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Republicans Set to Roll Out '.GOP' Web Addresses
This summer, the Republican Party is rolling out the first-ever political website suffix: .gop.
The Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that seeks to elect Republicans to state-level offices, created the new top-level domain in an effort to build the GOP's online community, and to give the party's online fundraising efforts a leg up. The .gop ending joins hundreds of other previously existing top-level domains, including the longstanding .com and .org, as well as relative newcomers such as .biz.
Anyone will ultimately be able to register for a .gop domain name, regardless of party affiliation, and organizers hope the label will serve as a uniting force for the party. "It creates that connection between a teenager trying to start a blog, all the way to a college group to candidates," said Will Martinez, vice president of sales and marketing at .GOP.
The tag will also make key websites easier to find, said Mr. Martinez, who envisions sites like register.gop that could help bump up the number of registered voters. Organizers also plan to offer incentives for signing up for a website, such as offering exclusive content to .gop domain holders.
In return, organizers are hoping the .gop network could provide key information about its members for upcoming election cycles. "We can get a better understanding of who those users are, what's important to them, what their online user patterns are … in the same way that Google or Facebook have a good understanding of their members," said Matt Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee. That could help committees better target their advertising and voter outreach efforts.
On Monday, trademarked companies will be able to register for domain names ending in .gop during the 60-day "Sunrise Period" mandated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the group in charge of handing out domain names and Web addresses for the Internet. Open registration will begin July 7, when the first .gop sites will begin going live.
In the lead-up to the launch date, organizers have been targeting GOP committees, elected officials, bloggers and grassroots movements to promote the initiative. The Republican National Committee is "fully supportive," said spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski. "It's great our party is moving forward on this," she said.
The .GOP organizers are also flaunting one key element of the domain: Democrats don't have one. They point to a tech conference in February, when President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said he was irritated that Democrats had not created their own web ending.
"We're very excited by the fact that we are pioneers in this sphere and really want to use it to innovate and improve communications to the public," Mr. Walter said.
Democrats hit back against the idea that they missed an opportunity. "Republicans didn't lose in 2008 and 2012 because people couldn't find their websites," said Rebecca Chalif, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee. "They lost because voters rejected their ideas. This is a tactic, not a game-changer."
Applications for new domains won't be accepted for another few years, and Democrats don't currently plan to apply for one.
The domain's launch comes as Republicans are looking to build up their digital campaign prowess ahead of the 2014 and 2016 elections. After the GOP's defeat in 2012, the Republican National Committee cited Democrats' digital advantage as one of the reasons for the loss. Since then, RNC officials and outside groups have sought to make up ground on the digital front. Earlier this year, the RNC launched Para Bellum Labs, an in-house technology incubator, and the committee is looking to hire tech talent to craft new online applications and other digital tools.
The domain .gop won't be the only new label to hit the Internet. The initiative is part of a recent move by ICANN to expand the number of website endings. A number of other endings—including .nike, .netflix and .gay—are slated to launch in the coming months.


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on November 27, 2012 - 9:20 AM
An employee of the Yellow Goose store in Delevan has been arrested and accused of stealing more than $50,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from the store, Cattaraugus County sheriff's officials said.
Kim R. Woolston, 49, of Delevan, was charged with second-degree grand larceny, a Class C felony, according to police reports.
Investigators said the tickets were stolen over the course of several months earlier this year.

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Good to see that he was able to move on and find something else great to do with his life. There just aren't enough professional opportunities and he'll do well in finance or investment banking. I'd like to see more skaters follow his path when they wrap up their amateur careers.
Alot more skaters and gymnasts go to college and have plans for careers out of their sports than in the 80s or 90s. Or so it seems.
What a great interview. Tim is a very articulate young man. Interesting comments about Plushenko at the Olympics.
I was very intrigued by his Plushy comments as well!
Plushenkos combo jumps were better then the solo jumps. That is true with both lutz and axel. I don't think the sportsmanship was bad but that doesn't mean you can't have opinions at the first quadless win since 1994 and just shrug your shoulders at it and proclaim that maybe if you wanted to be better for the system you also don't do something that you can do and was important for many years.
Lol at daring tha Chinese teams for quints
I forgot that plushenko skated his best at the olympics. In the sp at the gp of Russia doubled his lutz. If he did that in Vancouver he would have been down there with Oda and weir and it would have been Takahashi vs Lysacek. Russian nationals disaster triples quad and then solo quad and it was just terrible-saved by the fact that it was Russian nationals lol. Europeans also doubled lutz jump in fs would have made he Olympics a landslide for Lysacek. Vancouver was plushenkos best.
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In Europe, no one talked about Plushy's bad sportmanship, it was a lot more talk about that he was robbed. But we all know the campaign against him in US media.
Thanks. I'm happy to see he makes his life full after amateur career.
Oh Vancouver Vancouver.. It just breaks my heart. Even now I can't forget Joe Inman's scandal. If Inman was Russian, North American medias would burn with anger.
I hope everybody would find more interests in Goebel's life than his comments about Vancouver. Aren't we have enough argument about it? Everybody moves on, the Sport moves on.
It is nice that a lot of athletes have life other than in sports. But it is also nothing wrong if they stays in the field. Just saying. Wish all the skaters would have wonderful life after they leave the competitive ice.


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Brad Paisley
- 1980s
"Jamboree USA"
After getting his first guitar from his grandfather at 8 and writing his first song by 12, Paisley, 14, is a regular on "Jamboree USA," a country radio show in Wheeling, W.Va. "Doing the Jamboree is the thing that made me who I am," Paisley tells the AP in 1999. "It gave me a sense of entertainment value for a show as opposed to just wanting to sing and trying to imitate people." It also helped boost the self-esteem of a painfully shy Paisley, who later tells the Washington Post that he looked "semi-mulleted and malnourished" as a teenager.
- 1991
Meet n' Greet in Nashville
Paisley spends two years at West Liberty State College before transferring to Nashville's Belmont University, where he lands internships at ASCAP and Atlantic Records. A week after graduating from Belmont in 1995, Paisley lands a songwriting deal with EMI Publishing. He quickly scores a hit – and royalties – from David Kersch's recording of Paisley's song, "Another You."
- late 1990s
Paisley Pays His Dues
"He knew who he was and what kind of artist he wanted to be, how he would look, what his music would sound like," Mike Dungan, who signs Paisley to Arista Records, tells the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, his debut album, Who Needs Pictures, is released. In 2000, he picks up the Academy of Country Music's award for best new male vocalist and Country Music Association's Horizon Award. "I'm tickled to get to do this," Paisley tells PEOPLE. "To tell people's stories for them. That's what country music is all about."
- 2001
A Grand Induction
Wearing Buck Owens's legendary canary-yellow rhinestone Nudie jacket, Paisley, 28, is the youngest member inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. "I love Buck dearly. He's become like a second father practically," Paisley tells CNN. "When I was asked to join the Opry, I wore the exact same jacket he wore when he taped 'Live at Carnegie Hall' in the '60s." In a letter read at the induction ceremony, George Jones says to Paisley: "I'm counting on you to carry the tradition and make folks sit up and listen to what country music should sound like."
Part II
Paisley calls his second album, Part II, a nod to movie sequels. Within 10 days of its release, Part II rises to No. 3 on Billboard's country album charts. By August, it's certified platinum. The song, "Too Country," with vocals by George Jones and Buck Owens, is named Vocal Event of the Year by the Country Music Association.
- 2002
Meeting Kimberly Williams
The video for Paisley's No. 1 country single, "I'm Gonna Miss Her," features actress Kimberly Williams (right). "I'd liked her in Father of the Bride and had written a song about the movie, 'Part II,' and when we were talking about making a video for 'I'm Gonna Miss Her,' I naturally asked her to be in it," Paisley tells the Washington Post. "When I called, I definitely had other motives." In 2003, Paisley, 30, marries Williams, 31, in a surprise ceremony in L.A.
- 2003
Mud on the Tires
Paisley releases his third album, Mud on the Tires, which includes the single "Celebrity." The song pokes fun at fame and reality TV. "I have a really good time taking country music and making a real-life, almost sitcom out of some of the songs," Paisley tells CNN. But the surprise hit is "Whiskey Lullaby," Paisley's duet with Alison Krauss, which nets Paisley two Academy of Country Music Awards for best vocal event and best video.
- 2005
Comeback Kid
After releasing his fourth album, Time Well Wasted, Paisley arrives at the Country Music Association gala with six nominations. But leaves with zero. He calls the experience "very humbling." In 2006, though, he wins three Academy of Country Music Awards, including album of the year, and two video awards for his No.1 hit, "When I Get Where I'm Going," with Dolly Parton. He also picks up two Country Music Association Awards for album of the year and musical event of the year for his collaboration with Parton.
- 2007
Paisley in Overdrive
Paisley, 34, and wife Kimberly, 35, welcome their first child, William Huckleberry Paisley. To add to their joy, Paisley receives the Academy of Country Music Award for top male vocalist (which he also wins in 2008 and 2009) and the Country Music Association awards for male vocalist of the year and music video of the year for "Online," from his sixth album, 5th Gear. "It's a fun time to be me," Paisley tells Billboard.
- 2008
Brad Goes Two for Two
Paisley cohosts the 2008 Country Music Awards with Carrie Underwood and takes home Male Vocalist of the Year and Music Video of the Year honors. After his best male vocalist win, Paisley plants a kiss on wife Kimberly's belly. "Kimberly and I were both talking about how special that will be for our child to grow up someday and see that tape when I kissed her belly," says Paisley. In February, Paisley wins a Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "Letter to Me."
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An explosion blew out the walls of a Harrison Street house Monday morning, sending debris into the street and onto a nearby car.
Tiffin Fire Chief William Ennis said firefighters are still investigating what caused the explosion at 21 Harrison St., but it is believed to be gas-related.
No one was living in the house and no injuries were reported, he said. The gas company was on scene Monday morning to shut off the gas and remained at the scene throughout the day to continue to test the gas lines.
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An explosion damaged a vacant house Monday morning at 21 Harrison St. The street was closed throughout the day as firefighters and the gas company remained at the scene.
Allen Excavating tears down 21 Hudson St. Monday evening. The residence exploded Monday morning, blowing out its walls.
Firefighters examine a Harrison Street residence that exploded Monday morning. Officials believe the explosion was gas-related.
American Electric Power and the water company also responded to the residence Monday to shut off power and water.
The Environmental Protection Agency was contacted by Tiffin Fire and Rescue.
Although the street was closed throughout the day, Ennis said neighboring residences were not affected by the explosion.
"They have nothing to worry about," he said.
Allen Excavating, based in Bloomville, began to tear down the house Monday evening.
The rental property is listed on the Seneca County Auditor's Web site as being owned by George F. Dutt, trustee.


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A collection of photographs from the University of Washington SDS chapter, including images from the 1968 Black Student Union sit-in, the 1969 ROTC protest on campus, and the 1970 strike and freeway march in Seattle. This gallery is part of the Pacific Northwest Antiwar and Radical History Project, which features a page on student activism at UW during the Vietnam War. Copyright (c) reserved, Steve Ludwig.
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Sky River Rock Festival, Aug. 30-Sept 1, 1968
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Loew protest, April 24, 1969
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Judy Bissell being arrested during the Perfect Photo Strike, 1969.
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Aquatic Invasion of Fort Lewis, July 13, 1969
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Steve Ludwig, a member of UW's SDS
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UW Vietnam Committee, tabling on campus
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UFW grape boycott
SDS member George Arthur addressing a meeting
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Freeway March, May 5 1970
SDS member Ed Mormon at a labor/radical rally. August 1971
August 1971 labor rally
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Members of Radical Women and the Young People's Socialist League at an August 1971 labor rally
August 1971 Labor/radical rally, with counter-protester
Steve Ludwig, center, at August 1971 labor/radical rally
Radical Women banner at August 1971 rally
August 1971 labor/radical march
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SDS Labor Committee with a copy of "Perspectives," August 1971
August 1971 pro-capitalism protesters
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When the 22-year-old Oscar winner crossed paths with the former Sex and the City star at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, not even Parker's Philip Treacy fascinator could compete.
With Lawrence wearing the Voilette by Jennifer Behr paired with a Dior dress, and Parker, 48, wearing legendary milliner Treacy's creation, there seemed to be an accessory face-off when the two crossed paths.
But the Silver Linings Playbook star couldn't resist running her fingers through Parker's headpiece, resulting in laughter and an even more hilarious photograph.
Although she walked the red carpet with designer Raf Simons, Lawrence was recently spotted dining with one-time boyfriend actor Nicholas Hoult, who was also in attendance.
"We're friends, we're about to work on a film together, so ..." Hoult told PEOPLE on the red carpet.
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Sorry they're not Manchester Glass, Anne! (Incidentally, if you haven't seen the piece on my website about Josef Rindskopf then you really should. It has some fascinating Manchester information in it. I won't say any more or it will spoil the surprise!)
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The Mayflower: Coming to America
What do Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Richard Gere and Noah Webster (of dictionary fame) have in common?
They – and many others - are descendants of passengers who arrived on the Mayflower, which sailed from Southampton, England in 1620, and landed at Plymouth Rock in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in November of that year
The first document of the Plymouth Colony was the Mayflower Compact, signed onboard the ship. The total number of passengers was 101 or 102, depending on the source, and the document was signed by 41 adults and dated November 11, 1620, according to the old-style Julian calendar which is 10 days behind today's Gregorian calendar.
Not all the passengers were Pilgrims - some were adventurers, tradesmen and servants.


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It's official: Carl Paladino is running for the Buffalo Board of Education.
The former gubernatorial candidate and longtime vocal critic of the board has decided to run for the seat representing South Buffalo, where he lives.
He cites several issues in the school district as important – among them: reinstating the residency rule for teachers, returning to neighborhood schools and firing all the top-ranking administrators. But there is one that rates as his top priority.
"I intend to make sure Phil Rumore is no longer the president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation. My candidacy has nothing to do with the teachers. It has to do with one man," Paladino said. "He does a great job for the teachers. But in the process he threw thousands and thousands of kids under the bus."
Rumore, who has led the union for more than three decades, scoffed at Paladino's desire to oust him.
"Consider the source, which is a person who has sent racist, bestiality and sexist emails to people," Rumore said. "That he should even think of being on the Board of Education as a model for our students is enough to make one wonder if I'm not part of a bad [Franz] Kafka novel."
Rumore also noted that the union's members elect their president in a process that is not governed by or otherwise connected to the School Board. The union will be holding its next election this spring.
Historically, the teachers union has been the single biggest factor in School Board elections, between its financial contributions and phone banks in support of candidates it has endorsed. Three years ago, during the last board election, a downstate education reform group raised the ante, spending several thousand dollars apiece on candidates it supported.
Paladino's entry into the race is likely to raise the financial stakes of the election even higher, given his deep pockets as one of Buffalo's biggest developers.
He said he has not lined up a slate of candidates, but does plan to support others who he believes are "capable people."
He wouldn't say exactly how much he's prepared to spend on either his own race or those of other candidates.
"Whatever it takes to win," he said.
Six of the nine board seats are up in the May election, meaning the majority of the board could shift. Each of the six seats represents a geographic part of the city.
Of the six board members whose seats are up, Paladino supports only one: Jason McCarthy, who represents the North District. McCarthy, Paladino said, "is somebody that's not in bed with or accepting bribes from Phil Rumore."
It's not yet clear who Paladino's opposition will be for the board seat. Louis J. Petrucci, the incumbent in the Park District where Paladino will be running, has announced he will not seek re-election. Candidates who are running cannot submit their nominating petitions until early April.
Paladino declared on Wednesday his intentions to run for the board, during a taping of WBBZ-TV's "Political Buzz." The show is scheduled to air at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Paladino appears regularly on the show, alongside Democratic strategist Steve Pigeon.
The developer told the show's host, John Di Sciullo, that he decided to run "because of the inability of the current members of the School Board to comprehend the challenges they have as a board."
Paladino has for several years regularly lambasted the School Board as well as City Hall administrators for their failure to improve the schools. He frequently cites the district's graduation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, and its performance on state tests – less than one-third of students are proficient in math and English – as proof that the system isn't working.
Wednesday evening, he lambasted the board again during the public comment portion of its meeting. He took the board to task for not adequately addressing sewage backups that have plagued Math Science Technology Prep at Seneca for the past six weeks.
Minutes before Paladino spoke, a teacher from that school told the board that students were experiencing health problems because of the sewage backups. The school is among those that have recently been renovated.
"In a couple months, the ground rules are going to change here. That kind of nonsense isn't going to happen," Paladino told the board. "Six weeks. I would've fired [Joseph P. Giusiana, head of plant services] after the first week. He can't fix a sewer line leak because he's in bed with Ciminelli?" LP Ciminelli is doing work for the district.
Board President Mary Ruth Kapsiak, who is running for re-election this year, reprimanded Paladino, telling him that if he continued to verbally attack anyone, she would ask him to leave.
Paladino responded: "I want to know why this School Board condones a cover-up of the criminality of what's going on in the schools."
"You have to go. Because right now you're out of line," Kapsiak told him.
He shot back: "You're out of line."
And with that, a security guard escorted Paladino out of the board room.
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A long-debated proposal for a new scrap metal recycling facility in the northwest corner of the city won a key vote this week, and ultimate approval now rests with the Common Council.
After nearly two months of review and the completion of a noise study, the city Planning Board voted to approve the $7 million proposal from Ben Weitsman and Son of Buffalo, a sister company to Upstate Shredding, based in Owego.
Hours later, North Council Member Joseph Golombek said he would like to wait to vote on the project for another two weeks, so he can meet with neighborhood groups. Golombek represents the project area, and his support is viewed as essential for the project to win approval.
The company sought approval from the Council in July, but the site plan didn't come up at the Planning Board until Dec. 18. Since then, the Council has deferred to the board.
The company would like to receive scrap metal at the former site of Auto City, an auto salvage yard at 409 Hertel Ave. at Military Road. The metal would then be transferred onto trucks for shredding at another of the company's facilities.
Project planners are adding a fence and a berm to mitigate noise.
Shredding of the metal won't take place on the site, but the Planning Board was concerned about the noise created when cars and other heavy items are dropped into trucks for transport, especially in the early morning on weekends, when the area is relatively quiet.
The board restricted the business from starting noisy activities on the site until 8 a.m. on Saturdays and 9 a.m. on Sundays, and stipulated that scrap metal is not to be stored on-site long-term.
Kim Weitsman, president of Ben Weitsman and Son of Buffalo, said she understood Golombek's need to speak with neighbors and that she is hoping for Council committee approval in two weeks.
In other City Hall news:
• The Council's Legislation Committee sent a proposal that would allow food trucks at Canalside to the full Council without a recommendation as to whether it should be approved. Golombek, who sponsored the measure, said the Council won't take action on it until he has discussed it with food truck owners.
• Plans for a 9,100-square-foot discount store at Main and Balcolm streets were approved by the Planning Board, though store developers will return to the board with a revised design for the store's sign.
• Wegmans' revised expansion of enclosed seating in the Market Cafe at 601 Amherst St. was approved by the Planning Board.
The new plan calls for the retention of outdoor seating and the addition of a canopy, which will eliminate some parking spaces. The store is planning to increase green space and improve landscaping..
Wegmans' plans for a new 15,000-square-foot retail store, to be placed on land in front of its Amherst Street store, will be evaluated by the Planning Board on Feb. 26. The grocer has said it expects to lease the space for use as a liquor or wine store.
• Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper's plans to restore nearly 10 acres of Buffalo River shoreline were approved by the Planning Board.
• An application by Sergio Mucino to transform the former K. Gallagher's at 73 Allen St. into a Mexican restaurant was approved by the Legislation Committee .
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QUITO, 24 September 2012 – The first of four events to promote energy efficiency in the productive sectors of Latin American and the Caribbean took place in Quito, Ecuador, today.
The events, which together form the Energy Efficiency Week, running from 24 to 28 September, are being organized by the Ministry of Industry and Competitiveness of Ecuador (MIPRO), the Latin American Energy Association (OLADE) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
The Energy Efficiency Week brings together policymakers and high-level technical staff from ministries of Industry, Productivity, Environment and Energy from over 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, as well as experts from development agencies and international financial institutions present in the region. The aim is to promote the development of technology solutions that improve competitiveness through higher productive and environmental performance, leading to job creation and poverty reduction.
Of the four events, three will be co-organized by MIPRO and UNIDO, and one will be hosted by OLADE. Each event will focus on different aspects of energy efficiency, as follows:
On September 24 and 25 there is an expert group meeting with the title, Industrial knowledge to promote growth based on resource efficiency: waste and energy. Part of UNIDO's worldwide advocacy for green industrial policies, the meeting will allow for discussions on policies, programmes and business solutions to achieve the widespread uptake of proven techniques and technologies that improve the productive and environmental performance of industrial sectors and SMEs.
On 26 September, Lenín Moreno, Vice President of Ecuador, will present policies for the integration of people with special skills in the labour market to open an event entitled, Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production for a Green Industry in Latin American and the Caribbean. Participants will learn from the experiences of the UNIDO National Cleaner Production Centers (NCPCs) and National Cleaner Production Programmes (NCPPs).
Later in the week, there will be a meeting to analyze an initiative taken by UNIDO to evaluate and monitor green growth in Latin America using a series of indicators developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). The Green Growth Indicators initiative forms part of UNIDO's work with seven LAC countries (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru). It will soon be expanded to cover the entire region and become the first regional tool to monitor such growth.
The week will end with a Regional Meeting on Energy Efficiency for Industry, organized by the OLADE. The organization is in the process of creating a LAC Energy Efficiency Network.
Please download here the agenda for the Energy Efficiency Week in Ecuador
Please download here the Strategic Proposal of the IV LAC Expert Group Meeting
Please go here to see an interview with Víctor Hinojosa for ECTV Noticias
For more information on the Energy Efficiency Week, please contact:
Víctor Hinojosa-Barragán
Chief, UNIDO Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Programme
For more information on UNIDO, please contact:
Mikhail Evstafyev
UNIDO Advocacy and Communications Coordinator
Telephone: (+43-1) 26026-5021, Mobile: (+43-699) 1459-7329


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Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens
22 July 2011
That's the tagline for the world's biggest annual conference for the NGO community, which in 2011 fits right in with the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers.
Themed 'Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens', the meeting from 3-5 September is set to gather more than 1,000 NGOs to discuss the role of civic engagement in sustainable development. It is an ideal opportunity to connect the dots between civil society and the sustainable development agenda, and the final conference declaration could even become a key document for the high-profile 'Rio+20' conference in 2012. It will also influence December's sessions on volunteerism at the United Nations General Assembly.


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Tucker County hosst rival Moorefield today in opening round action of the Class A playoffs at 1:30 p.m. at R.H. Armstrong Memorial Field.
The Mountain Lions defeated Moorefield 44-13 in an earlier matchup in the regular season.
"The kids are excited to be playing in a home playoff game," Tucker County coach A.J. Rapp said. "We finally have had a good week of practice, so we will see how things go."
No. 1 Tucker County is led by senior quarterback Derek Nestor, and running backs Zach Armstrong and Austin Zirk.
Receivers Tyler Snyder and Nathaniel Goldstein are other key players for the Mounation Lion offense.
No. 16 Moorefield (5-4) is led by senior quarterback Adam Snyder and wide receiver Da'Sean Brown.
"The kids are looking forward to play against Tucker County," Moorefield coach Josh See said. "We didn't play well the first time over there, so I?feel we're an improved team and come ready to play."
No. 7 East Hardy (9-1) host No. 10 Wheeling Central (7-3)?today at 1:30 p.m. in opening round action of the Class A playoffs.
The Cougars are led by senior quarterback Shawn Skovron and senior receiver Josh Parker.
"We're going to have to run our offense the way we've done all year," East Hardy coach Chad Williams said. "Our offensive line is going to have to block and give our quarterback time to throw and run our offense."
Wheeling Centeral is led by running back Christopher Burch and quarterback Parker Henry.
"We're going to have to come up with some turnovers to have any chance of winning this game," Williams said. "We need to stop Burch because their offense runs threw him."


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Departing from Brunnen on an passenger boat, all the historic sites around the Urnersee lake can be viewed, accompanied by a tour guide if you wish. By bus the tour continues to the Tell Museum in Bürglen, and on through the historic Altdorf alleyways.
all year around
The excursion "A day on the trail of Wilhelm Tell" runs from May to October.


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A magnificent follow-up to this group's stunning debut. Skip Parente, on fiddle, joins Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, et al., making this band a quintet that tears through an incredible array of Irish, bluegrass, Breton, and old-timey selections with abandon.
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With all due respect to the medical profession, newly-diagnosed patients need much more than a bone marrow biopsy, a couple of bottles of pills and an IV drip. When I found the IMF, it made all of the difference.
It saved my life. Volunteering for the IMF has been a ray of light for me. It has made this nightmare we call myeloma somehow more tolerable. I'm proud to have helped in our efforts to fund ground-breaking research, to bring promising young scientists into the field, to bring us closer to the day when myeloma will stop killing good people."
Michael S. Katz
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William C. Pearson
Quality of Life Award
Rudolf L. Brutoco, MD, MPH
Courage Award
CTI is committed to making a measurable difference in the lives of patients with cancer.
Thank you for recognizing our accomplishments. And, congrat-ulations to the IMF for providing research support and education to myeloma patients for the past 11 years.
We are privileged to be assoc-iated with such a dedicated organization."
James A. Bianco, MD
Ribbon of Hope Award
Julian Adams, PhD
Ribbon of Hope Award
Michael Kauffman, MD, PhD
Ribbon of Hope Award
Sheila Field addresses
the Gala guests
It is not quite so glamorous as this evening.
In my other life, I play a lab rat. Medical treatments, and particularly those used for cancer, must be tested in humans.
There are potential risks and side effects. Some in our audience, like myself, are the clinical trial patients who are currently taking these risks because the rewards are the breakthroughs that offer life saving treatments for thousands of people."
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With a name as unique and memorable as Reverend Horton Heat, you would think that his stage name came to "The Reverend" - a.k.a. Jim Heath - in a flash of inspiration. You would be wrong.
"I worked at a place as a sound guy. The guy who owned the place called me 'Horton.' I'm still not really sure why," Heath said in a phone interview from a tour stop in Winston-Salem, N.C. "He heard me playing and singing, and he gave me a gig. As I was setting up, he walks up and says, 'Your stage name is going to be Reverend Horton Heat.' So I told him, 'No, I don't think so.' But he had already had flyers printed up and advertised it. So I had people showing up to my first show, calling me 'Reverend.'
"I was so sort of desperate that I just rolled with it."
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The Reverend Horton Heat (Jim Heath), leader and founder of the rock trio of the same name, will bring his band to Altoona's Aldo's Lounge on April 12.
Heath, now fronting a rockabilly trio named Reverend Horton Heat, has rolled along with that name to a great deal of success, including 10 albums since 1990 and a respected name in the genre. That doesn't even mention his songs being used in many movie and video game soundtracks and on TV.
Reverend Horton Heat will bring its brand of high-energy rock to Aldo's Lounge in Altoona at 7 p.m. April 12. The small club has had some success in the past year with pulling in established national acts, previously featuring Michale Graves, former lead singer of The Misfits, and Marky Ramone, of punk legends The Ramones.
According to the owner of Aldo's Lounge, Rich McGarvey, the national acts have begun to get some word of mouth out about Aldo's.
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Who: The Reverend Horton Heat
When: 7 p.m. April 12
Where: Aldos's Lounge, 623 N. Fourth Ave., Altoona
Tickets: $20 in advance (until Wednesday) and $25 at the door. Tickets available at Aldo's Lounge and Custom Skin Art, Altoona or by calling 943-9907.
"We've been pulling in some nationals lately and after we got Marky Ramone last year, he forwarded us the contact information for the Reverend Horton Heat," McGarvey, who bought Aldo's last June, said. "We've had Michale Graves of the Misfits here twice, and he's coming again in May. He really loves coming here."
Unfortunately, there's been an unexpected downside to having big acts come to a venue with a capacity of under 400.
"What we've found is because not a lot of places around here do something like this, some people think we're joking," McGarvey said, the exasperation apparent in his voice. "After the [Marky Ramone] show, we had a lot of people say, 'He was really here? I should've come!' I said, 'Why would I advertise something that wasn't real?'
Still, he said he understands the confusion: "We just don't get this kind of stuff here in Altoona."
Heath says the small club doesn't bother him in the least.
"We still do all sorts of small places," he said. "What matters to me the most is the enthusiasm of the people and the sound of the room. A small place that has an enthusiastic crowd and a good sound system - we just love it."
It should be a natural fit for Reverend Horton Heat's music, too. According to Heath, his biggest influences would seem far more at home in bars than arenas.
"I really love mid-century American stuff - all different music from that era," the 54-year-old Texan said. "I love the early country stuff. I actually got into that whole era of music by getting into the blues, the Chicago blues. I really love all sorts of stuff from that era. I really like Henry Mancini. ... Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin. ... It's just the stuff that I love."
Reverend Horton Heat is often thrown into the category of "psychobilly," but Heath doesn't really embrace that label.
"I, personally, have never described our sound as psychobilly," he explained. "I have a song called "Psychobilly Freakout," and I think I got credited with that [link]. We got started as a more of a rockabilly band. ... Psychobilly is more of a European thing.
"In general, it's high-energy rock and roll. We're a rock and roll band."
"Psychobilly Freakout" is the band's first single and the rapid-fire guitar work that Heath does in the song has made it popular over the years. The song has been featured in two "Guitar Hero" games - as one of the tougher songs in both - and was featured last year on the CBS show "Hawaii 5-0." In total, the band's music has appeared in at least nine video games and in movies like "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" and "Auto Focus."
"The video games are cool," Heath said. "It's good for us to do that kind of thing. It kind of brings extra, different types of people to our shows.."
Then he added with a laugh: "I can't play my own song on 'Guitar Hero' That's not really my thing."
With Reverend Horton Heat's back catalog still getting play, what about new music from a band that hasn't released a studio album since 2009? Well, the group signed a three-album deal with Victory Records in November, and Heath says they're working on putting out some new music.
"We're recording right now," Heath said. "We're slowly doing some studio stuff right now. We have about five songs recorded and not mixed yet. ... Our plan right now is to be finished by the end of July."
Mirror Staff Writer Keith Frederick is at 946-7466.


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Top-seed Tucker County entertains PVC rival Moorefield; Lewis will travel to University
November 5, 2012
The high school football playoff pairings were announced late Saturday evening with five local teams making the field. In Class AAA, No. 13 Elkins (7-3) will travel to No....
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on July 14, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Harsher penalties should be? imposed for illegal fireworks
I have come to dread the Fourth of July because of my inconsiderate neighbors.
After drinking beer and picnicking all afternoon on their front lawn they decide it's time to stage a mock war.
Year after year, as soon as it gets dark, they insist on setting off an illegal fireworks display in the middle of my street that lasts for hours.
They don't care that the smoke from these munitions fills the entire neighborhood and seeps into every home on the block. They could care less that the noise they make wakes sleeping children or keeps awake people who go to bed early because they have to get up early.
They don't care that the noise terrifies pets. They never come around to clean up the scraps of firecrackers or spent rockets that end up all over their neighbors' yards, both front and back.
These fireworks are dangerous. There is the real possibility that they could set one or more homes on fire, especially in the city where houses are close together.
The premature explosion of a firecracker can result in serious burns and even the loss of fingers or worse.
Who knows what an angry neighbor might do if pushed too far?
Let's be clear: It's against the law to have your own fireworks display. There are so many calls to 911 on the Fourth of July reporting these displays that police can't respond to them all.
To my knowledge when police do respond they don't issue citations to the offenders. It takes police away from their normal patrol duty and increases the probability that serious crime won't be investigated promptly.
Enough is enough. It's time for the police to start vigorously enforcing the laws against these illegal displays. It's time to put more severe penalties in place for violations of these laws.
It's time for New York state to stop the flow of these fireworks into our state by lobbying the states that permit the sale of fireworks to amend their laws to require firework venders to sell only to residents of their states.
There are more than enough professional fireworks displays that are put on over the several days around the 4th of July. The professional displays are far better that anything these amateurs can put on.
Michael Hall
Simon chose wrong place?in which to criticize Bush
I enjoy reading Jeff Simon's articles. All of his commentaries and criticisms that appear in The News display a profound knowledge of the wide spectrum of subjects he covers.
The subjects include music, literature, movies, television and all things artsy. So, it is especially dismaying for me to see him display, on altogether too many occasions, his liberal political leanings and, in particular, his visceral dislike of President George W. Bush in articles where they really have no place.
I refer to his piece regarding television that appeared on July 7.
In it, he writes a paragraph comprised of a single, 50-word sentence, 35 words of which are contained in a parenthetical clause deliberately constructed to allow him to make a snide, back-of-the-hand remark about Bush.
It's an article about a new television program named, "Perception," and, I quote: "born as a reaction to a dumb-down era in which media everywhere kept searching for ever-lower common denominators and we had an eight-year president who set all known records for intellectual atavism." (italics mine).
Comments such as this are really unbecoming of Simon. He is in all other respects a consummate professional critic.
He is certainly entitled to write about his political beliefs and his obsessive (atavistic?) dislike of Bush, but I believe they belong on the editorial pages.
Charles Gelia
Bishops only responded?to a political maneuver
Responding to a News editorial and various other criticisms of the Catholic bishops and their fight for religious liberty, I note there is something that is often not mentioned.
The timing of the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that the bishops oppose was entirely up to the administration. Why the administration chose to require such a mandate in an election year is a good question.
The bishops are responding to something that the administration initiated. Furthermore, why are there over 1,000 exemptions and yet the one offered to employers who seek a religious exemption is so narrow it causes a moral problem for many?
A further question is why mandate contraceptives that don't prevent a disease? Why not mandate coverage of cholesterol medications or high blood pressure medications?
Also, contraception is already often offered for free and is widely available.
The Affordable Health Care Act is a very complex law.
There are good parts to it, but there are some that were foreseen as being problematic and one of these is that it gives the Health and Human Services Department the power to create mandates - which then become law - like the one in question.
Mary Roaldi
Grisanti sets a high bar?for his colleagues to reach
I am writing regarding Sen. Mark Grisanti.
Grisanti represents what a politician should be. He is not in office just to hold an office and make a career, as many others. Grisanti is a politician because he believes in a cause and truly wants to make a difference.
I am a local business man who has suffered financially in dealing with a state agency.
When I could not get the consideration from this agency, I sought the help of the senator. I immediately knew in speaking with him that he was sincere and truly listening. And as they say, actions speak louder than words.
Grisanti sparked up new meetings and even his office staff in Albany was involved in monitoring and mediating the matter. He and his staff were there from beginning to end to see that fairness prevailed.
I have dealt with many politicians in my time and can tell you it is difficult to meet the standards that Grisanti holds.
It is nice to see that there are politicians that put people first, and to see first-hand that government is working for the small business owner.
I can't say enough. Three cheers, and hats off to Grisanti. Let's hope all politicians can follow his lead.
Anthony F. Bodami
Titan Wrecking and EnvironmentalTonawanda


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The race to 4,000 fans is on. The Peoria Rivermen have created a brand new facebook page and all fans that "like" the Peoria Rivermen – Official Facebook Page will be entered into the biggest giveaway in team history.
Simply visit www.facebook.com/peoriarivermen and click "like" at the very top of the page. This will give fans access to the easiest way to follow everything about the Peoria Rivermen. The latest news on the team, player signings, ticket information and promotions will come directly to you.
As the Rivermen near 4,000 fans on facebook the team will announce the details of the giveaway. Along the way random prizes will be given to fans through fun contests and simply for following the team. Sign up, tell your friends and be part of the Rivermen online community.
Don't forget to also follow the Rivermen on Twitter by checking out www.twitter.com/peoria_rivermen.
The Rivermen open the 2010-11 season at Carver Arena on Oct. 8. Full-season, partial and mini ticket plans are all on sale. For more information visit www.rivermen.net, call 309-676-1040 or stop by the Rivermen office inside the Peoria Civic Center.


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on October 30, 2012 - 9:46 AM
A Gowanda man was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated early today after a breath test showed his blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit, State Police said. At about 1:30 a.m., troopers saw a vehicle fail to stop for a stop sign at Scotland and Bloomingdale roads in the Town of Newstead.
The vehicle continued into the Town of Alabama where it ran off the road and into a ditch at Meadville and Skye roads, authorities said.
The driver, Barry J. Martin, 26, was arrested. His BAC level was .20 percent. Two passengers in his car also were arrested. Jeremiah J. Jacobs, 30, of Niagara Falls, was arrested for giving a false name to troopers. Codi Sundown, 22, of Alabama, was arrested after he was found to have an arrest warrant for third-degree assault from Genesee County out on him.


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为设计及生活品味爱好者制订Fascinating contrasts full of inspiration: Trendy bar with stylised interior, medieval walls with contemporary fabrics, elegance with nonchalance. The rooms are decorated tastefully and with understated elegance in warm, natural tones. The suites have free-standing Jacuzzis, and some have a steam shower and an infrared sauna. A view over the river.
为传统瑞士酒店爱好者Des Balances has all Lucerne at its feet! Thanks to its location, the hotel makes a perfect base for shopping and sightseeing tours, besides having plenty of attractions of its own.
The history of the building dates back to the twelfth century and proves it to have been a popular meeting place throughout the ages, even if it did not become a hotel until 1837.
The painted facade is one of the most photographed motifs in town and viewed from the river Reuss, gives it the flair of a Venetian palace.


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Shocking school swimming stats revealed
23rd May 2013
New research from the ASA has revealed more than half of children aged seven to 11 cannot swim the length of a 25 metre swimming pool unaided.
The ASA report, Learning the Lesson : The Future of School Swimming, surveyed 3,501 primary schools on how many of their children have attained Key Stage 2 swimming requirements and the results suggest more than 1.1 million primary school children will break up for half-term next week unable to be safe in and around water.
The report, the largest ever investigation into the state of school swimming, found that schools are not achieving anywhere near the recommended level of delivery time.
The average state school pupil spends just eight hours and 15 minutes a year in swimming lessons at school, which is far less than the 22 hours the Department for Education recommends in the current National Curriculum.
- Click here to find out more about the 2013 School Swimming Census.


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If you walk, run or bike the Cooper River bridge, take a couple of deep breaths before you read this column.
It may make your blood boil.
Last week, an accident involving a bicyclist and a pedestrian on the bike-ped lane of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge may be the most serious since it opened eight years ago today.
The accident underscores, yet again, what I've asserted in this column over the years: The bridge needs better markings and signs as well as constant diligence among its users, and for those who don't obey the rules, tickets and fines from the police.
Close to death
At about 7 p.m. July 9, Jeff Slotkin, a bike commuter of 20 years, was heading to his West Ashley home from his job as bike mechanic at Sweetgrass Cycles in Mount Pleasant. He was on the bike lane on the gentler-sloping, Charleston-side of the bridge.
He says he was keeping an eye out for children and dogs, the latter of which are prohibited on the bridge (more on that later), or any other pedestrian entering the bike lane.
Slotkin says he saw two guys walking ahead of him enter the bike lane to pass another group of pedestrians and then get back into the pedestrian lane.
As Slotkin approached, he slowed down and moved closer to the wall separating the bike path from car traffic.
Just as he passed, Slotkin says one of the men "darted out in front of him as he saw a 100 dollar bill on the ground" and ran into Slotkin's handlebars.
The collision knocked out the pedestrian, identified in a Charleston Police Department report as Steven Bohelmann (though with no age nor address were listed), and sent Slotkin flying.
"I landed on my forehead and face," says Slotkin, noting that his helmet left an imprint on his skull and broke. "If I hadn't been wearing it, we wouldn't be having this conversation ... I would have been dead."
Both men went to the hospital.
Despite injuries that included road rash over most of his body, Slotkin remarkably was at work the next day. Bohelmann remained in the hospital in fair condition as of Friday, according to Medical University of South Carolina media relations.
Because of federal privacy laws, the MUSC emergency room physician who treated him and public relations staff couldn't comment further. The latter passed on a request to family for an interview.
While accidents such as this have been rare in the past eight years, Slotkin adds "the near misses are constant" and, like others, stem from the short-sighted design flaw of jamming two-way bike and pedestrian traffic on one, "shared" 12-foot lane of the bridge.
A trend?
I've heard of two similarly serious accidents in the past two years.
On May 18, 2011, then-57-year-old Kay Miller was riding her bike to the annual Ride of Silence, a memorial ride for those who have died or been injured in bike accidents (usually involving cars).
She says she was riding in the bike lane and approached a runner wearing headphones in the middle of the lane. Miller says she slowed down, yelled three times to warn of her approach, but he didn't budge. When she decided to ride around him, she says he decided to move — right into Miller.
They collided. She hit the concrete, broke her collarbone, separated her shoulder and suffered a concussion (she was wearing a helmet), as well as some road rash. She says that while she was gathering herself, the runner, whom she described as "a strong guy," in his mid-30s and wearing no shirt, got up and ran off.
Miller, who at the time was a part-time student and church custodian with no insurance, was taken to the hospital, but she says she refused to let medical staff clean her road rash for fear it would add to her medical bill.
When I interviewed her the week after the accident, she said, "It (her injuries) still hurts all the time."
In the spring of 2012, seasoned cyclist Clark Wyly had a similar bike accident on the steeper, Mount Pleasant-side of the bridge.
Wyly, now 56, recalls going for an early morning Sunday ride from his West Ashley home to Sullivan's Island on his mountain bike.
"I was going maybe 10 miles per hour and there was this guy with an iPod and earbuds who stepped out in front of me (in the bike lane)," he says.
Wyly says he slammed on his brakes, flipped over and hit the deck. The pedestrian was unharmed and so oblivious that he kept walking. After Wyly shook off the impact, he says he caught up with the walker and confronted him.
"He was getting into his truck and I said, 'You stepped in front me,' and all the guy said was 'I'm sorry' and that he was a cyclist, too," says Wyly.
Wyly was so mad that he forgot to get the guy's license plate and rode home, despite later discovering that he had broken his right wrist, separated his right shoulder and twisted his right ankle. He was wearing a helmet, which cracked, and shoes that clipped into pedals.
"It took me about 12 weeks to heal from that accident," he says.
To this day, Wyly has not biked on the Cooper River bridge.
What to do?
And while Wyly is adamant that cyclists need to realize that the bridge's bike path is not a "drag strip," it still doesn't remove the risk of erratic moves by pedestrians.
When I posted last week's accident on my Facebook page, it elicited an array of comments.
Many wanted to know how Bohelmann was doing and were genuinely worried. Cyclists worried officials would close the bridge to bikes. Pedestrians talked about getting yelled at by cyclists and that many act toward pedestrians like some angry drivers do toward cyclists. Some talked about the design shortcomings of the lane.
Many talked about inadequate signs and markings on the concrete.
At this point, I get on my soapbox.
We have to live with what the S.C. Department of Transportation gave us.
But it should be putting more adequate bike-ped facilities on future roads and bridges and retrofitting existing ones.
Signs and the bike and ped logos on the concrete need to be more obvious at the entryways to the lane. And the logos need to be repeated more frequently along the 2.5-mile lane.
Those who use it need to adhere to rules, practice good manners and be patient and tolerant. Parents of small children should keep them securely in the pedestrian lane.
A sign should be added that wearing headphones and earbuds is strongly discouraged for safety reasons and that those who wear them should pay extra attention.
As an animal lover and owner of three dogs that I walk twice a day, I say this: Dogs are prohibited on the Cooper River bridge. And people who walk them on the bridge should be fined the maximum allowable by law. Failure to pick up dog poop should be extra.
The police need to do occasional blitzes and issue some tickets and fines. That'll get the word out.
Despite the scary accidents and the bike-ped lane's inadequate design, it remains a positive influence on our community.
I'd hate for that to change.
Reach David Quick at 937-5516 or dquick@postand courier.com.


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Surprisingly, Hackettstown is just fifty miles from New York City --- one of the world's great cultural and entertainment centers. Our college sponsors many trips to New York City for both academics and recreation.
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Hoard's Dairyman article: Dealing with those high SCC cows
Dealing with those high SCC cows
by Jane Upperman and Amanda Wolfe
The authors are Land O'Lakes milk production specialists based in Pennsylvania.
The European Union's pending enforcement of somatic cell counts of 400,000 cells per milliliter or less for its imported milk products has renewed interest in reducing SCCs across the nation. Improved herd health and economics have been long-time incentives to lower cell counts.
Every dairy should have an SCC goal of 200,000 or less. Herd health issues, lower milk production, and loss of quality premiums all reduce your income. With higher feed costs and uncertain milk prices, it is essential to manage SCCs to boost your bottom line.
Jeff Funk, herd manager and part owner of Funks Midway Dairy at Melrose, Minn., says he approaches managing milk quality from two sides. "For the consumer, low cell counts help extend product shelf-life and improve flavor. For the producer, keeping counts low means fewer treatments, lower costs, more milk per cow, and less wasted milk."
Start by culturing milk from the bulk tank to identify the predominant organisms in the herd. Since cows don't always shed bacteria all the time, take samples over consecutive milkings, and comingle them for testing. When adding new cows to the herd, use bulk tank culturing to monitor any introduction of new infections.
Follow up bulk tank cultures by finding which cows are the culprits causing the high counts. Funk says there are two tools he can't live without when it comes to maintaining an SCC below 74,000 on their 500-cow dairy . . . DHIA reports and the California Mastitis Test. He uses dairy management software to generate a list of any cow on their DHI report with an SCC over 150,000. Then they use the CMT on milk from each quarter of those cows. If the milk tests positive, they take a sample and culture it to see what organism is causing the high count. "The faster you can cure a cow, or at least put her in a separate group to prevent spreading, the better you can control your SCC."
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Once the infected cows have been identified, implement a treatment plan to protect cow health and your profits. A veterinarian can assist in establishing a treatment protocol specific to your herd. Pinpoint the cause, and take steps to prevent future infections. Evaluate milking procedures, personnel, housing, environment, equipment function, and nutrition.
Top tips include:
• Be sure to keep cows and udders clean and dry. Maintain bedding in free stalls or housing areas frequently. Fence off wet, muddy areas. Keep udder hair short.
• Follow a strict milking procedure paying special attention to full coverage of pre- and postdipping, discarding foremilk, and carefully cleaning teat ends.
• Identify bacteria by culturing the bulk tank and 5 to 10 percent of cows with the highest SCCs in the herd. Adjust your protocols to handle the predominant bacteria.
• Dry treat all quarters.
• Cull chronic cows that don't respond to treatment.
• Check milking system twice a year using a qualified service provider.
To read more about handing high somatic cell count cows, read the Milk Quality feature story on pages 262 & 263 in the April 10, 2011 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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Serves 6 |
Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 20 minutes
1 1/2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup onion, diced
30 ounces Eden Lentils w/Onion & Bay Leaf, 2 cans, do not drain
14 1/2 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes, do not drainEden Diced Tomatoes w/Basil, or Diced Tomatoes w/Roasted Onin & Garlic
2 cup wateror vegetable broth
1/2 cup carrots, diced
1/4 cup celery, diced
1 medium organic potato, peeled and cubed
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
2 cups spinach, choppedSwiss chard or kale
1/2 cup Eden Vegetable Alphabets
2 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced
Heat the oil in a medium soup pot and sauté the garlic and onion for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the lentils, tomatoes, water, carrots, celery, potatoes, basil, thyme and sea salt. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the pepper, spinach and alphabets. Simmer 5 more minutes until the pasta is done. Place in serving bowls and garnish with parsley.
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ICKESBURG - Patricia E. G. Zook, 42, of Ickesburg, died on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey.
Born on Oct. 18, 1970, in Derry Township, Mifflin County, she was the daughter of Fred Zook and Cheryl (Fasick) Zook, both of Mifflintown.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by: two daughters, Jessica Zook and Richelle Pennebaker, both of Mifflintown; one brother, Barry Zook and his wife, Mindy, of Mifflintown; and she leaves behind two nephews, Ned and Dakota Zook.
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Miss Zook was a 1988 graduate of Juniata High School, Mifflintown, a 1990 graduate of Miami Air Line School and a member of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, Licking Creek.
Patricia enjoyed gardening and being in the outdoors. Her deep love of animals led her to volunteer at the SPCA.
At Patricia's request, there will be no services.
For those who wish, memorial donations in Miss Zook's memory, may be made to Perry County Animal Rescue, 507 Sugar Run Road, Millerstown, PA 17062.
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The vote was anonymous, but PEOPLE can now reveal who voted for immediate elimination – rather than wait a week and have two people sent home then.
"I think I made the right decision. I was prepared for one person to leave," Jena Irene Asciutto told PEOPLE. "I thought, 'It is going to be even more nerve-racking next week because we're going to have two people going home out of five.' That's almost half."
Asciutto says she wasn't happy to be put in the position of casting a vote that ultimately sent Sam Woolf home. But she also noted that it would have been the second time the heartthrob would have been spared elimination this season.
"It's always been Sam. Sam went home, and they decided to do a thing," Asciutto told reporters of Woolf, who was saved by the judges once in April.
None of the other singers owned up to being the second vote for elimination. But with Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse and Woolf all saying they voted for immunity, only Alex Preston refused to reveal his vote.
"I don't really want to say," Preston told reporters. "I didn't really care what happened. It was going to be the same outcome no matter what. It was a crappy situation, and it sucks to see Sam go."
Though the vote was not unanimous, there was one thing all of the Top 5 could agree on: that the twist put them all in an awkward position.
"I was pissed," Asciutto said. "I was like, 'What is going on?' And Jess was like, 'It's The Hunger Games!' "
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on March 3, 2013 - 9:30 AM
From the time my daughters were very young, I warned them that I intend to live to a hundred.
Fat chance, they say. They know what I eat.
For most of us these days, few topics are a bigger part of our lives than health and fitness. We eat too much, we sleep too little, we exercise fitfully, we dread seeing the doctor, we fume over finding care for a parent or a spouse or a child – and we worry about it all.
Starting this week, we aim to make it easier for you.
On Saturdays beginning this week, The News will have a new health and fitness section called Refresh. With Refresh, we will bring you the latest from Western New York and beyond on health, fitness, nutrition and parenting.
Refresh will have sections on family, fitness, healthy eating and wellness. It will ask questions of local health professionals and have a calendar of local health events. It will also pick up several favorite features that now run elsewhere in The News – John Rosemond's parenting column, Dr. Zorba Paster's health column and one of the People's Pharmacy columns.
Our goal is to provide news and information that makes you smarter, whether you are planning an exercise routine, looking for a doctor, choosing a health club, trying to make sense of the latest medical studies or coaxing a 5-year-old to eat her vegetables (a lesson I never quite learned myself).
Refresh isn't the only change this week. To give you more time to plan your weekend, Gusto, The News' weekly entertainment and dining section, moves to Thursday. Homefinder Extra, The News' weekly guide to homes for sale, moves to Friday.
Gusto also gets bigger starting this week, with more restaurant coverage, more movies and a revamped look at the weekend's best bets.
Leading these changes are Refresh editor Scott Scanlon, Gusto editor Toni Ruberto and Bruce Andriatch, who watches over it all as the assistant managing editor in charge of The News' lifestyle and arts sections.
Scott, Toni and Bruce know Western New York. Scott is a Cheektowaga native; Toni grew up in South Buffalo and Bruce in Tonawanda. All graduated from local colleges and all have been at The News for years. They are your neighbors, and they know what makes Western New York special.
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UNIVERSITY PARK -- Joe Paterno loves to proclaim he's not up on technology, cell phones or what he called "tweedle-doo" or "tweedle-dee" (actually Twitter), but the 84-year-old is showing he's willing to learn new tricks.
Paterno has entered the technological age by recently visiting with three recruits via Skype, an Internet service that allows people to have face-to-face interactions online using webcams.
"He was on Skype the other day and told a couple recruits he could go four more years," Penn State quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno said of his father.
JoePa, of course, hasn't made recruiting trips himself in more than three years, in part because he's had health problems and in part because, well, he simply doesn't want to.
Skype may not be as good as a personal visit to a recruit's living room, but to that high school kid, the added visual element of the legendary coach is better than simply talking on the phone.
Jay Paterno called it "a major plus for us" in recruiting.
"The only question Joe had about it was, 'How do you spell Skype?'" JayPa said. "I actually knew. Then he said, 'What exactly does it mean?'"
Maybe it won't mean much at all to Penn State's recruiting efforts, but at least the coach is trying to branch out and find different ways to stay involved in all aspects of the program.
If he's not going anywhere for several more years, which very well may be the case, it's up to Paterno to either try these kinds of different things on his own or be forced to try them by others in the program.
Since everyone knows Paterno generally isn't forced into doing anything, it's a good sign that he's willing to try something new with the Skype video conferencing.
"He embraced it," JayPa said.
Now the question is whether the recruits will embrace JoePa in that forum. The three he's interfaced with so far are five-star defensive end Noah Spence from Bishop McDevitt in Harrisburg, four-star cornerback Armani Reeves from Catholic Memorial in Massachusetts and his high school teammate, four-star linebacker Camren Williams, who already has committed to PSU.
"One of the questions one of the guys had was [about his] health and how long [he would coach]," Jay Paterno said. "Joe was on the screen and they were, 'Wow, you look tan and rested.'"
That's clearly one benefit for the kids -- being able to see Paterno and judge for themselves how his health looks.
As for that, Paterno is said to be in excellent health, a significant change from a year ago at this time when he was battling an illness.
"He's as good as he's been probably in 10 years at least, if not more," JayPa said.
The coach has been seen out and about walking around campus numerous times in recent weeks, and his son said he's going about six miles a day "pretty fast." Passersby have been taking photos of him on occasion and posting them on the Internet.
"The only question he had for me, he said, 'Jay, does every cell phone have a camera on it?'" the younger Paterno said. "I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I can't walk through campus without getting stopped.'"
The coach also has been hard at work preparing for the season, JayPa said, and already has the staff focused on a key showdown in week two against Alabama at Beaver Stadium.
"He came in last week and said, 'I'm gonna put Alabama on the whole staff," Jay Paterno said. "He started going down everything, and he wasn't asking a lot of questions. He was telling us, which means he's been doing a lot of work on them."
So, entering the final year of his contract, he's doing well physically, he still has football on his mind at all times and he's even embracing technology.
Doesn't sound like a guy who's planning to retire any time soon.
Cory Giger is the host of "Sports Central" from 4 to 6 p.m. daily on ESPN Radio 1430 WVAM. He can be reached at 949-7031 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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New homes are popping up throughout the region, fueled by pent-up demand and enticing mortgage rates.
Where exactly are people buying?
Cane Bay Plantation, if you gauge by latest Carolina One Charleston New Homes Snapshot. A Gramling Brothers development, the burgeoning Berkeley County planned community closed on 68 homes between January and April, up from about 50 sold in the same span in 2012, according to the report issued last week.
Spring Grove Plantation in Moncks Corner was ranked the second most active with about 35 homes closed in the four-month span.
Carolina Bay in West Ashley was third busiest with nearly 30 transactions.
Price check
Home prices in the Charleston region kept rising in May, but not enough to keep pace with the national average, a new report shows.
In the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville area, home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 9.8 percent in May compared with the same month in 2012, according to the real estate information firm CoreLogic.
The U.S. growth rate average was 12.2 percent, which was marked as the biggest year-over-year increase since February 2006, the firm said.
"It's been more than seven years since the housing market last experienced the increases that we saw in May, with indications that the summer months will continue to see significant gains," said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. "As we approach the half-way point of 2013, home prices continue to respond positively to the reductions in home inventory thus far."
The California-based firm didn't specify the prices it used to determine the growth rate, but the Charleston Trident Association of Realtors has pegged the median sales figure for May at an even $200,000, up 10 percent from a year earlier.
Five times a charm?
Pop quiz: When you think of a nice retirement community, what comes to mind? Well, according to "Where to Retire" magazine, Daniel Island should be a no-brainer. The publication one again has listed the Charleston community in the "50 Best Master-Planned Communities in the U.S." It appears in the July/August issue, and marks the fifth time Daniel Island has been included on the annual list.
The Houston-based magazine conducted a year-long review of the communities listed in the report. In Daniel Island's case, the publication was impressed by the two private golf courses, recreational activities at the Family Circle Tennis Center and Blackbaud Stadium, boating, crabbing, parks, shops, restaurants and proximity to Charleston's abundant medical facilities.
Reach Tyrone Richardson at 937-5550 and follow him on Twitter @tyrichardsonPC.


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A sex position in which two individuals kneel on all fours with their rear-ends facing one another share a two-headed dildo; the beauty of an eighty-eight (or 88) is that it can be shared by any two people regardless of their respective genders.
I love the coke-party scene from "Requiem for a Dream" when Jennifer Connely does an eighty-eight with that blonde chick!!
Por Lance wit no pants 30 de julio de 2006
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The eighty eight was a weapon in the German army in World War Two. Actually an anti-aircraft weapon firing an 88 mm shell, the 88 had a major advantage in range over many Allied artillery pieces. German gun crews fighting in the Spanish Civil war turned the gun on approaching tanks that had broken through their lines - unsure how effective they would be. Germans quickly converted the gun to anti-tank use, putting the gun into their vaunted Tiger Tanks. Allied tanks were knocked out before they were able to get close enough to use their weapons. The eighty eight had a self ejecting shell and were deployed in numerous configurations including tanks, self propelled guns, and a four legged gun that was towed behind a vehicle. They were less effective at close range.
The German eighty eight picked off the Allied tanks before they could get into range.
Por Atmospherium 26 de diciembre de 2005
Heil Hitler, or twice H (the eight letter of the alphabet). Used by young neo-nazis in Germany
88!Remember April 20th
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filipino slang for a piano
"huy roul! play dee eighty-eight por us"
Por darrenzo 14 de febrero de 2003
Code for neo-nazi indiviuals to say "Hail Hitler". 8 refers to the letter H, the 8th letter in the alphabet. HH = Hail Hitler.
Por Mandy 15 de febrero de 2003
Street slang meaning police.
Possibly derived from CB Slang meaning police car with lights on.
Possibly derived from CB Slang meaning police car with lights on.
"Eighty-eight comin' down the block!"
Por Superman's Killers 28 de diciembre de 2009
When you slap your balls together with your roommates hairless, ghostly-white sack.
Oh hey Hawk! you wanna Eighty-Eight on Danny's pillow later?
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It isn't fair to South Carolina citizens to have their choices limited, but that's what a large corporate out-of-state waste industry bill that's flying through the Legislature does. These corporations state that a county using its landfill for its own citizens' waste is unfair, but I say if the citizens want another option, our democratic electoral process will reflect that. We need to understand that it is this bill that limits choices, including citizens' ability to reject out-of-state waste in their backyards.
The bill voids local solid waste ordinances that control where waste is disposed of even though the ordinances are overwhelmingly supported by citizens. A recent statewide survey of South Carolina voters shows that 76.4 percent support county regulation and control of where solid waste is disposed.
The direction of solid waste by local governments is also necessary to pay back current debt on solid waste facilities or to finance new facilities like those that can continue increasing recycling and reducing waste streams into landfills.
When public landfills and facilities have more difficulty being financed, the industry will become monopolized by large out-of-state waste corporations. State law prohibits more than two municipal solid waste landfills within a 75 mile radius. Options for citizens are therefore already limited, and they become even more limited if public facilities are not financially viable.
Sometimes the private sector does a better job for citizens, but not always. Despite the private sector landfills' larger volumes and capacities, average disposal costs are cheapest at the public sector's landfills. Out-of-state waste corporations already have twice the permitted capacity than the publicly owned landfills, and the out-of-state corporations actually disposed of 75 percent of the waste in this state last year.
The average intake for out-of-state waste corporation landfills in 2011 was over 470,000 tons each, and the average intake for public landfills was only about 145,000 tons. Somehow, despite the higher volumes and resulting mountains of waste, costs to customers are higher with the large corporations.
In the past, almost every county owned a dump for its citizens' garbage. The Solid Waste Act was passed in 1991, and new environmental requirements for "sanitary landfills" made operations very costly. Counties were mandated by state law to plan for and provide solid waste and recycling services to the state's citizens. Providing these services has been costly, but counties have successfully complied with the state's recycling and landfilled waste reduction goals. These mandates and goals were not placed on the large out-of-state waste corporations; they were placed on the counties of this state.
House bill 3290 would also invalidate many franchise agreements because they're governed by the ordinances the bill would invalidate due to their direction of solid waste to particular facilities. This would take away the level playing field and competition among garbage haulers that has been so successful in meeting the requirements of the Solid Waste Act. Without franchises, local garbage hauling businesses cannot compete with the two dominant national companies in this state that either own or control various hauling companies while also controlling their own landfill costs.
There are only two reasons that some counties continue to own landfills in this state. The first reason is to lower costs to citizens. Two of the country's largest waste management corporations own all but one of the eight privately owned landfills in the state. Prices are kept down thanks to public landfills remaining as an option for citizens. The second reason public landfills exist is because the state and federal courts have said the only way out-of-state waste may be rejected by state or local governments is if a local government owns the landfill and chooses to reject out-of-jurisdiction waste coming into its own facility. The government cannot discriminate against out-of-state waste in its regulation of private landfills because doing so would burden interstate commerce.
The survey shows that 88.2 percent of registered South Carolina voters oppose out-of-state waste being imported into this state, and 76.4 percent of voters support county governments controlling where waste is disposed in their own backyards. This bill does the opposite of what the citizens in this state want, and it promises to give out-of-state waste corporations a complete monopoly and South Carolina's citizens no say in becoming, even more than it is today, the nation's garbage dump.
Charles T. Edens is president of the South Carolina Association of Counties.