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After an awful August, Friday the 13th might be Chris Patterson's lucky day.
Brews News: Brewmaster has personal reason to help with explosion fund
After an awful August, Friday the 13th might be Chris Patterson's lucky day.
The brewmaster at Powerhouse Brewing in London's old Kellogg's factory was among those who literally had their worlds blown apart when a car hit a natural gas line on Woodman Avenue.
Patterson, who grew up in the western suburbs of London and moved to the Old East Village two years ago, and his girlfriend lost their house to the Aug. 14 explosion, as did two of their neighbours.
His house was one of two that were demolished in the days after the explosion after being deemed too damaged to repair.
In the weeks since, Patterson has seen first-hand the outstanding support and sense of community in the OEV and much-appreciated cash donations from the broader community to a special fund set up by Libro Credit Union.
Next Friday, despite his own trauma, is his turn to do something — and it's with a little help from "rival buddy" OEV brewers.
That's when Powerhouse will host Beers for Woodman with guest brewers Anderson Craft Ales and London Brewing — the trinity of fine craft brewers each located a short distance from Woodman Avenue.
Beers for Woodman will have a live band and a disc jockey providing the background as the three breweries showcase their popular core brands — that's Homecoming APA in the case of Powerhouse — and flip the night's proceeds to the Libro Woodman Families Fund.
The event — which is open to all, but promises to be an especially important night for OEV neighbours and first responders to gather together — will also showcase Powerhouse's new 600-seat patio outside the brewhouse.
"There's a slight rivalry between us: Powerhouse, Anderson and London Brewing," Patterson said. "But more important than that, there's brotherly love between us. It's nice to see everyone come together."
Val Cull, Powerhouse's events and community relations manager, said the explosion became personal when Patterson lost his home. Beers for Woodman is a way to support everyone affected by doing something Patterson loves — brewing craft beer and meeting craft beer fans.
Indeed, one of the things Patterson valued as he processed things in the days after the explosion was being able to come into work and make beer. "It took my mind off the explosion and insurance," he said.
Underlined in red is the need to drink responsibly and have a plan to get home: transit, ride share, cab, designated driver or walk. You know the drill.
For Patterson, for Powerhouse, Anderson, London Brewing, and most importantly for the families of Woodman Avenue, let's show up en masse for this event.
The beer's cold and the hearts are warm.
- Forked River Brewing at 45 Pacific Court in London gets to show off its brewhouse and taproom this year as part of Doors Open London on Sept. 15. This is an excellent opportunity for craft beer neophytes and fans alike to take a peek behind the scenes and sample what all the fuss is about. I'd recommend the Oracle. It's a tart and strong introduction to the world of sour beers, my favourite style. The Oracle is barrel-aged and comes in at nine per cent alcohol. It's the opposite end of the spectrum from Forked River's mainstay, Capital Blonde.
- Anderson has its newest and final barrel-aged beer in the Brewer's Reserve series available. Brewer's Reserve 1.6 is a saison aged in brandy barrels with grape must. It's a celebration (or gift-giving) beer.
- Railway City in St. Thomas plans to entice barrel-aged beer fans with one of its classics aged in whiskey barrels. Honey Elixir, the whiskey barrel edition, will be released soon at the bottle shop. Meanwhile, an old favourite has returned in time for cooler fall nights. Iron Spike Copper, with flavours of butterscotch and caramel, makes for an excellent companion for that last campfire or first fireplace lighting.
- Nickel Brook's Funk Lab has an intriguing new IPA. In This Corner is a brut style IPA brewed with Brettanomyces yeast more commonly found in saisons or Flanders red beer styles. Brett and brut, as the brewery calls it. The flavour notes are mango and starfruit.
Wayne Newton is a freelance journalist based in London.


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Crystal River Crack: The Moral Hazard of Private Utility Companies
About fourteen months ago, I wrote about the Florida Containment Dome Crackers who had the bright idea that they could save $15 million while refurbishing the steam generators at the Crystal River nuclear power plant in 2009. They wound up cracking the containment dome because they had no clue on managing this complex project: it was the managing engineering contract they decided to bypass to save money. Yesterday, Duke Energy, the successor to Progress Energy (more on that change in a bit), finally announced that they will no longer pursue the repairs and that the plant will be closed. The math has only gotten worse since my earlier report. Now the overall cost estimate for the repairs, replacement energy while the plant is down and construction of a new gas power plant is up to $3 billion from the earlier $2.5 billion estimate. Of those costs, insurance will pay $835 million and Duke's customers will pay the rest. Most depressing of all is that the Tampa Bay Times' Ivan Penn, who has been the go-to source on this story since its start, reports that Duke will pocket $100 million of the $1.3 billion expended to date on the "upgrade" to the plant. Clearly, the regulatory environment in Florida enables private companies posing as public utilities to feed their addiction to public funds without consequence for bad decisions. In fact, Duke has now been rewarded with $100 million when their predecessor only sought to pocket $15 million. Rate-payers will be stuck with a bill for over $2 billion, some of which it appears to me Duke will be allowed to pocket while building the replacement plant.
Meanwhile, Citrus County, where the plant is located, is looking at 600 lost jobs and a huge blow to its tax base (the replacement gas plant will be on the Atlantic coast instead of the Gulf coast where Citrus County is located):
Shutting the plant would drop Duke Energy's tax bill, which was $35 million, to at most $13 million, an executive of Duke subsidiary Progress Energy Florida told the county last month.
That shortfall, equal to a fourth of the county's general fund, could have dire consequences for schools, safety and public services in this expanse of forests and strip malls less than 80 miles north of Tampa.
The locals see tough times ahead:
In the midst of the Crystal River fiasco, Progress Energy entered into a merger agreement with Duke Energy. Despite Duke being the larger entity, the original merger agreement called for Progress CEO Bill Johnson to be head of the new combined company. The deal closed in July of last year, but Johnson's tenure as CEO lasted only a few hours. From behind the Wall Street Journal paywall: Read more →


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As a means of saving money, this is one of Obama's proposed cuts in his budget.
Department of the Treasury
The Budget proposes to provide the Mint with greater flexibility in the material composition of coins to reduce its losses on some coins and the production costs associated with volatile metal prices. Additionally, the Budget increases the Mint's flexibility to match customer demand and supply by eliminating the provision requiring the Mint to produce Native American dollar coins in an amount equal to 20 percent of all dollar coins produced.
The Mint's primary cost driver is the price of metal, a factor over which it has no control. Daily spot prices of copper and zinc, the Mint's two main metallic materials, have fluctuated in excess of 400 percent, and the price of nickel by 500 percent over the past 10 years.1 This contributes to volatile and negative margins on both the penny and nickel: recently, the penny has cost approximately 2.4 cents, and the nickel approximately 11.2 cents to produce.2
Through its gains on the costs of producing other coins, the Mint annually returns hundreds of millions of dollars to the Treasury General Fund (GF) and is funded by the Mint Public Enterprise Fund. The gains from the dime, quarter, and dollar coin are used to offset the losses from the penny and the nickel, with the excess funds being transferred to GF. However, on December 13, 2011, citing inventories of 1.4 billion surplus dollar coins in Federal Reserve vaults, enough to meet current levels of circulating demand for more than a decade, the Secretary of the Treasury suspended production of the Presidential dollar coin as part of the Vice President's Campaign to Cut Waste. The suspended production of the Presidential dollar coin will reduce the amount of revenue available for the Mint to offset production costs of the penny and the nickel. Greater flexibility in the composition of coinage materials could enable the Mint to utilize less expensive metals in the minting process and substantially reduce its production costs. Using alternative coinage materials could save the Mint millions annually after a potential initial period of development and capital adjustments. Savings estimates will be available after the Mint concludes ongoing research on the most cost-effective materials.
The 2013 Budget would bring the costs of coins more in-line with their face values and create a more sustainable, cost-effective 21st Century use of materials in the minting process. The Budget enables the Department of the Treasury to explore, analyze, and approve new, less-expensive metals for all circulating coins based on factors that will result in the highest quality of coin production at the most cost-effective price. Such factors may include physical, chemical, metallurgical, and technical characteristics; material, fabrication, minting, and distribution costs; materials availability and sources of raw materials; durability; effects on sorting, handling, packaging and vending machines; and resistance to counterfeiting. The added flexibility the Budget proposes will improve the minting process and enable the Mint to mitigate the high, volatile costs of commodity metals.
Additionally, the Budget would remove the current law requirement that twenty percent of all dollar coins produced be of the Native American design. Numismatic quality dollar coins would remain available for purchase, but eliminating the twenty percent requirement would increase the Mint's flexibility to match the supply to consumer demand.
1 http://www.infomine.com/investment/metalprices/
2 http://news.coinupdate.com/cost-to-make-penny-and-nickel-rises-1139/


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Self-insured resources
Self-insured resources
View a variety of information available about self-insurance with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
The following are additional resources for the self-insuring (SI) employer.
- Self-insuring PEO – View the requirements for a self-insuring professional employer organization.
- Disallowed Claims Reimbursement (SYSCO SI-52) – View information about the eligibility and reimbursement from the SI portion of the surplus fund under the Sysco case.
- Self-insured workshops – The SI department conducts workshops generally on a quarterly basis for employers and representatives.
- Construction wrap-up projects (SI-50) – View details for self-insuring a construction entity for specific projects.
- SI newsletter – View previous editions of this email newsletter written specifically for the self-insuring community.
- Self-Insured Orientation Tutorial - Employers approved for self-insurance can view information about program requirements. To access the tutorial, you must log in to the BWC Learning Center. If you're a new user of the Learning Center, you must create an account.
- Self-insured policies - View policies applicable to self-insuring employers.
- Self-Insurer's Agreement as to Compensation on Account of Death (C-59) – The self-insuring employer submits this form to BWC or the Ohio Industrial Commission (IC) when it determines the beneficiary or beneficiaries and the benefit rate(s) to be paid as a result of a death due to an injury. All parties must agree before the self-insuring employer submits this form.
- Self-Insured Joint Settlement Agreement and Release (SI-42) – This form sets out the terms of a lump-sum settlement between an injured worker and self-insuring employer. The SI-43 also must accompany this form.
- Acknowledgment of the Self-Insured Joint Settlement Agreement and Release (SI-43) – The injured worker and self-insuring employer use this form to acknowledge their agreement to the lump-sum settlement as detailed on the SI-42.
- Self-Insuring Employer Notice and Request for Information for C-92/C-92A Application (C-256) - Self-insuring employers use this form to respond to BWC when we've received a C-92/C-92A application from one of their employees.
- Self-Insured Employer's Certification of Assignment After Initial Allowance (C-262) – Self-insuring employers complete this form when they are accepting assignment of a claim that BWC or another party mistakenly assigned to another self-insuring employer.
- Self-Insured Employer/Injured Worker Screening (MEDCO-8) – A self-insuring employer uses this form to request a statewide disability screening examination for injured workers who have received 90 consecutive days of temporary total disability compensation.
- Application for Adjustment of Claim in Case of Death Due to Occupational Disease (OD-58-22) – Self-insuring employers submit this form when they cannot determine the correct rate(s) of benefits for the beneficiary or beneficiaries of an injured worker who has died due to a work-related injury. The IC will determine benefit amounts.
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Is This Program Right For You?
To enroll in the program, you must be at least 18 years old and have 40 or more pounds to lose or a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30. You can calculate your BMI by entering your height and weight into our BMI calculator.
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Due to the intensity and length of the program, it may not be the right program for you if your primary goal is to lose weight quickly for a single special event or upcoming season. You should be ready to make significant, permanent changes to your lifestyle.
You are at the right place if:
- You are 18 or older and want to lose 40 or more pounds
- You are ready to improve your health
- Your weight has caused you health problems
- Your weight has impacted how you feel about yourself
- You are willing to commit time and energy to take care of your health
- You are willing to modify your eating and physical activity
Do I need to be a Kaiser Permanente member?
The Kaiser Permanente Medical Weight Management Program is open to members and nonmembers. We have weight loss clinics in Elk Grove, CA, and other locations. Please contact the location nearest you for additional details.
Your health is important to us
At Kaiser Permanente, we take your health seriously. To ensure your safety, we will ask you to fill out a health questionnaire and one of our doctors will give you a comprehensive exam before you can enroll in the program.
Certain health conditions may restrict your ability to participate in the program. To be eligible, you must not currently experience:
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Starting the Medical Weight Management program is a serious and life-changing commitment. You will be taking a big step toward increasing your health and well-being and transforming your life. Take a moment and ask yourself a few questions to make sure you are ready.
- Do you have reasonable expectations for success? (The average participant loses 1 to 3 pounds per week during the Active Weight Loss phase.)
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Passenger Area
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In the Ramp Area, the employees (porters) sort, load and unload luggage/cargo from the planes. As a porter you are also responsible for complying with loading and safety procedures. Some porters are also part of the fire and rescue services.
Safety consists of three departments:
Port Authority, which employs air traffic control operators, who observe the airport's current weather conditions and prepare meteorological reports and monitor and forward flight plans and other flight operations information.
Air traffic control department is an important focal point in connection with traffic flow.
The work includes guiding airplanes during landing and take-off, coordinating contact to and from the other traffic-related areas and bus transport airside.
Fire & Rescue
This department employs emergency managers, whose work activities consist of serving as incident managers in connection with accident situations, and in cooperation with the operations manager in Ramp Handling, they carry out management tasks for the associated fire personnel. Moreover, the emergency manager administers first aid in case of injury or illness in the airport area and disability management in connection with flight arrivals/departures.
Work in the Security Department includes security checks of passengers, luggage, personnel, cargo and vehicles. The checks are performed with the use of X-ray equipment, metal detectors and through manual inspection.
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Hillary Clinton "offered" Ellen DeGeneres a position in her cabinet, should the Democratic front-runner win the White House in November.
In an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" airing Wednesday, Clinton turned the table on the show's host, revealing she was there to interview DeGeneres for a possible job in her administration.
"I know that you have a lot to contribute and I would make you really be in charge of returning kindness to America," Clinton said. "Something that you care a lot about. Try to lift people's spirits, give them something to be happy about because your show every day does that for millions of people."
U.S. & World
DeGeneres would continue doing her daytime show, Clinton said, but the Los Angeles-taped show would have to be moved to Washington, D.C.
"Maybe you could do it from the White House," the former secretary of state proposed to sweeten the deal.
"That would be great to do the show from the White House; why don't I do that?" DeGeneres exclaimed. She declined the position because Clinton said she would have to live in the vice president's house and not the presidential mansion.
"I have a nice house, I'm fine," the comedian quipped.
DeGeneres tried to help Clinton narrow her vice presidential pick in "Who'd You Rather?" a game where photos of two famous people were shown and Clinton had to choose which person she preferred to run with on a ticket. [[380820931, C]]
"This is very helpful," Clinton said.
In a contest between businessman Mark Cuban and Vice President Joe Biden, Clinton chose Biden. But he was eliminated in the next match-up when he appeared against "Scandal" star Tony Goldwyn. The actor stood strong as Clinton picked him over "Survivor" host Jeff Probst and even her Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders.
"Gotta go with Tony!" Clinton blurted out when a photo of the Vermont senator appeared.
Goldwyn was finally dethroned by George Clooney. Other potential VP picks included Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Obama and Beyoncé.
"I really believe in making lemonade out of lemons," Clinton said, a reference to the singer's new album.
Earlier in the interview, DeGeneres asked Clinton if Sanders should drop out of the race, noting "it just looks like 99 percent sure you will be the nominee."
"Look, I think he has to do what he chooses to do. I understand that, I ran all the way to the end against then Sen. Obama," Clinton said. "And when it was over, because we had a much closer race than the one currently is between Sen. Sanders and myself, I withdrew. I endorsed him and I worked really hard to elect him and I do believe that Bernie will do that.
"Saturday Night Live's" Kate McKinnon, who plays Clinton and DeGeneres on the sketch comedy show, was also on "Ellen" Wednesday with her "Ghostbusters" castmates. So, it was only fitting that she would do her most well-known impressions in front of her real-life inspirations. [[380820751, C]]
"Thank you so much for spending your life fighting for the middle class, and for women, and for kids," McKinnon told Clinton in a dead-on DeGeneres impersonation. "I've also spent my life fighting for kids, but I am talking about baby goats."
McKinnon then switched to her Clinton voice, telling DeGeneres, "Every day we face hard choices like which statement blazer to wear. When I'm president, I'll make sure that every American has a fair shot to live up to his or her God-given potential to watch you dance!"
Asked which of the two ladies McKinnon has the most fun parodying, the "SNL" star had a hard time deciding, eventually choosing the person running to be "the next president of the United States."
"I gotta go with her," McKinnon laughed while pointing to Clinton.


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- Hedge Funds Cut Back on Fees (WSJ) as we predicted would happen, in May
- Syria's Assad denies chemical weapons use; U.S. presses case for strike (Reuters)
- Unemployment Falling for Wrong Reason Creates Fed Predicament (BBG)
- U.S. tapped into networks of Google, Petrobras, others (Reuters)
- Chinese Zombies Emerging After Years of Solar Subsidies (BBG)
- Monte Paschi doubles planned capital hike to 2.5 billion euros (Reuters)
- Loan Size to Be Cut for Fannie, Freddie (WSJ)
- Japan Growth Revision Opens Door to Sales Tax Rise (FT)
- Inside the End of the U.S. Bid to Punish Lehman Executives (NYT)
- Financial Crisis: Lessons of the Rescue, A Drama in Five Acts (WSJ)
- Time Warner Joins IBM in Health Shift for Retirees (WSJ)
- Mideast Derails Key Issues in Congress (WSJ)
- Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas (Reuters)
- Instagram to start selling ads next year (WSJ)
- BoE's Fisher Says May Hold Off On More QE (Reuters)
- Investors Are Poised to Pay $6 Billion for Neiman (WSJ)
- Treasury Official Lael Brainard Considered for Fed (WSJ)
Overnight Media Digest
* In a week poised to define his second term, President Barack Obama will mount an intensive campaign to promote a U.S. military strike on Syria as opposition rises in both Congress and across the country.
* Pressure from disappointed investors is forcing hedge funds to roll back their fees, putting the standard charge of 2 percent of assets under management and 20 percent of investment profits on the endangered list.
* The turnaround at real estate brokerage firm Realogy highlights how private equity firms can pull financial levers to keep troubled companies they own afloat and reap profits.
* A team of Ares Management and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are in the final stages of talks to buy the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus for around $6 billion.
* At Facebook's Instagram unit, Emily White is the point person charged with turning a billion-dollar acquisition that has never made a cent into a real business. Ad sales, she said, are expected to begin in the next year.
* Japan's economy grew at a much faster pace in the second quarter than initially estimated, data showed Monday, giving more ammunition to supporters of a planned sales tax hike.
* McLaren intends to open its first Chinese dealership, in Shanghai, on Monday. The UK-based supercar maker is seeking to cash in on a growing Chinese taste for ultraluxury goods.
* International Business Machines plans to move about 110,000 retirees off its company sponsored health plan and instead give them a payment to buy coverage on a health insurance exchange.
* A key U.S. committee approved the $4.7 billion takeover of Smithfield Foods by Shuanghui, clearing the biggest purchase of a U.S. company ever by a Chinese firm.
* Johnson & Johnson, which has been shedding slow-growing products and units, is canvassing companies that might be interested in buying its blood testing division, which could be worth around $5 billion.
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba is prepared to scrap plans for a $60 billion Hong Kong float and instead list in New York if its senior management cannot nominate a majority of board directors, according to people close to the company.
Dell Inc's billionaire Chief Executive Michael Dell is this week set to win shareholder backing for his drawn-out $24.8 billion buyout of the PC company that he founded, barring last-minute intervention from activist investor Carl Icahn.
The British Treasury is planning to request that the European Commission extend Lloyds Banking Group's November 2013 deadline to sell a package of 631 retail branches by up to two years. The request is expected to be submitted by the end of September, according to people close to the process.
Upscale U.S. retailer Neiman Marcus is likely to be sold - rather than listed - to a consortium of Ares Management LLC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for over $6 billion, sources said.
British property website Zoopla has hired Credit Suisse to explore growth opportunities that will likely mean a London stock market listing.
* President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who has denied that his government attacked civilians with chemical weapons on Aug. 21, reiterated that denial to the American people on Sunday morning via the television interviewer Charlie Rose.
* The handset market is so brutally competitive that Apple Inc, the most successful smartphone maker, is preparing to step up its game this week by offering two new iPhones instead of one. At an event on Tuesday at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, the company is set to unveil for customers worldwide a new iPhone with a faster processor, along with another model that will be sold at a lower cost.
* China's trade surplus rose in August to its highest level this year, while inflation remained under control, government data released on Sunday and Monday showed, in further signs that the Chinese economy and possibly the global economy are faring a little better as the summer ends.
* The owners of the Neiman Marcus chain are near a deal to sell the luxury retailer to a group led by Ares Management and a Canadian pension plan for about $6 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Sunday.
* NYSE Euronext is expected to announce on Monday that it has made a minority investment in ACE, a three-year-old start-up that offers companies a centralized platform to privately sell stocks, bonds and other securities. Financial terms of the partnership were not available.
* People magazine is changing its subscription model, adding a tiered plan to what has long been considered the financial backbone of Time Inc's magazine empire. On Monday, the magazine is introducing four new subscription packages.
* Toyota Motor Corp is recalling about 780,000 vehicles for a second time after its first effort to prevent a handling problem did not work, according to a report posted Sunday on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
* U.S. President Barack Obama's top aide pressed on Sunday the case for "targeted, limited consequential action" to degrade the capabilities of Syrian President Bashar Assad to carry out chemical weapons attacks as the White House mounted a major push to win support from a divided Congress and skeptical American public for a military strike.
* An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin won Moscow's mayoral election on Sunday, nearly complete results showed, but opposition leader Alexei Navalny's unexpectedly strong showing could alarm the Kremlin and fuel the country's flagging protest movement.
* Documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicate the National Security Agency spied on Brazil's state-run oil company, the private computer networks of Google Inc and a company that facilitates most of the world's international bank transfers, a Brazilian TV report says.
Reports in the business section:
* The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board is in advanced talks with a U.S. private equity partner, Ares Management LLC, to acquire Neiman Marcus Inc for about $6 billion, American news outlets reported on Sunday.
* BCE Inc is heading to court in its battle against Ottawa's strategy for attracting new wireless players, arguing that Canada's Industry Minister James Moore has no right to impose greater obligations on the company to help smaller rivals.
* Bombardier Inc executives are looking to the sky as they await a picture-perfect blue ceiling and winds of less than 10 knots an hour to clear the way for the takeoff of the new C Series. Already nine months behind its original schedule, the first flight of the new commercial aircraft could occur any day now that the aircraft maker ran some high-speed taxi tests on a Mirabel runway on Friday. However, the extended weather forecast for the Montreal area, which calls for storms and rain as of Tuesday, makes the day tricky to predict.
* Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered to participate in joint efforts with the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions to win approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, according to a person familiar with the matter.
* Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he has removed Peter Shurman from his position as finance critic. Hudak said on Sunday that he met with Shurman to discuss his accommodation expense claims. It was revealed last week that Shurman, a Toronto-area member, billed the maximum C$20,719 (about $20,000) last year after moving to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
* Merit pay and national licensing standards for public school teachers would curb the influence of "entrenched and powerful interest groups" and promote better teaching, says a new study on how to make Canadian teachers more effective.
* The latest statistics for the Canadian exchange-traded-fund industry depict a more challenging backdrop than investors have become used to. August saw more than a quarter of all ETFs in Canada in redemption mode, according to ETFinsight's data.
-- Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli told senior officials at a meeting on Sunday that China will stick to a policy to improve its economic structure and upgrade its development pattern so as to ensure sustained growth despite a slowdown in the economy.
-- China exports expanded faster than expected in August, according to figures posted by the government on Sunday, with experts predicting the world's second-largest economy will recover further in coming months from its recent slowdown.
-- The Shanghai Commodity Exchange has applied to regulators to launch China's first commodity index futures on non-ferrous metals.
-- A survey by China's government-backed securities insurance firm shows investor confidence in the domestic stock market improved in August, buoyed by signs of improvement in the economy.
-- China's government securities clearing house is working on a project that may allow investors trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges to use one account for the first time next year.
-- In a sign that China's housing market has recovered to some extent this year, major developer Poly Real Estate said January-August sales rose 16.48 percent to 79 billion yuan ($12.9 billion).
-- Ping An Insurance said it would buy a fresh stake in its subsidiary Ping An Bank worth a maximum 14.8 billion yuan to boost the lender's capital adequacy ratio.
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With a grant from the California Colorectal Cancer Coalition (C4), the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's WeCARE! Cancer Peer Navigator program will provide emotional support and resources to colorectal cancer patients in the Sacramento region by linking them with specially trained navigators who are also survivors of the disease.
"We're so excited about the grant and the opportunity to focus on colon cancer," says Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater, associate adjunct professor with the UC Davis School of Medicine, director of the cancer center's Outreach Research and Education Program and a cancer survivor. "There are many patients who are at an early stage in their disease and treatment, and we want to be there to support and help them."
Recognizing the need to support a patient-centered program such as WeCARE!, the C4 hopes the $7,500 grant will aid in efforts to improve patient care, and also help raise awareness about the importance of screening to catch tumors early when they are curable and reduce mortality from the disease.
"While our primary focus has been on increasing screening rates to reduce the number of people diagnosed with late-stage disease, we also want to begin addressing issues related to treatment and survivorship," says Margaret Hitchock, Secretary and Treasurer of the California Colorectal Cancer Coalition. "Our funding of the UC Davis Colorectal Cancer Peer Navigator Program allows us to make contributions to this aspect of patient care."
Slots for new colorectal cancer peer navigators also are available. Peer navigator training teaches cancer survivors how to help patients manage their anxiety, improve treatment decision-making and develop coping skills through a daylong training and a monthly session facilitated by medical and community professionals.
"Training is so necessary to do this appropriately, and this takes time and funding," says Florence Kurtilla, a WeCARE! peer navigator and C4 board of trustees member. "Peer navigator volunteers are necessary, and there is a viable, great program ready to help those patients."
A peer navigator, or cancer coach, connects patients to community resources, shares knowledge about life with cancer and is able to actively listen to patients based on their own understanding of what the patient is experiencing.
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Quote from: KitKat on September 19, 2013, 09:20:30 PMHe still makes me want to hurl!I agree!!! I have heard and read all of his I'm so sorry for what I said blah blah blah....and even though it is a game, once I heard all of his vile comments I would have avery difficult time being around him. Don't think I could look past the comments andforgive. Just my opinion
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As you can see from the picture, it has some icicles formed obviously I've not churn it long enough but seriously, not really my fault! It's the machine!!! I think it has been churning like more than 1.5 hours before stashing into the freezer but it's still not really fluffy and creamy :( I need an upgrade!
As for the recipe, I've used Alice Medrich's recipe from Pure Dessert. Since I can't find any heavy cream, I've used thickened cream instead. So clearly it's not as creamy as I would like it to be. I supposed the reason could be one need the custard to be really creamy as the Guinness would dilute the custard quite a fair bit. Flavour wise, it's not too sweet and the Guinness flavour is not strong enough. Hence need to work on this to improve the texture.
Guinness Stout Ice Cream
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1 cup heavy cream (I've used thicken cream)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
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1. In a saucepan, combine the cream, sugar, and salt and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
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3. Transfer the mixture back into the saucepan and cook slowly over medium heat and stir constantly. The mixture will thicken and remove from the heat.
4. Strain the custard to remove any bits of cooked egg into a separate clean bowl.
5. Mix the Guinness stout into the custard mixture. Refrigerate for at least 4 (preferably 12) hours before churning according to your ice cream machine.


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Thank you for not merely "offering" (i.e.; demanding) people research for you rather than doing original research for everyone, but I am not sure your contribution of "a missing leg" is all that interesting. Is it impossible for the perspective to be obscuring the central character's leg, as it may be standing on the other part of the statue and foreshortened behind his torso?VonCrowne » March 10th, 2017, 4:20 pm wrote:Inasmuch as I have taken a great interest in the ancient near east, it was of interest to me when this article came across a news feed today, particularly, for the mention of Ramses II (who is a noteworthy character for many reasons with which I will not exhaust you).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... 61413149=1
So, that doesn't read too bad. Of course, my gut instinct is not to believe it; so, I offer this for the scrutinizing eyes of the forum, as I see, at least, a missing leg...
Also, you could certainly summarize the relevant information about Ramses without going into depth, if it's not just speculation, rumor and hearsay but your actual personal research.
Not to derail, but I feel like people are starting to forget the reason we have this forum, which is to actually teach the public how to research rather than alluding to some personal inaccessible knowledge.


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'Mary Pickford Celebration' at the Cinema Arts Centre
It's virtually impossible to turn on a TV, surf the web, walk through a supermarket or spend a day in the company of others without some reminder or factoid concerning a starlet.
Be it Selena Gomez, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Miley Cyrus, Emma Stone, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi or any one of the many Kardashians, pop culture is besotted with a bevy of young women whose faces and lives take up a significant portion of today's national chatter — regardless of which among them is more or less personally stable and/or qualified — which makes it seem somewhat difficult to imagine the world wasn't once so flooded with the facts and figures concerning such famous females.
Naturally, the modern push for celebrity scooping is bolstered by Facebook, Twitter, the Internet, TV, radio and film — but a century ago, when the cinema was the only member of that aforementioned set of entertainment avenues having any impact (or even in existence) — there was an actress who found herself becoming one of the country's first movie stars.
During the early part of the 20th Century, performers weren't identified in a film's credits, yet young Mary Pickford still managed to turn her name into a household word, and become an American idol. Born in 1892, by the age of 20 Pickford was an audience draw, and her face appeared on theater placards and early fan beat magazine covers in a way never before achieved.
Widely known as "America's Sweetheart," Mary went on to eventually out-earn most of her contemporaries during the Silent Film era, become a producer and Oscar winner — all the while surviving the scandal she caused by daring to cut her beloved hair (she was also once dubbed "the girl with the curls;" she switched to a daring, flapper-style bob) and then became an even bigger star following a divorce and remarriage to another of the era's cinema giants (Douglas Fairbanks), a move that at the time was considered career suicide. If it could be said that any one of the movie industry's players was the first to set the tone for what would become today's "celebrity" -- by way of a combination of public interest, complicated personal life and lauded body of work, it's hard to argue that there is anyone who could supersede Mary Pickford as such.
Nonetheless, the current awareness of Pickford's career and history is not high, despite her importance in helping bring about the present-day concept of what being "famous" is. However, for anyone curious to learn more about the proto-starlet, Huntington's Cinema Arts Centre is featuring a Pickford film and chat session on Wednesday, May 1.
The "Mary Pickford Celebration" will start at 7 p.m., and will be centered around a showing of "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" (1924), a movie that not only both starred and was produced by Pickford, but was rumored to have been directed by her as well (in an uncredited role). In addition, there will be a discussion and signing with Christel Schmidt, editor of the book "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies."
Tickets are available at the Centre box office during theater hours, by calling 1-800-838-3006 or online at cinemaartscentre.org ($10 for Centre members, $15 otherwise).
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The Ubuntu technical board has decided to forgo the inclusion of a compositing window manager and proprietary video drivers in the default installation of the upcoming Ubuntu release. Instead, the technical board plans to incorporate new system configuration components that will allow users to trivially install, enable, and configure compositing support and the requisite video drivers. The board's decision was largely made based on the compositing software's lack of maturity, not criticism of proprietary driver inclusion. Compositing window managers like Beryl and Compiz, which leverage the 3D hardware acceleration features provided by proprietary graphics drivers, bring rich visual interfaces to the Linux desktop and provide users with sumptuous eye-candy.
Prior to this decision it was generally assumed that proprietary video drivers and the open-source Beryl window manager would be included by default in Ubuntu Feisty installations. Although a majority of Linux users leverage proprietary software components for hardware support or multimedia, the planned inclusion of proprietary video drivers in the default Ubuntu installation received much criticism from Free Software purists who argue that proprietary drivers "taint" the Linux kernel and potentially violate the kernel's open-source license.
Despite the contentious nature of the proprietary driver issue, the Ubuntu technical board's decision to hold off on the inclusion of compositing functionality has more to do with the software's lack of maturity rather than concerns about tainting the kernel. In the official decision, the board states that "the exception granted to the Ubuntu Licence Policy at the project's inception, which allows the use of closed-source components where necessary to provide sufficient hardware support, remains valid and pragmatic," but "some of the relevant software necessary to implement [the compositing desktop proposal] is not yet considered mature enough to deploy in the default Ubuntu configuration."
As a user of the Beryl compositing window manager, I fully concur with the board's reasoning. Although Beryl has a tremendous amount of potential and a lot of unique and innovative features, it isn't stable or reliable enough at this point to justify inclusion in the default installation. The upcoming 0.2.0 release of Beryl will resolve many of the software's most critical problems, but there are still many issues that must be resolved before it is sufficiently reliable for default inclusion. There are also some unanswered questions about the performance implications of bringing 3D window management to legacy Linux computers. Of the people I know who have installed Beryl, approximately half of them have given it up because of stability or performance issues. I personally had to give up Beryl and switch back to Sawfish because Beryl doesn't presently support my triple-head Xinerama configuration, a problem that is actively being resolved.
Ultimately, I doubt that very many users will be disappointed by this announcement. The availability of a configuration mechanism that automates installation of a compositing window manager and proprietary graphics drivers will ensure that anyone who wants 3D desktop support will be able to get it very easily, with less effort than is presently required.
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Long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week, offering a slight degree of relief to would-be homebuyers.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages dropped to 4.52 percent from 4.55 percent a week ago. Rates have declined in five of the past six weeks. Still, the average rate has increased from a year ago when it stood at 3.96 percent.
The average rate on 15-year, fixed-rate loans slipped to 3.99 percent from 4.04 percent a year ago.
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Mortgage rates have declined as investors have bought 10-year U.S. Treasury notes, causing their yield to decline. The yield peaked in May at 3.11 percent and has since dipped to 2.83 percent as the financial markets have sought a haven amid risks of a trade war.
Despite the recent declines, long-term loan rates remain near their highest levels in seven years. The average 30-year mortgage rate reached a high this year of 4.66 percent on May 24; the 15-year rate hit 4.15 percent that day.
To calculate average mortgage rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country between Monday and Wednesday each week.
The average doesn't include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates. The average fee on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages was unchanged from last week at 0.5 point.


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There's a post on rock 'n' roll legend Neil Young's Facebook page that makes claims about me that I feel I must address, because they are false.
Referring to my Monday column entitled "Neil Young puts comfort ahead of convictions," the post signed by someone named "The Passenger" states that: "After asking her sophomoric questions about planes and carbon footprints she took to sneaking around our buses. At that time she concluded that our engines were all running and texted that message to Sun Media News. Sun Media News dispatched a cameraman to the scene of the crime. He too began sneaking around our buses . . . I know, I was there, I talked to the fellow. When I explained that it was our generators and not our engines he understood completely. The Sun Media News Live Event truck uses that same system of generation. Ours differ notably in that they are all powered with bio-diesel. A fact I pointed out to the Sun Media News cameraman."
First of all, saying that I texted someone from Sun Media News is absurd. Sun Media is a competitor of the Calgary Herald so, needless to say, I wouldn't contact my competitor to tell them what I'm up to. It is also clear that this is not a case of misidentifying a Calgary Herald photographer for a Sun Media cameraman because the Herald doesn't have a "live event truck."
Next, I wasn't "sneaking around" their buses. I was bold as blazes about it. I identified myself to the security guard, who sat in his pickup truck, which, incidentally, he left idling the entire time I was there and knocked on the buses' doors.
Two of Young's luxury motor homes were parked in the 9th Avenue parking lot just south of the Jack Singer Concert Hall, where Young held a news conference from 1 to 2 p.m. and where he performed his Honor the Treaties concert that evening, which was conceived to raise money and awareness for the Athabasca Chipewya First Nation.
Another two of the rock-star style buses were parked on 9th Avenue, one in the loading dock of the Epcor Centre.
Every one of Young's buses was running its generator. I never wrote that the engines were running.
My question would be, does the writer of the post, think the generators powering these enormous motorhomes run on fairy dust? Generators spew fumes into the atmosphere. All of them were running even though it didn't appear that most of the motorhomes were occupied at the time. One did have a cook aboard, whom I spoke with.
The security guard, whom I recorded on my iPhone, said the generators had all been running the entire time since they pulled up and parked, and that most did not have anyone aboard at the time.
Keeping the generators running while no one is aboard the motorhome is wasteful and unnecessary, and shows that Young, who is trying to stop others from creating CO2, isn't mindful of conserving as much energy as possible, like most of the rest of us do.
According to a salesperson at Woody's RV World in Calgary, "the only reason you need to run the generator on a motorhome is if you need to run the TV, microwave or air conditioner. Period." Everything else, including the heater, plug ins, the refrigerator, hot water and lights run on the motorhome's batteries or propane. Usually, RVs run on gasoline, as do their generators and they vent the burning gasoline outside. Young's motorhomes apparently run on biodiesel, which he has trucked in from the U.S.
Right after the news conference, which ended at 2 p.m. I went outside. No one entered any of the four most visible buses. All of them were running their generators even though there was no need since, if there's no one inside, there's no need to run the TV or the microwave and, while it was relatively warm for Calgary, it was still below freezing and not air-conditioner weather. Keeping the generators running certainly doesn't jibe with someone travelling around the country lecturing others about the dangers of global warming and the vileness of CO2 and the oilsands.
As I wrote in my previous column, Young said he sometimes "has to" fly on private jets.
"Sometimes to play my shows I have to use them to get from one place to another to do my job and be in good enough shape to do my job when I get there," he said.
Nobody, other than perhaps the President of the United States, has to fly on a private jet. To lecture others on the evils of oil production and global warming and then choose the most carbon-intensive way to travel, is hypocritical.
The defensiveness is clear. Any question that exposes his hypocrisy he calls "sophomoric."
In light of the fact that Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the U.S., there's no doubt that Young has used a lot of Alberta crude and bitumen flying around in those private jets. For someone who hates oil so much, he sure uses a lot of it.
During his four-city tour, Young made numerous other false statement about the oilsands, far too many to list here. For instance, he claimed that the oilsands produce the same amount of carbon dioxide on a daily basis as all the cars in Canada. Does he just pull this stuff out of thin air? According to Environment Canada's Greenhouse Gas emissions inventory reports, transportation produces 24 per cent of Canada's GHGs while the oilsands produce just seven per cent. And yet, the oilsands are responsible for about 25 per cent of the value on the Toronto Stock Exchange. That means jobs for us little people clear across the country, including aboriginals and everyone from bricklayers to boilermakers, engineers and nurses.
In total, Canada produces just two per cent of the world's man-made GHGs, which means the oilsands are responsible for just 0.14 per cent. In 2012, U.S. coal-fired power plants produced roughly 25 per cent of the world's man-made CO2. Why doesn't Old Neil protest that?
Young has also stated that the reclamation of mined oilsand lands is a "myth." Perhaps next time Young's in the area he can see what it feels like to stand in the middle of a myth called a forest that was planted on a former mine site, where many species live and thrive.
I have long been a huge fan of Neil Young, but I can't sit back and let him spread lies about the very engine that is fuelling our country's economy and well-being. His talent and heart of gold doesn't earn him a pass.
Licia Corbella is a columnist and editorial page editor


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Tim Liljequist, dancer. Tim Liljequist trained at Balletakademin in Göteborg 1990-1993. After a year as a trainee with Stora Teaterns Ballet he joined the Göteborg Ballet in 1994. His roles have included Hilarion in Mats Ek's Giselle, Pepperkaka in The Nutcracker, Hanuman in Prince Rama and the Demons and Mr. Mistoffelees and Victor in Cats. He has also performed in Re:Tchaikovsky, Ballet Pathétique, The Firebird and West Side Story.


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Burger City Guides: Michael Mina's Favorite Burgers in San Francisco
Lists of top 5 burgers.
Chef Michael Mina's Bay Area-based start-up website, Cook Taste Eat, delivers approachable, inspiring culinary instructional videos (co-hosted with singer Michelle Branch, and featuring a bevy of his top chef friends) into the inboxes of home cooks everywhere. Anyone living near one of the celebrity chef's many restaurants (four in San Francisco, at our last count) can taste Cook Taste Eat's featured weekly menu firsthand before attempting to recreate the recipes at home.
Although he has restaurants all over the country, he's chosen the Bay Area as a home base to grow his website and to keep close to some of the burgers he loves best. And he knows beef—carnivores should check out his new on-demand guide to cooking the perfect steak. "I love the burgers at RN74 and Bourbon Steak, they're absolutely amazing!" he says. "But to remain unbiased, here are my five favorites from other restaurants."
1. Ryan Farr is a butcher's butcher and has been serving great burgers at 4505 Meats at the Ferry Terminal Plaza Farmers' Market for quite some time now. Some might find the burger smaller than the others, but it packs on the flavor, topping a custom grind with classic melted Gruyère, and everything comes together.
1 Sausalito, San Francisco Ferry Building, San Francisco CA 94111 (map); 415-255-3094; 4505meats.com/farmersmarket
2. David Bazirgan really knows how to engineer the grind on the meat that goes into what is the Fifth Floor burger. It's a great mix of short rib, chuck, and amply marbled skirt steak. The caramelized onion with Comte cheese combination makes Baz's burger memorable.
12 4th Street, San Francisco CA 94103 (map); 415-348-1555; fifthfloorrestaurant.com
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3. Spruce is a fave of many a burger lover in town and I can see why. The bun doesn't get in the way, they offer tons of choices for customization, and they do their own aioli.
3640 Sacramento Street, San Francisco CA 94118(map); 415-931-5100; sprucesf.com
4. NOPA's burger is flame-licked live-fire flavor. Since it's such a chubby patty, it's fine without cheese! The glazed brioche bun is just right, too. I love the atmosphere quite a bit.
560 Divisadero Street, San Francisco CA 94117(map); 415-864-8643; nopasf.com
5. It's no accident how successful In-N-Out Burger is, because they are wonderfully consistent. We always go double double. I know about the secret menu, and the kids and I love the animal fries.
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New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Adorn yourself by wearing Patiala suits in bright colours like red, pink and emerald green to celebrate Punjabi festival Lohri that falls Jan 13 this year. Complement the look with traditional jewellery and bold lip colours.
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* Wardrobe: Vibrant coloured attire is best suited for festival. Patiala suits in bright shades of red, pink, green with heavy work of zardozi and phulkari are ideal for the occasion.
* Make-up: To start with make-up, massage your face with a beauty balm and wipe it off with tissue paper. Then apply crystal foundation. Sprinkle crystal pigments in a scoop of foundation and merge it with your finger and apply it in a dotted way on your face. Use bold lip colours with metallic touch.
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* Hairstyle: A front puff or a chotti with a parandi are some of the hair-dos you can try for the festive look.


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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, wouldn't shut the door on bringing up recommendations from Vice President Biden's commission on gun violence in the House next year.
"We join the president in mourning the victims of the horrible tragedy in Connecticut," Boehner said in response to a question from NBC News during press conference at the Capitol. "He's appointed Vice President Biden to lead a commission, and when the Vice President's recommendations come forward, we'll certainly take them into consideration."
But the top House Republican wouldn't commit, either, to allowing votes on specific gun control measures – like renewing the assault weapons ban or limiting ammunition magazines' capacity – that Democrats have called for in the wake of last week's elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
President Barack Obama tasked Biden on Wednesday with leading the task force on gun violence, which the president said he wanted to produce specific recommendations by next month. The panel was prompted by the tragic Newtown shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 teachers at an elementary school.
"The president is absolutely committed to keeping his promise that we will act and we will act in a way that is designed -- even if as he says we can only save one life -- we have to take action," Biden said at a meeting Thursday with cabinet and law enforcement officials.
Boehner's words Thursday mark a relatively open stance by the speaker, who enjoys an "A" rating by the National Rifle Association. Back in July, after the shooting at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., Boehner resisted calls for new regulations on guns saying: "The president has made clear that he's not going to use this horrific event to push for new gun law and I agree."


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PASIR PUTEH (KELANTAN, MALAYSIA), Feb 2 (NNN-BERNAMA) -- Malaysia aims to raise the milk production under the feedlot concept to 1.1 billion litres yearly to reduce its import dependency.
Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed said the country curently produced 51 million litres of milk yearly or 4.6 per cent of the national consumption.
Efforts to increase the production and reduce the dependency on import is hampered by lack of interest from cattle breeders, he told reporters after visiting the Sungai Durian Feedlot Husbandry project here Monday.
He said this was further compounded by the tropical weather which was deemed not conducive for high yield milk production.
Mustapa said the ministry had sought the help of Dutch Lady, a world leader in dairy business, to help nurture feedlot breeders.
"The company has agreed to share its technology and expertise in developing local feedlot entrepreneurs," he said, adding that he hoped the younger generation would go into the lucrative sector.
The price of milk has gone up from RM1.50 per litre to RM2 per litre while processed milk fetches RM5 per litre, he added.
Meanwhile, the Kelantan Veterinary Services Department has produced crossbred cows, Mafriwal (Malaysian Friesian Sahiwal) which are able to withstand warm weather and produce more milk than indigenous cows.
Its director, Dr Zairi Serlan said the crossbred cows were produced through the artificial insemination of Friesian, cold-weather cows and Sahiwal, warm-weather cows.
"The crossbreeding project started in 1980s. Mafriwal are black and white polka dot, black or red in colour," he told reporters after accompanying Mustapa, who visited the Sungai Durian Feedlot Husbandry here.
"Friesian are high-yield cows but they could not withstand our warm weather. They are crossbred with the low yield Sahiwal and the results overwhelmed us," he said.
Dr Zairi said the crossbred cows recorded a speedy growth as they started producing milk when they were six months and developed high resistance against diseases.
On the Sungai Durian Feedlot Husbandry, he said the 60-ha project produced 354,000 litres of milk worth RM531,000 yearly from 75 of 144 cows.
"We have five participants at present and we need more people to join the husbandry to meet high demand for milk," he said. -- NNN-BERNAMA


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MONDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Your parenting style can make a huge difference in your teen's safety once he or she gets behind the wheel of a car.
Parents who set firm rules, but do so in a helpful, supportive way, can reduce the likelihood of their teen getting into an auto accident by half and decrease rates of drinking and driving, two new studies find. Positive rule-setting can also increase the odds a teen will wear a seatbelt and lessen the likelihood of talking or texting on a cell phone while driving.
"Parent involvement really matters. Active parenting can save teenagers' lives," said Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, an adolescent medicine specialist at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Parents who give rules, set boundaries and monitor those boundaries with warmth and support can have a really dramatic effect on teen driving safety."
Ginsburg is the lead author of two studies published online in Pediatrics on Sept. 28. Both studies were sponsored by State Farm Insurance.
The first study looked at the association between parenting styles and teen driving behaviors and attitudes, while the second assessed teen behavior based on their access to a vehicle.
The first study included a nationally representative sample of 5,665 teens in 9th through 11th grades. Parenting style was reported by the teens and fell into one of four categories: authoritative (high support along with rules and monitoring); authoritarian (low support with rules and monitoring), permissive (high support with low rules and monitoring), and uninvolved (low support and low rules).
Teens who had authoritative or authoritarian parents wore seatbelts twice as often as teens with uninvolved parents. Teens with parents in these groups were also half as likely to speed as those with uninvolved parents. Teens with authoritative parents -- high support and rules -- were half as likely to get into a car accident, 71 percent less likely to drink and drive, and 29 percent less likely to talk or text on their cell phones while driving compared to teens with uninvolved parents.
The second study included 2,167 teens and found that 70 percent had "primary access" to a vehicle. That didn't necessarily mean that the teens had their own cars, Ginsburg said, but it could mean they had easy access to the keys and didn't need to ask permission to take a family car.
After controlling the data to account for the extra hours these teens likely spent behind the wheel, the researchers found that teens with easy access to a vehicle were more than twice as likely to crash, about 25 percent more likely to use a cell phone while driving and about 25 percent more likely to speed than teens who had to ask permission to use a car.
Why the difference? Ginsburg said he suspects it's because teens with easy access to a car don't necessarily feel as accountable. They don't have anyone asking where they're going or whom they'll be with. "They miss out on that conversation and appropriate monitoring," he said.
Parents should control the keys to the car for at least the first six to 12 months of driving, he added.
Ginsburg said there are clear rules that must always be followed, and rules that will change as your teen gains experience and demonstrates responsibility.
Clear rules include:
Rules that can change as your child gains experience and skill include having passengers, driving at night, increased access to the car and driving in bad weather. Ginsburg said it's important to make sure there's a reward for your teen for good driving behavior. "There has to be something in it for them," he said.
"Teens do need parents to set rules, and there need to be consequences when the rules aren't followed," said Dr. Barbara Gaines, director of the trauma and injury prevention program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
"Parents need to know that the moment a child gets a driver's license is the riskiest time in their lives. Don't treat this time as a fait accompli. Getting the license is a goal, and the first step in a process," she said.
Most parents worry more about sex, drugs and drinking than they do about driving, but car crashes are the biggest threat to teen safety, Ginsburg added. "The great news is that parents really matter. And, when you stay involved and do so in a way that promotes safety, not control, driving becomes the greatest opportunity to promote their children's safety."
More information
To learn more about how to set rules to help your teen driver, visit the National Safety Council.
SOURCES: Kenneth Ginsburg, M.D., MS.Ed., adolescent medicine specialist, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Barbara Gaines, M.D., director, trauma and injury prevention program, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; Sept. 28, 2009, Pediatrics, online
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