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For years there have been many intellectual and articulate discussions concerning the pro-abortion and pro-life views, either in print, live debate, or just everyday interactions.
In an article, Abortion and the Conception of Life, Las Cruces Sun-News, 1-3-09, Michael Hays states the following:
The strict anti-abortionist definition of life is a tendentious one -- merely one, with limitations, among many. First, it applies to the fertilization of humans only, not other animals -- not a negligible consideration, but still a biased, that is, a homocentric one. Across the spectrum of organic life forms, fertilization is a relatively rare means of procreation (and I exclude parthenogenesis). At the extreme, single-celled organisms reproduce by various, non-sexual means. For instance, amoebas, by mitosis, simply enlarge and split.
Second, the definition of life -- specifically, human life -- reflects different contexts in which it is used. Scientists define the word "life" differently in different contexts; their definitions are themselves stipulated and thereby subject to debate within scientific communities. Some textbooks define life as beginning at fertilization; others, at viability. One irony in the abortion debate is that anti-abortionists assert their moral or religious position by insisting on a scientific definition of life, one itself presupposing a moral or religious, not a scientific, position -- thus, begging the question.
The Canadian Centre For Bio-Ethical Reform (cbrinfo.org) states: Scientists agree that life begins at conception, also referred to as fertilization. Drs. Keith Moore and T. Persaud's embryology textbook used by medical students at the University of British Columbia confirms this:
Human development begins at fertilization [emphasis in original], the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell, the zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell is the beginning of embryonic development. The zygote, just visible to the unaided eye as a tiny speck, contains chromosomes and genes (units of genetic information) that are derived from the mother and father. The unicellular organism, or zygote, divides many times and becomes progressively transformed into a multicellular human being through cell division, migration, growth, and differentiation.[]
Keith Moore and T.V.N. Persaud, Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects 5th ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1998) 36.
After reading or listening to these and other intellectual views, I sometimes find myself asking, "What did I just read or hear?" Unless I get out the dictionary or other sources and do research, I probably won't figure it out. Of course, this type of discussion is a good way to spread the word, but who is the target audience? It's basically other people who are at their same intellectual level. Who are most involved with the abortion decision? Teen girls and boys and young college-aged women and men. Honestly, they probably would have little idea what these people were saying. I would guess that your average 16-year-old does not know what "parthenogenesis" or even "viability" means.
That is why "the simpler, the better" approach often works the best. When the expectant mother sees the baby on the ultrasound, it can make a huge difference. When she see photos or videos of aborted babies, it can have a bigger impact than two articulate people discussing the issue.
Studies have shown that 60 percent to 80 percent of women changed their minds about having an abortion after seeing the ultrasound. One of these studies was from Dr. Eric J. Keroack, a medical director of five centers run by A Woman's Concern in Massachusetts. He studied the cases of 436 women considering abortion between October 2000 and April 2002 at a center in Revere, Massachusetts, and whose outcomes could be traced. Of those who were considered to be facing obstacles that were usually considered reasons for abortion, 75.5 percent decided not to have an abortion after viewing the ultrasound of her unborn baby, while 24.5 percent went ahead with an abortion.
Keroack compared those figures to a similar study group from July 1998 to December 1999, before the center had an ultrasound machine. The statistics were nearly reversed. Of the 344 "abortion-vulnerable" women whose cases were studied and whose outcomes could be determined, 61 percent decided after counseling at the Revere center to go ahead with an abortion, while 33.7 percent decided not to have an abortion. Source: http://www.the-tidings.com/2008/080108/ultrasound.htm
Showing abortion videos and pictures have had a similar effect on people. Videos such as Harder Truth and Silent Scream have resulted in thousands of changed minds about abortion. For testimonials go to the following site: http://www.abortionno.org/AbortionNO/web_response.html
In the movie Juno, the lead character Juno McGuff was heading into a women's clinic to have an abortion. She encountered a fellow student, Su-Chin, who was in front of the clinic holding a pro-life sign. One of the things Su-Chin told her was that her baby has fingernails. Juno kept thinking about that while waiting in the clinic and decided not to abort. Of course, this is fictitious, but it does give a powerful example of how the simple approach works.
Many sidewalk counselors will confirm the fact that sometimes it's just one word, phrase, or Bible verse that will change the girl's mind. Sometimes the simpler factual approach to the issue is the better way. There's a place for a highly articulate, intellectual discussion, but it probably doesn't reach the audience that really needs to be targeted.


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The emergency budget was predicted to hit landlords hard. In reality it has been rather much kinder than expected.
The huge hike in Capital Gains Tax (CGT) to 40 or even 50 % didn't materialise. Instead landlords on the basic rate of tax will continue to pay the current 18% rate of CGT on disposals. Higher rate tax payers will have to pay more. Their rate of CGT rises to 28%.
The other good and unexpected news is that those landlords with a holiday let will no longer lose their preferential tax breaks.
Even better for many landlords; the new Chancellor has set out his intentions to get borrowing down fast and as a consequence be able to keep interest rates low for longer. This should enable landlords to be able to generate the record rental profits that has made the 'credit crunch' and economic melt down just a little more bearable.
The only downside is likely to come for landlords that are letting high value properties to tenants on benefits. The drive by the Tories to drive down the benefits bill including capping the maximum rents that can be claimed by a landlord under the Local Housing Allowance will inevitably cause some landlords a few sleepless nights.
Steve Sims property tax expert and author of the best selling property tax guide "Paying less property tax" has outlined the key changes in the budget that impact directly on landlords:
Income Tax
Unchanged until April 6, 2011.
Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
The tax rate of 18% remain unchanged for taxpayers paying lower rate tax (20% or less)
From midnight June 22, 2010, higher rate taxpayers (40% plus) will pay 28% CGT on disposals - which include gifts or sales.
The annual exempt amount for CGT remains at £10,100 and is index linked for future tax years.
Corporation Tax
Companies are set to see a five year plan to gradually reduce the rate of corporation tax to 24%.
The small company tax rate will fall to 20% from April 2011.
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Tax breaks for qualifying furnished holiday lets in the UK and European Economic Area are reinstated - this means owners can benefit from capital gains tax reliefs to reduce the rate paid - 10% entrepreneur's relief on business asset disposals totalling up to £5 million in a lifetime instead of paying CGT at 18% or above - and reliefs to defer CGT - like roll over relief and hold over relief.
Capital allowances
These are of particular interest to commercial investors, furnished holiday let owners and house in multiple occupation (HMO) operators.
The key change is the reduction in the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) to £25,000 from April 2012.
Any asset purchase or improvement attracting capital allowances that might exceed the AIA threshold should be phased in before APRIL 2012 to take advantage of the higher AIA threshold until that date.
Higher rate taxpayers (40% plus)
This budget reintroduces the tax avoidance strategy of top-slicing for married couples and civil partners.
Tax savings are available with no gain/no loss transfers between married couples and civil partners if one partner is a lower rate taxpayer, effectively keeping CGT payable at 18%.
New investment property purchases via a limited company may also be advantageous for higher rate taxpayers who cannot set off a share of ownership to a lower rate taxpayer, as companies pay corporation tax on disposals rather than capital gains tax.
All corporation tax rates will fall below the higher rate of CGT from April 2011 and will become progressively lower over ensuing years until they reach maximum forecast lows of 20% for small companies and 24% for other companies.
Warning - transferring existing buy to let holdings in to a company is a strategy that may unravel due to resistance to investors claiming incorporation relief from HM Revenue and Customs.
What landlord should do now
Steve Sims advice to landlords is:
"Do nothing until you have completed a detailed property-by-property view of your portfolio to assess how the changes will affect your tax position – especially if you are a higher rate taxpayer selling or completing on a sale in the near future."
He goes on to suggest that:
"Every property business needs to look at tax-effective ownership now and to put a policy in place for acquisitions and disposals."
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Tucson will cut the number of furlough days for 911 operators and dispatchers, as well as "overhire" for open positions to help better staff its troubled 911 emergency call system.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to cut the furloughs for 911 operators - who take the initial calls - and public-safety dispatchers, who route the calls to first responders, from 50 hours to only 10 hours this year.
The city will hire more people than it has open positions, so the 911 center will be fully staffed as some of the new hires inevitably drop out or current employees leave.
That means hiring more than 12 new operators and dispatchers.
The new 911 emergency system, installed in late May, has been hit with technical malfunctions and dropped calls in its first several weeks of operation, and may have been a factor in the death of a 10-year-old girl.
The council talked in closed session about potential liability from the girl's death and spoke publicly about other issues with the 911 system.
Problems with the 911 system include screens that are supposed to show the address of incoming calls not working, a growing number of dropped calls and a reduced ability for supervisors to monitor calls for accuracy.
General Services Director Ron Lewis told the council that most of the problems occurred just after the new system was implemented.
"There was a problem" after the system was implemented, Lewis said. "No question."
He said there was difficulty in transferring calls and the automatic location of the caller not showing up for certain calls. The automatic location didn't pop up because some of the trunk lines in the system were not connected properly, he said. Lewis said this has now been corrected.
The calls reported dropped were not actually dropped, Lewis said. Instead there was only the perception the calls were dropped because the lights indicating the call was connected no longer worked the same way.
Therefore, the calls were only "perceived" to be dropped, when they were not, he said. "Qwest has been unable to document any 'truly' dropped call that wasn't the result of a hangup or operator error," he said.
At the same time, Lewis said it was nearly impossible to get numbers or statistics of dropped calls from the 911 system.
Lewis also responded to criticism over the dismantling of the old system before working out all the bugs on the new system. He said the old system wasn't supported by the vendor any more and the city was tapping into an existing system that was already used by the police.
The 911 staff was given two weeks of training on the new system, which both the city and the vendor Qwest felt was appropriate, Lewis said.
He criticized what he called the "media frenzy" about the 911 system and said the city is not trying to cover up problems. He said the system has improved and there is no threat to public safety. "It just gets better every day," he said.
Councilman Steve Kozachik criticized Lewis, saying dispatchers told him there were numerous dropped calls as recently as last weekend.
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By Andy Laakmann
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From: Bend, OR
Aug 29, 2008
rating: 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
This route is fricken' awesome, I have no idea why it isn't more popular. Perhaps the bushes in the crack at the bottom chase people away, but outside of that bit of climbing - the rest is superb.
Varied climbing, bomber gear, and stout climbing. Get on it. The crux is pretty dang physical, so get psyched.
Gear - Lots of thin gear (I placed many small to medium nuts) to a #2 or #3 camalot. I placed a #3 camalot (and took a nice whipper on it to :) in the pod, but a #2 would go in as well. Anchor takes either hand size gear or thin gear. No need for any big gear.
The rap anchor is a bit on the sketchy side, but it worked. Slung block. Probably worth adding some slings.
By mountainsense
Sep 16, 2008
|a stellar line, climb it in the shade!
By Toby
From: Jackson, WY
May 13, 2009
rating: 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
|Sweet climb! Well worth doing even with the bushes in the crack. Great variety of moves. The rock is just a bit dirty but with some traffic would be stellar. As for the sketchy block at the top, we traversed around the left side and rapped off bolts on some 5.6 on the east side.
By Zuke Lackmann
Mar 19, 2010
|Incredible! In my opinion, one of the best trad lines at the City. Just a little deciduous at the bottom, but otherwise very clean. This climb has just about everything you could ask for - jungly liebacking, a few easy chimney moves, insecure fingers through a small alcove/roof, great hand jams, and just a little offwidth to finish it up. I'm not sure you'd need big gear for the offwidth at the top. I was able to slot a big stopper at the bottom of the offwidth.
By Jclimb
From: Moab, UT
Aug 22, 2010
|I don't think big gear is needed up top, either. If you brought it, you could probably use it, but really I don't think anything larger than a green camalot is needed for the route (could be useful for an anchor on top, though?). I'd bring small to medium stoppers, doubles or triples through fingers, a couple purple & green camalots, & runners. Rap slings are up the slab to the left. Felt nice & stout for the grade.
By Lucas Barth
From: Devils Tower, WY
Sep 23, 2010
|I wouldn't really call it ofwidth at the top. By that point you have two great face jugs to pull on. No offwidth technique neccessary. Awesome route.
By Spencer Weiler
From: Salt Lake city
May 16, 2011
|This route's crux is pretty burly. I found it more difficult than any single move on Singapore or Tiny Town. Two fixed nuts as of 5/16/11 in pretty convenient places. Hard to place the #2 camalot when your hand is in the pod.
By Jason Halladay
From: Los Alamos, NM
Jun 5, 2011
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|On 6/3/11, I sure didn't like the looks of the block all the anchor slings were slung around (the block wiggled a bit) so we slung a *much* larger block off to the left and used the biner from the "fixed" nut at the crux and an old locker of mine on the new anchor sling. Booty it if you want but definitely check out the old anchor block first--it's sketchy.
By Kevin Volkening
Jun 6, 2011
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|Onsighted Terror but had major problems on this one... Suggest more like 11a
By camhead
From: Vandalia, Appalachia
Jul 21, 2011
|Great route; its single crux move just below the pod felt like solid 11a to me. Definitely one of the best cracks in the City.
By Ty Gregory
From: Salt Lake City
Jun 9, 2012
|HB #8 OS in the pocket. - we're not sport climbing here.
By Mark SLC
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Sep 26, 2012
rating: 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
One of the best and hardest 10ds at the city. And most folks will probably find the crux pretty tough at the grade. Outstanding.
There's an old metolius cam in the lower section of the upper crack. Got it to move but probably would need a second tool to clean it.
By Alec LaLonde
Oct 20, 2014
rating: 5.11- 6c 22 VIII+ 22 E3 5c
|Would be four stars except for the jungly start. Everything up to the crux bulge is surprisingly moderate, but that thing is burly and very sequential. A healthy sandbag at 10d.
By mollybolly
From: San Francisco, CA
Oct 27, 2015
|FYI rappel cord on the anchor is looking pretty old, bring ~25 ft of cord to replace.
By Jordan Gilbert
From: Logan, UT
Apr 4, 2016
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|Replaced cord at the anchor on 4/3/16. Sandbag! The crux is tough and the whole thing is steeper than it looks from the ground. Awesome route!


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had breast augmentation (silicone) 6 weeks ago and i massage my breast and they feel soft but then they get firm again. i'm sleeping on my side and i do experience a little pain the morning, but after the massage the pain goes away. I'm still wearing a sports bra.
6 Weeks Post Breast Aug, Breast Feel Firm Even After Massaging?
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Breasts Can Take 2-3 Months To Soften After Augmentation
Thank you for your email. Your experience sounds normal for 6 weeks postop breast augmentation. It is a good sign that the breasts soften and you feel more comfortable after massage.
Of course you should meet with your surgeon and express your concerns so that Dr. may examine you and hopefully reassure you. If there is a concern, that is if there is tightening of the implant your surgeon will want to know this right away.
It is however common for breasts to continue to soften and adjust their position for the first 3 months after breast augmentation and this is particularly true if you have had a sub-muscular breast augmentation.
Again be certain to see your surgeon for an examination to make certain that you are healing normally.
Learn more: http://drseckel.com/surgical-procedures/result-oriented-breast-augmentation-breast-enlargement/
Firm breasts after surgery
You have the softest feeling implants or the silicone implants in place. This is a very early post operative period for you. continue with the aggressive massage and they should improve.
Massaging But Still Feeling Firmness
If my patients have concerns that their healing or pain are unusual, it is important for them to call the office and discuss these concerns or come in to be examined.
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After breast augmentation, the breasts WILL feel tight and firm. 6 weeks is still relatively early. As your breast tissue, skin, and muscles stretch, the implants and breasts will start feeling softer. This can take months.
Pain may be due to muscle spasms in the chest muscles (pectoralis muscles). Massage can certainly relax the chest muscles and help with pain. This may be why the breasts feel soft after massaging.
If you still have concerns, you should follow up with your plastic surgeon.
Thanks for your question. Best of Luck!
Six weeks post-op BAM
At six weeks post-op from an augmentation, you are still healing and the breasts are probably still swollen.
Breasts Feel Firm
I don't think this can be answered without an exam by your surgeon. What you think is firm may not be considered so by the surgeon. I have no explanation why massaging would quickly soften the implants which would soon become firm again. This is not behavior of a capsular contracture if that is your worry.
Thanks for your question, best wishes.
Sounds normal
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The Arizona Technology Council, an industry group promoting Arizona's technology industry, this week awarded a number of firms and businesses in the state. The group, at the Governor's Celebration of Innovation Awards Gala earlier this week, gave awards to Phoenix-based Honeywell International, The Biodesign Institute at ASU, Tempe, Arizona-based Avnet, Mesa-based RF Code, and Tucson-based Medipacs; along with individuals Bob Hagen, of the Southern Arizona Technology Council-SATC and Gene Holmquist, President and CEO of Tempe-based Ensynch. The group also presented two "Chairman's Awards" to Dr. Matt Kim and Doug Goodman, co-founders of the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster, a non-profit group promoting the state in the field of nanotechnology. All of the awards recognized the technological and business achievements of the firms and individuals.


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Longview ISD again sells empty buildings
By Sherry Koonce email@example.com
June 14, 2012 at 11 p.m.
By the time summer is over and the new school year starts, a vacant Longview Independent School District campus once again will be filled with students.
But they won't be enrolled in the school district.
Longview ISD's board of trustees this week approved the sale of two empty properties: Valley View Elementary School and the second tract of the old Forest Park Middle School.
The properties were re-bid after a previous sale fell through.
The second tract of the old Forest Park property was sold for $142,500 to Coley Ford Holdings which is the benefactor entity for Austen-Coley Academy.
At its current location, at 707 Methvin St., the Austen-Coley Academy offers a full curriculum to dyslexic students.
Carla Matthews, Austen-Coley chairman of the board, said the school will relocate into the second tract of the former Forest Park campus, which has an 8,500-square-feet building.
"This is nothing short of a godsend. We were keeping our eyes open for a good deal. We don't need the space yet, but anticipate we will," Matthews said.
Austen-Coley accepts first through eighth grade students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia. The school opened a year ago, and last term had 12 students enrolled from area communities.
At its new location, Austen-Coley plans to add computer and physical education courses.
"We have such a unique program that is designed to teach kids what they need to deal with their dyslexia and reading issues," she said. "This new campus will offer plenty of room to expand."
Austen-Coley is scheduled to open for classes Aug. 13.
The other tract of the former Forest Park Middle School was sold earlier in the year to Longview Christian School.
In addition to the school's regular class program for students aged kindergarten through seniors, school officials plan to institute an early learning center for ages 6 weeks through pre-K.
Longview Christian School has 130 students enrolled but will have ample room to expand.
The Valley View campus on Alpine Road sold for $150,000 to Bible Teaching Ministries.
Reggie Brazzle, pastor of Bible Teaching Ministries Church, said the building will house a Christian-based elementary school.
Brazzle said they do not anticipate having it open for enrollment until the following school year.
Brazzle said Bible Teaching Ministries has been in Longview for 20 years.
"We wanted to do something to reach out to the area," he said. "Our church is located right down the street."
Both of the campuses were closed by LISD after new campuses were built as part of the school district's $27 million building program. The bond was the largest in the city's history.
In May, LISD board of trustees nixed the sale of Valley View and Forest Park as well as the old Longview High School after the prospective buyer, Blessings From Heavens Ministries, failed to close on the transaction by the closing date.


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What is this for? Those looking for the best possible RSS reader to replace Google Reader.
Google Reader shutting down on July 1st. While we still agree with David Sparks that most users should sit tight, we want to start getting our head around the alternatives. This list is not meant to be compressive. It's meant to highlight what we believe to be the best options and who we think would benefit most from each alternative. We expect that more options will continue to make their way onto this list, but we're currently considering the following Google Reader alternatives:
Who is it for? – Feedly is a great looking service that is ideal for those looking to close the gap between Google Reader and a read-later service like Instapaper or Pocket.
What we like – Great design, lots of users (over three million of them) and it's seen several recent updates.
What we don't like – It's free and we all know what happened to the last free option. That said, the team has hinted at a freemium model.
Price – Free
Who is it for? – Feedbin seems to be the best option for those who are not looking for a better way to handle RSS. Where Feedly has more of a unique point of view, Feedbin is a comfortable replacement to what we already have.
What we like – Reeder for iPhone integration. A decent looking app. A business model.
What we don't like – While it's getting a good amount of attention, it may be a bit too familiar…
Price? – $20 per year or $2 per month
Feed Wrangler
Who is it for? – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/feed-wrangler/id634486174?mt=8 is a great option for those who are mostly happy with what RSS has been, but are curious and optimistic about where it can go.
What we like – A great developer. A well thought out and nice looking design. There are also interesting features such as the ability to mark several posts as read at once using keyword filtering.
What we don't like – It's still very early days and the vision isn't entirely clear yet (don't get us wrong, we're curious about the Podcast client, just not sure we want one service to do it all).
Price – $18.99 per year
Who is it for? – Since Fever requires that you host the service yourself, it's only a viable option for geeks with their own hosting.
What we like – Fever is damn pretty, well established and offers unique features. It has Reeder for iPhone integration and it's Hot list – a features which helps identify and consolidate the most commonly shared links – is enough to figure out how to get this thing up and running.
What we don't like – The need for hosting is certainly a limiting factor, but it's the fact that Fever will come second to creator Shawn Inman's Retro Game Crunch that has us worried.
Price – $30 (a one time fee) plus self-hosting
What Are We Doing?
Schechter – I'm still using Google Reader at the moment, but I'm leaning towards Feedbin. It's comfortable and requires no major change to my current workflow. I'm also interested to see where Feed Wrangler goes. Feedly isn't for me and Fever, while tempting, doesn't seem worth it to me.
Vardy – I'm still using Google Reader as well, but I've also added Feed Wrangler to the mix so I can give it a good run. I'd rather be into something now then play with Fever. I do like Feedbin – especially the Reeder for iPhone integration – but Feed Wrangler offers me an all-in-one solution right now…and that's what attracts me the most.


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Like an alternative version of Goldilocks, the Scottish Government would have preferred last week's porridge of employment statistics, one of the last before the September referendum, to be piping hot (denoting widespread, complacent prosperity) or stone cold (general misery).
The happy medium suggested by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) jobs figures - a rapidly improving but still problematic economy - is probably not that happy from the point of view of the Yes campaign. If your main offer is based on injecting new dynamism and exciting risk, it doesn't help if things are already moving fast.
Particularly in the area of self-employment, rapid shifts do appear to be happening. They are being spun by Westminster as overwhelmingly positive, though there are inevitable differences on how they should be interpreted.
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This left-right dilemma is another reason why it is hard for either of the two ideologically confused teams in the referendum debate to weaponise the employment and unemployment numbers for their own constitutional purposes.
At first and even second glance, the figures do appear to be predominately positive, with the labour market undoubtedly improving in tune with the faster-than-expected headline growth figures. As David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: "The figures continue to demonstrate the flexibility and resilience of the jobs market, which is a source of strength for the economy."
Fraser of Allander's Professor Brian Ashcroft was prepared to give credit, despite rarely endorsing any positive development or trend for which "hubristic" George Osborne might take credit. He did, however, cast his net wide to find reasons not to be too cheerful.
"We are experiencing a recovery that is getting stronger. There is a good chance that it will be sustained.
"Not everything is rosy though. The spectre of deflation haunts the Eurozone and we may not be immune from its effects. Growth in China and perhaps even the US may be faltering. Meanwhile, domestic households in Scotland and the UK remain burdened with historically high levels of debt, which could limit and constrain the growth of consumer demand. Investment is recovering but remains weak and there is very little positive news on the export front."
Across the UK, the number of people out of work fell by 133,000 to a new five-year low of 2.2 million in the three months to March, representing a fall in the jobless rate to 6.8%. For Scotland the picture was marginally better, as the Scottish Government pointed out.
"Employment levels are at their highest since records began in 1992, with 2,585,000 people over 16 now employed in Scotland [in] the period January-March 2014," a spokesman said.
"After rising by 29,000 over the quarter, the employment level has increased for 15 consecutive monthly releases. Over the quarter, the unemployment level fell by 18,000. The unemployment rate fell by 0.7 of a percentage point compared to the previous quarter, and is at 6.4%- below the UK rate of 6.8%.
He added: "Scotland has improved across all headline labour market indicators over the last quarter and has again outperformed the UK with a lower unemployment rate, higher employment rate and lower inactivity rate.
"Both the rise in the employment rate and the fall in the unemployment rate of 0.7 of a percentage point in Scotland over the quarter has been stronger than in the UK as a whole. Over the year, while the employment rate in the UK has increased by 1.3 percentage points, in Scotland the employment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points."
The stand-out feature of last week's ONS figures was not the Scottish difference but the figures showing 283,000 more people across the UK found work in the three-month period. This was the largest quarterly increase since records began in 1971 although, as the STUC's sceptical number-cruncher Stephen Boyd pointed out last week, all-time record rises are firmly in the realm of lies, damned lies and statistics.
"Achieving the 'highest employment level ever' really isn't a historically significant event. By my reckoning this is a claim that could've been made precisely 40 times since the current data series for Scotland started in 1992."
Nevertheless, across the UK, boosted by a substantial rise in self-employment, the number of people in work rose to 30.43 million. For what it is worth, this the highest since records began in 1971.
Added to this, average earnings in the three months to March were up 1.7% from a year earlier.
Although the growth rate in wages was slower than analysts had expected, it still inched past the 1.6% inflation rate for the first time since 2010, suggesting Labour's hard-working "cost of living crisis" line might soon be retired.
Also attracting much comment was the number of people working for themselves, which reached a record high of 4.55 million, with self-employment jumping by 183,000 in the quarter to March, compared with a rise of 375,000 over the whole of the past year. Six months' worth of growth last year has been achieved in three months this year, a pick-up in pace that can be fairly described as spectacular, or "startling" as the BBC reported it.
That notwithstanding, the fact that self-employment accounted for more than two-thirds of the 283,000 new jobs over the latest quarter was seen as the stand-out figure of last week's statistics.
The majority of these new self-employed jobs counted as full-time positions, but it is still not clear how many of these are working for themselves by necessity after losing a job elsewhere. How much that matters is, of course, more a question of politics and sociology than economics.
David Blanchflower, former Bank of England monetary policy committee member and arguably the most ideologically dogmatic of all UK-based economists, has called self-employment "the last refuge of the desperate".
He said: "Particularly after a prolonged downturn, there is a well-documented pattern of people failing as jobseekers and then moving into self-employment status, often out of desperation rather than anything more positive."
Sceptics can also point to work by the respected centre-left think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which found that, while weekly wages for employees have fallen 6% since 2007, typical self-employed pay has fallen by 20% in the same period. This means the typical self-employed person is now being paid 40% less than the average employee.
But for every commentator wringing their hands over the plight of sacked company men and women forced to become their own bosses (although the mass sackings that would anecdotally support this are absent), there is another praising the legion of "laptop entrepreneurs".
This glass half full side argues that the rise in self-employment could also point to a more entrepreneurial spirit, with the potential to reap long-term dividends in future. The Resolution Foundation found that 73% of those classified as self-employed had chosen this path, although the minority who indicated they had gone self-employed because of a lack of alternative options is growing.
Finally, another cause for closer study of the self-employment surge is its effect on productivity growth - defined by Paul Krugman and others as the single most important indicator of the future fate of a nation.
As has been argued on these pages previously, a recovery without significant rises in output per worker will always be open to criticism and suspicion.
Economists can and will slice and dice the headline employment and unemployment figures to support their underlying hunches about the direction of the UK and Scottish economy and society.
However, the fact that productivity growth has never recovered its pre-2008 trajectory - for all the laptop-accessed e-commerce, digital networking and other aids to entrepreneurialism introduced since then - is the best reason to treat last week's ONS figures as positive signposts rather than an end in themselves.
In Scotland, the UK and indeed everywhere else, the only safe and sustainable jobs are the jobs that deliver more output with less input than those of our global rivals.


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This week's Hump Day Haiku is arriving a little late… why? Because we have been sick! Again. I thought it was Tuesday. Damn.
I entered the Secret Style Suit giveaway this week. They are giving away Style Sessions at BlogHer 2011 for 12 lucky winners. I've been following that giveaway for a couple weeks. At first I was going to create a funny post based around the idea that if they didn't give me a style session I was going to wear something horrible, follow them around and say I was with them.
I decided I didn't want a restraining order before my first Blog Conference!
The second Blog Conference on the other hand…
Anyway I ended up writing about how I have no fashion sense… and where that comes from. Here is the secret: I actually like following fashion trends I was just extremely jaded by Girl Wars when I was a kid. I will browse catalogs, etsy shops and websites dedicated to fashion. I love sewing because I love creating clothes, costumes and couture. It's just fun. But, I also like being comfortable and while I would love to wear an amazing dress created by Gibbous Fashion but I would look like a complete jackass wearing it to a PTA meeting or shopping at Trader Joes.
However since I don't care if I look like a jackass or not I would probably wear it anyway if I acquired one and if someone laughed at me I would threaten them with bodily harm!!!!
Which would again land me with a restraining order (sigh)
For some reason I was rambling about g-strings on Twitter this week. I was talking about how g-strings are basically ass floss and I don't need my underwear to be in places I didn't know I had places! That is where I came up with the new word for G-strings: Flass… its floss for your ass!
I know there is something wrong with me.
So here is this week's Hump Day Haiku dedicated to Fashion… or lack thereof and flossin yo ass!
Sometimes I dress up
You Actually Look Nice!
My friends always say.
Tank Tops. Converse Shoes.
Band Shirts. Comfy pants. Make up??
Yeah, I can't get dates.
Underwear lines are
fine when compared to g-strings.
Flass: Floss for your ass!
Wedgies I pick all
damn day. I can't wear g-strings.
My butt will eat them.
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What browser do you personally use for your every day web surfing?
(e.g. not the browser(s) you use for development work, but the one you regularly use to check the news, read the funnies, buy stuff and do your banking etc etc)
I've also downloaded Firebird, but I haven't installed it yet.
IE is too vunerable to viruses etc, and I especially didn't like the poor way favourites are handled. (Sometimes they open in a new window, sometimes in the current and I couldn't sort them into the order I wanted).
Opera crashed too often on my machine (version 6). But I didn't know 7 was out, so I am off now to check it out...
Oops...I have 7.01, so now I'll look at the latest version - they may have sorted the problems I was having.
I have Opera, but haven't paid for it yet.
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Jesse Spencer might play a firefighter on TV, but in real life the "Chicago Fire" star is just as heroic!
Over the weekend, the 35-year-old actor was touring the Illinois State Capitol and became trapped in an elevator with his parents and a group of other sightseers, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
His scripted small screen training came in handy as he helped with the group's escape plan by opening the elevator's doors enough to get cell phone reception in order to call 911.
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He also reportedly helped keep the group of tourists calm in the tight, small space for almost an hour until help arrived.
"People started to freak out," Jesse told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It was getting so hot. It's claustrophobic. One poor girl had a fear of being trapped in elevators."
When the actor managed to open the door, it calmed the nerves of the trapped crowd.
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"Eventually, I managed to get the doors open so we could get air in," he explained. "It relieved the tension. I took turns getting people that were freaking out over near the door. I didn't want them sticking their heads out in case the elevator took off again."
After the incident he thanked his rescuers.
"Thanks Springfield FD saved us from an elevator at the Capitol Building. Stuck for an hour, I muscled the doors open," the actor wrote on Twitter and also posted a photo of himself and the firefighters.
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Joey Hanowski, senior, Little Falls
Hanowski, The Record's Player of the Year, was the leader of a deep and dangerous team this season that was ranked No. 1 in the state for most of the year. He hit .514 with a .593 on-base percentage and .889 slugging percentage to earn a spot on the Minnesota Lions All-Star team. Hanowski also had 11 doubles, two triples and four home runs while putting together 13 multi-hit games.
Luke Thoma, senior, Little Falls
Thoma was the ace for a team that spent the majority of the season as the top-ranked team in Class AA, going 7-1 with a miniscule 2.20 ERA with a pair of saves. He was asked to pitch in almost all of the Flyers' biggest games, including a pair of complete-game wins and one shutout over state runner-up St. Cloud Cathedral. Thoma often helped his own cause at the plate as well, hitting .277 with 16 RBIs and 13 runs scored.
Matt Stumpf, junior, Little Falls
Stumpf emerged as a vital contributor in his first season as a starter for Little Falls, working his way into the cleanup spot in the order by the end of the year. He hit .366 with an on-base percentage of .471 to score 16 runs and slugged .465 while drilling seven doubles to knock in 15.
Mitch Gregory, senior, Little Falls
Gregory set the table for the Flyers' potent offense this spring, getting on base at a .516 mark in front of the heart of the order. He finished with a .436 average and added some power with seven doubles and a triple, crossing the plate a team-high 32 times with 14 RBIs.
Collin Eckman, junior, Little Falls
Eckman was an electric force in the Flyers' lineup, particularly as the team established itself as one of the elite squads in the state early in the year. He collected 45 hits to finish with a .511 batting average, with six doubles, four triples and two home runs. Eckman also produced 24 runs and 31 RBIs.
Ben Boser, junior, Pierz
Boser wreaked havoc for opposing defenses this season as a classic leadoff hitter, getting on base at a .487 clip and stealing six bases. He finished with a .385 average and knocked in four runs to go along with the 18 he scored. He also went 1-1 with a 3.30 ERA in six games on the mound.
Logan Meyer, senior, Pierz
Meyer provided an imposing presence at the plate and on the mound for Pierz this season, earning All-Central Minnesota Conference honors. Meyer hit .292 with a .378 on-base percentage this spring, driving in 11 runs while also tying the career school record of 14 doubles. On the mound, Meyer compiled a 4-3 record with a 2.95 earned-run average.
Brock Cichon, junior, Upsala-Swanville Area
Cichon was the top hitter for a Patriots team that finished near the top of the punishing Prairie Conference this season. He attained all-conference honors while hitting .386 with 15 runs, 15 RBIs and four steals while also guiding the USA defensively at shortstop.
David Bialka, senior, Holdingford
Bialka finished his career as one of the top power hitters in Huskers history with 19 doubles to end up second on the all-time list. He hit .351 this season with an on-base percentage of .439 while driving in 13 runs with a .526 slugging percentage. He also had seven extra-base hits, including five doubles, a triple and a home run.
Honorable mention
Matt Valentine, senior, Little Falls
Spencer Fenske, junior, Little Falls
Gabe Ploof, junior, Little Falls
Trent Davis, senior, Pierz
Brad Meyer, junior, Pierz
Steve Hoff, senior, Royalton
Matt Silbernick, junior, Royalton
Tren Dinius, junior, USA
Colten Kruzel, junior, USA
Eric Lampert, sophomore, USA
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In my first detailed analysis of the Hawks in the wake of the trades of Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams, I had this to say:
How Ferry addresses the small forward position is going to have a significant impact on overall front court depth. This in turn will have an impact on the amount of hustling, help defense the front court will be able to play in trying to overcome the limitations of the wing defense. Ferry must find a starting-caliber small forward.In August I wrote that "pending the acquisition of a starting small forward and getting Ivan Johnson under contract, the Hawks can again contend for home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs." Then, on Oct. 14th after the Hawks' 110-102 pre-season loss to the Grizzlies, I wrote this:
I think this game further strengthens my previous contention that Damion James should be the opening night starter at small forward. He's presently the only natural small forward on the roster, and Korver had no chance to guard Rudy Gay. The criticism of James' offensive game is completely valid. But there is no denying the on/off numbers that prove his defensive impact. Through three pre-season games, Damion James is a team-best +28.This season I will be using +/- frequently in my analysis of the performance of Hawks players. It is my opinion that point, assist and rebound totals do not tell the whole story about a player's impact on a game. For example, in the Hawks' 110-94 pre-season win over the Mavericks, rookie forward Mike Scott was the team's leading scorer with 17 points. However, for the game, Scott was -5. That means that during Scott's 21 minutes on the floor, Dallas outscored Atlanta by 5 points. During the other 27 minutes that Scott sat on the bench, Atlanta outscored Dallas by 21 points.
To put it another way, despite Scott leading the team in scoring, the Hawks played losing basketball while he was on the floor. I used +/- last season to analyze Willie Green's performance in the playoffs against the Celtics. For the regular season, Green was a team-worst -75. He was one of only two Hawks to post a negative +/- total for the season. During the playoffs I pointed out that his +/- against playoff-bound opponents last year (-97) was even worse than his total vs. all opponents.
Last season, based on the on court/off court numbers, Green was obviously the worst-performing Hawks player. His performance was consistently bad in both the regular season and playoffs, where he once again posted the team's worst +/- total for the series against the Celtics (-40 in 63 total minutes). It begs the question, why would you play your worst player 63 minutes in a playoff series when Kirk Hinrich, whom the Hawks traded two 1st-round picks to obtain, could have played heavier minutes?
As noted above, through the first three pre-season games, Damion James had the team's best +/-. Although James has obvious limitations as an offensive player, the Hawks nonetheless played winning basketball while he was on the floor. This was in part, no doubt, due to the fact that James led the Hawks in rebounding for the pre-season with 6.8 per game. Below are the +/- totals for the pre-season, excluding the 97-68 blowout win over the Hornets:
Tolliver +38I have excluded point guards and power rotation players from this list except Anthony Tolliver and Ivan Johnson. Tolliver led the Hawks in this category for the pre-season (he was +20 in the Hornets game in which James did not play). The decision to cut James and carry only 14 players into the regular season completely mystifies me, especially considering that he was the only small forward on the roster.
James +31
Morrow +20
Stevenson -4
Williams -12
Anderson -14
Korver -14
Jenkins -19
Johnson -20
Scott -26
In light of this, I must adjust my expectations for these Hawks. I said that if the Hawks obtained a legitimate small forward the team could compete for home court advantage in the playoffs. It's hard to imagine the roster will remain in its current form for the duration of the season. However, if the Hawks must go through even half the season with shooting guards and power forwards playing out of position at small forward, this is a fringe playoff team at best. The fad toward "position-less basketball" works great if you are the Heat and have a guy who can play all 5 positions.
Thus far, Mike Scott appears to be this season's Willie Green. To save a roster spot for Scott, the Hawks cut a player, James, that the team scored about 10 points per game more with than it did with Scott on the floor.


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A GROOM who battered and bruised his new bride at their wedding reception has been sentenced to carry out unpaid work.
Melissa Kirby, who had starred as a contestant on Channel 4's "Come Dine With Me" ran naked and hysterical through their hotel after her husband beat her up in their luxury bedroom.
Police arrested newly-wed Alexander Tulloch and he has not seen his wife since the attack on February 2 because of bail conditions.
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Yesterday, Sheriff Margaret Neilson ordered the £40,000-a-year offshore oil worker to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work instead of imprisoning him after he had admitted assaulting her.
His defence agent Marc Dickson told the court the 37-year-old offshore electrical engineer "bitterly regretted his actions and is extremely remorseful".
Tulloch subjected his bride to a flurry of punches on her nude body after she came to bed and made comments about some family members at the function.
The court heard he then pinned her down on the bed with his knees and twice pressed his hand down on her mouth and nose so she could barely breathe.
The incident happened in an apartment of the exclusive wing of the Kingsmills Hotel in Inverness.
Defence solicitor Marc Dickson said his client was not trying to smother his bride.
"He deeply regrets and is horrified about what happened. Only time will tell how this affects the marriage," she added. "There are considerable bridges to be built here."


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Mixed meat burger favorites
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Considering mainly just meats, not any seasonings or other additions, just the primary constituents of the patty itself. I suppose it would include, for example, mushrooms if you mixed them in with the meat and it was a major portion of it rather than just a topping.
What are your favorite mixed meat combinations for hamburger patties?
Personally, I think venison and lamb about 3-1 makes an excellent combination.
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Florida Tax Watch calls for reconsideration of class size amendment
Florida Tax Watch is proposing yet another attempt to scale back the state's 12-year-old class size amendment.
The organization, perhaps best known for its annual list of "turkeys" in the state budget, has issued a paper suggesting that the class size reduction mandate has been overly costly without significant proven academic results. It recommends keeping the classroom counts intact in kindergarten through third grade, where the impact is most keenly felt, and allowing schools to relax compliance to a school-wide average for the upper grades.
Tax Watch contends such a change could save the state up to $10 billion over a decade. It recommends reinvesting the savings into other public education initiatives.
"Florida's hard working taxpayers have spent more than $27 billion to reduce class sizes and the state has little to show for it," said Bob Nave, Director of the TaxWatch Center for Educational Performance & Accountability. "Florida has ample opportunities to increase student achievement at a much lower cost to taxpayers. Reinvesting money that has been restricted to class size compliance will equip Florida teachers with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom, and give more students access to a better quality education."
This proposal is the latest in a string of efforts to roll back the 2002 voter mandate.
Since its passage, the amendment has faced complaints that have ranged from its multibillion-dollar implementation cost to the logistics of keeping classroom counts below the approved level on a daily basis.
Superintendents often have led the press to use school-wide averages rather than classroom counts in determining compliance. Some districts have gone so far as to purposely violate the law despite large fines.
Voters have twice rejected changes, though, insisting that the class size amendment remain intact.
Last year, the Legislature approved a statutory change allowing districts to use school-wide averages for "schools of choice," a designation that districts could place on any campus where children were allowed to attend from outside the set boundaries. Several districts using open enrollment and choice programs took advantage of that new provision, and were approved by the state as being in compliance with class size.
Lawmakers discussed revising this change, but have taken no steps to do so.


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Guns N' Roses Plan US Tour
Looks like Axle is going to break down and do a few dates in America. Guns hasn't done any dates in the states since 2006, a couple of years before "Chinese Democracy" was released. The first show is scheduled for October 28th in Orlando, and October 29th in Miami... then November 12th in Kansas City.


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Francois Botha questions drugs test accuracy
Beleaguered boxer Francois Botha has questioned the accuracy of a pre-fight drugs test that revealed banned stimulants.
Former All Black Sonny Bill Williams secured a contentious unanimous points decision over the South African in their World Boxing Association heavyweight title fight in Brisbane on Friday night - an outcome facilitated by the bout being confined to 10 rounds rather than the advertised 12.
The test, which was taken last Tuesday, found that Botha was using the banned stimulant phentermine. His urine sample also found traces of the suppressant benzodiazepines, which is found in products like valium, a pathology report obtained by Fairfax Media showed.
The report from QML Pathology in Brisbane shows the results were not known until 11.44am on Saturday, the day after the fight, which was awarded to Williams on a unanimous points decision.
A copy of the report has been forwarded to WBA headquarters in Panama, which will decide what action to take.
As Queensland does not have compulsory drugs testing for boxers, the test was conducted independently and not by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
The 44-year-old former world champion was previously stripped of the International Boxing Federation title in 1996 after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone, which his camp claimed was prescribed for an arm injury.
Botha, who has returned home to Durban, disputed the findings of the test and said he intended to undergo testing in South Africa.
Bizarrely, Botha claimed in an interview with ONE News on Monday that the doctor who administered the drugs test was a brother of Williams's manager Khoder Nasser.
However, Fairfax Media knows the identity of the doctor, whose name appears on the pathology report, and he is not related to Nasser.
Nasser said the WBA required a blood test and Botha volunteered a urine sample.
"The blood test came back clean, the urine came back not clean," he said.
Botha's long-term adviser Howard Goldberg said the boxer was distraught over the findings.
"He's very upset, he doesn't believe it and wants to be tested in a lab in South Africa to see if it's bullshit or not.''
Goldberg admitted Botha regularly took a sleeping pill on the eve of a fight and used "a lot of supplements" but was surprised phentermine was detected.
Australian National Boxing Federation vice president Alan Moore - one of three judges who scored the bout in Williams' favour - was mystified as to why Botha would even provide a urine sample when it was not legally required.
Regional WBA representative Brad Vocale has also said he doubts the fight was ever sanctioned by the WBA and that ''sadly, boxing has been given a black eye again.''


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More than 270 participants from 50 countries and 10 international organisations are in Vienna for a Conference on Knowledge Management in Nuclear Facilities.
The conference features an opening policy forum and four thematic sessions focusing on the role of nuclear knowledge management. Areas covered include the safe operation of existing plants, the achievement of gains in economic and operational performance of nuclear facilities, the preservation of existing knowledge and its use in relation to future innovations, and the smooth and effective transfer of knowledge to the next generation.
In his opening statement, Mr. Yuri Sokolov, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy of the IAEA, spoke of the importance of being able to transfer the experience accrued in the nuclear field over the past decades to the next generation.
"Nuclear knowledge has been developed and accumulated over decades of research and development (R&D). Our present generation is the owner and custodian of that body of nuclear knowledge," he said.
But he also warned the audience of the difficulties posed by this task and of the danger of losing invaluable knowledge, especially because of demographic gaps in the professional workforce, in the near future. "Unfortunately, the present status of nuclear knowledge and its management leave much room for improvement. Since nuclear knowledge is unique in many ways, its management requires specific programmes and has specific objectives. Without diligence in managing this knowledge, substantial portions could be lost due to staff retirements and to disuse and disposal associated with changing priorities," he commented.
In his address, Mr. Tomihiro Taniguchi, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, also stressed the importance of the human factor in knowledge management for issues relating to nuclear safety and security. "Knowledge management is vitally important for nuclear safety. Not only scientific knowledge, but also practical knowledge based on hands-on experience and international information-sharing are particularly relevant," he said.
He pointed out that transparency, openness and information-sharing are all practices that can contribute positively to the creation of an effective global safety knowledge culture. But, he warned, at a national level safety knowledge can only be achieved through a long, laborious process. "Safety knowledge cannot be acquired by a country, as a readily available commodity. It has to be created and nourished in the country, by the country and for the country," he said.
The International Conference on Knowledge Management in Nuclear Facilities is organized by the IAEA in cooperation with the European Atomic Forum (FORATOM), the European Commission (EC), the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA), the World Nuclear Association (WNA) and the World Nuclear University (WNU).
A total of 145 papers, posters and keynote speeches are to be presented by experts, scientists and officials during the four-day event which is due to close on 21 June.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Paul Ryan loves blue-chip stocks.
Financial disclosure reports that representatives submitted in the House showed Republican vice presidential nominee Ryan held 2011 investments in a number of blue-chip companies, including McDonald's ( MCD), Exxon Mobil ( XOM) and IBM ( IBM), among others. Kraft Foods ( KFT), General Electric ( GE), Procter & Gamble ( PG), Home Depot ( HD), United Technologies ( UTX) and Verizon ( VZ) were the other U.S. blue chips Ryan listed on his disclosure form. The vice presidential hopeful also held shares of other premium companies, such as Apple ( AAPL), Google ( GOOG), Amazon ( AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B), Starbucks ( SBUX), Nike ( NKE), Visa ( V) and MasterCard ( MA). Loose House financial reporting requirements allow lawmakers to disclose a wide range for the value of stock assets and amount of income earned on those shares. Ryan's biggest holding was Home Depot, which he showed had an estimated value of $100,000 to $250,000 that produced dividend earnings in 2011 of between $1,001 and $2,500. The congressman's McDonald's holdings were worth $1,001 to $15,000 and earned him $1 to $200 in income. Ryan had a number of other stock positions that he valued in the $1,001 to $15,000 range, with dividend returns of $1 to $200: Exxon Mobil, Kraft, MasterCard, Nike, Starbucks, United Technologies, GE and Visa. The Wisconsin politician also held positions in Apple and Google, but reported that he received no dividends in 2011 from his shares of the two tech giants. Procter & Gamble also proved one of Ryan's larger holdings as his disclosure form reported he owned between $16,001 and $65,000 worth of P&G shares. Ryan received dividends from the consumer packaged goods company of $202 to $1,200. Ryan purchased more than $1,000 worth of IBM shares in 2011 to raise the total value of his ownership in the computer giant to $2,002 to $30,000. He earned just $1 to $200 in dividends on what he already owned in IBM stock. Another purchase Ryan reported in 2011 was that of Amazon stock. He valued that purchase at between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of shares. Mitt Romney's running mate also sold stock in a number of well-known companies, including Abbott Laboratories ( ABT), Cisco Systems ( CSCO), Goodrich ( GR) and Verizon. Ryan placed the value of those transactions at $1,001 to $15,000 each. Ryan listed his wife as the owner of their Verizon investment. -- Written by Joe Deaux in New York. >Contact by Email. Follow @JoeDeaux
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Gallbladder help is needed by a big numbers of people around the World. Just in America this number goes to about 1 million of people. And this is not your ordinary pain, not at all; add it to the fact that surgery for this problem can have some serious side-effects, and you'll start seeing why it is important to find a better solution! Removing your gallbladder can produce nausea, diarrhea and increase our risk of developing colon and bowel cancer.
As bad as these side effects are, the truth is that for many it seems like the only way to be free of gallstone pain. However, there's a natural way to dissolve gallstones; a way that doesn't involve surgery and let you flush out the gallstones free of pain.
As the field of natural medicine has advanced during some years, it is known that a natural gallstone treatment in most cases can replace a surgery. I invite you to read on to learn more about this great gallbladder help.
Gallstones can be passé without pain this is a fact that many people ignore, so they end up having an inconvenient and expensive surgery that can be pretty effective to relieve the immediate pain, but that can have consequences in the years to come. Be aware though, that in some cases natural treatment is not the best option and really only a surgery will help you.
But you can first try dissolve gallstones naturally, and all in just a matter of days.
The consequences of having a surgery occur because there's no room for storage for bile acids. When you have your gallbladder removed, you are left out without a sack to store bile between meals and help the digestive process. After surgery, the bile will just enter the intestine, and organ that was not made for this. As the intestine gets irritated, diarrhea occurs, and the long term this can signify a cancer problem.
We have for so long ignored natural medicine, when in fact it has had all the time to power to help us in healthier ways. Scientists are researching more into this topic and also are finding out that our body has an intelligence of its own capable of healing itself from many conditions and diseases, provided we give it what it needs.
If you want to dissolve your gallstones naturally, here are some information and tips that can help you getting started:
Water is essential to get rid of gallstones. Our body runs mainly on water and so we need to keep it hydrated and functioning correctly. Doctors recommend drinking at least 8 glasses of water day. Other way to calculate it is drinking half your body weight in ounces each day. Thanks to water, you will flush out toxins, cholesterol, chemicals and yes… gallstones.
Fiber intake is extremely important to have success dissolving gallstones naturally. Increasing your intake will help you pass your gallstones easier. It will also be healthier to your organism as a whole.
Our bodies need to be cleaned once in a while to keep the organs functioning properly. Research has demonstrated that extra virgin olive oil and grapefruit can help us greatly in flushing out our gallbladder and liver system. This simple tip, only requires a day to work. Proving once again that cures don't have to be complicated.
As you can see gallstone problems are pretty nasty, but a surgery can be an even worse threat to your health in the long term. A natural way to dissolve gallstones can be pretty easy to implement and doesn't pose any risk to you. If you haven't tried it out yet, I recommend you to read the Gallstone Removal Report, the best guide to start dissolving gallstones naturally.
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last October my father was diagnosed gallstones by the doctor so i search how to remove it naturally. i found the article and my father try it. after 2 times therapy it works. his first therapy was on January and half of the stones was removed. his second therapy just a week ago and the remaining stones was removed. his medical check up shows that his gall is clean.ReplyDelete
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My sister feel a gas in her stomach and she states shoulder blades is horrible. If she try to sit, the gas pains rise to her neck. For her, the pain feels very much like gallbladder attack. I hope the pain stops soon. gallstones treatmentReplyDelete
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August 25 2011
McGirt's roll stopped by darkness
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
EDISON, N.J. -- He certainly didn't want to, not with the kind of roll he was on. But William McGirt had to leave that 12-footer for birdie on the par-5 12th hole until Friday morning.
The PGA TOUR rookie had just made birdies on seven of his last eight holes. But darkness was settling over Plainfield Country Club and McGirt didn't want to take the chance of missing that putt.
"I wanted to hit it so bad, but just looking at it there was enough of a shadow on the green that I couldn't really read it," McGirt said. "My eyes were seeing one thing and my feet were feeling something else. So I put a mark on it."
If McGirt makes that putt, he'll own sole possession of the lead at The Barclays, a tournament he wasn't sure he was going to get to play in until Sunday afternoon when he climbed two spots to No. 125 in the final regular season FedExCup standings. He left the course on Thursday tied for the lead with Harrison Frazar, who had finished off his 64, and Matt Kuchar, who had two holes remaining.
McGirt, though, will have six more holes to play after he putts out on the 12th. Interestingly, his PGA TOUR career low came last Friday on another Donald Ross course at Sedgefield Country Club where he shot 64 and went on to tie for 52nd at the Wyndham Championship. McGirt, who had some anxious moments on Sunday, eventually edged Justin Leonard by six points for the final playoff spot.
"All in all, everything is going pretty well," McGirt said of his performance Thursday. "I was driving it pretty well, hit my irons pretty well and making some putts. So pretty good combo. Hopefully, I can finish it off in the morning and get another good one in the afternoon."
McGirt holed a 13-footer to save par from the greenside bunker at No. 3, and he said that "jump-started everything" on Thursday. He made a 21-footer for his first birdie at the fourth hole and got up-and-down from the back fringe at the par-5 5th before deadly approaches at Nos. 6 and 7 left him putts of 4 feet and 13 inches.
McGirt got on another run at the ninth hole where he made an 11-footer for birdie. He followed with putts of 4 and 31 feet on the next two holes to move to 7 under before three quality shots set up the 12-footer he'll face at 7:15 a.m. on Friday.
"It's been so long since I've been on a streak like that, I wish I could do it more," McGirt said. "It seemed like today I had a lot of good numbers for shots. Just like last Friday, last Friday it seemed like every shot we walked off was a perfect number.
"Then on Saturday, I don't think I had a good number all day. Everything was dead in-between clubs. You're just trying to rip one or feather on in there. So it's kind of easy to get it going when you're hitting stock shots all day. So hopefully I can continue that tomorrow."


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February 22nd, 2012 07:08 AM #6
I like Willa, but Capri is.. odd. no offense. I don't say it's ugly, just very unusual.
Willa Capri is cool, but someday you'll must provide a very good reason when your daughter ask you why you name her Capri. It's remind me of capricorn, the zodiac with a mountain goat as its symbol.
however, I think the combo itself is cute.
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Willa is not a name that is well heard of in the UK but I understand it is fairly usual in the US. If your husband really really loves it and you also love it then I can't see the problem. It's not as if you're saying he likes it but you're not keen. I say go with it. As for Capri - in the UK that's a type of car but again if you love it then you should go with it.
I know what you mean about not committing. We have a boys name picked and although I do love it I'm not sure it's perfect and nothing we come up with is. OH can't come up with a girls name at all so at least you're most of the way there!
Why not sort of agree on Willa Capri but have a back up name and see what she looks like when she arrives?
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Hi! Willa is a wonderful name, and it's great you have so much love for this combo.
My one thought is are you likely to try for more children - if you have a boy, would you be interested in naming him William?
If so, then you might want to wait on Willa, or, put it in the middle (I don't have any objection to one middle name and one first name overlapping in a sibset, I know some do, but, in any case it's more doable than Willa and William).
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Seriously contemplating Willa ourselves. One minute I love how it's sweet, feminine, strong, and literary, the next minute I worry that it sounds incomplete or a lazy attempt at Willow. My husband's MN is also William, so I am in a VERY similar situation. I hate that I'm the one that suggested it, and yet I'm the one having second thoughts. I love your pairing with Capri. It's perfect!
February 22nd, 2012 01:30 PM #14
Hi there,
I had major cold feet two years ago naming my daughter. I knew I wanted to call her Gigi and was looking for the perfect first name that started with G. My favorite was always Ginger. Half of the feedback was positive and half was negative. There were so many other "safer" name choices like Georgia and Genevieve. I am so glad I stuck to my guns because I am still in love with her name. I can't imagine her with any other name. I can see where you might think Willow is a bit safer, but I would say if you just can't shake a name then use it!bluebonnet
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Tahoe Queen evacuated after hitting sandbar
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The grounding of the Tahoe Queen at Lake Tahoe made national news on Monday.
About 300 people aboard the paddlewheeler, which makes tourist excursions, had to be evacuated on Monday afternoon. No one was injured in the incident.
According to the Associated Press, authorities are investigating how and why the Queen got stuck.
Coast Guard spokeswoman Loumania Stewart told the AP that passengers and crew members were taken to the Ski Run Marina after the ship got stuck on a shoal about a quarter-mile off Regan Beach.
"There are no reports of injuries, and the boat does not appear to be in danger of sinking," Dave Freireich, spokesman for Aramark and Lake Tahoe Cruises, said Monday.
Other agencies that helped in the evacuation include the South Lake Tahoe police and deputies from Douglas and El Dorado counties.
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Stewart says inspectors are checking the vessel, which is expected to be pulled off the sandbar and to the shore on Tuesday.
The Tahoe Queen is a Mississippi-style paddlewheeler that takes tourists on daytime cruises highlighting the lake's history and sunset dinner cruises.


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A child was in critical condition after falling into a pool Sunday afternoon, the Sheriff's Department said.
Deputies received a call around 2:30 p.m. that a 3-year-old had fallen into a backyard pool on Hidden Mesa Road near Vista Grande Avenue, said Lt. Dave Schaller.
He did not have information on the child's gender.
A family visiting from Arizona had brought their child to a party at the residence, Schaller said. The 3-year-old wandered into the pool.
Authorities said the tot was taken to Sharp Grossmont in critical condition.