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Chic Shopping: 5 ways to add vintage beauty to your bedroom
Scouring car boot sales and flea markets for vintage finds has its perks, but when time and stamina are of the essence, sourcing characterful retro homewares online is convenient and just as satisfying. The key to achieving a stylish vintage feel at home is by teaming rustic distressed furniture with glamourous metallic decorative accessories such as mirrors and lighting. Here are a few of our favourite finds at ACHICA today that will help achieve a dreamy vintage look in the bedroom...
1. This Digit Sideboard is finished in upcycled timber and looks equally good in the bedroom as it does in the living room or hallway. It features numbered drawers that are not only a charming decorative retro touch, but come in handy when you can't sleep and need something other than sheep to count.
2. For traditional old-world charm it has got to be mismatched pieces all the way, as opposed to modern matching furniture. Opt for pieces such as the Tremoy 2 Drawer Chest, which has been delicately distressed and finished in taupe. Use it to store clothes, linens and other bits and bobs.
3. For eye-catching vintage va va voom, don't forget the glitz. This oversized Grande Antique Silver Mirror is finished in antique silver. On the glamour scale it rivals that of Jay Gatsby sipping a Mint Julep cocktail.
4. Beautifully curvaceous lamp bases also help to add elegance. This Miranese Table Lamp features a dazzling gold-speckled glass base, which is balanced by a sobering fluted drum shade in cream.
5. A little frivolity goes a long way when it comes to creating vintage style. These mirror butterflies are a fine way to freshen up an empty wall or dark corner of a room. Place them near a window to reflect the light around the room or position them by the door. That way they'll also come in useful when you need a quick make-up check as you leave your bedroom and start your day...
All these homewares can be found in the Gallery: Vintage, Home Accents and Glamour promotions at ACHICA
For beautiful furniture, accessories and daily design ideas for your home and lifestyle,
shop at ACHICA.
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Part two of Marvin Olasky's interview with Michael Oren, author of Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present (Norton, 2007). Oren, born in New Jersey in 1955, is now is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. Read Part I of the interview now ...
WORLD: You write that early 19th century Americans such as Elizabeth Cabot Kirkland were stunned when they visited the Middle East?
OREN: The wife of Harvard's former president, Elizabeth Cabot Kirkland toured the Middle East in the late 1830s and wrote vividly of her impressions. She was one of the thousands of Americans who, over the course of the nineteenth century, came to the Middle East not as soldiers or missionaries but as tourists in search of romance and adventure.
WORLD: And what did they find?
OREN: They found corruption, backwardness, and cruelty. Americans were appalled by the lack of tolerance they found for Middle Eastern Jews and Christians, by the poverty and ignorance they encountered, and, especially, by the abuse of Muslim women. In one shocking description of an Egypt street, Kirkland wrote of seeing a corpse with its head placed between its legs and a sign over its head reading, "I engaged in politics."
WORLD: Why, following the Civil War, did one observer say that American visitors to the Middle East "often think with their purses, admire with their cheque books and appreciate with their yawns"?
OREN: Many Americans appalled by intolerance were themselves intolerant of Middle Eastern Muslims, Jews, and even Orthodox Christians. They earned a reputation for painting their names on ancient monuments and for buying "genuine" artifacts. A former Confederate officer who served as an advisor to the Egyptian army in the late 1860s wrote about those cheque books and yawns, but Mark Twain, visiting the Middle East in 1867, was even less complimentary in his description of these Yankee tourists. He called them "American vandals."
WORLD: We tend to think of Theodore Herzl and other European Jewish figures jump-starting a Zionist movement, but you trace some roots to 17th century Puritans...
OREN: "Restorationism" had its roots in the Puritan movement of the seventeenth century. In their search for a source of strength that would enable them to endure their suffering at the hand of the Church of England, the Puritans looked back to the Old Testament. There they found a God who spoke directly to His people, in their language, and who promised them to rescue them from exile and restore them to their Holy Land. The Puritans appropriated this narrative-they became the New Israel and the New World became their New Promised Land.
WORLD: And Americans felt that kinship with Old Israel?
OREN: They felt an attachment to the Old Promised Land, then known as Palestine, part of the Ottoman Empire. Many of them concluded that, in order to be good Christians and Americans, they were obliged to assist God in fulfilling his Biblical promises to the Jews. Thus, John Adams declared that his fondest wish was that "100,000 Jewish soldiers...would march into Palestine and reclaim it as a Judean kingdom," and Abraham Lincoln acknowledged that the dream of restoring the Jews was dear to a great many Americans and pledged to help realize that dream after the Civil War.
WORLD: You report that John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, William McKinley and other leading American Protestants signed a petition in 1891 staking a Jewish claim to Palestine, and that Theodore Roosevelt later wrote that "it is entirely proper to start a Zionist state around Jerusalem." The Princeton Review, though, a Reformed journal, denounced restoration as "radically false" and opposed "to the whole drift of... New Testament teaching."
OREN: Rockefeller, Morgan, McKinley, and Roosevelt all subscribed to the doctrine of restorationism. Perhaps the greatest expression of it occurred in 1891, when real estate mogul William Blackstone submitted a petition to President Benjamin Harrison urging the United States to spearhead an international effort to take Palestine from the Turks and return it to the Jews. The Blackstone Memorial, as it was called, was signed by 400 prominent Americans, including Rockefeller, Morgan, and McKinley, proving that support for the renewed Jewish state was anything but a peripheral movement.
WORLD: Woodrow Wilson was pleased that a minister's son "should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people." Harry Truman, who backed formation of Israel over State Department objections, said, "I am Cyrus," referring to the ancient Persian ruler who authorized the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Jimmy Carter was so impressed with his Camp David Accords that he said they "had now become almost like the Bible." Why have so many presidents, when it comes to Zionism and Israel, had such grand thoughts about their own roles?
OREN: Wilson and Truman assisted the Zionist movement out of a faith-based attachment to the Jews and their aspirations for statehood in their ancestral, Biblical, homeland. Jimmy Carter, whose recent book reveals a far more equivocal if not hostile attitude toward the Jewish state, is very much an exception. American presidents had such "grand thoughts" because the United States in the nineteenth-century emerged as the preeminent Western power in the Middle East, endowed with the ability to make draw borders and remake the region's map.
WORLD: On the other hand, you report Truman's anger when his State Department "pulled the rug out from under him." Has the State Department over many decades tended to tilt in a pro-Arab way?
OREN: In 1813 the State Department inaugurated the tradition of appointing American Jews, many of them German-born, as diplomats to the Middle East. The practice reflected the rather quaint assumption that American Jews represented a natural bridge between predominantly Christian America and the Muslim Middle East. The tradition continued to the 1920s, when the descendants of the missionaries, many of whom had grown up in the Middle East and spoke its languages, replaced American Jewish diplomats.
These statesmen were deeply identified with Arab nationalism-and commensurately opposed to Zionism. Moreover, while there was only one diplomatic posting to Israel, there were twenty-one in the Arab world. Numerically, those diplomats well-disposed to Israel were grossly outnumbered. The exclusion of Jews from the State Department ended in 1973, the year that another German-born American Jew, Henry Kissinger, assumed the reins of American foreign policy in the Middle East. The State Department's pro-Arab proclivity has nevertheless continued.
WORLD: Why were US leaders during the 1980s and 1990s "reluctant to acknowledge the hatred of their culture seething in Saudi Arabia or the willingness of Saudi authorities to deflect radical Islamic criticism of their own profligacy onto the United States"?
OREN: The reason is simple: oil. In the decades after World War II, the American economy and much of the American way of life became dependent on Arabian oil. Acknowledging that the Saudis were funding virulently anti-American curricula in schools throughout the Muslim world-a program that spurred fifteen Saudis to hijack American planes on 9/11-was immensely difficult. Only by admitting the connection between oil and terrorism, and by exploring alternative sources of energy, can the United States ultimately protect its citizens from persistent threats from the Middle East.


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News: Football Sends Nine Lancers To 4-Year Universities
As the Pasadena City College football team prepares for the 2012 season, second-year head coach Fred Fimbres announced today that nine of his 2011 class have secured scholarships to play and attend four-year universities.
Wide receiver Wayne Peters, (Carson High) who led the state in receptions with 81 last season, will attend Minot State University in North Dakota. Peters was chosen to the All-National Southern Conference First Team in the all-purpose category after totaling 1,309 all-purpose yards, 766 receiving. Peters led the Lancers in kick return average at 22.4 yards in 17 attempts. His 81 catches trailed only current NFL Baltimore Raven David Reed for most receptions by a Lancer in a single season.
All-NSC First Team cornerback Tyrell Austin (Miami Carol City High, Fla.) and defensive lineman Khambrell Gomez (Dorsey High) are moving on to Virginia Union University. Austin made 22 tackles and had one interception, but his blanket coverage made him one of the most difficult defensive backs to throw against in the entire conference. Gomez led the Lancers in quarterback hurries with five and added a fumble recovery as a lineman. Earlier this year, Gomez accomplished South Coast Conference runner-up in the shot put on the PCC men's track and field team.
All-NSC Second Team offensive lineman Dante Moses (from Jack Yates High, Texas) is one of three Lancers who will play together at Adams State University in Colorado. Moses was a two-year letterman as a starting guard known for his strong pass-blocking abilities. Linebacker Grant Haggard (Monrovia High) and defensive back Cariel Brooks (Miami Carol City, Fla.) join Moses at Adams State. Haggard totaled 116 tackles in his two PCC seasons, including 70 in his freshman season in 2010. Haggard was PCC's Horrell Scholarship recipient with a 3.1 GPA. Brooks had 24 tackles, two forced fumbles and broke up four passes last year and transfers as a sophomore.
Another freshman who earned a scholarship to the next level was All-NSC Second Team wide receiver Ian Hamilton (St. Francis High), who signed with University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP). Hamilton pulled in 31 catches for 517 yards and two touchdowns in his lone PCC season.
Also getting the opportunity to play three upper level collegiate seasons is defensive back Antoine Morris (Muir High), who totaled 63 tackles (second on the team), three break-ups and an interception. Morris accepted a scholarship to Midwestern State University (Texas), the Lone Star Conference champions at 10-1 last year.
Two-year letterman and offensive lineman James Le'au (Samoana High in American Samoa) will remain in California with his signing at Fresno State. Both Fresno State and UTEP are NCAA Division I colleges while Minot State, Virginia Union, Midwestern State and Adams State are Division II institutions.
"Ideally you hope to have guys who can stay with us for two seasons, but these are great opportunities for Hamilton, Brooks and Morris," Fimbres said of the university signees. "We're proud to continue the PCC tradition of moving guys to that next level. All nine of these student-athlete were guys that made big contributions for the Lancers and I'll always remember them as being part of my first PCC signing class."
[Photo--Grant Haggard (40) and Wayne Peters (24) were two of the nine PCC football players who have moved to 4-year universities to continue their education and playing careers.]
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Whether to require new homes in Rifle to have fire sprinkler systems as of next year will be taken up by the City Council on Monday.
The issue was discussed by council, developers and a fire official at a Nov. 7 workshop.
The 2009 International Residential Code Rifle adopted a few years ago calls for the sprinkler system requirement to take effect in 2013.
Assistant City Manager Matt Sturgeon said every municipality in Garfield County, except Rifle, has opted out of the fire sprinkler requirement. An ordinance on the Nov. 19 agenda would remove the requirement for fire sprinklers for single- and two-family (duplex) residential units in Rifle. The council is meeting Monday, Nov. 19, since its regular Wednesday meeting is the day before Thanksgiving.
Realtor Glenn Ault said if the city requires sprinklers, new home prices will go up $10,000 to $15,000.
"We, as developers, would never break even," he added. "Right now, I can sell a 5-year-old home for less than what I can get for a new home. There's no incentive to build."
Real estate agent Jack Pretti of Rifle said while the life safety issues associated with sprinkler systems "are not taken lightly," with no demand, there's no need to require the systems.
"This should be a consumer choice, not a government mandate," Pretti added.
Sally Brands with JBS Construction said her insurance agent told her she would see a 10 percent reduction in an $800 insurance premium on a house with a system.
"So you see it would take a very long time before you'd have enough savings to pay off the system," she said. "I don't think there's any real cost benefit to requiring them."
"Back in the 1980s, when the code was being changed to require smoke detectors in new homes, these same arguments were made," said Colorado River Fire Rescue Fire Marshal Kevin Whelan. "I don't think there's any doubt smoke detectors have had a significant impact on saving lives."
Whelan showed City Council photos of recent home fires in the Rifle area and noted if any of them had had fire sprinklers, the damage would have been much less.
In the Rifle Fire Protection District last year, fires caused around $900,000 in damage. While 18 pets lost their lives, no people died, Whelan said.
Brands added new construction materials and methods make new homes very fire safe, even without a sprinkler system.
Whelan argued that modern buildings often catch fire easier.
"You've got a lot of things held in place with glue, particle boards are more common and those all burn fast," he said. "The average new home will catch on fire in six minutes. That's often faster than we can get to a fire."
Homes that are built to be energy efficient hold in heat, too, Whelan said, so when they catch fire, they burn more rapidly.
Brands also said most of the home fires in Rifle over the last 30 years occurred in old, substandard mobile homes.
"I'd point out that every time you raise the price of a new home, that means someone who can't afford a new home has to live in substandard housing," Brands added.
The local housing market does not make it attractive to build new homes, Brands said, "So if you require sprinklers, that will just make it that much longer before someone can qualify for a loan on a starter home."
After consulting six local contractors, Whelan said he was given cost estimates ranging from $1.50 to $3.30 a square foot, or between $4,000 to $5,000 for a sprinkler system in an average sized single family home.
"That may be a deal breaker for some people, but I think if it is, maybe they shouldn't be in that home anyway," Whelan said.
While Whelan agreed insurance premiums would not be reduced to any great degree in a home with a system, streets in subdivisions do not have to be as wide to handle two fire trucks side by side.
"There's more green space, building setbacks are smaller and fire access points can be negotiated" due to sprinkler systems aiding in fire prevention and control, Whelan said.
Other mitigation can include rebates and lower or no building permit fees, he added. Greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by 99 percent in a home that catches fire but has a system, Whelan said.
Sprinkler systems also help cut water used to fight a house fire by 50 percent, while water damage, a leading factor in determining monetary loss in a fire, is reduced to only 3 percent, Whelan said.
Brands said if Rifle were to consider some of the mitigation steps Whelan listed, "I might be willing to listen. We could save on sidewalks, curbs and gutters. If the city wants to get really serious about changing some of their requirements, we could all save real money."
City Councilman Rich Carter said the main purpose of the city code is to protect public health and safety.
"I think we already do a lot for that," he said. "I know it can get to the point where people feel they're over-regulated. I have no doubt a sprinkler system makes a home safer, but I also think a home owner has to bear some responsibility to make sure their smoke detectors work."


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|Nurse practitioner joining clinic, hospital staff
|Written by Wauneta Breeze
|Wednesday, 10 December 2008 23:28
By Jan Schultz
The Imperial Republican
Another nurse practitioner will be joining the staff at Chase County Community Hospital and Clinic in January. Brandi Hanes, APRN, will work two days a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting Jan. 6, according to Hospital Administrator Lola Jones. Initially, she will work Tuesdays in Imperial and Thursdays in Wauneta, but Jones said her days could be expanded later on.
Hanes' specialty area as a nurse practitioner is in family practice, but she is working on post-master's certification in women's health.
She earned her bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha in 2003, when she moved to Rochester, Minn., to work at the Mayo Clinic. There, she worked in general and vascular surgery, wound care and other patient care areas.
She worked on her advanced studies for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, or APRN, earning that master's degree in 2007.
Part of her rural clinical rotations, required for her master's degree, was spent in Chase County in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Jon Richman. She also gained rural experience in Albion, Neb., and Minnesota. She is a native of Newman Grove, Neb.
Hanes moved to Imperial in November with her husband, Imperial native Jamie Hanes, who has joined the family business as a pharmacist at Adams Drug. He was a 1995 Chase County High School graduate. The couple has two children, Madelynn, who is almost four, and one-year-old Miles.
Administrator Jones said, "Brandi will be a great fit for us," and will expand the medical staff at the hospital and clinic to seven.
Hanes will be the second nurse practitioner who will be working regular hours at the hospital/clinic, joining Rita Nicholson, APRN, whose specialty is women's health. Nicholson began working here this fall, and also offers a variety of cosmetic procedures as part of her practice.
Three doctors serve both the hospital and clinic—Drs. Richman, Steve Boyer and Doug Nicholson. Physicians Assistants Jodi Spady and Carol Cornelius are also on staff.
Melda Musick, APRN, is also available to the hospital on an on-call basis for birth and delivery, Jones said.
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Republicans pass bill to sue Obama for not enforcing laws
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—Republicans overwhelmingly supported a bill that will
allow them to sue the president for failure to enforce federal laws. Republicans say
the bill is necessary because the president is engaged in selective enforcement of the
nation's laws.
The Republican-led House voted 233-181 in favor of the bill and admonished Obama
for failing to defend the federal law that bans gay marriage.
The bill, titled House Resolution 511 (H.Res. 511) provides for consideration of the bill
to protect the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States by
ensuring that the President takes care that the laws be faithfully executed.
When Barack Obama took office, he swore to uphold and protect the Constitution of
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Under the bill, Republicans can sue the president on an expedited basis, on the
grounds that he "failed to meet the requirement of Article II, section 3 of the
Constitution of the United States to take care that a law be faithfully
Article II, section 3, states: "He shall from time to time give to the Congress
Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such
Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary
Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement
between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to
such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public
Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall
Commission all the Officers of the United States.
The last clause is called the "Take care clause" or "Faithfully executed clause."
It is meant to ensure that the law is faithfully executed by the president, no matter
how much he disagrees with a particular law, or who wrote it.
In other words, by virtue of his executive power, the president may execute the law,
and ensure that others (all Officers) do the same.
By supporting this new bill, Republicans are simply holding Obama's feet to the fire.
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My first hunt (at age 39) was a solo backpacking muzzleloader trip to the Holy Cross wilderness in unit 45. I was lucky and thankful to get this buck.
Thanks to lots of folks here for sharing your knowledge with me. You helped me decide on a season, unit, weapon (CVA Wolf Compact) and load (110 grains of BH209 pushing a 300 grain Thor bullet). I think the most valuable information was the tip from Pete to read "The Still Hunter." I was taking 5 silent steps at a time then waiting when a group of three bucks got up from their morning bed to have a snack not 30 yards away. This guy was the biggest and I was delighted to harvest him.
I had to make a solo trip this year because I didn't have a single friend interested in hunting. That is until my friends heard my stories and figured that if I could do it, they could. I expect to have 3 friends join me for a hunt this time next year. I can't wait!
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July 2010 Logistics Magazine
July 15, 2010
By now, most readers have already digested the top line data from the 21st Annual State of Logistics Report (SoL) that was officially released back on June 9. And if for some reason you missed the news, I'll cut to the chase.
According to the findings gleaned by author and economist Roz Wilson, the cost of the U.S. business logistics system declined 18.2 percent in 2009, the single largest year-over-year drop in the history of the report. And while the market was more than prepared for a drop in that number due to the long-running and savagely-ruthless recession, I can't help but think that most of us were a little surprised when we actually saw all the figures in black and white.
Without giving away too much of the data from Patrick Burnson's excellent analysis of the report, here are some of the telling takeaways: Business logistics costs fell to $1.1 trillion in 2009, a decrease of $244 billion from 2008. In fact, logistics costs as a percentage of our nominal GDP—an annual SoL measure that analysts believe gives us the best historical snapshot of the market—fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest level since that measure has been recorded.
Just how brutal was the recession's blow to the U.S. logistics system? If you combine the $244 billion drop in 2009 with the drop recorded in 2008 ($49 billion) you'll find that total logistics costs have declined nearly $300 billion since the recession started. In 2009 alone, money spent on overall freight transportation dropped 20.2 percent.
I think you're getting the picture.
In our annual analysis of the report, Burnson sits down with Wilson to put some perspective behind this data in an effort to help shippers navigate the current and upcoming freight environment. And as Wilson points out in the conversation, it's important to keep these figures in perspective since they do paint a historical portrait.
Indeed, transportation analysts and the vast majority of our sources are in firm agreement that all trends are pointing to an improving economy; which in turn is leading to increasing volumes and better times ahead for beleaguered carriers across all the modes. In fact, many shippers may be surprised to read in our mode-by-mode breakdowns and John Paul Quinn's mid-year rate outlook just how quickly volumes are increasing, capacity is tightening, and rates are shooting skyward.
"Shippers were shell shocked last year due to low volumes and extreme rate pressures, and very soon became risk adverse," says Wilson. "This year, they would be wise to be first at the table negotiating rates and capacity…guaranteeing a minimum level of business in return for guaranteed carriage and limited rate hikes two or three years out."
And while the worst of times may be behind us, adds Wilson, shippers will be faced with a brand new set of tactical challenges as the economy inches forward on its slow recovery path. It's time for shippers to heed Wilson's advice and make their move.
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Going shopping… baking cakes… JUMPING ON BEDS!!! Five silly simian siblings insist on doing things their own way and monkey mayhem ensues in this zany play in cumulative verse. Five playful primates get into all kinds of mischief as they try to bake a surprise Birthday cake for mom, go shopping for clothes, have a picnic, climb a tree and so much more! Featuring wonderful costumes and amazing acting, the monkeys each display their own unique style while driving Mama monkey crazy.


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Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Juan Uribe's two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth put the Los Angeles Dodgers back in the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2009.
Uribe's second career postseason go-ahead homer in eighth inning or later lifted the Dodgers over the Atlanta Braves, 4-3, in Game 4 of their National League Division Series.
Holding a 3-2 lead, the Braves sent David Carpenter (0-1) to the mound. Yasiel Puig led off with a double down the right-field line. Uribe then stepped to the plate and smacked a 2-2 pitch over the wall in left.
Kenley Jansen tossed a perfect ninth to put the Dodgers in the NLCS for the third time in the past six years.
Los Angeles will face either St. Louis or Pittsburgh in the next round. The Cardinals beat the Pirates on Monday to even their Division Series at two games apiece.
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With the help of Nissan's Happy Surprise campaign, 8-year-old Hinata was able to show his mother just how much he appreciated her with an adorable surprise.
For the surprise, Hinata's mother was told that she and Hinata were chosen to help shoot a commercial. Suddenly things take a turn when the two children in the back begin singing and playing the violin. She is delighted as she drives past her father and her daughter.
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Hinata begins by saying he is worried that his mom is too tired from work and he hopes to cheer her up with his surprise. He thanks her for always laughing and for putting up with his mischief.
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brought the roaring twenties and swing revival to Thunder Valley Casino Resort on Saturday, as the casino continues their countdown to 2013.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has been bringing the big band era music to the masses for over 20 years. Their music takes the listener back to the days of old, when gangsters weren't quite as scary, and a flapper was a young and trending woman, not something found in a toilet. Some say those were the good 'ole days.
Mixing their roaring twenties attitude and big horns, the band of all things swing, fuses together some of the most prolific sounds of swing, jazz and contemporary classics to create an original and exciting array of sounds that put the likes of Cab Calloway to shame, well almost. Nobody can put Calloway to shame.
Kicking off their set with "Come On With The 'Come On'" and "Calloway Boogie," they had the audience dancing in their seats from the start. That was a bit strange, because at most concerts fans would be standing up in the front row dancing. Apparently this was a more subdued and polite crowd.
Thunder Valley missed out on an opportunity to provide a dance floor for the many fans wanting to get up and boogie. While a number of people were dancing off to the side, the carpet just didn't cut it.
Still in holiday mode, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy went on to play a few of their songs from their Christmas album including "Merry Christmas Baby" and "Mr. Heatmeiser."
As the band started up with Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher," lead singer Scotty Morris led the crowd through the ho-dee ho-dee ho's and the Hi-dee hi-dee hi's. During the song the audience jumped in at the appropriate times as well.
This was an extremely fun concert with a high energy band. While some people may never give Big Bad Voodoo Daddy a listen due to their roaring twenties label and swing sound, others are quickly realizing that this is a band that has a sound all its own, with some very catchy tunes.
Band members include Scotty Morris (lead vocals and guitar), Kurt Sodergren (drums and percussion), Dirk Shumaker (double bass and vocals), Andy Rowley (baritone saxophone and vocals), Glen "The Kid" Marhevka (trumpet), Karl Hunter (saxophones and clarinet), Joshua Levy (piano and arranger), Anthony Bonsera Jr. (lead trumpet) and Alex Henderson (trombone).
You can catch these dapper fellows on The Tonight Show on Jan. 9, where they will perform "Why Me?"
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Alright so I had been eagerly awaiting the release of 6.0.6, literally with my boss spamming me asking when it was coming.
The issues with the E52 and E72 were described in a previous thread but I will recap. When you try to send a mail with the Mail for Exchange Account pointed it Zimbra it simply says "Email not sent", receiving etc. works fine.
The E52 and E72 use a later version of Mail for Exchange that was supposed to be fixed in 6.0.6. (patch notes read E52 and E75 but the Mail for Exchange version is the same)
The E72 which many of our staff use at the moment still does not send e-mail. How can a core business phone like the E72 escape a hotfix when every single other Nokia seems to work?!
Does anyone know why this is the case or if it's actually supposed to work now on the E72?


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More than 20 Occupy Cincinnati protesters were arrested last night just hours before a morning parade was scheduled to celebrate the life of local billionaire Carl Lindner, who died on Monday. The Enquirer's homepage this morning includes a lengthy account of the arrests and reactions by Occupy, along with a live feed covering the parade, which was to begin at Great American Ball Park and end near a Kenwood restaurant where Lindner enjoyed eating.
Lindner supporters gathered at various locations along the parade route, including dozens of Cincinnati Police standing outside District 1 around 9 a.m. Students stood outside a school on 9th Street singing songs about going to heaven. (Occupy Cincinnati representatives have not acknowledged the correlation.)
Three of the four Republican members of Cincinnati City Council introduced a motion today calling for the city manager to immediately begin enforcing all city laws at Piatt Park, which eventually might result in the arrest of Occupy Cincinnati protestors.
Councilman Wayne Lippert introduced the motion this afternoon. Councilwomen Leslie Ghiz and Amy Murray signed the document, giving it their support. It would require at least two more signatures to have enough backing to be approved.
Approximately 50 Occupy Cincinnati protesters attended yesterday's City Council meeting to testify against Piatt Park's 10 p.m. closing time. Negotiations between the city and protesters is ongoing, according to reports, but no agreement was made yesterday after protesters turned down an offer of a new place to stay overnight and the city declined to let the group stay in the park under new restrictions.
Councilman Chris Bortz and Councilwoman Leslie Ghiz, both of whom have connections to property along the park, have brought up the possibility that if protesters aren't removed that someday the city will have to let the Ku Klux Klan camp out. Ghiz yesterday was criticized by protesters for posting on Facebook the private information of two people who wrote emails criticizing her (more on that here). CityBeat reflected on the situation again here.
We reported here yesterday that City Councilwoman Leslie Ghiz posted personal information on Facebook about two citizens who had emailed criticism about her pressuring of City Manager Milton Dohoney to remove the Occupy Cincinnati protesters. The news quickly spread on Twitter (which you can follow in our live aggregator below), and Ghiz removed the posts shortly thereafter.
The incident might not seem like the hugest deal — largely a petty socio-political discussion on a conservative's personal Facebook page among a bunch of likeminded people. But the publication of the home and email address of a citizen who opposes an elected official crosses a major ethical line.
We purposely didn't publish screen shots of the posts due to the private information involved. It would have been relevant only in demonstrating the pettiness with which Ghiz offered the critics' opinions to her collection of angry friends. "These are some of the lovely emails my campaign has been getting because I believe the law should be applied evenly and equally to everyone," the first introduction reads. How does she expect people to react to such sarcasm? "Oh dear, Leslie, I also care not for such a movement and its collection of anarchic rogues. Let me set down my tea cup and console you."
Leslie Ghiz has angered some Occupy Cincinnati supporters by posting on her Facebook page the home and email address of one individual and the email address of another who criticized her for pressuring City Manager Milton Dohoney to kick the protesters out of the park. The two individuals wrote to Ghiz's campaign, according to Ghiz.
A federal judge has ordered police to stop ticketing Occupy Cincinnati protesters after the group filed a lawsuit against the city for banning people from Piatt Park when it closes. The city has already ticketed protesters approximately $25,000.
J. Robert Linneman, one of the attorneys who filed the suit, according to Bloomberg Businessweek:
"This case is not about the whether you agree with the political views of Occupy Cincinnati or Occupy Wall Street; it's about the right of the people to assemble in a public park and to engage in protected speech."
Uh oh, the owners of buildings adjacent to Piatt Park are angry and they're not going to take it anymore. They reportedly met with city officials yesterday led by Arn Bortz, former mayor and Towne Properties partner/Councilman Chris Bortz's super-rich uncle, to ask that they be removed. Bortz also accused protesters of defecating in the park and abusing people walking through, both well-known annoyances for neo-fascists.
Here's how The Enquirer describes an Ohio Supreme Court decision allowing Democrats to challenge a ridiculous Republican attempt to unfairly redraw Congressional districts: "Court ruling throws 2012 elections into chaos." Here's the same report by WLWT, minus the drama: "Ohio Supreme Court Allows Redistricting Challenge."
Cincinnati police didn't give out any citations in Piatt Park last night, saving the people in the Justice Center a lot of paperwork and wasted time. Some occupiers and local homeless activists have planned a march on Saturday to highlight causes of homelessness.
New York officials delayed a monthly park cleaning that would have meant having to clean lots of protesters too. The movement is spreading to Canada, where occupy protests are scheduled to begin this weekend in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver and Halifax.
Covington City Commissioner Steve Frank is getting a little bit of local coverage after posting the following to his Facebook account on Sunday: "Turn out the lights on the Occupiers, I feel like going Taliban on them!!!" Frank yesterday explained in a grammatically challenged response the wildly circular logic behind his statement: "The taliban, through there (sic) eyes are resisting occupation. I'm resisting the Occupiers. I figured that the irony would be lost on most of the dummies in Occupation Nation that oppose the war because they see us as occupiers. I happen to oppose the war too but for highly different grounds."


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The name and personality behind the line, Lise Watier, is definitely the most interesting facet of these products. Watier began her career in the 1960s by hosting Canadian television shows aimed at women. As she became more popular and recognized for her outspoken nature (and some would say feminist viewpoint), women started writing to her for advice on a wide variety of topics. Her desire to help women find their uniqueness led to her opening a namesake institute that offered women lessons on personal growth … and makeup. It was pop psychology mixed with pops of color. Now that's a unique way to begin a cosmetics line!
Without question, personal growth and personal appearance are linked together by self-esteem, and Watier enhanced this with personal style and makeup application. Given the success of her institute, it wasn't long before Watier launched her own makeup products, along with a message that coincided with the times, and that still resonates today—beauty without rules or limitations. Watier's Montreal-based business continues to thrive in Canada, and the line has expanded beyond color to offer a range of skin-care and fragrance products.
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Tallahassee, FL - While President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney sparred inside Lynn University, outside the student organization the "Dream Defenders" were making their presence felt.
"Dream Defenders is a coalition of black and brown youth working to end social injustice here and across the world," said one of the Dream Defenders members Elijah Armstrong. Armstrong was not at the protest.
With local chapters at both FAMU and FSU, nine Tallahassee students were part of a group coined as the "Dream 15," fifteen students arrested for what they say was a peaceful protest.
"The arrest was horrible. Everyone had their own experience but I think of the officers handled me very rudely," said Lucky Thomas, one of the nine Tallahassee students arrested.
A spokesman for the group said they were carrying out their "Change the Debate" campaign. It's focused on getting the candidates to recognize social injustices, one of which they say is the disproportionate number of young minorities in prison.
When asked if the protest was worth the arrest, Thomas replied a decisive "yes."
The students spent about fourteen hours in police custody before being released. The Tallahassee crew is now back in town.
Boca Raton, FL – As the presidential candidates engaged in their final debate at Lynn University on Monday night, the Dream Defenders marched outside of the site protesting the candidates' refusal to address issues impacting youth.
The Dream Defenders, a diverse group of students and youth from universities and communities all across Florida dedicated to battling racial and educational injustice, demanded to "change the debate".
This continued effort is a part of their current "#ChangeTheDebate" campaign, an attempt by the group and allied community organizations seeking answers from the presidential candidates on their strategies to deal with the ongoing crisis of mass youth criminalization.
The flood of over 120 vocal students—made up of citizens, undocumented Americans, queer-identifying individuals, and straight allies—marched down Yamato Road singing "We who believe in freedom cannot rest; we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it's won."
The palpable frustration was a response to the eerie lack of discussion on the growing and disturbing trend of mass youth incarceration. Dream Defenders are particularly concerned about how the privatized-prison industry disproportionately affects youth of color.
Statistics show that African-American youth make up only 16% of the nation's overall juvenile population but account for 45% of juvenile arrests. "There is a war on youth going on right now. Our generation is being deported, incarcerated, and labeled criminals. We need a real debate on the issues that matter to us, not on Big Bird and Binders," said Phillip Agnew, an organizer with the Dream Defenders.
As the group reached North Military Trail, fifteen later dubbed the "Dream 15" parted to enter the intersection with a banner reading "Education, NOT incarceration!" Police were soon made aware of their presence and began advising them to depart from the intersection.
Shortly after, a warning from Palm Beach County police was made through a loud speaker that if the students did not leave, they would be arrested. The fifteen—compromised of nine females and six males, the majority youth of color—remained sitting in the street with locked arms and an unwavering commitment to song. Police proceeded to arrest each of the youth, to which the singing individuals peacefully complied.
The "Dream 15" was put in zip-ties, their ankles shackled, and taken to the county jail. They were released approximately fourteen hours later, unshaken and determined to continue their work in shedding light on the alarming numbers of youth whose lives are being ruined by the private-prison industry. "We cannot and will not be silenced. Our candidates can no longer ignore the facts," said Caterina Victoria, one of those arrested.
Explained fellow Dream Defender Ciara Taylor, "Like many Americans, the Dream Defenders are disappointed with the deliberate decision of the candidates to not mention the criminalization of our youth. In a state that boasts the largest number of youth in the United States serving life sentences, we understand how critical it is for the candidates to address this overwhelming problem."
The Dream Defenders is a group of youth and students committed to replacing jails with schools, ending the illegal war on the undocumented, and dismantling the systems that criminalize our people. We are the daughters and sons of slaves and farm-workers. We are Dreamers and the products of a generation that had a dream. We are 'We Shall Overcome' & 'Si se puede!' We are Phoenix and Selma, the Freedom Rides and the Trail of Dreams, suffrage and solidarity.
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Nick Durm '11 - This afternoon was a good day of teaching. It was a perfect subject for a Wabash man. I broke the ice with the students with discussions about leadership. I told them that on the Wabash football team we define leadership as influence and that they are always influencing people, even if they don't realize it.
The lesson turned to a quick idea of what it means to use that influence properly. After that I was able to facilitate student analysis of what they were reading out loud, which was Orwell's Animal Farm. On this trip, I have learned the importance of relationship in the classroom, and how important the student-teacher connection is to engaging the student in class. Kids are kids, and can be engaged no matter where they live, as long as the teacher can make that connection.
After classes and a long commute back to the hostel, we debriefed for the day. Then Josh Miracle and I went on an adventure to the nearby lakeshore and through Millennium Park. This was a great experience, because it was a beautiful day to spend outside in Chicago. We threw the football in Millennium Park and then used our free passes to a local gym to get a quick lift in. For dinner tonight we were on our own, so we went to a local pizza place and got some real Chicago deep dish pizza. It was delicious.
This week has been a great trip for new cultural experiences. There were the ones that were planned by our education professors, such as the city market (Hispanic culture), the Red Apple Polish buffet, Pilsen (formerly Czech, now Hispanic), and Chinatown. However, just as interesting have been our
experiences with the Chicago culture, especially near to our Hostel. Needless to say, the people of Chicago are unique, or as Kam would say, ";a different breed around here."


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Joplin's hearts are with our East Coast neighbors
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Two hundred lineman left Joplin two weeks ago, bound for the East Coast. A team of 30 city leaders stand ready to assist when they get a call. Our churches collected clothing and food for hurricane victims. Volunteers were organizing, and many headed east.
But the real strength will be found within those living in the storm-damaged cities and villages. Federal response is required, but so is a strong sense of local leadership. Those leaders won't necessarily represent government. They will be schoolteachers, doctors, preachers, rabbis and priests. They will be the kid next door or the senior citizen down the street. Strong convictions and strong hands will be needed in the coming months.
Almost a year and half since 161 lives were lost in Joplin, we still mourn. But homes and businesses are coming back strong, and just last week a family was reunited with their beloved pet. Even the smallest of miracles are welcome ones here in our town.
I wish I could tell the Heralds' readers that their lives will return to normal. For many, that won't happen. How can it when lives have been destroyed and layers of history washed away? But, day by day, the despair turns to resolve.
And with resolve come results. East Coast neighbors, Joplin's thoughts and prayers are with you.
Carol Stark is editor of the Joplin Globe. One member of her newsroom was killed on May 22, 2011, and 33 employees of the newspaper lost their homes.
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Global logistics: Obama's plan to revisit U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement supported by UPS
June 29, 2010
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama said his administration is committed to resolving outstanding issues regarding the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) by November when he visits the country.
The U.S. and Korea inked the KORUS FTA in June 2007. At this time, the U.S. said that if approved this agreement would be the United States' most commercially significant trade agreement in more than 16 years. And the U.S. International Trade Commission estimated that the reduction of Korean tariffs and tariff-rate quotas on goods alone would add $10 billion-to-$12 billion to annual merchandise exports to Korea.
By working to resolve these issues, Obama said it can result in "new jobs and opportunity for people in both our countries and enhance America's competitiveness in the 21st century."
But the trade agreement has been held up in Congress. A Reuters report said that much of the Congressional opposition is rooted in fear that the agreement will open the U.S. market to more South Korean cars and endanger the jobs of U.S. automakers that tend to vote Democratic. The report added that U.S. trade officials say that South Korean restrictions on U.S. beef are the other main obstacle blocking the pact.
And if this deal and other stalled U.S. trade agreements and Panama and Colombia were to come to fruition, there would be potential for them to help make significant inroads in Obama's National Export Initiative goal, which vows to double U.S. exports over the next five years.
While this trade agreement remains at a standstill, the prospects of getting a deal done were soundly endorsed by UPS.
"South Korea has the 14th largest economy in the world and the increase in trade that will come from this agreement means more jobs and global competitiveness for the two countries," said UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis in a statement.
UPS officials added that the company has supported the negotiation of the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement since its inception. UPS serves as a co-chair of a business coalition that is urging U.S. action, and it added that this agreement contains vital provisions for the express delivery industry, including enhanced market access and improved customs clearance times that allow companies like UPS to better serve its customers.
UPS spokesman Norman Black told LM that UPS unequivocally supports this—and all other pending—trade pacts.
"This is heartening in light of the President's goal of moving the economy forward through the National Export Initiative," said Black. "We all need to understand the value of trade and what it can do for the U.S. economy and to create jobs, despite complaints from critics who sometimes say it does nothing but remove jobs."
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The Prince George's County Fire Department say the townhouse fire located on the 15500 block of Empress Way began in the third floor and extended to the attic, Mark Brady the fire department spokesperson tweeted.
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The most severe and extensive drought in at least 25 years seriously affected U.S. agriculture, with impacts on the crop and livestock sectors and with the potential to affect food prices at the retail level. Below is information on impacts of the drought on key commodities and food prices.
Current USDA estimates of weather impacts on the farm sector are still reflected in the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report and the Crop Production report. USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released final estimates of the 2012 production of crops in January 2013. ERS's February 11, 2013 farm income forecast reflected information in the January 2013 WASDE report, and the forecast will be updated in August. Looking ahead, the 2013 impacts of weather depend on precipitation patterns from spring through early fall, and on the response of producers and markets to weather conditions and yields. NASS has released the 2013 report on farmers' Prospective Plantings.
The 2012 drought destroyed or damaged portions of the major field crops in the Midwest, particularly field corn and soybeans. This led to increases in the farm prices of corn, soybeans, and other field crops and, in turn, led to price increases for other inputs in the food supply such as animal feed. Though we saw some price increases for meats and animal-based products in the fourth quarter of 2012, most of the impacts on retail food prices were expected to occur in 2013.
About 80 percent of agricultural land experiened drought in 2012, which made the 2012 drought more extensive than any since the 1950s. USDA's monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report reflects current estimates of weather impacts. The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released final estimates of the 2012 production of crops in January 2013. ERS's February 11, 2013 farm income forecast reflected information in the January 2013 WASDE report, and the forecast will be updated in August. The impacts of weather on 2013 farm income depend on precipitation patterns from spring through early fall, and on the response of producers and markets to weather conditions and yields. NASS has released the 2013 report on farmers' Prospective Plantings.
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Source: 2011 ARMS; U.S. Drought Monitor (August 14, 2012 drought status). Drought status is designated by the highest level of drought affecting at least 1/3 of a county.
Once the 2012 harvest of most field crops was nearly complete, the severity of the drought and its effect on crop production became better understood. Production estimates for coarse grains and oilseeds were raised slightly from the previous month in the November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, but yields and production of many field crops, particularly corn and soybeans, remained far below levels that would have been expected under more normal growing conditions. What had started out as a promising year for U.S. crop production, with favorable planting conditions supporting high planted acreage and expectations of record or near-record production, saw some of the driest and most unfavorable growing conditions in decades.
Crop production estimates for several major crops declined throughout the summer as the drought intensified, and by November, USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) production estimates for corn were down 27.5 percent from those reported in May 2012, while production estimates for soybeans fell 7 percent over the same period. These declines reflect sizeable reductions in crop yields per harvested acre as well as smaller-than-normal harvested shares of planted cropland. Sorghum production estimates also declined significantly - 24 percent - between May and November, but 2012 production levels were expected to exceed 2011 levels by nearly 20 percent, reflecting higher total acreage and lower abandonment despite yields projected 6 percent below last year. Production estimates released with the November WASDE report show modest changes for feed grains compared with the previous month, with corn production up 19 million bushels and sorghum up 4 million bushels from the October estimates.
The 2012 production declines from expectations early in the growing season reflected crop condition ratings that declined throughout much of the growing season. In the first weekly rating of the corn crop reported by NASS on May 2012, over 75 percent had been rated as good to excellent, while only 3 percent was in the poor or very poor category. By September 30, 2012, only 25 percent of the crop was rated good to excellent with 50 percent rated poor or very poor. Sharp declines in soybean crop ratings also occurred, with only 35 percent of the crop rated good to excellent as of October 7, compared with 65 percent in the year's first weekly soybean rating on June 3.
Production of corn and soybeans, as well as other crops, was particularly critical for supply, demand, and price conditions during the 2012/13 marketing year because of relatively tight U.S. and global stocks positions at the end of the 2011/12 marketing year. Instead of building during the new marketing year, stocks of corn and soybeans would remain low, with reductions in all major use categories required to balance demand with supply.
Due to the tighter-than-expected supplies, prices for many of the crops affected by the drought reached record or near-record levels during the summer months leading up to the 2012 harvest, and remain at historically high levels. Marketing-year average prices for 2012/13 (September 2012 through August 2013) were forecast in the June 2013 WASDE report to fall within a range of $6.75-$7.15 per bushel for corn, with soybeans forecast at $14.30 per bushel. Marketing-year average prices in these ranges would be record highs in nominal terms.
See current ERS Feed Outlook and data on production, use, yield, and prices.
See current ERS Oil Crops Outlook and data on production, use, yield, and prices.
See current ERS Wheat Outlook and data on production, use, yields, and prices.
See current ERS Cotton Outlook and data.
The outlook for U.S. livestock sectors through summer 2013 remained mostly unchanged from earlier USDA forecasts. Drought-induced prospects for higher feed prices and heat stress on crops, pastures, livestock, and poultry continued to restrain growth of U.S. cattle and hog breeding herds as well as poultry and milk production. Following on the heels of 2011's drought in the Southern United States, 2012's lack of adequate rainfall over more than half of the country resulted in reduced corn and soybean crops, higher prices for corn, soybean meal, and other feed, and reduced availability of hay and pasture in 2013.
As of mid-June 2013, less than a fourth of pastures and ranges in the United States were rated poor to very poor, compared with 58 percent on September 9, 2012, just 40 percent at the same time in 2011, and 31 percent on average from 2000 to 2010. Lack of pasture continues in 2013 to induce growers to place cattle on feed at lower weights; this coupled with higher grain prices is further reducing prices of feeder cattle in the near term. The impact of placing cattle on feed sooner is likely to result in greater production declines in 2014 than in 2012-13, potentially leading to higher prices in 2014 and beyond. Beef production in 2013 was projected in the June 2013 WASDE report to decline 1.8 percent from 2012 levels, and to decline another 5.2 percent in 2014. Pork production is also expected to experience a decline in 2013, while milk production is expected to remain stable and broiler production to increase slightly.
See current ERS Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook and Livestock & Meat Domestic Data.
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A 10-month federal investigation has ended without finding a defect in the Ford Crown Victoria police cars linked to the fiery deaths of a dozen cars.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the car exceeds federal standards for fuel system safety and the rate of fires was not much greater that the Chevrolet Caprice cars.
Each of the 12 officers' deaths since 1983 involved a Crown Victoria gas tank catching fire, often after being hit in the rear in a high-speed chase.
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European economy continues to impact ocean volumes, says Global Port Tracker report
October 31, 2012
A confluence of ongoing events, including the debt crisis hitting exports, domestic sales and consumer confidence and imports, which have added to declining trade volumes, has led to a recession being formally declared in the European Union, according to the most recent edition of the Global Port Tracker report from Hackett Associates and the Bremen Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics.
Ports surveyed in this report include the six major container reports in North Europe: le Havre, Antwerp, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Bremen/Bremerhaven, and Hamburg.
"Last month eurozone consumer and business confidence fell for the fourth straight month, weakening significantly in France, Germany, Finland, and Austria," said Ben Hackett, president of Hackett Associates, in the report.
These comments are not surprising, considering how long the European economy has been in decline, coupled with the fact that in last month's report Hackett explained that the consumer confidence index as measured by the EU Commission continues to decline. The index, he said, is now dangerously low compared to its long term trend, with the exception of the 2009 recession.
The Global Port Tracker report noted that total European imports are projected to drop 2 percent to 21.19 million TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent containers) in 2012, and exports expected to increase 3.3 percent to 16.69 million TEU.
And the total handled volume forecast for 2012, according to the report is 39.97 million TEU, which is a 0.2 percent annual improvement. Outgoing loaded containers are projected to decrease by 4 percent over the next six months compared to a 0.1 percent gain over the same timeframe for the previous year. What's more, the report is calling for only two of the next four quarters currently forecasted to post growth annually for both incoming and outgoing containers. For the six North Range ports, the report said that incoming volumes are expected to drop 0.6 percent in 2012 to 16.4 million TEU.
"On the European side, things have slowed down dramatically," Hackett told LM in a recent interview. "There is a lack of confidence [as noted in economic metrics] and GDP is down and sales are weak. It is clear that there is a slowdown. And nothing has really been done to solve the key issues like the Euro crisis and sovereign debt crisis, so the next 12 months are going to be critical."
Should the situation in Europe continue to worsen, it could have a trickle down effect on the United States economy, too, in the form of lower consumer confidence, Hackett explained. This would likely lead to a higher personal savings rate in the U.S. with the after effect being lower trade levels, with the warning signs on the economy intact.
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