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To demonstrate the process of deriving a trade-weighted exchange rate index, actual exchange rate data from Australia and New Zealand are used here to develop a supplier index for lamb imports. Virtually all U.S. lamb imports come from Australia and New Zealand. Thus, the approximate lamb index is averaged for just those two countries. The process for generating the index is the same whether there are two or 200 countries.
We take the nominal exchange rates for Australia and New Zealand in local currency per U.S. dollar and multiply by the ratio of the U.S. Consumer Price Index to the Australian and New Zealand Consumer Price indexes (see Excel table). This gives us real exchange rates. We next convert the real exchange rates into index form by dividing each of the series by the 2005 value. This creates real exchange rate indexes with a 2005 base year equal to 100. Finally, we multiply each of the real exchange rate indexes by it import share, Australia at 62 percent and New Zealand at 38 percent, to get the trade-weighted index. The combined index is a weighted average of the two country indexes.
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We went out to a desert shoot with a ton of mostly guys. My girl learned how to shoot cheap! She's been shooting since she was little, but got to taste a bunch of new weaponry today. Everything from her own G19 to a .454 Casull, from her favorite suppressed MP5 to a few different .308's. What a wonderful day with my baby!
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Oven-Fried Fish
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Heres a reduced-fat method for getting crispy fish without lots of oil. To keep the fat profile low, serve with Tartar Sauce, made with lowfat mayonnaise or simply sprinkle the fish with malt vinegar. For fish and chips, serve with crisp Oven Fries and malt vinegar.
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Nutritional Information
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Calories | 267 |
Total Fat | 5g |
Saturated Fat | 1g |
Cholesterol | 54mg |
Sodium | 642mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 26g |
Dietary Fiber | -- |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 27g |
Calcium | -- |
Illustration by Michael Toland
Yields: Makes 4 main-dish servings.
Total Time: 22 min
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 12 min
Oven Temp: 450
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- 2 teaspoon(s) vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) ground red pepper or cayenne
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 cup(s) plain dried bread crumbs
- 1 pound(s) flounder or sole fillets, cut on diagonal into 1-inch-wide strips
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Grease cookie sheet with oil; set aside.
- On waxed paper, combine flour, salt, and ground red pepper. In shallow bowl, beat egg whites just until foamy. On separate sheet of waxed paper, place bread crumbs. Coat flounder strips with seasoned flour, shaking off excess. Dip strips into egg white, then coat in bread crumbs, patting crumbs to adhere. Arrange fish strips on prepared cookie sheet.
- Place cookie sheet on lowest oven rack and bake fish 5 minutes. With wide spatula, turn fish. Bake until just opaque throughout and golden, 4 to 5 minutes longer. Makes 4 main-dish servings.
Nutritional information is based on one serving.
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Clement, Ross and Sharp, David (2003) Ngram and bayesian classification of documents for topic and authorship. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18 (4). pp. 423-447. ISSN 0268-1145
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/18.4.423
Large, real world, data sets have been investigated in the context of Authorship Attribution of real world documents. Ngram measures can be used to accurately assign authorship for long documents such as novels. A number of 5 (authors) x 5 (movies) arrays of movie reviews were acquired from the Internet Movie Database. Both ngram and naive Bayes classifiers were used to classify along both the authorship and topic (movie) axes. Both approaches yielded similar results, and authorship was as accurately detected, or more accurately detected, than topic. Part of speech tagging and function-word lists were used to investigate the influence of structure on classification tasks on documents with meaning removed but grammatical structure intact.
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Under the agreed terms, CAMAC Energy will divest its wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary Pacific Asia Petroleum Limited (PAPL) for a cash consideration of $2.5 million and 10 million fully paid ordinary shares in Leyshon. The transaction is expected to close within 14 days.
The Company was advised by Somerley Limited in Hong Kong.
"CAMAC Energy is pleased to execute this definitive share sale and purchase agreement with Leyshon Resources for the sale of our Chinese assets," said Chairman and CEO, Dr. Kase Lawal. "In addition to providing a cash infusion and a shareholder interest in Leyshon, this transaction also eliminates the Company's future financial obligations for overhead and exploration expense in China. All proceeds and savings will be reinvested in our African exploration projects. Finally, I'd like to thank all of our employees in China for their years of dedicated service, and I wish them well as they join the team at Leyshon Resources." About CAMAC Energy Inc. CAMAC Energy Inc. (NYSE Amex: CAK) is a U.S.-based energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas. The Company currently has operations in Nigeria and, through its Pacific Asia Petroleum subsidiaries, in China. The Company's principal assets include interests in OML 120 and OML 121, offshore oil and gas leases in deep water Nigeria which include the currently producing Oyo Oilfield, and a 100% interest in the Zijinshan Block gas asset located in the Shanxi Province, China. CAMAC Energy has recently acquired six exploration blocks in Kenya and Gambia and is currently pursuing further additions to its exploration portfolio in East and West Africa. The Company was founded in 2005 and has offices in Houston, Texas, Beijing, China, and Lagos, Nigeria. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are "forward-looking statements," including statements regarding the Company's proposed transactions, business strategy, plans and objectives and statements of non-historical information. These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "will," "should," "believes," "expects," "anticipates" or similar expressions, and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their respective dates. Risks and uncertainties regarding the transactions described herein include the possibility that the closing of the transactions does not occur, either due to the failure of closing conditions or other reasons, risks that the transactions disrupt current plans and divert management from day-to-day operations, and the amount of the costs, fees, expenses and charges related to the transactions. In addition, the Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of other factors including those discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with and available from the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Many of us in Kansas live in a world where food comes fast -- so fast we forget how it arrives at our table. We also forget it comes from the hard labor and calloused hands of Kansas farmers. Our food also comes from Kansas ranchers who work miles of rangeland in rain, snow and blazing heat.
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Pre-packaged, vacuum-packed, just add water ...
Many of us in Kansas live in a world where food comes fast -- so fast we forget how it arrives at our table. We also forget it comes from the hard labor and calloused hands of Kansas farmers. Our food also comes from Kansas ranchers who work miles of rangeland in rain, snow and blazing heat.
Fast food?
Not really.
Our lives wouldn't be the same without the farmers and ranchers who put food on our tables. Just as meat, eggs and milk always have been part of our mealtime routine, caring and providing for the animals that give us these staples are part of a farmer's daily activities.
These activities continue, often for long hours, throughout the day. Farmers and stockmen look after their animals the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. In that sense, livestock producers often place greater emphasis on their animals than themselves.
There's no doubt agriculture has changed throughout the years. Today's farm animals live in carefully supervised environments. No longer do they need to struggle for survival in a driving snowstorm or search for nourishment on parched rangelands. Instead, they have heat in the winter, cool ventilation in the summer and clean dry living areas with food and water all year long.
All of this is provided with hands-on care, education and a long tradition of animal husbandry. Farmers and ranchers go far beyond their role of humane guardians and demonstrate devoted concern for their animals' health and safety.
They routinely stay up all night to help sows deliver piglets or to tend to newborn calves. When it's 15 degrees below zero on a frigid Kansas winter morning, farmers and ranchers are feeding, watering and caring for their livestock.
They're God's creatures and a farmer and rancher's responsibility. Proper care of animals is a time-honored ethic that also makes economic sense. In order for animals to increase efficiencies in meat, milk, wool and egg production, farmers must take all possible steps to ensure their animals live stress-free.
The farmer's creed always has been to nurture the land, improving it while coaxing forth a bountiful harvest. Farmers hold enduring respect for the land that sustains them and consumers in this country and around the world. Their reward is an abundance of the safest, most wholesome food on the planet.
Today's American and world consumers enjoy ample yields from this nation's farms. Success lies with the farmer's ingenuity and stewardship ethic.
Advances in crop production enhance the farmer's natural commitment to providing us all with food. These innovations allow farmers to harvest larger yields with fewer acres, in harmony with the environment.
Yes, it takes plenty of hard work and honest sweat to raise the grain, vegetables, fruits and livestock that provide this country's food. Farm and ranch families take pride from their shared experience living, working and harvesting food from the land.
They believe through their profession of producing food, they are giving more to the world than they are taking from it.
Hoxie native John Schlageck is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas who writes for the Kansas Farm Bureau.


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Odessa, a Ukrainian port city, was given its name by Russia's Catherine the Great, who was inspired by Homer's Odyssey. It would make an original and intriguing choice.
Though rare today, Odessa had more U.S. popularity in the past than you might imagine. It actually ranked in the Top 1000 every year from 1880, the year Social Security records began to be kept, through 1956.
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Darius Rucker: Eric Church Is the Closest We've Got to Waylon and Willie
While he's not one himself, Darius Rucker knows who country's bad boys are!
While he's not one himself, Darius Rucker knows who country's bad boys are!
In 1975, the late, great Waylon Jennings wrote and sang a song called, "Bob Wills Is Still The King," a tribute to the "King of Western Swing," Texas' own Bob Wills. Now, a new documentary will show how the rhythms, instruments and arrangements laid the groundwork for what would become known just a few years later as Rock 'n' Roll.
"The Man in Black," Johnny Cash, passed away on September 12, 2003. From 1958 until the mid-1980's, he was one of Columbia Records' biggest-selling acts. However, when his sales began to taper off in the mid-80's, he was unceremoniously dropped from that label. In his final years, he recorded a large body of songs for what became known as the "American" albums, named after the label for which they were recorded, Rick Rubin's American Recordings. Those albums gave Cash's career a boost as he entered his twilight years.
1986: George Strait's daughter Jennifer was killed in a car accident near San Marcos, Texas.
1987: Reba McEntire filed for divorce from Charlie Battles.
1996: new album releases included Trace Adkins' debut, "Dreamin' Out Loud" and Wade Hayes' sophomore effort, "On A Good Night."
Here are some of the events that happened on this day in Country music history:
1961: Patsy Cline suffered serious head injuries and a fractured hip in a car accident in Madison, Tennessee.
1977: the "Ol' Waylon" album by Waylon Jennings was certified Gold.
1980: Alabama's first hit, "My Home's In Alabama," made its chart debut.
The Country Music Association unveiled the names of this year's Country Music Hall of Fame inductees at a press conference held in the Hall's rotunda. Two legendary artists, and a legendary songwriter/producer will soon have their plaques on the walls of that same rotunda, joining the ranks of Country music royalty. This year's inductees are:
Platinum certification for one million albums sold didn't begin until 1976, so while other recordings may have soared past this sales mark, 'Wanted: The Outlaws' became the first official platinum album that year. The project featured Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter and it would eventually go on to be certified double platinum.
In February, we reported that legendary country outlaw Waylon Jennings' family had determined to celebrate the singer's life and career with a new album of primarily unreleased material. This week, the release date and track listing of 'Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings' was finally announced. Due out September 11, 2012, the record will feature 12 songs, 11 of which Jennings wrote.


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Free Hot Water: The New Civil Rights Movement
Since Democrats seem to think everything is racist except their own party's history and the screwball schemes they've inflicted on us since then to atone for it, I thought I'd post a primer on interpreting a recent spate of racially-tinged events, a sort of Racism for Dummies. How many can you get right?
Event: Detroit's Water and Sewerage Department recently shut off water to 7,200 mostly black customers who haven't paid their bills in months.
According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which filed a lawsuit against the city, the shutoffs were racist, because there are white-led corporations with large unpaid water bills that haven't had their water shut off. However, the difference is that said corporations have good credit, a history of reliable transactions with the city, and a public reputation to uphold. Not so for individual deadbeats, many of whom have been caught paying rogue operators cut-rate fees to get their water illegally turned back on.
Verdict: Not racism.
Event: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is considering "diversity-based grading."
The University, which has publicly announced its goal of ensuring that its high-level and honors courses are filled with a racially diverse mix of students, recently announced that it may go a step further and work to guarantee that different racial groups are proportionately distributed across grade bands in such courses. UW economics professor W. Lee Hansen protested that such a policy could lead to non-white students getting higher grades than they deserve, and will likely accelerate grade inflation due to professors giving everyone high grades to avoid complaints.
Verdict: Racism.
(Were you fooled? Here's a hint: There are other forms of racism besides anti-black. Try again!)
Event: Israel endures daily rocket attacks by Hamas, defends itself by destroying Hamas's weapons and tunnels, and suffers accusations of war crimes.
Every democratic nation is unquestioningly allowed to defend itself against outside attack, except Israel. If Canada started lobbing missiles over the border and killing U.S. civilians, its army would be gone by the morning. But because the world has been brainwashed into believing that Islam is a peaceful religion and that its adherents would never use human shields by storing their weapons in schools, hospitals, and mosques, Israelis are called vile racist names and told that the conflict is their fault. And the verbal attacks don't just emanate from the Arab League—they come from British MPs, Canadian citizens, and hot-miked U.S. Cabinet members.
Why are the Israelis treated differently?
Verdict: Racism.
Event: A police chief and two officers in Fruitland Park, Florida recently resigned after an under-cover reporter revealed their ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Running interference for the left, the Associated Press downplayed the KKK's exclusive roots in the Democratic Party—"[T]he Klan used to be politically powerful in the 1920s, when governors and U.S. senators were among its 4 million members" [emphasis added]—then stupidly compared this dying breed of troglodytes to Republicans: "[N]owadays it is much less active than other sectors of the radical right." Oh really? Why not compare the Klan to other sectors of the radical left? The KKK did not emerge from the Republican Party, whose members fought it in the South in order to protect the rights of freed blacks. As the article notes, even up through the 1960s, the Klan was active in some parts of the country, and it wasn't Republicans donning those white sheets.
The "radical right" has never had any ideological affinity with the Klan. Racist police officers in Fruitland Park reflect only their own racism.
Verdict: Racism. (That was an easy one. Consider it a free space on your bingo card.)
Event: Americans protest a black President's policies, a pattern of behavior that Attorney General Eric Holder claims is driven by "racial animus."
According to Holder, no U.S. President has ever been treated as harshly as Obama—not Reagan, whom liberals called demented while he was in office; not Clinton, who was impeached for lying about a couple of blow jobs; not George W. Bush, whom liberals burned and hung and crucified in effigy when they weren't drawing Satanic horns on his head or Hitler mustaches on his face.
According to the left, referencing Obama's exacerbation of welfare dependency, food stamps usage, and inner-city dysfunction is evidence of racism, because everyone knows that Republicans don't expect white people to get jobs and raise their children, only blacks.
Verdict: Not racism.
And finally…
Event: A black teen films a montage of himself in a store while a racist clerk supposedly follows him around.
In one of the most pathetic attempts at race-baiting ever, a precocious kid named Rashid Polo cavorts around a convenience store, flamboyantly filming and talking to himself in several different aisles, while a female employee always seems to be stocking shelves or cleaning machinery behind him. The montage of Vine clips went viral and provoked a chorus of charges of racism. Curiously, we never glimpse the employee actually following Polo—we see only the two of them standing in place. In fact, the one time the employee emerges into the frame from off-camera, she seems surprised to see Polo—then smiles and politely backs away to avoid interrupting his photo shoot.
Verdict: Even the publicity-seeking, aspiring documentarian Rashid Polo doesn't believe this is racism.
Related articles
- Florida town stunned by news of police KKK ties (yakimaherald.com)
- Florida town 'shocked' after FBI investigation reveals Fruitland Park police officers joined Ku Klux Klan (vancouversun.com)
- Florida Cops Outed As KKK Klansmen (shark-tank.com)
- Klan wizard: Florida deputy police chief never in the KKK (sacbee.com)
- Florida 'KKK' Cop Was Undercover, Ex-Wife Says (abcnews.go.com)


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In May 2007, Erol released Regleman on Mi5 Recordings, the world-music division of EMI. It's a love letter to the voodoo faith. The CD's first song, "Hounto Legba," reveals a conversation between the spirit of the drum and the god of wisdom, who opens the gates for all the spirits to enter the ceremony. The songs invoke the goddess of water, make reference to freed slaves, and refer to Erol's abuse at Catholic schoolteachers' hands. Traditional Afro-Haitian drumming is at the core of all of the disc's 13 songs, but each contains a different, funky gem — a violin here, a samba beat there.
Critics have loved it. One reviewer on poplife.com wrote, "The music on Regleman is so beautiful and the presentation so hip and nonchalantly pretty that it makes the zombie-slave blood-of-Satan notions of voodoo look even more cartoonish than they already do."
The album is sold on Amazon.com and on iTunes, where one of the tracks is also featured on a world-music compilation. In August, the disc was highlighted on the "Global Hit" segment of the BBC's The World radio program. Erol spoke about Haitians' relationship to music: "Music is our bible. For example, any situation in life has music. The music in Regleman is universal, and I try to do a common language for people, but it's also personal. I can be inspired by that microphone and that situation and sing it."
Around the time the CD was released, Erol shifted his home, once again, to Miami. He says he missed the sun, the palm trees, and the texture of Little Haiti.Although he couch-surfs back and forth between Miami and New York, he considers Miami home base.
His nomadic life underscores his artistic personality. Erol is quirky, soft-spoken, and delicate in manner yet strong, with a dancer's body. He isn't punctual and, at times, is a bit dreamy. He laughs a lot — tiny dogs especially make him chuckle — and speaks French so fluently and beautifully that when he orders a bottle of wine in New York, a waitress is stunned by his pronunciation. "I don't think I've ever heard French spoken so well," she stammers. Erol giggles, partly because he predicted she wouldn't expect a black man to purr such fluent français.
He doesn't have a car — he doesn't know how to drive — and he is one of those people who knows how to live well, dress fabulously (in Dolce & Gabbana), and travel effortlessly, without being encumbered by things such as credit card bills and budgets. He pops up seemingly everywhere.Just a few weeks after making Miami his home, he appeared at a Broward County rally with a sign that read "Stop the injustice" to protest the detention of 101 Haitians who had washed ashore in South Florida.
Erol's cell phone rings constantly. A steady stream of artist friends want to get together, and Haitians call to consult on voodoo matters. "I get a lot of calls in the morning from people who want their dreams interpreted," he says. People he mentors spiritually help him financially on occasion — but much of his work, such as the ceremony for Chantal in New York, is done pro bono.
Music is his moneymaker. He sells his CDs for $20 during his performances and receives royalties from online sales. He also sometimes performs at places like Sheba, an Ethiopian restaurant in the Design District, for audiences that include well-dressed, upper-middle-class Haitian émigrés, many of whom would not normally admit publicly their voodoo roots. "Erol is like a bridge between the upper and lower class," says Florence Jean-Joseph. "I don't know if he's even aware of it."
Although he spiritually mentors dozens of people in New York, he is working with only a few here in South Florida. One of them is Paul Roesph, a 30-year-old white graphic designer from Fort Lauderdale. Erol helped him host a ceremony to invite spirits into his condo in July. Roesph had become intrigued with the voodoo religion after reading about it and was referred to Erol by a friend of a friend. "Erol stood in front of 15 other Haitians and said, that man — meaning me — is coming into our tradition," Roesph says. "I was the only white person in the room. He said to everyone: 'I want you to accept him. The loa are here with him.'
"Erol is so sincere. He knows that voodoo is a religion for anybody."
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In the letter, posted in full below, the organizations call on the Obama Administration to bring an end to the federal government's ongoing campaign to undermine state efforts to regulate safe and legal access to medical marijuana for those patients who rely on it.
The Obama Administration's National Drug Control Strategy Report 2012, reportedly being released in the coming days, is expected to cling to failed and outdated marijuana policies which further cement the control of the marijuana trade in the hands of drug cartels and illegal operators, endangering both patients in medical marijuana states and citizens everywhere.
The members of this coalition stand together with members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, current and former Latin American leaders whose countries are being ravaged by drug cartels, state officials from five medical marijuana states, and tens of millions of Americans in their call for a more rational approach to marijuana policy.
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Our coalition represents the views of tens of millions of Americans who believe the war on medical marijuana patients and providers you are fighting is misguided and counterproductive. As your administration prepares to release its annual National Drug Control Strategy, we want to speak with one voice and convey our deep sense of anger and disappointment in your lack of leadership on this issue.
Voters and elected officials in sixteen states and the District of Columbia have determined that the medical use of marijuana should be legal. In many of these states, the laws also include means for providing medical marijuana patients safe access to this medicine. These laws allowing for the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana actually shift control of marijuana sales from the criminal underground to state-licensed, taxed, and regulated producers and distributors.
Instead of celebrating - or even tolerating - this state experimentation, which has benefited patients and taken profits away from drug cartels, you have turned your back as career law enforcement officials have run roughshod over some of the most professional and well-regulated medical marijuana providers. We simply cannot understand why you have reneged on your administration's earlier policy of respecting state medical marijuana laws.
Our frustration and confusion over your administration's uncalled-for attacks on state-authorized medical marijuana providers was best summed up by John McCowen, the chair of the Mendocino County (CA) board of supervisors, who said, "It's almost as if there was a conscious effort to drive [medical marijuana cultivation and distribution] back underground. My opinion is that's going to further endanger public safety and the environment - the federal government doesn't seem to care about that."
The National Drug Control Strategy you are about to release will no doubt call for a continuation of policies that have as a primary goal the ongoing and permanent control of the marijuana trade by drug cartels and organized crime. We cannot and do not endorse the continued embrace of this utterly failed policy. We stand instead with Latin American leaders, members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, and the vast majority of people who voted you into office in recognizing that it is time for a new approach on marijuana policy.
With approximately 50,000 people dead in Mexico over the past five years as the result of drug war-related violence, we hope that you will immediately reconsider your drug control strategy and will work with, not against, states and organizations that are attempting to shift control of marijuana cultivation and sales, at least as it applies to medical marijuana, to a controlled and regulated market.
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National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA)
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After six years as a tutor, soccer coach, and "older sister" to 13 immigrant and refugee boys, Lauren Mednick is ready to see the last four off to college—if she can raise $35,000.
Mednick (pictured with Mu'ammar Camara) runs Elm City Internationals, a mentoring program for immigrant kids that has soccer as its focus. The kids come from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
The labor of love has made Mednick for six years the nearly constant companion of 13 boys from five countries. She started working with them when they were in the seventh and eighth grades, after she found that soccer was the key to motivating them to achieve in school.
Her hard work, and theirs, has paid off. Last year, half the boys graduated high school and went off to college, all with GPAs above 3.0, and several with scholarships for athletics or academics. The boys also took out the maximum allowed federal loans, and worked through the summer to save money.
Still, there was a gap. To bridge it, Mednick started a scholarship fund and raised $17,500 in donations.
All the guys in college are doing well, she said. Two made it onto a semi-pro soccer team called CFC Azul.
This year, a second group is graduating high school and headed off to college. Mednick finds herself with twice the need she had last year—$35,000.
"Right now we have $12,000," she said. "All from individual donations."
She said she's committed to making college a reality for all members of Elm City Internationals. "It's a promise we've made to the kids."
Mednick said she needs to raise all the money by April 29, "because the kids need to commit to college at some point."
She's collecting donations through the Elm City Internationals website.
Mednick is planning a "thank you concert" for March 26 at O'Toole's on Orange Street. Her dad, Steve Mednick, will be playing with his band Hard Road. There will be no cover. Elm City Internationals will be accepting donations in any amount.
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Fabulous article and story.
This is why I am so in favor of the bottom-up approach to public education.
Imagine the innovation and creativity to be unleashed when we truly realize that leadership is a subset of service and not that service is a subset of leadership.
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She's passionate about food and proud of her Puerto Rican lineage. He's passionate about people and a former concierge at some of Seattle's finest hotels. Together, Sheena Lee Fuson and Jesse Lee Marshall make a cute couple, dressing as soda jerks and selling sweet (and savory) pancakes on sticks out of a tangerine-colored mobile kitchen….
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I picked up the navy version of this last weekend. My size is normally somewhere between L and XL depending on how fitted the cut is (damn you last 15 pounds!!!). I tried the XL first but it was too wide in the shoulders and didn't feel right. The L fit perfectly over a t-shirt and heavy twill button-down. Zipped up it was close to my body but not binding.
The chambray in the lining is a nice touch. The lower pockets are snap closures with a side-entry pocket underneath. The hand-opening is a little small, although I just may need to be more aggressive popping the stitch that seems to be just for show. I swapped with the jacket I was wearing when I got in the car, but we finally got some snow and cold that afternoon so I haven't really tested it out. The only negative I have so far is that the sleeves may be a little short, but it appears I'm supposed to be rolling them up a little, so I may be wrong about that.Still has that Gap touch, and I have to agree with Tucker here...I suppose it comes down to personal interpretation, but when I think anorak, I think pullover. The anoraks in your earlier post are incomparably better in my opinion. This just kinda looks like a half-assed field jacket or something.


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Wasn't sure where to stick this news so I'll put it here. PR I'm not teasing you or anything, am curious what your thoughts are to this since you work in this field: My Way News - Huge study boosts disappointment on multivitamins
I have read studies from every side of public opinion on vitamin use. There is no conclusive evidence that proves anything because there are too many factors for a true controlled study to be done. Things like genetics, diet, excercise and stress levels are not controlled in these studies. And if you think about it, science will never find enough similar humans to perform a controlled study. This we do know...food lacks the nutrition it once did. Most fruits and vegetables are grown in nutrient depleted soil and are the result of genetically engineered species. This is true whether we're discussing plants or animal foods. Secondly and most importantly, taking vitamins and supplements is part of a healthy lifestyle. Users have nothing to lose by taking them and the positive attitudes gain through such a lifestyle could be just as beneficial as if vitamins cured disease. If you know someone who leads a healthy lifestyle of good eating, excercise and vitamins, you probably notice that the quality of their life is typically better than those who eat crappy are lazy and don't take vitamins. These stories don't don't affect vitamin sales. The LA Times recently published a similar article and it had no effect upon sales.
supplements are extremely important. finding the legit herbs/vitamins and the legit brands are key though ;-)
There are tons of fillers and bs... I know this. I marketed my own brand for awhile. There ARE some companies out there in the market place that are rip off arteests. There are also legit honest ones as well. Petro chemicals are in many of the pills, fwiw... And, obviously they are NOT healthy for you.
This is only anecdotal, but had pneumonia for 3 years in a row.. then started a daily regimen of a good vitamin.. perhaps it is mind over matter.. but have not had pneumonia since. Now I take the whole foods multi and knock on wood..
I had an uncle in Florida who was a vitamin freak and sold vitamins. When he turned 85, he went before a Miami licensing board (a new law had required him to get a license to sell vitamins). The board was so impressed with his vitality that all 6 members ordered some vitamins from him. I try to take a basic multivitamin every day especially in winter, and do feel the difference when I forget. BF, go to a health food store and ask for a vitamin you can take on an empty stomach; they'll recommend something that's easy on the digestive system. I take these, which are sold under name Cambridge Naturals by my local health food store: Vitamer Laboratories
I'm not going to mention the name of the company I work for except to say that we now have several vitamins in liquid gelcap form...including multi vitamins. Liquids and powders are the best forms to take as the are 100% absorbed into your body. I am not an expert on nutrition and supplementation. I am a market analysts/forecaster for my company, so I do not want to mislead anyone here.
One thing is almost certain ... if you spend on the front end and buy a multi vitamin high in minerals and you possibly will save on the back end by using way less butt wipe. Those minerals make some good hard poop I must admit. We're not talking a deuce either like RW talks about. A good mineral laced multi will get you a triple one pass ... better than a deuce.
Mention the name, man, jesus - we're all "friends" here, a mere mention of a vitamin company, when prompted, is acceptable
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Thanks, yeah, I see them all over - I'll have to look into the liquids and powders. Right now I just take a cheap, generic multi vitamin. I'm not the healthiest eater with respect to vitamins so I figure I can at least try it this way
Ahhhh SHAAADDDUUUPP! Who asked you?!! BTW....that apple has about half the nutrients it did 40 years ago and includes multiple chemical additives and some genetic altering (unless you buy organic apples).
I work in healthcare and am an expert on all things medicinal and holistic. Thorne is probably the best vitamin brand you can get. And these studies are bogus because all vitamins are not created equally. For example, let's take Vitamin-E. Most Vitamin E sold at crappy stores is dl-alpha tocopherol, which is garbage. D-alpha tocopherol is very much superior. The better brands (Carlson, for example) carry d-alpha tocopherol. However, really excellent Vitamin E supplements contain a mixture of tocopherols(alpha, delta, gamma) as well as tocotrienols. I can guarantee you that these studies are not using this type of E. All vitamins seem to follow this pattern. You literally get what you pay for. Do your research before wasting your money.


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Buffalo Bulls vs. Baylor Bears | |
The Buffalo Bulls and the Baylor Bears will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Floyd Casey Stadium. Last time out for Buffalo, they were a 40-20 loser as they battled Ohio State on the road. Buffalo covered in the match as a 33.5-point underdog, while 60 combined points moved the game OVER for totals bettors. Baylor won its last outing, a 69-3 result against Wofford on August 31. Baylor covered in that game as a 29-point favorite, while the 72 combined points took the game OVER the total. Team records: Buffalo: 0-1 SU, 1-0 ATS Baylor: 1-0 SU, 1-0 ATS Buffalo most recently: When playing in September are 2-8 When playing on turf are 3-7 After being outgained are 5-5 When playing outside the conference are 2-8 Baylor most recently: When playing in September are 8-2 When playing on turf are 7-3 After outgaining opponent are 8-2 When playing outside the conference are 9-1 A few trends to consider: Buffalo home to Stony Brook, Saturday, September 14 Baylor home to Louisiana-Monroe, Saturday, September 21 |


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Burglary investigation in Hartley Township
HARTLETON – Its a $450 loss of valubles at a home in Hartley Township, Union County sometime in the past five days. State police say the burglars entered a second floor window at a home on Cherry Run Road.
Once inside, a small fridge and a DVD player were stolen. Three lights were also damaged. Anyone with information on the burglary is asked to call state police at Milton. (Ali Stevens)
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2nd Annual Spike 'N' Splash Returns to Racine
June 10, 2011 – Racine's Blue Wave award-winning North Beach is the site for the 2nd annual Spike N' Splash Festival on June 18th and 19th. Admission is free. Have a great day on the beach and see some of … Continue reading
Players Sports Group Clinics
Hello Volleyball Skills Clinic Registrant! Thank you for choosing Players Sports Group! Your volleyball clinic starts on 6/13. With this in mind, there are some details we wanted to go over with you below. Your instructor will be at the … Continue reading
Superwoman reminds us all to stop and thank our parents
EVP Athletes, I want to thank you all for playing in the 21st annual Pro Am. It is hard to believe that this year is the beginning of another decade of running events. As a player, director and father, I … Continue reading
Pensacola Beach To Host EVP Tour on Saturday, Aug. 27
June 9, 2011 – The beautiful white sand and emerald waters of Pensacola Beach will be the perfect backdrop for a Saturday of intense beach volleyball. Jimmy Buffett's first-ever Margaritaville Beach Hotel plays host to the "Spike-n-Sunset" tournament on Saturday, … Continue reading
Pro Beach Volleyball is Coming Back to Indianapolis
June 9, 2011 – The EVP Tour Is Coming To Midwest Sports and Social Complex The growth of beach volleyball in Indianapolis has been booming over the past couple years. Now with the ever-expanding interest in leagues and tournaments, the … Continue reading
Volleyball: Sarasota's Wallace, Harris win EVP Tour event in Naples
May 28, 2011 – From www.NaplesNews.com: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/may/28/volleyball-sarasotas-wallace-harris-win-evp-tour-e/.
Team Sarasota Takes Home Naples EVP Island Crown
May 28, 2011 – The results are in! After a competition-filled day at the beach, the EVP Island Presented by Rebootizer at Vanderbilt Beach Resort in Naples, FL, has wrapped up. Megan Wallin and Chara Harris of Team Sarasota took … Continue reading
Saturday Recap of U.S. Open of Watercross
May 28, 2011 – We went straight from opening ceremonies right into the pro classes, with the Pro Runabout Open up first. Claude Clayton from Tupelo, MS got the nod from the computer and had gate choice and he decided … Continue reading
Event Schedule, Vanderbilt Beach Resort, May 28
The 2011 EVP Tour heads to Naples tomorrow, May 28! Check out competition information below: Rebootizer EVP Teams for MAY 28, 2011 in Naples Miami Beach – Elizabeth Jewett/Liliana Lopez Chicago – Erin Gray/Jen Snyder Naples – Gretchen Duffner/Stacy … Continue reading
ProSeries : concept PROSERIES are a promotional beach volley tour intended for intern.players. PROSERIES are planned on best venues along Mediterranean Area. PROSERIES are structured on several connected events. PROSERIES are followed by worldwide tv coverage. PROSERIES is an international … Continue reading


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McCarter week in review: No Budget, No Concealed-Carry, No Pension Reform
by WILY/WRXX News Staff • May 25, 2013 • News
There is just about a week to go before the scheduled end of the spring legislative session and yet a number of major
issues remain unresolved, according to State Sen. Kyle McCarter.
"In the past week, the issues have been about more government regulations on business and job creation, marijuana, sex
education and how you tie your dog up in the yard. Meanwhile, a budget to run state government for the next fiscal year, a federal mandate for a concealed carry law, reform for public pensions to solve a $100 billion debt crisis and addressing a serious disparity in how the state funds downstate schools are issues up in the air," said McCarter (R-Lebanon).
Sen. McCarter said apparently even one-party control of the government hasn't helped the Governor and the House and Senate Democrat leadership to be able to solve these problems in a more timely manner.
No Budget
As of this report, no state budget draft has been produced, not for review by legislators or the public.
"I have a feeling that like in the past, the budget, the spending blueprint for state government will be dropped in our laps with a mere handful of hours or minutes left to review before votes are taken," said McCarter. "With less than a week to go, I still don't have a budget to look at."
No Concealed-Carry
There is a June 9 federal court ruling for state government to pass and enact a law providing for the Right-To-Carry a concealed firearm for personal protection. A number of proposals have been introduced and a few have been debated and even passed by one chamber but not the other.
The latest version is contained in Senate Bill 2193, which did pass the House Friday on a vote of 85 to 30. Because the House amended or changed the original Senate legislation to carry the Concealed Carry language, the bill must come back to the Senate for final approval. Some of the key components of the measure are:
- Statewide "shall-issue" licensing standard.
- Strictly preempts authority of local governments to regulate firearms.
- License issued by State Police
- Must be at least 21 years of age, have a currently valid FOID Card,
- Must successfully complete 16 hours of training including live firing exercises.
- The application fee is $150 for residents, but the license is good for 5 years.
- There is no reciprocity or recognition of licenses issued from other states.
- Applications are to be available within 180 days of becoming law. Application must then be processed within 90 days
- Duty to inform police that you are carrying if stopped.
Sen. McCarter said there is still the matter of an appeal of the ruling, which was filed by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. She was given until June 24 to present the appeal to the Federal courts. That has effectively left the June 9 deadline intact. Obviously, the outcome of an appeal two weeks later can't be predicted.
"My support of the Right-To-Carry has never waivered since I first came to the Senate to succeed Senator Frank Watson," said McCarter. "A Concealed Carry law that comes out of the Legislature must reflect the true intent of the Second Amendment to our US Constitution. It must be a "shall" issue law not a "may" issue and it should be a law that provides the same right to every person in Illinois , whether they live in Bond County or Cook County . That law must reflect the tradition and intent of the Second Amendment that each of us has the right to defend ourselves, our families and our property from those who would do us harm."
No Pension Reform
With an estimated public pension debt that tops $100 billion, Sen. McCarter said he's disappointed that there appears to be a stalemate between competing plans from the Senate and House.
"The final plan must be fair and affordable," said McCarter. "We have about 700,000 current employees and retirees who made public service a career and earned, through their hard work, the promises made to them but we must also be aware of the harsh reality of a pension debt which has grown beyond the taxpayers' ability to afford.
Sen. McCarter has introduced a number of pension reform proposals. He said pension reform must be
Constitutional, no reduction of benefits to current retirees including no threat of losing access to healthcare and there must be assurances the Legislature will set aside the money needed to make pension payments moving forward. McCarter said for the sake of taxpayers, the state must get out of the pension business and instead provide employees with a retirement plan that is not unlike those in the private sector. He favors a new Tier 3 hybrid plan, which would be a combination of Social Security and 401 K-style retirement savings plan.
Education Funding Unfairness
Earlier this year, a Senate Republican staff analysis of public school funding showed a wide disparity in how the state funds schools in Chicago compared with suburban and downstate schools.
"I am a cosponsor of a resolution creating a legislative task force to look into this problem," said McCarter. "Unfortunately, the task force isn't expected to make its findings known until early next year."
The analysis revealed that while the Chicago Public School system educates about 18 percent of Illinois public school children, it receives nearly 50 percent of all of the property tax adjustments and poverty grants and 30 percent of Special Education funding.
"My schools and the schools which educate the vast majority of students in the suburbs and downstate can't wait for the task force report while the unfairness and inequity in funding continues," said McCarter. "Unless we start acting to fix it now, the unfairness and inequality will be built into the new state budget, which takes effect July 1, a full eight months before the report is expected."
Other Pending Issues
Other major issues before lawmakers in the final week are the expansion of gambling and same-sex marriage.
Although a major expansion of gambling, including a Chicago casino, cleared the Senate May 1, the House has not taken up the measure. Similarly, although the Senate President muscled passage of a same sex marriage bill on Valentine's Day, it remains on the sidelines in the House.
In other news this past week, a national legislative research organization, looking at the level of government management in Illinois , ranks the state 47th in the nation in Economic Performance and 48th in Economic Outlook.
The its sixth edition of "Rich States, Poor States," the American Legislative Exchange Council and co-author respected economist Arthur Laffer, ranked states by their economic performance based Gross Domestic Product, Absolute Domestic Migration and Non-Farm Payroll Employment. Illinois ranked 42nd for Gross Domestic Product, then fell to 48th in both Domestic Migration (which measures whether more people are leaving the state than are coming to the state) and Non-Farm Employment, which measures job growth.
The Legislature has one more week of work and is scheduled to conclude its spring business on May 31.


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Adding Reverb To Drum Samples
Out of all the effects that can be applied to drum samples, reverb should be up there with the most-used, but it is not, and when it is used, it is often abused by so-called music production professionals and audiophiles. When used correctly, it can help any beat go to that extra level.
When using the reverb on a single drum sample, you need to ask yourself the precise purpose that the particular sound is supposed to serve. Is it to add some spatial characteristics to the loop? If it's a constant sound: will it drive your audience berserk after a few listens, or is it moderate in nature? Sometimes it is very easy to overuse and ruin an otherwise good song by using reverb incorrectly.
The length of the reverb on any particular cannot really be determined on a global scale, but needs to be adjusted on a project-by-project basis for maximum effect and precision. Some people say that you can use a longer tail on the reverb for samples in a slow-tempo song, and if you're particularly aiming at one of the drum samples, it will relieve the others from needing to perform for the sake of performing. In a slow tempo song, you can either have many samples triggering all the time, back-and-forth collaboration, or strategic placements with reverb, which fills space effectively.
There are so many practical applications for using this effect with the kinds of samples we've got. You can apply special files called IR files (Impulse Responses) which are environment simulators. What this means is that you could make your drum samples sound like they were recorded in a famous museum, like the Louvre, for instance, or anywhere else. IR files even exist for Grand Canyon locations and more spots – your creativity is the limit here. You can also apply the impulse response to other tracks for coherence.
Having offered these tips, though, you can really experiment as much as you want, as there are no limits in electronic music production. Whatever sounds good for you will usually work – you know your audience better than anybody else.
If you experiment and see what works for you, you'll be well off to a natural instinct for applying effects like reverb to your drum samples in a way that is unobtrusive and even adds character to your tracks. Start by testing out the effects of it on single sample tracks and then to the drums as a unit, before moving on to the whole song in varying degrees of application. Also make sure to try different types, like plate and room reverb, then hall and open spaces. You'll find that each adds something else and once you know when to use a specific type of patch, you'll be ready for any beat making situation.
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