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What is trust?
Pause for just a second and think about who in your life is worthy of your trust? What kinds of traits do they have? What did they do to earn that trust and what would it take for that trust to be broken? Trust is something that is fragile and when taken for granted, it's easily broken.
Trust in business is a dying trait. Contracts for seemingly simple services are now hundreds of pages. Customers have to look over their shoulder and review every piece and part of the goods or service offered with a detailed eye. The news is filled with scandals, shocking revelations, and people we considered to be trustworthy breaking our trust.
The sad truth is this: A handshake is no longer enough and when a company simply says they can be trusted, that is far from enough. A company now has to prove that they are trustworthy not just once, but for every order, every phone call, and every design service.
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2 cups non fat greek yogurt drained over night
2 tablespoons honey
Zest of 1 lime
1 pint raspberries
Graham Cracker Crust
Graham Cracker Crust:
1-1/4 cups crushed graham crackers (about 17 squares of graham crackers)
1/4 cup chopped nuts
3 tablespoons
4 - 6 Tbsp. melted butter
Stir honey and lime zest into yogurt. Pour into crust and top with raspberries.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In large bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, nuts, and sugar and mix well. Add melted butter and mix until all crumbs are coated.
Press into 9" tart pan with removable bottom. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes until crust is set. Let cool and fill.

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Men's Swim/Dive Jumps Into Top 25, Races At Columbia In Friday Ivy Finale
The 22nd-ranked Princeton men's swimming and diving team will conclude the 2012-13 regular season Friday at 6 pm when it travels to Uris Pool in New York City to take on Columbia. It will also serve as the final dual meet for the 11 members of the Class of 2013.
Princeton is 6-1 overall, 5-1 in the Ivy League, and moved into the Top 25 after an impressive performance during H-Y-P weekend. Though 16th-ranked Harvard won the meet, Princeton posted enough improved times to feel that its team is on the right track to peak at the 2013 Ivy League Championships, held March 7-9 in Providence.
The improvement was noted in the latest Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Top 25, which ranks teams based on their top performances over the preceding month. Princeton's performance last weekend was ranked fifth overall, one spot higher than Harvard.
The Tigers will look to conclude their regular season with a victory over an improving Columbia team Friday night. Columbia has one of the top 100 fly specialists in the league in sophomore David Jakl, whose time of 48.50 is currently second-best in the Ivies. Sophomore Dominik Koll won two individual events last weekend in a dual victory over Patriot League champion Navy.
Princeton currently has the Ivy League leader in both back events (En-Wei Hu-Van Wright in the 100, Connor Maher in the 200), as well as the 200 free (Sandy Bole). The Tigers' greatest strength, though, is their depth; the team has at least two of the Ivy League's top five times in 10 different individual events.


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The lunch set out on Christina Applegate's kitchen counter is a succinct testament to the pains and pleasures of a 40-year-old working actress. She's eager to tuck into the vegan faux-crab cake on a mesclun-lined plate. But she frowns at the bottle of green beverage set beside it. "Ugh," she says. "I'm starting a cleanse."
You play, you pay. Time to scour out the tasty toxins of summer hiatus here in the Hollywood Hills and fortify for a breathless fall of TV and movie work. She is about to begin a second season starring in the NBC sitcom Up All Night. The show triangulates her character, Reagan, a type A television producer and new mom; her husband, Chris (Will Arnett); and Reagan's best friend and, as of this season, former boss, Ava (Maya Rudolph), a rock diva turned chat-show queen. Bobbing in their midst is the couple's baby, Amy.
Applegate soon will also be on a movie set reprising her role as Veronica Corningstone, Will Ferrell's feisty love interest, in a sequel to the hit 2004 TV-news spoof Anchorman. As with all Judd Apatow–produced films, there will most likely be warp-speed improv, flying fluids and bruising slapstick. Bring it on, says Applegate—she's happy to have been asked back. "The female role is oftentimes interchangeable or expendable in a man flick," she says. "I'm glad they recognized I was a part of that team."
But after more than a decade of playing the duh-licious tart-in-a-tube-top Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married with Children, and after dozens of appearances in such lighthearted movies as Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, as well as the sitcoms Jesseand Samantha Who?, doesn't she see herself as funny? "I don't," she says. "I know that comedy is the thing I'm going to be given because that's what I've been doing for so long. I'm not being called to do After the Fall. But I never think of myself as that funny person."
Maya Rudolph, a veteran of glib, nimble ensemble casts (Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids), disagrees: "Christina's sense of humor is such a strong voice that I can hear it in a text message or an e-mail. It's really dry. She's got a Pinot Grigio sense of humor."
Applegate's most unlikely comedic costar weighs in as well. Stevie Nicks, who made a guest appearance on Up All Nightlast season, says of her new friend, "Christina is that girl next door you really would love to know, really sweet and smart and dear. She is one of my favorite people in the whole world."
A squeal erupts behind the kitchen island, and Applegate wonders aloud whether her upcoming workload might be less challenging than dealing with a toddler discovering the joys of "No!" Her daughter, Sadie, will be two in January, and the household dynamic is already getting wiggy. Here comes Sadie now, squarely into the criminally cute phase. She has jammed an oversize cap onto her head and a cell phone in her ear. "Mama! Papa! Buh-byeeeeeeee."
Standing over the tot, Papa grins. Applegate's fiancé is Dutch-born Martyn LeNoble, a former bassist for the alternative band Porno for Pyros. At the kitchen table, his 15-year-old daughter, Marlon, has been entertaining her little sister. LeNoble currently composes the music for Up All Night. Much of the time he works in their home studio. Lately they have been in deep huddles about Sadie's new willful mode. "We don't know the best thing to do," Applegate confesses. "She's starting to get really defiant when we say no and look back at us with an evil look in her eye."
Sadie has also just dropped her afternoon nap, and Applegate stands ready to absorb the resulting late-day meltdowns. She is trim, strong and, according to the physical exam she underwent earlier this morning, robustly healthy. For several years before her 2008 breast--cancer diagnosis, she was one of the most scanned celebrity denizens of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Her doctors have insisted on regular diagnostics since her early thirties, given her mother's two bouts: breast cancer at age 38, then an ovarian-related recurrence 16 years later. Applegate is sure that a breast MRI in early 2008 saved her life. "I had two lumpectomies, and I was supposed to start radiation. Then I found out I had the gene [the BRCA1 gene mutation that increases risk and recurrence of breast and ovarian cancers], and my decision was to undergo the prophylactic double mastectomy."
She smiles as she recites a line from Anchorman, in which dishy Veronica Corningstone asks newsroom letch Fred Willard if he plans to deprive her of a spot on his news show "because I have breasts? Exquisite breasts?" Applegate appreciates the artistry of her reconstructed versions, which she got a few days before her 37th birthday. Nonetheless . . .
"Aw, I miss my exquisite breasts sometimes," she says. Now she runs a foundation, Right Action for Women, which helps make early breast MRIs affordable for women at high risk. She says she is fine with taking on the sort of cancer career expected of high-profile survivors, from Melissa Etheridge to Sheryl Crow. She just wishes her double mastectomy hadn't been outed by the media before the anesthetic had even worn off.
It happened when Applegate was still in the hospital. Though there had been a guard outside her room, doctor's orders required that she "start walking right away. I was walking with my little IV drip thing, in my little robe. My friend said he saw someone take a picture of me. The next day I got a call from my publicist, who said, 'It's out.' " Still groggy from medication, Applegate sat down to draft a statement.
Only in hindsight did she recognize the personal toll of going public so quickly: She denied herself the time to grieve. "The good thing is that we got the information out, but talking about the facts of the disease, I didn't have to see what was going on with me. I think when it slowed down, all of that came crashing down." Applegate overcame what she calls a "total emotional collapse" with the support of family, close friends and her spiritual adviser from the church she turned to during her mother's cancer recurrence. Most of her healing was done quietly, at home.
This is a woman who knows how to stand her ground, in many ways. "I've never lived more than five minutes from where I grew up," she says. She was 24 when she bought her house—located, like her childhood home, in Laurel Canyon—with her earnings from her role as Kelly Bundy. At the time, she was fleeing a relationship that turned scarily abusive. "I just had to leave," she says.
Applegate has lived in the house for 17 years, but never alone. There have been roommates, boyfriends, a husband (actor Johnathon Schaech, to whom she was married from 2001 to 2007), cats, dogs, actors, rockers and her beloved mom, who visits almost every day. Protective child gates now crisscross the landing above the cavernous great room where le tout young Hollywood once partied. It's a home that has adapted to a series of upheavals and changes in Applegate's life and kept her centered.
Resolutely, this is "Christina's World." In November of 1971, singer-actress Nancy Priddy and record producer Robert Applegate named their only child after the muse in the Andrew Wyeth painting of that title. But Applegate shares little else with Wyeth's solitary, handicapped woman crawling across a windswept field.
"She's extremely vulnerable and has always been that way," Priddy says of her daughter. "But she's very strong."
Applegate cried in Priddy's arms when she got her cancer diagnosis, but soon she took charge. She was facing a four-month lag between her lumpectomies and the double mastectomy she had decided to have; she was busy working, and doctors were confident the delay wasn't dangerous. Still, she assembled her nearest and dearest and laid down the law: "There was to be no stress in this house. The heart rate had to stay even, and don't piss me off. I didn't want to feel my blood pressure go up. I still had cancer, and I didn't want to accelerate cell growth. I just wanted to stay calm. I think for the most part I've kept that philosophy."
It's a practical outlook that goes back to her early childhood. Her parents divorced when Christina was three months old, and Priddy found herself perched, with her infant, in a tiny house on Lookout Mountain Avenue. At that time Laurel Canyon was home to many single mothers, for whom those '60s summers of love had morphed into rent bills and thirdhand Toyotas. Christina first appeared on TV when her working mom had to haul her to a soap opera job as a babe in arms.
"The canyon does have homes like this one," Applegate says. "But it also has 800-square-foot broken-down houses. We all lived in shacks here. And all those mothers struggled to provide for their kids. For most of them, the father was not really a role in their lives."
Applegate spent weekends with her dad until he moved to Northern California when she was about 10; she still maintains a close relationship with him and two half-siblings, who live in L.A. Despite the civility of her parents' split, there was more trouble at home.
"Badstepdad," she says. "From three to seven, I had a stepfather who caused a lot of damage to my mother and to me. I think that put her off, and she never had another relationship." A more benevolent male presence was a man she knew as Uncle Stephen and whom she still calls her godfather, musician Stephen Stills, whose early romance with her mother settled into a lifelong friendship. Back in the day, Stills might have been singing about the mothers of Christina's little tribe of preteens who skateboarded through the canyon sporting buzz cuts and modified mohawks:
Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by.
And feed them on your dreams. . .
Priddy had musical aspirations beyond the album she recorded (with producer Phil Ramone) but says she has few regrets about scaling them down to make ends meet with voice-overs and commercials. There was parental discipline in their community, but with a decidedly hippie slant. "All the moms kind of let us do whatever we wanted to do," Applegate says. "There weren't a lot of rules, but there was a lot of mutual respect. I always made sure she knew where I was, and I would always be home by a reasonable hour."
She doesn't recall envying the material excesses of Valley Girls in nearby towns. "I never felt poor or that I wasn't provided for," she says. "There were months when we were on food stamps, but for the most part, we did OK. I was working, so it was a two-income family."
She wasa trouper. Applegate was missing her two front teeth and wearing her "flipper" (a bridge crafted by dentists to conceal lost baby teeth) when it came loose during a canned-ham commercial. Christina asked the director coolly, "Can I see my mom for a minute?" Priddy reached into her purse for denture fixative, and her daughter nailed the take. She made good money; Priddy invested some for her in real estate.
Applegate does not remember much about her mother's first cancer surgery, a mastectomy. "The only thing that changed in our life," she says, "was that we started going to our church." It was called the Church of Religious Science, "which is not Christian Science or Scientology; that's not what we are," she emphasizes. "It's the basic belief that God is everywhere and you can really change the course of your life by having clear intentions."
At 10, she began learning meditation, lying side by side with her mother: "She would say, 'Visualize a chalkboard on your forehead. Now start erasing those thoughts.' Then we would put in intentions, things we wanted in our life. I finally understood. It's not a car or bike. It's grace, gratitude, health."
It was then that she built her survivor's tool kit. Still, we have to ask: What "intentions" did a girl visualize at the dawn of the MTV age? She laughs. "I wanted to hang out with John Taylor," the Duran Duran bassist. Years later, there he was, working with her on Samantha Who? She also visualized being on TV—and ended up as Kelly Bundy, beginning at age 15.
At 17, Christina declared her intention to move out of her mother's home and into a tiny house they had invested in. Priddy let her go—a decision she still questions, even though she was only five minutes away. Maybe sticking around longer would have afforded her daughter a bit more protection.
"She's kissed a lot of frogs, that poor kid," Priddy says. In the Bundy years, Applegate brought home plenty of boy pals from the studio, nice guys just breaking into the business on Fox throb-a-thons like Beverly Hills 90210. Johnny Depp, then starring in 21 Jump Street, was an early friend. "Brad Pitt used to come up, and Jason Priestley. We'd do barbecues," Priddy says. It did not help matters, though, that Kelly's micro-skirted screen image sizzled into so many male viewers' thick skulls.
Applegate's TV dad, Ed O'Neill (now starring in Modern Family), confesses to some fretting: "We all went through her having boyfriends that were rather questionable. I would say, 'Hey, you need a hand with these guys?' She had a propensity for taking guys in that really weren't on her financial level. She'd just take care of them, nurture and encourage them." Then came the one O'Neill calls the fisherman, who showed up after Applegate's marriage had crumbled.
During her Tony-nominated New York run in Sweet Charity, a friend introduced her to deep-sea fisherman and aspiring photographer Lee Grivas. Living together in L.A., they had a relationship that was stormy at best. "We had been apart for a couple of months because of his drug addiction," Applegate says. "During that time, I found out I had cancer—when that relationship was dissolving." She broke it off to work on saving herself. On July 1, 2008, Grivas was found dead in his apartment of an overdose.
Suddenly, at this grim juncture, Applegate laughs. For the past few hours, she has been gamely submitting to a speed recitation of all the rotten things she has endured. Nonetheless, 2008 was the worst: "Both of my cats died right after I found out I had cancer. The cats and the boyfriend died, all within three months. I laugh but . . . oh my God."
Just when it seemed things couldn't get much darker, "Martyn came back into my life," she says. "We've known each other since 1995, but we hadn't seen each other for 10, 11 years. We ran into each other at Los Angeles Children's Hospital, where we were both volunteering." Another visualization come true? She shrugs. "We had always cared deeply for one another when we were friends. And he came and put me under his wing. That was it—he was supposedto come." They would like to have a second child, she says, but "because of some things that happened during my pregnancy, I don't know if I can. I hope I can. We'll see."
Art and life overlap these days—sometimes a bit sloppily. So many babies on board. Sadie lunches with her mother nearly every day on the set of Up All Night. Other frequent child visitors are Arnett's two little boys with Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph's three children with movie director Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as the twins who play baby Amy. This is kid-friendly Hollywood: Good-night, moon. Good-night, Mr. Fuzzy Sound Boom.
So how's it working for everyone? Arnett, previously known for what he sees as misunderstood connivers on Arrested Developmentand 30 Rock, loves playing a nice, normal guy. He admires Applegate's approach to work-life balance: "Christina has set out to give Sadie this great environment, and she does it every day. She works hard on the show, but she really carves out time—Sadie is there a lot."
To boost the serenity factor, she splurged on a Malibu beach house. She took it to heart, not long ago, when Stephen Stills, 67, gently suggested they all make the best use of "ETR"—estimated time remaining. There is no room in Christina's world for recrimination or regret. "I don't do anger," she says. "It makes no sense to me to hold grudges or pine over things. Or overanalyze."
There are some things it's just best not to question, including her new friendship with 64-year-old Stevie Nicks. Nicks says she was "having a little TV night" at home when she saw the episode of Up All Nightin which the actors segued into a wee orgy of intense Stevie-worship, belting out her hit "Edge of Seventeen."
Nicks got on the phone and insisted on guesting as herself. To shoot Night's duet with Applegate, she raided her wardrobe vault for the lacy outfit she wore on her Bella Donnaalbum cover, circa 1981—"right down to the boots and leg warmers"—and offered it to her young costar. When she first spotted Applegate in her vintage togs, Nicks recalls, "my eyes filled. It was like looking at my sister, years ago, standing there."
Applegate fingers the thick gold crescent moon suspended from a chain around her neck, a powerful amulet she wears every day: "The moon was a gift from Stevie. I like to tell people that, because I'm still in awe. She also gave me all these." She holds up her right hand, displaying three rings of filigreed gold.
A huge smile breaks, and her gaze focuses on the love object reeling toward her. After making a beeline for a tiny rocking chair, Sadie traces the letters painted on it and recites, "S‑A‑D‑I‑E." Her mother looks stunned that the 18-month-old seems to know part of the alphabet.
"Sadie? Sadie, did you just say those letters? Sadie, where's Papa?"
The baby makes a grab for Applegate's crescent-moon charm, now tangled with the scripted gold initial Sshe's also wearing.
"Whoa," says her mother. "This is all going way too fast."
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what are some of the most hilarious moments you have ever experienced.
a top tier one for me was when i was in i think 8th grade, i went to mario's house to bring him over to my house or something. you see mario lives across the street from this broken down old barn, which at the time(not sure if still) had about 30 illegal mexican immigrants living in it. so we had to use their drive way in the back to turn around. we pulled into the drive way, and just sitting there, in the clearing behind the barn, was a parked car, turned off, with at least 5 mexicans inside it, just sitting, there, 3 of them wearing sombreros, and all of them drinking bottles of alcohol.
A small car, full of 5 mexicans, just sitting beside a barn, not turned on, with them wearing sombreros and drinking alcohol. it was one of the most ridiculous and hilarious things i've ever seen in my life.
WHY were they in the car? they lived in the barn. the barn was about 10 feet away from the car. but they chose to sit in the car, with it not even turned on, drinking alcohol, and for some reason wearing sombreros.


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2002 Inductee, College Football Hall of Fame
1979 Inductee, Arizona State Hall of Fame
Known as arguably the greatest pass-catcher in the history of the Arizone State program, John Jefferson rewrote the university, Western Athletic Conference and NCAA record books in his four-year career (1974-77).
Jefferson's breakout year occurred in 1975 when he led the Sun Devils with 52 receptions and 921 yards receiving on the way to a perfect 12-0 season and an appearance in the Fiesta Bowl, where he was named Most Valuable Player. ASU finished second in the national polls, its highest ranking in history.
A consensus All-America selection in 1977 and two-time All-Western Athletic Conference pick, Jefferson concluded his career with an NCAA record 42 consecutive games with a reception. He remains the ASU career leader in career receptions with 188 and career receiving yardage with 2,993. Recognized as Arizona Amateur Athlete of the Year in 1977, he was twice selected as the Sun Devils Most Valuable Player and led the team in receiving all four years.
Following graduation, Jefferson was selected fourth overall in the first round of the 1978 National Football League draft by the San Diego Chargers.
He played parts of eight NFL seasons with the Chargers, Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns, being named to the Pro Bowl four times. After retiring, Jefferson became an assistant coach at the University of Kansas before becoming director of player development for the Washington Redskins.
John Jefferson's Career Arizona State Statistics Year Rec. Yards TDs 1974 30 423 1 1975 52 921 6 1976 48 681 5 1977 58 968 8 Totals 188 2,993 20


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If you've never heard Friedman or heard of him, for that matter, head to Deer Valley's Snow Park Amphitheater for tomorrow's free Mountain Town Music Series concert at 6 PM. Like everyone else in Park City, you'll likely love him, too.
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Some people are just so talented-like Steve Martin, for example, who can pen a sweet novella, make a stone face laugh and play the banjo like mad. And then there's Park City's Bryon Friedman, a former U.S. Ski Team downhill skier (downhill, did you read that? The crazy, fast stuff) and super talented musician. Friedman sounds (and looks) like Jack Johnson, but he's got more punch and energy to his music. His voice is rich and round and his melodies bright, folky acoustic that either mellow you out or make you tap your feet. Friedman's latest album, Matchstick Memories gets regular play on Sirius XM's Coffee House channel and last year, he was selected as one of the top 5 singer/songwriter discoveries of the year.


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EMU Acquires Rare 16th Century Book
Elwood Yoder shows the 1539 book printed on the Beck Press in Strasbourg, Germany, to Menno Simons Historical librarian Lois Bowman. Looking on is EMU senior Rachael L. Penman. Photo by Jim Bishop Elwood E. Yoder of Harrisonburg can't quite believe what he had ...More


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Rapid City, S.D. – The Black Hills State University men's basketball team outscored S.D. School of Mines by 21 points in the second half Wednesday night en route to a 80-61 victory.
Will John Johnson tallied another double-double in the game scoring 13 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Cain Atkinson led the Yellow Jackets in scoring with 18 points going 7-of-9 from the field and 3-of-4 from three-point range. Craig Von Allman came off the bench to score 15 points. Luke Enos was held to his second lowest point total of the season, 10 points.
Black Hills State moves to 9-2 overall and 1-0 in the Dakota Athletic Conference.
The Yellow Jackets will play their next game on Dec. 4 against Peru State in Spearfish, S.D. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. MT. The game can be heard locally on 980 KDSJ AM and online at www.kdsj980.com.
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Robert Douglas Johnson
Position: C
Height: 6-5 Weight: 262 lbs.
Born: August 19, 1946 in Gary, IN
High School: Bradley
College: Tennessee (school history) (Johnson college stats)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1st round (2nd overall) of the 1968 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 59 (981st overall since 1950)
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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Vegetables
Super-Nutritious Vegetables
by Deborah Wechsler
To all the reasons you might choose one vegetable variety over another--appearance, flavor, yield, pest resistance, or regional adaptation--now you can add enhanced nutrition. The vegetables you'll read about here aren't just good for you. They've been bred to be better for you.
As nutrition research makes clearer each year, good foods are the best way to supply nutrients to our bodies. So naturally, a vegetable's nutrient content is becoming an important measure of its value. Research is also showing that fruits and vegetables provide us with important disease-fighting chemicals. So it makes sense that plant breeders would focus on making vegetables even more healthful.
Needless to say, home gardeners are best positioned to take advantage of these breeding advances. None of these varieties are any more difficult to grow than older ones, and most are readily available.
Carrots and Carotenes
Researchers have gradually increased carotene levels over the years, says Phil Simon, a USDA plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As recently as 1980, a typical hybrid carrot had 80 to 100 parts per million (ppm) of carotene. New high-carotene varieties have twice as much, and breeders are testing varieties that have up to 500 ppm.
Although dark, leafy greens, sweet potatoes, and winter squash are all good sources of carotene, carrots are the champs. If these carotene-rich carrots were widely available, the positive impact would be immense, because Americans rely upon carrots for most of their dietary vitamin A. "With some standard varieties, you'd have to eat 1 to 2 pounds of carrots a day to meet your dietary needs," Simon points out. "By comparison, you only need to consume as little as half a carrot of a high-carotene variety to meet your dietary need."
By the way, don't worry about eating too many carrots. While too much vitamin A in pill form can be harmful, you can't consume too much carotene. Your body just takes as much as it needs to make vitamin Aand discards the rest. (Notable exceptions are babies and those individuals with an extra sensitivity to carotenoids: Too many carrots can make their skin turn orange.)
An unusually colored, nutrient-enhanced carrot will reach supermarkets in 1997. At Texas A&M University, researchers have developed a purple-skinned, orange-cored carrot named 'BetaSweet', with carotene levels of 180 to 220 ppm. It will be test-marketed as precut slices or "BetaBites". If you see them in the stores, give them a try and decide if you want to grow them; seeds will become available to home gardeners in 1998 or 1999.
In the meantime, here are three high-carotene carrots you can grow now. The number of days until harvest after sowing seed is listed in parentheses.
'Ingot' (63 days). This 6- to 8-inch-long, blunt-ended, Nantes-type hybrid carrot has a sweet flavor. Its carotene levels are between 120 and 170 ppm.
'Beta Champ' (74 days). This Imperator-type hybrid has 10-inch-long tapered roots. It is great for juicing. Testing shows it consistently contains 150 to 270 ppm carotene.
'Healthmaster' (110 days). These large, 3-inch-diameter, 10-inch-long, hybrid Danvers-type carrots take a long season to mature but are sweet-tasting. Carotene levels are between 60 and 95 ppm, about 35 percent higher than levels in older, open-pollinated Danvers varieties.
What about carrot flavor? Unfortunately, says Simon, when his team started selecting for high carotene levels, it didn't simultaneously select for flavor. High-carotene carrots tend to also be high in turpenoids, which can make some carrots strong-tasting and bitter. "I'd have to say that the flavor of most of these high-carotene carrots is just average. But the genetics of the two characteristics are independent, and there's no reason superior flavor can't be bred in." John Navazio, vegetable breeder at Chriseeds in Mount Vernon, Washington, agrees. "I'm working on some material with over 250 ppm that will have great flavor and great eating quality."


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ZF-7039: Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2 Improperly Formats Signature/Request
EC2 Services use the API from 2008-12-01 and the current version is 2009-04-04
When signing requests the documentation states the code is setting the Timestamp parameter but the code actually sets Expires to the current time. Timestamp should be set to the current time, or Expires should be set to a few seconds in the future The code also used gmdate('c') which creates a timestamp in the wrong format for AWS
When signing requests Amazons documentation says that we should include empty parameters (ie "...Device=&Force=&InstanceId=&...") and the signature code does this, however when the Parameters are passed to the Zend_Http_Client that code drops empty (===null) data and changes the data we send that AWS expects to see to get the Signature:
Observe (data to sign)
POST ec2.amazonaws.com /
Observe (data sent)
Notice that DeviceID and InstanceID have been dropped as well as Force has changed from blank to zero (This is behaviour request calling detachVolume and only passing the volume_id paramter) That is to say:
Saying this: $ebs->detachVolume('vol-0de71234') will fail because the signature it creates is not valid
But if we say this $ebs->detachVolume('vol-0de71234','','',0) The signature will succeed
This is a patch that does two things:
1) Forces data types for parameters on EBS->detachVolume() so they are treated the same by both Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Abstract and Zend_Client_Http to correct the signature issue
2) Fixes a minor formatting issue in Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Abstract
3) Changes the AWS parameter from Expires to Timestamp (which should help users who's clocks are off by a little bit)
4) Changes the format of the Timestamp value to match exactly with what Amazon wants.
gmdate('c'); - this format includes a trailing '+00:00' which AWS hates (but has seemed to work so far (oddly))
I am currently working on the update to 04-04-2009 and I should have it ready to check into the trunk by next monday. Once I get ZF-6717 done I will apply this patch and post it.
Fixed merged into the release branch with r16392


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ZF-8457: Improving scalability of Zend_XmlRpc by replacing DOMDocument with plain text templates
Hey guys! I'm currently working on a WebService using Zend_XmlRpc. The service has to handle rather large responses. However, as I had to find out, the (imho excessive) use of DOMDocument instances for building XML requests/responses becomes a tremendous parameter as the number of processed values grows.
Replacing DOMDocument with plain text templates in Zend_XmlRpc_Value_*::saveXML() improved performance a lot. The cummulativ execution time of Zend_XmlRpc_Response::__toString() became about 3 times faster.
Attached to this report you can find a patch against ZF-1.9.3PL1 which solves this issue. A fork of Zend_XmlRpc which can be used as a standalone replacement (i.e. no need to touch ZF code) can be found here: http://github.com/polycaster/Polycast_XmlRpc/
Cheers! Andreas
Using plain text templates is a no-go due to character encoding issues. DOMDocument largely masks these for us and ensures they do not become a problem; this was one reason for choosing it.
One alternative implementation would be to use XMLWriter, which would be quite possible. XMLWriter is very fast, and also would mask the encoding issues. Would you be willing to try an implementation using it and benchmarking it?
Sure, encoding is a good point. I'll give the XMLWriter solution a try and keep you posted.
XDebug profiles of two similar request. The only difference is the XmlRpc implementation.
On the left handside is the current ZF implementation. On the right the patched version using XMLWriter.
Looks like XMLWriter is performing way better.
Argh, sorry, the last patch was broken. Here's a proper one :)
As I'm on vacation for the next week, I would like to work on this issue. @Matthew: could we just bring that in without a proposal? @Everybody: I would prefer an adapter based version, as XMLWriter is the more exotic extension and I would imagine it might not be available everywhere. @Andreas: are you available in the next week to work on this issue?
I've committed a refactored version of the client which introduces a new subpackage (Zend_XmlRpc_Generator_*). This generators are used to build the XML of request/response/values. It would be very kind if you could redo your performance measurements with the version in standard trunk and see if it is still as fast as you expected it to be.
I'll perform another benchmark in the next days. Have been offline the last week. I'll keep you posted.
Sorry for the dely.
I tested the new version of Zend_XmlRpc with the same benchmark as before, but now, using XMLWriter the memory goes through the roof with just a fracture of the number of Zend_XmlRpc Values involved.
For comparison: Before, I was able to handle about 900 (more or less equal) response objects within approx. 3.2 seconds with the benchmark application. Now it works with 100 of them in ~3ms, but runs out of memory with larger responses - whereas the memory limit is quite fair.
So, the CPU load looks constantly fine. I can't see a drastic overhead compared to the version without the adapters. But, I can't really compare the results as I was not able to test on the large scale.
However, the memory thing is a no-go in my opinion.
I traced the benchmark with xdebug and found after all, that the problem can be solved if XMLWriter is flush()ed more frequently.
Find a my proposal for a solution attached.
@Lars, regarding the patch: Before I read your latest patch I had already worked on an adapter-based solution, but didn't finish it, before you released yours. After I did the benchmark it was easier for me to modify my own code, because it was coincidentally closer to the flush-more-often-solution. Adapt the patch as you like, but I'm sorry I reverted some of your changes.
Besides (and totally not related to the actual issue anymore): I moved the ?etEncoding() methods to Zend_XmlRpc_Generator_AbstractGenerator. I think it is better to solve this with dependency injection as it gets you out of the troubles you get in, when setting the generator after you set the encoding.
Cheers! Andreas
No comment at all?
I'm sorry for the long time I took to respond, was on vacation. Will try to fix the issue next weekend and let you know, when I reached anything good.
Any news about this issue yet?
Maybe it'd help to set the ticket status to "open" :)
With the memory problem still unsolved the situation became actually worse and the component moved from slow to not usable at all. Well, that is in my scenario, but I suppose others may be affected as well.
I second the suggestion to re-open the ticket. I am curious why the XMLWriter generator is now the default (if XMLWriter is enabled). Given the "new-ness" of this feature and the concerns about its memory usage, I think the DOMDocument generator should be used unless there is a call to {{Zend_XmlRpc_Value::setGenerator(new Zend_XmlRpc_Generator_XMLWriter());}}
This is just my monthly reminder to have a look at this ticket or at least give a comment if you're going to work on this.
We experience similar issues with 1.10.2. XmlRpc is pretty unstable, next to unusable for us.
I've been trying all thoughts of things - from caching the definitions (two ways) to {{XmlWriter}} etc.. None of them seem to have a greater impact in my setup.
My issue is as follows:
We have an service layer in our application which we use to authenticate people on the backend and also grab useful information from the backend for customer support and so on. One of the biggest things is a search by name across our user data. The relevant SQL query takes 0.08 seconds to run which is acceptable for customer support, but it returns 150 records.
Each record is an array of username, first, last, email, account type and when the account was created and last modified. Now whenever I have a large result set, I keep getting socket timeouts (10 seconds). I've tried using a custom {{Zend_Http_Client}} on {{Zend_XmlRpc_Client}} with a higher timeout to no avail.
We recently upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.10.2 and this is when those issues started. I've been profiling a lot over the last two days and it seems that the XML generating is taking an awful long time on the server, but exceeding 10 seconds is still insane.
I've also tried to {{setSkipSystemLookup(true)}} - which didn't help either.
It seems to work stable and consistent with result sets smaller than 30-40 records. The funky thing is that this used to work fine. We've been using the {{Zend_XmlRpc}} components for over two years in production.
I've ruled out network connectivity and DNS etc. too.
This is related to ZF-9504. The new "Generator" method of doing things in 1.10 is causing an exponential growth in memory usage when using DOMDocument based generation. This too increases script execution time.
With the fix to ZF-9504 I think this should be considered resolved as well. After this patch I'm able to return XMLResponses with a 1500+ item resultset in < 4 seconds on my laptop.
My resultset looks like:
array( 'values' => array( 0 => array( 'id' => 1, 'name' => 'Foobar', 'group_id' => 7, 'priority' => 0, ), // ... 1550 => array(/* ... */), ), 'last_modified' => '2010-01-01 00:00:00', )
Performance is nearly identical for both DOMDocument and XMLWriter, ~19M total mem usage and ~3.7s wall-time.


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Who says sex stops at midlife? Dr. Dorree Lynn, author of Sex for Grownups, debunks the myths and reveals the lies.
Myth #1: Older women are lousy lovers.?
False! For centuries, older women would initiate young men into the world of sexual pleasures. You have history and experience on your side; you've lived long enough to have earned your stature. Hold your head up high and believe in yourself. Think of some of those wonderful role models: Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirran, Meryl Streep, Iman and so many others. Roll like a Role Model and show the word how wonderful it is to be over 50 and how fortunate a woman is to get there.
Myth #2: Older women don't want sex as much as older men do.
Women just want more talk along with sex. Women love foreplay and feeling desired. If your partner doesn't "get it" suggest a date night away from the bedroom and gently talk to him (or her) about what you want. Communication is the key. Foreplay starts in the morning with an " I love you" or a stroke of your hair. Desire can continue at any age.
Myth #3: Older women's sex drive diminishes more quickly than older men's.
It's just more complex. Remember sex is more than penetration. Many women can have multiple orgasms forever. But, cuddling, touching and sharing are all part of sex. If hormone help is needed, there are many traditional and alternative aids. And exercise always helps. Many women say after 50, they know what they want. Therefore, sex can be better than ever.
Myth #4: Older women don't want oral sex.
Some do, some don't. If oral sex has never been your thing, you may not want it. On the other hand you may love it. Or, you may want to try it and find out. Sexual preferences are as varied as we are. With added years we can feel free enough to experiment any way we want.
Myth #5: Older women don't fantasize.
Many women have active fantasy lives. But if you are one of the few who fantasizes about your shopping list while making love, try something or someone sexier. Some studies show that eyes, faces and butts turn on women. Fantasies are normal and a natural way the mind works. Remember, no one can read your mind. And there's a big difference between thinking something and acting on it.
Myth #6: Older women must have romance to have sex.
That's false, although many do desire connection. Most women tend to like being wined and dined. But, many women over 50 prefer easy encounters and/or friends with benefits. They like their independence and they like sex. They prefer no muss, no fuss. Women remain as wonderfully complex and different after 50 as they were before.
Myth #7: Older women lose their vaginal sensitivity.
It depends on the woman. While for many hormone changes can cause painful vaginal dryness, this is not always the case. In addition to suggestions listed in #3, remember "use it or lose it is the key." Vibrators are perfectly acceptable health aids. Menopause does not mean men-o-pause.
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Krop Places Third, Four Others Reach Podium, In Strong Wrestling Debut
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Prior to a torn ACL in his regular-season finale two years ago, Adam Krop had plans for an All-America season. After a year of determined rehabilitation, it doesn't appear that Krop's goals have changed upon his return. The junior took third at the the Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open, a highlight performance that included four other Princeton wrestlers placing in the top six at the season-opening event.
Other placewinners included sophomore Kevin Moylan, who took fourth at 149, as well as Matthew Gancayco (165), Ryan Callahan (174) and Abe Ayala (197), each of whom finished in the fifth/sixth spot.
It was a highly impressive team showing for Princeton in an event that included reigning national champion Penn State, reigning EIWA champion Cornell and several other national powers. Beyond the five placewinners, multiple Princeton wrestlers made deep runs in both the championship and consolation draws.
"I think they all wrestled hard," head coach Chris Ayres. "It was a good measuring stick. We know what we have to work on. We have a few weight classes who are doing really well, and a few who need to step it up if we're going to be a good dual team."
Krop, who broke into the national Top 15 as a sophomore, won seven of his eight matches Sunday, with his lone loss coming in the quarterfinal to eventual champion Zain Rutherford of Penn State. That match, a 6-3 win for the highly touted Penn State freshman, was the only close match of the day for Rutherford; of Krop's seven wins, one came by fall, two came by technical fall and two came by major decision.
Moylan, who started at 141 last season, won six matches at 149, including a pair in the championship draw. His trip to the consolation final included a brilliant third-period comeback, when he turned a five-point deficit with 40 seconds remaining into a three-point win, thanks to two near falls and a takedown.
Freshman Matthew Gancayco may not have been the most heralded member of his class, but he turned some heads in his run through the 165-pound weight class. After winning two championship draw matches by fall, he added a third fall in the consolation round and a tight 3-2 win to clinch a spot in the top six.
While Gancayco was making his collegiate debut, Callahan was looking to build off his impressive finish to the 2013 season, when he placed at the EIWA Championships. The senior was one of two Tigers who had the deepest run throught the championship draw, reaching the semifinals before falling in a close 7-4 decision to Cornell's Owen Scott. He lost to another Cornell wrestler, Jesse Shanaman, in the consolation semifinal. Shanaman also eliminated Princeton freshman Brett Harner, a freshman who reached the quarterfinal round, but ultimately fell one match short of placewinner status.
Ayala placed at the Binghamton Open for the second straight year. Like Callahan, he reached the semifinal round before falling to eventual champion Morgan McInstosh of Penn State. Ayala showed some impressive toughness in his route to the semifinals, though, winning two of his three matches by two points apiece.
Other Princeton wrestlers to reach the championship quarterfinals were freshman Trey Aslanian (125), sophomore Nick Maselli (149), junior Kyle Roddy (157), Harner (174), and freshman Troy Murtha (184). Another freshman, Jordan Laster, lost in second round of the 133-pound draw to eventual champion Mark Grey of Cornell; the 6-2 decision would be the second-closest match for Grey throughout his title run.


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In addition to other good options that we'll mention in a moment, Salt Lake City music fans can take a mini-tour of the 1960s courtesy of The State Room starting tonight as a member of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary pays a visit as part of a fundraiser for "Peaceful Uprising," a local awareness group. Tickets are $60 for the evening, which runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and is being billed as a "small, private concert." In addition to singing, Yarrow will also do some impressions, according to Peace Up's website.
Then on Tuesday, former colleagues of acclaimed guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, who also debuted in the 1960s, hit TSR in what should be a cool night of the late, great Zappa's music. Anyone with serious chops on their instrument or fans of people with serious chops knows that Zappa wrote and performed some of the most complex, intriguiging rock music around - and all with a huge sense of humor. Despite being dead for nearly 20 years, Zappa still has legions of fans and has at least two tribute bands still playing his music. (His son Dweezil fronts the other, "Zappa Plays Zappa"). Tickets remain on sale at The State Room's website.
Also Tuesday at Abravanel Hall, it's All-Star night as local high school musicians join the Utah Symphony for what promises to be a spectacular night of music. Guest conductor Vladimir Kulenovic will lead the orchestra as they play a violin concerto by Tchaikovsky.
And on Wednesday, Mickey Hart, a former Grateful Dead member who spent nearly 25 years with the band and is pictured above, leads his latest project into The State Room for what will be a guaranteed standup groovefest. Mickey was last in SLC with The Rhythm Devils in the summer of 2010 and he really tries to guarantee an energetic show. I'm expecting no different this time, especially with Widespread Panic's bassist Dave Schools anchoring the gig. This show's been sold out for weeks. But keep an eye on The State Room's website for either fans having extra tickets or a possible late release of tickets, which occasionally happens.
And at Kilby Court, a Canadian indie-rock band that writes moody, catchy stuff called Plants and Animals will headline a 7 p.m. gig. Tickets are just $10 and no opening act has been announced yet. These guys are well worth seeing and they're touring behind the excellent new release "The End of That," which came out in February.


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by V. Chow
April 28, 2007
The origin of tea began around 2737 B.C. in China. Emperor Sh'eng Nung took a journey outside of his kingdom, he was resting by a tree. It is accustom to drink boiled water for hygienic reason. A dried leaf from a near by tree fell in his hot water turning it to a brownish color. The Emperor drink it and found it refreshing. There began the long history of tea that is loved by many of us today.
Tea sales is inching up to coffee sales in the United States. It is a refreshing drink hot or cold. Tea didn't begin with so many flavors we have today. As a matter of fact, it was taken as a medicine until 618 A.D. The tea plant, Camellia sinensis has many uses. At one time, the Chinese created over 200 uses to treat different illnesses. Tea has a high antioxidant capacity—green tea more so than black, having been through less processing. Its antioxidants appear to reduce the risk of cancer and improve cardiovascular health. We are used to drinking coffee to stay awake. Drinking tea does not have the same effect. It is soothing and calms the nerves.
It is amazing that one plant, Camellia sinensis, can produce a variety of teas – black, green, white and yellow. The finest teas are from picking the two young leaves and a bud. The plant is no more than three feet tall. Depending on where it grows and how it is processed, the leaves can turn into 3000 kinds of teas being sold worldwide. Herbal teas are not considered true tea as the leaves and flowers are from other plants.
"Teatime" is an enjoy ritual around the world. It is a drink that takes time to brew. You can relax and savor the taste. The image of tea is refined and elegant. The traditions of tea are in many countries such as British tea, Japanese tea ceremony, Chinese Gu-fu chai, India tea, and others. We all take our tea just a little differently. As many types of latte, espresso and coffee we created, there are even more flavors of teas and ways to enjoy them.


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Press Release 12-226 Characteristics of U.S. Science and Engineering Doctorates Detailed in New Report
New data show recent trends in U.S. doctoral STEM education
NSF data serves as a leading indicator for knowledge creation and innovation for doctoral education.
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December 6, 2012
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) yesterday released a report titled Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: 2011 that unveils important trends in U.S. doctoral education.
The report calls attention to the changing characteristics of U.S. doctorate recipients over time, including the increased representation of women, minorities and foreign nationals; the emergence of new fields of study; the time it takes to complete doctoral study; the expansion of the postdoctoral pool; and employment opportunities after graduation.
Understanding connections among these characteristics is of paramount importance to improving U.S. doctoral education and helping the system maintain its leadership role.
This annual count by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a direct measure of the human resource pool that is on a path to careers in science, engineering, mathematics and research, and these data can serve as leading indicators of U.S. capacity for knowledge creation and innovation.
Trends in the report can be examined in greater depth through accompanying online resources including an interactive version of the report and 70 detailed data tables available as PDF and Excel files.
For more information on this report, contact Mark K. Fiegener.
Visit NSF's NCSES for access to more reports and other products.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2016, its budget is $7.5 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 48,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards. NSF also awards about $626 million in professional and service contracts yearly.
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Denitia Odigie and Sene have teamed up to create a dreamy electro-soul duo they aptly call denitia and sene. Their most recent tune stretches out slowly like taffy and wraps itself around you. Hear "breathe.dream.scream." whilst getting your snuggle on, we suggest.
After the jump, get familiar with another couple older and also great tunes, "casanova" and "again. (new ride.)" Looking forward to the album, which apparently is set for later this year.


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Valmont Bike Park celebrates one-year anniversary
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The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the grand opening of Valmont Bike Park. The park, located at the corner of Valmont and Airport roads, is a 42-acre, natural-surface facility, recognized as the largest urban bike park open free to the public and offers multiple disciplines for all ages and abilities. The grand opening of Valmont Bike Park occurred on June 11, 2011, at which more than 2,500 children and adults enjoyed a ribbon-cutting ceremony, vendor expo, food, fun and rides on the many park amenities and features.
"We are proud to celebrate the one-year anniversary of such a unique and world-class park," said Kirk Kincannon, Parks and Recreation Department Director. "Over the past year, Valmont Bike Park has won attention from riders from all over the world for its quality of design, construction and innovative terrain park features. Our dedicated staff and volunteers work daily to ensure the best possible experience for riders of all ages and abilities."
Over the past year, Valmont Bike Park:
- Served an estimated 50,000 riders from across the country and the globe, including Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom
- Trained more than 100 Bike Park volunteers to serve as park hosts and assist City of Boulder staff in community service to the park and users
- Coordinated with more than 600 volunteers serving over 2,000 hours of onsite assistance to benefit the park
- Distributed more than 200 free helmets to youth and families
provided programs, clinics and lessons to more than 350 cyclists from the beginner to expert skill level
- Partnered with more than two dozen businesses, agencies and organizations to offer additional onsite and offsite services such as programs, demonstrations, food, lodging and support
- Hosted various cycling events serving more than 2,000 participants and more than 3,000 daily spectators
- Was named the host venue for the 2014 Cyclo-Cross Nationals.
"Valmont Bike Park is one of the most unique and diverse bike parks in the nation," said Michael Eubank, Valmont Bike Park Coordinator. "The park was uniquely designed for both public day-to-day recreational use, programming, special events and world-class races. Over the past year, we've achieved success in all of these areas due to the quality of the park's design, construction and onsite maintenance-not to mention the help from a number of volunteers, organizations and partners such as the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance, Boulder Community Hospital, Avid4 Adventure and Lee Likes Bikes, just to name a few."


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Park Young-Guk is the father of Kim Young-Guk. He is also a contact of Derrick McReary, who he entrusted to protect Kim when he came in the country with a load of fake hundred dollar bills. Along with him came Niko Bellic, who also later killed Kim on orders of Jon Gravelli.


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The Kent County real estate market saw homes sold at higher prices and local inventory actually continued to decline in 2012, with both trends continuing into the first quarter of 2013, local realtors reported.
Kent County Association of Realtors officers said the gains were enough to signal the rudimentary beginning of a transition from what has been strictly a buyer's market, post Great Recession, into a veritable seller's market that followed the laws of supply and demand.
Kent County Association of Realtors President Michele Bilow, owner of EXIT Realty, said the lower inventory and the ensuing increase in multiple offers to sellers both combined to help increase average settled prices 6.7 percent to $175,000.
"In the recession, you had a lot of homeowners that were struggling because of lower cost prices, which was causing more short sales," Bilow said. "Because of the fact that you have less inventory on the market, you're seeing prices come back in that aspect.
"It's helping raise your market values, which is helping different developments that were hurt by several properties going to foreclosure," she said. "Foreclosures have increased in price as well."
Kent County Association of Realtors President-elect Doug Doyle, of Harrington ERA Realty, cautioned that a seller's market was still a ways off from maturation. However, Doyle said inventory actually started decreasing in 2009.
The first name of Kent County Association of Realtors President-elect Doug Doyle, of Harrington ERA Realty,was corrected in this article. The Dover Post sincerely regrets the error.
"If you just look at Kent County stats, the inventory has gone down for 39 straight months," he said. "So, it's starting to become a challenge, especially finding good homes on the market. There are still a lot of junky homes on the market but good homes are selling fast compared to 12 months or even six months ago.
"Pending sales are way up and new listings are way down," he said. "So, at some point, we're going to get to a situation where it does become more of a seller's market than a buyer's market. And prices will go up. They're going to have to."
This would help home values in the long run, and it would happen at a healthy pace, Bilow said.
"It may not be as much of an increase that you had when the market was on fire," she said. "But you're still seeing value increase every year, which is a better way to recover."
A pent-up demand for homes, including from those who moved in with family during the recession, was helping to fuel the recovery, Doyle said.
"There are people coming out from underneath the rock," he said. "People still need somewhere to live and most people still want to be homeowners.
Page 2 of 2 - "Part of the supply issue goes back to the timeframe where people bought houses that are still not valued at where they can sell them [for profit]," Doyle added. "So, we're losing some of the move-up people because of that."
It may still be hard for people to understand the bounce back in the real estate market, Doyle said. But the realtors association felt the pain, losing half of its membership. Also, real estate licensing classes dried up. But classes reappeared last year and have continued this year, he said.
In addition, many consumers realized that they could take on a mortgage with lower monthly payments than the rental market, which capitalized on the market conditions, Bilow said.
"People really understand the benefit of owning a property and having the tax write-off, as long as that continues to exist, and to have that pride of home ownership versus renting a property and having to get permission to customize a home to your needs," she said. "And they can actually pay less."
ABOUT KENT COUNTY REAL ESTATEThe total inventory of homes available for sale in Kent County was down 20 percent in January 2013 compared to January 2012, while the number of homes that went to settlement increased by 15.5 percent. In addition, selling prices increased by nearly 7 percent.Single-Family Jan. 2012 Jan. 2013Inventory 1,393 1,118Settled Units 84 97Median Price $150,000 $160,000Stl. Price/Original Price 89.1 % 92.0 %Source: Market History Report 2013, by TREND, courtesy Kent County Association of Realtors.
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Alison Krauss & Union Station have been collectively nominated for eight International Bluegrass Music Awards. Nominations were announced last night at a special ceremony, held at the Loveless Barn in Nashville. The awards show will be held Sept. 27 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Nominations include: Entertainer of the year Album of the yearRead More


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Walker's Pace: Men Climb Six Spots After Pac-12 Meet
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
On the heels of its third-place showing at last weekend's Pac-12 Championships, Oregon's men's cross country team jumped six spots to No. 17 in the latest USTFCCCA poll.
The women remained at No. 11 for the second week in a row.
The men were third behind only Colorado and Stanford at the Pac-12 meet. Those two squads were ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, this week.
The women's Pac-12 meet showed why the league is the strongest in the nation. Four of this week's top 11 teams are from the conference, including league champ Colorado at No. 3, Washington at No. 6, Stanford at No. 8 and Oregon at No. 11.
Looking ahead to the Nov. 12 NCAA West Regional, the men will be facing No. 6 Stanford, No. 8 Portland and No. 21 UCLA.
The women will square off against the aforementioned Washington and Stanford, as well as No. 16 Arizona, No. 26 California and No. 27 San Francisco.
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Hosted by Sang Yoon (Father's Office, Lukshon, Top Chef Masters), the second annual LUCKYRICE Feast is returned to Culver City on July 27th with innovative and traditional Asian-styled dishes paired with fancy cocktails from LA's brightest star chefs and mixologists. Ticket proceeds benefited CAAM, Center for Asian American Media. The annual smorgasbord of Asian culinary treats featured from dishes from LA's hot Asian culinary culture including a dozen-plus cocktails, beer, wine, champagne and overall a great time to eat.
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Geoff Tuck reviews the exhibition Painting at The Box, Los Angeles, on view through January 26, 2013.
Tuck writes: "The artworks – which include painting and not painting, video and sculpture, object and action – are personal and political and beautiful and objectionable and charming and difficult. Each is a lesson in how to make a thing that that hovers between socially-acceptable-honesty and just-way-too-earnest-for-comfort... Most of the work in Paintings is historical, made between 1953 and 1992, with two works by Paul McCarthy and one by Alfons Schilling from 2012. The feeling in the room, the sensibility that prevails is not, however, dated; the paintings, videos and sculptures at The Box seem absolutely pertinent to the world outside the gallery, to the world in which we live."
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It's every parent's nightmare: One minute you're strolling to school with your child on a sunny day and the next, your child has been killed in a car accident. That's the tragic turn of events in Lee Woodruff's first novel, Those We Love Most, out today (September 11).
Woodruff co-wrote the best-seller In an Instant with her husband, Bob Woodruff, a television journalist who was embedded with troops in Iraq when he was hit by a roadside bomb that left him with traumatic brain injury. Those We Love Most takes a close look at a family tragedy—and the grieving process —through two generations: the parents of the child and the grandparents, exposing secrets and betrayals along the way.
We spoke with Woodruff last week about delving into such a heart-breaking subject, how her own experience with a family tragedy informed her writing and why she thinks there's a place for books about real experiences in the midst of the Fifty Shades of Grey fad. An edited version of the interview follows.
MORE: The death of a child is a subject most people don't even want to think about. So, why tackle such a tough topic?
Lee Woodruff: Somebody once said to me—and I think it's true—that, as a fiction writer, your story finds you. It actually came from a real-life phone call from a friend of mine who has a son my child's age (he was then 17) and who had hit a child on bike. The child had a brain injury and the parents wanted to talk to someone about what that meant. I remember thinking, wow, in-an-instant all those lives it impacted – the child, the child's family, the boy who was driving the car, his family. And I thought that would be a really interesting to take one event and then look at it from 360 degrees, how one intersection in time could affect all these people for the rest of their lives.
MORE: Did you ever think the idea of dealing with a child's death might be too sad for some readers?
LW: When I think about some of the great books that women tend to hop on board with, a lot of them deal with tough subject matter—loss and grief and all the things that we as human beings have to deal with. Women will go through so many things in life, caretaking their own parents, raising their children and watching bad things happen, as they invariably do. A lot of those stories are, in the end, stories of how people work through them.
MORE: How did your husband's near-death experience inform your writing?
LW: I think every fiction writer does, to a degree, write about what they know. I certainly was on a really familiar basis with grief and what it felt like to be scared and not know what an outcome was going to be like. So, absolutely, there are little bits of me laced in to all of the characters.
MORE: In dealing with Bob's brain injury, what lessons did you learn about dealing with a scary situation as a family?
LW: I think one is that we are not alone. In every experience, someone has been there before. There's probably somebody down the road who can offer helpful advice. I think the other is that in your very worst moment, you can tell yourself that it will never get worse that this. And I think, in the end, most humans are built to survive. We're built to overcome and work through and get through pretty amazing things. We're resilient.
MORE: The families in the book struggle to make their marriages work after the tragedy, even though they weren't exactly in a great place before the boy's death. Can so-called good things result from a tragedy?
LW: I think they can, and in so many ways that's our family's story. Obviously, they're very different situations, but in terms of Bob's injury and recovery, we had gone on and tried to turn some spotlights on service members and their families. It sort of became the basis for where I wanted this book to end up, which is not all tied up in a bow.
MORE: Marriage isn't always easy.
LW: I understand the place in the world for the chick lit with the girl in the stilettos who gets the job and the man and all of that, and that's all great and fine when you're in your twenties or early thirties. But I think real life, and real marriage, is long and a roller coaster, and there are good periods and bad periods. I wanted to display that without it being this cataclysmic downer book. But I think so many people who have been married for more than 10 years, when the honeymoon is definitely off the road and you're hitting real things in life—friends getting divorced or having children with disabilities or friends being diagnosed with illnesses or parents dying —those are all the things in life that can either add to or detract from your relationship or your marriage. And this book is a snapshot of people who have stuck it out, who are there and are wrestling with real issues.
MORE: The teen driving the car in the accident talks about joining the military in the book. Was that a nod to your work with the Bob Woodruff Foundation?
LW: It totally was. I wasn't sure how the book was going to end. I originally had Alex (the teen driver of the car) as a voice in the first draft and I actually loved writing the voice of a 17-year-old surly kid whose life had dramatically changed. In the end, we decided that didn't really work. But then I hit on this concept that he would choose to go into the military, rolling the dice on his future, throwing himself to fate. It was a little bit of self-punishment, not in the sense that going into the military is a punishment, but we were a country at war when this book takes place, so he knows he's not going to be sent to some garden area in a time of peace. Then it became, in my mind, a way to continue the conversation about our troops and about the Foundation and to remind people that there are still people serving.
MORE: Do you think the whole Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon will pass?
LW: I think these books have always existed. They were called porn in the past, and you couldn't get them at your average book store. It's almost like everyone thinks this is a new genre, when it's the same old, same old. My theory is the Internet allows things to become these surprise successes in a way that they couldn't in the past because the funnel was so small. I think the advance of e-readers will mean we'll have an even greater opportunity to skip across a lot of different genres, and I think there's always going to be room for titillating sexual stuff. It's so funny because the Fifty Shades of Grey thing was popping out in my area, a suburb of New York, a little ahead of the curve. I tried pitching it to my network and they were telling me it was never a story they would do —women reading porn. And I was like,You sure? Because I think that this is going to be a tsunami. We did end up ultimately doing the story. Being able to access any kind of thrill on the Internet has made it OK to be sitting there reading it on the subway in plain view of everyone.
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Sometimes glum is the order of the day. Today was one of those days. Glum. Glum. Glum. Strange word that oddly, phonetically, nails the emotion it portrays. And I am choosing to wallow in it. I know all the platitudes — What real reason do I have to be heavy of heart? Well, maybe a couple. The recent, unexpected and unfathomable loss of a very dear friend at a relatively young age is one. But compared to his wife (a treasured BFF), who is doing her best to sally forth and muddle through, my sadness is grief lite. I hurt for her hurt, and it hurts.
And then there's my recent visit with my mother, who at 87 exists in her prison of a body with atypical Parkinson's. For some unknown reason she has decided to quit talking to us. I spent my first day of my visit trying to ascertain why — Did her throat hurt from a recent endoscopic procedure? Was she angry about something? Was she too sad to talk? Or had she lost her "mind to voice" connection? I did not press though and wanted to be accepting of her new choice. Imagine my surprise, and yes, disappointment, when during the evening hours a caregiver walked by us, stopped and greeted my mom and asked her how she was doing and all of a sudden my mom responded with a booming, "I am doing very well, thank you." Hmmm, thanks Mom.
Back home and facing my newly established "empty nest" status, I was happy to learn my son, who is a senior in college, planned an unexpected visit home this weekend. He's a philosophy major though facing the daunting prospects of graduate-school admission and was full of pragmatic comments. He was astute enough to notice my demeanor, and questioned why I was emitting big sighs. "Oh, honey, sigh, it's nothing, sigh, except this big bad world out there might not be ready for one more philosopher, long sigh."
The Glum Anne just wanted to crawl into bed, covers pulled up, pillow over face, and stay put until the first signs of spring. But the phone rang, and it was my other son, my freshman in college who we will see tomorrow as he performs in the marching band at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His immediate response to my quiet hello was, "What's wrong?" "Nothing Sweetie, what's up?" I said.
"No, Mom, what's wrong," he asked again. "I can tell, is it something bad?"
"Everything, is fine, why are you calling?" I said.
"I was wondering if you would make me some chocolate chip cookies?" he said.
After a quick perusal of my cupboard, I found myself hauling out the Kitchen Aid and the next thing I know the butter is creaming with the sugar, and I am starting to feel a tiny, little bit better. As the dough stiffened, and I greased the baking sheets I actually found myself smiling. And once the baked chocolate aroma filled the air, I realized the platitudes of good health and loved ones and being grateful for the here and now are realities to keep front and center. If anything, the loss of a friend or a parent teaches us that, if we can get past our pain, we might be able to do something for ourselves and for others. And it's good to pick ourselves up and do something, anything. Wallowing isn't all that it is cracked up to be.