I have used PDF writers for years and avoided all of the problems with Family Tree Maker's PDF function that other have experienced.
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Internet Marketing Blogs - The Key To SuccessThe internet is full of information, so that it is often difficult to sift through everything to find exactly what you need.
When you are building a business online you may find it difficult to know exactly what will be your next step, but I learned that the information is there to help you, but you just have to go out and get - Act!
I'm in the business of internet marketing are a few years, and I have my own sites.O clients and my goal is to make the sites being found by visitors across the network. At first, you may not know where to start, but just a little knowledge and application of that knowledge and you'll be on your way to becoming a legitimate threat against competition.
This is where Internet marketing blogs come into play for me and will enter the game for you too.
There are many good blogs out there that will give you great guidance as our own blog will also help you in the latest trends and strategies in internet marketing.
On top of that, you can use the information found and get ideas for themes for your own business is to teach people how to behave in an online marketplace.
Multilevel Magnetic Blog and Blog Success Center are great places to go and get general information about everything around knowledge for internet marketing. Not forgetting the internet marketing forum where you can find everything you need in this industry of internet marketing.
Blogs are popular ways to market online because they provide a great outlet for the publication of several articles on a variety of topics.
You can make your blog very expansive or very specific (only about a deteminado matter), but a blog offers a great resource for visitors and enables a range of marketing that will truly become an asset.
There are many important issues in their dealing with internet marketing, and you as a new online entrepreneur should look for information about this subject (such as seo and copyright)
Finally, the blogs I have today online internet marketing can help you a lot. I try touched on every topic and issue related to internet marketing in each of them doing it in a completely honest and convincing.
There is a lot of nonsense on the web today that can be misleading, but I try to avoid that. Nothing beats the old-fashioned work and that always prevails. I try to give people the knowledge and tools that
they need to succeed and from there it's up to each person to make it happen for yourself.
A little effort will take you a long way and you can build a business internet marketing if you keep at it and have a positive attitude.
"Knowledge, learning and self-improvement is the source of success"
Source: http://sobloggers.blogspot.com/2012/10/internet-marketing-blogs-key-to-success.html
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I?m chef wanna-be, a sometimes tri-athlete (note emphasis on sometimes), and a passionate follower of Jesus. I?m in love with my husband and kids and am zealous about writing and speaking. (I promised my family I wouldn?t talk about my nose ring.) But they?re pretty crazy too, as you can see below!
My deepest dream is to see stories?mine and others?change lives as they?ve changed mine.Although I write both non-fiction and fiction, I?m especially fond of the latter because of the power of story. Stories saved me. From the parables of Jesus, to novels like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Book of the Dun Cow, stories swept me away into a world of hope and possibilities.
Interview:
If you could travel in a Time Machine would you go back to the past or into the future?
I would go to the past back to 2-3 years old so I could uncover a maddening, hidden memory.
What is one book everyone should read?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, although I think most kids read it in high school. Such a beautiful, timeless story.
If you were a superhero what would your name be?
Word Girl.
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Mint Chocolate cookie by Ben and Jerry?s.
One food you would never eat?
Splenda. I?m allergic.
Please tell us in one sentence only, why we should read your book.
It uncovers the age-old question, why can?t I change or grow?
What's one piece of advice you would give aspiring authors?
Set word count goals and meet them. Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised. Write miles and miles of unpublished words.
Favorite Candy?
Oh dark chocolate, how you mock me with your yummy goodness. A temptress you are.
How do you react to a bad review?
I eat dark chocolate.
If you were a bird, which one would you be?
I?d be the one on my website...free, flying, uncaged.
PC or Mac?
Mac
Favorite quote from a movie?
?We lived our lives in fear.? Strictly Ballroom, an indie classic from Australia
?I don?t write this book as a condemnation or as a sermon. The last thing I want to do is provide a ?how to be the best Christian in ten easy steps? guide. I pen these words as a fellow struggler who is learning that what we think about God matters, how we allow Him to reign in our hearts matters, and how we obey Him in the moment matters. It all matters. Everything.?
Author and speaker Mary DeMuth has been abused, foreclosed, abandoned, and betrayed. She has been pressed and drained till it was too much . . .
But it was just enough to bring her to a place of surrender, piece by precious piece. In that surrender, she found the freedom of giving everything to God. And through Scripture, community, and the work of the Holy Spirit, she gives it all over again, every day.
In this gentle and challenging book, DeMuth describes the process and the nuances that shape us to be more like Christ. Her words are clear, vulnerable, and thought provoking, and every chapter is infused with Scripture.
Most of all, DeMuth provides personal and practical evidence that there is no greater pursuit than Christ. We must surrender everything, but it does not compare to the Everything He is, the Everything He gives.
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For a resident of the deep sea, a species of bubblegum coral is unusually cosmopolitan. These corals build often-colorful, knobby-armed structures deep in the oceans, where they appear comfortable nearly everywhere outside of the tropics.
A new genetic study not only indicates these widespread populations belong to a single species, but it also offers a glimpse at how this single species of bubblegum coral, Paragorgia arborea, spread around world. The researchers' reconstruction suggests the coral's ancient migration started in the North Pacific more than 10 million years ago, from which the colony-building animals may have hitched a ride on ancient ocean currents to travel to new seafloor habitat.
One species or many?
There are multiple types of bubblegum coral, but this particular species piqued the interest of researchers when they saw it was unusually widespread for a deep-sea organism. Paragorgia arborea has been found in the northern and southern Pacific and Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic and the Southern oceans. [ See Photos of Bubblegum Coral ]
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"It was really puzzling, there was this deep-sea species that could be found all over the world, except in the tropics," said Santiago Herrera, one of the researchers and a doctoral candidate with the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Oceanography. "It makes you doubt it was a single species."
This bubblegum coral forms colonies on the ocean floor to depths as great as 4,921 feet (1,500 meters). The structures appear in hues from bright red, orangish pink and pale pink to white in photographs taken using artificial light.?
On the seafloor, the coral's branches create habitat for other creatures, much like trees in a rain forest do. But unlike trees, bubblegum coral eats tiny dead organisms raining down from above, and sometimes traps its own prey.
These feeding habits also distinguish it from coral that forms reefs in shallower, tropical waters, which team up with photosynthetic algae.?
Clues in DNA
Herrera and his colleagues analyzed the genetic code from 130 pieces of this bubblegum coral contained in laboratory and museum collections; the oldest came from the Smithsonian Institution's collection, which was pulled from the seafloor off of North Carolina in 1878.
The researchers focused on regions of corals DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) found in the cells' mitochondria, the energy-producing centers and from the corals' nucleus, the cells' command center. Several analyses they conducted indicated these samples most likely all shared a common ancestor, one their close relatives did not, making them members of a single species.
Finding a widespread organism like this, then providing strong evidence its populations all belong to one species is a significant achievement, said Stephen Cairns, curator of corals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Natural History Museum.
Ancient migrations
Herrera and colleagues Timothy Shank, an associate scientist at WHOI, and Juan Sanchez, an associate professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, found the genetic composition of the coral samples varied depending on where they thrived, such as the North Atlantic or the South Pacific.
To see how this came to be, they looked back in time. The age of a fossil from a related coral provided the upper limit on their timeline, and to get an idea of the ages for the P. arborea populations, the researchers compared the relative abundance of genetic differences among them. [ Image Gallery: Colorful Coral ]
Their results indicated this species of bubblegum coral appears to have originated in the northern Pacific, possibly in the west, more than 10 million years ago, then traveled south into the southern Pacific.? After millions of years, the coral reached the Atlantic, by either traveling around the tip of South America or through the Central American Seaway, before the Isthmus of Panama blocked the two oceans and the tropical ocean warmed too much for the corals.
Although their colonies are attached to the seafloor, corals broadcast their eggs and sperm into the water. Ocean currents could have carried these, the corals' larvae and the young polyps the larvae become.
"You can go from Alaska down to Chile along the coast of the Americas if you have the right currents," Cairns said. "Time has a way of allowing unusual things to happen."
In fact, the team points out, the models of currents at the time during the Miocene Epoch show deep waters in the western Pacific moving south. The eastward flow of the Antarctic circumpolar current was already in place. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, the current's southward flow of deep water had yet to develop, making the corals' spread into the northern Atlantic plausible.?
The study was published Tuesday in the journal Molecular Ecology.
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Week?7 of the?NFL season was filled?with impactful plays and game-changing moments.? Here?s a look at some of the best shots from this weekend, courtesy of our cinematographers.?
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SAN FRANCISCO ? Goodwin Liu was tired and disappointed. The law professor had returned from Washington the night before, having lost his bruising 16-month battle to win Senate confirmation for a federal appeals court seat. Conservative Republicans had tarred the Obama nominee as a liberal activist, and all of Liu's efforts to dispel the label had failed.
He had his key in the door to his office at UC Berkeley's law school when the telephone rang. An aide to Gov. Jerry Brown wanted to know if he would be interested in the California Supreme Court. Apprehensive about being "put through the wringer again," Liu replied that he was "interested in the conversation."
Liu met with Brown that afternoon. Instead of querying Liu on such litmus test issues as abortion, the death penalty or affirmative action ? matters that can doom a judicial candidate ? Brown wanted to discuss English philosopher John Locke and the French social commentator Montesquieu.
"What do you think is the basis of law?" the governor asked.
That two-hour intellectual volleyball eventually landed Liu on California's highest court, a resurrection that defied political expectations and underscored the vast difference between state and federal judicial nominations.
During his first year on the California Supreme Court, the failed nominee for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has been anything but extreme. He has affirmed the death penalty 21 times, joining the majority in all the capital cases he considered and writing two of the affirmances himself. He has favored limiting the reach of the court on such matters as redistricting and bowing to the authority of the Legislature in a dispute over a wage law.
Although it's still too early to assess the kind of judge Liu will become, the former board member of an ACLU chapter has blended easily with the six other judges, all Republican appointees. "A paragon of judicial restraint," opined Santa Clara University law professor Gerald Uelmen in describing Liu's early record.
At a relatively youthful 41, Liu could have a long tenure and leave a deep imprint on California law. He could still become the liberal voice of the court, modeling himself after the late Justice Stanley Mosk, who favored consumers and protecting the rights of the criminally accused. Or Liu could build a record that might one day make him a politically palatable nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an interview in his spacious San Francisco chambers, Liu said his career has been more accidental than planned. He had been accepted to medical school before he shifted to the law, and the California Supreme Court was "not even on my radar," he said.
But since landing there just over a year ago, the legal scholar who had never before served on a bench has written 12 majority decisions and penned an equal number of concurring opinions. Legal analysts who reviewed his rulings say they revealed high productivity, a strong streak of independence and a tendency to explore cases deeply.
When assigned to write the court's holding in a case, Liu said, he strives for unanimity, a goal he has fallen short of only twice. "I come to the case with some view about it, but I am definitely open to being convinced otherwise," Liu said.
He joined the rest of the court in ruling that conservative Christians had the right to defend Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage because state officials had refused to do so. He drew on Justice Felix Frankfurter, known for his insistence that legislatures, not courts, make laws, in urging courts to refrain from entering disputes over election boundaries. And he complained in a criminal case that the court had ruled on a question that was not before it.
"He is a ball of fire" in productivity and "a restrained liberal, at least so far," in his jurisprudence, Santa Clara's Uelmen said. "I think he is going out of his way to completely discredit the attacks that were made on him in the 9th Circuit process."
Jon Eisenberg, an appellate lawyer, agreed, observing that Liu's concurring opinions "demonstrate a very non-activist judicial philosophy."
Liu said he did not set out to build a record that would rebut the critics who derailed his 9th Circuit nomination, but he acknowledged that he wants to be judged based "on the actual record."
"There are plenty of cases I wish could come out a different way," he said, "but they are not going to because the law compels a different result."
Liu likes to discuss cases, to probe and punch, and has found an intellectual sparring partner in Justice Carol A. Corrigan, who generally votes with the court's more conservative wing and whose counsel Liu prizes.
Even on different sides of an issue, Corrigan ? "such a generous person," Liu says ? will advise him of cases that support his viewpoint. "Not everyone wants me to barge into their office and take up 30 minutes of their day" on the fine points of the law, said Liu, seated at a glass-covered conference table covered with personal photographs and a pot of tea.
A persistent interrogator at oral argument, Liu politely asks questions and just as politely insists they be answered. He said the job has humbled him, and he is grateful to the other members of the court, whose backgrounds and stories he said inspire him.
When asked which justice he is closest to, he mentioned Corrigan, then described a trip to the Central Valley with the conservative Justice Marvin R. Baxter, a "model of decorum and grace." Liu also plays tennis with Justice Ming W. Chin, another of the court's conservatives.
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Docomo has recently revealed the official release date of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 Plus SC-01E in Japan.? It is scheduled to be available to consumers at all of service shops on October 25 2012. This is part of Docomo's plan to eventually proliferate the use and access of ultra high-speed LTE networks across the country.
The Galaxy Tab 7.7 Plus SC-01E is considered an upgrade over the original version. The 7.7 Plus SC-01E uses the APQ8060 (1.5 Ghz dual-core) processor, and is supported by 1GB of RAM. It also comes with 32GB of internal storage, although an external microSD/mircoSDHC/TransFlash can be used to extend the device's data capacity.? For its screen, it uses a Super Active Matrix OLED Plus display, with a WXGA resolution that is set at 1280x800 pixels. The dimensions of the unit are 197(length) X 133(width) X 7.9(thickness) millimeters, and weighs around 0.34 kilograms. Its battery has a charge capacity of about 5100mAh, and comes with Android 4.0 (ICS) OS out of the box.
Samsung claims that the overall multitasking capability is generally improved in the Galaxy Tab 7.7 Plus SC-01E.
With its LTE connectivity, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 Plus SC-01E is capable of accessing any high speed network that is available to NTT Docomo.? These data services include: The ultra high-speed Xi (Max. 75 Mbps), followed by the FOMA High-Speed connectivity service (Max. 14Mbps). In addition, the tablet also supports the international roaming connectivity service World Wing. Depending on availability, users of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 Plus SC-01E may also connect to Mobacas to watch programs from the smartphone-optimized NOTTV service.
The price of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 Plus SC-01E was revealed at the time of the announcement.
Source: Androwire
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It is the era of open source content management systems. The rise of open source software is like a boon for all middle or small scale business organization, because of the advanced age of internet. In this age of internet, a website needs to be strong enough for gaining the optimum attention of widely spread online community.
In this way, you need to be much cautioned while choosing the most suitable open source content management system for your business website. Thus, if you like to install the most suitable CMS in your official website, you need to understand the specific competency of each freely available open source content management system.
At present, there are top four open source content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magento. All these systems can be used to gain an edge in current phase of internet.
WordPress: WordPress is one of the most trusted open source CMS. It is providing free of cost Blog hosting services since its initial phase, which is a perfect means of individual publishing. Apart from Blog, it is also providing Content management System, which is known for search engine friendly architecture. Powered on PHP and Mysql, it has plugin architecture and template system. Due to its popularity, many website owners are converting their PSD to WordPress for a safe and reliable CMS.
Joomla: Widely known for using object oriented programming techniques, Joomla is a suitable open source content management system for making website like community sites, celebrity websites, forum websites, news websites, and international audience targeted websites. It has some specific features like flashing of news stripes, blogs, polls conduction, printable version of pages, and RSS feeds. All such features make it a best content management system for making all kinds of websites right from the simple personal branding websites to complex corporate websites of multinational companies. Owing to all such features, a Joomla CMS based website can sustain an engaging and highly interactive social media presence in probably all social media platforms.
Drupal: It is one of the most dependable open source content management systems, which is currently being used as the back-end system in approx 1.5 percent websites of this world. It is also known for having the feature of search engine friendly URL, that can be used as search engine optimization tool. Apart from SEF URL?s, it has the default arrangements for optimizing website contents. Thus, you don?t need to make extra efforts for bringing online users at your website expect sustaining an impactful presence of your website at social media fronts.
Magento: Currently acquired by Ebay, it will now be available under the X Commerce initiative of Ebay inc. X Commerce Initiative is a common initiative of Ebay and Paypal. During its open source age, it has gained several accolades such as ?Exciting Star 2009? for bringing innovation driven online shopping friendly content management system. It has been widely appreciated for its praiseworthy features like category wise product management, default integration of leading payment gateway option Paypal, Easy Shipping options, and auto administrative report generation feature. All such features made it the most favored online shopping friendly content management system among all the website owners.
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FILE - In this July 14, 1972 file photo, Sen. George S. McGovern makes his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. At left is his running mate, Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, and at right, convention chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo)
FILE - In this July 14, 1972 file photo, Sen. George S. McGovern makes his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. At left is his running mate, Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, and at right, convention chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo)
FILE - In this July 14, 1972 file photo, Sen. George S. McGovern with his wife, Eleanor, and Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton with his wife, Barbara Ann, stand before the Democratic National Convention delegates who chose them to try to capture the White House from President Richard Nixon in Miami. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. (AP Photo)
FILE - In this undated file photo, Sen. George McGovern sits in the cockpit of a training plane. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends.(AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1984 file photo, Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and former Sen. George McGovern both gesture during the Democratic presidential debate in Manchester, N.H. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends.(AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this March 10, 1969 file photo, Rosalie Bryant holds her two year old son, Gregory Michael as she talks to Senators George McGovern, D-S.D., right and Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., in Immokalee, Fla. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends.(AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ? George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way ? and that he had done so.
It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to make an issue out of the bungled attempt to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee, calling Nixon the most corrupt president in history.
But the Democrat could not escape the embarrassing missteps of his own campaign. The most torturous was the selection of Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton as the vice presidential nominee and, 18 days later, following the disclosure that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression, the decision to drop him from the ticket despite having pledged to back him "1,000 percent."
It was at once the most memorable and the most damaging line of his campaign, and called "possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential candidate" by the late political writer Theodore H. White.
After a hard day's campaigning ? Nixon did virtually none ? McGovern would complain to those around him that nobody was paying attention. With R. Sargent Shriver as his running mate, he went on to carry only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, winning just 38 percent of the popular vote in one of the biggest landslides losses in American presidential history.
"Tom and I ran into a little snag back in 1972 that in the light of my much advanced wisdom today, I think was vastly exaggerated," McGovern said at an event with Eagleton in 2005. Noting that Nixon and his running mate, Spiro Agnew, would both ultimately resign, he joked, "If we had run in '74 instead of '72, it would have been a piece of cake."
A proud liberal who had argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a Democratic senator from South Dakota and three-time candidate for president, McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice, family spokesman Steve Hildebrand told The Associated Press. McGovern was 90.
McGovern's family had said late last week that McGovern had become unresponsive while in hospice care, and Hildebrand said he was surrounded by family and lifelong friends when he died.
"We are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life advocating for the hungry, being a progressive voice for millions and fighting for peace. He continued giving speeches, writing and advising all the way up to and past his 90th birthday, which he celebrated this summer," the family said in the statement.
A public viewing is planned Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls. Funeral services will be Friday at Mary Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Sioux Falls.
A decorated World War II bomber pilot, McGovern said he learned to hate war by waging it. In his disastrous race against Nixon, he promised to end the Vietnam War and cut defense spending by billions of dollars. He helped create the Food for Peace program and spent much of his career believing the United States should be more accommodating to the former Soviet Union.
Never a showman, he made his case with a style as plain as the prairies where he grew up, sounding often more like the Methodist minister he'd once studied to become than longtime U.S. senator and three-time candidate for president he became.
And he never shied from the word "liberal," even as other Democrats blanched at the word and Republicans used it as an epithet.
"I am a liberal and always have been," McGovern said in 2001. "Just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be."
McGovern's campaign, nevertheless, left a lasting imprint on American politics. Determined not to make the same mistake, presidential nominees have since interviewed and intensely investigated their choices for vice president. Former President Bill Clinton got his start in politics when he signed on as a campaign worker for McGovern in 1972 and is among the legion of Democrats who credit him with inspiring them to public service.
"I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat," Clinton said in 2006 at the dedication of McGovern's library in Mitchell, S.D. "Senator, the fires you lit then still burn in countless hearts."
George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in the small farm town of Avon, S.D, the son of a Methodist pastor. He was raised in Mitchell, shy and quiet until he was recruited for the high school debate team and found his niche. He enrolled at Dakota Wesleyan University in his hometown and, already a private pilot, volunteered for the Army Air Force soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Army didn't have enough airfields or training planes to take him until 1943. He married his wife, Eleanor Stegeberg, and arrived in Italy the next year. That would be his base for the 35 missions he flew in the B-24 Liberator christened the "Dakota Queen" after his new bride.
In a December 1944 bombing raid on the Czech city of Pilsen, McGovern's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire that disabled one engine and set fire to another. He nursed the B-24 back to a British airfield on an island in the Adriatic Sea, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. On his final mission, his plane was hit several times, but he managed to get it back safety ? one of the actions for which he received the Air Medal.
McGovern returned to Mitchell and graduated from Dakota Wesleyan after the war's end, and after a year of divinity school, switched to the study of history and political science at Northwestern University. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees, returned to Dakota Wesleyan to teach history and government, and switched from his family's Republican roots to the Democratic Party.
"I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American," he said.
In the early 1950s, Democrats held no major offices in South Dakota and only a handful of legislative seats. McGovern, who had gotten into Democratic politics as a campaign volunteer, left teaching in 1953 to become executive secretary of the South Dakota Democratic Party. Three years later, he won an upset election to the House; he served two terms and left to run for Senate.
Challenging conservative Republican Sen. Karl Mundt in 1960, he lost what he called his "worst campaign." He said later that he'd hated Mundt so much that he'd lost his sense of balance.
President John F. Kennedy named McGovern head of the Food for Peace program, which sends U.S. commodities to deprived areas around the world. He made a second Senate bid in 1962, unseating Sen. Joe Bottum by just 597 votes. He was the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from South Dakota since 1930.
In his first year in office, McGovern took to the Senate floor to say that the Vietnam war was a trap that would haunt the United States ? a speech that drew little notice. He voted the following August in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution under which President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the U.S. war in the southeast Asian nation.
While McGovern continued to vote to pay for the war, he did so while speaking against it. As the war escalated, so did his opposition. Late in 1969, McGovern called for a cease-fire in Vietnam and the withdrawal of all U.S. troops within a year. He later co-sponsored a Senate amendment to cut off appropriations for the war by the end of 1971. It failed, but not before McGovern had taken the floor to declare "this chamber reeks of blood" and to demand an end to "this damnable war."
President Barack Obama remembered McGovern in a statement Sunday as "a statesman of great conscience and conviction."
"He signed up to fight in World War II, and became a decorated bomber pilot over the battlefields of Europe," the president said. "When the people of South Dakota sent him to Washington, this hero of war became a champion for peace. And after his career in Congress, he became a leading voice in the fight against hunger."
McGovern first sought the Democratic presidential nomination late in the 1968 campaign, saying he would take up the cause of the assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He finished far behind Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who won the nomination, and Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who had led the anti-war challenge to Johnson in the primaries earlier in the year. McGovern later called his bid an "anti-organization" effort against the Humphrey steamroller.
"At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early," McGovern quipped at the time.
The following year, McGovern led a Democratic Party reform commission that took power previously held by party leaders and bosses at the national conventions and gave it to voters instead. The result was the system of presidential primary elections and caucuses that now selects the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.
In 1972, McGovern ran under the rules he had helped write. Initially considered a longshot against Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, McGovern built a bottom-up campaign organization and went to the Democratic national convention in command. He was the first candidate to gain a nominating majority in the primaries before the convention.
It was a meeting filled with intramural wrangling and speeches that verged on filibusters. By the time McGovern delivered his climactic speech accepting the nomination, it was 2:48 a.m., and with most of America asleep, he lost his last and best chance to make his case to a nationwide audience.
McGovern did not know before selecting Eagleton of his running mate's mental health woes, and after dropping him from the ticket, struggled to find a replacement. Several Democrats said no, and a joke made the rounds that there was a signup sheet in the Senate cloakroom. Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, finally agreed.
The campaign limped into the fall on a platform advocating withdrawal from Vietnam in exchange for the release of POWs, cutting defense spending by a third and establishing an income floor for all Americans. McGovern had dropped an early proposal to give every American $1,000 a year, but the Republicans continued to ridicule it as "the demogrant." They painted McGovern as an extreme leftist and Democrats as the party of "amnesty, abortion and acid."
While McGovern said little about his decorated service in World War II, Republicans depicted him as a weak peace activist. At one point, McGovern was forced to defend himself against assertions he had shirked combat.
He'd had enough when a young man at the airport fence in Battle Creek, Mich., taunted that Nixon would clobber him. McGovern leaned in and said quietly: "I've got a secret for you. Kiss my ass." A conservative Senate colleague later told McGovern it was his best line of the campaign.
Defeated by Nixon, McGovern returned to the Senate and pressed there to end the Vietnam war while championing agriculture, anti-hunger and food stamp programs in the United States and food programs abroad. He won re-election to the Senate in 1974, by which point he could make wry jokes about his presidential defeat.
"For many years, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way ? and last year, I sure did," he told a formal press dinner in Washington.
After losing his bid for a fourth Senate term in the 1980 Republican landslide that made Ronald Reagan president, McGovern went on to teach and lecture at universities, and found a liberal political action committee. He made a longshot bid in the 1984 presidential race with a call to end U.S. military involvement in Lebanon and Central America and open arms talks with the Soviets. Former Vice President Walter Mondale won the Democratic nomination and went on to lose to President Ronald Reagan by an even bigger margin in electoral votes than had McGovern to Nixon.
He talked of running a final time for president in 1992, but decided it was time for somebody younger and with fewer political scars.
After his career in office ended, McGovern served as U.S. ambassador to the Rome-based United Nation's food agencies from 1998 to 2001 and spent his later years working to feed needy children around the world. He and former Republican Sen. Bob Dole collaborated to create an international food for education and child nutrition program, for which they shared the 2008 World Food Prize.
Clinton and his wife, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said in a statement Sunday that while McGovern was "a tireless advocate for human rights and dignity," his greatest passion was helping feed the hungry.
"The programs he created helped feed millions of people, including food stamps in the 1960s and the international school feeding program in the 90's, both of which he co-sponsored with Senator Bob Dole," they said, adding, "We must continue to draw inspiration from his example and build the world he fought for."
McGovern's opposition to armed conflict remained a constant long after he retired. Shortly before Iowa's caucuses in 2004, McGovern endorsed retired Gen. Wesley Clark, and compared his own opposition to the Vietnam War to Clark's criticism of President George W. Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq. One of the 10 books McGovern wrote was 2006's "Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now," written with William R. Polk.
In early 2002, George and Eleanor McGovern returned to Mitchell, where they helped raise money for a library bearing their names. Eleanor McGovern died there in 2007 at age 85; they had been married 64 years, and had four daughters and a son.
"I don't know what kind of president I would have been, but Eleanor would have been a great first lady," he said after his wife's death in 2007.
One of their daughters, Teresa, was found dead in a Madison, Wis., snowdrift in 1994 after battling alcoholism for years. He recounted her struggle in his 1996 book "Terry," and described the writing of it as "the most painful undertaking in my life." It was briefly a best seller and he used the proceeds to help set up a treatment center for victims of alcoholism and mental illness in Madison.
Before the 2008 presidential campaign, McGovern endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination but switched to Barack Obama that May. He called the future president "a moderate," cautious in his ways, who wouldn't waste money or do "anything reckless."
"I think Barack will emerge as one of our great ones," he said in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press. "It will be a victory for moderate liberalism."
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Walter R. Mears, who reported on government and politics for The Associated Press in Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign.
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By Brian Friedman of Israel Investment Advisors LLC?October 2012
With the notable exception of the high technology sector, Israel receives only modest amounts of foreign portfolio investment. In fact, over the past two years foreigners pulled approximately $9 billion out of Israeli securities. Most of this divestment was unrelated to the global anti-Israel campaign now called BDS (Boycott, Divestiture and Sanctions). The largest wave was, ironically, due to Israel?s acceptance into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), marking Israel?s graduation from emerging market to developed market status. Emerging market funds sold their Israeli holdings to mirror the revised indexes. The second divestment wave came as global stock markets tumbled during the European currency crisis.
Foreign involvement in Israeli securities has always been volatile. According to data from the Bank of Israel, foreign investors purchased a net $9 billion worth of Israeli stocks and bonds in 2010, whereas they sold $5.6 billion in 2011. In 2009 foreigners bought $2 billion, about equal to the annual average over the past decade. In total, foreigners hold $24 billion of Israeli securities or 6% of a total $388 billion worth of stocks and bonds. (According to data from the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Israel has a stock market capitalization of $156 billion, $218 billion in government bonds and $90 billion of outstanding corporate bond issues).
Despite limited foreign investment Israeli Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew from $112 billion in 2001 to just under $250 billion in 2011. Israelis successfully financed this robust economic growth largely from their own resources. Much of the capital came from the Israeli banking system, but corporations increasingly rely on bond issues rather than commercial bank loans. The trend toward securities is likely to accelerate in the coming decade, further expanding the menu of investment choices available to investors. The capital required will most likely exceed Israel?s domestic supply and increased foreign investment will be necessary to maintain Israel?s economic momentum.
Disintermediation is Boosting the Importance of Securities Markets
Throughout Israel?s history banks played a leading role in financing Israeli economic growth. Starting about ten years ago, however, the banks could not keep up with the growing demand for capital. Economists call the shift away from bank credit toward capital markets and alternative financial institutions ?disintermediation.? The process of disintermediation is new, but well under way in Israel.
According to data from the Bank of Israel, in 2001 banks financed 45% of corporate investment in Israel, equity capital financed about 35% and only 6% came from corporate bonds. Companies with publicly traded stock amounted to ? at most ? 20% of total corporate equity, a number likely overstated by a large margin since most ?public? companies listed a very small percentage of their shares.
Ten years later, however, the picture was already quite different despite two major economic and financial market meltdowns along the way. Bank loans fell from 70% of total commercial credit in Israel in 2001 to 48% by 2010 (the latest data available from the Bank of Israel). During the same period corporate bond issues grew from $9 billion to $46 billion. Stock market capitalization increased from $50 billion to just under $200 billion in 2011, with publicly traded equity accounting for 35% of total corporate equity in Israel (up from the 20% mentioned above). TASE turnover increased from $50 million per day to just under $500 million per day. In other words, securities markets took substantial market share away from banks over the past decade.
Israel Could be a $500 Billion Economy ? If Foreigners Invest
In the coming decade Israeli GDP is on track to reach $500 billion, but only if it can successfully finance this growth. Israel?s banks are shifting their focus to consumer and mortgage finance, areas where they have comparative advantage. Commercial credit from banks, on the other hand, is losing market share to bond markets and alternative financial institutions (examples include leasing companies, trade credit or accounts receivable factoring).
Based on current trends banks may finance just 15% of Israeli corporate investment in a decade?s time. Meanwhile, Israeli corporations could issue in excess of $125 billion in new bonds in the coming ten years versus $58 billion in the previous decade. Equity funding requirements will likely grow on a similar scale as will stock market capitalization. Given the size of these funding requirements, however, it is extremely unlikely that Israelis can support this level of financial activity without foreign investment.
Israelis are getting wealthier. According to the Bank of Israel, household assets were $736 billion in 2010, up from $400 billion in 2001. Home ownership accounted for 25%, bank deposits an additional 15% with the remainder invested in private pension plans and securities. ?Israeli households save an average 11.5% of their income (for comparison the U.S. savings rate is about 4%), producing about $20 billion per year in surplus funds. Based on their current allocation, about 60% of these assets are available for securities investment either directly or through pension funds.
According to our estimates at Israel Investment Advisors, LLC domestic capital sources should be sufficient to fund 75% to 85% of Israel?s needs in the coming decade. To fund the remaining 15% to 25% foreigners will need to purchase approximately $4 billion to $5 billion per year of Israeli securities. This is a little more than double the average pace of the past ten years, but well in line with several of Israel?s stronger years in the mid 2000?s.
Who will be Israel?s ?Foreign? Investors?
Philanthropic institutions channel about $1 billion into worthy Israeli causes each year, but investment opportunities available to investors are rapidly outpacing this significant flow of funds. Moreover, Israel will need Jewish capital more than ever to fund economic growth. After all, who are these ?foreign? investors likely to be? Certainly portfolio managers looking for opportunity will continue to include Israel in their global calculations, but American Jewish investors ? both individual and institutional ? are the most likely source to fund Israel?s growing domestic capital gap.
As the past two years of stock market turmoil have demonstrated investment in Israeli securities carry similar risks relative to investment in many other markets, therefore requiring research and discipline. Unlike philanthropy, however, investment offers the promise of long-term returns based on reasonable valuations and strong balance sheets. We believe there is a place for both philanthropy and investment within each Jewish investor?s ?portfolio.? In the coming ten years, however, Israel will require foreign capital on a scale significantly greater than historically channeled through traditional philanthropy. If raised in adequate quantities it will create thousands of new jobs, boost incomes and wealth (for Israelis and investors) and build an economy that can support escalating defense costs and challenges. In the 1970?s and 1980?s Hong Kong and Singapore emerged as global financial centers for Chinese investors living outside the mainland. We believe Israel could become a similar global financial center, but only with the active participation of American Jews.
??Israel Investment Advisors, LLC, 2012. This article does not constitute investment advice. Israel Investment Advisers is registered as an investment adviser with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and its investment advisory representatives are licensed by the state of Colorado. IIA will only transact business in other states to the extent IIA has made the requisite notice filings in such state. No follow up or individualized responses to persons in other jurisdictions that involve either rendering or attempting to render personalized investment advice for compensation will be made absent compliance with applicable legal requirements, or an applicable exemption or exclusion.
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I?m not a lush ? really!? Yes, I am obsessed by limoncello, thoroughly enjoyed the watermelon cocktail I wrote about last week, and bought huge amounts of vodka to make homemade vanilla extract. ?The only reason I am blogging about alcohol again is that my limoncello and vanilla extract adventures brought up a question I just had to test: does filtering vodka though a charcoal-activated filter, such as a Brita, improve the vodka?
I researched online and found 2 tests, neither of which satisfied my curiosity. ?In the first test ? on an episode of the Discovery Channel show Mythbusters (#50 in 2006) - 3 ?experts? blind taste tested expensive or ?top shelf? vodka compared to cheap or ?bottom shelf? vodka that the Mythbusters filtered between 1 and 6 times with a Brita filter.? (Although I couldn?t find it on the official Mythbusters website, I watched the episode on YouTube.)? Two of the 3 testers found that the filtering process did make the cheap vodka taste more like the expensive stuff, but they could still differentiate the expensive stuff, even compared to the 6x filtered cheap stuff. ?
The only other test I found was by a team of reporters from Florida, a suspect panel of judges in my humble opinion.? They compared a truly rotgut vodka ? unfiltered and then filtered 1- 4 times - against a supposedly good brand.? They found that filtering did help, but not enough to make them want to drink the tested filtered (cheap) vodka.
My interest was different.? I wasn't looking to compare different brands of vodka.? I wanted to see if I could make mid-priced, store-brand vodka smoother by filtering it.?
For purposes of using vodka in vanilla extract (as well as in limoncello and other food or drinks), I want the taste of the lemons, vanilla or other flavor to shine through.? If vodka is tasteless and odorless, I reasoned that minimizing the vodka ?burn? would be the way to make the alcohol even less noticeable.?
I used a Brita filter and filtered one batch of my vodka six times.? Before using the new Brita filter, I even soaked it in vodka instead of water to activate the charcoal, so I wouldn?t water down the vodka as it passed through the filter.
I gave a blind taste test to 7 people: 6 friends and my husband.? Each person tasted samples of the unfiltered vodka and the same vodka filtered 6 times through the Brita from flasks labeled only #1 and #2.? I asked the tasters 2 questions: 1) which vodka was smoother and 2) which vodka did they prefer?
Six of the 7 said the unfiltered vodka was smoother than the filtered one.? When I asked which one they preferred, all 7 said the unfiltered vodka.? Tester #7 is a notable outlier ? he thought the filtered was smoother but preferred the unfiltered.? He is a dear friend and a sensible guy who never lets the masses or their opinions sway him from his own path.? I can?t explain his votes and will leave it at that.
Do those results surprise you?? They surprised me.? So while it wasn?t a blind test, I tried the unfiltered and filtered vodkas myself and came to the same conclusion ? no contest, the unfiltered was smoother and I preferred it to the vodka filtered 6 times through the Brita.? Why did the unfiltered vodka taste smoother?? I have no idea.? Can anybody enlighten me? ?
I?m tempted to go out and buy a huge array of vodkas and test them all, against each other, and then test each one filtered against unfiltered. ?Although the permutations may not be endless, I could go on way past my budget and your patience. ?But for now, I?ll mix the unfiltered and filtered vodka I already have, and finish making my bottles of vanilla extract.
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VATICAN CITY?? Jake Finkbonner was so close to death after flesh-eating bacteria infected him through a cut on his lip that his parents had last rites performed and were discussing donating the 5-year-old's tiny organs.
Jake's 2006 cure from the infection was deemed medically inexplicable by the Vatican, the "miracle" needed to propel a 17th century Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha, on to sainthood. Kateri will be canonized on Sunday along with six other people, the first Native American to receive the honor.
Jake is fully convinced, as is the church, that the prayers his family and community offered to Kateri, including the placement of a relic of the soon-to-be saint on Jake's leg, were responsible for his survival.
Jake, now 12 and an avid basketball player and cross-country runner, will be present at the canonization, along with hundreds of members of his own Lummi tribe from northwest Washington state and reservations across the U.S. and Canada who have converged on Rome to honor one of their own. It's a ceremony the Catholic Church hopes will encourage Native Americans to keep to their Christian faith amid continued resentment among some that Catholicism was imposed on them by colonial-era missionaries centuries ago.
"I believe everybody has a purpose on this earth," Jake's mother Elsa Finkbonner said this week soon after the family arrived in Rome for the ceremony. "I think this Sunday Jake will define his purpose, and that's to make Kateri a saint."
Jake, a poised, lanky kid who just got his braces off, seems perfectly at ease with his role in the whole thing, gracious and grateful to the doctors who performed 29 surgeries to save his life and reconstruct his face.
"It's a really special thing," Jake told The Associated Press, flanked by his parents on a hotel terrace sofa. "We've never been to Rome, and especially meeting the pope? It'll be an experience of a lifetime."
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Besides Kateri, Pope Benedict XVI will declare another American a saint Sunday, Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun from Utica, New York ? near where Kateri lived two centuries earlier ? who cared for lepers exiled to Hawaii's Kalaupapa Peninsula. Another new saint is Pedro Calungsod, a Filipino teenager who was killed in 1672 along with his Jesuit missionary priest by natives resisting their conversion efforts.
'Lily of the Mohawks'
The Catholic Church creates saints to hold up models for the faithful, convinced that their lives ? even lived hundreds of years ago ? are still relevant to today's Catholics. The complicated saint-making procedure requires that the Vatican certify a "miracle" was performed through the intercession of the candidate ? a medically inexplicable cure that can be directly linked to the prayers offered by the faithful. One miracle is needed for beatification, a second for canonization.
In Jake's case, Kateri was already an important figure for Catholics in the Lummi tribe, of which his father Donny is a member. A carved wooden statue sits in the church on the Lummi reservation near Bellingham, Washington, 25 miles south of the Canadian border, where Jake's grandparents worshipped and where Donny remembers being told of Kateri's story as a child.
Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri was born in 1656 to a pagan Iroquois father and an Algonquin Christian mother in what is today upstate New York. Her parents and only brother died when she was 4 during a smallpox epidemic that left her badly scarred and with impaired eyesight. She went to live with her uncle, a Mohawk, and was baptized Catholic by Jesuit missionaries. But she was ostracized and persecuted by other natives for her faith, and she died in Canada when she was 24.
Pope tells Christians in Beirut: 'Be peacemakers'The Rev. Tim Sauer was the Finkbonner's parish priest in Ferndale, Washington ? as well as the visiting pastor on the Lummi reservation ? when Jake cut his lip while playing basketball on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006. The necrotizing fasciitis bacteria that entered Jake's body through the cut immediately began spreading, and by the time Sauer arrived at Seattle Children's Hospital where Jake was airlifted two days later, Donny and Elsa Finkbonner were preparing to bury their son.
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"At that point, we were desperate, and we were looking for anyone's help that would help our son," Donny said, recalling how doctors had said there wasn't much else for them to do but pray, and that they had come to terms with the possibility that their oldest of three children might not survive the week.
"We wanted Jake back with us desperately," he recalled. "But we were willing to give him up" to God.
Sauer, who performed the last rites ritual on Jake that Wednesday ? four days after he cut his lip ? said he immediately urged the Finkbonners and the congregation back on the reservation to pray to Kateri, thinking their shared Native American heritage and scarring diseases were relevant.
He said he did so first and foremost to save Jake, but also because he thought that Native Americans could use a "boost of faith" if one of their own were held up as a saint. Indigenous Catholics, he said, increasingly find themselves ostracized and criticized on their reservations for embracing and retaining the Christian faith spread by imperial colonizers.
"There's been a growing sense of a return to Native American spirituality on reservations, which are good things, but at the same time along with that has been some criticism that native people should let go of Christianity because that was brought by the 'white man' and should go back to their own native culture entirely," he said.
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He said Kateri represents a perfect model for indigenous Catholics today, someone who resisted the ostracization of fellow natives and kept the faith.
Prayer was all they had left
For the devoutly Catholic Finkbonners, prayer was all they had left after Jake's doctors tried unsuccessfully for two weeks to stop the bacteria's spread. Jake was in a drug-induced coma for most of that time and says he doesn't remember much, a few memories "here and there, not all of it."
"Every day it would seem the news would get worse," Donny recalled. "I remember the last day that we met with the whole group of doctors, Elsa didn't even want to hear. She just got behind me and was holding on."
But rather than bad news, the doctors said the infection had stopped. "It was like a volcano that was erupting, and they opened him up and it was gone. It had stopped. It was a pretty amazing day," Donny said.
Are nuns getting ready to spurn the Vatican?
It took the Finkbonners several years to realize that the turning point had come a day after a friend of the family ? a nun named after Kateri ? had visited them in the hospital, prayed with them and placed a relic of the soon-to-be saint on Jake's leg.
"It took years for us to look at the calendar and recall that this is the day she came, this is the day she put the relic on, this is the day the infection stopped," Elsa said. "As the years of the investigation have gone on, little bits and pieces of puzzle seem to fall into place, and that's where it all makes sense now as to why Jake's story turned out so big."
Jake, who bears the scars of his ordeal, seems all too happy to be the center of attention this weekend. But he seems keen to move on from his celebrity. He has basketball tryouts when he gets back home and his studies ? he wants to be a plastic surgeon when he grows up. "Kateri was placed on this earth, and she has interceded on many people's behalf, she has defined her purpose," Elsa said. "I think Jake has bigger, larger plans in store for him."
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