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JV, 5 p.m.
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The City of Hudson Oaks has declared a water emergency effective immediately. Text of the notice sent from the city is as follows:
Due to a water main break at the Weatherford Lake Water Treatment Facility, the City of Hudson Oaks has declared a water emergency and imposed Stage 3 water restrictions, effective immediately.
Stage 3 of the City's Water Conservation and Drought Contingency Plan is triggered when water demand for the delivery system exceeds delivery capacity because delivery capacity is inadequate, or when the water supply system is unable to delivery water due to the failure or damage of major water system components. The main break at the Weatherford facility falls into both categories.
The following restrictions are in effect for all residential and commercial water customers immediately and until further notice:
1. No irrigation or landscape watering
2. No hose watering/washing or paved areas, buildings, or windows
3. No operation of ornamental fountains
4. No hose washing or rinsing of vehicles
5. No use of water in such a manner as to allow runoff or other waste
Water customers are asked to conserve domestic water consumption in any way possible until the repairs to the Weatherford water line are made and full service capacity can be restored.
If an irrigation system at a home or business is set to run today, and the owner is not available on site to turn that system off, City water crews will shut off the water meter to conserve water. When they return to their facility, home or business owners may contact City staff to have their water service restored, at no charge. The City apologizes for any inconvenience such emergency cutoffs may cause, but they are necessary in this emergency situation.
The City will continue to keep residents and business owners apprised as the situation changes, using the emergency phone notification system, City website, and City Facebook page. Home and business owners who are not receiving phone notifications on their mobile phones are encouraged to visit the City's website at www.hudsonoaks.com and register their mobile phones with the Blackboard Connect emergency notification system.
City staff will be happy to answer any questions regarding this water emergency, and they may be reached by calling 682‐229‐2400.
AHS Ladycats vs. Springtown at Aledo;
Varsity, 6:30 p.m.
JV, 5 p.m.
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West Liberty, WV – The Glenville State Pioneers football team picked up a nail biting victory on the road at West Liberty 17-14.
The Pioneers took their first possession of the game, converted a fourth down conversion and took the ball all the way to the West Liberty's 10 yard line but Darold Hughes threw an interception as the Pioneers turned the ball over to the Hilltoppers.
But on the Hilltoppers first offensive play of the game, Dominic Cooper fumbled the ball as GSC's linebacker Nate Ingersoll would recover the ball at the West Liberty's 6 yard line.
The Pioneers would then take advantage and Hughes would fine Darian Cleckley in the endzone for a 6 yard touchdown pass on the first play as the Pioneers took a 7-0 lead at the 9:16 mark in the first quarter.
The Pioneers defense would then force the Hilltoppers to turn the ball over on a fourth down attempt.
The Pioneers would then go up 14-0, as Hughes would hit a streaking Orlandus Harris for a 29 yard touchdown with only 16 second left in the first quarter.
West Liberty would finally find the endzone at the 9:11 mark in the second quarter when Isiah Moddy would score on a run from 15 yards out as they made it 14-7, Pioneers.
Both teams would then battle back and fourth throughout the rest of the second quarter, despite Darold Hughes throwing 3 first half interceptions, the Pioneers would end up with a 14-7 lead heading into halftime.
In the second half the Pioneers would build their lead to 17-7 at the 11:36 mark in the third quarter on a 47 yard field goal by Eddie McKay.
But West Liberty was not going anywhere without a fight as they would put together a drive and score on a Kenjay Trueblood 2 yard touchdown rush as the Hilltoppers made it 17-14, at the 7:26 mark in the fourth quarter.
The Pioneers would then drive all the way to the Hilltoppers 35 yard line but Hughes would then throw his fifth interception as West Liberty would get another chance to tie the game or take the lead, but the Pioneers defense would then force the Hilltoppers three and out.
After the Pioneers were forced to punt on their next possession with only 1:07 left to go in the game, it would give West Liberty one last chance.
But West Liberty would throw four incomplete passes as time expired as the Pioneers would hold on for a 17-14 win over the Hilltoppers.
The Hilltoppers out gained the Pioneers on offense 358 to 285, but both teams racked up the penalty yards as West Liberty had 13 penalties for 136 yards while the Pioneers had 12 penalties for 86 yards.
GSC was led by Rahmann Lee on the ground with 21 carries for 81 yards.
Darold Hughes went 19 for 34 for 175 yards with 2 touchdowns but threw 5 interceptions. Hughes also rushed the ball 10 times for 21 yards.
Darian Cleckley caught 5 passes for 36 yards and a touchdown while Orlandus Harris caught 4 passes for 73 yards and a touchdown.
Darren Elliott led the defense with 9.5 tackles and an interception while Devin Cain racked up 7 tackles in the game.
West Liberty was led by Isiah Moody with 39 rushing yards on 8 carries and a touchdown.
Dylan Lagrade replaced LD Crow in the second quarter as he went 14 for 36 for 232 yards.
Brandon Schroeder caught 8 passes for 108 yards.
Kyle Agustin had 9.5 tackles for the Hilltoppers while Marquis Bradley had 6.5 tackles.
The Pioneers are now 2-3 (2-0) on the year, they return to action next Saturday, October 6th when they travel to Athens, WV to take on Concord University. Kickoff is set 2:00 pm.

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Children And Youth Services Transitioning Youth Out Of Facilities Operated By Bosco Homes
September 10, 2009
Edmonton… Children and Youth Services is taking steps to move the youth in provincial government care who are receiving services from Bosco Homes to new placements following confirmation that Bosco will discontinue its operations across Alberta."The number one priority of our ministry and the Child and Family Services Authorities (CFSAs) and Delegated First Nation Agencies (DFNAs) is to find appropriate placements for the youth affected by this decision," said Children and Youth Services Minister Janis Tarchuk. "While the decision by Bosco Homes is disappointing, we respect the right of their board to do what they feel is in the best interest of their organization."
Approximately 80 youth in provincial government care are currently receiving supports and services from Bosco Homes in Alberta through contract agreements with CFSAs and DFNAs. The Director of Child Welfare and the Child and Youth Advocate are working closely with the CFSAs, DFNAs and Bosco Homes staff to ensure a smooth transition plan for all affected youth prior to the closure of the Bosco facilities.
"Through working with our various partners, we will secure new appropriate placements that ensure the continued safety and well-being of the 80 youth involved," said Tarchuk. "Children and youth come into and leave care daily. Our system has the capacity to address this change and continue to deliver the supports these youth need."
The Ministry recently advised Bosco that unless Bosco could develop a solution to outstanding community concerns in Strathcona County, youth in provincial government care would need to be moved from the Ranch. The Ministry expressed a willingness to work with Bosco on developing solutions and indicated it was willing to continue placing youth in care in other facilities run by Bosco.
Media inquiries may be directed to:
Trevor Coulombe
Children and Youth Services
To call toll free within Alberta dial 310-0000.
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updated 12:14 am EST, Fri January 18, 2013
Rare public photo practically a 'who's who' of Silicon Valley
An unusual photo was posted to Facebook showing a CEO dinner gathering -- hosted by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer -- that included a significant number of tech CEOs from a wide array of companies, and notably included Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple's SVP of Design. Ive was perhaps the only non-CEO at the table, but was seated next to Mayer in the rare, candid shot. Attendee Mike Cassidy -- of Google X, the experimental project arm of Google -- posted the photo, which includes executives from Dropbox, Path, Twitter, Yelp and more.
One of the more unusual aspects of the picture -- apart from the sheer diversity and average wealth of the guests -- is that the main course appears to be pizza. Aside from Mayer and Ive, Twitter's Dick Costolo and Drew Houston (CEO of Dropbox) both have well-known relationships with Apple. Also in the part is Dave Morin, the CEO of Path -- which ran afoul of Apple when it revealed that it was collecting address book and other personal data on users without informing them. The publicity over the flap led to considerably changes and strengthening of Apple's guidelines, though Path was allowed to continue being offered after revising its own policies.
Other companies represented in the photo include Traina Interactive (founder Trevor Traina); Nirav Tolia, CEO of Nextdoor social network; Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman; Bebo cofounder Michael Birch (who sold Bebo to AOL); education startup CEO Dion Lim, who hasn't yet revealed the name of his latest company, but who cofounded Epinions with Tolia), and CEO of Quip (and former CTO of Facebook) Bret Taylor.
BusinessInsider reported on the event, noting that Mayer's deep connections (both social and business) in Silicon Valley was one of the reasons she got the Yahoo job. The sheer number of business connections between the attendees (Apple once tried to buy Dropbox; Mayer wanted Google to acquire Yelp when she worked there) makes the photo remarkable and the viewer wonder about the conversations that ensued.


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If you would have listened to me, you wouldn't need that extra object "f". You could just have written if (A[minIndex].compareTo(A[smallestIndex]) < 0)Also, if you want to sort, you should consider using Arrays.sort unless writing the sorting is homework.
Rob Spoor wrote:Sure. The only problem the Fraction class itself has is the Comparator / Comparable issue. And you can tell you professor that implementing Comparator<Fraction> instead of Comparable<Fraction> is bad design. Tell him I said so
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Looking to get a fix on where the '95 economy is headed? Well, you can listen to the pundits -- or you can figure it out the way smart company builders do
Calling economics an exact science is like calling Bill Clinton a soul mate of Newt Gingrich's. It's never going to happen. But that doesn't keep a lot of people from thinking they know precisely what the economy is going to do.
In an era when it's the economy, stupid, no one wants to look the part. These days we all have opinions on everything from M3 to G-7. Consider the recent experience of Bill Kelley, chairman of Consolidated Stores. Consolidated, based in Columbus, Ohio, is the country's largest retailer of closeout merchandise. Its stores do particularly well in areas where people on fixed incomes live, which hardly makes its aisles gathering grounds for Ph.D. economists. And yet "the other day I had a guy stop me in one of our stores and ask me where I thought the long bond was headed," Kelley recalls. But it hasn't always been that way. "Back in the late 1970s, when interest rates hit the front page, the average Joe didn't know the prime rate from a loaf of bread."
In a time when people claim to know more about the economy -- and are less sure about where it's taking us -- we at Inc. are happy to toss our share of rhetorical cordwood onto the fire. As we set out to find where the economy is headed this year, our idea was to talk to more than just the usual suspects -- those pundits whose pithy utterings on the macroeconomic view of things get lapped up daily by the mainstream media. We wanted to go deeper. We spoke, as well, to the doers, the growth-company managers who are out tangling with the economy daily. We wanted to find out not just what they foresaw for 1995 but what they were planning to do about it. Of course, for most company builders, planning doesn't mean changing strategy on January 1 or when the latest economic indicators come in the door. The process occurs on a continuum. It's a long-running movie, not a slide show.
Our sample is hardly scientific. Yet it's an effort to get at the increasingly schizophrenic nature of economic analysis. Economic data get mulled over and massaged more and more by the experts these days. But the view from the shop floor is invariably more nuanced -- and certainly as telling -- as deciphering the machinations of a $6-trillion economy through yet another string of data. So in the interest of equal time, we bring you opinions of what's going to happen in 1995 from not just the pundits but the planners as well.* * *
The Planners
World Beater
These days Cecil Ursprung is a committed globalist. He notes that U.S. gross domestic product stood at 40% of world GDP after World War II. By the century's end it could be 20%. He says he has never known a time when more of the world has been receptive to democratic capitalism. He sees the convergence of these major trends: a more favorable political environment, enhanced logistics and communication, and the withering away of trade barriers. Acting on his observations, Ursprung takes four or five trips a year outside the United States and subscribes to a number of foreign publications -- just to keep a global context in his head.
His company, Reflexite Corp., a $45-million maker of reflective signs, already gets nearly half its sales from overseas. The growth of overseas sales will accelerate this year as a stretch of focusing on domestic business ends. Says Ursprung: "In the United States we see signs that the current business cycle is maturing. We see very definite signs of inflationary cost pressures for the first time in four years, and we see some evidence of a slowing of the recovery that began in 1990."
Since then Ursprung has worked hard to improve operations. "We continue to look internally for better margins. The company shifted to work centers and self-directed teams. That produced productivity gains of 30% in each of the first two years. But it becomes harder to achieve such gains if you stay on the same curve."
Now it's time for Reflexite to change curves, to do less cost cutting in the United States and more boosting of volume overseas, where Ursprung sees business growing 30% this year, versus 20% in the United States. "We finally see signs of economic recovery in Europe. We believe the Far East is bottoming out." Pushing hard abroad, Reflexite has been doing joint ventures and setting up wholly owned companies in Europe and Asia. The latest venues include Japan, China, and Australia.* * *
Battening Down the Hatches
Smart planner that he is, John Birk collects enough data every week to choke a mainframe. And what he will do this year -- grow his company by 40% -- was inspired by what he discerned from that data in late 1993.
His $11-million company, Wright Express, based in South Portland, Maine, processes records of purchases of fuel, oil, and maintenance services made at more than 80,000 locations nationwide for vehicle fleets. All those data get fed into a finely tuned planning model, lending Birk an unusual edge: reliable leading indicators of the U.S. economy's strength.
Ninety to 120 days before the economy comes out of a recession, the number of monthly transactions and the average size of those transactions start to climb. In 1993 Birk's model told him that the economy was in danger of overheating. Consequently, he figured, the United States was due for some inflation and a rise in interest rates. That created a dilemma for Wright. His business was booming; he had to hire more people. But money would cost more and so would labor. He wanted to hold his prices down. Last year Birk projected he would have 144 employees by year's end. He ended up with 162, and this year he expects that figure to grow to more than 200.
To offset the higher costs, Birk launched a sweeping cost-control program. He took out a new bank loan at a low rate. He negotiated hard with suppliers, switching long-distance carriers to get discounts in return for a three-year contract. He also inked a 42-month contract for a state-of-the-art laser printer at virtually the same price as two older machines. The new printer has three times the capacity of his old machines. (That is important since the principal product that Wright "manufactures" is paper, in the form of invoices.) The 42-month contract is long enough to get Birk a good deal on the printer but not so long that he'll miss out on the next generation of machines.
Wright is also expanding into an adjacent building. Birk got the landlord to update the building so the energy bills would be lower. The company switched from electric heat to gas heat. "Overall, I'm not terribly concerned about inflation," says Birk. "Right now the economy's very strong," he says. His model tells him things are still rolling along out there. Back home, things are battened down.* * *
Paper Cuts
Dave Morse runs a monopoly, but that doesn't mean he's minting money. On the contrary. He's urgently trying to save it.
Morse is the publisher and chief executive of $6-million Courier Publications, based in Rockland, Maine, which publishes seven local newspapers along the state's central coast. Morse has one big nut to crack in 1995, and that is newsprint, which represents a third of his operating costs. Last year, after years of glut and favorable pricing, things started to change. You can almost hear Morse wince when he says, "The paper companies are aching for revenge. The pendulum is going to swing hard and fast. We know it." Newsprint prices went up 10% in December and are set to rise at least another 10% in June.
Morse thinks he can pass along half the cost increase to his advertisers before they start to resist. For the other half, he says, "we've looked at a variety of scenarios related to how we produce our papers." Morse will carefully build his newsprint inventory, consolidating weights of paper to hedge against spot shortages. Courier is cutting back on the frequency of special sections, and melding three papers into a single pressrun to save material and labor and produce greater uniformity among the papers.
Morse is hemmed in not just by paper producers but by a local, undiversified economy, and policies emanating from the planet of Washington, which he has no control over. "One of our big concerns is that consumer confidence will slump." That is a real possibility given Maine's "older demographic." The prospect of increased inflation and the uncertain state of health-care legislation could affect elderly people on fixed incomes, Morse worries. That would dampen consumer confidence and hurt the retail trade, upon which Morse relies for ad revenues. For him 1995 will be touch and go.* * *
Nothing's Automatic
You can be in the fat part of the economy and still be struggling. Just ask Charlie Duncheon, senior vice-president of sales and marketing at Adept Technology Inc., a San Jose, Calif., robotics manufacturer with more than $50 million in annual sales.
"We're riding the wave of factory automation. The good news globally is that the market for our product is strong," says Duncheon. "The bad news is that it is maturing." The current generation of robots is aging. Many customers are deferring purchases, waiting for the new line. "There's a higher level of value consciousness by customers. That means strong price pressures," says Duncheon. So instead of selling expensive, fully integrated robotic systems, Adept is concentrating more effort on selling simpler modular pieces of that system that customers can add on one at a time.
Duncheon sees North American business rising 20% in 1995, on top of a red-hot 30% gain last year. But in Japan and Europe business has been flat to down for the past few years. This year those markets will stir but not boom. That means that margins will remain thin, so Adept will focus on reducing its customers' installation time through a program dubbed Rapid Deployment Automation. Says Duncheon: "Before we spend a single dollar on developing a product, we ask ourselves, 'Does it allow the customer to rapidly deploy it?"
The company will also spend more effort with customers, helping them understand that good robot design results in ease of manufacturing for Adept -- and productivity gains for the customer. In the past customers would often order robots without being aware of technical problems Adept might encounter in manufacturing. Now, says Duncheon, Adept will ensure that customers understand "that ease of manufacturing for us is an integral part of product design."* * *
The Bill Comes Due
Ben Bailey is bearish on Bill Clinton, and that will affect how he runs his business this year. "There are no fundamental business problems with the economy, and that is a tragedy," he asserts. "We face a political problem. The administration has done several things that in the short and long term have affected capital investment in negative ways."
Bailey is chairman of ComputerBoards Inc., of Mansfield, Mass., a maker of data-acquisition and control boards for personal computers. ComputerBoards is a $10-million, 30-employee Subchapter S corporation and thus, claims Bailey, was swept up in the Clinton-tax-hike dragnet that targeted all the "rich" people in the economy. "Our taxes are up substantially as a result of the Clinton tax package. If you suddenly see 10% of your gross income pulled back, you can't grow. The spigot that fuels our growth has been turned back a notch. In this kind of a climate, business leaders will not aggressively invest in research and development and marketing," he says.
Last year, says Bailey, he spent $250,000 less on R&D than he had planned and hired 10 fewer people. "That's 25% fewer jobs as a direct effect of the tax package." In 1995, says Bailey, "we will spend a lot more time thinking about whether something is a sure thing before we spend money on it -- and we'll be more demanding about when it will pay off." That's hardly conducive to innovation. Currently, 15% of Bailey's sales are from overseas. He'd like to boost that to 40% in the next few years, but under the current circumstances he can't possibly afford the marketing investment.
An industry player since 1984, Bailey uses job quotes as a reliable leading indicator. His customers run the gamut of every kind of manufacturer as well as the major universities. When they're optimistic, Bailey fields plenty of quotes for new equipment. Right now "customers are just holding on." For many, making a big capital commitment to new technology in the current climate would be risky at best and fatal at worst. Bailey says the volume of quotes is off by slightly more than 80% since the peak in 1990. "We had good quotes through early 1993, but now it's a river that has run dry."* * *
Bulldozer Barometrics
Good CEOs -- unlike many economists -- always have an ear to the ground. That describes Russ Inserra, who these days spends less time worrying about the economy and more time honing his instincts about the right places to scare up business.
Inserra calls his strategy "looking for hot spots." Moving fast, staying mobile, and seeing the continent as his canvas is a big part of Inserra's plan for 1995. He says the economy is "a real mixed bag out there," adding, "we need to be more selective geographically about what we are going after." When Inserra, founder of Orion Construction, based in Houston -- which will have about $12 million in sales this year -- recently bid $1.2 million on a job in Salem, Mass., he knew he was in the wrong place. The low bidder was a local company that came in below Orion's cost.
Inserra thinks regional distortions in the economy will persist -- or even grow. Hawaii, pumped up by Japanese money, is overbuilt and depressed. Ditto for California. Boise and Albuquerque, powered by major corporate expansions, are on the rise. Says Inserra: "We have to take rifle shots. We have to look for corporate expansions and areas where local contractors are overloaded. That is where margins are moving up."
Any builder who can stay mobile and think national will survive in 1995, says Inserra. Sitting back and waiting for the local economy to improve is a recipe for trouble. He now also spends more time talking to engineers and reading their trade journals. They do the design work on jobs that are in the pipeline. He also keeps an eye on heavy-equipment auctions -- good leading indicators for Inserra -- which occur once a week. Rising equipment prices mean increasing construction activity in that market. Inserra is always prepared to travel to auctions where equipment is cheap and ship his purchases to a hot spot. He tries to make it to an auction at least once a month to pick up not just heavy iron but industry scuttlebutt from everyone from competitors to suppliers.
Inserra believes that "having a national mind-set is the only way you can survive." Local economies can "deteriorate" overnight these days -- and others can suddenly boom. Interest rates and inflation are secondary to that idea. "In a place like Boise, the local guys get so busy; there are not many other bidders. Once people get to capacity, prices start to move up." That's where Inserra wants to be -- for reasons other than margin. "Once we get into an area we usually end up with a second or third project, too."
Storm Warning
Meet Dr. Gloom, alias Gary Shilling. "We'll go into recession starting sometime in the first half of this year," asserts Shilling, president of a Springfield, N.J., economic consulting firm that bears his name. Pricing power has returned to basic industries, signaling inflation. Consumers keep bingeing, despite high debt and layoffs. The recoveries overseas are "tentative" -- while interest rates "are rising universally." So those who see salvation in a 1995 export boom should scrap their hopes, warns Shilling. Besides, he adds, "the Asian economies are net exporters to the United States."
Shilling even tosses in a tart reminder of the 1930s. In 1936, he says, the Fed, fearing inflation, suddenly jacked up reserve requirements on banks. Interest rates shot up. Industrial production declined 38% in 1937 and 1938. Pundits dubbed it the "Roosevelt Recession," says Shilling, adding that Roosevelt also then raised taxes on the upper-income groups -- just as Clinton has done.
The way Shilling sees it, Clinton may fancy himself as FDR reincarnate -- but not this way.
Soft Landing, Shaky Pilot
Most times when the Fed sets out to cool off the economy, it brings on a hard crash. But the soft landing is always in vogue in some quarters. It's the last refuge of optimists such as David Wyss, research director at DRI/McGraw-Hill in Lexington, Mass.
"We are looking for a slowdown but not a recession. The 4% growth pace of the past year is unsustainable," says Wyss. "It should slow to the 2%-to-2.5% range." The soft landing of 1995, says Wyss, will look like those of 1966 and 1986, when the business cycle lengthened and the good times rolled on for three more years. Wyss sees the federal-funds rate rising to 5.25%. Inflation will tick up from about 2.7% to 3.0% in 1995, he predicts.
"People ought to be happier than they are; the economy is doing well," says Wyss. The trouble is, real hourly earnings are down 7% since 1973. Installment debt, which fell sharply from 19% of household income in 1990 to less than 16% by the end of 1992, is back at 17.5%. Purchasing power is up only because more people per household are working. Meanwhile, the cost of benefits is rising, keeping a lid on wage increases.
Soft landing? Hmm. The consumer, ever unpredictable, holds the joystick on the approach here.
Wrong Numbers
David Bostian, chief economist at the New York City brokerage firm of Herzog, Heine, Geduld, complains that most economic models are simplistic and, therefore, inaccurate. Except his, which has 26 components versus just 11 for the government's index of leading economic indicators.
"Our model is incredibly accurate," says Bostian with incredible modesty. "It forecast the economy to be much stronger than the government's index showed during the first two years of the recovery." Now the reverse is true. The government's threadbare index masks economic weakness -- which Bostian's has sniffed out. "We still have tremendous debt hangover from the 1980s. The consumer has been borrowing to support the economy. That's doubly bad because interest rates are going up." Bostian says inventories have been growing "at a nerve-racking rate." Real gross-domestic-product numbers have "inventory accumulation" implying 4.1% annual growth built in, he claims, and yet "real final demand" -- what's actually bought and consumed -- is running at just 1.5%. "To liquidate the inventories would bring real GDP down to zero. We could be in for a painful slowdown," he warns.
Inflation as Decoy
The generals are always fighting the last war," says Walter Mead, a presidential fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School, in New York City. Mead says that in the 1970s, inflation reignited because the government, fearing a replay of the Great Depression, pumped up the money supply. Now, Mead argues, policymakers are phobic about inflation when they should be worried about a contracting economy.
Mead says many economists focus on high rates of U.S. production capacity as signaling upward pressure on prices. "You now have to look at global capacity, and a lot is coming on-line," he counters. "If you look at prices in yen and deutsche marks, we are actually in a deflationary period. Consumer prices in Japan are dropping. You can get a spike in the price of gold, and people assume that's an inflationary signal, but that could be China alone responding to inflationary pressure in its economy."
Mead adds, "I don't see any sign of a boom that could get out of control." He worries, rather, that any fresh shoot of growth could get trampled in Mr. Greenspan's neighborhood.
Rising Sums
Maureen Allyn says the oft-mentioned threat of a capital shortage -- which sends interest rates sky-high around the globe -- is overblown. "The excess savings are bottled up in Japan," she says, noting that since 1985 Japan has accumulated an $850-billion current-account surplus. "The last couple of years have seen very little capital outflow. This is a capital blockage, not a shortage." She says the Japanese were burned by many "trophy" investments they made in the 1980s. The money will soon cycle back, but this time into more productive investments. That will help sustain growth in 1995 at 3.5%, says Allyn, chief economist at Scudder, Stevens, & Clark, in New York City.
But selectivity is the key. Allyn sees a "pricing rotation" away from finished consumer products and services and toward raw-material suppliers and value-added producers of capital goods -- machine tools, construction equipment, and the like. "What will sustain growth is capital spending and exports," says Allyn, who notes that corporate profit margins are at a 15-year high. "Exports are where orders are taking off." n


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There are 10 species of dories. The red dory, native to deep waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, has reddish scales. It is six inches (15 cm) long. The mirror dory, native to the Pacific Ocean, is silver with some black on its head. It is 19 inches (48 cm) long. Mirror dories are commercially fished off Australia and New Zealand. The John dory, native to European waters, is an excellent food fish. .)
Dories belong to the family Zeidae. The red dory is Cyttopsis rosea; the mirror dory, Zenopsis nebulosa; the John dory, Zeus faber.


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The Pirates are close to acquiring first baseman Sean Casey from the Reds for left-hander Dave Williams, FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports.
If this goes down, then it's safe to assume the reports of the Red Sox offering Bronson Arroyo and/or Kevin Youkilis were false. As we figured anyway. Casey is making $8.5 million next year, so Williams, a bottom-of-the-rotation lefty, is about what he's worth. Dec. 6 - 6:02 pm et


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A porridge still a HEB with a scan bran ?
A porridge still a HEB with a scan bran ?
You can have 35g porridge oats as a HExB. That doesn't include a Scan Bran with it - you'd need to Syn the SB.
You're best off just buying a big bag of plain porridge oats and measuring out your 35g, it will probably work out cheaper that way too. If you don't have time to weigh them out each morning then you can dedicate a little time to do the whole thing in one go, then you can just grab your bag of oats wheenever you need them x
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Discover more about this history of the Frontline Police presenter.
Rav Wilding was born in Canterbury, Kent on 16 October 1977 and is the second of five children. His father is Mauritian and his mother is English. After secondary school he took an apprenticeship in construction before joining the British Army at 17. Due to his stature and physical fitness he was selected to undertake parachute training but a broken leg sustained on a training run cut a career in the Airborne unit short and after 4 years he left after medical staff advised him that it would be highly unlikely that his leg would ever be back to full fitness.
On leaving the army in 1999, Rav started working at Harrods store in Knightsbridge as part of the security team. After approximately 9 months at Harrods, Rav's application to join the Metropolitan Police Service was accepted and he started training school. He joined the service at the start of 2000 and was posted to Peckham in South London. Whilst based at Peckham, one of the busiest boroughs in the UK he was involved in the high profile police investigation surrounding the death of Damilola Taylor. Rav was part of a specialist unit specifically created in the aftermath of the murder where he would work solely on the tough North Peckham estate.
After two years as a Policeman Rav responded to an advert for people to partake in a jungle adventure, to live for three months in an Australian rain forest. After three months in the jungle, Rav returned to Britain and went back to work in the police but this time in to the CID. Working within the CID, Rav was posted to units focusing on robbery, burglary and major investigations as well as a long spell working on a Sapphire unit dealing with rape and sexual assault allegations. He was quickly selected for Detective training and soon became a Detective Constable for the last 6 years of his service. During this time, Rav worked on many high profile cases and was a regular at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) where the most serious hearings were held.


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SUNLAND PARK — A contentious outdoor public meeting, marred by shouting, disruptions, the mayor pro tem storming off and her questionable firing of the city clerk, ended Friday evening with Sunland Park still without a mayor.
The mayoral appointment was postponed to May 14 to allow the city council to interview two declared candidates: Javier Perea, a 24-year-old former diamond salesman who stepped down from the mayor's post last week amidst criticisms that the council violated the open meeting law when he was appointed on April 18, and Gerardo Hernandez, who lost to Daniel Salinas in the city elections. Salinas was barred from being sworn into office while he has bribery, extortion, fraud and kickback charges pending against him.
Perea and Hernandez presented themselves for the position near the end of a public meeting that Mayor Pro Tem Isabel Santos tried to cancel at the last second, arguing that it never should have been scheduled to begin with, because the city did not post a notice 72 hours in advance.
After saying that the meeting needed to be postponed for more information on the prospective candidates, Santos walked off before the meeting was called to order, attracting jeers from many in the audience of about 120 people. As reporters swarmed around her, a young man approached and asked Santos, "Why are you leaving us?" and also said, "I don't appreciate this!"
Santos also fielded questions about her decision to fire the city clerk, Liz Gamez, about an hour before the meeting.
"I've had a lot of problems with (Gamez). She never fulfills my instructions. She never gives me correct information," said Santos, who claimed she had more information that she would share next week with the city council to explain her decision to fire Gamez.
However, City Councilor Carmen Rodriguez said only the mayor has the legal authority to fire the city clerk. She said Gamez' firing was illegal, and that she still has her job.
However, an interim city clerk was still appointed to run last night's meeting. The city attorney was also put on the telephone, which was placed next to a microphone so the audience could hear him say that the city was on solid legal footing to hold the meeting because it had been posted 48 hours in advance, and that Santos lacked the authority to try to adjourn it.
Several residents addressed the council in English and Spanish, urging the elected officials to "do the right thing" for a city that has been rocked by wave upon wave of alleged political corruption.
"It's just horrible, so frustrating. They need to think of the kids, the future generations that they're affecting, not just us," said Aggie Montoya.
A local businessman approached the microphone to urge the council not to rush into a hasty decision in appointing a new mayor, but he was interrupted a few times by a woman sitting behind him who before and during the meeting kept calling out in Spanish for the candidates to present themselves.
Tempers flared at times. Two women had to be separated by police after a brief shoving match off to the side of the councilors' table. Later in the meeting, two women shouted at each other while someone tried to address the councilors.
Dressed in a suit, Perea approached the microphone and said people had tried to smear his name in recent days, and vowed he would not be "cowed to intimidation and fear.
"Sunland Park is in need of a helping hand and I'm here to offer one," said Perea, who called upon those gathered to put "petty differences" aside and work together.
After he finished speaking, Santos appeared, approached the microphone, told the prospective candidates not to waste their time because the vote had been manipulated for Perea, and then walked off again, doing more media interviews before finally leaving the area.
Hernandez, the candidate who was the alleged target of a blackmail plot earlier this year by the Salinas campaign, told the councilors that he hoped they "do the right thing," while mentioning that "people are making fun of us everywhere."
Rodriguez, the city councilor, said after the meeting that she was proud of Sunland Park residents who turned out to express their concern for the city's direction. Rodriguez also criticized Santos for not being professional and walking out of the meeting.
"It's very hard because some of us do want to do the right thing for our community and move it forward," Rodriguez said.
Brian Fraga can be reached at (575) 541-5462; Follow him on Twitter @bfraga
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SUNLAND PARK — After a heated meeting Friday that occasionally deteriorated into shouting matches, the Sunland Park City Council opted to postpone its appointment of a new mayor until May 14.
Two candidates submitted their résumés to the council at the meeting: Gerardo Hernandez, who lost the March election for the mayor's seat to the now-incarcerated Daniel Salinas, and Javier Perea, 24, a former diamond salesman, who was appointed mayor on April 18, but stepped down from the post last week, following a letter from New Mexico Attorney General Gary King's office that directed the city council to re-vote on its April 18 actions because of a possible open meetings violation.
Tempers flared throughout Friday evening, and Mayor pro tem. Isabel Santos walked out, after questioning whether the meeting was even legal, since she fired City Clerk Liz Gamez on Friday afternoon.
Before the meeting, Santos told the Sun-News that Gamez went behind her back to schedule Friday's meeting against her wishes. She was fired for "not following instructions," Santos said, and escorted from the building by police.
As the meeting began, Santos indicated she wanted to postpone appointing a mayor for the city until the council can get more information about the candidates.
After a heated argument &mdash in English and Spanish &mdash with other councilors, Santos walked off the stage and left the meeting, prompting one person to call out, "Why do you want to leave us?" and "I don't appreciate this."
After calming things down and appointing a temporary city clerk, the council was able to proceed with agenda items and public comment. Sunland Park City Attorney Frank Coppler, over the phone, said Santos had no authority to adjourn the meeting.
Friday's session was held in a courtyard near the city hall, 1000 McNutt Road, to accommodate the large crowd that was expected to show up. More than 60 people attended the meeting - at least one was carrying a sign pleading "State of N.M. Help!" — but turnout was less than the April 18 meeting, when residents were forced to listen at the door and peer through windows to follow the action.
The state Open Meetings Act specifies that all people wanting to attend should be allowed to do so and hear the proceedings. Violations of the act invalidate action taken by a public body.
Perea opted to step down to clear up any doubts about his status as mayor. The city council appointed him after the former Mayor-elect, Daniel Salinas, was barred from being sworn into office while he has bribery, extortion, fraud and kickback charges pending against him.
We'll have more details and reaction from the scene within the hour, so check back here.
(7:11 p.m. update)
SUNLAND PARK — Sunland Park's city council decided Friday evening to postpone its decision on the city's next mayor until May 14. The meeting has adjourned. Check back here for a full report from the meeting.
(7:06 p.m. update)
SUNLAND PARK — Public comment has ended and the Sunland Park city council is now reviewing resumes from mayoral hopefuls. Check back here to find out what they decide.
(6:28 p.m. update)
SUNLAND PARK — A temporary city clerk has been appointed. The Sunland Park City Attorney Frank Coppler, over the phone, said Santos had no authority to adjourn the meeting. The council has regained control of the meeting, and is proceeding through the agenda, after Mayor pro tem. Isabel Santos walked out.
(6:25 p.m. update)
SUNLAND PARK — The Sunland Park City Council meeting grew heated Friday, as Mayor pro tem. Isabel Santos walked out, after questioning whether the meeting is even legal, for reasons of adequate notice and whether it can proceed without a city clerk. City Clerk Liz Gamez has been fired and was led away Friday from city hall by police. Santos has indicated she wants to postpone appointing a mayor for the city until the council can get more information about the candidates.
Check back here for more details as they become available.
(5:51 p.m. update)
SUNLAND PARK — Sunland Park City Clerk Liz Gamez has been fired and led away from city hall by police, the Sun-News has confirmed.
Sunland Park Mayor pro tem. Isabel Santos told the Sun-News that Gamez went behind her back to schedule tonight's meeting against her wishes. She was fired for "not following instructions" and escorted from the building by police.
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SEATTLE -- A Seattle woman was either the victim of an attempted carjacking or a terrifying case of mistaken identities last week near Ravenna Park.
According to the Seattle Police Department's report for the incident, the woman, wearing pajamas and carrying her morning coffee, left her house in the 6200 block of Brooklyn Avenue Northeast around 6:45 a.m. to give her son a ride to work.
It was pouring rain as she got into her car, and she saw a man with a hood over his head walking nearby.
When the woman closed the car door and started the engine, the man started running toward her, according to the report. She tried to lock the car doors but accidentally hit the unlock button instead.
The soaking-wet man got into the passenger seat and yelled, "Go!" according to the report.
The woman later told officers she was scared and yelled back, "No!" which frightened the would-be carjacker.
The man ran off, and the woman's son came out of the house for his ride to work a minute later.
The woman told officers she waited two days to report the incident because at first she thought the man may have just gotten into the wrong car.


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Do not worry about things you can not control , work on the things you can control and move on there more things you can handle just try it. controlling your thoughts and feeling is not so hard to do , you just take your breath and start thinking positively . here i will try give some steps about how to control your feeling in a good way ?
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The Niners came within one play of winning the Super Bowl earlier this year. Losing like that makes them hungrier, nastier and more dangerous. ...


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Sunday's storms have moved to South Central Ohio, ending the chance for severe weather and leaving behind scattered showers, said Wilmington National Weather Service Meteorologist Allen Randall.
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From Hero-Worship to Celebrity-Adulation
The problem of greatness in an age of equality.
Oct 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 • By TOD LINDBERG
In the mid-19th century, the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle coined the term "Hero-worship," by which he meant the high regard, entirely proper in his view, that ordinary people have for the great figures of their history. His project in Lectures on Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) was to restore greatness to dignity in an age he believed had come to belittle the very possibility of exceptional human achievement. Carlyle claimed, on the contrary, "Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. . . . All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world."
Thomas Carlyle
Each of the Lectures takes up one of the "six classes of heroes" Carlyle identifies: the hero as divinity, prophet, poet, priest, man of letters, and king. He suggests that the times in which one lives have some bearing on the type of hero who steps forward: the hero-divinity seems to be a figure belonging to the pagan past and is unlikely to resurface. Nevertheless, Carlyle argues vehemently against the proposition that the times make the man. He asks: What about the numerous manifest historical instances in which a people were in desperate need of a hero and didn't get one—to their ruin? Heroes appear on their own schedule.
Carlyle seems to regard heroism as an essential property: The greatness of the heroic type will always express itself, but it manifests itself in a form appropriate to its times. One age's prophet is another age's playwright is another's king. A young person destined for greatness will find a proper avenue for its expression and travel down it. What distinguished Muhammad and Samuel Johnson from their respective contemporaries was greatness or heroism. What distinguished them from each other was that the 7th century was ripe for a prophet, the 18th for a literary lion.
Carlyle professed himself to be certain of the ultimate success of his project to rehabilitate greatness, veneration of which he considered innate to mankind. He refers to the "indestructibility of Hero-worship":
Carlyle was a romantic; he was not a systematic thinker, and in keeping with both his romanticism and his theme, praise for hero worship, he had a tendency to gush. But he had genuine hold of a serious problem of his time and ours—the modern world's egalitarian distrust of claims of greatness and heroism.
Carlyle was not antimodern. There is certainly a large helping of Enlightenment modernity in his proposition that the figure "we all" properly "love, venerate, and bow down submissive before" is not God or the king, but a certain type of human being. Yet Carlyle clearly has a foot in both the piety of the ancient world and the humanism of the modern. He wants to retain the qualities of reverence ("love, venerate, and bow down") historically associated with belief in God. But he seeks to abstract them into a generic "Hero-worship" characteristic of all times and places. He does so in an effort to counter the ascendant "sceptical logic," "unbelief," and decadent "revolution" swirling all around him. He wants to save the modern world from its leveling tendencies, to keep a place in it for due regard for greatness, or the heroic. Clearly, he refers to "every true man" (emphasis added) feeling himself "made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him" in order to evade the manifest fact that many of his contemporaries and ours, in the egalitarian spirit of the age, flatly rejected the proposition that there was or is anyone (or anything) "above" them before whom they should "bow down submissive."
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Ted Pelletier joined Kazan Law in September 2013 to run the firm's appellate and motion department. Mr. Pelletier brings 17 years of experience in the trial and appellate courts representing injured consumers, including many cases on behalf of asbestos victims.
Mr. Pelletier graduated with honors in 1994 from Hastings College of the Law, where he pursued appellate advocacy in competition. From 1996 to 2002, he handled consumers' appeals with the Law Office of Daniel U. Smith, where his victories included defending numerous judgments on behalf of asbestos victims. From 2002 to 2013, he continued this practice through his own office, the Law Office of Ted W. Pelletier, representing consumers in appeals, writs, and motion practice.
Over the years, Mr. Pelletier has handled dozens of appeals in the California Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. He has been honored to represent many asbestos and other toxic-tort victims. Among his proudest accomplishments is representing the first Californians to successfully sue cigarette manufacturers, first protecting recoveries by two smokers who contracted asbestos disease from smoking 1950s Kent cigarettes that included an asbestos filter, and then defending appeals of verdicts for the first two California plaintiffs who successfully sued cigarette manufacturers for their decades of fraudulent insistence that their product was not harmful.
On joining Kazan law, Mr. Pelletier continues to represent asbestos plaintiffs in several pending appellate matters, including in Webb v. Special Electric Co. (2012) 214 Cal.App.4th 595, which he will argue before the California Supreme Court in 2014. He looks forward to continuing these battles to assure that California law provides justice for the victims of asbestos exposure and their families.
Mr. Pelletier has been happily married for over 20 years to his wife Mia, with whom he has two wonderful daughters, Sophie and Julia.
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., Cum Laude, 1994), Order of the Coif, Thurston Society, American Jurisprudence Award for Appellate Process; extern to the Honorable Fern Smith, Northern District of California
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This section is common to all editions of IT360 - Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition (Probes only) and MSP Edition (Probes only).
Server level management is a concept, which involves a lot of manual intervention, human resources, and administrative tasks, to be performed. IT360 provides with a Server level monitoring functionality, to achieve such goals, and to ease the process of configuration management of hosts.
The different type of server supported by IT360 are listed below. Their arrangement in Monitor List UI is as shown here.
Windows 2000, 2003, XP, NT, Vista, 7, 2008
Sun Solaris
HP Unix / Tru64 Unix
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To create any of the above server monitors, follow the below steps:
Login to IT360 console with the Username and Password of an Admin user.
Click the Admin tab in the header pane.
Click Discover/Add under Discovery.
Choose the option Add from the Discover / Add type dropdown and select the Application radio button.
In the Add New Monitor wizard displayed, click any of the monitors under Servers. Now, choose Servers from the Add Monitor of type dropdown.
Enter a Display Name for the server.
Enter the 'Host Name / IP Address'.
Enter the SubNetMask of the network. (The subnet mask determines the maximum number of hosts on a subnetwork)
Enter the Polling Interval time in minutes. (The time interval to monitor the different parameters configured for a Monitor)
OS Type: Provide the monitor specific authentication information, i.e.choose the 'OS type' (FreeBSD, AIX, Linux, Novell, HP UX, AS400 / iSeries, Mac OS, Sun Solaris, Tru64 Unix, Windows 2000, 2003, XP, NT, Vista, 7, 2008). Based on the type of OS, the Mode of Monitoring information changes.
10. 1 Windows 2000, 2003, XP, NT, Vista, 7, 2008, 8, 2012:
Follow the steps 1-9.
Choose any of the above Windows OS Types.
Select the Mode of Monitoring (SNMP or WMI).
Provide the Port number, at which it is running (default is 161)
Choose between the SNMP Versions V1/V2 or V3. If you choose V1/V2, enter the SNMP Community String (default is 'public'). This requires no Username and Password information. If you choose V3, select the Security Level, enter a UserName and a Context Name. (Refer the below screenshot)
If you choose WMI, do the following:
Enable Event Log Monitoring, if required. (Kindly refer Windows Event Log Rules)
Provide Username and Password information of the server.
10.2 Linux/ Sun Solaris/ IBM AIX/ HP Unix/ Tru64 Unix/ FreeBSD/ Mac OS/Novell:
Follow the steps 1-9.
Choose any of the above OS Types.
Select the Mode of Monitoring (Telnet, SSH or SNMP). For IBM AIX, HP Unix, Tru64 Unix, only Telnet and SSH are supported. For Novell, only SNMP is supported.
If you choose Telnet:
Provide the Port number, at which it is running (default is 23)
Provide Username and Password information of the server.
If you choose SSH:
Provide the Port number, at which it is running (default is 22)
Provide Username and Password information of the server.
Enable Public Key Authentication (supported for SSH2 only). Enter the Private Key value.
1. To identify the Public/Private key, go to command prompt, type cd .SSH/ then from the list, open the files <id_dsa.pub>/<id_rsa.pub> [Public] or <id_dsa>/<id_rsa>[Private] to get the keys If SNMP, provide the port at which it is running (default is 161) and SNMP Community String (default is 'public'). This requires no user name and password information.
2. In the Server, which you are trying to monitor through SSH, the PasswordAuthentication variable should be set as 'yes' for the data collection, to happen. To ensure this, access the file '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' and verify the value of PasswordAuthentication variable. If it is set as 'no', modify it to 'yes', and restart the SSH Daemon, using the command '/etc/rc.d/sshd restart'.
Follow the steps 1-9.
Choose the OS Type as AS400/iSeries.
Provide Username and Password information of the server.
Now, Associate the above Monitor Instances to a Business Service. i.e. choose the Business Service, to which you want to associate the Servers Monitor, from the dropdown. If no Business Service is found, Create one by clicking the Create New Business Service link.
In the case of Professional Edition, it is Business Service [optional].
In the case of Enterprise Edition - Probe, it is Business Service [optional]
In the case of MSP Edition - Probe, it is Customer and Site [mandatory]
If you have added Monitors and not associated them with a Business Service, you can do this manually anytime. For information on associating a Monitor with a Business Service, refer to Associating Monitors with Business Service topic. However, if you are configuring a MSP Probe, it is mandatory to associate the Monitor to the appropriate Customer / Site. There are situations, where the host gets automatically discovered with the Monitor running in the host. To disable the default option, disable it using Global Settings.
Mode of Monitoring - SSH/Telnet vs SNMP:
We recommend Telnet or SSH mode of monitoring, because the following attributes are not available through SNMP;
System administrators generally prefer to check system resources, with commands, and will prefer to compare it with the SSH/telnet mode output, rather than running SNMP walk, to compare. Also, having the connection to the Linux boxes over SSH will make it easier for you to configure the same for script monitors or 'execute program' actions, if required.
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We're having a crazy storm.
The kind where the hydro goes out.
The kind where our major 8 lane highway is closed because it's too dangerous.
(The 400 if you're familiar with the area.)
It knocked down one of our trees (or the neighbour's, we're not sure) last night.
Here's a million pictures of it, because Lucky cracks my ass up.
I dunno why but editing these pictures, I was laughing so hard,
He's just so fucking funny. :oD
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At the moment, the DowJones is advancing 0.50%, seconded by the S&P500 and the Nasdaq,, up 0.08% and 0.35% respectively.
Markets in Euroland closed in a mixed tone on Wednesday, with the British benchmark leading the gains, climbing 0.30% and followed by the DAX, 0.15%. On the opposite side, the CAC40 retreated 0.40% and the IBEX35 0.22%. The single currency has managed to climb back above 1.3300 after bottoming in the proximities of 1.3260, as markets are focused on tomorrow's PMI prints in the euro area.
Commodities are trading in red, with the barrel of WTI losing 0.44% at $96.25 and the ounce troy of gold following suit, down 0.38% at $1686


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Our Community Classroom in Ashland Oregon is the venue for the Co-op's Community Oven Cooking Classes, Free Monday Night Lectures and Special Community Events! The list of Cooking Classes and Free Monday Night Lectures are constantly changing due to seasonality, and interest from the public (that's right,you)!
The Free Monday Night Lectures offered are a way for local practitioners to educate the public about their specialty. These talks range from childbirth, nutrition, retirement, personal development and anything else that aligns with our Co-op mission. We are proud to be working with Southern Oregon Birth Connections to co-host an ongoing lecture series featuring various aspects of the birthing process.
Due to high demand we bring back many of our Cooking Class Instructors and repeat popular classes. We are here to enrich our community with the knowledge imparted by our amazing diversity of Instructors. We offer intimate classes with subjects ranging from soups to desserts, and encompass raw to omnivore dietary preferences. If you have a cooking class topic that you would like to see offered please let us know.
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[237] Does Clinicopathologic Features Influence the Use of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Who Have an Oncotype DX Intermediate Risk Score?
Michaela T Nguyen, Zhengming Chen, Timothy D'Alfonso, Alexander Stessin, Himanshu Nagar, Mary Hayes, Sandra J Shin. Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; New York Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Background: Oncotype DX (Genomic Health) is a commercially available 21 gene RT-PCR assay that is widely used to determine the risk of distant recurrence and the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early stage breast cancer. This assay calculates a recurrence score (RS) that is stratified as low, intermediate or high. Patients with low RS have been shown to gain little to no benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy while those with a high RS derive large benefits from adjuvant therapy. Currently, it is unclear whether patients with an intermediate RS (18-30) benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. The objective of this study was to determine if routinely available clinicopathologic parameters impact the decision for adjuvant chemotherapy utilization in breast cancer patients found to have an intermediate RS.
Design: A single-center retrospective study (2005-2012) was conducted on 543 patients with invasive breast carcinoma who had Oncotype DX testing performed as part of their routine clinical care. Age, tumor size, tumor grade, lymphovascular invasion, nodal status, ER/PR status, Her2neu status, Ki-67 index, Oncotype DX RS, and treatment were obtained by electronic medical record for each patient. Logistic regression was performed to determine the association between clinicopathologic parameters (age, tumor size, tumor grade, presence of lymphovascular invasion, lymph node micrometastasis, and Ki-67 index) and the utilization of adjuvant chemotherapy.
Results: 154 of 543 (28.3%) early-stage breast cancer patients (ER/PR positive, Her2neu negative, node negative) was found to have an intermediate RS by Oncotype DX testing. 56 of 154 (36.4%) received adjuvant chemotherapy while 98 of 154 (63.4%) did not. Twelve patients refused adjuvant chemotherapy (recommended) and thus, excluded from the analysis. A statistically significant association between high tumor grade and the utilization of adjuvant chemotherapy was identified (OR 10.2, 95% CI 2.97, 35.1; p-value <0.0001). Associations of remaining clinicopathologic parameters with the utilization of adjuvant chemotherapy were not significant.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that high tumor grade is a clinicopathologic feature that significantly favored the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in early stage breast cancer patients classified in the intermediate risk group by Oncotype DX testing.
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May 5, 2005--Slower growth in the gross domestic product (GDP), rising energy costs, and increasing interest rates dampened economic conditions for small businesses during the first quarter of 2005, according to the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy's Quarterly Indicators: The Economy And Small Business report released today.
Small business owner and consumer optimism has weakened from highs in 2004, yet the direction is still positive, said the Small Business Administration (SBA). The National Federation of Independent Business Optimism Index averaged 103.3 during the quarter, indicating that the small business sector is still growing, according to the SBA.
Overall, real GDP increased at 3.1% during the first quarter of 2005, compared to 3.8% during the same period last year.
"The economy cooled in the first quarter of 2005 as higher energy costs weighed on the public's mind," said Dr. Chad Moutray, chief economist for the SBA's Office of Advocacy.
Energy prices played a key role in the first quarter of 2005. The average price of West Texas crude reached $54.31 a barrel in March 2005 -- almost $11 more than the December 2004 average.
Higher energy costs increased consumer prices. Between December 2004 and March 2005, consumer prices rose at an annualized rate of 4.25%, with 1.37 percentage points of the rise attributable to energy costs. Producer prices followed a similar pattern, said the SBA.
Real personal consumption expenditures and capital spending saw annualized growth rates of 3.5 and 5.0%, down from 4.2 and 10.5%, respectively. However, there has been an increased demand for goods and services in trade sectors. Real exports and imports rose at annualized rates of 7.0 and 14.7%, respectively.
This has sustained the appetite for small business commercial and industrial loans, despite rising interest rates, said the SBA.
In the first quarter, interest rates rose as policymakers tried to reduce inflationary pressures. The average prime-lending rate rose to 5.4%, compared to an average of 4.3% in 2004. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve hiked the federal funds interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to 3%.
For small loans, the variable rate for short-term loans between one month and one year increased to 6.6%, up from 6.1% during the first quarter of 2004.
The positive news seems to be on the job creation front. The unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in March 2005, down from 5.4% in February. The current unemployment rate is lower than the 5.5% registered in 2004. Additionally, the economy has added 477,000 new jobs so far in 2005. Incorporated self-employment has grown to 5.4 million, up 500,000 for the year. All industries except for manufacturing, which lost 20,000 jobs during the first quarter, contributed to the gains.
The four industries with the largest percentage of small business employment -- construction, other services (business, IT, health, etc.), wholesale trade, and leisure and hospitality -- added 135,000 new jobs.
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The Palm Beach Apartments were without water and sewer connections Monday after property owners failed to pay $14,000 owed to the city of Tallahassee.
Residents were issued notices on April 28 and Friday of the city's plans to cut off the water supply, which left them unable to shower, use their toilets or drink water from their kitchens for several hours.
Carole Kelley, 48, chose the complex for her 65-year-old mother. After numerous calls to address maintenance problems, such as the 2-foot gaping hole between the bathroom tub and bedroom, she said the notices only added to her stress. ...


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I'm just starting to make some cotton button front shirts instead of knit Ts when I saw a member's review of a shirt she had made using quilting cotton. She didn't like it, and said next time she'd use the other. What is the differerence? I know someone on PR will know! Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!
Quilting cotton is commonly a little heavier/stiffer. It works fine for some garments, but not others.
(I love cottons and floral prints, so I sew with fabric that is theoretically for quilting all the time.)
I agree with above: Quality quilting cotton is thicker so they don't have as much drape.
When I was new and before I knew the difference between quilting cotton and apparel cotton, I bought tons of quilting cotton because they have pretty prints. Now I don't know what to do with them. Supposedly some patterns are good for quilting cotton but I haven't found a clothing pattern that would really suit them. I can't remember any RTW garments have a feel like quilting cotton.
What to do with quilting cottons?
Kwik Sew, Quilter's Highlights patterns
These are patterns that Kwik Sew suggests for quilting cottons.
In this collection of patterns, there are accessories, home dec, kid's clothing, pajamas, robes, a few women's dresses and shirts. (The photos of the dresses and shirts do not show drapey garments, they have some body to them. They also tend to be very simple in design.) I would also suggest camp shirts, Hawaiian style shirts, boxer shorts. Also, tote bags, reusable grocery bags.
Choice of pattern makes all the difference. Any pattern designed for a drapey fabric will not work well with quilting cotton. If a pattern suggests light weight denim or corduroy, I consider it a viable choice for quilting cotton.
Not all quilting cottons are equally thick. Hancocks and Joanns have store brands, that tend to be on the thinner side, but even in the store brand selection, you'll find very thick quilting cottons sometimes.
On the bolt, quilting cottons have been treated with a fabric finish, similar to fabric sizing. Once you wash the fabric, it does soften up quite a bit, but it will never be a soft as some garment cottons. The thinner the quilting cotton, the softer it will be after laundering. The amount of dye used in the printing can also make the fabric stiffer.
I like to make aprons out of quilting cottons. If you make them reversible (using two quilting cottons), they are very sturdy and lots of fun to wear.
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EXACTLY! The light bulb went on for me when I made my last blouse from fabric I had in my stash. The fabric was cotton but oh so soft and drapey. My question is...how do I find this kind of cotton and does it have a name???? Clothing cotton? Thanks!
I feel your pain believe me! I have seen "cotton shirting" at Joann's, etc. and haven't paid too much attention to that since my eye tracks the prints, etc. and the cotton shirting seems a tad conservative. Maybe I need to take another look at cotton shirting and then if the weight is closer to my fabric dream, surf the net. But I still like that touchy/feely thing....
Like the old ad said: The touch, the feel of cotton...the fabric of our lives.
I make quite a number of scrub tops from quilting cotton. They aren't known for being drapey, and I get the kind of fun prints that my pediatric patients seem to enjoy.
I love quilting cottons for boxer shorts. They're fun and I find them fabrics for the guys. I also like these fabrics for kids PJ's.
If you are looking for a nice soft cotton the cotton lawn is nice and usually fairly easy to get. Sometimes I find normall apparel. Ottos ca still e a bit crisp for some applications.
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LA Winter Vay-k Getaways
Winter is officially upon us Angelenos! Forty-eight degrees and we're putting on the puffy coats while we stare out our heated car windows and decide that this will not be the year we pull a G and move part-time to Chicago. How do those people even function? Walking and freezing? Thanks, but no thanks.
And with the cold weather comes the winter blues. While we'd like to think that hiking up Runyon will get us out of our self-proclaimed rut, nothing sounds better than a vay-k.
But with having just had a holiday break, time is of the essence (unless of course you decide to become a perma-vacationer — and given the state of this recent weather, that doesn't sound half bad).
A weekend away with the girls, the bf, or even just yourself to unwind and recharge (with a bottle of vino, thankyouverymuch) is just what the doctor (the doctor of F-U-N, that is) ordered.
But where to? After making all those totally cute but painstakingly detailed handmade holiday decorations, your creativity for fun vay-k ideas is at zilch. Well girlfriend, we've got you covered. From the warm and sunny to the "daycation," we rounded up our fave picks for close vacation getaways. So hang up that parka and get to packing!
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Mary Burton Riseley & Ron Henry are walking El Camino de Santiago de Compostela and will dedicate their walk to protecting the Gila River.
Under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004 (AWSA), the state of NM is proposing to divert 14,000 acre-feet of water per year from the Gila River, New Mexico's last free-flowing river and one of the last intact riparian systems in the West. This project would double the amount of water already used from the river and would threaten the survival of endangered native fish, birds and other wildlife. A diversion on the Gila is unnecessary as viable, cost-effective non-diversion alternatives are able to meet the region's future water needs affordably while maintaining the natural flow of the Gila. For more information on the threat to the Gila, visit www.gilaconservation.org.
Mary Burton Riseley and Ron Henry will be walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain in support of preserving the Gila. They are seeking sponsors to raise funds for Gila River protection efforts of the Gila Conservation Coalition.
All contributions are tax-deductible.
A podcast of an interview with Ron and Mary can be found at http://gmcr.org/earth-matters-el-camino-walk/
Mary Burton Riseley has lived within a few feet of the Gila River for the last 15 years. She has developed a deep connection to the river as well as the plants and animals that depend on it for their survival. Mary is a 4th generation New Mexican who has spent most of her life in this state. She is well known in the area as a person who cares deeply about others and her community. She has shown this by 40 years of work for peace and other causes, as well as by donating her land to a land trust.
Mary is concerned that the Gila River is in serious danger from powerful outside forces. Her sense of alarm was so great that Mary decided to do something big to help protect the Gila River. She is going to Spain to make a holy pilgrimage on the Camino Frances of the Camino de Santiago Compostela (or St. James' Way) a walk of 490 miles, this coming September and October, and is dedicating her walk to the Gila River and the Gila Conservation Coalition, a partnership of Gila Resources Information Project, Upper Gila Watershed Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity dedicated to protecting the free-flow of the wild Gila River.
The Camino has been used since the 9th century to make pilgrimages to St. James' shrine in Santiago de Compostela. According to her spiritual beliefs, she will offer those in prayer on behalf of saving the river as well as for protecting the people and animals that depend on it. Mary is asking people to sponsor her pilgrimage by donating to the El Camino Walk for the Gila. Those who donate will be put on a list that she will carry with her and read when she is praying at the stops. Mary hopes that friends and community members who support her walk will be generous in donating to GCC's Gila River protection efforts.
Ron Henry moved to the Silver City area 20 years ago and feels a deep connection to the Gila River and the mountain countryside that it meanders through. Ron and his children have enjoyed the beauty of the Gila River during hikes and picnics over the years. He is a native New Mexican whose grandparents came to NM in a covered wagon. Ron shared that both his art and his spirituality are deeply connected to nature. He has been an artist all his life in addition to working at two careers (architecture and social work), and he often produces artworks that link nature and spirituality through nature's symbols, such as the phoenix or the wolf.
A year ago, Ron walked 200 miles of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain as a spiritual journey and this year he plans to walk the Camino again for the Gila River, honoring his reverence for nature. In September, he hopes to trek 320 miles of the Camino's paths, plus an additional 60 more miles to get to the Atlantic Ocean.
Ron is dedicating his walk on the Camino de Santiago to saving the Gila River because for him it is the lifeblood for the region's ecosystems. He is extremely disturbed by proposals for a Gila River diversion project that will rip open the earth for miles to run a huge pipeline and drain water away from our region. Ron worries that the loss of the Gila's nourishing river water will overwhelm the natural balance here and bring great harm to our delicate ecosystem. He hopes that he can find enough sponsors of his walk to make a major contribution to the Gila Conservation Coalition to help defray their many expenses in promoting solutions that conserve and better utilize our water resources instead of a diversion project.
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The Patagonia Men's Capilene 2 T-Shirt keeps you comfortable when you shred the trail on your mountain bike, skis, or on your own two feet. Count on this lightweight tee's moisture-wicking, quick-drying, breathable qualities to keep you cool and at ease when you slay it. Thanks to the Capilene 2's odor-fighting finish, you don't offend the ladies, and this slim-fit top with flat seams easily layers under your jacket.
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Comfy tech tee
Perfect tech tee
- Familiarity:I've put it through the wringer
- Fit:Runs large
Dries quickly, breathes great, very light, can wear several days in a row in the backcountry without starting to smell to badly.
I'm 6'1", 180lbs and the large is a bit baggy for my liking.
Hard to beat
- Familiarity:I've used it several times
- Fit:True to size
Wore my Capilene shirts for 2 weeks straight on a recent hiking trip in Sweden. Light-weight, comfortable, and extremely durable. They kept me dry and warm under a wide variety of layers.
Is Capilene as odor-resistant as wool? No. But I solved this problem on my recent trip by carrying 2 shirts and alternating washing and wearing every few days.
What is the pack weight for an xl...
What is the pack weight for an xl please?
Typical Patagonia Quality
This is my new favorite shirt for hiking / running / backpacking. It's lightweight, breaths well, and the fit is awesome. You can really feel the Patagonia quality and durability. You won't go wrong with this product.
Great shirt
- Gender:Male
- Familiarity:I've used it several times
Got two of these and love them. Super comfy and great fit. Used it for yoga weights and riding he mountain bag and can't wait to go hiking in it
My new favorite athletic shirt
- Gender:Male
- Familiarity:I've put it through the wringer
I snagged two of these on SAC and I loved them so much that I came back to Backcountry and paid for another at full price. The material is amazing and I've used them all. Poly/Cotton blends, wool, whatever. I sweat a lot so I'm proud to say that this shirt can handle it. It wicks moisture better and dries faster than my other athletic shirts. I use it for hiking, climbing, gym time, or around town. It looks great too! I love the slim fit. I'm 6', 195 lbs, and wear the Large. This shirt is a winner and worth every penny.
Pats Cap 2 shirt
Comfortable and breathes very nicely, I wear these for any form of physical activity. Size L fits my 6' 2" 205 lb frame with ease and plenty of length at the waist. A great shirt.
Preferred shirt for me!
I picked up 2 of these on sale and they are wonderful. I have been doing heavy cardio lately so sweating a lot and have had no odor issues with the shirt. I've also worn the shirt around town and it feels and looks great (says the wife).
Definitely recommend and will be picking up more when the goat puts them on sale again.
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Great stuff!
Bought 2 of these for my running, mountain biking, hiking excursions. I really love the fit. The shirt is not tight, but closely fitted around the chest and waist so it moves around the body easily, but is not in the least baggy. Keeps me cool and looks great. Definitely worth the sale price I paid!!!
Any sun protection rating on this shirt?
Any sun protection rating on this shirt?
Very minimal. You are looking at maybe UPF 15 at most.
Cap 2 has no UPF rating...it is an open-weave fabric.
Patagonia Top of the line
A great product from patagonia with excellent material quality. Great product for Running, Biking or working out in the gym.
This product subject to pilling and looks ratty in a short time. It is effective as an insulator.
Nice Baselayer
Great shirt, very lightweight. With a long-sleeved tech shirt underneath you can't go wrong (if you need two light layers). Love this shirt!
I have been a big believer in patagonia until I ordered this shirt. I had been so impressed with them that I ordered two for me and my son. This shirt does not hold up. After a couple of hikes I already have five holes in it from where the material frayed and broke. These shirts do not meet the previous standards I have had for patagonia. All of my previous patagonia shirts have been great. I have icebreaker base layers that have lasted a few years of wearing on tough hikes with no holes, no fraying, no wear marks. BUT couple hikes with this one and it looks like rats have been gnawing on it in spots.
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Great fit
Great fit , really confortable shirt.
Best T I Own.
Have 3 of them. Wear - Wash - Repeat. Best T-Shirts that I own.
Wonderful shirt
Capilene shirts are just fantastic for base layer moisture wicking T's. They fit great and the seams don't chafe after a long day.
Awesome shirt on a long trip
This shirt can be worn day after day without getting too smelly. Wicks away moisture and odor. Seriously a great shirt.
The blue one can be worn on its own, the white is a little transparent.
The material is very tough.
My goto shirt for hiking and mountain biking. Absolutely!
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Write your question here... I just bought a cap 2 shirt and washed it on cold on delicate setting and dried it on tumble dry low with medium heat. Are those the correct wash settings? After the first washing and drying i noticed pilling and im wondering if thats normal. From everything i heard, i didnt expect something like this happen for a long time. Also, could these shirt hold up to washing about once a week if i wore it every week? Thanks
They should be right, That's how I usually wash my synthetics. You can always check with Patagonia though for their recommended wash settings too.
That's not right. I've been wearing Capilene shirts for years, and I've never had any pilling at all. For sure, call Patagonia. As far as washing goes- obviously, lots of wash cycles will take their toll, but it shouldn't be any problem. Sometimes just a quick hand rinse is enough to freshen things up.


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Pebble has been on a rapid cadence with smartwatch updates to justify those crowdfunded dollars, and it's not letting up just because watch shipments are well underway. PebbleOS 1.10 has arrived with support for custom watch faces built using the matching (and newly available) SDK. The revamp will be especially helpful for iOS users -- we see several fixes for crashes, permissions and power in store. Everyone gets options to disable backlighting and vibrations in certain conditions, too. As such, there's every reason to fire up the Pebble app for an upgrade, even if it's just for some visual variety.
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