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Apple Bread Pudding
Serves 6
6 cups day-old, 1-inch bread cubes from a loaf of French or Italian bread 4 large eggs 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 small red baking apple, peeled and thinly sliced 1/4 cup sliced almonds Serve with: Whiskey-Butter Sauce (recipe follows) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch square-baking dish. Place the cubed bread in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, lightly beat the eggs and then add the heavy cream, whole milk, sugar, cinnamon, and almond extract. Stir to combine. Pour the egg mixture over the bread pieces and toss to coat. Add the apple slices and almonds and allow the bread to soak for at least ten minutes. Spoon the bread mixture into the prepared baking dish and pour any remaining liquid over the top of the bread. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until the pudding is just set. Serve warm with the whiskey-butter sauce (recipe follows). Whiskey-Butter Sauce 1 cup granulated sugar 4 tablespoons butter ¾ cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons water 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons whiskey In a small saucepan, bring the sugar, butter, and heavy cream to a boil, stirring often. In a small bowl, combine the water and cornstarch to make a slurry and then whisk it into the sugar and cream mixture. Reduce the heat to medium-low and let the sauce simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the whiskey. Return the sauce to the heat and cook for 1 minute. Serve warm over the bread pudding.

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How a Simple Business Plan can Get you from A to Z, and Navigate all Things In-Between
by Caron_Beesley, Community Moderator
- Created: November 2, 2010, 7:11 am
- Updated: March 8, 2013, 3:40 pm
It's doubtful that no two words in an entrepreneur's vocabulary are procrastinated over more than these two: Business Planning
This simple phrase can conjure up visions of being hunkered down over a desk trying to justify, forecast, number-crunch and ultimately wrestle with the current state of your business compared with where you want it to be five or ten years down the line.
But the business planning process does't have to start and end this way.
If you really want to succeed in business, as in life, planning should be part of everything you do, and, it never stops.
Just think about the simple act of hitting the road to attend a business meeting across state. You may not be conscious of this fact, but you have already undertaken a series of planning steps and adopted precautionary measures to ensure you arrive at your destination safely and on time.
Over time, this might mean you have invested in a number of available GPS navigation tools, roadside support options, and insurance policies, that will help you plan for each car journey and prepare for the obstacles that you may encounter on the way.
For many business owners, start-ups and entrepreneurs - the business planning process isn't actually a whole lot different. And, while it's unlikely that you would start a car journey with an encyclopedic-sized travel plan at your side, neither is it absolutely necessary to have a 100 page business plan to steer your business towards its long term goals.
Keep it Simple
Whether you are an independent contractor, a home-based business, or have your sights set on Main Street, you want to ensure you scale your plan to your business needs. This includes understanding your market, having a clear view of your capital needs, your budget and cash flow, and, just as you would when you get behind the wheel, list some basic assumptions about where your business is now and where you want it to go, and of course, what is it going to take to get you there.
For an independent contractor or home-based business, this might be as simple as having a goal to expand you client base from two to six by the end of the year, and having a plan to do so. The plan might include networking, building up a referral base, creating a professional web site and starting a blog. And as your business grows, your plans and benchmarks will grow accordingly.
As business planning professional and fellow blogger Tim Berry explains:'I call it the Plan-as-you-go Business Plan. It's just big enough to manage your business, with no extra effort. I could also call it the 'just-big-enough business plan.' It's not a plan, it's planning. Like steering, to manage your business better' You can read more from Tim in his article: 4 Steps to Keep Your Business Planning Simple and Useful.
Break Up Your Plan into Mini-Plans
While a strategic business plan is essential, you also need to break up the planning process across the different functions of your business. As small business proferssional Rieva Lesonsky explains, you need mini plans for all areas of you business, that you visit monthly, if not weekly.
All business owners need a marketing plan, which should be updated often. But some of you also need a technology plan, a financing plan or a staffing plan. How about a plan for expansion, be it across town or around the world? Do you eventually want to franchise your company? You need to start laying the groundwork now"and you need a plan to help you get there.
And, as Rieva explains those often overlooked plans also come into play:
You'll also need a disaster plan, a succession plan (no matter your age) and... then there's the most important plan of all"Plan B. Come up with some what-if scenarios and possible solutions in case they occur.
Use Online Resources to Help You Plan
There are many online tools and resources that you can help you create and document even a basic business plan. SBA.gov's Write a Business Plan, for example, has business plan templates, and step-by-step guides.
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There are many resources in your community - your local SCORE office, Small Business Development Center, Women's Business Center, and others who can help you with the planning process through free one-on-one counseling and access to other resources.
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A lot of the information in this post has been very useful. I can definitely
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agree there are great needs for having or developing organizational, writing,
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I especially like the idea of breaking your plan up into mini-plans,Creating
a solid business plan may not be an easy task but
a solid business plan may not be an easy task but
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Nice post!
A business plan will serve as your basic guide in putting up that business.
Creating a solid business plan may not be an easy task but you can succeed on
completing it once you are determined to do so.
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completing it once you are determined to do so.
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I especially like the idea of breaking your plan up into mini-plans. It certainly helped me a lot in my Penny Stocks business. Instead of seeing an insurmountable obstacle I was able to chop it down into more do-able goals/pieces.
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'Game Changers' for Job Creation
A new McKinsey report shows that energy independence means jobs and growth.
It's time for a "game change."
The definition of insanity, a phrase misattributed to Einstein goes, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Whoever first coined these words might give a sad and knowing nod today to the situation in Washington, where all too many policymakers have been following that path in endeavoring to "fix" the economy. Elected officials who want to pursue a more thoughtful course will need to break from the dead-end habit of concocting yet more government programs funded by higher taxes or debt as "solutions" to our anemic recovery.
Interestingly, a recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute provides major clues to changing direction for the better. The firm recently issued new research outlining five "catalysts" that will "quickly create jobs and deliver a substantial boost to GDP by 2020."
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The "game changers" McKinsey highlights run the gamut from better talent development, particularly in science, engineering and math, to big-data productivity breakthroughs, from improved trade competition in knowledge-intensive goods to better infrastructure. But the No. 1 catalyst, McKinsey says, is oil and gas production, particularly from shale.
According to the report, maximizing the shale energy boom will result in:
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We continue to hear a great deal of words from the White House and its allies in Congress calling for more jobs and better wages. But saying the same thing in different contexts and hoping they'll lead to a magical transformation is hardly a sound strategy. In any case, public officials have long attempted to revive economies by throwing more money at them (especially the current administration), resulting in huge deficits and debt for little gain.
Nonetheless, limited government advocates won't, and shouldn't, agree with everything in the McKinsey report, such as its seemingly overoptimistic assessment of high-speed rail's potential. Furthermore, tax-and-spenders could misinterpret and misappropriate some of the document's words as a call for bigger government. "Finding solutions for the environmental risks" associated with hydraulic fracturing, for example, has already been underway in the private sector and at the state and local regulatory level. McKinsey's advice should not serve as a pretext for expanding the Environmental Protection Agency's already excessive powers.
On the other hand, the authors do give remarkable insight into the ability of techniques such as public- private partnerships and more flexible teacher compensation to boost outcomes. Fiscal conservatives can make many additional contributions toward the realization of these "game changers." Infrastructure efficiency can be improved without huge infusions of tax dollars, through proposals such as truck-weight flexibility and open competition for pipe materials in water and sewer systems.
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Private enterprise is willing to invest in the shale oil and gas boom. Such activity won't raise our national debt; indeed, as past studies of other oil and gas opportunities indicate, such development could actually generate more revenues as people get back to work and the economy grows. Why would any government pass up these kinds of benefits, particularly at a time when unemployment remains stubbornly high and the economy is just dribbling along? Apparently this is not a rhetorical question, as some of our elected leaders appear to be comfortable with doing precisely that.
Past White House budgets, as well as legislation in Congress, have attempted to paint a large target on the back of any energy company they can find, large or small. The naysayers don't want to encourage energy growth. They drag out the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline. They don't want to approve liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, even though other countries are eager to pay handsomely for our commodity. They do want to single out American oil and gas companies for tax hikes, which already pay higher average tax rates than do many non-energy businesses.
It's time for our leaders to send the right policy signals for the energy sector to grow, create new jobs, deliver prosperity and fulfill the potential for North America to become a net energy exporter. Even the economic superstars who are "game changers" need to operate within a set of rules, but insisting they follow the same old playbook is neither smart nor sane.
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If it seems to you allergy sufferers that you're reaching for Kleenex and hay fever pills earlier and earlier each spring to ward off sneezing fits, you may be right.
If it seems to you allergy sufferers that you're reaching for Kleenex and hay fever pills earlier and earlier each spring to ward off sneezing fits, you may be right.
A panel of climate scientists and plant physiologists said Tuesday that higher temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are linked to longer and more intense pollen production.
"What we're seeing with additional warming and earlier springs is that the trees are flowering earlier and producing more pollen," said Lewis Ziska, a research plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
There are three seasonal sources of pollen that trigger allergies: trees in the spring, grass and weeds in the summer and ragweed in the fall.
Ziska said increases in carbon dioxide levels since the early 1900s have probably doubled pollen production in ragweed, which he studies. The effects are even more pronounced in urban areas, he said.
Compared with rural areas, cities act as heat sinks -- they're 2 to 3 degrees warmer -- and contain about 20% more carbon dioxide.
"What we have found is the average ragweed in a city environment is producing about 10 times as much pollen as the average ragweed plant growing out in the country," Ziska said.
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Ragweed plants growing in Southern Canada are now experiencing 21 more days of flowering than they were back in the 1990s, Ziska said.
Ziska and his fellow panelists were convened by the Union of Concerned Scientists to speak about warmer and earlier spring seasons.
Todd Sanford, a UCS climate scientist, said average temperatures in the U.S. have increased by about 1.5 degrees since record keeping began in the 1880s. More than 80% of that warming has occurred since 1980, he said.
"In the contiguous United States, spring has been warming faster than both summer and fall since the late 1800s," Sanford said. "Over the same time period, the month of March has warmed by just over 2 degrees Fahrenheit."
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So GUESSING that a better offer won't materialize after a guy whose stuff per pitch f/x is unequivocally, demonstrably, objectively TOTALLY DIFFERENT than it was in 2011 and early 2012 (and actually even better than 2010) makes another start is OK, because, y'know, "he didn't expect better[offers] to come by Tuesday".
Just: no. The F.O. is toast. At least Liriano, of whom I'm a much bigger fan at this point than the Twins Org., writ large, will get a chance to work with a real pitching coach.
I remember when he was put in the bullpen a few months ago and everyone here was saddened because we all knew frankie would work it out. Absolutely no one called for him to be released or anything like that. We all stood by him because we believed in him.
So to lose him for two mediocre at best players is truly heartbreaking for all of us that had faith in Liriano through thick and thin. Because absolutely none of us called for him to be demoted, even at 0-5 with a 9.45 era. We all knew he had it in him.
So long Francisco Liriano y Casillas, I shall shed tears for thee
Agree with everything you've said here, Nick.
I continue to be perplexed by the number of people who are so convinced that we could have gotten so much more for him. They seem to be valuing him based solely on his upside while ignoring his downside, but even the dumbest of MLB front offices is smart enough not to do that.
And when it comes to a guy at his age with his experience, you can't be talking about "potential" anymore. He is what he is. A guy who ranges from brilliant to brutal, both between and within starts.
I don't see why anyone would think that teams would be lining up to offer their best prospects for a 2-month rental of such a player. It defies logic.
Time will tell how this trade plays out. Maybe the Whities are right and they can teach Frankie some new tricks. Maybe he helps them and they even bring him back.
But maybe the Whities see bad Frankie, miss the postseason and he walks at the end of the year while one of these guys ends up helping the Twins, and the fans on the Southside start demanding to know what the hell their management was thinking when they made this deal.
We shall see.
Truth is too, that we have about as good a chance re-signing him in the offseason as we would if we hadn't traded him. If he manages to stay in "Ace" mode the rest of the season, he is not gonna just resign with the Sox, he's gonna wanna test the waters, same as he would if he was here.
We COULD make a run at him, and then the net result would be we only lose him for two months for two young guys. If he signs a big deal elsewhere, well, he probably would have gotten that deal leaving the Twins too, which means we would have lost him for nothing.
We all know how much we love when our top guys leave in FA and we get jack squat in return
The find I find amazing is the short attention span of most fans, even knowledgeable fans. Last May, this is exactly what fans were clamoring for - a run of good starts so the Twins could get something, ANYTHING, for him before he imploded again. Nobody was talking about offering him an extension or calling him the best arm in the system (which he is on his good days). There were even some who said we should just DFA him and be done with it. I'm OK with this trade - I would have liked more, but it wasn't to be.
I do think, given their contracts, that more needs to be expected for Span, Willingham or Morneau - they won't go for this level of return. If that's all that Ryan is offered for one of them, just say no and keep them.
The question that nags at me isn't about what the Twins got from him in the trade -- it's about what the Twins got from him while he was with the team.
Did they get the best from him? Are they getting the best from the other players they have?
I guess we'll see what Frankie does with the Sox.
So it proves that if you want to get good players in trades, you need to trade good players, and also not wait until they are only 3 month rentals. The question is, has Ryan come to the same conclusion?
Unless you are a fan that thinks a couple more wins we'll be back in the race, there is little reason to be upset. If you are one of those fans you need help! We got something for him rather than see him leave after the season and get nothing. It is not in Ryan's dna to spend big money on free agents so thinking Liriano would sign a long term deal to stay is silly. Now could he come back when he finds no market for his good, bad and sometimes ugly pitching, sure but why would we want that. We have a bad team, it has been a bad team for over a year and thinking that a bad team has a lot of great players worth a small fortune doesn't make sense. Trade anything worth talent in return, every player on this team can be replaced and lets rebuild a team not for competeing in the central but a team worth watching come playoff time. Of course do it on the cheap!
Mike has summed it up correctly. If you want good players you need to offer good players. This is what the market brought for Frankie.
I'm sure we will all be watching Liriano for the rest of the season and somehow try and draw conclusions from his performances into evaluating this trade. If he does well, does that reflect badly on Rick Anderson and the Twins coaching staff and how they handled him? If he pitches poorly will that mean that TR played it well and at least got some thing for him? I have a feeling we will land somewhere in between. He will pitch great at times and implode during other outings, just like he did for us. That may be good enough for the Sox. It didn't work for us, we are at a point where we need consistent starts and at this point in his career, Liriano is anything but a consistent pitcher.
Good Luck to Frankie, I hope he finds that groove and fulfills his potential down the road, I just hope it isn't as White Sox.
Rywan said he wanted pitchers in the high minors who are "ready to go."Of course he would have preferred to pry away younger prospects with higher ceilings
I wanted Liriano to stick around as well, and maybe if he preforms "meh" for the White Sox (4.00-4.50 ERA) down the stretch perhaps we can get him back on a cheap 1 year or 2 year deal. But the Twins decided enough was enough at this point with Liriano and they made the move, sometimes you just gotta move on, just like the Delmon trade last year.
What this deal indicates is that "nobody" in their right mind really can think Liriano is a "frontline" anything.
I have minimal hope for this deal panning out and I'm not a fan of the value they got, but what they got is exactly what one should expect for what Frankie ACTUALLY is. Not what we all fondly remember him to be.
It's funny to talk with Sox fans in my family, they almost all have the same answer to two questions: How do you feel about Frankie and how do you feel about what you gave up?
Answer: Meh. Couldn't agree more.
I'm a little curious about Pedro Hernandez. Is he rated as high as Samuel Deduno?
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Ohio runs on a two-year budget, but that doesn't mean off years are slow. Governor Kasich crammed in several education initiatives into his mid-cycle budget. Several other education bills passed the legislature. Among the new programs is the third grade-reading guarantee.
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By David Weidner, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It was bound to happen. After being kicked to the Wall Street curb for the last four years, there's a new claim that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is about to enjoy a renaissance.
Media and analysts are swooning over the so-called vampire squid. They argue that most legal risks have been reconciled. The stock is oversold, they say. Goldman /quotes/zigman/188479/delayed/quotes/nls/gs GS -1.52% has emerged stronger from a painful pruning, shedding thousands of jobs.
Finally, and most importantly, they say, the bank appears ready to pounce on a sharp rise in trading volume. Goldman shares, according to the Sept. 29 issue of Barron's, are poised to rally as much as 25%. Read Barron's bullish report on Goldman Sachs .
I'll even add a reason of my own: For all of its missteps, Goldman doesn't seem to have lost its blue-chip client base. The investment bank has advised more mergers and acquisitions than any bank in the world year to date, gleaning $1.13 billion in revenue, according to Dealogic.
This all makes for a compelling narrative. If only it were enough. But it's not.
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Goldman Sachs, like it or not, is no longer the shiniest diamond in a Wall Street brooch full of dull stones. In the post-crisis brokerage industry, firms such as BlackRock Inc. /quotes/zigman/249424/delayed/quotes/nls/blk BLK -0.42% and even J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. /quotes/zigman/272085/delayed/quotes/nls/jpm JPM -2.06% have stolen Goldman's thunder and business.
Goldman, its shares having tumbled more than 50% since 2008, has fallen and can't get up. It enjoyed a robust 2009, with $13.39 billion in net income. Analysts predicted a better 2010. When profit fell to $8.35 billion, there was hope that 2011 would be brighter, without massive fines and legal entanglements. No such luck. Net income was $4.44 billion for the entire year.
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This year is looking slightly better — Goldman is on pace to earn $6 billion or more — but it's still a far cry from 2009, when profits were twice as high. Those who believe the stock is about to go on a bull run should consider that Goldman shares are roughly at the same level they were when the investment bank was actually more profitable.
It's not that Goldman is a poorly run brokerage. It's just that without the leverage used from 1999 to 2009, it's an ordinary one. That's an issue glossed over by the new Goldman bulls. Goldman's leverage ratio has fallen to 13 from 26 at the end of 2007.
The difference is substantial because Goldman essentially can only make half of the bets it made five years ago in a market with fewer sure winners.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Rapper Lil Wayne showed up at Notre Dame to see Skylar Diggins play and watched as Brittney Griner and defending national champion Baylor put on a show.
Griner had 24 points and 14 rebounds, three other Baylor players scored in double figures and the third-ranked Lady Bears beat No. 5 Notre Dame 73-61 Wednesday night, just as they did in last season's national championship game.
This time it was a little closer. The Lady Bears didn't put the game away until a layup by Jordan Madden with seven minutes left sparked a 10-0 run.
"We just stayed in the flow, don't change anything just because your shots aren't falling," the 6-8 Griner said. "They're going to fall eventually."
Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw knew the Irish were in trouble when Griner, who was 10 of 16 from the floor, started hitting a couple of shots from 15 feet.
"That's what we wanted her to take," she said.
Griner said she let the game come to her.
"Last year I guess I started getting even more patient. I couldn't get my hands on the ball, keep moving. Whatever I can do, I will do. I took it a play at a time, post up strong when I had to. Did whatever I could to help my team out."
The Lady Bears (7-1), with all five starters back from the team that went 40-0 last season, dominated inside, outscoring the Irish 36-26 in the paint and outrebounding them 44-35. Baylor also held the Irish to 36-percent shooting while making 49 percent of its shots.
The Irish (5-1), with just two starters back, were simply no match, especially with All-America senior Diggins struggling on 4-of-19 shooting. But McGraw was encouraged that her young team looked a lot better in losing Wednesday than her veteran squad did in the 80-61 defeat in the title game in April.
"I think we maybe learned that we're better than we think we are. That should have given us a little more confidence,"
Odyssey Sims returned after missing four games with a hamstring injury and added 16 points for Baylor. Coach Kim Mulkey said she thought Sims' play proved she's the best point guard in the country.
"She's played Skylar four times and won every ball game. She's won a national championship," Mulkey said. "Odyssey didn't have one of her best games, either, but she never stopped being tough on the floor and she never stopped guarding people."
McGraw said Sims makes Baylor tougher to play.
"When she's not in the game you don't really have to guard them very much from the perimeter. So just having her on the court stretches the defense to her side a little bit more," she said.
Brooklyn Pope added 14 points for Baylor and Jordan Madden had 12.
Diggins was frustrated by her bad shooting.
"I don't think I hesitated on my shot. It just wasn't going in," she said.
Freshman Jewell Loyd led Notre Dame with a season-high 24 points, Kayla McBride had 16 and Natalie Achonwa 11. No one else scored for the Irish. Mulkey said she was impressed by Loyd.
"She's a tremendous jump shooter. Not many can take it off the dribble and shoot a jump shot. She's a special talent," she said.
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Yahoo! sports is reporting that Anthony Davis, who led Kentucky to the 2012 NCAA championship, suffered a severely sprained ankle during a workout with the New Orleans Hornets and will not be able to contend for a spot with the U.S. Olympic basketball team.
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Hollywood continues to learn the power of the female audience for spending money. Despite two new, albeit independent releases—one starring Brad Pitt—the top box office earner was still The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2. The final segment in the vampire franchise earned $17.4 million in its third week, taking first place in this typically quiet weekend after Thanksgiving.
According to Box Office Mojo, Breaking Dawn is adding very nicely to the success of not just the Twilight series, but of Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment. The film, with $254.6 million overall domestic gross, is doing slightly better than its predecessors, and it marks the 11th weekend this year that Summit took the number one spot. The Expendables 2 and The Possession both dominated two weekends, Breaking Dawn now has three, and The Hunger Games held four number one spots.
The latest James Bond film, Skyfall, took second place this weekend with $17 million, while the Disney period drama Lincoln came in third with $13.5 million. Both films are in their fourth weeks in theatres. Skyfall is the 23rd Bond film and has grossed a whopping $246 million so far.
Disney's Wreck-it Ralph is still holding its own after five weeks, earning just over $7 million, putting it in sixth place for the weekend. This is perhaps due to the dearth of children's movies this holiday season, though Dreamworks' Rise of the Guardians dipped slightly since last week, reaching fourth place with $13.5 million.
The Ang Lee-directed Life of Pi rounds out the top five, and continues to build audiences, bringing in $12 million in its second week. The Red Dawn reboot earned $6.5 million, putting it in eighth place, and the Denzel Washington vehicle Flight continues strongly after 5 weeks, holding the number nine spot and earning $4.5 million.
The two new releases this weekend, Brad Pitt's Killing Them Softly, and the horror indie The Collection, entered the chart in seventh and tenth place respectively, the former earning $7 million, and the latter $3.4 million. Despite the small release and ultra-violent story of Softly, many expected that Pitt's drawing power would at least make more of a dent than a seventh place opening weekend.
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Halsey Street in Newark has made way for Elbow Room, a restaurant that got its start in comfort food concoctions right across the Hudson River.
The casual corner joint, near Bleeker Street, recreates down-home macaroni and cheese using kicked-up flavors, like fiery buffalo chicken macaroni with Black River blue cheese and Frank's hot sauce, and heart-stopping poutine mac with short rib gravy, Yukon french fries and fresh cheese curds.
Restaurateur Joel Bolden celebrated Tuesday the grand opening of Elbow Room's second location in Newark, after opening the first at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
"I wanted to be at the forefront of the Newark food renaissance," said Bolden of opening a location in Brick City. "I love the history of the city, I love Halsey Street - it reminds me a lot of Brooklyn."
Bolden's partners include New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck and former Giant Michael Strahan, both of whom joked about football Tuesday with Mayor Cory Booker, who played tight end for Stanford University.
"Being from Alabama, comfort food was everything we ate," said Tuck.
Bolden described Elbow Room, with its simple white walls, wooden floors and hanging light-bulb fixtures, as having a townhouse feel. In the front of the restaurant, there's a couch and coffee table reminiscent of what Bolden called a "comfortable dining room where you and your parents always ate."
The restaurant's actual dining area has whimsical schoolhouse touches, with classroom-like stools, stacked books and hanging lights. Then, in the back, is the kitchen, designed to house a bit of delicious mystery, said Bolden.
"You really don't know what your mother is doing in the kitchen," he said of the inspiration behind his restaurant's design, "but it always came out really good."
Bolden hopes to soon open five or six more Elbow Rooms, including in Jersey City.
Among staff favorites is the chicken tinga mac and cheese, with shredded chipotle chicken, monterey jack cheese, avocado and pickled red onion. The menu, which ranges from $4 to $22, also offers fresh salads and, for dessert, a tasty twist on a classic: An oatmeal cookie and cinnamon ice-cream sandwich.
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There's a new animation making waves on the web. It shows a massive radiation cloud from Japan hitting the West Coast on Wednesday.
Is it accurate? What's the real risk?
The animation was put together by scientists at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research. It's a credible group that studies atmospheric patterns. Mynorthwest.com had University of Washington atmospheric science professor Dr. Dan Jaffe take a look at it. He's considered one of the best at understanding trans-Pacific air patterns.
"You have to understand this is projected based on forecast weather data," Dr. Jaffe said. "It's not reality, but it's what someone has put into a computer simulation to give us a sense of what could be happening in the next few days."
Dr. Jaffe has plenty of questions about the simulation. So many, in fact, that he's reached out to the Institute for more information on its assumptions and reasoning that make-up the basis for the projections.
"The critical unknown is how much radiation is being released," he said. "So I'm going to guess that they're looking at worst case scenarios here and making an assumption about the largest possible amount of radiation that's being released from the facility and then trying to understand where that goes."
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Judith Elaine Littlefield, 68, passed away early Friday morning, March 15, 2013, in a Fort Worth hospital. Services are 2 p.m. Monday, March 18, 2013, in the Baum-Carlock-Bumgardner Chapel with Gary Williams officiating. Burial will follow in Newberry Cemetery. Visitation is Sunday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Elaine was born Sept. 11, 1944, in Poteet. She was a lifetime resident of Millsap. Elaine was a hardworking homemaker and an active community member. She was a founding member of the Millsap Heritage Society.
Elaine is survived by her husband of 49 years: Royce Littlefield; children: Chris Littlefield, Brad and Johnnie Littlefield, and Beth and Norman Adkins; grandchildren: Trey, Ashtyn and Drew Adkins, and Zeb and Raelyn Littlefield; great-grandchildren: Major and Mikayla Adkins; brothers and sisters: Jon Mark and Kelli Crosland, David Knight, Glynda and Ron Warren, and Red Thomas; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Elaine is preceded in death by her son: Paul Grant Littlefield; her parents: Grant Crosland and Lenora and Loyd Knight; her in-laws: Paul and Cleora Littlefield; and her sister-in-law: Betty Thomas.
The Littlefield family is grateful for the kindness and support received. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Millsap Heritage Society in her memory.
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Sheriff's deputies arrested a Cheektowaga man for aggravated DWI after a Sunday night traffic stop on Wilson-Burt Road.
Deputies were sent to the area about 8 p.m. for a complaint of a reckless driver and they found the suspected vehicle parked on the shoulder of the road on Wilson-Burt Road.
Deputies found two men outside the pickup truck and ordered them back into the vehicle. The two men said they were brothers and they were having an argument. The men said they had come from a local bar and when the deputy asked how many drinks the driver of the car had to drink, he replied, "Too many."
The driver, Patrick J. Schrader, 42, 1138 Maryvale Drive, Cheektowaga, failed field sobriety tests and charged with DWI. The deputy said he noticed numerous open beer cans in the pickup truck. Asked again how much he'd had to drink, Schrader replied, "About 13."
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NEW ALBANY — Leaning against the Bud's in Bloom building along Spring Street, Chase James and Zack Gunther waited for the Harvest Homecoming Parade to make its way downtown.
Though the cool fall air had been ushered in by the rainfall of the night before, the sun shown on the young men's faces as they discussed their reasons for attending the festivity.
James said he was there mainly to see his niece, who rode on one of the dozens of floats in the parade. The event is a great time to enjoy kids at play, he continued.
"I think it's nice to let them come out here and enjoy themselves," James said.
Like James, Gunther lives in Clarksville and came to New Albany on Saturday to take in the scenery.
"This is actually the first time I've been to the parade," Gunther added. "It's just a nice little day to hang out and be with friends."
He admitted they weren't just there to watch fire trucks and antique cars parade through downtown. With a grin, James said they wouldn't mind running into a few "hotties" during the autumn afternoon.
As evident by the shrills and girlish sighs as he passed by, New Albany native, actor and parade grand marshal Josh Dallas wasn't hurting for attention. Two teenage girls ran toward his float as he neared the Bank Street intersection of Spring Street, and he had the driver of the blue Ford Mustang he sat atop halt the car for a quick picture with the two.
Obviously pleased with having an arm around Dallas as their picture was snapped, the girls ran back to the sidewalk bellowing as if they'd just seen The Beatles on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
Sires from fire engines blared while a wagon carrying passengers dressed in 1800s clothing to celebrate New Albany's upcoming bicentennial passed by. New Albany Mayor Jeff Gahan and his family waived at people who lined up on the sidewalks to get a peak at the floats, and a giant fake pumpkin was pulled along with its bright orange color reminding spectators that the season has changed.


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An older couple was having lunch at the Big Chicken and flipping through a handful of maps. A young couple, Elizabeth and Chad, sat next to them and said that they lived in Cobb County and did they need any help?
The older couple, Jim and Wanda, said that they were from Tupelo and had come to the Olympics in Atlanta and had a wonderful time. They went to most of the events, took MARTA all over, ate at Planet Hollywood, and the Varsity. Their daughter, her partner, and their grandkids had recently moved to East Cobb, so now they had a chance to come back and visit.
Wanda said that Cobb County was the only county in the metro area that they hadn't visited during the Olympics. They had planned on seeing the new Olympic Volleyball facility but couldn't get tickets. Now that they were retired and visiting family, they were trying to find the one location that they didn't visit before.
Chad smiled at Elizabeth and said, "Around here we call it the Bill Byrne Olympic Volleyball and Recreational Center." Elizabeth gave Chad a stern look and told Jim and Wanda that Chad was kidding.
Yes, back in the 90's Cobb was scheduled to have an Olympic event, volleyball, played at the Cobb Galleria Centre. The Olympic Torch was also scheduled to come through Cobb County.
Both Olympic activities were taken away because of Bill Byrne. Bill Byrne was the Cobb commission chairman at the time and he represented the worst parts of the few Cobb voters who actually voted.
He kept MARTA out of Cobb by appealing to the fear and prejudice of locals by saying that "those" people would ride the train up from Atlanta and rob and create a crime wave. It has resulted in ever-increasing traffic jams in Cobb County but it got him re-elected. It got a lot of bad people elected over the years.
Then Bill Byrne rode the homophobic wave and joined hands with some powerful political and religious leaders and passed a "Family Values" anti-gay resolution in August of 1993. It was un-Christian and despicable but it energized his base and cost Cobb the Olympics (It also caused a rift between Byrne and his gay daughter.).
Wanda looked kind of sad and said, "You still don't have MARTA in Cobb County? I was going to take the grandkids to the Varsity and the High Museum." Elizabeth shook her head no and said that if Wanda planned on going on a major road on Cobb County that she shouldn't drive between 6:00-9:00AM, 4:00-7:00PM, and lunch time isn't too good either.
Jim said, "At least time and progress have moved forward. What is happening in Cobb County Now?" Chad said, "Bill Byrne is running for County Chairman, and still saying that commuter rail will bring in 'those' people but I don't think that he has gone homophobic lately. On the other hand, he hasn't apologized for what he did before."


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Michael I. Norton is a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Norton was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT's Sloan School of Management.
His work has been published in a number of leading academic journals, including Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Consumer Research, and has been covered in media outlets such as the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS, Fox, and MSNBC, and written op-eds for the New York Times, Forbes, and the Los Angeles Times.
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At HBS, he teaches the first-year MBA course, FIELD, and heads the Strategic Marketing Management executive program.
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You probably don't remember all the words to your school fight song. Chances are you never quite mastered "Auld Lang Syne." And you're still puzzling over why Jimi Hendrix needed to be excused to go kiss some guy.
So why then is that song from that credit report website commercial -- you know the one -- firmly lodged inside your head?
Because a well-constructed jingle can put even the most incessant top-40 radio hit to shame when it comes to catchiness.
Over the years, advertisers have turned to everything from celebrity endorsements and animals to sex and slogans to woo customers, but nothing works quite like a jingle. If you doubt it, ask yourself how many dollars a foot-long Subway sandwich costs ... and try not to sing the answer.
While there have been many great musical advertising pitches, none quite measure up to these five most memorable commercial jingles ...
No. 5: McDonald's Big Mac
McDonald's has had many memorable jingles over the years and it is clear that they stick in people's heads. This jingle may not be as current, but plenty of people know that "Two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions on a sesame-seed bun" is a Big Mac.
In the documentary film "Super Size Me," creator Morgan Spurlock even found groups of American who could sing this particular jingle but had some difficulty getting through the words of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Golden Arches has now moved on to "I'm loving it" as its new slogan and jingle, but the Big Mac song remains quite memorable.
The question is, do people remember a hamburger or a hot dog song better?
No. 4: Oscar Mayer hot dogs/bologna
Oscar Mayer actually had two memorable jingles that revolved around their consumer meat products.
The first expresses the singer's desire to be an Oscar Mayer wiener because this will lead everyone to love the person. Perhaps the song is a bit self-serving and somewhat strange in retrospect. However, this makes it no less memorable to those many people who probably still sing the words today.
In addition, consumers learned from the same company that O-S-C-A-R and M-A-Y-E-R were the first and the last name of its B-O-L-O-G-N-A. Oscar Mayer may have more competition in their sector of today's marketplace, but no other packaged meat company has the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, which still tours around the country.
Despite the memorable nature of the Oscar Mayer commercials, they didn't feature singing cats ...
No. 3: Meow Mix's singing cats
The Meow Mix commercial, which originally aired when Purina distributed the brand, features crooning cats that sing the same line over and over again.
The writer of the jingle, Shelley Palmer, is in many ways a genius because the song is essentially compromised of the word "meow" sung 16 times in a row during the verse. Of course, the commercial also featured subtitles, which translated the various flavors that the cats wanted in their meal.
Even if you're a dog person who can't stand cats, this commercial just had to hit the spot. "I want chicken. I want liver. Meow Mix, Meow Mix, please deliver!" Now, just try to avoid walking around all day meowing to yourself.
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of Americas greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheneys profound influence on Wright.
Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horans Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamahs is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novels stunning conclusion.
Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
Chapter 1
Mamah Cheney sidled up to the Studebaker and put her hand sideways on the crank. She had started the thing a hundred times before, but she still heard Edwins words whenever she grabbed on to the handle. Leave your thumb out. If you dont, the crank can fly back and take your thumb right off. She churned with a fury now, but no sputter came from beneath the cars hood. Crunching across old snow to the drivers side, she checked the throttle and ignition, then returned to the handle and cranked again. Still nothing. A few teasing snowflakes floated under her hat rim and onto her face. She studied the sky, then set out from her house on foot toward the library.
It was a bitterly cold end-of-March day, and Chicago Avenue was a river of frozen slush. Mamah navigated her way through steaming horse droppings, the hem of her black coat lifted high. Three blocks west, at Oak Park Avenue, she leaped onto the wooden sidewalk and hurried south as the wet ...
Despite having "bodice-ripping" potential, Loving Frank is most firmly a novel grounded in research, not a 'romance'. Of course, the love affair between Mamah and Frank is central to the story, but Loving Frank is first and foremost the story of Mamah's life, and although the relationship between her and Frank is interesting, it is the exploration of her character and the period details that impact her life that keep the reader enthralled, as she struggles to reconcile her need to be with Frank, her need to be with her children and perhaps most powerful of all, her need to discover who she is herself.
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The Valparaiso men's basketball team bounced back quickly from Friday's heartbreaking triple-overtime loss, coming out 24 hours later and leading nearly start to finish in Saturday's 94-58 victory over Cincinnati Christian at the ARC.
It was a total team effort by the Crusaders on Saturday, as of the 10 players that saw the court, all 10 played at least 12 minutes and nine of the 10 scored at least seven points. Leading the way was redshirt junior David Chadwick (Charlotte, N.C./Hargrave Military Academy [Rice]), who appeared for the first time since the Ohio game and scored a team-high 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting in 17 minutes off the bench.
Chadwick was one of six Valpo players to close the night in double figures. Freshman Alec Peters (Washington, Ill./Washington) was perfect on five field goal attempts, scoring 13 points in just 16 minutes. Fellow rookie Lexus Williams (Chicago, Ill./Marist) finished in double figures for the fourth straight game, scoring 11 points while also pulling down a career-high eight rebounds.
Freshman Clay Yeo (Bourbon, Ind./Triton) hit a trio of 3-pointers en route to 11 points and also handed out five assists without a turnover in 30 minutes of play, while junior Vashil Fernandez (Kingston, Jamaica/Princeton Day [Md.] Academy) registered his first career double-double with 11 points and a career-best 12 rebounds. Fifth-year senior Moussa Gueye (Thies, Senegal/SEED Academy [Alabama/Lake Land (Ill.) College]) rounded out the group in double figures, scoring 10 points in 15 minutes of action.
Fifth-year senior Bobby Capobianco (Loveland, Ohio/Loveland [Indiana]) needed just 12 minutes to score eight points and register four assists, while freshman Jubril Adekoya (Tinley Park, Ill./Andrew) totaled seven points and a career-best eight rebounds. Freshman Nick Davidson (Merrillville, Ind./Andrean) played 16 minutes and registered seven points and five assists.
The Crusader offense was highly efficient yet again on Saturday, hitting at a 64.6% (31-of-48) clip from the floor, including 8-of-16 from beyond the 3-point line. Valpo also got to the foul line 33 times, connecting on 24 free throws (72.7%). The Crusaders ended the night with a season-best 25 assists on their 31 made field goals.
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A practical guide to getting started with the Citrix XenServer Virtualization technology with easy-to-follow instructions with this book and ebook
In this article by Gohar Ahmed, the author of Implementing Citrix XenServer Quickstarter we will learn about XenConvert.
Citrix XenConvert is a tool to convert physical machines to virtual machines; that is, a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion tool. It converts a Windows-based workload from a server or desktop machine to a virtual machine in a XenServer, virtual appliance, virtual disk, or virtual disk connected to Provisioning Services.
A conversion involves copying the contents of the workload and configuring its operating systems for XenServer. So, the workload can be applications and data besides the base Windows operating system. XenConvert can convert from a single server or desktop (physical machine) running Windows to a provisioned virtual disk or VHD that Provisioning Services can import.
A good scenario would be converting a physical Windows server with all the applications hosted in it to a virtual machine for pre-staging, so that the hosted applications' behavior can be tested after adjustments. This can be the operating system upgrade or application updates/upgrades.
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System requirements
Since XenConvert can only convert Windows-based hosts and installs on the same host, the requirements are pretty much the same, as follows:
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 (SP1 or later), Windows Server 2008 (R2)
- .Net Framework 4.0
- Disk Space: 40 MB free disk space
- XenServer version 6.0 or 6.1
Converting a physical machine to a virtual machine
Let's take a quick look at how to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine. First we need to install XenConvert on the source physical machine.
We can download XenConvert from this link: http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenserver/tools/conversion.html.
Once the standard Windows installation process is complete, launch the XenConvert tool; but before that we need to prepare the host machine for the conversion.
To know more about XenConvert, refer to the XenConvert guide at http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135017.
Preparing the host machine
For best results, prepare the host machine as follows:
- Enable Windows Automount on Windows Server operating systems.
- Disable Windows Autoplay.
- Remove any virtualization software before performing a conversion.
- Ensure that adequate free space exists at the destination, which is approximately 101 percent of used space of all source volumes.
- Remove any network interface teams; they are not applicable to a virtual machine.
We need to run the XenConvert tool on the host machine to start the physical-to-virtual conversion.
We can convert the physical machine directly to our XenServer if this host machine is accessible. The other options are to convert to VHD, OVF, or vDisk, which can be imported later on to XenServer using some methods. These options are more useful if we don't have enough disk space or connectivity with XenServer.
I chose XenServer and clicked on Next .
We can select multiple partitions to be included in the conversion, or select none from the drop-down menu in Source Volume and those disks won't be included in the conversion. We can also increase or decrease the size of the new virtual partition to be allocated for this virtual machine. Click on Next .
We'll be asked to provide the details of the XenServer host.
The hostname needs either an IP address or a FQDN of the XenServer; a username and password are standard login requirements. In the Workspace field, enter the path to the folder to store the intermediate OVF package that XenConvert will use during the conversion process. XenConvert will store the OVF package in the path we give.
Click on Next to select the storage repositories found with XenServer and continue to the last step, in which we'll be provided with the summary of the conversion.
Soon after the conversion is completed, we'll be able to have this new machine in our XenCenter. We'll need to have XenServer Tools installed on this new virtual machine.
In this article we covered an advanced topic that explained the process of converting a physical Windows server to a virtual machine using XenConvert.
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According to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, his business experience makes him better qualified than President Obama to fix the economy. Therefore, it is surprising that, instead of offering new solutions drawn from that experience, he is proposing exactly what any other Republican candidate would be proposing, even if the economy were doing well: Lower taxes, fewer regulations and a balanced budget.
According to Republican dogma, cutting taxes will actually increase revenues rather than decrease them.
The theory is that consumers and businesses will spend the tax cut, thereby lowering unemployment and reducing the deficit.
However, based on past experience, the Republican formula is unlikely to succeed.
When he was a presidential candidate in the 1980 primaries, Ronald Reagan promised to cut taxes, increase defense spending and balance the budget. Although his principal Republican opponent labeled the proposal "voodoo economics," Reagan won the election and pushed the plan through Congress.
Contrary to what Reagan had promised, the deficit grew larger – rather than smaller – and he had to raise taxes.
Similarly, the tax cuts that President George W. Bush convinced Congress to enact in his first term were followed by red ink. When Bush took office, the federal government was running a surplus. When he left office, it was running a substantial deficit.
The Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Both parties want to continue the middle-class tax cuts for at least one more year, but they differ sharply over what should happen to the tax cuts for families and businesses earning $250,000 or more.
Obama wants to end the tax cuts for these high earners, while Romney and congressional Republicans want to continue them.
If the tax cuts for the wealthy were continued, the deficit would be higher than if they were allowed to expire.
Furthermore, even if one accepts the argument that raising taxes on anyone would jeopardize the recovery, it does not follow that extending the tax cuts for the wealthy would improve the economy.
Rather, that extension would simply maintain the status quo.
Romney also wants to close unspecified "loopholes" and use the new revenue to cut tax rates across the board. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, his proposal would provide a large tax cut for the wealthy and put the burden of paying for it on middle- and lower-income taxpayers.
Although Romney disputes that conclusion, he has not specified the "loopholes" he wants to close. Therefore, it is difficult to conclude that his proposal would help the economy by creating more consumer spending.
For example, if he were to eliminate the deductions for mortgage interest and state and local taxes and were to begin taxing employer-provided health care, many middle-class consumers would have less spending money, rather than more.
As for providing regulatory relief, Romney seems particularly interested in reducing regulations on Wall Street and in stimulating more energy production by easing environmental regulations. It is difficult to understand how rolling back new regulations on financial institutions would be a prudent response to a financial crisis those institutions helped cause.
Furthermore, it would be unwise to roll back an environmental regulation without showing that the economic benefit would outweigh any negative impact on public health or global warming.
Like Reagan, Romney is calling for higher defense spending at the same time he wants to cut taxes and balance the budget. When Obama took office, the United States was fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama brought the troops home from Iraq and set a timetable for bringing them home from Afghanistan. Romney appears to have embraced that timetable, at least as a goal.
Although it will be necessary to replenish supplies and equipment, it is difficult to accept that ending two wars means that defense spending must increase while domestic spending is cut. However, if Romney believes our security requires a big boost in defense spending, he should have the courage to propose a tax increase to make all of us pay for it.
Romney claims his plan would restore the middle class. However, balancing the budget while preserving tax breaks for the wealthy and increasing defense spending means cuts in domestic programs (including Medicare and Social Security) on which middle-class Americans depend.
Rather than a plan for restoring the middle class, that sounds like a plan to widen the gap between the wealthy and everyone else.
President Obama has no silver bullet to fix the economy. Unfortunately, Gov. Romney has no silver bullet either.
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Dr. Rivera is a medical oncologist who most recently worked as the medical director at Methodist Hospital's Breast Center in Houston, Texas. He has also served as the chief of the Breast Medical Oncology Section and the associate professor of Medicine of the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell University. In 2006, he was the director of US Medical Strategy for Bristol Myers.
Dr. Rivera received his post graduate training at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and joined the faculty there as an instructor in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology in 1996. He progressed through assistant professor and associate professor positions in that department. In addition to his patient care responsibilities, Dr. Rivera trained oncology fellows and medical students, and he received the 2003 MD Anderson Outstanding Educator Award. He also served in numerous administrative positions at MD Anderson, including medical director of the Breast Medical Oncology Long Term Follow-Up Clinic, supervisor of the Breast Medical Oncology Anticoagulation Clinic and associate medical director for the Nellie B. Connally Breast Center.
Dr. Rivera has significant experience in breast cancer research, and has served as principal investigator in several clinical trials. He has published numerous articles and presented around the world about his work to improve of breast cancer treatment.
He has received many awards and accolades during his career including the "2009 Doctor's Choice Award" from Health and Fitness Magazine and the Bristol Myers Squibb Award of Distinction.
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