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We are so excited to introduce you to our church! You'll discover that our passion is to provide a place where people just like you can have a life-changing experience with God. At Fox Point Church, our doors are wide open to people from all backgrounds, regardless of where they are on their spiritual journey.
What people usually notice first about us is the life-giving nature of our ministry. Our goal is to infuse life and God's love into people and families through engaging, powerful worship services that offer biblical truth in relevant and practical ways.
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Solar Water Heating Systems Can Contribute to Efficiency Standards Compliance and
New Solar Homes Partnership Energy Efficiency Requirements
Energy Impact of Water Heating
Water heating energy use makes up a significant portion of total energy use for residential buildings. In California's mildest climates water heating energy use may equal the combined energy needed for space heating and space cooling. A solar water heating system can contribute thirty to 80 percent of the energy needed for residential water heating (depending on the design of the solar water heating system). The contribution of a solar water heating system can be claimed as credit toward compliance with the Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards and also for qualification for the New Solar Homes Partnership or other incentives programs that require specified savings beyond the standards.
Calculating the "Solar Fraction"
A solar fraction (SF) must be calculated to determine the energy credit for a solar water heating system. The SF is the percentage of energy that the solar system contributes to the building's total water heating energy requirement. Solar equipment must be listed in a Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC) directory. The Commission uses two SRCC rating methods. The Certified Solar Collector Testing and Rating Program (OG100) rates collectors that are used as components of a "built-up" system. The Certified Solar Water Heating System Rating Program (OG300) rates complete solar water heating systems. The rating from either test method can be used to determine an SF by using one of the Commission's approved solar water heating calculation tools (see Links below).
Use of the Solar Fraction to Determine Overall Building Energy Use
The impact of the SF on the overall energy use of the building must be determined with an Energy Commission-approved building energy compliance software program. A link to the list of the software applications approved for use with the California Building Standards is provided below. The SF should be entered into the building energy compliance software program as part of the water heating systems input data. Refer to your program's user's manual for detailed directions on how to enter the SF value.
The following forms are required:
CF-1R form: The output from the compliance program is a CF-1R form that shows the results of the simulation.
CF-SR form: The CF-SR is the calculation form used to determine the SF. The Commission's approved energy compliance computer programs electronically generate the CF-SR form.
SRCC data sheet: SRCC publishes directories of ratings data sheets for all certified equipment. The performance data used in the SF calculation is found on the SRCC data sheets. A copy of the SRCC data sheet must be attached to the CF-SR when submitted to the building department for Standards compliance or to the Energy Commission or the utility new construction program.
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America Ferrera gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
America Ferrera: Emmys best earrings
Also a pale lip. See what I mean about all those pale lips? Didn't bother me as much on America Ferrera as the others though with her beachy hair and that beachy glowing skin over a beachy-ish dress, and besides, I was distracted by those earrings. Full Story
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Someone should tell Nick to cheer up because no one remembers the VMA winners unless Kanye interrupts their speech. Disappointed with the fact Close got no love for the #VMAs2016 — Nick Jonas (@nickjonas) July 26, 2016 Full Story
Oscar: The New Class
Yesterday the list of the 2016 class of invitees to join the Academy was released, and it shows follow-through on their promise, after back-to-back years of #OscarsSoWhite controversy, to double membership diversity by 2020. This year they invited an unprecedented 683 members—about ten percent of the pre-existing membership. Full Story
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Chris Martin and Annabelle Wallis are still going strong. If that sort of thing is of interest to you. COLDPLAY ❤❤❤❤ #coldplay #incredible Full Story
America Ferrera & Eva Longoria: Best Globes Joke
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It was the best joke. Because people expect jokes from Aziz Ansari and Ricky Gervais and Will Ferrell. Even from Amy Schumer. But they don't expect jokes from 'straight' actresses, and that's why it was so great to hear Eva and America point out that they were neither Gina nor Eva (Mendes) nor Rosario, but that they were possibly either Salma or Charo. Full Story
Golden Globes TV Nominations 2016
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Worst SAG neutral: American Ferrera
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Design paper cuts are frustrating to me, because I feel like they compound to create an overall poor user experience. However, has there been any research behind how these oversights from a visual level affect a user's perception of an experience?
Personally, whenever I see something like heavy gradient banding anywhere these days, it gives me the feeling that the design is low-quality or heavily-compressed (even when it is not). Therefore, my perception of the quality of the experience is lessened.
Any formal insight into how these sort of things add up in a user's mind? To be clear, I am not necessarily looking for discussions about whether or not UX is improved by good visual design. I am more interested in any analysis that suggests how minor design mistakes can add up to create a perceived bad experience, even if the user might not be able to explicitly determine what is "bad."


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Enhancement of New York Harbor Estuaries and Ecological Systems
Strategies for Ecological Restoration of Estuaries
To transform the harbor and estuaries to meet the changing demands of the coming decades and to offer a richer and more ecologically integrated urban environment will require planning approaches that employ various strategies and support interventions at multiple scales.
Navigational dredging policy should be made to concentrate maritime industry and shipping at critical zones. The overall amount of channelization should be reduced to support functioning navigational routes and maintain active berths (with an allowance for expanding maritime activity as a transportation alternative). Channelization and navigational dredging should incorporate environmental cleanup of contaminated waterways and not be maintained simply because it has been the historical prerogative
Ecological enhancement should be incremental and opportunistic, allowing for the testing of ideas and the development of different localized landscapes. Site-specific project developments will allow for the verification of adaptability, efficiency, and performance for each type of proposed ecological system improvements.
The overall direction should be towards creating more articulated edge conditions, more diverse biological zones and improved habitats. Increased ecological complexity and the potential for biological systems to thrive can also provide the benefits of ecological servicing: storm surge protection, natural water filtration, stream flow stabilization and increased recreational, cultural and economic opportunities.
Terraced tidal ats at sea walls, upland ecological restoration and floating wetlands in tidal shallows provide three strategies which propose to incrementally re-introduce fragments of the historic system within the grid of existing infrastructure.
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Enhancement of New York Harbor Estuaries and Ecological Systems
This Ecological restoration strategy calls for the reprogramming of some sections of the hardened shorelines. The continuous seawalls that once provided for deep-water berths along much of the harbor have largely outlived their maritime industrial usefulness. These stone and concrete structures created a simplified edge condition where water and land have no inter-action, eliminating the critical near shore habitats of the tidal wetlands. This proposed strategy involves building stepped tidal flats along sea walls that are no longer used for navigation. Critical to wetland ecology is the diverse plant life that takes root therein. Most of these species are characteristically able to thrive under the fluctuating salinity, water cycles and sediment deposits of the wetland. This tiered proposal in the Lower Hudson River would attempt to introduce more robust wetland species such as eelgrass, which can thrive in the particular water cycle and climactic conditions of this location. This process necessitates experimentation, site-specific phasing and close observation in order establish a sustaining ecosystem.
Strategies for upland ecological restoration propose to incrementally re-introduce fragments of the historic network of water-based natural systems within the grid of the existing infrastructure. The near shore drainages of the New York harbor have endured the radical transformations that urban development, shipping and waterfront industries have imposed. Tranquil water features once occupied places like the Bushwick Creek, Newtown Creek and Hallet's Cove, all places where water met land at an indeterminate edge. By cutting into the modern map of the city, lost indications of natural land and water forms could establish new possibilities for open space and urban ecosystems systems. Upland development should also consider the filling of water assets that are deemed undesirable and not worth the commitment of scarce environmental funding resources. The upper reaches of the Newtown Creek and the English kills are a Superfund site that is best remediated, filled and converted to green space. The toxic legacy and the limited exchange of water leave a stagnant basin that offers little hope as a beneficial, water-based environment.
The floating bio-mat proposal envisions a 21st century version of the ancient Mesoamerican Chinampa method of agricultural floating islands. Protected tidal shallow areas outside the areas dredged for navigation Upland development should also consider the filling of water assets that are deemed undesirable and not worth the commitment of scarce environmental funding resources. The upper reaches of the Newtown Creek and the English kills are a Superfund site that is best remediated, filled and converted to green space. The toxic legacy and the limited exchange of water leave a stagnant basin that offers little hope as a beneficial, water-based environment. One critical plant species to the proposed bio-mat is eelgrass, an underwater plant able to tolerate brackish water and multiply in various substrates and moderate range of lighting conditions. Eelgrass functions to reduce erosion, stabilize sediment and remove nitrogen.
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Letter of law, old data, force cuts
Caught between old laws and old data, the White House ordered hundreds of millions cut from domestic appropriations last week based on housing market estimates which the administration's own numbers show to be wildly inaccurate.
The Office of Management and Budget insists it had no choice under a 1990 budget law that governs how it scores spending bills. But the consequences are real for agencies already struggling with the fallout from sequestration. And the whole episode is a stark example of how dysfunctional the budget process has become in Washington.
The National Institutes of Health, a priority for President Barack Obama and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), stands out as a prime casualty.
In his February 23 radio address, Obama warned that Congress was putting "medical science" at risk by failing to block sequestration, which cut $1.5 billion from NIH's budget March 1. And in the continuing resolution, covering the last six months of this fiscal year, Mikulski added $71 million for NIH in a gesture of good faith.
Yet with the OMB order last week, Obama wiped out all but about $10 million of her amendment.
From Head Start to the National Science Foundation, other Democratic priorities will feel the pinch. The total reduction for domestic "non-security" programs is $876 million.
Getting answers from OMB is difficult: days of POLITICO inquiries have yet to find anyone willing to talk on the record.
But there's no dispute that most of OMB's rescission was driven by outdated budget numbers which the administration knows are wrong.
"It's the law, but it's absurd," said one long-time veteran of the appropriations process. Indeed, the legal tangle is such that it seems Charles Dickens' famous Mr. Bumble—"If the law supposes that, the law is a ass"—has set up shop in OMB.
In this case, It all depends on what "current" means.
Under the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, OMB is charged with using "current" economic data in scoring appropriations bills, but elsewhere "current" is defined as being consistent with the assumptions used in the president's budget for that same fiscal year.
This was done to assure a nine-month level playing field, in which the White House would submit its budget at the beginning of the calendar year and not change the rules in the middle of the game as Congress wrote and passed the annual appropriations bills by October 1— the beginning the new fiscal year.
But the authors could have never imagined the current disarray. The nine-month appropriations playing field has stretched to 14 months. And the "most recently submitted president's budget" is not Obama's 2013 blueprint at all but the long-delayed 2014 plan due to be rolled out Wednesday.
Nonetheless, OMB felt obliged to stick with its earlier estimates of what receipts will be generated by the Federal Housing Administration's mortgage insurance program in fiscal 2013. No matter that all the evidence from the FHA has shown for months that it will exceed the OMB prediction. Nor did it matter that the Congressional Budget Office, advising the Appropriations leadership, was predicting a much more bullish result.
The discrepancy is not small. OMB had predicted a loan volume of $149 billion for fiscal 2013. CBO has been predicting $227 billion—a more than 50 percent difference.
In fact, in its latest public report January 31, FHA was already at $100.9 billion. The end of March tally—marking the halfway point—is expected to be near $128 billion. That's about $20 billion short of the OMB estimate with six months left to the fiscal year.
In the past, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees were allowed some small margin of discretion in the case of these differences between OMB and CBO. But the Budget Control Act adopted in 2011 firmly established OMB as the final arbiter of what promise to be repeated scorekeeping rescissions.
Critics argue that that whole system has become such a layer-on-layer of law that its initial purpose can seem lost. The BCA itself is the fifth addition to a superstructure dating back to old Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction machinery in 1985.
Richard Kogan, a veteran of both OMB and years on the staff of the House Budget Committee, said that OMB's reading of the law was literally correct –even though "the purpose of this provision isn't actually served in this particular case."
"The obvious point is one of parity," said Kogan, who helped write the 1990 law and is now a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The idea had been to create a level playing field, he said, but in reality the 2013 budget was written 14 months ago and designed to meet spending caps, Kogan said, that were themselves changed in the interim by the fiscal cliff deal in December.
"It's quite clear that over 14 months, op en ended costs will change and in this case change dramatically," Kogan said.
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Here it is in total darkness, which probably suits it best. It is the world's homeliest, but it's mine, all MINE!
The creepy eyes in the second photo are what Ted (or Elisheva, I forget) is referring to as the gingerbread zombies.
Naomi and I made them this morning and gave them white-choco chip eyes... I didn't realize they would then look as though they arepossessed. Sigh... it's meant to be our family. :-)))
I do love the fourth one here, with the light pouring out the door, even though you can see a bit of the candle, so it sort of ruins the effect...
~ Superstore chicken
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Bad timing: Ted's sister Cheryl sent two packs of yummy chocolates and Elisheva is now begging me to have one because she can't after supper, because we'll be fleishik. She is sitting behind me on the sofa muttering "I'm having a Guylian..."
I have been charged with selecting her birthday present from Grandma online. Will have to do it tonight after her bedtime, because there is no privacy around here.


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Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey is a single question that is sent to customers to get a concise understanding of their satisfaction level with your brand or organization. It is a mathematical classification and measurement of customer satisfaction and brand loyalty loyalty using the Net Promoter Score question. Response to this question is measured on a scale of 0-10 and provides a simplified, yet highly effective vision of an organization's brand popularity and identifying potential brand promoters or detractors among existing customers.
Now instead, elevate this experience to a business organization. Businesses would like to know (and should know), as to how good or bad was the experience of a customer using their product or service, such that they would: Promote your brand, stay Passive, or even Detract from your brand.
This critical measurement is what makes Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey questions so important to customer service, customer satisfaction measurement, customer loyalty and brand recommendations.
Net Promoter Score is part of quantitative market research and is one of the most important customer satisfaction survey questions.
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey Question is an industry tested standard question which asks the user of a product/service the following:
Considering your complete experience with our company, how likely would you be to recommend us to a friend or colleague?
The answer options are arranged horizontally on a scale from 0-10. Respondents are then measured based on 3 response categories where the score of Promoters is considered a good Net Promoter Score (9-10):
The Net Promoter Score question is simple to implement and responses collected to this one question could be critical to your organization's growth strategy. This is especially the case when you are considering the future of your product/service and how it can grow 'organically' through word-of-mouth of customers.
In terms of financial decisions, responses to the Net Promoter Score Question can offer unique forecast into how much you may have to allocate towards paid outreach and advertisements based on the current state of organic growth.
The Net Promoter Score Question is simple to implement and responses collected to this one question could be critical to your organization's growth strategy. This is especially the case when you are considering the future of your product/service and how it can grow "organically" through word-of-mouth of customers.
In terms of financial decisions, responses to the Net Promoter Score Question can offer unique forecast into how much you may have to allocate towards paid outreach and advertisements based on the current state of organic growth.
Read more about: What is a good Net Promoter Score?
Net Promoter Score Calculation is done using the Net Promoter Score Formula that calculates the overall Net Promoter Score by subtracting the percentage of Detractors from the percentage of Promoters.
As explained, Net Promoter Score calculation and formula is based on Promoters and Detractors calculation. NPS calculation for detractors is done with the formula as a percentage of respondents who gave 0 to 6 rating. Similarly, NPS calculation for promoters is done with the formula as a percentage of respondents who gave 9 and 10 ratings.
Learn more : Net Promoter Score calculation
Let's use a quick example to explain Net Promoter Score calculation using the formula!
Let's consider a scenario where a business which wants to calculate Net Promoter Score for product X amongst its 50 consumers.
Now let's say after the responses are collected, 25 of the respondents are Promoters, 15 are passive and 10 are detractors.
So based on the Net Promoter Score formula:
While calculating Net Promoter Score manually is an option, the question arises – How do you calculate Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey responses from a large sample of respondents / customers?
This is where QuestionPro and its advanced Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey measurement platform automates entire Net Promoter Score calculation. QuestionPro's offers a scientific and visually optimized way to measure and analyze NPS data for unlimited number of respondents!
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As we discussed above, it can be time, resource and cost consuming to calculate the Net Promoter Score survey data manually for your respondents. The same applies to response collection mechanisms as well. Thankfully, one of the easiest, fully automated and insightful ways to collect and analyse Net Promoter Score survey results is through QuestionPro Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey measurement platform.
QuestionPro allows you to create, send and analyse your NPS survey in a matter of minutes.
Here are some simple steps to launch your NPS survey using QuestionPro:
As your NPS survey respondents begin to submit their responses, the QuestionPro CX Dashboard updates your analysis reports, charts and trends in real-time!
The QuestionPro Net Promoter Score (NPS) Meter provides a real-time and aggregate NPS value based on your survey response. Typically measured between -100 to +100, it provides a wide range for accurate NPS measurement.
One of the key aspects of NPS measurement is to check how it is varying over time. This requires graphical analysis of the data collected using NPS survey, with time as a variable.
The QuestionPro NPS Survey Dashboard is the most advanced analytics platform for NPS measurement. It provides real-time and detailed NPS Value charts and graphs as they vary over time.
It also shows comparative NPS scoring and benchmarking based on geographical regions, products and services.
Heatmap will give you system generated comparative NPS scores of various touch points under consideration.
The Priority Matrix for Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey Analysis will give you features that should be on your priority list to make improvements on the NPS Driver score scale. High Driver score and Low NPS score represents, high priority action items and High Driver score and High NPS score indicates that the touchpoint is stable and driving the business smoothly.
QuestionPro NPS Survey Promoter Amplification is an automated mechanism in-built within the QuestionPro platform used for NPS surveys. On the basis of the response if a respondent is identified as a 'Promoter', then a new link prompts them to share their feedback on social media channels.
QuestionPro NPS Survey Detractor Recovery is a comprehensive mechanism in our NPS survey platform that allows companies to automatically receive negative feedback and take automated actions. This can be configured and customized as per choice such as instant emails to detracting customers and automated ticket raising that alert their customer care team in real-time such that they can quickly connect with the customer to identify and resolve pain points.


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Violence In The Amazon - 1 Dead, Dozens Injured In Indigenous Protests
Violence In The Amazon - 1 Dead, Dozens Injured In Indigenous Protests
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Ecuadorian police have attacked peaceful Shuar Indigenous protesters near the town of Macas in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon, leaving at least one Shuar teacher dead.
Please join Cultural Survival in condemning this state violence and urge Ecuador's President Rafael Correa to refrain from further violence, investigate the Macas violence, and negotiate directly with Indigenous organizations to address their concerns and uphold their rights.
Indigenous Peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon launched protests early this week against a new Water Law and the Mining Law. These laws, they charge, ignore the rights of Indigenous Peoples as stated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in the International Labor Organization's Convention 169, both of which have been ratified by Ecuador. They endanger the Ecuadorian Amazon's vast tropical rainforest by facilitating further encroachment by mining, oil and logging companies, construction of hydroelectric dams, and privatization of water.
Tito Puenchir, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), called for "permanent protests" until changes are made in the water and mining laws to protect the natural resources of the Amazon region and recognize the rights of its Indigenous inhabitants. CONFENIAE also asked the United Nations and the Organization of American States to intervene.
Following the violence at Macas, President Correa offered to meet with CONFENIAE and the national indigenous organization CONAIE, but the Indigenous organizations insist that the talks take place in the Amazon. So far, Correa has not agreed to meet outside the capital.
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Please send letters to President Correa. The fastest way to reach him is via the Ecuadorian Ambassador to the United States (see email, fax and address below). Use this model letter or write your own polite message. Postage to Ecuador is 98 cents.
Thank you for standing with the Amazon's Indigenous Peoples to defend their rights and to prevent corporate sacking of the world's largest tropical rainforest.
Economista Rafael Correa Delgado
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Sue is correct…..PFP is pitchers fielding practice.
More PFP is in store for Day 3 today at Carpenter Complex. Working on fundamentals can seem mundane and boring. Yet, executing fundamentals properly can mean the difference between a win and a loss. Multiple losses during a season can be deadly and mean the difference between playing or watching on TV in October.
Repetition is necessary to iron out kinks.
Today pitchers and catchers will be working on PFP on four fields just before noon
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3-1 plays (first baseman to pitcher covering first)
3-1 with runner on second base
"in between" ball
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"Don't remember too much about spring training. Did remember my first year in the big league camp walking in the clubhouse and seeing superstars like Schmidt, Carlton and Luzinski. Just being in a clubhouse with them was a thrill. Sometimes we got time off which allowed us to play golf and relax a little. You could get your work done at your own pace. The only thing I didn't like were the early mornings. I'm just not an early morning person by any means."
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Transfer news: Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor wanted by Besiktas
Besiktas have made a bid for Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor, according to the Turkish club's director Ahmet Piper.
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The Togo international struggled for form in the Premier League last season, bagging just five goals in 25 appearances following his £5million move from Manchester City.
Adebayor initially shone at White Hart Lane during a loan stint from City, only for the scoring exploits which earned him a permanent deal with Spurs to evaporate.
He could now be offered a route to pastures new, with Piper claiming that they have tabled an offer to Tottenham for the former Arsenal man.
Piper told Turkish news outlet Fanatik: "It is certainly true that we are looking at the idea of a transfer. We have made a serious bid for Adebayor.
"That, in turn, has given us a figure for the player, which is slightly above the amount that we imagined.
"However, making a signing as big as this immediately is nothing but a dream.
"Negotiations always take a long time. I hope that we will get a chance to have a meeting soon."


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- The Supreme Court let stand law requiring proof that a gun needs to be carried in public
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The Supreme Court continued its recent hands-off approach on gun control, refusing on Monday to accept a challenge to New Jersey's restrictions on carrying weapons in public.
The justices without comment let stand a state law that anyone who wants to possess a handgun outside the home for self defense first prove a "justifiable need" for doing so.
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The Boston Marathon: One advisor's story.
As the sun shone on a crisp spring New England morning, over 23,000 runners stretched their legs, fraternized with their friends and competitors and mentally prepared themselves for the biggest sporting event in New England. The Boston Marathon is the oldest marathon in the country and one of the world's six great marathons. It has been held on Patriots Day, the third Monday of April, and a civic holiday in Massachusetts since 1897. The city of Boston becomes a city of spectators on "Marathon Monday" as it is sometimes called, and when the early Red Sox game at Fenway Park lets out, an estimated 500,000 people swell the streets to cheer for the runners.
The prestige of being one of those runners that the crowd has flocked to support coupled with the lauded history of the event makes the marathon an ambitious goal. Take into account the arduous times one needs to run to qualify and there emerges the perfect civic sporting event; a celebration of a city and a race that is watched by the world. That is why it was so devastating when two bombs went off at the finish line, killing three and injuring 264 people at the time of this writing.
For Jeff Breese, a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor at Flores Wealth Management and Raymond James in Chandler, Ariz., this year's marathon was a culmination of many things and a homecoming of sorts. Breese grew up in Attleboro, Mass., about 40 miles south of Boston. He attended Boston University, graduating in 1999. During his senior year of college, Breese ran the race as a "bandit," someone who jumps in without a number at the beginning of the race. He did not finish, coming up short after reaching "Heartbreak Hill" because he "did not take the race seriously enough or prepare properly." This year was to be his redemption race and he trained to complete it.
But it was not just proving to himself that he could finish what he started back in college; Breese was running with another purpose. He had recently lost a classmate from Boston University to cancer at the young age of 35. He, along with three classmates decided to put together a team and see if they could secure a spot on the Elite Athlete Team sponsored by John Hancock. Hancock, the U.S. unit of Toronto-based Manulife Financial is not just Breese's former employer (where he worked for four-and-a-half years until leaving in 2009), but is also a mainstay corporate sponsor, in its 28 year of landmark sponsorship for the marathon. Immediately after the bombing, John Hancock donated one million dollars to the onefundboston.org, a charity set-up by Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
The system to make the Elite Athlete Team is based on a lottery. Being part of team means that you don't have to qualify, which Breese was happy about because although he stays in good shape, he was not sure if he could make time. Breese and his teammates were not picked in the first lottery system but he got an email around Christmas saying that they were picked in the second round. The three would run for their lost classmate, and they went on to collect nearly $17,000 dollars for the American Cancer Society.
Breese had made it 25.5 miles into the 26 mile and 385 yard race before he was stopped "by thousands of runners standing in the middle of Commonwealth Avenue." Bombs had already gone off, but he did not hear anything. This could be attributed to the fact that he had his headphones in while he was running, and after running 25.5 miles, one can get a runner's high that results in a kind of tunnel vision. Breese was initially perplexed as to why runners in front of him were stopped, standing around in the street. He was running for a deceased friend, for cancer research, and for himself and his cheering wife, who was in the crowd. He had made it so far, he could almost taste the culminating moment of all of this hard work: Crossing the finish line.
"Get out the way!" Breese is ashamed to say he yelled at the halted runners before finding out what had happened. "It was not even in my realm of possibility to think that something could have gone wrong. What I thought was that there were a lot of people standing around waiting to help competitors who could not muster the energy to finish the final leg of the race."
The next thing Breese knew, one of his teammates who had been running well ahead of him was walking back towards him, telling him: "It's over, it's over, bombs at the finish line." What Breese did not realize through his fatigue and shock was that bombs had actually been detonated. "I thought, oh, OK. Somebody must have called in a threat or they found what they thought was a bomb and they are evacuating and this is all just precautionary so that no one gets hurt."
He was quickly told that bombs had actually gone off. Later, he learned that his wife and his brother were in the John Hancock bleacher seats less than one hundred feet from where the first bomb had gone off. "Through the wonders of modern technology," Breese was able to confirm, by a chain of friends, that his wife and brother were safe. Breese was relieved, but started to think that the last place he wanted to be was standing in a crowd of a couple thousand people, buttressed by three- and four-story brownstones, with bombs going off. With the finish line still very much in sight, he cut off through some back roads that led him back to his friend's apartment, where he met everyone.
What he found out, when the group was gathered and safe, was that three other classmates and the brother of the deceased classmate they were running for were standing at The Atlantic Fish Co., a landmark Boston restaurant that was directly next to where the second bomb went off. One of his friends was blown into a glass door and another was blown into another area of the restaurant. Safe but still in shock at his friend's apartment, anecdotes began to be shared as the horror and severity of the situation set in. Breese realized that his wife and his friends who were standing at the finish line witnessed scenes of carnage, including people with limbs missing, right in front of them, and SWAT teams going by. "What they told me seemed like something out of a movie," he said.
Breese is in the business of helping people prepare for the unexpected. "We consider ourselves wealth managers and although you may walk into our office thinking that you are picking someone to check your risk tolerance and build you a portfolio, what we pride ourselves on -- and this is sometimes difficult to get people to latch onto -- is preparing people for the things that they have no idea are going to happen."
With his two young children back home in Arizona, it is hard not to imagine that after going through something like the Boston Marathon bombing he may have a little sharper perspective to share with his clients.
"You don't know what you don't know, and our job is to expose the risks that you have to your personal wealth, your well-being, your family and your legacy and although that is not always tangible, this incident will now become a concrete reminder for me as well as an example that I can go back and tell clients, CyYou have no idea what is going to happen when you wake up in the morning.'''
Breese was also reminded by the fact that with over 200 people injured, and only three deaths, the skills of our doctors and the dexterity with which our first responders can access the wounded, disability coverage is a product more people need to seriously consider purchasing. "People really have no problem understanding that they need life insurance, but what people have a hard time grasping is that if you are seriously injured (like many of those in the marathon) that turns off that money machine and people need coverage for that," Breese said.
"This whole incident has really cemented in my mind the importance of the disability conversation that I have with clients," Breese said. "Before the marathon, I was aware of the importance of the disability insurance conversation, but I have never had an event where I could convey how crucial it is to explain why one should purchase a product like what I went through with the marathon."
Breese will go back to work with an acute awareness of the importance of what he does for a living, and with a medal for finishing the marathon. Even though he was stopped painfully close to the finish line, Breese will finish his race with a fresh perspective on the fragility of life, a thankful heart and the knowledge that he ran with a purpose.
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368: I've had it with Murong Ping. Ugh, and Yue Wan worked himself to death too. Sucky year for Yan.
2. 以燕主暐幼弱,政不在己,太傅評多猜忌,恐大司馬之任不當其人 = Because he felt that a) Murong Wei was young and weak, b) Murong Wei did not control state affairs himself (政不在己= the administration was not determined by Wei himself), c) Murong Ping was an asshole—that's why Murong Ke feared that the position of Grand Marshal wouldn't be given to a suitable man.
今南有遺晉 = the remnants of Jin are in the south
顧我未有隙耳 = and it's just that they have hitherto seen no rift in our state. (耳 = "it's just that", "that's the only reason", "that's all")
以親疏言之,當在汝及沖 = according to the closeness of kinship, [my position] should go to you and Chong
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投誠請援,前後相尋,是天以秦賜燕也 = One following another (前後相尋), they are coming over to join us or asking for our aid. This is Heaven delivering Qin to Yan.
天與不取,反受其殃 = (As the saying goes,) "Take not what Heaven offers, and you invite disaster."
示以禍福: We had this one before—this literally means 'explain to them how they could invite disaster or gain good fortune', so basically like "If you stick with Qin, you'll be killed, but if you join us, we'll give you goodies". (it's not about intention to restore order)
渾一之期,於此乎在矣!= The time for us to unite the world is here!
但能閉關保境足矣 ,平秦非吾事也 = It is sufficient for us to defend our borders. Conquering Qin is not for us to do.
富於春秋 = to be young (literally: have many springs and autumns ahead of him)
觀太傅識度,豈能敵苻堅、王猛乎?= [our lord is still young, and] considering the Grand Tutor's level of insight and disposition, do you think we are of Fu Jian and Wang Meng's match?
然,吾雖知之,如言不用何!= Yes, but even if I know it, what can I do if no one listens to me? (言不用 = speech is not used, i.e. my proposals are not adopted. 如 establishes a situation to be considered.何 = what to do? So, "Given that my proposals are not listened to, what can I do?")
伍子胥 = Wu Zixu
不能事君王也 = I cannot serve another king.
子胥之言 = Wu Zixu's advice
甬東,越鄙,甬江東也。= Yongdong was a village of Yue(鄙 was a Zhou dynasty administrative district of 500 households). It on the east side of Yong River.
9. 盡俘其眾 = and captured all his men
10. 官貸粟帛以自贍給 = the local officials have to borrow (貸) grain and silk to feed and clothe themselves.
既不可聞於鄰敵 = We must not let our neighbouring enemies know about this, [and this is no way to run a state anyway...]
自力厘校戶籍 = in his exertions to personally verify the census rolls
而又各以品之高卑蔭其親屬 = and each rank was allowed to extend benefits to various degrees of family relations
多者及九族,少者二世 = Those at the top could extend their benefits to family relations of the 9th degree; those with fewer, just to two generations.
13. 汝素長者,固知非汝心也 = You have always been an honest man (長者), so I know you did not mean to do it. [Plus, it cannot be that Emperor Gaozu...]
以長子襲魏公 = He had his eldest son inherit (襲) the title of Duke of Wei (we don't know his name).
雙獨不得置後 = Shuang alone was not given an heir.
天下者,高祖之天下 = The realm belongs to Emperor Gaozu.
至於仲群,不顧太后 = As for Fu Shuang (Zhongqun), he did not think about you
14. 位在諸侯王上 = his position was elevated to be above all the other lords and princes (stop it Jin, you're going to run out of positions for this guy)


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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 20, 2009-Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to announce the appointment of ten more outstanding international scientists to the positions of Perimeter Institute Distinguished Research Chairs.
In making the announcement, Dr Turok stated, "It is truly a privilege to announce the addition of ten more Distinguished Research Chairs to our research community. Each has made remarkable and creative contributions to key areas of modern physics. Their combined expertise spans a wide range, from foundational quantum theory to particle physics, condensed matter, statistical physics, black holes and cosmology. They will provide both inspiration and guidance to our researchers and students."
Perimeter Institute Distinguished Research Chairs spend extended research visits at Perimeter each year, becoming part of Perimeter's scientific community while retaining permanent positions at their home institutions. Several have also joined the faculty of Perimeter Scholars International, the Institute's innovative Master's level training program. The new Chairs are: Dorit Aharonov, Patrick Hayden, Leo Kadanoff, Chris Isham, Renate Loll, Malcolm Perry, Sandu Popescu, Bill Unruh, Guifre Vidal, and Mark Wise. They join the ten current Perimeter Institute Distinguished Research Chairs, who include Professor Stephen Hawking.
In addition to building its team of resident scientists in Waterloo, Ontario, Perimeter is becoming a second research home to many leading scientists from around the world.
Below are details on each of the new Distinguished Research Chairs.
Dorit Aharonov is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has made major contributions to the theoretical foundations of quantum computation, in particular in the context of understanding and counteracting the effects of 'noisy' environments on delicate quantum systems performing computations, the identification of a quantum to classical phase transition in fault tolerant quantum computers, the development of new tools and approaches for the design of quantum algorithms, and the study of ground states of many body quantum Hamiltonians for various classes of Hamiltonians, from a computational complexity point of view. In 2006 she was awarded the Krill prize for excellence in scientific research. Dr. Aharonov is on the faculty of Perimeter Scholars International.
Patrick Hayden holds the Canada Research Chair in the Physics of Information at McGill University. His research focuses on finding efficient methods for performing the communication tasks that will be required for large-scale quantum information processing. This includes the development of methods for reliably sending quantum states through 'noisy' media and for protecting quantum information from unauthorized manipulation. He has also applied these techniques to the question of information loss from black holes. Among Dr. Hayden's honors, he is a past Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and Rhodes Scholar.
Christopher Isham is a Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. He is a former Senior Dean of the College. Dr Isham has made many important contributions in the fields of quantum gravity and the foundations of quantum mechanics. Motivated by the 'problem of time' in quantum gravity, he developed a new approach to quantum theory known as the 'HPO formalism' that enables the theory to be extended to situations where there is no normal notion of time (such as in Einstein's theory of general relativity). Since the late 1990s, Dr. Isham has been developing a completely new approach to formulating theories of physics based on the mathematical concept of a 'topos'. This gives a radically new way of understanding the traditional problems of quantum theory as well as providing a framework in which to develop new theories that would not have been conceived using standard mathematics. From 2001-2005, Dr. Isham was a member of Perimeter Institute's Scientific Advisory Committee; during the last year he was the Chair of the Committee.
Leo Kadanoff is a theoretical physicist and applied mathematician based at the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. He is considered a pioneer of complexity theory, and has made important contributions to research in the properties of matter, the development of urban areas, statistical models of physical systems, and the development of chaos in simple mechanical and fluid systems. His is best known for the development of the concepts of "scale invariance" and "universality" as they are applied to phase transitions. More recently, he has been involved in the understanding of singularities in fluid flow. Among Dr. Kadanoff's many honours, he is a past recipient of the National Medal of Science (US), the Grande Medaille d'Or of the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, the Wolf Foundation Prize, the Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Centennial Medal of Harvard University. He is also a past President of the American Physical Society. Dr. Kadanoff is on the faculty of Perimeter Scholars International.
Renate Loll is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and a member of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Utrecht University. Her research centers on quantum gravity, the search for a consistent theory that describes the microscopic constituents of spacetime geometry and the quantum-dynamical laws governing their interaction. She has made major contributions to loop quantum gravity, and with her collaborators, has proposed a novel theory of Quantum Gravity via 'Causal Dynamical Triangulations.' Dr. Loll heads one of the largest research groups on nonperturbative quantum gravity worldwide, and is the recipient of a prestigious personal VICI-grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. She is also a faculty member of Perimeter Scholars International.
Malcolm Perry is a Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research centers upon general relativity, supergravity and string theory. Dr. Perry has made major contributions to string theory, Euclidean quantum gravity, and our understanding of black hole radiation. With Perimeter Institute Faculty member Robert Myers, he developed the Myers-Perry metric, which shows how to construct black holes in the higher spacetime dimensions associated with string theory. Dr. Perry's honours include an Sc. D. from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Perry is also on the faculty of Perimeter Scholars International.
Sandu Popescu is a Professor of Physics at the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory at the University of Bristol, and a member of the Bristol Quantum Information and Computation Group. He has made numerous contributions to quantum theory, ranging from the very fundamental, to the design of practical experiments (such as the first teleportation experiment), to patentable commercial applications. His investigations into the nature of quantum behavior, with particular focus on quantum non-locality, led him to discover some of the central concepts in the emerging area of quantum information and computation. He is a past recipient of the Adams Prize (Cambridge), and the Clifford Patterson Prize of the Royal Society (UK).
William Unruh is a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia who has made seminal contributions to our understanding of gravity, black holes, cosmology, quantum fields in curved spaces, and the foundations of quantum mechanics, including the discovery of the Unruh effect. His investigations into the effects of quantum mechanics of the earliest stages of the universe have yielded many insights, including the effects of quantum mechanics on computation. Dr. Unruh was the first Director of the Cosmology and Gravity Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1985-1996). His many awards include the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1982), the Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1983), the Steacie Prize from the National Research Council (1984), the Canadian Association of Physicists Medal of Achievement (1995), and the Canada Council Killam Prize. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Guifre Vidal is a Professor in the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland, who has made important contributions to the development of quantum information science, with applications to condensed matter theory. His research explores the phenomenon of entanglement, the renormalization group, and the development of tensor network algorithms to simulate quantum systems. Dr. Vidal's past honors include a Marie Curie Fellowship, awarded by the European Union, and a Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellowship. He is a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council.
Mark Wise is the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He has conducted research in elementary particle physics and cosmology, and shared the 2001 Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for the development of the 'Heavy Quark Effective Theory' (HQET), a mathematical formalism that enables physicists to make predictions about otherwise intractable problems in the theory of the strong interactions of quarks. He has also published work on mathematical models for finance and risk assessment. Dr. Wise is a past Sloan Foundation fellow, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences.
About Perimeter Institute
Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is an independent, non-profit, scientific research and educational outreach organization where international scientists cluster to push the limits of our understanding of physical laws and develop new ideas about the very essence of space, time, matter and information. The centre provides a multi-disciplinary environment to foster scientific collaboration in research areas of cosmology, particle physics, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, quantum information, superstring theory, and related disciplines. Located in Waterloo, Ontario, PI also provides a wide array of award-winning outreach resources and public lectures for students, teachers and the general public in order to share the joy of research, discovery and innovation. In partnership with the Governments of Ontario and Canada, Perimeter Institute continues to be a successful example of private and public collaboration in science research and education. www.perimeterinstitute.ca


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Pirates sign free agent LHP Francisco Liriano
The Pittsburgh Pirates today announced the signing of free agent left-handed pitcher Francisco Liriano to a one-year contract with a vesting option for the 2014 season. The announcement was made by Senior Vice President, General Manager Neal Huntington.
The 29-year-old Liriano went 6-12 with a 5.34 ERA (156.2ip/93er) and 167 strikeouts in a total of 34 games (28 starts) with the Twins and White Sox in 2012. He began the season with Minnesota and made 22 appearances (17 starts) before being traded to Chicago on July 28. Liriano's 9.59 strikeouts/per 9.0ip ratio ranked third among all American League pitchers with at least 100.0ip in 2012.
"We are excited to add Francisco Liriano to our roster," Huntington said. "Francisco is recovering from his right arm injury and we look forward to him joining our rotation once he is ready to go."
Liriano made his Major League debut with the Twins in 2005 and was selected to the American League All-Star team a year later while he posted a 12-3 record and 2.16 ERA in 28 games (16 starts) with Minnesota in 2006. He won a career-high 14 games, struck out a career-high 201 batters and pitched a career-high 191.2 innings with the Twins in 2010, earning A.L. Comeback Player-of-the-Year honors.
In his career, Liriano has held left-handed hitters to a .227 batting average and just six home runs in 732 at bats. Over the last three years, he ranks fifth among American League lefthanders with 480 strikeouts and first with an 8.95 strikeout/per 9.0ip ratio. On May 3, 2011, Liriano threw the fifth nohitter in Twins history, blanking the White Sox, 1-0, in Chicago.
To make room on the 40-man roster for Liriano, the Pirates have outrighted right-handed pitcher Vin Mazzaro to Triple-A Indianapolis with an invitation to Major League Spring Training.


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Snyder established the Michigan Veterans Agency in January to serve 700,000 vets
By Alanna Durkin
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Throughout his nearly 10-year military career, Jeff Barnes said he led almost 700 soldiers into combat and brought all home alive. But after leaving the military, a prospective employer looked at his resume and asked, "This looks great, but have you had any leadership experience?"
Barnes, who served as an armored cavalry officer for the U.S. Army and completed tours in Korea, the Balkans and Iraq, said he will use personal experiences like that to improve the state's veteran services as director of the new Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency.
"I'm very familiar with the things that lead up to a deployment, the types of things that families go through while their soldiers are deployed, what it's like to really navigate this disparate system when you come back," Barnes told The Associated Press.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder established the agency in January on the heels of heavy criticism that the state was not doing enough for its nearly 700,000 veterans. Despite the 11th-highest veteran population, the state ranks dead last in the number of those who utilize U.S. Veterans Administration benefits, which officials blame in part on the way veterans services are scattered among 15 different state departments.
"What you end up with is a very confusing patchwork of services that veterans come back into" which "becomes very difficult to navigate, very frustrating," Barnes said. "A lot of times that's where we lose veterans because they get turned off to that and do what veterans do best, which is adapt and overcome."
Barnes has been tasked with streamlining and coordinating veterans' services, and finding ways to reach out to veterans. Last month, Snyder approved $3 million in funding for the agency.
The agency plans to start with pilot projects in Wayne and Kent counties, where it will survey services to find out where gaps exist. From there, he said the goal is to create a "no wrong door" model, in which veterans get connected to services and providers share information.
But he said one of the biggest challenges is making veterans aware of services.
"We don't do a very good job of connecting ... and it becomes very labor intensive when we do need to connect," he said. In the last 10 years, there have been about 50 changes in the benefits for which Vietnam veterans are eligible, he said. If veterans have been disconnected, they may not even know what they are eligible for.
"There isn't enough information for veterans that are coming home to know what their benefits are," said 65-year-old Vietnam veteran Tom Burton of Burton, Mich. "They just tend to leave you in the dark," he said. Burton connected with the American Legion, but many veterans are left on his or her own, he said.
Barnes said he envisions creating a place on the state's website where veterans can enter their zip code and see the services in their area. He said he eventually wants to build a web portal where veterans can track benefits claims.
He said the agency will ramp up outreach efforts with billboards, fliers and radio ads. "But that's going to take a lot of boots on the ground effort," he said.
The state recently received VA accreditation to act on behalf of veterans and oversee processing of cases. That also means the state now has access to veterans' last-known addresses to allow for more targeted outreach, Barnes said.
Previously, the state relied on county veterans' counselors and service groups like the American Legion to oversee claims processing. Now the state will have five mobile officers who will work with these groups to reach more veterans.
"We still need to work together to make sure that we are able to connect with every veteran in the state," said James Topps, director of the American Legion Veteran Affairs and Rehabilitation and a Vietnam veteran.
Another challenge Barnes faces is helping veterans find jobs. He said many veterans come home wanting to continue to serve and lead.
"I think as a state we need to capitalize on that," he said.
But understanding and expressing how military skills translate to the private sector can be a challenge for veterans, he said. He said will work with the state to make it easier for veterans to get licensed for jobs like EMTs and commercial truck drivers using skills from their service.
Barnes said it is crucial that the state takes immediate steps to improve services for veterans.
"When we shut the lights off in Afghanistan... there will be another issue that will take the forefront, so you've got to capitalize on that right now."


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The Duggar family, (this is the family that keeps on having kids--they are up to 19) has released the news that they are expecting child number 20. Seriously, Duggars? Child 20? I'm not sure what amount of children is too many children but I'm pretty sure 20 is way beyond that number.
Is this normal in any way? Does any culture of humans anywhere routinely have families of 15 or more children? I mean, 10 maybe. I don't care how many investments they have, how much goodwill stuff you buy or how debt free they are--it costs A LOT of freakin' money to keep that household going. I mean lets just discuss the house alone. My electricity bill is anywhere from $150-170/month for my 3600 sq. ft. house with 5 people. If we just multiply that by 4 that is $600/month just for electricity! And we don't have central air!! I hope they are on a well for water--I can't imagine how much water they go through in a month or how much that would cost. How about food? My family spends anywhere from $150-200/week on food. I do purchase fresh fruits and vegetables so that may inflate the price a little, but that's what my growing family needs. I have never seen them serve fresh vegetables or fruit on their show, but let's assume that they have some. Again, based on my family's food bill, they should be around $800/week for food. Let's not forget that they have at least 2 that are using diapers still. Unless they use cloth diapers, that is another $50/week. So, between food, diapers and electricity, they are up to $48k in expenses per year. Good thing they have TLC to pay them 10K/episode or whatever it is that they make.
This family both fascinates me and drives me crazy. I thought they might be done after the scare with the last baby, but apparently not. Why not have children and grandchildren of the same age? That way they have someone to play with, right? I would probably be less irritated with the whole family if the girls aspired to (or were encouraged to) something other than be a mom and raise babies. Not that isn't a noble thing to do, but it would seem like out of the 9 or whatever girls that they have, at least ONE of them would wish to do something else. Wouldn't you think? Can you say, Brainwash? I can.
WTF Duggars. Enough already.


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Currently, on my homepage (which is a list of posts), if you click an image it opens in the same window as a full size image.
I'd like to change it so that when a user clicks said image it opens into a Fancybox pop-up.
I've got my Fancybox code, which works on my Custom Post Type pages (because I've been able to set the class/rel for these images):
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But I don't know how to add Fancybox to the code that WordPress automatically gives to its linked images in posts:

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Any suggestions? Is there a way I can do this using just the jQuery selector on Fancybox, or will I have to implement a WP filter to amend post-inserted image links so that they include a specific id/class?
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