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The Kirby Morgan 525-400 Welding Shield Assembly includes:
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The Kirby Morgan 525-400 Welding Shield Assembly will fit the Kirby Morgan SuperLite 17 & 17C, SuperLite 27, the Kirby Morgan 18B Band Mask, and the Kirby Morgan 28B Band Mask. The port retainers are supplied with two plug screws which are designed to protect the two threaded holes on the port retainer which are provided for the Kirby Morgan welding lens assembly. TheKirby Morgan 525-400 Welding Shield Assembly is designed to provide visual protection only.
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Although we don't hear as much about Genes Reunited as we hear about Ancestry.com and Findmypast, Genes Reunited has a huge database and recently released a large cache of military records to bring its collection to 8.5 million, including a 16 year old boy convicted for 7 years on the Prison ships for stealing cheese:
To coincide with Remembrance Day, UK family history site, Genes Reunited has released a variety of military records taking its collection to 8.5 million.
The British Army Service Records are just one of the latest records added to the site and they include the Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service records from 1760-1913. These records are an important resource for family historians as they provide rich information on the soldier's name, place of birth, regiment and the dates of service within the British Army.
Another fantastic record for family historians are the recently added Prison Hulk Registers from 1811-1843. These records detail the conditions on the prison ships and give an insight into the characters of the prisoners onboard. We've found a 14 year old boy, James Smith, who was described by officials as "An unfortunate depraved boy almost past reformation." The records also detail the crimes committed and we've uncovered a 16 year old convicted for 7 years on the Prison ships for stealing cheese.
New WW1 and WW11 Prisoner of War records have also been added to Genes Reunited. These records hold vital information; the Prisoner of War 1939 – 1945 records detail the prisoner's name, rank, regiment, camp number, camp type and camp location.
Rhoda Breakell, Head of Genes Reunited, comments: "From the Harold Gillies Archive to the Military Nurses 1856 – 1940 we've released a huge variety of records. These new records will be an invaluable resource for people wanting an insight into the lives of their ancestors. "
From today people interested in tracking down their ancestors can visit www.genesreunited.co.uk and search the latest records listed below:
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It is often said that a father cannot win custody of their children in a divorce, or that he must prove the mother "unfit." We hear stories about how fathers lose custody. And men, do, in point of fact lose custody in most contested cases. I found this to be true since I have worked as a trial consultant since 1976 and many of my cases involve child custody, But I must disagree with the notion of it being impossible for dads to win.
In my experience, men lose custody because they deserve to. Not because they are bad parents, nor because they shouldn't have custody, but because their legal cases are so poorly presented. Often this is because very few lawyers know much about how courts decide custody cases. They know little about how to prepare a winning case. Lawyers who win their custody cases are usually the ones who represent mothers. And there is no trick to winning a contested custody case for a mom. Just saying "present - your honor" is almost enough, as well as calling the father seven sorts of beast. You don't have to prove your case when you represent mom. But representing dad you have to dot your I's and cross your T's...
In presenting a winning father custody case you have to follow the state's statute on custody that defines your legal burden for what has to be proved. In most cases showing that mom's home isn't a good choice and dad's is better. Two points you must satisfy with compelling proof. This usually means getting the right experts. Not trusting social workers, and court evaluators who are usually strident feminists with a bias against dads.
Many men lose because they are just not willing to pay what it costs, or do what they must do to persuade the system they should have custody. Men cannot get away with doing the same things women do. Whining won't get you anywhere. Nor will insults, threats or tantrums. You have to present as somebody worthy of having custody. You may need to cut your hair or give up that Corvette. Or shave off a beard to make a better impression. Ya gotta clean up. Means no boozing, woman hunting, brawling, get the sex stuff on your hard drive OFF! Now is not the time to be argumentative. No porn magazines or videos. Make your place safe for kids. Adopt the attitude of being a winning dad!
Being a rugged individualist under some circumstances is praiseworthy, NOT HERE! You want to persuade not bludgeon. Honey will get you lots further than vinegar. You need to be flexible to a point and cooperative. You need to put on the white hat. There isn't space here to tell you the whole program. But any dad willing to do what it takes and puts together a war chest CAN win! Often you really don't have a choice but to fight for your kids. You just need to know how. You may need a good coach.
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Lightly spiced monkfish and mussels are combined in this creamy fish supper.
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp ground ginger
½ tsp fine sea salt
600g/1lb 6oz monkfish tails, cut into 3cm/1¼in pieces
freshly ground black pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
25g/1oz butter
2 banana shallots, finely chopped
1 leek, white part only, finely sliced
½ tsp saffron strands
200ml/7fl oz white wine
300ml/11fl oz double cream
½ lemon, juice only
1.5kg/3lb 6oz mussels, cleaned, beards removed, rinsed in plenty of cold running water (discard any mussels that do not close tightly when tapped)
2 tbsp chopped fresh chives, finely chopped
Mix the curry powder, ground ginger and salt together in a bowl then sprinkle the mixture over the monkfish pieces. Season with freshly ground black pepper.
Heat the olive in a large, lidded frying pan until hot, and fry the monkfish pieces for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until golden-brown on both sides. Remove the monkfish from the pan and set aside.
Add the butter, shallots and leek to the same pan used to fry the monkfish and fry for 4-5 minutes, or until softened.
Add the saffron and white wine, bring the mixture to the boil and continue to cook until the volume of the liquid has reduced by a third.
Add the cream and lemon juice and bring the mixture to the boil.
Add the mussels, cover the pan with a lid and cook for 2-3 minutes, or until the mussels have opened. (Discard any mussels that haven't opened.)
Add the monkfish and continue to cook until warmed through. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Stir in the chives.
To serve, ladle into shallow soup bowls.
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The Blackboard Gallery is open Tuesday from 11 am to 3 pm, Wednesday through Friday from 11 am to 5 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm. The Artists' Studios are open to the public every first Saturday of the month between 10 am and 4 pm.
We offer free school field trips for our local schools. In addition, we welcome groups visits and will be happy to arrange a guided tour of the gallery and studios. Donations are welcome. If you want to schedule a school or group visit, please email Karin Geiger at email@example.com.
"The Grand Tour: Exploring the Art Museums of Southern California"
Studio Channel Islands Art Center is excited to announce a new collaboration with Art Muse, Los Angeles. Clare Kunny, founding director of Art Muse LA, will offer a three part program "The Grand Tour: Exploring the Art Museums of Southern California", starting with an enlightening and stimulating lecture at the Blackboard Gallery on October 18. The following week-end, Clare and Robin Trento will be our tour guides for a visit to the Norton Simon Museum. Transportation to the museums will not be provided.
Clare Kunny is an art historian who founded Art Muse Los Angeles in 2012 after devoting 28 years to museum education at The Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Robin Trento is an art historian and a Los Angeles native. Working for 23 years in the Education Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Robin has developed an unparalleled expertise in discussing and guiding the viewing of art.
October 18, 5:30 – 7 pm
The Grand Tour: Exploring the Art Museums of Southern California
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Join us for an armchair tour of some remarkable art museums in Southern California. From San Diego to Santa Barbara, a rich variety of museums hold a vast and important collection of art. Learn about our local, cultural resources and treasures. Introductions to the founders and their private collections illustrate the formation of museums such as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Huntington, the Getty, and the Norton Simon. As we travel along the coast and into the valleys, the network of art museums will be explored.
Admission: $10 (complimentary for Art Immersion Students)
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Children have an enormous capacity to learn in the first few years of life, but they also need a lot of care. That's why we embed educational opportunities in the caregiving function, just like you do at home.
Children are natural learners – they don't only require direct instruction from adults to learn. But it helps that we have highly qualified staff and an environment that focuses on choice, flexibility and individual expression while still enforcing acceptable social skills within a safe, hygienic setting.


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WASHINGTON — He was supposed to supply the little things, all the finer points of the game that slip past the naked eye but always make a significant imprint on the final scoreboard.
Kendrick Perkins makes an immediate impact
But in his first game as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder, center Kendrick Perkins made his presence felt, standing out for that which he did both big and small in the Thunder's 116-89 rout of Washington on Monday night.
Ask three different teammates what impressed them the most about Perkins and you'd get three different answers, all glowing reviews ranging from his court smarts to his communications skills.
"It's just one game," said Thunder forward Nick Collison. "But I think he's really going to help us. He looked really good tonight."
Ask the man himself how he fared and the space-eating, defensive-stopper shows little signs of satisfaction.
"I felt good; a little rusty in some spots," Perkins said. "But it felt good to be out there with the guys and be able to contribute in a positive way … I think this was a good first game for me. I just want to improve."
In 20 minutes, Perkins scored six points with a team-high nine rebounds along with two assists. His first field-goal in Thunder blue, of course, came as a clean-up man doing the dirty work, as he gathered a missed runner by Kevin Durant before converting a putback layup with 7:46 remaining in the first quarter.
At the other end, Perkins showed no lingering effects from the sprained MCL in his left knee that forced him to miss nine games after the Thunder acquired him in a four-player trade with Boston at the Feb. 24 trading deadline. He moved laterally without laboring defensively on pick-and-rolls. He stood his ground in the low post, effectively stymieing Wizards center JaVale McGee or funneling him into a second defender or a tougher shot.
"We didn't have to leave our men on the wings to go help him in the post on the defensive end," said Durant. "We could stay home on 3-point shooters. That's one thing we had a problem with, (opponent) 3-point shooting. He made it easier for us by just holding his man up and forcing them into Serge (Ibaka) for the blocks. He's a strong force for us down there on the defensive end."Mayberry: Thoughts from Thunder's win
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09/30/13 – New DoghouseSeptember 30th, 2013 | by christopher
If it seems to good to be true…
09/28/13 – Finished CabinetSeptember 28th, 2013 | by christopher
Sometimes I worry this is the kind of advice I need with MY sweet tooth.
09/27/13 – A CalendarSeptember 27th, 2013 | by christopher
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Hee hee hee.
Ah, I guess I've seen too many themed calendars over the years, I think bears doing woodwork wouldn't be a half-bad one.
09/26/13 – A SplinterSeptember 26th, 2013 | by christopher
Sometimes I flip-flop about the concept of karma, on days like when I wrote this, you can tell which way I'm flopping.
09/25/13 – Community ProjectSeptember 25th, 2013 | by christopher
Ha! That's the problem with working in groups. Yes, there are benefits, and I actually love working on groups. But if you have a set plan, then from then on you can only really work with helpers, not as a group.
09/24/13 – Circular SawSeptember 24th, 2013 | by christopher
Funny because it's not. Ah, humor, always toting that line of reality.
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This is a typical conversation between someone with a sweet tooth, and someone who doesn't have one. There is little understanding between the two.
09/21/13 – Its WeaknessSeptember 21st, 2013 | by christopher
A good reason to keep an axe around. Or not.
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Breaking down the fourth wall a little bit there. Whoah, boy.
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There were many who assumed that the winter months would put the Occupy Wall Street movement on ice… permanently. But it appears that the thousands who rose up to protest America's economic inequality and political corruption were only hibernating.
On May 1st, Occupy Wall Street will launch its first major action of 2012: the first truly nationwide general strike in U.S. history. From the OccupyWallSt.org website:
Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the recent May 1st Day Without An Immigrant demonstrations, the national general strikes in Spain this year, and the on-going student strike in Quebec, the Occupy Movement has called for A Day Without the 99% on May 1st, 2012. This in and of itself is a tremendous victory.
In these lean economic times, you might think it would be hard to convince people to abandon their jobs, but the contrary is proving true. Already, workers, students, immigrants, union members, and the unemployed from over 115 U.S. cities have pledged to stand together for economic justice.
Politicians, especially those from the GOP involved in the current Presidential race, like to act like the middle and lower classes don't matter. They say it's more important to coddle and pander to the 1%, because apparently, when the rich make more money to hide in offshore bank accounts, it makes things better for the rest of us.
Let's see how the corporations like it when the 99% stops spending its hard earned money on low-quality crap. Let's see what happens to their precious quotas when the 99% doesn't show up for work. Let's see what happens when everyone from all walks of life stops producing, consuming and participating within the current system and demands something better.
Instead of continuing in our role as corporate cogs, let's stop the madness. On May 1, don't buy anything, don't clock in, don't put your money in a corporate bank, and don't go to school. Resist in any way you can, and show your support for the millions like you, who are fighting for social equality and economic justice.
To learn more about the May 1st General Strike, including why and how you can participate (without getting fired!), go here.
Related Reading:
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How silly ...
"WE THE PEOPLE" have a great opportunity to send a message to the 1.0% of the Rich and Powerful and to the Congress of the United States of America that we are feed up with them and we want to take our government back. That we want governemnt to function for the benefit and protection of the Poor and Middle-Class.
I have another way to occupy and protest.
I have a petition just initiated to demand that Congress pass a law that all requests for gender I.D. be banned for any purpose other than medical. This would protect GLCT and it will fight back in the War on Women. And such a petition will put the people in Congress on notice that they are losing and to knock off the class, gender, sexual bills. It may make some of the supporters of these Congresspersons realize that the 99% is not buying their guano.
The petition is not up on CARE2 yet but you can sign it on CHANGE.org by searching for,"Congress and their supporters: Pass a law to ban all requests for gender I.D. except for medical reasons."
Thanks for being aware and active.
Paul H, There are more than a mere 72, in reference to FEMA camps, I have personally seen many and if any of wish to know their exact locations, we can provide the info.
Under NDAA of 2012, (National Defense Authorization Act of 2012), any Amerikan citizen can be interned at an undisclosed location w/o benefit of counsel, w/o specified changes, for an indefinite period of time.
The beauty of all of this is...you need not be a jew.
I have been a full time supporter of the Occpy Movement and have advocated a Nationwide Strike for over a year now. I will be in Washington DC on May 1, 2012 to make my demands known to the Congress. will have Many Signs which I will change every 30 minutes. I wil;l have a list of 31 items that I think the majority of the United Staes of America's Citizenswant the Congress to do for the 99% of the Citizens.
Ask your congressman about the 72 Fema camps ...FUSION CENTRES ... also called euphemistically as Residential Centres as whole families can "holiday" there.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it ..... George Santyana (sic)
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12/26/2014 | ARRL Solicits Nominations for Six Awards
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WRTC-2014 has received an ARRL Foundation grant, and its co-chair speaks via ham radio with Marconi's daughter.
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ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The University of Maine hockey team scored six goals in a period for the first time in 11 years en route to an 8-4 win over UMASS-Amherst.
The Black Bears (3-2) rallied from two deficits to score five unanswered goals in the second period. Lewiston native Mark Anthoine had two goals and two assists, while Scarborough alum Jake Rutt added a goal as well. Of the six goals scored in the second period, four were scored by freshmen.
Maine will travel to Amherst next weekend to open their Hockey East season against the same Minutemen.


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Imran says neither needs nor would approach Pak army on political issues
A day after former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Javed Hashmi claimed that chairman Imran Khan was being backed by the Pakistani military in the current political standoff in Islamabad, Khan has reportedly denied the allegation by saying that he neither needs nor would approach the army on political issues.
In a statement released by his party, he said that in his 18-year-long political career, he has never needed any "political crutches" and claimed that he has always fought for "real democracy" and that throughout the protests, he has emphasized that he would not accept any undemocratic intervention, reported The Express Tribune.
Terming Hashmi's allegation a "figment of his imgaintaion," Khan claimed that it was an attempt to malign him for his own "questionable agenda."
Hashmi had said during an interview on late Monday that Khan had asked him not to worry because a judge would order re-elections soon. He had also said that the PTI chief had already selected a three member committee to manage the affairs of the next elections because he was sure that a re-election was on cards.
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CUMBERLAND — Cumberland's inability to get the big hit on Tuesday afternoon cost the Clippers an opportunity to pick up a big win.
The Clippers stranded 10 runners on base – five of them in scoring position – and saw La Salle use a three-run uprising in the top of the third inning and some strong pitching from Caleb Gardner to produce a 4-1 victory at Tucker Field.
The Rams, who are 10-1 in Division I-North play (and in second place behind unbeaten Bishop Hendricken) and have now won eight in a row, didn't need a big hit to take their 3-0 lead off Cumberland starter Rob Reedy.
CUMBERLAND — A year ago at these Northern Division Championships, then-Central Falls High junior Tiffany Jenkins finished third overall in the high jump – courtesy of a leap of five feet, one inch – but truly wanted to improve that placement this time around.
Now a senior captain, she accomplished the same 5-1 on Tuesday afternoon, but found herself in a different situation. With the height, she earned the title, so is looking forward to bigger and better things with the premier meets just around the corner.
PROVIDENCE – The cost of getting married in Rhode Island could triple soon.
Pawtucket Rep. Elaine Coderre has introduced legislation that would add a $46 surcharge to the fee for a marriage license to pay for domestic violence prevention.
That would hike the cost of a license – which is currently $24 – to $70.
Of the additional $46, $44 would go to the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV) to operate the prevention programs and $2 would be kept by the city or town issuing the license.
PAWTUCKET – The Slater Mill Museum historic site on the Blackstone River can teach visitors plenty about how cotton is spun into thread and eventually clothing.
But the museum also tells the story of life in the Blackstone Valley before Samuel Slater opened his mill, sparking the American Industrial Revolution; the details can be found in the heritage plants and flowers growing in the garden.
Rita R. Roberts
PAWTUCKET - Rita R. (Butler) Roberts, 93, passed away Sunday, May 5, 2013. She was the beloved wife of the late Raymond J. Roberts. Born in Providence, a daughter of the late Wilfred and Elizabeth (Bouthier) Butler, she resided in Pawtucket and Attleboro for many years.
Rita leaves a daughter, Beverly A. McCabe and her late husband, Jake of Narragansett; three grandchildren, Joan Ricci and her husband, Victor of Narragansett, Patricia Arcieri of Glocester and John T. McCabe of Warwick and three great-grandchildren, Brittany Ricci, Victor Ricci and Oliver Arcieri.
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MANCHESTER, CT & ATTLEBORO, MA - Marie Rita (Laplume) Klucznik, 76, of Manchester, CT formerly of Attleboro, MA and Salt Lake City, UT beloved wife of the late Blais M. Klucznik passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Connecticut. Rita was born on July 9, 1936 in Central Falls, RI daughter of the late Herve and Alice (Perreault) Laplume. She was a sweet and gentle woman who enjoyed reading mysteries, doing crossword and jigsaw puzzles, and playing board games with her grandchildren.
Pauline Beliveau
PAWTUCKET - Pauline (Lacoursiere) Beliveau, 86, of Pawtucket passed away on April 22, 2013, daughter of the late Ernest and Yvonne Lacoursiere and the late Fernand Lacoursiere of Chicago.
She leaves one daughter, Karen Proulx, one grandson Christopher Proulx, one great grandon Corbin Proulx, one sister Jeannette Amaral, all of Pawtucket, and one brother Robert Lacoursiere of Florida, and several nieces and nephews.
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The Homer.
You might recognize this car from early-period Simpsons. More specifically, season 2 in which Homer is given free reign to design a car for the everyman, a move that gets Danny DeVito fired.
While this is pretty neat, what's really neat is that this car will compete at 24 Horus of LeMans in two days. And almost certainly lose.
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Terra Madre Day, Slow Food's worldwide celebration of local food, held on December 10 each year, is the perfect opportunity to bring together our communities in the name of good, clean and fair food, and have fun while doing it.
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Jersey's Toll Tax
January 14, 2008
Nicole Gelinas
NEW Jersey Gov. Jon Cor zine's plan for toll hikes sets a dismaying prece dent: Some of the take would indirectly fund past spending that has nothing to do with roads.
Corzine's goalsto invest in infrastructure and to reduce debtare worthy, but it's a bad idea to turn to toll payers to pay off non-road debt.
The plan would raise tolls on the Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway by up to 50 percent four separate times from 2010 to 2022, for a potential fivefold hike; it also would put a toll on a road that's now free. All that on top of other hikes to adjust for inflation.
The money won't go to the state or to the Turnpike Authority. Instead, Corzine wants a new "public-benefit corporation" that would collect the tolls and run the roads under a decades-long contract with the authority.
He believes this will be an improvement over having the Turnpike Authority run the roads directly, in part because the new outfit would have a professional management team and board of directors supposedly free of political patronagea fresh start, complete with detailed contractual requirements and new, independent overseers.
In exchange for the right to run the road and collect the tolls, this corporation will pay the state an enormous sum, $32.6 billion in a conservative scenario. It's to get the cash from private lenders, who, the governor says, will front the money even though the state won't guarantee payback, because they'll know that the future tolls will cover the debt.
Where will this money go? Corzine would dedicate about $8 billion to what toll revenues should go toward: improvement of the toll roads. Another $16 billion goes to refinance statewide transportation debtand $1.4 billion more would re-finance debt that was used to buy and preserve land.
The smaller problem with this part of the plan is that it refinances old debt far into the future. The bigger one is what Corzine wants to do with the remaining $7 billion to $12 billion: Use the cash to pay off some of the state's general debt obligations.
That debt has little to do with the state's transportation infrastructure; in some cases, it's operating debt, not capital debt. In other words, the state has "used credit cards to pay the rent"a classic finance no-no, and now it wants to use roads to pay off those credit cards.
Thanks to this provision, the proposal dangerously ties toll-road revenue to the state's operating budget and general capital-expenditure budget, albeit circuitously. The toll is thus no longer a fee to use a road but becomes partly a tax whose proceeds go toward past operational spending and current debt payments that have nothing to do with transportation.
And the plan has yet another risky feature: If New Jersey significantly cuts back its debt, that gives it the opportunity to raise more debt.
Corzine says he'll deal with this risk by asking the Legislature to agree to require voter approval for future borrowing "that does not have a dedicated source of revenue."
But New Jersey should impose this limit firstand then see how it does in sticking to it during one or two bad budget seasons, making sure there are no loopholes. Only once it passes that test should bond-rating agencies have the chance to say that New Jersey has plenty of room to raise new debt. (After all, Jersey already has a limit on debtbut has found countless ways to get around it.)
These risks are sufficient for Corzine to take apart his plan and deal with each piece separately:
* If the state is in dire need of transportation improvements that can't be funded through existing tolls, he should propose to raise tolls reasonably to fund such improvements.
* If the Turnpike Authority is so riddled with patronage that it can't responsibly manage the toll roads, then see if the new "public-benefit corporation," under a carefully written agreement with the state and run by a "professional management team" experienced in infrastructure, can do better.
(Of course, the Turnpike Authority was itself once supposed to be a professional company insulated from state government. And if it's so incompetent that it can't manage the roads, how will it be competent enough to design and manage the long-term contract for the new corporation?)
* If Corzine believes that the state's existing debt obligations are prohibitively onerous, he should make that case separately. If legislators and voters agree that the situation is that serious and has no other solution, perhaps he should propose a special tax levy dedicated by law to paying down that debt, borne by all taxpayers rather than toll payers.
Voters may prefer that the state try to cut spending rather than impose such a taxand they should have the right to make that argument, rather than think they're simply paying to use a road when they're paying a tax, too.
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Member, House of Delegates
|The authority to establish payroll dates for school division employees rests with the school board, but the Code of Virginia contemplates the establishment of regular payroll period and the mechanics of making the payments to schools rests with the treasurer of the locality. Also, § 22.1-116 is satisfied if the treasurer maintains separate internal accounts of the funds of the City and of the school division for accounting purposes; the treasurer is not required to maintain a separate bank account for school board funds.
|The Honorable William K. Barlow
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|When an employee who is installing wiring or equipment has access to "confidential information concerning the design, extent, status . . . or location of an end user's electronic security equipment," the contractor or subcontractor employing this individual must obtain a license from the Department of Criminal Justice Services as required by § 9.1-138, et seq.
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Member, House of Delegates
|No constitutional violation occurs when the justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia decline to sign an order or to identify themselves as members of the panel that ruled on a particular matter before the Court.
The Honorable Bill Janis
|The statute of limitations for written contracts applies to credit card agreements in the situation where the agreement consists of a series of documents, provided that at least one of the documents referencing and incorporating the others is signed by the cardholder, and also provided that the written documents evidencing the agreement contain all essential terms of the agreement.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
I'm thinking about bailouts
Posted by Mark Rauterkus at 10:03 AM
Bailouts in the making.
Bailouts that might fit in your car's cup holder.
Tall order bailouts should be about this tall.
Fragile. And, you can't stop at one.
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I can't help wonder at its story and how it came to be where it is today. Not just how it came to be where it is now but from the very ores mined from the ground from which it was made.
If I had a time machine I imagine I'd follow it back; years, perhaps decades. Curiosity satisfied I'd let nature reclaim that which had originally been hers.
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The Magazine
Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink
Behavioral economics—the governing theory of Obama's nanny state.
Apr 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 29 • By ANDREW FERGUSON
The premise of behavioral economics is "predictable irrationality." (Another catchphrase—you have to get used to them.) We all know we do dumb things. But the behavioralists say they've discovered that we do dumb things systematically; we act against our own best interest (eating pie, failing to save for the future) with a consistency that smart people can observe, catalogue, anticipate, and exploit. If you as choice architect, for example, know about the "status quo bias"—people are disinclined to alter their immediate circumstances even in the face of a clear long-term benefit—you'll switch the default option on the 401(k). A list of the irrational quirks, or cognitive biases, that behavioral science claims to have uncovered would be endless. In addition to status quo bias, there's delusional optimism, loss aversion, the representativeness heuristic, the law of small numbers, disaster myopia, the availability heuristic, the planning fallacy, the mere-measurement effect, the mere-exposure effect, even the "yeah, whatever heuristic," so named by Sunstein and Thaler, who have a bias for whimsy, often fatal.
This grounding in the real world, confirmed by social science, is supposed to make behavioral economics superior to traditional economics as a guide to regulating human activity. Traditional economics—rational choice economics, or neoclassical economics—gets a rough going over from behavioral economists. By their reading, its gravest error is to accept homo economicus, the notion that man is a rational economic actor who is acting always and everywhere in his own best interest, however conceived. Traditional economists don't really believe this, at least not with the dogmatic insistence they're accused of, but pretending that they do allows behavioral economists to position themselves as hard-headed realists trying to correct the airy abstractions of out-of-touch dreamers—a clever reversal of the cliché that usually makes liberals out to be the softies and right-wingers the no-nonsense types. Behavioral economics, wrote a smitten correspondent for the New York Times, "is the study of everyday life as it actually happens, not as some textbook says it should."
It's been 15 months now since behavioral economics was enthroned as the administration's reigning regulatory philosophy. If it does indeed break with a century of conventional wisdom in economics, as its partisans claim, then we should be seeing its effects already.
"It's all over the place," Thaler told me. "It's hard to find a domain where you don't see aspects of this way of doing things." He mentioned a recent proposal to require all employers to enroll their employees automatically in retirement accounts, drawing on the opt-out model championed in Nudge. The nudge given to employees, however, comes only after Congress levels an unnudgey mandate on employers. Thaler also pointed to Michelle Obama's public campaign against obesity, in which she has delivered stern lectures to grocers, food processors, parents, and schools about how fat their customers, kids, and students are. Yet Mrs. Obama's pestering is just an example of the bully pulpit—government officials and first ladies have never required behavioral science to pound the podium.
Sunstein himself, in an OMB report issued earlier this year, listed several administration proposals that had been touched by the insights of behavioral economics. One would build on the behavioralists' notion of "social norms": "Individual behavior is much influenced by the perceived behavior of other people." So President Obama issued an executive order that banned texting in government cars, "to help promote a norm" that would discourage private citizens from driving while distracted. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 required that warnings on cigarette packages be greatly enlarged and simplified—another insight based on the behavioral concept of salience, which tells us that people pay more attention to images that are hard to ignore. And when the administration designed the 2009 "middle-class tax cut," it hearkened again to the wisdom of behavioral science: Experiments proved that taxpayers would be more likely to spend the extra money if it was dispensed in increments, through adjustments in paycheck withholding, than if it came in a lump sum, as a rebate.
Some with high hopes have found these small-bore results unexpectedly disappointing. Only a year after heralding the invention of the "nudge state," the Wall Street Journal's economics writer followed up this March with a story headlined "Economic Policy 'Nudge' Gives Way to 'Shove.' "
"Some of the biggest proposals of last year have disappeared without a trace," the reporter wrote. In financial reform, for example, the Treasury Department had proposed requiring mortgage lenders and credit card companies to offer "plain vanilla" contracts—another idea popularized by Nudge—written in simple language and providing straightforward terms free of fine print. Those proposals have been shelved. Yet the Journal article quoted administration officials who insisted that behavioral economics was still alive. They cited a plan to give cut-rate loans or tax incentives to landlords to encourage them to upgrade their properties with energy efficient appliances. Once again, though, the influence of the behavioralists is hard to credit. Such a proposal operates according to traditional economics—landlords will rationally pursue their economic self-interest by grabbing a tax break—rather than to the "predictable irrationality" that the behavioralists believe they can correct through regulation.
In the grander areas of public policy, in the environment, financial reform, and health care, the administration's hoped-for libertarian paternalism is nowhere to be found. In place of gentle pokes and prods and nudges, the administration is hoping to levy taxes and bans, impose mandates and caps, set prices and restrain trade to make people behave properly—all the command-and-control methods from the Old Kind of Democrats' handbook. Removed from the nurturing environment of the university, soft paternalism stiffens up considerably.
What's happened? It's not yet clear how pertinent the science of behavioral economics is to the real world, even though the real world is supposed to be its specialty, as the Times man said. Certainly it shows no advantage in predictive power. No behavioral models foresaw the fiscal collapse of 2008; behavioral economists were as surprised as traditional economists when the housing bubble went pffft. Projecting their principles into the future, behavioral economists can be as goofy as the rest of us. Like many Americans, many behavioralists were against President Bush's surge in Iraq in 2007. Unlike many Americans, however, the behavioralists could pretend that their skepticism was rooted in science rather than political disposition.
As the surge was being debated, the behavioralist Daniel Kahneman published an essay that was intended as a rebuke to Bush's warmongering. Kahneman pointed to "several well-known laboratory demonstrations" proving that "hawkish beliefs and preferences . . . [are] built into the fabric of the human mind" and hence not entirely rational. A hawk's irrationality takes many forms, upon each of which the behavioralists have bestowed a complicated name. He mentioned "reactive devaluation" and "illusion of control" and "the fundamental attribution error" and much else. Unchecked, these cognitive biases might lead a nation, or at least its leader, to escalate a war foolishly, based upon nothing but reptilian instinct.
In hindsight, of course, Bush's decision doesn't look irrational at all. And it didn't seem irrational to lots of reasonable people at the time. Kahneman's decision to cast the prudential question of the surge as a contest between reasonable science and blind biological urge was silly at best, sinister at worst.
Aside from being wrong—and unreasonable, to boot —the Kahneman essay illustrated one of the salient tendencies among behavioral economists. Their definition of "irrational" is slippery. It can apply to any opinion or style of behavior they disagree with on political grounds. Consider the landlord initiative mentioned above. It's telling that the Obama regulators consider this a case for behavioral economics. If a landlord chooses to waste energy with inefficient appliances, traditional economics would give him the benefit of the doubt and search for reasons why he might do that. His rationality, that is, would be assumed. But the Obama regulators presume the landlord's behavior is irrational and ripe for a correction based on their behavioral insights. And why is the landlord being irrational? Because wasting energy has social effects (global warming, increased dependence on foreign oil, and so on) that the behavioralists dislike and the landlord discounts. Such behavior, in their view, is irrational on its face, the symptom of a cognitive bias—"myopia," maybe, or the "endowment effect."
The behavioralists are often caught smuggling in a normative and political judgment under the cloak of disinterested science. A hidden assumption is easy to conceal because the science that the behavioral economists draw upon is highly elastic, not to say flimsy. One cognitive bias that the behavioralists don't mention, though its lure seems irresistible, is the bias that makes human beings swallow uncritically the declarations of social science. The bias deters the layman from snooping around to see if the science makes sense. This is the well-established "chump effect," a name I just made up. It accounts for the breathless reception given to the books by Gladwell and the other popularizers of sociological and psychological research. "Findings reveal . . ." "Scientists have uncovered . . ." "Research has shown that . . ." And we swoon.
But what does "research show"? What do "findings reveal"? Usually much less than the behavioral economists want to believe. And they do want to believe. They burrow through stacks of boring journals and come upon an article describing a new experiment with a deliciously provocative conclusion and looking up from the page they can hear the cry: "Generalize me, big boy! Make me relevant!" Skepticism flies off, and the economists never stop to consider the fishy process by which those provocative conclusions were reached.
The vast majority come from behavioral experiments that are completely artificial in their construction. Most take place in labs at elite universities, where graduate students and professors pay undergraduates a pittance to sit for varying periods of time and fill out questionnaires of varying length. Sometimes the subjects are asked to interact while the grad students watch them, other times the questionnaires alone suffice to produce the data. "Behavioral economics," Thaler likes to say, "is the study of humans in markets." Actually, it's the study of college kids in psych labs.
An example: In his recent OMB report, Sunstein insists that regulators take account of a cognitive bias called "probability neglect" in finding ways to impose their soft paternalism. Probability neglect is defined like this: "When emotions are strongly felt, people may focus on the outcome and not on the probability that it will occur." Which is to say, when you really want something you tend to be unrealistic about your chances of getting it. Surely that's true for all of us sometimes, and always true for some of us. But is it a universal pattern of behavior, one reliable enough to enshrine in a one-size-fits-all government regulation?
Who knows? Behavioral economists trace their detailed understanding of probability neglect to a study from 2001. In three separate experiments, a pair of graduate students from the University of Chicago Business School asked undergraduates from Chicago and Rice University to complete questionnaires. The 40 students from Rice, in Texas, were asked whether they would prefer to receive $50 in cash or "the opportunity to meet and kiss your favorite movie star." The methodological details aren't worth describing here—we can stipulate that the experiments were conducted with the utmost rigor and elegance. What's notable is that the experiments were thereafter assumed by social scientists to have established "probability neglect" as a consistent principle guiding human behavior in the marketplace. All thanks to 40 kids from Texas, filling out a form in 2001.
Likewise, when administration officials designed the 2009 tax cut—delivered by withholding less from paychecks instead of by making single lump payments to taxpayers—they were operating on the basis of another U.C. study. Two researchers brought undergraduates to a lab and handed each $50. Half the students were told the extra money was a "tuition rebate," the other that it was a "bonus." The experimenters followed up with questions by email a week later. The bonus group spent more money than the rebate group. From this result the administration felt confident in predicting how 140 million taxpayers would spend their tax cut. No one knows whether it was more effective in increments than it would have been in lump payments, of course; the tax cut was too small to trace in an economy so vast. It probably wouldn't have worked either way. But at least the administration had an experiment on its side.
Asked about behavioral economics in an interview recently, the neoclassical economist Gary Becker summed up his reservations. "There is a heck of a difference between demonstrating something in a laboratory, in experiments, even highly sophisticated experiments, and showing that they are important in the marketplace," he said. "Economics theory is not about how people act in experiments, but how they act in markets."
Other prominent skeptics, among them Joshua Wright of George Mason Law School and Gregory Mitchell of the University of Virginia, have begun dismantling the behavioralists' conceit more systematically. "Even if you discover a real cognitive bias," Wright said last month, "there will be a good deal of variation within the population, based on cognitive ability and personality traits. And if the bias varies from person to person, you can't assume that the bias will just 'scale up,' in a generalized way, when it's in the marketplace. Thaler and Sunstein will take a single study of a hundred Duke undergrads and say, 'Here's what we found—and here are the public policy implications.' That's not scientific. That's just sloppy."
Mitchell cut even deeper. He has discovered what he calls a "citation bias within psychology that favors pessimistic accounts of decision making." Experiments designed to demonstrate irrationality tend to find it. Even the most ingenious experiment can't replicate how individuals behave in the real world. We change and adapt over the course of months and years, reflect and learn, and call on the help of friends and family. These vital and unpredictable improvisations won't happen in the vacuum of the college psych lab, with a besmocked Ph.D. student hovering close by.
Behavioral economists deny any ideological intent in their work. The closest I've seen any of them come to conceding a political point of view was when Thaler, in a recent interview, said, "If there's a regulatory philosophy in behavioral economics, it's that we should recognize that people in the economy are human and that there are people out there trying to take advantage of them." In this sense, behavioral economics is just conventional 1960s liberalism—and conventional 1960s economics, too—that assumes the free market itself is a kind of unending con game, with the smart guys exploiting the saps. As an advocate for the market's hapless victims, the government has the responsibility to undo the con, a task that will require only the smartest administrators operating according to only the latest scientific research and making the most exquisite moral judgments.
You can see how useful the notion of irrational man is to a would-be regulator. It is less helpful to the rest of us, because it runs counter to every intuition a person has about himself. Nobody sees himself always as a boob, constantly misunderstanding his place in the world and the effect he has upon it. Surely the behavioral economists don't see themselves that way. Only rational people can police the irrationality of others according to the principles of an advanced scientific discipline. If the behavioralists were boobs too, their entire edifice would collapse from its own contradictions. Somebody's got to be smart enough to see how silly the rest of us are.
Traditional economics has always been more modest. Assuming the rationality of man was a device that made the discipline possible. The alternative—irrational people behaving in irrational ways—would complicate the world beyond the possibility of understanding. But the modesty wasn't just epistemological. It was also a democratic impulse, a sign of neighborly deference. A regulator who always assumed that man was other than rational was inviting himself into a position where he could exert a control over his fellow citizens that wasn't proper for a true democrat. Self-government demands this deference. It won't work otherwise.
"Ultimately," the economist Brian Mannix wrote not long ago, "we insist that our regulators start from a presumption of rationality for the same reason that we insist that our criminal courts start from a presumption of innocence: not because the assumption is necessarily true, but because a government that proceeds from the opposite assumption is inevitably tyrannical."
Well, maybe not inevitably. Those behavioralists may be smart, but they're not quick. It's been 15 months since President Obama gave them 100 days to explain how to use behavioral economics in government regulation. They're still working on the report.
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Wanted felon's mother wants him to turn himself in
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima police are still searching for the convicted felon who was given a 24-hour furlough to see his dying mother.
Officers have not been able to track down 29-year-old Jacob Lucey.
Linda Cook told Action News she's hurt by the negative comments about her son. She says he wasn't lying to get out of jail.
"A 24-hour furlough to a dying mother who they say quote, 'They don't know if I'm sick or not.' Yes, I'm very sick. I have degenerative arthritis through my whole body. I have other issues, health issues I don't care to discuss," said Linda Cook, Jacob Lucey's mother.
Lucey's mother says he spent his time out of prison taking care of her. And she wants him to turn himself into police.


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Now Frank Ski Is On The Radio, Television AND Newsstands!
June 10, 2011 9:20 AM
As we announced weeks ago, Frank and Tanya Ski have been named Black Enterprise's 2011 Community Champion for their work with The Frank Ski Kids Foundation – an award that came with a presentation from publisher Earl Graves at the magazine's Entrepreneurs Conference and Expo in Atlanta last month, and now…
an article in the publication that hit newsstands this week.
Frank and Tanya Ski "work to expose kids to new places and experiences," the story by Tamara E. Holmes says. "Italy, the Amazon rainforest, and the Galapagos Islands are just a few of the global destinations the Skis take kids through their altruistic labor of love, the Frank Ski Kids Foundation."


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Quality of Life
The better life.
Oklahoma's low cost of living means you can have it all. If a New York resident making $200,000 per year moved to Oklahoma on the same salary, the move would add up to an extra $54,600 in savings. With the new disposable income, they can own a larger home, a car, take vacation and beef up investment portfolios.
Have your dream home for half the cost of a coastal market.
Learn more about Oklahoma real estate, average retail prices and utilities, rankings, or CNBC America's Top States for Business.
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Putting Oklahoma's Cost of Living in Context:
- The median sales price of a home in Oklahoma is $137,000 – among the lowest in the country. In Oklahoma, you can have your dream home for half of what it would cost in a coastal market.
- Basic utility costs are below the national average in Oklahoma. For example, Oklahoma City's utility costs are 20 percent lower than Dallas'. That means Oklahomans have more money for retirement nest eggs, paying off mortgages or taking vacations.
- In Oklahoma, gasoline costs 7 percent less than the national average.
- Rent in Oklahoma is about 25 percent cheaper than the national average.
Putting Oklahoma's Quality of Life in Context:
- We offer a wide variety of outdoor recreation – according to the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma is one of only four states to have 10 or more "eco-regions," or areas that have a distinct terrain.
- Oklahoma has more than 300 museums covering a wide variety of subjects, from the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa to Oklahoma City's National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
- Oklahoma is home to one of the nation's best professional sports franchises – the Oklahoma City Thunder – according to ESPN The Magazine's 2013 "Ultimate Standings" article.
- Oklahoma boasts more than 11,600 miles of shoreline and more than 78,500 miles of rivers and streams.
- Our major metropolitan areas – Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Lawton – are growing and improving their quality of life each year.


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Sometimes I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. (And yes, I just called myself a tool. Sheesh!)
Moving along…
I found the following marriage listings on the FamilySearch.org website after a fairly simple search. (Wish I'd thought of this sooner or maybe I did but the index wasn't "live" when I looked last. I can only hope it's the latter.)
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Ada has been one of my "brick walls" for sometime because I can't ever get a hold on her correct maiden name. I've finally found William and Ada's marriage! William and Ada are my great grandparents.
Tom and Viola are my grandparents. I never found their marriage date before now.
This is the record that started me looking through the Texas marriages. I had found Roy with Edna in the census records but was never able to locate his death information. I thought if I could find Edna's maiden name, it might be easier to follow her. (Sadly, I'm no closer to locating either Roy or Edna's death information but I'm thrilled with this marriage information.)
I actually have this marriage certificate thanks to a wonderful cousin but it was neat to see how the marriage was indexed. Sam and Lula are my great grandparents.
There must be a ton more. I'll have to carefully go through my database and the FamilySearch website to find them all. (Yet another thing to add to my To Do List.) For now, I think I'll take myself off to the local Family History Center and order some films. I've got Texas marriage certificates to see!
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Chiang Rai Night Bazaar
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What we say:
A fraction of the size of Chiang Mai's more famous night bazaar, the mini version in downtown Chiang Rai is still a pleasant place for an evening stroll and an excellent option for snacks and a beer or dinner.
The offerings are similar, though much reduced in choice, to the Chiang Mai version: hill-tribe handicrafts, pirated DVDs, T-shirts, carved soap candles and so on — though how many Hmong shoulder bags can one possibly need?
What we do like at the Chiang Rai market and we feel make it a worthwhile evening destination are the excellent eating and drinking areas — a nice alternative to Chiang Rai's other eating spots.
There are two adjacent sections, one comprised of nice wooden furniture and waitstaff wearing north Thai costumes, and another more aimed at locals with aluminium chairs and staff in jeans and T-shirts. The former has all the usual Thai and north Thai dishes and a very tasteful traditional Lanna dance show (though you may have to put up with a guitarist singing Hotel California between dances), while the latter has live Thai rock and country bands, cheap draught beer and lots of fried insects and snack food.
Both areas are reasonably priced and fun and personally we like to have a couple of pre-dinner drinks and snacks in the local area, move to the nearby "tourist" section for dinner then perhaps head back over the soi to catch a local band or game on the big screen TV.
The night bazaar's open daily from dusk until midnight-ish, and is located off the main drag, Phaholyothin Road (see map).
More detailsOff Phaholyothin Rd, Chiang Rai
Opening Hours: Daily dusk to midnight
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The primary aim of this project is to study more closely the role played by post-release aftercare in the outcomes of criminal offenders who received in-prison substance abuse treatment. Prison-based therapeutic communities (TC) (Pelissier et al., 2001; Wexler, 1995) have demonstrated efficacy, especially when combined with post-release TC aftercare (Melnick et al., 2001). The aims of this project are important from a public health perspective as there may be treatment matching, case management, and financing factors that could be manipulated to enhance the cost-effectiveness of community-based substance abuse treatment for offenders leaving prison. It is possible that both TC and Oxford House(OH) aftercare modalities increase abstinence social support, self-efficacy, and employment, which mediate reductions in drug use, reincarceration, and health problems, but overall benefits are likely to be greater for TCs because they employ professional services and empirically based behavioral strategies. However, OHs might have advantages compared to more traditional post-incarceration modalities (e.g., low costs). Bringing scientific methods to the examination of TCs and the OH community-based recovery models for addiction might help to identify the "active ingredients" of these recovery settings.
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Caregiver)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Evaluating Alternative Aftercare Models for Ex-Offenders
- Substance Use [ Time Frame: 2 years from baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Criminal Recidivism [ Time Frame: 2 years from baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Health Status [ Time Frame: 2 years from baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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Other Name: Oxford House
Experimental: 3
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- have completed substance abuse treatment program, or attended 12-step program
- willing to live in a democratic residential setting, and pay rent
- Released from a prison or jail in the last 6 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- current substance addict/abuser
- have previously lived in an Oxford House
- not planning to go back to their own home or home of a relative following treatment
- sex offender, fire setter
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00664092
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|April 18, 2008
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|February 10, 2015
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Record Attendance for the Eighth Salone del Gusto
The eighth Salone del Gusto, Slow Food's biannual food festival, came to a close today, Monday October 25. The five days of the event attracted record numbers of visitors to Turin's Lingotto Fiere, with total attendance estimated at over 200,000.
The closing press conference, held this afternoon, was attended by the Piedmont Regional Authority's councilor for education, sport and tourism, Alberto Cirio; the City of Turin's councilor for trade, tourism, productive activities and urban marketing Alessandro Altamura, and the president of Slow Food Italy, Roberto Burdese.
Roberto Burdese began by reflecting on the event from three points of view: political, organizational and numerical. From a political perspective, this edition confirms the union between the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, clearly evident from the political and educational continuity between the two events. "This is the Salone del Gusto in its maturity and it has been one of the best editions of Terra Madre in terms of the sediment of ideas and projects it leaves behind it. The continuity between the two events has been shown by the extraordinary attendance of the conferences, particularly those dealing with environmental and social issues like land grabbing and sustainable packaging, and of Slow Food's educational initiatives, with 5,000 adults participating in the 'Slow Food Educa' activities and over 1,000 children taking part in the education course."
From an organizational point of view, Burdese said: "We have had very appreciative feedback about the decision to divide the market by geographical area. The exhibitors are satisfied; they've made important contacts within the sector and they had fun. We haven't seen so many happy faces for some time." Coming to the numbers, he said that while it was difficult to make a exact assessment, the goal of attracting over 200,000 visitors had been reached. "Among these, 30% were from outside Italy," he said. "Compared to 2008, we sold more books, which shows a cultural change taking place in the Salone's visitors, compared to the first edition in 1996. The new Slow Wine guide has been a great success, and so, unexpectedly, has been Il piacere dell'orto, about vegetable gardening, both Slow Food Editore titles."
In conclusion, Burdese highlighted how the success of the just-concluded event confirms that the food-production sector is strategic for Italy. "Today, more than ever, it needs to be supported by investments, and above all by planning skills. It must become one of the fundamental pillars of the national economy."
Next to speak was Alessandro Altamura of the City of Turin. "This event is another step towards Turin becoming the true Italian capital of food and wine. The numbers support our aim: We have moved from 180,000 visitors in 2008 to over 200,000 this year, while in terms of exhibitors the 620 of the last edition have now become 910. And this is in spite of the economic crisis and the cuts that we too have had to make. Once again, the positive outcome of this event belongs to everyone: to the city, to the region and to everyone who has worked with us."
"Events like the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, together with other important events like, for example, the Salone del Libro book fair, are real and important international showcases, and need to be further promoted," he continued.
Regional Councilor Alberto Cirio closed the conference, saying, "The Salone del Gusto together with Terra Madre has been confirmed as one of the greatest Piedmontese events of national and international significance. With its 200,000 visitors, it contributes in an important way to the tourism and commercial activities of this region and at the same time has the capacity and authority to inspire a profound reflection on food and the global community it represents. The regional authority will continue to support it as Slow Food's partner, taking all the measures necessary to guarantee the event's success."
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The county and surrounding areas offer 22 free factory tours, ac cording to the York County Conven tion & Visitors Bureau's website.
Some of the business owners who host tours said they enjoy teaching their craft to visitors.* * *
Christina Clarke, owner of Sunrise Soap Co. on North Beaver Street in York, said the store has been in business for more than eight years.
"We have been doing factory tours, educational field trips and hands-on interactive parties for over three years," she said via email.
She encourages folks to call the shop and arrange a tour to learn how freshly crafted, all-natural body care — including soaps, lotions, fiz zies, scrubs and lip balms — are made.
The store hosts a girls' night out and birthday parties that include a two-hour, hands-on lesson on the art of making bath products, she said.* * *
Beth Lutz and her family own Painted Spring Farm Alpacas in Jackson Township, where they raise alpacas, shear the animals yearly and have the fibers processed into yarns for spinning.
"We then use the yarn to create finished knit, crochet and woven items," Lutz said via email. "We've been doing this for about 12 years and have over 40 animals. We also breed and sell the animals to people who are interested in raising alpacas themselves for breeding, fiber or just as pets.
The farm hosts tours to intro duce people to the animals, she said.
"For larger tours and for groups with children, I often do a spinning (demonstration) and have the kids help spin the yarn," she said.
Jenne Anderson, operator and owner of New Grounds Roasting Co. in York, said the business roasts and sells coffee in the shop.
"You can find our coffee fea tured at (Sovereign Bank Stadium) as well as York Hospital and a few other small businesses in the com munity," Anderson said via email. "We have live entertainment most Friday and Saturday nights, ranging anywhere from spoken word, open- mic nights and a very eclectic blend of live music. Our vision is to be a community connector and we strive to provide excellent service from the very top to the bottom."
New Grounds also gives tours of the company to teach folks how coffee is grown, harvested and roasted, she said. At the end of the tour, visitors sample freshly roasted coffee, she said.
"We are very passionate about what we do and love to open our door to our customers," she said.
Factory and store tours· Bluett Bros. Violins, 122 Hill St., Spring Garden Township, www.bluettbros-violins.com
· Family Heirloom Weavers, 775 Meadowview Drive, York Town ship, www.familyheirloom
· First Capital Federal Credit Union Green Tour, 2602 Course Road, York Township, www.firstcapitalfcu.com
· Harley-Davidson Motor Co., Vehicle Operations, 1425 Eden Road, Springettsbury Township, www.harley-davidson.com
· Macklin's Café, 2069 Spring wood Road, Spring Garden Town ship, www.macklinscafe.com
· Martin's Potato Chips, 5847 Lincoln Highway, Jackson Township, www.martinschips.com
· Miss Lucy's Dog Treats, 5241 N. Salem Church Road, Dover Township, www.misslucysdogtreats.com
· Naylor Wine Cellars, 4069 Vineyard Road, Hopewell Township, www.naylorwine.com
· New Grounds Roasting Co., 284 West Market St., York, www.newgrounds3c.com
· Painted Spring Farm Alpacas, 280 Roth Church Road, Jackson Township, paintedspring.com
· Perrydell Farm Dairy, 90 Indian Rock Dam Road, York Town ship, www.perrydellfarm.com
· Revonah Pretzels, 507 Balti more St., Hanover, www.revonahpretzel.com
· Snyder's of Hanover, 1350 York St., Penn Township, www.snydersofhanover.com
· Sunrise Soap Company, 29 N Beaver St., York, www.sunrisesoapco.com
· Sweet Willows Creamery, 2812 East Prospect Road, York Township, sweetwillows.com
· The Prancing Pig, Paint Your Own Pottery and Gifts, 2021 Spring wood Road, York Township, www.prancingpigpottery.com
· Utz Snacks, 900 High St., Hanover, www.utzsnacks.com
· Walk-Le Holsteins, 6898 Oak Lane, Paradise Township, www.walkleholsteins.com
· Wolfgang Candy Co., 50 E. Fourth Ave., North York, www.wolfgangcandy.com
· York County Solid Waste Au thority, 2651 Blackbridge Road, Manchester Township,
· York Time Institute, 312 W. Market St., York, www.yorktimeinstitute.com