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The Indians made a play for the present in July of 2011. That's when they traded top prospects Alex White and Drew Pomeranz, along with Matt McBride and Joseph Gardner, for starting pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez. Cleveland was 53-51, in second place in the AL Central, just 1½ games back of the first-place Tigers. Jimenez was having a rough go of things in Colorado, but was less than a year removed from a season in which he placed third in the Cy Young race with a 161 ERA+.
Jimenez was a balance of short-term and long-term gain, as his deal went through 2013, with a club option for 2014. In that light, it made sense, but there were reasons to think Jimenez had already performed his best in the majors, even at the time of the trade. To this point, things have worked out poorly for Cleveland: They finished 15 games back of the Tigers, at 80-82, and fared even worse in 2012, when they lost 94 games. In between, Jimenez threw 242 innings with a 1.7 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a 5.32 ERA.
Being under contract isn't worth much if he's not going to be of any use, and the Indians are down two of their top prospects for that right. Even if Jimenez turns things around, his revival would not be enough. The major-league roster has serious problems, and the minors aren't about to send any assistance. That's why it's no surprise to see the Indians open to trading away what core they do have to help build the next worthwhile Indians' team.
Jon Heyman reported earlier this week that the Indians were willing to move outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, starter Justin Masterson, and closer Chris Perez in the right deals. Choo has a single season of team control left, Cabrera is under contract for two more years, while Perez and Masterson are both arbitration-eligible for the next two seasons. Unless the Indians go all out on free agents this offseason, there's little chance any of these players will be around by the next time Cleveland makes the playoffs. The team just doesn't hit enough, the pitching is too poor, and there's little help on the way from the minors over the next couple of seasons.
Whether the Indians deal these players to bring in low-minors prospects with high ceilings, or they go for players from the upper levels who can help them sooner, is almost irrelevant. The system needs an injection of youth somewhere in order to brighten the future for the Indians, who haven't been over .500 since 2007, and have been outscored every season since 2008.
Most of the last vestiges of that era are on the way out. Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore are both free agents, as is Roberto Hernandez, also known as the former Fausto Carmona. The other key pieces, like CC Sabathia, Cliff Lee, Jhonny Peralta, and Victor Martinez have been gone for years, and that's part of why the Indians are in this predicament in their first place: The return on those trades didn't do enough to revive Cleveland, and instead, the club continued to stagnate.
That's no reason not to try again, though. As stated, unless the Indians make a huge push with free agency, there's little to be done about the current state of the roster internally. Their 2011 first-round selection, Francisco Lindor, is likely the only top-100 prospect in the system. He just finished a stint in the Low-A Midwest League, though, so he's not going to help out any time soon. Jason Kipnis and Lonnie Chisenhall are both promising, and they spent 2012 in the majors. Neither is expected to turn the lineup around by themselves, though, and that's really the issue. There's a lack of impact youth on the roster, and even if the lineup surprises, there's still the rotation to contend with.
There are plenty of center fielders on the market, but there are few corner outfielders out there who can make a difference. The ones who could, such as Nick Swisher, are asking for significant money. Choo might only have one year left, but he'll likely merit a qualifying offer come next off-season, so there's value to a new team beyond 2013 even if they don't sign him. The Indians could wait for that pick on their own, but they could also see if someone is willing to part with two-to-three prospects right now instead. All of those teams looking at Cody Ross as a backup plan to Josh Hamilton might be willing to move some kids for the rights to Choo, who has a career .381 on-base percentage and 132 OPS+. Among the 163 players with at least 2,000 plate appearances since 2008 (when Choo began to play regularly), his 136 OPS+ sits 12th -- he's got a serious bat, and if the Indians are going to lose him to free agency, there's little reason not to shop him.
Cabrera, as a shortstop who can successfully put wood to ball, would be the piece that brings the most back in a trade. He's not the hitter Choo is, and he's a solid defensive shortstop at best, but finding a shortstop who can both hit and not embarrass himself in the field is rare. The Indians already have a replacement on hand in Mike Aviles, and Cabrera is the kind of piece that could get Cleveland the thing they need most: young pitching.
Perez and Masterson aren't nearly as valuable in a trade, but they could appeal as part of a larger deal. Masterson has been a bit below-average in his parts of four years with Cleveland, but he's also averaged 201 innings and 32 starts per season over the last three. A National League squad, or a team in a division that leans right-handed, would do well to use Masterson at the back-end of their rotation. Perez has been a productive reliever for three years now, and there's always someone willing to give up talent for a closer they feel they can trust.
It will be hard on Cleveland to press reset once more, but what's the alternative if they aren't planning on bringing in impact pieces through free agency? Trading to bring in talent is difficult, given the lack of prospects, and all four of these players could be elsewhere two years from now. It might not be the best for 2013, but it's the right course of action for the future.


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The Top 100 Cigar Smokers of the Twentieth Century
From the Print Edition:
Vince McMahon, Nov/Dec 99
Great men and great cigars have always gone together, so it's no surprise that some of the century's most influential and popular figures have embraced this time-honored pastime. From the moment that King Edward VII uttered his famous proclamation in 1901, cigar smoking has been a pleasant diversion, often an ingrained habit, for politicians, movie stars and a host of other famous partakers.
So, how did we decide who deserved to be inscribed on a list of the century's most notable cigar smokers? Some of the choices were obvious. Of our top 10 picks, at least half were prodigious cigar smokers, lighting up 10 or more sticks a day, and one person, Mark Twain, was thought to smoke more than 20. Many of the people on the list are practically inseparable from a cigar, people you automatically picture with a smoke, such as Groucho Marx and Alfred Hitchcock.
Other selections were less clear-cut. Some well-known personalities are more private about their cigar smoking, such as Harrison Ford and Clarence Thomas. And then there are aficionados who aren't necessarily household names but nonetheless have left their mark on the world, people like Al Lerner and Paul Volcker.
Regardless of their status, everyone on the list shares one trait: the love of a good cigar
1 WINSTON CHURCHILL Throughout his long life, Churchill nourished England with his battlefield bravery, political courage and prolific writing, and nourished himself with the best food, drink and cigars he could find. The man for whom the imposing Churchill cigar size is named smoked eight to 10 cigars a day, primarily Cuban brands. Not even the necessity of wearing an oxygen mask for a high-altitude flight in a nonpressurized cabin could prevent Churchill from smoking. As the story goes, the prime minister requested that a special mask be created that would allow him to smoke while airborne. Naturally, the request was fulfilled. On another occasion, Churchill hosted a luncheon for King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia, who did not allow smoking or drinking in his presence. Rather than submit to the king's wishes, Churchill pointed out that "my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them." The king was convinced. Favorite cigar: Romeo y Julieta
2 JOHN F. KENNEDY When you're the president of the United States, you can get just about anything you'd like. What the 35th president wanted in early 1962 was a bunch of Cuban cigars, 1,000 Petit Upmanns to be exact. He gave his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, less than 24 hours to round them up. Short notice for such a big request, but then JFK had a pressing reason for procuring the stash in such a timely fashion. He was about to sign an embargo prohibiting any Cuban products from entering the country, including his beloved cigars. The embargo was born of a nasty spat that the United States was having with Cuba and its fears that Fidel Castro represented a growing threat to America's security. But before Kennedy could act, he needed Salinger to complete his assignment. The press secretary didn't let him down, as he managed to scrounge up 1,200 cigars. Kennedy then signed the embargo, and Cuban tobacco has been off-limits to Americans ever since. Favorite cigar: Petit Upmann
3 FIDEL CASTRO Until he gave up the habit in 1985, the man who has ruled Cuba with an iron fist for 40 years was synonymous with cigars. Only a rising national concern over the health risks of smoking would lead to Castro's unequivocal decision to stop smoking cigars, even in private, to set an example for his people. Just because he abandoned a pastime that he had relished for 44 years doesn't mean he doesn't still think about cigars. He would occasionally dream that he was smoking a cigar, though he would admonish himself for doing so. "Even in my dreams I used to think that I was doing something wrong," he said in a 1994 Cigar Aficionado interview. "I was conscious that I had not permitted myself to smoke anymore, but I was still enjoying it in my sleep." Years earlier, when Castro and the rebels were plotting how to topple the Batista regime, the only time he did without cigars was when he ran out of them. Anticipating those infrequent occasions, he would hoard his last smoke, lighting it only to celebrate a victory or console himself over a setback. Favorite cigar: Cohiba Corona Especial
4 GEORGE BURNS From an impromptu singing gig in a candy store at the age of seven, to his enduring partnership with Gracie Allen, to solo stand-up comedy acts into his late 90s, Burns kept American audiences in stitches through most of the twentieth century. Invariably, he smoked his trustworthy El Producto cigars during his act, not because he couldn't afford a more expensive cigar, but because they stayed lit on stage longer than the more tightly packed Havana smokes. "If you have to stop your act to keep lighting your cigar, the audience goes out," he once cracked. The legendary star of vaudeville, radio, TV and film resurrected his movie career in the 1970s with starring roles in The Sunshine Boys and Oh, God! Burns, who lived to 100, credited his 10- to 15-cigar-a-day habit over a 70-year span with not only keeping him spry on stage but also with helping him outlive his physician. "If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to," Burns quipped at age 98, "I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." Favorite cigar: El Producto
5 MARK TWAIN The author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn smoked at least 22 cigars a day, maybe as many as 40. Twain, née Samuel Clemens, supposedly once declared, "If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go." Twain's penchant for cigars didn't necessarily mean he smoked the best cigars. He knew that even his closest acquaintances were reviled by his stogie selections. Once, as he would later relate in his essay "Concerning Tobacco," he pilfered a handful of costly and elegant cigars from a friend's house, removed the labels, and placed the smokes in a box identified by his favorite brand. He then invited the man and 11 other friends over for dinner, offering each a cigar afterward. Everyone shortly excused themselves, and the next morning Twain found the cigars sprawled outside--except for the one left on the plate of the man from whom the cigars had been filched. "He told me afterward that some day I would get shot for giving people that kind of cigars to smoke." Favorite cigar: Anything except a Havana
6 MILTON BERLE Most men would be thrilled if their wives relished the smoke wafting from their cigars. Berle must be ecstatic, as all three of his spouses supported his hankering for Havanas. Even Marilyn Monroe, with whom the entertainer had a short fling before she became a star, savored the aroma of his cigars, and Uncle Miltie, who regularly tried to wean his friends off cigarettes and on to cigars, once bought a box of small cigars for the blonde bombshell, hoping to persuade her to switch. Berle's second wife, Ruth, not only supported his cigar habit, she showed ingenuity in doing so. During their honeymoon in Paris, Ruth went shopping for an evening bag, trying larger and larger sizes until she found one that could fit four of Miltie's mammoth Cubans. Before flying on to Rome, Berle packed some 500 Havanas, but customs officials there informed him that visitors were limited to 100 cigars. Nonplussed, Ruth pulled out a cigar from her bag and asked Berle for a light. "She nearly choked to death smoking it," Berle recalled, "but it enabled us to bring another hundred cigars in." Favorite cigar: H. Upmann
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Compact luminaire illuminates interior of small sanitary vessels
July 14, 2005
With its stainless steel body measuring only 3.4-inches-long and 0.94 inches in diameter, the compact luminaire is an ideal response to the need for the illumination of small vessels, especially in sanitary applications. It can illuminate either a light port or a dual-purpose sight/light port, producing glare-free illumination through its powerful halogen filament lamp. Its range of applications includes the illumination of bioreactors, laboratory mixers, filters, separators, pressure vessels, miniature tanks and pipelines.


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Appalachian Power says its crews have removed tons of debris from Smith Mountain Lake already this Winter.
The power company blames heavy rains and flooding that we saw earlier this season, for washing debris and trash from the lake's shoreline.
APCo crews focused on the lake's Roanoke River section the past few weeks, and removed 528 tons of debris. APCo tells us most of the debris was wood, and there was "significantly less man-made debris than in years past," according to Teresa Rogers, process supervisor for Hydro Generation Appalachian Power. "This is a testament to the volunteer river clean-up efforts upstream in recent years."
Clean-up crews plan to focus on the Blackwater section of the lake next.
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In an annual tradition, BTN visited Cats' practice today at Great Lakes Naval Station, and tweeted their impressions.
If you've seen the Northwestern preview shows on BTN before, you know that the crew (Howard Griffiths, Gerry DiNardo, and Dave Revsine) do a pretty excellent job covering each team, their impressions, etc.....and frequently have been dead on in predicting Northwestern to succeed (2008 and 2009) or struggle (2010, to a degree).
So what did they think this year?
Northwestern will be....pretty damn good — they gave huge props for the O-line, D-Line (most talent and depth in 5 years!), and secondary. Looks like our team is more talented, deeper, and hungrier than we've ever seen them. Some highlights:
- Good work out.You could tell it was last day of camp A little shorter practice,working on some opponents & some tired legs.
- The season depends on the performance of O Line because they need a run game, no dynamic TB,protect Persa and time of poss
- Kain Coulter second QB gives the offense another running threat which would allow the offense to evolve some
- Overall this could be a very good offense if Persa healthy,O line plays to potential,RB develops,explosive plays on flank.
- D Line-depth & talent best in 5 yrs. As we've said at many other stops, if the D line is getting better usually so is the program
- They obviously lack experience at LB. The OLB can run, ILB will be tested vs. the downhill running teams of the Legends
- Secondary looks very good and will be one of the strengths of the team.
- They are still limiting Persa's involvement – though he certainly participated in a lot of what they did. Backup QB Kain Colter looked good
- No clear-cut leader at the RB spot. Trumpy, Adonis Smith, Jacob Schmidt all involved – freshman T Green may have a shot
- OL looked better than it has in recent years – in fact, they seem to have improved depth on both lines. Obviously, a lot of talent at WR
- Howard and Gerry were both very impressed w/DB's – particularly with Campbell and Peters. LB is the biggest ? on D – but Ellis stood out
- Interesting to talk to V Browne and M Hankwitz – both made it clear they were embarrassed with what happened late last year
- All external talk about how bad the "D" was down the stretch may be providing the motivation they need internally
I, for one, am suddenly WAY more excited for 2011! GO CATS!


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The Hon Roger Price Consul-General in Chicago, United States of America
Mr Price arrived in Chicago to commence his tenure as Consul-General in November 2011. Mr Price was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1984 until his retirement at the 2010 Federal Election.
Mr Price served as Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Hawke and later to Minister for Defence Ray. He served as Chief Opposition Whip, and following the 2007 election, Chief Government Whip.
He was an alderman on Blacktown City Council from 1981 until 1987. He served as Deputy Mayor in 1984-1985. Prior to entering parliament he was employed by Telstra as an account manager.
Mr Price was educated at the New South Wales Institute of Technology and was recently awarded an honorary doctor of letters by the University of Western Sydney.
Mr Price is married and has four adult children.


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Mrs. Maryon Pearson, famously witty wife of Canada's 14th Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, once said: "Behind every successful man, stands a surprised woman." Mrs. Pearson disliked politics and the demands public service placed on her husband and family. I wish she could have met my wife.
Living conditions on some reserves are now so dismal that they are routinely likened to those of the Third World. Needless to say, youth literacy and education have not thrived in this environment. Working together will not only hasten progress, but elevate the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Ontario to a new level of friendship and respect.
Reading is among the last truly subversive acts we can perform, time spent in our own minds, active and imaginative, alone with our emotions, judgments, and dreams, where no one can reach us. Yet frequent readers are also more likely to participate in community and to trust the people in that community.
National Aboriginal Day, June 21, is a day of recognition that celebrates the cultures and contributions of Canada's First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. In celebration, here are a few key points about literacy and essential skills that have broad application in supporting better outcomes for First Nations, Métis and Inuit.
Our cultural lore suggests that curiosity may claim the lives of a few cats. Moving from lore to a distinct possibility, we really should add poverty to that list. Connecting their theme "Stay Curious" the 2013 Projecting Change Film Festival, is pushing forward the conversation that can't be ignored. Closing the festival with a showing of Girl Rising, the vital importance of educating women around the world lit up the screen. Learning is about staying curious. Education is a key to curing poverty.
We are shifting out of the patriarchy. The old model built for men does not work for us women as we read in Anne-Marie Slaughter's piece, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All." I admire Slaughter. Except there is one major difference that allows me to have it all; I am a Social Entrepreneur. I don't take this for granted and invite women to design the world they wish to live in.
After passing out from a cocktail of pills, Sally awoke to find a friend dead beside her. She knew she had to change. She was only 15. Illiteracy is a common thread in the stories of troubled Aboriginal youth like Sally. Experts want to change the way Canada thinks about youth delinquency. The solution, they say, starts with reading and writing.
It's classic Bollywood: mother gives up two sons, one becomes a cop/top industrialist, the other ends up embracing the life of crime as a gangster/con man. So here we have two nations, India and Pakistan born in 1947: one finds their way into enviable success, while the other struggles in the deep waters of corruption.


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Tom Marino on Environment
Congressional Summary:Amends the Animal Welfare Act to define a "high volume retail breeder" as a person who, in commerce, for compensation or profit: has an ownership interest in or custody of one or more breeding female dogs; and sells more than 50 of the offspring of such dogs for use as pets in any one-year period. Considers such a breeder of dogs to be a dealer.
Promulgates requirements for the exercise of dogs at facilities owned or operated by high volume retail breeders, including requiring daily access to exercise that allows the dogs to move sufficiently in a way that is not forced, repetitive, or restrictive; and is in an area that is spacious, cleaned at least once a day, free of infestation by pests or vermin, and designed to prevent the dogs from escaping.
Opponent's Comments (GSDCA, the German Shepherd Dog Club of America):In the past, legislation has excluded home/hobby breeders. This bill would, for the first time, require home/hobby breeders to follow the strict USDA requirements, such as engineering standards designed for large commercial kennels and not homes. Such regulations would exceedingly difficult to meet in a home/residential breeding environment. If passed, PUPS would disastrously reduce purposely-bred pups for the public.
There is nothing in this bill that changes the status of already known substandard kennel violators. There is no increase in funding for additional inspectors, nor is increased inspection evaluation education included.
Dogs purposely bred for showing, trialing or other events often are not bred for several years due to many different reasons. Some of these dogs may never be bred, yet are included in the count.
Working kennels maintain a large dog population while they are evaluating dogs; if the dogs do not work out for the purpose for which they were intended, they are often sold as pets. This could bring those working/training kennels under USDA regulations.
Congressional Summary:Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to exclude manure from the definition of "hazardous substance" and "pollutant or contaminant" for purposes of such Act. Defines "manure" to mean:
Opponent's Comments (Jim Ruen on AgProfessional.com, Oct. 3, 2011): Since when can a fertilizer dealer operate without concern for environmental regulation and impact? Let's face it, we aren't talking about Ma and Pa Kettle with their six milk cows and three sows here spreading a load of manure on the back 40. We are talking about CAFO units with thousands of animals and tens of thousands or more tons/gallons of manure. While a few maybe spreading on their own land, most are selling it to area farmers. At a time when fertilizer dealers and companies have to be conspicuously careful with how they handle product, why shouldn't mega-livestock operators be equally regulated as they sell their "waste" product for its nutrient and soil building value. Since when do commercial N, P and K producers or handlers get a free ride from the EPA...or Congress?
112th Mid-Term Humane Scorecard: The Humane Society Legislative Fund has posted the final version of the 2011 Humane Scorecard, where you can track the performance of your federal lawmakers on key animal protection issues during last year. We rated legislators based on their voting behavior on measures such as agribusiness subsidies, lethal predator control, and the Endangered Species Act; their cosponsorship of priority bills on puppy mills, horse slaughter, animal fighting, and chimps in research; their support for funding the enforcement of animal welfare laws; and their leadership on animal protection. All of the priority bills whose cosponsorships we're counting enjoy strong bipartisan support; in the House, each of the four now has more than 150 cosponsors.
The Humane Scorecard is not a perfect measuring tool, but creating some reasonable yardstick and allowing citizens to hold lawmakers accountable is central to our work. When the Humane Scorecard comes out each year, it helps clarify how the animal protection movement is doing geographically, by party affiliation, and in other categories. It helps us chart our course for animals by seeing where we have been effective, and where we need to improve.
Marino signed Letter from the U.S.House of Representatives to Pres. Obama
Dear Mr. President,
We are writing to request that you end your opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline by allowing its long-delayed approval process to be finalized.
When you intervened in January of last year to stop the nearly completed approval process, you emphasized the potential negative environmental impact of the pipeline's proposed route in Nebraska. These concerns have now been addressed. Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman once opposed the pipeline's route on environmental grounds. However, on January 22, 2013, Gov. Heineman sent you a letter officially informing you of his approval of the new proposed pipeline route.
If approved, the positive impact on our economy would be felt almost immediately. Keystone XL would create an estimated 20,000 new jobs directly, and 200,000 indirectly. Keystone XL would also advance our national security, by providing secure access to petroleum from Canada.
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Lame-duck session 2012:
KY-4: Thomas Massie(R)
MI-11:Dave Curson(D)
NJ-9: Donald Payne Jr.(D)
WA-1: Suzan DelBene(D)
Re-seated Former Reps:
AZ-1: Ann Kirkpatrick(D)
AZ-5: Matt Salmon(R)
FL-8: Alan Grayson(D)
IL-11:Bill Foster(D)
NH-1: Carol Shea-Porter(D)
NV-3: Dina Titus(D)
NY-24:Dan Maffei(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
2013 Resignations and Replacements:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R,resigned)
IL-2:Jesse Louis Jackson(D,resigned)
IL-2:Robin Kelly(D)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D,to Senate)
MO-8:Jo Ann Emerson(R,resigned)
MO-8:Jason Smith(R,elected June 2013)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R,resigned)
SC-1:Mark Sanford(R)
Newly-elected Democrats:
AZ-9: Kyrsten Sinema
CA-2: Jared Huffman
CA-7: Ami Bera
CA-15:Eric Swalwell
CA-24:Julia Brownley
CA-29:Tony Cardenas
CA-35:Gloria Negrete McLeod
CA-36:Raul Ruiz
CA-41:Mark Takano
CA-47:Alan Lowenthal
CA-51:Juan Vargas
CA-52:Scott Peters
CT-5: Elizabeth Esty
FL-18:Patrick Murphy
FL-22:Lois Frankel
FL-26:Joe Garcia
HI-2: Tulsi Gabbard
IL-8: Tammy Duckworth
IL-10:Brad Schneider
IL-12:Bill Enyart
IL-17:Cheri Bustos
MD-6: John Delaney
MA-4: Joe Kennedy III
MI-5: Dan Kildee
MN-8: Rick Nolan
NV-4: Steven Horsford
NH-2: Annie Kuster
NM-1: Michelle Lujan-Grisham
NY-5: Grace Meng
NY-10:Hakeem Jeffries
NY-18:Sean Maloney
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TX-23:Pete Gallego
TX-33:Marc Veasey
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Good Green Fun: Be an Eco-Conscious Family
You're no doubt already recycling in your house, but there's lots more the whole family can do for Mother Earth. And it doesn't have to be a chore -- if you inject some creativity (and add a little competition), you'll discover it's not only easy being green but fun, too! We've got four great ideas to try.Tree-Hugger Trimmings
Think outside the box and challenge everyone to make recycled birthday cards and gift wrap using what's already in the house. Cover a child's gift in the Sunday comics, wrap a graduation present in the classified ads (circle the funniest want ads with a red grease pencil), and use the daily crossword for an avid puzzler and outdated road maps for a travel lover. Cut out pictures from old greeting cards to make fun gift tags.Light Brigade
Leave a single light on for one year and it will burn 714 pounds of coal and create 1,852 pounds of carbon dioxide. If your family's forgetting to flip the switch, try having an "energy challenge." Each month make one person the light monitor; anyone he or she catches leaving the lights on has to pay a fine. If everyone goes one week without being fined, celebrate with a special treat, like ice cream sundaes for dessert or family movie night.The Family That Cooks Together
Save food by having an Iron Chef leftover competition: Once or twice a week family members take turns creating new dishes with what's in the fridge. Prizes awarded monthly! You can also make your own fertilizer by composting leftovers like coffee grounds, vegetable peelings, and eggshells. Add worms for faster results and more kid appeal. For a composting primer, visit epa.gov.Trash for Cash
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It costs money to roll the fire trucks out, and false alarms might even keep them from a real emergency.
Hilton Head Fire and Rescue is considering fining repeat offenders.
The department responded to more than 700 false alarms last year, according to fire chief Lavarn Lucas.
"That number varies from year to year," Lucas said. "It's been has many as almost 1,000."
When the department arrives to the scene, they discover that the alarm was malfunctioning. The owner of the home or business is told to get their alarms fixed, but Lucas say some of them don't.
"We got to some repeatedly because the responsible party doesn't want to take care of them," he said.
Some residents are up, but Lucas wants them to know that nothing is official yet.
"What we have is a plan that we put together, and this is one of those plans," he said.
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PHOENIX (AP) - Jurors have found aggravated circumstances in the case of a former Arizona death row inmate convicted for the second time in the 2001 murders of his wife and stepchildren.
Maricopa County prosecutors say the penalty phase of David Lamar Anthony's trail will begin Wednesday.
The 64-year-old Anthony was convicted Aug. 28 on three counts of first-degree murder in his re-trial.
He had been convicted in 2002 of murdering Donna Anthony and her two children in the Phoenix area. The bodies were found in 2005 in barrels at a Buckeye construction site.
The Arizona Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 2008. The court said the trial judge erred in letting the prosecution argue that David Anthony had a motive to kill his family.
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Pestalozzi European Modules: Diversity of world views and world knowledge in the classroom
We live in a time where socially and culturally homogeneous classrooms are a thing of the past – if they have ever existed at all on a wide scale. Diversity is the rule in the societies of today and this finds its reflection in the heterogeneous composition of every classroom. Learners bring with them a diversity of world views and beliefs, of knowledge about the world surrounding them as well as a diversity of capacities and dispositions to name but a few of the key elements.
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- 15/06 – 17/06/2011, Module B, European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz, Austria
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Political discussion from Westminster: Tonight at 11.35pm
On tonight's edition of Around The House, Helen Ford discusses the row over party funding and the political significance of the Lindisfarne Gospels with a panel of guests, including South Lakes Lib Dem Tim Farron and Southern Scotland Conservative David Mundell.
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The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has selected world-renowned marine artist, filmmaker, and conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey as the featured artist for its 10th-annual Art Show and Auction in April 2008.
The two-day fund-raiser will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 25th and 26th, on the VIMS campus in Gloucester Point. On Friday evening Harvey will present a public art show and narrate several of his dramatic billfish films. The event resumes on Saturday evening with a silent and live auction.
Proceeds from the 2008 events will support research by four VIMS graduate students. Kate Brodie will use the funds to help predict damage from coastal storms; Dan Dutton to study roundscale spearfish; Erica Holloman to assess the risk of eating mercury-tainted seafood; and James Douglass to investigate the interaction between eelgrass beds, overfishing, and pollution.
Harvey, a unique blend of artist, scientist, diver, angler, and explorer, has received numerous honors for his work, including the first-ever "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the International Game Fish Association. His 13-episode, made-for-television fishing series "Portraits from the Deep" is in its fourth season on Versus (formerly the Outdoor Life Network), and his one-hour documentary "Billfish: A Challenge for Survival" airs frequently on PBS stations.
Harvey has worked closely on several research projects with VIMS fisheries scientist Dr. John Graves, who chairs the U.S. Advisory Committee to ICCAT (the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas).
VIMS is responding to popular demand in inviting Harvey back for his second appearance at a VIMS Art Show and Auction. The artist's first appearance in 2006 drew large crowds and helped raise more than $60,000 for VIMS programs, including a marine science project with local middle schools, graduate-student research support at VIMS' Eastern Shore Laboratory, and a fisheries genetics study of the non-native marine snail Rapana venosa.
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Day 1 was a chilly, rainy day at sea. Nothing much to report. Dinner was formal. We saw a mixture of people dressed very formal (tuxes and long evening gowns), dressy (suits and cocktail dresses) and nice (slacks and sundresses)
Days 5 & 6 were sea days. Day 7 was disembarkation. We used the self assist departure program which means we took all our luggage and left when we needed to. It took about 45 minutes to get off and thru customs. No problems there.
We were at Cafe du Mond by 10:00 which was crazy crowded!
Overall, I'd give this cruise an 8 out of 10. I missed the in-cabin robes I was used to on Carnival. Room service for breakfast was average but always arrived on time. Breakfast in the Nutcracker two mornings. One morning, it was super fast and the next day it took forever! Our cabin steward did a nice job, but we hardly ever saw him. We used my time dining and LOVED our waitstaff. We tipped them extra the last night because we felt like they worked their tails off to keep our table of 6 (including 2 teenage girls) happy all week long. The refrigerator in the cabin was stocked with soda, snacks and water. There's a price list inside. No alcohol was included. We tried to visit every bar at least once and have to say this ship has many of them! Plenty of places to sit and relax. A few of them are smoking including one in the Royal Promenade that allows the smoke to drift into the public areas. I didn't much enjoy that. The only downer of the week was our noisy neighbors. They opened the door between their two balconies and the four of them sat outside talking so loudly we felt like we should join in the conversation!
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Sigh... how time flies. One day you're sitting in front of the TV LOL-ing with your new fave redhead on the premiere of Victorious and the next you're watching her shine in her own spinoff series! If it sounds like we're talking about the one and only Ariana Grande, then hats off to you, 'cause we are! Since her early days as Cat Valentine on the set with Victoria Justice and the gang, we've been going Bibble-over-heels crazy for this star. And now, we can't believe how far she's come!
Victorious stars Matt Bennett and Avan Jogia are super familiar with slime. They know it like the back of their hand (probably because it's always covered in it). In an interview with Nerdist, the guys explained that slime is much more than meets the eye. And they shared tons of fun facts about the gooey green stuff. Check it out.
Here's your first slimey fact: It's tasty! ...Well, kind of. "It used to have a taste, it used to have vanilla flavoring in it," said Matt. "Now it just kinda tastes like... slime," Avan added.
When you're a genius jokester like Matt Bennett, you can have a pretty unpredictable personality. However, there are some things we happen to know for sure that he totally adores. How do we know? We caught him chirping about them! For instance, Matt totally loves free deli meat: "#LoveIs when you're buying deli meat and they let you have one free test piece. That's love."
Victoria's many talents have taken her around the globe, but if you ask her where she loves to visit the most, there's just one place she wants go: home! She dished to ExtraTV that she loves visiting the beach she grew up with: "I grew up in Hollywood, Florida and I've lived there until I was eleven years old, and I grew up really close to the beach as well so I love being back in my hometown."
Daniella Monet has a nose for trouble. Will Samatha Boscarino help save her from her plight?
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Rex is wreaking havoc on Hollywood Arts and not even Robby can stop him!
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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our modelTwo out of the three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 32 points (0.2%) at 14,286 as of Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 11:50 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,509 issues advancing vs. 1,334 declining with 158 unchanged.The Financial sector currently sits up 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.1%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), down 1.9%, Banco Santander (SAN), down 1.3%, Royal Bank of Scotland Group (The (RBS), down 1.6%, Vornado Realty (VNO), down 1.1% and Morgan Stanley (MS), down 0.8%. Top gainers within the sector include Regions Financial Corporation (RF), up 3.2%, Bank of America Corporation (BAC), up 2.5%, Aegon (AEG), up 2.5%, ING Groep N.V (ING), up 2.0% and KeyCorp (KEY), up 2.0%.TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the sector lower today:3. Royal Bank Of Canada (RY) is one of the companies pushing the Financial sector lower today. As of noon trading, Royal Bank Of Canada is down $0.45 (-0.7%) to $61.60 on light volume Thus far, 168,682 shares of Royal Bank Of Canada exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 490,300 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $61.50-$62.38 after having opened the day at $62.27 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $62.05. Royal Bank of Canada provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor and treasury, and capital markets services worldwide. Royal Bank Of Canada has a market cap of $89.6 billion and is part of the banking industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Royal Bank Of Canada a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates Royal Bank Of Canada as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that we feel that the company's cash flow from its operations has been weak overall. Get the full Royal Bank Of Canada Ratings Report now.It's Official: Action Alerts PLUS beats the S&P 500 with Dividends Reinvested! Cramer and Link were up 16.72% in 2012. Were you? See what they are trading for 14-days FREE
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A man is accused of making a drug deal at Portland International Airport with three children in his car.
An off-duty Port of Portland police officer working in plain clothes overheard a conversation regarding a potential drug deal at the airport Saturday.
Port officers conducted surveillance of the suspect, Darrin Dow. At 2 p.m. Saturday, officers said they watched him purchase $100 worth of cocaine in the upper roadway of the departure level.
Officers arrested Dow, 46, of Redmond, on the charge of possession of a controlled substance. Police said they recovered a gram of cocaine in his possession.
Investigators said he bought it from Kalvin Ransom, 30, of Portland, who drove to PDX in a car occupied by three children, ages 5, 8, and 10 years old.
Two were Ransom's kids, while the other was a child of an ex-wife, according to police.
Around the same time officers arrested Dow, police conducted a traffic stop of the car driven by Ransom.
He was arrested on charges of delivery and possession of cocaine and three counts of child neglect.
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Hi Sandro! My name is Devon and I am the Co-Organizer for Tech in Motion. I noticed you are involved in the NYC tech community and I wanted to share a great event with you: Tech in Motion's Inaugural Speaker Series featuring the Senior VP of Engineering at Bitly, Pete Miron. {Feb 28th @ General Assembly} $10 includes food, beer, wine, & soda. 20% will be donated to the children of Camp Interactive. Hope to see you there! http://www.meetup.com/techinmotionnyc
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National Campaign to Show Support for Renewable Fuel Policy
The renewable fuel industry is prepared to launch a major new campaign to protect the benefits of renewable fuel to America's economy, energy security and environment. The Renewable Fuel Standard is under attack - with calls to halt or delay the RFS. According to a press release on this upcoming launch - these calls threaten the communities and innovators benefitting directly from advanced and conventional renewable fuel. Those supporting the campaign say it will show the breadth of support for the nation's renewable fuel policy at the national and state level.
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William Martinez relived the early morning fire that torched his neighbors Wissinoming home and had her crying for help.
"I was taking a shower and heard alarms go off," said Martinez. I jumped up because I smelled smoke and heard alarms at same time."
Martinez saved Marie Mattis from the burning home at 2029 Anchor. While she was safe outside Martinez raced back in, braving smoke and flames to try and rescue her ex-husband Walter.
"I kept yelling fall to the floor so I can grab you. I tried to get wet towels to put on face but flames started going into the building and I could hardly see."
Martinez was forced to retreat because of the smoke and flames.
Thankfully firefighters arrived quickly.
They rescued Walter from his second story bedroom.
He was severely burned and barely alive.
"I'm really upset my husbands burnt and they don't think he's making it," said Marie.
Mattis thankful to her neighbor who risked his life--her gratitude summed up in the way she describes him with these three words. "Angel, life saver."
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What is Drover?
Drover is a tool, which is included with depot tools, that allows developers (should be a committer) to rapidly merge and revert changes on our svn trunk/branches without any previously checked out working copy. A typical drover command merge/revert with no conflicts, takes about 1 minute to run from start to finish.
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Note: If you include --auditor <firstname.lastname@example.com> it will automatically set that person as the reviewer
Merging to a branch and don't know the branch number? The TPM (release manager) approving the merge will have it.
After merging to a release branch, try to watch http://go/stablebuilders (for stable branches) and http://go/branchbuilders (for dev/beta branches) to make sure everything's all right.
Dealing with conflicts
Conflicts are a natural part of the merging process, especially as the trunk drifts further away from the branch. Fortunately Drover makes this fairly manageable to resolve, since the tool does all its work in subdirectories under the working directory it was run in (e.g. if you did drover --merge 12345 --branch 249, the working directory it would create would be ./drover_12345_302). Under that directory you will find all of the source files that drover attempted to update in the change. So, with that bit of knowledge in mind, the resolution process goes something like this:
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So how does Drover work, why is it so much faster than normal merges/ reverts?
The short answer is that a normal merge would 1.) Require that you to checkout *all* of the code using SVN, even if it wasn't being affected by the merge (I've seen this take 1+ hours) 2.) When the merge was applied it would scan all of the code for history/properties changes, even if nothing changed (I've seen this take 10+ minutes for a one line change) 3.) Require that you do separate gcl commands.
Drover short circuits this by 1.) Only checking out the files/directories on the branch that were involved with the CL that's being merged/reverted 2.) Applies the merges directly to these affected directories individually (i.e. it doesn't let svn creep around the entire code-base). 3.) It integrates with gcl, so when you do the upload it pre-populates the comments and automatically sends the code review to the author of the cl.
A slightly more technical explanation of this black magic
The shallow checkout is accomplished by recursively building the directories using a combination of svn co --depth empties (which is why it requires svn 1.5+) and then svn updates to specifically pull the files affected by the merge. Next it applies the svn merge command to the individual directories (note: not the files) with instructions not to traverse children, which keeps the scope of the merges small. Since it kept everything in a single working copy regular svn/gcl commands work like normal on it.


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The app uses a color and number system to tell users which games are the most exciting to watch.
A score of 85 to 100 indicates a great game, 65 to 84 a good game, 40 to 64 an okay game and so on, which can be useful when so many games look the same and it's hard to determine which ones to watch.
March Madness will be gone before you're able to say the word "buzzer beater," so if you want to create a bracket and stay on top of all the tournament going-ons, you may want to go the smartphone-application route, as opposed to filling out a bracket by hand or using an app that requires a lot statistical research on your part. March Madness is supposed to be fun, not resemble a difficult math assignment, right?
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Twitter, tax breaks and the New York Times
Just about everyone who watches news media is calling it the Story of the Week, and it's probably going to be one of the top stories of the year, my (informal) nominee for a Pulitzer: Louise Story at the New York Times exposes how corporate America shakes down state and local governments -- who often get little in return. The biggest perp over the years has been the automotive industry, which Story says first perfected this kind of blackmail (though Southern Pacific Railroad did pretty well in its day). But now just about every big company tries to demand a tax break or threatens to leave town.
In in the end, there's no evidence that tax breaks, or the lack of tax breaks, is the most important factor in corporate relocations. There's even less evidence that all these billions of dollars in public money actually help create jobs, pay for themselves, or are the best way to invest in economic development:
One corporate executive, Donald J. Hall Jr. of Hallmark, thinks business subsidies are hurting his hometown, Kansas City, Mo., by diverting money from public education. "It's really not creating new jobs," Mr. Hall said. "It's motivated by politicians who want to claim they have brought new jobs into their state."
It's hard to imagine any sane person reading all the way through the story and now wanting to feel like this poor guy:
"I just shake my head every time it happens, it just gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach," said Sean O'Byrne, the vice president of the Downtown Council of Kansas City. "It sounds like I'm talking myself out of a job, but there ought to be a law against what I'm doing."
Story even weighs in on San Francisco's deal with Twitter, which, she notes, was hardly a struggling startup at the time:
Twitter was not short on money — it soon received a $300 million investment from a Saudi prince and $800 million from a private consortium. The two received Twitter equity, but San Francisco got a different sort of deal. The city exempted Twitter from what could total $22 million in payroll taxes, and the company agreed to stay put. The city estimates that Twitter's work force could grow to 2,600 employees, although the company made no such promise. ... Like many places, San Francisco has been cutting its budget. Public parks have lost about $12 million in recent years, though workers at Twitter will not lack for greenery. The company's plush new office has a rooftop garden with great views and amenities. Enjoying the perks, one employee sent out a tweet: "Tanned on Twitter's new roof deck this morning as some dude served me smoothie shots. This is real life?"
Randy Shaw, who loves and worships Twitter and the tax break it demanded, takes the Times to task on this section, arguing that Story got the deal wrong. Actually, neither of them has the true story -- what Twitter was most freaked about was the prospect that the city's payroll tax might apply to the huge wealth in stock options it will be dispensing when it goes public. That's about a $40 million tax break.
So what if the city just said that it wasn't going to tax stock options as payroll? Wouldn't that have satisfied Twitter -- without the city giving up payroll taxes on a large swath of mid-Market and surrounding areas? Could we instead have used some of that payroll tax money to protect the vulnerable small businesses that are getting forced out by the Twitter tech boom?
In the end, considering the pluses and minuses (displacement of existing small businesses and their jobs is a minus), will this dead really help create net new jobs for unemployed San Franciscans? (At least automotive manufacturing jobs are unionized and people without advanced degrees can qualify.)
I bet when the numbers are all crunched a decade from now, we'll learn that this local tax break, like the others Story discusses, did nothing good for San Francisco.
to stock options because there is no way that the speculation inherent in options is remotely similar to a steady paycheck.
But it's also true that municipalities need profitable enterprises more than those enterprises need municipalities. After all, IT and knowledge work is highly mobile since the only asset is the people. And SF would never have bribed Twitter if they had figured that they didn't need to.
A place like SF can afford people like you and the weird views that you hold, but only because there is so much successful business here, despite your worst efforts, that we can actually afford indulgent irrelevancies like you and the SFBG. Ask Detroit how many middle-aged white journalists there are there preaching socialism. No need, I can tell you - none.
The Twitter business model is identical to Zynga, Facebook et al. which is to corrupt politicians and pension fund advisors to purchase hyper inflated trash before it crashes, and relieve retirees of their retirements, because Republicans hate it when old people avoid working themselves to death.
What, the time sponge product is not the basis for a sound, ongoing profitable business?
Contrary to what the SFBG believes, the Twitter deal has already had an enormous beneficial effect on Mid-Market, and, by extension, the City. For decades this has been one of the skankiest, most dangerous, most awful areas of the City. Boarded up buildings and all the social pathologies on the City's grandest street. The tax deal helped convince Twitter to stay in the City as opposed to move to San Mateo County. The result is numerous others finding the confidence to move into this neighborhood. There's enormous investment now happening on this street that the City, in spite of all its "plans" and intentions, NEVER made happen. Yes, prices and rents are rising. Should we return to the crime, filth and dysfunction of the old Mid-Market?
he genuinely believes that having drug-dealers and hookers and homeless hanging out there all day is better than successful businesses creating prosperity.
Unless and until you understand Tim's upside-down view of the world, you'll never understand the root of his craziness.
neighborhood. Someone who had to leave. Yes I like the development better than boarded up storefronts and drug dealers but there were actual communities of people once living in the area who called it home who no longer are no longer able to do so.
We should remember that just because WE like it better doesn't mean it's better for everyone. Oftentimes displaced communities were vibrant, social places which are sterilized in gentrification's wake. That's a sad but true reality.
Snapples is that you?
My views are more nuanced than many people believe. I am a creature of many hues.
...black and blue. Ah, Lucretia! Ah, humanity!
and demand that nothing ever change ever is equivalent to him asserting that SF should go back in time 60 years when, er, SF was a Republican town.
The Republicans of 60 years ago are in many ways more progressive than anyone in office today.
more concerned about the citizens as a whole than progressives.
Progressives have a very narrow base as compared to republicans of 60 years ago.
"Oftentimes displaced communities were vibrant, social places which are sterilized in gentrification's wake. That's a sad but true reality."
I don't think anyone could call mid- market a vibrant social place- unless you are talking about social drug dealing, pimping, and panhandling.
Once Twitter goes public and then crashes and burns like Zynga and Facebook people will be able to see the tax break for what it really is, just another fraudulent scheme to part retirees with their life savings.
Until then we have to put up with Ron Conway and his bought and paid for politicians, minions and lackeys and their convoluted and dishonest denials and rationalizations.
Let's just hope that we can qualify a ballot measure in time to make up for Prop E's not taxing startups so that when they do go public, the City can get its share having provided services for free for these speculative ventures.
You can pay us up front, pay us at the end, but you can't not pay us for covering your costs to us over the time that you're preparing to raise billions in capital.
and then you'd get nothing at all, not even the intangible and indirect benefits of having a world-class enterprise in your town.
It was precisely because SF realized that it needed Twitter more than Twitter needed the city, that the Supes were forced to cave on taxing them in the first place.
California's repressive tax regime is why the superstar companies of the new economy are headquartered here. For all of the incessant caterwauling about how taxes cause businesses to flee, profitable businesses sure like it in high tax states like CA and NY.
Of course, Twitter is not yet profitable, and like Zynga will probably serve as a gargantuan sucker trap for gullible investors. That is the stuff upon which to build a sustainable economy, by subsidizing swindles.
relocate just because of tax and that, in Twitter's case, that they do.
And that you want them to pay more tax even though you think they will fail.
Yep, in the game of speculative musical chairs, you get what you can while the getting is good because we've seen what happens when the music stops.
Just 8 years ago, wild eyed leftist radicals like Susan Leal, Fiona Ma and Gavin Newsom extended the payroll tax to include stock options. Now that there is no payroll tax, we should float a ballot measure that reimposes a tax on stock options so that the free ride these firms have without gross receipts to tax does not last past the issuance of stock. We're fronting city services to these speculative ventures and we'd better damn well get paid when they do.
The biggest concumers of city services are non-taxpayers who don't contribute:
the homeless
the very old and very young
the unemployed
the sick
Businesses need relatively little from the city - just fix the streets and public safety unless they use their own security, which many firms do. In fact, city ruels and regs impede businesses more than they help.
So don't dress this up as "paying their fair share". They pay the most and get the least back. It's wealth redistribution - plain and simple.
pays sales taxes or property taxes (even if they rent). And most homeless and criminals become that way for economic reasons. Of course, you left out the corporate criminals who crashed the economy. So once again, your argument is bunk.
I'm sure you'd gladly force the very old, the very young and the sick to work at some low wage that you would claim reflects their worth.
businesses aren't paying for the city services that they use. In fact, they pay for far more services than you use.
Whether they should is another question, of course. But don't dress this up as businesses not paying for their own services - instead admit that you want them to pay for their services AND the servcies to many others.
here, the idea that if businesses have private security that they don't use public safety assets of the city. Private security *always* calls in the SFPD if a crime has been committed.
Efin ridiculous, Guest. Face it: you are so out of touch with reality that you seem insane.
Employees of firms located in the City use city services, transit, DPW, Rec and Park, etc., but you expect that employees should go into hock just to get to work in the libertarian Dickensian dystopia which you're foisting on San Francisco.
but even then, those things could be paid for from a different revenue stream that is from SF residents and not just those who happen to work here but consume no services.
And you'd get to tax those who live here but work elsewhere like in, say, Brisbane ;-)
Contrary to your Fox News blather, The Planning Department stipulates to the fact that employees of businesses located in San Francisco consume city services and that those businesses pay business tax to cover the cost of providing those services.
It's blatantly obvious that someone who commutes into the city 9 to 5 consumes far less in services than someone who lives in Sf and works elsewhere.
Right, you don't want to see a piece of paper, with numbers on it, you just believe what your economic sharia tells you must be true.
Someone who lives in Oakland and works in SF is consuming little or no city services here. Probably limtied to walking a hundred yards from the BARt station.
It's the balkanization problem I outlined earlier.
It is not feasible for Muni to only run short buses to carry your type.
never take a bus anyway. We're debating whether we should throw good money after bad at a failing product and we are fortunate that the Supes saw fit to limit that largesse.
thought that a payroll tax would simply be reinstated as soon as their backs were turned.
And it makes sense not tot ax stock options with a receipts tax because the revenue has already been collected.
Any payroll tax that looks too much like a closet income tax would be challenged in the courts, since SF is prevented by State law from imposing a local income tax. And thank god too, or they'd be milking that gravy train the way they do in places like Detroit and DC.
Voters would have to approve a stock option payroll tax and probably would. It would be fucking hilarious to see how much money Conway and his libertarian coterie would throw to stop such a measure. We'd win even if we lost. Given the pathetic turnout for the 2011 mayor's race, the bar for filing initiative petitions is still attainably low.
and then turn around and reimpose a payroll tax. Voters aren't stupid.
Nobody is talking about taxing payrolls, just in following Newsom, Leal and Ma's lead and taxing stock option grants once they're viable.
Did you vote for it?
No, the measure repealed the payroll tax, the option tax was repealed for the mid-market area last year. I'd love to see a reinstatement of the options tax on an upcoming ballot, using Newsom, Leal and Ma's language to help reinstate it.
1) The services consumed are the same regardless of whether options are exercized or not.
2) Most IT options exercizes are for companies located outside of SF. Even if SF residents enjoy them, you can't tax that. While you are taxing people who work in SF but don't live here or consume services.
There has to be a tight connection between any tax and consumers of services.
We've now got a receipts tax - we need time to see how that will work out.
Because we can.
Wishful thinking and envy are neither a pretty nor an effective combination.
goes belly-up?
Got to run. I have to answer the door for my Webvan order.
I'd have thought that was obvious.
Buy low, sell high, there is tremendous demand for all things San Francisco, so why are we giving away development entitlements and tax breaks for cheap?
Get some gonads at the negotiating table and tell them that they can take US-101 or I-280 south or I-80 or US-101 north if they don't like the way we run things in the most desirable spot to live, work and play on the west coast.
What's your next great idea for redistributing wealth?
The City did not call anyone's bluff, they folded like chairs, went down like $3 whores, ran the City like a business, only like the that they were negotiating with across the table.
Because they only had to move a few miles.
Maybe they wouldn't have moved to Nevada but the Brisbane option was real. The city had no choice.
The cost to transport all of those grumpy sweatshop employees to Brisbane would have been equivalent to the tax. I can't wait to see a tax on stock options on the ballot.
This stuff isn't hard to figure out.
You will have to wait for your payroll tax. But i guess we can always get rid of the receipts tax ;-)
If the entitled and smug would return to whence they came, If the developers and greedy could be checked. If rents would stop going up to accommodate people with suburban attitudes and tastes. I would take a grimy and skanky mid-Market any day of the week.
You want everyone to leave SF for the purely selfish reason that you find it hard to afford to live here. And instead of accepting that you'd be better off living someone else, instead you want the rest of us to leave to suit yourself.
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Seen on Broadway: Playwright Neil Simon is having a flurry of revivals this season, first with The Odd Couple, and now Barefoot In The Park, which is the perfect entertainment for a snowy March afternoon (I attended a matinee filled with many women who remembered the original version, and found the revival delightful). The cast includes Jill Clayburgh, Tony Roberts (who appeared as the younger man in the 1963 production in the role originated by Robert Redford), Patrick Wilson, and Amanda Peet. A cameo role, the telephone repairman, is played by the somewhat overweight Adam Sietz, who gets a lot of laughs as he figuratively huffs and puffs up the five (six, if you count the stoop) flights of steps to a Greenwich Village walk up we first see in its undecorated state, partially wallpapered, a ladder in the middle, no furniture, and a hole in the skylight.
Fortunately, set designer Derek McLane comes to the rescue and with a quick sleight of hand after the first scene, magically completes the variegated (and very bright) blue striped wallpaper, has all that mid-century furniture dropped into place, and presto, the place is transformed. The blue tweed upholstery on the sofa and easy chair match the wallpaper nicely, with a variety of period lamps on end tables or hanging from the ceiling, giving lighting designer Jason Lyons lots of practicals to play with. He also was confronted with a giant skylight (hole and all) that covers almost the entire stage area, Not only does this have to be lit to indicate the different times of day and night, but also has to light the actors who walk perilously across the roof at various moments, balancing the light above the stage and the light on stage, as it were. A nice comic moment is when Wilson, as the rebuffed young husband, starts to fall asleep on the sofa with his head directly under the hole in the skylight, and softly lit snow begins to fall on him.
The costumes are by fashion designer Issac Mizrahi who seems to have found a treasure trove of 60s garments. The most striking contrast is the difference between the suits and ties for Wilson's young lawyer (who keeps his ties in a large dictionary so they don't get wrinkled) and the bearded beatnik look for Roberts, with socks and sandals, corduroys and sweaters. The women appear in slacks with a zipper up the back, short skirts, dresses and shoes with big bows. The sound designer is Ken Travis, with Showman Fabricators serving as production managers. The scenery was provided by Great Lakes Scenic Studios, lighting by Hudson Sound and Light, and audio gear by Sound Associates. The wigs, by Paul Huntley completed the 60s look for Clayburgh and Peet, on blonde and one brunette respectively. Simon's writing is genuinely funny, and while one might fondly remember Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashely from the original version, or Redford and Jane Fonda in the subsequent film, the play is a fanciful fight into the past and shouldn't be dismissed too lightly.–Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
My sympathies to Martin Pakledinaz. Right up until the last minutes of the enjoyable Roundabout revival of The Pajama Game, one of its primary visual pleasures is his 50's duds, an assortment that concludes with a veritable pajama party onstage. Then its star, Harry Connick Jr., pops his top, baring a freshly buffed chest—and an audience that has found its equivalent to Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz goes nuts, as if they had never seen a shirtless performer before. Why even bother with clothes? I can only wonder how much the boxoffice for this, the company's cornerstone 40th anniversary production, would improve if Connick could be enticed to remove the bottom. There'd be lines around the block at the American Airlines Theatre, I bet.
But I digress. (And you will come out humming the costumes, I promise.) While not much of an actor, and no threat to Fred Astaire where dancing is concerned, Connick has a voice to match his physique. It's not a "Broadway" sound, but, rather, his silky, Sinatra-style crooning, which puts an appealing new spin on some classic Richard Adler and Jerry Ross tunes, like "Hey There." With it, his Sid Sorokin, the new manager of a Cedar Rapids pajama factory, is quite literally a babe magnet, exerting an ultimately irresistible pull on union representative Babe Williams (Kelli O'Hara, with a wholly different attitude, and I think a Paul Huntleywig or curls, from The Light in the Piazza) as the company faces a strike—one of the unlikelier plots for a hit musical. Its eccentricity may be why the show scurries away from it so much; its two most noted numbers, "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway," have little to do with labor relations, and everything to do with giving its cast to strut their stuff, with the multifaceted Connick provided an excuse to lay down some mean piano licks for the latter. Truth is, the embellishment gets a trifle fatiguing over two and a half hours, and even with some revision for today's sensibilities there's not much chance of making a supporting character, Hines (Michael McKean), a lovelorn autocrat, less of a stalker in his pursuit of Gladys (Megan Lawrence). All things considered, I prefer the 1957 film, which streamlines the story, retains most of the original Broadway cast and the famous Bob Fosse choreography from 1954 (the revival's director/choreographer, Kathleen Marshall, hasn't come up with anything special to replace it with), and adds Doris Day. Still, this is as bright and energetic a production as one could hope for, and there are those dynamite songs to savor.
The design, unsurprisingly, is cheerful; a dark "probing" of the material, this is not. Derek McLane's factory set, festooned with buttons, is a delight, with pajamas skirting across on an overhead assembly line; there are also more prosaic sets that roll on and off, like Babe's kitchen and a picnic backdrop, not to mention the hot and heavy hideaway. Peter Kaczorowski's lighting is appropriately slick, even, and high-wattage for the most part, with "Steam Heat," the Act II opener, done in a different, Fosse-like style, in inky, sexy semi-darkness. The sound design, by Brian Ronan, is robust and muscular—maybe not as much as its star's chest, but it gets the job done. [The scenery fabrication, painting, and automation are from Hudson Scenic, the lights from PRG, and the audio from Sound Associates; various properties were fabricated by Birch Street Design, Cigar Box Studios, and Factory at 54.] The Sleep-Tite factory is under new ownership on Broadway, but its half-century's tradition of quality has been respected and maintained.--Robert Cashill
Bridge & Tunnel is billed as a one-person show, but it seems like there are a dozen people up there onstage at the Helen Hayes, so completely does writer-performer Sarah Jones bring a cross-section of multiethnic New Yorkers to life. A downtown hit two years ago, the show has moved uptown for a run extended into July, but from what I saw hasn't lost an ounce of its street smarts in the transition. Jones, an African-American, moves swiftly and smartly among her characterizations, which range from an elderly Jewish matron to a young Vietnamese slam poet to a wheelchair-bound Hispanic union organizer. All these ingredients in the city's melting pot post-9/11 are gathered for poetry night at the Bridge & Tunnel, a shabby-funky venue somewhere in the outer boroughs that is hosting the fifth annual I.A.M.A.P.O.E.T.T.O.O. reading, and Jones comes up with a freshly observed personality with each turn of the mike. Emceeing the evening is the unfortunately named "Mohammed Ali," a Pakistani accountant who periodically retreats up the set's spiral staircase to a cluttered office (pictured) where he attempts to sort out his own immigration problems, a reminder that for as richly funny as much of the show is the pot doesn't always boil too well for New York's newest arrivals.
Beginning with the funniest no-cellphones PSA I've ever seen (and there are some clever ones, depending on the show), Bridge & Tunnel is almost constantly amusing for its whip-smart 90 minutes, with some laugh-out-loud moments, as when Mrs. Ling from Flushing laments her daughter's sexual orientation ("she told me she was in love with a nice Chinese girl, the words I'd always wanted to hear, but from my son") or a disruption from rapper Rasheed, clad in electric orange, who checks himself for "proper mike stance." The more heart-tuggingly poignant episodes are a little less successful, but they go down easy, too, so sure is Jones' command of her accents, posture, and costuming (in a nice touch, some of her coats and hats drop down from winches). She's at her best when one of her characters, Rose Aimee Sylvince, recites a poem called "God Bless America…But Not Because of You," a rousing comic tribute to the contribution all immigrants have made for their adopted country—with one niggling, purely personal exception. A righteous anger has its place at her table, too.
Her cast of characters, directed by Tony Taccone, has been given an apt environment in which to express themselves. The mood is established right as you take your seat, by hip-hop music provided by DJ Rekha and Asa Taccone, thumpingly (but not irritatingly) conveyed by sound designer Christopher Cronin. David Korins' two-tiered set, just this side of falling into decrepitude, manages to hang on, with bright coats of pink, blue, and purple paint giving it a splashy hip-hop look despite its basic disrepair. The lighting, by Howell Binkley, accents the colors when not slipping discreetly into darkness, giving cover for another one of Jones' transformations. [Center Line Studios provided the scenery, PRG the lighting, and One Dream Sound the audio.] There is no credited costume designer, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Jones herself rummages through neighborhood thrift shops, looking for just the right jacket or accessory to bring her delightful ensemble to life. --Robert Cashill
Seen in Manhattan: Dance Theatre Workshop, or DTW as it is known, is a bastion of New York's downtown dance community (in fact the venue is celebrating its 40th season, albeit in a new theatre built where the old one once stood). A recent performance was by Reggie Wilson / Fist & Heel Performance Group, in a piece oddly named, The Tale: Npinpee Nckutchie and the Tail of the Golden Duck (there is not a duck in sight). But the rather intimate evening features a company of eight dancers and singers who perform to a score that draws on the black American folk tradition of stepping, as well as contemporary popular music, 1930's jazz, and traditional songs from Senegal and the African diaspora, including Trinidad.
The lighting and set designer was Jonathan Belcher who lined the entire perimeter of the stage with strips of silver mylar that reflected the light at moments, and was brightly lit by vertical strips of bulbs placed between the sections of curtain. The overall effect is to create an environment that is at times showy, and at times homey, for the dancers, all clad in black with costumes designed by Naoko Nagato. Wilson and his dancers often break into two groups of four, and the lighting favors one group over the other, helping the audience focus on the action which ranges from social dancing to hand clapping and foot stomping. The dancers were clearly enjoying themselves, and the only thing the audience wanted was more, as the piece lasted not more than about 50 minutes. Maybe Wilson should have pumped up the volume and invited the audience to come up and dance, or perhaps he just wanted to make sure we'll come back to see what he's up to the next time.–ELG


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