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Bender's selfish. Fry is lazy. Zoidberg's shellfish. Farnsworth's crazy. Their business plan is hazy. Clay Yount dresses the Planet Express crew as the Addams Family and makes us realize that Charles Addams original comics needed more brain slugs.
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For this upstart, overachieving, suddenly Cinderella-fied U.S. men's hockey team, one more win means they're taking medals home with them.
It's back to the ice, with valuable neck wear on the line Friday at noon PST when the Yanks take on Finland in the playoff semifinals. The match will be broadcast online and shown live on NBC. Prepare for two-hour standstill, corporate America, because there's going to be a really awesome hockey game going on.
Should the U.S. win Friday, they're assured at least a silver and will play for it all in Sunday's gold medal match. Should they lose, they'll be competing for the bronze Saturday.
Either way, one more win for Team USA hockey guarantees a Sunday date at the podium and a further demolishing of the Canadians in the medal count.
These Finns are a stingy bunch, shutting out both the Germans and the Czechs to get to the playoff semifinals. But they've also lost to the very Swiss team that the U.S. beat 2-0 Wednesday.
Be aware that this Finnish team bounced the U.S. hockey team out of the previous Olympics in 2006 in Turin.

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The IT outsourcing industry is very volatile and each year we see new trends reshaping the sector. In 2020, we see some outsourcing practices coming up and others getting stronger. At the same time, we also see some of the prominent outsourcing practices becoming obsolete. This article looks at how the outsourcing industry is changing and getting prepared to embrace the change.
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know that the best safety practices are always changing and evolving,
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drill will occur. Law enforcement personnel including School Resource
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shooter drill, take immediate action! Lock down, lock down, lock down!"
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One of the great things about having an extremely accurate 3D printer and 7 different materials to choose from is the sheer scope of cool stuff that you can create! In the short clip above we've designed and 3D printed a classic car model that can be assembled by hand using parts printed on the Objet30 Pro desktop 3D printer.
If you have access to your own 3D printer you can now download the STL file for the classic car. Feel free to send me photos or video of the final result!
We also had a lot of fun putting together this miniature garden furniture set below - each piece of the set printed in one of our 7 materials (clear transparent, high temperature, polypropylene-like, rigid black, rigid white, rigid gray and rigid blue).
This is also the time to thank all those on twitter who've re-tweeted the classic car video around the blogosphere. Over the last week we've randomly selected 7 of those tweeters and each will now receive the classic car set in a presentation box.
And the winners are:
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Egyptians Tarek El Nazer, Basel Mashhour, and Sameh El Sadat, created Delicious Bakery in 2008 as the first bakery to target Egypt's upper class. The entrepreneurs are building their business through three sales channels: retail stores branded at The Bakery Shop (TBS), "Delicious Bakery" corners in supermarkets, and a B2B service which provides bread to Subway and other restaurants.
Tarek attended the American University in Cairo, and spent two years at Citigroup before working at his family's business. Basel played on Egypt's water polo team in the 2004 Olympics, and graduated from AUC. Sameh, also graduated from AUC, and worked in finance afterwards. In 2008, the trio decided to open an upscale bakery shop.
The entrepreneurs set about learning the business from scratch. By the end of 2008 purchased bread making machinery and hired a baker. They also visited a bakery exhibition in Paris, after which they tested their products and finalized their menu.
By October 2008, they partnered with Delicious Inc. (not affiliated with DB). The entrepreneurs opened a store in a more premium location. In 2009, they launched TBS in a trendy Cairo neighborhood – the store was a hit, and they quickly opened more.
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I finished the gears in GTT! And no help to never-there-partner. When I was doing science MSA's during first block on Tuesday, she did three of them. But today she was doing testing and I finished the rest, which was five! All by myself! We still haven't done the questions yet, but they're easy and due on Monday. I'm also done with all MSA's, and I'm going into all high classes next year. We got our course selection sheets, and though I'm still confused about the electives part, I've done all the important stuff done. All I have to do is have my chorus teacher sign the fine arts stuff.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Celtic Festival
I went to the Celtic Festival yesterday. I bought two rings to replace the one that broke in gym class. I also searched the Andrews clan tartan. I couldn't find Andrews, but I found Anderson, but they said that it was the same thing. I watched the Pyrates Royale and sang along, signed a petition to save Mattawoman creek, talked to some Vikings, met a guy who I thought was King Henry VIII (but was not, since he was Scottish), watched caber tosses, listened to bag pipes, looked at fancy knifes, and drunk iced teas.
The not King Henry VIII
Kilt people
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Today I have Girl Scouts. I have to bring 20 pictures of me, which was hard because, who prints pictures any more? So I had to print out a bunch of pictures from facebook. Though I think I have way more than just 20 pictures. I'm sorting through them now. I'm going to make a scrapbook with them.
At school it was career day. I learned about the Department of Justice, Cisco Networking, and some dude on the SWAT team. After that in GTT we had to model different kinds of gears or something, and my partner is this preppy girl who's always off doing the morning announcements, or doing something for SGA or yearbook club or whatever. Today she must have been helping with the career day. So for the period I just sat about trying to figure out the darn gears. What sucks even more is that for every gears there's a bunch of questions. The whole thing: the questions for the gears, and the signatures approving the 10 models we're supposed to be building is due on Thursday. So thanks to the idiot I'm paired with, I have to make 8 models in two days. I shake my fist at the world for my unlucky fortune, my sore throat, and my allergies.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
New Book!
Today in Language Arts, we are reading A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's sad that this is the third book we've read in the class but it's the only good one. The one's we've before were Farewell to Manzanar and The Pearl. In A Midsummer's Night's Dream, I am Peaseblossom, just because that name is so awesome. Though I wish I got a big speaking part so I could pronounce words correctly. My experiance with reading Anne Boleyn books help greatly. I have four lines, and I quote: "Ready." "Hail, mortal!" "Peaseblossom." "Ready." Awesome, I know. There's also another line where me and the three other fairies Cobweb, Mustardseed, and Moth say "Where shall we go?"
Here's The Beatles playing the play-within-the-play
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Back From Camp
Sorry about how short that last post was. I accidentally hit send on my phone too soon. There were only six girls from our troop came camping, and since we were the older girls we had to help with everything.
On Friday there was pizza delivered, I helped make the salad. I spent majority of the dinner time behind in the kitchen, helping the troop leader resupplying the servers with pizza and throwing away empty boxes. There was something strange with the water since it smelled like sewage, but other than that, dinner was food.
Afterwards there was a pajama party, but I was just too tired and I didn't want to scare the little kids. My friends in my Girl Scout troop said I was speaking gibberish when I came out of the bathroom after brushing my teeth.
Since our leader was the cook she wasn't there to tell us what to do, so most of the time we wandered around. On Saturday we had pancakes, eggs, bacon, and sausage for breakfast. Since there were a whole lot of kids the food was the kind you microwave, except the eggs. Thankfully there was applesauce to quench my picky stomach. My troop had to clean up after breakfast, and I got so wet when I was cleaning dishes with this clumsy girl.
We went down to the amphitheatre to watch these two people from the Port Tobacco Players talk about theatre. Afterwards we hung out in our cabins until the older girls told us we were late for lunch. It was cold-cut subs and chips. We went on a walk to Trefoil Lake. Near the biffy we saw an old boat that we took a picture on. We found a trail near the biffy, too and took it, not knowing where we would go. It was a long trail through the woods, and I led the way following the red markers. After that we were so hot we splashed each other with water.
Two girls got into a water fight and ran off. Me and another girl hung around our cabin until one of the girls in the water fight came back and chilled with us. We realized we should be doing something by now, and there was stations going on, so we went to the stations they said we had to go to, which was mask making. My mask is total awesomeness, and after that we hung in our cabin again.
Later in the evening we did skits in the amphitheatre, and had hot dogs and hamburgers for dinner. I was crazily tired, so I read in my cabin until the girls in my troop said we had to be in the amphitheatre for s'mores or something. I spent a while there, until I was just too tired and walked alone back to the cabin in the dark. In the cabin when everybody else got there, we talked and threw marshmallows at each other. We laughed our selves to sleep. In the morning I was so glad to go home to take a shower and see Andelle (i <3 u), and blog about it =]
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Today I'm going camping with my girl scout troop to Camp Winona.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Last night for dinner we had strawberry shortcake. Also yesterday in gym they made us run around for nearly the whole class, so today I feel sore all over, especially in my legs.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
I found out a way to make a blog post using text messages so I'm testing it out. Lately we've been having breakfast for dinner. Like last night me and mom ate sausage. Tonight we made potato chips, and I cooked bacon. Mom says I made perfect bacon on my first try. ^_^
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
My dad gave me 21 volumes of this radio program about the history of The Beatles and their songs. All. Of. Them. I even have two of them in German. So now I have about all their songs, and it's so frickin' awesome! Except I can't get it on my mp3 player because it's being a buttnut.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Today I searched the Other Boleyn Girl movie online, and 72 minutes into the movie, it stopped. -_- Not cool, man, not cool.
I tried searching the series The Tudors. I couldn't find season 1 episode 1, but I did find episode 2. Missing one episode is all it takes to not understand what was going on.
If I feel like learning some real stuff about the Tudors, I use the most awesome website ever: http://tudorhistory.org/
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
School News!
Turns out MSA's is most definitely not over. Eighth grade has to take the science MSA's. How dandy.
In other news, the results from the North Point STI programs are in *drumroll*
Which is just a fancy term for "never going to happen". But I don't really care, since I'm going to North Point anyway.
Here's a game that i'm addicted to: http://www.costlife.org/
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Today in LA we were making covers for our short stories, and I decided to name my story "Summer of Haight." I cut out a peace sign to put on the cover, and my teacher walks over and asks, "Why do you have a peace sign?" I was about to answer when she said "Oh yeah, you're a hippie." "Gee, thanks."
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What you need to know before you go
Munich is perhaps best known today as the home of Oktoberfest, an epic folk festival that sees visitors from every corner of the globe don Bavarian lederhosen and dirndls for riotous days of dancing and beer-drinking. But there's so much more to this alluringly affluent city than unabashed hedonism.
The resplendent Munich Residence is Germany's largest city palace, while the lush nearby English Garden is one of the world's biggest urban parks. The revered Alte Pinakothek museum is home to a priceless collection of Old Master paintings, while sister gallery Pinakothek der Moderne champions cutting-edge contemporary art.


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Police: Santa Violates City Code – Threatens Fine
The owners of the Daytona Beach store LaBosco has been warned by code enforcement police officers that if they allow Santa Claus to leave the store to walk outside, they will be fined.
The police considers the Santa Claus a form of animated sign solicitation which would be a violation of city code.
"Santa Claus is not an animated figure standing out there on the street. He's a real person, and he's communicating and bringing some spirit down here that we need so badly.
They want to take something away from the children. I wonder if the city is going to have a Christmas parade — maybe Santa should not be on the Christmas parade or none of this parade should happen.
It's ridiculous. Next, they're going to take away our freedom of speech. It's unfair and it's unacceptable."
— Sheila LaBosco, LaBosco Manager
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Paddleboard productivity: Adhesively bonded hull/deck is key
Dragonfly Boatworks LLC's (Vero Beach, Fla.) new standup paddleboard for fly fishing is built without fasteners, with the aid of SG200-40 methacrylate adhesive from SCIGRIP Smarter Adhesive Solutions (Durham, N.C.).
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Dragonfly Boatworks LLC (Vero Beach, Fla.) owners Mark Castlow and Jimbo Meador, avid fishermen and makers of kayaks and shallow-water fishing skiffs, had an idea they couldn't shake: find a way to access very shallow water for stealthy fly fishing, yet stay dry. The solution was a stand-up paddleboard. Designed more like a boat than a surfboard, with a chined hull and water-shedding deck details, it's available in two lengths. The longer version, at 13.6-ft/4.2m, is buoyant enough to support up to 420 lb/191 kg.
The paddleboard's unique design is much different from that of other recreational paddleboards, which resemble surfboards. Dragonfly's two-piece construction integrates a separately molded hull and deck, each a layup of woven E-glass in a vinyl ester matrix. To eliminate the weight and labor associated with fasteners, Dragonfly turned to SCIGRIP Smarter Adhesive Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of IPS Corp. (Durham, N.C.), for a hull/deck bonding solution. SCIGRIP recommended its SG200-40 methacrylate adhesive. Applied in a 0.25-inch/6.35-mm bond line, it not only ensures adequate bond strength, but also, due to its unique rheology, prevents water from entering the board's foam-filled interior section. No additional sealing steps are required after the hull pieces are joined, says SCIGRIP.
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One of the major issues that's emerged since the failed rollout of HealthCare.gov is that there was no lead contractor on the project. (CGI Federal was the biggest contractor — awarded the most expensive contract — but says it did not have oversight over the other parts of the system.) Instead, the quarterbacking was left to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a subagency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
As it's become clear recently, the team at CMS did not have the in-house technological expertise to be an effective "quarterback" over a complicated and unprecedented tech system.*
The testimony of contractors on the Hill today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee illustrates the complexity of not just the system, but the procurement process that led to having different contractors responsible for separate parts of a whole that were all dependent on the reliability of other parts.
"When you have five or six different people, each optimizing their part of the process, it's easy to pass a performance problem around in an infinite loop," says Michael Slaby, who headed the technology systems behind President Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
We tried to draw out each part of HealthCare.gov based on how 4 of its 55 total contractors described it. But if you prefer reading about their responsibilities, I've laid that out below.
CGI Federal is the contractor that has developed a portion of the federal exchange, the software application known as the Federally Facilitated Marketplace, or "FFM." It's the online marketplace for shopping after you create a secure account, so it's a combination of the website and a transaction processor for taking payments after you enroll.
Tools created by CGI include the e-mail that is sent to the user to confirm registration, the link that the user clicks on to activate the account, and the Web page the user lands on.
QSSI built the enterprise identity management (or EIDM), better known as the front door to HealthCare.gov. It's the registration management tool — the part that allows users to create secure accounts. You have to get past the front door before getting to the marketplace. According to administration officials, high traffic led the account creation, or front door, to bottleneck, which prevented the vast majority of users from accessing the marketplace. QSSI says the bottleneck happened because of a late-in-the-game decision to force users to create an account before getting to browse the plans.
QSSI also built the Data Services Hub that is not actually a hub because it doesn't store data. It's better described as a pipeline that transfers data — routing queries and responses between various trusted data sources. For example, after you enter information about yourself, things like citizenship must be verified. The pipeline directs queries to information sources, such as government databases that verify that information, and sends the responses back to the marketplace.
Data from the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security and insurance carriers will be channeled by this pipeline.
Equifax is responsible for income verification data for those seeking financial assistance (subsidies) through the new health law. It does real-time verification of income and employment, and pipes it through the "hub." It verifies a user's eligibility for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and for eligibility for tax credits and for reduced copays and deductibles for low-income applicants. This happens after a user gets through the front door, of course.
Serco's contract is to handle the paper applications. To date, the company has received about 8,000 paper applications. But, "Our challenges have included coping with the performance of the portal as that is our means of entering data just as it is for the consumer," Serco's John Lau says. The contract awarded had projected Serco to process 6 million paper applications by the end of March 2014.
*To be fair, the federal government isn't structured in a way that is inviting to the most expert technology minds. The way government hires for tech projects treats technology systems like single end products — a bridge, for example — that can be bought and built and left alone, instead of as services that roll out in stages, respond to users, and are continuously nurtured. For more on that topic, check out my Q&A with Mike Bracken, the United Kingdom's executive director of digital.
On a Friday, it's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm David Greene. Good morning.
So far, any effort to fix the government's flawed health insurance website has been overshadowed by finger-pointing. The contractors behind the healthcare.gov testified on Capitol Hill yesterday. They are blaming each other.
Here's NPR's Elise Hu.
ELISE HU, BYLINE: High traffic volume was the first excuse for Healthcare.gov's persistent problems.
REP. ANNA ESHOO: I think that's really kind of a lame excuse.
HU: That's Representative Anna Eshoo, a Democrat whose district includes Silicon Valley. She's part of the House panel demanding answers from contractors who built the beleaguered tech system.
ESHOO: This is the 21st century. It's 2013. There are thousands of websites that handle concurrent volumes far larger than what Healthcare.gov was faced with.
HU: What's emerged since the October 1st rollout of Healthcare.gov is that more than just high volume broke the system. A badly built system broke the system. It was pulled together from several discrete parts, each part built by different contractors. That made it easy for each of them to say it wasn't me.
Here's Cheryl Campbell from the biggest contractor, CGI Federal.
CHERYL CAMPBELL: So we never been the systems integrator, and we are not the systems integrator.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: So who's in charge as systems integrator?
CAMPBELL: CMS is responsible for end-to-end.
HU: End-to-end systems oversight and testing did fall to CMS, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services. The fully integrated system didn't get tested until two weeks before launch. And high level, in-house technical expertise is something many federal agencies just don't have.
MICHAEL SLABY: Figuring out who's responsible for what is always hard. And integration is always hard.
HU: That's Michael Slaby, the chief tech officer over President Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
SLABY: When you have five or six different people working on each optimizing their part of the process, it's easy to sort of pass a performance problem around in a sort of an infinite loop.
HU: The testimony from contractors wound up sounding much like a blame loop, except for when they pointed to their client, CMS. That agency is under Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She will face the same House panel next week.
Elise Hu, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It's Your Taxpayer Money; Are Legislators Handling it Properly?
Talking to CPAs about tax and fiscal responsibility is kind of like telling a carpenter what kind of wood to use for his next project. However, all of us have to pay taxes, so if you are a tax advisor, you'll not only want to know about the tax law itself, but how it also applies to our everyday lives. On the other hand, if you work in another part of the accounting profession, knowing more about tax makes good business sense for you and your employer.
"As CPAs we should be in a position to assist our clients in finding appropriate business-related avenues to express their frustrations and concerns to allow them to become involved in the policy debate at a level they desire," says Gary Voth, CPA, JD, a Tax director for PKF Texas in Houston, Texas. "Our objective should also be to keep them on track and focused on making the business changes needed for their continued success in the event the tax policy doesn't change to their liking."
While it's true that an extremely high percentage of business entrepreneurs and executives understand and appreciate that government cannot run on zero revenues and taxes are a necessary part of our country's economic system, they will certainly have varying opinions on the role, and size of, government.
"The individual's personal ideology with respect to the size of government and its role will directly impact what they deem to be a fair amount of taxes their business ought to shoulder in order to fund their ideological size of government," says Voth. "When their views are widely different than those of the current policy makers, they will have a high level of frustration."
CPAs can do quite a bit to educate themselves, clients, and their employers on how to effect change at the local, state, and national levels. For example, many associations and information bureaus print articles on Washington updates; some of these articles can be forwarded directly to clients without having to worry about copyright infringement or other distribution restrictions. Here is where you can demonstrate value through intellectual capital, says Voth; simply forwarding the article to a client probably won't resonate.
"A three- to four-bullet introduction to the article on how the Washington chatter directly impacts their business or their personal tax situation, including some dollar figures that they can relate to, will get their attention and they will be more appreciative of your concern and knowledge of their circumstances," he says.
By educating your client in matters of tax policy, Voth says they will also be armed with more accurate information when they attend industry association meetings. These associations usually have political action committees (PACs) or access to lobbyist to help drive policy in one direction or another.
"Clients care about tax policy and they are in business to succeed and drive value through their organization, whatever type of business it is," he says. "It makes no difference as to how a particular client views the political world; I've never had a client that doesn't want to achieve the lowest tax rate possible under the law. The lower the tax rate, the more resources the business will have to grow.
"A client has a basic expectation that their accountant will lower their tax liability and is capable of reviewing their return," continues Voth. "Your more emotionally grounded client realizes the accountant's ability to lower their tax bill is limited to the confines of the law; to achieve a lower liability, tax law and tax policy will need to change."
Self-education is key and getting more involved locally is important, but Voth believes it's often tough to figure out what is happening in your own backyard.
"There are association PACs to get involved in, but on a more local level, being involved in business chambers and economic development associations would likely provide more access to people in the local market that have political influence, or at least a more direct line of communication with lobbyists with existing relationships with policy makers."
An additional action step CPAs can take is to be an active respondent to proposed tax regulations when the comment periods are open or work within your local chapters, the state CPA society, and the AICPA and other organizations.
"The bottom line is to formulate a response that can be put into the hands of others CPAs or clients that can be easily forwarded to the appropriate people so the Treasury Department at least hears our voice," says Voth.
For More Information: Advocacy and Education
The AICPA has created a number of interactive resources on a special Advocacy page to help its members understand our nation's fiscal health. These include:
- What's at Stake? A CPA's Insights into the Federal Government's Finances. This video with AICPA Chairman Gregory Anton, CPA, CGMA, AICPA offers guidance for policy makers and the public on how the U.S. government's financial statements can be used for greater understanding of the nation's fiscal health.
- Tools for starting a dialogue in your community, including a PowerPoint presentation, talking points and background information.
- State of the Union's Finances: A Citizen's Guide. This guide from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation explains fiscal challenges we face, based on the official financial statements of the U.S. government.


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Directions: When applying for this license, applicants must pass a 50-question test. And applicants must score 80% to pass the test. The following questions are based on the details provided in the North Dakota Commercial Driver Handbook. Endorsements that may be used with a Class B CDL include Hazardous Materials, Passenger, Double and Triples, HazMat and Tanker, Air Brakes and School bus. If you need additional information, please contact your local DMV office. You can find your nearest DMV office at North Dakota DMV locations.
1. If you renounce your United States citizenship, you will ______.
2. If you are using the proper braking technique and your "safe speed" is 40 mph, you would wait until your speed reaches 40 mph and then apply the brakes hard enough for you to gradually reduce your speed to _______.
3. When the safety valve releases air this indicates ___________.
4. What determines how much heat a drum can take without damage?
5. Vehicles with air brakes _________.
6. What is the minimum number of days you can lose your CDL if you have committed three serious traffic violations within a three-year period involving a CMV?


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I have a soft spot in my heart for Los Angeles Times emeritus pop critic Robert Hilburn. Back when I spent more time writing about music than enabling its makers to make a career at it, Bob was kind enough to invite me to the newspaper's dining hall for a pep talk. He eventually commissioned me to write a handful of articles for the paper and provided some general life encouragement, but I was less thankful for his professional assistance than for his being. His sunny, angst-free demeanor and real enthusiasm for the soundtrack of his life was clear and real. He provided a ray of light at the end of the long tunnel that is freelancer life.
But what is Hilburn's legacy as a critic? I have mixed feelings. His Wikipedia entry gives a good summary of his critical philosophy. (Unlike many pop critics he definitely had one.):
This approach has its problems, however, which this summary also articulates.
Basically there was something about Bob's warm, humanistic approach to music appreciation that caused him to vacillate between getting hoodwinked by hype and falling in love with his subjects.
Well, Bob — having accepted a buyout from the LA Times in 2005 — has spent the last few years writing a book, the just published Corn Flakes with John Lennon: And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life, and that's led to some deeper analysis of how useful his critical approach is circa 2009.
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Does this rule apply also to the other light letters such as "baa" and "miim"?
Assalamu aleikum
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
Only the alif has this characteristic of following the letter before it as to tafkheem and tarqeeq, the other letters keep their own characteristics.
Actually, one has to be careful about not making tafkheem of a letter of tarqeeq which precedes a letter of tafkheem. The examples given in the question are perfect examples of letters we need to be cautious in reading, so not to make tafkheem. The in and in should have tarqeeq, and should not be influenced by the that follows these letters.
Imam Ibn Al-Jazaree warned us to be careful not to make tafkheem of letters that have the characteristic of in the following lines of poetry:
So make tarqeeq of letters of istifaal
and be careful [not to] make tafkheem of the utterance of the alif
and hamzah in al-hamdu, a'oodhu ihdinaa
Allahu then the laam of lillahi lanaa
[and in]
[meaning do not make tafkeem of the laam in these words/phrases including the alif in before the Glorious name of that is pronounced with tafkheem, as well as the in ]
And the meem of and
[do not make tafkheem of the meem in these words]
And the ba' of and
[do not make tafkheem of the ba' in these words].
We can see then, that we have to take care not to make tafkheem on letters when they are preceded or followed by a letter of tafkheem.
Wa iyyaakum. Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


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The idea of this section is not to "pick stocks" but rather educate on how to pick right Stocks with appropriate risk management, so that we can benefit from gains as well as cut short our losses.
Lets look at new candidate added this week...
DO NOT forget that market is currently in bearish mode, hence remain extremely cautious and be ready to exit quickly to cap your losses.
Items you should focus on:
- Always check NOTES section for each stock along with STOP Limit - updated every week as per individual stock action
- Find out earnings date for stocks you have in your portfolio, so that you are aware of major events - this is not included in the watch list but links are provided for your own findings/research
- Understand current market direction and decide if you want to remain invested based on market scenario
Things to remember:
- No matter how great the company is and how stellar the earnings are, if market is in correction then the stock performance will be affected
- All boats rise in a rising tide, in short if market moves up then most stocks will also move up and vice-verse. If market is doing well then selectively chosen stocks have higher probability to provide good returns in short duration
- If a stock position does not work in your favor then get out, cutting losses is not easy but necessary, ONLY a disciplined investor/trader will be successful in long term
- Use trade size calculator to manage risk per position
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[First published July 8, 2005] There are two myths about terrorism that have gripped commentator's' minds and won't let go. One is that poverty is an engine of terrorism and the other is that Madrassas provide the fuel.
In virtually my whole academic career I've had to shoot down the belief that poverty causes one problem after another, whether it is war, internal violence, criminality, or unhappiness. Now, it's the cause of terrorism. Poverty causes none of this. Until recently, the evidence against this has been anecdotal, a matter of unsystematically looking at the background of terrorists. Now, a systematic empirical analysis has been conducted by Alberto Abadie at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government entitled, "Poverty, Political Freedom, and Roots of Terrorism.". Its abstract follows:
This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this article shows that terrorist risk is not significantly higher for poorer countries, once the effects of other country-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result suggests that, as experienced recently in Iraq and previously in Spain and Russia, transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democracy may be accompanied by temporary increases in terrorism. Finally, the results suggest that geographic factors are important to sustain terrorist activities.
Then there is the widespread belief that Madrassas breed terrorists. A recent empirical analysis, "The Madrassa Myth" by Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey found otherwise. Its abstract is below:
Op-Ed article by Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey disputes notion that Muslim religious schools, known as madrassas, are graduating students who become terrorists; says madrassas may breed fundamentalists, but they do not teach technical or linguistic skills necessary to be effective terrorist; says that as matter of national security, United States need not worry about Muslim fundamentalists with whom it disagrees; cites examination of educational backgrounds of 75 terrorists behind some of most significant recent terrorist attacks against Westerners, finding that only 9 of them attended madrassas; says World Bank-financed study raises further doubts about influence of madrassas in Pakistan, country where schools were thought to be most influential and virulently anti-American.
Phillip Carter on his blog Intel Dumpdisputes the above conclusions:
It's true that the madrassas do not generally produce people like the educated terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. However, the madrassas *do* produce many of the the foot soldiers for Al Qaeda (and its affiliates) who are fighting us now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who have fought in the Balkans, Chechnya, pre-9/11 Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
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"Militant Convicted of 'Propagating Terror'" (6/26/05)
An Algerian militant considered the mastermind of the 2003 kidnapping of 32 European tourists in the Sahara desert was sentenced to life in prison for helping to form a terrorist group, but his whereabouts remained a mystery.
Amari Saifi, a leader of the Al Qaeda-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat, didn't appear in court even though he was captured by Chad rebels and later turned over to Algerian police last fall. Saifi, a former Algerian paratrooper known by his nom de guerre, Al Para, was convicted by the criminal court of "constitution of a terrorist group" and of "propagating terror among a population."
This is an amusing example of how the LA Times refuses to call terrorists terrorists, even when their own report has to so identify a terrorist. I fell out of my seat with laughter when I read the headline.
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Cubs announce 2013 Minor League coordinators
CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs today announced the club's minor league coordinators for the 2013 season, including four newcomers to the organization.
Tim Cossins begins his first season in the organization as minor league field coordinator following 10 seasons in the Miami Marlins farm system, including the last six as the minor league catching coordinator. Prior to handling catching coordinator duties, he was a manager in the Marlins minor league system from 2003-07. Cossins began his coaching career in 2000 and in 2001-02 was the major league bullpen catcher for Kansas City. The former catcher played eight minor league seasons (1993-2000) in the Rangers, Yankees and Expos organizations. Cossins takes over for Brandon Hyde, who was promoted to Director of Player Development in August of this year.
Derek Johnson enters his first year as the Cubs minor league pitching coordinator following 11 seasons (2002-12) at Vanderbilt University as the team's pitching coach, including the last three as the school's associate head coach/pitching coach. He earned National Pitching Coach of the Year honors in 2004 and National Assistant Coach of the Year honors in 2010. In 2011, he helped lead the school to its first-ever College World Series appearance. While at Vanderbilt, he helped develop six pitchers that were selected in the first round/supplemental first round of the MLB Draft, including David Price, who was the top overall pick by Tampa Bay in the 2007 draft and the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner.
Anthony Iapoce, the organization's Special Assistant to the GM and Player Development, will oversee the minor league hitting program while contributing to additional projects within the organization. He joins the Cubs after spending the last three seasons as roving hitting coordinator for Toronto. Prior to joining the Blue Jays organization, Iapoce served as the hitting coach for the Marlins Single-A Jupiter affiliate for two seasons from 2008-09. A former outfielder, he played 11 minor league seasons in the Brewers and Marlins organizations, as well as independent ball, after being selected by Milwaukee in the 33rd round of the 1994 draft.
Carmelo Martinez enters his 16th season in the Cubs organization, and his first as hitting coordinator for the Cubs Single-A, Rookie League and Dominican League teams. He was Chicago's Latin American field coordinator for the previous five years (2008-12). The former major league outfielder and first baseman spent 10 seasons at Rookie-League Mesa, handling managerial duties from 1999-2003 and 2006. His 2002 Mesa club won the Arizona League title with a 35-21 record. Martinez hit .245 with 108 homers and 424 RBI in nine seasons with the Cubs (1983), Padres (1984-89), Philadelphia (1990), Pittsburgh (1990-91), Kansas City (1991) and Cincinnati (1991).
Jose Flores joins the organization as minor league infield coordinator, and begins his 13th year as a coach or manager.
This follows two seasons as manager of the Puerto Rico National baseball team in 2011-12. Flores was a bench coach for Ponce Leones in the Puerto Rico Baseball League beginning in 2010, after handling similar duties for the Gaguas Criollos baseball club starting in 2008, the same year he managed the Cleveland Indians Dominican Summer League team. After playing six seasons in Houston's minor league system (1990-95), he began his coaching career in the Puerto Rico Winter League from 2001-06.
Lee Tinsley enters his third year as the organization's minor league outfield/baserunning coordinator. He has 12 years of coaching experience following a 14-year playing career that included five major league seasons with Seattle (1993, 1997), Boston (1994-96) and Philadelphia (1996). He was Seattle's major league first base coach in 2009-10 after serving in the same capacity with the Diamondbacks from 2006-08. Tinsley was Arizona's roving outfield instructor from 2003-05, the same position he held with the Angels in 2002. He began his instructional career in 2001 as Double-A El Paso's hitting coach.
Doug Jarrow begins his sixth season as Chicago's minor league strength and conditioning coordinator. He previously spent five years in the Dodgers organization, including 2003-05 as the minor league strength and conditioning coordinator and 2006-07 as the major league strength coach. Jarrow began his career as a minor league strength and conditioning coach with Tampa Bay in 1998 and Pittsburgh in 1999.
Justin Sharpe returns as minor league athletic training coordinator for the ninth-consecutive year. He joined the organization in 2003 as the athletic trainer for Double-A West Tenn after six years as an athletic trainer in Atlanta's system. Sharpe earned the South Atlantic League's Trainer of the Year award in 2002 and was recognized with the same honor in the Southern League in 2004.
Chuck Baughman enters his eighth season as rehabilitation coordinator, and his 13th year with the organization, after joining the club as Single-A Boise's athletic trainer in 2001. His career in professional baseball began in 1999 when he was the athletic trainer for Single-A Clinton in Cincinnati's system.


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Will Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have kids?
With his wife now 47 and already the mother of three daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis, the bigger question might be if Demi will be able to – but Ashton is in no rush.
"I think my wife is a genetic freak," he told ABC's "Nightline" on Thursday night. "I'm not worried."
Asked if they do intend to try for a baby, Ashton said, "I don't know. It's, I don't know."
Though Demi seemingly hasn't aged a day – or gained a pound – since bursting into the Hollywood scene in films such as "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Ghost," Ashton said she's not starving herself.
"What do you mean, does she eat?" he said in response to Cynthia McFadden's question. "Of course she eats!"
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The reason Gnomes will never retake Gnomeregan…
Is the same reason we just get up and have another go at the bosses, even though they totally destroy us with a single hit.
Really it is futile to even try!
I'd like to thank Llyra at Healing Way: A Resto Shaman blog of fine Corinthian leather for the post: Death and Lore
My mind is finally at rest.
The End of Arthas?
Actually, speaking of at rest, what is going to happen to Arthas?
Klepsacovic from my comments section (well he's always there somewhere… troll 😉 ), as well as prolific blogger at Troll Racials are Overpowered spied this gem on the forums: The End of Arthas?
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Phyllis Diller's husband "Fang," the target of many of her lightning-fast and razor-sharp barbs, was fictional. Her hair, an outrageous fright wig that would have made the Bride of Frankenstein blush, wasn't real. And neither, frankly, as the years went on, was much of her face – the subject of quite a bit of plastic surgery and many more of her self-mocking jokes.
But there wasn't anything phony about Diller, a comedy pioneer who died Monday at age 95. Her talent and influence on stand-up – from Joan Rivers to Roseanne to Sarah Silverman and beyond – were the real deal.
Diller could match wits with – and sometimes outwit – the likes of Groucho Marx, Johnny Carson and, most memorably, Bob Hope, her frequent comic sparring partner in movies and TV skits (Diller: "Do you realize he last time you kissed me was on our honeymoon?" Hope: "Really? Were you there?").
Lucille Ball may have been TV's biggest star when Diller hit the scene in the early 1950s. But no woman, not even the legendary Moms Mabley, experienced the kind of success Diller did breaking into the then-male-dominated field of stand-up comedy during the early years of television. That Diller didn't get in on the game until she neared 40 made her story all the more extraordinary, inspirational – and influential.
Diller's first and most direct descendant, Rivers, inherited her by turns caustic and self-deprecating wit (not to mention her penchant for plastic surgery). Roseanne rode her take on Diller's earthy housewife humor ("Housework can't kill you – but why take a chance?") to the heights of sitcom success. Silverman took on, in her own bawdy way, Diller's sense of the outrageous, even if the bar to shock has shifted since Diller first took to the stage nearly six decades ago. Generations of comedians owe Diller a debt, even if not all are directly familiar with her storied stand-up career, which ended with her retirement a decade ago.
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Another classic quip involved Diller running with a trash bag after the garbage truck, asking, "Am I too late?"
"No," the driver told her, "jump right in."
Diller even named her memoir, "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse," for a line in her joke about a supposed past gig ("I couldn't get one of the good jobs").
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Stuff White People Like is hilarious.
"I like the guy in the white American Apparel shirt with the glasses."
"Which one? there are eight."
"The guy with the keffiyeh."
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Chis Given-Wilson. Published by Hambledon & London, 2004 ISBN 1-85285-358-1.
A concise yet still detailed examination of how history was recorded in England during the middle ages ( focusing especially on the period between the 12th and 15th centuries which saw the flowering and finally the diminishing popularity of"chronicles").
The author, who is a leading authority on the subject, examines how medieval historians gathered, arranged and presented the past and how different their assumptions and priorities were, which of course leads on to how modern historians should approach them. Not an easy book to read by any means, I think I have a reasonable knowledge of the period but found what is quite a "niche market" in terms of study pretty heavy going. At the same time as a historian and teacher of history it was fascinating to find out more about the way history has been recorded in the past.
Chronicles: the writing of history in medieval England
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Argentina's Long History of Economic Booms and Busts
BUENOS AIRES –Argentina has defaulted on its external debt seven times and on its domestic debt five times since independence almost 200 years ago, putting it somewhere in the middle of the historical ranks of the world's serial defaulters. However, a long history of economic booms and busts have scarred the national psyche and left external creditors wary as the country hovers on the edge of its second default of the 21st century.
Argentina first defaulted on its sovereign debt in 1827, just 11 years after declaring independence from Spain. The agricultural backwater of the Spanish empire had long survived on smuggling contraband to skirt the tight royal restrictions on trade and tax. The lush farmlands across the Pampas provided a steady stream of exports and income for the fledgling nation, but the first economic credit crises was soon to flare.
Argentina and a host of other Latin American countries sold a slew of bonds in London to finance their transition to independence, but it all came tumbling down in 1825 when the Bank of England raised interest rates while stock markets crashed and recession swept Europe. Argentina didn't resume payments on its defaulted bonds until 1857.
In 1890, panic swept global credit markets again when Baring Brothers teetered on the edge of collapse after lending hefty sums to Argentina. The country borrowed heavily to build trains and modernize the capital Buenos Aires to transform it to the so-called "Paris of South America." A commodities boom fueled a speculative financial bubble that burst in a spectacular default on 48 million pounds, leading to the collapse of some of the country's leading banks and the resignation of president Miguel Juárez Celman. It would be four years until the country emerged from default and resumed payments on the bonds.
In 1915 and again in 1930 Argentine provinces defaulted, although the federal government continued to pay its debts.
Populist strongman Jaun Domingo Perón led Argentina into a wave of nationalizations, protectionism, wealth redistribution and government intervention in the economy, which stoked growth and saw the middle class swell. But Perón was ousted in a coup in 1955 and the economy faced another wave of turmoil. In 1956, Argentina reached a deal with the Paris Club of lending nations to avoid a new default. Some of that debt is still owed and was defaulted on in 2001. It wasn't until earlier this year that the government reached a deal to pay back the last money owed to the Paris Club.
In the 1980s, a new debt crisis swept the globe, sending dozens of countries in Latin America and Africa into default. Argentina stopped making payments on its external debt in 1982 and defaulted on internal debt in 1989. It would take 10 years before the country emerged from default by issuing dollar-denominated Brady bonds named after U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady.
In 2001, Argentine defaulted on close to $100 billion, the largest sovereign default ever at the time. Argentina went heavily into debt throughout the 1990's under then-President Carlos Menem. As the country slid from recession to financial collapse at the turn of the century, Argentina was again unable to make its debt payments. Unemployment soared to 20%, bank deposits were seized and U.S. dollar savings converted to sharply devalued pesos. A pair of swap offers in 2005 and 2010 lured in about 93% of the defaulted bonds for about 33 cents on the dollar, but a group of determined hedge funds who had snapped up the bonds on the cheap have held out for full payment and pursued legal actions against Argentina across the globe to collect.
The economy grew by leaps and bounds over the past decade, but spiraling inflation and heavy government intervention in the economy began to take a toll last year. The economy is mired in recession and foreign reserves dwindling as the government again faces a new default.
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