Bower Commitment to Excellence Award. Former Northern District Commander Joe Baumgartner was chosen to receive this years award. The award is given to those who exhibit the following: For commitment & dedication above and beyond. An individual who lives the motto "Whatever It Takes" and realizes the purpose of the Honor Guard is bigger than any one individual. An individual that embodies the selfless spirit of the Honor Guard Family. Congratulations to Joe for going above and beyond and doing "Whatever It Takes" he is a role model for others to follow.
AFFI Honor Guard Web Site Wins IAFF Media Award
The International Association of Fire Fighters has an annual competition for best Media. The AFFI Honor Guard web site was tied for first place in the Best Affiliate Website Produced by Jeff Bruno and Jeff Boetto, in the 2013 IAFF Media Awards. The awards were announced in the Fall 2013 IAFF Fire Fighter Quarterly magazine. It is another recognition for the largest Honor Guard in the International Association of Fire Fighters. It is a tribute to each of you who make this great organization what it is.
Women in Fire & Emergency Services Article
Click Here to read the article by Commander Jeff Bruno about the women of the AFFI Honor Guard. Please scroll down to page 5 of this issue of Fire Work from April 4, 2012.
Photo's are available from the 2014 Honor Guard Convention
Here is the link to view and order photo's from the
22nd AFFI Honor Guard Convention.
Thanks again to Stephan Bates for taking photo's at the convention again this year. Here is his information:
WCS Photography
1215 E. Wilson Ave
Wheaton, IL 60189
Mission Statement
The Mission of the AFFI Honor Guard shall be:
A. Promote the Associated Fire
Fighters of Illinois, the Locals therein, and
the fire service as a whole, to the public, in a positive and proper fashion.
B. Provide, as a line of duty death
benefit, dignified, honorable services for
fallen AFFI members, their surviving family members, and union brothers
and sisters through organization of and participation in funeral and
memorial services.
Mailing List
Please sign up on our Mailing List. Hopefully, this option will make notifications of LODD's much faster. This is a free service with a maximum of 500 subscribers, so please only sign up if you are a current Active AFFI Honor Guard Member. If you know members who are not subscribers, please e-mail or call them if a LODD notification comes to your e-mail. I will also send out notifications for events, parades, etc. You can also sign up to be on the AFFI Honor Guard mailing list on the AFFI web site when you register, just mark that you are an AFFI Honor Guard Member in the check boxes that are presented when you register. REMEMBER- if you change your e-mail address, to register again on this site, as your notifications will no longer be sent to your new address unless you have updated the information.
Activation Notification
When a Line of Duty Death of any Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois Member occurs, this home page will be the place for finding information about line up, visitation, and/or funeral arrangements. Information is posted here as quickly and as accurately as possible. E-mails are also blasted to members on the above Newsletter list, as well as the AFFI blast e-mail system. Please keep in mind that although there may be a firefighter death, the AFFI Honor Guard is only activated when it is requested by the family. A request from that members Union President goes to AFFI President Pat Devaney, who then activates the AFFI Honor Guard through State Commander Bruno.


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Instead of permanently deleting files from vault, make a recycle bin type functionality in Vault.
Upon right clicking a folder, we should have the option to undelete the files (with dependents).
Emptying the recycle bin should be an administrative task
Empty the trash should be done by job server (scheduled, for example older then 24 hours)
And searches do not shown parts from this location.
Users are not allowed to create assemblies referring to parts in the trash loaction.
We got a lot of feedback from customers! Such a recycle bin would be helpful!
Great request.
Productstream Professional already has this and it comes in handy verry often, but also brings complexity to things.
When deleting a document, you have to track a few things:
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Agreed. This is nearly a critical feature in a modern version control system. Humans make mistakes (delete wrong file/folder) and if there are changes not yet in backup, your starting fresh. Also the whole backup/restore mess is time consuming & it creates some system down time.
I'll second the scheduled server emptying. User setting for frequency & only empties items deleted more than X days ago.
Space is almost never the issue (so archiving data isn't a problem), but it's important to keep things clean and organized. This is easier and quicker if you know you can pull a mistake out of the trash bag.
It's not quite the same, but we have an internal Vault folder called 'files to be deleted'. Users do not have rights to delete files so anything they want deleted, they move into that folder and I trash it periodically.
A recycle bin would be great but I don't know how that sits with SQL, re-using a file name/number of a file sitting in the recycle bin etc. I suspect any recycle bin functionality they consider would just be what Ive described, a jazzed up Vault folder.
I created a folder called TRASH which I as admin have to clean manually once a week. Just like Neil_Cross mentioned. Should be done by the system of course.
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2014 Institute for Frontier Materials
Abeyrathna, Buddhika, Rolfe, Bernard, Hodgson, Peter and Weiss, Matthias (2014) An experimental investigation of edge strain and bow in roll forming a V-section, Materials science forum, vol. 773-774, pp. 153-159, Trans Tech Publications, Durnten-Zurich, Switzerland [C1]
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Abeyrathna, Buddhika, Rolfe, Bernard, Hodgson, Peter and Weiss, Matthias (2014) Sensitivity analysis of roll load, torque and material properties in the roll forming process, in Zhang, Shi-Hong; Liu, Xiang-Hua; Cheng, Ming and Li, Juan (eds), NUMISHEET 2014 : AIP Conference Proceedings : The 9th International Conference and Workshop on Numerical Simulation of 3D Sheet Metal Forming Processes, pp. 900-903, AIP Publishing, College Park, Maryland [E1]
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2013 Institute for Frontier Materials
Abeyrathna, Buddhika, Rolfe, Bernard, Hodgson, Peter and Weiss, Matthias (2013) A first step towards in-line shape compensation for roll forming applications, in unknown (ed.), IDDRG 2013 : Proceedings of the 2013 International Deep-Drawing Research Group annual conference, pp. 93-97, IDDRG, Zurich, Switzerland [E1]
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2012 Institute for Frontier Materials
Weiss, M, Abeyrathna, B., Marnette, J., Badr, O., Abvabi, A., Jiao, J. and Hodgson, P. (2012) Approach for testing the material behavior in roll forming in a small scale, in Unknown (ed.), IDDRG 2012 : Lightweighting, possibilities & challenges : Proceedings of the 2012 International Deep Drawing Research Group Conference, pp. 1-6, International Deep-Drawing Research Group, Mumbai, India [E1]
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APS Announces Senior Management Changes
Arizona Public Service today announced senior management changes that strengthen the company's leadership team and enhance its ability to provide customers with reliable, affordable electricity.
APS President and Chief Operating Officer Don Robinson, 58, who has been on medical leave since December 2011, will hand off his day-to-day operational responsibilities and continue with the company as a senior advisor. Robinson, who joined APS in 1978, will retain his title and join APS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Don Brandt in a newly created Office of the Chairman.
"Don will continue to be an advisor to me and the APS management team," said Brandt. "He is a trusted counselor and a good friend. No one knows APS and Arizona better."
Earlier this month, Robinson was awarded the 2012 Transformational Leader award from the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Mark Schiavoni , 56, is promoted to executive vice president, Operations. He will have responsibility for power procurement, all non-nuclear power generation, energy delivery, supply chain, environmental and safety. Schiavoni will report to Brandt. "Last year, APS achieved new bests in reliability, customer satisfaction and safety," said Brandt. "Our challenge is to continue that high level of performance while also holding the line on prices for our customers. Bringing front-line operations together under Mark's leadership will enhance that effort." Schiavoni joined APS in 2009. Prior to that, he spent nine years at Exelon Corporation, where he served as senior vice president of Exelon Generation and president of Exelon Power. He worked as a nuclear plant maintenance director for both Florida Power and Centerior Energy Corp. prior to joining Exelon in 2000 as a nuclear plant manager. Subsequently, he earned senior executive positions overseeing Exelon's fossil, hydroelectric and renewable facilities, as well as the construction and integration of new generation assets. Prior to his utility experience, Schiavoni spent 22 years in the U.S. Navy.
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Can these wireless headphones finally free your sounds?
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AKG K 830 BT headphones pair with your iPod, iPhone or other Bluetooth-enabled portable player, streaming your favorite music to your ears without the hassle of wires. All the controls you'll need to raise and lower volume, answer and end phone calls, and play, pause or skip music tracks are right on the ear cup, so you'll be able to leave your phone or music player safely in your pocket, backpack or briefcase much of the time. A directional microphone, also on the ear cup, eliminates the need for a boom mic. With a proprietary 3D-Axis2 folding headband, and up to eight hours of playback time between charges, you'll want to take your K 830 BTs with you wherever you go.
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December 20 2014 Latest news:
Claimant Count in June since 2005
By annabelle dickson
Business writer
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The number of people claiming jobseekers' allowance fell in the last quarter in Norfolk, Waveney and Fenland according to the latest unemployment figures, but has increased year on year.
It reflected a national picture which saw the jobless total fall by 65,000 to 2.58m in the quarter to May, but saw the numbers claiming jobseeker's allowance jump by 6,100 last month to 1.6m, including an increase of 8,000 among women to 530,700, the highest figure for 17 years.
The biggest quarterly fall was in Great Yarmouth, where the figures fell 17pc, but its council area saw the biggest year on year increase in the claimant count of 16.8pc.
The total claimant count for Norfolk, Waveney and Fenland fell 9.6pc in the quarter to 22,402. But the year on year increase was 5.4pc.
The Office for National Statistics said the national increase among women was likely to have been affected by a change in eligibility rules for lone parent income support from May.
Long-term unemployment has also increased, with those out of work for more than two years up by 18,000 to 441,000, the worst figure since 1997.
The number jobless for more than a year rose by 3,000 to 885,000, while there were just over a million unemployed 16- to 24-year-olds, down 10,000 on the three months to February.
Nationally most age groups showed increases in employment, with a rise of 52,000 in over-65s in work to reach 929,000, the highest since records began in 1992.
The unemployment rate is now 8.1pc, down by 0.2 percentage points, although the jobless total is 132,000 higher than a year ago.
Other figures showed that those classed as economically inactive, including people looking after a relative, on early retirement or who have given up looking for work, fell by 61,000 to 9.2 million, mainly due to a cut of 82,000 among students.
The biggest falls in unemployment, and increase in work, was in London, suggesting that the Olympic Games is having an impact on the figures. The number of vacancies increased by 10,000 in the quarter to June to 471,000.
Average earnings increased by 1.5pc in the year to May, up by 0.1 percentage points on the previous month, giving an average weekly wage of £468.
Employment minister Chris Grayling yesterday visited a new delivery office opened in London by TNT, which said it planned to create 20,000 new jobs across the UK in the next five years.
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The government is complacent to celebrate these figures which proves it's just seasonal and that the job market is no better than 2009.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Question marks surround the fate of several development projects in and around King's Lynn after the developers behind the project went into administration.


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Description of Choose An Enemy
If you haven't play Choose An Enemy already, go ahead and download it now! Published in 1991 by Russian Soft, Choose An Enemy features action in a fighting genre.
One of the best examples of how Russians vent their anger (or maybe not!), Choose An Enemy is a fun mildless action game from little-known developer Russian Soft.
The goal is simple: rescue your girlfriend by defeating bullies. There are three bullies to choose from, all pretty dim-witted but differ in terms of speed or how many teeth they can knock off your mouth at a time. That's right, teeth: once you choose an opponent to beat up, you'll be thrown to a neat first-person perspective, with 2 rows of teeth at the bottom of the screen for you (32 total, of course), and another 2 rows for your opponent.
Your opponent will be sneering at you while he tries to land jabs or hooks. Winning is a simple matter of dodging at the right time and landing punches of your own. Mindless, yes, but might be a good alternative to stressballs 5-10 minutes at a time. Fans of mindless action games, especially Bloodlust's games, should definitely check this one out.
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This is an event intended to celebrate the life of Chris Dove and benefit an organization in which he passionately believed. Chris ran each mile of his life's "race" well, as a longtime Young Life leader, active member of his community, and man who loved his friends and family well. He also loved to run. His mileage on earth was completed 7 years ago, the result of a car accident in Sept. 2005. We hope the morning will captures the fun-loving, yet purposeful spirit of Chris Dove.
There will be a Kids' Fun Run at Rady Park following the race. Shuttles will be provided to take runners back to starting point. But don't rush off too soon! There will be an awesome party and breakfast being served at the finish line! There will be drawings for great prizes for runners who stick around!
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Samsung didn't agree to launch the Galaxy S5 tomorrow (in South Korea)
The Korea Times reported that Samsung squarely denied yesterday's rumor about a possible early launch for the Galaxy S5. After a weekly meeting of Samsung's board of directors, JK Shin (pictured), co-CEO and head of the company's mobile division, told reporters that "Samsung hasn't agreed with SK Telecom for an early release of our GS5 to only SK Telecom customers."
It appears that the two companies were indeed discussing to launch the handset early, on March 27 (this Thursday), possibly as an exclusive to SK Telecom. That would have been in order to circumvent impending government bans on smartphone sales in South Korea, a measure detrimental to Samsung, local carriers, and ultimately, customers.
Apparently, the talks went as far as to make SK Telecom prepare an official statement in advance, which was to notify customers about the Galaxy S5 being available from March 27. The plan had been approved by the telecom's top management, but canceled after Samsung announced its decision to not cooperate with the carrier.
Although Mr. Shin didn't explicitly deny that the Galaxy S5 won't be out earlier in other countries, or for other telecoms, it feels naive to think about the possibility of a South Korean or global launch tomorrow. If this was the case, we reckon the announcement would have came earlier. Although the Galaxy S5 will have launch events across some countries (such as India and Malaysia) on March 27, as far as we know, the smartphone will start selling everywhere from April 11, as originally planned. The global rollout will cover 150 countries, although South Korean customers will have very limited options to get the phone until prohibition ends.
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1. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
confused feel like getting the z2 but the S5 non LTE Exynos GM900I A15 Octocore
they can wait
6. Ashoaib (Posts: 2435; Member since: 15 Nov 2013)
Plz plz agree Jk shin
2. xplayer57 (Posts: 29; Member since: 24 Dec 2012)
Well.......nobody cares!!!!!
4. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
3. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 2866; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
45-day ban. Why such hate for Sammy in local country? I thought localites love Sammy more than LG and Pantech.
5. DONUT (Posts: 307; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
the ban is for all telcoms. they cant sell ANY smartphone, not just the S5


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A feature film "Free China: The Courage to Believe" will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers at The Arts Council's Smithgall Arts Center in Gainesville.
For the second week in a row, a movie fails to live up to the superlative in its title. "Oz the Great and Powerful" was neither great nor powerful, and "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" is a far cry from incredible.
"Oz the Great and Powerful," a prequel to the iconic 1939 adaptation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz," is being framed as a huge gamble for Disney.
Another week, another folk tale hits movie theaters.
"Snitch" offers one of the oddest casting pairings we've seen for a while. I never thought I'd see Dwayne Johnson and Susan Sarandon sharing the screen together in an action movie, but surprisingly, it ends up making sense.
Note: Jeff Marker's weekly movie review column will return next week.
Steven Soderbergh has built one of my favorite careers of all time. Few directors have ever or will ever match the quantity, quality and diversity of his work.
First of all, let's get one thing straight. "Warm Bodies" is not a zombie movie.
If Dustin Hoffman ever decides to quit acting, he could have a fine second career as a director. "Quartet" is Hoffman's official directorial debut, and it is a joyous film.
This being the last column in which I will mention the 2012 year in movies, it's time to make some observations.
Now that the nominees have been announced, the Oscar discussion shifts to predicting winners.
And the hits just keep on coming.
One of the year's most controversial films is, in my opinion, also its best.
This week we begin our annual look at the movies likely to compete for best picture at the Oscars, as well as the actors who might take home a statue. Studios use the award season as low-cost publicity, so this series also serves as a winter preview since some of these films will hopefully make it to area theaters over the next month or two.
Fans of crime writer Lee Child (pen name of Jim Grant) were livid when they heard Tom Cruise would be cast as Jack Reacher in the movie adaptation, and rightly so.
To what do we owe the second coming of the biblical epic?
Writer-director Chris Rock is not Andre Allen, the stand-up comedian turned movie star lead of "Top Five." But, it's almost impossible to watch his latest effort, a cutting comedy about showbiz, creativity and ambition, and not wonder what material Rock took from his own life. While that's a fun and compelling draw, thankfully, it's only part of the triumph of the film.
LOS ANGELES - All is not well in Panem. At the conclusion of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," Katniss' (Jennifer Lawrence) force-field shattering arrow left the society in turmoil. The desperate act was perceived as subversion, inciting populist uprisings and devastating counter attacks by the governing elite.
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While it seems that we are still a long way away from the cloaking devices seen in Star Trek, electromagnetic cloaking using metamaterials is now possible, at least in the laboratory. Not to be outdone, fluid flow and heat transfer have also recently joined the cloaking party.
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Reducing the wake signature of submarines continues to be of great interest to the military in their quest for the perfect run-silent run-deep stealth vehicle. To neutralize the wake around a submarine researchers are proposing a large array of small jets that can suck and blow water as needed to counter the disturbance of the water due to the submarine's movement. For such a fluid cloak to work it would require a sophisticated control system that could monitor the flow field around the submarine and then in real-time direct the correct response of the water jets. I see a big role for CFD, first in evaluating whether it's possible to neutralize a wake. If it is, then CFD has more to do in determining the rules for the control system upfront or, more interestingly, in real-time as the submarine moves.
Heat Cloaking
Inspired by the recent advances in electromagnetic cloaking, French researchers have proposed an analogous cloaking theory for heat. Their idea is that using layers of materials configured with specific thermal diffusivity it is feasible to deflect heat around objects. They also propose that the technique can be used to concentrate heat where required. How did they develop this theory? With numerical heat transfer simulations.
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Clearly Star Trek has blazed the trail on what might be possible in the future and now with the aid of numerical simulations the pace of advancement is quickening as more people get to play with ideas in virtual sandboxes.
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Matilda Cuomo has been down the road to the governor's mansion before with her husband, Mario Cuomo. This time, though, it's her son, State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who is gunning for the top job in Albany.
"I am very happy, but then I get sad, because I know he is going to have a lot of work to do and I know how he works," said the state's former first lady.
Cuomo was in Harlem Tuesday to promote Mentoring USA, a program she founded back in 1995. After the event, NY1 asked whether she had any words of wisdom for her son's celebrity companion, Food Network host Sandra Lee. Lee, after all, could be the state's next first lad, or at least its first girlfriend.
"She is so poised and elegant in her way and knows what her position is in all of this. So I don't have to give her any advice," Mrs. Cuomo said.
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Can someone here tell me their experience on grapes? Besides blueberries and blackberries, grapes are my favorite other fruit. I could not stop eating it.
I love the green grapes a lot even more than the red grapes. However, i didn't buy any more b/c i read a few threads where ppl said grapes are acidic and cause acne... but i did read a few ppl that said grapes helped clear their skin.
Can someone give me their opinion if grapes are good for you or not? I could eat 1 whole pound a day easily, could do it in one sitting b/c i love green grapes. I did read that grapes doesn't have that much citric acid which is a cause of acne though so im not sure.
Would really want your opinion on this based on your experiences. I ate a lot of grapes earlier and quickly stopped after reading ppl say its bad for you.
Also, tell me your experience on green grapes vs red grapes vs crimson grapes. I don't like the taste of crimson grapes, green are my favorite and then red grapes. I read that the darker the grape the better it is... but is it really better for acne than green? I always thought green was better and green grapes to me taste much better than red grapes.
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Dungeon and Dragons Online has launched their first true expansion, Menace of the Underdark. Players will now be able to adventure in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, D&D's most popular setting ever. However, there is more to the expansion than just questing in Faerun, such as the introduction of the druid class, epic levels, and epic destinies. Is buying the Menace of the Underdark expansion for DDO worth the price? Read on and find out!
It is a safe bet to say that players have been waiting for years to be able to play in Faerun as that the Forgotten Realms is the land and lore most commonly associated with D&D. While I first cut my role-playing teeth in Greyhawk (I've been playing D&D since 1981), the majority of my various characters' exploits have occurred in the detailed lands of the Forgotten Realms. When DDO was first launched, I was initially dismayed by having Eberron serve as the campaign setting for DDO, but it eventually grew on me. However, I have always hankered to adventure in the setting that I knew so well and had played for decades in. With the release of Menace of the Underdark, I can now do so and face fierce foes such as the Drow in their naturally evil and sadistic state. Let's examine various aspects of DDO's Menace of the Underdark to see how well the expansion stacks up.
The Demonweb where only the brave or insanely stupid venture.
The Menace of the Underdark expansion focuses on the players' struggles against the vile and evil Lolth, chief deity of the Drow. All the action focuses around the town of Eveningstar, located in the kingdom of Cormyr. To get to Eveningstar, players must first travel from Eberron through the rift opened from the Web of Chaos adventure pack from Update 13. From the rift, players will travel through the Demonweb (where they will meet the most famous person in Faerun, Elminster) to the Underdark and then to Eveningstar.
When players purchase Menace of the Underdark, they get three adventure packs that are set in the Forgotten Realms setting: the King's Forest, the Underdark, and the Demonweb. Each of these adventure packs has their own wilderness area and several adventures. The wilderness areas are huge compared to the wilderness areas we're normally used to in DDO. You can literally spend hours walking around investigating them thoroughly. The King's Forest, in particular, is enormous and the Underdark has a good variety of differing heights and maze-like paths. Make sure you have a feather falling piece of gear equipped in cause you step off a ledge in the Underdark as you will probably fall for some time.
One of the biggest changes to occur in Menace of the Underdark is random encounters, which is a throwback to the original pen-and-paper game. Rare encounters are no longer locked in one single spot but may occur in various areas of the wilderness. These encounters are not necessarily the usual defeat the named creature scenario, but can include other interactions such as skill checks. Certain events can also trigger an event, such as killing woodland creatures in the King's Forest could result in dryads spawning and attacking you. I really like this system as it adds some nice randomness and variety to your explorations, and as a rogue, I love to show off my skills.
Since I play mainly as a rogue, I was interested to see the new traps in Menace of the Underdark such as bear traps and spell wards. If you come across bear traps, keep an eye out for dire bears as you can be sure a pack of them are hanging around. Be warned that the creatures and adventures in this expansion are challenging. I went into my first few adventures prepared to kick ass and take names and found myself fleeing for my life. Most of the adventures can be soloed, but it's always best to have some friends. Preferably, friends who run slower than you!
The Underdark in all its gloomy glory.
There are a lot of new monsters in the new expansion which will be familiar to long time D&D players. Dryads, werewolves, purple worms, dretches, dire bears, and more populate the land to challenge the players. The biggest additions, literally, are the dragons who are now truly to scale in all their glory. My initial foray into the King's Forest found my group stumbling across a purple worm and seeing the massive height of the beast really amped up our enjoyment of the fight.
Of course, the Drow take center stage in Menace of the Underdark in all their vile evilness. These are the Drow that I'm used to where stumbling across a Drow raiding party was always certain to wipe that smile off your face. In my group's first encounter with the Drow, I had a nerdgasm when the Drow I was fighting whipped out his hand crossbow and shot me with it. (To the unitiated, the hand crossbow is synonymous with the Drow from 1st and 2nd edition D&D.)
A Drow priestess in all her hot evilness.
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Atlantis the Palm at the far end of the Palm Jumeirah is an excellent option for watching the fireworks this New Year's Eve.
It isn't New Year's Eve without lighting up the last night of the year with fireworks. And Dubai is taking it to the extreme this year by going for a Guinness World Record for the biggest firework display – ever.
Hosted by various hotels on the Palm Jumeirah (the man-made palm shaped island out at sea), plus downtown Dubai's famous Burj Al Arab hotel and the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, the midnight firework frenzy will be split into two parts. First, an intense six minute display across the Palm and at the Burj Khalifa that hopes to seal the world record. If your eardrums survive that barrage, there will then be a second 15-minute display along a 1km stretch of Jumeirah beach, giving plenty of time to get in your oohs and ahhs. To seal the record, Dubai needs to beat neighbour Kuwait, which let off an almighty 77,282 fireworks over the course of an hour in 2011.
So where should you watch this mammoth sky-lighting extravaganza? Access to the Palm Jumeirah will be restricted on the night, so if you want to see the magic up close, you'll need to think outside the box.
Atlantis the Palm, at the far end of the Palm Jumeirah, will be running Sandance, its hugely popular monthly festival, on Nasimi Beach, with a great New Year's Eve lineup that includes DJ Paul Oakenfold. You'll be able to party the night away with a stellar view of the fireworks.
Alternatively, check into the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray on the West Crescent of the Palm Jumeirah. The hotel was used as a set in Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 and often hosts Hollywood A-listers when they visit the Middle East. You'll be able to view the display from the hotel's private beach, bubbly in hand, or from one of its many terraces. The luxurious Ottoman-inspired resort will also broadcast aerial footage of the entire fireworks fiesta to its various bars and will host an after party in its Voda Bar.
If you're looking for something a little less costly, head to Dubai Marina for a view onto the Palm Jumeirah. In particular, try the public beach at Jumeirah Beach Walk or a sky high bar with a view over the sea, such as Pure Sky Lounge at Hilton Dubai Jumeirah or the Observatory at Dubai Marriott Harbour Hotel. Burj Park, next to Dubai Mall in downtown Dubai will offer a free view of the Burj Khalifa section of the display, although access in and out of the neighbourhood is likely to be congested.
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