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To the Editor:
The American medical community has been concerned for some time about the reality of hunger and malnutrition in our nation. Nutrition is paramount to health and survival, especially for young children who are more susceptible to illness
To the Editor:
The American medical community has been concerned for some time about the reality of hunger and malnutrition in our nation. Nutrition is paramount to health and survival, especially for young children who are more susceptible to illness and long-term health problems without proper nutrition.
In the first year of life, the human brain grows rapidly to almost 2/3 the size of an adult brain. Nerve tissues become insulated with myelin, letting different parts of the brain communicate better and faster. Infants and toddlers learn and retain new knowledge by means of these complex connections between brain cells. Healthy brain development is dependent on adequate nutrition. Child malnutrition stunts brain development and how quickly and well a child can learn. Damage from malnutrition in the first year of life is irreversible.
This is why many members of the medical community are very concerned about the recently proposed cuts to food stamps in the Farm bills passed by the Agriculture Committee in the House, and the Farm bill passed by the full Senate. Food stamps or SNAP, the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is part of the Farm Bill because it was initially set up by Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression, when farmers had surplus food crops and many Americans did not have enough to eat. Food Stamps became part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, and the program has historically been supported by congressmen and presidents of both parties. Until now.
The House Agriculture Committee has passed the most draconian cuts to the food stamp program: $20.5 billion over the next decade or Five times what is proposed by the Senate. About 2 million people would be dropped from the food stamp program under the House plan.
Among the myths heard around town about SNAP is, "Food stamp users don't shop wisely and buy too many steaks." However, two recent USDA studies show that the diet of food stamp users is not much different from that of non-users with one major difference: food stamp users find that cost often defeats their best efforts to provide well-balanced meals to their families. The meats purchased with food stamps are most often chicken, hamburger, and pork. Almost all food stamp users buy large amounts of non-perishables such as rice, pasta, beans, and canned goods. Most bypass fresh vegetables and fruits, trying to manage cost and minimize waste.
Some of those pushing for the most severe cuts to food stamps this year, point to the rising number of food stamp recipients versus the decrease in the unemployment rate. What they are missing is that many workers who lost their jobs during the Great Recession have had to take pay cuts with their current jobs. Some could only find part-time work. This is why the ranks of the working poor have swelled in this recovery.
A 2012 USDA report on food stamps found that 47% of those benefitting from the SNAP program are children. In 2011, 3.9 million American families with young children were Food Insecure and often could not provide enough healthy food to make it through the month. That 3.9 million is almost 10% of all American families with young children. And the proposed cuts to food stamps will only make the problem worse, with more hungry children and families.
Government spending, as politicians like to tell us, is all about setting priorities. Surely making sure our poorest citizens, especially the children, have enough to eat should be one of our highest priorities.
Dr. Ed Ivancic
Past president,
Mississippi Chapter
of the American Academy
of Pediatrics
Tupelo, Miss.


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This week, 150 years ago, Lucy Bagby, a slave from Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) was returned to slavery after being recaptured in Cleveland, Ohio. She had escaped in late 1860 and was arrested after Bagby's owners tracked her down there. They convinced a federal judge to return her to Virginia under the Fugitive Slave Act and on January 24, 1861, she arrived in Wheeling in the custody of a U.S. Marshall.
The Fugitive Slave Act had been highly controversial since its passage as part of the Compromise of 1850. This law sought to make it easier for slave owners to reclaim slaves that escaped into the free states. It resulted in resistance in many parts of the North, including juries acquitting defendants accused of violating the law and the passage of "Personal Liberty Laws" by northern state legislatures that sought to frustrate its implementation. In 1854, the Wisconsin Supreme Court even declared the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional (a ruling overturned five years later by the U.S. Supreme Court). In the infamous case of Anthony Burns that same year it took federal military force and the expenditure of $40,000 (a considerable sum at the time) for the Pierce administration to return one slave from Boston to his owner in Virginia.
Yet in 1861, as the case of Lucy Bagby shows, the Fugitive Slave Act was far from a dead letter. Bagby's owners were able to travel to northern city far from the Ohio River, reclaim their slave, and rely on federal authorities to convey her to them in Virginia. Indeed, far from the hostility encountered by the authorities who returned Anthony Burns to slavery, Bagby's owners, the Goshorn family, sent the following note to the Cleveland Herald.
"Before leaving Cleveland for home, we feel it a duty to the citizens of Cleveland, as well as to ourselves, to express our unfeigned gratitude for the uniform kindness with which we have been treated. Nothing but courtesy has been shown us by all of your citizens, who have even shielded us from the insults of your colored population — as an instance of which we will refer to an incident which occured this morning at the breakfast table of the Weddell House. A negro waiter refused to serve us, and upon the fact being known to Col Ross, the proprietor of the House, the waiter was promptly discharged, and ordered to leave the house."
While Cleveland's black population was hostile to Bagby's return to slavery, white Clevelanders treated the Goshorns kindly enough that the family tendered their thanks through the press.
So, the Fugitive Slave Law was still functioning on the eve of the Civil War. Perhaps because Midwesterners in Cleveland did not share the sensibilities of abolitionist Boston. Perhaps because shall be seen in subsequent posts, in the early months of 1861, many white Northerners were eager to make gestures toward the South that might save the Union, even if these gestures harmed African Americans.
Correction: an earlier version of this post asserted Lucy Bagby was the last slave returned under the Fugitive Slave Law. A friend set me straight as Maryland slaves were returned from Washington, D.C. to that loyal slave state under the law as late as 1863. Civil War Emancipation will deal with the specific facts of such cases down the line as the come up in the Sesquicentennial.

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PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Two members of the Plymouth State College women's swimming and diving team have been recognized by the Little East Conference, receiving weekly honors for their performances in PSC's dual meet last Saturday.
Junior Scarlette Scarborough (Salem, N.H.) was named LEC Swimmer of the Week, and junior Krit Kearins (Andover, Mass.) was selected LEC Diver of the Week. This is the first year that the Little East has selected Athletes of the Week in women's swimming and diving.
Scarborough captured three individual events and swam on a winning relay team last Saturday as PSC defeated St. Joseph College (Conn.), 152-120. Scarborough posted her best time of the season in all three events, winning the 100 yard butterfly in 1:04.18, the 100 yard backstroke in 1:06.75, and the 50 yard butterfly in 30.56 seconds. She also swam on PSC's winning 400 yard freestyle team. Scarborough has won at least two individual events in all seven Panther dual meets, combining for 19 first-place finishes overall.
Kearins was the first-place diver in both the one- and three-meter diving events (six dives) last Saturday in the win over St. Joseph. She posted a score of 212.55 to win the one-meter event, and registered a season-best total of 229.90 to take the three-meter event. Kearins is the school-record holder in the 10-dive format on the one-meter board (290.65).
The Panthers, 5-2 in dual meets, return to action this Saturday with the final home meet of the season against UMass Dartmouth (1 p.m.).


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T4 DNA polymerisation - elongation or removal? (Nov/08/2009 )
Dear all,
I have the following question.
I was reading my text book on genetics and found the following sentence:
T4 polymerase will either elongate or remove nucleotides and this depends on avaibility.
What does this mean?
Example lets say we have
and we add T4 polymerase and some dNTP's , what will happen then?
I suppose the T4 will add thise nucleotides ? untill the template is completed?
But what do they then mean with "remove nucleotide" ?
Do they mean that, by example after adding the first AATTCC it is possible that T4 will remove the last 2 CC because there arent enough GG present to finish the AATTCC ?
So instead of adding 2 GG it would remove the addes CC again ?
Or ?
With the dNTPs it would fill in the whole sequence... without it would act as an endonuclease and remove the overhanging sequence.
Ok, I see.
So it all depends on how much dNTP's you add.
Is there a limit? I mean: if you add a few ? will it then add or remove nucleotides?
Sorry, don't know the answer to that. I am not even sure what would happen if you left out one of the dNTPs (e.g. just added A, T and C).


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15 U.S. cities for outdoor enthusiasts
Get outside
Which major U.S. cities offer the best accessibility to nature? Which have the most vibrant environmental cultures? If you love to hike, bike, ski, raft or climb while still appreciating the amenities of urban life, many cities, like Juneau, Alaska (pictured), offer a little bit of everything for the modern outdoors enthusiast.
Here's our list of America's best cities — some big, some small — for exploring the outdoors.


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SOE Webcast: Player Studio Artist Roundtable
Player Studio™ has been live for over a month now! We've seen some amazing work submitted! Host Dave Georgeson (Director of Development) will sit down with Joe Shoopack (Director of Artistic Development), Sebastian Strzalkowski (Franchise Art Director), and Matt Case (Sr. Artist) to dive in and clarify what SOE artists are looking for when submissions come in. We'll also talk about the updated guidelines we are releasing soon, our new focus, and more, so don't miss it!
Join us on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time* on Twitch TV! The webcast is expected to last about 20 minutes.
Come talk art shop with us!
See you on Twitch TV!
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While we all eagerly await what I'm sure will be the compelling results of the Department of Justice's investigation into the Department of Justice's secret seizure of the phone records of the professional and personal phone calls of Associated Press reporters last year, due to land on President Obama's desk by July 12th, the AP chief Gary Pruitt had some words on Wednesday for the DOJ and the effect their sketchy behavior has had on reporters simply attempting to do their jobs. The DOJ violated their own rules with their too-broad seizure, he said, and should have provided the AP the chance to help the DOJ narrow the scope of their subpoena. Via Politico:
"There was never that opportunity," Pruitt said during a speech at the National Press Club in D.C. "Instead the DoJ acted as judge, jury and executioner in private, in secret." …
"The actions of the DOJ against AP are already having an impact beyond the specifics of this particular case," he said. "Some of our longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking to us, even about stories that aren't about national security. In some cases, government employees that we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone, and some are reluctant to meet in person."
"This chilling effect is not just at the AP, it's happening at other news organizations as well," Pruitt added.
While the AP is not going to be "intimidated," by the DoJ's action, he said, "our sources will be."
BuzzFeed adds the money line: "The government may love this. I suspect that they do… But beware the government that loves secrecy too much." Real talk.
President Obama and the White House have been defending their War On Leaks and journalist-intimidation tactics, and while the DOJ's eventual report might perhaps have some kind of mealy-mouthed admission about this particular case being slightly mishandled somehow (but by who exactly, I doubt we'll ever know), but Holder has already signalled that they really don't have any plans to change their aggressive prosecution of leaks. So, that's nice.


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Welcome to the East and West Runton Website
Provided by Runton Parish Council - Proud to be classed in the Foundation Level of the Local Council Award Scheme.
There are car parks in both villages. In East Runton situated on the cliff top at Beach Road the car park is a Pay and Display.
At West Runton situated on the A149 at the east end of the village, the car park is provided by the Parish Council and is free. There is also parking at the cliff top which carries a small charge.
There are large friendly caravan sites in both villages and ample camping facilities.
The villages have a good variety of thriving shops from which fresh produce is available, including camping equipment and outdoor clothing shops, butchers and family-run small supermarkets. Post office at West Runton.
East Runton boasts two public houses, a club and restaurants and a sports ground. At West Runton, there is a public house and a large hotel with a nine-hole golf course, a beach café and a restaurant in the village street. Buses are frequent through both villages and there is a railway station at West Runton.
John Harris's Walking in England
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Celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Ellen DeGeneres voiced their support through Twitter about yesterday's Senate repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, E! Online reported.
"Can't hold back the tears + pride," Gaga wrote on her Twitter page. "We did it!! Our voice was heard + today the Senate REPEALED DADT. A triumph for equality after 17 YEARS. Today I am so proud to be American. I wish I was home so I could throw a Parade. We are on the way...to full equal".
DeGeneres expressed her pleasure in the Senate's 65-31 decision on Saturday: "Thank you Senators for pushing us one step closer towards full equality."
Other celebs took to Twitter and wrote how they felt on the repeal:
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"One step closer to #equality!! #DADT is gone!Historical! #lgbt," said singer Ricky Martin.
"Today is an amazing day I could not have woken up to better news. The senate repealed #DADT this is a huge step towards equality for all," said Kelly Osbourne.
Neil Patrick Harris, star of "How I Met Your Mother," chimed in: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell REPEALED! So proud of Congress for making the right decision. Now all soldiers can serve with integrity. A great day."
Jessie Tyler Ferguson of "Modern Family" added: "Stepping closer to Equality! Good Job America!!!! Don't Ask Don't Tell closer to being on the "Remember-how-crazy-it-was-when..." list!"
Following yesterday's vote, the bill now goes to President Obama for his approval.
Selected Reading: E! Online, MSNBC, The New York Times


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L's friend R had her 5th birthday today. Both girls were invited to the party. Before the party took SB out to sell her girl scout cookies. Sold 6 boxes in an hour. Not too good of a sales day for a Saturday. Last house we stopped at ended up being a girl scout leader. We were informed in polite terms that we were trespassing on another's territory. To my way of thinking if a girl hasn't gone out and sold in her territory halfway through the cookie sale then watch out. …Continue
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Picked kids up from school today as a special treat. Then the 4 of us went out to sell Girl Scout cookies to local business. 45 minutes of tramping and got 3 boxes sold and a couple of sales people took SB's letter asking for businesses to donate cookies to the military. Gotta wonder how the super cookie sellers do it. After selling cookies and buying some donuts at the donut store, went home and ate dinner. Was surprised, because not only did all three kids get along during…Continue
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As I sit here at a library computer typing I am thinking about how crazy the last three weeks have been while my husband has visited family in China . I am also very grateful he will be home soon and I will no longer be single handedly taking care of our three childrens. The day after Christmas my husband left to visit his family. Since then I have been trying like crazy to keep up with our three very active children. F is 8 yrs old and a loving sensitive boy. F is also very…Continue
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Anne Arundel County police make 3 drug-related arrests
Detectives seize drugs, drug paraphernalia
Anne Arundel County police said they arrested three people in separate drug busts.
Detectives executed a narcotics search warrant at 6422 Golden Oak Drive in the Linthicum around 9:45 p.m. Thursday in response to several neighbor complaints of drug activity at the home.
Police said 17.47 grams of suspected marijuana with an estimated street value of $260, along with drug paraphernalia, was seized.
Brendan Matthew Hewes, 18, was arrested and charged, police said.
In a separate incident, detectives executed a narcotics search warrant at 213 Homewood Road in the Linthicum area around 11:45 p.m. Thursday in response to drug-dealing complaints.
Police said 21.41 grams of suspected marijuana with an estimated street value of $215, along with drug paraphernalia, was seized.
Alexander Howard Evans, 19, was arrested and charged, police said.
In another incident, detectives were patrolling the Freetown area in reference to complaints of drug activity around 8:30 p.m. Friday when they saw a man they believed was involved in drug activity in the area of Willie Johnson Lane and Huff Court.
Detectives approached the man and he immediately fled on foot.
During the foot pursuit, detectives said they saw the man throw a sandwich bag that they believed to contain marijuana.
The suspect was eventually apprehended and taken into custody.
Detectives recovered the sandwich bag that had smaller baggies of suspected marijuana packaged for distribution. Police said detectives seized 22 baggies of marijuana with a total weight of 24.15 grams and an approximate street value $250.
Police said Kenny Carlos Truxon Jr., 20, was arrested and charged.


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ISPRS 2001 Comparison of Shape Models for 433 Eros using Imaging and Altimetry
The NEAR mission produced shape models of asteroid 433 Eros by both the imaging team and the altimetry team. Preliminary models by both teams at the 2 degree x 2 degree resolution, equivalent to about 250 meter block size, have been compared. The purpose of the comparison was to understand the strengths of the two approaches and to judge how well we have determined the shape of 433 Eros. A comparison of these models shows that they differ by varying amounts at all scales. The difference between the two estimates of the mean radius of Eros expressed as the degree zero term in a spherical harmonic expansion is 18 meters where the imaging value is the larger. In addition, there is a difference of about 25 meters in the location of the center of figure that creates a slope from the south to the north of 50 meters that dominates the long wavelength difference between these two models. After removal of this south-to-north trend the rms difference between the two 2x2 degree models is about 40 meters. At the short wavelengths (~1km) there is more power in the altimetry solution than the imaging solution and this is apparent from a comparison of synthetic profiles across the asteroid, derived from the models.
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Illustrate Your Teaching
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the value of some of our graphics resources for finding unique images to illustrate the stories of the Bible. Today, Rick Mansfield of This Lamp blogged about his own use of these resources to find an image of "Balaam in the flesh".
It's a great discussion of how to find the "just right" image to illustrate your teaching. Be sure to check it out.
Archived Comments
David Harp
I'm just in absolute awe at Rick's genuis and the others who contribute to this blog. Of course, what would be helpful is if someone from Accordance could actually help us by taking us through this process so WE might actually be able to use this on a weekly basis. I went to an Accordance seminar hoping to get this but I got the idea that it was an experts only meeting. I'm not trying to be rude just in search of some tools to use to share the Word with my people.


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Financial reporting standards governing the preparation of financial statements cater for a wide audience of users including shareholders, creditors and employees. Although financial statements are the primary source of information when preparing a corporate entity's income tax return, they are not specifically tailored for tax reporting.
Accountants and tax practitioners need to understand the differences between accounting standards and tax legislation to ensure that the entity's tax liability is determined correctly and to ensure accurate financial reporting of taxation.
When preparing financial statements tax practitioners/accountants, are required to prepare certain reconciliations such as a reconciliation between accounting profit and taxable income, VAT reconciliations and PAYE reconciliations to enable the entity to discharge its burden of proof in terms of section 102 of the Tax Administration Act, 2011. Such reconciliations are especially useful when the entity is required to submit a supplementary declaration (IT14SD).
Important: Printed copies of notes is optional and will cost additional R50 per set and must be ordered. Electronic notes will be emailed to all registered delegates 2 days prior to the event. Should you require a printed copy on the day of the seminar kindly select the printed seminar notes when registering for the event.
Option 2 - Dedicated Webinar Broadcast
This dedicated CPD webinar will be presented in Afrikaans & English on 2 different dates.
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2020/06/102020 VAT Refresher - Webinar 1
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2018/10/08Interest-free loans to trusts: Proposed amendments, public comments and National Treasury's response
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Section 240A of the Tax Administration Act, 2011 (as amended) requires that all tax practitioners register with a recognized controlling body before 1 July 2013. It is a criminal offense to not register with both a recognized controlling body
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Is there anything worse than a car that tries to be cool, but fails miserably?
The first car to really set the mold for a car intended to appeal to hip buyers was the original Mustang, and while that car had its youth-oriented predecessors, nobody has really done it as well since. That's not to say there haven't been many attempts to recreate that success, and these have often been hilarious failures.
Take the second-generation Scion tC for example. It is a bland, front-drive bloatmobile, no matter how many rear-drive drift cars Scion builds, or how many bright paint special editions Scion offers.
What do you think was the most hopelessly uncool car even intended to be hip?
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Hi Everyone!
I just want to let all of you know that I have created a new "page" on the blog that is at the top of the first page you see when you visit the blog.
The title of the page is "2018 Programs". You will find a list of the schedule of our upcoming genealogy programs for 2018 at our Central Library. These programs always occur on the 2nd Tuesday evening of each month starting at 7:30 PM. Doors to the room open by 7:00 PM.
Take a look at the variety of topics and speakers we have scheduled for 2018 to see which ones are of special interest to you. Also note the quarterly "breakout" groups we have when we do not have a speaker scheduled. Mark your calendars for 2018 for these programs.
You can also get directly to this schedule of our programs for 2018 from right within this post at:
2018 Genealogy Programs at the Schaumburg Township District Library
We look forward to seeing you throughout 2018!
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library


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KDE Telepathy releases first beta version
The KDE Telepathy team has made the first beta release of the new KDE Instant Messaging suite. This 0.3 release coincides with the release of KDE Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.8.
In the 3 months since KDE Telepathy 0.2, members of the team have closed over 100 bugs. With the added stability and polish, the project has been moved to KDE Extragear starting new life as an accepted KDE application.
Along with bug fixes, 0.3 brings the following new features:
More information about the project can be found at the KDE Telepathy homepage.
Source code is available for download; some distributions may also have packages.
Ubuntu packages
any volunteer to provide ubuntu packages?
By Mathieu Jobin at Wed, 2012/02/01 - 8:36am
Replacing Kopete?
Is this going to replace Kopete as the standard messaging client in KDE SC someday?
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Bishop David of Stobi serves in Johannesburg
His Grace Bishop David of Stobi and locum tenens of Strumice visited Johanessburg on the occasion of the church slava and 35th anniversary of the jubilee of the church of Saint Thomas the Apostle, which dean is archimandrite Pantaleon
On 16 October, His Eminence Metropolitan Damascinos of Johanessburg and Pretoria from the Patriarchate of Alexandria received His Grace Bishop David of Stobi and in his honor the doxology was served. Bishop David conveyed the greetings of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej and informed Metropolitan with the sufferings that His Beatitude Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan endures.
On the occasion of Saint Thomas the Apostle the evening service, that was served by many priests, was attended by lots of believers from Johannesburg.
The feast day of Saint Thomas the Apostle was celebrated solemnly. Bishop David of Stobi officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of Metropolitan Damascinos of Johannesburg and Pretoria. Many priests from parishes of Johannesburg and Pretoria concelebrated at the Liturgy. Both hierarchs held sermons. Metropolitan Damascinos talked about unjust imprisonment of Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid. He also on behalf of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa expressed joy since the arrival of Bishop David in Johannesburg and Liturgical service, as a visual sign of unity and conciliarity of our Church.
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Seeking to enforce visa rules, UK to demand hefty bond for visitors from 6 ex-colonies
LAGOS, Nigeria – Defying protests, the British government said Monday it will go ahead with a pilot plan to curb illegal immigration by demanding visitors from six of its ex-colonies post a cash bond to obtain visas.
An email from the Home Office to The Associated Press confirmed that the plan would focus on countries with a high proportion of visa overstayers and examine ways of using the proceeds of forfeited bonds to ease the burden illegal immigrants put on public services.
The department confirmed reports that began circulating last month that the bonds could amount to 3,000 pounds ($3,630) per visitor, but said the sum hadn't been fixed nor a date set for implementation.
The six countries targeted are Ghana, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as Nigeria, whose population of 160 million is Africa's biggest, and whose protests have been strongest.
When reports of the plan emerged, Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Olugbenga Ashiru called in the British ambassador last month to express "strong displeasure" over the "discriminatory" policy.
He suggested it could harm trade between the two countries that grew nearly five-fold from $2.35 billion in 2010 to $11.57 billion last year, with the value of Nigerian imports doubling.
The British have sought to calm the outcry, with the British ambassador to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock, saying "the vast majority would not be required to pay a bond." He said about 70 percent of the 180,000 Nigerians applying annually to visit Britain get visas.
India protested last month as British Prime Minister David Cameron was visiting, causing him to declare that a final decision had not been taken.
Immigration, legal and illegal, is a sensitive political issue in Britain, especially with the unemployment and austerity measures brought on by the economic crisis. It was a big issue in his election campaign and he has pledged to cut net immigration from 252,000 a year in 2010 to below 100,000 a year by 2015.
The Home Office statement said the visa bond "is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain."
But a panel of senior British lawmakers, in a report issued Sunday, said official migration statistics are little more than a "best guess."
Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee said no attempt is made to count people entering or leaving Britain, and that the government instead estimates the number coming in based on "random interviews" at ports of entry.
The Home Office's emailed statement said the pilot plan "will apply to visitor visas, but if the scheme is successful we'd like to be able to apply it on an intelligence-led basis on any visa route and any country."
Khaled Mahmud, owner of a travel agency in Dhaka, Bangladesh told The Associated Press Monday he believes the measure "smacks of a deep-rooted racial attitude."
In the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, computer businessman Syed Shahid Ali, who visits Britain frequently, called it "painful and unbearable."
"How can someone who wants to visit the U.K. for a couple of days for business meetings or something else afford to set aside 3,000 pounds," he said. "He will simply prefer to go and do business elsewhere in Europe instead of getting into this problem of giving a bond and getting reimbursed."
Haider Abbas Rizvi, a Pakistani former lawmaker, said the British government should reconsider because the measure would hurt a lot of Pakistanis who have family members living in Britain and cannot afford the bond.
"There are just a few people who deviate from the system or break the law, so instead of bringing common travelers and law-abiding people under the possible financial burden, there should be strict surveillance on the violators of law in the U.K. or elsewhere," Rizvi told the AP.
Another recent move aimed at overstayers that drew criticism was the deployment of two vans emblazoned with the message "In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest." The vans circulated in six London boroughs for a week. Leaflets with the same message will be distributed for a month.
Associated Press writers Paisley Dodds and Cassandra Vinograd in London, Farid Hossain in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Zarar Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report.


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The PSR series power supplies are regulated DC power supplies that are capable of operating from 100-240 VAC input, 50/60 Hz. They include a shunt regulator and blocking diode which should be included in servo systems to protect the power supply. The PSR series can be used with any controller/amplifier combination to provide a complete solution for single-axis or multi-axis applications. The PSR series are available in two models: PSR-12-24 and PSR-6-48.
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger apologized Monday night after learning he will not face any criminal charges after authorities said a 20-year-old woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her declined to act further.
The announcement capped weeks of speculation about Roethlisberger's fate -- and questions about his judgment -- after he was accused of attacking the Georgia college student in the bathroom of a nightclub in Milledgeville.
Roethlisberger said from the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room Monday night that the decision by the district attorney was "no doubt" correct -- and that he was sorry to fans and colleagues for the entire process.
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"I'd like to begin by expressing gratitude to the thorough investigation process in Georgia," ESPN reported Roethlisberger said. "The prosecutor's decision not to bring charges, I know without a doubt, is the right conclusion. I don't intend to discuss any details related to the events of Georgia. I'm happy to put this behind me and move forward."
"I'm truly sorry for the disappointment and negative attention I brought to my family, my teammates, coaches, the Rooneys and the NFL," ESPN reported Roethlisberger said.
"I understand that the opportunities I have been blessed with are a privilege, and much is expected of me as the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I absolutely want to be the leader this team deserves, valued in the community and a role model to kids. I have much work to do to earn this trust."
Roethlisberger said he is "excited to get back to work" and is "determined" to have a "great season."
District Attorney Fred Bright said there are still many questions about what happened that night, March 5th, but the accuser and her family told authorities they did not want to press charges. Bright said he could not bring a case against the athlete that would convince a jury "beyond a reasonable doubt."
"We are not condoning Mr. Roethlisberger's actions that night," Bright said. "But we do not prosecute morals. We prosecute crimes."
Bright said the investigation revealed that the woman was heavily intoxicated that night and that a doctor who examined the accuser could not determine if she was raped. He said some DNA was found but enough to determine who is belonged to.
Roethlisberger, 28, maintained his innocence throughout, although he did not submit to a second interview with authorities, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
The two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback has faced blistering criticism over the alleged incident, with many questioning why Roethlisberger would subject himself to any scrutiny in light of a pending civil lawsuit accusing him of rape.
A Las Vegas woman claims he raped her in 2008 at a hotel and casino in Lake Tahoe, an allegation he strongly denies.


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Meet & Eat: Jeff Pzena of Moho Cocoa
I first met Jeff Pzena of Moho Cocoa when I took a trip with chocolatier Roni-Sue to his Cotton Tree Lodge. It's located smack-dab in the middle of the jungle, and is two plane trips, a boat ride and a jaunt on a bus away from New York.
So what makes a bunch of chocolatiers venture into the middle of the jungle to get bitten by insects, soaked by sudden rainstorms, and generally freaked out by howler monkeys? Chocolate, of course!
The lodge offers opportunities to visit cacao farms, meet the farmers, see how everything is made, and generally get acquainted with the raw materials and processing of chocolate. We visited the factory (a small building with some ingeniously jury-rigged equipment) and watched Jeff take us through the process of making cacao beans into chocolate—from beginning to end—using a coffee roaster, hairdryer and Champion juicer before it was over. Ending up in a closet-sized cold room refrigerated by an air conditioner, we got to mold, wrap and (the best part) eat our own chocolate bars.
At the time, the chocolate made from these beans—procured just down the road from the factory, at the daily market—was only available at the lodge; but now Jeff has brought his wares to the U.S. as Moho Cocoa, named for the river that runs through the Toledo district of Belize where the cacao is sourced.
What was the impetus behind starting your chocolate work? I accidentally bought some cocoa beans at the farmers' market in Belize thinking they were almonds. They were unfermented, washed and dried beans the local Mayan people use for making their chocolate drinks. If cocoa beans are not fermented, they do look a bit like almonds. So it was merely by chance.
Which came first, the chocolate or the lodge? My first purchase of cocoa beans (as explained above) was while camping in the jungle at the beginning of the construction of Cotton Tree Lodge, so the two were intertwined from the beginning. Although the lodge was planned first.
How involved are you in sourcing the ingredients for your chocolate? More involved than most chocolate makers could ever contemplate! I am growing some of my own cacao and buying cacao seed from local Mayan farmers in Belize.
We're literally going farm to farm in a pickup truck, offering cash for wet cacao seed. We take the seed back to our own custom-built cacao fermentation and drying facility. Basically, we make our cocoa beans, and can control the processing since we are doing it ourselves.
How is your chocolate unique? As with any single origin product, like wine, subtle flavors are expressed based on the growing conditions and the varieties being grown. The Belize cacao tends to be a bit earthy and raisin-y. My processing is fairly simple and I'm only using cocoa beans, cocoa butter, and sugar in the recipe (i.e., no soy lecithin or other emulsifiers). Also, the recipe itself is a bit on the smooth mellow side, rather than focused on intense flavor. It's almost like couverture. I made a chocolate that I like to gobble more than I like to savor. I never tire of it, which is a good sign.
What's your favorite part about what you do? I like the figuring out of how things work part. I also like how business is nothing like you imagine it to be! It's all about human psychology and personal relationships. Chocolate is a treat to eat, so it's an easy industry to be in. The customers are always happy!
What are your future plans for Moho Cocoa? Our current line is of 67% dark bars. I want to put out another line of 67% bars using the same beans and the same ingredients, just more intense in flavor. Our current line is eight parts cocoa beans, two parts cocoa butter, and five parts sugar. The new bars would be ten parts cocoa beans and five parts sugar.
I think our customers would have fun comparing the flavor between the two; and then I'd also have the benefit of making a chocolate that I prefer to savor than to gobble up!
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While he has set new standards for excellence in the industry, his winning formula can be traced back to a family legacy that dates back more than 50 years to the post-World War II landscape of Southern California. It all started in 1946, when Fletcher Jones Sr. met a man on a golf course who would forever change his destiny. Impressed by how successful the man had become by selling cars, the USC student decided to switch gears from being a law student to becoming an entrepreneur in the burgeoning automotive retail industry. After scraping together $1,200 — a veritable fortune in those days — Jones Sr. opened a modest used car lot in downtown Los Angeles and sold his first vehicle for $70. He went on to open his first new car dealership and earned his first taste of success by selling Chrysler and Plymouth vehicles.
To spread the word quickly, Jones Sr. tried using TV and newspaper advertising, featuring himself as the spokesperson, extolling the benefits of buying a car from his dealerships. The personal approach turned out to be incredibly successful and created a formula that is still effective today.
Over the next 15 years, Jones Sr. expanded his operations to include Chevrolet and GM cars and opened an array of new dealerships located throughout Southern California, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. By opening in markets that were experiencing unprecedented growth, he quickly earned a reputation as a "rising star" in the auto retail industry.
It was in the mid-1960s that Jones Sr. gave his son, Fletcher (who went by Ted to distinguish himself from his father) his first job in the business. Ted worked in a wide array of entry-level positions, ranging from sweeping the facility's floors and working in the parts departments before advancing into sales and management positions. With his father's guidance, Ted opened his own dealership in the city of Whittier, where he sold Mazda vehicles. Within a few years, the decision to sell the fuel-sipping cars would prove fortuitous, as the oil-crisis loomed and Americans began exploring their options for more efficient vehicles.
Not one to put too much emphasis on one brand, Ted began opening additional dealerships that offered both domestic and import brands, and soon he operated a stable of eight locations from Southern California to Las Vegas. He ran them jointly with his father until 1994, when at the age of 76, Fletcher Jones Sr. passed away.
By the early 1990s, Ted Jones had a clear vision of the expansion direction he wanted his business venture to take, and in 1991 he purchased a bankrupt luxury auto dealership in the affluent community of Newport Beach, setting his plan in motion to create one of the nation's largest Mercedes-Benz centers. After completing construction and fine-tuning the operation to run like a Swiss watch, he applied the same business principles to the other dealerships that make up the Fletcher Jones Auto Group, including Fletcher Jones Mercedes-Benz of Chicago.
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Apocalypse by Dean Crawford
White Horse by Alex Adams
Among Others by Jo Walton
The Iron King by Maurice Druon
The Vorrh by B. Catling
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
The Emperor of All Things by Paul Witcover
Doktor Glass by Thomas Brennan
The Apes of Wrath edited by Richard Klaw
The Betrayal of the Living by Nick Lake
Crandolin by Anna Tambour
Planesrunner by Ian McDonald
The Damned Don't Die by Jim Nisbet
The Explorer by James Smythe
The Grim Company by Luke Scull
Dangerous Gifts by Gaie Sebold
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams
House of Secrets by Chris Columbus & Ned Vizzini
The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner
The Demi-Monde: Summer by Rod Rees
Wool by Hugh Howey
A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwartz
The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena by Roy Bainton
The Twyning by Terence Blacker
Again, they're mostly for Interzone but a few are intended for reviews in other venues. We won't have the space to feature all of them but that doesn't mean that they're not worthwhile books. Sometimes I wonder if it would be physically possible for one person to keep up with reading all of them, even assuming that they did little else; it would be fun to try, though.
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Obama bestows nation's highest combat honor on Army veteran for his valor in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) � President Barack Obama is bestowing the Medal of Honor on a former Army staff sergeant who fought off enemy fighters during one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghanistan war.
Ryan M. Pitts is the ninth living recipient of the nation's highest decoration for battlefield valor for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama says Pitts displays "the humility and loyalty" that define America's men and women in uniform. Obama noted that the 28-year-old Pitts has said his honor belongs to everyone who was with him during the July 13, 2008 attack in Wanat, Afghanistan.
Pitts was injured in the attack. But despite losing blood from wounds in both legs and an arm, he continued to fire at about 200 Taliban fighters and guided air strikes that helped repel the attack.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – King College placed three student-athletes on the 2012 All-Conference Golf Team prior to the start of the conference championships this weekend. On that list were men's golfers Josh Bamberger and Adrian Kibsey and women's golfer Esther Gandarias.
Adrian Kibsey (Winnipeg, Manitoba) earned the highest of honors being named to the All-Conference First Team. In eight tournaments this season, the senior averaged a 73.43 scorecard and won two tournaments on the season. He shot a low-18 score of 69 and a low-36 of 139. Kibsey completed the year with three top-5 finishes and four inside the top-10.
Josh Bamberger (Waterloo, Ontario) was named the Third Team after her finished his senior season with three top-5 finishes over eight tournaments. He shot a stroke average of 73.46 and a low 18-hole score of 68 and a low-36 of 141.
Gandarias, a native of Madrid, Spain, was named to the Third Team after an impressive junior season. In eight tournaments, Gandarias shot an average of 84.47 with a low-18 score of 79. She had one top-5 finish.
The Conference Carolinas All-Conference Teams were determined by vote from each Head Coach of participating league institutions. Nominations were collected and then voted upon by ballot and tallied to determine Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Coach of the Year, All-Conference First Team, All-Conference Second Team and All-Conference Third Team. Awards were presented at the league golf team banquet at the Conference Tournament Championships co-hosted by Belmont Abbey College and the Woodlake Country Club in Pinehurst, N.C.
Player of the Year
Adam Hedges, Belmont Abbey
Freshman of the Year
Brad Thorne, Erskine
Coach of the Year
Joey Denton, Belmont Abbey
All-Conference First Team
Adam Hedges, Belmont Abbey
Daniel Claytor, Barton
Jake Murphy, Coker
Adrian Kibsey, King
Michael Marshburn, Barton
All-Conference Second Team
Dermot McElhennon, Barton
Troy Bulmer, Pfeiffer
Brad Thorne, Erskine
CJ Deberg, Queens
Josh O'Neal, North Greenville
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Josh Bamberger, King
Arnor Finnbjornsson, Belmont Abbey
Tyson Louth, Pfeiffer
Jared Crane, Coker
Michael Blair, Pfeiffer
Player of the Year
Valentina Urquiola, Mount Olive
Rachel Moore, Erskine
Chip Spiron, Mount Olive
Valentina Urquiola, Mount Olive
Chelsea Demers, Pfeiffer
Emelie Andersson, Mount Olive
Julia Wennerlund, Queens
Stephanie Peareth, Pfeiffer
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Rachel Moore, Erskine
Louise Sjoberg, Queens
Brittney Zine, Barton
Rebecca Mirovich, Belmont Abbey
Denise Shirley, North Greenville
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Camilla Mallberg, Queens
Esther Gandarias, King
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An immediate inspection of the gearboxes of the United Kingdom's fleet of Westland Sea King helicopters was initiated at the end of November after the emergency landing on October 13 by a search and rescue (SAR) Sea King helicopter in Scotland.
The Royal Navy Sea King Mk5 (ZA130) helicopter, based at HMS Gannet, at Prestwick airport in Scotland, developed a gearbox problem while on a training flight in the mountainous area of Glencoe. The crew immediately decided to set the aircraft down and investigate further. It was subsequently decided that the aircraft could not be flown back to its base.
Chinook extracting a SAR Sea King. Photo courtesy UK Royal Air Force
Due to the remoteness of the location in which the Sea King went down, and with the option of recovering the helicopter by road ruled out, Royal Navy maintainers were called to strip down the aircraft to prepare it for extraction by a Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook Mk3 from RAF Odiham (no doubt with some friendly banter between crews regarding the need for the lift).
Addressing a question posed to him in the House of Commons, Phllip Dunne, Minister for Defense Equipment, Support and Technology (DE&S) said that as a result of the incident, all of the MoD's Sea Kings would be subject to an inspection regime focused on the helicopter's gearbox.
The entire MoD Sea King fleet is due to be retired by the end of 2016.
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Director's Notebook: 'World War Z' Director Marc Forster on the Alternate Ending You'll Never See
In this monthly column we spotlight new Blu-ray/DVD releases by interviewing directors about the scenes that stood out most for them while making their movies. This month, we talk to Marc Forster about his Brad Pitt-starring summer blockbuster World War Z (out September 17).
It's likely you heard about the problems surrounding the making of World War Z, Marc Forster's big-budget adaptation of Max Brooks' best-selling book. Starring Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a former U.N. investigator who races around the world in search of a way to stop a sudden zombie pandemic, the buzz around the film quickly shifted from the anticipation of Pitt's first foray into a CGI-heavy summer blockbuster to its issues while shooting—which included everything from a Hungarian antiterrorist squad seizing the production's prop guns to numerous screenwriter's brought on during filming to punch up the story to the most notorious: that the original ending was scrapped and drastically overhauled before its release.
Here, Forster explains what went wrong with the original ending and why he's so proud of the more intimate finale set in a zombie-infested World Health Organization building that was finally used. He's specifically fond of the thrilling scene where Gerry has to try out his theory on how to camouflage humans from the zombies while he's face-to-face with one.
"The Battle of Moscow"
"Basically in the original ending, after the Israel sequence and the plane crash, Gerry is in Russia, and the storyline of what he finds out at the WHO lab is what he finds in Russia but he applies his theory in a battlefield setting. We called it "The Battle of Moscow," and it's a huge battle with zombies and multiple other characters and ultimately Gerry defeats them by realizing that the zombies avoid him and go around him [after injecting himself with a virus]. So it's in Russia, at night, in a snowstorm with thousands of zombies and big battles; kind of the scope of the Israel sequence. Some of that footage is still in the film, you see it during the montage when Gerry journeys back to his family on that small boat, we see a few glimpses from that battle. We never finished that footage because we all agreed after Israel and the plane crash you're battle fatigued and you really want the movie to be more quiet and you don't want it to go into another huge combat situation.
"The problem with that battle sequence is you get lost because obviously you can't just stay with Gerry, you have so much more going on. So you lose the connection with him. What the ending should really be about is solving that riddle [of how to combat the zombies] with him. And to make it a more quiet and suspenseful is a much more interesting approach than to do it in a big battle way. That's how these discussions came about and why we ended up setting the ending in a World Health Organization lab. As in all of my movies, I'm always about the character, about these quiet moments. So I was really happy when everyone came around and agreed and supported that vision."
"…loss of humanity."
"It was very important for me to first cast the actor who would play that zombie [that Gerry confronts in the lab]. His name is Michael Jenn. He's a performer and had all these different skills, but the key thing with me was to make you feel with this zombie this mirror that this used to be a human. We hadn't had that moment in the film, this loss of humanity. I put a wedding ring on his finger and he's banging it very subtly against the glass door. So to give this man a history that he was married, he had a life at one point. There's also the reflection in the mirror that's very metaphorical. And then you have Gerry being isolated in this capsule but at the same time being observed by this zombie. There's a tension created by having the zombie outside, him inside and then the people observing through the security cameras, and then, of course, what is Gerry going to inject himself with? And as one of the lab people says, "It doesn't matter what he takes," because we don't even know if it's going to work or not.
"That idea actually of the sick being avoided by the zombies was an idea that screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan came up with originally and I was a big fan of it, I thought it worked. And what's great about that scene is it's all done in silence. Gerry is on his own for the first time in the movie. He's a reluctant hero in a sense, an every man, this is a moment when he becomes a hero because he puts his own life on the line to prove an idea he has and I think it's almost sacrificing his life for the greater good. That sort of idea is the ultimate in heroism. But at the same time he's not doing it over the top, because Brad knows how to play that and even how he plays it, his look as he stares up to the camera while he's being observed and looking back at the zombie at the door, that whole triangle in that scene and all parties being in their own space, it was a lot of fun to shoot and direct."
"He needed to be alone in there."
"We developed the pages and went back and forth a lot, but I thought it was key to get Gerry isolated from the other two who go in the B wing of the building with him. That his character ends up on his own and is on this journey alone, that was important for me. In the first draft of the pages the three of them were all in the glass lab and I said we have to split them up. He needed to be in there alone. At that point Brad and I were on the same page. So we shot that and a few different versions and played around. It was fun because it was just him and the zombie, you have time to explore the performance and play around with it. The inspiration from this came from the ending of Alien 3, the confrontation of Ripley and the Alien where the Alien avoids her because she's pregnant. Personally, that was the inspiration when the glass door opens and you have the zombie face-to-face with Gerry and then walking by. I enjoyed that.
"I believed in this ending more than anything. What I also liked about it was every summer blockbuster is trying in the third act is to do a bigger set piece that's bigger and louder than what you've seen in the rest of the movie. I felt going against the grain and doing something more quiet and simple will be so much interesting and refreshing and something that we're not used to. I was excited coming from a concept standpoint that everybody was willing to go there and not be like everybody else and do this big battle set piece, which was huge and loud and long; that we would go and take it in this smaller more quieter space."
"It was too big…"
"I don't think you'll ever see the Russia sequence, because we never really finished it; we never spent the money to do the visual effects. Once we shot it and we did a rough cut, everyone agreed that this is too big and too exhausting, it would be better to go a simpler route. So to finish the sequence aside from fine tuning it you would have to do massive amounts of CG work, which would be in the millions of dollars, so I don't think anyone would want to spend the money on that. It's a fantastic sequence, like the Israel one, but it's just too much. It was too big and not the right ending. "
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unemployment, condition of one who is able to work but unable to find work. Once assumed to be voluntary, idleness was punishable by law; however it is now recognized that unemployment often arises from factors beyond the control of the individual worker. Unemployment may be due to seasonal layoffs (e.g., in agricultural jobs), technological changes in industry (particularly by increased automation), racial discrimination, lack of adequate skills by the worker, or fluctuations in the economy. For the purposes of government statistics, a unemployed person is someone who is without a job and actively looking for work; a person without a job who is not looking or has stopped looking for work is not counted as unemployed. The unemployment rate thus is not an indicator of the percentage of people of working age who do not have jobs. The term underemployment is often used to describe the condition of those who work part-time because full-time jobs are unavailable or who are employed at less-skilled work than they are qualified to do.
In developing countries, unemployment is often caused by the urban migration that generally precedes the industrial development needed to employ those migrants. In industrial nations, increases in unemployment are the result of economic slowdowns, recessions, or depressions. In the Great Depression of the 1930s unemployment rose to 25% of the workforce in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Similar rates occurred in Greece and Spain, due in part to different causes, during the early 2010s.
In the post–World War II era most of W Europe and Japan generally kept their unemployment levels below 3%, and by the late 1960s the rate in the United States, where there had been far more fluctuation, was down to less than 4%. Since the 1970s, however, worldwide economic changes have generally kept the U.S. unemployment rate above 5%. It was greater than 10% in 1982, the highest rate since 1940, and the rate was considerably higher among nonwhite minorities and the young, approaching 50% among African-American teenagers in urban areas. By 1990 the average unemployment rate had dropped to almost 5%. It fluctuated between 5% and 7% for most of the 1990s but dropped to around 4% by 1999 before a recession (2001) led it to rise to 6.3% in mid-2003. It subsequently dropped to 5% by mid-2005 and hovered between 4.8% and 4.4% for most of 2006–7. By late 2009, however, it had risen to 10.1% as a result of the deepest recession since the early 1980s. It gradually dropped to below 6% by late 2014 and to nearly 4% by late 2017. At the same time, however, many people left the workforce during much of that period and were not counted in the employment figures. Underemployment and unemployment combined exceeded 17% in 2009, the worst such rate since at least the 1970s and perhaps since the Great Depression.
As Keynesian economics (see Keynes, John Maynard) gained influence among policymakers, more countries committed themselves to finding ways to approach full employment through government intervention. Governments, in addition to trying to increase employment opportunities by stimulating business, have also taken other measures to deal with the problem. In the United States, the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Employment Act of 1946 represented moves in this direction; in Great Britain, labor exchanges were set up and a contributory unemployment insurance system established. Under the Communist economic systems of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, attempts were made to eliminate unemployment by socializing the means of production and distribution and by directing labor into more productive channels, but their governments typically proved unable to reallocate labor appropriately, leading instead to unneeded production or underemployment. The disintegration of the USSR and economic liberalization in China ended such efforts.
See C. A. Greenhalgh, ed., The Causes of Unemployment (1983); D. N. Ashton, Unemployment under Capitalism (1986); J. Hudson, Unemployment after Keynes (1988); L. H. Summers, Understanding Unemployment (1989); R. Vedder and L. Gallaway, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in 20th Century America (1993).


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Ryan Davis and John Ellis have been in the forefront for Havelock�s wrestling team all season.
Ryan Davis and John Ellis have been in the forefront for Havelock�s wrestling team all season.
They will now get a chance to chase a state title.
The two Ram seniors each won regional championships on Saturday at the 3A East Regionals at Rocky Mount High School.
With the victories, they advance to the state 3A championship wrestling tournament starting today in Greensboro.
At the regionals, both started out with two pins against their first two opponents. Davis, at 132 pounds, edged out Currituck�s Tanner Stephens 6-5 in the championship finals to earn his regional title.
Ellis, at 145 pounds, beat Rocky Mount�s Joseph Cooper 9-5 in the finals to win the regional in his weight division.
Davis and Ellis were the lone two wrestlers from Havelock to qualify for the state championship tournament.
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Sometimes we get so busy that we don't know whether we're coming or going. So it's no wonder we also can find "bringing" and "taking" challenging.
document.location.href = 'http://www.rrstar.com/go/x286171908/Wood-on-Words-Bring-and-take-depend-on-perspective'; Sometimes we get so busy that we don't know whether we're coming or going. So it's no wonder we also can find "bringing" and "taking" challenging.
As Albert Einstein made abundantly clear, motion is relative.
In its simplest form, the choice between "bring" and "take" boils down to which way the action is directed.
If it's toward the speaker, use "bring": "Come to my house for dinner and bring a bottle of wine."
If it's away from the speaker, use "take": "Leave this house and take your cheap wine with you." (The dinner didn't go well.)
Or let's say you want to make sure your son remembers something for school. The teacher told him to be sure to "bring" it today. You remind him to be sure to "take" it with him. Two different speakers, two different perspectives.
Things can get muddy in a hurry in less obvious situations. In fact, in his "A Grammar Book for You and I ... Oops, Me!" author C. Edward Good devotes a six-page chapter just to "bring/take" scenarios.
I don't have the space (or the inclination) for a similarly involved exploration. But here's a typical example, lifted from Bryan A, Garner's "Garner's Modern American Usage":
"When my dad was courting my mom, he used to 'take' her a bag of groceries instead of flowers."
The motion doesn't involve the speaker. But by choosing "take," the sentence is from the dad's perspective. For the mom's perspective, substitute "bring."
And throw it all out the window when it comes to idiom. For instance, when we say something "takes the cake," it's not to be taken literally. However, if you say something "brings the cake," we expect to have cake — and eat it, too.
It's also good to "have what it takes." It's less certain whether we'll want to "have what it brings."
Similarly, to "bring the house down" is a good thing for a performer. To "take the house down" probably involves demolition.
One last challenge with these two verbs: They're both irregular.
In the case of "bring," the past tense is not "bringed," it's "brought." And so is the past participle (there's no "broughten"): "This Thanksgiving she brought just one kind of pie. I wish someone else had brought other kinds."
For "take," the past tense isn't "taked," it's "took," and the past participle is "taken": "I took one last look as my car was taken away."
By the way, "take" also can be a noun. There's even a "double take."
"Bring" brings a lot to the table as a verb, but being a noun isn't bring's thing.
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The placement of a closing quotation mark in relation to another punctuation mark (other than a period or a comma) depends upon whether that mark is part of what's being quoted.
How do you feel about the revised version of "Huckleberry Finn"? (The question mark is not part of the quoted material, so it goes outside.)
The last thing I expected him to say was, "Do you know who I am?" (The question mark goes inside — it's part of the quoted question.)
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U.S. President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage and make government work for "the many" in a State of the Union speech focused on economic fairness for the middle class as the Democrat takes a more assertive tack in his second term.
Looking to use momentum from his re-election victory last November, Obama vowed to turn much of his attention toward economic troubles like the 7.9 percent unemployment rate, an issue that dogged his first four years as president.
While he offered few concessions to Republican demands for spending cuts, Obama backed higher taxes for the wealthy and a $50 billion spending plan to create jobs by rebuilding degraded roads and bridges.
It was the second time in a few weeks that Obama has used a major occasion to show a new, bolder side, coming after his inaugural speech in January when he offered a strong defense of gay rights and put climate change back on the agenda.
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Obama on Tuesday outlined plans to withdraw 34,000 of the 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan over the next year and called anew for action on immigration reform at home.
In the most emotional moment of the hour-long speech, Obama urged Congress to ban assault weapons and take other gun control measures. Victims of recent shootings like the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, looked on, some choking back tears.
But the central emphasis of his speech was to "build new ladders of opportunity" for the middle class.
"It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few," Obama told hundreds of lawmakers, Cabinet officials and dignitaries gathered before him in the well of the House of Representatives.
His address to a joint session of Congress came in the midst of yet another bitter battle with Republicans over taxes and spending, and this tussle cast a heavy shadow over his appearance.
Even as Obama spoke, House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, accused him of offering "little more than the same stimulus policies that have failed to fix our economy and put Americans back to work."
Boehner's comments came in a statement that was issued while Obama was still delivering his address and the speaker was sitting behind him, at times scowling. "The president had an opportunity to offer a solution tonight and he let it slip by," Boehner said in his statement.
Narrow Window of Opportunity
The clock is now ticking on Obama. He has about a year to get his legislative priorities enacted before Americans shift attention to the 2014 congressional elections.
Obama reserved his toughest words to urge a resolution to a festering budget battle that will result in automatic, deep spending cuts known as "sequestration" at the end of the month unless a deal can be reached.
Americans, he said, do not expect government to solve every problem, "but they do expect us to put the nation's interests before party. They do expect us to forge reasonable compromises where we can."
Many of his proposals may face a difficult path getting through Congress. He proposed raising the U.S. minimum wage for workers from $7.25 to $9 an hour. Republicans typically oppose increases in the minimum wage out of worry it will prompt businesses to fire workers.
Some anecdotal evidence supports their concern.
Monica Smith, 36, of Tupelo, Mississippi, said: "With us being in Mississippi, what is a $9 minimum wage going to do to small companies in Mississippi? I don't know how some of these small companies could afford it."
Obama backed a $50 billion program to fund infrastructure rebuilding projects like fixing aging bridges, but many Republicans are adamantly against such stimulative government spending after Obama's first-term $787 billion stimulus did not lead to a dramatic reversal in the unemployment rate.
"Our economy is adding jobs, but too many people still can't find full-time employment," he said. "Corporate profits have rocketed to all-time highs, but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged."
Obama said that to offset the cuts he would like to raise $800 billion in revenue by eliminating tax loopholes enjoyed mostly by the wealthiest Americans.
It is a proposal Boehner backed before he reluctantly agreed instead to higher income tax rates on the richest to avert a fiscal crisis at the end of 2012. Republicans are in no mood for more tax increases and want spending cuts instead.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a rising Republican star who could run for president in 2016, accused Obama of being too fond of big government.
"I hope the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes and instead work with us to achieve real growth in our economy," Rubio said in the formal Republican response to Obama's speech.
Gun Regulations
Bringing his speech to an emotional end, Obama called on Congress to vote on measures to expand background checks, prevent gun trafficking, ban assault weapons and limit the size of ammunition magazines, saying victims deserved to have their elected officials take up the proposals.
"They deserve a vote," Obama said, calling out the names of communities scarred by massacres, Newtown, Aurora, Oak Creek, Tucson, Blacksburg. "They deserve a vote."
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have been trying to build public support for gun control after 20 children were shot in their school in Newtown, a day Obama has described as the worst of his presidency.
But they face an uphill battle against a powerful pro-gun lobby and a strong U.S. tradition of hunting and gun ownership. The right to bear arms is guaranteed to Americans in the U.S. Constitution.
Obama urged lawmakers to approve over the next few months an overhaul of immigration laws to permit a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants. Republicans who saw Hispanics overwhelmingly vote for Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney last November are more open to new immigration rules but want stronger border security first.
In a nod to Republican worries over what they see as out-of-control government spending on entitlement programs for the elderly and poor, Obama said he would back efforts to reduce healthcare spending by the same amount over a decade as proposed by a bipartisan commission whose recommendations he had rejected.
Saying the 12 hottest years on record have taken place in the last 15, Obama issued an ultimatum to Congress on climate change. He vowed to take action to confront climate change through presidential executive orders unless Congress enacts legislation.
While heavily focused on domestic policies, Obama's speech had some crucial foreign policy elements.
He outlined steps to unwind U.S. involvement in the unpopular 11-year-old Afghanistan war but gave no details on what sort of American presence might remain after 2014 when the U.S. withdrawal is supposed to be complete.
Obama's speech came a day after North Korea conducted its third underground test of a nuclear device in response to what it called U.S. hostility.
"Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defense and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats," he said.
Obama said the United States would enter into negotiations with the European Union aimed at reaching a transatlantic free trade agreement.
Click here to read the full transcript of Obama's State of the Union speech.
Additional reporting Emily LeCoz in Mississippi, and Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal in Washington; Editing by Jim Loney
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Another two game series for the Cubs as they welcome the Philadelphia Phillies to Wrigley Field today and tomorrow. The Cubs are coming off a good series of baseball against the Cardinals, one in which they probably should have swept. Stop me if you have heard that before, the Cubs once again let one slip away yesterday as the bullpen couldn't hold a lead late. They try to bounce back against a Phillies team that is starting to play better baseball. The Phillies just swept two games from the Astros, and have won four out of their last five games. The Cubs get a break in game one as Vance Worley has been scratched with an elbow issue (uh oh), and will draw Kyle Kendrick instead. Unfortunately they can't avoid Halladay as he will pitch game two, needless to say, winning game one would go along way towards making this home stand a successful one. What a home stand it is because after the Phillies we all know who descends upon Wrigley next….. go Cubs! Full preview/breakdown after the jump.
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Compliance With European Cookie Legislation
Here in the crazy land that is Europe there's a new law about to come in to effect in May which means businesses (everybody?) need to get permission from users before placing cookies on their machine.
A customer of mine has asked that I implement this on a couple of Domino websites I've built for them.
This is probably going to involve doing something very similar to what the ICO have done on their site, which is to show a huge great opt-in message at the top of every page which doesn't go away until you accept the use of cookies. As below:
When the idea of implementing this was first mentioned to me it was one of those face-in-palms-of-hands moments. All the work you put in to make a great-looking site and then you have to do this!
The Domino websites in question use cookies in two ways. Firstly, as you may expect, for authentication and, secondly, as the sites use Google Analytics.
I tried reading the ICO's guidelines on this to see if this was really required in a case where Analytics was dropped and cookies were then only used for logging in. But the guidelines are written (purposefully?) in such a way as to make no sense. Either way the legal department of the customer have said it needs doing, so who am I to argue.
Implementation should be straightforward enough. Accepting cookies on ICO's site places a cookie called "ICOAcceptCookies" on your PC with a life of 2 years. I'd just do something similar and then only add the Analytics code if the cookie is there.
What about authentication though? How can you truly prevent logging in to a Domino server unless a cookie exists!? I'm going to try out a few ideas and report back if you lot are interested and the ideas work.
My initial idea is that the login form has not only the username/password fields but also an "Accept Cookies" tickbox. The $Login form in domcfg.nsf is then customised to set a cookie if this is ticked and delete the authentication cookie if it isn't. I know I could use JavaScript but that's only a half-baked solution. I love a challenge me.


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And now for something completely different! Sambals are the Indonesian chili-based condiments that accompany all good meals. They enliven a rice-heavy diet, sometimes to the extent that just rice and a good sambal feels like a complete meal. There are, as you would expect, thousand of sambal recipes. An important, recurring dish on our field trips has been Endro's mind-blowingly spicy sambal brengsek, first introduced in 2011 on the Kalimantan trip. After Endro introduced it to Flores on this recent Wai Dongkong trip, Ibu Asti, our cook, started making a big bowl of sambal brengsek most nights. For some reason, perhaps because the sambal was disappearing immediately rather than lasting a more economical 2-3 days, she kept upping the number of chilies she added to it, and thus also the challenge in the emergent dinner-time competition. Each evening, the meal would proceed in silent concentration (as is usual in Indonesia) until someone (often me) would "lose" and admit to the first cough. This would be accompanied by a roar of laughter and widespread coughing, as all were then able to acknowledge how very hot the sambal was. She admitted to adding half a kilo of chilies to one particularly dangerous dish! An interesting cultural hypothesis emerged as we discussed the sambal each night: it is suspected here that using an even number of chilies produced an especially spicy sambal!
Aside from just making sambal brengsek, Ibu Asti introduced me to another fantastic sambal, of a very different type: whereas most classic sambals are fried, this new one (let's call it sambal kemangi) is a simple, uncooked combination of fresh ingredients, more like a Mexican salsa. Here's the recipe:
For a small bowl, enough for two persons, finely chop:
- 2 large shallots (bawang merah)
- 2 (or more) small (hot) green or red chilies (cabe rawit)
- 1 medium, ripe, red tomato
- A handful of leaves of the standard Indonesian lemon basil (kemangi)
Add a dash (or more) of salt, and, if you dare, a pinch of MSG. Mix and grind in a wooden mortar and pestle (cobek kayu) until well mixed, with the leaves torn, and the tomato pulped. This sambal kemangi is so good that I've already made it several times since leaving Flores; I've discovered it is an excellent topping for fresh bread and butter! Sambal kemangi is also reminiscent of another favorite of mine: dabu-dabu, which I learned in Palu, Sulawesi. Dabu-dabu is a coarse-chopped mix of chili, shallot, tomato and lime-juice, onto which one pours boiling-hot coconut oil. Mmmm!
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Los Angeles Clippers don't take kindly to being pushed around.
Blake Griffin had 26 points and 13 rebounds, and DeAndre Jordan added 16 points and 12 boards to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a 96-90 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.
Caron Butler had 19 points and Jamal Crawford scored 17 for the Clippers.
Nikola Pekovic had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who had coach Rick Adelman on the sideline for the first time since Jan. 5. Adelman missed the previous 11 games while his wife sought treatment for seizures.
Tempers flared in the first half when Matt Barnes was ejected and Wolves center Greg Stiemsma floored Grant Hill. But the Clippers got physical and handed the Wolves their fifth straight loss.
The Wolves went 2-9 in Adelman's absence. But the downtrodden team played with much more confidence with their leader back on the bench.
J.J. Barea and Alexey Shved led an 8-2 burst that tied the game and Andriei Kirilenko's transition layup gave Minnesota an 86-84 lead with four minutes to go.
But the Clippers got a big 3-pointer from Butler and knocked the smaller Wolves to the court for several loose balls. Griffin muscled home a three-point play with 30 seconds to go to close the game out.
Barea had 14 points and Shved 12.
The Clippers entered the game having lost four of their last five and looking a little disjointed without star point guard Chris Paul, who is out with a knee injury.
Griffin has elevated his game in Paul's absence, entering the night averaging 23.2 points, 9.0 rebounds and a staggering 6.8 assists in the last five games, picking up some of the playmaking slack left for arguably the game's best point guard.
They will get little sympathy from the injury-ravaged Timberwolves. Minnesota got Pekovic and Shved back from five-game absences, giving them 12 players on the bench for the first time since Dec. 26. They're still missing Kevin Love (broken hand), Chase Budinger (knee) and Brandon Roy (knee).
The Clippers looked a little groggy as they opened an eight-game, Oscars-related road trip. They picked up a couple of defensive 3-second violations and a bevy of technical fouls to fall behind by as many 11 points in the second quarter. Barnes got things started in the second quarter when he tried to shove his way through a screen set by Stiemsma, then threw a forearm to Stiemsma's chin. Officials reviewed the play and gave Barnes a flagrant foul-2, which brings an automatic ejection. Barnes was furious at the decision, and things got even testier moments later.
Stiemsma flattened Hill when he went up for a rebound under the basket, eliciting strong reactions from Butler and Ronny Turiaf. The two tough guys forcefully confronted Stiemsma, drawing technical fouls of their own. J.J. Barea hit both free throws for a 37-28 lead.
The outburst did seem to ignite the Clippers, who went on a 37-15 surge over the next 11 minutes to take control. Griffin flexed his muscle down low, getting Derrick Williams to pick up five fouls in 13 minutes while he attacked the offensive glass.
NOTES: It was Barnes' second ejection of the season and seventh of his career. He entered the game tied for the league lead in technical fouls with nine. ... The 6-foot-1 Bledsoe blocked the 6-foot-11 Pekovic's layup in transition in the third quarter. ... Shved was named to the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge that will take place during All-Star weekend in Houston. The rookie entered the game averaging 10.7 points and 4.6 assists this season.