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The echinocandin class of antifungal agents is considered to be the first-line treatment of bloodstream infections (BSI) due to Candida glabrata. Recent reports of BSI due to strains of C. glabrata resistant to both fluconazole and the echinocandins are of concern and prompted us to review the experience of two large surveillance programs, the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program for the years 2006 through 2010 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention population-based surveillance conducted in 2008 to 2010. The in vitro susceptibilities of 1,669 BSI isolates of C. glabrata to fluconazole, voriconazole, anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin were determined by CLSI broth microdilution methods. Fluconazole MICs of ≥64 μg/ml were considered resistant. Strains for which anidulafungin and caspofungin MICs were ≥0.5 μg/ml and for which micafungin MICs were ≥0.25 μg/ml were considered resistant. A total of 162 isolates (9.7%) were resistant to fluconazole, of which 98.8% were nonsusceptible to voriconazole (MIC > 0.5 μg/ml) and 9.3%, 9.3%, and 8.0% were resistant to anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin, respectively. There were 18 fluconazole-resistant isolates that were resistant to one or more of the echinocandins (11.1% of all fluconazole-resistant isolates), all of which contained an acquired mutation in fks1 or fks2. By comparison, there were no echinocandin-resistant strains detected among 110 fluconazole-resistant isolates of C. glabrata tested in 2001 to 2004. These data document the broad emergence of coresistance over time to both azoles and echinocandins in clinical isolates of C. glabrata.
Resistance to the echinocandin antifungal agents, anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin, among the broad population of Candida spp. causing invasive candidiasis (IC), is distinctly uncommon (1, 18, 39, 46, 48, 55–58, 62). Among 15,269 clinical isolates of Candida spp. tested at the University of Iowa (Iowa City), only 25 (0.2%) showed resistance to one or more echinocandins using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) broth microdilution (BMD) method and interpretive criteria (39, 44). As such, the echinocandin class of antifungal agents is recommended as first-line therapy for candidemia and IC, especially in patients with severe sepsis, those previously exposed to azoles, and/or those infected with Candida glabrata (35).
Ever since the introduction of fluconazole in 1990 for the treatment of candidiasis, including IC, empirical antifungal therapy has been driven by fear of C. glabrata (56, 57). Decreased susceptibility of C. glabrata to fluconazole and cross-resistance to other azoles are well known (21, 22, 32, 35, 41, 43, 45, 56, 57). In the United States, C. glabrata has increased as a cause of IC from 18% of all bloodstream infection (BSI) isolates in the time period of 1992 to 2001 to 25% in 2001 to 2007, with a concomitant increase in fluconazole resistance from 9% to 14% (45). Given the distinct differences between the mechanisms of action and resistance for the azoles and the echinocandins (37, 38), the documented lack of cross-resistance between the two classes (27, 31, 42) is not surprising, and thus the recommendation that the echinocandins be used for treatment of IC in patients with prior exposure to azoles and/or infection with C. glabrata is well founded (24, 35, 56, 57). Global surveys have documented the exquisite in vitro susceptibility of C. glabrata to each of the echinocandins (MIC90, 0.015 μg/ml [micafungin], 0.06 μg/ml [caspofungin], or 0.12 μg/ml [anidulafungin]) (39). Furthermore, the clinical experience with the use of echinocandins to treat IC due to C. glabrata is quite favorable (2, 20, 28, 36, 51, 55).
Although documentation of acquired resistance to the echinocandins remains sporadic (3, 18, 37, 44, 48, 58, 62), several recent reports of acquired resistance in clinical isolates of C. glabrata focus concern on this species (5, 7, 11–15, 18, 19, 48, 58, 59, 62). Data from global surveys demonstrate that the frequency of echinocandin resistance among clinical isolates of C. glabrata ranges from 1 to 3% and is higher among isolates from North America (3%) than among those from Europe (1%), Latin America (0.0%), or the Asia-Pacific region (0.0%) (39, 47). It is now clear that clinical isolates of C. glabrata with decreased susceptibility to one or more echinocandins harbor mutations in fks1 and/or fks2 and are also resistant clinically (5, 15, 37, 48, 59, 62). Chapeland-Leclerc et al. (5) reported a case of IC due to C. glabrata in which the infecting strain acquired resistance to flucytosine, fluconazole, voriconazole, and caspofungin through successive independent events following prolonged exposure to each class of antifungal agent. The recovery of different isolates exhibiting clonality for microsatellite markers but genetic diversity for antifungal resistance markers (three unique resistance mechanisms) demonstrates the high propensity of C. glabrata to readily mutate in vivo in a single patient (5). Additional reports from medical centers in the United States and Denmark provide further documentation of multidrug-resistant (MDR) (resistant to two or more classes of antifungal agents) strains of C. glabrata (13, 18, 19, 48, 62). One potential explanation for the emergence of MDR in C. glabrata is that the haploid nature of the organism makes it particularly adept at acquiring and expressing resistance mutations in response to drug pressure (5, 37, 48, 62).
The generally excellent wild-type (WT) susceptibility of C. glabrata to the echinocandins coupled with broadening azole resistance has driven the use of echinocandins for treatment of infections due to C. glabrata and at the same time has generated selection pressure for resistant organisms (4, 5, 11, 18, 24, 33–35, 48, 56, 57, 62). The fact that echinocandins are recommended for use in the setting of prior azole exposure and specifically for the treatment of IC due to C. glabrata raises the concern that acquired resistance to the echinocandins may emerge independently in fluconazole-resistant strains due to mutations in fks (5, 24, 48, 62). In an effort to further examine this issue, we have addressed the frequency of decreased susceptibility to the echinocandin class of antifungal agents among fluconazole-resistant strains of C. glabrata BSI isolates from two large antifungal surveys, the SENTRY Global Surveillance Program for the years 2006 through 2010 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) population-based surveillance conducted in the Atlanta, GA, and Baltimore, MD, metropolitan areas between 2008 and 2010. Those isolates with decreased susceptibility (either intermediate [I] or resistant [R]) to one or more of the echinocandins were further examined for mutations in fks1 and fks2.
Organisms.A total of 1,669 isolates of C. glabrata from blood or other normally sterile sites were obtained from diverse medical centers worldwide (SENTRY; 847 isolates) or from those in the Atlanta and Baltimore metropolitan areas (CDC; 822 isolates). All isolates represented incident episodes of IC (first positive blood culture). Isolates were identified by standard methods and stored in water at ambient room temperature (SENTRY) or in glycerol at −70°C (CDC) until used in the study. Before testing, each isolate was passaged on Sabouraud dextrose agar (Remel, Lenexa, KS) and CHROMagar (Becton, Dickinson, Sparks, MD) to ensure purity and viability.
A total of 21 fluconazole-resistant isolates of C. glabrata for which MICs for one or more echinocandin were I or R were further characterized for the presence or absence of mutations in the hot spot (HS) regions of fks1 and fks2 as described previously (3, 62).
Antifungal susceptibility testing.All isolates were tested for in vitro susceptibilities to anidulafungin, caspofungin, micafungin, fluconazole, and voriconazole using CLSI BMD methods (8, 9). MIC results for all agents were read visually following 24 h of incubation as the lowest concentration of drug that caused a significant diminution (≥50% inhibition) of growth compared with control levels (8, 9). The recently revised CLSI clinical breakpoints were used to identify strains of C. glabrata that were either I or R to the echinocandins and R or nonsusceptible (NS) to the azoles (40, 41, 44): anidulafungin and caspofungin MIC values of 0.25 μg/ml were considered I, and MIC values of ≥0.5 μg/ml were considered R; micafungin MIC values of 0.12 μg/ml were considered I, and MIC values of ≥0.25 μg/ml were considered R; fluconazole MIC values of ≥64 μg/ml were considered R, and voriconazole MIC values of >0.5 μg/ml were considered NS. Quality control was performed by testing the CLSI-recommended strains Candida krusei ATCC 6258 and Candida parapsilosis ATCC 22019 (8, 9).
Frequency of resistance to fluconazole and voriconazole.Among 1,669 BSI isolates of C. glabrata collected during the course of the two surveillance programs, 162 (9.7%) were resistant to fluconazole, including 62 of 847 (7.3%) isolates from the SENTRY Program (years 2006 to 2010) and 100 of 822 (12.2%) isolates from the CDC population-based surveillance (years 2008 to 2010). Among the 162 fluconazole-resistant isolates, 160 (98.8%) were NS to voriconazole (MIC > 0.5 μg/ml) (40).
Decreased susceptibility to echinocandins among fluconazole-resistant C. glabrata isolates.Among the 162 fluconazole-resistant isolates of C. glabrata, there were 21 isolates (13.0%) that were either I or R to one or more of the echinocandins (Table 1): 3.7% and 9.3% were I or R, respectively, to anidulafungin, 3.7% and 9.3% to caspofungin, and 4.9% and 8.0% to micafungin. Mutations in either fks1 or fks2 were detected in 19 of the 21 (90.5%) echinocandin I or R isolates (Table 1). There were 18 fluconazole-resistant isolates (11.1% of all fluconazole-resistant isolates) that were R to one or more of the echinocandins (MIC ≥ 0.25 μg/ml [micafungin] or ≥ 0.5 μg/ml [anidulafungin and caspofungin]), all (100.0%) of which demonstrated an acquired mutation in fks1 or fks2.
Table 2 provides a comparison of the frequency of I or R among 110 fluconazole-resistant strains of C. glabrata collected from diverse medical centers worldwide between 2001 and 2004 (27, 42) and that of the present collection, representing the time period 2006 to 2010. Results from the two time periods were obtained with CLSI reference methods in different laboratories; however, quality control procedures were rigorously performed during all studies, suggesting that testing conditions did not influence the differences noted.
Whereas there were no echinocandin-resistant strains among 110 fluconazole-resistant isolates of C. glabrata tested between 2001 and 2004, a period where only caspofungin was available, there were 18 echinocandin-resistant strains (11.1%) among the 162 fluconazole-resistant isolates representing the latter time period. All of these had mutations in fks (Tables 1 and 2).
These data document for the first time the broad emergence of coresistance over time to both azoles and echinocandins in clinical isolates of C. glabrata. Whereas resistance to azoles in isolates of C. glabrata has been documented to be due to the overexpression of CDR efflux pumps (52, 53), there is little or no evidence that efflux pumps are involved in resistance to the echinocandins (31, 50). The documentation of fks mutations in isolates of C. glabrata showing in vitro resistance to both azoles and echinocandins suggests the sequential accumulation of acquired resistance mechanisms as demonstrated by Chapeland-Leclerc (5). The lack of coresistance in C. glabrata in the 2001-to-2004 time period is not surprising given that among the echinocandins only caspofungin was available, having been just approved in the United States and Europe in 2001. Since that time, the overall use of echinocandins in the United States has increased significantly, from 7.7 ± 5.3 days of therapy (DOT) per 1,000 patient-days in 2004 to 13.1 ± 8.6 DOT per 1,000 patient-days in 2008 (mean ± standard deviation [SD]) (P < 0.001) (33). During the same time period (2004 to 2008), the use of azoles increased as well, from 67.6 ± 29 to 72 ± 33 DOT per 1,000 patient-days, but this change was not significant (P = 0.1570) (33).
Whereas a shift to non-albicans species of Candida, particularly C. glabrata, has been a cause for alarm among clinicians caring for profoundly ill patients in the hospital (23, 26, 61), others have suggested that this is not a concern in the current "echinocandin era" (16, 56, 57). Prior to the availability of the echinocandins, concern over the reduced azole susceptibility of C. glabrata was a major issue for clinicians (10, 22, 29, 32, 54). Both in vitro and clinical studies have documented excellent activities of the echinocandins against C. glabrata and other potentially azole-resistant species, and the echinocandins have been rapidly replacing the azoles as first-line therapy for IC (4, 17, 18, 24, 30, 33, 35, 55, 58). Thus, in addition to the continued high use of azoles, the significant increase in the use of echinocandins places considerable selection pressure on C. glabrata, resulting in the emergence of MDR strains. It must be noted that thus far, Candida isolates demonstrating reduced echinocandin susceptibility appear following prolonged exposure to the drug, and these infections are manifested as recurrent episodes of candidemia in severely immunocompromised patients (48, 58).
Exposure to fluconazole is recognized by some (6, 22, 25, 49, 60) but not all (10, 54) investigators as a risk factor for fluconazole-resistant C. glabrata. Aside from reports of breakthrough fungemias, some involving fks mutations, there is little comparable data for the echinocandins and their influence on species distribution or resistance patterns in IC (58). Recently Lortholary et al. (24) examined the effect of exposure to fluconazole (n = 159) or caspofungin (n = 61) on the proportions of the five major species of Candida. For both drugs, preexposure was associated with a decreased prevalence of C. albicans in favor of less drug-susceptible species (C. glabrata and C. krusei for the former; C. parapilosis, C. glabrata, and C. krusei for the latter; P = 0.001). Not only did the species distribution change in patients with recent exposure to fluconazole and caspofungin, but the overall susceptibilities of the isolates to these drugs decreased. Notably, two C. glabrata isolates recovered from patients previously exposed to caspofungin during incident candidemia had high caspofungin MICs and harbored mutations in fks1 (24). The authors caution that a new episode of sepsis after a recent prescription of antifungals may be due to isolates with decreased susceptibility to the prescribed drugs, including caspofungin (24). In light of this, it should be noted that among the CDC isolates of C. glabrata with fks mutations for which epidemiological data were available, all came from patients with prior exposure to an echinocandin (62).
In summary, we have documented the emergence of coresistance to the echinocandins among BSI isolates of fluconazole-resistant C. glabrata. Among the 18 fluconazole-resistant isolates with coresistance to the echinocandins, all were from the United States, consistent with our previous observations concerning the geographic distribution of echinocandin resistance in C. glabrata, where the highest frequency of resistance was seen in North America (3%) versus Europe (1%), Latin America (0.0%), and the Asia-Pacific region (0.0%) (47). The increased use of both azoles and echinocandins will most certainly bring selection pressure to bear against C. glabrata, a species that appears to be unique in its ability to sequentially acquire and express resistance mutations. Specifically, the targeted use of echinocandins in severely immunocompromised individuals with prior exposure to azoles and/or infection with C. glabrata will ensure that this dual drug pressure is maintained. Although the vast majority of C. glabrata isolates remain highly susceptible to the echinocandin class of antifungal agents, the increase in MDR C. glabrata strains is a serious concern and argues for continued close resistance surveillance and the increased application of standardized antifungal susceptibility testing. Heightened awareness, rather than complacency, concerning the importance of C. glabrata should be the watchword for those caring for patients at risk for IC.
The antifungal global surveillance program which served as the source of data used in the development of the manuscript was supported in part by Pfizer Inc. and by Astellas.
We acknowledge the excellent assistance of S. Benning and P. Clark in the preparation of the manuscript; Tom Chiller, Carol Bolden, and Naureen Iqbal for data collection at the CDC; Monica M. Farley and Betsy Stein at Emory University School of Medicine and the Atlanta VA Medical Center and surveillance officers of the Georgia EIP and the hospitals in Georgia Health District 3 for assistance with data collection; Lee H. Harrison and Rosemary A. Hollick of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and the staff of Maryland ABCs and the hospitals in Baltimore city and Baltimore County, MD. We thank all of the surveillance centers that contributed isolates to both surveillance programs. We also thank G. J. Moet and L. N. Woosley.
The findings and conclusions of this article are ours and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Received 14 October 2011.
- Returned for modification 7 November 2011.
- Accepted 9 January 2012.
- Accepted manuscript posted online 25 January 2012.
- Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.


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SDCC 2017: Solving The Flash Costume Problems
After posting pictures of the Justice League movie costumes, Fanboy Planet got a lot of hate for the Flash's costume. Even in LEGO form, the strange armored look gets highlighted, and the Flash has a very severe problem with the breast plate. That's got to chafe. Fortunately, thanks to The Tick Takeover, we can safely say that for every problem at Comic-Con, there's a solution.
Frankly, that looks uncomfortable. But not to worry! All the Flash has to do is run to The City, and Dr. Hands will take care of everything.

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I like the active/hot corner feature on mac's. This feature triggers an action in case user places mouse pointer into a corner. So 4 different actions can be defined. Note that when you repeat the mouse movement to the same corner the everything will be as it was before.
I like the most
show desktop
show all open applicationsfrom which I can make one of them active.
Is there any equivalent to this on Windows (Windows 7)? I particularly want to access desktop and see all open applications.


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Archive: March 2015
Garden of Love Seed Paper Wedding Favors
Rustic and chic, the new Garden of Love Seed Paper Wedding Favors are perfect for adding a natural touch of beauty to your wedding. Take a look at the latest in Seed Paper Wedding Favors! Read more
Easy & Creative Earth Day Shapes
Easy, affordable and eco-friendly, Seed Paper Printed Shapes are a great way to showcase your eco-commitment this Earth Day in a creative and colorful way. Read more
5 Ways To Incorporate Seed Paper Confetti Into Your Wedding
The possibilities are truly endless when it comes to Plantable Seed Paper Confetti - especially when it's incorporated into weddings! Take a look at this list of fabulous ideas for including Seed Paper Confetti into your big day. Read more
FREE Earth Day Graphics With Purchase
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{freebie} Easter Egg Printables
Make these colorful and vibrant Easter Egg Printables extra special by printing them on seed paper so recipients can grow wildflowers! Take a look at this post for five cute and creative ideas for presenting these adorable Easter Egg Printables to your loved ones. Read more
Remembering Loved Ones - Quotes & Poems For Seed Paper Memorial Favors
Losing a loved one is undoubtedly one of the hardest challenges people face and while nothing can make the grief go away, comforting poems and quotes can help ease the pain. Read more


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Investing in advertising space within and around Central Coast Stadium is a fantastic way to expose your brand to tens of thousands of fans and passersby. During major sporting events, the potential reach is 20,000 people. This brand awareness can also be amplified by the television viewing audience obtained through live sporting coverage by Channel 9 and/or Fox Sports.
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Amid cheers and flashes from workers' camera phones, the last white Ford Ranger rolled off the sidewinder line Friday morning with a rose in its bed. An automatic garage door flung open and 53-year employee Dallas Theis drove the little pickup out of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant -- 86 years, seven months and 12 days after the first boxy Model T was manufactured along the Mississippi River in St. Paul.
Michael Bartlett, an assembly line trim worker from Coon Rapids, stood on the edge of the sea of hundreds of co-workers, retirees and plant supervisors in what they call 201 -- the end of the line. He understood the celebratory mood and felt relief that comes at the end of 13 years of punishing his body installing heavy electrical wire harnesses under engines.
At the same time, he felt like mourning.
"It was pretty darn surreal seeing a dark, quiet plant filled with people taking pictures and saying goodbyes," said Bartlett, 39. "We're pretty much family and you get down and bummed out because change is very hard and now we're forced to change and reset our lives."
Bartlett has gone through a recent home foreclosure and divorce. He took a 2006 buyout, giving up any future Ford transfers, but was plucked off a rehire list three weeks later -- his seniority stripped, his $28-an-hour wage shrunk by $10 an hour.
"Back in 2008 when they first announced the plant closing, there were more jobs out there than in this economy," he said. "It's very, very, very scary right now with another 800 of us hitting the unemployment line at the same time."
Nearby, Marsha Anderson-Shearen, the financial secretary-treasurer of United Auto Workers Local 879, was feeling a similar roll of emotions.
"It was hard to choke back tears," she said. "We all went from happy to sad and back on a difficult day."
Thomas Epperson, of Oakdale, started working in the Ford cafeteria 21 years ago and moved up to the trim line. The chairman of the plant's veterans committee, he painted a massive mural in the training center. As he watched the last Ranger roll out, he said: "It's like you've been preparing for a big holiday meal. Then you're done eating and now it's time to do the dishes."
The last Ranger is heading to the Orkin Pest Control fleet, according to the company's spokesman in Atlanta and Ford sources in Dearborn, Mich.
"We've had a great relationship with Ford and when we found out they were discontinuing the Ranger, we asked if we could have it and they said 'yes,'" said Sarah Robinson, adding the pickup will go into the regular service rotation but might end up in the corporate archives.
Ford introduced Rangers in 1982 to compete with small pickups from Japan. Their popularity peaked in the mid-1990s when about 300,000 Rangers and 1.2 million small pickups overall accounted for 8 percent of all U.S. vehicles sold. That number has dropped to 2 percent of the market, or fewer than 300,000 vehicles.
But the plant closing reflects some dire trends that transcend slumping small-truck sales: 60 percent of the 450 U.S. automaker-owned plants have shuttered since 1979.
And with 800 Ford jobs now gone, down from more than 2,000 at the plant's peak in the late 1970s, Minnesota has lost nearly one-quarter of its 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the late '90s.
"It's a sad day for St. Paul," Mayor Chris Coleman said at the plant gates.
A macabre Mardi Gras
Up Ford Parkway a few blocks to the east, workers packed into Tiffany's Sports Lounge, which opened three hours earlier than usual and offered drink specials and a breakfast spread to honor the end of an era. Adam Woods, 36, arrived at 8 a.m. and forsook the last Ranger ceremony going on at the plant.
"I saw 500 of them every day," he said.
Benjamin Gross, 61, came from his home in Eagan to the raucous bar with a Santa hat and a shirt festooned with fiery flames and skulls he said signified "the doom and gloom for the American working class."
"I went from a part-timer at $10 an hour with no benefits to $30 an hour with medical, dental, vision, vacation and college tuition," he said. "I put two kids through college thanks to Ford."
Theresa English, 37, said through the Tiffany's roar that her 13-year-old youngest child, Tezmond, recently asked: "Mom, if you lose your job, what happens to me?"
She told him to put his faith in family and God. She has a job interview Monday at a temporary employment agency that would pay her $10 less an hour than Ford. If she lands it, she hopes to help her displaced co-workers find jobs.
A farewell token
On the Ford Parkway sidewalk outside the plant's main gate, Katherine Werner and her sister, Karen Johnson, stood with signs proclaiming " 'FORD' EVER THANKFUL'' and "86 Years, Thank You Ford Folks." Cars honked all morning in support of the message.
Their late grandfather, Bill Priglmeier, worked at the plant for 35 years, retiring in the '70s, raising a family as a widower with no college degree, but a good paycheck and benefits from Ford. He'd bring home paint chips from the plant floor to make cuff links.
"Whether they've worked here five years or 25, it's their last day and that's sad," Werner said.
One worker stopped when he saw her, rolled down his window and handed Werner his Ford employee identification badge.
"Here," he said. "This will help you remember a really good company."
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For more videos, please visit our Vancouver Not Vegas YouTube Channel. There you will also find our list of favourite videos, which provide useful information on gambling and gaming expansion.
The TED video above, both funny and brilliant, demonstrates that citizens aren't actually apathetic, they're just victims of "constructed apathy"—intentional exclusion from political processes. Dave Meslin reveals our misunderstanding of what "heroism" is—that in actual fact, heroes aren't chosen. Heroism is voluntary, messy, imperfect, and born of collective need not isolated individual action. His description of how City Halls hide development plan notices in the back of publications is quite comic.
The video above is testimony by Robert Goodman, Professor of Economic Development at Amherst. He is speaking against an idea similar to what we faced in Vancouver – a Philadelphia plan to situate a large casino in a residential area. (It was defeated). Goodman is a pre-eminent critic of gaming expansion in the US and has conducted many studies for the US federal government (both Dem and Rep administrations) as well as major foundations such as the Ford Foundation, detailing the often faulty economics of gambling as a form of economic development.
Interesting facts: Goodman comes from a labour union family and gambles himself (never slots, only poker). Highlights:
19:35 talking about why convenience gambling is an economic zero-sum game
20:15 case studies showing crime increases when casinos go in; looking at murders
23:35 "The only think you can count on is that "things will change" — revenues go up, then they drop, then you can't keep people gambling at the same level — except problem gamblers. Then you need more problem gamblers, so you create them. The casinos need them; their profits are dependent on them. That's why they want to locate in areas where there are a lot of people. The more people you can get to gamble, the more problem gamblers you'll have. They'll thrown a lot of money at addiction studies, at counselling, Gamblers Anonymous etc, but they need those people to keep gambling."
25:11 "In Atlantic City, just 4 years after they opened casinos there, they lost 1/3 of retail business, lost 40% of their restaurants. Gone. How can restaurants compete with a restaurant at a casino where they make their money on gambling not restaurants where they comp meals or sell cheap meals. What happened in Louisiana, and this will happen: the restaurant and bar people will come back and ask for slot machines at restaurants. It happened! The governor of Loiuisiana is in federal prison right now for giving out licenses too liberally for money. They legalized slots at restaurants; bars complained they couldn't compete; they legalized slots in bars. Then the gas station diners did the same thing. Now Louisiana has the highest level of problem gambling in the US, 7% of the adult population. Be careful! Minimize it as much as you can! Write into the legislation and control the takeout rate."
27:36 Racetrack story about how the gambling industry pushes for more and more concessions. Share less and less revenue with cities, claim job loss (we're seeing this with Paragon right now)
Goodman actually spoke in Vancouver in 1994 when the Steve Wynn waterfront casino was defeated here. Goodman is a professor of economic development, urban planning and environmental design at Amherst. He was Director of a two-year study funded by the Ford Foundation conducted at U. Mass Amherst that looked at the costs and benefits of gambling expansion throughout the US. He focused particularly on economic issues, but also on social issues as viewed from the standpoint of their economic costs. He was also the director of the US Gambling Research Institute and helped set up the federal government's National Gambling Impact Study Commission. His comments on the "it's a done deal" argument are amazing. He remarks that when you are accused of "tilting at windmills" you should remember that the writers of the US Constitution were accused of the same thing. Here in Vancouver, citizens fighting the freeways in 70s were told the freeways were a done deal, and today we are one of the only North American cities free of freeway blight. Excellent video – and some of the best moments are in the Q&A at the end.
A sample from March 8, Day 2 of the public hearing at City Hall on the proposed casino expansion:
For those who missed our February 9 public forum, please see our videos here:
In the US:
Above, Massachussetts Senator Sue Tucker, speaking against casino expansion in her state.


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10-year-old boy killed by carbon monoxide leaked from fridge
His family was found passed out in their Alaskan holiday home. What are the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning that you should know of?
Sometimes, the most unexpected killers lurk in our own homes.
The Kleb family had been staying in their holiday home in Alaska, when 10-year-old Gavin started vomiting while his sister - 8-year-old Caroline - complained of a headache.
Thinking it was just the flu, mum Sarah gave Gavin some medicine and asked him to rest.
Soon after, a family friend texted Sarah, but after getting no reply, made her way to the cabin. She found the whole family unconscious.
Sarah had passed out in bed with her little girl Caroline and Gavin was found on the sofa in the main room of the cabin.
The family were rushed to hospital. Sarah and Caroline were flown to Seattle for hyperbaric chamber oxygen. While they revived, young Gavin sadly never woke up.
The family had all been diagnosed with carbon monoxide poisoning. Older brother Connor and dad Matt were not staying at the property at the time.
But what caused it?
It was the fridge. The propane-powered device had been leaking the noxious gas gradually, slowly poisoning the family.
Heartbroken mum Sarah told Alaska Dispatch News that at no time did she ever imagine their symptoms were indicative of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning
According to Mayo Clinic, the signs and symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning could include:
- Dull headache
- Weakness
- Dizziness
- Nausea or vomiting
- Shortness of breath
- Confusion
- Blurred vision
- Loss of consciousness
As in the case of the Kleb family, some of the symptoms are very similar to those of flu, making it very hard to diagnose in time.
How do I know carbon monoxide is leaking in my home?
It's not just from a faulty fridge that this gas may be emitted - a malfunctioning stove can also be the source.
While it's very hard to detect the presence of this toxic gas in your home, there are few clues that may indicate it is present.
- A stale and stuffy smell in a clean home.
- Excessive moisture on windows and walls, especially if close to an appliance such as a fridge.
- Inconsistencies in pilot light on gas stove, e.g. it consistently goes out.
- The flames and pilot light on your gas stove turn yellow (when they are usually blue).
- The smell of gas in your home.
Parents, ensure there is always good ventilation in your home, especially in the kitchen area. And have your appliances tested for irregularities, especially if they are old.
Stay safe!
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Q: Why do you need progesterone shots for the twins? Did you undergo IVF?
A: Nope! It was a spontaneous pregnancy 😅 Carrying multiples (in my case, twins) automatically categorizes my pregnancy as high risk. We are prone to pre-term labor a.k.a. giving birth too early so the progesterone shots help keep the babies inside my womb for longer. Some people use the term "pangpakapit."
Q: Hi Saab. I'm also pregnant and on my second trimester. I want to dye my hair. I noticed that you also had your hair done? 😅 What brand do you recommend? Organic is okay? Thank you
A: Hello! If you read up on it, it really shouldn't affect your baby's development. Even bleach is not forbidden but people like to stay on the safe side. My doctor recommends organic dye. I personally just make sure there's no ammonia in my hair color and I don't let anybody but professionals touch my hair. I try not to get it colored too much either. If it's a high maintenance color like blonde, I wouldn't recommend getting your hair colored because it needs a LOT of upkeep. I just got my hair color refreshed today (see picture above!) and asked for it to be closer to my real hair color because I just want it as low-maintenance as possible since I'll have my hands full with two babies 😅 Honestly, if I didn't get pregnant while I had bleached hair, I wouldn't have bothered coloring my hair. But I believe it's important for moms-to-be to feel good about themselves and I would've lost my mind if I had half dark, half blonde hair. Today I used Majirel Cool Cover Dark Brown #3 :)
"Although fairly limited, most research indicates the chemicals found in both semi-permanent and permanent dyes are not highly toxic and are safe to use during pregnancy. In addition, only small amounts of hair dye may be absorbed by the skin, leaving little that would be able to reach the fetus." (americanpregnancy.org)
"The limited evidence that's available suggests that it's safe to dye your hair during pregnancy. … There are no reports of hair dye causing changes in human pregnancies, despite the fact that many women have colored their hair during pregnancy. Very little hair dye chemical is actually absorbed into your system." (babycenter.org)
Still, I would suggest listening to your doctor's advice. He/she would know best! P.S. Thank you so much to Karina of Regine's Salon Ortigas for always taking care of me and my hair ❤
Q: Hi! I just wanted to drop by and say that I listened to your 1st album today when I woke up and now I can't get out of bed hahaha! Ultimate chill music 👌
A: Thank you so much!!
Q: Hi Saab! I've had this casual relationship w this guy for a few months. He told me a while back not to fall in love with him but all he does is flirt w me in front of our friends. Is that weird? lol
A: AY, siya ba si Mandy Moore sa A Walk To Remember??
Anyway, I don't think it's weird at all if you guys agreed to a casual relationship. If it's weird for you and you're developing feelings, then I would suggest speaking up. If he doesn't want a more serious relationship then at least you know! You want to be with someone who wants you back, right?
Q: Dear Saab, You are so so very beautiful and funny as well as smart and outspoken. Always, a great role model. Sending you love, joy and fairy dust for your little ones, you and Jim!
A: That's not a question but I'm posting it anyway because you're sweet. 💕
Q: what is your hobby?
A: Lately it's growing-human-limbs-inside-my-body.
Q: How did you take care of your colored hair while pregnant? I'm on my 5th month and I hate that the roots showing :(
A: See above answer!
Q: Hi Saab! How do you deal with stress right now? HELP ME. :-( PS. You're still fabSaab even though you're preggo. love u
A: Meditating every morning has done wonders for me talaga. I have this app called CALM and I use it every day. It was very hard at first like I always felt like I had no time to do it but it just takes 10 minutes of keeping still and training my brain to stop getting distracted and overthinking. It's like a muscle and since I'm not allowed to exercise right now, I've been exercising my brain! Thank you for the compliment although that "even though you're preggo" bit always gets me! I've been getting a lot of that recently and I don't want to make a big deal out of it because I'm supposed to just take the compliment, right? But are pregnant women supposed to be ugly and unfabulous?! I guess that just seems strange to me because most of my friends that I saw pregnant looked great and happy so this notion is all new to me 😅 ANG DALDAL KO. Kailangan pang mag-meditate 😂
Q: Hi Saab! Can you tour us in your new home? :)
A: Somebody put it in my head that that's a way for thieves to know the layout of your house so I'm paranoid about that 😅
Q: Dating this guy for 2mos now – so happy for us to be mutual. NBSB here~ Hihi pero I want it to be official na rin. So Saab, howdoyouknow sya na? He's very vocal and effort tlga. I like him, suuuper
A: In my head kasi if I'm only seeing you and nobody else, you're my boyfriend. It doesn't have to be a big deal. Don't overthink it. I used to do that and I hated that my mental list of boyfriends was growing — as if it was turning me into damaged goods the longer the list got. But omg I just got over it because WHO CARESSSSSSS?! Hahaha! Seriously! If your future life partner gives you shit for your past, that guy shouldn't be your life partner. What I'm trying to say is this: enjoy your life. Don't overthink these labels like "NBSB" because no one is keeping score but you. Don't celebrate ~monthsaries~ (unless you really want to), just enjoy each other's company. Jim never asked me to be his girlfriend. Our anniversary was our first kiss which was on our first date. Haha. ARE YOU JUDGING ME??? Best decision I ever made!😜


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It costs only £20 to provide one more person with safe drinking water for 10 years!
As part of our community transformation programme, we are working to provide safe drinking water to over 20,000 people in the Itinyi Valley and surrounding area. Nestled between the two Tsavo National Parks, this community has been trapped in a cycle of poverty over generations.
During the rainy season these communities fetch water from man-made water holes, which they share with wild animals and so is unsafe to drink. Once the rainy season is over, this water source dries up and the struggle for survival intensifies for these families. The region only has an annual rainfall of around 466mm.
The Kasigau Corridor is an 80,000 square mile stretch of land – situated between the two Tsavo National Parks and home to 100,000 people, who are destitute. During the short rainy season, the people lack basic resources such as rain water catchment on their roofs to collect water, or tanks to retain it there until the next downfall.
Not only is there a short rainy season, there is very little ground water and not many productive wells which makes water very scarce in the region. Therefore a multi-pronged approach is needed. In the Kasigau region, rock water catchments are the most effective way of harvesting and storing large volumes of safe drinking water during the rainy season.
Over the next 5 years, our aim in the Tsavo Project is to develop a highly impactful holistic model of community transformation in one of Kenya's driest regions, initially within a community of 14,000 in the Itinyi Valley, rolling out to the families in the surrounding area.
In the rainy season, water is sourced from open catchment areas which are open to the elements and wild animals. The same water hole where clothes are washed, provides water to drink, along with the danger of disease.
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In the same vein as your post on upgrading Netflix, I wanted to share a bit of info on what happens when you downgrade. Instead of immediately adjusting you to the new program you selected, Netflix delays the change until your billing cycle date hits. It's nice because you can downgrade without losing unused service, and without having to remember to do it right at your cycle date.
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After a lot of work, I now have about 2,000 bf of walnut stacked and drying, and I have a few questions.
It was a heckuva project-with one comedic slight hit that cost me a hundred bucks for some siding, and one very tense (two broken ropes and the tree sitting back down into the kerf) situation where I nearly owned a shed and all of its contents. In both situations-my friends were putting tension on the tree while I was cutting, and things went wrong. On the second situation-where the tree curved toward and over the shed-I made my buddy take over cutting while I put proper tension on the rope to guide the tree down. But it's all done now but for the drying.
My question is—you can see I stacked the lumber with stickers, and got it pretty level, starting on pallets. But at some point the stack tilted over-I went pretty high, and critters like to climb. Will my Leaning Tower of Walnut cause the boards to be badly warped?
I did get some beautiful wood out of it. If anybody has the chance to do this, I recommend it despite the challenges. You'll have some good stories with friends.


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Domino goes to the home of the computer hacker she had hired to track down her mother – the same hacker who only days ago lost his life at the hands of an assassin's bullet. Now, Domino scours his room looking for clues leading to the perpetrators of this mystery. She finds a hidden backup CD containing all of the hacker's confiscated computer data.
Suddenly a group of robed men armed with swords known as the Armajesuits burst into the room and attacks her. Domino avoids their blades and back-flips out the window. She has no idea who these strange men are or why they had attacked her to begin with.
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WILMINGTON, NC - Hofstra University from Hempstead, New York came to Hanover Hall with expectancy to dominate and win, but was proved wrong.
The Seahawks had the odds against them on Saturday afternoon and prevailed tremendously. Hofstra was picked by the coaches of the CAA to win the conference title. The Seahawks may be changing the route of this narrative by this step of winning. This was Hofstra's second straight loss in the CAA to start it's CAA conference play while it was the Seahawks first win of its CAA schedule.
Fellow TealTV Reporter, Junior Sydney Brock is continuing her quest of an excellent season as the week of September 18th, Brock was chosen for the CAA Defensive Player of the Week. Senior Nicole Lott now has over 1,000 kills and is seventh on the all-time list.
Coming off a 1-2 stretch, enduring a 3-2 loss to Duke in Durham and then a CAA opener loss of 3-1 to Northeastern Friday night, UNCW was looking to redeem itself. The Seahawks did just that. This marks the last home game until October 21st so the team was looking to leave their fans with a good feeling until they are back home.
The first game of the set ended up being marked as a W for Hofstra, but UNCW was so close. UNCW managed to make it a game despite some minor mistakes, such as Senior Kristen Powell making a hit to tie it at 14.
The Pride were looking to run away with it a few moments later while being up 21-17 then the Seahawks came back and tied it at two, not stopping until it was tied at 24. Needless to say, the Hofstra Pride managed to score two more hits to make it 26-24 the final score. The Seahawks challenged them enough to force them to make that 26th point to win.
The second game featured a total of 12 ties and UNCW making a 13-4 run afterwards to win it by nine at 25-16. This started the Seahawks convincing fashion of winning that continued for the rest of the set such as making swift hits right over the goal.
The third game was just as convincing as the first, except it did not run in the tying ground as long as it only featured four ties early. It was only a seven-point win rather than a nine-point win at 25-18. Freshman Kendall Blender making a block when the Seahawks were up 18-13 sent the crowd roaring in excitement and congratulations as the Seahawks were putting on a one of a kind performance.
The fourth game was just the confirmation for the win as it tied only three times early and Hofstra never led at any time in it. The result of the fourth game was 25-19 and Hofstra came within a few points but the Seahawks ended up shutting the door on Hofstra and making it a win instead of a tie. Thus, earning their first CAA win in their second CAA game of the season.
This win improved UNCW's record to 11-3 while worsened Hofstra's record to 10-5. The Seahawks will be going on a six-game road trip that will start at Delaware on Thursday, September 29th. UNCW will next play at home on October 21st and 23rd versus Towson and Delaware at 7pm and 1pm, respectively.
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The official unveiling of Allister Coetzee as the new Springbok coach was met, unsurprisingly, with mixed reactions from the public and rugby fraternity at large. It was probably the worst-kept secret in rugby circles as most fans already knew exactly who will be named as the Bok head-honcho — weeks before Coetzee's appointment. In my opinion it is eight years too late as he should have naturally succeeded Jake White when he was assistant to him from 2004 to 2007.
As is customary he will take charge over the next four-year cycle leading up to the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Coetzee is only the second non-white coach after Pieter de Villiers. Taking on the role of Springbok top dog brings with it very unique and uphill challenges and is not for the faint-hearted. Coetzee will have his work cut out and will have to please both the demanding rugby public as well as the boardroom politicians.
On the face of it Coetzee's task seems simple and straight-forward to the average rugby fan: get back to winning ways and transform the team. Easy enough right? Wrong! His challenges run much deeper and perfecting this extremely delicate balancing act requires an individual who can absorb pressure, both on and off the field, doesn't get ruffled easily and has a thick skin to boot. So, what can our sports-crazy, rugby-loving citizens expect and look forward to over the next four years?
A teacher by trade, Coetzee is a very experienced tactician at the highest level. He has most definitely earned a shot at the job. As a decent player in his youth and even a junior Springbok in the early nineties, he turned out to be a very astute assistant coach at the Sharks and then the Springboks under Harry Viljoen as well as White when we won the 2007 World Cup. He then went on to coach Western Province to two Currie Cup titles and turned them into consistent Super Rugby performers. He was recently head coach of Japan's Kobe Kobelco Steelers and is a well-respected leader throughout the rugby world. He is also a likeable guy in the media and forms good relationships with his players and is not a dictator or disciplinarian. His man-management skills are impeccable.
The one aspect that rugby pundits always brought to attention regarding Coetzee was his conservative, defensive mindset and playing style. This was what in all likelihood prevented him from leading the Stormers to the Super Rugby title. Even Coetzee's predecessor Heyneke Meyer at least won a Super title. However, Meyer was derided in the media for the exact same "10-man" game plan approach and this will not be tolerated this time. If we stand any chance of catching the All Blacks we need to employ a much more expansive, running style of rugby. Coetzee has promised a "bold" playing style and I indeed hope this does bear fruition.
A corollary to the above negatives is the all-important transformation issue. How does a coach focus on winning strategies, tactics and techniques without the added distraction of having to racially balance the team? It is a thankless task as this type of scenario always causes some sort of divide among both public and players and you are never going to please everyone all at once. The one aspect in Coetzee's favour is that his Province and Stormers teams were consistently well-represented with non-white players, teams who also produced great results. My biggest fear is that if the South African Rugby Union enforces its quota requirements then certain world-beating, high-class white performers are going to be left out to the detriment of the team.
To add to the negatives above, Coetzee's support staff does not warrant the level of confidence that Springbok assistants indeed should. Backline coach Mzwandile Stick seems to be getting the brunt of the criticism as many believe, including me, that there are much better candidates for the job. He was a good player but his coaching abilities are still fairly unproven at the highest level. How are we going to cut through the All Black and Wallabies defensive systems without proper backline tutelage?
Forwards coach Johann van Graan has not really covered his name in glory under Meyer and should have also been replaced. My personal dream team would have been Nick Mallett as head coach with John Mitchell and Rassie Erasmus as his side-kicks, Jacques Nienaber as defence guru, Percy Montgomery as kicking coach and Os du Randt in charge of the scrums.
Yes the negatives do seem to out-weigh the positives with this new appointment but it will be unfair to lambast and judge the new coaching staff just yet. I encourage the public to wait until the end of the year, after the Ireland series, Rugby Championship and European tour and then have their fair say. De Villiers was vilified even before he walked out of his very first press conference but ended up being the coach with the best record against the All Blacks with four wins. In terms of on-field performance, Coetzee will ultimately be judged by his record against the world champions and the 2019 World Cup, where anything less than a win will be viewed as a massive failure and rightly so.
For now I advise Coetzee to crack open the bubbly and celebrate. Being named Bok coach is no mean feat and we all would kill for such a post. He will also need to reserve all his energy for the monumental task that lies ahead and even offer a prayer or two. Good luck Allister, I sincerely hope you prove everyone wrong, including myself. The proof will be in the pudding and the only thing that will ultimately matter will be the on-field results. Oh, and please don't forget to make Duane Vermeulen our captain. We will all have our say but for now, let us give the benefit of the doubt to our new coach as it is indeed … too early to judge.
Dhirshan Gobind is a 30-something freelance sports columnist/writer and a University of KwaZulu-Natal alumnus with a degree in marketing management. He also has a tri-weekly column in the Post.


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Mormonism began with Joseph Smith Jr., who was born on Dec. 23, 1805, in Vermont. He was the fourth child of Lucy and Joseph Smith. Joseph senior was known as a money digger and sought after buried treasure particularly that of Captain Kidd. His mother was highly superstitious.
Joseph Smith Jr. stated that he was disturbed by all the different denominations of Christianity and wondered which was true. In 1820, when he was 14, he went into the woods to pray concerning this; and allegedly God the Father and Jesus appeared to him and told him not to join any of the denominational churches.
Three years later, on Sept. 21, 1823, when he was 17 years old, an angel called Moroni, who was supposed to be the son of Mormon, the leader of the people called the Nephites who had lived in the Americas, appeared to him and told him that he had been chosen to translate the book of Mormon which was compiled by Moroni's father around the 4th century. The book was written on golden plates hidden near where Joseph was then living in Palmyra, New York. Joseph Smith said that on Sept. 22, 1827, he received the plates; and the angel Moroni instructed him to begin the translation process. The translation was finally published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon. Joseph claimed that during this translation process, John the Baptist appeared to him and ordained him to accomplish the divine work of restoring the true church by preaching the true gospel which, allegedly, had been lost from the earth.
The Book of Mormon is supposed to be the account of people who came from the Middle-East to the Americas. It covers the period of about 600 B.C. to A.D. 400. It tells of the Jaredites, people from the Tower of Babel who came to central America but perished because of their own immorality. It also describes some Jews who fled persecution in Jerusalem and came to America led by a man called Nephi. The Jews divided into two groups known as the Nephites and Lamanites who fought each other. The Nephites were defeated in A.D. 428. The Lamanites continued and are known as the American Indians. The Book of Mormon is the account of the Nephite leader, Mormon, concerning their culture, civilization, and appearance of Jesus to the Americas.
After the publication of the Book of Mormon, Mormonism began to grow. Because their religion was so deviant from Christianity, i.e., plurality of gods, polygamy (Joseph is said to have had 27 wives), etc., persecution soon forced them to move from New York to Ohio, then to Missouri, and finally to Nauvoo, Illinois. After being accused of breaking some laws in Nauvoo (for destroying a printing press that was publishing harmful information on Mormonism), Joseph and his brother Hyrum ended up in jail. A mob later broke into the jail and killed Joseph and his brother.
After the shooting, the church divided into two groups: One led by his widow which went back to Independence Missouri. They are known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They claim to be the true Church and lay claim to the legal succession of the church presidency which was bestowed upon Joseph's son by Joseph Smith himself. The other group was led by Brigham Young; and they went to Utah where in 1847, they ended up in Salt Lake and founded Salt Lake City. Brigham had 25 wives and accumulated much wealth.


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Farmers can't control the weather or the prices they receive for their crops, but they can exert a strong influence over what they owe Uncle Sam at tax time.
Tax laws allow agricultural producers the same deductions that small businesses enjoy, with a few added benefits, says George Patrick, a Purdue University agricultural economist and tax specialist.
"A farmer who has made capital investments has the ability to write off a tremendous amount of that investment in the year of purchase," Patrick says. "But the way our tax laws are set up with the standard deduction and the personal exemptions -- if you've got children under the age of 17, there's a tax credit -- you're probably better off taking advantage of those as much as you can. You should not, however, take your taxable income down so low that you don't get those tax benefits.
"As a producer, you need to look at what will minimize your taxes over time. Or, as I prefer to look at it, what's going to maximize your wealth after you pay taxes."
A recent change in the tax code raised the amount farmers can deduct for certain farm-related purchases. In some cases, producers can avoid paying tax altogether -- at least for the current tax year.
"This is the last year that an additional first-year depreciation will be available, where an individual can deduct up to 50 percent of the cost of something new that they've purchased," Patrick said. "Also, Congress has extended the Section 179 expensing allowance through 2007, which allows a farmer or businessperson to write off a purchase of up to $100,000 in the year the purchase is made."
Because farmers often sell grain months after crops are harvested, their income year to year can fluctuate, Patrick says. Such fluctuations have tax ramifications.
"The thing we need to remember is most farmers use a cash method of accounting, so it's when they buy and sell things that determines their income," he says. "If farmers delayed making sales from the 2003 crop until they got some of those high prices back in the late spring and early summer,they may have a tremendous taxable income. They will need to do some year-end tax planning to, maybe, buy some inputs for the 2005 season to manage that taxable income.
"It's going to be important for every farmer to see where they stand financially and run the year-to-date numbers on income and expenses."


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Strong opening day for Alex at Magny Cours
The opening day of action at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours concluded with Voltcom Crescent Suzuki's Alex Lowes comfortably fifth in the combined times after two successful set-up sessions.
Less than 0.4-of-a-second separated fifth from second position at the close of play this afternoon, with Lowes' best lap – a 1'38.390 – set on his second fast-lap on new tyres.
The British racer remains pleased with the progress made throughout the two 45-minute sessions, despite not hitting the planned number of laps on his Yoshimura-powered GSX-R due to a gear-shifting sensor issue mid-way through the afternoon practice.
Saturday's morning session will see him concentrate on a longer run to cement the current feeling but Lowes is confident the set-up work completed today is heading firmly in the right direction.
Kawasaki's newly-crowned World Champion Jonathan Rea continued his reign at the top of the times, setting the pace with a 1'37.750 as the autumnal sunshine warmed the French track to 27°C by late afternoon.
Alex and teammate Randy de Puniet return to Magny-Cours as Saturday's action begins with the final timed-for-qualifying session at 09:45hrs local time (08:45BST), the 30-minute free practice following at 12:30hrs (11:30BST). Superpole commences at 15:00hrs (14:00BST) with the top-12 shootout on track at 15:25hrs (14:25BST).
Alex Lowes:
"We had a decent start today, the bike feels quite good and I'm enjoying the track and looking forward to tomorrow. I think we have decent pace, but there is plenty still to work on overnight. The lads did a great job between session one and two – working on stopping the bike and getting through the faster chicanes – so if we can take another step tomorrow we shouldn't be too far away. We didn't get as many laps in as we had wanted today – due to a few minor issues – so hopefully we can get more down tomorrow, build-up the consistency and start understanding it a little bit more over the longer race distance."


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text: The crossing is an absolute dog. Full of people with carts but relatively easy. You'll have to leave your bike and gear unattended for some time although I paid a guy 50B to look after it for me. Took me roughly 45mins to get out of Thailand alone... Cambodian immigration is easy but customs is a little harder. You must ride through the round-about and it's on your left. You'll have to go upstairs and talk to the "Deputy Chief". This guy's an old bastard, very rude, unhelpful and apparently can't be bribed. He insisted on having a Carnet form for my bike. I'd never heard of this before (amateur) and said I couldn't get it for my Thai registered bike. He continued to watch the TV while I sat there staring at him for 5 minutes. The bloke wouldn't budge without one, so here I am in Phonm Penh with an illegal-alien-motorbike. Bugger 'em. I'll write another report on how successful I am in riding through customs but I don't think it'll be a problem. The place is bedlam! ROAD There's one double lane highway the whole distance to the city. It's only been paved just recently and is a pleasure to ride on. The traffic isn't too bad but the ride is very flat and boring..


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This happy group of people were photographed in Doherty's Pub in Bohermore in the 1960s. Those in the back row are, left to right: Kevin Molloy, Luke Doherty, Mrs Doherty, Jim Tierney, and Tom Turley. Second row: Kevin Doherty also known as 'Doc', John "Texas" McDonald, Tom Redmond, Joe McGuire, Frank Reilly, Frankie Reilly junior, Tommy Cahill, and Jimmy Nally. In front are Frank Cassidy, Water Lane (with the pint glass ), Joe Fagan with the darts, and Jimmy Connolly.
Like many pubs in Galway at the time, Doherty's had a grocery business as well. This combination of a pub and grocery started in Ireland in the 19th century. You usually went through the grocery to get to the bar. You would not find tourists in this pub, it was unpretentious except for a piano in the corner. They played a lot of darts there, you can see the board for chalking far left. Just a few doors away was Fitzgerald's Pub which was later known as The Traveller's Rest. They had a great pub soccer team. The name over the door in more recent times was Hostys.
Further down the street was a pub which Jim Tonery took over in June 1959. It was formerly owned by Johnny and Kate Martyn. They used to whitewash the inside walls to keep the place clean but also disinfected. They stored the barrels against the back wall and sometimes used them as seating with small planks over them. When Jim Tonery ran out of drink on the night he opened there, he knew he had made the right decision. Like most such establishments, they would have had a room at the back where they washed and cleaned glasses, washed out used Guinness bottles which were then filled with stout, and labelled them with their own pub labels. All pubs would have had a corking machine to top the bottles, and they fixed a couple of elaborate corkscrews to the top of the public bar. The Guinness was delivered in barrels by horse and dray driven by CIE personnel. The bar has been renovated a few times since and houses a collection of photographs of local GAA teams.
Across the street from Doherty's was Crowe's pub. It was founded in 1901 by William and Ellen Crowe and also had a grocery area. It passed from them to their son Michael John, and when he died, his son Gus took over. In 1981, the premises were renovated to include indoor toilets and a major expansion. There were two further renovations and extensions in the 1990s. It is a great rugby house.
A few doors from Crowe's was Hogan's pub, another 'local' with no frills, run by Paddy Hogan and his wife. They also had a grocery as part of the business. When their daughter Bridie took it over, she got rid of the grocery and concentrated on the bar. It was a great darts house and featured a beautiful old fireplace.
These hostelries are among a number of old Galway pubs which this writer will be discussing in an illustrated lecture which will take place in Freeney's Pub in High Street on Monday next, August 21, at 8pm.You might call it "An Old Galway Pub Crawl". It is part of Heritage Week and all are welcome. Programmes for Heritage Week are available free from The Galway Civic Trust, Druid Lane.


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"The funny thing is that Taylor and I lived really close to one another for most of our lives. He was friends with the older siblings of some of my friends. We went to the same high school but he was a senior when I was a freshman, we didn't meet until college. One of my best friends graduated with Taylor and they were friends. My friend introduced us and we went on our first date to Center Street Grill. There we tried their strawberry avocado shake and everything seemed to click. After that, we were inseparable.
We dated for about 9 months before getting engaged. I knew it was coming, I had gone with him to look at rings and picked out the perfect one. My aunt's dad, Dave Love, is the one who made the ring. I was sure it was going to happen on Valentines day, but the ring wasn't ready. He told me on Valentines day that the ring wouldn't be ready for 2 more weeks. I was super bummed since we had already waited a couple of weeks. Taylor's sister Candace was supposedly starting a makeup blog (turned out to be false) and said she wanted to do my makeup. Stacey (Taylor's sister that took our wedding day pictures and has a photography business alexandstacey.com) was going to take the pictures for the blog. Taylor came over to my house to pick me up and I said to him, "I know that you are going to propose today." He assured me that the ring wasn't ready. I later found out he had texted his sister Stacey, "Crap! I think Kadra is seeing through our plan".
Even though I really didn't want to go have my makeup done and it was getting dark, I went anyways. Taylor told me he had to help his brother-in-law move some things at the school he works at. We went out to take the pictures at Merlin Olson Park. I kept turning around waiting for Taylor to pop out. Stacey had me walk in the tunnel underneath center street and she said that she was going to be on the outside taking pictures. When I came out out of the tunnel there was a light path and some lanterns that Taylor had set up. Taylor was standing at the end of the line of lanterns and then got down on one knee.
I loved our wedding day! It was so so special! We got sealed in the Salt Lake Temple, which is so beautiful — inside and out. We took pictures and then went home to our reception. and helped set up some last-minute things. We had our reception at the Logan River Golf course. It was a perfect day. We kept checking the weather and it kept saying it was going to rain… you know Utah weather is unpredictable. Finally the day came, with not a cloud in the sky.
My favorite part of the wedding day was being with Taylor and being sealed to him for eternity and being around our closest friends and family all day. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect husband or wedding day. "
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One of the comments I have recently heard in conversation about the District's opt out is that we could wait at least another year before we are in the position where we really "need" to opt out. The fact is that we can't wait – unless we are comfortable with reducing the programming and services that we offer to students in our school. The reasons are complex, and revolve around the structure of our General Fund Reserve and also the nature of how property taxes are collected.
First, let's talk about the General Fund (GF) and its reserve. In schools, most of the money for the general fund is provided through the Per Student Allocation (PSA). Much of that money comes through local property taxes, and depending on how much revenue is generated locally, the State of SD provides the remainder to fulfill the funding need based on the number of students we educate in the school. Property taxes are collected twice per year, and our school receives those large payments in the months of November and May. During those months between tax payments, expenses do not go down for schools. We need to have the GF reserve at approximately 18% in order to pay our bills, or to "make cash flow," without borrowing money. The chart below gives you an idea of when we see the peaks and valleys in our General Fund as the local tax revenues are collected.
Second, The Fiscal Year for school and the tax year do not line up very well. The tax year starts January 1. Each of us make two property tax payments, one in the spring and one in the fall, based on the taxable valuation of the property in the previous year. The Fiscal Year for schools starts July 1. Money collected in the first year of the opt out is for the first half of the tax year, but it is the second half of the school year. This results in only half of the opt out value being collected the first school year the opt out is in place. In our case, that means that the first year of the opt out, the district will collect $250,000 (spring 2017). In our situation, we expect that our fund balance will be 24% at the end of this school year. There is still some room to maintain programs while deficit spending if we are able to collect the $250,000 for the first half of the first year of the opt out – meaning that next year's budget would require us to spend down the reserve to that 18% level that still allows us to pay our bills on time, and we would also use the first half of the taxes collected in 2017. The following year, our reserve would be at the necessary 18% to pay the bills between tax collections, but we would also need to rely on both payments from the opt out in order to maintain services and programming in the 2017-2018 school year.
The time is now.
Failure of this opt out means we would have to cut staff to balance the revenues and expenditures in our budget. In schools, programs and services means staff. These same staff provide students with academic, social and co-curricular opportunities. Reductions in staff may lead to fewer students in our school. Fewer students means a continuing loss of revenue.
Our biggest fear is that this may result in a cycle that leads to more and more cuts. If, as a community, we want to maintain our present levels of services and programming for our students, we simply cannot afford to wait.
Many ask "what can the school do to help our community grow?" The answer is that we can maintain our programming at a level where our school is a viable option for students and families when they consider Garretson as a community in which to live. There are definite benefits to living in this community and attending our school.