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- Mesoraco set for September callup by Reds
- Reds' Leake 'close' to getting innings capped
- Rolen progressing, but no timetable set
- Hermida claimed off waivers by San Diego
CINCINNATI -- There could be a doozy of a decision looming for the Reds this winter, and it carries large financial ramifications. Will they bring back closer Francisco Cordero?Cordero is in the final guaranteed year of his four-year, $46 million contract that pays him $12 million this season. There is a $12 million club option for 2012 with a $1 million buyout. The 36-year-old made clear his wishes. "I would love to be back again," Cordero said on Wednesday. "I'm not afraid to go somewhere else, but this organization, and my teammates, has been real great to me. My family loves it here in Cincinnati. They've got a great ownership and front office. Dusty [Baker] has been like a father to me. I love Dusty as a manager, but more as a person. He's an amazing guy, something you don't find every day in a manager. "Sometimes it's not right to say stuff like that, but I would even like to retire as a Cincinnati Red. It's not up to me. There are some things we'll have to deal with." To make that happen, would Cordero be willing to come back at a lower price if the Reds were to extend his stay? That question he wasn't ready to answer. "That's something they might talk about with my agent, if they decide to do it," Cordero said. "My agent would have to talk about it with me. I would love to be here. I'm sure there is something we could do or work out that would be fair to both sides." After saving 40 of 48 games in an inconsistent 2010 season, Cordero has been sensational most of '11. He has a 2.34 ERA and 29 saves in 34 chances and 56 games. He has also made significant cuts to his walks and hits totals from a year ago. With 319 career saves, Cordero is tied for 14th on the all-time list and two shy from tying idol and fellow Dominican native Jose Mesa. If he is not brought back by the Reds, the closer's role would be wide open. It would definitely intensify speculation that lefty Aroldis Chapman could close next season. Cordero is not letting his unsettled contract situation affect his performance on the mound. "I don't worry about that," Cordero said. "I'll have to think about it, but it's really not what's on my mind. My mind is on doing my job. I've got to give my best to Cincinnati and be my best."
Mesoraco set for September callup by Reds
CINCINNATI -- One of the Reds' top prospects, catcher Devin Mesoraco, will be among the September callups to be promoted to the big leagues from Triple-A Louisville on Thursday, when rosters are allowed to expand.The Reds' first-round selection in the 2007 Draft, Mesoraco will be in the Majors for the first time. His arrival has been highly anticipated for much of the season. He had to be added to the 40-man roster to be eligible for the callup. "Obviously he's a guy we're going to protect," Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said. "It's a chance for him to get some exposure and get used to seeing what it's like in the big leagues. We'll see what he can learn the last month of the season." Mesoraco, 23, is batting .289 with 15 home runs, 71 RBIs and a .371 on-base percentage in 120 games with Louisville. He emerged as a prospect to watch last year, when he started to take off offensively. The organization named him its 2010 Minor League Player of the Year after he batted .302 with 26 homers at Louisville and Double-A Carolina. How much playing time Mesoraco will get behind the plate along with veterans Ramon Hernandez and Ryan Hanigan is unclear. "I think we'll just have to see," Jocketty said. "We're going to try and give him some playing time, obviously." "Monie and Hany are great catchers," Mesoraco said in July at the All-Star Futures Game in Phoenix. "Somehow, some way it will work out for me at some point. I'm not in any kind of a hurry." Third baseman Juan Francisco, infielder Chris Valaika, pitchers Carlos Fisher, Jared Burton, Matt Maloney, Jeremy Horst will also make the short trip up Interstate 71. Outfielder Chris Heisey will be activated from the 15-day DL, and starting pitchers Edinson Volquez and Travis Wood are expected to join the Reds after Louisville's season ends on Sept. 5. With the exceptions of Mesoraco and Burton, all of the players have been on the big league roster this season. Volquez, the Reds' Opening Day starter this season, has been in his second stint with Louisville since early July. He will make one more start at Triple-A before coming up and might get back into the rotation eventually. "At some point -- we have to try and figure him in some place," Jocketty said. "[Pitching coach] Bryan [Price] is still working on it. He may initially come out of the bullpen. We'll try to get him a start or two."
Reds' Leake 'close' to getting innings capped
CINCINNATI -- In his second professional season, Reds starter Mike Leake has accumulated 152 innings pitched. Leake had 138 1/3 innings for Cincinnati in his 2010 rookie season after jumping from college to the Majors.The Reds plan to cap the 23-year-old Leake's innings limit before the season ends. "He's close," Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said. "He might have another start or two. We'll have to talk to [pitching coach] Bryan [Price] about it in a couple of days and figure out what the right number is. It's pretty soon." In 26 games, including 24 starts Leake is 11-8 with a 4.04 ERA. He has a 3.49 ERA in 17 starts since returning from a brief two-game stint at Triple-A Louisville.
Rolen progressing, but no timetable set
CINCINNATI -- Reds third baseman Scott Rolen is making enough progress that his return could be near. How near remains a mystery.Rolen will not be going on a rehab assignment before any activation from the disabled list. Triple-A Louisville's season ends on Sept. 5. "I don't know if he's ready to quite do that yet," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "When he might be ready, their season is over. He's going to come to St. Louis with us." Rolen had left shoulder surgery on Aug. 3 that removed some bone spurs. He's been hitting and taking ground balls. "He looks pretty good," Baker said. "I'm sure he doesn't have the strength or the timing he'd like to have, but he looks a lot [more free]."
Hermida claimed off waivers by San Diego
CINCINNATI -- Reds outfielder Jeremy Hermida was claimed off of outright waivers by the Padres on Wednesday. Hermida had been playing at Triple-A Louisville.Hermida was up with the Reds during the first month of the season and batted .111 (2-for-18) with one home run, three RBIs in 10 games. At Louisville, he batted .319 with 17 homers and 55 RBIs. "He had a good year. I hate to lose him," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "I talked to him briefly. He said he's got an opportunity. He liked it here. He wanted to get back to the big leagues. I always thought he was a pretty good player." Hermida coming off the 40-man roster opened a spot for the Reds to add catching prospect Devin Mesoraco for his big league promotion on Thursday.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 4
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- pets allowed no
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- community Tampa Bay Golf and Country Club
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This is s Safe and Gated and Guarded Complex on a Golf Course. We wil rent for 2 weeks. Come and spend some time here. Our COMPLEX is Gated and Guarded and has 27 Holes of Golf, Fabulous Clubhouse and Huge Heated Pool. Two Bedroom, Two Baths and Two Car Garage. FURNISHED really well with all new furniture. This is not your ordinary place believe us. 3 Month Minimal Rental during season. On First Fairway. Living Room, Dining Room & Kitchen have Cathedral Ceilings. Master Bedroom has King Size Bed. Inside Utility. Kitchen with Pantry. Spend Thanksgiving in Dixie and Play Golf too! Great Xmas Get away too! Golf Golf Golf!!
This home was built in 2004 and has everything new. Other places may have old junk, old linens, old smoke and old dog hairs, etc. This property Boast of No Smoke Ever and No Dog or Pet. Top of the line Linens, etc.
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Please note...NO SMOKING and NO PETS. This is for everyones enjoyment and to keep the home Immaculate!! Close to Saddlebrook Resort, Lake Jovita and St Leos College. Delightful area. If we find a tenant is Smoking or has a Pet, they will be asked to leave. This is NOT a child friendly community.
Home is also available for Sale so it could be a rent with option to buy.
November or December is $1700 a month.
Jan- April is $1900 a month.
All rentals under 6 months and a day have a 9% tourist tax that the state collects.
Sorry about that tax.
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Bus trips to Casinos(very close), Dinner Cruises, Theaters, New Movie
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(Mall) with Everything there. You'll love this too. Lots of restaurants if you like to go out to eat.
activities and attractions in Tampa Gulf Coast Central
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woodworking, book clubs, Italian American Club, German Club, etc, Bus
trips to Casinos (Very Close if like to Gamble or eat), Dinner
Cruises, Theaters, fishing trips, etc. These vary with
time of year and the number of people interested. You can be as busy
as you would like or you can sit by the pool and read. Of course many
people Golf Daily with 27 holes of golf. Tampa Bay Bucanneers, Tampa
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within the area. Many Theatres with plays, orchestras, etc. Museums like the Dali Museum , and MOSI are also very popular. Lots of Culture if you are looking for that. Don't Miss this one! Please do try us out..You will not be disappointed. 1 mo minimal rental out of season. 3 month minimal rental in season. Great for Professionals on assignment for 6 - 9 months too.
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RNC Convention $1200 for one week includes tax plus $1000 security & $200 exit cleaning fee.
This is Gated and secure. 25 minutes to Convention Ctr. No pets and No Smoking.
One King and one Queen. Great Golf and Very reasonable rates for golf. We welcome you all to Tampa Bay!!
September- October will rent monthly for $1600 a month including tax.
Also will rent long term, 6 months or longer for $1200 a mo plus Utilities. ANY Rental under 6 Months and a Day has a 9% Tax to State and County.
A refundable security of $1000 is required at time of reservation.
In Season Rentals are higher and looking for 4 or more months.
On First Fairway and Close to Clubhouse.
No Pets and No Smoking.
New Casino and Hard Rock Cafe about 15 minutes from properties. Let it Roll!
Area is growing. Rent for a year at $1200 a month.
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Ahold profit falls after unit disposal; sales rise
AMSTERDAM (AP) - Royal Ahold NV, the Dutch operator of US supermarket chains Stop & Shop and Giant, says its underlying profit rose in the second quarter due to slow but steady economic growth.
Net profit fell 17 percent to 206 million euros ($275 million) because company sold its 50 percent stake in Scandinavian chain ICA earlier this year. Sales were 7.8 billion euros, up 1 percent- restating last years' figures to remove ICA.
CEO Dick Boer said sales grew at 3 percent comparing like for like and ignoring currency effects. US sales grew 2 percent and Dutch sales 5.6 percent.
He said the company won market share in the U.S., and operating margins had improved slightly from a year ago.
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38 U.S. Code § 5313A - Limitation on payment of clothing allowance to incarcerated veterans
In the case of a veteran who is incarcerated in a Federal, State, local, or other penal institution or correctional facility for a period in excess of 60 days and who is furnished clothing without charge by the institution, the amount of any annual clothing allowance payable to the veteran under section 1162 of this title shall be reduced by an amount equal to 1/365 of the amount of the allowance otherwise payable under that section for each day on which the veteran was so incarcerated during the 12-month period preceding the date on which payment of the allowance would be due. This section shall be carried out under regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
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Brides put a lot of work in how they look and rightly so, I mean after all it is their big day. However, when planning a wedding, it is also essential to consider which knot the groom will utilize. I say this because so often males incorrectly use the wrong knot or even still fail to tie their ties correctly. Do you really trust your future husband to get this right on your most important day? Believe it or not, this minor detail will draw the majority of guests' attention.
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The Windsor Knot: For a more bold, noble appearance the Windsor Knot generates a sophisticated, sizable neckline. It's excellent for wide collared shirts.
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When Jason Joseph launched his Atlanta-based investment firm in 2009, the plan was to buy distressed property loans from U.S. banks.
But these days, he is more likely to be making the rounds in London, Munich or Amsterdam.
His firm, Hibernian Pacific Holdings, last month signed an agreement to buy an office park in Germany for €80 million ($108 million). That was Mr. Joseph's first European deal. He aims to buy property or loans valued at as much as €600 million this year, about three times what he anticipates buying from U.S. banks.
"Europe right now is the best opportunity I've seen in the past 10 years," says Mr. Joseph, Hibernian's chief executive. "We're seeing banks that traditionally looked to sell to private-equity behemoths beginning to look at other solutions."
With concerns easing in Europe over the possibility of the euro collapsing, banks are picking up the pace of selling off distressed real-estate assets.
European banks are only about a quarter of the way through the process of reducing, through sales, repayments and write-downs, as much as €600 billion of commercial-real-estate assets left over from the boom years, according to Morgan Stanley. MS +0.73% Morgan Stanley U.S.: NYSE $34.31 +0.25 +0.73% Aug. 29, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.83M AFTER HOURS $34.25 -0.06 -0.17% Aug. 29, 2014 7:58 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 120,202 P/E Ratio 15.81 Market Cap $67.36 Billion Dividend Yield 1.17% Rev. per Employee $781,374 09/01/14 Heart Drug Study Gives Novarti... 09/01/14 China Auto Rental Prepares for... 08/29/14 Citic Deserves Bigger Conglome... More quote details and news »
This year, Europe-based banks are expected to sell €25 billion of commercial real estate and loans, up from €21.7 billion in 2012 and $14.9 billion in 2011, according to Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
So far, the major buyers of these assets have been big U.S. private-equity shops such as Blackstone Group BX +0.57% Blackstone Group L.P. U.S.: NYSE $33.53 +0.19 +0.57% Aug. 29, 2014 4:05 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.61M AFTER HOURS $33.53 0.00 % Aug. 29, 2014 6:29 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 88,964 P/E Ratio 12.75 Market Cap $19.63 Billion Dividend Yield 6.56% Rev. per Employee $3,729,990 08/29/14 Carlyle Group Agrees to Settle... 08/29/14 Bankers Lament Loss of Code Na... 08/28/14 Blackstone Hires for 'Big Bet'... More quote details and news » LP, Cerberus Capital Management LP and Lone Star Funds.
Kennedy Wilson and a partner bought Dublin's State Street building from a unit of the RBS. Maxwell Photography
Now, a small but growing group of potential buyers also are showing up, including sovereign-wealth funds, wealthy individuals, smaller private-equity firms and even U.S. real-estate investment trusts. In a low-interest-rate environment, these investors are attracted by the potentially high yields offered by these assets.
Many of these investors are able to pay a price closer to the loan's face value than bigger private-equity firms are willing to do. That is, in part, because many of the new investors plan to hold the property for longer periods, and don't need cheap prices to profit from a quick turnaround.
That hasn't gone unnoticed by banks that are increasingly seeking out smaller, higher-priced sales to the newcomers alongside bulk asset sales to bigger investors.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group RBS.LN -0.69% Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC U.K.: London GBp360.30 -2.50 -0.69% Sept. 1, 2014 4:36 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.68M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap GBp41.44 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee GBp211,175 08/29/14 Financial Briefing Book: News ... 08/29/14 RBS's Coutts Sets Aside Funds ... 08/27/14 Business Leaders Slam Case for... More quote details and news » PLC late last year sold a pair of German office buildings for $1 billion to Norway's giant government fund and AXA Real Estate Investment Managers. The bank, which often has avoided dealing with larger private-equity firms, also recently sold an office building in Dublin to Kennedy Wilson, a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based investment firm.
RBS.LN -0.69% Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC U.K.: London GBp360.30 -2.50 -0.69% Sept. 1, 2014 4:36 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.68M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap GBp41.44 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee GBp211,175 08/29/14 Financial Briefing Book: News ... 08/29/14 RBS's Coutts Sets Aside Funds ... 08/27/14 Business Leaders Slam Case for... More quote details and news » "We could sell it to [a private-equity firm] for 75 and they sell the building for 100, or we could sell the building for 100," says Mark Bailie, a senior executive at Royal Bank of Scotland responsible for reducing the bank's troubled real-estate portfolio.
In Spain, Banco Santander SA SAN.MC +0.13% Banco Santander S.A. Spain: Madrid €7.60 +0.01 +0.13% Sept. 1, 2014 5:38 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20.76M P/E Ratio 17.84 Market Cap €90.99 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee €216,541 09/01/14 Europe Lenders Test Waters on ... 08/31/14 Caixabank to Buy Barclays Reta... 08/26/14 Europe's Banks Boost Lending i... More quote details and news » in late 2011 was negotiating to sell a real-estate portfolio with a face value of €3 billion to Morgan Stanley Real Estate. But the deal collapsed, and the bank ended up selling many of the assets—mostly apartments—to individuals for less of a discount than Morgan Stanley was seeking, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.
The most-active sellers have included Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group LLOY.LN -0.55% Lloyds Banking Group PLC U.K.: London GBp75.85 -0.42 -0.55% Sept. 1, 2014 4:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 55.83M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap GBp54.50 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee GBp429,360 08/31/14 Caixabank to Buy Barclays Reta... 08/21/14 Litigation May Trump RBS's Bad... 08/14/14 U.K. Reins Back on Lloyds Sale... More quote details and news » PLC and Commerzbank AG CBK.XE -0.61% Commerzbank AG Germany: Xetra €11.45 -0.07 -0.61% Sept. 1, 2014 5:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.56M P/E Ratio 27.26 Market Cap €13.12 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee €329,734 08/26/14 Gold gets boost from buyers in... 08/25/14 Euro Down on Draghi Comments 08/22/14 Copper Rises on Hopes for Chin... More quote details and news » .
Commerzbank announced in November that it planned to reduce its €56 billion commercial-real-estate portfolio by about 60% by the end of 2016.
Some obstacles to increased deal activity remain.
If Europe's economy slips badly again, sales are likely to slow. Banking analysts also say a recent relaxation of so-called Basel III banking regulations might ease the need for some banks to unload real-estate assets right away.
Yet banks face some pressure to sell their troubled property loans sooner rather than later. Some are worried about an expected increase in delinquencies, as many medium-term leases are set to expire and tenants are unlikely to renew at prices set before the financial crisis, which would push down prices.
Buyers also are hoping to see more sales this year by the so-called bad banks being formed by national governments primarily to dispose of distressed real estate.
These include Ireland's National Asset Management Agency, which had a portfolio valued at €24 billion at the end of September, and the Spanish bad bank known as Sareb, which was set up late last year.
Meanwhile, major financial institutions with large real-estate exposures continue to collapse, feeding the pipeline of distressed assets.
Late last week, for example, the Dutch state nationalized troubled banking and insurance company SNS Reaal NV, which has suffered steep losses from real-estate projects in Spain, the Netherlands and the U.S.
Some veteran U.S. private-equity investors say size and experience gives them an advantage over the newcomers, which will have to navigate Europe's multiple bureaucracies and political systems.
"There are only a few players who can deal with large, complex, distressed opportunities," says Ken Caplan, head of Europe for Blackstone. The firm, which has 55 employees in Europe and has operated there since 1996, invested $3.5 billion in equity there last year, its biggest year ever.
Indeed, some U.S. investors have decided to scale back. Rockpoint Group, a Boston-based private-equity real-estate firm, last year closed down its Frankfurt office. Managing member Bill Walton says his firm, which is completing a $2 billion fundraising, felt it had better opportunities in the U.S.
But many new entrants say they are making the necessary commitments to the region. Kennedy Wilson entered the European market 18 months ago to focus on the U.K. and Ireland and recently opened a Madrid office.
In December, the firm and a partner acquired a loan secured by a Dublin office building. That wrapped up $900 million of European acquisitions in the fourth quarter, with partners such as Deutsche Bank AG DBK.XE -0.25% Deutsche Bank AG Germany: Xetra €25.98 -0.07 -0.25% Sept. 1, 2014 5:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.26M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap €35.92 Billion Dividend Yield 2.89% Rev. per Employee €420,767 09/01/14 Heart Drug Study Gives Novarti... 08/30/14 Novartis Study Shows New Heart... 08/29/14 Eurozone Inflation Cools Furth... More quote details and news » .
"We're real-estate operators and manage everything we own," says Mary Ricks, head of Kennedy Wilson's European operations.
Meanwhile, U.S. based real-estate investment trusts last year invested about $5.5 billion in Europe, a big increase over the previous year, according to Green Street Advisors, which tracks REITs.
That figure includes Brookfield Office Properties Inc., a New York-based property manager, which acquired buildings in London's financial district for for more than $800 million from British real-estate company Hammerson HMSO.LN +0.82% Hammerson PLC U.K.: London GBp612.50 +5.00 +0.82% Sept. 1, 2014 4:37 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 944,408 P/E Ratio 0.07 Market Cap GBp4.33 Billion Dividend Yield 2.87% Rev. per Employee GBp632,683 More quote details and news » PLC.
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"Distress in the European financial markets should create more opportunities," Green Street Advisors said in a report last fall.
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WMDT 47 NEWS - As a potentially dangerous campaign gains popularity on Twitter, a petition circulates to stop what many are calling harmful hashtags.
It's called Thinsperation, the practice of showing pictures or videos of slim women with their bones protruding. Right now, a recent petition is asking the social media mogul to ban hashtags like #thinspo, #proana and #promia.
WMDT spoke with a local dietician who weighs in on the matter.
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SACRAMENTO — Health officials urged consumers to cook chicken thoroughly and take other precautions after an 18-state salmonella outbreak that has made hundreds sick in recent months.
A public health alert was issued for raw chicken packaged at three Foster Farms facilities in California as some 278 people have fallen ill since strains of Salmonella Heidelberg were first detected in March, the United States Department of Agriculture said in a statement Monday.
The strains were associated with chicken distributed to retail outlets in California, Oregon and Washington state, the USDA said. The illnesses have been predominantly in California but the salmonella has reached people from 18 states, the statement said.
The outbreak appears to have begun in March and the USDA was notified of the illnesses in July, said Dan Engeljohn of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Investigators had a difficult time pinpointing the source of the illnesses, Englejohn said.
A spokesman for Foster Farms said no recall was in effect and that the infections were caused by eating chicken that was undercooked or improperly handled. The three facilities that packaged the chicken were all in California's Central Valley — one in Livingston and two in Fresno.
The USDA has not directly linked the outbreak of illnesses to a specific product or production period. The USDA mark on suspect packages would read: P6137, P6137A and P7632.
State health officials were not planning a recall, but said it is essential that chicken be cooked to 165 degrees.
"This is the important public health issue," Anita Gore, spokeswoman for the California Department of Public Health. "Chicken can carry bacteria, and chicken needs to be fully cooked."
Gore also said people need to thoroughly wash their hands after handling raw meat, and anyone who believes they were infected and is showing symptoms like diarrhea and abdominal cramps should contact doctors immediately.
Salmonella is a pathogen that contaminates meat during slaughter and processing, and is especially common in undercooked chicken.
The Centers for Disease Control, which monitors the microbes that signal multi-state outbreaks of food poisoning, was working with a barebones staff because of the federal government shutdown, with all but two of the 80 staffers that normally analyze foodborne pathogens furloughed. It was not immediately clear whether the shortage affected the response to the salmonella outbreak.
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But businesses don't like to fly without instruments. So year after year, companies pony up for business intelligence initiatives despite lackluster results.
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A recent technology surge promises break this unfortunate cycle. At InfoWorld we find these new developments among the most interesting we've encountered in a while, which is why we're launching an iGuide to the new business intelligence, a graphical portal that aggregates business intelligence articles and analysis.
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The hottest new technology trend goes by the nickname Big Data. Conventional business intelligence software operates on SQL data; Big Data processing crunches on semi-structured information, from social networking clickstreams to security event logs. Hadoop, an open source software framework for distributed processing, is the best-known technology for processing unstructured data, but there are others, including GemFire, MarkLogic, and neo4j.
When I interviewed IBM's Rod Smith a few weeks ago, he characterized Big Data processing as "an exploratory tool that we haven't had before" to "help people sift through data where maybe 90 percent of it is not very useful." With the aid of data visualization and data mining, domain experts can then determine for themselves what's worth exploring using conventional business intelligence tools. (Big Data processing techniques, by the way, were instrumental in Watson's recent "Jeopardy" victory.)


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Some Bay County citizens often wonder where their next meal will come from, but the Panama City Rescue Mission didn't want anyone to worry on Easter Sunday.
The mission served its traditional Easter dinner in style to dozens of people. Guests were treated to the full restaurant experience, with a hostess, waitress, and a traditional holiday menu. They served ham and all of the fixings, including a roll, mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole.
Dozens of volunteers took time away from their families to give back to their community.
"It's very humbling and brings me back to my roots, so I'm not too unfamiliar with how these people feel," said Israel Cruz an airman from Tyndall Air Force Base.
Cruz was one of more than 40 volunteers serving an the dinner to those who couldn't afford one.
He once was also on the other side of the table.
"To come from a background that I came from, a city in New York and to kind of grow up with nothing," said Cruz.
The Director of the Rescue Mission Reverend Billy Fox said it isn't uncommon for people who were once homeless or at risk of losing things to want to later volunteer when they get on their feet.
"They get to come in and say I almost hit there and say been there done that, and I want to help someone who has," said Fox.
Fox and his team of volunteers shared a kind word and a warm meal, which looked more like a family feast.
"We are about family and a lot of the folks that come here, they're estranged from their families, so we're their family," said Fox.
"Me being catholic, this means a lot to me because it's a big deal in a catholic family to celebrate Easter, and I'd like to give back to people who don't have a family or a home," said Cruz.
Cruz is away from his family this Easter, but has a second one at the Rescue Mission. He hopes this new family moves forward with a full belly and heart.
"Do not give up on your dreams. You can be hitting rock bottom and still pursue a career or anything you'd like to do," said Cruz.
The meal was free to anyone who was hungry. Reverend Fox said thanks to donations from the community, it cost the mission less than two dollars per meal.
Sunday's Easter Banquet marked more than more four decades of Easter meals.
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If a few hundred million dollars could buy peace, then investors will just have to lump the resultant loss of market capitalisation as yet another facet of risk in equity investments. Or so goes the rationale.
I dare say it is hard to see a connection between a fetching young woman and an ambulance. Yet a young man training to be, of all things, a chartered accountant when his talents clearly lay elsewhere, spotted a similarity and narrated it to me decades ago.
Maybe, the neighbourhood girl kept spurning his advances. Or it could be that he was simply quoting from one of those innumerable urdu verses of unproven authorship to impress me, or whatever. But this is how it went.
Jab woh safed sadi pahenke aati hai,
To lagta hai ek ambulance aayi hai;
Magar fark itna hai
Ambulance ghayal ko le jaati.
Aur yeh ghayal kar leti.
Here is a rough translation:
When she breezes in clad in a saree white,
She reminds me of an ambulance;
The difference is
One carts away the wounded.
This one leaves
Many a heart wounded.
Granted, the analogy of an ambulance to a woman clad in a white saree requires a fair degree of poetic licence for it to stick.
But the resemblance of the Government of the United States of America to the late Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of the Iranian public, seems pretty straight forward. The irony of the US being linked to a venerable symbol of the very nation that it is now painting as a force of evil cannot be missed. But facts are facts. There is no escaping it.
Shareholder wealth
Ask Standard Chartered Bank, what it feels to be at the receiving end of the wrath of the banking regulatory system in the US.
The banking regulator of the State of New York said the other day that Stanchart has violated the US law on dealing with prohibited Iranian entities. It put the value of such transactions at $250 billion, and for added effect leaked out a mail from a senior official to his counterpart in New York castigating the regulators in a language that would have brought a flush of shame to the cheeks of costermongers in Coventry Garden.
Presto, the shares of Stanchart tanked 30 per cent the very same day, and when markets opened in India the next morning, Stanchart's Indian Depository Receipts did not escape the punishment either.
A few days later came the announcement that the Bank agreed to a financial penalty of 340 million in US dollars. In other words, in the utterances of a banking regulator in New York, shareholder-wealth, including that of Indian holders of IDRs equivalent to the amount of penalty imposed on the Bank, evaporated into thin air.
Of course, Stanchart was not alone. Other banks too have been charged with violation of US banking and tax laws and imposed fines running into millions of dollars.
Just as Salman Rushdie trembled in fear for his life at the utterance of a fatwa by the grand priest of the mosque in Qom, Iran, so too must global investors feel now the tremors of anxiety when some official, empowered by the long arm of the US law and additionally by its military might, so much as opens his mouth.
In the circumstances, if some hapless Indian investor in the IDRs of Standard Chartered Bank allows his imagination to take poetic wings he may be pardoned for penning the following words, or something to that effect.
When Uncle Sam gets on stage to proclaim
He resembles
A Khomeini, no less.
But the difference is;
While the blasphemer fears for his life
The poor investor his wallet.
The Stanchart management, it would seem, concurs. They made it very clear that, merits of their case notwithstanding, they had no choice but to go in for a settlement.
The prospect of a cancellation of the right to carry on with banking business in New York, however slight the risk was, was too much to bear for the Bank. Equally, the uncertainties of a civil and/or criminal prosecution is the perfect recipe for short sellers to have a field day in speculative trading positions in the stock.
If a few hundred million dollars could buy peace, why not, says the Bank. Investors will just have to lump the resultant loss of market capitalisation as yet another facet of risk that investments in equity instruments are prey to, goes the reasoning.
Sanctions loopholes
In fairness to the US, it would be justified in claiming that it has the sovereign right to pass such laws as it thinks would enhance its national security.
Further, it is not imposing them on anyone other than those entities operating within its shores. Although if you ask the Pashtun tribals living in North Waziristan area of Pakistan bombarded by those strange mechanical birds called Drones, they might have a different take on the sovereign right of the US Government to preserve its homeland. But that is another matter altogether.
But at another level, it cannot be denied that whether it intended it to be so or not, there is an extra territorial jurisdiction of US laws in ways that have not been contemplated.
Take the US sanctions on Iran which seem to have triggered so much trouble for European banks operating in that country.
For long, the way the sanctions were structured, they only had the effect of conferring exclusive banking right on some while leaving out everyone else.
In any case, the sanctions regime had more loopholes than a sieve for draining water from a bowl of steamed vegetables.
Later on they were supposed to have been plugged for sanctions to have a greater sting.
But the reality is that Iran continues to sell oil, which is practically all that it has, if you leave out stuff such as palm dates for you and me, and shoulder-fired stinger missiles for the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
I mean, no one is actually queueing up to buy nuclear power plants from that country. Yet we have the farce of a sanctions regime that is supposed to have instigated the common public to rise in revolt against the present ruling order. If it is going to happen, there is still not much evidence of that on the Iranian ground.
But the common man in Iran does suffer from expensive medicines and scarce food supplies. The experience of Iraq demonstrated that more lives were lost from lack of medical facilities caused by the US sanctions than the numbers killed by Saddam Hussein for opposing his regime.
At the end of it all, it still required troops on the ground for the US to impose its will than any amount of sanctions placed on the freedom of other nations and their commercial enterprises to do business with the then Iraqi Government.
To the list of collateral damages from a regime of financial and commercial sanctions, you can now add Indian retail investors as well.


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---- — SALISBURY — By Presidents Day, Wall's Ford expects to be welcoming customers to its new, larger showroom on Route 110.
In the coming weeks, Wall's Ford — which has been a staple in Salisbury since 1997 — will be packing up its current location along the northern corridor of Route 1 and moving to a former Jeep/Chrysler dealership on Route 110 at the Amesbury border, according to owner John Wall Sr.
Renovations at the new site at 158 Elm St. began over the weekend. If all goes as planned, Wall said the dealership will relocate sometime in mid-January, with a grand opening tentatively planned by Feb. 1, just in time for the busiest car industry holiday of the year.
Wall's will take over the former site of Seacoast Motors' Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge dealership, which closed in May 2009. The Route 110 site has been vacant ever since.
"We're re-doing everything," Wall said. "We're bringing everything up to Ford standards. We're all very excited about this."
The move will almost double the size of Wall's current 11,000-square-foot dealership, allowing the business to increase the number of vehicles in its showroom from four to as many as 12 to 14.
But that's not the only improvements, Wall said. The dealership is upgrading its customer service and waiting areas and creating a separate play area for children and an Internet area where people can work on their computers while waiting for their cars to be serviced, he said.
Wall had his eye on the Route 110 spot for years, but only recently was able to close the deal with Chrysler, which owns the lot. He said it took long negotiations with Chrysler to finalize the deal, but the result will be worth it.
"The building was always nice, but it's going to be nicer after we finish," Wall said. "And the location is just wonderful. The car count going by that spot on Route 110 is just awesome."
Wall wouldn't disclose the purchase price for the property. According to the Salisbury assessors' office, the property is valued for tax purposes at $1.77 million.
The move will once again place two new car dealerships within about a quarter-mile of each other. Amesbury Chevrolet is right up the road.
"I think this will be good for everyone," Wall said. "People can come here and look over to see what we have, then slide up the road and look there, too, or vice versa.
"Hopefully, they'll buy with us," he added, laughing.
Wall's Ford is the last of three new car dealerships that once prospered in Salisbury. The other two have fallen victim to the recent recession, which almost spelled the end for the American car industry.
Jim Dimopoulos, the former owner of Seacoast Motors, closed his dealership after getting word from Chrysler in May 2009 that it was ending its 36-year relationship with him. The action was taken after Chrysler asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez to reject dealer agreements for 789 dealers throughout the U.S. in an effort "to conserve cash and pursue transactions that maximize value."
Since then, Chrysler merged with Italian car giant Fiat as part of its bankruptcy reorganization and repaid the loan it received from the federal government five years earlier than scheduled. However, the company never moved to re-open a franchise in this area.
Fraser Pontiac/Buick/GMC on Bridge Road (Route 1) voluntarily sold back its franchise to General Motors in 2008 due to the state of the car industry at the time. The Fraser family had held the dealership for 84 years.
Wall has been selling cars since 1976, when he opened his first Lincoln/Mercury dealership in Methuen. He launched his dealership on Route 1 near the Seabrook border in 1997. He's also had a Hyundai dealership in Portsmouth, N.H., and owned Auto Trend in Plaistow, N.H.
He closed the Methuen dealership in October 2009 and sold the lot, but kept the business in Salisbury. At the time, Wall said he'd chosen to give up the Lincoln/Mercury franchise because Ford simply offered more and better products for the cost-conscious consumer.
Wall said the auto industry is looking a lot better today than it did in 2008 and 2009. But the days when American drivers turned in their cars for new ones every 36 months are gone, he said. Because of lessons learned during the recession, people are very careful not to overextend when buying new or used cars, he said.
"We're servicing cars we've not usually seen before, cars that have 150,000 miles on them," Wall said. "And the reason used cars have cost so much in the last few years is because people are keeping their cars longer and there just aren't as many used cars as there used to be.
"Some of the trade-ins we're getting have so many miles on them, we won't resell them to our customers. We take them straight to the auction. But used car prices and availability have loosened up in the past six months or so."
As problems plagued the American car industry, causing its near demise, Wall said Ford took the opportunity to be a good listener. As a result, he said, the manufacturer now produces a popular line of greener, gas-efficient cars that are selling well.
"Car sales are good because Ford has so many fuel-efficient cars now," he said, "But recent high gas prices have been tough on truck sales. Our Eco-Boost truck did very well, but big trucks suffered."
With the bigger dealership on Route 110, Wall expects to receive a larger annual allotment of vehicles from Ford, meaning a larger selection for customers.
"We could go from our 250-vehicle-a-year allocation to 400 a year," Wall said. "That's a big difference."
The difference also will mean new jobs, he said. The company is already gearing up, bringing on two new sales representatives. There could be more new hires to come as well.
"We'll need a couple more (auto repair) technicians and at least two more cashiers," he said. "And there could be more."


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Hundreds of people from across the UK attended the launch which was part of an energy and sustainability fair held at Westmill Farm where more than 21,000 polycrystalline solar panels — enough to power 1,400 homes — have been erected on a 30-acre site.
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Vermilion Heights will be the newest neighborhood the city will move to for its owner-occupied housing rehabilitation program.
The program for 2013-2014 will utilize 20 percent of the year's Community Development Block Grant funding to rehabilitate no less than five homes within the area bounded by the North Fork of the Vermilion River to the east, and the city's corporate limits on the remaining three sides.
The home rehabs will start on the north side of the highway, U.S. Route 150, said John Dreher, neighborhood development manager with the city.
"We'll see how that goes. (It) gives them a little confidence and a little bit of investment and helps with house sales …," he said.
The purpose of the program is that a little investment on one side can help spur some investment on the other side of the street, too, Dreher said, drawing out private investment.
"It hopes to steady things out (and restore) confidence and encouragement in a neighborhood," he added.
Dreher said many of the rehabilitations are homes of retirees in which if the city doesn't help to fix a roof, the homes could become uninhabitable.
"Many of our rehabs are demolition avoidance," Dreher said.
The program officially starts with the city's new fiscal year on May 1, but Dreher said funding usually doesn't come in until around September.
Soon the city likely will be sending out letters to Vermilion Heights residents to get ideas and wishes for eligible homeowners.
Dreher cautioned the city doesn't want to see homeowners stop fixing their homes waiting on possible CDBG funding. There is limited funding and city officials don't want to get a lot of peoples' hopes up.
The rehabs almost always include roof replacements, furnaces, water heaters, electrical upgrades or repairs, plumbing repairs and energy efficiency measures to lower the owner's utility costs.
Dreher adds the Vermilion Heights neighborhood has stability, but is seeing older homes.
The 300 approximate residences in the neighborhood are almost all single-family detached homes. It's predominately owner-occupied, with fewer than 15 percent being rental housing. The neighborhood was developed between 1900 and 1950.
About 50 percent of the structures were built prior to 1950, according to the city's Annual Action Plan.
A survey of structural conditions conducted in 2010 found that 86 houses are rated good, 213 fair and one was rated as poor.
In the city's rating system, a fair designation denotes housing that is acceptable but also showing some need for rehabilitation and reinvestment.
There also is a successful neighborhood association there.
Census data from 2010 including the neighborhood shows the per capita income level between $16,000 and $26,000 per year.
The city's plan, however, states the income level is likely lower due to the census block group being larger than the neighborhood and it includes more affluent rural areas outside city limits.
The program calls for about $34,000 in rehabilitation work per home.
City officials will prioritize eligible applicants. Initial goals are to preserve the exterior of the home and maintain a weather-proof environment.
Next, health and safety issues, such as with electrical, plumbing and heating and air conditioning will be addressed.
Dreher said as the city has done with other neighborhoods, such as Holiday Hills, multi-year rehabs are anticipated for the north and south sides.
City officials will re-examine the demand and housing conditions in the fall.
Income guidelines are adjusted by household size and being at or below 80 percent of the area median income. For example, a single person can make about $23,000-24,000 a year. The guidelines go up about $3,000 per person in the household, Dreher said.
"If you think you're anywhere close to the line, apply anyway," he said.
In the proposed target area, 34 percent of households rely on Social Security income, according to census information.
Owner tenure in the targeted area is strong with 66 percent of owners who occupy their homes having been in them 10 years or more and exhibiting strong pride in ownership, according to the city plan.
The Vermilion Heights Neighborhood Association also conducts beautification projects, assists city staff with code enforcement and has met monthly for the past five years.
Co-president of the group, Sandy Hufford, said she and other association members first heard about the city moving to their neighborhood at the neighborhood association workshop earlier this year.
The group announced the news to neighbors at its April meeting. Dreher is expected to talk to the association at its June meeting.
"It's great," Hufford said, adding that they are encouraging all residents to come learn more about the program.
She said the program will help with roof and other repairs.
"(Residents) don't have to pay it back," she said.
The rehabilitations will make a big difference in the neighborhood and help out homeowners, she added.
The city started teaming up with neighborhood associations to do home rehabilitations in 2004. The city spent the last three years in Holiday Hills rehabilitating homes. Prior to that, two years were spent in the Uncle Joe Cannon Neighborhood, two years were spent in the Kentucky, Tennessee and Delaware area and three years in the Northeast Neighborhood area.
"We take a portion of it at a time — south, north, east and west," Dreher said.
That way there are not too many applicants at once or disappointed people, he said.
At the end of the years, the city basically hits saturation with taking care of the people who qualify, Dreher added.
He said Vermilion Heights is worthy of reinvestment with its high owner-occupancy rate and long-term occupancy.
Vacant buildings
In other CDBG funding, funding for the neighborhood impact program is for maximizing funding available through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis.
The Neighborhood Impact Program has the city working with Old National Bank — a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis — by providing matching grants of $500 to $5,000 for low and moderate-income homeowners to rehab their homes.
Bank grants will match homeowner funds on a 4-to-1 basis. For example, a homeowner provides $500, the city provides $500 and the bank provides $4,000 for a total of $5,000 rehab funds.
The money is for exterior repairs of homes of income-qualified, owner-occupied homes for no more than 25 percent of that amount being available for outside services.
For demolition/blight removal, the city is earmarking more funding. From 2006 to 2010, the city demolished 137 abandoned buildings. Of those, six were commercial, one industrial, nine multi-family and 121 single-family homes. In 2011, the city demolished 18 residential and one commercial building. In 2012, the city demolished 23 residential and one commercial structure.
The 2010 Census reported that the city has 1,876 (12.7 percent) vacant housing units. City records indicate 240 of those (207 residential and 33 commercial/industrial) are vacant and unsecured.
About 30 percent or 72 of those buildings have been abandoned and unsecured for three years or more and are deteriorated beyond economically feasible rehabilitation, according to city information.
Removing structures with CDBG funding is an eligible activity due to the structures being in low-moderate income neighborhoods. Prioritization and selection of those to be demolished will be determined in the fall.
The $10,000 earmarked in CDBG funding for Midtown/West Downtown redevelopment assistance is for costs associated with the formation of a Community Housing Development Organization to work on mixed-income housing development.
Costs may involve acquisition, clearance, environmental investigations, supportive infrastructure or security.
Funding break-down for the city 2013-2014 annual action plan for $833,018 in Community Development Block Grant funding:
$170,000 to rehabilitate five owner-occupied homes in Vermilion Heights.
$100,000 for accessibility modifications in five homes, citywide.
$276,418 for demolitions/blight removal, citywide.
$30,000 for neighborhood impact program.
$10,000 for redevelopment assistance Midtown/West Downtown.
$80,000 for economic development projects.
$166,600 for administrative reimbursement.


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PLATTSBURGH — Kelly Baker and Adam Wilk were married on June 23, 2012, at St. Peter's Church in Plattsburgh by Rev. Mark Bennett.
The bride is the daughter of William and Rebecca Baker of Chazy. The bridegroom is the son of Patrice Sweeney and Dr. Steven Wilk of Carmel, Ind.
Meredith Torrance of Ausable Forks, friend of the bride, was maid of honor. Ryan Wilk of Chicago, Ill., brother of the groom, was the bridegroom's best man.
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A reception was held at the Elks Lodge in Plattsburgh. Music was provided by Jordan Edmonson.
Kelly Wilk graduated from Ausable Valley in 2002 and is a graduate of Dartmouth College in 2006 with a degree in anthropology. She was previously employed at the Witch House museum in Salem, Mass., and at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. She is currently an associate at Crazy Wisdom bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Adam Wilk graduated from Hinsdale Central in Chicago, Ill., in 2002 and Dartmouth College in 2006, with a degree in math and Latin. He was previously employed at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
After a honeymoom along the coast of Maine, the couple will reside in Ann Arbor, Mich.


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