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Employment & Benefits
This section provides an overview of many benefits available to faculty and staff. In the event of conflict between the overview provided in this handbook and the plan document or insurance plan, the plan document or insurance plan will govern. Complete descriptions are not possible in the handbook; employees should contact Human Resources for specific plan details. The Labor Agreement governs in the case of Union employees in all aspects of this section. Regular employees who have a schedule involving a (.46) FTE or above are eligible to participate in the College's benefit programs.
Carleton College will comply with all applicable laws such as FMLA, federal, state, and any applicable regulations.
Pay and Hours
Employees are entitled to, and Carleton College complies with, all of the rights and remedies set forth under Minnesota Statue 181.172.
Fair Labor Standards Act
All non-exempt employees of the College are subject to the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act regarding the payment of minimum wages and premium pay for overtime.
- Non-exempt employees: those covered by the provisions in the Act for minimum wage and entitled to overtime pay for hours worked beyond 40 hours in the work week.
- Exempt employees: those who are professional, administrative and executive personnel and are paid on a salaried basis are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Act.
Exempt employees are paid monthly. All non-exempt employees are paid biweekly. Human Resources will advise each employee of his or her status when hired or transferred.
Work Week/Hours
The work week, for payroll purposes for non-exempt employees, begins at 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning. Hours of employment are 40 per week generally from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday unless otherwise specified. The letter of appointment will contain the expected work schedule.
Exempt or salaried employees are paid on the accomplishment of duties performed without regard to specific hours or work week. They are normally expected to observe general business hours and to work additional hours to meet work requirements when necessary. Exempt employees are expected to keep their supervisors aware of any planned time off. Exempt employees are paid monthly regardless of the number of hours worked and are not eligible for overtime pay.
Rest Periods/Meal Periods
A paid rest period of 15 minutes is allowed each four-hour work period (excluding lunch periods) for non-exempt employees at a time approved by the supervisor. Unused rest periods will not shorten the scheduled work day. The Flextime Program may govern changes in scheduled hours.
Meal periods are different than paid rest period. The College requires those working more than five hours each day to take an unpaid meal period. Unpaid meal periods are typically one hour in length but may not be less than one half hour. Employees required to complete timesheets/web-time entry must record the start and end time of their meal period.
Nursing mothers are provided a separate private space to take breaks as needed to express milk. The lactation room is located in Severance Hall 109; contact Human Resources to access a key to the room.
If, in the judgment of the supervisor, it is necessary for non-exempt employees to work beyond their normal schedule, they will receive pay at one and one-half times their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 hours per week. Employees must never work and are not authorized to work overtime without first obtaining the advance approval of their supervisor. Vacation, floating holiday and sick leave hours are not counted in the calculation to determine overtime pay. College holiday hours are counted in the calculation. The overtime provision does not apply to exempt employees.
Payroll Time Sheets/Web-Time Entry
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that a time sheet or web-time entry be filed for each pay period for non-exempt employees. Since pay is computed on the basis of time recorded, the time sheet/web-time entry must be complete, accurate, and promptly turned in at the end of each payroll period. The time sheet/web-time entry must be signed or approved (electronically if by web-time entry) by the employee, thereby verifying its accuracy. The supervisor must approve all hours, including any overtime hours with a signature/electronic approval. Time sheets/web-time entry is due to the Payroll Office by 12:00 p.m. the Monday following the time sheet/web-time entry work period.
For control purposes for time sheets, the College requires that only an original, green time sheet be submitted for payment if not using web-time entry. Copies, faxes, or Excel-edited versions are not accepted.
Carleton has a policy for dealing with time entry questions. If, through review, the Payroll Specialist questions any portion of an employee time sheet/web-time entry, the Payroll Specialist will contact the employee's supervisor for clarification.
At no time will an employee's time sheet/web-time entry be changed without the direct consent and acknowledgement by the employee or their direct supervisor for worked hours. For hours not worked, such as vacation, holiday, sick leave, overtime, etc. the same procedures will apply to the extent they fall within the policies of the College.
Payroll Schedule
Non-exempt earnings are calculated according to time recorded on time sheets/web-time entry and will ordinarily be distributed to employees every other Friday to cover the two week period completed one week prior to the issuance of payroll. All earnings are reported to employees on a pay advice. Individual earnings are directly deposited in any bank as designated by each employee.
Exempt salaries are calculated through the end of each month. Pay advices reflect the amount directly deposited to any bank as designated by each monthly paid employee. Payroll is deposited electronically on the last business day of the month.
Payroll Deductions
Payroll deductions made according to law include Social Security Taxes (F.I.C.A.), and state and federal Withholding taxes. Social Security includes retirement, disability, survivor, and dependent benefits. Carleton College matches the F.I.C.A. tax contribution.
Payroll deductions will be made for other authorized benefit programs in which eligible employees choose to enroll with a signed authorization for payroll deduction. Normally a specific payroll deduction will be made from each paycheck.
Daily Rate for Exempt Staff
The daily rate for exempt staff shall be applied when partial months are worked. Partial months worked may be the month as a new hire, the month in which an unpaid, approved absence begins, or the month in which final pay occurs due to termination. The daily rate is calculated by determining the number of workdays in the activity month (ranges from 20 to 23 days depending on the month). The exempt staff member's individual monthly salary is divided by the number of work days in the current month resulting in the daily average pay for the exempt individual.


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USC Dornsife's Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business and vice dean for social sciences, is the newly elected 2016 president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
SPSP promotes scientific research that explores how people think, behave, feel and interact. With more than 6,000 members, the society is the world's largest organization of social and personality psychologists.
"I feel honored to have been elected and will do the best I can to lead the organization in exciting new directions," Wood said.
She believes she was elected for this honor because of her desire to give back to the field — as well as simple longevity. "Recognition in science comes from producing a lot, which itself is tied to a long career," said Wood, who has a joint appointment at USC Marshall School of Business.
A fellow of SPSP, Wood currently serves as its secretary and treasurer. She has also chaired its publications committee and has served in various editorial roles for SPSP journals.
Wood is a social psychologist, and her research addresses the ways that habits guide behavior — and why habits are so difficult to break, as well as evolutionary models of gender differences in behavior.
"Personality and social psychologists study how people think about, influence and relate to one another," Wood said. "They evaluate how the forces within a person, such as attitudes and personality traits, and in a situation, such as social norms and incentives, explain prejudice, romantic attraction, persuasion, helping, aggression and group interaction, among many other things."
SPSP is an organization that helps to produce and disseminate this scientific knowledge, promote the careers of students and professionals in the field and recognize achievements.
"This is a very active society, and there's lots happening right now in science and policy that is relevant to social psychology," Wood said, noting that even the traditional ways that scientists communicate with one another are changing.
"In the past, scientific organizations made money from publishing journals, but that's changing with the new open access publication outlets and the repositories for archiving research articles. Changes in the format of scientific publishing mean changes in the revenue stream for organizations like SPSP, and the changes will hit even university libraries like USC's. We will need new organizational structures and business models for this new publishing landscape."
As a president who will lead the society in new directions, Wood will apply social psychology to social policy.
"We all want to believe that our research makes a difference in the world," she said. "And this is one way to make a difference — to help policymakers be more effective by ensuring that policy is grounded in behavioral science."
During her term, Wood will encourage closer ties between science and policymakers.
"One way to do so is through a new journal, Behavioral Science & Policy,that I am editing that links science and policymakers. Another is through the Insights Team currently being developed in the United States. Inspired by the U.K.'s Behavioral Insights Team (aka the Nudge Unit), this government organization fashions public policy based on empirical research."
One example of their work is with retirement plans.
"Surprisingly few new employees choose to "opt-in" and sign up for retirement benefits, in part because the decisions are so complex," Wood said. "They put it off and think they'll decide later, but then never get around to it. Obviously, this is a problem because we want people to be financially prepared for retirement."
A simple policy change alters the presentation of retirement benefits so new employees have to decide to "opt-out" of retirement plans. Thus the default, automatic decision becomes the standard benefits plan, but anyone can decide not to participate if they wish.
"In this way, the decision is structured to encourage beneficial behavior — saving for retirement — while still giving everyone the freedom to say no."


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I need stronger wheels for the Trek 7.5 fx I'm riding across the country. I should be down to 220 pounds for the ride, but I'm going to be carrying gear on the bike and in a trailer. Any suggestions?
I need stronger wheels for the Trek 7.5 fx I'm riding across the country. I should be down to 220 pounds for the ride, but I'm going to be carrying gear on the bike and in a trailer. Any suggestions?
"Moderation is a fatal thing, nothing succeeds like excess." ~ Oscar Wilde
Why not go with a rim/spoke combination meant for a tandem bicycle? Maybe a 48 spoke one would do the trick.
Check out ebay there are some good strong wheels at the present time, you may score big.
In the last 7 summers, with 3-5 bikes on tour, on gravel often times, tandem riding for two summers, we have broken 1 spoke. I am 250 lbs, my wheels are standard 36 spoke on the singles and one tandem and 40 spoke on the other tandem. Interestingly the one spoke we broke was on a front wheel.
I would suggest any good wheel with 36 spokes should be fine for loaded touring even for the average clyde.
If you have the cast call peter white and see what he can do for you.
He's the man of tour wheel building. Not cheap, but indestructible.
Alternatively, a good set of Deep V's on a quality hub and 36 spoke or more with quality spokes (DT Swiss or equivalent) would do you well.
Be sure to carry a fiber spoke and a cassette ******* tool as well. Not that heavy and can save your butt if you do break a drive side spoke. There are a lot of shops along the way, too. Once you have your route finalized, shoot it to me and I'll get you together a comprehensive list of bike shops for the trip as well. You know me.....Google is my brain
. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.- Fredrick Nietzsche
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
I agree, the Deep V set I have on my road bike are probably the stiffest and strongest wheels set I have ever owned. I feel I could easily runs these on a tandem fully loaded for a tour. I am that confident in these wheels.
Historian, besides Tom, you should tap Machka. She is a touring/long-distance badass up in Canada. Her web page has a lot of good info. Look in her signature.
I learned to build and tune wheels myself.
Phil Wood hubs and DT DB spokes to a pair of Trek Matrix rims have excess of 5000 miles with no problems.
Shimano XT hubs DT DB Spokes mated to Mavic touring rims. Picked these up on Ebay at a great price. Only 1000 miles on these but no true ups needed.
I do tension and true them before the first use.
Isn't 48 spokes for a 220lb rider a bit excessive?
I'd call someone like Peter White or the Odds & Endo's guy and see what they think.
Mavic Touring Rims will work just fine.
I did a month long tour when I was 270 lbs. With a full set of panniers on the bike, the whole package came in around 330.
I used 36 spoke Mavic T520s (now called A719's) with Schwalbe Marathon 28 tires. I ran on roads, and hard packed dirt paths with no problems at all.
just being
My two cents worth: go with the Aerospokes (http://aerospoke.com/). I did and have never looked back. They ride like a dream. No spokes to break! Yeah, their pricey, but you will pay the same for a top-notch 36 or 40-spoke, and you still have spokes to break. Easy to swap hubs, too. Only issue is they can be a little "noisy" due to the resonation.
While they have no "spokes" they were not really intended for 5000 mile tours.
They will be very stiff and unyielding on rougher roads.
And most significantly they will have narrow rim beds inappropriate for larger volume touring tires.
Because I was going through outback Australia with a YAK Ibex trailer and fully loaded panniers (I was totally self supporting) I got PW 48 hole hubs on e-bay and used Sun Rhyno-Lite rims. The wheels are 26" ones with the wide rims to support weight and work in sand and gravel...
During the trip between Cairns and Darwin along a lot of dirt tracks, I had absolutely NO problems with the wheels - even when the wheels went aaaalmost 90 degrees to direction of travel in "bull dust". The 2200 km trip took 6 weeks... I had too much stuff but I always had enough food and water and parts/tools...
Arvon Stacey (Tofield, Alberta) built that bike frame and wheels, along with the steel racks. I have the stainless-steel S&S BTC "connectors" to make the bike fit into a suitcase. The price was about $2200 US in total at that time. Schwalbe Marathon tires did a great job too...
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PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has announced the completion of its Penn Connects campus development plan, a 30-year vision directing the physical growth of Penn's campus, including strategic recommendations for expanding eastward towards the Schuylkill River and Philadelphia's Center City.
This expansion will follow Penn's anticipated acquisition in early 2007 of the U.S. Postal Service's Philadelphia facility, a 24-acre parcel of land on the western edge of the Schuylkill River. The site includes the main post office building at 30th and Market streets and, to the south, its Annex building, a parking garage at 31st and Chestnut streets and 14-acre surface parking lot south of Walnut Street.
"The acquisition of the postal properties by the University will provide an unprecedented opportunity to transform the Penn campus, establish a major physical presence on the Schuylkill River and connect Center City and University City in powerful ways," said Penn President Amy Gutmann. "As a result we have completed a plan illustrating how our campus is poised to leverage this historic moment and grow over the next three decades. Our plan is guiding our land-use strategy for short-term programmatic needs as well as long-term strategic moves that will shape Penn for the 21st century."
The planning study, completed by Sasaki & Associates of Watertown Mass., articulates a long-term vision for development that fosters connectivity within the campus and in the broader communities of West Philadelphia, Center City and the region.
Starting in June 2005, Sasaki undertook extensive site analysis of the entire campus, with emphasis on the new land to the east, and conceived several planning and design opportunities. The focus is on the 14 acres of surface parking lots between Walnut and South streets, the Schuylkill Expressway and the campus. Recommendations call for converting this industrial use into a mix of academic and research buildings, athletics fields and parks, retail shops, office towers and arts and cultural spaces, including:
* Improving gateways between the campus, Center City and surrounding West Philadelphia, specifically at Walnut and South streets.
* Extending Locust Walk eastward into what will be new open fields.
* Converting surface parking lots into new sports and recreation facilities and open parks.
* Creating new plazas east of Franklin Field and providing new public gathering spaces that link the postal lands to the campus.
* Improving physical connectivity that links the campus with the transit hub at 30th Street station and Market Street.
* Accommodating future development in academics and research and future expansion potential between the medical campus and the river.
In addition, infill development opportunities have been identified in the core of campus to support student life and research, including:
* A 400-bed residence hall planned in a quadrangle type setting with open space plan and walkway at Chestnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets.
* A nanotechnology research center for the School of Engineering and Applied Science at 32nd and Walnut streets, which is currently a surface parking lot.
"In adding new contiguous landholding to our campus, we are in a unique position to grow over time as opportunities arise to meet our mission of teaching and research," Gutmann said. "And as we grow we will make West Philadelphia an even more attractive place to live, work and raise families, while expanding job opportunities and economic inclusion."
The executive summary of Penn Connects is available at the Executive Vice President's Office.


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A Geocaching Mega-Event
in Rome, Georgia!
October 15-18, 2015
Make plans now to attend Going Caching 2015, an interactive, Renaissance-themed geocaching Mega-Event. The Going Caching Crew blends a little da Vinci Code mystery with Monty Pythonesque humor to give you 4 days and 7 events of rip-roaring geocaching fun! Upon registration, you'll join and represent one of Seven Kingdoms while attending Going Caching 2015.
The Seven Kingdoms play an integral part in the activities that await you. Only you can determine if your kingdom reins supreme. Be a knight, damsel, wench, artiste, or Medieval lord. Let your imagination run wild, for even dragons are welcome, too!
"Will Attend" or at least put the cache page on your watch list to stay up on current happenings and receive announcements.
Going Caching is an annual Geocaching Mega-Event held in Rome, Georgia, USA. The main event takes place on Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 9am to 5pm.The fun actually begins earlier in the week.
Check back soon for more details on these and other events and activities: Kingdoms on Parade Flash Mob, Roman Trivia Classic at the Rome Braves Stadium, Seven Kingdoms Challenge geocaches, Roman Holiday Riverboat rides, Comedy Night with Cometello stage show, Queen's Masquerade Ball at the Roman Forum, A Farewell to Arms Goodbye Breakfast. There will be lots of vendors and food trucks for your shopping and enjoyment. Grab a turkey leg and join in the fun!


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The garden
What will you grow? As the garden owner, you know best how much light your garden gets and which plants do well. Your co-gardener will likely have a veggie wishlist, too.
At the very least, someone will have to pay for seeds and seedlings, not to mention soil amendments (if needed). How will you split costs? Agree not to spring surprise costs and purchases on each other.
How will you split the duties? Who is responsible for what? Watering, weeding and cleaning up after the harvest are just a few of the duties a vegetable garden requires after the seeds are planted.
Sharing with each other and the community
So the zucchini are taking over the garden and the tomato plants are nearly toppling over with their heavy fruit. Who gets what? Perhaps you'll go for a fifty-fifty split with any surplus going to charity (or forty-forty, with twenty per cent going to charity), depending on how the costs and duties were shared. Although it's best to decide beforehand, you may need to alter your expectations according to what really transpired during the growing season. Perhaps your co-gardener was a star, working tirelessly while you took a last-minute extended summer vacation. In that case maybe he should take home more than you had originally agreed upon. Or maybe your co-gardener started strong but didn't help with the watering and weeding like she had agreed to. Come up with a sharing solution that feels fair.
Will you share with charity?
If yes, be sure it's a program that accepts fresh produce. Who will bring the vegetables to the charity or community outreach program as they become ready? It may require multiple trips as vegetables ripen at different times.
Last of all, enjoy! Co-gardening is meant to be a rewarding experience. It can match up non-gardening homeowners with avid green thumbs, beginners with intermediate gardeners, or just about any combo of garden owner and garden coveter. You might not want to repeat a co-gardening experience in subsequent years, but you'll never know unless you try.
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Quote Folderol:I expect the real market will be in large air-con units rather than piddly little
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Quote Pete Kaine: My worry is
that it'll go the way of the magnetic liquid metal cooler we saw a few years back that was
completely passive, cooled twice as well as all the current models and cost 4 times as
Quote robinv:In the early days
of carillon we did look into noise cancellation - being like audio buffs and everything we
figured we could place a microphone inside somewhere, invert the phase and blast it back
out through a speaker - job done. It was all just a bit too much fiddling and the most
likely thing to wrong in any given system
Will_m:Are you referring to the Nofan CR-95 coolers pete? I've
heard really good things about them, even seen a guy who used one to cool a completely
passive quad i7 system which after 30 mins of prime still didn't go over 80 degrees. The
price seems to have come down a bit but they're still about £80.
Quote Dishpan:I'd like to know which one too because the Danamics ones I tested were utter garbage
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NACUFS names tops in college foodservice
Grand prize awards will be announced at national conference in July.
May 9—The National Association of College and University Food Services has announced the winners of its annual Loyal E. Horton awards. Grand-prize winners will be announced at the association's national conference, which will be held in Boston July 11-14.
Residential Dining Concepts
Small School
Gold: Hendrix College
Silver: Concordia College
Medium School
Gold: Azusa Pacific University
Large School
Gold: University of Georgia
Silver: Stanford University
Bronze: University of Rhode Island
Honorable Mention: University of North Texas
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Small School
Gold: Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Silver: Hendrix College
Bronze: Concordia College
Honorable Mention: Concordia College
Medium School
Gold: SUNY at Cortland
University of North Carolina - Wilmington
Silver: SUNY at Cortland
Bronze: University of Richmond
Honorable Mention: University of Dayton
Large School
Gold: Vanderbilt University
Silver: University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Bronze: Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention: Yale University
Retail Sales—Single Concept
Small School
Gold: Lynchburg College
Silver: Hendrix College
Bronze: Concordia College
Honorable Mention: Manhattan College
Medium School
Gold: College of the Holy Cross
Silver: University of San Diego
Bronze: University of Nevada, Reno
Honorable Mention: Northern Michigan University
Large School
Gold: University of Massachusetts
Silver: Texas Tech University
Bronze: Ohio State University
Honorable Mention: Miami University
Retail Sales—Multiple Concepts/Marketplace
Small School
Gold: Ferrum College
Medium School
Gold: Brock University
Silver: University of San Diego
Bronze: Saint Lawrence University
Honorable Mention: University of Dayton
Large School
Gold: North Carolina State University
Silver: Ohio State University
Bronze: Virginia Commonwealth University
Honorable Mention: Michigan State University
Miami University
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Small School
Gold: Alfred State College
Silver: United States Military Academy
Bronze: Hendrix College
Honorable Mention: Bryn Mawr College
Medium School
Gold: Cleveland State University
Silver: Azusa Pacific University
Bronze: Washington University in St. Louis
Buffalo State College
Honorable Mention: Case Western Reserve University
Large School
Gold: University of Michigan
Silver: University of Arizona
Bronze: University of North Texas
Honorable Mention: Vanderbilt University
Catering—Online Menu
Small School
Gold: Concordia College
Silver: Hendrix College
Bronze: Calvin College
Medium School
Gold: Ashland University
Large School
Gold: Virginia Tech
Silver: University of California - San Diego
Bronze: Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: University of Georgia


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Adds environment-specific hooks to express apps
npm install --save expressive
var expressive = require'expressive';var express = require'express';var app = express;expressiveapp; appuse'/normal-route' next;; appdevelopmentget'/dev-only-route' next;;
When you call
expressive and pass in an express app, it will add environment specific hooks that you can use for specific environments only. By default, it will use
['development'] as the environment list, but you can pass an array of environments as a second argument (or a single string if you only setting up one environment), or an options object (outlined below).
This is similar to wrapping
app calls in checks against the environment, but I've found that this method makes an app easier to read because all the route definitions are parallel.
expressiveapp 'development' 'test';
expressiveapp 'development';
You can specify the following options to change the default behavior:
The aforementioned list of environments
// "envs" can also be a string here expressiveapp envs: 'development' 'test' ;
The current environment. Defaults to
expressiveapp env: nconfget'NODE_ENV' ;
Additionally, you can pass this env as a third parameter, which can help keep the syntax short.
expressiveapp 'development' nconfget'NODE_ENV';
app.development.use seems long, you can provide environment aliases to shorten it.
expressiveapp alias: development: 'dev' ;
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The Campbell County Sheriff's Office arrested an 18-year-old Campbell County High School student after investigating a rumored threat at the school on April 6.
Longtime LaFollette councilman Bob Fannon has announced he will run for state representative of the 36th House district, which includes Campbell and parts of Anderson and Union counties.
The CCHS soccer team is now 5-2-1, according to head coach Daniel Lasley, after a 6-1 win at home Tuesday night over Anderson County.
CCHS assistant baseball coach Brian Miracle thinks deeply about what it means to be a coach.
It wasn't a good night for the Blue Devils or Lady Blue Devils Monday night, as Oneida defeated both the Jellico High School baseball and softball teams at Indian Mountain State Park.
Chris Armstrong was named the new Jacksboro Middle School boys head basketball coach earlier this month.
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Excellent News for Time Warner Digital Phone Customers! To ours, and those receiving a deluge of spam calls on a daily basis' delight, Time Warner Cable has finally added a call blocking option to their services. To access the call blocking feature, which lets you block calls from up to 30 numbers simply by adding them to a list, browse on over to My Services on the Time Warner cable website, and register to create an account if you haven't already. Then, log in and click on "My Home Phone." From there, you'll see a "VoiceZone" section. Click on the "Go to VoiceZone" button, and then browse down the list and select "Selective Call Blocking."
On this screen, you'll be able to enter up to 30 numbers that will not be able to reach you. Their calls will not appear on Caller ID, go to voicemail, or get forwarded. They will simply hear a pre-recorded message that says "The called party is not accepting calls from this phone number."
Once you're done adding phone numbers you'd like to block, hit the "add changes to save queue" button. Finally, in the right-hand column of the screen, you'll see a list of changes waiting to be saved. Click on the "Save" button to confirm the changes.
If you ever want to remove a number from the blocked list, browse back to "selective call blocking" and select the "remove" button next to the phone number you wish to remove. You'll need to re-save your changes.
This is a huge step forward as far as preventing calls from your most annoying phone spammers is concerned, and we're hoping other phone companies will take a queue from Time Warner's action.
Reverse Phone Lookup Services: Do They Work?
Time Warner has really taken a step in the right direction since they decided to provide call-blocking services to their customers. Unsolicited calls are a nuisance to many of their customers, and it is great that the company decided to take notice and provide such a practical service (and free no less; AT&T offers a similar service via their parental controls, but that costs $5/ month).
Countless people receive up to 10 unsolicited phone calls every day. If you find that one particular number is a bigger nuisance than others are, it can be helpful to find out exactly who these people are that are calling you. Sometimes, these people have the wrong number, yet are trying to collect money from the people that they think they are calling. More often than not, unfortunately, the calls are being routed through so many channels that you won't be able to track down the source.
Many reverse phone lookup services will provide you with information regarding land lines and cell phones. You can get names and addresses as well as alternate numbers listed at the same address. Many people think that they can just do a web search and find the information, but some people choose not to list their phone numbers in standard phone books. Standard phone book listings are the only listings that you can get online.
Reverse phone lookup services are able to get access to private listings databases that you cannot find anywhere else. This information includes files from landline phone companies and directories from cell phone companies.
They update their listings regularly and they do their best to combine information from several different sources so that the records they have are as extensive and thorough as possible. That being said, there are a lot of reverse phone lookup services that are a scam, or merely a website to created to serve ads and try to incentivize you to click on them.
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How Do These Services Get Their Information?
In order to provide you with this information, these services have special agreements with the phone companies that allow them to have legal access to information that no one else can be privy to. Since they have to pay money for access, this protects general customer privacy. However, anyone with money can have access to many unlisted phone numbers, which may not be entirely fair.
The information is not publicly available online though and in local phone books, so that is somewhat of a relief.
Most reverse phone lookup services offer one time searches and subscription plans. Most subscription plans are very affordable and even if you only think that you will have do one search, chances are, a few months later, you will want to search a new number. It is good to have the ability to look up numbers whenever you are ready to do so. Most services will cost you less than a few dollars a month and you will save even more if you pay for a yearâs access or access for multiple years.
Most people seek out free reverse phone lookup services before they eventually choose a paid service. Though some services claim to be free, for the most part, any free service is just going to be a glorified search engine. You can probably get the same results by typing the phone number into Google, Yahoo or Bing.
Though the website might call itself a reverse phone lookup service, it is not an official one with official access to private records. Some companies will provide you with a free trial, and these companies are legitimate, but as far as we can tell there are no completely free reverse phone lookup services worth their own salt.
Some people feel that there is enough access via web searches, social network listings, white pages and other public directories, that they do not need reverse lookup services. What they do not realize is that most of this information is out of date, and that cell phone numbers are often recycled since people like to change plans and carriers so much. The landline listings and names are often several years out of date as well when you search public directories.
Another thing to keep in mind is that some online resources are wiki, meaning anyone can modify or change the information there. This is another thing that can lead to inaccuracy.
In addition to names and addresses, some reverse phone lookup services will give you extra information like family members that live at the residence and additional phone numbers linked to the address. Some of them will provide you with a full profile of name, cell information, landline information, address and resident stats. Scary right? This is one of the reasons privacy legislation is so important, but unfortunately so behind.
Using these services is always easy. They are all located online, and once you have purchased your membership, you would just log in as you would to any membership website. You just do your search as you would in the browser of your favorite search engine, and you can usually look things up by name, phone number, or address, to get to the listing you are seeking.
Most of these websites will search for a number even if you do not have a membership yet. They will then ask you for the membership fee if they have access to the data you are looking for. Once you pay, then you just log in and complete your search.
Expect Better Results From Companies Like Time Warner Digital Phone Call Blocking Service
Though it can be tempting to go with a company that is on the cheaper side, if you want the best, most accurate data, then you should go for a moderately priced company.
Because these companies provide you with such useful information, many people wonder if the services are legal. The good news is that these companies are legal operations that provide information that they have retrieved through legal means. The bad news is that your own information is subject to being indexed as well. And just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's right. As we pointed out, legislation has a ways to go in this industry.
You cannot use the information that you get from these services to make telemarketing phone calls or to harass the people whose listings you have retrieved in any way, but many of these services follow legal guidelines and, for the time being at least, it is legal for you to take advantage of them. If you are unsure as to whether a service is legitimate, contact them and ask for proof. If there is no contact information listed, that's a red flag.
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Hello, my name is Chris R. from Baraboo, WI. I just turned 43 and have enjoyed a bit of a comeback in cycling the last 3 years after a 12 year layoff. I got back into cycling because a couple of friends were riding regularly with a local club, the Baraboo Sharks.
Most of the members are around my age and despite the gray hairs are very fit and some race at a very competative level in a non-licensed 25 race series here in WI called Wisport. I'm usually a second or third pack guy but I have fun.
I also ride my mountain bike occasionally and have ridden the Chequamegon Fat Tire 40 race the last 2 years. It's the largest mountain bike race in N. America and leaves me half dead but I will do it again if my name gets picked (3,500 entrants for 2500 spots). Right now I'm having a terrible off-season. I'm about 20lbs over my race weight and my asthma is a pain despite numerous meds. Oh well, I'm sure things will get better.
My current bikes are: Specialized Allez road w/mostly Ultegra stuff and K2 Zed X mountain w/stock everything(mostly LX). Thanks for any future help and conversation.


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August 04, 2010 05:29 AM by Christine McDow
America's Got Talent is on NBC tonight and on CBS there is another new episode of Big Brother! The top four compete tonight on So You Think You Can Dance and it there is another new episode of Top Chef tonight on Bravo TV followed by Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist. MTV has a new episode of Real World in New Orleans. With a bunch of other shows on cable, you should have no trouble finding something to watch. Take a look below and have a great week!
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9:00 – 11:30 am: Pimp My Ride
10:30 pm: Rob & Big
11:00 – 11:30 am: Say Yes To The Dress
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10:00 pm: Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist
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An impeccably preserved 18th century rice plantation headquarters and home to the country's oldest landscaped gardens. Established in 1741 by Henry Middleton, one of America's Founding Fathers, the site contains stylized formal gardens, a House Museum containing family treasures dating to the early 1700s, and the Plantation Stableyards, where visitors can interact with costumed interpreters to learn about life on a South Carolina rice plantation.


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Grief in children
It's a common myth that children can't understand the meaning of death. How old a child is at the time of the death is important because a child's understanding of death changes with age. Preschool children usually think death is short term and reversible. Between the ages of 5 and 9, they understand that the person is gone, but see it more as a separation. After about ages 9 or 10, they begin to understand that death is final.
Children grieve. They just don't have all the ways to cope that adults do. They often have feelings like sadness, anger, guilt, insecurity, and anxiety, even though they might need help naming these feelings. Children sometimes show anger toward surviving family members. They may start having behavior or discipline problems. They may think the death is their fault, especially if they had once "wished" the person dead or if they were ever angry at the person. Or they may start having nightmares or acting younger than their age. Sometimes they may seem unaffected by the loss and then express their feelings about the death at unexpected moments.
Talking with children about death
It's hard to comfort others when you are deep in your own grief. Parents may not want to talk to their children about death because they don't want to upset them. Or they may not want to worsen their own pain. But talking about death will help children deal with their fears.
Children's responses to death often look very different from adults'. Sometimes a child's feelings or questions about death may seem inappropriate or upsetting. But it's important to recognize that they are also trying to understand and accept what has happened. You can help them by listening and showing interest in what they have to say.
Answer whatever questions they may have as openly and honestly as you can. Telling children that someone "went away" or is "sleeping" can lead to confusion and fear. If you tell a small child that sickness caused the death, it's important to explain that only serious sicknesses cause death. With small children, it may help to talk about dead flowers, insects, or birds, as a way to explain death.
You may want to use the following tips when talking to a child about death:
- Explain what happened in a way they can understand. Children know when you are hiding something, so be honest.
- Assure the child that this is not their fault—they didn't cause the death.
- Encourage them to talk. Listen and accept their feelings no matter how hard it may be.
- Answer their questions in brief and simple terms. Telling them they are too young to understand only avoids dealing with the problem and might upset them even more. It's OK not to have all the answers.
- Reassure them that they will still be loved and taken care of. If the child has lost a parent or caretaker, they'll need very specific information, such as where they will live and who will care for them, to feel safe.
- Show affection, support, and consistency. Let them know that you'll be there to help as much as possible. Be sure they have people in their lives they can count on.
- Tell them how you feel, using words they'll understand and in a way that won't be overwhelming. For example, it's OK to let them know that you hurt too. If you try to hide your feelings, they may think they shouldn't share theirs.
If the person who died was a parent, you may also want to read Helping Children When a Family Member Has Cancer: When a Child Has Lost a Parent.
Children and funerals
Years ago, people believed that children should not go to funerals because it would be too hard for them, they were too young to understand, or they would be frightened by other people's distress. Since then, it's been learned that this is not true. Often, children have later said they felt betrayed when they couldn't say good-bye to someone they loved. They felt that their relationship with the person who died was not valued; that death was not a natural part of life, but instead something too frightening to confront; and that other people thought they were emotionally unable to cope.
Attending the funeral helps children understand that death is final. Explain to children that a funeral is the way we say good-bye to the people we love. Depending on their age, attention span, and how much adult supervision they need, children may take part in the funeral or memorial ritual, graveside ceremony, and other gatherings, or only some of them.
If children will be at the funeral, prepare them for what they'll see and hear. Tell them what to expect. If there will be a viewing with an open casket, the child needs to know that. Depending on how young they are, it might help to talk about what it means to be dead. Explain that people will come to visit with the family and offer their sympathy. Also explain any other routines or rituals that will be followed. If there's a religious service, describe what will happen there. Tell them if there will be a trip to a cemetery where the casket will be put into the ground and covered up. They should know that they may see people cry, and that it's OK. They will see the normal expressions of how people feel when they lose someone important to them. Seeing this gives children permission to express their own emotions.
Whatever social ritual may happen afterward should also be explained. Children sometimes have a hard time understanding what looks like a party after services where people looked pretty sad. Explain that people can't be sad all the time and there will be other times when the sadness will come back. Children also should expect that the sadness we feel when someone has died can last a while, but eases as time goes on.
Children usually want to take part in this ritual with their family. If they seem frightened by what they imagine a funeral to be, they probably have a false impression or misunderstanding about it. It's a rare child who doesn't want to be part of something that their whole family is doing, but if they don't, gently ask the child what they think will happen and what they are worried about. For example, the child may not fully understand the transition from life to death and be afraid that the person is still alive when they are put into the ground. Remind them again what being dead means and that the person as you knew them is no longer here.
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European health regulator today lifted suspension imposed on export of drugs produced at Ranbaxy Laboratories' Toansa plant to the EU stating medicines produced at the site posed no risk to public health despite having a number of manufacturing deficiencies.
In a statement, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said European regulatory authorities have finalised their assessment of reported non-compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) at the Toansa plant.
"There were a number of GMP deficiencies at the concerned site, assessment of all available information has reassured European regulators that there has been no risk to public health from these deficiencies," it said.
As a consequence, the EU authorities will reinstate the GMP certificate which was suspended in January 2014. The certificate will be re-entered into EudraGMDP, the EU database that contains GMP certificates, EMA added.
It further said: "Patients should continue to take their medicines as prescribed by their healthcare professional."
Ranbaxy had voluntarily suspended exports from the Toansa plant to the EU in January 2014 after US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) had banned the company from exporting drugs produced at the plant to be sold in the US.
The assessment of the Toansa facility by EMA followed an inspection by the USFDA, which revealed areas of non-compliance with GMP at the site.
"The European medicines regulatory network responded quickly to the FDA's findings, and sent a team of inspectors from Germany, Ireland and the UK, who were joined by inspectors from Switzerland and Australia to undertake an unannounced international inspection of the site," EMA said.
On the status of remedial measures taken up by the company, it said: "The GMP inspection concluded that appropriate corrective and preventive measures have been put in place by the manufacturer."
The inspection team concluded that there was no evidence that any medicines on the EU market that have an active pharmaceutical ingredient manufactured in Toansa were of unacceptable quality or presented a risk to the health of patients taking them, it said.
The regulator added: "European regulatory authorities have identified the need to keep the Toansa site under close supervision and this will be done in collaboration with India and other regulatory authorities around the globe".
The Toansa site had been supplying APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients) for four centrally authorised medicines Enyglid (repaglinide), Repaglinide Krka (repaglinide), Repaglinide Teva (repaglinide), and Nevirapine Teva (nevirapine) and several non-centrally authorised medicines.
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In a bid to get all deprived communities in the District connected to the national grid, the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District Assembly is set to commission about nineteen newly completed electrification projects in the area.
Revealing this in an interview with Ghanadistricts.com, the District Chief Executive Mr. William Ata-Mends however indicated that though only nineteen out of the twenty-one projects which were awarded on contract had been completed, he said the contractors were working assiduously to get the remaining two communities onto the national grid.
According to him, low tension pole had already been mounted in those two communities with only few works left to be done.
He said the Government of Ghana (GoG) funded project forms part the ruling party's "Better Ghana" agenda policy which seeks to improve the living conditions in every part of the country.
The DCE however boasted that about 98 percent of the district's rural electrification extension had so far been achieved, adding that his outfit has done comparably well on rural electrification though other sectors of concern had also been tackled.


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Alasdair Palmer is wrong, wrong, wrong
In the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, I was saddened to see that Public Policy Editor, Alasdair Palmer, had written a particularly wretched article decrying the scrapping of ID cards and innocent DNA retention.
The article – with its delightfully understated title 'Why the coalition is set to bring us a rise in crime' – has numerous flaws which require urgent correction:
Most of us think that a top priority of any effective government should be to have clear and coherent policies on cutting crime. So it's surprising to discover that the deal between the Tories and the Lib Dems says nothing about it.
The closest it gets is a statement that "the parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government and roll back state intrusion" – which means, among other things, abolishing ID cards and "adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database".
But getting rid of ID cards and making it harder for the police to retain DNA records is not going to reduce crime: if anything, it will increase it, by making crime harder to detect and criminals more difficult to apprehend.
Urgh! Before reminding Mr Palmer of the piddling issues of personal privacy and habeas corpus, let's consider the statistics, shall we?
As was revealed earlier this year, just 0.3% of solved crimes in Britain are due to the DNA database. The research shows that – despite the massive expansion in the Government database – only 3,666 crimes are detected every year with links to an existing DNA profile. The Scottish model, which Alasdair seems so opposed to, simply reduces the length of time innocent DNA profiles (around a third of the current database) can be retained from 6 to 3 years.
I would love to ask Mr Palmer how he thinks ID cards would facilitate crime prevention? Is his ideal world one in which every UK citizen carries identification that the Police can order to see at any time; to paraphrase our new PM's infamous gaffe – "ver are your papers?" Not even our overbearing previous government were ready to go that far!
But the greater point is that, given the very minor crime fighting benefit – and we are yet to be convinced by any case in which a previously innocent person's DNA profile has helped solve a crime – is Alasdair Palmer really prepared to spend billions on an ID card scheme and enormous state DNA database that puts our identity and biometric data in the hands of countless thousands of government bureaucrats?
Government rates of data loss, abuse of data, and the very simple fact that liberty is ours to keep, not the state's to take, should be enough. But Mr Palmer seems ready to sacrifice all of this simply to appear tough on crime. Shameful.
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David Richardson17th May 2010
You just don't get it.
That telegraph article was put there by one of the contractors that is about to lose it's contract. They paid a PR firm to plant it in that newspaper. You need to research who the PR firms are that are in the employ of the contractors so that you can track this nefarious campaign.
The argument against NIR/ ID Cards has been won from the logicical, practical and moral positions. Now it is a pure propaganda excercise to try and salvage it. Don't get distracted by these articles; go straight to the cause of them if you want to be effective in blocking this corruption.
guy herbert17th May 2010
Alisdair Palmer has a history of striking tough-guy practical-man attitudes against civil liberties, e.g.:
Purlieu17th May 2010
And, how exactly does DNA retention of innocents REDUCE crime ??
We want to hear it.
alastair18th May 2010
To be fair, there *is* one way that ID cards *could* reduce crime, if they were done right, namely they *could* cut down on so-called identity theft (which is really just fraud). Maybe even on credit/debit card fraud (again, if done right).
They won't help with terrorism or any of the other things though, and there's no reason why an ID card should be separate from a passport (which is, after all, just an ID card), or indeed from your driving license (another state-issued ID card). Having three separate documents is needlessly duplicative and wasteful, and in practice we all have a plethora of other identity cards (bank cards and the like) that represent further duplication and waste.
I was never in favour of the ID cards envisaged by New Labour, but the notion of having one isn't entirely a bad idea, provided the result is that we carry and require *fewer* separate forms of identification, and provided it also results in us getting rid of the ridiculous and fraud-friendly use of bills and bank statements for identity purposes.


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OH County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora (D) threatens reporter's wife.
This was pretty funny, right up to the moment where (Democratic) Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora threatened reporter Henry Gomez's wife. The background is as follows: Dimora is being investigated as part of a corruption probe* – yes, I know, corruption in Cuyahoga county; how shocking – and Dimora is a bit upset about the way Gomez (and his paper the Plain Dealer) is covering | Read More »


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- It's been a rough day in Louisiana.
Hurricane Isaac came in, dumped a foot of water in some places, hitting Plaquemines (PLAK'-uh-minz) Parish the hardest.
The Louisiana National Guard brought in 14 high-water vehicles and 10 boats, and as many as 70 people were rescued from homes with water up to their roofs. Officials in the parish, south of New Orleans, say a levee under severe pressure from floodwaters will have to be punctured. At least one death is blamed on the storm.
Isaac, now a tropical storm, has knocked out power to as many as 700,000 people, stripped branches off trees and flattened fields of sugar cane so completely that they looked as if a tank had driven over them.
The mayor of New Orleans has ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew and police are reporting few problems with looting.
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I have been experimenting a while with ways to create realistic looking mountains in Photoshop. I came up with very nice way to do them and actually instead of starting to create a larger map using the technique, I decided to create a tutorial to explain it. This is the first version of the document and I will add more to it as soon as I get parts finished (making forest to follow the height line of the mountains etc.). Here we have few samples I have done while experimenting. The Lizard Mountains was the first finished sample I did and it got me inspired to do the tutorial as I really liked the outcome. Another sample is the one we will create in this tutorial. So more will follow and critique and comments are welcome.
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So I set up my fixie with all brand new stuff, new wheels, new cog, new cranks/BB/chainring, new chain.
When I first test-rode it (like in the first couple hundred feet) it felt like the chain jumped a tooth or something, 2 or 3 times.
Last night I went for my first significant ride (4 miles maybe?) and it did it once more. It only happens when I'm really mashing on the pedals.
Is it something to do with the chain "breaking in"? I noticed after my ride that my chain, which was tight to the point of no slack (but not too tight, I followed Sheldon Brown's chain tightening instructions more or less) now has some slack in it (although not so much that I could really see the chain skipping, it's still pretty good... I've seen plenty of single speeds with more chain slack).


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The Mfantseman Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has completed works on a new market sheds for residents in Biriwa to improve trade and commerce in area.
The facility is however expected to serve as the central market for the entire Biriwa and other nearby communities in the area.
Chief Executive for the Assembly and the man behind the recent development in the municipality, Henry Kweku Hayfron who made this known to Ghanadistricts.com noted that his outfit was on corse to ensure that the socio-economic activities of residents in the municipality are improved to a preferred standard.
When Ghanadistricts.com visited the site, works on the project were duly completed and ready for use.
In other related developments the Bishop Lamire Anglican School has been provided with a befitting classroom block to improve teaching and learning.
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In Pursuit of Narrative Dynamics
A Study of James Phelan's Rhetorical Theory of Narrative
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This book makes an intensive study of James Phelan's rhetorical theory of narrative. Apart from illustrating six basic principles in doing rhetorical theory of narrative, the author examines six major issues which are central to Phelan's rhetorical poetics, namely, focalization, character narration, unreliable narration, narrative progression, narrative judgments, and narrative ethics. For each narratological concept, the author minutely conducts a genealogical study to make the review work complete. The book not only compares Phelan's rhetorical narratology with classical narratology but also with other strands of postclassical narratology. A detailed bibliography makes this book a compendium of narrative theory which is of relevance for scholars and students of all literary disciplines.
Contents: Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Phelan's Theory of Narrative Progression – A New Light on the Old Concept: Phelan's Theory of Character Narrator – The Rhetorical Approach Revisited and Updated: Phelan's Theory of Unreliable Narration – «Narrator as Focalizer», and «Dual Focalization»: Phelan's Theory of Focalization – The Activation of Multileveled Responses: Phelan's Theory of Narrative Judgments – The Ethics of «the Told», the Ethics of «the Telling», and the Ethics of «the Reading»: Phelan's Theory of Narrative Ethics.
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Biwu Shang is an associate professor of English at Zhejiang Gong Shang University, China. He works primarily in the areas of narrative theory, literary theory, and the art of Ian McEwan. His articles were published or are forthcoming in such international journals as Foreign Literature Studies, Journal of Literary Semantics, Language and Literature, and Semiotica.
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Complete listing of 2011 All-WAC Football Teams
DENVER, Colo. - The Fresno State football team had eight players selected to the 2011 All-WAC teams, including six first team honorees, as the Western Athletic Conference announced Monday the awards that were voted upon by the WAC's eight head coaches.
Fresno State's six first team selections were the second-most in the conference behind Louisiana Tech's seven.
On offense, senior offensive tackle Bryce Harris, junior running back Robbie Rouse and sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders made the All-WAC first team.
Defensively, senior defensive tackle Logan Harrell and junior linebacker Travis Brown got first team nods and senior kicker Kevin Goessling received his third-straight first team all-conference selection. Goessling closed out his career as the school's all-time leading scorer with 373 career points.
Sophomore quarterback Derek Carr and senior Devon Wylie were honored on the All-WAC second team. Wylie's nod comes as a special team's performer.
Harris closed out his career starting in 39 consecutive games over the last three seasons and he led the Bulldog offense that finished third in the WAC in total offense with 411.8 yards per game.
Rouse finished the year as the league's leading rusher with 1,549 yards - the third most in school history - and he scored 13 touchdowns on the ground. Thanks to catching a touchdown in each of the last seven games, Saunders finished his prolific sophomore season with a league-best 12 touchdown catches and he had 50 catches for 1,065 yards, becoming just the seventh Bulldog to go over 1,000 yards receiving in a season.
Harrell's first team selection is his second in a row, as was also selected there in 2010. One of the best defensive tackles in the nation, he was second in the conference with 17 tackles for a loss this season - a number that is tied for the third-most in Fresno State single-season history.
Brown, who was a second team selection in 2010, led the Bulldogs with 85 tackles this year and both he and Harrell were once named the WAC Defensive Player of the Week during the season.
Carr, in his first season as the starting quarterback, became just the fifth Bulldog to throw for over 3,000 yards in a season. His 3,544 yards led the WAC, was the 10th-most in the nation and the third-most in school history behind his brother David Carr (4,839 yards in 2001) and Trent Dilfer (3,799 yards in 1993).
Wylie's play as a punt returner for the Bulldogs was nothing short of phenomenal. He finished fourth in the FBS with a 15.38 average on 29 punt returns and he brought two back for touchdowns - a 79 yarder vs. No. 5 Boise State and a 67 yarder at No. 10 Nebraska.
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Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Economic Growth program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau Economic Research, Center for Economic Performance, and Center for Economic Policy Research.
His work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal Economics and Review of Economic Studies to name a few. Daron Acemoglu's research covers a wide range of areas within economics, including political economy, economic development and growth, human capital theory, growth theory, technical change, and search theory. Acemoglu is also the editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
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This paper develops a model where there is a trade-off between the enforcement of the property rights of different groups. An "oligarchic" society, where political power is in the hands of major producers, protects their property rights, but also tends to erect significant entry barriers, violating the property rights of future producers. Democracy, where political power is more widely diffused, imposes redistributive taxes on the producers, but tends to avoid entry barriers. When taxes in democracy are high and the distortions caused by entry barriers are low, an oligarchic society achieves greater efficiency. Nevertheless, because comparative advantage in entrepreneurship shifts away from the incumbents, the inefficiency created by entry barriers in oligarchy deteriorates over time. The typical pattern is therefore one of the rise and decline of oligarchic societies: of two otherwise identical societies, the one with an oligarchic organization will first become richer, but later fall behind the democratic society. I also discuss how democratic societies may be better able to take advantage of new technologies, how an oligarchic society might transition to democracy because of within-elite conflict, and how the unequal distribution of income in oligarchy supports the oligarchic institutions and may keep them in place even when they become significantly costly to society.


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MoMA PS1 has no permanent collection (its focus is on presenting art rather than warehousing it), which is what gives the museum its improvisational feel. You'll find work from artists of all stripes scattered in just about every corner of this sprawling 100-room building (built in 1892 as a public primary school). This includes its rooftop, stairwells and boiler-room basement, where you'll find Sol LeWitt's Crayola Square, which the artist created for an earlier incarnation of the museum. In addition to that and other long-term installations, the space holds temporary exhibitions that focus on diverse subjects: say, dance choreography, hip-hop or the artist's place in society. On Sundays, the museum hosts Sunday Sessions, a variety of performance programming and lectures. The on-site restaurant, M. Wells Dinette—brought to you by a couple of celebrated Montreal transplants—attracts foodies in droves. They come for specialties like veal brains, bison tartare and various esoteric combinations (foie gras and oatmeal?) from an ever-changing menu.


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Update: Feb. 26, – Rachel Shoaf, the second teen found guilty in the murder of Skylar Neese, was sentenced to 30 years in prison today in Monongalia County Circuit Court.
Eighteen-year-old Shelia Eddy pleaded guilty in Monongalia County Circuit Court Friday to stabbing 16-year-old Skylar Neese to death. She was sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 15 years. Skylar was an honor student at University High School and was first reported missing on July 6, 2012. Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, who were friends of Neese, have now both confessed to the stabbing death, which they say was the result of a waning friendship and fear that Neese would divulge secrets.
Below is an interactive timeline of events leading up to Shelia's trial.
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