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This was contributed by ChrisM regarding the recent banking meeting in Europe and my comments:
The meeting here in Basel has been very interesting, the main points are:
1) they don't expect the economy to slow much further in the second half.
In regards to the US and UK, I don't see much evidence to support this.
2) they are concentrating on fighting inflation first, before growth.
This should have been number one priority from the beginning. Inflation is still woefully understated by government numbers. On the boat ride, I shared with the fellow boombustbloggers my observation that effective housing price inflation is still rampant. Nominal prices have dropped sharply across the country, but affordability is actually way down in many areas, due primarily to the tightening of credit. The largest barrier for home purchasers for the middle and working class is the down payment. This barrier has increased significantly after the mortgage markets came back to reality, thus even though prices may have drop by 20% or so, required down payments on those houses have increased as much as 100% to 400% (think from 5% down piggyback 2nd mortgages to 10% to 20% conventional mortgages with PMI).
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moved up sharply and maintenance costs have skyrocketed with the cost
of commodity inflation. This does not take into account the cost of
heating homes, which may have effectively doubled in the past year.
Fuel, housing and food are still stripped from the core rate reading, yet they are the most ubiquitous of consumer purchases and all have advanced nearly or more than 100% in the past year or so (sans food, which still went up a lot).
3) they have suggested that "parking" bad debts, by the central banks, to assist commercial/investment banks is a bad idea.
I agree wholeheartedly.
4) they have further suggested that the institutions should sell these instruments at market rates, to establish a true value, to hopefully achieve a bottom to valuations.
Without doing so, no serious investors will ever trust them. They must swallow the short term pain in order to gain long term clarity. Then again, foreign investors have agreed to pour good money after bad. I theorize that petrodollars and SE Asian manufacturing money are attempting to get monetized through the major financial systems of the US and the UK, but they are only willing to take but so big a loss in the "legitimate laundering" of their monies into these developed nations financial systems. After a while, they should grow weary. Remember, I stated that the introduction of foreign monies purchasing assets en masse tends to denote a sharp drop in asset value. Think back to US acquisition of foreign automobile companies, the Asian acquisition of overheated US real estate in 80's (Japan was supposed to take over the world back then), and the Japanese investment in consulting companies (ex. Deloitte and Touche).
Obviously the FED does not have to heed these suggestions, but the warning by the Chinese today to stabilise the dollar, is a veiled threat that they may stop buying US debt.
Points 3 and 4 will see the banks tank (again), the next 3 months should be interesting.


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It is made from micrographic Hebrew letters of verses from The Song of Songs by Baruch Ben Shmariahu (Shir_Brest_1794). In addition, It expresses the tight connection of the six-pointed star to geometry.
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CHICAGO -- Jimmy Rollins is expected to be back in the Phillies' lineup Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field.
Rollins, who left the team Wednesday to be with his wife for the birth of their second child, had been penciled into Friday's lineup, but thereafter, he was scratched. Phils manager Ryne Sandberg called it an "internal miscommunication" on the organization's part.
"Everything is fine," Sandberg said. "He'll be good to go. He'll get in tonight and be in the lineup tomorrow."
Jayson Nix replaced Rollins at shortstop.
The Phillies never placed Rollins on the paternity leave list, which would have allowed them to temporarily replace him on the roster. But options were limited with available players on the 40-man roster. One possibility would have been catcher Cameron Rupp, who could have been used for pinch-hitting purposes.


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California voters hoping to use the November ballot box to express disgust about corruption in the state Legislature won't get the chance to do so this year because of a missed deadline by — you guessed it — the Legislature.
Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg had pushed a bill that would have placed a constitutional amendment on the fall ballot to ask whether voters want to continue paying the salary and benefits of legislators who are suspended by their colleagues for inappropriate or illegal behavior.
We'll go out on a limb here and speculate that they do not.
Steinberg had pushed the bill through the Senate rather easily last May, but the Assembly, somehow, couldn't manage to find the time to get to it before the deadline to place items on the November ballot had passed. To paraphrase Gov. Jerry Brown's famous remark, well, you know, stuff happens. Or doesn't, in this case
To be fair, the issue is of much greater moment in the Senate. Last March, the Senate took the unprecedented step of suspending Sens. Rod Wright, Ron Calderon and Leland Yee, all of whom had been charged with crimes.
In fact, Wright, D-Baldwin Hills, had already been found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of perjury and voter fraud and was awaiting final determination.
Calderon, D-Montebello, and Yee, D-San Francisco, both face federal bribery charges that stemmed from separate FBI sting operations. The charges against Calderon detail a fairly run-of-the-mill political bribery case. But the ones against Yee were really quite spectacular, alleging that he was involved neck deep in an illegal gunrunning operation through shady contacts in the Philippines.
Steinberg knew that the public was furious about the apparent corruption, so he and his colleagues voted to suspend all three members. In doing so, however, it was discovered that there was no provision in the state constitution that allows revocation of the senators' salaries and benefits.
Again, the public outrage and condemnation was swift and loud.
As a small gesture designed to begin repairing the Senate's broken image, Steinberg carried the constitutional amendment himself. But his colleagues in the Assembly rebuffed him by not acting on the bill.
Steinberg has asked the Assembly to consider the bill anyway before the fast-approaching end of this year's session. His spokesman says that he wants it passed so that the amendment can make it on to the 2016 ballot.
It is a smart move because Steinberg is termed out and will be leaving the Senate at the end of this session. If it isn't passed this year, we doubt seriously it ever will be.


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Two teams, one cup.
Oh, Chicago baseball fans, how our BP Cup do runneth over.
The BP Cup is perfectly named as it means about as much as the home runs count that are hit in batting practice. Last year the Cup went to the South side. It has resided in the hands of folks like Adam Dunn, Ozzie Guillen and A.J. Pierzynski. The players, I'm sure because it is a 'Cup' after all, took it home with them. Took it on trips with them. Took it places some of them may even be too embarassed to share. They took it their loved ones who had never seen the Sox win the Cup since it's inception all they way back in 2010. Every single White Sox player plus Ozzie had their hands on it for a whole year.
Do we really want it after who knows what those guys have done with it? I mean, it was reported that on Sunday, Ozzie passed a kidney stone. I'm just saying.
If the White Sox think as highly of the Cup as many Cubs fans do, there is a possibility that the kidney stone saw the inside of the BP Cup. If there were a series they probably wouldn't mind winning, it's this one. Keep the Cup, White Sox. It's all you.
You can have it. Proudly display it in your trophy case. Build a statue outside US Cellular Field to commemorate it's greatness. Years from now, chant at Cubs fans "Two-thousand-ten!" "Two thousand-ten!" and make us feel awful about the drought.
One year since the last time a Chicago team won the BP Cup and it wasn't the Cubs. When oh WHEN, will a Cubs fan in my family get to see the Cubs win the Cup!?! How unfair. How can the baseball gods do this to us. Why should the Sox fans get all the fun? Why should they get to raise the Cup year in and year out?
What about us Cubs fans? What about Blackhawks fans? Why must we make them be so specific in their chants of 'We want the Cup!". Now they have to say "We want the Stanley Cup! The hockey one! Not that crappy promotional good for nothing baseball meaningless trophy Cup!" That chant is SOOO long. But so be it. Whatever White Sox. You feel the need to have a trophy that makes you feel good about yourself? So be it. Keep it. We don't even want a ribbon for participation.
Let's rename the Cup in fact. No more BP Cup. Let's just call it US Cellular Cup. Forget engraving the names of every ballplayer that wins the Cup on to it's illustrious sides. Let's just engrave, PROPERTY OF THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX on to it. We'll show up for six games every season and make sure you have your little trophy so you can have some meaningless piece of metal to make you feel good about yourself.
Better yet, we'll win the series and STILL give you the cup. Like a little kid hoping for a foul ball, standing by the dugout with our glove on next to clumsy adult-sized you. We will catch the ball and then hand it to you because in our life, the prize, as cool as it is to you, will never mean that much to us.
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Quick! If you had to choose just three types of assets that should be in a well-diversified, long-term investment portfolio, what would they be?
If we polled the Get Rich Slowly audience, we'd get a range of responses to that question. However, I think plenty of folks would have answered "bonds, U.S. stocks, and international stocks." Which is perfect, because those are the investments in the demonstration of asset allocation that I'm about to embark upon. (You are all so accommodating!)
Let's look at the returns of three mutual funds from 30 June 1989 to 30 June 2009: The Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund (FTHRX), which holds bonds that mature in five or so years; the Vanguard 500 (VFINX), which very closely mimics the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 index of large U.S. stocks; and the T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund (PRIDX), which invests in small companies from all over the world.
We can make a few observations about these returns:
- Compounding is cool. Even by just earning approximately 6% a year, the initial investment more than tripled over two decades. Earn a bit over 9%, and you could almost sextuple your investment (and have fun saying "sextuple" to your friends).
- Higher return comes with higher risk. Yes, the T. Rowe Price fund posted the best long-term performance, but its worst years were really worse.
- You don't always get that higher return. While the Vanguard 500 beat the Fidelity bond fund, that was due to the extraordinary returns of stocks in the 1990s. Over the past decade, U.S. large-company stocks actually have lost to bonds. (In fact, as I wrote over at The Motley Fool, the return on such stocks from 1999-2008 was even worse than the 10-year returns during the Depression.)
- Earning a little bit more can lead to big bucks. The annualized return of the Vanguard 500 was just 1.52% more than the annualized return on the Fidelity bond fund. Yet the difference in the amount $100,000 grew to after 20 years was huge; the Vanguard 500 earned an extra $108,568, 33% more than what an investor earned in the bond fund. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: That's the power of earning a little bit more — or paying a little bit less — over the long term. (It is pure coincidence that the difference between the returns of the two funds, or 1.52%, is very close to the average expense ratio charged by actively managed mutual funds. But it's a telling illustration: If you're paying that much annually to invest in a mutual fund, but not getting superior results in return, you could be giving up tens of thousands of dollars.)
Let's say you are given these three investment choices for the next 20 years. How would you allocate your portfolio? If you're an aggressive investor, you might put all your money in the T. Rowe Price International Fund. But could you stand such large declines? And what if international small companies don't do as well over the next 20 years?
If you're a conservative investor, however, you might go the opposite direction and put all your money in the bond fund. Your portfolio would be nice and steady, likely avoiding sleep-disrupting double-digit annual declines. But, if the future is anything like the past, you could potentially be passing up $100,000 to $200,000 in gains. Perhaps that's playing it too safe.
Let's try a simple solution: Investing one-third of the portfolio into each of those funds and rebalancing annually. What do you think the annual return would be?
You might pick a number that is the average of the annualized returns on those funds, which would be 7.67%. But here are the actual numbers:
Well, looky there. You got a return that beat the arithmetic average of the three returns. It significantly outperformed the S&P 500, and it did so with a lot less volatility (as indicated by its worst years not being as bad). By owning assets that move in different directions at different degrees and at different times, along with some regular rebalancing, you get a return that beats the average returns of the investments in the portfolio. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Sure, that extra return is less than 1% a year. But we've already demonstrated how earning a little for a long time really adds up. And that return beat the return of two of the portfolio's three components. As I wrote in May, asset allocation means you don't have to predict which type of investment will do best — which can be dangerous, because you could be wrong.
A well-diversified portfolio provides a respectable return, with lower volatility than a portfolio of just one type of stocks. Not a bad deal at all.
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Interestingly described as "a brothel for your mouth," Suzy Wong's serves tapas style Asian dishes in a trendy, energetic atmosphere.A little over three years ago, Chef Arnold Myint opened his latest Nashville creation, Suzy Wong's House of Yum. Interestingly described as "a brothel for your mouth," Suzy Wong's serves tapas style Asian dishes in a trendy, energetic atmosphere. We've been fans of Suzy Wong's for a while, but we do have to admit that the name itself is what originally got us in the door. Referencing the 1950s novel, The World of Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong's House of Yum is a nod to the novel's main character, Suzie, an Asian prostitute who meets and falls in love with an American Diplomat. Steamy stuff.
Topped with queso blanco, edamame pico, red curry crema, and sriracha, the Asian Wonton Pulled Pork Nachos are one of our favorite items on the menu. In fact, we can't recall a time we've gone to Suzy Wong's without ordering them. Most menu items are meant to be shared, so rather than coursing the meal, each dish arrives to the table as it's ready. What we might love most about Suzy Wong's, aside from the creative cocktails and ridiculously delicious menu, of course, is the diverse group of people the restaurant brings together. You know they've gotta be doing somethin' right when everyone from college students to 80-year-old women can be found dining in the same spot. Also cool: On the weekends, Suzy Wong's offers free valet parking and serves dinner until 1am.
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The advocate's corner is a central location for information for domestic violence advocates. Here you will find articles, documents and protocols that are relevant to your work and will help you in your advocacy with domestic violence survivors. If you have recently attended an ODVN training where materials were referenced during the training, you will find those materials here. The information available here will be updated and changed regularly, so what you see today might not be there in the future. If you find valuable information that you want to be able to keep or find again, please print out the document or save it so you will have access to it later.
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Effective Advocacy with Survivors:
Advocates are skilled and effective in helping victims to limit contact or leave a relationship. It is a primary safety strategy and one of the things we do well. Yet, when a victim's focus and goals are to remain in contact, to remain in the relationship, or to improve her children's relationship with their father, we may quickly move out of our comfort zone. We might struggle to identify safety strategies, to find resources, to know what to do and what to say. This Guide provides information that will help advocates with these challenges. In an easy to read question and answer format, this Guide offers practical suggestions to assist advocates working day to day with victims. Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the Guide explains advocates' important role in safety planning when victims are in contact with current or former partners. This Guide offers basic and general information and does not provide the detailed knowledge or skilled judgment necessary to advocate effectively. It is not a substitute for quality training and supervision for advocates.
- Trauma-Informed Approaches: Best Practices and Protocols for Ohio's Domestic Violence Programs (2016)
By understanding trauma as a normal response to an abnormal experience and learning effective ways to support survivors in recovering from their trauma, we can further improve and enhance the services we provide and the care we offer. The manual also outlines 16 best practices to incorporate into your organization, and also offers detailed protocols on providing trauma-informed services such as answering hotline calls, doing intakes and exit interviews, facilitating support groups, safety planning (including emotional safety planning) and providing parenting support to survivors. Finally, we include information on vicarious trauma and how to make sure that advocates are focusing on the important issue on self-care. The appendices in this manual include an extremely helpful trauma-informed checklist developed by the National Center on Trauma, Domestic Violence and Mental Health, resources, a comparison between the trauma-informed care model and the empowerment model used by most domestic violence programs, suggested best practices for child survivors of domestic violence, and a case study to help individuals and programs identify ways to become more trauma informed.
Domestic Violence and Children:
Web resource on domestic violence and children:
Promising Futures: Best Practices for Serving Children, Youth, and Parents Experiencing Domestic Violence (Futures Without Violence)
The website is organized around five major topics: (1) Get the Facts: includes general information and statistics about the effects of domestic violence on children, parenting, and outlines some guiding principles for enhancing our services for children and youth; (2) Program Readiness: designed to assist programs in revisiting their infrastructure, physical environment, policies and practices to better support the mother-child relationship and institutionalize the notion that our advocacy for mothers and kids should be connected in every way; (3) Interventions for Children and Youth: includes a searchable database of promising practices and evidence based clinical interventions for children and youth to help programs promote healing and resilience among mothers and children together; (4) Advancing the Field: discusses how advocates can be more intentional about implementing research informed practice including trauma informed strategies and partnering with researchers to document our success; and (5) Tools: includes resources to assist programs in capacity building including training curriculum, resources for families, and tools for research and evaluation.
Links to PDF, printable, free resources on domestic violence and children:
Little Eyes, Little Ears: How Violence Against a Mother Shapes Children as They Grow (2007)
A resource for anyone looking to understand how children experience violence against their mothers and how those experiences may shape them as they grow, from infancy to adolescence. Funded by the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Public Health Agency of Canada. We combined the most popular information from our most popular resources, included lots of new material, and added reference to the latest sources of information and updated statistics. Topics addressed include facts & figures, ten ways a child can be changed by living with violence at home, and some myths about woman abuse and children. This is a concise source of information for helping professionals, volunteers or students.
Domestic Violence and Children: Questions and Answers for Domestic Violence Project Advocates (2011)
The Domestic Violence Collaborative Group of the National Childhood Traumatic Stress Network has developed a factsheet designed for domestic violence project advocates. This factsheet includes helpful information how children react to domestic violence, short and long-term responses to domestic violence, possible reactions to domestic violence, factors that can help children recover and working with parents and their children through domestic violence situations.
- Understanding Traumatic Stress in Children (2005)
The National Center on Family Homelessness has compiled this booklet as a resource for caregivers working with children who have experienced traumatic stress. The booklet opens by defining trauma, then looks more closely at acute traumatic stress and complex trauma. For each aspect of trauma, the booklet describes the most common developmental effects on children and ways for caregivers to respond to help children heal. To support caregivers, the resource highlights the importance of self-care and provide a list of resources.
Safe Start: Trauma-Informed Care for Children Exposed to Violence: Tips for Parents and Caregivers
Each child and situation is different, but exposure to violence can overwhelm children at any age and lead to problems in their daily lives. Some children may have an emotional or physical reaction. Others may find it harder to recover from a frightening experience. Exposure to violence—especially when it is ongoing and intense—can harm children's natural, healthy development unless they receive support to help them cope and heal. The Safe Start Center Trauma Informed Care Tip Sheet Series is designed to expand the knowledge of children's exposure to violence in different areas and populations and ways to help.
The Developmental Assets® are 40 common sense, positive experiences and qualities that help influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible, successful adults. Because of its basis in youth development, resiliency, and prevention research and its proven effectiveness, the Developmental Assets framework has become one of the most widely used approach to positive youth development in the United States.
Domestic Violence Shelter Rules:
How the Earth Didn't Fly Into the Sun: Missouri's Project to Reduce Rules in Domestic Violence Shelters by the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCADSV), published by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (2011)
This guide is part of a shared goal between NRCDV, state coalitions, and individual programs to find a better way to welcome women and other domestic violence victims -- many of whom had every aspect of life controlled by their partners -- into shelter where they could experience autonomy despite the constraints of a communal living environment. The concept and conflict of having rules in shelter has been repeatedly recycled and re-silenced throughout the movement to end violence against women. This manual tells how Missouri's project became a living laboratory to answer the question, "What would happen if there weren't rules?"
This first-hand account of Missouri's project to reduce rules in domestic violence shelters offers practical tips for other state Coalitions, programs, and individual advocates interested in this approach. It includes the history of the project, examples of common challenges and successes, and logistics of implementation. Surveys, suggestions and the philosophy the Missouri programs followed are also in this "How-to" guide, funded by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV).
The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence: Resources on Examining Rules in Shelter
For discussion on rules and programs that have worked to examine their rules, go to and click on the "advocacy" section. You will find such articles as:
Moving from Rules to Rights and Responsibilities, How we Gave Up Curfew, Rules: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Legal Remedies for Domestic Violence Immigrant Victims:
- Basic Information on Violence Against Women Act Self-Petition (VAWA) Visas, T-Visas (victims of trafficking), and U-Visas (victims of crime)
This website provides information on visas available to battered immigrant victims of domestic violence. On the left-hand side under "federal laws", click on VAWA, U-visa, or T-visa information. It includes information on basic information and definitions, who is eligible for what type of visa, what kind of documentation a person has to have, what the person has to do (such as cooperate with law enforcement) to qualify for the visa, and definitions of important terms.
Batterers Intervention Programming:
The BIC created the first Standards for Batterers Intervention in the early 1990s and published the revised version in 1998. Although adherence is voluntary in Ohio, the Standards continue to provide direction and support in program development for BIPs. The BIC also developed an addendum to the Standards, The Self-Evaluation Tool for Batterers Intervention Programs, in 2002, to assist BIPs and other community agencies assess and improve their local efforts. In 2009, the BIC started the process of the second revision of the Standards. It was timely to update the document as knowledge and information on batterers intervention has evolved.
The Standards are based on a feminist perspective which believes that domestic violence is gendered in nature: it is an instrument of oppression that arises from the patriarchal cultural and institutional beliefs that support men's power over women. It is important to note that the patriarchy does not only support sexism but also supports racism, heterosexism, classism, and other oppression that allows one group's dominance over another. In this revision, as we strive to create a document that addresses the growing diversity in Ohio with a feminist analysis in mind, we have added a section on working with marginalized communities, including women who use force (WWUF), immigrant/refugee, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer (LGBTQ) and other communities.
While the Standards go through revisions time to time, the main theme of the Standards must remain the same: BIPs need to work within the coordinated community effort in keeping victim safety first and holding batterers accountable.
A note on use of language: Although women can perpetrate violence against their intimate partners, the vast majority of cases that BIPs work with are men's violence against women. Therefore, throughout this document, the male pronouns are used for batterers while femalepronouns are used for their partners, except in the contexts where same sex relationship violence or women's use of force is discussed specifically.
Reproductive Coercion and the Connection Between Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence:
Violence. Reproductive Health. Different issues. Different places to go for help. Different conversations. That's the way it works today – in politics, health care, the public discourse. But that's not the way it works in real life. Not for millions of women, especially young adults, whose reproductive health is affected by sexual and domestic violence.
This project, this website, is about telling our stories, finding a common language, sharing the truth. Read about women with stories to tell, and tell yours. Learn about the reproductive health consequences of violence and sexual coercion. Say "no more" to reproductive coercion. Know more about how to stop it. Say more to anyone and everyone who will listen.
Confidentiality and Confidentiality Releases:
Confidentiality and privilege are key to keeping battered women safe and represent the cornerstones of all successful advocacy and shelter programs. This guide is intended to familiarize advocates with a variety of laws, policies, requirements, and best practices on the topic of confidentiality.


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Stephen Marino, center, who coaches students on Adobe Photoshop Elements and other computer skills, talks techniques with Ken Sanger, right, an instructor of digital photography, during the recent SeniorNet Computer Training Program Open House at the Greenwich Senior Center. (Anne W. Semmes / for the Greenwich Citizen)
Hidden below the swirl of senior activities at the Greenwich Senior Center is a little known beehive of computer activity where dozens of skilled men and women are volunteering their time to teach computer skills to Greenwich citizens of all ages.
"It's one of the best kept secrets in the Town of Greenwich, " said instructor Gary Krause, at the annual Greenwich SeniorNet Computer Training Center Open House. "We teach 14 subjects on three different kinds of computer operating systems -- Apple, Windows XP and Windows 7/Vista."
The cost of the instruction is minimal and the benefits are boundless. For example, four Basic Introduction Courses of three to eight sessions, running 2 1/2 hours each, are on offer at SeniorNet at $30 to $50 a class. (Gift certificates are available for the holidays.)
Fred Elser, founder of the SeniorNet Computer Training Center, has overseen the training of some 2,700 students since the Center opened its doors in 1998. (Anne W. Semmes / for the Greenwich Citizen)
John Christopherson, a former RAF pilot, was one of dozens of prospective students stopping by. "I want to learn about Windows 7. I have three computers, PCs and a laptop. I want to learn all the new stuff that's come out. You have to keep ahead of the curve."
"We used to cover people 50 and over, but now it's all ages, from the 30s to the 80s," said instructor Ken Sanger, a former IBMer; now 86, who quipped, "The salary here is lousy. We're all volunteers."
Sanger, who teaches digital photography, pointed to a hallway wall filled with his enlarged photographs printed from a computer. "We teach how to download photos, and where put them on their computer. They learn to edit simply, to fix red eye, or what to do when there's not enough light, and how to crop. In more advanced classes, we teach them how to make montages or trick things with their photographs."
Inside the computer room, instructors and eager learners were clustered around a double row of a dozen top-of-the-line Apple iMac computers.
Isabella Butkiewicz was hearing from instructor Sal Tesoro how she could learn more about computers. "I'm teaching her how to use the word processor," said Tesoro, who worked for IBM for 30 years and liked his volunteer job. ("It's very gratifying," he said.)
"I'd like to know what Excel means and how you do a spreadsheet," continued Butkiewicz.
Lillian London is another of the number of coaches at SeniorNet. She arrived eight years ago to SeniorNet -- as a student. As the former owner of Estate Treasures on East Putnam Avenue, London did her own advertising. But, when the newspapers started requesting digital photos by e-mail, she came to the Greenwich SeniorNet to learn how to do it and she stayed on when she was asked to be a coach.
"You can always learn something new," she said.
London added that though the majority of students were senior citizens, there were now a lot of young people. "People are enjoying taking the classes," she said. "They're given on Monday and Wednesday from 9-11:30 and on Tuesday and Thursday from 1 to 3:30. We can accommodate 11 students."
And generally classes were half women and half men.
Since SeniorNet opened in 1998, some 2,700 students have benefited from its services reported, Fred Elser, who was tapped to start the program by the Senior Center. He projected nearly 300 students would benefit this year.
A former IBMer, Elser had brought in IBM and Bell Atlantic as initial sponsors with six donated IBM PCs that grew to nine and then 12. Today, he said, they're teaching on Apples.
Nearby, Apple instructor, Charlie Stone was working with former RAF pilot Christopherson. "His computer was running slow. I'm showing him how to clean up his computer, to do disc clean up, defragmenting, " said Stone.
Christopherson had signed up for online help at his home and paid $150 for a year's service. Eventually, though, he ended up coming to SeniorNet for help.
John Freiberg came to see what was on offer. He enjoyed using the Internet but said he had "deficiencies downloading music and pictures and using cameras." Helping him was Sigurd Ahl, who teaches a "Basics for Beginners" class.
A woman nearby was asking about the best method of storing her many photographs. London suggested a separate drive to store them on, as she does. "They take up a lot of room in your computer," Elser added. "We cover storage in all our courses."
"We have people coming to us with zero experience, intermediate, and those quite advanced," said Elser.
And some have taken up to six courses.
The Greenwich SeniorNet is part of the national non-profit SeniorNet organization headquartered in Washington, DC. "it was created 14-15 years ago," said Krause, "to teach computers to the generation that missed out on it."
Advanced classes can turn computer users into photo and video editors with the use of Adobe Photoshop, Picasa and Multimedia, or students can learn how to manage their finances on Quicken.
With computers, the learning appears endless. There to show the next threshold of computer use to be taught in the spring was Sean Mecsery of Cos Cob TV with his flat screen TV exhibiting digital movies and photo montages. Students would even learn how to connect their computers to their televisions to project their handiwork or their home amusement.
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Grain products include items such as bread, rice, pasta, oatmeal, cereal, and tortillas. Unfortunately, most of the foods we eat are refined grains, such as white bread, white rice, pasta, and pretzels. Refined grains do not contain as many nutrients as whole grains because most of the nutritional value is processed out of them.
An unrefined whole grain contains all of the nutritional elements of the grain kernel. This includes the bran and germ. Whole grains contain more B vitamins, fiber, carbohydrates, minerals, and proteins.
White flour, which is the base of many of our foods, is made by refining whole grains. During the refining process, most or all of the bran and germ are removed. White flour that has been enriched has certain nutrients added to it, such as iron and some B vitamins (including folate). However, other important nutrients are lost, including vitamins E and B6, magnesium, copper, zinc, and phytochemicals.
Whole grains are a healthier choice because the ingredients they contain may help to lower the risk of many chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Soluble fiber, which is found in oats and barley, can lower cholesterol levels.
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It is easy to get plenty of serving of grains everyday. The amount of servings an adult needs varies depending on age and activity level. The requirements range from about 5-8 servings per day. The following list gives you some examples of single servings of grains. Some on the list are refined grains, others are whole grains. Look at some of your favorites and determine where you can make substitutions.
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- ¼ cup nugget or bud-type cereal
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- ½ cup quinoa, bulgur, millet, or other whole grain
- ½ cup pretzels
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The US Department of Health and Human services recommends at least half of the grains you eat be whole grains. The more whole grains you eat, the better off you are. Ultimately, you can make all your grains whole grains.
The trickiest part about eating whole grains is figuring out which grains truly are whole. To do this, check the nutrition label. The product is a whole grain if the first ingredient is whole wheat or oatmeal. Do not be fooled by brown breads, some are dyed to be that color. Also, a food label that reads wheat bagel, stoned wheat, or seven grain is not necessarily whole grain. The good news is that labels are standardized, making them easier to understand.
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- Some hot breakfast cereals, such as Oat Bran, oatmeal, Roman Meal, or Wheatena
- Some crackers, such as Triscuits or Wheat Thins
Many cereal manufacturers recently switched to whole grain products. Be sure to read the box carefully.
There are many options for grains, so find foods you like. If you do not like one substitution, try another. It may take some time to make the adjustment, but in the end it will be worth the effort.
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Chicken, ground oats, menhaden fish meal, egg product, lamb meal, ground pearled barley, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), ground brown rice, ground whole barley, ground whole flaxseed, inulin, yucca schidigera extract, salt, monosodium phosphate, potassium chloride, garlic, taurine, vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, beta-carotene, chondroitin sulfate (shark), glucosamine hydrochloride (shellfish), spinach, dried kelp, broccoli, sweet potato, apples, blueberries, pears, bananas, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, niacin supplement, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, calcium iodate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, sodium selenite, natural flavor. (This product may contain trace amounts of peanuts.)
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The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product. This is not a meal, but rather inclusive of water content. Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh only around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus questionable that this is the true first ingredient in the food (ingredients are listed in order of weight) and might be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. The second ingredient (probably the true first ingredient) is a grain. Oats are a good quality grain, but nonetheless a grain, and should not be the primary ingredient in a food designed for canines. The remaining major grain ingredients are barley and rice, both of which are decent quality. We would prefer the use of whole eggs rather than egg product.
The third and fifth ingredients are meat products in meal form, so can be accepted as the true third/fifth ingredients in the food. Menhaden is an ocean fish ingredient, but we find no sign of a guarantee on packaging or the manufacturer website that this ingredient has been purchased free of ethoxyquin (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to ocean fish products destined for meal, but that is banned or heavily regulated in human food products due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
The food contains fruits and vegetables in very small amounts (less than the amount of salt or vit E supplement, for example).
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We are a small niche ecommerce marketing agency. We search out online opportunities and partner with brick and mortar stores to fill our fullfillment and customer service requirement. We are small and niche. We are growing our business with a multitude of specialist niche ecommerce sites.....each one will retain the brand name SIMPLY (which will be used in our marketing site - this one)...and be used throughout our online stores to retain a brand identity
We are targeting small to medium sized companies that need help in the online marketing arena. Although we wish to create a brand awareness it is us who identifies the niche and makes the approach to the channel partner, and not the oter way around.
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Simply - as the main identifier of the site (whilst we like the 3 dots after the simpy at http://www.pushchairsonline.com we are not passionate about keeping it on this logo and we will leave this to your discretion...would like to see your take on it)
Search Marketing - maybe in the same type face (however we are open to suggestions on how it should resolve relative to the Simply...ie could go next to it or underneath, different size etc)
We are open to a bit of colour either in the text or as a background (round the lettering or as shadows)
Essentially these things must be kept:
Words:Simply Search Marketing
Type face: the 'Simply' word must be the same as at http://www.pushchairsonline.com as this brand identity needs to be our main brand identifier across all sites
Essentially these are up to you:
Type Face: the words 'search markeitng' and their position in the logo
Colour/shadow/resolve : your creativity here
Try to keep it sharp and simple
would like it in a vector format please
Good Luck and ask questions if you need
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