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Sinclair Community College Workforce Development SkillsTrac courses help career minded employees stay on the job
What skills are being sought by Dayton businesses
Lynn Hulsey, Staff Writer
Some jobs need high-tech workers, some just need people to show up on time.
Sit down with any group of local business leaders and you can bet the conversation will turn to the "skills gap" and the difficulty companies have finding the right worker for jobs.
"There is a talent shortage," said Joanie Krein, vice president-market manager for Manpower of Dayton Inc. "Manufacturing in Dayton is at a critical level as far as the labor shortage. But also skilled trades, engineers, sales representatives."
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What companies are looking for depends on the job, but here is a primer of the skills most in demand.
Most people in the region — more than 90 percent, according to U.S. Census data — have at least a high school degree or GED, but employers are increasingly seeking a credential beyond that. Highly sought skills include welding, construction, automotive technology, computer-aided manufacturing, specific computer software programs or dental assisting.
College still matters. Of 15,554 ads posted on Ohio's online jobs board from May to June of this year in 12 area counties – including Montgomery, Greene and Clark counties – 71 percent required either an associate's degree (45.5 percent), bachelor's degree (21.5 percent), or a master's or doctorate (4.1 percent). "There is tremendous demand for high-quality STEM individuals," said Michael Bridges, president of Peerless Technologies Corp. in Fairborn, a defense contracting company requiring workers who are highly skilled in science, technology, engineering and math. "They can be a little harder to get and can be a little more demanding in terms of their salary and benefit requirements."
Employers value the so-called soft skills: being able to communicate effectively, work as part of a team, use critical thinking to resolve problems, and to show initiative. "The number one thing we hear are leadership skills – all levels from beginning to C-suite executives," said Shannon Byrant, Sinclair Community College interim vice president for workforce development.
Be responsible. Employers expect workers to have proficiency in the basics — reading, writing, math — and to show responsibility. "Everybody from across the world, they are complaining about people not showing up every day and not showing up on time and (about) getting enough people to pass a drug test," said Melinda Jeffrey, marketing and career development manager for Hobart Institute of Welding Technology in Troy.
Tom Crawford, instructor at at The Hobart Institute of Welding Technology instructs Brett Schulte of Ottawa, Ohio, who has since graduated. Hobart graduates earn about $18 an hour upon graduation.
Photo: Staff Writer
Jan Lepore-Jentleson, executive director of East End Community Services in Dayton, said not showing up for work on time may not reflect on a person's work ethic. Many people in this region lack reliable child care or a good social network to help out when the unexpected pops up, she said.
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"We see it all the time in warehousing and distribution," Lepore-Jentleson said. "Women will get told that morning that they have to work a 10-hour shift or a 12-hour shift. And what are they going to do with their children? I think that's short-sightedness on the part of employers."
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Jerry Parisi, chairman and chief executive of I Supply Co, a Fairborn restaurant supply distributor, said he hires plenty of people with kids, but companies with 24/7 operations like his don't always have the flexibility in staffing to cover for workers who call off because of child care issues.
"Employers can't afford too much bench in every position to perform the tasks (during) an absent employee's unexpected absence," Parisi said.
Joanie Krien, vice president-market manager at Manpower of Dayton Inc.
Krein said it is costly to hire and train an employee, only to lose that person because of child care or transportation issues. Instead, she said, employers when possible should offer flexible schedules, let people work from home and "don't put up unnecessary barriers to people that are in need."
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Some employers got in the habit of being overly choosy about job candidates when unemployment was high and thousands of people were hunting for jobs, Krein said.
"The expectations that employers had about attracting and retaining talent 10 years ago really have to change because we are not in the same job market now," she said. "If you are paying less (than your competitors) it's a pretty clear indication of why you can't find talent."
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Want a job?
In addition to technical skills, here are the so-called soft skills employers look for in a job applicant
Ability to communicate
Can lead and motivate people
Can take initiative to set and achieve goals
Can solve problems logically and creatively
Can handle change and adapt
Can relate well with others
Is motivated to pursue and complete projects
Has ability to understand data, statistics and graphs
Source: OhioMeansJobs.com
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Sipalay è una città componente delle Filippine, situata nella Provincia di Negros Occidental, nella Regione di Visayas Occidentale.

Sipalay è formata da 17 baranggay:

Barangay 1 (Pob.)
Barangay 2 (Pob.)
Barangay 3 (Pob.)
Barangay 4 (Pob.)
Barangay 5 (Pob.)
Cabadiangan
Camindangan
Canturay
Cartagena
Cayhagan
Gil Montilla
Mambaroto
Manlucahoc
Maricalum
Nabulao
Nauhang
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Ask.com Gives Up on Search: Site Refocuses on Q&A Service
By John P. Mello Jr.
What happened to Ask.com's search engine? It was put out to pasture Tuesday by the company that says it's giving up on trying to compete with Google.
Ask.com says its getting out of the search engine business but stresses its Ask.com site isn't going anywhere. It will live on -- and so will Ask Jeeves "the butler," the company says. Moving forward Ask.com will focus on providing a topnotch question-and-answer service helping people find what they are looking. Ask.com says it will still offer a search option, but will outsource the search technology to a yet to be named third-partly.
The sites departure from using a search algorithm was announced by Doug Leeds, president of Ask.com, which is a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp. It's estimated that the site currently has a two percent share of the U.S. online search market. By contrast, the market leader Google has a 65 percent share.
The closing of the search service will cost 130 engineers in Edison, New Jersey and Hangzhou, China their jobs, although 20 of the Garden State workers are being asked to relocate to Oakland, Calif., where the search unit's headquarters is located, Leeds told Bloomberg news. All work on its algorithmic search technology will cease, he added.
While search operations will be put to rest, the unit will continue to operate, focusing its efforts on its question-and-answer service.
Troubled Search Past
Ask.com was launched in the late 1990s as Ask Jeeves, a search site that was designed to offer answers to natural-language queries. It was designed so that users could pose questions in plain English; those questions were then fed through a database of question templates that had been matched with Web pages by a team of human editors.
The site, complete with its mascot -- Jeeves, the butler -- was designed to be your own personal Internet valet. But many users were left unsatisfied with its results, and the site struggled mightily in the early 2000s, and eventually dumped Jeeves as a mascot and rebranded itself as plain-old Ask.com.
Ask was purchased in 2005 for $1.85 billion by Media Mogul Barry Diller. "A group of four or five players is going to be able to thrive in this market, much like other advertising-supported media businesses," Diller said when he bought Ask. "Because of that, a player like Ask has the greatest opportunity for gaining share." According to the Nielsen Company, Ask is ranked sixth among search providers.
Google Factor
Leeds admitted to Bloomberg that Google became too much for Ask to compete with. "It's become this huge juggernaut of a company that we really thought we could compete against by innovating," he said. "We did a great job of holding our market share but it wasn't enough to grow the way IAC had hoped we would grow when it bought us."
Diller, too, admitted as much in an email statement sent to the business news service. "We've realized in the last few years you can't compete head on with Google," he said.
As of this afternoon, Web search was still available at the Ask site. A search with the term "Ask.com" yielded no results mentioning the death of the service.

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Normally coffee brandy is mixed with straight milk or coffee, but with today's epic #snowpocalypse, Mainers might find themselves reaching for an extra glass or two of our state's most popular libation.
PORTLAND — Spuds would seem an unlikely inspiration for delectable doughnuts. But when single mom Leigh Kellis decided to channel her passion for doughnuts into a business, it was a mashed potato-based batter that sparked her imagination.
Maine is one of the country's top producers of potatoes, and Kellis calls the vegetable "a totally magical ingredient" that adds moisture and crumb to the light cakes. Potato doughnuts per se aren't new — Kellis got the basics from a recipe in "The Joy of Cooking." But she refined the recipe to create her own unique batter using all-natural ingredients and began tweaking it with imaginative flavor combinations, such as ginger-glazed sweet potato and Allen's Coffee Brandy. She even makes a vegan cinnamon sugar doughnut and an old-fashioned plain for purists.
OXFORD, ME — Off the wall, fun family entertainment makes its debut on Saturday, June 21st, 7pm at Oxford Plains Speedway as Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy presents the first Motor Mayhem event of 2014.
When we travel, as a general rule, we like to order what the locals do. And in some places around the country, the locals enjoy pretty…well…unique drinks. Here are a few regional specialties we've come across that you can't really find anywhere else. Make sure to try them the next time you have a chance.
The top-selling spirit in Maine for more than two decades is a coffee-flavored brandy, something that could be straight out of early medicine texts. A search for the origins of a Maine staple, in the northern woods and waterfronts.
Served straight, Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy smells like coffee. On the palate it starts saccharine sweet, then moves through coffee notes, and ends up somewhere sharper than a port. It's boozy, and at 60 proof, tastes like it could get you drunk.
I don't think I've ever been to a party in a gravel pit where there hasn't been at least one handle of Allen's Coffee Brandy being poured into cartons of milk. For the uninitiated, Allen's Coffee Brandy is an exceptionally popular libation here in Maine, where over a million bottles are consumed each year; that's one bottle for nearly every man, woman, and child in the state.
Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy continues to reign supreme as Mainers' alcoholic beverage of choice, according to new data released by the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages & Lottery Operations. However, sales in 2011 did fall over previous years.


Now The Details: In Journalism, Does it Matter Who Pays Your Salary?
In Journalism, Does it Matter Who Pays Your Salary?
The public editor at the New York Times, Margaret Sullivan posted in her blog that a reader assumes she must be biased in favor of her employer because she takes her salary from the Times.
To this one reader, this must mean she pulls her punches when it comes to criticizing the journalism at the paper. Sullivan thinks not, and as she rightly points out, someone will always assume that she is "gumming the hand that feeds her" to quote media critic Jack Shafer who is not a fan of ombudsmen.
At NPR, I regularly got phone calls and emails from listeners accusing me of pulling my punches precisely because of who cut my check. I replied that I would be happy to be paid by a third party, if such a person could be found.
The same criticism has been thrown at NPR in the past. But it can't be levelled most recently at the present ombudsman. Edward Schumacher-Matos was very tough on a six part investigative report on the foster care system in South Dakota. Management was sufficiently outraged, that it posted a sformal rejection of the Ombudsman's report. It can be found on the NPR website next to Schumacher-Matos' excellent adjudication.
Mathew Ingram from GigaOm weighed in as well.
He tweeted that having the ombudsman in the newsroom can cause an outbreak of nerves among the journalists.
Journalists, in my experience, are not so easily intimidated. Being contrarians by nature, they might even go out of their way to be audacious, just to drive the Ombuds (and management) a little crazy (crazier?) and make things that much more interesting.
And if location, location, location is anything to go by, public editors/ombudsmen have been found in many different places in various newsrooms.
In the old New York Times building, the public editors were located on the 11th floor, not far from the publisher's office and about eight stories away from the newsroom.
Michael Getler, when he was the Ombudsman at the Washington Post, was in a glass enclosed cubicle in the middle of the newsroom, Likewise Ian Mayes at The Guardian. The fishbowl effect was supposed to allow for private conversations, I was told. But everyone could see who the ombudsman was talking with.
Vince Carlin and Esther Enkin, ombudsmen at the CBC had an office on the seventh floor of the Broadcasting Centre in Toronto - three floors above the newsrooms.
At NPR, I was also three floors away from the newsroom. I preferred that distance so a private chat with journalists was possible.
But olympian detachment is not a good quality for ombudsmen. A daily stroll through the newsroom is necessary, just to stay in touch, to pick up some useful bits of information or gossip (sometimes the same thing) and get asked for an ethical opinion. But I was careful not to act as a replacement for a reporter's editor. That relationship had to remain constant.
As for Margaret Sullivan, she has shown that being the Times' public editor is a necessary part of a modern media organization. She has brought excellence and toughness to one of the most interesting jobs in journalism.
But nowhere in the job description does it say it's supposed to be easy.


Citation Xing, Y.-C., B.-B. Lv, E.-Q. Ye, E.-Y. Fan, S.-Y. Li, L.-X. Wang, C.-G. Zhang and Y.-H. Zhao, 2015. Revalidation and redescription of Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li, 1966 (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae) from China. Zootaxa 3962(1):191-205.
Address Natural Resource and Environment Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China.


CHALK is the debut release of Morgan Spurlock's (Oscar nominated for Super Size Me) new distribution company venture with Hart-Sharp Productions, to release films with social relevance.
Chalk. A film by Morgan Spurlock. Movie review by Ester Molayeme.
Morgan Spurlock presents CHALK, a film written and directed by teachers, from the teachers' perspective on the High School experience. As its premise it uncovers why 50% of teachers quit teaching within the first three years. The cast cohesiveness and their exceptional performance won CHALK the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival special Jury award as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast.
In their first feature film, the feature was shot in 18 days at the High School where Mike Akel taught in Texas. Writer/director Mike Akel along with writer/actor Chris Mass, named the film's teaching characters after actual teachers that impacted them the most (but without necessarily representing those teachers in the movie), hired their own students, and brought to the screen some of their funniest classroom experiences as High School teachers.
Mrs. Reddell (Shannon Haragan) has been recently appointed to the Assistant Principal position. With newly acquired administrative powers, Mrs. Reddell is tightly enforcing school policy, a difficult task especially when that enforcement strains her close friendship with the former teaching colleague, Coach Webb (Janelle Schremmer).
Shannon relates: "Quite honestly, because there was no script, the amount of [role] preparation that I actually could do was minimal. Coming from a stage background, so much of my prep time is usually centered on the script, and things that can be mined from the actual text. We had none of that! So I did what I could, which basically was to try to understand the role of an "AP" better (the first thing I learned was that AP stood for assistant principal -- I had no idea!).
Mike Akel put me in touch with Jeannie Acton, one of the Assistant Principals at the High School where he had worked. She was incredibly helpful. After that conversation, I really had quickly developed an enormous respect for this position. What AP's do in a given day, the responsibility they carry, is HUGE-- and I really think most people just have no idea!! I know when I was in school, I just kind of thought of the AP as the Principal - lite. Softer around the edges, not a lot of responsibility, mainly there to be pals with the students and assist the principal. I was soooo wrong.
Once I arrived in Austin and we started shooting, I would say what really helped the most was the reality of the surroundings, being in a real High School with real students, the props (the walkie-talkie, the keys), and the clothes. I typically don't dress like Mrs. Reddell, so that definitely made me feel very different.
CHALK gradually transitions from the teachers' first day of class filled with a sense of novelty and uncertainty, to the development of cohesiveness and trust toward the end of the academic year, bonding with the students as well as with the audience.
Remarkable is the projected realism acquired through the verite' style, having actors, and non-actors, improvise from developed storylines and characters rather than a completed screenplay. The realistic tone was enhanced by the extraordinary photography of Steven Schaefer capturing emotions for which at times there are no words, as for example the scene where Mr. Stroope communicates to his students the "Teacher of the Year" award outcome.
There are several hilarious moments throughout the movie but most importantly it is about truly dedicated teachers who, notwithstanding the obstacles, are sincerely determined to make a difference.
I thought it was absolutely hilarious and endearing. I'm buying copies for all the teachers in my family.
Love the movie. I'm a teacher and this movie is so true! The copy scene is the best. Good job!
This film is terrific!! Even as a primary teacher, the story rings so true. Loves the added commentary in the bonus bits.
As a former Texas high school student and a secondary history teacher in CA, I throughly enjoyed CHALK. My main problem was that members of the staff kept hi-jacking my classes and hiding them from me. The first 20 years in San Rafael was paradise. We often joked about wondering how much we owed the district each day. As times changed, so did the school. I loved the comparison of education in America being compared to Israel being the cause of all the problems in the Middle East. How true.


In mid-November 2016, the chiropractic profession received significant exposure on nationally syndicated television, with a feature on The Dr. Oz Show.
Two segments of the show addressed the circumstances of model and social media personality Ms. Katie May, who succumbed to a brain infarction secondary to a vertebral artery dissection on February 4, 2016.
As the show approached there was considerable apprehension about its impact on the profession and those who could be well-served by chiropractic care.
The first of the two segments involved a discussion between members of Katie May's family and Dr. Oz.
Much to the surprise of many, the family was not anti-chiropractic and did not blame the chiropractor from whom Ms. May had sought care. Their interest was in bringing attention to the possible risks of cervical spine adjusting, from their perspective, as a family that believes they were greatly impacted by such a risk. The family was dignified, tempered, and concerned as they shared their questions and opinions with Dr. Oz and his audience.
The second segment involved two repeat guests on the Dr. Oz Show, persons who were familiar with the show setting, as well as with the subject matter of the day. Among Dr. Oz's content experts were Steven Shoshany, DC, a practicing chiropractor for more than 20 years from New York City, and Carolyn Brockington, MD, a neurologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital also in New York City.
Could chiropractic manipulation have played a role in the circumstances of Ms. May?
How important is an adequate patient history for the chiropractor in dealing with a patient with neck pain?
How is the chiropractic profession addressing concerns in this area?
Shoshany handled the opportunity with considerable professionalism and efficiency. Not only did he answer the questions using the science of the day referring to the articles of Cassidy, Kosloff, and Church, but he also provided an explanation of the origin of dissection based on the facts of a photo-shoot in which Ms. May was involved preceding her neck pain.
Shoshany did an excellent job contextualizing the discussion.
Brockington was equally adept in her presentation as she called on her experience as a neurologist at a major stroke center. She detailed how dissections occur in seemingly healthy and vibrant people for no apparent reason and that most dissections don't yield a stroke, let alone a fatality.
She drew upon her recent experience with a patient who presented to Mt. Sinai experiencing stroke symptoms following painting a ceiling—a classic illustration of this problem referred to by chiropractors for decades.
The closing comments of Dr. Oz were extremely important, as after all, this was his show and his platform. He reminded the audience that dissections occur; they are a fact of life. He added there is no reason to avoid seeing a chiropractor with neck pain for fear of a dissection, but there is a need to be open and share any and all symptoms experienced with neck pain whether the patient thinks they are related or not.
What does this mean for chiropractic?
It is safe to say we likely have not heard the last of discussion related to Katie May and chiropractic care. It is also probable that this discussion in 2016 is emerging in a radically different manner than it would have in 1996 or 1976.
We all need to do everything we can to help make our care safer today than it was yesterday.
The transition from concern being placed on what is happening in the chiropractor's office, to what the patients walks through the door of the chiropractor's office with, is important and profound.
If the issue were something that the chiropractor did, then we need to explore changing our procedures. But if the issue is what the patient brings through the door of the office, e.g., a dissection in progress, then a different response needs to be enacted.
The demand on DCs is to not accept neck pain and headache as routine, typical, and common. Rather the profession should bear in mind the possibility that this may be something far more consequential and react accordingly.
There are many resources to help chiropractors get up-to-date on the scientific literature and its application.
Even if you think you are on the cutting edge of this information, take an hour or two and review what is available, then modify your history-taking procedures, examination procedures, patient dialogue, and informed consent procedures as required.
Appreciate what has wrought the difference between 1996 and 2016: Shoshany was able to represent the profession, as he did on The Dr. Oz Show, thanks to the efforts of a relatively small cadre of researchers, funders, and agencies who gave him the evidence to make our case.
Over the last half-century we have witnessed growth in the research structure of the profession from a handful of individuals to an impressive and broad-based community of basic science researchers and clinician-scientists.
People such as Scott Haldemann, DC, PhD, MD; John "Jay" Triano, DC, PhD; Walter Herzog, PhD; Pierre Cote, DC, PhD; and David Cassidy, DC, PhD, have changed our landscape, particularly as it relates to the area of vertebral artery dissection and a relationship, if any, with the care we provide.
In addition, there have been important landmark events in the continuum of this evolution. This includes the Lana Day Lewis Inquest in Ontario, Canada, and the Neck Pain Task Force report published in 2008.
The Lewis Inquest, one of the longest, most extensive, and most expensive inquests in the history of Canada, created a venue for the world's authorities on the many aspects of the cervical spine adjusting and arterial dissection conversation to be presented and cross-examined under oath with respect to their expertise related to these questions.
This process, as painful and protracted as it was for our Canadian colleagues, amassed a treasure trove of information and opportunities that continue to be explored to this day.
Similarly, the Neck Pain Task Force, chaired by Scott Haldemann, DC, PhD, MD, presented a forum for the collection, refinement, and publication of literature and global expertise related to these questions. For it was out of this activity that the seminal paper on the question of a relationship between cervical spine manipulation and the occurrence of vertebral artery dissection by David Cassidy, DC, PhD, emerged in 2008.
The strategic brilliance of the profession in Canada to pursue the development of researchers at major universities across Canada cannot be overstated. This relentless pursuit by the chiropractic community in Canada led to several chiropractors being named to prestigious Canadian research chair positions.
Finally, the question of funding needs to be discussed. It was left to us to make our case in this area of cervical spine manipulation and vertebral artery issues. Making the case required funding in the millions of dollars. Many individuals, educational institutions, and technique communities answered this call. But no one responded as did the professional liability insurance community in chiropractic.
The National Chiropractic Mutual Insurance Company (NCMIC) and the Canadian Chiropractic Protective Association (CCPA) stepped up as no one else in and around the profession has ever done. You might argue that they had a vested interest in the research and its findings, and that would be a fair assessment.
At the same time, it would be important to acknowledge that they were putting millions of dollars on the next roll of the dice. As they funded the studies they had hopes for the outcomes no doubt, but they had no guarantees, either. Their courage and commitment was a part of the successful outcome of the profession's 2016 exposure on The Dr. Oz Show as none other.
The Dr. Oz Show segment, as it discussed cervical spine manipulation and vertebral artery dissection, was in the final analysis a positive outcome for the profession.
It is important to remember how we got there and know that the contributions to that six minutes and 30 seconds were drawn from decades of hard work and dedication.
Gerard Clum, DC, is a spokesperson for Foundation for Chiropractic Progress. He is a founding faculty member at Life Chiropractic College (now Life University) and first president of Life Chiropractic College West. Over the past four decades, Clum has been involved in the academic, accreditation, and organizational efforts of the educational community of the chiropractic profession. He has also been active in the broader infrastructure of the chiropractic world through the International Chiropractors Association (ICA), the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC), and the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP).


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LA Times: "Ildebrando D'Arcangelo wants to be more than a pretty face"
From his Deutsche Grammophon website:
"Ildebrando D'Arcangelo is a complete knock-out as Leporello – charming, funny, sexy, but pointedly in touch with his emotions in ways that his master can never be. What a difference a native Italian speaker makes in the role."
The Los Angeles Times is featuring an article on Ildebrando D'Arcangelo that thoroughly covers his status as a reigning barihunk. Although the Italian singer denies that he's thought much about it, we think his recording company, agent and publicist have given it plenty of thought. On his IMG Artists website the three pull quotes have him variously described as a "hunk," having "presence" and "looks," and, finally, being "an unusually sexy Enrico."
Check out his publicity photos and website that we've included in this post.
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo: Trying hard to NOT look sexy
Here is the article from the L.A. Times written by David Ng:
When Ildebrando D'Arcangelo storms the stage in Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" at Los Angeles Opera, the bass-baritone singer projects a swaggering confidence and dangerous sex appeal that act like a powerful audience magnet. But please don't call him a bari-hunk.
The 41-year-old D'Arcangelo, who is one of six members of the "Così" ensemble cast, has garnered fans around the world as much for his voice as for his model looks — tall, dark and handsome in an earthy way.
Yet the singer appears uneasy with references to his status as a bari-hunk — the group of opera stars known for their pecs and neck size, as well as their deep, sonorous voices.
"To be honest, I'm uncomfortable," said D'Arcangelo when the subject came up during a recent interview. "I appreciate it if people say something about looking good. In opera, if you see a beautiful person, it helps. But for me, honestly, I never thought about it." [Read entire article HERE]
Fans in California can catch him in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" at the Los Angeles Opera through October 8th. He then switches Mozart roles, tackling Don Giovanni at La Scala from December 16-28 before heading off to Weisbaden, Germany for a New Year's Day concert.
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Details: An excellent scale model of a Mini Cooper S decorated in yellow with a white roof, two black strips running the length of the bonnet and working wheels. Interior is finished in black. Body coloured bumpers and door handles with the wing mirrors in white. Window surrounds, wheel arches and side skirting are all finished in black. The Mini badge sits on the front bonnet above black and chrome surround radiator grille and also on the rear with the lettering Cooper S. The model is presented in a window display box, the car is approx. 15 cm long and the presentation box is 23 cm long.


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what the hell are you supposed to do anyway?!
Yeah not seeing the point of this "game"
very lovely game, more of this!
When you have 1,337 candies, it says you have leet candies.
I wasn't sure how to "get started" on this game at first either, but once you have enough candies to do more than eat them or throw them on the ground, you can start to unlock game features and it eventually turns into an adventure game.
At 42 candies, it makes a face ...\o/...or maybe that's a cheer.
yup... lost on the squirrel's letter sequence as well... any suggestions?
What about the yellow hat???
I get it now!!! The yellow hat FLOATS!!!
Ugg, I didn't allow the game to save locally, closed the tab and lost almost a million lollipops.
Is it bad that I went to the save section, saved it to a local file like it allows, edited the file to give me tons of candy and lollipops and then reloaded it just fine? Haven't messed with the save file other than that to see what can be done, but seems possible. It's tough sitting around waiting for candies and lollipops to grow in order to move forward.
I currently have 270 candies. I can't make any more requests. How long until something interesting happens?
Never mind. I found you can click on the houses.
I once found you, once sacrificed my social life for you. Everything I needed in a simple online game I found with you. But alas, I conquered you, and we became one. And I became bored.
Until I met her. Cookie Clicker. I cannot stop clicking her luscious chips, cannot stop caressing her chocolately lumps with my mouse. I am in love, and have fallen out of love.
Lo, I see you have returned, with enhancements. But I am afraid I have forgotten you. Do not take this as a betrayal, but as a love lost.
There are many others out there who are worthy of your Candy. But I...I belong with Cookie.
I will cherish the times we shared, but they are not but a memory now, fading alongside the dimming shades of an evening sun.
Its a fun game, but it gets a bit boring after you get 1500 lollipops per second and 987 candies per second.
What do you do with the lollipops? and I defeated the first quest and now cant find anything to click on. What the hell do I do now? and don't say buy stuff cuz I already bought all of it.
Also, what do I do with the map. I feel like that is what will lead me out of this place of locked houses and empty shops...but I can't get it to do anything!!!!
How can i get into the castle and how can i defeat the sea snake? Need help, please!
It should remind you of Cookie Clicker, especially since the author of that one cited the first Candy Box as a big influence.
I am glad to see people still make games like these. I remember going by bus to another school that had a "P.E.T." computer with text like graphics.
Once I found this game, I went online and played the first one, which is also super-fun. Thanks for posting the game!
What do you do with the squirrel?
Please help with the squirrel letters. Thanks.
For the how many candies question just enter how many candies you have.
For the marks on the tree, he means his own tree. Count the marks on only the trunk.
For the letter sequence, you need to look at the name of the game.
Wow this game is very long. There is a wiki for both games & maxing out your farm will help you avoid too much waiting. hint : search map for "*".
How do you submit your answer to the squirrel?
I figured out the "X" potion. But has anybody defeated "yourself" yet? I am stuck there.
Mich, you need to defeat the octopus king first. Then wear the unenchanted version while fighting yourself and you'll win with 1 HP in the end due to self confidence.
Find the * on the map near the cave. It is the pogo-stick. Don't forget to fight mobs what drop equip again after you enchant said equip & also you need to constantly equip stuff.
Am I the only one who hated this game?
At last, I have unlimited power !!!
I earned every item & killed all mobs. Now I can hack the computer & shower myself in candy till the trick or treat monsters come for it.
Oops I guess I never killed the dragon , sea serpent , cyclops ,or witch. Hint: that's a big cauldron so spam fill bottles & you only have to make one potion to get a hundred.
Is there a way to steer the player during fights or is the player supposed to end up sitting in the corner waiting the teleport to be casted? Quite annoying and I'm stuck.
Do you get anything for beating "Super RPG" or "Galactic Wars" in the third house?
all of the quests become a whole lot easier once you get the rocket boots!
Super RPG gives a small candy prize the first time you finish a floor, so you need to get farther every time. The reward of "Hard Mode" is rumored to be up around lv. 20. Level 24 and up is randomly generated but lv. 23 is said to be impossible. Hard mode = no hp. boost for eating candy.
Galactic Wars costs 1000 and you win the score back in candies. Use the squeeze skill to get smaller , it is earned (like the 3 colored fins) by killing sponge & stuff in the sea.
You can use squeeze? Cool! Thanks!
The X potion isn't very hard to figure out. I got it first try.
I'm stuck in the third room of the desert fortress: I tried using obsidian walls and jumping but I can't reach the box! :( some help?
make an obsidian wall, then to attack the obsidian wall until it is 4 blocks below the ledge. Then use teleport to go back to the beginning, and one block before the first obsidian wall place another obsidian wall. This time though, every time you break a block teleport back to the beginning, because if you are under the second wall you will also attack blocks from the first wall and you might make it too short for you to be able to reach the ledge. It is okay if you break five blocks instead of four, but try not to because it's good to leave yourself room for error and your person can't jump up 6 blocks. Keep repeating this process until the second wall is 4 blocks lower than the first. Now teleport back and make a third wall right in front of the second. Keep doing the same thing over and over again until you have a wall low enough to jump unto from the ground. Then use the obsidian walls, each 4 blocks below the one before it, as stairs to reach the end. Please leave another comment saying so if anything was not made clear.
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! My computer just turned off, I brought up candy box 2 again, and I had lost everything!!! I had it set to save every 10 minutes, so I don't know what happened! Somebody help!
Oops, never mind! Once you get enough candies you can access a link to load saved data!
But where do I find "squeeze" magical sponge?
why cant i find the magical sponge, i have goon threw the sea like 30 times but i still havent found it, is there something else i need to unlock befor it will show up?
I love this game! But there's this weird bug where it's saying my magic purple balls are fireballs.
HOW DO I BEAT THE DEVELOPER?!
Gone to every place, bought everything, missing the purple shark fin, Y stone and talking candy. Can't beat the developer. Gone really far in the sea but died. So, how do you beat the developer? Gonna try later for the purple shark fin.
And I know you get the Y stone after beating the developer, and the talking candy by putting all 4 stones at the top of the tower. It spells PLAY.
Actually, I beat him and won!


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40-Something Is The New 20-Something — But Not For The Reasons You Might Think
by Christine Organ
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People say it all the time. 50 is the new 40. 40 is the new 30. 30 is the new… 30? It's become sort of cliché to comment on how getting older doesn't mean what it used to. We, this current generation of whatever decade of life, is so much hipper and fresher and "younger" than the previous generation was at this stage.
Meh. I'm not so sure about that.
The thing is, I actually do think that 40-something is the "new" 20-something, but not for the reasons you'd think. I sure don't feel younger or fresher than I did in my 20s. And let me assure you, I am nowhere near as hip. Honestly, I'm not even sure if "hip" is a word people use anymore (other than in the context of replacement), which should tell you a lot about how "un-hip" I actually am.
Yet here I am, firmly settled in my 40s, and in many ways I feel like I did in my 20s.
But it's not because I feel young and carefree. It's not because I'm rocking the same DMB concert T-shirt or bootcut jeans I did in my 20s. The reason 40-something is the new 20-something are different than that. I feel that same sort of angsty and confused, yet oddly optimistic (about what I'm not sure) that I felt when my early 20s. I feel excited and terrified all at the same time. Just like back then. And just like in my 20s, I have absolutely no use for bullshit of any kind.
There was a stretch of time sometime between then and now, when I felt compelled to play the game. Now? Not so much. I'm a grown ass woman and I'm not here for your bullshit.
Like my 20s, I feel this strange sense of in-between-ness. I feel like I'm on the precipice of the "next thing," whatever that might be. Back then it was the transition from school to a grown-up job. Now it's other kinds of transitions. The transition from one career to another. Transition to from the physical stage of parenting to the emotional one. The transition from the exhaustion of carrying screaming toddlers out of the grocery store, trying to keep up with ever-evolving nap schedules, and basically just trying to keep a kid from running into traffic, sticking things in light sockets, and falling out of trees to the exhaustion of late night talks about drugs and sex and how to respond when a friend says something mean, trying to keep up with ever-evolving dangers of TikTok, and trying to keep a teen from totaling the car, failing algebra, or doing something stupid that could result in getting suspended from school.
Despite the terrifying unknowns that lie ahead, I get glimpses of that same kind of 20-something, I-can-handle-anything confidence about it. In my 20s, that confidence was born of naivety; now it's born of experience. It's born of empathy, of heartbreak, of survival. I don't feel confident in the world around me, but I do feel confident in myself.
Despite that surface level confidence, there is constant and almost unidentifiable confusion like I felt in my mid-20s. Below that surface level I-can-handle-anything attitude, what no one talks about is just how confusing and unsettling your 40s can be. Even though I don't want to admit it, just like I didn't want to admit it back then either, I have this constant feeling like everyone else has it figured out and I'm the only one who doesn't know what the fuck I'm doing. So I hide behind the veneer of that surface-level confidence, like I did in my 20s when I was so sure I had it all figured out. But deep down, I'm consumed by the questions and the terror that I'm getting them wrong. Am I good enough parent? Am I helping my kids grow into kind, big-hearted and responsible adults? Am I living a life of meaning and purpose? Am I happy?
The confusion is understandable in some ways. We're pulled in a million different directions — work obligations, kids, aging parents, friendships, a marriage. Does everyone else feel like they're failing at everything? Like they're doing nothing well? Is anyone else confused and too exhausted to even think about why?
We're either too busy or too scared to talk about it. In my 20s, I ignored all those questions with the demands of a consuming job as a lawyer in Big Law and weekends drinking in bars with friends. In my 40s, I find that I'm ignoring these questions with work responsibilities, my kids' needs, doomscrolling on social media, and binge-watching/raging at the news.
But the confusion, the questions, the loneliness… it's all still there.
40 is also the new 20 because you no longer have a tolerance for bullshit of any kind. The trouble is, the intolerance for b.s. also makes you keenly aware of just how prevalent it is. It's everywhere. I may not have the same naïve ideals, but I do have high expectations and lower tolerance for bullshit, which means I'm disappointed. A lot. In others, yes, but also myself sometimes. I'm pissed a lot. Like fucking ragey. Where is this coming from? Is it hormones? The shortcomings of the human condition? Jerks who aren't taking the pandemic seriously and the assholes who have been running the country for the past few years? (Pretty sure it's all of the above.)
So yeah, 40 is the new 20. This is the decade of change and transition, just like our 20s. It's the decade of IDGAF confidence, just like our 20s. Of ambiguous but persistent confusion, of eager optimism, of no-bullshit impatience … just like our 20s.
And oh yeah, and that old DMB concert t-shirt. Just like our 20s.
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This book provides the story of Bath's first Masonic Hall. Known locally as "The Bath Furniture Incident", this debacle also resulted in the local Fraternity losing some of the finest Regency Masonic furniture and equipment ever assembled under one roof. History shows all of this as being the responsibility of one man, Charles Geary, but the discovery of documents hidden in archives for nearly 200 years have thrown a completely different light on his involvement, as well as revealing a much larger cast of characters who were responsible for the fallout from the project.
This is a factual history from the early 19th Century, written by our own historian, who had unprecedented access to local and national contemporary documentation, including minutes and correspondence. This 360-page paperback book is well-illustrated in colour, and includes up-to-date photographs of some of the furniture and equipment, including the rediscovery of some artefacts previously thought to have been lost forever.
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This 96 page softback book was written by The Old Theatre Royal's own historian. It describes the history of the building stretching back 265 years to when it was built in 1750.
It also provides background histories of the three organisations that have owned it, within the context of the City of Bath, plus a section on the lives of some of the main people involved.
Lavishly illustrated with over 120 images, mostly in colour, this is a unique history of a unique building that is one of Bath's hidden gems.
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Angela Washko, Andrea Wolf. Curated by Chris Romero.
In the novel, a fugitive stranded on an island obsesses over a beautiful tourist named Faustine, only to find out that she and her fellow travelers are three-dimensional recordings projected by a machine. Coping with loneliness and gradual madness, he learns how to integrate himself into the machine's memory, altering it to suggest that he and Faustine are together, in love.
The phenomenon that takes place on the island foreshadows our contemporary experience with recording devices, virtuality, and electronic networks. We document our lives as if to prolong them. Featured in the exhibition are a range of works that utilize photography, video, face recognition software, GIF animations, projection mapping, and virtual reality.
A virtual space in conjunction with the exhibition will be accessible at www.bitforms.com on July 10.


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Filinvest Mimosa+ bags Best Mixed-Use Development award at the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2021
By mixofeverything blog July 13, 2021 Asia Pacific Property Awards, Filinvest, Filinvest Mimosa, property
Filinvest Mimosa+ Leisure City is cementing its stature as a world class, live-work-play township after bagging the Best Mixed-Use Development in the Philippines award at the recent Asia Pacific Property Awards 2021.
"We're very thrilled that Filinvest Mimosa+ made it to this year's Asia Pacific Property Awards under the best Mixed Use Development category. This recognition is a testament of our commitment to transform lives through urban developments that offer all the conveniences and security to our customers," said Mr. Don Ubaldo, Filinvest Group Head of Townships.
Filinvest Mimosa+ was lauded for its vision to be a Leisure City in Central Luzon, delivering three key promises: to be an accessible urban escape, be a self-contained eco-community, and become a global micro-district.
As an accessible urban escape, Filinvest Mimosa+ is carefully and conveniently master planned at the heart of a global community to seamlessly welcome activity and density while preserving its mature landscapes. Despite the pandemic, it continues to thrive, as seen through its nonstop developments, which has surpassed the five-billion investment pledge on the first quarter of 2021 as part of the lease agreement with the Clark Development Corporation.
In tabs with its development pipeline, its ongoing projects include the Quest Plus Conference Center, the Mimosa Plus Golf Course, Retail Strip, and two WorkPlus Office Buildings. Meanwhile, projects that are slated to begin soon are the Golf Ridge Private Estate by Filigree, The Crib Co-living, Filinvest Mimosa Lifemalls, and six WorkPlus Office Buildings.
As a self-contained eco-community, Filinvest Mimosa+ is also poised to become a global micro district, which enjoys a balance of lifestyle, leisure, and business. Here, residential neighborhoods and businesses converge with retail and recreation. Each establishment is set amidst a backdrop of greens and open spaces to enhance the quality of living of its residents and guests. Likewise, the four-hectare development earmarked for office development and related retail support will encourage local employment and productivity.
Strategically located in Clark Freeport Zone, people from different parts of Central Luzon can easily get to Filinvest Mimosa+ with the completed and planned developments for infrastructure which include the Clark International Airport Expansion, Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3, Subic-Clark Railway Project, and the Malolos-Clark Railway.
Filinvest Mimosa+ Leisure City being part of the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2021 is truly a milestone. This international award-giving body is open to residential and commercial property professionals around the globe. They celebrate the highest levels of achievement by companies operating in all sectors of the property and real estate industry. An International Property Award is a world-renowned mark of excellence. The awards are split into regions covering Africa, Asia Pacific, Arabia, Canada, Caribbean, Central & South America, Europe, UK and USA. Participants enter at their relevant national level and are judged by a highly experienced team of professionals who cover the whole range of property disciplines.
To know more about Filinvest Mimosa+ Leisure City, visit http://mimosaplus.com.ph/.
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Title: Andrews, William Henry "Bill" (1870–1950)
Author: Lucien van der Walt
Topic: biography
Source: Retrieved on 1st October 2021 from lucienvanderwalt.com
Notes: Published in the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, ONLINE EDITION.
Lucien van der Walt
Andrews, William Henry "Bill" (1870–1950)
Born in Suffolk, England, in 1870, Andrews became a prominent South African union leader, syndicalist, and communist. He was trained as a fitter and joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in 1890. In 1893 he arrived in South Africa. In appearance the epitome of the respectable English craftsman, and a charismatic figure, Andrews worked in the mines and formed a branch of the ASE union in 1894, also serving as vice-president of the Johannesburg Trades and Labor Council. After a brief stint in imperial forces during the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), he helped reorganize his union in 1902 and served as vice-president, then president, of the Witwatersrand Trades and Labor Council until 1905. Subsequently Andrews became full-time organizer for the ASE, helped form the Natal Federation of Trades, chaired the founding meeting of the South African Labor Party (SALP) in 1909, was active in the Transvaal Federation of Trades formed in 1911, and served as leader of the SALP parliamentary caucus from 1912.
Radicalized by the general strikes of 1913 and 1914, Andrews broke with the segregationist policies of the SALP, joined its anti-war faction in 1914, and left in September 1915 to help form the revolutionary syndicalist International Socialist League with SALP radicals and veteran syndicalists like Andrew Dunbar. He played a prominent part in the organization, serving as delegate to the abortive socialist peace conference in Stockholm of 1917, and as full-time organizer from 1918, and he actively supported the organization's interracial policies. Impressed by the Workers' Committee and Shop Stewards' Movement in Britain, he aimed to form a Witwatersrand Shop Stewards' Council as a step toward the One Big Union.
A founder member and the first secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) formed in 1921, Andrews was elected to the executive of the Communist International, and was involved with the Council of Action during the 1922 Rand Revolt. Elected secretary of the South African Trades Union Congress when it was formed in 1925 (reorganized as the South African Trades and Labor Council from 1930), Andrews held the post until 1932.
He was, however, expelled from the CPSA in 1931 during the purges of the "New Line" period. Reinstated in 1938, he was subsequently heavily honored by the CPSA. Serving as chairman of the Central Committee throughout the 1940s, Andrews was arrested along with other CPSA leaders in the wake of the African mine workers' strike of 1946, and passed away in 1950.
References and Suggested Readings
Cope, R. K. (n.d. [?1943]) Comrade Bill: The Life and Times of W. H. Andrews, Workers' Leader. Cape Town: Stewart Printing.
Gitsham, E. and Trembath, J. F. (1926) A First Account of Labour Organisation in South Africa. Durban: E. P. and Commercial Printing.
Rosenthal, E. (1966) Southern African Dictionary of National Biography. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
Van der Walt, L. (2007) Anarchism and Syndicalism in South Africa, 1904–1921: Rethinking the History of Labour and the Left. PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand.
Walker, I. L. and Weinbren, B. (1961) 2000 Casualties: A History of the Trade Unions and the Labour Movement in the Union of South Africa. Johannesburg: South African Trade Union Council.


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Feet tread the good earth and the Spirit soars.
Step out. Discover your path.
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Hiking the Shut-In Trail, built in 1892
Sunrise from the Mills River Valley overlook, launching point for one of the original segments of the Shut-In trail. Just follow the trail east from the overlook and watch for the stone work on the steep side-hill sections.
George Washington Vanderbilt's original Biltmore Estate was big. It included hundreds of thousands of mountain acres around and west of Asheville, NC. It was so big, in fact, that when he built a carriage trail from one end to the other it was seventeen miles long. It connected the Biltmore Estate's main grounds near the French Broad River at 2000 feet elevation with his Buck Spring Hunting lodge at 5000 feet elevation near the present location of the Pisgah Inn.
The Mountains to Sea Trail follows the general route of the Shut-In trail from end to end. The problem is that much of the original route of the trail has been lost, probably due to logging and other activity after the land was sold, mostly to the US Forest Service, and especially to the ravages of progress. When the Blue Ridge Parkway was built, I'm sure that parts of the original route were destroyed.
But a few sections of the original carriage road do survive. The photo above is not much to look at, but it's the best example I have of the original stonework that buttresses the trail. There are just a few miles of original trail still identifiable by this construction technique--something volunteer trail builders do not have the time or resources to do these days.
I wish I could learn more. When I hiked the Appalachian Trail in the White Mountains I was fascinated by all the various stories of the trails in the area. The grand-daddy of them all is the Crawford Path from the Mt. Washington Hotel up to the summit. Parts of this trail have been in continuous use for more than 200 years now. Unfortunately Vanderbilt did not live long, and it appears that the Shut-In trail was not in continuous use after his death. I've asked several sources for more information on the early history of the trail and of its evolution, but have little to no concrete information.
The Shut-In trail was built way back then, and what we hike today still has the same name. The name comes from the rim of ridges that it follows, which 'shut in' (make remote) the series of valleys to the north. Parts of today's Shut-In Trail clearly do not follow any logical carriage road. For example today's trail goes honking straight up to the summit of Ferrin Knob following the fire tower access road (the fire tower has been dismantled - the foundation footings are all that remain--see above). I doubt seriously if Vanderbilt was interested in having his horses and carriages do such Pointless-Ups-and-Downs. The segments with the stone work follow contours around the peaks rather than going up one side and down the other. There's one sign along the trail that, I think, makes the distinction. Today's trail is rightly called the 'Shut-In Ridge Trail', and makes no real pretense that it is the same as the old original trail. I'll have to leave it at that.
Below is a map of the route of the current trail, along with some return-leg walks along the Parkway.
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Welcome. Here is a site about traveling the old fashioned way—on foot.
"…the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours—as the swinging of dumb-bells or chairs; but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day."
— Henry David Thoreau
For me, purposeful walking lies at the heart a well-lived life. Walking defines us as a species. We are the ape who left the trees to explore the world. Walking made us curious and adaptable, which led to tool making, agriculture, community, and perhaps to the point of forgetting that it was our two feet that got us here. In myself I find the purest peace experiencing this world in the simple way of our distant ancestors.
" …walk in a way that … print[s] peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I started this blog after I retired from NASA, so that family could follow my bucket-list treks. I'm still trekking. See the 'Hopping Rocks' tab for details. Sharing the joy of my walks just amps up the joy-meter. This is a labor of love.
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It will be until mid-May when the US SEC decides on Bitwise Bitcoin ETF. Like the SolidX and VanEck application, this ETF is backed by Bitcoins secured by a third party custodian. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) prices are stable inside Mar-29 high-low as bulls build momentum towards $4,500.
For the second time, the US SEC is putting off their decision on whether Bitwise Bitcoin ETF application meets their requirement and ready for investors. By doing so, the asset management firm joins a long list of applicants including VanEck, SolidX, and CBoE a joint application which the community says stand a change of getting the green lights from the US regulator.
Submitting their file in January, the San Francisco firm plans to roll out a physically backed ETF and after 45 days, the SEC was supposed to make their decision tomorrow. However, the regulator says their decision will be made public in mid-May. Bitwise Bitcoin ETF will track the performance of the world's largest digital asset from the Bitwise Bitcoin Total Return Index. The index draws prices from trusted cryptocurrency exchanges.
Differentiating itself, their Bitcoins will be stored in a cold wallet by an institutional grade third-party custodian for security and accountability purposes. Should the fund check all the requirements then the NYSE Arca shall list the ETF will Bitwise Index Services will be tasked with producing and servicing the world's first Bitcoin ETF approved by the strict SEC.
After weeks of lower lows, this week's performance is encouraging. Not only will it close the week on a high, adding 2.3 percent but in line with our last BTC/USD trade plan, Bitcoin prices will for the first time closed above a five-month liquidation trend line.
In a typical bullish breakout, such will encourage participation now that prices are stable above $4,000. Besides, bulls of Mar 5 are now live. This is because of Mar 27-29 upswings thrusting prices above Mar 16. As a result, our short-term longs are valid with targets at $4,500.
Despite these encouraging gains, Feb 24 losses are conspicuous. Once there is a high volume break above $4,500 reversing this slide, risk-averse can trade can begin ramping up. Accompanying this break above should be high volumes exceeding recent averages of 6.5k, Mar 29—8k and preferably Feb 18—37k.
Is CoinBase New Remittance Service a Subtle Advert for Ripple (XRP) and xRapid?


The truth is that from Android 4.0 onwards we have the option to disable some apps, which is practically the same thing as uninstalling, but on some smartphones of some companies like Xiaomi, that is not feasible! The only solution is what we will see today and it is really easy.
we have downloaded ADB on our computer.
So we open a terminal in the ADB folder (Shift + right click) and connect our device to the computer.
What we gain from this method is that we unpack the applications we want without losing the guarantee while we continue to accept the official upgrades! If we also make a mistake and remove an application that we should not, then we can fix it by simply resetting the factory data. How is this done?
The ROM on our device includes all the applications in a folder. When the first installation is made then a user account is created for which the applications are installed. In essence, we remove the applications we do not need from that particular user. Their packages continue to exist, so they come back with a reset, but they do not run in the background, nor do they appear in the Android menu and that's what it is all about.


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The reason why we're poorer: more of our income goes to housing than it did 35 years ago.
Simply put: housing costs have far outpaced household incomes over the past 35 years, making the high cost of housing the primary driver of declining discretionary income: what's left after paying taxes and housing.
You might want to refill your coffee or tea cup because we have to slog through some potentially confusing numbers to root out the truth.
There is information in the difference between median income and mean/average income.
Median is the number at the 50% line, e.g. first half of households earning less than the median household income and the other half earning more. ( wikipedia on median/mean)
Mean income (average) is the amount obtained by dividing the total aggregate income of U.S. households by the number of households.
Consider that the median income of U.S. households in 2008 was $50,303 while the average income was $68,424. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau Table H-6. You have to download the h06AR Excel file to obtain 2008 data.)
Why the big difference? The higher income households earn a much greater income that the lower 4/5 of households. That preponderance of income in the top 5% and top 20% causes the average income to be much higher than the median.
We need to ask not just much more do higher-income households earn that middle-income households, but how much has each group's income risen in the past 35 years? In other words: has income risen equally across all incomes, or has it risen more in one group or another?
The Census Bureau divides the households into quintiles--20% each, with a special category for the top 5%. (income by quintile.)
The numbers are remarkable. I am not making a judgment here, i.e. that incomes "should be" different from these facts; we all know wages for low-skill jobs have stagnated while high-pay, low-skill factory positions have declined due to global wage arbitrage and broad post-industrial trends.
Nonetheless, it is clear that the vast majority of income increases have accrued to the top 20% and top 5%. Here are the numbers, adjusted into 2001 dollars (data ends at 2001):
Bottom 20%
1975: $12,664
increase: $1,357
percentage increase from 1975: 10.7%
Middle 20% a.k.a. "the middle class"
increase: $11,731
2001: $159,644
Top 5% a.k.a. "the wealthy"
increase: $145,577
percentage increase from 1975: 108%
Now let's move on to look at housing. Our statistics are once again drawn directly from U.S. Census Bureau data: median house prices 1975-2009.
The average house price in 1975 was $39,500. Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator, we find that comes to $158,000 in 2008 dollars.
The average (mean) house price in December 2008 was $301,200--almost twice the 1975 cost. To be exact, 90.7% higher.
Thus we can see that only the top 5% of households actually gained enough income to match the rise in housing costs. Even the "upper middle class" in the top 20% of households only gained 74%, substantially less than the 90% rise in housing.
The lower 3/5 of the households were completely blown out of the water by housing's 90% rise; obviously, their ability to afford a house was essentially destroyed by this asymmetric rise in the cost of housing.
I want to note that all these numbers are adjusted for inflation; they are all "apples to apples."
Now let's consider a popular metric of housing affordability: gross income to the cost of a house. According to mybudget360.com, the home price/income in 1950 was 2.21 and 2.11 in 1960. In other words, a house cost 2.1 years of income in 1960.
Here is my analysis of the Census data median house prices 1975-2009.
1975: median income $42,936, median house price $148,800
Home price/income ratio: 3.46
1975: average income $50,137, average house price $158,000
Clearly, housing affordability had already dropped substantially from 1960 to 1975.
Home price/income ratio: 4.4
However you want to slice it, housing costs substantially more in terms of income than it did 35 years ago.
While the final Census Bureau numbers are not yet available, private data suggests median income dropped in 2009 as the recession took hold, returning household incomes to 1997 levels. (Source: davemanuel.com)
Meanwhile, according to Census data, the average house price in December 2009 was $290,000--a mere 3.7% decline from the 2008 price of $301,200.
As income drops and Federal tax credits and Federal Reserve support of the mortgage markets continue propping up historically asymmetric housing prices, affordability will continue to decline.
If average house prices were to return to the 1975 ratio of approximately 3 times average household income, than would require the average price to drop from $290,000 to around $195,000. (Assuming real average household income has declined to around $65,000, a number which may well be optimistic.)
To all those who believe demand for housing will soon exceed supply, recall that the Census Bureau counts almost 19 million empty dwellings in the U.S. even as foreclosures are slated to reach 4 million in 2010.
A decline to the 3-to-1 ratio of income to price fits in with my projection for housing bubble symmetry:
Here is a pie chart of wealth distribution/ownership:
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Q: Create grids with arbitrary columns counts in different responsive layouts I have an Rails app I am building with Foundation. I am having trouble figuring out how to display an arbitrary number of columns per row and keep it responsive in the small/medium/large layouts.
For example, lets say I have a model Department which has many Employees. I am trying to build the department page and display a list of the employees in the department. One department may have 10 employees. Another may have 6. It's arbitrary.
I want to do 4 columns in large, 2 columns in medium and 1 column in small. (See my wireframe below). However, the columns need to be wrapped in a div.row. This requirement means I have either of the following two situations:

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*Case #1 (jsfiddle) I have 2 elements per row and the large layout only gets 2 elements because it is getting cleared by the .row.

*Case #2 (jsfiddle) I have 4 elements per row and the columns don't clear properly when in the 2-column, medium layout because there are 4 in a row.

This seems like it should be a pretty standard situation but I cant seem to figure it out. How do I do this? Is Foundation the wrong tool?

A: Media Queries and CSS might do the trick:
// medium
@media only screen and (min-width: 40.063em) and (max-width: 64em) {
  .row > div:nth-child(2) {clear: left;}
}

With 4 elements per row
http://quirksmode.org/css/selectors/nthchild.html
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/media-queries.html

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As this year's College Football Playoff debates continue, we are going to introduce how of our 8 team playoff brackets would work in College Football Today. With the NCAA D2 Football playoff and FCS Playoff successfully completing playoff brackets year in and year out, we feel it is time to start the argument to why we should have a 8 team College Football Playoff system in place.
A 13 member committee completes this selection process, instead of the BCS computers that used to finish the NCAA FBS Top 25. Because the Tournament only has four teams, this usually creates a cause for concern among power five programs and other less lucrative programs in smaller conferences like UCF. The fact of the matter is, anyone can claim a national title these days and we plan on crowning our champion by influencing all members of every Top 25 committee to do whats right for not only each college football program, but also each individual student-athlete who deserves a shot at the national title.
Many have eluded to the fact that committee members are not as apt as others to handle the due process of handling the college football playoff rankings and I believe this year they are more in tune with the members of the general football public. We have very similar polls as the College Football Playoff committee and the AP Poll has been a week behind our CFB Today poll in placing teams like Pitt and Army in their Top 25. The economic motivations behind these rankings can be found by clicking HERE, which was written by Maddy Sperling.
The winners of each power five conference will receive an automatic bid into the College Football Playoff bracket and will be seeded by a committee after Final 8 teams are determined.
This now makes conference title games the first round of the new College Football Today Playoff system, which will not only increase revenue, but the level of play in each conference the entire season.
The Big Three will be sorted out by a similar system to the old BCS rankings, by using the AP Top 25, Coaches Poll and our College Football Today voting process to determine the final three teams, which are to be the best remaining three teams in College Football Today.
Lets take a look at how our College Football Playoff model would project this year in College Football Today.
If you take the average of the CFP Top 25, AP Top 25, Coaches Poll & the CFB Today Poll, you will come to the final 10 teams below. With games still to be played, this all could obviously play out much differently, but this model would generate a 8 team College Football Playoff system that would crown a true College Football National Champion!
This makes teams like Ohio State, NorthWestern, Pitt, Texas, WVU and Utah's conference championships that more meaningful, as if they knock off one of these teams, they now can enter the College Football Playoff rankings.


The annual meeting of Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) is scheduled for the Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. For the past few years, the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) has contributed exciting and intellectually rich panels/symposia to this meeting.
We anticipate another strong showing from our CSWIP members next year in Waterloo (Wilfred Laurier University/University of Waterloo, May 27-30, 2012).
• If you have thoughts for a panel topic, a general area of discussion, or recommendations for other panel participants. I can send out information about proposed panels to help you gather participants, etc., and can help with topic formulation and editing.
• Perhaps there are conversations from this year's conference that you'd like to see continue, or conversations regarding future conferences that you'd like to start thinking about now? If so, I'll be happy to help!
I especially encourage graduate students to get in touch with me if they would like to be involved in a panel.
The deadline for consideration for the guaranteed CSWIP-CPA panel is October 24th , 2011 (12am CMT).
Please send your electronic submissions to me at mudde.
• A general title and abstract for the panel.
• A paper abstract for each participant.
If you are thinking of submitting a panel through regular CPA channels, I can also help to facilitate submissions to the general CPA call for workshops, round tables, and symposia (see CPA for details).


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HOP in the top 5% of all UK Letting Agent Branches
October 13, 2020 | Company News
We're beaming with pride to have been rated 'exceptional' in the Best Estate Agent Guide Awards 2021.
Both HOP Leeds and HOP Pudsey have been ranked in the top 5% of all UK Letting Agents in the category of Lettings. That means our branches are the very cream of the crop, as recognised in the the awards from EA Masters, which celebrate the best estate agents and letting agents across sales & lettings.
It's our third year in a row winning such an accolade. Given the difficulty we have all faced this year, and in particular the property market, the news has put a huge smile on our faces.
As awards go, this is pretty much our favourite one to win because it's awarded based on an assessment of the entire market as a whole. 25,000 estate agency branches are assessed and reviewed for their marketing, results and service, which includes looking at performance data from Rightmove and mystery shopping.
There's no awards submission to make, we just are judged and rated on what the letting team does best day to day – letting properties to the tenants of Leeds with top notch customer service.
The event was held online this year and we were thrilled to be awarded an exceptional rating for both our branches.
The judges of the BEAG 2021 said:
HOP Leeds and HOP Pudsey branches showed an outstanding level of service and care towards prospective clients and we are delighted to award these superb branches with a score of "Exceptional".
We aren't in this business for the awards! But it's always lovely to have such a positive recognition of the hard work every one of our team puts in, especially in a such a challenging year.
If you're interested in having a look at some of the other awards and accreditations we have collected over the year, head to our awards page for more details.


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ICYMI: Rubio Discusses Legislation To Prevent Taxpayer Funded Bailout Under ObamaCare
Rubio: "I want to see who in this town has the guts to stand up and say, 'I support bailing out insurance companies.'"
"The Hugh Hewitt Show"
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ov_yiLi9c9U
Hugh Hewitt: "But there is also a provision in ObamaCare that you have a piece coming out tomorrow that I want to talk to you about. It's called the Health Insurance Industry Bailout, or the ObamaCare Bailout."
Senator Rubio: "Right."
Hewitt: "Would you explain to people what that is?"
Rubio: "Yeah, I mean, look, the best way to explain it is there's this concept called risk corridors. And what it basically, it's a fancy term for money that is available to help companies who have lost money in the insurance marketplace. They enter this marketplace under certain promises or assurances, or you know, calculations that they've made. They insure people. It turns out that the people they insured cost a lot more than they anticipated, they lose money, and in steps the government to bail them out. Now in a normal, regular insurance marketplace where most, the vast and enormous majority of companies have priced it right and are going to make a profit, it has some utility, this sort of idea, because what you don't want is you don't want providers not to get paid, and you don't want patients to go without care. The problem with applying that to ObamaCare is the way that ObamaCare has now developed, as we knew it would, it is a guaranteed loss. You look at, for example, the news today, at the people that are signing up are disproportionately older and sicker. Well, that's not who these people, that's not who these insurance companies thought they were getting when they signed up for this. And many supported this. And as a result, ObamaCare and the exchanges have gone from being an insurance marketplace to basically a high-risk pool. And the result is that almost all of these companies are now going to require a bailout. And it's going to cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to achieve it. And we should not be in the business of doing that, and I filed a bill months ago that wipes that out and does not allow that to move forward. If you've got to be bailing companies out in order to participate in ObamaCare, that in and of itself tells you that the law is doomed and flawed."
Hewitt: "Now the reality is, though, no bill's going to pass this year, right?"
Rubio: "Well, I don't know."
Hewitt: "I mean, the Senate?"
Rubio: "I mean, I would like to see particularly vulnerable Democrats who are already on record as having supported ObamaCare and having to defend that. I want to see who in this town has the guts to stand up and say, 'I support bailing out insurance companies.' Now the insurers are already going around issuing paper and directives to their lobbyists to threaten that this is going to lead to a single payer system, and this, that and the other. And the bottom line is I understand that many of these insurance companies got into this business to begin with because they thought that the people signing up were going to be a certain demographic. And now, it's turned out not to be the case. But the bottom line is many of these insurance companies supported ObamaCare. They thought it was a way to force people to become their customers. And by no means should the American taxpayer now be forced to step in and bail out these private companies. And we've done this already in the financial sector. We've done this in the automotive sector. And now we're going to do it in the insurance marketplace? When does this stop?"
Hewitt: "Well, if you can get a vote on the record for Kay Hagan and Jeanne Shaheen and Mary Landrieu and Mark Udall and Mark Pryor, amen. I mean, that would be terrific. You think Harry Reid will ever allow you to do that?"
Rubio: "Well, I don't know how he's going to be able to stand up against this. I think the public pressure will be enormous. And I think when people realize that we are bailing out private insurance companies, many of whom, by the way, were supportive of ObamaCare because what they thought it would mean for them, and now it hasn't turned out that way, when people realize what's in it, I don't know how anyone around here … now you know, listen, I've been surprised before about the lack of shame that somehow I've seen from time to time in this process. But I cannot imagine, and look, if you know, they've got the guts to stand up and say they support bailing out insurance companies, then you know, that's fine. But I just find it hard to believe too many people are prepared to say that."


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Big News: Foodstand is now a part of Diet ID!
Dear Fellow Foodstander,
We launched Foodstand to help each of you make healthy eating the easier choice. Tens of thousands of you in over 85 countries have proven that it is possible – small shifts each day can lead to massive changes — weight loss, improvement in A1C levels, more energy, and overall healthfulness, and we are SO inspired by each of you. The magic of building new habits lies between the relationships that support us.
We're excited to share that Foodstand is embarking on a new relationship that will similarly bring magic to our community and hundreds of thousands of others around the world. Foodstand is now a part of Diet ID, a digital health company founded by the illustrious Dr. David Katz (you've probably heard about him from us!), focused on the same mission as Foodstand. Diet ID has built a revolutionary dietary assessment and tracking tool to help you figure out where you are with your eating habits and where you need to go, using an elegant, photo-based pattern recognition system. Our complementary technologies will work together to finally bring to the world the first of its kind solution to help you navigate the journey of reaching dietary success, one day at a time.
The Foodstand app will continue to operate for the time being, so you can continue kicking butt at your Challenges and sharing your wins. Our team will also be joining the rockstar Diet ID team, so feel free to stay in touch with us.
We just want to reiterate how grateful we are for each of you – especially those who were brave enough to share your stories, challenges, and wins with us. Changing how we eat is the single biggest thing we can do to improve our health and the health of our planet, but it is EXTREMELY hard! Our commitment to making healthy eating easier is unwavering, and we're excited to continue pursuing this goal within the Diet ID family.
We're looking forward to taking you on this journey with us!
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