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Lower Manhattan rebuilds again, until the next time
In the days immediately after Hurricane Sandy lashed lower Manhattan with high winds and a record storm surge, the neighborhood was like a ghost town.
Law firms and insurance companies, J.P. Morgan staffers and Daily News reporters, all relocated. A week after the storm, Citigroup, which has offices on Greenwich Street, told employees they could return to work but should dress warmly, since there was still no heat. At that point, a third of the neighborhood's 101 million square feet of office space, about eight percent of Manhattan's entire supply, remained off-line. Two weeks after the storm, commercial real-estate brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle reported that 37 major office buildings, or 20 percent of the supply south of Canal Street, was still out.
In the decade following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, when lower Manhattan's viability as the city's global business center was very much in question, other, unrelated trends pushed the neighborhood into a renaissance. More people live there and a greater diversity of businesses are located there than before Sept. 11. Landlords, businesses and residents have more financial incentive than ever to invest in the neighborhood, even as the damage wrought by the hurricane has many climate experts predicting a future of devastating storms like Sandy.
When the storm made landfall just south of Atlantic City on the evening of Oct. 29, it pushed a record 13.88-foot storm surge over the southern tip of Manhattan, turning the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel into a 90 million-gallon holding tank, filling the World Trade Center site's basement levels with up to 30 feet of water.
Water climbed to the ceiling of the South Ferry subway station, the end of the No. 1 line in lower Manhattan, and debris covered tracks in stations up and down other lines after the water rushed in and out.
M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota said that seven subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn were flooded. The flooding in the tunnels in Lower Manhattan was so serious that the Federal Emergency Management Agency asked specialists from the Army Corps of Engineers to help. The "unwatering team," as it is known — two hydrologists and two mechanical engineers from the corps with experience in draining flooded areas — flew to the airport in White Plains because it was one of the few in the area that was open.
The eastern part of lower Manhattan, where the FDR highway divides neighborhoods from the waterfront and Pier 17 juts into the East River, was particularly hard hit. The surge and ensuing rainfall flooded parking garages and coffee shops, clothing stores, and at least one doggie daycare (the Salty Paw, on nearby Peck Slip). Thousands of New Yorkers found themselves out of office and home.
When serious questions are asked about residential waterfront communities in New Jersey, Staten Island and the south shores of Long Island, lower Manhattan is rarely mentioned. And while the big landlords interviewed by Capital expressed interest in measures they or the city might take to protect the neighborhood from the next superstorm, in the meantime almost everyone seems to be rebuilding pretty much what was there before.
ON A RECENT AFTERNOON, SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER Hurricane Sandy, a storefront on a quiet stretch of Front Street near the South Street Seaport still looked like a disaster zone.
"This was a restaurant, here," said Jordan Barowitz, aide to New York landlord Douglas Durst, who owns the Historic Front Street complex that until recently housed Stella Manhattan Bistro, the French, Argentinian and Asian fusion restaurant, as he swept a flashlight across the skeletal remains of the place. The floor where patrons once danced the tango had been torn up, the joists exposed. Wires dangled from the ceiling, and everywhere a damp smell lingered.
"We are all aiming to reopen," Fernando Dallorso, the owner of that stripped-down Front Street restaurant, later told me.
By "we" Dallorso meant the neighborhood's other small business owners, with whom he's been meeting weekly.
Dallorso is holding fast despite enormous obstacles: the Dursts are not expected to return to him his restaurant (as an empty concrete box) for another four months, after which he will have to rebuild his restaurant, which he says will take up to six months.
He has yet to recover his initial investment in the eatery, and he's not sure how he's going to finance his reinvestment, either.
He acknowledges that, from a climate change perspective, all of this is a "gamble," "because this could happen any given day again, unfortunately."
But he also predicted, "the area will come back with a boom."
On a recent Monday evening, a cheery blue and white signboard sat at Water and Fulton streets, welcoming visitors down the cobblestone way toward Pier 17, which the sign said was indeed open.
That sign must have seemed necessary because the intervening streetscape still resembled an urban wasteland.
The stores lining the way, from Abercrombie and the Body Shop to the Superdry store, remained closed. Dumpsters intermingled with with generators and yellow police tape.
At Barberini Alimentari, a sign on a window crisscrossed with tape warned visitors that there was no floor inside the padlocked doors.
It was a neighborhood in shambles.
Durst, who owns much of Front Street, said it would be back in four months, and from a long-term perspective, he's not all that troubled by the prospect of rising sea levels, even with his property so vulnerable to them.
"Venice has survived," he said.
A big piece of our particular world financial capital is controlled by Bill Rudin, scion of the Rudin real estate family and owner of three million square feet downtown, including 110 Wall Street, a 28-story office building a block from the East River whose electrical system, elevators and lobby got ravaged in the storm.
Rudin has since terminated all of his leases there.
"As we're speaking now, we're sending back security deposits and any payments that were made before the storm," he told me recently during a phone interview.
Rudin's not quite sure what he's going to do with the building. Maybe he'll convert it to residential. Maybe he'll raise up the lobby and install better flood protections. Or not.
He's waiting to see what steps the city and state take before his engineers and he decide on the best solution to "sustain the new normal of climate change."
There is, however, one thing he is sure of—he's not giving up on Lower Manhattan.
"My family's got a lot invested in this city, so we've got to make it right," he said.
Nor does he expect he'll have to.
"I'm confident we can figure it out," he said. "It may take some time. It will cost some money. We as a city and a society, if we believe in the power of New York City, we'll figure it out."


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A Christian Blogger's Desire [How to Pray for Me]
I ran across a Puritan prayer I had arbitrarily used as a bookmark. The prayer is called, "A Minister's Preaching," taken from Valley of Vision.
I adapted the prayer for preachers into a prayer for writers so I could pray it for myself and a few blogger friends of mine, Demian Farnworth, Don Dudley, and Jonathan Woodward.
This prayer captures my heart's desire when I write…or at least what it ought to be. It also expresses in Puritan language what I pray God accomplishes through my writing.
The Puritan prayer doesn't directly cover some specifics though. For example, I'd like this blog to have a clearly defined and specifically targeted mission, and sometimes that's lacking. I also hope one day this blog might be a means God uses to connect me with a full time job, a book writing deal, or some other opportunity to serve God with what He gives me just as I try to do where I am now.
That's the stuff I pray for. And Don Duddley over at You See Dry Bones prays for similar things. And I would love to have you join with me in prayer. Would you bring these requests before your church, small group, family, or where ever else you gather to pray?
A Writer's Prayer
My Master God,
I desire to write today,
but go weak and needy to my task;
Yet I long that people might be edified
with divine truth,
that an honest testimony might be borne
for thee;
Give me assistance in writing and prayer,
with heart uplifted for grace and unction.
Present to my view things pertinent to
my subject,
with fullness of matter and clarity of thought,
proper expressions, fluency, fervency,
a feeling sense of the things I write,
and grace to apply them to men's consciences.
Keep me conscious all the while of my defects,
and let me not gloat in pride over
my performance.
Help me to offer a testimony for thyself,
and to leave sinners inexcusable in neglecting
thy mercy.
Give me freedom to open the sorrows of thy people,
and to set before them comforting considerations.
Attend with power the truth written,
and awaken the attention of slothful readers.
May thy people be refreshed, melted, convicted, comforted,
and help me to use the strongest arguments
drawn from Christ's incarnation and sufferings
that men might be made holy.
I myself need thy support, comfort, strength, holiness,
that I might be a pure channel of thy grace,
and be able to do something for thee;
Give me then refreshment among thy people,
and help me not to treat excellent matter
in a defective way,
or bear a broken testimony to so worthy
a Redeemer,
or be harsh in treating of Christ's death,
its design and end,
from lack of warmth and fervency.
And keep me in tune with thee
as I do this work.
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Here is the tentative lineup of superstars who will be competing at the Kerr-McGee Pro-Am: David Fox, Tripp Schwenk, Brad Schumacher, Melanie Valerio, Kurt Grote, Brian Retterer, Chad Carvin, Martin Pepper.


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Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft developed by 4J Studios in conjunction with Mojang and Microsoft Studios.[8] It was announced at the 2011 E3 conference by Notch and Microsoft, and was released alongside a free trial version on May 9, 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade. It is priced at $19.99.
Retail disc
On June 4, 2013 Microsoft released the first retail disc of Minecraft Xbox 360 edition with a free gold membership. It costs $19.99, the same price as the Xbox Arcade Version. The game otherwise is identical to the downloadable version. Features such as buying or downloading on Xbox Live are the same for both versions and they both update at the same time. It was released in regions or countries supported by Xbox Live.
The game was showcased as a playable demo at MineCon 2011 and was deemed a 'work in progress'.[9] 4J Studios confirmed that it had all the features of the PC version Beta 1.6.6 when released, and will later be updated. IGN also filmed a video at MineCon showing that the graphics look very similar to the PC edition.
Notch later announced the team developing the game would be 4J Studios.[10][11] Daniel Kaplan tweeted about receiving an early copy of the Xbox 360 Edition on September 7, 2011.[12]
In October 2011, Microsoft said the release was planned for Spring 2012.[13] On March 22, the official release date was posted by Larry Hryb, the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, as May 9,[14] and a few days before the game release, HatFilms released the official trailer for the Xbox 360 Edition.
The game was officially released on May 9, 2012, and set a new sales records on the Xbox Live Arcade, selling more copies in the first twenty four hours of launch than previous titles.[15]
The retail disc version was released on June 4, 2013, being exactly the same as the arcade version, with the exception of internet requirement to play.
Skin Packs
4J Studios has produced Skin Packs as downloadable content. Each Skin Pack includes ~45 skins to choose from. The first Skin Pack, Skin Pack 1, was released July 16, 2012 at a cost of US$1.99. The Skin Pack contains characters from Xbox 360 games, such as Master Chief from Halo. The Skin Pack also include various original designs created by 4J Studios. On Minecraft Xbox 360's birthday you can download special skinpacks for free. There are many more skin packs added. One is a Christmas Themed Skin Pack. There is also a Marvel Skin Pack, a Spider-Man Skin Pack and Animal Skin Packs. In total there are more than 10 Skin Packs!
In default settings, the controls are always displayed on the HUD.
- Gameplay
- - Jump (double tap to fly while in Creative)
- - Drop item
- - Open crafting menu in Creative Mode or survival
- - Open inventory
- - Place block/use item
- - Mine/use block or item
- / - Change the selected block
- - Move
- (Moved forward twice in rapid succession) - Sprint
- (pressed down) - Change camera angle.
- - Look
- (pressed down) - Sneak/walk, descend while flying in Creative mode, dismount an entity[16]
- Interface (Crafting/Smelting/Brewing/Inventory)
- - Pickup/Drop item
- - Exit interface
- - Take half of the highlited stack/show information about the selected block or item
- - Move selected stack to Chest/Brewing stand, move between inventory and hotbar.
- / - Move pointer/change selected item.
- - access creative inventory "if in creative"
- (pressed down) - crouch/crouch in bed
Marvel Skin Packs Bundle
Minecraft Marvel Skin Packs Bundle was released on November 30, 2015 and containes all of the Marvel Skin Packs. The bundle is meant to be a discount for the Marvel Skin Packs as starting on December 22, 2015 the bundle and all of the Marvel Skin Packs will no longer be avaible on the Xbox One and the Xbox 360. This bundle costs $6.99 and is avaible in the Xbox One and the Xbox 360.[17] [18]
The following DLC is included in the Marvel Skin Packs Bundle:[17] [18]
Awards and unlockables
- Steve Gamerpic - Mine redstone for the first time
- Creeper Gamerpic - Kill 10 Creepers
- Minecraft Exclusive (Wood) Theme - Share a picture on Facebook
- A Minecraft Watch - Play through 100 day to night cycles
- I Porkchop Minecraft T-shirt - Make a cooked porkchop
- Creeper Cap - Kill a Creeper with arrows
- Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition was added to the Xbox Arcade download section in November 2011, although it was only possible to download the "It's here!" trailer. Nonetheless, the entry held very high ratings.
- There are also Minecraft-themed Xbox Live avatar items available. Among these are Minecraft shirts, pets, items, props, head wear, dashboard themes, and gamer pics, all of which range from $1/£0.64 to $2.99/£1.92 in price.
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May 30, 2016
Jackson, Miss.
The Mississippi Senate has voted to add "In God We Trust" to the state seal, as requested by Gov. Phil Bryant.
Currently, it has an eagle and the words, "The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi" without a slogan.
Senate Bill 2681 passed the Senate on Friday and moves to the House.
The bill is called the "Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act," and it says government may not burden a person's right to practice religion.
its chief sponsor, Republican Sen. Phillip Gandy of Waynesboro, is a Baptist minister. He says he has heard no examples of Mississippi government trying to limit religion, but he has talked to some Christians who are concerned.
Some senators pointed out that the U.S. Constitution already guarantees freedom of religion.
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Burges Salmon has advised Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. and Heineken N.V. on the acquisition of 41.2% of the minority shares in Pivara Skopje, their joint venture beverage company in the Republic of Macedonia. The transaction completed earlier this month (15 December).
The aggregate consideration for the transaction is €79.1 million (excluding acquisition costs) to be divided equally between Coca-Cola Hellenic and Heineken.
The transaction was signed in November 2011 but was subject to approval by the competition authorities in the Republic of Macedonia. Coca-Cola Hellenic and Heineken now collectively own 96.5% of the shares in Pivara Skopje following the closing of the transaction.
The Burges Salmon team advising on the deal was led by corporate partner Nick Graves, assisted by Julie Book. Local law advice in Macedonia was provided by Knezovic and Associates.
Nick Graves said "We are delighted to have worked with CCHBC and Heineken on this interesting and complex transaction. Since the shares were traded on the Macedonian Stock exchange, a block trade was required and was settled through the Central Securities Depository AD Skopje."
Pivara Skopje - established in 1924 - is the largest beer and soft drinks company in the Republic of Macedonia - distributing and selling the brands of The Coca-Cola Company and Heineken. In 1998 Coca-Cola Hellenic and Heineken together acquired the majority interest in the company.
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The people of San Antonio will forever remember the Alamo, but these days, the city is fighting a new war—one against STDs, with the intent of at promoting San Antonio STD testing. Here are some facts that showcase the need for STD testing in San Antonio:
- 11,455 new cases of chlamydia were reported in San Antonio and Bexar County in 2010.
- Bexar County reported 670 new cases of syphilis in 2010. The number of syphilis cases has increased three-fold since 2003.
- Bexar County had 253 new cases of HIV in 2010. HIV testing in San Antonio is recommended for all sexually active adults and teens.
- 3,520 new cases of gonorrhea were identified in 2010.
The statistics show a significant need for STD testing in San Antonio. In particular, routine STD tests in San Antonio are recommended for pregnant women. This city has high rates of congenital syphilis, which causes still births, death and birth defects in infants. If diagnosed through a simple, prenatal check for STDs in San Antonio, syphilis can be cured via antibiotics, preventing any harm to the unborn child.
Routine HIV testing in San Antonio is recommended for anyone who is sexually active. In addition to HIV, annual STD testing in San Antonio should include gonorrhea and chlamydia for women, both of which can lead to infertility if undiagnosed. Furthermore, STD screening in San Antonio should also include genital herpes.
To control high STD rates in this area, the CDC has awarded $5.4 million to four high-risk cities, including San Antonio. These funds will go towards promoting STD testing in San Antonio and community-based prevention initiatives over the next three years.
In the meantime, STD tests in San Antonio are available throughout the city at dozens of locations. San Antonio STD screening is available as early as today with results ready in a quick three days. Don't wait; check for STDs in San Antonio today!


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I certainly understand your concern. It is not uncommon for the State to over charge a person and then once the facts are looked into, showing what can actually be supported and proved at trial, to have the charge amended to a lesser crime. It appears that is what is happening here, where the prosecutor is seeing there is no legal basis to proceed or evidence to support, a felony assault charge. As such, in their opinion, the facts/evidence suggest a lesser charge of harassment. They can amend it and proceed on that, if they wanted to. The decision would then amount to proceeding to trial and if the State would be able to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt, based upon the context of the phone and anything else, which you are alleged to have done. The decision is up to you if you want to take a plea or go to trial. Your attorney is supposed to act in your best interest and properly advise you of your options. However, the final say is up to you.
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|Rico v. Attorney General
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|Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Unpublished opinion.
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High School: El Monte
College: BYU (school history)
Drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 22nd round (265th overall) of the 1954 NFL Draft.
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With his 10th consecutive season of 200 or more hits, the iconic Mariners bat magician extended his major-league record.
In this most brutal of Mariners seasons, Ichiro is that rarest of commodities — a player actually doing his job.
While the team crashes and burns around him, he just keeps pounding out his hits, the usual mixture of exquisitely placed line drives and maddeningly slow rollers that can't quite be converted into outs.
For the 10th straight year, Ichiro has reached 200 hits, a standard of excellence that can be written down in ink each February. Heck, you can etch it on a plaque and send it to Cooperstown.
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His metronome-steady output has reached the iconic status of a Seattle archetype — the rain, the coffee, the flying fish at the Pike Place Market, and Ichiro's 200 hits.
With his fifth-inning single Thursday in Toronto off Blue Jays starter Shawn Hill, Ichiro matched Pete Rose, the all-time hits leader, with 10 seasons of 200 safeties. No one in baseball history had ever had 10 in a row, until now. No one, in fact, had gone nine straight until Ichiro. No American League player has ever had more than nine 200-hit seasons in their career, with Ichiro leaving no less than Ty Cobb in his wake.
Furthermore, Cobb needed 24 seasons to record his nine years of 200 hits, and book-ended them in an 18-year span (1907-24). Rose also played for 24 years, and achieved his 10 years of 200 hits in a 15-season stretch (1965-79).
Ichiro has done it with dogged precision — 10 for 10 … and is there anyone who doubts he will make it 11, and 12, and who knows how many more? If there are signs that he is slowing down at age 36 (he turns 37 next month), or losing any of his legendary focus, they are subtle and nearly imperceptible.
Beyond that, who knows what the number would be if Ichiro had joined the major leagues at the beginning of his natural prime? For seven magnificent seasons, from age 20 to 26, he torched Japanese pitchers for averages of .385, .342, .356, .345, .358, .343 and .387.
One thing we have already learned is that Ichiro's game was not lost in translation. We can only assume that had he started his major-league career at, say, age 22, as Rose did, he would have raked at a similar clip over here and put fear into Rose's competitive heart on the safety of his career-hits record.
Those are imponderables. The beauty of Ichiro's decade with the Mariners is that we can deal with reality. Even with his late start, he is creeping up MLB's all-time hits list, reaching 162nd (tied with Todd Helton) and rising with his current total of 2,230.
If Ichiro racks up another 200 next year, he could crack the career top 100, depending on how many more he adds to the list this year (and among his next targets is former teammate and all-time Mariners great Edgar Martinez, in 157th place at 2,247).
If Ichiro can match the 1,290 hits that Rose had after age 36 — and with his conditioning and durability, I don't see why he can't be a productive hitter into his 40s, as Rose was — he would reach 3,500 hits. That's a rarefied level achieved only by legends Tris Speaker (3,514), Stan Musial (3,630), Hank Aaron (3,771), Cobb (4,189) and Rose (4,256).
Ichiro's decade with the Mariners has given us a body of work, in the realm of pure, unadulterated hitting artistry — manifested in the tangible result of bashing (or dribbling) out base hits — that stacks up with any hitter in any era.
Yes, there are various quibbles that can (and have, and no doubt will continue to be) brought to bear on Ichiro's modus operandi.
But it never fails to baffle me when he is called a selfish player "because all he cares about is getting his hits."
I understand the complaints are more complicated, and nuanced, than that. But the bottom line is that Ichiro does his prime task — one that is sadly being marginalized on a team as offensively weak as this as one — exceedingly well. Historically well.
Savor every swing.
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There have been quite a few talented quarterbacks that have taken the spotlight in the capital city, be it at Florida State or FAMU, the qb position is the most visible and adored spot in football.
Current Tallahassee titans quarterback Ben Dougherty knows that all too well.
WCTV Eyewitness Sports had the exclusive pleasure of interviewing the Titan gunslinger, and the local acclaim is well deserved.
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Opening Comments:
"It's an exciting week. It's always exciting to play in a rivalry game. It's what coaches and players are looking for in every season. This is certainly one of those games. I haven't had to circle this game on the schedule. Everybody scheduled it for me. I get about 100 emails a day about interest in this game. I know it's a big game to our fans as well as our players and should be a great football game. We're catching a good football team with a week off. (Tennessee has) Probably have gotten a little healthier, refreshed, some extra time to prepare for us. They are a very solid team in a lot of areas. Their defense--they've lost some great players off their defensive line but I think their d'line is playing pretty good. They've replaced them very well. Linebackers are solid. Secondary is probably as fine a secondary as there is. They play very very well. Great cover guys.
"Offensively, Tennessee always seems to have a good offensive line, a great tight end in Jason Witten. Great receivers---Kelley Washington, we all know about him. (Casey) Clausen is an outstanding quarterback and I'm sure that if he is unable to play then the other guys will be far more prepared to play now, so, whoever they put back there I know will do a good job for them.
"The kicking game is always a strength I think for these guys though they've been a little up and down at place kicker as a lot of us have been this year. So we will have to play well in every aspect of the game and be prepared to handle a very hostile situation and try to get our running game going and achieve some balance in our offense as we have and have some success in all those areas so that we can keep them off balance a little bit. Because if they know what you are going to do, they are pretty good on defense."
Do they have so many weapons on offense or is Kelley Washington so talented that you have to find him on every play and do something specifically for him defensively on every play?
"I think you have to know where he is and you have to do some things with him. That gets complicated at times because (Jason) Witten is such a factor for them. If they can get their running game going it gets a little more difficult, but I think Washington is a factor that you have to plan for in your game plan."
Due to the noise of Neyland Stadium, will you practice indoors a lot this week?
"We will practice with crowd noise. Whether it will be indoors or not we'll see as the week wears on. We will not be indoors today. As the week goes on, once we get the game plan started, then we may look at doing more of that."
Coach, do you take anything from their game against Georgia and our game against Georgia and kind of get an idea of how we can do against Tennessee?
"Well, if you look at that it's going to be a heck of a game. Their Georgia game was a good game and of course their starting quarterback did not play. The quarterback got better as the day went on and they got some points on the board and it was a close game. The defense I thought played very well, controlled Georgia's receivers pretty well for the most part. If you look at the statistics for what that's worth, we haven't played a common schedule, but we're both about in the same area offensively and defensively. I think we're two and three, three and four somewhere in there in offense and defense. The Georgia game I think is an indicator that it will be two pretty good football teams and be a very hard-fought game and not a lot separates the two teams."
Coach, defensively, what do they play? What's their basic set and what kind of stunts and stuff do they do?
"They base out of a 4/3 but they play a lot of 30. They're going to fit their personnel, whether it's four down linemen or three down linemen, to what kind of personnel you have in the football game. They like to stunt. They're going to move and do something on just about every play. They're going to combine zone blitz with man blitz and a lot of movement up front for their defensive linemen. They're much like Carl (Torbush) they make a very concerted effort to stop the run and play a lot of man coverage in the secondary. And their corners and db's are good man cover guys."
Coach, with Lane Bearden's situation, do you take any extra precautions there at all or there anything you can do to keep him from getting further hurt?
"We told Nick that he needed to make good snaps. And we do not expect Lane to cover. Other than that there's not a whole lot we can do---protect as well as we can but we always do. And Lane understands that. He has a great feel for the time and rhythm to get the ball off and things like that, so it gives you a little extra trust because of that."


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Weaker??? in what way?
I would love some input from anyone. I enter the items that are emailed to email@example.com and I try to get them all in within a day of reciept. Having a real-life and a job does limit me sometimes but I don;t get behind to very often.
I have built a library of bios and pictures to include in the web page listing, something we never had before.
The volume of emails and the quantity of listing has increased significantly since 2006. I seem to ad a new venue every few days. It has become necessary to "edit" the announcememt for time due to the number of items on the web page.
If you have any suggestions I would be gald to listen and if they help I will include them. I you would like to volunteer to help with the data entry, I will bend down and kiss your toes....
May All Your Blues Be On The Radio....
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Opps, My apologies. I shouldn't speak of what I dont konw. I thought y'all sought out information to list.
The WWOZ Livewire is brought to you at the top of each odd hour. For an expanded listing visit our web site WWOZ(dot)ORG.
To get your gig into the Livewire music calendar e-mail email@example.com
Now get out there and support and enjoy some live local music!!!
May All Your Blues Be On The Radio.... D
Dear Music Calender,
What is the criteria for listing events in the calender? Is it simply a matter of space or do certain venues and acts receive priority? Pre-Katrina it seemed like all you had to do was send an e-mail and the listing turned up on-air.
The reason I ask is that I'm currently curating (with Jesse Mcbride) a music series at the Rat bar on the Tulane campus. So far we've presented Clyde Kerr Jr. and Adonis Rose, and tonight we're featuring the Tulane faculty band the Professors of Pleasure, with Jesse, Geoff Clapp, Jim Markway, John Dobry, and yours truly.
I've sent notices of all these events to firstname.lastname@example.com, but have never received confirmation, nor have the events turned up on the wire, either on-air or on-line. Am I doing something wrong here?
I received an email from you dated Nov 22nd about a Dec 2nd show which was listed and announced. That is the only email that was forwarded to me from the events server.
I no longer handle the Live Wire entry ( since 2/18 ), so i can not speak to any email sent after that date.
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Senior Master Sgt. Mark Foreman, Air Terminal Operations Center ramp superintendent from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, fastens 25K restraint chains to a 60K Tunner Loader on a C-17 Globemaster III at Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on May 7, 2014. A total of 28 chains are required providing approximately 262 tons of restraint. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Lt. Col. Max Despain)
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We are trying to get email repaired for an AD FS 2.0 federated user, and all emails to the primary address are bouncing.
Steps we did:
1. Removed old email account that was created through BPOS. This was to try to force a consolidation of accounts.
2. Created domain account on our DC.
3. Edited the AD proxyAddresses property to include SMTP:firstname.lastname@example.com, where email@example.com was the old primary address of the BPOS account.
4. Forced an AD sync using DirSync (verified that it happened by looking at another property that changed at the same time).
At first, external emails were delivered fine, but internals bounced. Now, after several attempts at force dirsync, no emails will be delivered to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Other data points:
There's something wrong on the MS side--and I cannot seem to reset it from here.
What do we do?
Here's the (kind of anonymized) NDR:
Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:
Joe Public
The e-mail address you entered couldn't be found. Please check the recipient's e-mail address and try to resend the message. If the problem continues, please contact your helpdesk.
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: mydomain.onmicrosoft.com
#550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; not found ##
Original message headers:
Received: from BL2PRD0710MB349.namprd07.prod.outlook.com ([169.254.2.72]) by
BL2PRD0710HT003.namprd07.prod.outlook.com ([10.255.102.38]) with mapi id
14.16.0135.002; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:24:57 +0000
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
From: Peter Rosser <email@example.com>
To: Joe Public
Subject: testing to Joe@bbc
Thread-Topic: testing to Joe@bbc
Thread-Index: Ac0MT0r0syre7eyoRCSYIt+yUEc7Hg==
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:24:56 +0000
Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: <email@example.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Originating-IP: [126.96.36.199]
Thanks for the feedback.
Hi Peter,
I understand that the non-delivery report (NDR) "550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; not found" was received when sending email to an Office 365 user. The issue persists after performing the following steps:
1. Removed older email account created through BPOS previously.
2. Created domain account on your DC.
3. Edited the AD proxyAddresses property to include SMTP:email@example.com, where email@example.com was the old primary address of the BPOS account.
4. Forced an AD sync using DirSync.
To troubleshoot the issue, please clear your autocomplete cache. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287623
The RESOLVER.ADR is a dead giveaway for these errors. The issue may occur if the user changes the real address of a contact or another organizational user. This can occur due to something like the above (where the admin deletes an address and re-adds them as a contact), or more commonly through a wholesale change of the organization's email addresses (such as a .PST migration from on-premise or hosted to O365). However, the autocomplete caches in the users' mail clients are still pointing to the old X.500 addresses, which need to be cleared out.
If the issue persists, this also occurs if the domain that is configured for coexistence is not set correctly as a shared domain in Office 365.
To troubleshoot the issue, I suggest checking if the domain is configured as shared. You may refer the steps below to check if the domain is a shared domain. If not, please configure the domain as a shared domain. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Sign in to the Office 365 portal (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/) as a global administrator or a service administrator.
2. Click Admin, and then under Exchange Online, click Manage.
3. In the Exchange Control Panel (ECP), click Mail Control, and then click Domains & Protection.
4. Select the domain that is configured for mail coexistence, and then click Details.
5. Select Shared, and then click Save.
Monica Tong
It's definitely not the autocomplete cache--we've cleared that on multiple clients, and it repros with O365-hosted OWA.
I had been instructed by MS support to keep the domains all set to Hosted, instead of Shared, because we are not routing any email through an onsite Exchange.
As I said earlier, other users are working with this exact setup. The difference appears to be in the fact that this account was deleted (as a BPOS account), and recreated w/ the same properties on the local AD, replicating to the cloud.
I verified that setting the domain to Shared doesn't impact this issue. The user in question does not accept any default address change. I.e., no value in proxyAddresses with "SMTP:firstname.lastname@example.com" value will persist and overwrite the tenant value of firstname.lastname@example.com
I am using ADSI Edit and the DirSync tool to push changes. I verified that other AD properties are being pushed properly to the same user.
Thank you for your updated information.
I understand that you have cleared the autocomplete cache on multiple clients. The issue is narrowed to be related to Office 365 Outlook Web App (OWA). You have followed suggestions from Microsoft Support to keep the domains set to Hosted. The issue with the account that was deleted as a BPOS account, recreated with the same properties on the local AD, and then replicated to the cloud. The user in question couldn't be changed default address. You are using ADSI Edit and the DirSync tool to push changes. The other AD properties are being pushed properly to the same user.
I understand that you might have submitted a service request. I would like to get the service request number to have a better understanding of the troubleshooting performed with support engineer previously. To protect your privacy, I have sent you a private message on this. It was responded in a private message with a subject of "Information Request".
Please go to the Your details section on the right side of the community site.
Click Private messages.
Click the subject title of the response to read the message.
You can reply by using the form in that display to provide the information requested.
Monica Tong
I would like to follow up with question you posted previously. Have you checked my private message? Could you please provide your service request number in private message as mentioned? After getting it, we can have a better understanding of the troubleshooting performed with support engineer previously.
Monica Tong


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With a roughly $1 billion target to hit, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" has to bring it, and they're certainly swinging for the fences. The soundtrack is led by none other than Coldplay, and the marketing machine has been turning hard since the beginning of the year, and now it's heading into the home stretch.
A batch of new images (via EW), a final poster and a featurette to convince you to see this in IMAX, have all dropped for the movie. In this mega-sequel, Jennifer Lawerence is back as Katniss Everdeen, who again is separated from her friends and family to go on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. But rebellion is brewing and once again she'll have to fight for her life or something (I haven't read the books), with Peeta and Gale once again there to spur feelings.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today termed the rail fare hike as "unprecedented and anti-people" and demanded its roll back in the interest of common people.
Hundreds of her party supporters also today hit the streets as part of a week-long agitation against the hike in passenger and freight fares.
The state Assembly today also passed a resolution moved by state parliamentary affairs and education minister Partha Chatterjee seeking withdrawal of the fare hike which was supported by the Left, the Congress and the SUCI.
Participating in the debate on the resolution in the Assembly the Chief Minister said the decision to hike rail fare and freight rates had created problems for the masses.
The increase in rail fare means increase in prices of all commodities. The decision will have an impact on the pockets which in turn will affect the kitchen of common man, she said.
Hundreds of Trinamool Congress activists, led by the party MPs, state ministers and legislators took out a procession from Raja Subodh Mullick Square in the north to the Gandhi statue in the central part of the city.
Protestors carried posters which read "We oppose rail fare hike". Another poster read "Modi tumi jaldi bhago" (Modi you should quit).
Banerjee during debate, however, pointed out that their opposition to the fare hike did not mean that they were being anti-Centre. It was just a reminder to the central government that the decision should be withdrawn for the sake of people.
A new government should be given time, but if it took unpopular decisions right from the first day, they cannot keep quiet, suggesting that the new government should be polite, soft and take decision in favour of people.
Banerjee point out that political parties in their manifesto talk about 'Acche Din', but after coming to power anti-people decisions were being taken.
She said if the political parties had plans to take such harsh decisions, they should tell the masses about it.
Addressing TMC supporters at a rally, party general secretary and former railway minister Mukul Roy said movement against the rail fare hike would be spread across the state.
Roy said party MPs would protest against it in the coming Budget session of Parliament.
Leader of the TMC parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyaya told the rally, "During the recent debate on the President's address in Parliament, we had said that we will support those


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NORTH COUNTY Following are upcoming meeting schedules for local government agencies:
The Carlsbad City Council will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Faraday Administration Building, 1635 Faraday Ave. Agenda items include: a Parks and Recreation Department needs assessment report; an update on the city's higher education initiative; and an update on the city's code enforcement efforts.
The Encinitas City Council will meet in closed session at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Council Chambers, 505 S. Vulcan Ave., to discuss performance evaluations for the city manager and city attorney. The regular meeting will follow at 6 p.m. Agenda items include: a Caltrans presentation on the Interstate 5 project; a resolution supporting Senate Bill 405, a single-use plastic carryout bag ban; and discussion of a single-use plastic water bottle ban at City Council meetings and city events.
The Oceanside City Council will hold a workshop at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Council Chambers, 300 N. Coast Highway. Agenda items include: a presentation of the proposed Airport Master Plan Process.
The San Marcos City Council will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Council Chambers, 1 Civic Center Drive. Agenda items include: participation in the Regional Winter Shelter System, including allocating $62,400 for support; and a hearing on an amendment to the city's Program of Projects within the 2012 Regional Transportation Improvement Program.
The Solana Beach City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Council Chambers, 635 S. Highway 101. Agenda items include: a consulting agreement for the Coastal Storm Damage Reduction and Beach Nourishment Project; and appropriations to the Sand Replenishment Project.
The Vista City Council will hold a special closed session meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Council Chambers, 200 Civic Center Drive. Agenda items include: an appointment to the Sales Tax Oversight Committee.
The Bonsall Union School District board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Bonsall Community Center, 31505 Old River Road. Agenda items include: approval of a tentative agreement with the teachers association that includes a 3 percent salary increase; and a memorandum of understanding with classified employees that includes a 3 percent salary increase. The Bonsall Unified School District board meeting will follow immediately. Agenda items include: a report on community outreach for the new high school; an update on facilities modifications for Sullivan Middle School; and a discussion on naming the new high school.
The Cardiff School District board hold a special meeting for the superintendent evaluation at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 1226 Sea Village Drive. The board will hold is regular meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday at the district office, 1888 Montgomery Ave. Agenda items include: consideration of a health and welfare cap increase for eligible district employees; and a revised public notice of teacher contract negotiation articles.
The Carlsbad Unified School District board will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the district office, 6225 El Camino Real.
The Escondido Union School District board will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the district office, 2310 Aldergrove Ave. Agenda items include: a report on student academic progress; disclosure of collective bargaining agreements and authorization to revise the budget to include costs of the tentative settlement; and a consultant agreement for a school facilities needs analysis.
The Oceanside Unified School District board will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the district office, 2111 Mission Ave. Agenda items include: ratification of negotiated agreements with the teachers association and classified employees association; salary schedule increase for leadership employees; ratification of three-year negotiated agreements for associate superintendents; a two-year Common Core implementation plan; Pacific View Charter School annual report; and authorization to redirect the use of the $991,496 fund balance toward funding the one-time, off-schedule increase of proposed labor group agreements.


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May 24, 2016
Hurricane Ivan continues to bear down on Jamaica, while Floridians look to sweating out a weekend of preparation.
Ivan is now centered about 85 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and about 660 miles southeast of Key West.
It's moving west-northwest at about 12 miles an hour, expected to bring its center to or near Jamaica Friday night or early Saturday morning.
There's a hurricane warning for Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Ivan's top sustained winds are near 145 miles an hour, with fluctuation likely.
Forecasters say they're confident in what Ivan is going to do the next couple of days, but they're not sure what happens once it crosses Cuba. Some models show the system on a track similar to Hurricane Charley, going into southwest Florida and up the state.
But steering currents are expected to weaken, so other models show paths near or along the west coast of Florida. One model shows it going even farther west, going into the western Florida Panhandle next Tuesday sometime.
For now, the middle of the official forecast track shows Ivan's center going just offshore from the Tampa Bay area and coming ashore a little farther north.
Ivan centered at latitude 16.8 north, longitude 75.8 west.
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None in today's Black Community talk about the Colored Farmers Alliance which had over one million members functioning as one of the most progressive Black economic and political forces the community developed in this country. Started in 1886, slightly more than twenty years after slavery, the Colored Farmers Alliance was eventually made up of over 1.2 million farmers and farm workers engaged in extensive co-operative efforts while maintaining a publication, and sponsoring many educational initiatives and conventions.
As mentioned by History Professor Judith Stein in her piece included in the anthology, Renewing Black Intellectual History, entitled: "Of Booker T. Washington and Others, The Political Economy of Racism in the United States:"
"The [Colored Farmers' Alliance] [through] suballiences were simultaneously fraternal organizations which helped sick and disabled members and purveyed advice on farming, raising families, and other problems of interest to rural people; they also taught the orders principles of political economy. Quickly expanding its activities, the Alabama [Colored Farmers' Alliance] created a marketing exchange in Mobile, united against the contested mills to obtain higher prices for seed, and cooperated with the Southern Alliance (made up of Whites) in other areas affecting farmers.
These were former slaves barely a generation removed from shackles. The Colored Farmers' Alliance started to work extensively with the Southern Alliance, made up of Whites, and the two organizations confederated in 1890. Furthermore, the two organizations cooperated on many initiatives to protect farmers from economic exploitation by larger Southern Institutions. Moreover, the two organizations fused their activity into the Populist Movement and Populist Party that rose in the South during that time. This interracial cooperation, within such a short period after Slavery, mobilized Black and White farm workers into a powerful force threatening the Southern establishment and the political order benefiting the elites.
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Northeast Pa. tech group unveils improved job board
Focus on tech hiring
A group promoting growth of the region's high-tech economy unveiled a new drive Wednesday to expand hiring and interaction in the sector.
"I think we are engaging more of our community and spreading the word," said Tiffany Cross Luciani, managing director of TecBridge.
About 55 people turned out at the Connell Building as TecBridge rolled out an improved version of WorkNEPA.com, an electronic job board tailored toward professionals, and Rooted now.com, a blog devoted to regional technology and entrepreneurial developments. Both sites have links from the Tecbridgepa.org website.
TecBridge was formed last year, combing the Great Valley Technology Alliance and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Technology Institute to encourage startup and entrepreneurial ventures, especially in the technology and biotechnology fields. It is funded primarily by higher education and economic development organizations.
Since about 2000, more than 80 technology and biotech businesses have sprouted in the region and those companies employ about 3,000 people, said Ken Okrepkie, regional manager of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a state-financed economic development agency.
TecBridge will improve collaboration and generatemore opportunities for
employment and internships, he said.
"TecBridge becomes the voice of technology in Northeastern Pennsylvania," Mr. Okrepkie said.
The updated WorkNEPA.com website will include a directory of companies in the tech cluster, will interact with social media and make employment and internship searching easier, said Jack Reager, founder of BlackOut Design, a Scranton advertising and graphics company.
"This is a rather straightforward tool," Mr. Reager said. "It's a whole gamut of opportunity."
Rootednow.com sprang from interest in sharing experiences and success tales in the region's entrepreneurial sphere, said Adam Ceresko, co-founder of Appek, a mobile application developer in Scranton.
"I felt extremely disconnected from all the positive stuff that's happening in this area," Mr. Ceresko said.
The site will tap into news from a database of cooperating companies with a link to WorkNEPA and is easy to share through social media, Mr. Ceresko said.
"You have a nice circular reference," he said.
TecBridge's electronic attractions appeal to an emerging generation of electronically savvy workers and job applicants, said Rich Beasley, director of regional affairs for PPL Electric Utilities.
"It is refreshing here today to see different, younger faces," he said.
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Tour de Foothills, that is!
We decided to commute to our grandson's baseball game this morning, about 12 miles from home. As we got to the end of our street and started to turn onto the main cross-street, a group of cyclists rode by. Spotting Hubby in his bolt-upright position on his Trek 7500 hybrid, they didn't greet us. We met them again at the next red light and turned the corner with them. Turns out, we were sharing the metric century route of the Tour de Foothills, and the route includes the first main street we turn onto leading from our house.
We were still with the group when we started the climb of about 1 mile, a climb we've done many times -- me on my Surly LHT and he on his Trek hybrid. He sped up to the front of the pack. I found myself next to another rider near the back so I asked him about his route. By now, we were easily keeping pace with this group of roadies. He told me he was doing the metric century... "That's 62 miles", he explained. I told him we were heading for our grandson's baseball game in Rancho Cucamonga. "Oh, no wonder you can do this!", he said. I told him we rode a metric a few weeks ago to Long Beach -- to which he replied "Your friend up there didn't to that on THAT bike did he?" Yep, he did!
They turned at a light and we continued to the park to see the game, after which we rode further to lunch. The ride home was 18 miles of continuous headwind. Unfortunately, I wore my other shoes (not my Sidis) and by now my foot was starting to flame. About 2 miles from home when I thought I couldn't stand it (my foot) anymore, we reached our last hill. At the same time, a guy wearing a club jersey and riding a fancy mountain bike began the climb with us. I passed him on my Surly; at the top, he caught up and stayed with me all the way down the other side. As bad as I dearly wanted to coast, he gave me the incentive to pedal on. Suddenly, I forgot about my foot. I pushed down the hill, into the headwind, while he drafted me. Up ahead, Hubby still was cruising along on his big heavy Trek hybrid......
At the bottom of the hill I stopped pedaling and stood to give my seat a rest, and the unknown cyclist turned down another street. Little did he know he'd given me the shot of adrenalin I needed to shoot down the last hill.
33.33 miles and we were home and I could finally remove my shoes. Just another ride on yet another beautiful, warm, sunny Southern California day!


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Businesses are no different when difficult times strike. As a concrete producer, I am sure you have put off buying new equipment while trying to make the current versions last. Then as business picks up and more orders come your way, you will buy that new scale, pan mixer, or ready-mix truck.
I'm feeling more confident that we are nearing that turning point. April construction spending rose 2.7% from the previous month, which may be "reason to hope that the worst may be behind," said Patrick Newport, an economist at IHS Global Insight.
When it comes time to order new equipment, you have the perfect tool in your hand: the 2010 Industry Sourcebook. There is no better resource for the most complete, up-to-date information onsuppliers of equipment, materials, and technology available.
This year, we have added at the beginning of each section, information on specific new products which we published the previous year. It's a reminder that manufacturers were not resting on their laurels while the recession raged. They continued to innovate and develop equipment and tools.
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There are few actresses from the heady, wild days of American cinemas golden age of the 1970s who could count Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, John Schlesinger, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and even Alfred Hitchcock as collaborators. But one who had all of their names (and more) on her CV was Karen Black, and she has passed away today at the age of 74.
After starting her career in television, Black emerged in 1969's "Easy Rider," the movie world took note, and she never looked back. She'd spend the next decade appearing in a number of seminal films — "Five Easy Pieces," "Nashville," "Family Plot," "The Great Gatsby," "The Day Of The Locust" — earning accolades for her work. Her name even graces more underground faves like Nicholson's directorial debut "Drive, He Said" and the Gene Hackman/Kris Kristofferson starring "Cisco Pike." In terms of awards, she was recognized with a Best Actress nomination for "Five Easy Pieces," while the Golden Globes not only gave her a statue for that film, but for 'Gatsby' as well, while she landed another nomination for 'Locust.'
And while she had an illustrious start, the actress in her later years, became just as well known for her string of genre and horror flicks, appearing in films by folks like Rob Zombie and Alex Cox, and developing a cult following all her own. Sadly, Black had been battling cancer in recent months, and had even sought funds through crowdsourcing to help pay for her treatments. Her husband today revealed she had succumbed to bladder cancer. She will be greatly missed. [Variety]


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When Working Parents Don't Have a Lot of Time, Some Stuff – Like Grooming, Housework -- Gets Left Behind.
While today's parents are spending more time doing things with and caring for their children than did earlier generations of parents, they are "paying for the increase in other realms of life," the Wall Street Journal's The Juggle blog reported.
Citing a study out of the University of California, Los Angeles, the Journal said, "Married mothers spend less time on grooming – 8.2 hours a week, down from 10.1 hours in 1965 . . . [and] moms are also doing less housework." Ditto for fathers. "Both mothers and fathers are spending less time on preparing and eating meals, and they are enjoying less leisure time," the Journal said. "They also report 'feeling always rushed' and that they have too little time for themselves or their partners." (December 2010)


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International | Latest move against Kosovo is questioned
While Kosovo's neighbors-including NATO members Greece and Turkey-were edgy about NATO intervention in the Yugoslav province, key American policymakers were more openly doubtful of the wisdom of U.S.-led action in what remains an internal conflict.
Dissatisfied by a briefing with Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Senate Republicans demanded a meeting with President Bill Clinton just prior to planned airstrikes against Serb targets in Yugoslavia.
A statement by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said Republican opinion had changed from "qualified support" for administration policy "to real serious debate over whether we should be heading into a long, drawn-out campaign."
But instead of slicing funding for the mission, as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas) proposed, Senators in the end voted, 58-41, to support the air program.
U.S. military leaders were more surprisingly outspoken about the risks with the Kosovo mission. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Charles Krulak said, "It is going to be tremendously dangerous." Serbian air defense systems, he said, "are, in many instances, mobile. The terrain is very tough. And the weather cannot be underestimated. That can be a show-stopper in many ways."
Air Force chief of staff Gen. Michael Ryan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Belgrade's air defense capabilities would be two or three times greater than U.S. warplanes encountered in Bosnia.
"These guys are very good. So taking on these defenses with air power will not be easy," he said. "There is a distinct possibility we will lose aircraft in trying to penetrate those defenses."
Adm. Jay Johnson, chief of naval operations, told the Senate panel, "We should be under no illusions that this would be easy. The risk is high, in my view.''
Cmd. Krulak said "bottom-line questions" still need to be answered: "What is the endgame? How long will the strike go on? Will our allies stay with us?"
President Clinton says he is prepared to send up to 4,000 American soldiers as part of a 28,000-member NATO ground force as a followup to U.S. airstrikes after Mr. Milosevic's refusal to sign a U.S.-brokered peace accord on March 18.


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Periodically, PAN highlights one of our tireless volunteer advocates. PAN thanks all our advocates for your commitment and contributions to the Parkinson's community. This week we are re-releasing an interview we did with Sarah King, Southern California State Director and recipient of the 2014 Louis Fishman Advocacy Award.
Sarah became involved in advocacy efforts around Parkinson's disease when her mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2006. She became a volunteer advocate with PAN in 2011 as a part of the New York team. She became more involved with PAN because she wanted to directly help other families living with Parkinson's. Formerly employed in the art museum industry, Sarah has put her passion for public education into her volunteer work. She has traveled from coast to coast advocating and inspiring others to learn about the importance of advocacy in fighting for better treatments and a cure for Parkinson's disease.
The Louis Fishman Advocacy Award was established in 1996 by a gift from the Louis Fishman estate. Mr. Fishman requested that his memory be honored by recognizing others for their commitment and perseverance. It is awarded each year to a PAN grassroots leader who exhibits exemplary outreach efforts in advocacy at the local level.


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MSBO Executive Director David Martell – live from the Kellogg Center on the Michigan State University campus - talks about local school elections, upcoming ballot proposals as well as preparations for MSBO's 75th Annual Conference.
MSBO Executive Director David Martell – live from the Kellogg Center on the Michigan State University campus - talks about local school elections, upcoming ballot proposals as well as preparations for MSBO's 75th Annual Conference.
Have you ever thought about running for the MSBO Board of Directors? Serving on the MSBO Board provides you the opportunity to help set the policies and direction of your organization.
MSBO has joined the Michigan Association of School Boards (MASB), Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals (MASSP), Michigan Association of School Administrators (MASA), and the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA) in opposition of Proposals 2 and 5.
As a Vision Sponsor of the MSBO Leadership Institute for 2012-13, GRBS has provided the following article.
MSBO is offering a series of technology-related workshops this November to help you manage your time and be more productive. iPads are here to stay and becoming one of the most popular tools in the school business office as well as in the classroom. Learn how you can maximize your iPad.
Michigan school districts with Underground Storage Tanks (UST) are federally mandated to have Class A, Class B, and Class C certified operators for their facilities with UST's. Class A and B certifications designations require an examination, which is administered through the International Code Council (ICC).
As you are probably aware, the new Administrative Rules from MDE have eliminated the term "State Board Continuing Education Units" (SB-CEUs). In place of SB-CEU credits, educators will earn "state continuing education hours" and "clock hours" for renewal purposes.
This is your opportunity to recognize the extraordinary contribution of members to their school district community and to MSBO.
School has started and I am excited for my students, staff and our community. At a state level, the 2012-13 school year may prove to be a watershed year for education.
As the new school year begins, many school business officials are embarking on the implementation of new non-instructional service contracts. Others may be working through their second or third year of these contracts.


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COLUMBUS, OH - The University of Iowa men's tennis team concluded the second day of competition Friday at the ITA Regionals. The Hawkeyes recorded three doubles victories and one singles victory on the day.
In singles competition, Tommy McGeorge continued his strong play. The junior defeated Will Kendall of Indiana 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the main singles draw. He is undefeated in singles competition during the first two days of competition.
Seniors Christian Bierich and Greg Holm teamed up in doubles competition and won two matches Friday. The duo defeated Armengaud/Kendall of Indiana 8-3 in the round of 32 and defeated Doerner/Grgec of DePaul 8-6 in the round of 16.
In addition, juniors Patrick Dwyer and Reinoud Haal defeated Sigaud/Gama of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 8-3. The pair lost in the round of 16 to Heiser/Roelofse of Illinois, 8-6.
Iowa will continue competition in Columbus tomorrow. Competition in the main singles draw will begin at 7 a.m. (CT) and doubles competition will begin at approximately 3:30 p.m. (CT).
Singles: Tommy McGeorge (Iowa) def. Will Kendall (Indiana) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
Doubles: Bierich/Holm (Iowa) def. Armengaud/Kendall (Indiana) 8-3 Bierich/Holm (Iowa) def. Doerner/Grgec (DePaul) 8-6 Dwyer/Haal (Iowa) def. Sigaud/Gama (IPFW) 8-3 Pavia/Monroy (Ball State) def. McGeorge/Vasos (Iowa) 8-3 Heiser/Roelofse (Illinois) def. Dwyer/Haal (Iowa) 8-6


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Teaching Tips for Months of the Year and Seasons
Try these teaching tips for adding activities to the Year and Seasons
- If you have a bulletin board with a mascot, change its clothing to look seasonal. Example: towel, sunglasses, scarf, beanie, gloves, etc. Clifford is on our bulletin board all year, so he gets to dress up on many occasions.
- Dramatize Maurice Sendak's book, Chicken Soup with Rice. Have students dress seasonally and act out the story. Invite parents and serve Chicken Soup With Rice!
- Make a birthday graph.
- Display favorite birthday photographs.
- Use Greg and Steve's song "Months of the Year" from the CD We All Live Together Vol. 2


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama football coach Nick Saban has dismissed Jimmy Johns from the team following the player's arrest on drug charges.
Saban announced the decision in a brief statement issued shortly after Johns' arrest on Tuesday. The coach said the alleged behavior won't be tolerated and Johns is no longer on the football team.
Police arrested Johns on multiple felony charges after what they describe as an investigation that lasted about two months. Authorities say there is no indication that any other players were involved.
Johns is in jail with bond set at $120,000. There is no immediate word on whether he has an attorney.
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During the credit crisis and subsequent global recession, governments around the world cut key interest rates to record lows and enacted massive stimulus programs, in hopes that they would jump-start the economy. With so much quantitative easing and increases to the money supply, many investors have feared that inflation would come to the markets. The UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury ProShares (NYSE:TBT) became a popular destination for inflation-wary investors. However with the economy continuing to grind in second gear, a new scenario could be taking form, one that could have serious portfolio consequences.
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Specter of Deflation
Most investors understand and can deal with inflation. The idea that prices increase over time is something most portfolios are equipped to handle. Deflation, on the other hand, can be a serious threat. Persistent declining prices can create a vicious spiral of negative outcomes. Falling profits, factory closings, shrinking employment/ incomes and increasing defaults on loans by companies and individuals can occur. What's dangerous about our current situation is the Federal Reserve has already used many of its tricks. With the economy barely trudging along, raising rates could have serious implications and drive the economy back into recession. Analysts are predicting that any rate hikes won't occur until 2011 or 2012. Consumer Price Index measures have been low, demonstrating that the possibility of deflation is quickly becoming more of a concern. With lower rates persisting on the horizon, investors may want to take a look at long bonds over the next few months.
Why Long Bonds
As the Fed allows rates to remain low for the foreseeable future, long maturity bonds begin shine as investments. Stocks generally under perform in deflationary environments, but fixed income shines. Short term bonds, such as the iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (NYSE:SHY), fall out of favor as investors move to longer maturity bonds. Since their coupon payments are locked in for an extended period of time, these bonds become more valuable as portfolio components. In addition, in deflationary environments, investors do not need to take huge risks with their portfolios to generate returns. Earning 4%, when inflation is zero or prices are declining, can be more than enough.
Long Bond Choices
Adding a touch of long bond exposure to a portfolio might be a good bet for next few months, even though longer term inflation still poses a problem. There are several avenues for investors to pursue in order to get that exposure.
Long-term corporate bonds are generally issued by utilities and industrial companies making large capital expenditures. These include new power plants, telecommunication lines and factories. While there can be cause for concern that deflation can wreak havoc on industrials, the Vanguard Long-Term Corp Bond Index ETF (VCLT) offers exposure to 253 different investment grade bonds across a variety of issuers. Holdings include bonds from Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC) and have an average maturity of 25 years. The fund yields 5.51%.
For investors looking for less risk from their deflation hedge, U.S. treasuries are still a valid option. The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NYSE:TLT) and the SPDR Barclays Capital Long Term Treasury (NYSE:TLO) represent solid plays on the long end of the government spectrum. The SPDR focuses on bonds with maturities 10 years or older, and the iShares fund starts at 20 years, with the average maturity being 14-28 years, respectively. The long bond SPDR yields 4.46% and the iShares 3.87%. For investors in higher tax brackets, long muni bonds can be accessed through the Market Vectors Long Municipal ETF (NYSE:MLN). The ETF provides a tax-free 4.86% yield.
Treasury STRIPS and zero-coupon bonds are another way to plan against deflation. These bonds are fixed income securities sold at a significant discount to face value and offer no interest payments because they mature at face value. So, for example, an investor would pay $500 and in 20 years receive $1,000. The PIMCO 25+ Yr Zero Coupon U.S. Treasury ETF (Nasdaq:ZROZ) and Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSE:EDV) offer an easy way to pay these complex fixed income bonds.
The Bottom Line
While, over the longer term, inflation seems to be what's in store for investors. In the short run, the United States could be in for a bout of deflation. Long maturity bonds offer a way to add a deflationary hedge to a portfolio. The proceeding exchange traded funds, along with the iShares Barclay's 10-20 Year Treasury (NYSE:TLH), make ideal holdings during this time. (For related reading, take a look at Deflationary Shocks: Helping Or Hurting The Economy?)
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I have ridden my bike to work everyday for the past two years. Last winter I bought a cheap knitted ski mask and while it's better than nothing, the cold wind seems to penetrate it rather easily.
I'd appreciate any feedback from the cold winter commuters here. I don't want to spend a fortune, around 30 dollars and below would be great. What makes a good mask?
It's 12 degrees fahrenheit this morning, I'm done freezing my face off!