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Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:06
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:03
Save-A-Lot stores in Clay County donated hundreds of food items to the school board to be distributed to needy families throughout Clay County Friday. This is the fourth year that Save-A-Lot has made their charitable contribution to the Youth Service Centers in Clay County Schools, so that kids and their families will be sure to eat on Thanksgiving. Members of the Manchester and Clay County Youth Service Centers gladly accepted the donations from Save-A-Lot Fall Rock Manager Anthony Hinkle and Garrard Manager Jim Howard.
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Ronnie Thompson, 63, of Manchester, is set for arraignment next Monday, after being charged with disorderly conduct, alcohol intoxication in a public place, resisting arrest, and wanton endangerment of a police officer.
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Friday, 11 November 2011 14:03
A Clay County Constable was found guilty by a jury in United States District Court in London on all counts Thursday.
Jackie "Tire Man" Roberts was found guilty of possessing a fire arm and unlawful drug usage by a jury.
Jackie "Tire Man" Roberts, 50, of Horse Creek was indicted earlier this year. He was charged that on July 19, 2011, Jackie Roberts distributed hydrocodone pills.
Further, the indictment alleged that on July 20, 2011, Jackie Roberts possessed a firearm after having been convicted of a felony, and after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. The indictment also alleged that Jackie Roberts possessed a firearm and was an unlawful drug user.
A two month long investigation that began May 25 of this year revealed Roberts was selling pills from his tire shop on Garrard, according to UNITE's drug task force.
Undercover police tapes revealed Roberts and his wife, Jennifer, 41, crushing and snorting pills with an undercover informant.
Jennifer pleaded guilty to charges last month, admitting that she illegally sold pain pills.
The jury heard testimony for two days, and returned the verdict on November 11 after approximately 2 hours of deliberations.
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Friday, 11 November 2011 00:44
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Bobby Sester, 23, has been charged with manslaughter after the death of an infant Thursday.
Clay County Sheriff Kevin Johnson confirms that an 18-month-old child was killed after being struck by a truck Thursday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 4 PM. Bobby Sester, 23, of Oneida, was visiting a home on Burning Springs, according to Sheriff Johnson.
Johnson says Sester, who was driving a standard shift truck, was in idle, and rolled forward fiftenn to twenty feet, when an uncle to the child yelled at him to stop. Johnson says Sester stopped the truck, but not before running over the child, killing it.
The child was the daughter of Curtis and Jessica Burkhart.
Sester has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence (first offense, aggravating circumstances), and is being held in the Clay County Detention Center.
Chief Deputy Brian Jackson is investigating the accident.
"Obviously, as far as the Sheriff's Office is concerned, we will do what we have to do in prosecuting this case to the fullest extent of the law. Impaired driving, especially as a contributing factor in an accidental death, cannot be condoned," said Jackson.
Jackson says blood tests in the investigation are pending.
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Dr. Benjamin F. Chong joined the Department of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as an Assistant Instructor in 2008. He received a Magna Cum Laude in Chemistry at Harvard University in 1999, and his MD degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2004. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2005, and his dermatology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, in 2008. He served as the chief resident from 2007-2008. His clinical interests include cutaneous lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, and sarcoidosis. He is the principal investigator of the University of Texas Southwestern Cutaneous Lupus Patient Registry and has his own laboratory studying the pathogenesis of cutaneous lupus erythematosus.
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Targeting the CXCR4/CXCL12 axis in systemic lupus erythematosus
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When it is really hot, cool down with a story set in a colder climate.
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George is the book selected for the children's book club meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 4 p.m.
One can actually appreciate heat when one reads about a young Eskimo girl who has to be clever about what to wear and how not to get it wet. When she is ready to sleep, she takes off her fur pants and her parka and puts them in a bag made of whale bladder. Then, she slips into her sleeping skin made of rabbit furs. Julie is a runaway and surviving on her own with a little help from some wolves.
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Warren Buffett's Favorite Financial Stocks
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Berkshire Hathaway's 13F filing for the third quarter of 2012 showed that the financial sector was Warren Buffett's favorite area to invest in last summer; Berkshire had more capital invested in financial stocks than in any other sector. See the full list of stocks Berkshire reported owning. We have gone through the filing and picked out the holding company's five largest positions in financials by market value. Investors shouldn't buy stocks just because Buffett likes them, but we think that billionaires' top picks can make good sources of investment ideas for further research. Here are our quick thoughts on Buffett's favorite financial stocks:
Buffett's favorite financial stock was large bank Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). The market considers Wells Fargo to be a more stable bank than other megabanks such as Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase, and the stock actually trades at a premium to the book value of its equity with a P/B ratio of 1.2. The bank is using its assets quite efficiently, however, as it trades at 9 times forward earnings estimates- very much in line with its peers. Billionaire Ken Fisher's Fisher Asset Management increased its stake by 70% to a total of 18.6 million shares, making Wells Fargo one if its ten largest holdings (find more of Fisher's stock picks). JPMorgan Chase might be a better buy, but Wells Fargo is certainly priced competitively with other large banks.
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), the debit and credit card issuer which also provides credit and travel services, was another of Buffett's favorite stocks with Berkshire reporting a position of over 150 million shares. It's also priced cheaply, at 13 times trailing earnings, though the company's recent results have not been particularly good with revenue and earnings about flat last quarter compared to the third quarter of 2011. That value looks about right, but we'd suggest that investors at least look at low-priced peers such as Discover and Capital One before buying the stock.
The third financial stock in Berkshire's top ten stocks was U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB). The regional bank has an even higher P/B ratio than Wells Fargo, with the stock priced at nearly twice book value. However, as with Wells Fargo it's tough to call U.S. Bancorp overvalued at a trailing P/E multiple of only 11. Considering that the company grew both its revenue and earnings at a double-digit rate in the third quarter versus a year earlier, it looks like a good value to us. Moore Global Investments, managed by billionaire Louis Bacon, initiated a position of 3.1 million shares during the third quarter (check out more of the billionaire's favorite stocks).
Berkshire owned 5.4 million shares of M&T Bank (NYSE: MTB) at the end of September. M&T is a $12.5 billion market cap regional bank whose P/B comes in at 1.4. It too has been experiencing strong growth, and its net income was 60% higher last quarter than in the same period in the previous year. We'd expect that growth rate to slow, but it still demonstrates a strong-performing business. We'd also note that the stock's beta is 0.6 with a dividend yield of nearly 3%, so it's a good financial stock for defensive investors.
Buffett also liked The Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE: BK), a financial services firm whose activities include asset management, custody, and cash management. Berkshire owned close to 20 million shares a the end of the third quarter, up 5% from three months earlier. It's another cheap stock in terms of its earnings, with trailing and forward P/E multiples of 12 and 10 respectively. In the third quarter, Bank of New York Mellon's earnings were up 11% from their levels in the same period in 2011 and so it's another financial stock whose business has been doing well recently. We'd consider it as a value stock at these levels.
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Patricia Baker Collection M/A 1994.04
|Baker, Patricia D., 1931-1997
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Patricia Baker was born on the 17th of January, 1931. She attended high school at the Northrop Collegiate School and college at the Minneapolis School of Business and William Woods College. Later, she continued her education at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College.
Baker volunteered with many organizations, including Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library and the Woman's Club of Minneapolis. She served as a park commissioner for the 4th district--from Lake Calhoun to the Mississippi River, mostly between Olson Highway and Lake Street--for many years and was president of the Board several times. She was well-known for her part in convincing the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to stop charging admission fees. She died on the first of January, 1997.
Collection Description
Two boxes. This collection covers 1980-1995. It consists of correspondence, memorandums, reports and publications pertaining largely to the Minneapolis Park Board and Baker as a park commissioner.
The memos and reports topics included 1987-88: ice parks, Central River and Great River Road, shared parking, Aquatennial water fountains, high rise apartment buildings, Heritage Tree Lists, no left turns on Dean Parkway, walking/running vs. bicycling paths, Thomas Lowry Park, water studies; 1989: teen walks, regional pathways, Cedar Lake Park and trail report, crabapple tree planting, mall between Hennepin and Lake of the Isles, Calhoun Beach apartments, master plan for connecting city and regional parks; 1990: legislative session summary report, Lake Harriet Band Shell award; 1991: East Harriet Farmstead, Central Park gymnasium; 1992: Cedar Lake Park draft papers, Twin Cities osprey reintroduction program, ice skating rink hours, plan of the park system in 2002, and costs on the seasonal summary report of the recreational centers; 1993: lake water quality management, Park Board Nudity Ordinance, Park employees, Lake Calhoun Fish Advisory report and a preliminary draft of the vision for parks in the next 100 years; 1994-95: the Thomas Lowry Park Design.
The specific publications in this collection are Land Policy, 1969, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and the Robert Saddler Bird Sanctuary. Also included in the collection is Baker's work on the Governors Mansion, 1980-1981, her work on the 1988 U.S. Women's Amateur Cup held at the Minikahda Golf Course, a family photo, and an aerial view of Lake Calhoun's northwest end.
Box 1: Seventeen folders and one bound book. This box includes biographical information, address book, correspondence 1985-1995, Park Board publications.
Box 2: Ten folders. This box is memorandums and reports, 1987-1995.
Related Material
See also Special Collections Minneapolis Collection vertical subject files under Parks: Minneapolis Park Board and see periodicals Weekly Highlights (published by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board).
Subject Headings
Parks -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Parkways -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
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|Correspondence 1986 -- Box 1, Folder 6
|Correspondence 1987 -- Box 1, Folder 7
|Correspondence 1988 -- Box 1, Folder 8
|Correspondence 1989 -- Box 1, Folder 9
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|Correspondence 1992 -- Box 1, Folder 12
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The Intermountain Power Agency is talking to the city of Los Angeles and other customers about converting much of the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant to run on cleaner but more expensive natural gas by 2025.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously for a plan to wean the city away from coal within 12 years. The agreement signals that the council's first choice is to replace most of IPP's coal power with natural gas-fueled generating units that would be constructed at the facility near Delta.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which is the largest buyer of IPP electricity, has been leading an effort by six California purchasers to convert a large portion of the plant to natural gas. If initiated, work would begin in 2020 and be completed by 2025, IPP spokesman John Ward said Thursday.
The size of the natural gas power units would depend on how many of the plant's 36 customers in California and Utah agree to participate in the conversion. Output probably would be 600 megawatts to 1,200 megawatts, Ward said in an email. The plant today produces 1,800 megawatts. A megawatt supplies enough energy to power the appliances in 750 homes.
The California purchasers — Los Angeles and the cities of Anaheim, Riverside, Pasadena, Burbank and Glendale — collectively buy 75 percent of IPP's energy output. The remainder is purchased by Pacificorp, six Utah electrical cooperatives and 23 Utah municipalities.
Ward said all of the participants in the existing project would need to modify their agreements before a total conversion could move forward. Afterward, new agreements would need to be approved by the parties that want to participate in the conversion to get it started.
Los Angeles officials have said they need to begin the work now to amend its power purchase agreements with IPP because California requires all utilities serving the state with coal-fired power to switch to natural gas and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power by 2027 — the same year the city's contract with IPP expires.
The future of IPP's two coal-fired units is up in the air, Ward said. The Utah cities that buy IPP's power must determine whether the units will continue to operate or be shut down.
"In order to keep them open, however, new customers would need to be secured to replace the loss of the California purchasers," he said.
The natural gas units would be financed the same way the original project was paid for — by issuing bonds that would be repaid by customers out of future sales of electricity from the plant, Ward said. Some estimates have put the conversion cost as high as $500 million.
IPP would continue to generate electricity during the conversion, Ward said.
"There is ample space and other necessary resources to develop the natural gas units alongside the coal units," he said.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Strip-based firm wants to bring its robot to U.S.
One month ago today, an orthopedic surgeon in Belgium performed the first partial-knee replacement on a patient using a hand-held "smart drill" developed by a team of robotics, mechanical engineering and software development specialists at Blue Belt Technologies Inc. in the Strip District.
If the success of that operation is any indication, the Navio PFS system could soon be introduced to the U.S.
Already approved for use in Europe, the Navio PFS system will be formally introduced to the entire European orthopedic community next month at the British Orthopaedic Association meeting in Manchester, England.
Then it's on to the U.S.
Blue Belt president and CEO Eric Timko says the company has already applied for approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and hopes to have that by year's end "with full commercialization in the U.S. in 2013."
With the Navio system, the standard surgeon's orthopedic drill is placed inside a holder equipped with robotic and navigation software.
The combination gives the surgeon real-time information about the positioning and anatomy of the patient's knee joint, as well as three-dimensional visualization on a computer screen. That, in turn, helps surgeons avoid cutting excess bone or damaging surrounding tissue as they shape the bone so the implant will fit well.
"The system allows you to get it right the first time," said Costa Nikou, Blue Belt's director of software development.
Orthopedic surgeon Brian Hamlin, who practices at the bone and joint center at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC and is on Blue Belt's scientific advisory board, said the ability to correctly place the implant "will allow for durability and long-term success for your patients."
Currently, anywhere from 2 to 5 percent of partial-knee replacements have to be redone within a year, possibly because the alignment is wrong, or the implant has shifted, or simply because the patient is still in pain.
"Although we try to do it with precision and accuracy -- and I think we get reasonably good results -- with more precise and more accurate information, our outcomes will improve and more patients will have better long-term results," said Dr. Hamlin.
"Having that information from the software is quite valuable."
Mr. Timko said fewer than 500,000 partial-knee replacements are done worldwide each year, compared with 1.4 million full-knee procedures. But with the precision of the Navio system, he believes 20 to 30 percent of those full-knee operations could be done as a partial procedure. "Then you're looking at a market that is almost $900 million."
More important, he said, this is a platform technology that can be adapted and used for other orthopedic procedures -- "anywhere there's bone that needs to be shaped precisely," said Mr. Timko.
In the past year, Blue Belt was bought by the New York private equity firm HealthpointCapital and has grown from nine to 22 employees locally. Mr. Timko said the company plans to move production to Minneapolis later this year because of the wealth of vendors and suppliers there, but the research and development team, comprised largely of graduates from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will stay here.
While another company already has an interactive robotic arm on the market that can do knee replacements, Mr. Timko believes "our technology will jump leaps and bounds ahead of them" at what he says will be about one-third the cost for the equipment.
"This is a tool for the mid-sized hospital, the community hospital," Mr. Timko said. "The goal with us is that the surgeon who does 10 [partial-knee replacement surgeries] a year will have the same outcomes as the guy who does 100 a year."
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Georgia relies on innovative technology and a trained workforce to grow its manufacturing base. Today, a Georgia Tech professor writes about the possibility of long-term growth if the state remains committed to this mass-production sector. An executive with Georgia Quick Start writes about that program's role in training a skilled labor force. Meanwhile, an entrepreneur writes about the role of social media in marketing restaurants. To comment, go to: http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/.
Social media a way of life
By Robby Kukler
In the restaurant business, we see it often: Customers sit down to eat and inevitably pull out a smartphone at least once during the meal to post a picture on Instagram, check in on Foursquare, send a tweet or update their Facebook.
Social media is a way of life.
Social media reviews via Twitter, OpenTable, Yelp and more is a given in the service industry. What's critical for executives is knowing what to do with that feedback: how to capture it, examine it and use it to improve the customer experience. Insights from this data, known as "social media intelligence," help businesses get smart when it comes to delivering what guests want.
Social media intelligence mines online feedback to uncover details about the customer experience that might be lost in a sea of comments. These insights illuminate trends so businesses can take action to improve operations. As more companies across Atlanta embrace this practice. living and dining in the city could potentially be more satisfying than ever.
Atlanta is suited to be among the cities leading this social intelligence revolution. We're regularly featured as one of the most-wired cities in the U.S. Our tech market is thriving, and our start-up-friendly climate has drawn entrepreneurs to the area as well.
At Fifth Group Restaurants, which operates local restaurants that include South City Kitchen and La Tavola Trattoria, we recognized social media's ability to attract and engage guests early on. We're seeing new benefits as tools like the newBrandAnalytics platform help us monitor online trends, make changes based on actual data and track performance based on social media reviews. It gives both the business and the guest a voice, which is tremendously important.
Customer loyalty no longer begins and ends at your establishment's door. It lives online, too. Exceptional service is one quality that sets many Atlanta businesses apart. Fostering that reputation sometimes requires extra effort. For example, our restaurants use social media intelligence to help motivate our managers: Restaurants that garner consistent positive online feedback are eligible for higher bonuses. That gives our team's added incentive to provide the customer service that guests will talk about online.
Last year, more than 42 million people came to Atlanta. The city is booming. As the spotlight grows, so does attention to our restaurants, hotels and retail establishments. Social media intelligence has the power to distinguish us from other major metropolitan areas because it creates the type of responsive businesses people love.
If we're going to thrive among our competition, Atlanta businesses need to continually examine online feedback to see how to perform better. In the restaurant business, the adage says you're only as good as what you did yesterday.
With the help of social intelligence, that's shaping up to mean a very bright tomorrow.
Robby Kukler is co-founder and partner of Fifth Group Restaurants in Atlanta.
Georgia competes in manufacturing
By Thomas Kurfess
Georgia's recent declines in GDP have sparked speculation that its economy is in peril. In fact, Georgia is poised for a long-term growth in manufacturing.
Georgia sustains itself well in the national and global economy with its rising manufacturing and exports. Challenges, however, lie ahead for U.S. competitiveness. A recent Deloitte report shows that our nation ranks third behind China and Germany but may decline to fifth in 2018 forecasts.
The leading attribute of global competitive leadership is not trade, taxes or manufacturing costs. It is a talented workforce. Georgia has armed itself with this globally competitive weapon on three levels — higher education, secondary and k-8 education, and practices. Properly supported, Georgia will remain atop the nation's hotbed of advanced manufacturing, the Southeast. With talent, a strong port and domestic energy access, Georgia has the right ingredients to bolster our nation's advance toward a trade surplus.
Since 2009, Georgia has gained 11,500 manufacturing jobs and ranks 14th among states with increases. Manufacturing output is at historic highs, and technology jobs are reaching similar heights. Georgia's productivity, and its growing manufacturing base, exemplify the quality of this state's competitiveness. Its workforce preparation for today's jobs and tomorrow's opportunities make it desirable to global manufacturers and employers.
Primary contributors to the strength of Georgia's globally competitive talent are:
• Georgia Tech, one of the world's greatest engineering and manufacturing universities.
• Growth of engineering and manufacturing programs at other Georgia universities and technical colleges.
• A respected workforce training program in the state's Quick Start program.
• Growth of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs in secondary and k-8 education.
Manufacturing programs offer online or night-time lectures, thus freeing up time for hands-on and real-time experiences. Georgia Tech's Maker Labs enable all students, not just engineering students, to build prototypes of products and advanced materials.
I am proud Georgia's talent, its people and its products will be on display Oct. 29- through 31 when the Southeast manufacturing community gathers in Greenville, S.C., for its biennial summit — the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' SOUTH-TEC — on technology, innovation and workforce development. This talent stands as a cornerstone to our nation's leadership in the global economy.
Georgia's biggest challenge to sustain and grow its competitiveness lies within itself. Our state's leadership must commit itself to continuing to invest in public education at all levels. We must ensure that the current and next workforce generation is there to answer the needs of our state and nation in securing economic prosperity and national security. This commitment is potentially our state's biggest opportunity or its greatest hindrance.
We must rise to the occasion.
Thomas Kurfess, a board member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, specializes in manufacturing studies at Georgia Tech.
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By Rodger Brown
If you can't figure out how to work your smartphone, that's a "skills gap."
But it's a gap easily closed. Just ask an expert for help.
It's the same with 21st-century advanced manufacturing. Only the devices are much more complex — computer-controlled systems, automated robotics — and the gap is much larger between the skills required to work in advanced manufacturing and the skills available in the workforce.
In some areas, this gap has slowed or stymied the resurgence of advanced manufacturing. In Georgia, though, qualified new, expanding and existing manufacturers can get expert workforce training help through Georgia Quick Start and the Technical College System of Georgia.
Quick Start is a unit within the technical college system that serves as a discretionary incentive and offers no-cost, comprehensive, customized workforce training to attract investment that creates jobs in Georgia.
That's a powerful tool for economic development. New companies list workforce issues at the top of their list of concerns. Do the available employees have the needed skills and work ethic? Will they perform at the required level?
Quick Start answers those questions with customized workforce training solutions that work. The program is considered one of the state's key assets to support new and expanding industries. The program can provide training in classrooms and mobile labs or on plant floors.
One example: Quick Start training for Kia Motors and many of its supplier companies has helped these companies create more than 14,000 direct jobs over the past five years. That's just one case. Since beginning in 1968, Quick Start has provided training for 6,527 projects involving more than 1 million trainees. About 90 percent of these trainees were involved in advanced manufacturing.
Quick Start's success hasn't gone unnoticed.
Surveys of site location consultants by Area Development magazine for the past four years have ranked Georgia No. 1 in the United States for its Quick Start workforce training program. The decade before that, Expansion Management ranked Quick Start No. 1 in the U.S.
At the end of the day, though, it's the companies themselves that matter.
Rodger Brown is executive director of Georgia Quick Start.


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GDOT is asking motorists to use extreme caution when driving, especially when driving over bridges and overpasses.
Gainesville police said they are working numerous accidents across the city along bridges and overpasses.
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GDOT told CBS Atlanta News on Thursday that its crews are prepared for any inclement weather metro Atlanta may see.
GDOT has a new salt and brine mix that it is prepared to use on roads if necessary.
In the Atlanta metro area, GDOT will have skeleton crews on standby.
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"Icing is often difficult to detect and can refreeze within minutes after it is treated," said Georgia DOT Commissioner Keith Golden. "The Department will do all within its power to clear roadways as quickly as possible. If you can, postpone leaving until after daybreak. That will give the Sun an opportunity to assist in melting the ice and will provide you much better visibility of any possible trouble spots."
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Brookings S.D. (KELO AM/KELQ FM) - Chief Diversity Officer Jaime Nolan-Andrino takes the message and mission of the South Dakota State University Office of Diversity to students each semester with presentations in class settings. She's been invited to speak to the human resources management class, several honors classes as well as several first-year experience groups including a section of freshmen music students taught by Don Crowe.
"Diversity is a central theme in SDSU's First-Year Experience courses," said Crowe,"Nolan-Andrino's presentation and the class participation activities she led increased our awareness and understanding of this complex topic. I look forward to having her back this year."According to Nolan-Andrino, the central question she brings to each presentation and training she does is "Why should you care about issues of diversity and inclusion?"
"My goal is to cultivate a sense of pause and mindfulness in an often busy and unreflective world, make assumptions visible and then create the possibility for an authentic connection and deeper understanding of one another," she said, "This is what diversity truly is about, and it is from this place that we begin to build an inclusive community.
"The exercises begin with students breaking into pairs to ask each other simple questions—"Who are you?" "What do you want?" "Who do you pretend to be?" The speaker then asks the listener, "Who do you think I am?""More often than not, students are surprised by how well the person listening to them seems to know them, and by how much they have in common," said Nolan-Andrino. "We then talk about how easy it is for us to assume things about people without even pausing to consider.
The students also experience how impactful taking time—even just a minute and a half (the amount of time they are given to respond to each question)—is to creating that space for pause and potential connection."Through a series of questions, students are also asked to evaluate their own priorities and values by moving to different areas of the room denoted with signs that represent different aspects of a person's identity—spirituality, sexual orientation, racial identity and socioeconomic class, for example."The diversity exercise was an eye-opening experience for me," said Stephanie Bossman of Bridgewater.
"Getting to see how other people feel about specific aspects of their lives in comparison to the way I view those same aspects in my life made me appreciate the differences we all have as individuals. It was a great way to get to know people more in-depth and opened the door for valuable friendship between classmates."By the conclusion of the class period, student Matthew Fowler of Sioux Falls had developed his own definition of diversity: "Diversity isn't just noticing that people are of different culture or class, but looking and celebrating that we can all be here together."


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Almost 380km north of Santiago – some 140km beyond Los Vilos – a lone sign points to the little-visited market town of OVALLE. The town's main claim to fame is as the birthplace of one of the country's outstanding contemporary writers, Luis Sepúlveda. It's also a good base for exploring the dramatic Hurtado Valley or the deeply rural Limarí Valley, home to a few low-key attractions, including the Monumento Natural Pichasca, the Termas de Socos hot springs and the petroglyphs at the Valle del Encanto.
If you have your own car, you can take the scenic road northeast of Ovalle – an alternative route to Vicuña and the Elqui Valley – which winds slowly up into the mountains, passing ancient petrified wood stumps at Pichasca and the delightful oasis village of Hurtado. If you head west, you'll find a concentration of rock carvings in the Valle del Encanto, a hot springs resort at the Termas de Socos and the impressive cloudforest reserve of Parque Nacional Fray Jorge.Read More
Feria Modelo de Ovalle
Feria Modelo de Ovalle
About ten blocks east of Plaza de Armas, the town's central plaza, you'll find a huge, ramshackle iron hangar that houses the colourful Feria Modelo de Ovalle, the largest fresh-produce market in the north of Chile and definitely worth a visit; you can pick up fantastic home-made cheeses (including some alarmingly pungent goat cheeses) as well as delicious dried figs and a range of fruit and vegetables.
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Parque Nacional Fray Jorge
A UNESCO world biosphere reserve since 1977, Parque Nacional Fray Jorge sits on the Altos de Talinay, a range of steep coastal hills plunging into the Pacific some 80km west of Ovalle and 110km south of La Serena. It extends over 100 square kilometres, but its focal point, and what visitors come to see, is the small cloudforest perched on the highest part of the sierra, about 600m above sea level.
The extraordinary thing about this forest is how sharply it contrasts with its surroundings, indeed with everywhere else in the area. Its existence is the result of camanchaca, the thick coastal fog that rises from the ocean and condenses as it meets the land, supporting a cover of dense vegetation – fern, bracken and myrtle trees – normally found only in the south of Chile. Close to the parking area, a 1km path dotted with information panels guides you through a poorly labelled range of plants and trees, and leads to the forest proper, where a slippery, wooden boardwalk takes you through tall trees dripping with moisture. The whole trail takes less than half an hour to walk. Three kilometres beyond the Conaf control there's a picnic area, but note that camping is no longer allowed anywhere in the park.


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How do you put together a credible five-year business plan given the monumental changes — record droughts, sky-high land values and huge export growth — of the last two years?
Terry Barr, senior director of industry research at CoBank, provided some guidance at the USDA's Agricultural Outlook Conference in Arlington, Va., last month. The problem with any projection, as Barr pointed out, is separating short-term variations from long-term trends to produce a "new normal." Here are 8 key drivers that Barr thinks should drive a 5-year plan.
The USDA's projection for 2013 net farm income, for instance, assumes current agricultural subsidies will continue. But the likelihood, based on last year's House and Senate farm bills is that the federal safety net will switch from direct subsidies to insurance.
And, that won't be the only change over the next five years.
"Sequestration is only the first step in what's likely to be a series of budget cuts," said Barr, noting that Congress will likely need to reduce revenue each year. "We may replace direct subsidies with insurance in the farm bill this year. But the next time around they will look to cut insurance payments."
U.S. energy policy currently favors the production of ethanol from corn as a hedge against foreign oil imports. But as the U.S. produces more oil and natural gas, energy prices are likely to fall. The International Energy Agency recently predicted that the U.S. will overtake Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2017. That will reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil and presumably its need to conserve.
"We may have declining energy prices in the future. We need to re-examine energy policy; there could be massive structural change. Biofuels and renewables may not grow as fast as they have been growing. What are the implications for fertilizer companies? No one knows."
Developed countries, of course, aren't the driving force behind U.S. ag export growth anymore.
Farmers have benefited in recent years from export growth fueled by an emerging middle class in developing countries. But the key driver for agriculture will be how many people escape poverty, not the size of the middle class cohort.
"That's when people change their diets," said Barr, adding that once people achieve a middle-class wage, they may spend more on transportation. Also, as many developing countries continue to grow, they tend to replace meat imports with domestically produced meat. China and India, Barr noted, will account for 70% of the increase in the middle class from 2000 to 2030.
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Eager fashion fans crashed Target's (TGT) website Tuesday, bringing it down for hours as the company scrambled.
The troubles were apparently caused by Target's launch of a collection developed by Italian luxury line Missoni. By 9 a.m. ET, the site was down. Target was clearly working furiously -- the site would come back to life at times throughout the day -- but by the evening there were still problems.
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Target hyped the event endlessly, creating intense anticipation among fashionistas everywhere. The store got the reaction it wanted, but it was clearly unprepared.
You can see Target's Missoni collection here (if the site stays intact). Missoni specializes in colorful zigzags and stripes, as seen on this $69.99 knit jumpsuit or this $49.99 sweater.
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I actually just posted this awhile ago but set it on like a day or something stupidly.
So i want to start by asking what's life and if our conception of it is correct. So our definition of life is birth, growth, reproduction, and functionality. Now the interesting thing of this is what about those that immortal and never die.
In our future we will inevitably become immortal now when this happens will we be considered alive or just being? Would we continue to reproduce or would we at that point become a species of one entity with no need of reproducing or growing. Or could you consider growth as the gaining of more knowledge which will always happen. How do you think an immortal views life as we know it now? (I would like some opinions on that) would they see death as necessary for life or just something as a problem we haven't fixed yet that they have.
And then what is the point of an immortal? Human's point is to satisfy their own desires we are selfish in that sense even if your desires themselves are not selfish. Or could you see the selfishness of humans as just a way to continue our species to become immortal. Then if that was the case what would happen when we reach that our ideas of constant improvement and evolution would cease what would we then do? what is the next step's point when we reach it is it still to improve? but on what is there to improve other than knowledge? and what would be the point of improving knowledge if there is nothing else to improve upon?
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Jul 12 2013: To be or not to be.... that is the answer and the question. As a Time Traveller I too see mankinds future being one in which our lives are vastly extended. Immortality implies forever and in that context, I think people would become ..... bored, eventually!
You would literally have had to have seen everything, bearing in mind, with intergalactic travel, there would be an incredible amount of time spent exploring all the worlds that are in the universe!
Also given the size of the universe (Star Treckesque space travellers we will become) and all the planets we could populate, reproduction would still occur, probably by then with augmentation etc to live extra long/immortal lives)
You could possibly know everything eventually too, provided you have been able to explore every world and engaged with every intelligent life form!
Couple of things tho, not sure how literally being vaporised or blown up by an atomic explosion etc would work on staying immortal.... not saying tho that technology won't develop so that in the instant before the explosion etc your body, disappears/teleports to a safe zone!
Some tho, despite all this, would still have just had enough and would just want to get off the life merry go round and probably then want to go ol' school and just die... like we do now! : D
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Elantra is Great in the Snow! by Nanc on 11/14/2009. Trim: 2005 Hyundai Elantra GLS 5-Door, Owned 2 years.
Pros: I love the way this car handles on a dime...truly....I am very pleased. Seats are comfortable....lots of room to haul things in the hatch when I had to move. I did most of it myself except for the large furniture.I also drive over 30 miles to work each day in Pennsylvania. Handles great in the snow with the traction conrtol. I give that part an A.
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The search for the first general manager of the newly-reborn Ottawa CFL franchise appears to be narrowing.
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Desjardins – who won Grey Cups in 2009 and 2010 with the Alouettes - had a second interview with Hunt this week and earned a glowing review from the Ottawa owner.
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November 25, 2009
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The findings of a major international study to investigate the public health impacts of different strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions were made public on Wednesday, November 25, 2009. The release of the findings was a combined event in the UK and the US, coinciding with the publication of the results in the Lancet .
Intent of the launch event
- To report the findings of the study;
- To address the policy and public health implications of the findings, to send a clear message to governments and Copenhagen negotiators about the importance of addressing health in any mitigation strategies;
- To elevate awareness of the importance of health and climate change more broadly on the political agenda - including impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation.
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Netflix subscribers are hoppin' mad
On top of the Sept. 1 price increase, Netflix is making it much more difficult to use its service. Customers have taken note.
Netflix customers -- those who didn't bolt when the company announced what amounted to a 60% price increase -- got more major news this week. In the near future, those who have both the mailed-DVD and online streaming service will have to deal with two separate websites to manage those accounts. They'll be "even easier to use," CEO Reed Hastings said in a blog post.
There were 23,702 comments at last count at The Netflix Blog, and we'd guess that 99% of those who voiced an opinion aren't buying it. "Two websites and two monthly bills, all for what? Certainly not 'ease of use' for your customers," wrote Ben Cornue, who said he's canceling.
It's unusual to see so much venom directed online at a company.
"This is a terrible idea. What are they thinking? Netflix is a well-known brand name and until recently ... well-loved. ... Are they trying to get rid of us? This consumer was satisfied even with the new pricing, but is now considering other options," reader "nanabolini" commented at The Washington Post. (Looking for Netflix alternatives? You'll find them here.)
There are a few defenders. "Raym2" said at the Post:
None of you get it. They were expecting the DVD service to die on the vine anyway. Splitting the streaming and DVD services is just the clean break they have been planning all along so they can kill the DVD service eventually in the not-too-distant future.
I blame all the cheapskates who thought it was such an insult to pay $16 instead of $10 monthly for an excellent service. $6 friggin' dollars!!! People spend more than that in one trip to McDonald's without batting an eyelash.
How will these two separate services work?
- Managing your online streaming account will continue to be done at Netflix.com.
- Managing your mailed DVDs will be done at a site called Qwikster.com. (The name "Qwikster" is already claimed on Twitter by "a user with a profile picture of Elmo smoking and a Twitter feed littered with foul language," The Washington Post reports.)
- Qwikster will have a service upgrade that includes video game rentals. Details yet to come.
- If you keep both services, you'll get two separate charges on your credit card.
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Other common questions:
Will I be able to see at both websites whether the movie I want is available via streaming, DVD or both? CEO Hastings' post at The Netflix Blog suggests not (while putting the best possible spin on this): "Each website will be focused on just one thing (DVDs or streaming) and will be even easier to use." He also said, "A negative of the renaming and separation is that the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites will not be integrated."
What about my movie ratings? What happens to old reviews is unclear. However, Hastings said, "Similarly, if you rate or review a movie on Qwikster, it doesn't show up on Netflix, and vice-versa."
Is Qwikster a throw-away name or what? Yes, but that may be part of Netflix's plan for the mailed-DVD business. The goofy name (and separate website) "all seems to make a bit more sense when you're proactively ridding your company of a business that will do nothing but nosedive in the years to come," Darren Murph editorialized at Engadget.
Yes, folks, this is about the future. Mailed DVDs eventually will become a thing of the past. (Note: Most of those 1 million customers who fled after the price increase were DVD-only customers.) That's despite the fact that Netflix's DVD selection is much bigger than movies available for streaming -- 100,000 vs. 20,000, according to one estimate -- and that half of Netlflix's 24 million customers still use both.)
Some observers think Netflix made a smart decision to split the company and assign its well-known name to the streaming venture. Erick Schonfeld wrote at TechCrunch:
With this move, Hastings is reaffirming his long-held belief that streaming is the future of Netflix and the future of entertainment, and Wall Street can judge its progress by how well the streaming business is doing on its own. Separating the businesses will also force customers to make a choice, and it is obvious which choice Hastings wants them to make (hint: it starts with an "N").
But what about us, customers want to know. "Streaming and DVD service may be two different services for Netflix but for the customer, they are largely one in the same -- access to films," David Barba wrote at The Netflix Blog. "If I can stream it, great, but if not, send me the DVD. Until all the films are available to stream (or at the very least a high percentage), this doesn't make sense."
Levi Kaplan wrote:
I simply do not want to keep up with two bills, two services, and two websites. Streaming movies made up for the time it took for a DVD to get to me, and the DVDs by mail made up for how few movies I looked for I could actually find able to be streamed.
Sir, You do not have two successful companies here, you HAD one.
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I'm sure the investors love making money, but when the markets go down they should be realistic about their profit taking, as well as executives for the company. Just because you used to make so much money in the past doesn't mean you are entitled to that amount or more now.
Socking the customer for extra cash just because you feel you are entitled to more profit is a stupid business model.
I think they have walked themselves into a more difficult business situation. More competition. Content providers that will constantly want more money. A slightly smaller customer base. I have to wonder what the hell they are thinking. Then again, I guess I don't care in that I don't own any of their stock.
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25 Sep 2011 20:52 AEST
From: CHINANDEGA , NICARAGUA
29 Jul 2011 10:18 AEST
From: wollongong
Awareness leads to action!!
Thankyou to the filmmakers for shedding some light on a country and an issue that whilst I am aware, know little about. I think every single person in the documentary, even the evil bosses who appear to try to hide their obvious law-breaking, are victims of a world driven by greed which has seen nations prosper over others. I think awareness is the best place to start and it's documentaries like this one that help to open our eyes and hopefully find ways to change the world.
22 Jul 2011 08:48 AEST
From: Kirribilli
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@maria elena vito - so if we stopped breeding... if no more children were born would all our concerns and worries and brokenness fade away? only that the whole of humankind would be faded out and so inequality and injustice too. Is wiping out humanity the only viable answer? I hope not. thanks Danielle Ryan for sharing insights into this polemical topic. Your reporting really showed the reality of the on-the-ground-situation. Well done. Look forward to seeing some of your future works
10 Jul 2011 21:55 AEST
From: Melbourne
No justification for child labour
Paul, if they enforced the ban on child labour then you would reduce the labour supply and therefore raise the price of labour (wages) so the adults could earn more. Adults are also much more capable of organising and trying to fight for the rights and oconditions. Children should be in school and with their parents. There is no excuse for child labour, it benefits no-one.
06 Jul 2011 21:59 AEST
From: Tasmania
Our ethics
If there were a change of attitude from us all, that is: stop promoting breeding. The poorest people do multiply themself by ignorance and lack of material resources, and then their children are exploited. The privileged people do breed because one of the two reasons: a) they don't care where and how the coffee, the chocolate, the milk, the meat, the fish and the clothing and, and everything else come from and how. Or, b) they as well are ignorant. These later children enjoy their existence at expenses of those who are exploited.
06 Jul 2011 10:10 AEST
From: Sydney
06 Jul 2011 10:10 AEST
From: Sydney
"Hard Labour " raises deep questions.
Without directing blame towards any of the people, this documentary showed some aspects of the real problems of people living in poor countries like Nicaragua. It show there were people at all levels of the society trying to do what they saw as best for the children. Part of the solution to the problems of poverty must come from political and social forces outside these countries. Is it possible that there are powerful political forces outside the poor countries that prefer the poverty remains?
04 Jul 2011 16:17 AEST
From: Sydney
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