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I just read this from a news release by the CBC. It may be the same science that WillieG is referring to.
Farmed salmon not safe, says study
VANCOUVER (CBC) - Conservationists opposed to fish farming say a new study proves that some people who eat farmed salmon may be putting their health at risk.
The study, published in the U.S. journal Science found that farmed fish bought in North America and Europe contained elevated levels of contaminants.
Scientists examined two metric tons of wild and farmed salmon from wholesalers, markets and supermarkets in 16 cities including Vancouver and Toronto.
"What they found was that the PCBs, dioxins, and a couple of other contaminants were consistently and significantly more concentrated in the farm salmon than in the wild salmon," says Jennifer Lash of the Coastal Alliance of Aquaculture Reform.
Lash says according to guidelines laid out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, eating too much of the farmed salmon could be unsafe.
With the fish tested from Vancouver stores, the scientists recommend eating no more than two farmed salmon meals per month
"This research is very comprehensive. It is very defensible, and it proves that there is a potential health risk from eating farmed salmon, and consumers need to be very very careful," says Lash.
The salmon farming industry disagrees. It maintains it ensures the safest food is available to consumers.
Salmon farmers have accused environmentalists in the past of skewing data.
But Lash says the size and scope of this study will make it very difficult for salmon farmers to discount, or ignore it.
© the CBC, 2003
|Willie Gunn
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An ruda bhios na do bhrôin, cha bhi e na do thimhnadh
That which you have wasted will not be there for future generations
Immediate Release, Thursday 8th January
consumption advice is that no more than one meal every four months should be consumed in order to avoid an increased risk of cancer
A landmark international study Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon [1] - published tomorrow in the worlds foremost scientific journal, Science, presents d**ning new evidence that Scottish farmed salmon is the most contaminated salmon on sale in Europe and North America. The Science study reveals that Scottish farmed salmon is so contaminated with PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin and toxaphene that no more than three meals of Scottish farmed salmon PER YEAR are recommended. Wild salmon on the other hand could be safely consumed at levels as high as eight meals per month or twice per week.
From the data presented in the Science study, farmed salmon from Scotland are estimated to be four times more contaminated than salmon farmed in Chile and up to 30 times more contaminated than some wild Alaskan salmon. Scotland has the worst average contaminant rank (Figure 2) for PCBs, dioxins, toxaphene and dieldrin when compared with farmed salmon from the Faroe Islands, Norway, East Canada, Maine and Chile.
According to the Institute for Health and the Environment: The study concluded that concentrations of these cancer-causing substances in most farmed salmon tested that was available to European consumers are high enough to trigger consumption recommendations of just one farmed salmon meal (eight-ounce portion or approaximately 227g) every month according to methods for calculating fish consumption advisories used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the worst cases, characteristic of farmed salmon obtained from Scotland and the Faroe Islands and salmon fillets purchased in Frankfurt, the [2].
Over 700 salmon samples (2 metric tons) were purchased from wholesalers and retailers in each of the worlds eight major farmed-salmon producing regions and from retailer in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Frankfurt, Oslo, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans, Denver, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto and Vancouver. Farmed salmon fillets purchased from supermarkets in Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Paris, London and Oslo was generally the most contaminated states Science. Most of the salmon sold in European stores comes from European farms, which produce the more contaminated salmon.
According to the Science study, farmed salmon had significantly higher levels of 14 contaminants including PCBs, DDT, dioxins, dieldrin, hexachlorobenzene, lindane and toxaphene than wild salmon: Farmed salmon have significantly higher contaminant burdens than wild salmon and that farmed salmon from Europe are significantly more contaminated than farmed salmon from South and North America.
Applying a cancer risk analysis developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the scientists from the University of Michigan, the University of Indiana, Cornell University and the State University of New York state that consumption of farmed Atlantic salmon may pose risks that detract from the beneficial effects of fish consumption.
The most restrictive advice (less than one-half meal of salmon per month), which reflects the highest health risks, was generated for farmed salmon fillets purchased from stores in Frankfurt, Germany, and for farmed salmon from Scotland and the Faroe Islands.
The Science study concludes that consumption of farmed salmon may result in exposure to a variety of persistent bioaccummulative contaminants with the potential for an elevation in attendant health risks.
Commenting on the Science study, MD of the Salmon Farm Protest Group, Don Staniford, said:
The Science study clearly indicates that Scottish farmed salmon is the most contaminated farmed salmon on sale anywhere in the world. Scottish farmed salmon is now so contaminated that consumers who eat more than three meals of Scottish farmed salmon per year exceed the U.S. EPAs consumption advice.
No wonder supermarkets are reluctant to advertise the fact that 99% of fresh salmon sold in the UK is farmed not wild, let alone label the alarming fact, according to Science, that Scottish farmed salmon contains significantly higher levels of PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin and toxaphene than wild salmon.
Given the cocktail of chemicals, artificial colourings and contaminants, Scottish farmed salmon should surely carry a Government health warning rather than being sold as a safe, healthy and nutritious foodstuff.
Supermarkets have a duty of care to their customers and should list what chemicals, contaminants and artificial colourings farmed salmon contains. The Salmon Farm Protest Group urge consumers to count to ten and think again and list Ten Reasons to Boycott Fresh Farmed Salmon [3].
The Science study gives even greater urgency to the European Commissions Health and Consumer Protection Directorate who are in the process of compiling an international inventory of dioxin and PCB contamination in food (not due to be published until late 2004).
It also raises questions over the corporate responsibility of the European salmon farming industry: for more than 25 years the industry has been aware of the problem of fish oil and fish meal contamination (a scientific study published in 1979 showed high levels of contaminants in fish feed).
The Science study reports that fish feed purchased in Scotland, for example, is much more contaminated than in Canada and Chile and this may reflect higher contaminant concentrations in forage fish from the industrialized waters of Europes North Atlantic as compared to forage fish from the waters off North and South America. This backs up research by the European Commissions Scientific Committees on Food and Animal Nutrition published in 2000 which showed that fish of European origin were eight times more contaminated than fish in the Southern hemisphere [4].
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Notes to Editors
[1] Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon, by R.A. Hites at Indiana U. in Bloomington, IN; J.A. Foran at U. of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI; D.O. Carpenter at U. at Albany in Rensselaer, NY; M.C. Hamilton at AXYS Analytical Services in Sidney, BC, Canada; B.A. Knuth and S.J. Schwager at Cornell U. in Ithaca, NY. To be published in the journal Science on 9th January 2004: http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.shtml
[2] Study Reveals Health Risks of European Farm-Raised Salmon Study in the journal Science suggests sharp restrictions in consumption (Institute of Health and the Environment, University at Albany, State University of New York: press release embargoed until 7pm GMT January 8th 2004)
[3] Ten Reasons to Boycott Fresh Farmed Salmon: http://www.salmonfarmmonitor.org/pr201203notes.shtml
[4] Opinion on Dioxins in Food (European Commissions Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition, November 2000): http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scan/out55_en.pdf
Opinion on the Risk Assessment of Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Food (European Commissions Scientific Committee on Food, November 2000): http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out78_en.pdf
Includes: Fish meal and fish oil are the most heavily contaminated feed materials with products of European fish stocks more heavily contaminated than those from South Pacific stock by a factor of ca. eight
More on PCBs and dioxin contamination can be found in The Five Fundamental Flaws of Sea Cage Fish Farming (Paper presented by Don Staniford in the European Parliament in October 2002: download by http://www.salmonfarmmonitor.org - click on Media and Document Archive and then on Independent reports)
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Thanks! We NEED the Global perspective on this problem!
This holiday season, DON'T buy any farmed salmon products, and urge your friends and relatives to do the same.
|Willie Gunn
From a Scottish point of View
Writer and jounalist Bruce Sandison is fighting Salmon farms in Scotland.
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Santa Says No No No to Farmed Salmon
Ten Reasons to Boycott Farmed Salmon This Christmas
The Salmon Farm Protest Group (SFPG) today (Saturday 20th) takes to the streets of Edinburgh to celebrate wild salmon and to protest about the danger factory farmed salmon poses to wild fish populations.
SFPG supporters will be dressed as Santas and chefs handing out tins of wild Alaskan salmon to Christmas shoppers on Princes St (12-1pm outside M&S) and Rose St (1-2pm outside Sainsburys).
At 2pm the SFPG will personally deliver a surprise Christmas present to the First Minister of Scotlands official residence at Bute House in Charlotte Square.
Bruce Sandison, Chairman of the SFPG, said:
Consumers should avoid farmed salmon this Christmas. Before buying customers should count to ten and think again. Ten reasons to say no to farmed salmon include: fish farm sea lice infestations killing wild salmon, a possible risk of listeria, artificial colourings and contaminants.
Before buying these products in supermarkets, consumers would be well-advised to ask staff if it is wild or farmed salmon, and what chemicals it contains. Better safe than sorry. Have a happy, healthy Christmas.
For a full list of the Ten Reasons to Boycott Fresh Farmed Salmon This Christmas see The Salmon Farm Monitor: http://www.salmonfarmmonitor.org
It will probably be multiple issues that come about from fish farming world wide that make our oceans crash.
1) Habitat destruction, mostly in tropical areas of the world. Breeding grounds for warm water fish, mangroves and shallow estuaries are being bulldozed in and made into holding ponds at such an alarming rate that less than 10 % will remain. Think about the size of the entire coast of North, South America from Columbia East and then South to 500 miles south of the Amazon river estuary being destroyed. Shrimp farms can only be used for 18 months at best and then abandoned. 80% of shrimp sold world wide may come from farming.
2) The worlds forage fish are being used to feed farm fish. It may be as high as 75% of the worlds forage fish feed farms. That does not leave enough bio mass in the worlds oceans to feed native fish populations. Just look at the Poggy industry of the mid alantic states. There is little being done to curb the entire loss of part of the food chain. As bad as this is, in countries of the 3rd world, 2nd world and some of the 1st world their entire fishing fleets are now just fishing for forage fish.
3) Disease, every fish farm operation creates disease in one form or another. One can not put that much living mass into such a small area and have a healthy situation period. In tropical areas of SE Asia and S. America Native shrimp populations are all but gone.
We are all aware that our oceans are in trouble. Yes we win a battle here and there but we are dealing with a world wide crash. This is not a slow crash as we would expect. Even those of us in our 50's and 60's may live to see it. With the earth getting warmer for what ever reason and the greed of the new world order don't expect much in the way of a good life for our kids by the time they are 50 or 60. If the oceans crash the major population of the earth goes with it.
There are answers to fixing the problem but this long winded enough for now.
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Posted here over the last year that have to do with the problems related to the fish farming industry. Problems that have plagued this traveling enviromental disaster 3/4 of the way around the world. Problems that the Brits and Scotts and Irish are still seeing reprocussions from since the 70's. Problems that show up south of the equator with people catching escaping populations of non-native species. Non-native species showing up in rivers 100's of miles from the closest farms!
Look, just go into your local warehouse or club food store and watch the hordes buy up this stuff. Watch them buy the smoked products with the deceptive labling that you need to be a Pro Linguist to be able to get that its a farm raised / color added product. By companies, some of which, are not even from these parts.
It's the old "Lets blow in to town and ruin the fisheries while we stuff our pockets with cash, when all the rivers are history, we'll blast off to the next planet and do it again"
DON'T buy the product, then tell your friends, DON'T buy the product. Tell them about the lice, tell them about the escape problem, tell them about the "color added", tell them about the effect it is having on, say, the Jack Mackrel population in the Atlantic that is suffering from over harvest, to put into the pellets, to feed the Farm Salmo's!
I feel for the local population that is locked into working with these people, thiers is a true dichotomy, and because of that, IMHO alot of heads are turned the other way....Worldwide!
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That was my take on it after reading both of the articles yesterday that I spoke about in my first post that started this thread. Thanks for confirming my take on what was happening and providing some more info on the topic.
It seems like the fish farming corporate entities will switch to species that provide the highest return in the short term, and the environmental impact and the impacts of wild fish be damned.
We ain't seen nothin yet..
Klahowya, Been awhile since we covered any of this ongoing tale of habitat and fisheries destruction. In the last several years there has been an attempt on the part of Canadian Farmers to cultivate Black Cod and Halibut, now I hear they are also going to start raising Atlantic and Pacific (True) Cod.
Several of my cohorts attended a three day session on Fish Farming prior to the Comercial Fishing Expos at the Seattle Center they had lots of information to share, some of which was in your report.
The worst news to me was that the farms are now rasing "Black Cod" and in two yeras will be marketing a little over 500,000 pounds of finished product this is from 2 facilitys and there are permits in the works for 20 more of the same. Black Cod is a high value fish very oily and loaded with healthy omega 6 very much in demand in the Oreint and Ballard. This will certainly increase the decline of the few healthy fishing bussiness that are remaining.
The wholesale production of Atlantic and Pacific Cod that is coming down the tracks is ,I can only speculate , going to make all the other production pale in comparison. White fish is the most often consumed and I have to wonder just how long the Oceans of the world can continue to give up protien to augment the Soy Bean feed that these fish are being fed on. The farmers claim that they have the feed under contol but I remain skeptical of some of there claims. I only wish I could be skeptical about there ability to win goverment approval and support.
It was reported to me that the NMFS has paid for research and has financial aid for American entry into farming for Black Cod and Halibut whoever said "It's all good" got it all wrong!
From what I hear there will be a public relations war in the coming months between the two groups, farming and commercial fishers. The negative press as of late about farmed raised salmon
have the growers concerned. What you will see is public information campain about wild salmon being endangered and that farmed salmon is a healthy alternative.
I believe that the last of the commercials up north and in the Pacific NW will capitalize on the nitch they are now creating. That being wild fish taste better and are more healthy. Their market will be the high end markets and restraunts. If done properly I can live with that but I can not live with Salmon farming as it is today. I could live with inland farming and pollution controls to feed mid westerners who don't know the difference. Fresh wild salmon should be a local food issue and a seasonal one. No different than freshly grown organic veggies. I think the commercials have excepted this concept and will remain active and sucsessful if they stay the course. As for the salmon farmers they may be in big trouble feeding the middle class of N. America. They may be in bigger trouble when Europe and Japan completely stop buying the product because they have been educated on how bad the product really is. The 1st world is going quality over quanity and will continue to do so as long as there is no major economic devastation. As far as feeding the 3rd world even as cheap as farmed salmon is it is far, far too expensive to fill the belly. Corperate fish farming of all kinds will never be cheap enough to do so. Only small local, village farms will work as they always had thoughout history. It is unfortunate that this world industry is destroying local ways, rights and costal breeding grounds for many types of marine life. In South America the shimp farming taking place has lead to many political murders of those who have had the courage to resist loosing their fishing grounds and way of life.
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There were 2 articles in our local Skagit Valley Herald today on salmon farming. One was about the price of farmed salmon going south because of over production and how the industry is responding to reduced or non-existent profits (which are being blamed on the increased production from Chile) for farmed salmon. It spoke of things like a computer controlled food pellet spreader to "reduce or eliminate" the amount of non-consumed pellets making it to the sea floor, the use of dye to make the salmon flesh pink, the sea lice problem (of course the industry person says there is no proof that sea lice from fish farms have harmed BC's pink salmon runs), the new supposedely "seal proof" net pens, the keeping of a net pen "empty" for a year to
"rest the ocean around it to reduce the effects of fecal pollution and sea lice (Hmmmm.... thought they posed no environmental hazard), etc.
The industry man claimed they would move the fish farms inland in a heart beat if they could do so with out the problems of doing so (he didn't specify what these problems may be' but seemed to suggest that it was how to get rid of the fecal matter and uneaten pellets, along with treating the water before it could be put in a stream.).
Of course this same article spoke about the jobs that fish farming produce that they small coastal towns in BC rely on for employment since the fishing industry has crashed due to low prices. They even had some of the folks who are working for the fish farms or the farming operations processing plants, which of course provide "good paying jobs" that let the folks working for them earn enough so that they can now afford some "luxuries" that working as a bartender or grocery store clerk would not allow.
The other article was about how fish farming has greatly reduced the Pacific Salmon fishing fleet and that those who are left need to provide a "superior product" to get a good price for their fish.
There were other things in both articles like how the price fishermen get now is only a fraction of what they got in the banner years of the 1980's, how fish farming grew because of the "large profits" salmon were rpviding the fish farmers in the 1990's and how corporate interests took over the mom and pop farms, and how most of the companies doing the fish farming are not based in the countries where the farms are located. Seems like the Stolt company of Luxemborg is one of the biggest fish farming players.
Also mentioned were efforts by some groups to educate comsumers about the use of chemicals, antibiotics, and dyes in farmed fish.
It seems to me like the Pacific salmon fishers are trying to get public sympathy for their declining numbers and have the public put pressure on the politicians to shut down or curtail the faiming operations so they can make more money fishing.
What's your take on this.
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Still doesn't quite beat the pad thai at the thai restaurant down the street but a new favorite to make! Like others, I would cut down on amount of oil and eggs, and I would skip the first step of frying the shallots as a garnish. And this definitely took longer than an hour when factoring in the prepping for the shallots and garlic.
All I can say is WOW. This is one of my favorite dishes of all time. Note that I used Tamarind concentrate instead of a "pliable block" which I could not find. I also only used 8oz of rice noodles. I and my girlfriend and son absolutely loved this. In fact, this was about as good as any pad thai I've ever had in a restaurant. It's that good. Try it.
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Too much tamarind. Will add fish sauce next time. 8 oz of noodles are plenty for amount of sauce.
I make this vegan by omitting the eggs (and subsequently, it cuts back on the amount of oil you need to use). This is a delicious recipe that rivals many take out pad thais.
Really great recipe! Everyone loved it. The only thing I would change is to cut the tofu into much smaller pieces, it was pretty dry. Other than that, just delicious!
I made this recipe exactly as it is written. I found it to be much too bitter. The tamarind was overpowering all the other flavors in the dish and I believe causing the bitterness. I like tamarind, but would reduce the amount to 1 tablespoon - or less. The fried shallots were disappointing as well - they were very bland. They would have been better with a little seasoning - as well as the tofu. I will not make this recipe again.
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I like my pad thai a bit sweeter, so I used about 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
This was great! I love pad Thai and I've tried making it at home before but I guess it's the tamarind that makes the difference which I did not use in previous attempts. I only used 2 Tbsp of oil in my version though and I skipped frying the shallots (that's not authentic anyway) and just threw them all in with the scallions. My one criticism is that I could not tell the difference between the eggs and the tofu in the finished product, so much so that when I said that to my husband he said "There are eggs in this?" I know eggs are traditional in pad Thai but next time I will skip them and make it vegan.


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The large sculptured canvas, which incorporates images of animals, Africa, houses and the Tree of Life, came to the Tupelo hospital in gratitude for the efforts to repair the leg of a man who helps run an orphanage connected with Global Outreach. The signatures of two dozen Rwandan orphans who helped create the masterpiece circle the artwork.
"It's really important to them that this made it to the hospital," said Tupelo orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jay White, who also serves on the board for the Tupelo-based international missions group.
Jean Baptiste NshiMyimana, who runs an orphanage founded by former Tupeloan and Global Outreach missionary Monique Ladosz, was injured in a car wreck two years ago. The injury – a fractured shin bone – didn't heal properly, and doctors in Rwanda tried to shore up the bone with a metal plate and screws.
"It wasn't enough to stabilize the bone," White said. "He had to walk with crutches. He had a significant limp and pain with every step."
Last September on a trip back to Tupelo, Ladosz brought the X-rays to White seeking help.
"If you can get him here, we'll find a way to take care of him," White told her.
White donated his services as a surgeon, the medical supply company donated the materials to repair his leg, and NMMC covered the remainder of the medical costs.
"Why wouldn't you do it?" said Mike Denham, surgical services administrator.
In December, NshiMyimana arrived in Tupelo for surgery, which went well, although he did have an unrelated medical hiccup.
"I ended up treating malaria on Christmas Day," White said. "It's the first time I've ever treated malaria."
By the end of January, NshiMyimana's leg had healed, and he returned to Africa. Since the main modes of transportation are by foot or bicycle, being able to walk easily without pain is life changing.
"He's finished his house and has been able to get married," White said. "That's been a blessing."
The painting, created by an artist who works with NshiMyimana at the orphanage and several of the children, will hang in the surgeon's lounge.
"They're a very appreciative group of people," White said.


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Wesley Morse was the artist of the famous 'Bazooka Joe and his Gang' comics, that was printed on the inside of the wrappers of Topp's Bazooka bubble gum. The company had done some earlier attempts to create a lasting advertising character for the gum, but none of them seemed to catch on. Morse was contacted by creative director Woody Gelman to work on a series of illustrated gum comics featuring a gang of kids. From 1954, Morse produced numerous comics featuring the characters, and the company released several series of 'Bazooka Joe' series each year throughout the 1950s. Wesley Morse drew the strip until the early 1960s, when he passed away.
Morse was born in Chicago. In the early stages of his career, he drew a comic strip called 'Switchboard Sally', and he did the artwork of Flo Zigfield's 'Zigfield Follies' in the 1920s. He had drawn cartoon features for the New York Graphic, but he somewhat disappeared from the scene in the 1930s. In the late 1930s, he created several so-called Eight-Pagers, also known as "Tijuana Bibles". These books contained pornographic comics in a time of widespread censorship. After that he went to work for the Blackstone Group, an advertising group. In the 1940s and into the 1950s, he did artwork for Lou Walter's Latin Quarter and the Copa Cabana. He created the Copa girl, which became the Copa Cabana logo.


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Leadership has been define and redefined over the ages but the basic tenants remain the same and the practical exercise of those that lead can be studied and learned just as they have since the days of Alexander.
Learning how to lead has also been an age long process that has morphed through the ages as our understanding of those that are led is better developed, technology is incorporated, and our cultures become better educated.
This is a science that when perfected is still as simple as it started. Defining leadership seems to be a cause that keeps military leaders awake, corporate giants tossing and turning, and political hopefuls looking to experts to define how they will lead.
So what does all this mean in the context of Scouting? To put it simply, it's all the same. I had my first taste of real leadership when I became a Patrol leader in Troop 100 in the Transatlantic Council. I was a young Second Class Scout and earned the confidence of my Patrol to be the leader, that, or I was just the only one that had not yet had a turn at Patrol leader. We'll go with the confidence answer. Our Senior Patrol leader was a big guy named Chris Brown. He was on his way to West Point, an all star football player and a Scout we all looked up to, literally, he was big. I don't remember too much about Chris other than his expectation that Patrol leaders needed to be in charge of their patrols. When faced with "Crisis" his favorite saying was "Work it out, come to me when you can't resolve it". And nine times out of ten we would resolve the issue and because we were all twelve and thirteen year old boys, short term memory would kick in and we would be on our way.
What I learned from my first experience as a leader was that I had responsibility and needed to take it serious. If my Patrol messed something up, it was me that was accountable, if my Patrol did great, it was me that got the pat on the back.
The second part of that responsibility I developed was that it was not about me, but it was about the Patrol. Selfless service.
I went in the Army after graduation from high school and soon found myself in leadership roles. Because of Scouting, I could read a map and compass, I could do First Aid, and I had a good understanding of Bush craft, and most importantly I could stand in front of a group of people and communicate. Those that I followed found me a valuable asset to help teach skills and help others in my Platoon develop in basic field skills. At the age of 19 I attended the Army's premier Combat leadership course, the U.S. Army Ranger School. I emerged from that test a confident leader that understood that there was nothing in life that could stand in my way. Before I was old enough to have a sip of beer I was a Sergeant and leading an Infantry Fire team in 2nd Squad, C Company 4th of the 9th Infantry. I had four men, some older than I that was responsible for. And not just for planning menus and earning badges, but real responsibility, life and death kind of stuff. I would catch myself flashing back to my days as the Patrol leader for the Flaming Arrow Patrol in Troop 100. I would see myself the Senior Patrol leader of Troop 246 in Louisiana and I remember thinking to myself, I got this. 12 year olds are harder to lead. As long as I remember what I was taught about team work, about service, and about working toward a goal, my leadership in the Army would be easy.
Then, the Army decided that I needed more training. I went to the Primary leadership development course where I learned what Alexander the Great and Patton knew, that if you provide Purpose, Direction, and Motivation as a leader than you can and will do anything you set your team to. And that's what it is all about.
When I became a Scoutmaster the Troop was very young. The troop had six young boys in it, the highest rank was Scout. And one of them had to lead. It was then that I decided I needed to come up with a program to teach these young men to lead.
The National Youth Leadership Training course is fine, but sending a Tenderfoot to the course is not too practical. Most of our Scouts could not dedicate a week to going to NYLT anyway. They had to learn it where it counts and they needed to learn it in a simple effective way.
We started teaching an "OJT" style class to our Scouts. Preaching our leadership methods and skills at meetings, camp outs, and every time we had an opportunity to sharpen a skill or when those 'teaching opportunities' came around. The results have been good. Scouts leading, learning, and executing the Scout led plan.
In 2011.. I am going to focus many of the Blog posts to explaining how we teach and what those tenants are that I feel are important to leading people effectively. They are principles that are timeless and they work, but yet, they work with Scouts and are easy for them to understand, embrace, and put into action using the Patrol method.
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CHICAGO - Rays 8, White Sox 3: Matt Joyce and Jose Lobaton hit home runs and Ben Zobrist added RBI singles in the eighth and ninth innings as visiting Tampa Bay salvaged a split of the four-game series.
David Price (1-2) struck out nine and limited Chicago to three runs on six hits over seven innings to earn his first win. The Rays put the reigning Cy Young Award winner in position for the win when they broke through against reliever Nate Jones (0-2) in the eighth.
Sean Rodriguez led off the inning with a single, took second on a wild pitch and scored on Zobrist's sharp single up the middle to make it 4-3. Jesse Crain appeared to have the White Sox out of the inning with just a one-run deficit, but right fielder Alex Rios misplayed Ryan Roberts' fly ball to allow two unearned runs.
Adam Dunn's RBI single in the first gave the White Sox an early lead, and after Lobaton tied it with a shot to right in the third, Chicago regained the lead on Paul Konerko's two-run blast in the bottom of the inning.
The Rays pulled even again on Joyce's two-run blast to right, and that's where it stayed until Tampa Bay broke it open in the eighth and tacked on two in the ninth on Zobrist's second run-scoring single and Evan Longoria's RBI double.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Rays P Jeremy Hellickson was ejected by home plate umpire Tom Hallion following the seventh inning, apparently for comments made from the dugout after Hallion and Price exchanged words. … White Sox INF Jeff Keppinger (back spasms) missed his third consecutive game and Rays C Jose Molina sat out with a bruised quadriceps. … Chicago RHP Dylan Axelrod was charged with three runs on four hits over six innings, but did not factor in the decision.
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LiverKick.com and Phuket Top Team Announce The Challenger Muay Thai Contest @phukettopteam
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As we mentioned in an earlier post, we've partnered up with Phuket's hottest gym to bring you, the LiverKick.com readers news, information and of course, free stuff! Phuket Top Team is a gym and of course a fight team based out of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is an absolutely beautiful island paradise that happens to house a huge, state-of-the-art gym that is frequented by some of the biggest names in the MMA, Muay Thai and Kickboxing world. If you don't believe me, here is a photo of Roger Huerta and BJJ legend Professor Braga prepping to teach some classes at PTT.
Much-hyped Muay Thai fighter Cyrus Washington has made Phuket Top Team his home, which should tell you something, and has been representing PTT on The Challenger Muay Thai, which airs weekly and picks up where The Contender Muay Thai left off. Think of it as a reality show featuring the best up-and-comers in the Muay Thai world competing against each other weekly to crown a champion and you can start to imagine just how big of a deal this show is. You can find more information at their website.
Since Cyrus is a big part of the show, he has a ton of The Challenger Muay Thai gear, too much to hold onto and that means that it was passed over to the trainers at Phuket Top Team. Well, those guys love LiverKick.com and our readers so much that we've decided to give away a whole slew of Challenger Muay Thai gear.
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Burning Shed's third label sampler was issued in 2007 in a colour printed card wallet. We have now re-packaged this to match our other CDR releases and it comes in a rubber-stamped brown card envelope.
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It's NBA All-Star Saturday and Labeless Illtelligence representatives Chris Andrews and Tyler Edwards, better known as CasUno and ESH the Monolith, settle in for one last marathon studio session at Edwards's East Providence apartment (dubbed FrESH Ear Studios). They're wrapping up the final four tracks from CasUno's full-length, Sticks Out Like a Sore Thumb, due out "when it's finished," according to Andrews, whose (literally) blunt responses are often complemented with impassioned answers from an ol-skool wordsmith and family man getting into his 30s, and not exactly hung up on making bank from rap records.
"Labeless Illtelligence been here for close to 10 years, clearly we're not in this for the money," CasUno says while twisting a blunt of Sour Diesel. "I have a full-time job [and my wife and I are expecting] a second baby [in April]. I just want to fully manifest the ideas in my head and create an album that will stand the test of time."
Acclaimed releases by Vocab, CasUno, and Ams-Uno fortified the Labeless brand early on, but by 2007 (LI's MySpace page lists band members as "the eternally evolving network of fallen friendships") only ESH and Cas remained. The duo will hit the road next weekend, playing shows in Boston, Danbury, and Worcester before returning for a set at Jerky's supporting Mr. Lif. Over the years, Labeless have opened for the Wu-Tang Clan, El-P, C-Ray Walz, Thirstin Howl III (!), and Sean Price, among others. ESH recalled the early days onstage.
"When Labeless was a drunken collective of five emcees eating up stages, it was cool and definitely entertaining, but inevitably impossible to manage," he said. "Controlled chaos became just plain chaos."
Andrews said, "Dudes remain scarred from all the falling out.
"I attempted to reach out to some people recently and they weren't very receptive," he told me.
2008 saw the Labeless revival, with CasUno's Intox-I-Rox mixtape (free at MySpace.com/LabelessIlltelligence) followed by ESH's excellent A.D.Dventures of an E.ccentric S.uper H.ero. CasUno's rapid-fire wordplay and double-take metaphors coincide with his scruffy baritone (like Method Man meets Chill Rob G) and works well with ESH's nasal vocals and deft alliteration (e.g., referring to the Labeless outfit as a "symbiotic support system").
Obscure and vintage albums line the FrESH Ear Studio shelves (Edwards routinely scours the $3 bins at the Time Capsule in Cranston), from the soundtrack to Disney's The Black Hole to the Beach Boys' Endless Summer, from Freddie Hubbard to Frank Zappa.
The communal vibe found on CasUno's 2004 "solo" debut, The Art of Pissing People Off, will be scaled back for Sticks Out Like a Sore Thumb, but some old friends have already made nice contributions; Dox (of Poorly Drawn People) produced "Electric Ukelele" and burner "The Spit Pit," featuring Romen Rok and PDP's Storm Davis. A few conceptual ideas CasUno nailed include a track called "Everybody Hates Chris," a re-working of Diamond D's 1991 classic "Sally Got a One-Track Mind," and an ode to "Peter Pan rappers" on "Live From the Land of Make Believe." ESH pulls the track up on Pro Tools and the room nods in agreement. "I think this gotta be the jump-off track, right after the intro," Cas says, and expounds while spinning another blunt.
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Roland's D2 Groovebox is a compact, performance-oriented Groovebox (sequencer/sound module)--sort of a smaller MC-505--designed entirely around Roland's D-Field Controller technology. This touch-sensitive pad makes it easy to program and modify patterns, sounds, effects and more simply by touching the surface. It has all of the 505's sounds and a similar sequencer with 150 all-new patterns including the latest 2-Step and R&B styles.
The D-Field controller at the heart of the D2 (also featured on the V-Synth) offers three distinct modes: SOUND makes playing patterns and sound effects easy by touching the D-Field; XY provides simultaneous control over two parameters (e.g. filter cutoff + resonance); SPIN creates turntable-style effects by tracing the pad in a circular motion.
The D2 has more than enough sounds inside, with 600 Preset patches and 30 Preset drum kits from the MC-505. These dance-oriented sounds include ultra-fat bass and lead synths, screaming TB-303's, dance piano and strings, plus 30 floor-pounding drum kits. Phrase/Groove loops are also plentiful with 150 patterns plus 240 RPS (Realtime Phrase Sequence) patterns. There is a new Step Recording method using the D-Field and 32 LEDs as well. Separate Reverb, Delay and Multi-FX sections with Groove-oriented algorithms add space and effects to your sounds & grooves. And with the D2's Megamix function, it's easy to remix patterns into your own creations using the D-Field or Value dial.
The D2 is an awesome concept in terms of hands-on, real-time performance control. However the hidden menus and overall navigation can cause some headaches. If you want to edit your own sounds, you may want to connect a MIDI Controller to tweak all the sounds you want and save into one of the 256 users patches. The D2 is definitely designed for the electronica, dance and hip-hop musician on a budget. It is not as complete a Groovestation package as the MC-505 or MC-909, but its D-Field controller is very novel and fun to use. Because the D2 is fairly cheap, it does make a great toy to add to your arsenal if manipulating beats and grooves in real-time and at the touch of finger is what you're in to.
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Roland D2 drum sounds (factory presets patterns a01-a50)
Hilltree - Roland D2 groovebox track
Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 64 voices (8-part multitimbral)
- Oscillators - Sample-Driven
- Sequencer - 150 patterns, 8 tracks, 96 ppq resolution, 40,000 note capacity, tempo: 20-240
- Arpeggiator - 43 presets, 10 user
- Effects - Reverb: 6 Delay: 2 Multi-Effects (MFX): 25
- Memory - Sounds: 600 presets, 256 user
Rhythm Sets: 30 presets, 20 users
- Keyboard - None, 8 Trigger pads
- Control - MIDI (IN/OUT)
- Date Produced - 2001
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of manufacturing software maker Parametric Technology (PMTC) are down $5.16, or almost 19%, at $22.04, after the company this morning cut its fiscal Q2 outlook below analysts' estimates owing to a missed contract in Europe and weakness in its North American business.
The company expects $300 million in Q2 revenue, and EPS, excluding some costs, of 26 cents to 28 cents per share. The company had previously projected $305 million to $320 million.
The Street has been modeling $315 million and 34 cents.
CEO James Heppelmann remarked that "Our second quarter license revenue was impacted by a large transaction in Europe that did not close and lower than expected performance in North America," adding that maintenance license revenue "continued to perform well," as did its "MKS" division.
Added Heppelmann, "We are strategically positioned in attractive growth markets and remain confident in our ability to drive long-term growth and profitability."
In a conference call following the announcement, Heppelmann said that the European deal, which would have contributed $10 million, looked certain but slipped because of a "change in control" at the single large customer. The deal is now "at risk," he said. He said North American weakness appeared not to be an issue of demand — North American ISM data on manufacturing appear strong. Rather, he chalked it up to problems with PMTC's own "execution" in the region.
Heppelmann said the weakness was "only a temporary setback," and remarked,
Clearly, our dependence on big deals is a risk factor for us, as we experienced this quarter. As you know, we've been working hard to expand our sales capacity to create a bigger pipeline of opportunities. And at the same time, we're actively installing new systems and processes to have better visibility to that pipeline.
Parametric expects to report full Q2 results on April 26th.
The shares have received one downgrade this morning, from J.P. Morgan's Sterling Auty, who cut his rating to Neutral from Overweight.
Shares of competitors Ansys (ANSS) are down 91 cents, or 1.4%, at $63.50, and Autodesk (ADSK) is down 51 cents, or 1%, at $41.24.


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PUC advised to approve Lyft, Uber
Bureau to recommend go-ahead for ride-share operations in cityJuly 23, 2014 11:12 PM
HARRISBURG — After months of battling ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber, at its meeting today the state Public Utility Commission's Bureau of Technical Utility Services will recommend the board grant the ride-sharing companies emergency licenses to operate in Allegheny County.
It will be up to the commissioners to accept, reject or modify the bureau's recommendations.
Both companies have been operating in Pittsburgh since late winter, but without the PUC's oversight. A PUC enforcement officer issued more than two dozen citations to Lyft and Uber drivers, and the agency's bureau of investigation and enforcement proposed daily fines of $1,000 for the companies. On July 1, a panel of administrative law judges issued a cease-and-desist order against Uber and Lyft.
The administrative law judges are recommending the board approve the cease-and-desist orders, but the orders will be lifted once the companies become compliant with the emergency temporary authority. The proposed fines are still pending before the judges.
State Sen. Wayne Fontana, D-Brookline, and state Rep. Erin Molchany, D-Mount Washington, both filed resolutions in their respective legislative bodies earlier this month, urging the PUC to expedite the companies' applications. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald also have asked the PUC to allow the companies to operate locally without legal encumbrance.
Representatives for Lyft and Uber did not return requests for comment Wednesday. But a PUC spokeswoman said the agency received some 300 emails from supporters of Uber, after the company sent out an email blast to Pittsburgh users of the service Wednesday morning.
"Urge the PUC to support consumer choice and transportation options," the email read. It included contact information for all the PUC commissioners, its chairman, vice chairman and executive director.
Meanwhile, another app-based transportation option is planning to expand into Pittsburgh: Hailo, founded in the U.K. in 2011 by a group of London taxi drivers, connects existing taxi drivers with passengers.
"While we can't confirm timing, we can promise that when we do expand to Pittsburgh, we will be doing so in a way that supports the community with licensed and insured drivers operating legally," said Kevin Hatfield, Hailo North America co-president, in an email.
Yellow Cab president James Campolongo said he plans to meet with Hailo representatives, after they reached out to him.
"I think this is the one Lyft and Uber really have to watch out for," Mr. Campolongo said.
While it is smartphone-based, Hailo operates differently than the ride-sharing apps. Lyft and Uber connect drivers in their own cars with passengers, but Hailo connects existing taxi drivers with passengers. A Hailo user sets the pickup location, and a nearby taxi driver accepts the electronic request. It speeds up the tried-and-true process of flagging down a cab. Passengers can complete the transaction and pay, all within the app.
The PUC has not been informed of any intentions by Hailo, a spokeswoman confirmed.
The PUC board meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday. The meeting will be live streamed at the PUC's website: www.puc.pa.gov/about_puc/live_streaming_video.aspx.
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Lasso bold southwestern flavor for this pasta dish with preseasoned frozen chicken strips, canned green chiles, and taco-flavored cheese.
Look for southwest-seasoned mayonnaise or salsa ranch salad dressing to add extra "kick" to this pasta dish.
Reduce the fat in this recipe by using reduced-fat mayonnaise instead of regular mayonnaise. You'll save yourself about 19 grams of fat per serving.
If you enjoy your food really hot and spicy, add 1 chopped fresh jalapeño chile.
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Make a taco truck favorite at home! Load up a soft tortilla with Korean BBQ beef, cilantro-lettuce slaw and fiery Sriracha salsa. Pair with a Fizzy Lime SODArita.
To make a Fizzy Lime SODArita: Fill a glass with ice. Add 1 1/2 oz blanco tequila, 1/2 oz clear orange-flavored liqueur and 3/4 oz fresh lime juice; stir. Top with 4 oz chilled Mexican lime soda. Garnish with lime wedge. Makes 1 drink.
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The teenager who was found dead outside a Waikato hospital died instantly when she was hit by a car in the Kaimai Range, according to a post-mortem.
A post mortem carried out on 18-year-old Jovaan Graham - who was found outside Pohlen Hospital in Matamata early yesterday morning - has indicated that Jovaan died immediately at the scene of the collision on SH29.
Police said the investigation into yesterday's incidents is continuing.
The driver of the vehicle that hit Jovaan was abducted and assaulted but managed to escape and raise the alarm.
A 30-year-old man and 23-year-old woman appeared briefly in Manukau District Court yesterday charged with abduction, theft of a vehicle, unlawful use of a vehicle and injuring with intent.
The pair were remanded in custody and granted interim name suppression until their next appearance in Tauranga tomorrow.
Police are still piecing together events that led to the discovery of the woman's body and have appealed for witnesses travelling between Tauranga, Matamata and Auckland yesterday morning to come forward.
The bizarre series of events began yesterday about 3am when a 32-year-old Tauranga man driving on State Highway 29 in the Kaimai Range struck a person who was on the road, police said.
He stopped to check on the person and was pulled from the vehicle and assaulted.
The man was then placed back in his car but escaped and raised the alarm when the vehicle stopped a short distance away.
The body was left outside the hospital in Matamata where a security guard discovered it about 4am, police said.
Shortly afterwards, a couple were arrested in the Papakura area for unlawfully being on a property.
A broken-down stolen car was also at the scene of the abduction, police said.
"There is still a fair bit of work to be done and there will need to be a post-mortem to establish exactly when and how the young woman found in Matamata died," Senior Sergeant Lew Warner said.
"However, at this stage we are working on the belief that a chain of events began when the stolen stationwagon broke down or ran out of petrol in the Kaimai Range, leaving the offenders stranded."
The abducted man told police two truck and trailer units passed by while they were still at the scene on the highway where the woman was struck.
He said he had tried to wave them down.
Family members of the teenager have remembered her as a "beautiful girl'' and say they are in shock over her death.
"Rest in peace Jovaan, you are so beautiful. My heart hurts to know what has happened to you,'' her uncle Sam Graham posted on Facebook.
"You will be missed by your family.''
Her aunt, Christina Graham, said the family was "in limbo''.
"I'm sori ths happened to u. U will always always be in my heart,'' Ms Graham wrote on Facebook.
Anyone with information should call Tauranga Police on 07 577 4300 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
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In the hothouse of this past month's same-sex-marriage battle, the State House's top three leaders — Governor Deval Patrick, House Speaker Sal DiMasi, and Senate president Therese Murray — emerged as surprisingly cozy bedfellows, winning a hard-fought victory that seemed like a living example of Patrick's "Together We Can" campaign theme.
But this stark reversal from their more rancorous early-term dealings cannot last. Not with contentious pressing issues on the horizon, including local-options taxes, corporate-tax loopholes, and casino gambling — issues on which, unlike gay marriage, they disagree sharply. How the Commonwealth pays its bills, grows its economy, and arranges its public agencies in the future will depend very much on what happens when Patrick, DiMasi, and Murray bust up their Three's Company routine.
None of the three wants to be the first one to break the peace, but it could happen as soon as the end of this week, when Patrick must deliver his line-item vetoes to the state budget.
It may be a dim memory now, but just a couple of months ago, DiMasi was declaring Patrick's ideas DOA; Murray was declaring budget earmarks necessary to keep untrustworthy governors from exercising their own (poor) judgment; and Patrick was holding rallies where he practically called for citizen rebellion against state lawmakers, including leaders Murray and DiMasi.
But since then, the three seemed to enjoy sharing credit for the defeat of the anti-gay-marriage amendment, and that collegial spirit has held. This past Monday, when the legislature released and passed its reconciled state budget, they did so without drawing attention to the many ways they were rejecting the governor's proposal. They passed the budget quietly, unanimously, and without public debate at the start of a holiday week, then slipped out of town.
On Friday, Patrick will be faced with two choices: he can either quietly accept their budget and maintain the peace, or he can break the ceasefire with a spate of vetoes. It might not all be his doing, though: the legislature has painted him into a corner, almost daring him to throw the first punch.
Full of pork, not carrots
Legislative leaders claim they reached a healthy compromise with Patrick, prompting news stories about the governor's budget "victories." DiMasi and others spoke of "great cooperation" with Patrick, who also played nice; he, too, praised the "robust collaboration" that resulted in a budget that met "most of the central priorities" of his administration.
Unfortunately for Patrick, that's mostly hogwash — the legislature rejected most of his first budget proposals. Yes, DiMasi and Murray gave him a few nuggets, such as grants for streamlined local permitting, and some (but far from all) of his funding requests for expanding all-day kindergarten, vaccinations, and smoking-cessation programs. But a glance back at Patrick's February 27 budget address (and accompanying PR materials) shows how many of his "central priorities" have been unceremoniously dropped.
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By Tiernan Ray
In a brief item on CNBC earlier today, capital markets editor Gary Kaminsky made passing reference to a report that apparently claims Microsoft (MSFT) might be considering giving its "Bing" search operations to Facebook after the latter goes public, in return for additional shares in the social networking outfit.
Kaminsky said he would make available more details on the report, though I've been unable to turn up that information through CNBC representatives.
In the meantime, Rick Sherlund with Nomura Equity Research, who has a Buy rating on Microsoft, and a $37 price target, and whose firm is not involved with Facebook's IPO, tells me this afternoon it could be a good thing for Microsoft.
Sherlund, who has no information himself on any pending deals or talks, nevertheless muses that a swap of Bing could at the very least remove a problem for Redmond.
"Microsoft loses $2.5 billion a year with Bing, and that's a 7-percentage-point hit to operating margin, so it's huge," Sherlund observes in a phone call.
Moreover, "Investors have not been a fan of that line of business for a long time. They just don't see the rewards."
As Sherlund sees it, why does Microsoft even need to be in search, when opportunities with touch-screen technologies and tablet operating systems and the like all seem so much more integral to Microsoft's strengths and goals?
Sherlund further posits that if Microsoft unloaded Bing on Facebook, it would still be able to monetize its services, such as "Xbox Live" and "Skype" through its arrangement with Facebook.
"In order for Microsoft to have monetization through search or display ads, they could just turn over the work, the costs to Facebook, and get it back in TAC [traffic acquisition costs]," says Sherlund.
"They would still get 80% to 90% of the revenue returned through TAC, they would end up getting most of the revenue anyway," and without all the headaches.
In addition, and perhaps more important, Sherlund thinks Microsoft could solve the larger problem of how to strike at Google's cash cow.
"If we asked ourselves why is Microsoft in the search business to begin with, it's because they want to keep Google from having such monopoly power [in search] that they can use the resultant profit to making forays into Microsoft's domain," including things such as Google's "Chrome" operating system and Android smartphone software.
Having failed to mount sufficient competition to dethrone Google, which still has 60% of the search market, why not help Facebook, which seems better-equipped to compete?
"It's in Microsoft's relative advantage to arm Facebook to go after Google more effectively than they could on their own." Unlike Microsoft, notes Sherlund, Facebook has the "social graph," the data on what you and you're friends are interested in. That can make search far more effective than Bing could ever be on its own competing against Google, he opines.
As far as valuation, Sherlund says its an open question how much Bing might be worth on a basis of multiples of revenue. He figures Microsoft perhaps could get 1% to 2% of Facebook's reported $75 billion to $100 billion valuation. That would add to a stake held by Microsoft already of about 1.6%.
Another question would be how such a swap, if it were ever to happen, would be affected by Microsoft's relationship with Yahoo! (YHOO) to provide search results and share revenue.
On a related note, Microsoft today said that it will start to charge developers to use the "application programming interface" required to plug into and draw upon Bing search results.
Microsoft shares today are up 64 cents, or 2%, at $30.99.


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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
Loan Star
Texas tends to spoil you. It's a marvelously beautiful, independent land, of course, but it's much more for turkey hunters. It's the fantasy camp where lust-crazed Rio gobblers trip over their beards running to your yelping and cutting.
Well, usually. You'll find exceptions now and then ... like a trip I took there in April 2006. A good friend and I had reunited to slap our tags on some Lone Star longbeards, and even when I missed a bird the first day, we weren't worried. Hey, it was Texas, right?
Wrong. The next day brought shocking failure. The third almost broke our spirits. And when we whiffed on our fly-down hunt the fourth morning, it was desperation time.
Birds were answering our calling, but they always seemed to lose interest and fade away. And of course, the open mesquite-covered landscape made maneuvering and repositioning next to impossible.
Another friend had killed a gobbler from a portable blind near a large, open flat, and he offered to take us there and loan us the blind. That might make sense. If birds weren't acting right, it might be wise to find an area they frequent and wait them out. But doggone it, this was Texas. You're not supposed to sit endlessly and wait them out as if you were hunting Easterns back home. You're supposed to yelp a lot, locate birds, set up on birds and then kill birds with alarming frequency.
With one afternoon left, my buddy and I had to decide between a sit-and-wait strategy and our favored cutt-and-run tactics.
What would you have done? Post your decision below.
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Posted July 24, 2001; 04:29 p.m.
Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, has received three honorary degrees this summer.
Muldoon, who is also director of the creative writing program at Princeton, was presented with an honorary degree from the Open University in Newcastle, England, on June 16. He also picked up an honorary doctorate in Belfast, Ireland, the week of July 2 from Queen's University, where he earned his B.A. degree. On July 9, he was given an honorary degree by the University of Ulster.
The degrees recognized Muldoon's accomplishments as a poet and translater of poetry.
Muldoon is also professor of poetry at Oxford University, a prestigious title held in the past by Seamus Heaney, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, and Cecil Day Lewis.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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Mail payments in the form of a check or money order to:
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Municipal Services Payment Center / City Hall 100 N. Garfield Ave., Room N106 Pasadena, CA 91109
Business Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30am - 5:15pm Payments by ATM card must be presented in person.
Residential customers can have their bills automatically paid out of their checking or savings accounts.
To sign up, download, print, and mail-in the Direct Debit Application (Adobe PDF*) or call (626) 744 4005 to request an application.
Customers are encouraged to explore the services of CheckFree® (at http://www.checkfree.com) as another billing alternative.
You may pay by phone using credit cards only by calling (626) 744-4005. You must have your account number and PIN ready. (Ask Customer Service Representative for your PIN.).
A drop box is located at the southeast corner of Union Street and Garfield Avenue. Payments received after 2 p.m. will be credited the following business day.
Please contact PWP Customer Service at (626) 744-4005 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Utility Bill Assistance Programs: Recognizing that some of our customers may need help to pay their utility bills, we offer three income-qualified financial assistance programs and one program designed to offset the energy costs associated with home medical equipment. For more information, call (626) 744-6970.
In addition to the billing components, your bill contains information that can help you understand your energy and water use.


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THURSDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Brisk walking is as good as running for reducing blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes risk -- three key players in the development of heart disease, a new study finds.
It's a matter of how far you walk or run, not how long, said Paul Williams, a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"Both of these activities reduce risk factors, and if you expend the same amount of energy you get the same benefit," Williams said. The key was the more people walked or ran each week, the more their health improved, he said.
The findings suggest "there is now some choice in the exercise you want to do," he said. Some people find running more convenient, others prefer walking, especially people just starting to exercise, he noted.
The advantage of running is you can cover twice as much ground in the same amount of time as you would walking, Williams pointed out.
Williams is referring to brisk walking, however. "Walking for exercise. It's not a mosey kind of thing, but actually walking for exercise," he explained.
For the study, published online April 4 in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Williams and Dr. Paul Thompson, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, collected data from the National Runners' Health Study and the National Walkers' Health Study. More than 33,000 runners and nearly 16,000 walkers were involved.
The runners and walkers were 18 to 80 years old, but mostly in their 40s and 50s, the study authors noted.
Over six years, both running and walking led to similar reductions in risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, and perhaps even heart disease, the researchers found.
Specifically, Williams and Thompson found:
Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a spokesman for the American Heart Association and professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said engaging in regular physical activity is well-established to maintain cardiovascular health and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, stroke, and premature death.
The American Heart Association and other organizations highly recommend regular physical activity for the primary and secondary prevention of heart disease and stroke, he added.
"These findings suggest similar benefit for similar energy expenditures with exercise regardless of intensity," Fonarow said. "However, for those who are capable of engaging in more vigorous exercise, this may be the more time-efficient strategy."
Other research using data from the walkers' and runners' studies found that for weight loss, running beats walking. That study appears in the April issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
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Okay, I got a recommendation through amazon.com for this (you buy some John Williams CDs, and they think you want every soundtrack ever released). Curious as to what would be on it, I pulled up the track listing.
I'm not sure whether to laugh hard at it, close my browser quickly to avoid being struck by lightning, or what.
The stupid "Music Inspired By" trend in soundtracks is not a new one, unfortunately. A bunch of crap thrown on a CD with the name of a flick slapped on, often to the detriment of music actually in the movie that isn't released. I can't think of a single one I've heard that isn't pretty forgettable.
But "inspired by" implies that someone actually saw a movie, had a lightbulb pop up over their head, and wrote a new song. Given the subject matter and graphic nature of this movie--and I'll insert here that I've not seen it yet, since my wife never let me see Big Fish on the big screen and, well, long story--but I'd think it would be even a bigger deal for something so serious. (To avoid starting a religious debate, that's about all I'll say about that at the moment.)
So, how is a "King" who's been dead almost 30 years inspired by a brand new movie?
Did Bob Dylan see this flick, have a flash of inspiration, and time travel back to 1997 to write "Not Dark Yet"? (And is that even a religious song?)
What about Nick Cave (I think he's an atheist, isn't he?) or Leonard Cohen (a Buddhist)? And I'm not sure, but I think their songs are older as well.
Isn't it just wrong to lie about the inspiration of these songs? Note that it isn't sold as songs inspired by the event, but the film.


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Glitch Delays CBOE Trading, Volatility Index Gets Flat Start to Thursday
Jacob Bunge and Kaitlyn Kiernan of Dow Jones Newswires report on a glitch at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Thursday morning that halted trading on the exchange and interrupted at least some traders' ability to see (and act upon) key data, such as the CBOE Volatility Index.
The exchange reopened trading shortly before 1 p.m. ET after what by all accounts was a glitchy morning. Shortly before noon, the CBOE Holdings (CBOE) unit said it "is working on bringing trading up," with customers of the CBOE Holdings (CBOE) spending the morning unable to download information from the exchange, according to Bunge and Kiernan. Nasdaq OMX Group's (NDAQ) PHLX exchange temporarily stopped sending business to the CBOE, according to a separate alert.
Here's what the interruption looked like via FactSet Research Systems in the "fear gauge," data for which was available again shortly after 10 a.m. Click through for a larger chart:
From Bunge and Kiernan:
The delayed opening affected both floor and electronic trading. It postponed business in options on key market indexes including the CBOE Volatility Index, known as the VIX, and options on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, both of which are traded solely at the Chicago-based exchange.
"The traders and brokers are standing around and waiting for CBOE to open up," said Gavin Farley, an options trader with CMZ Trading who works in the pit that trades options on the S&P index.
From Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Nina Mehta of Bloomberg News:
The exchange, the biggest U.S. options market by volume, did not say when it expected to start, according to an e-mailed statement at 11:50 a.m. New York time. CBOE accounted for 25.3 percent of options trading this month, according to data compiled by Chicago-based Options Clearing Corp.
"We are doing zero business," Greg Richards, who trades VIX and S&P 500 options as an institutional broker at Chicago-based PTR Inc. on the CBOE floor, said in an interview. "It is not good for the CBOE in a competitive atmosphere."
The delay highlights the fragility of U.S. equity exchanges in a week when a false report of explosions at the White House briefly wiped out $136 billion from the S&P 500 in about two minutes. CBOE is the exclusive venue for options based on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the so-called VIX gauge of volatility.
It's noteworthy that the most heavily used exchange-traded notes and funds tied to futures on the CBOE index apparently traded per usual through the glitch.
The leveraged and volatility-bullish VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN (TVIX) and ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXY) are down by 2% or so Thursday midsession, the unleveraged Barclays iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX) is down by 1% and the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN (XIV) is up by 1.4%.
Correction, 11:49 a.m.: This blog erroneously said that the CBOE glitch appeared to be cleared up as of midmorning. As of late morning, dissemination of the volatility index had returned but trading was still disrupted.


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