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KAYTLIN REBECCA STEWART turned 9 years old, July 23. Her parents are Brandi and Chad Parks of Tyro and Ronnie Stewart Jr. of Reeds. Her grandparents are Gary Bivens of Tyro, Chris and Linda Rector of Reeds, Ronnie Stewart Sr. of Reeds, Debbie Stewart of Southmont, Kent and Mary Ruth Parks of Churchland. Great-grandparents are Johnny Stewart of Tyro, Joan Stewart of Salisbury, Reba Brogdon Wiles of Lexington, Leroy and Kathy Hedrick of Reeds. Katie's sister is Lydia Parks, 7. Her mother is the former Brandi Bivens.
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On a more related note, I was working on my L1A1's last night trying to fit the US flash hiders to the barrels. I noticed in the schematic that there is a small washer (spacer) pictured that goes into the flash hider. Is this a crush washer? I have not yet taken the original flash hider off of the one barrel I have that came with it installed, nor have I been able to remove the barrel stubbs from the F1 flash hiders yet. Is this a necessary part for the installation of the flash hider, or can I just screw it on and mill the retaining groove for the washer and pin and hope that holds it? Anyone worked with L1A1 flash hiders before?
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Yep, that's the one. I have subsequently found a source for them, but thanks for the reply.
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There was only one company that was making them that I have found. They no longer do so and I have not found another source. If you have the machine sources, make them. You have the original to pattern off of.

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Christine Zimmerman, 51, and her husband, Kent, discovered this lively university city while traveling around the country—and moved in. "There's ballet, theater, concerts, live-music clubs. We have a lot of local friends—I can get by in Spanish, and most Ecuadoreans learn English in school," she says. "We see movies the same day they open in the U.S., in English with Spanish subtitles. So we have all the comforts of home at a lower price—$3 or $5 for a movie ticket. Last night dinner for two at a tapas restaurant was $17.50, including wine."
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The physicians voting on the device will include the University of Alabama's John Kirkpatrick, who owns stock in Zimmer Corporation and Johnson and Johnson, two leading Medtronic competitors. According to FDA documents, Kirkpatrick's holdings are each valued between $15,000 and $25,000. Panelist Stuart Goodman of Stanford University authored a study funded by Stryker, which manufactures a bone growth supplement. He also has recently received between $10,000 and $50,000 in consulting fees from Medtronic competitors, according to the FDA. Finally, Edward Hanley owns Medtronic stock valued between $25,000 and $50,000. Moreover, his employer, the Carolinas Medical Center, was involved in testing the Medtronic prosthetic disc that will be before the advisory committee, according to the FDA. House-passed FDA reform legislation, which soon goes to conference, would limit conflict-of-interest waivers to one per meeting.
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Volusia County sheriff's officials say they've arrested the man shown on a Daytona Flea & Farmers Market surveillance camera sliding open a jewelry case and taking a necklace.
"Investigators received several tips identifying John Forsythe, 29, from Port Orange as a suspect after video surveillance showing him stealing a necklace was broadcast by the news media Tuesday," said Brandon Haught, sheriff's spokesman.
Forsythe was arrested Wednesday afternoon and admitted to the crime, Haught said. He is charged with burglary and grand theft.
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Damian Ryan: Challenges and opportunities for energy efficiency in the home
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Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager, The Climate Group, writes about the challenges and opportunities for energy efficiency in the home, as we launch our exciting contest to find sustainable home technologies, #EarthHack, in partnership with Marblar, IKEA and Philips.
Improving energy efficiency in the home is widely accepted as a central pillar in any comprehensive climate and energy strategy. In theory, it is an area crammed full of low-cost or even negative cost carbon and energy mitigation opportunities. Insulation of lofts and walls, replacement of incandescent lights with LEDs, and the introduction of smart meters and appliances, can all deliver fast and significant payback to householders.
These well-known facts have not been lost on governments, as a huge variety of energy efficiency programs have been introduced around the world at city, state and national level over the last decade.
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Here in the UK, the evolution of household energy efficiency policy led to the introduction of the Green Deal program earlier this year.
Widely seen as an innovative and ground-breaking program, the Green Deal is a shift away from the grant-based initiatives that have traditionally been used to directly subsidize energy efficiency actions.
In an age of austerity, the Green Deal is intended to help scale up energy efficiency refits in the UK's 26 million homes without direct government funding, by allowing homeowners to carry out efficiency improvements at no upfront cost. Instead, repayments are made in regular instalments through savings achieved in monthly power bills.
A 'golden rule' is used during the assessment process to ensure that the cost of improvements does not exceed the energy savings made. And because repayments are tied to the property and not the occupier (homeowner or tenant), the perennial 'principal-agent' dilemma -- which has always acted as a key barrier to energy efficiency improvements in rented property -- is meant to be resolved.
For supporters of energy efficiency efforts (which should be everyone!), the Green Deal is the kind of program that you want to see succeed. It was therefore somewhat frustrating to read reports in the Guardian newspaper over the last week of problems with the program.
First, there was the Parliamentary Energy and Climate Select Committee blasting ministers for failing to set clear targets that would quantify success. The committee was also critical of the complexity of the program, an issue that has been raised previously by others.
Then, this week, details were released showing that the number of cavity wall installations had plummeted an extraordinary 97% from the previous year, as the Green Deal replaced previous grant-based schemes. Just over 1,100 homes were insulated compared to nearly 50,000 a year earlier.
These are not minor problems for the Green Deal program and must be addressed.
At the same time, it would be wrong and short-sighted to throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water. The Green Deal, as an innovative policy mechanism, has a place in the energy efficiency tool kit.
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Hundreds, indeed perhaps thousands, of businesses – many of them SMEs, co-operatives, and non-profits – have been gearing up to put the Green Deal into action. These businesses need to be supported.
There is also clear demand for the products that make homes warmer and cheaper to run. One local organization in my own area working on the Green Deal and related projects, said their order book was full.
The lesson from all this would seem to be that we have not cracked the challenge of home energy efficiency improvements just yet. The Green Deal is clearly part of the solution, but it is not the silver bullet.
Development and better communication of the government's complementary ECO (Energy Company Obligation) program aimed at hard to insulate homes, would be one helpful step. And introduction of energy efficiency feed-in-tariffs to capture so-called 'negawatts', as proposed by Green Alliance and others, could also be transformational.
Private sector innovation should not be forgotten either, including through initiatives such as the EarthHack challenge, which The Climate Group launched this week with crowdsourcing platform Marblar, and Philips and IKEA.
The solutions to energy efficiency in the home might not always be straightforward, but the opportunities remain substantial -- and the rewards huge.
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If you get the sense that it's difficult to find a job in today's tough market, well, it's more than a feeling. A new analysis from the National Women's Law Center finds adult women's unemployment rose to 7.3 percent in December, making it higher than that of adult men for the first time in more than six years. (The rate for men is holding steady at 7.2 percent.) The figures show it really is hard to find work – and if you're older than 50? It's even harder.
"There is a sort of paradox here," says Joan Entmacher, vice president for Family Economic Security at the NWLC. "On the one hand, the unemployment rate is lower for older workers 50 and above than for younger workers; experienced workers are more likely to keep their jobs and they're less likely to be laid off. But if an older worker loses a job—and this is true for both men and women—it takes her much longer to get back into the labor force. Experienced workers tend to have a longer duration of unemployment; a much higher percentage of jobless older workers are unemployed for a year or more. So, while their seniority on the job has helped them stay in the labor force, if they are laid off, they have a harder time going back to work."
And, if they do, eventually, land a new gig? Goodbye, old paycheck.
"[Older workers] are likely to take an even larger pay-cut than other jobless workers who get reemployed," Entmacher says. "Many middle tier jobs, particularly, have disappeared, and, overall, the trend is that the jobs that are coming back are lower paying."
With more job seekers than jobs, older workers also face age discrimination, according to Entmacher.
"Clearly, age discrimination has been a factor for many people," she says. "We have a law on the books against it, but if an employer prefers to hire younger workers for any reason, it can be easier to find a young worker to fill a job who might be willing to work for lower pay."
There are also employers who discriminate against those who are unemployed for any length of time, Entmacher adds.
"Because older workers are more likely to have been laid off for long periods of time, that's another disadvantage," she says. "In a tough labor market, if you are in a group that experiences discrimination, it's just harder to get a job. There are more obstacles in the way."
Entmacher says Congress can work on creating policies to protect older Americans by banning discrimination against unemployed workers, and suggests retooling work force investment programs, so that they aren't just geared toward younger workers.
"Those programs should be strengthened and required to address the needs of older people who want to work," she says. "Some older people have barriers to employment that are caused by the need to submit online applications, even for jobs that don't require computer skills. Or they don't know how to use LinkedIn or other services that are relevant to finding a job today, because it's been so long since they've looked for jobs that they're not familiar with current techniques. So, while some people will need retraining for careers, others could benefit from simpler services."
But don't curl up in the fetal position quite yet. All hope is not lost. We spoke with Dr. Lois Frankel, author of See Jane Lead and Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office, for advice on finding a job.
Be an entrepreneur. "More women are leaving corporate America to start their own businesses, because they realize they're going to have more flexibility and more opportunity," Frankel says. "If women want to have a family and they want to have a career, and they want to have it all, then they have to have more control over their lives, and you're not going to have that control if you work for somebody else, and especially if you work for a big corporation."
Where do you begin? Start doing informational interviews, attend entrepreneurial franchise expos where you can see what type of businesses are out there, join professional groups, such as the National Association of Women Business Owners, and be prepared psychologically, financially and industry-wise.
"Talk to other entrepreneurs -- that is your best source of information," she says. "What did they do right, what did they do wrong?"
Prime the pump before it's dry. "When you need a job, it's too late to do the things that will give you a quick start back into the labor force," Frankel says. "You should constantly be building and maintaining professional relationships. You are most likely to find a job through a relationship than anything else."
And if you're intimidated by today's professional networking sites? Get a tutor, she advises. "There are certainly consultants who can help you with the social networking, but what I would do is find someone who is younger who does it well—it could be a family member, or the child of a friend—and I'd ask them to teach me how to do it and offer to barter with them or pay them a reasonable amount of money in exchange."
Forget about those "transferrable" skills from Mommyhood. "Employers see through them," Frankel says. "Instead, keep up on technology and developments in your field through reading and taking workshops or classes. Then, when you interview, make it clear you spent your time preparing for your next job. …Not only does it increase your confidence and help your resume, but it also tells the hiring source this isn't a person who was just hanging around feeling sorry for herself [while she was out of work]. She was doing everything she could to improve herself."
Resist the urge to talk about your family—even when prompted. "One sentence about your love of family is enough," Frankel says. "Your next employer wants to know you keep work and family in perspective. Turn it around by saying something like, 'I do have a wonderful family but I want to talk about how I can meet your needs.'"
Take a good look in the mirror. "Sometimes when we're home for too long we don't realize we've gained too much weight, let our hair go or need to apply makeup differently," Frankel says. "If needed, go to a high end department store for a makeover. You can't just sound like you're at the top of your game, you also have to look like you're at the top of your game. Over 50 percent of your credibility comes from how you look, over 40 percent from how you sound and only 7 percent from what you say. Now you have to look the part. You're an actor on a corporate stage. You've got to know the lines and wear the costume."
With age comes wisdom—don't be afraid to make this obvious during interviews and in your resume. "Lose the modesty and sell your brand through a factual accounting of your accomplishments and the strengths you bring to the workplace," Frankel says. "You have to go into every single interview prepared. You need to go in there having done your research about the company and the field, and really having done your homework in terms of your own self-assessment—what you bring to the job, what you uniquely bring to the company, and you need to be able to speak factually about all of that. So don't be thinking that you're bragging. … Chance favors the prepared mind. … If you go in prepared, you're already going to stand out against probably 90 percent of the people who interviewed."
The time to find your next job is as soon as you get a job. "You need to be networking all the time, whether you have a good job or your own enterprise," Frankel advises. "What we saw happen when the economic downturn came a few years ago, was the people who went back to work quickly were the people who had the greatest networks in place."
If your network is slim, Frankel says to start building a pyramid: Ask five people you know and trust for five names. Contact them, let them know you're looking for work, and ask if they have any suggestions for other people to contact. "You're not asking them directly for a job, but you're letting them know you need a job and you're building a network," she says.


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Mr. Hackler has worked in the hobby for many years now, and we talk about lots of hobby topics on today's podcast. We had some lengthy discussions on the challenges of selling cards overseas & in markets outside the US. We didn't go into all the details on the show, but exchange rates and trade agreements between countries still stand in the way of the hobby truly turning 'global'. I tossed out the 'idea' of using real tickets for a set like Contenders, and we discuss how that could be challenging to acquire the tickets needed to make that a feasible set.
Basically, it's a great half hour of sports card talk with someone that has worked for Beckett Media, Donruss and Panini. We will have some followup questions I'll get via e-mail, so I'll be sure to keep you posted on those. I could write more here about the interview - but I don't want to spoil it ... you should listen!
At the tail end of the show, I give some more 'investment' tips and advice ... for whatever that is worth! But honestly, take a look at the market in the next couple of weeks/days and I think you'll find some investment opportunities that fit your budget and risk level.
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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: United Nations & Other IGOs
- Name: Collaborative Partnership on Forests
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Full SubmissionThe Earth Summit 2012 and Forests The Submission of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to the Preparatory Process for Rio+ 20 Forests cover around one third of the Earth?s land surface, and these ecosystems and their goods and services and related activities contribute to the objectives of the Earth Summit 2012 in multiple and essential ways. In the future?with pressures on land to meet increased food production projected to surge, the climate changing and energy prices rising?forests are going to be called upon extensively to garner solutions. However forests offer more than immediate solutions?they provide some of the most insightful experiences the world has garnered so far as to how to practically operationalize the concept of sustainable development with respect to natural resources. Forests provide useful lessons for other sectors on how to approach 21st century challenges, including taking the aspiration of the Green Economy from rhetoric to reality. The conservation and sustainable use of forests has been built from practical bottom-up experience rather than from conceptual theory. These experiences demonstrate time and again that the ?so-called? social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development need to be treated as integral parts of a single system rather than being managed in isolation. In particular, the history of the conservation and sustainable use of forests illustrates that while some degree of specialization is possible?for example a protected area or a commercial Forest?there is always a fundamental need to ensure that society benefits from a balanced supply of social, economic and environmental values. In order to achieve such a balance, sustainable Forest strategies need to be understood in terms of time and space. With respect to time this requires robust management and decision-making processes that not only satisfy societies? current needs but consciously ensure that future options remain open and are not foreclosed. In terms of space it requires an ability to think, plan and act at a broader ?landscape level,? making sure that inevitable ?sitelevel? trade-offs do not jeopardize the broader approach. Landscape approaches facilitate the diversity and resilience of natural systems that true sustainability is built upon. Consequently there is no single blueprint for sustainability and no single approach can be relied upon to consistently deliver sustainable outcomes. Sustainability requires a process of dialogue, 2 negotiations and learning as well as the active participation and involvement of all the key actors. Whereas most environmental services provide benefits to a wide range of society (the benefit of carbon absorption is global), forests provide particular benefits to an estimated 1.6 billion of the most disadvantaged rural and drylands populations. The value of direct benefits to them from forests is estimated at $130 billion per year?a figure that exceeds the totality of Official Development Assistance; and the global value of the environmental services provided by forests is still unknown but in the range of trillions of dollars, plus additional value that is added downstream. Governments and the private sector have mostly ignored these values. The critical contributions of forests include: ? Poverty alleviation, MDGs and rural development: Forests are often one of the few locally available development resources; and they already provide a large proportion of rural income, GDP, food, medicine and cultural identity. ? Climate change mitigation and adaptation: Forests provide opportunities for ecosystem-based adaptation, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and Forest degradation, to sequester additional carbon through Forest restoration, and to capture social and environmental co-benefits?on a large scale. ? Food security and agriculture including livestock: New data shows that 25% to 30% of rural household income and food comes from off-farm resources, with forests providing a major share. A large proportion of forests? bounty provides nutritionally balanced wild protein, carbohydrates and vegetables to rural families. Forests also reduce soil erosion, optimize water supplies, filter and clean water, store water, and anchor an overall ecosystem that balances moisture, mitigating the severity of drought and water scarcity, as well as providing fodder for cattle during dry periods. Intensification of agriculture is a major opportunity not only to address the growing demand for food in developing countries but also for reducing and even reversing deforestation. Tenure reforms, capacity building and political priorities for agriculture are crucial. ? Land use and land restoration: Forests and tree cover stabilize soils, reduce water and wind erosion and enhance soil productivity. They are key to maintaining land productivity and restoring degraded lands. 3 Globally, over 2 billion hectares offer opportunities for such restoration, mostly in the tropical and temperate areas. About 50% of these are in degraded lands?equivalent to over 900 million hectares. The goods and services provided by drylands forests support livelihoods and contribute to poverty eradication and increased food security, targeting the poorest and most vulnerable groups, particularly women and children. ? Biodiversity conservation: A rich diversity of species can be conserved while livelihoods are sustained and improved. Maintaining and enhancing biodiversity in Forest (production) systems and Forest landscapes also contributes to their health and resilience, in addition to offering diversification of income possibilities. The value of healthy and functional natural and semi-natural forests for providing a wide range of ecosystem services to local communities, and also to societies globally, is increasingly recognized; and 'payment for ecosystem service' schemes are beginning to emerge. Forest conservation aims have been instrumental for developing these payment schemes, whether for water purification and storage, for storage of carbon, or for other ecosystem services. The most important contribution to biodiversity conservation is halting deforestation. ? Renewable raw material, bioenergy supply and green growth: Forests provide multiple renewable resources and can satisfy the needs of growing and changing markets for food, feed, fiber, fuel, shelter, and bio-based products originating from renewable resources and ecosystem services. Wood has a high additional potential to contribute to climate change mitigation by substituting materials and energy from non-renewable sources. Forest industries are expected to contribute very significantly to green growth jobs in Forest rich countries; and the net benefits of halving deforestation could amount to $3.7 trillion over the long term. ? Energy security: Forests and trees are the most important source of renewable energy in the world, particularly in Africa, providing about 80% of the total primary energy supply of the continent. Globally, more than two billion people depend on fuel wood in rural settings and charcoal in urban areas for cooking and heating, and wood energy is often the only domestically available and affordable source of energy. Energy from forests is equivalent to about 20% of global crude oil production. ? Trade: Trade in Forest products was worth over $200 billion in 2010, plus a value of additional non-timber Forest products that is more difficult to quantify. Concerns about trade in Forest products led to initiatives to ascertain the environmental and social impacts of trade. Getting government, industry and community support for approaches to addressing these concerns has taken the many years since Rio?but Forest certification of sustainability and legality have become market instruments that have a major impact in both producer and consumer countries. Forest ecosystems can play a central role in contributing to a green economy while their management can also benefit from a green economy. Furthermore, institutional frameworks provide a foundation for the contributions by Forest ecosystems to sustainable development. A focused action agenda can deliver the benefits of sustainable development from forests and for forests. These action items include: Green Economy ? Make development and management of forests and biodiversity a focus of poverty alleviation and the transition to a green economy. ? Cultivate the full range of climate benefits offered by forests, which include adaptation and carbon absorption and storage services, while recognizing that the values of forests are not limited to climate services. ? Bring the green value chain of forests and Forest products to the service of sustainable development, including the value of recycling of fiber, the storage of carbon in housing and furniture, and a wide range of bio-products and ecosystem services. ? Manage forests to meet increasing demand for ecosystem goods and services including food, raw materials and renewable energy. ? Invest in a realistic target of restoring 150 million hectares of degraded lands by 2020 and thereafter focus on additional areas of the 2 billion hectares available for restoration globally (three quarters of which will be mosaic-based restoration and one quarter will be classic, wide-scale restoration). ? Commit to sustainable development goals on land use that will lead to a land-degradation neutral world with targets to achieve a zero net land degradation whereby the amount of land degraded 5 each year is offset by reclaiming and improving an equivalent amount of land. ? Invest in the dissemination and scaling up of sustainable land management techniques that promote Forest growth, particularly agroforestry and evergreen agriculture, to capture multiple benefits for farmers including the ability to draw nitrogen from the air for fertilizer and provide fruits, medicines, livestock fodder, timber and fuelwood, shelter, erosion control, watershed protection, conservation of biodiversity, greater resilience to climate change, and carbon storage and accumulation. ? Assign a greater role in Forest management to women, whose involvement has been shown to improve the condition and sustainability of forests. ? Invest in research and data collection on the full suite of Forest ecosystem goods and services, particularly research on critical tipping points and thresholds. Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development ? Engage in capacity building for Forest management, education, and institutions. ? Optimize land use by understanding and resolving conflicting cross-sectoral land use policies and mainstreaming sustainable land management. ? Promote land planning at the landscape scale?using different decision making structures for local, regional, and international governance?to optimize the delivery of Forest ecosystem goods and services from sustainably managed forests. ? Advance the establishment of a strong and effective science-policy interface in support of land restoration and sustainable land management. ? Facilitate the establishment of compensation for ecosystem services schemes to create incentives for sustainable use and investments in the management of forests. ? Devolve Forest management rights to local communities that know their forests?and that have a vested interest in the decisions being made. ? Adopt coordinated and coherent polices and financing to address desertification and land degradation, climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, water scarcity, food production, and food insecurity, by strengthening relationships among sectors and institutions. ? Minimize conflicting policies and measures by facilitating crosssectoral and cross-institutional communication and understanding, notably with the agriculture, energy and trade sectors. ? ?Green? the value chain between producers and consumers by promoting demand for legal and sustainable products and building capacities for good governance and law enforcement. The transition to a global sustainable future is particularly important for forests. The action agenda above offers pathways for sustainable development and a green economy in which forests both contribute and benefit. Forests have much to offer to other sectors in the practice of sustainable development but they also need enabling policies that allow them to perform to their full potential. By adopting balanced policies and financing for effective institutional frameworks, we can support governance structures that will capture the multiple benefits of forests for sustainable development. A future that does not incorporate forests and their essential values and services as key elements in a green economy would miss unique opportunities. Forests already offer a range of tested solutions to key topics in sustainable development such as climate change, biodiversity, livelihoods, soil and water, and could contribute in many ways to a green economy. A sustainable future in which forests play a central role would also empower some of the most disadvantaged people in society and facilitate their contribution to global sustainable development.


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These gummis were introduced by Hershey's sometime in the early 1990s. This is yet another example of a candy whose mesmerizing commercial caught me every time. I guess Hershey's had a real cracker jack marketing team back then during my childhood.
I had practicaly forgotten about these until I saw them in the candy kiosk in my local mall. I seriously thought they were discontinued or something. But how could I deny the fact that I saw them there staring back at me from amongst the Haribo and Trolli gummi bear packs? I figured they were probably ancient, but curiously got the best of me and I was paying for a few packs next thing I knew. No matter how bad they may taste, I couldn't help resisting the nostalgia.
The packing is certainly eye catching with it's simplistic 90's styled graphic design and bold colors. The little bears are only a little over an inch long with not much detail. They have little nubbins for legs and arms and slightly protruding dots for ears, eyes and a nose. The texture is very chewy and they are very hard to chew at first. Only after a bit do they slowly become softer. The colors are ghastly to me, very pale and washed out and not appetizing at all.
Green Apple (green): Light, floral and juicy apple flavor. It's very natural, not sour or fake tasting when I think of jolly ranchers. More of a fuji/gold delicious flavor
Grape (odd purple): This tasted floral and slightly juicy and has a very slight concord grape flavor.
Orange (orange): Almost impossibly hard to decipher from the strawberry and I only did so by holding them up to a light bulb. This is very bright and citrusy, and the orange tootsie pop immediately comes to mind.
Cherry (red): The most intense of the colors. The flavor is mild with a deep floral note to it. It does read as cherry, but not medicinal.
Strawberry (also orangish): Light with a good authentic berry flavor. My second favorite of them all.
Pineapple (light yellow): My favorite! It has a bright, sweet pineapple flavor with a hint of tartness.
So they weren't impressive to me in the least. I don't know if it was that my pack was old or if the "natural" flavor that Hershey marketed with these is just no competition for what's available today. I'm happy to just remember them as memory serves me best: not as candy, but as really awesome commercials.
Rating: Not Worth It
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Breaking the Silence
Ear & Hearing Journal is planning to set the record straight on a study that found firefighters' hearing loss could not be linked to repeated exposure to emergency sirens, after court documents revealed that one of the study's authors had financial ties to emergency equipment manufacturer Federal Signal Corp. At the time the study was published in June 2005, author William W. Clark of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis failed to disclose that he had received consulting fees and assistance with the study from Federal Signal. Now, Mario A. Svirsky, editor-in-chief emeritus for Ear & Hearing, says the journal will publish a clarification in an upcoming issue explaining that Clark's ties to Federal Signal should have been disclosed. Svirsky said the journal's editorial board is waiting for lawyers to sign off on the clarification, noting that Clark had threatened to sue the journal.
Clark's relationship with Federal Signal first came to light as part of a lawsuit filed by Chicago firefighters against the company. As a result of a court order handed down last week, Clark has been barred from testifying as an expert witness in 33 pending cases and his study cannot be submitted as evidence. The court also ordered Federal Signal to pay the firefighters $50,000 for attempting to cover up their involvement in the study. "This is a tremendous victory for the ... firefighters and rightfully acts to keep questionable science and undisclosed conflicts of interest from the courtroom," plaintiffs' attorney Raymond Lang wrote in an e-mail communication to Integrity in Science Watch.
FDA Whistleblowers to Testify Before House Panel
Several critics of the Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to testify Tuesday at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on the agency's efforts to ensure the safety of the nation's drug supply. The hearing is expected to include discussion of the agency's approval of the drug Ketek, an antibiotic that has side effects linked to liver failure and damage. FDA officials announced today that they would restrict use of the drug and require Ketek manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis to place a warning label on the product. Sen. Chuck Grassley (-R-Iowa), FDA staffer David J. Graham, former FDA medical officers John H. Powers III and David B. Ross, Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Steven E. Nissen and Ann Marie Cisneros of Keteck manufacturer Sanofi Aventis are scheduled to testify.
Drug Industry Influences National Anti-smoking Policies
At least six members of a 26-person panel that will write the nation's anti-smoking guidelines have ties to industry, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported last week. Among them is panel chairman Michael Fiore, who holds a chair at the University of Wisconsin that is funded by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Nicorette gum and Commit lozenges; directs a tobacco research center that received about $1.4 million from anti-smoking drug manufacturers in 2004 and 2005; and personally received between $10,000 and $40,000 annually from the quitting-aid industry from 1999 to 2004. Fiore's drug company connections went undisclosed in at least two articles he authored on smoking cessation.
The Wall Street Journal article also noted that Jack Henningfield, a principal at a consulting firm whose largest client is GlaxoSmithKline, is often quoted as a smoking cessation expert without disclosing his ties to the pharma giant.
Climate Program Chief Addresses Censorship Allegations
The Bush administration has directed federal agencies to review and, if appropriate, modify their policies on scientific review and media relations to "ensure government scientists do not face censorship on any scientific matter," Bill Brennan, acting director of the federal Climate Change Science Program said last week. The commitment came during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing called to probe allegations that federal climate-change scientists have faced political pressure to alter their work and have been restrained from talking to the press. Tom Knutson, a climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., testified that he had not faced any interference with respect to publishing his work in scientific journals, but he had been prevented from participating in some television interviews.
Former Colorado U. Teacher Drops Wrongful Termination Claims
A former environmental studies instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder has dropped a wrongful termination complaint that alleged the university dismissed her because her research targeted illegal pollution by major Colorado companies, the Colorado Daily reported last week. Adrienne Anderson decided not to pursue her claims after learning that she could not enter as evidence correspondence in which officials working for then-Colorado Gov. Bill Owens (R) complained to CU officials about Anderson's use of her university e-mail account to name the alleged polluters. However, Anderson said the American Association of University Professors would continue to press her case, "requesting a national investigation of CU's failure to protect my academic freedom."
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British tycoon Richard Branson and former Vice President Al Gore last week announced a $25 million prize for the first person to find a way to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, the New York Times reported.


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Published: Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
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No one can blame the five members of the Davidson County Board of Adjustment if they looked bleary-eyed Friday morning. The board met for seven hours Thursday before granting a special-use permit by a 4-1 vote for a gun range on Shiptontown Road in southern Davidson County. This came after a four-hour meeting in July. So all told, the board allotted 11 hours to an issue that will affect a small group of people.
The board deserves credit for allowing both sides to have their say, but there must be a better manner to deal with even controversial issues that doesn't require such lengthy meetings. Many speakers both for and against the gun range made basically the same point. One way to reduce the meeting length would be to allow one person to make the points, and all those who agree to indicate so by a show of hands or standing up. Limiting the length of speakers would be another option. The longer a meeting goes, the more tired those making decisions become, which can affect their reasoning. Any governing body needs to provide ample time for the public to speak, but some reasonable restrictions to avoid drawn-out meetings would also be appropriate.
Once again Piedmont Crossing Retirement Community in Thomasville has set the pace for civic involvement with an approaching election. The center held a forum Thursday night for candidates for Thomasville City Council and mayor. Fourteen of the 15 candidates who will appear on the ballot appeared. The format allowed individual contact among audience members and candidates along with some preselected questions. The Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce will follow suit and hold an event for Lexington candidates at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 at Lexington Senior High School. Voters who live in Lexington should take advantage of this opportunity to hear the four candidates vying for the two elected city council positions.
The scaffolding surrounding two sides of the Old Davidson County Court House may not be attractive, but the end result six months from now should be worth the temporary eyesore. Davidson County commissioners approved $617,500 in repairs to the iconic structure. Preservation North Carolina will pay for $150,000 of that cost. The work will address several long-standing issues at the old court house, which holds the Davidson County Historical Museum, including repairs to the cornice, portico and soffit areas. That may be construction-speak to the average person, but it will result in a safer, more structurally sound structure. Hopefully once the work is complete the museum will be able to offer more exhibits for the public to enjoy.
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|Idaho accepts CIT bid
MOSCOW, Idaho - University of Idaho men's basketball accepted an invitation on Thursday to participate in its second CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) in three years, as the Vandals will play at San Francisco on Wednesday, March 16, at 7 p.m.
"We're very happy to still be playing, and to be in the CIT is a great thing for our basketball team and our program," Idaho head coach Don Verlin said.
The game will be played at USF's War Memorial Gym. San Francisco is 17-14 this season after being eliminated in the semifinal round of the West Coast Conference Tournament last week. Idaho is 18-13 overall after falling in the quarterfinal round of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament on Thursday.
Idaho and USF have faced each other four times in a series that dates to 1939. It's a 2-2 split, with the last being an 86-85 USF win at the 1992 Big Island Classic, played at Hawai'i.
"I don't know much about them," Verlin said of USF. "I watched them a little the other night and I know they had a really good year and they finished third in the WCC, so it's going to be a tough game."
This will be Idaho's second CIT appearance. The Vandals played in the tournament in 2009, Verlin's first season at Idaho. The Vandals beat Drake, 69-67, in the opening round at Memorial Gym, then fell in the second round at Pacific, 69-59.
"We're just hoping it's a preview of things to come," Verlin said of the bid. "We just want to continue to build this program, and we want to take the necessary steps to keep playing in things like the CIT and to get to the NCAA tournament in the near future."


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News: Cheung, Basham Score Triples At SCC Double Dual
Pasadena City College women's swim team freshmen Shannon Cheung and Arolyn Basham each recorded three event victories in a South Coast Conference double dual meet held at Cerritos College March 28.
As a team, the Lancers' lack of numbers resulted in losing to Cerritos, 164-66, and against LA Trade Tech, 98-81. PCC's dual record is 2-6, but the individual performances of such swimmers as Cheung, Basham and the injured Emily Frederickhave made this a memorable record-setting year for the Lancers. Pasadena has broken 11 school records thus far.
Although no PCC records fell at this meet, Cheung continued her outstanding sprint swimming as she captured wins in the 50-yard backstroke (30.48 seconds), 50 freestyle (25.42), and 100 freestyle (55.88). Basham, from La Salle High, was just as explosive in winning a close one in the 50-breaststroke, beating out Cerritos swimmer Katherine Gabayeron, 33.68 to 34.14. She had an easier time in a near 7-second triumph in the 100 breaststoke (1:14.83) and taking the 100 individual medley at 1:07.62.
Sophomore Paige Watroba placed second in three events, including a 1:04.81 in the 100 butterfly, a 29.59 in the 50 butterfly, and a 2:09.61 in the 200 freestyle.
The Lancers host the 13th Pasadena Invitational on Friday-Saturday, April 5-6 at the PCC Aquatic Center. Pasadena also takes part in the SCC Championships (diving at El Camino College, April 12-13) at Chaffey College from April 18-20.
[Photo--Lancer Arolyn Basham dives into the Cerritos College pool to open one of her winning swims Thursday at a conference double dual meet, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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Michelle Obama may be the talk of the nation for being portrayed (in a new book by Jodi Kantor) as a White House power player, but if that's true, it's nothing new. The standard for First Lady as powerhouse was set many years ago, not in the twentieth century by Nancy Reagan or Rosalynn Carter, or even Eleanor Roosevelt or Edith Wilson, but in the early nineteenth by Dolley Madison, the first woman to be termed First Lady. From the moment of James Madison's election, Dolley's power was acknowledged: As Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, the man James Madison defeated in 1808, wryly remarked, "I was beaten by Mr. and Mrs. Madison. I might have had a better chance if I had faced Mr. Madison alone."
Now that we know for sure that we won't elect a woman president this year (with Sarah Palin a non-starter and Michelle Bachmann out of the race), the women seeking votes in South Carolina are limited to Republican wives supporting their candidate husbands. But with her book, The Obamas, Kantor has reminded us all of how important a "mere" First Lady can be.
Two hundred years ago, Dolley Madison wasn't known by that honorific (it was reportedly coined by President Zachary Taylor, speaking at Mrs. Madison's 1849 funeral). Instead, the press of the day dubbed her "Lady Presidentess," bringing to mind Bill Clinton's suggestion that in him and Hillary, voters were getting "two for one." Whether or not she was truly a co-president, we do know that Dolley Madison was very much more than a presence at her husband's side. Soon another woman will be in the White House with her husband, and whether it is Michelle Obama or someone else, she ought to brush up on Dolley, whose influence is important to note in 2012, the bicentennial of the War of 1812, which is also known as Mr. Madison's War.
Newt Gingrich has lauded Callista Gingrich's impact upon him; his third wife's piety, passion for music, and her devotion to him are said to have smoothed the rougher edges of the hard-driving former Speaker of the House. In the case of 43-year-old James Madison, the arrival of the widow Dolley Payne Todd in his life was even more transformative. Though a world-renowned political philosopher and the principal author of the Constitution, Madison was somber, studious and short (before their marriage, Dolley, who was tall, described him as "the great little Madison"). When they married in 1794 Madison was already a congressman, but it was she—17 years younger, good-looking and black-haired—who turned heads on the street. As a team, they were ready for prime-time.
Like Karen Santorum, Mrs. Madison had a hiatus from public life, when her husband withdrew from politics during the Adams administration. But when Thomas Jefferson was elected president (America's third), Madison became his secretary of state and Dolley took on the new capitol city, first as White House hostess for Jefferson, who was a widower, and then, after her husband's election in 1808, as Presidentess. She benevolently ruled Washington society, welcoming political friend and foe alike to her open evenings, called "Drawing Rooms." So many powerful people shouldered their way into her weekly gatherings that they were known as "Squeezes."


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Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Author(s): Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt, Kristin McGuire
In spite of having been short-lived, "Weimar" has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser's state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.
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Publisher: Berghahn Books
Month of Publication: July
Year of Publication: 2010
# of Pages: 428
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NIH Halts Neonatal Herpes Session after Protest
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases abruptly cancelled a conference on neonatal herpes aimed at writing clinical practice guidelines shortly after a coalition of influential physicians and consumer groups protested the lack of balance and conflicts of interest among the meeting's presenters (see Integrity in Science Watch, 1/8/07). A letter sent to NIH, signed by 44 physicians and 16 health groups, called on director Elias A. Zerhouni to adopt an agency-wide rule prohibiting scientists with financial conflicts of interest from sitting on guideline-writing panels. NIH has not yet responded to the request.
The letter, whose signers included Lancet editor Richard Horton and two former New England Journal of Medicine editors, Marcia Angell and Jerome P. Kassirer, pointed out that many recent NIH-sponsored guideline-writing panels have been dominated by physicians with conflicts of interest. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's guideline-writing committees on hypertension and cholesterol management, for instance, had 9 of 11 and 8 of 9 members, respectively, with conflicts of interest. With insurers moving toward adopting pay-for-performance standards that would reward physicians who follow widely accepted clinical practice guidelines, the letter asked: "Why should either practicing physicians or patients have faith in guidelines written by researcher-physicians with ties to providers whose financial well-being is driven by the content of those recommendations?" Consumers groups signing the letter included the Center for Medical Consumers, the National Research Center for Women & Families and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which led the effort.
The NIAID letter cancelling the meeting told registrants that there had been "a misunderstanding about the intent of the meeting." However, the agenda sent to invitees throughout December included a final session led by Richard Whitley of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who consults for anti-herpes drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline. The printed agenda's bullet points for that final session were "Codification of guidelines," "Writing Teams" and "Deadlines."
In mid-December, the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story describing how GlaxoSmithKline, which makes the anti-herpes medication Valtrex (valacyclovir), has funded researchers and continuing medication seminars to promote universal herpes testing among pregnant women, which could lead to significantly higher drug sales.
EPA to Announce NOx and SOx Panel Members This Week
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce this week the membership of a scientific review panel that will advise the agency on air quality standards for nitrogen and sulfur oxides, agency spokesman Fred Butterfield said Friday. Clean Air Watch and the Center for Science in the Public Interest submitted comments to the agency last week on its "short list" for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee NOx and SOx Primary Review Panel objecting to the nomination of longtime industry consultant Roger McClellan, a former president of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology. CSPI also objected to the inclusion of two other scientists with industry ties, Richard Schlesinger and Christian Seigneur.
COI Waivers Abound at FDA Despite Curbs
An analysis of a series of Food and Drug Administration advisory panels meeting this week reveals that the agency is taking few steps to curb its use of scientists with conflicts of interest, even though an amendment to last year's FDA appropriations bill requires the agency to document what steps it took to limit the use of advisers with financial ties to drug and device makers. A reproductive drugs panel discussing new standards for hormone-derived birth-control pills, patches and rings like those made by Berlex Inc. includes three members with financial ties to Berlex. The FDA's vaccine advisory committee, which will discuss the safety of vaccine combinations manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis, issued four conflict-of-interest waivers. And the Neurological Devices Advisory Committee, which is evaluating a new device for major depression that uses short bursts of magnetic energy aimed at the brain, includes five members that have been granted waivers.
Cancer Docs Adopt Strict Disclosure Policy
The American Society of Clinical Oncology is forcing cancer doctors to disclose all financial ties to investment firms as part of an affort to stop leaks of confidential information to Wall Street insiders, Bloomberg reported Saturday. The new policy, which takes effect immediately, requires cancer doctors to disclose all consulting or advisory relationships they have with private firms. Allen Lichter, the society's chief executive officer, said the policy applies to group members who publish in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and give public speeches at its meetings. A brief outline of the policy was included in the Dec. 20, 2006, edition of the journal.
Experts Develop Model Language to Help Researchers Disclose Financial Interests
Experts from three universities have published new language designed to give clinical researchers guidance on how to disclose possible financial conflicts of interest. The new language, published in the January issue of IRB: Ethics and Human Research, was developed as part of a $3 million, five-year project called the Conflict of Interest Notification Study, which is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The new disclosure statements are meant to be given to potential research participants before they consent to participating in a trial, Johns Hopkins University officials said in a press release announcing the report.
UC Regents Weigh Whether Schools Should Shun Tobacco Money
University of California regents voted last week to postpone until May a decision on whether scientists should be banned from taking money from the tobacco industry to give faculty members time to comment on the proposal, the Sacramento Bee reported. Supporters of the proposal note that taking money from tobacco companies could damage the university system's reputation because of the industry's reputation for distorting research. The UC system had 19 active grants worth $16 million funded by the tobacco industry in late 2006, all from Philip Morris, the president's office said.
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The Environmental Protection Agency said last week it will not shut down more libraries or destroy more documents until a congressional review takes place. ... Lettuce producer Fresh Express announced last week that it would pay up to $2 million to fund research aimed at preventing future E. coli outbreaks. The company said the money would pay for research projects selected by an independent panel of scientific experts, without restrictions from Fresh Express as to research funding or the dissemination of results. ... The Associated Press reported last week that the University of Virginia Medical Center has joined a growing number of U.S. medical schools and hospitals that are banning gifts from pharmaceutical company sales representatives. ... The Environmental Protection Agency said last week at a meeting of the 16-member panel that will review the agency's risk assessment for ethylene oxide that no conflict-of-interest waivers had been issued for the panel, despite the fact that it includes ExxonMobil scientist Robert Schnatter and two industry consultants. In a phone interview today, Sue Shallal, the designated federal official for the panel, stressed that the agency was primarily concerned with ensuring that panel members did not have direct ties to companies that manufactured, used or disposed of ethylene oxide -- a category that does not include ExxonMobil.
Last week's Integrity in Science Watch inaccurately reported that Bryan Hardin and Bruce Kelman are principals at a law firm paid $375 to $500 an hour as defense counsel in mold lawsuits. In fact, Hardin and Kelman are paid $375 to $500 an hour in their role as principals of the environmental risk management company Veritox Inc., a firm that regularly works for the defense in mold cases. Integrity in Science Watch regrets the error.


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Second Harvest Food Bank seeks support to land grant
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 9:02 a.m.
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WINSTON-SALEM | Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC, which provides food for several Davidson County agencies, is hoping the public can help them click their way to a grant from Walmart by voting for them in the "Fighting Hunger Together" initiative, a national campaign where money is awarded to organizations that receive the most votes for their programs that target childhood hunger.
The public will decide which organizations will receive the grants through a Facebook voting campaign. Winning organizations will be those that garner the most votes. Second Harvest Food Bank will use the grant to fund mobile pantry food deliveries that will provide more than 100,000 meals to families with children in communities with extremely high rates of childhood hunger.
"Across our 18-county service area, more than 1 in 4 children face uncertainty over whether they will have enough to eat, and it's even worse in many of our more rural counties," said Clyde Fitzgerald, executive director for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC. "This Mobile Pantry Distribution program will provide families with enough food for two meals a day for six weeks during the summer when school is not in session and children do not have access to the free and reduced price school meal program."
Those interested in supporting this effort should visit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC Facebook page at facebook.com/Food.Bank.NWNC for details. The public is encouraged to vote once each day throughout April.
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