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Thursday, April 24, 2014
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Two residents of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a runaway train derailed and caused an explosion and fire that killed 50 people, have initiated a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for victims of the disaster.
People react as church bells chime 50 times for the victims of the July 6 train crash and blaze in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada, on Saturday. Residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against the railroad.
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In this July 6 photo, flames and smoke rise from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada, devastating the downtown and killing at least 50. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
CLICK HERE to read the petition for the class-action lawsuit.
Yannick Gagne and Guy Ouellet would seek damages from the Maine-based Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway, Irving Oil and the company that extracted the crude oil the train was carrying.
No dollar figures are in the lawsuit, but it could be among the largest claims ever filed in Canada, said an attorney in the case.
Before dawn on July 6, an unattended Montreal Maine & Atlantic train carrying 72 oil tanker cars rolled downhill into Lac-Megantic and crashed, causing an explosion that leveled much of the town's center. Ouellet lost his partner, Diane Bizier. Gagne owns the Musi-Cafe, a bar that was crowded with people when it was destroyed by the blast.
The plaintiffs filed a motion Monday in Quebec Superior Court seeking to authorize a class-action suit against the railway company. On Wednesday, the plaintiffs amended the motion to add as defendants Irving Oil, World Fuel Services and its subsidiary Dakota Plains Holdings.
Dakota Plains Holdings extracted the oil that was being carried east by the train to an Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick.
The motion claims that the companies failed to ensure the oil was properly secured and safely transported. The lawsuit would seek compensation for any person or business affected directly or indirectly by the disaster.
It was not known Thursday when the court will rule on the motion.
Three law firms are working on the case. Jeff Orenstein of Consumer Law Group Inc. in Montreal, one of the firms, said the claim could be among the largest ever filed in Canada.
Orenstein told Postmedia News that the disaster affected everyone in Lac-Megantic, a town of 6,000 residents just 10 miles from Maine's western border.
Canadian courts typically set a lower bar for certification of class-action lawsuits than U.S. courts. But the awards, including punitive damages, are much lower in Canada, according to an analysis by McCarthy Tetrault, a large Canadian law firm.
Laurence Leavitt, a trial lawyer in Yarmouth, Maine, who usually represents defendants in cases involving explosions, said it's clear from news accounts that the disaster occurred when an unattended, parked train was not adequately secured.
"I would say the railroad certainly has a big problem on their hands," he said. "The case has no mystery. Everyone knows what happened."
The railroad's chairman, Edward Burkhardt, apologized to the residents of Lac-Megantic last week. He said the engineer who parked the train in a nearby town uphill from Lac-Megantic likely failed to set sufficient hand brakes.
The lawsuit quotes a statement that Burkhardt made during an impromptu news conference in the town on July 10, after a reporter asked him if he accepted full responsibility for the disaster.
Burkhardt replied: "I didn't say that, you see people are always putting words in my mouth, please, I did not say that. We think we have plenty of responsibility here, whether we have total responsibility is yet to be determined. We have plenty of it."
It makes sense for the plaintiffs to add Irving Oil to the lawsuit because it has "much deeper pockets" than the railroad, said Chalmers "Chop" Hardenbergh of Freeport, who publishes Atlantic Northeast Rails & Ports, a trade publication.
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The downtown core lays in ruins as fire fighters continue to water smoldering rubble Sunday, July 7, 2013 in Lac Megantic, Quebec after a train derailed ignited tanker cars carrying crude oil. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
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Workers comb through the debris Tuesday, July 9, 2013 in Lac-Magantic, Quebec. A fiery oil train derailment caused explosions and fires that devasted the town. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)


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Kellen Moore stays gold in Vegas finale
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Kellen Moore, 50 wins in and through with the college game, is as practiced at the craft of the postgame presser as he is in the pocket. With his NCAA career wrapped, and no threat of forced running of stadium steps lurking over his shoulder, Moore had not one unkind word to say about the situation Boise State's football team found itself in Thursday night after a 56-24 rout of Arizona State in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas. [RECAP | BOX] The No. 8 Broncos put a flourishing touch on the winningest four-year streak in FBS history in a December game. An early December game. Again. You know this — but you'd never know it looking at or listening to Kellen Moore.
When asked about his impact on the Boise State football program, Moore speaks only of being fortunate — that's his keyword. "Fortunate" to have been put in the situation he was in, to be "surrounded by great people."
"It's a neat experience," said the all-time winningest quarterback in FBS college football history. Since Moore toes the straight and narrow, let's let the two coaches of the 2011 Las Vegas Bowl throw some well-deserved handfuls of glitter his way.
Dennis Erickson: "His anticipation, he made a couple throws where he threw that football, and the receiver hadn't even come close to coming out of his break. So he breaks, and boom! The ball is there. You can't defend that."
Chris Petersen, settling himself in, before the first question is even voiced: "I have no idea what we're gonna do without Kellen Moore, so don't ask it."
That anticipation Erickson speaks of has been a particular quality of Boise State ball this season. This is not a team that's looked clunky often over the past couple dozen games, but beginning with September's kickoff game against Georgia, it was difficult to even see moving parts. It was clear the Broncos had leveled up for 2011, lighting up the scoreboard apparently without conscious thought, as though touchdown production was simply their natural occupation.
Tonight, abetted by a miserable Arizona State squad, the Broncos hit a point total they bettered only against Fresno State and Colorado State in 2011. They broke the end zone plane by nearly every possible means — offensively, defensively and on special teams — in a scoring flurry bookended on both ends by game MVP Doug Martin. Back for kick return duty for the first time since early October, Boise's star running back housed the opening kickoff for a 100-yard score and a 7-0 lead, and punched in a two-yard scoring run with less than three minutes remaining in the game for the Broncos' eighth and final touchdown of the night. (Martin, by the way, isn't quite so decorous in expressing his feelings concerning this year's Boise-less Sugar Bowl matchup. Asked if tonight stood in for beating Michigan, he chuckled: "I would like to think so, yes.")
For his part, Coach Petersen doesn't think either one of his brightest stars made tonight's play of the game. He gives that nod to Jamar Taylor, whose 100-yard interception return (that's right, three scores tonight of 98 yards or longer) turned around what had been a relatively sputtering third quarter for the Broncos and snuffed out the vast majority of the fight in ASU.
It would be a hard loss for the Sun Devils even if they weren't marking the end of an epoch themselves. Erickson is the headline departure, but an obviously gutted Brock Osweiler choked up visibly when asked about his relationship with his departing offensive coordinator, Noel Mazzone: "You know, it's been everything." The next time Osweiler, a junior, will see his coach on a football field again will be in 2012, in a Pac-12 rivalry game with UCLA, and Mazzone will be wearing blue.
Erickson could have been speaking in literal terms of the game itself or of the Sun Devils' late-season implosion as he mused, "Things kinda went backward here on us." He won't rule out coaching again ("I don't know that it's it for me"), but does have one promise: "I won't become a math teacher. I promise you." From the far side of the room, a penetrating question came: Is Erickson disappointed? All of a sudden, Erickson is Erickson again: "My mother asked me that question, too. She's 87." As deflated as he's seemed over the past month, all of a sudden it's much easier to picture the crusty lifer making another run at relevance, somewhere else with some other squad.
For all we know, it's sunset for the Broncos dynasty as well now that Moore is gone. But Erickson's Las Vegas opponent has a similarly acerbic take on the cyclical nature of the game. Is this, clutch those pearls, twilight for Boise State? Petersen practically snorts: "No."


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'It is not anti-poverty we need to be about. It is pro-opportunity, pro-economic mobility, and pro-family economic strengthening.'
— NHSA CEO Irv Katz, reframing the human service sector's key challenges during a recent interview with
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
As many as 70 percent of justice-involved youth have a diagnosable mental health disorder, according to the
Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Collaborative for Change.
Better Solutions for Youth with Mental Health Needs in the Juvenile Justice System encourages community-based treatment approaches and reviews the science on the connection between mental health and juveniles' collision with the justice system.
Sustained participation in afterschool activities during kindergarten through fifth grades is linked to higher math scores, with low-income students reaping especially
large benefits, says a
report on the value of afterschool programs by researchers at the University of California/Irvine. Other correlated benefits include better work ethic and higher grades.
Overall child well-being in the United States saw little improvement and has not recovered from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, reports the Foundation for Child
Development (FCD) in the
2013 National Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI). However, gains were seen in some areas, for example, lowered teenage birth rates, violent crime victimizations and violent crime offenses. Reductions in federal spending and the continued fallout from
the recession have eroded previous gains.
"I Am My Brother's Keeper"
answers the age-old question in the affirmative. This short thinkpiece by CLASP paints a local picture of the potential impact of President Obama's new "My Brother's Keeper" national initiative to draw $200 million in private dollars to support the ambitions
of boys and young men of color. CLASP last year released
Investing in Boys and Young Men of Color: The Promise and Opportunity, a policy and action framework.
"Are You Ready for the New 'America the Beautiful'?" asks Generations United Executive Director Donna Butts via a
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negative Tweets about the Coca-Cola and Cheerios ads during the Super Bowl, she says "Wake up and smell the demographics."
Areas with greater mobility share five characteristics, according to
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has something to bring to the table," says the UK-based firm.
Seventy-thousand fewer low-income
families have housing vouchers as a result of federal sequestration, reports the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities upon a review of new HUD data. Low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and families with children will "continue to feel the
effects of the across-the-board sequestration cuts" which kicked in last March, says CBPP. An
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Benefits include poverty-reduction, improved school performance, and better earnings as adults, says the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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About 263,000 fewer children received child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) in 2012 than in 2006, according to data
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Learn some new ideas in genealogy research in SOKC workshop
Genealogy research has become a different world in the last 10 to 15 years, as the growth of resources online has totally changed the way information on family history can be gathered.
Kathryn Ramsay, the Pioneer Library System's Local History and Genealogy Resources Librarian, will give Summer Reading Programs a chance to "Try Something Different in Your Genealogy Research" at a program at the Southwest Oklahoma City Public Library at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 18.
A big part of her focus on the program is helping participants finding ways to communicate effectively with other researchers, both in searching for other blogs or message boards and in posting their own information in places it can help someone else.
"There is a lot of good information out there in terms of comparing and confirming information," Ramsay said. "There is such an importance in collaboration and sharing."
Websites such as Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest are available through the Pioneer Library System's resources for cardholders. Ramsay will go beyond those sites to other places online for finding and comparing information.
"There are more individual family websites now," she said. "They are sometimes varying in quality but they can be interesting and good for confirming things."
Ramsay's interest in genealogy started from hearing stories her grandmother would tell about her family. She later became more versed in it while she was a librarian in Hominy, Okla., and many customers were researching their own families.
"A lot of people get into genealogy because their parents talked about it," she said. "So much of it comes down to just listening to family stories. You don't want to regret not having those stories written down somewhere."
This year's Summer Reading Program is presented with the support of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Oklahoma Arts Council, Hitachi Computer Products of America, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Sonic, Kirkpatrick Family Fund, the Pioneer Library System Foundation and Friends of the Library groups throughout the Pioneer Library System.


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Explore Grand Turk's white-sand beaches and abundant marine life during this scenic sailing and snorkeling tour along the island's coastal waters.
Depart the pier aboard the spacious, 78-foot Oasis Sea Passion catamaran, and cruise through the crystal clear turquoise waters from Grand Turk to Cotton Bay. Upon arrival at Cotton Bay, you will receive your safety instructions and snorkeling equipment, and commence your snorkeling session. The crew will be on hand to provide you with assistance in the water, and throughout the cruise.
After exploring an underwater coral reef paradise teeming with tropical fish, you will embark the catamaran and sail along Grand Turk's idyllic north coast to a private beach. En route, you can sit back, sip a refreshing Oasis Breeze drink and listen to island music playing in the background. Upon arrival at the private beach, some time will be made available to sink your toes into the soft white sand, relax on a float or explore the island.
Following your visit, you will re-board the catamaran and sail back to the pier.
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A few days ago I got a brand new iPhone 16GB from T-Mobile Germany (not directly but from someone else) in a sealed package. Serial number starts with 88813. After activating, jailbreaking and unlocking it works absolutely perfect except one thing: There is absolutely no sound coming out of the stereo headphone and its mic is also not working.
The iPhone realizes when the headphone is connected and when not (indicating in the volume display). But when I play music or make a call with the plugged-in headphone I don't hear anything and the person I call can't hear me either.
So this is not the usual "no sound" problem when the iPhone thinks there's still a headphone connected.
The headphone itself is not faulty. I checked it with my iPod touch and I can hear music, so it works. And the headphone from my iPod touch is also not working with my iPhone.
Also the headphone button to pause/start music works on the iPhone!
One thing I noticed which may be important: When I switch off and on the iPhone with plugged-in headphone I can hear some short little noise (hissing?). So in my opinion there is no hardware defect. Especially because I compared with the iPod touch and it's the same there!
This is what I did until now:
- Used latest version of Pwnagetool to activate, jailbreak and unlock the iPhone (1.1.4).
- Used latest version of Ziphone to activate, jailbreak and unlock the iPhone (1.1.4).
- Plugged and unplugged the headphone countless times.
- Restored the iPhone.
- Reset all settings.
- Switched the iPhone off and on.
- Cleaned the headphone socket.
- I also tested the dock line-out and it works (so it's 'just' the headphone).
- Searched via Google...
- EDIT: Cleaned the headphone connector several times
Everything works on my iPhone except the headphone and its mic. So has anybody any idea???
Is there anything one can do to activate the headphone output and input (mic). Or any logfile in the iPhone I should have a look at?
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Calbee, 2229.TO +1.04% Calbee Inc. Japan: Tokyo ¥2536 +26 +1.04% April 25, 2014 2:46 pm Volume : 315,100 P/E Ratio 26.97 Market Cap ¥333.77 Billion Dividend Yield 1.42% Rev. per Employee ¥58,047,700 More quote details and news » Japan's largest potato-chip maker, made an inauspicious public debut on the day of Japan's devastating Tohoku quake in March 2011, and yet the stock has more than tripled since then, to about a $3 billion market value. In that time, one of the country's main benchmark indexes, the Topix, has tumbled 19.4%.
Investors could get another chance to participate in the stock's gains following an embarrassing recall announcement last week. Calbee said Tuesday that glass might have gotten into some bags of its chips because of an accident at a factory. The news sent the stock (ticker: 2229.Japan) down 8%, to 6,680 yen, by the close of trading last week, its lowest price in six weeks. But, barring some other disclosure, there's little reason to think the stock won't rebound.
Calbee is Japan's Frito-Lay. In fact, Frito-Lay's parent, PepsiCo PEP +0.13% PepsiCo Inc. U.S.: NYSE $85.52 +0.11 +0.13% April 24, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.58M AFTER HOURS $85.52 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 4:22 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 165,062 P/E Ratio 19.10 Market Cap $129.49 Billion Dividend Yield 2.65% Rev. per Employee $242,544 04/17/14 Stocks to Watch: IBM, Morgan S... 04/17/14 Morning MoneyBeat: Big Blue's ... 04/17/14 PepsiCo Profit Climbs, Boosted... More quote details and news » (PEP), owns 20% of Calbee, making it an equity affiliate of the U.S. snack-food and soft-drink behemoth, and in 2009 Frito-Lay Japan itself became a Calbee subsidiary. From its IPO, the stock has ridden the popularity of its snacks, including shrimp chips and snow-pea crisps, to a succession of new highs. But is it time for Calbee holders to walk away with their profits? No, for a variety of reasons.
Calbee's initial offering was priced so cheaply (less than five times its enterprise value divided by Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) in a weak market that the stock still has ample room to run.
Based on consensus forward estimates, Calbee trades at 25.6 times earnings and 2.6 times book, well above the 13 times forward earnings and 0.9 times book for the Topix. But snack-food and consumer-goods companies like China's Want Want China Holdings (151.Hong Kong) and Nestlé nesn.VX +0.15% Nestle S.A. Switzerland: SWX Europe CHF67.20 +0.10 +0.15% April 24, 2014 5:31 pm Volume : 3.80M P/E Ratio 21.47 Market Cap CHF216.38 Billion Dividend Yield 3.20% Rev. per Employee CHF276,751 04/22/14 Pharma Deal Hands Zaoui & Co. ... 04/17/14 Bad News For Nespresso, Pionee... 04/17/14 Nespresso to Change Its Commer... More quote details and news » (NESN.Switzerland), command premium prices because they hold entrenched competitive positions, and thus high returns and resilient cash flows. So does Calbee.
The 63-year-old company's founding Matsuo family remains its biggest shareholder, but has ceded its management to professionals who have run Japanese units of big multinationals. The goal is to improve profitability by restructuring domestic costs to boost margins, to increase its share of Japan's snack-food market to 60% from 50%, and to push overseas. The company has made headway. Operating margins have risen over the past few years, from the low single digits to around 8.5%, still well below the roughly 15% that large global packaged-food operators boast.
Management is targeting 10% margins by 2014 as it streamlines production; thereafter, 15% is the objective. To meet this, Calbee plans to use its PepsiCo relationship to begin distributing products in the U.S., and to gain access to China's market via a recent joint-venture pact with Chinese beverage and instant-noodle maker Tingyi (322.Hong Kong).
Assuming 200 billion yen ($2.5 billion) in annual revenue by March 2015 with a 10.5% operating profit margin, attributable both to higher sales and better plant utilization, yields ¥21 billion in Ebit (earnings before interest and taxes), putting the stock at an enterprise value/Ebit multiple of around 10 times, or 1.0 times EV/sales. That's cheap versus Western packaged food and beverage companies' 12 times EV/Ebit, or 1.7 times EV/Sales. At these multiples Calbee shares would be worth ¥7,800, 17% above last week's level.
So, assuming that last week's mishap is an isolated event, the stock should resume its upward track.
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Hong Kong, India and Korea enjoyed their best week since mid-September.
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text: Rod Swoboda Archives For Planting Corn, Soil Temperature Of 50 Degrees Is Magic Number How important is soil temperature for determining when to start planting corn? Published on: Apr 15, 2013 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print Agronomists say you shouldn't plant corn until the soil temperature is 50 degrees F at the 4 inch depth. How important is that number when you look at the calendar and see it's the 15th of April? "That's kind of a magic number, 50 degrees, for planting corn," observes Jim Fawcett, an Iowa State University Extension field agronomist in eastern Iowa. "That's when corn will germinate, with a soil temperature of 50 degrees or higher. The reason for not planting before that is the seed actually will take up water with soil temperatures cooler than 50 degrees. The seed will swell, but it doesn't germinate. That's not a good combination because the seed will tend to rot if it's just sitting there swelling in the soil but not germinating. The seed imbibes the water, takes it in, but doesn't germinate because it's too cold."EARLY PLANTING TIPS: Soil temperature and field conditions outweigh calendar date when deciding when to start planting corn. It is generally recommended to plant when soil temperatures are at or above 50 degrees F and the near-term forecast shows a warming trend. Planting into cold, wet soils puts stress on corn seed emergence, as does planting just ahead of a cold spell, says ISU agronomist Jim Fawcett. Fawcett adds, "Particularly in April, I would definitely be paying attention to soil temperature before I decide to plant corn." Especially in April, pay attention to soil temperature before deciding to plant The week of April 7 Iowa received some much needed rain. In some localized areas of the state the rain came too much, too fast. Are there any concerns that the soil isn't going to be ready to go, when the temperature and the calendar finally say it's time to plant corn? Fawcett and other ISU Extension field agronomists don't think we'll be seeing many planters going this week in Iowa, the week beginning April 14. "We are pretty wet now here in eastern Iowa, and actually do have some excess moisture in places," he noted on April 10. "But I don't hear farmers complaining—not after going through the historic drought of last year." Every decision that you make influences the size and scope for corn yields. From the corn hybrid you select to the seeding rate and row width you choose. Download our FREE report over Maximizing Your Corn Yield. ~~~PAGE_BREAK_HERE~~~ Keep in mind that it's still early yet. It's easy to think that Iowa is running late on planting—when you compare this spring to what happened last year when it was so warm in April. The ideal corn planting window is April 20 to May 5 in Iowa. "So we still have time," notes Fawcett. "A lot of farmers have big planters and enough help that they can get their corn acreage planted in 3 to 5 days. If you can do that, there's no sense in trying to push things along before soil conditions are right, no reason to try to get everything planted on April 20. We have plenty of time yet." How long can seed sit in the ground waiting for soil to warm up to germinate? How long will that seed wait in the ground? If you plant corn early, say during the first half of April, how long should you expect that seed to be good? "That's part of the problem of putting it in too early," says Fawcett. "You can expect poorer stands and a lower plant population surviving when you do that because the seed will imbibe the water that is in the soil. And if you don't hit that 50 degree soil temperature soon, you will have some seed starting to rot. Also, it increases the chances of having other things happen, like fungal diseases moving in and damping-off occurring. It just puts more stress on the crop when you plant corn when the soil temperature is too cool." Every decision that you make influences the size and scope for corn yields. From the corn hybrid you select to the seeding rate and row width you choose. Download our FREE report over Maximizing Your Corn Yield. ~~~PAGE_BREAK_HERE~~~ "If you look at the calendar today, it's too early to be planting corn right now," Fawcett noted on April 10. "But we have received quite a lot of rain this week. I've had close to three inches in my gauge in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids area this past week and there are some farmers who received more than that in some areas of the state." Water was flowing out of farm drainage tiles in eastern Iowa earlier this week He added, "We have field drainage tile running in a lot of fields in southeast Iowa now. You don't have to go too far west of Cedar Rapids though, and you see that those drier areas of the state in central and western Iowa could still use some more rain. It just depends on where you are located, but we are getting on the wet-side of things in terms of soil moisture here in some areas of eastern Iowa." It isn't fair to make comparisons to a year ago. If you look back over last year's history, 2012 certainly was an abnormal year. This spring Iowa weather has swung back in the other direction to where it is abnormally cool. "But it's not as cool as we're thinking because we're comparing it to what happened last year," he points out. Are farmers losing some carryover nitrogen? Can you count on carryover N? ISU Extension agronomists have been saying this past winter that given the drought in 2012, farmers need to do a soil test to check the nitrogen carryover in the top two or three feet of soil this spring. Now, with three inches of rain in areas of the state this past week and a half, are we losing some nitrogen now? Will farmers have to apply more fertilizer nitrogen than they had previously anticipated? Every decision that you make influences the size and scope for corn yields. From the corn hybrid you select to the seeding rate and row width you choose. Download our FREE report over Maximizing Your Corn Yield. ~~~PAGE_BREAK_HERE~~~ "We are losing some nitrate-N from the soil due to this rain in the wetter areas that are now receiving rain," says Fawcett. "But I still think there is potential for many fields to have more carryover nitrogen than we have in a normal year just because it was so dry last year. It's hard to guess how much carryover nitrogen is there in the soil. That's why you really need to be pulling some soil samples if you want to adjust your nitrogen fertilizer application rate this spring. And the time to do that would be after this rain—before you apply nitrogen fertilizer in the spring. Then this rain would be accounted for and we could see how much N was still there in the soil." What about potential for herbicide carryover this year due to 2012 drought? It's not too late to get a soil sample and have it tested for N content before you plant corn this spring. If you haven't yet applied your spring nitrogen fertilizer it shouldn't take more than a day or two the soil test results back from the testing lab. "You can pull some soil samples and see where you are in terms of Nitrate N content in the soil and see if you can reduced your nitrogen application rate somewhat this spring," says Fawcett. "But for the farmers who haven't received a lot of rain this past week, that's where the potential is for cutting back on your nitrogen application rate this spring." Any potential for any herbicide carryover this spring--since last year was so dry? "That's another concern, and another reason to not be pushing it on the planting date and not be planting when soil temperatures are cold. Corn may be taking a long time to germinate if it's planted in those cooler than desirable soils. "If we do have a little bit of herbicide carryover from last year's soybeans, you're just putting another stress on the corn you are planting in that field this spring," says Fawcett. "So whatever you can do to make sure you are not putting undue stress on that corn seedling is just going to make the crop better able to handle some potential herbicide carryover in certain fields." Every decision that you make influences the size and scope for corn yields. From the corn hybrid you select to the seeding rate and row width you choose. Download our FREE report over Maximizing Your Corn Yield.


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November 17, 2004
Water Options for Clark Greylock project that were explored by the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute to provide water to Clark project, Mount Greylock Regional High School, and Sweetbrook and Sweetwood with expansion Summer 2003 - Fall 2004.
Note: 60 gpm (gallons per minute) needed to provide potable water (not including additional fire suppression) to all existing facilities (MGRHS, Sweetwood, Sweetbrook) and proposed projects (Clark Greylock, Sweetwood expansion).
Representatives from the Clark first met with MGRHS School Committee and obtains license to drill test wells on High School property in spring 2003.
Wells on MGHRS land - Summer 2003
2 wells on the high school property were tested; one yielded 5 gpm and the other 10-15 gpm.
Well on Phelps Knoll - Fall 2003
1 well tested at 5gpm. This well would have required zone 1 well field on the high school's sports practice field
Indian Spring - Fall 2003
The Clark made contact with owners of Indian Spring to assess reliability of source. Because of beaver dams and other issues the quality of water was questionable for this usage. It is also unlikely that DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) would approve as public water source.
Waubeeka Springs - Fall 2003
Initial talks were held with representatives of the Waubeeka Springs Water Association in late fall 2003 to determine line capacity, condition, etc. These talks were halted when the owner of the spring, Pamela Weatherbee, sent a letter to the Association stating that she felt that "the proposed project would present a potential overload on the system and it was not in keeping with the uses for which she purchased and preserved the property." In public comments, Ms. Weatherbee had also expressed an unwillingness to provide water to the Clark Greylock project. Construction estimates for extending the line from the intersection of Routes 43 and 7, with the necessary pump station, were $1.5 million.*
Cricket Creek Farm - late 2003 - spring/summer 2004
In late 2003 Cricket Creek Farm (CCF) owner, Dick Sabot, approached the Clark to offer to serve as water source for the project. He stated that CCF desired to use its water sources as income stream for the farm. CCF required that the 90-acre parcel on Sloan Road be appraised for "best and highest use" in order to determine the purchase price. This "best and highest" use was residential subdivision for single-family home lots. A conceptual plan for subdividing the site into 9 lots was created in order to obtain an appraised value in summer 2004.
The Clark and CCF entered into negotiations on two options: a land purchase agreement and a lease. These options assumed that sufficient water was found. Hydrologists and other experts were consulted to determine the most likely drilling location on the Sloan Road parcel-the parcel closest to Phelps Knoll.
1. Land Purchase Option:
28.5 acres would be needed for Zone 1 Well Field. The purchase price for land located along Sloan Road was $1,185,000. In addition, costs to bring water from Sloan Road site to Phelps Knoll was estimated at $1.6 million. This brought the total estimated costs (for land purchase and construction) for $2,785,000.*
2. Lease for Water Usage option:
The costs to lease water from Cricket Creek farms would be $60,000 per year based on drawing 60,000 gpd (gallons per day), over a 30-year lease.*
Sufficient water was not found on the Sloan Road site. A purchase price for the Oblong Road site, also owned by Cricket Creek Farm, was not agreed upon. The additional construction costs of bringing the water from that more distant site were estimated to add $300,000 to the overall costs.
*This sum does not include the additional costs for a storage tank or other necessary projects to provide fire suppression to MGRHS. Based on a similar project at Monument Mountain high school, cost for a water storage tank has been estimated at $750,000.


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Blueberry soured cream cake with cheesecake frosting
By Sara Buenfeld
Cooking timePrep: 25 mins - 35 mins Cook: 50 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsCuts into 10 slices
The blueberries in this recipe will burst in your mouth as you bite into your slice. The cake is delicious with a cup of tea, or served as an impressive dessert
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- Can be frozen when uniced
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 469
- protein
- 6g
- carbs
- 50g
- fat
- 29g
- saturates
- 17g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 29g
- salt
- 0.93g
- 175g soft butter
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 225g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 142ml carton soured cream
- 3 x 125g punnets blueberries
Cheesecake frosting
- 200g tub Philadelphia cheese
- 100g icing sugar
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- Preheat the oven to fan160C/ conventional 180C/gas 4 and butter and line the base of a loose-based 22cm round cake tin with non-stick baking paper or reusable Bake-o-glide.
- Put the butter, sugar, eggs,flour, baking powder and vanilla in a bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon for 2-3 minutes, or with a hand electric beater for 1-2 minutes, until lighter in colour and well mixed. Beat in 4 tbsp soured cream, then stir in half the blueberries with a large spoon.
- Tip the mixture into the tin and spread it level. Bake for 50 minutes until it is risen, feels firm to the touch and springs back when lightly pressed. Cool for 10 minutes, then take out of the tin and peel off the paper or lining. Leave to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- To make the frosting, beat the soft cheese with the icing sugar and the remaining soured cream in a bowl until smooth and creamy. Spread over the top of the cooled cake (don't be impatient as the frosting will melt if the cake is too warm) and scatter with the remaining blueberries. The cake will keep in the fridge for a couple of days. Bring it to room temperature for about an hour before serving.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2003
Comments, questions and tips
The easiest cake I have ever made, turned out perfectly, just as described and absolutely delicious, everyone loved it. I will definitely make it often.
The base looks a bit dry on this photo but in fact it's not dry at all, very nice and moist, I did add a bit of lemon juice though and a bit of lemon zest in the topping.
Seemed easy enough at first, rose fine but then sunk a lot after coming out the oven. The icing was a bit of a disaster, far far too runny, perhaps needs better instructions on how to make it because simply beating the ingredients together just made for a really runny mixture. Was also a bit dense. But im no expert baker and it tasted quite nice..
Brilliant cake- and really easy to do. I substituted a few of the ingredients and only used half the blueberries and it still turned out really well.
I also split the mixture into 2 separate slightly smaller tins which meant even once the blueberries had sunk there was still a spread through the depth of the cake.
Only thing I would change would be to add some mascarpone to the icing to make it thicker and less sweet.
I have made this cake twice now and I am certain that it will feature in my kitchen many times in the future. The only mistake that I made the second time was using frozen berries (which I forgot to defrost) as the cake was very wet, taking longer to cook and was no as light tasting. Great for those special occasions.
It's a well known fact that I unable to cook, especially bake.
I attempted this recipe with no expecations due to previous failures.
Surprisingly it was a complete success and everone loved it.
It was very easy, the sponge was a delicious moist vanilla and the frosing set it off a treat. Best thing i've eaten in ages.


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Besides directing the library, I use the library; I consider myself a "power user" – one who uses many services and is here frequently, every day in my case!
I just read Telex from Cuba, this year's freshman book for K College; I browsed Not So Big Remodeling, even though there is no home remodeling in my near future; I loved Leisure Seeker and regret I missed the author's visit here a few weeks ago. I'm getting ready for a driving vacation and have checked out Admission and The Invisible Mountain. I think I'll like both, given the reviews. I have How to Raise the Perfect Dog for my husband to read….hint, hint! Of course I have a few travel books for the backseat of the car.
Earlier this month, I attended a poetry reading by Lori Wilson. I don't read poetry, but I enjoy hearing it. I heard local author Michelle Miller-Adams speak about her book on the Kalamazoo Promise and Bob Downes share his backpacking experiences around the world; I heard banned books read during Art Hop.
I could go on and on….suffice it to say, I'm proud of our staff and the materials and services we provide. I appreciate them as a library user too.
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Elaine's paintings are like incarnations of an idea that transitions between gestation, birth, youth, and age. Like a living being, her canvas metamorphoses as she takes advantage of her opportunity to insert "do overs," "take backs" and "turn arounds" at will – so much so that when she finally rolls up her work and calls it finished, there have been three, four or more paintings that have lived on the canvas. Abstract to be sure, creatively colorful in mysterious ways, Fischer's paintings reveal a story about a woman with passion tempered by intellect, unrestrained, honest, and despite her boldness – a little vulnerable.
Fischer grew up the daughter of an architect and a member of an artistic family in Pittsburgh, Penn. By her own account, she enjoyed a privileged childhood filled with encouragement, opportunity and lots of support, all of which helped her find her own artistic voice at a tender age. In kindergarten, her teacher mounted her drawings over the picture on the calendar that was used to teach the children the days, months and years by which we measure time. When she was 9 years old, Fischer was selected to participate in a program at the Carnegie Institute for gifted, young artists. She remained in the program until she graduated high school, often called upon to demonstrate her technique to the 300 other students in the class.
In high school Fischer won state and national awards at a Scholastic Magazine Art Contest and had the good fortune to work under the tutelage of some extraordinary art teachers. In 1972, she enrolled in the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design where she discovered a passion for working with ceramics, majored in sculpture and graduated four years later with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
After college she moved to New York City to be near her uncle, artist Philip Pearlstein. Pearlstein's stature as an internationally known artist brought Fischer's within one degree of separation from artists like Rob Indianas, Alex Katz, Al and Silvia Held, and Andy Warhol. She was also absorbed and fascinated by Pearlstein's own extensive, private collection of contemporary, pre-Columbian and Greek art.
For five years Fischer lived the starving artist life in New York, working retail and dressing windows at Gimbles department store, "eating on the cheap" until she made a trip back to Pittsburgh to visit her family. It was on this trip that she met Mark Fischer, the man who would become her companion and husband and who brought her to the West.
Mark encouraged Fischer to continue her artwork but also put the political bug into her ear. Like many before them, the couple was captivated by the beauty of the area and established themselves in Telluride.
After Mark's unexpected death in 1987, Fischer felt so much support from the Telluride community that she not only decided to stay, but she also began devoting her life to public service. Fischer, who is currently a San Miguel County Commissioner, also served on the Telluride Town Council, as mayor of Telluride, chairperson of HARC, and president of the San Miguel Pre-school Association. Though she continued to focus on serving the community that had supported her so lovingly during the difficult year following her husband's death, there was an unrelenting desire calling her back to her first love. Fischer took a job at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art just to be near art once again.
Then three years ago Fischer received the absolutely perfect Christmas gift, a class at the Ah Haa School for the Arts where she studied with the well known painter Robert Weatherford. This association with Weatherford rekindled Fischer's passion for art and provided the encouragement she needed to express herself as the artist once again.
Around that same time she heard an announcement on KOTO that the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities was opening Stronghouse, a cooperative studio space for working artists.
One of the first artists to sign on, Fischer is also one of the most prolific artists at Stronghouse. She is there almost every day. Fischer says of her work, "I'm not trying to make a pretty picture. I don't want my work to be comfortable; I want it to make a statement, to tell a story that is moving or surprising."
Fischer's new show is opening at the Stronghouse Gallery on Thursday, Aug. 7, as part of the TCAH August Art Walk. Come in, enjoy some appetizers and a glass of wine and see Fischer's evolutionary work for yourself.
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After many months of investigating the actions of the Rupert Murdoch empire, Britain's Parliament has released a statement. It involved Members of Parliament from the Conservatives, the Liberals, and the middle of the road doing the questioning and writing the report. While the Conservatives were uncomfortable with some aspects of the report, they all were a part of the honest investigation. Here is some of what the report said:
"On the basis of the facts and evidence before the committee, we conclude that, if at all relevant times Rupert Murdoch did not take steps to become fully informed about phone hacking, he turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications."
From Milw. Journal Sentinel, 5-2-12, p. 11A: "The four Democrats will be easily be outspent by Walker, whose $25.3 million raised was more than 12 times the $2 million raised by all four challengers combined. In the most recent reporting period, Walker received two-thirds of his money from out of state." "Of the nearly $11 million Walker spent over three months, $4.6 million of it...went toward malings. Much of that money went to SCM Associates of North Carolina, a direct mail firm that lists Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a client." Adding to the multitude of Scott Walker's lies and distortions are the "facts" and "figures" he presents about Tom Barrett's job as Mayor of Milwaukee. Trying to run away from his miserable job as Governor, and failing to live up to his promise to bring 250,000 jobs to the state, Walker mentions all the jobs lost in Milwaukee in Barrett's past year. Well, Scott, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Wednesday:
"First, the local March job losses cited by the Walker campaign were for the four-county (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washingtongon, Ozaukee), not the City of Milwaukee."
I voted today. The entire voting environment has become so polluted and greed-filled that there is an emptiness in voting. There isn't much to choose today that is not influenced and tinged with greed capitalism, oligarchical purchase, war corporations, etc. Our democracy, such as it was, is slipping away fast. Money rules. Greed has purchased our culture, way of life, democratic process, etc.
It is interesting to listen to the right-wing comments about how terrible it is that President Obama is making such a big thing out of the capturing and killing of Osama bin Laden under Obama's watch. Please think for one moment. If that mission to get bin Laden had failed, what do you think the right-wing would be doing about it during this election year? The anti-intellectual tea party would be using that to tell us how incompetent Obama is. Look, our President took a big risk in supporting that mission in Pakistan to get bin Laden. The fact that it turned out as it did gives Obama the right to use it in his election campaigning. The right-wing and greed puppets would be using it against Obama if he failed.
Don't let them deny it! Women are being attacked and challenged anew by the right-wing in America. A Republican leader in the Wisconsin legislature announced "proudly" that it was only right that men were paid more than women because men needed more money than women. Shades of the 19th century! And the right-wing who constantly criticizes government and wants less of it, nevertheless wants legislation that has the government snooping in the physician's exam rooms to be sure women behave puritanically in their lives. Shades of the 18th century! With Mother's Day approaching, I thought it was a good time to post some thoughts that relate to woman....[stay to the end, not the usual words]
"Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thank you for reading my blog. I respect you. I appreciate you. I do not take you for granted.
I would like to share something with you that is very dear to my heart. It is a quote from Pablo Neruda, the wonderful poet from Chile. But this is not a poem, it is his speculation on the origin of his poetry. But for you and me it is so much more. It is loaded with reflections on life and what is important. I share it with you. I try to use it to guide my life...
TIRED OF SELF-RIGHTeous judgmentalism
Don't you wish the strutting fundamentalists would actually read the Bible? All the posing, all the attention-getting, all the judgments, all the ignorance gets to be very-very tiresome.
Wouldn't it be nice if the immigration bigots would read the story of the Good Samaratan and see how this man from outside the realm, outside the citizenship of the "normal" people conducted himself and set an example for others. Oh, that we could have such understanding for those outside our "normalcy." What is truly odd is that those who judge immigrants are the descendants of immigrants themselves. Of course the judgmentalists love to throw around self-righteous words like "legal" when someone arrives from outside their physical and mental "gated city."
EVALUATE THOSE "holy" POSERS
"A halber emez iz a gantzer lign." [Yiddish proverb: "A half truth is a whole lie."]
"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Benjamin Disraeli
Along with a terribly functioning health care system that needs major reform, our criminal justice system also is badly in need of an overhaul. A recent study indicates how many people are falsely charged and imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. And yet there are many who would extend the death penalty in the U.S. to states that have been enlightened enough to not commit murder in the name of the government.
The statistics below are just the tip of the ice berg related to false accusations, false imprisonments, false evidence [often by the police themselves], and wrongful "legal" executions. Besides those who spend time in prison or are executed incorrectly, there are myriad other reasons our criminal justice system needs to be changed dramatically. More on that in another blog posting. But here is an Associated Press report:
As you wring your hands about the state of politics in America, many things are evolving that indicate it may get worse before it gets better ...if it ever does. We are losing the United States of America, and we have no clue how bad and how deep things are in this regard. Not only are we losing our democracy to greed, we are losing the very essence of our culture in the process. And our brains are blank about it all.
It is difficult to express this dilemma in the few words of a blog, but I shall give it a try here. The following is but a small example of the magnitude of the problem.
From the wide variety of sources we still call "news":
Was Archbishop Timothy Dolan elevated to Cardinal because his intra-archdiocese budget manipulations saved the Roman Catholic Church tens of millions of dollars by re-assigning line items in the budget of the archdiocese, thus not included in the bankruptcy filings?


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Topics in this article:Detroit Tigers Detroit Automotive Real Estate City of Detroit Deaths Jobs/Career Emergency Manager
Originally Published: October 26, 2013 9:15 AM Modified: October 31, 2013 6:22 PM
Crain's week in news, Oct 19-25: Packard Plant sold, new deputy EM for Detroit, Leyland retires
Packard Plant sold for $6M
The now abandoned Packard manufacturing site in Detroit produced luxury cars until the 1950s. On Friday, it was sold at auction for more than $6 million, to a woman in Texas. Story
Roxbury Group co-founder named city's deputy EM
Stacy Fox
Stacy Fox, co-founder of Detroit-based real estate development group The Roxbury Group, was named deputy emergency manager for the city of Detroit. Fox, 60, will also serve as Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's chief of staff, replacing Shani Penn, who was hired as Gov. Rick Snyder's senior strategy adviser on Southeast Michigan issues and initiatives, according to a news release.
On the move
Nathan Skid / Crain's Detroit Business
A teary-eyed Jim Leyland announces his retirement as Detroit Tigers manager.
• After eight seasons and two World Series appearances with the Detroit Tigers, Jim Leyland announced his retirement as manager. Leyland, 68, will assume a to-be-determined consultant role with the team.
• The Battle Creek-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation named Detroit native La June Montgomery Tabron, 51, as president and CEO, effective Jan. 1. Tabron, the foundation's executive vice president of operations and treasurer, will succeed Sterling Speirn, who is leaving to pursue new opportunities, the foundation said.
• Former Kaydon Corp. Chairman and CEO James O'Leary turned over management of the Ann Arbor friction control products manufacturer to Poul Jeppesen, CEO of SKF AB subsidiary SKF USA Inc., netting almost $3.4 million for his shares in the SKF deal.
• Minneapolis-based law firm Foley & Mansfield PLLP named Howard Wallach managing partner for its Michigan practice with offices in Ferndale and Grand Rapids. A partner at the firm since 2006, Wallach replaces Gary Sharp, who will remain as a partner in Ferndale and chairman of the firm's toxic tort practice.
Company news
Retro Fitness
Retro Fitness plans to expand to Michigan, starting with a location in Pontiac set to open later this year.
• German automotive supplier Kiekert AG is investing $2 million in its U.S. headquarters in Wixom. Employment at the location, which produces door-latch modules, is expected to increase from 80 to more than 120 within the next 12 months, a spokesman said.
• Four Southeast Michigan companies — Ypsilanti-based Kalitta Air LLC, Detroit-based FutureNet Group Inc., Livonia-based Beaver Aerospace & Defense Inc. and Ann Arbor-based AVFuel Corp. — could receive more than $80 million over the next six years under new contracts awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Warren-based advertising agency Lowe Campbell Ewald said it added troubled Tempe, Ariz.-based identity theft protection and credit monitoring service LifeLock Inc. as a client. Financial details were not disclosed.
• Neurocore, a Grandville-based health care provider, opened clinics in Sterling Heights and Livonia that offer biofeedback services for adults and children looking for alternative methods to reduce stress, improve sleep and address attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.
• Retro Fitness LLC, which has 95 locations in 12 states, will open its first Michigan gym, at the Tel-Huron Shopping Center in Pontiac, by the end of 2013. A spokesman said the Colts Neck, N.J.-based company plans to open 25 to 30 gyms in metro Detroit within the next three to five years.
• The Warren-based St. John Providence Health System is relocating nearly 100 employees involved with customer service, physician scheduling and information services into the IBM Building in Southfield, where it now rents space for other staff. The relocation is expected to be completed by February.
• Delta Air Lines is introducing a second flight from Detroit to London in June. The addition will mark the first time Detroit Metropolitan Airport has had two daily flights to London since 2008, an airport official said.
Other news
• Detroit's deal with swaps investors threatened the city's best source of cash in the months before it filed for municipal bankruptcy, investment banker Kenneth Buckfire said in a trial to determine whether the city can remain under court protection from creditors, Bloomberg reported. "The city was operating on a razor's edge," said Buckfire, co-president of Stifel Financial Corp.'s New York City-based Miller Buckfire & Co.
• The University of Michigan's long-term endowment portfolio returned an annualized 10.2 percent over the 10-year period ended June 30, according to the university's 2013 annual report.
• University of Michigan regents approved a 30-acre, $6.5 million track for testing automated vehicles. The Ann Arbor News reported that the track will be located on the North Campus and will be part of the Mobility Transportation Center launched in May.
• The Detroit Public Lighting Authority announced that new streetlights would be installed in the areas bounded by Eight Mile, Kelly and Hoover roads, and Houston-Whittier Avenue on the east side; and McNichols Road, the Southfield Freeway, Fenkell Street and Telegraph Road on the city's west side.
• The fifth annual Brand Camp, whose parent company is Detroit-based Brand Camp University, brought more than 300 founders, innovators and investors from across the country to Compuware Corp. headquarters in Detroit to show off the city's rebranding as a hub of tech and entrepreneurship.
• The Clark Lofts in Detroit's Capitol Park district will go on sale next month. The starting bid for the 10-story, 15-unit loft building on Grand River Avenue, reportedly 100 percent occupied, is $1.1 million.
• The Detroit Lions will play the Atlanta Falcons at London's Wembley Stadium in 2014 as part of the National Football League's ongoing international series of overseas games, the league said. The date of the game has yet to be determined, but it will be played during the regular season and is to be considered a Lions road game and a home game for the Falcons.
• Democrat Bobby McKenzie announced his campaign for the seat held by first-term Republican Kerry Bentivolio in Michigan's 11th Congressional District. Dearborn Heights native McKenzie, 39, is a former counterterrorism expert at the U.S. State Department and was a walk-on basketball player at Michigan State University.
• The Michigan Strategic Fund board voted to invest up to $4.5 million total in two venture capital funds focused on growing businesses in metro Detroit, the Detroit Innovate Fund I LP and Detroit Venture Partners LP. The money comes from the Pure Michigan Venture Development Fund.
• The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality said it is developing new rules dealing with the natural gas development process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Officials announced proposed changes intended to protect fresh water supplies and provide more public information about fracking operations.
• A draft of a Michigan state government report concludes utility companies have exceeded their targeted goals for energy efficiency. The report, issued by the Michigan Public Service Commission and the Michigan Energy Office, also said customers have saved $3.55 in electricity costs for every $1 invested in energy efficiency.
• Alfred Warren Jr., former General Motors vice president of industrial relations, died Oct. 11. He was 87.
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Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A) deficiency is a disorder of long-chain fatty acid oxidation. Clinical symptoms usually occur in an individual with a concurrent febrile or gastrointestinal illness when energy demands are increased; onset of symptoms is usually rapid. The three recognized phenotypes are hepatic encephalopathy, in which individuals (typically children) present with hypoketotic hypoglycemia and sudden onset of liver failure; adult-onset myopathy, (seen in one individual of Inuit origin); and acute fatty liver of pregnancy, in which the fetus is homozygous for the CPT1A gene that causes CPT1A deficiency. A heterozygous female carrying a homozygous fetus is at risk for developing this obstetric complication.
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CPT1A is the only gene associated with CPT1A deficiency. Mutations in the CPT1A gene result in reduced activity of CPT I, which prevents the entry of fatty acids in to the mitochondria for energy production. The result is a clinical and biochemical phenotype of fasting intolerance. The CPT1A gene spans more than 60 kb of genomic DNA, of which 18 exons (2-19) are transcribed. The CPT1A gene encodes a 773-amino acid polypeptide, which is expressed in liver, kidney, leukocytes, and skin fibroblasts. Missense, nonsense, insertion and deletion mutations have been reported (Bennett et al. 2004; Prasad et al. 2001; Stoler et al. 2004) and these mutations have been identified throughout the gene.
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Point mutations in the CPT1A gene have been identified in about 90% of patients with CPT1 deficiency. The analytical sensitivity of this assay is close to a 100%.
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Unlikely gun-control foe Since the Dec. 14 Newtown school shootings, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration has insisted opponents of stricter gun control are simply playing politics. However, as a state representative in 1993, Lt. Gov. Nancy S. Wyman voted "No" on Connecticut's first assault-weapons ban. The lieutenant governor recently said, "I can't immediately recall the specifics of what led to that particular vote." It's hard to believe Lt. Gov. Wyman would forget what drove her stance on one of the biggest issues of '93, but a Feb. 25 CT News Junkie report pointed out then-Rep. Wyman was re-elected in 1992 by a mere 35 votes. As such, she may have worried that further angering gun owners in her rural district would endanger her career. If she wasn't merely playing electoral politics, she must have had a principled reason for opposing the assault-weapons ban. One would think lawmakers on both sides of the gun debate would like to know what drove a liberal Northeastern Democrat to vote like a Southern Republican on an important public-policy issue.
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