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Chapter 7 is the type of relief most consumers seek – a complete discharge of all unsecured debt, including credit cards and medical expenses.
What one does with a distressed borrower depends first on whether they have sufficient time to negotiate with the mortgagee.
To receive a loan modification and avoid a foreclosure, a debtor should immediately contact either the lender directly, or get help from a nonprofit housing counselor.
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Bankruptcy laws have a tendency to change often and it is important to seek an attorney who keeps up with ever-changing case law. It has been my experience that many of my clients who came into the process believing that they would not qualify for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy ended up being able to file Chapter 7 when all of their expenses and situations were properly analyzed.
A fear that I have seen is the fear of losing of a house, automobile, tools and household belongings or keepsakes when filing bankruptcy. The fact is Ohio Law is very liberal in its exemptions of such property in bankruptcy. In other words, under Cleveland, Ohio Law, in most cases you will not lose these things. It is vital to consult an experienced Bankruptcy Attorney in Cleveland, Ohio who can analyze and apply Location Law to your situation. There is also a common fear or perhaps reservation many people have regarding bankruptcy, especially among Cleveland, Ohio. That reservation is engrained in Cleveland's character. The Desire to Pay Back What they owe! What I would say to that is this. Even the most determined, the well-intended & the most honest of us simply cannot withstand credit card interest rates that top 23% and the ridiculous fees and penalties that they charge. The government has made bankruptcy relief to its citizens not merely out of charity. It is vitally important to the economy of the United States that its hard-working citizens get back on their feet and become good public servants, doctors, truck drivers, nurses etc. again. Keep this in mind when determining your need for relief . . . your family, Country and Community is counting on you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and get back on your feet. Bankruptcy just might be the best solution for you right now. This site has pages explaining the two most common types of bankruptcy available to individuals, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. I encourage you to read these pages to get a background to the process.
What will happen to my credit?
Which bankruptcy chapter saves the most money?
Can I keep a credit card and not report the debt on my bankruptcy schedules?
You can discharge most, if not all, your unsecured debts (e.g., medical debt and credit card balances). You can catch up on past due mortgage payments. You may be able to avoid second mortgages in some cases. You can cram down loans for cars and investment property under certain circumstances.
Your score will bottom out, but that may not be as big a drop as you think. We have even seen cases where a filing can actually improve ones score. Many of our clients work with a consultant while emerging from bankruptcy to bring the score up significantly in 2-3 years.
A Chapter 7 case usually lasts 4-5 months, but can extend to as much as a year if the estate is complex or difficult; A Chapter 11 case can take from approximately a year to several years; A Chapter 13 case typically extends 3-5 years.
If you have property that is largely exempt and your household income is at or below the median, you might benefit most by filing a Chapter 7 case.
A Chapter 7 case generally has the most economic benefit because most unsecured debt can be discharged in full. However, a Chapter 13 case can provide significant benefit in the form of avoided or reduced secured debts. A Chapter 11 case is generally the most expensive since it is utilized primarily by corporations or individuals with significant income and debt/assets.
No. Every debt must be reported in your bankruptcy case, along with all of your assets.
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A small plane at U.S. 95 and State Route 156, Lee Canyon Road at about 10 a.m. Saturday. (Nevada State Police)
After safely making emergency landing on U.S. 95, plane is hit by SUV, injuring three people, State Police say
by: Gary Dymski
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — After safely making an emergency landing on U.S. 95 in the northwest valley on Saturday morning, a small plane was struck by a sport utility vehicle and three people were injured, Nevada State Police said.
The plane's pilot, an instructor pilot and the driver of a Nissan SUV were taken to University Medical Center with injuries that were non life threatening, according to the State Police Highway Patrol's Southern Command.
A DA20 two-seater plane experienced mechanical issues and was forced to land on U.S. 95, near Lee Canyon Road, State Police said. (Nevada State Polilce)
The plane on the shoulder of the roadway. (Nevada State Police)
The driver of a Nissan SUV and two aboard the aircraft were taken to Univeristy Medical Center, State Police said. (Nevada State Police)
A DA20 two-seater airplane experiencing mechanical issues landed on the left shoulder of U.S. 95, near Lee Canyon Road, State Route 156, at about 9:40 a.m., State Police said.
Once the plane landed, a Nissan SUV struck the wing of the plane, damaging the windshield of the SUV, according to State Police.
A witness to the crash, flying above U.S. 95, said the SUV was traveling at a high rate of speed and hit the plane.
Kevin King, 24, of North Las Vegas, was flying above the scene with an instructor pilot when both saw the collision, he said.
"North Las Vegas air traffic control told us to take our plane there immediately and make sure the pilots of the accident aircraft were OK," King said a few hours after the collision.
After making radio contact with the grounded pilots, who were not injured in the landing, King said both exited and were standing behind the right wing of the aircraft.
After about 5-10 minutes, King said, the SUV approaches, and hits the left wing of the plane. "What happened is the collision caused the plane to kick back and the right wing then hits both the instructor pilot and the other pilot," King said.
Several vehicles were able to pass the plane on the road before the SUV hit it, King said.
The crash was still under investigation just before noon, State Police said.
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Stem Cell Care India has been efficaciously treating and offering healthcare services to patients from across the globe, who are looking for cost-effective and quality stem cell treatment in India. This is an informative page for our health seeking friends and patients from Australia covering all the facets of traveling to India from Australia for admirable medical care when it comes to stem cell treatment.
StemCellCareIndia, being a legendary stem cell therapy hospital India, offers a widespread range of stem cell solutions for the treatment of varied types of health ailments. This stem cell therapy center in India focuses to individualistically offer good health via stem cell therapy in Delhi. It has been effectually assisting patients across the globe by offering healthcare services of the premium quality to patients, who are in the lookout for good quality stem cell medical facilities at reasonable rates. This page caters to our Australian friends on the lookout for stem cell treatment in India, and has all the info focused on the aspects related to travelling to India for healthcare issues.
Australiai citizens are very sensitive towards their health requisites. Since the medical arrangement is not so developed in Australia, patients prefer to travel overseas for medical management. This has been the scenario in the past also, when only the rich and the prosperous Australians could travel to other nations to get treated. With India emerging as one of the finest and principal medical tourism hubs of the world, just like patients from other nations, patients from Australia also can now afford numerous treatments and have now started clustering to India for all health related concerns. Stem Cell Care India, as the name advocates has always been at the forefront in accomplishing these prerequisites and has become the most favored healthcare related service provider for Australian patients.
About Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign nation incorporating the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and several smaller islands. It is an island continent, the biggest nation in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest nation by total region. Lying between the Indian and Pacific oceans, the country is around 4,000 km from east to west and 3,200 km from north to south, with a coastline as long as 36,735 km. The neighboring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and Australia to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its key urban area is Sydney. Canberra is about half way between the two biggest cities Melbourne and Sydney. Furthermore, Australia has 19 listed World Heritage properties. Australia is also celebrated for its landmark buildings including the Sydney Harbour Bridge; its vintage geology, as well as for its high country.
Australia is an excellent and varied nation in every way – culture, population, climate, geography and history. Australian culture is as all-inclusive and varied like the nation's landscape; it is multicultural and multiethnic and this is imitated in the country's food, lifestyle and cultural practices. Australia has a vital heritage from its indigenous people, which plays a critical role in the cultural landscape making it dynamic, energized and revolutionary. Australia has the world's 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income (International Monetary Fund). With the second-highest human development index globally, the nation ranks highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom, and civil liberties and political rights. Moreover, Australia is a powerhouse when it comes to sports. The most rampant sports activities include Soccer, Rugby, water-based sports like swimming and surfing, Horse racing, basketball, motor racing, etc.
The majority of Australia experiences pleasing weather for most of the year. The northern states of Australia are usually warm all the time, with the southern states experiencing cool winters but seldom sub-zero temperatures. Snow falls on the higher mountains during the winter months, support skiing in southern New South Wales and Victorian ski resorts, as well as the smaller resorts in Australia's island state, Tasmania. Owing to the continent's great age, enormously variable weather patterns, and long-lasting geographical isolation, much of Australia's flora and fauna is unique. About 85 percent of flowering plants, 84 percent of mammals, more than 45 percent of birds, and 89% percent of in-shore, temperate-zone fish are rampant. Also, Australia has the supreme number of reptiles than any country, with 755 species.
The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef, lies close to the north-east coast and extends for over 2,000 kilometres (1,240 mi). Mount Augustus, claimed to be the world's largest monolith is located in Western Australia. At 2,228 meters (7,310 ft.), Mount Kosciuszko on the Great Dividing Range is the highest mountain on the Australian mainland. Even taller are Mawson Peak (at 2,745 metres or 9,006 feet), on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island, and, in the Australian Antarctic Territory, Mount McClintock and Mount Menzies, at 3,492 metres (11,457 ft) and 3,355 metres (11,007 ft) respectively.
When it comes to healthcare, Australia has the third and seventh highest life expectancy of men and women respectively in the world. Life expectancy in Australia is around 79.5 years for males and 84.0 years for females. The healthcare section is a developed one in Australia but assuredly not without problems. There is shortage of healthcare services in particular areas accompanied by under funding. Both public sector and private sector have their own complications and thus Australians either have to deal with extended waiting periods or go for other nations to get treated. Dealing with dearth of paramedic staff, long waiting periods, and most glaringly the skyrocketing treatment expenses, is very confounding here. The distribution of healthcare facilities is not proportional as per social and economic classes. Also, the variation in quality and quantity of treatment and expenditures is not that good when equated to other nations. This makes many folks from Australia opt for getting treated in other countries instead of in Australia.
With the medical tourism industry gaining fast-paced fame, a vast number of patients from Australia are selectingIndia as their treatment destination. The important striking facet that is drawing the attention of these patients is the availability of reasonably priced treatments and that too with zero waiting periods. This is majorly helping these patients in saving stacks of money equated to what they have to shell out in their own nation. Majority of the treatments in India cost about as low as one tenth of what they cost in Australia. Also, what is most crucial is that these medical tourists from Australia are getting treated on time.
India is the underpinning of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandma of legend and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most treasured and most enlightening materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. Mark Twain said this some decades ago, and India truthfully fits the description. India is one of the primogenital civilizations in the world, and proudly homes a many-colored diversity and rich cultural heritage. It has accomplished all-round socio-economic growth over the years. As the 7th biggest country in the world, India stands apart from the remaining Asia, stitched in by mountains and the sea, which give the nation a distinct geographical exquisiteness. India has a different aspect of its persona to volunteer to each of the travellers visiting the nation.
Situated in South Asia, bordered by Pakistan, Nepal, China and Australia, India is South Asia's largest, sovereign, democratic republic. Teeming with a billion plus folks, India will flabbergast you with its diversity; be it the snow draped peaks of the north, the sunlit beaches down south, to thick forests, striking temples, vivacious festivals and to cities that have become the IT hubs of the nation. Further, because of its powerful diversity, India makes a fascinating tourist destination and delectable cuisine that would definitely make individuals to come back for more. Spiritually, India is a secular country where lots of religions were born and are living and blossoming together.
Why should Australians choose India for various healthcare treatments and procedures?
Let us comprehend the procedure of coming to India for efficacious and economically priced medical treatment. The procedure starts with the patient sending his/her query and medical history via email or by discussing the medical ailment over a phone call with a healthcare manager. The reports and the case are accurately studied by our senior surgeons/physicians for a comprehensive medical opinion, which is then conveyed to the patient so that the patient can comprehend and plan the next steps in view of that. As a compulsory protocol, all reports are studied and gone through by not less than three experts for unprejudiced inclusive medical opinions. After this, the patient can travel to India on pre-confirmed dates. Moreover, we help our patients from Australia in getting medical visa approval plus we also arrange all logistic and travel linked requirements. More details can be read at the Step by Step Guide for better understanding of the whole procedure.
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We have a long list of satisfied patients from Australia who underwent stem cell treatment for their diseases at StemCellCareIndia.
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The Malaysian meat sector is led by the fresh meat category in both value and volume terms, while frozen meat is forecast to register the fastest growth in value terms during 2018-2023. Hypermarkets & supermarkets is the leading channel for distribution of meat products in the country. Flexible packaging is the most commonly used pack material, followed by rigid plastics and rigid metal. 'Ramly food processing sdn. Bhd.' , 'Dindings poultry' and 'Hormel foods corporation' are the leading players in the Malaysian meat sector.
The report "Country Profile: Meat in Malaysia" provides insights on high growth categories to target, trends in the usage of package materials, category level distribution channel data and market share of brands.
The Country Profile report on the meat sector in Malaysia provides insights on high growth categories to target, trends in the usage of package materials, category level distribution channel data and market share of brands.
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"Just Say Mac & Cheese: A deep dive into the history of a timeless favorite"
A few months ago, I asked a friend what she was planning to make for her family's Christmas dinner:
"I don't know, but I'm not making that durn macaroni and cheese again. I made it for Thanksgiving already. I'm tired of it."
But her husband was asking for it. Her grandchildren were pleading for it. In the end, there was compromise: she made herself and everyone else happy by having her daughter cook the macaroni and cheese.
For me, I would have been delighted to succumb to such critical acclaim, especially for a simple dish. Yet, no one in my family has ever begged for macaroni and cheese.
Macaroni and cheese in the Kraft blue box was the instant ramen noodles of my mid-1970s college years. My roommate and I could buy four boxes for a dollar, quickly stir up the packet of orange cheese-like powder with milk from the dorm snack bar and cook it on an illegal hot plate in our room, provided we didn't trip a circuit breaker. ("We're using the hot plate! Don't turn on any hair dryers!")
After I got married, I graduated to the deluxe version (only the best for the new hubby), which contained a can of cheese-like stuff instead of the powder, and was cheap and not challenging for a newbie cook. After baking several pans of it, my husband declared that he actually didn't like macaroni and cheese very much. It led me to suspect that he wasn't really a southerner, but I suppose being diagnosed with a dairy allergy is a good enough excuse..
For such a simple thing, macaroni and cheese contains multitudes. It can be both a main dish and a side dish (many meat-and-three diners list it as a vegetable choice), or both an example of processed food technology and homemade comfort goodness. Also, it illustrates the effects of culture and immigration.
My friend is African American, and macaroni and cheese holds a different place in black culture than it did in my growing up. Adrian Miller writes in his book "Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time" that the dish's identity has morphed through more than two centuries of existence: "Macaroni and cheese became 'mac 'n' cheese,' a soul-food favorite, because African American cooks have been called on to make the dish in wealthy and poverty-stricken kitchens alike."
Thomas Jefferson ate a version of the dish in France at the tables of the wealthy and became so enamored of it that he had his Monticello chef, the enslaved James Hemings, learn to prepare it. Antebellum southern cookbooks contained recipes for versions of macaroni and cheese, all of which would have been treats for special occasions, because cheese and pasta were hard to get and costly, and prepared by enslaved cooks, Miller writes.
By the late 1800s, macaroni and cheese was on the move, drifting to working-class meals. Italian immigrants to the U.S. opened pasta factories, making macaroni cheaper and easier to find. Coincidentally, at that time Italians and African Americans often lived near each other in large cities, so it's reasonable to consider that cross-cultural cooking took place.
In 1937, the blue box that fed a thousand study breaks in my dorm was introduced, taking advantage of the invention of processed cheese. Also, Miller writes, recipes for from-scratch macaroni and cheese began appearing in African American community cookbooks, showing how the dish had established a place in the culture as a way for cooks to exhibit their skills.
Kraft marketed its version as a cheap meat substitute during World War II food shortages, and its popularity soared.
During anti-poverty efforts in the 1960s, macaroni and cheese made from government surplus processed cheese became a staple on school lunch menus, Miller writes.
From a nutrition point of view, there are good reasons that children love it. "Kids can develop very strong food aversions that might last six months or a year, when they might not like crunchy things and so forth. Macaroni and cheese is creamy and warm, and there are no sharp edges or chewy parts if they have sore mouths from losing teeth. And it doesn't have a strong flavor," says Leah McGrath RD LDN of Waynesville, N.C., corporate dietitian for Ingles markets.
Today, macaroni and cheese can be dressed up with lobster, truffles and exotic cheeses, and even be deep fried and put on a stick. Or it can still be mixed from the blue box to satisfy late-night hungries. It can be a food of celebration or of survival. It certainly helped me survive botany finals.


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Outraged Over $23 Billion in Wrongful Tax Credits? Blame Congress
By Rob Garver
A watchdog agency in charge of overseeing the Internal Revenue Service issued a report today finding that the agency issues billions of dollars of payments every year to taxpayers who erroneously claim that they are due a refund under the Earned Income Tax Credit and other tax credits. However, at a time when bashing the IRS is a favorite pastime of many members of Congress, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration laid most of the blame not on the beleaguered agency, but on those same lawmakers.
The IRS has, for years, known and reported that nearly 25 percent of the EITC payments it makes are going to people who don't actually qualify for the credit under the law. And in a vast number of cases, the agency has the ability to identify these false claims before payment is issued. However, it has neither have the legislative authority to stop those payments from being issued nor the necessary resources to investigated incorrect EITC claims on an individual basis.
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The numbers are staggering. By its own estimates, the IRS paid out $15.6 billion in improper EITC refunds last year -- 23.8 percent of the total payments made under the program. That puts the agency far over the rather permissive 10 percent target that Congress set for improper payments in legislation passed in 2012. An additional $7.5 billion was wrongly paid out through two other tax credits — the AOTC and the ACTC.
However, TIGTA's report finds that the nation's tax collector doesn't have a whole lot of choice in the matter, even after passage of a recent bill meant to increase its capacity to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.
"The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 provides the IRS with additional tools to reduce EITC improper payments," the report finds. "However, it did not expand the IRS's authority to systemically correct the erroneous claims it identifies. Without this authority, the IRS continues to be unable to address the majority of potentially erroneous EITC claims it identifies."
That lack of authority might not be a problem if the IRS had the resources it needs to investigate tax returns that appear to contain bogus refund demands. But after years of budget cuts, it doesn't.
"The IRS can audit potentially erroneous EITC claims; however, the number of claims the IRS can audit is limited by resources," TIGTA found. "As a result, billions of dollars in potentially erroneous EITC claims go unaddressed each year," the agency found.
Related: How Registering for the Draft Could Save the Government Millions
The irony here is that federal agencies that are allowed to invest in the personnel and infrastructure necessary to prevent and/or recoup improper payments typically earn enormous returns on the money spent. One program focused on recouping improper payments recovered 83 percent of the money improperly paid out.
However, antagonism toward the IRS in Congress seems certain to prevent the agency from getting the resources it needs -- at least in the near term -- to deliver that benefit to taxpayers.
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These vacuum pods and cups are for Biesse CNC routers, replacement pod for using with Biesse Rover, Biesse Point to Point machines.
With these cnc vacuum pods, you can do solid wood work or edge detail by raising the material off of the table. CNC flat table vacuum cup for your Biesse Rover grid can be used to do large parts or can be sectioned off with gasket to do smaller parts.
Biesse vacuum cups are available in three different heights: 29mm, 48mm and 74mm.
These vacuum cups for biesse are with valve, locating ring and gasket, also have 48mm and 72mm height for choose.
The base bodies of the biesse vacuum cups are inserted into a holding fixture on a pod and rail table. The base body and holding fixture have a grating that is divided into 15° steps. Thus, it is possible to position the suction cup in different angles on the pod and rail table.
To minimize the setup time the vacuum cups are equipped with valves that only release the suction when the workpiece is placed. The vacuum cups on the remaining consoles, which are not used, simply stay on the machine. Unoccupied holding fixtures are covered with a dummy cap that helps avoiding pollution and shuts off the vacuum in this holding fixture. RicoCNC offers alternative vacuum cups. They are available in the same heights like the original vacuum cups. Thus, they can be combined at will.
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POSCO is running a vocational curriculum to help boost job seekers' competency, and it's receiving positive feedback from the participants.
Last month, POSCO ran the first cycle of 'Practical Corporate Employment Education' for 30 candidates at POSCO Group University in Songdo, Incheon. Trainees participated in open conversations with the company's HR representatives and experienced real-life business management and design thinking methods via simulated game settings. Through the curriculum, the participants had a chance to enhance both basic and practical business skills.
POSCO's 'Practical Corporate Employment Education' program is currently in session for its January cycle. The training will take place at POSCO Group University at its Songdo, Pohang, and Gwangyang locations for three weeks, and those interested in the February cycle can apply via http://youth.posco.com. For the next five years, the Corporate Practical Employment Education will train 800 participants per year. With free room and board, the training is provided at no cost.
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Q: How to disable the whole navigation bar using javascript on pageload in any browsers Hi I am trying to figure out if there is any way to disable the browser navigation bar so that the user is not able to reload the url or unable to the click on browser reload . I tried to find the solution but I could only see like this below in most of the sites .
window.open('URL', 'null', 'width=900,height=750,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,location=no,resizable =no');
    window.moveTo(0, 0);

I am trying to find the solution using Java Script or JQuery and learn in the process. In my application after the first page and after click on submit button then the second page is OTP page and I want to not show the navigation bar or not to allow the user to reload the page while entering the OTP . I am hardly find the solution and any help would be appreciated.

A: Most of the browsers dont have that feature or has that feature but not turned on due to user experience concerns. It could be easily exploited by hackers so its usually not possible for safety concerns

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Woman Injured in Officer-Involved Shooting
The trooper involved in the shooting will not be identified at this time and was placed on administrative leave with pay, per policy
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Police in Bristol, Vermont, are investigating after a woman was shot by an officer responding to a report of a man experiencing a mental health crisis Thursday night.
Officers responded to a residence on Pine Street at 8:30 and heard what they believed to be a gun shot. Troopers from Vermont State Police joined for assistance.
While on scene, officers were approached by a woman armed with a hand gun.
After multiple commands to drop the weapon a trooper shot the woman, injuring her.
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Police then found an adult male lying on the ground with a head injury from an apparent gun shot.
Both the man and woman were transported to Fletcher Allen Health care in Burlington for treatment. Neither of them have been identified, pending the investigation.
The trooper involved in the shooting will not be identified at this time and was placed on administrative leave with pay, per policy.
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Police are expected to release more information Friday.
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What Needs to Be Done to Boost British Engineering?
Whilst British engineering is far from dead, news stories frequently bemoan how little fresh engineering talent is coming through in the UK today, and increasingly coordinated efforts are being planned to try and rectify this dearth of interest in engineering.
Recently, James Dyson (left) has become the latest high profile person to take action in this area. According to the BBC website, the successful inventor has pledged an £8 million funding boost to Cambridge University in the last month, and this donation is specifically intended to complete a four storey structure for use by the engineering and science departments.
This is not the first time that Dyson has offered large sums of money to engineering schools, and such advanced facilities are intended to attract more people into engineering careers on a permanent basis. But just why has engineering become such an unattractive career to begin with?
The fact is that a widespread misconception has grown up around engineering. More and more potential graduates are viewing engineering as a tough career that offers poor pay, limited career opportunities, unglamorous or physically demanding work, and some people have also spotted a worrying tendency for people to view engineers as 'unintelligent'.
The Telegraph gives details about this startling mindset, stating that many schools view people with an aptitude for engineering as beingless intelligent than more "academically minded" individuals. Apparently, the mind of a child at play possesses many qualities that are naturally suited to engineering, but too many schools choose to prioritise the enhancing of other skills rather than nurturing this innate gift.
These findings were compiled by the Royal Academy of Engineering, and according to more research by this body the UK will need to obtain more than a million professional persons if the current engineering base is to be maintained. These professionals would be people operating in the spheres of science, technology or mathematics, as well as engineering, and such an intake would need to be achieved by 2020.
Not only are many children not being encouraging to entertain engineering as a viable career, but many established engineers are also nearing the end of their careers. With fresh talent coming through at too slow a rate, and with many UK engineers now nearing the age of retirement, so stage could be set for a real engineering 'vacuum' in the not too distant future.
So what needs to be done? In the aforementioned Telegraph article, a need to pinpoint and cultivate the minds of child 'engineers' was noted, as was the need to teach engineering with greater vigour. In another article from the same newspaper, the same sorts of sentiments were being echoed, and if change is to be realised then it will need to be implemented from a young age.
In this story, schools are urged to instruct children properly about engineering, so they begin to see past the prospect of having oily hands on a daily basis, and instead take notice of the substantial opportunities which are present in areas like infrastructure. Concern has also been raised about the definition of 'engineering' in the UK too, as the term is used to describe a vast range of practices, and thus it can breed confusion.
The fact is that engineers are in high demand, and the sooner young people realise this the better it will be for the economy of the UK as a whole. Efforts like those of James Dyson will be significant in achieving this end, but only a real reversal at grass-roots level will yield the sort of mass intake that the country craves.
At Airedale Springs, we fully understand the importance of young blood in the sphere of engineering and in 2014 we will be employing at least two more Engineering Apprentices. Our business is built around a strong family run ethic, and products like our quality extension springs would doubtless have suffered without this combination of youthful innovation and proven experience.
As a member of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) and the Engineering Industries Association (EIA), we would love to see engineering flourishing in the UK once again. Airedale Springs is a supporter of the University Technical College (UTC) in Leeds and an Industrial Centre of Excellence (ICE) at the Keighley Campus of the Leeds City Collage.
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Building your own network?
Don't overlook staffing and training needs
Lead story: Florida turnpike shifts gears
Making the decision to build your own network rather than leasing one becomes a lot easier if someone hands you 400 miles of fiber-optic cable.
That was the situation Florida Turnpike officials found themselves in when they were wondering how to replace the turnpike's outdated toll operations network.
But even with a built-in infrastructure, the decision was not a no-brainer, said Kevin Palmer, the turnpike's program director. You still have to maintain the network.
'Our biggest lesson learned is that you should consider your maintenance plans early in the process rather than late,' Palmer said. 'We have transitioned from a leased network that was maintained by others to a privately owned network that we are responsible for operating and maintaining.'
The staffing costs should be included in the cost/benefit analysis. Fortunately for the Florida Turnpike, it already had much of the expertise it needed to assume those responsibilities.
'It's a good fit for us because we already maintained the toll collection system,' he said.
'Other agencies might not have the staffing for it.'
Training also is an issue to consider, especially if new technologies are being adopted.
The Florida Turnpike chose to build a Multiprotocol Label Switching network to ensure it would have the security, quality of service and management capabilities it would need in the future.
But MPLS traditionally has been a technology used by large service providers.
'The challenge for Florida was in the training of the staff for running the network,' said Ahmed Abdelhalim, director of product management at Foundry Networks' high-end business unit, which provided Florida with its routers and switches. 'It's new to the enterprise,' he added, although not so new that it was a difficult hurdle for administrators.


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Q: How do I get rid of overlapping fragments? I'm working on an app where I want to be able to go to a new detail fragment from another detail fragment, but when I click on the back button I want to always return to the master fragment, no matter how many times I attached a new detail fragment.
With the below code I got that effect, but when I hit back the last detail fragment is displayed as an overlay on the master fragment and when I try to attach a new detail fragment it is displayed on top of the master fragment instead of replacing it.
How can I fix this?
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A: Override onBackPressed in your activity. Keep in mind this is semi-psuedo code
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        // replace R.id.container with your master fragment
    } else {
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Trends and strategy towards therapies for status epilepticus: A decisive review
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International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research
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ANNE DAVISON
NEW PUBLICATION: The Ottoman Empire
EPILOGUE TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE:
Today the hot spot of unrest is Syria, the repercussions of which are reverberating across the Western world. From the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in early 2011, it has been estimated that by February 2016, the total number of deaths due to the war stood at some 470,000 (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights). Internally displaced persons are given as over 7,600,000 with over 4,000,000 people made refugees (United Nations Commissioner for Refugees).
The current blame for this disaster is being placed upon three main parties: the brutal regime of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the various rebel groups who rose up against his rule, and Daesh, the terror group that is also known as the so-called Islamic State. All three share some culpability, a situation that has hindered efforts at resolving the conflict.
The root causes of the problem are very deep and can be traced back to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and subsequent peace treaties that were ratified by the Allies, as well as Western interference over recent decades.
The creation of the mandates resulted in large swathes of Arab territory coming under mandatory French or British rule, a direct result of which led to a growth in Arab nationalism. Furthermore, many Arabs in the region were angered by what they perceived to be Britain's duplicity. Instead of achieving Arab independence, as had been promised, in return for helping to defeat the Ottomans, their lands were carved up and they were placed under foreign rule with a 'puppet sovereign' from another tribe being placed on the 'throne'.
While elements of Arab nationalism can be traced back to calls for independence during the Ottoman period, the ideology gained force at the time of the mandates and spread across the Arab world. The declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, resulting in the displacement of an estimated 711,000 Palestinians (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine), further strengthened the resolve of the Arab peoples to preserve and protect Arab identity and fight for sovereignty.
Arab nationalism suffered a severe blow in June 1967 during the Six Day War between Israel and an allied army of Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi and Lebanese forces. Against all odds Israel not only defeated the Arabs but at the same time she annexed the Sinai Peninsula including the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. These annexations led to the further displacement of Palestinians, with hundreds of thousands fleeing from the West Bank into Jordan, from the Gaza Strip into Egypt and from the Golan Heights into Syria.
This mass exodus added to the general instability in the region. The influx of refugees into neighbouring countries following the Six Day War only added to the refugee problem that had been created by the displacement of refugees in 1948 and the Arab/Israeli war of 1958. After 1967 refugee camps, particularly in Lebanon, became even more crowded. They have always been natural breeding grounds for discontent and the nurture of insurgency groups. These camps still exist and the refugee problem facing Lebanon in particular is more critical than ever as the tiny country struggles with the arrival of a further 1,500,000 refugees as a result of the current Syrian Civil War.
Today's mass exodus of refugees from Syria, Iraq and other war torn countries of ex Ottoman territory has led to a crisis across Europe and fed into the debate on immigration that influenced the United Kingdom's recent decision to leave the European Union.
Apart from the continuing refugee problem, the dispute over territory between Israel and the Palestinians has still not been resolved. Both sides claim territorial rights. While Israel may appeal to Biblical tradition, both Israel and the Palestinians base their claims on the various documents and treaties of the post Ottoman period, the most significant being the Balfour Declaration and the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
Crucially however those Palestinians who have remained in Israel, the West Bank or the Gaza Strip see themselves as living under an illegal occupation. This is a view that is shared across the Muslim world in general and the Arab world in particular. The plight of the Palestinians is like a running sore. Until it is healed it continues to infect relations between many Muslim countries and the West, which by and large is perceived to support Israel.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1956-1970), had hoped to unite the Arabs of the region as peoples sharing a common language and culture, known as pan-Arabism. But after the Six Day War and defeat of the allied Arab forces his hopes were dashed. Equally, nationalism espoused by individual Arab states, was not succeeding. With the failure of pan Arabism and nationalism, which were both secular movements, people now turned to the religion of Islam, or Islamism, as a way forward.
Strands of Islamism can be detected throughout Islamic history. However, the current phenomenon can be traced to the doctrines of Wahhabism and Salafism that took root in Saudi Arabia in the eighteenth century. In the early twentieth century nationalists living under British and French mandates as well as those opposed to the British presence in Egypt, for example the Muslim Brotherhood, gradually turned to Islamism. With the suppression and imprisonment of members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century, and other activists opposed to the State of Israel, some of the leading thinkers and advocates of Islamism sought refuge in Saudi Arabia.
One such was Abdullah Yusuf Azzam who left Palestine to take up a teaching post at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah where he taught that militant Jihad was an obligatory duty of all Muslims. Azzam was teaching at the university during the late 1970s when Osama bin Laden, one of the founders of Al Qaeda, happened to be a student at the same university. It is quite likely that this is when Bin Laden first came under the influence of Azzam and his militant views.
It is possible to draw a straight line from Osama bin Laden to Daesh. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 Bin Laden volunteered, along with hundreds of other young Saudis, to support their Muslim brothers in the fight against the Russians. By 1988 he had gathered a band of followers together who became known as Al Qaeda ('the Base'). During this same period the West was providing him with arms.
When the Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989 Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia where he was greeted as a hero. He toured the country giving speeches about the injustices suffered by Muslims around the world: the Palestinians under the Israelis, the Chechens under the Soviets and the Bosnians at the hands of the Serbs. In 1990 when Bin Laden offered to lead his 'Afghan army' against Saddam Hussein following the invasion of Kuwait, the Saudi Monarchy rebuffed him. Instead the Monarchy accepted the protection of the United States. The sense of rejection and humiliation, coupled with his anger at the prospect of American boots on the ground in the 'Land of the Two Holy Mosques', would have a profound affect on Bin Laden.
Following the New York attack on the Twin Towers on the 11th September 2001, Bin Laden was the key suspect. Ten years later, in May 2011, United States Intelligence Forces tracked him down in Pakistan and shot him dead. Although Bin Laden had been executed, the Al Qaeda ideology remained alive and well. Indeed, it became even more of a threat as Al Qaeda members dispersed to all parts of the world.
The search for Bin Laden started in Afghanistan but the war against terror very quickly moved to Iraq. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that Saddam Hussein was harbouring weapons of mass destruction, many Al Qaeda operatives travelled there to fight the invading and occupying Western forces. They were known as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). In 2006 AQI merged with other Sunni militant groups to form the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).
Soon after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, began sending Al Qaeda fighters across the border into Syria where they formed the Al Nusra Front with an affiliation to Al Qaeda. In April 2013 Al Nusra merged with the Islamic State of Iraq becoming known as 'The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The following year, in June 2014 Al-Qaeda broke with ISIS, who now called itself the 'Islamic State' (IS) with Al Baghdadi as Caliph. Since the majority of Muslims don't recognise the legitimacy of the 'Islamic State' the organisation is more commonly referred to by the derogatory term Daesh. (For a more detailed account see my book Making Sense of Militant Islam.)
A few points are worth mentioning here. First, before the West's invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was no obvious Al Qaeda presence in the country. As mentioned above, Bin Laden's protégés went to Iraq after the US invasion in order to fight the Americans. The United States and her allies not only toppled Saddam Hussein but also disbanded Iraq's military forces and destroyed the country's infrastructure. Consequently, Al Qaeda and its successor Daesh filled the vacuum. Furthermore, displaced Iraqi army officers joined the ranks of Daesh and weapons captured from the Western forces were added to its arsenal.
Secondly, the fact that Daesh is far more extreme than Al Qaeda and has been criticised by mainstream Muslims as being un-Islamic, has not deterred many hundreds of young men and women from around the world travelling to Syria to join the terror group. These recruits are being indoctrinated into the hard line ideology that was propounded by Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, friend and mentor to Bin Laden. Perhaps more importantly, their commitment to militant Jihad is fed on the plight of the Palestinians and injustices of the post Ottoman peace treaties that robbed the Arab Muslims of their land. Indeed, one of the stated aims of Daesh is to restore the Ottoman Caliphate under a new Caliph.
Thirdly, it is relatively easy for members of Daesh to cross the border from Iraq into Syria and neighbouring countries. Cells now exist across the Levant and Southern Turkey, with a large presence in Libya. This ease of movement is not surprising when we consider that for centuries the region was all part of the Ottoman Empire. Countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya are less than a hundred years old. The borders that were put in place in the post Ottoman period are meaningless to many of the tribal peoples of the region. The British and French discovered this during the mandate period when both sides accused the other of harbouring terrorists.
Turning now to the Balkans, although the region was not put under foreign rule after the dissolution of the Empire, it nevertheless has suffered periods of instability, much of which can be traced back to the middle of the nineteenth century. Most of the conflicts in the Balkans are rooted in ethnic and religious differences, for example the Yugoslav Wars between 1991 and 2001.
Throughout most of the history of the Empire these differences were subsumed under the Ottoman policy of pluralism. However, ethnic and religious differences began to emerge from the seventeenth century onwards as the Ottomans lost territory to the Habsburgs. When Austria, Russia and to a lesser extent Britain, encouraged and supported the Christians of Ottoman Europe to rebel against their Muslim masters these differences became critical.
During the final decades of the Empire violent conflict between Christians and Muslims broke out, very often with Jews caught in the middle. Unspeakable atrocities were committed by all sides as the Ottomans fought for survival. For some Greek, Armenian, Jewish and Turkish people the suffering experienced is still within living memory and has fed into a fear and prejudice of the other that remains to this day, albeit perhaps just beneath the surface. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that some of the Balkan countries, for example Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, have taken a hard line against the plight of largely Muslim refugees fleeing the current Syrian crisis. In many cases rather than finding safety they have discovered their paths blocked by walls of barbed wire.
The final few words must be given to the Republic of Turkey, a state that was created out of the rump of the dying Empire. Kemal Ataturk, who became the first President, was convinced that the Ottomans had fallen behind the West largely because of their 'backward' religion of Islam. He was determined therefore that the new Republic would be based on secular values. In this he has been largely successful but in recent years Turkey has witnessed resurgence of Islamic observance, evidenced by an increase in the wearing of the hijab and the building of mosques. It has even been suggested that the current President aspires to reinstate the Caliphate with himself as Caliph.
The course of history follows the principle of cause and effect. Turkey has come a long way since 1923 but she is still haunted by the ghost of the Armenian tragedy and the problem of how to deal with the Kurds, both issues that were exacerbated by the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The refugee crisis that we are witnessing today can be traced back to the post-Ottoman period. It is a crisis that threatens the stability of Europe and the survival of the European Union.
Ed 29/07/2016 on 4:15 pm
Impressive articulation of the Middle Eastern problem.
Anne davison 30/07/2016 on 12:42 pm
Many thanks Ed.
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Nice and educative narrative of the Middle East history and problems!!
wpadmin 18/08/2016 on 5:02 pm
Many thanks Duke. I'm glad that you liked the article. Anne
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Il topo selvatico coreano (Apodemus peninsulae  ) è un roditore della famiglia dei Muridi diffuso nell'Estremo Oriente.

Descrizione

Dimensioni
Roditore di piccole dimensioni, con la lunghezza della testa e del corpo tra 80 e 118 mm, la lunghezza della coda tra 75 e 103 mm, la lunghezza del piede tra 21 e 23 mm e la lunghezza delle orecchie tra 14 e 17 mm.

Aspetto
Le parti superiori sono bruno-rossicce chiare, con dei riflessi bruno-giallastri lungo i fianchi, mentre le parti ventrali sono bianche, con la base dei peli grigia. Le orecchie sono dello stesso colore del dorso. La coda è lunga quanto la testa ed il corpo, bruno-nerastra sopra, bianca sotto e finemente ricoperta di peli. Le femmine hanno 2 paia di mammelle pettorali e 2 paia addominali.

Biologia

Comportamento
È una specie terricola. In estate è attiva dal tramonto e durante la notte, mentre in autunno ed inverno anche di giorno. Si rifugia in tane naturali o costruisce cunicoli lunghi fino a 3,5 metri e profondi 30-40 cm. Le tane hanno diverse camere e 1-2 uscite.

Alimentazione
Si nutre di radici, granaglie, semi, bacche, noci ed insetti. Ha la tendenza ad immagazzinare noci e ghiande.

Riproduzione
Si riproduce solitamente allo scioglimento delle nevi. Le femmine partoriscono 5-6 piccoli almeno 3 volte l'anno.

Distribuzione e habitat
Questa specie è diffusa nella Siberia centrale e orientale, Penisola coreana, Cina, Mongolia e sulle isole di Sachalin e Hokkaidō.

Vive nelle foreste fluviali, miste, nelle steppe, campi erbosi, zone coltivate e boschi alpini fino a 4.000 metri di altitudine. Si trova frequentemente negli edifici.

Tassonomia
Sono state riconosciute 7 sottospecie:
A.p.peninsulae : Penisola coreana;
A.p.giliacus (): Isole di Sachalin e Hokkaidō;
A.p.major (): Mongolia settentrionale;
A.p.nigritalus (): Kazakistan nord-orientale, Siberia dalla regione di Tomsk e Novosibirsk fino alle sponde orientali del Lago Baikal;
A.p.praetor (): Province cinesi dell'Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Mongolia interna; Siberia orientale dalla regione di Primorsky a sud fino a Magadan;
A.p.qinghaiensis (): Province cinesi del Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Ningxia e Xizang sud-orientale;
A.p.sowerbyi (): Province cinesi dello Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Pechino.

Stato di conservazione
La IUCN Red List, considerato che questa specie è comune e ampiamente diffusa, classifica A.peninsulae come specie a rischio minimo (LC).

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Miomorfi
Taxa classificati da Oldfield Thomas

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For the first time since April 14th, New York Mets third-baseman David Wright will play in a Major League Baseball game.
It's all become a reality for fans of the New York Mets. Their beloved captain David Wright is finally coming back.
Since playing in an early season game on April 14, Wright has been sidelined with the nagging condition known as spinal stenosis. As the Mets open up a four-game set against the bottom-feeding Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night, Wright will be in the lineup and man the hot-corner.
Wright, 32, hit .321 (9-for-28) with one RBI, five walks and six strikeouts in eight games with Class-A Port St. Luice during his rehab stint. He fielded his position well and ran the bases flawlessly.
Despite the solid rehab performance, most speculate Wright won't play everyday initially.
At this point nobody cares. Just the sight of No. 5 back with the big club will be a much needed cherry on top of the already fantastic feeling this club has after sweeping the Colorado Rockies this weekend.


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Empty Nest TV
Goofs and Inconsistencies
Laverne's Hickory Stories
Nurses: The Spinoff
Cast Info
Episode Scripts
The Golden Girls/Nurses Crossovers
Return to the Nest w/ Cast & Crew
Return to the Nest with Dinah Manoff
Return to the Nest with David Leisure
Return to the Nest with Park Overall
Return to the Nest with Marsha Warfield
Return to the Nest with Joel Silverman
Return to the Nest with Doug Smart
Return to the Nest with Maya Leisure
Celebrating 20 years of honoring Empty Nest!
David Leisure played skirt-chasing neighbor Charley Dietz. David talks candidly (and hilariously!) about surviving the show's original pilot, what it was really like working with his costars, and the appropriate attire for dining at Sizzler. Plus, we ask him about Joe Isuzu, too!
Empty Nest TV: You were in the original Empty Nest pilot, which aired as a Golden Girls episode with Rita Moreno and Paul Dooley. Rita has said what an unpleasant experience it was for her. What's your take?
David: Brandon Tartikoff had been at the helm of NBC for quite some time, and I'd been guest performing on a ton of NBC shows, comedy specials (one hosted by Brandon, Dick van Dyke and me, Mr. Lucky) and a lot of pilots that never saw the light of day. Empty Nestwas difficult, because it was a 13-minute insert into a Golden Girls episode. The Golden Girls was number one for Saturday night back then. But trying to flesh out one new character, let alone five, in a new setting is hard enough when you have 26 minutes, let alone 13, so things were a little rough. Jay Sandrich, the director, was unhappy, Bea Arthur was unhappy, but I didn't notice Rita being anything but gracious.
Paul Dooley was great. Geoffrey Lewis, brilliant character actor, Golden Globe winner, "backbone of this industry" kind of guy and father of Juliette Lewis, was funnier off camera than on because his part was a total gimmick. He played the brother to Paul Dooley's character, and he had a multiple personality disorder, so every time he came back into a room he was someone else. Looks funny on paper, but it didn't work on its feet. (I have an ex who I swear had the same thing! I only married one of her!) Barbara Barrie, who played Hal Linden's wife on Barney Miller, her daughter, I believe, played the daughter in the pilot, but I could be wrong. Her character was almost invisible.
I do remember a couple of really funny things. One is that, during the taping, Jay had to come out of the booth, onto the stage, and talk to me personally. He had to tell me to jack my energy down because I was so excited to be working with these people that, on my first entrance, I sort of bounced through the door instead of just walked in. Another was a great line I had that's actually coming true today. Dooley was on the phone, and I interrupted him (a character trait that continued on) and asked what some spot I had on my face was while I was looking at it with his soup spoon. He said it was a liver spot! I whined back, "Oh no! Not a liver spot! My dad had liver spots! He looked like a Dalmatian!" That line killed!
And, finally, in a scene with Bea Arthur, my character called her Dot instead of Dorothy. After being chastised by her to call her Dorothy, Oliver, that was my character's name in the pilot, who was too stupid to be intimidated by her, called her Dot again. This wasn't easy because Bea Arthur herself WAS intimidating, and it was sometimes hard to separate her from her character. (Until she had a couple of drinks in her. Then she'd have me sit in her lap.) The slow-burn look she gave Oliver had a two-and-a-half-minute laugh spread! She frickin' nailed it! But there was a tagline, and they cut the laugh to like a couple of seconds and used the line that should have been superfluous to the real comedy, which came from Bea herself. But that's when I learned that you don't fuck around with Susan Harris's writing. And that's a hard argument to win, because she's so brilliant.
By the way, a lot of people don't know this, but her son is author Sam Harris, who broke onto the scene with The End Of Faith. I hadn't realized it either until I was attending a debate he was headlining at UCLA, and there was Susan and Paul Witt in the audience, and I finally put two and two together. I went down to say "hi" to them and gushed about all his success. Paul was funny and said, "Yeah, well, I raised him!"
ENTV: When the show was retooled with Richard Mulligan at the helm, was your involvement a given or did you audition all over again?
David: I never thought the show had a chance of being made after that pilot. There didn't seem to be enough there to warrant it. But go figure. I didn't have to audition again. I had the job already. Richard had been so popular from his Soap character that we were off and running. That first season, he was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Emmy for Harry Weston. Everybody was glad to see him back on TV. I was told I was going to be in maybe 13 episodes. I got to do 21. I was in every episode every year after that. I was walking across the set, sometime around the third season, when I finally realized what a lucky bastard I was. They "let go" the entire rest of the original cast and had kept me, the next-door neighbor! Damn lucky.
If you watch the first season, it's really an "empty nest" to begin with. The daughters both have left home, and Harry's a widower. After a few months, the writing staff was having such a difficult time coming up with reasons for the girls to "drop in" to see dad, it took up so much time in the script (laying pipe), that they finally had to move them back in the house. So, technically, that nest wasn't empty anymore.
ENTV: Charley was the classic "wacky neighbor" character and a great foil for Carol. How would you describe him, and how was he to play?
David: When I came back to work, my actor's ego took a shot in the behind because my character changed from a test pilot in a leather jacket to an idiot who wore white Bermuda shorts, knee socks and worked on a cruise ship. I had become "Gopher" from The Love Boat. But, let's face it, they were writing to my acting range: lying, smarmy car salesman and obnoxious, mooching neighbor. I didn't have to work too hard to get there. I got to barge into the kitchen, lay a couple of zingers down, get some laughs and get kicked out by Harry. It was a great character that was pretty much the real me. I'd usually have two or three scenes a week. Richard used to kid me that I was the highest paid "under five" (five lines or less) in the business. Ha ha ha, he was right! I figured out that one week (Garth Brooks week) I made money by the word. I think Park exaggerated that to $10,000 a word, but it was really only $2,500.
Richard worked hard. "You bastard," he'd say to me, "I've got to carry this show on my back, memorize 40 pages, and you waltz in with your silver bullets that I set up and get laughs?" He was joking, of course, but he was right. He worked his ass off. He used the dining room table on the set as his workplace. He was always there, the captain of our ship. I learned a lot about being a professional from Richard. And he was smart! One time on the show, Charley was being kept by an older, rich woman that today you'd call a cougar/MILF. Harry has a scene with Charley where he tells him to just stop seeing her, that it's not right and to give everything back. Basically, the writers were going for a visual gag where I take off all the clothes she gave me, and I'm left standing there in only my boxers and a pinky ring: "And give back the ring, too." But it didn't make any sense. This is what Charley has lived for all his life, free everything, and it wasn't working in rehearsals.
Richard took me aside and fixed it in about a minute without rewriting a thing but switching the lines around. Pure genius. At notes, when the writers and actors go back and forth about what is and isn't working, Richard starts talking about this scene and dances all around, telling the writers we have a problem because of this and that. I'm sitting there wondering why he just doesn't tell them the fix he came up with. Then I finally get it. He's so considerate and intelligent! He's trying to get the writers to come up with it themselves and write it. They have egos, too. They got pretty close, but it wasn't as good as what he came up with. But what a guy, huh?
ENTV: Dinah Manoff said the episode where Carol and Charley sleep together is one of her favorites. What are some of yours?
David: That show where we sleep together was almost impossible to do. Dinah and I are such pals and loved being bitchy to each other on the show in character. We had to kiss. You know, it's that moment when you stare into each other's eyes and slowly come together, stop, then go in for the kiss. We couldn't get through it in rehearsals because we kept cracking up. It was like incest. And in front of a live audience that knows the show and the characters, they went crazy, and we'd crack up again, which just makes the audience go crazier. I think Dinah finally said, "Fuck it. Let's make out." And we just kissed between takes in front of the audience for two straight minutes, so everybody could get used to it for the scene. She's pretty smart. That's two things; pretty and smart.
"The Fracas in Vegas" was a fun episode, written by David Richardson. He wrote a lot of great episodes, and I'm not just saying that because we're friends and I owe him money. "Overboard" was fun. I got to wear one of my gazillion different costumes. I think I was a guru in that one. I was a one-legged pirate with a parrot on my shoulder in another show. I was always in some sort of weird costume. Once I was walking across the stage wearing a killer whale costume and our warm-up guy, Michael Burger (who was brilliant, by the way), asked me if I'd answer questions from the audience. My face came out of the whale's mouth, and it had these two rubbery arms that bounced every time I turned my head to talk. So now I get asked by an audience member how, as an actor, I prepare for each week's show. I have a plaque that Doug Smart gave me with the answer: "If I was a better actor, I wouldn't have to wear these fucking costumes!"
"Brotherly Shove" was another one I couldn't stop cracking up in. Peter Scolari played my brother, Deiter Dietz. One of those chemistry things, I guess. Years later, I guest starred on his show Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, and the same thing happened.
ENTV: Tell me about working with your castmates.
David: Dreyfuss was a big pain in the ass, because he couldn't remember his lines. We had a photo shoot for his birthday once where I had to hold his chin up with one hand and hold a giant piece of birthday cake in front of him. The cake was made of hamburger. The drool from Bear's mouth was cascading down my arm and pooling up on the floor. They finally had to get a mop and then a bucket. I took a shower afterwards with Mr. Clean. Hmmm, that came out kinda weird, didn't it?
Estelle Getty didn't drool as bad as Dreyfuss, but she was pretty bad with lines. She made that part of her character, and it worked. If you ever watch The Golden Girls or Empty Nest, watch how she nails a joke. She turns downstage, towards the camera, and delivers a punch line. She does that because that's where the cue cards were with her lines written on them. And what's weird is that, at the table read, she would be perfect. As the week progressed, she'd lose a little something. By tape night, she couldn't remember a thing. Oh well, it happens to us all. Now days, I have to look at my driver's license to remember where I live. And it's an old license, so I end up in somebody else's house.
Marsha Warfield and I had a connection way before Empty Nest. I'm not sure if it was an NBC connection, because she was on Night Court taking over for all the other actresses who had died in the same part. But she and I had worked together and appeared together a couple of times. Her comedy was much more than her just being droll. She had her own talk show in the early 90s and had me on with M.C. Hammer. Being the quintessential tight-assed white guy that I am, I had no idea who he was. Marsha is funny, fast and cuts deep. I can say that more than once I found myself laughing in a pool of my own blood.
Lisa Rieffel was a great kid. She had the impossible job of becoming the third sister after Kristy McNichol left the show. She was very good, but it didn't work out. When her band, Killola, was in L.A., I went with my daughter to see her perform, met her after, and we caught up. She was totally punked out!
I'd like to catch up with Paul Provenza someday, too. After he was on our show, and we closed down, he went to Northern Exposure and shut that show down, too. If you have a show you're trying to get rid of, Better Call Paul! He produced the movie The Aristocratsabout the dirtiest joke in the world that everybody knows but you can't tell except in private. I went to see it at a theater, and I guess a lot of people thought it was going to be like a Disney film or something because, by the end of the film, there were only 10 of us left, ha ha ha!
Park Overall had a thing about jokes involving Southern culture or the image that there is nothing but rednecks. Lines like "chiggers on a mountain woman" drove her nuts. Of course, even she would admit it's a short drive for her to "nuts." (Love you, Park!) But she made even that low-hanging fruit work, because she's a good actress. What I mean to say is that she's a good actress for someone from Tennessee. (Love you, Park!)
Kristy McNichol had the best instincts. Unlike myself, who made a meal out of every line, she did more with less. She was winning Emmys at 8 when I was waiting on tables at 30. One time, we had a guest director who was watching her performance on stage. After the scene, he got in her face and said she missed all the comic beats. She asked him where he was watching from, and he said, "Right in front of you." She told him to go look at the monitor replay and see what comic beats are missing there. She was right on! They were all there for the camera. When she had to leave the show, the chemistry got unbalanced. Seriously, look at what they did to try and fix it. They brought in Paul Provenza, Marsha Warfield, Lisa Rieffel and Estelle Getty, all great actors, to fill that gap. When she came back for the last two shows, she slipped into that role so seamlessly that it was like she'd never been gone. There was a lull in the taping on the final day, everything was dead quiet on stage, and Victor, one of our great prop masters, accidentally verbalized what everyone had been thinking: "So, Kristy…where you been?" There was this uncomfortable moment then everybody started giggling. That turned into sweet tears.
Richard Mulligan was true to his character, Harry Weston, for seven seasons, even though every once in a while the writers would try to get him to be Burt from Soapagain. He wouldn't do it. Only once did he do it. In the last season, they ran out of ideas all the time, and we were getting last-second script rewrites constantly. One show, we were two minutes short, and even after the last set of rewrites we were still two minutes short. Richard said, "Okay! You guys have been trying to get me to do this for years. I'll fill your two minutes at the top of the show, and you don't need to write anything. Just roll the cameras." So for two minutes, Richard did a Chaplinesque silent version of Burt from Soap making coffee and toast. It was the funniest thing on the show. He was incredible.
Dinah Manoff. What did Dorothy say to the Scarecrow? "I think I'll miss you most of all." Love her so much! Which is funny because that first season I thought she was a total bitch, and she was driving everybody crazy. And I told her so. And she replied, very calm and matter-of-factly, back to me, "Well, thank you for that information and for telling me. But would you mind calling me Dinah and not Dianna because that's my name." And there was a silent but implied "DUMBASS" at the end of her sentence. Been in love with her ever since. Unlike me, Dianna, sorry, I mean Dinah, has an acting pedigree. She's been in some great films. Films I paid to see. So when I thought she was working way too hard to make things in the show make sense, it's because she's really an actor doing what good actors do. Unlike me, who just makes things bigger, louder and more like F Troop. But sitcom is a different animal. There just isn't enough time ever. In the first season, Dianna, sorry, I mean Dinah, had given herself so much business she couldn't get everything timed out right. After about three blown takes, and this is in front of a live audience, she put her head down on the counter and said, "I'm so sorry. I just wanted to do this so badly!" Hal Cooper, our producer and director at the time, came over the loud speaker like the voice of God and said for all to hear, "Well, so far you have." That broke the tension, and the next take was perfect because she could laugh at herself. What a pro! Love me some Dinah!
ENTV: Any other behind-the-scenes stories to share?
David: Witt/Thomas/Harris, back in the 80s and 90s, was a juggernaut of TV production. We're talking about when there were only three networks, not like today. So if you were on TV, it was pretty cool. It was like the old studio days of MGM and Warner Bros. Going to work for me was a treat. I'd grown up watching old movies and as a latchkey kid, so TV was my babysitter. The studio at Ren-Mar always had eight to 10 shows working at the same time, and I'd get to work with people I'd grown up with watching TV.
Paul Witt was one of the nicest "producers" you could ever ask for. But he did have a hard time remembering which of the 50 shows he produced you were on. And who could blame him? One of the actresses on It's A Living was playing pregnant on the show. Seeing her on set, he congratulated her on her pregnancy. Everybody thought he was kidding until he sent her baby gifts. After Nurses got cancelled, I ran into him at a friend's and co-producer's wedding. We chatted for a moment, and he looked at me with empathy and asked, "So, how are you doing?" I said, "Hey, everything is great. The show is great, too." I watched him roll through his mental Rolodex until he landed on David Leisure and not David Rasche. "Well, of course you are," he said with a rye smile, trying to recoup.
I read where Park talked about Bea Arthur's gum chewing phobia, which was true. She had radar that extended out about 100 feet and would walk over to you to have you spit it out. Also that she hated Betty White, which was true, because she felt that Betty was an actor/whore that would take any job, which is also true. But hell, Betty's still working, and she's 95!
Bea prided herself on never, and I mean never, blowing lines, no matter who else did. There's a story that once Estelle kept blowing a line, which happened all the time, but both Rue McClanahan and Bea would do theirs right. Then Rue started blowing her line, and Bea was trying to keep it together. Finally, Bea started blowing her lines. It's catching, you know? Anyway, Bea said, after blowing it two or three times after everyone else had, "This is going fucking terrible!" right in front of the audience. Betty, who wasn't in the scene, stuck her head out through some doorway and said to the audience, "Well, I think it's going very well, don't you?" The audience started screaming with laughter. But Bea wasn't laughing. Story goes that she went backstage and was going to kill Betty, and they had to hold her back. Anyway, that's the story.
I had a dressing room next to Loni Anderson, who at that time was getting divorced from Burt Reynolds. I was getting divorced from one of the women I had married. And Richard was getting divorced from a really, really bad "What was I thinking?!" marriage. All three at the same time. We'd all meet in one another's dressing rooms and have therapy disses about what jerks our spouses were.
ENTV: So what are you up to these days?
David: I am 99.99% retired. Actors don't actually retire, the phone just stops ringing, but what else are you going to say? I live on a mountain at 8,000 ft. in Park City, Utah, where I can walk to go ski in the winter, or hike, go fly-fishing or play golf in the summer. Not too bad, eh? I still do some voiceover work, and there's always charities who need a free M.C., which I've done about a billion of. I turn 65 this year, and Richard passed away at 67, so I'm going to enjoy what's left on the end of my tape measure of life. I have an actor pal who says that if you look at your life like it is a tape measure, you'll have so many on one side and so many left to go. I've got 65 inches on the "been there already" side, and if I'm lucky, 20 good inches to go. And by good I mean active and vibrant, before I'm in a diaper with a cat in my lap or going to Sizzler in a walker with an oxygen tank and a nose bib. By the way, a green oxygen tank and a walker is the dress code for both Sizzler and the Home Town Buffet.
ENTV: Finally, while it isn't Empty Nest related, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask about your other iconic character, Joe Isuzu. How much fun was he to play? I loved the spoof endorsement campaign for Mitt Romney a few years ago.
David: This happens once about every 10 years or so to an actor. Look at Stephanie Courtney, for instance. Who, you ask? Flo, from the Progressive commercials. She's really good. Member of The Groundlings improv company.
When I auditioned for the part, they were looking to ape Jon Lovitz from SNL. But his character was based on thinking up a lie. You only have 21 seconds in a commercial to get whatever it is you want to say out, and it wasn't working for the casting people. So I just smiled and talked and apparently made it work because I'm just so damn sincere. I was having a very successful commercial career, but this really put me over the top. It also ended my commercial career because I was so identified with the product, I became Joe Isuzu! No one prepares you for a loss of anonymity. It took me a while to be gracious to people that only wanted to show me that they liked me by, out of nowhere, walking up to me and telling me a lie. At first I just thought, "Who is this crazy person, and what the hell are they talking about?" It was just that it happened so fast, being recognized. Anyway, it opened a lot of doors for me, especially Empty Nest, and I am very fortunate. I'm the luckiest guy from El Cajon, California.
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"Reduce, reuse, recycle" has been the battle cry of environmentalists everywhere for a while now. Recycling is a major way to help the environment and reserve our finite resources. However, what is shocking to many is that the recyclables you put into the bin may still end up in a landfill.
Single Stream recycling makes it easier to recycle: no sorting. Everything just goes into one bin, creating an incentive to recycle more things. It really cannot get any easier. The problem with single stream recycling is the efficiency is lowered, increasing the chances that some recyclables will actually not be recycled. To some this decrease in efficiency defeats the entire purpose of recycling. Recycling reduces the need for extraction of raw material, and therefore manufacturing consumes less energy than it would from raw materials.
For me, I believe the lack in efficiency might be cancelled out by the increase in actual recycling that would occur if this system were in place. People want things to be easy and do not want to go out of their way to recycle. The same is true with me if I am in a rush. I'm not saying it is right, but it's the truth. Most people in the dorms recycle maybe half of what they could be because sorting can be a hassle. Or there are people like me, who when running out the door puts everything in one recycle bin outside, no matter if the recyclables are in the correctly labeled bin or not. I hope Ithaca College considers switching to Single Stream Recycling in order to raise awareness about the importance of recycling, but also to raise awareness at how effortless helping the environment can be.


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Audio Review - Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Published 2009 (first published 2008) by Playaway
Chelsea Mixon as Katsa & Zachary Exton as Prince Po
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight — she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme, and in her case horrifying, skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change.
She never expects to become Po's friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace — or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away... a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.
Day in and day out, Katsa has to put her Grace to use. She is gifted with the Grace of killing and her uncle, the king, sends Katsa out to do his dirty work. When she meets Prince Po, she thinks that perhaps she has found the only worthy person to practice her fighting skills. What she finds is more than a fighting partner. Katsa learns that her Grace is more than meets the eye and even though she doesn't want to tie herself to Po forever, she can't possibly live without him.
For some odd dumb reason, I kept pushing Graceling aside. To be honest, I think it was the sword on the cover that turned me off. Silly I know, but I have "issues" with high fantasy books and as a result, this area isn't one of my strong suits. I'm working on it! (For the record, Graceling is not high fantasy) Regardless, many people told me to give Graceling a try and when I saw the Playaway version at the library, I had to give it a go.
Graceling is one of those books that makes you want to live back in the days where words like "crunk," "fo-shizzle," and "jank" don't exist. Although the vocabulary is made up of simple, everyday words, there is a sophisticated feel and air of properness that add to the quality of the story. In fact, it is what makes this story great. Simply put, Cashore has a way with words. Yes, the dialect has something to do with the time period and setting, but let's be honest, Cashore has a gift. For me, the language was the most special aspect of this book and it adds a lightness and airy quality feel to a book about a girl killer and her journey to accept who she is and meant to be.
Close second? The sweet romance between Katsa and Po - hands down. Man, I was really hoping that there was something more than friendship between the two. When we see that yes, indeed, love is in the air, my heart made a little jump. Surely I am repeating others thoughts, but Katsa's decision to remain unwed and essentially free of the confines of marriage, I wanted to leap for joy! Katsa's explanation for remaining "single" was sound and, to me, made perfect sense. Why would she go from serving one man - the king - to serving another? Of course, Po wouldn't ask her to do something against her will, but for Katsa, she would be living a life that she didn't envision for herself. She never thought love or marriage was an option - only death. Po doesn't push Katsa; he accepts that he will have Katsa anyway she will allow. How refreshing! Yes, very unlikely for the time period, but the message that it conveys is extraordinary. What is even more special about the arrangement is that they had a meaningful conversation about what the other person wanted and expected. Does this happen in real life between young people? No, probably not, but it should. I think those scenes where Katsa and Po were figuring out what would work for them as individuals and as a couple, were beautifully unique.
This audio version was a full cast reading. What does that mean? There was more than one reader. In fact, there were too many to count! Katsa (Chelsea Mixon) and Po (Zachary Exton) had unique voices, as well as the awesome narrator (David Baker). When Bitterblue enters the story (the tie that will bind book 1 and book 3), I was more than happy a grown woman wasn't trying to turn her voice into that of a child's. Listening to a full cast version was like listening to a play - just not watching it. The actors chosen were sensational. Each actor was so convincing and I could easily hear and understand the emotion behind the words. When I was doing a little digging around about Cashore, I ran across this video about the making of full cast audio version. Watch and be amazed!
Understand what I mean? Amazing! If you have already read Graceling, please give the full cast version a try. Yes, it is over 14 hours long, but beyond worth it. New to the story? The Playaway version is the way to go! Check out Cashore's website for awesome versions of Graceling and the sequel, Fire!
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