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Did You Know... The Facts About Young Adults and Cancer?
- Young adults (YA) are defined as those people between the ages of 15 and 39.
- About 70,000 YAs are diagnosed with cancer each year, with an estimated 1 million survivors of cancer in young adulthood.
- This incidence makes a cancer diagnosis 8 times more common in YAs than in kids under 15 years of age. Yet YAs have gotten little attention from the medical community.
- Cancer survival rates in YAs have not changed since 1975. Why is this, when other age groups have seen improvements in survival? Some of the possible reasons include:
- This age group has the highest uninsured or underinsured rates of any age group in the U.S., which may lead to delayed diagnosis and healthcare.
- YAs may see themselves as not at risk for serious disease and thus delay seeking medical attention. Many do not have a primary healthcare provider and don't know where to go when symptoms present.
- Healthcare providers see YAs as low risk for cancer and may not consider this diagnosis. Symptoms may be attributed to stress or fatigue related to school, work, or family obligations.
- Many YAs are not referred to comprehensive cancer centers for treatment, limiting the participation of this age group in clinical studies.
- Non-Hispanic whites have the highest incidence of cancer among YAs, but also have the highest 5-year survival rates. African- Americans are in the middle as far as incidence rates, but have the lowest 5-year survival of YAs across all cancer diagnoses.
- The type of cancer diagnosed varies, depending on age. In 15-19 year-olds, lymphoma, germ cell tumors (testicular cancer) and leukemia are the most common diagnoses. In 20-39 year- olds, carcinomas (such as breast & colon cancer) are the most common diagnoses.
- Researchers believe that certain cancers in YAs may be biologically different than in other age groups. For instance, a breast cancer in a 30 year-old woman is probably very different from the same diagnosis in a 70 year-old. But, research is required to determine these differences and how they should affect treatment in YAs.
- More than 60% of patients under 15 years of age are treated on a clinical trial, which has led to dramatic improvements in childhood cancer survival. In contrast, only 10% of 15-19 year- olds and 1-2% of 20-39 year-olds with a cancer diagnosis participate in a clinical trial.
- YAs have concerns that present unique challenges to this group, such as fertility concerns, body image, cognitive function, late treatment effects, and issues related to education, employment, and insurance.
- The number 1 psychosocial issue for YAs is social isolation. Friends and family often don't know what to do for them, nor can they understand the effect it has on the YA. This may lead to social withdrawal on the part of the patient and/or friends and family.
- Unfortunately, many oncology offices do not have the knowledge or support staff to provide the needed support for YAs. Lack of referral to research institutions has resulted in a lack of research into the specific needs for this group.
- After treatment, YAs are more often lost to follow up, given their high geographic mobility and insurance issues, further compounding the lack of knowledge of late treatment effects in this group.
- Researchers have found that all cancer survivors have a 14% higher risk of developing a second cancer compared to the general population. Children and YA's are at the highest risk for developing second cancers, most likely related to exposure to treatments that can cure cancers but also cause mutations that lead to second cancers (i.e. chemotherapy and radiation therapy).
What is being done to support YAs?
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- National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week occurs every year in early April. In 2015, this is becoming an awareness month!
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Critical Mass: Young Adult Cancer Alliance : a community-powered advocacy organization on a mission to transform the care and treatment of young adults with cancer. Their website has many resources for young adults.
Stupid Cancer : a national, survivor-led advocacy, support and research organization that works on behalf of young adult survivors of cancer under age 40. They use music, arts and media to encourage survivors to talk openly about cancer. Services offered include: a radio show, scholarship information and free educational workshops on fertility, legal, and social issues. They also hold a large annual conference, the OMG! Cancer Summit for Young Adults.
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Instructions1. Preheat oven and roll out pizza dough according to directions. Spread generously with salsa, and then chorizo. Bake according to directions.
2. When pizza is done baking and slightly cooler, top with a layer of guacamole and then a layer of chili corn salsa. Sprinkle with cilantro if desired, and serve hot.
Secondly! In the same neighborhood where you can find tacos and pizza (though not, I think? taco pizza), there is this.
So mysterious, and at $1.99, I had to give it a try. "Pepper, herbs, & spices" indeed make for a tasty combination, and I love that it's "BEST WITH MEATS, CHICKEN, SEAFOOD, AND VEGETABLE." I'm pretty curious what that leaves as second-best.
It's really interesting that Jon's also sells something called ajvar, which has to be related, right? But the ajvar I've bought is much bulkier--with eggplant, peppers, etc--more like a spread or a relish or a dip, whereas this ajika is more of a spice paste, like the harissa recipe I've been using. In any case, I've tasted this stuff, and it's very good, but I'm not sure what to do with it. It's spicy and savory, but also rather sour. It's sort of half way in between harissa and sumac. I feel like it might be really good in a variation on this recipe for carrots and green beans with caraway, harissa, and pistachios, or in one of these carrot salads.


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Electoral Coup d'Etats – by Stephen Lendman
They're commonplace in developing countries in different forms, at times through what Edward Herman calls "Demonstration Elections," the title of his 1980 book on sham ones in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Vietnam. They also occur regularly in countries like Egypt, where for the past 20 years president Hosni Mubarak has gotten around 98% of the vote when he runs. Sadam's Iraq, much of the Middle East, and elsewhere work the same way, holding mock elections pretending to be real, while in the West, especially America, real elections are, in fact, mock ones.
Of course, elections held in occupied countries, like Iraq and Afghanistan, install puppet regimes, not legitimate ones, both countries run from Washington, not Baghdad or Kabul.
America's history is rife with electoral fraud, in 1824 for example, the one called the "Corrupt Bargain." Four major candidates were involved, all from the same Democratic-Republican party, today's Democrats who are also Republicans who are also Democrats in our one-party state with two wings – plus the lunatic fringe Tea Party offshoot likely to send extremist morons to Congress, joining legions of others already there.
When all 1824 votes were tallied, no winner emerged, so under the 12th Amendment, it fell to the House to decide from the top three. On February 9, 1925, after a month of furious lobbying, members chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson (later elected president in 1828 and again in 1832), Henry Clay and William Crawford. Outrage followed because deal-makers prevailed over voters. It showed up when Adams nominated Clay as Secretary of State, infuriating Jackson supporters. Thereafter, Clay was dogged for striking a corrupt bargain, depriving Jackson, the highest vote getter of the four.
The 1876 election was even worse because Democrat Samuel Tilden got today's equivalent of over two million more votes than Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, and with 20 disputed Electoral College votes uncounted led by 184 – 165. Yet a secretly struck "bargain of 1877" to abandon Reconstruction and sell out freed Blacks handed the election to Hayes.
Another example was Lyndon Johnson's 1948 senatorial primary win – until the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, the most blatant example of electoral theft in US history, according to some observers. Historian Robert Caro is one, documenting how Johnson miraculously overcame a 20,000 vote deficit to gain an 87 vote victory. According to Caro, it wasn't "the only election….ever stolen, but there was never such brazen thievery," and as they say, the rest is history.
With today's modern technology, electoral fraud is easier than ever, Stephen Spoonamore, a leading cyber crime expert explaining how the "structures" of Diebold and other electronic voting machines are inherently flawed. As a result, "There is a very strong argument" that the 2000 and 2004 elections were "electronically stolen, the hanging chads were just a distraction." Diebold machines especially "are brilliantly designed (to) steal elections," so losers are declared winners, and not just for president.
Clear evidence shows the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen, the Supreme Court initially complicit by halting the Florida recount on spurious grounds, and handing the election to Bush. Months later, when it was too late to matter, the final tally showed Gore carried Florida and the election.
The 2004 election was worse because technology stole it with electronic ease. Again Florida and Ohio made the difference, depriving winner Kerry of the presidency. In both elections, media reports produced a daily flow of disinformation masquerading as real news, hailing the illegitimate winner when final results were announced, few knowing at the time they'd been scammed.
The 2008 election mirrored 1976, a year Carter was picked to win, Ford to lose, for a one-term post-Nixon interregnum before Republicans regained command. After eight years under Bush, a planned change of pace anointed Obama. The McCain/Palin ticket was absurd. Discord rankled Republican ranks. Many party faithful despised McCain because of his temperament, unpredictability, legendary temper, and genius for making enemies. As for Palin, AP said she knew more about fishing than world and national affairs. Others called her an extremist, bigoted moron. In combination, they cinched an easy Obama win, decided, in fact, before voters went to the polls
American democracy is pure fantasy, elections and their run-up mere kabuki theater, political consultants, PR wizards, and the major media sharing lead roles. Everything is pre-scripted. Secrecy and back room deals substitute for a free, fair and open process. Party bosses chose candidates. Big money owns them. Key outcomes are predetermined, and cheated voters get the best democracy money can buy.
Much of this surprises few, at least those thoughtful enough to understand realpolitic's darker side. What may surprise is another kind of electoral fraud, taking place in condominium board elections, at least in Chicago, a city known for corrupt politics since the 19th century.
Endemic in more recent times, it's because lax Illinois campaign finance laws allow it. State residents say it's just the way it is, and since 1972 alone, three governors (besides Blagojevich), state legislators, two congressmen, 19 Cook County judges, 30 aldermen, and many others were convicted of corruption.
Since 1970, in fact, around 1,000 public officials and complicit businessmen were caught and convicted, proving former Chicago alderman Paddy Bauler right when he said, "Chicago ain't ready for reform." Over time, only its form, methods, and stakes have changed under a one-party system run by Democrats governing like Republicans.
Condo Board Electoral Coups
At 100 stories, Chicago landmark John Hancock Center is America's sixth tallest building home to offices, retailers, restaurants, other services, and about 700 condominiums in its upper floors. Opened in 1969 as rental units, they became condos in 1973 under Sudler Property Management, Inc., its web site saying:
"Over the years we have learned that providing our clients with superior service means re-defining our 'responsibility' as 'the ability to respond,' " among other ways through "efficient daily operations, well-managed capital improvements, accurate accounting records, and effective financial planning."
Omitted was Sudler's dark side through over-assessments, sweetheart deal contracts, lucrative kickback arrangements, and cheated residents through blatant profiteering and rigged elections to assure enough board members go along, don't object, or aren't informed so don't know.
Preferred are a committed hard core, supplemented by uninformed indifferent members, others who rarely attend meetings, many who live part or most of the year away, and overall know little about building activities or how Sudler mismanages them – for its benefit, not residents to be exploited for maximum profit.
The 40 year saga is too long and involved for an article.
As a result, it's simplified, focusing on selected events and important recent ones, but make no mistake. They reflect decades of mismanagement, misrepresentation, manipulation, a lack of ethics, and blatant fraud at the expense of residents, most unaware they've been scammed.
On October 26, 1991, Chicago's Near North News headlined, "Judge halts election at Hancock Center." Judge Monica Doyle issued a restraining order following charges that the election was illegal under a 1991 Illinois law, mandating all candidates be treated equally.
Specifically, "official slates" (including management endorsed ones) are prohibited, and all candidates must run at-large, not one per floor as then Hancock bylaws stipulated. As a result then, and in the 2009 (and perhaps 2010) election(s), legitimate candidates were improperly bumped to exclude ones Sudler designated persona non grata.
On January 19, 2003, former Hancock attorney Mark Pearlstein headlined a Chicago Tribune article, "Validity of board election may be challenged," saying he ran for his building's board, then belatedly discovered election irregularities, including:
— the building manager (also an owner) solicited residents through proxies to support certain candidates;
— asked at least one resident to change her vote pre-election; and
— improperly counted most ballots privately in her office, rendering the election invalid.
Under Section 18(b)(10) of the Illinois Condominium Property Act, candidates may be present during tabulations. However, managers are prohibited from participating. Doing so is illegal. It's why most associations use independent accountants.
The 2009 board election had many irregularities, one affecting this writer, a 40 year resident, directly. Enlisted, under false pretenses against an alleged building manager conspiracy/smear campaign, it was, in fact, a scheme to elect Sudler's handpicked slate.
As a result, unwittingly, a supportive letter was written and distributed to building residents, my instructions clearly saying it was to be from me alone, with no letterhead, unconnected to Sudler, other residents, or building politics – specifically the days away condo board election and a Sudler endorsed slate, one vetted as rubber-stamp.
Events unfolded as follows:
A phone call alerted me that a cabal of residents, including board members, wanted the building manager smeared and ousted for selfish reasons they best could explain. Appalled, I agreed to write and have distributed a letter endorsing him, urging residents back candidates supporting us, not their self-interest, demanding the manager be retained, and stressing it's our building and our choice.
The conspiracy was bogus. No smear campaign existed then or now. I was defrauded and unscrupulously used. As a result, I acted unwittingly against my own best interests and that of most residents. It gets worse.
Without my knowledge or consent, my content was altered, saying I endorsed an enclosed slate. Doing so constituted fraud and perhaps forgery. Sudler's preferred candidates won. Good ones representing all residents lost, and the responsible individual became board president, a position letting him manipulate board activities advantageously, unethically and fraudulently for Sudler, not us, what, in fact, he's done.
To clear my name and set the record straight, I insisted that a new letter I'd write be immediately distributed to all residents. I later learned many didn't get it, but it was too late to matter. The damage was done. My initial letter had impact. As a result, Sudler's slate won convincingly. The building remained mismanaged. My name was besmirched, and it took many months to regain my reputation, those angered by my action realizing I'd been had, and unwittingly used to represent Sudler, not building residents.
In addition, prior to the election, an endorsed building manager slate went to about 200 residents, attorney Pearlstein calling it "improper because it exceed(ed) the authority of the Agent under the existing management contract. Further, the manager is an agent of the Board of Directors, and the Board….is barred from endorsing candidates."
However, the aspirant board president, subsequently elected, did so ahead of the 2009 and 2010 elections. Without saying so specifically, Pearlstein suggested the 2009 (and perhaps 2010) one was invalid because Illinois condo law was violated. Results should thus be annulled. Residents should be notified, and a new election held in strict compliance with state law.
Action so far taken includes an ethics complaint filed against the condo manager with the Community Associations Institute (CAI), "a national organization dedicated to fostering vibrant, competent, harmonious community associations (by) providing education and resources to the volunteer homeowners who govern community associations and the professional managers, community management firms and other professionals and companies that provide products and services to associations."
CAI has power to sanction or defrock condo managers if ethics or other serious code of conduct violations are proved. Its Professional Manager Code of Ethics is detailed and specific, requiring managers among other duties to:
— "Comply with current (CAI) bylaws, standards and practices….subject to all federal, state and local laws, ordinances, and regulations in effect where the Manager practices;" and
— "Act in the best interests of the client (meaning condo residents); refrain from making inaccurate or misleading representations or statements; not knowingly misrepresent facts to benefit the Manager" or his/her employer – in this case, Sudler.
A lawsuit was also filed, now in "voluntary dismissal without prejudice" status pending further developments to proceed any time. Above all, aggrieved residents want others informed of shenanigans committed harming their interests. Our home should be run for everyone, not Sudler or complicit board members alone.
Dirty federal, state and local politics are commonplace. Surprisingly, condo elections are also tainted, at least in at Chicago's Hancock Center, a city landmark for more than one reason.
A Final Comment
On May 6, 2009, Chicago Sun Times columnist David Roeder headlined, "Condos to kick kickbacks?" saying area condo management companies and building managers may be profiting from "contracts (let to) preferred vendors."
"Call it a procurement fee," he said, "a kickback, or pay-to-play for the private sector," a practice that's disturbingly common. According to Tim Sack, plumbing operations vice president for TMS Mechanical, Inc., a city high-rise vendor:
"To me, it's stealing from the people you are working for," up to 15% or more of let contracts that over time to enough vendors can amount to enormous sums, and it's one reason assessments are so high.
Without admitting wrongdoing, Joe Armenio, president of Sudler Management Services, acknowledges that the company maintains a preferred vendor list. Roeder, however, explained that property management firms like the Habitat Co, Draper & Kramer (D & K), and the Building Group have no "payback" schemes. D & K's CEO, Forrest Bailey, said he negotiates bulk purchase deals with different vendors and passes on savings to its buildings. Other firms, like Sudler, exploit them and their residents for profit, most unit owners unaware they've been scammed, let alone for decades like at Hancock.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.


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Mysteriously, however, these long-term changes also seem to be preceded by a feeling that emerges as soon as the current is switched on and is markedly similar to the flow state. "The number one thing I hear people say after tDCS is that time passed unduly fast," says Weisend. Their movements also seem to become more automatic; they report calm, focused concentration - and their performance improves immediately.
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My salvation lies in the fact that my attackers are only a video, projected on screens to the front and sides. It's the very simulation that trains US troops to take their first steps with a rifle, and everything about it has been engineered to feel like an overpowering assault. But I am failing miserably. In fact, I'm so demoralised that I'm tempted to put down the rifle and leave.
I simply begin to take out attacker after attacker. As twenty of them run at me brandishing their guns, I calmly line up my rifle, take a moment to breathe deeply, and pick off the closest one, before tranquilly assessing my next target.
In what seems like next to no time, I hear a voice call out, "Okay, that's it." The lights come up in the simulation room and one of the assistants at Advanced Brain Monitoring, a young woman just out of university, tentatively enters the darkened room.
In the sudden quiet amid the bodies around me, I was really expecting more assailants, and I'm a bit disappointed when the team begins to remove my electrodes. I look up and wonder if someone wound the clocks forward. Inexplicably, 20 minutes have just passed. "How many did I get?" I ask the assistant.
She looks at me quizzically. "All of them."
Zapping your brain with a small current seems to improve everything from mathematical skills to marksmanship, but for now your best chance of experiencing this boost is to sign up for a lab experiment. Machines that provide transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) cost £5000 a pop, and their makers often sell them only to researchers.
That hasn't stopped a vibrant community of DIY tDCS enthusiasts from springing up. Their online forums are full of accounts of their home-made experiments, including hair-curling descriptions of blunders that, in one case, left someone temporarily blind.


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by Tom Utescher
Closing out the month of June in the NCAA women's summer basketball league with a victory last Thursday night, Team Gold remained tied for third place in the standings, improving to 3-1. The Gold squad, with three players and its coach having ties to Mount St. Joseph Academy, won 68-43 over Heather Gray, a squad with a large complement of Division III players that is bolstered by a couple of Division I ladies from Lehigh University.
Both Team Gold and Team Sky Blue (whose members mostly come from Division II West Chester University) finished the month with identical records, but if they go on to end the regular season with matching win/loss figures, Gold would receive a higher playoff seed thanks to its head-to-head win over Sky Blue last Tuesday.
Essentially a blend of Division I and Division III players, Gold's 54-53 squeaker over the West Chester women was a noteworthy achievement, since the absence of Gold's two 6'2" players left them somewhat vertically challenged.
On the same night, the two 2013 Germantown Academy graduates in the league squared off against one another. Here, the Purple team featuring forward Kiernan McCloskey (Lehigh) prevailed 55-44 against guard Fran Sweeney (Emory University) and her Royal Blue squad. Two nights later, Purple had a bye, while Royal bounced back by beating Navy Blue, 63-55.
On regular game nights at the Kelly Bolish Gymnasium in Hatboro, the 13-team league has three bouts scheduled for 7:00 PM and three more tipping off at 8:15, so on each night one team receives a bye.
Last Thursday, the three-ball queens of Team Hunter Green remained atop the standings as they ran their record to 4-0. This latest win didn't come easily, but the league leaders pulled out the "W", 68-64, over Kelly Green. Half-a-dozen players in Kelly Green's line-up come from Division II powerhouse Holy Family University in Northeast Philadelphia, and the line-up also includes Indiana University (of Pa.) sophomore Erin Martin, who played high school ball first at Penn Charter and then at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.
Team White also stayed unbeaten in the league with a victory on Thursday, although a bye early in the schedule has their record at 3-0, a game behind Hunter in the win column.
In one of Thursday's late games, Sky Blue rebounded from Tuesday's narrow loss to knock off another Division II entry, Team Black. Staffed by Philadelphia University hoopsters, the Black roster includes 2011 GA grad Monica Schacker. Recent Mount St. Joe grad Kelsey Jones has signed with Philly U., but is not playing summer ball due to an injury suffered during her final high school season.
Team Black (1-3) only trailed 24-22 with four-and-a-half minutes to go in the first period, but by the time the intermission arrived, Sky Blue had gone up by 10, 28-38. The leaders set about widening the gap as the second round got underway, and near the midway point of the period, a lay-up and free throw by Tiffany Johnson (a rising junior out of Cheltenham High School) spread the margin to 16 points, 51-35.
From there, Sky Blue cruised to a 74-49 victory behind a 26-point performance from guard Brittany Sicinski, who as a Downingtown West senior in 2012 almost singlehandedly knocked Mount St. Joseph out of the PIAA District 1 tournament.
On an adjacent court, another late game matched up Team Gold against Heather Gray. Gold had 6'2" Cardinal O'Hara grad Maureen Leahy (Bryant University) back in the ranks, while Heather Gray (1-3) was playing without its own 6'3" Kerry Kinek, a rising Lehigh sophomore who was an All-Patriot League first team pick as a freshman last winter.
As the teams seesawed up from a 6-6 tie, Heather Grey gained a 9-8 edge that would be its last lead of the game. At the 10-minute mark Gold was up 12-9, then that score stayed on the board for almost four minutes.
Recent Swarthmore College grad Madeline Ross and current St. Joe's player Natasha Cloud got Gold going again by taking the ball to the hoop, and with the clock down to four minutes their team had doubled up the Gray at 22-11. The leaders drew away a little more before the period ended, and at the interlude the tally was 31-15.
In the second half a modest rally by Gray closed up the score to 39-26 with 13 minutes left to play, but following a time-out, Team Gold was on the upswing once more. Bridget Higgins, a 2012 Mount grad now playing at Pitt, was one of the mainstays at point guard, and another MSJ alum, recent Harvard grad Elle Hagedorn, played her customary gadfly defense.
Leading the offense in the 25-point victory were Leahy and former O'Hara teammate Cloud, each with 15 points, and yet another Lions alum, guard Mackenzie Rule (Class of '13, headed for St. Joe's) scored seven points.
Ross finished with 11 points and Higgins had 10 for the winners. A former Swarthmore player on the other side of the court, Kathryn Stockbower, paced Heather Gray with 16 points.


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An old farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Bhagavad-gita. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavad-gita just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavad-gita do?"
The grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went outside to watch the boy try again.
At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house.
The boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"
"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket." The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.
"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bhagavad-gita. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Lord Krishna in our lives."
Here are Some quotes on Gita from Great People
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita, the only question left is how God created the universe. Everything else seems to be superfluous." - Albert Einstein.
"The balance of mind which few highly-civilized individuals, such as Arjuna, the hero of Bhagavad-Gita, can maintain in action is difficult for most of us even as observers."
T. S. Eliot. - American-English Poet.
"The deeper you dive into it, richer the meaning you get…with every age, the important words will carry new and expanding meanings. But its central teachings will not vary."
Mahatma Gandhi.
"Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds as it has been to me. Let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way. Let it light your path and dignify your labor." Mahatma Gandhi.
"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow." - Mahatma Gandhi.
"It gives utterance to the aspirations of the pilgrims of all sects who seek to tread the inner way to the city of God." - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial." - Henry David Thoreau.
"In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climes and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge". - Thoreau. - American Thinker.
"It is already becoming clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race… At this supremely dangerous moment in history the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way".- Dr. Arnold Toynbee.- British Historian 1889-1975.
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To "Castle" fans who have been hoping for a major development all season: be careful what you wish for.
Actor Seamus Dever, who plays Det. Kevin Ryan on ABC's romantically charged crime series, tells PopcornBiz that the May 7 season finale delivers not one but two major turning points to long-simmering plotlines, and one of them may not be cause for celebration.
"I think our season finale is going to be a bittersweet fare," teases Dever. "Something's going to happen that's been building for a long time – and something ELSE is going to happen that's been building for a long time. And one's going to be very happy for the fans, and one's going to be sort of sad for the fans. So, yes: 'bittersweet' is what I'm calling it."
One of those moments centers around one of the show's OTHER pairings: the professional partnership of Ryan and Javier Esposito, Dever cryptically reveals. "Something big happens to Ryan and Esposito in the season finale."
And what of the always burning "will they/won't they?" question of a Castle/Beckett hookup, which has been gaining steam all season? Will Nate Fillion's mystery writer and Stana Katic homicide detective finally get it together?
"I have always wanted them to get together so that people can stop asking me that question," laughs Dever. "No offense at all, because I love answering that question. But I've always been – It's one of those things that you want to see if the show can evolve at that point, and if it happens to be the first question on the tip of everybody's tongue then you'd think, let's solve that and let's move on, and let's find something else to make the show about. So I'm in favor of that. I always have been. I'm unabashedly a 'ship-er."
'Castle' Season Finale Will Be 'Bittersweet,' Says Co-Star
To "Castle" fans who have been hoping for a major development all season: be careful what you wish for.


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got some, yet to be confirmed, information what Microsoft might announce
during next month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to these
information, Microsoft plans to announce a Windows Azure-based line of cloud
services for its Windows Mobile smartphones. Azure, which was introduced back in
October at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), is said to be
the platform for Microsoft's Sky-services and, according to sources close to
Microsoft, the company has been working on three product-lines codenamed SkyBox,
SkyLine and SkyMarket. However, according to Neowin, the final offerings are
likely to be named under the Windows Live branding. Nevertheless, the three Sky-services are expected to include one consumer offer,
one business offer and one market place:
All the information above are yet completely unconfirmed but the details of
information Neowin received seems to make them legit. Anyway, we will see next
month during the Mobile World Congress from where the::unwired will report live.
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You are either born with a sense of direction or you aren't. I was always amazed as a kid that no matter where we travelled, my dad just somehow knew where to go. Even in places where you drive on the left side and sit on the right (shifting with your left hand), two turns out of the rental car agency and Ken was good to go. My dad's athleticism, tenacity and confidence I inherited. When it comes to direction, however, I apply that confidence to completely faulty sense, as his admirable inner GPS must be skipping a generation.
The last Olympic season (2009-2010), my cohort Emily Azevedo and I combined the world's most comical senses of direction to make the dream team of fossil fuel consumption. In just the first half of the World Cup tour, we calculated a total of nine hours gone in the wrong direction. Before you hate, let me set this up:
In North America we get our sleds from track to track by shipping them in crates, packing and unpacking at each stop. Europe involves just as much heavy lifting, but instead of meeting our sleds at each track, we have to drive them there ourselves in huge sled trucks. If there was ever a bubble of glamorous European travels and sleigh riding, let's burst it now.
When you race every weekend on a different track in a different country, you only have a day to get where you need to go before doing it all over again. What that means for a World Cup bobsled tour is unpack and unload, train train train, race, pack and load, drive, arrive, and unload all over again. So every time you climb into a vehicle, you are post-race exhausted. Most tracks in Europe are on average a six-hour drive apart in good weather. So now factor in the inevitable snowstorms that come with winter sports, two-wheel drive, and a bench seat, and you can see why people shy away from truck duty.
Thanks, BMW, for the fleet of X5's!
Since teaming up with BMW, we get a fleet of X5's that provide unparalleled luxury on those long aforementioned European treks from track to track. After a solid 10 minutes spent every year figuring out how to change the dashboard navigation system to English, we're in business. In business if you're in a BMW, that is. The sled trucks, on the other hand, are the bane of our travel existence.
Nowadays we have mandatory stick driving school as well as chain school, because for years people sat in the warmth while others put chains on, or slept in the back as the small group of manually skilled drivers put in long hours. There have been a few instances of waking someone up for their shift, only to find out they can't drive. Last year was inspiringly refreshing in that we had a particularly tenacious group of newbies, eager to learn as well as gutsy to venture forth on their own.
And now to account for those nine hours lost in the Olympic season. Back then, none of us really traveled with an international GPS, so our team manager Lenny Kasten would pass out multiple page MapQuest directions that would often leave us saying "Look kids – Big Ben" even when followed correctly. And anyone who remembers life before the GPS knows that once you make one wrong turn, if you can't go back and figure out where you went wrong that lovingly stapled packet is toast. Now factor in foreign countries with unfamiliar signage in an unfamiliar language, and you are already set for an adventure.
What always amazed me is how positive Emily and I managed to remain, even in the middle of the night snowstorm gas station language-barrier scenes. Each of us knew that we were just as little help to the cause, co-pilot or driver, but would be as supportive as we could. In my case, despite knowing full well I have the directional intuition of George Costanza and should always do the opposite of what I think, I am confidently decisive about my wrong directions. Time after time, Emily would ask which way and I always had an immediate and confident answer, which was later followed by a confidently apologetic "I was wrong, definitely wrong."
Those European back roads are no joke to navigate, as we later learned that even with a GPS things would get unclear and wrong choices still made, but the error rate was cut by at least 85-percent. There is something to be said, though, for going wherever you're going with confidence. Do what you're going to do, and be bold about it – so long as you can admit with equal confidence and humility when you are wrong and what you learned.
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Before a 'clue' became a thing that excited a detective, the word referred to a ball of yarn. So how did this shift in meaning occur? Because in Greek mythology, Ariadne threw a ball of yarn to Theseus before he entered the minotaur's labyrinth. Theseus unrolled the yarn behind him as he traveled into the deadly maze — then used it to find his way out.
Word derivation trivia is always fun to unleash at a party. And you'll find lots more of it in the TED-Ed series Mysteries of the Vernacular, from Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel. Each lesson in this dictionary-thumping series tells the unusual origin story of a common word. In the end, there will be 26 lessons total– one representing each letter of the alphabet.
Because the series has reached its halfway point, with 13 lessons out so far, we thought it was high time to share…
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Media release –
2011 Census - one month to go!9 July 2011 | CO/24
One month out from Census night, Tuesday 9 August, 2011, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is ready to complete Australia's largest ever peace time logistical operation.
Head of the Population Census program, Paul Lowe says the Census will shed some light on every community in Australia.
"The Census lights the way forward for planning such things as schools, hospitals, roads, health services and public transport," Mr Lowe says.
Mr Lowe says the Census gives the ABS an accurate snapshot of Australia, but it's not just the Government that uses the information that's captured on Census night.
"Charities, big and small businesses, community organisations, students and researchers all use Census data every day," Mr Lowe adds.
Starting later this month 29,000 Census Collectors will hand deliver Census forms to every household in Australia.
Everyone in Australia on Census night has two options to accurately complete their Census form-via the traditional paper form or online using eCensus.
Mr Lowe says your Census Collector will provide the information you need to be able to participate in the Census.
For more information visit www.abs.gov.au/census.
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After Obama's Election, Angry Coal CEO Lays Off Employees
The Article: After Obama reelection coal company CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs by Steven Mufson in The Washington Post.
The Text: For the chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy, an Ohio-based coal company, the reelection of President Obama was no cause for celebration. It was a time for prayer – and layoffs.
Robert E. Murray read a prayer to a group of company staff members on the day after the election, lamenting the direction of the country and asking: "Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build."
On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a "war on coal" by the administration of President Barack Obama."
Murray Energy is the country's largest privately owned coal mining company, with about 3,000 employees producing about 30 million tons of bituminous coal a year, according to its Web site.
The company was the subject of an article in the New Republic that said the company had forced miners to attend a Romney campaign speech in southeastern Ohio in August. Murray denied the account. The New Republic also reported that Murray Energy employees have given more than $1.4 million to Republican candidates for federal office since 2007.
Murray has also been a target of environmentalists. Notably, the company has spilled coal slurry into a creek on seven different occasions.
Murray's prayer from Wednesday first appeared on the Web site of the Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register. The newspaper said Murray had supplied his text. The Post confirmed its legitimacy with a company spokesman, Gary M. Broadbent.
Here is the full text of the prayer:
Dear Lord:
The American people have made their choice. They have decided that America must change its course, away from the principals of our Founders. And, away from the idea of individual freedom and individual responsibility. Away from capitalism, economic responsibility, and personal acceptance.
We are a Country in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom.
My regret, Lord, is that our young people, including those in my own family, never will know what America was like or might have been. They will pay the price in their reduced standard of living and, most especially, reduced freedom.
The takers outvoted the producers. In response to this, I have turned to my Bible and in II Peter, Chapter 1, verses 4-9 it says, "To faith we are to add goodness; to goodness, knowledge; to knowledge, self control; to self control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; to godliness, kindness; to brotherly kindness, love."
Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build. We ask for your guidance in this drastic time with the drastic decisions that will be made to have any hope of our survival as an American business enterprise.


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Welcome to day two of our Sweet November Christmas sneak peeks! This little guy was up at the crack of dawn to tear into his presents and now he has finally made his way through the piles of ribbons, bows and tissue paper to that one special gift left from Santa himself.
Want a chance to win this sweet tot and his Christmas candy? Well then check this out...
and our special guest gal, Kelly, have all gotten into the Christmas spirit!Then come back tomorrow for day three of our Christmas Babies sneaks! :)
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The Southern Baptist Convention
by Alfred W. Stuart
Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2010.
Reprinted with permission from The North Carolina Atlas Revisited. Managing editor: Alfred W. Stuart.
The large Southern Baptist church congregations increased in number by 190 between 1990 and 2000. The average congregation is relatively large, averaging 407 adherents in 2000. As Figure 8 shows above, they were found in every one of the state's 100 counties. The greatest relative concentrations are found in western North Carolina and in the northeastern and southeastern corners of the state. On the other hand, the smaller proportions (which still account for 10% to 15% of the population--more than almost any other denomination) are in the central part of eastern North Carolina, along with central counties of the some of the larger metro areas, notably Forsyth, Mecklenburg and Orange counties. In fact, proportions of Baptist adherents are smaller throughout much of the Piedmont corridor but, here again, in most areas Baptists make up between 10% and 20% of the total population, levels that are far higher than other denominations. These levels appear low only in comparison with the 40% or higher levels that are prevalent in nearby western counties, such as Cleveland, Rutherford, Burke, Caldwell, and Wilkes.
Additional Resources:
2012 Statistical Abstract. Population: Religion. U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/library/publications/2011/compendia/statab/131ed/p...
Guide to Researching the History of Religion in North Carolina: Baptist Church. UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/study/religion.html#baptist
Hartford Institute for Religion Research. http://www.hartfordinstitute.org/
State Membership Report, North Carolina. The Association of Relgion Data Archives (ARDA) http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/37_2000.asp
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10 years of tax returns for me, not for thee
Mitt Romney's strategy on hiding his tax returns has, oddly enough, gone largely according to plan. Here was the strategy in a nutshell: (1) release fewer tax returns than any modern president; (2) ignore appeals for more disclosure, no matter how many legitimate questions arose; and (3) wait for the questions to go away.
The secrecy hasn't been healthy to the democratic process, and there are all kinds of pertinent questions about Romney's controversial finances that remain unanswered, but the political media establishment, which pushed pretty aggressively on this story for a long while, eventually moved on, just as Romney hoped.
To get the story going again, we'd need some kind of new revelation. Wait, here's one now.
As part of its [vice-presidential vetting process], the Romney campaign required at least some of the candidates on the short list – including the eventual winner of the GOP veepstakes, Ryan – to submit fully 10 years of tax returns, according to a knowledgeable source.
The requirement was consistent with the past practices of both Republican and Democratic campaigns. Indeed, in 2008, Mitt Romney turned over 23 years of taxes to John McCain's campaign when he was under consideration to be the Arizona senator's running mate.
It's worth noting that the 10-year figure hasn't been confirmed elsewhere, and the Romney campaign would neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of the report.
That said, the Daily Beast report doesn't come as much of a surprise, either. Beth Myers, who oversaw Romney's vice-presidential search, conceded she'd obtained "several years" of income tax returns from those being considered, and Ryan himself told CBS it was "a very exhaustive vetting process," and he shared materials going back "several years." The notion that Team Romney would request 10 years' worth of documents is easy to believe – indeed, the total, if anything, seems a little low, not implausibly high.
And so, if we work under the assumption that the Daily Beast piece is accurate, we're once again left with an obvious question: why does Team Romney believe 10 years' worth of tax returns is a reasonable number as part of a thorough examination of a candidate's record, but American voters are only entitled to one-fifth of that total as part of their own examination of a candidate's record?
Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, hardly seems unreasonable when he says, "[If Romney] needed 10 years of returns to decide on a vice presidential candidate, don't the American people need the same to make their choice for president?"
Heck, the Obama campaign recently said they'd settle for five years' worth of returns and promise to never ask for more. That was deemed excessive, too.
The question of why in the world Romney feels the need to keep his records secret from the public continues to linger.


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TechStyleLAB necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 141 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
The TechStyleLAB has been created in the Fashion School to support learning/teaching, research and commercial investigation of digital design and production technologies in the fashion context. The goal of the TechStyleLAB is to create a model for exploring more localized, sustainable and creative digital supply chains for the fashion industry. A key impact of the concept lies in demonstrating how digital design and manufacturing software/hardware can be used in conjunction with rich media interfaces to create dynamic workflows for the on-demand production of textile/fashion products.
The TechStyleLAB houses a range of digital output devices (wide format digital textile printer/embroidery machines/looms) in one collective space to allow for a completely vertical on-demand design/production environment.
TechStyleLAB.org will be the online gateway for anyone to the access TechStyleLAB's facilities and services. Ultimately, it will be able to support small companies as an 'incubator' space to take advantage of combined access to the tools ("labs"). The commercial service is used as a means to generate income to support the TechStyleLAB's activities, as well as to provide a more meaningful understanding of the commercial and production oriented issues of the technology.
The TechStyleLAB places design and business-led inquiry at the heart of its research directive.
Our primary target audiences for the logo are:
- designers of various disciplines
- businesses (either as customers or as sub-labs)
- makers + crafters
Our secondary target audiences are:
- general audience seeking on-demand textile services
We are looking for a logo that would convey to our target audience:
1. We are an innovative research center focused on learning/teaching/exploring the contexts of fashion, textiles and technology
2. Our young, entrepreneurial spirit
3. Strong focus on research in various fashion and textile areas
4. Dedication to creating and incubating a local and sustainable fashion supply chain
The logo should contain:
- word mark
- visual language that communicates the TechStyleLAB concept with the ability to sub-brand the "labs"
- need the ability to visually communicate that these "labs" are sub-brands and part of the whole branding strategy
convey the following mix: 50% fashion technology + research lab, 30% business/learning center, 10% sophisticated startup, 10% grassroots
Which visual aspects to incorporate:
- We are open in terms of the color palette. Preference for color choices that work with existing Fashion School site at http://www.fashionschool.kent.edu
• Our name, "TechStyleLAB" should be part of the logo (word mark), however, we are primarily looking for a visual graphic "icon" to accompany the name of the company. Simply funky-styled "TechStyleLAB" name will not make for a good logo.
• This brand concept is part of a larger business model that may be deployed commercially; so we are looking for THIS brand package to give more visual weight to the 'laboratory' element. For instance, the use of a magnifying glass, etc...
What to avoid:
- Cartoon-like images
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Would like to see a square form factor, but open to other form factors.
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May 26 through July 7, 2000
Organized by the Surface Design Association
"The Contemplative Stitch" featured 21 works by artists from the United States, Japan, Germany, Australia and England. Curated by Ilze Aviks, this exhibition examined contemporary approaches to the stitch as image and technique in both large and small-scale works. "Measure for Measure" featured 26 examples of artist-designed yardage and presented the work of 22 artists from the United States, Germany, Hungary and Canada.
April 28 through May 13, 2000
New work by more than 100 emerging artists graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute majoring in art history, ceramics, creative writing, design, fiber, illustration, interdisciplinary arts, new media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
March 3 through April 22, 2000
Curated by Cary Esser, professor and chair of ceramics at KCAI
Esser's conception for "Flora and Fauna" was prompted by her interest in plant and animal imagery in historical architectural ornamentation. Her investigation of the use and significance of such motifs from antiquity and their various manifestations within art of the present were the prevailing themes in the exhibition. Engaging the medium of ceramics, the artists created "hybrid forms" which explored human relationships with nature, culture, plants and animals. Perception, intuition, societal and environmental issues and absurdism were addressed in various evocative forms, creating new insights and avenues for contemplation. Artists in the show included Adrian Arleo, Neil Forrest, Ovidio Giberga, Marilyn Lysohir, Keisuke Mizuno, Adelaide Paul and Chris Weaver.
January 14 – February 26, 2000
Curated by Raechell Smith, director of the Artspace
An exhibition of work by the 1999 Charlotte Street Fund recipients, Nate Fors, Michael Rees, Michael Sinclair, Kee Sook-Lee, Bridget Stewart and Wilbur Niewald, the recipient of the Lifetime achievement award. This show represented outstanding visual work from Kansas City area.
Nov.13 through Dec. 18, 1999
Curated by Raechell Smith, director of the Artspace
This exhibition brought together a group of emerging international artists who explored relationships between the figure and its environment in video projections and installations. The artists actively investigated sources that included feminism, performance art, television, storytelling and music to define a new generation in video.
Artists featured in the show included Janine Antoni, Lucy Gunning, Pipilotti Rist and Gillian Wearing.
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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: Detroit Bankruptcy the Result of Small Government
Melissa Harris-Perry, one of the panel guests on MSNBC's "Now" program on Friday, managed to tie Detroit's bankruptcy to small government, i.e., "when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub," and to analogize it to "exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us." Really.
The relevant transcript from RealClearPolitics, followed by comments from Erika Johnsen at Hot Air and Noah Rothman at Mediaite, are after the jump:
First, the relevant portion of the transcript:
Melissa Harris-Perry: We can talk about the microstory of Detroit, but it seems to me that Detroit, as always, is standing for all kinds of things about America. In the case of Detroit, the reason that the tax base has become so small is because a loss of population, right? So folks out, they are not there to pay the taxes on the homes and the kind of deterioration is what you see in the numbers you've suggested.
But this lack of tax base is also exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us, even when our cities have sufficient populations, even when our communities have sufficient populations. This is what it looks like when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub, and it is not a pretty picture.
Rothman at Mediaite, where the headline describes Harris-Perry's statement as a "Delusional Assessment" (links are in original):
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry went on to note that Detroit's tax base, e.g. the city's population, has declined dramatically in the last decade. Harris-Perry presents this fact as though former Detroit residents left – estimated in 2011 at one resident every 22 minutes — on a whim without making a cost/benefit calculation as to whether to continue to reside in a city with one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation with a poverty rate of a staggering 40 percent.
Detroit has a lot of problems. Having too small a government has never been one of them. On this topic, it would appear, Harris-Perry is either not being honest or is not properly informed of the legacy burdens Detroit's city government must to shoulder.
Johnsen at Hot Air (italics in original):
Okay… so, let's go ahead and get this straight. Detroit has been a bastion of All Thing Progressive for decades, with the government and its pension funds and etcetera spending themselves into oblivion while residents have been fleeing the accompanying signs of economic and social depreciation ...
Despite this entirely liberal achievement, Harris-Perry tries to use the example of Detroit to criticize Republicans for… wanting to lower taxes? ... I suppose the idea of — oh, I don't know — the government spending less, and not making promises that it can't afford to keep, and people instead using more private-sector, free-market means and reaping the benefits of the subsequent economic growth, isn't an option, then?
I have stumbled across a couple of interesting facts about Detroit, one relating to spending and another to taxes.
Guess how many are involved in generating its paychecks for Detroit's roughly 12,000 municipal employees (assuming some attrition in the past two years? An ridiculous number, at an unfathomable cost:
"149 full-time employees are involved in the payroll, 51 of which are uniformed officers (high cost personnel) performing clerical duties," according to the plan which also indicated how the current payroll process is "highly manual (some done by hand) and prone to human error, including erroneous payments to individuals."
The current cost to process a payroll is $62 per check, which amounts to $19.2 million annually, and "four times more costly than the overall average of $15 per paycheck and almost 3.5 times more costly than other public sector organizations, which average $18 per paycheck."
As to taxes, Detroit has the highest city income tax in Michigan, currently at 2.4% for residents, 1.2% for non-residents, and 2.0% for corporations. It has been over 2% for city residents since at least the mid-1990s.
It's clear that all that extra tax money has accomplished is to perpetuate bloated budgets and chronic inefficiency.
Harris-Perry's take is more desperate than delusional. Detroit followed the liberal/progressive playbook for almost 50 years, and look where it is. She can't admit that its results completely discredit the left's municipal management model.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 87 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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We're looking for a simple clean design. We have a logo currently but it doesn't pop. We're looking for some fresh ideas.
It takes less than an hour to develop a mobile app using our online website. So it should look easy.
We currently generate iPhone apps, but will soon add Android and Mobile web apps. The logo should work for all three.
Web and graphics designers, and design firms.
Check out our website at http://selfserveapps.com to see where the logo is most important. It should be similar in dimensions to our existing logo.
Although go ahead and experiment. One thing I feel is that our existing logo is too long.
The Brand can be selfserveapps, SelfServeApps, SelfServeApps.com or selfserveapps.com whatever works to be graphically pleasing.
It should include a trademark TM
I like a blue pallet, but then again something different might differentiate us.
Please put your entry on a white background, not grey.
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Leopold Sedar Senghor
Senghor, Léopold Sédar
Léopold Sédar Senghor (lāôpôld´ sādär´ säNgôr´), 1906–2001, African statesman and poet; president (1960–80) of the Republic of Senegal, b. Joal. The son of a prosperous landowner, Senghor was extraordinarily gifted in literature and won a scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Paris (grad. 1935). There he met fellow writers such as Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas, with whom he formulated the concept of négritude, which asserted the importance of their African heritage (see also African literature). He became a French teacher, served in an all-African unit of the French army in World War II, and after the war represented Senegal (1945–58) in the French legislature. He then held a series of offices in Senegal and became one of the founders of the African Regroupement party. Senghor was president of the legislative assembly in the Mali Federation (1959) and, when Senegal withdrew from the federation (1960), he became president of the newly formed Republic of Senegal.
Senghor continued to work for African unity, and, in 1974, Senegal joined six other nations in the West African Economic Community. He was reelected president in 1963, 1968, and 1973, remaining in office until his retirement in 1980. He lived in Normandy for most of the rest of his life. A distinguished intellectual and champion of African culture, he wrote numerous volumes of poetry and essays in French, including Chants d'Ombre (1945), written while he was interned in a Nazi prison camp; Hosties noires (1948); Chants pour Naëtt (1949); and Éthiopiques (1956). At the head of his many poems, Senghor indicates the musical instruments that should accompany them, illustrating his belief that the poems should become songs to be complete. Among his works in English translation are On African Socialism (1964) and Selected Poems (1964). In 1984 he became the first black member of the French Academy.
See biographies by I. L. Markovitz (1969), J. L. Hymans (1972), J. S. Spleth (1985), and J. G. Vaillant (1990); studies by M. B. Melady (1971), S. W. Bâ (1973), S. O. Mezu (1973), J. S. Spleth, ed. (1993), and W. Kluback (1997).


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An estate in Woodside, California, sold in late 2012 for the astronomical price of $117.5 million, making it the second most expensive home ever sold in the United States, reports Curbed. The national record, $132.5 million, was set last year for a Montana ranch purchased by real estate mogul Stanley Kroenke. The ranch, it should be noted, was 124,000 acres, vastly larger than the runner up. And oddly, the Woodside, California property sits on a mere 9 acres.
The land was purchased in 2005 for $8 before the 8,900-square-foot Neoclassical home was commissioned by Tully Friedman, founder of Friedman Fleischer and Lowe LLC, and designed by architect Allan Greenberg. Mums the word on who the buyer was, but word on the street is that it's "a name with which you're undoubtedly familiar."
U.S. & World
Any guesses?
The home is historic Spanish style, and the property includes stables with 10 stalls.
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Tuesday Links
- America's involvement in the war in Libya can't be justified on either security or humanitarian grounds.
- Obamacare can't be fixed, and now is the time to dismantle it.
- The no‐fly zone over Libya can't mean good things for American politics or policy.
- Bureaucrats can't allocate goods more efficiently than market actors.
- President Obama can't blame former President Bush for Guantanamo Bay anymore:


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Dynamo defender Andrew Hainault and goalkeeper Pat Onstad are in Argentina preparing for a national team friendly for Canada against Argentina at the famed Estadio Monumental on Monday, May 24. Hainault checked in Sunday afternoon.
We took a direct flight from H-town to Buenos Aires last Monday night, but Pat had the better seat!
One of the first things we noticed is that the traffic in Buenos Aires is probably one of the most impressive things about the city. I've driven in Prague (Czech Republic) before and thought it was fast-paced and wild there, but here it is something else. There's no messing about here on your cell phone texting or calling, as they try and cram six cars into four lanes, with motorcycles wizzing around everywhere and non-stop honking.
On our drive from the airport to the hotel, we passed the Argentine Football Federation training center. I used to think The Home Depot Center in LA was impressive, but this was something else: over 20 perfect-looking fields with all their sponsor boards around, two different office complexs, and a stadium. By then you know you're in soccer country!
We've been training at River Plate, which takes us anywere from 1-2 hours to get to with the traffic, even though we have a police escort. So a lot of our days are spent on the bus. Pat especially loves that! :)
The city is fast-paced and especially busy, as they're celebrating their 200-year anniversary since separating from Spain, so the main streets are closed off. I think they are planning on capping off their celebration with the Argentina vs. Canada game, so it seems like we're going to be playing the role of the party-crashers after we beat them!
Now don't worry back there in Houston; we haven't forgotten where we came from. Pat and I were both crouched arround Pat's computer last night watching the the boys' good win against DC. Now we'll try and do the same tomorrow.
Well, that's all from me. Signing off from Buenos Aires,
As a special treat, courtesy of the Canadian Soccer Association, we hear from Pat Onstad: