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Last Week, a group of 20 design students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) visited the Lightology Showroom for a Lighting Education Tour. Lighting Designer Diane Fairchild and Architect Richard Kasemsarn brought their "Design with Light" class to Lightology for an immersive educational experience.
The one hour student tour explored fundamental lighting principles, the properties of light, lighting design techniques, and the evolution of electric lighting technology. This design class is one of many to have taken the tour, which evolved over the years as increasing numbers of student groups requested access to Lightology's space.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Academy of Design & Technology, and Harrington School of Design are but a few of the prestigious design schools that often ask for student tours at Lightology.
Tour leader Andrew Goldman notes, "We've heard a lot of feedback that these student groups leave Lightology with a deeper appreciation and understanding of things they've been learning about in class. Our exhibits and displays allow them to see and touch the things they learn in books."
More than a Showroom
Lightology founder and owner Greg Kay sees the tours as a sign that he must be doing something right. The award-winning lighting designer and Master Electrician opened Lightology in 2001 with a mission to offer the finest modern and contemporary lighting in the world. At the same time, he wanted to create a world-class educational center for lighting design.
"For me, Lightology has always been about more than just selling light fixtures—it's more than a place to browse and shop," says Kay.
"When I first had the idea to open Lightology, I knew I wanted people to be able to explore the showroom as they would The Museum of Science and Industry, for example."
Indeed, it's no stretch to think of Lightology as Chicago's Unofficial Museum of Light. The modern, glass-enclosed structure boasts 3 stories of stunning lighting displays and looks more like an art gallery than a lighting store. A variety of eye-catching and unexpected Light Art displays add to the ambience.
Visitors may explore a host of permanent, educational and interactive exhibits on the properties of light and color, the history of electric lighting, and the emergence of LEDs as the future of lighting. A breathtaking exhibit in the Morpheus Room demonstrates the impact of light and lighting systems on architecture, design, and human emotion.
In addition to educational tours for design and architecture students, Lightology's award-winning showroom also hosts a variety of lighting seminars, industry training sessions, and other events. Complementing these educational experiences is a multitude of cultural events, parties, and photo shoots that take place throughout the year. (Even weddings!)
"Lightology is an experience," affirms Kay. "It's an adventure, a resource for lighting education, and really an opportunity to expand people's notions about light, art, and the world around them."
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Minnesota Twins Holding Steady
The Minnesota Twins didn't have high expectations going into the 2014 season. However, at 15-17, and after taking two of three on the road against Detroit last weekend, the team is proving they are moving in the right direction.
In even more optimistic terms, the Twins are only 5.5 games back of first place. In fact, the Tigers have four more wins than Minnesota.
The pitching staff has been led by Phil Hughes, who was signed in the offseason from the New York Yankees. Hughes is 4-1 with a 3.92 ERA. Kyle Gibson has shown promise, too. The righthander started 2-0, but since his last win in mid-April, two of his starts haven't lasted more than three innings (one start was a no-decision and it went seven innings). Free agent acquisition Ricky Nolasco is still looking to find his stride, as he is 2-3 with a 5.64 ERA. Other than that, the Twins are trying to find balance in the other two spots after Kevin Correia (seven starts, 1-4, 6.34 ERA), and Mike Pelfrey (five starts, 0-3, 7.99 ERA) have struggled.
The bullpen has had to pitch a lot of innings with a mixed bag of results. Glen Perkins in the closer role has 10 saves, and Casey Fien has pitched well with a 3-1 record and 2.35 ERA. Brian Duensing (0-1, 1.69 ERA) and South Dakota State standout Caleb Thielbar (2-0, 1.69 ERA) have been rock solid, too.
Hitting-wise, Minnesota is getting contribution from unlikely role players. Recently, in seven games, Danny Santana has a .421 average, and eight hits. Eduardo Escobar is hitting .333, and has 21 hits in 24 games played. Catcher Kurt Suzuki is having a nice first season with the Twins. Suzuki has a .300 batting average, 30 hits, and 24 RBI's in 29 games. The biggest surprise is Chris Colabello, who has been clutch at the plate driving in runs. He's hitting .250, has 13 runs, 35 hits, four home runs, and 30 RBI's. The only player to have more hits is Joe Mauer with 36. Mauer is hovering near .300 with a batting average of .298.
The Twins now set up for a six-game homestead beginning Tuesday with the Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners. Today is an off-day.
What do you think? Have the Twins exceeded your expectations so far in 2014?
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|The original S.F. Whole Foods.
That's right, SFQ is now carried by this country's premier natural foods supermarket chain! We are currently on the San Francisco shelves in the Franklin; Noe Valley; Haight Street; Ocean Ave. and SoMa stores and very much hope to eventually be stocked in all of the Northern California locations.
|Whole Foods field trip to a local
goat cheese vendor!
I find it a happy coincidence that one of those early producers was Michael Recchiuti, who had brought his newly created pate des fruits for our department to taste. I can still remember the excitement in his eyes when he brought in this special confection.
Years later, with as much excitement in my eyes, I asked him to taste our sauce. In its earliest stages, I knew I wanted to pay tribute to San Francisco's love and history with chocolate, and include it as an ingredient in the sauce.
|Chocolatier, Michael Recchiuti,
was an early inspiration.
|I "heart" Christine's truffles!
|On the shelf at the
Whole Foods in Noe Valley!
I wish to extend heartfelt thanks to everyone involved with our sauce getting into Whole Foods, and maybe one day I can help someone who is launching a new product of their own. As long as it's not another San Francisco-style barbecue sauce, that is. ;)


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Q. Can you distinguish when a single quotation mark is used versus a double quotation mark? I'm not referring to quotes within quotes, but about the use of single quotation marks closer to linguistic uses. I see both single and double quotation marks in instances seemingly for special meaning but not limited to linguistics. (That also seemingly will drive whether a comma is placed inside or outside the closing single quotation mark.)
Q. When quoting statutory material, is it appropriate to substitute ellipses points in for semicolons that end the "line" of a statutory clause? For instance, suppose a statutory clause reads "(i) Procedures involving animals will avoid or minimize discomfort, distress, and pain to the animals;", and this is the end of the line (that is, the next line starts with "(ii)"). In this situation, if one quotes the line itself, should one end it with a period, ellipses points, or maybe even a bracketed period?
Q. The following is a two-part quotation mark question: Is a quotation nested within a separate quotation of double quotes recognized by an additional set of double quotes? Or is the quotation in question enclosed by single quotes? If my question hasn't confused you, perhaps my example will. The court transcript detailed Jack's recollection of that fateful day. Jack took the stand and began his testimony. "Your honor, I distinctly remember Jill saying to me, "Jack, I will never climb that hill. Furthermore, what good is a pail of water?"" Please advise.
Q. In paragraph 13.7, in the section on permissible changes to quotations, CMOS says, "Obvious typographic errors may be corrected silently (without comment or sic) unless the passage quoted is from an older work or a manuscript source where idiosyncrasies of spelling are generally preserved." Earlier in the passage, CMOS states that direct quotes must reproduce exactly not only the wording but the spelling, capitalization, and internal punctuation of the original. It does not mention italicizing. When I've edited quotes or extracts from older texts, I've, as a rule, reproduced pretty much "everything" as it is in the older text. I am editing a book now with numerous quotes from seventeenth-century books or letters, referencing ships. Before launching forth, thought I would double check. Seems ship names were not italicized back then. My thought is to leave as they are in the original—as roman. That is, do not italicize ship names in the quotes or extracts. Would this be correct?
Q. Apparently Americans enclose periods commas inside quotation marks, but do the British do it that way too???
Q. I am currently editing a lengthy manuscript made up almost entirely of quotations made by a dead person to a living person. The living person is what is known as a "channeler." Since the living person is quoting what the dead person tells her, how do I handle the quotes? The dead person is of such stature that giving the quotes to the living person does not seem right. Any help you can give me is much appreciated.
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No one has been in this situation?
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Josh Jamison wrote:New reviews have just been posted on http://www.pastamafia.com.
- Nacho Libre (movies)
Is it as retarded as it sounds?. I say that 'cos, according to the review, it's a two jalapeños movie, but the text of the review looks more like a 0 jalapeños, sluts or whatever we use to rate.


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League, teams hoping to create social change | D'Antoni needs buy-in from Rockets | Lue's hesitation was worth more than $25 million | Road back-to-backs most dangerous
No. 1: League, teams hoping to create social change — In the wake of more deaths of black men at the hands of police and protests in Charlotte, the NBA and the Player's Association sent out a joint letter to players about plans to take action and promote social change. Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan released a statement calling for peace in the city. And talking with the media on Thursday, Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers said that his team will put together a panel to discuss the issue. Connor Letourneau of the San Francisco Chronicle has the story…
As police-involved fatal shootings of black men continue to rock the nation and spark protests in cities and on playing fields, Myers recognizes that Golden State has a unique platform to create positive change.
But before players and coaches can be part of the solution, they must understand the issues. Myers and head coach Steve Kerr recently brainstormed ways to raise awareness of social injustices. Among the ideas is a panel of civic leaders, a list of names for which already has begun.
"We need to practice to play basketball," Myers said. "But if one day, Steve walked in and said to (our players), 'We're not practicing today. We're actually gonna go meet with these four people.' That's much more important and the players, we feel, will carry that with them."
"What's happening out in society, that's not good," Myers said. "It's much more important than dribbling the basketball and making shots. What we're going to try to do as an organization is take some opportunities to try to have these conversations."
No. 2: D'Antoni needs buy-in from Rockets — After a successful, five-year run in Phoenix, Mike D'Antoni had less-than-mediocre results in New York (where he went 121-167) and L.A. (67-87). Now D'Antoni is in Houston and as it does in every other NBA gym at this time of year, optimism abounds. The key for the Rockets, according to D'Antoni, is getting the players to buy in and believe in the system. Bleacher Report's Maurice Bobb spoke to the coach and Rockets GM Daryl Morey about their hopes for the season …
D'Antoni says he doesn't think too much about his time in L.A. and New York, but he's certainly aware of the main issues that plagued those locker rooms.
"I could never get the guys from the beginning to buy into the way we want to play," D'Antoni told Bleacher Report. "We never got everybody going into the same direction. That was my fault. It happened. That's in the past. This is a new team. Guys want to play the way we all want to play."
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is betting that a change of scenery is all D'Antoni needs to flourish again. To Morey, a career .650 winning percentage over five years in Phoenix speaks louder than the well-publicized flameouts in the NBA's biggest markets.
"The players are improved under him, the teams have improved," Morey told B/R. "After he's left, the teams have done worse. We also have had a lot of success playing an uptempo, spread-floor style. Our players fit that, and having his level of experience and knowledge added to our personnel, which is already set up for his style of play, was a huge factor in us hiring him."
No. 3: Lue's hesitation was worth more than $25 million — When the Cavs fired David Blatt with a 30-11 record in January, they didn't want to just make Tyronn Lue an interim coach. They offered him a three-year contract. But Lue never signed it, and it wasn't necessarily because he thought he could get more money if he won a championship. As Joe Vardon writes for Cleveland.com, Lue wanted to make sure the job was right for him. And his hesitation resulted in a much more lucrative deal after the Cavs won their first title…
Lue, 39, knew what he was getting into when he took over for David Blatt last January. He knew Blatt was fired (Lue was Blatt's chief assistant) despite a 30-11 record and a trip to the 2015 Finals.
He knew of the heightened scrutiny and brighter lights that come with coaching a team led by James, whose every word is dissected by media and fans and who can set off a firestorm with a simple Tweet.
That's why Lue, born in little Mexico, Missouri, never signed a three-year, $9.5 million contract he had verbally agreed to with the Cavs when they promoted him to take Blatt's job.
It wasn't so much that Lue was betting on himself, although the gamble paid off handsomely. He steered Cleveland to the largest comeback in Finals history to win the franchise's first title, and thus earned an annual raise of more than $4 million.
Lue held off, he said, because "I wanted to make sure it was the "right fit."
"Was I right for this job?" Lue said, rhetorically. "I hate being on TV, hate dealing with media on TV. All that stuff, I don't like that. Being with LeBron, who draws all kinds of attention, I knew I was going to see myself on TV. I hate that. I like to fly under radar. I wanted to make sure the fit was right."
No. 4: Road back-to-backs most dangerous — ESPN's Tom Haberstroh has the numbers on the increased frequency of occasions where healthy players get a day off to rest, from 19 in 2012-13 to 146 last season. He also talks to professor Masaru Teramoto, who has done a study on injuries in the NBA…
In a study provided to ESPN.com that will be published publicly in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport later this month, Teramoto researched three seasons of NBA injury data, from 2012-13 through 2014-15, in an attempt to determine if certain aspects of the schedule — in particular, back-to-backs and travel — led to players getting injured in games.
What Teramoto found surprised him: Back-to-backs alone are not associated with greater instances of in-game injury, but back-to-backs that are played on the road are significant predictors of in-game injury, generating 3.5 times the injury rate as those played at home.
The problem? Two out of every three back-to-backs are on the road.
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Paul Millsap has a knee issue that will keep him sidelined for the next few weeks … The Kings have questions at point guard … Grizzlies.com caught up with a few of the team's key players to get an update on their recovery from last season's injuries … Dorell Wright is going to camp with the Clippers … and Jason Terry doesn't think Klay Thompson is in James Harden's league.


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My Week With Marilyn
Time well spent with 'Marilyn': Michelle Williams shines as Monroe
There's no nice way to say it: Aside from both women being blondes, Michelle Williams looks nothing like Marilyn Monroe. Her face is wider, her features thicker, her figure less of a bodacious cartoon. This is only by comparison, of course - Williams is one of the lovelier talents of her generation - but because Monroe has been burned onto our cultural retina for so long, because we're still on a first-name basis with her a half century after her death, comparisons are inevitable and a little unfair. We can buy Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, say, or Meryl Streep as Julia Child, but there's only one Marilyn.
Here's the thing, though. For the 99 pleasantly strained minutes of "My Week With Marilyn,'' Williams convinces us of her Marilyn Monroe. The movie, the first to be directed by longtime British producer Simon Curtis, is about the star's arrival in London in 1956 to make "The Prince and the Showgirl'' with director and costar Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). The film's title couldn't have been more apt. Olivier was a Knight of the Empire and the reigning rajah of British theater and film. Marilyn was Marilyn - an adorable Hollywood blow-up doll who was easy for 1950s America to drool over and easier still to mock.
The filming of "Prince'' was a legendary collision of the artiste and the movie star, Olivier trying to get scenes in the can while Monroe repeatedly froze like a deer in headlights. She wanted to be taken seriously as an actress - coming to England with her playwright husband Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), New York acting coach Paula Strasberg (a marvelously parasitic Zoe Wanamaker), and assorted hangers-on - but the presence of the British stage gods jammed her gears. Monroe blew lines, kept cast and crew waiting for hours, and yawed between panic, depression, and mercurial high spirits.
"My Week With Marilyn,'' as the title implies, is based on a memoir - two, actually - by Colin Clark, who was a lowly teenage gofer on the "Prince'' set yet became Monroe's confidante, protector, and playmate. That's the way Clark tells it, anyway, and the fresh-faced young actor Eddie Redmayne ("Savage Grace'') gives a convincing impression of naive ambition. An entitled son of the upper class (his father was the art historian and TV personality Sir Kenneth Clark), Colin is a likably obnoxious go-getter who arrives on set and immediately sets his cap for wardrobe assistant Lucy (Emma Watson).
Only until Marilyn notices him, though; then he and the movie leave Watson high and dry. "My Week'' makes it clear why Monroe starts emotionally preying on Colin, the least important person on the shoot: He's the only one not demanding anything of her. Eventually the two scamper away from the fuming Olivier to frolic and skinny-dip in the country, watched over by the benevolent roughneck bodyguard (Philip Jackson) who adores her like everyone else.
Monroe's great trick was to seduce people and make them think it was their idea. The little-girl voice and Bo-Peep eyes weren't an act - or just an act - but they combined with her vulnerability to project a weirdly sexy innocence. She was the virgin who knew how, and those who fell for her - in life or on a movie screen - were torn between wanting to ravish her and save her. Or save her by ravishing her, a quintessentially 1950s sexual calculus.
"My Week With Marilyn'' is diverting enough on a spot-the-personality level: Ooh, there's Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, and Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike, and Dominic Cooper as Monroe's agent Milton Greene. The period is lovingly captured, and Branagh, having remade some of Olivier's Shakespeare films and been compared to him enough times, finally gives in and just becomes the man.
Williams, though, is the one element that raises "My Week'' above the pedestrian. She knows that Monroe existed primarily in the moment of conquest, whether she's insecurely wrapping the love-besotted Colin around her finger or - in the movie's most telling moment - coming alive as a movie star, as "Marilyn,'' when fans recognize her on the street. Williams gets the singing and dancing right in the re-creation of the "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'' number from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (a movie so far superior to both "The Prince and the Showgirl'' and "My Week With Marilyn'' that it's vaguely embarrassing), but, more to the point, she conveys the joy Monroe got out of the come-on and the neediness that made her afraid to stop.
All of which is richer and more honest than any other part of the movie. The point of "My Week'' appears to be that Colin is the one person in Monroe's life who isn't using her, but if squeezing two books and a movie out of one brief encounter isn't exploitation, I don't know what is. All that keeps the film from necrophilia is that it plays to the ways we ourselves still use Marilyn for our lusts and crocodile tears while admitting that she was surprisingly gifted at using us right back.
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Synthesis of MMPs is regulated by extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN, CD147), a multifunctional member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, and researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary have shown that EMMPRIN levels are significantly increased in the brain of MS patients, particularly in plaque-containing regions. The team also showed that EMMPRIN levels are increased in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of MS. EMMPRIN was upregulated on peripheral leukocytes before the appearance of MS-like symptoms and on infiltrating leukocytes and resident cells within the CNS once clinical symptoms had developed. Treating the mice with an anti-EMMPRIN antibody reduced MMP activity, infiltration of leukocytes into the CNS, and the severity of MS-like symptoms. To be effective, the antibody had to be administered at the onset of clinical signs, a time that is typically associated with significant infiltration of leukocytes into the CNS.
The study, which is published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that blocking the activity of EMMPRIN may be a novel way to treat MS.


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December 2010 corn futures have regained more than half the decline that occurred from Nov. 9 to Nov. 23. Cash prices have recovered even more as basis levels continue to strengthen, said University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.
"A number of factors continue to influence corn prices, with the market trying to weigh the negative versus the positive factors. There is some concern about the large, long positions held by both index and managed funds and the possible negative impact of liquidation of some of those positions," he said.
Such activity could have some short-term impact on price movement, but over a longer period, prices will follow fundamental value. As is often the case, there is both uncertainty about fundamental factors and conflicting fundamental factors.
"One of the largest uncertainties is the fate of the ethanol blender's tax credit. That credit is currently at 45 cents per gallon of ethanol blended into the fuel supply, but that credit is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2011," he added.
Congress could choose either to renew the credit at the current or lower level or let the expiration stand. All options are being debated without a strong indication of the likely outcome. A renewal of the tax credit, even at a lower level, would point to continued strong ethanol demand and the likelihood of ethanol production exceeding the mandate of 13.95 billion gallons in 2011.
"Without the tax credit, ethanol production would presumably not drop below the mandate. The relationship between ethanol and gasoline prices would determine if production exceeded the mandate, while the level of ethanol and gasoline prices would influence the price of corn," he said.
Current ethanol and gasoline prices favor ethanol blending (ethanol prices lower than gasoline prices) and would support corn prices at current or higher levels.
Corn export prospects mixed
Prospects for corn exports are a bit mixed at this point. China denies it plans to import significant quantities of corn from any source in the near future. At the same time, many analysts believe that China will need to import more substantial amounts of corn yet this marketing year.
"On another front, ongoing wet weather is affecting the quality of the Australian wheat crop, suggesting that a larger portion of that crop will be feed wheat rather than milling-quality wheat. More feed wheat in the world market could complete with corn exports," Good said.
On the supply side, only modest and scattered rainfall in central and eastern portions of Argentina keeps conditions there very dry. Planting has been slowed, and concerns about crop size remain. A shortfall in Argentine production would support U.S. corn exports during the last half of the 2010-11 marketing year.
In the United States, the hard red winter wheat crop has gone into dormancy under generally dry conditions and with very low condition ratings. As of Nov. 28, only 37 percent of the crop in Kansas and 44 percent of the crop in Oklahoma were rated in good or excellent condition, he said.
"The fate of that crop will not only be important to the wheat market but might be important for corn. Lower wheat production could provide a modest boost for corn feeding, but very poor winter wheat conditions next spring could result in some replanting to other crops, including feed grains," he said.
A better assessment of the Argentine corn crop will also be available in January, Good said.
"It is likely that corn prices will continue to trade in a relatively wide range with daily price changes influenced by the 'news of the day.' A substantial rally or decline in prices would require that fundamental factors begin to align in either a positive or negative direction. Those factors will be revealed in fairly quick progression over the next six weeks," he said.


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Spock had it backwards, apparently: First you prosper, then you live long. New research from the Brookings Institution suggests that the higher your income in mid-career, the longer your lifespan is likely to be.
That's been true for a while, as you might expect, but the interesting wrinkle is this: The U.S. appears to have acquired a growing life-expectancy gap to go with its growing wealth gap. Over the last couple of decades, life expectancy grew considerably faster for wealthier people than it did for middle-income folks – while women among the bottom 40% of earners actually saw their average lifespans decline. The chart below, from our friends at WSJ.com, shows how lifespans have changed for Americans born in 1940, compared with those born in 1920.
The authors of the study, Barry Bosworth of Brookings and Kathleen Burke of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, based their analysis on data from the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study, a long-running survey of the career and health status of Americans approaching retirement age. To group people by income, they looked at their earnings between the ages of 45 and 55, and dropped anyone who wasn't earning money during those years. (They relied on actuarial estimates to figure out lifespan data, since many people in the study's cohorts are still alive.)
Men showed life-expectancy gains in all income groups, a factor that reflects the shift away from manual labor in much of the workforce. But the gains grew steadily along with income: A man born in 1940 who was among the top 10% of earners at age 55 could expect to live to age 90, a 5.9-year gain compared to his 1920 counterpart. Men in the 41%-to-50% income group, in contrast, gained 3.9 years of additional lifespan, and men in the bottom 10% picked up 1.7 additional years.
In modern times, women have generally had longer life expectancies than men, but the Brookings analysis shows that the gap has narrowed sharply. What's more, for women among the bottom 40% of earners, life expectancy actually decreased for the 1940 group compared with the 1920 group. Demographers have been noticing that shift for a while. Bosworth tells The Wall Street Journal's Josh Zumbrun that the greater prevalence of smoking among lower-income women may be one factor; less access to health care in that demographic may be another.
The report doesn't explore the possible causes of the growing life-expectancy gap. But the authors do highlight one important implication—that the change skews Social Security benefits away from lower earners and toward the more affluent. People born in 1920 could collect full Social Security benefits starting at age 65; for workers born after 1937, that full-benefit eligibility age has gradually risen, and people born in or after 1960 won't qualify for full benefits until age 67. (See a more detailed eligibility chart here.) The Brookings data suggests that for most women, and for men in the bottom 10% of earners, the Social Security eligibility age is rising faster than life expectancies—which means that, on average, members of those groups will have fewer years to collect benefits.
The authors' conclusion: Proposals to stabilize Social Security's finances by raising the retirement age would essentially hit poorer workers disproportionately hard. "If it turns out people at the bottom are not having an increase in life expectancy, they are getting a real reduction," Bosworth told Zumbrun.
Also on Encore:
Can you pass a Social Security test?
U.S. scores poorly in retirement rankings
Is 70 the 'right' retirement age?
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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On Thursday night, Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar were declared co-winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, making this the eighth bee in a row to name an Indian-American victor.
In honor of their victory, Slate revisits Ben Paynter's story, originally published in 2010, which explains Indian-Americans' prowess in spelling competitions and marked Shivashankar's early entry into the National Spelling Bee world. It is reprinted below.
This April's North South Foundation bee in Shawnee, Kan., might seem like an obscure place to find the spelling world's two biggest stars. Mostly, it looked like the sort of geeky local bee I might have attended as a kid—except everyone there was Indian.
Inside Shawnee's Hindu Temple and Cultural Center, 23 awkward kids took turns passing a microphone back and forth in a hushed beige auditorium. No spotlights, no podium, just cringe-inducing feedback on the P.A. system. And for the record, the spelling was a-t-r-o-c-i-o-u-s. Just three of the first 10 contestants spelled their words correctly. At one point, a poor kid paced in circles and clutched his crotch before misspelling beleaguered and sprinting off to the restroom.
Amid it all, 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar pronounced words from a fold-out judging table as her father, Mirle, emceed in a sharp dark suit. Kavya, the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion, is a spelling superstar complete with signature move: She air-writes each word across her palm before speaking it. Kavya and Mirle—her innovative, ever-enthusiastic coach—were at the small-time competition to pay homage.
Over the past two decades, tournaments like this one—a regional qualifier for the North South Foundation's spelling league—have become a breeding ground for Scripps contenders. These minor-league competitions help kids as young as 6 years old work out the spelling kinks at an early age. The result has been an Indian-American dynasty at the National Spelling Bee.
Consider the facts: Indian-Americans make up about 1 percent of the U.S. population; this year, an estimated 30 NSF-ers will compete at Scripps, 11 percent of the 273-kid field. Recent winners include Sai R. Gunturi from Dallas, who nonchalantly reassembled pococurante for a national title in 2003.
Sameer Mishra from West Lafayette, Ind., nailed guerdon in 2008. And four-time finalist Shivashankar made it back-to-back titles for North South Foundation competitors last year, air-writing Laodicean for the win. If Shivashankar hadn't come through, it's possible another North South graduate would have: Four other NSF kids cracked the top 10 behind her.
The NSF circuit consists of 75 chapters run by close to 1,000 volunteers. The competitions, which began in 1993, function as a nerd Olympiad for Indian-Americans—there are separate divisions for math, science, vocab, geography, essay writing, and even public speaking—and a way to raise money for college scholarships for underprivileged students in India.
There is little financial reward for winners (just a few thousand dollars in college scholarships) compared with the $40,000 winning purse handed out each year by Scripps. Still, more than 3,000 kids participated in NSF's spelling events this year due in part to what NSF founder Ratnam Chitturi calls a sort of Kavya Effect. "Most American kids look up to sports figures," he says. "Indian kids are more interested in education, and they finally have a role model."
Just as Kavya Shivashankar has inspired the next wave of Indian spellers, Kavya found her bee mojo during the post- Spellbound boom. Before Spellbound, the 2002 documentary that featured Indian-American Nupur Lala's run to the 1999 Scripps title, many first-generation South Asian parents saw NSF as a way for their children to assimilate—the best way to understand a culture, after all, is to learn its language.
They used the North South Foundation events as a sort of SAT prep, teaching their children to use phonetics, etymology, and word roots to suss out answers. "Our focus is not on competition," says Chitturi. "Winning becomes an outcome of you focusing on learning. You are competing against yourself, not these other people."
After Spellbound, that changed a bit. After Balu Natarajan (winning word: milieu) became the first Indian-American to win Scripps back in 1985, he went on to a career in sports medicine. When Lala did it in 1999 with logorrhea, she became a movie star. (OK, a movie star and a neuroscientist.)
Kavya has called Lala an inspiration—the license plate of Mirle's teal minivan reads "SPL BND." She's far from alone. In 2002, NSF had less than 20 chapters pulling in about 500 mostly middle-school-age spellers. Then pop culture galvanized an expansion to elementary schoolers; today, six times as many students compete in North South Foundation spelling events. "The parents were just excited," Chitturi says. "They saw that it was a possibility [to win the National Spelling Bee]."
It's no coincidence, then, that in the last decade North South Foundation has transformed from an SAT prep course into a training ground for Scripps. It wasn't too long ago that NSF standouts like Kamran Riaz and 2000 champion Ashley Thakur didn't compete at the National Spelling Bee. Riaz, for one, remembers NSF as a nice "alternative" to Scripps. Thakur's thoughts on the National Spelling Bee: "Not to brag, but I don't think it would be a hard cake to cut," she once bragged to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
It's not quite right to say that Riaz and Thakur didn't go to nationals because they didn't think it was a big deal. The more significant reason is that they simply weren't eligible. You have to be more than a great speller to qualify for the National Bee—you also have to live in a school district with a sponsoring newspaper or community organization.
These days, parents seem to be paying a lot more attention to such logistics. When Mirle Shivashankar realized in 2005 that there was just one Scripps sponsor in all of Kansas, he beat the bushes to ensure that more kids from the state—his daughter, for one—would have the chance to go to nationals. Kavya subsequently gained all of her berths to the nationals by virtue of a brand-new sponsor, the Olathe News.
The North South Foundation could dominate Scripps even further, if more of its spellers were eligible to compete. In areas with more gifted NSFers than competition zones, the battle to get into Scripps can be intense. Whereas regional North South Foundation competitions are run like standardized tests—the best scores get weighted against a national average to determine the national finalists—Scripps operates more like a crazy single-elimination tournament.
The winner in each local bracket funnels into a pool of finalists, who repeat the same process to pick a winner. That can lead to some powerhouse regional showdowns. In San Jose, Calif., for instance, eventual 2009 NSF senior co-champion Ramya Auroprem had to beat out 2009 NSF runner-up Sidarth Jayadev just to make it into last year's National Spelling Bee finals.
North South Foundation winners don't have to worry about Kavya Shivashankar anymore—she has retired. At the Shawnee NSF contest this April, Swetha Jasti placed first, with a perfect score that qualified her for NSF nationals later this summer. But unfortunately for Jasti, she won't make it to Scripps this year. When the National Spelling Bee starts up this week, their region will be represented by a surprise challenger: Kavya's 8-year-old sister, Vanya, who drubbed Jasti in the National Spelling Bee's Olathe qualifier.
For youngsters like Vanya, this is Scripps' best selling point: Whereas the North South Foundation still divides contestants into junior and senior levels, the National Spelling Bee has no minimum age requirement.
Vanya, who has taken to referring to herself and her sister as the Eli and Peyton Manning of spelling, will be the youngest competitor in Washington, D.C., this year. When ESPN recently showed up in Kansas to film a miniprofile for the contest, she grinned unabashedly. "Now it's my turn," she proclaimed to the room full of cameras. As with most things in the life of an NSF standout, the moment seemed well-rehearsed.


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Military Service Branch: Army National Guard
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Submitted by: Sarah Permann (Girlfriend)
My boyfriend, Jimmy Holloway, is currently at Basic Combat Training in Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. He made the decision to join the Army National Guard at the age of 31, despite the various looks he received and the millions of questions as to why he'd want to do such a thing at his age and especially during the troubling times that our Nation is experiencing. For that reason alone, his is my hero. He never once let his age hold him back from doing the one thing that he had dreamed of doing from a young age. I find it brave and honorable that he could put his current life aside so that he could be trained by some of the best in our Army, to defend our country and our freedoms, especially during a time of frequently occurring foreign threats. I couldn't be more proud to call him my boyfriend and I'm honored to be a part of his support system during this life changing decision.


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Your inbox is constantly full, despite your best efforts to keep up. Messages seem to arrive faster than you can read and reply to them. A sinking feeling turns to panic when you realize that you are days late replying to a critical message from an important client or a high priority project. If this sounds familiar, it may be time for a new way to manage your messages and a new way to manage your time.
Consider how much of your productive working time is eroded each day by replying to emails. What could happen if important messages continue to be lost in the sludge of your inbox? If only you had a system that helped you to organize and streamline your inbox management, a system that accelerated replying, deleting, and properly filing every message. Fortunately, there is such a system, and it is based on two simple-but-radical guidelines:
Does this suggest ignoring messages or deleting with maniacal glee everything in your inbox every day? Though these guidelines seem so contrary to common practice, let's back up a moment and investigate the sources.
Productivity expert David Allen's book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity promotes a method of organizing everything in your inbox so that you deal with each item once—and only once. Allen recommends quickly reviewing each item, instantly deciding its priority, and immediately filing each into one of four categories called the "Four Ds": Delete, Do, Delegate, and Defer. Once sorted by the action required, only the important messages get your immediate attention. A mammoth inbox suddenly becomes manageable.
Known to productivity enthusiasts as "GTD" (Get Things Done), David Allen's system offers a powerful method to organize and manage information, commitments, and communications. Allen's GTD system of organizing and prioritizing your inbox, to-do lists, and daily tasks can be extended to your entire workflow and whole life, says Kelly Forrister, Senior Facilitator with David Allen Company. Forrister coaches clients on how to harness this integrated system to get their inboxes—and their lives—under control so they enjoy peace of mind and a stress-free working day.
Do you find yourself reading and replying to emails every day from morning to noon? Julie Morgenstern's Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work warns against immersing yourself in email as your first task in the morning. The morning hours are often the most productive time of the working day and it's far too easy to fritter away these "peak hours" by reading and managing your email.
Morgenstern suggests pursuing some other task or project during your first hour at work and save reading and replying to email when you're more focused on your goals for the day. Forwarding your important emails to your BlackBerry® device alerts you to anything urgent, and enables you to reply to lower priority emails as you have spare time between tasks.
Some people measure their organizational importance or productivity by the size of their inbox. However, equating a bulging inbox with personal busyness may be a notion no more valid than associating a messy desk with being organized. How many of those messages really require your attention or even merit a reply? Do you allow your inbox to swell to a size that strains your BlackBerry device?
Keep it small, advises Kelly Forrister, who says that maintaining thousands of emails in your inbox makes no more sense than keeping thousands of voicemails on your answering service. Consider weeding through those old emails, sort them by the "Four Ds" (Delete, Do, Delegate, and Defer) and cut your email inbox down to size.
Is actually emptying your inbox before the end of each day a realistic goal? Yes, says Kelly Forrister, who recommends a short checklist of questions to help you quickly sort through your messages and tame an unruly inbox:
Forrister recommends streamlining your inbox management by sorting all your remaining messages between just two folders: one labeled ACTION, the other labeled WAITING FOR. Items requiring more time than is immediately available can go into the ACTION folder. Items requiring you to confer with someone else before responding can into the WAITING FOR folder. Forrister suggests applying this system to your entire inbox, or starting fresh today with an empty inbox by moving all your old messages into an old email folder.
Either way, Forrister maintains that being disciplined about filing your messages and limiting your inbox processing to only a few times per day can dramatically improve email management. Your BlackBerry device is ideal for inbox processing when you have some downtime away from your desk, and can be configured to automatically forward urgent messages from designated priority senders such as your boss, client, or assistant. With practice, your newfound "GTD" organizational skills will deliver deep satisfaction—and an empty inbox at quitting time—so you go can home feeling worry-free!
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Basic Facts About Deserts
Deserts are found across our planet along two fringes parallel to the equator at 25–35° latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Deserts are arid or dry regions and receive less than 10 inches of rain per year. Biologically, they contain plants and animals adapted for survival in arid environments. Physically they are large areas with a lot of bare soil and low vegetation cover. The world's deserts occupy almost one-quarter of the earth's land surface, which is approximately 20.9 million square miles.
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The Mojave Desert is so diverse that it is subdivided into five regions: northern, south-western, central, south-central, and eastern. Elevations range from below sea level at Death Valley National Park to 2.26 miles on Mt. Charleston in the Spring Range of Nevada.
Deserts receive little rainfall, however, when rain does fall, the desert experiences a short period of great abundance. Plants and animals have developed very specific adaptations to make use of these infrequent short periods of great abundance.
Desert Formation
Deserts landscapes are more diverse than many expect. Some are found on a flat shield of ancient crystalline rocks hardened over many millions of years, yielding flat deserts of rock and sand such as the Sahara. Others are the folded product of more recent tectonic movements, and have evolved into crumpled landscapes of rocky mountains emerging from lowland sedimentary plains, as in Central Asia or North America .


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Local character, Arthur Behan made his first sulky in Wagga when he was only 14 years old. His collection of handcrafted buggies and wagons are on display in his garden, giving Blackall a special charm that can't be seen anywhere else.
Most afternoons, you will encounter the Behan's trotting around the town in a horse drawn buggy chatting with visitors and locals alike.


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This week on program 403 of New Horizons, we hear an important message to members of Blind Citizens Australia. Also, we hear from Steve Richardson who is speaking with Les about the local culture on Norfolk Island.
You can use the embedded audio player above to listen or download the program.
New Horizons is now available as a podcast! Using your pod catcher of choice, use the search term "Blind Citizens Australia", you should then be able to subscribe to the New Horizons program.
New Horizons is Blind Citizens Australia's weekly radio program. It can be heard on RPH and community radio stations throughout Australia. Go here for Broadcast times and stations
Current and past Episodes of New Horizons can also be found on the Blind Citizens Australia audio page
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Doctor Who Talking Plush
A race of huggable Daleks
- Exterminate? Let's hug it out, little Dalek.
- 9" tall overstuffed plush from Doctor Who
- Squeeze 'em for fun sound effects & phrases
The Doctor's made several trips to parallel universes over his 900+ years, including one in which the Roman Empire got tired of conquering just Earth and started expanding to other planets and universes. We'd like to hope there's a parallel universe out there where the Daleks are snuggly and adorable and "EXTERMINATE" means "EXTERMINATE THE UNHAPPINESS - WITH HUGS." Surely, if such a universe existed, the Doctor would fly there in his overstuffed huggable TARDIS and meet these Dalek for tea, Jelly Babies, and Jammy Dodgers.
These plush are the first in a series of officially licensed Doctor Who plush for the new series. They are all about 9" tall and pleasantly overstuffed, especially the TARDIS (since there's so much on the inside, you know!). Squeeze the TARDIS and you'll hear its signature flight sounds as the light on top flashes. The Daleks (in red and blue) will tell you that you are their enemy and they want to exterminate you, but remember, in the parallel universe, it just means they'd fancy a snuggle.
Product Specifications
- WARNING: Choking hazard. Small parts. Not for children under 3.
- Squeeze these Doctor Who plush toys to hear them come to life
- We love how the TARDIS looks overstuffed (it has a lot on the inside, duh!)
- Daleks come in your choice of red or blue, plush with plastic rivets
- TARDIS is plush with a plastic flashing light on top
- Dalek phrases include:
- "You are an enemy of the Dalek. You must be destroyed."
- TARDIS makes TARDISy noises like "Vworp vworp vworp."
- Officially licensed Doctor Who collectibles
- Dimensions: approx. 9" tall


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