Riley Roberts and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ave been together for four years.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a splash in Washington. From her popular social media accounts to her incisive questioning of Michael Cohen during an Oversight Committee hearing, the freshman member of Congress from the Bronx is receiving a lot of media attention for her work.
She keeps her personal life a lot more private than her political life, however. While some of her more ardent fans might know that she has a boyfriend named Riley Roberts, she doesn't make it common knowledge. This week, however, her mom granted a rare interview in which she said she hoped her famous daughter would marry her long-time partner someday.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's boyfriend? Read on for all the details about Riley Roberts.
1. They were college sweethearts.
Like Ocasio-Cortez. Roberts attended Boston University, where he studied sociology and finance.
In a Vogue profile, Ocasio-Cortez described meeting him at a weekly conversation with the dean. She describes it as meeting "in true nerdy fashion." The couple dated in college but allegedly split for a while before getting back together about four years ago.
2. He's a tech entrepreneur.
Riley became a tech entrepreneur after college, returning to his native Arizona after graduation. He has been working as a web and social media consultant for startups, according to his LinkedIn account, where he described his professional experience.
He was able to move his consulting practice to New York City to be closer to AOC.
The couple lived together in a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of Parkchester. He has relocated down to D.C. with her since she was elected to Congress. There's been some controversy surrounding the high rent in the buildings the couple chose. AOC's mother dismisses those concerns, saying it's not that expensive by New York standards and offers the couples security and privacy.
"She told me she picked that building because the amenities allow her not to get out that much," her mother told The Daily Mail. "There's a gym and yoga on the premises. When she is out and about, she gets stopped every minute."
4. He was a campaign volunteer.
Roberts was periodically photographed near his girlfriend in campaign pictures but kept such a low profile that he was occasionally simply identified as a campaign volunteer, not as AOC's partner, as she refers to him.
There have also been questions about payments to his consulting firm and a Congressional email address assigned to him. The campaign says the payments were for web services he provided and that he has an email address so he can access to AOC's very busy calendar.
4. They're protective of their privacy.
Roberts and Ocasio-Cortez are both protective of the privacy in their personal lives. Robert hasn't granted any interviews or done significant appearances as a surrogate for AOC, nor has his family been out front in her political campaigns.
In January, she took to Twitter to express her disgust at a reporter who was contacting Roberts' family members, offering them cash to share stories about her.
5. He's always at her side.
While the couple doesn't engage in any PDA or talk about their relationship in public, he has been a steady presence in her campaign and since she got to D.C.
You can see him standing nearby in AOC's official swearing portrait. While it's her mom who holds the Bible as Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears AOC in, Roberts is standing in the frame beaming with excitement.
6. Is marriage in their future?
The couple won't comment on their future, just as they won't comment on anything else about their relationship. This doesn't stop the people close to them from hoping they'll get married and start a family one day — including AOC's mother.
"He is the most loving, supporting person I've seen. He helped her tremendously during the election. They've been together for four years now, after they reconnected from a college breakup. I know they love children, and they do very well with children from the family. So, I hope they get married soon. Although they haven't told me anything about their plans."
For the moment, the representative seems plenty busy doing the work of the people's house.
Maybe Roberts will be in this future as well.
"If women and gender-expanding people want to run for office, we can't knock on anybody's door - we have to build our own house." - From my interview with @refinery29's Andrea González-Ramírez. . Let's build this house together. . (Shout out to r29 for this awesome graphic!).
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Der sogenannte Runenstein von Tune (Tunesten) ist ein norwegischer Runenstein. Er trägt die längste Runeninschrift in urnordischer Sprache und ist zugleich der älteste Beleg über eine Erbangelegenheit in Skandinavien. Der Runenstein stand ursprünglich am Tunevejen westlich von Sarpsborg in der Fylke Viken in Norwegen.

Fundort und Datierung
Der Stein wurde erstmals im Jahre 1627 erwähnt, als Teil einer Friedhofsmauer in Tune. Die Fundsituation lässt darauf schließen, dass der Stein dort schon immer gestanden hat. In dem Bericht wird auch ein niedriger Grabhügel erwähnt, an den die Friedhofsmauer angepasst wurde. Heute befindet sich der Stein im Kulturhistorischen Museum Oslo. Eine Replik des Steins wurde in der Nähe der Tune-Kirche neben einem kleinen Park- und Straßenübergang aufgestellt.

Die Datierung ist aufgrund des Materials unsicher. Die Sprach- und Runenformen schränken den möglichen Zeitraum jedoch auf die zweite Hälfte des 3. Jahrhunderts bis um das Jahr 400 ein.

Inschrift
Der Stein ist etwa 2,0 Meter hoch, an der Basis etwa 50 cm breit und hat einen quadratischen Querschnitt. Die Seiten werden nach oben schmaler. Die Runen sind auf zwei Seiten des Steins eine A Seite und B Seite. Seite A besteht aus zwei Reihen von Runen und Seite B von drei Reihen. Sie werden von unten nach oben gelesen. Einige Runen sind nicht mehr lesbar oder herausgebrochen:

A Seite:
 A1: ekwiwaRafter·woduri
 A2: dewitadahalaiban:worathto·[?]

B Seite:
 B1: [???]Rwoduride:staina:
 B2: þrijoRdohtriRdalidun
 B3: arbijasijosteRarbijano

Übersetzung nach Grønvik (1998):

A Seite:
 A1: "Ich Wiw nach Wodurid,
 A2: der für das Brot sorgte, >wirkte Runen[n]<,

B Seite:
 B1: bestimmte den Stein für Wodurid.
 B2: Drei Töchter bereiteten ein angenehmes Erbmahl,
 B3: die liebsten unter den Erben."

Metrik
Der Tunestein ist eines der wenigen Beispiele der frühen germanischen Stabreimdichtung. Die Meinungen unter Runologen und Linguisten schwanken allerdings je nach Definition. Manche sehen in der Inschrift eine durch Alliteration gesteigerte Prosarede andere hingegen Ansätze von Versen, speziell des Ljóðaháttr.

Die Inschrift unter Hervorhebung der Stabreime:
ek wiwaR after · woduride
witadahalaiban : worathto · [?]
[???]R woduride : staina :
þrijoR dohtriR dalidun
arbij asijosteR arbijano
Es sind Elemente von Langzeilen und Vollzeilen zu erkennen. In einer korrekten Ljóðaháttr-Strophe würde immer auf eine Langzeile (3 Stäbe) eine Vollzeile (2 Stäbe) folgen und sich dann wiederholen. Dieses Schema ist in Ansätzen vorhanden aber nicht durchgeführt.

Der Tunestein als Rechtsdokument

Der Stein trägt auf der A Seite die für Runensteine typische Formel "X ritzte die Runen nach [dem Verstorbenen] Y". Es handelt sich also um eine Grabinschrift für den verstorbenen Woduride (Wutreiter). Der Stein diente als Denkmal am Fuße seines Grabhügels.

Das Besondere jedoch ist die zweite Zeile in der drei Töchter als Erben genannt werden. Das beweist zum einen das Vorhandensein eines Erbrechts für die Zeit um 400, also noch vor der Völkerwanderung. Zum anderen spiegelt sich in der Zeile auch die Erbrechtsfolge wider, die im ältesten norwegischen Rechtstext, dem Gulathingslov um 900, festgelegt ist.

Demnach erben die Töchter nur dann wenn kein Sohn mehr am Leben ist. Ein Sohn Wodurids wäre alleiniger Erbe gewesen. In der Inschrift finden wir aber insgesamt vier Erben, die drei Töchter und eventuell auch Wiw. Wiw kann jedoch auch ein unbeteiligter Runenritzer gewesen sein. Da sein Name jedoch auf Woduride stabt, wie es unter Verwandten üblich war, vermutet man ein Verwandtschaftsverhältnis. Nach dem Gulathingslov kann Wiw nur der Sohn des Sohnes von Woduride sein. Er erbt als Enkel genauso viel wie jede der drei Töchter. Die Inschrift lässt sich also anhand des Gulathingslov sehr gut nachvollziehen, was für das hohe Alter dieses Rechtstextes spricht.

Siehe auch
 Runenstein von Rök

Literatur
 Klaus Düwel: Runenkunde. Metzler, Stuttgart Weimar 2001, dritte Auflage. ISBN 3-476-13072-X
 Ottar Grønvik: Runene på Tunesteinen. Oslo 1981.
 J. E. Knirk: Tune In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Bd. 31. (2. Aufl.) Berlin, New York 2006. S. 332–335
 Wolfgang Krause: Runen. de Gruyter, Berlin New York 1993 (2. unveränd. Auflage)
 Terje Spurkland: I begynnelsen var Runer. Cappelen, Oslo 2005 (2. Auflage)

Archäologischer Fundplatz in Europa
Tune
Tune
Sarpsborg
Germanische Dichtung

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Added a link to a new page summarizing an upcoming study of how helmet laws are made.
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Sent an Update on the National Safe Kids helmet campaign launched on May 2nd.
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Added Canada's New Brunswick and Alberta to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Posted Voigt Hodgson's first study on the sliding resistance of helmets, the precursor to his 1991 study with more variables, but still another landmark study.
We have a .pdf version too if it works better for you.
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Added info on Minnesota's Train the Trainer helmet workshop.
Posted a draft agenda for the ASTM meeting in Pittsburgh in May.
Posted an original study on helmet effectiveness by Grant and Rutner.
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Added the enabling legislation for Virginia helmet laws.
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Added a brief on a study showing concussions can bring on Altzheimer's..
Added a page describing What is a "g" ?.
Added Bainbridge Island, WA to our helmet law page.
Revised our page on hair styles in response to a reader comment.
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Added a link to De Clarke's page of Helmet War URL's.
Posted a Task List for the ASTM Dallas meeting.
Posted our review of Helmets for 2002.
Sent an email newsletter on Helmets for 2002.
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Added a page on bike helmets in very cold weather.
Added a DC bill to add scooters to the bike helmet law.
Added a page on helmets for the new Segway scooters.
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Added a page on one-size-fits-all helmets.
Added a page on other bike safety equipment.
Started a page of references to medical journal articles.
Added a page on our mail and the anthrax scare in Washington.
Added a link to ASTM's Award of Merit to Dave Halstead.
Added a link to the IISA page on helmet laws for skating.
Added a brief on a new playground hanging incident.
Added an outline for a bike safety talk.
Added a page on helmet promotion materials in Spanish.
Updated our page on the status of ASTM standards.
Added a page on what a helmet does in a crash.
Added a page on helmet cooling and ventilation.
Added a brief on the CPSC motorized scooter helmet recommendation.
Added The Bicycle Zone to our Videos page.
Added a brief about a helmet recall by World Industries.
Added helmet use observations by Scott Osberg to our stats page.
Added links to Institute for Traffic Safety Analysis data.
Updated our comment on the New York Times helmet article.
Added a page of Public Service Announcements.
Posted comments on a New York Times article.
Revised the ASTM F8.53 helmet Subcommittee task list.
Posted the latest Helmet Update by email.
Added a great helmet fit video to our videos list.
Added North Carolina to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Added Louisiana to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Added St Louis County, MO to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Added a page on braided hairstyles and baseball caps.
Added a notice on ASTM's equestrian helmet standard.
Added a page on projects for new pages on our site.
Added some material on skateboard helmets.
Expanded our page on threading straps through buckles.
Posted a new national bike safety campaign!.
Added Matthews, NC to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Added Akron, OH to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Added a page of Tips for Riding on Campus.
Added a page on Helmets on Campus.
Posted an announcement of a new national campaign.
Added a page on fitting helmets to rounder heads.
Added Greenville, NC to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Posted our collage of many ads for cheap helmets.
Posted a CPSC Request for Comments on the bike helmet program.
Posted results of a study on drinking and riding.
Posted the Bike rodeo material from Ride Safe with their permission.
Added the Minutes from the ASTM F8.53 Subcommittee's November meeting.
Received the Smokin' Site Award from the Tennessee Fire Prevention Assn.
Added notes on our ideal helmet page on why the ideal is not available.
Posted our program for 2001.
Posted a page on Skateboard helmets for bicycling?.
Posted our Budget for 2001.
Posted our review of Helmets for 2001.
Added a page explaining molded in the shell helmets.
Added a copy of the District of Columbia helmet law.
Added Glendale, Ohio, to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Added the District of Columbia to our list of mandatory helmet laws.
Sent an email newsletter with info on a new helmet recall.
Posted our review of the Dateline coverage of the helmet recall.
Posted a new page on equestrian helmets.
Updated our page on helmet use in Vietnam.
Posted a brief on a British article finding helmets effective.
Added a graphic on how a helmet should fit from the CPSC server.
Posted the ASTM F8.53 actions list from the May meeting in Toronto.
Added info on our other helmets page about CPSC's warning to scooter riders to wear helmets.
Added a new helmet law to our mandatory helmet law page: Bremerton, Washington.
Took down our page of programs seeking donations: the addresses on it were being spammed..
Added some info on helmets for wakeboarding.
Added some info on helmets for scooters.
Added the text of Hawaii's mandatory helmet law.
Updated data on the helmet law in Brecksville, OH.
Added a new helmet law to our mandatory helmet law page: Aberdeen, Washington.
Added some data on the effect of helmet laws in Duval County, Florida to our mandatory helmets page.
Added CPSC's statistics on baby boomer bike injuries to our stats page.
Added a Search function to our site.
Added the Minutes from the ASTM F8.53 Subcommittee's May meeting.
Updated our Recall Page to add the two recalled on July 5th.
Added a link to Harborview's Evaluation of 15 bicycle safety programs.
Posted a brief on the recall of two helmets announced by CPSC.
Posted a brief on the helmet campaign in Wadley, GA.
Posted agendas for the May ASTM helmet committee meetings in Toronto.
Added a page on NHTSA's fall safety program: Getting to School Safely.
Added a page on our exhibit at the Smithsonian.
Added a link to this page of medical journal abstracts.
Posted our Helmet Update on paper, the longer version.
Posted our Helmet Update by email.
Posted our annual review Helmets for 2000.
Added a link to the Swedish Bicycle Helmet Initiative.
Added a brief on the rejection of an extension of the Tennessee helmet law.
Added a brief on the CPSC forum planned for May 2nd on repetitive impact head injury.
Added a link to the National Conference of State Legislatures mandatory helmet law page.
Added a page on our problems with our new DSL connection.
Added a page on our exhibit at the Smithsonian in May.
Posted our January 19 Update by email.
Added a 1995 survey on why kids say they do not want to wear a helmet.
Added a brief on a new helmet design using LED's to show correct fit.
Added a brief on the Oakwood, Ohio, direction to police to educate cyclists and encourage helmet use.
Added a "resolution" adopted in Oakwood, Ohio to our mandatory helmets page.
Posted the Minutes from the December ASTM F8.53 Subcommittee meeting in New Orleans.
Added a link to the new TRIS search page for researchers.
Changed over to our new DSL high speed Internet link.
All BHSI computers, Web servers, mail servers, routers, network monitors and workstations are Y2K OK!
Added a page for email notifications when our pages change.
Added a CPSC warning to our page on snow sports injuries.
Updated our ASTM meeting agendas.
Added information on sledding helmets.
Posted updates to our ASTM materials after a semi-annual ASTM meeting.
Added a link to a manufacturer of helmets with built-in blinking LED's.
Added a page on disadvantages of too many vents and square helmet styles.
Added a description of a study of helmet usage and the effects of laws in New York State.
Added a link to a manufacturer of helmet cameras.
We're rated accessible to disabled browsers according to the Bobby analyzer.
Updated our material on soccer headgear.
Added a link to a head injury site by psychologist Diane Roberts Stoler.
Added a link to a manufacturer of soccer headgear for kids, Headblast.
Updated our page on the status of ASTM helmet standards.
Posted the Minutes from the May ASTM F8.53 Subcommittee meeting in Seattle.
Added a page with our approach to bike lights (heavy!).
Added a page of suggestions for parents of teenage riders.
Added a CPSC interpretation modifying their bicycle helmet standard.
Added a summary of ASTM F8.53 actions in Seattle.
Added a page of tips on getting statistical info from CPSC through FOIA.
Added a page on the new Pennsylvania Bicycle Driver's Manual.
Added a page on using stickers on bicycle helmets.
Added a brief on a book about Jeff Pence's head injury in a bike crash.
Added a link to the new Protective Headgear Manufacturers Association page.
Added Maine to our List of Mandatory Helmet Laws.
Added Spain to our List of Mandatory Helmet Laws.
Posted a note on the Bicycling magazine article on us in their July issue..
Posted a new page of Summer Riding Tips.
Updated our report on the Status of ASTM Helmet Standards.
Posted the Agenda for this week's ASTM headgear subcommittee meeting.
Added a review of the new helmet article from Consumer Reports.
Added a brief reviewing a new helmet article from Consumer Reports.
Added a link to Doug Mink's blockbuster page of links to bicycle helmet laws.
Added PHMA's free Professor Helmut on Helmets to our list of videos.
Added an article from BRIN on playground deaths involving helmets.
Added a link to the Rad Rider site with its dynamite graphics!
Added a page on the new graphical helmet sites for young riders.
Added a page listing Helmet Recalls.
Added a page on how to contact CPSC with a defective helmet report.
Sent an Email Alert on Bell's recall of 5,800 downhill and BMX helmets.
Sent out an Email Update on the CPSC/McDonald's helmet promotion campaign.
Added a link to the new helmet page sponsored by McDonalds and CPSC.
Added helmet usage estimates from a CPSC study to our Statistics Page.
Added a link to the bike rodeo page at Transportation Choices.
Added a page for students and other researchers on the design and construction of helmets.
Added a Brief on the repeal of Seymour, Connecticut's helmet law.
Added a review of a new Disney bike safety video.
All helmets made for sale in the US after today must meet the CPSC standard.
Added two articles about Bell Helmets and Giro.
Added the CPSC warning on playground incidents involving helmets.
Added page on playground accidents involving helmets.
Added draft minutes of the ASTM meetings in December..
Added the January issue of The Helmet Update.
Added a brief on a study of bike safety training programs.
Added a description of NHTSA's bike safety initiatives.
Added the text of a pamphlet available from DOT on helmet fit.
Added a link to the DOT Web pages on child bicycle safety.
Added a link to the youth-driven Earth Force environmental program Web page.
Added a press release from CPSC recommending snow sport helmets.
Added Jeanne Smith's helmet quiz for 5th & 6th graders.
Added a section about soccer helmets to our page on non-bicycle helmets.
Added a Brief about SEI certification of some Bell models to the CPSC standard.
Posted a local program in need of assistance on our donations page.
Added a Quote of the Day recommending helmets meeting the CPSC standard.
Posted a task list from the ASTM Nashville meetings.
Squeezed our graphics a little more to make the home page load more quickly.
Added a link to the Brain Injury Association.
Ended our video lending program. We couldn't get them back..
Added a page on shattering and snagging visors to encourage victims to report incidents.
Added an article on a French ski helmet campaign.
Added a History of Bicycle Helmets.
Added a Brief on 1999 helmets.
Added 1997 data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to our Statistics page.
Added a Quote of the Day to buy helmets meeting the CPSC standard.
Updated recommendations in the Standards section of our 1999 Helmets page.
Put up a new page of Needy Programs looking for donations. Took it down 8/00 when addresses were spammed.
Posted the first edition of our report on Helmets for 1999.
Updated our page on inexpensive helmets to add new sources.
Added Adrian, Michigan, to our List of Mandatory Helmet Laws.
Added three revealing articles on Bell Helmets.
Listed Specialized's bike safety kit in our Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs.
Added a new Researcher's Page.
Added a quote on helmet usage in the Tour de France this year.
We were "Director's Web Pick o' the Week" on the Batesville (IN) Memorial Public Library home page!
Changed the format for our Web pages to the one you see above.
Added our Update by Email on progress on ASTM standards.
Added a page of helmet test labs.
Updated our page on the status of ASTM helmet standards after the May meeting in Atlanta.
Added a page with total visitors to our Home Page by week.
Added a report on progress on ASTM standards at the May meeting in Atlanta.
And a page on why the ASTM standard does not need vision requirements.
Added a detailed comparison of the ASTM and CPSC bicycle helmet standards.
Added a page on the status of ASTM headgear standards.
Posted the agenda for the Atlanta ASTM Shirtsleeves technical meeting on May 7.
Updated our page on head lice to add new info sources.
Added a pamphlet on Teaching Your Child to Ride a Bicycle.
With a version in Word format for printing out in Word.
And a Word 6.0 version for printing out in Word.
Added a page describing the 4 H Sports Grants for Youth program.
Added our Update by Email on publication of the CPSC standard.
Added a summary chart comparing bicycle helmet standards.
Revised our Must I Buy a Bicycle Helmet for My Child? and added a Word version.
Revised our Consumer's Guide to Bicycle Helmets and added a Word version.
Added a Word version of Teaching Your Child to Ride.
Added a page of daily quotes for press people.
Added a page on Teaching Your Child to Ride.
Added a page on How to Fix a Helmet when it comes unglued.
Added a brief on Bell Helmets Going Private.
Added a short Summary of Helmet Standards explaining what they are.
Added a page explaining how CPSC enforces its standards.
Added our Full edition of the Update on approval of the CPSC standard.
Added our Update by Email on approval of the CPSC standard.
Added a link to a fine article from the Washington Post about the CPSC standard.
Added a press release from CPSC on a jail term for violating CPSC rules.
Updated our Frequently Asked Questions About Bicycle Helmets.
Added a note that CPSC's final decision on their helmet standard has been postponed until February 5th..
Added a report on CPSC's January 21 meeting on their helmet standard.
Added Jim Sundahl's letter to CPSC on their final draft standard.
Added draft minutes from the December ASTM headgear committee meeting.
Added info on CPSC's January 21 meeting on their helmet standard.
Added info on our press policy on quoting our pages.
Added info on ski helmets to our page on "Other Helmets."
Added a page on how to tell the front from the back of a helmet.
Added the new CPSC US Government bicycle helmet standard draft.
Added a first cut on the new CPSC bicycle helmet standard draft.
Sent the same text out as an email edition of the BHSI Helmet Update.
Added a "white paper on helmet safety" from a new national campaign.
Updated our basic ASTM page and our ASTM issues page.
Added a page of quick answers to helmet questions.
Logged a visitor from our 64th country, Trinidad and Tobago.
Added a report on the innovative Maine helmet retrofit program.
Added a report on the December ASTM headgear committee meeting.
Added PTI to the page where you can check current stock prices.
Added a page on the travails of bald riders..
Reorganized our Home Page to clarify the categories.
Published the November issue of The Helmet Update.
Logged a visitor from our 63rd country, Slovakia.
Added a chart to convert measurements used in standards.
Sent out the email version of our Helmet Update. Most of it is here in Helmets for 1998.
Added a link to the new Consumer Reports Web page. Full access costs money.
Added a note in Helmets for 1998 that CU found a Best Buy helmet.
Added our review of Helmets for 1998.
Added the agenda for the December ASTM F8.53 helmet subcommittee meeting.
Added a Bicycle Retailer & Industry News article on our FOIA info on CPSC's buckle tests.
Added an explanation of why car drivers don't see cyclists.
Reorganized our list of mandatory helmet laws and added three Ohio cities.
Reorganized our links page to make it more accessible.
Added a model bicycle helmet law prepared by Safe Kids.
Added "last revised" dates to the bottom of all of our pages.
Added some stats on annual helmet sales to our industry page and our stats page.
Upgraded our Web server with a new P200+ motherboard and a 10ms hard drive.
Added Bike Helmet: Perfect Fit to our videos page. Best how-to-fit video we have seen.
Updated our List of Mandatory Helmet Laws with new info on the Canadian City of Cote Saint-Luc.
Added a link to the Moving Kids Safely Conference on November 16-19.
Added a press release from advocates pressing Universal/MCA studios for helmets in Leave it to Beaver.
Added 1996 data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to our Statistics page.
Edited our Comparison of Bicycle Helmet Standards.
Added Carboro, NC to our list of mandatory helmets laws.
Added Chemung County, NY to our list of mandatory helmets laws.
Added the law requiring CPSC to issue a bicycle helmet standard..
Updated our FAQ on BHSI and its 25 year history.
Added Steve Frothingham's terrific article for BRIN on new helmets. Highly recommended!
Updated our When to Replace a Helmet page.
Added a copy of California's bicycle helmet law.
Updated our Most-Asked Questions About Bicycle Helmets FAQ.
Added an article on traffic and head injuries in Vietnam.
Added a link to the International Pro-Choice Bicycle Helmet Coalition, a European anti-helmet law site.
Updated our link to Bell Sports and their FAQ on returning helmets.
Added a copy of the Connecticut bicycle helmet law as revised to raise the age from 12 to 15.
Added a brief on the New Jersey report that fatalities fell 60 per cent after their helmet law.
Added a copy of the New Jersey press release.
Revised our mandatory helmet laws list to add Connecticut's new cutoff: 15 years old.
Added a link to Plum Enterprises: protective caps for non-bicycle use.
Logged a visitor from our 62nd country, China. Might have been just another Hong Kong HK yesterday!
Removed our text-only version. Robots would not leave it alone, doubling their hits on our site.
Added a link to FARS where you construct your own query on fatality data.
Added a BRIN article on our FOIA request for CPSC lab date.
Added a letter from Consumer Reports defending their findings.
Added Thad Ide's draft minutes of the May ASTM meeting.
Updated our list of mandatory helmet laws, adding Manassas and Manassas Park, VA.
Added a link to PowerSlide, the Bicycle Police Netletter from Aiken, SC.
Added a message from SEI warning about fraudulent uncertified helmets.
Added a letter from PHMA questioning the Consumer Reports buckle test results.
Added a medical journal article on bicycle child seats.
Added an article on skaters' injuries from CPSC.
Added our review of a new helmet article in Consumer Reports.
Added a page on How to Fit a Helmet.
Posted a brief about NHTSA adding "your bicycle helmet" to its annual "Buckle Up campaign.
Added notes from the ASTM technical meeting in St. Louis last week.
Updated our link to Headstrong Helmets.
Updated the list of ballot items expected for the ASTM F8.53 Subcommittee's Form and Style Committee.
Added our May Newsletter, the Helmet Update.
Added our Report on Helmets for the 1997 Season.
Added A page on evaluation of helmet programs.
Added CPSC's acknowledgment of our FOIA request. .
Added a link to a personal injury page with another crash story.
Added a Brief noting that Consumer Reports has announced that it will publish a helmet article soon.
Added a Brief on our FOIA request to CPSC for helmet test data, along with a copy of our FOIA request. .
Added a Brief on a New York Times article reporting Harborview's call for a national helmet campaign.
Added a message from an injured cyclist who can add the impact of his personal story to your helmet law campaign.
Added Port Washington, Wisconsin, to our mandatory helmet laws page.
Revised our mandatory helmet laws page.
Added the LAB position on mandatory helmet laws.
Added Barrington, IL to the list of helmet laws--all ages.
Posted a Brief about an Australian study on facial injuries.
Posted a Swedish study demonstrating injury reduction with a helmet program.
Updated our helmet laws list with Washington State info from Ralph Wessels.
Added a brief on the Snell Foundation's new Education Center.
Added a pointer to the Washington State helmet bill now under discussion.
Added an article saying that the government of Quebec has decided not to introduce helmet legislation.
Added a brief on publication of Harborview research in JAMA, a major event.
Added a brief on a Wall Street Journal article on the Snell Foundation.
Added our activity statistics for 1996.
Added an updated bicycle helmet campaign manual originally written by John Williams. Great!
Added an article from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News about Bell's big helmet project.
Updated our Program for 1997.
Added briefs on the ASTM meetings in New Orleans, and some photos, too.
Added a list of action items from the ASTM meetings in New Orleans, December 10 and 11.
Added notes from the ASTM meetings in New Orleans, December 10 and 11.
Added a link to the Ride Safe Web page, a great source of inexpensive helmets.
Added a link to the new 50 cent bicycle stamp souvenir sheet and the two stamps alone.
Added a brief on Bell's plans to produce a new super large size helmet.
Added a page on the Protective Headgear Manufacturers' Association (PHMA).
Added a page on advice for parents seeking extra-small helmets for tiny tots.
Added a new dedicated fax number (our auto switch still works on the main line) and a new data number.
Added NHTSA's Traffic Safety Facts 1994: Pedalcyclists to our collection of statistics.
Ivanhoe Broadcast News mentions BHSI in this week's Fitness Factor on Helmets.
Added the sixtieth country to our list of visitors--Romania.
Updated our list of mandatory helmet laws with extensive additional info from Alex Fine of Safe Kids.
Added Newport News, VA to the list of helmet laws.
Added the 59th country to our list of visitors--Antigua.
Updated our info on cheap helmets to add Aria Sonics and their $3.75 per helmet deal.
Added some more descriptions of helmet manufacturers and a link to Headstrong's stock price.
Added a page with the new helmet law exemptions permitted by British Columbia.
Added the Rhode Island helmet law for kids under 8 and updated our laws list where we had been showing it as kids under 18.
Updated our Helmet Standards Comparison with the 1996 Australian/New Zealand standard changes.
Added our Helmet Update newsletter for September, the first we have published this year.
Added a copy of the British Columbia mandatory helmet law.
Added a link to Bell's latest quarterly report, which appears on the SEC's EDGAR server.
Web site where there is a full copy.
Added an article from the Wall Street Journal illustrating variables in bicycle statistics.
Added an article from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News about the industry's satisfaction with new helmet designs.
Added a page on child helmets.
Added a link to a fine new page called BikePlan Source, with info on planning and programs to improve cycling conditions--primary measures to reduce the crashes that make helmets necessary.
Added a brief on the new all-ages helmet law in British Columbia.
Added the 58th country to our list of visitors.
Updated our link to Steve C's page with his comments on helmets in London.
Added a brief on Oregon's video to convince police officers to enforce their helmet law.
Updated our description of the SEI certification program..
Added a page on issues frequently raised by helmet warriors on the usenet lists.
Updated our Server statistics page.
Added a brief on The WHO Helmet Resource Center opening this fall. Competition!
Added some briefs on recent helmet studies, including two that question the consensus view.
We've been picked by eye on the web as a Selected Site! Added their link at the bottom of our home page.
Added a brief from Sam Boskey about helmet law developments in Montreal.
Added a brief on an ANSI Committee vote: Snell or ASTM for ISO TAG administrator.
Added a brief about a helmet law protest in Austin.
Added a link to the new Consumer Product Safety Commission site, with information on their helmet standard, product recalls and hazards, research, and the agency's current calendar of meetings.
Added a BRIN article saying that Bell is making data available on the Internet.
Added a Site Map in addition to our Subject Index.
Added a page on the Danish view of the CEN bicycle helmet standard.
Added a Tool Kit page for helmet promotion program organizers.
Added the 55th country to our list of visitors.
Added a link to The Bicycle Accident Page.
Added an article from Bicycle Retailer about Bell's President, Mary George.
Added notes from an ASTM technical meeting before an ASTM headgear committee meeting.
Added a page on Jaw Joint Injuries published by Dr Ed Williams.
Added a page on helmets for non-bicycling activities.
Updated our Helmet Standards Comparison.
Added a BRIN article on Bell's third quarter profit..
Added the 54th country to our list of visitors.
Added a link to the Snell Memorial Foundation site, with info on all their standards.
Added Florida to the list of states with mandatory helmet laws.
Added a message on bicycle helmet history.
Added a page about the "Toy" helmet that appeared recently.
Added a page on helmet manufacturers.
Added info on the new West Virginia bicycle helmet law - 14th State to pass one.
Revised our home page graphics.
Added a brief quote from Jocelyn Pedder on new Canadian child's helmet standard: 200g's !
Added the 52nd country on our list of visitors.
Added some statistics on our web server traffic here.
Added The European Cyclists' Federation position paper on helmets from 1990.
Added a brief about a new study recommending lower g's for helmet standards.
Added Bedford, Texas, to the list of cities with mandatory helmet laws.
Added a page of BHSI activity indicators for 1995 - how bhsi were we?.
Added a BRIN article on Bell's second quarter loss.
Upgraded our Web server to an IBM "Blue Lightning" to permit handling 16 simultaneous users.
Added an index to our pages.
Added our 50th visitor country, the Dominican Republic.
Added our comments to CPSC on their draft bicycle helmet standard.
Added a link to the Australian site with information on the 3rd International Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, Feb 18-22. The site has abstracts of some very interesting helmet papers, including two which are based on the Harborview study of child helmets and head injuries that is sure to be a landmark in this field.
Added a link to The Cyclists Rights Action Group, an Australian site opposing helmet laws. Recommended for helmet warriors.
Added a description of Ride Safe's discount helmets for 1996. Their lowest price ever.
Added a description of the new Safe Kids video for kids up to age 14. Great video!
Added a link on how the Blizzard of '96 has affected BHSI's physical neighborhood, This snow page has big, slow-loading graphics. From the cyberneighborhood point of view, traffic on our server was cut by at least 75 per cent, and for that week was mostly those of you from West of the Mississippi or from outside the U.S. We appreciate your visits!
Revised our Robots page to reflect an increase in visits.
Added a link to The Ontario Coalition for Better Cycling anti-helmet law page.
Added notes from Les Earnest on the December ASTM meeting.
Added the best study of helmet effectiveness that we have ever seen, by Australia's Dr. Michael Henderson.
Added the official version of CPSC's second draft of its bicycle helmet standard including drawings.
As an alternative, we have it without the drawings for faster loading.
Added CPSC's Supplementary Material explaining how comments on the first draft were handled.
Gap: February to December, 1995, before we started a Whatsnew page.


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Home›Trip Ideas›Local Experiences›Amish Sotheby's: What to Expect at a Mud Sale in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Frank Arce
Amish Sotheby's: What to Expect at a Mud Sale in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
Each spring, Amish and other residents of rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, gather for festive fundraisers with farm auctions, baked goods, and a chance to meet the locals. Here's what to know before you go.
By Zac Thompson
You probably don't associate the Amish with high-voltage verbal displays—or, for that matter, high-voltage anything. If you know one thing about the Amish, it's that they stay off the power grid.
But watch and listen as an Amish auctioneer hawks, say, a wooden crate—combining the motormouth patter of a racetrack announcer with the wheedling salesmanship of a carnival barker, all while speaking in a rapid-fire version of the uniquely lilting Pennsylvania Dutch accent—and you'd be forgiven for finding the overall effect, yes, electric.
To catch an auction in action, you don't have to join the separatist religious group. All you have to do is attend a "mud sale," one of the fairlike fundraisers held throughout the spring in the towns of rural Lancaster County in southern Pennsylvania, home to one of the country's oldest and largest Amish communities.
"Amish are spread out across 30 different states, but mud sales are only in Pennsylvania—primarily Lancaster County," according to Joel Cliff of the region's tourism office, Discover Lancaster. He says that for visitors, the sales offer a rare "chance to interact with Amish living their daily lives."
And there aren't a lot of those opportunities. For some visitors to the area, interactions with Amish residents are limited to driving past a horse and buggy or two.
(Traffic sign in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; image by Frank Arce)
Organized to benefit local volunteer fire departments, mud sales occur on Saturdays from 8am to 2pm, starting in late February and continuing through mid-May, with scattered sales in the summer and even into the early fall. They're called mud sales because most of them take place during the time of year when rain showers and snowmelt turn the ground into a squishy slurry (wear boots).
On a recent Saturday morning in March, a muddy but navigable expanse next to the Penryn Fire Company in an unincorporated township near Manheim, Pennsylvania, served as a kind of Amish Sotheby's. A huge hodgepodge of inventory—all of it donated by local community members, Amish and not—was lined up and awaiting its turn on the auction block.
In one area, farm and lawn equipment—mowers, hoes, pitchforks, rakes—stretched as far as you could squint. Elsewhere, separate tents were set up for bidding on furniture, antiques, crafts, and quilts (by far the day's hot-ticket items, fetching prices upwards of $300 a pop).
(Inside the quilt tent at a mud sale in Penryn, PA; image by Zac Thompson)
By the end of the day, virtually every handsaw, chifforobe, earth tiller, and gewgaw on the premises would be auctioned off, with all proceeds going to the firefighters. Cliff of Discover Lancaster estimates that each sale pulls in something in the range of $30,000 to $80,000, depending on the size of the event. There are about two dozen different sales throughout the spring.
At Penryn, around 60% of the crowd appeared to be Amish, judging from their modest, traditional clothes, straw hats (on men), and bonnets (on women). The rest of us were "English," the Amish term for those outside the group, regardless of ethnicity. Among volunteers working the sale—auctioneers, food vendors, kids with wagons for schlepping customers' buys to their cars or buggies—the Amish/English split seemed to be more lopsided in favor of those in hats and bonnets.
Visitors are welcome to bid on handmade quilts or handsome shovels that catch their eye during the auctions, several of which are usually going on at the same time in different areas of the grounds. To bid, you'll need to register for a numbered card in the sales office, where you'll also pay for and claim your treasures afterwards. Newbies be warned: Things happen very quickly in auctions, and your chances of feeling like an accidental bidder in a hacky sitcom are very high.
(Browsing buggies at a Lancaster County mud sale; image by DiscoverLancaster.com)
You might have a better time if you simply soak up the festive atmosphere. Sit in on a few auctions, letting the emcees' musical babble serenade you with what sounds a little like Porky Pig singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." In the quilt tent at Penryn, the wares were brought to the stage via a clothesline that became a slideshow of colorful stars, diamonds, and other patterns. Outside on the grounds, kids wearing solemn dark suits steered wagons and scooters through crowds of families socializing before the busy planting season begins in earnest.
And then there's the food—reason enough for heading into the countryside. Generous use of fresh dairy makes Amish baked goods especially mouthwatering, so only the most gluten averse and lactose intolerant will be able to bypass the doughnuts, buttery soft pretzels, apple dumplings topped with ice cream, and pies for sale. For a quintessentially Pennsylvania Dutch way of raising your blood sugar, try a slice of shoo-fly pie, which involves a gooey molasses filling between crumbs and crust.
(Shoo-fly pies; image by Carol M. Highsmith [public domain])
As you explore these wonders, remember not to gawk, blurt impertinent questions, or, worst of all, ask Amish sale-goers to pose for photos. You can take shots indirectly or from a distance, but preening for a camera violates Amish beliefs about the importance of humility.
That may seem an entirely alien concept in our selfie-snapping age, but in other ways, visitors are liable to leave a Lancaster County mud sale noting similarities across cultures. After all, what's more all-American than hunting for bargains and high-calorie desserts?
To find a mud sale to attend in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, visit DiscoverLancaster.com for an up-to-date schedule of sales. In addition to dates and locations, individual fire departments' websites and phone numbers are listed so that you can reach out for more information, including parking arrangements. Admission to mud sales is free, and any purchase made on the grounds benefits local firefighters.
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Rockville Nights: HAS CHICKEN OUT CLOSED IN ROCKVILLE?
Chicken Out recently moved up Rockville Pike to College Plaza, taking over the old A&W Restaurant. But recently, the parking lot is empty, and no one appears to be inside when I drive past. Yesterday evening, I pulled in during their business hours, and saw no evidence the restaurant was open. But no sign is posted to tell potential customers what is going on.
If the restaurant has closed, hopefully a fast food chain that doesn't currently have a restaurant in Montgomery County will move in, and make use of that drive-thru (Chicken Out did not use the drive-thru, but it is still there).
I live in the nearby apartment complex. The answer is that yes, they closed a couple weeks back. I'm actually slightly surprised you didn't notice it sooner, Mr. Dyer. At first there was just a note posted on the door scrawled on printer paper reading "Closed". Then there was a more formal note reading "Our water heater has broken. We'll be closed until further notice." When I went by on Wednesday night, there were no notes of any kind, and the chairs had been packed up and taken away. It's very unfortunate-their food was not terrible, at least not in my opinion. I really liked their Philly big bite combo. I'd love to see another big name chain restaurant go in there, but it'll probably be some kind of ethnic food joint to accompany the Asian market moving into the old Magruders/Shoppers Food Warehouse space. Oh well. Can't win 'em all, I guess.
I'm not too surprised. I never saw more than a couple of people in there at a time dining. They gave pretty quick though, they only opened a few months ago!


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Has it ever happened to you that you dreamt about a family member meeting an accident and then it happened in reality in a matter of few days? Or may be smaller instances like you knew that you will come first in class and actually you did? In case your answer is yes, even if the scenarios don't match, chances are that you have the psychic power of precognition to some extent. Precognition, coming from 'pre' and 'cognito' simple means having prior knowledge before its occurrence.
Tracing the patterns of precognitive occurrences, most of the times it is seen to happen a day or two prior to the actual incident, but there has been many instances where precognition has taken place years before. Moreover, almost all the times it happens in relation to something negative and emotionally shocking like that of knowing about someone dying, a loved one being ill or some natural disaster.
Man has forever been interested in precognition. Starting from the ancient prophets to modern astrologers, all are involved in the process of predicting the future which man so desperately want to know.
The two words which precognition is confused and used alternatively with are those of premonition and prophecy. But it must be stated that while premonition refers to just the feeling or sensing that something going to happen, prophecy is just a subset of precognition. Thus all precognitions are not prophecies but all prophecies are cases of precognitions.
If you have been having dreams which have come true, or experiencing knowing about something before they happen, then you might have wondered whether you have any sixth sense or is it the work of coincidence. In answering this question, you can use the oldest and most popular technique of the Zener Cards to assess whether you possess psychic powers, and if yes, then to what extent.
Zener Card Test basically comprise of a deck of card each having a specific symbol on them like a square, round, etc. A card is removed from the deck and you are asked to predict what symbol the card contained. This goes on till one by one the entire deck gets depleted. Based on the algorithms created by Dr. Rhine along with Karl Zener, the two creators of this test, your score is determined reflecting whether you have 'no ability', 'some ability', 'significant ability' or 'very significant ability' of precognition.
In case you have come to know about your precognition abilities and want to develop it further, a good thing is to start with small self practicing techniques in day to day activities. Thus you can start practicing by attempting to predict the outcome of rolling a die, a cricket match, someone's examination, etc.
Progressing further, if one wants to really develop precognition abilities for being able to control and use the same, meditation needs to be made an integral part of life. Meditation is the best technique to be aware of your true self and develop control over your subconscious and all its powers. Attaining a state of deep trance ceases perceptions from all peripheral sources and helps focus the mind in one direction of precognition.
It must be concluded that precognition is a psychic ability, the possession of which is a rare thing. Many people consider it to be a curse especially where they come to know about negative incidents beforehand. But it must always be remembered that having this power is a gift and not a curse and it should be honed and developed to be put to use in helping other fellow human beings.
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I have three DC's named DC1, DC2 and DC3.
DC1 have build dependencies on DC2 and DC2 have build dependencies on DC3.
I have created an activity to make changes in DC1 and DC2. I released the activity and it is deployed.
Now I have to make changes in DC3 (I have to develop in this order only first DC1,DC2 and later DC3).
I also created an activity for DC3 and released.
Now my request is I should see the changes in DC1. Since I am not updating DC1 (changing of files in DC1) I need not to create an activity.
If I just update (rebuild and deploy) this is enough for me.
Here I should let you know two things.
Please advice me How I will be able to achieve this.
You need not to rebuild the DC as the dependent DCs change The DC will automatically rebuilt and deployed.


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Williams leads No. 14 Gonzaga over San Diego 69-59
Associated PressFeb 2, 2018, 12:53 AM EST
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gonzaga is one of the nation's elite offensive teams. On Thursday night, the Zags showed they can also grind out a defensive win.
Johnathan Williams scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as Gonzaga edged stubborn San Diego 69-59.
"We kind of needed it," Gonzaga's Zach Norvell Jr. said of the grinder. "We want to see what kind of guys we've got."
Norvell had two clutch 3-pointers in the closing minutes to keep the Zags ahead. The game featured poor shooting by both teams, and was close throughout.
"We got punched in the mouth a couple of times," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "We reacted the right way."
Norvell, who finished with 13 points, has got a knack for late game heroics, Few said.
"He's got a lot of confidence in himself," Few said of the freshman from Chicago.
Josh Perkins also scored 13 points and Silas Melson added 12 for Gonzaga (20-4, 10-1 West Coast), which has won 18 of the past 19 games against the Toreros.
Olin Carter III scored 21 points for San Diego (15-8, 6-5), a surprise team in the league this year.
"I thought we did a great job defensively," San Diego coach Lamont Smith said. "We just had a hard time boxing out."
"We gave them too many second chance opportunities and it's hard to do that and win on the road."
Gonzaga had 14 offensive rebounds they converted into 24 points. They outscored the Toreros 38-20 in the paint.
But neither team shot well, with Gonzaga making 41 percent and San Diego just 33 percent from the floor. In the first, Gonzaga went on a 12-0 run while the Toreros were in the midst of a 1 for 9 slump to take a 31-20 lead.
Gonzaga led 36-27 after a first half in which they held San Diego to 27 percent shooting (8 of 30).
San Diego opened the second half with a 13-2 run, including a pair of 3-pointers by Tyler Williams, to take a 40-38 lead.
But the Toreros did not score for more than eight minutes, missing 12 shots, and Gonzaga replied with an 11-0 run for a 49-40 lead. San Diego stormed back and Isaiah Pineiro's 3-pointer brought them within a point at 51-50. But it was a last gasp as Gonzaga closed the game on an 18-9 run.
Norvell hit a 3 to lift Gonzaga to a 61-54 lead with 3:02 left.
The teams traded baskets, but the Toreros could not make up ground.
TWENTY AGAIN
The win lifted Gonzaga to a 21st consecutive year of at least 20 wins, and Few took a moment to bask in the achievement. "People think they (20 wins) magically land here in Spokane," Few said. "They don't. We're an anomaly. It's still an accomplishment."
SHOOTING WOES
San Diego made just 20 of 61 shots. Gonzaga made 25 of 61.
San Diego: The Toreros came in on a two-game winning streak and are fourth in the league. They are one of the nation's top defensive teams, limiting opponents to 64 points per game.
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs have won four in a row since losing to No. 13 Saint Mary's. The Zags have never lost to the Toreros in the McCarthey Athletic Center since it opened in 2004. Gonzaga is the only team in the nation that has six players averaging in double figures and is third in the nation with an average of 88.2 points per game.


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Forbes: Amazon CEO Bezos was briefly the world's richest man
Friday, July 28, 2017, 09:46 By Associated Press
In this Jan 28, 2016, file photo, billionaire Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos talks about the history and character of the Post during a dedication ceremony for its new headquarters in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite, File / AP Photo)
NEW YORK — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly became the world's richest man Thursday in Forbes magazine's tracking of wealth, as stock in his e-commerce company hit an all-time high.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the lead by afternoon, as Amazon's stock fell nearly 1 percent for the day to US$1,046.
Amazon shares have been trading at a record high. They hit US$1,083.31 at about noon Thursday. According to securities filings, Bezos owns about 80 million shares, or 17 percent; those shares were valued at more than US$87 billion at the peak. Bezos also owns The Washington Post through a holding company.
Forbes said Bezos' net worth was about US$90.6 billion when the market opened Thursday. Gates had US$90.1 billion. Forbes said Gates would have been the undisputed leader had he not given billions of dollars away to various philanthropic causes. Bezos issued a request for philanthropic ideas in a tweet in June, just before Amazon announced a US$13.7 billion deal for organic grocer Whole Foods.
The changes in Bezos' fortune coincided with Amazon's report of a 77 percent decline in quarterly profit on heavy spending. Shares fell another 2 percent in after-markets trading as the company missed Wall Street's expectations on profit.
Amazon said it earned US$197 million, or 40 cents per share, in the second quarter, down from US$857 million, or US$1.78 per share, a year ago. Analysts surveyed by Zacks investment Research were expecting earnings of US$1.40 per share on revenue.
Revenue grew 25 percent to US$38 billion, compared with US$30 billion a year ago. That topped expectations of US$37.2 billion.
But Amazon has long been known for investing the money it makes back into its businesses. For the second quarter, Amazon reported operating expenses of US$37 billion, a 28 percent increase from a year earlier.
In a conference call, Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian T. Olsavsky braced investors for even more spending in the second half of the year. Amazon will continue to open new warehouses to fulfill orders, even though sales tend to slow down in the third quarter before rising again during the holidays. He also said Amazon has been spending more to acquire video for its streaming service and to lease properties for data centers to meet growth in its cloud-services business.
Just a day earlier, Amazon said it plans to hire thousands of warehouse workerson the spot at job fairs across the country. Nearly 40,000 of the 50,000 jobs will be full time, and most of them will count toward Amazon's previously announced goal of adding 100,000 full-time workers by the middle of next year.
And Amazon will be spending even more to buy Whole Foods if the deal goes through, as expected. Olsavsky said he expects Whole Foods will complement Amazon's other channels for selling groceries, including AmazonFresh deliveries and an experimental Go convenience store in Seattle.
"There's no one solution," he said. "We'll see how customers respond."


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A birthday celebration: Learning about Annie Oakley, a wonderful woman of the Wild West
Perhaps you've never heard of Phoebe Ann Mosey, born in Ohio on Aug. 13, 1860.
Or rather, you probably have, but not by that name. You might remember her as woman who would go on to become a noted sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, more commonly known as Annie Oakley, a woman whose story is so fascinating even 153 years later that I was thrilled to include her in an iHomeschool Network celebration of noted August birthdays!
All about Annie Oakley
Phoebe Ann "Annie" Mosey (who last name was also sometimes noted in records as Mozee, Moses, Mosee and Mauzy) was born Aug. 13, 1860, in Ohio.
After Annie's father passed away when she was 6 years old, she started helping the family in any way she could – including hunting for game, which is where she developed her shooting talent. She sold extra game that she trapped and shot, and by the time she was 15, her income helped pay off her mother's mortgage.
The same year, a touring marksman brought his "shooting show" to a local hotel. That marksman, Frank Butler, often promoted his show by doing a marksmanship contest against a local shooter. Well, I bet he was surprised when the hotel's proprietor put him up against a 15-year-old girl named Annie – and Annie won!
The two sharpshooters were quite a pair. They eventually married, toured together (at times with Frank getting "top" billing and at times with Annie taking the lead and Frank as her manager) and grew older together. When Annie died on Nov. 3, 1926, Frank stopped eating in his grief, and he died just a few weeks later on Nov. 21.
Among the many things Annie Oakley was famous for included touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, along with Sioux chief Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull was a friend of Annie's, and he gave her the nickname Little Sure Shot.
Annie also knew another celebrity of the time, as it were: Thomas Edison. In 1894, he made one of the first "movies" by filming Annie shooting; you can see that here!
There have been a variety of books and movies about Annie's life, some much more realistic portrayals than others. The most famous, the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, is also probably the most loose adaptation, but certainly still interesting!
Read more about Annie Oakley
Check out some basic Annie Oakley information on Wikipedia.
The Annie Oakley Foundation is a nonprofit started by Oakley's grandnieces in the 1980s to help spread information about her true life story.
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, offers this detailed biography of Annie Oakley.
Our family studied Annie Oakley and some other noted figures of the "Wild West" in late 2012; you can learn more by checking out Ashar's poster about famous Wild West cowboys.
My friend Aadel of These Temporary Tents shared about Annie Oakley during last year's iHomeschool Network August birthday celebration; you should check out her Little Sure Shot Annie Oakley post, including free notebooking pages.
Ideas for discussion
We spent a lot of time last year talking about "cowboy and Indian" times. Along with that, we touched on issues ranging from the current state of Native American reservations to the role of women in the West to the discovery of gold in California and beyond!
Here are a few ideas based around what we learned of Annie Oakley to help your family dig deeper!
Reality vs. tall tales. Annie Oakley's accomplishments sometimes were portrayed as almost larger-than-life. Yes, she was an amazing shot, but even the most amazing of her feats, like shooting the ashes off a cigarette, have been exaggerated in retellings. Her family members started the Annie Oakley Foundation to help prevent the spread of misinformation. What are some "tall tales" you've heard about someone famous, and what's the true story?
Women in the West. (And, really, women's history in general!) This is a fascinating topic, and Annie Oakley is definitely an example of a woman who was allowed many freedoms that weren't common in her time! Even so, she was denied some opportunities because of her gender; in fact, during both the Spanish-American War and World War I, she'd offered to lead a regiment of female volunteer soldiers, and also offered to train the (male) soldiers to shoot, but she was turned down. That's a topic worth discussing: How has that changed in the past hundred-some years, and what issues still remain?
Being "rich." Touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and performing in other ways left Annie Oakley a wealthy woman. In the end, it was discovered that she spent all of her earnings on her family and on a significant variety of charities and causes. What would you do if you were really wealthy? What causes would you support?
Join the birthday party
If you're interested, there are many more cool "August birthday" lessons from my fellow iHomeschool Network bloggers. Click the image below to check them out!
And thanks for stopping by to help me wish Annie Oakley a happy birthday!
You can check out more posts in our Learning Party series here!
More great history resources
This post is part of the iHomeschool Network Massive Guide to Homeschooling History.
Make sure to check it out for tons of other great history resources, including links to a dozen more Unschool Rules posts!
This entry is about books, famous birthdays, history.
The previous post was What our introverted family needs you to know.
The next post is A birthday celebration: Small steps and giant leaps from Neil Armstrong.
4 thoughts on "A birthday celebration: Learning about Annie Oakley, a wonderful woman of the Wild West"
This is a wonderful study. I love how you have branched out in so many directions. I have never thought to study Annie Oakley. I love the notebooking page at the top. Is that Sarah's handwriting? It is beautiful.
Joan Concilio says:
The dates are her writing, but the quote, we printed out! Sarah was adamant that we have colored markers to match the ink color 🙂
Great video! Annie Oakley was quite the lady 🙂
I agree, Sue! And thanks 🙂
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China is about to rebalance. How will EM be affected?
China's investment-driven growth model has had a decisive impact on emerging economies in the past 10 years. However, this extraordinary investment-orientedness is about to end and China's rebalancing will shift the economy away from investment spending and towards consumer spending and likely come along with weaker growth. This could create a number of threats for emerging markets and the severity of the threat will depend largely on whether the rebalancing process is benign (more consumption) or not (less investment). Our analysis suggests that Asia is the best-placed region to take advantage of a new pattern of Chinese growth, while South America could face a painful adjustment process given the appreciation of real exchange rates that the region has seen in its membership of the 'China-commodities complex'.
The increase in the world's China–dependence in the past few years suggests that the imminent rebalancing of the Chinese economy will have highly visible consequences for many countries. Perhaps the central defining feature of China's economy is its dependence on investment spending. Last year the investment/GDP ratio reached 50%, a record not only for China but also, as far as we know, for any other major economy ever. However, this extraordinary investment-orientedness is about to end, and China's rebalancing will shift the economy away from investment spending and towards consumer spending. That's partly for 'natural' reasons, to do with the decline in the efficiency of China's investment spending, the fall in the return on capital, and the changing dynamics of China's labor market. But in addition, we think that Chinese policymaking will help to accelerate the rebalancing process, even though it's true that in recent years Chinese governments have promised more re-balancing than they've delivered. Pension reform, price reform, interest rate liberalization and other measures are now helping to raise the disposable income of Chinese households and reduce their incentives to save heavily.
China's investment-driven growth model has had a decisive impact on emerging economies in the past 10 years. It has defined the rapid growth of Asia's regional integration: China has absorbed capital goods from Asia both as part of manufacturing production chains, as well as to satisfy China's domestic demand. And it has helped to form a 'China-commodities complex', creating a high level of China-dependence for commodities exporters worldwide. The metals-intensity of China's investment-driven growth has been particularly unique.
China's rebalancing will certainly come along with weaker growth, and this could contain a number of threats for emerging markets, in particular . These will come in three forms: i) threats to the commodities-exporters who fail to benefit from the weaker growth of China's commodities demand and its changing composition; ii) threats to countries who lose out in China's pursuit of vertical integration, by which China replaces foreign-supplied inputs to the production process with its own; and iii) threats to a broader group of commodity-importing countries if it turns out that a weaker, more balanced Chinese growth has a bad effect on global risk appetite .
The threat to EM from a slower-growing, more consumer-driven China will depend largely on whether the rebalancing process is benign (more consumption) or not (less investment). The experiences of Japan in the 1970s and Korea in the 1990s are not encouraging in this respect: rebalancing in both these economies relied more on a fall in investment than a rise in consumption. In the longer term, the new shape of China's links to EM will depend on i) which countries have a chance of supplying more consumer goods and services to China; ii) which countries have a chance of winning out as global production capacity relocates away from a more expensive China; and iii) which countries can withstand China's emergence as a global competitor.
Our analysis of these trends suggest that Asia is by far the best-placed to take advantage of a new pattern of Chinese growth, even if it may also be the region most at risk of a fall in Chinese investment demand. South America, by contrast, will face an adjustment process that could be painful given the appreciation of real exchange rates that the region has seen in its membership of the 'China-commodities complex'. Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Israel, Czech, Egypt, Ukraine and others all have a chance of surviving well.Authors: David Lubin,Wei Zheng Kit,Shuang Ding,Johanna Chua,David Cowan,Daniel P Ahn,Authors: David Lubin,Wei Zheng Kit,Shuang Ding,Johanna Chua,David Cowan,Daniel P Ahn,Authors: David Lubin,Wei Zheng Kit,Shuang Ding,Johanna Chua,David Cowan,Daniel P Ahn,Authors: David Lubin,Wei Zheng Kit,Shuang Ding,Johanna Chua,David Cowan,Daniel P Ahn,Authors: David Lubin,Wei Zheng Kit,Shuang Ding,Johanna Chua,David Cowan,Daniel P Ahn,Authors: David Lubin,Wei Zheng Kit,Shuang Ding,Johanna Chua,David Cowan,Daniel P Ahn,
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