text:
Bill Black: Our System Is So Flawed That Fraud Is Mathematically Guaranteed
Submitted by Adam Taggart via Peak Prosperity blog,
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
Bill Black is a former bank regulator who played a central role in prosecuting the corruption responsible for the S&L crisis of the late 1980s. He is one of America's top experts on financial fraud. And he laments that the US has descended into a type of crony capitalism that makes continued fraud a virtual certainty - while increasingly neutering the safeguards intended to prevent and punish such abuse.
In this extensive interview, Bill explains why financial fraud is the most damaging type of fraud and also the hardest to prosecute. He also details how, through crony capitalism, it has become much more prevalent in our markets and political system.
A warning: there's much revealed in this interview to make your blood boil. For example: the Office of Thrift Supervision. In the aftermath of the S&L crisis, this office brought 3,000 administration enforcements actions (a.k.a. lawsuits) against identified perpetrators. In a number of cases, they clawed back the funds and profits that the convicted parties had fraudulently obtained.
Flash forward to the 2008 credit crisis, in which just the related household sector losses alone were over 70x greater than those seen during the entire S&L debacle. So how many criminal referrals did the same agency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, make?
Similar dismal action was taken by such other financial regulators as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal reserve and the FDIC.
Where is the accountability?, you may be asking. Or perhaps, how did we allow things to get this bad?
Fraud is both a civil wrong and a crime and it's when I get you to trust me and then I betray your trust in order to steal from you. As a result, there's no more effective acid against trust than fraud and, in particular, elite fraud, which causes people to no longer trust folks, economies break down, families break down, political systems break down and such if you don't have that kind of trust. So that's what fraud is.
But what my work focuses on is: what kind of frauds are the most devastating? And it turns out that the most kind of problems that we're seeing, systemic problems and such, arise when we have, what we call in criminology, control fraud. And control fraud simply means when you have a seemingly legitimate entity and the person who controls it uses it as a weapon to defraud others. And so in the financial sphere the weapon of choice is accounting and the losses from these kinds of control frauds exceed the financial losses from all other forms of property crime combined.
So for example, in the current crisis, as with the prior ones, if you're a lender there's an easy recipe for maximizing fake accounting income. And it goes like this. You need four ingredients:
- grow like crazy
- by making really, really crappy loans but at a premium yield (yield just means 'interest rate')
- while employing extreme leverage, and
- while setting aside only the most trivial reserves or allowances for the inevitable losses this kind of behavior produces.
George Akerlof and Paul Romer wrote the classic article in economics about this in 1993. And their title really says it all in terms of the dynamic: Looting the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit. The idea is you have a seemingly legitimate entity, the person at the top is looting it. They loot it by destroying it but they walk away wealthy. Of course, in the modern era we don't necessarily, we may bail out the entity. So it may not even fail in that sense.
But here's what Akerlof and Romer also said that was so critical as an understanding. They said these four steps, these four ingredients: it's just math. It is – and I'm quoting them now "a sure thing." So you're mathematically guaranteed if you do these four things to report, not just substantial income, but record levels of income.
The big thing about the seemingly legitimate entity when the CEO is the crook is, first, everybody reports to the CEO ultimately, right? So the CEO is the point failure mechanism where if he or she goes bad, almost everything may go bad as well. So all those things that we call internal and external controls, all report to the CEO and the CEO therefore can, as I'll describe, use compensation, hiring, firing, praise, and such to produce the environment that will commit, create allies for his fraud. Now, note that what I'm saying. The CEO, the art of this is not to defeat your controls. The elegant solution as in mathematics is to suborn the controls and turn them into your most valuable allies. And therefore, for example, when you're running accounting control fraud where your weapon of fraud is accounting and that weapon of choice in finance is accounting. You're going to want to hire the most prestigious accountants as your outside auditors because it is precisely their reputation that is most valuable when you can suborn them. And, they give you that clean opinion that you just described that will help you deceive other shareholders. So one enormous advantage is internal and external controls come to the CEO level.
A second incredible advantage is the CEO can optimize the firm as a weapon of fraud. And the< CEO can do that. Basically, this falls into two big categories. One, you can put it in assets that have no readily verifiable market value because then it's a lot easier to inflate asset valuations and to hide real losses. And the second thing you do is grow like crazy. And, of course, that is the essence of something your listeners have all heard about, and that is a Ponzi scheme. And so these accounting control frauds have strong Ponzi-scheme like elements, which is why they tend to cause such catastrophic losses.
Click the play button below to listen to Part I of Chris' interview with Bill Black (58m:28s). Part II can be accessed by clicking here.
- advertisements -
"America isn't a country. It's a business. Now give me my fucking money!"
I love this quote from "Killing Them Softly" as spoken by Brad Pitt. Sums it up for me. The President = the CEO. Eric Holder and his Justice Dep't = internal controls.
The rest of us = the low-level employees.
Sounds like what IndyMac Bank did.
The primary causes of IndyMac's failure were largely associated with its business strategy of originating and securitizing Alt-A loans on a large scale. This strategy resulted in rapid growth and a high concentration of risky assets. From its inception as a savings association in 2000, IndyMac grew to the seventh largest savings and loan and ninth largest originator of mortgage loans in the United States. During 2006, IndyMac originated over $90 billion of mortgages.
IndyMac's aggressive growth strategy, use of Alt-A and other nontraditional loan products, insufficient underwriting, credit concentrations in residential real estate in the California and Florida markets, and heavy reliance on costly funds borrowed from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) and from brokered deposits, led to its demise when the mortgage market declined in 2007.
IndyMac often made loans without verification of the borrower's income or assets, and to borrowers with poor credit histories. Appraisals obtained by IndyMac on underlying collateral were often questionable as well. As an Alt-A lender, IndyMac's business model was to offer loan products to fit the borrower's needs, using an extensive array of risky option-adjustable-rate-mortgages (option ARMs), subprime loans, 80/20 loans, and other nontraditional products. Ultimately, loans were made to many borrowers who simply could not afford to make their payments. The thrift remained profitable only as long as it was able to sell those loans in the secondary mortgage market. IndyMac resisted efforts to regulate its involvement in those loans or tighten their issuing criteria: see the comment by Ruthann Melbourne, Chief Risk Officer, to the regulating agencies.[14][15][16]
Not to mention the shadow figures lurking in the background waiting for developments to take advantage of the deal, such as the performance of George Soros in the shameful saga of IndyMac.
Again, cui bono?
Why did New York Senator Charles Schumer damage Indymac liquidity so that IndyMac would be immediately bankrupted? Who profited? It was Soros, Mnuchin and John Paulson.
The OneWest Boys Who Got the Sweetheart Deal is a video produced by TBWS Daily.com, founded by a group of real estate and mortgage industry entrepreneurs to provide tools and industry integrity for their businesses. Here is the transcript:
Consider this! Like many other banks, Indymac Bank closed its doors and was seized by the FDIC in July 2008. The assets of Indymac Bank were sold to OneWest Bank by the FDIC in March 2009.
Well, guess who owns OneWest Bank? That would be Goldman Sachs' VP Steven Mnuchin and big time Sachs' investors and billionaires George Soros and John Paulson (of no blood relation to ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson who'd be the ex-secretary of the treasury) …
All current residential mortgages were purchased at 70% of the par value. All HELOC's were purchased at 58% of the value. But just to make sure these guys remained cozy and warm, the FDIC decided to step up and cover 80% to 95% of the losses they might incur from any of those naughty Indymac mortgage homeowners.
So you're probably asking yourself why we think you should know this. Well, in the event of a short sale or a foreclosure, the loss is calculated using the original loan balance and not the amount OneWest Bank paid for the loan.
Here's an actual example from a client of one of our viewers. Take an actual loan balance of $478,000 plus 6 months' missed payments for a grand total of $485,200. OneWest Bank paid $334,600 for that loan. Okay. Now, the underwater homeowner has an all cash offer that nets $241,000 for OneWest Bank. Well, according to the FDIC formula, you take the original loan amount, $485,200 minus the amount of the offer $241,000, and that leaves you with $244,200 bucks.
Next, according to the sweetheart deal, the FDIC writes a check to OneWest Bank for 80% of the net loss ($244,200). So in this case, OneWest Bank gets a check from the taxpayer courtesy of the FDIC for $195,360. So, now, add the $195,360 from the government to the $241,000 cash offer and OneWest Bank just made $436,360 on a loan that they bought for only $334,600 and all they had to do is sell it for whatever they wanted to.
Guys, they can't loss money on this deal. Think about it. So OneWest Bank just profited from the short sale to the tune of $101,760--all thanks to the insane arrangement that they have with the FDIC… Hey, whoever said it's good to have friends in high places wasn't kidding around.
So the next time you ask yourself why it is so hard to get a loan modification, the answer is because there's too much money to be made with short sales and foreclosures.
Now, are you ready for an encore? Now remember, even though OneWest Bank profited by more than $100,000, the house was still sold for less than the full loan amount. In this actual scenario, the borrower was forced to sign a promissory note for $75,000 with OneWest Bank. So who really pays in the end? … Well, we'll just let you decide.
Oh, and by the way, the FDIC just announced it's to start borrowing money from the treasury, the treasury being the place where all those Goldman Sachs guys called home before they called OneWest Bank home. If you're as mad about this as Frank and I are, share this video with everyone you know. Help us reveal where the real problems lie in the industry that we all care so deeply about. (End)
OneWest Bank's Chief Executive Officer is Terry Laughlin, a veteran banking executive with over 30 years of banking experience who has held senior positions at Merrill Lynch Bank & Trust, FleetBoston and Mellon Bank.
Let the hands-off markets decide, not the hands-on bankers!
As for Mnuchin, BloombergBusinessWeek related: Steven Mnuchin never dreamed of running a regional bank. He didn't ever imagine moving to Los Angeles. A true creature of Wall Street—a former Goldman Sachs (GS) partner and active hedge fund manager—he was making plenty of money in New York. Yet he had carefully weighed the risks of buying IndyMac Bank, the Pasadena (Calif.)-based lender that collapsed in 2008. IndyMac's distressed mortgages and mortgage-backed securities had no place to go but up; the Federal Reserve, through its discount window, was practically giving money away; and Southern California was a rich, relatively underserved banking region. So in December 2008, Mnuchin put together a partnership and bought IndyMac. …
Mnuchin and his team had experience in virtually every aspect of IndyMac, except one: actually running a bank… "
From the start, Mnuchin envisioned the building of OneWest as a three-step process. The first was the acquisition of IndyMac itself. The second was to build the bank's asset base by taking over additional failed banks, including First Federal Bank of California, purchased in 2009, and La Jolla Bank, acquired in 2010, which added over 40 branches to the existing IndyMac branches. To get a foothold in the commercial real estate loan market, OneWest also purchased a $1.4 billion portfolio from Citi Holdings (C) in 2010. From December 2009 to November 2010, OneWest more than doubled its capital base. "That had been the plan from day zero," Mnuchin says. …
And weren't the short sale laws changed so that after 2012 the homeowner had to claim the difference between the short sale & the mortgage amount as income?
This crap sets my hair on fire!
Burning at the stake would be to compassionate for these thieves.
If you tell, show, explain all this to 98% of the American people, they will stare at you like a cow. Nothing will happen...not to these guys, politians....,no one will pay for these crimes against the welfare and health of this once great nation ( well if LAW made them ok to do, then they are not crimes in the 'eyes' of the law....thank you Mr congressman).
None of this has happened by accident, it couldn't. It is a plan, and has been in the works for years, just like 'moles' who get planted into a government.
People just shrug their shoulders, and say..."yea, well, what can i do about it". And the sad answer is nothing, and these guys know it. So until it all breaks down into nothingness, and the hounds hunts down the criminals, all 'we litle people' can do is take a deep breath and get the hell out of the way.
No force can stop this except for the military, and that dear HZ readers is the truth.
'Their' dysfunction will eventually bring themselves down.
Evil = dysfunctional.
Good always wins in the end - its has to.
Evil cant produce or give birth to anything - it can just pervert, lie and manipulate things....lol, nice try though.
if there ever was a perfect profile for this recipe for fraud it was Mozillo - if they are not going after him then nothing will ever happen -
all you can do is not play - if you play you will get burned this year or next year or sooner or later - system is designed to fail and each time fortunes are made and politicians get paid for that to happen
it is inevitable to happen all again
The de evolution of the sec....ect
They really are going to ruin a good racket for the rest of legit public companies...oh wait...
Excellent interview, well explained, extremely lucid so well done Bill Black and unfortunate there are few people like you today.
If more Americans listened to this there would be riots in the streets
but NOT going happen because the elites have all bases covered and bought and paid so the NET NET is unless you can get into the 2% club you're pretty much a HAVE NOT ;-)
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Gretchen Morgenson tells Bill that, five years after the country's economic near-collapse, banks are still too big to fail, too big to manage, and too big to trust. Stockholders' reaffirmation of Jamie Dimon as JP Morgan Chase's chairman and CEO this week — despite a year of accusations and investigations at the bank — is further evidence, she says, of an unchecked system that continues to covet profits and eschew accountability, putting our economy and democracy at risk. Morgenson also discusses how behemoth companies like Apple manipulate the system and avail themselves of the biggest tax loopholes money and influence can buy.
"These banks are not getting smaller; they're getting larger. There are now more too-big-to-fail institutions than there were prior to the 2008 crisis," Morgenson tells Bill.
And while the Dodd-Frank Act was supposed to prevent that from happening, Morgenson says the law itself is less powerful than those it hopes to regulate.
"Dodd-Frank set up a system to unwind troubled institutions when they become troubled. But it requires regulators taking a really firm stand against large, politically-interconnected, and powerful companies… I just think it's too easy to put the taxpayer on the hook and bail these people out. So of course the response from these people is going to be, I'll just do it bigger next time, the taxpayer will be there to bail me out, and we'll go on our merry way."
The FED is a control fraud.
1. Grow like crazy- FED is running balance sheet to 4 trillion.
3. while employing extreme leverage- FED is leveraged over 50 to 1, more than the investment banks which crashed.
right. the feral reserve note is a control fraud
monetary unit therefore you are guaranteed , by the nature
of the money itself, control fraud as the only viable means
of financial survival. that is my opinion and I am not alone
in entertaining it.
interesting that Tyler is now scrubbing entire comments;
my comment on Anderson Accounting, Ken Lay, Enron was all factually correct and not a Libel comment yet it has been completely removed from its original #2 comment on this article without notice.
Ya mean that this has not been obvious..?
The coming age of China, India, Brazil, Africa in 2030 ...
When the west regresses, the east and the south progress.
I was involved with the RTC in the early 90's. I was convinced then, and even more so now, that the S&L crisis was intentionally concocted. The lack of control in one of the most "regulated" industries in the World was beyond believability.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind, it was simply a "test" run to perfect the method(s) to conduct the greatest theft in World history, which is occuring as I type.
Yes, and many of the major players today are still in the halls of power.
Ah yes, the good Professor speaks out. A square example of what real men are like when they speak truth to power, and ware no lace-panties. It all makes a difference right now. This light called Ma At speaks softly, carries a huge double-edged Sword of Truth and Justice, shines brightly on the intrepid criminal war mongering murderous bankster empire. Let us reminisce.:
O Lord our Heavenly Father, High and Mighty King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires, and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech thee, on these our American States, who have fled to thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee….Give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries;…constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony, and peace may be effectively restored, and truth and justice, religion, and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people….All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior. Amen.
The First Prayer offered in Congress
September 7, 1774 by Jacob Duche
Kinda funny how what rings truthfully century after century never fades away. May the greatness of these kinds of words engraved in the foundational stones of the world be remembered this Memorial Holiday as we salute those who gave their all just so we ALL could be here today to say; we love you all and thank you all for all you all do for the ALL that is that always loves you.
Let us give reverence in the memories of our fallen families of man that have marched off to wars for the banksters profits and population control agendas. Let us ALL embrace the truthful fact that it is NOT too late to change it all now. There is the heart/brain power on ZH alone that can do this. The full support is in the soul of man. Lets just skip the war mongering, false flag events, population murder, and redistribute the wealth instead. Let everybody continue being prosperous working towards being a peace filled world all around so we can all successfully face what comes next. It will take every single soul on board thinking as One to change that then, and this is a story for another day.
May Peace and Goodwill go out to all and every single soul world-wide. You are loved and very integral in the big picture. God bless you ALL.
The biggest scam of the financial industry has been to get everyone accepting savings accounts and the government T-Bills as reasonable foundation investments. Never mind the increased risk of owning these assets in the last few years. Simply recognize that both now have negative real rates of return. This forces every small investor and saver into even riskier ventures to try and get back the portion of their savings constantly being stolen from them by the government and Wall Street controlled Central Banking System before they have any chance of earning a true income on their money. Every investment option now implicitly has this theft feature imbedded in it.
If there were one investment among the tens of thousands of so-called great opportunities pitched by every sell-side analyst and financial advisor from San Diego to Portland Maine which simply guaranteed the purchasing power of my money, I would put every nickel of my retirement savings into that investment tomorrow. That's right, I would opt for a guaranteed zero real yield after inflation and taxes over anything else out there. I suspect many others would too which, of course, is precisely the reason none of TPTB will ever permit that particular investment option to exist. Don't believe it? Just try me Wall Street. I dare you. And if you can't or won't provide this simplest of all possible investments, then why are you so f%^cking proud of yourselves all the time?
A lot of people (including Eastern nations) are NOT buying the bonds anymore. That's why the Fed owns so much of that 'market' (and soon will own all of them). I think many among the people who invest in bonds are not really investing because they think getting 2% or less for 10 years is a good deal but more so are buying them because it is a sucker trade and so they buy bond funds and are waiting for rates to go down even more when they can dump them. This is a total ponzi. And then the remaining bond buyers simply are so used to laddering and rolling over and just default turn to them, not wary of what inflation actually is or don't get why gold is the prudent choice.
Buy a herd of cows.
What ever happend to Angelo Mozilo? Is he out golfing and getting a tan with Corzine?
There are three reasons these low lifes are free.
Firstly as Holder said they don't touch them because they don't know if prosecution will succeed and what effect it will have on the system.
The second reason is that both sides of politics have them, so it is case of you don't hurt me or I will hurt you.
Third, these crooks know secrets of the administration and others and nobidy wants to see thembecome whistleblowers to save their skin.
"Firstly as Holder said they don't touch them because they don't know if prosecution will succeed and what effect it will have on the system."
Firstly, as Holder has lied that they won't touch them because they don't know if prosecution will succeed and the effect it will have on the system.
William Black who prosecuted savings and loan fraud, says we can and must prosecute as well as stating that Holder should resign. Black is telling the truth.
These crooks will never be brought to account for the simple reason that they will cover their backs by creating a war, or some other disaster to focus people's attention on some other issue.
Dear Bill Black,
Many of us have been preaching 2+2 doesn't equal 5 since 2007. Welcome aboard my friend [sarc, you taught me]. If you need any material to help spread the word, please inquire.
PS: I would of dropped the crash course link to educate the lemmings. Just me though.
Bill Black misses the whole point. The money that was lost in the 2008 crisis was the money that was given away by Congress.
$1.5 billion of segregated client funds were lost ("Corzined") by MOFO Global - there is nothing mathematical about $1.5 billion disappearing out of clients accounts - this is an in flagrante delicto fraud.
It is not that fraud "is difficult to prove", it is just that this was an inside job and the crooks control the justice system.
Robosiging is de facto fraud - there really is nothing to prove. However, the justice system will not go after TBTF banks. However, they will go after penny ante cases of mortgage brokers giving NINJA loans to illegal aliens in California, while ignoring the fraud that was going on in New York.
Did you listen to the interview? Methinks not.
I listened to it but part you have to pay for so I didn't listen to that but here is what I think he says. A paramilitary team of a 1000 troops has been established to move into wall street on tuesday with tanks and helicopters. The effort is to take the headquarters of JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs peacefullly. At the same time an advance team of another 1999 marines is set to move in on the Justice department to arrest eric holder. A third team is set to move in on the Federal Reserve and Arrest Ben Bernanke. Once the criminals are in the prisons a systematic re-establishment of lawand order will be made and the Constitution will become the supreme rule and law of the land.
I think you've got it back the front. On Tuesday paramilitary teams from JP Morgan and friends will be descending on the FED.,,,,,,errrr sorry, someone just reminded me that JP already owns the FED and the government and the army and everything thing else including the minds of the sheeple.
It's not the data, it's the "model" stupid...title of what is happening here and what we are facing is unlike anything we have ever seen due to technology. All of this is mathmatically modeled and the average consumer can't see it or keep up.
Christopher Steiner also did a nice TED talk about algorithms taking over the world and it's more than just markets. He talks about how the algos record your conversations for evaluation, etc. I wrote about software that does this a few years ago that gives an on screen window of what the software anticipates as far as your current state of mind, was developed in Israel. It's a good watch and discusses how the financial markets have gone from using technology as a utility to "menace"...that's what we have now, menaces using technology for control and who gets to play God to determine who has the control.
Menacing algorithms? The power of nightmares has been operational for many decades without any help from algorithms.
"He [Bill Black] laments that the US has descended into a type of crony capitalism that makes continued fraud a virtual certainty." – Adam Taggart
"Crony capitalism' is an oxymoron. And it's dangerous to use it. The ill-formed begin to think that capitalism is the problem - unless, of course, that is the objective.
A Pew Research Center poll a little more than a year ago that aimed to measure American sentiments toward different political labels revealed that among the 18-29 crowd, 49% "say they have a positive view of socialism; only 43% say they have a negative view," while just 46% of people age 18-29 have positive views of capitalism, and 47% have negative views.
There is no opportunity for corrupt capitalism unless there is a power behind the currency that allows this kind of corruption when you are connected to the government. And, then, in cooperation with the government you own the means of production, the currency. That's not capitalism; it's fascism.
And fascism is Fabian socialism.
It is a dangerous practice to say our troubles are crony capitalism. Our trouble is two words – central banking. A private enterprise that is squeezing all the entrepreneurial spirit and free market mechanisms out of the world is not capitalism, crony or otherwise.
These people are psychopaths. They hang onto the hems of the rulers; they are not capitalists; they are parasites.
If you want to solve the problem, identify the problem.
And, btw, capitalism is a wonderful concept. To call it crony capitalism is like calling Trotskyism neoconservatism. Neocons are not conservative; they are psychological cheaters in that they take advantage of someone's feelings, i.e., conservatives, when what they want is to dominate the world. That's not conservatism; that's Trotskyism.
Alexander Eichler on The HuffingtonPost says: "It's not clear why young people have evidently begun to change their thinking on socialism. In the past several years, the poor economy has had any number of effects on young adults -- keeping them at home with their parents, making it difficult for them to get jobs, and likely depressing their earning potential for years to come -- that might have dampened enthusiasm for the free market among this crowd."
It is clear to me, Mr. Eichler. You and the HuffingtonPost helped orchestrate this falsehood by promoting your socialist agenda rather than by revealing the truth, by blaming capitalism for the results of socialism.
The problem is not even the CBs...it is greed.
And....the solution is very simple: stop being greedy!
"The best way to rob a bank is own one."
The federal reserve and government gives incentives for fraud, so what do you expect?
What's the penalty for criminal behavior? A small fee or no penalty.
Eric the Place Holder said he won't prosecute any of the too big to fail.
Cook the books, pull out the reserves and ship overseas, bankrupt and cry for a bailout.
Rinse and repeat.
NRBQ "Housekeeping"
NRBQ - Always Safety First
NRBQ-Conan O'Brien Show- "Over Your Head"
NRBQ Dummy
N.R.B.Q. - Blues Stay Away From Me written by A. Delmare, R. Delmare & Lois
NRBQ's Terry Adams and Steve Ferguson perform Smackin' the Blues and Dutchess
county jail, hard times I know.
Note; With everything else going on this is just one more case of American's having salt rubbed into the wound, like why prescription drugs invented here (an subsidized by American Taxpayers) are sold overseas for 1/10th the price. Now this car that's been selling overseas for quite some time, but NOT here in U.S.
Volkswagen: SEAT Toledo
Not Sold In America, But In Mexico and Spain, Gets 75 MPG
Ask Why Not In U.S.
from jimstonefreelance.com
"Not on the American market but this car does exist. And it proves that hybrids are a scam. This 2013 Seat Toledo is close to the same size as the 2013 4 door Cadillac CTS and it gets an astonishing 74 mpg with what by all accounts is just an ordinary engine. Perhaps all those stories about 80 mpg carburetors were true, because this car proves it can be done.
I have always known that cars should be many times more efficient than they have been allowed to be. There have been plenty of examples of extraordinarily efficient cars, Volkswagen made a little pickup truck that could easily get 60 MPG, and a few of the Geo Metros could get 55 mpg, and then, all of a sudden, hybrids could not seem to squeak out over 45."
I've said it before and I'll say it again. There is nothing wrong with greed if it is controlled by a corresponding amount of fear. It is the elimination of this fear by bailouts and subsidies that is the problem.
Bill Black is a 99 yard liner, drops the ball on the 1 yard line. Great runner, excellent catcher, but always drops the ball on the 1 yard line.
Which ever way one approaches the stink (regulatory capture, crony capitalism, economic fascism, socialism, power elite analysis, etc.) - stink that becomes overwhelming enough to make dogs leave home - involves a seamless connection among those outside and inside the guv. But for Black (based on what I have read), cause and effect is always one way, its the prviate market black hats being checked by the guv white hats. This bias kills his credibility for me.
Black bemoans that we are now beyond redemption - ala Akerlof and Romer - and points out that when he was the cop on the beat, heads were craciked.
Well Bill, that may be true but where were you when it was time to clean up the police department after the S&L fiasco, to get rid of the dead wood and the incentive systems that led cops to donut shops and naps in back alleys?
Absent as far as I know.
(and he certainly doesn't appear interested in performng a root cause analysis, like tracing this back to the FED for a start, as other posters note.)
I say control fraud is fractal in nature. Where it exists, look for it at lower and especially higher levels.


text:
The New Mexico Airport Managers' Association is a subsection of the New Mexico Municipal League organized to aid in the improvement of aviation and airport services to municipalities, to provide educational opportunities to airport managers and other related personnel in the State of New Mexico, and to assist the New Mexico Municipal League promote and foster good working relationships with other elected and appointed officials of municipalities within the State of New Mexico.
Membership, Eligibility
Any municipal, county or contract employee whose duties include responsibility for airport management and aviation services or related activities, shall be eligible for full membership in this association. Please see the NMAMA By-Laws and the Membership Application Form below for further details.
2013 NMAMA Constitution and By-Laws
NMAMA paid members as of March 2016
2015-2016 Membership Application Form
NMAMA President: Bob Hudson – Moriarty Airport Manager (505) 507-6332
NMAMA Vice President: Robert Uecker, Belen Airport Manager (505) 966-2650
NMAMA Board Members:
David Pearce, Ruidoso Airport Manager (575) 366-8111
Arlando Teller, Program Manager, Navajo Nations Airports Management (505) 371-8320
David Ploeger, Los Alamos Airport Manager (505) 662-8420
NMML Staff Liaison to NMAMA: Colette Schobbens – email@example.com – (505) 992-3515
Link to New Mexico Department of Transportation Aviation Division

subset: commoncrawl


text:
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Animal welfare authorities say a dog survived an 11-mile ride from Massachusetts to Rhode Island - at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour - after it was hit by a car and became wedged under the front grill.
East Providence Animal Control supervisor William Muggle says the female poodle mix ran in front of the car in Taunton on Sept. 20. The driver slammed on the brakes, but didn't see the dog, so continued driving.
Muggle tells the Taunton Daily Gazette that it wasn't until the driver reached East Providence, R.I., that another motorist pointed out the dog.
The driver went to the police station, where animal control officials freed the fluffy white pooch. The dog suffered a concussion and possibly a minor bladder rupture.
Authorities are now trying to find its owner.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
You may also like:
Dating Scam: Carolyn Benningfield says she was scammed out of $800,000 by a man she met on an online dating site.
Jason Aldean: Country star Jason Aldean was caught when photos of him kissing another woman hit the Internet.
Mugshots: Macon Regional Crimestoppers says these people are wanted on warrants in Middle Georgia..
Honey Boo Boo Interview: 13WMAZ's Austin Lewis sat down with Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson and her mother, June Shannon.
Employee Mocked: The manager who a Warner Robins woman says mocked her use of food stamps has been transferred, according to a statement from Kroger.
Celebrities Who Died in 2012: Flip through the gallery to reflect on well-known people who are known for their accomplishments and work.
The Jones Zone: Ben and Lorra GO head-to-head each week picking their game winners -- and you have a chance to weigh in!
Big Ol' Fish: Photos of your latest catches from around Central Georgia
Bestiality Arrest: A farmhand who claims he gets aroused when animals are in heat and mating got caught with his pants down -- literally -- with a female donkey on Aug. 15.
Major Drug Bust: Ten Central Georgia law enforcement agencies served arrest warrants to 31 different people.
Paris Motor Show: Your trail cams in Macon County
Gator Roundups: Check out these wild gator captures in Fla.
13WMAZ iPhone and Android App: Keep in touch with 13WMAZ on-the-go with our iPhone and Android smartphone app
Severe Weather Galleries:
July 1, 2012 Storms: Severe weather in July
July 3, 2012 Storms: Severe weather in July
Midwest Tornadoes: Iowa towns are devastated by some of dozens of tornadoes that hit the Midwest and Plains in April.
January 21, 2012 Storms: Severe weather in winter
Sept. 27, 2011 Storm Photos: Severe weather in Fall
November 16 Storm: Severe weather in Fall
April 16, 2011 Storm Photos: Severe weather last Spring
March 26, 2011 Storms: Severe weather last Spring
April 28, 2011 Storms: Severe weather last Spring
April 4, 2011 Storms: Severe weather last Spring
Tornado in Tuscaloosa: Photos from the tornado that hit Ala.
Joplin, Mo. Tornado: Photos from the tornado that hit Mo.
Tornado in Harrisburg, Ill. : Photos from the tornado that hit Ill.


text:
Sky ATR Live Racing Results
If you have any other links or a link is down, please get in touch with a memeber of the moderating team.
Live Racing Results
Started by rummytheowl , Feb 06 2007 05:13 PM
No replies to this topic
Posted 06 February 2007 - 05:13 PM
OWTB is completely free and you can use all of our services as much as you want, however if you think that we do something that's worthwile - why don't you make a small contrubution to show your thanks. Click on the PayPal button and please donate whatever you can to keep OWTB up and running, thanks - OWTB Admin Team


text:
Applying for a Diploma or Master's Degree
This checklist will give you an idea of what is required to apply for admission to Trinity. You may submit this material all at one time or individually as you complete the steps. Please download a full checklist for other guidelines pertaining to your own situation.
Applications are received and processed throughout the year. All Admissions forms are downloadable below in pdf format.
Please contact any Universities or Colleges you have attended for either undergraduate or graduate study to inquire about the proper steps to request your transcripts.
|Admissions Checklist & Criteria
|Admission Application
|Transcript Request
|Letters of Reference
|Church Endorsement Form
|Financial Statement
|Trinity Scholarship Application
- About Trinity
- Vision, Purpose and Values
- Trinity's History
- Trinity's Covenant
- Statement of Faith
- The Case for Residential Seminary Training
- A Case for Evangelical Anglicanism
- Biblical Theology at Trinity
- Welcoming all Gospel Minded Students
- Community Life
- Faculty & Staff
- Our Future
- Board of Trustees
- Board of Visitors
- Contact Us
- Our Campus
- Directions and Maps
- Employment Opportunities
- Privacy Policy
- Academics
- Admissions
- Alumni
- Giving
- Media & Resources
- News & Events
- Reasons for Choosing Trinity
- The Case for Residential Seminary Training
- General Inquiry Form
- Be a Seminarian for a Day
- Admissions Criteria
- Applying for a Diploma or Master's Degree
- Applying for Doctor of Ministry
- Applying as an International Student
- Tuition and Fees
- Scholarships and Other Financial Aid
Ambridge Area:
Pittsburgh Area:
Visit Pittsburgh - events, dining, shopping and sightseeing.
Pittsburgh Neighborhoods - places to live and explore.
Venture Outdoors - biking, kayaking and hiking.
Pittsburgh Skyline - photos of Pittsburgh.
Visit Pennsylvania - destinations, accommodation and transportation.
Local Sports
Penguins, Steelers and Pirates
Arts & Entertainment
Carnegie Museums, Pittsburgh Symphony, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust


text:
Fixed PriceDelivery by September 9, 2014
Android and iPhone users:
We have a new app that we'd love your feedback on. This is a great job for new oDesk users looking to get feedback.
This task will take a max of 10 minutes. We are simply looking for people to test out the app to make sure everything functions properly, and to offer suggestions for improvement!
You provide:
Feedback and comments about your likes, dislikes, and ways to improve our mobile app.
If you're interested, please accept for further instructions.
Client Activity on this Job
Last Viewed: 1 year ago
Hired: 2
About the Client
United States
New York 06:29 PM
Jobs Posted
98% Hire Rate, 1 Open Job
Total Spent
126 Hires, 0 Active


text:
Student Alumni Council
Student Alumni Council (SAC) was formed in 1976 and continues to serve as the link between students and alumni.
SAC's purpose is to provide its members with public speaking opportunities, teamwork and leadership experiences. SAC also provides its membership with professional workshops to enhance leadership abilities.
Known as one of the most proactive groups on campus, Student Alumni Council is dedicated to educating the student body by bringing in professionals to speak. These alumni offer a wide range of topics and guidance for any situation. If this interests you please explore the SAC website. Be proactive in your future through the Student Alumni Council.
Student Alumni Council Application
Are you interested in joining the Student Alumni Council (SAC)? Please complete the SAC Membership Application.
Potential Speakers
It is the goal of the Student Alumni Council (SAC) to schedule professionals to come in and speak about their past experiences in the business world.
Are you interested in speaking to Kettering University students?
Do you have a topic or situation that students would benefit from?
If so, please send the following information to us:
- Brief description of speech topic
- Educational background and year of graduation
- Company you work for and your title
- When you are available include day of the week and time of day
We will contact you as soon as we receive your request. We thank you for your interest.
SAC handles all the details, promotes the event, and even takes you out to lunch afterwards! It's a great excuse to visit the school and share your thoughts with current students. Feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.


text:
Re: Limited account user can change his type. Why?
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:15:01 -0500
Oosterplein wrote:
I created a limited account for my son. However, he can change its
type by himself simply from Control Panel. Is there any way to
prevent it? or why can you explain why he can do it?
In safe mode, I created only ONE admin account in addition to the
one preset by Windows XP Home edition.
He shouldn't be able to do this.
Shenan Stanley
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
- Prev by Date: Re: Windows firewall and wireless net working
- Next by Date: Re: Why can limited account user change its type to administrator?
- Previous by thread: Re: Windows Firewall not working (Error 10047)
- Next by thread: Re: Limited account user can change his type. Why?
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages


text:
What is the importance of the $\delta$ parameter for LLL bases called Lovász condition?
Wiki seems to mention that the higher the $\delta$ the better.
What does it mean when $\delta = 1$? Can we find shortest vector and closest vector easily if $\delta =1$? What are typical error in approximations when $\delta = 1$?
In the SVP and CVP algorithm presented below, is there any connection to $\delta$ on the approximation error.
Finally is there a reference that talks about connections to CVP and minimum distance?


text:
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner (Level 1)
SIZE: One Size (One skein makes two 6" tassels; approximately 15 minutes per tassel)
Tassels are great for home décor and fashion!
CORRECTIONS: None
Exact gauge is not essential to this project.
INSTRUCTIONS (for one tassel)
You can vary your tassels by using two colors. For a mixed effect, hold one strand of each color together when wrapping your tassel and only make half as many wraps. For a two-tone effect, make half the wraps with one color and the other half next to them with the second color.


text:
@Inproceedings {export:102002, abstract = {
The title of this workshop, 'beyond voice', is illustrative of one of the central questions currently surrounding mobile communication in the developing world. Put simply, there is a great deal of enthusiasm around the notion that a large group of users will access the internet for the first time via data enabled mobile handsets. Recent estimates from India, for example (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, 2007), suggest there may be more mobile Internet connections than traditional PC Internet connections operational in the country. Concurrently, high-end smart phones promise browsing experiences which are steadily closing the gaps in speed and ease of use which have hampered earlier incarnations of the mobile internet, such as WAP.
But the raw enthusiasm, the aggregate statistics, and the glossy marketing images from the top-end of handset markets fail to capture the reality of mobile internet use in the developing world. The crux of this paper's argument is that the research community knows comparatively little about this supposed community of users who access and use the Internet exclusively via mobile phones. We know little about who they are, how they discover and access the mobile internet, and how the mobile internet fits into their lives.
This paper reports on ongoing qualitative/exploratory research in low income communities in urban South Africa. Through convenience and snowball sampling, the researchers have sought out 'early adopters' among mobile-only internet users. The analysis of the interviews will delineate and describe distinctive new "paths" to Internet use that largely bypass PCs. We draw on a domestication approach (Haddon, 2003; Hahn & Kibora, 2008; Silverstone & Hirsch, 1992) to move beyond an 'adoption' or 'diffusion' paradigm and to complement aggregate statistical perspectives.
As exploratory research, this project cannot definitively identify all the new paths to the internet, nor the relative frequency with which individuals choose these paths. However, early findings will illustrate current and emerging practices in mobile-only internet use, as well as opportunities and constraints for policymakers interested in promoting or leveraging internet use among a much broader community of the world's inhabitants}, author = {Jonathan Donner and Shikoh Gitau}, booktitle = {Presented at the Pre-Conference on Mobile Communication at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association}, month = {May}, title = {New paths: exploring mobile-centric internet use in South Africa}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=102002}, year = {2009}, }


text:
« Deadliest Catch Dedicates Finale To Justin Tennison | Home | Amy Winehouse To Be Featured On E!'s True Hollywood Story Tomorrow »
Stevie Nicks To Perform On America's Got Talent Tonight
July 27, 2011 12:35 PM by Lisa Princ
Last night on NBC's America's Got Talent we watched some extreme talent, and tonight the show is back for the results of your votes. Also, hitting the stage tonight will be Stevie Nicks for a special performance! Read on for more!
America's Got Talent will welcome Stevie Nicks to the stage tonight during the live results show. Stevie Nicks seems to be making her way back into the limelight. The Fleetwood Mac singer released a new album in 2010, her first in about 10 years and it received nothing but praise from critics. More recently, Stevie Nicks joined Maroon 5 on stage at a recent concert where she and The Voice coach, Adam Levine performed a duet of "Leather and Lace."
And there will be results, of course! After so many exceptional acts last night, who should move forward? This is the first week that we honestly cannot decide – what do you think? Did you vote last night? And if so, who did you vote for? Tonight will definitely prove to be the toughest elimination show yet – too bad we can't see more than four acts move on. In any event, it is sure to be one exciting evening with the addition of Stevie Nicks!
Comment below and let us know your thoughts on this season of America's Got Talent! We'd love to hear from you!
Want more? Follow our tweets on Twitter and "like" us on Facebook! For other great Reality TV News, please feel free to check out SirLinksALot: America's Got Talent and then come and discuss the show on our Reality TV message boards.
Visit our sister site SheKnows for more breaking news about celebrities and entertainment!
Photo courtesy of NBC!
Topics: America's Got Talent, NBC Reality TV Shows |
« Deadliest Catch Dedicates Finale To Justin Tennison | Home | Amy Winehouse To Be Featured On E!'s True Hollywood Story Tomorrow »
recommended for you
5 Responses to "Stevie Nicks To Perform On America's Got Talent Tonight"
Glenna Says:
July 27th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Jerry Says:
July 27th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
I wonder if Stevie still knows where to get some good blow?
sara Says:
July 27th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Great as always!!! Love you Stevie!
EN JR Says:
July 27th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Great singer!
capperfred Says:
July 29th, 2011 at 5:02 am
Stevie Nicks sound and looks great. She is still a rockin lady! She is very talented. Good choice for the show. http://bit.ly/r1wIec


text:
Call our experts: 888.808.FINE
Select a quantity and printing method. Changes are easily made later.
Ideal for a fall event, this die-cut card is sure to wow friends and family. Your personalized text is printed on a simple white card that is then attached, via a brown raffia tie, to a grouping of die-cut fall leaves in hues of brown and orange.


text:
On The Election Forum
The Daily News moderated a city council candidates forum this week for the Downtown Neighborhood Association.
Downtown was split in the recent redistricting of the council earlier this year. The area south of Poplar Avenue was moved to council District 6 and the area north of Poplar including Uptown remains in council District 7.
Seven of the 14 contenders for district 7 made the forum. Three of the four contenders for district 6 were there.
I asked how the candidates if elected would respond when the next city budget season rolls around in the spring and another council member proposes making this year's 18 cent "one time only" property tax hike a permanent part of the city property tax rate.
Most on the panel said they would not favor extending the tax hike, but also said the city may very well need more revenue which it would have to get from somewhere other than the property tax rate. A few said they would have to know where the revenue from the 18 cents would go if it was renewed and made part of the property tax rate.
Several pushed a payroll tax but with the distinction that the tax should not apply to those who work in Memphis and live in Memphis – only to those who work in Memphis and live outside of Memphis or the state. There have been numerous legal opinions over the years concluding that such a distinction would not be legal.
The biggest disagreement and the best discussion, in my opinion, came as the candidates talked about the recent U.S. Census numbers that show the Memphis area has the highest poverty rate of any metropolitan area in the country.
District 7 contenders Raymond Bursi and Kemba Ford talked bluntly about their belief that the Memphis City School system was failing its students and not preparing them to compete in the workplace. It brought an equally blunt response from Rhoda Stigall and Clara Ford, candidates in the District 6 race and educators who have worked in the MCS system. They defended the school system and said it was unfair to put that much of the blame on teachers. They also pointed out that many of the other candidates were also MCS graduates who turned out pretty well.
Another dominant theme was the belief that the city of Memphis should do more of its business with Memphians.
Equally interesting were the life stories about what brought these candidates to the point of deciding to run for office. Campaigns are a mix of constant introductions to voters and opinions about what should happen. Both are valid topics for voters to consider.
Our politics gets some deserved criticism for being too much about personality and name recognition. But knowing where a candidate comes from can help voters get to the next step, which is how the candidates feel about a particular issue or what they would do if elected or re-elected. A balanced mix of the two elements is where voters can feel like they are taking less of a chance in weighing what one stranger promises to do versus what another stranger promises to do.
The forums are probably not the best use of time for campaign strategists who want their candidate blitzing toward the end of the early voting period – making contact with as many potential voters as possible. Those voters sometimes see the forums as a place for candidates to perform a well honed tap dance that delivers the message the candidates want regardless of what the questions are.
Some candidates get angry when they show up at a forum that features more candidates than uncommitted voters. Some uncommitted voters get frustrated when a large group of candidates show up and they don't recognize any of them.
Having noted that, the DNA forum was an interesting discussion among a group of ten candidates across the district boundaries.
I cover more of these forums than I moderate. And it can be a perilous assignment because each candidate is watching to make sure their rivals don't get an unfair advantage – a few more seconds to speak, always being called on first or last to answer a question.
What I found was that the candidates, this time around, really got drawn into the discussion. They were listening to one another for more than mistakes or points of attack to use in future encounters.


text:
I just came across this new Puma Folding Bike . Looks pretty cool at a decent price.
From the website:
Puma, Vexed and Biomega teamed up to create this highly functional, yet totally minimal bike. I had the chance to try it out last week and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting the looks would exceed the comfort and function. As it turns out, they're evenly matched. This team has managed to create an urban apartment friendly, folding bike that rides like it has a regular single piece frame. With one gear, oversized tires and upright handlebars, it's perfect for conquering city streets.
The Puma Bike will be produced in limited quantities, is available in black or silver and should be available in May 2005. It will only be available at Puma stores and will retail for $775.


text:
Is there a lotion or somethimg to erase the strech marks????
i have strech marks...you could see them im pregnant still but you could see that my strech marks are red and i dont wanna have them...does any one know whats good to put on while im pregnant....
Posted: 11/30/2010 by 3l1zab3th
Mom Answers
Sort by: best answers | most recent answers
1 - 2 of 2 answers
also to let you know that while you may not see stretch marks on your tummy while your pregnant does not mean they are not there.when your baby comes and your stomach deflates enough then you will be able to see stretch marks if you have them but while your skin is pulled tight you wont be able to see where it stretched into the marksposted 12/02/2010 by nevaehalizaye
Am sorry to tell you and am sorry for reminding myself too.. but stretch marks are like scars, they do not go away. Right now am almost 33 weeks pregnant and am glad to say I don't have any stretch marks on my belly. And Ive gained 50 lbs so far.. What Ive been using on my belly has been a product line called Spoiled Mama. They have a bump gloss and a tummy butter and it has helped the most. (: As for the stretch marks on my butt and upper thighs.. they are still dark which means they are new you can say... I'm using Mederma Stretch Marks Therapy for those stretch marks but you know, you do not see results right away.. I have used Palmers (didnt do anything), Bio-oil( nothing either), Hinds (nothing)... Try the spoiled mama product line to prevent anymore stretch marks..check their website www.thespoiledmama.com.. I hope this helped (:posted 11/30/2010 by rosaless19
Answer this question


text:
Meal Type
Featured Videos
Featured Content
Featured Brand Sites
Product By Category
Tools & Info
Cooking Tips
Healthy Living
Your Kids
food&family Magazine
12 servings
Read MoreRead Less
Tap or click steps to mark as complete
Serve with a mixed green salad for added color and texture.
Prepare as directed, mixing 1/2 tsp. ground red pepper (cayenne) with the chili powder before sprinkling over the meat.
Allow 30 to 40 min. for the charcoal coals to be ready for outdoor grilling. The coals are ready when covered with a fine gray ash. If the fire is too hot, use tongs to spread out the coals. Or, for a hotter fire push the coals closer together.
* Nutrition information is estimated based on the ingredients and cooking instructions as described in each recipe and is intended to be used for informational purposes only. Please note that nutrition details may vary based on methods of preparation, origin and freshness of ingredients used.
GREAT! without any changes. We did not think it was too sweet.
I used only 2.5 lbs of pork and full amount of sauce and the ratio was definitely off. The flavor of the sauce was very sweet, but good. I will look for a less sweet BBQ sauce to use next time instead of kind I used for this go-round.
Nice spicy kick. Everyone liked it! Would definitely make it again.
K:42710v3 :65112


text:
Every online marketing channel is unique, but did you know that Comparison Shopping Engines (CSEs) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can work together like two peas in a Venn diagram? (I guess you would technically need three peas for a Venn diagram, but work with me here!)
Steve Weber, CSE Manager, and Cory Brin, SEO Manager, presented about how you can make the two work for each other, and for you!
Search engine spiders "crawl" your website for relevant content, and rank organic results accordingly. As a result, fresh and unique (don't simply copy and paste manufacturer descriptions) content is very important, as is utilizing anchor text (hyperlinking certain words or phrases to an appropriate landing page). And, even though Meta-tags aren't as important as they used to be, don't overlook them.
How does it all fit together? CSE listings pull data from content. In fact, did you know that a Meta-title in SEO is a Product Title in CSE's? Also, a Meta-description in SEO is a Product Description in CSE's. As a result, when you optimize SEO for organic listings, you are indirectly optimizing for CSE listings.
There are numerous factors to consider with CSEs and each engine has some of its own unique requirements, but if you are working with Google Shopping be aware of the following important upcoming dates:
May 3rd
Merchants will be required to have at least two of the following:
• UPC (12 digit bar code)
• Brand
• MPN (Manufacturer's Part Number)
June 6th
• Merchants will need to include all shipping and tax information


text:
Definition: 'Isognathous'
isognathousType: Term
Pronunciation: ī-sog′nă-thŭs
1. Having jaws of approximately the same width.
The definition information for isognathous is provided by Stedman's. You can search our medical dictionary here.
Stedman's, part of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, provides a comprehensive line of health-science publications for healthcare professionals and medical students.
Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.


text: Tattooed hottie Jake Corwin is a dominant top who's always ready to perform, as you can tell by his audition with us! Currently working in San Francisco as an artist/designer, he took the time to shoot with us on a recent trip to NYC. He tends to like guys under 35, but his favorite activity of all is sucking uncut cock. No wonder Michael Lucas loves him!


text:
Femisogynist Spirit: Rooting for Abortions on Prime Time Family TV
Last week, before the airing of an episode of Friday Night Lights on NBC, feminist sites were gleefully discussing the fact that a teen-age character was pregnant and contemplating an abortion. They were not only gleeful, but were actively and proudly rooting for her to have the abortion and for NBC to air the episode. An example from a post at Feministing entitled "I'm rooting | Read More »


text:
(0) items
Author(s): Hairston, Maxine; Ruszkiewicz, John; Friend, Christy
ISBN: 9780131895829 / Paperback / 1/1/2005
Marketplace Disclaimer:
Edition, Cover Design, etc may vary from the eCampus.com description. Please refer to the seller's comments before ordering. Marketplace sellers are required to ship by the end of the 5th business day. Items are not returnable to eCampus.com. Orders cannot be cancelled by eCampus.com.


text:
Available formats: epub mobi pdf rtf lrf pdb txt html
J.F. Jenkins lives in Minneapolis Minnesota with her husband, son, and two cats. She graduated from Bethel University in 2006 with a degree in Media Communication with minors in both writing and film. When she is not busy writing, she spends her free time playing games, reading, and spending time with her family.


text:
HMT Forecast Discussion: 4 March 2008 at 1945 UTC
Satellite loops show the tail end of a transient shortwave trough having passed the ARB overnight. In its wake, midtrop ridge-building, dry N to NE flow, and subsidence is overtaking the region. As a result, expect mostly sunny skies and near seasonal temperatures along the Sierra foothills the next couple of days.
The first in a series of shortwave troughs embedded in strong Pacific zonal flow aloft will make landfall across the PacNW and extreme N CA Thursday into early Friday. This wave will rapidly minor out as it breaks through the W Coast ridge. In addition, this wave will not have significant dynamic/thermodynamic signatures at the surface. Low-level frontal forcing will be weak at best and orographics nil. Consequently, expect little more than light precip along the N CA coast region and perhaps some increase in high/middle clouds across the ARB on Thursday into Friday.
A couple more shortwave troughs are progged to come ashore along the PacNW and/or extreme N CA on Friday night into Saturday and again on Sunday into Monday, based on the GFS. Each successive wave will serve to further erode the midtrop ridge along the West Coast and perhaps yield a bit more precip than its predecessor. Most of the significant rain/snow should remain N of the ARB throughout the weekend, although we will need to keep an eye on the Sun/Mon wave given that we may have a period of favorable orographic forcing. It should be noted that the current EC solution shows transient ridging rather than a shortwave trough over CA for Sun/Mon, so confidence on this precip event is presently low. If/when precip falls with these waves, snow levels will likely be in the ~7kft range.
A stout 200 mb jet stream (>150kts) presently situated across the western Pacific should eventually extend eastward across the Pacific Basin and may yield a storm of IOP caliber for the ARB early next week. This potentially significant landfalling shortwave for the Monday night/Tuesday timeframe that John B. mentioned in previous forecast discussions is still represented in the various models and ensemble spreads, although the intensity of the wave varies from model run to run, across models, and across ensemble members. This storm also looks like it may be a repeat of storms earlier this winter, that is, a dynamically strong but cool event with relatively low snow levels (i.e., <6kft) rather than a warm atmospheric-river tap of subtropical moisture from the SW.
Thereafter, a period of cool, unsettled, onshore flow may be in the offing for the latter half of next week. Time will tell.
Paul Neiman


text:
German World of Warcraft Schamane Guild Mystics To Blame For European Crop Famine
Germany has been struck with famine.
Bewildered agriculture scientists and farmers alike do not know what has gone wrong. The people of Germany stand confused, not knowing if the price of grains will now skyrocket so high that they cannot make their little dumpling cakes and kraut bread.
Some religious leaders in Germany have questioned if this development is punishment for Berlin's new "Hilter Musuem", which has had residents and curators alike nervous for months. Is God punishing Germany for building an educational shrine in honor of a man who is in league with King Pharoah?
Let's not forget Pharoah was cursed with plagues of locusts and rivers of poisonous blood, then his army was drowned in the Red Sea. God simply used America to destroy the army of Hitler.
These events are already passed, however and Germans do a decent job of atoning for the sins of their anti-American forefathers. What they aren't doing, however, is keeping the world safe from a threat even greater than the Nazi regime: World of Warcraft.
WoW is a dangerous game that is marketed to children. It serves as the background gaming piece for a global community of people who revel in exchanging nude pictures with your sons and daughters in the most secret, darkest hours of quiet night. They entice meet-ups where they have diseased orgies right in your hometown and then abductions occur from there.
If these facts were not scary enough, WoW has a 'mystic' element and unfortunately, Germany is the heart of the Satanic blood rituals that power the mysic guilds of World of Warcraft.
German people are heavily influenced by the occult. In ancient times, Germany was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire. As such, many people of cult religions sought to challenge authority with bizarre Satanic rights and rituals, many of which you still see present in leather clad Germans who glint and dance under the moonlit ruins of a Heidelburg castle.
They have emblems and they are cultish and sexual in nature.
Their 'shamane" (shaman) class is responsible for recruiting impressionable people from the internet and beyond. They teach bizarre rituals then invite your sons and daughters to have 'guild play' with them and to 'dance around their totems'.
This is innuendo and you can infer what they mean by this.
Then, they play with Oijui boards and for those who don't know, that word takes origin in an ancient Germanic tongue and literally means 'corrupt the innocent'. The first person to bring this term to the modern vernacular: Adolf Hitler.
It all comes full circle and Nazis are just as dangerous to humanity as World of Warcraft. These schamane guilds are the newest discovered threat from Germany and we will continue to expose them.
- Excited
- Fascinated
- Amused
- Shocked
- Sad
- Angry


text:
When investors look for exciting investment destinations, countries like Malaysia, Peru and China often top their lists. Funds like the iShares MSCI Malaysia Index (NYSE:EWM) have surged as investors have looked towards the exotic to find gains. Still, as these emerging nations continue to grow, their demand for natural resources remains insatiable. Our often ignored neighbor to the North with its vast supply of natural resources, may make it just as an exciting proposition as Estonia.
TUTORIAL: The Forex Market
Boasting the world's second largest oil reserves behind Saudi Arabia, Canada could be investors' developed ticket into emerging markets. The nation could almost be viewed as a commodities hyper-market, providing all the necessary ingredients that fast-growing countries in Asia and South America need to build infrastructure and support increased consumerism.
Major exports including oil, grains, industrial and precious metals are all set to increase. Analysts forecast a nearly 57% increase in Canadian exports to Asian-Pacific nations this year. Furthermore, while Canada is known for its energy and minerals resources including the rich oil sands of Alberta, the nation is also an agricultural superstar. (To learn more, see Canada's Commodity Currency: Oil And The Loonie)
The country is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of wheat, canola and fertilizer. As the planet continues to grip with food crunches and shortages, these agricultural exports will ultimately help boost Canada's bottom line.For investors interested in adding some Canadian exposure into their portfolio, the iShares MSCI Canada Index ETF (NYSE:EWC) would be a nice straight forward choice.
For dividend investors, there are a number of Canadian companies that also yield dividends that are far more generous than EWC's 1.49%.
|Dividend Yield
|Market Cap
|YTD Performance
|Enerplus Corporation (NYSE:ERF)
|Pengrowth Energy Corporation (NYSE:PGH)
|Provident Energy Ltd. (NYSE:PVX)
|TransAlta Corp (NYSE:TAC)
Bottom Line:
While not exotic, Canada's supply of rich natural resources and sound financial system makes it a sound investment destination. Likewise, those interested in another source of dividends may want to take a closer look as well.
Use the Investopedia Stock Simulator to trade the stocks mentioned in this stock analysis, risk free!


text:
FIFA 16 Tournament - EURO 2016 Special02/06/2016
FIFA 16 Tournament - EURO 2016 Special Entry £5 per person includes Free Drink £100 GTD
Lighthouse Aqua Tai Chi03/06/2016
On Fridays at Whitworth Leisure Centre there will be Lighthouse Aqua Tai Chi.
Midnight Memory Walk18/06/2016
2016 brings the Midnight Memory Walks 10th anniversary and the Kirkwood Hospice are planning to make it the best one yet!
Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention 201627/06/2016
The 1st International Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention Conference will bring together experts in tissue viability, wound healing and engineering.
Yorkshire Wineathlon17/09/2016
An easy trail run/walk/crawl with feed stations every few miles, stocked with optional WINE samples. (each wine station is based around a different wine region of the world)
The brand new sing along screening of the classic film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John brought to you by the producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music.
Jimmy Carr: The Best Of, The Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits Tour23/10/2016
Further Show Added! Jimmy is gathering a selection of his very best jokes along with brand new material for the ultimate comedy show.


text:
|Oracle FAQ
|Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.theory -> Re: Celko: short book on the nested sets model for trees.
--Celko-- wrote:
> I am writing a short book on the nested sets model for trees.
> If anyone has some programming tips, tricks, assorted code or whatever
> 4) Multiple tree structures on the same set of nodes
I stumbled onto your nested set articles and I want to first thank you. The nested set has made dealing with our complicated hierarchies much easier for me here at work. Anyway-- We have to deal with the same nodes as part of multiple trees. I solved the problem by creating a Hierarchy table and linking that with the nested set table. Of course that led to a separate node list table, but that was easy enough.
NS table (NodeID, HierarchyID, leftside, rightside) Node table (NodeID, NodeName, Description, .... <other detail fields>) Hierarchy table(HierarchyID, Description)
I'm having a problem with coming up with query that results in only the immediate children of a given node. Could you offer some insight?
-- Posted via dBforums http://dbforums.comReceived on Fri May 03 2002 - 01:13:54 CDT
Original text of this message


text:
See All Contributors »
AMES, Iowa- Janet Anson won four event titles to lead the 17th-ranked Iowa State gymnastics team to a first-place finish in a triangular meet at Hilton Colisum on Friday night.* The Cyclones scored a 196.700, its highest score of the season and finished ahead of second place 16th-ranked Denver (195.700) and third place Iowa (194.500).* The Cyclones posted their highest floor score this year, scoring a 49.325 and scored a 49.000 or higher on all events for the first time this season.
Forum Rules
All content owned by CycloneFanatic.com - All rights reserved 2005-09. By viewing this website you agree to the Terms of Service, Site Rules and Legal Disclaimer. The words, views, images and opinions expressed or provided by users do not reflect the opinions or views of CycloneFanatic.com or Iowa State University. The names, words, symbols, and graphics representing Iowa State University are trademarks and copyrights of the University protected by the trademark and copyright laws of the United States of America and other countries and are used on this web site under license from the University. Original site design, premise & construction by Jeremy Lind.


text:
Something on my new MacBook Air 2011 is eating up the CPU and battery, with 30% User CPU in Activity Monitor, but there is no process listed with high CPU usage. Temperature is also very high. What could be happening?
Activity Monitor and sampling tools like top do cull processes that have terminated, so it's possible something is spawning lots of short lived processes.
Also, try changing the sample time to see if it's a rounding error. I have seen activity monitor lag RAM changes by 15 to 60 seconds so there could be measurement errors - especially with hyper threading on the new i5/i7 chipsets.
If you really want to dig into this, you might need to fire up Instruments from Xcode. Also, command tools like top, vm_stat, io_stat, and fs_usage.
The dtrace tools are powerful, but might be worse if you don't have long running processes or want to learn the syntax.
In Activity Monitor, switch to the "All Processes" instead of "My Processes" and see if there are any high-CPU-usage apps there.
In Activity monitor, there should be a drop-down menu that in your case probably says "My Processes." Click on that, and select "All Processes." This will show all of the running processes (sometimes, processes that you don't own are grouped under "User"). Alternatively, if the disk activity is high, you might want to try running
Try running in Terminal
Eventually you may run:


text:
HP/Autonomy – I Wonder How This Meeting Went August 22, 2011Posted by Lee Dallas in Acquisitions, Content Management, ECM.
Tags: acquisition, Autonomy, Hewlett Packard, HP, HPQ
I can't stop wondering what this meeting was like. The CEO gets up, looks lovingly in the webcam and announces:
- we are going to scrap our previous investments in the mobile market (tablet, operating system, etc.)
- we are going to sell off the product line we are most known for by the general public
- we are going to ignore the results of our previous lackluster acquisitions in the space and buy a search company spliced together with records and WCM that primarily sells on premise software in the hope that it will take us to the cloud with higher margins
- we are going to pay twice what the company is worth
Once everyone can breathe again the polite golf clap and head nodding begins in the conference room. The guy that gave the boss a copy of that Malcolm Gladwell book in the office secret Santa exchange starts using his soon to be discontinued tablet to update his linkedin profile and fish for recommendations.
Quite a set up for a case study. Wonder how it will turn out.
- 1. Worthy L - August 22, 2011
Exactly, this is going to make a great story in the HBJ in a year or two. Would have made more sense for HP to buy into one of the MapReduce variants and/or OpenStack. They really should have leveraged their own commodity PC stack to show companies how to build their own internal cloud. Course HP quit innovating years ago and are acting more and more like a dinosaur.
I still like Michael Dell's comment, what are they going to call their new PC spinoff? Compaq?
- 2. josephmartins - August 22, 2011
This is business as usual for HP in recent years. IMHO, the company is a political and organizational mess.
The front lines feel corporate is completely disconnected from their reality (just ask sales manager what s/he thinks of the HP marketing machine). The troops aren't in alignment with their leader (storage folks could care less about Leo's software aspirations). And rather than spend the time cleaning up its internal mess the company continues to sweep it under the rug and placate restless troops with new distractions.


text:
Results tagged ' 2010 Royals Caravan '
Royals Caravan in Kansas: Topeka, Emporia and Wichita on January 14
The Royals will visit fans in Topeka, Emporia and Wichita, Kan., on the annual Royals Caravan presented by Fox Sports Kansas City. A number of current Royals players, announcers and front office officials, as well as Royals legends and Sluggerrr, will take part in the annual Caravan event with trips to Midwestern towns throughout January.
This Caravan trip will include pitchers Kyle Davies and Luke Hochevar, Royals Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Leonard, Royals broadcaster Denny Matthews and mascot Sluggerrr. Following the day trip, these participants will be involved in the Royals FanFest, January 15-16 at the Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kan.
A tentative schedule is listed below and at royals.com.
2010 Royals Caravan presented by Fox Sports Kansas City
West Caravan Trip: Thursday, January 14 (Topeka, Emporia and Wichita, Kan.)
Participants: Kyle Davies, Luke Hochevar, Dennis Leonard, Denny Matthews and Sluggerrr
Noon-1:15 p.m. Meet & Greet at Jeremiah Bullfrogs – 4115 SW Huntoon in Topeka (Hosted by WIBW)
2:15-3:15 p.m. Meet & Greet at Planet Sub – 2715 Candlewood Drive in Emporia (Hosted by KVOE)
5:30-6:30 p.m. Meet & Greet at Heroes Sports Bar & Grill – 117 N. Mosley in Wichita
(Hosted by KFH-AM)


text:
The other day, one of the big oaks in our forest broke in half during a windstorm. The top part crashed down, crushing a number of other trees beneath it.
The day after it fell, Rebecca and I sat on the fallen section, looking up at the old oak. Since we're rather fond of trees, and particularly fond of the trees in our forest, we found ourselves considering how odd it was that we weren't angry with the old oak for crushing all those other trees beneath it.
To illustrate, consider that a storm comes by your house and blows a branch into a window, breaking it. Of course, this is a perfectly natural occurrence. We might be angry, but we're not angry at the tree or at the windstorm. In fact, if the anger is directed anywhere, we might direct it at ourselves since we didn't notice how close that branch was to our window, and trim it off before it had a chance to do some damage.
Now, if the neighbor boy comes running through the yard and throws a rock into our window, we will feel quite different, won't we? Now our anger is directed at the boy, and we'll probably find some way to punish him.
This all seems very normal to us. We can't really get angry at rocks and trees and even at most animals, because they are not acting with free will. But we often get angry with human beings (including ourselves), because we do act via free will.
A while ago, I wrote a post calling free will into question. If we look honestly, we discover that we don't really have any conclusive evidence that free will exists (and conversely, no conclusive evidence that it doesn't).
It is interesting if we sit down and really spend some time thinking about this issue of free will. If you watch your mind carefully, you will see that we have a very ingrained belief that free will exists. And if you continue to think on the issue, taking the time to examine it fully, you very well may discover that you want to jump to the opposite conclusion.
In other words, if we observe with our full intelligence, we will discover that we really don't know whether there is free will or not.
It's a bit odd, then, that we spend so much energy applying ourselves to being angry with ourselves or others because of this belief in free will.
After all, how else can you be angry with someone unless they've done something under the context of free will?
Is there free will or isn't there? Make a decision either way, and you've simply latched on to one half of your usual dualistic model of the world. In truth, neither 'free will' nor 'no free will' adequately describes the true relationship we have with the world.
Most of us are strongly in the 'free will' camp. And we may never take the time in our lives to sit down and really think about the implications this has in our lives. But this belief is one of the strongest influences in how our life unfolds.
If we observe carefully, we will discover that we can make strong arguments for either side of the issue. And we will also see the many flaws each side has. What, then, are we left with?
Observe. When you truly examine this belief (or any belief), it will crumble before your observation. You can only hold a belief if you close your eyes and cover your ears, refusing to think or examine. But when the belief is unmasked . . .
This is when the world begins to open up to us in a new way. When we're not painting the world with our beliefs, we're able to see the world just as it is, and it will dazzle us in its beauty and simplicity.
Perhaps the greatest mystery is not whether or not there is free will. Perhaps the greatest mystery is this – Why do we spend so much energy and time constructing a world-view that brings us so much stress, frustration, and pain? The world is just fine as it is. But when we insist on painting it with beliefs, we miss out on almost everything life has to offer, and are left only with the constant stream of thoughts in our heads – punctuated by an occasional glimpse of beauty when the world presents us with something so new or amazing that our thoughts, for a moment, cease.
Let the world be its wondrous self. When you do, you discover something truly extraordinary – that you, too, are wondrous and beautiful and simple.
This is all that we need to do. Everything else will unfold perfectly on its own.


text:
The governor and the Legislature have been sprinting toward legislation to reduce drunken driving, but they're also worrying about whether we have the resources and structure to support the policies they've come up with.
They're right about the obstacles, but they shouldn't let systemic shortcomings stop them from pressing forward. The details won't get fixed until Olympia sets a new course.
Tuesday the Senate Law and Justice Committee submitted a set of proposals and a House committee will do the same in a few days.
The Senate bill
would increase sentences for DUI convictions, make the offense a felony on the fourth conviction rather than the fifth, and require installing ignition-interlock devices before a person arrested for a repeat offense is released from jail.
- Students seeking sugar daddies for tuition, rent
- Seattle-based seafood company shuts down
- UW receiver Isaiah Renfro opens up about depression, announces he's leaving team
- What's the top spelling 'mistake' in Washington state? The answer could make you sick
- Dead whale found on bow of cruise ship in Alaska
Most Read Stories
It would also ban deferred sentences, expand DUI courts and start an alcohol-monitoring program as an alternative to prison time.
The bill is a sensible mix of toughness with more alternative and treatment options. It also pushes past budget limits and infrastructure, as critics have noted. We don't have all of the necessary systems in place to handle its requirements, but we never will if we don't make the changes now while there is momentum to act.
Attitudes about drunken driving are changing and this state isn't alone. Also on Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board urged states to adopt its list of stricter DUI policies, most prominent among them reducing the blood-alcohol threshold for drunken driving from 0.08 percent to 0.05.
The NTSB said more than 100 countries have 0.05 percent or stricter standards, and that after the standard was adopted in Europe, traffic deaths attributed to drunken driving fell by a half within a decade.
At 0.05, the news stories say a 120-pound woman could have about one drink an hour and a 160-pound man two drinks. Lots of businesses, especially some restaurants and all bars, make money when people drink more than that, whether they actively encourage it or not.
It's not necessary to demonize them, but our systems for getting people to drink are more developed than the infrastructure we depend on to keep them off the road afterward.
Cautionary voices here say adopting tougher policies will overtax the police and courts, and strain already inadequate counseling programs. And they point out that interlock devices can be gotten around. It's possible to make better ones, but where's the incentive?
There's an imbalance between forces that support more drinking and forces that prevent drinking from being a problem on the road. As we change that balance, we'll also change attitudes, so that getting drunk and driving will feel wrong in the same way that driving without a seat belt does.
Sometimes I like to have a drink with dinner, but how many matters, and so does whether I'm driving. My awareness of that has grown as our culture has changed over the years and as support systems for drinking have diminished.
We can think differently about having a drink and driving, just as we removed cultural supports for the lunchtime tipple. If Olympia sends a strong enough message, maybe some people will choose to drink more moderately, maybe some will get in the habit of using mass transit when they drink heavily (and maybe we'll support that choice by making transit more available and convenient).
Maybe we can develop a more serious attitude about the responsibility driving entails and not only reduce DUIs, but dissuade people from driving when they are too tired or distracted.
Part of changing how we think is changing the signals our laws send about what is OK and what isn't. Putting lives at risk for another drink or two isn't OK.
Jerry Large's column appears Monday and Thursday. Reach him at 206-464-3346 or email@example.com


text:
Serving the public interest through objective social science research
Informed decision making for public, private, and nonprofit organizationsLearn more
A shared commitment to academic excellence and scientific rigorLearn more
Core research departments focused on key areas of study
Academic Research Centers (affiliated with the University of Chicago)
Academic Research Centers Overview
Other Specialized Research Centers
NORC projects reflect groundbreaking work, bringing new insight to pressing social issues and innovation to data collection and analysisBrowse projects
NORC has established a central hub to drive the creation and
introduction of cutting-edge products and services and foster innovative
ideas.Learn more about NORC Labs
NORC's experts include rigorously trained and widely published leaders from a diverse array of fieldsBrowse experts
View Senior Fellows
Featured ExpertKareem KysiaSenior Survey DirectorInternational Programs
Books, chapters, reports, and peer-reviewed articles published by NORC expertsBrowse research
Sparks is an open forum for discussion and contributions not only from NORC's Experts but from its readers as well. Read more
NORC subcontracts research and analysis to specialized firms and partners when project needs dictateLearn more
NORC delivers innovation and flexibility for a wide range of clients, partners, and projectsLearn more
Read about current research and how you can participateLearn more
View listings for professional, part-time, and intermittent openings at NORCBrowse listings
We're hiring. Learn more about part- and full-time interviewer positions.
Our well-regarded summer program for students in the social sciencesLearn more
NORC offers a dynamic, rewarding work environmentLearn more
The Center for the Study of Politics and Society (CSPS) focuses on the investigation of societal change. The National Data Program for the Social Sciences is the CSPS's largest component and its major activity is the regular collection and distribution of the General Social Survey (GSS) and its allied surveys in the International Social Survey Program. The well-respected GSS, which has been conducted 30 times since 1972, tracks and develops models to explain societal change.
The National Data Program for the Social Sciences (NDPSS) is a highly productive social indicators, infrastructure, and data-diffusion program. It has three basic purposes:
The NDPSS accomplishes all of these purposes through its work with the GSS and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP).
In 1984 the NDPSS and NORC co-founded the ISSP, which has conducted annual surveys from 1985 to the present and has had 58 participating countries. Other cross-national research includes the International Mental Health Stigma Study and studies of terrorist attacks in the U.S. and Spain.
The CSPS also carries out considerable research on religion in general and religious change in particular. The work of the late Andrew Greeley on the sociology of religion includes research on evangelicals, images of God, trends in belief in life after death, and many other aspects. Tom W. Smith has done studies on the incidence and nature of spiritual transformations, the decline of Protestantism in the U.S., and religious change around the world.
General Social Survey (GSS).
Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. The GSS is NORC's longest running project, and one of its most influential. More
National Data Program for the Social Sciences (NDPSS).
The National Data Program for the Social Sciences (NDPSS) is a highly productive social indicators, infrastructure, and data-diffusion program. More
Tom W. Smith
Tom W. Smith
Senior Fellow and Director
55 East Monroe Street30th FloorChicago, IL 60603
(312) 759-4000
1 North State Street16th FloorChicago, IL 60602
(312) 759-5200
4350 East-West Highway8th FloorBethesda, MD 20814
(301) 634-9300
1155 East 60th Street3rd FloorChicago, IL 60637
(773) 256-6000
3520 Piedmont Road NESuite 225Atlanta, GA 30305
(404) 240-8400
225 Friend StreetSuite 204Boston, MA 02114
(617) 316-3700
601 Montgomery St.Suite 2015San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 315-2000
425 Broadway St. Redwood City, CA 94063
(650) 421-2000
10500 Copper Avenue NESuite A-1Albuquerque, NM 87123
(505) 389-4400


text:
Freshly Squeezed is a weekly 2 hour radio show hosted by Nick Hollywood* for Totally Radio on Brighton's Juice FM 107.2 and syndicated to an ever-growing number of FM stations worldwide from Brighton to Berlin, Istanbul to Melbourne and online worldwide: The show features an 'insider' selection of new and often pre-release music as well as 'the finest in vintage and vintage-influenced sound; remixed, remastered, or rewound.' Freshly Squeezed is also an independent British record label and music publisher formed in 2005 and as such has unrivalled access to new music and exceptional insight.
If you like what we do, please remember to follow us, tell your friends, tweet and generally help us share the love.
*"Electro Swing innovator" Time Out
*"The 'godfather' of Electro Swing" The Daily Telegraph
Press play to try again.
You can get it here.


text:
A girl who's all around awesome. Everyone likes her, and she always has guy falling head over heels for her. She will cheer you up when you're down, and she's the nicest person ever.
Brooke, you're such a good friend!
από Boogers123456789 7 Ιούνιος 2011
Nice ass that's for sure.
Dude: Wow Brooke's wearing yoga pants today
Friends: *high-fives*
Friends: *high-fives*
από aguywhoknows 18 Μάρτιος 2013
Brooke is beautiful, kind and a wonderful that is more unique than any other girl, please if you ever meet someone like Brooke look after her really well she can be quite emotional at time but is the best friend and i recon she would be the best girlfriend as well, Brooke does have a hard life but she is always smiling, sometime she smile just for the sake of it so please if you meet a Brooke make her smile for real.
Me: Look at that Brooke she is so beautiful and is practically one of the best people you will ever meet
You: Really well shes amazing
You: Really well shes amazing
από Lolboy1702 13 Νοέμβριος 2014
The most amazing girl in the universe.
Brooke's kisses taste like honey mixed with sunshine.
I think Brooke's gorgeous. I want to date her, love her and marry her.
I think Brooke's gorgeous. I want to date her, love her and marry her.
από florealis 26 Μάιος 2014
She's smart kind beautiful happy and lives life to the fullest she makes people happy and wants people to smile and be happy she might have troubles but I'm there for her she lives happily I love her very much she makes my day happy I love you Brooke
από <3 loving you 11 Νοέμβριος 2013
Brooke's are Kind, beautiful, faithful, honest, sexy, trustworthy, sweet, has the most bright eyes and smile, her voice is soft and gentle like a wonderful summer breeze, her laugh sends shivers down my spine, the way she hugs me makes my heart pound, i trust her with my life and more importantly my heart, she loves me and i will treasure her forever. She is my girlfriend and i love her.
I love YOU Brooke!
από Belle_Coeur 26 Μάιος 2014
An amazing girl who loves to live life to the fullest! Although blonde she can be very smart when she needs to be. She is very sexy and beautful. Her hair is very thick and full and many people are jealous. She like's guys whos names start with the letter M. She has a cute butt and lovely eyes. They are very blue and beautiful. She's EXTREMLY pretty and is best friends with people whose names start with the letter A. She is also very great at sports, and all guys love that about her! Guys LOVE her sense of humor, and many guys are her best friends.
Wow that girl is so cool, she's such a Brooke!
από sexysportgirl17 16 Ιούλιος 2010


text:
You are about to report the comment below to the Crash.Net moderators as being abusive.
An abusive comment may contain profanity, personal attacks or commercial SPAM.
Please do not report this comment as being abusive if you simply disagree with the
comment posted. If this is the case then you can click on the "disagree" icon () in the upper right
of the comment's post to show your dissatisfaction.
Crash.Net moderators will view all reported comments and will act as they deem necessary.
This may be editing the comment or total deletion.
That picture just breaks my heart into million pieces...
My deepesr condolences and prayers go out to his family, girlfriend, friends and beloved ones. God give them strength to pull through this tremendous tragedy...
Race in Peace Marco.


text:
Ashley Judd's fire escapeAshley Judd narrowly escaped serious injury after her luxury mobile home caught fire.
The incident occurred while the actress was shooting her new movie 'Come Early Morning' on Monday night (23.05.05).
According to reports, Judd and hundreds of extras had been filming in an Arkansas nightclub when the terrifying blaze broke out.
Fire-fighters spent several hours battling the flames before finally extinguishing the fire which had completely gutted the bus.
Fortunately nobody was inside the vehicle, which was parked outside the nightspot, when the blaze broke out.
Investigators believe the incident was caused by a candle left burning inside by a member of the film's production company - who informed officers of his mistake.
Judd - who has starred in a string of Hollywood films including 'Heat', 'Natural Born Killers and 'A Time To Kill' - is said to have been left shaken by the incident but "relieved" nobody was injured.
Have an question? Get it answered by AskMen's guyQ.


text:
Tag Archives: furniture
Glamorous home: Ralph Lauren Home – Apartment No. One Collection
Check out the glamorous home decor collection, furniture and accessories, from Ralph Lauren Home, known as "Apartment No. One"…
Posted in A black and white life, A glamorous life, Architecture and design, Style leader, Stylish homes Also tagged A glamorous life, black, black and gold, black and white, chairs, dining rooms, elegance, glamorous, glamour, interior design, ladylike, Ralph Lauren, ralph lauren home, stylish home 2 Comments
WISHLIST: Ralph Lauren lucite series low table lamp
Elegant simplicity: I'm in love with this Lucite Series Low Table Lamp from Ralph Lauren…
Posted in A glamorous life, Style leader, Stylish homes, Textiles and other decorative elements Also tagged decor, home accessories, lamps, lucite, Ralph Lauren, shopping, stylish home, wishlist 3 Comments
Luscious textiles: Glass, lucite and crystal
A look at the lusciousness of glass, lucite and crystal in fashion and interior design…
Posted in A glamorous life, Bling fling, Diva darling, Style leader, Textiles and other decorative elements Also tagged accessories, bling, chandeliers, crystal, decor, fashion, glass, glassware, home accessories, interior design, jewellery, lucite, silver, textiles, textures, white 9 Comments


text:
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 large, ripe mango, peeled, pitted, and pureed (slightly over 1/2 cup)
1/4 cup dark rum
2 teaspoon pineapple extract
2 cup flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cream or non dairy substitute
1/4 cup rum
1 cup chopped mango
Preheat oven to 325. Grease and flour a 9-inch spring form pan. In the bowl of an electric mixer combine the butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, mango puree, rum and extract, beating until well mixed. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat just until dry ingredients are incorporated. Stir in coconut. Spread in prepared pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out almost clean, tenting with foil if top browns too quickly. Let cool before removing from pan. Cut into wedges and top with a spoonful of Mango Rum Topping.
To prepare Mango Rum Topping, In a saucepan melt the butter. Add the brown sugar, cream and rum. Cook and stir for 5 minutes over low heat; stir in the mango. Cool slightly and serve with cake.