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I thought this plant was supposed to stay open - wasn't this talke about last year? *Hmmm... what can you do, I guess.
August 21, 2003
Familiar Domino Sugar Refinery Will Shut Much of Its Operation
By DIANE CARDWELL
The Domino Sugar refinery, which has dominated part of Brooklyn's waterfront since the 19th century, will retain only its packaging and warehousing operations on the site.
The neon Domino Sugar sign looms over the East River like a beacon, visible for miles. Gleaming above the Brooklyn complex where sugar has been refined for more than a century, it has become a symbol of a rapidly fading industrial legacy, a reminder that the city known for high-tech finance and elegant living was built on ships and machinery, brawn and sweat.
Although the sign itself may remain illuminated, much of the work it heralds will soon cease. Yesterday at the mammoth brick refinery, a relic of the time when New York led the nation in sugar processing, office staff members and unions representing the other workers were told that sometime before February, the refinery would shut down. Only part of the adjacent packaging operation will continue.
About 190 workers stand to lose their jobs, with the remaining 60 or 70 staying on in packaging and warehousing or moving to another of the company's locations.
"We can't sell all we can make," said Jack Lay, president and chief executive officer of the American Sugar Refining Company, which acquired the Domino plant on the Williamsburg waterfront in 2001. "The capacity of the refineries exceeds the quantity that we can compete for in the marketplace."
The refinery once the world's largest, according to a company brochure and its related buildings fill an 11-and-a-half-acre swath along a quarter of a mile of the East River just north of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Operating since the 1880's, it was built by the Havemeyer family, which became extremely wealthy as New York picked up the slack left by the Civil War destruction of many Southern refineries. The city at one time processed 60 percent of the nation's sugar.
In recent decades, as New York hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs, especially along the waterfront, the plant has been the scene of bitter strikes that drastically cut production. In addition, the use of high-fructose corn syrup instead of sucrose in products like soda and canned fruit severely cut into the demand for sugar, Mr. Lay said.
The Domino plant has the capacity to produce about 950 million pounds of sugar a year, he said, but it produced only 400 million pounds last year. The previous owner, Tate & Lyle, had already shed its operations processing raw sugar, instead taking semiprocessed liquid sugar off a barge from the Domino plant in Baltimore and crystallizing it into granules. Now, even that will stop.
Mr. Lay said there were no immediate plans for the building itself, a hulking factory that smells on different floors earthy, sweet and sharp, and that has attracted its own set of fans. Last year, for example, members of the Society for Industrial Archaeology toured the building, where stalactites of sugar had formed on some of the pipes.
"The short-term impact is not devastation, but it will be very disheartening to people in the neighborhood who have seen jobs leave over two decades," said David Yassky, the city councilman who represents the area. "Long-term, it's part of a trend of the transformation of an industrial waterfront that's going to be used for housing and open space."
For example, the city has been pushing forward with a huge proposal to rezone the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront to encourage residential and recreational uses where industry once ruled. Officials drew the plan, however, to preserve the Domino site for manufacturing, and yesterday, Richard Barth, executive director of the Department of City Planning, said that the administration remained "committed to finding an industrial reuse for that site."
Still, Mr. Yassky said, the closing is troubling, and underscores the need to protect jobs in places like Sunset Park, which has recently lost hundreds of them to plant closings, and along stretches of the waterfront, where the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Bloomberg administration are considering new uses for mercantile piers.
Andrew Alper, president of the city's Economic Development Corporation, said in a statement that the Department of Small Business Services would work with the company to provide job training and placement services to workers slated for layoffs.
Several workers outside the complex around lunchtime yesterday, all of whom declined to give their names, said that they had not yet received any official announcement and were working "under a cloud of uncertainty," in the words of one.
One man, smoking a cigarette in a yard outside the refinery, seemed fatalistic.
"What do you do when you lose your job?" he said between drags, shrugging and chuckling wryly. "Find another one. Life goes on."
Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company
I thought this plant was supposed to stay open - wasn't this talke about last year? *Hmmm... what can you do, I guess.
It is nice to hear that the City's Department of Planning is supporting industrial reuses for the site. Here are some possible suggestions of mine that would possibly make sense, given area market needs and locational advantages:
1) a bulk cargo handling facility for barges and/or ships. (Of course truck traffic issues would have to be looked into). This facility is not that far from the BQE (I-278).
2) A paper recycling or paper manufacturing company could buy the property and would have to retrofit the factory building with new equipment. The immediate costs would probably be great, but the market for paper in the white collar, office economy of Manhatten would probably be high.
3) Other industries that manufacture products that the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) economy uses (paper, ink, possibly chemicals for cleaning, etc.)
4) Any industry that would relocate to the Domino Sugar refinery would have access to the deepwater East River. The Domino Sugar dock currently has bollards used for vessel tie ups, thus adding the advantage of having maritime infrastructure in place.
NYC needs to maintain and expand its waterborne industries! Let's diversify the economy a little more, please! *
Here are some more suggestions for the re-use of the Domino Sugar site:
1) creation of a sugar-port that would be owned by Domino Sugar OR the creation of a port of entry/distribution for break bulk cargoes, such as food products. This could be owned by interested private entities. Barges/ships would unload their products at the port and trucks could transport goods to eastern Long Island and New England. This would reduce some of the wear and tear on the roads from the container ports in NJ and Staten Island (NYC).
2) retrofitting the refinery into a facility that would produce or process foodstuffs and would receive materials by ship and/or barge.
Originally posted by Zippy and Edward.
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Sugar Plant Closes After 148 Years
By LARRY McSHANE
Associated Press Writer
January 29, 2004, 4:45 PM EST
NEW YORK -- It predated the Brooklyn Bridge and outlasted the Brooklyn Dodgers. The borough's Domino Sugar plant, an East River fixture for 148 years, is closing its refinery operation after Friday's shifts.
About 200 bitter employees at the sugar plant will be out of work, many of them people who had spent their entire adult lives working inside the 11-story building with its familiar red neon sign.
"This is how we treat the American worker," said Sal Alladeen, president of the union representing the workers. "They're laying off folks who worked in this neighborhood for 30, 40 years."
The factory workers forged an unusually strong bond over the years, becoming almost like family. They endured an ugly strike that lasted from June 1999 through February 2001; a despondent 22-year factory worker committed suicide during the walkout.
First word of the factory shutdown came in August. But the imminent arrival of the closing day for the 19th-century brick building in the Williamsburg section still delivered a punch in the gut for workers.
"It's depressing," said Alladeen. "It's depressing to watch 200 people lose their jobs."
The plant was bought in 2001 by the American Sugar Refining Co., which decided to close it. Company officials said the Brooklyn plant was not equipped to compete with its plants in Baltimore, Yonkers, N.Y., and outside New Orleans.
American Sugar CEO and president Jack Lay did not return a call for comment Thursday on the closing.
When Domino began operating in Brooklyn in 1856, New York was the nation's No. 1 sugar producer. But the sugar industry fell on hard times in the last quarter-century, with 15 refineries closing nationwide since 1980.
Sugar companies were losing market share to high-fructose corn syrup and beet sugar. By 2002, the Brooklyn plant still had the capacity to produce 950 million tons of sugar annually _ but it generated only 400 million tons.
But Alladeen suggested the closing was more about real estate than sugar. The waterfront property, he said, would be far more valuable if reincarnated as luxury housing in a gentrified neighborhood where lofts can sell for $1 million.
Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press
The Williamsburg Bridge with the Circle Line boat and Domino Sugar Plant.
January 31, 2004
The Last Grain Falls at a Sugar Factory
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Richard Rednour spent the last week of his 28 years at the Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn learning how to write a résumé.
"Network'' was among the other pieces of advice Mr. Rednour picked up this week at the employment classes the plant had offered to workers who will soon be re-entering the job market. Yesterday, the plant's owner, American Sugar Refining, ended nearly all operations at the Williamsburg refining and packing plant, which has overlooked the East River since the 1880's.
Some workers, including Mr. Rednour, 50, a shipping and warehouse foreman, will be looking for work for the first time in decades.
"I learned this past week that I'm a dinosaur," Mr. Rednour said yesterday, taking a final drag during his final cigarette break outside the complex of brick and concrete buildings that stretches across more than 11 riverfront acres just north of the Williamsburg Bridge. "Having a job for a long time in one place is not necessarily a good thing. It used to mean I was reliable."
More than 220 others who have reliably arrived for work for years will not return on Monday, leaving fewer than two dozen workers to operate the plant at a greatly diminished level - reduced to packaging sugar cubes and filling plastic toy figurines with cinnamon sugar - until it closes permanently later this year. American Sugar, which bought the plant in 2001, announced in August that it would close because of falling demand for cane sugar in an age of beet sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and other competing sweeteners.
What will eventually become of the plant is unclear, but speculation among those standing outside it in the cold yesterday morning, shaking hands and saying goodbye, was that it would go the way of the soda factory, the knitting factory, the boot polish factory and so many other factories whose brick shells have been transformed into housing and commercial space to make way for the gentrification rippling through Brooklyn.
Williamsburg has changed as the manufacturing plants that once defined it have declined. In Brooklyn as a whole, the average number of manufacturing jobs declined to 33,967 in June 2003 from 88,800 in June 1984. In June 1958, the figure was 222,200, according to data from the state and the United States Department of Labor.
Now, retailers on nearby Bedford Avenue trade on that industrial past. One store, Brooklyn Industries, sells clothing and bags, while another, Spoonbill and Sugartown Booksellers, includes an image of the Domino plant in some of its advertising materials.
A spokeswoman for the Department of City Planning said the plant was not likely to be turned into housing. Under a proposed rezoning of the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront, the Domino plant site would remain industrial or commercial, possibly with limited retail offerings like a hardware store, or office space.
"We really wish to keep the current mix of zoning uses, which are characteristic of the neighborhood," said the spokeswoman, Katie Maccracken. "We have not been approached to change it."
Florida Crystals, the Florida agriculture conglomerate that is a co-owner of American Sugar, does not have immediate plans for the site when it closes later this year, said its vice president, Jorge Dominicis.
"This wasn't a decision made because we've got some other plan," Mr. Dominicis said in a telephone interview. "We're not that far along.''
He said that while the company was reluctant to lay off workers, a decline in sugar demand had forced it to close the plant, one of two the company owns in the New York area. Some workers may find jobs at the other plant, in Yonkers, he said.
The Brooklyn plant endured the boom and decline of Brooklyn's sugar industry - New York was the nation's largest sugar refiner in the late 19th century - and the end has not come easily. Intermittent strikes since the 1980's increased tension between labor and management, closing the plant for 20 months from 1999 to 2001, and yesterday several workers disputed the way American Sugar was interpreting their severance pay plan.
Brendan McPartland, the union representative for many of the machinists and mechanics leaving yesterday, said that the plant closing was "a tragedy" and that the union would challenge the company's interpretation of the severance agreement.
Jack Lay, president and chief executive of American Sugar, said the dispute would have to be resolved through arbitration.
Mr. Lay, 74, a former manager of the plant's refinery, said the distinctive neon Domino Sugar sign, long a landmark for residents of downtown Manhattan, would no longer shine.
"I think the sign is pretty much out of business,'' he said. "We would love to have it on for advertising purposes, but it's just become too difficult'' to maintain.
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
Hmmm, 11 waterfront acres looking at Manhattan, in a super-hot area, where pretty much everything around it is already rezoned for residential and retail. Hmmmm...
July 1, 2004
Developers Known for Residential Work Buy Domino Sugar Plant on Brooklyn Waterfront
By DIANE CARDWELL and ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY
Two developers known for residential projects have bought the Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg, ending a rich chapter of Brooklyn's industrial waterfront history.
C.P.C. Resources, the development arm of the Community Preservation Corporation, a lending consortium of banks and insurance companies best known for financing rehabilitations of older apartments, and Isaac Katan, a Brooklyn developer who has helped gentrify Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, have bought the land and the buildings of the all-but-shuttered plant, said Lloyd Kaplan, a preservation corporation spokesman.
The developers would not say how much they paid for the property or what they planned to do with it, instead releasing a statement saying that they "look forward to working with the community and the city as we develop our plans for the site."
The Domino plant, with its distinctive neon sign looming over the East River just north of the Williamsburg Bridge, had been operating since the 1880's and was acquired in 2001 by American Sugar Refining.
Donald Brainard, vice president for human resources at American Sugar, also declined to discuss the particulars of the sale, but he said the plant's operations were unprofitable. "We announced last August that we would close it ultimately and had no plans for the facility at the time of the initial announcement," he said.
American Sugar still has plants in Yonkers, Baltimore and Chalmette, La., but the Brooklyn refinery, once the world's largest, according to a company brochure, had been the most inefficient, Mr. Brainard said, adding that only about 25 employees work there now. "We made a decision to close the operation to increase our efficiency and lower our costs," he said, adding that there had been a partial shutdown of operations in January. "I would guess the rest will close later this year."
Although sugar processing ended at the plant last August, news of the sale of the mammoth brick factory and its uncertain future appeared to take neighbors and city officials by surprise. Joseph Markowitz, who had bought the company's office building and parking garage across the street from the refinery about two years ago, said he would like to see it rezoned for residential use, a designation he is seeking for his property. "We have a problem renting to commercial - it's very hard," he said.
But City Planning Department officials, who have been pushing forward with an enormous proposal to rezone the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront to encourage residential and recreational uses, had drawn their plan to preserve the Domino site for manufacturing, a move applauded by several officials and labor advocates who would like to see the remnants of the borough's industrial legacy - and its blue-collar jobs - preserved.
In August, city officials said they were committed to finding an industrial reuse for the site. "We're not contemplating a rezoning for this site," Regina Myer, the Brooklyn director for the Planning Department, said yesterday. "We're focusing all of our efforts on the rezoning to the north."
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
Maybe they'll keep that big, main building, but the rest...
This will be a major development and will really open up the waterfront. Can't wait for this... the park/esplanade, the new retail in a rather dead area, hopefully artist lofts. This will be good for the area. It's a real shame to see Domino close. I always liked knowing that NYC had such an instiution still going, but that's the way it goes now. No industrial use will come of this (proabably), so don't jerk around. Let this be developed BIG time and bring 1000s of homes, etc. to the area and continue the amazing BK renaissance.
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I wonder how many condos will be built on this badboy?
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The family of a University of Alabama student killed in a crash on her way home from the National Championship football game in Miami has filed a wrongful death suit against all of the drivers involved.
Natalie Baine, of Roswell, Ga., died at a Montgomery Hospital after the Jan. 8 crash that involved a bus, the truck she was in and a third vehicle.
Baine, 20, was the passenger in a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado that was driven by Hudson Riedel, president of UA's Sigma Chi chapter. Defendants in the suit are Riedel, truck owner and Sigma Chi member Thomas Matheny, Capital Motor Lines, bus driver Herbert James Sanders and Atiya Chana Crawley, who was driving a Chevy Impala that struck the truck.
According to the suit, Riedel made a left turn in front of the bus. The bus and the Impala driven by Crawley both struck the truck, causing the injuries that led to Baine's death.
The suit filed in Montgomery Circuit Court last Thursday claims that the drivers did not use proper care while driving and demands a jury trial.
Attorneys Jere Beasley and Chris Glover of Montgomery firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. and Russell Blank of Georgia are representing Baine's family.
"I didn't know Natalie, but I've learned a lot about her since I've begun my representation of her family," Glover stated in a release sent to news outlets Thursday morning. "She was an incredible girl who was loved by so many. Her life had so much promise and it was stolen from her far too early. It shouldn't have happened nor should she have died that night. Careless mistakes and foolish choices have consequences in life. We will do everything we can to hold those responsible for the death of this precious young woman."
Baine's family members told news station WSBTV that her heart was donated to a 13-year-old girl, her kidney to a 10-year-old girl and her liver to a 58-year-old man.

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Did you know it's Apple Week?? I celebrated with a pink lady today.
I bought pink ladies for the first time last week (may or may not have been influenced by the cute sticker). They're pretty good! Lovely, crunchy texture. A bit of a bite though, and a touch dry. Nothing will ever live up to my sweet and crisp (and aptly named) honeycrisps.
I tried to make a dent in my behemoth market zucchini by making fake-sagna tonight. I barely made a dent, but it was at least a tasty dent!
Veggie Fake-sagna
- half of an elephant-sized zucchini, thinly sliced
- 1 package Yves Italian ground round
- 1/4 spanish onion, chopped
- 1/4 green pepper, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 can Hunt's no-salt added tomato sauce
- 1/2 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese (I used the Mediterranean flavoured kind)
- fresh spinach
- button mushrooms
- fresh basil
- 1/2 cup grated mozzarella
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan
Sautee the soy "beef" crumbles, onion, green pepper and garlic until lightly cooked. Stir in the tomato sauce with chili powder and oregano. While that simmers, put a thin layer of the tomato sauce on the bottom of a square baking dish (I don't know the dimensions, half the size of the big rectangular ones :P ). Thinly slice the zucchini, and make your first layer covering the bottom of the dish with some slices. Spread half the cottage cheese, spinach, sliced mushrooms and half soy mixture. Then repeat the layers. I put the basil under the top layer of zucchini slices, then topped it with the mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Bake at 425 F for about 25 minutes.
It was quite juicy, probably because I was lazy and didn't cook the zucchini first. I'd also cut back on the tomato sauce (or use tomato paste). I just dumped the whole can in because I didn't want leftovers. Otherwise it was deeeeelish!!! Seriously, who needs noodles?
I calculated the nutritionals on my portion (one-third, I was hangry) and it came up to about only 300 calories and a whopping 34g of protein and 8g of fibre!
Now I don't feel so bad about eating about a dozen mini plums and 1/3 of a watermelon today ;)
You know what else I did today? I went for a bike ride!! It turned into a gorgeous evening, 25 C and sunny. So after dinner digested, I geared up and dragged by unmotivated ass down the stairs. My legs were screaming at first, but I eventually zoned out at pedalled for 24 km. It took me about an hour which is kinda slow. It's okay though because I climbed the monster hill! I wasn't planning on it, but when I got to the turn leading up the hill, I just buckled down and went for it! It was awful as always, but I didn't let out any grunts this time which in my books is progress!! :D
I also want to send out a big thanks for all your positive comments on my new "gettin' real" page. It only solidified that putting my story out there is the right thing to do. I don't know why I was so nervous about it. Everything I've gone through has made me the person I am today. Without some of my previous bad decisions, I would not have gained the insight to know how to make great ones today.
On that note, I'm off to bed. Night night!!


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I have noticed the Friday Favorites trend on other blogs, so I felt like this would be a good post to start off on!
1. Bubble Necklaces
I am OBSESSED with bubble necklaces from J.Crew. I have 2 of these from J.Crew – the turqiouse and the yellow. I am dying to have a pink and a white one, but I am looking for some more afforadble options for those two.
Where have y'all purchased awesome bubble necklaces?
2. Southern Proper "Frat Hat" in Island Green
For those of you that don't know, I am also obsessed with Southern Proper. I absolutely adore the local fratty brands store in my area, and I fell in love with this hat immediately. I already have the salmon, but this green is just so bright. The picture does not do it justice. Beware – the beau in your life may try to steal it! I know my little brother has already claimed mine and is wearing it as we speak!
3. Treat Receipts!
It's treat receipt time at Starbucks, which is great for addicts like me! Buy a drink in the morning, and then return after 2 p.m. for a grande frozen drink for only $2.00! Can't beat that!


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A true inspiration
There are people in this world who are seemingly put here to inspire others and the Los Angeles Dodgers were fortunate enough to meet one of those people today.
Anthony Robles, the much-heralded ASU wrestler who won a national championship this year despite being born with just one leg, had a room full of tough-guy big leaguers in awe this afternoon when he spoke to them before batting practice.
This came about after Ted Lilly saw Anthony's story back in Spring Training. Anthony was not in town when we were here last month, but he was gracious enough to come by for the first game of the series and offer his inspiring words. His entire story was amazing, but you could hear a pin drop in the room when he finished his talk by reciting a poem he wrote and later read at the ESPYs.
"Every soul who comes to earth with a leg or two at birth, must wrestle his opponents knowing its not what is, but what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through pain, I won't complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each foe for I know I am capable. I don't care what's probable, through blood, sweat and tears I am unstoppable."
He finished his chat and nearly every player on the team came over to shake his hand or take a picture with him. It was a truly humbling moment for everyone in the room.
Given that he's now seeking to make a career as a motivational speaker, I jokingly told him afterward that it would help his cause if the Dodgers came out and won, 15-0. If we lost, we'd have to tell people he spoke to the team on a different day.
Sure enough, in the third inning the Dodgers scored six runs, equaling their most on the season and had seven hits, their largest total in an inning in exactly two years.
Suffice to say, he's welcome back any time.
For more info, visit his website anthonyrobles.com or follow him on Twitter @arobles125
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Guess who the Mariners are calling up today? Any guesses Ned? Anything new with the fodder that you got for TR? Do you think that Ferder whatever his name is will ever learn to hit? How you keep your job I don't know. My best guess is that you have pictures of Frankrupt and his sons with farm animals
Anthony Robles' story is interesting because he does not believe he is at a disadvantage.
Won 2 Espy's & is also a big Raiders fan!! Aight Mr.Robles Raider Nation is so proud of u…Your Raiders tattoo is DOPE!! 🙂
First game, TR makes highlight reel robbing Angels of 2-run HR in left field. Also singles. Second game, TR HR over the center field fence. Another stellar giveaway by Ned! But Ned says Dodgers need catchers. I wonder why? Could it be that he's been giving them away in worthless deals?? What the Dodgers actually desperately need is a new owner and a new GM!!!


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Looks like Nissan's Infiniti brand has some splainin' to do with regard to their online pricing. Tipster Steve D pointed us to a bit of pricing which we agree seems a bit odd. Seems the online car builder on the Infiniti website says the price of the "Sport Package" is included in the price of the G35X at no charge. After a quick ring to the local area Infiniti dealer, this was confirmed as a situation which is less than true. Actually the salesman on the other end of the line had to stifle a guffaw when asked if the sport package was indeed included. Seems "included" actually means "$1,100" when speaking about Infinitis. We're not terribly surprised to hear this considering what's included in the package:
• Viscous Limited-Slip rear Differential (VLSD)
• Solid-magnesium paddle shifters mounted on steering column
• Split 7-spoke 18-inch aluminum-alloy wheels with W-rated summer performance tires
• Larger brakes
• Unique front fascia and side sills
• Front sport seats with thigh extension and driver's power torso and thigh support
• Unique sport steering wheel stitching
• Aluminum pedals
That's a pretty healthy pile of parts for free, or actually not really free. Wonder if they'll be fixing the little boo boo now?


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It's been a good year for Mac Miller. The 19-year-old rapper played over 200 shows around the country, pumped his Twitter following past 1.4 million and released his debut album, Blue Slide Park, which became the first indie offering to open at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in over a decade.
"Making history is super-cool," he says, lounging on a plush burgundy chair at the Forbes headquarters in New York. "I still don't think I necessarily 'made it' … my whole thing is always, no matter where I get, to never be satisfied."
For now, Miller can add another accolade to his résumé: member of the first annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the music category. He's joined by a broad range of artists, producers, entrepreneurs and executives who are all shaping the future of the music business in different ways.
This year's roster was handpicked by a panel of expert judges—Randy Phillips, chief of concert promoter AEG Live; Livia Tortella, co-president of Warner Brothers Records; and David Banner, the Grammy-winning rapper and producer—in conjunction with yours truly.
The central question: Who will be the most influential figures in the music business over the next two decades?
There are some familiar names on the list, to be sure. Honorees including Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and Katy Perry all appeared in ourCeleb 100 issue in June. We reserved 20 slots for recording artists across all genres, though, and many of them aren't yet household names. There'sEsperanza Spalding, 27, the jazz musician who upset Justin Bieber to win the award for Best New Artist at last year's Grammys; Conrad Tao, a 17-year-old piano-and-violin prodigy who gave his first recital at age four; and Skrillex, 23, an up-and-coming musician of a very different genre.
"[Skrillex is] a young producer who's really helped put dubstep and electronic dance music on the map in the U.S.," says Banner. "He also just received five Grammy nominations."
Full coverage: 30 Under 30 – Music
Ten places on the list were set aside for music industry players whose primary focus isn't performing. Three examples: Alex White, 25, a former Universal Music Group intern who founded Next Big Sound, a startup that provides artists and labels with advanced metrics to measure social media campaigns; Kyle Frenette, the 24-year-old manager of Grammy-nominated group Bon Iver; and Spencer Richardson, 27, founder of FanBridge, a company that helps artists market to fans with the help of direct email and spiffy analytics.
"Understanding the relationship with the fan and the lifetime value of a customer is what FanBridge is all about," says Tortella. "It's the future of music marketing."
30 Under 30 in Music: Honorable Mentions
We certainly didn't forget about Daniel Ek, 28, the founder of digital music service Spotify—he made the list in the Technology category, and is the subject of the cover story for the entire 30 Under 30 package. His 26-year-old colleague D.A. Wallach, the company's artist in residence, is Spotify's representative on the music list.
Expect to hear more from all the up-and-comers on this list as the years go on. As for Mac Miller, he's looking well beyond the coming decade.
"My aspirations are very big," he says. "I want to be remembered forever."
For more on the business of music, see my book Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office
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Chemotherapy Medicines
Chemotherapy medications for breast cancer include:
- Abraxane (chemical name: albumin-bound or nab-paclitaxel)
- Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin)
- carboplatin (brand name: Paraplatin)
- Cytoxan (chemical name: cyclophosphamide)
- daunorubicin (brand names: Cerubidine, DaunoXome)
- Doxil (chemical name: doxorubicin)
- Ellence (chemical name: epirubicin)
- fluorouracil (also called 5-fluorouracil or 5-FU; brand name: Adrucil)
- Gemzar (chemical name: gemcitabine)
- Halaven (chemical name: eribulin)
- Ixempra (chemical name: ixabepilone)
- methotrexate (brand names: Amethopterin, Mexate, Folex)
- Mitomycin (chemical name: mutamycin)
- mitoxantrone (brand name: Novantrone)
- Navelbine (chemical name: vinorelbine)
- Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel)
- Taxotere (chemical name: docetaxel)
- thiotepa (brand name: Thioplex)
- vincristine (brand names: Oncovin, Vincasar PES, Vincrex)
- Xeloda (chemical name: capecitabine)
In many cases, chemotherapy medicines are given in combination, which means you get two or three different medicines at the same time. These combinations are known as chemotherapy regimens. In early stage breast cancer, standard chemotherapy regimens lower the risk of the cancer coming back. In advanced breast cancer, chemotherapy regimens make the cancer shrink or disappear in about 30-60% of people treated. Keep in mind that every cancer responds differently to chemotherapy.
Standard chemotherapy regimens include:
- AT: Adriamycin and Taxotere
- AC ± T: Adriamycin and Cytoxan, with or without Taxol or Taxotere
- CMF: Cytoxan, methotrexate, and fluorouracil
- CEF: Cytoxan, Ellence, and fluorouracil
- FAC: fluorouracil, Adriamycin, and Cytoxan
- CAF: Cytoxan, Adriamycin, and fluorouracil
(The FAC and CAF regimens use the same medicines but use different doses and frequencies)
- TAC: Taxotere, Adriamycin, and Cytoxan
- GET: Gemzar, Ellence, and Taxol
Depending on the characteristics of the cancer, a targeted therapy medicine, such as Herceptin (chemical name: trastuzumab), may be used in combination with some chemotherapy regimens. For example, the TCH regimen includes Taxotere, Herceptin, and carboplatin.
Your doctor may talk about certain groups of chemotherapy medicines:
- Anthracyclines are chemically similar to an antibiotic. Anthracyclines damage the genetic material of cancer cells, which makes the cells die. Adriamycin, Ellence, and daunorubicin are anthracyclines.
- Taxanes interfere with the way cancer cells divide. Taxol, Taxotere, and Abraxane are taxanes.
Most standard chemotherapy regimens include a medicine from one or both of these groups.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. added the most jobs in April in more than two years, the latest evidence of a spring revival in the economy that offers hope of faster growth in the months ahead after a tepid first quarter. The unemployment rate also sank to a nearly six-year low of 6.3%.
The economy created 288,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, marking the best performance since a 360,000 gain in January 2012. Employment gains for March and February were also revised up by a combined 36,000.
So far in 2014 the U.S. has added an average of 214,000 jobs a month, ahead of the 2013 pace of 194,000.
"The April jobs report was another sign of a spring rebound," said Avery Shenfeld, economist at CIBC World Markets.
The better-than-expected April employment report sent Treasury yields higher, but U.S. stock markets closed the week with a loss. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a 215,000 increase in nonfarm jobs.
The nation's unemployment rate, meanwhile, dropped to 6.3% from 6.7%. It was the biggest one-month decline in 31 years and put the jobless rate at its lowest level since September 2008.
Yet in an odd twist, the size of the labor force fell by whopping 806,000 despite the apparent willingness of companies to hire more workers. That's the biggest drop in six months and the second largest decline in 32 years. First Take: The household survey is insane
As a result, the labor-force participation rate sank to 62.8% from 63.2% and matched a 35-year low. The rate measures the percentage of people 16 or older who have or want a job.
Erica Groshen, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, said the rate mainly fell because far fewer people entered the labor force than usual. Normally the labor force shrinks because people leave the labor force. Read: Seemingly terrific April jobs report poses strange puzzle.
'Hot-diggity' and 'pinch of salt' — jobs report reactions
The economy was widely expected to show a faster pace of job creation in April, as warmer temperatures induced firms to add workers they might have hired earlier in the year if not for an extremely harsh winter. The poor weather contributed to a meager 0.1% U.S. growth rate in the first quarter.
What's less clear is if the momentum generated by the switch from winter to spring will continue.
Michael Griffin, executive director at the business consultancy CEB, said barely more than one-third of company executives surveyed by his firm said they plan to hire more workers in the next 12 months. He said companies are "hesitant" about whether economic growth is really accelerating or if the latest upturn is just another false start.
Inside the jobs report
The increase in hiring was widespread, with almost every major industry adding jobs. Professional jobs surged by 75,000, about one-third of them temporary positions. Retailers added 35,000 jobs, bars and restaurants beefed up staff by 33,000 and the construction industry hired 32,000 workers.
U.S. manufacturers generated 12,000 jobs, but that was a bit of a disappointment amid of raft of data showing that business is picking up. Government also added 15,000 jobs.
The average workweek, meanwhile, rose a tick to 34.5 hours to match a post-recession high. The number of hours people work tends to rise when the economy strengthens.
Yet average hourly wages were unchanged at $24.31, reducing the year-over-year gain to just 1.9%. That's a lot slower compared to wage gains before the Great Recession and a potential restraint on future U.S. growth. Unless incomes rise more sharply, consumers probably won't be able to increase spending speedily enough to drive the economy into a faster gear.
"The lack of robust wage growth still remains an elusive component in the current expansion," said Jim Baird, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors.
In March, the government said 203,000 new jobs were created in March, up from a preliminary 192,000, based on newly available data. February's gain was revised to 222,000 from 197,000.
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Ticket feature: Curry County Fair starts Monday
August 5, 2009
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The 89th annual Curry County Fair kicks off Monday.
The week-long fair features live entertainment, carnival rides, commercial exhibits, fun for children and livestock shows among others.
Curry County Assistant Manager Connie Harrison said concerts will be held in the events center this year.
Next Thursday, Zumbale will open for Tobias for Rene at 8 p.m. The demolition derby will take over the Mounted Patrol Arena Thursday at 7 p.m. Farwell's Charla Corn will open for Jason Boland and the Stragglers Aug. 15. Cycle City Arena Cross will finish a day of qualifying rounds Saturday with a main event at 7:30 p.m. at Mounted Patrol
Harrison said 12 additional handicapped spaces have been added to the west side of the fairgrounds and more handicapped spaces will be available by the 4-H building.
Harrison said the county will also be providing shuttle service this year, both to service handicapped if no spaces are available and to service fair attendees in general.
Harrison said the gate prices of $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and $2 for children 12 and under should keep the fair affordable, despite the economy.
Entertainment, except arena cross and music concerts, are free with gate admission.
However, livestock showing entries are down this year, according to Curry County 4-H agent Kevin Branum.
Branum attributed 30-40 head short categories to the increase in feed prices.
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This is a positive impact because at a corporate level, we have to make the reporting towards the board by taking the data from other entities.
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SanDisk Tuesday announced that it will begin mass production of the first high-performance X3 and X4 flash memory, using 32- and 43-nanometer lithography process technology, respectively. The denser flash technology will enable up to 64Gbit of memory in a single chip, or twice what multilevel cell memory offers today, the company said.
SanDisk said that it also built new X3 (3 bits per cell) and X4 (4 bits per cell) disk controllers to manage the greater complexities and performance requirements of the denser memory.
Khandker Quader, senior vice president for memory technology and product development at SanDisk, said the new memory and controller technology is "a major milestone for flash memory storage that will provide significant long-term benefits to SanDisk and play a critical role in future NAND flash scaling."
The X3 technology, which will offer up to 32Gbit per memory chip, will be used to produce microSD cards with up to 32GB capacity. The X4 process chips will offer up to 64Gbit per chip, or 64GB per standard SD card. Both will be used for applications such as music, movies, photos, GPS and games.
"This allows us to vastly improve our costs of manufacturing," Quader said, referring to the ability to lower the overall cost of flash memory.
SanDisk will begin offering the new microSD and SD cards in the second quarter. Quader said SanDisk also plans to manufacture 2-bits-per-cell flash memory using 32nm lithography in the second half of this year.
"We're looking at a wide range of product applications," Quader said. "For example, full-size SD cards will be used in USB storage devices, audio-video applications, memory sticks, and we are looking at 3 bits and 4 bits per cell enabling new solid-state disk products."
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Beijing: A protest in eastern China over a plan to build a waste incinerator has turned violent with state media reporting at least 10 demonstrators and 29 police personnel injured in clashes.
State-run Xinhua News Agency says 30 vehicles were overturned as protesters on Saturday set two police cars on fire and blocked a highway linking Hanzhou with another city.
One protester and a policeman have been reported seriously injured.
An official in the city's Yuhan district government confirmed the incident Sunday but would not offer details.
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UW-Stout chancellor search committee named
MADISON, WI (AP) — Interim University of Wisconsin System President Richard Telfer has appointed search committee to help find the next UW-Stout chancellor.
System officials say Telfer has appointed 21 people, including 11 UW-Stout faculty and two students, to the committee. The panel will conduct a national search and will recommend five finalists to the system president and Board of Regents selection committee. That committee will forward one name to the full Board of Regents for a hiring decision.
The university is looking for someone to replace Chancellor Charles W. Sorenson, who announced last month he plans to retire in August.
The regents last week appointed UW-Extension and UW Colleges Chancellor Ray Cross as the new system president. Telfer is serving as president until Cross takes over in mid-February.


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Tulsa Man May Have Found Early Version of Dr Pepper Recipe at Texas Antiques Store
Bill Waters, a Tulsa man tooling around in a Texas Panhandle antiques store, discovered a very interesting Dr Pepper artifact in a ledger book he found and bought there:
The recipe written in cursive in the ledger book is hard to make out, but ingredients seem to include mandrake root, sweet flag root, and syrup.
It isn't a recipe for a soft drink, says Greg Artkop, a spokesman for the Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group. He said it's likely instead a recipe for a bitter digestive that bears the Dr Pepper name.
He said the recipe certainly bears no resemblance to any Dr Pepper recipes the company knows of. The drink's 23-flavor blend is a closely guarded secret, only known by three Dr Pepper employees, he said.
Of course the folks at Dr Pepper would say that. As they are the keepers of the secret formula, how are we to know what's what?
The Dallas auction house in charge of selling the ledger (at an estimated price of $50,000 to $75,000) thinks it may just be the earliest formulation.
We'd love to see Waters mix up a batch and figure out whether his recipe's a Pepper, too.
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http://mmajunkie.com Brazilian middleweight Maiquel Falcao (26-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has been forced to withdraw from a planned UFC on Versus 3 meeting with Alessio Sakara (15-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC), and Rafael Natal (12-3-1 MMA, 0-1-1 UFC) has stepped into the open slot.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed the switch, which was first reported by MMA Weekly.com.
Featuring a welterweight matchup between perennial contenders Martin Kampmann and Diego Sanchez, UFC on Versus 3 takes place March 3 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky.
Natal seeks his first UFC win in three trips to the octagon. "Sapo" suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Rich Attonito in his debut at UFC Fight Night 22, and a return bout at UFC 124 ended in a draw with Jesse Bongfeldt following a back-and-forth three-round affair.
Sakara is anxious to get back in the cage and hopes to extend a recent three-fight win streak. With a bit of a career resurgence, the Italian striker has posted knockout wins over Joe Vedepo and James Irvin and a split-decision win over Thales Leites. Due to a mixture of scratched bouts, injuries and a family death, the UFC on Versus 3 bout will be just the third Sakara has had in the past 19 months.
Falcao had been looking to build off of a UFC-debut victory over Gerald Harris, which extended the Brazilian's current win streak to eight. Falcao nearly ended the bout with a first-round rear-naked choke, but the round inexplicably ended six seconds early, and Harris was saved by the bell. The following two rounds proved rather lackluster, and Harris (despite a 3-1 UFC record) was released after the heavily panned bout.
For more on UFC on Versus 3, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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The Board is developing guidelines under the ADA for access to ferries, cruise ships, excursion boats, and other passenger vessels. These guidelines will supplement the Board's ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Transportation Vehicles. We refer to this work as the Passenger Vessels Accessibility Guidelines or PVAG.
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- Proposed Passenger Vessels Accessibility Guidelines
- Notice Extending Comment Period (to January 24, 2014)
- Overview of the Proposed Guidelines
- Summary of Changes from 2008 Draft
- Regulatory Assessment and Initial Flexibility Act Analysis
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- Mobility Device Use and Hearing Impairments Among Individuals and Households, 1990-2010 (February 15, 2013)
- Includes Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Data on Mobility Device Use and Hearing Impairment
- Guest Rooms with Mobility Features
- Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), Access Scoping Economic Impact Study (June 23, 2008)
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Two-time Indianapolis 500 starter Art Malone died Friday, March 29 in Tampa, Fla. He was 76.
Malone was a star in drag racing who also competed in open-wheel racing and NASCAR. He also was the first to lap the Daytona International Speedway faster than 180 mph.
Both of Malone's Indianapolis 500 starts – 1963 and 1964 – came at the wheel of one of the legendary, supercharged V8 Novi cars, his assignment there coming as somewhat of a surprise at the time. Perhaps it was his breathtaking 181.561-mph lap Aug. 28, 1961 at Daytona which had drawn the attention of new Novi owner Andy Granatelli. Partnered with fellow drag racer Bob Osiecki, Malone had taken "Mag Dog IV" – a much-modified 413-cubic-inch Chrysler "Hemi"-powered Kurtis "roadster," which had recently served as Firestone's tire test car – and had manhandled it around the 2½-mile speedway more than fast enough to claim the $10,000 prize posted by Bill France for turning Daytona's first 180-mph lap.
Malone had finished 10th in NASCAR's Firecracker 250 on July 4, 1962 at Daytona and had raced the short tracks around Tampa for years. But because Malone needed at least a couple of open-wheel, oval-track races under his belt before he could be permitted to tackle the Novi at Indianapolis, Granatelli supplied him with a dirt car for the 1962 season-ending events at Sacramento and Phoenix. He "missed the show" at Sacramento but qualified fifth at Phoenix.
Perhaps to the surprise of many, Malone qualified for the 1963 "500," the first time three Novis had ever qualified for the same race. His Novi was quite distinctive due to the large triangular-shaped stabilizer fin mounted on its tail. Clutch trouble intervened even as the race was starting. After four pit stops in the first 18 laps, Malone was obliged to call it a day.
In 1964, he returned to pull off something which had been achieved only five times previously with a Novi. He was still running when the race ended, flagged off in 11th position with 194 laps completed. As a further historical footnote, Malone would be the last person ever to be running at the end of a "500" while driving a Novi.
Malone had a total of 10 USAC National Championship starts up through 1965, his final appearance coming in 1966 when he crashed Wally Weir's rear-engined Gerhardt in practice on the morning of the first qualifying day at Indianapolis and jumped out to reveal that he had elected to drive in stocking feet.
For many years, Malone's drag racing shop in Tampa was located only a couple of blocks from the shop of the great "Big Daddy" Don Garlits. The pair had been tight friends ever since Malone was 8 years old. Garlits was older, but they both rode the same school bus.
Malone drove one of Garlits' famed "Swamp Rat" dragsters when Garlits was injured in the late 1950s, and the pair teamed up for a very emotional reunion in 1984 at the U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Going in as huge underdogs, they came out on top, Garlits winning the race.
Malone had not been to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in many years when he returned in May 2011 for the 100th anniversary of the first running of the "500." The 500 Oldtimers Club was honoring the living drivers who could claim at least one "500" start in a front-engined car, and of the 14 survivors, Malone was one of nine on hand to be honored.
His attendance in 2011 at IMS was quite noteworthy. Just over a week short of his 75th birthday, Malone drove up from Tampa in a 45-foot motor coach, nursing a broken leg and towing a little "drive-around-town" vehicle behind the motor coach.
Two days later, on Saturday morning, May 28, there he was again as one of 161 "500" veterans who were on hand for that never-to-be-forgotten "class" photo taken in the Pagoda Plaza.
Malone is survived by his wife, Sandra; daughters, Stephanie and Pam; and four grandchildren. Calling hours are from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 at the Garden of Memories Chapel in Tampa, with a funeral at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 at the same location.


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Nike Courts App Developers
Taking a page from Apple's playbook, Nike is encouraging developers to build apps for its FuelBand digital bracelet by giving them aggregate data from customers. Shelly Banjo joins digits. Photo: Nike.
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