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Policy initiatives in the global recession: what did forecasters expect?
The global recession of 2008-09 led to monetary and fiscal policy responses by central banks and government authorities that were often unconventional in size and scope. A study of expansionary measures employed during the recession suggests that overall, the policies were likely effective in shaping the outlook for a recovery, as forecasters raised their expectations of inflation and GDP growth after the policies' implementation. From this perspective, the policies stimulated economic activity and prevented deflationary pressures during the financial crisis.
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|This is a fun route with a wild and tricky crux at the bolt. The key for me was a small foothold for my left foot which let me crank up left to a finger crack in a small corner. I belayed from the top anchors instead of lowering. Pro up to a #2 Camalot.
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This climb felt very easy. After doing it (without knowing what what climb we had done), we thought it might be 5.9. There are certainly lots of trad 9s that are harder. I'm not so familiar with sport ratings, but in any case, this is way easier than Calling All Trad Climbers, which is rated 10a on this site.
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Harry Reid irritated the domestic terrorists of the right-wing when he called freeloading rancher Cliven Bundy and his band of "militia" supporters domestic terrorists. "Cliven Bundy does not recognize the United States," Reid said. "He says that the United States is a foreign government. He doesn't pay his taxes. He doesn't pay his fees. And he doesn't follow the law. He continues to thumb his nose at authority."
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - With 24,000-foot peaks, glacial lakes, and a unique nomad culture, this country has all the ingredients for prime off-the-beaten-path travel. As a former republic of the Soviet Union, however, it usually evokes images of crumbling concrete state-run hotels, onerous bureaucracy, and customer service that is indifferent on a good day.
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Aid workers, gold miners, and former Peace Corps volunteers had told me about the country's beauty and easy-going atmosphere. So when I got the chance to take a trip across Central Asia last summer, I knew I wanted to see Kyrgyzstan.
I recruited a college friend, Emily, to spend a couple of weeks with me. We met in the capital, Bishkek, and spent a few days exploring the city. It's famed for being the greenest city in the former Soviet Union with clean air, a center full of outdoor cafes, and occasional glimpses of the mountains to the south. In the evenings we got ice cream bars and people-watched at the central Ala-Too Square, where tough young guys showed off at test-your-strength punching machines and couples crooned off-key at outdoor karaoke booths.
In the city you get a little flavor of the old USSR; it still has street names like Sovietskaya, its statue of Lenin, and the hammer-and-sickle insignia on former government buildings. The grand, spooky State Historical Museum seems not to have changed its exhibits in decades; half are dedicated to Lenin and the revolution.
But Bishkek is not the reason to come to Kyrgyzstan, and so early on we headed to the office of the Kyrgyz Community-Based Tourism Association, known locally as CBT. Founded in 2000 by the Swiss organization Helvetas, it now operates independently with a local staff. The association has a grass-roots network of small-scale tourism operators - for instance, nomads with yurts where tourists can eat or sleep and local guides and drivers who know the mountains - and arranges personalized, inexpensive tours.
We knew we wanted to explore two areas: Karakol, reputed to have some of the country's most dramatic mountain scenery, and Lake Song-Kol, where for centuries the Kyrgyz have been spending their summers.
Karakol is a 19th-century Russian garrison town from the days when the czars expanded their empire to the border with China. It still has brightly painted Russian houses and a gorgeous wooden Russian Orthodox church. It's also one of the centers of Dungan (ethnic Chinese Muslim) culture in Kyrgyzstan and boasts a Chinese-style mosque with dragon-head ornamentation. Several restaurants here serve Dungan cuisine and its signature dish "ashlyanfu," a spicy, vinegary cold noodle salad.
South of Karakol are the Tien Shan, the great mountain system of Central Asia that stretches into China and includes Pobedy Peak, at 24,406 feet. We weren't that ambitious, so the local tourism information center recommended heading to Altyn Arashan, where a crusty Russian mountaineer named Valentin keeps a basic lodge at 9,900 feet. The former Soviet weather station and mountain rescue base shares a valley with shepherds who come to graze their sheep in summer.
The lodge attracts a small international group of tourists. We spent three days taking day hikes among the alpine meadows. One climb took us up 3,500 vertical feet to a view of Lake Ala-Kol, its minty blue color contrasting with the sharp gray peaks rising from it in every direction. We climbers agreed it was one of the most spectacular sights we had ever seen.
Then it was off to Lake Song-Kol, where we met Ainura, the local CBT representative. She said most of their treks could be done by horse or on foot. We chose to walk and get a pack horse for our bags. Ainura quickly put together a four-day tour, including a guide, horse, all accommodations, food, and transportation to and from the trailhead for about $130 each.
Our guide, Azamat, was a highlight of the trip. Baby-faced and about 5 feet 6 inches tall, he looked closer to 14 than 18, his age. He had a sort of goofy machismo that I came to understand was part of the national character, much of it connected with horses. Azamat first rode at 4 and could gallop by 5. "If a boy can't gallop by the time he's 6, it's a shame to his family," he said.
Our late August trek was his last of the summer before he was to head off to the capital to study computer science. He was not looking forward to city life and said he would miss the mountains. But he had bigger plans than mountain life can accommodate.
We walked about six hours each day, while Azamat rode the horse behind us.
CBT arranges with nomad families at the beginning of every season to have extra yurts available for tourists, and the money we paid (minus a 15 percent CBT commission) to eat or sleep went directly to the families (Azamat paid each along the way).
Yurt food was filling, tasty, and a great change from the otherwise repetitive Central Asian restaurant fare. Although we got fresh fish at the lake, much of the food is heavily sheep-based, as is most of the shepherds' existence: The yurts' wooden frames are held together not with nails but with animal hide, and the cooking fire was fueled by dried sheep manure.
As we got closer to Lake Song-Kol, the scenery got more expansive. At the lake itself, elevation 9,952 feet, the light was dramatic.
We were staying an extra day by the lake before a 4x4 came to take us back to town. But Azamat was riding back right away; he had to go to Bishkek to start orientation. As we said goodbye, we asked him to show us the gallop he had bragged about. But when he rode off, toward his new life in the city, it was instead at a saunter. He was in no hurry.
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Well it's time to start out another year of Rock. This time it's with Winger!
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A 15-year-old boy who hanged himself at an elementary school in La Grande a week and a half ago was in critical condition Wednesday morning at Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
Jadin Bell was taken off life support on Saturday night, said Bud Hill, a longtime family friend. Bell, who is gay, had seen a school counselor a week before his attempted suicide to complain about bullying, Hill said.
"I won't say that that was the whole cause but it was a contributor," Hill said. "We were aware that some bullying was going on. We were trying to address it."
Hill said that Bell was called names by some classmates at La Grande High School over being openly gay.
"He was very proud of it," Hill said. "His parents were very supportive as was the rest of the family."
Jadin Bell has one younger brother and an older brother and sister. His parents and older brother are in Portland, ensuring that someone is in the hospital room around-the-clock.
The family decided to take him off life support this past Saturday night after tests showed a lack of brain activity, Hill said.
"We expected him to pass last night," Hill said. "He's not getting any better but he's still hanging in there."
Hill considers Jadin Bell to be a part of his family. "He's called me Uncle Bud his whole life," Hill said.
He said he's been riding a nightmarish roller coaster of emotions since Jadin Bell hanged himself, slamming into grief and then thoughts of the future.
Hill, an electrician at Eastern Oregon University, would like to do something to prevent other teens from suffering the same fate by creating an educational foundation focused on bullying behavior.
"I feel like I have a calling," Hill said. "There has to be a voice for all of this. These kids -- everyone -- have to be educated."
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An even wealthier suburb of Atlanta, smaller city/town of inside the city of Alpharetta, where the kids drive nicer cars than most adults and the adults don't drive, they are driven (or, just as often, the women drive H2's and the dads drive insanely small sports cars. Most guy teens choose to drive insanely large AMERICAN trucks for offroading and girl teens prefer more lexus/bmw/mercedes. Jeeps are also seen EVERYWHERE. Milton High School has everything from their preps to the stoners. Their school also looks like a college campus. No good places to chill, most of them end up at North Point Mall, fishing, off-roading, relaxing in Miltons fine houses with hot tubs/pool tables/pools/indoor movie theaters, and eating at all the good places. Chick-fil-a is the fast food of choice and the other popular spots are Taco-Mac, Jimmy Johns, and Menchies. They can definitely be stereotyped. White, rich, christian, and part redneck. Definitely southern, yet rich as hell and classy. If you've lived here all your life you know every backroad, GA400, and your way around the 3 White Columns/Crooked Creek like its your job. Everytime you decide to go anywhere, you might as well roll the windows down and blast your kicks 101.5, you'll also want to keep your hand out the window to say to all the people you'll pass, your going to know 75% of them. Careful you don't speed though, Milton po-po are EVERYWHERE. Hand out MIP's like candy. There's definitely no place like Milton :)
Milton, Georgia is pretty much the shit, alpharetta is definitely alpha-ghetto compared to this.
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|May 25, 2012, 01:56 PM
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Hate to admit this but some time ago, like 15 years I was carrying a Sea Camp .32 SS pistol in a holster attached to body armor. The pistol is so flat and light I most often forgot I was carrying it and got off shift. Walked out to my car and took off the uniform shirt and then slid my armor off over my head.......well the pistol went flying out onto the asvalt parking lot and has some "nice" character building scratches on the back of the slide. Want to kick my own A*$#& every time I remember that stupid move.
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I ran over my buddies browning hi-power 9mm !!! The pistol was holstered on the roof of my truck as we were loading up after a day of target practice. So as I drove away my friend said wait my browning is on the roof! So I stopped, it wasn't there!! I turned around and slowly drove back to the site we were shooting, there it was lying in the dirt with a tire track right over it!!! We cleaned it lubed it and put three mags through it. The gun was scratched, dirty and run over but it shot great. So don't feel bad, accidents will happen.
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My first guns were a pair of engraved 1851 Navy revolvers. Having done some homework (but not enough) beforehand, I wanted to be able to disassemble and reassemble them for cleaning before I took them to the range.
After struggling with the barrel lugs for a few minutes I decided I must be doing something wrong, at which point I did do something wrong and removed the grips, hammers, triggers, and various pistol guts. I tried valiantly to reassemble both pistols, but once I'd snapped a little piece that rotates the cylinder, I knew I was doing more harm than good and my language was no better. They're sitting in a shoebox now awaiting a replacement piece and a trip to a gunsmith that won't be for a while yet...
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Who Hasn't?
If you been around long enough and actually use your guns frequently (some people just have 'safe queens' which never see the light of day), you will eventually drop one or bang/scratch it somehow. Honestly, you learn that life is too short to sweat it, learn and move on. Now if one becomes a frequent offender, then start kicking yourself . By the way, the adverse reaction is always relative for me and directly proportional to the value of the weapon. I dropped my Kel-Tec P11 and Beretta 21A both on concrete in the same year and simply used a black sharpie to cover scratch as the guns are great little pieces but hardly worth crying over (those are the only guns I have ever dropped). If, however, I ever dropped say my stainless 92 or pristine 1911 which are range guns only and of much higher value, my reaction would have been quite different immediately following the moment of stupidity.
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One time at a museum I was handling General Pattons SAA and I dropped it, breaking both sides of the ivory grip. Needless to say, the museum was kinda mad. At least I didn't drop his Registered Magnum I guess
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|May 26, 2012, 10:57 PM
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Yep, 1911 idiot mark for me here. So far, my New Agent hasn't received it, but my father-in-law's Colt Combat Commander .38 Super did. :smackface:
Maybe I'll look into how to lessen it a bit a little later on.
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|May 26, 2012, 10:59 PM
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That's like saying you spilled coffee on the Constitution, man!
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|May 27, 2012, 02:29 AM
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|May 27, 2012, 06:17 AM
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What about the truck?
The truck was fixed the next day at work.( I manage a body shop)
|May 27, 2012, 07:07 AM
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First time out with my (then) new 10/22, I was in Phantom Canyon small gaming. This is a very deep box canyon and quite a hike to the top where all the game is. I stayed up top too long and found myself walking down in the dark. The moon was out providing some light, but it was hard to tell if those patches of snow were the trail, or a small drift beside the trail! Oof!
I guess it was like the third time I hit the ground before I stopped protecting my sweet little new 10/22 and said heck, I wanna reach the bottom alive so I decided to use that new 10/22 as a walking stick to test the trail with. It worked great butt first and had all sorts of character by the time I safely reached the bottom again.
That was some trip. I had 3 mountain lions walk up behind me and snap a twig when I was waiting out a squirrel to show himself up top. I turned my head to look and they was inside of 20 feet to me. I dunno who was scared more me or them! Then lost my glasses on the way down, and beat the crap out of that wood stock. A very fine day hunting! (It's in a BC folder now).
|May 28, 2012, 11:58 AM
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I dont own a gun with out some scratches and dings. I shoot every thing I own a lot.
Shot placement is everything! I would rather take a round of 50BMG to the foot than a 22short to the base of the skull.
all 26 of my guns are 45/70 govt, 357 mag, 22 or 12 ga... I believe in keeping it simple. Wish my wife did as well...
|May 31, 2012, 12:50 AM
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The only new gun I ever bought, 1911, I scratched on the range table. I was really angry and upset at the time, and for probably a month or so longer, but I eventually got over it. I could really care less now. It's not that noticeable and the gun runs fine. All of my other guns have some definite wear. When I was kid watching all those war movies, all those heroes were shooting pretty rough looking guns. I'd prefer mine the same way!
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Mis-Struck Pennies
With millions upon millions of pennies constantly being minted, errors are bound to happen. In the particular case of the example photograph above, this is called a mis-struck penny. This means the penny minting stamp was not properly aligned with the actual penny blank being fed through the machine, causing the penny to literally be mis-struck. These mis-struck pennies are considered a type of error penny. An error penny is exactly what it says, a penny made inappropriately constituting an error or mistake. This is a bit like coloring outside the lines of a coloring book.
You can buy and get an idea of values for mis-struck pennies here: Mis-struck pennies
Mis-struck pennies are collectibles that hold numismatic value. Of course, some are more valued than others, but if you find a mis-struck penny, it is worth hanging onto. These mis-struck pennies in the photograph above are "easier" to find as far as mis-struck pennies go. This is because they are still the same size as a regular penny, allowing them pass properly through coin sorters and coin counters into bank bags and bank coin rolls.
There are mis-struck pennies that actually end up larger than the size of a penny which are more rare. That is because they are too big to fit through the penny slot of a coin counter unless lined up perfectly. Usually these mis-struck "too large" pennies are either rejected by the coin sorter or end up in other slots in the coin sorter such as the nickel or quarter slot.
The copper pennies we provide to copper penny investors are unsearched. This means there is a possibility of finding copper penny versions of the type of mis-struck pennies in the photograph above in our copper pennies. We also provide bank sealed penny bags which also have a probability of containing not just the copper penny mis-struck pennies but also newer zinc pennies as well.
So keep your eyes peeled when looking through pennies. You never know what you may find!


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I want to share my money-saving tips (good and bad) on planning a weekend that involved a wedding and a small road trip. Going to be a little expensive, no way around it. First, I looked on FatWallet to save money for the getaway, which for me, is being ahead of the game. Let's look at what I scored on (pat on the back):
Rental Car- I looked in FatWallet's travel deals forum and found advice and coupons for the best price on rental cars. I got caught up in the game of comparing deals, and made it my challenge to keep beating the quoted price until I found the best deal possible! In my excitement, I forgot to cancel old reservations and my husband got three calls to confirm reservations. He was a little confused, but I explained. Score one for the bank account!
Wedding Gift- I found a cool gift, received Cash Back and had it shipped. Score two for the bank account!
What I didn't account for (but, duh, should have):
Mall of America – I love shopping, even though I didn't need anything. We were steps away from the mall so it was inevitable. I walked in and was a kid in a candy store—all smiles, not enough time. First penalty on the bank account.
Husband- now I should've known better to account for this. My husband is very friendly and loves to buy drinks, food (you name it) for new friends, old friends, yet- to-be friends. Even if there's an open bar, he likes to find the cash bar! Second penalty on the bank account.
So my weekend consisted of that awesome reminder you get after a wedding—fortunate to be lucky in love and to appreciate your spouse even more. The financial lessons are always a little harder to swallow after balancing the checkbook. But with good times all around, here's what I learned:
-Always check forums for travel advice, deals, coupons and comparison shopping!
-Buy wedding gifts online: cash back and shipping with no in-store registry hassle.
-Avoid mall or (better yet) set aside money for shopping!
-Account for husband's generosity and remember I can be the same way!


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Portland -
A transgender fifth-grader should have been allowed to use the bathroom of her choice, Maine's highest court ruled on Thursday, concluding that school officials violated state anti-discrimination law.
Nicole Maines' family and the Maine Human Rights Commission sued in 2009 after school officials required her to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls' restroom. A state Superior Court judge ruled that the Orono school district acted within its discretion, and a lawyer for the district said that it should be up to the Maine Legislature to clarify the issue.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court, however, concluded that the school district's actions violated the Maine Human Rights Act, a state law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation.
"This is a momentous decision that marks a huge breakthrough for transgender young people," said Jennifer Levi, director of Transgender Rights Project for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, who argued the case on the family's behalf.
Students at the southern Maine high school Nicole now attends stood up and cheered when news of the ruling was announced, said her father, Wayne Maines.
School administrators across the country are grappling with the issue.
Colorado officials said last year that a suburban Colorado Springs school district discriminated against a six-year-old transgender girl by preventing her from using the girls' bathroom.
In California, there's an effort afoot to try to repeal a law that allows public school students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their expressed genders.
In the Maine case, Nicole Maines was using the girls' bathroom in her elementary school until the grandfather of a fifth-grade boy complained to administrators. The Orono school district determined that she should use a staff bathroom, but her parents said that amounted to discrimination.
Nicole is a biological male who identified as a girl beginning at age 2.
Now a teenager, Nicole said after arguments before the high court last summer that she hoped the justices understood the importance of going to school, getting an education and making friends without having to be "bullied" by other students - or school administrators.
Melissa Hewey, lawyer for the school district, said the ruling provided clarity not just to Orono, but to schools around the state.
"The court has now clarified what has been a difficult issue and is more and more common in schools, and the Orono School Department is going to do what it needs to do to comply with the law," she said.
In the 5-1 ruling, the court had to reconcile two separate state laws, one requiring separate bathrooms based on gender and the other prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
In this case, where the child had a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria, "it has been clearly established that a student's psychological well-being and educational success depend upon being permitted to use the communal bathroom consistent with her gender identity", Justice Warren Silver wrote. - Sapa-AP


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Network aims to improve lives of disabled citizens
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Disabilities advocacy groups are joining forces to form the Columbia Disabilities Advocacy Network, aiming to make changes to the city to improve the lives of disabled persons.
"CDAN will provide a platform for the community as a whole to set its priorities and make the world better for people with disabilities," Network founder Sean Spence said.
The coalition will work to identify and alleviate problems disabled persons face.
"Columbia has issues with housing that is accessible for people with disabilities, transportation, health care, even such things as having sufficient parking."
Officials from the City of Columbia are working with CDAN to help turn ideas into reality.
"We've worked very hard with our disabilities commission over the past few years to try to address some of the needs of that particular community and quite honestly I'm very excited and enthusiastic about this latest effort to establish CDAN," Columbia deputy city manager Tony St. Romaine said.
CDAN will also educate on disabilities, including some many people may not have heard of, like "hidden" disabilities.
"Multiple chemical sensitivity...in that case the employer would need to be sure that the chemicals you use to clean the building don't have strong fragrances," said Lisa Zanetti of the Columbia Disabilities Commission.
Zanetti said that employers sometimes have a hard time handling those sorts of "hidden" disabilities because they're not as readily apparent as physical disabilities.
Overall, Spence has high hopes for the new Network.
"If you improve the world for people with disablities, you're going to improve the world for everybody," he said.
Spence added that anyone who wants to be a part of CDAN is welcome to do so. He also wanted to convey that not all of the plans require city funding or action, such as educational or informational programs.


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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a number is worth at least 500. So take a look at some of the following numbers and figure out what they mean to you, your family and your neighbors as loved ones age.
Need another opinion? Area 1 Agency on Aging Executive Director Cindy Denbo shares what the numbers mean to her. She guides the nonprofit local agency mandated to advocate on behalf of the disabled, people age 60 and older, and the families that love them.
* 2024: The projected date that Medicare's fund for hospital insurance goes broke, according to the May 2011 report from Medicare's trustees
DENBO: This is why having a sober, dispassionate, reasonable conversation -- a national conversation free from partisan bombast featuring death panels and throwing grandmas off cliffs -- is essential. Is that asking too much? It may be. Medicare costs remain a huge, compelling concern and one that must be addressed. The soaring costs of health care, the systematic dismantling of many resources that help seniors remain healthy and active and therefore less likely to require costly medical treatments, quality of life and the inevitability of a rapidly growing population of seniors are vital issues that demand serious thought and consideration. If today's seniors and boomers can tackle these issues it will be a great gift to all -- their parents, their children and grandchildren and themselves.
* 60 percent: The chance that a single-family home built in 2000 will house at least one disabled resident in the home's usable lifespan, according to the Journal of the American Planning Association.
DENBO: If seniors and boomers are to realize their hopes and age in place, modifications must be made to their homes to enable them to remain independent. Specifics include ramps, grab bars, wider doorways to accommodate wheelchair access, ground-floor bedrooms and bathrooms, stair-less access to front doors, and lower cupboards and cabinets.
These alterations provide ease and safety for those with disabilities and physical challenges and can support healthy, comfortable lives for the elderly. Better yet, we can build houses in accordance with the principles of universal design, homes that can comfortably and safely house any and all generations -- toddlers, teens, adults, seniors and people with disabilities. Incorporating these design elements when houses are built is inexpensive and will pay huge dividends in comfort and independence as families grow old in their own homes.
* 7 percent of those age 45 to 70 have not yet started to save for retirement; 13 percent of that same group have no retirement goals; and 28 percent are on track or have reached their retirement goals, according to the MetLife Retirement Readiness Index.
DENBO: This is a daunting trio of numbers. I'll add another: 10 percent of this age group in Humboldt County believes that they will never be able to retire, that they will work until they can no longer do so. This group of seniors and boomers is too often blamed for a perceived lack of preparation for their senior years. The reality is more complicated. These folks married later than their parents. Half of them currently have minor children living at home. Many are focused on helping their own parents while raising still-young families and watching their 401Ks melt away. They do not have retirement accounts or pensions, as did older generations. They are working, trying to support their parents and children, sometimes their grandparents, and yes, sometimes their grandchildren. Their jobs may be vulnerable and their savings and investments may be at risk. They are dancing as fast as they can. And they are seriously unready for their older, retirement years.
* 54 percent: Of respondents in a SunAmerica Retirement Re-set Study who view retirement as a new chapter in life, rather than a winding down or continuance -- up from 38 percent who had a similar view a decade ago.
DENBO: The World War II generation set a very high standard for civic engagement. They voted, they tithed, they contributed, they volunteered. And they established an enviable model for their children, who added their own commitment to community life. But a 16 percent change in outlook in 10 years -- a decade that included 9/11, two stock market crashes and the Great Recession? It's a measure of our resiliency, our ability to tackle challenges and adapt.
It means, essentially, that we are taking on the great question: What's next? With generational good health and the potential for decades of retirement life, today's retirement may mean a part-time job, volunteerism, participation on boards and councils, public office. It may mean a focus on community life and civic engagement -- and it will mean strong, robust, vital communities. The last decade required some reinvention for all of us. It shouldn't be surprising that retirement, for those who can do it, is becoming a time of personal reinvention.
Area 1 Agency on Aging commissions freelance writer Carol Harrison to produce Gray Matters.


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Los Angeles May Not Have An NFL Team, But It Does Have Three Shiny Stadium Designs
Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) has released renderings from three architecture firms. AEG will select one to move forward with in the "next month." There are, of course, 100 things that might hinder this timeline, but for now, let's just ooh and ah.


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One of the questions that follow from Supreme Court's verdict on 25 August on the coal block allocation is the right way to price natural resources.
For long state policy in areas as diverse as spectrum and coal has been to prevent the formation of market for these resources. Typically, a government committee works out a price based on policy aims. Subsequently, these resources are allocated to chosen few at the fixed price.
An alternative scenario would have been to allow the creation of a market by letting interested parties bid for the resource. The bidding would have been influenced by what bidders estimate they can get out transforming these resources into products. For instance, a telecom company's estimate of what call rates are going to be would have influenced its bidding price in a spectrum auction.
Successive governments have been inclined to follow the first method, that is, allocate a resource at a fixed price. Typically, these resources are allocated at a price below what a beneficiary would have had to pay if the state had chosen to create a market for these resources.
The rationale for under-pricing resources has been that cheap inputs would translate into low priced outputs such as power. Oftentimes, companies that benefit from these allocations have also pushed this line.
There are quite a few challenges to this policy. What is the mechanism by which the government can ensure that pricing natural resources cheap eventually translates into benefits for consumers? There doesn't seem to be any way of ensuring that. The judgement shows Maharashtra, a state where some of the coal blocks are located, has challenged the logic of this policy. The centre did not refute Maharashtra's stand.
There is another problem with cheap allocation of natural resource to handpicked companies. There is constant technological innovation underway which keep changing the process of making or processing things. Innovations find full play only when companies have the flexibility to switch the manner in which something is produced or the kind of inputs used. The policy of under-pricing natural resources hampers this change.
The successful switch to auctions in case of spectrum for telecom companies shows that a lot of apprehensions about creating a market for natural resources were misplaced. Neither have call rates gone up drastically nor have companies financially imploded. Moreover, the phase of constant litigation and allegations in telecom seems to be over.
Getting pricing right by creating markets is an important part of economic reform. The verdict should trigger introspection within the government. It is more important to be pro-market than pro-business as that helps entire society instead of handpicked gainers.


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GREEN fingered residents who asked for more time to recycle have been granted their request by the council.
The Barrowell Green recycling centre, in Winchmore Hill, which takes a range of household waste including batteries, fridges, plasterboard and scrap metal, will open until 7.30pm from its usual closing time of 4.15pm.
The extended hours will come in from April 2 to September 30, on Tuesdays and Fridays every week.
Enfield Council said the decision was based on feedback from a residents' survey when respondents said they would like longer nights at Barrowell Green during the summer so they can use the site after work.
Environment cabinet member Terry Neville said: "We have listened and acted."
For full details of what can be recycled, see here: http://www.enfield.gov.uk/info/531/refuse-household_waste-disposal_sites/45/barrowell_green_recycling_centre/1


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Per the U.S. DoD, * Indicates a "small business" classification and ** indicates a "small disadvantaged business". NOTE: the U.S. DoD only publicly reports contracts valued at $6.5 million USD or greater.
The contract language is EXACTLY as it appears on the official U.S. DoD website (http://www.defense.gov/contracts/) unless otherwise noted.
Contractor: Scientific Research Corporation
Department: Army
Awarded: 12/7/2011
Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta, Ga., was awarded a $35,785,555 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the engineering and technical support services to the director of Operational Test and Evaluation to evaluate the operational testing of major acquisition systems. Work will be performed in Alexandria, Va., and Arlington, Va., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2016. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 11 bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W91CRB-12-D-0001).
Total Contract Value: $35,785,555


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Rock Records Malaysia Composition Contest 2011
Date : August 25, 2011
It is time again to get more motivation to continue my passion for music. Therefore, i joined a Chinese song competition titled: "滚石2011创作比赛" that held by Rock Records Malaysia. I am so lucky to be one of the 12 finalist, and got a chance to perform live at Puchong IOI Mall's Sense Cafe on 20th August, which i never did for a decade.
One of the competitors
There are numbers of talented competitors in the event, have a great time get to know and chat with them. Too bad i'm not able to grab any of first 4th placement, however, it is still a good experience. Image below is the competition certificate that gave out for every 12 finalist competitors:


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BAM! From nowhere!
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As an old school Monkey Island PC adventure gamer I´ve been anticipating the upcoming game from the creator of "Curse of Monkey Island", called "A Vampyre Story". Just now, from nowhere, the demo is out for download and just like that, the full game is out this friday!! I had almost given up hope on this game ever getting a publisher but it seems the time has finally come. For the first time in 10 years I will play a Monkey Island esque PC adventure. The only game Ive tried since 98 was the fairly recent Runaway 2. That was just pathetic. My hopes are super high for Vampyre story. So to all of you out there who are like me and grew up with Guybrush Threepwood on Melee Island. Go download the demo and try it out. Then hurry up and preorder for this Friday ! Suddenly im 13 again, getting Curse of Monkey Island for christmas. Im so excited!
*UPDATE/EDIT* Demo can be downloaded here ! And I just finished the demo. It wasnt really much of a demo but I already knew I needed a boxed copy of this game for the collection so I just pre-order my copy for friday.


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Pho Hoang on Main is my friends' go to place for pho. We ended up having dinner here because our plan to dine at Phnom Penh failed.
I ordered a medium Rare Steak and Beef balls pho which came in a darker looking broth than what I'm used to. It looks dark, but the broth was surprisingly light and borderline bland. There were a couple pieces of daikon in it too which is another item I don't usually see in phos. The noodles itself were cooked perfectly, and there was a lot of it. They needed a bit more meat to balance the meat to noodles ratio.
3 of my friends got rice dishes instead of pho here. After trying their lemon grass chicken and pork, I'd have to say they are much more flavourful and satisfying then the pho I got here. Both the chicken and pork had great flavour from the grilling. I'd say their strength is the rice dishes and for the pho itself, it was nothing special rather forgettable.
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Kanawha County officials are trying to determine how to pay for court-mandated special prosecutors, but the county commissioners and the prosecutor's office aren't seeing eye-to-eye.
The county commission voted Tuesday to ask Kanawha Prosecutor Mark Plants' office to use $50,000 from its $79,000 drug asset forfeiture account to help pay for special prosecutors. If the Prosecutor's Office refused, the commission would freeze the account.
The special prosecutors are handling cases involving child abuse after a circuit judge barred Plants and his subordinates from handling such cases. Plants faces charges of domestic battery and violating a protective order, both misdemeanors.
Plants agreed Tuesday afternoon and even said he said he would give $75,000 from the drug forfeiture fund, $25,000 from the office's overall budget and $11,592 from his budgeted pay raise.
Commission President Kent Carper, however, refused to negotiate the payment without being in a public meeting.
"This is a public discussion involving public funds; therefore this will be placed on the June 12th, 2014, Commission meeting," Carper wrote in a response to Plants' office late Tuesday. "Again I would respectfully request you or your representative to attend the meeting." Carper said he wanted to know how Plants planned to reduce his office's budget by $25,000. He also warned Plants if he did not take his pay increase, he wouldn't be able to take it for the remainder of his term in office, which ends in 2016.
County commissioners have been trying to find a way to cover the cost of Special Prosecutor Don Morris, who is handling the county's domestic violence cases, and prosecutor Sid Bell, who is prosecuting Plants on criminal charges.
"It's a very expensive fix the public should not be paying for," Commissioner Dave Hardy said Tuesday.
Morris is being paid $200 per hour and Bell is being paid $125 per hour. So far, their services have cost the county about $30,000 and $10,000, respectively.
"It started off as a personal issue but now it became a public issue," Hardy said. "It remains a public issue because we are going to give $30,000 a month . . . to buy his way out of a conflict."
In April, Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom appointed Morris, 56, to the special prosecutor position after disqualifying Plants and his staff from handling all crimes of violence by a parent or custodian against a child, abuse and neglect cases and criminal violations of domestic violence protective orders.
In February, Plants was charged with domestic battery against his 11-year-old son. He was later charged with violating the protective order put in place by his ex-wife.
The order was granted after Allison Plants filed a complaint with State Police after finding a large U-shaped bruise on the back of her son's leg. The bruise came from Mark Plants whipping the boy with a belt after an incident with Plants' stepson.
Morris said he is currently overseeing more than 400 domestic cases and "hundreds" of protective orders. He said if there is no special prosecutor, defendants and victims could make the case that the prosecution was "tainted."
"It's an extremely important job and lives are at risk when the prosecutor is not functioning properly," Morris said Tuesday.
Officials have said Morris' compensation is commensurate with his level of experience.
However, costs have since ballooned as the Plants saga drags on.
Last week, the state Supreme Court decided not to suspend Plants' law license, finding that disqualifying him from prosecuting certain cases was sufficient.
Justices also said proceedings against the prosecutor should "continue toward resolution as expeditiously as possible" because of the cost of the special prosecutor.
Because of that language, commissioners said they are going to hold off on considering starting a petition to remove Plants from office until more of the investigation work is complete.
Until then, commissioners renewed their call for Plants to resign.
"The one person that could resolve this situation is Mr. Plants," Hardy said. "The right thing to do here is remove yourself from the conflict."
In a media release Tuesday, Plants said he believes his offer is the best cost-saving solution.
"I think it's a great idea to use money from my office's drug forfeiture account to offset these costs," Plants said in the release. "This is not tax-dollar money; this is money seized from dangerous drug dealers."
Assistant Kanawha Prosecutor James Bailey said the office hasn't yet discussed what would be cut from the budget but said from a personal standpoint, before anything else is cut, he would be willing to take a salary cut to help out.
"I can't speak for everyone but I know at least 10 to 15 other people who feel the same as I do . . . I would be willing to sacrifice a portion of my salary in order to fix the problem."
The news release notes the drug forfeiture account isn't regularly used by the office and that the $111,592 is "significantly greater than Morris' yearly salary when he was employed full-time by the prosecuting attorney's office."
Carper said Plants' office has used the account to fund travel expenses for conferences in the past including "a trip to Magic Kingdom" for a conference in 2012, among other things.
The commission has already moved $100,000 from its rainy day fund to cover the cost of the special prosecutors. If the money runs out, the commission may consider using additional rainy day funds.
"The public should be outraged their property tax dollars are being used for this," Hardy said, calling the use of county funds "a bitter pill to swallow because those are dollars that could be used for many other things."
Commissioners have also criticized the Prosecutor's Office for lack of transparency in the situation, including Tuesday, when no one from the Prosecutor's Office attended the commission meeting.
"They're going to have to come over here and one day they're going to have to explain this stuff," Carper said.
Besides the situation with the domestic violence cases, Plants has also come under scrutiny in recent months after a Daily Mail report in January found his new wife, Sarah Plants, received thousands of dollars in pay raises when she worked as his secretary before they were married and while Plants was still married to Allison Plants.
Sarah Plants also was ticketed three times for non-moving violations, but two of those were dismissed by an assistant prosecutor's motion or approval.
Charleston Mayor Danny Jones said in a letter submitted to the Charleston Gazette last week that Plants' actions in office are affecting his role as county prosecutor.
"While prosecutor, Plants had an affair with his secretary," Jones wrote. "She had Plants' baby while married to a Charleston police officer, and both families wound up in divorces."
"The problem is that his personal situation continues to have significant legal and financial consequences for other government entities, including the city of Charleston, from which many cases end up in the jurisdiction of his office," Jones wrote in the Gazette.
The city of Charleston filed the complaint against Plants that led to his disqualification from domestic cases.


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|Dave Field and Ernie Moskovics, 1994
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By Tzilla Rapdrilla
Mar 8, 2010
The top anchor was recently upgraded, so now this route should be safe to lower off or top rope. Previously there was only one top anchor and that wasn't the most bomber installation around.
Despite the documentation that exists here and elsewhere, I suspect that this route may have never had an ascent on lead, or maybe even on top rope. Getting into the corner is waaaaay harder than 12a or b and it doesn't appear that any holds have broken. This would be a great route for someone to jump on and see what the grade really is, any boulderers out there? The pocket by the 4th bolt may need to have the moss cleaned out, so bring a toothbrush along.
By Ernie Moskovics
Sep 7, 2012
|FA: Spring, 1994 by Dave Field and Ernie Moskovics. This route was rap drilled and led by both of us. At the time, we gave it 11+. Maybe a hold broke off, remember this is Castlewood. That's the documentation for this route, sorry if somebody got spanked.
By Tzilla Rapdrilla
Sep 10, 2012
|Also, there's now a 2-bolt top anchor courtesy of ARI from our efforts of a couple of years ago, originally there was only one bolt on top. Something definitely could've broken maybe years ago & then the rock weathered a bit, it could be harder than originally thought, or I may not have figured out the proper contortion to get established in the stem. It should be a reasonable lead or fun TR project now though.


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The U.S. Army has extended its contract with Rockwell Collins for additional Transportable Black Hawk [helicopter] Operations Simulators (T-BOS) to meet a growing need for bringing training to where soldiers are operating.
The $35 million extension calls for deliveries through 2015. LeAnn Ridgeway, Rockwell Collins v-p and general manager for simulation and training, said, "T-BOS's mobile nature saves time and resources by taking training to pilots in the field. It is the only U.S. Army-accredited flight training device for the UH-60M aircraft."
The air, land sea-transportable flight simulator can be readied for training within eight hours of arrival thanks to integral power and environmental controls. More information is available at the Rockwell Collins Booth, No. 6119.


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Some paintings are just too good to live without, even if you've sold them.
When Sydney barrister Clive Evatt sold
Evatt said at the time that he'd consigned it to Menzies, along with another Smart painting, because the auction house owner,
So it was curious to open TheSun- Herald last weekend and find a feature on the barrister illustrated by a photograph of him in front of Holiday – taken last month.
Did Holiday not sell? Why did Evatt still have the record-setting painting? (a record, incidentally, broken last year when a 1979-80 Smart fetched $1 million at auction).
Just back at chambers after a day in court, he chuckles at the question.
"It's a fake,'' he says. "When I sold it I had a photographic copy made.''
Really? Yes, Evatt insists. Really.
"It's something I sometimes do. I know a guy who takes digital photos and puts them on canvas,'' he says. "I promise, give me a stack of bibles and I'll swear on them. If you're ever up Turramurra way you can come and see for yourself. It's a copy.''
Evatt says he made eight copies of an
"I printed them off in different colours to give to my children,'' he says.
In the past some paintings that appeared to sell at Menzies have in fact not gone to a third-party buyer; in some of these cases Rod Menzies has bought them himself, either in whole or as part of a syndicate.
For his part, Menzies wholeheartedly backs Evatt. "Jeffrey Smart's Holiday was definitely sold by Mr Evatt in our June 2010 sale. Any photo would have to predate the sale," he says via email.
Certainly, the frame around Evatt's new Holiday is different from the one which went to auction. And photographer James Alcock, who took TheSun-Herald photo, says Evatt told him the Smart was a copy.
Which leads to the question of copyright. Can you just copy the original work of an artist? There are precedents; historically some wealthy European and American families have had copies of expensive works painted to hang in their homes, leaving the real ones in the vault.
Vanity Fair just this month featured a story on the late US billionaire publisher Walter Annenberg, who donated his collection of impressionist and post-impressionist pictures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – but not before having high-quality copies made for the family.
Robyn Ayres, director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia, says: "Generally speaking, the artist would retain copyright and you wouldn't be entitled to make a copy without the permission of the artist, unless the artist had sold you the copyright.''
To sell copyright an assignment in writing is required, adds Viscopy chief executive Alida Stanley.
Evatt says when he bought Holiday from Macquarie Galleries in 1971, he also bought copyright in it.
"I always do that as an art dealer,'' he says.
As well as being a long-time collector and friend of artists, Evatt owned and for a time ran Sydney's Hogarth Galleries, which closed its doors in 2010 after 38 years of operation.
While it is unusual for an artist to sell copyright in a particular work, it is not unheard of.
Smart's Sydney dealer Stuart Purves says the 92-year-old artist probably wouldn't be fussed about Evatt's copy.
"He was like
Purves and former long-time head of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, Barry Pearce, have just returned from visiting Smart at his home in Tuscany. He says the artist is "very mentally alert and articulate, but physically challenged'' these days.
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Man escapes custody in Cumberland County; found in mobile home
Posted February 19, 2012
Updated February 20, 2012
Fayetteville, N.C. — A Cumberland County man arrested for first-degree burglary last week escaped from his room at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center Saturday night, officials with the sheriff's department said.
According to deputies, Patrick Earl Gaston, 27, escaped a Cumberland County detention officer who was guarding his room around 6 p.m. Saturday. He was found several hours later hiding in a closet in an abandoned mobile home in Harnett County, authorities said.
Gaston, of 6001 Murphy Road in Stedman, was taken to the hospital last week following his arrest after he claimed to have swallowed an unknown amount of cocaine and began vomiting.
Authorities said Gaston was returned to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center early Sunday and will remain under strict supervision.
In 2009, Gaston fought sheriff's deputies, bit an ambulance worker's thumb and damaged a hotel room and county vehicles after being arrested for larceny and possession of stolen goods.
In the previous incident, Gaston was also taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center after claiming to have swallowed cocaine.


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"Recipes from Home" Tested on Unsuspecting Judges
When Play Is Work, and Vice Versa
When it came time for Smith's engineering students in "Engineering 100" to work on a project designing high-tech toys, it was easy to decide who their collaborators would be: the ones who still play with toys.
An invitation was enough to get 80 local middle schoolers on campus to brainstorm with Smith engineering students and faculty at an unusual workshop held this winter. Called ToyTech-Teaching Our Youth Technology-the workshop was sponsored by Smith and the Silicon Valleybased Institute for Women in Technology (IWT) and based on the engineering principle that to design things well one must also understand the needs of the people who will use them.
What better way for students in Smith's new engineering program to absorb this concept and develop models and prototypes for the new toys that came out of the ToyTech workshop? Aruna Sarna, a first-year engineering student from Los Angeles, spoke for many when she said, "It was a great experience.
"It gave me the opportunity to meet with these very bright and intelligent kids who offered insight into things that students and adults tend to forget," she noted. "It was very nice to experience the kids' imaginations. Sometimes people get so held up in their day-to-day lives that they forget to imagine. And I enjoyed the experience because it reminded me of what my mom used to tell me-that there are no limits when one wants to create."
What Sarna was referring to was the highly directed brainstorming session, led by IWT executive director Sara Hart, using methodology known as "Thinking Environment." This innovative model of interaction, used by leading organizations, is based on the premise that the quality of what we produce depends on the thinking we do first. So ToyTech participants started by considering the toys that they wished they had had.
The only criteria were that the toys had to be technology based and appeal to both boys and girls. When the day was over, it was clear there had been no shortage of ideas. Among the toys dreamed up at ToyTech were devices that bestowed upon their owners the capabilities to shrink or enlarge their own "personal stuff" (but little brothers and sisters were off-limits), to download into a computer any book ever published, or to enter a virtual playhouse and choose a culture and historical period in which to immerse oneself.
Following the workshop, Angela Murphy '04 of Catamuet, Massachusetts, who is thinking about studying astronautical engineering, said, "It was awesome to get to work in a semiprofessional way with the kids. I got to think like a kid, and that was really helpful in expanding my imagination."
Fatima Toor '04 of Pakistan, who is
interested in electrical engineering, said she was already thinking
about how to invent a high-tech type of computer stylus, which
the kids called a "Smart Pen." As imagined by the younger
students, it would come equipped with features such as a dictionary,
a thesaurus,
This semester, after deciding what toy concepts were the most feasible, the engineering students continued to collaborate with the younger students and their teachers to design prototypes. Several of the engineering students presented their work-in-progress at a technology conference in April.
Through its new association with IWT, Smith has been designated as a site for one of only six IWT Virtual Development Centers in the United States. The college has received a $250,000 equipment grant, donated by the Hewlett-Packard Corporation through its alliance with the project. The grant has provided students with scientific calculators, digital cameras, CD writers, printers, notebook PCs and computer workstations. Other corporate supporters of the development centers include Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computers and IBM.
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Finally got mine in Zul'Drak. It just spawned after I had done pet battles in the area for 2 weeks!
Wow, I did not know that I had this much patience! I did archeology for a month and a half to get this little guy! I was so happy when he showed up I screamed. My son thought I was crazy. But finally after 2,000 Tol'vir solves and who knows how many Pandaren solves I got him!
I have always kept up with my secondary profsessions, but this gave it a fun spin! Glad to have them all. Would really like to see a cooking (some kind of grease pet) and first aid pet (maybe a leech) lol!
Doing the fishing quest was long and tedious, but well worth it when you get all 4 of these little guys.
These are cute pets. I hated doing the fishing though!
I love these little guys, but not so easy to get them all :)
Being an Albino snake you would think he would be rare.
Typical Snake! My first snake to reach level 25 tough.
I think it's great! And a good way for them to keep us playing to earn the title. And it looks like an awesome pet. Can't wait to add it to my collection!
I have been here're all day and now they are doing a are start, hopefully that means................................................. we will be able to get it soon ;-) here's crossing my fingers!


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Diindolylmethane in Treating Patients With Abnormal Cervical Cells
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RATIONALE: Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming. The use of diindolylmethane, a substance found in cruciferous vegetables, may keep cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or cervical cancer from forming.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying diindolylmethane to see how well it works compared to a placebo in treating patients with abnormal cervical cells.
|Cervical Cancer Precancerous Condition
|Drug: oral microencapsulated diindolylmethane Genetic: polymerase chain reaction Other: cervical Papanicolaou test Other: cytology specimen collection procedure Procedure: colposcopic biopsy
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|An Investigation Into the Effects of Diidolylmethane (BioResponse DIM®) Supplementation in Women With Low-Grade Cervical Cytological Abnormalities [CRISP-1]
- Biopsy confirmed high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) at 6 months
- Change in lesion size at 6 months
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) status and characteristics (type, viral load, and integration) at baseline and 6 months
- Change in cervical cytology at 6 months
- CIN ≥ grade 3 on histology at 6 months
- Long term follow-up (i.e., 7 years)
- Migraine, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), menstruation, and body weight
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- Compare the effect of diindolylmethane vs placebo in reducing the prevalence of histologically proven high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in patients with low-grade cervical cytological abnormalities.
- Compare the effect of these regimens in reducing the prevalence of cytological abnormalities in these patients.
- Compare the effect of these regimens in changing the clinical appearance of the cervix in these patients.
- Determine if diindolylmethane offers benefits in relation to human papillomavirus (HPV) status, including HPV type, viral load, and integration.
- Determine the side effects of supplementation with diindolylmethane.
- Determine the effects of this drug on migraine, mastalgia, weight, and premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
OUTLINE: This is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive oral diindolylmethane once daily for 6 months.
- Arm II: Patients receive oral placebo once daily for 6 months. Patients undergo cervical sampling at baseline and at 6 months for Pap testing by liquid based cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing by polymerase chain reaction. Some patients also undergo urine and hair sample collection at baseline and at 3 and 6 months. Samples are analyzed for estrogen and diindolylmethane metabolites, to monitor patient compliance and response to treatment. Some patients have a cervical photograph taken using a colposcope at baseline and at 6 months. All patients undergo colposcopy at 6 months.
Patients complete a questionnaire at baseline (i.e., for reproductive history, diet, smoking, and premenstrual symptoms) and at 6 months (i.e., for side effects, compliance, changes in smoking, and contraception use). Patients with moderate to severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) also complete PMS questionnaires once monthly during months 1-6 and 4 months following completion of study therapy. All patients are instructed to maintain current diet and to keep cruciferous vegetables and soy products constant during study course.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for up to 7 years.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 3,000 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
First mildly dyskaryotic Pap smear or a second borderline Pap smear taken within the Cervical Screening Wales program
- Patients under surveillance following treatment for high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are not eligible
- No clinical suspicion of a concurrent invasive cervical cancer
- No invasive cancer within the past 3 years
- No known HIV positivity
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Not planning to become pregnant within the next 6 months
- No concurrent immunosuppressive drugs, warfarin, or theophylline
- No concurrent proton pump inhibitor drugs for ulcer or reflux disease (i.e., rabeprazole, esomeprazole magnesium, lansoprazole, omeprazole, or pantoprazole sodium)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00462813
|United Kingdom
|Barts and the London School of Medicine
|London, England, United Kingdom, EC1M 6BQ
|University Hospital of Wales
|Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, CF14 4XW
|Study Chair:
|Peter Sasieni, MD
|Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Additional Information:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00462813 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CDR0000539352 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
|Study First Received:
|April 18, 2007
|Last Updated:
|August 6, 2013
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
cervical cancer
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 1
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Precancerous Conditions
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Uterine Cervical Diseases
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
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Pinellas schools offer free driver's ed
Parents who love – truly love – their 15-year-old yet hesitate to jump into a two-ton, highly-flammable vehicle with the teen at the wheel, can give Pinellas schools a big thank you this summer.
The school system is offering free driver's ed classes this June and July to both public and private school students who are at least 15 and have a learner's permit or operator's license by the time classes begin.
Classes in each of the 10-day sessions run from to at 12 high schools throughout the county. Students will get the boot if they miss two classes.
Registration began Feb. 4. Click here for the program dates and the details on registering.


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Industry and Government Support for LonWorld 2004 Expo and Conference in Shanghai
Aug 13, 2004
Sponsors and speakers for the upcoming 2004 LonWorld(R) Exhibition and Conference in Shanghai, China on October 20-21, 2004 were announced by Echelon Corporation. The event, at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Hongqiao, has garnered worldwide support with sponsors from
The conference will begin with a general session featuring speakers from government and industry. Throughout the two-day conference, attendees will be able to hear from experts on conducting business in China; trends and opportunities in the LonWorks(R) industry; and case studies on home, intelligent communities, building, industrial, and energy automation projects in Asia. Key speakers for the Conference include: Patrick Bruce, CEO, Integer House China; Cheng Dazhang, Professor, Tongji University; Eric B. Kim, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing Operation/Digital Solution Center, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Mr. Omori, General Manager, Design Department Mechanical Systems, Mori Building; Dong Shouqin, International Department Director, Shanghai Construction Commission; and Zhou Hanmin, Vice Chairman, Shanghai 2004 World Expo Bureau.
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Boston, MA, US
I approached my architectural education emphasizing on using individual design principles flexible toward each project. Modern culture and trends in construction has taught me essential skills in technology to equip myself, which can benefit an innovative professional environment. I had the honor to access the resources to familiarize various software as well as using them to benefit our approach to materializing our schematic ideas. I have also had the chance to intern in four different professional environments relating to architecture. This valuable experience is reflected in my strong work ethics focusing on high quality production.
Another aspect I can also bring to your office is the ability to speak both Mandarin and Cantonese. I believed that this skill should benefit in the flexibility to gain work internationally.
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Nearly 10 years after John Henry reportedly paid Dan Duquette 3 million in severance to leave Fenway, the former Red Sox general manager has been hired by the Baltimore Orioles to be their president of baseball operations.
CSN Baltimore reports the decision will be formally announced on Tuesday.
He's been out of MLB for almost a decade, but Duquette, 53, ran the Red Sox from 1994 to 2002 and before that was GM of the Montreal Expos from 1991 to 1993. The Red Sox made the playoffs three times under Duquette, and many of the pieces he brought to Boston -- Many Ramirez, Pedro Martinez and Jason Varitek to name three -- were key members of the 2004 World Series champion Sox.
Duquette has run a kids sports camp and ran a college summer baseball league and a baseball league Israel for a short time.


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To my friends and associates. I've just uploaded a new website that centers around Toda-ha Buko-ryu. It is in a process of continuing development, so things will change as I get more historical information, etc.
"Toda-ha Buko-ryu is a martial tradition which specializes in the use of the naginata. It's highest teachings center around the kagitsuki naginata, a weapon with a small cross-bar, against both sword and spear."
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Not a particularly surprising update to see given the events of the week.
Statement from CBS Entertainment, Warner Bros.Television
and Executive Producer Chuck Lorre
Due to Charlie Sheen's decision to enter a rehabilitation center, CBS, Warner Bros. Television and executive producer Chuck Lorre are placing "Two and a Half Men" on production hiatus. We are profoundly concerned for his health and well-being, and support his decision.


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Transcribed by Judy Benson & Ivy Benoit. While we have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors
Will of Joseph Stuckey from Newfoundland will books volume 10 page 211 probate year 1914
In re JOSEPH STUCKEY deceased
Pikeĺs Arm, July 31st. 1913. I Joseph Stuckey of Pikeĺs Arm Herring Neck, Notre Dame Bay, hereby bequeath to my wife Louisa my dwelling house, to my sons Solomon and Dorman my premises, including stage, gardens store and flake, to be shared between them both, the gardens to be equally divided and the stage and store to be given wholly to Dorman. Signed this twenty ninth day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. Joseph his X mark Stuckey.
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text: Checking In Living in somebody's vacation By Danny King / January 15, 2014 Share 1 -- The first time I saw a line of costumed people in front of the hulking, hangar-like structure next to my kids' new elementary school in a not-so-well-scrubbed stretch of Hollywood, it was last September, and I wondered if maybe Halloween had come about a month early. Soon enough, however, I realized that the building was Sunset Bronson studios, where the game show "Let's Make a Deal" is taped, and people from all over the city, country, possibly the world, were making a pilgrimage of sorts to win a little money and maybe get their 15 minutes of fame. If that meant standing in line in matching insect outfits within eyeshot of bemused kids and their parents, so be it. "All the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players." The line, wailed by those wonderful Canadian philosophers Rush, was co-opted from a monologue in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and might best describe what it's like to reside in some of this country's most-visited cities. Live in places like New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco (cities in which various Travel Weekly writers make their homes) and there's no getting around it. For example, if you're a New Yorker hustling crosstown to make a subway or hail a cab in midtown, you're going to be battling for sidewalk space with throngs of tourists heading to, from or through Times Square. Or, in the case of an Angeleno, the driver of that late-model Toyota that came to a dead stop in the center lane on Hollywood Boulevard probably wasn't distracted because she was texting but because she got her first glimpse of the Chinese Theatre or Capitol Records building. And even the proudest San Franciscans would have to admit that not even a cool, stiff breeze off the Pacific coast or the Bay can erase the odor of brake dust rising from the line of cars traversing down the squiggly section of San Francisco's Lombard Street. The numbers don't lie. New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles all set annual tourism visitation records in 2012, combining to bring in almost 135 million overnight visitors, according to those cities' respective tourism bureaus. As for 2013, New York was projected to beat its record by 1.6 million visitors and attract 54.3 million, while Las Vegas' numbers through November were about even with 2012's, at 36.7 million, through those 11 months. And Los Angeles tourism officials said earlier this month that the city beat its 2012 record by 800,000 to bring its 2013 total to 42.2 million. Moreover, in the age where "experiential" is one of travel's hottest buzzwords, the idea of "living like a local" is pushed more than ever (hence the brand of travel guidebooks NFT, or "Not For Tourists"). Speaking at the Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association conference in Los Angeles in October, Commune Hotels & Resorts CEO Niki Leondakis defined a good hotel concierge as someone who knows "those 10 things only a local would know." That means it's not all about amusement parks, museums and historical sites. And it's no longer necessarily the Hawaiian guy strumming the ukulele, the Bostonian driving the Duck Tour boat or the (likely transplanted) L.A.-area tour guide whom visitors are going to remember when thinking back on their most recent trip. The fact that people worldwide are delving into U.S. culture hook, line and sinker means visitors are looking to get beyond the obvious and the cliche. "Vampires, hip-hop and all the rest," Swedish economist Kjell Nordstrom said in his keynote speech at the International Luxury Travel Market conference in Cannes, France, last month. "The U.S. is an idea. Anyone on this planet can become an American just by plugging in." Which means, like it or not, we're all part of the show, folks. Granted, there was a time when I was younger, less mature and not attuned to the travel industry and its broader impact on things that the idea of being part of the parade seemed something of an indignity. Tourists were to be accepted and tolerated, but not necessarily embraced. Sure, I could see the Golden Gate Bridge from my rooftop, but wow! my tips took a hit last night because of that large party of folks from across the pond. And, yeah, it's 72 degrees and sunny in December, but if another guy with out-of-state plates cuts me off, I'm going to succumb to road rage. But it's funny how a terrorist attack, a recession, a few lean years and a family to raise can put an end to such thoughts. Travel analysts have referred to the oughts as "the Lost Decade" for anyone involved with U.S. tourism, and the numbers bear them out. Between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. share of the long-haul travel market fell from 17% to 12%, cutting visitor spending from overseas travelers by an aggregate $606 billion, according to the U.S. Travel Association. And that spending dip didn't discriminate. The good news, of course, is that the combination of growing global wealth and a gradual loosening and speeding up of visa processing is reversing that trend. In 2012, the U.S. attracted 67 million international visitors, which was up 7% from a year earlier and marked more than a 50% jump from 2003, the year things bottomed out. The numbers for 2012 included double-digit percentage jumps for visitors from Japan, Brazil and Argentina and a 35% surge from China, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. And those total numbers are expected to continue rising at about 4% a year through at least 2018. "Keep your eye on the United States of America," Nordstrom said in France last month. "They are very different from the rest of the world. They will be back with a vengeance." And that puts us U.S. city dwellers in a love-it-or-leave-it position as more overseas travelers exchange their hard-earned euros, yuan and pesos for the opportunity to get a first-hand look at what makes our cities sizzle. Sure, for some, it might be reason enough to move someplace farther off the beaten path and into a more "locals only" way of life. But for others, it's a realization that what a lot of people call their spring break, summer vacation or winter excursion, we call home. And maybe we're a little bit luckier for it. For those L.A. kids attending school next to the building with the line of game show contestants, it's a lesson that's really never too early to learn. Contact Danny King at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter.


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Smarter in :60 IV: Time to Rally…or Quit? Mark Hermann Takes "The Dip"
The latest in a series from SonicScoop columnist Mark Hermann, where he builds on the inspiration he draws from sage sources.
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: Do you remember the feeling you got when you decided to try something new for the very first time?