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Poe has been so often accused of quackery in his display of learning that it seems only fair to record some instances of his peculiar knowledge in a field where one would little expect to find him expert — bibliography.
In the course of preparation of my edition of Poe's works I have slowly worked on the identification of books referred to by him in one connection or another, and particularly I have been interested in the volumes read by the stricken hero of "The Fall of the House of Usher." There is a long series of them — and they have been left by most of Poe's editors either without comment, or with the barest details of author and date of publication. The assumption that these volumes were named merely for the sake of their strange names has been tacitly implied or openly held by all who have hitherto shown any interest in the topic. And the obvious invention, for the plot's sake, of the strange Mad Trist of Sir Launcelot Canynge has lent a certain apparent reasonableness to this view.
But the peculiar care with which Poe prepared his stories — among which "The Fall of the House of Usher" is pre-eminent for elaboration and perfection of detail — seemed to argue that here, of all places, Poe would not have violated his own dictum against the introduction into the perfect tale of any irrelevant or purposeless word. And an examination of the books referred to has amply justified my belief in the conscious use of every book, dear to Usher's heart, to give us a greater insight into the neurasthenic's character.
Roderick Usher is portrayed, it will be remembered, as cultured, overbred, sensitive, learned in strange learning, and as a believer in many strange doctrines and ideas — a lover of many things which the [page 4:] world has agreed to pass by as valueless, but in which he found a satisfaction, perhaps akin to another satisfaction of which Poe has spoken as arising from a consciousness of solitary possession, as when one finds himself in some wild, where, even wrongly, he believes no other human foot has trod. Such a man would be a bibliophile — and so the poet portrayed him — but he would be a lover of rare books not merely for their rarity, but also for their unusual contents. Usher of course is partly a portrait of Poe himself — although modified greatly to conform to the conventional type of "hypochondriack" or melancholy man, as conceived by the medical writers of the early nineteenth century; and also to have certain qualities of an identical twin. And Poe was himself as much a bibliophile as his dreadfully limited purse ever allowed him to be, as his one or two pitiful notes on "old magazines in his own possession" in the "Marginalia" make plain.
To make clear my comments, let me quote the passage on Usher's library from the story, and then comment briefly on the books — which all have a certain appeal to the collector and student for their own sake. The text is that of Tales (1845).
Our books — the books which, for years, had formed no small portion of the mental existence of the invalid — were, as might be supposed, in strict keeping with this character of phantasm. We pored together over such works as the Ververt et Chartreuse of Gresset; the Belphegor of Machiavelli; the Heaven and Hell of Swedenborg; the Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm by Holberg; the Chiromancy of Robert Flud, of Jean D'Indagine, and of De la Chambre; the journey into the Blue Distance of Tieck; and the City of the Sun of Campanella. One favorite volume was a small octavo edition of the Directorium Inquisitorium, by the Dominican Eymeric de Gironne; and there were passages in Pomponius Mela, about the old African Satyrs and Aegipans, over which Usher would sit dreaming for hours. His chief delight, however, was found in the perusal of an exceedingly rare and curious book in quarto Gothic — the manual of a forgotten church — the Vigiliae Mortuorum secundum Chorum Ecclesiae Maguntinae.
The significance of Gresset's poems is not immediately apparent. A translation by "Father Prout" (Francis Mahony) of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's poem "Vert-vert, the Parrot," was published in Fraser's Magazine for September, 1834, and Poe must have seen in L'Erudition Universelle (1767), Book II, chapter vi, section 17, Bielfeld's mention of Gresset's Ververt and La Chartreuse. Bielfeld said these were a special kind of composition, between heroic and burlesque poetry, and having something of the moral, satirical, serious, mocking, and nobly comic. Ververt is a convent parrot who talks ignorantly but sometimes meaningfully of holy things. He visits the waterfront, learns to swear, and is exiled, but, being heartbroken, is taken home again, forgiven, and dies in the arms of the abbess. His poem made the Jesuits expel Gresset, but many readers find it a pious allegory of frail mankind [page 5:] with mystical implications. La Chartreuse lacks mystical qualities and Poe had probably not seen it, nor, I suspect, had Bielfeld.
The Belphegor is a novella by Niccolo Machiavelli written about 1515. The protagonist, a fallen archangel, comes to earth to investigate the complaints of many souls that their wives are to blame for their damnation. He comes to Florence as Roderigo, well supplied with money, and marries the beautiful Onesta Donati, She and her family mistreat and fleece him so that he must run away from his creditors. He proceeds to "possess" three ladies in succession, and finally, hearing that his wife is coming after him, he returns to Hell. The demoniac possession is what fascinated Roderick Usher. La Fontaine retold this story as Belfegor. (Reference to "the Selenography of Brewster" was removed after the second printing of Poe's tale, perhaps because no such volume had been published, but in the manuscript notes Poe made in preparation for writing "Hans Phaall," he mentioned "Brewster's Selenography" as if it was something to be looked up. Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish physicist, was at various times editor of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, editor of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, and toward the end of his life, principal of Edinburgh University.)
Emanuel Swedenborg's great work Heaven and Hell (1758) deals with visions and mystical experiences.
The Iter Subterraneum (the "Voyage Underground") by Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), founder of modern Danish literature, tells of a country inside the earth where the people are trees who walk and talk. Poe presumably found a reference in Bielfeld, Book II, chapter vi, section 45, for in the earliest version of his story he refers to "Nicholas Klimm de Holberg" as if it were a personal name.
The works on chiromancy (palmistry) are mentioned by Bielfeld, Book II, chapter xvii, section 10, in a single sentence. They are: Tractatus de Geomantia, by Robert Fludd, M.D., 1687; Discours sur les Principes de la Chiromancie, by Marin Cureau de La Chambre, 1653 (English translation, 1658); Introductiones Apotelesmatici . . . in Chironucntiam, by Joannes ab Indagine of Steinheim, 1522 (English translation, 1598). As the title indicates, the first is primarily concerned with geomancy, a method of divination by means of marking the earth with a pointed stick. It is most unlikely that Poe ever saw any of these books, but he obviously knew that these methods of fortune-telling are based on a belief in a mysterious relation between the stars, the configuration of the palms, and so forth; that is, between microcosm and macrocosm.
"Das alte Buch and die Reise ins Blaue hinein," a novella by Johann [page 6:] Ludwig Tieck, is a satirical story within a story. First published in 1834 in the annual Urania (Leipzig) for 1835, it recounts the adventures of a medieval noble who marries Gloriana, the Faerie Queene. She reigns in a paradise inside a mountain, where dwell the souls of great poets — Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare. Ugly gnomes have taken over authors like E. T. A. Hoffman and Victor Hugo, but an emissary of Gloriana has embraced the young Goethe. (This note is by courtesy of my pupil Heidrun Smoka) A brief mention of "the tale by Tieck, which opens the Urania of this year" appeared in "A Glance at the German Annuals" in Blackwood's for February 1835 (37:388), and further mentions — with the title translated — in a review of Tieck's Life of a Poet in Blackwood's for September 1837. Poe refers to "A journey into the Blue Distance" in "Marginalia," number 78 (Democratic Review, December 1844).
The Civitas Solis (1623) by the Italian poet and philosopher Tommaso Campanella, is mentioned by Bielfeld, Book II, chapter vi, section 45. It recounts a visit to the people who inhabit a Utopia in the Sun. Campanella held that the world and all its parts have a spiritual nature.
Nicholas Eymeric of Gironne, who became Inquisitor of Aragon in 1356, wrote instructions to priests examining heretics and gave a list of forbidden books such as Usher wished to consult. The first edition of the Directorium was printed in 1503.
The passages in Pomponius Mela, the Latin geographer of the first century A.D., are marvelously appropriate to Usher's moods — and I believe they were known to Poe (who quotes Mela, III, i, in "The Island of the Fay") in the original Latin, which is so sounding and grand that I quote it in full, with a translation, from De Situ Orbis, I, viii, and III, ix.
Satyris praeter effigiem, nihil humani. Aegipanum, quae celebrantur, ea forma est.
Campi, quam ut perspici possunt, Panum Satyrorumque. Hinc opinio causae fidem cepit, quad, cum in his nihil culti sit, nullae habitantium sedes, nulla vestigia, solitudo in diem vasta, et silentium vastius, nocte crebri ignes micant, et veluti castra late jacentia ostenduntur, crepant cymbala et tympana, audiunturque tibiae, sonantes majus humanis.
(The African tribe called Satyrs have nothing of man save the form. The appearance of the Aegipans is that of the mythological creatures they are named for.
(As far as one can see stretch the fields of the Pans and Satyrs. The reason for belief in them is that, although there is no sign of human care among them, no houses of inhabitants, no paths — solitude immeasurable by day, and a greater silence — yet by night many fires blaze, and as it were indicate widely scattered encampments, drums and cymbals are sounded, and there are heard flutes, soundine music more than human.) [page 7:]
Most curious of all the books is the Vigiliae. The title was apparently recorded by no bibliographer, and it was assumed that Poe had made it up on the analogy of similar things known to bibliographers. But the fact that so many of the books on the list were real, coupled with a very similar title for Cologne (Copinger 6225) led me to get in touch with the German Commission preparing the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. They informed me that while they had found no earlier bibliographical descriptions of them, no less than three different editions (represented by five copies in the State Libraries of Darmstadt and Wolfenbiittel, and the Town Library at Mainz) were now recorded of the book apparently referred to by Poe — the Mainz services for the dead. Dr. Adolf Schmidt kindly furnished me with descriptions of the two items most like Poe's — printed probably at Basel around 1500 in quarto and with Gothic type! While the title reads VIGILIAE MORTUORUM MAIORES &c MINORES SECUNDUM CHORUM ECCLESIAE MAGUNTINENSIS, the text begins "Vigiliae Mortuorum secundum chorum ecclesiae Maguntinae" as Poe writes. Both volumes are printed in black and red, with music and text, and consist of 52 leaves. Their makeup and pagination differ, however. How did Poe learn of the book? I cannot say. Perhaps through a bookseller's catalogue — or even a collector, though I doubt any American owned a copy in that day. But, however it was, Poe described an incunable correctly, seventy years before the Gesamtkatalog — and he is among the bibliographers, as Saul is among the prophets.
The following notes accompanies the article:
Editor's Note: Professor Mabbott's manuscript draft of this previously unpublished essay, originally written in 1926 or 1927, is now a part of the Mabbott-Poe Collection in The University of Iowa Libraries. Through the courtesy of the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, it has been expanded to incorporate additional material which will appear in the forthcoming Mabbott edition of The Tales in The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
THOMAS OLLIVE MABBOTT began his teaching career at Northwestern University, continued it at Hunter College for thirty-odd years, and was visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, California, Duke and St. John's. He collected Greek and Roman coins and fifteenth-century block prints, he edited works by William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and Walt Whitman, he was co-editor of a volume in the great Columbia edition of Milton, but he is probably best known as the outstanding Poe scholar of his time.
Books at Iowa is published twice a year by the Friends of The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
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For Ocean's Eleven, and I guess, Ocean's Thirteen, the formula worked...
Let's get George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Clooney kind of looks like Cary Grant and he's not that big yet (this was 2001, after all), and we feel that Pitt can do more than just look good for a fly fisherman. Then, we'll get Matt Damon, who's a rising star and hasn't done a lot since winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1998. Then,we'll sign Julia Roberts and, even though she's a $20 million/film actress, we'll get her to take less money... because, this is for Frank, and she should respect that. (Although Frank would have always taken the money.) Then we'll get Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck's brother, James Caan's son, and Andy Garcia... just in time to resurrect Andy's career. We'll get Monica Geller's dad and Carl Reiner, because every movie is made better by old actors that you kind of know but never knew well enough to remember their names (i.e. 'Monica Geller's dad') and can spin as 'legends of cinema.' (You know, like Peter Boyle in Everybody Loves Raymond and Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine).
Throughout the series -- assuming this becomes a series because Jerry Weintraub is producing it -- we'll get Catherine Zeta-Jones, Al Pacino, and Ellen Barkin (another aging 'legend') and we'll throw them into the mix.
In cinema, this is the formula for a successful film -- providing, of course, that people dig the film. Ocean's Eleven is possibly the best stacked cast film of all-time, considering that it spawned two sequels that weren't as good as the first yet still continued to make tons of money. And, it was enjoyable.
Too often, high-budget films with casts that read like an IMDB Top 200 forget to be the one thing that movies have to be -- enjoyable. That's why nobody went to see How Do You Know. It's why Woody Allen couldn't nail the box office until Midnight in Paris this past year.
Sometimes, you need to go back to basics. In hockey -- in the NHL -- the epidemic is contagious.
Mike Richards is Exhibit A. Still a fantastic player, Richards was traded in June to Los Angeles from Philadelphia in the offseason, losing his captaincy and filing into ranks in an already well-thought-out roster. In a lineup that already included captain Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar, Simon Gagne, and defencemen Drew Doughty and Jack Johnson, Richards was just another face in an assembled list of stars. His violently physical antics were tolerated in Philadelphia because he was the captain, the face of the franchise, and the 21st-century's Bobby Clarke.
In L.A., meh.
Richards lost his identity along with his "C" and he's become someone else's shadow.
The book's not closed on Los Angeles, but things will need to turn around quickly for them to make a run at the Cup. Their 1-0 loss to Calgary on Saturday was a microcosm for how their season has unfolded. A lot of pressure and a lot of time in the offensive zone, with Richards and Kopitar swarming the net like bees above a child's summer birthday party.
L.A. has also become ground zero for the Ocean's Eleven parallel universe, because the Kings and Rangers have been nailed as the two frontrunners to grab The Columbus Blue Jacket's captain Rick Nash before March's trade deadline. (Although, you heard it here first, he won't be traded.) If you bring in Rick Nash, the Kings become more terrifying than they already are... on paper. Like Marian Hossa's exodus to Pittsburgh in 2008, it makes L.A. a moveable feast.
But, like Hossa, Nash's numbers will slump as much like Richards's have. If the gamble pays off, then voila! But, wouldn't they have as good of a chance to win with somebody who could contribute the same amount of points? Rather, assists?
The Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins made the final last year with that ever-trending buzzword -- "depth." The Detroit Red Wings have done it time and time again, as well, and Chicago won in 2010 with a similar top-to-bottom presence. That said, it wasn't a Mike Richards or a Rick Nash winning those games.
For Boston, it was Rich Peverley, Brad Marchand, Michael Ryder, and Mark Recchi. Their only star player was Patrice Bergeron -- a great threat, but not somebody you'd think of in the same breath as Nash.
The Pittsburgh Penguins won with Max Talbot, Tyler Kennedy, Chris Kunitz, Miro Satan, and Ruslan Fedotenko.
How about the Chicago Blackhawks? Dustin Byfuglien (before he was an All-Star defenceman), Andrew Ladd, David Bolland, and Troy Brouwer... and Hossa.
Nobody's going to say that the Pens were better without Hossa, but it must have been easier to not have to pass the puck to the same three guys all the time. Kennedy, Talbot, Satan, and Fedotenko could do their thing, and the Pittsburgh Penguins jelled with the roster they had.
It could have happened with Hossa, and it didn't. It did happen for Marian in Chicago, but there was no formula to the madness.
Assembled casts don't always work. The Rangers have figured that out, after years of trying to buy every big name free agent in the NHL. Now, after developing their talent from within, and by signing a couple chosen ones in Brad Richards and Marian Gaborik, the Rangers have been the best team in the NHL this season.
Hockey is not a game that bends to the will of individuals, and that's what makes the Stanley Cup the hardest trophy to win in sports. Hockey doesn't bend. Hockey doesn't break. Hockey makes you follow the rules and lets you know that you won't be able to pull a cookie from the jar before dinner.
Sure, you might end up with Ocean's Eleven. But, you could also end up with Ocean's Twelve.
*This article was originally posted on White Cover Magazine.


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Atheist Group Forced to Remove Hateful Billboards Calling God 'Sadistic' and 'Useless Savior'
Atheist Group Forced to Remove Hateful Billboards Calling God 'Sadistic' and 'Useless Savior'
Questions have been raised over an atheist group that claimed they were forced to take down religious billboards after receiving a large number "threats" regarding the signs' content.
The signs were placed by the American Atheists group, and brought into question both presidential candidates' religious beliefs. President Obama's Christian beliefs were reference by statements that said God was "sadistic" and Jesus was a "useless savior." The signs also accused Christianity of "promoting hate."
Mormonism was defined as a religion in which "God is a space alien" and beliefs include "big money,big bigotry."
The group removed the sign this week after reports of a "number of threats" were made via phone and email.
"It is with regret that we tell our members and all of those who treasure free speech and the separation of religion and government that American Atheists and Adams Outdoor Advertising have mutually agreed to remove the billboards immediately," Amanda Knief, American Atheists' managing director, said in a statement last week.
"We are saddened that by choosing to express our rights as atheists through questioning the religious beliefs of the men who want to be our president that our fellow citizens have responded with vitriol, threats and hate speech against our staff, volunteers and Adams Outdoor Advertising," she added.
But the group has come under the scrutiny of many, who charge them with hypocrisy, stating that the original billboards were "hateful."
"The only hate I see is what is coming from the billboards," Angie Batey said on The Christian Post blog. "Sad irony."
"I have learned to tune out much of the anti-Christian rhetoric that you see in the media today," Greg Teegarden added. "But I must admit, to call Jesus a useless Savior is about the most offensive thing I have heard."
Even atheists who responded to the article also suggested that the billboards were offensive and should have been removed for that reason.
"I am an atheist, but these billboards are in just plain bad taste," Vlad wrote on a CNN blog. "This is not even funny. I'm not sure what this atheist organization is trying to achieve by ridiculing other people[s] beliefs. I wish they take these down, apologize and seriously rethink their media activities."


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Call me crazy, but this is the time Pat Burrell will shine.
Burrell — who is 0-for-13 with five walks and five strikeouts in the World Series — likely will stride to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning in tonight's game five. He could return in the bottom of the ninth. In one of those plate appearances, he's going to come through.
We've seen a lot of storylines close as the postseason has progressed. We've seen Chase Utley prove clutch with a couple home runs and solid defense. We've seen Cole Hamels mature into a top-flight, elite pitcher. We've seen Ryan Howard come through huge in some big spots. Supporting players Matt Stairs, Eric Bruntlett and Joe Blanton have shone, while Shane Victorino, Jamie Moyer and Ryan Madson have realized their potentials and dreams.
But Burrell remains a chapter short. Sure his home run during game four in Milwaukee secured that series, but this is his stage. This is potentially his final game as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, and his last as a Phillie at home. The longtime Phillie always seems to stash away a big moment, waiting for the perfect time.
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As TV gets better, so do the Emmys
Once upon a time, not that long ago, the Emmy awards were consistently infuriating, with a bias toward network TV shows and a refusal to acknowledge the existence of a series as good as "The Wire." But those crazy-making, wildly unhip days are gone: The Emmys, which announced nominations Thursday (listed below), no longer have terrible taste.
Instead of blood-boiling snubs and head-scratching selections, there are lots of reasonable determinations -- out go John Cryer and "Boardwalk Empire"; in come Jason Bateman and "House of Cards" -- and polite differences of opinion. If I had to pick a stubborn blonde for the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama category, I would have gone with Hayden "I can really sing" Panettiere in Nashville instead of Emilia "dead eyes" Clarke in "Game of Thrones," but I'm not feeling murderous about it. The new, totally reasonable Emmys are a side effect of television's ever-growing bounty: With so many good options, it is harder for anyone -- even a once-reflexively conservative voting body -- to make flat-out wrong choices. As TV gets better, so does its award show.
The Emmys may not have the taste of a deep TV nerd-aesthete -- Tatiana Maslany of "BBC America's Orphan Black" really was robbed -- but this is a body that gave a Best Comedy nomination to FX's "Louie," recognized Adam Driver's work in "Girls," and gave zilch to TV's biggest series "The Walking Dead," whose grotesque zombies were not even nominated in the effects category. Not everything makes sense in Emmyland: The voters snubbed "Mad Men" in the writing and directing categories, overlooked "New Girl's" Schmidt one year after anointing him, inexplicably nominated Scott Bakula instead of Rob Lowe and his stunning plastic surgery face for "Behind the Candelabra," recognized "Homeland's" lackluster Morena Baccarin over "Parenthood's" tear-jerking Monica Potter, and has not broken up with "Downton Abbey" despite that series' thing for haphazardly killing off nice characters it can not keep under contract. But the Emmys' choices are those of a recognizably dedicated and serious TV watcher: someone who really loves "Veep," despised the Kalinda husband plot on "The Good Wife," appreciates "Top of the Lake" and Mandy Patinkin and Louie C.K., adores Connie Britton in perpetuity, knows "Scandal" is buzzy, and has yet to get around to watching "Parenthood" or "The Americans" (but probably intends to). The Emmys are a person you could talk TV with at a dinner party.
Going into the nominations, one of the major questions was how successful Netflix would be. Kate Mara, "House of Cards' " very own amoral Slugline employee, was supposed to announce the nominees with "Breaking Bad's" Aaron Paul, but portentously couldn't make it because her plane got stuck in New Mexico. Netflix ended up doing well -- "better than any broadband network ever," as the press release nonsensically put it; there has never been another one -- but not as well as it might have hoped. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright Penn, David Fincher and "House of Cards" were nominated, but other than Jason Bateman, "Arrested Development" did not get much love. If Netflix didn't destroy the competition, it probably single-handedly kept FX's new and superior "The Americans" from getting any nominations -- except for Margo Martindale in a Best Guest Actress slot -- and did better in the Best Drama category than all of the major networks TV combined. ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox got shut out.
TV's so good these days that previously irrelevant categories now overflow with people you've heard of in parts you might even remember. The guest actor categories are brimming with great performances: Martindale, "The Good Wife's" Nathan Lane and Carrie Preston (who plays TV's best space cadet, Elsbeth Tascioni), and maybe my two favorite nominations of the whole awards, Melissa Leo for not-quite raping "Louie" and "Scandal's" Dan Bucatinsky.
Meanwhile, the miniseries and movie category, which just three years ago looked like it should be retired -- 2009 and 2010 both saw just two nominees -- is now beyond robust, including Sundance's "Top of the Lake," FX's "American Horror Story" and HBO's "Behind the Candelabra." Emmy still adores movie stars, and it's in the miniseries acting categories that it shows: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jessica Lange and Sigourney Weaver are all nominated here. But if the Emmys do as solid a job picking winners as they did nominees, Elisabeth Moss will win for "Top of the Lake," all these sparkly movie stars will add glamour to the big night, and the Emmys will continue transforming itself into an awards show that can't just be scoffed at.


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Obama Visits Red Cross As Campaign Gears Back Up
The president is overseeing storm relief efforts, but campaigning abounds.
Oct. 30, 2012 -- President Barack Obama continues to spend his time overseeing the recovery from Hurricane Sandy as the presidential campaign begins to kick back into gear.
On Tuesday he conducted a conference call with 20 mayors and governors from affected states to coordinate response efforts and paid a visit to Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C. to visit with staff and deliver remarks.
The president said, that like everyone else, he was "shocked by the force of mother nature" but praised coordination between federal, state, and local officials. He also cautioned that the recovery would be difficult and "is going to take some time."
"This storm is not yet over," he said. "The most important message I have for them is that America is with you. We are standing behind you and we are going to do everything we can to help you get back on your feet."
He said his message to the federal government has been: "No bureaucracy, no red tape. Get resources where they need to go."
The White House announced immediately following Obama's visit that he would travel Wednesday to New Jersey and would accompany GOP Gov. Chris Christie to view storm damage and speak with storm victims and first responders.
Christie's praise of Obama Tuesday has been noted as a rare sign of bipartisanship with just one week left in the increasingly close presidential race.
"We have a great partnership with them," Christie said on ABC's "Good Morning America" of his dealings with the White House.
But Christie said that his words shouldn't be interpreted with a political bent.
"I have a job to do," he said on Fox News Tuesday morning. "I've got 2.4 million people out of power, I've got devastation on the shore, I've got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don't know me."
It's unclear when the president will get back on the campaign trail himself, considering that Sandy left 33 dead in the U.S., around 8 million households without power and resulted in massive flooding in several states.
On Wednesday, Republican nominee Mitt Romney's campaign converted an Ohio rally into an impromptu effort to collect storm-relief supplies. Running mate Paul Ryan conducted a similar event in his some state of Wisconsin.
But with fewer and fewer days left to campaign, Romney will get back on the trail full time on Wednesday with three stops in the toss-up state of Florida. Ryan will headline three events in Wisconsin.
For Obama, campaign efforts have been humming along in his absence. Former President Bill Clinton hit the trail for Obama in Minnesota and Colorado Tuesday and Vice President Joe Biden will get back on the trail with two stops in Florida on Wednesday. The vice president also did two interviews with Univision Radio on Tuesday.


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In late 2010, the two Farro brothers of Tennessee pop-rock band Paramore bitterly and angrily quit the band, leaving behind singer Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York and bassist Jeremy Davis. The world was left wondering whether the band would continue on, especially since Williams and Josh Farro co-wrote the band's songs.
But with the band's new album "Paramore," it is apparent that York is perhaps an even better songwriting partner for Williams, the firecracker-haired frontwoman. The expansive, 17-song album shows maturity, ambition and sophistication -- while keeping the band's inherent sense of fun and adventure intact.
The album showcases lyricism focused on a journey from a near-death experience: "There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it," Williams sings in the lead single "Now." With dynamic variation and guitars blazing, this is Paramore's finest (64-minute) hour.


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The ultraviolent manga series Fist Of The North Star is rightfully no stranger to videogame adaptation. It centers around Kenshiro, the 64th successor to a fictional branch of martial arts that can heal physical and psychological wounds, but is usually harnessed for its capability to explode mohawk-sporting henchmen into a taffy-like mess. Remember the Story Of Ricky head-exploding sequence that used to be shown on The Daily Show? Fist Of The North Star is much, much gorier. But if Ken's Rage is any indication, maybe after 24 years, it's time to hang up the blood-soaked towel.
The entire game takes a cue from Kenshiro's smug battle cry, "You are already dead." Fights lack tension and drag on from the very beginning. That ailment is only intensified by uninspired, seamlessly recycled corridors that make it all too easy to get lost… which in turn is made more frustrating by Kenshiro's clunky running. By definition, brawlers become repetitive sooner or later, but Ken's Rage opts for the former. RPG elements emerge between levels: You can exchange the blue orbs your defeated enemies leave behind for enhanced abilities or new attacks, but those fail to inject an iota of strategy into the battles. We get it: Kenshiro is unstoppable. And just as the gods test Kratos by making him move boxes to progress in a level, Kenshiro's enemies impede his progress by not expecting him to punch holes in walls, or to destroy a dozen statues that somehow function as a switch for a door elsewhere in the city.
Ironically, Ken's Rage is most stomachable in the unlockable Dream mode, wherein a number of characters embark on the polarizing, exceedingly familiar Dynasty Warriors-style one-vs.-one-thousand battle sequences. Each character has a loose story explaining why they're fighting hundreds of troops, and allowing the Ken's Rage formula room to breathe, with wider expanses and bigger clumps of enemies to wallop, feels better than being boxed in and taking on 10 or so guys at a time in the main game mode. Some of the other characters, like the crossbow-wielding Mamiya, offer their own subtly different monotonous takes on the action, but you'll still just be mashing one button over and over, then finishing with another. No matter who's onscreen, Ken's Rage is clunky, lacks variety, and on the whole feels incredibly dated.


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Each of his eight calamari legs are in a different vibrant colour for visual interest and 5 of them contain the crinkly crackly magic that sounds when touched. All the legs end in a knot great for chewing and teething on but one which features a captains hook in yellow satin! In addition to this he holds 2 further activities including an orange Perspex ball containing 4 colourful balls that rattle together when played with and 2 teething rings that clank together.
Play doesn't stop there. On his underside he has a round mirror with a diameter of approx. 7cm. Turn the calamari upside down and he will be supported by his relatively flat head with mirror up for baby to gaze into. Alternatively, as this toy has a built in link it can be hung above baby such as from a gym. This provides fantastic visual stimulation for baby due to the array of colours from the calamari's 'tentacles' beautifully surrounding the mirror and also the fascination for baby of looking at themselves in the mirror. Research has shown that baby's preferred view is a human face even if it is their own!
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What to Eat After Yoga
Yoga Class Getting You Home Late? 4 Ideas For Quick, Healthy Dinners
For 9-to-5ers, taking a yoga class after work can result in eating a late dinner. If you're eating closer to bedtime, then cut back on heavy meat and dairy to help ease digestion, and prep meals in advance to make the process of cooking a quick one. With some advice from a few Ayurveda and nutrition experts, here are four ideas for quick and healthy suppers to make after yoga.
Homemade Soup
A homemade soup is often as easy as throwing ingredients together into a pot. Cook broth in advance to always have the makings of a soup ready to go, but if you're crunched for time, then use a low-sodium, store-bought version. This recipe for ginger-carrot soup is high in vitamin A, vitamin C, and manganese, which aids in digestion, plus it offers hydration after a sweaty yoga session!
Veggie-Packed Wraps
Replacing a meat-heavy sandwich with a lighter veggie wrap can be easier on the digestive system to help prevent you from feeling weighed down after yoga. These vegan spiral wraps from Happy Healthy Life offer vibrant color, creamy hummus, and serious veggie power.
Sautéed Greens
A big bowl of greens is filling, nutrient-rich, and not time-consuming to prepare; this Indian-spiced chard takes less than 30 minutes to cook, and the tofu offers plenty of that much-needed protein.
Chickpea Quiche
Cook up a crustless Mexican chickpea quiche spiced with cumin, onion, and peppers ahead of time, and cut yourself a slice as soon as you get home. This recipe only get better after a day or two, so your dinner won't feel like leftovers.


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Last week Schneider Electric announced that it made a $5B offer to acquire Invensys, an energy management and controls software company, which is known for its widely used Wonderware software. If successful, the Invensys portfolio adds to an already large portfolio of Schneider's demand-side, energy management related software and systems.
The proposed deal comes after a series of recent energy management software-related acquisitions including the following:
- 2013: SCL Elements, wireless building solutions
- 2012: M&C Energy Group, procurement and sustainability specialist
- 2011: Lee Technologies, data center products
- 2011: Summit Energy, utility bill management, energy management software and procurement, purchased for $268M
From what we hear, Schneider Electric is doing an excellent job integrating these acquisitions - retaining key management, developing a broader Schneider marketing story and cross-selling to the newly acquired customers.
While large major rivals such as ABB, Emerson, General Electric, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Rockwell, and Siemens have also completed software acquisitions, none can keep up with the pace set by Schneider Electric. Schneider clearly sees a massive market for selling products and services for Enterprise Smart Grid and is picking up key assets in the industry to establish a competitive advantage.
We think Schneider's acquisitions are well thought-out.
While large customers will continue to have lots of options, over time they will seek broader and more integrated solutions. Customers don't simply want more point hardware and software solutions; the days of customer lock-in with proprietary hardware and closed software are over. Schneider sees this and wants to develop a wide yet integrated portfolio of products to create more selling opportunities within each customer's organization.
If Summit Energy is the example, expect rapid and effective integration for Invensys.
Manufacturers of physical products have historically had a difficult time expanding into the software, but Schneider appears to be an exception. Schneider rapidly moved to get Summit employees excited about the new combined opportunity and committed to investing a lot more money into software, which pleased everyone. Schneider's field selling organization penetrated Summit's accounts to deliver the message that the story was bigger and better. We expect the same with Invensys.
What does this mean for companies buying Enterprise Smart Grid solutions?
It means that Schneider Electric has strengthened its leadership position. Look also for more acquisitions in general over the next 12 months as large companies pick up the remaining unique, independent vendors in the market (we have our internal list of smaller, innovative firms that we expect will be acquired at some point).


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Summary Report for:
13-2021.01 - Assessors
Appraise real and personal property to determine its fair value. May assess taxes in accordance with prescribed schedules.
Sample of reported job titles: Appraiser, Assessor, Commercial Appraiser, County Assessor, Deputy Assessor, Field Appraiser, Personal Property Appraiser, Real Property Appraiser, Residential Appraiser, Tax Assessor
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Inspect new construction and major improvements to existing structures to determine values.
- Determine taxability and value of properties, using methods such as field inspection, structural measurement, calculation, sales analysis, market trend studies, and income and expense analysis.
- Prepare and maintain current data on each parcel assessed, including maps of boundaries, inventories of land and structures, property characteristics, and any applicable exemptions.
- Explain assessed values to property owners and defend appealed assessments at public hearings.
- Identify the ownership of each piece of taxable property.
- Inspect properties, considering factors such as market value, location, and building or replacement costs to determine appraisal value.
- Complete and maintain assessment rolls that show the assessed values and status of all property in a municipality.
- Review information about transfers of property to ensure its accuracy, checking basic information on buyers, sellers, and sales prices and making corrections as necessary.
- Write and submit appraisal and tax reports for public record.
- Explain real and personal property taxes to property owners.
- Conduct regular reviews of property within jurisdictions to determine changes in property due to construction or demolition.
- Issue notices of assessments and taxes.
- Establish uniform and equitable systems for assessing all classes and kinds of property.
- Maintain familiarity with aspects of local real estate markets.
- Calculate tax bills for properties by multiplying assessed values by jurisdiction tax rates.
- Approve applications for property tax exemptions or deductions.
- Serve on assessment review boards.
- Supervise staff members.
- Analyze trends in sales prices, construction costs, and rents, to assess property values or determine the accuracy of assessments.
- Assist in the training of new staff.
- Provide sales analyses to be used for equalization of school aid.
- Hire staff members.
Technology Skills
- Analytical or scientific software — a la mode WinTOTAL; Computer assisted mass appraisal CAMA software; Manatron ProVal Plus; Wilson's Computer Applications RealEasy Appraisals (see all 11 examples)
- Calendar and scheduling software — Govern Software Land and Permits Management System
- Data base user interface and query software — GCS Property Assessment and Tax Billing; Microsoft Access ; Visual PAMSPro; Yardi software (see all 14 examples)
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Financial analysis software — Howard and Friends Computer CMA Plus; RealData Comparative Lease Analysis; Realty Tools Toolkit for Market Share; REI Wise Commercial (see all 8 examples)
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Bradford ClickFORMS; Wilson's Computer Applications RealEasy Photos Plus
- Information retrieval or search software — Online title search and property report software
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Map creation software — Apex IV Assessor; Emerald Data Deed-Chek; Greenbrier Graphics Deed Plotter; Informatik MapDraw Deed Mapper (see all 7 examples)
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Tax preparation software — Manatron MVP Tax
- Word processing software — Concierge Systems Report Concierge; Microsoft Word ; ValueTech Report Builder
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Desktop computers
- Electronic charts or maps or atlases — Appraisal, mapping, and comparison data reporting systems; Electronic maps; Mapping or location-based analysis systems; Real estate mapping and property description systems (see all 7 examples)
- Laser measuring systems — Handheld distance meters; Laser measuring devices; Ultrasonic distance measurers
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers — Personal digital assistants PDA
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Work Activities
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Detailed Work Activities
- Appraise property values.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
- Interpret financial information for others.
- Examine financial records.
- Calculate data to inform organizational operations.
- Verify application data to determine program eligibility.
- Prepare financial documents.
- Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
- Verify accuracy of records.
- Advise real estate clients.
- Evaluate condition of properties.
- Explain financial information to customers.
- Explain regulations, policies, or procedures.
- Develop business or financial information systems.
- Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
- Analyze market conditions or trends.
- Supervise employees.
- Train personnel on proper operational procedures.
- Train personnel to enhance job skills.
- Update professional knowledge.
- Analyze business or financial data.
- Administer personnel recruitment or hiring activities.
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Work Context
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 90% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 75% responded "Every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 80% responded "Extremely important."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 53% responded "Extremely important."
- Contact With Others — 26% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 71% responded "Every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 42% responded "Some freedom."
- Electronic Mail — 34% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 55% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 55% responded "Extremely important."
- Spend Time Sitting — 47% responded "More than half the time."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 53% responded "Important results."
- In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 34% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 40% responded "Extremely important."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 44% responded "Some freedom."
- Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 32% responded "Every day."
- Physical Proximity — 76% responded "Slightly close (e.g., shared office)."
- Letters and Memos — 39% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 53% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 26% responded "Extremely important."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
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- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
Work Values
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
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Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Property Appraisers and Assessors.
Employment data for Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate.
Industry data for Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate.
|Median wages (2019)
|$27.41 hourly, $57,010 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|80,100 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Faster than average (7% to 10%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
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Corsa Files Fiscal 2012 Financial Results
Feb 12, 2013, 08:00 ET
TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2013 /CNW/ - Corsa Coal Corp. (TSXV: CSO) ("Corsa" or the "Company") announces that it has filed its Audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012 on SEDAR and has posted these documents to its website www.corsacoal.com.
Fiscal 2012 highlights included:
- Metallurgical coal sales of 332,000 clean tons at an average realized price of $148 per ton
- An updated technical review on the Acosta Deep Project and on the Keyser Project as well as its surface mines and projects (full details were published in the January 21, 2013 press release)
- The Casselman Mine updated technical report.
- Production at the Casselman Mine ramped up in the third and fourth quarters as mining conditions improved and a second continuous mining unit commenced
- The Company completed the purchase of the Keyser low volatile metallurgical coal project
- Completed a $22 million private placement of common shares
- Refinanced the $25 million bridge loan
Refer to the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis filed for the details of the financial performance of the Company and the matters referred to in this release including the technical reports and independent qualified person.
Production and Sales
The Company sold 332,000 tons of metallurgical coal at an average realized price of $148 per ton in 2012, (252,000 tons at an average realized price of $167 per ton in 2011).
Production of metallurgical coal from the Company's operations was 372,000 raw tons in 2012, of which 228,000 tons was from the Casselman Mine and 144,000 tons was from surface mines. In 2011, the Casselman Mine produced 37,000 raw tons and the surface mines produced 164,000 tons. The increase in production at the Casselman Mine resulted from the Mine being operational for the full year in 2012 compared with five months in 2011 and a significant improvement in mining conditions.
The Company purchases raw metallurgical coal from third parties for blending and processing at the Preparation Plant. In 2012, the Company purchased 211,000 raw tons of metallurgical coal (238,000 raw tons in 2011). The requirement for purchased coal decreased in 2012 as production from the Company's mines was greater in 2012 than 2011. The Company also purchased 8,000 clean tons of metallurgical coal in 2012.
The Preparation Plant processed 579,000 raw tons of metallurgical coal in 2012 compared with 365,000 raw tons in 2011 and produced 339,000 clean tons in 2012 compared with 226,000 tons in 2011. The increase in production resulted from a full year of operations in 2012 compared with six months in 2011. The Preparation Plant was under construction in early 2011 and began operating in June 2011.
Production of thermal coal from surface mines was 112,000 tons in 2012 compared with 169,000 tons in 2011. The Company sold 122,000 tons of thermal coal at an average realized price of $35 per ton in 2012 compared to 142,000 tons at an average realized price of $39 per ton in 2011.
As a result of global economic conditions and demand for steel, the metallurgical coal industry has experienced a slowdown that began in the fall of 2011 and has continued resulting in declining prices. While this weakness in the market has continued into the first quarter of 2013, the Company believes there are signs there may be a modest recovery in the demand and price for metallurgical coal over the course of 2013.
While the metallurgical coal market, as expected, continued to be weak into 2013, the Company has continued to be successful in achieving sales as a result of the quality of its low volatile metallurgical coal product. In addition to meeting its Q4 guidance, as at December 31, 2012 the Company had sales contracts and purchase orders for 170,000 tons of metallurgical coal for 2013 of which approximately 25,000 tons have been shipped. The Company continues to actively market its high quality low volatile metallurgical coal and is in discussions with domestic and international buyers. Currently, the Company is shipping coal and continues to match production to actual sales and does not have unnecessary inventories of unsold coal. While the Company remains optimistic that further sales will be achieved, it only reports future sales based on currently contracted volumes. For these reasons, the Company is not in a position to provide full production, sales and cost guidance for 2013 beyond the sales it has currently under contract until sales levels can be more accurately forecast.
Information about Corsa
Corsa's main operating subsidiary is Wilson Creek Energy LLC based in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Its primary business is the mining, processing and selling of metallurgical coal, as well as actively exploring, acquiring and developing resource properties consistent with its coal business.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information set forth in this press release contains "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" under applicable securities laws. Except for statements of historical fact, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements which include management's assessment of future plans and operations and are based on current internal expectations, estimates, projections, assumptions and beliefs, which may prove to be incorrect. Some of the forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "estimates", "expects" "anticipates", "believes", "projects", "plans", "outlook", "capacity" and similar expressions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: risks that the actual production or sales for the 2013 fiscal year will be less than projected production or sales for these periods; risks that the prices for coal sales will be less than projected or expected; liabilities inherent in coal mine development and production including restarting idled mines; geological, mining and processing technical problems; inability to obtain required mine licenses, mine permits and regulatory approvals or renewals required in connection with the mining and processing of coal; risks that the Company's coal preparation plant will not operate at production capacity during the relevant period, unexpected changes in coal quality and specification; variations in the coal mine or coal preparation plant recovery rates; dependence on third party coal transportation systems; competition for, among other things, capital, acquisitions of reserves, undeveloped lands and skilled personnel; incorrect assessments of the value of acquisitions; changes in commodity prices and exchange rates; changes in the regulations with respect to the use, mining and processing of coal; changes in regulations on refuse disposal; the effects of competition and pricing pressures in the coal market; the oversupply of, or lack of demand for, coal; inability of management to secure coal sales or third party purchase contracts; currency and interest rate fluctuations; various events which could disrupt operations and/or the transportation of coal products, including labour stoppages and severe weather conditions; the demand for and availability of rail, port and other transportation services; the ability to purchase third party coal for processing and delivery under purchase agreements; and management's ability to anticipate and manage the foregoing factors and risks. The forward-looking statements and information contained in this press release are based on certain assumptions regarding, among other things, future prices for coal; future currency and exchange rates; the Company's ability to generate sufficient cash flow from operations and access capital markets to meet its future obligations; the regulatory framework representing royalties, taxes and environmental matters where the Company conducts business; coal production levels; and the Company's ability to retain qualified staff and equipment in a cost-efficient manner to meet its demand. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any of the forward-looking statements contained in this press release unless required by law. The statements as to the Company's capacity to produce coal are no assurance that it will achieve these levels of production or that it will be able to achieve these sales levels.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE: Corsa Coal Corp.
For further information:
Corsa Coal Corp.:
Don Charter,
President and Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
Paul Caldwell
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
[email protected]


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NEW YORK -- Yankee Stadium is notoriously tough on opposing teams, but when it comes to the Blue Jays, the venue has turned into a scene ripped from the pages of a Hollywood horror script.
Toronto's woes in the Bronx continued on Tuesday as the club lost both games of a doubleheader in heartbreaking fashion. The first game was tough enough after blowing an early four-run lead, but the night affair was arguably even more difficult to take.
Left-hander Darren Oliver surrendered a walk-off single to Jayson Nix in the bottom of the ninth inning while the Blue Jays' offense continued to struggle in a 3-2 loss to the Yankees.
"I tip my hat to our guys, they're battling, they're hanging in every game, but we're just not winning them," said manager John Gibbons, whose team is now 26-34 in games decided by two runs or less.
"That's the way it goes. Sometimes you're not good enough. Any particular night, we're right there. We just can't put that extra run across and it's come back to haunt us."
The Blue Jays have now lost eight consecutive games to the Yankees and 11 straight at Yankee Stadium. They've also now lost 20 of their past 22 games on the road to New York and 22 of their last 26 since the start of the 2011 season.
The writing was on the wall late Tuesday night when Oliver appeared to pitch around leadoff hitter Mark Reynolds in the ninth inning. The veteran reliever walked Reynolds on four consecutive pitches and potentially overly cautious of the 16 home runs New York's infielder has this season.
New York opted to pinch-run Ichiro Suzuki, who was then bunted over to second before stealing third. That put Oliver in a dangerous situation, and three pitches later, the game was over as Nix came through with a solid single to left for the first walk-off hit of his career.
"It makes my job a lot easier," Nix said of the Ichiro stolen base. "I really wasn't trying to change my thinking too much once he did. Obviously I know I've just got to hit a fly ball, but with the infield in, I was just trying to get a good pitch to hit over the middle and not trying to do too much. It makes my job a lot easier when he takes that bag. It's huge."
Blue Jays left-hander Mark Buehrle deserved a better fate and had yet another solid start as he continues to be the most consistent member of Toronto's starting staff. He allowed one run in the third on an RBI single by Robinson Cano and then retired the next 12 batters.
That streak carried Buehrle into the seventh inning, but with a lack of run support, all it took was one pitch to undo his outing. Buehrle served up a first-pitch cutter that Nix lifted high into the air and over the wall in left field for his third home run of the season.
Buehrle then surrendered a double to the left-field corner off the bat of Austin Romine. Buehrle was charged with the two runs on six hits and one walk while striking out five over 6 2/3 innings. The southpaw has now allowed three runs or less in all but one of his past seven starts while posting a 2.63 ERA over that same span.
"One too many bad pitches, I guess," said Buehrle, who lowered his ERA to 4.23. "I threw some good pitches the whole game and a couple of mistakes I had, they didn't make me pay for it -- except for that one.
"Obviously the situation, if it was early in the game and I had given it up in a tied situation, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. But knowing it's that late in the game and it's a battle back and forth, it's tougher to take."
Just like in Game 1 of Tuesday's doubleheader, the Blue Jays struck first. This time it was in the first inning, when Rajai Davis singled, stole second and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch by Yankees right-hander Phil Hughes.
Toronto added another run in the fifth when Munenori Kawasaki tripled and then scored on Davis' sacrifice fly. That was all the offense the Blue Jays could generate off Hughes, who was charged with the two runs on seven hits and two walks over six-plus frames.
The lack of runs resulted in a small margin for error, and one that came back to bite the Blue Jays in the ninth inning. Toronto dropped to 12-20 since the All-Star break and are nowhere close to where the club thought it would be at this point of the season.
"It's frustrating anytime you don't win," Buehrle said. "That's why I said it in Spring Training. I wasn't trying to downplay it, but all the hype and stuff, I dealt with it last year and that's why you have to go out and play these games, and that's kind of why I was saying it then."