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NEW ORLEANS -- Randy Moss is standing by his claim that he's the best receiver to ever play in the NFL.
"What I said is what I felt, and I don't want to get into a shouting match with Jerry Rice or anybody," Moss said Wednesday during the 49ers' media access for Super Bowl XLVII. "It's my personal opinion. (Rice) has the numbers, but I don't believe in numbers."
Rice also has three Super Bowl rings. Moss is looking to win his first Sunday when the 49ers face the Baltimore Ravens at the Superdome.
"In today's society, it's how we measures athletes or teams -- on rings," Moss said. "I don't base it that way. I changed the game. But I'm not trying to make it all about me."
Moss, in 2007, broke one of Rice's records by catching 23 touchdown passes for the New England Patriots. Moss noted Wednesday that Rice never phoned him to offer congratulations, something Moss said he'd do to anyone who's surpassed one of his records.
"With the respect and love I have for (Rice), not that I wanted a call, but I thought I would at least get a call to say, 'Congratulations' or something like that," Moss said.
Rice, an ESPN analyst, said Tuesday about Moss' best-ever claim: "You have to look at the stats, you have to look at how you impacted the game, and it's all about winning this right here, this is it, the Super Bowl, and I was fortunate to win three."
Moss returned last March from a one-year hiatus to resume his career for a 14th season. Moss' 156 touchdown catches rank second all-time to Rice's 197.
"If I had two Hall of Fame quarterbacks, what would my numbers be? I worked with one for a few years, and that was Tom Brady," Moss said. "Give me Tom Brady for the next five or six years and you'll see what my numbers would be. ...
"I'm not trying to be disrespectful, because I have love for Jerry Rice. By me saying I'm the greatest wide receiver to ever do it, that's just my personal opinion. ... I don't want to get him fired up and make him think I'm being disrespectful. He started this, you know?"
The 49ers won Madden's weekly honors three times during the season. "That's been a phenomenal group for us, and I'd call them offensive weapons as well," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said.
All five linemen have started every game this season -- left tackle Joe Staley, left guard Mike Iupati, center Jonathan Goodwin, right guard Alex Boone and right tackle Anthony Davis.
The 49ers could place the tag on him again for $7.45 million next season if they don't agree to a multiyear deal.
Goldson has earned Pro Bowl honors the past two seasons, and he was one of six 49ers to make the Associated Press' First-Team All-Pro.
Both are battling left shoulder injuries, and both are expected to play Sunday against the Ravens, who had no players limited in their first practice here.
Brooks said Tuesday he's battling a sprained AC joint, and Smith has been dealing with his ailment for a couple months. Harbaugh declined to confirm the nature of Brooks' injury, telling pool reporter John Clayton of ESPN: "I don't get into what those guys have. If they want to give that information, that's fine. I always feel uncomfortable saying what a player has."
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Casida is the best choice for Congress
You may have noticed Scott Miller's omission of other candidates in the 3rd Congressional District, the University of Colorado's Board of Regents, and judges in his recent article.
Unimportant? Too labor intensive to add? We don't know.
However, if you are sick and tired of the two major parties doing business as usual, slicing and dicing each other up for each other's fault as who does not get important national business done, then I am wholeheartedly recommending you vote for Tisha Casida, an independent.
Even though she has not been invited to important debates between Scott Tipton and Sal Pace, she remains resolute in getting her word out about important topics the won't talk about, as well as the usual drivel and generalizations that their party lines make them follow in lockstep with. Be sure to check out her website - www.casida2012.com.
If you care about the quality of your food and the healthiness of it for your family at the store and from the farm, this is something she is fighting for us as consumers. Regardless of whose health plan gets enacted or retracted, she has no tie in to insurance conglomerates and wants to see these companies do what is best for us as citizens, not be taken advantage of and list crazy conditions that befuddle and confound the brightest of us.
When a veteran comes home, she knows that they deserve more support and compassion than they are getting now. You know this, too, even if you are an anti-war advocate.
She understands that we work hard for our dollars, and they are becoming less effective, eroding in value, because of years of financial manipulation and bungling of higher-ups of our government and private sector, crating a financial policy decipher! She aptly describes this as economic terrorism to our beloved nation.
And if you think your country is not treating you as you feel appropriate, be careful how you speak your mind, as you could be labeled a terrorist and put away in jail without a phone call, courtesy of the National Defense Authorization Act (passed on New Year's Eve while the nation was partying), a travesty of our Constitution no candidate is willing to discuss.
Please check out her platform on more issues on her website. Vote for someone who will fight and support your rights. Send a hardworking, smart, gives-a-darn woman to get rid of D.C. "normalcy" - vote for Tisha Casida
Tommy King
Research on surgery led me to Dr. Millett
I was recently scheduled to have a total shoulder reversal, an obviously complex and painful surgery. Prior to the surgery, I spent time researching the best doctors and hospitals across the country and found Dr. Peter Millett and the Vail Valley Medical Center. I traveled from Iowa to have Dr. Millett and his professional team conduct my surgery.
My surgery went exceptionally well, and the compassionate care I received from doctors and staff was remarkable. I could not have been happier with the out come and care I received.
I want to sincerely thank Dr. Peter Millett, Steadman Clinic staff, Vail Valley Medical Center pre-surgical planning nurses, operating room staff, pre-operative nurses, PACU nurses, anesthesiologist Dr. Lindsey Nelson, patient care nurses, care techs and my therapy team at Howard Head Sports Medicine. Everyone at the medical center who participated with my care was exceptional. I know there were many others who made my stay one of the best, thank you from Iowa!
Richard Arnold
Iowa State Representative
Lots of folks fooled
I was touched by Pam Boyd's apology in the paper regarding the "Alex" hoax. Pam is a great woman with a heart of gold. Her son plays baseball with my son, and anybody who knows her can see what a genuine and kind-hearted woman she is.
I appreciate that she is taking responsibility for her part in this scandal, but it would be a huge mistake for her to take any of the fall-out for this. She was doing what she thought was right.
This is wrong on so many levels, but I think that anybody who knows Pam would agree with me that she was not wrong, nor should she own any of this travesty!
She's a good person and I'm proud to know her. Thank you, Pam, for following your heart.
Dennel Rivera
Don't beat yourself up
The "Alex" story is saddening and confusing.
It's not often that an entire community is duped, but we were and I will readily admit that I was right there with the rest of us. I guess with all of the bad, the difficult, the trying things in the world we were looking for something good - when it came along, we all went for it.
I am so proud of the Eagle Valley High School football team and student body. Real or not, "Alex" showed the world what our kids are made of and it couldn't have been better. I am convinced the next time someone needs help, they'll all step up again. Their sense of trust and compassion - and all of ours - may be bent a little by this, but it's not broken.
To Pam Boyd and others who are feeling somehow partially responsible for this, there is only one person to blame and it certainly isn't you. Don't beat yourself up over this; we all got taken in. Take pride in the fact that you were part of a community that cared and will continue to help those who need it. It's greater than ever to be a Devil!
Paul Witt
Thanks for the help
A huge thank you from NRC365! We sure had fun at the Free Family Fun Fair on Oct. 19-20 at Dobson Arena in Vail, thanks to our wonderful community sponsors: Town of Vail, Xfinity, Bighorn Toyota, Prudential Colorado Properties, American Furniture Warehouse, Specialty Sports Venture and Wells Fargo.
The town of Vail, Vail Recreation District and Vail Resorts offered incredible support for the event as did Xfinity, the title sponsor for all the NRC365 2012 Free Family Fun Fairs.
We're particularly happy to report that a military man and his family visiting from the Colorado Springs area won the children's furniture set generously donated by American Furniture Warehouse. We can't think of a more deserving winner! American Furniture Warehouse supports many NRC365 events, for which we are grateful.
A big shoutout to Mike Slevin at locally owned and operated Prudential Colorado Properties, who underwrote Jim Salestrom's Friday night Teddy Bear Concert. We were thrilled to be treated to Jim's fine musicianship and voice.
Vail Rec District's Chad Young donated a bouncy castle and giant slide to tucker out the kids. Merlin Barnes, with Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, had touchy-feely fossils. Ted Tanis and his local crew came with a NASA astronaut and a crowd-pleasing clown fish and shark that "swam" above the fray. The longest lines weren't for the physical activities, but for the balloon sculptors brought in by Robert Wagner's Slippery Slope Productions of Denver. Doc Eason joined us from Basalt to wow everyone with his magic tricks, and Vail Valley local Patrick Tvarkunas revved up his popular mechanical bull. Jennifer and Adam Trujillo, owners of Jump to It Inflatables in Gypsum, powered-up their huge, and hugely popular, obstacle course. The friendly AirBound guys lugged a quad bungee and climbing wall all the way from Fort Collins.
Thanks, too, to Eagle River Fire Protection District and Eagle County Ambulance District for parking a shiny red firetruck and a decked-out ambulance at the entrance of Dobson Arena for everyone to climb in and around. The Eagle County Ambulance District, in partnership with Vail Valley Medical Center, invited attendees to play a "brain toss" game - safety education is a major part of every Free Family Fun Fair.
We salute our volunteers Evan Wetzel (Eagle Valley Middle School), Eagle Valley High senior Nicole Daigle and senior Katia Lopez and junior Ruth Castaneda, both Battle Mountain High Hispanic mentors.
Last, but definitely not least, we greatly appreciate Dobson Arena Manager Jared Biniecki and his team, especially Paul and Bob.
They willingly obliged us with every request. The event was certainly a success from the operational standpoint.
The Free Family Fun Fair is truly one of our favorite events. Our sponsors, participants and volunteers' helpfulness and good cheer supports our mission of producing fun and friendly events for our listeners, and beyond.
P. S. :We look forward to seeing you at the next Free Family Fun Fair on Saturday, Feb. 9, in Eagle!
Holli Snyder, Janet Thrasher
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A group of female bounty hunters based in Orange County are the targets of a multi-million dollar lawsuit, after a man they tried to take into custody last month claimed they blinded him in one eye and caused him other severe injuries.
Dressed in pink and brandishing weapons, the 'Lipstick Bounty Hunters' burst into an Arby's in Huntington Beach in an attempt to take 35-year-old Daniel Duvall into custody after his bail bond was revoked.
A video taken by the women, and later posted on the Internet, shows the women chasing Duvall out of the restaurant, hitting him with a stun gun, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Duvall managed to drive away, eluding capture.
"They broke his nose, shot him in the eye twice, and blinded him," said San Diego attorney Dan Gilleon, who is expected to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Lipstick Bounty Hunters, as well as others, on Duvall's behalf for using excessive force on his client.
"It's called assault and battery, felony assault and battery," Gilleon said. "It's as simple as that."
Duvall had been out on bond on drugs and weapons charges. He was being sought because he had failed to pay $4,000 he owed a bail bonds company, which then hired the Lipstick Bounty Hunters to arrest him.
Teresa Golt, owner of the Lipstick Bounty Hunters, blasted the allegation that they used excessive force on Duvall.
"We didn't use enough force," she told News 8, "Because by law we are allowed to use enough force to effect an arrest. Well, we did not effect the arrest because he got away."
Duvall did not get away for long, however: Tuesday night, the Lipstick Bounty Hunters tracked him down and took him into custody.
"It was a setback for them to go in and arrest him last night," Gilleon said, "But the way they did it, it just flat out proves my case."
Golt told News 8 she plans to fight this lawsuit on her own, without hiring an attorney.
In the meantime, after being booked into jail Tuesday night after his original bond was revoked, Duvall is free once again, bailed out by a new bail bonds company.
This lawsuit is also expected to name additional defendants, including the bail bonds company that hired the Lipstick Bounty Hunters to capture Duvall.


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Gothiques is really smart. So glad he is organizing tournaments.
GC & Holinka live interview and ArenaLeague finals
Started by WildeHilde, Aug 22 2013 10:24 AM
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Posted 23 August 2013 - 07:26 PM
Posted 23 August 2013 - 07:55 PM
You should maybe update the "You can not only compete for a spot to the regional BlizzCon qualifiers" part
Posted 23 August 2013 - 08:30 PM
Seriously, whats the point of these interviews? They say no valid information at all, since forever
What do humans know of our pain? We have sung songs of lament since before your ancestors crawled on their bellies from the sea.
Posted 23 August 2013 - 08:35 PM
I don't understand... we get the opportunity for these "interviews" and like 0/10 questions are answered, the small discussion with Zilea and i think Nuvoz , correct me if i'm wrong, was 10x more beneficial and more constructive and time worthy then the interview with ghostcrawler the 1500 guy, his boyfriend brian the 1700 guy and then hildegard the guy who yelled in his mic the entire time, (just from what i observed)
Posted 24 August 2013 - 01:05 PM
So far best question by Swifty: "Are Stormscale EU and Darkspear US like SUPER servers?"
Posted 25 August 2013 - 04:46 AM
AJ druid podcast is tonight at 10pm CET on my channel. Will be streamed on the frontpage.
Posted 25 August 2013 - 07:09 AM
WildeHilde, on 25 August 2013 - 04:46 AM, said:
AJ druid podcast is tonight at 10pm CET on my channel. Will be streamed on the frontpage.
no starship? isad
Posted 25 August 2013 - 09:05 AM
The Starcraft community showed Blizzard how to turn SC2 into an eSports and its up to the WOW PVP community to do likewise.
major difference here is that the lead balance dev for starcraft 2 is actually a top level player (grandmasters random) which is why the game turned out as competitive as it is - there is a direct correlation between the skill of a lead balance dev at his game and how well balanced his game turns out (though they will always deny it).
point in case, the blizzard devs including GC had an event where they played battlegrounds against the community quite a while back and, as could be expected, they were horrible players. kalgan was borderline decent at one point at his mage, but there are certain concepts that ~2k players just wont grasp because to be at or below that rating in wotlk meant you fundamentally didnt understand how arena plays out and were simply starting to get a handle of how to play your character mechanically.
by contrast, the same week that the developer bg stomp was going on a HUGE balance whine circlejerk erupted on reddit starcraft where people declared zerg vs protoss unwinnable. I was watching the top ranked protoss player stream at the time, and david kim (lead sc2 balance dev) challenged him to a zvp, then proceeded to stomp him with some crazy multitasking nydus play.
people who don't play a game at a high level still often think they understand how it works, but they will never get the complete picture required to make good balance decisions.when i was learning WoW, each time I had a major breakthrough in my skill level/rating it was like i had re learned everything i thought i knew about the game. how can a game possibly turn out ok in the hands of someone who grasps the game as well as I did when I was just starting?
the direction of the game in the last couple years is a testament to the level understanding of the current balance devs, as wow arena slowly reaches a state that they can understand. I dont doubt that it will become a fairly balanced game at some point, but it wont be a game that anyone wants to play :/
Posted 25 August 2013 - 09:35 AM
gateway being in this game proves how much they care about pvp
Posted 25 August 2013 - 11:10 AM
Deniar, on 25 August 2013 - 07:09 AM, said:
no starship? isad
We asked Starship/Sodah/Pojke but they did not want to join.
Posted 25 August 2013 - 11:57 AM
Posted 25 August 2013 - 01:50 PM
SteelSeries GamingMouse GiveAway during the ArenaLeague tournament today. Quiz answers need to be send to my Twitter.
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Albert Wojciech Drwal, 46, apparently died of injuries from an unspecified accident while snowmobiling on the pass between Summit and Lake counties. He was visiting Colorado from Oak Lawn, Ill., but was sledding with a group of friends, not a commercial outfit when the accident occurred, Kent said.


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Sen. Reid Is Hospitalized
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has been hospitalized on the last day of the congressional session Friday, but his office reported that tests found "everything is normal."
"Early this morning, Senator Reid was not feeling well and as a precaution decided to go to the hospital,'' according to a written statement from his spokesman Adam Jentleson. "Tests have been conducted and everything is normal. He is alert, resting and feeling better.
"Doctors have asked that he remain in the hospital for observation so he will not be working today."
In 2005, Mr. Reid, who is now 74 years old, suffered what was described as a mild stroke.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) opened the Senate this morning at 9 a.m. and said Mr. Reid had called him. "He sounded good and we look forward to his speedy recovery."
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Friday April 5, 2013
North Augusta, SC--While the eyes of the golf world will be on Augusta next week, this week, it's golf of a different sort...The National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships.
Now in its seventh year the event has gotten larger then ever. 61 teams are taking to the North Augusta Hippodrome courses. You have the local squads like ASU and even USC Aiken. Then you have those who've done a little traveling. Oregon, Colorado State and even teams from California. Considering it's not a varisty sport, you'd expect it to be tough for them to get here, but the schools seem to be embracing the fast growing game.
"We actually found out three weeks before this that we qualified to get here, and we didn't think we were going to get to go." said Justin Bringhurst of Central Oregon Community College "Then, our school up and decided that they were going to give us money. It was rather easier than I thought. We were actually the first team from our school to make it to any kind of national championship, so they were really stoked to have us come. We've been paying for it all ourselves, going to all the tournaments and everything, and our school recognized that we were doing really well and offered to chip in."
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The reaction to the Bay Area News Group article about the new University of California logo was immediate and outraged (or at least snarky). One of the first comments on the article has gotten 600 Facebook likes so far, and another commenter said of its writer "This Sarah Healy girl just became Berkeley's most eligible bachelorette":
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you that we don't have any money, we are college students. But what we do have are a very particular set of skills; skills that we have acquired over a very long career of protesting tuition hikes. Skills that make us a nightmare for people like you. If you let our logo go now, that'll be the end of it. We will not look for you, we will not pursue you. But if you don't, we will look for you, we will find you, and we will destroy you.
Considering there's no other news source reporting on this or an official press release, I'm skeptical as to how true this is.
Am I reading the Onion? This must be a joke!
It looks like the logo that would be on some random taxi company in Europe.
... like the logo of a baby food company
... like a logo for an energy company in Silicon Valley.
... like a social networking logo.
... a Nintendo 64 logo.
... logo of some pharmaceutical product.
... a line of educational children's toys.
... health insurance with an average grade.
.... the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture logo, except not quite as cool looking.
It's the wrong blue.
It's the right blue, GO UCLA!!
This logo is hideous. It looks like a internet browser icon! and it's loading!
Looks like the page is reloading. Error: 404 admissions full. Try again later
I'm still waiting for the new logo to load, but the circle stopped spinning.
Might take a while to load but I got it going again:
It looks like a tongue. Cannot unsee.
A banana in a cup of water.
Looks like a stylized bookworm. Because nothing says "the world's best public university" like a burrowing larva.
It looks like the aerial view of a flushing toilet.
How appropriate that we've changed the logo to a stylized urinal.
The University of California is not a preschool.
How can prestige and success be conveyed by a blue tulip with a yellow curl through it?
Did Stanford design this?
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May 04, 2005
California Continues to Lead the Way with Large Solar Projects
An increasing number of solar energy projects are now being installed across the United States, but California is still king when it comes to really large solar power installations. Shell Solar provides the best proof: in late April, the company powered up a 350-kilowatt solar power system at the Desert Water Agency in Palm Springs, then dedicated a 980-kilowatt system at the Semitropic Water Storage District in Wasco, about 25 miles northwest of Bakersfield. The Palm Springs system was assembled into large panels at the Shell Solar plant, allowing for easier installation at the site. The Semitropic system, which covers an area equal to about four football fields, employs a unique single-axis tracking system to maximize its power production. See the Shell Solar press releases from April 26th and April 29th.
California universities and local governments are also leaders in solar power. Cal State Northridge recently dedicated a 467-kilowatt system that also provides shade in one of its parking lots. The campus already has a 225-kilowatt solar power system, making it a leader among California universities. And Alameda County marked Earth Day by dedicating 1.1 megawatts of new solar arrays, located at seven sites across the county. The county now has a total of 2.3 megawatts of solar power projects, all of which were installed by PowerLight Corporation. See the press releases from Cal State Northridge and PowerLight.
All of the new solar power systems earned hefty checks from local utilities, thanks to the state's Self-Generation Incentive Program, which continues to drive new solar power investments in the state. But while those utilities encourage their customers to invest in solar power, they are also investing directly in solar power. For instance, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) approved on April 27th the installation of a 300-kilowatt solar power system on the roof of the city's Northpoint Wastewater Treatment Plant, noting that the system would pay for itself over the life of the project. In addition, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced plans to install as much as 3 megawatts of solar power in its service area. See the press releases from SFPUC and SDG&E.


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Cavernous sinus thrombosis is usually caused by a bacterial infection that has spread from the sinuses, teeth, ears, eyes, nose, or skin of the face.
You are more likely to get this condition if you have an increased risk of blood clots.
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Cavernous sinus thrombosis is treated with high-dose antibiotics given through a vein (IV).
Sometimes surgery is needed to drain the infection.
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Jessica Mayberry: Producer for the Poorest
Jessica Mayberry changed the lives of thousands of marginalized women in India, by following her vision.
Mayberry founded Video Volunteers in 2006 in India and has been living there ever since, working to make the lives of impoverished Indian women better.
Video Volunteers identifies, trains and empowers grassroots media producers who work to help change the lives of voiceless communities within India. Over the years the organization has created the largest and most diverse network of community producers in the world.
"My goal was to create a media in which the people spoke for themselves," Mayberry says. "It was important that people were telling their own stories, rather than having someone tell it for them."
Four of the Video Volunteers' most popular videos directly address women's issues: "Prostitution Enforced by Tradition," "Women Celebrate Freedom Fest," "Gender Bias in Wage" and "Educate the Girl! Educate a Nation."
Mayberry was born and raised in New York City and attended Spence, an all girls high school in Manhattan. After high school, she attended Oxford University and graduated in 1999 with a degree in history and French.
"My whole life leading up to college, I was proud to call myself a feminist," she says. "I became actively involved with a talk show at Oxford University that discussed sexism within the campus."
After university, Mayberry began working in television, including Fox and Court TV, but quickly realized the media in the United States was failing to sufficiently inform the American public about events in the developing world. For Mayberry, this was a call to action. In 2002, she traveled to India with the American India Foundation Fellowship program.
"I wanted to experience other forms of media. I wanted to revitalize media outlets and create a plural media environment for the world's poorest, and primarily women," Mayberry says.
Mayberry had a transformative moment there when making a film about child marriage with 12 women who all had been married as children, she says.
"We screened the video back in the women's villages and hundreds of people would stay back to have a passionate discussion about child marriage. In these villages nearly all the women had been married before 16, yet had never once had a conversation about it. Community media gets people talking about taboo subjects--and the most untalked about subjects in rural villages are women's issues, because women are marginalized; because women are the most voiceless. Efforts like ours, that give a voice, are transformative," she says.
"When women speak on their own behalf, it has authenticity," she adds. "It changes the way we look at issues."
-- By Jenna McGuire
Naveen Rao: Mapmaker for Reducing Maternal Deaths
Dr. Naveen Rao has the privilege and responsibility of guiding his company, Merck, in making a distinct contribution to the global effort to reduce the number of women who die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
More than 800 women die each day from pregnancy and childbirth complications and nearly all of these deaths are preventable.
Rao leads Merck for Mothers, a 10-year, $500 million commitment to tackle maternal mortality globally. Merck--one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world – tapped Rao in 2011 to head its new international public health initiative.
Rao was born in Hyderabad, India, in 1954. After medical school, he immigrated to the United States for a residency in internal medicine. He taught and worked as a medical doctor for 12 years in New York City before joining Merck in 1993 as part of the company's medical research team.
"As much as I enjoyed working closely with patients, I realized that the impact I could have as a researcher developing life-saving medicines would be huge," he says of the transition.
In 2005 Rao returned to India as the medical director of Merck India. Two years later, as managing director, he successfully led the company's commercial operations until he repatriated to the United States in 2011.
Merck for Mothers is focused on the two leading causes of maternal death--postpartum hemorrhage and preeclampsia – as well as on family planning, which plays a critical role in saving women's lives.
In addition to programs in sub-Saharan Africa, India and other developing countries, Merck for Mothers is addressing maternal mortality in the United States, where the rates of women dying are on the rise. This past fall, Merck for Mothers launched a public awareness campaign called "Once Upon a Birth" to educate Americans about the problem.
Rao is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and chairs the Maternal Health Pillar of the MDG Health Alliance, an effort supporting U.N. agencies to improve the health of women and children.
"The private sector is uniquely positioned to create sustainable programs that can have a major impact on saving women's lives. Merck and other companies can be an important partner with governments, nongovernmental organizations, U.N. agencies and others to make sure that women get the quality care they need at a price they can afford," Rao says.
--By Samantha Kimmey
Ellen Ratner: Trainer for Healing
Ellen Ratner, as she puts it these days, has been "bitten by the Sudan bug."
Her efforts began in 2008 in the nation that has been torn by armed conflict. That year she led a group of talk radio stations to visit the Sudan (since separated into two countries). She says she was "horrified" by the conditions women lived in.
"Men had wheelchairs and women didn't," she says.
Now visiting the country four times a year, Ratner has spearheaded innovative trainings in breathing and meditation for women in South Sudan who have undergone major trauma. She has also organized micro-enterprises such as jewelry making and silk screening. One woman told Ratner that the income allows her family to eat on a regular basis.
At home, she organizes a national "Time To Talk Day," with leaders in the U.S. anti-gender violence movement booked as guests for multiple talk radio hosts.
Ratner's drive for activism emerged in college. While enrolled in Vermont's Goddard College in the early 1970s, she worked as a gay and lesbian rights activist. After graduation, she ran an art gallery and organized a benefit for a clinic in Massachusetts. That night, a woman in need walked into the all-male clinic and refused to speak to a man; Ratner stepped in. "I talked to her even though I had no training," she says.
For the next 17 years Ratner served as an administrator for mental health care providers. She also founded and briefly ran the Pride Institute, a rehabilitation center focused on mental health and chemical dependency for gay men and lesbians.
In 1990, Ratner's first book, "The Other Side of the Family: A Book for Recovery from Abuse, Incest and Neglect," was published. Journalism called her away.
Ratner is now the bureau chief and White House correspondent for Talk Radio News Service, which she founded in 1993. It provides talk radio stations around the country with news reports. She has also been contributing political analysis to Fox News since 1997 and writes a weekly column for World Net Daily.
In addition to her latest book, written with Anne Gehman, "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach Us About Living in the 21st," Ratner has also written "101 Ways to Get Your Progressive Ideas on Talk Radio" (1997) and "Ready, Set, Talk! A Guide to Getting Your Message Heard by Millions on Talk Radio, Talk Television and Talk Internet" (2006).
As for her latest plans, Ratner wants to move to South Sudan where a clinic in the country's northwest region might have a spot for her and her spouse, Cholene Espinoza, currently enrolled in medical school.
"We are going to hopefully take over the clinic," she says.
--By Samantha Kimmey
Dara Richardson-Heron: Enhancer of the Lives of Others
Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron is a physician, quality health care advocate and strong proponent for equality. She is currently the CEO of the YWCA USA.
For more than 150 years, the YWCA has been at the forefront of social movements in the United States--from the abolition of slavery to voting rights, from civil rights to pay equity, from violence prevention to health initiatives. More than 2 million women, girls and their families are served by the YWCA USA annually.
Richardson-Heron grew up in Oklahoma City with her parents and four sisters. Her socially conscientious parents and a house full of girls had a profound effect on her upbringing. "It was as if we had our own women's rights group at home," she says. "My parents always instilled in us that we should never be limited by our gender or race. They also made sure that we were exposed to different cultures and learned early on the importance of helping others."
Richardson-Heron graduated from Barnard College in New York City, with a degree in biology. She then went on to earn a doctorate from New York University School of Medicine.
"During this time, less than 5 percent of physicians were women," Richardson-Heron says. "I wanted to break that barrier." She also decided to do her medical training at Bellevue Hospital, the world's oldest municipal hospital, because it was not just important for her to provide high quality health care, but to also make sure that everyone had access to it.
She was appointed to serve on a commission investigating New York City's growing race and ethnicity-based health care disparities. She also served as the chief medical officer of United Cerebral Palsy of New York City and national chief medical officer for United Cerebral Palsy Association.
Richardson-Heron later served for four years as CEO of the Greater New York City affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization that hit home for Richardson-Heron, a 15-year and counting breast cancer survivor. When the Komen organization touched off an intense controversy in early 2012 by ending its grants to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Richardson-Heron made a personal decision to seek other leadership opportunities and announced that she was leaving Komen.
Within months, Richardson-Heron was in talks with the leadership of the national YWCA. Her appointment was announced in August. Richardson-Heron says her goal is to work collaboratively with the over 230 YWCAs across the country.
"It is my hope that one day very soon, societal and institutional racism will be eliminated," Richardson-Heron says. "Until then, I plan to do everything in my power as a leader and advocate for equality for all and enhance the lives of others; that is my passion."
--By Jenna McGuire
Mary Robinson: Changer of Global Climate
As the first female president of Ireland in 1990, Mary Robinson is arguably the most influential woman in Irish history. Now working for women's rights on the global stage, Robinson is intensely involved in protecting the world's poorest women from climate change.
After five years as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, she founded in 2002 in New York an ethical globalization initiative called Realizing Rights. Eight years later, she returned to Ireland to start the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice.
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson was born in Ballina, in Ireland's County Mayo. Fighting from her corner since day one, she was the only girl in a family with four boys, "a human rights issue on its own," she says.
During a formative year in France, she was introduced to feminism and the value of rights. Robinson abandoned her plan to become a Catholic nun and decided law could provide her with the platform she needed.
At 25, she was appointed Ireland's youngest professor of law at Trinity College Dublin after earning degrees at Trinity and Harvard. Robinson quickly gained a reputation as a champion for the elimination of discrimination against women and for reforming the country's laws against homosexuality. She also won elections to the Irish parliament, serving for 20 years until 1989.
On Valentine's Day 1990, Robinson was invited to run in Ireland's first presidential election in 17 years. Robinson says she was unreceptive to the idea.
"The traditional role of the president seemed removed from issues of the constitution, involving red carpets and protocol," she says.
But after reading the oath, Robinson saw an opportunity to transform the office into a real and moral representation of the Irish people.
Backed unanimously by the women of Ireland (and some men) Robinson won handily and she recalls her seven years in office as the greatest and most challenging of her career. While in office, she used her influence to draw attention to global humanitarian issues by traveling to Somalia and Rwanda. When she visited Queen Elizabeth in London, it was the first such meeting between heads of state of the two countries.
Now a member of Nelson Mandela's global organization, The Elders, Robinson, a married mother of three, says the biggest issues facing the future of women's rights are climate change and a failure of world leaders to continue to support reproductive rights. A challenge, she says, that gets her out of bed in the morning.
"I have four grandchildren who will be in their 40s by 2050, and that's just around the corner. What will they say if we don't act on the science?" she says.
-- By Claire McCormack
Regina Kulik Scully: Visualizer for Activism
Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery In Journalism
The Oscar-nominated documentary "The Invisible War" is the most recent project of the bi-coastal Regina Kulik Scully. The film makes visible the epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S. military. For carrying this work forward, Scully is one of two winners of this year's Women's eNews Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism.
Her first film, "Boyhood Shadows," addresses early child sexual abuse and was recently picked by PBS to air this year. "Miss Representation" premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was bought by Oprah Winfrey, aired on OWN and has been shown at over 3,000 schools across the country, accompanied by an age-appropriate curriculum. Scully is also the co-founder of MissRepresentation.org.
Scully has several more projects in the works, including a new documentary with V-Day creator Eve Ensler, as well as Ensler's new play "Emotional Creature," and the social outreach campaign for the recent PBS documentary "Half the Sky."
"All of the films I have worked on have been amazing, however it was the film 'The Invisible War' that actually changed my DNA," Scully says. "Everyone that worked on that film was a different person from having participated on that project. That documentary is still inspiring positive changes in our culture, government and medical communities."
Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Scully graduated from Horace Mann School and Georgetown University. While in college, she began her career in journalism at CNN in its Washington, D.C., newsroom. There she found herself asking, "Where are all the women writers? Producers? Why aren't there more stories about women? Why aren't more women part of the decision-making process in the news, media?"
Realizing the power of media to incite change, Scully made the transition to public relations and brand marketing, first with a global public relations firm and later as public relations director for L'Oreal and Christian Dior. Scully then opened her own firm, RPR Marketing Communications, spearheading multi-tiered public relations programs for companies such as Johnson and Johnson, Neutrogena, Aveeno, Polo.com and LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy).
Scully has also created the Artemis Rising Foundation.
"I started Artemis Rising so that I could give a voice to the extraordinary stories that shed light on issues in our society that need to be changed, healed . . . transformed," Scully says. "Issues such as the devastating effects of childhood abuse; the epidemic of diabetes and obesity; the corrosive effects of our media on the self-esteem of girls and women, undermining their reach for positions of power, influence and leadership; the mistreatment and violence against women and girls around the world; and the epidemic rapes of our women (and men) in the U.S. military."
-- By Victoria Fitzgerald
Rose Stuckey Kirk: Supplier of Anti-Violence Technology
Rose Stuckey Kirk came of age at a time when individuals were actively promoting the rights of women and when the new strategies of the civil rights movement were coming into being.
"As a little girl, I saw how the world was re-shaping itself and I understood I could be a part of it and that I could contribute as a person of color and as a woman," she says.
Currently president of the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, Kirk has spent 25 years in the telecommunications field in a range of assignments, including as vice president of sales operations for Verizon Wireless. As the head of Verizon's philanthropic strategy, Kirk focuses on utilizing innovative technology to address today's social inequity.
"So much of the work of the Verizon Foundation is specific to working with the underserved and disenfranchised," she says. "Too often, women fall into both those categories."
Under Kirk's leadership, the foundation invests more than $65 million annually in cash, including investments in educational programs, with an emphasis on promoting science, technology, engineering and math instruction. It also leverages its technologies to improve health care for women, children and seniors with a specific focus on chronic disease and domestic violence prevention.
"We're looking for ways to actually eliminate violence against women," Kirk says. "There is a strong correlation between violence and health care. Many health issues that come later in life are related to the violence experienced early in life."
Kirk holds a degree in journalism from Arkansas State University and is a thesis away from a master's degree in international relations from Washington University.
Kirk is a member of the board of directors of the media council of The Paley Center and has spent more than 30 years working with organizations in Alabama, Missouri and Texas on the prevention of domestic violence. She also is the recipient of numerous national awards and has spoken across the globe on women's and business issues.
As for what's next, Kirk envisions the Verizon Foundation at the top of the list when it comes to using innovative technology to transform the statistics of underrepresented groups.
"We will continue to use the power of technology across the board – in education, health care and sustainability – to be on the ground, intimately doing the work that we know will make a difference in our communities," she says.
-- By Stephanie Yacenda
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I biked up to St. Clair (uphill! on a one-speed bike! ack!) to apply for a social insurance number, only to find out that I needed an employment contract from the school or from an employer providing services on campus. Without a social insurance number, I couldn't apply for a bank account. Oh well. I guess I'll go again when I get the contract.
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SACRAMENTO -- Caught in limbo once again, a million Californians on Friday found themselves waiting for answers on whether they can keep health plans that were supposed to be canceled during the tumultuous transition to President Barack Obama's landmark health law.
But it could be days, perhaps even weeks, before officials with the state's new insurance exchange and health insurers provide answers -- raising even more tensions as a Dec. 15 deadline looms to sign up for health coverage for the coming year.
The decision now rests with an obscure new state board. And some legislative experts say that the final decision must be made by the Legislature, which is now out of session.
"I was elated yesterday when I heard the news that we could go back to what we had before," said Danville resident Mark Harrigan, 60, who was hoping he could keep his family's Kaiser plan instead of a more expensive one. "It looks like we might be going back to square one."
Friday's uncertainty capped a roller coaster of a week for Harrigan and 5 million other Americans whose hopes were raised Thursday that they could keep their policies when Obama admitted he had misled them into believing they could "keep their plans" if they wanted. The president Thursday issued a directive allowing insurers to extend individual policies, many of which are cheaper but don't offer all the benefits required under the new health law.
Obama's directive -- after weeks of public uproar over the canceled policies -- was designed to pour water on the political fires. But two key provisions of the directive have led to a scorching new debate:
First, state insurance commissioners must give their blessing to the directive. Second, the insurance companies also have to agree to continue providing health coverage through 2014.
Some states, from Vermont to Washington state, said they wouldn't follow Obama's directive. And in other states, California among them, insurers said they didn't know if they would agree to extend the plans.
At the heart of the matter is whether taking hundreds of thousands of younger and healthier people out of the state insurance exchange's "risk pool" would drive up insurers' costs.
Stephen Shivinsky, spokesman for Blue Shield of California, said that if the company is forced to extend its 2013 policies, the prices for those plans would have to remain the same because the company did not anticipate having to renew those plans. He said the amount of money the company would lose as a result would be "substantial."
Although California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has signed off on the Obama plan, the board of the state's new insurance exchange, Covered California, must also give its OK. The board is set to consider the matter at its monthly board meeting Thursday.
Two members of its board of directors are appointed by the governor, one by the Senate Rules Committee and one by the speaker of the Assembly.
"Of course we will consult with our partners, stakeholders and relevant state agencies and government regulatory agencies," Larry Hicks, a spokesman for Covered California, said Friday.
Asked if it's possible the board could make a decision earlier, Hicks said he didn't know.
However, some legal experts are arguing that a vote by the group's board will not be enough to implement the changes. That's because the health care exchange was created and is bound by a state law. Its provisions -- including the deadline to cancel plans that are out of compliance by Dec. 31 -- cannot be altered without an amendment to the law, experts say.
And the Legislature isn't scheduled to reconvene until January, unless the governor calls a special session.
Steven Maviglio, a spokesman for Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said lawmakers could be called back to Sacramento to revise the law, but he cautioned that it's too soon to know what will be needed. Perez sponsored the legislation that created the state's exchange.
"There's a lot of fallout from the president's decision and how it's going to affect the marketplace in California," Maviglio said. "If legislative action is needed, that option is always available."
Covered California's staff is scurrying to evaluate all of the state's options, said Diana Dooley, secretary for health and human services and a member of the exchange's board.
"When you're making changes of this magnitude, you need time to smooth out the rough edges," Dooley said. "We want to make a decision with a maximum amount of information that does the greatest good for the greatest number."
Mark Hedlund, a spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said a member of his team will attend next week's meeting of Covered California to learn more about the options before Steinberg makes his own recommendations on how to move forward.
"We're very interested to hear some of the pros and cons on the directions we could take given the circumstances," Hedlund said. "It would be premature to make a judgment yet because our options have not yet been hashed out."
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After a record-setting 2015, Caldwell enters her fourth season on the Island. Under the guidance of Caldwell, the Islanders set the program record for wins in a single season and reached the Southland Conference Tournament in school history.
Caldwell was named the first head coach in Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's soccer history on Jan. 2, 2012, and headed the first squad in Islanders lore in 2013.
Caldwell's first Islanders squad was a fan-favorite from the get-go, with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi averaging a Southland-best 570 fans per game in its debut season. Included in that was a crowd of 1,187 for the first match in school history, a hard-fought 2-1 loss at the hands of the University of Houston.
The Islanders carded a pair of victories in their debut season, a solid performance from a squad that included 17 freshmen and a group that did not have the opportunity to play together until just over two weeks before the start of the 2013 campaign. Still, A&M-Corpus Christi logged dramatic victories over UTSA (a 2-1 road win) and McNeese State (a 1-0 overtime thriller) in its first season, and took most teams to the brink, falling in eight one-goal games throughout the year.
Before joining the Islanders, Caldwell previously spent four years as the recruiting coordinator and first assistant coach at the University of Akron under Chris Pfau. In her time there, the Zips went from a lower-tier team in the Mid-American Conference to three straight conference tournaments – a first in program history. Akron was in the top three of the league or division in each of her final three years.
Perhaps more impressive was the performance of the keepers under Caldwell's tutelage. She mentored all-time wins, saves and shutouts leader Jeny Wolbert and single-season goals against average record holder Michelle Smith over her final two seasons at Akron.
Prior to heading to the Buckeye State, Caldwell spent two years working with the goalkeepers at Baylor under George Van Linder. Caldwell played a large role in the performance of First Team All-Big 12 selection Ashley Noah. Her two-season stint with the Bears followed a strong year working with the keepers at Alabama.
The Williamsburg, Va., native spent three seasons at Oklahoma before heading to Alabama. During her time in Norman, Caldwell helped the Sooners advance to the 2003 NCAA Tournament and register four shutouts on the season.
As a collegiate student-athlete, Caldwell proved herself to be one of the nation's top goalkeepers while playing three years for the University of Connecticut. As a senior, she led the NCAA in goals-against average, helping to lead the Huskies to their third straight Big East Northeast Division title and 20th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.
Caldwell, who holds a NSCAA Goalkeeper I diploma and a USSF D License, earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from Connecticut in 2002.


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Asia Pacific Economic Outlook, April 2013
As Vietnam struggles with falling GDP growth, rising bad debt, and a weak banking system, the government has introduced measures to restructure banking and boost private enterprise growth.
The Vietnamese economy continues to face headwinds, as a struggling banking system impedes GDP growth. Poor exports and budget balance are also significant concerns. In an effort to turn the economy around, Vietnam is beginning to take a series of measures to improve the banking sector and encourage private sector participation in the economy.
In Q1 2013, Vietnam's GDP growth slowed to 4.9 percent from 5.4 percent in Q4 2012. While retail sales growth averaged 10.2 percent year on year in Q1 2013, compared to 16.5 percent in Q4 2012, the Index of Industrial Production expanded only 4.9 percent—the slowest in three years. Growth has decelerated as banks, wary of bad debt, have reduced lending, limiting consumer spending and business expansion—lending contracted in the first two months of the year, compared to a 9 percent growth in 2012. Bad debts have almost doubled since 2011, and are currently at 6 percent, with inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs) accounting for 53 percent of bad debts. Exposure to a now-struggling real estate sector has also driven up bad debts, with house prices continuing to decline.
The current account situation is expected to worsen, as the global economic slowdown impacts exports, likely resulting in a deficit of approximately 1 percent of GDP this year, compared to a 1 percent surplus in 2012. Exports are projected to grow only 5.2 percent in 2013—the slowest rate since 1999—even as imports are likely to grow faster, driven by demand for capital and consumer goods. Vietnam's budget deficit is also forecast to persist at 5 percent of GDP, as higher spending on infrastructure and social welfare, which began last year, may continue.
Amid several economic challenges, Vietnam has become an attractive destination for low-wage manufacturing jobs. This is the result of the country's low-cost advantage and close proximity to China, even as the Chinese are focusing on moving up the value chain in manufacturing. The average wage rate in Vietnam is nearly a third of that in China, as Vietnamese real wage growth has stagnated at 2 percent since 2005. In 2011, average factory worker wages in Vietnam were $123 per month, compared to $306 per month in China. Geopolitical tensions between China and Japan have also worked to the advantage of Vietnam, with more Japanese businesses turning to Vietnam as an alternative to China. In 2011, foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing accounted for half of the total FDI in the country. Investments are being made in various manufacturing sectors, including garments, footwear, mobile phones, computers, and electronic appliances. However, high rates of inflation pose a risk to investment returns as well as to the cost advantage. Nominal wage inflation is growing at a rapid pace, averaging 14.9 percent from 2010 to 2012, and real wages are expected to grow in the years ahead.
Amid several economic challenges, Vietnam has become an attractive destination for low-wage manufacturing jobs.
In order to revive the economy in the short term, Vietnam is trying to boost bank lending by lowering interest rates. In March 2013, the refinance and discount rates were each cut by one percentage point, to 8 percent and 6 percent respectively. The deposit rate was also reduced to 7.5 percent from 8 percent. The aim is to drive up credit growth to 12 percent this year, compared to 7 percent in 2012. Whether or not the economy actually benefits remains to be seen, given this is the seventh time in a row that the central bank has cut rates since 2012, to stimulate credit growth and help boost production and business.
As a long-term solution, the central bank and the government of Vietnam are working to restructure the banking system, with plans to lower the bad debt ratio to below 3 percent by 2015. In this direction, the state-owned Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) is to be established this year, to take over bad debts from banks and issue bonds in return. Banks can then raise loans from the central bank against the bonds. However, the bonds offer no interest and are valid only for five years, which means the seller banks will only temporarily park their bad debts with VAMC and remain responsible for resolving them. This mechanism prevents the VAMC from incurring losses. The government mandates all banks with bad debts exceeding 3 percent to sell to the VAMC, make a 20 percent provision against every debt sold, and make 100 percent provision against any bad debt that remains unresolved after five years. All these measures can adversely affect bank profitability, putting the success of the effort under doubt. In addition, the establishment of the VAMC has already been delayed, at least until the end of April this year.
In other efforts to improve the economic conditions, the government is attempting to limit SOEs' dominance over the Vietnamese economy and give more opportunities to the private sector. Currently, SOEs account for 37 percent of Vietnam's GDP. As a first step to promote this objective, statements in the constitution that stipulate SOEs will "assume the leading role" will likely be removed. The government plans to eventually restrict SOEs to military-related businesses, high technology, and the provision of primary goods and services, while the remaining sectors are opened up for private enterprises. Approximately 367 SOEs are planned for privatization by 2015. Vietnam is also considering raising the cap on foreign ownership in local companies to more than 49 percent, and up to 49 percent in publicly owned banks.
Overall, Vietnam, once noted as a rising star among emerging markets because of its growth, has hit a rough patch—the GDP growth last year fell to its lowest since 1999. Also, the country may find it difficult to negotiate out of its troubles in the near term, as the government and the central bank have only just begun initiating fundamental reforms in the economy. Already delays are expected in certain major areas, including establishing the VAMC and launching the initial public offering of select SOEs as part of the privatization process.


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When the subsurface sewage treatment systems at three condominium developments in Brookfield, Conn., repeatedly failed in the mid-1990s, the physical mess created a financial nightmare for both the condominium associations and the town itself.
Because the associations couldn't pay for the repairs that would eliminate illegal discharges, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection ordered the town to do it, a massive undertaking that involves:
- A 32-unit development generating 5,400 gallons/day. Estimated repair cost: $625,000
- A 41-unit development generating 7,300 gallons/day from two onsite treatment systems. Estimated repair cost: $300,000
- A 162-unit development generating 20,000 gallons/day. The development's monitoring reports showed nine failures between 1993 and 1996. The Department of Environmental Protection determined that the onsite system wasn't developed properly. Estimated repair cost: $1.2 million.
So began a protracted court battle between Brookfield and the state. The town has lost several appeals and faces up to $100,000 in fines if residents don't approve a $1.9 million referendum this month to connect the condominium complexes to the main gravity sewer system with a new sewer line.
It's a hard lesson learned from an era of unprecedented growth in the housing market, when subdivisions were built faster than the infrastructure necessary to serve them. With traditional wastewater treatment plants facing restrictions on their total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), decentralized systems were an attractive way to accommodate growth.
Subdivisions were built with "neighborhood-scale systems" that typically serve up to several dozen homes. Some estimates place the number of new homes in fast-growing urban areas served by decentralized systems at more than one-third.
Decentralized systems are used largely for two reasons: when the main sewer system is inaccessible (or linking to it would not be cost-efficient) and when centralized systems and treatment plants face capacity limitations. They're also a fraction of the cost to build and maintain a centralized wastewater treatment plant.
"We're seeing these mostly in areas of high urban growth," says Peter Grose, senior vice president of engineering and consulting firm Fuss & O'Neill. "Occasionally we see them mediating an existing problem, such as a densely populated area with existing septic systems that aren't doing the job at effectively removing nitrogen."
Onsite wastewater treatment systems use processes similar to traditional wastewater treatment plants, relying on both aerobic methods (such as activated sludge, suspended growth, or attached growth with textile filters) as well as anaerobic methods to remove nitrogen. But unlike most centralized systems, they discharge through leaching fields, spray irrigation systems, and constructed wetlands rather than to a river or lake.
"Decentralized wastewater treatment, reuse, and resource recovery are key elements in a significantly more efficient use of water that also entails a lighter environmental footprint as well as more creative open space and lower energy costs," says Valerie Nelson, director of the Coalition for Alternative Wastewater Treatment. "Systems that rely on soil-based treatment also replenish groundwater aquifers."
"Some rival the efficiency of a larger treatment plant in removal of organic matter, solids, and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous," Grose says.


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CitySquare--Donald Trump
Now that we have been able to stage a bet that Z can finally win..... We all agree that the residential component is the key to reviving downtown. Better commuter service will be a huge help but this is going to be very difficult to pull off. Any bank will look at the demographics and the surrounding housing and say why the hell am I going to back this project? That is what Berkeley found
Zimage Bet Part 3
My god, how much does this guy owe me?? 1) Remember his first bet when he bet me Berkeley and UNUM would have deal by the end of 2009? 2) When he lost that one I extended the deadline a month and bet double or nothing. On top of that, I bet him that Hanover was going to take over from Berkeley in February of 2010 before any deal with UNUM. I could bet on market rate housing be unfair.
Chandller NRSA in Telegram
Coverage in Telegram yesterday Group seeks plan for Chandler Street corridorPaul Collyer said he's heard enough about the Canal District being the sole proprietor of "funky" in the city. "The Canal District doesn't have housing," Mr. Collyer said. "Edgy young people want to live somewhere edgy." Mr. Collyer said the Chandler Street corridor from Park Avenue to Main Street fits the bill of
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O'Brien, McGovern To Visit Small BusinessesBy Brandon ButlerWorcester Business Journal Staff WriterTodayWorcester Mayor Joe O'Brien and U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Worcester, are kicking off a series of business tours around the city with visits to Webster Square and the Martin Luther King Jr. Empowerment Center today.The first event will begin around 1:30 p.m. and will include meetings with
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I vow to only to smoke pot grown at the Pharmaspere Plant in the SWIP. South Worcester Institute for Pot
Pharmasphere Update
Nobody is going to believe this one but it is true, click the link here. Here is the headline: Converted Organics Announces that PharmaSphere Systems, LLC Agrees to License Its System to Grow Medical Marijuana for Rhode Island Non-Profit Can't wait for the next parcel to go out to RFP. Only good thing is I know alot of people in the area who have alot of experience growing pot, who may
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I have alot of fun with the blogs and met alot of nice people by doing this. Just wanted to post this in case you have not checked out Jeff's blog, I think you should. Thanks Bill
Converted Organics
Click here for the Form 10-K. Page 15 We expect to incur significant losses for some time, and may never operate profitably. From inception through December 31, 2009, we incurred an accumalted net loss of approximately $49.9 million. The revenues that we began to generate from our Gonzales facility in Feburary 2008 and from our Woodbridge facility have not yet resulted in our earning a
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Mores Destinations
Worcesteria quotes Phil Niddrie that more locations to be announced over the next couple of weeks. My top two: Melbourne San Juan
Pharmasphere Just Established
Huh??? Yep remembered they were bought out recently by Converted Organics. Now Converted Organics announced today that they established Pharmasphere??? This thing never made sense from the very beginning. Two years this parcel has been tied up for $1, that was never paid, and not one penny of tax revenues has been collected. Clicke here for the press release. here is part: BOSTON, July
Summer Work Crew
The summer crew will be working the NRSA area around my office today. You can even watch them on the videos: advantage.everfocusddns.com allow the add-on to run wpd (small letters) wpd (small letters)
Dick Chernisky Letter to the Editor
Worcester needs a 10 percent cap on affordable housing. The only exceptions should be affordable homeownership and quality senior housing. And the Chamber of Commerce should support the 10 percent cap. The 10 percent cap is just as important as commuter rail. In fact, the positive effects of commuter rail will be greater with the 10 percent cap. The cap offers investors more security,
Chandler NRSA Video Cams
type evo.everfocusddns.com (no www) run the add-on from everfocus name wpd (small case) password wpd (small case) Pretty good!!
Worcester AIrport Fan Page
Kerry will pay taxes now
Great article in the Boston Globe Peter Blute had a great line today on the radio. Ironic isn't that the Republican Senator is known for his $30,000 pick-up truck that he drives around the Commonwealth, while the Democratic is known for his $7,000,000 yacht that he stores in Rhode Island to avoid the Massachusetts sales tax.


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Grief Share, a new support group for people grieving the death of a loved one, will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in room B-138 at Calvary Baptist Church, 4605 West Ely, Hannibal, Mo.
Grief Share is led by caring people who understand what someone is going through and will provide resources to help recover from their loss and look forward to rebuilding their life.
This is a 13-week free group that may be joined in any week. Anyone interested in joining the group or seeking more information may call Irene Hurt at (573) 221-3507.
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During the summer 2008, Ferris State invested nearly $900,000.00 in a welding fume ventilation system for the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors using welding laboratory facilities. The state-of-the-art system services 64 welding, cutting and grinding work stations throughout the facility. Methods of fume capture include back-draft mounted, downdraft tables, articulated arms, canopy stations, and self-contained systems. Welding fumes and gases are captured, filtered through one of seven separate collection systems, and returned to the lab space for maximum energy efficiency.
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Published: Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 1:22 a.m.
Wetlands center gets a big check
The South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center got a late Christmas present this year in the form of a $3,505 check presented last week by the Bayou Board of Realtors.
The Discovery Center is in the process of raising money to build near the Terrebonne Parish Main Library and Terrebonne Civic Center. The center will educate the public about wetlands wildlife and efforts to combat coastal erosion.
"Without our precious land, the stable real estate transactions that have supported our families and economy wouldn't exist. Coastal erosion is an issue we all face here in South Louisiana, and I personally believe that education is one of the best ways to combat issues," said Betty Sun, president of the Bayou Board of Realtors.
The donation came from a fundraising effort that brought in a total of $7,011. The other $3,506 went to the Meagan Daigle Medical Relief Fund.
Ex-governor to speak at banquet
Former Gov. Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer III will be the keynote speaker at the 85th annual Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet on Jan. 28 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
More than 500 guests are expected for the chamber's largest event of the year. The evening starts with a 6 p.m. social hour, and the program begins at 7 p.m.
The chamber's newly installed and outgoing officers and board members, including 2013 Chairman of the Board Jennifer Armand and 2014 Chairman of the Board Donald Hingle II, will be recognized. Awards will be given to a Community Champion, Chamber Star and Distinguished Diplomat. The Courier will present its Most Useful Citizen Award.
Tickets are $65 and must be purchased in advance. Sponsorships ranging from $500 to $10,000 are available. Information: Call Betsy Breerwood at 876-5600 or email email@example.com.
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Sponsorships, banquet reservations and BIG Achiever nominations are being accepted for the 2014 Bayou Industrial Group Annual Membership Banquet on Feb. 11.
Bruce Murphy, new president of Nicholls State University, will be the keynote speaker and present the fifth annual BIG Achiever awards. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. at the Cypress Columns in Gray.
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Alligator demand and prices heading up
Published: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 11:53 p.m.
The local alligator farming industry continues its comeback as demand and prices rise.
"In 2009, the market was slow because of the recession, and it was pretty rough. You know you never want to see that happen, but we planned for those types of things and we managed well. Since then, demand is back up, and prices look good. Everything is moving along like it has for the past 25 years," said Gerald Savoie Jr., owner of Savoie's Alligator Farm in Cut Off.
The average price for wild alligator skins this year is starting at $27 per foot, Savoie said.
That's not as good as in 2008 when the average was at $34.50 per foot, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. But it's better than the $7.50 per foot in 2009, $13 in 2010, $17 in 2011 and $23.50 in 2012.
"We are noticing things are pretty stable now and gradually creeping up," said Ruth Elsey, biologist manager for Wildlife and Fisheries. "Meat prices are also going good. For the meat, it's a supply and demand thing. The demand is very high right now and it supports the local economy and farmers. Plus it's a pretty healthy meat."
Tab Pitre, owner of Pitre Fur Co. and Alligators, said his business is going well.
"The last two to three years, we've had no problem selling. Even this year it looks like business will increase," Pitre said.
Pitre said the demand for alligator hides rides largely on the demand for certain products around the world. This year, Pitre noticed there is a growing demand for alligator watch bands.
In the U.S., Louisiana is the leader in alligator production.
The state has about 75 to 80 percent of the American alligator market, said Noel Kinler, alligator program manager for Wildlife and Fisheries.
The alligator industry is worth $60 million during a good year, Elsey said, with egg collection reaching heights of 350,000 to 500,000.
In 2009, farmers could not sell enough hides to justify collecting eggs.
"Farmers only collected 29,000 eggs that year compared to the 529,000 eggs collected in 2008. The farmers knew the market was bad and decided not to collect eggs to make it worse," Elsey said.
The egg collection program was started in 1986 as a way to save the eggs from flooding, getting eaten by animals or drying out. The state allows farmers to collect eggs from the wild to be hatched on farms and raised for skin and meat. One to two years into the program, farmers have to return 12 percent of their hatches back in to the wild.
Wildlife and Fisheries data show there has been a rebound since with 205,000 collected in 2010, 353,000 collected in 2011 and 413,000 collected in 2012.
Egg season will begin this year in June and Kinler said and the outlook is very promising.
"The demand for skins is good right now and you will see demand for eggs go up as well. Farmers will be looking to collect large numbers of eggs this summer," Kinler said.
Past weather conditions will also have a good effect on the upcoming egg season.
"Mother Nature was good to us. We didn't have to worry about any droughts or hurricanes. We've been getting good rains, and the water level is good. This year, all the elements are lining up," Savoie said.
Overall Kinler said he expects this year will yield a similar harvest as last year if prices are maintained.
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My brother Josh, my friend Brian Zelizo, and I drove up from Pittsburgh that morning, through Erie (saying hi to relatives and dropping a car off), on our way to a theme park outside of Buffalo, NY. The night before, at Star Lake, Phish played a nice show, opening with the only Amoreena ever, a great Gumbo jam into the only Horse > Silent of the tour, Crosseyed -> Wilson with the Little Drummer Boy, and Ghost -> Isabella. A really fun show.
I wasn't really expecting much out of the Darien Lake show, since it was the last show before the Great Went. I was thinking that the band was going to play some throwaway songs to set themselves up for six sets of strong music with no repeats. But it was a gorgeous day as we drove along, listening to some tapes from earlier that summer in Europe (thanks to Charlie D.), playing Piper and Limb by Limb for the first time for Brian. Josh and I didn't have tickets, but we weren't too worried, thinking we could snag some there.
When we arrived at the venue, we realized we had some work to do. I was incredibly surprised to find that 'heads didn't want my cash; they wanted nugs or other kind things for their extras. But I had lots of cash! It was kind of amazing, if you ask me. Nevertheless, Josh found a lawn seat. After a little more hunting, I actually found a nice mail-order ticket, halfway down on Fishman's side. We headed in close to show time.
The first set included a fun Ya Mar opener, Fluffhead, a Limb By Limb new for all of our ears, a beautiful Tela, and to close, a raging Antelope. This is a great version, where Trey starts and stops three or four times, building a huge tension and releasing it. They picked it up a notch at the end, and left us wondering what to expect for the next set.
After the Chalk Dust opener, they played two songs for Elvis: Treat Me Like a Fool, and "Elvis' favorite Phish song", Sparkle. Now is where the weirdness and surprises started. They broke out into Harry Hood, which caused a huge smile to cross my brother's face. This otherwise normal Hood went into a little five-minute jam at the end. Very cool. After the show, some were guessing it was Blow Wind Blow, but I think it was just a jam all to itself. The jam flowed into Colonel Forbin's Ascent. As Trey began the story, he said it began just like all of the other stories, except this one was a little different.
That was a definite understatement! Trey introduced Uncle Ken "Easy Greazy" Kesey, and that is where reality stopped. Ken Kesey and His Merry Pranksters (The Bozos!) proceeded to turn Darien Lake on its head. "The Wind doesn't blow it sucks!" Costumed Birdmen walked through the crowd, midgets and monsters walked the stage (including Frankenstein with accompaniment by the band), all while Phish tried to play along. When they weren't laughing they were playing a low, funky sort of beat. I couldn't stop laughing myself.
That was surprise number one that night. It really shouldn't have been a surprise though: Ken and his Krewe were making their way east from Cleveland, after the Further bus was "inducted" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The bus stopped in Erie, and made their way to Darien that afternoon. We could actually see the bus from our seats behind the stage.
As for surprise number two, well, that came as Ken left the stage. Phish's groove started to pick up a little, getting louder and funkier, as Trey started his story back up again. He started talking about going to find the Mockingbird that Ken helped them find, but he realized they couldn't, because "the Funk was too thick!" With that, the band launched into Camel Walk. I lost it right then and there, listening to one of only three or four Camel Walks since the early 90s. Wasn't really a throwaway show after all, eh?