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Ducati Scrambler : Review
After a long time, Ducati debuted another retro-styled off-roader into the market with a nameplate 'Scrambler'. Ducati put an end card to all the nervousness and awaits with the 'Scrambler' which was first unveiled at the Intermol 2014 motor show in Cologne, Germany. This is the second scrambler model that was placed in the Ducati … Read moreDucati Scrambler : Review

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In honor of National Sake Day (Oct. 1), Koi– the leader in contemporary Japanese cuisine and noted celebrity hotspot – is offering a variety of delicious and refreshing sake cocktails. Additionally, Koi Sake, a fragrant, well-balanced sake of the premier Junmai Daiginjo class, is sold exclusively to Koi guests for $85 per 500 ml bottle.
To expand on the spirit for which this holiday was created, we would also like to offer an interview with Ken Whang, Koi Los Angeles' Bar Manager. Whang, an industry veteran, has been creating sake cocktails for one of the most prestigious programs in the country; having offered Koi Sake for the last five years, he's able to speak to its prominence and share more information on the category.
Sparkling Hana Blossom
1 1/2 ounces VeeV
1 1/2 ounces Hana Sparkling Sake
1 ounce lychee juice
1/2 ounce St Germain
Pour into high ball over ice and garnish with orchid and lychee.
Rockin Cucumber
2 ½ ounces of Rock Sake
1 ½ ounces of vodka
Splash of lime juice
Fresh cucumbers
Add all in to a shaker and shake hard to breakdown the cucumbers and strain into a martini glass, garnish with a slice of cucumber.
A fragrant, well-balanced sake with medium dry taste, Koi Sake, is of the premier Junmai Daiginjo class, and is sold exclusively to Koi diners at $85 per 500 ml bottle. Sakes of this class are made with rice that has been polished to at least 50%, and often times the rice is polished more than the required amount, eliminating a majority of the unwanted fats and proteins found in the outer layer of the grain. Koi Sake is brewed by the Kamikokoro Brewery located in the small town of Setouchi in the Okayama prefecture, a region known for producing top quality sakes due to optimal growing conditions. Koi Sake is brewed in the traditional method using the most precise and labor-intensive techniques without the addition of distilled alcohol.
Koi Los Angeles is the flagship restaurant of Koi Group and has been a staple in the LA dining scene since opening its doors in 2002. Executive Chef Robb Lucas' imaginative dishes are inspired by traditional Japanese preparations, then deconstructed and infused with modern California accents. The menu includes a variety of savory cooked dishes, traditional sushi and sashimi, as well as creative rolls. Koi's décor, conceptualized by its own design team, reflects the tenets of feng shui and Zen Buddhism. Each of the four dining rooms are illuminated by candlelight and outfitted in colors that evoke nature's elements of water, air, fire and earth; multiple fireplaces and waterscapes add to its design. Additionally, the restaurant features a separate lounge, two private dining areas, a sushi bar and three indoor/outdoor patios. Critical raves for Koi Los Angeles have appeared in bon appétit, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, among others.


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If you make it increasingly costly and risky to open a small enterprise, then no wonder unemployment remains high.
Liquidity moves markets!Follow the money. Find the profits!
You hear a lot about Kafkaesque stifling bureaucracy in Greece and other struggling European nations, but America's Status Quo is trying its best to destroy small enterprise with taxes and crushing bureaucracy. I am self-employed, and have been for most of my life. When I did take a paid position, it was in other small enterprises or local non-profit organizations.
I mention this because there is an unbridgeable divide in any discussion of small business between those who have no experience in entrepreneural enterprise (i.e. they've worked for the government, NGOs/non-profits or Corporate America their entire careers) and those who have.
There are all sorts of similar chasms that cannot be crossed and which quickly reveal a surreal disconnect from actual lived reality: for example, the difference between actually playing football–yes, with pads, a muddy field and guys trying to slam you to the ground–and being an armchair quarterback who's never been hit even once, never caught a pass or ever struggled to bring down a faster, bigger player. (And yes, I did play football in high school as a poor dumb skinny kid who mostly warmed the bench for good reason, but I lettered.)
At the extreme of this disconnect, we have armchair generals screaming for war who have no experience of combat or war as it is actually experienced.
You get the point: it's very easy for well-paid pundits who have never started a single real enterprise or met a single payroll to pontificate about "opportunity" and small business as the engine of growth, blah blah blah. It's also easy for those with no actual experience to reach all sorts of absurd conclusions about how easy it is to turn a small business into great wealth. (No, Bain Capital or other Wall Street outposts of financialization are not "small business.")
In real life, it's only easy to run a small business into the ground, especially when there's a thousand tons of junk fees, taxes and useless bureaucratic requirements on your back. Lest you think this an exaggeration, consider that it took two years and $200,000 to open an ice cream parlor in a vacant retail space:
"Ms. Pries said it took two years to open the ice cream parlor, due largely to the city's morass of permits, procedures and approvals required to start a small business. While waiting for permission to operate, she still had to pay rent and other costs, going deeper into debt each passing month without knowing for sure if she would ever be allowed to open."It's just a huge risk," she said, noting that the financing came from family and friends, not a bank. "At several points you wonder if you should just walk away and take the loss."
Ms. Pries said she had to endure months of runaround and pay a lawyer to determine whether her location (a former grocery, vacant for years) was eligible to become a restaurant. There were permit fees of $20,000; a demand that she create a detailed map of all existing area businesses (the city didn't have one); and an $11,000 charge just to turn on the water."
There is nothing mysterious about the cause of this Kafkaesque Status Quo:each city, county, state and Federal fiefdom must justify its existence and payroll, and everyone in each fiefdom will fight with every fiber of their being to protect their turf. Politically, it's a fight to the death to trim even the thinnest slice of bureaucracy, and so little if any ever gets trimmed.
Nobody will care until the city, county and state's revenues collapse as people opt out of supporting the bloated dead-weight of the Status Quo with their own sweat and blood.
The only way to survive is to not have a "real" business, i.e. you write code in your living room or parents' basement, or you do enough business in the informal sector (cash) to support your high-cost formal business.
Taxes and bureaucracy are not just urban phenomena, as this insightful report from Eric in Texas shows. Eric draws a critically important causal line between the stifling of small enterprise and high structural unemployment: if you make it so costly, risky and burdensome to start a business and hire people, then no wonder unemployment is high and will stay high.
One of your recent posts made me think of how difficult reinventing communities and coming up with creative solutions for the problems of unemployment and displaced people in our society is. I think it has to do mainly with the way in which lower middle class / middle class people are overburdened with taxation. As you stated in your post, the amount of taxation is staggering. Especially for the self employed, like myself.My wife and I pay much the same percentage taxes as you listed in your post. I live in a rural area of Texas and from time to time small acreage properties go up for sale around our home. If we wanted to buy some adjacent acreage for the purpose of inviting a few of our friends, who are teetering on the edge of unemployment and facing the prospect of real poverty, to live next to us and help each other grow food, take care of livestock and find creative self employment opportunities in our area together, the resultant burden of taxation would prevent it.
For example, as I see it, my wife and I would now be paying property taxes on two properties, one would not have the homestead exemption. Any "improvement" on the new property, e.g. a small house built for our friends, would only increase the property taxes. We would also have to consider, if we planned to live together in this way long term with the major contribution of our "unemployed" friends being their labor and time invested in our communal living experiment, what kinds of taxes we might be subject to in the future based on the way we are using each others time and energy to achieve solutions for food production, child rearing, shelter, etc. I don't know if we would be subjected to any taxation in doing these things only assuming we might be.
To attempt to sum up my reaction to your post, I will make a list of what I think would impede a lower middle class person who has some discretionary income and could provide a small house and small acreage for the benefit of a few friends on the brink of poverty, with the view to the arrangement being ultimately beneficial to all involved.
1. Increased property taxes
2. The possibility of providing mandatory health insurance through "Obama care"
3. Taxes and or restrictions on what produce we can sell through farmer's markets or through the Internet, e.g. the recent crackdown on raw milk sells, and "cottage foods" like goat cheese, homemade pies, homemade canned goods, etc. In other words, if our whole way of life is to produce locally grown food for ourselves and our extended "family" and this is threatened through excessive regulation and or taxation, I wonder if it's really realistic to pursue.
4. In Texas taxes are rising, even in this recession school taxes, property taxes, fees, etc. are all going up.
5. Federal taxes look like they are poised to increase.
If I didn't have to worry about taking on the burden of all these forms of taxation, property taxes being the most onerous to me, I might could use what capital I have to invest in a communal living arrangement that I would hope to be of benefit to my family and some of our friends.
It's the idea, ultimately, that I want to reinvent my community (for me that means bringing friends in close relationship in mutual work for mutual benefit) and provide opportunities to contribute. But if that means having to tangle with bureaucrats over how much more I now owe because of my desire to do these things, I think I will be doing better to try to take care of myself, my wife, and our children, and leave the rest of my loved ones to prayer and occasional modest charity.
In short, if we were not taxed every time we tried to do something, we just might damn well do something!
Let's focus on getting rid of property taxes, and other forms of ridiculous taxation so that we can free up our energy and time to do the very things you advocated so well in your post.
I realize the benefit to myself and so many of some forms of government assistance, for example food stamps, child tax credit, energy efficiency rebates…. I think good government programs could be sustained if we did things like close our military bases around the world, brought the troops back to the states, and made education and real estate much less expensive, and allowed people to grow and market local foods without encumberance.
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Here is the ugly truth about the Savior State, welfare state, social welfare state, or whatever you choose to call the Central State: The Savior State displaces and destroys community and social capital. By making individuals dependent on the Central State for free money, free food, free housing, etc., then the State has taken over the natural function of community.
In my opinion, it is also that the Savior State displaces and destroys even the potential for ( my main point) community and social capital. By placing oppressive, punitive, discouraging, and unreasonable forms of taxation on individuals who may otherwise extend resources of capital towards helping their neighbors, friends, and even family. In this way, then, the State has decided to oppress and retard the development of communities.
Well said, Eric, thank you. Before you jump in to "correct" this view of small enterprise in America, first list how many enterprises you have started, owned or run, and how many people were/are on your payroll.
If you think it's so easy to get rich in small business, then here's the keys, and payday's on Friday.
If this recession strikes you as different from previous downturns, you might be interested in my new book An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times (print edition) or Kindle ebook format. You can read the ebook on any computer, smart phone, iPad, etc.Click here for links to Kindle apps and Chapter One. The solution in one word: Localism.


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Canine Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism is considered to be the most common endocrine disorder in dogs. It is seen mostly in middle-aged dogs in the mid-larger sized breeds. More than 80% of the cases result from autoimmune thyroiditis, which progressively destroys the thyroid gland. The clinical signs are quite variable - some are subtle and may mimic those of other causes2. Therefore, in order to facilitate diagnosis thyroid profile testing should be conducted. TSH, FT4, T4 and other thyroid assays are all useful when used together to assess the thyroid status.
Feline Hyperthyroidism
Although hypothyroidism is quite rare in cats, hyperthyroidism is considered the most common feline endocrine disorder. It afflicts primarily middle-aged and older cats. Also called thyrotoxicosis, hyperthyroidism is caused by an increase in production of thyroid hormone from enlarged thyroid glands. In most cases, enlargement of thyroid glands is caused by a tumor called an adenoma, which is non-cancerous. Some rare cases of hyperthyroid disease are caused by malignant tumors known as thyroid adenocarcinomas3.
Increased frequency of diagnosis of feline hyperthyroidism can be attributed to increased clinical awareness of the disease, improved diagnostic testing, an increasing feline population, increased lifespan of pet cats, and the fact that more owners seek veterinary aid for their pets4.
1. 2011-2012 APPA National Pet Owners Survey
2. Veterinary Practice News. www.veterinarypracticenews.com posted April 12, 2011 by W. Jean Dodds, DVM
3. Brochure on Hyperthyroidism in Cats. Prepared b the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the Cornell Feline Health Center, Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine 2007
4. Veterinary Clinical pathology clerkship program. www.vet.uga.edu Feline Hyperthyroidism. By Jeff S. Stortz, DVM; Kenneth S. Latimer, DVM, PhD; Heather L. Tarpley, DVM; Bruce E. LeRoy, DVM, PhD, Perry J. Bain, DVM, PhD, T. Michelle Wall, DVM, DACVIM
5. IDEXX Laboratories. Diagnostic Update. March 2011.IDEXX Reference laboratories new Free T4 Test
6. Boretti, FS, Reusch C.E.- Diagnostic specificity of canine thyrotropin in the diagnosis of Hypothyroidism in dogs. EJCAP 2006,16:185-189
7. The Merck Veterinary Manual. © 2011; Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc


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Madison – James Cromwell, the Oscar-nominated actor who starred in "L.A. Confidential" and "Babe," was arrested Thursday morning with protester Jeremy Beckham of PETA for shouting during a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting, calling campus research on cats torture, not science.
The two burst into the meeting room as a UW System official was beginning a report to the regents about student success predictors of whether the system is on target to reach its goal of producing 80,000 more degree holders by 2025.
Regents appeared taken aback, but no one responded to Cromwell and Beckham. They held two large signs showing a cat named Double Trouble with metal implanted in its head at a UW-Madison lab, while shouting about the treatment of cats.
"This is not science, this is cruel," Cromwell said.
"This is the reality of what happens to cats in labs," Beckham said. "Take a look at the photograph. This is the pride of the university here."
Beckham, a PETA spokesman who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, went limp and dropped to the floor in front of the regents.
Two campus police campus officers dragged him from the room, and the meeting resumed. They were taken to the Dane County Jail and will be charged with disorderly conduct, according to UW spokesman David Giroux. Cromwell, 73, said that police were very courteous, and that he was led out in handcuffs, "which is always fun."
Cromwell said in a telephone interview the meeting was being streamed, a plus he and Beckham hadn't known about.
"People saw us and heard us, and if we'd known, we would've gone up to the cameras, but I think a lot of people got out their phones and took photographs," he said. "I'm sure it'll go viral, and that's why I'm here."
Beckham said the two have a date to appear in court next Thursday.
PETA said in a release that 30 cats a year at UW-Madison are starved, deafened and decapitated for brain research that hasn't done accomplished its goals of improving human hearing.
Eric Sandgren, director of the Research Animal Resources Center on campus, said in an email that PETA's claims are false, and that the USDA has conducted independent examinations that came to the same conclusions.
"Today's events are just another attempt by these outside activists to get attention," Sandgren said. "They have attacked and distorted this line of research, which has very real benefits for people who are deaf, from every angle, and they are getting no traction with the public."
Cromwell said in a telephone interview that he was shooting a television series in Philadelphia a few weeks ago when PETA asked him to do the protest. He has been working with PETA ever since he made the movie Babe, and PETA contacted him about helping to save 4H pigs from slaughter.
"These photographs were very powerful," Cromwell said. "It is something that can be seen that does affect people outside the scientific community and raise their ire, as it should."
Actor James Cromwell, PETA official arrested at University of Wisconsin System Regents meeting.


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Raltegravir Activity In Lymphoid Tissues
The reduction with antiretroviral therapy (ART) of HIV RNA in blood, and HIV RNA in infected cells and in viruses associated with the follicular dendritic cell (FDC) network in lymphatic tissues, typically follows a two-phase pattern of decline. The half-life of the first-phase is about 1 day and that of the second phase is about 14 days, with comparable estimates for first-phase decay in SIV-infected rhesus macaques.
While substantial evidence supports the current view that first-phase decay reflects the death of activated CD4+ T cells infected before ART was begun, the sources of viral RNA in the second phase have not as yet been conclusively established. Possible sources of viral RNA that have been invoked in mathematical models, or for which there is experimental evidence, include longer-lived infected cells such as macrophages and resting CD4+ T cells, dissociation of virus from the FDC network, and productively infected CD4+ T cells that are not subject to clearance by host immune responses because of waning levels of HIV antigen.
Raltegravir (MK-0518) belongs to a new class of integrase inhibitors that potently suppress HIV and SIV replication, and reportedly markedly alters the second phase HIV decline in a way that challenges the current view that longer-lived infected cells are the source of virus in this phase. While mathematical modeling of decay of HIV RNA in blood was most consistent with 1) cells newly infected by long-lived cells, or 2) from activation of latently infected cells with full-length unintegrated HIV DNA as a source of second phase virus, we think the data are also quite consistent with the greater efficacy of integrase inhibitors in a particular cell type and/or anatomic site such as the gut.
In this protocol we will test the hypothesis that the rapid decrease in HIV replication associated with raltegravir is due to a more complete suppression of viral replication in lymphatic compartments such as lymph nodes and gastrointestinal lymphatic tissue. We will also investigate compartment-specific intracellular levels of raltegravir to potentially explain differences in changes in these compartments.
Full Title of Study: "Decay Kinetics of HIV With the Integrase Inhibitor Raltegravir"
Study Type
- Study Type: Interventional
- Study Design
- Allocation: Randomized
- Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose: Basic Science
- Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
- Study Primary Completion Date: March 2010
Detailed Description
The study will evaluate rates of HIV elimination in peripheral blood in comparison to secondary lymphatic tissues, including inguinal lymph nodes (LN) and gastrointestinal lymphatic tissues (GALT). HIV-infected patients who are antiretroviral therapy (ART) naive and fit criteria to initiate ART will be randomized to either Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) + Sustiva (efavirenz – 600mg qDAY orally – standard of care) or Truvada + Isentress (raltegravir – 400mg BID orally).
Patients will have a blood draw, a colonoscopy with biopsies, and inguinal lymph node excision at days 0, 2, 7, 14, and week 52. Plasma HIV RNA and CD4+ T cell quantitation will be performed conventionally. HIV mRNA will be quantitated in LN and GALT using in-situ hybridization (ISH). Immunohistochemistry (IHC) will be performed to quantitate changes in CD4+ cell numbers over time in tissues from each respective ART regimen.
- Drug: Efavirenz + Tenofovir DF/Emtricitabine
- 600mg QD for 52 weeks + 300mg/200mg QD for 52 weeks
- Drug: Raltegravir + Tenofovir DF/Emtricitabine
- 400mg BID for 52 weeks + 300mg/200mg QD for 52 weeks
- Procedure: Colonoscopy with biopsies
- Day 0, Day 2, Day 7, Day 14, Week 52
- Procedure: Inguinal Lymph Node Excision
- Day 0, Day 2, Day 7, Day 14, Week 52
Arms, Groups and Cohorts
- Active Comparator: Efavirenz
- Experimental: Raltegravir
Clinical Trial Outcome Measures
Primary Measures
- Rate of HIV mRNA Decline Measured in Peripheral Blood
- Time Frame: 1 year
- Rate of HIV mRNA Expression Decline Measured in Lymphatic Tissues
- Time Frame: 1 year
- CD4+ T Cell Number Increase in Peripheral Blood Over Time
- Time Frame: 1 year
- CD4+ T Cell Increase Quantified in Lymphatic Tissues Over Time
- Time Frame: 1 year
Secondary Measures
- Intracellular concentrations of antiretroviral drugs
- Time Frame: 1 year
Participating in This Clinical Trial
Inclusion Criteria
- HIV positive (proven serologically at the time of screen, unless evidence for seroconversion)
- Evidence of recent (proven seroconversion within 4 months) or acute infection (HIV antibody negative, HIV RNA positive), or CD4 T Cells > 350 in peripheral blood and plasma viral load > 100,000 copies/ml
- Antiretroviral therapy naive (no prior history of antiretroviral therapy)
- Negative pregnancy test for eligible women of childbearing potential
Exclusion Criteria
- Contraindication to surgical and endoscopic procedures (as judged by the principal investigator)
- Psychiatric or psychological illness that would make adherence to protocol procedures unlikely
- Pregnancy
Gender Eligibility: All
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: N/A
Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No
Investigator Details
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
- Collaborator
- Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
- Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
- Sponsor
- Overall Official(s)
- Timothy W Schacker, M.D., Principal Investigator, University of Minnesota
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The best gardeners know that compost is better than fertilizer, when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and anyone can do it. But for the best compost and composting experience, you need to put the best ingredients into your bin or pile. Here's a quick list of what you should and should not compost, and why.
You SHOULD compost:
- Grass clippings
- Dead leaves and small twigs
- Wood chips and sawdust
- Hay and straw
- Fruits and vegetables
- Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags
- Cardboard rolls
- Dryer and vacuum cleaner lint
- Fireplace ashes
- House plants
- Nut shells
- Shredded newspaper
- Cotton and wool rags
You SHOULD NOT compost:
- Dairy products. They cause odor problems and can attract pests.
- Yard trimmings treated with pesticides. Chemicals might kill beneficial composting organisms.
- Coal or charcoal ash. Either could contain substances that are harmful to plants.
- Diseased or insect-ridden plants. These might survive the compost process only to be transferred back into your soil.
- Pet waste. It could contain parasites, bacteria, or germs harmful to humans.
- Meat scraps or fish bones. They cause odor problems and can attract pests.
- Black Walnut tree leaves or twigs. They release substances harmful to plants.
- Fat, grease, lard or oil. They cause odor problems and attract pests.
As a rule, your compost materials should be about 3 parts brown materials (leaves, twigs, woody plants) to 1 part green materials (kitchen scraps and lawn clippings). Also keep in mind that compost needs to stay warm (a sunny spot helps) and moist (keep it wet with the garden hose). It also needs air, so turning frequently will speed up the process. And here's an experienced compost hobbyist's tip: If you really want to compost quickly, put your kitchen scraps through the blender before adding them to your compost bin or pile. They'll break down a lot faster.
Now go forth and make some dirt! For related content, consider:
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San Francisco: No. 1 city with growing hotel rates
Hotels are poised to raise rates again in 2013 as travel continues to increase, particularly in big cities such as San Francisco.
That's according to Jan Freitag, a senior executive at hotel industry tracker STR, who gives USA TODAY's Hotel Check-In readers the scoop on hotel rates once a quarter. In this piece, he gives us the rundown on 2012 as well as the 2013 forecast based on STR data. Freitag in his own words:
New record: 1 billion hotel rooms sold
2012 was a banner year for the U.S. hotel industry. Collectively hoteliers sold more rooms than ever before — more than 1.1 billion.
With all this room demand came pricing power, so the average daily rate (ADR) for a U.S. hotel increased 4.2% over 2011. This is just an average, so there were markets where hoteliers were able to charge a lot more than that, sometimes 10% more.
The tables below show the average, year-over-year rate change for 20 U.S. markets: the 10 with the highest rate gains and the 10 with the weakest rate gains and losses.
What's driving the rate changes in some markets?
In West Texas and North Dakota, it's access to newly discovered energy sources and the resulting employment boom.
San Francisco: City with biggest rate jump in 2012
Other markets benefit from being close to a city that has seen strong room demand.
For example, room rates in San Francisco are up by almost 11% over last year. Some travelers are diverting to San Jose and Oakland in search for cheaper hotels. As a result, those markets reported average rate increases of more than 9% year over year.
It's worth noting that of all the 162 markets that STR uses to break out the USA, only eight reported room rates that were lower than a year before.
Washington, D.C. is one of those cities where average rates declined, pointing at the prolonged struggle this market has with new supply, reliance on government per-diems and overall weak demand growth.
For 2013, we at STR forecast that room rates will increase another 4.9% over 2012. Of course, certain markets will see stronger growth and hoteliers in the Top 10 largest hotel markets will be able to increase rates by more. We also expect that chain hotels at the luxury end of the market will be able to increase room rates by 6.6%, outpacing all other chain-affiliated hotels.
Looking ahead we expect that 2013 will be another good year for the US hotel industry and the good times for hoteliers should last all the way through the end of 2014.
Top 10 U.S. markets with the biggest % ADR change
Texas - West 20.8%
Oahu Island, Hawaii 11.2%
San Francisco/San Mateo, Calif. 10.8%
North Dakota 10.4%
San Jose-Santa Cruz, Calif. 9.8%
Charlotte, 9.4%
Oakland, 9.2%
Indianapolis, 9%
New Mexico South 8.9%
New Orleans, 8.6%
Bottom 10 U.S. markets with the weakest % ADR change
Colorado Springs, 0.8%
Tulsa, 0.5%
Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (0.2%)
Augusta, Ga. (0.3%)
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (0.4%)
New Jersey Shore (0.6%)
Washington, D.C.-Md.-Va. (0.7%)
California North Central (0.8%)
Tucson, (1.1%)
Melbourne-Titusville, Fla. (1.9%)
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From the creators of Despicable Me comes the animated feature film adaptation of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, a beloved cautionary tale of environmental conservation wrapped up in a colorful children's story. The 3D-CG animated adaptation is an adventure that follows the journey of idealistic 12-year-old Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) while he searches for a real Truffula Tree for Audrey (voiced by Taylor Swift), in order to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find one, he must learn the story of the Lorax (voiced by Danny DeVito) from the enigmatic and bitter old hermit, known as the Once-ler (voiced by Ed Helms), who let the temptation of greed and success get the better of him. For more on the film, here's some images, trailers, 8 clips from the movie, and the Super Bowl spot.
At the recent Los Angeles press day, I was able to speak with Ed Helms for our partners at Omelete. During the interview, Helms talked about how he got involved in The Lorax, how his character changed during the recording process, his favorite movie, actor and director, what's up with The Hangover 3, is he ever going to release a CD, and do more people want to talk about The Office, The Hangover, or Walk Hard. Hit the jump to watch.
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- How did he get involved in The Lorax
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Parents at Uber
The community for parents and caregivers
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Our mission is to broaden the conversation around being a parent at Uber.
What we stand for
We support new parents before and after their parental leave.
We help managers and their teams better manage colleagues with families (before, during, and after leave).
We provide ongoing resources and networks to all employees with families.
Featured members
Alison Crawford
Program Manager, Diversity and Inclusion
Alison has spent the last 2 years developing Diversity and Inclusion initiatives at Uber that involve working parents and parents-to-be. Before joining Uber, Alison spent 6 years at Yelp working in sales leadership and was involved in creating employee resource groups. Her proudest moments so far have been executing a number of projects that have improved the lives of mothers at Uber.
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Faye is a proud member of the team that helped to launch Uber Eats in Toronto in 2015. She holds the claim to being the first member of the Uber Canada team to go on maternity leave, and since her return she has been a passionate advocate for parents and parents-to-be. Her son William enjoys saying the word "Uber" and hitting the "Place order" button at the end of an Uber Eats order.
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David is a Pittsburgh native who joined Uber ATG in early 2018, and he's excited to be working on self-driving technology with a team of amazing people. His daughter was born in the Dominican Republic and spent her first few years in Seoul, South Korea. David is thrilled to have the opportunity to advocate and support parents and parents-to-be.
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I am often drawn to different poems depending on my mood. I was delighted to read that Stephen Fry's favourite poem in his youth was 'Fancy' because I used to adore that in my teens too. And I'm a huge admirer of Stephen Fry too.
Nightingale - my all time No 1 poem, to the extent that I was actually a bit scared of the prospect of listening to Ben Whishaw reading it at the end of 'Bright Star' in case it was awful. It wasn't - it was a beautiful rendition.
Maureen wrote:To have written that and the other odes at that age and in such a short space of time is even more awesome!
I alos forgot one of my long time favourites: 'To My Brothers' written on Tom's birthday. Not only is it incredibly emotional to read knowing what was to happen to Tom, but for me it encapsulates the joy of simple everyday family life - lounging on the sofa by the fire with a glass of wine and a book, or a good DVD, and people you love around you.
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I love that one too- Stephen Fry has excellent taste! I like him too- he was excellent as Oscar Wilde wasn't he?
Maureen wrote:Yes - one of my all time favourite films. I love Wilde's writings too - and the recent film of Dorian Gray was great: if you haven't seen it, I'd recommend it. Although, like most adaptations, the story does deviate from the original a bit.
Saturn wrote:The original film was miles better, the additions I found to be obtrusive and unnecessary. All the subtlety and suggestiveness, the mystery was all lost from Wilde's story. The evil you can imagine is always more frightening than anything you can show on screen with garish CG images. An okay film but for a more faithful adaptation of Wilde's work watch the original.
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That isn't what happened today. I said I want a white one. The salesguy said, we don't have a white one.
I said get it, I'm here to buy it, I'll be back when you get it here.
I told him, I don't sign anything til I see that car I want. Then you give me the sales contract, and you get a commission, I get a car, we're both happy.
THIS IDIOT DOESN"T GET IT. I mean him, not me.
He believes that the dealership (included in this conversation was the manager) refuses to get me the car I'm in the showroom floor to buy. UNLESS I SIGN PAPERWORK.
I guess me telling him that I'm gonna go get the car from where it's at doesn't faze him.... Cause that is what I'll do.
But I'm not stupid either, I called one of the other 5 dealerships in San Diego and here's how that conversation goes... I'm telling you because you are still reading, and I figure you're a person who likes what I have to say about cars or you wouldn't be reading my blog anyway...
I called, Alan answered...
"I want to buy a car from you"
"What can I sell you" he replied.
I said " You are the right guy, here's what I want"
he told me there is only one available in the state of California.
I said "Get it, I want it, I've already compared the rest of the cars, and this is the one for me."
"I'll see what I can do, and call you back" he replaied.
So, tomorrow we'll see if it's available and if he'll have it ready for me to pick up.
Simple huh? I'm buying, he's selling. No nonsense. No BS
Here's the comparison http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-car-comparison-of-2012-econo-boxes.html
Update... Alan called me back, and hadn't been able to get ahold of the dealership that is reported to have that car. He didn't call me back the next day, when he did find out something, he let his boss call me instead, and I talked to the sales manager. Nice guy, not very sharp. After I told him I only will buy a white Hyundai Veloster, he went on to tell me about red cars, blue cars, Elantras and other Hyundais. So I repeated my decision of white, because he may have forgotten in the disappointment that he must feel at not being able to sell the colors that people do not want, and reminding him that I will buy a White Veloster.
He said that the dealership the White Veloster wouldn't part with it in a dealership trade.
I called them today. I learned the truth.
They don't have the basic car in White, they don't have any white car. They have an invoice on a computer telling them that a White optioned to the max car, that costs 3 thou more, and has options I don't want (sunroof) and won't pay for isn't there yet, but is supposed to be on it's way.
So, no White Veloster. Hyundai has 3 problems, salesmen that aren't honest, sales managers that aren't honest, a lack of cars in the available color I want, and me... a guy who decided to buy the basic car they make, in a basic color, but isn't going to be getting the car that Hyundai advertises that they make. They don't make enough to sell me one.
So why did Alan the salesguy not call me back? Why did his salesmanager not tell me that a car matching my requirements was in another city and that the dealership that had it wouldn't trade it between dealerships?


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For some reason I started thinking about the Guelphs and Ghibellines, Tories, Know Nothings, Northern Leagues, and various other names that political parties have chosen. While some of the names were intended to show what the party was about, the stance of the party on issues and political preferences tend to evolve over time; thus the name might cease to be appropriate. And some of the names are just words that were applied to a political group.
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AstonRep Theatre Company's presentation of Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter" with companion piece "In the Moment" by Jeff Helgeson will only have three more performances on January 31, February 7 and February 14. Try to make one of them.
Part of the Rhinoceros Fringe Festival, "In the Moment" is a new script that takes us from "The Dumb Waiter" springboard into a humorous reflection on what theater is. An able hand by directors Adrian Balbontin and Robert Tobin is clearly at work
First and foremost, these two plays give us the definition that theater is a showcase of acting talent. The two actors who perform these two one-acts, Rory Jobst and Tim Larson (and a cameo by Sara Pavlak), not only time their many Pinter pauses with perfection but then seamlessly take us into the real-time world of "In the Moment" where we see these actors as real people—almost. It's still scripted and what a delightful script it is.
You will leave Prop Theatre where this is staged with ear-to-ear smiles and some thoughts to chew on without all-you-can-eat buffet excess.
Each year, Curious Theatre Branch curates and produces the Rhinoceros Theater Festival, which provides production and exhibition opportunities to hundreds of artists, drawing thousands in attendance annually.
The longest-running fringe festival in Chicago, the Rhino features works in theater and performance from Chicago companies and national artists alike.
First organized in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, the RhinoFest is unique among national fringe festivals in that artists are never charged a fee to participate, and each year its programs are individually curated rather than selected on a lottery basis.
There are over 100 performances in the RhinoFest this year, which runs through February 23. Tickets are $15 or pay what you can at the door; $12 in advance online.
If you are a fan of the likes of nationally-known well established venues like The Steppenwolf or Chicago Shakespeare, going for a reminder of how Chicago's small theaters are the ones that really make the city's theater scene sizzle is a healthy thing to do. You'll have a lot more fun though than eating the proverbial spinach.
For tickets and information visit the Rhino Festival website. Also for tickets the remaining performances of "The Dumb Waiter" and "In the Moment" and other performances at Prop Thtr call 773 508 – 0666.
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There wasn't a dry eye in the house during Friday's Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) National Graduation Ceremony. More than 400 guests attended the ceremony in Santa Rosa, CA as Canine Companions graduated their 4000th assistance dog team. Four other ceremonies took place across the country in Southern California, Florida, New York and Ohio. All graduation ceremonies symbolize the starting point of a newly gained independence for a person with a disability as they receive a Canine Companions dog to become a partner in life.
During the event, Eukanuba Dog Foods presented a check to Canine Companions in the amount of $100,000 to sponsor a litter of puppies to help raise funding for Canine Companions and build awareness for the need of volunteer puppy raisers. This litter of puppies has been named the Eukanuba "E-Litter." "We are very thankful for our partnership with Eukanuba and are always looking for creative ways to increase our volunteer base of puppy raisers to help with our mission," said Jeanine Konopelski, Marketing Director for CCI. "Eukanuba's E-Litter has become very popular with our existing supporters and has helped us gain first time donations from new fans," said Konopelski.
As graduate teams leave the training centers to return home, new dogs will enter to begin their professional training. The training of these exceptional assistance dogs could not be possible without the volunteer efforts of puppy raisers. With more than 700 Canine Companions puppies born each year, with the goal of each to become successful assistance dogs, it takes many dedicated puppy raisers to train these dogs.
"We are very proud these amazing Canine Companions dogs are fueled by Eukanuba," said Julie Franklin, Eukanuba's Communications Coordinator. "It's gratifying that the "E" Litter puppies have garnered so much attention for Canine Companions and the work of these amazing dogs. Three of the "E-Litter" pups will be living with Eukanuba employees who are puppy raisers for CCI's North Central region, and we're excited to follow their journey," said Franklin.
Fans from around the world fell in love with the E-Litter puppies via Live Stream. Now that the puppies are with their puppy raisers, the Eukanuba and Canine Companions Facebook pages will feature videos, pictures and updates so fans can continue to follow the careers of these amazing dogs.
The "E-Litter" puppies will be going to puppy raisers across the US. One will be flying with their puppy raiser back to Denver utilizing the US Airways Puppies in Flight program. This program helps prepare future service dogs to travel on an airplane. US Airways employees volunteer their time and utilize travel benefits to transport and familiarize assistance dogs in training with aircraft and air travel in preparation for future flights with their disabled partners. Over the past 10 years, US Airways employees have participated in transports everywhere from California to Croatia.
About Canine Companions for Independence: Canine Companions for Independence provides highly-trained assistance dogs to children and adults with disabilities. Established in 1975, Canine Companions has five regional training centers across the country and is recognized worldwide for the excellence of its dogs, and the quality and longevity of the matches it makes between dogs and people. There is no charge for the dog, its training and ongoing follow-up services. For more information, visit cci.org or call 1-800-572-BARK.
About Eukanuba: Eukanuba offers the most complete food lineup, delivering nutrition that is customized by breed and breed size as well as health and performance requirements. Eukanuba is a division of Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG). Visit us on the Web at http://www.eukanuba.com or at Facebook.com/Eukanuba.
About USAirways: Puppies In Flight is a partnership between US Airways and Assistance Dogs International (ADI), which trains and places assistance dogs around the world. US Airways employees volunteer their time and utilize travel benefits to transport and familiarize assistance dogs in training with aircraft and air travel in preparation for future flights with their disabled partners. Over the past 10 years, US Airways employees have participated in transports everywhere from California to Croatia.


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CD Review: Nicole Lvoff - Here's that rainy day
Here's that rainy day is the debut album from California native singer, Nicole Lvoff. An album with delicate arrangements plus the crystal clear tone and sweet voice of Nicole Lvoff on songs like Darn that dream, Here's that rainy day, the slow and sexy Angel eyes and Billie Holiday Don't Explain. This is music for romance, to listen with that special someone.
But Nicole and her band can swing too. Listen to the slow swinging version Sometimes I'm Happy, the upbeat swing arrangement of Too marvelous for words and Softly as in the morning sunrise. Nicole puts the sexy back on the song Fever and the whole band show their latin side in the classic Caravan, with some mambo touches in the improvisations.
The album also includes a couple of songs I haven't heard in a while, like Richard Adler Whatever Lola wants and the beautiful english version of Luis Bonfa Manha de Carnaval from the movie Black Orpheus. It was through this movie most people heard the music of Bonfa and Jobim for the first time.
Musicians: Nicole Lvoff (vocals), Woody DeMarco (piano), Hank Allen (bass), Jon Crosse (sax, flute, clarinet, trumpet), Tom Lackner (drums), Lorenzo Martinez (bongos, shakers)
Tracks: Too marvelous for words, Black Orpheus, Darn that dream, Here's that rainy day, Whatever Lola wants, Fever, Softly as in the morning sunrise, Sometimes I'm happy, Angel Eyes, Caravan, Don't explain
Record Label : Marmalade Records
Artist's Website: http://nicolelvoff.com/
Reviewed by: Wilbert Sostre


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A mysterious countdown timer has appeared on BioWare's home page, as well as the pages for Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. What is BioWare revealing on Monday?
Kotakuite Alexander pointed us to the countdown clock that's now ticking down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Monday morning at noon Eastern time, 9AM Pacific across most of BioWare's current web presence. I say most, because while the timer is indeed on BioWare's main, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age pages, it does not appear on the page for Star Wars: The Old Republic, which leads me to believe the reveal has nothing to do with that game in particular.
With the Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening expansion pack was recently released, and Mass Effect 2's Kasumi downloadable content coming in April, what could the developer possibly have up its sleeve for Monday, March 29? A new game? More downloadable content? A version of Mass Effect 2 that isn't for the Xbox 360 or PC?
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As long it stays legal tender, I'm good. 'As far as I am concerned', they could make special $1.00 issue paper for the season of the year, or birthdays of scientists.
I expect in time, if 'smart paper' become available, there could be free encoded movie/trailers on each one, making them a collector's item. The government could then be 'paid' to print the $1.00 bill as an anvertising platform. Imagine the weirdness that could result, 'Debbie Does Dallas #12", just above 'In God We Trust'. Woow TMI...
Growing up in England, I'm very used to seeing the sign, in small shops, that says:-
In God We Trust
All Others Pay Cash
So having these words on money makes it a tad silly. Honestly, cash is used less and less, these days, and somehow I can't see the credit card companies putting it on their plastic. As cash becomes less and less tendered, I'm guessing the need for anything on a dollar bill will fade. The dollar bills will probably become obsolete without the need for any major re-design. I can't say I really care what the governments write on their currency, it's not like I have to read it. I realise that there is a principle involved, but I have better battles for better principles to distract me.
I think there is plenty of valid religious basis for removing it, and if that aspect of it was pursued maybe it would happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtjwdGeQ7kY
Teddy Roosevelt thought it was a sacrilege. I agree, of course, but for exactly the opposite reason.


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Celebratory Knitting
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This week I took two finals and handed in a 5-page paper and an 80-page paper. I'm officially done for the semester and done with my masters degree. Commencement is tomorrow but it will be a bit anticlimactic, since I still have to take more science classes to meet the medical school entrance requirements.
Needless to say, I celebrated with a few rows of sock. I present one finished Orchid Sock. The second is already on the needles.
This picture shows the lace pattern a bit better.
Even though this yarn was probably not the best choice to show off the lace pattern, I love the striping shown here.
Instead of knitting the lace pattern on the front and back, I knit the back the same way the Canal du Midi Socks were made, mostly to give the sock some stability.
I enjoyed knitting these socks so very much! As I've told some of you, I will be sad to finish the second sock!
My secret pal, whose last two packages been waiting for me after each of my last two organic chemistry, struck again. This time? Four hours after my organic chemistry final. If it weren't for the Australian postmarks, I would swear that my pal is in the class with me because her timing is freakish.
This time, she sent a Jo Sharp pattern book, three wonderfully soft balls of Alpaca Silk Georgette and some chocolate wrapped in the prettiest paper!
Although I had heard great things about Jo Sharp patterns, I'd never leafed through one of her pattern books. I must say, this pattern book is definitely my style. You all know how often I knit adult sweaters (have I even made one since I started blogging?) but I'm itching to cast on for several from this issue! Unfortunately, I can't find any pictures of the mitts and stockings that my pal suggested for the yarn. Maybe I'll have to knit them. Thank you so much, secret pal!!! You are totally amazing!
Finally, both Emily and Jen tagged me for that 7 Random Things About You meme that's flying around blogland. I'm conflicted about memes because I don't like when they replace real knit blog fodder (personally, I'd rather see what you knit than learn about your freakish talents or strange pet peeves, even if that means you only post once a month). Read on if you so choose. I'm not going to tag anyone else (much to the annoyance of Minty) but feel free to post your own you like.
1. I grew up on Cape Cod.
2. I begged to go to boarding school and loved every minute of it. Cape Cod was that awful (pretty, yes, but an intellectual wasteland nonetheless).
3. When I went to college at the University of Kansas, my grandmother referred to it as a study abroad period.
4. I live happily without both meat and television (until Beatrix, I lived without dairy and eggs too). I firmly believe television is the root of all evil. I won't judge you if you like it but if you can't carry a conversation without talking about TV shows, my eyes will glaze over and I'll politely excuse myself from the conversation.
5. I'm a New York Times Crossword junkie. Like Bill Clinton, only not nearly as good. Have you seen the Bush crossword? It's good. 😉
6. I don't run on the Kansas River levy (the best running surface in town) because one time, a lone female runner who was really far out got stalked by a mountain lion at 5 a.m. Even though I would never run at 5 a.m., alone on the levy or that many miles out, I still fear mountain lions.
7. Whenever I ride out of town, I think about how nice it would be to live in the country. Then, I think about snakes and mountain lions. That's the end of that fantasy. I'm such a New Englander.


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Hair Trend: Wrinkles and Crinkles. Or should I say wrinkle in a time machine? This 1980s hairstyle often pops up here and there, reminding us that crinkly, crimpy hair will probably never die.
Featured in several shows from Paris to London to New York, the style ranged from severe Christian Dior (upper left) to a more straight down, everyday style à la Christian Lacroix, Ruffian, and Karen Walker. For good measure, Jenny Packham added her own simple updo version, too (lower right). Maybe it's time I dig out the ol' pink crimper myself — in moderation, of course.


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Have Dinner with USC Baseball Coaches!
The event will take place on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center from 6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Tickets are $75 per person. Dress is University of South Carolina casual. Proceeds from the evening benefit the Lexington Medical Center Foundation's Cancer Care Fund.
Keynote speaker Chad Holbrook became USC's baseball coach in 2012. Holbrook has been with the USC baseball program since July of 2008. During his time as Associate Head Coach, South Carolina won back-to-back national championships in 2010 and 2011 and finished as the national runner-up in 2012. In 2011, ESPN the Magazine named Holbrook the 10th best recruiter in all of college athletics. After the 2011 season, the ABCA and Baseball America named Holbrook Assistant Coach of the Year.
During his 16 years as head coach of the University of South Carolina baseball team, Ray Tanner established a premier program, including the back-to-back 2010 and 2011 national championships. His record as USC baseball coach was 738-316. In 2012, Ray Tanner became the University of South Carolina's Athletics Director.
June Raines became the University of South Carolina's baseball coach in 1977. At USC, he had a record of 763 victories, 380 losses and 2 ties. He took USC to the College World Series four times with appearances in 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1985.
There will also be a special video appearance by Bobby Richardson, who was the head coach of the USC baseball team from 1970 to 1976. Richardson led the Gamecocks to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1974. Richardson left South Carolina after the 1976 season, finishing with a 220-91-2 record and three NCAA Tournament appearances including a National Runner-Up finish in the 1975 College World Series.
The Lexington Medical Center Foundation's Cancer Care Fund helps patients in need by purchasing critical medications and supplies, and providing emergency assistance with utilities and other living expenses when other resources have run out. From paying a light bill to picking up the tab for a prescription, the Cancer Care Fund affects the most important needs of our hospital's cancer patients.
To order tickets for The Legacy Continues, call 803-791-2540 or visit www.LMCFoundation.com.


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The Hearing Loss Association of America advocates for equal access for approximately 48 million Americans with hearing loss. We work with industry and government to expand access to mainstream and assistive technologies, enforce existing disability laws, regulations and standards to impact the lives of people with hearing loss. HLAA promotes self-advocacy and empowerment of people with hearing loss to ensure equal opportunity in the areas of telecommunications, employment, health care, education and community life.
The mission of HLAA is to open the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support and advocacy. HLAA achieves its mission by working diligently to achieve the following ten key long-term goals through our public policy and advocacy initiatives. In addition, we encourage the use of best practices by hearing health care professionals during the assessment and treatment of hearing loss. HLAA also supports vigorous enforcement of current local, state and national disability and human rights laws that include provisions for effective communication.
Ten Key Goals and Outcomes
- Policy makers and the public recognize that hearing is critical to healthy living and that hearing loss impacts all aspects of life. As such, hearing health care providers are knowledgeable about hearing loss and hearing health care is included in all aspects of health screening and health maintenance.
- Hearing aids, cochlear implants and aural rehabilitation are affordable and accessible, and covered by the Medicare, Affordable Care Act, and third-party payers.
- Affordable and accessible hearing health care along with appropriate consumer choice, education and transparency is provided to all who need it.
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But maybe some you of think "frightening" and "insane" is actually "exhilarating" and "something I totally want to do." So, that being the case, what would it take for you plunge to Earth at supersonic speeds? Would someone have to pay you a million dollars? Would you pay someone a million dollars? If given the option of jumping or dying in the fetal position, I think I'd reluctantly choose the latter. How many of you out there think you would have the guts to try it?


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CHICAGO /PRNewswire/ – As the American trade deficit widens, a Chicago-based marketing firm believes a focus on "green" can help erase red in the U.S. economy.
Vertical Incorporated recently announced it will showcase tools and strategies at Greenbuild 2010 in Chicago, November 17-19, to help sales and marketing executives drive revenues in the green building market and ultimately reduce reliance on energy imports.
"Oil and energy-related products continue to contribute to the U.S. trade deficit," says Michael Keating, president of Vertical Inc. "And according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, buildings are a major consumer of energy—accounting for nearly 40 percent of total U. S. energy consumption in 2008. Vertical is focused on creating more sophisticated marketing programs for green product manufacturers and alternative energy companies. We want to help bolster the trend of converting buildings into sustainable facilities that consume less energy."
The recent U.S. Commerce Department's trade report supports Verticals "more-green, less-red" philosophy, according to Keating. "The Commerce Department reported across-the-board increases in imported oil and energy-related products. For example, year-to-date totals of fuel oil imports increased 38 percent from June 2009 to June 2010," he explains. "Clearly, reducing demand for energy imports is one step in helping restore the U.S. trade balance."
At Greenbuild 2010, Vertical will unveil market research techniques and new marketing communications tools that can help green product manufacturers expand market share and increase revenue, according to Keating.
"We have helped our clients market and sell products and services to building owners for more than eight years," says Keating. "At Greenbuild, we'll demonstrate digital marketing tools we've developed that can be used to promote energy-efficiency products. Our tools not only help manufacturers increase sales but also help lower the carbon footprint of their marketing programs."
The Greenbuild International Conference & Expo takes place in Chicago at the McCormick Place Convention Center, November 16-18. Vertical will demonstrate marketing communications products and services at booth number L620.
Vertical Incorporated creates and executes marketing and marketing communications programs for national and multi-national corporations. Located in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, Vertical is dedicated to helping large and small corporations compete more successfully. Vertical also helps companies adopt marketing practices that support their sustainability goals. In addition, Vertical actively supports nonprofit organizations that enrich Chicago through arts and education.
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Oh goody. Another setback from the street wall.
What is with these setbacks? If this is the fault of zoning laws, why doesn't the city WAKE UP and do something about it?
Present-day NYC is getting overwhelmed with some of the worst architecture going up anywhere in the world.
I just threw up in my mouth.
Seriously, if there's 1 thing the city can do it's to prevent so much sh*titecture from ruining New York. Where are the city pols when the likes of Gene Kaufman/Sam Chang, Joe Sitt and others are destroying entire neighborhoods - first and foremost the Garment District but impacting huge amounts of Midtown, the Financial District, Chinatown, the UES ... pretty much everything but West Chelsea.
Why not just extend that tumor to the roof line. If you are going to suck at least go all the way!
1.) Average people don't mind these buildings.
2.) As they are hotels, each and every one of them brings real money into the city. People staying in these hotels aren't cooking their own meals, or driving their own cars, or really doing anything but pumping NYC with cash.
3.) If you've been anywhere else in the US, you'll realize that there needs to be very little essence of what makes something great for people to be perfectly happy with it. Where I am in Boulder is effectively one giant hole-in-the-earth suburb with air so bad you can barely see the mountains from 10 miles away, but by god they're there, and it's Colorado, so this is the best place on earth, and people love it. the apparatus to support the lifestyle (highways, parking lots, smog, etc) are easily ignored when the reason for being here is the natural beauty that so clearly exists. That is to say, as long as MoMa, and the ESB, and Chrysler Building (which normal people can't tell apart), and central park, and shopping on 5th ave are still in NYC, then the people will keep pouring in.
This isn't that bad in person. Sure it would be nice if everything was Torre Verre quality, but that's not happening. I hope that Extell and SLG are planning something nice on the northeast section of this stretch.


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The city�s paid fire department is trying to have its members look more like the population they serve.
�We�ve been very much aware we�re not as diversified,� Norwich Fire Chief Kenneth Scandariato said. �We�d like to be a cross section of the city.�
The Norwich Fire Department responds to 2,700 to 2,800 emergency calls per year � more than seven per day � fighting fires and racing to the scenes of auto accidents, hazardous material spills and other disasters. It covers the city�s downtown, East Side and Greeneville sections, while five volunteer departments handle emergencies in the rest of the city.
Of the department�s 52 firefighters, three are minorities and one is a woman. The rest are white men.
In contrast, Norwich�s population is about 30 percent minorities, including large African-American, Haitian, Asian and Latino communities.
�The more diversified, the better off we are,� Scandariato said.
�We�re going out and talking to people,� he said. The chief said he has reached out to representatives of the city�s black and Asian communities.
�The fire department has made a start,� said Jacqueline Owens, president of the Norwich Branch NAACP. �We did have a meeting with the chief. He did ask for help.�
The department has a three-member recruitment committee made up of Lt. Tim Teper and firefighters Pat Curtin and Kyle Seitz. They are working to get the word out that the department wants to be inclusive.
�We�re reaching out to cultural and civic groups for mentors,� Seitz said.
Mentors would encourage people they know to apply for a job and explain what they need to do to qualify, Teper said.
�We�d love to have local people here,� he said. He said residents can mistrust firefighters who are wearing uniforms and may not speak their language, and that mistrust may make it harder for firefighters to help.
Reaching out to different groups, Teper said, can dispel misunderstandings among both residents and firefighters.
�It�s a win-win,� he said. �We get to learn about the community.�
But it isn�t easy to change people�s mindsets, Scandariato said. He said many people just don�t think about a career as a firefighter.
Scandariato said he�s out to change that � one person at a time, if necessary. �When I bump into teenagers, I ask them, have you ever thought about becoming a firefighter?� he said.
�Norwich has a ton of qualified people,� Curtin said. �But they have to apply.�
�When you have some free time, stop in,� Teper said.
�Ultimately we want this department to represent the community it protects,� Seitz said. �Please come by. There�s an open-door policy here.�
Norwich firefighters start at a yearly salary of $46,114 and can earn more than $58,000 per year.
In addition, being a firefighter is a rewarding job because it involves saving people�s lives and property, Norwich firefighters said.
�We all got here through three different routes, but we all love it,� Teper said about Curtin, Seitz and himself. �Come and be a part of it.�
To qualify as a firefighter, an applicant must be 18, have a Connecticut driver�s license, a high school diploma or GED and must have passed a nationwide test for firefighters called the Candidate Physical Ability Test.
That test is a stumbling block for applicants, Teper said. The test is given only twice per year at Connecticut Fire Academy in Meriden, and it must be taken again a year later if the applicant doesn�t have a firefighting job. To apply costs $150.
Applicants who do qualify must take written examinations. City residents and veterans each get five points added to their scores. If they pass, they take an oral examination and finally are interviewed by Scandariato.
The hiring process takes months. �That�s another thing we preach, is stick it out,� Seitz said.
Maybe the biggest stumbling block, however, is the reality that, because of budget reasons, the fire department isn�t hiring anyone and doesn�t expect to, perhaps until next spring.
Teper said that news can discourage potential recruits. �It takes the wind right out of their sails,� he said.
�There�s no easy answer for it,� he said. �We�re trying to get this department to be a grass-roots department. But it�s probably going to take more time than we�re happy with.�
�I think they�re trying, but they need to try a little harder,� Owens said.


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|Ted Ligety skis in the slalom section on his way to victory in the men's super combined during the Alpine FIS Ski World Championships on February 11, 2013 in Schladming, Austria.
The last time Ted Ligety won what in alpine ski racing is now called the supercombined event -- a race with downhill and slalom events -- was so long ago it was simply called the combined.
Seven long years.
That was the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games.
He came through again Monday, and again on the big stage, at skiing's 2013 world championships in Schladming, Austria.
Truthfully, Ligety didn't just win, he dominated. The daylight downhill run left him standing sixth, in solid position to attack. Then, under the lights at night, he executed a slalom run that was both on-edge and safe to win it all by a whopping 1.15 seconds over Ivica Kostelic of Croatia. Austria's Romed Baumann finished another two-hundredths behind for third.
Ligety's total winning time: 2 minutes, 56.96 seconds. The downhill portion: 2:02.10; the slalom, 54.86 seconds.
Ligety's victory marked his second title at the 2013 worlds. He won the super-G last Friday.
Neither is considered his best event. That would be the giant slalom, which will be run this coming Friday. Ligety is widely viewed as the favorite in that event, having won four of five giant slalom races on the World Cup tour this season. He is a three-time World Cup giant slalom season champion.
Obviously, Ligety is on a huge confidence and momentum roll, the kind that sets you up to be -- at least on the men's side -- the face of the U.S. Ski Team at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
Which, frankly, is at it should be.
That's no disrespect to any of the other guys on the U.S. team, in particular Bode Miller, who is taking this year off to let a knee heal. None whatsoever. If Bode comes back strong, all's the better. No one -- that's no one in the world, not just anyone in the United States -- has Bode's on-ski style and verve.
That said, Ligety is no longer the 21-year-old surprise of the 2006 Torino Games.
Sochi would be Ligety's third Olympics, and he is by now a team leader and proven big-time competitor. Now, too, Ligety is world champion in three different events -- giant slalom at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 2011, and super-G and super-combined in 2013. Ligety also won bronze in the giant slalom at the world championships at Val d'Isere, France, in 2009.
Plus, in Sochi, Ligety would have something to prove, believe it or not.
His gold in the combined in Torino is his only Olympic medal. He was shut out in Vancouver in 2010.
Miller is a multiple Olympic medalist, in Vancouver and in Salt Lake City in 2002, and at the worlds did what Ligety has now done -- win two golds at the same world championships. He did it twice, in fact, in Bormio, Italy, in 2005 (downhill and super-G) and St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 2003 (giant slalom and combined).
That kind of range marks you as a great all-around skier.
Ligety has never -- again, never -- wanted to be considered as a guy who only skis the giant slalom.
"I never wanted to be a specialist," Ligety said Monday, adding a moment later, "To have three world championships in three different events is pretty surreal -- it's a pretty cool feeling."
When Miller won his combined titles, and when Ligety won the combined at the Olympics in 2006, the combined was one downhill and two slaloms. Now the super combined is one downhill and one slalom.
The way Ligety positioned himself to win Monday speaks volumes about his maturity and race savvy.
Ligety said he had been puzzling over how to best ski the downhill. It wasn't so much that the mountain was so treacherous. In fact, it was comparatively easy. The challenge was finding speed -- meaning the right line.
In the race itself, he figured it out, finishing sixth. There are times when sixth can, as Ligety later called it, prove "awesome." This was one of those times, because he was less than a second out of first, behind Austria's Baumann, Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, Italy's Christof Innerhofer, France's Adrien Theaux and another Italian, Dominik Paris -- guys who, with the exception of Svindal, are generally more known for speed than technical slalom skill.
Ligety's concern, as he explained after the downhill, was Kostelic, in 10th, and Austria's Benjamin Raich, in 12th.
Svindal, Innerhofer and Theaux all failed to finish the slalom. Raich went out, too. Paris would finish ninth.
Kostelic ran before Ligety, taking the lead -- but, skiing the night leg in 55.36 seconds, gave Ligety a huge opening. It's not that Kostelic was particularly slow. It's just that he could have been faster. Which Ligety knew.
"I just tried to ski as smart as I can," Ligety said moments after skiing the field's second-fastest run of the night, that 54.86, pumping his fists after crossing the finish line, knowing he had won the race. "I'm not always that smart in slalom. I just tried to have a solid run the whole way down and not try to make too many mistakes.
"To see the green light at the bottom," meaning first place, "was a really sweet feeling."


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"A helicopter crashed into the East River off 34th Street around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday... televised coverage on WCBS-TV Channel 2 showed a man in a suit swimming and rescue divers pulling another man in business clothes, who appeared conscious, toward a dock. The authorities had no immediate word on how many people were aboard the helicopter."
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The other day I was looking to see if any new podcasts had popped up around .NET Development or Software Architecture. Well I did find one. Net Objectives has started (OK, they have been doing this since May) a podcast on Lean-Agile. I have only listened to the first episode so far. While the host, Jim Trott, has a monotone, metered presentation I was impressed by his conversation the company's founder Alan Shalloway.
In the first episode Alan gives one of the best descriptions of Agile development that I have ever heard. I would have to say at this point that the series is worth the time to continue to evaluate it. It has a lot of promise.
Tom Hollander has posted what the initial feature list of changes for the next version of the Enterprise Library will consist of. One item on the list made me think that they have really taken on a challenge. There is a new application block proposed for validation. I look at things like the client side validation control and the business rule scheme that Rocky uses in CSLA.NET and I just wish I could be a fly on the wall when they go to build this. It is going to be fun to come up with a solution that is flexible enough to cover a large number of scenarios and still perform. Good luck guys.
As architects it is our job to think things through. We are paid to work out possibilities and evaluate issues in the context of what already exists. I was reminded of these facts the other day when a couple of developers brought an issue to me where they were saying a product was not capable of producing the required results. A knowledgeable developer on that product said we would have to create extra custom components to get around this "feature".
I quickly jumped into scramble mode and started alerting the project manager that there was a possibility for unplanned work. Luckily I prefaced it with the fact that I was still investigating. Afterwords I was talking with another architect who reminded me that part of the problem had already been addressed with an earlier change request. It was one of those "duh!" moments. Another bullet dodged.
It just goes to show that we all need reminders some times of how we need to approach issues.
Scope reduction in a project is generally seen as a positive activity. In small applications this is generally true. This is not always the case though, especially in an enterprise environment. The key determining factor is the down steam impact of removing the feature from scope.
If the item has already been planned for by other project teams the rework could be more expensive then what is being saved. Does eliminating the task mean that other applications need to plan for development or processes to cover the gap. The requirement needs to be of an isolated nature such that the only effect is to that particular component. At the least the impact needs to be understood and acknowledged by the stakeholders.
As with most decisions on a project you need to weigh the benefits and the costs. Along with the collateral damage you should also consider the long term implications. If not implementing something now means implementing it later at a higher cost you may want to reconsider. Be a surgeon and not a lumber jack. Only cut away what you have to.
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