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|"That Must Have Been ESP!": An Examination of Psychic Experiences.
|by Virtanen, Leea
|Advances in Parapsychological Research: 8.
|by Krippner, Stanley. (Ed.).
|Adventures in Time: Encounters with the Past.
|by MacKenzie, Andrew
|Ahead of Time: The Mystery of Precognition.
|by Bardens, Dennis
|Altered States of Consciousness and PSI: An Historical Survey and Research Prospectus.
|by Kelly, Edward F. & Locke, Ralph G.
|An Experience of Phantoms.
|by Rogo, D. Scott
|An Introduction to Parapsychology (2nd. ed.).
|by Irwin, H.J.
|Beyond Reality: The Role Unseen Dimensions Play in Our Lives.
|by Rogo, D. Scott
|Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experience.
|by Blackmore, Susan J.
|BodyMindSpirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality.
|by Tart, Charles T. (Ed.).
|Channeling: A Bibliographic Exploration.
|by Bjorling, Joel
|Channeling: The Intuitive Connection.
|by Kautz, William H., & Branon, Melanie
|Current Trends in Psi Research: Proceedings of an International Conference Held in New Orleans, Louisiana August 13-14, 1984.
|by Shapin, Betty, and Coly, Lisette (Eds.).
|Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal ESP (2nd ed.).
|by Ullman, Montague, and Krippner, Stanley, with Alan Vaughan
|Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal ESP (2nd ed.).
|by Ullman, Montague, & Krippner, Stanley, with Vaughan, Alan
|Dreams That Come True: Their Psychic and Transforming Powers.
|by Ryback, David, with Sweitzer, Letitia
|Ekstasy: Out-of-the-Body Experiences.
|by Black, David
|Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP: Unlocking the Extrasensory Power of Your Mind.
|by Swann, Ingo
|Far Journeys.
|by Monroe, Robert A.
|Flight of Mind: A Psychological Study of the Out-of-Body Experience.
|by Irwin, H.J.
|Flight of Mind: A Psychological Study of the Out-of-Body Experience.
|by Irwin, H.J.
|Ghosts Over Britain.
|by Moss, Peter
|If This Be Magic.
|by Playfair, Guy Lyon
|Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeists, Levitations, Phantoms, and Other Phenomena.
|by Imich, Alexander (Ed.).
|Intuition in Organizations: Leading and Managing Productively.
|by Agor, Weston H. (Ed.)
|Landscapes of the Night: How and Why We Dream.
|by Evans, Christopher
|Leaving the Body: A Practical Guide to Astral Projection.
|by Rogo, D. Scott
|Mind Beyond the Body: The Mystery of ESP Projection.
|by Rogo, D. Scott (Ed.).
|Mind Over Matter.
|by Time-Life Books. Editors
|Mutual Dreaming: When Two or More People Share the Same Dream.
|by Magallón, Linda Lane
|Natural ESP: The ESP Core and Its Raw Characteristics.
|by Swann, Ingo
|On the Track of the Poltergeist.
|by Rogo, D. Scott
|On the Track of the Poltergeist (Foreword by W.G. Roll).
|by Rogo, D. Scott
|Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game.
|by Hunt, Stoker
|Out-of-Body Experiences: A Handbook. Foreword by Gertrude Schmeidler.
|by Mitchell, Janet Lee
|Paranormal Foreknowledge: Problems and Perplexities.
|by Eisenbud, Jule
|Patterns of Prophecy.
|by Vaughan, Alan
|Philosophical Interactions With Parapsychology: The Major Writings of H.H. Price on Parapsychology and Survival.
|by Price, Henry Habberly. (Frank B. Dilley, Ed.).
|by Gauld, Alan, & Cornell, A.D.
|Poltergeists and the Paranormal: Fact Beyond Fiction.
|by Stander, Philip, & Schmolling, Paul
|Possible Worlds of the Fantastic: The Rise of the Paranormal in Literature.
|by Traill, Nancy H.
|Projetiologia: Survey of OBE Experiences.
|by Vieira, Waldo
|Psychic Criminology: An Operations Manual for Using Psychics in Criminal Investigations.
|by Hibbard, Whitney S., and Worring, Raymond W.
|Psychic Dreaming: A Parapsychologist's Handbook.
|by Auerbach, Loyd
|Psychic Voyages (Mysteries of the Unknown).
|by Time-Life Books (Eds.)
|Riddle of the Future: A Modern Study of Precognition.
|by MacKenzie, Andrew
|Shopping for Miracles: A Guide to Psychics & Psychic Powers.
|by McMahon, Joanne D. S., & Lascurain, Anna M.
|Silver Threads: 25 Years of Parapsychology Research.
|by Kane, Beverley, Millay, Jean, & Brown, Dean (Eds.).
|Spontaneous Psi, Depth Psychology and Parapsychology: Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Berkeley, California October 31-November 1, 1987.
|by Shapin, Betty, & Coly, Lisette (Eds.).
|The Alexandria Project.
|by Schwartz, Stephan A.
|The Ashby Guidebook for Study of the Paranormal.
|by Ashby, Robert H.
|The Astral Journey.
|by Greenhouse, Herbert B.
|The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime.
|by Lyons, Arthur, & Truzzi, Marcello
|The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.
|by Radin, Dean I.
|The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing (with hand-drawn illustrations by Thomas Heston).
|by Bird, Christopher
|The Evidence for Phantom Hitch-Hikers.
|by Goss, Michael
|The Evidence for Phantom Hitch-Hikers.
|by Goss, Michael
|The Family Unconscious: "An Invisible Bond.".
|by Taub-Bynum, E. Bruce
|The Folklore of Ghosts.
|by Davidson, Hilda R. Ellis, & Russell, W.M.S. (Eds.)
|The Ghosts of the Trianon: The Complete "An Adventure" by C.A.E. Moberly and E.F. Jourdain.
|by Coleman, Michael H. (Ed.)
|The Intuitive Edge: Understanding and Developing Intuition.
|by Goldberg, Philip
|The Mask of Time: The Mystery Factor in Timeslips, Precognition and Hindsight.
|by Forman, Joan
|The Millennium Book of Prophecy: 777 Visions and Predictions From Nostra-damus, Edgar Cayce, Gurdjieff, Tamo-san, Madame Blavatsky, the Old and New Testament Prophets and 89 Others.
|by Hogue, John
|The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities..
|by Targ, Russell, & Harary, Keith
|The Nature of Mind: Parapsychology and the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World.
|by Stokes, Douglas M.
|The Parapsychological Impact of the Three Mile Island.
|by Arnold, Larry
|The Persecution of Mr. Tony Elms (the Bromley Poltergeist).
|by Cassirer, Manfred
|The Power of Dreams.
|by Inglis, Brian
|The Psychology of Déjà Vu: Have I Been Here Before?.
|by Neppe, Vernon M.
|The Psychology of Déjà Vu: Have I Been Here Before?.
|by Neppe, Vernon M.
|The Seen and the Unseen.
|by MacKenzie, Andrew
|The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions.
|by Davidson, Hilda Ellis (Ed.)
|The Sociology of the Paranorma1: A Reconnaissance.
|by Greeley, Andrew M.
|The Sphinx and the Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision.
|by Loye, David
|The Titanic, the Psychic and the Sea.
|by Brown, Rustie
|The Unknown Guest: The Mystery of Intuition.
|by Inglis, Brian, with Ruth West and the Koestler Foundation
|The Unknown Guest: The Mystery of Intuition.
|by Inglis, Brian, with West, Ruth & the Koestler Foundation
|The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?.
|by Gardner, Martin (Ed.)
|There is More Beyond: Selected Papers of Gardner Murphy.
|by Murphy, Lois Barclay
|Time Warps.
|by Gribbin, John
|Titanic: Psychic Forewarnings of a Tragedy.
|by Behe, George
|Visions of the Future: An Investigation of Premonitions.
|by Hearne, Keith
|Visions of the Future: An Investigation of Premonitions.
|by Hearne, Keith
|With the Eyes of the Mind: An Empirical Analysis of Out-of-body States.
|by Gabbard, Glen O., & Twemlow, Stuart W.
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Local officials support bill that would change how some 17-year-olds are treated
Some local officials support a bipartisan bill that would keep first-time, 17-year-old offenders in juvenile court.
Senate Bill 308 is working its way through the Legislature and would reverse a 1996 law requiring all 17-year-olds to be treated by the courts as adults, regardless of charges.�
Alan Bates, Rock County juvenile judge, said psychological and sociological evidence shows 17-year-olds should be treated differently than adults.
"They are not adults mentally or in their experience, and I would think for the 17-year-old it would be beneficial to be in juvenile court where services are emphasized above criminal convictions," Bates said.
A change in the law would be a step closer in choosing one age that gives youth all adult privileges, Daniel Necci, Walworth County district attorney, said.
"We give 16-year-olds 2,000-pound machines of death to drive around the freeways," Necci said. "At 17, you can be charged with a crime, but not until 18 can you vote for those who make the laws with which you are charged."
Wisconsin is one of 11 states that automatically sends people under age 18 to adult court.
The bill would not change how the state prosecutes 17-year-olds who commit violent crimes, such as robbery, homicide, rape and sexual assault.
Keeping this aspect of the law is important, said Dan Davis, Janesville deputy police chief.�
How the bill would affect the number of Rock County juvenile court cases is unclear, Bates said, because he doesn't know how many 17-year-olds are treated as adults in the county.
If the caseload increases, he said it would not be unmanageable.
Davis said the change in law would not greatly affect the police department, but he anticipates an increase in the Rock County Juvenile Detention Center population.
The caseload and daily routine for Walworth County law enforcement and court officials is not expected to significantly change, Necci said.
"It's simply going to move the vast majority of cases that are low-level misdemeanor offenses to the juvenile system," Necci said.
The State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Catholic Conference and the state public defender also support the change in law.

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Theories - Origin of Life
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
Moderator: BioTeam
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Your speciality appears to be random ramblings.
My advice would be to stick to what your good at, not that you have to follow it.
However if you do then less ignorance of science would be displayed.
Interesting, though the relevance seems to be as elusive as the scientific evidence.
Is there any specificity, or is the randomness of generality your specialty?
I am a molecular biologist, in general, like biology, astrophysics, and much more! It's a hobby, but I can find the necessary literature and now I can recognize manipulation. Here, for example, "black holes" of general relativity and the "Black Star Laplace" - it was interesting to me. I realized that the so-called "Black holes "of general relativity - is a clever manipulation, which deliberately ignored the kinetic energy! It turns out that the approach to the singularity of the density requires an infinite energy! And because there is nowhere to take it, then this state is not achievable. So there is only "Black Star Laplace".
Do I take it to mean that you consider the Miller-Urey experiments and other like ones to have answered the question as to how life originated, or did you mean that these experiments demonstrated the opposite?
Could you clarify please.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Raises the experiment of Stanley Miller back in the 1950's.
I am not sure what his view actually is regarding the results, I await his clarification.
However his experiment and indeed succeeding ones did show one clearly noticeable feature.
Robert Shapiro had a comment on this in the edge event I have referred to before.
He recounts a meeting he had with Stanley Miller.
The above is on a video clip here. (scroll about half way down to locate it)
The rest of his comment is transcribed below and is available in pdf form on the same site from page 90.
The point that Shapiro is making, and he is an evolutionary scientist, is this.
Investigators design their own atmosphere that has nothing to do with the reality of prebiotic conditions.
They prepare their designs to try to achieve the result they are seeking. That is the start and end of it.
With these atmospheres that are cooked up in a lab, has any serious thought been given as to how that particular atmosphere could have naturally developed?
Of course not, because no theory can account for it.
Their atmospheres are specifically designed to produce the result they wish.
In the genesis narrative that is precisely what is stated. The atmosphere was specifically designed to accommodate the life that was to come.
Of course a materialist view says you can't have an outside agency designing because science can only deal with natural processes.
The irony that seems to escape this type of thinking is that the very processes they are denying, they actually use to prove – what?
That the prebiotic atmosphere can only come about by design.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
I though you are an engineer, but obviously not in chemistry, right? So you have no education in related fields whatsoever, but you will complain all the time.
Nevermind, the point is, that oxygen is quite reactive and thus it reacts with the other elements and forms other compounds. If you knew anything about chemistry, you would know, that getting oxygen from SiO2 is really hard task.
Furthermore, there are other planets where there is oxygen in some compounds, but it is not in the atmosphere as O2 and this is no speculation. So why should we assume that the early Earth was different?
And how did the oxygen arise? Well, from the organisms, obviously.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Where did I say that oxygen formed from Quartz or Feldspar?
It didn't and that is my argument. Please read what I am writing.
The oxygen must have been around in the compounds that formed the rocks according to the theory of accretion.
For it not to be around after the rocks formed must mean that all the oxygen was used up with no remainder, for any atmosphere. That was what I said.
Now is that realistic?
Because that is the theory of a pre-biotic atmosphere.
Therefore the question is where did the oxygen come from?
You say
So a simple question now
What organisms are you referring to.
Now think before you respond, as I have no desire to see you digging a bigger hole for yourself.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
You said:
And I'm saying, that it's basic inroganic chemistry, which tells us that.
So, where do you think does the oxygen come from if not from the rocks?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
I am finding it very difficult to understand why you appear to not appreciate the obvious. Maybe it is a language problem
So may I try again
In my post that you refer to I stated
If the accretion process from material that was rich in O2 formed the rocks and water all of which are themselves rich in oxygen, why is it claimed that the atmosphere lacked oxygen?
What is the physics or chemistry that justifies this claim?
I said there is none.
So for my education as I am obviously unacquainted with chemistry, can you explain a physical or chemical process controlling accretion that does, on the one hand make use of the oxygen rich material to produce the rocks and water, but on the other not leave any free O2.
You need to explain this if you are to state that there was no O2 in the prebiotic atmosphere, and even more bizarrely that "organisms" produced the O2.
I am saying quite clearly, with my limited understanding of chemistry, that if this process of accretion which so clearly assumes a material mass rich in O2 is correct, then this very same process would have had some remaining O2 as a constituent part of the atmosphere.
I hope that is clear enough
the thing is, that the materials such as sillicates are so stable, that they do not release oxygen, similarly other elements react quickly with oxygen to form oxycompounds. These are mostly stable, definitely more than free oxygen.
By the organisms, I mean of course the evolved bacteria. There are plenty of articles, which track the level of oxygen in the past. I'm sure, you will find some, since you're so great with the resources
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Oxygen could get into the atmosphere once, 4 billion years ago when crossing the plume from the central galactic hyper-astroid Laplace in a place where centrifugal force is born spiral arm of the Galaxy. Nitrogen, by the way, too, like gold, and many other things! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14827624
http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id81 ... nid=125696 Wow! mushrooms ... http://spacenoology.agro.name/?page_id=4349 I wonder what they were then, a billion years ago?
(Off the top, sorry!) my daughter (13 years) now decides to do after school to learn. Here, in Kiev - is expensive, the U.S. - far and definitely not, in England - too expensive, and that in Prague? Maybe it's time to start teaching her to Czech?
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
In other words you don't know.
Now you are getting really careless in asking me to find your resource articles.
Do you really wish to be even more embarrassed?
However you have had a stab at what you refer to as "evolved bacteria" as the organisms that produced the oxygen.
So may I remind you what the chemistry involved is. The process your "evolved bacteria" would need is photosynthesis. The popular hypothesis that this "evolved bacteria" is cyanobacteria..
I explained all this to Leopol a little while ago,
by scottie » Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:05 pm
However lets try again.
Our current atmosphere contains about 21% Oxygen.
Now in the process of photosynthesis it takes one CO2 molecule (Carbon Dioxide) to produce one carbon atom and one O2 (oxygen gas) molecule.
So if there is 21% oxygen in the atmosphere now, then therefore must have been 21% Carbon dioxide in the early earth atmosphere.
Therefore what effect do you think an atmosphere containing 21% CO2 would have on life.
May I suggest fully absorb the reference to Venus's CO2 enriched atmosphere and then consider how your "evolved bacteria" could have survived let alone got started.
Please stop looking for "fairies at the bottom of your garden" they are not there.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday took a big swing at libertarian-leaning lawmakers in both parties, calling the ideology, when applied to national security, "a very dangerous thought." His comments come just one day after the House narrowly rejected a sweeping amendment to defund the National Security Agency's surveillance program.
Addressing the bipartisan coalition that joined together to nearly push the so-called Amash amendment through, Christie told lawmakers who harbor libertarian views on the issue to explain their position to the victims of 9/11, the Washington Post's Aaron Blake reports. He also included Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in his critique.
"As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that's going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought," Christie said.
The governor proceeded to use an emotional argument to make his case, inviting "any one of them that's engaged in this" apparently dangerous "strain of libertarianism" to come to New Jersey and "sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation."
"I'm very nervous about the direction this is moving in," Christie added.
What about the raging debate regarding the balancing of privacy and national security? Some of that debate is "esoteric," according to Christie.
He had kind words to say about the national security strategies of both President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.
"Do we have amnesia?" the New Jersey Republican asked. "Because I don't. And I remember what we felt like on Sept. 12, 2001."
Christie made the comments while attending the Republican Governors Association's summer meeting in Aspen, Colo.
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One dead in Green County crash
BRODHEAD—A Brodhead woman died in a one-car accident Saturday in southeastern Green County. She was identified as Judy A. Cary, 52.
Authorities were notified at 4:56 p.m. Saturday of a crash on Pedee Road, one-half mile east of County G in the town of Spring Grove.
Investigators believe Cary was driving west when the car left the road and hit a tree. The car continued for a short distance, coming to rest in a field. Cary was not wearing a seat belt, according to a news release from the Green County Sheriff's Office.
Brodhead Fire and EMS along with sheriff's deputies and Brodhead police assisted at the scene.
The case remained under investigation Sunday.
The traffic death was Green County's seventh of 2013.
The traffic death was Green County's seventh of 2013.


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Your Views: Gazette owes apology to those on minimum wage
An apology on behalf of the Gazette's editorial board is owed to the numerous hard-working community members employed at minimum-wage jobs for lengthy time periods. An editorial March 11 stated that these people lack "gumption, ambition and intelligence." There is no reference identifying the source of information, therefore we are left to believe it is the personal opinion of editorial board members. Shame on you for perpetuating these myths about employees forced to stay in minimum-wage employment.
Many men and women, working for minimum wage, rise daily to go to jobs that are often demeaning, demoralizing and difficult. They continue to go, day after day, in an effort to provide basic necessities for their families and themselves. There exists myriad reasons why some people remain for years in minimum-wage jobs, and these reasons have nothing to do with intelligence, ambition or gumption.
Editors of a daily newspaper have a responsibility to inform the public with information gleaned from a thoughtful analysis of facts. The Gazette failed miserably in this editorial. Please do not continue spreading hurtful untruths at the expense of community members who are hard-working, yet poorly paid.


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Unemployment hits nearly five-year low
MADISON—The unemployment rate in the Janesville metro area decreased in October, hitting a level not seen in these parts since the fall of 2008.
Unemployment rates fell in 11 of the 12 metro areas in the state, the Department of Workforce Development reported.
The department said the October rate for Rock County—also known as the Janesville Metropolitan Statistical Area—was 6.9 percent, down from the 7.1 percent reported in September and below the 7.2 percent tallied in October 2012.
To find a lower unemployment rate would require a trip back to October 2008—the middle of the Great Recession—when the local area had unemployment of 6.6 percent.
The falling unemployment rate is a combination of new jobs being created in a metro area with a declining labor force.
In its most official form, an area's unemployment rate is the number of unemployed divided by the labor force. The number of unemployed in Rock County has been dropping dramatically while the size of the local labor force has been dwindling at a less dramatic pace.
Overall, the state unemployment rate in October was 5.7 percent, a decrease from the 5.9 percent rate posted in September and down from the 5.9 percent posted in October 2012, the department reported.
September-to-October rates decreased in all major metropolitan statistical areas, except in Racine, where the rate jumped from 7.7 percent to 7.9 percent.
Of the 32 Wisconsin cities with at least 25,000 people, unemployment rates dropped or stayed in the same in 29.
Among counties, Rock County had the 19th-highest rate, while St. Croix County had the lowest at 3.8 percent.
Walworth County had an October unemployment rate of 5.6 percent, while Green and Jefferson counties had rates of 4.7 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively. All three rates were lower than the previous month, the department reported, and rates either declined or stayed the same in 55 of the state's 72 counties.
Among individual cities, Janesville's rate of 7.6 percent in October was the seventh highest in the state.
With an October unemployment rate of 9.6 percent, Beloit had the second-highest rate among Wisconsin cities. It trailed only Racine and its October unemployment rate of 11.7 percent.
Local unemployment rates are not seasonally adjusted.


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Janesville man displaced after apparent kitchen fire
JANESVILLE—A Janesville Fire Department official said a man was displaced from his home Sunday after he left cooking oil unattended and his kitchen caught fire at a duplex on Janesville's east side.
The Janesville Fire department responded to a house fire in the south unit of a one-story, two-unit duplex home at 2526 N. Lexington Drive at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
According to the news release, the man, the lone resident of the unit, had put water and cooking oil on the stove to heat, and then left for Woodman's Market, a grocery store a few blocks away to get some food. When he returned, the kitchen was on fire.� �
Firefighters were able to knock down the fire, which Janesville Fire Department Shift Cdr. Scott Morovits said likely started on the stove. The fire department estimated the fire caused $75,000 in structural damage and $15,000 in property damage. The fire did not appear to have spread to the attic and did not damage the adjoining unit of the duplex, the fire department reported.
The unit was uninhabitable and the Red Cross is supplying the man with temporary food and shelter. He said residents who live in the adjoining unit of the duplex were allowed to return Sunday night after firefighters secured the residence and cleared the smoke.
No one was injured, Morovits said.
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What could be worse for President Obama than having a lower approval rating than his predecessor George W. Bush ? It sounds too crazy to be true, but recent polling suggests that embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford actually has a slightly higher job approval rating than Obama.
The New York Daily News makes the comparison between the two political figures, noting that in a new Forum Research Poll , Ford has a 42 percent approval rating from Toronto voters. That gives him a one-point edge over Obama's 41 percent approval rating in the most recent Gallup poll.
Of course, it's a bit of a stretch to say that Rob Ford is more popular that President Obama. First of all, the polls were conducting by different agencies, so it's far from precise to say a head-to-head comparison is by any means scientific.
Secondly, we're talking two men in different countries, with different jobs. And while Toronto is Canada's largest city, it's still only a population of around 2.6 million, compared to more than 300 million people living in the U.S.
Also, Ford is facing calls to step down from his position, with 60 percent of Toronto voters in the Forum Research Poll saying he should resign, even as less than half of the same voters favor a recall.
Nonetheless, the polling comparison is just another example of how much recent events including the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act website has hurt Obama's standing with the public , as his approval has fallen by an average of six points in the month and a half since the site first went live.
Although at least one polling expert says troubles with implementing the health care law aren't actually the biggest factor in Obama's recent stumbles .
"The real damage came in June, when reports about NSA spying and IRS treatment of conservative groups caused an eight-point drop in his approval rating - a far more significant change than what the numbers from October suggest," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.


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Hollywood Legend Mickey Rooney Dead at 93
Mickey Rooney, the legendary actor who appeared in over 340 movies and television shows, has passed away. He was 93.
According to TMZ, Rooney died of natural causes after suffering from "ill health" for a long period of time.
Born on September 23, 1920, Rooney spent his entire life in show business. His first film role came in 1926 when he played Mickey McGuire in a long-running series of shorts, but that was just the beginning. Soon, he was voicing animated characters for Walt Disney and leading features, becoming the first teenage Oscar nominee in 'Strike Up the Band.' He would be nominated for three additional Academy Awards over the course of his very long career. He also found himself playing the character of Andy Hardy in over a dozen films, from 'A Family Affair' in 1937 to 'Andy Hardy Comes Home'in 1958.
Rooney's later career included notable films like 'National Velvet' and 'Breakfast at Tiffany's.' Although he kept working in the final years of his life, younger audiences will most likely recognize him from a key role in 'Night at the Museum' and an amusing cameo in 'The Muppets.' Although he never headlined films in his final years, he remained Hollywood royalty, a familiar face at the Oscars, and a reminder of the golden age of moviemaking. His passing is the end of an era. He will truly be missed.


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Dandelions are one of the most delightful indicators that spring is finally on its way, they can quickly become unsightly. In a similar way, ragweed, Queen Anne's lace, and crabgrass can all take their turns dominating your lawn as spring and summer progress. Unfortunately, many people believe that the only way to get rid of weeds and fungal infestations is to use harmful herbicides. Depending on the type of weed you are trying to control, you may not need any chemicals at all!
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Among U.S. companies that do business in China, the proportion settling transactions in renminbi (RMB) has nearly doubled in the past year. The United States still lags behind some European nations, but the trend is clearly toward increased use of the Chinese currency. These are the key findings of an HSBC study released last week.
The bank commissioned Nielsen to survey financial decision-makers in 1,304 companies that are either foreign businesses engaged in trade with mainland China, or else companies based in China that do business abroad. More one in five use the RMB for settlement, and that figure rises to more than two in five among organizations over US$500 million in annual revenue. Outside of mainland China (33 percent), Taiwan (38 percent), and Hong Kong (58 percent), the countries in which the largest proportion of respondents said their company settles some cross-border deals in RMB were France (26 percent) and Germany (23 percent).
Among U.S.-based organizations that either have a physical presence in mainland China or engage in import/export activities there, 17 percent currently do business in RMB. That's nearly doubled over the past year; in 2013, only 9 percent of U.S. businesses dealt in RMB. And across all geographic regions, a third of companies that are not currently using the RMB plan to do so in the future.
"We're seeing a lot more interest in the renminbi," says Martin Brown, executive vice president and head of large corporate banking with HSBC. "People are understanding more about how the renminbi trades and the liquidity. They're getting more comfortable doing business in the currency." According to SWIFT, the RMB rose through the ranks of the most commonly used global currencies from 13th position in January 2013 to seventh in May 2014—although it still represents only 1.47 percent of all global cross-border trade and just 12 percent of cross-border payments with China and Hong Kong.
Almost two-thirds (62 percent) of companies that are currently doing business in RMB say they're doing so because it's convenient. Nearly as many (58 percent) cited reducing foreign exchange (FX) risk or costs as a reason. The same proportion said they do business in RMB because of a request from a trading partner. "Some companies in China would like to accept renminbi," Brown says. "There are other companies that would still prefer to be paid in dollars. There's always foreign exchange risk; the question is who takes it. That becomes more of a negotiating point as comfort levels rise and settlement in renminbi becomes more of a normal commercial decision."
A large majority of the surveyed companies that are already doing business in RMB say they're gaining financial advantages (76 percent) and relationship advantages (77 percent) as a result of that choice. And more than half (55 percent) of U.S.-based organizations that are already settling transactions in RMB expect their overall trade with China to increase in the next 12 months.
"There's a competitive advantage to being flexible and being able to denominate transactions in either dollars or renminbi," Brown says. "More French and German companies are willing to deal in renminbi, and if you're competing with them for business, it's a good idea to provide that option. It can open up access to different suppliers and different buyers in China."
Still, U.S.-based companies that are settling transactions in RMB today are fairly early adopters of the practice. "At the moment, we're seeing the more forward-looking treasury staffs saying, 'We see that China's undergoing a gradual liberalization, and we know there's good liquidity in the currency. We want to be ready, to have the mechanics in place for when our firm needs to start settling in renminbi,'" Brown says. "It's important to note that the gradual liberalization of trading rules around business in China is opening up opportunities for U.S. businesses. There's a lot more flexibility around investments, dividends, and pooling of currencies, some of it prompted by the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. That's creating a vast amount of interest among treasury and finance staffs about what will be possible in China 12 months from now."
In fact, many companies in the survey that don't currently settle deals in RMB indicated they're looking to cash in on the financial and relationship advantages that they might gain by having the RMB option. Twenty percent expect to start trading in RMB within three years. These companies believe that starting to use RMB will enable them to win more business (66 percent), get lower prices on goods they're buying (55 percent), and reduce FX risks (61 percent). Sixty-three percent said a trading partner has asked to transition to RMB-denominated deals.
Some survey respondents expect the RMB to become a truly global currency. Nearly a third of all respondents—although only 6 percent of respondents from the United States and 9 percent of those from the U.K.—said they think that within the next five years companies will start using the RMB to settle transactions that have no connection to China, just as the U.S. dollar is currently used for many transactions that don't involve a U.S.-based trading partner.
Brown thinks it's too soon to speculate on the future of the RMB as a lubricant of global trade, but he expects use of the currency to continue to grow. "People have concerns about documentation and other restrictions on currency exchange in China," he says. "But the biggest hurdle to RMB settlement at most companies is a lack of familiarity, a lack of understanding." Indeed, 13 percent of all survey respondents said their company has "little or no understanding of relevant issues or where to turn for information" about RMB internationalization. Another 31 percent said they have some understanding but not enough to take any action. Banks are working to resolve this information gap. Despite the challenges, Brown says, "I think liberalization will continue to drive more renminbi usage."


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Local Produce: Our Spring Harvest Begins
Traditionally, the beginning of spring is marked on a calendar date, but many believe in other signs of a new season. Some watch for the first crocuses and tulips. Others await opening day at Fenway Park. Still others believe spring arrives only after Formaggio Kitchen fires up the grill and begins the sidewalk barbecue season.
But for me, spring officially arrives with locally grown vegetables, farm fresh eggs and wildly foraged edibles from hearty New England soil. (Though I certainly won't turn down BBQ for lunch on Saturdays.)
At Formaggio Kitchen, we work with as many local farms as possible to bring in a wide variety of produce. Although spring is arriving decidedly late this year, we've already received a bounty of fresh vegetables from some of our favorite farmers.
Both harvested wildly in Massachusetts, ramps and fiddleheads are among the first crops to appear. Ramps, a member of the Allium family (along with onions, garlic, and shallots) are celebrated in much of Appalachia and New England. This sweet little bulb can be sautéed, quickly grilled, or even pickled. Commonly fried with potatoes and bacon, ramps also pair wonderfully with mussels, pasta, or eggs.
Like ramps, fiddleheads are not cultivated, yet grow wild in wet areas in the Northeast. Resembling the curled end of a stringed instrument, fiddleheads are a fascinating addition to the shop. The best way to enjoy this delicacy is to roast or sauté it in butter or olive oil, with lemon, herbs, or even chili peppers. Serve with a roast chicken and a glass of rosé for a memorable dinner.
It is difficult to find herbs as beautiful as those that grow in New England. Rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage are all coming into season in the next few months. For now, Allen Farms in Westport is bringing in locally grown chives that have the blossoms still attached, making them an excellent garnish for any dish. Use these chives with eggs, potatoes and cheese or create a chive pesto to serve over pasta.
Asparagus, fondly known as the true manifest of spring, is one of our most popular vegetables in May and June. Locally grown asparagus is an entirely different animal than asparagus found out of season. One of the fastest growing crops, asparagus requires harvesting every 24 to 48 hours, during which it can sprout up to 10 inches in length. New England grown, freshly harvested asparagus will have tender stalks, tightly closed tips with deep purple tones. It is among the most flavorful, yet delicate spring offerings. Steamed, sautéed or roasted, asparagus will have a nutty, earthy flavor. Try grilling the stalks with fish for dinner, or top with a poached egg and Hollandaise for an elegant breakfast.
Last but not least, the humble radish. Part of the Brassicaceae family, the radish is a small but punchy root vegetable. A cool season crop, it only requires three to six weeks from seedling to harvest in rich, fertile soil. The radish has a lovely crispness is followed by a spicy finish, making this plant a great addition to salads. In Europe, they are commonly sliced thin and served on top of rustic bread with butter and fleur de sel – alongside white wine or rosé, of course. The delicate flavor and assortment of (romantically named) varieties (Early Scarlet Globe, Cherry Belle, Fresh Breakfast and White Icicle) makes this one of my favorite spring crops.
As the early persistent rain yields to summer sun and warmth, Formaggio Kitchen will expect to see more and more fruits and vegetables from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and even Maine. Up next will be peas and beans, followed closely by the strawberries. But, until then, I for one will take the time to enjoy these remarkable spring vegetables, for it will be another year before they gracefully arrive in the fields again.
Emily Shannon is a cooking enthusiast and works in the produce department and as a cheesemonger at Formaggio Kitchen Cambridge.


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Beloit man arrested after Sunday morning chase
JANESVILLE — A Beloit man was arrested Sunday morning after stealing a car from a Janesville garage and leading Rock County deputies on a chase though Beloit, a news release from the Janesville police said.
Janesville Police arrested Michael L. McThune, 20, for burglary and operating a motor vehicle without the owner's concent. Rock County Sheriff's Office arrested McThune for fleeing to avoid arrest and operating after suspension. The Beloit Police Department will be issuing charges of obstructing/resisting officers, Janesville police said.
Police said that they responded to a call at 5:42 a.m. Sunday that a car had been stolen from the 2400 block of West Burbank Avenue. The victim told police she was warming her car in the garage and realized a short time later it was missing.
At 5:50 a.m. a deputy from the Rock County Sheriff's Office located the vehicle traveling south on U.S. Hwy 51 in the town of Beloit.
The suspect increased speed after observing the deputy, police said.
The deputy initiated a pursuit continuing southbound that reached speeds of approximately 100 miles per hour, police said. As the vehicle approached the intersection of Riverside Drive and Henry Avenue in the city of Beloit, the driver attempted to turn east but lost control, striking a traffic control signal, police said.
After coming to rest, the suspect exited the vehicle and fled on foot, the news release said. Beloit Police officers joined the foot pursuit and took the suspect into custody near the Beloit Public Library.
Investigation showed that McThune had been released from the Rock County Jail approximately two hours prior to the incident. Neither McThune nor any law enforcement officers were injured during the incident.
McThune was booked into the Rock County Jail and will be held pending an initial court appearance Monday February 10.


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Edgerton man charged with tax crimes
MADISON—A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin returned an indictment Wednesday against an Edgerton man facing charges of payroll tax crimes.
Jeffrey Grams, 43, Edgerton, is charged with 11 counts of failing to account for and pay to the Internal Revenue Service payroll taxes withheld from wages of employees of his businesses.
The indictment alleges that on eight occasions from April 2008 through January 2010, Grams failed to file quarterly employment tax forms and made no payments to the IRS for payroll taxes withheld from employees of his business, Rock River Concrete of Edgerton.
The indictment also alleges that as managing partner of Braton Property Group of Edgerton, Grams also failed to file quarterly employment tax forms and made no payments for withheld payroll taxes of employees on three occasions from April to October 2008.
If convicted, Grams faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine on each count. The charges against him are the result of an IRS investigation.
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Bally Technologies intends to keep cashing in on the global popularity of gaming but wants to keep gambling out of its treasury. Like many middle-market companies, the $880 million designer, manufacturer and distributor of gaming devices is making money in a precarious global market where currencies swing wildly in value, often daily, and one major currency's survival may be in doubt. So Scott Edgeworth, the Las Vegas-based company's controller for treasury and risk management, is hedging its bets, something that seemed unnecessary until three years ago.
As business has become more global and the perils of leaving major currency positions unhedged have grown ominous, treasury pros like Edgeworth are searching for hedging solutions that provide the right balance of automation, outsourcing and personal attention.
Even on a modest scale, personal attention is essential, so Bally brought in Edgeworth, a CPA with banking and investment company experience, 2½ years ago, partly to organize its first currency hedging program.
The scope of the project was modest: Bally had large exposures to the volatile euro and smaller, occasional exposures to the South African rand that called for hedging. None of the other currencies it dealt in were volatile enough or involved exposures large enough for active hedging. "We have 10 to 15 currencies that we monitor, but just three to five that we are currently considering to hedge," Edgeworth says.
Bally has no exposure to commodity prices, and its only interest-rate hedge is a swap locked in for the life of a term loan. That leaves the focus on FX.
Bally's forex trading did not require significant automation or portals. "We don't have the scale yet to require or justify trading systems," Edgeworth says. The company primarily uses long-duration hedges of six to 18 months and has three to five hedges in place at any one time. Bally does its trading over the phone with a few of its banks. Edgeworth is authorized to use options but so far has found basic forward contracts to be simplest, cheapest and most effective.
The hedging process is still too cumbersome for him to do it alone, though. "I understood hedging but never had to build a ground-up program, nor did I previously work as a trader," Edgeworth notes. "We have subsidiaries all over the world using different accounting systems. It was a real challenge to collect and analyze the data quickly enough to see exposures and hedge in a timely way."
In additional, there were legal agreements, trading templates and other operational details to attend to, as well as the accounting. "With our lean finance staff and the complexity of the process, I could see that we needed help, so we brought in Hedge Trackers for consulting and kept them on to handle the accounting," he says.
Now Bally actively hedges its balance sheet and is considering hedging cash-flow exposures. "Hedge accounting will become more important, something Hedge Trackers can assist us with," Edgeworth says.
But Bally has to meet the big challenge—that of closely tracking events within its global businesses and responding to events quickly with appropriate hedges.
"We will need to work closely with our sales team, with financial planning and analysis, and with our local subsidiaries to adjust our forecasts as accurately and timely as possible so we can execute the best hedging strategies," Edgeworth explains.
Good hedging "takes a lot of good information and a solid understanding about how currencies flow through your financials," says Helen Kane, president of Cupertino, Calif.-based Hedge Trackers. Balance-sheet hedging deals with transactions already booked, Kane explains, while cash-flow hedging involves anticipated transactions.
Companies usually use forwards to hedge balance sheets and forwards, options or collars for cash-flow exposures, she says. "It's rare to see structured instruments because they generally don't qualify for hedge accounting treatment."
Treasuries often start with simpler balance-sheet hedging and may graduate to cash-flow hedging as they gain experience, Kane says. "But some companies that have low volumes of high-value payments may start with cash flow if their margins are degrading because of time slippage between order and revenue recognition." In some cases, currency hedging starts abruptly when a CFO spots a large and unexpected gain or loss, and tells the treasurer, 'Fix it,' she notes.
On a larger scale, $8.4 billion Gilead Sciences, with a core treasury staff of seven, is turning to systems to streamline the back end of its mature balance-sheet and cash-flow hedging program. Gilead trades through a portal, but the trade information does not yet flow smoothly into its hedge accounting system, reports treasury manager Karina Inga-Kamienski. So the Foster City, Calif.-based biopharmaceutical company is implementing its first treasury workstation to go with its Oracle ERP system.
Gilead downloads trade data from Bloomberg into an Excel file, and formats and uploads them into Capella, the Hedge Trackers hedge accounting system. It employs a Misys confirmation matching system to collect trade information from the bank side of transactions, confirm it and store the data.
"Once we get the workstation running, the process should be more automated," Inga-Kamienski says. "We want the trade data to flow directly from Bloomberg to the workstation." The Misys system still will collect bank data and send it to the workstation. The workstation will consolidate and validate all the data and send it to Capella automatically. Once hedge accounting is applied, the data should upload automatically into Oracle, she explains.
Gilead makes a significant portion of its sales outside the United States, primarily in Europe, and actively hedges several currencies, mainly the euro, usually using forwards, Inga-Kamienski says.
While trading, confirming and accounting for hedges can be complex, it's a routine process that can be polished. The greater challenge is gauging the exposures to be hedged, Inga-Kamienski says. Like Bally, Gilead does that by coordinating with its financial planning and analysis (FP&A) team and staying in close contact with local businesses, she says. "We train the local people in the various countries so that they understand why we need to know about changes that could affect our exposures."
The partnership between Gilead's treasury and FP&A is a close one. "There might have been a time when we would have pulled each other's data," Inga-Kamienski says. "But that leaves blind spots, and we can't afford blind spots anymore."
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India's central bank unexpectedly raised its key interest rate, signaling it's ready to implement the most sweeping changes in its 78-year history to fight the fastest consumer-price gains in Asia.
Governor Raghuram Rajan boosted the repurchase rate to 8 percent from 7.75 percent, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said today. Only three of 45 analysts in a Bloomberg News survey predicted the move, with the rest expecting no change. It came five days after Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram offered a reminder that the central bank has a duty to help growth.
"The gravest risk to the value of the rupee is from CPI [consumer price index] inflation, which remains elevated close to double digits," Rajan said in a statement. "It's only by bringing down inflation to a low and stable level that monetary policy can contribute to reviving consumption and investment in a sustainable way."
Rajan follows Brazil's central bank in raising the policy rate this month as the risk of capital flight weakens emerging-market currencies from the Turkish lira to South Africa's rand. Further tightening isn't anticipated in the near term if consumer-price inflation slows from about 10 percent now to 8 percent by March 2015, India's central bank said today.
"There is no cooling off in inflation, and we expect it to remain sticky," said Sonal Varma, an economist at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Mumbai, who correctly predicted today's move. "As price pressures still remain elevated, and given the RBI's move towards CPI inflation targeting, we think the bias will be towards higher interest rates going forward."
The rupee rose 0.9 percent, to 62.5150 per dollar, the biggest single-day gain in more than two months, at the close in Mumbai. The S&P BSE Sensex index fell 0.1 percent. The yield on the 10-year government bond fell to 8.75 percent, from 8.77 percent yesterday. The rupee has declined about 14 percent in the past year, adding to price pressures by raising the cost of imports such as crude oil.
Turkey's central bank called an emergency meeting to halt its currency slump while China is seeking to avert a trust-product default. The Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting today as economists forecast a further cut to its monthly bond purchases.
An RBI panel last week recommended making inflation the "predominant objective" of monetary policy for the first time. The panel suggested reducing consumer-price inflation to 8 percent within one year and 6 percent by 2016, at which point it would formally adopt a 4 percent target with a band of plus or minus two percentage points.
'Volcker-esque' Approach
Consumer-price inflation will exceed 9 percent in the three months ending March 31, and range between 7.5 percent and 8.5 percent in the same period next year, the RBI said in a separate review today. An increase in the policy rate "will set the economy securely on the recommended disinflationary path," the central bank said in the statement.
Bringing down consumer inflation to 4 percent may require a "Volcker-esque" approach to monetary policy, Robert Prior-Wandesforde, a Singapore-based economist at Credit Suisse Group AG, said in a note. Paul Volcker was the Fed's chairman from 1979 to 1987 and pushed interest rates up to 20 percent to tame U.S. inflation that had persisted for a decade.
"Although Rajan (and others) may well be right that such an approach would not have long-term implications for growth, there would certainly be a short-term trade-off," Prior-Wandesforde wrote. "The latter is likely to worry the politicians, who may well be somewhat peeved that Rajan appears to have adopted at least part of the new policy regime presumably before full discussions have taken place."
Chidambaram called the inflation target "ambitious" in an interview last week and said the RBI must retain the objective to support growth even as it battles inflation. The panel also suggested that the government cut the fiscal deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product by March 2017, a target Chidambaram shares.
If inflation slows, Asia's third-biggest economy can grow between 5 percent and 6 percent in the next fiscal year, ending March 2015, according to the statement. Gross domestic product will expand "a little below" 5 percent in the year through March 31, it said.
Inflation in India
Price gains in India averaged about 10 percent in 2013; they threaten to erode consumer demand and hurt the poor in a nation where more than 800 million people live on less than $2 a day. India's consumer prices rose 9.87 percent in December, the fastest pace in a basket of 17 Asia-Pacific economies tracked by Bloomberg.
Inflation is a politically sensitive issue in India, where elections have been lost as prices quickened. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said his government could have done better on controlling prices while defending policies to buy farm produce at guaranteed prices, boost rural wages, and distribute cheap food.
India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to win 188 seats in the 545-member lower house in elections due by May, surpassing the party's previous high of 182 seats in 1999, according to a C-Voter poll for India Today published last week. The ruling Congress party may get as few as 91 seats versus 210 now, dropping to its lowest on record, the poll said.
While demand has remained subdued, inflation pressures are forcing some companies to raise prices. Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. raised its product prices by 1,000 rupees per ton this month, while Indian Oil Corp. increased diesel prices by 0.50 rupee a liter.
'Breathing Space'
Rajan, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist renowned for his 2005 financial crisis warning, left rates unchanged at the last policy meeting on Dec. 18. He raised the benchmark rate by a quarter-point each in September and October.
Rajan will probably hold the repo rate at 8 percent until December, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. economists Devika Mehndiratta and Glenn Maguire wrote in a note after the decision.
"This should give the RBI some breathing space to go into a pause," they wrote. "But it is unlikely to be enough to allow the central bank to quickly launch into a rate cut cycle."


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More rain on the way after washout
More than one-and-a-half inches of rain has fallen in 24 hours, with more wet weather forecast for the coming days.
The Met Office has issued a yellow severe weather warning for rain while the Environment Agency has four flood alerts in place, meaning flooding is possible - three in the South East and one in the Midlands.
Northern parts of the UK could also see heavy downpours at the end of the week as Hurricane Cristobal, which has hit the Bahamas, crosses between Iceland and Scotland although conditions are not expected to be as "intense" as when the remnants of Hurricane Bertha reached the country earlier this month.
More umbrellas than swimming costumes on Bournemouth beach
Herstmonceux in East Sussex recorded the most rainfall - 1.6 inches (40.8mm) - between 9am yesterday and the same time today, according to Met Office figures.
Many other places also experienced similar levels of rain, with the Bank Holiday weekend a washout for the south east of England in particular.
Met Office forecaster Dan Williams said: "It's been a pretty wet 24 hours. It sums up a fairly wet Bank Holiday Monday across most of the UK, which is extending into today with quite a few showers around in the South. But there is some really nice weather to be had in northern parts of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
"Tomorrow looks to be a dry and bright day, particularly in Scotland, Northern Ireland and eastern parts of England, but it will be cloudy and wet in the South West and southern parts of Wales. Thursday is not too bad once the rain clears up, with showers and sunny spells."
Meteogroup said 38mm of rain (just under 1.5ins) was recorded within a 24-hour period at St James's Park in central London, which is unusual for winter, let alone August.
Forecaster Billy Payne said: "We do get these very wet days in summer sometimes, but it's not too often we see widespread heavy rain like that over a whole day."
Although the wet conditions have brought temperatures up slightly, there is no sign of any last blast of summer heat as August draws to a close.
Mr Payne added: "It will be warming up a little bit, to the low 20s. By the middle part of next week the weather will have settled down and we may experience some high pressure, but there is not likely to be a heatwave."
He added that average temperatures for August were 1.3C below average, unlike July which saw long periods of hot weather.
Mr Payne said the effects of Hurricane Cristobal might be noticed in Scotland late on Sunday as it passes above the UK, but will "not result in dramatic rainfall".
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Walworth County Board OKs backyard chickens in areas zoned as residential
ELKHORN—Rural residents of Walworth County are now able to have chickens on their property.
The county board voted unanimously Tuesday night in favor of an ordinance amendment that allows people living on property zoned as residential to have up to six chickens in coops in their backyards.
Daniel Kilkenny, a Walworth County Board supervisor, said he is pleased with the vote and sees no difference in having chickens in the yard compared to dogs.
"It's a common sense thing … especially in rural counties," Kilkenny said.
The approval comes after about a year of drafting and proposing the amended ordinance, Dale Wheelock, a local poultry farmer and Delavan resident told The Gazette in a January interview.
About a year ago, Wheelock began hearing from people who were keeping chickens on residential properties and were getting flak from neighbors.
Walworth County regulates the zoning for towns with the exception of the Town of Bloomfield. Cities and villages control their own zoning and ordinances.
In December 2012, the Whitewater City Council voted to allow chickens in backyards.
Prior to the approval of the ordinance, chickens were allowed only on properties zoned as agricultural.
The ordinance restricts chickens from mobile home parks and would not allow roosters. Chickens must remain on the property and live in a coop no larger than 100 square feet.
The coop must be movable and be at least 10 feet from side and rear property lines and at least 20 feet from a neighboring residence.
4-H participants are one group that will benefit from having chickens in residential areas, Kilkenny said.
Other benefits include people having chickens as pets and residents being able to harvest their own eggs, Wheelock said.
Also at the meeting
Fellow board members recognized Jerry Grant for his 16 years of service as a county board supervisor.
With a few tears in his eyes, Grant thanked the board members and his family for the support and memories. His final statement to the board was, "I gave it my best shot."


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Evolution and environment question--breathing, etc
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Evolution and environment question--breathing, etc
Hi folks. I'm hoping I can occupy a few minutes of your time. I'm not a student or scientist, I'm a writer doing research for my first novel. I know this post is broad and possibly confusing, and I apologize in advance for it.
I'll try to keep this brief. In my novel, in the distant future, a group of 5,000 to 10,000 colonists have settled a new planet and separated from Earth entirely. Over the next thousand years, they spend their time in an environment which is slightly different from ours, here and there--perhaps a bit more nitrogen in the atmosphere, perhaps a bit less ultraviolet light to contend with.
After that thousand years, they return to Earth looking and functioning with a notable difference in culture and physiology (the latter being the subject of my post), from adapting to a different environment over a relatively short amount of time. They also have genetic engineering capabilities, and purposefully alter their physiological makeup to cope with the environment.
If we lived a thousand years on a planet with these small changes--and any other possible causes that you could imagine would effect humans so as to cause significant changes, including genetic engineering--what would you *speculate* both the causes and effects could be? I'm looking for a mechanism by which humans would return a thousand years later with altered--and advantageously so--physiology.
This is a brainstorm experiment, and your input would be very much appreciated. Let me know if and how I can improve my post. Thank you for your time and sorry for the possibly confusing question.
To summarize: I need a mechanism by which humans could be physiologically altered (mostly in an advantageous way) over a relatively short period of time. And I'm curious as to what the effects of small changes in environment could be after a thousand years.
With less ultraviolet light maybe it could be advantageous to lose pigments in our skin cells. That is something that can be genetically engineered.
A thousand years (~50 generations) is not much time for significant genetic adaptation to take place. For example, there was a recent study on the adaptation of Tibetans to high altitude, estimating it to have taken about 3000 years - which if true, is surprisingly fast. The more hardship a population is under, in terms of fraction of lives lost per generation (Tibet is, of course, a very harsh environment), the more drastic the change can be. Small differences in environment may not lead to any noticeable change at all.
However, there will also be environmental factors to consider (since the human body can adapt without genetic change). These changes would be at least partially reversible if they return to our environment (although it might take several years), while the genetic ones would not. I imagine that you would probably have to explain this to your readers at some point. The effects of genetic and environmental factors will be mainly in the same direction - so the longer time there is, the more change could occur - environmental change shifts your location on the spectrum of possible physiology for a given genetic background, and genetic change shifts the position of that spectrum. If they have technology to resist the environment (like if they make and use pressurized oxygen, or the ability to save the lives of people who would otherwise die from lack of oxygen), the impact will be softened or eliminated.
The environmental effects of having less oxygen should be similar to what we see when someone is born to parents with genetics from a low altitude, but is raised and lives at a high altitude. So they will probably have more red blood cells, a stronger diaphragm, a stronger heart, etc. This would allow them to (for example) exert themselves for longer under our conditions (but they could only act normally under theirs, because the extra adaptations are a compensation for the environment). Any of our people who go to their conditions won't have those compensating factors, and might (or might not, depending on the amount of difference, and what their background is on Earth) find it hard to breathe and exert themselves.
It would be extremely unlikely for any completely new traits to arise, unless they engineered it. So any non-engineered genetic change you want in your new population should be present to at least some degree in the founding population. Based on the study I mentioned, if you start with people from sea level, then given conditions of hardship I would take the physiology of present-day Tibetans as a maximum for the sum of (non-engineered) genetic and environmental change over the 1000 years. Although if your starting population is (for example) Tibetan, then you are talking about the variation within their population and not the general population. And perhaps you might be willing to give them more than a thousand years.
I don't think there's anything major that would come as an adaptation to UV exposure - probably a lower rate of skin cancer and eye damage, and probably lighter skin. Until the lighter skin comes along, they will suffer from partial Vitamin D deficiency.
Anyways, this post is probably too long now - someone else will probably tell me if I've missed anything. I recommend David Weber's Honor Harrington books, if you haven't read them - if I recall correctly, the people of Grayson were isolated for about a thousand years in a harsh environment with a high death rate. The culture changed extremely fast, but I think the major genetic change (different sex ratio) was actually due to making a mistake during the genetic engineering.
Agree with astra, there might be phenotypic plasticitymtoward adaptation but probably not much genetic change, esp. as you've offered no selective element in your scenario. You might explore some social factor for selection in breeding that drives change more rpidly. What is the motivation for "genetic engineering" in the scenario? Like central planning in economics, it sounds good but probably doesn;t work ut so well.
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You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....
when you buy a house and tell your husband he can use the other rooms for whatever else he wants but this one room will be your tea room. and now it is.
when you describe a smaller/more delicate horse as being like a cup of tea, and a more robust/bigger built horse as being full bodied like a cup of coffee… facepalm
ha ha ha @ShayneBear. okay how about this: people have been trying to explain wine to me for aaaaaaaaages. and until i started into loose leaf it just never made sense. i was at the wine store and the concierge (correct word?) was trying to describe the palate to me and i found myself understanding. FINALLY, lol. 'so this one is more a darjeeling, whereas that one has more the earth tones of a puerh!' the poor man was lost, my mother had buried her face in her hand. he looked from one of us to the other 'a pu-what?'
hee hee hee tea ponies and coffee clydesdales…. awesome.
I just can't stand wine, it's icky! I'll stick to my vodka and gin thank you very much :P
And actually I was comparing two horses of the same breed (gypsy vanners, aka gypsy cobs), both young mares, one is just smaller and a LOT more refined (like a bone china tea cup) and the other is thicker and a bit more coarse (like a hefty coffee mug). I think I called the smaller mare "bai mu dan" and the heavier mare "french roast" haha!
i don't mind wine…. i just prefer tea. it's a more in depth study for me because i'm not a big drinker. and you can study tea without getting sozzled, lol.
JustJames- I've always like red wines, but I do notice many more differences in all sort of wine, now that I've started drinking tea.
And ShayneBear- I started comparing teas to sopranos, either light lyric sopranos or dark dramatic sopranos.
oh crap, thanks for bringing out my inner choir/vocal jazz geek Fuzzy_Peachkin!!! away I go to create an entire "choir" of tea! hahahaha
a choir of teas, or a harmony, a symphony… do you have any that you would consider a cappellas? soloists? (hee hee hee, this is fun)
a really dark Pu'erh would be the bass, Assam the baritone, dark oolong the tenor, light oolong the alto, a sencha or maybe dragonwell for the mezzo soprano, and a crisp fresh white for the upper soprano.
straight versions of these would be an a cappella ensemble, and various flavour profiles would be different genre ensembles. Thinking spicey would be more baroque/madrigal pieces, chocolate and coffee notes would be jazz, floral could be an SSAA arrangement, malty or smokey could be a TTBB piece. And then a giant mix of flavours you wouldn't think would go together, but turns out to be delicious, would be any piece by Eric Whitaker. :P
ShayneBear- You just TOTALLY out-choir-geeked me! :-) And yeah I agree with those descritions.
LMAO me too….. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh eric whitaker. Fuzzy_Peachkin have you heard his amazing stuff? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs ALL done online. never heard of him until i saw him in a documentary on TED.
I was a Tenor 2 for Lux Aurumque and Water Horse in the Virtual Choir, and did With a Lily in Your Hand in grade 11 with my high school choir. :D I dream of finding a group to do Leonardo Dreams Of His Flying Machine one day, it's possibly my favourite piece he's composed!
Have I heared of Eric Whitacre? I've sung in a choir that sang his stuff at Carnegie Hall! My favorite piece to perform WAS "Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine". So much fun! I handled some of the second soprano. All by myself. I hope you get too sing it ShayneBear!
Leonardo Dreams is freaking amazing, so much love for that piece. The concert band did Cloudburst, and I was supposed to play double bass for it but sprained my wrist and had to sit out :( SO jealous you got to not only do Leonardo, but you've performed some of His Godliness' stuff at bloody Carnegie Hall!!!!! Not sure if I should love you forever, or hate your guts for it! haha
With a Lily sure caught attention from the other ensembles at the Rocky Mountain Music Festival that year. That same year we also did Z Randall Stroope's "Amor De Mi Alma" and between the dropped jaws form Lily and the beauty/passion of Amor, I'll never forget that week at the festival, that's for sure!
once upon a time i was a trained singer… a very long time ago. i was a soprano 1. i don't sing much anymore, lol… and i was certainly never talented enough to accomplish what the two of you have done/aspire to do.
one day the two of you could do a duet!
i am new to the fan base of eric whitaker… new but appreciative!
Performing at stuff like that is unforgettable when you have a solid group! That festival sounds like quite the event.
I love Cloudburst too! we did that one too! His pieces really are so much fun!
When your co-workers know that you will be irritable because you haven't had time to have your second cup of tea yet.
lol! Mine just keep asking "What type of tea are you having now?"
Re-steeping your new tea until it runs out of flavour because you didn't buy enough.
when everything you do in animal crossing: new leaf—painstaking pattern making, complicated labors of love towards obtaining obscure decor and kitchen items, etc., etc.—is working towards getting the ultimate tea room set up in your house, ha.
There's a version of Harvest Moon where you can grow, harvest, and brew tea. It's one of the more fun parts of the game. (Besides cooking.)
I've switched over entirely to loose leaf so now all of the pretty colored boxes of tea bags have turned into a toddler toy. They stack so well and are great fun to knock down!
When we're done he gets to pick out a bag of tea and we have a tea party.
When you wonder if there is a perfume that is just tea scent, but, not some fake scent of tea!
I would buy the heck out of that perfume!!
Back story: I am going to have a family member living with me for a few months…
You know you are addicted to tea when you are cleaning and organizing your tea stash because you are embarrassed for your new room mate to see its size and expansiveness but then decide you will just convert them into a tea addict so it doesn't matter.


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Ohio murder suspect arrested in Janesville
JANESVILLE—A man wanted on a murder charge in Columbus, Ohio, and who has eluded police for more than 18 months was arrested Tuesday night in Janesville.
Sar I, of Madison, was taken into custody during a traffic stop by Janesville police at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Rockport Road and Stone Street, said Lt. Keith Lawver, head of the Janesville Police Department's detective bureau.
The arrest came after Janesville police received a tip that a man wanted on a number of serious charges in Columbus, Ohio, could be frequenting a certain location, Lawver said.
"We did surveillance for eight hours Wednesday, and when we saw someone that matched the description of the suspect in a vehicle, we stopped the car, and identified the passenger in the vehicle as Sar I," he said.
I was in town visiting friends, Lawver said.
Columbus detectives will travel to Janesville to interview I, who is in custody at the Rock County Jail awaiting extradition, Lawver said.
"We will assist them once they get here with anything they need," he said.
"Anytime you have a subject in your community who has committed a homicide, it's a danger. The sooner you can get him off the streets, the better," he said.
I, 42, was charged with murder in May 2012. He is accused of killing Claudia Lopez Escobar, 29, of Whitehall, according to a story in The Columbus Dispatch newspaper.
Lopez Escobar was last seen alive March 30, 2012. Her body has not been found. The day she disappeared, she told a friend she was going to visit a former boyfriend at his apartment. When police later searched I's apartment, they found blood and other evidence that led to the murder charge weeks after Lopez Escobar's disappearance, according to the newspaper article.
Columbus police were working with the U.S. Marshal's Office and recently received information that I was living in Janesville, said Sgt. Steve Little, of the Columbus police homicide division, The Columbus Dispatch reported.


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VIDEO: Janesville water main break sends water, debris shooting into air
JANESVILLE—Janesville city water crews were working Sunday evening to repair a water main break near downtown that blew a 20-foot-wide hole in the street and sent a geyser of water 30 feet in the air.
Police and city water utility crews were called to a 12-inch water main break at the corner of South Parker Drive and East Van Buren Street about 1 p.m. Sunday for reports that a geyser of water was shooting out of the broken main.
The break knocked out water in an area four blocks around the break, Janesville water department crew foreman Mike Fosmoen said. Crews worked to shut off the main, and hoped to have it repaired with water running later Sunday night, he said.
At the scene, water was shooting at least 30 feet in the air from the main break, which was under the street. The pressure of the water caused the street and part of the sidewalk to blow out in a 20-foot-wide crater around the break.
The crater grew as water continued to shoot above the treetops, landing in a deluge on the roof and the side of a building that formerly housed a nursing home on the corner of South Parker Drive and East Van Buren Street.
Water and rubble from the blowout poured down the hill on both East Van Buren Street and St. Lawrence Avenue. Police crews blocked off streets around the break as crews worked to shut down the main.
Fosmoen said the geyser likely was caused when a large piece of the street fell against the broken main and partially plugged it like a finger over a garden hose, creating pressure.
"It's lucky that happened, or this break could have collapsed almost the whole street," he said.
He said it's likely that repeated ground heave from a recent spate of thawing and freezing temperatures caused the main to snap. The harsh, cold weather this winter has caused the ground to freeze deeply and has placed stress on local water laterals and mains, officials have said.
Fosmoen said crews were still trying to learn how much water was lost in the blowout. He said the geyser was a one-of-a-kind occurrence he's never seen.
"You hardly ever see anything like this. Never in 35 years have I seen anything like it. Never," he said.
No one was injured, officials said, and there are no plans for a boil order, although residents could notice some rusty discoloration to their water, which Fosmoen said is harmless.
Last updated: 1:23 pm Sunday, March 16, 2014