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Selena Gomez Subpoenaed in Justin Bieber L.A. Paparazzi Case
Selena Gomez is magnetically attracted to Justin Bieber, as evidenced in the power couple's constant on-off status. But it's not simply a romantic attachment. Whether she likes it or not, Gomez remains tethered to The Biebs and his legal issues, as she has just been subpoenaed in one of his paparazzi assault cases.
As Beliebers are well aware, there are many pending cases related to photographers and arrests with The Biebs.
TMZ reports that Gomez received a summons for a deposition in a lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles-based photographer who says that the singer karate-kicked him in the abdomen in 2012. Since Gomez was there with Bieber at the time of the alleged incident, the legal team wants her account of the events. They also believe that her closeness with the singer means she can provide some insight into his perspective on paparazzi as a whole.
That is a different case than the one where Biebs himself was previously deposed.
Remember, the singer went utterly nuclear when questioned about the 2013 Miami paparazzi case -- which is unrelated to the 2014 Miami arrest case -- after the lawyer brought Gomez's name up.
He flipped out at the idea of Sel being dragged into the mess. That case's lawyer also wants to talk to Gomez to find out if The Biebs spoke about his dislike of snappers. While she wasn't there when bodyguards roughed up a photographer and took his SIM card for this particular instance, lawyers feel Sel knows the singer well enough that she can provide some insight into his psyche.
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GAINESVILLE (AP) - North Florida's two water management districts are studying ways to restore and maintain groundwater levels with the use of reclaimed water or surface water from rivers as possibilities.
The Gainesville Sun reports that the North Florida Aquifer Replenishment Initiative is studying the northeastern area of the Suwannee district and the northern area of the St. Johns district and includes all or part of Alachua, Union, Bradford, Hamilton, Columbia, Putnam, Duval, Clay and Nassau counties.
Much of the area lies in a water resource caution area, meaning supplies are not projected to meet future needs.
Studies to gather more data on the causes of depleted aquifer levels and springs flow are ongoing at the same time that districts are investigating ways to replenish the aquifer.


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It sounded like an odd position to take for a first-time Republican candidate for the legislature, and now it�s changed.
MIKE BELL of Edinburg, who is running for the GOP nomination to the House from the 96th District, said back in October at his Springfield campaign announcement that he would consider keeping the Illinois income tax at its current level if the extra revenue were used to meet long-term obligations of public pension systems.
But the word last week?
�I�m not for extending it,� Bell said. �When I said that earlier, I hadn�t talked to all of the people yet.�
He said that in gathering signatures for nominating petitions and doing other campaigning, he�s probably talked to 3,000 to 4,000 potential constituents.
�And the feeling I get after talking to all these people is, �We�re taxed enough,�� he said.
The state�s individual income tax was raised in 2011 from 3 percent to 5 percent, under a plan that would have it drop back down to 3.75 percent in 2015. That will create a hole in the state budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, of $1.3 billion, according to an estimate from Gov. PAT QUINN�s budget office.
I talked to Bell the day after another candidate for the Republican nomination in the 96th, LANDON LAUBHAN of Springfield, made his formal campaign announcement in Rochester. Laubhan said he would want to return the income tax to its �original position as soon as possible,� and would also like to talk about trying to decrease it.
Bell, as others, said when asked last week how he would fill the budget gap if the income tax is lowered on schedule that one way would be to �scrub� the Medicaid rolls to �see who really is eligible and who is not.�
If votes of others lawmakers did extend the income tax increase, Bell added, �I would hope that they would do exactly what I said � use it for the unfunded pension liability.�
Laubhan talked a lot about job creation, as does Bell. Bell is on Christian County�s economic development board, and said he�s been able to talk to many employers. He said many of those talks came during �retention� visits to find out how best to help companies maintain existing jobs, as well as add new ones. He said he hears a lot that the state has to get its �fiscal house in order.�
Meanwhile, Bell also disagrees with Laubhan on some other issues. Laubhan said he thinks teachers should be able to carry concealed guns in schools, under the state�s new law. Bell is a former teacher and is now vice president of the school board in Edinburg.
�I would never want guns to be carried by my teachers or administrators,� Bell said. �I just think you�re opening up a can of worms� with a �potential for problems.�
Lauban also told JIM LEACH on WMAY-AM that he would allow guns in amusement parks.
�I just couldn�t imagine that,� Bell said of guns being carried by school staff or in amusement parks.
Laubhan also said having the state minimum wage come down from the current $8.25 to the federal level of $7.25 would be �fine with me.�
Not so with Bell.
�I would be for keeping it where it�s at,� Bell said.
Laubhan, who moved to Springfield from Oklahoma three years ago, has an uphill battle here. Bell, who is co-chair of the Project 29 committee that is pushing for a four-lane expressway between Springfield and Taylorville, has backing of Sangamon and Christian county Republican organizations, as well as the statewide House Republican Organization. GOP House Minority Leader JIM DURKIN of Western Springs was at Bell�s announcement.
The winner of the primary will face the winner of the Democratic primary � state Rep. SUE SCHERER of Decatur or challenger GINA LATHAN of Springfield.
Proud mother
Former Circuit Judge ANN CALLIS of Edwardsville, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House in the 13th Congressional District, last week asked her supporters to help make her Army ranger son�s birthday �something extra special.�
In emails, Callis asked people to sign a card for Elliot Corey.
�Words cannot express my appreciation for our military service members who, like Elliot, sacrifice their own personal needs to put others first,� she wrote.
The older of Callis� two children, Elliot, turned 25 on Friday. Callis and her first husband, Scott Corey of Granite City, to whom she was married about three years, both attended the ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga., in November when their son graduated from ranger training. He was recently deployed to Kuwait, and I asked Callis about this last week.
�I�m very proud of him,� she said. �He is serving his country, and he is well trained. It�s scary now that he�s deployed.� She noted she�s going through what �millions of other American families� have experienced. She said her son�s service gives her a �personal perspective� on foreign policy.
�I�ve always been aware of what�s going on the Middle East � but now I�m hyper-aware,� Callis said.
When Callis was chief judge in Madison County, she worked to create the first �veterans court� in the state, designed to divert former military personnel accused of nonviolent crimes into programs designed to treat special problems such as substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Elliot Corey was quarterback on the football team and valedictorian at Triad High School in Troy. He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he studied government and Arabic. His mother said she doesn�t know much about his mission, but he texted that he is commander of a platoon in a mechanized unit and in a rapid reaction force, and is assigned to the United States Central Command in the region.
She said Elliot is in the service for up to five years.
Callis also has a daughter, 21-year-old CAROLINE RONGEY, who is a senior at St. Louis University and is in her first year of student teaching. Her father is Callis� second husband, ROBERT RONGEY of Granite City, to whom she was married for about four years.
Callis, 49, of Edwardsville, has been married to her current husband, attorney James Holloran, since 2001.
�I don�t think I�m different than a lot of American families that have personal issues,� Callis said of her family situation. She said the �happy ending� is that she has �two great children.�
Callis is running in the March 18 Democratic primary against George Gollin and David Green, both of Champaign. On the Republican side, U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville faces Erika Harold of Urbana and Mike Firsching of Moro in their party�s contest.
Among those supporting Callis are U.S. Sen. DICK DURBIN of Springfield, the state AFL-CIO and Champaign County Young Democrats.
�Our campaign honors the service of her son and hopes for his safe return,� said Gollin campaign manager MONICA BIDDIX. She added that 2014 �is not going to be the year for incumbents or insiders. � We are running a true grass-roots campaign.�
Contact political columnist Bernard Schoenburg: 788-1540, email@example.com, twitter.com/bschoenburg.


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For several years, a husband-and-wife team of "environmental artists" named Christo and Jeanne-Claude has proposed a massive project near Canon City titled "Over the River."
By Hannah Hayes
When I see parents waiting at a bus stop, I can remember the multitude of feelings I had when my child came home from school on the day of the Columbine shootings. The illusion of schools as safe havens was irrevocably shattered, as were so many lives. We are all Columbine.
Last week, my former colleagues in the state House passed a bill that would make it illegal to drive while talking on a cell phone, unless you're using a hands-free device. By the looks of it, the ban will pass the Senate and be signed by the governor.
At first glance, this seems a reasonable law. But it's also totally redundant. In fact, under current law, a person who causes an accident while talking on a cell phone can be prosecuted under no fewer than four criminal statutes.
My term on the board of Great Outdoors Colorado expires today. It has been my honor and privilege to serve the people of Colorado's 6th Congressional District on this important board since 2002.
As we enter the final stretch of this year's session of the Colorado General Assembly (it must be concluded by May 6), we could be watching a sequel of "Jerry Maguire." The operative phrase for the last month of the session is likely to be, "Show me the money!"
Opposition to Buchanan plan is not new
The other day, a friend told me he believes there's a good chance our kids' generation will face the same kind of Depression-era challenges our grandparents did. I don't know whether that's true. I sure hope not.
If we had our way, of course, our kids would never face economic hardship. Difficult times lead to deferred dreams, missed opportunities, strained relationships and, in some cases, poverty. There's nothing good about job losses and a stagnant market.
When President Obama signed a $410 billion budget bill last week, the story might have been that Congress failed to pass its fiscal 2009 budget until almost half the fiscal year was over. Instead, the discussion was about earmarks.
Earmark has become a dirty word. Candidates badmouthed earmarks in the last election, and John McCain said Obama should have vetoed the budget compromise because it contained them.
What do you call 50,000 troops that will be left behind when the U.S. withdraws from Iraq? Re-missioned. How can you re-mission troops when they never had their original mission disclosed?
But we're jumping ahead on Iraq (while we're falling behind at home). The reality today is that lives keep being lost, dollars continue to be spent, and troops still redeploy. It ain't over, folks.
The month of February was devoted to awareness of size and growth of the human population. Did you miss it? Creators of Global Population Speak Out (gpso.wordpress.com) wanted you to catch some of the qualified scientists that spoke publicly on reducing the 218,000-person net gain the planet experiences each day. Bringing new voices into the discussion of population issues is hoped to break down the taboo that exists on this topic.
We've been hearing every day for months now about the bad economy. Every night we go home to the news of more layoffs and cutbacks. We have all been impacted in some way. I know the Courier has. We have reduced staffing through attrition; as employees have resigned for different opportunities, we have restructured and asked our current employees to take on additional duties.
"For suddenly he was thinking … that if he was not a writer, he was not real, that he did not exist."
— Robert Penn Warren, in "Flood"
As Coloradans listen to the echoes of a great voice gone suddenly silent, the words of Robert Penn Warren ring quietly and persistently for me in the void.
The sixth anniversary of the war against Iraq is fast approaching. While there is a commitment to be out in May 2010, many are holding their collective breath. The extended stay of some troops is a given in most people's minds. Iraqis and peaceniks will call it "not out."
But just in case the U.S. actually leaves Iraq, aren't those who worship endless war in luck? We can redouble our efforts in Afghanistan. It's less than 1,500 miles away.
Over the years, I've written columns in February about historical African-American figures with Colorado connections in observation of Black History Month. The stories I told were about people who had lived and died before I was born. As this February is the first Black History Month in which we have an African-American president, I've found myself thinking about the contemporary black history I've personally observed.
It's not news that the state budget is in crisis. Loose, some would say reckless, government spending in the good times along with lower revenues have contributed to an approximately $600 million hole in the budget. While many services will be affected, higher education will take the biggest hit.
There's no doubt Jan. 20, 2009, ushered in a color change. Still, racial bigotry is a stubborn, often deeply entrenched characteristic. It's been only three weeks since the inauguration, three months since the election, and a new president couldn't possibly jar that manner of thinking loose in such a short time. Could he?
Each of us has our own reasons for living in the Evergreen area. The beauty of mountain living, the solitude of being nestled in the pines and our close proximity to Denver are all appealing attributes.
With my longevity in the community of close to 30 years, I've earned the honored title of "local." As with most "locals" you know, I am very protective, loyal and adamant about preserving everything that is special about our community.
When Jefferson County voters rejected Amendment 3A last November, it forced school officials to work in earnest on spending plans they'd begun discussing before the election. After implementing spending increases that are already planned, it has been estimated that $35 million will need to be found over the next three years.
In his terrific essay on "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell observed that "(w)hen there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
Orwell spoke of a phenomenon that exists in our time as it did in his — the hijacking of language to conceal the truth behind political objectives.
By Hannah B. Hayes
The issues around immigration are complex. There's a melting pot of experiences that led most of us here. Every immigrant has a story — often compelling and heart-wrenching. The migration from "my country" to the promise of a better life is a journey into the unknown on an uncertain path through a maze of danger and bureaucracy.
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Thanks for sharing this article, Bethany!
I was especially struck by the second to last paragraph of the article: "Frost and Mann both stress the need for parents to practice what they preach. If mom and dad have a difficult time disconnecting from technology, then kids will not see the need to disconnect either, they said. Parents set the tone when it comes to limiting technology."
I know that my two-year-old is especially interested in the computer when I want to work on it. The nap time was working out well for me to use the computer, but his nap seems to be going by the way-side. Our monitor is big enough that I can pull up two browser windows so we can play on the Sesame Street site the same time that I'm reading my email. I find that his interest fades after about 15 minutes. But I know that he would sit and watch children's video programming all day if I kept the tv on.
The cell phone/text messaging of my nieces though is an issue I find a bit troubling. Both are teenagers and it is difficult to have a conversation with them that isn't interrupted by their phone activity. Not that I see them very often. I did write lots of notes to my friends during those years, so I know that it is normal to want to be in contact with your friends. Of course, I also kept my nose stuck in a book when I was around my older relatives at family gatherings. So, maybe they thought that was troubling.
Teresa Walls 20:56, 1 March 2007 (CST)
"Some reports have condemned the use of computers in schools." OMG! Let me dust off my abacus and find my slate board! I think that's an awfully strong and misguided statement. Imagine one day, tomorrow for instance, without computers in a school... for students AND teachers. Would it be possible?
I'd also like to comment on something Dr. McCabe says in the How Young Is Too Young section. He states "television can be a powerful interactive medium that provides parents with unique opportunities to bond with their children." The key here is that in order for TV to be interactive, there must be two people watching the same television at the same time interacting with each other. He is careful not to state that the program itself is interactive. That's an important distinction.
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Sitting out today's race at Watkins Glen was the right thing -- the only thing -- for Tony Stewart to do.
It never should have been a question.
Hours after his team's tactless announcement that it would be "business as usual" despite Stewart hitting and killing Kevin Ward Jr. during a sprint car race in upstate New York on Saturday night, Stewart wisely reversed course. The emotions were simply too much for everyone involved, Stewart said in a statement, acknowledging that a race track was the last place he should be right now.
STEWART: Hits, kills driver in sprint car race
Though police say charges have not been ruled out, there is no evidence of criminal intent. But a man is dead and, criminal or not, Stewart is responsible as the driver of the car that hit Ward. Racing not even 24 hours later would have trivialized the gravity of the situation.
Everyone grieves in different ways, and it's true that sports have provided much-needed solace during times fraught with emotion and sadness. The NFL and Major League Baseball helped the entire nation heal in the dark days following 9/11. Adrian Peterson played two days after the death of his young son while Brett Favre took the field the day after his father died.
But Ward's death was far too personal for Stewart to go anywhere near a track. He needs time to cry, to question, to grieve, to be surrounded by the love and support of those closest to him.
It's not the time for him to climb into a race car.
Racing is a dangerous sport, and anyone who climbs into a car has made his or her peace with that. But there is a big difference between taking your life in your hands and taking someone else's life, and Stewart needs time to process the emotional fallout. He said in his statement that "there aren't words" to describe his sadness at the crash, and police said he was "visibly shaken" after.
There is no room for distraction in a car that weighs more than a ton and can go well over 200 mph, and Stewart would have been faced with reminders of Ward and the fatal crash at every turn. It's a good bet Stewart didn't get much, if any, sleep on Saturday night, either, and that surely would have affected his reactions.
Some said Stewart should have raced to honor Ward's memory. Others crassly said Stewart would be a fool to give up the precious points that could get him into the Chase. (Regan Smith will drive Stewart's car, instead.)
But much as Stewart may crave a return to "business as usual," it's anything but. And it won't be for a long time.
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Friday, Jan. 26, was a special day for Honey "the wonder dog" who celebrated her eighth birthday with her human friend and companion, Michael Gaither. The day also marked her 100th visit for treatment at the UF Small Animal Hospital in Gainesville.
Honey has been diagnosed with aspergillus, a fungal infection that affects the immune system and visits UF Small Animal Hospital two times a week for treatments to help quell the devastating effects of the illness. But, the affects of the disease lead to her left eye being removed last year.
It has been a rough year for Honey, Michael and Kaye, who drives the van from Chiefland to Gainesville twice a week.
Honey's treatments include 45 minutes in a hyperbaric chamber, antifungal infusion therapy and pool therapy to strengthen her muscles. The entire visit lasts more than five hours each day.
The Gaither's are thankful to the generosity of the U.S. War Dogs Association for help with their gas expenses. Each trip to Gainesville is over 80 miles and the expenses add up quickly.
Matthew Chance Carlisle died early Sunday evening in a crash involving three vehicles.
Carlisle, 33, of Williston, was traveling eastbound on C.R. 326 in a 1995 Chevrolet pickup toward the stop intersection for S.R. 121, according to a press release from the Florida Highway Patrol.
Marie Chandler, 24, no city of residence given, was traveling southbound on S.R. 121 in a 2013 Jeep Cherokee. The front of the Jeep struck the left front of the pickup. Upon impact, Chandler's pickup was redirected southbound and came to final rest facing southbound on S.R. 121.
A third vehicle, a 2012 Freightliner semi-truck was traveling northbound on S.R. 121. Moments after the collision with Chandler's vehicle, Carlisle exited his vehicle and walked into the path of the oncoming truck. Carlisle was pronounced deceased shortly after the crash at Williston Regional Hospital.
According to the press release, charges are pending the conclusion of the investigation. The incident was not alcohol related.
Manatee Springs State Park to Host Public Meeting
~The public is invited to provide comments on the draft plan~
WHAT: Public Meeting
WHEN: Jan. 9, 2018
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Chiefland Women's Club
825 E. Park Ave.
Chiefland, FL 32626
DEP's Florida Park Service is in the process of updating the unit management plan for Manatee Springs State Park. Citizens are invited to attend a public meeting to learn about the proposed plans for the state park and provide their comments.
The public notice, agenda, draft plan and comment form are available online. Copies may also be obtained by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 352-493-6072. There will be a brief presentation at 6 p.m. Following the presentation, staff will be available to answer questions and accept public comment. Additionally, the public is invited to review and submit comments to the Division of Recreation and Parks at email@example.com until Jan. 23, 2018.
The following improvements are proposed for the updated Manatee Springs State Park management plan:
Manatee Springs State Park will be holding Clay Landing Days, a living history event, Friday, Nov. 24, and Saturday, Nov. 25. Clay Landing Days will bring you to a time when the Seminoles and Settlers lived in the Clay Landing area.
There will be Covered Wagon Rides that take you on the North Trail with a stop at the Seminole Chickee Hut, where Settlers and Seminoles will let you see what life was like in the Clay Landing Area. All activities will begin at Manatee Springs Day Use Area from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Day Use Area will also have Settlers showing cooking and crafts of the time period. There are wheelchair accessible wagon rides available. The fee for the event is the normal entrance fee of $6 for a car of up to eight people.
For more information, call 352-493-6736.
Plans are underway for The Levy County Schools Foundation STARS Gala event planned for Saturday, February 17, 2018 at Bronson Middle/High School.
The semiformal evening will begin with hors d'oeuvres and mingling at 5:00 pm followed by dinner and program at 6 p.m. The event will benefit the nonprofit Foundation with funds to support its scholarship and grant programs for Levy County Schools and students.
The event chairperson, Stacy Swain, along with many volunteers from the Foundation Board will be working to finalize all the plans for the "Garden Party" theme décor. The evening will feature dinner, entertainment, a silent auction, live auction and door prizes. The program will feature the Honorable Joe Smith as guest speaker; a tribute to Mr. H.C. Henderson as a founding member of the Foundation; announcement of the Foundations Alumnus of the Year and recognition of Levy County Schools Teacher of the Year, Educational Staff Professional of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
The Suncoast Schools Credit Union Foundation is partnering with the Levy County Schools Foundation to offer two $2,000 scholarship awards to high school graduates in the Class of 2018.
Class of 2018 high school graduates in the Suncoast Credit Union's 21-county service territory have the opportunity to apply for financial support to continue their education, thanks to a $116,000 investment in scholarships by the Tampa-based credit union's foundation.
Applications will be open Feb. 1, 2018 and will be available through the Levy County high school guidance departments.
This year's Suncoast Credit Union Scholars program represents a continued philosophy of the foundation to support education initiatives and the well-being and potential of children.
Since its inception in 1990, the foundation has contributed more than $19 million including more than 600 student scholarships valued at nearly $1 million.
November is Manatee Awareness Month – a time to celebrate Florida's beloved, iconic, marine mammal and also to create awareness and shed light on the many challenges imperiled manatees face every day.
Researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are looking for anglers' help to capture information about the Atlantic red snapper fishery. The recreational red snapper season opens for the weekends of Nov. 3-5 and Nov. 10-12 in south Atlantic federal waters. Read more in the FWC Reseach Bulletin at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/FLFFWCC/bulletins/1c03880
OCALA, Fla. (Oct. 30, 2017) – CareerSource Citrus Levy Marion will hold a hiring event Thursday to assist FedEx Ground hire 150-200 part-time package handlers.
The hiring event takes place from noon to 6 p.m. at the College of Central Florida Klein Conference Center, 3001 SW College Road in Ocala. Sessions will be held every 30 minutes.
Package handlers load and unload sorted packages in a fast-paced environment to help ensure FedEx Ground delivers packages on time and with care. No experience is required.
Interested applicants must be at least 18 and must register with Employ Florida at www.employflorida.com (reference Job Order Number 10571441). Details can be found on the Calendar of Events at careersourceclm.com or by calling 800-434-JOBS, ext. 2203.
The Levy ARC "Ride to Provide" fundraiser is Oct. 28.
LARC is a chapter of the national ARC, the largest community-based national organization advocating for individuals with intellectual and or developmental disabilities.
The event begins with a motorcycle rally from Levy ARC in Otter Creek with kickstands up at 10 a.m. The motorcycle rally is free, however donations are gratefully accepted. The motorcycle ride will end at Gulf Hammock at the site of Wild Hog race. Riders are encouraged to wear Halloween Costumes.
LARC is welcoming families to attend the event in Halloween costumes or wear water-friendly attire and swing over the Waccasassa River on the zip lines.
The end of the event is planned to be family friendly, so everyone show up. There will be food and drinks available for purchase and lots of events for the family. For more detailed information contact Levy ARC at 352-486-4239 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Dublin hotels have been accused of ripping St Patrick's Day tourists off by a leading travel website.
The renowned Trivago site says hotels in the Irish capital are upping their rates by up to 174 percent for the holiday weekend.
A separate report has claimed that Ireland is one of the most expensive tourist destinations in the world.
TheJournal.ie reports that Trivago's analysis has concluded that the price of an average hotel room in the capital for Saturday 16 March, the night before the main festivities in Dublin, this year stands at almost $400 - well above the $140 average price for a room across the entire month of March.
Trivago also says that hotel rooms for this weekend, when France were in town for their Six Nations rugby clash with Ireland, saw significant price increases as well.
The average hotel room in Dublin this weekend cost $300.
The report says the inflated prices will not just hit the pockets of tourists visiting from abroad as the website claims that 55 percent of the searches for hotel rooms in the capital came from Irish internet users.
Trivago also reported 24 percent of searches were from British users, with 8 percent from Germany and 4 percent from Italy.
The Trivago figures also show that the price of the average hotel room in Dublin for March is up by 13 percent compared to February's price. Smaller increases have applied to prices in Killarney and Galway.
The price of an average hotel room across Ireland is down by 3 percent compared to last year, with Killarney in particular seeing a drop of 13 percent.
But another report says that Ireland remains one of the most expensive countries in the world for overseas holidaymakers.
High prices for fuel, ticket taxes, airport charges and hotels see Ireland ranked 115 out of 140 countries for price competitiveness in a new report from the World Economic Forum.
Irish hotel prices were ranked 38th cheapest in the world but fuel prices were among the highest, in 126th place.
Ireland did come 19th in the World Tourism & Travel Competitiveness Index 2013 on the back of good infrastructure, clear regulations, environmental sustainability, safety and security.
Switzerland was ranked first in the world for tourism competitiveness.


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LONDON (AP) — An international court on Monday ordered Russia to pay over $50 billion in compensation to the former majority shareholder of now-defunct oil producer Yukos over the expropriation of the company more than 10 years ago.
In one of the largest arbitration cases ever, a subsidiary for GML Ltd., once the biggest shareholder in Yukos Oil Co., had sought $103.5 billion from Russia.
The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin in 2003 leveled massive tax claims against Yukos, then Russia's largest oil company owned by the country's richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Russia imprisoned Khodorkovsky and seized the company's assets when they couldn't pay.
The move was widely seen as retaliation for Khodorkovsky's support for opposition political parties. Russia says it was merely seeking payment for back taxes and penalties that Yukos evaded in the period 2000-2003. Yukos shareholders received no compensation for that.
Khodorkovsky spent ten years in prison before he was pardoned by Putin in December last year. Khodorkovsky has said he is not party to the case and is not interested in its outcome.
GML, formerly Group Menetap Ltd., said the Permanent Court of Arbitration's ruling found Russia had sought to bankrupt Yukos and appropriate its assets and that it was determined to do whatever was necessary to achieve this purpose.
"The majority shareholders of Yukos Oil were left without compensation for the loss of their investment when Russia illegally expropriated Yukos," GML Executive Director Tim Osborne said in a statement. "It is a major step forward for the majority shareholders, who have been battling for over 10 years for this decision."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting earlier Monday, said Russia will be appealing the ruling.
"Authorities who are representing Russia in this trial will use all possible legal means to defend their position," Lavrov said.
The ruling adds to tensions between Russia and the international community at a time when relations are at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War. Following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union are debating further economic sanctions against Moscow because of its support for rebels suspected of launching the attack.
"It is GML's belief that the 'Yukos affair' was a major strand in the Russian government's strategy to bring Russia's natural resources under direct Kremlin control and to use those resources as a tool to reassert control over Russia's former sphere of influence," Osborne said in testimony before the U.S. Helsinki Commission in 2009. "It marked a turning point" as Russia moved away from its "commitment to the rule of law, property rights, and energy security."
GML sought relief from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, under the Energy Charter Treaty, which creates the legal basis for an open international energy market. The holding company claimed that Russia violated the treaty, which requires swift and fair compensation if assets are expropriated.
GML says that even before Russia filed its tax claim against Yukos, the company had paid $15 billion in taxes for the period on total income of $29 billion. The government claimed the company owed an additional $27 billion, bringing Yukos' total tax liability for the period to $42 billion — more than the company's gross income, according to GML.
"This is not taxation," Osborne said in testimony before a U.S. House Financial Services subcommittee in 2007. "This is confiscation."
Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report.


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MOSCOW (AP) — A US congressional delegation is spending a week in Russia meeting with high-level government and security officials to investigate whether more could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings.
Russia warned the United States in 2011 that bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a potential terrorist threat, but did not respond to US requests for more information.
"We think there is some information that is vital for us to know that hasn't been made public yet," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the California Republican who is leading the delegation, said Wednesday after the congressmen laid a wreath at the site of a 2000 terrorist attack in Moscow.
The delegation includes Rep. Michele Bachmann, who announced early Wednesday she wouldn't run for re-election in 2014. She was scheduled to arrive in Moscow late Wednesday, a day after the rest of the delegation.
Tsarnaev, who was killed by police a few days after the April 15 attack in Boston, spent six months last year in Dagestan, a southern Russian province that is the center of a low-level Islamic insurgency. US investigators are trying to determine whether Tsarnaev was radicalized during his time there.
Tsarnaev has ethnic roots and relatives in Dagestan and also in neighboring Chechnya, where federal troops and separatist militants fought two devastating wars in the past two decades. The wars spawned the Islamic insurgency that has spread throughout Russia's Caucasus.
Politico reported Tuesday that the congressional delegation had originally planned to visit Chechnya with help from action movie star Steven Seagal, but then reconsidered.
Seagal, who met with President Vladimir Putin in March, visited Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov last week. Kadyrov's spokesman posted a picture of Seagal on Instagram and quoted him as saying that he would return this week with the congressional delegation.
Rohrabacher confirmed to The Associated Press that the delegation had been in touch with Seagal, but declined to comment further.
Kadyrov often boasts of his success in quashing terrorism, but rights activists accuse him and his feared security forces of staggering abuses, including abduction, torture and murder.
Although the US and Russian presidents have pledged to improve counterterrorism cooperation, both sides have accused the other of being less than forthcoming. US officials have expressed frustration with the lack of information provided by Russia.
Russia's security services this month said they had caught a US Embassy employee in a clumsy attempt to recruit a Russian counterterrorism officer specializing in Dagestan. Russia accused the American of working for the CIA and expelled him.
In addition to Bachmann and Rohrabacher, who is chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, the congressional delegation includes William Keating, Steve King, Paul Cook and Steven Cohen.
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Throughout these negotiations, I have firmly been optimistic every step along the way. That has been a mistake as the NBA has disappointed me every step of the way. Despite holding marathon meetings after marathon meetings, the NBA and its players have failed to come close to making a deal much less punching a deal across the goal line. They have gone three and out every drive for the past two years. Despite how poorly talks have gone, there is once again a great deal of optimism surrounding this weeks discussions. Once again I feel confident a deal will be struck soon but this time I feel more confident than ever.
I believe there is a 70% chance that a deal, in principle of course, will be struck by Sunday night. There are multiple reasons for my optimism on this.
- When a deal in principle is reached, there will be a 30 day period in which free agency will begin, training camps will begin, the exhibition season will occur and the new CBA will be drafted and ratified. If the NBA is to squeeze in an 82 game season, they will need to have the season start in early December at the latest. If a deal in principle is reached by Sunday, October 30th, the season hypothetically could start December 1st. That would save the NBA's trademark Christmas Day games and would allow the NBA to potentially fit in an 82 game season.
- Multiple NBA stars have dropped out of the "World Tour" that was supposed to take place promoting the game all over the world. This was something the stars had their eyes set on and were excited for. What possible reasons would make them drop out? Maybe they know something we don't. Maybe a deal is close.
- I believe the players must by now realize that they have very little leverage in these negotiations as reality has begun to set in with them. Owners are willing to miss a season. Players need a season.


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In Missouri, 29 House Democrats voted in support of HJR 48, which now sits in the Senate. In Tennessee, seven Senate Democrats (out of 14) supported SB 3498, which now sits in the House. In Oklahoma, 20 House Democrats and 11 Senate Democrats voted in favor of HJR 1054, which is now poised for the November ballot. And in Virginia, SBs 417, 311, and 283 (which are now law) were approved by a Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate and had eight House Democrats supporting the measures. Virginia House Bill 10, a similar bill that now sits on the governor's desk, had 55% of House Democrats supporting it, as well as a majority of Legislative Black Caucus members in the House of Delegates. We don't have the exact Senate vote totals on HB 10, but it was similarly (and strikingly) bipartisan.So much for the extremism of opponents.


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WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- More than 6 million people have signed up for health insurance through federal or state exchanges, the White House said Thursday.
With just days to go before the Affordable Care Act's now-soft deadline for individuals to sign up, President Barack Obama told a call of healthcare volunteers and other people working to help enrollment efforts that the new numbers had surpassed the 6 million mark.
The administration had originally projected 7 million people would sign up for private plans by the March 31 deadline, then revised those numbers down significantly after the October 1 rollout of the exchanges was plagued by website glitches and other problems.
But numbers rebounded in the new year, with enrollment reaching 5 million earlier this month, with an average of 100,000 people enrolling each day since mid-March. Those numbers do not include those who signed up for Medicaid through the law's expansion, which admitted to the program people in participating states who earn up to 133 percent of the poverty level.
The enrollees are now allowed to continue the sign-up process through mid-April if they check a box saying they began by March 31.
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A state-of-the-art, privately-funded football stadium and sports complex featuring an artificial field surface and multi-tiered grandstand with a mezzanine view.
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Incumbent Theresa Romens and two other candidates will compete for a pair of seats on the Glenwood Community School District Board of Directors in the Sept. 8 school board elections.
Romens, who has served on the Glenwood school board since 2004 and as president since 2008, along with Henry Clark and Curt Becker have filed the necessary paperwork to seek the two at-large seats open this year in Glenwood.
Clark previously served on the school board from 2009-2012.
MALVERN - Linda Rempe has spent most of her career in education 1,800 miles from her hometown in southeastern Iowa.
But the Bonaparte native still calls Iowa home.
Rempe was formally hired as the new East Mills Middle-High School principal on June 22. She succeeds out-going principal Andy Irwin, who accepted the activities director position at Shenandoah High School this spring.
Rempe's first official day on the job was July 1.
MALVERN - East Mills has found its new principal.
Linda Rempe was offered and accepted the junior-senior high school's new principal job last week and was formally approved by the East Mills School Board in a special meeting last Monday at the school.
East Mills Superintendent Paul Croghan said Rempe's experience stood out among the five interviews Croghan and the district conducted in June.
After appearing to have its middle-high school principal position filled, the East Mills Community School District is once again interviewing candidates to fill the post vacated by Andy Irwin.
The district appeared to have hired Joanne Morenz to fill the principal position when she was offered and accepted the job May 21. But, two days later, Morenz declined the position and withdrew from consideration, according to East Mills Superintendent Paul Croghan.
The Glenwood Board of Directors approved 3.75 percent raises for the school district's department directors and administrators.
In a unanimous 5-0 vote at Monday's meeting in the Glenwood Community High School Media Center, the board formally approved the total package increases effective for the 2015-2016 school year. The raises cover 13 district employees – seven directors and six administrators – and comes on the heels of 4 percent raises for the district's teachers and non-union classified staff.
The Glenwood Community School District has locked in its 2015-2016 school calendar.
Classes will begin in Glenwood Monday, Aug. 24. The last day of school will be May 27, 2016.
The school start in Glenwood will be 11 days later than the recently-completed 2014-2015 year. The change, which is impacting districts all over the state, reflects a new state law barring Iowa school districts from starting school earlier than Aug. 23.
The Glenwood Board of Education approved its 2015-16 school district budget Monday, April 13, despite not having a firm commitment from the Iowa Legislature on how much supplemental aid the state will be allotting.
The Glenwood School District Board of Education will hold a public hearing Monday evening in the Glenwood Community High School Media Center to present the proposed 2015-2016 school district budget.
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We know that Landon Donovan will be returning to the LA Galaxy this year and now we know when.
The Galaxy issued a statement on Sunday stating that Donovan will be returning to the club during the last week of March. Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena had told reporters at the start of the preseason in January that he would return to the club at some point this year after a brief hiatus.
"After a series of collaborative discussions between Landon, his representative and our key club leaders, we have agreed to allow Landon to remain on an extended leave of absence and return to training with the team during the final week of March," Galaxy General Manager and Head Coach Bruce Arena said in the statement. "We understand this arrangement is not ideal, but we are confident it will allow Landon the time he needs to be both mentally and physically prepared for the upcoming season. We remain focused on our preparation for the start of the 2013 season and look forward to Landon rejoining us next month."
The announcement means that Donovan will miss LA's first three league matches and the entire CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal series against Herediano. Donovan's return date also means that he will likely not factor in the U.S. national team's World Cup qualifying matches against Costa Rica on March 22 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park and against Mexico at Estadio Azteca on March 26.
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PHILADELPHIA—More than 2,500 miles from Silicon Valley, in a small home office with a dog bed under the desk, sits a man on the cutting edge of the apps boom.
Loren Brichter isn't a household name. Nor are the mobile apps he has built, which include a Twitter client called Tweetie and a Boggle-like word game called Letterpress.
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I have a new pattern for you and it's a good one:
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Crochet alien xenomorph, when finished, is 21 cm tall (8.2 inches).
Alien franchise was one of the movies that made a huge impact on me when I was younger. I love the whole series, always had and always will, and as a huge fan I am so proud to present my newest creation . After making he went straight to my private display and I am not giving him to anyone, anyone! :) I think he is scary with just a hint of cuteness in him which makes him so perfect, at least for me!
Although I am not giving my finished alien to anyone, anyone! I wrote the pattern and hope you will make a good use of it :)
This pattern is for the medium advanced crocheters but if you are ready to try I am always ready to help. You should know basic crochet stitches including chain, slip stitch, single crochet, decrease, increase and how to start with magic ring.
I've put wires in his arms, legs and tail, but if you are doing this as a toy for a child (My little son loves monsters and aliens, but he is afraid of squirrels, true story:) I strongly recommend you to skip wiring, make a safe plush toy instead and sew everything twice as firmly as you would normally do (especially nails and teeth).


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One investor's risk insurance can be another's bread and butter. This week, we take advantage of the heavy demand for put insurance on good stocks, by taking the other side and writing high yielding out-of-the-money puts. Using our Screener (Old Version), we select underlying stocks that are likely to outperform the market, both on a fundamental and on a technical basis, and puts expiring in April, that offer a breakeven at least 7% below the stock price, and that offer a per annum yield of 20% or better.
Deer Consumer Products, Inc. (DEER) provides quality, small hoe and kitchen electric appliances. It offers a range of products, including blenders, juicers, and soy milk makers that are designed to make lifestyles simpler and healthier. Deer's products are sold both in the China domestic market and to export markets. In the domestic market, its products target China's growing middle-class and are sold primarily under the Deer brand name, as well as under one store brand for a retailer's private-label programs. In the export market, Deer offers its products for overseas consumer products companies that sell them under brand names, including Black & Decker, Ariete, Disney, Toastmaster, Magic Bullet, Back to Basics, and Betty Crocker Kitchens, as well as store brands for retailers' private-label programs. Deer is supported by more than 103 patents, trademarks, and copyrights. www.deerinc.com
OpenTable, Inc. (OPEN) provides free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners, and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants. The company's Web site connects an online network formed by thousands of restaurants with diners, concierges, and administrative professionals looking for available tables that meet desired criteria for cuisine, price and location at a specified time. It also provides the "electronic reservation book", an integrated software and hardware solution that computerizes reservation management, table management, guest recognition, e-mail marketing table management, and guest management for restaurants. www.opentable.com
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (POT) is one of the world's largest integrated fertilizer companies, producing potash (33% of 2009 sales), phosphate (34%), and nitrogen (33%) products. Annual capacities: potash, 13.2 million tons; phosphate, 9.6 million tons of phosphate rock; 2.4 phosphoric acid; nitrogen, 3.5 million tons of ammonia. www.potashcorp.com
Radware, Ltd. (RDWR) provides application delivery and network security solutions. The company offers AppDirector Intelligent Application Delivery Controller, a data center regulator to eliminate traffic surges, server bottlenecks, connectivity disconnects, and downtime; AppXcel Application Accelerator that performs Web compression and hypertext transfer protocol multiplexing; Application Performance Monitoring, a real-time application performance indicator; AppXML, which offers XML and Web services communications; DefensePro Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service products; Inflight; Insite ManagePro; LinkProof, a manager of Internet traffic for networks; LinkProof Branch, operating manager of multiple links across remote office links; SecureFlow; Virtual Director; and SIP Director. Radware serves banks, insurance companies, manufacturing and retail, government agencies, media companies, telecommunication carriers, and Internet and application service providers. www.radware.com
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (SWKS) offers analog and mixed-signal semiconductors worldwide. The company provides power amplifiers and front-end solutions for cellular devices from entry level to multimedia platforms and smart phones. Its product portfolio consists of amplifiers, attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches, and technical ceramics. Skyworks also offers MIS silicon chip capacitors, transceivers, and modulators. The company markets its products to automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military, and cellular handset applications. Recently, Skyworks opened an office in Singapore to support increasing demand for solutions within its linear products portfolio and to further enhance its manufacturing activities in the region. www.skyworksinc.com
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Sunday, December 25, 2011
briefly back, baby!
I'm working again at Minjok's leadership camp. It's Christmas day and I'm a little lonely, but I celebrated Christmas (Kitzmas) with my family on the 20th.
Yesterday, I had a short but great hike at Hwa-am Sa. I did this hike a few years ago with a Sokcho friend and the wind was so strong my glasses were ripped from my face. This year, I held on to my glasses (and kept a spare pair in the car just in case). It was every bit as cold and windy as last time. In fact it was so windy that I couldn't see precisely where I was shooting - hence the gap in my stitched photo above.
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Check out this story: Candidate Walks 40 Miles To Run For Office
Too bad he's not in our voting area. I don't know his platform, but I'd vote for him just because he had the guts to walk 40 miles!
A collection of personal thoughts and experiences - mostly centered around running.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Running For Office?
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He seemed very persistent in meeting his goal. I imagine he received some much needed publicity through this walk.ReplyDelete
Hey! He could've done Highlands Sky!ReplyDelete
Somehow I think he would have had a little more trouble (but more fun!) with HS . . . hey I'm going to run 100 Miles in a few weeks, what office should I run for?ReplyDelete
You will be a shoe-in for the Mayor of Beverly. One problem though, since your fellow citizens of Beverly know about your running ability, they might require that you run home after the 100 mile race to prove your worthiness!ReplyDelete
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Dr. Khaldoun Khashanah Awarded Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant
Recently the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awarded Stevens a grant to work on the proposal entitled "Creating a standard language for financial contracts and a contract-centric analytical framework". The team in this proposal consists of Khaldoun Khashanah, Professor and Director of Financial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Willi Brammertz, lead author of Unified Financial Analysis (UFA), and Allan Mendelowitz representing Deloitte.
The goal of this project is to build a financial instrument reference database that represents virtually all financial contracts as algorithms that link changes in risk factors (market risk, credit risk, and behavior, etc.) to cash flow obligations of financial contracts. This reference database will be the technological core of a future open source community that will maintain and evolve standardized financial contract representations for the use of regulators, risk managers, and researchers. The objective of the project is to develop a set of about 30 unique contract types (CT's) that represent virtually all existing financial contracts and which generate state contingent cash flows at a high level of precision.
The team on this project says, "We believe that this project, combined with the successful completion of the FSB LEI effort, will impact every activity related to financial risk assessment: it will significantly improve regulation of individual institutions, monitoring of systemic risk, and enterprise risk management. It will also make possible new avenues of research into systemic risk that will make financial markets safer and more efficient."
The technology aims to develop the CT's, write production level code for the cash flow generating algorithms, create an easily accessible website where researchers and practitioners can test the CT's for coverage and accuracy, report results at conferences and in scholarly publications, and launch an Open Source Community to maintain and promote the use of this reference data-base.
The result provides a high quality reference database for almost all outstanding financial contracts, a website for the public to access and test the algorithms, publications, an open source community to maintain and promote the CT's.
For more information on this project please contact, Dr. Khashanah at [email protected].


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Total Joinery Supplies Provides Customised Services
Thomastown, Australia – Feb. 5, 2016 – Laz Fogas, owner of Total Joinery Supplies, announced that the full service company offers custom services for homes, businesses and commercial projects. The company has more than 30 years of experience, allowing the specialists to craft unique and innovative solutions for new construction projects and renovations within existing structures.
"All of our joinery is custom built using the very latest in manufacturing techniques and the highest quality materials," said Fogas.
Total Joinery Supplies specializes in award-winning designs that make optimal use of available space, while providing clients with custom solutions that reflect their own personal style. Odd, unusual and awkward spaces that present décor, design and utilization problems are areas in which the company's artisans excel.
The company has been called upon for its expertise in high-end residential, commercial and business properties throughout Australia and works with each client from the concept stage to completion. The craftsmen at Total Joinery Supplies perform kitchens thomastown and alfresco joinery and provide solutions for bathroom vanities, laundry cabinets and linen storage, open shelving, and wall and entertainment units.
Only materials from major suppliers are utilized to ensure high-quality projects that perform as desired for many years. The company works with joinery for natural and engineered stone, along with a wide variety of specially engineered surfaces. The company provides joinery for quartz countertops and thermoplastic materials for easy care creations that provide quality, functionality and beautify surroundings.
Total Joinery Supplies is skilled in the use of a comprehensive variety of woods, their characteristics and the best joinery method needed for each. A variety of factors influence the type of joinery that's used, ranging from heat and humidity to cooling and environmental stressors. The appropriate method of joinery ensures that installations remain strong and durable within a variety of applications.
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If you've been tuned in this election season to the love fests that pass for political conventions, you'll be forgiven for buying into the American myth of social mobility. Politicians of all stripes are repeating the shopworn promise that pedigree is not a gatekeeper to the land of milk and honey and to a mansion on the hill like the 1 percent have.
But the path to the American Dream it is not quite that easy or open, according to a University of Michigan researcher.
The reality is that if you hope to climb the economic ladder, it pays to have the right parents. Native talent, foursquare values, lofty ambition, hard work, pluck and a little bit of luck are all well and good, but they're no substitute for coming from a family with a high net worth, according to Fabian Pfeffer, a sociologist at the U-M Institute for Social Research who is studying inequality across generations around the world.
"Especially in the United States, people underestimate the extent to which your destiny is linked to your background," said Pfeffer. "Research shows that it's really a myth that the U.S. is a land of exceptional social mobility."
[Rich People Reveal Secrets to Becoming Wealthy]
Parental wealth, Pfeffer found, has an influence above and beyond the three factors that sociologists and economists traditionally consider in research on social mobility: parental education, income and occupation. His research is based on data on two generations of families in the U.S. and a comparison with similar data from Germany and Sweden.
"Wealth not only fulfills a purchasing function, allowing families to buy homes in good neighborhoods and send their children to costly schools and colleges, for example, but it also has an insurance function, offering a sort of private safety net that gives children a very different set of choices as they enter the adult world," Pfeffer said.
It turns out that the path to success and social mobility is often a toll road.
"Despite the widespread belief that the U.S. provides exceptional opportunities for upward mobility, these data show that parental wealth has an important role in shielding offspring from downward mobility and sustaining their upward mobility in the U.S. no less than in countries like Germany and Sweden, where parental wealth also serves as a private safety net that not even the more generous European public programs and social services seem to provide."
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Kodak's Innovation and Materials Science Institute to Partner with Innovation Accelerator
Kodak's Innovation and Materials Science Institute to Partner with Innovation Accelerator
Innovation Accelerator to invest in IMSI growth and commercialization model at Eastman Business Park - another major step toward the Park's revitalization
ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Eastman Kodak Company and Innovation Accelerator, a national public-private entity, today announced an agreement under which Innovation Accelerator will step into an active leadership role of the Innovation and Materials Science Institute (IMSI), Kodak's technology accelerator established to help move early- to middle-stage companies from innovation to commercialization.
"The Institute was founded to take intellectual property from prototyping and proof of concept into commercialization, thereby substantially reducing the time and expense it takes technology innovators to become self-sustaining, to create jobs and turn a profit," said Brad Kruchten, President of Kodak's Graphics, Entertainment and Commercial Films group and a founding board member of IMSI.
"Moving IMSI into a tightly-aligned relationship with the Innovation Accelerator is a great step forward, and we're thrilled to work in partnership with an organization that has common goals, a national reach and a strong track record of success," Kruchten added.
Innovation Accelerator's vision is to drive America's competitive advantage in the global marketplace by promoting innovation as an economic growth engine. John Pyrovolakis, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Innovation Accelerator, said that he and his team work with hundreds of entrepreneurial start-up companies across the country, and many could benefit from the infrastructure IMSI provides.
"Our nation remains the global innovation leader in areas of Kodak's historical strength: materials and chemicals. But our innovations in these areas are increasingly being manufactured - and monetized - abroad," Pyrovolakis said. "This 'invented here, built there' problem poses a threat to our nation's economic well-being. It is our hope that collaboration with Kodak's Innovation and Materials Science Institute can buck this trend, to the great benefit of both our nation and Eastman Business Park.
"Our work today - bringing highly innovative small and middle-stage companies from all over the nation to the Park - is a first step in this direction. It is a first step in the direction of restoring our nation's global manufacturing and innovation dominance, leveraging the Park and its unique assets and infrastructure as an iconic symbol of this dominance," Pyrovolakis added.
"In addition, we now have access to people with the experience and know-how to operate these machines and manufacture next generation thin film and coatings products for a multitude of applications," Pyrovolakis said. "These physical and knowledge assets are a tremendous and ready resource to the kind of companies with whom we work."
IMSI will emerge as a not-for-profit entity, and along with Innovation Accelerator, will continue with a significant presence at Eastman Business Park, where Pyrovolakis said he expects to see strong future growth - both in the number of companies operating there and the number of advanced manufacturing jobs created.
On a broader scale, Pyrovolakis said the model established in Rochester will take on national relevance as "we begin to identify assets in other locales which are similar to those available at Eastman Business Park, and use the IMSI accelerator model to create similar manufacturing partnerships."
About Kodak
Kodak is transforming itself into a B2B company focused on its Commercial Imaging business. Kodak will be centered on commercial, packaging and functional printing solutions and enterprise services, businesses in which it offers customers advanced technologies and products that give them a competitive advantage. The company also offers leading products and services in Entertainment Imaging and Commercial Films. Its Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging businesses are being marketed for sale. For additional information on Kodak, please visit our website at www.kodak.com.
About IMSI
The Innovation and Materials Science Institute (IMSI) is composed of academic and business leaders from key areas of the innovation economy - sustainability, clean technology, energy efficiency, consumer electronics and health care. They have come together to focus on leveraging innovation as means to promote economic growth through the application of Materials Science. The Institute is committed to serving as an accelerator for middle-stage technology companies in today's Innovation Economy - allowing them to fully develop their business concepts from the lab-scale prototype stages of innovation to the later stages of production and commercialization. For more information, visit www.imsibiz.com.
About Innovation Accelerator
Innovation Accelerator is a public-private partnership with a federal agency. Innovation Accelerator's mission is to promote our nation's economic competitiveness in the global economy by promoting American innovation. IA's impact and approach to commercialization of extremely high tech and generally early stage federally backed technologies has been cited by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as a model platform. IA supported companies have received funding from top shelf venture capital funds, and been acquired by fortune 500 companies over the past three years.
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