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Federal and local policymakers could have prevented many of these layoffs.
More Stimulus and Fewer Tax Cuts Are Needed
Elizabeth McNichol is a senior fellow with the State Fiscal Project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Updated November 20, 2013, 11:54 AM
State and local governments
It didn't have to be this bad. Policymakers could have prevented many of these layoffs and other economy-slowing measures by:
· Adopting a better balance of spending cuts and revenue increases. Our analysis shows that states have cut services by $290 billion since 2008 and raised revenues by $100 billion. A better balance would have reduced the effect of state gap-closing measures on the economy. To the extent that tax increases fall on upper-income residents, who tend to save a larger share of their income, they have less of an impact on consumer spending than spending cuts do, because much of the money they raise would have been saved rather than spent. In contrast, all of state spending cuts remove demand from the economy.
· Building up bigger reserves. States closed over one-fifth of their budget gaps with "rainy day" funds and other reserves in the early years of the downturn, but these were quickly exhausted. If states had built up larger reserves in good economic times, these reserves could have done more to plug recession-induced budget gaps.
· Continuing emergency federal aid throughout the fiscal crisis. Federal stimulus aid to states for education and Medicaid helped states balance their budgets during the downturn, but it largely ended in June 2011 — well before state budget gaps fully closed. As a result, fiscal year 2012 was the worst year of the downturn for states. If the federal aid had continued, states could have made fewer cuts in education, health care and other areas.
Going forward, the federal government must be careful not to impede state and local recoveries. Large cuts in federal funding — on top of those almost certain to result from the funding caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act — would worsen state budget problems and force states to make deeper spending cuts and revenue increases, thus slowing the recovery even more. And states cannot afford to cut taxes before revenues, which remain 5.7 percent below pre-recession levels after adjusting for inflation, have fully recovered.
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Jamla Records ft. Talib Kweli, Elzhi & Phonte - No Competition
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Private 6.75+ Acre Wine Country Retreat located at end of country lane. Recently remodeled w/ eco-friendly details, this Sonoma county estate embodies the essence of wine country living w/ its indoor & outdoor living spaces. Four levels of outdoor living options provide endless entertainment: 2,000+sf deck, hot tub, fully loaded outdoor kitchen, pool, patio inc fire pit, 1800sf pool house, tennis & sport courts, & barn.
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We came, we saw, and the Oculus Rift conquered. Here's what we found this year in Austin, Texas at SXSW 2013.
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Let's face it: we're all pretty horrible at turning off push notifications on our smartphones. You install an app, give it permission to notify you with updates, and before you know it, your phone's buzzing like a beehive with status updates, tagged photos, and friends checking in nearby. The definition of "urgent" is becoming harder and harder to define. According to Google's Timothy Jordan, Google Glass is all about "getting technology out of the way," but if his keynote yesterday was...
Friday afternoon, SXSWi hosted a panel called, "It's Reddit's Web. We Just Live in It." The room was packed. And sadly, as though to prove the title's point, what might have been a reflective, thoughtful discussion about the massive site's power and influence – its achievements as well as its flaws and foibles – instead became a contentious Q&A session dominated by apparent Redditors who felt misrepresented.
The three panelists, Slate's Farhad Manjoo, Gawker writer Adrian Chen, and S...
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We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off some of the first third-party software integrated into Glass — all using a unified "Timeline cards" interface to position short bursts of useful information in your peripheral vision, and Google's Mirror API to pull down that data. Google's developer advocate Timothy Jordan demonstrated that software on stage, starting with The New York Times. Breaking news can be delivered...
Dennis Crowley is the man behind Foursquare, the check-in and food recommendations machine challenging Yelp as the de facto place to answer "what should I grab to eat?" Foursquare emerged at SXSW four years ago, and has since grown to 30 million users who have checked in over three billion times. What was once a cool way to see where your friends are evolved into one of the most important sources of data on where urbanites like to eat and drink. Crowley took some time to talk to The...
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Golden Krishna, Senior Designer at Samsung Design America, wants to upend the way we think about user interfaces. "Our love for the digital interface is out of control," he says. "It has become our answer to everything." If he has his way, the future of Samsung consumer electronics might work more like the Nest thermostat, which learns about your favorite temperature, or a Mercedes-Benz automobile, which automatically unlocks when it detects the keys in your pocket.
It was just after 6:30PM on Friday and still light outside when Jeremy Hollander, a Belgian entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco, strolled into one of the high-ceilinged, gold-hued ballrooms at the Hilton Austin wearing a suit and a dark blue yarmulke.
The room was in disarray as hotel employees shook tablecloths over five rows of long tables, placed napkins, and hauled an offending electric-powered water cooler out of the room. They were setting up for the third annual #openShabbat...
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Google has a knack for going big at SXSW. Last year, the company created an entire village near the Convention Center. This year, just outside the convention center, Google has opened a "playground." And what better way to experience the playground than with a shoe that taunts you with a male, British voice.
It's not intended to be a consumer product — the project comes out of Google's Art, Copy, & Code initiative, whose tagline is "Advertising Re-imagined." With an Arduino board,...
The last time we checked out the Leap Motion Controller (then known as "The Leap") we referred to it as "a Kinect on steroids." Since then, Leap has attracted an impressive amount of developer support and has announced a full retail launch on May 13th for $79.99 through major channels like Best Buy. We just had a chance to use the final hardware and some of the early third-party apps and games, and frankly, we're still very impressed — but it's still in its infancy.
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We've called the Oculus Rift head-mounted display "the future of virtual reality." But what does that really mean? Perhaps you'd like to hear the answer, live on the air, from a panel of gaming luminaries. At 4PM PT today, you can join renowned game developers Chris Roberts (Wing Commander), Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War), Paul Bettner (Words with Friends), and the inventor of the Oculus Rift himself, for a live conversation streaming to you direct from the SXSW Interactive festival in...
MakerBot founder Bre Pettis today announced the Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner prototype it intends to sell alongside its Replicator 3D printers. The scanner uses a combination of cameras and lasers to scan an object and create a digital file that can then be printed using one of MakerBot's replicators. The company says you won't need any experience with design or 3D modeling software to make use of the scanner, and wants to see it used by businesses, educational facilities, and in the...
At the end of February, a small number of people registered to attend the South By Southwest Interactive tradeshow received a white box stuffed with orange tissue paper and a mysterious object.
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Honorable Board of Supervisors
Los Angeles County
383, Hall of Administration
Los Angeles, Calif. 90012
Among the Charter amendments which the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to discuss on February 19 is the proposal by Supervisor Schabarum to remove department heads and chief deputies from Civil Service status. The objective of this proposal is to make these officials accountable to the Board of Supervisors for their performance and to enable the Board to discipline or remove them if their performance does not measure up to acceptable standards.
We agree with this objective. As we have stated in previous reports, the present Civil Service system is overly rigid and overly protective Rather than promote merit, it tends to protect mediocrity. Under the present system it is virtually impossible to discharge a department head except for gross incompetence, malfeasance, or immorality.
Civil Service systems were developed to protect public employment against spoils and other forms of injustice resulting from improper political pressure. Unfortunately, in the zeal to protect employees from such injustices, these systems have tended to become as much anti-management as anti-spoils.
For these reasons, in our 1970 report proposing a major reorganization of County government, we recommended that department heads and chief deputies be removed from the classified service. At the same time, however, we prescribed safeguards designed to insure that County officials would be selected on the basis of merit and would be disciplined or removed only for proper cause.
We recommended, therefore, that the selection process require open, competitive examinations supervised and administered by the Civil Service Commission. We also recommended that, if dismissed, County executives would have the right to meet with the Board of Supervisors in executive session, or in a public session if they requested it, to consider and discuss the reasons for their dismissal. In addition, the appointing authority would be required to prepare a written report setting forth the reasons for dismissal. This report would be made public.
We believe that unless these or similar procedures are incorporated in the amendment changing the status of department heads and chief deputies the County runs the risk of replacing the present system, which is too protective and inflexible, with one which provides no protection whatsoever. We do not share the view that there is no longer any need today for protection against spoils or other forms of political pressure.
For these reasons, the commission, on January 28, voted unanimously to oppose any amendment which removes department heads and chief deputies from Civil Service status unless it also includes effective safeguards against political influence.
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SP sends maximum women candidates to UP assembly
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Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) Mulayam Singh Yadav is known to strongly oppose the women's reservation bill, but his Samajwadi Party (SP) has sent the highest number of women candidates to the Uttar Pradesh assembly in these polls, officials say.
Twenty-two women candidates from the SP have won this time, say poll officials. A total of 582 woman were in the fray in these assembly polls, and a total 37 women have been elected compared.
BJP comes a distant second with seven women candidate wins, the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party with three each are in the third slot.
A woman candidate has also made it from the Apna Dal while Rubi Prasad, the legislator from Duddhi, has opened the account for independent women candidates.
The most prominent faces in the woman's brigade are that of Uma Bharti of the BJP and Rita Bahuguna Joshi of the Congress.
Bharti won from Charkhari constituency by a margin of over 25,000 votes. Joshi, the state Congress chief, won from Lucknow Cantt by 22,000 votes.
Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal has defeated BSP's Ramakant Singh in Rohaniya assembly segment of Varanasi.
In the 2007 polls, in all 23 women candidates had made it to the assembly, but only four of them were from the SP. The higher numbers this time come right ahead of International Women's Day March 8.
Mulayam Singh's popularity among woman voters also seems to be high, with a large number of them believed to have voted for him. His SP has bagged 224 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
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The rosters and schedule have been released for the annual US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP) Boys Thanksgiving Interregional, which will take place Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at Grande Sports World in Casa Grande, Arizona. Teams from each of the four regions, comprised of nearly 150 of the nation's top players selected from US Youth Soccer State Association and regional level evaluations, will participate in the event.
2013 ODP Boys Thanksgiving Interregional | 2000 Rosters
Continuing its tradition of elite competition and player development, youth from the nation's top player identification program, US Youth Soccer ODP, will train and compete in front of national staff and collegiate coaches to maximize their exposure for selection to the next level of play. The 2013 US Youth Soccer ODP Boys Thanksgiving Interregional will include players in the 2017-2019 graduation classes.
Earthquakes Pre-Academy players JJ Foe Nuphaus and Mario Rocha Jr are among 52 players in their age group (born in 2000 or 2001) to be invited for the boys id2 Program Training Camp in Casa Grande, Arizona. The camp will be held at Grande Sports World and will feature the top players from across the country for four days of high-level training and off-field sessions from Dec. 12-15. The invitation-only event will give both players the opportunity to compete in front of U.S. Soccer National Team staff, as well as some of the nation's best coaches. The age groups for the camp were selected to align with the scouting priorities for the U.S. Soccer U-14 National Teams.
ABOUT THE id2 PROGRAM
id2 Training Camps are invitation-only events that bring together the nation's top male and female youth players for four days of competition, evaluation and fun. U.S. Soccer National Team staff, some of the nation's top coaches as well as elite guest coaches and players attend id2 Training Camps. In addition to the on-field sessions, id2 Training Camps feature guest speakers, lectures/classroom sessions and other offerings, which make for a complete experience.
Does any one do Movember cuter than the Gordon family?
The only thing that would make this sweeter is if you joined Gordo and the rest of the Quakes' Movember team. You can start growing your 'stache or donate to raise awareness about men's health.
So, ready, set... MO. November isn't over yet!
U-18 Academy standout JT Marcinkowski sat down with U.S. Soccer to talk experience, leadership and future goals.
We expect big things from this dynamic 'keeper. See for yourself:
It's all coming together at the new stadium site.
Schuff Steel installed the first beams for the team and office building, and none other than newly-minted head coach Mark Watson, Quakes President Dave Kaval and GM John Doyle signed the first cross beam.
Momentous day at the stadium site. John Doyle Mark Watson & @QuakesPrez sign the first steel crossbeam. #neversaydie pic.twitter.com/olsRzRXv9P
— San Jose Earthquakes (@SJEarthquakes) November 5, 2013
Last week, signing contracts. This week, signing stadium steel. Watty's in it for the long haul. pic.twitter.com/JSC5ejGHuO
— San Jose Earthquakes (@SJEarthquakes) November 5, 2013
Beam signing #neversaydie @sjearthquakes https://t.co/SrbMMw60Ch
— Dave Kaval (@QuakesPrez) November 5, 2013
First signed cross beam #BuildingItNow https://t.co/xzKttQoM3o
— Dave Kaval (@QuakesPrez) November 5, 2013
After 21 years, Steven Beitashour returned to Iran for his second visit. And this time, it was to play for the Iranian National Team.
Listen to the Quakes defender's exclusive interview with BBC's Mani Djzami about his time with the squad, Snoop Dogg and more:


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Born from the bdSound experience in the Intercom market, the ICM4 is the perfect solution for voice-only intercom units aiming to have high speech quality with a very low final cost.
The ICM4 is a software library running on ARM Cortex M4 that improve the quality of speech communication adding specific processing like:
and it's wideband (16kHz) and full-duplex.
The ICM4 comes with a practical Java GUI that you can use to test and tune ICM4 directly on your application and in runtime. Different settings, one for each mechanical design, can be saved in a human-readable format and recalled from the GUI in a while.
The typical application just requires the MCU ARM Cortex M4, a microphone preamplifier and filters, a small audio amplifier and filters, a crystal, the hybrid and the power supply. Nothing else. You can also decide to do not use internal ADC and DAC and use an external cheap Codec.
Single IC solution for an effective cost reduction. No external memory, no other ICs for processing. Only the Audio and the Line interface. You can use both the internal ADC and DAC with an external audio amplifier or a cheap external codec with the integrated audio power amplifier. That's all.
The IC is yours, not ours. You will be free to use the ARM Cortex M4 you want(*), from your preferred manufacturer, with your preferred package. We do not propose an ASIC or a selected DSP, MCU and general IC. The ICM4 is a software, not an hardware, hence you can decide where to integrate it. No more obsoloscence problem while migrating from one MCU to another is easy.
Easy. Not basic. You might think that "easy" mean "basic". The ICM4 will be able to show why this is not true, with its full duplex capability, its wideband audio (16kHz) and its great speech signal quality.
No support... since you will not need it! The ICM4 is ready to use, so easy to use, to tune and to customize, that you will not need our support. A complete Java-based graphical user interface will help you to tune and adjust some few parameters in run-time. You can save your settings (e.g. one for each mechanical design you have) in a human-readable files and recall them in a while. But, of course, if you need our support, we will be glad to help you: you can bet!
Complete support materials to start running immediately. We will provide an example C/C++ application, reference schematic, tuning helping documentation and other materials to speed-up your time to market. We can also provide our application board for demo.
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Robert Sexton, an engineer working and living in South Australia, has spent a lifetime immersed in study of sailing ships, and has reconstructed on paper, detailed drawings of some 39 ships from researched writings of the time. It is to him, and N.T. Geeson, that we look to answer questions about the Investigator, one of the ships he has spent years researching and drawing.
The Career of the Investigator . as Robert Sexton tells us, began in Monkwearmouthshore, County Durham in England, in 1795. She was registered to her builder-owner, Henry Rudd, on January 16, 1796. She began her "life' as a merchantman, a collier, a working vessel in the merchant marine, to carry loads and transport goods from one port to another. Her name then, was Xenophon ( after the wandering Greek hero of the same name, a student of Socrates, soldier and writer) and she truly was destined to wander far from her home.
On 17th April, 1798, when Xenophon was sold to the Government. She was sent a yard at Limehouse Hole on the River Thames to be docked to undergo alterations necessary to fit her out as a naval ship.
She was now an armed ship, carrying 32-pounder carronades and two 18-pounder carronades and as a result of her added guns, her rating was altered to a sixth class sloop. Guns were very important on long voyages into unknown waters - tales of pirates are not fairy-stories. In those days they were real and dangerous, as were some of the inhabitants of the new lands on which they planted English, French or Dutch flags.
In 1801, in the opening paragraph of Voyage to Terra Australis,
Robert Sexton says, Flinders wrote:
The Investigator finally left from Sheerness on 18th July 1801 after having further alterations made to her design and structure to make her more suitable as a ship of exploration. She had been newly "coppered" and rigged, and changes were made particularly to her cabin layout and armaments. After a "refit" at King George Sound, she made a "running survey" along the coast of southern Australia (during which time she met Baudin's Le Geographe and proved that well-watered and fertile land existed in the area later to become the free settlement of South Australia.
The Investigator sailed on to Bass Strait and then made for Port Jackson. The quarter-deck barricade was cut down in height, a plant room erected. As a result of shortening the "legs of the plant room" the tiller had to be replaced by two arms attached to the rudder head.
In such ways the very shape of a ship could change as she went from one situation or repair process to another.
July 1802
The Lady Nelson constantly fell behind and in the end, Flinders decided to let her go after yet another mishap that resulted, amidst other damage in both ships, in their both losing anchors.
Flinders continued North-west to chart the Gulf of Carpentaria and then on to the most northern shores of the continent. But his men were sick with poor diet, eight months without fruit and vegetables, and weak with tropical disease.
So he made a run for Kupang in Timor where the small town might offer
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Even Trim was going grey.
Condemned, the Investigator lay at moorings in Port Jackson and was used as a stores ship. But in 1804 Governor King reported to the Admiralty in Britain that on further examination her hull had been found to be 'remarkably sound.' Repaired and re-rigged she was used for short runs.
In 1805 it was decided she should return to England 'with despatches' and on arrival there, it was noted by a Captain Kent , that a "more deplorable crazy vessel than the Investigator is perhaps not to be seen."
In 1810 the Navy Board sold the Investigator into private service, where, in her old age she wandered from Petersburg to the Mediterranean. She was once again the Xenophon, the wanderer.
On August 1st 1853, she arrived in Geelong, Victoria from Liverpool and spent her final years in the service of a company which later became the Melbourne Steamship Company.
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The Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, that crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday caused several flights from Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International Airport to be canceled.Flight 214 crashed around 3 p.m. Atlanta time forcing the closure of SFO for several hours. As a result, several flights from Atlanta were delayed or canceled.
Flights continued on their regular schedule on Sunday and a few on those flights spoke with FOX 5 about the incident.Click on video above for full report from FOX 5's Kaitlyn Pratt
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One of the latest projects developed by designers Paolo De Lucchi and Emanuele Rodella is certainly an interesting one, from both the design and the modeling point of view.
Modeling a complex object can be challenging but modeling something that, in some way, has no concrete shape – like a cloud – is even more challenging.
In order to develop a shape like one of the new Nèfos lighting systems (pictures below), it was essential to be able to modify the design while trying to achieve the desired result, a shape that could realistically resemble a soft and floating cloud.
Thanks to solidThinking's Construction History, and how it handles parameter and control points editing, the result was great.
"The challenge was to create the model in a way that could allow us to handle any further variation that would have been required for aesthetical reasons," said Emanuele Rodella. "We wanted to achieve the same shape control you have with a sculpture, especially for evaluating the whole shape while adjusting each single concave or convex area. I found a method to create a grid shaped structure that gave me the total control over the result, and each piece was dynamically connected to each other through solidThinking's ConstructionTree. The modeling quality was noticeable, resulting in a smooth and sinuous model. solidThinking helped us a lot to realize this project."
Nèfos is manufactured by Myyour and will be developed in four sizes and variants.
In the pictures below, designers Emanuele Rodella (on the left) and Paolo De Lucchi with some of his preliminary hand sketches.


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---- — Alec Baldwin got himself fired from MSNBC because of homophobic comments he made recently.
After the actor went on another homophobic tirade earlier this month, the news network has finally decided to cut Baldwin loose. He hosted the poorly-rated weekly show, "Up Late with Alec Baldwin."
Sources close to the firing say the decision to axe Alec was based, in part, on his recent homophobic outbursts toward a photographer.
Alec immediately went into damage control mode after the incident — but it was pathetic — with the actor trotting out a male hairdresser to vouch for his love of gay people. He also spoke at a conference and professed his platonic love of several dudes.
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8. Jenai Sullivan Wall
Heirs to Maurice Sullivan's Foodland fortune preside over a commercial empire that includes more than 140 retail stores around the country. "Sully" famously introduced McDonald's to Hawaii, and now the company owns the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Lamonts gift shops. The centerpiece of the enterprise is the 31-store Foodland grocery chain, the largest grocer in the state, now run by Sully's daughter, Jenai S. Wall. It's difficult to say what the grocery chain is worth, but, by way of comparison, Times Supermarkets reportedly paid more than $30 million for the struggling 10-store Star Market chain in 2009.
9. Bert Kobayashi
In 1965, when Bert Kobayashi took over the eponymous construction company of his father, Albert C. Kobayashi, revenue was around $2 million a year. By the time he sold the company to employees in 1997, it was grossing $125 million. His new company, The Kobayashi Group, is still a major player in Hawaii construction. In recent years, he's teamed up with Duncan MacNaughton to build modern monuments (and cash cows) such as Capitol Place and Hokua, both of which beat the real estate crash of 2008.
10. Thurston Twigg-Smith
In some people's eyes, the dark ages of local news coverage began in 1993, when Twigg-Smith sold The Honolulu Advertiser to Gannett for $250 million. The transaction made Twigg-Smith one of the richest men in Hawaii. It also accelerated the pace of his philanthropy. Which raises a question for many on this list: Most of Hawaii's wealthiest citizens are also the largest donors to local charities. When someone like Twigg-Smith gives generously over the years to the Honolulu Academy of Art or the erstwhile Contemporary Museum, how much is left? Enough, we suspect, to stay on our list.
11. Ron Higgins
Of all the tech companies to emerge from Hawaii, probably none hit it as big as quickly as Digital Island Communications. Higgins' networking and web-hosting company came along with just the right technology at just the right time. Founded in 1996, the company went public two years later. In 2001, it was acquired by Cable & Wireless for $340 million.
12. David Cole
Cole has had the good sense and luck to invest in or work for tech companies that have been gobbled up by larger companies. As early as the 1980s, he invested in game changers like Macromedia (Adobe), Shiva (Intel) and Tops (Sun Microsystems). Later, he was chairman of the Internet-software provider Navisoft when it was swept up by AOL, beginning his long association with Steve Case (No. 2 on our list).
13. Richard Kelley
The Outrigger Hotel empire stretches across the Pacific, with properties from Honolulu to Australia and Thailand. Although the kamaaina company was founded by Roy Kelley, much of Outrigger's growth and vigor comes from the vision of his son, Richard Kelley. Although most of the company's Waikiki properties are on Queen Emma lands, the leases alone are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They own the land beneath the Outrigger Reef in fee simple. In 1988, the price for that 2.5 acres of oceanfront property in Waikiki was $60 million.
14. Jeff Stone
The details of ownership in commercial real estate are often obscured by a welter of limited-liability partnerships, special-purpose corporations, and family huis. It sometimes takes an accumulation of details for the wealth of a man like Stone to emerge clearly. Most famously, his company, The Resort Group, was the master developer of Ko Olina, but that's just the start. West Oahu Realty, another Stone company, owns the Makaha Valley Country Club. Stone-controlled Princeville Association LLC owns the 9,000-acre Princeville Resort and other Stone companies manage resort properties in California and the Bahamas.
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Devils' prospect Adam Henrique is coming off a terrific season with the Windsor Spitfires in the OHL. Playing on a line with Taylor Hall, who was drafted first overall by Edmonton last month, Henrique put up 38 goals and 77 points in 54 regular season games. The 6-foot, 195-pound center was even better in the playofffs, registering 20 goals and five assists in 19 games, helping Windsor capture the Memorial Cup for the second consecutive year.
In addition, Henrique, who was selected in the third round, 82nd overall, by the Devils in 2008, captured the 99 Trophy as the MVP of the OHL playoffs.
His strong season has the Devils and Henrique thinking there's a possibility he can make the NHL team in training camp.
I had a chance to talk to Henrique today after the first session of the Devils' prospects camp. This is the text of our conversation.
This is your third year at prospects camp. Does this one feel different because you might have a chance to make the NHL team in the September?
"Every year I've been here they've had a different coach. Obviously, with a new coach some things will be different. But, being here the last couple of years makes it more comfortable. I've met a lot of the guys already and the coaching staff that have been here before. Just the comfort level is there and you know what to expect a little more. Coming in, I know a lot of the guys, so it makes it a little easier and the on-ice is, (head coach John MacLean) ran the AHL last year, so I've had a lot of skates with him (in last year's camp and the year before). So, you're able to talk to the guys and it makes everything a little easier."
What's your approach as far as thinking about making the NHL team in September?
"I'm excited for it. I feel there's an opportunity to crack the lineup, to play some games next year. Obviously, that's my goal. To play in the NHL would be a dream come true. I'm just more excited about it than anything."
How have you improved as a player since the Devils drafted you?
"Just being able to win two championships the last two years (with Windsor), just gaining more experience, just learning the little things. Our coaches (in Windsor) all played in the NHL, so they've taught us what needs to be done at the next level, which has been huge for me in my development. I'm just looking forward to coming to camp in September and trying to play in some exhibition games and, hopefully, some regular season games if I can."
Have the Devils given you any indication that they think you can make the team?
"We had a big meeting (Sunday) with everybody and Lou (Lamoriello) said he's expecting a few guys in the room to be on the Devils. So, I'm just looking forward to the opportunity. I think I have a chance to crack the lineup and, if I have a good summer, a good off-season, a good training camp, why not?"
You had an excellent season in Windsor. What was the difference in taking that next step in your development?
"After winning the Memorial Cup (in 2009), that was a big confidence boost and getting invited to World Juniors (for Canada). Heading into the season, there were certain things that I wanted to accomplish and making the World Junior team and signing a contract with New Jersey, those were huge goals of mine. I knew that I needed to work harder than ever to accomplish those things and, fortunately, everything went well. I had a good season, playing well. Just the confidence was there. Guys were playing well every night, trying to get that consistency every night. That was a big thing for me, getting more and more consistent."
What parts of your game have improved?
"I think my offense. I try to take care of the defensive side a little bit more. That's always been a big part of my game. But I think the offensive side of it opened up for me a bit. The last year, I just feel like I've been seeing things a lot more. I was able to slowly get around to where I was very comfortable and confident in my physical game, too. When I'm playing physical is when I'm at my best. So, I tried to really stress on that every night and being more consistent."
Do you think you have opened the eyes of the people in the organization with the way you played this past season?
"I think so. The year they drafted me, I only played a good half of a season. I think my development over the last couple of years with two championships and just the way I've been playing, I think that's opened some eyes a little bit."
Do you take credit for your junior linemate being drafted first overall?
"Of course. (Laughing) Taylor Hall is an unbelievable player. I was just lucky enough to have the chance to play with him. We played together for a couple of years on the same line and the chemistry was there. He helped me out. I helped him as much as I could. Obviously, it worked out for the both of us,"
Did you speak to him after he was drafted?
"I talked to him before because I figured he was going to be too busy afterward. I just told him, 'Good luck and enjoy it.' Being drafted No. 1 overall in the world is pretty cool. He's worked so hard for that. He's earned it and I'm sure he's going to be in Edmonton next year. He's that good of a player."


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Updated 4:04pm Friday 28th March 2014 in News
POLICE are appealing for information about two teenagers who have gone missing from Burnley.
Kyle Gibbings, 14, and Ryan Kilford, 16, were last seen at about 11.40pm on Monday, March 24 near to the Inn on the Wharf pub.
Kyle is described as white, 5ft 4ins, with very short light brown hair. He was last seen wearing a grey tracksuit.
Ryan is described as white, 5ft 10ins, with short dark brown hair. He was last seen wearing a black anorak and jeans.
He also has a tattoo of a heart with wings and Chinese writing on his left forearm.
Kyle has connections to both Burnley and to Ashton under Lyne in Greater Manchester.
PC Steph Townson, of Burnley Police, said: "We are growing concerned for Kyle and Ryan as they haven't been seen for some time now. I would urge anyone who sees them to get in touch with us by calling 101 quoting log number 1588 of March 24th"
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Michael Laudrup, who had been linked with the managerial vacancy at West Ham, is set to take over as coach of Spartak Moscow within the next 48 hours, according to the club's director of sport.
The former Denmark international was reportedly in Moscow over the weekend to hold talks with the Russian side, who have been looking for a new coach since the resignation of Stanislav Cherchesov last month.
Spartak director of sport, Valery Karpin, is confident they will get their man in the coming days.
"Everything went well (during our meeting)," Karpin told sport.ru.
"I think it will be sorted by Tuesday or Wednesday."
Karpin revealed there are just a few personal details to discuss with Laudrup, who is reportedly set to pen an 18-month deal with the Uefa Cup contenders.
"We've reached an agreement on almost every detail, and there is only a problem of a personal nature to sort out," Karpin added.
"He has asked us to find a school with English classes for their daughter. That is something we're looking into now."
The 44-year-old Laudrup has been out of work since quitting his coaching post with Spanish club Getafe at the end of last season.
He has previously enjoyed success in charge of Brondby, leading them to the league title in 2005, and was assistant coach of Denmark for two years.
Spartak sit third in the Russian Premier Liga, nine points behind leaders Rubin Kazan, and will face Banik Ostrava in their UEFA Cup opener this month having been knocked out of the Champions League by Dynamo Kiev in the third qualifying round.
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This mpc can give you a warm finesse type sound heard by many smooth jazz soprano players today. It delivers a well rounded full bodied depth (if your chops can deliver) of sound. I have owned mine for about three months now and I am very pleased with it. I play a Yamaha Custom EX soprano with Vandoren traditional #3 reeds. For my ear, this setup creates a very inviting sound. Again, warm, clear and delivering perfect intonation.
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I pick up my Breakfast Special from The Daily Grill and can't find a place to sit. All of the seats in the cafeteria section are taken, and all of the seats in the restaurant section are roped off. I see that the bar has empty seats, so I take one and eat.
A few minutes later, a waitress approaches.
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Me: I have a coffee.
Waitress: You need to order something to drink.
Me: I did.
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Me: No, all of the tables over there are taken, and I'm sitting here. If you want a policy, the policy should be that you open the restaurant when there's no place to sit in the cafeteria.
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A 79-year-old Toronto woman has been handed a conditional discharge after being found guilty of violating the Statistics Act for refusing to fill out the mandatory census in 2011.
The sentence means Janet Churnin will have no permanent criminal record after she completes 50 hours of community service, but she's on probation until then.
The judge presiding in the case disagreed with Churnin's arguments that her Charter rights were violated, and found that the self-described pacifist had no lawful excuse for not participating in the census.
Churnin's lawyer had argued at her trial that the government didn't do enough to address her concerns about U.S. arms-maker Lockheed Martin's role in the data collection process.
The Crown countered that Canadians can't refuse to comply with legitimate government obligations simply on the basis of moral disapproval or speculative security fears.
Churnin has said she thought there was a chance information on Canada's population could be accessed by Lockheed Martin, or even the American government if the corporation was forced to turn over the information under the U.S. Patriot Act.
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Death Postponed: Get him to Greece!
How Dr Aggrey Irons ended up in jail, faced death while travelling with a mentally ill sailor
This is the 22nd in a series on close encounters with death by Jamaicans, some of them in prominent positions of the society. THOSE who are acquainted with consultant psychiatrist Dr Aggrey Irons hardly know when to take him seriously.
Indeed, his friends tease him that the main reason he was able to get on so well with patients at the mental institution, Bellevue Hospital, where he spent 22 years as senior medical officer, was because he 'spoke their language'.
The burly president of the Medical Association of Jamaica has enjoyed fair success in convincing younger folk that, despite his present size, he, among other things, kept goal while he attended St George's College.
That out of the way, the job of persuading some to accept his account of what happened to him in 1977, while he escorted a mentally challenged man back to Greece, was not made easier by the witty manner in which he told the tale to the Jamaica Observer.
The series of events that unfolded around this patient during the trip at times led Dr Irons to believe that his life on earth would have been cut short.
For one thing, the aircraft transporting them to Greece almost ran out of fuel in mid-air. To compound matters he was detained for over 16 hours by Greek soldiers who had taken over the country, following a military coup.
Dr Irons relived his first encounter with the Greek national who was the apex of it all.
"A patient on a Greek shipping liner a few miles off the coast of Jamaica went out of his mind because he had heard news that his cousin was going to marry someone else and he was in love with that cousin," Dr Irons said.
"In response to his distress, he decided that the voices that he was hearing were telling him to dismember himself, so he started doing so by cutting off one of his toes each day out at sea on the vessel.
"After he had finished cutting off the second toe, others on the ship discovered what he was doing, called the Jamaican Coast Guard, as they were near enough to Jamaica, who took him up to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies, where I happened to be on duty at the time," the senior doctor said.
The job of getting the patient back to sanity was hampered by the communication barrier between the two, as the man spoke no English and Dr Irons, no Greek. Luckily, a solution was soon found — the University's professor of botany at the time spoke both languages and acted as interpreter.
After a week of emergency treatment and having bonded with the psychiatrist, the sailor had to be returned to Greece, but he insisted that he would not go home unless Dr Irons travelled with him, and declared that the doctor had saved his life and that he regarded him as his friend. So off they went on the long journey together.
"We had to take Air Jamaica to London and then the plan was to get on a flight from Heathrow airport over to Athens and deposit him in Greece," said Dr Irons.
"Prime Minister Michael Manley was on the plane going to London and the authorities were alerted, the shipping line ready, only to hear upon reaching Heathrow that there was a military coup in Greece. The government had been toppled, people were killed, the army was running the country, and all flights had stopped."
With no luggage and an unpredictable passenger in tow, Dr Irons was forced to spend the night at a hotel outside Heathrow. The Greek, thirsty for booze, got up in the middle of the night and went downstairs to the bar to fill up on his favourite drinks, bandaged foot and all, but was somehow fit enough to travel on to Greece the next day.
But that's when the adventure began to unravel, leaving Dr Irons slowly counting the time that he likely had left to live.
"We got on a flight the next day at great manipulation, only to end up over Athens with the pilot telling us, 'we are above Athens. If you look around you will see many other aircraft. The army is in control of the airports and they do not seem to know how to handle the air traffic control. They have ordered us to circle. We've been circling for the past hour but we are running low on fuel. The bar is open'."
"That's the time I knew that I was in trouble, especially when the big men at the back of the plane start to bawl. I had to — in my very best English — calm them down and tell them 'if we are going to die, let us die like men, and die as men,' quoting some line I think I heard some time in the past.
They all did end up drinking the in-flight bar out of stock as they prepared to drop from the sky when the fuel ran out, Dr Irons said. But it was not his time as the plane was finally allowed to land safely.
"We did empty the bar and we did land eventually and the pilot was thanked, though we landed at the wrong airport and there was no luggage there for us, nothing at all," he added.
It was then that reality struck that the army had taken control of the entire country and it was serious business on the ground.
"When we got to immigration, which was being done by the army, they looked at this big black man, that's me, walking with this white sailor. One of them looked at my passport and said 'Jamaica? What are you doing in Greece?'
"So I told them that I was a psychiatrist and what I was doing and one responded, 'likely story, take him to the detention area.'
Dr Irons knew that things could get really tricky, as he was abroad alone and dealing with antsy soldiers in a military coup. He remembered thinking it was like in the movies.
"Six soldiers with machine guns took me to a jail that was set up at the airport and they threw me and the sailor man in that jail. That time I remembered all kinds of stories about people jailed overseas who you never hear from again, but I kept cool, and after several hours I had an idea.
"I started to make a lot of noise and asked for the commanding officer, because there was going to be an international incident, as I came down to London with my prime minister, and my prime minister is in London, and if he ever hears that this is happening to me here, there is going to be a problem," Dr Irons recounted.
Soon after, his situation improved. He was able to speak with one of the army officials, whom he convinced to verify his claim by calling the head of the shipping line, who confirmed that the company was expecting both men.
"Maybe they felt intimidated because I am a well-built black man and I had this man with me who was like my slave, because anything I tell him, he would do. He protected me," quipped Dr Irons.
"So they apologised to me and when I finally got out, they sent the biggest limousine that they could find, so now they know that I am an important person," he remarked.
But the problems did not stop there, as the Greek sailor had become so fond of the impressive Jamaican doctor that he refused to let him go back to his country in peace.
"We took him to the hospital, but when we reached there, the man said he is not leaving me, wherever I am going he is going; he is not staying in any hospital without me, so I will have to stay at the hospital with him.
"Instead of getting on a plane and going about my business, I had to spend a night at the psychiatric hospital in Athens, just to make sure that the man was alright. But they treated me like a king.
"Twenty years after that I went back to the same airport when I went to Athens for the 1997 World Championships and visited the little prison that I was in, and people didn't believe me when I was telling them that I was in this place and locked up under military supervision," he said.
There were other anxious moments for the man who has served as team doctor for Jamaica Olympic and World Championship teams, but none stands out like the experience in Greece.
Having to deal with people who are mentally unstable exposes him to danger at times, and Dr Irons remembers two other serious incidents which caused him to open his eyes to what could have been.
About 15 years ago a woman who was not his patient burst through the door of his Health Care Limited offices along Arthur Wint Drive with a sharp knife and tried to stab him.
"She was proclaiming, as she proceeded to attack me, that she wanted to see what the colour of my blood was, to see if she and I had the same blood. That was her reason for wanting to stab me. I disarmed her and had to ban her from coming here in the future," he said.
"There was also this mass murderer who was deported back to Jamaica from the USA and who was brought to Bellevue from the airport directly, but there was no reason to keep him in the hospital.
"When he was recounting his story in the admission room, about how he held onto a man and ripped out his entrails, he was using me as a sort of demonstration piece. Psychologically, it was extremely scary. He never attempted to attack me physically, but psychologically, I did experience real fear, although I didn't show it, like I did in the case of the lady with the knife," he said.
As a student of St George's College, Dr Irons, like many of his schoolmates and those of the nearby Kingston College, often fell victim to boys who lined themselves along North Street and who would steal their watches and money. However, Dr Irons boasted of "boxing them off" and leaving them behind because he could run really fast back then.
He was also held up by two gunmen outside his then Mannings Hill Road offices during the 1970s after the Greece experience, but talked the men out of physically harming him and gave them a "change" for their 'troubles'.
His attempts to bluff his way to safety also worked on two muggers in Washington DC, where a few choice Jamaican-style curse words helped make him less of an target.
"I was at a psychiatric convention in downtown Washington DC in the 1980s, and in front of the train station is this big open park, and I was walking from the convention centre through the park, up to the train station, going north ... me alone in the park.
"I had my convention bag with me, so obviously I may have been seen as a tourist. Suddenly, two Hispanic-looking guys jumped out of the bushes, one with a big, long knife and seh I must give them everything I have, my suit and everything.
"I just threw down my bag, tek off mi jacket and laced into some serious Jamaican bad words and said to them, 'you know where I come from... where I come from me nyam people like you fi dinner you know', and the two bwoy dem run weh. The bluff worked. I didn't see them with a gun so I felt competent," he said.
Dr Irons is now fully involved in private practice, surviving through the strength of his loyal staff members at Health Care, Alwen Williams and Joan Rattray Leiba, who have both spent over 30 years working with him.
His interest in football these days is limited to watching the game when he can, and, although he is tempted at times to dress up for the odd match, his cool head often advises him to do otherwise.
After all, he doesn't want to spoil the enviable record that he has left behind.
"I was in the George's Manning Cup squad, played second XI for George's and kept goal for St George's Old Boys while I was a medical student, and also in Master's League.
"I remember playing Roper Cup (between St George's and KC) at Clovelly Park in 2000 and had to keep goal for both the Under-35 team and the Over-35 team, because the Under
35-keeper never turned up. Not one goal was scored in any of the two games, and that's why I retired — I had to do it while I was on top," he said.
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The Mississippi High School Activities Association is exploring playing its football state championships on college campuses in the near future, MHSAA executive director Don Hinton said Monday.
Since 1992, the state championships in all classes have been held at Jackson's 60,492-seat Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. However, general dissatisfaction from fans and MHSAA member schools on the age and condition of the stadium --- which opened in 1950 and is operated by Jackson State University --- has led the MHSAA to look into moving the games to Mississippi State and Ole Miss on a rotating basis.
"We've been looking at the possibility of having football championships at universities for a while and we're still looking at that," Hinton said. "But there's been no definite move to do that. With the state championship games having just ended (in early December), we have some more time to look at that. We're still talking to our schools and still looking for the best facilities for our teams to play."
If the rotating college campus plan is implemented, it's likely MHSAA championship game sites would alternate depending upon where that year's Egg Bowl is played. If the Egg Bowl is in Oxford, the state championships would be in Starkville, and vice versa.
That plan is similar to one in use in Alabama, which alternates its state championship games based on where the annual Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn is played. The state championships are held alternately at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn.
It's also possible that the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic could be held on Mississippi soil for the first time in 2015. Southern Miss' M.M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg is one possibility to host the December 2015 All-Star Classic, which was held at Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium each year from 1989-2010 before moving to Cramton Bowl in Montgomery three years ago.
The Mississippi Association of Coaches coordinates Mississippi's participation in the All-Star Classic, and MAC executive director Johnny Mims has made no secret of his desire to bring the game to Mississippi on an alternating basis. He said Monday that he has been pushing for such a move since taking over at the MAC in 2001.
"It all looks good and we feel good about it, but we've still got some paperwork in transition," Mims said. "We're still looking at places to host and we've looked at USM, and we've worked with the NCAA and the MHSAA to make sure everything is in order there. ... It's one of the things I set out to do since I first took the job. I think Mississippi deserves to host it. We've got it to the point where I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for the first time."
The Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic basketball games will be held in Mississippi this year, on March 21 at Jackson State.


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She doesn't harp on about it, but as well as looking lovely in a bikini, Myleene Klass is a classically trained musician. And on Saturday, she used her skills to perform at her manager's wedding.
Severine Berman has worked with Myleene for quite some time - as well as being her manager, she launched a line of baby clothes with Myleene in 2009. The label is called the Baby K collection.
Myleene tweeted pictures of herself in the taxi with children Ava and hero, captioned "3 adults, 2 babies, 1 harp, #SQUISHED" According to her Twitter account, she serenaded the newly married couple with music by the Goo Goo Dolls.
Entreprenur Myleene has plenty of projects to keep her busy over the Christmas period, including her new nail bar which she launched at the start of last month. She recently performed at a Save The Children Christmas Tree Sessions event in a festive reindeer jumper.
She told Madeformums.com that her daughter Hero would be getting a Christmas gift that "involved cats - she's cat made and for Ava it's anything that involves a mermaid." Roll on Christmas morning!


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Mary Harshfield and I, LeRoy Rupright, both of Findlay, took the Rick Steve's "Back Door Through Europe" (http://tours.ricksteves.com/tours10/) tour last year, it was a 21 day tour starting in the Netherlands, then onto Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and then France. Mary does not like to fly, so we crossed on the Queen Mary II, the six day trip allowed us to acclimate to the change in time.
The ship arrived in England six days later and we spent a day in London, we went to Buckingham palace and seen the changing of the guard, that particular day was also being celebrated as the Queens birthday which is an event also called trooping the colors.
We met our group in Haarlem, the Netherlands, the next day we went to Amsterdam and went to the Anne Franks museum. The city was all done up in orange because of the world soccer championship games going on.
We went on by bus to Arnhem which is a open air museum including many windmills, Rick Steve's keeps the groups small so the bus trips are more comfortable, about 20 people.
Next we went onto Bacharach, Germany which is on the Rhine River. The next day we toured St Goar and hiked up to the Rheinfels castle overlooking the Rhine, ending the day with a cruise back to Bacharach.
At this point I won't overload you with the tour, there is much more. Germany, Austria. We stayed in Venice Florence and Rome. In Venice we took a Gondola on the Grand Canal, seen David in Florence. In Rome we went to the Colosseum, Pantheon and of course the Vatican.
Next we went onto Cinque Terre, the Italian Rivera.
Then it was onto Switzerland and the fabulous Lauterbrunner valley, home to 72 waterfalls cascading from the beautiful Alps. We took a gondola up 10,000 feet to the Schilthorn, what a magnificent view.
After a few days, it was off to Paris! Paris, home to the Louvre and the Mona Lisa, Notre Dame cathedral and of course the Eiffel Tower. Our last night on the tour with our group, we spent drinking Champagne at the Eiffel Tower with a beautiful sunset.
Thus ended our Rick Steve's tour, however we had ten additional days before we caught the QM 2 back to the states. So we rented a car and went to the Normandy beaches and the American cemetery, toured many French castles and went to Mount St Michel on the coast.
We then took the train through the Chunnel back to England. We visited the Windsor Palace, London Tower, the Roman Baths and then Stonehenge.
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Learning to Forecast and Cyclical Behavior of Output and Inflation
AbstractThis paper considers a sticky price model with a cash-in-advance constraint where agents forecast inflation rates with the help of econometric models. Agents use least squares learning to estimate two competing models of which one is consistent with rational expectations once learning is complete. When past performance governs the choice of forecast model, agents may prefer to use the inconsistent forecast model, which generates an equilibrium where forecasts are inefficient. While average output and inflation result the same as under rational expectations, higher moments differ substantially: output and inflation show persistence, inflation responds sluggishly to nominal disturbances, and the dynamic correlations of output and inflation match U.S. data surprisingly well. --
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- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
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Interviewed on Al Jazeera: And a statement (Source: ANA-MPA): ISTANBUL -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew called for a legally binding international agreement to avert the overheating of the planet, in a letter addressed to the leaders of the international community in view of the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen. Reaching a beneficial agreement within the framework of the international negotiations in Copenhagen is not only morally imperative for the protection of the universe but a path to social and economic survival as well, he underlined. "The action against the climate change should not be regarded as an economic burden but as a major opportunity for a healthier planet for the benefit of humanity as a whole, the underdeveloped countries in particular," the Ecumenical Patriarch stressed. "Profit, especially, short-term profit, should not motivate our actions more so when it downgrades our shared and God-given natural heritage," he … [Read more...]
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Local health department officials say some simple steps can go a long ways towards keeping the work environment healthy.
Both children and adults are finding it impossible to avoid others who may be suffering from a cold or the flu.
One local health department official says it is important to sanitize your work areas and cover your mouths in order to prevent spreading germs to others.
"If you have a cold or flu make sure if symptoms are severe stay home until you are symptom free for 24 hours. If you have a simple cold wash your hands and cover your cough," said Tazewell County Health Educator Andrea Ingwersen.
If you haven't gotten a flu shot it's not too late.
The Tazewell County Health Department has flu clinics Tuesday afternoon from one until four and Thursday mornings from eight until 11.
The Peoria County Health Department also offers vaccines Monday through Friday from 8 til four-thirty.