Life insurance provides a lump sum payment to your beneficiaries upon your death, or upon your diagnosis with a terminal illness that will end in death within 12 months. Life insurance helps prevent financial trauma from compounding the emotional trauma your family would inevitably suffer.
Trauma Cover – to provide a lump sum payment if you suffer a critical illness or injury.
Total and Permanent Disability Cover (TPD) – to provide a lump sum payment if you become totally and permanently disabled so that you are no longer able to work.
Income Protection Insurance – to provide a monthly payment if you are unable to work due to serious illness or injury.
If you died, would your family be able to maintain its current standard of living?
As well as current standard of living, would your family be able to afford the future goals you had set?
If you were permanently disabled, how would your family pay the bills? If you don't have a family, who would look after you and would you be able to afford the care?
How long could you continue to pay your bills without your income?
If you suffered a significant injury, could you afford home modifications?
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Buying direct is essentially a way of DIYing your life insurance. It is up to you to determine what type of policy, policy conditions, and sum insured will fit your needs.
This type of insurance can be obtained either online, over the phone or directly from a provider's branch, and is possibly the simplest way to buy life insurance.
Direct life insurance products appeal to people who know what they want and like the idea of having a straightforward life insurance policy in place to protect their family and assets, should the worst happen.
The advantage of buying life insurance directly through an insurer is speed: as the products tend to be simpler in design, you can generally get a response quicker.
The main disadvantage is that, as you are not receiving professional advice, you may not be sure what type of life insurance would best suit your needs.
Depending on your personal situation, buying life insurance through a financial adviser may work out to be more cost-effective than buying directly and may provide a higher level of cover.
This approach enables you to receive professional advice about what insurance will best suit your needs. Receiving advice doesn't have to be time consuming – you can apply over the phone if you want to.
The main potential disadvantage is the time taken to underwrite the policy: because the policies provided via advice tend to be more comprehensive products, they can take longer to be assessed and approved by the underwriting department. It can be a small price to pay, though, for the guidance you receive.
Please note that these are a general explanation of the meaning of terms used in relation to life insurance.
Policy wording may use different terms and you should read the terms and conditions of the relevant policy to understand the inclusions and exclusions of that policy. You cannot rely on these terms to the part of any life insurance policy you may purchase.
Refer to the product disclosure statement (PDS).
Duty of disclosure: When you complete an insurance application, you are required to disclose everything you know about your health, occupation, sport activities or other lifestyle risks, and income. If you fail to comply, you may come unstuck at claim time when the insurer writes to your doctor or Medicare to obtain your health history.
Exclusion: The insurance company may exclude a hazardous sport or activity, which means you will not be covered if you become injured, sick, or die while doing that activity. Learn more about common exclusions.
Guaranteed future insurability: The option to increase your sum insured without having to provide health evidence or go through the underwriting process. Usually this option is available when you have certain life events defined in your policy, such as marriage, birth of a child, or increasing your mortgage.
Income protection insurance: Cover designed to replace 75% of your income when you cannot work due to a sickness or accident. Some policies also cover you if you can only work in a reduced capacity while you are recouping, such as part-time. Compare income protection.
Level premium: The premium is calculated and based on your age at the start of the policy. The premium may still increase along with inflation or for a certain occupation category, but not based on your age. Learn about the difference between stepped and level premiums.
Occupation category: Grouping together occupations with similar duties and risk levels.
Premium loading: An insurance company may charge higher premiums if you fall into a certain risk factor category, such as being overweight, smoking, or having high blood pressure.
Stepped premium: The premium is recalculated (and will usually increase) on each policy anniversary, based on your age at that time. Learn about the difference between stepped and level premiums.
Term life insurance (death cover): Term life insurance covers you if you die or are diagnosed with a terminal illness with less than 12 months to live. Be aware that some death cover within superannuation may not have a terminal illness benefit.
TPD any occupation: You are covered if you become disabled so that you are unable to work in any occupation. For example, a surgeon could become a GP and continue to work and earn an income, meaning they would not be eligible to claim on their TPD cover. Compare TPD insurance.
TPD own occupation: You are insured if you become disabled so that you are unable to work in your own current occupation. For example, if a surgeon could no longer do surgery, they would be eligible to claim on their TPD cover, and the insurance company could not make him become a GP instead. Compare TPD insurance.
Trauma cover (critical illness insurance): Cover for a lump sum payment if a defined health event happens to you, such as cancer, heart attack, or stroke. The majority of policies have an extensive list of conditions covered, so it's worthwhile comparing your options, as they do slightly differ from policy to policy. Compare trauma insurance.
Waiting period: The number of days you must be off work before your income protection claim starts. Learn more about features of income protection insurance.
Underwriting: The process where the insurance company's underwriter (the insurer's insurance provider) assesses your application for insurance cover. They look at your health, occupation, sport activities or other lifestyle factors, and income. The underwriter may accept you as a standard cover (first class rate), offer you special terms for cover, or may reject you outright.


ach ceramic shape is historically relevant to the book, not only the period it was written in but what kitchen implements were used in the recipes and the pattern behind the shape is also from a certain ceramic piece of the relevant period. Then to tie it all together the typography was to echo the ceramic mark found on the back of the ceramics of that period. I commissioned lettering artist Stephen Raw to work on the lettering who I have worked with before on the Books for Boys series. Samantha Johnson our in house picture editor went off to London library and started researching also, we read, talked and investigated ceramics from the relevant periods and eventually got a series style going. The first to come together was pleasures of the table. A Sèvres hot chocolate cup with a Sèvres pattern with the typography being influenced by the Sèvres ceramic mark.


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happy hump day! we're halfway through the week, yeehaw!
best part about the majority of her recipes is that they're rarely things i would just "throw together" on a random monday night. aka, it's not just "another taco night" super creative!
the second item in this week's has a bit of personal nostalgia connected. skip to the third if you're not into it.
recently all mother nature is giving us is rain. [eye roll.] it's got me really looking forward to summer! summer in maine at gay island to be precise. the six hour trek to cushing flies by with the windows down on the back roads. we make a quick pit stop at the local store to stock up on wine, last minute goodies and more wine which we schlep down to the dock and load into the boat. a quick ride later and we're unloading and cracking into the wine. weekends here are best spent with a good book, digging for clams and fishing off the dock. can't wait for maine 2017!
tattly is an amazing temporary tattoo website based in brooklyn. each tattoo comes in a set of 2 and if your heart so desires it, i'd be surprised if tattly doesn't sell it. they're super cute and what friend wouldn't like a delivery of amazing temporary tattoos?! and you can add confetti to every order – definitely an added bonus. here are a few of my personal favorites. i'd love them during the summer months hanging at the pool or lake.
and if you need even MORE of a reason to buy one… or two or three… some are scented! let me know if you find any you can't live without! maybe i'll feel the same way!
as some of you may know, i've been struggling with my face for quite some time. i definitely wouldn't categorize myself as someone who has severe acne but i also, am not the person who has porcelain skin. i do, however; have some discoloration and the occasional breakout [usually around my chin]. there are times where i feel like i'm a middle schooler going through puberty again. attractive, i know.
i've been eating the same things my whole life – i've always eaten dairy, gluten, soy, nuts, sugar, and i drink. you name it, i've eaten it and probably have for most of my life. i can't blame any of my skin issues on food, or sleep, or stress or lack of water; so i've recently been trying to eliminate harsh chemicals that i'm putting into my body and on my body.
i've been reading 'skin cleanse' by adina grigore and have, honestly, been appalled at some of the information i read. i, instantly, became hooked and fell into the dark black [and i mean dark and black] hole of clean beauty product research. i wanted to know everything i could about clean beauty supplies.
i learned that the US only restricts 11 ingredients from cosmetics and they're all listed here on the FDA website.
i had to stop the cycle and quit cold turkey.
i got talking with a friend of a friend about this clean beauty adventure i started and she told me about follain. it's is a beauty store with a couple locations in boston, one in DC and a new one in NYC that focuses on clean beauty products from head to toe.
as most of you beauty addicts know, it's hard to revamp your entire makeup bag all at once; it's overwhelming and gets real expensive, real quick but i jumped in and made my first order from follain. i started small and there are still a bunch of products i'm lusting over.
soapwalla deodorant // i was skeptical about trying the natural deodorant route but so far so good.
ilia tinted moisturizer // i got the color T3 and i'm pretty happy. at this point, i think i'd still like a bit more coverage, but it applies smoothly and is very natural.
ilia tinted lip conditioner // i chose the color arabian nights and couldn't be happier with the color. it's a great red that can you can build up nicely for a dark red or wear just one layer for daytime.
rms un cover-up // this was one of the products i was most excited for. i've heard such good things about it and it has held up to the hype. this and a curl of the eyelashes is all i do when i'm really running late.
rms burti bronzer // this one is harder for me to get used to, but i think i'll love it as soon as i get the hang of it.
rms lip 2 cheek // i think the lip 2 cheek will be my go to soon. again, with a little bit of practice, i'll be reaching for it every day!
i hope this jump starts your clean beauty routine! let me know if you have any favorite products!
we all have that one friend/coworker/acquaintance with the best eating habits that we admire. [my coworker's name is lauren, but more on her later].
oh, and don't lie to yourself and think that i'm in this by myself-you totally know what i'm talking about.
we look at them eating their super healthy breakfast/lunch/dinner and we're jealous. jealous because they made a salad that actually looks really good, and not just a pile of green stuff in a bowl. jealous because it actually looks like they're enjoying their salad, and here i am, suffering through the first half and giving up. we look and see them always carrying around an extra large reusable water bottle. and not only carrying it around, they're actually drinking water. thus requiring a refill of the reusable water bottle. we see their clear face and healthy hair. we see their trim waistline but strong and lean muscles.
i've been wanting to be that healthy, happy, strong, confident woman for a long time. i want to be confident in shorts, and a tank top, and a bikini. and don't get me wrong, i'm not asking to be the skinniest person in burlington. i would just like to be healthy and confident in my body. and it's freaking hard. it's a serious lifestyle change that is so hard without an ally changing their life with you. it's hard without a personal trainer/coach telling you exactly what you are and aren't allowed to eat. this is where my girl lauren comes in BIG!
lauren and i have gotten to know each other a bit more as we've been working together for a while. i work day shifts and she works evenings, but sometimes i'll work into the evening (depending on the day). regardless, she's the girl eating something that looks really good and healthy, avoiding the nurses station with all the cookies, cake and muffins (aka: artificial foods) that patient's families bring us. i asked her what her secret was to looking good, and having the willpower to not eat a ton of crap all day (because there had to be one). she started by telling me, that it was difficult at first, but turned easy once she got into the clean eating habit. she doesn't get any cravings for sweets any longer. she also doesn't let her social life go to waste. she'll go out to eat, she'll have a drink when she's out – she hasn't gone crazy – because EVERYONE needs wine. okay okay, enough about her. she told me about this book. and i bought it on amazon. and it has changed my life in a great way.
now you should all go buy it. but here a few take away points for you [before you receive yours in the mail that is….] i'm not even going to tell you the reasoning behind these points, you'll just have to read it for yourself! trust me it's worth it!
stop using white sugar, brown sugar, and artificial sweeteners.
stop using white flour and only use 100% whole wheat flour.
stop using anything with food coloring, "natural flavors", or preservatives.
you're all going to think i've gone crazy when i tell you that i've honestly felt a difference once i've cut out all that garbage. i'm not as tired, i have more energy, and i've started to crave healthier snacks and meals. but i won't lie to you, it's HARD! it's hard when all you want for breakfast is a doughnut from your favorite doughnut dilemma shop in burlington with coffee and flavored creamer. i think breakfasts have been the hardest for me. i love cereal. i love granola. i love every sort of baked and delicious pastry there is. my days off i've been trying to make something different to keep me engaged.
today's breakfast contained: two scrambled eggs, onion, sweet potato, avocado, and sriacha with a nespresso maple coffee. it was REAL good. i could've added a piece of ezekiel bread, but opted out this morning.
i'm only a few weeks into this new journey and am sure i have TONS more to learn. i will obviously have my good days and my not so good days, but today, i'm feelin' a-ok. i urge you all to join me in this "clean eating" journey that i've started. we can help each other along!


ORLANDO, Fla. — As you're sitting there reading this, there's a whole lot of something going on inside your body. A traveling exhibit helps us explore the human microbiome.
Zoo in You is at the Orlando Science Center through January 6, 2019. Karla Sotomeyor, Tavares, and her four kids were getting hands on with the interactive stations.
But it's not all about the bad stuff in your body. The exhibit teaches you that microorganisms can be fun.
"You tend to think of microorganisms as negative germs, but it really highlights the positive importance of what they do to help digestion and other parts of your body," said JJ Leissing, the Orlando Science Center's Visitor Experience Director.
At Zoo In You, you can try your hand at matching DNA and building your own viruses. You can also hop in front of the green screen to get a "weather report" on the climate conditions of your nose, mouth, gut or skin, and snap a photo to see what you'd look like as a microbe.
"I think the neatest thing about Zoo in You is it brings the microscopic to life in a really magnified way," Leissing said. "You don't tend to think about those things because they're so small.
While you're at the Orlando Science Center this holiday season, you can check out the all-new Dinos In Lights show. Every 30 minutes, Stan the T-Rex and his fossil friends are part of a choreographed music and light display. The show is four minute long and ends with "snow" fall.
Dinos in Lights -- as well as Zoo in You -- runs through January 6.


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Empowering Youth Through SportsLooking at soccer as a vehicle for development in young people
Posted by Admin August 14, 2017 August 14, 2017
Soccer fans in Miami were abuzz with excitement over the highly anticipated El Clásico tournament this summer, but Miami Dade College gave the community even more of a reason to celebrate, thanks to a new partnership with FC Barcelona Foundation, the service arm of the globally popular fútbol club in Spain.
Miami will become the second city in the United States to implement FutbolNet, a six-month youth sports program that uses soccer for empowerment and education. MDC President Eduardo J. Padrón and FC Barcelona First Vice President Jordi Cardoner, who also serves as president of the FC Barcelona Foundation, came together to sign the official agreement during a press conference held at MDC, Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.
"Nowadays, when you speak about sport you speak about culture," Cardoner said at the event. "Sport is a vehicle for development, especially among the young."
FutbolNet will be offered at MDC's Kendall and North campuses beginning next year, providing support to local high school students ages 14-18 by using soccer as a teaching methodology to improve school performance.
Through this initiative, MDC continues its commitment to offering young people in the community the opportunity to be recognized and connect to the values that make great leaders and citizens.
For questions about this program, contact:
Isabel Artime
Director, Conference and Events Services
iartime@mdc.edu
Campus Spotlight: InterAmerican Campus
International Students Find Opportunity With Marcelo Saenz Scholarship Fund

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Q: Shooting a club through a stationary set I'm trying to understand the construction of a club set of $\omega_1$ inside a stationary one in a generic extension. Given a stationary set $S\subset\omega_1$ the forcing which force the existence of a club inside $S$ in a generic extension is $P_S$ where $p\in P_S$ are countable closed subsets of $S$ and $p\leq q$ iff $p\cap \max(q)+1=q$.
It's proved that $C=\bigcup G$ is a closed unbounded set in $M[G]$ but I'm having some difficulties to understand why it's closed. More precisely, I would like to know why if $\alpha$ is a limit point of $C$ then it must be a limit point of a $p\in G$ such that $\max(p)>\alpha$.
Thank you in advance.
Cesare.

A: Suppose that $\alpha$ is a limit point of $C$; $\{p\in P_S:\max p>\alpha\}$ is dense in $P_S$, so there is a $p\in G$ such that $\max p>\alpha$. But $p=C\cap(\max p+1)\supseteq C\cap\alpha$, and $\alpha$ is a limit point of $C\cap\alpha$, so $\alpha$ is a limit point of $p$ and hence in $p$.

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IPPE: US Consumers Struggle with Rising Meat, Poultry Prices
Markets and economics Broilers Sustainability Marketing poultry Conferences and events
by Chris Harris
30 January 2013, at 8:48pm
US - The US meat sector is being hit not only by rising prices and the effects of the recent drought, but also the effect of rising prices against flat consumer incomes, writes Chris Harris.
Both the pig sector and the cattle sector have been hit hard over the last year and it is predicted that the cattle numbers will be down by another 1.5 per cent this year following sharp drops to record lows in 2012, John Anderson from the American Farm Bureau told the IPPE conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
However, while the pig and cattle herd numbers have been dropping in recent years, the US farm sector has compensated to some degree by increasing in efficiency.
The major influence on the livestock sector has been the rising input costs - particularly feed prices.
And while broiler production grew over the years from the 1970 through to the early 2000s, in recent years production has flattened out.
For the poultry sector, the reason for the slowdown in production has not only been because of the higher fed costs, but also because of the slowdown in the export market to Russia, Mr Andersen said.
"Since 2007 and 2008 there has been a noticeable slowdown in the production of broilers and pigs and certainly in beef," he said.
"And it is all because of higher production costs.
"With a tighter supply you also end up with higher prices."
Mr Andersen said that it has taken a little while for higher prices to reach the consumer, but the consumer prices have risen considerably last year, particularly in the beef sector.
He added that pork prices reached their highest to the consumer in 2011 and they have stayed high.
Since 2008 pork and beef consumer prices have risen by 20 per cent in the US and broiler prices have risen by 15 per cent.
But the rise in prices has also coincided with personal disposable incomes remaining flat.
"Prices have also outpaced growth in income and this has had important implications on the sector," Mr Anderson said.
He said that consumers are having to find ways to economise, but while the sector has to have higher prices to cover the cost of production, there is going to come a time when consumers will not be able to cope with the prices.
This has started to produce a significant drop in consumption.
However, the livestock sector has been buoyed by a strong export market, particularly in pork.
But, Mr Anderson said, this means the US consumers are consistently being out bid by foreign buyers for the product.
"We have seen record retail prices, but these have been met with consumer resistance and the higher prices have exacerbated the problems of a stagnant income for the consumers," he said.
The current trends appear to indicate a further decline in meat consumption in the US and a significant loss of market share largely due to the droughts.
For the first time, the US could see pork consumption this year exceed beef consumption, Mr Anderson told the IPPE seminar.
The drop in consumption in the US has come at a time when globally the prospects for the meat industry are good with meat generally consumption rising.
However, the continued high feed costs are undermining the competitive advantage that the US has help in supplying the growing international market.
Mr Anderson said that much will depend on the corn crop this year. Last year high plantings and good yields were expected, but did not appear. This year if plantings and yields are good, the situation could turn around as feed prices could stabilise and fall.
"The situation could change dramatically," Mr Anderson said.


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Q: SSL certutil Trusted Peer vs Trusted CA -t switch difference I see two common patterns of using -t switch argument for the certutil tool
certutil ... -t "CT,c,c"

and
certutil ... -t "P,,"

when taking care of self-signed SSL certificates for web servers.
Can anyone explain the difference between them and when to use one or the other?
Documentation lists possible values for -t switch
      + p - Valid peer
      + P - Trusted peer (implies p)
      + c - Valid CA
      + T - Trusted CA to issue client certificates (implies
        c)
      + C - Trusted CA to issue server certificates (SSL only)
        (implies c)
      + u - Certificate can be used for authentication or
        signing
      + w - Send warning (use with other attributes to include
        a warning when the certificate is used in that
        context)

But I could not find any further explanation.


Comments - Wonderful Kiyonaga genre scene of women enjoying an afternoon at a public bath. At right, a young mother washes her son's face with a cloth as the child protests. A few of the women wear lightweight cotton robes while others have stored their clothing on the wooden shelves at right. A fantastic glimpse of daily life in Edo era Japan.
Condition - This print with excellent color and detail as shown. Two separate panels. Please see photos for details. Excellent overall.


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A tale exploding with star-crossed lovers, melodramatic villains, broad comedy, and a beautiful score, Candide combines the power of opera with the delights of musical theatre. Wrapped in irony, this musical follows the optimistic young Candide in search of "the best of all possible worlds" on an extraordinary journey to reunite with his soulmate. An all-star cast will be joined by a full orchestra and a chorus of sixty--the perfect way to savor the epic beauty of Bernstein's remarkable score.
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The Gujarat Results: Aberration or Mainstream?
by Bindu Raghavan | Jan 31, 2003 | Perspectives
Yes, it is a verdict against hypocrisy In a democracy, at least in theory, an electoral mandate reflects the will of the people. Therefore it is a little presumptuous of people to question the Gujarat verdict just because the verdict was not what they wanted or...
by Bindu Raghavan | Aug 8, 2002 | Perspectives
Indian women face several levels of violence: physical, mental, and emotional. Indian women, whether educated or not, are liable to be sexually harassed in the workplace or public places. They are victims at the hands of men. Even infants are not spared. Girls are not...
The Ayodhya Conundrum
by Bindu Raghavan | Mar 2, 2002 | Perspectives
I understand the reasons why a lot of people want to see the Ram temple built at Ayodhya on the ruins of the destroyed mosque. I also understand that it is quite possible that the mosque was built on top of a temple. Therefore I sympathize with the feelings of those...


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BLOG TOUR: FIRSTS by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Today on Books and Ladders, I have an intriguing and beautiful
by the wonderful
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
whose debut novel
will be published on January 5, 2016! If you haven't already seen, I reviewed this book over on Queen of the Bookshelves (and gave it 5 stars because it was flawless). Laurie's guest post today is all about toeing the line between what makes a decision and a mistake. Thank you again to Laurie for writing this beautiful post for me! Be sure to check it out below. But first, let's learn a little bit about the book...
Author: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time- the kind Mercedes nrver had herself.
Keeping what goes on in her bedroom a secret has been easy- so far. Her absentee mother isn't home nearly enough to know about Mercedes' extracurricular activities, and her uber-religious best friend, Angela, won't even say the word "sex" until she gets married. But Mercedes doesn't bank on Angela's boyfriend finding out about her services and wanting a turn- or on Zach, who likes her for who she is instead of what she can do in bed.
When Mercedes' perfect system falls apart, she has to find a way to salvage her reputation and figure out where her heart really belongs in the process. Funny, smart, and true-to-life, FIRSTS is a one-of-a-kind young adult novel about growing up.
The Fine Line Between Decisions and Mistakes
"I take a deep breath and recall one piece of advice from Kim. The only piece that ever held weight with me. Always lift your chin up high when you did something wrong. Because you might know you did something wrong, but nobody else has to."
When I started writing FIRSTS, I knew I wanted to write something bold and challenge myself to not hold anything back, and I also knew I didn't want to write a book with a "moral." I write for teens—to give them stories they can relate to and help them feel less alone, not to pass judgment or teach lessons.
As I wrote, I started to think a lot about the difference between decisions and mistakes, the fine line dividing the two. Decisions have a good reputation. Everyone has to make them—they're an integral part of life. We're faced with choices every day—small ones, like what to eat for lunch, and big ones, like what job to apply for or what city to reside in. High school is a time when decisions are literally all over the place, flying in your face, smacking you in the head, reminding you what's at stake. What college are you going to? What do you think you'll major in? Are you taking calculus or advanced chemistry? Should you go out with that guy, even though your friends hate him? Should you try to sit with the weird girl in the cafeteria, or would you become weird by association?
And a huge decision that lots of teens are faced with: Should I sleep with him/her?
This choice plays a central role in FIRSTS, and it's something that Mercedes and the guys she sleeps with question. It was Mercedes's decision to offer her virgin classmates the opportunity to get their awkward first times over with, judgment-free, and it was the choice of each guy to take her up on it. But was it a decision or a mistake, and who gets to determine the difference? And who's to blame?
Mistakes have the bad reputation. Mistakes are the chain-smoking older sister of decisions, the leather-clad friend your parents call a "bad influence." When you make a wrong decision and people brand it a mistake, judgment follows. And with judgment comes labels and shaming and sometimes, public ridicule. If you make a big enough mistake, it follows you around, dogs you like a shadow and sucks you into the dark.
The problem is, people rarely know the whole story. Rumors start and snowball and it's easy to believe something you heard, but what do you really know? In FIRSTS, Mercedes is a character with a lot of secrets, some buried deep for a reason. It's easy for her peers to make her the scapegoat, to slap her with labels and reduce her to four-letter words. But she's not the only one whose decisions cause hurt in this story. People want to put a face on a mistake, because that makes it easier to dehumanize the person making it. But is it fair that the face they choose is hers?
We're commended for making choices that other people deem "right" and demonized for making mistakes. And that's not fair. I want readers to take that away from Mercedes's story. I want every reader to look at his or her own "bad" decisions and know that they're not alone in making them. As a teen, when I felt like nobody understood me, I would get lost in the pages of a book and find solace in a character. As an author, I consider it the greatest privilege to hopefully do that for somebody else.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn writes contemporary fiction for young adults. Her debut, FIRSTS, will be published by Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Press on January 5, 2016.
Laurie went to school for Journalism, where the most important thing she learned was that she would rather write made-up stories than report the news. She also worked as a model, a job that took her overseas to Tokyo, Athens, and Paris. Laurie now lives in London, Ontario with her husband Steve, who is very understanding when she would rather spend time with the people in her head. Laurie can mostly be found writing happily at her desk, with the world's most spoiled Chihuahua on her lap. Laurie drinks way too much coffee, snorts when she laughs, and times herself when she does crossword puzzles. Laurie is represented by the amazing Kathleen Rushall of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
Connect with Laurie:
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Tags: 2015 read, 2016 releases, blog tour, contemporary, debut authors, debut novel, fac 2016, firsts, laurie elizabeth flynn


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Search Engine Journal: Free Google AI Image Analysis Tool. "A new tool published by Google analyzes your images. The machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithm tells you what it thinks the image is relevant for. This tool demonstrates Google's AI and Machine Learning algorithms for understanding images. It's a part of Google's Cloud Vision products." A reader sent me a beautiful artwork of the Virgin Mary that they had taken at Notre Dame (thanks, Kathleen!) so I tried that image. Google reported that as "Mirror," giving me my first big laugh of the morning. To be fair the other tabs of information were a bit more on base.


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Clinton Campaign Has First Paid Texas Staff
The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has its first paid Texas staff, and is launching a series of supporter meet-ups across the state to coalesce her support as the March 1 primary draws nearer.
by Jamie Lovegrove and Patrick Svitek Jan. 20, 2016 4 PM
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton addresses supporters during an October campaign rally in San Antonio. Her campaign announced Wednesday it had hired its first Texas staffers. Credit: Robin Jerstad
The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has its first paid Texas staff and is launching a series of meet-ups across the state to coalesce her support as the March 1 primary draws nearer.
Carlos Paz Jr., a community activist from Houston, who announced last week that he has been hired as Clinton's Texas lead organizer, appears to be the campaign's first official hire in Texas.
On Wednesday, Clinton's campaign would confirm only that it now has paid staff in all states holding their nominating contests on March 1, including Texas. The campaign declined to identify individual staffers in Texas.
The campaign's tentative schedule for meet-ups includes gatherings through the end of January in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas Fort Worth and the Rio Grande Valley.
Clinton's campaign has been tight-lipped about its Texas operation, even as questions have cropped up about its commitment to the Super Tuesday states. In a blog post published Wednesday on the campaign's website, one of its staffers in the March 1 states, Brad Komar, said any suggestion the campaign is not "laying the groundwork beyond the four earliest states" is false.
"We're a campaign, and we're here to win, so we obviously don't want to telegraph our game plan," wrote Komar, who's from Colorado. "Across the country, we've got more than 100,000 volunteers who have made more than eight million voter contact attempts nationwide."
The campaign for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination, has included paid staff in Texas since November and has a campaign headquarters in Austin.
Since launching her campaign, Clinton has visited Texas several times for fundraisers and public events. This week, she held fundraisers in Houston, Beaumont and San Antonio.


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Where Windows is #2 to Linux
Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing
Fancy a $25K Cray on your desk?
High-Performance Nonsense
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Quiz time. Get out your No. 2 computers and answer the following question: For the fastest and most reliable high-end computing for your enterprise, will your operating system be 1) Linux, 2) Solaris, 3) OpenVMS or 4) Windows?
OK, put your mice down. If you answered Linux, give yourself 10 points; Solaris, 9 points; OpenVMS, 8 points; Windows -- pardon me, what are you doing in this class? Remedial IT is down the hall. Just listen for the chorus of "Are you sure your PC's power cord is plugged into the wall socket?" You can't miss it.
Microsoft, after spending decades paying no real attention to high-performance computing, wants to be an HPC player with the release of HPC Server 2008. Can you believe it? Yes, there was Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. After a long search, I found one user. He told me, "Updates that require reboots are far too frequent for production-use systems," "Jobs randomly crash," and "Few HPC applications actually support Windows compute nodes."
Will HPC Server 2008 be any better? I don't see how it can be, really. On the plus side, it's built on top of Server 2008. To me, Server 2008 is easily the best Windows server operating system ever. But a good, solid server is only the start for HPC. While HPC Server 2008 has all the right buzzwords -- high-speed networking support, cluster management tools, advanced fail-over capabilities, etc. -- it also has all of Windows' historical baggage of bugs and bloat.
In addition, HPC Server 2008 requires signed drivers. That means that although in theory it will support high-speed networks, if your network fabric vendor hasn't jumped through Microsoft's driver hoops, you won't be able to use its products with HPC Server. For example, QLogic has just started working on beta drivers for its InfiniBand networking products.
Now take Linux. More than 80% of the world's fastest supercomputers already run Linux. Many of the major stock exchanges are switching over to Linux, usually from Solaris. To the best of my knowledge, the only important stock exchange that runs Windows is London's. You know, the one that crashed for an entire day a few weeks back. Flops like that sure make me want to put my enterprise's most important high-speed computing on Windows. Yes, indeed.
Linux, Solaris, OpenVMS and other high-end operating systems like AIX, HP-UX and z/OS already have tried-and-true hardware support and working HPC applications. To do HPC right is always challenging, but there are already many excellent products out there. I just can't imagine trying to build a corporate HPC at this point on not only an unproven operating system, but one that's based on a system that was never, ever meant for high-end computing.
Despite all this, I've been reading comparisons between Windows HPC and the just-announced Red Hat HPC Solution, which combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Platform Computing's Platform Open Cluster Stack 5. The discussion has been focusing on the license fees. Excuse me?
While looking at the real price of software is always interesting if you're a CIO or CFO -- especially when it's Microsoft's maze of Enterprise Assurance maintenance agreements and Client Access Licenses -- let's get real. Windows often requires you to reboot for major updates. Linux doesn't. Let's say you need to reboot, as a matter of course, six times a year with Windows HPC. With Linux, you don't.
If you think that doesn't sound like much, think again. This is HPC, not your PC, and not your ordinary server. Six hours of downtime in a year, all by itself, is a major failure in HPC. I don't care what kind of sweetheart deal you're getting from Microsoft; there's no way you, or anyone else, can afford Microsoft HPC Server 2008.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was cutting-edge and 300bit/sec. was a fast Internet connection -- and we liked it! He can be reached at sjvn@vna1.com.
This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld's print edition.
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Knowing who you are and what you stand for will help you to make wise decisions when you are under pressure.
Imagine this scenario: Karen is at a party for no more than ten minutes when she hears a familiar voice behind her.
Karen turns to see her friend Jessica clutching two freshly opened bottles. She can tell that they contain alcohol.
Jessica holds one bottle right in front of Karen's face and says, "You're not too young to have a little fun, are you?"………….
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Paisley turned four months old two days after I went back to teaching... Let's not talk about that, though. I'll just say, 1st year teacher + new baby = rough/idontknowwhatimdoing!
This month (end of October/beginning of November), Paisley attended her first college football game! BYU was in town playing GA Tech, so it was Jeff's undergrad vs. Jeff's graduate school. We had great seats with great friends, Paisley napped, and BYU won, so it was a pretty great day. The weather was also perfect and if you scanned the stadium you could see sections full of men in white shirts and ties. Missionaries!
Paisley on the field with the cheerleaders. Check out the policeman running up to kick her off. She's a rebel already!
On Halloween, Jeff had a Big Bad Wolf costume my mom sent us, and we had a great party to attend, but Sweet P decided she didn't like sleeping through the night anymore for a few days there, so we just dressed her up and took pictures to revel in her cuteness.
Paisley also dropped by the Marchman wedding reception. Where we didn't really see her again until we left. She's quite a social butterfly. Then, she headed down to Valdosta for a week with her Nana, Pop, and tons of aunts, uncles, and cousins to smother her with attention. She also had her first taste of food. She started getting grumpy when Jeff and I would eat in front of her. Food envy. This girl. She just kills me. So we gave her a taste of a sweet potato and I wouldn't say she loved it, but I wouldn't say she hated it either!
She's also started holding her own bottle, sleeping anywhere from 11 to 12 hours at night (one night was almost 13!) She became really interested in toys and had a little growth spurt. She was eating about 7 oz. every feeding and then one day she ate 9 oz. at three feedings in a row! I could not pump enough to keep up with this hoss. She also had some trouble nursing shortly after I went back to work. Depressing. She's back at it now.
This hair is the best!
How could you not love this girl!
Loves toys. Can't always control them.
Video featuring the world's cutest thighs!
Paisley's 4 Month from Jeff Nef on Vimeo.
Gosh this girl is just precious!


The Patent Pending Dragon is a Muzzle Brake & Compensator designed for 556X45mm / .223 Caliber AR15 style rifles with 1/2-28 UNEF Right Hand threaded muzzles.
LANTAC Brakes are CNC machined from the highest quality Military Grade Steel, hardened and then finished using a Tufride QPQ Liquid Nitride process.
This creates an extremely tough, high case hardness with the added benefit of increased corrosion resistance.
The Dragon brake offers improved compensation over other designs and features a primary discharge chamber with angled, vertical porting to harness gas energy and use it to combat muzzle rise, or flip.
Three further open chambers offer a huge surface area for gas to impinge against, thus reducing recoil. The crown patterns gas as it exits the device.
In muzzle brakes with longer energy pulses recoil has more of a cumulative effect. The shooter is still managing the energy load from the first shot when the second occurs, as subsequent shots or pulses of energy are delivered they are constantly working to regain position but slowly being pushed further back. While it is possible for an experienced shot to control this situation to a degree, it is by no means ideal.
With LANTAC SEP Technology the energy pulse is shortened and it is made possible for the shooter to regain their original position much quicker, subsequent pulses of energy do not overlap as much and therefore muzzle 'recoil' over single and multiple shots is greatly reduced. Sustained full auto fire is possible with much-improved muzzle control meaning that all shots fall on target.
is there a Lantac blast mitigation can available for this model?
BEST ANSWER: Yes Check YouTube for videos and information Play the attached video above and check out the related follow on video links.
Do you make a model for the 6.5 Grendel?
The one I got is for 5.56mm but I remember seeing them in 7.62mm also. That might work for your weapon, at least it would clear.
Will this work for a .224 valkyrie threaded 1/2x28?
Yes, no problem. Just make sure you time it properly.
Best 86 Bucks I've Ever Spent.
Totally eliminates all muzzle rise and there is virtually zero felt recoil. It's a bit loud indoors but it's all bark and no bite.
Love it can't be happier!!!
Does its job very well. Very little muzzle climb in rapid fire. Good product. Not much in the way of blowback on shooter. Would thread exactly for ports to face 12 o'clock. They sit about 11 o'clock but does not seems to negatively affect use.
Best muzzle brake on the market for recoil mitigation by far. Can barely feel the recoil. I was able to one hand an AR pistol easily and still stay on target, and when shouldered, makes shooting a blast. Does sound like a cannon and definitely not a flash hider. But adds to the fun.
Reduces muzzle jump and it looks cool. It's also pretty loud compared to some other muzzle brakes I've seen.
Works great! Ok price. Took a while to get.
For the shooter, it's a treat. For anyone standing around as it is being fired...it's a whipping post! Eliminates all muzzle jump completely. But it is LOUD!
I have the Lantac Dragon on all of my rifles. It is by far the best money spent. Felt recoil is reduced to almost nothing without having to mess with springs, adj gas blocks, etc.
I would get one of these again!
I'm very happy with this muzzle break, I bought this at a great price, you will be satisfied with the performance of the LANTAC Dragon Muzzle Break.
Simple customization for your AR.
It won't take more than a few rounds to realize why they call this the Dragon. Awesome muzzle flash, great sounding brake, and it performs it's function of keeping the muzzle on the target flawlessly.
One quick note; if you're shooting in low light you will absolutely be blinded temporarily by the flash.
Works amazing exactly as advertised.
Easy to install and makes a big difference when shooting. Should have bought on a long time ago!
Muzzle brake is 5 stars Palmetto State Armory customer service is 1 star so average it out at 3.
Great deal on a great product. Another home run for PSA.
Awesome product! Easy to install with crush washer. I got the timing right on the first try. Excellent recoil reduction. I would recommend to anyone.
Easy to install. Can't wait to send some rounds down range.
I have 2 of these on different uppers that I run in full auto, on a Colt M16A1 lower, this break actually pushed the front end of the gun down, go to the lantac Dragon youtube and see it in full auto.
Best muzzle brake on the market. Double tapping coke cans with irons at 50 yards.
Great addition to rifle works very well.
Works great, looks great, easy to install.
Nice addition to your setup. You won't regret buying it.
Great muzzle brake! And at a great price.
Put it on my first built. Very pleased. It makes ar like a canon but doesn't move at all and stay on target.
I know front sight is backwards, I like this way.
Highly recommend. I bought this muzzle break specifically to help my young daughter experience less recoil. It makes it louder but the rifle is so much easier to control.
Mitigates recoil by at least 50%-60%. Almost no muzzle climb at all! It makes follow ups and double taps a breeze! It does produce a ton of side concussion, and shoots flames out the side like crazy! Hence the name!! Well made, nice piece!
Outstanding muzzle break. It keeps my AR on target during rapid fire, awesome look.
Bought this on a whim, price was too good to pass up. First experience with a muzzle brake, and I have to say I'm impressed. Installation was quick and easy, once I finally got around to it. I was able to shoot it side by side with an AR with a standard A2 FH, the difference in recoil and muzzle rise was remarkable, I'd say both were reduced by at least half. I have a scope on the rifle I put this on, it makes it really easy to stay on target during faster strings, and the rifle moves around much less during slow fire. Granted, the .223/5.56 isn't a heavy recoil rifle, but I feel it was a worthwhile addition to my rifle, enough that I'm seriously considering getting one for my other AR. Definitely NOT disappointed!
Like less recoil than buy this break.
Product is great! PSA price is probably the best you can get. Unfortunately PSA shippied this product without a crush washer. I contacted them about the missing crush washer that is included with the Lantac muzzle break but they replied that they have them for sale if I wanted one. Lantac send me a couple crush washers for free after I contacted them.
WOW! Huge difference with the Dragon.
I bought this muzzle brake as a daily deal so the price was fantastic compared to its list price on other sites. Package included the brake a crush washer and a small tube of FrogLube. Installed easily with a standard armorer's wrench. I used the Dragon to replace the standard A2 flash hider on my 16" barrel. From the first shot with the Dragon the difference was obvious. Recoil went WAY down and the muzzle climb is now negligible. Much easier to stay on-target with follow-up shots now. The over pressure and muzzle blast for bystanders seems to be increased with the gas porting out to the sides. You might rock some folks at the range with this thing on but who cares. I can't say enough about the Lantac Dragon. Will definitely purchase again in the future.


Drummer and producer Simon Phillips just released his newest album, Protocol 4, on October 27, 2017 on Phantom Recordings. The album fuses elements of rock, jazz, funk, classical, and world music, and features songs that Phillips wrote while on tour.
Building on his past Protocol projects, Simon has again enlisted bassist Ernest Tibbs along with Protocol newcomers, guitarist Greg Howe and keyboardist Dennis Hamm.
Phillips' Protocol band, with Otmaro Ruiz on keyboards, is on tour in Europe now and the US beginning December 4.


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How to Prepare for Law School at Keuka College
From selecting the courses you need to preparing for the LSAT, this is your comprehensive guide to getting ready for law school.
Written by Angela Graves, Ph.D.
Our preparation program works — countless Keuka College alumni have gone on to become successful attorneys.
To date, every Keuka College student who desires to attend law school has been accepted, giving us a 100% success rate. Our students have been accepted to law schools across the nation, including:
Ohio Northern Law School
Syracuse University Law School
University of Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo Law School)
Mitchell Hamline School of Law (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Stetson University College of Law (Gulfport, Florida)
University of Pennsylvania Law School (Penn Law)
While the College offers a pre-law minor, that's not the only way to get ready.
Here's what else you need to know.
What are the recommended pre-law courses available at Keuka College?
There is no defined set of courses required for law school admission, but the courses listed for the pre-law minor will help familiarize you with the legal process and concepts. In addition, consider the following courses because they will build skills that will prepare you for the logic-based questions found on the LSAT.
CRM 101: Introduction to Criminal Justice
POL 120: American Government
POL 321: Constitutional Law
BUS 202: Business Law
CRM 301: Criminal Law
CRM 322: White Collar and Corporate Crime
POL 340: Law, Politics, and Society
What are the most important elements of a successful law school application?
Law school admissions committees look at the entire applicant package, but the single two most important factors are your LSAT score and GPA.
Pre-law advisors therefore typically recommend that rather than major in an "expected" pre-law subject, you choose the major in which you are most likely to excel. You should also plan on beginning to prepare for the LSAT, which is usually taken the fall of your senior year, at least six months in advance with numerous opportunities to take practice exams.
Are there additional resources available to students interested in pre-law?
Yes. The following resources are available to all students, including those without the pre-law minor:
Free LSAT (Law School Admission Test) prep materials.
Access to law school admissions prep seminars.
Visits from law school recruiters.
Group trips to visit local law schools and admissions fairs.
General support and strategies for the application process.
Preparing for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)
The LSAT is required by most law schools for student seeking admission and is offered four times each year. Keuka College students in the pre-law track usually take the LSAT in June following their junior year or in the fall of their senior year.
Because the top law schools seek applicants with high scores (approximately 170 out of 180), you'll be challenged and supported through an intensive six-month preparation including formal study groups, sample LSAT exams and personal guidance from our pre-law professors.
These Jobs Rock With a Degree in Biology
If you're leaning toward a degree in Biology this is a great time to pursue it. Over the next decade, job growth in STEM fields is projected to explode. One of those jobs will be yours with a biology degree from Keuka College.
Social Worker, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist: Which Mental Health Career (and Major) is Right for You?
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Keuka College's American Sign Language Programs Recognized by National Publication
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Nipsey Hussle's funeral ceremony to be broadcast and live-streamed
There's no denying Nip was a good man. [Image via PBR/Inside Edition/YouTube screencap]
Funeral live streaming for the Nipsey Hussle memorial will be covered by media outlets like KTLA and BET News today between 10 AM PST and noon.
by Anton Daceyah (article) and Jane Flowers (video)
April 11, 2019 at 5:57 AM Thu 11 Apr 2019 02:48:16 PM EDT
Nipsey Hussle's funeral will stream live on KTLA and BRT news - Video
Nipsey Hussle has been all over national headlines after his untimely death by alleged murderer Eric Holder, 29. Over the past two weeks, "Nipsey" influence has marinated the minds of family, friends, and fans as they've mourned Hussle in death, as well as celebrated his life. Nevertheless, we've reached the moment where we physically say goodbye to Hussle via his funeral ceremony and burial.
Nipsey: Paying your last respects via live stream
I previously reported concerns about Nipsey Hussle funeral tickets, where people treated the situation as if they were concert tickets, rather than admission to a man's memorial service.
Unfortunately, people have been reselling them online for hundreds of dollars. With this in mind, not everyone received admission into Nipsey Hussle's funeral due to individuals grabbing several tickets without intentions of actually using them.
Fortunately for fans who want to virtually attend, a live funeral broadcast will be available through various sources online. According to KTLA, they will broadcast Hussle's funeral live via their Facebook page.
Also, BET reports it will do the same, specifically the company's "BET News" page. Likewise, several other TV stations and news media will have similar funeral live streaming services available during Nipsey Hussle's ceremony. KTLA reports that the live funeral broadcast will start at 10 AM PST and end around noon.
Nipsey's funeral will be held at Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. After the ceremony, the procession for Hussle will course through Los Angeles streets, even passing by Nipsey's Marathon Clothing store while on its way to Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
This is where Hussle will lay to rest. During the funeral broadcast, thousands are expected to gather at Staples Center, the rapper's store location, and also along the route of his funeral procession.
Lasting thoughts on Nipsey Hussle
It's an unfortunate fact that life can change within a blink of an eye. As Nip's bodyguard, J Roc, mentions via his Instagram post: "Never in a million years I thought I would be writing some s**t like this … we haven't made a 100 Million yet … we was suppose to grow old and I call u big nose [sic] shoot jokes on you all day… but instead I'm here in tears writing this [sic] I wish I was there [sic] I would switch places with you."
The murder of Nipsey Hussle hit him so hard, he announced his retirement from the security industry.
Although Ermias "Nipsey Hussle" Asghedom will always be remembered in his fans' and family's hearts, as well as through his music and contributions, April 11 is a day that'll forever be etched in recorded history. For Hussle, music wasn't just a career. It was his escape, outlet, and expression. Nipsey and his lyrics touched countless lives because his words were empowering and thought-provoking.
And ironically enough, no words will be able to describe how much the world appreciated and will appreciate Nipsey Hussle's existence.
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Edgar Most (* 21. März 1940 in Tiefenort; † 12. Dezember 2015 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Bankmanager. Er war letzter Vizepräsident der Staatsbank der DDR 1990 und Mitbegründer sowie Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutschen Kreditbank AG. Er gehörte dem Beraterkreis der Bundesregierung für den Aufbau Ost sowie dem Gesprächskreis Ost an.

Leben
Most stammte aus einer thüringischen Bergarbeiterfamilie. Mit vierzehn Jahren begann er im Bankwesen eine Lehre bei der Deutschen Notenbank in Bad Salzungen. 1964 konnte er sein Fernstudium an der Fachschule für Finanzwirtschaft Gotha erfolgreich abschließen. Danach wurde er im Alter von 22 Jahren nach Schwedt an der Oder auf die damals größte Industriebaustelle in Osteuropa delegiert. Er wurde als Filialleiter, später mit 26 Jahren als jüngster Bankdirektor der DDR für den Aufbau des Petrochemischen Kombinats gebraucht. Edgar Most war Mitglied der SED und wurde auch von der Stasi als IM "Heinrich" geführt. Den Kontakt zu Stasi-Mitarbeitern habe er aber nicht verheimlicht, sondern sie offiziell in sein Büro eingeladen und Freunden und Kollegen von seinen Kontakten und Verpflichtungen berichtet. Als unzuverlässiger Kader wurde er überwacht. Zurück in Berlin arbeitete er in der Zentrale der Staatsbank der DDR und beschloss ein Studium an der Humboldt-Universität mit dem Titel Diplom-Ökonom. Ein weiteres Fernstudium schloss er zum Diplomwirtschaftler an der Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin-Karlshorst erfolgreich ab.

Als einer der Direktoren wurde Most 1990 letzter Vizepräsident der Staatsbank der DDR. Er war Mitbegründer und Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutschen Kreditbank AG, der ersten privaten Bank in den Neuen Ländern. Nach dem Kauf der Bank durch die Deutsche Bank wurde er ab Dezember 1990 Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung der Deutschen Bank in Berlin. Bis 2004 war er als Direktor der Deutschen Bank in Berlin und als Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung der Deutschen Bank tätig. Most war Vorstandsvorsitzender (1999 bis 2002) des Ostdeutschen Bankenverbandes.

Edgar Most war von 2001 bis 2008 Vorsitzender des Förder- und Freundeskreises der TU Ilmenau und Vorsitzender des Hochschulrates der TU Ilmenau von 2008 bis 2015.

Edgar Most lebte mit seiner Frau in Berlin; aus der Ehe gingen zwei Kinder hervor. Bis zuletzt unterhielt er ein Büro im Internationalen Handelszentrum an der Friedrichstraße. Seine letzte Ruhestätte findet er auf dem Friedhof Pankow XII in Berlin.

Aufsichtsratsmandate
 Aker MTW Werft Wismar GmbH
 co.don AG (1999–2003)
 Silicon Sensor International AG (1998–2008)
 Domus AG, Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft/Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, Berlin
 Sodawerk Staßfurt
 Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz
 Weimar-Werk GmbH

Auszeichnungen
 Die Ökonomische Akademie Georgi Walentinowitsch Plechanow in Moskau verlieh ihm die Ehrendoktorwürde.
 1998 wurde Edgar Most der Titel Ehrensenator der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) verliehen.

Schriften
 Fünfzig Jahre im Auftrag des Kapitals. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-360-01960-8.
 Verratenes Volk? Podiumsgespräch, herausgegeben von Bernd Kauffmann (= Edition Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, Band 5), Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940737-60-1 (Das Podiumsgespräch "Verratenes Volk?" fand am 18. April 2009 auf Schloss Neuhardenberg statt).
 mit Steffen Uhlmann (Hrsg.): Sprengstoff Kapital: verschwiegene Wahrheiten zum Aufschwung, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-02111-3.

Literatur
 Zeno Zimmerling, Sabine Zimmerling (Hrsg.): Neue Chronik DDR. Berichte, Fotos, Dokumente Teil: Folge 6. 19. März 1990 - 6. Mai 1990,  Tribüne, Berlin 1990, S. 9, ISBN 3-7303-0639-1.

 Maren Martell, Kathrin Höhne: Edgar Most, in: Meine Freiheit – Geschichten aus Deutschland, epubli, Berlin 2014, S. 142–149, ISBN 978-3-7375-0615-1.

Weblinks

 Miriam Schröder: Der Ruf des Bankers nach Revolution, auf www.zeit.de, 8. November 2009

 Interview mit Dieter Kassel in MDR am 6. Februar 2015
 Nachlass BArch N 2821

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Blue Surf Cafe | Surf. Eat. Repeat.
Welcome to Blue Surf Cafe! We hope you will come in and enjoy our wonderful selection of food and drinks. We strive to provide a unique plate of food served in a casual setting that we think you will enjoy. During our breakfast and lunch service we ask that you order and pay at the counter and our staff will assist you with anything you need. During dinner we have table service – so you can relax and enjoy one of our entree's and have a great meal with family and friends.
We take our food very seriously and try to order as many local items as we can while creating interesting and flavorful meals. Our Chef, Jon Webb, does a fantastic job of finding local vendors and putting together new lunch items and entree's every Spring and Fall so that there is something new on the menu to tempt you. In addition, we have daily specials so that there is always something new to try. Of course we will still have our signature dishes Mojo Pork, Braised Beef Brisket and Mahi entrees and our Meatloaf and Cuban sandwiches for those of you who tend to order the same thing every visit!
Our goal at Blue Surf is to not only continue giving our customers the quality breakfast and lunch they have come to expect and love, but to become one of their favorite dinner destinations too. Along with a more comprehensive dinner menu, we have also expanded our beer and wine selections to compliment the new dinner menu and provide a more well-rounded and pleasurable dining experience.
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Check out this great article from Scouting magazine on the rocket launch event.
Using an easy kit that is provided by the pack, scouts design, build and launch their own rockets! This is a fun activity that we do at Magnuson park. It marks the end of the scouting year, and we have a Family BBQ potluck at the same time.


Wanna hear our Camp Thunder Ridge big fish story?
Well, here goes. So, my wife, Lou, and I were with the Thunder Ridge camp staff. Camp Director, Nick Hutchinson, and Program Director, Brad Lundell, had spent many hours of our staff week training all staff in the required stuff that all camp staff members have to know (per the National Camp School guidelines). And our heads were kind of spinning with all of the information.
The hike down was beautiful as we made our way down through the forest. We descended quickly. Lou (not used to such activity) had to go real slow. Most of the group were way ahead of us but a couple of staff guys held back with us – doing their good turn with the old folks.
We got to the "Little Thunder" Lake and I loved the little lake – more like a pond. It was small but it was surrounded with tall pine trees. It was a beautiful, secluded spot. I compared the pond to the "lake" at my home council's Camp Geronimo. Both "lakes" were similar. Though small, the lake/pond was pretty nice.
As we got there the Fish folks were not there. So, to take up time, Nate led us in a many fun games. He is truly the game geru. He had a great game with two sides of guys (and gals) lined up with a tarp held high between them. Then on signal, a staffer from each side came forward to the tarp. Then as the tarp went down, the two guys had to try to be the first to say the name of the guy on the other side. The guy who got the other guy's name out first – took the other guy with him back to his team. And there were more. The games were really great and brought the staff together more as a team.
Then we got the word that the "fish guy" had arrived. But the guy turned out to be a "fish lady". And it was quickly evident that this was not her first fish stocking tour. She had an assistant with her and she was teaching him the ropes. I had to laugh as she tried to back her fish truck down the bank to the edge of the "lake". She hit a downed aspen log and had to try it again. She did better this time. She got the tank truck down to the lake as the staff moved to get out of the way. And when the truck stopped, the staff pulled in closer to the truck and the lake for a better view.
The "fish lady" scooped out a mass of flopping fish from her tank and into her net. She handed the giant net down to her guy helper. He was a little guy and the full net was a bit of a strain for him. He went down to the bank and he flipped the net high up into the air – like a juggling act – and the fish went up about two feet above the net. The fish then flopped down into the water. They were a bit stunned and they just sat there for a bit. But then soon they took off and were gone to the depths of the lake. We soon saw several of them jumping around out in the middle of the lake.
Then the "fish lady" got us all psyched up as she told us that she had a giant fish in her tank that was 6-7 pounds. Wow! With her net, she swished around in the tank a few times and soon brought out a giant fish in the net.
We all moved closer and took all of the photos that we could. We thought that she was going to put the fish into our Little Thunder Lake but she said, "I would really like to leave her here with you but I don't think that she would survive since your lake is too warm for her." (She acted as if she knew the big fish well and was a personal friend "to her".) We were all disappointed but the "fish lady" put "her" back in the tank. She and her helper then tested our lake water and made a report. Soon they were on their way.
So, that was our big fish story. But, the good news is that our lake is now stocked and ready to have the fish caught by our Scouts over the summer. And how great is that! Five hundred fish there for the catching!
And with the fish thing done, it was time to head back up the hill. My wife went off with the camp director's wife in her vehicle. And I headed off with the staff – to tackle the giant hill. And the war stories continued about how bad it was going to be. This time Nate was with me and stuck by me. I didn't set any [fast] speed records but just took it slow and easy. And after one step up after another, I soon found myself back at camp. And my wife was relieved that I was there alive. She was glad that the newly trained first aid guys did not have to do their practical on me.
What a great fish story! It is wonderful to know that this little lake it stocked full of fish for all those scouts at camp. I can not imagine the excitement on their faces when they get a chance to catch a fish. Some of my happiest scouting memories are on fishing trips and catching my first limit. Thunder Ridge seems like a great camp to make lasting memories.


Drew and Lela are excited to be serving with Armed Forces Baptist Missions. They are passionate about sharing and exemplifying the love of Jesus through discipleship. Growing up in a military family gave Drew the burden to reach our military heroes at Camp Carroll, South Korea. He is currently leading ministries at Armed Forces Baptist Church in Waegwon. Lela is involved in working with the military ladies as well as raising their three boys, Eric, Nathan, and Reagan.
Drew was raised in a Christian military home and was strongly influenced by the training and mentorship of his father. He was born again at the age of seventeen while in Korea with his family. Shortly after salvation, God called Drew to missions in South Korea. After graduating from Bible College, he married Lela.
Lela was also raised in a Christian home and accepted Christ as a young teenager. She had the privilege of growing up in a missions minded church, and her parents were influential in directing her toward missions. She has had a burden for people in foreign lands and prayed God would lead her to a husband that was called into missions. Drew and Lela were married in 2011, and the two of them are now excited about the work in Korea to which God has called them.
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The Austin PD doesn't patrol the UT-Austin campus, for good reason; UT has its own police force for that. So if APD began providing security for the UT campus, why would taxpayers want to pay for a separate university police department at all?
That's one of the questions Jim Spangler will be asking this afternoon when he testifies on behalf of the Students for ACLU of UT Austin at the House Higher Education Committee, in opposition to HB 479 by Terry Keel, R-Austin. That bill would give the Austin PD "concurrent jurisdiction" with the UT Police Department over the UT Austin campus. Based on student concerns and some additional problems identified by the Police Accountability Project, we outlined several problems with the bill in a fact sheet Jim is distributing to members. Thought I'd post it in case anybody is interested, with a couple of hyperlinks added.
UPDATE: Here's the Daily Texan coverage of the hearing.
Apparently Rep. Keel's purpose for filing this bill stems from some incident where UT officers weren't allowed to carry their handguns into a UT football game. If that's the case, I sure wish he'd write a bill about cops carrying handguns into football games, which I suppose, at bottom, I don't particularly care about, instead of creating all the problems (see below) associated with "concurrent" jurisdiction.
Oppose HB 479: APD Jurisdiction on UT Campus
Issues and Concerns
Current law gives UTPD policing authority over the UT-Austin campus. HB 479 would give the Austin PD "concurrent" or simultaneous jurisdiction.
Law is unnecessary: Chapter 14.03(d) and (g) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure allow officers to enforce essentially all laws but traffic enforcement outside their jurisdiction, so APD officers have full authority to supply needed police power in an emergency. In a non-emergency, UTPD is equipped to handle the situation.
Could create functional problems: Concurrent jurisdictions create confusion among law enforcement and emergency services personnel as to who is in charge. Right now, the lines of authority are clear and no one is confused, even if APD doesn't like it. HB 479 risks confusion and muddying the chain of command during a time of crisis. Accommodating bruised egos inside APD is not reason enough to risk creating confusion at some critical moment.
Fear APD will subject students to increased Taser attacks. APD officers are overusing Taser weapons. Tasers are often deadly weapons, but APD use of force policies do not treat them as such. More than 80 people have died nationally from police use of Tasers. We don't want a UT student to be the next one. If APD officers are allowed to operate on campus, HB 479 should require those officers to comply with UTPD's use of force policy. Austin allows its officers to escalate to violence, especially using Tasers, too quickly and with little accountability.
Disallow undercover monitoring of activists: APD officers have infiltrated peaceful activist groups without probable cause to think anyone was planning any crime. UTPD has done it, too, but APD has said it uses its undercover narcotics unit to target anti-war activists for undercover surveillance on an ongoing basis, whenever events are being planned. This bill could encourage APD to undertake more aggressive, if inappropriate, surveillance of student activists. Would the sponsor be willing to change the bill to disallow APD undercover surveillance of student meetings and activist groups when there is no probable cause to believe a crime is being committed or planned?
Students have more rights with UTPD: At UTPD, students who complain can better hold UTPD accountable because they can access more information about their case and the university's ombudsman provides more extensive services and support to students who complain about UTPD than Austin's Police Monitor does for Austin PD. Information about a citizen complaint against an Austin PD officer are entirely closed records unless an officer is actually suspended from the force. Complainants can only find out the eventual outcome of their complaint, but not information about the investigation. Plus, APD officers who engage in misconduct receive special protections compared to UT officers, who are more accountable for their behavior because they are not covered under the state civil service law.
Jonathan Horak said...
As a student at the University, what can I do about this? (Aside from calling Terry Keel, which I intend to do tomorrow morning.)
Here's the committee list of the representatives who will vote on the bill next week. I'd suggest trying to find folks on campus from their home districts and have them call or drop by their offices at the capitol. Also, we need to spread the word publicly -- there's been little coverage, and most students don't know it's happening, much less why they should oppose it. LTEs to the Statesman and Chron wouldn't hurt. Neither would calling the Mayor and city councilmembers to tell them to ask Rep. Keel to back off the bill. Best,
Thanks Scott, I'll get right on this after class today.
Is there any word on H.B. 254? I hope it doesn't stall in committee like H.B. 715 did in 2003.
If anyone knows anything, such as if this bill is gaining support or the overall tone in the house, lemee know.
http://mpp.org/TX/action.html
No word on HB 254, but the committee that would hear it (House Criminal Jurisprudence) has only met once, so it's early. That said, from a political perspective, the counties would have to want to relieve jail overcrowding badly enough to take a political risk that goes against the grain for many of them. They're broke, can't raise taxes, and need new jail space they can't afford. The counties failing to support HB 254, to me, is like leaving money on the table -- an easy fix to a chronic, statewide county overincarceration problem. Then, I haven't noticed any Texas Association of Counties lobbyists (my grandfather W.D. Henson was co-founder and first president, BTW) showing up in the comments section to ask my advice. Sigh. If only they'd read my blog, he whined ...
Thanks for taking the time to reply :) I have a primary interest in marijuana legislation in Texas and very interested to see if this bill goes anywhere. I would be surprised if it did personally, but I remain optimistic and I have spread the word about it to friends and other people on the net as much as I can.
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Cornerstone Healthcare Group Holding, Inc. named Steve Jakubcanin as president and CEO.
Cornerstone Healthcare is a health care company based in Dallas that is comprised of three business segments: long-term acute care, behavioral health and senior living. It is owned by funds managed by Highland Capital Management, L.P.
Jakubcanin has more than 15 years of health care leadership experience, specializing in long-term acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, home health care, personal care services, hospice and medical home care.
Jakubcanin will report to James Dondero, co-founder and president of Highland and chairman of the Cornerstone board of directors. He joins Cornerstone from Accentcare, where he served as chief operations officer. Prior to that, he served as the senior vice president of Kindred Healthcare's central region.
ConnectDoc, a provider of in-home medical alert monitoring, appointed Matthew Forman as vice president of marketing and strategic partnerships.
In this role, Forman will be responsible for creating and managing health system partnerships providing acute care transfer and population management solutions.
Forman most recently served as a regional director at St. Joseph's Health, where he managed the referral service line to create and maintain referral channels for the Northern California region. He has also served as a physician liaison for Sutter Health and as a business development manager for Maxim Healthcare Services.
Varsity Healthcare Partners (VHP), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, named Steven Boyd as an operating partner. Boyd is the former CEO of Evolution Health and Ascension Health at Home, subsidiaries of Envision Healthcare Holdings (NYSE: EVHC).
Boyd will assist Varsity with investments from its recently closed $300 million second fund. Prior to his time with Envision, Boyd was the CEO of Guardian Healthcare before it was sold to Envision.
Varsity also announced the hiring of Michael Fisher, Aaron Habra and Ayush Singhania as principals of the firm.
Fisher has spent the majority of his career analyzing, advising and investing in healthcare services companies. Prior to joining Varsity, Fisher was a vice president with Enhanced Equity Funds.
Before coming to Varsity, Habriga was an associate at A&M Capital Opportunities. Ahead of that, he was an associate at Silver Oak Services Partners.
Singhania was a principal at Aurora Capital Group before joining Varsity. He also served as an associate at Fortress investment Group.
Principium Health, a provider of home-based primary care services for health plans and health systems, appointed Steven R. Counsell, M.D. as chief medical officer.
Counsel brings more than 25 years of experience in geriatric medicine to his new role. Prior to joining Principium Health, he served as the Mary Elizabeth Mitchell professor and chair in geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and as founding director of the IU Geriatrics program.
He was a 2009-2010 health and aging policy fellow and is chairman of the board of directors and past president of the American Geriatrics Society.
Counsell pioneered the GRACE (Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders) Team Care model, which was initially funded as a National Institutes of Health trial and was later commercialized and implemented across multiple provider organizations.


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Q: How to distinguish between a Prolog Interpreter and Prolog Compiler written in Java? Is it possible to distinguish between a Prolog Interpreter and Prolog Compiler from its usage or intermediary files generated?
Wikipedia has a good compilation of Prolog implementations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Prolog_implementations
This is a question about the notation used in table.
Does the column "Compiled Code" means that the corresponding Prolog is implemented with a Prolog Compiler?
(I am not sure if stackoverflow is a good place to ask about this. If not, please let me know, I will remove this thread.)

A: "Compiled Code" in this table means that any given Prolog program is itself compiled by the respective Prolog system, and the compiled form is executed.
Most of these systems compile Prolog programs to abstract machine code before executing it. Examples of abstract machines for Prolog (like the JVM for Java) are the WAM, ZIP, TOAM etc.
Some of these systems even compile Prolog code to native machine code, for example via JIT compilation, just like Java systems can compile Java code to native machine code.
In practice, you usually do not create intermediary files when working with Prolog: You run the Prolog system, load your source file, and the system compiles the file on the fly and in memory to abstract machine code, without creating an intermediary file. You usually can create such files manually if you need them, but you typically do not.
Thus, the creation of intermediary files is not a criterion that lets you distinguish a compiler from an interpreter.


Members of the Harwood Union High School boys soccer team dig thick, heavy mud from a Waterbury resident's basement after Tropical Storm Irene on Friday Sept. 2, 2011 while discussing the afternoon's soccer practice drills.
The year in review. I chose these photos, some of them for their photographic merit, but a lot of them for the situations I experienced while taking them. 2011 was an incredible year with intense moments brought on by horrific weather as well as some sweet, light-hearted celebrations tucked between. These are the kind of photos that populate my house and decorate my walls. Though strangers to most, the people I photograph have shared a brief moment with me and I carry those memories fondly year to year. So, this post is a thank you to the newspaper that grants me the opportunity to shoot these bits of life and to the people I photograph because I know that is it not an easy thing to open your life to a complete stranger…and let her photograph it.
To see a complete photo gallery showcasing the best work of the Burlington Free Press staff and freelance photographers click here.
A group of women practice yoga on the Burlington Fishing Pier as the entire Burlington Waterfront is covered in low fog on Monday morning June 27, 2011.
Lt. Thomas Benard of the Milton Fire Department looks out over the drained Lamoille River after the Milton Dam was closed to allow search crews to enter the river basin in search of David Driscoll on Friday afternoon April 15, 2011.
Dux the Balloon Man creates large, colorful art pieces made entirely of balloons. Dux's art can be seen hanging from the ceilings of Higher Ground.
A pair of Mallard ducks fly over the Burlington Waterfront on a windy Saturday afternoon on Feb. 5, 2011.
I shot this photo quickly as I noticed the ducks' shadows blocking my light for a photo I was intending to take. Wondering what the shadow was I quickly flipped around, aimed over my shoulder, took a fast twist to my focus ring and snapped three frames. I've never been into wildlife photography, but I loved this fluke photo and received a lot of fun attention from it. Funny, the photos I was assigned to take received no notice or love from the public, but the fluke mallard photo? Tons. Go figure.
The Free Press Soccer Players of the Year. Colchester's Lauren Bernard and Burlington's Claude Mumbere.
Select board member Allen Cusson watches as Hyde Park residents vote a no confidence vote against him and select board members Russell Lanphear and Scott Griswold at Tuesday's annual town meeting at Lamoille Union High School on Tuesday March 1, 2011 after allegations of their involvement in a sexual harassment suit surfaced earlier this year.
David Gaboree takes a moment backstage before the start of the Stowe Theatre Guild's Songs for a New World at the Stowe Town Hall Theater on Wednesday evening June 29, 2011.
David Palmer takes a break from clearing his driveway with an ATV in Hinesburg village on Monday March 7, 2011.
Greg Martin of Pittsfield stands next to the destroyed foundation where the white farmhouse (background) once stood. Martin and his father, Steven, rescued the home's two residents, and their dogs, during Tropical Storm Irene shortly before the home they were stranded in swept away.
Tropical Storm Irene was an intensely emotional, busy and draining time for all involved – newspaper people included. Seeing so much destruction was overwhelming but the sense of community restored by Irene was inspiring. I wrote about my thoughts and experiences during Irene in a previous blog post here.
Colchester Technical Rescue Chief Mike Cannon harnesses Ryan Fazekas, 25, of Wolcott that was caught in the heavy current at the Huntington Gorge on Thursday July 7, 2011.
My hands were shaking as I perched on the edge of a cliff in a poison ivy patch with 300mm prime slung over my shoulder as I prepared to witness the worst. All media responded when Richmond fire and police toned out for a rescue at the infamous and deadly Huntington Gorge. Racing up the narrow, gravel riverside road I couldn't quite prepare for the sight I'd encounter. Gripping with just his finger tips, Ryan Fazekas worked desperately to hang on for his life as rescue crews got in place. I fired photos as the scene developed thinking that this might be it. This could be a horrible end, but thankfully it was a miraculous rescue. To read more about this rescue effort, read my original blog post here.
Mixed martial arts fighter Noah Weisman trains at the Fitness Zone in St. Albans on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011 in preparation for this weekend's fight.
Stockbridge residents hold a selectboard meeting at a local diner after losing their town offices to Tropical Storm Irene to discuss their options and ability to aquire federal assistance on Thursday Oct. 6, 2011.
My full post about my in-depth series on Stockbridge during Tropical Storm Irene can be read here.
Barre residents survey the damage outside their home after flash floods ripped through the town on Friday May 27, 2011.
Water, water everywhere. The theme of 2011 was easily: water. Whether it be rain or snow or flash floods or tropical storms, Vermont saw unprecedented amounts of water that ravaged the landscape. Read an earlier post about my experiences with the floods and my futile efforts to stay dry here AND here.
William Cunningham, 1, peers over the book stacks at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington during a Summer Reading Program event on Monday June 20, 2011.
Meigan Clark reacts after correctly spelling "scurrilous" in the 31st round of the Vermont State Individual Spelling Bee at St. Michael's College on Wednesday March 16, 2011. The bee lasted nearly 4 hours.
I shoot this event every year and love every minute of it. Slow? Yes. But, a state spelling bee builds gradually and carries its own brand of suspense. These kids are great and are full of expressions. I sit in wait hoping for a smirk or tweak of the brow or emotional outburst whether happy or sad. This year's spelling bee was no different except that the intensity built over the course of four excruciating hours. Back and forth, over and over, the final two spellers couldn't quite launch to the grand win. But, when the winner, Meigan Clark, won her expression was absolutely worth every minute.
Lisa Hamilton lifts Aubree Chapman, 3, out of the bridge wreckage on Cooke Rd. while her mother (far left) waits her turn as they evacuate their home after heavy flooding from Tropical Storm Irene in Brattleboro on Monday Aug. 29, 2011.
This was an incredible moment to witness as a small child is reunited with her family.
Gov. Peter Shumlin clears his head during a run after a busy day on the job on Wednesday May 25, 2011.
This is photo isn't amazing, I know. However, what makes me love this photo is the memory stored with it. Reporter Terri Hallenbeck and I chose a non-traditional way of conducting an interview…by going for a run. Terri, Shumlin and I hit the trails near his headquarters in Montpelier but tucked away (secretly) in the country. Imagine the technical difficulties of shooting while running. Ok. Now, imagine running alongside a very fit governor who knows the trails infinitely better than you do. Put those two together and try, try to understand the ridiculous sight I must've created by running and dodging rocks and roots to keep up with the state's head honcho. Read the original post and full details here.
Bonerama plays the Waterfront Park Groove Tent at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival on Thursday June 9, 2011.
Robinson School Principal Dan Noel explains how the 19 solar trackers produce all the power necessary to run the Starksboro school.
A tiny snowman named "Little Frosty" stands on Main Street in Burlington on Thursday afternoon with its creator, Cowboy. Cowboy says over 130 people have taken photos of the tiny snowman that he scoops up every night and hides for the next day.
I noticed this little display over the course of three days and by that third day finally got around to asking the guy about this odd street scenario. There was no snow in Burlington, in fact, though cold, Burlington had not seen snow for days but that didn't stop "Cowboy." Each night Cowboy scooped up his tiny snowman, growing smaller by the day, and stowed his icy creation away to slow its inevitable demise. Cowboy estimated that over 130 people stopped to take photos of his snowman and made his time on the streets a bit more entertaining, for a few days anyway.


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