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You're going to hear much in the next week about the state budget, in advance of Gov. Jerry Brown's new budget proposal. But the real California political story of the month of January is likely to be how -- and whether -- to change the pension system for state and local public employees.
This debate will be cast by all sides as offering a wide range of choices -- from preserving the status quo to cutting out abuses to supposedly bigger shifts away from pensions and toward 401K-style accounts. But in reality, the debate is taking place in a very narrow range. None of the pension plans out there -- from the left to right -- offer much in the way of savings for state and local taxpayers.
This is true for two reasons. First, Brown's plan and other proposals from the left limit the changes to future employees. The benefits of current employees are barely touched. And since governments aren't doing much hiring (in fact, government employment is on the decline), there isn't much in the way of savings here.
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What's striking is that even proposals on the right -- proposals being sold as ways to cut back on pensions and save money -- may not produce savings at all.
The non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office found that two initiatives to switch new employees away from traditional pensions -- to supposedly less risky 401(k)-style plans -- could cost more money, by reducing the amount of cash coming into the system from new hires. That cash is needed to help cover the costs of paying pensions of current and retired employees. To make up that money, pension funds would have to shift their investments in ways that could lower earnings -- and force taxpayers to contribute more to the funds (journalist and pension expert Ed Mendel has a smart explanation of the potential problems here).
So there's a danger that this pension debate is much ado about nothing. Unless, of course, proposals are brought forth that would change the pension system in ways that would reduce obligations to current employees while preserving the system for future employees. That's tricky legally and politically. And as of today, there is no such proposal on the table.
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Morning Radio Zoo co-host and part-time sports writer Eric Francis had a gem of a column today when it comes to what he's been able to put together. In his recent piece, Francis said that Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff should have been more forthright with the Flames about his impending retirement rather than have the news break thanks to the Finnish media. Also, Kipper should have done more of an exit for the organization, fans, and community.
Of course, Francis forgets that whole thing about Kipper saying he wouldn't show up if moved at the trade deadline, but who needs to remember that to put out a story about how he personally feels let down that Kiprusoff didn't make a bigger exit.
And forget that on April 16th, Eric Francis knew that this was Kiprusoff's last home-stand and on April 17th reviewed Kipper's last game and wrote, "The end is near -- one day away in fact. Kiprusoff may not go out with much fanfare, but he seems focused on going out in style -- something he certainly did Wednesday night as the game's shining star."
Yet, it seems that Francis was shocked (SHOCKED) by Kiprusoff not giving a big farewell. Luckily, a Calgary writer named Eric Francis (yes, the same guy) knew that when he wrote on the 16th:
After rounding out the season -- and most likely his career -- on the bench watching Joey MacDonald audition for Kipper's old gig, the bearded Finn will no doubt punctuate garbage-bag day by doing his annual backdoor dash.
No sayanora (or however you say goodbye in Finnish) news conference thanking the fans, city or organization for embracing him and his family over the years. After years of fishing pucks out of his net with a stunningly calm sweep, swig and stare at the Jumbotron, far be it for Kiprusoff to get all misty-eyed at the prospect of perpetual anonymity, peace and quiet in Finland's remote lake district.
He'll leave just like he arrived; under the radar.The fact that Francis thinks that he was let down by Kiprusoff not giving the Flames, their fans, and the media more of a send-off is just another example of writers thinking it's a little more about them and a little less about the facts of the story that have been out there for a while. Even written by Francis himself.
This is one day after Randy J. Miller of the South Jersey Courier-Post went on a Twitter tirade about Ilya Bryzgalov's antics in the locker room were the big thing that got him bought-out by the Flyers and not the media scrutiny that Bryzgalov had implied during the season-closing interviews.
Even with the traditional media bashing the new media of blogging and podcasting as something that is not needed in hockey media; the traditional media themselves may need to take a step back and not make themselves a part of the story as much as referees and linesmen shouldn't make themselves a part of the game with false face-offs and penalty junk.
No player or coach or GM owes writers much of anything. Even if there's something pressing, just because the information isn't put out there doesn't mean the writer has to take it as a personal insult and then try to actually embarrass the organization by airing out their own personal gripes because they didn't get exactly what they wanted. This isn't the toy store and writers don't need throw a tantrum just because the overseer doesn't allow them to get something because the writer thinks they deserve it.


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Right outside the town of Lawndale in Cleveland County, North Carolina you will find Kadesh United Methodist Church Cemetery.
This cemetery is the home to a monument placed to honor my 8th great grandparents Peter Hoyle and his wife Catherine Dales.
The monument was originally located at the Hoyle Homestead just outside of Dallas, Gaston County, North Carolina. The Hoyle House was built between 1750-1758 by Peter Hoyle and his sons and features rare corner post construction. It is the only known remaining structure in North Carolina with this type of construction and is listed on the National Historical Register.
For those who live in the area, the Gaston County Museum has a new exhibit - "The Hoyle House" which runs until October 25th. Better hurry!
If only all my ancestors left behind this kind of information.....the thrill of the hunt wouldn't be there, would it?
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Peter Hoyle - Cleveland County, North Carolina
2 comments:
- Linda in Lancaster said...
Why can't I find something like this for my ancestors?? I'm jealous! Wonderful site.
- November 13, 2008 at 3:06 AM
- Cam said...
How neat! Peter and Catherine are my 7th great, grandparents. I've really enjoyed studying and researching information about them. Thank you for your blog!
- February 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM
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Fairy tales can come true. This weekend they happen in twos.
Fairy tales can come true. This weekend they happen in twos.
Two versions of the classic love story �Cinderella� are being presented in Gaston County this weekend. One, by the Cherryville Little Theatre, is a condensed adaptation of the Disney animated film. The other, by Gaston Dance Theatre, is a more traditional presentation of the folk tale.
In both productions, they live happily ever after.
It�s what makes �Cinderella� memorable, no matter what the version, said Gaston Dance Theatre director Tina Deese .
�It has to do with that fairy tale princess type of feeling of being able to find true love, being able to overcome adversity to achieve that true happiness and overcome life as it sometimes presents itself,� Deese said. �And the belief that true love still exists and it can be found.�
The basic plot holds true in both local productions � Cinderella dreams of going to the ball but she works as a servant for her wicked stepmother and mischievous stepsisters. Her fairy godmother intervenes and casts a spell to let Cinderella go to the ball, where she captivates the prince. As midnight � the time the enchantment wears off � approaches, she departs, leaving behind the glass slipper the prince uses to find her.
�All little girls love Cinderella or want to be Cinderella,� said Connie Fox, director of the Cherryville theatre musical. �Sometimes your dreams do come true.�
Younger cast stars in Cherryville musical
Little girls can come dressed as the fairy tale princess to Cherryville Little Theatre�s �Disney�s Cinderella, Kids� for a chance to win a prize. The 30-minute production is designed to keep kids� attentions while giving young performers a chance to shine onstage. The cast of 25 ranges in age from 7 to 18 years old.
�Longer plays are often too difficult for younger children to get speaking parts and memorize all of the lines,� Fox said. �We chose �Cinderella� because it is well-known and has tunes we all remember.�
Songs featured in abbreviated forms include � Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo,� �A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes� and �The Work Song,� which is performed by five mice. The mice are elementary students ranging from 7 to 10 years old and help transform Cinderella from a maid to made.
�I feel like the mice are probably going to steal the show,� Fox said. �Their lines are very cute and funny. The audience will probably like the interaction with the stepmother and stepsisters, too. They�re characters you love to hate.�
�A different storyline� in Gaston Dance ballet
The furry helpers in the Disney version are replaced by the fairies of spring, summer, winter and fall in Gaston Dance Theatre�s �Cinderella,� based on a1945 Russian ballet.
The titular character�s father is present here, but is submissive to the whims of his new wife. The music featured in the three-act, hour and a half performance is rich and powerful, Deese said.
�It also has some very comical situations almost built into the music,� she said. �It�s a love story but it�s also a comedy as well, particularly in regards to the stepsisters and their behaviors.�
Such is the case at the ball, where the sisters fight over oranges (�Fruit was considered precious and commoners wouldn�t necessarily have access to citrus fruits,� Deese said). One sister sticks an orange down her dress and the other squishes it, cause orange juice to cover her.
The production features 29 dancers ranging from elementary age to adult. Most were unfamiliar with the ballet, Deese said.
�It�s a wonderful opportunity to be able to explore a different storyline as far as the name �Cinderella� goes,� she said. �Hopefully audiences will enjoy the dancing, the score, the comedy, costumes and being able to follow the story and see it through movement.�
- The Cherryville Little Theatre presents the musical �Disney�s Cinderella, Kids� at 7 p.m. tonight through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday; doors open 30 minutes prior to each performance. Tickets are $5 ad the door, free for children 3 and younger. The theatre is at 301 W. Academy St.
- The Gaston Dance Theatre presents the ballet �Cinderella� at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the performing arts center at Gaston Day School, 2001 Gaston Day School Rd., Gastonia. Tickets are $15 adults, $10 students/seniors and $8 children 4 and younger; tickets can be purchase by calling 704-865-5943, by visiting www.carolinatix.org or at the door as available.


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Not all well with women at UVA
The recent Hook cover story, "Women at UVA" [July 17, 2003] (http://www.readthehook.com/93731/cover-women-women-everywhere-trying-jum...) is a fine summary of UVA's exhibit on its history with women. But both the article and exhibit seem limited to reinforcing some myths about the University and social life in general.
Myth#1: Institutions are more important than people. The article/exhibit is about women's attempts to attend the University, which pictures UVA as a goal to be attained by women rather than portraying its relationship to women in Charlottesville and abroad. A larger view would show us more than the incorporation of women into University life. It would demonstrate UVA's long-term disrespect for women in the working class, the effects of its land-grabbing on women and their families in poor neighborhoods, and more.
Myth #2: Despite the "everything is fine now" assertion ending both the Hook article and the exhibit, presumably because women now account for 55 percent of the student body, UVA continues to treat women in a most derogatory manner. How else to characterize the consistent low pay to women who do the hardest work at the University: cleaning halls, maintaining the grounds, and serving the food?
A living wage would be one step toward remedying the University's ugly policy toward women. Respecting the strong women's presence in SUUVA (Staff Union at UVA) by meeting regularly with union president Jan Cornell would be another.
The current UVA policy on women seems to be simple: "If you ain't rich, you're our b****."
It's about time that changed.
Andrew J. Holden


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The recent article about my scanning activities appeared in Arizona East Valley Tribune, but the article has been picked up by the Associated Press and is appearing papers across the country. Good press for genealogy for a change.
Here is the article in the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, Utah
Sunday, February 12, 2012
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Nice article, but more important is the great work you are doing!! That's a lot of pictures to go through.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2012 at 10:30 PM
(Just lost my note to you because I didn't know what the select profile means. Said annonymous but don't mind that you know who I am.) Don't know by what magic your blog appeared on my computer but am glad it did. All of your articles have been helpful and/or informative. I lived in St Johns with Anna (Patterson)and Carl Herring in 1949 and with Dorothy Patterson Bast in 1953. In fact was baptised in the Little Reservoir by Carrol Shumway and could beat Eric (Ricky) Shumway in squaw wrestling. I am sure people in St Johns would like to see your pictures. I know the DeWitt sisters would. How? Carleen FosterDelete
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David was raised in Tyler, Texas and earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Stephen F. Austin State University. After working in state government and the private sector in Austin, David moved to Tucson, Arizona where he earned a Master of Public Administration degree from The University of Arizona in 1990. He then served as a Finance Director, Assistant Town Manager, and Town Manager for three municipalities in the Tucson and Phoenix metropolitan areas. David has been a member of the International City/County Management Association for almost 25 years and has also been certified as a Credentialed Manager by that organization.
He is also a past member and served on the Board of the Arizona City/County Management Association and is now a member of the North Carolina City and County Management Association. David was appointed Town Manager of Carrboro in March 2012.
Rebecca Buzzard, MPA, Project Manager
Originally from Massachusetts,Rebecca moved to Chapel Hill to pursue her undergraduate degree at UNC-Chapel Hill. After earning a BA in English in 2002, she moved to New Bern, North Carolina where she worked in publishing while pursuing her MPA at ECU. She worked in the non-profit sector doing program coordination and evaluation before moving to Italy, where she taught English as a foreign language. Rebecca is a Carrboro resident and her children attend the CHCCS system. She has been with the town since November 2017.
Rachel Heggen, BS, Communications Manager
Rachel Heggen most recently worked in the same position for the City of La Vergne, Tennessee, and a suburb of Nashville. Prior to La Vergne, she worked for Vanderbilt University and for WTVF-TV, the CBS affiliate in Nashville. Rachel is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, with a degree in electronic media journalism. She is a native of Tennessee, but recently relocated to North Carolina with her husband. Rachel counts among my assets a strong work ethic, a creative outlook, an eagerness to communicate important information to the public! Rachel was honored as a 2009 Mid-South Regional Emmy Award Winner for Breaking News, and as a 2010 and 2013 Mid-South Regional Emmy nominee.
Nick received his B.A. degree from UNC-CH in 1977 as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and his J.D. degree from Duke Law School in 1981. He has been practicing local-government law with The Brough Law Firm since 1997 and previously was a partner in the firm of Coleman, Bernholz, Bernholz, Gledhill, Hargrave & Herman in Chapel hill.
He is the author of five law books and over 40 articles on various subjects of civil litigation. He is an Adjunct Professor at NCCU Law School and Campbell Law School, and he has also taught on the faculties of Duke Law School, UNC-CH Law School, and Elon University. He has argued over 30 cases in the N.C. Supreme Court, N.C. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.


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I got a note from benj1 the other day, about a Phoronix test of an "old" machine running two or three different flavors of Ubuntu, and how the Pentium 4 and Radeon AGP card performed.
I usually rant at this point about how Pentium 4 machines aren't old, and how they're plenty fast to handle modern Linux-based software, and how there's no reason to banish a 2.8Ghz machine to the closet. But people have heard me whine about that for a very, very long time, and whether or not people listen is immaterial any more. I could say you don't need a new computer because the old one works fine, and I could say that you don't need a new car because the old one works fine, and there would still be people crawling out of the woodwork to point at any real or imagined faults on either side.
Use whatever machine you like, and if it doesn't work as well as you would hope, that's for you to deal with. I type this on a 14-year-old Pentium machine that boots to the login prompt in under 26 seconds — faster than my dual-core can reach the desktop with Ubuntu 10.04 — and I consider that no loss of function or speed. And so long as it keeps running, I intend to keep using it.
The surprising thing about the Phoronix test though, is how poorly Ubuntu has degraded with respect to those "old" machines. I really expected any version to run any core test (not so much graphics tests though) with the same level of performance, instead of holding out such a marked difference.
But they didn't, and that obvious discrepancy that says two things to me.
- First, it suggests that Ubuntu, and possibly Linux, is getting chunkier all the time. True, the target machine for the Ubuntu crowd is not a single-core Pentium 4 any more; Ubuntu wants to tackle Microsoft and Apple, and so the systems should probably be written for machines that are contemporaries of those OSes.
I can accept that as a reason, but not an excuse. Linux is always touted as a lighter, faster option — I do a lot of the touting too — but it's beginning to appear that as Ubuntu ages, it relies on hardware to compensate for software bloat — and the bloat is considerable. I resent that.
- Second, and perhaps more importantly, I can't endorse full-blown, up-to-date software stacks for "old" hardware any more. I usually tell people with "old" machines to use the current version anyway, hinging on the belief that newer Linux-based software isn't bracketed around a particular generation of hardware.
I've advised people countless times on the forums to use command-line installations of the freshest version of Ubuntu over out-of-date versions, because many people coming from a Windows environment assume that a four-year-old machine needs four-year-old software. And with Microsoft, yes, that is the case.
And now with Ubuntu (and perhaps even with Linux in general), it also appears to be the case. Dropping back to 8.04, which will be around for a very very long time to come, might just be the best plan for a machine that predates quad-core, 16Gb "family computers." So long as the software is going to hog space and allow itself to become insufferably obese, then it makes sense to reach back to a time when there wasn't as much space to work with. It's either that, or build it yourself.
How much of this is inherited from Debian and other upstream projects is beyond my ability to read. I don't use Ubuntu on a daily basis, and when I do use it, I consider it a brief stopover to a more enlightened destination.
But the real and final tragedy here is the number of distros, either derivative or offshoot, that are based on the Ubuntu superstructure but targeted on old hardware — and notice here that I didn't put the word "old" in quotes. I'm talking now about distros that have Pentium III and earlier computers in their list of "appropriate hardware," because anything built on those newer versions of Ubuntu is going to likewise be genetically predisposed toward weight gain.
I am confident and calm that many of those distros — OSes like Puppy Linux, which I admire greatly but aligned itself with Ubuntu in recent renditions — will either take a crowbar to the beast and whack it down to size, or see an alternative elsewhere and make the appropriate choice. Personally I abandoned Ubuntu quite a while ago and wouldn't recommend it for anything without at least 512Mb of memory and a Pentium 4 in it, but now I see that I have to add another caveat to that … one that says Ubuntu 8.04.4 is your best bet.


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Mother Knows! My Mother Is So Smart! by Tomie de Paola
I knew from the time I was really little that my mother was smart.
She always knew when to change my diaper.
She always knew I was hungry BEFORE I cried.
Every little one knows that their moms have superpowers. Not only can they make the best cookies and homemade Popsicles in the freezer, but they can perform difficult and dangerous feats without even visiting a phone booth to don a crusader's cape.
She knows how to drive my grandfather's old delivery truck.
Sometimes she takes me to school in it!
And mothers definitely know best. A mom EVEN knows better than your teacher--or even the principal!
Once a teacher told me that I had to wait outside after school.
I said, "My mother told me to wait for her right here, and my mother knows everything."
"Well, your mother must be very smart," the principal said.
"She is," I answered. "My mother is so smart she can stand on her head."
And she can!
In his newest picture book memoir, My Mother Is So Smart (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010), Caldecott and Newbery winning author-illustrator Tomie dePaola has given us the perfect Mother's Day book, a portrait of mom as seen by the very young--beautiful, strong, wise, the provider of all good things. Mothers know that no one will ever see them in the special way their little ones do, and dePaola's charming illustrations, set off by his signature borders, portray this beautiful time in the mother-child relationship perfectly. Give it to your mothers to remind them of those tender days, and read it to your youngsters, and if you can stand on your head while doing so, go for it!
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Studies on Impact of Electronic Commerce to Modern Marketing Environment
E-commerce shortens the distance between manufacturer and the end user, also changed the structure of traditional markets, lower sales and marketing costs. Traditional promotions in the marketing channels will change, wholesale will be replaced by network, the deal directly implement on the network. Loss market of traditional personal selling, advertising propaganda has to adapt to the new needs of the broadcast media, target market selection and positioning, will depend on the network information. Network will create new sales opportunities.
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Jon Hamm finally won. Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba gave acceptance speeches that left us teary-eyed. And Andy Samberg made us laugh many times just by being his adorkable self.
But there was plenty going on behind the cameras at the 2015 Emmy Awards Sunday that you didn't see.
With that, here are five things you didn't see on TV during the Emmys...
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1. Covert Operations: Tracy Morgan's appearance at the end of the show was so top secret that only about four people knew he was coming, according to source. But about 90 minutes into the show, whispers began backstage after he was spotted in a dressing room.
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2. Bottle Service: It's no secret it was about a gazillion degrees on the red carpet. But too bad the audience wasn't allowed to hydrate during the show. James Corden and his wife Julia Carey actually snuck a bottle of water into the theater in her clutch after ushers told them beverages weren't allowed inside. But handheld fans apparently weren't forbidden. "Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner used one to cool off in her seat before the telecast began.
3. Snack Time: Hot couple Tatiana Maslaney and Tom Cullen enjoyed hot pretzels in the lobby as did "Orange Is the New Black's" Lorraine Toussaint. Carson Daly walked around with his Emmy for "The Voice" in one hand and plastic cup full of beer in the other.
4. No Entry: If Emmy-goers needed to use the restrooms during a commercial break, they had to quickly take care of business. Guests who didn't make it back into the theater until after the show began again were forced to wait in the back of the house until the next break to return to their seats. Even so, Taraji P. Henson literally ran to her seat just before Morgan walked on stage.
5. On the List: There are many perks of being the host of the Emmys. One biggie? You get to invite a lot of people to the show–Samberg was given 12 tickets for his hosting debut.
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A large medieval cemetery containing around 1,300 skeletons has been discovered in the central English city of Leicester, the find promises to shed new light on the way people lived and died in the Middle Ages.
The graveyard was probably used from the 12th century until the demolition of a church at the site in 1573.
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Four days after Tony Mowbray's three-year spell as Boro boss came to an end, his £1million summer signing Adomah lit up the Riverside Stadium with a classy lob and a firm header in the first half.
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Chairman Steve Gibson this week called time on Mowbray's tenure, just days after defeat to struggling Barnsley left his club within four points of the relegation places.
The poor return of only five league wins in 2013 and the thought of another miserable jostle for the best bottom-half finish had ultimately forced the ambitious owner's hand.
Friday night rivals Doncaster, having played a game less, shared 16th place with their hosts and the play-off places were 10 points away before kick-off.
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Richard Smallwood tried his luck from distance and, while his lobbed shot was on course to beat the backtracking Turnbull, Adomah made sure with a bullet header.
Doncaster almost forced their way back into the game before half-time, Mark Duffy's corner scooting through the Boro box only for Rob Jones to miss the easy tap-in.
Rovers' resurgence continued past the interval and Duffy was unlucky not to find a supporting team-mate after breaking into the box in the 55th minute.
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If you watch television, read magazines, listen to the radio, or even just drive on major roads, you are probably very familiar with advertising. A common tactic that advertisers use is to appeal to a certain fear or desire or imply that their product or service can provide the image or lifestyle you want. When you buy a roll of biscuits, you are not just buying a roll of biscuits – you are buying a cheerful, loving family gathered around the kitchen table for brunch. Of course, consciously, no one thinks that biscuits have some magical power of making your family happy, but decision-making is influenced by unconscious thought, and advertisers know how to play to that.
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"Domestically, there's continued improvement in the economic data, but the broader macro fed policy issues are overshadowing that especially as we do not have much earnings visibility at this point and the international issues are outweighing the domestic improvements," Eric Teal, chief investment officer at First Citizens BancShares, which manages $5 billion in Raleigh, N.C., said in a phone interview. "People might be lightening up equity positions given the strong year-over-year gains."
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All 10 of the S&P 500 main industries retreated as financial, industrial and materials shares tumbled more than 1.7 percent. Bank of America dropped 3.1 percent to $12.30 for the biggest decline in the Dow. Citigroup slipped 3.1 percent to $45.44.
Metal and coal producers retreated amid growing concern over the economic sustainability in China, the world's largest consumer of commodities from iron ore to coal. Declines accelerated after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider reviving an Environmental Protection Agency rule that would curb emissions from coal-fired power plants, in a clash over the Obama administration's biggest air-quality effort.
Cliffs Natural Resources, the largest U.S. iron-ore producer, declined 7.6 percent to $15.88. Alpha Natural Resources, the biggest U.S. supplier of metallurgical coal, declined 8 percent to a record $5.05 and Peabody Energy slipped 7.2 percent to $14.85.
Apple dropped 2.7 percent to $402.54, the fifth straight decline for the stock. A glut of unsold iPhones prompted Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek to lower its target price to $405 from $420. Apple shares have fallen 24 percent this year.
Allergan plunged 12 percent to $81.99. Deutsche Bank downgraded the maker of the Botox wrinkle treatment to hold from buy and Leerink Swann trimmed its recommendation to market perform from outperform.
Vanguard Health Systems jumped 67 percent to $20.70. Tenet will pay $21 a share in cash for the Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital operator and will assume $2.5 billion of Vanguard debt, the companies said in a joint statement. Tenet advanced 4.5 percent to $43.73 for the biggest gain in the S&P 500.
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Post subject: need help find a location in may/June with non-surfing wife
Hi all,
I live in San Francisco and am looking for a week in the sun in the May-July time frame, that will be a good spot for intermediate windsurfing, but would also have other stuff to do for both of us. My wife doesn't windsurf but enjoys outdoor activities (hiking, mountain biking, kayaking,snorkeling, diving) but also wants some cultural things to see and do such as Mayan ruins, old town walking tours..slightly arty stuff.
Its only for a week so we might be limited in where we go, so that we don't spend a whole day o either end traveling, but not ruling out the Caribbean
we spent a week at keihei several years back, and not an ounce of wind for the whole week. I was told it happens once and a while, and it was just my bad timing. Can't remember what time of year it was though. Not sure there's enough culturally to keep her happy a second time around.
My skill level is a bit lop-sided in that at a fit 210lbs, I'm an intermediate sailor, fine with 7.0 sail in 18 kph wind, but a very slow tack/jiber and can't water start, which I want to learn. I usually sail in Berkeley marina/shoreline lake in south bay.
accommodation wise, looking for a condo, noting too fancy but decent and we are big foodies
been reading up on..(with the help of vela's site)
maui (obviously the go to place, but..as mentioned above)
oahu, maybe be good
aruba, sounds a bit pretentious, expensive and also maybe too busy
baja/los barilles, but season over
anything in mexico / south america?
any help is greatly appreciated.
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Kailua is normally very light winds, not amenable for big boyz. At 145 lbs., my most used sail there is underpowered 5.7 (old style, like a modern 6.5) and floaty uphaulable slalom board. He might get 2 days total of wind, if he's lucky and hit's it just right.
Carribean is a possibility, like Caberete or Margarita, but June on can be kinda late, getting weeks of heat spells. I know PuertoRico is consistently 12-18 around then, but no windsurf rentals for him. July thru Sept is the lightest winds.
SanFrancisco is pretty good then, OP can rent a hotel room, spend nights in the GearySt. theatre district or Opera House, send her shopping from 3-6, and join up again for the evening stuff.....
Lots of good food around 9thIrving, UpperFilmore, NorthBeach, mid ClementSt., mid Mission, and S of Market.......
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Cape Hatteras, NC. Great intermediate sailing on the soundside. Good seafood, but might be a long trip from the west coast for a week. If warmth, not so important, consider the Gorge. Can rent a nice house in town. Good food and beer, lots of hikes and such to keep family entertained.
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Not sure I understand about spending a week looking for wind at "Kihei".
If you want wind on Maui, especially in the summer, you need to spend your time at Kanaha on the other side of the island. and May is usually pretty good. If you stay inside the reef, it would be hard to get into trouble, though the current will eventally send you into the "swimming areas". There is a lot to do on Maui, but if you've already done it,
maybe you can try someplace like Cabarete. Easy sailing, and plenty of
snorkeling and scuba. Margarita might be nice for you, but maybe a
little boring for the misses, and I don't know what the political climate is there anymore, but the windsurfing conditions would be premium for you
if you went earlier, like March or April.
Maybe you should just come to the Gorge, so much stuff to do you won't
know which sport to engage in. Late May to Early June is when the winds start kicking in. Spend a couple of days at an easy site (say the Dalles River Front Park,) to get your waterstarts wired, and then get out and get some real entertainment on the river. Even big fit guys are riding 5M sails
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I'll probably get hammered for suggesting this but consider a short trip to Lopez lake. June is nice and warm with lots of windy days. Tons of stuff to do from Morro bay to Santa Barbara. I live here and its about 20 min. to the lake for me. I had over 100 days on the water this year. Big guys use 6.5 on average. I clock in at 170 lbs. My go to sail is a 5.5 and a 115 Rocket. If it picks up a bit I drop down to a 95 liter 3s. Might get 10 days on a 4.7 Its low water this year but we all are hoping for a wet winter...
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Thanks to a scheduling pile-up, all three parts of Brian Michael Bendis's conclusion to his part of the Siege crossover–Siege #4, Dark Avengers #16 and The New Avengers Finale–came out this week. (Spoilers for all of them follow.) Bendis is a fascinating and occasionally frustrating writer to follow: he's incredibly prolific, he tends to stick with projects for a long time, and he effectively rules the most popular franchise at Marvel right now. He also tends to push himself way outside of his home territory of crime stories, character interaction and peppery, vernacular dialogue. For the past decade, he's been writing a lot of comics where those strategies don't necessarily work, and few of them have failed creatively as badly as Siege.
The final issue of Siege is pretty much the definition of bad Bendis–an issue that has to work as outsized cosmic spectacle, which is not one of his strong points, and also has to cram in a whole lot of plot developments, which runs smack into his habit of building slowly toward character revelations. Characters don't really get to talk to each other; they speechify and wisecrack. The Norn Stones allow Loki to give a bunch of heroes an arbitrary video-game-style power-up (they actually get new powers temporarily, although Olivier Coipel's artwork is unclear enough that a clunky bit of expository dialogue has to communicate that). Then the Sentry kills Loki, which he is able to do because that's what happens in the plot. Then Thor kills the Sentry, which he is able to do because that's what happens in the plot. Then Steve Rogers announces that Bucky is going to be Captain America, because… and so on.
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A gigantic change in the operating premise of the Marvel mega-plot–the Superhuman Registration Act is overturned, all the enmity of the Civil War/Secret Invasion/Dark Reign era is over, everybody can be friends and hang out and party again, etc.–is shunted into position in two panels. (It's hard to imagine why the now-nameless-in-Marvel-comics President thinks that's a good idea, given that Phobos slaughtered a bunch of his Secret Service agents in the Oval Office in the recent Siege: Secret Warriors one-shot a day or two ago in story time, but that's the sort of detail Bendis doesn't have room to sweat.) At the end, everybody looks stern and photogenic for a two-page spread that only emphasizes how much Coipel seems to dislike drawing feet. Seriously, there are no visible feet on something like 17 pages of a 30-page story. I like to imagine that all of Coipel's characters are secretly rollerblading.
The New Avengers Finale is more comfortable territory for Bendis: the ensemble cast here actually gets to talk to each other, and the action is a lot less cosmic. It's also an opportunity for him to grapple with his habit of opening up one plot thread after another; here, he mops up the Hood storyline that's been the through-line of the last two and a half years or so of New Avengers. (The series isn't actually ending, just being relaunched and renumbered next month.). In the party scene at the end, there's a six-pack of a brew labeled as "Millar Lite," and Bryan Hitch's artwork isn't the only thing here that suggests Mark Millar's writing–Wolverine's big entrance is a total Ultimates moment–but generally in a good way.
One side effect of Bendis's knack for spinning out serials, though, is that his endings aren't often dramatically satisfying, and the greatest-hits montage that concludes this issue tries much too hard to argue that the last five years' worth of New Avengers have been a grand journey: nine consecutive double-page spreads, drawn by most of the artists who've stuck around on the series for at least a little while, recapitulating the big fights of the last five years, while Luke Cage gives an endless speech. You can almost hear "Didn't We Almost Have It All" blaring in the background.
Bendis's collaboration with Mike Deodato on Dark Avengers, on the other hand, has consistently been his most solid recent work: it's a story about what happens when criminals assume power, it's driven by very strong personalities colliding with one another, and it stars a character who accomplishes almost everything with well-placed language, which means it's exactly the kind of superhero title that suits his gifts. The final issue actually does slam the volume shut impressively, at least as far as Bendis's contribution goes. Here, it's Deodato and colorist Rain Beredo who are overreaching: a lot of this issue comes out looking computer-modeled rather than drawn, and their habit of showing foreground and background objects "out of focus" is a misguided attempt to make cartooning more like film by reproducing the weaknesses of film.
In an afterword, Bendis dedicates the whole Dark Avengers series to Warren Ellis. That's fitting, since its premise and cast are a continuation of Ellis and Deodato's run on Thunderbolts. Ellis's story, though, was about a group of horrible, horrible people manipulating one another for the sake of power. Bendis's has been more about investigating why people would associate themselves with a horrible cause, and this issue, in a series of brief, mostly dialogue-driven scenes, we get the final answers for the more interesting members of the cast. Daken is an opportunistic sadist; Ares made a difficult choice to create a better life for his son; Victoria Hand, as we see in a terrific three-page dialogue, genuinely thought she was acting in the public good. And the concluding revelation about Norman Osborn is that he's genuinely well-intentioned, at least in his own illness-wracked mind, and he's probably not totally wrong, either. Behind every awful thing Osborn's done, Bendis suggests, there's a would-be champion of humanity who believes that the price for either his success or his failure is being understood to be a terrible villain. It's a fine, scary sequence–Bendis doing what he does best. Cross your fingers that his two new Avengers series will let him keep playing to his strengths.
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New German Hospitality
Its bold take on style made 25hours Hotels the most original hotel group in the country – now it is heading out into the big, wide world.
It's rare to see two such different men running a successful enterprise in perfect accord with each other: the one is clad in fine Hanseatic style, a double-breasted suit of excellent cloth offset by a tasteful necktie and pocket handkerchief; the other sports a carefully combined look of shabby chic – out-of-pants shirt, gelled hair, three-week beard. Together they manage and develop the country's most famous young hotel group, 25hours Hotels. The one is hotelier Kai Hollmann, 59, founder and manager of such design-conscious Hamburg hotels as Gastwerk and The George, not to mention backpacker hostelries for a younger clientele, like Superbude. Hollmann built the first 25hours Hotel in 2003. The other is Christoph Hoffmann, nearly ten years younger, who joined the business three years later and as its chief ideologue, as it were, has worked continuously ever since to turn a hotel into a group, into a brand. He had previously worked as an hotelier, latterly as manager of the small but exquisite hotel Louis C. Jacob in Hamburg. From those heights of luxury, Hoffmann plunged into the brave new world of the so-called "lifestyle hotels" – budget hotels with low room rates and a high fun factor.
Thanks to its creative use of retro design from the 1960s and 1970s, the first 25hours Hotel (today with the byname Number One) was an eye opener the moment it opened in a former office building in the Bahrenfeld district of Hamburg in 2003. It was also exceptionally youth friendly, offering a 25 percent discount to under-25s, providing cars and bicycles for guest use free of charge, hosting a string of parties – and everyone on first-name terms.
It was a hotel with a special target group, a kind of youth hotel, but certainly not a youth hostel. It attracted such great interest from the get-go that just two years later, plans had been forged to apply the concept to an entire hotel group. Hollmann and Hoffmann found themselves some enthusiastic accomplices, and in the good ten years since then, eight 25hours Hotels have opened in Germany, and also in Zurich, Switzerland, and Vienna, Austria; and all share the same nonsensical, but clever slogan: "Kennst du eines, kennst du keines!" – Know one, know none at all!
The hotels are designed to be striking, sexy and cheeky
And each hotel tells a story. The one in Hamburg's HafenCity district (motifs: seafaring, ships, Hanseatic port) tells of Kuttel Daddeldu, the hard-drinking, life-affirming sea dog created by Joachim Ringelnatz, and has containers in the lobby, huge photos of old seamen on the walls, and calls its rooms "berths." The hotels are designed to be "striking, sexy and cheeky." It's the same story in Berlin, where the 25hours Bikini Hotel between the Gedächtniskirche church and the zoo takes the urban jungle as its theme. Stay here and you can hear the zoo animals at night, and everywhere there's greenery; hammocks and bicycles hanging on the room walls; nostalgic telephones and the highly popular Monkey Bar on the roof. In the early days, the main feature of the 25hours Hotels was their affordability – but that also changed as their success grew. "We stopped being budget long ago," says Hoffmann. But at least he does aim to keep his room rates from approaching those of Kempinski.
The group's latest innovation is a "creative lab," where designers and architects work on new 25hours establishment – the brand naturally wants to continue growing. Before the year is out, the next hotel, The Royal Bavarian, is set to open on Munich's Bahnhofsplatz. Projects are also underway in Cologne and Düsseldorf, and a second hotel is planned for Zurich, too. And as a great test of courage, one year later 25hours will be opening in Paris, arguably the hottest European location, in an old building near Gare du Nord train station with an exotic retro theme, with the dandified Congolese sapeurs setting the tone.
In actual fact, the hotels with the 25 hours ("because here, 24 are just not enough") are currently the only German hotel group with a chance of expanding globally. Right now, no one can match their smart mix of design, esprit and cool, so it's no surprise to the hospitality industry that the small German group recently allowed itself to be wooed by Accor, the huge French hotel group (comprising over 20 brands, from Raffles to Ibis Budget, with some 4000 hotels in 95 countries): It will be the only German brand in the group.
"This means we now have networks on every continent," says Hoffmann. So the course is set for the development of 25hours hotels "in Melbourne, Miami or Mumbai." So in the future, people around the world should be able to experience just how pleasant it is when their day at a hotel lasts one hour longer.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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California elections have gone postal. Which is why I can say to all Californians today:
Happy Election Day.
What? Did you think Election Day was June 8? Think again.
Election Day isn't a day anymore. It's a month. And that month-long Election Day starts Monday.
How's that? As the Mercury News explains here, California has been changing the way it holds elections, moving over the last generation from a system based on people going to the polls to a system based on people voting by mail. Two-thirds or more of those voting this year may vote by mail. And county election officials send out mail ballots beginning Monday. Citizens can start voting as soon as they receive those ballots.
What does this mean? Most political consultants say having a longer election day costs more money. Campaigns have to spread their ads and mailings over a longer period of time. And when campaigns cost more money, fewer people can run successfully. Which is why the three candidates for governor include two hyper-wealthy Silicon Valley business types -- Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman. Not only do you need money to buy TV ad time. You need money to buy more of it.


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It was mainly demand from Lufthansa that persuaded Boeing to build its 737. The German airline wanted an efficient, short-range aircraft powered by modern jet engines. Like its big brother the 747 it soon got its own nickname
Lufthansa was the first airline to place an order for several Boeing 737 aircraft back in 1965. At that time jet engines had replaced propellers on long- and medium-haul routes because jet aircraft were faster. But Boeing nearly missed the bus when a similar trend set in for smaller aircraft as well.
Competitors like British Aircraft Corporation und Douglas were already getting their short-range jets into commercial service by 1965. Although Boeing was well behind them, it caught up pretty quickly, mainly by using technologies that had proved themselves in service in Boeing's larger 707 and 727 aircraft. Lufthansa was able to bring the first 737 into service in 1968.
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Benoit: 'World Series' comment misunderstood
OAKLAND -- In the heat of the moment, in the joy and adrenaline rush of a four-out save that preserved the Tigers' Game 1 win over Oakland in Game 1 of the American League Division Series Friday night, Detroit closer Joaquin Benoit let his emotions get the better of him.
"I feel like we're on the verge of the World Series again," he said.
In the bright light of day Saturday, he realized how that sounded, how it could be taken as bulletin-board fodder for the Athletics, how it was premature, at the very least. So as he walked through the visitor's dugout at O.co Coliseum before Game 2, he paused long enough to explain what he meant as opposed to what he said.
"The message was taken the wrong way. We went to the World Series last year. What I was trying to say was that this is the feeling we would like to have, and [if we do], we can go back to the World Series," he elaborated. "It's really tough when you're trying to say something and it gets taken the wrong way. If it was taken the wrong way, I apologize. I didn't mean to say that we're going to go to the World Series. There's a lot of baseball to be played."
By then, the comment had already gotten the attention of old-school Tigers manager Jim Leyland, who, predictably, loved the can-do attitude but would have preferred that Benoit hadn't said it out loud for the whole world to hear.
"I always tell my players that, you know what, in these situations, because of the national media attention, it's probably best to say less. The less said is probably better. Sure, I like a confident team. I don't know that you need to go on stage and talk about it, but I like a team that's confident and I think you show that by the way you play.
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Benoit was asked if he thought he needed to speak to Leyland to clear the air.
"I already heard about it," he said with a small smile. "I already clarified it with him."


text: First and foremost realize that any anonymous internet poster myself included should not be a major influence in your law school decision. There is no licensing exam to post on this board and for all you know myself or Maintain FL could be bums in a public library so bottom line take anything you read on this board or others with a major grain of salt when making this life altering decision. With that said Maintain offers solid advice, which I am going to elaborate on it and when choosing a law school I think you should consider the following factors in this order (1) Location (2) Cost (3) Personal Feeling abut the school (4) LASTLY not First consider U.S. News rankings and I will also explain the reality of legal education. All of these factors are analyzed in more detail below. 1) Location This is by far the most important factor especially when considering a school in Syracuse, New York v. Los Angeles, California or San Francisco. Remember at a bare minimum you will spend three years of your life in the City you attend law school and law school does not exist in a vacuum. Syracuse is a small town in upstate New York that has nothing to offer except a University and it is freezing in the winter. I imagine you are from California based on your other law school selections and have probably never dealt with real weather. On top of that you will be going away from Family and Friends. Now you may like the small college town atmosphere opposed to L.A., but that is really something to consider when choosing your law school because odds are wherever you attend is where you will spend the rest of your life. Of course there are exceptions, but if you go to law school in New York you will probably end up taking the New York Bar make friends in NY, get into a relationship in NY, have an apartment etc and it will be difficult to leave. When I was in law school many people thought they would end up moving back, but it just doesn't happen law school occurs during the prime of your life essentially and three years is a long time so just really make sure you are comfortable with the location. So this one is one of the most important factors. Not only that if you attend law school in Syracuse, New York you will not be able to do an internship with the L.A. D.A's office during law school simply due to location. At Syracuse you could probably intern with whatever County D.A's are in upstate New York and I am sure Syracuse has connections in New York for employment, but not in California. Vice Versa for Southwestern. 2. CostDo not be sucked in by these scholarships to easily first off they are generally not renewable and you need to maintain a 3.0 generally, which requires you to be in the top 35% of the class in law school. No offense to you, but everyone in law school is smart, hard working, motivated and 100% of people think there is no way they will not be in the top 35% of the class, but you don't need to be a math major to see there is a 65% chance you will not be in the top 35% and you will lose the scholarship for years two and three. Syracuse is also the most expensive of the schools you mentioned at 45k a year although the others are not much cheaper Chapman at 42k per year and cost of living may be less in Syracuse, but don't move across the country for an 8k scholarship that is not guaranteed. It can be a factor, but 8k for law school tuition is just a drop in the bucket. 3. Personal Feelings about the schoolThis is going to be a three year, 100k investment, that will change your life I highly encourage you to visit all the schools you are interested in attending and see how you personally feel about the school. I know as a OL and having competed in mock trial competitions with other law schools that each school has a culture to it and I know some I liked others I didn't, but I am not you. You may very well have liked what I hated and hated what I liked. For example I do not like Hastings it is in the Tenderloin the worst part of San Francisco, has giant class sizes, and it just gives me a bad vibe. Conversely I loved the Chapman Campus the campus was beautiful, it had an undergrad, and I liked the smaller town of Orange. However, you may love the bigger city and large class sizes and hate Chapman, but the only way for you to know if a law school is a good fit for you is to visit the school and make the determination yourself. After you check the school, you will be in a better position to make your decision. 4) U.S. News RankingsI see you mentioned the rankings in your post and you are making the common mistake that many 0L's myself included make by basing a life altering decision on a magazine. It is very important to realize that U.S. News is a for-profit, unregulated, magazine offering an opinion. Furthermore, their opinion changes from year to year for no real reason. Furthermore U.S. News ranks more than law schools New Mexico is the best place to live http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/real-estate/articles/2009/06/08/best-places-to-live-2009 . Are you going to move there because U.S. News says so? I imagine not surely there is something good about New Mexico, but I would not alter my life because U.S. News says New Mexico is a great place to live. Similarly I would recommend not making the life altering decision on where to attend law school based on this magazine.If you were choosing Harvard over Southwestern it might play a role, but nobody will be impressed that Syracuse is the 96th best school and rankings are irrelevant for schools of this caliber. Reality of Legal EducationThe realty is what you learn at an ABA school is pretty much identical. Your first year will consist of torts, civil procedure, property, contracts, and criminal law. In these courses you will read Supreme Court cases and they do write separate opinions for different schools. You will read Palsgraff in Torts for proximate cause, Pennoyer v. Neff in civ pro to learn about notice etc .You might have a few electives here and there, but the majority of your legal education will be identical no matter where you go. As for your desire to be a prosecutor I suppose you would want to attend a school that has a large mock trial competition team as that can help, but still only minimally in your goal to become a prosecutor. On top of that you can't really know what you want to do until you start law school. I honestly thought IP was what I wanted when I started, but after the one course I dropped it and really liked trial advocacy and became a City Attorney. You may hate criminal law and end up loving IP so just keep your options open in law school. Bottom line is at any ABA school you will learn the same thing.Conclusion:Do not let me or any other anonymous internet poster make the life altering decision of what law school to attend. It will be three years of your life, 100K of your money, and your legal career so listen to yourself when making the decision .Good luck!