Paralympic Medal Standings | London 2012

Rank by Gold	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	People’s Republic of China	95	71	65	231
2	Russian Federation	36	38	28	102
3	Great Britain	34	43	43	120
4	Ukraine	32	24	28	84
5	Australia	32	23	30	85
6	United States of America	31	29	38	98
7	Brazil	21	14	8	43
8	Germany	18	26	22	66
9	Poland	14	13	9	36
10	Netherlands	10	10	19	39
11	Islamic Republic of Iran	10	7	7	24
12	Republic of Korea	9	9	9	27
13	Italy	9	8	11	28
14	Tunisia	9	5	5	19
15	Cuba	9	5	3	17
16	France	8	19	18	45
17	Spain	8	18	16	42
18	South Africa	8	12	9	29
19	Ireland	8	3	5	16
20	Canada	7	15	9	31
21	New Zealand	6	7	4	17
22	Nigeria	6	5	2	13
23	Mexico	6	4	11	21
24	Japan	5	5	6	16
25	Belarus	5	2	3	10
26	Algeria	4	6	9	19
27	Azerbaijan	4	5	3	12
28	Egypt	4	4	7	15
29	Sweden	4	4	4	12
30	Austria	4	3	6	13
31	Thailand	4	2	2	8
32	Finland	4	1	1	6
33	Switzerland	3	6	4	13
34	Hong Kong, China	3	3	6	12
35	Norway	3	2	3	8
36	Belgium	3	1	3	7
37	Morocco	3	0	3	6
38	Hungary	2	6	6	14
39	Serbia	2	3	0	5
40	Kenya	2	2	2	6
41	Slovakia	2	1	3	6
42	Czech Republic	1	6	4	11
43	Turkey	1	5	4	10
44	Greece	1	3	8	12
45	Israel	1	2	5	8
46	United Arab Emirates	1	1	1	3
47	Latvia	1	1	0	2
47	Namibia	1	1	0	2
47	Romania	1	1	0	2
50	Denmark	1	0	4	5
51	Angola	1	0	1	2

13 Books from Local Library: Currently Reading

	Title	Author
1.	The financial lives of the poets : a novel	Walter, Jess
2.	How we decide	Lehrer, Jonah
3.	A whole new mind : why right-brainers will rule the future	Pink, Daniel H.
4.	Why does the world exist? : an existential detective story	Holt, Jim
5.	Me talk pretty one day	Sedaris, David
6.	Uncle Swami : South Asians in America today	Prashad, Vijay.
7.	Mystic chords : mysticism and psychology in popular music	Soni, Manish
8.	Opera : the great composers and their masterworks	Kennedy, Joyce Bourne
9.	Farther away	Franzen, Jonathan.
10.	The Hunger Games (Novel)	Collins, Suzanne
11.	The swerve : how the world became modern	Greenblatt, Stephen
12.	Growing money : a complete investing guide for kids	Karlitz, Gail.
13.	U and I : a true story	Baker, Nicholson

2010 Campaign Spending by Outside Groups

Top Groups Making Outside Expenditures in 2010 Elections, Excluding Party Committees

Organization	Total	View*	Independent Expenditures	Elec Comm	Comm Costs	Super PAC	527s†	501c
US Chamber of Commerce	$32,851,997	C	$0	$32,851,997	$0			x
American Action Network	$26,088,031	C	$5,669,821	$20,418,210	$0			x
American Crossroads	$21,553,277	C	$21,553,277	$0	$0	x	x
Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies	$17,122,446	C	$16,017,664	$1,104,782	$0			x
Service Employees International Union	$15,952,331	L	$15,692,364	$0	$259,967		x
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees	$13,185,800	L	$11,995,182	$68,539	$1,122,079		x
National Education Assn	$10,245,561	L	$7,239,105	$105,724	$2,900,732	x	x
American Future Fund	$9,599,806	C	$7,387,918	$2,211,888	$0			x
Americans for Job Security	$8,991,209	C	$4,406,902	$4,584,307	$0			x
National Assn of Realtors	$8,890,737		$7,122,031	$0	$1,768,706	x	x
VIEW ALL GROUPS

* C = Conservative (GOP – Republicans – Right), L = Liberal (Democrats – Left – Unions)
^† Indicates that this organization has a 527 committee registered with the IRS. The committee’s 527 spending outside of electioneering communications is NOT included in these totals. Read more about 527s.

 

Top 2010 Candidates Attracting Outside Expenditures, Excluding Party Committees

Candidate	Race	Total	For Dems	Against Dems	For Repubs	Against Repubs	Results
Bennet, Michael F (D)	COS1	$12,092,391	$1,731,274	$6,573,603	$0	$0	Winner
Reid, Harry (D)	NVS2	$10,173,488	$2,453,498	$6,744,181	$0	$0	Winner
Buck, Ken (R)	COS1	$9,101,422	$0	$0	$2,523,919	$3,901,571	Lost
Sestak, Joseph A Jr (D)	PAS1	$8,901,618	$1,558,248	$5,854,490	$0	$0	Lost
Giannoulias, Alexander (D)	ILS2	$8,516,580	$637,604	$6,196,120	$0	$0	Lost
Boxer, Barbara (D)	CAS1	$6,948,186	$1,269,107	$767,957	$0	$0	Winner
Murray, Patty (D)	WAS2	$6,805,859	$1,112,250	$4,365,456	$0	$0	Winner
Carnahan, Robin (D)	MOS1	$6,755,812	$812,215	$3,980,623	$0	$0	Lost
Halter, Bill (D)	ARS2	$6,559,801	$4,730,364	$475,271	$0	$0	Lost primary runoff
Lincoln, Blanche (D)	ARS2	$6,447,154	$534,782	$2,849,004	$0	$0	Lost
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England’s Language in USA – Peeves: Anti-Americanisms

Source: Language – Johnson

1. least worst option
2. To “wait on” instead of “wait for” when you’re not a waiter – once read a friend’s comment about being in a station waiting on a train
   
3. physicality
   
4. Transportation
   
5. gotten
   
6. “I’m good” for “I’m well”.
   
7. Oftentimes
   
8. “Hike” a price.
   
9. Going forward
   
10. “a million and a half” when it is clearly one and a half million
    
11. When people ask for something, I often hear: “Can I get a…”
12. “two-time” and “three-time“. Have the words double, triple etc, been totally lost?
13. Using 24/7 rather than “24 hours, 7 days a week” or even just plain “all day, every day”
14. “deplane“, meaning to disembark an aircraft, used in the phrase “you will be able to deplane momentarily”.
15.  “It is what it is“.
16.  “Touch base“
17. “leverage“. Pronounced lev-er-ig rather than lee-ver -ig. It seems to pop up in all aspects of work. And its meaning seems to have changed to “value added”.
18. Does nobody celebrate a birthday anymore, must we all “turn” 12 or 21 or 40? Even the Duke of Edinburgh was universally described as “turning” 90 last month.
19. “Bangs” for a fringe of the hair.
20. “A half hour” instead of “half an hour”.
21. A “heads up“. For example, as in a business meeting. Lets do a “heads up” on this issue.
22. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it“
23. People that say “my bad” after a mistake.
24.  “Normalcy” instead of “normality”
25. burglarize
26. bi-weekly when fortnightly would suffice 
    
27. “alternate” for “alternative”
28.  “Reach out to” when the correct word is “ask”. For example: “I will reach out to Kevin and let you know if that timing is convenient”. Reach out? Is Kevin stuck in quicksand? Is he teetering on the edge of a cliff? Can’t we just ask him?
29. “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.
30.  expiration, as in “expiration date”. Whatever happened to expiry?
31.  “Where’s it at?” This is not more efficient or informative than “where is it?”
32. Having an “issue” instead of a “problem”.
33. To “medal” instead of to win a medal.
34. “I got it for free” is a pet hate. You got it “free” not “for free”. You don’t get something cheap and say you got it “for cheap”
35. “Turn that off already“.
36. “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less” has to be the worst. Opposite meaning of what they’re trying to say.

Classics

1. Faze

, as in “it doesn’t faze me”

2. Hospitalize, which really is a vile word
3. Wrench for spanner
4. Elevator for lift
5. Rookies for newcomers, who seem to have flown here via the sports pages.
6. Guy, less and less the centrepiece of the ancient British festival of 5 November – or, as it will soon be known, 11/5. Now someone of either gender.
7. And, starting to creep in, such horrors as ouster, the process of firing someone, and outage, meaning a power cut. I always read that as outrage.

10 Most Promising IT Services Companies

Past Mentions of  The 10 promising technology companies include: Connectiva Systems, Jivox, Niksun, Parascale, Stoke, Truviso, Wavesat,WiChorus, Zyrion and Zmanda.

1. Acropetal Technologies; Dallas,TX
   acropetal.com
2. CIGNEX Technologies; Santa Clara, CA
   cignex.com
3. GlowTouch Technologies; Louisville, KY
   glowtouch.com
4. Mansa Systems; San Francisco, CA
   mansasys.com
5. Neev Technologies; Beaverton, OR
   neevtech.com
6. Quinnox; Naperville, IL
   quinnox.com
7. Span Systems; New Jersey, NJ
   spansystems.com
8. Stratogent; San Mateo,CA
   stratogent.com
9. Youngsoft; Wixom, MI
   youngsoft.com
10. Zyme IT solutions; Redwood Shores, CA
    zymesolutions.com

Top 10 Worst Hedlines from Newspapers

The Lower Case : CJR

Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

 

1. Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor —The New York Times 9/26/10
2. Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation Stance —ABCnews.com 9/16/10
3. Beating Death Becomes Rallying Cry in Egypt
   —The Wall Street Journal 6/26/10
4. Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case
   —WTAJ-TV website 9/2/10
5. SCHOOLS: Abstinence still focus, parents can opt out
   —Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times 8/8/10
6. BASEBALL NOTES:
   Rangers’ Hamilton to get shot for sore knee
   —Austin American-Statesman 9/1/10
7. Computers for kids missing in Iraq
   —The Orange County Register 8/28/10
8. Mayor unveils Black homicide plan
   —Defender (Houston, TX) 1/18-24/09
9. Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat
   —KGMI.com 8/19/10
10. Cyclists battling hunger
    —The Times (Trenton, N.J.) 9/11/10