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The Rev. Jesse Jackson is back in the valley.
The renowned civil rights leader told the Mercury News editorial board Thursday that his Rainbow PUSH Coalition plans to revitalize its Silicon Valley project and make its case to the region's top tech firms that "we need to democratize the economy."
The lack of minorities in Silicon Valley's upper echelons is symptomatic of an economic apartheid that is less visible than the segregation of half a century ago but just as pernicious, he said.
"This valley is driving the industrial growth of America -- in fact, it's driving global growth," Jackson said. But while people of color constitute a huge part of the marketplace for tech products and services, he said, they're woefully underrepresented in the sector's executive offices and boardrooms.
"To make America America, all of us must play," he said.
It's not a new theme. The Rainbow PUSH Coalition in 1999 bought stock in 50 Silicon Valley companies so it could have a say at annual shareholder meetings.
Jackson at the time ended up in an op-ed war with Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers, who contended that the tech industry was a meritocracy offering equal access to anyone with the talent, education and ambition to succeed.
"Once, the civil rights movement was led by a great American who stirred the conscience of the nation," Rodgers wrote. "Today, its most visible spokesman is a hustler who exploits white shame for his own financial and political ends."
Jackson on Thursday scoffed at the idea that there aren't enough minorities entering the industry with appropriate training: "It's almost insulting to suggest they can't be found.
"We can't go on this way," he said. "We must begin to take these numbers back across the country to make people aware of who are partners and who are not."
Reminded about his war of words with Rodgers, Jackson smiled and asked: "Is he still around?" Assured that he was, Jackson quipped that he wouldn't mind meeting up with Rodgers -- perhaps for a round of golf "one night."
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De La Torre determined to return to Texas
Breaking up is hard to do, even when you know the divorce is coming. There's no love lost between the Santa Clara County Board of Education and Superintendent Xavier De La Torre, who on Feb. 12 was named the top choice to lead the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas.
De La Torre told the El Paso Times that he had been applying for jobs in Texas, and if he doesn't get Ysleta's top job -- the board is set to make its decision official March 5 -- he will continue searching in the Lone Star State. Partly, it seems, it's the lure of Texas, where he worked for three years before becoming Santa Clara County superintendent of schools in July 2012.
"I've come to believe that Texas is better positioned to succeed and improve in our public school system than California is," he said. "Texas is doing well, and I want that for my kids."
Because San Jose schools -- De La Torre, his wife and five children live in the Cambrian elementary and Campbell High school districts -- aren't good enough? We don't know, because the superintendent hasn't returned our calls.
He also compared his current job heading the county office of education to running a regional service center, a task that made him feel removed from schools.
"My work and passion have been working directly with teachers, administrators and communities," De La Torre said.
Earlier this month, De La Torre seemed to blame his board for the difficulty in establishing rapport with the superintendents of Santa Clara County's 31 school districts: It was because they were so angry about his bosses' 2011 approval (before his tenure) of 20 Rocketship charter schools.
"Often times it would come up in conversations -- that decision demonstrated an absence of thoughtful and deliberate process," De La Torre said. "I wasn't part of it, but I was certainly aware of the aftermath and impact it had on the relationship with some superintendents."
For its part, the county school board did not sound sad about De La Torre's impending move to Texas. "The board respects his decision and wishes him well in his new endeavor" an official statement said. Trustees have steadfastly refused any comment. We'll see if they cheer after March 5.
For many prosecutors and public defenders, judgeship is a pay cut
A $181,292-a-year salary. Simple dress code (black robe). All sorts of folks bowing and scraping before you. Why don't more people in Santa Clara County run for judge?
We naively thought it was just the hassle of asking people for campaign money, the energy it takes to run or the potential embarrassment of losing. We overlooked the obvious: money.
There's a financial disincentive for many prosecutors and public defenders who work for Santa Clara County to seek a seat on the bench. Senior government attorneys earn $195,340 a year. So if they win a seat on the bench, they take a 7 percent pay cut, about $14,048.
Then there's retirement. Santa Clara County government attorneys are eligible to retire as early as 50 with 2 percent of their salary for every year they've worked. If they hang on until 55, they get 2.5 percent of pay for each year on the job. Judges, on the other hand, must serve 20 years to retire at age 65. They get 3.75 percent for every year on the bench, but it's capped at 75 percent of total salary. Also, county government lawyers who leave the job before turning 50 can also lose lifetime free medical benefits.
Family therapist plans
to run against Rocha
For a while, it looked as if at least one of the two San Jose city councilmen up for re-election this year might get a free pass. Alas for Don Rocha, it appears that's not the case. The District 9 councilman, a swing vote with both business and labor backing, has drawn a challenger. Lois Wilco-Owens, a marriage and family therapist, has pulled nomination papers indicating plans to run for Rocha's seat. Apart from her occupation, we don't know much about her. Rocha said she wasn't on his radar either.
Nevertheless, Rocha -- who had vacillated over whether even to seek re-election -- now finds himself having to gin up a campaign to keep his job. But he said he's "proud of my work."
"We have managed items such as the convention center expansion, economic development efforts, a new general plan, getting our structural budget deficit under control, medicinal marijuana (with more work to be done), and the new Earthquakes stadium," he said.
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Interior Approves Transmission for California Solar Project
Transmission lines approved by the Department of Interior will cross public lands to link a California solar project to the energy grid.
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on August 25 approval for construction of a transmission line that will be located on public lands and will connect a 250-megawatt solar power project to the energy grid in California. The aboveground 230-kilovolt line will bring power from the Imperial Solar Energy Center West Project, located on private, fallowed farmlands in Imperial County. The new line, to be located on 65 acres of DOI-managed land, will deliver power to more than 75,000 homes. Proposed by CSOLAR Development, LLC, the transmission project is expected to create up to 285 jobs during construction.
Because the transmission line will cross both private land and a federal right-of-way, it could not proceed without DOI approval and the environmental impact report/environmental assessment (EIR/EA) had to consider the impacts of the entire generation and transmission project. The proposal received extensive environmental review and mitigation measures, with the EIR/EA issued on July 28. DOI's Bureau of Land Management also worked with American Indian communities, the DOI's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other stakeholders to minimize and compensate for potential adverse impacts. See the DOI press release and the record of decision.

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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - The single biggest thrill of skiing is the chance of catching first tracks and taking one face shot after another. Close second is the relaxing, end-of-the-day hot tub. Hot tubs are the single friendliest place to meet people on a ski trip and a cocktail.
Catching those first tracks is all the sweeter because you always have to earn them - by waking before dawn filled with excitement, eating a hearty mountain breakfast, standing in the cold waiting for the lifts to open and that extra hike to an enticing chute. Knowing nods are shared by skiers who wait for the first chair. Patrollers who arrive to give the all-clear are met with a mix of anticipation and suspicion: Will they open the lift now? Will they drop the rope on those double-black fun zones, or did they already poach the stash I dreamed about last night? But the rewards far outweigh any burden. We're never more grateful to be skiers than when we're finally in place, perched on the edge of a tantalizingly untracked expanse upon which we're about to carve the first tracks of the day.
Skiing is an addicting sport for many reasons - the outdoors, pristine settings, fresh air and camaraderie - but none more than the need for speed. You are challenged each and every turn by the hill and Mother Nature.
We love skiing, but let's face it: The sport as we know it is changing, not only the technical aspects but the environment we are surrounded by. Long gone are the days of $14 lift tickets, ski bums who work two night jobs to buy a $300 pass, brown-bag lunches on the decks, an hour ride to get to top and skiing from first chair till the cable stops running. Outer protection might have been only a garbage bag modified to fit over your head to stay dry. Ski all day - remember the slow lifts - hanging out in the local day bar, and then back on the road to home. Those days are gone.
Corporate America is the rule today, consuming the little guy and turning skiing into a country-club atmosphere - not bad if you can afford to belong to a country club. Ski towns are becoming more company towns owned by a few who control the towns' economies. Some call this progress - others believe this is an erosion of a way of life, the environment and the true reason we ski. All of this is catering to the few who can afford this country-club atmosphere and does eliminate many families and new skiers.
Today, ski companies are doing just about everything for you except making the turns. Today a ski bum has a private jet and a 10,000-square-foot house on a hill overlooking town, and he parks his sport utility vehicle in underground parking. Lift tickets are approaching the $120 mark, and a season pass can cost $1,500 or more. No more brown bags on mountain restaurant decks; guests are faced with $17 burgers, $5 fries and $7 milkshakes. Throw in a light beer for $7.50 and lunch can set you back more than $35. At these prices, you might as well enjoy lunch at a fancy sit-down restaurant and be waited on and eliminate the hassle of standing in a line and then having to look for a place to sit. All-day private lessons are approaching the $700 mark and still going up. Once, you needed all day to ski, with slow lifts and long lines, whereas today you can get more skiing in three hours with fast, high-capacity chairs and gondolas with no lift lines.
Climate change is affecting the ski industry. Portions of Colorado are in an extreme drought, and snowmaking requires more water. With water in demand, how will the industry react?
Ski vacations are discretionary spending and use disposable income. There are vacation spots that cost a lot less, and the guests are starting to see the light.
With resorts justifying the ongoing ticket battle to reach the new price pinnacle of $120 with more luxury improvements like heated seats in the gondolas and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in every bucket, how are they going to improve the climate?
If we are in a pattern of warmer, drier winters, what can be done to improve the product? Lack of snow means less water during the non-skiing months, so increased snowmaking is not a viable option if we do not have the water. Less snowpack means a shorter season and fewer weeks of good skiing.
The question is: Is the ski industry sustainable under the current circumstances of climate, escalating costs and fewer participants? See you next run. Don Jewkes is a 36-year certified PSIA-RM Level 3 teaching professional and local resident. Support your local independent retailers and restaurants.


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We rent 3 beautifull rooms in a traditional Portuguese building, on the old heart of Lisbon.
We are near Bairro Alto (night life), Rossio, São Jorge Castle, Alfama (Fado houses and best views of Lisbon).
Next door, you have typical restaurants with Fado, where you can enjoy the best grilled fish. We cook special vegetarian meals too! Or, if you prefer, you can shop in the local groceries and cook a nice meal at home.
All around transports (metro, bus, train, boats, bikes and typical "Streetcar").
Located 10 minutes from the airport by taxi or 15 minutes by metro (Martim Moniz station)
Very Beautiful zone with a lot of life around, day and night! This is the best place to stay if you came in holiday!
The apartment has a complete kitchen with a closed balcony ( smoking lounge), a large living, 3 rooms (Nature room, Zen room and the lovely room Amália) and 2 full bathrooms. Full house with central heating.
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Excellent accueil ! Une chambre pas chère, agréable et bien située (le tram 28 passe en bas de la rue). C'est super !
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- Contra Costa County call center deal ignores taxpayer risk, rewards political backer
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Citing a need to quickly pick a location for a new state health exchange call center, Contra Costa County supervisors will hold an emergency meeting Friday.
The board will choose between two proposals, one in Richmond and the other in Concord.
Both communities are lobbying for their sites, but the county has been hung up for weeks on labor negotiations. The county finally got a deal Wednesday with the fourth and final union that will represent the new workers.
The county-run call center and its 205 employees will enroll Californians in health insurance as required under the federal Affordable Care Act.
The public hearing will start at 4 p.m. at the board's chamber, 651 Pine St., Martinez.
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When I try to play DTS albums on my Harman Kardon BDS 577 Home Cinema System I can't select individual songs.
I see them listed in the folder, but whatever I do, always the first song of the list is played. Is this intended behaviour or is there something I can do to get the right song to play? It doesn't happen with every album I play. The engine is the MPlayer Audio engine.
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Humax and Harmony Remotes
The remote controls that come with the Humax boxes are nothing exciting. True, the recent ones for the PVRs are quite useful with the ability to control other boxes with the device specific buttons at the very top. True, they are far better than remotes that come with other PVRs and TVs. But they could be a lot better.
In this post, I will explore the Harmony 300 and 700 remote controls from Logitech… and show you how to set them up for your PVR/TV system.
Harmony have been replacing their low-end remotes (the 515, 525, 555, etc) with remotes with the similar style and shape as the Harmony One. The Harmony 300 is the lowest of the low range and only has one 'activity', but controls 4 devices. (The Harmony 300i is a gloss-black version of the matt black 300.)
The Logitech's Harmony remote is designed to work on an 'activity' basis; the remote control sends individual commands to the system components on the user's behalf to configure them for the activity that the user selects.
Your standard Universal remote (including Humax own – supplied with the HDR-FOX T2 and FOXSAT-HDR) controls one device at a time. With each device you wish to control, you need to press the device specific switch button. You need to remember what device you have switched the remote to, before you use it or press the specific device button to make sure you are controlling right one. This can be confusing for kids and annoying for older users.
Harmony 300
The new, but most basic, Harmony remote is the 300. It only has one 'activity', which is the 'Watch TV' one, and you control the 4 devices by pressing the corresponding control buttons. So you pay for what you get, and at £15, but I suppose it can compete with the other universal remotes out there on the market. It can control 4 devices, and with Harmony's extensive database, it can potentially support any device you might have.
The 'Watch TV' activity seems to be all decisive on this basic remote with little room for configuration. You can certainly get it to choose the correct TV input for the STB you wish to use that to watch TV, but the TV set has to support direct input selection. I initially set up the remote for my Sony TV which did not have the direct input selection, but choosing the next model that did, fixed this for me. The remote seems to have asso auto setup the volume control, deciding that since I did not have an amplifier or AV receiver, that the volume was via the TV. I assume that if I had one of my 4 devices as an amp, then it would use that.
In the main this basic model seem to work well, although the kid did give up after a while since the 'Watch TV' activity did not work 100% of the time, and there is no 'Help' button to rectify the problem when it does go wrong like the other Harmonies. I also found that although most of the buttons feel like the more expensive ones, the OK and directional controls are different and work less well – they being separate button instead of a 4-way or 5-way rocker type of button. That said, this 300 does have two extra buttons that the 700 does not, the List and Live button in the centre.
Harmony 700
I had a Harmony 525 previously, and this lasted me at least 5 years. But like any other well used and abused device, it started giving up the ghost. The buttons got less responsive – some did not work! – and then the display died! It was then time I got it replaced – and another Harmony it had to be. I had been following the Harmony One for a long time, but gave up the idea of getting this for two reasons: 1, it was very expensive; and 2, it did not have the coloured buttons – necessary to use with Humax PVRs.
So when the new range came into existence, I followed these, and things were looking up when they came out with the same shaped as the Harmony One and they had coloured buttons (in the middle too!) Although, still quite expensive, I could think of it as an investment… But looking closely at the specifications, I was disappointed to see these new models could only control a few – max of 8 – devices! My 525 could control 15!
Well, I was put off by this, until I read that if you were to upgrade from another Harmony, the 700 could actually take across ALL the devices from your old remote. So I jumped and bought the 700 to replace my dead 525.
When I got it and started to set it up, I found this was partially true. It does take all the devices across, but it depends on how much memory you are/were using to whether the remote will let you use them or the others!
With regards to using the remote – and just like any other Harmony remote, it is very fiddly to set up. But once you've gained the patience, and have the time to suss out how it works and behave, it is a marvel to use.
There have been a few subtle changes and improvements to these Harmony remotes which improves their use and set up. The 700 is also far superior to my 525, with the weight and buttons being made better for action and wear. This remote comes with re-chargeable batteries (AA) and was an adaptor and USB cable for charging. All the buttons are perfectly laid out and feels balanced for single hand usage.
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£15 for a Harmony 300, £25 for a Harmony 300i, £43 for a Harmony 600, and £64 for a Harmony 650.


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"It's too hot to cook." How many times have you heard this from your friends or family when it's time for dinner? It can be easy to use this as an excuse for not cooking a real meal when the weather is warm and cooking requires using the oven, but – surprise, surprise – there are actually meals out there that are perfect for warm weather, and don't require the use of an oven!
Besides being totally healthy and thirst-quenching, fruit salad is super easy to prepare and put together! You can either cut up a lot of fruit the days leading into hot weather, or put the salad together the day of for a fresher taste. For a twist on the traditional "just fruit" fruit salad, try adding some yogurt, walnuts, coconut shavings, or raisins. For an extra special twist, add marshmallows.
Rachael Ray's recipe for black bean and corn salad doesn't require too many ingredients and it takes less than half an hour to prepare. Add some tortilla chips on the side and you've got a meal!
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Sounds fancy for a college student, right? Take a look at Real Simple Magazine's recipe and you'll see that although it has a fancy name, it's super easy to throw together.
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I'm not talking PB&J here, kids. Ham, tuna, and chicken are all healthier choices and they all taste great with fruit; this is the perfect time to get creative! Try Tasty Kitchen's Fancy Chicken Salad or the super easy Hearty Apple Sandwich. If you don't feel like taking the time to cook chicken, buy some already cooked from the store and chill it for a bit.
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Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001)
Work for baritone, chorus, children´s chorus and chamber orchestra
Based on the tragedy by Aeschylus
First performed on 14th June in Ypsilanti [Michigan]
First scenical performance on 21st August 1987 in Gibellina [Sicily]
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 9th September, 2014
In ancient Greek with German surtitles
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What Is High Blood Pressure?
High blood pressure (also called hypertension) is known as the "silent killer." This is because most of the time it doesn't cause symptoms. In fact, many people don't know they have it until other problems develop. In most cases, high blood pressure can't be cured. It's a disease that requires lifelong treatment. The good news is that it CAN be managed.
Understanding blood pressure
The circulatory system is made up of the heart and blood vessels that carry blood through the body. Your heart is the pump for this system. With each heartbeat (contraction), the heart sends blood out through large blood vessels called arteries. Blood pressure is a measure of how hard the moving blood pushes against the walls of the arteries.
High blood pressure can harm your health
High blood pressure makes the heart work harder to pump blood. Frequent high blood pressure can also cause changes in the artery walls. The walls thicken and become rough, which leads to a buildup of plaque (a fatty material). This can damage the arteries. It can also reduce blood flow through the artery. If blood pressure is not controlled, all these effects can lead to serious health problems. These include heart disease, heart attack (also known as acute myocardial infarction, or AMI), stroke, kidney disease, and blindness.
Measuring blood pressure
An example of a blood pressure measurement is 120/70 (120 over 70). The top number is the pressure of blood against the artery walls during a heartbeat (systolic). The bottom number is the pressure of blood against artery walls between heartbeats (diastolic). Talk with your health care provider to find out what your blood pressure goals should be.
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From family farms to industrial agriculture, from 2,000-ton capacity schooners to 150,000-ton capacity container ships, industrial production and operations have historically moved in one direction: from small to large. In short, bigger seems better for maximizing productivity and lowering per-unit costs.
"'Does it scale up?' is the perennial question that investors ask of engineers who are creating new technology and infrastructure," says Professor Garrett van Ryzin, who for the last few years has been team-teaching a course on the business of sustainable energy with Klaus Lackner of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. "Hearing that question again and again got Klaus thinking about whether it is really necessary to scale up." The two colleagues' conversations on that question soon turned into a full-fledged framework for determining the feasibility of moving from large (in size) scale industrial infrastructure to large (in number) but small-in-size scale industrial infrastructure.
Economies of scale have dominated industrial practice and investment decisions for so long because they have made sense — and profits — in the face of human and technological limitations. As the size of physical plants, means of transportation, and equipment increase, capital costs per unit and operating costs decline, while increased productivity makes the cost of labor more efficient. For example, 100 ten-ton dump trucks would require many more drivers than a fleet of 10 hundred-ton dump trucks. Further motivations for scaling up include geometrical efficiency (such as increasing the ratio of volume to area) and spreading out the fixed costs of certain components like control and safety systems.
But automation and communication technology have evolved to the point that a large number of small units may be better, cheaper, or more efficient than a small number of large units. Consider supercomputers: until the 1990s, the supercomputer industry focused on increasing computing speed and capacity by building bigger, more specialized machines with greater processing power. "But by the mid-1990s it had become cheaper to network the capacity of CPUs and memory from large numbers of personal computers and computer workstations rather than relying on a single microprocessor," van Ryzin notes. This shift from large to massively modular computing led to an abrupt collapse of the traditional supercomputer industry in the 1990s. Are we now on the cusp of a similar radical shift in other industries?
The researchers, who also worked with doctoral students Eric Dahlgren and Caner Göçmen, conducted a plausibility analysis to show why thinking smaller might be viable or even preferred. They conclude that many industries are approaching tipping points that will soon make transitioning to small modular infrastructure practical and cost-effective.
Their analysis first looks at comparative capital costs to make a rough estimate of feasibility. For example, they found that the cost of capital for a car engine to produce a certain amount of power is far lower than a large-scale power plant producing that same amount of power. They also examine whether automation technology is advanced enough to lower labor costs to the point where manufacturing or operating smaller units becomes cost effective, and whether small scale units offer enough flexibility on other fronts to offset their costs.
Small chlorine plants illustrate these last two factors. "Chlorine is widely used but hazardous to ship so there is motivation for producing it locally," van Ryzin says. "Some companies have developed small modular chlorine plants that use relatively innocuous ingredients to make chlorine on site. They are automated and remotely monitored." The small scale of the plant meets essential needs at competitive costs while reducing the risk of a large-scale accident in manufacture or transport. Can the same logic behind these small-scale chlorine plants can be applied more broadly?
The flexibility of small-scale infrastructure is attractive because it gives firms the ability to deploy investments gradually over time, which further reduces cost and risk. "If a city's electricity demand is growing, a utility firm doesn't have to finance a gigawatt power plant that might take four or five years to come online," van Ryzin says. "It can instead deploy smaller plants as needed." In turn, a firm doesn't incur the cost of building a large plant right away — one that might not operate at full capacity immediately. And adding smaller units as needed does not require large investments or a lengthy time horizon. For firms, this flexibility to deploy gradually over time reduces investment cost and risk, creating significant economic benefits.
Smaller units also offer geographic flexibility: they can be used together at a single location or concentrated around key supply or demand sources. They can produce savings on operating costs too because firms don't have to operate all the units if they aren't needed. And they offer insurance against large system failures: it's much less likely that a large number of small units would all fail at the same time. Those that do fail would be easy to replace quickly. Finally, the researchers thought they might find that smaller units were less durable and might need replacing more often, but in many sectors smaller units are just as durable as larger ones. Even so, the flexibility offered by small units may trump considerations of durability in some industries.
The implications of this shift are profound and accordingly, as van Ryzin and Lackner acknowledge, not without barriers. But few of these barriers are technological or financial. To really facilitate mass production, for example, industries will have to agree on standard interfaces and controls, just as the PC industry standardized on "Win-tel" (Windows and Intel) architecture. The most significant hurdle may be convincing engineers, designers, investors, policy makers, and firms to rethink the "scale, scale, scale" mantra they've been taught and have embraced for decades. Instead of asking if a project can "scale up," stakeholders must learn to ask if a project scales down. "That also means using different frameworks for evaluating return on investment — traditional net present value measures might capture the cost of capital but they won't capture the flexibility benefits that small units offers," van Ryzin points out.
"Especially in the area of energy, people are really starting to ask how we can switch from traditional energy sources to new sources," van Ryzin says. "We may have to reinvent the world's energy infrastructure, and we may need to 'think small' to do that."
Garrett van Ryzin is the Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise, chair of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division, and faculty director of the Master Class Program at Columbia Business School.
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"Small Modular Infrastructure." Working paper, Columbia Business School, 2012.
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Garrett van Ryzin is the Paul M. Montrone Professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Chair of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the School. His research interests include analytical pricing, stochastic modeling, and operations management. He is coauthor of the book The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management, which won the 2005 Lanchester...


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Hitler's Role in the Persuection of the Jews by the Nazi Regime: Electronic Version, by Heinz Peter LongerichTable of Contents
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16.1In the middle of September 1941 Hitler ordered the deportation of the Jews from the Greater German Reich into ghettos in Eastern Europe. He thereby set in process the deportation plans which he had pursued at the beginning of 1941, without waiting for the original precondition - the military victory over the Red Army. Only a month earlier, in the middle of August, Hitler had spoken against the "evacuation" of Jews from the Reich area.146
16.2On the 18 September 1941 Himmler nonetheless announced to the Gauleiter in Warthegau, Greiser, the following:
The Führer would like the Altreich and the Protectorate from the West to the East to be emptied and liberated of Jews as soon as possible. I am therefore trying - hopefully still in this year - to transport the Jews of the Altreich and those from the Protectorate - at least as a first stage - into the Eastern territories, which had been acquired two years earlier; this is in order to push them further East in the coming spring. I intend to place about 60,000 Jews of the Altreich and the Protectorate in the Litzmannstadt ghetto, which I understand has enough room to accommodate them, for the winter.147
16.3In the following weeks Hitler repeatedly confirmed his determination to deport the Jews from Central Europe to the East. On 6 October he announced to his lunch guests as he expiated over the planned penalties against the Czechs, that all Jews from the Protectorate must be "removed" (entfernt), and not just sent to the Generalgouvernement but rather "directly further, to the East".148 This however, was not possible at the moment according to Hitler, due to the shortage of transport capacity. At the same time as the "Protectorate Jews", the Jews from Vienna and Berlin were also to "disappear" (verschwinden).
16.4On 25 October Hitler made the following remark at his table talk, after he had once again made mention of his "prophecy" of 30 January 1939:
This criminal race has the two million dead from the World War on its conscience, now again hundreds of thousands. No one can say to me: we can't send them in the morass! Who then cares about our people? It is good if the terror we are exterminating Jewry goes before us.149
16.5In fact the deportations from the Reich area began on 15 October 1941.150 Why did Hitler at this point make the decision to start deportations which he had begun to plan from the beginning of 1941 ? Leading functionaries of the regime demanded such measures: among others, the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, Rosenberg, had suggested deportations in September - as a reaction to Stalin's decision to deport the Volga Germans to the East.151 Several Gauleiters demanded at this time that Jews be pushed out of their living areas in order to create housing for those affected by the bombing raids.152 For Hitler it seems that yet another motive played a role; he wanted to put out a warning to "world Jewry" by means of the deportation of Central European Jews - in the sense of his "prophesy" of 30 January 1939. In this way he intended to prevent the entry of the United States into the war (the leadership of the US in his opinion was a puppet of "world Jewry", a theme which was particularly conspicuous in German propaganda in the following few weeks).153
16.6Hitler`s motives become apparent from a memo written by the representative for the Eastern Ministry in Hitler`s headquarters, Koeppen, on 20 September. Koeppen wrote that the Envoy von Steengracht (representative of the Foreign Office in the headquarters of the Führer) had told him that Hitler was considering the question of postponing possible "Pressalien" (i.e Repressalien; reprisals) against the German Jews "for a eventuality of an American entry into the war".154 One of the elements behind the deportations of October 1941 which took place openly and which were registered by the international press was thus also the idea of using the Jews as hostages. This motive had also been involved in the projects of a "Jewish reservation" in Poland and a police government on Madagascar.
16.7These different motives for the implementation of the deportations appear secondary however, when one keeps in mind that Hitler, from the beginning of his political career, had intended to get rid of the Jews within the German "Lebensraum" in one way or another and had pressed forward with plans for mass deportation from the very beginning of the war: with the conquest of the enormous Soviet area it seemed to him for the first time that a practical possibility was available for the realisation of these plans.
146. Strauss (ed.), Reichsministerium, p. 303, Reproduction of a note for Frick on Eichmann's declarations in the Propagandaministerium on 15 August.
147. 'Der Führer wünscht, daß möglichst bald das Altreich und das Protektorat vom Westen nach dem Osten von Juden geleert und befreit werden. Ich bin daher bestrebt, möglichst noch in diesem Jahr die Juden des Altreichs und des Protektorats zunächst einmal als erste Stufe in die vor zwei Jahren neu zum Reich gekommenen Ostgebiete zu transportieren, um sie im nächsten Frühjahr noch weiter nach dem Osten abzuschieben. Ich beabsichtige, in das Litzmannstädter Getto, das, wie ich höre, an Raum aufnahmefähig ist, rund 60.000 Juden des Altreichs und des Protektorats für den Winter zu verbringen.' BAB, NS 19/2655, printed in Longerich (ed.). Ermordung, p. 157.
148. 'gleich weiter nach Osten'. BAB, R 6/34a, Report by Werner Koeppen, the representative of Rosenbergs to Hitler; cf. Vogt, Selbstbespiegelungen, pp. 641-651, (p. 649).
149. 'Diese Verbrecherrasse hat die zwei Millionen Toten des Weltkrieges auf dem Geweissen, jetzt wieder Hunderttausende. Sage mir keiner: Wir können sie doch nicht in den Morast schicken! Wer kümmert sich den um unsere Menschen. Es is gut, wenn uns der Schrecken vorangeht, daß wir das Judentum ausrotten.' Jochmann (ed.), Monologe, 25.10.41
150. Heydrich to Himmler, 19 October 1941, Eichmann-Prozeß, No. 1544.
151. Aus dem Kriegstagebuch des Diplomaten Otto Bräutigam. Eingeleitet u. kommmentiert v. H.D. Heilmann, in: Biedermann und Schreibtischtäter, Materialien zur deutschen Täter-Biographie, Berlin 1987, pp. 123-187, p. 144.
152. Longerich, Politik, 432f.
153. Ibid., 431f.
154. 'fur einen eventuellen Eintritt Amerikas in den Krieg aufzuheben'. BAB, R 6/34a, Koeppen-notes, 21.9.41.
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Ross Gelbspan | January 19, 2006
By Ross Gelbspan • Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 14:58
In a Jan. 19 editorial, titled "Kyoto's Big Con," the Wall Street Journal declared:
"The U.S. dropped its signature from Kyoto because arbitrary emissions targets are both pointless and economically damaging. No proof exists that lower emissions reduce global warming. The idea that human activity influences climate change one way or another is far from proven, given the overwhelming role nature itself plays in atmospheric changes. And if the warming trend of recent decades continues – by no means a certainty – it might well be a boon to humanity."
One might be misled into believing the Wall Street Journal's position on climate change mirrors the opinion of Conservatives and business leaders in the United States.
Fortunately, this kind of tripe has long ago been contradicted by, among others, Jim Woolsey (former head of the CIA), Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), Margaret Thatcher, William F. Buckley, Jr. (neither one exactly a closet liberal), and, more recently, former Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil, who has likened the coming impacts of climate change to a "nuclear holocaust."
It has also been contradicted by such corporations as Alcoa, American Electric Power, Baxter International Inc., Boeing, BP, DuPont, Entergy, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Royal Dutch Shell, Sunoco, Toyota, United Technologies, Weyerhayser and Whirlpool Corporation – to name a few.
No matter. It seems clear that Dow Jones (the parent company of the WSJ) places more faith in the pronouncements of the paper's editorial board than in the findings of more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reporting to the United Nations in what is the largest and most rigorously peer-reviewed scientific collaboration in history.
The Journal used to be known affectionately as "the handmaiden of American capitalism."
Today it is fast becoming one of capitalism's biggest buffoons.
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The Kyoto environmental protocol committed nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By this standard, the pact's biggest fans, the Europeans, are failing. And what about the United States, the global villain for withdrawing approval of the accord in 2001? It's doing very well, thank you, says the Wall Street Journal. Consider the latest numbers from the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen: • Most European countries have seen an increase in greenhouse gas emissions since signing Kyoto with great fanfare in 1997. • No fewer than 13 out of the 15 original European Union (EU) signatories are on track to miss their 2010 emissions targets – by as much as 33 percentage points, in the case of Spain. Or consider Denmark, home of the EU's environmental watchdog: • Rather than reduce levels by 21 percent as the accord stipulates, Denmark has so far notched a 6.3 percent increase in emissions since 1990, the base year used in Kyoto. • The likely gap between its Kyoto commitment and its emissions levels projected for 2010 is 25.2 percentage points. How is the United States doing? The Bush Administration has continued a longstanding U.S. policy of pushing states, municipalities and private industry to reduce those emissions that actually lower the quality of air and water. • The United States thus saw a modest decline in greenhouse emissions of 0.8 percent between 2000 and 2002, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy. • Overall since 1990, American greenhouse emissions are up 15.8 percent, but this still puts the United States far ahead of many of its European and Asian critics. And this despite U.S. economic growth (and increasing energy demand) that has far exceeded Europe's, says the Journal. Source: Editorial, "Kyoto's Big Con," Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2006.
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Wall Street Journal way off base
The Wall Street Journal is so far from reality on the issue of global warming that they should be laughed out of the newspaper industry. They either are in the pockets of the Republican administration or so far under a rock that they do not even know how to read over 2000 studies confirming the severity of the prognosis of damage from global warming. What a shameful article.
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Cosmo's Guide to Hot Guys in Holiday Movies
I had Thanksgiving dinner at my boyfriend's sister's house. While everyone else was watching football, we decided to focus on another type of scoring. We went at it in the coat closet near the front door and broke hangers and knocked down coats in the process. It was so hot, though. Later, my sister-in-law noticed the mess and asked us about it. We tried blaming my 5-year-old nephew, who is occasionally naughty, but he just pointed the finger back at us. "I saw them go in there! They made the big mess!" Not the proudest moment in my life.
—Johanna Cruz, 28, Dominican-American, Union, N.J.
My college girlfriend invited me over for Christmas, and her superconservative Mexican family, of course, made me stay in the guest room. I snuck into her room early on Christmas morning, and in midcoitus, her mother banged on the door. "Mija, come down! The Muppet Show is on! It's the Christmas special!" Before I had a chance to grab my clothes, she burst in, only to find me naked two feet away from her, my erection waving at her in misplaced excitement. Christmas dinner was an awkward, solemn affair. The Muppets have never meant the same to me since.
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New York-born Alicia Keys began taking piano lessons at age seven at her mother's insistence. She proved to be such a prodigy that she was later accepted into he prestigious Professional Performance Arts School of Manhattan, where she majored in choir.
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Stop by "the campus beautiful" and hear the unique sounds of the 48 tuned, bronze bells of the Marsh Memorial Carillon at Concord University in Athens—West Virginia's only true carillon!
Joseph Marsh's dream of a world-class carillon on the Concord University Administration Building has a 40-plus-year history behind it. The "Baker Bells" ringing out across the campus of Dr. Marsh's alma mater, Dartmouth College, made quite an impression on the young student and beginning faculty member.
When Dr. Marsh returned to Concord College as its new President in 1959, he dreamed of bringing those "melodious sounds" to campus. He attempted to get funding for a carillon when the Administration Building was renovated in the early 1960s, but was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, he had the roof of the building remodeled in such a way, with reinforced steel and a slot for bell cables, that a carillon could be built "someday."
Fast forward to Christmas time 1995, when Dr. Marsh, now retired, came into the office of President Jerry Beasley. Dr. Marsh had been setting aside money for years so that, as a provision in his will, the University could install his cherished carillon. Instead, he told Dr. Beasley, "I want to do this while I'm still living and can enjoy it."
A contract was let to the van Bergen Company of South Carolina for carillon construction, and to the Paccard Foundry of Annecy, France, to cast the bronze bells. (The committee found no bellmaking foundry in North America capable of the job.) Kreps & Kreps Architects of Charleston, W.Va., were retained to help with design, and Swope Construction of Bluefield, W.Va., went to work turning the blueprints into reality.
The largest bell was cast in February 1997, with Dr. Marsh throwing the switch in Annecy to start the furnace that spewed forth the mixture of virgin copper and tin into the mold. In the centuries-old European tradition, the molds were broken after the bells were cast. By July 1997 the bells had been hand-tuned and shipped across the Atlantic. On July 30 a dedication ceremony on the Concord front lawn revealed Dr. Marsh as the donor, and featured a "blessing of the bells" by the pastor of Concord United Methodist Church.
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Area college basketball: Wofford preview capsule
Published: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 6:34 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 6:34 p.m.
UNC Greensboro at Wofford
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Benjamin Johnson Arena
Records: UNC Greensboro (7-15, 5-6 Southern Conference); Wofford (9-15, 3-8)
Radio: 910 AM, 105.7 FM
Top scorers: UNC Greensboro — Jr. G/F Trevis Simpson (20.2 ppG.); Sr. G Derrell Armstrong (14.9 ppg., 5.0 rpg.); Fr. F Kayel Locke (10.7 ppg.). Wofford — So. G Karl Cochran (15.3 ppg.); Fr. G Spencer Collins (12.4 ppg.); S. F Lee Skinner (10.5 ppg., 7.3 rpg.).
Notes: The Terriers on Thursday knocked off North Division leader Elon, 60-50, in the Benjamin Johnson Arena. It broke a three-game losing streak. … Collins led Wofford with 16 points. … The Terriers held Elon to 37 percent shooting overall, 28 percent (7-for-25) on 3-pointers. ... Wofford lost Jan. 16 at UNC Greensboro, 71-52. Collins led the Terriers with 12 points. They were down 13 at the half and scored only 22 points the rest of the way. Simpson had 19 points for Elon, while Armstrong had 16 points and nine rebounds. … UNC Greensboro won Thursday at Furman, 88-65, to break a two-game losing streak against Elon and the College of Charleston. … The only time UNC Greensboro has won two in a row this season was Jan. 24 and Jan. 27 at home against Samford and Chattanooga, respectively. … The Spartans are just 1-9 on the road this season. … Simpson, a 6-foot-4 wing from Douglas, Ga., is the leading scorer in the Southern Conference. … UNC Greensboro is a half-game ahead of Chattanooga at the bottom of the North Division, while Wofford is a half-game ahead of last-place The Citadel in the South. The Terriers, however, are only one game behind third-place Georgia Southern.
Next: Wofford plays on the road Monday at Western Carolina and Thursday at Samford before coming back to the Benjamin Johnson Arena for a Feb. 16 game against Chattanooga.
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Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero is seen in an Aug. 29, 2007 photo in Lansing, Mich. Bernero said Monday, Dec. 21, 2009 he plans to create an exploratory committee as he considers challenging Lt. Gov. John Cherry and others for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination next year. The former state lawmaker will file paperwork this week and plans to decide whether to enter the race early next year. (AP Photo/Lansing State Journal, Rod Sanford)
Mayor Virg Bernero will not say where and what the cuts will be, but he says they will be painful.
"Everything is on the table," said Bernero.
That's the message Bernero is looking to send after reporting an $11 million budget shortfall for the Lansing's 2014 Fiscal Year, which begins next July.
After years of cutting city programs and a third of Lansing's jobs to solve past deficits, Bernero says tough decisions will have to be made in order to keep the city afloat.
"Now, when we go to take $11 million, it is really going to come out of our hide," said Bernero. "The choices that we have are not going to be between waste and good. It is going to be between good and vital."
According to Bernero, everything is on the line.
"The community centers we run are wonderful things that are needed in the community," said Bernero. I don't want to close a single community center and I'm not suggesting we will. I'm just telling you this is a big amount of money."
The mayor blames much of the deficit on the struggling housing market reducing property tax revenue, a main source of income for the city.
There are also a number of expenses that continue to increase.
"56 percent of my budget is police and fire. It costs more money to run fire engines than police cars because of the price of gas," said Bernero. "Health care has gone up somewhat. Pension obligations are up and my revenue is down."
Despite the difficult decisions, Bernero says he will have a balanced budget ready by March of 2013.
"We're going to have to figure out how to make the ship run with $11 million less," said Bernero.
The mayor also suggested raising property taxes another .5 mills to the maximum 20 and increase parking ticket fees as ways to cut the deficit, but suggested it would only help a small amount.


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The Phelps County Fair will be back in town. The four-day event kicks off Wednesday, July 31, and runs until Saturday, Aug. 3. This year will mark the 66th year for the fair held at the fairgrounds on Highway 63 south of Rolla.
New to the fairgrounds this year is the "Remembering Our Fallen," a photo memorial of Missouri's soldiers who have died in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars since Sept. 11, 2011.
The exhibit, which is designed to travel through Missouri, has Phelps County Fair Board Vice President Renae Silvio excited.
"I think that it is something that will touch everyone," she told the Daily News.
The 20-year Fair Board veteran is also enthusiastic about the Diaper Derby back for its second year. The crawl takes place Friday night, Aug. 2, at the Midway.
It will be a homecoming of sorts for local rockers Special 20. Cousins Jason Evans and Welsey Wilfong grew up in the Ozark hills. Their blend of country, rock and blues have been lighting up crowds for more than 12 years now. They will be the main music act on Saturday, Aug. 3.
Also headlining this year is 7 Bridges Road, which will perform a tribute to the music of the Eagles. They will take to the stage on Friday, Aug. 2.
The ever popular Phelps County Fair rodeo also will be on Friday night. The Midwest Cowboys Rodeo Company's presentation of Bulls, Broncos and Barrels Bash will include barrel racing, saddlebroncs and bull riding among other events.
Silvio also is pleased to announce that the Poor Boys Garden Tractor Pull is making a return to the fairgrounds. Beginners and veterans riding mowers are welcomed to strut their skills Saturday night in a variety of stock and modified classes.
She also noted the At Your Service Limousine is offering free shuttle service from the Walmart parking lot at 500 South Bishop to the fairgrounds each day of the event.
For information about this years Phelps County Fair or for tickets, visit the fair's website at www.phelpscountyfair.com.
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OAKLAND -- Alameda pianist Michelle Zhang gave a beautifully articulated and rhythmically exciting performance of J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto in F Major, 1st Movement, as part of a benefit recital for the Young People's Symphony Orchestra at which nine other pianists performed on Sept. 22 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Oakland.
In addition to studying piano and violin privately since age 6, Zhang, now 16, is a member of YPSO's first violin section and a junior at Alameda High School.
The concert raised $2,000 for YPSO, the Berkeley-based orchestra, which was founded in 1936, and is the oldest independent youth orchestra in California, and the second oldest in the nation. The benefit recital was organized by Giving Concerts and YPSO Board member and pianist Valdez Hill, who also performed on the program. Giving Concerts' sponsor, the Piedmont Piano Company, will host benefit recitals for YPSO in April and September 2013.
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New Hampshire Fisher Cats team driver balances life on the road with family
Merrill has added a new wrinkle to his driving career — team bus driver for the Eastern League's New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the Class AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Hendersonville Kmart to close in May
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 2:18 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 2:18 p.m.
The Kmart store at Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville will close May 19 in an effort to "reduce ongoing expenses," said Howard Riefs, director of corporate communications for Sears Holdings.
The store has 58 employees, who will have an opportunity to apply for positions at other Kmart and Sears stores, Riefs said.
"As a part of the ordinary course of business, we close stores for a variety of reasons. This store is being closed because the lease was not renewed," he said. "The store closures are part of a series of actions we're taking to reduce ongoing expenses, adjust our asset base and accelerate the transformation of our business model.
"These actions will better enable us to focus our investments on serving our customers and members through integrated retail – at the store, online and in the home."
The store will begin a liquidation sale on March 3, Riefs said.
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Imagine pouring one and a half teaspoons of salt directly into your mouth. Can you taste it? Blah, blech! You'd shed an ocean of tears trying to choke down those tongue-tingling crystals.
Yet, if you're a typical American, you eat that much salt every single day. And that's one primary reason why 50 percent of us are considered at risk for high blood pressure.
I know, that sounds impossible—you seldom if ever reach for the salt shaker, right? Well, you don't have to: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that most of us consume about 3,400 mg of sodium a day, but only 5 percent of it comes from home cooking. Some occurs in foods naturally, but the overwhelming majority of the sodium you eat—77 percent—comes foods sold in supermarkets and restaurants. Heart disease is the number-one killer of Americans, and sodium is one of the primary culprits.
We should be eating no more than 2,300 mg a day, and less—about 1,500 mg—if we're at risk for high blood pressure. And yet, while researching my latest book, The Eat This, Not That! No-Diet Diet, I uncovered countless restaurant meals with one, two, even three days' worth of salt in them. Think I'm exaggerating? Take a peek at the saltiest dishes coming from America's kitchens.
1. WORST PASTA: Ruby Tuesday Mediterranean Shrimp Pasta
3,933 mg sodium
1,086 calories
63 g fat
Sodium Equivalent: 11 Large Orders of McDonald's French Fries
Somebody needs to tell Ruby Tuesday that to make "Mediterranean" pasta, you don't need to actually boil the noodles in Mediterranean seawater. Ruby Tuesday makes only one pasta dish with fewer than 2,000 mg of sodium (almost an entire day's worth!), and it has only two pasta dishes with fewer than 3,000 mg. The other four pasta dishes on the menu each have more than 3,000 mg.
2. WORST BREAKFAST:IHOP Thick-Cut Bone-In Ham & Eggs
4,310 mg sodium
1,170 calories
61 g fat (19 g saturated)
Sodium Equivalent: 37 servings of Planter's Cocktail Peanuts (that's more than three 12-oz cans!)
IHOP is another chain known for egregious sodium levels. Even foods that sound relatively sodium-free are swimming in the stuff. Take an order of Buttermilk Pancakes. One order—5 pancakes—has 2,640 mg sodium. Things turn especially ugly when you start adding meat to the plate. You'd be wise to avoid any dish with steak or ham, which consistently contribute to a total of more than 2,000 mg per dish.
3. WORST "HEALTHY" ENTREE: Applebee's Weight Watchers Chipotle Lime Chicken
4,990 mg sodium
490 calories
12 g fat (2 g saturated)
Sodium Equivalent: 31 servings of Ruffles (that's more than two "Family Size" bags!)
Avoiding salt at Applebee's is nearly impossible. Not even the "healthy" selections pass muster. The six items on the Under 550 Calories menu average 2,341 mg of sodium per entree. The five items on the Weight Watchers menu average 2,448 mg. Even the side dishes are dangerous. A side of Loaded Mashed Potatoes will cost you 1,340 mg, and a side of Broccoli Cheddar Soup will cost you 1,690. If you order anything off this menu, you'd be wise to stick to sodium-free foods for the rest of the day.
4. SALTIEST APPETIZER: Applebee's Appetizer Sampler
6,830 mg sodium
2,590 calories
173 g fat (54 g saturated)
Sodium Equivalent: 370 Funyuns (that's more than four bags of 'em!)
Restaurant appetizer samplers are notoriously riddled with sodium, but Applebee's is a full-blown tour de force of heart-stopping potential. Piled onto this plate are a bacon and cheese quesadilla, fried cheese sticks, spinach and artichoke dip and chips, and boneless buffalo wings. Just one of those things is bad enough, but add all four and you have three days' worth of sodium and more than an entire day of calories—in just one appetizer!
5. SALTIEST CHINESE: P.F. Chang's Double Pan-Fried Noodles with Pork
7,900 mg sodium
1,652 calories
84 g fat (12 g saturated)
Sodium Equivalent: 263 Triscuit crackers (that's 4.3 boxes!)
PF Changs' menu is probably the saltiest in America; even a bowl of Hot and Sour Soup has 5,000 mg. For that half of the population that's supposed to max out at 1,500 mg daily sodium, the Double Pan-Fried Noodles with Pork harbors more than five times the limit. Even for those in the higher tier, it still represents three-and-a-half days worth of sodium consumption. If you end up at Chang's, let the Steamed Buddha Bowl be your safety plate. But remember: It's got to be steamed. Order it stir-fried and the same dish suddenly leaps to 2,740 mg sodium. Yikes.
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Mamie Irene Wheeler, 92, formerly of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, at Baptist Health Care in Lenoir City after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's.
She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge, where she was an active member for many years. She was a devoted wife and mother who took great pride in her home and family while also maintaining a career in credit management, working for several major retailers.
She was the daughter of the late James Bailey of Knoxville and Marie Galloway of Dayton, Ohio.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Jeanne Wheeler; her son, Michael Wheeler; her husband, J. P. Wheeler; and a brother, Ernest Bailey.
Mrs. Wheeler is survived by her daughter, Patricia Dail of Farragut; sisters, Ethel Elder of Titusville, Fla., and Carolyn Bailey Weseman of Knoxville; and a brother, Howard Bailey of Lenoir City. She is also survived by grandson, Shawn Dail and great-granddaughter, Ashley Dail; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 3 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, at Weatherford Mortuary. A private graveside service will be held at Jacksboro Cemetery with the Rev. James Buttram officiating.
The family asks that any memorials be made to a charity of the donor's choice.
An on-line guest book can be signed at www.weatherfordmortuary.com.
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UMMA Projects: Oliver van den Berg
April 24–July 18, 2010
Berlin-based sculptor Oliver van den Berg produces objects based on such technical equipment as flight recorders, planetarium projectors, and—most recently—enormous banks of microphones or television cameras. Instantly recognizable, van den Berg's works derive their uncanny presence from the fact that they are made of wood. Standing in direct opposition to the material and function of their models, van den Berg's carved replicas question the past century's faith in technology in the utopian pursuit of "progress." In his most recent installations, the proliferation of nonfunctional recording devices makes a decidedly low-tech comment on our contemporary society of surveillance by transforming the exhibition space into a sort of absurd press conference, as oversized as it is dysfunctional.
This project is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Office of the President and UMMA's New Visions Venture Fund including the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund.