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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders received with dismay the news on the attack perpetrated on 29 May by unidentified armed men against the International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) offices in Jalalabad (Afghanistan). One person died and two others were injured.
Minister Reynders condemns this unacceptable act, perpetrated shortly after the attack in Kabul against the International Organisation for Migration.
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The Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977 at the same time as their "less adventurous" but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet. The name "Rova" is an acronym formed from the last initials of the founding members: Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley.
Rova has become an important leader in the movement of genre-bending music that has its roots in post-bop free jazz, avant-rock, and 20th century new music as well as traditional and popular styles of Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.[citation needed] While much of Rova's music is composed by its members, the group has also collaborated with and commissioned new works. Since its founding, Rova has released over two dozen recordings of original music.
In noting Rova's role in developing the all-saxophone ensemble as "a regular and conceptually wide-ranging unit," The Penguin Guide to Jazz calls its music "a teeming cosmos of saxophone sounds" created by "deliberately eschewing conventional notions about swing [and] prodding at the boundaries of sound and space..." Likewise Jazz: The Rough Guide notes, "Highly inventive, eclectic and willing to experiment, Rova [is] arguably the most exciting of the saxophone quartets to emerge in the format's late '70s boom."
They have collaborated with many musicians and composers, including Terry Riley (Chanting the Light of Foresight), Fred Frith (Freedom in Fragments), Annie Gosfield, John Zorn and Alvin Curran.
Henry Kaiser and Ochs together formed Metalanguage Records in 1978 which showcased Rova as well as many independent artists like Diamanda Galás as well as producing the Rova Arts Festival in 1980.
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Scientists have discovered a cognitive biomarker for young adolescents who are at high risk of developing depression and anxiety. Researchers at the University of Cambridge say the marker is a variation of one gene—the short form of the serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR.
For the study, 238 15–18-year-old participants underwent genetic testing and environmental assessment. The adolescents were then given a computer test to gauge how they process emotional information. The test had the participants evaluate whether words were positive, negative, or neutral (examples included "joyful" for positive, "failure" for negative, and "range" for neutral).
Those adolescents who were both homozygous for the short allele of 5-HTTLPR, as well as who had exposure to intermittent family arguments for longer than six months and violence between parents before the age of six, were shown to have marked difficulty in evaluating the emotion within the words, indicating an inability to process emotional information. Previous research has associated a maladjusted perception and response to emotions with a significantly increased risk of depression and anxiety. The authors concluded that cognitive and emotional processing deficits may act as an intermediate marker for anxiety and depressive disorders in genetically susceptible individuals exposed to early childhood adversities.
The scientists say the test for the cognitive biomarker, which can be done on a computer, could be used as an inexpensive tool to screen adolescents for common emotional mental illnesses. As the cognitive biomarker may appear prior to the symptoms of depression and anxiety, early intervention could then be initiated. The study, titled "5-HTTLPR and Early Childhood Adversities Moderate Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Adolescence", was published yesterday in the journal PLoS One.
"Whether we succumb to anxiety and depression depends in part on our tendencies to think well or poorly of ourselves at troubled times," says professor Ian Goodyer, principal investigator on the study. "How it comes about that some people see the 'glass half full' and think positively whereas other see the 'glass half empty' and think negatively about themselves at times of stress is not known.
"The evidence is that both our genes and our early childhood experiences contribute to such personal thinking styles. Before there are any clinical symptoms of depression or anxiety, this test reveals a deficient ability to efficiently and effectively perceive emotion processes in some teenagers—a biomarker for low resilience which may lead to mental illnesses."
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Ralston not only held the attention of every one of the several hundred attendees, but he brought many to tears. He didn't have to relate his story to the economic and technological times tour operators are facing. Other speakers and workshops can do that. His message of love, planning (or lack of), and perseverance hits home with a universal audience. "I get hundreds of letters from guys on the edge of ending their lives but they read my book or hear me speak and it turns them around," said Ralston. As Ralston actually says on stage- It's not the end; it's a bend.
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So when you're on the edge of doom, your business is going bust, nothing is how it seems. For five days he believed he was going to die. He recorded himself saying goodbye to his friends and family, and waited. But he didn't die. He says he had a vision of his future with a blond boy (his son) and knew it wasn't over. He drank his own urine, cut his skin with a dull pocket knife, leveraged over himself to break his own bones then crawled and hiked in shock for eight hours before rescued. That puts things in perspective. Meaning, if you don't have to drink your own urine, things really are not that bad. He showed us that we all have it in us if we focus on the love in our lives and the connections we have.
The one thing that hit home for me was when he said that life isn't about 'me and the experience' it's about my experience with my friends in whatever I do... even though Ralston continues to climb solo- even in the winter. In fact, he went on to be the first person to climb all 53 of Colorado's 14ers.
I spoke with Aron for a few minutes after his talk. It's obvious that he's been this posterboy for survival for a long time now. The words are rehearsed, the questions and answers always the same. Still, as I went to shake his hand then paused and looked up at him, he seamlessly reached out his left hand for me to take. The non-titanium one. There was something in that gesture that conveyed knowing and an ability to empathize. I felt silly in an instant for even thinking about the awkwardness. He wasn't awkward with it at all. I even asked him if he could trade the life he has now for his arm back would he. He said no. He calls himself a high-functioning disabled person; doctors have even crafted arms for him that can hold a ski pole and have an ice ax on the end. Before the experience he wanted to be a mountain guide and share his passion with others. He joked with me that he always dreamed of becoming famous and having Danny Boyle make a movie about his life. Now, he says, he could never have imagined the platform he has to share, encourage and inspire others.


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LOS ANGELES - Rachel Fattal was one of five Bruins named to All-American teams by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC). Fattal, the MPSF Newcomer of the Year, was named to the first team. Sami Hill was named to the second team while Emily Donohoe was selected to the third team. Natasha Schulman and Alys Williams were both named honorable mention All-Americans.
Fattal, a freshman attacker from Seal Beach, Calif., was also named to the All-MPSF Newcomer Team and was a Second Team All-MPSF selection. She finished second on the team and 9th in the MPSF in scoring with 68 goals (1.94 gpg), which led all MPSF Freshmen and was the most scored by a freshman in UCLA history. She led the team in field blocks (28), steals (40), shooting percentage (.544), sprints won (49) and was fifth on the squad in assists (29).
Hill, a redshirt sophomore goalkeeper from Santa Barbara, Calif., was a Second Team All-MPSF selection while breaking the UCLA single-season record in total saves (320). She held Stanford to 5 goals in the NCAA Semifinal contest and finished second in the MPSF in saves per game (10.74). She also was third in goals against average (6.26).
Donohoe, a sophomore attacker from Upland, Calif., also was named Second Team All-MPSF while leading UCLA in scoring with 70 goals (2.0 gpg), which ranked eighth in the MPSF. She also was second on the team in field blocks (14) and third in steals (26).
Schulman, a senior defender from Laguna Beach, Calif., also was a member of the MPSF All-Academic team while playing in all 35 games as starter. She only registered 32 ejections all season and scored four goals while tallying seven assists, four field blocks and 12 steals on the year.
Williams, a freshman defender from Huntington Beach, Calif., was fifth on the team in scoring with 29 goals (third among UCLA freshmen). She also was second in steals (29) and fourth in field blocks (8). She also registered 15 assists and won 15 sprints on the year.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Round two of the abbreviated Wyoming Cowboy Classic was a better one for the University of Idaho Vandals, who trimmed 31 strokes off of the first-day score to finish at 593 and in a tie for ninth.
Sean McMullen and Zach Wanderscheid both had 76s on the first day but came back with matching 70s Tuesday to tied for 19th at 146. Lower scores were the theme throughout the ranks as Aaron Cockerill took six strokes off with a closing 71 for a 148 and a tie for 33rd. In a tie for 72nd was Dylan Baker, whose second-day 70 was 13 strokes better than his opening round, and in a tie for 105th was Gordon Webb, who dropped 11 strokes off his first 18 to finish with a 74 for a 159.
Gonzaga won the 36-hole tournament, which was cut short by 18 holes because of high winds during Monday's opening day. The Bulldogs had a 574. Colorado was second at 580 with Tulsa third at 582.
The medalist was UC Santa Barbara's Glen Scher, who had the only sub-par score of the tournament with a 138.


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Since then, she's had her share of nightmare moments. In December 2009 she decided to expand her calamondin grove by planting seeds instead of buying expensive saplings from a nursery. "I believed I'd done my homework with the USDA and the Florida Department of Agriculture and was told time and again that calamondins are not regulated," she says. "But it turns out their propagation is heavily regulated." To avoid the possibility of contaminating commercial trees with diseases lurking in backyard trees, calamondin seedlings may be grown only in licensed citrus propagation nurseries. "We had 1,077 beautiful healthy seedlings, some bearing fruit," she recalls. They all had to be destroyed. "It was like watching your cat get run over by a truck."
Despite the setback, Gutstein started selling her first cakes online in November 2011. With about $20,000 in sales to date and six employees—to manage the grove, handle sales, bake and pack—she expects to turn a profit in mid-2014. This fall she's launching a calamondin coulis. "When the Whole Foods people sampled it at the food show, they said, 'You won't be able to make enough of this,' " Gutstein recalls. She still puts in five eight- to nine-hour shifts reading medical X-rays every week. "Radiology pays for my passion," she says. "A friend once said to me, 'Ask yourself if you have 10 years to give to your venture. If your answer is no, then find your happiness doing something else.' " For now, her answer is yes.
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More than the panic and drama, it's the awful sound that Lucy Gibney remembers most clearly. It's 2 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 13, 2004, and Gibney is in the kitchen of her home in Norfolk, Virginia. In the next room, her husband, Paul, is offering their four-month-old son bottled formula for the first time. Gibney listens, ears keen. A few seconds after the formula hits the infant's mouth, she hears the high-pitched wheezing sounds characteristic of stridor—inflammation and swelling around the vocal chords brought on by an allergic reaction. "Thankfully, I recognized the symptoms quickly, and we rushed him to the hospital," says Gibney, who, like her husband, is an emergency room doctor.
Little Colin's reaction to the formula was so traumatic that Gibney had him tested for other food allergies. Wheat, barley, milk, eggs and all nuts came up. He would not be able to eat most commercially available cookies and cakes, and she discovered that those he could safely eat tasted terrible. "Think about the social aspects of eating: play dates, birthday parties," she says. "I didn't want my son to be the outcast toting around an ugly, sawdust cookie." So Gibney set out to bake her own treats. "I have baked all my life, and my mom was a phenomenal baker," she says. At first, most of her cookies ended up in the trash. "A huge turning point came when I applied the tricks I learned about baking without egg or wheat to my mom's old recipes," she says. After a month, her creations tasted so good that "Paul had his hand in the cookie jar all the time. He kept saying I should start a business. I thought he was joking."
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Jeffrey Hyman (a.k.a. Joey Ramone) is born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
John Cummings (a.k.a. Johnny Ramone) is born in Long Island, New York.
Tommy Erdelyi (a.k.a. Tommy Ramone) is born in Budapest, Hungary.
Douglas Colvin (a.k.a. Dee Dee Ramone) is born in Fort Lee, Virginia.
Marc Bell (a.k.a. Marky Ramone) is born in New York City.
The Ramones give their first live show at the Performance Studio in New York.
The Ramones perform the first of many shows at New York's CBGB's.
The Ramones' self-titled first album, the initial volley in the punk-rock movement, is released. By contrast to all the big-budget pomp-rock albums of the mid-Seventies, 'The Ramones' cost only $6,000 to make.
On the very day of the U.S. bicentennial, the Ramones kick off their first British tour at London's Roundhouse, lighting a fire under the nascent punk movement by inspiring groups like the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks and the Clash. It is a seminal moment in punk-rock history.
The Ramones second album, 'Leave Home' – which contains songs like "Pinhead," "Carbona Not Glue" and "You Should Have Never Opened That Door" – enters the album charts, rising to only #148 in a brief, ten-week stand.
"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," by the Ramones, enters the British singles charts, where it will peak at #22 – their first Top Forty hit.
'Rocket to Russia,' the Ramones' third album, enters the album chart, where it reaches a respectable #49. It contains all three Ramones singles ever to chart in the U.S.
The Ramones perform on New Year's Eve at London's Rainbow Theatre. The concert is subsequently released (though not in the U.S.) as the double album 'It's Alive.'
'Road to Ruin,' the Ramones' fourth album, is released. It contains such anthems as "I Wanna Be Sedated" and "I Just Want to Have Something to Do."
The Allan Arkush-directed 'Rock 'n' Roll High School,' featuring the Ramones on the soundtrack and in the movie, premieres in Los Angeles.
The Ramones' remake of the Ronettes' "Baby I Love You" enters the British singles chart, where it will peak at #8 – their biggest hit in any country.
'End of the Century' - the Ramones' fifth album, produced by Phil Spector – enters the album chart. It will be the highest-charting album of their career, reaching #44.
'Too Tough to Die,' among the best of the Ramones' later albums, is released.
'Acid Eaters,' an album of psychedelic covers by the Ramones, enters the album chart.
The Ramones release their fourteenth and final studio album, 'Adios Amigos.'
After touring as part of the sixth annual Lollapalooza festival, the Ramones perform their 2,263rd and final show in Los Angeles.
Joey Ramone dies of lymphatic cancer in New York.
Joey Ramone's solo album, 'Don't Worry About Me,' is released.
The Ramones are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the seventeenth annual induction dinner. Eddie Vedder is their presenter.
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Joel Martin was born at home on Wednesday, January 15th at 9:11PM. He weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces, and is 19½ inches long.
Big brother Daniel is eager to help, hold, and love on his baby. We're all recovering well and enjoying spending time together getting to know our new family member.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
Introducing Baby #2!
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Full SubmissionThe Global Challenge of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century By: Jo�o Jos� Fernandes Population growth, increased global GDP and the consequent change in consumption patterns, price volatility, market failures, water scarcity, land degradation and soil erosion, loss of biodiversity in ecosystems, climate change and in some regions political instability and social upheaval, are some of the factors that condition the agro-food systems in the coming decades. According to the latest projections, world population, now 7 billion people will reach 8.1 billion in 2030 and 9.2 billion in 2050 (FAO, 2009ai). Virtually all population growth will occur in developing countries (DCs), where the soil and water resources are already facing enormous pressure. In 2006, the population suffering from food insecurity amounted to 854 000 million (FAO 2008ii). In 2009, the population with food insecurity rose to 1.02 billion due to the rising of prices seen in 2008 (FAO, 2009biii). The origin of this trend reversal is the rise in grain prices caused by a set of stressors: drought breaks in production and exporting countries (Australia, Canada), speculative capital in agriculture commodities, rising oil prices and increased demand for cereals ? whether stating the result of demographic pressure ? or the result of demand for raw materials for the production of biofuels. In the future, this combination of factors ? now understood as cyclical ? can become a structural trend. Indeed, demographic pressure and the expansion of consumption in emerging economies, the depletion of fossil fuels (Pick Oil), climate change, soil erosion and soil degradation, advancing desertification and water scarcity are factors that strongly condition the demand for and supply of food in the medium and long term. How to Answer the Challenge of Global Food Security? Facing the enormous challenges of food security, two main trends are perceived. The first marked by technological optimism, the second championing the enlargement of the market role, as a panacea for all ills of resource scarcity and environmental degradation. These two trends, with more or less charitable empathy for the poor, mark the mainstreaming economic thinking. Limits of Technological Innovation Approach Between 1950 and 2000, world population grew from 2.5 billion to 6 billion people, but the world economy expanded sevenfold. In terms of agriculture, growth in productivity per hectare on the level of cereals rose from 1.1 to 2.7 tons. The application of scientific knowledge to agriculture (advances in genetics and improved agronomic practices), coupled with powerful economic incentives to farmers, has allowed an enormous expansion of world agricultural product. At the level of genetic advances, there is the effort of finding varieties with greater capacity for channelling the photosynthates to the seed. In terms of agronomic practices, expansion of irrigation areas, the intensive use of fertilizers and control of diseases, insects and weeds. However, while in the period from 1950 to 1984 the cereal production rate has expanded faster than population growth, increasing production of cereals per person by 34% since 1984 grain output growth was exceeded by population growth. This drop was not more noticeable only due to increased efficiency in the cereals conversion process into animal protein (Brown, 2005iv). But is technological innovation the master key and sufficient to meet the challenge of sustainable use of soil and feed a growing population? In our view, investment in technological innovation may be important but faces major difficulties. Therefore, we are inclined to a more integrated and comprehensive approach. In fact, there are two main obstacles to an answer based solely on technology: - 1st The current technologies? reserve, available to farmers to increase productivity is almost exhausted, at least for the major powers cereal producers?. As mentioned above, the techniques used during the last decades have extensively explored the genetic potential, in order to increase the percentage of photosynthates that is forwarded to the growth of the seed. - 2nd A paradigm shift would require increasing the efficiency of the process of photosynthesis, something out of the current possibilities. It is the efficiency of photosynthesis, which, coupled with the availability of agricultural land, defines the quantity of food that the earth can produce. As Lester Brown notes (Brown, 2005), the advances made until now in genetic engineering and biotechnology are not promising signs in this line of research, limiting the focus on plant tolerance to herbicides, resistance to insects and diseases. To a lesser extent, there were some results about the resistance to drought or salt tolerance. These advances allow only marginal gains in terms of agricultural productivity. Given the physical limitations placed on increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis ? and thus to the increased productivity of the soil ? that the current technological paradigm does not seem able to overcome, we must choose complementary strategies for the expansion of agricultural output. One possible approach is the increase of multiple cropping, i.e. more than one crop per year. In some Asian countries the challenge is to maintain this practice, but countries like the U.S. can gain considerable production with the encouragement of this practice. This will require a reorientation of agricultural research for the development of technologies that enable the acceleration of the maturity cycles of crops from the first and second planting seasons. Another way to increase food production to increase water productivity. The construction of small systems to capture and store rainwater, as well as the development of precision irrigation techniques may prove to be an excellent contribution to conserve the existing irrigation areas, or even to contribute to its expansion. Land productivity can also be increased through the use of crop residues for the production of food, as the case of corn or cane straw of rice and wheat for animal feed, thereby allowing a second crop on the same land. In some parts of the world as in Africa, investment in transport and storage infrastructures could play an important role in increasing food production, facilitating the transition from subsistence farming to agriculture with great economic and productivity increases. These two measures are essential for the efficient link from producers to markets. Finally, it is necessary to find strategies to a more sustainable agriculture, or facilitate the decoupling of product per hectare (Santos, 2009v), given the level of non-renewable resources that produce damage to the natural environment (fertilizers, pesticides, etc...). Sustainable agriculture, particularly relevant in marginal agricultural land implies a more efficient use of resources and the copy of the natural processes at the level of nutrient cycling, nitrogen fixation, soil remediation, and use of natural enemies to control pests. In addition, we need a greater investment in human and social capital, particularly in developing countries. The training of farmers will help to self-sufficiency and the improvement of their agricultural practices, the focus on social capital is decisive for the increase in scale, integrated management of watersheds and forests, as well as access to credit and markets for small producers. The Market Limits The creation of markets for all ecosystem services assumes that the commercial interaction between economic agents will reveal the value of services inducing the appropriate incentives to the production, while the ecosystem management organizes itself in order to respond to these incentives. In our opinion, this solution is not applicable in all situations. There are other complementary solutions and, in certain circumstances, more feasible. There are three grounds: - 1st The market failure does not occur only by the lack of commercial value to some of the services, but also due to the lack of protection of the rights of some stakeholders, including future generations. - 2nd The creation of markets focuses on the scale of the service, to the detriment of the ecosystem scale. Ecosystem services, object of value, are only the "discrete and identifiable end products" (Kroeger e Caseyvi). Thus, the ecological functions underlying ecosystems are not subject to valuation. - 3rd Moreover the fact that there are some barriers to the creation of markets as it is the case for some of the services of forest ecosystems. For example, refer to the complexity of the services of biodiversity conservation, the volatility of other services such as carbon sequestration, risks of future losses, the need for long-term monitoring, the impossibility of exclusion in the case of pure public goods such as air quality or climate, and the high transaction costs, e.g. costs of certification of carbon sequestration, which add to the cost of providing the service. The barriers to the creation of markets for some ecosystem services, the need to incorporate all ecosystem services in the decisions of managers, coupled with the need to protect the rights of interested parties who have no voice, as is the case of future generations, lead us to complementary solutions able to ensure effective governance of ecosystems, to be combined in different proportions and whose validity must be assessed according to specific circumstances. We emphasize, in addition to the creation of markets, the regulation by the state, the (re)defining and protecting of the rights of different individuals and groups, the accountability of managers (civil liability, or "societal license to operate"), the definition of new forms of organization for an ecosystem-wide management, or instruments such as green taxes and public payments for environmental services. Finally, it is noted that, even if the solution is the creation of markets, state intervention can be decisive. One of the classical situations is the need for intervention by the states in terms of defining property rights. There are no markets without clear and respected property rights. It is usually the state to define these rights and make them comply, namely through the exclusion of non-owners. Thus, following Bromleyvii, we can say that "while market processes can be used instrumentally after a previous definition of socially desirable environmental conditions, we cannot leave the market to decide on how clean should be our water or our air. The market is also not able to turn out how much biodiversity should be preserved for future generations. " Thus, we cannot accept technological innovation and market instruments as sufficient to solve all the challenges of sustainable food security. They are certainly necessary conditions but not sufficient. Which role for Sustainable Consumption? An increase of production which corresponds to the expected consumption as a function of population growth and increased purchasing power is problematic. First, because in the coming decades we will face constraints on natural resources such as soil or water and secondly the increased production and agricultural productivity is only sustainable if it does not result in irreversible losses of biodiversity and increased emissions of irreparable greenhouse gases (GHG). Thus, the solution should be found in a balance between a more eco-efficient agriculture and more sustainable consumption. The term "sustainable consumption" entered the international agenda through Agenda 21, the action plan for sustainable development adopted by 179 heads of state at the Rio Summit in 1992. However, the concept of sustainable consumption is far from obtaining a broad consensus. The first problem is related to the perception of the ultimate (or motive) of the act of consuming. The utilitarian approaches value consumption as a means to increase the utility (welfare) and the decisive factor is the information and knowledge that enable rational utility maximization. In this context, the instruments for sustainable consumption are a certification of "green" consumption and tax incentives to the consumption of "environmentally friendly? products. The scale of the analysis is the individual. It is also in the light of this scale that we situate the psycho-social approaches to consumption. Under this paradigm, the consumer arises as a response to a stimulus of the social or psychological needs. The consumption is then a kind of "identifier" of personality and social group membership. In this context the sustainable consumption emerges as driven by social marketing, aiming at the promotion of an ?environmentally friendly lifestyle"; consuming a "green" product often promoted by a ?celebrity?, "is part of belonging to" a ?tribe?. More recently, some movements have been characterizing the consumption as an act determined by the supply-Infrastructure (by supply chains). The scale of analysis becomes the society; consumption is understood as a routine habit, almost imperceptible. Sustainable consumption is then to be distinguished not only by individual preference for consumption, but by the initiatives ? usually at the local level ? aiming at overcome the constraints that are imposed by the format of the global supply chain of goods and services. An example is the local initiatives linking producers and consumers that outline the intermediation of large stores (Seyfang, 2009). The latter approach to sustainable consumption is actually a very profound transformation in consumption patterns, the motion falls into the so-called "New Economy" as opposed to current mainstreaming concept of sustainable economic consumption. Table 1 summarizes the key differentiating elements between both approaches. (Please reference Submission Document for Table) Sustainable Consumption and the New Economy In order to understand the specificity of the concept of sustainable consumption in the ?New Economy?, it is necessary to briefly characterize this movement. First of all, bear in mind that we are no longer under a concept of consumption as "green washing", or consumption as a driver of economic growth. On the contrary, it is proposing a reduction in consumption in absolute terms. Immediately, from the three concepts of sustainable consumption mentioned above, it is this that more boldly relates to the global challenge of food security as introduced at the beginning of our text: population growth, rising standards of consumption, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, soil degradation and climate change. What distinguishes the "New Economy" of the mainstreaming concept of Economy? The distinctive features of the "New Economy" (NE) are four: (i) a comprehensive understanding of the meaning of "welfare" (wealth), (ii) a richer conception about the "labour", (iii) new uses for the money and currency options, (iv) reintegration of ethics in economic life (Boyle, 1993). Influenced by the ecological economics (Costanza, 1991x) the New Economy (NE) puts the environment at the heart of economic analysis, accepting that there are ecological services that cannot be replaced by other types of capital and that ecosystems do not respond in a predictable and linear way to external pressures. It follows that the economy cannot be seen as an abstract mechanism that can generate indefinitely "value" and should take its place in the environment and society as a starting point. The first consequence is the need to design the development of new paradigms such as "welfare", "quality of life", using indicators that can measure social progress and the goals of economic activity more appropriately, in detriment of the sole use of Economic Growth Indicators (GDP - Gross Domestic Product) and its derivatives (Seyfang, 2005xi). The second starting point of the NE is related to the concept of "labour", trying to include the performance of unpaid tasks but socially reproductive, which support communities and families and, accordingly, contribute to the market economy. This approach implies a view of economics that assign "value" to informal, voluntary and unpaid "labour", complementing the formal remuneration for work. A sustainable economy would allow people to enjoy a portfolio of options, undertaking a wide variety of forms of labour ? domestic, voluntary work for the community, paid informal employment with local currencies and informal employment in the market economy. The third feature of the NE is the concept of money. The conventional economics describes the money as a politically and socially neutral technology, which allows to fulfil four functions: to serve as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value, and a standardized instrument for the deferred payment. NE, by contrast, argues that these functions are rather conflicting agendas (e.g., withdraw money from a local economy to a store of value, inhibits its movement within the community and meeting local needs), and acknowledges that monetary systems are social constructions whose design emphasizes certain purposes and encourages certain behaviours over others. For example, I think we can all agree that the use of the monetary system favours a narrow range of economic activities (valuing what is scarce and not what contributes to the well-being), uprooting the exchange currency of its environment and social ambiance, and inhibiting sustainable consumption. The corollary of this understanding is the need to design new systems of exchange, designed to serve different purposes and to allow an inclusive systemic approach of the social and environmental context of economic activity. NE acknowledges that this approach may be less efficient than a strictly economic point of view, however, by incorporating social and environmental factors appears to be much more rational. Embryos of this approach are the many initiatives around the "complementary currencies" that have emerged among local communities as diverse as the United Kingdom, Brazil and Argentina since the early 1990s. Last but not least decisive, NE considers ethics as central to economic activity. Unlike the apolitical abstractions of conventional economics (which obviously obeys ideologically based policy prescriptions) NE implies a normative analytical approach, which aims to describe and facilitate the transition to a more sustainable society (Seyfang, 2005). With regard to the experience of practical application of this new economic model, NE still lacks empirical investigations to test its ideas and concepts. One area where is relevant to promote a systematic scrutiny of the NE? initiatives is precisely the assessment of its contribution to sustainable consumption. To meet this challenge, Seyfang advances five indicators that must be present in a strategy of sustainable consumption, consistent with the proposals of NE, namely: location, reducing the ecological footprint, community-building, collective action, and creating new procurement and supply infrastructures (Seyfang, 2009). These indicators are briefly presented in Table 2. Table 2: Evaluation/ Assessment indicators for sustainable consumption (Please reference Submission Document for Table). In contrast to a "green consumption", so often vulnerable to strategies of "green-washing," the proposal from the NE suggests a sustainable consumption that contributes to an effective reduction of all consumption that does not contribute to the well-being. In contrast to the utilitarian concepts of sustainable consumption, or approaches based exclusively on the identification around social and psychological standards, NE points to the core of sustainability challenges: the promotion of social welfare, quality of life, a quest for courageous social cohesion and environmental protection. In conjunction with measures of eco-efficiency in agriculture and climate change adaptation, the use of economic policy instruments that allow the internalization of many of the environmental impacts of agricultural and livestock production (including market based instruments, such as payment for ecosystem services) ? proposals for sustainable consumption of NE certainly have an important contribution to make in response to global challenges of food security. Will these measures be enough? Will we be able to implement them fast enough? Here's the challenge I leave to civil society practitioners and public decision makers.


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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Skill Builder Sampler
If you are a beginning quilter, or if you're just looking to expand the skills you already have, you'll want to know about this: The talented Leila is kicking off a "Skill Builder Sampler" quilt-along, beginning June 17.
Each month we'll make three blocks that focus on one or two particular skills. We'll start with the basics (cutting, seam allowance, and value) and as the year goes on, we'll move up to some more advanced skills like curves and paper-piecing. Trying something new is always scary, but wouldn't it be so much less scary to try it with a whole group? Here's your chance!
Thanks, Leila, for setting this up! I'll definitely be playing along.
6 comments:
- Bree said...
Thanks for sharing! I'm definitely going to have to participate.
- May 22, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Miki Willa said...
Thanks for sharing the link. This looks like a good resource for beginners to intermediate quilters.
- May 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Tammara, Jess and Cory said...
That is great thanks for sharing who doesnt enjoy learning a new skill. Will you remind us at it gets closer?
- May 22, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- Karen said...
Sounds great to me :o) Thanks for sharing.
- May 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM
- A.J. Dub. said...
I am doing this too! Just got around to posting about it today. :)
- May 23, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Marci Girl said...
I'm in a Flickr quilt bee that is basically doing the same concept, so I think I am going to sign up for this one too!
- May 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM
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Quick! Someone get The Biggest Loser on speed dial! America is about to get a whole lot fatter.
NBC News says a new Trust for America's Health report estimates that by 2030, 44 percent of Americans will be obese, up from 35 percent now—and in the 13 fattest states, the number could be as high as 60 percent. Seriously. Jillian? Bob? The country needs you.
"The initial reaction is to say, 'Oh, it couldn't be that bad,' " Trust for America's Health executive director, Jeff Levi, tells the network. "But we have maps from 1991, and you see almost all the states below 10 percent."
For the record, the highest obesity rate in the country belongs to Mississippi (34.9 percent), while the lowest goes to Colorado (20.7 percent), NBC notes.
"The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, hypertension and arthritis could increase 10 times between 2010 and 2020—and then double again by 2030," the report states, according to the network. "Obesity-related health care costs could increase by more than 10 percent in 43 states and by more than 20 percent in nine states."
Um, we're thinking salad for dinner tonight.
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Mayor Williams and Chief Dunning Announce New Police Deployment Plan for Downtown Wilmington
Posted on 10/15/2013 5:45 pm
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Mayor Dennis P. Williams addressed members of the business and downtown community in Wilmington during a press conference at Rodney Square, where he discussed the redeployment of Wilmington police officers into downtown and neighborhoods citywide.
Earlier this year, the Wilmington Police Department initiated a Police Plan, focused on creating a safe city by building strong neighborhoods. Downtown Wilmington is more than a business district, it is also a residential community where citizens live, work and play.
Downtown Wilmington is a community of rich history, a tourist and business attraction, hub of the City's cultural and entertainment offerings and is the face of the City of Wilmington.
"To restore our vibrant downtown community, the City must enforce laws against panhandling, loitering and disorderly conduct," said Mayor Williams. "However, this is one step of a long-term plan to address the many needs and concerns of downtown Wilmington."
During the press conference, both Mayor Williams and Chief Dunning acknowledged ensuring the safety of Downtown Wilmington requires a dual approach of enforcement and a collaborative effort to provide resources and services for individuals in need.
They also emphasized the importance of the State, City, nonprofit agencies and the business community creating partnerships to identify resources that will support working with social workers to evaluate specific needs of individuals, getting individuals into specific programs, and identifying service gaps.
"It is important for all of us to work together, identify ways to provide services and resources for those people in need. This is the long term approach to solving the problems in Downtown Wilmington," said Chief Dunning.


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Medal, S. P. Korolev
The medal depicts Sergei P. Korolëv (1907-1966), Russian engineer and aviator. During 1930s Korolëv headed GIRD, a Moscow-based group of rocket enthusiasts that built and tested the first liquid-propellant rockets in the USSR. After World War II, Korolëv was appointed head of one of the USSR's missile-development design bureaus. By 1957 his bureau built and launched the R-7, the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile, which was used to propel Sputniks into Earth orbit and Luna spacecraft to the Moon. Korolëv's work defined the Soviet school of rocket and spacecraft design. Korolëv's design bureau has evolved into a Russian business organization known today as the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, or RSC Energia.
This medal was created to commemorate the life work of Korolëv. The reverse side depicts the first man-made satellite of the Earth, Sputnik, as it orbited the planet. Ironically, despite his pivotal role in the Soviet space program Korolëv's identity was kept secret until the time of his death
Gift of the Tsiolokovskii Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
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TUCSON – The University of Arizona Wildcat track and field program was represented very well at the Diamond League meet in Paris, France on Saturday. The meet was held in Stade de France.
Senior-to-be (on the track, will be a junior in cross country) Lawi Lalang competed in the 1,500-meter race and clocked a personal-best time of 3:33.20. His time meets the World Championships "A" Standard. Also, that time was good for fifth place overall and is a new school record. He held the previous record with a time of 3:36.77. That record was set by Lalang on April 29, 2012 in Palo Alto, Calif. It is his second-straight top-five finish in professional meets in Europe. In Ostrava, Czech Republic on June 27, Lalang clocked the No. 1 time in collegiate history in the 5K with a time of 13:07.13, which meets the "A" standard as well. Volunteer assistant coach Bernard Lagat also ran the 1,500 meters and took 13th place with a time of 3:36.36.
Former Wildcat Brigetta Barrett earned a runner-up finish in the women's high jump with a clearance of 6-6 (1.98m). Barrett, competing for Nike, now has three Diamond League points after earning two today and one at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York, N.Y. on May 25. Barrett's mark of 6-8.25 (2.04m) is the top mark in the world. Saturday's first-place finisher was Anna Chicherova (Russia), who was the 2012 London Olympic Games gold medalist. Chicherova won with a clearance of 6-7 (2.01m). Barrett was in the lead after clearing 6-6 on her first attempt but she failed to clear 6-7. She took second place on jumps while Vlasic Blanka (Croatia) took third place although she also cleared 6-6.
Former Wildcat Georganne Moline, representing Nike, took third place in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.19. She tacked on one point to her Diamond League total, which is now three. Moline has finished in third place and second place in both of her Diamond League meets. At the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., Moline took second place with a time of 54.75. Moline and Barrett have both punched their tickets to the World Championships after top-three finishes at the USA Championships and both have met the "A" standard.


text: So like a week ago I was cooking tater tots with grease and the hot greese spilled all over me, thus burning my whole leg. I called 911 and the ambulance came then I was about to go to the e.r when my parents came going "ITS TO EXPENSIVE" blah blah. So there for all I got was bandages and water on it. And I just got the bandages off and I'm scarred for life. bleck.


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Looks great! Thanks for the Pics... Can't wait to see more!
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Looks great! Thanks for the Pics... Can't wait to see more!
heres the link if someone needs it
or just ask away and will do my best to explain anything ive missed right here.
great build sean,i new you would build one sooner or later.
WARNING-i've been told by the purists that screw builds are dangerous so don't shoot your eye out.lol.
thank you! coming from a master builder like you, i'll take that compliment!
funny you'd mention the screws as they actually had a purpose that im sure you noticed...
but will spill the beans for people who didnt.
the screws are not just cause for the trunny... they also hold in my plates that let the pps43 mags work in this build.
so i wanted it to stay even all over and match everywhere so it was logical to use screws everywhere...
now that i know it works it wouldnt be hard to do one of these in a rivet build.
oh and AZHonkey: someday one of those tradeable barrel deals will be in my plans! LOL
cause im CERTAIN that with just a barrel change this set up will run 9mm.. it works in the bolt, it works in the mag... all it needs is the quick change barrels!
just kiddin about the screws,hell most of my builds were with screws allthough i did do a couple rivet builds.allways like screwin better then poundin it.lol.
uh im not so sure about that one. :-0 some days you just wanna screw em' others you wanna pound em'....
depends on what & how much ive had to drink. :w00t1:
Thanks Sean.
And I put 'em together each time so they come apart easily when they don't work!
The angle of the mag and receiver body gave me fits. Definitely helped with screws!
you'll laugh but will tell you anyway...
the mag in this set up is pretty much a given if you are working from the rails it has to be at that height.
the side to side was all about finding the proper thickness of metal for the space.
of all the things in a build i messed up the easy one and cut the angle on the mag catch BACKWARDS.
rookie mistake and i knew better but was getting "build fever" and wanted to shoot it.
there ya go my stupid moment of the build.
Great job!!!! Would love to see the innards of the magwell to see how you did that.
its all in the mini tutorial..
but the quick and dirty of it is i used some spacer plates. 12 gauge was teh correct thickness and just shaped them to screw in at the trunny in front and the added screws right behind the mag dimples on the back side..
then the bottom plate is just a piece of 12 guage that i put on there so that the hole looked better.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 22, 2013) – The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Tuesday that head football coach Carl Torbush will be joined by ETSU President Dr. Brian Noland and consultant Phillip Fulmer at a special "meet and greet" on Saturday, Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. until noon inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center's east auxiliary gym.
Former Buccaneer football players, coaches, trainers, equipment managers and cheerleaders are invited to attend, along with fans and supporters of the program. At 11 a.m., ETSU Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Richard Sander will address the gathering, followed by Coach Fulmer and Coach Torbush.
Any attendees are also invited to the Homecoming tailgate celebration at 12:30 p.m., which will be held in the quad area located in front of Brooks Gym.
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Just an idea here now, but ....
If the NRA hot shot lawyers were to PRO BONO go after the entertainment industry for their gratuitous movie and game violence as making kids violent (think of all the smoking studies that say a teen watching a movie with smoking in it create 48% of those viewing start smoking).
Sue those lib bastards that are teaching our youth to kill because it's a game.
All they have to do is pick the venue carefully and win one. Once they have one, they can then go to every victim of EVERY ACT OF VIOLENCE where the perp was influenced by movies or games and represent them in court to sue and sue and sue the bastards. Make them pay damage awards and you'll see them sing a different tune.
NRA - you got this? You don't need to get paid. The pay off is in the results. That's why we pay dues.


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Who Am I?
I am a 30-something aspiring SF & F writer when all my time isn't chewed up by my day job as a software quality analyst. I also have narcolepsy and clinical depression to deal with.
I came to the USA in late 2002, and lived in the Houston area with my husband and our two cats until June of 2005, when we uprooted and moved to the southeast of Pennsylvania. Winter, with snow, is an adventure we are finding somewhat... interesting. Especially me - I am a shameless tropical brat. I spent from 1980 until 2002 in a climate where no temperature below freezing point had ever been recorded. It's safe to say I'm going to need a lot of time to get used to the weather here.
I periodically blog at Kate's Korner, and I've taken on the Web Goddess role for Critical Evolutions, a new online SF & F Critique group.
My first professional short story "A Change of Heart", co-authored with Sarah Hoyt, is in the Crossroads Valdemar anthology, available now. Another of my short stories, "Destiny's Choice" is available in the Dragon's Tooth eBooks Illuminated Manuscripts anthology.
I have several novels in various stages of disarray, and hope to sell at least one of them in the next year.


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India sets new target of 15,000 megawatts of wind energy by 2017
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NEW DELHI: The Government has set a new target of producing 15,000 megawatts of wind energy during India's 12th Five Year Plan, which runs from 2012 to 2017.
The Indian Government's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced the target in a statement, where it also highlighted the current success of wind power in India, which totals 18,551 megawatts. This figure makes up 9% of the total installed power capacity in India.
States that are dominating India's wind power installations are Tamil Nadu with 7,154 megawatts and new member of The Climate Group, Gujarat, which has reached 3,093 megawatts.
The Ministry statement claims that growth has been driven by government incentives which have encouraged private sector investment.
To maintain this growth, loans to install wind turbines are available from financial institutions such as the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency. The government has also carried out wind resource surveys to identify the best sites for projects.
Aditi Dass, Director of Technology Programs India, The Climate Group, said: "The Government's latest commitment to wind power offers concrete evidence of India's drive to deliver cleaner, more stable energy for its people. Coupled with the small but clear measures announced in the Union Budget last week, India is again stepping up a gear towards a thriving low carbon economy, led by states like Gujarat. However, we must see greater installed capacity in wind and other renewable resources from all states if India is to overtake other emerging economies in the global clean revolution race."
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Rated 5 out of 5 by radar Yum These little lunch boxes remind me of the good ole days, I purchased two for my grandsons. They can not vision using them for lunch but think they are terrific to put odd stuff in, whatever makes a person happy, I love them. March 15, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Cinnamon Perfect Size I bought one for my husband and I. It's the perfect size lunchbox for a picnic in the park. February 17, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by overbyte A novel use for this Tiffin box--as a camping cookset. I found a great use for this product. Light-weight cooking sets (mess kits, etc.) for 1 or 2 persons on backpacking or bike-packing camping trips are very expensive for what you get if you go for the ultra-light sets or are cheap and don't perform well for cooking over a compact single-burner backpacking stove. I've tried camping "mess-kits" but they're made of thin metal and the food scorches before the heat spreads. Thick pans are heavy. But this Tiffin box makes a great double-boiler cooking setup which heats or cooks food in the upper tier while water boils in the lower tier. The size is just right for 1 or 2 people to prepare and serve a simple meal in camp. I used the upper tier to heat a heat-and-eat rice packet, then the lower tier's boiling water was used for a boil-in-bag entre which was put onto the rice when heated. The lid kept the rice tier warm while it sat on the table waiting for the topping. The boiling water was then poured into a cup with a soup mix (or instant beverage). A meal was ready in minutes, without scorching. The whole Tiffin box is about 4.5" diameter, 4.5" tall, and weighs 12.4 ounces. You can store things inside of it when packed up since it latches. November 17, 2013
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Boxers slug it out at town hall
A charity boxing match at Henley town hall raised £3,000 for Nomad youth and community charity.
Best greets runners at Henley half
Model and TV star Calum Best gave prizes to runners as they completed the Henley half marathon and 10K.
Seventh Rewind is sell-out success
40,000 people attended the seventh annual Rewind 80s music festival at Temple Island Meadows near Henley.
Arson blamed for Shiplake blaze
A fire at the former Sidney Harrison House complex in Shiplake is believed to have been started by arsonists.
See Henley's new Townlands Hospital
The Henley Standard went behind the scenes at Henley's new Townlands Hospital, which is almost fully operational.
Royal visit for RAF squadron's 100th
Prince Michael of Kent inspected personnel at RAF Benson to celebrate the centenary of 28 Squadron.
Youngsters strut stuff at Henley dance show
Children and teenagers showed off their footwork at Henley's Kenton Theatre as part of the 2016 Henley Youth Festival.
Calum Best opens gym near Henley
About 30 women attended the launch of TV star Calum Best's gym off Marlow Road near Henley.
Henley fire station seeks recruits
We visited a weekly drill session at Henley fire station, which is seeking more on-call firefighters.
Henley Royal Regatta 2015: Finals
It was another triumphant regatta for Henley's Leander Club, whose rowers were in six winning crews.
Henley Royal Regatta 2015: Day 4
Henley's Leander Club won seven of its nine races in the semi-finals of the 2015 Henley Royal Regatta.
Henley Royal Regatta 2015: Day 3
Upper Thames and Henley rowing clubs sadly lost their races as the 2015 Henley Royal Regatta entered its third day.
Henley mums praise children's centres
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This week, President Barack Obama will unveil his long-delayed budget proposal to Congress. It involves a couple of changes to the retirement system, according to reports by the Associated Press and other news organizations.
As expected, Obama proposes using "chained CPI" as a cost-of-living measure for increasing Social Security benefits, which is a less generous inflation adjustment than the one currently in use. That change would cut spending by $130 billion over 10 years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Chained CPI is effectively a cut to the Social Security program. But this is a concession to the political right.
The other change, a concession to the left, caps the amount of funds that can accumulate in tax-preferred retirement accounts at $3 million, according to the Journal. This limit would raise $9 billion over 10 years.
Public discussion 'rigged'
In a three-part series appearing this week on Salon.com, Michael Lind, co-founder of the New America Foundation, addresses both aspects of the retirement system. He says public discussion about Social Security is rigged "to the detriment of most Americans and to the benefit of the rich and the financial industry." Obama's use of the chained CPI inflation measure "cheats elderly Americans out of the benefits they were promised," he writes.
Instead of being subject to benefit cuts, the Social Security program should be expanded, he argues. Yet expansion has become a taboo topic that is rarely mentioned.
Meanwhile, tax-favored private components of the retirement system should be abolished -- or at least curtailed, Lind writes. "If any tax-favored private savings plans are to exist at all, there should be strict contribution limits -- say, $5,000 per year -- to prevent the rich from squirreling away money and benefiting from compound interest at the taxpayer's expense."
Actually, limits were imposed on contribution levels during the Reagan era, with passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Prior to enactment of TRA86, people could contribute the lesser of 25 percent of compensation or $30,000, but the act drastically reduced contribution limits to $7,000 in 1986, indexed to inflation.
"What it did was fuel executive/small-business owner interest in other programs that would allow them to actually replace a reasonable amount of their pre-retirement income in retirement," says Nevin Adams, director of education and external relations at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "It would be nice if people would remember that these tax deferrals are just that -- folks get a temporary break on taxes because they voluntarily chose not to take some part of their current compensation in cash. It will come 'out' at some point -- unfortunately beyond the arbitrary 10-year budget accounting window -- and those deferred taxes will be paid."
Ticket to wealth for average guy
I sympathize with Lind's desire to expand Social Security. But why would Lind want to "abolish the 401(k) plan," which he calls for in part two of his series. He says these plans' benefits "chiefly go to the members of the top two income quintiles."
I don't believe that's true. Eight out of 10 Americans who participate in a 401(k) plan make less than $100,000, according to an analysis of figures from the IRS' Statistics of Income Division by the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries.
The 401(k) plan gives ordinary Americans at every income level the opportunity to accumulate some real money on a tax-favorable basis. It democratizes wealth, makes it possible for average people to exert some control over their future. There are safeguards in place -- in the form of nondiscrimination rules and tests -- to prevent highly compensated employees from benefiting disproportionately more from these workplace programs than the rank and file.
"People all-too-frequently forget the important role that employers, including small-business owners, play in sponsoring these programs, in promoting them and in contributing to them," says EBRI's Adams. "And they also seem to forget that outside of these programs, there doesn't seem to be very much savings going on, much less retirement saving."
401(k) plans are a wonderful retirement planning tool, and no one should take them away from us or limit our contributions to them. Nor should anyone try to limit how much we can keep in them.
What do you think? Should 401(k) plans be eradicated? Are you unhappy with the budget proposals that affect our retirement plans? Or do you think they're fair?
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Professor Karri on internships at UIS
Meet Ranjan Karri
Associate Professor,
- B.S. (Math), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
- M.B.A., Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India
- M.B.A., Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
- Ph.D., Strategic Management, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Learning philosophy:
- I believe that the principal task of an educator is to arouse students' curiosity about the subject. The role of an educator is to create a challenging and exciting framework in the classroom that encourages "critical thinking". Critical thinking in my view is reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. As an educator, my role is not to provide answers to some big unknowns, instead it is to emphasize on asking the right questions. Asking questions helps you gain clarity, judge credibility, analyze arguments and arrive at conclusions that guide action. My philosophical approach of creating an environment for students to ask the right questions implies that students are active participants in knowledge creation and knowledge sharing.
Research interests:
- Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management
Major project underway:
- Theory development in entrepreneurship and family business
Listen to Professor Karri talk about internships:
Advice to prospective students:
- If you have a predominant focus on academics, UIS is the best option in Illinois.
Best thing about UIS:
- UIS feels like a small private university with an intense focus on student learning. All classes are taught by faculty instead of graduate students.


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Baltimore County News
Amy Mantay, Interim Main Street Manager
Baltimore County Planning Department
The Reisterstown Main Street Committee has taken a giant leap of faith this Spring. Focused on obtaining Main Street Maryland designation for the core of Main Street in historic Reisterstown, the Committee is working very hard to get a running start on revitalization. The group reached out to business and property owners, as well as the community at-large, to get ideas and input. Now it's time to begin looking at all the projects on the Reisterstown "To-Do" list.
For a village that began with a tract of land purchased by John Reister in 1758, now, over 250 years later, Reisterstown still evokes the spirit of a quaint village. With its two-lane road lined by small residential and commercial structures, Main Street is the heart of Reisterstown. And it's this character that the Main Street Committee wishes to protect and promote.
Using the guiding principles of the Main Street Maryland program five sub-committees have been formed to direct the Committee's revitalization efforts: Design; Economic Restructuring; Promotion; Organization; and Clean, Safe, & Green. Each of these committees is seeking volunteers to help with the projects that will lead to lively, more vibrant Main Street.
The Design Committee is beginning to look at issues such as public parking, crosswalks, traffic speed, and road design issues along Main Street. Economic Restructuring wants to form a stronger partnership with existing merchants in order create a strategy to increase their customer base and visitors to Main Street, as well as develop a plan to encourage new businesses to locate in the area. Fundraising and volunteer recruitment is the initial focus of the Organization Committee. If you're local, they may be reaching out to you soon or you may see them at some of the community events the Promotion Committee is planning for the summer. The Clean, Safe, & Green Committee is already committed to working with merchants to create a Merchants on Patrol program to increase security awareness. They are also organizing Main Street clean-ups this Spring and Summer, so if you see them pulling weeds or picking up trash stop by and lend a hand!
The Main Street area also benefits from Baltimore County Commercial Revitalization District designation. This designation provides business and property owners access to County programs such as Architect-on-Call, the Building Improvement Loan Program, Commercial Revitalization Tax Credits, and Commercial Revitalization Action Grants.
For more information about the Main Street Committee or to volunteer for a committee or project, please contact the Interim Main Street Manager, Amy Mantay at 410-887-3480 or email@example.com . Also, check out Reisterstown Main Street on Facebook and the website:baltimorecountymd.gov/go/reisterstown
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