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text: Fighters Intercept Pot Plane in Obama Airspace Cessna strays too close as Obama heads to LAX By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff Posted Feb 17, 2012 12:27 AM CST | Updated Feb 17, 2012 6:10 AM CST STORY COMMENTS (25) (Newser) – What were they smoking? A four-seater Cessna plane hauling marijuana yesterday strayed into restricted airspace designed to protect President Obama, who was flying on Marine One; the small plane was intercepted by fighter jets. The incident occurred as the president was traveling in the helicopter from Orange County to Los Angeles International Airport, reports the Los Angeles Times. Authorities attempted repeatedly to contact the Cessna 182. When the pilot failed to respond, two F-16s forced the aircraft to land nearby at Long Beach Airport, where it was met by law enforcement. The two men onboard were busted after a search turned up 40 pounds of pot, a source told ABC News. No one was injured in the confrontation, and authorities determined the "incursion" was not a threat to the president and was never close enough to put him in any danger, said a Secret Service spokesman. Obama took off later for San Francisco aboard Air Force One, and heads to Seattle today. He's in the area for a series of Democratic fundraisers. President Barak Obama exits Marine One at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday before departing for San Francisco. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) Marine One with US President Barack Obama aboard is led by several support helicopters over Long Beach yesterday. (Getty Images) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow ABC News (Source Grid ») BBC (Source Grid ») Los Angeles Times (Source Grid ») US • Politics California • San Francisco • Los Angeles • marijuana • Cessna • Air Force One • President Obama • Marine One • restricted airspace CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 3% 83% 1% 9% 2% 2% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.

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the scilence because they could make you kill your family and you wouldn't even remeber it
The Weeping Angels and the Vashta Nerada or however it's spelled.
Because of Blink, I can't go by a statue without being somewhat nervous, and touching one is out of the question.
I watched Silence in the Library/Forest od the Dead in the dark. I couldn't get to my lights fast enough.
This. The things this creature is capable of doing make me shiver.
Haha! Moffat!
I completely agree that the weeping angels are the scariest, but you have to give the daleks credit. It is not so much what they could do but their history. They were just like us before and we could very easily become the emotionless things they are. It is the possibility that is frightening. But the angels win for sure.
That's true, actually. I've noticed the Daleks are barely mentioned, because they're 'played out' or 'old' but I doubt anything had you hiding behind your couch as a kid quite like a dalek did.
Definitely the angels, if we're going by the David Tennant series.
But The Silents are scary too. I think it's something about not being able to see the monster until it gets there, like with the angels.
The Silence! I'm convinced I have one in my bedroom, I hear creeky noises from one particular corner. :P
I agree with the weeping angels, but they were best in Blink, because, as you said, we didn't actually see them moving. Oh, and the empty children always scare me.
I vote on the Silence because you wouldn't know they were there and they can affect your behaviour. Both of which are terrifying. I don't find any other monsters scary.
Weeping Angles hands down.
Don't blink. Blink and your dead.
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Yes I know this means like nothing, and I am still no where close to labor, but I just got home from my doc appt and the pain isnt for nothing there really is something happening down there. She is offically head down and engaged, and i'm 25% effaced, he could eaisly feel her head, and shes measuring a week big!!!! Thers just something about knowing that things are starting that makes the pain a little more bareable. LOL I've been having awful cramps the past 2 days and now I know why! Any other ladies got some progress goin on?
PROGRESS at 36 weeks!!!!!!!!!
Wife to wonderful Man and Mama of 4 soon to be 5 ~ Love my Family!
DSD 1/9/08 DS 5/23/11 DS due 10/19/13
Caroline - Robert
Annabel Lee (1-10-13) 7 lbs. 9 oz. 19 3/4 inches
"You had my heart the very moment I first layed eyes on you."
Can you resume your daily life when you get to that point? Working, walking, etc??
Oh yeah! my doc actually suggests walking so your muscles stay loose and gravity helps move baby on down. As long as you not having consistent contractions or bleeding your fine.
Caroline - Robert
Annabel Lee (1-10-13) 7 lbs. 9 oz. 19 3/4 inches
"You had my heart the very moment I first layed eyes on you."
my next appointment is the 35 week mark which is a week away for me so i dont know if i'm making any progress but i can only imagine knowing that you are is exciting.
i personally dont feel like i am, baby seems snug as a bug in a rug, my BH are minimal and i dont feel any pressure or anything at all. i did have a growth scan yesterday and everything just looks normal for almost 34 weeks.
Baby's been head down for weeks, but yesterday felt like he was locked and loaded. I think he's getting closer to ready.
I'm looking forward to my cervical check around 36 weeks... I haven't had one in months, so I hope to see a little bit of that progress, too!
Pregnant with a toddler, depression, and anxiety..
All while working on my doctorate, wish me luck!


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Avon Products appointed Brian Salsberg as SVP of global strategy, effective Sept. 23. Salsberg will report to Sheri McCoy, Avon's CEO, and will join the company's executive committee.
The Hershey Company has selected Universal McCann to handle its global media planning and buying activities.
Snyder's-Lance has acquired all assets of Stateline Service Corporation, a snack food distributor in Massachusetts, as part of its growth initiative.
Zarbee's Naturals has elected Neil Grimmer, co-founder and CEO of Plum Organics, to the company's board of directors.
Diet Coke is launching a limited-edition T-shirt available exclusively in Target stores.
Americans are eating more chicken and paying more to do so, according to leading poultry producer Sanderson Farms.
Skullcandy has appointed Heidi O'Neill, who is VP and GM of women's training and fitness at Nik, to the company's board of directors.
The Levi's brand has made significant management changes to its leadership structure in an effort to drive innovative product and consumer engagement campaigns around the globe.
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Effect of cAMP derivates on assembly and maintenance of tight junctions in human umbilical vein endothelial cells
Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
BMC Cell Biology 2010, 11:68 doi:10.1186/1471-2121-11-68Published: 7 September 2010
Endothelial tight and adherens junctions control a variety of physiological processes like adhesion, paracellular transport of solutes or trafficking of activated leukocytes. Formation and maintenance of endothelial junctions largely depend on the microenvironment of the specific vascular bed and on interactions of the endothelium with adjacent cell types. Consequently, primary cultures of endothelial cells often lose their specific junctional pattern and fail to establish tight monolayer in vitro. This is also true for endothelial cells isolated from the vein of human umbilical cords (HUVEC) which are widely used as model for endothelial cell-related studies.
We here compared the effect of cyclic 3'-5'-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and its derivates on formation and stabilization of tight junctions and on alterations in paracellular permeability in HUVEC. We demonstrated by light and confocal laser microscopy that for shorter time periods the sodium salt of 8-bromoadenosine-cAMP (8-Br-cAMP/Na) and for longer incubation periods 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-cAMP (pCPT-cAMP) exerted the greatest effects of all compounds tested here on formation of continuous tight junction strands in HUVEC. We further demonstrated that although all compounds induced protein kinase A-dependent expression of the tight junction proteins claudin-5 and occludin only pCPT-cAMP slightly enhanced paracellular barrier functions. Moreover, we showed that pCPT-cAMP and 8-Br-cAMP/Na induced expression and membrane translocation of tricellulin.
pCPT-cAMP and, to a lesser extend, 8-Br-cAMP/Na improved formation of continuous tight junction strands and decreased paracellular permeability in primary HUVEC. We concluded that under these conditions HUVEC represent a feasible in vitro model to study formation and disassembly of endothelial tight junctions and to characterize tight junction-associated proteins


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Tom Selleck's Crossfire Trail, which aired six years ago on TNT, used to hold that record.
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That great warming morning beverage, that iced and sun-brewed afternoon cup, or that mug at the end of the day to help the sleep come. Mmmm, tea. Read more …
Warm breakfast ideas
I had a realization this week. I looked down at my staple summer breakfast -a bowl of fruit, yogurt and granola- and was no longer satisfied. It just wasn't what I wanted anymore. I wanted something heartier. I wanted something… warm.
Luckily I work here, where everyone is talking about (or eating) food, all the time. Apparently, I wasn't the only craving something different for breakfast. As I strolled around the office, I noticed that Lauren had unpacked her Oatmeal-in-a-jar and Luke was eating a hot breakfast sandwich at his desk.
Beyond those two stand-bys around here, I was also pointed to these two recipes, both warm & hearty, yet satisfying in different ways. Read more …
Gluten Free Cooking & Eating
Would it surprise you to learn that throughout most of recorded history, only a small, though powerful, portion of humanity (currently about 35 percent) has eaten wheat? Those of you who are embarking on wheat-free diets should take heart from this: people have been cooking and living healthy lives without wheat bread, wheat pasta, and wheat cakes for a very long time, and their rich cooking traditions can serve you still.
Wheat is a demanding crop. It cannot grow in the south because it is susceptible to blights under warm, humid conditions; it cannot grow in the far north, because it is too cold for it there. It cannot grow in wet or poor soils. There's a great deal of the world that cannot support wheat. In those regions where wheat is not easily grown, you will find wheat-free (and even gluten-free) food traditions that you can cook from and enjoy. Be assured that they are many, storied, and fine.
Of course, there's a second route for people who cannot tolerate gluten-producing proteins, and that's the one that food manufacturers want you to take: buying costly mixes that approximate the tastes and textures of wheat-containing foods. I have explored these, and while they're convenient, most of them do not make terribly good substitutes for glutinous foods: they are expensive to buy, and some of them don't taste much like the real thing. You will be far better off seeking out traditions that never involved wheat.
Several years ago, a woman recently diagnosed with celiac disease told me that her diagnosis came with an unexpected blessing: it prompted her to learn to cook. Before then, she had mostly eaten out, ordered in, and otherwise avoided cooking, thinking it was too time-consuming for someone with demanding professional work.
When I realized how much more expensive buying gluten-free foods was, I decided I was going to learn to cook for myself. I had expected nothing more than eating more economically, but I discovered that I loved cooking for its own sake—it was more soothing than I anticipated, and I could eat really well without worrying that there might be gluten in anything so long as I did the cooking myself."
That is the alternative that cooking out of long-established gluten-free traditions offers you. Here's what you'll need to know in order to face this new challenge.
What Is Gluten? Gluten is the largest protein molecule known to biochemistry. For our purposes as cooks and eaters, what's important to understand about it is that some raw grains possess the potential to produce gluten. Gluten is not a protein that sits there, wholly formed: it must be produced through the combination of two precursor proteins, glutenin and gliadin, in the presence of oxygen and water, physical agitation (mixing, kneading), starch, and salt.
Some ingredients used in cooking—for example, sugars, fats, and eggs (which contain fat)—block the formation of gluten by preventing the two precursor protein molecules from attaching to each other. The kind of potentially glutinous grain also makes a difference: rye and barley, for example, contain less gliadin and glutenin than wheat. Hard winter wheats contain far more of these proteins than soft spring wheats and winter wheats grown in the South.
Celiac disease vs. Gluten Free
Many people are being told to try gluten-free diets as aids to digestion, clearing congestion, and a host of other health problems. Such changes in diet are voluntary and distinct from celiac disease, in which one's own immune system attacks the presence of gluten in the gut and damages the gut's lining. If you are not gluten-intolerant but simply want to minimize your exposure to it, you can minimize gluten production when baking by using low-protein wheat flours (White Lily; pastry flour; cake flour). If you have celiac disease, you probably need to entirely avoid the proteins that can form gluten and instead cook from traditions that never incorporated gluten-producing grains.
Industrial foods regularly include gluten-containing ingredients in places you wouldn't expect to find them: tomato-based pasta sauces, soy sauces, canned vegetable sauces, salad dressings. That's why learning to cook and bake instead of depending on processed food is so important to your health.
Here are the world's most common grains that do not contain gluten:
legume flours (not derived from grain but made into flours)
As a cook or potential cook, this list should tell you that you can freely cook polentas (corn), stir-fries and risottos (rice), grain salads (quinoa, amaranth), flatbreads (buckwheat, millet, oats, teff, rice)—a range of possible explorations that's almost unlimited! The traditional foods of central & southern Mexico and equatorial Central & South America; those of western, sub-saharan Africa; those of southern China and southeast Asia; those of southern Europe and the Horn of Africa can offer you more than a lifetime of pleasurable cooking and eating, most of it gluten-free.
*While oats themselves do not contain the precursor proteins to gluten, they are usually processed in plants that also process wheat; this is why oats are sometimes listed among gluten-producing grains. Certain brands of milled oats (such as Bob's Red Mill GF Oats) are made on equipment that has not processed gluten-producing grains.
Extreme Local – Wild Foraging
Before I start: wild foraging can be very dangerous. The amount of mushrooms that are fatally poisonous are relatively small, but there are a great many that will make you wish you were dead and cause serious illness. You should never eat a mushroom unless you are 100% confident in identifying it. There are a great many resources if you would like to get into wild foraging, but it should be approached with a healthy respect and only after much study. DO NOT EAT WILD MUSHROOMS ON A WHIM.
I am an outdoors person. I love hunting and camping, and when morel season hits in spring I am in the woods nearly every weekend. This year, I have decided to enjoy some of the local foraging that can be had in mid-summer months.
Ok, morel season is easy: little undergrowth, very distinctive mushrooms, little to no mosquitos and hardly any ticks. All of these things have made it a trendy thing to do, amateurs beating down trails to every dead elm tree in state parks around Minnesota. And with good reason, morels are delicious.
Mid-summer mushroom hunting has been about as far from that as possible. Minnesota mixed hardwood forests are hot, full of bugs, poison ivy, buckthorn, wild berries, stinging nettle, and a fair amount of other hidden pitfalls. I have found mushrooms that I have picked, learned to do a spore print, and identified them with some confidence. Only then to throw them out because doubt about my knowledge crept in (this is normal and a healthy thing). I have worn poison ivy rashes with pride for a good portion of the summer. I have invested in what I call a hippie basket, a bandaloo (which I have already lost), spent a small fortune on gas driving to state parks, and shirked some responsibilities.
Despite this, the exhilaration that I felt when I saw my first mass of orange Chicken of the Woods* was just as exciting as any morel patch I have found. Finding lobster mushrooms buried in leaves was worth the mosquito bites (technically my lovely wife found our first lobster). And wild mushroom gnocchi shared with friends and family? Good grief.
*Mississippi Market carries wild, foraged mushrooms from time to time, so it is possible to cook with them without foraging. Call ahead before making a special trip.
Here is the recipe:
Wild Mushroom Gnocchi, serves 2-3
1 med onion, diced ½ inch pieces
2 cloves garlic, minced
A large mass of wild mushroom, your choice on variety, all have been excellent – usually around .5 lbs, or you could use button, but the earthy flavor of the wild mushroom is what makes this dish. Tear/cut/break the mushroom into bite size pieces. Be sure to clean the mushroom, ideally using a brush of some kind, not in water. Mushrooms really soak up liquid and it is ok to wash them in water, but it will alter how this dish cooks and you may need to cut the rest of the water out of the recipe entirely.
2T Olive oil – you may need a little more if you are frying a large amount of mushroom, they tend to soak up liquids
1 package of Cucina Viva gnocchi
1 half of a bunch of dino kale, or a sautéing green of your choice, rough shred/julienne
1 table spoon Better Than Bouillon No Chicken Stock
1.5 cups water
1 14" sauce pan, with 1.5 inch sides, or some equivalent
1 stock pot to boil gnocchi
Salt and pepper to taste
Fry the onion, garlic, mushroom together stirring often on medium high heat until your onion just starts to become translucent. Dissolve the Better Than in 1.5 cups of water and pour that mixture into your sauce pan. Cook until reduced, but not dry. There should be some liquid left in pan to provide a 'sauce' for the dish.
At this time add the gnocchi to the water. The gnocchi will sink to the bottom. When it rises to the top it is done. Add your kale to your frying pan and stir it in. The gnocchi will cook quickly in a rolling boil (4-5 minutes tops) and will overcook just as fast. Scoop out the gnocchi leaving as much water as possible behind and put it right into your mushroom mix. Stir and serve.
At this time I like to shred a little Pecorino Romano on top, but that is completely optional. There are gluten free gnocchi's in some grocery stores, so it is possible to make this dish gluten free as well.
Eat and enjoy.
James Talbot is a staff member and blogger for Mississippi Market's Eat Local Challenge. As the grocery manager at Selby, you'll find him in the ailes stocking the shelves, answering questions and figuring out how to make space for more awesome products.
From the Bread Nook – New French Bakery
In my first year on the job as the Frozen and Bread Buyer for the Selby store, which I just wrapped up, my main focus for the bread department was to really get to know the products we carry, feel how bread sales trend season to season, learn what was available from each vendor, and try new things out here and there. Going into year two, my next major goal for the remainder of the calendar year (yikes, is it really mid-August already?) is to finally get around to visiting the local bakeries we stock on the shelves, see the process, and talk with some of the people who work there. Yesterday, I started this venture off with a visit to New French Bakery.
New French was first started up about 19 years ago by Peter Kelsey, and as the company has grown from a small start-up to a large operation that has national contracts, there have been some employees who have stuck around since the earliest days. There are now two facilities, one of which works solely with product that gets frozen and shipped elsewhere in the U.S. and serves as the primary warehouse for raw ingredients. I toured the other location, which does both frozen products for shipment and fresh breads for a surprisingly large number of local restaurant and retail deliveries.
I'd never been on a tour of a bakery before, so this was a pretty crazy experience. It was simply amazing to me the type of engineering mindset that goes into laying our conveyors, mixers, ovens, cooling rooms, packaging machines in such a streamlined layout. Giant mixers (think Kitchenaid stand mixer that you could sit in and *maybe* see over the edge) prep all the dough with the flour getting pumped up from giant storage tanks in the basement—the volume of these just astounded me! Machines size out dough for the product in production—rolls, buns, baguettes, loaves, etc—and into trays, molds, or baking pans the dough goes.
Before it hits the oven, all the dough hits the proofing room for a few hours to rise—the humidity here was high, and the smell of active yeast was amazingly strong. If anything needs special attention (like the small slices that give the tops of artisan breads their special look or things need to be rolled in seeds or grain), the human touch comes into play—machines are not to be trusted with these delicate accents! Finished products are then cooled, sliced if need-be, and packaged to ship out to their destinations. And then the process continues for the next item, around the clock, all year!
Of all the little details I learned during my visit, this is the one I really want to pass on: while New French is focused on large-scale production, they still get almost all of their flour from wheat grown and milled within 150 miles of the bakery—keepin' it local!
At Mississippi Market, we carry only a tiny fraction of the 700+ varieties and variations in their available production catalog. Some of the more artisan loaves that have been on the shelves for a while include the French baguette (perfect for sandwiches and bruschetta), traditional and whole wheat sourdough rounds, stirato loaves and smaller rolls made of the same dough (a customer favorite to accompany soup for lunch), the ever-so-soft honey whole grain batard (also carried in baguette form), and my favorite, the Italian peasant loaf (this only needs some olive oil, Italian herbs, and a bit of feta to become a meal in itself!). Since becoming the buyer for the Selby store, a number of new items have made appearances: potato dinner rolls, a sesame semolina batard, pretzel buns for both burgers and hoagies, and a weekend-only double raisin rye. Due to customer request, a while back we also started carrying their large sandwich loaves, the same bread our Deli uses.
Interested in trying something we don't carry? I've seen a variety of both sweet and savory baguettes and artisan loafs, buns, and sandwich breads we simply don't have room to add to our own shelves. Stop in at the 26th Ave. location sometime (the address and hours below), where they offer a wide range of fresh items, a daily soup special, and a small selection of salads and sandwiches. And if you do visit, give a (polite!) shout-out to the second floor, where the excellent Customer Service team sits, answering my questions and getting my orders in the system; say Ben from Mississippi Market sent you, and you might see a hand waving at you from over the balcony!
New French Bakery
2609 26th Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Retail hours: 8:30-6 M-F, 8:30-3 on the weekends
Ben Zamora-Weiss is a staff member and blogger for Mississippi Market's Eat Local Challenge. As mentioned above, you'll also find him at the Selby store keeping the shelves stocked with the best locally baked breads we can find.
Hey, cat lovers – Eat Local Month's not just for humans
It's not at all uncommon for people to pamper their pets, sometimes by way of treats, toys, special grooming, or young children (oh, I already said toys). Among these other ways, our cats are also pampered in their everyday food. When we adopted a pair of sibling kittens just about a year ago, we did some research into what the healthiest and most natural food out there was (and one that would still fit into our budget). It seemed clear to us that the way to go was to simply make our own raw meat cat food at home.
Cats are, by design, hunters—pull out a feather toy or laser pointer or watch them around a bug and you're sure to see the instincts kick in—but their teeth and digestive tract are set up to process raw meat, and little else. We read over and over that dry-only diets are the worst for cats, and are the leading cause of obesity and other health issues…because they simply didn't evolve to eat such stuff. Canned wet food is a step up, no doubt, but even the varieties we sell at Mississippi Market have filler and are bound to utilize meat scraps and some form of preservatives, and this highly processed mush doesn't give a cat's teeth the same cleaning that chewing into fresh meat does. We discovered that it's really not difficult to make a simple, chicken-based chow that our kittens really enjoy. And when I say 'really', I mean they complain quite vocally if we run out and substitute canned food instead.
The recipe we work from we found online at Cat Nutrition and it's pretty simple, almost everything is available at Mississippi Market, and all of the meat and eggs are locally produced!
-Raw muscle, bone-in meat: We usually use Kadejan or Schultz whole chickens. We've also made a batch using a rabbit from LTD Farms, but that was some costly meat. Dark meat is more nutritious than white meat, so adding in some leg quarters is wise. Essential nutrients are found in bones, and if you don't grind these in, additional dry supplements will be necessary.
-Organ meat: cats will usually eat their entire kill, and vital vitamins, minerals, and proteins are only found in certain organs. US food laws only allow sale of whole animals after certain organs have been removed, so you'll need to get some chicken hearts and livers to supplement; Kadajan also offers these, and can be found in the meat freezers or special ordered. Our cat Porter really enjoys a plain heart as a treat, too!
-Egg yolks: we almost always buy Schultz eggs in bulk.
-Water: while cats will drink water from a bowl, much of their hydration should come from food (one reason the dry-only diet isn't ideal).
-A variety of vitamin and mineral supplements: since skin, hair, and many organs have been removed from the meat we grind, essential oils and other nutrients won't be present in the above ingredients alone. Of what the website lists, almost everything is either readily available in the Wellness section of our stores or can be special ordered. I think the only part of this recipe we couldn't buy at Mississippi Market was the glandular supplement, but this is relatively inexpensive to order online.
-Lastly, a meat grinder is necessary. We bought a simple stand-alone unit (as in not a Kitchenaid attachment) for about $120 online, and it has worked flawlessly for us, bones and all, for the past year.
The recipe calls for mixing the yolks, water, and supplements into a slurry, which is then mixed in with all the ground up meat (we use a medium-size grind head). When using whole birds, we remove the skin to cut excess fat out of the recipe when there's white meat included….and this helps the grinder from getting clogged up. I've had friends around during the process who've asked what I was making because it looked quite good.
If you're busy or don't want to walk through the entire process multiple times a month, it's simple stuff to store and freeze. We usually make a double batch of this recipe, and that'll last us right about a month for our two still-young cats. And, what better reason to buy Talenti gelato? The sturdy plastic containers are excellent for re-using for storage (Heads-up – Talenti will be on sale for part of September! Perfect!) Each of these containers is about two days-worth of food for two cats, at two-servings a day.
After our first batch, we cost it out to see if it would be a cost-effective venture to keep up with. Not counting the grinder (which can be used for a plethora of other human-food tasks!) or Talenti, buying all the raw food and supplements works out to be about the same as buying a similar quantity of any of the cans of cat food we sell when they are on sale. And if you snag meat or supplements when they are on sale or otherwise discounted, all the better. The whole process (cutting apart the chicken through the final cleaning) for a batch the size we make is usually a two hour process at most, but we only need to do it about once a month.
Finding the benefits of raw cat food isn't hard, from helping avoid kidney and weight issues, a healthier coat, a more active personality, to just knowing what's going into the food this extension of your family is eating. Oh, and they won't be able to get enough.
*Disclaimers: While cats' systems are tuned to digest raw food, all precautions should be taken with making sure what they eat is as fresh as possible. Only thaw what they will eat within 2-3 days, and be sure to clean all hands, surfaces, containers, and implements that come in contact with raw meat immediately. Transitioning a cat from a dry-only or canned food diet should be done gradually. There is always the risk of injury from a bone fragment being too big or sharp, but this is nothing that a cat wouldn't also risk hunting on their own outdoors.
Co-written by Ben & Jess Zamora-Weiss, staff members and bloggers for Mississippi Market's Eat Local Challenge. You'll also find Ben at the Selby store keeping the shelves stocked with the best locally baked breads we can find and Jess at the Selby store's juice bar, making things run smoothly and taste amazing!
Easy salads complement summer meals
We love the versatility of beans and grains, especially for making summer salads. They work great as a side dish or an entrée; they're great for a crowd (make one for the next barbeque you're invited to); and, they make great leftovers (make a salad at the start of the week and you'll have lunches for the following days).
We've borrowed this handy chart from Mark Bittman – it breaks down just how easy it is to make your own salads and dressings. Plus, it suggests various additions so that you can mix & match. The Basic Bean & Grain Salad is a good place to start. The Pinto Bean & Quinoa salad is an example of what you can come up with when you combine the ingredients in the chart. You're bound to a nave a new salad each week of the summer!
Basic Bean & Grain Salad
Juice of 1 lemon, or to taste
1⁄4 cup olive oil, or to taste
1⁄4 cup chopped red onion or shallot
Salt and black pepper
4 cups cooked or canned beans, drained, or cooked grains, or a combination
1⁄2 cup chopped fresh parsley
Preparation: Combine lemon juice, oil, onion, and salt and pepper in a large bowl and whisk. If you've just cooked the beans or grains, add them to the dressing while they are still hot. Toss gently until the beans or grains are coated, adding more oil or lemon juice if you like.
Let cool to room temperature (or refrigerate), stirring every now and then to redistribute the dressing. Stir in the parsley just before serving, then taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
Simple Pinto Bean & Quinoa Salad
Juice of 1 lemon, or to taste
1⁄4 cup olive oil, or to taste
1-2 tsp Dijon mustard
1⁄4 cup chopped shallot
Salt and black pepper
2 cups cooked pinto beans
2 cups cooked quinoa
1⁄2 cup chopped fresh parsley
Preparation: Combine the lemon juice, oil, shallot, and salt and pepper in a large bowl and whisk. Add cooked beans and grains to the dressing while they are still hot. Toss gently until the beans and grains are coated, adding more oil or lemon juice if you like.
Let cool to room temperature (or refrigerate), stirring every now and then to redistribute the dressing. Stir in the parsley just before serving, then taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
Add fresh veggies, or serve with greens or crusty bread.
Adapted from Mark Bittman.
Low-Tech Kitchen Cleansers: If It Ain't Broke . . .
One hundred fifty years ago, if you needed to clean out an especially grimy kitchen pot, you'd add water and ashes from your wood-burning stove to the offending pot and allow the potent alkaline mixture (lye) to scour the pot for you. This caustic kitchen brew was replaced in the post-Civil War period by one of the first commercially made cleansers: Bon Ami (feldspar-tallow soap). Bon Ami is still available today, and is superior to more popular big-box cleansers like Comet and Ajax.
Bon Ami solved a problem that nineteenth-century cooks faced when using homemade wood ash or brick dust as scouring agents: both scratched delicate surfaces like the newly popular and prized porcelain sinks and enameled steel and aluminum cookware. Bon Ami's inventor, J. T. Robertson, recognized this and chose feldspar, a soft mineral often found in association with quartz, as a scouring agent. At the time, quartz was powdered for use in laundry soaps and the feldspar discarded. Robertson realized that the much softer feldspar could also be used for cleaning without harming delicate surfaces. His cleanser combined tallow (the fatty by-product of animal processing, which has been the historical basis for most soaps) and feldspar, and Bon Ami was marketed with the logo of a tiny chick and the slogan, "Hasn't scratched yet." (You chicken keepers out there know that chicks don't start scratching until they're about four days old, and Bon Ami's logo assumed this knowledge on buyers' parts.)
Bon Ami remained a popular cleanser through the 1940s, but thereafter it steadily lost market share to the aggressive, chlorine- and abrasive-laden cleansers that came on the market in the 1950s. Happily, the environmental movement that swelled in the wake of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) recognized the value of Bon Ami's old-fashioned, fragrance-free formula, and sales began to climb again. Mississippi Market carries the original-formula Bon Ami (feldspar and tallow only), as well as a more recent Bon Ami cleanser. Both are free of dyes, fragrances, and other industrial additives. I've used Bon Ami all of my life, and it's a wonderful cleanser—hasn't scratched yet!
This old-fashioned cleanser can handle just about any kitchen cleaning job you ask, and does so in transparent, low-impact ways. No kitchen should be without it.
Once in a while, though, everyone has a stovetop accident, and a thick layer of char coats the bottom of a beloved pan. In such cases, the most effective remedy is simple, old-fashioned baking soda. Make up a very thick paste of baking soda and cold water in the charred pot or pan and leave it to sit overnight. Most of the char should lift off easily after such treatment when you add hot water. Once most of the char has floated off the surface, you can scour out the remainder with Bon Ami.
For more simple, homemade, green cleaning tips: register for our Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Cleaning Kit class on Saturday, April 20th. The class will cover harmful chemicals in household cleaning products and their adverse effects. Then learn how easy, economical, and fast it is to make your own cleaners with common ingredients. Make an eco-friendly all-purpose cleaner and a scrubbing cleaner for you to take home, too!
Make it, quick! – Grilled cheese & soup
Sometimes we just need something quick & easy for mealtime. In winter, something warm is usually preferred. Well, one of the most comforting and quickest meals around is grilled cheese & soup. Now through February 26th, you'll find all you need to make this quick meal on sale:
- Amy's organic soups – 2 for $5 (choose from chunky tomato bisque, split pea, lentil and more
- Local, Milton's Creamery Prairie Breeze cheddar – 20% off
- Rudi's organic sliced bread – $3.29 per loaf
Ask around in our aisles and you'll find that almost everyone has their favorite way to spruce up their grilled cheese sandwich. Here's a no-fail recipe from James, our grocery manager at Selby, for a grilled cheese sandwich that brings it up a notch:
Farewell, International Year of Cooperatives!
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development.
In this pronouncement, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated, "Cooperatives are a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility." In the midst of so much global economic turmoil, cooperatives offer a different way of doing business – by creating and distributing wealth in a democratic, socially equitable way.


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February 14, 2013 - 10:09pm
College Park, MD (Sports Network) - Tianna Hawkins recorded a double-double to
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Hawkins scored 30 points on 11-of-18 shooting and had 12 rebounds for the Terrapins (20-4, 11-2 ACC), who came into the game off a loss against Duke. Alyssa Thomas was the only other Maryland player to record double-digits in points with 17.
Nikki Dixon had a team-high 13 points for Clemson (6-18, 2-11 ACC), which has lost four straight and six of its past seven games.
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Trade Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Protectionism
Platt, Gordon, Global Finance
Best Trade Finance Banks
Bankers are optimistic that financing will be available to support projected growth in world trade, but regulatory change and currency wars have them on edge.
Trade finance is the fuel that powers the engine world trade, which is helping to pull the world economy out of recession. That fuel could get significantly more expensive, however, if the backers of Basel III get their way, trade bankers say, and world economic growth could suffer as a result.
A proposed increase in capital requirements will have a deleterious effect on the cost and availability of trade credit, bankers say. It will also throw sand in the gears of export initiatives, such as President Barack Obama's plan to double US exports and create jobs. Every $1 billion of exports supports 7,400 US jobs, according to the Export-Import Bank.
Trade bankers contend that the short-term and self-liquidating nature of trade finance, which is often collateralized by the underlying shipment of goods, makes it one of the safest forms of lending. They are lobbying regulators to heed recommendations of G20 leaders to be flexible in applying new rules, so as not to disrupt global trade. Emerging markets are particularly vulnerable because they rely more heavily on letters of credit to facilitate trade. Bankers say current prices for trade finance cannot be sustained if banks are forced to pay more for their capital.
The currency wars are a bigger threat to trade, according to some bankers. They worry that protectionist forces will gain the upper hand if export-dependent economies seek to defend market shares through competitive devaluations. The controversy surrounding the undervalued Chinese renminbi and intervention by the central banks of Japan and Switzerland to halt the rise of their currencies show that there is a fine line between market-smoothing operations and currency manipulation, trade bankers say. Beggar-thy-neighbor currency policies could result in a trade war, leading to higher tariffs and other barriers to international commerce.
Meanwhile, the trade finance business is continuing to consolidate. The growing trade flows between developing economies require successful trade banks to have extensive networks, with on-the-ground capabilities linked to global platforms offering a wide range of trade services and financing. The best trade banks are constantly innovating and enhancing their trade products to meet the evolving needs of their customers.
Global Finance editors, with input from industry analysts, corporate executives and technology experts, selected the best trade finance banks in 71 countries or regions. Criteria for choosing the winners included transaction volume, scope of global coverage, customer service, competitive pricing and innovative technology. Risk mitigation has become an increasingly important concern in the wake of the global financial crisis. As global supply chains become ever more complex, they are susceptible to a wide range of risks.
The best trade bankers go the extra mile to understand their clients' businesses. This enables them to offer useful advice on potential risks and how to manage them. The top banks also are adept at using special programs available through export credit agencies. Guarantees that lower the cost of working capital, export-credit insurance against nonpayment, and loans to assist foreign buyers are available. The winners are those banks that best serve the needs of corporations as they engage in cross-border trade.
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Citi provides trade finance services in 86 countries, with a market-leading network that handles more than two mulion cross-border trade transactions a year. "Our globality as well as our local expertise have helped us to continue to meet our clients' trade-financing needs and garner market recognition for Citi," says John Ahearn, managing director and global head of trade, who is based in New York. …


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Strategic monetary policy in interdependent economies: Gains from coordination reconsidered
There is a wide acceptance that gains to international monetary policy coordination are small at best and that the need of policy coordination is questionable. This conclusion, however, follows from the underlying presumption that monetary policy is concerned with the stabilization of macroeconomic fluctuations only. This paper presents a general short-run monetary policy analysis within a familiar two-country New Open Economy Macroeconomics (NOEM) framework where national monetary policy involves the choice of a deterministic growth trend of money supply (average inflation rate) and stochastic, state-dependent deviations of actual money supply from the deterministic trend (stabilization). Strategic "beggar-thy-neighbor" considerations induce the deviation of both policy choices from their socially optimal values. The gains from international coordination of the average inflation rate are of first-order and hence larger than the gains from the coordination of the stabilization policies which are of second-order.
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Elliot I fully agree that where and how the head is oriented for each reading does make a distinct difference to the SBR calculation.
Your reference to BTZS does bring up a good point, when we talk about and try to mentor others our frame of reference is very important.
In my frame of reference and practice, when duplexing or measuring contrast I always point the incident meter directly at the light source for the highlight measurement then I measure parallel to the camera axis. I use these two because the highlights and the mid-tones are of most importance to me personally. Typically I only feather the meters head to bias my exposure when using a single dome out reading.
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Moor Row: It's not the ninth, it's number one!
Last updated at 12:06, Saturday, 01 October 2011
Driving into Moor Row on a Tuesday afternoon, the first thing that strikes you is how quiet it is.
There's not a soul around on the main street, which is lined with modest terraced houses and small, manicured front gardens. A Union Jack flag rises from one while "for sale" boards have been erected in others. Signs of both proud residents and those planning their escape?
It's the people that make a place, of course, and I manage to track some down in the busy bakery on Scalegill Road.
Su Ellen's is family-run; father John Sharpe, sisters Sue Shilton and Helen Davison, and Sue's daughters Stacey and Shelley were all born and bred here, and have never seen a reason to leave.
"It's always been a friendly little village. We used to know everyone, my dad was a farmer and we delivered milk to everybody. We all went to the same school – it's a good, safe school," says Sue.
"It's always been a good village, if it hadn't been I would have moved!" smiles John. "But we've never known any other. It's our home, our roots are here."
The village has seen big changes over the years. Its mines once produced 250,000 tons a year and employed about 1,000 people, and Moor Row was west Cumbria's most important junction and goods yard before motorways replaced the railways.
It's now best known for being on the Coast to Coast walking and cycle route, and the largest employers are Sellafield and Westlakes Science and Technology Park.
New housing has been built – there are now around 400 homes – but the local post office and grocery store have long gone.
"I knew this place when there were eight shops," says John. "The supermarkets have done away with them but that's the same everywhere."
In fact, there wasn't a single shop in Moor Row until Sue and Helen opened their bakery in May.
Bread and pies are the bestseller but they also stock milk, newspapers and groceries, and a steady stream of schoolchildren call in for pick'n'mix sweets.
That their village has made the top 10 has been a talking point all week.
"We were doing school dinners but I always wanted to have my own shop," says Sue.
"We didn't know everyone who's moved into the newer housing but that's changing, we're getting to know them.
"The thing I've enjoyed most about it is meeting Coast to Coast walkers. People from all over the world pass through our little village, from San Francisco, Tasmania, Australia, Florida... everywhere. I love listening to them, about where they are going and where they have been."
Elsewhere Moor Row gets the seal of approval. Pat Graves has lived here for 54 years. "The village has a fantastic community spirit. Everyone is friendly and it was a great place to bring up my children. There was always plenty going on,'' she says.
She says the village remains a friendly place to live with different generations taking care of each other.
"When my husband, Lawrence, fell two young men who are our neighbours came around to see if they could help. It is all about treating each other well.''
Pat ran Moor Row's sub post office for 10 years until 1978. She is now treasurer of the Moor Row Jubilee Club.
"We have 60 members at the club and offer lunches, trips, bingo and talks,'' she adds. "We like to keep an eye on each other.''
Crime and vandalism are low, and the Phoenix Youth Project has been running a youth club for 18 months in the village's Emmanuel Church.
Paul Rowe is the project's youth development officer. He says: "We have more volunteers that support our youth work delivery than our other two youth centres. We have around a dozen alone in Moor Row who are very dedicated.
"Without this community support the youth club would not be open and this highlights the real sense of community that exists in the village.''
At the school gates at Moor Row Primary, parents say they greeted the news with a mixture of surprise and glee. Lindsey Jolly is mum to Ben, seven, and six-year-old Beth, and a governor at the school.
"We were delighted to make the top 10, I think it's to do to with the fact the locals are all so friendly and there's a community spirit. We have a great little school, well-supported by parents, with good staff and a hard-working and popular head-teacher.''
Rachael Law is mum to Jackson, nine, Millie, four, and four-year-old Elliot. "I was surprised but then why shouldn't it be rated highly? It's on the Coast to Coast route, near the cycle path, near the sea and the Lake District hills and close to Sellafield.
"There's not big groups of kids knocking about drinking beer. We feel safe here. It's a nice little community."
Jackson can reel off a long list of what he likes about Moor Row. "It's good here because whenever you need something it's in the bakery. And when walkers are tired they can stop in the cafe for a cup of coffee.
"The cycle path is close, we play football and there's a youth club and you can collect stars after tasks and once you collect enough you get to go on a trip to places like Blackpool."
First published at 08:59, Saturday, 01 October 2011
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London Heathrow Central Hotel
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A well connected site, the London Heathrow Central Hotel is the perfect place to enjoy London without having to stay in the busy city centre itself. Just under 3 miles from Heathrow airport, this hotel is very convenient for those travelling long distances. It's also close to both Hayes and Harlington train station and Hounslow West underground station, offering easy access in and out of the city.
With Thorpe Park, Windsor Castle and Legoland Windsor just a few of the nearby attractions, London Heathrow Central Hotel is an ideal choice for families. Eton College and London are nearby too, making it an ideal place to stay for those visiting for business or academic purposes.
The hotel has our fresh new look and features Travelodges new room design complete with Dreamer Bed so you can be sure of a great nights sleep.
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Review: We had a late lunch there yesterday and returned this afternoon because we liked it so much. The place is easy to find and on both days no other tourists were around. English is not spoken but as you enter you'll find a (Vietnamese) menu on the wall to your right. Just point to something and enjoy :) We had Com Tam and Com Dia (rice dishes) and Pho, Bun Mang and Bun Rieu (soups). The soups are especially delicious and one dish is only 14-15 000 dong.
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Record Treasury Buying by Banks Frustrates Bernanke
Brian Williams burned through $12,000 on rent for a vacant storefront in the historic district of St. Louis where he planned to open a pizzeria after banks refused him a $35,000 loan, forcing him to delay opening by a year.
"There were a lot of times when I thought I was going to pack it in," Williams, 53, said in an interview. He eventually turned to friends and smaller loans from government agencies and a microcredit lender for the money.
Rather than providing money to businesses and consumers, U.S. commercial banks are increasingly using the cash available at interest rates set by the Federal Reserve that are next to zero and lending it back to the government. Since June, the biggest banks bought about $127 billion of Treasuries and agency-related debt, compared with $47 billion in the first half, according to the central bank. Commercial and industrial loans outstanding have fallen by about $68.5 billion this year, central bank data show.
While the Fed and Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week they will pump $600 billion more into the financial system through so-called quantitative easing to aid the economy and boost the flow of credit, a growing number of bond investors and strategists say the allure of government debt may only get stronger. New global banking rules will force lenders to hold a greater percentage of capital if they want to invest in riskier securities or make new loans.
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The Basel III regulations set by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, may trim economic growth and result in $400 billion of additional Treasury purchases by U.S. commercial banks by 2015, a committee of bond dealers and investors that advises Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a Nov. 2 report.
"Financial institutions are less willing to take risk ahead of these new regulations than they might be otherwise," said Ira Jersey, an interest-rate strategist at Credit Suisse Group AG in New York. "One of the reasons to do quantitative easing is to make it less appealing to hold Treasuries. You'd expect this to be an environment where'd they might actually want to take on a little more risk but so far they're not."
Demand for U.S. government debt is climbing even after yields on two- and five-year Treasuries, usually among the favored securities of banks, fell to record lows last week when the Fed said it would concentrate the $600 billion of purchases in that maturity range.
Yields Fall
Five-year note yields fell eight basis points, or 0.08 percentage point, last week to 1.09 percent, according to BGCantor Market Data. The benchmark 1.25 percent security due in October 2015 rose 13/32, or $4.06 per $1,000 face amount to 100 25/32. The yield was 1.09 percent at 7:44 a.m. in New York.
The yield fell as low as 1.015 percent on Nov. 4 before rising a day later when the Labor Department in Washington said payrolls jumped 151,000 in October. The increase exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of economists and followed a revised 41,000 drop in September that was smaller than initially estimated.
"The whole point of getting five-year yields down to 1 percent" is to spur lending, said John Briggs, a U.S. government bond strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's RBS Securities unit in Stamford, Connecticut. "The increased regulation makes this process longer."
Financial Crisis
Regulators have been trying to strengthen the global banking system after the world's largest financial institutions suffered almost $1.84 trillion in writedowns and losses since the start of 2007. The collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008 froze credit markets, causing the U.S. government to take over at least 135 banks this year.
To rebuild their balance sheets, banks have been borrowing at low rates and reinvesting the proceeds into higher-yielding Treasuries and government securities.
Since the Fed cut its target rate for overnight loans between banks to a range of zero to 0.25 percent in December 2008, the difference between the benchmark and five-year Treasury yields has averaged about 1.75 percentage points. In the three years before credit markets began to seize up in mid-2007, the spread averaged 0.42 percentage point.
'Not Kept Up'
"Deposits have continued to grow, but the loan book has not kept up with that and so we have put more and more of our excess liquidity if you will into securities," Edgar Ancona, chief financial officer of HSBC North America Inc., said on a Nov. 5 conference call after the bank released its third-quarter earnings. Excess deposits are going to migrate "from collateralized debt into government debt and other things that have lower risk weights."
Lenders are on pace this year to buy the most Treasury and agency debt since the Fed began tracking the data in 1950, adding $186.2 billion of the securities through Oct. 20 and bringing the total to $1.62 trillion. At the same time, commercial and industrial loans fell by 5.3 percent to $1.23 trillion, Fed data show.
"The Fed may find that banks remain unwilling to move out of government-backed securities as readily as it might be hoped," said Jeffrey Caughron, an associate partner in Oklahoma City at Baker Group LP, which advises community banks on investing $25 billion of assets. "Banks are in the unenviable position of having to wait until the animal spirits creep back into the economy."
Gaining Strength
Commercial and industrial loans are down for the year and little changed since June. Reports last week showed the economy may be gaining strength. Both the manufacturing and services indexes compiled by the Institute for Supply Management rose more than forecast. Last month's growth in jobs was the most since April.
Williams employs one person full-time and four people part-time after opening his St. Louis National Pizza Company in June.
Deutsche Bank AG senior economist Torsten Slok in New York wrote in a Nov. 4 report the Fed's bond purchase program may add 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent to gross domestic product next year and 0.75 percent in 2012. JPMorgan Chase & Co. economists raised their fourth-quarter forecast to 2.5 percent from 2 percent.
"Economic data showed clear evidence of improvement in October," Dean Maki, the chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital in New York, wrote in a Nov. 5 report. The company expects the economy to expand at a 3 percent annualized rate this quarter, up from 2 percent in the period ended Sept. 30.
New Rules
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, appointed by the Swiss government, proposed new rules on Oct. 4 to require banks increase available capital and better measure and control their lending risk under the so-called Basel III rules.
Banks will have less than five years to comply with the minimum tier 1 capital ratios and until Jan. 1, 2019, to meet the capital buffer requirements. Member countries will be expected to adopt the regulations within their own rules by January 2013.
Markets are pressuring banks to conform to the standards before the deadlines, meaning the "extension of liquidity, credit, and capital are being curtailed at a time of slow economic growth," the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee said in a Nov. 2 report to the government. "Compliance with liquidity coverage ratios will lead to increased demand by designated institutions for U.S. Treasuries."
The previous round of quantitative easing did little to suppress banks' appetite for Treasuries or encourage them to make new loans.
Prior Reaction
Between November 2008 and March 2010 the Fed purchased $1.7 trillion of mortgage-related and Treasury debt. During that time, banks bought $226 billion of government and related debt, while commercial and industrial loans outstanding fell by $367.4 billion.
Banks say loan demand remains low after companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index boosted cash and equivalents to a record $2.3 trillion at the end of 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"As you look from first quarter to second quarter to third quarter, we've seen loan balances stabilize" along with "the demands from our customers," Brian T. Moynihan, the chief executive officer of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America Corp., said on a conference call last month. "It is not growing, we wouldn't say that, but it is stable."
Before companies borrow to expand, they will likely tap into their cash, said Art Steinmetz, the chief investment officer in New York at OppenheimerFunds Inc., which manages about $165 billion.
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The top 10 golfers in the world right now is a who's who list of who's favored at Augusta, as well:
Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Henrik Stenson, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, and Zach Johnson.
But how are each of these golfers playing as we barrel towards Magnolia Lane? And how have they played this tournament traditionally? How should we should rank them in terms of their chances of winning the tournament?
Here's a graph showing average finish in the last five events for each of these golfers correlated to average finish in the last five Masters for each (you want to be in the lower left of this graph):
(This is for PGA Tour events only and if you missed a cut or withdrew you got a 100th place finish as your score)
So the question here is do you gamble on guys who are hot right now but not traditionally great at Augusta? Guys like Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia.
Or do you place your bets on Augusta stalwarts like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson?
Woods' average over his last five years (12th) is actually significantly worse than it has been for his entire career as a pro at Augusta (8th), which is absurd.
If I was ranking the top 10 guys most likely to win I would do it something like this:
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And my goodness, how awesome would it be if Sergio won the Masters?
I think I generally value past success at a given course more than I do recent success in general. I'll put my money on Mickelson all day even though he's been struggling of late over guys who are hotter like Dustin Johnson and Garcia.
It's worth the debate, though, and in just over two and a half weeks we'll likely have a face to add to this list.
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Senegal is an impoverished West African country where some 26 percent of the population subsists on less than $1 a day. Nearly one in five children there are malnourished. In the country's rural areas, fewer than half the children regularly attend school.
Basically, Senegal is nothing like the United States, the richest country in the history of the world. And yet, speaking last week to a group of Senegalese schoolchildren during the Obamas' whirlwind trip through Africa, first lady Michelle Obama likened her upbringing to that of Senegalese children:
"I know that some of you may be the first in your families to attend a school . . . so there might be people at home who don't quite understand what you're going through as you work to succeed here," she said. "I know a little bit about this from my own experience. See, like many of you, I didn't grow up in a family with a lot of money."
Of course, not only did Michelle Obama grow up in prosperous 20th-century America, she was also raised in solidly middle-class surroundings. Her father was an engineer at a Chicago water plant who earned more than $40,000 a year—substantially more than, say, the public school teachers of that era. Her mother was a homemaker. The family lived in a pleasant detached house. To liken her relatively privileged upbringing to the immiserated conditions of West African children was a galling bit of rhetorical overreach.


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You've seen those restaurant washroom signs that say employees must wash hands. And you also know the reason is to prevent the spread of germs to customers.
With that in mind just get a load of where 2 million Americans a year get infections and why. CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod has the dirty details.
When he checked in to this hospital in New Jersey for spinal surgery, the last thing Bill Shuster expected was to leave sicker than he arrived.
"When I went in the hospital, I was healthy. And after surgery, I started getting sick, fever,Â…sweating,Â…not eating," Shuster says.
During his stay, Shuster contracted a painful and permanent bone infection that was misdiagnosed. In part he blamed poor hygiene among the hospital staff and won a $12 million malpractice verdict.
"Half the time...they wouldn't change their gloves," he says. "They wouldn't put masks on.Â…It was always like a rush to get it done."
Shuster is one of 2 million patients who acquire infections each year in U.S. hospitals. Twenty thousand will be fatal. It turns out that reducing these numbers has less to do with what's taught in medical school than what's taught in kindergarten.
"Hand washing by health care workers is probably the No. 1 way of keeping these infections from occurring. A number of studies have been done showing that approximately 50 percent of health care workers wash their hands as recommended," says Dr. William Jarvis of the Centers for Disease Control.
Just half wash their hands correctly? It seems inconceivable the same people performing high-tech medical miracles could miss something so basic especially in an age of ever-multiplying strains of antibiotic resistant bacterium.
"I don't think they see infection/hand washing as part of their specialty. An individual may be trained to be a surgeon or urologist or gynecologist, and he's totally involved in that, and he doesn't see infection control," says Dr. Maryanne McGuckin of the University of Pennsylvania.
Or maybe there's a simpler explanation: Downsized, overwhelmed hospital staffs looking for a place to save 15 seconds in the rush to save a life.
"As the workload increases...there's less time and the one thing that's going to go is hand washing," McGuckin says.
Either way, the problem's getting worse. More people will die of hospital-acquired infections this year than AIDS. Some of those deaths were preventable by nothing more expensive or complicated than a trip to the sink.
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