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DebraD necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Debra Duran & Associates/www.debraduran-associates.com
We are a court reporting firm in Florida. Our clients are attorneys/lawyers who hire us to report depositions, trials, meetings, etc etc. I want to attract large and small firms so looking for a sleek, professional look but also want a "little" personality. I was leaning toward incorporating a lighthouse into my logo and my slogan to be "Your Beacon to Superior Court Reporting Services". I do sponsorships and am always being asked to upload my logo for their flyers, e-mails blasts, etc and would like the logo to be used for letterhead, flyers, and eventually a new website design to tie in.
We primarily work for lawyers, paralegals, and the court system; all realms of legal.
As stated above, need a logo to incorporate into letterhead, email, etc. I need my name in it, Debra Duran & Associates but am also open to enlarging the initials of DDA..........and then somehow spinning the full name off of that: Debra Duran & Associates. I like the idea of incorporating a lighthouse because I love all things water and thought it would be a cool slogan on the website of " Your Beacon to Superior Court Reporting Services." I'm COMPLETELY un-creative so I'm very open to creativity! Professional looking is a must... no cartoons or too fancy.
The attachment is my feeble attempt at creating this logo myself but gives a glimpse of the "lighthouse" concept.
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It is tempting for your clients to jump at the opportunity to claim Social Security benefits as soon as they become eligible, but for many clients, this might not be the wisest move. Whether a client waits until age 70 or begins taking benefits at 62, taxation of Social Security benefits is complicated and interacts with taxes on retirement accounts and other income in ways that are not easy to anticipate. Your advice in this area can make all the difference in minimizing taxes on Social Security benefits and ensuring that your clients receive the maximum from Social Security to supplement their retirement income.
When to Start Collecting
Your clients can elect to begin collecting Social Security benefits anytime between ages 62 and 70, but as you know, the size of the monthly benefit increases when payments begin later. For example, a retiree earning about $150,000 a year could collect about $1,760 per month if he chooses to begin receiving benefits at age 62, but the amount increases to $2,388 beginning at age 66 and $3,209 per month at age 70.
While this system is designed to approximate equal benefits for all recipients, in reality the situation is different for each client. A client with a higher life expectancy might be well advised to delay collecting payments until age 70, but this depends on his retirement portfolio and general financial situation.
Usually, your clients should not begin collecting Social Security until they have retired, especially if they are younger than age 66 (which is considered full retirement age). Before age 66, tax penalties are applied to any earnings above $14,640, so that for every additional $2 earned, $1 can be lost to taxes.
If your client is retired and has other retirement funds to draw upon, there are reasons why it might be beneficial to wait until his full retirement age (or even later) to begin collecting benefits. For example, a married decedent's surviving spouse is entitled to choose between the higher of the two benefit checks (assuming both were receiving benefits). If the spouse who provides the couple's primary source of income waits until age 70 to claim benefits, a lower income spouse can later claim this higher benefit.
(Wonder how long your clients can count on receiving any benefits at all from Social Security? See AdvisorOne's latest article on the projections released on April 24 by the Social Security trustees.)
Minimizing Taxes on Social Security Benefits
Regardless of when your client chooses to begin collecting Social Security, she needs to understand how benefits will be taxed. Not all Social Security benefits are subject to income taxes—the percentage of benefits subject to tax is based on the recipient's combined income. Combined income means adjusted gross income (AGI) plus tax-exempt income and one-half of Social Security benefits.
For a married couple with combined income of between $32,000 and 44,000 ($25,000 to $34,000 for an individual), 50% of Social Security benefits will be taxed. This percentage jumps to 85% for couples with combined income over $44,000 ($34,000 for an individual).
Clients who are still earning while collecting Social Security obviously subject their benefits to a higher level of tax than those who have already retired, but income from retirement accounts is also considered.
For example, if your client is an individual with AGI plus Social Security benefits that exceeds $34,000, she must carefully consider how additional income will be taxed. If an additional $1,000 is withdrawn from a 401(k), taxable income will actually be increased by $1,850 because an additional $850 (85% of $1,000) of Social Security benefits will become subject to tax. If the client were to withdraw funds from a Roth IRA, where taxes are paid when deposited and not when withdrawn, she could avoid the extra taxes on Social Security income.
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While there are no simple answers to clients' questions about Social Security, sound financial advice can be critical in the decision-making process. Managing the way Social Security and withdrawals from retirement accounts are timed can help your clients save substantially and maximize the benefits they are entitled to receive throughout retirement.
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Anne Donnellan passed away peacefully on New Year?s Day. Anne was born on a farm outside of Cleveland, Ohio. During World War II, she worked at Alcoa. After the War, she, her husband Bob, and their three children moved to Southern California, where she lived for 30 years. Upon Bob?s retirement from Lockheed, Anne and Bob moved to Paradise, Calif. Bob predeceased her in 1993. In 2006 Anne moved to Pleasanton to live with her daughter and son-in-law, Donna and Jim Zarrillo. Anne had a wonderful circle of friends and was very active. She most enjoyed playing poker at the Pleasanton Senior Center every week. Anne is predeceased by her husband, Bob and son, Danny. She is survived by her son Dennis, who lives overseas; her daughter Donna Zarrillo of Pleasanton; her grandchildren Matt Tibbetts of Apopka, Fla., Julia Edge of Portland, Ore., Dana Donnellan of Paradise, Calif., and Angela Donnellan. In addition, she is survived by her three great-grandchildren, Angela, Hannah and Sydney. Anne will be very missed by all who knew her. Services and burial will be in Paradise. A memorial service will be planned at a later date in Pleasanton.


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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State University men's and women's tennis teams lost both matches to Western Kentucky on Saturday afternoon at the TSU Tennis Complex. The women (0-10) fell 7-0, as the men (0-9) lost 6-1 to the Hilltoppers.
In doubles action, the Tigers' number one tandem of Lawrence Washington and Shaun Ingram defeated WKU's Josh Smith and Arul Selvan, 8-3. The Tigers lost the remaining doubles contests as Andrew Fish/Craig Kirchgessner defeated TSU's William Simmons/Jared Asher, 8-2. The Tigers forfeited the third doubles contest.
Washington, a native of Canton, Mich., secured his fourth win of the season with a win (7-5, 4-6, 10-2) over Josh Smith. Western Kentucky's number two player Lance Freeman won 6-0, 6-3 over Ingram.
Fish knocked off Simmons, 6-1, 6-0 in the third slot, while Kirchgessner defeated Asher, 6-1, 6-0. In the fifth spot, Brody Freeman knocked off James Shelton 6-0, 6-0 to secure the Hilltoppers' fifth point. TSU forfeited the No. 6 position.
In women's doubles, the Hilltoppers' Monta Reinfelde/Madeline Phillips defeated Lauren and London Thomas, 8-1. In the second contest, Alex Crofford/Carolina Barboza won 8-1 over Melynda Simmons/Kryston Mason. Katrina Vucina/Morgan Freeman won 8-1 over TSU's Shardel Suber/Khadijah Williams in the third match.
Reinfelde swept Simmons (6-0, 6-0) in the top singles contest as Crofford handed London Thomas a loss (6-3, 6-1).
In the third slot, Barboza won 6-0, 6-1 over Lauren Thomas. Vucina managed a 6-0, 6-1 over Kryston Mason. Tennessee State's Suber fell 6-1, 6-0 to Phillips as Freeman collected a 6-1, 6-3 vicotry over Williams.
Tennessee State hosts senior day on Sunday, honoring Lawrence Washington in his final home match. The Tigers play their final regular season OVC match with Jacksonville State at 2pm inside the TSU Tennis Complex.


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Western art
The term 'Western art' largely describes the art of western Europe, but is also used as a general category for forms of art that are now geographically widespread but that have their roots in Europe.
Art historians describe the history of Western art in terms of successive periods and/or movements, including classical, medieval, Byzantine, Romanesque, Renaissance, baroque, rococo, neoclassicism, Romanticism, realism, Impressionism, modernism and postmodernism. Definitions of these periods are often debated, as it is impossible to pinpoint where they begin and end, or to account for the wide array of art produced within them. Nevertheless, such terms are indispensable in navigating the complex history and stylistic shifts of Western art across time.
Two other keys to understanding Western art lie in the changes that occurred in how the art was made and who it was made for.
From the middle ages (late 5th to 14th or 15th centuries) up until the 19th century, most artworks were commissioned (ie custom-made for a specific patron). The church and the state were the most significant patrons, so most artworks depicted biblical or historical scenes, or portraits of rulers and religious leaders. The myths of ancient Greece and Rome became metaphors for royal or noble virtues and deeds. Other genres, such as still life, landscape and scenes of everyday life, were more popular amongst private patrons or in times and places where secular or public tastes dominated – the great tradition of Dutch still-life painting in the 17th century, for example, or the popularity of scenes of love and pleasure in 18th-century France. Imagery was popularised through the distribution of prints (usually engravings) that copied paintings or sculptures, which meant that certain styles, compositions, motifs and symbols were exchanged, re-used and adapted by artists time and again.
The traditional heart of artistic production and training was the workshop or atelier, presided over by a master artist. Apprentices learned their craft by preparing materials and helping the master execute commissions (by painting the background or drapery, for instance). The establishment of state-supported academies of art in major centres from the 16th century onwards changed the profession significantly. Academies trained artists in areas such as perspective and anatomy, and also sought to raise the intellectual status of the visual arts and to represent artists as a professional group (replacing the medieval system of craft guilds). They also initiated the first public art exhibitions, making artworks usually destined for private ownership accessible to all.
The 19th century saw many fundamental changes in society and art. The decline of royal and church power meant that many traditional subjects for art became less and less relevant. The industrial revolution and rise of new technologies produced new working methods and materials – from the development of new synthetic pigments for painters to the invention of entirely new mediums in the form of photography and film. New political and economic structures broadened the free market for art through private galleries and dealers, which meant that, increasingly, artists could be driven by their own desires rather than those of their patrons. Academies generally resisted these changes, leading to a gulf between academic art and the avant-garde. More than ever before, artists came to be regarded as creative and independent – a long way from their medieval predecessors, who were regarded as craftspeople in the service of the state or church.
In recent decades, globalisation has challenged our notions of 'the West' and what constitutes Western art. Although some Western traditions of art (such as oil painting, marble sculpture, still lifes and landscapes) still persist, artists, like all of us today, are citizens in a global village. For more information, see contemporary art, photography and Asian art.


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President Obama nominated a career diplomat and Middle East expert as the next US ambassador to Libya Wednesday, six months after a terrorist attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, that took the life of Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
The White House announced that the president was nominating Deborah Jones, a former ambassador to Kuwait and currently a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, to fill the vacancy left at the top of the US Embassy in Tripoli after Ambassador Stevens and three other American officials were killed in the Sept. 11 assault on the Benghazi mission.
If confirmed by the Senate for the Libya post, Ambassador Jones would take on a diplomatic position associated with both a success and perhaps the most searing failing of Mr. Obama's first-term foreign policy.
Faced with a looming bloodbath of Libyan civilians in Benghazi as forces of Col. Muammar Qaddafi closed in on the eastern opposition stronghold in the spring of 2011, Obama ordered US participation in an international intervention that checked Mr. Qaddafi's advances in his battle with opposition forces.
By October 2011 the Qaddafi regime was finished, the mercurial leader killed by a mob of opposition fighters.
Less than a year later Benghazi would become a symbol of anti-American sentiment in a roiling Middle East. The shifting forces shaping the "Arab Spring" became all the more alarming after Stevens, who was first named a special envoy to the Libyan opposition in Benghazi in 201l, was killed in a firebombing of the US's Benghazi mission a year later.
Stevens was the first US ambassador killed on the job since 1979.
Republicans in Congress launched investigations into the Benghazi debacle both before and after the November presidential election, accusing the White House of covering up the administration's failure to respond to Stevens' requests for beefed up diplomatic security in Libya.
Republicans also blasted the administration for initially attributing the attack on the mission to a mob of demonstrators expressing their fury over an anti-Islam video produced in the US.
Stevens, who had made on his own the decision to travel to a Benghazi he felt he knew well, would also come to symbolize the tensions inherent in 21st century diplomacy, where public contact is considered all the more necessary, even as it has become – at least in some regions of the world – all the more dangerous.
Jones served as ambassador to Kuwait from 2008-2011. In this new assignment, she would also be taking on the challenge of Libya's ungoverned zones, where Islamist extremists – some known to be affiliated with Al Qaeda – have seized arms left by the Qaddafi regime and taken advantage of unprotected borders to move around and operate in neighboring countries, including Algeria and on into Mali.
The veteran diplomat has kept a low profile since returning to Washington after her Kuwait assignment, perhaps purposefully avoiding the kind of controversy that could doom future diplomatic prospects.
But Jones did offer some insight into her views on the reasons for the Arab world's political upheaval – and on the question of how long US officials have sensed that change in the region was inevitable – when she moderated a Middle East Institute panel last November on a Middle East in transition.
Jones showed few cards in moderating the discussion, but she did relate a discussion that she said two well-placed sources told her occurred when now-deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited then-President George W. Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2005.
President Bush told President Mubarak that the US appreciated how Egypt under his rule was a pillar of stability, but according to Jones Bush also told Mubarak "something he felt very strongly about," and that was that the Egyptian people were becoming "restless," she said, and would cause Mubarak "trouble down the road" if he did not begin meaningful political reforms.
To which Mubarak, according to Jones's two sources, responded by putting his hand on Bush's arm and saying, "Thank you, George, but you don't know the Egyptian people."
Jones's commentary on that quote? "Well, somebody didn't know the Egyptian people."


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sting Seton Academy
By Jeff Benjamin
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(Originally posted Saturday)
[November 26, 2012]
Coaches like Lincoln's Neil Alexander don't get to 500 wins
at one school without having the ability to know on any given night
which reserves will be able to make the biggest impact on the game. Friday night was no exception as the Hall of Fame coach reached 500
wins at Lincoln, thanks to key contributions from his bench, on his
way to leading the Railers to a 61-51 win over Seton Academy. Unfortunately, he may have to reach a little more into his bench
than expected.
the game, on the minds of the Railers and their fans was the
condition of junior Joey Olden, who left the game early in the
fourth quarter with an apparent serious hand injury. Olden, whose
layup at the 5:47 mark put the Railers up 43-35, lost his balance on
the drive and landed awkwardly on his left hand. Olden immediately
grabbed at the hand as he was on his back, lying up against the wall under the Railer basket for a couple of minutes. Once to his feet, Olden, who
scored a career-high eight points, went straight to the end of bench
and began applying ice to the hand.
"He's supposed to get it X-rayed
and let me know tonight," Alexander said. "At this point we have to
prepare like he's not going to be available tomorrow (Saturday)."
The Olden injury was a negative during an otherwise positive performance
from the Railer squad that
improved to 2-1 on the season and put themselves in a position to
still challenge for the title of this
year's Eaton Electrical Round Robin Tournament.
The Railers were led by Edward Bowlby's 14 points, but it was
contributions from reserves Tyler
Horchem (12 points) and Bobby Dunovsky (seven), that helped Lincoln
stay close to the Sting while dealing with early foul trouble from
Olden and Will Podbelsek. It was Podbelsek who got a chance to put
Lincoln up before any time had run off the clock after Seton Academy
was assessed a technical foul for dunking during warm-ups. Once
again, the free throw struggles continued, as the senior missed both
The most important play of the game may have been a turnover. When
Gavin Block passed the ball in the backcourt to Max Cook in the
first minute of the game, the ball went right through Cook's hands
and out of bounds. Coach Alexander was quick to send a message to
his junior guard by inserting Horchem into the contest.
"Max is our
point guard and they usually get blamed for everything," Alexander
explained. "But you've got to be ready to play and ... sometimes you
need to get a boost in the backside to get back on track."
See, this
is how you get to the level of coach Alexander. When Cook
returned to the lineup after Podbelsek had picked up his second
foul, his intensity had increased.
Seton jumped out to a 12-8 lead after Christopher Seaton hit his
fourth 3 of the quarter. Lincoln put together an 8-0 run on
3s from Horchem and Bowlby and a basket from Block. Bowlby ended
the Railer scoring in the first quarter on a reverse lay-in where he
used the rim to protect himself, pushing the lead to 18-15. A late
basket from the Sting cut the lead to one to end the period.
The first batch of unexpected scoring came in the early stages of
the second quarter. With Dunovsky
and Austin Krusz on the floor, replacing Olden and Bowlby, Dunovsky
hit two 3s in a row to put Lincoln ahead 24-22. The Railers had
a chance to add more after the second one, when Block was fouled
while setting a screen to free Dunovsky, but could not capitalize.
Cook was finally able to hit the scoring column with a nice up-and-under move in the lane to give the Railers a 26-22 advantage. After
Seton scored five in a row to take back the lead, Block's two free
throws gave Lincoln the halftime lead of 28-27.
The Sting continued their 9-2 run to jump out to a 32-28 lead to
start the third quarter. If the fans were waiting for the Railers to
finally lose sight of the Sting, the crowd would be disappointed as
the spunky bunch of Railers kept hanging tough. A basket from Cook
followed by an Olden free throw brought the Railers to within one,
and after an offensive rebound from Block, Cook drained a 3 to
put Lincoln back up 34-32. The scoring was all part of a 15-3 run
that stretched into the fourth quarter, including a pair of free
throws from Block that gave Lincoln the lead 36-35 at the end of
the third as well as for good, as the Sting would not enjoy the lead for
the rest of the night.
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The offensive output continued in the fourth on a drive from Olden
and big 3 from Bowlby.
Lincoln's next score, another driving layup from Olden, thanks to a
back-door pass from Block, extended the lead to 43-35, but may have
also altered Lincoln's season due to the injury suffered by Olden on
the play.
The teams traded scoring, and when Bowlby converted on a
traditional three-point play, the Railers enjoyed their first double-digit lead at 50-40.
As much as has been made about the Lincoln free-throw shooting
-- just 41 percent over the first two games -- the Sting
had their own issues on Friday. Going just 11 of 19, Seton converted
on only three free throws during the stretch, getting to within
50-43. Bowlby's basket put the lead back to nine at 52-43 and was
Lincoln's final field goal of the game. The final nine points came
from the free-throw line as the Railers missed only three of their
final shots from the charity stripe to secure the win at 61-51.
With the win, the Railers pulled even with Centennial and Seton at
2-1, trailing only Cahokia at 3-0. If things break right on
Saturday, Lincoln still has a chance to get the title. However, it
may be free throw shooting that bites them again. If there is a tie,
the champion is determined by best free throw percentage. First
things first, though, as there are no guarantees in games against
Danville and Champaign Centennial.
It was good night of balance in the scoring column with three
Railers -- Bowlby (14), Horchem (12) and Cook (12) -- in double
figures. Olden added eight before his injury, with Dunovsky's seven and
Block's six points adding to the balance, and Podbelsek scoring
The other games on Friday night saw Centennial down Morton 47-35, and
Cahokia got by Danville 72-50.
Lots of action on Saturday at Roy S. Anderson Gymnasium, with Lincoln
starting at 10 a.m. against Danville, followed by Morton taking on
Cahokia and Seton facing off against Centennial. The night session
starts with Danville going up against Morton, Cahokia battling
Seton, and the Railers finishing off the tournament against
Centennial at 8 p.m.
Bowlby 5 2-3 14, Cook 3 5-6 12, Horchem 3 3-4 12, Olden 3 1-2 8,
Dunovsky 2 1-2 7, Block 1 4-5 6, Podbelsek 1 0-2 2, Krusz 0 0-0 0.
Team 18 16-24 61.
3-point field goals 9 (Horchem 3, Bowlby 2,
Dunovsky 2, Cook, Olden).
Seaton 15, Shasi 14, Weems 9, Harrison 4, Payton 3, Mooring 2,
Clemons 1, D.Evans 1, E. Evans 1, Foster. Team 16 11-19 51.
3-point field goals 8 (Seaton 5, Payton, Weems,
Scoring by quarters:
18-10-8-25 61
Seton Aca 17-10-8-16 51
[By JEFF BENJAMIN]
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Bayer, Nestle among companies leading carbon-cutting efforts
Bayer and Nestle are leading efforts to measure and cut emissions as companies increasingly view extreme weather events caused by climate change as a threat to their business, the Carbon Disclosure Project said.
About 37 per cent of respondents in a survey of the 500 biggest companies reported an immediate danger to their operations from disruptions ranging from floods that shut factories in Thailand to drought that's decimated crops in the US, the London-based non-profit said today in a report. That's up from 30 per cent last year and 10 per cent in 2010.
"There's an attention to extreme weather events which are in many cases disrupting businesses' operations and supply chains," Carbon Disclosure Project Executive Chairman Paul Dickinson said yesterday in a phone interview. "Legislative action and extreme weather events are coming together to provide a tipping point for companies to pay attention to emissions."
The number of companies incorporating climate change into business plans rose 10 per centage points this year, and those that monitor their emissions have proved a better investment than those that don't, according to the report. Even so, the pace of emissions cuts is nowhere near what's needed, said co- author PwC.
German drugmaker Bayer and Swiss foodmaker Nestle topped the CDP's list of companies disclosing and cutting carbon, followed by Spanish utility Gas Natural SDG SA, German automaker Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and chemical company BASF SE, also from Germany.
Taxing carbon
Emissions targets show companies plan to trim CO2 by 1 per cent a year, a quarter of the rate that global consultant PwC says is needed to meet the United Nations goal of constraining global warming since the 18th century to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
"What's needed is government action -- taxation and regulation of greenhouse gases," said Dickinson. "CO2 is a valueless pollutant, so it's not really possible to address without government action."
Greenhouse pollutants are already traded in the European Union, where corporate emissions are capped, with systems in operation or being set up in countries and regions including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, China, California and nine states in the northeast US
"It is vital that we internalize the costs of future environmental damage into today's decisions by putting an effective price on carbon," Carbon Disclosure Project Chief Executive Officer Paul Simpson said in the report's forward.
Biggest companies
The CDP requested data from the so-called Global 500 companies, the biggest by market capitalization in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series. A total of 405 businesses supplied the information, though today's report is based only on the 379 that replied by July 31.
The 379 respondents reported emissions totaling 3.6 billion metric tons. That's a decline of more than half a billion metric tons, equivalent to pollution from 138 million cars, from 2009, when 409 replies were processed.
About 82 per cent of companies said they have set themselves emissions targets, though only 20 per cent had goals to 2020 and beyond. Seventy-eight per cent said they integrate climate change into their strategy, and 96 per cent said they have a board member or senior executive with oversight of climate change.
Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Royal Bank of Canada, Caterpillar, Amazon.com, Comcast, America Movil SAB, Lukoil OAO, Bank of China and National Oilwell Varco were the biggest companies not to reply, the CDP said.
Top 10
The top 10 was rounded out by U.K. drinks-maker Diageo, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, German insurer Allianz SE, Swiss bank UBS and Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp.
A total of 51 of the companies surveyed were included in the project's Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index for 2012 after meeting requirements for transparency of emissions reporting and performance in reducing greenhouse gases over the past year. Nineteen are American, seven are German and four are Swiss.
A separate report on the members of the S&P 500 Index of US stocks showed that 52 per cent said they were attempting to cut their emissions, up from 35 per cent last year. The proportion of companies seeking outside verification of their emissions data almost doubled to 42 per cent.
The reports were carried out by CDP on behalf of 655 institutional investors with $78 trillion in assets.
An investment in a basket of stocks based on the Global 500 disclosure leadership index, and rebalanced each year to reflect the new index members would have generated total returns of 67 per cent, compared with the 31 per cent return from an investment in all the Global 500 members, according to the study.
Resilient future
"Companies that work to decouple greenhouse gas emissions from financial returns have the potential for both short and long-term cost savings, sustainable revenue generation and a more resilient future," Simpson said.
More than four-fifths of companies said climate change posed an immediate or future physical risk to their operations, up from 71 per cent last year.
"Recent extreme weather and natural events have tested companies' business resilience and increased their level of understanding of the timeframes of the physical risks they associate with climate change," the study said. "Physical risks are viewed as tangible and present, impacting companies' operations, supply chains and business planning."


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Gathered, Protected, and Preserved
Today's passage is clear that no one can snatch God's people out of His hand. There is no doubt that the elect will be redeemed, and if there is no doubt that the elect include people from every tribe and ...Read More
The Holy Catholic Church
The existence of the church is not a "plan b" that God turned to when "plan a" did not work out. Instead, the church is the goal toward which the Lord has been working from the beginning. A church made ...Read More
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There are men and women struggling with sexual sin in all of our congregations. They want to please God and are seeking to mortify the flesh, and we should do all that we can to help them. This means creating ...Read More
Impurity Condemned
The antidote to covetousness and the sexual immorality it inspires is thanksgiving (Eph. 5:4). When we recognize how greatly the Lord has blessed us and how we do not deserve God's favor, we are more likely to be content with ...Read More
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Words spoken to us at just the right time stay with us for the rest of our lives, as do words of malice. If the words of others have this impact on us, then we can be sure that what ...Read More
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The church's greatest advancements in understanding doctrine have come when great heresies have threatened the church. The Arian controversy helped believers delimit the canon's teaching on the Trinity. Crises over justification and the authority of Scripture led to the Protestant ...Read More
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Do you consider yourself a minister in the church? Although you might never be ordained to a church office, your gifts are critical to the healthy functioning of Christ's body. Determining your specific role may not be easy, but you ...Read More
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Christ bestows gifts upon His people as He sees fit, guaranteeing that all of us have an important part to play in the advance of His kingdom (1 Cor. 12:1–11). As Christians, then, we must truly appreciate the variety of ...Read More
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Idaho Rules of Family Law Procedure Rule 121. Dismissal of Active Cases
- Voluntary Dismissal - Effect Thereof – By Petitioner – By Stipulation.
Subject to the provisions of any statute of the state of Idaho, an action may be dismissed by the petitioner without order of court (1) by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of a response or of a motion for summary judgment, whichever occurs first, or (2) by filing a stipulation of dismissal signed by all parties who have appeared in the action. Unless otherwise stated in the notice of dismissal or stipulation, the dismissal is without prejudice. A voluntary dismissal by the claimant alone shall be made before a responsive pleading is served or, if there is none, before the introduction of evidence at the trial or hearing.
(Adopted April 2, 2014, effective for early adopters July 1, 2014, effective statewide July 1, 2015.)


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Four days have passed since a "procedural operations error" downed Azure SQL Reporting in Microsoft's East US data center, and Redmond is still trying to restore customer data.
After saying on Thursday that full restoration from Monday's fail would have occurred by Friday, the recovery date has slipped again, according to updates posted by the company to the Windows Azure Service Dashboard.
No data was harmed in the incident, but getting it back is taking a long time.
"Restoration progress continues," Redmond wrote at 9am PST. "Current estimated recovery time has been extended slightly to 2/16/2013 at 12:00 AM UTC. We will provide updates if this recovery time changes. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers."
It is taking longer than expected to restore everything because "the engineering team needs to take specific and necessary steps to ensure full data recovery on the affected cluster," Microsoft's director of comms for the server and tools business, Cori Hartje told The Reg in an e-mailed response to our queries.
The answers indicate that something may have gone wrong with a bit of data-center hardware, as Hartje notes that: "Microsoft writes multiple replicas of user data to multiple devices ensuring the data is still available even if single or multiple catastrophic hardware failures take place."
Microsoft is not restoring the data from tape, she said.
Microsoft expects to have brought everything back by tomorrow. After that, affected customers can contact Azure support for a root-cause analysis, the company said. ®
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Clogging indicators controlling and determinating the moment when filter change should take place are available for the entire Filtrec assembly range.
Absolute pressure indicators
They measure the pressure in the filter vs the atmospheric one.
Usually they are used on return line filters discharging in tank.
Clogging indicators
Visual: The indicator is provided with a bar and a psi scale. the pointer indicates clog value.
Electrical : Electrical signal indicates clog value. it is used in hard to reach areas, the signal is visible on a control panel through a led.
Differential pressure indicators
Differntial pressure indicators measure the difference in pressure between the dirty and the clean side of the filter. they are not affected by atmospherical pressure. Usually they are used on pressure and return line filters.
Clogging indicators:
Visual: A colored indicator reports when pressure setting is reached:
Green = differential pressure minor than setting value
Red = differential pressure major than setting value
Electrical: An electrical signal indicates when admissible differential is reached. it is used in hard to reach areas, the signal is visible on a control panel through a luminous led.
Visual Electrical: Both colored indicator and electrical signal indicate when pressure setting is reached.
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If you've been following recent developments, you well know ZScript is on its way.
But, it's not done yet, and it needs testing.
A quick-fire decision was made to merge ZScript into GZDoom in order to attract more users. However, if you cannot use GZDoom for any reason (but still have a Windows Vista or later computer) you can still help us test! Just launch GZDoom with the following code:
gzdoom +vid_renderer 0
and you will use ZDoom's software renderer.
If you are on Linux and want to test the GZDoom merge, the source tree is here: https://github.com/raa-eruanna/qzdoom/tree/gzzscript
Otherwise, as-up-to-date-as-I-am-available builds will be sent to this folder here: http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/gzzscript/
What really would help is if people start converting their DECORATE code to ZScript. Major Cooke has helpfully written a guide here (may also still be in WIP, but it's still HUGELY helpful!).
Things that need to be tested include mods that use both DECORATE and ZScript code. D4D has already been converted, so test that, too! Bugs go to the same spot as always.
Before releasing mods for this version, please read this because it is very important: (i.e. we can't stress this enough!)
Until the next ZDoom release, some features and implementations may yet change, and if this happens your mod will break! In other words, what you see here is not final. Don't release "stable" versions of your mod against a ZScript build until ZScript has been *officially* officially (double officially, i.e. ZDoom 2.9.0 or ZDoom 3.0.0) released, unless Randi or Graf say otherwise. Your mod should not require any heavy changes after conversion, but don't be surprised if things break if you come to depend on features that may still yet change.
Happy testing!
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Spoiler: Zen Sarcasm
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
4. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
5. No one is listening until you fart.
6. Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
7. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
8. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
9. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
10. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
11. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
12. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
13. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
14. Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any.
15. Don't squat with your spurs on.
16. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.
17. Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time.
18. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
19. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
20. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
21. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
22. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
23. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
24. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
25. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
26. We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our behind. Then things get worse.
27. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
28. There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
29. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
30. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday...around age 12.
31. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them
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Indie game developers get it: people don't have a lot of money these days. And while they'd love to sell their creations at full price, it's given that a lower-priced offering will get people to try games like Canabalt or World of Goo out and come back to try out even more titles.
That's why a bunch of developers—including 2D Boy, Gaijin Games, Double Fine and more are—have gotten together for the Because We May sale, which offers titles like Zen Bound 2, Psychonauts and Darwinia for cut-rate prices. You can browse lists of games available on iOS, Android, PC and Mac platforms for great bargains. Seriously, if there's an indie game that's been worth a damn in the last few years, it's probably on this list.
The sale goes until June 1st so head on over to the sale's official site and get to work building a great library of independently create games.


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Two simple: All-star cast can't save disc
Michael Sokolowski and friends
Soko: Two
So, I received this Soko: Two disk, and, to tell you the truth, the whole thing is a bit frightening. I'm scared of it. Wait... I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me back up.
Michael Sokolowski is a well-known musician among the established players in town. There was a time (almost a decade ago) when he, bassist Houston Ross, and drummer Johnny Gilmore formed a trio called Soko and played the smaller bar scene around town. They were musicians' musicians the kind who would spend half the night experimenting, looking for the one special moment. From what I hear, when that moment hit, it was very, very special.
Sokolowski sent me an email and told me he would like me to be one of the first to check out the newest Soko disk before it hit the stores. When he described the disk, I got pretty excited. Based on his description, I was psyched.
In addition to Sokolowski himself playing keys, the other contributors are some of my favorite musicians in town: Will Coles, drummer for The Hamiltons; Houston Ross; Pete Spaar, upright bass stalwart for many local jazz combos; John D'earth, a visionary hero of mine; and Tim Reynolds (no need to say anything more about that guy).
But unfortunately, it shook me more than it stirred me. Soko: Two is a cross between ambient jazz and the music you hear played if you cough up the money for a massage in a really nice spa. The songs are very relaxing and somewhat repetitive– no, meditative. "Repetitive" implies no changes, but here the basic idea is repeated throughout the song, while subtle themes change on top of, or beneath, it. Sometimes the change is as simple as the introduction of an unexpected new instrument, or a slight variation in rhythm. Other times, the theme builds upon itself until the end result is far from the starting point.
Why am I scared of this record? They say people fear what they don't understand. I get the feeling that I just don't get it. The first time I put it on, I honestly thought, "What the hell is this #$%&?" It nearly put me to sleep, and at points I wanted to skip through songs.
The second listen was a bit different. That time I didn't try to listen to the record, I just threw it on while I surfed the net, cleaned the kitchen... you know, just did my thing.
Midway through the record, I was thinking, "Hey, this is pretty cool." But that feeling lasted only for about three-quarters of the record. I found myself wanting more of something– more action, more movement, more pizzazz, more changes– more something.
I'm no dummy. It's obvious that this response is not what Sokolowski and Ross were going for with the record. I have to respect Two because of the caliber of the musicians who made it. Less is more here. Even the title of the album is simple. The artwork on the cover is simple in the way of most Asian art, which leads me to believe there's something deeper beneath the surface.
Whether I'm ever going to get it is a whole different story. In the meantime, you may catch me hiding under my bed.


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I received an email from Caneel titled "Caneel Bay Resort Ownership Statement". I'm sure others who have stayed there received the same email.
We thank you for the overwhelming support we have received from so many of you in the past few weeks.
We are heartbroken by the devastation caused to the island of St. John and the USVI following the Category 5 Hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017, and then exacerbated by Category 4 Hurricane Maria on September 19th. Unfortunately, Caneel Bay Resort was also devastated and while we are happy to report all our employees survived the storm, Caneel Bay did not. Sadly, it is impossible to open for the 2017/2018 Season.
We are working diligently with Federal and local authorities to attend to the business realities necessary to rebuild Caneel Bay, which is critical to help rebuild the lives of the USVI citizens. After all, Caneel Bay is as much about the people as it is about the place.
Speaking on behalf of the entire resort team, we want to express our gratitude for the support you have shown us over the years and past few weeks. The Laurence Rockefeller legacy is one of champion and guardian of the community, which the Caneel Bay team has always honored. Now more than ever this is our commitment.
We look forward to welcoming you back to Caneel Bay Resort.
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Monthly forecasts of tropical Pacific SST and wind anomalies. Since the mid-1980s, forecasts of tropical Pacific SST anomalies have been made regularly at LDEO with a simple coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamical model (Cane et al., 1986; Zebiak and Cane, 1987). This model has played an important historic role in our understanding and prediction of ENSO. In the mid to late 1990s, we have improved the original LDEO model considerably by using a more balanced forecasting scheme (Chen et al., 1995), by applying more and better data for initialization (Chen et al., 1998, 1999), and by effectively reducing the large systematic model biases (Chen et al., 2000). The forecasts presented here are from the latest version of the LDEO model (LDEO5, Chen et al., 2004).
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Rarely does a bureaucratic institution, in this case the Pentagon, ask Congress to take away its own power. But that is exactly what happened when Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asked Congress this week, after an internal review of sexual assault cases, to change the laws governing military justice. His request: Congress should limit the legal latitude given to commanders who have often abused their stature to protect sexual assailants.
In other words, Congress should tie the military's own hands.
The changes are welcome, but hardly inspiring. Essentially, the military can't trust its own senior leaders to do right and thus doesn't want them to have the power to do any more wrong. Seen in this light, there should be only cautious optimism in response to the Pentagon's move to protect victims of sexual crimes. The time to celebrate will be when the Pentagon can actually reduce sexual violence. That is about 19,000 sexual assaults a year away.
The case that triggered the review involved F-16 pilot Lieutenant Colonel James Wilkerson. Found guilty of sexual assault by a military jury, Wilkerson was instead set free. His commander, Air Force Lieutenant General Craig Franklin, invoked his convening authority and summarily dismissed Wilkerson's verdict. The "convening authority" is a unique aspect of military law and gives commanders the freedom to overturn a verdict.
Outrage followed Wilkerson's release, and Hagel promised to reassess the entire military justice system, including the convening authority, which has been a facet of military justice for centuries. It allows for "absolute power" to set aside findings of a military court "for any or no reason, legal or otherwise." Not even Hagel could have altered Franklin's decision.
The review is now complete and the Pentagon is seeking to eliminate the discretion to alter verdicts in major cases and, for any minor offenses, to require a written explanation. It is up to Congress to turn Hagel's fixes into law, an effort being led by women legislators across the aisle.
These proposals follow a much less public change made by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper last week. Effective immediately, women need not answer "yes" to a question on the standard security-clearance form asking if they have ever had mental health counseling, as long as their therapy was in response to a sexual assault. Women can now protect their privacy and still receive classified information.
It is difficult to underestimate the significance of Hagel's decision for the military. The changes he is proposing cut to the core of its approach to justice. They are clearly intended to make a statement about the Pentagon's tolerance for a boy's network that protects its own.
But in announcing these legislative reforms, Hagel still conveyed a sense of the task still to come: Despite the intense focus on sexual assault and efforts to protect women, "it is clear the department still has much more work to do to fully address the problem."
Indeed, Hagel's proposed changes don't include the clearest way to reduce sexual assault in the military: Put the fear of justice in the hearts and minds of potential perpetrators. In cases of sexual assault, the entire convening authority, which also determines whether a case can go forward, should be taken from a commander's hands and given to an independent or civilian authority.
The announced changes only tie commanders' hands after a conviction has come down. They will not touch any abuses of power prior to the case. For there to be a guilty verdict, there must first be a trial, and right now, the commanders are the sole determinants of whether trials come to pass.
The Defense Department's own numbers tell the story. According to the latest Pentagon statistics, a small fraction of the estimated 19,000 sexual assaults are formally disclosed to authorities. Only about 1,100 troops filed for an investigation in 2012; from those, just 575 cases were processed.
Of the cases processed, 96 went to court-martial, which is about 17 percent of the processed assaults — and barely 0.5 percent of the number of attacks the Pentagon believes actually occurred.
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After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry's hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor - finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover.
DetailsAction/Adventure , Comedy
1 hr. 59 min.
Opened May 18th, 2018
Rated R for strong violence and language throughout, sexual references and brief drug materialCastRyan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Josh Brolin, T.J. Miller, Brianna HildebrandDirectorDavid LeitchWriterRob Liefeld
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When I was first told that the museum was going to have a blog site, I thought – 'Oh great! Now everyone who wants to know what I ate for lunch every day will have access to that sort of information.' Then, Erin told me it won't be the sort of blog site where everyone can find out what I ate for lunch on a given day, but a way of letting people know more than the credentials listed on my museum webpage.
So when trying to decide what to write about, I figured – why not put some of those old camp diaries that are just collecting dust at home to good use?
So here is my first attempt. For some background, I spent 1989-1990 studying a semi-captive baited herd of Chacoan peccaries (Catagonus wagneri), an endangered, medium-sized mammal endemic to the Chaco biome of central South America; Taguá is the Guaraní Indian word for this distant relative of the pig sub-Order. They are extremely rare, and very few people ever see a live one in the wild.
Writing this piece takes me back to a time when I accomplished a lot by knowing very little. Only in my early twenties, I did a lot of growing up during my stint in the Chaco – hot water, electricity, air-conditioning, phones, TVs, stereos, etc. were non-existent in my life, but the fauna was diverse and abundant, and the studies I was able to accomplish during my time there paved way for a lifetime of disciplined work. I hope everyone out there in cyberspace enjoys reading this.
The Last Catagonus
Estancia Toledo, Dpto. Boquerón, Paraguay
At 08:34 hrs, this dude saw WILD TAGUÁ!!!! I cannot describe the sensation of witnessing them in all their glory. Even the folks studying population dynamics of this species have never stumbled upon them in the wild – tracks yes, and the individuals that the indian's dogs 'cornered' in order to radio-collar maybe five times. Even my counterpart Jak, who was born and raised in the Chaco, and has spent much of his whole life in the wilderness has barely seen wild Taguá! The thing that kills me is they are right in 'my own backyard'! I saw them on Gabor's land between his Estancia and house lot, on the south side of the dirt road. There were two individuals at least in their second year with a ~2 month old baby [very cool that these rare species were breeding, sustaining, etc.]!!!
As the sun lit the dust which yielded off the road, I saw two huge, gray wild boar – wait, those can't be wild boar, they don't occur here! Oh…part of my study herd left their 5 hectare habitat! No wait, those don't look like any Taguá I know… Their dorsal hair was halfway pilo-erected. They just lowered their heads and stared at me, displaying their ever so meek, yet ever so costly alert stance [it is this very behavior – the alert stance – that is mostly responsible for the Taguá's decline, as they are easier for hunters to shoot]. Then they fled past me along the simbra fence line. It was here that I saw the little brown baby, bringing up the rear. I was in the middle of the edge of the road, no more than 20 meters away. I was so shocked. Then they stopped ~40 meters down their path and stared again, only to see that I was slowly walking in their direction. Then they fled some more and went through the simbra and into the bush. It was the same area where I saw the female antshrike a month ago, and found the road-killed rainbow boa a few weeks ago. I snapped a picture of the dust flying and the gray rump kicking up into the air – just like my study herd does. I was so shocked that I had to check the tracks to make sure I wasn't crazy. There they were, also saw some huge canid tracks – maned wolf? probably not – too dry in the area…
I will never forget this day – the last day in time of the 1980's. In a way it is almost bittersweet symbolism, as many predict mass extinction of all mega-vertebrates by the end of this decade…


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A long going argument seems to be about what makes a "real woman". It seems to boil down to this: If you're skinny or attractive, you're fake and if you're plus sized with lots of curves, you're real.
This has bothered me for a long time. I am naturally skinny. I'm size eight, I still have curves like other women and there's nothing fake about me. I will probably never be bigger than my current size as this is the size I am naturally supposed to be, and I've gotten lucky with my genes. I also have friends who are the same as me, can't put on weight, but are a lot skinnier than me. As in, naturally a size six. Ever since people have taken a stand against starved models (and so we should!), us naturally skinny people have been shunned as unsexy and unhealthy.
The winner of the Ann Summers' "real women" model campaign is a plus-sized model and now there are various arguments happening (again). Some say she is not a good role model as she is size sixteen and technically over-weight, others say a big f*** you to skinny girls everywhere as because she has curves she is a "real woman".
I'm on the fence about this, on one hand, it's always good to see a variety of women being portrayed in the media. Even though an over-weight girl might not be a good role-model, they do exist and we shouldn't ban images as such just because they're not the ideal BMI. On the other hand, you can't say someone is a real woman solely based on their looks. After all, every woman in that campaign has had their image touched up with the likes of photoshop. Every single image you see in the media has been adjusted with photoshop otherwise the images wouldn't look as good. It means NONE of those women are "real women", they've all had their blemishes removed and they're all wearing ten tones of make up. There's nothing very real about that.
There was a similar issue with Zoo magazine. They're planning to have an article in one of their issues about "real women" (naked of course), someone stole an editors mock-up of how the pages were to be changed before the final magazine was released. The photograph showed the editors red lines and note about how her bum should be curvier, her boobs should be perter, etc. It's horrible but an accurate representation of what the media do to our bodies. No matter our size, we're all made perfect before the photo is released, nothing is real nowadays so what the hell is a "real woman"?
If you're looking for that, step outside. We walk around just like everybody else. We all have lumps and bumps, we all have spots and skin imperfections, we don't all own an amazing rack or arse. I'm sorry, that's just reality for you. Even Ms Jolie isn't perfect. I'm pretty sure most people realise that, despite the images shoved down our throat on a daily basis. I don't expect every man I meet to have rippling pecks like male models, in fact if they did it would be quite frightening.
The point is I urge people to stop this "real women" crap. In the media there's no such thing and probably never will be. It doesn't matter if you're fat, thin, young or old. Please don't critise slim women, they would love to have curves but we can't hand pick our bodies, we just have to make do. Please don't critise bigger women either, they exist, get over it. Skinny women can be just as unhealthy as fat women, it just doesn't show as much on the outside.


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EDITORIAL: Raising minimum wage not the way to American Dream
Everyone wants to make more money. It's the reason why millions of people decide to invest their time, money and energy in higher education and specialized training.
Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pay scale, and one could argue that minimum wage in and of itself is motivation for U.S. workers to aim higher and strive to achieve more than the earning $7.25 per hour ($7.75 in Alaska).
As cost of living increases nationwide, minimum wage should also be adjusted to reflect the change, but micro-managing and over-regulating the business sector isn't good for private and small businesses. If not kept in check the repercussions could be more far-reaching than expected.
What President Barack Obama proposed in his State of the Union address last year, raising minimum wage to more than $10 an hour over the next few years, is a one-size-fits-all approach that will force every American business owner, big and small, to adapt to a government-induced spending plan.
A cost of living increase is a good thing, but government meddling in private businesses' affairs by guaranteeing wage increases for years to come goes too far.
Businesses and consumers alike know that you get what you pay for. If a business pays its employees too little, it will constantly be forced to deal with high turnover, unmotivated workers and in the end its bottom line will feel the impact. Businesses that aren't well managed and staffed struggle to stay competitive.
On the flip side, if government forces businesses to pay under-skilled employees above market value for that skill set, business owners will have no choice but to hire fewer employees or raise prices, which in turn will change the quality and number of services offered.
Those factors have a negative impact on well-managed, local businesses that are trying to stay competitive. And let's not forget about the federally-mandated health care that businesses are now required to provide to employees. The term "free market" is becoming an oxymoron.
A push by voters in SeaTac to increase minimum wage for airport employees to $15 an hour is an example of what we don't need to see happen in Alaska. Washington already boasts the highest minimum wage in the country at $9.32 per hour.
If minimum wage were raised by more than 50 percent there, the message being sent to its younger generation could be that there's no need to attend college or trade schools because they can make almost as much money but without the diligence and ambition to strive for something better.
The initiative being pushed in Alaska would increase minimum wage by $1 to $8.75 per hour in 2015, and then to $9.75 per hour the following year. From there Alaska's minimum wage would stay ahead of the nation's minimum by $1.
The increase to $8.75 per hour is reasonable, but Alaska shouldn't be making guarantees beyond that. Alaska businesses could find themselves in deep water should the federal government decide in the next year or so that $10, or perhaps more, should be the minimum.
Most minimum wage jobs are filled by teenagers, those wanting only part-time work or extra money on the side, and individuals who have not taken steps to increase their skill set or value in the workforce.
Minimum wage jobs aren't intended to be long-term career choices. And even those who can't find a better paying job still have the opportunity to work up the ranks. That's not to say it's easy — hard work and dedication are required — but it's hard work and dedication that built this country.
Bumping up minimum wage won't incentivize the potential in workers to rise above the minimum and strive to achieve the "American Dream" of going from rags to riches.
Minimum wage may be where some people have to start, but the American way is to work hard, move up the career ladder and to never stop striving for something greater.


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The reality TV viewer numbers are in – and there were a few surprising losses.
On Vanderpump Rules, the drama surrounding Kristen and Miami Girl drew a larger crowd (1.691 million) than Scheana and Mike's wedding (1.581 million). Before this week, the Celebrity Apprentice was averaging nearly 6.5 million viewers, but only 4.98 million tuned in to see the final task. I would say maybe Kenya was on to something when she took credit for the high ratings, however, Real Housewives of Atlanta suffered a substantial loss this week too.
Also this week, 2.543 million sat through the family drama on Love & Hip Hop, 1.855 million watched Kim and Kyle continue to be nasty to each other on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 1.678 million (the second highest audience this season) tuned in to see Nia in the studio with Aubrey O'Day on Dance Moms, the season finale of Kate Plus 8 attracted 1.44 million fans, and a double dose of Sister Wives that no one asked for logged an average of 1.26 million.


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Man Rides 2 Miles on Car Hood to Stop Hit and Run Driver [VIDEO]
Don't mess with Elton Kim, or his wife's vehicle for that matter. Mr. Kim witnessed a driver back into his wife's SUV outside of their dry cleaning business. The driver refused to stop, so Kim hopped on the hood for the ride of his life.


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Country singer Mindy McCready, who had been reported missing, spoke with Florida authorities Wednesday and is aware of a court order to return her 5-year-old son by Thursday afternoon, police said.
Cape Coral Police Lt. Tony Sizemore said McCready and her son are not in the Lee County, Fla., area, and that she is "currently outside of the terms of her family court stipulation." She knows that she is supposed to bring her son back to Lee County by 5 p.m. Thursday, he said.
"The million dollar question is whether she will comply," said Sizemore.
The state Department of Children and Families said a missing person report was filed with Cape Coral police Tuesday night after McCready took her son Zander from her father's home.
McCready doesn't have custody of her son — her mother does — and the singer was allowed to visit the boy at her father's home, according to a department spokesman. On Tuesday, DCF discovered that McCready and the boy were not at her father's home.
DCF spokesman Terry Field told The Associated Press the agency asked a Lee County judge for an emergency pickup order, and the judge ruled McCready must return the boy voluntarily by 5 p.m. Thursday or risk an arrest warrant.
Meanwhile, McCready said on Facebook that she is not missing.
"I have been fighting the Florida court system to protect my son, and bring him home," she posted, adding that she spoke with Cape Coral Police via Skype — something that the agency confirmed.
The singer's brother, Josh McCready, told The Associated Press in a private Facebook message that his sister was "fine."
"Mindy is fine and so is Zander. There is nothing to worry about," he wrote.
Kat Atwood, McCready's publicist, issued a statement Wednesday saying McCready and her son are "safe, healthy and comfortable," and denies that she has done anything wrong. The statement says McCready has been awaiting a court order on whether she would be awarded custody of her son.
"No Amber Alert has been issued; this is not a missing child case," Atwood said in the statement.
According to Aimee McLaughlin of the Childrens Network of Southwest Florida, a case manager filed a missing person report with the Cape Coral Police on Tuesday. The DCF spokesman said Children's Network of Southwest Florida is the Community-Based Care agency for the area.
Since topping the country charts in the mid-1990s with her music, the troubled 36-year-old singer's life has been filled with domestic abuse, drug and DUI arrests and a suicide attempt. In August, she filed a libel suit in Palm Beach County against her own mother and the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc., over a story published in the tabloid newspaper that quoted her mother.
In 2010, she spoke with The Associated Press about her life.
"It is a giant whirlwind of chaos all the time," she said. "I call my life a beautiful mess and organized chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life, things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself. I think that's really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality."
In July 2007, she was accused of scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest at her mother's home in Florida. She was sentenced to jail for 60 days for a probation violation and released; she served 30 days in jail. She also lost custody of her son.
And in 2008, McCready was admitted to a Nashville hospital after police said she cut her wrists and took several pills in a suicide attempt.
During the TV show "Celebrity Rehab 3" in 2010 McCready came off as a sympathetic figure, and host Dr. Drew Pinsky called her an angel in the season finale.
On the show she said she suffered from love addiction, not substance abuse. In one of the show's scarier moments, McCready suffered a seizure and was rushed to a hospital where scans showed brain damage.
Also in 2010, police went to McCready's mother's home for a report of an overdose, and McCready was taken to a Florida hospital. However, neither the hospital nor McCready's publicist would say why McCready was hospitalized.
Cape Coral is on Florida's Gulf coast, about 120 miles northwest of Miami.
McCready also fought the release of a tape in which she reportedly talked about former Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, with whom she had an affair as a teenager.
A call to a lawyer representing McCready in the custody case was not immediately returned.
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AP Entertainment Writer Chris Talbott and reporter Caitlin R. King contributed to this report from Nashville.
McCready talks to police; must return son Thursday
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Country singer Mindy McCready, who had been reported missing, spoke with Florida authorities Wednesday and is aware of a court order to return her 5-year-old son by Thursday afternoon, police said.


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Ideally my client is looking for someone who has gained their RTPI Chartership and has at least some of their experience being in the private sector, although local authority work will be considered, particularly from the London Boroughs.
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I liked them 🙂
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup imperial cinnamon candies (Red Hots)
What the Forks for Dinner?
I liked them 🙂
Winnie says
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEE cinnamon
and I think these are wonderful cookies!
The look very cute
Sara Blevins says
They look delicious!! I am trying it with my kids. Thank you for sharing!
Sarah Carletti says
Glad they turned out girl!
The Mandatory Mooch says
These sound delicious, Jaime!! I would love for you to link this post to my Tasty Thursdays linky party going on right now. Thanks, Nichi http://mandatorymooch.blogspot.com/2012/12/tasty-thursdays-20.html
Erin says
I'm not a big Red Hot fan but these cookies look so cool I might have to make them. I know my family would love them! Thanks!
Sugar n' Spicegals says
These look delicious! Looks delicious and turned out so cute!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you Becky!!
Laura Dembowski says
Yum! Such a good idea. I love candy and am always looking for ways to work it into baked goods.
Disneypal says
These look really good and would be good for Valentine's Day too. I know what you mean about the cinnamon chips being hard to find – I finally found some at Walmart though.
Oh man, I couldn't even find any at WallyWorld! They would be a fun treat for Valentine's Day too!
Thanks for stopping by!
Angie's Recipes says
Can't find cinnamon chips over here either.
These cookies have turned out so beautiful.
Thank you!
Food Mchine Sale says
These look really good and thanks for share.=)
valiachatz says
Those cookies are delicious. I made them for Christmas and everyone loved them. unfortunately the cinnamon candies i used are diferent from those you used ( in Greece we dont have Red Hots) but still great.
I mentioned you on my blog http://wp.me/33c7C
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A least upper bound of several types.
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Laziness of some region.
Laziness of the primary region in some type.
Manifestness of some region (not lazy).
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Function with a latent effect and closure.
A suspended computation.
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Read the head region in a data type.
Read of all material regions in a data type.
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Write to all material regions in some data type.
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Allocation into all material regions in some data type.
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