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Saving for College
(originally published April 2010)
While students across Indiana are looking forward to the end of another school year, many parents are finding themselves another year closer to paying for college. According to The College Board, the average yearly tuition at a public university is $7,020. Many Hoosier parents are asking themselves, how can we afford this?
Time and consistency are important factors when saving for anything, and college is no different. The earlier you start saving and the more often you save, the better off you'll be in the long run. You can start by opening a savings account dedicated to this purpose. Determine how much of your monthly budget you can realistically contribute and commit to saving that amount each month, no matter how small an amount it is.
Some people turn to investing to help save for college because your money can sometimes grow at a faster rate than with a traditional savings account. There are a variety of investment products available.
One designed specifically for this purpose is Indiana's College Choice 529 Plan. You can open an account for as little as $25 and can earn an income tax credit of 20 percent of contributions to your 529 plan, up to $1,000 per year. There are a range of investment options for your 529 plan. For more information, visit http://www.collegechoiceplan.com/.
If you're interested in other investment options, consider working with a licensed professional such as an investment adviser or financial planner. Make sure the person is licensed and registered by using the searchable databases or by calling my office's Securities Division at 1-800-223-8791.
In addition to long-term saving and investing, students can help pay for college through financial aid, scholarships and/or grants. The amount of aid awarded is typically based on income level and the cost of the school. Prospective students can apply for federal aid online at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/. Students should also check with the Department of Financial Aid at the school they are applying to for additional assistance and/or scholarship opportunities.
One final way to help pay for college is through student loans. They are useful because you aren't required to make loan payments until a certain period of time after the student graduates (typically six to nine months). However, it's important to remember that loans only provide temporary relief, and if you don't repay them when the time comes, it can have serious financial consequences such as negatively impacting your credit score.
When applying for student loans, avoid borrowing more than you need and only use it to pay for school expenses like tuition, room and board and books. Also, pay attention to the interest rate and whether or not the loan is subsidized or unsubsidized. The federal government pays interest on subsidized loans while the student is still in school, however with unsubsidized loans, you start accruing interest from the time you receive the funds.
If you're a parent with a younger child and aren't sure how to start saving for college, visit The Indiana Youth Institute for a step-by-step guide to the college planning process. The site has a timeline with financial planning tips for every age. Even a small amount of saving early on can have a big impact when your child is ready to graduate and head to college.
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- Indiana's College Choice 529 Plan
- Student Aid
- FAFSA ; FAFSA4caster
- Practical Money Skills: Paying for College ; Cost of College Calculator
- 21st Century Scholars Program (Indiana)
- Fastweb Scholarship Database
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(i.e. pseudo-Ambrose), the author of the Commentary on Thirteen Pauline Letters (except Hebrews) handed down under the name of *Ambrose. Attempts at identifying the author have not yet yielded conclusive results. The commentary was written under Pope *Damasus (
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"Discipline" is the common translation of the Greek noun askêsis. Its English derivative "asceticism" denotes a sustained routine of abstinence, more severe than the occasional self-denial which was enjoined before rites and festivals. Motives for such austerity were seldom religious: sexual continence was enjoined on particular orders like the Vestal Virgins, but not on Jewish or polytheistic priesthoods. Philosophers were more likely to adopt a lifelong regimen to maintain their equanimity or free the soul from bodily attachments. Thus Epicureans and certain Platonists shunned the ties of marriage, though absolute continence was not prescribed. Pythagoreans starved the concupiscent element of the soul by abstaining from meat (and thereby also spared themselves the guilt of shedding the blood of a kindred being). Diogenes the Cynic set an example of self-sufficiency which was sometimes hyperbolically imitated and sometimes ostentatiously violated by his followers. Among Jews the nomadic Rechabites drank no wine, while Nazirites neither drank wine nor cut their hair; but only in the Hellenistic era do we hear of Essenes whose frugal regimen precluded meat and the knowledge of women. Philo's treatise on the Therapeutae attests the cohabitation of male and female celibates in a community devoted to prayer and worship. It is, however, in Christian circles that abstinence is first prescribed as a norm for all and not merely for the elect. Jesus had "nowhere to lay his head", while Paul declared virginity superior to marriage. Their teachings presupposed the imminent and of the world; abstinence from flesh and sexual intercourse was said to imply contempt for all things created in encratites, Marcionites and Manichees, yet orthodox Christians also held that the clergy should not take wives after ordination, and Eusebius commends the rigorous practices of Origen.


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Bernanke, who has been widely criticized in recent years for manipulating markets and handing out trillions of dollars to big banks around the world, urged Congress to address its fiscal problems "as soon as possible." And if something is not done to correct the situation, he warned, it will have serious negative repercussions ranging from a potential fiscal crisis to reduced productivity and growth.
"Even the prospect of unsustainable deficits has costs, including an increased possibility of a sudden fiscal crisis," Bernanke explained. If investors lose confidence in the government's ability to manage its finances, interest rates could soar, he added, pointing to the situation seen in a number of other countries recently.
Congress, of course, has been running deficits amounting to well over $1 trillion in recent years. To put that in perspective, the entire GDP of the United States is around $15 trillion. And according to projections by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), that enormous figure is expected to balloon in the coming years unless lawmakers take action.
The acknowledged national debt is already larger than the entire U.S. economy. When unfunded government liabilities are added in, that number soars to estimates ranging in the hundreds of trillions. Experts and economists believe it will be literally impossible to ever pay off the debt without significantly devaluing the dollar at this point. And even the CBO admitted recently that U.S. deficits are "unsupportable."
"Having a large and increasing level of government debt relative to national income runs the risk of serious economic consequences," Bernanke warned in prepared remarks during the February 7 Senate Budget Committee hearing. "Although historical experience and economic theory do not indicate the exact threshold at which the perceived risks associated with the U.S. public debt would increase markedly, we can be sure that, without corrective action, our fiscal trajectory will move the nation ever closer to that point."
But even if the world does not dump the dollar and plunge the nation into unimaginable economic chaos — and many respected economists believe this is a very real possibility, or perhaps even an inevitability — Bernanke told lawmakers that peril still looms. Exploding government debt and persistent unsustainable deficits — at a minimum — would dry up investment capital, almost certainly damaging economic productivity.
"Over the longer term, the current trajectory of federal debt threatens to crowd out private capital formation and thus reduce productivity growth," Bernanke said at the hearing. To stave off reduced growth and possibly a debt crisis, he noted, would require putting congressional borrowing back on a reasonable path immediately.
"To achieve economic and financial stability, U.S. fiscal policy must be placed on a sustainable path that ensures that debt relative to national income is at least stable or, preferably, declining over time," he said. "Attaining this goal should be a top priority."
Unsurprisingly, most news reports on Bernanke's speech glossed over the warnings by the monetary boss about government debt. Instead, the "establishment" press focused much of its attention on Bernanke's absurd promises to "shield" the U.S. economy from Europe's growing financial fiasco.
"We are in frequent contact with European authorities, and we will continue to monitor the situation closely and take every available step to protect the U.S. financial system and the economy," Bernanke was quoted as saying in countless articles about his testimony. He has already been exposed bailing out European banks and even the region's central bank on multiple occasions, though how he would protect the American economy from the continent's trouble was not made clear.
Another significant point made by the Fed chairman was also downplayed or ignored in the mainstream press: He bluntly highlighted the deceptive nature of the U.S. government's most recent employment figures. While his statement that there is a "long way to go" before the labor market can be said to be "operating normally" was widely cited, his more detailed comments were barely mentioned.
"It is very important to look not just at the unemployment rate, which reflects only people who are actively seeking work," Bernanke said in response to a question. He also pointed to the millions of Americans who are not counted among the unemployed by the government because they have either given up looking for work or they have taken part-time jobs.
In other words, as The New American reported recently, the Obama administration's employment numbers are essentially bogus. Most honest experts and economists have known this for years, but hearing the truth from Bernanke on the matter was rather unusual to say the least — especially since the Fed's so-called "dual mandate" includes promoting maximum employment.
But while Bernanke might have been uncharacteristically honest and blunt in his assessment of some congressional malfeasance — though the picture he painted was likely much rosier than the economic reality facing the United States would seem to justify — he failed to mention the central role played by the Federal Reserve in creating the economic calamities in the first place. And as countless economists and publications including The New American have documented, the Fed's policies have been probably the single biggest factor contributing to the ongoing economic crisis.
As much of the press was singing his praises, however, a few critics brutally assailed his management of the economy and the effects of Fed policies. "Our central bank tries to manipulate our economy in ways befitting a Soviet commissar," charged Steve Forbes in a recent piece for Forbes magazine.
In the article, entitled "Ben Bernanke: Socialist Supreme," Forbes blasted the Fed's artificial manipulation of interest rates. Also under fire: The central bank's massive U.S.-government bond holdings and the "central planning" being used to prop up certain favored economic sectors.
"The Fed's socialist tendencies, as one would expect, ride roughshod over property rights," the piece explained. "Ben Bernanke's high-handed actions are a prime argument for why we must restore the gold standard."
Meanwhile, the Fed announced in late January that it would continue to devalue the dollar and rob savers by holding interest rates at virtually zero until at least 2014. Bernanke also subtly threatened to unleash another tidal wave of new money — known in Fed-speak as "quantitative easing" — by gobbling up more assets to inject cash into the economy.
Of course, gold and silver prices surged after the announcement even as the dollar lost value against other major currencies. And numerous analysts warned after the news broke that the Fed's failed policies would ultimately contribute to economic chaos of unimaginable proportions.
As Bernanke correctly explained, despite the federal government's insatiable appetite for borrowing and spending money it does not have, the monstrous deficits cannot go on indefinitely. But the Fed itself — as the chairman undoubtedly understands — is enabling the madness by purchasing bonds and subsidizing U.S. government debt.
If something does not change soon, virtually everyone agrees, the consequences will be dire. But while Congress must indeed reduce the wild spending and borrowing, the Fed itself deserves much of the blame.
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Study: U.S. Economic Freedom Drops for Fourth Year
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Printing Money in Britain Doesn't Work There Either
Housing: Prices and Ownership Still Correcting
Regulatory Agencies Continue to Slow the Economy
U.S. Fed Bailout of Euro Prompts New Push for Audit & Sound Money
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Rich Americans Are Fleeing the Country
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Israeli startup SlickLogin announced on Sunday that it had been acquired by search giant Google in what is known as an "acquhire," meaning the SlickLogin team will be fully absorbed into Google.
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Florida Performance Shop Jams V8 into Ranger Chassis
Tires Will Be a Smokin'
by Jason Giacchino
Automotive quiz time: What does one of a body of armed guards who patrol a region, a gray, wolf-like canid, and a small, hardy horse of the American plains descended from Spanish stock all have in common? If you answered Ranger, Coyote & Mustang, not only are you likely a Ford fan, you may need to get out more.
All kidding aside, we stumbled upon a news byte that just begs the question: do we truly live in an era of excess? Blow By Racing in Delray Beach, Florida had a customer drop off his 2011 Ford Ranger in need of some additional power output. The solution? Transplanting the stock power plant for the world renown 5.0-liter V8 "Coyote" engine that powers the Ford Mustang GT.
In the 2011 GT, the Coyote is good for 412 hp @ 6500 rpm (390 lb"¢ft @ 4250) but at Blow By Racing, that's only the starting point. This particular Ranger is to be fitted with a Kenne Bell Mammoth supercharger and naturally, a Tremec Magnum T-56 transmission to transfer the frame twisting power to the ground.
We haven't confirmed frame reinforcements, suspension upgrades or bigger brakes in the build, but it's a safe bet no stone will be left unturned in this incredible build. We just hope the owner has stock in Goodyear! This is one hoofed Ranger that's going to be howling at the moon.
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I haven't programmed in assembly for a very long time but I still have a longing for it due to the absolute control it offers. It's impressive seeing someone tackling huge projects like an OS in pure assembly, I sure couldn't see myself writing anything but small extremely time critical components in assembly these days, and only if it was to utilize special instructions which compilers still struggle with compared to hand-written assembly (such as sse).
One thing that programming in assembly teaches you is how the generated code actually work when you program in higher level languages. Also if you have ever programmed in assembly things like pointers (which seems to be so hard to grasp for those who has only worked in high level languages) is obvious.
I'd say the overall level of programming has gone down-hill during this past decade (if not longer), we've had people come in applying for writing code for embedded devices who can't even write a doubly linked list from scratch... yes, seriously.
Meanwhile we have this new breed of 'programmers' citing how 'productive' they are when they use these powerful frameworks where they are in principle doing extremely little programming at all and are just relying on existing framework functionality with ~1% (or less) of the code in their programs actually being written by themselves.
Certainly there's a place for this kind of 'rapid development' but I shudder to think that this is what the majority of programming will be about in the future since it not only abstracts away from hardware (which all high level languages does) but also in my opinion heavily abstracts away from problem solving, particularly in the realm of efficiency.
Ahwell, enough of my rant, get off my lawn and all that.


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SULPHUR — Since he was very young, Yoshitaka "Yoshi" Iwasaki had a fascination with Native American culture.
As a young boy in Japan, he was enamored by Native American portrayal in American western films, but wasn't convinced they were shown in their true character. As a result, he dedicated his life's studies to understanding and teaching about their culture.
At only 5 or 6 years old, Yoshi got his first exposure to Native Americans.
"I saw 'Stagecoach' and 'Broken Arrow' as a young child and always wanted to know more about these 'savages' being shown, always as the bad guys," he said.
But Yoshi always felt they were the cool guys of the movies, "Never the bad guys."
When he would play "western fight" with his friends, Yoshi always chose to be the Indian, saying he was a "lonely guy" in that department.
As he grew older, his fascination and studies continued and eventually, it became the basis for his collegiate and professional studies.
Then he took his first trip to the United States and into the Indian Territories.
"I went to the University of Oklahoma for study and thought I would meet many Native Americans on my trip," he said.
But he soon discovered that most of the students and teachers were not of Indian descent, and the ones that were lived just as everyone else did.
"It was not what I expected, but it did go with what I knew about the Native Americans — that they have prospered and live just like everyone else," he said.
When Yoshi did meet his first Native American, he said the gentleman was happy to help and talk about anything.
"He knew my intentions, knew I wanted to educate people on the real Native American culture," he said. "It let me know that what I was studying was correct."
In his continued studies, Yoshi has begun focusing specifically on the Chickasaw tribe. He wanted to break the Native American stereotypes in Japan, and show the prosperous side of Indians.
"We know the poverty and the bad stuff about the Native Americans from the newspapers, documents, things like that, but nobody in Japan understands the prosperous side of these people," Yoshi said. "The Chickasaw tribe, even though it is one of the smallest tribes (in population), it is probably the most prosperous in my opinion."
Most importantly to Yoshi, he wants his students and the local citizens in Japan to know that Native Americans no longer live in teepees, dance around half-naked, ride horses and wear war paint. But he also wants to show that despite the changes they've made, they still take pride in their culture.
"When my students leave my class enlightened, it is a glorious feeling to know they understand that it isn't like that," he said.
Yoshi has made several trips back to the U.S. since that first trip, and brings back a bit of knowledge with him each time.
"I like to find manuscripts, books, things written by my Native American friends that we can use to study with in Japan," he said. "As you can imagine, we don't have good archives of Native American material to study, so when I come, I mail back new things to have."
His most recent trip involved a lecture at the Chickasaw Cultural Center on Tuesday, where he conveyed how foreign countries — particularly Japan — view the Native Americans. Many Chickasaw in attendance found it humorous that they are still viewed as the "villains" from old western films, and many Japanese still think they act like the "savages" portrayed so many times in old films.
"When I tell them I am going to Indian Territory, they want to know if it is safe for me to do that," he said. "But they are not like that at all, and that is what I want to teach them."
From the day he learned of the Native Americans' existence, Yoshi knew they weren't as they were perceived. From his days of voluntarily being the Indian in Japanese "Cowboys and Indian" games, to continuing his efforts to abolish Japanese stereotypes associated with the Native Americans, Yoshi has done all he can to learn and respect a people he has come to know and love.
"I'm a wannabe Indian in Japan," he said. "It was my dream to become a member of an Indian tribe, to be one of the cool guys from the movies. I never knew I would have the opportunity to really be a part of Native American culture.
"This is something I will always treasure."


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The offseason is when athletes make their most improvement,
The Lipscomb baseball program will host a 10-week Hitting Camp on Sept. 17 and 25, Oct. 1,8,15,29 and Nov. 5,12,19,26 at Lipscomb University.
Session I is for students in grades six through 12 and will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The cost to attend each session is $40.00 (1 hr.) or $350 for all 10 weeks (includes a T-shirt). ,p> The camp will be instructed by Lipscomb assistant coach Brian Ryman and assistant coach Matt Thomas along with LU players and Terrance McClain (volunteer coach and professional baseball player).
Participants will receive instruction on hitting and bunting techniques with an opportunity to practice the techniques, drills and station work.
To register or for further information, contact Ryman by calling 615-279-5868 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Trainee Web Developer
- Recruiter
- Arrows Group
- Location
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 20 Feb 2018
- Closes
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- IT & Technology
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The Trainee Web Developer role is subject to successful completion of the training course - details of costs & fees will be discussed at registration
Arrows Group-Web Developer
We are looking for ambitious and technically minded individuals who are seeking a new career in IT! New opportunities have arisen to become a Web Developer, where you will be responsible for the design, build and maintenance of websites and web applications.
Arrows group are one of the largest and fast growing IT digital recruiters in the UK. We have been recognised in the Sunday Times' International Track 200 Growth companies for three consecutive years meaning room for progression within your career. Applicants will have the opportunity to progress within the industry and increasing salary potential up to GBP30,000.
We offer our customers a global solution to global requirements, with a network of offices across Europe and a global delivery centre in India. This enables our teams to deliver at pace in way that's faster, more efficient and drives quality. Some of our well known clients include;
- Sky
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- Channel 4 and many more.
If successful, you will be enrolled onto one of our flexible online training courses allowing you to study at your own pace around your current commitments. With the help of one of our experienced tutors you will gain a CompTIA internationally recognised qualification in Web Design and Development! Once completed, some of your responsibilities will include the following;
- Working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript Frameworks.
- Implementing and maintaining applications
- Delivering high quality implementations and code.
- Improve overall HTML5, CSS3 and PHP page implementation, including page architecture
- Working with the Designers
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Latest Snowden Revelations Suggest GCHQ Is Just Like 4Chan Trolls, But With More Firepower
from the 4chan-gone-professional dept
- "Change outcome of online polls" (UNDERPASS)
- "Mass delivery of email messaging to support an Information Operations campaign" (BADGER) and "mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign" (WARPARTH)
- "Disruption of video-based websites hosting extremist content through concerted target discovery and content removal." (SILVERLORD)
- "Active skype capability. Provision of real time call records (SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype) and bidirectional instant messaging. Also contact lists." (MINIATURE HERO)
- "Find private photographs of targets on Facebook" (SPRING BISHOP)
- "A tool that will permanently disable a target's account on their computer" (ANGRY PIRATE)
- "Ability to artificially increase traffic to a website" (GATEWAY) and "ability to inflate page views on websites" (SLIPSTREAM)
- "Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (Youtube)" (GESTATOR)
- "Targeted Denial Of Service against Web Servers" (PREDATORS FACE) and "Distributed denial of service using P2P. Built by ICTR, deployed by JTRIG" (ROLLING THUNDER)
- "A suite of tools for monitoring target use of the UK auction site eBay (www.ebay.co.uk)" (ELATE)
- "Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity" (CHANGELING)
- "For connecting two target phone together in a call" (IMPERIAL BARGE)


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Powerful earthquake hits Russia
Tremors felt in Moscow, 7,000km from epicentre
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake originated in the Sea of Okhotsk today. Image: Google Maps
A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres west of the epicentre.
The quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale, said Marina Kolomiyets, a seismic station spokeswoman. The epicentre was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. It is one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
The US Geological Survey reported a magnitude of 8.2.
Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, but lifted it soon afterwards.
The earthquake originated 600 kilometres under the sea bed and with the tremors so far down they have the potential to spread quite far.
Russian news agencies reported that residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Okhotsk Sea felt the tremors for about five minutes. Residents ran out of the buildings. School children were evacuated.
Tremors were felt in Moscow, prompting some people to evacuate from buildings across the city.
Tremors are extremely rare in Moscow, the last recorded instance was in 1977.


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Efforts to reduce residents' sleep deprivation and stress with mandatory reductions in work hours have not been popular with hospital attending staff, and now a new survey suggests that the rules are equally unpopular among the residents themselves.
Two-thirds of surgical residents who responded to a 20-question electronic survey said they objected to the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program requirements, wrote Brian C. Drolet of Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and colleagues.
In fact the rules are so unpopular that 20% of the 1,013 surgeons-in-training who answered the survey said that they falsified duty-hour records sometimes, 11% submitted fudged reports once a week, and 4% turned in faked reports daily, Drolet and colleagues reported online in JAMA Surgery.
"The 'spoiler' is that 50.1% of surveyed surgical residents under-reported duty hours, 62.1% falsely reported duty hours, and only 32.4% acknowledged complying with the ACGME duty hour rules," wrote Orlando C. Kirton, MD, from Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, in an invited critique.
"This is extremely troubling behavior that could inevitably lead to unwanted scrutiny and stewardship action by Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Congress," he wrote. "The ACGME rules are the law of the land. It is no longer about adoption but about adaptation and demonstrating resolve. Noncompliance is not an option and must not be encouraged."
Drolet and colleagues sent the email surgery to 4,140 residents training in general surgery or surgical subspecialties and received responses form 25% of the sample.
Half of the survey responders said patient safety remained the same as before the duty hours were imposed, they reported, while 38% said it worsened.
"The proposed benefits of the increased duty-hour restrictions -- improved education, patient care, and quality of life -- have ostensibly not borne out in surgical training," the authors wrote. "It may be difficult for residents, particularly in surgical fields, to learn and care for patients under the 2011 ACGME regulations."
More than half of responders (55%) said educational opportunities had worsened under the new work hour rules and 68% said there was less attention paid to preparation for senior roles -- a key concern in surgical residency programs.
Drolet and colleagues acknowledged that the study was limited by a low response rate, but added "its results demonstrate an overwhelming disapproval of the changes."
Four earlier polls of medical personnel regarding the duty-hour restrictions showed similar sentiments and results.
"Unfortunately," Kirton wrote, implementing the duty-hour rules "has left program directors and other educators without a mechanism to prospectively evaluate their effect on residency education."
"We are left with a 'one shoe fits all' approach based on empirical data in the absence of high-level evidence, because peer-reviewed published reports have not shown consistent effects of duty-hour restrictions on patient care, quality, or mortality rates," he stated.
The authors had no disclosures to report. No commercial funding was reported.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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JAMA SurgerySource Reference: Drolet B, et al "Surgical residents' perceptions of 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour regulations" JAMA Surg 2013; 148(5): 427-433.
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JAMA SurgerySource Reference: Kirton O "The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour regulations" JAMA Surg 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.169.


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Mar 19, 2008
March 19, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Wednesday afternoon's baseball game between MIT and Wentworth Institute of Technology has been postponed. The game will be made up on a date to be determined.
The cancellation marks the second consecutive year that MIT and WIT have been forced to postpone its non-conference tilt. The Engineers own a 14-5 advantage in their all-time series against the Leopards, including a 16-5 victory in the 2006 season-opener.


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Weekend burglary in Orange
Officers with the Orange Police Department are currently investigating a burglary that occurred sometime between 5 and 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, in the 1000 block of Clairmont Drive in Orange.
Police report they received a call a little after 10 p.m. Friday reporting the burglary. The victim said he and his two sons went to a football game and got a nasty surprise when they got home. The man told police when he opened his front door, he saw items scattered all over the room as though it had been "ransacked." He then went from room to room and discovered several items missing from his residence. Among the missing items the man reported were three LG televisions, two Sony Playstation 3 game consoles, an Apple iPad 2 and miscellaneous clothes and shoes.
Police are still looking into the incident and have no suspects at this time. Anyone with information regarding the incident should call OPD at (409) 883-1026.


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Prop 2 Supporters Misled on Other States
The proponents of Proposal 2 made the rounds claiming that collective bargaining has been put in other states' constitutions and therefore Proposal 2 was nothing new or radical.
Their statement was meant to mislead. While some state constitutions allow collective bargaining, no other state constitution allows collective bargaining agreements to override state laws related to "wages, hours, and terms of conditions of employment," a very broad term that includes matters as trivial as the price of candy bars and soda at work.
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Looking at some other state constitutions, Article 1, Section 6 of Florida's Constitution allows collective bargaining, but provides right-to-work protections and prohibits government-employee strikes:
The right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization. The right of employees, by and through a labor organization, to bargain collectively shall not be denied or abridged. Public employees shall not have the right to strike.
Missouri's Article 1, Section 29, allows collective bargaining for private and public employees, but does not have state law trumped by collective bargaining agreements:
That employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.
Article 1, Section 19 of New Jersey's Constitution allows private-sector bargaining, but not government-sector bargaining. It states:
Persons in private employment shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively. Persons in public employment shall have the right to organize, present to and make known to the State, or any of its political subdivisions or agencies, their grievances and proposals through representatives of their own choosing.
Article 13, Sections 1 and 2 of Hawaii's Constitution allow collective bargaining in both the private and public sectors, but does not allow the trumping of state law:
Section 1. Persons in private employment shall have the right to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Section 2. Persons in public employment shall have the right to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining as provided by law.
A few things stand out. First, just as was the case with Michigan's now failed Proposal 2, the states that put private-sector bargaining in their constitution are acting redundantly. Federal law has allowed private-sector bargaining since 1935 and no change in that law is likely.
But more importantly, Michigan's Proposal 2 differed from these other states in a couple of key ways. Unlike Missouri, New Jersey and Hawaii, which are neutral on right-to-work protections and directly in contrast to Florida on that issue, Michigan's Proposal 2 absolutely would have prohibited passage of a right-to-work law. Most importantly, however, Proposal 2 was alone in allowing collective bargaining agreements to override state laws.
Proposal 2 was a radical idea that gives tremendous power to unions to obtain a special set of rules for themselves and their membership that cannot be altered, modified or reformed by the Legislature. No other state has taken this drastic step.
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Masked thief robs Oklahoma City store with toy gun, police say
Toy gun left at scene
Masked thief robs Oklahoma City store with toy gun, police say
Toy gun left at scene
Oklahoma City police are looking for a man who robbed a metro convenience store with a toy gun, officers said.
Employees at the Dollar General in the 1600 block of North Meridian Avenue called police after a masked man broke a window with a steel pipe and robbed the store, officers said. According to investigators, an employee had just taken money out of the safe, when the thief rushed up to her and stole an unknown amount of money. The man left the toy gun at the scene, police said.
The thief is described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing all black, including a ski mask and gloves.
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Still going strong at nearly 82, Cooper comes in every day to Traders Pawnshop at 2880 Havendale Blvd., holding court at the jewelry counter.
WINTER HAVEN | Bob Cooper considers himself a "poor man's banker" and he's been one for a long time.
Still going strong at nearly 82, Cooper comes in every day to Traders Pawnshop at 2880 Havendale Blvd., holding court at the jewelry counter.
He arrives at 7 a.m. Mondays to unlock the gates to his mini-storage and temperature controlled storage businesses located behind the pawn shop.
He also rents out several store fronts and a beauty shop.
"I came here from Indiana 42 years ago," he said. "I was selling unclaimed freight down the road where the Wells Fargo bank is now. Then I sold furniture. Then I decided to take a vacation and bought the building we're in now."
He opened the pawn business 35 years ago. From then on, he bought adjacent properties when they came up for sale.
Now, he and his son, Rod, run the pawn shop, where they sell everything from cars and watercraft to tools, tires and table saws. His stepdaughter, Lori Holley, is the secretary and two grandsons help with maintenance and keeping up the website.
The Coopers know their business helps people when they are strapped for cash.
"I have customers who come in later and thank me," Bob Cooper said. "You can get from $5 up to $5,000 but the merchandise has to be good."
Joe Tarver, a 20-year-employee, said he likes working for the Coopers and agrees that pawn shops are places where one can get money in an emergency.
"Pawn shops are a way to get fast cash to take care of whatever you need. Banks don't do that," Tarver said. "We have a ton of repeat customers. A lot of people like to shop at pawn shops — you can practically find anything you need and get it at half the price."
Cooper said he's developed a good sense of whether an item is stolen.
Paperwork on every item accepted is sent to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. If the item is stolen, it is returned to the owner.
"That's about 1 percent of our business," he said. "Sometimes a guy will come in with a woman's ring to pawn and it always belongs to their grandmother. I don't know why it's always the grandmother but you know something's up."
Rod Cooper, who runs the day-to-day business, said his father has just started sleeping in — he comes in at 9:30 a.m. the rest of the week and leaves about 2 p.m.
"He's started slowing down," he said. "But he's still sharp as a tack. Longevity's in the family. He has a sister, 87, who until last year ran her own ranch in Avon Park."
Over his lifetime, Bob Cooper has had five wives and so many biological and adopted children and grandchildren, Rod Cooper can't keep up.
"We all love him — even the ex-wives," Rod Cooper said.
Cooper said he doesn't work all day anymore, and gets a kick out of watching "Pawn Stars" on television.
"There's a big difference between having a pawn shop in Inwood and having one in Vegas," he said, chuckling. "It's not the same at all."


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In search of the ideal educational technology device for developing countries
In two weeks I'll visit BETT, the London-based event which is sometimes referred to as the 'world's biggest educational technology trade show'. While I don't know if it is in fact the 'biggest' (ISTE's annual event is huge as well), nor how one calculates magnitude in such cases, there is no doubt that it is indeed really, really, really, big.
I attend BETT most years for a number of reasons. Doing so provides me with a chance to see all of the new cool gadgets and applications in one place. It is pretty easy to schedule meetings packed into a few days with lots of groups and people who are also at BETT; 'back home' it would take months to coordinate such meetings.
Conveniently, BETT takes place immediately after the Education World Forum, where scores of education ministers gather together each year to share experiences about challenges and successes related to education in their countries. This 'convenience' is actually no coincidence: Many ministerial delegations, especially those from middle and low income countries, stay on to tour the exhibition halls at BETT, to see the 'latest and greatest' and be (presumably in some cases) wined and dined by various vendors hoping to build relationships and do some business. While I skip the 'hospitality' stuff (not really my scene), I typically find it very educational to attach myself to, and rotate between, a few ministerial delegations each year as they tour the BETT exhibition spaces. Doing so offers me some exposure and insight into what such groups are interested (and not interested) in, and provides me with a 'fly-on-the-wall' view into the various sales pitches that are made to these sorts of government officials by companies eager to ring in the new year with some big contracts – as well as how such officials respond to such marketing.
Just as I find the questions that educational officials ask of vendors when they tour the BETT exhibition spaces to be revealing in many ways, I am often intrigued by the related questions that many of these companies then pose to me.
As a result of my work at the World Bank helping to advise on issues at the intersection of technology use and education in middle- and low-income countries and emerging markets around the world, I am, for example, asked from time to time by companies sets of questions that can be summarized as follows:
What would be the 'ideal' educational technology device for use in schools,
and by teachers and students, in developing countries?


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Moms are the best. And dads trying to be moms might be even better.
Motherhood was a big theme in the PEOPLE stories that really grabbed readers' attention this week – whether it was a brave Canadian mom defending herself from ridicule, or a Mr. Mom in California opening himself up to it.
For good measure, we also had a celebrity mom who got readers riled up with a racy Instagram pic.
Below, check out the five stories that got the strongest reactions on PEOPLE.com this week. And let us know what you think of every story by clicking on the icons at the bottom.
Motherhood can take a physical toll on your body. And one Canadian mom of five won raves this week for standing up for herself after being ridiculed for her stretch marks while wearing a bikini to the beach. Check out excerpts from Tanis Jex-Blake's wonderful open letter on Facebook.
Don and Maxine Simpson of Bakersfield, California, were married for 62 years. After they both fell ill this summer, their granddaughters moved their beds into the same room in the family home, where they held hands and talked about their lives. It's what happened next that was truly incredible.
Kim Kardashian often gives out memorable presents to friends. But her gift to Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci this week – it certainly was racy – earned lots of disapproving clicks from PEOPLE readers.
The saddest news of the week involved a celebrity couple – an NFL player-turned-TV host and his VH1 star fiancée – calling off their engagement after five years. Click to see who blamed their end on "distance and work schedule."
Meghan Sylvester of Austin, Texas, didn't want to take maternity photos during her pregnancy. So her husband, Justin, took matters into his own hands. The result? Some pretty hilarious photos you have to see to believe.
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CRESTVIEW � Halfway through the 2012 season, the Crestview volleyball team is still making strides and growing under second-year coach Kathy Combest.
Nothing is coming easy to the Bulldogs, and Combest knows they must battle for every win.
Combest also understands that volleyball�s most basic principal is that you win with defense.
�We have been really working hard (on defense) and trying to get them where they need to be,� Combest said. �I kept saying, �Until we get that defense right, we are not going to run our offense.� We have been working defense, defense, defense.
�I�m not saying we haven�t worked on our offense, but it has to be here on defense first and we have to be confident.
The Crestview defense was on display, as was the offense Monday night, as the Bulldogs swept Navarre 25-15, 25-17 and 25-23.
Crestview�s defense was on display as Haleigh Hollinhead, Kerrie York and Brittany Pase each had double-digit blocks and Molly Woodward double-digit digs. Hollinhead finished the night with 14 blocks, York had 13 and Pase 10. Woodward had 11 digs.
Malia Gandy just missed recording double-digit blocks as she finished the match with nine.
The Bulldog offense showed up in 22 kills by Jasmine Middleton, nine kills by Hollinhead, 19 assists from Jackie Hanners and 17 assists from Molly Kitchen.
Things were nip-and-tuck in the first set, with the score tied 9-9, before Crestview (6-5) took control of things.
A kill by Middleton gave Crestview a 10-9 lead. A Pase kill followed Middleton�s kill, and the Bulldogs were off and running on a 16-6 run that gave them the set.
Middleton proved to be too much for the Raiders to handle in the second set as she slammed down eight kills and was responsible for nine of the 25 Bulldog points in the set.
The set was tied 13-13 when a Raider serving error gave the Bulldogs the lead at 14-13 and the serve. A Middleton kill put Crestview in front for good.
In the early going, the third set followed a similar pattern to the second set as the teams were tied 12-12. Ultimately, a Gandy kill gave Crestview the lead. Hollinhead had three kills in an 8-2 Bulldogs run, but the Raiders wouldn�t go away as they pulled to within a point at 23-22.
The set and match ended as Pase recorded her 11th kill of the night to seal the win for Crestview.
�Every game we win is something we achieve,� Combest said. �Nothing is going to be given to us. We are going to have to fight and scratch the whole way.
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Clippers Coach Doc Rivers was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for his comments criticizing officials after the 105-104 loss to Oklahoma City in Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal playoff series Tuesday night.
The call in question came with 11.3 seconds left in the game in Oklahoma City and the Clippers leading, 104-102. Thunder guard Reggie Jackson drove to the rim and was hit on the hand by Matt Barnes, knocking the ball out of bounds. The officials stopped play to look at TV replays to determine who touched the ball last.
The replays appeared to show Jackson last touched the ball. The officials disagreed, saying replays were inconclusive, and gave Oklahoma City possession. On the ensuing play, Chris Paul was called for a foul on a three-point attempt by Russell Westbrook, who made all three of his free throws.
"It was our ball," Rivers said after the game. "Everybody knows that it was our ball. I think the bottom line they thought it was a foul and they made up for it. In my opinion, let's take away replay. Let's take away the replay system because that's our ball. We win the game and we got robbed because of that play.
"It's clear. Everybody in the arena saw it. That is why everybody was shocked when they said Oklahoma City [ball]. That was our ball."


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It's been such a beautiful sunny day and I'm back to my girly side. I've been showing you all my many layers through these outfit posts lately! I have a birthday party tonight for one of my close friends and this is what I will be wearing.
Bustier & Skirt: Charlotte Russe
Shoes: Bamboo (Mandee)
Clutch: Asos
Bracelet: C/O MyDarlingAva
Sunnies: H&M
Someone made a comment last week on instagram when I wore a similar outfit and they said that I always made crop tops & bustiers look so fashionable even if I show off a little of my skin. I think the key to that is not going overboard. In my opinion the best way to wear these types of tops is to pair them with something that is high waisted so you are only seeing a little bit of your stomach. I usually try and make sure that my belly button is covered. Or if you want to show a little more stomach, then layer with a cardigan or blazer on top. You can be sexy WITH your clothes on. Just remember that ladies!
I can't help it. I just love outfits like this. I went back to CR to see if they had any new bustiers and luckily for me they had this one AND this skirt. I wanted to bring out the peachy/orange shade in the floral print so this skirt was a winner for me. This ensemble is super chic & feminine.
I paired this outfit with nude shoes & a white clutch because I already have so much going on with the skirt and top. I'm wearing a chain/yarn bracelet courtesy of MyDarlingAva. It matched perfectly! Make sure to check out her Etsy store and enter code Naty10 to receive 10% off your order!
My lipstick is MAC Vegas Volt and nail polish is ESSIE A Crewed Interest. Hope you like!
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"Surprise, surprise, a certain Korean company copies more of Apple's product design. When Apple launched the iPad mini in October 2012, Apple explained the design: the almost 8" screen size and thin border allow one-handed use. Now, the new 8" Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 has the same border design as the iPad mini." From what I can only assume is the The Onion of technology reporting. I love humour like this on a lazy Friday afternoon.


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Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 2GB OC Edition Video Card Review
Radeon HD 7790 With 1GB or 2GB of Memory?
Last month AMD filled in the performance gap between the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition $95 and Radeon HD 7850 $180 desktop graphics cards with the AMD Radeon HD 7790 at $149. When AMD launched the Radeon HD 7990 Bonaire cards they did so with cards having 1GB of memory and just in the past week the 2GB versions started shipping from various addin board AIB manufactures. The very first company to release a 2GB version of the AMD Radeon HD 7790 just happens to be Sapphire and we managed to get our hands on this card. We reviewed the Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 DualX OC 1GB graphics card the day it came out, so well skip the basics and get right to the heard of the matter. If youd like a technology refresh, be sure to visit the launch article here.
Sapphire currently offers three versions of the AMD Radeon HD 7790. The base card offered by Sapphire is a Radeon HD 7790 with model number 100356L. This card is clocked at 1000MHz on the Core, the 1GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 6000MHz effective and it has a custom GPU cooler with a single fan. This card is a solid entry level card, but its not a good buy due to the next card.
You can get the same card, but with it factory overclocked for less money. Usually its a few pennies, but right now its over $15 less. So, for $15 less you can get the Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 DualX OC 1GB that is clocked at 1075MHz on the core, 6400MHz effective on the memory and a much better Sapphire DualX dual fan GPU cooler. This is a very solid card for the price and is the card that we reviewed last month. Due to the price and features of this card there is no reason anyone should pay more and get the entry level card. The newest and most expensive card is Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 OC 2GB and it is the card we are looking at today. It costs an extra $30 before $4 shipping and comes overclocked right out of the box, but the core clock speeds are lower than the DualX card and it has a single fan GPU cooler on the card. The best thing about the card is that it comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory versus 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Does that really matter? Gamers long for a larger frame buffer, so well take a look at the Sapphire 7790 DualX OC 1GB versus the 7790 OC 2GB today the two cards shown above.
We asked Sapphire why they used two different core clocks on their overclocked cards and this is what they had to say.
The DualX cooler on the 1GB part givea a little better cooling, so there is a little more headroom in production and the ability to ship production volumes consistently at the higher rated core clocks. Because of the innovative design on the cooler for the extra memory on the Back side of the 2GB part, we do not need to change the rated memory OC it is the same on both models. Sapphire PR
The Sapphire HD 7790 2GB GDDR5 OC has a good overall appearance with a black PCB, black plastic fan shroud and a black fan. The triple black motif is broken up with some chrome accents across the fan shroud and the exhaust bracket itself. You can also see the two copper Ushaped heatpipes, which adds a third dimension when it comes to the color pallet.
Sapphire opted not to go with the DualX GPU cooler design on the HD 7790 2GB GDDR5 OC, but they did put a nice looking GPU cooler on the card. It features dual heatpipes and a single aluminum aerofoil to help keep the GPU cool on this dualslot video card. The black PCB on the Sapphire HD7790 2GB OC measures 8.5 in length and features part number 109C5824700A_02. This is the same part number as the DualX 1GB version, but while the component layout is identical, the 2GB version has more holes in it for the custom metal backplate.
Most sub$200 graphics cards dont feature a backplate, but the Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 2GB OC does! This metal backplate looks good, keeps the rear GDDR5 memory ICs cool and helps stiffen the PCB to keep it from warping. This backplate has one feature though that weve never seen before.
The last couple inches of the Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 PCB is bare, so Sapphire opted to cut a rather large hole in the dead space in order to attach a finned heatsink to the backplate. The finned heatsink is attached to the backplate with two screws and extends into the airflow from the cooling fan on the front of the card. Sapphire says that this design really helps to carry heat away from the components on the rear of PCB and reduces memory temperatures to as low as 13C. Pretty innovative and it does get warm during use, so we assume it works.
When it comes to video outputs you have DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4a, DVII and DVID. The mounting bracket also has hot air exhaust slots to help exhaust some air out of your computer case. This cards GPU cooler design really blows air in all directions, so not much is exhausted out due to the openness of the fan shroud.
The SAPPHIRE HD 7790 2GB OC Edition model supports the FleX feature, pioneered by SAPPHIRE, that allows three digital displays to be connected to the DVI and HDMI outputs and used in AMD Eyefinity mode without the need for an external active adapter. All four video outputs can be used in AMD Eyefinity mode, but the fourth display must be a DisplayPort monitor or connected with an active adapter.
Just like all AMD Radeon HD 7790 video cards, youll find a 6pin PCI Express power connector located along the top of the video card near the end of the PCB. Sapphire recommends a 450W or greater power supply with one 75W 6pin power connector for this video card to operate properly. This card also has a single CrossFire connector on it, so you can join up to two of these cards together for up to double the gaming power on some titles.


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If you watched last week's video on my top five favorite Waldorf toys, or read my blog post "In Praise of Rocker Boards," then you know why I love this open-ended toy and recommend it so highly.
Not only do rocker boards invite imaginative and active play, but they also help develop a child's sense of balance (which aids brain development) and strengthen core muscles.
Our rocker boards are made in the U.S.A. by a young Waldorf family in California who were inspired to create the "Curvy Board" after seeing rocker boards in use in their children's kindergarten classroom.
Rocker Boards can be used indoors or out.
Each Curvy Board is handcrafted in the U.S.A. from nine layers of poplar plywood. The corners have been rounded for safety, the wood sanded smooth, and each has been finished with child-safe varnish for durability.
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Italian Partisans
As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.
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Alan who? please furnish your e-mail address and name.Peter Timber. email@example.com. O am a volunteer and will assist you but not engaged in any cirrent research. Peter
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My husband was a partisan. He was captured by the facists on 31 October 1944 and handed over to the Germans. He was in a concentration camp in Germany until released by the US Army.
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Thank you. I will get onto this as soon as I can and get back to you. Peter
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Ok got it. Go to www.CIA.gov and when homepage comes up click on the far right of the heasding where ity says SEARCH. Click Search and then when the page appears type in Italian Partisans World War II. Let me know if it works out. Peter
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There is going to be a conference of former Italian and German POW who were interned in the USA during Worl War II. There may be former soldiers of these nations who have \"other side\" information about Italian Partisans during the war. Peter
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yes since they were the soldiers who put them in concentration camps after they captured the partisans...another perspective. Peter
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I suggest reading a copy of the newsletter www.gentracer.com/newsletter.html concerning the POW conferenceas well as www.traces.org concerning a Professor Luick Thrams who recently relocated back to Iowa from Univ.of Berlin. Apparently he has a larger vision of this topic. This may or may not be of intrest to you but like chicken soup it cannot do you any harm. Peter
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Thanks so much, ptimber, I'm so glad to find more news about what happened when captured partisans were liberated. Unfortunately, nothing on a name search, but this is interesting.
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Thanks so much, ptimber, I'm so glad to find more news about what happened when captured partisans were liberated. Unfortunately, nothing on a name search, but this is interesting.
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Hi, this are biography of Partisans from 1919/1944 in Bologna area:alan wrote:I would welcome hearing from anyone who has done or is doing any research into the Italian resistance movement of WWII.

Kind regards

Alan

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http://http://www.iperbole.bologna.it/i ... enti/A.htm
In Forlì/Cesena area:
http://www.criad.unibo.it/isr-forlicese ... afie2.html
In Prato(Tuscany):
http://www.associazioni.prato.it/resist ... rtigi1.htm
http://www.associazioni.prato.it/resist ... caduti.htm
http://www.associazioni.prato.it/resist ... deport.htm
http://www.associazioni.prato.it/resist ... pravvi.htm
and in general for all Italy: http://www.romacivica.net/anpiroma/LINKS/links6.html
regards, suanj
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College men's soccer team recently received the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Team Academic Award for the 2011-12 academic year. It is an award for having a program that excelled in the classroom in addition to its work on the field.
"Achieving an award like this is something we expect from our student-athletes in this program," said men's soccer head coach Paul Leese. "Our team GPA has gone up each year since I arrived at Coker, and it is great to see the continued success we are having in the classroom."
A total of 721 college soccer teams posted a team grade-point average of 3.0 or higher for the 2011-12 academic year. Of that total, 150 schools had both their men's and women's programs recognized. Coker College had both its men's and women's programs fall into this category.
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Coker College readies undergraduates for personal and professional success through a distinctive four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom. Coker is ranked among the "Best Colleges" in the South by U.S. News & World Report as well as The Princeton Review. Located in Hartsville, S.C., Coker is within two hours of the cultural, financial and recreational resources of Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach.


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While you're guzzling spiked eggnog or sipping Champagne this holiday season, what is your teenager going to be drinking? It's a question that you may want to ask yourself before the bubbly starts pouring.
I grew up never being allowed a drop of alcohol under my parents' roof until I reached the age of 21 (i.e., or until I went off to college and my parents no longer had control). But with my younger sister, my mom was a little more flexible, and has long been allowed the occasional bubbles on special occasions, such as weddings and Christmas.
Other than the obvious "younger sibling has it easy" issue, there hasn't been any real reason for concern. I highly doubt that the few sips that she did have when she was 15 at our aunt's wedding lurched her into a downward spiral of alcoholism.
I understand why parents would have a strict no alcohol policy in their home -- for fear that they'll be uncorking that metaphorical bottle forever. And yes, that would be a horrible responsibility hanging over your head, but the truth is, they're teenagers -- if they really want to drink, they will do so, with or without your permission.
You have to take a good look at your teen and gauge which is the best method for your family. If you prefer the "When in Rome" type of lifestyle, then have a glass of wine at dinner. If not, don't. As bent out of shape as some parents get about the whole "drinking under parent supervision thing," it's really not that big of a deal.
There was no difference between my sister and I, drinking-wise, as we both turned into adults, yet one of us was introduced to alcohol at a much younger age than the other. It was never a "forbidden fruit" to me -- up until college, I never even had a desire to drink, and when I did start, I didn't go crazy. And my sister, who was given the taste years ago with a glass of Champagne at a family Christmas dinner, has yet to turn into a raging alcoholic. It's credited to my mother who educated both of us on the effects of alcohol; she just used two different teaching methods. At the end of the day, education and trust are what's key. I will say that my sister and mother seemingly have a closer bond than my mother and I did when I was her age. Now whether that bond was created over drunkenly discussing life, who knows (kidding!). But in all seriousness, I think a lot of it has to do with the trust factor. My sister didn't feel the need to "sneak" around; therefore she's more open to talk to my mom about things -- whether it be boys, drinking, drugs, etc. -- whereas, I never really talked to my mother about that stuff until recently.
For me personally, when I have teenagers in my household, I see nothing wrong with letting them have a glass on special occasions. I'm not going to allow my home to be turned into one giant keg party, but I see no harm in responsible drinking.
I will argue that some parents think it's okay to extend that same practice to their children's friends, eternally turning them into the "cool parents," which is not okay under any circumstances. Yes it's under your roof, and yes you may be supervising, but whether they drink underage or not is, by no means, your decision to make -- it's the parents' of the child. So as tempting as it may be to be the "cool mom," someone has to be the adult in the situation and lock that wine up.
What are your thoughts on allowing teens to drink at home? Will your teen have a glass of alcohol during the holidays?
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