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SAVOLDELLI - CASARANO - BARDOSCIA: THE GREAT JAZZ GIG IN THE SKY (TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD)
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Studio Album, released in 2016
1. Speak to Me (1:16)
2. Breathe (7:35)
3. On the Run (1:16)
4. Time (4:13)
5. The Great Gig in the Sky/Money (7:41)
6. Us and Them (14:25)
7. Any Colour You Like (2:17)
8. Brain Damage (7:46)
9. Eclipse (2:48)
Total Time 49:07
- Boris Savoldelli / vocals, vocal noises and electronics
- Raffaelle Casarano / saxes and electronics
- Marco Bardoscia / double bass and electronics
- Dewa Budjana / guitars (6)
- WK569 / background sounds manipulation (Tracks 6 & 7)
- Mauricio Nobili / reciter (5)
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Recorded on February 16 and 17, 2013
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The impact of being different!
It is not a secret that Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon is one of the most influential and loved albums in the history of music, which has modified (positively, I guess) the lives of countless individuals and groups, and has led to the creation of several covers, tributes and renditions. Most of those tributes ?at least the ones I've heard- continued with the rock potion all over the music, creating nice covers but in the end covers that maintain the same spirit, I mean, that don't really make us think: "this is different", no. Fortunately, Boris Savoldelli decided to create something quite different, a surprise that someone who expects a tribute with a similar sound from the original work will not really dig. So yeah, I warn you, this is a rue creative tribute, so go forward or turn around right now.
The Great Jazz Gig in the Sky is a pretty cool name for this tribute album, which of course tells that jazz is what we might find here. Though Savoldelli might be the mastermind behind, the project consists on a trio, greatly complemented by Rafaelle Casarano on sax and Marco Bardoscia on bass. The songtitles are the same you already know, but the music is what is drastically different.
The jazz does not appear in the short opener "Speak to me", in fact, this is a loony introduction in which vocals and spacey-noises can be heard, a bit freaky. With "Breath" now we can notice the important role bass will play during the album, because it is the only instrument here, creating the rhythm we are used to know. Of course there are vocals, Savoldelli is the singer and man, he does it really good but I have to say that the first time I listened to it I felt kind of disconcerted, maybe it is an acquired taste. The "second" part of this song is amazing. Saxophone appear along with some spacey electronic atmospheres, sensual and relaxing, but probing and stimulating. This was the first moment in which I said to myself "this is gonna be great".
"On the Run" is a short lunatic track with some quirky noises here and there. When it vanishes, we are already listening to "Time" which has a very disarming sound provoked by the vocals and double bass, it is beautiful and becomes even better when sax adds its melancholic sound. I dare saying that the mood of this piece is actually sad, so if you are sensitive, it could even make you cry. "The Great Gig in The Sky / Money" is a challenging combo. The first minute continues with the melancholic sound, but then all of a sudden electronics appear creating a quite different atmosphere, while vocals enter singing the Clare Torry part. Those electronics keep beating but now is Savoldelli's vocals singing the Gilmour part. When vocals finish, the music changes again, bass stays and produce once again, some disarming sounds.
The longest creation comes next with the mighty "Us and Them". Man, I was obsessed with its depth the first time I listened to it. Here the trio has a wonderful guest musician, Dewa Budjana plays guitar in a very soft way but totally accurate to create the ideal atmosphere. Tender vocals surrounded by ambient and electronic nuances will transport you to another threshold, so you can close your eyes and feel the charm and magic of this amazingly arranged song that despite being the longest, it has been the one I have repeated the most. In the last part the guitar becomes a bit more protagonist with some nice riffs included. It is great how after a long instrumental (interlude?) vocals return in order to finish this enchanting track.
"Any Colour You Like" brings some electronic noises, like spacey and futuristic; in a passage bass appear in a subtle way. It leads to "Brain Damage" which has Boris' vocals with a loony spirit, you know, the lunatic is on the grass. Bass and sax are here all the way, the vocals create strange textures and we can also notice some soft but deep atmospheric backgrounds. The song flows and the last two minutes are deliciously highlighted by Casarano's sax. A gem! The album finishes with "Eclipse" which has a kind of humoristic mood that contrasts with what we had been listening. It is a cool way to finish an amazing and unique tribute that I would like to recommend to any open mind aiming to discover memorable tunes.
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I know that some grandparents have a summer camp outing at their house when all their grandchildren visit at the same time. If you are a grandparent Camp Director you will definitely want to check these out. I love to write about things toys or activites that we played when we were kids or our kids played and still work for our grandchildren but have a new twist. These Crayola Grab 'N Go games fit the modern approach of everything you need in the one container and still rely on the old fashioned simplicity of using sidewalk chalk imaginatively. I love it.
What I like best about these games is since you draw the playing field yourself using the chalk it can be designed for children as young as 4 and as old as teens or adults. They are great for driveway play at a backyard picnic and can be drawn for any age group you would like.
Here is my experience with my grandson, Zach, aged 5 with the Obstable Course and Foot Hockey games.
The Obstacle course has 4 small "markers", 4 pieces of washable chalk and a directions sheet which shows various styles of obstacle courses. I started to draw the lines, but Zach quickly wanted to participate. So I drew to the first circle and we placed the marker and he drew the rest. Zach was up first…but his idea was that the course was just a starting point. He added that you run over to the soccer net and kick the soccer ball in (Well it is the same day as the USA Belgium World Cup match), then run around in 3 circles under a tree, loop through the swing side support 4 times, hand swing from the swing side support (Grandma gets a pass on this one), then 11 pushes of the bar on the baby swing and finally, finally……5 swings on the swing. We did this three times and then I needed to sit down. I was done... But Zach was not.
Zach was just excited and wanted to play foot hockey now. Ok..as soon as I catch my breadth….. The Foot Hockey games has a yellow hollow plastic puck, 4 pieces of washable chalk (different colors than Obstacle Course) and directions. I started to draw the field on the driveway and soon Zach wanted to help. Fine with me. I started the edges and he completed them. We each drew our own goal area and wrote our name above it.
We're ready. Well the goal went flying on Zach's first kick. We quickly learned that it had to be hit gently….But not before I got a sharp hit in my leg.
Overall these games were a lot of fun. Since you draw the course yourself it can be as simple or difficult as you would like and is readily adjusted for different ages. I didn't expect that it was also the opportunity for creative play but Zach's spontaneous expansion on the obstacle course demonstates that it is. Bottom line assessment – Lots of fun, inexpensive, flexible but be prepared for a workout if you are a participant!
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David Hedison, właśc. Albert David Hedison Jr. (ur. 20 maja 1927 w Providence w stanie Rhode Island, zm. 18 lipca 2019 w Los Angeles) – amerykański aktor filmowy, telewizyjny i teatralny. Dwukrotnie wcielał się w postać agenta Centralnej Agencji Wywiadowczej (CIA) Felixa Leitera w filmach z bondowskiej serii: Żyj i pozwól umrzeć (1973) i Licencja na zabijanie (1989). W klasycznym horrorze Mucha (1958) zagrał główną rolę. W późniejszym okresie grał również znaczące role w operach mydlanych: Dynastia Colbych, Inny świat i Żar młodości.

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Wczesne lata
Urodził się w Providence, w stanie Rhode Island jako syn Rose (z domu Boghosian) i Alberta Davida Hedisona Seniora, który pracował w branży jubilerskiej. Jego rodzice byli z pochodzenia Ormianami. Wkrótce po II wojnie światowej dołączył do United States Navy. Zdecydował, że chce zostać aktorem po tym, jak zobaczył Tyrone'a Powera jako Juana Gallardo w filmie Krew na piasku.

Kariera
Karierę aktorską rozpoczął w Sock and Buskin Players przy Uniwersytecie Browna. Następnie przeprowadził do Nowego Jorku na studia pod kierunkiem Sanford Meisner i Marthy Graham w Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre i Lee Strasberg w Actors Studio.

W swojej wczesnej pracy zawodowej występował jako Al Hedison. Występował w Newport Casino Theatre. W 1951 zdobył nagrodę Barter Theatre Award dla najbardziej obiecującego młodego aktora, grając w teatrze w Wirginii. Pracował w radiu w Karolinie Północnej, w teatrze w Pittsburghu, a także na scenie nowojorskiej, m.in. w komedii szekspirowskiej Wiele hałasu o nic (1952) Studiował u Uty Hagen, która zaangażowała go do roli w sztuce broadwayowskiej Iwana Turgieniewa Miesiąc w kraju (1956) w reżyserii Michaela Redgrave'a, miał 48 występów na Broadwayu. "The Theatre World" ogłosił, że Hedison był jednym z najbardziej popularnych osobowości teatralnych sezonu 1955-56.

W 1954 po raz pierwszy pojawił się na szklanym ekranie w jednym z odcinków serialu CBS Danger - pt. "Padlocks" z Jamesem Deanem. Zagrał postać porucznika Ware'a w dramacie wojennym Dicka Powella Podwodny wróg (The Enemy Below, 1957) u boku Roberta Mitchuma. Zagrał tytułową postać jako Jamie w filmie Syn Robin Hooda (The Son of Robin Hood, 1958). Zasłynął rolą naukowca André Delambre w horrorze Mucha (1958).

Występował jako Victor Sebastian w serialu NBC Five Fingers (1959-1960). Stał się znany z roli kapitana Lee B. Crane'a w filmie katastroficznym Irwina Allena Wyprawa na dno morza (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1961) i serialu ABC pod tym samym tytułem (1964-1968).

W miniserialu NBC Anno Domini (1985) z Susan Sarandon, Avą Gardner, Richardem Roundtree i Jennifer O'Neill zagrał Porcjusza Festusa. Gościł też w serialach: Statek miłości (1977-1985), Aniołki Charliego (1978-1981), Najwięksi bohaterowie biblijni (Greatest Heroes of the Bible, 1979) w roli Aszkanaza, Dynastia (1983) jako Sam Dexter, ojciec Dexa (Michael Nader), Drużyna A (1985), Napisała: Morderstwo (1986), Inny świat (1992) jako Spencer Harrison i Żar młodości (2004) jako Arthur Hendricks.

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29 czerwca 1968 w Londynie poślubił młodszą o 17 lat Bridget Mori (ur. 1944, zm. 2016). Jego małżeństwo trwało niemal 50 lat. Bridget zmarła na raka 22 lutego 2016 w wieku 71 lat. Mieli dwie córki: Alexandre Mary (ur. 10 lipca 1969) i Serenę Rose. Alexandra jest lesbijką. W kwietniu 2014 poślubiła aktorkę Jodie Foster.

Zmarł 18 lipca 2019 w Los Angeles w wieku 92 lat.

Filmografia
Filmy:
 Podwodny wróg (1957) jako porucznik Ware
 Mucha (1958) jako Andre Delambre
 Zaginiony świat (1960) jako Ed Malone
 Opowieść wszech czasów (1965) jako apostoł Filip
 Żyj i pozwól umrzeć (1973) jako Felix Leiter
 Akcja na Morzu Północnym (1979) jako Robert King
 Hazardzista: Przygoda trwa (1983) jako Carson
 Prawdziwa twarz (1984) jako dr Peter Hadley
 Licencja na zabijanie (1989) jako Felix Leiter
 Zabójcze wspomnienia (1999) jako senator Davis
 Megiddo (2001; lub inny tytuł – Megiddo: Kryptonim Omega 2) jako Daniel Alexander
 Granice ryzyka (2001) jako Stuart Davis
Seriale TV:
 Perry Mason (1957-66) jako Damion White (gościnnie, 1962)
 Święty (1962-69) jako Bill Harvey (gościnnie, 1964)
 Wonder Woman (1975-79) jako Evan Robley (gościnnie, 1977)
 Aniołki Charliego (1976-81) jako Carter Gillis/John Thornwood (gościnnie, 1978 i 1981)
 Wyspa fantazji (1977-84) – różne role w 6 odcinkach
 Statek miłości (1977-86) – różne role w 7 odcinkach
 Dynastia (1981-89) jako Sam Dexter, ojciec Dexa (gościnnie, 1983)
 T.J. Hooker (1982-86) jako Saxon (gościnnie, 1982)
 Nieustraszony (1982-86) jako Theodore Cooper (gościnnie, 1985)
 Drużyna A (1983-87) jako David Vaughn (gościnnie, 1985)
 Dynastia Colbych (1985-87) jako Roger Langdon
 Anno Domini (1985) jako Porcjusz Festus
 Napisała: Morderstwo (1984-96) jako Mitch Payne/Victor Caspar (gościnnie, 1986 i 1989)
 Inny świat (1964-99) jako Spencer Harrison (w odc. z lat 1991-96 i 1999)
 Żar młodości (od 1973) jako Arthur Hendricks (w 50 odcinkach z 2004)

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Bibliografia

Amerykańscy aktorzy filmowi
Amerykańscy aktorzy telewizyjni
Amerykańscy aktorzy teatralni
Absolwenci Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
Ludzie urodzeni w Providence
Urodzeni w 1927
Zmarli w 2019

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Liverpool vs Tottenham: Premier League's Top of the Table Clash
December 16, 2020 by SBOTOP
It's an early Christmas present for the Premier League fans as Liverpool vs Tottenham will be a clash between the top two teams of the league. The two sides are level on points and are separated just by goal difference.
Anfield will pay tribute to Liverpool legend Gerard Houllier before the game who passed away on December 14. The Reds along with their 2,000 supporters will make sure they bid adieu to their legend in a proper manner.
The two teams have an absolutely identical record going into the match and have many subplots in the game. League's best attack goes head-on against the league's best defence. Both teams will be looking to bounce back after an underwhelming 1-1 draw for both teams away from home. Here's how both teams are shaping up ahead of this massive clash.
English champions Liverpool have been unlucky when it comes to injuries this season. Even though their squad depth has been tested as much as it could have, Jurgen Klopp would be delighted to see how his younger players have stood up in the absence of major players. Their record at Anfield is unbelievable as they seem invincible at their home ground. They'd look to get back to winning ways after an indifferent performance against Fulham at Craven Cottage in their previous game.
Joel Matip had to be withdrawn from the previous match after suffering a back spasm in the first half. Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Xherdan Shaqiri, Thiago Alcantara, Kostas Tsimikas, James Milner and Diogo Jota are all sidelined for this match after suffering long-term injuries.
Liverpool will have the majority of the ball in this game as Jose Mourinho will look to set his team up compactly and would want to be lethal on counter-attacking opportunities. Klopp was disappointed with the way his team started in the game against Fulham so expect a big performance coming up at home.
Jose Mourinho's Spurs have been the story of the season so far. Much has been talked about the style of football his team plays and how he is a dinosaur when it comes to attacking football. The 'Special One' has finally got his players playing the way he wants and their defensive record in the league shows how they have improved so much this season.
Spurs are unbeaten in the last nine games in the Premier League- their longest run since April 2018. There's a record Jose would like to turn around in this game as he has never won an away game against Jurgen Klopp's team, his worst record against any manager in his career.
The way they were able to grind results against the so-called 'big six' teams in the Premier League is remarkable. He'll set his team up in a similar manner and would look to knick a result if possible but at the same time, a draw won't be the worst result for the Portuguese. Erik Lamela will be the only absentee from the Spurs team for their trip to the Merseyside club.
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By J. Stapleton-Durham | April 3, 2017
On December 14, 2012, a disturbed young man committed a horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that took the lives of 20 elementary school children and six educators. Filmed over the course of nearly three years, Newtown uses deeply personal, never-before-heard testimonies to tell the story of the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history. Through raw and heartbreaking interviews with parents, siblings, teachers, doctors, and first responders, Newtown documents a traumatized community still reeling from the senseless killing, fractured by grief but driven toward a sense of purpose. There are no words of compassion or reassurance that can bring back those who lost their lives during the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Instead, Snyder delves into the lives and homes of those who remain, all of whom have been indelibly changed by the events.


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Big rig spills logs, slows I-5 traffic
A semitrailer rolled on its side and spilled its load of logs on southbound Interstate 5 near Oasis Road on Saturday morning.
The 9:30 a.m. spill blocked that stretch of the freeway for several hours while traffic was diverted to offramps and on ramps. The California Highway Patrol reopened the freeway just before 12:30 p.m.
No injuries were reported, the CHP said.
Organizers cancel sports festival
The Shasta Cascade Weekend Sports Festival 2016 scheduled May 27-29 has been canceled, according to its official Facebook page.
The Facebook post said the Memorial Day weekend event was called off due to high production costs and a relatively low number of sponsorships and registrations. As a result organizers said they fell short of covering operational costs.
Deputies: Shots hit apartment building
Shasta County sheriff's deputies were looking for a man connected to a Friday night shooting and attempted break-in at a Shasta Lake apartment building, they said Saturday.
Deputies about 10:20 p.m. went to the building in the 4000 block of Flower Street for a report of a suspicious man trying to enter a common area of the building. Callers also reported hearing gunshots, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Upon arriving, deputies unsuccessfully searched the area for the man and also noticed bullets had struck the building, detectives said.
No injuries were reported in the shooting.
Deputies described the man as white, about 30 to 35 years old who was wearing a white T-shirt with pants or shorts.
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At its meeting Tuesday night the Red Bluff City Council will consider hiring a contractor to develop an Urban Water Management Plan.
The city must update the plan every five years to be eligible for various water system grants and loans, according to a staff report.
City staff members are asking the council to select Carollo Engineers Inc. for the work. The firm would be paid $49,230 from the city's water facilities fund, the staff said.
The city did not use a bid approach but instead used a 'qualifications-based selection' in which recognized expertise allows the city to bypass the bid process, the staff said.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the council chambers, 555 Washington St. The agenda, including the staff report, is available online at cityofredbluff.org.
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The Rural Economy — The President's View
What are President Obama's plans for the rural economy? This week, he released a 47-page report on strengthening rural America.
by dyadmin April 28, 2010 June 28, 2021
The Daily Yonder's coverage of rural economic issues, including workforce development and the future of work in rural America, is supported in part by Microsoft.
Editor's Note: The President's Council of Economic Advisers has released a 47-page report entitled "Strengthening The Rural Economy." This is the first Presidential document aimed at the rural economy in our memory, so below are extensive excerpts. (You can get your own copy here.) The rollout of this document coincides with the President's tour of the rural Midwest. We have tried to stay away from the parts of the report that list the Administration's accomplishments and have concentrated on both the President's analysis of rural issues and his plans for rural America. We have added paragraphs to ease reading.
Rural areas are home to about 50 million Americans and are an essential part of the overall economy. This report surveys the current state of rural America and describes the Obama Administration's policies for strengthening the rural economy. Many of these policies are already being implemented through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But further work remains to ensure the prosperity and vitality of rural America.
Our survey of the current state of rural America identifies both important strengths and significant challenges facing the rural economy.
• The rural economy is more economically diverse than it once was. Agriculture directly employs only a small fraction of rural workers, though ancillary businesses are included in other sectors. Manufacturing, services, government, and wholesale and retail trade are important additional sources of rural employment.
• The U.S. agricultural sector remains more productive than those of other high-income countries and is highly competitive in international markets.
• The labor force of rural America is aging and its educational attainment lags behind that of urban areas for the working-age population.
• Improvements in health status in rural areas have not kept pace with those in urban areas, and access to doctors and health services has been an important challenge in rural areas.
SCOPE OF REPORT
We organize the discussion of the Administration's policies for strengthening the rural economy into four main categories. The first category includes policies to support the growth of new businesses in rural areas. These policies include programs to help strengthen small businesses in a wide range of rural industries. They also involve incentives to greatly expand clean energy opportunities, which are often centered in rural areas. There are also important new opportunities for rural tourism and recreation.
A second category of policies is aimed at strengthening rural infrastructure. Infrastructure investment is central to rural prosperity. Without road, bridges, water projects, and telecommunications, rural America cannot get its products to market efficiently or be fully integrated with the rest of the economy. For this reason, the Federal government has traditionally supported rural infrastructure projects. The Obama Administration has continued that support in important and innovative ways, such as by supporting the expansion of broadband internet access to rural areas.
A third category of policies focuses on strengthening the agricultural sector. American agriculture is among the most productive in the world. The Administration has proposed measures to further open international markets to U.S. agricultural products, proposed reforms to better target farm support programs, and urged a greater focus on local and regional food systems.
The fourth category of policies is aimed at strengthening the labor force and improving the quality of life in rural America by investing in education and health care. A new set of policies aims to close the gap in educational outcomes between rural and urban areas. The Administration is also investing in the health of rural America by taking actions to increase the affordability and quality of health care, while bolstering the medical workforce and infrastructure to address the specific challenges facing rural areas.
The agricultural sector is also an important but declining source of employment and earnings for rural America. In 2007, the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector constituted about 6 percent of employment in high-density rural areas and about 12 percent of employment in lowdensity rural areas, down from 13 percent and 23 percent in 1970, respectively. Note that these shares somewhat understate the importance of agriculture in rural America, since ancillary businesses are counted in other sector categories. For example, workers who truck or wholesale crops or livestock are generally not included in the agriculture sector classification, though livestock breeders and cotton ginners are.
Among individuals who identify themselves as farmers, agriculture has become a less important source of income.2 Figure 2 shows that about half of farm household income came from the farm in 1960. Today, the vast majority (89 percent in 2008) comes from off the farm.
Perhaps the defining feature in the history of U.S. agriculture is its persistent gains in efficiency. Even relative to America's surge in productivity over the past half century, American agricultural productivity has grown rapidly. Figure 3 shows that farm productivity nearly tripled in the second half of the twentieth century, while nonfarm productivity increased by about 75 percent. Almost all of this divergence in productivity growth occurred after 1980. A consequence of this tremendous increase in productivity is that, despite increases in total agricultural output, employment has declined. In 1900, about 41 percent of the total U.S. workforce farmed. This share dropped to 16 percent in 1945, 4 percent in 1970, and only 2 percent in 2000.
It should not be surprising that the U.S. agricultural sector is very competitive in the international market. Indeed, in 2008, U.S. agricultural exports were worth $70 billion according to Census definitions, and $115 billion using the Department of Agriculture's broader definition. The share of American agricultural output exported in 2007 (using the Census definitions) was 15 percent, having increased from 11 percent in 1999. Thus, access to foreign markets is very important for American agriculture. Likewise, although gross agricultural output only constituted about 2.5 percent of total GDP over this period, agriculture made up 2.8 percent of total exports in 1999, rising to 3.4 percent in 2007, according to Census definitions. Notably, this competitiveness is not primarily driven by farm support programs. Since 1991, high-value commodities (for instance, fruit and meat) have made up a larger fraction of exports than bulk commodities (for instance, wheat and rice), though they receive far less Federal support.
While the rural economy has become increasingly diverse, it faces a number of unique challenges regarding its labor force. First, incomes are lower and poverty rates are higher in rural areas than they are in urban areas. Second, a lower proportion of the rural population is of working age (20-64), which presents challenges for future job creation, and the share of the U.S. population living in rural counties has steadily declined over time. Third, a higher portion of rural residents are on disability and therefore unable to participate in the rural workforce. Fourth, educational attainment lags behind that of urban areas for the working-age population. Recognizing these challenges, the Administration has made education a major pillar in its policies for rural America. Its focus on expanding opportunities for small businesses, tourism and recreation, and clean energy will also help to make rural households better off while attracting a new generation of young workers.
The overall share of the U.S. population living in rural counties also has been steadily declining over time, with high-density rural counties experiencing particularly sharp declines (see Figure 5).8 From 1900 to 1970, rural counties lost nearly 0.3 percentage point of the U.S. population per year. From 1970 to 2008, this trend has continued, albeit at a slower rate, costing rural counties almost 0.1 percent of the U.S. population annually. The net effect of these declines is a broad-scale population shift from rural to urban America. In 1900, about 40 percent of the population lived in a county that ultimately would be classified as rural in present-day America, whereas today that share has dwindled to half this amount.
An additional measure of labor force depth is the share of the working-age population (25-64 years old) healthy enough to be counted as an active member of the labor force.9 The Federal Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides monthly cash benefits to people who are unable to work due to a disability. In 2008, disability insurance enrollment as a share of the working-age population was 6.5 percent in high-density rural areas and 5.7 percent in lowdensity rural areas, compared with 3.9 percent in urban areas.10 Thus, the average rural resident was much more likely to be enrolled in SSDI than his or her urban counterpart. Because individuals enrolled in SSDI are unlikely to exit from the program, these disparities are also likely to impact future labor force capacity.
Over time, the share of the population of ages 25–64 with more than a high school education in an average urban county has been persistently above the share in an average rural county (see Table 5). While rural counties have made great strides in ensuring that larger proportions of their populations pursue schooling beyond high school, they have been unable to close this gap. Additionally, the rate of progress in educational attainment has been slightly slower in rural areas, causing education levels in rural areas to slip further behind those in urban areas. In 2000, an urban resident was between 10 and 15 percentage points more likely to have attended college than a rural resident. Two decades earlier, this difference was between 9 and 13 percentage points.
This growth differential is driven by the share of the working-age population that has completed only high school. In the average urban county, this share fell 11 percentage points over the two decades, compared with just 3 to 6 percentage points in the average rural county. Put another way, in 1980 rural residents were 1.1 times more likely to stop attending school after high school than urban residents. By 2000, this ratio was up to 1.3-1.4.
While residents of non-metropolitan areas have comparable rates of health insurance coverage to metropolitan areas and the nation overall, they are more likely to be enrolled in public programs such as Medicaid for low-income families, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and especially Medicare for the elderly (due to the relatively older rural population) rather than holding private insurance, as shown in the Table 6.12 Residents of rural areas have less access to doctors and other health care providers than their counterparts in urban areas. As a result, they are more likely to forego needed care. Finally, improvements in health status in rural areas have not kept pace with those in urban areas.
Families in non-metropolitan areas are more likely than families in metropolitan areas to have a high burden in affording health insurance coverage, defined as health expenses exceeding 10 percent of after-tax family income. While total out-of-pocket health expenses are comparable in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas ($3,265 versus $3,216 in 2005, the year with the most recent available data, in 2007 dollars), incomes in non-metropolitan areas tend to be lower. As a result, 24.2 percent of families in non-metropolitan areas spend more than 10 percent of their income on health insurance coverage, compared with 18.1 percent of families in metropolitan areas.
Non-metropolitan counties had on average 1.2 active doctors for every 1,000 residents in 2007, compared with 3.0 active doctors for the same number of residents in metropolitan areas. Metropolitan counties also had more than 3 times as many specialists, 1.1 for every 1,000 residents compared with only 0.3 for every 1,000 residents in non-metropolitan counties.14 Finally, in addition to disparities in health care infrastructure and workforce capacity, rural residents face specific geographic challenges in accessing medical care. One report found longer travel times for emergency services in small and geographically isolated rural communities.
DIVERGING MORTALITY RATES
While mortality rates in the United States overall have declined over the past few decades, mortality rates in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas have diverged since the early 1990s. Figure 6 shows that, since 1990, non-metropolitan mortality has declined at an average annual rate of only 0.73 percent, significantly slower than the metropolitan rate of 1.27 percent. While the source of this divergence is unclear, it is likely that improvements in access to health care and in the affordability of that care in rural areas could help to narrow this gap in mortality rates.
FEDERAL SUPPORT
Long before the Administration's recent efforts to strengthen rural America, Federal support for rural areas through these many agencies was extensive. To illustrate this traditional support, consider expenditures in 2007.
About $390 billion in Federal funding was directed to rural areas through non-loan, non-insurance programs in that year. (See chart below.) The left-hand pie chart in Figure 7 shows that approximately 84 percent of this funding went to health care, Social Security, military wages and procurement, and non-military wages and procurement (including the Postal Service). The remaining 16 percent – denoted as "other spending" – is further broken out in the right-hand pie chart. This "other" component of rural spending constituted about $62 billion in 2007. About one-quarter of this spending was directed toward transportation infrastructure. Spending on social services and food assistance (17 percent), income security (16 percent), the agricultural sector (15 percent), and education (13 percent) represent the next largest areas of spending. Spending on housing and other infrastructure, while smaller, was still a substantial portion of Federal funding.
Long-term investment in innovation and entrepreneurship is critical for the economic health of rural communities. In addition to continuing strong support of existing programs, the Administration has introduced new policies that will foster rural revitalization. In particular, the Department of Agriculture will lead a strategy to promote economic opportunities through regional planning among Federal agencies and state and local governments through its Rural Innovation Initiative (see Box 5, in Section VI). Recognizing that rural areas often suffer from higher poverty and unemployment rates, the Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration recently announced their intent to work together to better coordinate development programs and increase the number of guaranteed small business loans
The fiscal year 2011 budget also includes almost $100 million for the promotion of regional innovation clusters through the Small Business Administration and the Economic Development Administration. The Economic Development Administration will use its budget allocation to distribute regional planning and matching grants to support the creation of regional innovation hubs. The Small Business Administration will promote small business participation in regional economic clusters by awarding grants on a competitive basis to facilitate the coordination of resources through business counseling, training, and mentorships. The proposed fiscal year 2011 budget also expands the Emerging Leaders Initiative and the Minority Business Development Agency, both of which will play critical roles in supporting American Indian and Alaska Native businesses by providing technical assistance and connecting business leaders to regional networks.
The rural economy will also benefit from policies aimed at moving the American economy toward cleaner domestic sources of energy. Existing Administration policies – the Renewable Fuel Standard recently enacted under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) and Recovery Act incentives for the development of bio-energy – will increase the amount of bio-based transportation fuels and renewable energy produced in rural areas. Further energy and climate legislation could greatly expand the use of energy sources located in rural areas such as bio-energy, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal to produce electricity and transportation fuels.
RECREATION AND TOURISM
America's Federal lands are precious national assets that are an important source of employment in rural areas through their support of the tourism industry. These lands – wildlife refuges, national parks, national forests, and Bureau of Land Management lands – are located disproportionately in rural areas.
Recently, there have been more than 620 million annual visits to these lands, including over 310 million to national parks and wildlife refuges. The Department of the Interior estimates that its lands support over 320,000 jobs in tourism and recreation. Recent studies estimate that the National Park Service alone annually contributes $6.3 billion in labor income and $9 billion in value added, the wildlife refuges provide an estimated $1.7 billion in sales and $542.8 million in employment income, and recreational visits to the National Forests contribute $11.2 billion to GDP.
America's Federal lands support a wide variety of activities. Every year, about 7 million anglers visit national wildlife refuges, as do 2 million hunters and many millions of birders. Of those surveyed on their national forest recreation visits, the primary activities were hiking or walking, downhill skiing, viewing natural features, hunting, and fishing. Additionally, about 40 percent listed viewing wildlife as an activity in which they participated.
Recreation and tourism on Federal lands is a growth industry, with the potential to increasingly benefit rural America. For example, the Department of Agriculture estimates that the number of visitors has increased at national forests from 134 million in 1964 to 206 million in 2007. Likewise, the number of recreation visits to the national parks has increased from 205 million in 1979 to 275 million in 2008.
Unfortunately, two problems – deferred maintenance and damaged ecosystems – prevent America's Federal lands from reaching their full economic potential. In 2009, the Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Parks Service, and Forest Service had a combined deferred maintenance project backlog of between $16 and $22 billion. The Forest Service estimates that 37 percent of its administrative facilities need major repairs or renovations.
The failure to do needed maintenance leads to eroded roads, closed-off trails, and hazardous dilapidated buildings, and reduces the safety and accessibility of America's Federal lands. In turn, this makes them less attractive tourist destinations.
Similarly, a legacy of damaged ecosystems has decreased the attractiveness of many Federal lands. Aside from the reduction in ecosystem services that these lands provide to the whole country, the harms to recreation and tourism take many forms.
Whether through decreasing bird biodiversity that attracts birders, fish abundance that attracts recreational fishermen, the population of native species prized by amateur naturalists, or the quality and quantity of water available for water recreation, ecosystem degradation is harmful to tourism on Federal lands.
For example, the Forest Service estimates that 25 million acres of its lands are at future risk from insects and diseases. Furthermore, a legacy of counterproductive fire suppression has led to an excessive build-up of combustible material on Federal lands, leading to more extreme wildfires which – aside from endangering surrounding communities – harm ecosystems and site facilities, keeping away visitors.
NEW TOURISM POLICIES
Through the Recovery Act, the Administration has increased investment on Federal lands, reducing the problems of deferred maintenance and ecosystem degradation and creating a stronger foundation for the future of rural tourism.
The Recovery Act invests over $2.3 billion to preserve and improve the accessibility and experience of America's extraordinary Federal lands. Much of this spending goes disproportionately to rural areas; for example, the CEA estimates that 65 percent of Forest Service spending has been allocated to rural counties. The funding is roughly evenly split between the Department of the Interior (National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management) and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. To make parks and forests safer and more accessible, these funds will repair eroded trails and roads, close hazardous abandoned mines near tourist sites, build visitor facilities, and invest in many other assets.
RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
The Federal government's traditional support of rural infrastructure has focused on transportation, telecommunications, and energy and water infrastructure. This support has played a crucial role in linking rural residents economically and socially with the rest of the country and the world and in providing them with important basic services.
Of all the Federal efforts to tie Americans together, none is more tangible than the Federalaid highway system. The Department of Transportation supports the construction and maintenance of important highway projects in all 50 states and has invested billions of dollars in highway construction and maintenance since the 1950s. About 65 percent of all interstate highway miles – and 70 percent of all Federal-aid highway miles – run through rural areas.
These highways allow rural Americans to sell their products in key markets throughout the country and the world. Beyond highways, Federal programs also support the rail, barge, and ocean-going transportation infrastructures.
While the Postal Service has long been the primary vehicle for sending goods and written communications in the United States, the Federal government has also played a crucial role in ensuring access to telecommunications in rural areas, with the same goal of connecting Americans to one another.
Today, all telecommunications carriers that provide interstate or international service contribute to the Universal Service Fund (USF), often through a service fee on their bills. Contributors paid about $7.3 billion into the Fund in 2009, and this revenue was used to support a range of programs designed to promote universal access to essential communications services at reasonable rates. For example, the USF's Rural Health Care program subsidizes telecom and internet services for rural health care providers. Additionally, the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) provides loans to fund traditional telecommunications infrastructure and voice telephone service.
Only about 70 percent of rural households with internet access had a high speed broadband connection in 2007, compared with 84 percent of urban households. This difference in broadband adoption is not just a consequence of income differences. Even when rural and urban households are matched by income, broadband connections are less prevalent among rural households.
Much of the difference between rural and urban broadband subscribership reflects availability: residents of some rural areas have no terrestrial broadband internet service providers, and other areas are served by only a single provider and therefore have no competition. The Administration has made a priority of accelerating the rollout of broadband internet service to rural America.
The most important vehicles for accomplishing this goal are monies authorized in the Recovery Act for providing loans, grants, and loan-grant combinations to expand access to broadband in rural and underserved areas of America. For instance, the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service will use billions to support loans and grants that facilitate broadband deployment in rural areas, with the objective of funding projects that will support rural economic development and job creation beyond the immediate construction and operations of the broadband facilities.
The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration was given $4.7 billion for its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program to deploy broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas (many of which are rural), expand public computer center capacity, and encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service. And the Administration intends to support broadband expansion in rural America beyond the Recovery Act. For instance, the Administration has included $690 million for direct loans in telecommunications and $418 million for loans and grants to help transition rural economies into the modern information economy in its proposed fiscal year 2011 budget.
There are several reasons that expanded broadband service is important for employment and income growth in rural areas. Most employment growth in the United States over the last several decades has been in the service sector, where jobs are particularly likely to benefit from broadband access.
Broadband service may allow rural areas to compete for a range of service jobs, from call centers to software development. And even in non-service industries, internet tools can help businesses connect more efficiently with customers and suppliers. For instance, American farmers can use the internet to track product prices, obtain weather forecasts, buy and sell commodity futures, track the progress of supplies ordered or products shipped, and find markets for specialty farm products. Broadband internet connections also are increasingly useful as a substitute for business travel.
Broadband-enabled employment is valuable in rural areas not only for the income opportunities it provides, but also because it helps further diversify local economies. Broadband internet access enables employment that is both flexible and untethered to local economic conditions. One example of how broadband access can diversify income sources is through home businesses, which are substantially more common in rural areas than urban ones.
Broadband service helps rural businesses find markets that otherwise might be unavailable to them, facilitates online ordering and billing, and integrates the rural economy with the rest of the country (and the world) more effectively than is possible over slow-speed internet connections. It also allows continued access to online training and education.
Finally, broadband service expands opportunities for improving the provision of medical and health services for rural populations. More accessible health information, products, and services confer real economic benefits to rural communities and their residents. One study of hospitals in 24 rural communities found that the benefits of telemedicine include savings from outsourcing of procedures, transportation savings for patients who were able to obtain services electronically from their local hospital rather than traveling to a distant specialist, and income savings to patients from reductions in missed work.
As part of the Administration's National Export Initiative, the President has called for further measures to open foreign markets to American products. A key beneficiary of such expanded opportunities will be American agriculture, which is extremely competitive in international markets.
The President recently called for concluding the Doha round of trade negotiations, a large component of which is related to opening up agricultural markets around the world. This would require countries to reduce protective tariffs and distortive subsidies in their agricultural sectors.
More open trade allows the highly productive U.S. agricultural sector to export its products more easily. Further, the United States tends to have lower barriers to trade than many other countries. As discussed previously, the change in access that has resulted from previous free trade agreements has often been bigger for U.S. exporters than importers into the United States. An agreement such as this would allow the United States to reform policies that have been in some cases ruled noncompliant with the World Trade Organization (such as the subsidies for cotton). Having subsidies that are ruled illegal can cause damage to the industry and other sectors as other countries are allowed to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.
ENSURING COMPETITION
Finally, the Administration is working to promote fair competition in agriculture not only internationally, but also at home.
The Administration is committed to protecting fair and open competition and enforcing antitrust laws in the agricultural sector. The Department of Justice and the Department of Agriculture are holding five public outreach workshops in 2010 to solicit public input on the state of competition, regulation, and consolidation in the agricultural industry.
One aim of these workshops is to foster dialogue and ensure that a wide variety of viewpoints are heard on issues such as the impact of agriculture concentration on food costs, how patents and intellectual property affect agricultural marketing and production, and increasing retailer concentration.
The first such event, held in Iowa in March, drew hundreds of farmers, ranchers, and industry leaders, who participated in a vigorous discussion about competition in markets ranging from seeds to livestock. Four more workshops have already been scheduled in 2010 to focus specifically on the poultry, livestock, and dairy markets.
FARM SUPPORT
The Administration's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget includes a number of reforms to existing Federal support for the agricultural sector.
First, to better target payments, it proposes more stringent income eligibility requirements to preclude the wealthiest farmers from receiving payments. Currently, farms with $500,000 or more in sales receive 38 percent of subsidies, although they account for only 4 percent of farms.
In the Administration's budget, after being phased in over three years, farmers with a farm-adjusted gross income (AGI) over $500,000 or nonfarm AGI over $250,000 would no longer be eligible for direct payments.
Second, it proposes reforming the crop insurance program to reduce windfall profits enjoyed by private companies that supply reinsurance. The crop insurance program has grown dramatically since it began in 1981, from $18 million to $7 billion in 2009 (all in 2008 dollars). This change to the crop insurance program is projected to save $8 billion over 10 years. Together, these reforms ensure that the Federal government will continue to provide a safety net to farmers while freeing up resources that can then be directed toward other priorities.
There are significant gaps in educational attainment and in the quality and availability of health care between rural and urban communities.
These gaps arise in part because rural areas face several unique challenges in achieving high-quality education and health care. First, the recruitment of high-quality teachers and health care professionals may be more challenging; for example, rural professionals often face lower pay and difficult working conditions.
Second, because of lower population densities, it is harder for rural areas to support specialized classes in their schools, such as vocational and advanced classes, and specialized health care providers, such as experts in the treatment of relatively unusual conditions.
And third, the fact that rural students are often far from institutions of higher education makes it more costly for them to attend school beyond high school, and the fact that rural residents are often far from hospitals makes it more difficult for them to obtain timely, high-quality medical care.
The Administration is working to help rural communities overcome these challenges, and in doing so, to close the gaps with urban areas. These efforts are being conducted through the Recovery Act, which is funding a range of programs strengthening rural education and health care; through health care reform, which may prove particularly beneficial to rural America;
The history of rural America is one of proud accomplishment.
American agricultural productivity is among the very highest in the world and agricultural products are important exports. Rural America also contributes to the production of U.S. goods and services in many other sectors including manufacturing, services, government, and wholesale and retail trade. The President is committed to ensuring that the future of rural America is as distinguished as its past.
The Administration is actively taking steps to put rural Americans on a path toward greater prosperity through a wide range of policies. One set of policies seeks to promote rural businesses and further the diversification of the rural economy by helping rural small business, fostering rural areas' role in leading the clean energy transformation, and encouraging rural recreation and tourism. Other policies are providing crucial investments in rural infrastructure in telecommunications, water distribution, and other areas.
To promote the continued vitality of American agriculture, the Administration is working to open foreign markets, improve farm income support programs, and promote local and regional food systems. The Administration is also working to strengthen the rural labor force through initiatives in education and healthcare.
Crucial steps to strengthening the rural economy are already being taken through the Recovery Act and other policies. These steps include investments in areas ranging from health information technology and education to infrastructure and small business loans; comprehensive health insurance reform that will have large benefits for rural communities; and much more. The Administration is committed to building on these unprecedented measures in the months and years to come.
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Tuesday, 6 June 2017 Friday, 25 August 2017 by allene
2.1 – Catching Up
An empty seat awaited Einarr near where his father lounged, surprisingly far back in the hall. "Not bad, for your first go," Stigander muttered in his ear. "Did you think to take anything for yourself?"
He shook his head. "The Isinntog was my share."
His father grunted. "Generosity is well and good, but never forget that running a ship is costly. If you fail to provide for yourself, you fail to provide for your ship and your crew."
"Yes, Father."
He grunted again. "So long as you understand. Now come on, and bring that dwarf friend of yours. The three of us had best have a chat with Bardr, don't you think?"
"Yes, Father." Einarr did not have to look long to find Jorir: the dwarf had taken up position along the wall near the door, his new shield resting against his legs. At a gesture from Einarr, he fell in behind the two as they stepped outside.
Bardr, it seemed, had left for the temple some time before Einarr's arrival at the Hall. That he was not back yet suggested something troubled the man, for there were few aboard the Vidofnir of a particularly pious bent.
The path to the Kjelling temple wound through the spruces to a second, smaller clearing not far away dominated by the wooden hall dedicated to the gods and brilliant with wildflowers in the morning sunlight. The door to the hall was in shadow, and Einarr felt the chill as he stepped over the threshold. Bardr sat near the back, his feet propped on the back of the bench in front of him, scowling in the general direction of the altar.
Stigander cleared his throat, and his first mate gave a start. "Guess who's back?"
Dark-haired Bardr rose smoothly and turned to welcome Einarr, his face relaxing into a smile. "At last! We were worried when you were late."
"Something came up, we had to make a detour." They clasped elbows for only a moment before Einarr stepped back. "Bardr, this is Jorir, my liege-man. Jorir, Bardr is first mate on board the Vidofnir."
"A pleasure, lord." Jorir bowed. Bardr looked uncomfortable, to Einarr's eye.
"That's not really necessary." He laid a hand on Jorir's shoulder as the dwarf stood.
"So the Jarl sent you out after a fancy magic bauble for his daughter, and you return with a retainer?"
"That 'fancy magic bauble' was not the only thing I liberated from the jotün, no."
"Evidently not. Well, Jorir, I suppose this means I get to welcome you as our newest Vidofning. Can you fight?"
"At need," he drawled. "I'm better with a hammer and tongs, though, and no slouch with a bag of herbs. And the only person to 'ave bested me at tafl in a good long while is milord Einarr here."
"Before or after you swore your oath?"
Bardr hummed, but before he could say anything more Stigander broke in.
"This complicates matters you know, my boy."
"I know, Father."
"I had been intending to make you spend a month swabbing the deck."
"Only a month? That's better than I expected."
"But I can't very well subject you to that sort of punishment now that you have a man at arms, now can I? Hoping to get out of it?"
Einarr snorted. "Not remotely. When he surrendered, I asked him to swear that he meant us no harm in exchange for getting him off that island. Instead, he swears himself to me by all the gods."
Stigander turned his head to look at the dwarf, an eyebrow cocked.
Jorir looked pensive. "It's true. I mainly wanted off that rock, but it's also true that when your son had the opportunity to kill me, he refrained in spite of everything. I, ah, still didn't intend to swear quite as strongly as I did… and then he gave me the king he had used in our match. I'll not look back now, and he'll not regret it."
Am I missing something? Why is the tafl king so important to him? Jorir didn't explain, so when Stigander looked to Einarr for more information all he could do was shrug. "Runa sent me with a few gifts. The king was one of them, and the only other things I had on me at the time I just gave out at the Hall."
Stigander drew his brows down in a thoughtful expression.
"You are the lord father and Captain of my lord, and I will honor that as well," Jorir added.
Stigander nodded as though that were never in question. "You are a smith. Have you your own tools?"
"I did, back on Svartlauf, but to get them now would mean fighting lo— Fraener."
"With the entire ship we could probably manage, if we could get through the storm twice more."
Stigander grimaced at that. "As much as I would love to take my crew against a jotün, we have more pressing matters at hand."
"How did the hunt for the Grendel go?"
Stigander's grimace soured. "Skunked, so far, and we're not the only ones hunting them. We found no fewer than five other crews who've had their battle chanters picked off. Every last one of them talks about the monstrous crew of a ship that rides in with a storm and disappears just as quick."
"Monstrous? You mean that wasn't just an artifact of Astrid's chant?"
"Maybe, maybe not." He shook his head. "If it is, it's awfully consistent, and awfully specific to that ship."
"So does that mean there's a fleet forming?"
Bardr harrumphed. "More like a pact at this point. For a fleet, someone would need an idea how to find the whoresons."
Stigander hadn't finished. "A fleet, though… that might not be a bad idea, anyway."
Einarr raised an eyebrow. It felt as though his father had changed the subject without letting anyone else know.
"I'm going to make you work for it, you know. But maybe, just maybe, it's time for the sons of Raen to think about building a second ship." Stigander clapped his son on the shoulder.
1.34 – Homecoming
2.2 – On the Way to Market
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Mental health is gaining more and more attention by the day as 26% of Americans 18 years or older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. As the taboo around mental health slowly disappears, as it rightfully should, a lot of people are realizing that mental healthcare is as important as physical healthcare.
A lot of gratitude goes to these 15 celebs, who suffer from mental illness, and are not afraid to talk about their experience to help others.
The famously talented and beautiful Hollywood A-lister Catherine Zeta Jones has stepped out of the limelight a few years ago, and a lot of it has to do with her battle with bipolarity.
The famous actress can only be seen speaking publicly to help remove at least some of the stigma that comes with this condition.
The celeb suffers from bipolar II disorder, which differs from the bipolar I disorder is a few ways – although both levels of bipolarity possess many of the same characteristics, a person who suffers from bipolar II (such as Zeta Jones) never reaches the "full mania" state.


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"Walking out on the stage at Glasgow O2 just a few weeks ago was incredible. The reaction from the crowd was overwhelming and we were all choking up with emotion. It had been 20 months since we'd last played live and the expectations were high on both sides. The new band line up clicked into place faster than anyone thought and the performances were all magical, with the crowds so uplifting every night. We were all just so pleased to be playing live again and it showed. The reviews were incredible right from the off.
"By the time we reached the Assembly Rooms in Leamington, where we had the film crew waiting to capture us in front of a sold out crowd, we were on full beam and up to gig speed and beyond. The show turned out to be incredibly special as it was a mix of relief reaching there in one piece while at the same time the band had come together and been recognised as a special line up, possibly the best for a very long time.
"It was sad that we'd be splitting up after this show and I think that propelled us into delivering a performance that was befitting to the occasion and left us a memory to be proud of. I think we achieved that with style and I'm so pleased to enable the fans who were missing out on this special setlist to at least see and hear it on the global broadcast."
At over two hours and thirty minutes, this spectacular once only global concert broadcast will also include a special 'extras' bundle offering fans the chance to view exclusive backstage footage content, soundcheck highlights, behind the scenes interviews, a gear 'walk through' from the band members and an exclusive piece of collectible artwork from long-time collaborator and acclaimed designer Mark Wilkinson.
For those fans that have been immersed in the lyrics and muse of FISH for the last four decades, the Vigil's End concert and broadcast represents a very special celebration to mark the final full performance of Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors, including tracks such as the emotional and endearing A Gentleman's Excuse Me, the way-ahead-of-its-time social commentary on family abuse in the hard hitting Family Business and fan classics such as State Of Mind and The Company.


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This is just perfect and I like the direction your inner drummer took you!
I love it! Your ideas are great. It's pinned so I can remember!
Your version is lovely! All the colors are so cheery!
Beautiful, Linda! I love how it turned out!
How fun! I love the colors and the design. I hope your mother loved it!!
Love the colors and patterns you chose! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity at our Show-Licious Craft & Recipe Party! Join us again on Saturday to show off your latest projects!
You did such an amazing job. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity on The Inspiration Board at homework. You were featured in the spotlight!
Great job! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing at Your Designs This Time!
So beautiful! I love the colors. Thank you for sharing at Tuesdays with a Twist! Hope to see you again this week!


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Welcome to a brand new school year! Grade five and six is an exciting time as your child embarks upon new adventures as he/she continues the journey in the world of learning. This is a year of important transitions. Your child will be encouraged to work more independently as he/she develops a greater sense of responsibility in many areas.
Over the course of the year, your child will improve their language skills and learn about a variety of subjects. I hope to make your child's learning experiences a fun and exciting one and establish a lasting love of learning.
Celebrate your child's success, no matter how small it may seem. This will keep him/her enthusiastic about learning and proud of their work.
Ensure that your child gets enough rest, exercise and a balanced diet.
Remind your child to charge his/her laptop at home, so that they are prepared each day to use it as a tool for learning.
It is extremely important that your child have an agenda or be proficient in using a digital device to record homework. At this level it is expected that he/she records homework independently.
The homework load will vary throughout the year. There will be a variety of projects and presentations to prepare. If your child has unfinished work from class, it should be completed at home.
I encourage you as parents/guardians to be actively involved in your child's school life. I believe when parents and teachers work together, children can be successful in their learning.
Please visit powerschool bi-weekly so that you are up to date with your child's assignments, class schedule/timelines, attendance, and marks. You will have to use their login information to access this information.
I am looking forward to working with you and your child in Grade Eight!


Here you will find information and our real estate search on the small town of Sherwood. You will be able to search all properties for sale in this town. Plus, you will be able to sign up for Free Daily Email Alerts. Which will provide you with updates on new properties, and price reductions.
Sherwood is small town in Washington County. It is located in the southwest corner of the county, and part of the Tualatin Valley of southwest Portland. It was incorporated in 1893.
Currently the population stands strong at 11,791. With over 4,253 households and 3,300 families.
The median income per household is $62,518 and the median income per family is $67,277. Leaving the per capita income at $25,793. Only about 2.7% of the population are under the poverty line.
Currently the average listing price is $530k, and the median home sales price is $240k. The average per sq ft is $139, a total decrease of 2.1% There is a total of 97 homes in pre-foreclosure, in auction, or bank-owned currently.
Down below you will find the latest real estate listings in Sherwood.
Listing courtesy of Joni Knight Realty Group.
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Today I thought up a new outline and everything's coming together like magic. I had originally thought this was going to be a whammy of a project and now I am realizing that….
I love being a writer. I love that I don't give up. Anyone who says poor people are lazy or have an attitude problem is just plain wrong.
If you have anorexia and enjoy caffeine, you may be interested in this….
I am posting this with full awareness that it's a documented case study of one person. Also, this is something that happened to a young woman beginning in 1975. I believe the value in this is that back then, patients were less exposed to a whole bunch of propaganda regarding nutrition, eating, eating disorders, weight, dietary myths, snake oil, nor were we bombarded with "advice" everywhere we turned. There was no Internet and the world was a quieter place. Still, she developed anorexia after being given an antidote that was supposed to counteract an allergic reaction to clams.
You can read it all in the link below. It all happened because she was unusually sensitive to caffeine.
We all know folks that are like that. Many figure it all out early on and they know enough not to drink coffee or any caffeinated beverages at all. They learn what has caffeine in it and what doesn't. Just like people who are allergic to bee stings don't walk near bee hives if they can help it.
But still, the article points out that without knowing it, folks just might keep at it with that one very thing that they are allergic to, and in fact crave that substance! Even if it's making them sick!
How can this happen? For one thing, if the allergic reaction is delayed, how is the allergic person going to know? Say you are allergic to cherries. You eat ten cherries on Monday. On Tuesday, you eat celery. You get hives Tuesday afternoon. You might assume the celery gave you the hives, or anything else you ate or drank. In fact, when you first ate the cherries, maybe they made you feel terrific. Or not. You've probably forgotten.
My dad was sick and missed a lot of school until his mom took him to the doctor's finally. The doctor ran an allergy test. Back then, this was done by making many scratches on my dad's arm. The doctor asked my dad's mom what she gave him when he was sick. She said she gave him milk, but put chocolate in it so he'd be more likely to drink it. After all, kids were kids just the same as they've always been.
I can picture my dad right now. Knowing my mischievous dad and his love for chocolate, I'll bet inside, he groaned to himself, "Oh no! No chocolate?" I'm sure already he was devising ways to sneak into stores and buy it when his mom wasn't looking.
As it turned out, lucky for my dad, his allergy wasn't that serious and for the next 60 or so years, he regularly broke rules and ate a fair amount of chocolate. I'm sure it was more likely workplace or wartime toxin exposure and not chocolate that caused his cancer, or whatever random unlucky things happen to people. As for peas, he never liked peas anyway. I'd say he was a happy person. I loved his sense of humor. He would come up with things that would tell me that my dad saw things in many ways as if he were seeing them for the first time, as a child does. That's the best humor, and a great way to view the world as a writer, too.
The above story doesn't have much to do with caffeine or anorexia but I thought I'd throw it out there for the heck of it.
My own caffeine intake varies, but I consume very little of it. Now and then. If I'm going to go for a run I usually have a cup of coffee beforehand. To me, it's like eating the right combination of foods before a run. Many runners enjoy a peanut butter sandwich. Some swear by bananas. However, I'm not a coffee freak and I don't drink it every day. Maybe twice a week, for a treat, and I don't notice any sleeping changes or anything off kilter as a result of drinking it. Actually, if I have a bad stomach ache, a cup of coffee will cure it. I don't put anything such as milk or sugar in the coffee. I wonder if the stomach ache cure is the placebo effect or maybe if drinking something warm is the reason I feel so much better. Or maybe it works because I'm doing something nice for myself and that's affirming. Or perhaps the stomach ache was going to go away anyway. Or maybe the coffee does indeed work. Am I over-analyzing and is my over-analyzing a "diagnosis" I should worry about? Maybe we should discuss this over coffee.
Some say caffeine suppresses appetite. I also know that caffeine, if timed at certain bad moments, will cause overeating or binge eating.
Do you recall that article I linked to by Dr. Weil? It was rather brief but his point was this: Don't drink caffeine while under stress and don't use it to cope with stress. I would have to say I'm in full agreement with Dr. Weil on this one and that for many, probably most, this applies.
However, unless you are one that is sensitive to it or don't like it, or have been told you have a health condition and therefore should avoid caffeine or are allergic, to drink it to keep yourself warm or to add to a meal or to enjoy because it's the social lubricant of choice or to drink as a cultural or spiritual ritual I certainly see no harm.
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Don't forget the past. Don't believe those who tell you to live only in the present. It's a myth!
I am a Jew and I was taught that memory is essential to survival. I heard, "Lest we not forget," muttered over and over as if it were a sacred prayer. I remember when I was 19 years old I went to Israel and saw the Wailing Wall and the Holocaust museum. We know that history can and will repeat itself. We know we will make the same mistakes again and again if we don't learn from them. This is meant both historically and personally.
I believe that we need to retain our memories in order to survive as we get older. We need to pass on our stories to the young, to give our stories to young people as a gift, so that they may learn.
Lest we not forget. What does this mean to you? How can we give to the younger generation? What was it like growing up for you as a young child? Can you tell your children what your childhood was like, and how will this help them? What was fun for you? What frightened you?
If you can find beauty in pain, and humor in all the irony around you, there is value in these lessons. Why deliberately forget? Why live only in the present and deprive our precious children of all that we hold to be of value. This is what is priceless, so much more than an inheritance. This is our culture, what is real.
This is why I write. Sure, it's rough around the edges. It's raw. It bleeds. It cries out. But I love to remember my life and write about all I see as if it happened only moments ago. I believe it's of value. Don't lose the past. Hang onto it. It's our gift, and with it, we can empathize with others who suffer, too. Without the ability to sit down with the young people and say to them, "I was once there, too," I cannot hold their hands and weep with them. So I do this now as often as I can. Today, I believe in myself. That feels darned good.
Author JuliemadbloggerPosted on March 22, 2014 Categories UncategorizedTags memoryLeave a comment on Don't forget the past. Don't believe those who tell you to live only in the present. It's a myth!
So you figure someone earning $8 an hour is going to get $16,640, but that's BEFORE taxes, folks. Now this is in Massachusetts. I have told you how much it costs to live here in Boston. Rent for my place if I didn't get a subsidy would be at least 1,500, more like 1,800 for any 1 br out there at least. I have 300 square feet. This will fit one person. Two is a squeeze. You figure a person needs 30,000 or 40,000 at least to rent anything larger, so if there are two parents they will both have to work, or one will have to get two jobs. Am I guessing wrong? Probably.
No one in Boston should have to work for so little. In other places life might be different but here, no one should have to try to make a living being treated like crap.
And anyone on disability? Same deal.
We are not worthless throwaways.
We are valuable people. If you honor someone that person will be wonderful in some way that's worth far more than money.
I write, see, and I don't shut up. You value me for my talents and abilities and my stick-to-it-iveness and I will run far.
Remember superman? I don't mean the remakes. I mean the originals. Remember those very, very first episodes of Superman as a young boy? Do you recall those honest, hardworking parents of his that discovered Superman, that special, talented boy and how they honored that boy? His mom hand-sewed his Superman uniform.
I was a young girl when I watched that show on my parents' black and white TV. I felt such awe that Superman's mom would take such care in his magical outfit.
Today, Superman would be drugged and thrown into a kiddie mental hospital. He's a boy with ADHD or whatever. The outfit would end up burnt at the dry cleaners. Or confiscated.
Or Superman would end up in foster care and his loving parents would be wrongly accused of abuse. Superman would be stuck in the mental health system for life, not the Clark Kent we all learned to adore.
Wow, have times changed from the black and white days of yesterday.
We need to honor the special abilities of kids. All kids are Superman. Let's let them fly. Let's set them free. We can do this.
Think back…Remember when you left that abusive marriage?
Think back on the day you walked out.
Or if you had tyrant parents or one of them that was, try to remember your escape from that one parent. If you were fostered out or if one parent gathered the kids together one day and said, "We're leaving. To save our lives." Do you remember?
Do you remember that feeling? Like you were running from a burning building? If you didn't leave, you'd perish. Do you recall the wrath of the abuser inside? Calling out to you, screaming, "Come back! Come back!" But no, you couldn't do that. You'd rather die than return.
Most of us in our little band of escapees don't even turn back and look. That slows us down. We keep running until we are safely far enough away. We gather more strength and run some more if we can. Safety comes in odd-looking places and often where we don't expect it.
Who give us assistance along the way? Often the kindest are those that have the least to spare. Those that have run in the recent past are empathetic. Others find us strange. We seem crazed to them.
Yeah, that's what it's like to leave the System. For a long time, we are looking over our shoulders, even in freedom. We are afraid of being snatched up, of losing our newly-found freedom, because at first, it's fragile.
But then, it begins to build. It takes time to build confidence and for others to see that we are strong, and now, so much stronger because we have walked away from the prison of abuse.
The whole world watches as we again become whole. We are better than ever. The amazing thing is all the false promises that those abusers made. We are so, so much better than we ever dreamed possible, because we have torn off their yoke. We are slaves no more.
The world is no longer broken. It's not double-sided or two-faced and it sure is less confusing for me now. Know why? I replaced my broken glasses with new ones. The new blue glasses arrived in the mail today. I could hardly wait to pick them up. New glasses! New glasses! I was impatient like a little kid. They were right there in my post office box. I put the envelope into my pocket. I crossed the street. Into the library and a beeline for the ladies' room. Into a stall. I opened the package. Inside, my glasses. All mine. I put them on and suddenly the world was mine again. I had lived with broken glasses for too long. The world is mine again. I own you. I am boss. I am strong and unique and proud and beautiful once more. And I see you, too. Hello, world. My name is Julie Greene and I am unstoppable.
I used to think It was the worst sin on Earth to be late. Now I feel it's the second worst. So I can breathe a sigh of relief I figure. It'll most likely go ignored unless I offend too often, then I'll go to hell, but I'm there already, so who cares? Nobody. That's what He'll is,.folks, in case ya'all were wondering. However, I gotta be totally sweet tonight. Polite. You know. The nice me. See ya.
And so on. All nice charm.
And so, I stopped by to see my manager. No mention to the doctor that my neighbors hated me since the day I moved in for no reason and have been hostile to me. It all seemed unnecessary. So I went to the manager on Monday, and made an appointment to see him the following afternoon.
I showed up bright and cheery. My usual quiet demeanor. As usual, I remarked on how lovely his office is, how sunny and scenic the view, etc. And of course, more commentary on the weather. We New Englanders often speak of weather cuz there's really nothing else to chit-chat about. It's an interesting topic. This winter has sucked bad anyway. Of course, I didn't word it that way. I was cute about it.
Then, wouldn't ya know it, my manager was the one to bring up The Topic. Cuz he knew I was coming to talk about it. Was I glad I had moved there…or not? I said, "This is what I came to talk about." I told him it was "too noisy" where I live and told him all the reasons. First I asked him if he often was down my end of the hall. He wasn't. I listed all of them off the top of my head. I was honestly rather surprised. He knew about the televisions but wasn't aware of the garage noise. I also mentioned the sneezing, as example of how thin the walls are and how easily sound travels through them. He takes me seriously and this move is bound to happen. I had to officially fill out an application, but I believe that now that I've spoken to him, the ball will indeed get rolling. I attached the doctor note, which of course was necessary for this to happen. There has to be a medical reason or some other reason to request a transfer. I will receive an official response in three weeks. After that, I will wait for an opening and then accept or decline what is offered to me.
I did this just in time. Our manager has known me over 20 years. He's seen my health decline since I've moved to this building. A new manager wouldn't know that. This current manager is retiring at the end of the month. Yep, just in time.
We shall see. I will be relocating a few blocks from where I currently live.
You know what I'm gonna do? When I move into my new home, I'm gonna do something I have never done, not once since I left my mom and dad's home at 17. I'm gonna put up my own mezzuzzah.
The mezzuzzah is what us Jews put up on the front of our homes, on our gates. Know what it means to me? It means, "I live here." Never mind what else.


I lead and direct a multi-functional team in the execution of category\brand strategies at the customer level that deliver Annual Operating Plan and Long Range Plan which includes: Exceeding net sales goal of $260MM while under-spending market development funds by 1%; Responsible for the leadership and development of 29 associates and 3 broker partners; Manage all strategic category selling initiatives across 30+ customers including Delhaize, Giant Eagle and Wegmans. I consider myself a student of the consumer package goods industry. Being able to learn and be challenged every day is the most rewarding part of my job. I am fascinated by the behavior of both consumers and shoppers and find it exciting to bring them products that meet their needs.


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Q: How to escape the symbol of percentage '%' in r? In an url, I am dealing with the special character '%' that I should pass as a string. The url contain some argumnents so I use sprintf. How to escape the symbol '%' in r ?
start <- 1
#%s is my variable
url<-(sprintf('https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_%s?rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A%21493964%2Cn%3A502394%2Cn%3A281052%2Cn%3A12556502011%2Cn%3A3017941&page=%s&ie=UTF8', start, start))

invalid format '%2Cn%3A'; use format %s for character objects

A: As the helpfile for sprintf states:

A wrapper for the C function sprintf, ...

Thus, you escape it in R the same way you do for C, using double precentage signs %% to produce one %, as per
How to escape sprintf() % marks so they wont be recognized as variables?
On your code, we produce a url presumably extracting the first page in this amazon.com search:
url<-(sprintf('https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_%s?rh=n%%3A172282%%2Cn%%3A%%21493964%%2Cn%%3A502394%%2Cn%%3A281052%%2Cn%%3A12556502011%%2Cn%%3A3017941&page=%s&ie=UTF8', start, start))

produces
> url
[1] "https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A%21493964%2Cn%3A502394%2Cn%3A281052%2Cn%3A12556502011%2Cn%3A3017941&page=1&ie=UTF8"

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Q: React code with InitialState and componentDidMount will not run The error i am getting is :
SyntaxError:
/home/lucy/Desktop/Lucy/Comms/src/components/imgGallery.js
Unexpected token (12:2) while parsing file:
/home/lucy/Desktop/Lucy/Comms/src/components/imgGallery.js

but no matter what i do or remove, the code wont run, the indication of where the error is changes but thats all
my code:
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

ImgGallery = React.createClass ({
  getInitialState(){
    return {
      images: [{"image: "a"}]
    }
  }
  componenDidMount(){

   }

  render (){
   return  (

  )

  }
})

A: Look in the docs, when you use createClass, you have a pojo.  So you must declare the functions using javascript literal notation:
React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function() {return ....},
  componenDidMount: function(){},

  render: function() {
   return  (

;)
  }
});


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  ~     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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It's back from the testers and available on Etsy, Ravelry, and Craftsy!!
As Junie B. Jones would say, "I did a loud hoot and a big breath and runned and runned like a speedy rocket around the room!"
The MANDALA & STOOL COVER PATTERN IS BACK FROM THE TESTERS!!
The pattern is written as a Mandala pattern like the one above. I actually plan on making several in different yarn combinations to applique to my pillows for my new bedroom decor or attach to embroidery hoops to use as wall hangings. The pattern also contains instructions to make it into a cover for a regular (12inch--30cm in diameter) stool, too.
Very pleased. Very excited. Somewhat relieved.
It would also make a neat pillow cover, which I think would be awesome in your decor colors--or even all white--with a back from a felted sweater whip-stitched to the mandala. Easy peasy--my favorite kind of project.
This is what one of my tester's mandalas looks like! Pretty awesome in the purples and blues, too! Thanks, Lianne! You are soooo appreciated!
I call it Granny Stripes Squared.
It's simple, but has so many color and arrangement possibilities--as a granny square always does.
Have a most terrific day!! I'm off to Kicking Cancer's Can today.
I'm linking to Petals to Picots today! And also to Hooking on Hump Day at My Merry Messy Life!
The final mandala picture doesn't show for me, (just a little broken sheet image)but the others look lovely.
Thanks! I'll follow up--it works for me, even on my mobile. Hmmm.
Thanks so much for your kind words! Happy you're here!
I love this! Beautiful ... so beautiful I wouldn't want to put my backside on it!
LOL! Nicole, that is so funny! I've actually thought that very thing, but fortunately I know how to make another one!. Thanks for the sweet compliment!
This is gorgeous Susan! Love it. You are tied for #1 at Hookin On Hump Day this week, but before I feature you, can you please make sure you link this post back to me? Thanks!
Sara--Such a blockhead, I am! I think my brain must be dead lately. Done! Thanks for keeping me in line! :) Love your blog!
Very, very nice. I have been doing overlay crochet using #8 DMC cotton, now I have to move up to a heavier yarn and try it. Good for you!