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By Steve Freidell
Land Line contributor
The thought of being debt-free often seems like a far-off destination on a never-ending route that seems pointless to travel. However, you need to think of your debt as an ever-increasing payload that is causing all kinds of wear and tear on your financial well-being. The longer you haul this heavy burden, the more damage you are likely to do to you and your family.
For instance, when was the last time you checked your credit score? Your credit (or FICO score) is a number between 300 and 850, but what does the score really mean? A low credit score doesn't just affect your ability to obtain financing for a car, a house or a loan. Your credit score also affects how much interest you pay on each of these debts. The lower your score, the more interest you will be paying.
Additionally, some employers are even starting to check credit scores when making hiring decisions. Employers want to hire individuals who can handle credit responsibly, which provides insight into how you will perform on the job. Think of your credit score as an engine's horsepower: The larger the number, the more confidence lenders will have that you can handle the large amount of debt being towed around.
So let's look at a few simple things you can do to rev up your credit score.
1. Pay your bills on time. Unpaid bills and missing payments indicate to lenders that you are irresponsible and, thus, a higher risk. Some lenders view missing 3 or more consecutive payments to be an indication that you may never repay the loan.
2. Limit your credit cards or loan accounts. If you have too many cards, it suggests to lenders that you're only pushing debt around from one card to the other, digging yourself into a bigger hole. Instead, focus on having one or two credit cards that you can afford to make regular payments on. This will show lenders that you are reliable, and your credit score will go up.
3. Cancel any unused cards, but don't cut them up until you receive notice that the account has been closed.
4. Never go over your credit limit. Maxing out your card indicates to lenders that you are using more credit than you can afford. Train yourself to pay your credit cards off each month.
5. Stop opening credit cards in order to gain one-time discounts. If you open one card, close another. Lenders view your credit positively when you have maintained long-term credit relationships. Those discounts aren't worth the risk you are taking with your credit score.
6. Pay more than the minimum amount due. Even if it's $5 more a month, this extra amount will improve your credit score and shows the lender that you are making more than the token effort to repay your debt.
Now, you may be asking yourself, "What if I can't afford to do these things?" Maybe you've dug yourself into a hole that's too deep for a simple fix. Here are some recommendations for those that find themselves with heavy-duty debt.
1. Contact each of your lenders and explain your situation. Given the current financial climate, lenders are more willing than ever to negotiate and provide assistance – given that you are serious about taking steps to reduce your debt.
2. Try requesting a lower interest rate. Lenders would rather receive some interest than none at all. Many are willing to reduce the rate if it means you make payments on time. However, if you abuse this privilege, expect the lender to kick your rate back up to the previous high level or even higher.
3. Always start by paying down the debt with the highest interest rate first. Don't stop making other monthly payments; just apply the most money above the minimum required payment to the most expensive debt first.
4. When all your credit cards are paid off, begin using that monthly payment to pay down other debts such as cars, houses and student loans.
5. Seek out help from one of many Consumer Credit Counseling Service companies. They are free and will work with you and your lenders to help solve your credit problems and work out payments that are more manageable.
6. Avoid bankruptcy at all costs. Bankruptcy has far-reaching consequences – most of which can be more difficult to solve than just paying off the debt.
Ultimately, the most important thing you can do to reduce debt is to spend less money. I know it seems obvious, but we've all been conditioned to believe that going shopping is a pleasurable event. It can almost reach the point of addiction. This is probably how your credit got damaged in the first place, and it won't improve until you stop shopping for entertainment.
Remember, reducing debt is all about making sacrifices in the short term to ensure a brighter future for yourself and your family. It's certainly a challenge, but so is anything in life worth doing. Now get motivated! LL
This material has been prepared for informational purposes only; it is not intended to provide and should not be relied upon for accounting, legal or tax advice.
Steve Freidell has assisted clients in their cash management, trading, and portfolio management of fixed income securities since 1975. Steve started his career at the First National Bank of Kansas City and later served as first vice president with Commerce Bank where he served his clients for 25 years. In 2006, he joined the DeWaay organization, the financial management company utilized by OOIDA.


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Dengar working with Jodo Kast was planned.
I'd heard about that. It was supposed to have been a comic book, right? That would have been interesting. It'd be cool if they did a little more back story stuff about Jodo Kast. I'm sure the character had more depth to him, if he survived as long as he did. I mean, if he was taking bounties that were meant for Fett, I'm sure they weren't easy bounties. Especially if the people hiring him out wanted Fett to take care of the bounties. The fact that Kast came through on a lot of them says something about his skill. But it like I always say. Age and treachery will always triumph over youth and skill. The older you get, the dirtier you fight. We're too old to show off. We just want the fight done and over with so we can get back to our rocking chair.
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Mozilla has a "modest proposal" about smartphones and it's simply stated. "Dump the operating system. All of them."
But unlike the famous essay by British satirist Jonathan Swift, Mozilla isn't fooling around. And at Mobile World Congress, the non-profit creator of the Firefox browser and its partner, the Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, showed just how serious they are.
The companies unveiled details for a smartphone platform that has the merest sliver of an OS, a small Linux kernel and other low-level elements, which act mainly to support device drivers and to launch the Gecko rendering engine, the heart of Mozilla's Firefox.
Coupled with a growing array of new APIs, and a user interface dubbed Gaia, the platform can fully control the phone and its features without the complexity of a conventional OS. The platform, geekily dubbed Boot to Gecko, gives users access to the ever-growing array of Web-based applications and services, and gives developers an app model based on Javascript, HTML 5 and associated standards such as CSS3.
Boot to Gecko was unveiled in June 2011. But with Telefonica and Qualcomm on board, it moves out of theory's self-contained world, into the real world of product and business development. Jonathan Nightingale, Mozilla's senior director of Firefox engineering, says he's often heard the criticism, "Why try to create a new platform, especially given the entrenched power of Android and iOS?"
"It's not a 'new platform,'" he says. "Because the Web isn't new. And the Web is already powering a lot of what people like today in Android and iOS apps."
Mozilla announced a companion project: Creating an online app store called Mozilla Marketplace. The Marketplace, which is drawing heavily from Mozilla's expertise with its online portal for offering Firefox plug-ins, is now open to developer submissions. Sometime later this year, it will open its virtual doors to the public.
Telefonica's drive is being spearheaded by Telefonica Digital, a unit charged explicitly with developing, exploiting, and commercializing new business opportunities in the so-called "digital economy." TD is working closely with cellular chipmaker Qualcomm to support the platform, and at MWC was demonstrating prototype phones based on a Qualcomm reference design. According Nightingale, TD has concluded that it can bring to market an "open Web device" for one-tenth the cost of an iPhone.
At the low-end that would mean a $20 handset that, with the rapid maturity of the HTML5 standards and the Boot to Gecko platform, behaves almost identically to high-end phones running Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, or Windows Phone 7. That's the price of a low-end feature phone with the capabilities of a high-end smartphone.
In a Telefonica statement, Carlos Domingo, director of Product Development & Innovation at Telefónica Digital, said: "From our experience in Latin America we know that a huge part of the market is not being catered for by current smartphones. With new open Web devices we will be able to offer a smartphone experience at the right price point for these customers."
Nightingale demonstrated the user interface, with a familiar grid of application icons, on a Samsung Galaxy S2, stripped of its Android OS by Mozilla software engineers. Instead, it has a "thin Linux layer" which handles the device drivers and launches the Gecko rendering engine and its accompanying user interface (Telefonica had designed its own user interface for its MWC demonstrations). Nightingale brought up a dialer for a voice call, and played high-definition video.
"Two years ago, HTML5 wouldn't have been mature enough for this," he says. "There was no webpage for dialing a phone. But we have one. And it's just HTML. If you show this [source code] to a Web developer, he'll say 'I see how that works.' "
Boot to Gecko supports geo-location, a tilt sensor, sending and receiving SMS messages, and a camera. As yet, there's no Web page for Near Field Communications, the short-range radios used in wireless transactions and other applications, but that, and many others are on Mozilla's prioritized API list.
Nightingale argues that for a growing number of PC and Mac users, the complex OS is simply the means to launch their Web browser of choice. That's because instead of using, for example a native word processor, they use Google Docs or some other online Web equivalent. The number of such Web substitutes is growing every day.
What that shows, he says, is that the OS in today's Web-defined world adds little in the way of value for the end user, or for the developer. And that's true as much for smartphones as for the desktop. "The Web gives you the opportunity to take these Web apps and services with you, whatever device you're using," Nightingale says.
The proprietary operating systems create silos that restrict users, and developers, he says. And partly in response, there is already a strong movement toward HTML5 app development. Boot to Gecko severs the link between the OS and the device, the users, and the developers, all of which can now fully leverage the Web.
Mozilla Marketplace will be similar to those offered by Google, Apple, RIM, and Microsoft. Mozilla will review app submissions, again drawing on its experience with its add-on community process, with security being a key part of the review.


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3 fires continue to burn in Northwest Colorado
Craig — Three fires continued to burn in western Moffat County on Friday, but no structures or people are expected to be threatened after a busy 24 hours of battling fires in Northwest Colorado that began Thursday afternoon.
The Wild fire and Hacking fire ignited Thursday on Wild Mountain in the western part of the Dinosaur National Monument and have burned an estimated 362 and 10 acres, respectively, as of late Friday, according to a news release from monument officials.
The Wild fire had burned about 120 acres as of Friday morning, but is in a remote area and being managed by the agency for the "benefits fire provides to the monument's natural resources," according to the release.
Dan Johnson, the monument's chief of interpretation, said because it was a natural fire resulting from a lightning strike, the fire is being allowed to burn under a close eye.
"This is a natural part of the ecosystem. Because of where it's located, because of all the different prescriptions around this fire and because it occurred naturally, we are allowing it to burn," Johnson said. "It's not one of those fires that's going to suddenly explode and jump from one ridge to another. It's going to kind of smolder and burn up the smaller bushes and grass in the area and allow for nutrients to get back into the soil and help revitalize."
A third fire, in the Limestone Ridge area of the monument, was identified and would be suppressed, the release said. The fire did not have a name as of Friday evening.
Three other fires occurred after lightning strikes on the monument, part of 13 relatively small fires that ignited in Northwest Colorado on Thursday.
Six of the fires were in western Moffat County on Bureau of Land Management land. Five more, including the two that have not been contained, started in Dinosaur National Monument. One fire was on private land in western Moffat County, and the other broke out in Routt National Forest on the Mad Creek Trail, according to a news release from the BLM Little Snake Field Office.
All but one of the fires were caused by lightning and most were less than one acre in size, said Lynn Barclay, public information officer for the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit. The Mad Creek fire in Routt County's cause still was under investigation Friday.
There was no structure damage and no injuries reported from any fire.
A helicopter was assisting crews Friday on the Wild Fire. Crews also returned to the contained fires in an effort to prevent holdover fires, which are reignited fires that can happen after days of smoldering.
Current conditions on the ground could have helped keep some of the fires from spreading quickly, Barclay said.
"The pinon and juniper trees we have here are dry and receptive to fire," Barclay said. "The sage brush and grass still have some moisture. Fire spread in sage brush and grass will be more moderate, but those are drying out quickly."
The Bureau of Land Management, Moffat County Sheriff's Office, Dinosaur National Monument, Browns Park Wildlife Refuge and the Maybell Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fires. The one fire that did not originate from lightning, on the Mad Creek Trail in Routt County, was under investigation Friday.
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Guide to Getting a Dog
Posted by gracelydia51 in Dogs on December 6, 2011
It is a great idea to get a dog as pet, as dogs are friendly as well as loyal animal. There are a number of sources, including breeders and rescue centers, from which a dog can be bought. If you want to buy a puppy then it is better to see its mother in order to check her temperament and characteristics. The most ideal age to buy a puppy is when it is between seven and eight weeks old.
Cost of owning a dog:
Besides the initial cost of getting a dog, the estimated continuing costs, including food, veterinary fees and treatments, and pet insurance, are almost $ 25 per week, conditional on the size and breed of your selected pet dog.
Selecting a dog:
Before buying a dog, it is significant to consider well about the breed or crossbreed of dog you want to buy, and also the compatibility of your new pet with your personality as well as lifestyle. Here are some considerations in getting a right dog:
- Consider whether you want to buy a male or female puppy or adult dog.
- Consider the dog that best suits for your home, family, car, etc.
- Your willingness to walk your dog every day.
- Your level of interest in making a lifelong commitment to your dog.
- Consider whether your new dog will bond with other pets in the household or not.
- Finally, whether you can easily afford to keep a pet.
The best way to select a dog is to do a lot of research, including dog breeds, their potential health problems and characteristics, their required grooming, and their different behaviors.
Tips on new dog ownership:
Once you have decided to buy a dog, it is better to do some planning in order to provide an easy and pleasurable environment to your new pet dog. For this, following tips on new dog ownership can be of great help in taking proper care of it.
- Basic things for your new pet include a dog bed, a comfortable collar, a lead, and food and water bowls.
- Purchase some dog food, which can be completely dry food or semi-moist and tinned foods.
- Check your new dog's vaccination history. If it needs vaccination, call your veterinarian to book an appointment for vaccinations.
- Ask your veterinarian to suggest puppy parties or dog training clubs in order to help socialize and train your dog, which include house training, staying and sitting.
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Our computer is on the fritz. We knew that this day would come. It's a sputtering Powerbook G4 that's seen better days. Oh well. I'm in the process of retrieving our Mail folders, which seems to be one positive. And we had just backed up all our photos the other day. So we got that going for us. But it's not looking good in the long run for that little computer. Right now, Andrea's headed over to the Mac store to see what we can afford, if anything at all. Jeez. I hate this.
Just bear with us.
if i cussed i would be doing that right now
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I'm sorry! I feel you. I had a black Powerbook G4 that died last year. It was very sad. I'd it for many years though. It didn't give me any problems at all and then suddenly it quickly started to decline and I found out the motherboard was going...ReplyDelete
I hope you find something good at the Apple store-maybe a great monthly payment plan that will allow you to get something great.
I love apples.
We still have the old mac from Click at home (Helen's "high-tech" workstation...ya want that?ReplyDelete
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Matt Kloskowski wrote a post on common Lightroom organization mistakes the other day. Before you read my comments, please go read what Matt wrote.
I totally agree with Matt's points. I hear criticisms of Lightroom which I believe are because new users try the things Matt mentions when starting to use Lightroom. When they go down one of these paths they become frustrated because Lightroom didn't work for them. A great example is moving images outside of Lightroom. Once you commit to using Lightroom to organize your images if you manually organize outside of Lightroom it is not going to be looking at the same information as before. Of course it won't work right! My advice to new users is read up on how Lightroom works and study advice from folks like Matt.
In my Ligtroom Catalog this image lives in the Photos folder on my storage drive. It has the following keywords which will help me find it
in the future: 2013 06/01 CMR Photo Freight, Cars, Signal. It also lives in a collection called Blur which helps me identify motion blur images.
To Matt's list I'd add some items which are to some extent corollaries to Matt's comments but apply to the railfan community.
Organizing By Rail Artifact
Just like organizing by date, I don't recommend organizing your images files into a folder system based on a rail artifact like subdivision name, station name, railroad, locomotive model, or locomotive manufacturer. Once you go down the path of organizing this way you will tend to use the folder structure you created to search for things. Doing that defeats the purpose of having a robust organizing tool like Lightroom. Instead I recommend all the original images are placed into a single folder and Lightroom keywords are used to categorize by your favorite rail artifact data. Inside of Lightroom you not only would have access to search the keywords you assigned, but you'd also have an indication of which images are your picks (flags, colors, stars), and the metadata associated to the image.
If you organize images by a rail artifact today transitioning inside of Lightroom to keywords is pretty straightforward and quick. I would import the photos using the folder structure you have today. If you organized by station name, click on the station name folder under Folders on the left side, do Ctrl/Cmd-A to select all the images, then add a keyword for the station name on the right side under Keywording. Lastly move all of the images to the new folder structure. Done!
In my catalog I keyword every image with an event (why I was shooting) and keywords which tell me more about what
is in an image. Railroad images which include a locomotive are key worded with a locomotive number.
Renaming Files
I've heard many railfans rename their files to include information about the photo. For example "4449_AMTK51_trip_to _bend_taken_at_moody_oregon.jpg". File names are not the best way to convey meta data like this. There are too few characters and if you forget your naming standard suddenly there is no consistency so finding something becomes even more difficult. Instead I recommend keeping the file name as simple as possible. For the longest time I continued to use the file name assigned by the camera. As Lightroom detected duplicates it appended a -# (e.g. IMG-0001-5.cr2). That was fine but I wanted it a bit cleaner so I added the d
ate and time of capture to the file name to keep each file name unique. There are many different schemes for this so I'm not saying mine is the best way. My though is pick a naming convention that keeps the file names relatively unique and doesn't include caption or keyword information.
All of my images have a modified filename which includes the date and original file name.
Those are my thoughts on organizing in Lightroom. If any of you railfans would like my thoughts on your personal situation or catalog, drop me an email. I'd love to get you started in the right direction.


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This appered in The Sunday Tribune
Reviewed by Aruti Nayar
shobhaa Deshobhaa De's novel, after a hiatus of 10 years, claims to do for politics, what Starry Nights did to Bollywood. For everyone fed up of the scams and scandals, the credibility quotient of the political class is at an all-time low and the dedication right at the beginning of the book, "To our beloved politicians. May their tribe decrease," is bound to strike a chord with the middle class.
The same is true of the saying "The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But strategems devised by wise men can kill even babies in the womb, by Kautilya. De shows us the varied shades of a politician's life. As she traces the career graph of Sethji, a prototype of an average neta, who has a set of skills that he hones assiduously to come up trumps, it is vintage Shobhaa De. Visual descriptions and a dexterous moving back and forth with an elan marks the manner in which De manages to flesh out the central character Sethji, his daughter-in-law Amrita and sons Srichand (Amrita's laid-back husband) and the profligate Suraj.
Portayal of wheels-within-wheels and machinations make the narrative racy. To avoid monotony, there are sub-plots that intersect the main thread and are interwoven with it.
The businessman-politician nexus is defined with the relationship between Arun Mehta, Jaipraksh and MK who has a strange relationship with Amrita. Sethji, of course, remains the protagonist and just as the reader thinks, he has been "decoded," one discovers a new trait about the wily man who is not quite the main character, even though the novel is named after him.
The main character who is also the one through whose voice the narrative unfolds is Amrita, the beautiful daughter-in-law (and mistress) of Sethji — the fulcrum of the book as well as of the lives of the characters. It is in the delineation of the character of Amrita that Shobhaa De excels herself. Be it her latent sexuality, her razor-sharp intelligence and the "mind of a man," that makes her organise, plot and use and throw people with ease. In the portrayal of Amrita, Shobhaa De breaks all stereotypes and one can sense she is close to the author's heart. As Sethji says, "Unlike most women, your brain functions like a man's, it is capable of hard, unemotional decisions. It is ruthless when required." Here is not an archetypal woman but an atypical one who uses her thinking function much more than the feeling one. A stunner, she knows how to use her body to her advantage and is almost an alter ego of the manipulative Sethji. No wonder, they together generate tremendous synergy. Running the household with a clinical clockwork precision or plotting a murder or lying with elan even in the full glare of the TV cameras about her delinquent brother-in-law, Amrita can pull it off convincingly. One wonders why the author did not call the book Amritaji! De's use of a language that is a mixture of colloquial and street language, peppered by Hindi cuss words makes the narrative raw and gives it an energy. Overuse of abuses and expletives do jar and interrupt the flow at times.
The two parts, Delhi and Mumbai, seeks to highlight the way politics works differently at both the places. One can see the inspiration for the man who controls Mumbai, Bhau, has shades of the late Shiv Sena supremo. Also the premium on giving contracts, the world of contract killers and the politicians- film directors-financers nexus is etched.
De's Sethji is sanitised, not fleshed out with a reality check when it comes to capturing the essence of a politician's life along with the rough and tumble, sights and sounds. In fact, the neta's portrayal appears photoshopped and airbrushed and also ". It's obvious, despite Sethji being in De's head for more than a decade, she has never experienced politics first-hand. Starry Nights was home ground but politics is a different ballgame altogether. At times one gets the feeling that one is watching a potboiler and style overwhelms substance and makes the book almost surreal. A "confession" in the acknowledgments towards the end leaves the reader startled. De admits being fascinated by the late Sitaram Kesri and wants to thank him for motivating her to create Sethji. One wonders how. That, of course, is another story


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A couple of weeks ago at the Royal Opera House's Open Up event, the Culture Quarter Programme (CQP) launched Try The Arts, a brand new initiative for young people aged 14-25 to gain information about the range of work experience programmes on offer in some of London's top creative and cultural venues. The newly created website www.trythearts.co.uk is packed full of useful information about job roles, programmes and career fairs, top tips and lots of case studies and videos from people who have already made it!
"We recognised from our own experience of looking for jobs that it is often really difficult for young people to get work in the arts without any previous experience. Having gained positions on the Culture Quarter Programme we decided that we could do something to try and tackle this problem by creating a series of detailed resources which can give other young people a helping hand, letting them know how and where to find work experience placements and what to expect when they get there."…"It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to launch this initiative at Open Up. This is a chance to speak to almost 600 members of our target audience and our stall is attracting a lot of interest!" Nick Boyd-Vaughan, CQP member.
The initiative has been independently produced by 36 young people employed on the Culture Quarter Programme, a partnership of arts and cultural organisations based in Central London who are offering paid employment and training to young people who have been unemployed for more than 6 months. The organisations involved include English National Opera, Exhibition Road Cultural Group, the Hospital Club, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House, Somerset House, St Martin-in-the-Fields and the V&A Museum. Please visit www.culturequarterprogramme.co.uk for more information on this innovative project.


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NM Tech Capital Campaign off to a Strong Start, Sept. 25, 2002
SOCORRO, N.M., September 17, 2002 -- A major-gifts fundraising campaign at New Mexico Tech has hit its stride after entering a "public phase" this year and is well on its way to fulfilling the university's goal of raising $5 million in private donations.
After having started with a "silent phase" over a year ago, New Mexico Tech's "Commitment to Excellence" campaign has now garnered slightly more than $4 million in cash, gifts, and pledges, reports Steve Bobinsky, director of both the New Mexico Tech Advancement Office and Tech's fundraising campaign.
"But though our base goal is $5 million, our challenge goal is $8 million, so we've still got a long way to go before we wrap up our campaign in April 2003," Bobinsky says.
The objectives of New Mexico Tech's Commitment to Excellence campaign are to increase faculty endowments; strengthen instructional laboratory support; boost student scholarships and fellowships; improve online library resources; and expand the
university's Etscorn Campus Observatory.
"Although this is a state-supported research university, less than 30 percent of New Mexico Tech's operating budget comes from state sources," says Tech President Daniel H. López. "It is left up to the university itself, its students, its alumni, and all its other supporters to make up the rest."
"While the Commitment to Excellence campaign's primary focus is on obtaining additional financial resources, another important component of the campaign is education -- specifically educating everyone on campus, as well as Tech alumni, on the mutual benefits that are derived from planned giving," says Bobinsky.
"New Mexico Tech's renowned academic programs, research facilities, and scholastic reputation are the direct results of past support from alumni, parents, private foundations, state and federal funding, and friends and supporters of the university,"
Bobinsky relates.
"And at the same time we're conducting this major gifts campaign, we're also extending our gratitude to all these past supporters -- who are too numerous to name -- by acknowledging their special support as we look forward to continuing New Mexico Tech's continuing legacy of commitment to excellence," he adds.
Tech alumni and friends interested in participating in the Capital Campaign should contact Steve Bobinsky, Director of Advancement, 505-835-5475 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Snooki Has a New Tattoo, Selena Gomez Probably Doesn't
In today's celebrity tattoo news, 'Jersey Shore' star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi got some new ink over the weekend, which she proudly showed off with a photo posted on her Twitter account.
The body art, which appears to be a large crown along with a heart and pearls on a pink bow (there might be a cat in there too), was accompanied by a since-deleted tweet that read, 'MY NEW TAT <3 badass.' Because she's classy like that.
It joins her existing ink, a back-tat that says "La Familia," which is Italian for "the family."
And in today's "that's probably not a celebrity tattoo" news, pop star Selena Gomez was photographed at a concert over the weekend sporting the name "Justin" on the inside of her right wrist — an apparent homage to her boyfriend, tween-sensation Justin Bieber.
Her ink looked to be a little more of the Sharpie variety, but with no comment from her camp, there's no telling. We've seen certainly celebs do dumber — and more permanent — things to themselves.
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Jermaine O'Neal is apparently the latest free agent to commit to playing for the Golden State Warriors next season, according to ESPN's Marc Stein. The one-year deal isn't a big commitment to the prep-to-pro big man, but a healthy O'Neal could be another nice addition to the revamped Warriors roster.
Golden State's biggest offseason addition has been Andre Iguodala after trading away three players to clear enough cap space to conceivably make a run at Dwight Howard. That run didn't pan out, obviously, but O'Neal is another solid addition to a young team that played well until their unfortunate demise in the NBA Playoffs.
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The 2018 Kia Sorento offers an exciting range of powerplants, including a turbocharged 4-cylinder displacing 2.0 liters. The engine makes 240 horsepower and slots squarely between the non-turbocharged 4- and 6-cylinder engines in the Sorento lineup, providing good power without a huge penalty to fuel economy. The base 4-cylinder is a 2.4L unit that makes 185 horsepower, while the more powerful and expensive V6 displaces 3.3 liters and makes a full 290 horsepower. All three engines are mated to a 6-speed transmission, while all-wheel drive is an option across the entire lineup, save base L models. Even the all-wheel-drive V6 Sorento is rated at 18 mpg in the city, while 4-cylinder models without all-wheel drive can achieve up to 29 mpg on the highway.
The Sorento comes in five trim levels: L, LX, EX, SX and SX Limited. All but the L model are available with the V6.
The L may be the lowest trim level for the Sorento, but it's far from just a basic people mover. The L still comes with plenty of features to please those who maybe don't want to splurge too much on their new car purchase. Standard equipment on the L includes 17-inch alloy wheels, Bluetooth connectivity, SiriusXM satellite radio, steering wheel mounted audio and cruise controls, a USB input jack, power windows and door locks, heated outside mirrors with integrated turn signals and keyless, remote entry.
LX models feature a UVO eServices infotainment system, a rear-mounted camera, additional USB charging ports, the option of adding third row seating, automatic headlights and a set of roof rails. Optional equipment for the LX includes Android Auto and Apple CarPlay smartphone integration, parking sensors, a powered driver's seat, leather steering wheel and dual-zone climate control.
The EX comes standard with the 2.0L turbocharged engine, though the V6 is still an option. Buyers opting for the EX will also get dual-zone climate control, heated, 8-way power adjustable front seats, a backup warning system, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, leather seating trim, a gloss black grill, fog lamps and 18-inch alloy wheels.
The sporty SX trim gets even bigger 19-inch wheels and several body-colored exterior additions to give the SUV a more cohesive look. The SX trim also includes a panoramic sunroof, a power rear liftgate, an Infinity sound system, voice recognition, a blind spot detection system with rear cross traffic alert, a ThinFilm Technology (TFT) instrument cluster and rear seat sunshades.
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On 8 September 2012, staff of the International Tracing Service (ITS) could return the personal belongings of former prisoners from the concentration camp Neuengamme to eleven Dutch families at the Amersfoort Memorial. "It's a pity I do not remember my father", said Wilhelmina van Beek-Dijkhuizen who received letters...learn more
About 140 guests attended a memory event held at the Volkmarsen "Nordhessen" hall on 9 September 2012 to mark the 70th anniversary of the third deportation of Jews from the Kassel district. "There are no words to express the suffering the people went through, but we can pay our respect to the victims", stated Ernst...learn more
Early in September 2012, six pupils of the Münster Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff College came to the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen to investigate the subject "Individuals and Individual Rights in the Lublin Area". They cast light on diverse aspects of the Germanization and Aryanization, the...learn more
Holocaust survivor Felix Cytrin was one of the prisoners who were employed by the Nazis in the largest counterfeiting operation during the Second World War: Operation Bernhard in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Jewish prisoners were forced to forge foreign currency in the billions. The operation was designed to...learn more
The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen is planning a travelling exhibition entitled "Life in transit - trauma and new beginnings. Survivors of Nazi persecution." Items from displaced persons´ lives are being sought, such as photographs, report cards, voting papers, newspapers, posters, certificates or...learn more
Picking up the trail of his granduncle Joseph who had disappeared without a trace in 1945, Laurent Guillet and his companions, a forty-person team, had a short stop also at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. The institution's French Liaison Mission had contributed to the book he titled "Il...learn more
"As long as I find people I will continue to do this," says Kitty Brom from Hummelo, the Netherlands. The hobby genealogist helps locate relatives of former concentration camp inmates so that the International Tracing Service (ITS) can return their personal effects. The ITS archive still contains nearly 2,900 personal...learn more
Vladimir Kukin, director of the Office of Maintenance of War Graves and Commemoration Work in the embassy of the Russian Federation in Berlin, spent two days at the International Tracing Service (ITS / International Tracing Service) in Bad Arolsen to get an overview of the archival records, the request handling, and...learn more
Pava Raibstein, Director of the Youth Aliyah Committee in Frankfurt, recently visited the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen to explore the possibility of a collaboration. Her visit was twofold: she was also interested in discovering details about her father´s fate. "I know the basics about my father´s...learn more
For several days, Claudia Stefanetti Kozrowicz of the University of Buenos Aires researched in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) the subject of Polish Displaced Persons (DPs) who immigrated to Argentina after the Second World War. "We are aware of the two groups -- of the former Nazis and of...learn more


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With as big of a fan as Jay Leno is, we are a bit surprised that he doesn't own a Reventon. He owns other very low production supercars like the McLaren F1, but up to this point he has resisted.
Jay does his usual show, talking about the car, the history of the company, the lineage of the machine then takes it out for a drive. We must say this car does make beautiful noises!
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Dear Community Members:
We hope you enjoy this sixth newsletter, published semiannually. Content covered in this issue reflects many of the quality programs and services offered at Lone Star College-Kingwood and our Atascocita Center.
The college had anything but a ho-hum fall semester start. We served almost 12,000 students, established two new academic divisions, introduced a new core curriculum, implemented the first phase of the new mathways project, started our third Early College High School (ECHS) program, conducted three lockdown drills, hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the lowlands trail and boardwalks, dedicated the Student-Conference Center in honor of Lone Star College System's former chancellor, Dr. John E. Pickelman, and much more.
ECHS programs are not new to LSC-Kingwood. Our first program began in 2009 with 59 Splendora ISD ninth graders. Out of 46 who persevered through the twelfth grade, 30 earned their associate's degree several days before graduating from high school! The second ECHS program began a year later with Humble's Quest ECHS. Seventy-eight ninth grade students started in 2010; many are on track to graduate this May with an associate's degree as are the second cohort of Splendora ECHS students.
This fall the New Caney ISD Infinity ECHS program started with about 60 ninth graders. As with all of our ECHS programs, they are selective and require abiding by the Texas Education Association guidelines for recruiting as well as interviewing both the student and his/her parent(s). These programs are very rigorous and require dedication on the part of the student, their families, the ISD and college partners. By law, the cost of the college coursework cannot be charged to the student so the ISD and college share resources in order to deliver these very effective programs. (The August 2014 newsletter will have another update on all of our ECHS programs.)


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Telephone: (213) 763-3371
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Greg Pauly
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Neftali Camacho
Collections Manager, Herpetology
You can also follow Herpetology Section happenings on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LACMherps.
The Museum's collection of amphibians and reptiles contains approximately 190,000 catalogued specimens from around the globe. This includes approximately 3,600 skeletal preparations and 545 cleared and stained specimens. Other special collections include a growing frozen tissue collection, digital and slide photographs, histology slides, and gut contents from a number of species. The associated section library includes a large collection of herpetological reprints.
The collection is especially strong in its holdings from the southwestern U.S., Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, eastern and southern Africa, and Australia. The collection contains material formerly in the collections of the University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Irvine, California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Fullerton. An especially important contribution is the Costa Rican Expedition (CRE) Reptile and Amphibian Collection, which includes more than 20,000 specimens collected from a variety of localities in Costa Rica throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s by Dr. Jay Savage and colleagues.
The collection continues to grow in line with the research interests of the Section staff and Research Associates as well as with incorporation of donated material. If you are interested in donating material, please see our specimen donation information on the FAQ page.
Loans of tissues or preserved specimens are made to qualified researchers engaged in scientific investigations. For information on searching the collection and our loan policy, please see the Collection page.
For more information, please check out the staff biographies.
Dr. Greg Pauly, Associate Curator
Greg Pauly studies the natural history, evolution, and conservation of reptiles and amphibians. His research interests include phylogenetics, systematics, conservation genetics, the evolution of mating signals in frogs, and the impacts of urbanization on reptiles and amphibians. You can learn more about his research here.
Neftali Camacho, Collections Manager
Neftali Camacho specializes on the herpetofauna of California and the care of all types of vertebrate collections. He maintains the Ichthyology and Herpetology frozen tissue collections.
The Herpetology Section benefits from the hard work of a number of dedicated volunteers, who work alongside research staff on numerous aspects of specimen preparation and collection care. If you are interested in volunteering in the section or elsewhere in the museum, see the Volunteer page. For more information about volunteering at the Museum contact the Volunteer Coordinator at (213) 763-3341 or firstname.lastname@example.com, and for additional information about volunteering in Herpetology, contact Neftali Camacho (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).


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Red Sox executives/partners David Ginsberg, Phillip Morse, Les Otten '71, and Michael Gordon on the morning of the Boston parade. Photo by Jack Maley.
Wonder who made the Yanks lose the Series this year? Maybe it was Les Otten '71.
by Maura Stephens
Even non-sports fans got caught up in the story of the "über-underdog" Boston Red Sox this year. They accomplished what no one could ever have thought possible: they vanquished the fabled New York Yankees, the "winningest" team in baseball history, in a back-from-the-dead four straight wins in the playoffs, and then went on to beat the St. Louis Cardinals in another four straight to sweep the 2004 World Series. On the way they refashioned legends, lifted curses (real or imagined), put an end -- at least for a season or two -- to the taunts of Bronx fans, and rewrote history. And they sent an ecstatic city, state, and region into the streets for an impromptu party.
Practically every Red Sox fan claims credit for the win because of something he or she did that was special. People wore the same shoes during each game, sat in special chairs, ate the same breakfast day after day, stopped shaving, started shaving, parted their hair on the opposite side from usual, wore the same socks for three weeks straight. Whether any of these activities was responsible is subject to debate, but there can be no argument that after 86 years Red Sox fans deserved to celebrate.
The last time their team won the World Series was in 1918, over the Chicago Cubs; the last time they were in the World Series was in 1986, when they lost in seven games to the New York Mets. Game five of the 2004 playoffs set a record for longest postseason game (5 hours, 49 minutes; 14 innings). No team in professional baseball team history had ever forced a tie in a seven-game playoff after losing the first three, and the Sox were the first team ever to rally from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.
The playoffs were so exciting, the triumph over the Yankees so delicious, that the World Series itself was rather anticlimactic. The Sox swept it handily, keeping the Cardinals from gaining the lead at any time. The Cards had won in seven games in both of the two previous World Series in which they faced Boston, in 1946 and 1967. This time they hadn't a chance against the red-hot Sox.
This win could not have been tastier. And few Red Sox fans could have savored it more than Les Otten '71. Those who knew him at IC might find this kind of funny because he grew up outside New York City and was a die-hard Yankees fan back then. But these days when he's asked how he feels about the Yankees, all he'll answer is, "Who?"
He's been living in New England since graduating from Ithaca, so it's not hard to see how his allegiances changed. "I resisted for a long time," he says. "But the local culture finally took over." So much so, in fact, that in October 2000 he purchased a bidding package on the Red Sox from the attorneys representing the team's owner, the Yawkee Trust, giving him a right to bid on a majority ownership in the team. This was a $25,000 commitment. "That was the number they came up with to start the process, to separate the wheat from the chaff," Les explains. "After you bought the package you could look at info on the team and the numbers, and figure out how you could find the money. You bought the right to bid." Les was the first member of a group of would-be ball club owners. "Then we added Tom Warner, a host of other people, and John Henry, the largest investor for principal owner. The negotiation process was grueling, taking 18 months. It covered all sorts of things, such as whether we could save Fenway Park. Just surviving everything our competitors threw at us was exhausting."
The battle to buy the Red Sox was the biggest thing to happen in New England sports in quite a while. "The process probably drew more attention in the local media than the recent presidential election and almost as much as the World Series itself," Les recalls. "We were really under the magnifying glass."
The quest for the Red Sox became Les's full-time commitment until his group took possession just before spring training in 2002. "We prevailed in the end," he says, and took possession of the infamous perennial losers.
The new owners and their team prevailed indeed; just two seasons later the Red Sox would shatter the "curse of the Bambino" and capture the imagination of the country. Les would attend every single postseason game -- every one a winner.
"My story," Les says, "is that perhaps had I not prevailed this outcome might not have come to pass. I take full credit for winning the World Series!"
He's smiling, of course, when he says this. More seriously, and very graciously, he adds, "Red Sox fans are wonderful. Every one had a hand in the win. So much credit goes to so many people that I don't see why they can't all take credit. They can all say, no matter what it was they were doing to try to help the team, 'Maybe if I hadn't done that the Red Sox wouldn't have won.' "


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An autopsy confirms that Davy Jones, star of 1960s band the Monkees, died of a heart attack.
The medical examiner's office in Martin County, Fla., says authorities completed their examination Thursday morning, a day after Jones was rushed to the hospital. Toxicology tests could take another six or eight weeks, but there's no sign anything else is to blame for the 66-year-old heartthrob's death.
Jones rocketed to stardom in the 1960s as a member of the Monkees, a made-for-TV rock band patterned after the Beatles. Though their television show lasted just two years and the group ultimately broke up, they have endured with such chart-topping hits as "I'm a Believer" and "Daydream Believer."
A spokeswoman for Jones says funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
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Measurements are something you deal with on a daily basis whether you think about it or not. Either way, ACRE's Units of Measurement print will put these units in the forefront of your mind in a rather lovely manner.
The posters are $24 (including shipping), and feature a number of different types of units, from kilograms and hectares to lesser known measurements like astronomical units and picas. Although most of the units shown are metric, as a reference the prints are pretty useful for those of us using the backwards U.S. system. Plus they're really nice looking. The posters are about 40 inches by 26 inches, and while they'd be perfect for a classroom, they make some nice wall art, too. [ACRE via Swiss-Miss]


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I recently spent a week in Delhi and Mumbai meeting with corporate management teams and local investors to gain insights into the Indian economy and the outlook for upcoming elections. Meetings like these enhance our team's understanding of how company management teams are thinking about their businesses and the potential impact they believe future macro events (e.g., elections) may have on how they deploy capital and pursue growth initiatives.
When I meet with company management teams, my primary focus is deepening my knowledge about key business drivers, industry dynamics and near-term growth prospects. However, I always set aside time to discuss the macro environment and what issues are top of mind for management. Often, the conversations take interesting and unexpected turns. During my most recent trip, CEOs shared ranging views, including concerns about the lack of progress on a nearby massive construction project, the perspectives of Japanese investors versus their U.S. counterparts and the policies being implemented under Central Bank Governor Rajan.
In isolation, these exchanges could be viewed as side conversations. However, over the course of a week, my conversations with business leaders in a diverse set of industries helped me gain a fuller picture of what the near-term outlook could be for India and the companies in the region.
One consistent message I heard across industries, regions and political parties was that change was needed and Narendra Modi, the favored candidate for prime minister, was best equipped to bring change to India. Many believe Modi can provide the political and regulatory stability to allow the pent-up demand for infrastructure investments to be unleashed. Many people commented on how the current leadership has rewritten contracts and introduced retroactive policy that makes the business environment difficult to navigate. This approach has hindered economic freedom in the Indian economy, and by extension, the flow of capital into infrastructure projects—hence, cranes that sit dormant for months on end. This concern about the near-term prospects for infrastructure build-out influenced the aforementioned CEO's admiration for Japanese investors, who are more likely to accept potentially lower returns on invested capital (ROIC) on investments in the region.
Another consistent message of management teams was the concern about the equity valuations of their companies. Specifically, they were worried that investors would become impatient, given that increased economic activity is likely at least several quarters away. This was not just a timing/valuation issue, but they were also concerned that investors' views have become overly optimistic.
The prevailing view is not that a Modi-Rajan partnership will spark significant economic activity, or that Rajan will have any impact on the economy at all, but instead the view is that a Modi-led government will get out of the way, which will lead to a reacceleration in growth.
In summary, the results of my recent travels were mixed. On the positive side, I had the opportunity to better know several management teams and based on this, I have additional conviction in several of our holdings. Also, we have identified a queue of opportunities that merit additional fundamental research by our investment team. On the negative side, the economic impact of a Modi victory is likely at least 12 to 18 months away and many of the equities we've held during this recent rally have appreciated to a degree that we are taking profits in our more cyclically-exposed positions. We have invested these proceeds into information technology and health care exposures that we believe have more reasonable valuations and may benefit, even if there is a lull in economic activity between the elections and enactment of reform initiatives. Longer term, we believe new leadership will be more pro-urbanization than the previous party and we are looking for opportunities that will benefit from this trend.
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text: Kevin Starr, Mulago Foundation director, looks for the best solutions to the biggest problems in the poorest countries. He thinks all projects need to answer four questions: Is it needed? Does it work? Will it get to those who need it? Will they use it correctly when they get it? Too many bad ideas are using up our limited resources and that needs to change.


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I have a billion knitting projects on the go right now. Or about a billion. They are all staring at me, wondering why I have neglected them for the past few days...weeks...years.... A cardigan with no hood. A baby doll with no basket. A basket full of knit leaves, their ends waiting to be woven in. I could go on. And on...Where is my motivation these days??
So what do I decide to do instead of finishing off these little lovies?
Decoupage of course! I picked up this charmer while thrifting the other day...
Sometimes, you need to take a break from funk-induced projects. I am loving my new book end, and it was super fun {especially having to constantly peel the dried glue off my fingertips. Loved doing that secretly in my desk in my younger years}. My detour proved to be a success, as I am ready to pick up one of my many unfinished knits {I'm coming for you, neglected cardigan}. We are headed to Saskatchewan tomorrow, which means several hours straight of uninterrupted, quality knitting time. Excited!
Have an amazing weekend! Can you believe we are entering March!?


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"I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line/Cute face slim waist wit a big behind..."--Ying Yang Twins, 'Badd'Happy Monday!
I had a wonderful, relaxing weekend. Makes it hard to come to work, but I digress.
Reader Monique sent an e-mail titled 'Frustrated with Finding Jeans.'
She says:
"I have a dilemma: I am a relatively small size...5'7" with a bottom that my mother has so graciously blessed me with. My hips are about 41 inches and my waist is about 28 ½ inches. So you can see the dilemma I have with finding jeans...I used to have like 20 pairs while in under grad, and now I have 3! I would love to buy some skinny legged jeans that compliment my body but every time I find a pair they look odd with my hips. I gave up thinking they could possibly look good on my new curvaceous body. So now I'm here to ask you to help me out! I need a few options for cute designer jeans that fit a girl with booty and hips."
Well Monique, you're in luck. With a little searching, I found an online boutique called True Jeans (www.truejeans.com).
They specialize in finding jeans for women based on their measurements and body type. Basically you input your height, weight, inseam, waist, shape--even the size of your butt, thighs, and belly--and they find you the perfect fit!
I subbed in my approximations of Monique's measurements, and found over 20 jeans options from designer brands like Blue Cult, William Rast, and Kasil. I picked out 4 jeans in various styles: skinny, capri, trouser, and straight legged:
Top Row: 575 Denim Parliment, $220; Penny 'It' Jeans in Midnight, $54.
Bottom Row: Little in the Middle Jeans Basic, $79; Red Engine Straight Leg Jeans, $154.
All available at www.truejeans.com
What's cool is that the website also suggests what size to buy based on the brand and your measurements. So for the 575 Jeans, they recommend a size 31, while with the Little in the Middle Jeans they recommend a size 8. [A note about the new brand 'Little in the Middle,': they're cut one size larger in the hips than the waist! Perfect for women with Monique's body type.]
If you find yourself frustrated with searching for jeans in department stores, give True Jeans a try!
PS Boutique Finesse' One Year Anniversary party was so much fun! I was strapped down with a Polaroid, so I could only take a few digital pictures:
But trust me, it was a good time, and great to hang out with the girls from Hourglass Events and the B Life. Check out the B Life Blog for more pictures...and stay tuned for our next event!


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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
State Whiskey Law: Kentucky & California
Whiskey is mostly regulated by the federal government, but some states have their own whiskey regulations. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the passage of a Tennessee state bill defining Tennessee Whiskey. That bill has since been signed into law and will regulate how Tennessee companies can use the term "Tennessee Whiskey."
Kentucky also has a law on the books regulating the use of its name on whiskey labels. For years I had heard about a special rule in Kentucky but had never seen it or had anyone provide a citation, so when some folks swore to me that it existed, I went searching for it. Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) section 244.370 requires that to use the name Kentucky on a whiskey label (as in "Kentucky Bourbon" or "Kentucky Whiskey") the whiskey must have been aged in oak for at least one year in Kentucky. If it's not aged a year, the company can still bottle it, but they can't use the name "Kentucky" or even say that it was made there except in the name and address of the distiller. The only exception to the aging requirement is for corn whiskey.
Of course, this doesn't really have much practical application these days, since most Kentucky whiskey is sold as straight whiskey, which means it is required to be aged for at least two years.
California has its own laws defining whiskey. California Business & Professions Code section 25175 makes it a misdemeanor to sell any product labeled at whiskey that has not been aged for three years in charred oak barrels. There are exceptions for corn whiskey, spirit whiskey and Scotch. Unlike the regulations in Kentucky and Tennessee which cover activity and label information not regulated by the federal government, the California law directly contradicts the federal regulations, which do not provide any age requirement for non-straight whiskeys. In fact, even many straight whiskeys, which have a two year age requirement, would not be permitted to be called "whiskey" under the California law. State laws that conflict with federal laws are preempted by virtue of the Constitutional Supremacy Clause, though preemption is a rather complex issue with many nuances. (See also, Chuck Cowdery's post on this law from a few years ago).
Given the plethora of young whiskey on California shelves as well as the lack of any case law interpreting this provision, I can only assume it is not being enforced.
There may well be other state laws regulating whiskey which exist alongside or even conflict with federal regulations. If you know of any others, let me know.
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Every state has its own alcohol beverage laws, not just California and Kentucky. In fact, in Kentucky (and elsewhere) alcohol regulations are written on the county level! I'm not positive about this, but I believe that there are more dry counties in Kentucky than wet! As with California, many of these state and regional ordinances conflict with federal law. One can only imagine the level of potential graft that might accompany such discrepancies.
The California laws are just... weird. But then again, that's California. It's probably not alone, either. This topic ought to bring out lots of distillers' and bottlers' nightmares about trying to distribute and label their products in different states.
As for Kentucky's requirements for calling a bourbon "Kentucky Bourbon", it's actually one year and one day. However, you are neglecting a very important point. Nowhere in the law does it state that the whiskey has to be aged for its FIRST year in Kentucky. It's perfectly legal to distill and age bourbon whiskey (or purchase existing stock) in, say, Indiana, for three or four years, and then move it to a warehouse in Kentucky for a year and a day and label it "Kentucky straight bourbon". I don't want to pop anyone's fantasy balloons (well, yes, actually I LOVE doing that) but this is commonly done, much more often that industry folks will admit publicly.
- May 30, 2013 at 4:11 PM
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EllenJ, thanks for the comments. You raise some interesting points.
First, I've heard the "year and a day" rule before, but it doesn't appear in the law, which just says the that the whiskey must age for "not less than one full year." It may be that a year and a day is how people talk about it, but technically, it appears that a year and 30 seconds would fulfill the requirement.
As to moving barrels from other states, the law only applies to whiskey "produced in Kentucky," so depending on how they interpret "produced," it's not clear that there would be any restriction at all on whiskey distilled elsewhere and then brought into the state, though they may well have interpreted as you describe.
The specific statute can be found here.
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Helping With Mental Health Needs Also Part of Recovery After Canton Flooding
CANTON, S.D. -- Along the streets of this southeast South Dakota community, piles of carpeting, plywood and house furnishings pinpoint where recent heavy rains overwhelmed sump pumps, storm sewers and basements.
Inside the Canton United Methodist Church, where the state of South Dakota has set up a volunteer service center, actual pinpoints on maps show the widespread nature of the damage in Canton and throughout Lincoln County.
But for the Department of Public Safety's Cari Leidholt who is coordinating the volunteer effort, those pinpoints mean real people with real needs—and not just the need to muck out muddy basements.
"We've had a high demand, this disaster, especially for emotional and spiritual needs," Leidholt said. "That entails having the right kind of people going out and just talking to those folks. It might be that just show up and ask, 'So, I see you've had a lot of damage here.'"
Lt. Gov. Matt Michaels, a veteran of the 2011 flood fight on the Missouri River, says there is help available if the cleanup becomes overwhelming. "It is not a sign of weakness to reach out for help. It's a sign of strength," Michels said. "We all have challenges. And if we have behavioral health needs, we may not know it."
Michels and Leidholt emphasize that residents impacted by the flood call the Help Line at 211. People or groups or interested in assisting in the cleanup can also call the same number.
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PILTON, England (Reuters) - British folk band Mumford & Sons brought the annual Glastonbury festival jigging to a close on Sunday, capping three days of music, good-natured mayhem and minimal mud.
The bluegrass-inspired set completed a trio of headline acts after British indie band Arctic Monkeys and veteran rockers the Rolling Stones played to crowds on the site attended by up to 150,000 music fans on Friday and Saturday.
Rain held off over the 900-acre (365-hectare) farm in southwest England, part of the Vale of Avalon in English folklore, where festival organiser Michael Eavis first hosted 1,500 hippies in 1970.
Mumford & Sons' appearance at the festival looked uncertain until last week, when the band said bassist Ted Dwane had recovered from emergency surgery for a blood clot on his brain.
Dwane, distinctive with his full beard and broad-brimmed hat, appeared in fine fettle on Sunday as the four-piece band belted out hits "The Cave" and "I Will Wait".
"We've danced together, we've celebrated the fact that Ted is alive together, shall we sing together, Glastonbury?" frontman Marcus Mumford asked a cheering crowd.
For their final number, a cover of the Beatles classic "A Little Help from my Friends" accompanied by fireworks, Mumford & Sons were joined onstage by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, British group The Vaccines, British acoustic trio The Staves and Swedish duo First Aid Kit.
"It's a great way to end a festival," said Toby Gugolz, 28, from Stevenage in southeast England.
In the lead-up to Sunday's headline slot, crowds basked in the sun watching 85-year-old British TV presenter and all-round entertainer Bruce Forsyth or country music's Kenny Rogers.
"It's not usually my bag but he's great," said Kevin Watt, a 32-year-old computer games tester, as he watched Rogers play hits including "We've Got Tonight" and "Just Dropped In".
The average age of ticket buyers has gone up to 36, and the lineup reflects the range of ages.
Forsyth said: "I'll try to do a program that will suit every one of you," before impersonating Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to chants of "We love you, Bruce!" from the crowd.
The main headline act was the Rolling Stones who played to more than 100,000 fans on Saturday in a two and a quarter-hour Glastonbury debut described by Eavis as the highlight of the festival's 43-year history.
Organizers said the event had run smoothly despite rain on the first day temporarily turning the site into a mudbath, but the downpours stopped on Friday and festival-goers dispensed with their waterproofs.
"We watch every year on TV and say we're going to go but this is the first time we have," said Louise Vickery, 49, from Taunton in southwest England, who went with her husband Mark and daughter Alex.
"The atmosphere has been great. It doesn't matter about the acts - the weather makes all the difference!"
A team of about 300 police officers were on duty at the site, and they reported a 30 percent drop in crime since the last Glastonbury festival held in 2011.
Mumford & Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett thanked organizers for the festival, which included zany pastimes such as a tomato fight and laughter workshops as well as the music.
"Having us here and letting us be complete idiots on their farm for a couple of days - it's really very kind."
Additional reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; Editing by Alison Williams and Eric Walsh