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Hi Everyone!
I've been wanting to sit down and blog a bit, but hadn't made the time until now! Mark says I shouldn't whine, but I don't look @ this in that way! It occured to me the other night, as I was getting ready for bed and putting my mist cup on my trache - that I really have a hole in my neck! UGH! Even though I know it makes things easier all around for me to have this trache - it certainly wasn't easy getting it done and it isn't much fun maintaining it either! The very best thing about it is that I don't need it to breathe, I only need it when I have a procedure, because I am limited right now as far as how wide I can open my mouth and this makes it difficult for the anesthesiologist to intubate me! See photo: The mist cup is attached to a long, blue hose that is attached to the humidifier that sounds like an air compressor! Poor Hanz - that used to scare him in the beginning, but he is used to mommy having to sleep with that loud thing now! See the pile of pillows behind me? The first pile is covered in a twin size allergen cover because I'm allergic to dust mites - actually the entire bed is covered in a king size allergen cover. The top pillow I need for the neck support and has it's own pillow case allergen cover.
I've really no right to complain about anything - I was just telling Celia that over breakfast on Sunday. I have everything I need to help with my avm situation: whatever I need monetarily - thanks to such a generous family! Complete love and support from my family and friends, so many prayers, novenas, and Masses said for us! Our faith and wonderful doctors, physicians assistants, anesthesiologists and nurses that are outstanding! It has been a very long road though, and I like sharing with you some of what I go though, so that you can really feel like you are experiencing this with me! This is OUR Avm journey!
There sure are days that I would love to call in sick to work - but that would only mean disappointing myself, knowing that I could try a little harder and make the best of my situation! Every day I travel to work with a "cart" full of all my needs - my wound care bag - in case I should have a "bleed" and need to put a dressing on the left side of my face where I'm still healing from a wound caused by alcohol tracing back out on to my skin and "burning" it. I have NOT had a bleed @ all since we got back from CO in late January! That is so awesome! Used to be, I could be sitting @ work when I would hear a co-worker say, "You're bleeding"! Yikes! Put pressure on the area and get it to stop! So glad that is behind me for now! That takes a load off right there! Unfortunately though, I am getting some drainage from my left ear, so that is an uncomfortable feeling. I have a "hole" in my eardrum, so I can't hear from my left ear! That's frustrating to my co-workers I'm sure, that I'm constantly asking them to repeat something! We're hoping that can be repaired after this whole avm nightmare is overwith! I can also hear my pulse in my ear constantly - 24/7, so I try and put that out of my mind!
Other things in my cart include my medical bag that carries all my prescriptions! I have to write everything down that I'm taking or I'll never remember it! Must have snacks - especially if I'm on steroids - I'm ravenous and must have snacks! My favorites include kettle corn, poptarts, danishes, candy corn and juice! Plus whatever I take for lunch! I always carry a book and some magazines that I can read during my lunch if I dine alone in our office breakroom and of course I bring Saba with me to work every day! Saba is my Build a Bear that goes with me to every procedure in CO since I got her! She makes me happy and I love dressing her in cute outfits and she sits on my cd player on my desk! I had a lady that works across the hall from me ask about my bear. She thought that maybe I brought her to use her in some work related way. No, I told her, "the bear is mine, her name is Saba and she makes me happy, so I bring her with me to work every day"! Lots of other people have stuffed toys in their office - I just like changing the way mine looks and I don't want to leave her alone @ the office @ night! I'm surrounded by photos of Hanz on my desk and bulletin board, so I try and make my 8 hours @ work as pleasant as possible! I have a very understanding supervisor that really takes into account everything I'm going through and is very happy that I give 100% to my job! I love what I do and every day is an adventure!
Almost 2 weeks ago I had started feeling pain on the left side of my face. I was in denial that I had a possible ear infection. I wasn't wanting to be admitted to the hospital and put on IV antibiotics as I've had to be a couple of times in the past! I finally gave in and went to see my primary care physician and I got a shot in each hip and some antibiotics, so I finally got that pain under control! Taking steroids lowers your immune system, so I tend to get those painful ear infections! OUCH! Trying to keep my pain under control @ work gets tricky @ times - I was taking 3 different pain killers and it still wasn't helping - until I went to my doctor and got an antibiotic! I am such a happy camper when I don't have to deal with pain! I get people that work @ the courthouse actually stop to ask how I deal with so much and still look so happy and full of energy! It's all in the medication! No, it's all the love and support I get from all of you! I do know how very blessed I am! Do you know what my amazing husband Mark did the other day? He changed out my entire trache completely - by himself! Our dear friend and neighbor Terry Serna is a respiratory tech. and she had changed out my trache the first two times - and now Mark felt ready to do it on his own and he did a fantastic job! The other day I just looked at him and thought, "Wow, this man is taking care of me and patiently waiting for me until I am feeling better"! Not only does Mark take such great care of me (Mark always checks the water level in my humidifier mist cup I strap on my trache @ night), he is my wound care expert, ear drop applier, ointment slatherer (is that a word?) - but he takes wonderful care of Hanz! Our baby Hanz brings us both so much happiness - Hanz has been the best distraction for me from this avm! Mark bathes him, cuts his hair, trims his nails and cleans up after him. I do a little of the latter and feed him (I share my sushi with Hanz!) and love him a LOT! We both enjoy taking Hanz for a walk when we get home from work and you should see Hanz just strutting up ahead of us - just loving that his mommy and daddy are walking him! Of course he's high maitenance like his mommy! We don't go walking until we make sure we have poop bags, wipees if needed, treats for when we reach the end of the street - Hanz knows to sit, he gets a treat and then we pick him up to cross the street! Water of course in case Prince Hanz gets thirsty on his walk! Hanz was such a hit the other day when we picked up some chicken @ Churches for dinner! Several of the workers gathered around the drive thru window to admire our cute kid!
My next trip to CO will be March 10-12th and this time Celia will come with me! We will be meeting @ Dr. Yakes office, and Dr. Hepworth (my new ENT in CO) will be there and both will talk to us about why Dr. Hepworth feels he is ready to debulk the area under my chin, and Dr. Yakes wants to wait and take care of more of the avm by doing more embolizations before we even think of debulking! Yowza! Just don't let me bleed to death, ok?
My meds mess with my sleep schedule and that disrupts poor Mark and Hanz too! The pain killers make me very drowsy, and when I'm on steroids, they make my hyper! Mark has just learned to take it in stride if he wakes up @ 4 a.m. and I'm sitting up reading! There are times I'm on 2 hours sleep and I'm fine - until I crash off the steriods and sugar rush I've been on after a few days!
I must have jixed myself, because I had a minor bleed today @ work. Totally my fault! I put some antibiotic ointment on my scab on the left side of my face - this ate away @ the scab and next thing I knew, the kerchief I was wearing felt wet on the left side! Sure enough, I looked in the mirror to find I was bleeding. It was't arterial, but a trickle of blood that I needed to get stopped asap! Grabbed my wound care bag and headed to the bathroom! Soon as I wet a paper towl and put pressure on the area, it stopped bleeding right away! I ended up having to change out most of the trache on my own! Usually, my friend Diana helps w/my medical stuff, but she was @ a Training for the next couple days! You know how it is when you look in the mirror - everything is backward - so I put the trache collar on inside out the first time, but then was able to fix it and put in a new drainage sponge too - TADA! Good as new! The only thing was, I felt a bit exposed w/out having a clean kerchief to replace the one I had gotten blood on! Note to self: add clean kerchief to cart and extra polo as well!
Let's see .... what other kind of fun have I been having? Oh yeah! I had gotten away from using the Therabite because I always seemed to have another fire I had to put out that really needed immediate attention! Now, I can barely open my mouth to eat so I have no choice but to get to work on that Therabite again! From having these procedures, it has limited the amount of space I can open my mouth - and the reason that I ended up needing the trache - because anesthisia could't intubate me properly anymore! So, this is another part of my routine, making time to work w/the Therabite!
The last month I had been dealing with an ingown toenail that I decided needed to be taken care of! Mark had seen a Podiatrist a couple of years ago, and I really liked her, so I had an appt. w/Dr. Phillips this afternoon! She removed my left, big toenail! Gah! She said I had better meds for pain already than anything that she would have given me, so I should be fine! The numbness wore off a few hours ago, so I'm feeling some discomfort! During my office visit, I thought she would be struggling to pull off that toenail - but I didn't even feel a tug! She's my new best friend! Ha, ha, ha!
Oh! It's cold out and Mark made the most delicous pot of chili and some corn bread johnny cakes! YUMMY! Food tastes better on steroids or some tastes differently, but dang this was good! Poor Hanz kept hoping for a little taste, but all I could give him really was a bean or two! I'm ready to have it all over again for dinner tomorrow night!
Ok, it' off to iron my clothes for work and then to sleep! Hopefully, by tomorrow, I can insert some photos on to this blog! Good night! Thank you everyone for all the love and support you give us!
Mark & Cyndi Schuman
P.S. 2/27/10 - I can finally post some photos! One I had already mentioned earlier - me with the mist cup humidifier I'm attached to every night. Of course Mark and Hanz - the loves of my life! An extra photo of Hanz because he's Mommy's Angel!
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Watch this astronaut chat with a talking robot in space
If life in space ever gets lonely, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have something new to talk to.
A new video shows the first humanoid robot in space making small talk with a Japanese astronaut. In footage released by the robot's developers Friday, the robot Kirobo performs its first mission on the station - talking in Japanese with astronaut Koichi Wakata to test its conversation function.
Wakata says he's glad to meet Kirobo, and asks the robotic companion how it feels about being in a zero-gravity environment.
"I'm used to it now, no problem at all," Kirobo quips.
Kirobo is programmed to process questions and select words from its vocabulary to form an answer, instead of giving pre-programmed responses to specific questions.
Kirobo took off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center for the International Space Station this summer aboard a space cargo transporter. Experiments with Kirobo will continue until it returns to Earth at the end of 2014.

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It doesn't seem that long ago that we heard whispering that THQ was working with Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock Studios on a new game called Evolve. That publisher expected the game to sell around four million copies and bring in over $120 million in revenue.
Then the bankruptcy court forced THQ to auction off its assets. Sega paid $26.6 million for Company of Heroes developer Relic, Ubisoft bought new studio THQ Montreal for $2.5 million, and publisher Take Two bid $11 million for the rights to Turtle Rock Studio's Evolve.
The second-highest bid for Evolve was for $250,000 from Turtle Rock itself.
"Obviously, we're really sad to see things dissolve for THQ, we really had a great relationship with them," Turtle Rock Studios cofounder Phil Robb told GamesBeat. "Regardless of who we ended up with, we were rooting for THQ to come out of this intact and get a chance to turn things around."
Since the developer bid on its own game, I asked Robb if his team is disappointed that another publisher swooped in and got the rights.
"Disappointed we were outbid? Hell, no," said Robb. "From our perspective, we came out of the proceedings in an awesome position. We are super-excited to be moving forward with 2K."
2K Games is a subsidiary of Take Two. It will likely handle publishing duties for this newly acquired project.
Obviously, the publisher sees something in Evolve. THQ expected big numbers, and now Take Two thinks it is worth spending $11 million on. So, what is the Evolve?
A triple-A shooter for current and next-gen platforms
"Honestly, we're chomping at the bit to let gamers know more about what we're doing," said Robb. "We've got something really special brewing at Turtle Rock and look forward to the day when we can share it with everyone."
According to former THQ project manager Jonathan Bloch's LinkedIn profile, Evolve is a "triple-A shooter" set to debut "on current and next-generation platforms."
Internet rumor-monger Superannuation claims to have uncovered concept drawings for Evolve from artist Rolo Ramis:
Ramis removed the blog with the alleged Evolve art, but we managed to download them. Have a look:
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In order to create a hosting plan for a VE with Plesk, you may do the following:
1. Configure the general hosting plan. Go to Top > Business Director > Billing Manager > Hosting Plans; click the New Hosting Plan button; select the Virtuozzo VE hosting plan type; click Next; and configure the general hosting plan settings, OS template, and billable resources as described in HSPcomplete Provider's Guide.
2. Configure non-billable resources.
Plesk imposes a set of requirements on Virtuozzo System Resource limits, which are listed in the sample VE configuration file named ve-vps.plesk7.rh9.conf-sample. It is located in the /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts directory on any Virtuozzo Hardware Node.
At this step, you can specify the non-billable resources in accordance with the values from that sample configuration file.
Here is an example of a non-billable resource configuration suitable for a VE with Plesk:
|Size of unswappable kernel memory (kmemsize)
|Unswappable user pages (lockedpages)
|4096 pages
|Memory allocation guaranteed (vmguarpages)
|32768 pages
|Total size of SysV IPC shared memory (shmpages)
|131072 pages
|Total size of private pages (privvmpages)
|262144 pages
|Number of processes (numproc)
|Total number of physical memory pages (physpages)
|0 pages
|Guaranteed allocating address space (oomguarpages)
|32768 pages
|Number of open files (numfile)
|Number of TCP/IP sockets (numtcpsock)
|Number of file locks (numflock)
|Number of pseudo-terminals (numpty)
|Number of siginfo structures (numsiginfo)
|Total size of TCP send buffers (tcpsndbuf)
|Total size of TCP receive buffers (tcprcvbuf)
|Total size of other socket buffers (othersockbuf)
|Total size of UDP receive buffers (dgramrcvbuf)
|Number of entries in IP tables (numiptent)
|Guaranteed network rate (netrateguar)
|0 KBit/sec
|Disk inode quota (diskinodes)
|200000 inodes
|Size of busy dentry/inode cache (dcachesize)
|Limit of user quotas (quotaugidlimit)
|Number of sockets other than TCP/IP (numothersock)
As soon as non-billable resources are adjusted as shown above, click the Next button.
3. At this step, you may configure DNS settings and select Hardware Nodes where VEes based on this hosting plan should be created. If there are no special requirements, the default settings will be fine.
4. Configure VE applications:
The following application templates should be enabled and marked as "Included":
- Apache mod_perl (mod_perl)
- SSL for Apache (mod_ssl)
- MySQL server (mysql)
- AWstats 6.5 or later (for Plesk Server Administrator 8.x)
- Plesk Server Administrator
Optionally, the following application templates can be enabled:
- PostgreSQL
- Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager
- ColdFusion
- Secure FrontPage Apache Server Extensions (mod_frontpage)
- Plesk Antivirus (plesk-drweb)
- Plesk Backup Utilites (plesk-bu)
- Plesk Migration Manager (plesk-migration) (not applicable for Plesk Server Administrator 8.x)
- Plesk Professional Web Site Editor (plesk-ppwse)
- Plesk Application Vault (plesk-vault)
- Plesk Spamassassin (plesk-spamassassin)
- Plesk Tomcat (plesk-tomcat)
- SSH Term
Please note that you do not need to separately install the applications that are provided by the Plesk application template (for example, the ProFTP server or the UW IMAP and POP3 servers that are included in the Plesk application template) and applications provided in the Plesk Application Vault application template (PostNuke, phpBB, bbclone, phpBook); selecting Plesk and Plesk Application Vault templates will be enough.
Support for Tomcat4 is provided by a separate Plesk Tomcat template (which, in turn, requires the Tomcat application template).
Spamassassin support is provided by a separate Plesk Spamassassin template.
Site Applications are available in a separate Plesk Application Vault template.
Support for migrating accounts from other hosting platforms is provided by a separate Plesk Migration Manager template for Plesk 7.x and is included in the Plesk 8 template.
Backup Utilities are available in a separate Plesk BU template.
Dr.Web Anti-Virus support is provided by a separate Plesk Dr.Web template.
Plesk Professional Web Site Editor is provided by a separate Plesk PPWSE template.
As soon as the Applications configuration is completed, click the "Next" button to finish creating the hosting plan.
You can modify a hosting plan and update all the subscriptions based on it. To do this, go to Top > Business Director > Billing Manager > Hosting Plans > Choose the hosting plan > Click the Subscriptions tab. A list of subscriptions based on the selected hosting plan will be displayed. Click the Upgrade Subscriptions button > Select the subscriptions and go through the upgrade procedure.


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Welcome to Julian Barbour's web site
This site introduces my work on the foundations of physics and as a popular-science writer. A non-technical description of my ideas and in particular my current research into Shape Dynamics is available. Since completion of my PhD in 1968, I have worked outside an academic environment, though I have collaborated with several researchers in academia. The picture above shows me at my home in north Oxfordshire, England. Much of the work with my collaborators has been done there.
Besides research papers, I have written two books: The Discovery of Dynamics, which investigates the background to Newton's great discoveries, and The End of Time, which is written for both the general reader and scientists. In it I argue that time is ultimately an illusion.
During the last few years, I have collaborated with Edward Anderson, Brendan Z. Foster, Henrique Gomes, Sean Gryb, Bryan Kelleher, Tim Koslowski, Flavio Mercati and Niall Ó Murchadha. I describe our current research programme here. We receive offers of collaboration with interest and can provide some support and supervision to young researchers.
- A history of thermodynamics (pdf)
- Updated ideas
- New explainer videos
- Preprint on Entropy and the typicality of universes
- Talk at Zürich Workshop on time in physics:
"Time's arrow and the entropy of the universe" (video, slides)
- Preprint of PRL paper "Identification of a gravitational arrow of time"
- Shape Dynamics tutorial by Flavio Mercati
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Tigers agree with draftees Thompson, Green
DETROIT -- The University of Louisville had one of its best seasons ever, resulting in a school-record 51 wins and a visit to the College World Series. The Tigers agreed to terms with two of its top pitchers -- right-handers Jeffrey Thompson and Chad Green -- on Tuesday.
The Tigers selected Thompson in the third round of the First-Year Player Draft and he signed at slot value ($549,400). Thompson was named the Big East Pitcher of the Year with an 11-2 record, 2.19 ERA and 113 strikeouts in 107 innings.
"The numbers he put up this year -- and they had a good club, Louisville -- but the numbers he put up were phenomenal," Tigers vice president of amateur scouting David Chadd said. "That's kind of what helped us make that decision [to select him]."
Green was picked in the 11th round and had a 10-4 record with a 2.42 ERA and 74 strikeouts in 104 1/3 innings.
The Tigers have now signed their top nine Draft picks and have agreed to terms with 27 of their 41 selections.


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This one I heard when I was recently interviewing a person and asked him why he was looking for a change within an year of joining his previous company. Particularly a company which is known to be in the business of processing high volume transactions, 100s of 1000s of orders flowing through the system every minute etc., etc. (you know what sells, so lets cut it)
What the candidate told me was interesting -- he had joined originally hoping to be able to get into the lower layers of the system, understanding the secret sauce that binds a high volume reliable system etc. What he ended up doing was using a lot of tools - open source and commercial, and was in the business of just glueing it all together, which never gave him any understanding of the real deal. There were tight work deadlines too, so he couldn't really get into the hang of at least the open source stuff either.
I had to agree here. But tell me then, how would you prevent yourself from degenerating into an API stitching kind of a programmer in this specific situation? Are there any signs in the job interview process itself that signal you of this degeneration?


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Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) has always been a late bloomer, but it's well worth the wait when the fragrant yellow flowers, which look like clusters of shredded coconut, appear in autumn and early winter. Listen to learn more about this unusual shrub, which has a few more surprises up its sleeve.
This segment of The Old Farmer's Almanac Garden Musings podcast series was written by George and Becky Lohmiller and is read by Heidi Stonehill, an Almanac editor.


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We believe, as both Paul and Isaiah assure us, that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16) and that "the Word of our God shall stand forever" (Isaiah 40:8). As a Protestant Church, stemming from the great Reformation movement of the sixteenth century, Seventh-day Adventists base their faith wholly on the Bible.
We cherish a spirit of love -- not hate, distrust, or indifference -- and believe that God is no respecter of persons, but that He loves all equally. We seek in many practical ways to prove our love for God and our fellow men. These convictions are deep and heartfelt.
We recognize that our relationship to God through Jesus Christ must be a relationship of total dependence (John 5:19,30). From this experience stems the inner peace and joy spoken of in Romans 5:1 and Psalm 16:11.
While ever seeking to make the world a better place to live in, we firmly believe that only Christ is able to bring order out of present chaos. This will climax in the glorious return of Jesus Christ according to many Bible promises. The significance of the Sabbath is not just a day, but worshiping God as the Creator and Redeemer (Exodus 20:8-11, Ezekiel 20:12,20) and entering into His rest (Hebrews 4:4-10). In keeping the Sabbath they follow the example of Jesus and the apostles (Luke 4:16, Acts 18:4,11).
Since our first service in September 2001, it is the desire of the Collegedale Community Church to lift up Jesus by proclaiming the "good news" of the everlasting gospel.


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What happens when pro-government protesters meet anti-government protesters in the streets of Cairo? Predictably, both sides get violent. CNN reports that for the moment the violence consists mostly of throwing shoes and rocks, but with no security to be seen at Tahrir Square, the violence is starting to spread:
This appears to be Hosni Mubarak's answer to demands that he leave office immediately. Until yesterday, pro-government rallies had either not materialized or had been so low-key as to not attract much attention. Suddenly these rallies have begun appearing, and Tahrir Square is a high-profile location for them.
Why now? The army had already said that it would not intervene in the demonstrations as long as they remained peaceful and supported the "legitimate demands" of the people. If Mubarak wanted to get the army off the sidelines, the best way to do so would be to instigate violence and force the army's hand.
However, that's a dangerous game. Once violence starts, the leaders on the streets will be those most accustomed to it and most steeled against concerns over collateral damage. If the army doesn't take the bait, what had been a pro-democracy push on the streets could easily turn into a radical Islamist putsch.
Update (AP): Your understatement of the day, courtesy of the Times: "President Obama's calls for a rapid transition to a new order in Egypt seemed eclipsed on Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators for and against President Hosni Mubarak, some on horses and camels, fought running battles in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square." What's the White House going to say about Mubarak rolling out his goon squad to clear the Square? Are we still in "orderly transition" mode, or is it now time for "Mubarak must go"?
Update (AP): Also, where's the allegedly heroic Egyptian army while this is going on? Quote:
What about the Egyptian Army, which won accolades from the U.S. for not suppressing the anti-government demonstrations? It's taking a hands-off approach, telling demonstrators that since everyone involved is a civilian, soldiers are not going to take sides. That's according to anti-regime demonstrator Salma Eltarzi, who told Al Jazeera that she sees Mubarak's game plan at work…
Al Jazeera reports that at least one building by the square has been set on fire. Coverage of the Army is now extremely critical: while soldiers have apparently set up some personnel carriers as barriers between the two sides, they haven't stopped what the network described as a pro-government mob from pulling someone into its crowd and evidently beating him. Sultan al-Qassemi of The National tweets, referring to the defense minister and Army chief of staff, "Shame on the Egyptian Army. This is as low as they can get. What are Tantawi & Anan waiting for, a massacre or a stampede? Disgusting."
Update (AP): Did the army know this was coming? A military spokesman went on TV this morning to tell protesters that their voices have been heard and that it's now time to go home and restore "stability." Maybe that was their way of trying to clear the Square peacefully before the goons rolled in and tried to do it by force.
Update (Ed): Reuters reports that shots have been fired in Tahrir Square, although no one knows by whom; the army denies firing any shots.


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PETAWAWA, Ont. — The daily morning traffic jams attest to it. So do the rising subdivisions, the new schools, the plans for a shopping mall.
With troops home from Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan and a new helicopter squadron en route, CFB Petawawa is fuelling an economic boom in this Eastern Ontario community.
There's no post-mission slump here. Instead, Petawawa Mayor Bob Sweet says the town's economy sagged at times during the mission, because so many troops were overseas. There were fewer people to buy groceries, new cars and other goods.
"I always say that Petawawa is kind of recession-proof, because you don't lay soldiers off when there's a downturn in the economy," says Sweet. "But when you send abroad 2,000 individuals, it's virtually the same thing."
But now, as Canada's war in Afghanistan is morphing into smaller training mission, the communities around the country's "super-bases" — like Petawawa, Edmonton and Gagetown, N.B. — are undergoing a major shift.
And with nearly 5,000 soldiers and 900 civilians on the payroll, CFB Petawawa is by far the upper Ottawa Valley's largest employer, pumping between $400 million and $500 million a year into the regional economy.
About 60 per cent of the soldiers live off base in Petawawa, Pembroke and other Ottawa Valley communities. As they returned from major deployments in 2006, 2008 and 2010, flush with money earned in combat, many decided to buy a home, says Judy DeGeer, owner of RE/MAX Pembroke Realty.
"The common comment I got was, 'I worked extremely hard and put my life on the line for this money. I need to make a wise investment with that,'" DeGeer says. The result has been a frenzy of homebuilding in Petawawa.
"Over the last three or four years, I suppose we've built a small community," Sweet says. About 800 new homes have gone up, with another 1,200 or so planned.
With nearly 16,000 residents, Petawawa is already the largest community between Ottawa and North Bay. The population is expected to spike to about 19,000 by 2020, Sweet says. One new school is almost built and funding is in place for another.
The federal government's decision to base Canada's new fleet of 15 Chinook helicopters at CFB Petawawa is also goosing the town's growth. The first 100 soldiers will arrive in May and the new helicopter squadron will become fully operational next year. When fully staffed, it will bring 400 to 500 soldiers plus their families to Petawawa.
Construction began about a year ago on a massive $135-million hangar, nearly a kilometre in length. "It's a beast of a construction," says Lt.-Col. Chris Moyle, the base commander. The military expects to spend $835 million on new buildings and infrastructure related to the new helicopter squadron by 2020.
Until now, commercial development hasn't kept pace. The town lacks a proper downtown — Petawawa Boulevard, the main drag, is a nondescript array of strip malls, convenience stores and fast-food outlets — and there's a dearth of stores and services. Most residents make the 20-minute drive to Pembroke for serious shopping.
That's starting to change. Several new businesses have opened in recent years — many run by retired military personnel — and a 350,000-square-foot shopping centre is planned for 2013.
That's good for Petawawa, but it could hurt established businesses in Pembroke, says Gary Melnyk, president of the Upper Ottawa Valley Chamber of Commerce. "You'll have fewer people from Petawawa coming to Pembroke to do their shopping."
One Petawawa business that's thriving is the Madameek, a restaurant that serves authentic Lebanese food. Trooper Marc Diab's relatives opened it in 2010, a year after Diab was killed by a roadside bomb north of Kandahar.
The place is a tribute to the 22-year-old Petawawa soldier, who dreamed of opening a shawarma restaurant in the town. It's such a roaring success that the owners are on the verge of opening a second location in Pembroke.
"This kind of food, they don't have it here. And they like it." says one of the owners, Ghassen Ghanem, Diab's brother-in-law.
A steady stream of customers, many in uniform, stop by to pick up lunch. "It's a little bit slow," Ghanem observes. "Usually they're lined up."
He credits Diab for the business's success. "He's watching us, I'm 100 per cent sure, from the sky, and he blessed everything. That's why everything is OK."
With the rapid growth comes challenges. Some weekday mornings, the town's main street, Petawawa Boulevard, is backed up for two or three kilometres as soldiers and civilian employees head to work on the base. "It's hard to imagine," marvels Sweet. "We've got gridlock here in the Upper Ottawa Valley."
Fixing that won't be cheap. A two-lane bridge over the Petawawa River would have to be replaced to widen to road into the base to four lanes. The town is doing a feasibility study.
It's also spending millions to expand its sewer and water system, which CFB Petawawa relies on to meet its needs. But the base offers plenty in return, including fabulous facilities open to townsfolk at minimal cost.
Local residents can use the base's 18-hole golf course, sail at its yacht club, watch first-run movies at its theatre and work out at its world-class fitness centre, which features a track, two sheets of ice and indoor rock climbing walls.
The facilities were built to serve the needs of the soldiers and their families, says Moyle, who calls the base "a gem within a gem. If we can extend that capacity to the small communities that are around us, I think that just makes us better community partners."
The town has a "wonderful relationship" with the base, Sweet says. "We meet on a regular basis with the base team. It's a healthy relationship and one that's worked quite well."
That wasn't always the case. Soldiers used to rotate out every three years, and more lived on the base. "There was very much a division between the base and the military and ourselves," says Sweet.
Posting out is less frequent now. Some soldiers stay in Petawawa for a decade or more. "We get to know our neighbours an awful lot better," says Sweet. "You go to dances with them or play golf with them."
The base's soldiers are so well integrated that when they were deployed to Afghanistan, it created something of a crisis for sports and other volunteer groups, which rely heavily on them as coaches and organizers. "They're tremendous volunteers and they very much want to be part of our community," Sweet says.
But every silver lining has a dark cloud. Amanda Cheverie, whose husband is ex-military, opened her store, Full Spectrum Gear, in 2007, just before a deployment to Afghanistan.
Soldiers lined up for the store's outdoor tactical equipment. But over the last year, business has fallen off. Post-mission, soldiers don't need the kind of gear Cheverie sells. "I would say that 50 per cent of what I sell has come to a screeching halt or has slowed down noticeably."
Cheverie is adjusting. There are plans to sell firearms and ammunition. "Realistically," she says, "they never go out of style. I knew they wouldn't be in Afghanistan forever, and you have to evolve with the times."
Ottawa Citizen
CFB Petawawa at a glance
Location: Petawawa, Ont., 160 kilometres northwest of Ottawa
History: Founded in 1905 as Camp Petawawa, a summer training ground for the Canadian militia. During the Second World War, as many as 20,000 soldiers were stationed there for training. Renamed CFB Petawawa in 1968 following armed forces unification.
Size: More than 600 buildings, 1,600 housing units, 340 square kilometres of training area and a workforce of 6,000.
Resident military personnel: Fluctuates between 4,000 and 5,000
Civilian employees: 900
Components: 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, which includes the Royal Canadian Dragoons, two battalions of the Royal Canadian Regiment and the second regiment of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, among others. Also home to 2 Area Support Group, the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, medical units, military police and other support units.
Deployments to Afghanistan: Major deployments in 2006, 2008 and 2010, plus several smaller deployments.
Casualties: 40 soldiers from units based at CFB Petawawa have died in Afghanistan.


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It costs about $16.0 per hour (for one child) to hire a babysitter in 10962, that's about $2.53 more than the national average of $13.44 per hour. Additional children can cost up to 50% more per child that needs care but many sitters charge much less or nothing additional for two kids. A tip is not always necessary but always appreciated. 10 to 15 percent is common but again, not a requirement.
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This is life as a Cubs manager. There are 25 people (40 in September!) whose only goal in life seems to be to give you agita. They do bad baseball things, but even worse they do dumb baseball things, and after a while it just becomes too much to take and you have to check out. There's no way to stay sane if you're going to care about every little mental mistake, because the 2012 Cubs are a mental mistake.
Yesterday evening, Luis Valbuena found himself on second. Oblivious to everything, he ambled off the base, fiddling with his batting gloves. Mike Leake threw to second, and the ball was in Brandon Phillips's mitt before Valbuena even realized there was baseball going on. (You can watch the video here. MLBAM hasn't made it embeddable, perhaps because it makes too many people cry.) Valbuena was the potential tying run. The Cubs would go on to lose in 11 innings.
Dale Sveum couldn't do much more than sigh, and ask why God is punishing him.
"That's one of these things," Sveum said. "We have one of these things every three or four days that are not even explainable. You obviously don't practice staying on a base when a pitcher isn't on the mound. (These are) things that just boggle your mind, for major league players who have played a lot of baseball to just be looking off into left field when the pitcher is on the mound.
"These things get unacceptable. And (asking) why are these things happening drives you crazy as a manager because there's no rhyme or reason for things like that to happen."
Valbuena is back in the starting lineup today, because if Sveum benched every Cub who had mentally checked out, it'd be tough to field a team. "Why these brain farts happen," he mused, trailing off. "It's not (cause to) bench anybody over it."
"I don't take anything to heart when a player gets picked off standing and gazing at the stars."
The stars. Vast, maybe even infinite pinpricks of hope. You could lose yourself in them, wondering if maybe, possibly, somewhere out there is someone just like you, with the same dreams and fears and OH GOD I FORGOT HOW MANY OUTS THERE WERE.
Sveum won't bench Valbuena for 'gazing at the stars' [Chicago Tribune]


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Tucked in the small print of the payroll tax bill is a work-sharing plan that could save more than a million jobs this year
One of the little-noticed items attached to the extension of the payroll tax cut was a provision that would promote work-sharing as part of state unemployment insurance systems. The provision, which is based on a bill introduced in the Senate by Jack Reed and in the House by Rosa DeLuaro, would reimburse states for money spent on work-sharing programs that are part of their unemployment insurance system. It would also provide funds for the states that do not currently have work-sharing systems to establish them.
This provision is a rare victory of bipartisanship and commonsense. The basic logic of work-sharing is straightforward. Under the current system of unemployment insurance, workers who lose their jobs can get roughly half of their pay in benefits. However, if a worker has their hours cut back because of inadequate demand, they don't get in any way compensated for the lost pay. This effectively encourages employers to go the route of layoffs, rather than shortening work hours, since that is the only way that workers can benefit from unemployment insurance.
Work-sharing gets around this asymmetry. It allows workers to be compensated for part of their lost pay when their employer reduces their work hours. This means that if an employer decides to reduce the work hours of 50 workers by 20%, as opposed to laying off 10 workers, the 50 workers can get half of their lost pay (10% of their total pay) covered by unemployment insurance. This means that workers will end up working 20% fewer hours for roughly 10% less pay.
This is an outcome that is likely to better for workers, employers, and the economy as a whole. It is better for workers because it keeps them on the job and in a situation where they can be continually upgrading their skills in accordance with changes in the workplace.
By contrast, workers who are unemployed for long periods of time have great difficulty getting re-employed. Employers are reluctant to hire workers who have been out of the workforce for one to two years or longer. Unfortunately, a large number of workers now fall into this category.
Work-sharing can also be beneficial to employers as many firms that have gone this route have discovered. By keeping workers on the job these firms are able to ramp up production quickly to meet new demand. If they had gone the layoff route, they would be forced to go through a costly and time-consuming process of hiring and training new workers. The expense associated with employee turnover can be considerable, even for the least skilled positions.
Finally, the work-sharing route is by far the better route from the standpoint of the economy and society. It is a personal disaster for workers who end up permanently shut out from the labor force, but it also an enormous loss to the economy and society. We want to take to be able to use the skills that people have developed over a working lifetime, not throw them in the garbage.
And, needless to say, the family of a worker who is unable to find unemployment will also suffer considerable hardship. It is much more difficult to raise children in a situation where a primary breadwinner suffers through a long period of unemployment.
The provision in the tax bill will go far towards promoting the increased use of work-sharing, but there is still a long way to go. At the moment, there are less than 50,000 workers nationwide on work sharing programs. The extent to which this number increases will depend on efforts by states to promote the program and also their willingness to allow employers flexibility in its use.
The potential impact of work-sharing on unemployment is enormous. While the economy as a whole is adding jobs, we still have an enormously high level of churn every month: roughly 4 million workers leave their jobs, with 2 million leaving involuntarily. If the number of people being laid off can be reduced by 5%, this would be equivalent to adding 100,000 additional jobs each month, which translates to 1.2m by the end of a year.
Work-sharing has been used successfully elsewhere. Germany's unemployment is 1.5 percentage points lower today than it was at the start of its recession. This is not due to Germany's growth performance, which actually has been somewhat worse than the US. Rather, the difference is that Germany has been successful in persuading employers to keep workers on the job, even when this has meant a shortening of hours.
We might not have the same success with work-sharing as Germany, but if we can generate 1-2m additional jobs by promoting shorter hours, this would be a really big deal. The bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama last week is a big step in this direction.


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|Television and the movies has spawned countless popular characters and if you a movie buff, then a men's TV and Movie costume is the best choice for you. The question, of course, is which one? The Simpsons is the longest running American sitcom and scripted prime time show. You can't go wrong with Homer. South Park and Family Guy are two other immensely popular cartoon shows. You could also go with a classic, like Fred or Barney, Charlie Brown, or maybe Bugs or Daffy. The Muppets are well represented too, from the Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and even Fraggle Rock. Animated movie costumes include characters from Toy Story, Shrek, and even Nightmare Before Christmas
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By using a resource hacker and looking inside the Zune software files on a PC, some curious Zune owners found a few possible upcoming upgrades to Microsoft's player. Among them, synchronized lyrics, podcast subscription, aspect ratio, plugins, syncing lyrics to the Zune, and mini-mode playback options.
Of course, not all of these may be implemented any time soon, or implemented at all. It's just an idea of what could come down the line from Microsoft.
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Fareed Zakaria Rips Conservative Movement In Time Magazine Piece
CNN host Fareed Zakaria, also the editor-at-large for Time magazine, derides today's conservative movement as out-of-touch and too abstract in a scathing Time article "How Today's Conservatism Lost Touch With Reality." He argues, "Conservatives now espouse ideas drawn from abstract principles with little regard to the realities of America's present or past."
Of course, if Zakaria is to paint with broad strokes and dismiss the modern conservative movement as entirely lost and ineffective, the reader would expect him to expound upon his point in detail and provide plenty of facts and evidence to support his thesis. His argument is largely devoid of substantial evidence and filled with debatable historical assumptions.
Zakaria mourns for the days of traditional conservatism "rooted in reality," but doesn't help his cause by distancing himself from this traditional conservatism in the first graph.
"'Conservatism is true.' That's what George Will told me when I interviewed him as an eager student many years ago," Zakaria writes. "His formulation might have been a touch arrogant, but Will's basic point was intelligent."
This is certainly not a dismissal of conservatism, but neither is it a full embrace of conservatism. A friend of conservatism might have more authority to criticize today's movement than someone like Zakaria who keeps a safe distance.
Then he attacks the notion that lower taxes and spending will lead to economic growth, a favorite talking point of liberals today. "What is the evidence that tax cuts are the best path to revive the U.S. economy?" he asks.
Reaganomics would be a good starting point, although Zakaria makes no effort to address that conservative argument. He instead credits the economic growth of the 80's and 90's to government investing in education and infrastructure.
He also claims that Republicans are MIA when it comes to providing substantial ideas for improving health care in America. "When considering health care, for example, Republicans confidently assert that their ideas will lower costs, when we simply do not have much evidence for this."
Once again, Zakaria shreds the conservative side of an issue and moves on without providing a substantial rebuttal. Then he says Republicans "don't bother to study existing health care systems anywhere in the world," in a rather hasty accusation. "They resemble the old Marxists," he adds, "who refused to look around at actual experience."
He also hits conservatives for not embracing the findings of the bi-partisan Bowles-Simpson debt commission - "because those ideas are too deeply rooted in, well, reality." Once again he sets up a straw-man argument by hailing the debt commission's findings as "reality" without explaining why, and condeming conservatives for running from it.
Does Zakaria know that President Obama has also been running from ideas proposed by the debt commission? Would he like to criticize him as well? Or is he too busy having foreign policy conversations with the president to hit him as "out-of-touch" with America? Is it because he voted for a "steady and reasoned" Barack Obama in 2008?
If Zakaria provided evidence and quotes to back up his barbs against Republicans, his argument would prove much more credible than it does. Instead, it appears he is content with accusations bordering on ad hominem attacks.
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MPD: Resource officer, student had inappropriate relationship
Officer Ralph Floyd resigns following allegation
An Upstate high school resource officer has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a female student.
Mauldin High School Resource Officer Ralph Floyd resigned following the allegations, according to the Mauldin Police Department.
Police said a parent reported the relationship to the principal, who then alerted authorities.
"We had the inappropriate relationship reported to us. We in turn looked into the policy and procedures manual, and we know that contact was inappropriate," said Mauldin police detective Ben Ford.
Ford confirmed that Floyd resigned his post effective Feb. 6.
Floyd was hired by the department in 2009.
Mauldin police say due to a conflict of interest the case was forwarded to the Greenville County Solicitor's Office. That office confirms that the case is still under review.
The State Law Enforcement Division was also asked to investigate.
A new school resource officer was immediately assigned to Mauldin High School.
Greenville County Schools Spokesman Oby Lyles said due to the sensitive nature of the allegation, the case was handled delicately, but investigated swiftly.
"Anytime you have an adult texting a student at the school, it's very serious. This particular situation is a little different because the SRO is not an employee of ours, but of a law enforcement agency," said Lyles.


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IIES Staff
The IIES has around 60 staff and visiting researchers.
Here you can find contact details for our Faculty, Administrative Staff, Graduate Students and Visiting Researchers.
Due to the new Coronavirus and the closure of Stockholm University, all Staff (including the Administration) at the IIES are mainly working from home and thus best reached by email.
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Governor Jim Doyle made a brief appearance at Milwaukee's Amtrak station Friday, 11 June on the 75th anniversary of the Empire Builder, Amtrak's service from Chicago to the Northwest coast. Before boarding the train, Doyle mixed the romance of the rails with the Great American Novel. "In the final passage of the Great Gatsby, the […]Jun 14th, 2004 by Michael Horne


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Las Vegas federal building shootout leaves 2 dead
Nearly four months after a judge dismissed his lawsuit over Social Security benefits, 66-year-old Johnny Lee Wicks opened fire with a shotgun in a Las Vegas federal building, killing one security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before being shot to death, authorities said.
Preliminary evidence pointed to Wicks' anger over his benefits case as the motive for the shooting, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press Monday, though authorities are continuing to investigate. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
FBI Special Agent Joseph Dickey said the gunman opened fire Monday morning in front of a set of security metal detectors just inside a two-story atrium rotunda. He said he didn't know if any words were spoken before the shooting began.
"From what witness accounts have said, he walked in with a shotgun underneath his jacket and opened fire when he opened the doors," Dickey said. "Seven officers responded and returned fire."
The gunfire erupted at about 8 a.m. and lasted several minutes as shots echoed around tall buildings in the area more than a mile north of the Las Vegas Strip.
The U.S. Marshals Service said the victims of the shooting Monday include a 48-year-old deputy U.S. marshal who was hospitalized and Stanley Cooper, a 65-year-old contract court security officer.
Cooper was a retired Las Vegas police officer employed by Akal Security, said Jeff Carter, spokesman for the Marshals Service in Washington. He was a police officer for 26 years and became a federal court security officer in Las Vegas in 1994, Carter said. Authorities didn't immediately release the name of the wounded marshal.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was in Las Vegas but not at his local office in the building, said one of his aides bent down to pick up some newspapers in the atrium when the shooting began.
"She believes her life was saved as a result of picking up those papers," Reid said. "She then crouched behind a pillar when this 'war,' as she said, took place."
Authorities also were investigating a fire that damaged Wicks' one-bedroom apartment in a 90-unit seniors complex three miles northwest of the scene of the federal building, FBI Special Agent Dickey said as investigators pieced together a motive for the shooting and retraced Wicks' steps.
A neighbor, Johnetta Watkins, said she didn't see Wicks after firefighters doused the fire.
Watkins, 56, used to drive Wicks to the grocery store. She described him as a quiet man who walked with a limp, lived alone and sometimes complained that Las Vegas was a "prejudiced" place to live. He also complained about what he called an unfair cut in his Social Security benefits, she said.
"He hated living in Las Vegas and he had spoken about moving back to California," Watkins said, recalling that Wicks moved in about mid-2007. "He said that he had had several strokes ... and that he was distraught because the government was taking most of his money. They had cut his funds and he was very upset about that."
In a handwritten lawsuit filed in March 2008, Wicks complained that his Social Security benefits were cut following his move to Las Vegas, and he accused federal workers of discrimination because of his race.
"Lots of state worker(s) and agencies have took part in this scam mainly for old blacks who are not well educated," Wicks wrote in the seven-page complaint.
Wicks claimed the problem began in California, after he had a stroke and was unable to go to government offices to protest an earlier benefits reduction. He alleged Social Security staff called his new landlord in Las Vegas and told her not to help him.
The case was dismissed Sept. 9 by U.S. District Court Judge Philip Pro in Las Vegas following a hearing before federal Magistrate Judge George Foley Jr. Both judges have courtrooms in the federal building.
U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., told reporters it appeared the gunman acted alone and the shooting was not a terrorist act. Ensign also has an office in the building but wasn't there at the time. The senator said the guard who died was shot in the chest.
A video posted on YouTube recorded the sound of the running firefight as the man retreated across Las Vegas Boulevard toward another federal building and a historic school.
"I could see guards and everything coming out, and then all of a sudden I just started hearing pop, pop, pop. I mean, just like 30 or 40 shots," said Troy Saccal, a tax services manager who was arriving for work at the time.
Saccal said he thought he saw one guard slump to the ground and another move to help him.
The gunman died moments later in the bushes outside the restored Fifth Street School, where his body remained for several hours.
John Clark, director of the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, called the security officers heroes.
"The brave and immediate actions of these two individuals saved lives by stopping the threat of a reckless and callous gunman," Clark said in a statement.
Bullet holes marked the entrance of the eight-story modern federal building, which was locked down after the shootout and closed for the day.
A helicopter view showed heavily armed officers in flak jackets scouring the building's roof. Shortly afterward, armed officers escorted employees to the auditorium of a school three blocks away. Dickey called the evacuation "standard procedure."
The Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building opened in 2002 and is named for a longtime senior federal judge who still hears cases. It was touted as the first federal building built to comply with blast resistance requirements following the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
Barrett reported from Washington. Associated Press Writer Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas contributed to this report.


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]The course providers want to know what you know, not what we know.
They may well expect you to research these questions, but that does not mean asking other people.
Student or Learner
I'm intending to take up a CELTA course. I have gotten a pre interview task and in some questions im finding difficulty. So plz help me out by giving me correct answers with rules. I'm also giving some answers plz correct them if u think they are in correct. Thanks.
Q1: Underline the syllables which takes the main stress.
momentous, bystander, superb, independent, undeniable, reliable, computer, burger, photographic, photograph, photographer, ratio.
Q2: Diff b/w the following terms:
1)Alone: a physical condition of being alone... she was sitting alone in the garden
Lonely: an emotional condition or feeling... She was feeling lonely in the party because of the absence of her friend.
2)Win: You win the game/contest/match
Beat: you beat your opponent and it is always followed by an object.
3)Go back: means away from a speaker towards your previous location
Come back: towards the speaker, means where u were before.
Q3: Structures:
1)By this time next year, I will have finished college.
By this time next year, I will be finishing college.
2) I've been busy all morning. I've painted the porch.
I've been busy all morning. I've been painting the porch
]The course providers want to know what you know, not what we know.
They may well expect you to research these questions, but that does not mean asking other people.
you are absolutely right but I'm asking to help me out in this regard, as I do not know much about Stress thing. .. I have seen threads in which trainers have answered the questions, thts why I have put up all these things.
Thanks I ve found some useful things but still Im not sure whether I ve done it correctly or not. Anyway now waiting for an interview
1. Only one stress on one word.
2. Only vowels can be stressed.
Try to say the word out loud, as it might make it easier to locate the stressed vowel in the word.
The stress is on the part where you emphasise a bit on the word.
Momeeentous, Byyyyystander, Supeeeerb, Indepeeendent, Unden(iiii)able, Compuuuuter, Buuuurger.
I guess you get the point.
I know the question was asked since 2011, but it could probably help someone who stumbles across it.


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Good Morning,
Instead of babbling endlessly about the corrupt markets, manipulated data, financial engineering, fraudulent accounting, and debt saturation… today is the day Nate gets real. The "markets" are nothing but a mirage, an HFT figment of central banker's imagination. Their imagination involves taking as much as they can from you and a global playground for themselves. Playing in their world only further feeds the breakdown of the rule of law. No longer, not from me.
Gateway Yachts is my way of producing something real and using our economic reality in a positive manner. Make no mistake – my thoughts about the economy haven't changed one iota, but life is short, and I don't intend to spend the rest of it focused solely on the negative economic reality. I want to do something I enjoy, and I've found a way to do that and make it work despite that reality, but without the help of traditional banking.
No, this is not what I would consider a prime time to start a small business, but this business actually feeds on the reality of bubble priced yachts, bubble priced fuel, and a populace who largely cannot afford to do this type of yachting on their own.
Gateway Yachts is a Fractional Ownership Program along the lines of Netjets. Customers buy fractions in 1/8 increments, each 1/8 share brings with it 5 weeks (35 days) of advanced schedule use and unlimited open time use.
You can read all about how this works by following the Gateway Yachts link and reading about "Gateway Fractional Ownership." You can also read about my background and the history of fractional ownership on the "About Us" pages.
Fractional ownership is huge in the corporate aviation world. In just two decades it went from zero to today more than 50% of all corporate jets are sold into joint ownership programs. In the mid 1980s I was working on developing an aviation fractional ownership program when a Goldman Sachs executive, Richard Santulli, bought the world's largest aircraft charter company, Executive Jet Aviation, renamed it "Netjets," and implemented a fractional ownership plan almost identical to the one I was writing my Master's Research Paper on. Warren Buffett, a former critic of corporate aviation, bought the company and Berkshire owns it today.
The Netjets concept was groundbreaking in the same way that Southwest airlines was. The premise is that you take highly underutilized expensive assets and you utilize them more! Both of these companies created a market that did not previously exist by making their respective segment of air travel affordable to more people. Today all kinds of people own fractions of corporate jets who would have never been able to afford them on their own.
In the yachting world, there have been some half-hearted attempts, but sadly it has never been done properly, although there are a couple of successful programs in Europe. In the United States there are small companies who do this, but again it has not been done correctly. The common errors are to use unreliable old, heavy, fuel inefficient yachts that get run into the ground and then the customer base becomes unhappy, or some moneyed individual will try to start a program for his millionaire buddies using some mega-yacht and he may sell one boat if he's lucky.
No, the formula that works is to use all new equipment, use it as heavily as you can, but then retire it quickly and rotate the old equipment out of the program. But the equipment needs to be economical to operate to really hold down costs, and they need to target the area just below the solo yacht buyer where there is no market that currently exists.
A lot of people look at the marina and see only an expensive dream. Most won't even enter the marina as they know that dream is out of reach. Not anymore. In fact, my program has lowered costs so far that you can spend a week yachting in the Northwest surrounded by nature, and spend less than one-third the amount of a week long vacation to Disney World! Fuel included.
For those who understand our economic impossible math, I have turned that equation upside down, spelling out exactly how the math works to make yachting affordable for a way larger segment of the population - Ownership Method Comparison. Check out the 10 year total cost of owning all by yourself versus the cost of owning inside of the Gateway Fractional Program.
I now have agreements with two manufactures, one builds the world's most fuel efficient yacht – period, and he holds patents on the design. I have interest from a third manufacturer and may fill in a market gap a little higher end, again as efficiently as possible and from another much respected builder. All these boats are built right here in Washington State. We're talking real jobs and a real product, and the best part is that no commercial banker is involved!
How do we do that? These manufacturers are either self-funded or they use private investment capital to build their boats. And to make my program even more affordable, I have also created a second company called Gateway Yacht Capital (GYC). This is key to the program, a piece that no other fractional yacht company has.
The purpose of GYC is to take in private investment money to finance customer shares. This is done very conservatively so that the yacht is never "under water." The investor receives a rate of return that far exceeds what they can typically get elsewhere, and their investment is fully collateralized by the vessel itself which is always in Gateway's possession. To read about how this works, please follow this link to GYC Investors.
An investment in GYC is real, backed by something real, that created real jobs here in America, and in the most environmentally friendly way possible - Green and Built in America. Giving the bankers the old Heave Ho? Priceless.
In addition to the conservative investment opportunity, I am open to more speculative partners in Gateway itself. For more information, please contact me by following the contact link on the Gateway site.
Gateway Yachts – Adventure Yachting Excellence at a Fraction of the Price.
*Special thanks to AZRainman who did the code work and produces the world's most beautiful graphics! He normally does not do commercial work as he possesses a good moral compass, thus I consider myself lucky that he and others have helped make this vision a reality.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Morning Update/ Market Thread 8/4 – Gateway Yachts Edition…
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Who can you trust?
In this treacherous place, where the Baron's Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, the Master Thief Garrett can only trust one thing – his skills. And even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
As an uprising emerges, Garrett finds himself entangled in growing layers of conflict. Led by Orion, the voice of the people, the tyrannized citizens will do everything they can to reclaim the City from the Baron's grasp. A revolution is inevitable… and if Garrett doesn't get involved, the streets will run red with blood…


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One day some fisherman caught tons of fish called tench. The fisherman couldn''t eat them all so they gave them to the Mayor of the town. The Mayor wasn''t sure what to do with them. Then he had an idea; he would have a fish-eating competition.
When they had the competition, there were two finalists: a man from a place called Fife, whose name was Mr. Hicks; and a man that was from Sweden, whose name is Sven.
So they had the final; the Mayor fired the starting pistol and they started eating the tench. No sooner had Mr. Hicks bitten the fish than one of his teeth fell out. He couldn''t eat because of this so he stopped, but the Mayor refused to stop the competition. So Sven kept on eating and ended up eating nine of these tench fish.
The next day the headlines read: ONE TOOTH FREE FOR FIFE HICKS, SVEN ATE NINE TENCH!


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Good Morning,
We have an exciting New Year ahead, I hope everyone stays healthy, and that you are having fun learning and making money in the current and coming Crypto revolution!
Keep in mind that globally only 1.5% of us innovators are in the crypto space, and that there is a tidal wave coming. I expect the early adopters to bring the total of global users above 10% by the end of this year, and that by 2022 the majority of the globe will be transacting in this manner.
Before today's crypto update, let's talk gold. Gold is moving strongly higher in what I believe to be wave 1 of 3 up. It is currently at resistance and we may get a short term pullback after this run, but then wave 3 of 3 higher should follow. Wave 5s are the most powerful in commodities, so I expect that following a very powerful wave 3, that wave 5 will be even longer. Here's my current daily gold chart:
My minimum upside target for gold at the end of wave 3, if this count is correct, is $1,440/ounce. That's a minimum if wave 3 is equal to wave 1, but it could be up to 1.5 times as long. Ultimately I think this rally could be very substantial.
To back that up, the Dollar made a very large move lower today (against the other fraudulent centrally controlled central bank debt money). It has broken the neckline of a sizable Head & Shoulders pattern:
The target on the H&S pattern is about the 23.3 area for the Dollar, a pretty good move lower if reached, one that will create an overall lower low, and thus keep the downtrend in the dollar going.
What most mainstream analysts fail to understand is that confidence is being lost in all governments and in all centrally controlled monies. This can be seen in the rise of the cryptocurrencies – they are a mirror to the old failing money systems where the math is laughably impossible, yet not discussed because everyone knows the impossibility they created.
So, dollars are dying, gold is dandy, and this leads us to something that puts the math on our side, the new money system/s of Cryptos…
The Token space has been staying overall much stronger than the mainstream coins over the past few days, I think that's positive.
Yesterday's and last night's moves really sent two of my holdings much higher. Those were Ripple and LEND. Both have more than doubled in just the past few days. Since the Bitcoin top, Ripple has moved from the 20 cent range to now $1.80. LEND jumped 150% yesterday alone, and now sits at 20 cents.
LEND will be my first Coin of the week, I'll highlight it after the first of the year with a report. In a nutshell, it is an Ethereum based Token that has a lending App. People around the world can borrow and repay crypto currency. The token itself pays 1% interest per year. Not much interest, but something. I like this a ton as it moves humanity further from central banking. The team is very impressive, and I think they did not do this project for greed, they did it to genuinely help humanity, and as such I am supporting them with a long term investment.
Ripple's somewhat scary advance (basically straight up) comes on the release that they are working with a group of Japanese credit card companies and have formed a new consortium. The consortium is working to deploy their technology with credit cards around Asia. Here's the scary chart:
In the mainstream coin arena, Bitcoin Cash finally caught a bid this morning, zoomed to $2,900 and has since pulled back. This sudden burst of energy on high volume is a positive development and makes the chart look constructive.
Litecoin is stuck in a sideways channel with little energy. It could still go either way from here.
Ethereum looks relatively stronger than the rest still. Since the large bottom, it has made a series of higher lows and looks like it is working on a 5th wave higher. If so, that would be bullish.
Bitcoin fell yesterday down to the giant H&S neckline, then bounced in what I can count as a 5 wave higher move. That may be bullish and since yesterday's low has put in a higher low. Now it needs to make a higher high, but overall energy for Bitcoin is still low. It has been drawn like a magnet back and forth across the $13,800 area. It has not crashed beneath it, which is positive. But when it gets above it, it runs out of energy as it reaches resistance.
What would be the right shoulder of the giant H&S is now getting too long sideways to be proportional to the left shoulder. I am now favoring the middle possibility that I pointed out yesterday, that we will move sideways from here and base build. Here's my current big picture Bitcoin chart, showing both the possible bearish and bullish paths:
That's it for now, I'm working on a large article titled: "Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Revolution – The Most Important Change of Your Lifetime, and Why it Will Spark Humanity's Next Renaissance!" Look for that coming soon and on the new Cryptonomic Edge website.


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On Saturday, February 26, I attended PRSSA's PR Advanced Conference: Be the Change. Attended by students from 22 different US colleges, the conference featured some of the brightest minds from the top public relations agencies from around the country. The day kicked off with an inspiring keynote speech by Jon Iwata, IBM's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Iwata interested the crowd, coming from one of the most corporate and structured companies, by using innovative and refreshing tactics to market some of IBM's products. He entertained the group with videos of Watson, the supercomputer that competed on Jeopardy and slightly scared us with proposed images of what he could've looked like.
The conference then split into several breakout sessions. I attended the Agency Panel: Opportunities in Worldwide which was moderated by BU Professor Jonathan Yohannan. There, representatives from Edelman, Ketchum and Gagen MacDonald (in addition to Yohannan who works for Cone), shared some of their life experiences and took questions both from the audience and from Twitter.
After a brief lunch complete with a visit and pep talk from Dean Elmore, we were treated to another amazing keynote speech by APCO CEO and Founder Margery Kraus. Kraus gave a gripping speech about launching her own company while maintaining the core values that she was raised with. With one of her grandchildren there to support her, it was amazing to hear about that level of accomplishment in so short a span of time.
To end the day, a career panel assembled with some young professionals and HR representatives from companies around the country. There they took questions from the audience and Twitter, ranging from what not to say in an interview, how to apply and how to attract the attention of recruiters. Inspired by their words, students were then ushered into a career fair stacked with the best global PR agencies, as well as representatives from PRSA and the Publicity Club of New England.
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At this time the publication of old US newspaper archives was in the future. That time has arrived and Footnote.com is now looking to become the largest repository of online US NEWSPAPERS. Right now and in the future you will be able to trace US history by researching old newspapers right here on Footnote.com.