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Alumni from Knoxville and PCM High Schools will play in Monroe this weekend in the first ever Knoxville vs. PCM Alumni football game. Mustangs' Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Bonnett has helped organize the event, and will stay on the sideline as a coach for the PCM alumni team; but says he's received some good-natured trash-talking from Knoxville Head Coach Troy Rider, and also called out a few former Panthers he used to go to school with.
"The guy that I'm most worried about is Troy Rider. He texts me probably once a week telling me how awesome he is, how he's fixin' to play quarterback, he's gonna run the ball, he's benched 400 pounds, he's gonna run us all over," joked Bonnett. "You know, I would be more motivated to play if some guys like Tony Roozeboom, maybe Casey Davis, Shawn Gilchrist, Greg Sinnott – you know, some of those guys play – but the last thing I want to do is hear that any of the Rowley boys from Knoxville are playing, 'cause I don't think anybody wants anything to do with those guys."
Beyond talking up his game, Rider says he's hopeful fans of both schools will come out to support the teams and enjoy watching former standouts hit the field. As part of the fundraiser, the event will feature a raffle for a flat-screen TV, and Playstation 3 and other prizes.
An organization called Alumni Football USA is putting on the event, with proceeds going to the athletic programs at both Knoxville and PCM High Schools. Tickets to the game are $10 each and can be purchased from either high school, or from select businesses and individuals in both communities. Half of the cost of each ticket purchased in advance of Saturday night's game will go back to the participating schools.
Kick-off of the Knoxville vs. PCM Alumni football game is set for 7:00 p.m. Saturday night at PCM High School in Monroe.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 n.12 Cape Town Dec. 2010
Private hospitals offer wide-ranging NHI assistance
The Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) has mooted the idea of training critically needed specialists in its member hospitals while reaffirming its commitment to helping patients stranded by State shortcomings.
The idea is being jointly explored by HASA's CEO, Advocate Kurt Worrall-Clare and Marella O'Reilly, the Acting Registrar of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) to iron out legal obstacles, Izindaba reliably learnt. The move, on the back of HASA members saving lives during the recent public service strike when 1 300 often-unattended babies and adults in State facilities were transferred to private facilities, is a further potential watershed moment in critically important future public/private partnerships. However, its efficacy in terms of the current regulatory set-up was questioned by veteran clinicians and academics at the coalface. They said the fee-for-service of private surgeons, together with HPCSA rules, prevented registrars from obtaining the vital incremental hands-on experience in private hospitals. According to the 2007 SA Health Review, 73% of general practitioners and 75% of specialists work in the private sector where they - and 40% of nurses - cater for only 15% of the population.
Worrall-Clare punted several other ideas during his presentation at the South African Medical Association (SAMA)'s conference on the future National Health Insurance (NHI), early this October in Midrand, Gauteng. He said that provided well-defined guidelines were mutually agreed upon, spare capacity in private hospitals could continue to be used to treat State patients. HASA members had committed to publishing regional occupancy levels bi-annually to facilitate this. Other areas where public/private initiatives (PPIs) could flourish included providing management and administrative support by seconding managers to the public sector or twinning facilities to enhance best-practice care. This would include a two-way skills transfer across both sectors. Further possibilities included sharing (spare) resources on a lease or service basis, generating joint health promotion and screening campaigns and training nurses, technicians, paramedics and mid-level health care workers via basic and advanced courses. Existing programmes such as mobile clinical services to underserved rural areas (e.g. the 'Right to Sight' Campaign and the already far-reaching Walter Sisulu Paediatric Foundation project), plus the supply of consumables for cervical cancer screening, could be expanded.
Don't ignore specialists - plea
Worrall-Clare pleaded for all stakeholders in the debate to involve specialists in the design of the new NHI 'interventions', 'because we cannot presume they will follow our hospitals in offering services to the NHI'. (By regulation, private hospitals may not employ doctors, and NHI participation is voluntary.)
Another speaker, Professor Martin Veller, head of vascular surgery at Charlotte Maxeke tertiary hospital (a public sector facility) and chief of surgery at Wits University, said the country needed another 1 200 -1 300 general surgeons alone, three times the existing number. 'Our general surgeon/patient ratio has been static for the last decade and stands at half that of similar developing countries,' he said. Over a third of all medical graduates in South Africa over the past 8 years were now living overseas, he added. 'You could say this is political but there's no doubt that it's mostly service-related issues (driving the exodus),' he added. 'Some 50 -60' general surgeons were being trained annually in South Africa. Double this number was needed to achieve NHI goals. At current output levels, doubling-up would take another 20 years. 'The problem is we have far too few medical graduates - not only do medical schools need to increase capacity but we need more medical schools, and quickly,' he asserted.
Worrall-Clare said HASA could bring management skills, clinical services and a history of highly efficient public/private partnerships to the NHI table and 'help plot the way forward'. South African hospital groups in the UK had successfully entered into PPIs with that country's National Health Service, providing a wide spectrum of care across multiple disciplines. Contracts ran over a 5-year period and were carefully monitored for quality assurance and patient outcomes. Tariffs within these PPI structures were aligned with NHS recommendations, making private health care more affordable and accessible to greater numbers of patients. HASA would 'embrace' the opportunity to partner with the South African government in offering clinical services to State patients on elective procedure waiting lists. The pricing on State surgical waiting lists would be significantly reduced by the bulk procurement of drugs and surgical equipment by the State. Given changes to legislation and volume guarantees, the private hospital sector would be able to render services at more affordable rates. Worrall-Clare said one example would be offering the use of a facility and clinical pathways under the guidance of a private specialist in consultation with State staff, be they doctors, nurses or registrars.
'There are significant weaknesses needing reform in both sectors but it is imperative that we show respect for one another and engage if the NHI is going to succeed,' he added. Veller strongly backed this, saying dismal conditions of service in the public sector and a general lack of respect, driven by 'an adversarial approach between management and what happens on the ground', were chiefly responsible for the lack of doctor retention.
State hospital managers hamstrung
Worrall-Clare said what 'manifestly' set his sector apart currently was that private hospitals had full autonomy and engaged directly with their clinicians on 'how much they can spend on new equipment and the like', plus projections for the next financial year. He found it 'astounding' that heads of department in the public sector could not hire or fire certain categories of staff. 'This cannot continue under any new system. They must have the appropriate power and accountability. If they fail to deliver, replace them. In the private sector if a hospital manager doesn't deliver or is inefficient they are replaced.' Nothing stopped his members from extending their existing training programmes to the public sector. The historic animosity between the two sectors was already being broken down, with several hospital managers meeting on a regular basis. 'The tide is turning. They're helping one another, even to the point where equipment is being volunteered. I want to re-emphasise: if we respect each other, we'll find solutions,' he added.
It was crucial that the dynamics and reporting structures, accountability and hiring and firing practices be 'profoundly understood' before any relationships were entered into between sectors. Regulations, rather than entire (legislative) acts, may need changing to enable, for example, the private hospital sector to train registered nurses instead of offering just the bridging courses they were currently limited to. 'We can expand our capacity for training but we need to address current impediments in the system,' he said, citing 'significant' Nursing Council delays in issuing registration certificates for successful nurse graduates. 'We end up paying salaries to people who cannot function,' he complained.
HASA members had increased their output of trained nurses from 198 in 1998 to well over 6 000 per annum currently. Nursing Council statistics for last year showed that public institutions had trained 2 365 enrolled nurses while the private sector had trained 5 128. The equivalent figures for auxiliary nurses were 1 106 and 4 673.
Private hospitals - 'let us train'
Worrall-Clare suggested setting up a private training academy for doctors, using stateof-the-art facilities in his sector. 'If private medical schools exist within international jurisdictions (many of which served critical training needs), then there's no reason why South Africa cannot consider the same. I think we need to rock the boat in terms of how we think. We must try and expand what the private sector does in terms of training public sector resources. Many of our staff are willing to assist. In preliminary discussions with our specialists, many said they'd be prepared to act as academic staff, even part time. This must be done with reference to the HPCSA and its requirements to ensure ethical, qualitative and legislative compliance. We should be sitting around the table discussing these things prior to the NHI, because if it's approved, we'll only inherit the benefits in several years. Programmes need to be put in place now,' he said.
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Gov. Haslam's Comments On Class Size Will Trouble Teachers
One second Governor Bill Haslam applauds Tennessee teachers. The next moment Mr. Haslam subtly paints Tennessee teachers as broadly ineffective.
Recently Mr. Haslam gave us more of the later.
Addressing a group of young women, the governor said that class size doesn't matter. He followed it up by saying, "having a great teacher with 25 students is better than having a mediocre teacher with 18 students." [Chattanooga Times Free Press, 6/1/11]
Doubling down on this thinking, Mr. Haslam said his goal is "to push our education [system] toward making sure we have a great teacher in front of every classroom regardless of the classroom size." [Chattanooga Times Free Press, 6/1/11]
Is the hunt for "great teachers" an implication that the majority of Tennessee teachers are not "great teachers" — regardless of classroom size?
And he says there's no morale problem.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press chastised Haslam for his plan to increase classroom size:
In fact, relying on the myth that "quality teachers" are all that matters will only add to teachers' burdens.
Gov. Haslam's comments came in an address in Nashville to hundreds of rising seniors attending the Volunteer Girls State leadership program. He also used the "quality teachers" theme to justify the authority he successfully secured from the Legislature this spring to tighten teacher tenure standards.
He said those standards, which both extended the time needed for teachers to receive tenure from three to five years, and made tenure more conditional, were key to his efforts to "push our education (system) toward making sure we have a great teachers in front of every classroom regardless of the classroom size."
That's gimmickry baloney. In reality, his tenure bill, like his charter school initiative and the Legislature's new ban on teachers' bargaining rights and political action committees, are political ploys, not education improvements. As a practical matter, it will take much more to pull Tennessee's public education ranking out of the cellar.
While no one denies that a great teacher can do wonders in a child's education, lower class sizes can have an across the board positive impact on student achievement.
The amount of research done on the effects of class size is extensive, and all of it comes to the same conclusion. Smaller class size is a concrete, measurable, and replicable way to increase student achievement.
Mr. Haslam's comments open the door for many questions about his education agenda for next legislative session:
» Do you plan on increasing class size limits or eliminating the caps?
» Do you plan on extending the school year?
» Do you plan on pay raises for "great" teachers?
» Who decides which teachers are "great"?
» How would you entice more of these "great teachers" to Tennessee? Pay? Benefits? Job security?
» Larger classrooms means fewer teachers. What is the plan for firing teachers who are not "great"? Should mass layoffs be on the table?
» Is the relentless "reforming" of education an effort to solve a problem that could be caused, indirectly, by other factors you're not addressing, i.e. 300,000 jobless Tennesseans, poverty, etc.?


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"Your best colours are blues and greens," says Phil at the Whispering Dragon table, on a slightly blustery but sunny morning in Victoria's Bastion Square. "That's what you should use in your house. Blues and greens - no reds. No fire colours."
I'm enroute to Lower Johnson Street, but can't resist sitting on a fold-away chair in front of his table for a feng shui tarot and element readings. After some number wizardry with my name and birthdate, and a pronouncement that I'm a metal-wood combination, he offers me the décor tips.
The odd thing is, he's right. The only time I tried red in my living room, the ruby leather chair that had looked gorgeous in the furniture store refused point blank to fit in. So, I'm back to blues and greens - which is perhaps why Victoria appeals so much: the emerald stretches of the parks, an ocean that runs from sulky blue under a leaden sky to turquoise under sunlight - even the limes and emeralds of the nearby forested mountains.
These hues merge beautifully around the harbour downtown, where even the green copper domes of the Legislative Buildings add to the palette.
But as every good designer knows, pops of colour in an otherwise serene view can add energy and interest.
And that's where LoJo comes in.
Brightly painted Victorian-era shop-fronts flank both sides of busy Lower Johnson Street between Wharf and Government Streets. Once home to hotels and stores supporting the gold rushes of the 1850s and 1890s, today the area is known for its local and independent boutiques and restaurants.
It would be easy to while away a couple of hours here, but we've gone a step further and put together a full day's walking tour of sampling, sightseeing and, yes, shopping.
It's based on LoJo, but takes you easily from the harbour six blocks away to Lower Johnson and slightly beyond.
So, put on your comfy walking shoes, as we show you the highlights.
Step 1.
There are plenty of hotels and other accommodations around the harbour, so it's an ideal start point - spend a few minutes leaning on the stone wall surrounding it to watch the water taxis, sea buses and float planes buzzing in and out.
Then head four blocks north to 1110 Government Street to Murchie's Tea and Coffee, for breakfast.
More than a century old, the company roasts its own coffee beans and blends its own teas in Richmond (on the mainland); here, the restaurant offers break-fasts, lunches and afternoon teas, ranging from pastries and pre-serves to heartier fare, plus retail space.
Step 2.
A few steps north of Murchie's, look left for the entrance to Bastion Square, named after the log towers, or bastions, that were once part of the fort built here in 1843.
It now serves as an artisan's market, with everything from art cards and prints made from lo-cal seaweeds to jewelry and, of course, the opportunity for a few minutes of entertainment (and décor tips).
The market (look for the brightly coloured "tulip" sculpture) runs Thursdays through Saturdays, with a farmers' market on Sundays, until Sept. 30.
If you're into maritime history, Bastion Square also offers the Maritime Museum of BC; if you'd rather spa, the Sapphire Day Spa is about two blocks east on View Street, where owner Heidi Sherwood offers a warm welcome that focuses on community and authenticity.
Options include both esthetics and energy balancing work; many of the treatments feature Pacific seaweed and the locally produced Seaflora skincare line.
Step 3.
From Bastion Square, you can walk along Commercial Alley to Yates Street, shop and cross Yates into Waddington alley (look down at the wooden cobblestones laid in the early 1900s) - to be deposited onto the south side of John-son Street. A wander along the candy-coloured shopfronts here showcases a number of locally owned shops and boutiques.
A few to watch for? The tiny space of Smoking Lily, a label that belongs to several local women who create clothing, accessories and home items, along with the most amazing vertical merchandizing.
The small Paperbox Arcade, with several boutiques - including Salts, offering stylish, soft, eco-friendly and natural fabrics clothing made in Victoria.
Back on the street is Saltspring Soapworks, with products brought in from the nearby island (try the rainbow-hued body gelatos - a great sea salt scrub to soften hands and feet).
If you've worked up an appetite for lunch, try Willie's Bakery, at 537 Johnson Street.
It's the city's oldest bakery, offering hearty sandwiches and baked goods, along with excellent coffee, in a 19th-century red brick building with a lovely courtyard
Step 4.
Cross to the north side of Johnson, where Market Square offers more boutique shopping, with more than 30 stores and restaurants.
You can easily spend an hour or two here; if you're not shopped or walked out, head two blocks north of Johnson, to 1624 Government Street, where sits the bright red storefront of Silk Road, a Victoria institution - part tea shop, part beauty shop and spa.
Staff greet you with freshly brewed tea samples, and are always happy to share tips and testers.
Almost next door is the en-trance to Victoria's Chinatown, with the ornate Gates of Harmonious Interest spanning Fisgard Street, which leads you, left, to Fan Tan Alley (Victoria's narrowest alley) back toward Market Square.
Step 5.
Return south toward the harbour along Wharf Street. Since all that walking works up an appetite, try the blue-grey sea container-Cturned-restaurant Red Fish Blue Fish, at 1006 Wharf Street, on Broughton Street Pier.
Piping hot, locally caught and Ocean Wise certified fish options include Pacific halibut, wild salmon and Qualicum scallops, taking fish and chips well beyond the usual.
There's only outdoor seating, so if it's a wet day, you may want to opt for stopping back on Johnson Street at Il Terazzo, one of Victoria's oldest Italian restaurants, reservations recommended).
If You Go
- Getting there: WestJet and Air Canada fly direct from Calgary to Victoria several times daily.
- Staying there: Part of LoJo's charm is its independent boutiques. If this appeals to you in a hotel as well, try the harbourside Inn at Laurel Point (laurelpoint. com), designed in part by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson and home to the locally renowned Aura restaurant.
- Getting around: Although downtown Victoria is eminently walkable, and there are plenty of cycling trails, renting a car from the airport will assist with nearby touring, including the Saanich Peninsula, the Cowichan Valley and along the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Handy websites:
- mmbc.bc.ca (maritime museum)


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The Care Coordination program assesses the needs of persons 60 years of age or older residents of the Alamo Aging twelve county service region and helps seniors access and coordinate local resources as appropriate to support independent living.
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- Are frail and live alone.
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Founded by Napa Valley native Bridget Raymond in 2004, Courtesan started as an Oakville (our winemakers hometown) Cabernet Sauvignon. Since then we've expanded our line to include grapes sourced from other famous Cult producing vineyards that are presented in our "Red Mask" reserve series and "Veronica" our small lot production that Bridget selects and blends from top barrels. Many of our wines are aged for up to 30 months, always in French Oak barrels, always blended to perfection.
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The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation held the 9th annual Best of Parks (BOP) Awards on October 28th in the City's newest waterfront park, Brooklyn Bridge Park. Best of Parks recognizes Parks teams and individuals for outstanding performance. Nominated by their deputy and borough commissioners and managers, BOP winners have made substantial contributions throughout the five boroughs and achieved high marks on various performance scorecards. From maintaining and building first class parks, to designing and implementing creative public programs, to protecting our natural world, BOP winners are role models of effort, reliability, and achievement. This year, two awards were presented to teams working on Queens parks projects.
Capital Team Award: Elmhurst Park
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Helen Ogrinz Sr. Landscape Architect
Nancy Prince Sr. Landscape Architect
Shani White Assistant Landscape Architect
Imelda Bernstein Landscape Architect Intern
Lee Ann Beauchamp Landscape Architect
Zara Brown Assistant Landscape Architect
Steve Whitesell Designer
Paul Schubert Deputy Director of Architecture
Harrison Chang Architectural Intern
Yelena Lyubarskaya Senior Environmental Engineer
Ben Mulchandani Supervisor for Mechanical Engineering
Edward Vagner Assistant Electrical Engineer
Magary Aime Supervisor for Electrical Engineering
Rudrasen Persaud Environmental Engineer
Rajanikant Patel Electrical Engineer
Vincent Alfano Director of Queens Construction
Robert Gantzer Project Resident Engineer
Arthur Burgess Construction Resident Engineer
Tyler McLeete Construction Project Manager
Michele Greaves-White Assistant Landscape Architect
Andrew Penzi Team Leader
Kevin Quinn Director of Architecture
Joelle Byrer Deputy Team Leader
Golam Hossain Structural Engineer
Muhammed Hussain Mechanical Engineer
Juan Alban Director of Contracts
Patricia Doyle Procurement Analyst
Margarita Martinez Budget Coordinator
At Elmhurst Park in Queens, this Parks team "made lemonade out lemons," tranforming a debris-strewn brown-field site into a new park. An inter-disciplinary team at Capital took on complex design, permitting and horticultural challenges to bring about a new green park from this abandoned site. The first phase of the park was completed in late 2008 and second phase will open at the end of this year.
The complexity of the Elmhurst project required an unusual number of approvals and permits from outside agencies. The team successfully built consensus among stakeholders and regulators including the Public Design Commission, two community boards, various public officials, DOB, DEC, DEP, and the Board of Health. The project won a 'Big Apple Brownfield Open-space Award' before its completion.
The site for Elmhurst Park was almost devoid of trees and other vegetation, with only 16 trees at the northeast corner of Grand Avenue. These trees were retained and protected throughout the construction. Phase I of the park included a woodland garden within the existing grove of trees, with the addition of dogwoods, woodland shrubs, bluebells and ferns. Evergreens were used on the perimeter to screen off-site parking lots and warehouses. The Elmhurst community's historic orchards and farms are recalled by a new orchard of crabapples on the hillside facing the Long Island Expressway. Close to Grand Avenue, new Zelkova trees were planted around a small oval green intended as a quiet sitting area for seniors. Phase I includes a total of almost 500 new trees. Phase II will add more than 150 more trees, as well as additional shrubs, ground covers and perennials.
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Jackie Langsam Chief of Operations
Jill Weber Rockaway Park Administrator
Gregory Monaghan SOM
Raymond Aubel Supervisor of Carpenters
Frank Libretto Carpenter
Frank Tito Carpenter
Michael Walsh Jr Carpenter
Steven Hurlburt Carpenter
William Manning Blacksmith
Joseph Rooney Blacksmith Helper
Tornadoes were not the only storms the Parks Department has responded to this year. The nor'easter in November 2009 exposed over 20 boardwalk staircases and ramps on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk from Beach 88th Street to Beach 106th Street, rendering this popular stretch of the beach unusable to the public.
This spring, the Queens Carpenters began the major task of performing repairs to all the entrances to ensure public access for the season. The staff toiled throughout the hot spring and early summer not only repairing the stairs, but in many cases completely rebuilding them from scratch. All staircase repairs and replacements were completed by late July, allowing all beach access points to be reopened. The blacksmiths contributed by fixing all of the handrails on the staircases. The carpenters repaired a large amount of decking along the boardwalk.
Along with a mile of newly constructed concrete boardwalk, the 5-mile Rockaway boardwalk now looks the best that it has in years and offers New Yorkers a safe, public space.
In the last seventeen years, over 3,500 deserving agency employees have been recognized by the Parks Department through 192 Employee of the Months, 20 Annual Awards and eight Best of Parks ceremonies.
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- Bocce Courts
- Cricket Fields
- Dog-friendly Areas
- Eateries
- Fishing
- Fitness Equipment
- Football Fields
- Golf Courses
- Handball Courts
- Hiking Trails
- Kayak/Canoe Launch Sites
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- Model Aircraft Fields
- Nature Centers
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Can behavioral finance be effective in combatting financial crises? As policymakers around the world continue to deal with the legacy of the 2008 crisis, some are considering incorporating elements of behavioral finance into their proposals as they look to strengthen systems for the future, based on the view that financial crises are at least partly the result of behavioral factors. But while behavioral finance as both a theory and a practice has a lot to offer, it is not yet evolved enough as a science in order to be applied toward the resolution or prevention of financial crises, says Michal Skorepa, author of the 2011 book "Decision Making: A Behavioral Economic Approach," which surveys human decision making from an economic perspective.
Skorepa, who is an advisor to the Czech National Bank, shared with AdvisorOne his thoughts on how he believes behavioral finance should evolve in order to be effectively applied toward financial crisis prevention and resolution, and in which areas it's most effective today.
Why is behavioral finance being considered for the prevention and/or resolution of financial crises? How is that central banks/policymakers are interested in behavioral finance?
I think the main reason for this has been the fact that the latest crisis started with the wave of subprime mortgage defaults in 2007. Many American families seem to have succumbed to the pressure of mortgage brokers either on the wrong assumption that if house prices had been rising, they were bound to rise forever, or because many home buyers did not understand how their mortgages would work financially. Later on, it turned out that even many financial professionals probably underestimated risks involved in complex securities that they were buying. Issues like wrong assessment of trends and risks–and also overestimation of one's own ability to assess these issues–are among the central topics in behavioral economics and behavioral finance, as is clear also from my book.
In what ways are policymakers looking to use behavioral finance to either solve or prevent large-scale financial crises? Do you have any examples of tools that different central banks, for instance, may be considering, or any policies that may include behavioral finance principles?
The general claim that all financial crises, including the latest one, are at least partly caused or amplified by behavioral factors certainly makes sense. To the best of my knowledge, however, this claim has so far been transformed into only few significant specific practical applications. For example, one area where behavioral fallacies may kick in is the determination of credit risk ratings, including banks' internal risk weights used for the calculation of the various capital adequacy ratios in bank regulation based on the Basel rules. These ratings may be pro-cyclical for behavioral reasons; that is, in boom times the assessor may start to exhibit excessive optimism and assess a given borrower more positively than would be objectively appropriate. All steps taken by regulators to reduce the reliance of bank regulation and supervision on such ratings can therefore be viewed partly as addressing behavioral issues. To take one specific instance, the brand new Basel III regulation emphasizes the leverage ratio; that is, capital relative to total rather than risk-weighted assets.
Do you think it makes sense to incorporate behavioral finance principles to financial crisis resolution?
Such an effort would certainly be sensible. The problem is that behavioral economics and finance findings tend not to be ready for such applications yet. Indeed, while the regulatory measures I mentioned before may be partly motivated by behavioral considerations, I do not think that specific behavioral economic findings played much of a role either in their conception or specification.
You have said that the scope of behavioral finance is as yet too narrow for solving or preventing financial crises. Why is this the case?
The problem is that most findings in the academic literature still refer to grossly simplified situations only. Also, the more we know about human thinking, the more we see how conditional it is: Change the circumstances a bit and people seem to not exhibit a given bias anymore, or they even commit it in the opposite direction.
What aspects of behavioral finance can potentially help in the area of financial crises, if any at all? How does behavioral finance–the theory as well as the practice–need to evolve, in your opinion, in order to be effective in combating financial crises?
The conditionality needs to be mapped first–that is, we need to know more on how different people in different situations assess risk, probabilities, the future, their own knowledge, experience, abilites, reliablity of their recollections of the past and how they incorporate these complex issues in their decision-making. But I am afraid that applications in the prevention of financial crises will remain limited. Right now, they are limited because we do not know enough. Llater they will be limited because of the conditionality. Practical guidelines need to be simple and robust, rather than sensitive to a long list of fine considerations.
Where do you think the application of behavioral finance is proving successful and why?
The above is not to say that behavioral economics and finance are without useful real-life applications. But they are more likely to occur on the micro level. For example, a lot of attention has rightly been devoted to the power of nudging; that is, of one fairly commendable option being set by the authorities as the default which, however, can be changed easily if a given individual wants to. Another area where this research may help is consumer protection–for example, the format of information on various investment or loan products may be regulated such that retail clients notice and understand all the important parameters and implications. Also, applications seem looming in the areas of microfinance and economic development more generally.


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onager ŏn´əjər [key] or Persian wild ass, wild ass of central Asia, Equus hemonius onager. One of the several races of Asian wild ass ( E. hemonius ), it formerly ranged widely across S Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan. A small, slenderly built animal, it stands about 4 ft (120 cm) high at the shoulder. Its back and legs are rusty brown and its belly white. It has a black tail tuft, a short, stiff black mane, and a black spinal stripe lined with white on either side. For many centuries it was hunted for sport by the Persian nobility, and young onagers were captured for the breeding of riding animals. Owing to the swiftness and endurance of the onager, relatively few animals were captured by traditional methods. However, since the invention of modern firearms and automobiles, the animals have been extensively slaughtered for their flesh and hides. They survive in Russia only on the Badkhys reserve and are greatly reduced in numbers elsewhere. The continued existence of the race is in doubt. The onager is classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Perissodactyla, family Equidae.
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NASHVILLE (AP) - State Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey says he sees little chance of state Rep. Joe Carr upsetting U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander in next year's Republican primary.
In a conversation with reporters Wednesday, Ramsey cited his experience as a 2010 gubernatorial candidate - he overcame a fundraising disadvantage in the Republican primary won by Bill Haslam.
Asked about Carr's prospects for defeating Alexander, Ramsey responded: "I don't see it happening."
Carr last month abandoned his bid to oust incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais to instead challenge Alexander for the U.S. Senate.
Alexander's campaign had $3.1 million on hand through the first half of the year, while Carr had about $275,000 from his House race.
Meanwhile, Carr has been defending himself against claims that he lifted answers for a tea party group's questionnaire from the Heritage Foundation, a think tank in Washington.
The answers were submitted to the Coalition for a Constitutional Senate, a group of more than 60 tea party and other conservative groups seeking to rally behind a candidate to defeat Alexander.
Carr told The Tennessean newspaper (http://tnne.ws/1fGoPbW) that he didn't plagiarize his answers.
"When we were crafting our answers, I went to various sources - not just Heritage, but a number of resources - to do the research," he said. "I certainly would never imply that my thoughts or ideas or views are exclusively my own, and I certainly didn't represent them in the questionnaire that way."
Carr said he wasn't trying to pass off the think tank's work as his own.
"There's nothing in there, quite honestly, that's uniquely mine," he said. "I believe what the Bible says: There's nothing new under the sun."
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Tom Brady was at practice yesterday with the Patriots in Foxborough. He was visited on the field by wife Gisele Bundchen and their son Benjamin. And then they proceeded to give up some ridiculously perfect family photos. There's QB1, as he always is, being tactile and openly loving with his boy, as the model mother watches affectionately, and joins in too. Vivian Lake, their daughter, was not with them.
Speaking of Little Vivian, now 8 months old, Gisele recently posted this photo of the two of them together on Instagram.
As you can see, Vivian's ears are pierced. And the judgy moms attacked. Good Morning America even got in on it, tweeting to their followers whether or not it was too young. Gisele's defenders then pointed out that this is common in South American culture, as well as in parts of Europe. I'm not from South America and I'm not from Europe either but my ears were pierced at 10 months, the first time. I have two extra ear piercings for a total of 3 on the left side which happened when I was 13 and I remember those – more because I didn't ask for permission – and not the original ones done when I was a baby.
Is my ma, the Squawking Chicken, a sh-tty mother? Is Gisele Bundchen a sh-tty mother?


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Ice cap
An ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than 50,000 km2 are termed ice sheets.[1][2][3]
Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features (i.e., they will lie over the top of mountains). By contrast, ice masses of similar size that are constrained by topographical features are known as ice fields. The dome of an ice cap is usually centred on the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the ice divide) towards the ice cap's periphery.[1][3]
Ice caps have significant effects on the geomorphology of the area that they occupy. Plastic moulding, gouging and other glacial erosional features become present upon the glacier's retreat. Many lakes, such as the Great Lakes in North America, as well as numerous valleys have been formed by glacial action over hundreds of thousands of years.
On Earth, there are about 30 million km3 of total ice mass. The average temperature of an ice mass ranges between −20 °C and −30 °C. The core of an ice cap exhibits a constant temperature that ranges between −15 °C and −20 °C.
High-latitude regions covered in ice, though strictly not an ice cap (since they exceed the maximum area specified in the definition above), are called polar ice caps; the usage of this designation is widespread in the mass media[4] and arguably recognized by experts.[5] Vatnajökull is an example of an ice cap in Iceland.[6]
Plateau glaciers are glaciers that overlie a generally flat highland area. Usually the ice overflows as hanging glaciers in the lower parts of the edges.[7] An example is Biscayarfonna in Svalbard.[8]
- Benn, Douglas; David Evans (1998). Glaciers and Glaciation. London: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-58431-9.
- Bennett, Matthew; Neil Glasser (1996). Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms. Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-471-96345-3.
- Greve, R.; Blatter, H. (2009). Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03415-2. ISBN 978-3-642-03414-5.
- "TIME Magazine Online: Arctic Ice Explorers". CNN. 2009-03-11. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- The National Snow and Ice Data Center Glossary
- Flowers, Gwenn E.; Shawn J. Marshall; Helgi Bjŏrnsson; Garry K. C. Clarke (2005). "Sensitivity of Vatnajŏkull ice cap hydrology and dynamics to climate warming over the next 2 centuries" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research. 110: F02011. Bibcode:2005JGRF..11002011F. doi:10.1029/2004JF000200. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
- Plateau Glaciers and their significance
- "Biscayarfonna (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 11 October 2019.


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The moment a suspected Islamic extremist grabbed a soldier from behind at Paris's Orly Airport has been captured on video.
The security footage, obtained by the Associated Press, shows Saturday's attack, which caused panic and shut down the French capital's second-biggest airport.
It shows the attacker grabbing the soldier around the shoulders as her companion patrols slightly ahead.
He drops his shopping bag, which authorities said contained a flask of fuel.
Holding a revolver loaded with birdshot, he pulls her backwards.
For a few moments, almost no-one reacts.
One passenger rolls a suitcase past the hostage soldier and the second soldier continues on his way.
Then, suddenly, people start backing away en masse as the attacker pulls his hostage towards them.
Yelling that he wanted to kill and die for Allah, according to the Paris prosecutor, Ziyed Ben Belgacem can be seeing trying to wrestle away the soldier's assault rifle near the small cluster of people.
The video shows the attacker using her as a shield after he apparently manages to get control of the weapon, but he exposes himself by standing up, giving her comrades a clear shot to kill him.
The hostage soldier crawls away from her attacker on her hands and knees.
The entire episode took less than three minutes.
No-one at the airport was injured.
Earlier on Saturday, a police officer was shot in the face with birdshot when officers stopped Belgacem for a traffic violation.
Authorities say Belgacem, a 39-year-old Frenchman, had a long criminal record of drug and robbery offences.
Post-mortem toxicology tests found traces of cocaine and cannabis in Belgacem's blood, according to the Paris prosecutors' office.
He also had 0.93 grams of alcohol per litre of blood when he died on Saturday, the prosecutors' office said.
That is nearly twice the legal limit for driving in France.
Prosecutors said Belgacem was at a bar early on Saturday.
In an interview on Sunday with French radio station Europe 1, a man identified as the suspect's father said Belgacem was not a practising Muslim and drank alcohol.


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Loft Bedroom Reveal~
It's about time!!
The loft bedroom is finally finished!
And since I don't want to keep you waiting any longer...
Here is the loft space BEFORE
And here is the loft BEDROOM AFTER
Read all about it after the break...
You may recall that the idea for turning the loft space into a bedroom space occurred to me several months ago when Boy One was pining for a room of his own. But since the space wouldn't really fit a traditional bed, I had to come up with a bed that would work. So I decided to create a bed that would look built-in (but wasn't really because we live in a rental) and would provide a ton of storage. I came up with a sketch which my father was then able to build - to perfection I might add.
Since the bed was a non-standard size, I had to alter a mattress to fit it. I talk about how I accomplished that task in this post.
After that, we slowly started to put the room together by creating custom art out of scrap wood and putting the finishing touches on the space this past weekend.
The space is petite, but we made the most of it. The drawers under the bed offer plenty of storage for clothes, books and other miscellaneous items.
|The room looking straight on from the stairs.
|The left side of the room with custom made artwork that I will tell you about in a future post.
Because the loft is an open space, we added curtains for privacy. We attached them to the ceiling using an ingenious solution that I'll share with you an in upcoming post. The cute sconce above the bed is the Hektar sconce from IKEA. I had originally wanted to use the Barometer desk lamp (also from IKEA) in the space, but ended up changing my plans a bit, and the sconce works perfectly instead.
|Here you can see the a peek of the curtains we put up for privacy.
|We used LACK bookcases to display Boy One's collection of Legos and books (he's a huge Harry Potter fan can you tell?)
I found this darling alarm clock at IKEA too - are you sensing a trend, yet? It's called the Dekad alarm clock and I adore it's vintage style. It sits on the bookcases across from the head of the bed...but that is good because it forces Boy One to get out of bed to turn it off. ;-)
Here's a close-up of one of Boy One's many Legos...
I asked you all to vote on ended up being hung vertically because it fit best in the space that way.
Here's a close-up of the FAB bedding in the space. I'm in serious love with this bedding. The "bedspread" is actually an Ursula throw from IKEA. The euro pillows and the striped pillows are also from IKEA. (The Ursula cushion covers for the Euros and the Valborg cushion covers on the stipe pillows.) The denim pillow was made by me several years ago, and the charcoal gray graphic pillows were purchased on Etsy.
I want to extend a HUGE thanks to IKEA Draper here in Utah for providing the following items to complete the loft bedroom: The Lack bookcases, 2 of the Ursula Euro Cushion covers and inserts, the Dekad alarm clock, and the Estrid curtain panels. (The rest of the IKEA items were purchased by me because I just love their stuff so darn much and it fits my budget perfectly!) And just my two cents worth, you'll note that this space is quite traditional in feel, and it incorporates a TON of IKEA items. A lot of people tend to shy away from IKEA fearing that their items are too modern. But this space proves that they can be easily incorporated into many different types of decor styles. The Lack bookcases are quite modern, but I feel that a traditional space usually looks best when it incorporates a touch of modern.
I'll be following up in the next week with a few tutorials on how we hung the curtains, how we created the canvas art, how I created the window treatment and the trick I used to create the chalkboard wall.
If you missed any of the other posts on this room you can find them at these links:
"Built-in Bed" for the Loft Bedroom
Loft "Built-in" Bed Progress
Custom Fitting a Foam Mattress
What I "Wood" Do with a Pretty Pile of Wood (the custom wood art)
Putting the Finishing Touches on the Loft Bedroom
Disclaimer: IKEA provided me with some - not all- of the IKEA items mentioned in this post, but the opinions I have expressed (in other words, my crazy LOVE for IKEA and their fabulous merchandise) are 100% authentic and my true opinions. :-)


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Mayor and Council,
City of Vancouver
453 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver BC V5Y 1V4
Via E-mail
April 7, 2011
Dear Mayor and Council,
Re: Proposed Relocation and Expansion of Edgewater Casino
We, the undersigned, are members or retired members of the VPD, RCMP and other law enforcement agencies operating in BC, Canada, and internationally. We all have decades of experience in law enforcement, and many of us have particular experience or undercover expertise with organized crime, gangs, and money-laundering. Organized crime and gang activity have become deeply entrenched in the Metro Vancouver environment and represent an ongoing threat to public safety.
We urge this Council not to approve the proposed expansion and relocation of the Edgewater Casino. Casinos and racetracks are well known for their vulnerability to the activities of gangs and organized crime–money-laundering, loan-sharking, extortion, and prostitution, as well as for the vulnerability to public corruption which they engender.
That organized criminals and gang members frequent BC casinos, and easily use them to launder money, or use them as sites for the operation of loan-sharking and prostitution, is well known. Policing in casinos and racetracks requires a robust commitment to real enforcement of the law–a commitment that is plainly lacking at the present time.
Further, we are very concerned about the impact of increased gambling on our addict population, or those at risk of entering it. We note the 2009 report of the B.C. Medical Association, Stepping Forward, which found that the incidence of severe gambling addiction has more than doubled between 2002-2009, and that BC now has nearly as many severe gambling addicts as it does drug addicts. Additionally, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has recently released a study showing that 29,000 Ontario teens in grades 7-12 now show signs of problem gambling.
It is no coincidence that these youths are also significantly more likely than their peers to engage in gang violence, carry a handgun, and deal drugs other than cannabis. Tragically, they are also 18 times more likely than their peers to have attempted suicide in the past year.
Locating a major casino in a major regional sporting complex sends a poor message to our youth.
Addiction is a blight on society. It has a close and mutually reinforcing relationship with crime. It promotes additional offenses such as property crimes and drug-dealing, as victims seek the money to feed their habits–whatever those may be. There is no way to measure the social cost of this suffering on victims and their families, but the health, policing, criminal justice, social services and corrections systems as well as charitable service agencies all bear the brunt of the increased pressures brought about by this public problem.
Securing new sources of government funds from addicts to pay for their increased demand on government services is not wise public policy.
Without significant changes in the policing protocol, and the adoption of rigorous crime control standards for casinos such as those employed by the Ontario Provincial Police, we are in no position to deal with the increased criminal activity that will necessarily attend the development of a massive casino on the scale proposed here.
As citizens and public servants, we owe a duty of care to society's weakest and most vulnerable, to our youth and seniors, and to the public at large. As police officers, we have seen the ravages of addiction and of gang and organized crime first-hand. The connection is closer than most members of the public may imagine.
We urge Vancouver City Council to vote against the expansion and relocation of the Edgewater Casino.
Yours truly,
Assistant Commissioner Earl Moulton – RCMP Commanding Officer Saskatchewan
(Ret'd) Chair of Vision Quest Recovery Society (Addiction recovery services, BC)
Deputy Chief Constable Peter Ditchfield, Organized Crime Agency of BC (Ret'd)
Detective Ian Pope, Organized Crime Agency of B.C., formerly VPD, (Ret'd)
Sergeant Bob Cooper, VPD Asian Organized Crime Section, (Ret'd)
Sergeant Ivan Chu, New Westminster Police Service (Ret'd)
Superintendent GlennWoods, Officer in Charge of Behavioural Sciences, RCMP (Ret'd)
Staff Sergeant Otto Bertagnolli, RCMP Drug Section (Ret'd)
Staff Sergeant Scot Filer, RCMP Major Crime Section (Ret'd)
Staff Sergeant Peter Montague, RCMP Commercial Crime Section (Ret'd)
Corporal Howard Parks, RCMP Money Laundering Expert (Ret'd)
Corporal Chris Mathers, RCMP Money Laundering Expert (Ret'd)
Sergeant Pat Powell, RCMP Threat Assessment Expert (Ret'd)
Inspector Keith Davidson, RCMP Major Crime Section (Ret'd)
Staff Sergeant Bob Hartl, RCMP Security Engineering Expert (Ret'd)
Dr Teal Maedel, RCMP Operational Psychologist (Major Crime Section)
Staff Sergeant Robert Stenhouse, RCMP Drug Section (Ret'd)
Staff Sergeant Sid Slater, RCMP Major Crime Section (Ret'd)
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Often the first question the lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies get when they talk about their effort to overturn California's anti-gay Proposition 8 is this: Are there five votes on the Supreme Court for their case? Olson, a Republican (and former U.S. Solicitor General), and Boies, a Democrat, are the dream team who led opposing legal camps in Bush v. Gore when that case was before the Court, in 2000, deciding the election for President Bush by a vote of 5-4.
After the customary and cautionary language about never being able to predict the Supreme Court's result, Olson and Boies often answer the question by going a step further. They say that they are not giving up on any of the Justices. Boies then tells a joke—he says that he and Olson have a deal: Olson will be responsible for getting the votes he got in Bush v. Gore, and Boies will be responsible for the ones he got. Everybody laughs. (One example is here.) So does the Supreme Court's health-care ruling make the joke more or less funny for conservatives?
There are two big gay-rights cases heading for the Court. (I've posted about them.) In addition to the Olson-Boies Proposition 8 case, there is the Massachusetts case known as Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, which challenges the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). A petition for certiorari review was filed in Gill on June 29th by the conservative lawyer Paul Clement, representing Republicans in the House of Representatives, who are prosecuting the case for DOMA, since the Obama Administration declined to defend it. In an unusual procedural move late last Tuesday afternoon, the Justice Department also asked the Court to consider the Gill case and another DOMA case, Golinski v. O.P.M., even before it was decided by the Ninth Circuit. The Court will certainly take the Marriage Act case and decide it during its next term. But I also think they will not resist the temptation to take the Proposition 8 case, even though they may later agree to handle it narrowly.
The Court will not have much flexibility in the DOMA cases. There is only one question presented: Is DOMA constitutional? It will have to be answered yes or no. In the Proposition 8 case, there are more options. The Court might restore same-sex marriage rights in California without finding a nationwide constitutionally based right to marriage equality. Even some advocates think that would be the best and most politically sustainable result. But there is little doubt that if the Court rules in favor of gay rights the decision will be significant, perhaps even historic. Most people assume that the fifth and deciding vote belongs to Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the Court's majority opinions in its two most recent big gay-rights rulings, Romer v. Evans (1996) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003).
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court in 2005, two years after Lawrence was decided, after only a short stint on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. None of the gay-rights-related cases that have come before him as a judge give any significant clues as to how he might rule on the weighty constitutional issues he will face next term. Interestingly, as the Los Angeles Times reported in 2005, before he was on the bench he "worked behind the scenes for gay rights activists" in the Romer case who were represented at the time by his law firm, Hogan and Hartson.
But now, in these marquee gay-rights cases facing the Court next term—as American public opinion, especially among young people, shifts rapidly towards greater equality—Roberts may find the very kind of "legacy" issues around which he has shown a willingness to break with his more conservatives colleagues. Put another way, these cases will help define what freedom and equality look like in America, perhaps for decades. Will Roberts want to be on the losing side of history?
Olson, writing in Time about the health-care ruling, says the "decision abounds with legal and political ironies." Although he goes on to discuss this incongruity in a different context, he has been hypothesizing for some time that the influences on Chief Justice Roberts in the health-care case might also lead him to rule in favor of the rights of gay Americans to full equality, including marriage. There is some reason to believe that Roberts would not want to be seen as leading a Court of right-wing judicial activists.
Fundamentally, we see that Roberts thinks of himself not just as another Justice of the Court but as its Chief Justice and, as such, as the primary keeper of its legacy. He is fifty-seven, and could serve on the Court for another twenty years or more. In the context of public opinion on gay rights and same-sex marriage, twenty years is a very long time.
If they decide against the rights of gay people next term, within a decade or so this issue is going to be right back before the Court and Justice Roberts will likely still be Chief. For example, it took seventeen years for the "wrongly decided" gay-sodomy issue (Bowers v. Hardwick, in 1986) to come back to the Justices and be overruled in the Lawrence case. It would likely happen more quickly now. At only the current rate of increase in the polls (about 1.5 per cent a year according to some estimates), that could put equal rights for gays, including marriage, at about a sixty-five per cent or higher approval rating.
If he rules against gay rights now, how is Roberts going to feel about the overturning of this precedent later—or having it overturned while he is still on the Court as Chief? That's not to say public opinion is the only factor here. But the Supreme Court has previously held that marriage is a fundamental right, and sexual orientation, especially when viewed from today's perspective, meets all the requirements for heightened constitutional scrutiny. It is because of the persuasiveness of those main arguments that we even get to the issue of public opinion. Historically, it is in these situations that public opinion matters and can be significant, as it was with the Court's rulings on civil-rights issues. It's never an issue of the Court looking to public opinion for the result—but they do look to the direction the country is headed, and at its normative values, to see if the result will be accepted by the governed. This is the gay-rights moment, just as the sixties was the civil-rights moment (although there are places, like the South, where public opinion is contrary, as it was in those landmark civil-rights cases).
Some theorize that Roberts tried to depoliticize the Court with his health-care ruling in order to gain some credibility before even more conservative decisions to come, like overturning affirmative action. Anything is possible, but that is not likely to be the outcome in these gay-rights cases, where Justice Kennedy will probably not be with conservatives. The question is whether a decade or more from now Chief Justice Roberts really wants to be leading a Court that embodies the last vestiges of anti-gay discrimination in the country, even as fewer and fewer Americans oppose equality. A ruling in favor of gay equality is possible, perhaps even likely, with or without the swing vote of Justice Kennedy. After the health-care decision, Ted Olson's belief that he can get John Roberts's vote for same-sex marriage is no joke.
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Super Bowl Snacks: Loaded Baked Potato Potato Chip Nachos Recipe
My forays into the world of creative junk food have not always been successful. Let's face it: I'm a girls' girl usually found wielding a baguette in one hand and a bottle of Champagne in the other. But, by way of confession, I really, really love the junk food aisle. Like most girls in their 20s, I try to curb my adoration. But, truth be told, there are few things I love more than a bag of crunchy Cheetos or Smartfood popcorn. I crumble ranch Doritos on top of cold delivery pizza. I once plucked an open but uneaten bag of Cheetos from the garbage in college (again, this is a confession), and my friends still tell the story of how I crawled inebriated into bed the night of my 18th birthday, refusing any company other than a bag of Cape Cod potato chips.
But, as I said, I do try to watch myself. I don't want "Kerry" to become as synonymous with potato chips as "Popeye" is with spinach. So, I look forward to those few occasions a year when junk food is encouraged and exalted: the Fourth of July, for instance, or most important, the Super Bowl. Super Bowl Sunday is when I cut loose all ties and dive straight into the blue cheese pool. Growing up in a tangle of Europeans did not do much for my football fever, so this Sunday is like my culinary Christmas.
This year, I wanted to outdo myself. And I think I did. I combined two of my favorite all-American junk food concoctions: nachos, and the loaded baked potato. Why should chips and cheese be relegated exclusively to flavors of the Southwest? Think of all the delectable permutations of chips and melted cheese that are possible! Instead of corn chips, I use super-crunchy kettle-cooked potato chips and load them with all the traditional baked potato fixings. I start with a creamy mashed potato spread, then shredded extra-sharp cheddar cheese, homemade bacon bits, and sliced scallions. I melt the whole concoction in a hot, crisping oven, and the baked potato chips emerge laden with drapes of oozing cheese. As a final touch, I add a giant spoonful of sour cream, which immediately starts to melt and pool around all the nooks and crannies. These chips are easy and innovative--and they won't last one quarter, so make a few batches!
- Yield:4 to 8
- 1 seven-ounce bag of kettle-cooked potato chips
- 1 medium russet potato, peeled, and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Salt and pepper
- 4 strips thick-cut bacon
- 1 cup grated extra sharp cheddar cheese
- 2 to 3 scallions, sliced
- 1/4 cup sour cream
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Place the peeled and cubed potato in a small sauce pan, and just cover it with cold water and a pinch of salt. Place the lid on the pot, crank the heat up to high, and cook the potatoes until they are fork tender.
To make the mashed potato topping, drain the potatoes and put them back in their hot pot (but not on a lit burner), just so a bit of the excess moisture will evaporate. Then pass the potatoes through a ricer, and add the butter and milk to the potatoes and mix to combine. Season with salt and pepper. If you do not have a ricer, don't despair. Just add the butter and milk to the chunks of potatoes and mash with a potato masher.
For the bacon bits, slice each thick-cut strip of bacon in half lengthwise, and then cut the thin strips about every quarter inch to create little squares. Put the bacon pieces into a small sauté pan over medium to medium-high heat, and cook until crisp, but not crisp all the way through, because they will continue to crisp slightly when you melt the cheese in the oven, and you don't want them to burn. Drain on a paper towel.
Fill an oven-safe wide plate with the chips. You don't need to use all of each topping; really, when building nachos, it depends on which chips and which dish you end up choosing. So just dollop away to your preference. Begin first with the mashed potatoes, then the extra sharp cheddar cheese, then the bacon bits, and lastly the scallions. Place the plate on a baking sheet, and bake for 10 minutes in the 400°F oven.
Lastly, dollop some sour cream over the top of the nachos, and serve straight from the oven, hot and gooey and really, really good.
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The state of California, responding to a petition from EWG and other groups, is going to re-evaluate the health effects of perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin. The Office of Environmental Hazard Assessment agreed they should look at new evidence that wasn't available in 2004, when they set a Public Health Goal of 6 parts per billion in drinking water, which the state has since adopted as a drinking water standard. EWG's March 2007 analysis of a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Boston University found that Boston-area infants were receiving twice as much perchlorate as the federal government's profoundly inadequate safety standard. We hope the new evidence convinces California to join Massachusetts by setting a new drinking water standard of 1 ppb or lower.


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TOM PHILPOTT | Commissaries feeling budget squeeze
Base commissaries face turbulent times as staff vacancies swell under a federal hiring freeze, employee furloughs remain a worry and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) digests budget guidance for fiscal 2015 that will force new efficiencies on stores and possibly deeper cuts to store operations.
The guidance directs at least a five percent ($70 million) cut to the $1.4 billion annual taxpayer subsidy needed to run 252 base grocery stores. It also directs DeCA to develop options to accommodate deeper cuts, as much as one third of the subsidy, without impacting commissaries overseas.
The commissary benefit has been targeted often over recent decades, usually when budget officials are told to identify quick savings or a new study concludes military shopping discounts are a costly anachronism for a modern force in an age when most patrons reside off base.
In the gloomy fiscal time of budget sequestration, there are some real, near-term factors threatening commissary services and patron access. There also is the more distant rumble that subsidies for stores might be slashed, which could deeply impact stateside shopping and, critics charge, even fumble a commitment to leave commissary operations overseas unchanged.
Watching these events closely is Patrick B. Nixon, a former DeCA director who now is president of the American Logistics Association. ALA represents manufacturers and vendors doing business with base stores.
Nixon said the most immediate threat to commissaries, where shoppers realize savings of more than 30 percent over commercial prices, is a federal hiring freeze, which took effect for stateside commissaries Feb. 4.
A hiring freeze hits commissaries harder than most other federal workplaces because 40 percent of store workers are military spouses or teenagers. That means high turnover and deeper job vacancy rates as families move to new assignments, leaving jobs that can't be filled and relocating near commissaries that can't rehire them.
"There are some stores whose staffing level is down below 70 percent because they can't hire replacements," Nixon said. He worries that the hiring freeze alone could force stores to reduce operating hours.
"We cannot speak to percentages of staffing levels right now," said DeCA spokesman Kevin L. Robinson from headquarters at Fort Lee, Va. "However, the hiring freeze has affected us," he said, noting staff turnover.
"The most significant effect has been our inability to hire store-level positions to ensure that product is on the shelf and that cashiers are in place to check out customers," Robinson said. "So we are working hard to maximize flexibility of our workforce by rescheduling employees and shifting them around to serve our customers during peak shopping periods."
Commissaries also would be impacted by any Defense-wide civilian employee furloughs. In March, after Congress finally passed a defense appropriations bill for this fiscal year, a tentative plan to furlough most Defense employees for 21 days was cut to 14 through September. Since then, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has said plans are being reconsidered.
There is hope Congress will grant enough relief from the across-the-board cut formula of sequestration that Defense employee furloughs can be avoided through a midyear budget reprogramming request, now working.
If that doesn't happen, commissaries will be closed an extra day per week during the furlough period. So if employees are to be furloughed 14 days, stateside commissaries would be closed an added day for 14 weeks.
"We are cautiously optimistic that they will find a solution to the furlough issue and that won't happen," said Nixon. "But that's our major concern right now — furloughs and the hiring freeze."
For fiscal 2014, the Obama administration has proposed full funding for commissaries, which signals strong support for the benefit, Nixon said. But the defense budget request doesn't reflect $52 billion in cuts from sequestration which will take effect in 2014 if, as expected, Republicans and Democrats continue to refuse to negotiate a significant debt — reduction deal.
For fiscal 2015, budget clouds over commissaries darken more. Various internal studies are eyeing the commissary subsidy for budget savings. More significantly, DeCA must follow a new "resource management directive" in shaping its 2015 budget that assumes a five percent cut to its annual appropriation. Nixon said commissaries likely could absorb a $70 million hit with help from industry partners and by executing new efficiencies.
Part two of the directive, however, is worrisome, Nixon said. DeCA is to prepare a series of options for reducing the taxpayer subsidy, by up to a third while fully protecting store operations overseas. That presents a challenge if the intent is to keep stores' current business model, he said.
The business model, set in law, is to sell goods at cost; collect a five percent surcharge from patrons to cover new store construction and capital improvements; and use appropriated dollars too, mostly for staff salaries and overseas transportation costs.
The model can still work if the appropriation is cut five percent, Nixon said. But cut more and a system widely recognized as efficiently run will have to cut into the bone by reducing operating hours and closing some stores, starting in about 15 areas with multiple commissaries such Seattle-Tacoma, San Antonio, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Fayetteville, N.C. and Hampton Roads, Va.
"They didn't build those commissaries on a whim. The need was there," said Kathy Moakler, director of government relations for National Military Family Association. "But if they don't have the staff to run them, people will get frustrated. Lord knows we wait in long lines at the commissary already."
If shopper experiences deteriorate with longer checkout lines and crowded parking lots, stateside commissary patrons could shop off base, ignoring commissary discounts. Falling sales stateside would ultimately affect overseas stores, which are more costly to operate, Nixon said. Advocates fear a kind of death spiral to a prized military benefit.
Factors in favor of commissaries weathering another budget storm, Nixon said, include strong support from Congress, and commitments from the President and first lady Michelle Obama to expand job opportunities and healthy lifestyles for veterans and military families, which base grocers do.


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The Lakers -- Not Afraid of a Kardashian Kurse
The Lakers Not Afraid of a Kardashian Kurse
Usually when athletes date celebrities, the only thing that skyrockets faster than their street cred is the number in their team's loss column ... but when it comes to Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom, the L.A. Lakers say they're A-OK.
We asked a team rep if the Kardashian Klan's presence at Tuesday night's season opener is going to set off a firestorm of Laker loses, and here's what we got:
"Good luck? Bad luck? I don't know that I believe in luck but we¹ll be happy to have them there ... we're happy to have Lamar¹s new family members at the game as well as future games, and we welcome their support."
Easy to say when you have Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest and Pau Gasol wearing purple and gold.
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