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By Carol Graham
Sunday, January 3, 2010

Last year was not a happy one. Economic crisis. Job losses. Wars. Yet, while we can quantify things such as gross domestic product or home foreclosures, it's harder to measure their impact on our collective happiness.

One way to gauge that effect is through what has become known as the economics of happiness -- a set of new techniques and data to measure well-being and contentment. Hundreds of thousands of people are surveyed and asked how happy or satisfied they are with their lives, with possible answers on a scale between very unhappy and very happy.

How much happiness does money really buy? How do you weigh the relative loss in happiness resulting from a pink slip, a divorce or a diagnosis of illness? Such questions have gone from the fringes to the center of the dismal science, with economics journals now boasting thousands of articles from "Does Happiness Pay?" to "Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?"

And the ideas are filtering through to politicians and the public. Most recently, the Sarkozy Commission -- led by Nobel Prize-winning economists and sponsored by the president of France -- issued a worldwide call for the development of broader measures of national well-being. The idea is to develop metrics that can be compared across countries and over time, like GDP, but that emphasize more than income.

It seems laudable to want people to be happier -- in America, we're all about the pursuit of happiness -- but should happiness supplant economic growth as an objective of government policy? The kingdom of Bhutan already uses "gross national happiness" as its preferred measure of progress. The British government has an office in Whitehall studying how to track well-being, using happiness as a base. And in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is incorporating novel measures of well-being into national health statistics.

Though the success of the U.S. economic model has long been driven by individual initiative and economic growth, today, with millions of Americans dealing with the loss of jobs, incomes and assets, it does seem like a good time to find better measures of how we're doing.

For the past 10 years, I have been studying happiness around the world, in countries as different as Afghanistan, Chile and the United States. It has been an amazing foray into the complexity of the human psyche and the simplicity of what makes us happy. What is most remarkable is how similar the forces driving happiness are in various countries, regardless of a nation's level of development.

Wherever I look, some simple patterns hold: A stable marriage, good health and enough (but not too much) income are good for happiness. Unemployment, divorce and economic instability are terrible for it. On average, happier people are also healthier, with the causal arrows probably pointing in both directions. Finally, age and happiness have a consistent U-shaped relationship, with the turning point in the mid- to late-40s, when happiness begins to increase, as long as health and domestic partnerships stay sound.

All of this seems rather logical, suggesting that if a government wants to get into the business of promoting happiness, it can pursue some straightforward policy goals, such as emphasizing health, jobs and economic stability as much as economic growth.

But here's the complicated part. While there are stable patterns in what leads to happiness, there is also a remarkable human capacity to adapt to both prosperity and adversity. Thus people in Afghanistan -- a war-stricken country with poverty like that of sub-Saharan Africa -- are as happy as people in Latin America, where typical social and economic indicators are a good deal stronger. Kenyans, meanwhile, are as satisfied with their health care as Americans are with theirs. Being a victim of crime makes people unhappy, but the impact is smaller if crime is a common occurrence in their society; the same goes for corruption and obesity. Freedom and democracy make people happy, but the effect is greater when they're used to such liberties than when they're not.

The bottom line is that people can adapt to tremendous adversity and retain their cheerfulness, while they can also have virtually everything -- including good health -- and be miserable.

I think about this when I reflect on my own experience. I grew up in Lima, Peru, but work in Washington. When the tires were stolen off my car in Northwest D.C., I was absolutely flummoxed, as were the police -- who were there within an hour. Had it happened in Lima, I would have blamed myself for leaving the car out on the street overnight and surely would not have bothered calling the police, as they probably would not have come.

One thing that people have a hard time adapting to, however, is uncertainty. People seem to be much better at dealing with unpleasant certainty than with the uncertainty of how bad a particular health condition or economic downturn will get. My most recent survey research -- with colleagues Soumya Chattopadhyay and Mario Picon -- shows, for example, that average happiness in the United States declined significantly as the Dow dropped with the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. According to our calculations, happiness fell 11 percent compared with its pre-crisis levels, reaching its lowest point in mid-November 2008.

But when the market stopped falling and some stability was restored in March, average happiness recovered much faster than the Dow; by June, it exceeded its pre-crisis level -- even though living standards and reported satisfaction with those standards remained markedly lower than they were before the crisis. Once the uncertainty ended, people seemed to be able to return to previous happiness levels, while making do with less income or wealth.

Yet if people can stay happy with less money, they can also become discontent with more. This is the paradox of unhappy growth. In research with economist Eduardo Lora, we found that, in countries with similar levels of per capita income, respondents experiencing higher economic growth rates are, on average, less happy than those with less growth. One explanation: Rapid economic growth typically brings greater instability and inequality with it, and that makes people unhappy.

It's heartening to know that Americans have been able to weather the crisis and return to their previous happiness levels. And it's even better to know that the average person in Afghanistan can maintain cheerfulness and hope despite the country's plight. But while this capacity to adapt can be a very good thing for an individual, it may also result in collective tolerance for conditions that would be unacceptable by most people's standards.

Understanding this capacity to adapt helps us explain why different societies seem to accept such different levels of health, crime and governance, both within and across countries. And without understanding these norms, it is very difficult to craft policies to improve those conditions.

It's surely good to know how happy we collectively are. Such measures provide a broader sense of our well-being than income data alone, and they allow us to test and attach weights to all sorts of conditions, whether environmental degradation, commuting time, crime or unemployment. They are powerful tools for scholars, for sure. But for policymakers? That's less clear. There is still much we do not know about happiness, or about how these measurements should be used.

Indeed, we do not even really know how to define "happiness." What makes the term so useful in research, allowing comparisons across countries and cultures, is that the definition is left up to the respondent. But that creates conundrums for policy. Happiness defined as contentment alone, for example, suggests complacency -- something I call the "happy peasant and frustrated achiever" problem.

In a study in Peru and Russia, I found that the respondents who made the greatest income gains were also the most critical of their economic situation, while those with the least income gains were, on average, more satisfied. The frustrated achievers may have made gains precisely because they were discontent in the first place.

Broader definitions of happiness -- for example, as the opportunity to lead a fulfilling life -- suggest deeper objectives that may cause unhappiness, at least in the short term. Overthrowing the French monarch, or defeating the Taliban, are not exercises that bring immediate happiness to mind. Closer to home, efforts to reform our health-care system or address the ballooning budget deficit are unlikely to produce happiness anytime soon. Yet we know that these problems must be addressed to preserve the welfare of our citizens -- and our children -- over the long term.

In his inaugural address a year ago, President Obama said that all Americans "deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness." But in subsequent speeches, he has emphasized that people will pursue their "own version" or "own measure" of whatever makes them happy -- and clearly, that will be different for each of us.

Sure, we all want happiness and more of it. But this is a nascent science, and before we make happiness a goal of national policy, we must understand which notions of happiness we, as a nation, care most about. Then we can raise a glass to a happy new year.

Carol Graham is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. Her book "Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires" is forthcoming this month.

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Anticipating a big uptick in the number of Hispanics in the United States - a view confirmed by new census figures released Tuesday - they set a goal of eking out every bit of political clout they could for the nation's fastest-growing minority group.

"The opportunity to create districts in which Latinos can elect candidates of their choice is much greater than ever before," said Cesar Perales, president and general counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF in New York, who was part of the San Antonio meeting.

Many of the states that stand to gain seats in Congress and electoral votes in presidential elections are growing because of Hispanics.

According to census figures, growth in Texas, which will gain four seats, was driven by Hispanics, who accounted for 63 percent of the added population. Similarly, Florida will gain two seats, and Hispanics accounted for 51 percent of its growth. The Hispanic-heavy states of Arizona and Nevada will also gain seats.

In those same states, Republicans made significant political gains in the 2010 election and will control much of the redistricting process. It's likely that they won't be inclined to carve districts that favor Hispanics, who are a key part of the Democratic base.

Hispanic legal and civil rights groups said they will mount a campaign of community education and, if necessary, legal protest to ensure that congressional and local districts are drawn in ways that reflect Hispanic growth.

"Folks who have power don't give it up easily, and when you have a growing community like the Latino community, you are talking about creating new districts that give that population an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice to Congress," said Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

His group and others worked hard to encourage members of their community to complete census forms in order to be counted, and they see the redistricting process as an important part of the political maturation of Hispanics.

In addition to following local redistricting laws, many states that are adding seats will also have to abide by the Voting Rights Act, which requires states with a history of racial discrimination to draw their districts in a way that does not put minority populations at a disadvantage.

In Texas, for example, Republicans will probably be able to create two districts that will lean heavily Republican. But the state will probably be forced by the Voting Rights Act to create two majority-Hispanic districts, too. Those will probably lean Democratic, evening out whatever advantage Republicans may have been able to create.

In states that will lose seats, Hispanics could still stand to gain. The Hispanic population in Illinois grew by almost 90 percent even as the overall population remained relatively stagnant. Latino lawyers will be pushing to keep their representation strong even as the state's congressional delegation shrinks.

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By Steven M. Luxenberg

Sunday, February 22, 1998; Page C01

Whatever became of congressional debate?

Ever since military action against Iraq became likely, Congress has been missing in action. The discussion was more spirited on "Fox News Sunday" and "Face the Nation" than the few exchanges on the floor of the House or Senate. There was more soaring oratory in the House of Commons last week -- and the British are merely fly-alongs on this mission to Baghdad -- than has been heard in the chambers of Congress. The Clinton administration's top three defense and foreign policy advisers faced more pointed questions at the Ohio State University "town hall" meeting on Wednesday than they have in the committee rooms on Capitol Hill.

As President Clinton prepared the country last week for the closest thing to war since the last battle with Saddam Hussein in 1991, where were the 535 men and women who serve as the people's elected representatives? On recess.

Some went on fact-finding missions to places like Bosnia. Most went home to reconnect with constituents or do the usual fund-raising. Now they're coming back to Washington, presumably refreshed and refocused. Let's also hope they rediscovered the meaning of urgency. If they wait much longer to debate the pending resolution supporting the use of military force, the bombers may already be winging their way over Iraqi skies.

Congress seems to have forgotten its place in this system of government we call a representative democracy. Or perhaps it is ducking the debate, which is worse. Congress is supposed to act in our stead -- to get the briefings we can't get, to ask the questions we can't ask, to make the hard decisions so that 260 million Americans don't all have to become experts on Social Security or agricultural subsidies or diplomacy. In return, it is our responsibility to register our approval or displeasure -- immediately or at the voting booths later on.

In this case, the representatives have so far failed to stick to their part of the bargain. That's why the town meeting last week was such a significant moment. Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Because of the vacuum of leadership in Congress on what to do about Iraq, a town hall meeting became a stand-in for the debates that Congress should have been having. If the members of the four House and Senate committees that are primarily responsible for defense and national security had thoroughly cross-examined Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and national security adviser Samuel R. Berger about the administration's objectives, they might have been better prepared for the discord they heard.

Of course, the finger pointing began as soon as the session ended. Commentators had a field day, chiding the administration for misplaying its hand, for sending such dignified officials into such an undignified setting, for failing to control the crowd. The adjectives were telling: The meeting was "unruly," "raucous," a "free-for-all." In the ritual dance that so often characterizes the relationship between the news media and the news makers, administration officials hedged their bets. They said it wasn't a mistake to expose the panel to public criticism (it showed the "vibrancy of democracy," said one aide) and that it would never happen again.

There were no losers in Columbus. The dissenters spoke, the officials listened. Albright, Cohen and Berger may have come away with their nerves a bit frayed, but their dignity was intact. The ones who should be embarrassed are the members of Congress. The town hall questioners were doing their job -- and some were doing it quite well. During the Vietnam War, Sen. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) regularly called administration officials before his Senate Foreign Relations committee to question them about the progress of the war. At the moment, his spirit is more alive in Columbus, Ohio, than in Washington, D.C.

Still, holding town meetings is no substitute for congressional debate. It's easy to say that the crowd in Columbus was out of sync with the majority of Americans -- who, polls show, support military action. But debate is about more than building support. It helps prepare the public for what could go wrong. And in military affairs, the unexpected is to be expected.

In matters of war, the writers of the constitution carved out a special status for Congress. They said that it is Congress's prerogative to "declare war." In this simple phrase, Congress was given a responsibility reserved for no other body or branch of government. Not even the president has the constitutional right to declare war. This was no oversight; the framers of the constitution felt that such a momentous decision should not be left to the president alone.

In modern times, presidents have invoked their authority as commander-in-chief to send U.S. troops into combat, avoiding the use of the term "war." Since the founding of the republic, presidents have undertaken more than 150 military actions of varying degrees without prior legislative approval. In contrast, Congress has declared war only five times since 1789; the last time was World War II. Meanwhile, presidents have continued to expand their powers, often at Congress's expense. Congress never declared war on Korea or Vietnam. Nor did it authorize the sending of troops to Grenada in 1983 or to Panama in 1989.

Congress has a long history of chafing at this incursion into its turf -- and of doing nothing about it. Now it appears to be acquiescing once again. Where are the intellectual heirs to those legislators who pushed Congress to adopt the 1973 War Powers Resolution? This measure was one of several that a fed-up Congress passed during the Vietnam War in an attempt to stop President Nixon's unilateral expansion of the war in Southeast Asia. The joint resolution, which sets up a series of steps that the president must follow if he commits troops to combat, is still in force. While it was more an expression of frustration than strength (there are scholars who question its legality and its wisdom) it nonetheless reflected a passion to participate that is absent on Capitol Hill today.

There was a time, not so long ago, when some members of Congress took war seriously. In 1990, after George Bush had drawn his line in the sand and declared that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait would not stand, 53 members of the House and one senator filed a lawsuit to stop any military action against Iraq without prior congressional approval. The legislators wanted U.S. District Judge Harold Greene to issue a preliminary injunction, but Greene said judicial intervention was premature because the Bush administration was still formulating its plans. The issue became moot when the administration asked for and received congressional approval to use "all necessary means" to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

The three-day debate over Operation Desert Storm was one of the most memorable and important in recent congressional history. It included the kind of substantive argument that must be held before the nation launches an offensive attack against another country. Many of those who spoke most eloquently are still serving in Congress or in the administration. One was Secretary Cohen, then a Republican senator from Maine. As he cast his vote in favor of military action, Cohen said it was "an hour of doubt and an hour of destiny."

It is no less an hour now. There will be those who will argue that a carefully planned airstrike on a limited number of targets cannot be compared to a full-scale ground war. And they are right, of course. But that has little to do with the purpose of a full-scale debate.

There are still a few legislators who recognize that war is part of Congress's province. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) took to the floor just before the recess to urge more debate about the ramifications of President Clinton's policy toward Iraq. He made clear his frustration with Saddam Hussein, but he tried to look ahead at what happens after a bombing campaign. Among his questions: "Can we, with any degree of certainty, effectively target and destroy [Saddam's] most deadly weapons? Will the strike prevent Saddam from counter-attacking and using weapons of mass destruction? Will this action end all chances of further inspections? If this is true, what will happen when his capability is restored? How will the attack change Saddam's conduct? Have we considered the possibility of terrorist activities in both the Mideast and in the United States?"

Roberts ended by expressing confidence that administration officials had studied these issues. But, he said, many people with expertise in military tactics and national security believe that the proposed airstrike "will be flawed and counterproductive." He urged his fellow senators not to approve any resolution of support until these questions could be answered.

In one sense, he got his wish. The Senate adjourned without acting on the resolution. But Roberts's questions hung in the air. Later that week, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle appeared jointly on the floor to explain their decision to postpone a vote. "We have decided," Lott said, "that the most important thing is not to move so quickly but to make sure that we have had all the questions asked and answered."

But that's just the point: This crisis has been mounting for weeks. When does Congress plan to find out what it needs to know?

Let's speculate for a moment about where things go from here. Assume that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's diplomatic mission to Baghdad fails to bring back a meaningful compromise. Assume that the United States unleashes its bombs, and a desperate Saddam Hussein decides to retaliate by sending Scud missiles into Israel. Now there is pressure on Israel to strike back. Other Arab nations make threatening noises about what their response will be. How will Congress explain its inattention then?

A full-fledged debate isn't an obstacle to action. Neither is asking hard questions of administration officials at committee hearings. Both are important steps that inform and protect the administration and the Congress as they embark on a course of action that is certain to lead to unanticipated places. There is still time for our elected officials on Capitol Hill to embrace the task they were elected to do.

Steven Luxenberg is the editor of Outlook.

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Authorities have dropped charges against a Mississippi man accused of sending letters laced with the poison ricin to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a judge, while FBI agents searched another man’s house in connection with the case.

Federal authorities were mum about their decision and announced it in a short document filed in federal court in Oxford, Miss., hours after Paul Kevin Curtis was released from custody.

The charges were dismissed “without prejudice,” which means they could be reinstated if prosecutors so choose.

Mr. Curtis, 45, was arrested April 17 at his home in Corinth, Miss., after he was charged with mailing ricin-laced letters to Mr. Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican. The letters were detected at the off-site White House and Senate mail facilities and never reached their targets.

Judge Sadie Holland of the Lee County Justice Court received a similar letter, investigators said.

After his release, Mr. Curtis said he was confused as to why he was arrested.

“Just being in a state of overwhelm is the best way I can describe it,” he told reporters after his release. “When you’ve been charged with something you’ve never heard of — ricin or whatever — I thought they said ‘rice.’ I said I don’t even eat rice.”

Mr. Curtis called Mr. Wicker a “good and honest man” and said he respects Mr. Obama.

“I love my country and would never do anything to pose a threat to [Mr. Obama] or any other U.S. official,” he said. “This past week has been a nightmare for myself and my family.”

Mr. Curtis‘ attorney, Christi R. McCoy, said she was “thrilled” that the U.S. attorney’s office dropped the charges.

“They led with evidence they had at the time and realized it was a dead end and then they went to where the evidence was,” she said.

She said she believes Mr. Curtis may have been framed.

On Monday, FBI agent Brandon Grant said that Friday searches of Mr. Curtis‘ vehicle and house found no ricin or devices used to make the substance. A search of the suspect’s computers found no evidence that he researched making ricin.

But Mr. Grant said at the time that, while other people could have been involved, “given information right now, we believe we have the right individual.”

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Success … Revenge was a hit for Seven.

YEAR after year it is billed as the fight to end all fights, and while no one would disagree the 2012 television ratings war has been a bloody one, there can be only one winner.

For the sixth consecutive year, that winner is Seven, finishing the 40 weeks of the TV ratings year with a leading margin over its rivals.

For the full ratings year, including the Olympic Games, Channel Seven won the year with a 30.5 per cent share of the five capital city markets. Channel Nine came second with 28.9 per cent.

Nine's Underbelly: Badness.

Ten scraped into third position with a 17.4 per cent share, less than half a percentage point ahead of the ABC's main channel, ABC1, which gave Ten serious chase and, for a large part of the second half of the ratings year, actually outpaced it.

At the beginning of the year, the big story was billed as the fall of Channel Nine, resurgent but struggling under the weight of its multibillion-dollar debt.

But then Nine was reborn, debt-free, after an extraordinary deal was stitched up by its chief executive, David Gyngell, and the story instead became the spectacular stumble of Channel Ten, crippled by management changes, poor programming decisions and a shrinking audience.

Seven's Downton Abbey followed Revenge in top overseas shows.

Proving perhaps that slow and steady wins the race, Seven crossed the finish line first.

Nine may have won significant gains in the demographics and the ABC's resurgence may have bruised Ten, but Seven, whose program line-up was perhaps a little unsexier than Nine's, had a schedule powered by more breadth, depth and consistency. Those three qualities ensured it retained the ratings crown for another year.

But the margins - on all fronts - have narrowed, and both Seven and Ten now face a tough fight next year to ensure they are not swamped by rivals which they have, for some years, kept at bay.

Nine's Howzat! came first place in top local dramas.

Snapping at Seven's heels is Nine, armed with formidable firepower and a suite of shows - The Voice, The Block, Big Brother, Celebrity Apprentice - which are proving to be magnetic.

Snapping at Ten's heels is the ABC, whose blue-chip programming, including New Tricks, Call The Midwife, Midsomer Murders and Gruen Planet, ensured it fought a good fight against its commercial rivals.

But the stakes in the Seven-Nine war are the biggest, as the victor can lay claim to the ratings crown.

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The year will end much as most ratings analysts expected: with Seven in first place, and everyone else claiming anything they can lay their hands on.

Nine's control of the demographics - 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54-year-olds - is a particular thorn in Seven's side, as those three demographic segments soak up the lion's share of the television revenue.

In particular, Nine's resurgence has been strong, not just because of top-rating reality shows such as The Voice and The Block, but also in Australian drama, with the successful launch of House Husbands, Nine's first weekly drama in some time to win both strong audience and critical acclaim.

In that sense, this year sets up next year perfectly for a final showdown between the longtime bitter rivals.

If Nine is ever going to topple Seven, then 2013 is the year they surely must do it. And if Seven is ever going to cement a commanding margin over its resurgent rival, then next year is also the theatre for that battle. Nine goes into that fight armed with The Voice and the NRL. Seven has The X Factor and the AFL. Both have strong drama suites, though Seven's is more consistently spread across all 40 weeks of the ratings year.

Both are neck and neck in breakfast and news.

The two outstanding blue-chip programming assets on the market - the cricket, whose opening bit will sit about $300 million, and the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics - are still in play. Insiders suggest both might end up with Nine.

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A 20-year-old Waukesha woman suspected of at least nine retail thefts by fraud from Macy’s at Mayfair Mall, 2500 N. Mayfair Mall, was apprehended Friday.

According to a Wauwatosa Police Department report:

At 5:35 p.m., she took a coat off the rack and brought it the service counter as a return. She used the $328 credit to purchase other merchandise from the store.

Security had been watching her because they had suspected her of previous incidents of fraud in the past six months but did not have enough evidence to make an arrest. She was also wanted for theft at the Rockford, Ill., Macy’s store.

She was referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office.

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Upon arrival Officers determined that entry had been made by using a metal fence post to pry open one of the serving windows. Entry was also attempted on a second window by using a sharpen stick. Potato chips, Grandma cookies, buns, frozen hamburgers and hot dogs were taken. A trail of empty potato chip bags were found on Wayne St. headed east.

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A few of my favourite things!

I wanted to share a few of my current favourite things because it's swiftly approaching assessment time and it will be pretty quiet around here for the next couple of weeks. It won't come as much of a surprise that my favourite things consist of hot girls with pretty cookery books, even prettier dresses and great hair. And then some great music to dance around the kitchen to, whilst making said recipes.

The perfectly formed Miss Sophie Dahl, one of my favourite authors and creator of thee best banana bread recipe ever, is to grace our screens with her very own cookery show. The Delicious Miss Dahl ( I seriously though her book's name couldn't be beaten but then she went ahead and did it). I'm salivating at the very thought! Read more over here.

As if I wasn't excited enough by Miss Dahl's programme, Miss Gizzi Erskine (of Cook Yourself Thin fame) gave us her ever so stunning book - Gizzi's Kitchen Magic. Which, of course was immediately added to my collection.
Recipes aside, isn't her hair the best? She's up there with Zooey and Barbi!

She & Him are back with Volume 2 and if In the Sun is anything to go by, its going to be just as amazing as Volume 1. Watch the video and swoon over her hair..and her dancing... and that outfit...

Sweet tba, for the third time, I feel that I may die if this dress does not come into my possession. It will be just the frock wear to wear to a wedding in Vegas!

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And last but certainly not least is Wuthering Heights, The Ballet. I was a little dubious, as it is one of my favourite books, I wondered how it could possibly be done without those epic quotes. I needn't have worried, it was simply perfect and I've been religiously listening to the score ever since.

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I think Spring has finally sprung.

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The crocuses and daffodils have begun to bloom, M&S are selling cinnamon apple hot cross buns and I've actually left the house without wearing a hat and gloves - twice.

I think its safe to say Spring is officially here and with it comes the shift from wool coats to the humble trench.

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I'm not packing up all my winter entire just yet, I'm not that optimistic. However, todays was such a lovely day so I though it was time to give my trench an airing. I've posted about this twice before and its been sitting in my wardrobe for what feels like forever but I've never actually worn it out.

You have to understand, I swooned and swooned over this darling but at £250 I had to let it go.
Then months and months later, I found it in the dregs of the Topshop sale, epically discounted with a missing button. My heart skipped a beat and I bought it without a seconds thought.

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I've been trying to conquer my fear of brown, I have a perpetual fear of wearing it.
Especially next to my face!

I think it all stemmed from an article I once read, on which colour suited which complexion etc. It said (my Mother says I quote this way too often but whatever) One should not display sapphires upon a blue velvet cloth. I've always taken this to mean that since have brown hair and eyes there for I should never ever wear brown.

So in an attempt exorcise this particular demon, I went all out and piled it all on together. I don't think it turned out so bad. I especially like the brown shoes and grey tights, the idea of which was expressly stolen from Miss Alexa Chung's collection for Madewell.

I think I've overcome my fear, just so long as it isn't next to my face.

What do you think of the old Sapphire/Blue Velvet quote?
Are there any colours that fill you with fear?


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TCA Standout Signs with Cumberland University

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JACKSON, Tenn. - Trinity Christian Academy Kaycee Stovall is taking her talents to the next level.

The Lady Lions senior signed a letter of intent to play soccer with Lady Bulldogs of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn.

During her senior year, Stovall collected 155 saves, six shutouts, three goals and three assists.

She was also named All-District for four years and Goal Keeper of the Year for three of those years.


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May headlines in review: Mayor Rahm Emanuel arrives and Oprah departs

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was sworn into office on May 16.

The summer season may not yet be official, but Memorial Day Weekend had plenty of folks arriving and departing. That was the theme throughout the month of May. Chicago's new Mayor Rahm Emanuel arrived at City Hall and Oprah departed, leaving a huge vacancy in Chicago’s field of media queens. Never mind all the extra comings and goings at the Dirksen Federal Building, with two major trials underway.

To sort out all of the news that was, Eight Forty-Eight was joined by a panel of esteemed journalists who spend their days in and out of the office.

Kristen McQueary is state government reporter for WBEZ and the Chicago News Cooperative, Natalie Moore is WBEZ’s South Side bureau reporter and Ammad Omar is WBEZ's News Desk Editor.

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Journalist David Epstein's new book explores the relationship between heredity and athleticism. He explains what he discovered while writing the book. The Chicago Park District offers advice on how to lose that extra holiday weight. And, the music of Rob Clearfield.


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The EF-3 tornado that ripped through Speedwell on Sunday left behind devastation, but now families are starting to pick up the pieces and get their lives back together.

One family is finding much more than their personal items; they're finding a little bit of comfort.

"I have seen a lot of people that have been victimized by storms and floods but I've never walked in their shoes, now I know how that feels," said Sheriff David Ray as he looked over the pile of what remains of his home.

His mother-in-law was unable to grab her most prized possessions before the storm hit and the home was destroyed.

"Very lucky to find my wife's mother's ring, her engagement ring, along with her wedding band," said the sheriff.

The 83-year-old widow treasured her rings and was relived to find them among the rubble.

Sheriff Ray said those rings were the last things of value they were able to salvage from his destroyed home.

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ATLANTA -- A 4-year-old boy was asked to leave a restaurant at Phipps Plaza because his shirt violated the dress code.

Lewis Roberts thought the outfit he picked out – which included a green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sleeveless shirt – looked great. But when he and his family tried to sit down for lunch at the Tavern at Phipps, he was told he didn't meet the "Gentlemen's Dress Code."

After Lewis' family explained that he was only 4, the hostess told them they still had to leave. When they asked to speak to a manager, the manager told them the dress code extended to "gentleman of all ages," and they were again asked to leave. The message was clear: the restaurant, known for its low country boil, didn't want a little Ninja Turtle in the dining room.

"If we would have thought for a minute that he was inappropriately dressed, we would have gone to a different restaurant to save the embarrassment," said the boy's aunt.

The restaurant wouldn't speak with 11Alive's Kaitlyn Ross, but after upper management found out about the incident, they were the ones feeling embarrassed. Amber Stewart, a company spokesperson, issued a statement saying:

Rule does not apply for children and ladies -- for gentleman only. It was an embarrassing misunderstanding on our part. She's a manager in training who had a gross misunderstanding of our policy. We apologize and are reaching out to the family.

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Preparing for Operation Safe Stop

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Town of Owego, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Drivers caught failing to obey rules for stopped school buses will be ticketed. But it's a small penalty, considering the potentially deadly implications of breaking the law, officials said Monday.

Operation Safe Stop, which takes place Thursday, is a day set aside every year by the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee and the New York Association of Pupil Transportation (NYAPT) to make the public aware they must stop for the flashing red lights of school buses.

On Monday at Thomas J. Watson elementary school, local law enforcement, Union Endicott school administrators and students sent the message for a statewide enforcement initiative.

An average of 50 people pass a school bus illegally every day in the Southern Tier,
according to Lisa Wilson, supervisor of transportation at Union Endicott schools.

"Not only are you taking a risk -- it's illegal -- but you're also risking a child's life," she said. "Children do get killed because people pass school buses."

Broome County Sheriff David Harder says school buses will have marked and unmarked cars following school buses Thursday afternoon.

He says tickets for passing a school bus carry a minimum penalty of $150.

"These yellow school buses travel the same routes, at the same time. They make the same stops every single day. If you don't want to be behind a school bus, take a different route," Wilson said.

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'Matterhorn': A Beautiful, Brutal Vietnam War Epic

Thirty-five years have passed since the fall of Saigon, but the Vietnam War has never really loosened its grip on the American imagination. Even people born years after the war have the painful images burned into their minds — Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the little girl running down the street after being burned in a napalm attack; South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a handcuffed Viet Cong soldier in full sight of a television camera. There's no such thing as a kind or gentle war, but the sheer brutality and hopelessness of Vietnam set the tone for American conversations about war and foreign policy for decades after.

We've all seen, at some point, the Vietnam War dramatized on television or acted out in film. But it's impossible, of course, for anyone who wasn't there to fully gauge the horror and violence that American and Vietnamese soldiers encountered every minute of every day. In his debut novel, Matterhorn, Vietnam combat veteran Karl Marlantes attempts to transport his readers to 1969, in a jungle near Laos, just south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone — DMZ — where a company of young U.S. Marines are fighting for their lives in a war none of them really understands. And while no one who didn't serve in Vietnam can really grasp what life in that time, that place, was like, Marlantes comes closer than any American writer ever has to capturing the unrelenting terror and enormity of one of the saddest chapters in recent world history.

The protagonist of Matterhorn is 2nd Lt. Waino Mellas, a Marine reservist and Ivy League student called to lead a platoon in Bravo Company. Mellas has ambitions of being a lawyer, maybe a politician, and starts his tour frightened, but still hopeful. After a few weeks in country, he starts to realize he's unprepared, still a kid, leading a platoon of even younger kids — scared, confused, most desperate to go home. His education hasn't prepared him for a series of no-win situations — in the midst of one patrol, Mellas realizes "no strategy was perfect. All choices were bad in some way."

He and his fellow soldiers are ordered to build a base on a desolate hill, ordered to abandon it, ordered to take it back from the North Vietnamese. The Marines begin to harbor serious doubts about their commanders, and one another — as racial strife threatens to tear apart the entire battalion, Mellas quickly discovers there's no good solution to anything, and all he can try to do is survive. In one heart-wrenching passage, Mellas considers running away, abandoning his friends, but decides against it: "Dying this way was a better way to die because living this way was a better way to live."

There's never been a Vietnam War novel as stark, powerful and brutal as Matterhorn — Marlantes manages to exceed the efforts of his closest literary antecedents, Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried) and James Webb (the brilliant, underrated Fields of Fire). He manages to write with a dark and chilling beauty, even as he chronicles some of the most unspeakable events his readers are likely to encounter. It's the rare kind of masterpiece that enriches not just American literature but American history as well. Marlantes earned a host of medals in Vietnam; the service he's done with this brave novel should earn him, again, the thanks of a nation still broken, still trying to heal from the wounds of Vietnam.

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First come the shady operators, then comes the collapse, then comes the bailout, then come the shady operators. That, too often, is the sad history of financial meltdowns and their cleanups.

The closing days of the Bush administration offer the familiar spectacle of bad actors descending on a government program fat with new money and starved of oversight. The object of plunder this time is a Federal Housing Administration program recently empowered to extend an additional $300 billion in loan guarantees, so reports BusinessWeek.

The plunderers include the seediest of subprime mortgage lenders, back for a second feeding, this time off the taxpayers. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which manages the FHA, has fined, sued and even removed some of the rogue lenders from the program, but they keep coming back.

"Within the next 12 to 18 months, there is going to be FHA-insurance Armageddon," Gary Lacefield, a former federal mortgage investigator-turned-consultant in Arlington, Texas, told the magazine.

Criminal convictions, bankruptcies, state sanctions and civil lawsuits rarely pose an obstacle to these players. They've changed their spiel, and some have changed their name.

And who's checking? Since 2007, the number of FHA-authorized lenders has more than doubled to 36,000, while the FHA's staff stayed flat at 1,000 people. The unit that monitors the lenders and approves new participants had only five slots, two of them vacant in recent months.

At the height of mortgage mania, the stodgy FHA lost business to subprime hotshots flashing those low come-on rates. After all, the agency required some down payment and proof of an ability to pay the money back. These were boring 30-year fixed-rate loans.

Now FHA mortgages are the main game. The number of new ones has jumped from 60,000 last January to 140,000 in September.

The FHA guidelines endure, but unscrupulous mortgage companies can work around them. They can still use phony data to certify unqualified buyers and inflate the prices of the houses being sold. And they are doing just that. The loss to taxpayers from new FHA loans could exceed $100 billion over the next five years, predicts an industry newsletter, Inside Mortgage Finance.

What kind of companies are being licensed to offer 100-percent-taxpayer-guaranteed mortgages?

There's a company in Coral Gables, Fla., with the wonderful name Great Country Mortgage Bankers. It broke FHA rules by letting borrowers take on mortgage and condo fees totaling more than 31 percent of monthly income. And the default rate on its FHA loans stood at 13 times the local average. Still, Great Country Mortgage was kept on as an authorized FHA agent until last November.

Nationstar Mortgage, based near Dallas, last year paid Kentucky a $105,000 settlement over allegations that it used unlicensed loan officers and faked borrowers' credit scores. That didn't stop it from getting a green light in March to give out FHA loans. A Nationstar executive subsequently called FHA loans his company's "high-growth channel."

First Magnus Financial, in Tucson, Ariz., earned a multitude of state and federal citations for sleazy and unlawful lending practices. It reopened under a new name, StoneWater Mortgage -- same executives in the same building -- and received a license to dole out FHA loans.

An agency spokesman noted that FHA-licensed lenders must disclose past regulatory sanctions and may not employ anyone with a criminal record. Good idea, that honor system. As we know, crooks never lie.

Will the new guard in Washington take more than a passing interest in what happens to the hundreds of billions flying out the door? The House Financial Services Committee plans to hold a hearing Friday on "FHA Oversight of Loan Originators." Sounds like a promising start.


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Prairie and native grasslands are disappearing rapidly, taking soil and habitat as well as hunting, ranching and other economic opportunities with them. Congress should ensure that federal farm and crop insurance subsidies don’t exacerbate the loss of these vital natural resources.

 Fortunately, Reps. Kristi Noem (R-SD), Tim Walz (D-MN) and six bipartisan co-sponsors, including House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Rep. Collin Peterson (DMN), recently introduced legislation that creates a nationwide “sodsaver” law that would slash subsidies that contribute to the destruction of native grassland and prairie.

 The Protect Our Prairies Act would prohibit federal payments and reduce crop insurance premium subsidies by 50 percent on newly broken native sod. The Act also closes loopholes by requiring that newly broken sod be isolated from other crop acres when calculating insurable yields. And operators would be required to take a percentage of the county average yield for any newly broken native sod until they are able to show a multi-year yield history. These two provisions are crucial to removing the federally subsidized incentive to bust up native grassland.

 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Protect Our Prairies will save nearly $200 million over the next 10 years, tax dollars that will otherwise be spent to destroy remaining prairies and grasslands. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) secured the same provision in the Senate farm bill last year, and it is expected to remain in the Senate bill this year. If your representative is a co-sponsor, thank them; if not, call them and urge them to sign up.

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ATLANTA -- Super Bowl LII, where are you? Minneapolis, that's where.

NFL owners Tuesday awarded the league's Feb. 4, 2018, championship game to Minnesota, which beat out competing bids from Indianapolis and New Orleans.

Landing the 52nd Super Bowl for the Twin Cities and its weeklong festival of football and commerce was a major coup for Vikings owners Zygi, Mark and Leonard Wilf, who are in their 10th season as team stewards.

The Wilfs successfully lobbied the state Legislature in 2012 for $498 million in taxpayer money to help build a futuristic $1 billion indoor stadium on the old Metrodome site. The yet-to-be-named venue was the centerpiece of Minnesota's bid, but local star power helped.

Legendary coach Bud Grant and star running back Adrian Peterson headlined a cast that included Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn and chef Andrew Zimmern. Their videotaped speeches brought Minnesota's detailed bid to life.

The Minnesota delegation was the first to make its 15-minute presentation to the 31 other owners and their staff at Atlanta's Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Richard Davis, CEO of U.S. Bancorp, and Marilyn Carlson Nelson, former CEO of Carlson Cos., made the pitch from the podium. Mark Wilf delivered the closing argument.

It marked the first time New Orleans lost out on a Super Bowl bid after winning its previous 10. Indianapolis, which was host to Super Bowl XLVI in 2012, lost the previous year.

In the end, owners decided to return the Super Bowl to wintry Minneapolis 26 years after Super Bowl XXVI was staged at the Metrodome, which was demolished over the winter to make room for the new stadium.

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(Reuters) - Minneapolis will host the 52nd Super Bowl in 2018, the National Football League announced on Tuesday.

NFL team owners voted for Minneapolis to stage the game ahead of New Orleans and Indianapolis.

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Panetta Cites Key Intelligence on bin Laden Raid

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Washington, D.C. (AP) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.

Panetta told CBS's "60 Minutes," in a profile to be broadcast on Sunday, that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence in the compound. He has since been charged by Pakistan with treason. Panetta said he is "very concerned" for the doctor.

Panetta also told "60 Minutes" that he remains convinced that someone in the Pakistani government "must have had some sense" that a person of interest was in the compound. He added that he has no proof that Pakistan knew it was bin Laden.

The Pakistani government had hoped to resolve the Afridi matter quietly, once media attention died down, perhaps releasing him to U.S. custody, according to two Pakistani officials. They requested anonymity because the investigation into charges the doctor behaved treasonously was ongoing.

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Ex-Funeral, Nursing Home Worker Sentenced In Fraud

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- U.S. Attorney's officials say an eastern Georgia man accused of bank fraud, wire fraud and identity theft has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Officials said Tuesday that 44-year-old Bryant Webb, of Augusta, worked at a funeral home and was accused of defrauding his employer and the families of deceased people out of more than $215,000 in insurance policy proceeds.

Authorities say Webb later began working at a nursing home in Augusta and stole about $33,000 from disabled residents.

A judge has delayed ordering Webb to pay restitution for 90 days to allow any other potential victims to come forward.

Webb is ordered to serve five years of supervised release after his prison sentence and is not eligible for parole.

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Thomasville Hosts 'Mac Attack' Tourney

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Hands-On Thomas County held its first 'Mac Attack' disc golf tournament in MacIntyre Park to celebrate a new playing field and raise money for the organization.

The 12-hole course was built by HOTC volunteers, and group leaders say the event was a way to celebrate all of their hard work.

Players say the sport is fun because it's 'different.'

Says tournament player Jim Henderson, "[It's] very challenging ... that's why -- that's what makes it so much fun, there's so many different angles to throw the disc at, and different terrain to affect the course and your throws."

Disc golf is a fusion game, which pairs a plastic disc with a golf-like course layout.

Players must toss their discs into various metal baskets from far away.

Whoever accomplishes the task in the least amount of throws wins.

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Wellmont Health System released the following information about an upcoming concert that will benefit the Children's Miracle Network.

"Acclaimed country music artist Collin Raye and highly regarded opening act Brinley Addington will enhance children’s care at Wellmont Health System hospitals with a special concert Saturday, June 21, at the Farmer’s Market.
The duo will demonstrate their flair for creating and performing dynamic music when they hit the stage at 7 p.m. for the second annual Brinley Addington Hometown Throwdown presented by First Kingsport Credit Union. They will also showcase their compassionate hearts, as the event serves as a fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
“We’re looking forward to a night of great fun and excellent music that will captivate the crowd while also supporting an outstanding cause,” Addington said. “Having been born at Holston Valley Medical Center and raised in Kingsport, I have seen how children’s lives have been transformed through the amazing work of Children’s Miracle Network.
“It’s a privilege to support this cause and give more children the opportunity to not only survive but thrive due to lifesaving care made possible, in large measure, by Children’s Miracle Network.”
Addington detailed the can’t-miss event during a news conference Tuesday, May 27, at the credit union, which is serving as the title sponsor. The throwdown has also attracted 13 other philanthropic sponsors, illustrating the broad appeal of these musicians and Children’s Miracle Network.
“Collin and Brinley are two remarkable performers who will create an electric atmosphere for this concert,” said Beverly Boling, the credit union’s CEO. “We’re thrilled to play a part in bringing high-caliber entertainment to downtown Kingsport and making a positive difference in children’s lives. It’s a win-win for everyone.”
Other sponsors are Price & Ramey Insurance, Saxon Clark Real Estate Group, Fairway Ford, Courtesy Chevrolet, Carter-Trent Funeral Home, GoinsRashCain, Valley View Animal Clinic, Oak Hill Funeral Home, Edwards Tipton Witt Agency, Domtar, J.A. Street & Associates, Spoden & Wilson Consulting Engineers, Southern Classic Auto Wash and the City of Kingsport.
Wellmont has served as the Children’s Miracle Network affiliate in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia for more than 25 years. The health system uses all money raised in this area to purchase state-of-the-art equipment for its pediatric departments, neonatal intensive care unit and emergency departments and to fund community partnerships that advance children’s health.
A beneficiary of Children’s Miracle Network is the family of Todd Freeman, who owns a local production company and is working with Addington on the throwdown. Freeman’s granddaughter, Grace, spent about six weeks in 2013 in the neonatal intensive care unit at Holston Valley. Born four weeks early at 4 pounds, 3 ounces, she would not eat sufficiently and had trouble with reflux.
Now 13 months old, Grace continues to make impressive strides as she grows into a toddler. Freeman talks positively about the care she received in the NICU and the help Children’s Miracle Network provides.
“We’re big fans of Children’s Miracle Network and the NICU and the difference both have made in Grace’s life,” he said. “Her physicians and other caregivers in the NICU were absolutely fabulous – second to none – and we’ll never forget what a difference they made in our beautiful little girl’s life.”
In assessing the concert, Addington and Freeman said it will be the perfect way to kick off the summer. An accomplished musician, Raye hit the right note in 1991 with the song “Love, Me,” which showcased his wonderful voice. As his career has progressed, he has continued to make his mark with other ballads, such as “One Boy, One Girl,” “Not That Different” and “If I Were You.” He has also shown his versatility with peppy songs such as “My Kind of Girl” and “I Want You Bad.”
Raye has also used his fame to promote important organizations and causes, such as Boys Town, Special Olympics, Catholic Relief Services, Country Cares About AIDS and Al-Anon.
Addington has built a successful career as a show-opener for major artists and groups such as Chris Young, Josh Turner, Justin Moore and the Eli Young Band. He issued his first full-length album “Homegrown” in 2011, which reached No. 53 on the iTunes country album charts. Having earned rave reviews from peers and other music industry professionals for that effort, Addington is now working on his second album.
Todd Norris, Wellmont’s senior vice president of system advancement and president of Wellmont Foundation, said he appreciates Addington and Raye for supporting Children’s Miracle Network
“Events such as this showcase the valuable partnerships that have enabled Children’s Miracle Network to be such a powerful force in the well-being of children,” Norris said. “As we begin the next generation of care, individuals and organizations can continue to impact these young lives in so many ways, such as our NICU expansion, through their support of Children’s Miracle Network. It’s an investment that will improve thousands more children’s lives.”
Tickets for the throwdown are $12 in advance and $15 the day of the concert. They are available starting later this week at Food City stores on Eastman Road and Clinchfield Street in Kingsport, as well as in Colonial Heights, Church Hill and Weber City, Virginia. They can also be purchased at First Kingsport Credit Union. All tickets are general admission.
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It was as if it was divine intervention. We finally found morcilla (see picture of sausages below – it’s the black one) in a specialty store up the block but we weren’t prepared to make a fabada or cocido – two other Spanish dishes which call for morcilla. I picked up one of my favorite […]

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    IE 7 document mode in IE 8 versus IE 9

    I ahve a site on my company's network and is an internal web app. I use html <object> tag to embed a pdf inside browser window. some people are upgraded to IE 9, some are on IE8. default setting for IE is to show intranet sites in compat mode which thn forces document mode to IE 7 standards. In IE 8 browser mode and document mode = IE 7, this object tag works correctly, shows pdf. but in IE 9 browser mode and document mode = IE 7, the object tag do not show pdf always. I am confused how document mode = Ie 7 can behave differently in 2 different browsers.
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    Some quick searches turned up some information. You might check out

    The solutions I saw require access to some server control files. Apparently, no document-level settings/tags will help this issue. But you definitely want to move the company away from anything to do with IE7, and probably IE8 as well. Newer versions (9+) of IE no longer include complete support all of the old (IE6&7) rendering modes. There are too many drawbacks to maintaining ties to such old software any longer. Good luck!
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    I recently had a problem like this embedding a pdf file. I found after struggling with this pdf file for a client the best solution was to just code the pdf file in to a page of the site. it was a very large form application for a staffing company. It ended up looking more professional and aloud for the site to be more user friendly. Also it allows me to update the form easily when they need to add or remove fields.

    The best part of it is the ability to let people fill it out in the browser and then email the form to the customer when the form is submitted with php. Obviously this may not be an option for you but just wanted to throw it out there. I hope that helps.

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    Hello all, kindly tell me how to select keyword for new website??? give me some tips for selecting keywords?

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    For researching keywords, you must use Google Adwords keyword tool it is the best one.

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    Exclamation Looking for Partners to establish a web developing team.

    (First of all, if this is in the wrong place, please notify me in the comments. )

    Web developers often work in groups or teams or what not to increase efficiency spread knowledge and so forth. So what I'm looking for is someone that's also interested in a prospect like this to have someone to work with and help out and at times create a whole website together.

    The whole goal of this is not to create one single website. I want a team that could work together for nonprofit reasons ( and if profit is involved I can manage it and will manage it in a very clear way. Ex. Site got popular with adds really quickly. Adds would be used to give the site hosting 10%, networking 20%, team 70% - me 20% of 70% and etc. )
    and could create a variety of sites that they've always wanted to create but didn't have the resources to do it.

    Anyone in the team could bounce a idea that they would like to see happen, and the whole team would then invoke on that project and continue in such a way.

    That said, I'm looking for someone(s) who have web designing skills, client programming, and server programming. I personally know the business aspect of the field, social networking and web programming.

    Also noted, I have approximately 3ish ideas already:
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    Just an idea - and plenty more where that came.

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    I am professional developer and available at very affordable price. I am willing to work as your partner on long term basis.

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E3 2013 seems like a distant memory now. It’s hard to even remember what happened. Thanks to the fine folks at VideoGamer, we can at least remember what happened at EA’s press conference.

The latest, and final, E3 abridged video captures just how boring EA’s E3 presence was. Beyond Mirror’s Edge 2 and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, everything else was business as usual. Spending over 20 minutes on EA Sports didn’t help matters either. Still, the folks at VideoGamer did what they could with the material, and the end result is pretty good.

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