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Our country faces important federal funding challenges linked to the current recession and its aftermath. On the Census Bureau's part, we have been striving to cut administrative costs, reengineer our survey processes, and find innovative ways to squeeze every cent of taxpayer money we get. This is an important duty, I believe, we have as public servants, and I am proud of the hard work of my Census Bureau colleagues on this score. It is also my duty to inform the country of the impact of budgets on the scope and quality of the nonpartisan statistical information the Census Bureau provides.
This blog post provides information about the implications of the recent budget passed by the House of Representatives.
The Appropriations Bill eliminates the Economic Census, which measures the health of our economy. It terminates the American Community Survey, which produces the social and demographic information that monitors the impact of economic trends on communities throughout the country. It halts crucial development of ways to save money on the next decennial census. In the last three years the Census Bureau has reacted to budget and technological challenges by mounting aggressive operational efficiency programs to make these key statistical cornerstones of the country more cost efficient. Eliminating them halts all the progress to build 21st century statistical tools through those innovations. This bill thus devastates the nation's statistical information about the status of the economy and the larger society.
The 2012 Economic Census provides comprehensive information on the health of over 25 million businesses and 1,100 industries. It provides detailed industry and geographic source data for generating quarterly GDP estimates. The economic census is also the benchmark for measures of productivity, producer prices, and many of the nation's principal economic indicators. At this moment, we are poised to request the key data from individual firms. We have already printed 7.5 million forms, and are preparing the October mailing and internet data collection infrastructure. Cancelling the 2012 Economic Census now wastes $226 million already expended on preparatory activities
The ACS is our country's only source of small area estimates on social and demographic characteristics. Manufacturers and service sector firms use ACS to identify the income, education, and occupational skills of local labor markets they serve. Retail businesses use ACS to understand the characteristics of the neighborhoods in which they locate their stores. Homebuilders and realtors understand the housing characteristics and the markets in their communities. Local communities use ACS to choose locations for new schools, hospitals, and fire stations. There is no substitute from the private sector for ACS small area estimates. Even if the funding problems were solved in the proposed budget, the House bill also bans enforcement of the mandatory nature of participation in the ACS; this alone would require at least $64 million more in funding to achieve the same precision of ACS estimates.
In the last three years the Census Bureau has launched a transformation in survey and census designs. Both the ongoing economic and demographic surveys and the economic and demographic censuses will use the same technological infrastructure, to produce a leaner, more efficient 21st Century Census Bureau. The reduction in the 2020 Census request will not permit the Census Bureau to undertake the research and testing needed to build shared use of technical infrastructure and more efficient ways of conducting the next decennial census. It eliminates the anonymized public use sample file (PUMS), robbing the country of research discoveries from the 2010 Census by the private sector. The country will lose the chance to mount a 2020 Census at a lower cost per household than that of the 2010 Census.
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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
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Don't laugh. One of the most maligned delivery systems from the early days of the over-hyped Web is ready for its second act…and this time it wants to pay its own way. Push, the technique of streaming near-real-time news and information to a user's desktop throughout the day (yeah, we're talking PointCast, here) enjoyed an unexpected boost in 2002 with the surprise success of always-on weather monitor WeatherBug and copy-cat desktop clients from Weather.com and AccuWeather. A year ago, a number of major media brands (CNN, USAToday) launched push-oriented products. And everyone is sniffing around the mobile carriers to see what sort of alerts, headlines, games, and scores mobile users will want, nay pay, to have shoved onto their next-gen cell phones. Is push being pulled back into the digital delivery mix?
Push is making a comeback because now it may have a model to recommend itself. The LATimes.com's NewsDirect feed charges $5.95 a month, while CNN's push product Newswatch is $45.96 a year and USA Today's NewsTracker is $4.95 a month. PointCast descendent Infogate is the technology engine behind all three, and the radical reorientation it took in early 2002 symbolizes the new thinking behind push. Despite having 300,000 active users for its free news service, which aggregated thousands of information feeds, Infogate shut down the model and launched a private label format in March 2002. "The reason we went from free to fee is simple," says Clifford Boro, Infogate's chairman and CEO, "we were losing a fortune." Now he licenses the technology to major media players who charge for the service and split the fees with him.
While the early-in content providers are reluctant to disclose subscription numbers, Boro insists that: "the abstract lesson so far from this experiment is that the underlying metrics are very encouraging." About 10% of those who download free trial offers from his partners convert to paying customers, and retention is over 90%. Usage is also very high, with 70% using the product everyday and keeping it on their desktop for an average of 6 hours. That's the kind of stickiness content brands only dream about.
By offering personalization, by aggregating over 3,000 feeds along with the featured content provider, and by providing a unique televisual experience on the desktop, Boro thinks he is adding the kind of value content needs to sell itself more effectively. "These are the three things we stake the consumer proposition on that makes it good enough to pay for," he says.
"We're starting to gain quite a bit of momentum," adds Allen Wille, CEO of Serence, a Canadian service whose KlipFolio client can feed to the desktop headline updates and links to partners such as SportingNews.com, RocketInfo, and German news providers Tagesschau and Heise. Serence claims 100,000 active users, with 250 signing up daily. For now, most of these partners use Serence as a value-add to drive traffic and maintain brand loyalty, but like Boro, Wille wants push to drive fee-based models. "The whole industry is gravitating to subscription services, but no one has figured out what the value add is. Is it just content or content plus a service," he says.
While SportingNews.com now only dabbles with Serence's KlipFolio client, online marketing manager Jason Stone, eventually wants to sell a version of the Serence feed to his real "content junkies," the fantasy sports league players who "have to have their information in front of their eyes at all times," he says. Which is exactly what Wille is hoping to hear. "We want to entice and educate content providers that there is money in this game by either up selling to subscription services or perhaps focusing on the enterprise to provide information services that are valuable to business," says Wille.


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At the time this Wall Street Journal article was published, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory was midway through construction of a $64 million project to be the greenest office building in the nation. This article explores efforts by architects and engineers who spent hundreds of hours calculating the energy use of every aspect of the building, from the elevator to the exit signs.
The U.S. Department of Energy hopes lessons learned from the Research Support Facility will help guide green-construction practices around the world. Outside experts in efficient construction point out that some of the technology used at NREL is best suited for high-sunlight, low-humidity climates such as Colorado and would not work nearly as well elsewhere. The building also demands a lot from its employees, who must adjust to fluctuating temperatures throughout the day and pop up from their desks to open and shut windows; a workforce less dedicated to energy efficiency might rebel.


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UH Manoa will assign taro patents to Native Hawaiian communityUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa announced today that it would assign three patents related to development of disease resistant taros to the greater Native Hawaiian community.
The patents in question arose from work conducted by a UH faculty member in the 1990s, at the request of Samoan taro growers, to address the near eradication of their taro crops to a leaf blight. The researcher developed a number of cultivars from crosses of Hawaiian and Palauan taro strains. The latter were obtained specifically for this purpose with the consent (including proper permitting) of Palauan taro growers and Palauan government officials.
Using traditional breeding techniques, the UH researcher produced three strains that were shown to have increased disease resistance. The patents were granted in 2002.
"The University of Hawaiʻi has a strong desire to maintain appropriate respect and sensitivity to the indigenous Hawaiian host culture," said UH Mānoa Vice Chancellor for Research Gary K. Ostrander. "Taro is unique to the Hawaiian people in that it represents the embodiment of their sacred ancestor. As such, it is appropriate to make an exception to our standard policy of holding all patents."
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Perforce Software has released a pure Java version of its Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse. With this release, developers can employ Perforce version control tools that previously have not been available from within the Eclipse environment. With this plug-in, users don't have to leave the Eclipse environment to work with the SCM system. Along with the standard version control workflow, developers can access Perforce's defect tracking and merge utilities, and change history visualization tools, directly from Eclipse.
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- In a bowl dissolve the yeast in the water, and add 3 tablespoons of the olive oil, the basil, salt, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, and 2 1/4 cups of the flour. Mix and knead into a ball of dough and set aside to rise, covered, in a warm place, for 1 hour.
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- Sprinkle the remaining handful of flour on a flat surface and flatten the dough on it. Cut into 8 wedges.
- Spread 1 tablespoon of the olive oil on 2 baking sheets. Pull and flatten each of the 8 pieces of bread until very thin and place them on the baking sheets. Brush the bread with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and sprinkle it with the kosher salt. Bake until brown and crisp, for about 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool before serving.
- Note: Buy dry sun-dried tomatoes, which are usually sold in cellophane bags in food stores. Place the tomatoes in a strainer and submerge in lightly salted warm water for 2 minutes. Drain the tomatoes. Use immediately, or store, refrigerated, in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
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WESTERVILLE, OH, April 21, 2014 - The Guitammer Company (OTCQB: GTMM) (OTCBB:GTMM), a leader in tactile and haptic broadcast technology and creator of the award-winning line of ButtKicker®-brand low frequency audio transducers that provide an immersive entertainment experience for audiences announced today that it has retained Noble Financial Capital Markets ("Noble") as its financial advisor.
In its thirtieth year of business, Noble is a research-driven investment bank focused on emerging growth companies in the energy, healthcare, technology and media & entertainment sectors. The engagement is well suited considering Noble's Director of Equity Research, Michael Kupinski, is a six-time "Best of the Street Analyst" for his work in the entertainment sector and that the experienced investment banking team who have completed numerous transactions in the space. In its advisory capacity, Noble will render strategic advice and assistance in connection with the Company's current and future capital structure as well as assist in raising additional capital when required.
Noble President, Nico Pronk said "The Company's patented technology offers a unique and differentiated consumer experience while providing significant value to its broadcast partners. The increased deployment of Guitammer's "4D" solution in movie theaters worldwide should also translate into improved shareholder value. We are pleased to be associated with Guitammer and look forward to furthering the relationship."
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The Guitammer Company, based in Westerville, Ohio, is a leader in low frequency sound products and broadcast technology. The Guitammer Company's patented broadcast technology "ButtKicker Live!® or "4D Sports powered by ButtKicker" is now live on ESPN2 for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) broadcasts. "4D Sports powered by ButtKicker" enables the excitement, impact and feeling of live sporting events to be broadcast along with the sound and video, and puts the viewer into the action, whether at home or at the event. "4D Sports powered by ButtKicker" technology is available for cable, satellite, fiber optic, IPTV and over-the-air broadcasts. For more information see www.guitammer.com/4Dsports. ButtKicker® and ButtKicker Live!® are registered trademarks of The Guitammer Company.
The Company's innovative and award-winning line of patented ButtKicker-brand low frequency audio transducers let users feel low-frequency sound (bass). ButtKicker brand products are used around the world by leading entertainment and theater companies such as AMC Theatres, Alamo Drafthouse, IMAX, Disney and Lumiere Pavilions in movie theaters and attractions; by world-famous musicians; and in home theaters, by consumers for video games, simulators and car audio.
ButtKicker brand products are distributed by Pearl Drums for musicians under the trade name, "Pearl's Throne Thumper by ButtKicker". ButtKicker brand products' patented design makes them musically accurate, powerful and virtually indestructible.
For additional information on The Guitammer Company and detailed product information, visit www.guitammer.com and www.shakemycouch.com. To like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter for company updates, visit www.facebook.com/thebuttkicker and www.twitter.com/thebuttkicker
About Noble Financial Capital Markets
Established in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets Noble Financial is an equity research driven, full-service, investment banking boutique focused on broadcast media and technology, life sciences, defense services and technology and other related media emerging growth companies. The company is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida and has offices in New York, New Jersey, Boston and Los Angeles. In addition to non-deal road shows and sector-specific conferences throughout the year, Noble Financial hosts its large format annual equity conference in January in South Florida featuring 120 - 150 presenting companies from across North America and total attendance of close to 600. For more information, please visit www.noblefcm.com
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The perfect mantra of incredible talent and brilliance, Mark Lash, has flawlessly been able to intertwine his love and passion with his career by creating a stunning jewelry collection.
Mark Lash has been designing jewelry for over 30 years. Based in Toronto, Canada his pieces have garnished the likes of many Hollywood's elite such as: Drake, Bruno Mars, Cee Lo Green, Shakira, Shania Twain, and more. Renowned for his ability to create one of a kind custom pieces as well as redesigning creations, using your own jewels, Mark Lash's determination, keen eye, and personalization is what has caused him to have a successful business throughout the year.
Recently Mark Lash brought his Oscar Collection to Los Angeles in honor of the 86th Academy Awards. "I'm really excited about this collection and being in Los Angeles, says Lash. Jewelry design is my passion and being able to show it off here and possibly have it worn Oscar night has been remarkable."
Lash has been traveling overseas to various countries in order to create this collection which is full of color! Rubies, emeralds, and not to mention his staple: black and white diamonds, are what has further made this collection timeless and versatile.
"My collection is different because most of our products are one of a kind and it is all made in house, says Lash. We also redesign and take things to the next level based on the clients needs and wants."
In addition to creating gorgeous jewels Lash also has a bit of humanitarian within his company and created the design of the 'Hope- Knot' alongside the Women's Brain Health Initiative. The Hope-Knot is a pin, designed by Lash, that assists with creating awareness of brain discarders such as Alzheimer's and dementias. "My inspiration for the Hope-Knot design came from the complexity and interconnectivity of the brain itself. I wanted to show the deterioration of the brain but also keep the strength and beauty of the person intact," says Lash.
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It was a day where all you had to do was "get the ball in the air, and it would go" — the problem with that is you actually have to, you know, hit the ball. That's the one part of the equation the Cubs haven't figured out yet this season. Anyone that follows this team religiously, like I do, knew that scoring runs would be difficult for this group, but yikes. Today's hard to look at numbers? Two runs on three hits, that's it, three hits today for our boys in blue.
With the lack of scoring comes the increased pressure on the pitching to not make a mistake, because one run could be it. Travis Wood pitched just fine today given the howling out wind, but made a few too many mistakes, and took the loss. The Cubs pen was also a little ragged as well, both Wesley Wright, and Brian Schlitter gave up runs to make the final score a little more ugly. Good news friends, it's early, I think that's a good thing.
Game Highlights
Travis Wood's Outing
Castillo's Long Home Run
Castro's RBI Single
Bonifacio Makes a Tough Catch
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text: Unfortunate news following a tremendous rally in Cincinnati. There are some reports surfacing that Kyuji Fujikawa could be headed back to the DL with the same forearm strain that had him on the DL earlier this year. There has been no confirmed reports from the Cubs, and no roster moves, but Fujikawa will be re-evaluated when the Cubs return to Chicago and then the Cubs will go from there. If the Cubs do have to put Fujikawa back on the DL I would expect to see newly signed Eduardo Sanchez get a shot in the Cubs pen as he has had success at this level with the Cardinals, and is already on the 40-man roster. Stay tuned for updates on Fujikawa, hopefully it's a scare and he doesn't need to go back on the DL, but forearm strains are tricky and it looks like he might not have been fulled healed from the first time it cropped up.


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Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime, by Paul Preuss
The Heritage Universe, by Charles Sheffield
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
[Gutenberg project edition]
The Sector General novels, by James White
"...the tentacles of Diagnostician Camuth, the Creppelian octopoid, made impatient, slapping noises against the floor...."
James White
Mind Changer
"Sheena 5," by Stephen Baxter, featured on talkingsquidsinouterspace.com with the kind permission of the author. First published: Analog, May 2000. Collected in
Phase Space, HarperCollins (UK) Aug 2002.
Reprinted in Year's Best SF #6, ed David Hartwell, Harper Eos 2001.
"The Dust," by Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
Interzone no. 129;
The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories, ed David Pringle (Big Engine 2001)
"The Shining Ones," by Arthur C. Clarke. Analog Audio Cassette, 2003.
"The Town on Blighted Sea,"
A.M. Dellamonica. Strange Horizons, 21 August 2006
"The Raptures of the Deep"
Rosaleen Love. Gathering the Bones, ed. Dann, Campbell, & Etchison (HarperCollins 2003); Year's Best Fantasy 4, ed. David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, 2004.
"The Gods Hate Kansas," by Joseph Millard. Startling Stories, 1941, Monarch Books, 1964. Discussed by Bud Webster in F&SF
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne. Tr. Frederick Paul Walter & Walter James Miller. Naval Institute Press. 1993.
[Gutenberg Project edition]
Beast, by Peter Benchley. Ballantine, 1992.
The Moon and the Sun, by Vonda N. McIntyre. Pocket Books, 1997. Nebula award.
[Tentacled excerpt]
Reefsong, by Carol Severance. Del Rey, 1991
The Rifters Series, by Peter Watts. Tor Books.
Sphere, by Michael Crichton. Knopf, 1987; Ballantine, 1997.
That Darn Squid God, by Nick Pollotta and James Clay. Wildside Press, 2004
"Site Fourteen," by Laura Anne Gilman. Revisions, ed. Julie Czerneda & Isaac Szpindel. Daw Books, 2004.
"Neon Sea Dreams," by Rupert Goodwins. Intertext #38, September-October 1997
Sculpture: Genetically modified bears by Theo Kaccoufa
Postage stamps: Celebrations of cephalopods including Mickey Mouse as Captain Nemo facing the giant squid
Milk cartons: Have you seen this squid?
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Disney, 1954.
The Fabulous World
of Jules Verne, directed by Karel Zeman, 1958. Review by Waldrop & Person.
"20,000 Tentacles under the sea - Cephalopods in cinema," by Roland C. Anderson, at The Cephalopod Page
Sphere, Warner Studios, 1998
Galaxy Quest. Universal Studios, 1999.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Paramount, 1958.
"Sure, in their true forms they look like squids (until they die, when they look like runny applesauce)"
— John G. Nettles
[complete review]
Men in Black. Columbia Tristar, 1997
The Algebraist, by Iain M. Banks. Time Warner, 2004. Although the US cover is covered with (five-legged?) cephalopods, there are no talking squids in outer space in the novel.
They Came from beyond Space, based on "The Gods Hate Kansas," by Joseph Millard,
(Whoever They are, They aren't squids anymore)
TED talks: David Gallo: Underwater Astonishments. Some visitors may find the YouTube version more flexible.
In Search of Giant Squid, Newport (OR) Aquarium; Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle
"Monster warning to protect oceans," by Mark Norman, BBC News
Violet the Octopus Opens a Jar
"Squid Skin Reveals Hidden Messages," Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
Heteroteuthis dispar ejects bioluminescent clouds instead of ink, a behavior called "fire shooting."
Not much to look at, but what a personality:
Squid study reveals personality plus
Nature: Encountering Sea Monsters, including Bob Cranston's attempt to communicate with the large and predatory Humboldt squid using strobe lights, an interview with Australian cephalopod researcher Dr. Mark Norman, and cuttlefish wallpaper. The PBS website lets you find rebroadcasts in your area.
"New squid on the (ice) block" — giant squid on display in Melbourne.
Squid Genome Project at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Baby Broad Squid squidcam at The Science Site
Cephalopod database by Dr. James B. Wood & Catriona Day
Sepioteuthis sepioidea, at The Cephalopod Page (TCP), created and maintained by Dr. James B. Wood
Architeuthis dux, the giant squid
Raising giant squid larvae: Steve O'Shea
Mimic Octopus
Blaschka Marine Invertebrates
Walking Octopus video
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Squidmom! "Broody squid keep young in hand" at Nature.com, 14 December 2005. Complete with slideshow and video.
Squid are researcher's "favorite guys," Boston Globe, 7 November 2005.
Scientists Capture Giant Squid in Photos, By Hiroko Tabuchi, Associated Press, 28 September 2005. [Slide Show]
"Suckers for gay trysts, fiery females and rough sex — squid secrets exposed," by Frank Urquhart, scotsman.com, 26 September 2005
"Giant of the deep snapped," Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, 28 September 2005
"Japanese zoologists say they have made the first recording of a live giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world." [continued in complete article — but no photos!]
Washington Post article with photo
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Star Tribune article with photos
The Sun: naked squid pic!
Deep-sea monster caught on tape, MSNBC, 20 December 2001
"Giant squid is something 'fundamentally different,' illustrating how little we know about sea's depths..."
[includes cool video, requires IE etc to play, makes you watch an ad first]
Noodly appendage: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Pulp Octopus!: "Images of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure pulp covers featuring the wily octopus."
The Elder Gods: Cthulhu & H.P. Lovecraft
Tentacled toys! Chthulu lives!
PowerSquid (non-organic tentacular entity)


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Why do your students use emoji?
Do your students use emoji when they post messages on your class discussion boards? Do they sprinkle smileys into their emails? If you've taught a class in the last ten years, you probably answered yes to both questions. So, why do they do it?
Maybe they do it because they are used to miscommunication with their text-based communications. There are entire websites dedicated to documenting text messages gone wrong, misconstrued emails and essay fails. We all have experience reading and writing messages that serve to confuse rather than clarify.
Writing is tough.
Communications experts claim that at a large percentage our of communication is non-verbal, which means that with each written message we send we are only signaling a percentage of our intended ideas. Until someone invents a sarcasm font, people will rely on emoji in an attempt to convey these nonverbal cues that are so vital to effective communication.
At VoiceThread, we don't believe that a smiley face can replace an actual face. Smiley faces can't express tone of voice. They can't gesture the way a human can. They can't control the pace and cadence of the spoken word. Text can't replace you and it can't replace your students either, no matter how many emoji they use. 😉
You don't need to be an expert in paralanguage and kinesics to know that face-to-face communication is more effective than text. Critics of online classes usually point to this as proof that face-to-face classes are a better choice than learning online. The good news is that today we no longer have to choose between "online" classes and "face-to-face" classes. With VoiceThread, you can create an online, face-to-face class and reclaim that missing 80%.


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- Focus on Funds
Few Outperforming Mutual Funds Stay At The Top For Long: Gerstein Fisher
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To quote Justin Timberlake, yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery. It appears this is just as true of love as it is of mutual funds.
That's according to the findings from a new survey from Gerstein Fisher. The firm looked at the performance of 930 domestic equity-focused mutual funds from the Morningstar database with 15 years of performance history, to see whether a fund's past out performance could be used to predict future success.
It may not be a surprise, but the study showed that funds had a difficult time staying on top for long—in fact, three-quarters of top performers fell out of the top quartile within three years.
If, for example, an investor were to have chosen a fund to invest in between 2001 and 2005, it might seem natural to select manager based on three-year trailing performance, and thus buy into one in the top quartile of its category. Yet this appeared to be no guarantee of continuing outperformance in the long term; in fact, just the opposite seemed true. From the report:
No matter what year our investor started considering which fund to choose, however, her average experience from that point forward was far from ideal. Within one year there was, on average, a slightly better than 1-in-3 chance that the three-year trailing returns of those same top-tier funds had already caused them to drop out of the top quartile. One year after that, the odds of those funds remaining in the top quartile averaged just 4-in-10. By the third year, nearly 75% of the funds had tumbled from the top quartile. The probability of a fund maintaining its top-quartile ranking continued to decline until by the seventh year after our investor made her decision, there was less than a 1-in-6 chance that the previously top-performing fund was still ranked in the top quartile in its asset class category.


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Great Barrington Selectmen decide not to renew town manager's contract
Wednesday September 19, 2012
GREAT BARRINGTON -- Following two consecutive failing job performance evaluations, the Board of Selectmen on Monday informed Town Manager Kevin O'Donnell that they have decided not to renew his contract when it expires next April.
Multiple members confirmed on Tuesday that the board arrived at its decision while discussing the matter in executive session last week. But the information didn't come out until this week after O'Donnell met privately with representatives of the board.
Those representatives, board chairman Sean Stanton and vice-chair Deborah Phillips, reportedly gave O'Donnell the option of resigning prior to the vote on his contract, but O'Donnell declined the offer.
O'Donnell said he was disappointed by the board's decision.
"I want to remain town manager," he said Tuesday in an interview following several inquiries regarding his job status from The Eagle.
"I've done my best to integrate myself into the town," he said. "Why would I want to resign?"
Board members said they plan to formally vote on O'Donnell's contract in public during next Monday's Selectmen's meeting.
None of the board members who spoke with The Eagle agreed to speak publicly about their decision because they said they wanted to respect the confidentiality of what was discussed during executive session. But the board has made clear publicly in the past that they it hasn't been thrilled with O'Donnell's performance.
In June, O'Donnell received his second subsequent negative employment evaluation in nine months when he was given only 64 of a maximum 125 points. Those numbers resulted in a rating equivalent to 51.2 percent, which is lower than the 67 percent O'Donnell received on his previous evaluation in September 2011.
The lowest mark on O'Donnell's most recent evaluation was in customer satisfaction where he received 10 of a possible 25 points.
In the anonymous comments included in this year's evaluation,board members stated that O'Donnell groused about the board's decision, feeling the Selectmen were an impediment to his job. Comments also stated that O'Connell disregarded the Selectmen's role, and doesn't follow through on the board's direction.
O'Donnell pledged to improve his relationship with the Selectmen and indicated that he would focus on better communication.
On Tuesday, O'Donnell said that he had followed through on those issues, and lamented that the board hadn't given him more concrete criteria to focus his efforts.
"I thought I was making appropriate, professional adjustments that addressed the board's concerns," he said. "That is what kind of mystifies me."
O'Donnell was hired by the town in 2008. He signed his current contract in 2011 following performance reviews with scores equivalent to 90 and 84 percent. Those scores were submitted by a board with a significantly different makeup than the current one.
O'Donnell said he ís proud of what he has achieved in his years as town manager. He said he managed to get the town's bond rating increased during a severe recession, and reduced borrowing costs by about $60,000 annually.
No matter what happens, O'Donnell said that he plans to continue working through the end of his term, and intends to wrap up the major projects currently facing the town, which include planning for the reconstruction of Main Street, and closing the sale of the old firehouse on Castle Street.
"A town manager's life is precarious at best," he said. "Anyway, I'll try to bring as many issues to a close as possible."
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Scotty Allen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 27 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Presentation Pad
I'm an iPhone/iPad developer working on a presentation application for the iPad called Presentation Pad. The goal is to launch on day one of the iPad application store.
Presentation Pad is intended to be used in situations where you need to give a one-on-one presentation or a presentation to a few people in an informal setting. Think of a salesman talking a client to lunch, and presenting new products between courses. Or a startup founder pitching an idea at a coffee shop. These are the sort of situations that Presentation Pad will excel in.
The Presentation Pad organizes pages in a grid, and allows the user to quickly navigate between adjoining pages in whatever order they choose. The goal is to be able to adapt the pages you're showing to the situation, changing the flow of the presentation it progresses.
Attached is a current screenshot.
This is based on an idea by Seth Godin, the well known internet marketer, presented in this blog post: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_…g-pad.html
The target audience for this application are business people and salesmen/women who make lots of in-person presentations either one-on-one or to small groups. Think travelling salesmen, startup founders, business executives, artists making presentations to clients, etc.
This will compete with/complement applications like Powerpoint and Keynote.
I need a logo design and a matching springboard icon. I need both in a vector and raster format.
The logo should be on the scale of 500px on it's larger side (I'll leave it up to you to decide the aspect ratio).
The springboard icon (which is what shows up on the ipad home screen, similar to an iphone, and which the user uses to launch the application) must be 512px by 512px. It should not have any baked in gloss or rounded corners (those are added by the ipad automatically).
Some thoughts:
1. The logo and icon should convey that this application is fun to use. Something with bright colors would be great. However, it shouldn't feel childlike.
2. At the same time, it needs to be somewhat conservative, given the target audience. It should be something that a salesman in a conservative industry wouldn't be embarrassed to have seen by a prospective client.
Other than that, this is really open ended. Feel free to experiment!
It would be great to see designs that focus on the concept of ideas flowing/exploding/blossoming/floating out of an ipad/presentation. It would be great if your design can focus on the presentation itself, rather than the person giving the presentation.
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Let your inner star shine with this flowing sequence, designed to build physical strength and engage the core and leg muscles. This flow also promotes increased flexibility in the shoulders and hips, helping to give you an extra burst of openness and joy to take on the day.
Stand tall at the front of your mat in Mountain Pose (tadasana), with your palms pressed together in Salutation Seal (anjali mudra), close your eyes and bow your head to your heart. Silently acknowledge your efforts for being on your mat. Begin with three to five Sun Salutations to warm up the entire body. Concentrate on steady ujayii breathing, completing deep inhalations and exhalations through the nose as you move mindfully between poses.
From Downward-Facing Dog Pose (adho mukha svanasana), inhale as you sweep your left leg high to the sky, and as you exhale step your left foot forward between your hands, with your front knee aligned over your heel and your right heel lifted off of the mat.
Inhale and extend your arms overhead into Crescent Pose (anjaneyasana). To go deeper, reach your right hand forward. Another option to explore involves extending the left hand to connect at the back of the right leg as you send the right arm skyward in twisting, reverse anjaneyasana. This pose introduces the challenge of keeping the pelvis stable and the foundation of the feet firm while you twist the spine. Explore reaching your arms away from one another—right arm forward, left arm back—to open through the chest, firming the outer hips in to keep your pelvis squared to the front edge of the mat.
On a rich exhale, spiral the body open to the right side of the mat, opening the arms out to the sides into Warrior II (virabhadrasana II), keeping the shoulders stacked over the hips. Continue to maintain a deep bend in the left knee with the knee tracking over the middle toe as the left thigh draws parallel to the floor. Inhale as you continue to lengthen the arms in opposite directions.
As you exhale, transition to Extended Side Angle Pose (utthita parsvakonasana), placing your left fingertips to the outside of your left foot. You can modify this pose by bringing your forearm on your front thigh and extending your right arm over your right ear, palm facing down with the shoulders relaxed.
On an inhale breath, rise up into Star Pose (tara asana). Extend your arms out to the sides with your palms facing forward and toes turned out, positioning the feet and wrists approximately the same distance apart—adjusting your stance if needed. Root down through your heels and straighten your legs fully (but avoid locking or hyperextend the knees). Continue to ground your feet firmly into the earth, pressing evenly across all four corners of both feet as you spread your fingers wide and reach out strongly through your fingertips. Broaden across your collarbones, look up and smile!
To transition to Wide-legged Standing Forward Bend (prasarita padottanasana), continue to stand with the legs wide, yet turn the toes in slightly. Bring the arms out over the legs with an inhale, clasp the hands behind the back and exhale as you slowly fold forward. In wide-legged standing forward bend, gravity will help you open the hamstrings, hip joints and back muscles. Allow the shoulder blades to firm into the back as the arms open away from the pelvis, keeping the arm bones stable in the shoulder sockets as you extend the arms.
Slowly rise up to your starting position and transition back into Warrior II, this time with the right foot forward as you soften into the right knee, bringing your left hand to your left hip as you prepare to transition into Half Moon Pose (ardha chandrasana). Straighten the right leg and bring the right hand to the floor about 12 inches in front of the right foot with the fingertips touching the floor or a block. With control, lift the left leg directly out from the hip so that it is parallel to the floor. Keep the pelvis in a neutral position, avoiding arching or rounding the lower back. When you feel balanced, lift the left arm toward the ceiling, firming and elongating through both arms.
Slowly rise up and transition back into Warrior II, this time keeping the right leg forward as you repeat the entire sequence while facing the back edge of the mat.


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Looking for Senior PGA golfer Larry Laoretti on a sodden, sullen evening in North Miami Beach, the search ends up on Biscayne Boulevard. Such a melodic, fanciful name, a name evoking images of glorious beaches, gracious homes and grand hotels. A name that suggests the turquoise Atlantic and the golden Florida sun. A name that speaks prosperity and whispers of untold riches. But you won't find Laoretti in any of those places. Not here. Not on this stretch of Biscayne Boulevard. Here, it is just a street, an average avenue of Americana, a venue for fast food and slow traffic. And as the journey nears Larry Laoretti's home for the night, the Sea Shanty Restaurant and the Paradise Motel pass by, slightly blurred by the misty windshield.
Suddenly, a little triangular sign jumps out from behind an overhanging live oak tree. KOA, Kampgrounds of America, in black and red on a white background, a campground spelled with a K. Then, it's a turn past the orange road cone marking a sinister hole, and heading east, toward the Atlantic, you know you won't get there. You are looking for Larry Laoretti, and he doesn't stay on the beach.
Larry Laoretti is the champion of the United States Senior Open. He is a visible, viable, valuable member of the PGA's Senior Tour. He could stay along a glorious beach, in a gracious home or a grand hotel. Instead, he chooses to stay at a campground, campground with a K, thank you very much. This week, the 38 feet of American Eagle motor home that is home away from home is in space 87. A battalion of speed bumps slows the search for the slot, and large women carrying plastic baskets of laundry block the roadway. Finally, approaching from the rear of the Eagle, a slight breeze bears the aroma of Laoretti's cigar and the sound of his triumph. "Aha!" he exclaims. "All right!" The cry is unmistakable. It's Laoretti, and he's winning again.
The champion of the United States Senior Open has just forged another heady victory. This one had nothing to do with the game of golf. The clubs in his hands were accompanied by hearts, spades and diamonds. The game was gin, the opponent his caddie and friend Bob O'Brien, the stakes two bucks, with the loser required to do the dishes, which is the most precious part of the triumph.
Laoretti takes a big puff on his Te-Amo Light and raises a rocks glass of red wine to his lips. "How sweet it is, Bob, how sweet it is."
The wine is Carlo Rossi Pisano Light Chianti. Its bouquet is an amalgam of wild berries and landfill. Its attack is mindful of D Day, its finish that of an exhausted marathon runner. "You know, people give me thirty-five and forty dollar bottles of wine all the time," says Laoretti. "I'd rather drink this. The whole jug is $7.99, thank you very much."
Just how many times Larry Laoretti says "thank you very much" is equivalent to how many times he thinks about where he is and where he has been. A little more than three years prior to this February evening, Laoretti stood on the first tee of the Links at Key Biscayne in the first tournament of the 1990 Senior Tour. He had a new wife, Susan, and a new son, Lonnie. He had $110 to his name and a cigar between his teeth. Always, a cigar between his teeth.
Here was a man who had been a club professional for his entire adult life, who had taught swings, sold shirts and looked for Mrs. Weinstein's missing umbrella from Long Island to Las Vegas, from Westchester County north of New York City to Houston and Jupiter in the South. And not once, until the summer of 1989, had he won anything of consequence until he won both the regular and senior divisions of the Florida PGA championship.
These were victories that said only that he was better than he ever was. They did not foretell that within three years Laoretti would win more than $900,000 in prize money and the Senior Open title at Saucon Valley in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in July 1992. They did not foretell that he would win the curiosity and admiration of the golfing public and a contract with Consolidated Cigar Company that would provide him with cigars for free and pay him to smoke them. Thank you very much.
"Honestly, I thought I could be a better player if I quit my job as a club pro and practiced my game," says Laoretti. "I thought I'd have a chance to qualify for the Senior Tour. Did I think all of this would happen? No way."
Just what has happened is fairly astounding. Once it was common for Laoretti to check the contents of his wallet before deciding the quantity and quality of his cigar purchases. Now, the Senior Tour's traveling annuity carnival for players over the age of 50 assures him of a decent living in exchange for decent playing. His Senior Open victory has provided him with lucrative endorsement contracts with the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association, with the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, with clubmaker Spalding and clothing maker La Mode. He is in demand for corporate and charity outings, with bookings now running several months in advance.
"I've died and gone to heaven a thousand times," says Laoretti. "There's no way I could have imagined this would happen. I thought I could make some money out here. But this? This is pretty damn terrific."
In 1960, Laoretti turned professional, right out of the Navy. Over the course of the next 30 years, eight club jobs and two wives, Laoretti did only one thing to distinguish himself: He played golf with a cigar in his mouth. That made him rare, not unique. Charlie Sifford, the first black man to win a PGA event, had been playing with a cigar in his mouth long before Laoretti smoked his first White Owls while stationed in Guam in 1957. Decades of fighting racism in the insular world of golf have left Sifford a cautionary, often bitter man. The cigar that has been Sifford's trademark is seen by many, however cruelly and unfairly, as a beacon warning those who see it from a distance to keep their distance.
Expediency and hygiene are two reasons that Laoretti chooses to keep the cigar in his mouth while he takes a blistering swing or strokes a three-foot putt. Those take precedence over whatever anyone else might imagine to be almost a physical impossibility, what with smoke rising up from the lit end. Putting the cigar down, hitting, then picking it up again would put a serious crimp in Laoretti's pace of play, which is the fastest on the Senior Tour or possibly any other golf tour. His routine is basically puff, hit, walk, puff.
He also expresses some concern that a cigar laying on the very manicured grass of a golf course could pick up chemical traces from the fertilizers, fungicides and pesticides that are used to keep the grass stunningly green and perfect. When, like Laoretti, you go through two or three cigars a round, laying them down 60 or 70, or god forbid, 75 times a round would be a real hassle and would increase their exposure to the elements--and would definitely slow down your play.
For Laoretti, however, the cigar doesn't have any of the more negative symbols that it conjured up when in Sifford's mouth. Unburdened by such weighty social issues, Laoretti's life has been afflicted only by the more mundane concerns of domestic instability and financial insecurity. "I don't think there's anything I'd do different in my life, except maybe have two less wives," says Laoretti. "Sure, there's lot of little things along the way that I would change if I could, but I don't have any regrets. I don't worry about what's past."
Throughout his life, Laoretti has always wrapped a smile around his cigar and kept at least one hand free for a handshake or a pat on the back. His earthy and robust personality has survived divorce and the vagaries of a pernicious, unforgiving game. And his cigar functions not as a beacon of warning but as a warm fire on a cold night. People are just naturally attracted to him, and he to them.
You can see this, even hear this, in the tournament galleries. In the distance is Laoretti, club in hand, cigar in mouth. A puff, then a swing, then a puff. "Hey, isn't that the guy who plays with a cigar?" asks one gallerygoer of the other. "Larry something, Larry Lawrence, what is it, Low-retti?"
Often you will find a number of cigar smokers in the crowd that is following his group. He gives legitimacy to their love, and not incidentally, he gives them a wink, a handshake, an autograph, a cheap joke. Sometimes he gives them a cigar, a Te-Amo Light with its clear plastic wrapper proclaiming "Larry Laoretti, U.S. Senior Open Golf Champion."
The golf course is both Laoretti's element and his habitat. In fact the golf course may be the last vestiges of habitat for the endangered tobaccus Americanas, or the common American cigar smoker. Laoretti says that not once has his cigar smoking caused him a problem, and his newly won visibility has produced only two letters questioning the advisability of being so public with his passion. To which he replies: "I never smoked a cigarette and I don't inhale my cigars."
And he doesn't smoke around Lonnie, at least not very often.
Lonnie is his three-year-old son. Lonnie provides a focus for his life, as much as his third wife, Susan, provides a steady grip on the matters of family life. It is a family life that Laoretti seeks in the Kampgrounds of America. It is a family life that keeps him out of the glitzy hotels and away from the dandy parties. Well, most of them.
"We just think the motor home is the best thing for Lonnie," says Laoretti. "We have room to bring his toys along with us, he's got room outside to play and other kids to play with. It's not fair to keep a little kid locked up in a hotel room. You're always afraid he going to make noise and make somebody mad in the next room. This is the best way to go. The people in the campgrounds are real nice, down to earth type people. We're comfortable in the camper."
There isn't a shred of pretense to Laoretti. He isn't overwhelmed by fame or addicted to it. He doesn't shy from it, he doesn't seek it out. And while he's comfortable playing with corporate moguls who ante up thousands for the privilege of mis-hitting shots in the same foursome as a champion, he's comfortable with the help. He throws a party for Senior Tour caddies at the end of the year. When he's on Long Island, where he spent most of his career as a club pro, he throws a party for golf course superintendents, or greenskeepers as they once were called. Plenty of lobsters and Carlo Rossi Pisano Light Chianti.
You'll find Carlo Rossi Pisano Light Chianti at his home in Stuart, Florida, in a golf course development called Cobblestone, owned by a man with whom he served in the Navy. Laoretti is the touring professional and director of golf for Cobblestone, and his Senior Open trophy is prominent in the new clubhouse. So is Carlo Rossi Pisano Light Chianti. Not surprisingly, the red wine of his house is also the house red wine. Thank you very much.
Laoretti's home is on the tenth fairway of Cobblestone. The course and its environs are on the fringes of development, set several miles to the west of the Atlantic and only several yards off I-95. Right now, it's an isolated little enclave. "We have to drive five miles just to get a quart of milk," says Laoretti, "and that's why we love it."
Because he lives by the old bromide "a stranger is just a friend I've never met," his circle of friends has been expanding at about the speed of light, certainly faster than he can expand his house and put up new guest quarters. The original guest room also serves as the family office and trophy room. And despite the fact that his Senior Open trophy sits 400 yards away in the clubhouse, there is a decent collection of trophies on the high shelves. Must be 30 or so. Not bad for a mediocre club pro's career, until you realize that most of them are Susan's.
There are Susan's volleyball trophies, softball trophies, sailing trophies, basketball trophies, bowling trophies and three Junior Olympics medals. Her collection would be even larger if several hadn't broken while moving.
One of those moves was to Florida from New Jersey in 1985. Wanting to tune up a discordant golf game, Susan Krulkaski sought the help of the head professional at Indian Creek, a local public course in Jupiter. It was a scruffy little place where the driving range was a pond and golf balls floated. The pro she took lessons from was Larry Laoretti. Susan's heart was the biggest thing Laoretti ever won at the game of golf, the Senior Open notwithstanding.
To Susan's mind, the best thing about Laoretti's success besides solvency is that it allows him to touch so many people. "I knew when I met him that he was an exceptional person," she says. "I knew it, his friends knew it. He's friendly and sincere, he's charismatic. Everywhere we go he's recognized. He's made a hero out of himself to the common man. The best thing about all his success is that everybody knows what an exceptional person he is."
Jeff Siegel is Laoretti's agent, and he is an agent to several other athletes. The one conversation that he's had with every client except Laoretti is the one on how to deal with all kinds of people. "Unless you have a hook you're not marketable," says Siegel. "Larry's hook, first and foremost, is that he's a terrific guy with a terrific personality. He knows naturally how to deal with people. The cigar is his 15th club. It's part of the hook. It's part of his life-style. He takes his golf seriously, but he enjoys life, and the cigar makes a statement about how he enjoys it."
That statement, should it be inscribed in stone, says, "Thank You Very Much."
Jeff Williams is a senior sportswriter for Newsday.


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Neither Morales nor Escobar was a full-time starter in Cuba, but each has excelled in the majors. And Krieger says eyes across the island opened wide when Viciedo signed with the White Sox.
Touted as Cuba's next great shortstop, Viciedo entered the National Series as a 15-year-old in 2005, and hit 14 home runs the next year. From there, Krieger says, his production declined, yet after defecting in 2008 he still signed a four-year, $10-million (all figures U.S.) deal with Chicago.
"Viciedo had a very significant impact on the thinking of Cuban players," he said. "They thought, `If he can get $10 million, then what am I worth?" …
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Newport Beach House
Middletown, RI
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Hawthorne Hotel
Salem, MA
Historic/Landmark Building, Hotel/Resort
Starting from $4,961 to $10,463 for 50 guests
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The Tiffany Ballroom
Norwood, MA
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Starting from $19,988 to $29,543 for 50 guests
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The Lantana
Randolph, MA
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DoubleTree by Hilton Boston North Shore
Danvers, MA
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Il Palio
Shelton, CT
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Raffael's at South Shore Country Club
Hingham, MA
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Cohasset, MA
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Old Chatham, NY
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Dorchester Brewing Company
Boston, MA
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Wrentham, MA
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Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
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Butternut Farm Golf Club
Stow, MA
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Atlantica on Cohasset Harbor
Cohasset, MA
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The Oceanview of Nahant
Nahant, MA
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Granite Links Golf Club
Quincy, MA
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Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
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The Commons 1854
Topsfield, MA
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Boutique and sophisticated, our venue lends itself to the discerning couple. If you are looking for a unique and hidden gem, we hope to have your date available. The stunning grounds are in classic New England Fashion and ideal for your ceremony and wedding party photos. The cocktail hour is hosted...
The Mansion at Bald Hill
Woodstock, CT
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Starting from $3,510 to $6,381 for 50 guests
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Hotel Commonwealth Boston
Boston, MA
Outdoor, Hotel/Resort, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms, Modern
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The Villa
East Bridgewater, MA
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Walpole, MA
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Sharon, MA
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Battery Wharf Hotel, Boston Waterfront
Boston, MA
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Salisbury, MA
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Submission of the OHRC to the Ombudsman's Investigation into the direction provided to police by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services for de-escalating conflict situations
July 2014 - People with mental health disabilities are often among the most vulnerable people in Ontario. Many face a unique set of challenges where they live, in workplaces, or in our communities. When people are in crisis they also present a unique set of challenges to police services when considering the use of force. This leads to many concerns from a human rights perspective. It is not the role of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to comment on individual cases – we leave it to other experts to resolve these. But it is our role to look at common themes and concerns, and offer ways to move forward.


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The parents of a five-month-old boy who died from rickets after they neglected his care because of their religious beliefs were jailed today.
Nkosiyapha Kunene, 36, and his wife Virginia, 32, who admitted the manslaughter of their son Ndingeko, received three years and two years, three months' imprisonment respectively.
Mr Justice Singh at the Old Bailey said: "The secular courts of this country apply the secular law of the land. They do so equally to all who come before them. The law respects the right of everyone to freedom of thought and belief.
"However the right to manifest one's religion is not absolute. It is limited in particular by the rights of others. The state has a particularly important duty to protect the right to life, especially when a young child is concerned."
The couple, of Carlton Road, Erith, Kent, admitted the charge at earlier hearings.
The judge said Ndingeko was born on January 1 2012 and died in June 14 that year.
He was found to have been suffering from rickets resulting from severe Vitamin D deficiency.
The court heard the child was born at Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford.
From birth, he had medical problems, and the judge said it was emphasised on behalf of the couple that the vitamin D deficiency was not diagnosed at that stage, nor was Virginia Kunene given advice about taking supplements.
The mother did not attend a scheduled check up on March 8 and Ndingeko was not seen by a health care professional from then on to the day he died.
From April it was appreciated by the couple that their son was unwell, although his health fluctuated over the next two months.
"It is clear that, because of their own religious beliefs, the defendants did not in fact seek medical assistance."
The judge said that the couple are strict Seventh Day Adventists.
"However their views (in particular Mr Kunene's) appear to be very extreme and do not reflect the official doctrine of that church."
The couple had not refused all medical interventions at all times. The judge said that Nkosiyapha Kunene accepted that he realised when he returned home from work on June 14 that Ndingeko might die and he did not call for medical assistance.
His wife said that on that day she did wish to seek medical attention but her husband said it would be a sin. The judge said he had heard evidence that the hospital played a part in failing properly to advise the couple and prescribe Vitamin D supplements.
"The necessity and use of that supplement (which are suitable for vegans and all the more important as Mrs Kunene is of African origin) was never explained to either of the defendants."
The judge said the husband's culpability was higher than that of his wife, which he reflected in the sentence.
He said a "serious case review" had been taking place and was due to report shortly. It was to be hoped that all necessary inquiries will have been made by various authorities to establish that everything was done to protect the boy's life that could reasonably have been done, he said.


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Tasting Tour: Portland, Oregon: 5 of the Most Interesting Street Vendors
This post is part of our Tasting Tour series, which is brought to you by Continental Airlines.
Street food can just mean hot dogs or shawarma in many cities, but in Portland, Oregon, sidewalk chefs are reinventing this formerly humble food genre as we speak (or eat, as the case may be). Name a food and it's probably being hawked from a cart, truck, trailer, or even bike. While other cities have onerous laws preventing vendors from securing a permit and setting up at a specific location on a regular basis, Portland is all about the street food culture. There are "pods" all over the city, essentially food courts in parking lots and other open spaces, just devoted to street food. Many of them stay there for regular hours, just like restaurants, so you don't have to chase them around the city.
While I've experienced plenty of delicious fine dining in Portland (like Le Pigeon) I can't help but get excited about the bustling street food scene. There are far too many to pick from, but here are five that really caught my eye. The food is inspired, cheap, and just fun. Obviously there are many more worth noting—chime in with your favorites.
1. Tabor
Where and when: SW 5th Street Stark Street. Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Website: schnitzelwich.com
This bohemian-looking bright red cart with green trim sells Czech comfort food like goulash, dumplings, and chicken paprikash, but as the sign makes clear, this is the Home of the Original Schnitzelwich. Breaded pork is sandwiched between a ciabatta roll with lettuce, horseradish, and mayo. People don't usually come back from Prague raving about the food—at least the Czech food. It's a lot of meat and fried cheese (not that I'm opposed to either of those two), but this could change your mind. Also czech out (sorry, had to do it) the daily specials, like spinach spaetzle with sausage, kraut, herbs, and sour cream.
2. Bloop
Where and when: SW 3rd and Washington (Sonny Bowl cart) on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Twitter: @bloopoatmeal
"A whole cart devoted to oatmeal. Finally, oatmeal gets the attention it deserves!" Our oatmeal (and street food) correspondent Erin Zimmer is especially obsessed with this concept. "I'm not sure what the technical definition of bloop is, but it seems like the appropriate name for this." The oats are cooked in almond milk (so the oatmeal is actually vegan) and mixed with toppings that go way beyond the dehydrated fruit flecks in the just-add-hot-water pouches. Peanut Butter Banana Dreams includes the obvious two ingredients, in addition to an agave drizzle and cinnamon mix. Wouldn't a day just be better if it started with this?
3. Big A** Sandwiches
Where and when: SW 3rd and Ash Street. Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and late night hours on Friday and Saturday.
Twitter: @bigasssandwich
Anytime you pair "big ass" and "sandwiches" (er, excuse me, a**—this is a kid-friendly site), you've got our attention. If you don't like your sandwiches huge and bursting with innards, don't come here. This cart is the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Brian and Lisa Wood—Brian comes from a Seattle restaurant background, and Lisa from the music biz. But they switched gears when they realized they were onto something big: french fries in sandwiches. Maybe they didn't invent the beautiful marriage of carb-on-carb, but not enough places do it, right?
The sandwiches are piled with homemade fries (hashbrowns in the case of the Big-A** Breakfast Sandwich) along with home-roasted meats, homemade bechamel sauce, all on a locally baked ciabatta roll from Fleur De Lis Bakery. And if you're doubly hungry, the Gutbomb comes with twice as much meat and cheese.
4. The Frying Scotsman
Where and when: The trailer is parked in the garage of an established gallery and frame shop in the industrial area of NW Portland on 22nd and Raleigh called Katayama Framing. Look for him on Monday through Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., sometimes later on Saturdays.
Twitter: @frying_scotsmn
James King was a chef for over two decades in the UK before he started this chippy-on-wheels business in Portland. "I have always dreamed of opening my own chippy. I don't know if it would have been possible in Scotland," he says. King makes his own batter (from a recipe handed down from his Scottish mum), hand-peels and cuts the chips (he'll easily go through 70 pounds of chips per four-hour lunch shift) and even makes his own tartar sauce and British coleslaw. What to wash it down with? Tetley tea, but of course. "You can't find really good British fish and chips in Portland for around $7. I hear this day in and day out, mostly from British ex-pats" says King, who is thankfully changing that.
5. Wy'east Pizza
Where and when: 3131 SE 50th Avenue (SE Tibbets/Kelly, parking lot of Ruthie's Weaving Studio). Tuesday through Saturday, 4 to 8 p.m.
Website: wyeastpizza.com
Pizza on its own might not sound that interesting, but from a camper? C'mon! Those are some pretty good digs* for a pizza oven. Husband-and-wife owners "Squish and Red" only make 22 balls of dough a night, so you have to get here early. Slice's Adam Kuban was lucky enough to snag the last dough ball when he went last November. He had this to say:
* Note: this is one of many street food campers in Portland. It seems to be the mobile kitchen of choice among the young DIY street food set in the City of Roses. While campers aren't that difficult to find, converting them to a working kitchen takes time and meticulous planning.
I was surprised to find it was more a larger, sort of thin-crust New York-style rather than a small Neapolitan-style pie. That surprise was mostly for the fact that the oven in the trailer is REALLY small. In fact, it can only do one pie at a time, which is a factor in some of the hold-up you might experience if you've got people in line in front of you.
All dough is made by hand in the Wy'east camper. The preferment starts the night before and goes 12 hours, then the final dough is mixed and ferments for another six, for a total of 18 hours.
I know, five is not a big enough number when we're talking Portland street food. Please chime in with your other favorites.
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