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July 05. 2013 8:48PM
Ghost dog finally makes it home
By BENJAMIN C. KLEIN
Union Leader Correspondent
— After five years of roaming the streets and woodlands, a lost dog, nicknamed the ghost dog, has been reunited with its Allenstown family.
For five years, the so-called ghost dog lived off scraps and survived blizzards, sometimes being seen with icicles hanging off its face in cold weather. For years residents and the local police assumed the ghost dog was merely a dog let out by its owner, but after nearly hitting it with her car, a concerned resident called the Granite State Dog Recovery, who then captured the ghost dog and discovered its origins.
"We were shocked to find that she has a microchip, and that her name is Sadie. She was a Katrina dog who lost her family and home in the hurricane, and soon after she was adopted by a family in Allenstown. Five years ago she ran away, dragging her leash," said Holly Mokrzecki, founder and vice-president of the GSDR.
Mokrzecki said the family adopted Sadie from the Greater Nashua Humane Society five years ago as a birthday present for one of their children. Sadie escaped only five hours after being adopted, leaving from a park about three miles away from where she was found last week.
Mokrzecki said Sadie's family, who declined to be interviewed for this article, were happy to have her back.
"They said that when they adopted her they agreed to be her forever home, and even though five years have passed, that still remains true," Mokrzecki said.
Sadie, a golden retriever corgi mix, is now eight and quickly went from skittish to loving after being caught.
"When she was in the wild, she was in survival mode. She was very skittish, and bolted the second you moved towards here. But once we caught her, she was the greatest dog you can imagine. She gave us the sweetest thank you ever, like she knew she was saved," Mokrzecki said.
Susan Piche, a volunteer for GSDR, said she spent hours tracking down Sadie's owner after scanning her microchip with the Dog Recovery's scanner. With some of the information not up to date, Piche said she had to play Internet sleuth to find Sadie's family.
"This is my second sort-of job, but we are all volunteers, and there is nothing better than watching a lost dog reunited with its family," Piche said.
Lt. Paul Paquette of the Allenstown Police Department said that the department has been aware of Sadie for years, and that they have tried to catch her many times, but couldn't get close enough.
"It just kept running away, and it looked fairly healthy so I figured someone just let it out," Paquette said.
While Sadie's fur was dirty, matted and had to be shaved off, she was relatively healthy despite spending the last five years scrounging for scraps and handouts.
"In fact, if anything, she was obese from all the junk food she was eating," Mokrzecki said.
The Granite State Dog Recovery has about 25 volunteers who in 2013 alone have reunited 623 lost dogs with their families.
"It takes up a lot of time, but it is very rewarding" Mokrzecki said.
Granite State Dog Recovery has a website at granitestatedogrecovery.com a Facebook.com page, and a hotline, 1-855-639-LOST (5678), where anyone can report a lost dog.


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Strengthening old ties to break new ground
Through this, the club members plan to gather different species of endemic plants to promote plant genetic diversity. The facility will also benefit Life Science and Environmental Science students in the college.
The event was graced by Dasho Paljor Jigme Dorji, the Special Advisor to National Environment Commission (NEC) and Netra Binod Sharma, the WWF Co-Manager of Wangchuck Centennial Park in Bumthang. The event was attended over 300 students and 50 faculty members of the College.
A student founded and managed College level nature conservation and advocacy movement in Eastern Bhutan, The Singye Karm Club was started in 1989 by WWF Bhutan and the Royal Society for Protection of Nature.
Over the years, WWF Bhutan has also mobilized expertise to start an Environmental Studies module under the erstwhile Delhi University's BA course at the College. The College also bagged the prestigious 'J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize of Wildlife Fund' in April 1995.
Singye Karm has also featured as one of the most frequent nominees for the 2014 Jigme Singye Wangchuck Outstanding Environmental Stewardship Award.
The silver jubilee celebration has paved way for enhanced future cooperation between Sherubtse College and WWF Bhutan Program to innovatively engage at empowering students in citizen science and policy
WWF Bhutan is keen on creating appropriate platforms to engage tertiary level institutions in public discourses and develop a critical mass of reflective, internalizing and proactive students to voice growing environmental concerns.

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Dear List,
It's my first post here so be gentle...
I've just finished a CD entitled 'Le Grand Tour d'Angkor' and it's an
interactive panoramic tour of the Temples of Angkor here in Cambodia.
Pictures are by myself and words by <www.heritagewatch.org>
Currently, the panoramas (120 +) are all in QuickTime which I believe is not
supported on the XO machine.
Over the last year or so the 'flash' player has been able to support both
cubic (so you can see the ceiling and your shoes laces) and more recently
cylindrical panoramas.
My goal is to migrate from QuickTime to Flash for version 2 of the CD.
This will take a considerable amount of time but would like to ask what is
the latest (highest) version of the flash player that the XO will handle?
It's a technical issue for me.
Anyone with any experience of running panoramas on the the XO?
I would like to offer this content to the OLPC project (particularly for the
Cambodian contingent) and would be glad to offer the hosting.
... And while I'm here, how would I initiate an exchange program for OPLC
participants (of mixed media) where each class room writes a few stories
about their local river? A simple comparison between a class/group in one
country and another?
Everyone's got a local river and I'm happy to host this too. Infact, that's
the whole point of Mouth to Source.
I would like to encourage all of us (and provide the publishing mechanism)
to be guardians of our environment and to use water (rivers and canals) as
the metaphor, simply travelling the globe (and each and every river on it)
upstream and downstream.
Take a peek at http://www.mouthtosource.net/waterlog if you have a mo.
You can travel over 2,000 kms of The Mekong from Vietnam to close to the
border with China (requires QuickTime).
Only another 2,400 kms to go!
Best regards and thanks to all meantime, Paul
P.s. This is all self funded so there are no adverts and there is no
corporate involvement. It's a project I believe in 150%.
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Name: Jasper
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Location: NC
My partner and I had not had sex for 5 months until yesterday. I have a large penis and normally have to be very gentle after we have gone awhile without sex. Yesterday she was very loose and had no problem with my insertion. Is this a good sign that she has been having sex with someone else over the last 5 months??
Jasper, Jasper, Jasper! Do you honestly think that the only way a woman can exercise and stretch her pussy is with a cock? Darlin', what you don't know about woman and sex is a lot!
So I gotta ask, why aren't you humpin' your partner with slightly more regularity than every 5 months? Is it you? Is there something about the way you bone her that makes it ok for her to go without your member for such a long period of time?
Maybe, just maybe, she tired of waiting for you to dole out the fuck. Maybe, she needs a bit more then the miserly amount of nookie you're willing or able to provide. Maybe she's takin' care of business on her own. Maybe, she's discovered the joys of self-pleasuring. Maybe she's got a stash of manly-sized dildos that you know noting about, and she puts them to good use on a regular basis. Maybe she's doin' this because you're not takin' care of business at home, like ya oughta.
Listen bub, in the long 5 months that you've gone without partnered sex, did you squeeze off a few? Did you choke the chicken? Did you wrestle with the one-eyed monster? Did you wank your willie? I'll bet you did. And I'll bet you did with some regularity. You may have even slipped your baloney pony in someone else's honey pot. Ya know, when long periods of sexual drought occur in a relationship; partners tend to discover how to fend for themselves. Am I right, or am I right?
So let's just say that your old lady is out there gettin' plugged by some unfamiliar johnson, and a big one at that. What of it? You certainly ain't doin' your part to keep her parts happy and fulfilled, are you?
Maybe, just maybe, you need to make amends to your long-suffering wife and look to pleasing her more frequently, before you let your imagination run away with you. In other words, find out what she likes and how she likes it; and let her have it just that way.
Good luck
Hey dr dick! What's that toll-free podcast voicemail telephone number? Why, it's: (866) 422-5680. DON'T BE SHY, LET IT FLY!


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Refashioned tropical blouse!
Added Feb 12, 2012
by olystyrene
Sydney, Australia
OK ok so I know I went a little posting crazy last night… but I just really wanted to share this final project. Only because it's a little different from the others…
The story begins at the op shop (I know, I know, you're probably sick of this setting by now, sorry!). A vibrant print caught my eye and it turned out to be a brightly patterned cotton XL sized singlet (what a mouthful!). I saw the potential straight away!
The 'before' image gives you an idea about the general shape of the original garment – nothing too fancy, really. No darts or special features other than french seamed armholes and neckline. The armholes were quite worn, however and had begun to fray. I considered my options and decided on a simple design – I wanted a bodice with a bit of shape, including a peplum and interesting little cap sleeves.
To begin with, I removed the decorative armhole finishes. I then tried on the 'raw' garment and marked roughly where I wanted the waistline. I cut the top all the way across at this point. Then I inserted front darts. I cut the back of the blouse in order to insert a zipper (since this was going to be a fitted top, I could no longer just slip it on and off ofver my head). I gathered the peplum scetion very slightly to give it a small amount of puff between the darts and the side seams and then again in roughly the same place at the back.
Next came the measurement of the bust and waist sections and correct sewing of the side seams. The armholes also got a bit of a chop to achieve a better shape. Once the side seams were finished, I sewed on the peplum (including waistline stay, as the fabric is quite lightweight and likely to stretch with time) and inserted the zipper at the back.
Finally, I ironed flat the leftover bits of fabric that were cut off when redoing the side seams. I then cut them into ellipses with pointy ends. I finished one edge with visible turquoise seam binding. Then sewed the ellipses to the armholes to make a nice cap sleeve. Then each armhole was further finished with seam binding to neaten things up.
I really love the colours on this blouse – when planning an outfit, I get to choose accessories that are virtually any colour, it's awesome! The design also turned out to be fairly versatile – it's an easy blouse to dress up or down :)
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Feb 15, 2012, 06.21 PMby domestic-divaonline
Sometimes our best creations come from restyling!
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Feb 20, 2012, 11.53 PMby olystyrene
Oh I agree wholeheartedly! And it can be so much fun to work within the constraints of a pre-made garment; it's great to have to force yourself to think about how best to re-fit and re-model!
Feb 15, 2012, 06.20 PMby domestic-divaonline
Sometimes our best creations come from restyling!
Feb 14, 2012, 04.28 AMby joolz & joolz
Looks great on you!
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Feb 20, 2012, 11.52 PMby olystyrene
Thank you!
Feb 13, 2012, 02.26 AMby nessys
Wow you did a fab job with this! Such a lovely end result – and the pattern matching along the back is perfect!
It looks wonderful on you Honey! x
PS I will NEVER tire of the "op shop" setting for your wonderful creations first "spark". Beats the heck out of boring old Spotlight! ;) xxxx
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Feb 20, 2012, 11.51 PMby olystyrene
Thanks, Nessy!!! It just goes to show that the op-shop can so easily be the backbone to so many creative projects. I haven't stepped foot in a Spotlight for a loooong time now…
Feb 13, 2012, 01.38 AMby poppykettle
This looks smashing! I love the super vibrant colours and they suit you to a tee. Gorgeous!
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Feb 20, 2012, 11.50 PMby olystyrene
Thank you, poppykettle! Those colours grabbed my attention straight away.. like a crow to silver.. :)
Feb 12, 2012, 06.25 PMby nadinesa
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Feb 12, 2012, 10.40 PMby olystyrene
Feb 12, 2012, 05.29 PMby Vanessa Velasquez
wow, thas was not an up-cycle project……. that was magic!!!!
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Feb 12, 2012, 10.40 PMby olystyrene
You are too kind!
Feb 12, 2012, 04.00 PMby adriprints
Awesome up-cycle! Nice job with the peplum!
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Feb 12, 2012, 10.41 PMby olystyrene
Thank you!
Feb 12, 2012, 12.10 PMby Jodi Wade
The binding is the perfect touch!
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Feb 12, 2012, 10.42 PMby olystyrene
Thanks! I'm just happy I got to use that turquoise bias binding somewhere where it would be seen!
Feb 12, 2012, 04.49 AMby stefanisarah
Beautiful! And it's nice to read a very detailed step-by-step too!
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Feb 12, 2012, 10.45 PMby olystyrene
Thank you! I thought it was worth sharing the process as a rough 'how to'.
Feb 12, 2012, 04.26 AMby zosews
Beautiful refashion! The print, peplum and binding are fabulous. Your accessories are perfect too!
1 Reply
Feb 12, 2012, 10.45 PMby olystyrene
Thank you so much! I love any excuse to wear blue accessories :)
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About a dozen longtime Georgetown residents spent Saturday morning sweeping up East Market Street, less than 24 hours before Hurricane Sandy finished washing it down.
About a dozen longtime Georgetown residents spent Saturday morning sweeping up East Market Street, less than 24 hours before Hurricane Sandy finished washing it down.
The downtown clean-up effort was the first public event for
Georgetown Arts & Flowers, a new civic group dedicated to raising community pride and promoting the arts in town.
"We planned this event weeks before anyone knew the hurricane was coming," co-founder Joy Sikora said as group members swept the sidewalks and curbing. "Actually, it should help with the storm because now all this dirt and trash that we're picking up won't end up in the storm drains."
The sweep up on East Market Street was organized to coincide with Make A Difference Day, a nationwide community service effort held every October since 1992.
"We thought this would be a good way to introduce ourselves to the community and hopefully people will see that we really care about our town and are working together to make a difference," Sikora said. "We'd really like to have this thing grow legs and add more members who also want to increase the viability of the town and make it a better place to live."
Georgetown Arts & Flowers is a direct result of the Blueprint Communities initiative, a 4-year-old, wide-ranging partnership between member communities, FHLBank Pittsburh and the University of Delaware's Center for Community Research and Service.
The initiative, which Georgetown joined a year ago, is designed to train community leaders, as well as provide access to a network of public and private resources, loans and grants for businesses and affordable housing projects.
Sikora was a member of Georgetown Blueprint Communities leadership team and Georgetown Arts and Flowers sprang out of a focus group she attended with fellow longtime resident Battle Robinson.
"I think we all thought that this is a lovely town that needs some sprucing up and we we're all interested in doing it," said Robinson, who joined Saturday's clean-up with her 4-year-old grandson Graham. "We decided to keep the conversation going and form a group that would be able to put our talk into action. Hopefully, it will catch on and more people will participate."
Several people working in and passing through Georgetown on Saturday morning certainly noticed the group's clean-up effort.
"I think it's great that these people have the sense of civic responsibility to help out and clean up the town," said Roger Reed of the accounting firm Jefferson, Urian, Doane & Sterner on North Bedford Street. "I feel kind of lazy not helping out."
Debbie Marker, a waitress at the Georgetown Family Restaurant on East Market Street, was equally impressed.
"I think it's wonderful what they're doing," she said. "The sidewalks definitely needed to be cleaned up and it's great that they took it upon themselves to do it."
Sikora said the group's future plans include raising funds and awareness of their efforts by raffling a Longaberger basket full of Georgetown-related goodies at Return Day on Nov. 8.
In the spring, the group is planning to sponsor a downtown children's art contest, while also replenishing the large concrete planters located throughout Georgetown's downtown.
"A recent study released by Americans for the Arts shows that having a thriving art community can have a tremendous positive impact on a town's economy because it makes people want to come and visit," Sikora said. "We're just a small group right now, but our goal is to become the core of a much larger effort to improve our town."


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Gold Medal Sire Status Awarded to Four Members of the Select Sires Lineup
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, September 10, 2012 - Holstein Association USA has named 7HO8559 Macomber O-Man BOGART (GM), 7HO9545 Siemers Toys HERO 9701-ET (EX-92-GM), 7HO10052 Klassic Big TIME-ET (GM) and 7HO10072 Brigeen RUSSELL (VG-86-GM) Gold Medal Sires in recognition of their officially tested and classified daughters' superior type and production. All four of these sires complete seven generations of Gold Medal Sires.
To qualify for this honor, bulls must meet a specified level for Total Performance Index℠ (TPI℠), have a minimum Reliability of 90 percent for their Fat and Type genetic evaluations and be free of all recognized genetic defects. This award is only given to approximately 25 Holstein sires each year, putting these four bulls in elite company.
A 7HO6417 O-Bee MANfred Justice-ET (EX-94-GM) son, BOGART, is the highest Cheese Merit Dollars (CM$) (+$737) proven sire at Select Sires. He boasts exceptional components as well at +.19% Fat and +.08% Protein. As a HealthMark™ sire, his fitness traits (+3.9 Productive Life, +2.5 Daughter Pregnancy Rate) are among the best. His Calving Ease and FeedPRO® designations also make him a popular sire for dairies looking to milk more efficient cows.
HERO, a Toystory son of Siemers Durham Hast 4358-ET (EX-91-EX-MS-GMD), is one of Select Sires' elite Type sires. At +3.57 Type and +3.84 Udder Composite (UDC), he is tied for No. 3 among active Holstein sires for both traits. He also excels at components with +.21% Fat and +55 pounds of Fat. A HealthMark and DIAMOND SELECTion™ sire, HERO is a proven customer favorite. HERO's son 7HO11329 Ronelee SSI Hero DAYSTAR-ET is now available as a Super Sampler™.
An August 2012 graduate, TIME comes from the same family as 7HO9165 Regancrest S BRAXTON-ET (EX-95). A popular Super Sampler, now with high reliability, TIME is +3.54 for Type and exceeds +3.00 for Feet and Leg Composite and UDC. He is a highly fertile sire (+2.7 Sire Conception Rate) and transmits longevity (+4.0 PL) and low Somatic Cell Score (SCS) (2.54), as well. TIME is perfect for heifer pens as a first-rate calving ease sire (5% SCE) with gender SELECTed™ semen available.
RUSSELL (Mac x Shottle) is Select Sires' highest August 2012 Net Merit graduate at +$615 and leads the entire lineup in Daughter Pregnancy Rate (DPR) at +2.5. RUSSELL also improves components (+.26%F, +.06%P) and health traits (+4.5 PL, 2.78 SCS) all while being a 6% Calving Ease sire. From the family of 7HO10849 Ladys-Manor Pl SHAMROCK-ET, this former Super Sampler has nearly 300 daughters in over 100 herds in his production summary.
Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of nine farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.Source: 08/12 USDA Genomic Evaluation, USDA/HA Genomic Type Evaluation and Interbull. 08/12 Rel: BOGART Yield 99%, PL 86%, DPR 89%, CE 99%, Type 96%; HERO Type 92%, Yield 94%; TIME Type 94%, SCR 99%, PL 85% CE 99%, Yield 97%, SCS 94%; RUSSELL NM$ 90%, DPR 82%, Yield 95%, Type 92%, PL 84% ℠Total Performance Index and TPI are service marks of Holstein Association USA. ™gender SELECTed, DIAMOND SELECTion, HealthMark and Super Sampler are trademarks of Select Sires Inc. ®FeedPRO is a registered trademark of Select Sires Inc.


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The Queen City Roller Girls are rolling into the 2013 season with a doubleheader at the Jan. 5 home opener, "Three's Company." The Suicidal Saucies will be taking on the 2012 Queen City Cup champions, the Nickel City Knockouts, at 6:45 p.m. at the Rainbow Rink, 101 Oliver St., North Tonawanda.
In the second game of the evening, the Black-N-Bluegrass Rollergirls from Latonia, Ky., will take on the QCRG's Lake Effect Furies in a Women's Flat Track Derby Association sanctioned game. Currently, the Furies are ranked 13th in the WFTDA eastern region, and the BBRG are ranked 27th in the WFTDA north central region.
With a new season at hand, fans will notice some big changes in the game. WFTDA released new rules, which eliminated all minor penalties and begins a jam with a single whistle start. There are some other changes as well, but the games will include people in the crowd who can answer questions. Information posted on the screens should help explain the rules, too.
Tickets are going fast. Purchase your general admission ticket for $15 at www.qcrg.net or at the Rainbow Rink or Terrapin Station.
Calling all chili lovers: The Queen City Roller Girls need a few good cooks
The Queen City Roller Girls' travel team, the Lake Effect Furies, is in need of some cooks. If you can't skate, that's OK; you just need to make some kick-butt chili.
On Jan. 19, 2013, the Furies will host their annual chili cook-off, from 6 until 8 p.m. at Appliance Associates of Buffalo (200 Amherst St., Buffalo). The cost is $5 to get in the door, which will include your first Flying Bison beer tasting. There will be basket and 50/50 raffles.
So pull out your grandma's famous chili and come share it.
There is a $20 entry fee. There will be awards for the
best chili under these categories.
•Best Overall Chili - $100 grand prize
•Meat Lovers - $25 and two tickets to next Furies home bout
•Veggie Delight - $25 and two tickets to next Furies home bout
•Flying Bisons Best (Best chili with beer) - Six-pack of Flying Bison Beer and two tickets to next Furies home bout
Contact HerHeiny Granger (Melissa Heft-Kalisiak) at [email protected] to signup.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Visa runs Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Visa runs Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message gugelhupfJoined: 24 Jan 2004Posts: 575Location: Jabotabek Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: Visa runs Just curious to know why everyone unfortunate enough to have to do a visa run goes to Singapore. Surely you can stay in KL for half the price, and chew gum? Flights cost about the same if you shop around. Am I missing something really obvious here? Back to top ChesterJoined: 15 May 2004Posts: 383Location: Australia Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:11 am Post subject: Brunei Singapore you can get visa in 4 to 6 hours thru an agent, then fly back to Indonesia the same day. Brunei I have not found an agent, so stay overnight in the most boring city on the planet. Back to top everybody_loves_chandlerJoined: 22 Nov 2004Posts: 6 Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:07 am Post subject: Visas take 3 days to process hey there last time I was in Singapore making a visa run they were in the process of changing the time it takes from 1 day to 3 days. I was lucky enough to get through as I made some calls back to Palembang and get them to contact the Head Dip (he's from Palembang ). I recommend the next anyone goes for their visa in Singapore to take some pempek . DoC Back to top El LlamaJoined: 12 Jul 2004Posts: 70Location: The Big Durian Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:17 am Post subject: Officially it takes 3 days, but don't forget that this is the Indonesian embassy. An extra "processing charge" and you can be done in a few hours. This effectively doubles the cost of the visa, but is still cheaper than spending 2 nights in Singapore and watching your rupiah go up in smoke. Back to top guruengerishJoined: 28 Mar 2004Posts: 424Location: Australia Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:23 am Post subject: books in Singapore A huge advantage in going to Singapore, apart from the agent doing all the leg-work, was that you could buy all the English language books you could afford, either new or 2nd-hand, just around from Orchard Rd. I always seemed to end up in places in Indonesia where English language books (I'm not talking about English grammar here) were hard to find, expensive or dead boring. Also, books were at least half the price they were in Australia. You have a 20kg baggage allowance - use it! Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:45 am Post subject: Danau Toba is a bad place to look for a cheap book. The guy in the shop there had no idea..... Back to top guruengerishJoined: 28 Mar 2004Posts: 424Location: Australia Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:46 am Post subject: more on cheap books Can't say I'd thought of trying there for a cheap book Speaking of which, I bought a very handy Oxford Beginner's dictionary in S'pore (S$15.00). A few months later, I saw the same book on sale in Perth, for three times the price. I checked insde the cover, and it was printed in the same place. Hence my comment about books being cheaper in SIN. Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:18 am Post subject: Hehe it's not exactly the first place I'd think of either! I was just passing through there, and in desperate need of a cheap book. Actually I was trying to do a swap, and he was saying how good some crap glossy freebie from a women's magazine was. I ended up swapping for the best of a bad lot, and it ended up being the worst book I've ever read. Back to top guruengerishJoined: 28 Mar 2004Posts: 424Location: Australia Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject: I did a similar thing in Bangkok. I ended up with the only English book in the store, but I was desperate to read something. I ended up with "A History of Ghosts". Took it back to Indonesia, and had to fight off the local staff who all wanted to read it! The students loved me reading a few short stories to them. Thank heavens for Amazon.uk. I used to get books from them, which still worked out a reasonable price, even with airmail postage. 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It's not smart to apply for another credit card without first considering how much you owe on the six already in your wallet.
That essentially is what West Contra Costa voters are being asked to do as they consider approval of the seventh round of school construction borrowing since 1998.
In seeking residents' blessings at the ballot June 3 for another $270 million of bonds, school and county officials never mention more than $1.6 billion already approved.
While claiming the annual cost to property owners for the latest bond proposal, Measure H, would be $36 for every $100,000 of assessed valuation, they leave out that total payment for all seven bond measures would reach nearly 10 times as much.
Many districts in California have sought multiple bond approvals. What makes West Contra Costa unusual is the scale. Since starting its school reconstruction program, the K-12 district has issued more bonds than any other in the state, with the exception of the much-larger Los Angeles and San Diego districts.
Unfortunately, failure to disclose the cumulative cost to voters is not unique. In the South Bay, for example, the East Side Union High School District has done the same thing, but on a smaller scale.
As voters go to the polls, they're only being told the balance and payment for the new credit card. Blame county attorneys, charged with writing the ballot analyses, and school superintendents, who usually sign the legally required tax projection statements. They narrowly construe the law and provide only minimal information.
It's deception by omission. It's morally, ethically and possibly legally wrong. If these officials won't do the right thing, state lawmakers must unambiguously insist on it.
Most school bond measures merit public support. But voters deserve full information before deciding whether to raise local taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars.
In Contra Costa, County Counsel Sharon Anderson insists she can't say more in her "impartial" ballot analysis without injecting bias. So she uses boilerplate language that tells only part of the story.
Susan Swain, Santa Clara County lead deputy county counsel, when preparing the analysis for East Side's 2012 bond measure, similarly ignored the existing tax burden from four prior bond issues.
They confuse bias with context. The law requires an "impartial analysis of the measure, showing the effect of the measure on the existing law and the operation of the measure." Consider the American Heritage dictionary definition of analysis: "The study of … constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole."
Anderson says it's up to the press to provide context. Actually, our work doesn't relieve her from doing hers. Thoughtful California voters often place high importance on official ballot pamphlet analyses of state and local measures. They deserve full information.
Anderson and Swain also claim it's hard to fit more information into the 500-word limit set in the law. For that, they could learn from our profession. Their analyses would benefit from editing to make room for important information.
School districts, which must provide voters estimates of the effect of the bond debt on property tax rates, similarly omit key information in the ballot pamphlet. The law says its goal is "presenting to voters the most accurate available information for their use in effecting comparison and exercising judgment in casting their ballots."
But school officials — in West Contra Costa, that's Superintendent Bruce Harter — only provide the financial effect of the bond measure on the ballot, not the total tax bill for all bonds. In other words, tell them about the new credit card, but not the balance and payments for the others.
Harter claims most voters already know how much they're paying in taxes for the other bonds. I doubt that's true, especially those who pay property taxes indirectly through rent. But if he's right, what's the harm in telling them again when they're deciding whether to approve more borrowing?
The answer, of course, is Harter doesn't want to remind them for fear some would be less likely to approve the latest measure.
We teach our children to be forthcoming about the truth. Sadly, school and county officials won't do the same.
Daniel Borenstein is a staff columnist and editorial writer. Reach him at 925-943-8248 or email@example.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/BorensteinDan.


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Plans for an eastern leg of the Shelby Farms Greenline include a pedestrian and bicycle crossing at busy Germantown Parkway, where recent traffic counts show 58,000 cars a day travel.
(Daily News/Andrew J. Breig)
Planners of the eastern extension of the Shelby Farms Greenline – from Farm Road to the Cordova train station – are getting in some roadwork these days.
Frank Gianotti of the engineering and consulting firm Tetra Tech, and other planners of the extension have been hitting the streets recently to talk about the planning work that is about halfway complete.
Construction could start early next year, as soon as the right of way on the old rail line is secured from CSX Corp. And much of the attention is on what will be the most ambitious road crossing of the greenline so far – Germantown Parkway.
"Here it is," Gianotti said recently, as he showed PowerPoint slides of the plans for the Germantown Parkway crossing to about 100 people at a Memphis Kiwanis Club luncheon. The presentation includes design work by Tetra Tech and Ritchie Smith Associates.
The latest traffic count shows 58,000 cars a day traverse the former railroad crossing on Germantown Parkway – one of the busiest stretches of auto traffic in Shelby County.
"The (Shelby Farms Park) Conservancy, the city and the county would love to build a bridge over this," he said. "The bridge would cost about $2.5 million."
Germantown Parkway Crossing Plans
The conservancy manages both the greenline and Shelby Farms Park. But instead of a bridge, plans for Germantown Parkway call for a crossing unlike any other – either already built or being planned.
The busiest roadway the greenline currently crosses is Highland Street, which has less than half the traffic count of Germantown Parkway.
Along with being the greenline's designer, Gianotti may be one of the trail's most experienced riders. He rode it and walked it before it formally became the greenline – before the rail bridges and trestles, some of them more than a century old, were renovated.
Gianotti has crossed Germantown Parkway in mid-morning and admits it has a different traffic flow than around 4 p.m., although he pointed out the latest counts show traffic on that part of the parkway has dropped by about 15 percent in the last decade.
The eastern extension of the Shelby Farms Greenline would stop at the old Cordova train station. No use for the train station itself has been worked out yet.
(Daily News/Bill Dries)
"We couldn't just do an 'up real quick and down real quick' trail," Gianotti said of the parkway crossing, which, even with a bridge, would still have had to meet standards of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
The design calls for a two-stage crossing, in which pedestrians and riders will first reach a median in the parkway and then cross to the other side.
A traffic signal at the old rail crossing will be activated when a walker, runner or biker on either side of the greenline presses a button.
"If somebody activates this, they will have to wait up to maybe 45 seconds to a minute before they cross," Gianotti said. "The same sequence will happen on the other side. The worst case, crossing this is going to be less than two minutes. Many times it will be better than that. Right now to cross Walnut Grove (at Farm Road) … you wait 2.4 minutes maximum to get across."
The comparison is important because Walnut Grove at Farm Road has about the same daily traffic count, and Gianotti says the Germantown Parkway crossing will be safer.
The times are to get to the middle of the crossing, where there will be a "protected area" for the wait to make the rest of the crossing.
It will have concrete barriers similar to construction barriers on interstates, and trees in the median as well. Such mid-crossing areas are used in some European road designs but so far not in the U.S.
"If a car hits that, they are not coming in there," Gianotti said. "Inside this, you will have a countdown to green time. … It will tell the biker and walker, you have so many seconds."
The very development over several decades that makes Germantown Parkway's car and truck traffic so heavy is also a factor in carving out the median strip with the mid-crossing point.
Part of the planning will involve how to deal with whatever is under the pavement now, and Gianotti said there are likely some surprises like unmarked utilities because of the nature of surrounding construction over the years.
"Private developers built it piecemeal," Gianotti said. "Every piece of junk in the world is in that roadway."
As the design work continues, there are also talks about uses for the Cordova train station, which is where the eastern extension would end, and what that would mean for the old town section of Cordova. Other trailheads where those on the greenline could stop are also being discussed.
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Local businesses gear up for Plaid FridayBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
November 22. 2017 10:11PM
Business owners from the Seacoast to the Monadnock Region have their flannel shirts ready for Plaid Friday.
Held the day after Thanksgiving — the day usually promoted by big box stores as Black Friday — Plaid Friday encourages holiday shoppers to shop at local small businesses.
The local shopping movement came from the West Coast nine years ago and was immediately embraced by local business groups in the Granite State — Monadnock Buy Local and Seacoast Local.
Both groups launched the Shift Your Shopping concept with partners around the nation in 2010 with an emphasis on local shopping for the holiday that start on Plaid Friday.
The mission of Shift Your Shopping's is to "build a tradition that strengthens local economies, expands local employment, nurtures a sense of community and provides a more relaxed, fun and rewarding holiday shopping experience."
Plaid Friday encouraged shoppers to wear plaid in support of local businesses and to frequent local business that day. Unlike Black Friday shoppers who walk up before dawn to be first in line for the sales, the Plaid Friday crowd sleep in and go out for coffee and some light shopping, mostly to mingle with their local shop owners.
Jen Risley, executive director of Monadnock Buy Local says, times are changing and many people don't like the pressure of holiday shopping right after Thanksgiving.
"When even marketers — whose business is promoting Black Friday — report that 79 percent of their website users don't like to shop on that day, you know the times are changing," she said in a statement.
Local and Monadnock Buy Local are business-led, grassroots nonprofit organizations that encourage people to "think local first" when spending not just their money but their time.
Karen Marzloff, executive director of Seacoast Local, says redirecting spending on "gifts, dining, beverages, decorations, party planning and local experiences creates an opportunity to make a real impact on the local economy."
"Regardless of the size of your holiday budget, each dollar matters when we buy local. Your gift can generate a smile today, and also build a legacy in your community for tomorrow," she said in a statement.
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Consumers report they will spend an average $967 for holiday shopping this year, according to a 2017 National Retail Federation survey.
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NEW HAVEN – Junior Allison Rue was chosen by her teammates for the office of captain of the Yale women's track and field team for the 2012-2013 season. Rue is among the Bulldogs' most versatile athletes, competing at every distance from the 200-meter dash to the 800-meter run, though she has tended to specialize in the 400-meter dash this year.
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In outlining her goals for the season to come, Rue concentrated on the team continuing to work hard and set high standards for itself.
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Manchester charter commission considering $15,000 a year for elected officialsBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 20. 2013 11:24PM
MANCHESTER - The city's aldermen and school board members would lose their health benefits but see about a four-fold increase in their annual stipends under a proposal approved by the Charter Commission Wednesday.
The panel voted 5-4 to back a proposal to eliminate the health and dental coverage for the elected officials, while increasing their stipends to $15,000. The aldermen now get $4,000 a year; members of the school board get $2,000.
At the same time, the commission narrowly rejected two proposals that would have altered the tax cap.
The panel voted on more than a dozen proposals, none of which represent final decisions. The public will get a chance to weigh in on them at a hearing next Wednesday at 6 p.m. at City Hall. Ultimately, a pared-down slate of questions will go on the November ballot.
The health benefits have long been a controversial issue, since the aldermen and school board members serve on a part-time basis, and they are unevenly enjoyed by the officials.
The debate Wednesday began with a motion from Commissioner Rich Girard to eliminate the benefits entirely, without any consideration of the stipend.
"Many people who have run for city office didn't realize they could participate in the benefit plan, but it's amazing how many of them will drop their existing plan to take those benefits," said Girard, a former alderman. "I do think there are people who continue to run because they get comfortable with the benefits."
This motion failed by a 5-4 vote, but a subsequent motion to couple the elimination of benefits with a boost in the stipend passed 5-4.
Supporters of the proposal have argued that the salary is appropriate considering the time demanded of the elected officials, and that it is unfair to pay aldermen more than school board members.
Girard disagreed. "I don't think the boards are equal. I believe the Board of Mayor and Aldermen is a superior board. It has the greater authority," he said. "It has 23 departments to deal with in addition to the schools; the school board just has the schools."
On each of the boards, 10 of the 14 members are currently receiving health or dental coverage or both from the city or district. For the current fiscal year, the school district estimates its share of premiums for a board member's family plan will cost $4,000 to $5,000. Its share for the dental plan is $417. This doesn't represent the full cost of the plans; since the city and district are self-insured, they must pay for individual claims.
Voting in favor of the proposal were Commissioners Jerome Duval, Christine Martin, Lou D'Allesandro, Mike Lopez and John Clayton. Opposed were Commissioners Girard, Will Infantine, Nick Pappas and Skip Ashooh.
Tax cap proposals
The commission was unable to advance two proposals concerning the tax cap, which has been one of the most controversial issues facing the panel.
One proposal put forward by Commissioner Christine Martin would have made the tax cap apply only to spending, not revenue.
The idea was backed by the city's finance director, who in prior testimony before the panel said Manchester's tax cap was uniquely restrictive since it applied both to increases in budgets and tax rates.
"This conversation is particularly ripe given we're in budget season on both sides. The majority of officials in discussing their budgets are stuck. There's very little room for creativity," Martin said.
Several members of the panel argued that voters had spoken clearly when they approved the tax cap, and that it was "disparaging" to question their judgement, in the words of Girard.
But Democrats on the panel, who enjoy a 5-4 advantage, said voters may have a different point of view, now that they've witnessed the effect of the tax cap over the past two years.
"We voted for it, yes," said Commissioner John Clayton. "But people voted for Prohibition at one time. I think the notion of giving voters another bite at the apple might be a good thing."
But Commissioner Mike Lopez, a Democrat, cautioned against placing the issue among the charter questions, which voters must approve or reject in their entirety.
"I think it's going to take a lot more education" of voters," Lopez said. "I think the better process for this might be where the aldermen put this separately on the ballot."
Martin's proposal to eliminate the revenue component of the tax cap was tabled.
A subsequent motion to reduce the super-majority required to override the tax cap from 10 to nine of the 14 aldermen failed by a vote of 5-4.
Voting against the proposal were Commissioners Lopez, Girard, Infantine, Pappas and Ashooh. Voting in favor were Duval, Martin, D'Allesandro and Clayton.


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Closure of PSNH coal-fired plants could be costlyBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 05. 2013 7:41PM
CONCORD — As a legislative committee prepares for its third meeting Wednesday on the future of PSNH's coal-fired power plants, the utility's owners expressed confidence that they will be able to recover costs associated with the plants even if the state orders them to be sold or shut down.
If consumers end up carrying most of the costs of divestiture, the impact on rates could be significant.
"We feel very confident from a legal perspective that the investments that we've made in the generation business in New Hampshire have served customers extremely well over the last decades and we feel highly confident that cost recovery there is unlikely to be an issue should the state decide to pursue divestiture, which is one of the options that they're considering," said James J. Judge, chief financial officer and executive vice president of Northeast Utilities, the PSNH parent company.
Judge was responding to a question from stock analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith of UBS Investment Bank, in a quarterly earnings conference call on July 30.
Dumoulin-Smith asked NU executives about the coal-fired plants, and the proceedings that are under way in the state regarding their possible closure. "Could you perhaps help us think about the recovery on those investments ultimately depending on how this all hashes out in the state?" he asked.
"It isn't clear where the state goes in terms of this issue. I think there's probably going to be plenty of proceedings to assess the merits of PSNH retaining those plants," said Judge. "But in any event, we feel highly confident that the spending was prudent in the best interest of customers of New Hampshire."
For ratepayers, it could be deja vu all over again.
The last time PSNH was forced to divest power-producing assets was in 2000, when it agreed to sell the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant. The company floated bonds to cover much of those losses and the payment on those bonds was reflected in the "stranded cost" portion of the consumer's electric bill for the next 12 years.
The PSNH stranded cost recovery charge on a monthly bill is down to 0.272 cents/kwh, due mostly to the final payoff of the bonds issued 12 years ago. In 2001, as cost recovery began, the rate was 3.4 cents/kwh.
Just as those stranded costs are being paid off, and that portion of the bill is disappearing, a new restructuring settlement over the coal-fired plants could see the return of substantial stranded costs on the consumer electric bill.
Long line of critics
"The (analyst's) question and NU's response strongly suggest that the company was knowingly squandering ratepayer money by continuing to invest hundreds of millions in uneconomic and dying coal plants, with an expectation that they would recover both the investment and a profit," said Christophe G. Courchesne, a staff attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation in New Hampshire.
"It is both presumptuous and informative that NU would express to its financiers an expectation that New Hampshire regulators and the legislature will play along with NU's strategy to extract above market costs from New Hampshire to provide above market returns to Wall Street and its shareholders," he said.
The CLF is among the organizations scheduled to testify when the joint House-Senate Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring meets for the third time on Wednesday. The organization will join a long line of PSNH critics and competitors presenting during the morning portion of the hearing, including the Retail Energy Supply Association, Empower NH and the New England Power Generators Association.
PSNH will get its chance in the afternoon portion, when outgoing president Gary Long is scheduled to testify.
The committee is chaired by State Rep. David Borden, D-New Castle, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Technology and Energy. He said the recent report by the Public Utilities staff on the need for PSNH to get rid of the coal-fired plants served as a clear call to action.
There is a growing consensus that PSNH will have to unload the power plants, or it will continue to lose customers to competitors, he said. A decision on divestiture could be easier than determining how the costs will be distributed.
"That's the big question," he said. "Who's going to pay for it."
Keeping an open mind
Borden outlined a process by which the committee will first reach a decision on divestiture, and then on allocating the costs. "We'll try to keep our minds open until the end of the month," he said. "The tentative plan calls for a recommendation by the end of August."
Sen. Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, was around for the restructuring agreement more than a decade ago. He said the coal-fired plants are quite old and their value is mostly depreciated. The real issue is recovering the $422 million in pollution controls at the Bow coal-fired plant that went online in late 2011 in compliance with state legislation passed in 2006.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the stranded costs that come from the scrubber might be a different issue than the stranded costs that come from the sale of the generation assets," said Borden.The $422 million at stake in cost recovery for the scrubbers is eerily similar to the $450 million at issue when the Seabrook nuclear power plant was sold.
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"I am sure that won't be her last one," said Lady Bisons coach Jon Ireland. "She is a very good player."
Midfielder Danielle Bethke attempted three shots to lead the Lady Bisons in shots. All three were shots on goal. The Lady Bisons were outshot 18-10 by IUPUI and 11-7 on shots on goal.
IUPUI held a 1-0 lead after the first half. The Lady Bisons tied the game 58:19 of the second half when Wood got control of loose ball inside the six yard area and kicked it off an IUPUI defender and into the goal. Defender Ashley Duggins earned her first assists of the season.
IUPUI responded with goals at 61:20, 61:55 and 89:15.
"We were down 1-0 at halftime and thought we were still in the game," said Ireland. "We tied it up fairly early in the second half and had some momentum, but we made four mistakes, three in the second half.
"They had a couple of goals scored in front of our goal by players that we didn't mark. This was a team we could play with, but our costly mistakes beat us."
Ireland stresses that his players are talented, but mental lapses are the main problem.
"Our players are playing really, really hard, but there will be four or five seconds where someone makes a mental lapse," said Ireland. "That is something we have to correct and we only have a couple of days to do it.
"We will continue to watch a lot of film and focus on the details and the fundamentals. We have been giving up goals we shouldn't be giving up and that is the frustrating part. We will spend the next two or three days making sure everyone is organized and everyone knows what their roles are."
Freshman Ally Marler played the entire game in goal for the Lady Bisons, the first time she has played an entire game this season. She was credited with seven saves after making a season-high eight Friday in the loss at Ball State.
"We decided to go with Ally," said Ireland. "She has been playing well enough and we felt like she needed to be in goal."
The game marked the second time this season the Lady Bisons have allowed four goals in a game. They gave up four in the 4-0 loss at Ball State.
The Lady Bisons are 2-6-0. IUPUI is 6-2-0.
The Lady Bisons open the Atlantic Sun portion of the season at Campbell Thursday night at 6.


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Scarlett Johansson is Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive for 2013
Esquire named Scarlett Johansson the Sexiest Woman Alive for 2013, seven years after her first honor. She dethrones 2012 recipient Mila Kunis. Why might ScarJo be the sexiest woman around? Peruse these photos for evidence.Want more? Discuss this article and others on RedEye's Facebook page.
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Libyan People to Americans: "This Is Not the Behavior of Our Islam"
Photo Essay: Amid the noise of escalating violence, Benghazi citizens speak for themselves: "This does not represent us."
As violence, reportedly sparked by an incendiary video degrading the Prophet Muhammad and produced in the U.S., spreads from North Africa to the Middle East, and U.S. warships head for Libya in response to what may have been a coordinated terrorist attack, many ordinary Libyans are hoping to send a very different message to the world: one of peace and solidarity. Yesterday, citizens gathered in Benghazi to speak for themselves, holding bilingual signs with messages like, "This does not represent us."
Photos courtesy of Libya Alhurra TV (Free Libya TV).
- Israelis and Iranians Feel the Love
As their leaders talk violence, some residents of Israel and Iran are reaching out to each other directly with a promise of peace.
- A Truly Courageous Response to Terror
What we can learn from Norway: Violence, fear, and political repression aren't the only way to respond to a terrorist attack.
- Standing on the Side of Peace
How one man's journey changed everything I knew about the Middle East conflict.


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Drop-crotch jeans have been dubbed the 'future of denim' and 'the next skinny jean.' I am an unbelievable skinny devotee (yes, I am scarred after wearing them in Summer-heat London and not even joking) and for this reason, I decided to road-test an exclusive pre-production sample pair from Trousers London. I ventured into Covent Garden to get the public opinion on whether the jeans were '(Drop-)HOT!' or 'PANTS!' Pitying glances, envious looks, angry words and self-styling monologues; the Drop-Crotch jeans certainly attracted attention-but was it praise or pity? Read on for the full report with street-style pics, interviews, comments and product details.
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Sales of new U.S. homes rose more than forecast in June to the highest level in five years, a sign builders are benefiting from a lack of supply of existing properties.
Purchases climbed 8.3% to an annualized pace of 497,000 homes, highest level since May 2008, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. The median estimate of 77 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a gain to 484,000.
The gains will keep propelling residential construction and home values, giving the world's largest economy a boost. Growing employment and the desire to take advantage of historically low borrowing costs before they rise further will probably release pent-up demand from consumers who had held off during the recession and early stages of the expansion.
"It's a builder's market," said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh, who forecast a gain to 500,000. "The housing market is poised for further gains and is a key component of the U.S. recovery overall."
Stocks dropped, erasing earlier gains, as investors weighed Apple Inc. profit that topped estimates with a worse-than- estimated forecast from Caterpillar Inc. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index declined 0.1% to 1,689.98 at 10:20 a.m. in New York.
Projections in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 415,000 to 518,000. The Commerce Department revised the May figure to 459,000 from a previously reported 476,000.
Sales jumped 38.1% from June 2012, the biggest year- over-year gain since January 1992.
Prices Climb
The median selling price of a new home appreciated 7.4% to $249,700 last month from $232,600 in June 2012.
Purchases rose in three of four U.S. regions, led by an 18.5% surge in the Northeast. They climbed 13.8% in the West and 10.9% in the South. Demand dropped 11.8% in the Midwest.
The supply of homes at the current sales rate was 3.9 months, matching January's level as the lowest since 2004 and down from 4.2 months in May. There were 161,000 new houses on the market at the end of June, up from 159,000 a month earlier.
Sales of new properties, which are tallied when purchase contracts are signed, are considered a more timely measure of the market than sales of previously owned dwellings, which are counted when a sale is final. New-home sales accounted for about 7% of the residential market in 2012.
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On This Day In Oasis History...
Be Here Now is the third studio album by the English rock band Oasis. Released on August 21 1997, the album was highly anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, and its 1995 follow up (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album's pre-release build up led to considerable hype within both the music and mainstream press. At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and Be Here Now became the UK's fastest selling album to date, selling over 420,000 units on the first day of release alone, and over one million within two weeks. As of 2007, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide.
Oasis' management company Ignition were aware of the danger of overexposure, and before its release they sought to control the media's access to the album. Ignition's campaign included limiting pre-release radio airplay, and requesting that journalists sign gag agreements. These tactics resulted in the alienation of members of both the music and mainstream media, as well as many industry members connected with the band. Ignition's attempts to limit pre-release access to the album only served to fuel large scale speculation and publicity within the British music scene.
Artistically Be Here Now failed to live up to the expectations that preceded its release. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine described Be Here Now as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money. Noel had decided Liam was a shit singer. Liam had decided he hated Noel's songs [...] Massive amounts of drugs. Big fights. Bad vibes. Shit recordings." None of its songs were included on the band's 2006 "best of" compilation album Stop the Clocks.
Album cover
The cover image to Be Here Now was shot at the Stock Hotel in Hertfordshire in April 1997. It features the band standing outside the hotel surrounded by assorted props. At the centre of the image is a Rolls Royce floating in a swimming pool. The photographer Michael Spencer Johns said the original concept involved shooting each band member in various locations around the world, but when the cost proved prohibitive, the shoot was relocated to the Stock Hotel. Spencer remarked that the shoot "degenerated into chaos", adding that "by 8pm, everyone was in the bar, there were schoolkids all over the set, and the lighting crew couldn't start the generator.
It was Alice in Wonderland meets Apocalypse Now." Despite various meanings people have tried to read into the selection of the cover props, Johns said Gallagher simply selected items from the BBC props store he thought would look good in the picture. Two of the props that had considered thought in their inclusion were the inflatable globe (intended as a homage to the sleeve of Definitely Maybe) and the Rolls Royce, which was suggested by Arthurs. The release date in each region was commemorated on the calendar pictured on the sleeve; Harris said the dating "[encouraged] fans to believe that to buy a copy on the day it appeared was to participate in some kind of historical event."
D'You Know What I Mean? – 7:42
My Big Mouth – 5:02
Magic Pie – 7:19
Stand by Me – 5:56
I Hope, I Think, I Know – 4:22
The Girl in the Dirty Shirt – 5:49
Fade In-Out – 6:52
Don't Go Away – 4:48
Be Here Now – 5:13
All Around the World – 9:20
It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) – 7:00
All Around the World (Reprise) – 2:08
D'You Know What I Mean?"
Released: 7 July 1997
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (FIN), #1 (IRE), #3 (CAN), #4 (US)
Stand By Me
Released: 22 September 1997
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #5 (US), #2 (IRE)
All Around The World
Released: 12 January 1998
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE)
Don't Go Away" (Japan Only)
Released: 13 May 1998
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher.


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Recent repots that new American Idol judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey aren't getting along could be exaggerations, or perhaps the rumors are true that one of them could end up exiting the series if things can't be worked out at the judges table. At the very least, we may be in for a very tension-filled season come next year when the singing competition resumes. That remains to be seen, but the reports of some feuding between the two artists inspired us to reflect on some of the other behind-the-scenes feuds that have spiraled out of control and resulted in major changes to the series.
Remember when Shannen Doherty left Beverly Hills, 90210? Or when Dr. Burke left Cristina on Grey's Anatomy after the controversy involving Isaiah Washington? Just like with any work environment, not everyone is going to get along, but when it happens on a TV show, it can really leave a mark on the series involved, changing the face of the show from that point forward. Here are a some examples of memorable backstage feuds.
Two and a Half Men - Charlie Sheen
In recent years there may have been no more publicized feud than that of Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre on Two and a Half Men - if it can be called a feud. It might be more accurate to call it a train wreck. In 2012, the hit sitcom took a hiatus in the midst of the eighth season while Sheen went into rehab. Apparently it didn't help - production was suspended not long after due to Sheen's public slam of Lorre, the show's creator, on a radio show in which he called Lorre a "turd". Sheen continue to assault Lorre in an interview with TMZ and a follow-up open letter both filled with bizarre rants.
The public meltdown reached epic proportions in a hurry; Sheen took to Twitter to continue his raging assault, and Lorre and the rest of the show's bigwigs quickly made a decision. They fired Sheen from the show two weeks after the February 24 radio interview. Sheen's character, central to the series, was killed off. Season 9 opened with a funeral, and Ashton Kutcher was brought in to replace him. While the show has managed to move past Sheen's departure, it will never be quite the same.


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Did you know that a person's feelings, life circumstances and how they live can affect their health? Medical researchers have found that these factors are very important. A person's choices about how they live, such as whether they smoke or not, can affect their health. Other things are important, too, such as having people to support you if you have a difficult health problem. Links between a person's "life style," living situation and health are so real they often play a key role in how sick, or how healthy, you are.
Social and behavioral research is done to discover important links between how we live, what we believe, and the impact these have on health. The more we learn about these links, the more we can predict what puts a person at risk for illness and develop ways to prevent or better treat it. This kind of research is very important to keep people healthy.
There are many kinds of social and behavioral research studies looking at things like relationships, health behaviors, and support systems, such as family, church, community, and friends. Many kinds of research scientists do this kind of research including sociologists, psychologists, social workers, anthropologists and public health researchers. Sometimes this kind of research is done outside of a traditional medical setting. Other times, social and behavioral researchers work together with biomedical researchers on clinical studies that also include things like blood tests and other medical procedures. Here are some of the ways that links between behavior and health are explored:
1. Questionnaires or Interviews
These could be standardized tests, food or exercise diaries, questions asked over the phone, on the Internet, or in person.
2. Opinion polls, focus groups, or group discussions
Researchers may ask you to express your thoughts or opinions about a topic, either individually or within a group setting.
3. Directly observing behavior
Researchers may observe you and make notes about your behavior, or they may audio/video record actual behavior.
4. Review of records already collected
Researchers use information that already exists in medical charts, educational records, employment records, or insurance claims with your permission. Or, if they review the information without permission, they can only do so if names and other identifying information have been removed so that your identity is completely protected.
5. Routine physical tests
Sometimes researchers use tests that may be related to your feelings, such as measuring heart beats and blood pressure, which can increase if a person has strong feelings about a subject.
Social and behavioral research studies are reviewed by ethics committees who make sure the rights and welfare of participants are protected. Like all research, there are both benefits and possible risks that go along with taking part in social and behavioral studies. It is important that you understand what risks are anticipated in the particular study you are considering, and that you weigh these risks and the benefits of taking part before enrolling in the research.
Please refer to Taking Part in Research: Benefits and Risks for more information on how to make a decision that is right for you.
This article is a NetWellness exclusive.
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TAMPA — Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk continued to feel fine today after he left the Bruins' Game 5 victory over Tampa Bay a little early because of an apparent head injury last night.
Boychuk hit his head on the glass after Lightning forward Steve Downie hit him from behind on the forecheck behind the Bruins' net just past the midway point of the third period. Boychuk looked woozy as he skated off and he did not play the rest of the night. He returned to the bench with two minutes to go to watch Boston take a 3-2 series lead in the Eastern Conference Final.
"I was a little foggy, but then after I got off the ice I was totally fine," said Boychuk today at the team's Tampa hotel. "Even when I was on the ice I just wanted to make sure I was OK before I tried to skate."
There was some talk Downie might face supplemental discipline, but TSN's Bob McKenzie reported the league would not be looking into the hit. Boychuk wasn't worried about that as much as he was thinking about his health and availability for tomorrow night's Game 6.
"If it's suspendable then the league will do it," he said. "But I'm feeling fine and that's the main thing."


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MONTGOMERY | An Alabama man who spends half his time working in Africa plans to run as a Democrat against Republican Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey.
MONTGOMERY | An Alabama man who spends half his time working in Africa plans to run as a Democrat against Republican Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey.
Scott Ninesling (nihn-SLING') said Monday his job as a fire chief and emergency response supervisor for a liquefied natural gas plant in Angola requires him to spend every other month out of the country, but he believes good planning will allow him to mount a strong campaign during the time he is home in Alabama.
Ninesling, 42, grew up in Prattville and makes his home in nearby Pine Level. The first-time candidate is the only Democrat to announce so far for the lieutenant governor's race, but he said Democratic Party officials haven't paid him much attention.
"I expected that, because I'm not part of the establishment," he said.
Ivey, 68, won two terms as state treasurer before upsetting Democratic incumbent Jim Folsom Jr. in 2010 to win the lieutenant governor's office. She kicked off her re-election campaign in late June and, so far, has no opposition in the Republican primary, set for June 3, 2014.
Ninesling said he decided to challenge Ivey because he was upset with how the state's prepaid college tuition plan ran into financial trouble when Ivey was administering the program as state treasurer. Ninesling, who has a 2-year-old child, said his child was not in the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program but said he he feels sorry for parents who are struggling with how to pay for their children's college education after not getting the full in-state tuition they expected from PACT.
He accused Ivey of using the lieutenant governor's position to help the Republican majority in the Senate suppress Democratic input into state government rather than presiding fairly. "This failure of performance and lack of leadership is not what the people of Alabama need sitting a heartbeat away from the governor's office," he said.
Ivey said voters wanted a change in the status quo in 2010 and she has delivered.
"Since being sworn in, I have presided over some of the most productive sessions of the Alabama Senate in our state's history and look forward to running on those accomplishments: service to our state, bringing jobs to our state and standing up for the right of our people against the overreach of the federal government," she said.
The lieutenant governor's compensation varies from year to year depending on whether the Legislature has special sessions, but it was $70,842 in fiscal year 2012. Ninesling said that if he wins, the compensation would be less than he makes now, but the position would be worth it.
The general election is set for Nov. 4, 2014.


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CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (EPHLI)
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Continuation of EPHLI is subject to availability of funds; the institute is not active at this time. This information is provided ONLY as a historical reference for the public health community. These pages are no longer being maintained and the data may no longer be current and/or accurate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (EPHLI) is a 1-year program of seminars and workshops, special projects, and individual study. Each year, approximately 30 practicing environmental public health professionals are admitted to the program. CDC will pay all allowable and approved costs associated with participation in the institute.
3/1/2011 Graduation Agenda (Class of 2010-2011) [PDF - 422 KB]
EPHLI Fact Sheet [PDF - 292 KB]
Training Environmental Public Health Leaders [PDF - 95 KB] – Local EH practitioners are essential in protecting the public health from environmental threats. Read more about how EPHLI fellows applied systems thinking to solve environmental public health problems in their jurisdictions.
Why EPHLI?
The institute was developed to strengthen the country's environmental public health system by enhancing the leadership capabilities of state and local environmental public health specialists. Emphasis is placed on
- enhancing strategic visioning and direction-setting skills through critical thinking and analysis (systems thinking), political effectiveness, and organizational and team development;
- using the core functions of public health as a foundation for achieving environmental public health goals;
- creating proactive environmental public health leaders who can mobilize resources in response to the changing public health environment (core competencies);
- enhancing the performance outcomes of the essential services of environmental public health; and
- promoting and improving the delivery of environmental public health services to communities.
How Does EPHLI Strengthen These Programs?
EPHLI graduates use what they have learned to increase the ability of their environmental public health programs to provide essential environmental public health services. These state, local, and tribal programs will be better able to respond to emerging environmental public health threats and coordinate the delivery of effective services to areas affected by environmental disasters.
What Have Past Graduates Done?
In February 2006, the first group of EPHLI scholars completed the program. Thirty-two scholars from across the United States prepared final reports for presentations or posters at graduation.
Final reports from these and subsequent scholars address the following CDC Health Protection Goals of Healthy People in Healthy Places: Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Healthy Schools, Healthy Travel and Recreation, and People Prepared for Emerging Health Threats.
What Is the Time Commitment?
Fellows attend two in-person working sessions and a concluding graduation program where systems thinking projects are presented. Participants in the 1-year program should plan to spend several hours per week working on their project, completing homework assignments, and actively participating in team conference calls and scheduled intersession meetings.
Tentative program sessions for the class of 2011-2012 are
- February 28-March 4, 2011 (CDC, Atlanta: attend presentations and graduation of previous class and participate in first session for incoming class): Sample Graduation Agenda [PDF - 175 KB]
- October 17–21, 2011 (St. Louis, MO)
- February 27–March 2, 2012 (CDC, Atlanta: presentations and graduation)
How Can I Sign Up for EPHLI?
(Applications are not being accepted at this time. Please revisit this site for updates on applications procedures, new application dates, and program announcements.)
- Continuation of EPHLI is subject to availability of funds.
- Only U.S. citizens working in the United States are eligible to apply.
Wondering Whether EPHLI Is Right for You?
Visit the fellows page and mentors page for information about previous cohorts and participants.
Where Can I Get More Information about EPHLI?
For more information about EPHLI, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Talking Shop with Doug Johnston
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An artist, designer, architect, and musician with a decidedly cross-disciplinary practice, Doug Johnston is driven by his interest in transformation—of plants into fibers, two-dimensional materials into three-dimensional objects, and space into structure. Working solo and with his wife, Tomoe Matsuoka, he creates whimsically functional objects, structures, and forms grounded in the human body. As he explains: "I have this basic desire to create things that can [be] interacted with on the scale of the human body." His references to the body range from overt to subtle, inviting to uncomfortable. Among his diverse output are a mobile hair salon, a concrete chair, and a nest-like pod offering respite from the world. Johnston is well known for his baskets made from stacked coils of raw cotton rope, an ancient technique celebrated and modernized in his witty forms.
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- Compact mobile battery and charger all-in-one
- Compatible with all devices which charge via standard USB
- 2800 mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery
You already know we're geeks, but let us reveal just how geeky we are. When we first saw this image without any scale reference, we thought it was a lightsaber handle.
And it does allow you to use the Force - a little force we like to call "electricity." This hybrid mobile battery and charger all-in-one plugs into your vehicle's cigarette lighter socket and recharges any device which charges via standard USB. Any two, actually, since it has two output sockets. But wait. There's more. It has an internal battery that stores 2800 mAh when fully charged. That's enough juice to bring most smartphones back to 100% almost 2 times. Charge your phone while you're on the road. When you're not, toss the Torpedo into your bag and have backup, just in case.
Product Specifications
- Compact mobile battery and charger all-in-one
- Compatible with all devices which charge via standard USB
- Battery Capacity: 2800 mAh
- Input sockets: Micro USB, 12V DC vehicle cigarette lighter socket
- Output: 1 Amp
- Output sockets: Standard USB (2)
- Charging, activation, and available power LED indicators
- Batteries: 2800 mAh rechargeable Lithium-Ion (charges in 2-3 hours, lasts 1000 charges at 80%)
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Wondering if any of you tech gurus could lend me some advice. My laptop is starting to end its ability to play current games and it seems like buying a new desktop PC vs a new gaming laptop is a lot cheaper. I am looking to buy new games like Guild Wars 2 and other higher quality games coming out in the next year, and wont be able to play them with my set up now.
Now -- I've been looking at Cyperpowerpc.com since I have read they have good products, but I am unsure what the different specs mean and what the difference in say a $500 and a $900 pc is. I'm not looking to break the bank on this purchase since computer gaming isn't a huge part of my life, but I'd like a good one that can handle new stuff well at higher settings.
Is there a huge difference between the $500 and $900 ones that would be worth the extra money? I think the max I'd spend would be in the $900 range, but if it isn't significantly better, I'd probably stay on the lower end.