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Quote: The Truth About Unemployment
By Washington's Blog
August 12, 2009 "Washington's Blog" -- -The mainstream news is citing the decline in unemployment from 9.5% to 9.4% in July as proof that the economy is stabilizing.
But is that true?
Distortions in the Numbers
Well, as the New York Times pointed out in July:
Include [those who have given up looking for a job and those part-time workers who want to be working full time] as the Labor Department does when calculating its broadest measure of the job market and the rate reached 23.5 percent in Oregon this spring, according to a New York Times analysis of state-by-state data. It was 21.5 percent in both Michigan and Rhode Island and 20.3 percent in California. In Tennessee, Nevada and several other states that have relied heavily on manufacturing or housing, the rate was just under 20 percent this spring and may have since surpassed it.
And see this.
The Times wrote a second article on August 7th pointing out that the unemployment rate had only declined because 400,000 people gave up their search for work and left the labor force. And see this.
Indeed, as the Times notes in a third article, Americans are going to China to look for work.
In addition, economists and financial analysts point out that auto workers who would normally be laid off this time of year have been retained because of changes to the auto industry from the auto bailouts.
For example, PhD economist John Williams wrote on August 7th:
July usually sees a regular pattern of planned automobile production line shutdowns to accommodate retooling for the new model year, but recent disruptions to the auto industry have changed pattern this year. Without the usual pattern of shutdowns, the governments computers nonetheless responded by creating the usual offsetting boost in jobs, not only in the auto industry, but in supporting industries as well. The auto industry itself was alone among durable goods manufacturing industries in showing a reported, seasonally-adjusted monthly gain in July, up by 28,000 jobs.
Williams also said that certain distortions in unemployment figures are being caused by the severity of the financial crisis itself, but that - when these distortions subside in the months ahead - unemployment will increase. He also notes that official unemployment models tend to underestimate unemployment during recessions.
Indeed, if the aforementioned distortions are removed, Williams says that July unemployment figures would have actually increased slightly from June. Indeed, Williams says that accurate unemployment figures rose from 17.5% in December to 20.6% in July.
And Dave Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff notes that tens of thousands of the new jobs in July were created by the government itself:
There have been large fluctuations in the federal government payroll too. After hiring a slew of Census workers in the spring, there were 57,000 layoffs in May-June and then we saw in todays report that 12,000 federal workers were hired in July. Again, mathematically, this contributed about 20,000 to todays headline number. In other words, and we have no intent on raining on anyones parade, there was about 100,000 non-recurring payrolls in that top-line figure. It may be dangerous to extrapolate todays report into a view that we are about to fully turn the corner on the job market front.
Financial commentator Max Keiser says that unemployment is actually increasing and wages are falling. Keiser also says that the only sector in the U.S. which is actually strengthening is the military-industrial complex because of wars abroad. And see this.
And many economists point out that the length of time people are remaining unemployed is skyrocketing. As the Washington Post notes:
Another disturbing development was that the number of people out of work for 27 weeks or longer reached a record 5 million, accounting for a third of the unemployed. That suggests to some economists that those job losses were caused by structural changes in the economy and that many of those people won't be called back to work once the economy picks up. The longer people are out of work, the harder it becomes for them to find jobs and the more likely they are to exhaust savings or lose their homes to foreclosure.
No wonder even Paul Krugman writes:
That slight dip in the measured unemployment rate last month was probably a statistical fluke.
Where Is Unemployment Going From Here?
Unemployment is a "lagging" indicator. In other words, if the economy crashes in one month, unemployment will not peak until several months or years later.
So we have to ask 2 questions:
1) How bad were conditions in 2008 and early 2009?
2) What will conditions be in the future?
A look back at how bad conditions were shows that they were probably worse than those at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Says who?
Fed Chairman Bernanke and many other top economists (and see this).
Indeed, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich wrote in April that the unemployment figures show that we are already in a depression.
And Chris Tilly - director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA - points out that some populations, such as high school dropouts and African-Americans, are hit much harder than other populations. In other words, regardless of the population at large, these people are already experiencing depression-level unemployment. And see this and this.
Europes largest bank - RBS - warns:
Even if the economy starts to turn up the headwinds will be formidable, [the company's CEO] warned. The green shoots are short in duration and you need to be cautious about interpreting them. Even if growth returns, unemployment will rise for some time afterwards ...
What Will Future Conditions Look Like?
When he was presented with the July unemployment numbers, even President Obama tempered his enthusiasm by saying that the official unemployment numbers will rise to 10% later this year.
And the Federal Reserve predicted in July that high unemployment will cause the eventual economic recovery to be drawn out and weak for years to come. In other words, the Fed is worried that we're trapped in a vicious cycle, where a poor economy will lead to high unemployment numbers, and unemployment will lead to less consumer spending which will worsen the economy.
And former chief IMF economist Simon Johnson notes that a vicious cycle also exists between unemployment and property foreclosures:
Unemployment is always a lagging indicator, and given the record low number of average hours worked, it will turn around especially slowly this time. Until then, people will continue to lose their jobs and wages will remain flat, and any small rebound in housing prices is unlikely to help more than a few people refinance their way out of unaffordable mortgages. So unless the other part of the equation monthly payments changes, the number of foreclosures should just continue to rise.
And see this.
Moreover, a crash in commercial real estate is now picking up speed. Unlike the subprime mortgage meltdown - which affected mainly the biggest banks - the commercial meltdown will apparently affect a huge number of small to medium-sized banks.
Today, the Congressional Oversight Panel on the bailouts issued a report saying that small and medium sized banks are especially vulnerable, the report will say, in part they hold greater numbers of commercial real estate loans, "which pose a potential threat of high defaults."
Since those banks make many loans to small businesses, since credit is essential for many small businesses, commercial real estate is crashing even faster than residential, and industry experts forecast that the commercial real estate market won't bottom out for three more years, that could spell real trouble for employment by small businesses.
Indeed, largely because of the commercial real estate crash, the FDIC expects 500 banks to fail in coming months.
The Congressional Oversight Panel report also says that banks remain threatened by billions of dollars of bad loans on their balance sheets, more could fail if the economy worsens, and that - if unemployment rises sharply or the commercial real estate market collapses the banking system could again crash:
The financial system [still remains] vulnerable to the crisis conditions that [the bailout] was meant to fix...
Financial stability remains at risk if the underlying problem of toxic assets remains unresolved.
While the panel focuses on toxic loans, this holds true with toxic derivatives as well. As I have written in previous essays, the CDOs, CDS and other derivative side bets on the subprime and alt-a and commercial mortgages still haven't been reigned in, and they still have a high risk of bringing down the entire financial system unless they are either banned or brought to heel. The derivatives market is many times bigger than the world's real economy, and if that market crashes again, things could be bad, indeed.
In an interview on Reuters Television, the chairman of the congressional oversight panel, Elizabeth Warren, said no one even knows the value of the toxic assets still on banks' books.
"No one has a good handle how much is out there," Warren said. "Here we are 10 months into this crisis...and we can't tell you what the dollar value is."
Estimates are that "somewhere between $600 billion and $1.5 trillion in toxic assets (is) spread across the balance sheets of the small and the large banks," Warren said, adding: "That's a lot."
The government's entire strategy in dealing with the economic crisis was to try to artificially prop up the asset price of these toxic assets. Unfortunately, that strategy has failed miserably.
Another trend arguing for higher unemployment is the fact that consumers have undergone a generational shift in spending habits, and will be frugal for a long time to come. Indeed, even if the financial crisis hadn't occured, long-term demographic trends would have pushed for frugality for many years to come.
Likewise, corporations are still hoarding cash.
Finally, there is excess capacity in many sectors. As the Washington Post notes :
With fewer people and businesses willing to buy things, it will take longer for the economy to work off all the excess capacity that was built up during boom times.
Think of thousands of idled factories, acres of empty strip malls and ports packed with unsold automobiles ...
So what does it all mean?
I passionately hope, of course, that economic conditions improve and that unemployment declines.
I hope that my assessments are proven overly pessimistic, and the economy recovers quickly.
But people forget that there was a huge rally after the initial 1929 crash, before the bigger second wave down of the Great Depression hit.
People forget that unemployment did not hit 25% until the fourth year of the Great Depression.
Former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist and Harvard University Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff and University of Maryland Economics Professor Carmen Reinhart forecast in February that unemployment could reach 22% within 4 years.
So while I hope and pray that unemployment numbers get better, they could get much worse.


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I'm using QCAD Pro with Windows XP sp3 since a few weeks.
When I started Qcad for the first time, I had all toolbars in separate areas in the right pane of the QCAD window but this isn't longer the case !
Apparently I made a mistake by clicking on the "overlaying window icon" (on the left of the cross icon) in one the variouis "Lists" panes on the right side of the Qcad window, for instance the "Blocks List", corresponding to the "Blocks List Toolbar". The result is that this toolbar completely disapeared. There was no separate window, nowhere at all ! I couldn't find any way to have this toolbar back again, even by checking again this toolbar item in the Edit Menu.
Just the same problem resulted of double-clicking the title line of the toolbar. By trying several times, I had no right area, no toolbar at all !
I closed QCAD and restarted it, without getting the toolbar back. But at this time, checking again the toolbar item in the Edit Menu made the corresponding toolbar appear as a separate window in the right bottom corner of my primary display as I'm Using QCAD in my (large) secondary display on the left of the primary one. Then I could drag this window to the main Qcad window in its right pane.
But then, instead of having a separate area for each toolbar, for instance 4 areas one above the other (Layers, Library, Blocks and Properties), I only have 2 areas :
- one for all toolbars with 3 tabs to select Layers, Library or Blocks area one at a time
- a second area for the Properties.
I deleted the "QCAD.ini" file but without better results.
The only time I succeeded in getting back separate simultaneous ares was by reinstalling QCAD. But not the nicest way !
Thanks for any idea on the way to manage the toolbars areas and windows.
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Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 10:45 p.m.
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SARASOTA - Two men are under arrest for what authorities describe as a harrowing home invasion robbery in which the men held a gun to a 10-year-old boy's head.
The robbery occurred about 1 a.m. Monday at a home in the 1800 block of 29th Street in Sarasota.
According to a Sarasota Police Department report:
Two masked men dressed in black entered the home and one of them grabbed a woman there by the hair and held a gun to her head.
The robber forced the woman into a bedroom while the other man held a gun to the woman's 10-year-old son. The two robbers searched the home while they continued to threaten to kill the woman and her son.
Two officers who were nearby on another call, including one who had his police dog with him, got word of the robbery and started canvassing the area.
The officers saw two men running from the home that had been robbed and gave chase. In the course of the chase the two men jumped a fence and continued to run.
The dog found one of the men hiding under a parked car. When he did not come out when told to, the dog bit his right arm. He finally came out from under the car.
He was later identified as Yancy Steen, 25, of the 1500 block of East 55th Circle, Bradenton. He was treated for injuries suffered from the dog bite, then taken to jail.
The second man jumped a fence in the 3000 block of Gillespie Avenue. Soon after, screams came from a home in the area and someone came running outside, saying someone was in the home. Officers went inside and found Audley N. Clarkson, 21, of Ruskin, who immediately gave himself up.
Steen was charged with home invasion robbery and resisting arrest. His bail was set at more than $750,000.
Clarkson was charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, battery and violation of probation. He was being held Wednesday without bail.
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I just want to get a WiiU - it seems like so many games for XBox and PS3 are shooters of some variety, and it's not really a genre I'm particularly interested in. The character and world design for those games feels a little homogenous to me. I want some poppin' colors and not a lot of time investment in my games!
Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:22 am
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i would like to read a Mark in Minnesota review of Metro Last Light
you in on it yet?
get on it
its better than bioshock infinite IMO, just to throw that out there, i know, different kind of games, but still
Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:29 pm
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bioshock infinite has a really neat story i'll give it that
kinda think Halo 4 is a much better game though
Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:48 pm
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everyone knows im a Rage Fanboy but i still think its ranked really high, especially with the dlc that gives it just enough more meat/veggies that it needed
also although Rage has a bit more pop in its graphics, Halo 4 got the closest,but artsy fartsy wise halo 4 totally took over rage in the graphics department , from a replayable and symmetrical standpoint its very well designed and so very beautiful too
Halo 4 PERFECTED the perfect combination of sounds and controller vibration , its like candy and so sweet
farcry 3 dragons blood has the perfect combination of the having the worst and best ending in a video game
Aliens Colonial Marines campaign DLC really pulled through, probally not for any youguys expectations though
and thats my video game rant for now
Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:13 am
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Metro: Last Light is still sitting in the shrinkwrap in a stack of unplayed games that I've bought this year, next to Dead Island: Riptide and Gears of War: Judgment.
The reason I've got this backlog is because I decided to play through Skyrim a second and almost certainly final time, getting the last remaining achievements and completing the majority of the game's non-radiant quests. Probably over 400 hours total--essentially the only video game I've played since the last week of April, other than some Lumines.
I started playing State of Decay. I'm about 10-15 hours in, and I think it's incredible. I haven't liked a game this much from a pure design standpoint since maybe The Way of the Samurai.
I'm pretty sure it's going to completely ruin Dead Island: Riptide for me.
I also really want there to be games like Bully, Red Dead Redemption, X-COM, Dynasty Warriors, Dishonored, Gears of War, etc. which all use these kinds of mechanics. Ensemble cast rather than a single main character, hybrid of RTS and action RPG and third person shooter mechanics, fully simulated game world, enormous replay value, etc. Quest lines you can fail, character permadeath, easter eggs...
This game was only 20 bucks. I'm pretty sure I'll get 200+ hours out of it.
Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:16 pm
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State of Decay is apparently getting some sort of dlc that expands the replay value infinitely. From what I've read, the resources become finite, and after a certain amount of time you'll be forced to relocate your band of survivors. Each time you do it becomes harder and harder, hordes become more prevalent, and other competing survivors become more aggressive. I like the idea a lot.
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I also started playing State of Decay on the weekend and I must say I haven't been this impressed by a video game in a long time...the realism is very striking..I have only put in 5 hours or so and still getting my head around it..I feel like there is no where near enough time to do everything I want and I'm uncertain of what I need to be prioritising at this stage..I also don't know what impact me not playing the game is having as I haven't been able to play it the last two nights and I'm aware that this impacts the state of the game but not sure how much...
Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:43 am
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I keep starting over and doing better.
I cannot express how much this game scratches me where I itch. It feels like something genuinely new.
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Anyone played the new DLC for Bioshock infinite yet? Whats the verdict?
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The new DLC is kinda like the protector trials type shit. It's alright. The next two will be the "good" dlc.
Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:54 pm
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as much as i love GTA4, i think i finally realized how slow and clunky it actually is #lookingfowardtoGTA5
Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:45 pm
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Mark in Minnesota wrote:
Ensemble cast rather than a single main character...
This is why I think Final Fantasy III might've been my favorite childhood game..
I really liked being able to go to the airship and change around the people in my party..
Tue Aug 06, 2013 12:14 pm
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Mars : War Logs looks pretty rad, im going d/l the trial on xboxlive arcade
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I want to be clear that I think State of Decay is, as a $20 XBLA title, better than 90% of the AAA titles that have come out for the Xbox 360 in the last two years. I rate it above Dead Space 3, for example.
I really hope there are sequels.
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David Bowie To Release 'The Next Day,' First Studio Album in Decade
David Bowie will release in March "The Next Day," his first studio album in a decade. "Where Are We Now?" the first single from the coming album, is available today, Bowie's 66th birthday.
A languid ballad written by Bowie, "Where Are We Now?" is a sentimental remembrance of his time in Berlin in the mid-to-late 70s when he recorded what's known as his Berlin trilogy: "Low," "Heroes" and "Lodger." The new song was recorded in New York and produced by Tony Visconti, co-producer of the trilogy. Click here to see the video for "Where Are We Now?"
Bowie's previous album "Reality" was issued in 2003.
"The Next Day" and a deluxe version with three additional tracks will be available in the U.S. on March 12, in Australia on March 8 and elsewhere on March 11. While there's no information yet regarding a tour in support of "The Next Day," its arrival is sure to fuel speculation that Bowie will appear at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, held in Indio, California, and long a home for re-emerging British acts of the '70s and '80s. Coachella's first of two consecutive weekends is April 12-14; the lineup will be announced later this month.
Jim Fusilli is the Journal's rock and pop music critic. Email him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @wsjrock.


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Pianist Marcelo Lian will visit McPherson this weekend to work with the piano students of McPherson College. While on campus, Lian will give a masterclass and present a piano recital in Brown Auditorium.
The masterclass will take place on Friday in Hess Hall. It is free and open to the public. Lian's recital will be at 7 p.m. Saturday in Brown Auditorium. It is also free and open to the public.
About Lian
Born in Buenos Aires, Marcelo Lian started his musical studies at an early age guided by the pianist and pedagogue Nilda Somma. While attending classes at the Beethoven Conservatory he took part in several masterclasses given by well-known pianists. During his career Marcelo has been distinguished with several first prizes in piano competitions as well as scholarships.
He is a doctoral student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studies under the guidance of Paul Barnes and Ann Chang. He will complete the doctorate degree in piano performance in May 2013. He is on the faculty at Peru State College in Nebraska.
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MARIETTA - For the second year in a row, visitors came to the Anchorage in Marietta on Sunday to honor the passing of one of the home's original residents.
Dozens of people passed through the doors of the historical home on George Street, originally built in the late 1850s by David Putnam for his wife, Eliza.
Members of the Washington County Historical Society hosted their second annual "Mourning for Eliza Putnam" event on Sunday afternoon at the home.
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The Washington County Historical Society held its second annual "Mourning for Eliza Putnam" event Sunday at the Anchorage in Marietta. (Photo by Brett Dunlap)
Valerie Wright gives visitors to the Anchorage in Marietta a presentation on funeral traditions and superstitions from the 19th Century during the Washington County Historical Society's second annual "Mourning for Eliza Putnam" event Sunday. (Photo by Brett Dunlap)
"We are actually doing a memorial service for Eliza Putnam, whom this house was actually built for," said society member Valerie Wright. "She actually died 151 years ago (today).
"We did this (Sunday) because it was easier for people to come in."
In the 1850s, Eliza Putnam took a trip to the East Coast in New Jersey and came across a house she very much loved which became the basis for the Marietta house. The home cost around $60,000 to build, which today would have cost $1.5 million to do, Wright said.
"The house was built with the woodwork and stonework all quarried and timbered from this property and some from Harmar Hill," she said.
Visitors to the home Sunday learned about the history of the Putnam family and were able to tour the 22-room residence which was built from 1855-1859. They also learned about the funeral customs of the late 19th Century, the Victorian era.
"We are doing this to bring in people to see what has been done to the house by the historical society, because they are refurbishing the house," Wright said. "The main floors have been redone.
"This event is going on to help them continue to raise money to help with the restoration and get the house back to the way it was when she lived here."
Eliza Putnam died on Sept. 9, 1862, from heart failure at the age of 54, having only been able to spend a couple of years in the house.
Wright read Mrs. Putnam's original obituary which appeared in the Marietta newspaper of the time and discussed some of the traditions and superstitions associated with death and funerals of that period.
Someone would actual sit with the deceased for a time in a tradition that became know as "a wake." A wake was done to make sure a person was actually dead because people, at the time, were very worried about being buried alive.
The blinds in a home were also drawn when someone died. All the clocks would be stopped at that time to show the proper respect.
"Back in the Victorian Era, they believed the mirrors needed to be covered up because they thought that the next person to look in that mirror after someone died in the house was going to be the next person to die," Wright said. "Others believed the mirrors had to be covered up or the soul of the deceased would become trapped or see themselves in the mirror and become confused.
"They were very big on their superstitions."
Families would sometimes call on photographers to take pictures of the deceased with family members often propping up the deceased family member. Locks of hair from the deceased were taken and fashioned into things like broaches and other things to go with jewelry as a reminder of them.
One of Sunday's visitors, Jackie Hendricks of Belleville, saw the event being mentioned on Facebook and decided to come and see it. She had been to the house previously during a ghost hunting event.
"I love this place," Hendricks said. "I love the historical part of it and I liked the ghost hunt."
She said she had interesting experiences through both programs.
"'I liked both parts of it," Hendricks said. "I like anything with historical value.
"I just love the architecture here. It is amazing."
The proceeds from the tour go to the historical society for the Anchorage Restoration Project. The house has a number of needs and the historical society is looking at what can be done next. A lot of work is done by volunteers.
"It is a process," Wright said. "It takes a lot of time.
"We have been coming up here for five years. The progress of this has been phenomenal."
The house has hosted ghost hunting events in October and a masquerade ball in May in which money raised has gone to restoration efforts.
"This place is a home away from home," Wright said. "We are here a lot.
"Everything we do is to refurbish the house."


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Bill would expand Medicare access to weight loss tools
Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 7:43 p.m.
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A Louisiana lawmaker is teaming up with senators from around the country on a bill that would give Medicare patients and their doctors access to new tools to combat obesity.
The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, introduced by U.S. Reps. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, and Ron Kind, D-Wis., in the House and U.S. Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in the Senate, aims to help lower health care costs and prevent chronic diseases by addressing America's growing obesity crisis. The bill would allow Medicare patients access to weight-loss counseling and new prescription drugs for chronic weight management, among other provisions.
The bill was introduced after the American Medical Association officially recognized obesity as a disease Wednesday.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, 65.8 percent of Louisiana adults are overweight and 31 percent are obese.
Health-care costs related to obesity total nearly $200 billion each year.
Nationwide, nearly 70 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, and 42 percent of Americans are projected to become obese by 2030. Obesity increases the risk for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
"As a physician, I have personally seen the impact of obesity on people's health and spiraling health care costs. The medical consequences of obesity are clear but less often discussed is the fiscal consequence of America's growing waistline," said Cassidy, whose congressional district includes northern Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.
Obesity is responsible for $61.8 billion in Medicare and Medicaid spending, Cassidy said. In 2010, the Congressional Budget Office said that nearly 20 percent of the increase in health care spending was caused by obesity.
"Fortunately, we now have new technologies to help Americans fight obesity," Cassidy added. "This legislation would help empower physicians to use all the tools in their arsenal to combat this epidemic,"
The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act would:
- Allow Medicare to cover additional obesity treatments such as prescription drugs for chronic weight management, which Medicaid already covers in more than 20 states. Weight-loss surgery is the only obesity treatment tool currently covered by Medicare.
- Require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to promote Medicare coverage of intensive behavioral counseling for obesity for seniors and their doctors.
- Expand Medicare patients' access to intensive behavioral counseling by allowing additional providers to offer the service.
"Seven in 10 adults struggle with obesity and being overweight, and more than a third of children are overweight or obese. These facts demand that we do more to combat the obesity epidemic," Carper said. "Not only are these Americans more vulnerable to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, disability and stroke, but as a country we're spending almost $200 billion a year to treat obesity and its related conditions. If we continue to stand idly by while more and more people become overweight and obese, for the first time in our country's history our children will live shorter lives than we adults do."
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14.09.2012 - French-US non-statistical clinical data analyses provider Ariana Pharma has hired Dr. Mariana Kuras as its Chief Technology Officer.
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CALLING OUR REGION HOME. GOOD EVENING -- I'M GEORGE MALLET. STEPHANIE IS OFF. TODAY IS WORLD REFUGEE DAY -- AND WHILE MANY OF US MAY KNOW LITTLE ABOUT IT... THE OCCASION WAS CAUSE FOR REFLECTION AT A BURLINGTON FORUM TONIGHT. NEWSCHANNEL 5'S DAVID CHARNS IS JUST BACK FROM THAT FORUM -- WITH ONE MAN'S STORY. DAVID? - REFUGEES HAVE MOVED TO VERMONT... FROM PLACES LIKE SOMALIA... MYANMAR... AND EE-RAQ. TONIGHT -- A SOMALI MAN TOLD HIS STORY -- ABOUT HOW OVER THE COURSE OF A DECADE -- HE MADE IT FROM HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD -- TO CALL VERMONT HOME. YUSUF ABDI REFUGEE because getting to another country you have to go through a process. It's not easy 31-YEAR-OLD YUSUF ADBI GREW UP IN SOMALIA. YUSUF ABDI REFUGEE we used to have normal things as everybody do here BUT THAT CHANGED WITH THE SOMALI CIVIL WAR. AMONG A SMALL CROWD IN BURLINGTON THURSDAY NIGHT... ADBI TOLD HIS STORY ABOUT COMING TO VERMONT. YUSUF ABDI REFUGEE after the civil war. It destroyed most of my personality ABDI IS ONE OF ABOUT SIX- THOUSAND REFUGEES WHO'VE BEEN HELPED BY THE VERMONT REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES. JUDY SCOTT IS THE PROGRAM'S DIRECTOR. JUDY SCOTT REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM because vermont is a small state I think we are more likely to note when someone from another place is here SCOTT'S ORGANIZATION IS THE ONLY RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM IN THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE. THEY SEE MORE THAN 300 REFUGEES EACH YEAR -- MANY WHO STAY HERE -- RATHER THAN MOVE TO ANOTHER STATE. JUDY SCOTT REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM the major thing that people say is, i'm so happy to be in a place that's safe' FOR REFUGEES LIKE ABDI ... COMING TO THE U-S PROVIDED A SENSE OF SECURITY -- SOMETHING HE SAYS WASN'T THERE IN SOMALIA. YUSUF ABDI REFUGEE it's uncertainty. It's unstable. Everyday when you go into school, you don't know what's going to happen to you BUT NOW HE SAYS -- HE HAS A NEW LIFE... ONE SHARED WITH NEW FRIENDS -- SHOWN HERE IN A PICTURE FROM HIS FIRST BIRTHDAY ON AMERICAN SOIL. YUSUF ABDI REFUGEE this is my new life -- my new life started ABDI NOW WORKS WITH OTHER REFUGEES AT THE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM AS AN EMPLOYMENT COUNSELOR. STAFF THERE SAYS THE BIGGEST POPULATION COMING HERE NOW IS FROM BHUTAN... BECAUSE OF ONGOING CONFLICT. LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM TONIGHT, I'M DAVID CHARNS, NEWSCHANNEL 5 NIGHTCAST.
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At 12:48 a.m. Tuesday Robert A. Randall, 51, was interred into the McPherson County Jail after having been arrested by a highway patrolman on charges of driving under the influence, possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, and transportation of an open container. Bond is set at $2,000.
LINDSBORG — At 5:57 a.m. Tuesday, an officer arrested Nicholas A. Nondorf, 32, on a charge of felony possession of stolen property. He was released from the McPherson County Jail after posting $2,500 bond.
For more information, see Thursday's edition of The McPherson Sentinel or visit the E-edition of The McPherson Sentinel available on the website.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Will it ever end? The practice, that is, of some "S" corporation employee-shareholders trying to extract most or all of the corporation's profits in the form of dividends rather than salaries in an effort to avoid payroll taxes?
So here comes another case of greedy taxpayers trying this longstanding loser practice and, not surprisingly, getting their hand slapped by the courts - specifically in the form of the Supremes declining to review a decision of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (Watson, P.C. v. U.S.).
Regrettably, the taxpayer in this case was an accountant, but we digress.
In any case, the Revenooers have long been on record with guidelines to taxpayers, regarding how all of this is supposed to work. Fact Sheet 2008-25, in particular, issued in August, 2008 lists these factors which the courts have considered in determining just what, exactly, is reasonable compensation in these cases:
• Worker's training and experience
• Duties and responsibilities
• Time and effort devoted to the business
• Corporation's dividend history
• Level of payments to non-shareholder employees
• Timing and manner of paying bonuses to key people
• Amounts which comparable businesses pay for similar services
• Existence of compensation agreements; and
• Use of a formula to determine compensation
In this case, involving service providers (the common scenario in which this issue comes up) the corporate shareholder ostensibly worked for peanuts (in the form of salary), leaving the bulk of the corporate profits available for dividend distributions - not subject to FICA and Medicare if the strategy actually were to fly.
Curiously, the taxpayer argued at the district court level that IRS did not have the authority to recharacterize any of the dividend payments as compensation. Nice try - did he learn this one from Irwin Schiff?
The Eighth Circuit rejected this argument, and agreed that the government's expert witness had enough practical experience in the field to qualify him, and therefore that the district court had not abused its discretion.
Bottom line: taxpayer loses. Kind of one of those situations in which pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered.
- CONSULT YOUR TAX ADVISER - This article contains general information about various tax matters. You should consult your CPA regarding the implications to your own particular situation. Jeff Quinn, the author of this article, is a shareholder in Ashley Quinn, CPAs and Consultants, Ltd., with offices in Incline Village and Reno. He can be reached at 831-7288, welcomes comments at email@example.com, and invites readers to consider his other commentary at http://blog.nolo.com/taxes.


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Simple Definition of connect
: to join (two or more things) together
: to join with or become joined to something else
: to think of (something or someone) as being related to or involved with another person, thing, event, or idea
Full Definition of connect
intransitive verb
1 : to become joined <the two rooms connect by a hallway> <ideas that connect easily to form a theory>
2 a : to meet for the transference of passengers <connecting flights> b : to transfer (as from one airplane to another) as a step in traveling to a final destination <passengers connecting with international flights>
3 : to make a successful hit, shot, or throw <connected for a home run> <connected on 60 percent of his shots — New York Times>
4 : to have or establish a rapport <tried to connect with the younger generation>
5 : to establish a communications connection <connect to the Internet>
transitive verb
1 : to join or fasten together usually by something intervening
2 : to place or establish in relationship
connectibleplay \-ˈnek-tə-bəl\ adjective
connecterplay \-ˈnek-tər\ noun
connect the dots
: to link together logically related elements in order to draw a conclusion <trying to connect the dots in the investigation>
Examples of connect in a sentence
Can you connect the hose to the sprinkler?
Connect the cable to the battery.
A hallway connects the two rooms.
It's the major highway connecting the two towns.
A common theme connects the stories.
The two bones connect at the elbow.
The hose connects easily to the sprinkler.
The bedroom connects to the kitchen.
I never connected you with that group of people.
There's no evidence connecting the company directly to the scandal.
Origin and Etymology of connect
Middle English, from Latin conectere, connectere, from com- + nectere to bind
First Known Use: 15th century
Synonym Discussion of connect
Rhymes with connect
abject, advect, affect, aspect, bisect, cathect, collect, confect, convect, correct, cowl-necked, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, Dordrecht, effect, eject, elect, erect, ewe-necked, expect, goosenecked, infect, inflect, inject, insect, inspect, neglect, object, pandect, porrect, prefect, prelect, project, prospect, protect, refect, reflect, reject, resect, respect, ring-necked, roll-necked, select, stiff-necked, subject, suspect, traject, transect, trisect, Utrecht, V-necked
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1 : to join or link together <connect two wires> <A hallway connects the two rooms.>
2 : to have something to do with <She's not in any way connected to the crime.>
3 : to bring together in thought <I connect the smell of barbequed food with summer.>
connector\-ˈnek-tər\ noun
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TUCSON, Ariz. (February 11, 2013)—A political action committee formed by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, began airing a TV ad Monday calling for action on gun-control measures.
The commercial shows images of the aftermath of four mass shootings, and includes an on-camera appeal by Giffords for congressional action.
Giffords is recovering from a head wound suffered in a January 2011 shooting in Tucson.
The ad specifically calls for universal background checks of gun purchasers.
Americans for Responsible Solutions says the ad is airing in Washington and in home districts and states of congressional leaders in San Francisco, Cincinnati, Las Vegas and Louisville, Ky.
Group spokeswoman Jen Bluestein will only say the cost of the airtime tops $100,000.


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January 10, 2006
One county, one government. That's why more than a hundred unhappy people gathered in Appling Tuesday night. Their wuestion is how combining unincorporated Columbia County will affect them.
They came to the Appling courtroom to learn more about how consolidation will affect them. County officials and commissioners say one government means more money for better services. But Tom Stafford worries consolidation equals big government.
"I don't like government in general, and the less government I have, the better," Stafford said.
Management Services Director Todd Glover says that's not the case.
"What we're actually trying to do is preserve what we have right now," Glover said.
He says consolidation will bring in more businesses and help the area grow.
"It does help in recruiting industries to our area," Glover said.
Something he says will benefit the ninety percent of people who live in unincorporated areas...like Martinez, Evans, and Appling.
People in the Columbia County government say consolidation will help road improvements and other projects. But, legislators will have to pass a bill before those changes ever make the ballot.
Representative Barry Fleming says it may not happen during this session.
"At this time the county commissioners in Columbia County have not given to the delegation any proposal for consideration," Fleming said.
Columbia County Democratic Party Chairman Scott Nichols wants people to have a choice this November on whether to join the other four consolidated governments in the state.
"Please contact your delegation," Nichols said.
Bill Quattlebaum will vote no.
"I think if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Quattlebaum said.
"It's not broke now, but we need to make sure we're preparing and giving ourselves flexibility in the future and deal with problems we may encounter in the future," Glover said.
In the packed courtroom, and across the county, the verdict is still up in the air. This was the second of three informational meetings that commissioners say could help legislators make their decision. The next and last one will be on the 24th of this month at 6 in Evans.


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There are some risk factors for heart disease you can't control, such as age, gender and genetics. For example, people older than 45 have an increased risk of heart attack. Men of any age and postmenopausal women also have a greater risk than younger women. Having a family history of heart disease is another factor that increases risk.
Fortunately, there are several factors you can control through lifestyle changes or medication, to reduce your chances of experiencing a heart attack.
Tobacco use
You've heard it before; nicotine kills. Using tobacco increases your risk of heart disease, and the likelihood that you would not survive a heart attack. If you think it's too late for you to quit, think again. According to the U.S. Surgeon General's report on tobacco, within just one year of quitting, your risk for coronary heart disease drops to 50 percent. It continues to decrease with time until it becomes the same as someone who has never smoked.
Stay active, eat healthy
The two most important things you can do for your heart, and every other part of your body, is to eat healthy and stay active – preferably 30 minutes of physical activity per day. This is important not only to lose weight, which lessens the strain on your heart, but to maintain healthy blood sugar, blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels.
Having consistently high blood glucose levels may increase your risk of heart disease by causing your heart valves to not function properly, leading to tissue damage and risk of plaque buildup. High blood pressure makes your heart work harder, which eventually leads to damage in the heart, arteries and blood vessels. High blood cholesterol can cause the buildup of plaque in the arteries, which contributes to high blood pressure and may even cause a blockage, triggering a heart attack.
Get screened to know your risk
Lake Regional Health System will hold a cardiovascular screening 7:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the hospital's third floor conference rooms. Free body mass index, body fat, pulmonary function and blood pressure screenings will be available, as well as pocket EKG cards for $15, lipid profiles for $10 and blood glucose tests for $5. Fasting is required 12-14 hours in advance of the lipid profiles. Water and prescribed medications may be consumed. Registration is not required.
Learn more about risk factors
Lake Regional Health System will host the free informational forum, "Heart Attacks and Risk Factors," at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in the hospital's third floor conference rooms. Presented by Cardiologist Zubair Khan, M.D., FACC, the forum will educate participants on how to recognize, treat and prevent a heart attack. Register online at lakeregional.com/events or call 348-8222.
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"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." - Albert Einstein, 1932.
"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." - Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
Many people like to make predictions about the future. Sometimes they actually come true. Usually they don't. That's because most predictions are based on little more than speculation and wishful thinking. When predictions do come true, it seems more a coincidence than an indication that someone actually had an inkling about the future.
The Bible is filled with prophecies and predictions. King David, writing 1,000 years before the birth of Christ, described his crucifixion in chilling detail in Psalm 22. In the sixth century B.C., the prophet Micah predicted that the Savior would be born in the obscure village of Bethlehem. Isaiah warned his countrymen that they would be conquered and captured by the nation of Babylon and taken into exile over one hundred years before it happened. These men were able to make such amazingly accurate predictions, not because they were lucky or clairvoyant. They were accurate because they were merely acting as spokesmen for God.
God knows the future. He knows perfectly what will happen in our world and in our lives. That doesn't mean that we are merely puppets on strings with no free will. But it's a fact that God knows what lies ahead. We can trust what he has to say about our future. Here are some of the things we tells us about our future:
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future," Jeremiah 29:11.
"We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him," Romans 8:28.
"I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more," Hebrews 8:12.
"Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you," Hebrews 13:5.
"I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am," John 14:3.
No, God doesn't reveal to us every detail about every event that will happen in our lives and in our world. Don't look in the Bible for investment tips or the score to next week's game! But do count on God's promised presence, mercy, grace, and protection in your life. And trust what he tells you about a home in heaven one day.
- Brent Merten is pastor of Mountain Valley Lutheran Church, 802 Brush Creek Terrace, Eagle.


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ExxonMobil begins its defense in MTBE case
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), on trial in New Hampshire for contaminating residents' drinking water with a gasoline additive, will try to persuade a jury that federal law required the use of the chemical and that it didn't harm anyone.
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The Boston Beer Company: Can it live up to recent hype?
A corporate strategy article by Thunderbird students Andrea Bly, Jennifer Garcia, Liang-Kuan "Albert" Ho, Steve Juntunen and Kara Nguyen
Shares of The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM) closed Friday, December 16, 2011 at $103.05, up 40% since October. The company, who spearheaded the craft beer revolution in the US, has grown to produce over 32 varieties of beer under the company's flagship brand, Samuel Adams Boston Lager and a variety of malt beverages and hard cider products under brand names Twisted Tea and HardCore Cider.
Under its Samuel Adams line, Boston Beer Company leads the craft brewery industry with annual revenues of $500 million in 2010. They have outperformed the uninspired beer market this year, reporting solid increases in sales and profits every month in 2011. This exploding success in the specialty market occurred against the backdrop of dismal growth in the mass market. But even within the specialty segment, Boston Beer has outperformed rivals with 6.6% volume growth in 2011, compared to 5% growth in the craft beer category.
This spectacular performance has attracted a lot of attention. Currently trading at 25 times the consensus earnings; should investors call it quits before a crash or will The Boston Beer Company be able to leverage recent success into sustainable growth?


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Halo 4 Passes Its First Crucial Test: Metacritic
Microsoft Corp. has a lot riding on its new alien shooting videogame, Halo 4, which is part of the blockbuster Halo franchise and debuts Nov 6. (read "The Big Game Battle"). But there's one thing over which Halo 4′s creators can breathe a sigh of relief: the game's review score from Metacritic.com.
Metacritic, which aggregates videogame reviews from various game publications such as GameStop's Game Informer magazine and AOL's Joystiq, gives videogames an averaged score ranging from 1 to 100. The ranking that a game receives is regarded as a barometer for whether a title will sell well, with many game industry veterans and analysts saying a game needs to score in the mid-80s to be a certified hit.
"I'd be hard pressed to buy a 60-rated game," said Josh Holmes, "Halo 4′s" creative director. "Anything below 75–that's the kiss of death."
Marc Doyle, Metacritic's co-founder and games editor, said the site's mission is to inform customers about the quality of games, whether or not they're made as part of a popular franchise such as Halo. "I run this website to service the average consumer," he said.
Early Thursday, shortly after "Halo 4′s" reviews began hitting the Web, Metacritic gave its all-important score: 91 based on 37 reviews. The Halo team sent out 800 review copies of the game to media in the U.S. alone, so many more reviews are likely to be added to Metacritic's average. Indeed, as the hours wore on and more reviews were mixed in, Halo's score dropped to 90.
Still, Bonnie Ross, head of 343 Industries, the Microsoft-owned studio making Halo 4, is relieved. "We're happy to see that so far the critical consensus is that we succeeded," she said. "Now we can look forward to feedback and reviews from players, as well as press."
Ms. Ross has had Metacritic on her mind more than a few times in recent months. She has asked her team a couple of times in various meetings whether they could deliver a "90-plus" quality game, referring to the score. "It's make or break," she said.
Chris Lee, Halo's lead producer, said making Halo meet that 90-plus standard has been hard.
"We've had to build a studio, hit a release date we have to hit, make sure we maintain the legacy of one of the most successful console franchises of all time and drive innovation and push the boundaries of a game experience," he said. "We need to make sure we're 90-plus and we have to do what we need to get there."
One way 343 Industries is trying to ensure Halo's quality is by throwing a lot of people at the problem. The headcount of the team making Halo 4 tops 340, more than three-times the industry average.
Another way is marketing. 343 Industries has created books, websites and an elaborate five-episode live-action mini-series called "Forward Unto Dawn," which tells the back story of how the game's hero, Master Chief, meets another new character. The company spent five weeks shooting the series in Vancouver, which cost "millions of dollars," Microsoft said.
But the most important aspect of any game is its quality, said Frank O'Connor, Halo's franchise development director and a veteran of several Halo projects. That means strong visuals, enticing gameplay and a good storyline.
"You have to just keep your head down and try your absolute hardest," he said. "You can't just be as good as the last game, but in order to compete, you have to be better."


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At 4-feet-10-3/4, Raelyn Gardner has become a giant among Ohio Division I prep pole vaulters in the state of Ohio.
Using a 12-foot pole, the Warren junior cleared the bar at 11 feet to finish in a tie for eighth place with Tri-Valley's Jade Hawkins in Saturday's track and field championships at Ohio State's Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
Only the top 8 medal and get to stand on the podium at state.
"Most pole vaulters use a 13-foot pole," Gardner said. "It's just so exciting to medal. It's awesome."
While Gardner was on cloud 9, so to speak, after earning all-state status, she was kind of down after missing all three attempts at 11-6. At the time, she thought that she wouldn't be able to place.
At state, pole vaulters start at a warm-up height of 10 feet.
Gardner soared at 10 feet, 10-6, and then 11 feet with relatively little difficulty. No misses at those heights - and that would turn out to be a big plus for her later.
When the bar was raised to 11-6, Gardner had to be shaking her head. This was unchartered air for the Lady Warrior track and field standout.
True, she'd set the Warren girls' T&F record of 11-1 at the Southeastern Ohio Athletic League (SEOAL) meet at the Portsmouth Track Complex on May 18. But now the bar was five inches higher.
Well...Gardner gave it her best effort, but, lo and behold, she came up short, and bowed out of the competition.
Meanwhile, seven other girls went on to clear 11-6, and they all of course would end up medaling.
Green senior Morgan Estes finished with a vault of 13 feet, 1/4-inch to set a meet and state record and won her second straight state title. The Kent State University recruit tried 13-3 and almost set a standard for all divisions.
There was still the matter of the eighth and final spot on the podium - and Gardner was in the running. Along with Gardner and Hawkins, three other girls - Mason's Jennifer Nelson, Canal Winchester's Gretchen Rosch and Medina's Jenna D'Errico - had also pole vaulted 11 feet - but not on one attempt.
And, that would prove to be the clincher for Gardner and Hawkins.
"Having no misses before tyring 11-6 really helped me," Gardner said. "I was consistent, and that put me on the podium."
Gardner gave a lot of credit to her Warren coaches, especially Pat Wigal.
"I couldn't have done as well as I did in the pole vault without him," she said.
Next year, Warren track and field reportedly will be competing in Ohio Division II. On Saturday, Fairless junior Allyson Simmons won the D2 girls pole vault title with a vault of 12-5-1/4.
Who knows, maybe Gardner and Simmons will be facing each other at state next spring. "I still need to improve a lot on my technique," Gardner said.
This summer, Gardner will also be getting ready for fall soccer at Warren. As a booter, she had 14 goals and 3 assists on last year's 12-2-5 royal blue and white squad.
Ron Johnston is the Marietta Times sports editor, and can be reached at 376-5441 or at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Van McWhorter of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Okatibbee Lake shared some basic tips to help increase the safety level on or in the water.
"I'd say number one is know a lot about your vessel," said McWhorter. "Know as much as you can. Basically, just read that manual and sit in that vessel and study it. The second thing that people need to know is common safety do's and dont's while on the water. Know that we have navigational markers out there on the lake. Know that there are also restricted areas such as the swimming areas. Stay away from them."
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- Feb 12:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Water districts should impose conservation measures now
- Oakland Tribune editorial: Water districts should impose conservation measures now
- Feb 7:
- California Drought: Desperately needed rain, courtesy of "Pineapple Express" slamming into California
- Feb 6:
- Drought doesn't mean doom for your plants
- Rain soaks Bay Area, another storm coming
- California drought: Big rain headed toward Bay Area could double dismal rainfall totals
- Feb 5:
- California drought: House water bill exposes deep partisan divide
- Feb 4:
- Fremont district urges conservation, offers water-saving program as drought persists
- Gov. Jerry Brown calls congressional Republican drought bill 'divisive'
- Roadshow: Caltrans watering less as drought continues
- Feb 3:
- North Bay homeowners slash water usage through creative conservation
- California drought: Biggest rainfall of 2014 soaks Bay Area
- Jan 31:
- California drought: State Water Project will deliver no water this summer
- Gov. Brown says flush less as California struggles with drought
- Drought shakes off winter for perilous early spring
- Jan 30:
- Obama pledges support amid California drought
- California wine industry reports robust 2013, but worries loom about drought
- Drizzle brings hope to thirsty California but does nothing to deter drought
- Jan 29:
- Bay Area wakes up to drizzle as light rain appears for first time in more than a month
- Zone 7 Water Agency seeks 20 percent voluntary water reduction from customers
- Jan 28:
- California drought: 17 communities could run out of water within 60 to 120 days, state says
- Jan 27:
- Water oak trees if needed, but not too much
- Rain expected this week won't put dent in the drought, forecasters say
- Gold prospectors take advantage of California drought
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- After decades of payments, EBMUD may finally use its emergency water supply
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- California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say
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- Around Dublin: Do your part now to get ahead of drought
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- Drought: California is a red state, if you're talking weather
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- California drought: Tips for conserving water
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- Snow makers rescue big Sierra resorts as drought bakes smaller ones
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- Brown declares California drought emergency
- California drought: Three more months of dry weather likely, National Weather Service announces
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- Drought declared a natural disaster in California, 10 other states
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- Drought imperils California salmon, steelhead
- California drought: What's causing it?
- Jan 10:
- Despite California drought, chances for water bond are evaporating
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- California drought deepens as another year's rains stay away
SAN JOSE -- Moving up a decision they planned to make later this spring, the leaders of Silicon Valley's largest water provider, in the face of the worsening drought, will vote Tuesday on a host of new water conservation policies, including a reduction in water use.
The board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a government agency based in San Jose that provides drinking water to 1.8 million people, is expected to approve a "preliminary water use reduction target" of 10 percent lower than the county used last year.
"People have been asking me 'When are you guys going to do something?'" said board member Brian Schmidt, who is also an environmental attorney. "I think the public will respond well. All they have to do is step outside and see nothing coming down day after day."
The district also will vote on Tuesday whether to spend $500,000 to expand a public outreach campaign to urge Santa Clara County residents to conserve water and to broaden programs that provide rebates to residents who install water-efficient appliances and replace lawns with drought tolerant plants. The district has $5.2 million budgeted this year for conservation programs and $220,000 for a water conservation campaign.
Schmidt and fellow board member Linda LeZotte have an additional proposal to double spending on rebates.
Technically, the pending vote is a voluntary request for water savings. The district is a wholesale provider that sells water to 13 retailers, including cities like Gilroy and Santa Clara, and private companies like the San Jose Water Company. It will be up to each retail provider to decide whether to go along with the 10 percent goal and how to enforce it, if at all.
Other districts
Santa Clara is the latest Bay Area water agency to call for conservation after 2013 ended as the driest year in California, dating back to 1850. Despite a chance of rain on Thursday, so far, virtually no rain has fallen in January.
The Alameda County Water District, which provides water to 366,000 people in Fremont, Newark and Union City, requested a 20 percent voluntary cutback on Jan. 17.
The Zone 7 Water Agency in Livermore, which provides water to residents of Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin, also requested a 20 percent voluntary reduction.
And last Tuesday, the Marin Municipal Water District asked for a 25 percent voluntary reduction from its customers. Already, the Santa Cruz Water Department has banned landscape irrigation between 10 a.m and 5 p.m. It also has forbidden the filling of newly installed swimming pools and has ordered restaurants not to serve water unless customers request it. Initial violations get a warning, but after that, fines begin at $100.
Other large agencies, such as East Bay Municipal Utility District, the Contra Costa Water District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which operates the Hetch Hetchy system, have yet to set a water reduction target.
Abby Figueroa, a district spokeswoman for East Bay MUD, said the board will hear an update on the water supply from staff on Tuesday and may soon take action.
"In a typical dry year, the decision would have happened in May," Figueroa said. "But all indications are the board is going to make a decision before that."
Cost concerns
Water planners note that February, March and April could still bring large winter storms. Added to that, when they call for water conservation, their agencies sell less water and lose money.
If the Santa Clara Valley Water District's customers meet the 10 percent reduction goal, for example, that would save 36,200 acre feet of water -- roughly twice the capacity of Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos -- and will cost the agency $15 million to $20 million in lost revenue.
Although farmers and ranchers are so far suffering the most, urban residents have largely escaped the drought's impacts. That's because after California's last big drought -- 1987 to 1992 -- most urban water agencies put major conservation programs in place.
Santa Clara County, for example, uses the same amount of water now, about 350,000 acre feet a year, as it did in 1980, even though the population has increased from 1.3 million people to 1.9 million people. Los Angeles and other urban areas have similarly limited water demand through low-flush toilets, lawn replacement programs and other conservation efforts.
Some residents are already off to the races.
Doug Tinney, a retired graphic designer, and his wife, Joyce, started putting a bucket in the shower last week. As they wait for the water to warm, they catch about three gallons each shower.
"I went out and got a 32-gallon plastic garbage can with a lid," Tinney said. "I put it in the side yard. I take the bucket out there and pour it in." That method provides far more water than he needs for his plants. "It's a great feeling to know that we are saving almost 50 gallons a week between the two of us. If you start multiplying that out, that could be millions of gallons of water across the Bay Area."
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- Great, reliable, dependableI purchased this gun only two days ago, took me awhile to find my smart charger but once it was fully charged the saying "size doesn't matter" came to mind. Granted this was my first aeg but I can honestly say that of the many I have used this is by far my favorite. The CQB style and the fact that out of the box I could mount my optics without any sort of carryhandle mount or a riser is a huge plus.
This gun fires around 320fps with .2
I found the hop up to be precise and I was able to use it with ease while in the middle of battle at battlefiednow airsoft playing arena. I was a little shaky with it at first but after today of its first game, I dont think that any gun will impress me as much as this one, I was told that Ares designed and manufactored this aeg for elite force though I am not entirely sure about that.
Moving on...
The mag this gun comes with is a 300rd high cap mag, i found no problems with this mag and it feeds very well.
The gun comes with a foregrip which is a must considering the guns small size you almost need to use a foregrip
*In action use*
I found that most people on my team had troubles getting in and out of doorways and many obsticles on the course, I navigated them all with ease due to the small barrel of this rifle
Small compact and comfortable design
Included foregrip
receiver made of strong and durable polymer
Metal ris rails
Battery is stored in the stock, giving you room on the ris for personal attactments
Included flip up sights (constructed of durable polymer as well)
Crane stock
Unique motorgrip that is very comfortable and gives the gun a unique look
Ares Gearbox (Like I said I was told that it was made by ares, if you look up the mag it comes with it does say ares so I am assuming that ares had a hand in or completely made this aeg)
Unique overall look, it will turn heads since its fairly new
no riser or carryhandle mount needed for optics
quad ris system
metal gearbox
M4 platform, wide variety of parts and plenty of accesories to make this rifle truly unique to you and you alone
Low $200 price range
No battery included, as to be expected with higher end aegs
I am not 100% sure but it looks like an angled foregrip wont fit on the bottom of the ris system, not a huge con by any means the rifle is already very comfortable
Overall this is a one of a kind aeg, it comes with a foregrip, slim and comfortable motorgrip (not the same as all of the other m4 variants), small barrel, great accuracy for a cqb gun with only a 7.6 inch barrellow $200 price range is awesome, low $200 price range is awesome!
Dont be discouraged by the fact that this isn't a very popular gun, its new to the market and I love it, this little guy is made to turn heads and impress, and that is just what it will do! I do not regret this purchase at all and neither will you!


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The Country Gardeners of Hawley is planning a bus trip to Longwood Gardens on Wednesday, September 19, 2012. Reservations are open to the public.
Longwood Gardens consists of over 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, PA, in the Brandywine Creek Valley.
The cost of the trip is $55 ; this includes the bus fare and the entrance fee to the gardens. Participants will be on their own for meals at the gardens.
There will be two pick up locations. The bus will leave Honesdale from the Route 6 Plaza behind McDonald's promptly at 7 a.m. The pick up spot In Hawley is the IGA next to Settler's Inn; the bus will leave there promptly at 7:15 a.m. There will be one rest stop going and returning where fast food will be available.
For further information and to make reservations, contact Carol Rick at (570)226-7360 or Irma Schnessel at (570)222-3020. Reservations must be made before August 24.
To read more about Longwood Gardens online, visit www.longwoodgardens.org/.
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SMC splits season-opening doubleheader with Ga. Perimeter
Published: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 9:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 9:33 p.m.
Jimmy Lindberg pitched Spartanburg Methodist to a 9-0 win Wednesday in its opening baseball game of the season, but the 13th-ranked Pioneers dropped the second game of a home doubleheader against Georgia Perimeter, 4-2.
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Lindberg, a sophomore who went 5-1 last year with a team-best 1.68 ERA, pitched five shutout innings in the first game. The Bishop England High School product allowed four hits while striking out five.
"Jimmy pitched great," SMC head coach Tim Wallace said. "He gave up hits to the first two batters of the game but only two for the rest of the time he was out there."
Shell McCain, a sophomore transfer from North Carolina, went 3-for-4 with a homer, double and four RBIs. Jake Walton from Union County High also went 3-for-4 and Domineke Albert was 2-for-3 with a double. Chase Henry (Broome) and Jared Felix (South Aiken) each pitched an inning to finish the shutout.
SMC had four errors and only four hits in the second game. Two of those hits were by Collin Steagall (Lexington). Alex Pridemore (Union County) lasted only two innings on the mound. He suffered control problems in the second, walking four straight after two were out.
"We had our chances in the second game," Wallace said. "But we just couldn't get hits at the right time and we kept making errors, in the field and on the bases."
The Pioneers entered the season ranked fourth nationally by Perfect Game and 10th by Collegiate Baseball. The No. 13 ranking was in the NJCAA poll. Georgia Perimeter was No. 31 in Perfect Game, unranked in the others.
SMC has home doubleheaders Saturday against Surry Community College and Sunday against the Limestone JV team, both beginning at 1 p.m. The Pioneers will then have only nine home dates the rest of the season.
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text: If you spend enough time listening to a narrow band of music, you will eventually hear everything. Not literally, of course, but you will hear so much music that fits into the same small box of cliches that nothing short of a revolution will be able to catch you off-guard anymore. You can't be surprised by what you hear, nor can you be overwhelmed by what might have, at a different time, been music that would have helped you define yourself. And so it is with any record that crosses my desk these days that isn't concerned with the latest trend.


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Reconstruction of the interchange at Interstate 44 and Range Line Road in Joplin began last week with completion scheduled by the end of 2013, the Missouri Department of Transportation said.
The I-44 bridges over Range Line Road will be replaced and cloverleaf ramps will be eliminated in favor of straight, directional ramps.
Range Line Road will be converted to a "diverging diamond" Interchange design, with traffic crossing to the left-hand side of the road at new traffic signals on either side of I-44.
Traffic impacts
During construction, all lanes of traffic on I-44 and Range Line Road will remain open during daytime hours.
However, one lane will be closed in one or both directions on I-44 at various times at night — 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Lane closings on Range Line Road also will take place only at night — 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The lanes on I-44 will be narrowed to 10 feet wide and shifted, with the speed limit reduced to 60 mph in the work zone.
The speed limit on Range Line Road will be reduced to 35 mph. Lanes on Range Line Road will be narrowed to 10 feet wide.
Temporary traffic signals will be installed on Range Line Road, with new permanent traffic signals put in place by the end of the project.
Ramps entering or exiting I-44 may have to be closed for short periods at various times.
Diverging Diamond
The conversion of Range Line Road to a "Diverging Diamond Interchange" design will make driving safer and easier for drivers on Range Line Road:
• Traffic on Range Line Road will be shifted to the left-hand side of the road at new traffic signals on either side of I-44.
• Range Line Road traffic turning left onto I-44 will get a "free left," meaning drivers will already be on the left-hand side of the road and will NOT have to turn left in front of oncoming traffic.
• Through traffic on Range Line Road will return to right-hand side of road at a new traffic signal after traveling underneath I-44.
• New traffic signals, signs, pavement markings and concrete islands will guide drivers along Range Line Road, whether turning onto I-44 or going straight through the interchange.
• Two concrete walls will separate northbound and southbound Range Line Road traffic, with a pedestrian walkway built in between the walls.
Two ramps will be widened
Because of heavy traffic from I-44 onto northbound Range Line Road, additional turn lanes will be added at the bottom of two off-ramps:
• Off-ramp from westbound I-44-to-northbound Range Line Road will have two right-turn lanes.
• Off-ramp from eastbound I-44-to-northbound Range Line Road will have two left-turn lanes.
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There are no words to adequately thank the Oak Ridge community for their support of RFB&D/Learning Ally over the past 60 plus years. It has been a privilege and an honor to serve in this community.
From the beginning, when Bob Kernohan and Tony Pleasanton first began the studio, we have relied on the generosity of local Lions, volunteers, the Weinberg family, community leaders and donors. Over the years, volunteers from this area, too numerous to count, have given selflessly to assist us and the many borrowers who use our materials. You will never know how many individuals have received their education because of the generous support of our volunteers and this community.
While our studio is closing, Learning Ally will continue to serve those with print disabilities. The mission has not changed. There are still many who need this service and they can receive assistance at www.learningally.org.
Again, thank you for allowing us to be a part of the Oak Ridge community.
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'American Idol' Hits Omaha: TV Recap
"American Idol" hit Omaha to see what talent would pop up. Lots did, but it felt like there were a bunch of duds too. And Harry spent a lot of time in the house of no, out voted often by JLo and Keith's yeses. The sideshow: the yucks and digs between the judges reached new heights, but they have definitely caught their ensemble stride. Here are some of the musical standouts from tonight:
Quaid Edwards did some mom name-dropping with Keith and it worked. Keith knew her. But no name-dropping was needed. Despite what JLo called "inconsistencies" and Keith's concerns, Quaid got the greenlight.
Keith walked liked Madison Walker's voice, and her "karaoke version" of a Carrie Underwood song was solid, but he thought she needed work. JLo thought the voice was strong enough to give this fifteen-year-old a chance and so did Keith. So with two votes, she got her ticket to Hollywood. But after she left the stage Harry said wouldn't have put her through. He wanted to spare her the inevitable pain she'd feel when she was sent home next round.
Tyler Gurwicz's facial expressions while he sang threw the judges for a loop. Both Keith and Harry thought he looked angry. And Harry was worried Tyler had only one style in him and asked him to sing another song. After some over dramatized hesitation, he did and it worked. But Harry later admitted it wasn't his best choice and he may have made a mistake by wavering.
With Tyler Marshall, there was no wavering. He was a solid, unanimous, yes. They liked him. Or at least Harry said they liked him and decided it was a yes.
The most entertaining part of the night was the kid who could imitate every president except apparently Gerald Ford. Could he sing? We don't know. We didn't hear it.
C.J. Jones sang "Stand by Me" and Harry did, the entire time the kid sang. Keith called his voice, "Pleasing" and JLo handed him a golden ticket.
Paula Hunt was a huge hit after a moving performance of an Etta James song. The judges called her elegant and a natural and moved her to tears with their kind words. A potential show winner for sure.
The final ticket to Hollywood went to Tessa Kate. She sang Johnny Cash and strummed her guitar. Her voice and classic style were a great finish to the auditions and cause for Harry to give Tessa his most resounding yes of the night. JLo said Tessa got in to Chipmonk territory, but she meant it in a good way.
Next week is the next step for them all: Hollywood Week. They teased some sort of sudden death twist awaiting the Idol dreamers.
Would anyone make it to Hollywood if only Harry judged? Leave your comments below. Follow Stephanie Krikorian on Twitter @StephieKrik


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I'm putting together a free training plan for beginners/first timers looking to complete a sprint triathlon. Beyond the actual training plan, what other things would you like to see in the plan?
In other words, what areas are you most concerned or have the most questions about? Any comments would be great and would help me create something that is useful for beginners.
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Just started training for my first triathalon and am currently looking for a plan I can flex and integrate around my job and my family's schedule since it changes frequently, how to determine my nutritional needs and making a diet plan, tips on improving swimming techniques and transitions, problems to expect or a general idea on what to expect on your first triathalon.Looking forward to what you put together, your help is appreciated- BG
Thanks for the feedback. My goal is to get a basic plan out by Janurary and then release a more detailed plan by march. I'm planning on putting some swim drills and some tips on transitions.
As far as schedule, do you have trouble schedule consistent workout days - Tuesdays for swim, for example?
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I'm new. Bought Joe Friel's book "bible" and have been Base building (I think) for the past 5 weeks. I am in ok shape, 25 BMI, not really a swimmer, runner or cyclist, just a 46 year old guy who wants to do some triathlons and get in good shape. I have a 5 k in Dec, a 10k in Feb and a 1/2 marathon in March. I want to do a sprint in April and a few more sprints throughout the season with a few Olympic distances and maybe a half century mixed in. Goals help me focus my training. I can work out at my work a lunch (swim or run). I'd like a plan for someone not aiming for age group podium status, but will get me solidly in shape and getting better as the season progresses. I also plan to do some Tri Club San Diego sprints this season. I'd love to see your training plan. Oh and I bought a Garmin 305 which is helping me a lot. email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'd like to see some basic strength and stretch stuff too.
I think one of the hardest things about a triathlon training program is that it can often take up your entire life! It's difficult to incorporate a good training plan into "real life." I struggled with finding balance between work, family, and training.
I found a great resource in Competitive Triathlon in 10 Hours a Week. Feel free to check out my site to learn more.
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In short- The plan cannot be specific to days of the week for each activity. My early morning workouts at 5:30 am are easy to keep before going to work at 7:00. Right now M, W, F are swimming, T, Th are running, weekends are biking with a week night here or there of spin class where I can fit it in. I use sporatic opportunities of time to fit in any training I can while balancing work, family time.
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Publix Buys Seven BI-LO Stores
Published: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 4:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 4:35 p.m.
LAKELAND | Publix Super Markets Inc. will beef up its presence in the Carolinas with the purchase of seven BI-LO stores.
Publix officials announced Friday that the chain plans to acquire four BI-LO grocery stores in North Carolina and three locations in South Carolina. The deal is expected to close next month. Financial terms were not disclosed.
"Publix has a strong financial foundation that allows us to aggressively grow throughout existing markets and our new Charlotte division," said Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw, in a prepared statement. "We're excited to continue building life-long relationships with our Carolina customers and communities."
Publix announced its expansion into North Carolina a year ago and plans to open its first store in the Charlotte area in early 2014. In recent months the grocer has announced plans for additional North Carolina locations in Asheville, Cary, and Winston-Salem.
The North Carolina BI-LO stores targeted by Publix are in Charlotte (two sites), Huntersville, and Matthews. Two of the South Carolina locations are in Rock Hill, and the other is in Lake Wylie.
"We have and will continue to fine-tune our company and network of stores so that we can reinvest in what matters most for our customers. Examples are our recent announcements to acquire 165 stores from Delhaize Group and 22 stores from Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company," said Randall Onstead, president and CEO of Bi-Lo Holdings, in a prepared statement.
Jacksonville-based Bi-Lo Holdings is the parent company of BI-LO and Winn-Dixie grocery stores.
Publix, headquartered in Lakeland, operates a total 1,073 supermarkets, with 755 of those stores in Florida. The chain earned $400.9 million during the second quarter of 2013, up 5 percent from the year before, while sales grew 3.8 percent to $7 billion. Publix sales totaled $27.5 billion in 2012.
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