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My mommy doesnt want me, but I dont know why. Most mommies and daddies say that babies are a joy to them, so I guess that my mommy and daddy dont think that I would be a joy to them. This makes we feel very bad inside. I know I could be a blessing to my mommy and daddy, but I guess they dont love me.
I wish that all mommies and daddies would change their minds and give all unborn babies a chance to prove how much they love mommy and daddy. If they would let us live and would keep us for just a few days, I think they would change their minds about letting a doctor stop our beating hearts.
We babies thought that being in a mommys womb would be the safest place for us to be, but this isnt true anymore. Many mommies take us - before we are born - to doctors who do something very bad to us. They put an end to our beating hearts. This is an awful and painful thing that mommies and doctors do to us.
We wish all mommies and daddies could view a movie of us and see just how many precious moments they would miss out on by ending our lives. They would miss out on all the many fun and happy times that we could have with each other. We know there would be some difficult and sad times too, but we could love each other through them all.
Even if some mommies and daddies consider us a burden, there are a lot of caring people in the world who would want to take us home with them and they would love us very much.
Please let me be born! I may not be perfect, but my Maker has made me just as He planned. God made me so that I could bring joy and blessings to my mommy and daddy. I am defenseless and too little to do anything about the terrible situation I am in, so please give me a chance at life. Please, have a heart.
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Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 12:25
Mine are large but still green. Should I cross my fingers that they won't crack after the predicted rain later today and might still ripen on the vine, or should I try to ripen them inside? Or look for my recipes for green tomatoes?
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I've had tomato plants blight off in August. You definitely don't want damp and chilly conditions to occur around the vines. If the fruits are too green to pick you will have to erect plastic shelters over the plants so they can hang on longer than if they were fully exposed. This must be done before the plants start to shrivel and get moldy. In this region it is not unreasonable to grow tomatoes under cover the whole summer. Especially if you are trying to get fruit from kinds that are not short season types. |
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Green tomatoes are far less likely to rain-crack, but you should bring yours inside to ripen. Temperatures under 45 degrees ruin tomato quality for fresh eating. |
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[317] Ischemic Cardiac Myocytes Express Membranous CD56 in the Setting of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy (CAV): A Potential Predictor of CAV in Endomyocardial Biopsies
Kammi J Henriksen, Anthony Chang, Aliya N Husain. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Background: CAV is an accelerated, diffuse form of coronary artery disease, characterized by concentric intimal proliferation and progressive luminal stenosis, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality after cardiac transplantation. Since the process primarily affects the large epicardial coronary vessels, a histologic diagnosis cannot be rendered until the time of explant or autopsy. Interestingly, it has been reported that CD56 is upregulated in ischemic cardiac myocytes, and might play a cardioprotective role in metabolic stress. Considering that the development of CAV results in progressive cardiac myocyte ischemia, we hypothesized that the presence and intensity of CD56 expression in post-transplant endomyocardial biopsies might predict the development of CAV.
Design: A retrospective review of autopsy cases was conducted to identify cardiac transplant patients with CAV at the time of death, who had undergone serial endomyocardial biopsies at our institution. Using the archived formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks, immunohistochemical staining for CD56 was performed on 3-5 serial endomyocardial biopsies and autopsy heart from each patient. Control was autopsy heart without any pathology.
Results: Six patients were identified who had undergone cardiac transplantation (age range 6-57 years) and had serial endomyocardial biopsies over the course of 14 months to 18 years (average: 8 years) prior to death. In 5 of 6 patients, the initial biopsy examined at 3-6 months post-transplantation showed CD56 staining isolated to the intercalated discs, with minimal cytoplasmic or membranous staining. Over time, the cardiomyocytes developed membranous CD56 expression, and eventual membranous and cytoplasmic CD56 as seen in the autopsy specimens. In one control autopsy heart without cardiac pathology, CD56 expression was primarily seen in the intercalated discs.
Conclusions: The detection of CAV in cardiac transplant recipients is heavily reliant on invasive procedures, which are often non-diagnostic. By utilizing immunohistochemical staining for CD56, a marker which is expressed in ischemic cardiomyocytes, we were able to track the progression of ischemic changes in serial endomyocardial biopsies of multiple patients who developed CAV. We propose that upregulation of CD56 expression in post-transplant endomyocardial biopsies might help predict which patients will develop CAV, thus enabling earlier detection and guiding appropriate management.
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With no job I am needing to sell my mower and downsize, The mower is a 2008 Cub Cadet Z Force with 42 inch deck. It has the 23hp Kohler engine. The mower has 45.4 hours on it. Looks and runs great. What would be a good asking price? |
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Legislature should let community college faculty manage their own affairs
If you or someone you know has taken a class at one of Washington's community and technical colleges, there is a 50-50 chance that the instructor was a part-time faculty member.
For decades, higher education institutions across the country have increasingly hired part-time, adjunct or contingent faculty to teach, primarily because of shrinking state funding. In our state, two-thirds of the faculty workforce are contingent — teachers who aren't in line for permanent tenure and frequently only working part-time at a college. It's easy to blame the union representing faculty, but study after study and story after story prove that the system itself is broken.
A report released January 24 by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, called "The Just-In-Time Professor," shares the findings of an e-forum the committee's Democrats conducted to collect information about adjunct experiences. The report affirms there is an academic staffing crisis in higher education that's built on a cheap source of labor. According to the findings about the faculty, "their story is another example of the shrinking middle class and another data point in the widening gap between rich and poor."
"These people played by the rules and found employment in a highly skilled, in-demand field, but are being put under extreme stress — with some even living in or on the edge of poverty," said senior Democratic committee member U.S. Rep. George Miller of California.
Unfortunately, Senate Bill 5844 (sponsored by Sens. Tim Sheldon and Pam Roach) would perpetuate the inequity at an annual cost of $600,000. The bill may be dead for this year but similar measures have been introduced before and can be expected in the future. Proposals like this would exacerbate the two-tier faculty system by forming separate unions for part-time and full-time faculty.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Washington is one of two legally recognized labor organizations which represent over 10,000 faculty in our community and technical colleges. For years we have worked hard through collective bargaining and legislation to improve the working conditions of part-time faculty. This includes fighting for equal pay for equal work, professional development, sick leave benefits, priority hiring, eligibility for unemployment insurance and rights to classes before full-time faculty take on extras. Contingent faculty are represented on our boards and committees and have a voice.
Recent contracts in our locals are showing improvement for contingent faculty. At Shoreline and Seattle community colleges, for example, many part-time faculty are guaranteed classes before full-time are allowed to work extra classes, and their union contracts ensure that they are interviewed for full-time positions in their departments. When the state Legislature allocated a small pot of money last year to restore the budget cuts, the faculty unions made sure that part-time faculty got an equal or greater share of the money as full-time.
We continue to address these issues. Our members support legislation such as HB 1348, which would allow faculty and college administration to bargain the use of discretionary local college funds (tuition, parking fees, international programs) for salary steps for part- and full-time faculty. Their step increases are currently funded by the state Legislature but, because of the economy and disinvestment in higher education, an overwhelming majority have not been implemented. The buck stops with the state Legislature and college boards of trustees, and it's time to reward contingent faculty for their hard work.
College accreditation recommendations increasingly call for improved working conditions for contingent faculty, and these recommendations set the stage for having better leverage at the bargaining table.
SB 5844 is not the answer. Its approach is a flawed one that would undermine the collective power of faculty, leaving contingent faculty with the monumental task of organizing, forming a new bargaining unit, and competing for new contracts. It is a divide-and-conquer approach that perpetuates the two-tier system that was set up by college administrations long before unions began representing faculty.
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Posted Fri, Feb 21, 5:44 a.m.
Yes, let's let the Democratic Party's thugs - unions - corrupt the community college system, too. Pretty soon they will be as politicized and unaffordable as the ivory towers. Go online kids. Encourage your parents to starve those social institutions that have been corrupted by public sector unions.
Posted Sun, Feb 23, 1:55 p.m.
Oh, it's been nice not having to read these posts at Crosscut for more than a year since I left the Gates-Google-Bezos-redneck town of Seattle. But since I still live in WA and work as an adjunct, south, I knew I had to comment on the unionizing bill and the AFT debunking it. And, alas, it's this BlueLight/RedLight dude or dudette. Again! Constantly. What a waste of libertarian tea party tripe.
UNIONS need fixing, not out with the bathwater. What a load here. Let's have Whole Foods, Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Boeing, Google and all the others call the shots, now that is the way.
Go for on-line education? Right. I've been teaching since 1983 in many states, in prisons, with all kinds of students, even the US Army, Air Force, high schools, alternative schools, gifted and talented, even Gonzaga and big UT-El Paso, as well as at four Community Colleges in the Evergreen Pot State. Hands down, students are P-O-ed about this distance learning (sic) and on-line learning (sic) move by the IT techie creeps. Really. Hands down. Thousands of students polled, directly.
On-line and distance CEOs, well, that makes sense. Pay 'em as part-time scabs. About 1/100th of their current salaries? Makes sense there.
But this other Blue-RedLight load wanting what, society to be on a screen, plugged in, downloaded by the cloud server fascists? Absolutely one of the worst inventions since, err, the lobby, on-line schooling. The Coder and IT and rotten computerization and privatization of everything LOBBIES.
Yeah, the private sector, big business, big energy, big IT, big retail, big Pharma, big Med, big military industrial complex, shoot, they are bastions of ethics, caring, and, whoops, free markets. Except, they are gravy train pigs. Slopping up tax abatement schemes, government contracts, taxpayer's trillions. Right, let's let the CEOs and casino capitalists rule the roost.
Unions need fixing and we need more worker cooperatives, more teeth in putting down those CEOs and their thugs who have been bilking cities, counties, states, our country and other countries since we let them have their superior rights of personhood.
Blue-Red Light, oh, what pablum.
Posted Fri, Feb 21, 9:02 a.m.
I keep hearing about how equity and a voice for contingent faculty will cost so much -- so when do we get a look at supporting documents and figures? Don't academics tell students citing sources is important?
If SB 5844 is flawed, then come up with something that will correct flaws and inequities in current legislation. For starters, protect contingent faculty from tenured supervisors in the same union. Allow them to file unfair working conditions complaints with PERC as individuals instead of continuing to let those complained against gate keep and block the process like foxes set to guard the hen house. FYI this is legal in other states -- why not in WA?
Posted Fri, Feb 21, 10:46 a.m.
Here is the problem, particularly at "vocational" CCs.
The full timers, often craft or skill instructors, work full days, due to the programs. The academic part-timers are in the samee union. However, the interests of the two faculty groups are not consistent.
Craft and skill instructors define "full time" as teaching 6 or so hours, as they are required to do. That does not allow part-timers to have their interests heard, unless they can take over union leadership.
Two different animals, should have two different unions, to negotiate each groups legitimate interests.
No, I have no dog in the hunt, though the Geezer in a previous life was a full time faculty member of a 4 year state University.
Posted Fri, Feb 21, 1 p.m.
The title of Strickland's and Boggess' piece suggests a sort of "hands off" measure, but their op-ed is directed against SB 5844, a bill that proposes to allow non-tenured adjuncts to form unions independent of their tenured faculty colleagues, which state law does not currently allow.
The authors sidestep the basic question whether tenured and non-tenured faculty share a community of interests and belong in the same bargaining unit. Instead they emphasize the questionable SB 5844 fiscal note that makes the dubious claims that the bill would cost the state $600,000 per year. But even that inflated cost would seem to justify the need for the bill—such an expenditure may reflect how ill-prepared the state's 30 college districts truly are to bargain for part-time faculty, even though some claim that part-time issues have been bargained all along.
Strickland and Boggess claim that the AFT union has been "fighting for equal pay for equal work" and for "[part-time faculty] rights to classes before full-time faculty take on extras." To resolve whether this is mere lip service, the facts can speak for themselves: Most adjuncts in Washington state colleges, after several decades of the current union structure, are far, far from receiving equal pay, or, for that matter, equal work, and most do not have job security. The authors should be credited for acknowledging that tenured faculty do "take on" extra classes; the authors could have pointed out that part-time faculty are prevented from working full-time--even when there is work and even when the part-time instructors may need additional income. Whenever full-time faculty take on extra classes, they displace part-time faculty work, which is a clear conflict of interests among members of the same union.
The authors make it sound as though HB 1348, which seeks to allow the tenured-faculty dominated unions access to bargain for other revenues of the college, like tuition, is primarily for adjuncts when they say "it's time to reward contingent faculty for their hard work." That is a profoundly doubtful contention. Historically, legislative appropriations intended for "faculty" that have not been earmarked for part-time faculty have gone primarily to full-time faculty. Chief among the reasons for HB 1348 is to augment increments. Before 2006, 90 percent of legislative increment appropriations went to full-time tenured faculty. In most of our 30 community college districts, no part-time faculty incremental salary schedule has been bargained, meaning that beginning adjuncts and those with a decade or more of service are paid the same amount. Meanwhile, the unions have bargained incremental salary schedules for all full-time faculty in the state. If HB 1348 were to pass, there is certainly no guarantee that funds being managed by the faculty union, rather than the college, would necessarily benefit part-time faculty.
Posted Sun, Feb 23, 11:29 a.m.
While I am not part of Washington State, I am very interested in what is happening there, as it repeats — inversely — what is happening throughout the country, but especially in the South, where I am from. I see the arguments that Jack Longmate poses, and I wonder what it is that these AFT union people have to hide; yet it seems to me this is exactly what they are doing. "It is a divide-and-conquer approach that perpetuates the two-tier system that was set up by college administrations long before unions began representing faculty."
I know these words are often spoken by administrators warning their folk about unions coming in to invade colleges and universities, yet this is now AFT writing them, twisting them: "'Curiouser and curiouser!' Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)." [From Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass]
Doesn't that smack of something going against the grain? Why are these AFT union people so intent in keeping another union from forming? Of calling union formation anti-union, of using anti-union language, when what the only thing SB 5844 wants to do is establish its own separate union, apart from the full-time faculty union, because their interests are antithetical? What are AFT and the other big unions afraid of?
It seems that if Washington State does not revisit this very logical bill, and let an adjunct faculty union form — just like Alice from Wonderland — they will have forgotten "how to speak good English", and they will be forever stuck, not in a good way, "through the Looking Glass", trying to get out.
In sol(idarity),
Ana M. Fores Tamayo
Adjunct Justice
Petition: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/better-pay-for-adjuncts
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AdjunctJustice
Posted Sun, Feb 23, 12:53 p.m.
Tired, tired old capitalist paradigm. I am an adjunct, worked my tail off to get as many classes possible, worked with presidents of colleges and administration, worked to engage the public in our colleges, worked to publicized education through my columns and radio show in several Washington cities. Full-time faculty, hands down, have ZERO idea what we, adjuncts, the majority, give to schools, give to students.
To hear the tired old AFT broken old time religion unionism spew this lame BS is pathetic in 2014. We are the reason FT faculty exist, unfortunately, in this continuous attack on state funding, state education standards, education in general.
Pay us more, period. If the state of Washington, the union honchos, the Admin Class and presidents and professional high-paid hoppers from college to college, and all that gristle at the top, in weird positions at these schools for institutional advancement, data collection and plans to nowhere really just left the school, we would have funding.
Simple logic -- tax millionaires, and get real education leader elected and at the college admin level to do the hard work of showing and demonstrating the added value of a decent community college and state college education.
To have AFT say that AFT and the unions and our masters have somehow looked after the weakest and most vulnerable of the lot, well, that's a plain lie.
And as a preventative, all those screwy folk that want to tell us 50 and 55 year olds to get real jobs, full time jobs, go back to your islands of stupidity. The real world is one of precarious work, largely because we have let the Jeff Bezos and Phil Knights and all those BS defense and military and data and IT folk, big on the public welfare gravy train, to infect our politics and our communities.
We need unions out of the way and begin pushing for cooperatives, and collectives.
We have had enough of the propaganda of AFT and bluster of these professional "organizers" and flak jackets. We need real fighters to go to bat for us, and that might take FT faculty sucking it up and giving up their raises and their moonlighting and benefits like professional development to help with the majority class, adjuncts, who are some of the best assets of any school any level of educator or Admin class type or Dean-let might consider if they only took off their elitist blinders.
Posted Thu, Mar 20, 10:55 a.m.
Seriously, AFT? You seriously believe you are actively advocating for part timers in their best interests?
We get the same line of propaganda in California, so I am not at all surprised that AFT yet again takes it upon itself to undermine our attempts to not only advocate but speak for ourselves. (See: http://cpfa.org/blog/betting-for-change-on-the-cpfa/#comments where AFT threw us under the bus at the state government level)
You just don't get it, do you?
Mixed faculty unions are run by full timers. Part timers are elected in positions representing part time issues only while simultaneously being told they must also give equal weight to representing all faculty. This both undermines part time advocacy and adds the throngs of part time votes to issues concerning full timers like COLA increases, sabbaticals, and benefits, things that have no affect on part time working conditions save a miniscule increase in hourly wages.
A 2% increase adds quadruple digits to a full time faculty member's salary but maybe a buck to adjunct hourly wages, amounting to about a $50 hike per course over the semester. Adding insult to injury, parity pay is virtually nonexistent at the community college level, so without even realizing it, what AFT and other parent unions are actually ending up advocating is keeping us in our places.
See, you just don't get it.
I fully support full time faculty members advocating for themselves. Why can't you support us?
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Serves 4
- 1/2 cantaloupe
- 2 tablespoons ouzo (unsweetened anise liqueur)
- 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped aniseed
- 8 thin sliced prosciutto or Parma ham
- Fresh mint sprigs
Fill melon cavity with ouzo and sprinkle with aniseed. Cover and chill 1 day.
Pour juices from melon into small bowl and reserve. Cut melon into 4 wedges. Transfer to plates and drizzle with reserved juices. Drape prosciutto over melon. Season with pepper. Garnish with mint sprigs and serve.
Per serving: calories, 100; fat, 3 g; sodium, 626 mg; cholesterol, 17 mg
Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit
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main ingredients: Prosciutto, Liqueur, Melon


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Things Thai presents over 60 different items from Thailand, each a collectible with cultural relevance or a story to tell. Each object represents an aspect of Thai life, from devotional objects to examples of the country's strong crafts tradition to pieces of clothing or jewelry. Detailed text and photographs explains the historical and cultural significance.
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Dec 17th 2009 8:19AM I think this is part of the key. If you're going to make emblems BoA then make the old ones transferrable, not the new ones. If you want to turn Frost into conquest to help alts then so be it, but for my money anything that can still be earnt in dungeons should remain BoP.
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Nov 10th 2009 3:58PM The first rule of Alpha is you don't talk about Alpha.
The five classes of guilds {WoW}
Oct 23rd 2009 2:34PM Bit patronising to non-raiders isn't it? "haven't started raiding" implies that there is some desire amongst those players to do so or that it's something they should be doing. In fact a lot of casual guilds exist outside of this structure because they have no interest what it represents. Though those in the Gentry will often aspire to be Aristocracy, and Aristocracy to be Royalty, Casual players often have no interest whatsoever in any of the other strata. Instead of being at the bottom of the class ladder they've buggered off down the pub for a few pints and a bit of a laugh.
Breakfast Topic: I love {WoW}
Sep 14th 2009 8:56AM I love taking candle.
(and no, that's not a euphemism...)
A challenge to Blizzard's secretive philosophy {WoW}
Sep 10th 2009 4:31PM The first time they missed a patch date you'd not be able to move for people posting "ZOMG THIS IS ALL ACTIVISIONS FAULT IT NEVER HAPPENED UNDER BLIZZARD IM GONNA CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION" and such like.
Activision-Blizzard and their financial future {WoW}
Aug 31st 2009 6:42PM I base my game-buying choices on how good the game is. Each to their own I guess...
Activision-Blizzard and their financial future {WoW}
Aug 31st 2009 6:31PM I just don't understand this. Surely you buy/play a game based on whether it's any good or not, not on what the publisher's name on the box is? If you stop enjoying WoW, stop playing it. If you keep enjoying it, keep playing it. Surely it's as simple as that?


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I've now seen the same annoying elementary (but quite common) mistake twice in two days, and I'd like to knock it on the head before it gets repeated.
According to a blog post yesterday by Malaka Gharib at ONE, Daniel Yohannes, the CEO of the U.S. government's Millennium Challenge Corporation, believes this:
If Africa captured captured only a small percentage of global trade, it would make a big difference. In fact, in 2008, 1 percent of global trade was worth $195 billion, more than five times the development assistance sub-Saharan Africa received that same year.
And Ali Hewson and her husband Bono use a similar statistic in this short video (which Chris Blattman posted yesterday):
I support the basic point that is being made: trade is good for developing countries. I can't recall ever meeting anyone from Africa who would not prefer more trade to aid. I agree with Bill Easterly's argument in the FT that rich countries should be more focused on reducing trade barriers.
But the video and remarks by Mr Yohannes grossly overstate the benefits of exports.
Before we get on to the economics, let's try to get the numbers right.
The total value of world trade is about $16,000 billion a year (measured as the total value of exports of goods and services). Exports from sub-Saharan Africa are about $380 billion a year, so they constitute a bit more than 2 percent of world trade, as Ms Hewson rightly says. And aid to sub-Saharan Africa from OECD countries is about $40 billion a year, roughly as Mr Yohannes implies.
So that means:
- If Africa's share of world trade grew by one percentage point, its export earnings would grow by about $160 billion a year. So the figures quoted by Ms Hewson's $(70 billion) and Mr Yohannes ($195 billion) are in the right ballpark. (They may get different numbers because they are using different years for their estimates of world trade.)
- One percent of the value of world trade ($160 billion) is about four times aid to sub Saharan Africa ($40 billion). On this, Mr Yohannes is roughly right (he says five times, but he is using older figures).
- If exports from sub-Saharan Africa increased by 1%, as Bono puts it in the video, the increase in Africa's export earnings would be about $4 billion a year. This is only about a tenth of aid to Africa. For Africa to secure a one percentage point increase in world trade would require a 40% increase in Africa's exports.
So it's true that if sub-Saharan Africa could increase its share of world trade by 1 percentage point, its export earnings would grow by about $160 billion a year, and that's about four times what it gets in aid.
But the net benefit to Africa of increasing its exports is not the same as the increase in its export earnings. That is the same mistake as equating a firm's turnover with its profit.
Put another way, Mr and Ms Hewson and Mr Yohannes are all making the fundamental error of mercantilism, which is the idea that the prosperity of a nation is increased by the accumulation of bullion obtained from overseas.
They seem to have forgotten that exports have a cost. You have to put labour, land, energy and other inputs into making the thing you are going to export – inputs which could be used for something else. You have to grow tea, dig diamonds out of the ground, or make the shoes or silicon chips. You may have to transport the goods. There may be workers on the factory line, and the firm will need administrative staff, drivers and security guards. You may have to make or buy machines, tractors or lorries. All this is a cost. Even oil has costs of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation and damage to the environment.
These may well be costs worth bearing. When you export those goods and services, you get foreign currency in return. This foreign currency enables you to buy more imports. (That's the point of exports.) But they are costs nonetheless.
Nations benefit from trade in other ways too, in addition to the extra imports that they can buy. Trading nations tend learn from abroad; their firms are forced to be more competitive and so more productive; and the imports can be of machines or technologies that help the economy to be more productive. So being an open, trading nation may help a country to grow faster.
So if the value of increasing exports is not the increase in export earnings, what is it?
The value to a firm of a new contract is not the price on the contract, its the profit it will make meeting it. In the same way, the value to Africa of exports is the difference between the cost of making what it has exported, and the value of what it can import as a result.
Of course, we don't really know what those exports cost, or what the imports are really worth, so we don't know the true net benefit to Africa of increased exports. But the value added is more likely to be about 10% of the turnover than 100% of it. If that's a reasonable estimate, an increase in Africa's share of world trade by one percentage point would be worth $16 billion a year. This is, as it happens, less than half of what it currently receives each year in aid.
And remember that increasing Africa's share of world trade by one percentage point would be no mean feat – it would require a 40 percent increase in Africa's exports.
It is true that nations benefit from exports (or, to be more precise, they benefit from the imports that exports enable them to buy). But you can't measure the benefit to a nation of exports by the value of its export earnings, any more than you can measure the profitability of a firm by its turnover. Getting this right is important because, as Paul Krugman pointed out in Peddling Prosperity, if you lose sight of the fundamental economics you get drawn into stupid policy prescriptions such as export subsidies or import tariffs. For example, if you make it a policy goal to increase export earnings, you may subsidise exports, and so start to export goods that cost the nation more to make than someone abroad is willing to pay for them. Though export earnings have gone up, the nation is worse off, not better off, because the exports have cost the nation more than it earns from them.
Exports are good for development. There are almost no examples of successful development that have not been built on export-led growth. We should support reductions in trade barriers; and we should support investments that help developing countries to be more productive and so export more at lower cost to themselves. Developing nations would rather have trade than aid, and most taxpayers in donor nations would agree.
But let's not overstate the case by claiming that the net benefit of exports is the same as the value of turnover. Even if Africa could increase its exports by 40%, which is a lot, and so achieve the (more modest-sounding) increase of 1 percentage point of world trade that Mr and Mrs Hewson, Mr Yohannes, and indeed all right-thinking people would like to see, the benefit to the continent could still be quite a bit less than it presently receives each year in aid.
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Too often, policy makers and politicians rest back with the neo-liberal. neo-classical economics view of trade being and important part of gorwth.You've hit the nail right on the head on the actual degree of importance of exports. Africa is most laden with agricultural exports whihc naturally don't always mean development which price fluctuations. In my post http://ipeanddevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/ipe-id-first-clash-agricultural-trade/ I bring up the arguments by H-J Chang and some others who see the value of protectionism instead of rapid global reduction in trade barriers. Chang also makes a highly controversial (rarely used) argument that agriculutural protection in theWest benefits Africa's consumers—and thus should be kept?
Yeah, it also implies that the benefits of private enterprise trickle down to those at the bottom in a more efficient way than aid does. I'm not sure there is really evidence of this being true – indeed, in most circumstances exports end up making a very small number of people very rich and bring only slight benefits in income to everyone else involved. We're constantly told that Trade is Better than Aid, usually by those who are in a strong position to benefit from said trade. Clearly that paradigm is broken – it depends on exactly what kind of aid and what kind of trade you are talking about.
You're right it's a gross error to crudely compare export revenues with aid flows, as is routinely done.
I guess from a broader aid versus trade perspective, the argument hinges on the existence (or not) of positive externalities from exporting, the contrast (aid versus trade) in the incentives politicians face and so forth. I'd imagine the consensus view is that a dollar of export earnings (i.e. profit) is better than a dollar of aid because of beneficial externalities better incentives etc. [I'm not saying the consensus if correct: too hard a question for me].
My impression was that there's reasonably good empirical support for positive 'learning' externalities from export, and also stronger empirical support for the idea that trade benefits growth than for the idea that aid benefits growth.
I haven't really looked around much, but one recent thing I saw on exports and growth is here and here's one on trade and learning.
Owen replies: Yes indeed, there do appear to be positive externalities from trade. (I'm definitely in favour of trade.) But it isn't very clear if those are externalities mainly from exports or from imports. They seem as likely to be the latter as the former. If so, you get those benefits from aid (all of which is spent on imports) as you do from exports.
Nice post. I agree people are overstating the case about export driven growth. But aren't you somewhat understanding the real value at $16 billion. The costs generating those profits are generally good developmental costs, as you say, jobs, infrastructure, know how etc. Don't you need to value them as well beyond the $16 billion.
Second, it always seems to me to be a mistake to talk about "Africa" as one place. Some countries could benefit very quickly and be in position to benefit from trade. But there are many backwaters that don't yet have the capacity to get much from exports. So even if you could increase African exports by 1 percent the distribution by country would be very skewed.
Finally, I would love to hear your thoughts on the whole protectionism as a route to trade-led development. There's lots of debate about how much protectionism/subsidies South Korean used in growing its economy. The comment about AG subsidies protecting African consumers seems contrary to logic, but interesting assertion.
True, work is a cost if you have something close to full employment.
But Africa has huges numbers of young people who are under employed, or unemployed… or in the informal economy. The whole argument for business-led development, of which trade is one part, is job creation. Your treating a job as purely a cost seems odd to me. Assuming the export led job creation is not a zero-sum (or negative sum) game (just switching from a domestic economic activity to export activity of equal or lesser value to the economy), then shouldn't you consider the additional goods to the economy, such as the income from the new job that is being spent domestically (helping domestic formal and informal businesses), and the e collection of taxes that can support public services.
I may be using the terms cost and benefit incorrectly, but the good to the economy of private sector job creation from exports is more than just the export earnings minus the value of what the person otherwise could have produced — in the example above, $16 billion. There are other tangible and intangible goods that should also be considered. That's my only point. Am I missing something here?
David – yes, I regret that you are trying to double count the benefits by including both export earnings and jobs. The benefit to the economy of exports is the additional imports that the resulting export earnings enable the citizens to buy. There are no other economic benefits. The costs to the economy include the inputs that go into those exports – including land, labour, energy, and other natural resources. The net benefit is the difference between those benefits and those costs.
A job is a bundle which includes a benefit (the worker gets an income and perhaps some job satisfaction) and a cost (the worker has to give up their time, which they could be using for something else). For anyone in a job, the benefits to them presumably exceed the costs, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
People employed making exports are clearly better off with a job than without it. They are better off because they get an income from it, and that is presumably more than they would doing something else or doing nothing. The net benefit to them of the job is the income they receive, minus the value of what they would have been doing otherwise (either some employment of less value, some smallholder farming, or in rare cases, leisure). In other words, the net benefit of each job is the income less the opportunity cost of the labour.
The reason you are double counting the net benefits of jobs is that the incomes paid to export workers are paid for from the export earnings. So you can't count the net benefit of a job as additional to the export earnings. The export earnings describe the entire gross benefit to the nation of the activities, including the benefits to workers who have the jobs.
So when you aggregate across the economy as a whole to calculate the impact of exports, the net benefit is the export earnings minus all the costs, which include the use of land, natural resources, energy and the opportunity cost of the labour. You can't add "jobs" as a separate item in this reckoning, because the net benefits of each job are already included: the benefit of the each job – namely the income it provides – is included in the export earnings.
Your point about unemployment suggests that you think that the opportunity cost of labour may be negligibly small. If those people would otherwise be doing nothing, you'd be right. (It wouldn't be zero, because most people prefer leisure to work, so there is some cost to working even for people who would otherwise be unemployed). But I think you would be wrong to assume that people working in export industries in developing countries would otherwise be unemployed. The people who get these jobs are generally smart and capable and they would be doing something else. In most cases, in the absence of a welfare state, they would have to be doing something else to survive. So I don't think you can assume the opportunity cost of their labour is zero. The benefit of the export job is therefore the difference between what they earn doing this, compared to the value of what they would otherwise be doing, and that net benefit might well be quite small – certainly much less than the total value of the exports.


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Talented students to showcase art in annual juried show
April 27, 2011
By Kathie Pershing
This was a year full of charcoal smudged faces, clay covered smocks and paint stained jeans. It was a year of multi-colored hands swiping their cards at the cafeteria for a brief interlude from the fabric dying studio. Months of sleepy, yet determined eyes meticulously adjusting and critiquing Photoshop and Flash files. A time for entire days spent carving away at linoleum blocks and turning the gears of the printing press. At any time over these past three terms you could visit La Sierra's Visual Arts Center and find evidence of creative minds as well as meet the creative minds at work. Now the year rolls to a close. The students press on, but now, with the end in sight, they take glances back and smile at the works they have created. They now invite you to come and see.
It is time for the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, running from May 2 through May 12. Join the artists on May 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. for the opening reception and awards ceremony. Our external guest jurors this year are artist and Professor Sant Khalsa, chair of the art department at California State University, San Bernardino, Professor Andrew Byrom, an artist teaching at California State University, Long Beach, and finally Laguna Beach artist and designer Jeff Koegel.
These artists will aid in choosing the pieces that will be awarded cash prizes. Categories are: Best of Show; first and second place in Graphic Design; first and second place in Fine Art; as well as Honorable Mentions. Furthermore these jurors will select works for the Purchase Award, which gives this chosen student artist the ability to have their piece exhibited again in another show.
When you walk into Brandstater Gallery, you will not see simply pieces of artwork showcased around the room, but pieces of the artists themselves. Works of art are like their creators, complex and diverse. Perhaps to your right, a painting will tell you someone's personal philosophy, but when you turn around you could find an animation that teaches you to laugh. Maybe you will turn the corner and a wood cut will astound you with the meticulous process of its creation. Behind you an unassuming sculpture will ask you to take a closer look and realize something about yourself. As you move between these varied arts, they will beg your thoughts and impress your eyes, each artist hoping to give you something to think about, marvel in, or simply smile at.
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Skylanders Swap Force Release Date
While it is certainly true that Skylanders was a massive commercial success, its sequel, Skylanders Giants, was even more popular.
In fact, there have been a few reports issued lately that indicate that Activision has generated more than $500 million from the sale of this game and related merchandise.
Is it any surprise then that Activision is working furiously on Skylanders 3; tentatively called Skylanders Swap Force.
I think it was Fusible that first broke the story that Activision has secured the domain URLs skylanderskaosalliance.com, skylanderssuperforce, skylandersnanoforce, and skylandersswapforce.
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When Does Skylanders 3 Come Out
Whenever word hits the street of a new game, people immediately begin to ask when the new game comes out. While it is certainly true that no official date has been released, nor would I expect one before the 2013 Toy Fair, many fans, and avid collectors are hoping for an October 2013 release date.
This could, of course, be completely wrong and Skylanders 3 may not come out until sometime in early 2014. Based on the game's popularity, however, it would only make logical sense to make it available before the Christmas shopping season arrives.
Swap Force All New Characters
One thing you can be absolutely sure about is that there will be a ton of all new characters released. This is Activision's bread and butter. If the demand for these new figures is as great as the demand for such popular characters as Thumpback, Eye Brawl, Ninjini, and Hot Dog you can be sure that they will release even more incredible figures.
How cool would it be to see a line of Skylanders bad guys. If Kaos continues to play such a large role in the future games it would only make sense that we could one day have a multiplayer mode pitting the heroes against the villains.
Variants and Chase Figures
Of course, many people are only interested in learning as much as possible about any new Skylanders Swap Force variants or chase figures that may be available. I will admit, it is very difficult not to love the gold, silver, clear, and white flocked versions of our favorite characters. If the employee exclusive Prism Break is any indication at where these variants are heading we are in for a really fun fall.
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Cannon at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park.
United States forces commanded by Brigadier General James G. Blunt and Brigadier General Francis J. Herron defeated Major General Thomas C. Hindman's Confederates on December 7, 1862. This victory enabled the Federals to retain control of northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri.
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Winter pumpkin and squash
Winter pumpkin: home-grown, October to November; imported, September to November. Squash: all year
The bright-orange lantern pumpkins available around Halloween do not have a great deal of flavour, so in my opinion are not worth serving as a vegetable. However, the smooth, silky texture makes wonderful soup, and gives the best texture in Pumpkin Pie or in Pumpkin Soup with Toasted Sweetcorn.
Butternut squash is available all year because when our season finishes we import it from Africa, and its buttery, nutty texture is one of my own favourites. It is shaped like a bottle and has both a nutty flavour and a good firm texture, excellent for roasting and braising as in recipes for Oven-Roasted Winter Vegetables and Latin American stew.
To prepare pumpkin or squash, you need a good, sharp, heavy knife, and first you cut the vegetable in half and then into quarters. After that, scoop out the fibrous bits and all the seeds with a spoon or knife, then, this time using a small but very sharp knife, peel away the tough skin. Finally, cut the pumpkin flesh into cubes or slices.
Winter Vegetable Pie with a Parmesan Crust
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Breakfast Topic: Which boss would you revamp for level 80? {WoW}
Aug 17th 2009 9:01AM I wouldn't revamp anything. I'd make new content. New content, as in content besides a new boss and gear.
Death to spell power plate {WoW}
Aug 11th 2009 9:27PM You want too much. How about instead of bothering Blizzard about something that really doesn't matter, we just let them do their job...and hopefully do something for the game apart from adding crappy, recycled end game content. They spend so much time nerfing, buffing, and adjusting, listening to everyone and their sisters whine on the forums about one class or another. Leave the classes alone. God. let's add some cool content to the game instead so we'll enjoy it more. How about guild keeps? People have been whining about that since the dawn of Azeroth, and Blizzard hasn't even drawn up a sketch! They are too busy with "cry, cry, cry, I don't know how to play my class and a Paladin killed me, that means they are OP." I really hate you all. I promise. People like you have ruined WoW, and turned it into an elitest junk fest where the game isn't fun, and all there is to do is run the latest crappy raid that Blizzard released. Either that, or grind out honor in the extremely dry BGs they have.
My points: Who gives a crap about spell plate? It's not worth Blizzard taking a month to work around, and then fifteen years to balance it out afterwards.
Work on the casual content: Even raiders will appreciate it, so it's definitely not going to waste. It might even score you more subscribers. :)
Sop worrying about balancing out the classes: It's not needed. There is always going to be one kid whining about getting killed. The classes are balanced enough. Not every class has to be within 100 total dps of each other. Every class can be used in one situation or another.
Improve guild functionality: Add more customization, guild achievements, guild keeps, guild trophies. look at some other games for inspiration. Get the guild more involved! A guild shouldn't just be a group of people with a tabard, that's pretty lame and you know it. Other MMOs probably get some of your subscribers just because they have an actual guild system. MAKE IT SOMETHING.
Play the game: It's not a job, but I swear that everyone in end game takes it that way. Well, maybe for the columnists here it is, but if you just play the game then don't force yourself to do something. I've been sticking around with Blizzard FOREVER, hoping they are going to improve, hoping they are going to stop the trend of garbage, but no...They haven't, and I'm through waiting around. Aion releases next month, and it looks promising to me. It looks like what I've wanted WoW to be. Goodbye WoW, you may have already got a few hundred bucks out of me over the years, but you just lost one more formerly faithful subscriber. Don't expect to get another cent out of my wallet/bank account.
Rampage battlegroup experiencing outages this afternoon {WoW}
Jul 18th 2009 3:44PM Yes, Alexstrasza is down and apparently cannot retrieve my characters. It has been like this since I tried to log on about an hour or so ago.
Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 5 - Footprints of Illidan loot card {WoW}
Nov 9th 2008 9:52AM chances are about 1 out of 300...
Anything's possible for a ret pally!
Many servers not yet up after all {WoW}
Oct 14th 2008 9:10PM Yeah, you can't do anything due to realm problems even if your realm does happen to be online. Just logging onto the realm takes forever. Sounds like some kinks really need to be worked out.
Zone level page updated with all the Northrend zones {WoW}
Aug 7th 2008 7:22PM When i started Burning Crusade, i was 58 going to outland, I FLEW through levels up to 60, but once I hit 60, the grind to 61 was like twice as long. I don't think Blizz is throwing away the starting zones, unless you think you'll be leveling to 71 in less than an hour.haha
Believe me, im sure Blizz will make the grind to 80 a worth while thing. And for as not seeing everything before you hit 80, good! more stuff to do after you can't level anymore.
Things to do after hitting 80:
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Wall Street Rewards Kroger's Organic Moves
If Annie's and Chipotle's share prices are indicators, Wall Street is investing in clean food technology.
Another great example of this trend is the Kroger Company. Kroger's recent introduction of two private label brands — Simple Truth and Simple Truth Organic — have been "a huge home run," according to Rodney McMullen, president and chief operating officer.
It's a smart investment. There isn't a family around the country that isn't impacted by allergies, asthma, diabetes, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer's or some other chronic condition. The landscape of health is changing, and it's changing the landscape of food. Twenty years ago, the majority of us probably ate more or less the same lunch, a PB&J, a bag of pretzels or something like that. Today, with skyrocketing rates of food allergies, gluten sensitivities and a mindfulness that our food is increasingly jacked up on artificial and synthetic ingredients made in a lab rather than on a farm, the consumer is getting savvy.
Companies that are meeting those needs are being rewarded on the stock exchanges.
How so?
Kroger's Simple Truth and Simple Truth Organic brands generated fiscal 2012 sales that exceeded Kroger's internal goal by 33%, Mr. McMullen. And it's lifting the company's earnings.
Earlier this year, on a conference call, Kroger reported net income of $1,496.5 million, equal to $2.78 per share on the common stock, up markedly from $602.1 million, or $1.01 per share, in fiscal 2011
"Obviously, this has been a huge home run," McMullen said.
So how did they capture that return?
Products marketed under the Simple Truth and Simple Truth Organic brands have removed 101 ingredients that the retailer's customers have said they do not want in their food. Kroger is responding to consumer demand, and the market is rewarding them.
On top of that, their Simple Truth Organic products are certified under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program.
So how does Kroger stack up? Whole Foods still only represents a small percentage of grocery retail, and Wal-Mart is the giant in the industry.
If Kroger's natural food sales were compared to those of other natural foods retailers, Kroger would be the second largest retailer "out there on a standalone basis by a pretty wide margin."
According to the Motley Fool, a financial news service, "Kroger's third quarter results indicate that the grocer is well on its way to becoming a cheaper alternative to Whole Foods Market." The company expects its organic department to double in size within the next five years — high expectations for a division that already surpasses any single organic grocer except Whole Foods.
Double in size. The food awakening is on, and Wall Street is excited about this clean food technology.
Looking ahead, Mr. McMullen said Kroger has plans to grow its presence in natural and organic products. Their recent acquisition of Harris Teeter Supermarkets is an important move towards this goal.
When asked why they are moving in this direction, McMullen said because "that is where the consumer is headed."
We are having a food awakening and realizing how little we know about the foods and ingredients we are putting into our bodies. Some of these ingredients are so new, recently patented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and now regulated by the EPA as a pesticide, that it is anyone's guess as to what the long-term impact of ingesting them might be. So consumers are opting out. They are getting back to real ingredients not those fabricated in a lab.
As McMullen goes on to say, "Our existing customers continue to buy more and more organic and natural foods, plus the younger generation buys a higher share in those categories."
So how is investing in their organic product line driving profitability?
As an analyst, I followed Kroger and one of the data points that I had to track was "same store sales." Not only did I follow this data, but I also tracked the velocity of the rate of change.
As Motley Fool states, "everyone following Kroger knows that the company has an impressive streak of increasing same-store sales. The streak continued in the third quarter as the company's same-store sales grew 3.2%. The increase put the streak at 40 consecutive quarters — that's 10 straight years of increasing same-store sales every quarter. A company that can attract more customers to its stores each quarter for that long is clearly adding value in its customers' eyes."
You could speculate on what is driving this increased demand. Perhaps it's the growing awareness that social media brings to just how contaiminated our food supply has become. Perhaps it's to the growing number of people and organizations on the front lines, speaking out on the food issues or perhaps it is the escalating rates of diseases like allergies, asthma, Alzheimers and cancer that are hitting our families and forcing us to pay attention to what we are putting into our bodies.
Whatever the reason, if I were still on the desk, I would love to invite their management team in, to learn how this shift in their business model is impacting their employees, their own health care costs and other aspects of their business.
Wall Street is getting in on the food movement. A quick look at the share prices of Annie's, Chipotle and now Krogers tells a story These companies are meeting consumers where she stands, in the aisle of the grocery store, worried about the health of a loved one, trying to do the best she can when it comes to feeding her family.
It's working for Kroger, a company that tries to execute on their "Customer 1st Strategy".
In 1883, Barney Kroger invested his life savings of $372 to open a grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati. The son of a merchant, he ran his business with a simple motto: "Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself."
We didn't know what we were eating there for a while. Genetically engineered ingredients were quietly slipped into our food and other artificial additives not allowed in foods in other countries. There was a period of food illiteracy, but as this food awakening continues, consumers are sending a clear message at the cash register and voting with their dollars.
And Wall Street is paying attention, as we begin to invest in this clean food technology, for our kids' health, our own health and the health of our country.
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Tyler Cowen reviews Matter
Matter, Iain M. Banks new Culture novel, is a remarkable literary event. But you need to know that the characters are supposed to lack psychological complexity, and that the last hundred pages are supposed to jarringly clash with the pace of the rest of the book. And that the book is supposed to make you sometimes feel bored and wondering why you should care about the characters and surface plot. You are in fact reading a book that embraces the cruelty and meaninglessness of life. Most of all this is a book about how being adopted by an all powerful and all knowing Culture doesn't gift a woman with a personality and how she can do nothing but follow her primitive cultural conditioning and stumble into accidentally consequential events with no apparent purpose or foresight. I can't recall any other book that so completely trivializes its own moments of crisis. The integration of interstellar travel and digging a big hole in the ground is brilliant. The homage to every other Culture novel from which elements of this were borrowed is loving. I didn't even know how good this book was until I retroactively forgot the epilogue. Bravo.
It is probably the best book this spring. It creates its own manufactured ShellWorld and draws you into the core. Forget the bad reviews from readers who do not take the seemingly throw away conversation that provides the title seriously. The boring and inconsistent parts of the book, like the quest narrative, are supposed to be boring and inconsistent. It's about the tiresome mundanity (yes mundanity as in mundane) of existence, the fact that we aren't special, the lack of any hidden mystery, the certain arbitrariness of earthly justice, and most of all that the possibility of any friendly higher power controlling our fates is absurd.


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For the first time in her testimony, Suzanne falters. Her voice cracks, and she wipes briefly at her eyes. But she quickly regains her composure and goes on.
With that assurance from Beth, she decided to go to Las Vegas and at least see if the offer was solid. When Neal said they'd be staying two nights, however, she balked, until he relented and said they'd stay just one. He would pick her up in the evening of Sunday, July 5, and they'd return Monday.
On Friday, July 3, though, Beth called. "He had made plans for us," Suzanne says. "She thought maybe we were going to go gambling in Central City with Cody that night, so she just said to be home and get ready to go out."
"Judging the Judge,"
September 30, 1999
After a year on the Jefferson County bench, Brooke Jackson knows it can be a real hot seat.
By Steve Jackson
"Judgment Day,"
May 6, 1999
The state's first death-penalty panel spares the life of Robert Riggan.
When she got home from work, Beth was already there. She showed off some new outfits Neal had bought her that afternoon. She gave Suzanne a skirt he'd said he would like her to wear.
The night began with a mystery: When they were ready, they were to walk across the street to a pizza joint. There they waited about ten minutes until Neal showed up around 7 p.m. They didn't see him pull in; he just came walking up.
He explained that his truck had a flat and that he was getting it fixed at the tire store next door. While they waited, he said, they might as well order a pizza. And then, to Suzanne's astonishment, he dropped to one knee and proposed to Beth. "She said yes, and he gave her a ring, a diamond ring." Then he left for a nearby liquor store.
Suzanne hadn't known that the relationship between her roommate and Neal was that serious. But after he left, Beth explained that the marriage proposal was just a joke.
"When that was happening," Tingle says, "what was the attitude of Mr. Neal? What was his demeanor?"
"He was very happy, calm," she replies. "He was in a really good mood, you know, like he was happy that Friday night was there, and we were going to have such a good time that night."
Tingle nods. Neal's demeanor at this point will be important for the judges to remember. Because by 7 p.m. Friday, July 3, Rebecca Holberton had been dead and wrapped in black plastic for more than three days. And Neal had split Candace Walters's head open only eight hours earlier.
Neal returned with several airline bottles of alcohol. He invited the women outside to celebrate his "proposal" to Beth. He was dressed in his omnipresent black cowboy hat, black duster and cowboy boots, but he'd eschewed his usual black T-shirt for a Western-style dress shirt.
They were outside toasting when a white stretch limousine pulled up. Neal explained that this was another joke. They weren't taking his truck tonight; they were going in style. But this wasn't a really big surprise, since such extravagance was just Wild Bill Cody's style. "It seemed like that was the way he preferred to go out," Suzanne says.
With Neal directing, they went to two bars. First Fugglies, where he went in with the women, and then Shipwreck's, where he stayed outside without explaining why. Then it was off for the night's biggest surprise: dinner at the Diamond Cabaret, a "gentleman's club" with a restaurant and lounge on one side and topless dancing on the other.
Neal, of course, picked up the tab. He had plenty of cash, having gone to an ATM machine with Candace Walters's debit card and removed $403 -- after already taking $1,287 from Holberton's account.
Following dinner, the two women went into the bathroom, where they were approached by a woman asking for Suzanne by name. When Suzanne identified herself, the woman said that "Cody wanted us to go with her." She led them into the topless section of the club, where Neal paid two of the dancers to perform in front of his two dates.
The dance over, Neal decided it was time to leave. But first he handed Beth and Suzanne handfuls of dollar bills and instructed them to put the money on a stage where a woman was dancing. "He appeared to know the woman."
The trio ended the evening at a bar the women selected, the Stampede. There they were joined by several young men trying to figure out if one of the two women with Neal was available. Wild Bill Cody was holding court, lecturing the younger bucks on how to behave like a proper gentleman.
"That they should stand up when a lady comes back to sit down," Suzanne recalls of his lecture, "and a lady shouldn't light her own cigarettes."
They got home about 3 a.m., and Neal spent the night with Beth. Suzanne didn't see him there in the morning, but he was back that afternoon when she left to spend the Fourth of July in Greeley.
Tingle pauses. The groundwork has been laid: Within days -- hours, really -- of brutally murdering two women, the polite, respectful man in the orange jumpsuit the judges see before them had been out partying. Playing jokes. Spending the dead women's money on strippers and booze. Lecturing other men on how to treat a lady.


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My favorite dish at a local Mexican restaurant is their Chicken Enchiladas with Creamy Green Chile Sauce. I had to try and find a way to lower the fat and sodium so I could enjoy these without the guilt! I tweaked that recipe a bit to lower the sodium and fat, and came up with a winner! My husband and teen daughter gobble these up! Submitted by BETHPROVERBS31 Carbs: 17.3g | Fat: 9.3g | Fiber: 2.1g | Protein: 24.4g | Calories: 252
This is so easy to make and taste wonderful. I made it with Uncle Bens Long Grain Wild Rice. Submitted by LUCYSMOM09 Carbs: 22.3g | Fat: 2.5g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 30g | Calories: 239.1
Six ingredients, 5 minutes of hands-on cooking, and dinner is served! Submitted by ORANGECOWCAT Carbs: 24.1g | Fat: 12.5g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 41g | Calories: 385.4
Cookbook creator says: The sauce definately needs thickening but pretty good recipe. Submitted by PISCESWOMAN87 Carbs: 7g | Fat: 17.6g | Fiber: 1.2g | Protein: 28.2g | Calories: 299.8
Don't run out the door without breakfast! Grab a portable, delcious, and nutritious breakfast cookie. Submitted by COFFEEBEANS Carbs: 16.2g | Fat: 5g | Fiber: 1.2g | Protein: 2.1g | Calories: 111.1
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Submitted by STRONGANDSEXY1 Carbs: 45.4g | Fat: 18.8g | Fiber: 6.1g | Protein: 20.5g | Calories: 412.6
Forget fancy spices--four ingredients are all you need to make this deliciously simple supper. Submitted by VRAKLIS Carbs: 14.9g | Fat: 5.5g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 18g | Calories: 183.1
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Save money and time with this Chinese food makeover. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 30.3g | Fat: 3.4g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 27g | Calories: 262.3
We tend to think of herbs as garnishes, but parsley takes a starring role in this fresh pesto. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 5g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 0.7g | Protein: 23.8g | Calories: 157
This refreshing and not-too-sweet beverage is almost too pretty to drink. Almost! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 6.8g | Fat: 0.2g | Fiber: 1.7g | Protein: 0.3g | Calories: 33.7
It looks like jam, but it's bursting with whole fruit and thick enough to eat with a fork. Serve over pork roast, on top of yogurt or cottage cheese, or on your morning toast. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 13.9g | Fat: 0.5g | Fiber: 3.2g | Protein: 0.7g | Calories: 52.8
This is a great dessert that's delicious when strawberries are in season. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 21.3g | Fat: 4.9g | Fiber: 3.4g | Protein: 5.5g | Calories: 144.9
Frozen bananas rival soft serve when given a whirl in the food processor. No cholesterol and no added sugar, just creamy and sweet bananas! Submitted by STEPFANIER Carbs: 27g | Fat: 0.4g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 1.3g | Calories: 105.4
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Less than 12 calories a tablespoon low sugar jam. Submitted by MOXIE6 Carbs: 2.6g | Fat: 0.1g | Fiber: 0.5g | Protein: 0.1g | Calories: 10.4
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Chewy, homemade flatbread makes any meal seem special. Use in place of pitas, bread, or crackers! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 15.9g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 2.9g | Protein: 5.4g | Calories: 84.5
Submitted by MSDESERTRODENT Carbs: 8.9g | Fat: 8.9g | Fiber: 0.6g | Protein: 29.6g | Calories: 239.5
Submitted by JONESEE Carbs: 1g | Fat: 5.7g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 16.7g | Calories: 127.2
Full of fruit, fiber, and protein, and it's YUMMY, too! Top with berries if desired. Submitted by KARENMON Carbs: 33.7g | Fat: 5.8g | Fiber: 4.2g | Protein: 7.3g | Calories: 203.5


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It's one thing to say that President Obama's administration showed its ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is quite another to grasp the situation up close, as I did during a recent visit to Alabama. Read More»
Many say that the situation in Greece is a harbinger of what is coming to the United States. They are right. But first it will come to states like New York, California and Michigan, which are stretched way beyond their means and deeply in debt. Read More»
The drop in the stock market (now about 1,000 points on the Dow) is a graphic indication of the stark fact that we are entering the infamous double dip of the recession, long feared and predicted. The economy is not in a V after all (down and then up) but in a W (down, up, down again and then, finally, up). And the cause of the second dip is not the recession itself, but the cure administered to it by President Obama and the Democratic Congress.
Consider the indications (data provided by New America Foundation, analysis by Sherle R. Schwanninger and Samuel Sherraden): Read More»
When conservatives like Neal Boortz proposed the "fair tax" (a levy on consumption, not on income), we should have known that the Barack Obama left would seize on the proposal not as Boortz intended it to be — a replacement for the income tax — but as an addition to it. Now Obama has let it be known that the value-added tax, or VAT, is "on the table" as he casts about for taxes to lock in his gigantic levels of federal spending. Read More»
We predict Republicans will take over both Houses of Congress. The question is: Once they achieve power, what will they do with it?
Clearly the dominant issue for the new Congress in 2011 will be how to bring down the deficit. Democrats will, of course favor tax increases, and Republicans will resist them. But drowning out the partisan rhetoric will be the editorial drumbeat from the economic and journalistic establishments that will call for compromise, splitting the difference between the two. Read More»
If any nation wants to attack the United States with chemical, biological or electromagnetic pulse weapons, it need not fear nuclear retaliation as long as it has no nuclear weapons and abides by the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Obama has announced.
So, as New Yorkers are coughing their lungs out from mustard gas or dying in the streets of biological weapons, they will know that their government will not use nuclear weapons to retaliate against their murderers. Read More»
On the rude arch that spanned the flood In the April breeze their flag unfurled Here the embattled farmer stood And fired the shot heard round the world — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If Scott Brown wins the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, it means that any Republican can win at any time in any place. Such are the fortunes to which the Democratic Party has fallen under the ministrations of President Barack Obama. Read More»
Obama's healthcare bill, the poisoned Kool-Aid now approved by the Senate, will not confer any of its supposed benefits on Americans until 2013. But they will find themselves chafing at its restrictions and paying its taxes immediately after the law takes effect. Then, they will see no gain, but plenty of pain, for the next three years. Read More»
While Obama has been at great pains to make a show of avoiding taxes on the middle class to pay for his healthcare changes, his proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation. Read More»


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Paul Kenny is a scientist at the Scripps Institute. As a researcher, he has dedicated his working career to finding out the "whys" and "hows" of addiction. In one study, rats were given unhealthy food choices for a given length of time. When those food choices were replaced with healthy food, Paul Kenny found a connection he related to cocaine addiction. Food addiction is thought to be one of the main causes of obesity in the world today. Processed foods and food high in fat may trigger the brain chemical Dopamine, which may be a factor in addiction. Paul Kenny found the release of Dopamine from a happy experience, like eating junk food caused the lab rats to eventually starve themselves when the unhealthy food was no longer available.
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Lab rats have been used to test a variety of health supplements and weight loss products. The study Paul Kenny was involved with was something a bit more familiar. Lab rats were given a diet of junk food – high calorie and high fat. When scientists replaced that junk food with healthy food choices, the rats chose not to eat at all. Voluntary starvation is a sign of addiction.
Paul Kenny also noted that rats were willing to accept a mild shock to their feet in order to gain access to the junk food. The rats continually acted as if they were addicted to some form of drug, rather than bad food. According to Paul Kenny, this addiction is the source of much research. The researchers hope to find a vaccine to stop addiction to food and, potentially, overeating. Paul Kenny noted that rats do not feel the social desires humans do to fit in so the addiction to junk food is clearly on a biological level.
- Paul Kenny is doing research to find a possible cure for overeating.
- Kenny is a Scripps Institute scientist.
- Research can take decades to complete.
- There is no guarantee a vaccine will be found for food addiction.
Paul Kenny is a scientist working on a connection between Dopamine and overeating. The possibility that junk food causes the same type of addiction as cocaine is a huge connection that could prove beneficial to all dieters who have tried to lose weight only to fail due to what they consider a lack of willpower. Paul Kenny plans to continue working on the potential vaccine in hopes of treating people addicted to food on a cellular level as opposed to trying to retrain the brain to eat healthy foods and make good food choices.