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The Warren Haven Advisory Committee will hold a public forum Wednesday, Nov. 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., allowing residents to address concerns about the services provided at the county nursing home.
The forum, which is the first of its kind, will be held at Warren County Library Headquarters in White Township.
Fiscal Officer Dan Olshefski will begin the night with a presentation on Warren Haven's financial outlook, followed by residents who submitted testimony to the committee and were approved to speak in advance.
Warren Haven, a non-profit nursing facility, faced political scrutiny after county Freeholders agreed to privatize housekeeping, laundry and dietary services at the nursing home in March.
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So, question is: how long does it take for me to receive the penalty in the post and is it by recorded delivery? ie what happens if it goes missing in the post?
I assume the fine is £100 or more and penalty points, plus a slap from my insurers, oh joy of joys.
That'll teach me, lesson learned.
Anyone who knows how long it'll take, I'd appreciate the info.
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Katherine Coleman Jones and Shannon Jones found each other through a Sarcoma Warriors Facebook group after Katherine posted a comment about how she was just diagnosed with sarcoma cancer and did not really understand how to think or feel.
She was angry and continually questioned why she had this disease. Shannon was the first to reach out to Katherine, and the two instantly became friends. They could talk for hours on the phone, and many times cried together.
"We were the same age – 29," Katherine said. "We were both pharmacy technicians, and it was just nice to have someone my age who was going through the exact same thing."
On July 3, Shannon passed away from sarcoma, leaving her husband and 8-year-old daughter Kayleigh.
At the end of July, Katherine and her family remembered and honored those battling sarcoma, including Shannon. A portion of proceeds from a trunk show that will be held on Tuesday at Vinya's clothing store downtown will be donated and sent to Sarcoma Warriors, an organization created by Dr. Scott Porter, an orthopedic oncologist out of Greenville who specializes in cutting out sarcomas. He created the organization to help those going through this rare cancer afford all that goes along with it.
Half of all men and one-third of all women in the U.S. will develop cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society. However sarcoma cancer, a rare type of cancer found in 1 percent of all adult cancers and found in 15 percent of all childhood cancers, includes many different subtypes.
Subtypes may include masses in blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and nerves. It affects any age, any race and any social economic status, according to Porter.
Sarcoma is a mass that hides within the body and generally only gets diagnosed when it becomes large and easy to see. The only way to be diagnosed with sarcoma is to get a surgical biopsy. While it can be cured by surgery, usually patients must seek chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
The cancer affects tissue in the body, which holds parts of the body together. It can be cancer of the fat and muscles, arteries and bones.
The treatment is strenuous and very intense. Due to the longevity of the treatment, many patients find themselves unable to pay the bills because they can't always work.
Sarcoma is a family of about 50 different kinds of cancer, some of which are the most lethal to human, Porter said.
He began the organization after a patient from Greenwood passed away from sarcoma.
"He died without dignity because he could not afford to get back and forth to Greenville or Charleston for treatment," Porter said. "I thought 'never again,' so Sarcoma Warriors was born."
Sarcoma Warriors, divided into two parts, provides a virtual support group for patients, as well as financial help.
The support group includes a Facebook page, which Porter asks all patients to join, as a way to connect with others going through the same treatment and disease.
Financially, cancer becomes very expensive due to intense chemotherapy appointments and driving to cancer centers. As of the past two weeks, Sarcoma Warriors was able to pay off seven months of rent for patients.
According to Porter, the surgeries are radical and usually result too often into amputations or losses of major parts of one's skeletal system. The group does not do research nor do they fund research.
In Greenville, Porter has a full team specializing in sarcoma, which, according to Porter, is very attractive to physicians in South Carolina who are trying to refer their patients to someone close by without having them to leave the state.
"We have been very blessed and have touched so many people," Porter said. "It's just a blessing I've had this opportunity."
Although a trip to Greenville is only a few hours away, the Savannah River Cancer Foundation provides help closer to home in Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield and Allendale counties.
"To see that you have a cancer diagnosis years ago was a death sentence," said Jamie Turner, executive director of the foundation. "But the most important thing to do if someone is diagnosed with sarcoma – narrow down your sources because it can get overwhelming."
People are bombarded with information when they are first diagnosed with cancer, according to Turner.
Turner has had two cancer scares herself and understands the importance of finding where to go for help and for hope.
One of the sites Turner recommends is CureSarcoma.org, which outlines resources and recommendations for those in all stages of cancer.
The foundation helps those with cancer financially with transportation costs or cancer medication coverage.
Many who suffer can't afford cancer medication; many are barely able to make rent and grocery payments for life-saving medication, according to Turner.
"This disease decimates a family's income," Turner said. "We're here because 10 years ago a volunteer was helping take someone to and from treatment, and she was in pain and couldn't afford cancer medication. We were formed for that purpose."
Although she does not see many cases of sarcoma through the foundation, Turner said, everyone needs to be educated.
"It is hard to break that once you hear, but that is why I advocate support groups. If nothing, just listen or talk about your experience because you don't know who could benefit from what you say."
Chaplain Cathy Cole, who runs a support group through Savannah River Cancer Foundation, said the group is there for whatever someone needs or wants to talk about – from treatment options to how he or she is coping.
"They basically share their story and ask questions from other members," Cole said. "Some have different variety and stages of cancer, and some are family members of those with cancer. It's driven by them and what they want to talk about."
Cole is a 20-year cancer survivor.
"I have a heart for people who are fighting this battle," Cole said. "I've also had family members fight it, so I try to support and help them get through it."
For more information, visit SarcomaWarriors.org, CureSarcoma.org or SavannahRiverCancerFoundation.org.
Maayan Schechter is the city beat reporter and has been with the paper since July.
Trunk show information
The trunk show at Vinya's on Laurens Street will be held July 30 from 1 to 7 p.m. Shoppers can purchase LissaMar women's apparel and Senn Designs jewelry. A portion from all proceeds will go to help Sarcoma Warriors. T-shirts in yellow, the color of Sarcoma Month, reading, "Katherine's Warriors: No one fights alone," will be for sale for $10. Refreshments will be served.
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On Tuesday, February 26th, Tim Bradley hosted an open media event inside of the Fortune Gym in Hollywood, California ahead of his March 16th clash with Ruslan Provodnikov.
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Timothy knows his weak ass fluffer nutter punches wont KO anybody so he's gotta leech off somebody elses KO and rub it in
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Fight Amir Khan than *****. Bradley ducked Khan for years. He flew to TR to get away from Khan. He chased a payday with Pacquiao. Pacquiao won the fight.
Bradley is a huge joke. Khan would haved whooped his ass if they ever fought each other. Bradley is a proper cunt.
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Ha ha ha! Bradley,be careful what you say and you might get the 2nd fight after MARQUEZ vs PACMAN V.
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LOL....I love how Bradley's been trolling since the Pac fight.
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while this may be true it still makes Bradley look like a ***** in a few ways cause he himself couldn't hurt MP..
all this is is back and forth nonsense vs freddie roach to work roachs nerves
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A friend of mine just put her (nice) two-bed flat in Kingston on the market for a price she thought was silly.
It was first shown on a Saturday. Over 70 people came to view it.
The following Monday, she had 18 offers at or above the asking price.
Great for owners and sellers, depressing for buyers, these kinds of stories are all too common. The question we have to ask is: when will the madness end?
Nobody knows the answer to that, but I have a tiny carrot to dangle in today's Money Morning, which might bring a little solace to buyers.
The housing market is rigged in favour of owners
There is probably no greater manifestation of the wealth divide in the UK than the housing market.
In fact, it's more bizarrely specific than that. There are those that own a house in London and those that don't.
Ignoring how things have gone at work or with their other investments, those that own a decent pad in London have more than doubled their wealth over the last three years without having had to make a single improvement to the property. They could have scrawled all over the walls and worse. It wouldn't have made any difference.
An ordinary terraced house, for example, that was half a million in 2010 is now not far off a million. What was a million is close to two. Add in the leverage of a mortgage and most people have doubled their wealth or more.
This wealth divide will remain for as long as interest rates are suppressed, inflation is not measured properly and planning laws remain as they are. In fact, thanks to Help To Buy and other schemes by which the housing market has been propped up, the government now almost has a responsibility to maintain high house prices in the future.
So things looked pretty rigged in favour of owners.
Housebuilders are warning of a potential peak in house prices
That said, I like to watch the house builders. By that I mean the likes of Barratt (LSE: BDEV), Persimmon (LSE: PSN) and Taylor Wimpey (LSE: TW). They have, over the years proven to be reliable indicators as to the future direction of house prices.
And here's the thing – their share prices have turned down. In fact, the whole household goods and home construction sector has turned down.
It might not mean much. It's early days. But there's a small chance it could be the start of something bigger.
Here's a chart of UK house prices since the mid-1980s from Nationwide.
You can see the boom of the 1980s, followed by the bust of 1989-94. Then we had the 'saucer' bottom of the mid-'90s. This was followed by a multi-year bull market, which got started in about 1996-97 and peaked in 2007-8.
As we all know, London fell by much less than the rest of the UK post-2008. It also made its post-crash low sooner and began its subsequent rise faster. In the first quarter of 2014 alone, London saw annual house price inflation of 18%.
Now let's look at a log chart of Barratt, the UK's largest homebuilder, since 1989 (a log chart shows the magnitude of change – so on the y-axis, the distance between 100p and 200p is the same as the distance between 200p and 400p). If you compare the two, it's house prices on steroids.
First, note the crash of 1989-94. You can see Barratt made its crash low in 1991, and re-tested it in 1992. That was two years or more before house prices actually bottomed. Between 1991 and late 1993, the share price appreciated by ten times (from 29p to 300p).
Through the rest of the '90s, Barratt traded in a range between about 150p and 375p. It made panicky spike downs in 1998 and 1999-2000 (both of which proved to be bear traps) before setting off on another run that would see it appreciate by another ten times by 2007, when it touched 1,300p.
There were slight wobbles in the housing market after 2000 and again in 2004-6. Barratt anticipated both of these, as well as the crazy rise to an eventual peak in late 2007 – early 2008.
Then we got the bust of 2008, the bounce, the re-tests in 2010 and 2011 – and the surge we have just seen. (The guy who bought in 2008 and sold in January this year made ten times his money again.)
In each move, Barratt has been ahead of the housing market. Intraday, Barratt actually peaked in 2006 and retested that peak in February 2007, while house prices themselves peaked in late 2007.
So, to 2014. Having been as high as 450p in early March, Barratt touched 360p on Monday. That's a fall of more than 20%. In other words, it's bear market territory.
The shorter-term moving averages have turned down (the blue and yellow lines in the chart below) and Barratt's price is below them. It is heading down towards its one-year moving average (the red line).
One reading of this is that a trend is forming – and it is pointing lower.
And as I already noted, the household goods and homebuilding sector is also pointing lower, as we can see below. This sector actually peaked in late February.
The big surge in London prices could be over
I'm not predicting that this is the start of a housing bust. There is too much vested interest propping it up, not least from the army of buy-to-letters in the House of Commons. And neither Barratt nor the house-building sector are even at 2014 lows yet.
But, as I often say, trends are remarkable things. They can go on for a long time – and there are early signs that one is forming. The way the prices of Barratt and its fellow homebuilders go in the coming months will tell us a great deal about where housing is heading.
Given that every other article you read in the papers is about high house prices, I'm inclined to think we have a hit a peak in hype. I doubt we crash from here. But I do think things could settle and that we head into a period of sideways action, rather as we saw in the mid '90s, over the next year or three.
If London prices instead continue to appreciate at the rate they've done over the past two years, then serious social problems lie ahead for the capital.
For those of you that are interested in how yours truly has played the housing market over the past couple of years, I joined the river folk and lived on a barge in Canary Wharf, which I rather enjoyed. Very glamorous indeed, it was. Just last week, I moved back onto dry land – for reasons I shall tell you about another time.
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The Operation Flag DWI Display will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Flags will be posted leading from the university's front gates on Beatties Ford Road along the outside of campus where they may be viewed until the end of the month. Each flag represents 10 DWI charges. Students will also have an opportunity to participate in a drunk driver simulator exercise that day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the outdoor plaza (Block) on campus.
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This year's edition of Michigan Super Lawyers magazine is now available, and once again Wayne Law alumni top the list. Three hundred and seventy-nine of this year's Super Lawyers are graduates of Wayne Law.
Official passage rates for first-time takers of the July 2010 Michigan bar exam have been released, and Wayne Law graduates once again passed at a rate significantly higher than the statewide average. Wayne Law first-time takers secured a 91 percent passing rate, 9 percent higher than the statewide average of 82 percent for first-time takers.
Industrialist and philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman has issued a $200,000 challenge grant to complete the funding required for the construction of Wayne Law's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. Taubman will match each new gift received by July 2011 for the construction of the Keith Center, up to a total of $200,000.
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In this time of economic challenge, the Wayne Law Career Services Office (CSO) is increasing its efforts to reach out to employers and develop new programs to help students and alumni identify their ideal career path and launch a successful job search.
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Four Wayne Law alumnae were recently honored by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as 2010 Women in the Law. Julia Donovan Darlow, '71, University of Michigan; Elizabeth P. Hardy, '84, Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy and Pelton PLC; Shirley Kaigler, LLM '93, Jaffe Raitt Heuer and Weiss PC; and Noreen L. Slank, '80, Collins Einhorn Farrell and Ulanoff PC, were honored at the inaugural Women in the Law luncheon in September.
The 14th annual Treasure of Detroit Gala will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2011, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. More information to follow. We hope to see you there!
The Wayne Law alumni website has been revamped in an effort to better meet the needs of our alumni and friends. Click the below link to check out the site.
Benchmark Litigation, a guide to America's leading firms and attorneys, recently announced its 2010 Litigation Stars and Future Stars. Eleven of its 36 Local Litigation Stars for Michigan and five of the 12 Future Stars are Wayne Law alumni.
It isn't easy to obtain a law degree. It's challenging to balance classes, studies, work, on-campus involvement and a personal life. Throw in some competition with your peers and it can be downright daunting. Fortunately, students and alumni have long lauded Wayne Law's friendly and supportive environment.
The Wayne Law Student Trial Advocacy Program (STAP) held the final round of the Donald E. Barris Trial Competition Oct. 30 in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
Many Wayne Law students have looked up at the bronze relief sculpture in the hallway of the classroom building and pondered its meaning, but few know that its inspiration was an important Supreme Court case from the 1960s.
Click the below link to view photos from past Wayne Law events such as "Are Corporations Citizens," the 25th annual SBG Ambulance Chase, Program for International Legal Studies Lecture Series events, recent Keith Center events and much more!
Wayne State University Law School second-year student Yosef Abraham didn't always want to go to law school. In fact, there was a time in his life when he wasn't even going to finish college, leaving school to seek his fortune in the dot-com boom more than 10 years ago. But after several years in that industry, he realized he needed an undergraduate degree to advance professionally. He obtained a bachelor of arts in Spanish from Georgia State University and then took a job selling legal services and performing administrative duties for an Atlanta-based law firm – and the rest is history.
Members of the Wayne Law Student Board of Governors (SBG) Executive Board, along with representatives of the Wayne Law ABA Student Division and Dicta, headed to Lansing Sept. 24 to attend the annual Law Student Division State Bar Annual Meeting. They were given a tour of the Michigan Supreme Court and visited with Justice Michael F. Cavanagh, who showed the students around his office and meeting rooms.
Are you a new attorney interested in working with a more experienced attorney on a pro bono case? Click the below link to learn more about the Oakland County Bar Association's new Pro Bono Mentor Match Program.
I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy "Representing Terrorists and the Assault on the Bill of Rights," Nov. 10Law School Honors Convocation, Nov. 18Wayne Law Review Annual Symposium, Feb. 4More Events
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Thousands of people gathered Saturday at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, PA. For the 127th celebration of Groundhog Day everyone was ready for Phil's prediction.
"There is no shadow to see, an early Spring for you and me," read a member of Phil's Inner Circle.
At the same time on Mount Penn in Reading fans were waking Patti Pagoda to give her guess. For the eight year in a row her forecast was clear.
"She saw her shadow, six more weeks of winter."
Two different predictions from Pennsylvania's prognosticators. The tradition comes with a lot of fanfare, but do folks around here even care?
"I'm indifferent about Groundhog Day," said Kristen Oelthen-Bruns.
"I think it's kind of a weird thing," shared Beth Witte. "I think they torture that little animal."
"I think it's great to see, if he sees his shadow," added Gale Adam.
Phil's accuracy to foretell when winter's chill will end is the subject of debate. AccuWeather finds the furry rodent 80% accurate, while other groups say it's closer to 39%.
"I think stats can sway in anyone's favor if you do it long enough," smiled Steve Panzera.
"I don't think his predictions are really that great," said Adam.
"I don't really believe that Punxsutawney Phil is going to tell us that spring or winter is going to come early or stay around longer," shared Oeltjen-Bruns.
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Shares in Sangamo BioSciences plummeted over 30% yesterday on the news that the firm was shelving further development of its lead candidate, SB-509 for diabetic neuropathy, due to poor Phase IIb study results. SB-509 comprises a plasmid encoding zing finger DNA-binding protein (ZFP) transcription factor (TF), designed to upregulate endogenous VEGF-A expression.
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The in-depth reports will appear on the date corresponding with each lawmaker's district number. On July 5, we're kicking things up a notch with a profile of 5th District congressman Jeb Hensarling.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling
Name of member of House/Senate: Jeb Hensarling
District number: 5
Office website address: http://hensarling.house.gov/
Party affiliation: Republican
Hometown: Dallas, TX
First elected to this office: 11/05/2002
Date of birth: 05/29/1957
Place of birth: Stephenville, TX
Religion: Episcopalian
Family (marital status, name of spouse): Wife: Melissa
JD, University of Texas (1982)
BA, Economics, Texas A&M (1979)
Professional career (private sector, academia):
Owner, San Jacinto Ventures, 1996-1999
Vice President, Green Mountain Energy, 1999-2001
CEO, Family Support Assurance Corporation, 2001-2002
Professional career (politics, elective office):
State Director for Texas, Sen. Phil Gramm, 1985-1989
Executive Director, Republican Senatorial Committee, 1991-1993
Representative, United States House of Representatives, 2002-present
Election results:
Jeb Hensarling (R) 83.6%
Ken Ashby (L) 16.4%
Jeb Hensarling (R) 61.8%
Charlie Thompson (D) 35.6%
Mike Nelson (L) 2.6%
Jeb Hensarling (R) 64.5%
Bill Bernstein (D) 32.9%
John Gonzalez (L) 1.6%
Jeb Hensarling (R) 58.21%
Ron Chapman (D) 40.26%
Dan Michalski (L) 0.92%
Thomas Kemper (G) 0.61%
Map of district: http://hensarling.house.gov/District/
Addresses, phone numbers of district office(s):
Washington, DC Office:
132 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3484
Fax: 202-226-4888
District Office – Athens:
100 East Corsicana Street, Suite 208
Athens, TX 75751
Phone: 903-675-8288
Fax: 903-675-8351
District Office – Dallas:
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Dallas, TX 75231
Phone: 214-349-9996
Fax: 214-349-0738
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Budget, Vice Ranking Member
Financial Services, Member
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Americans for Tax Reform (anti-tax): 95%
English First: A
Federation for American Immigration Reform: 100%
National Taxpayers Union: 95%
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American Immigration Lawyers Association: 0%
Citizens for Tax Justice: 0%
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Business-Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC): 80%
Chamber of Commerce: 78%
Computer & Communications Industry Association: 36%
National Federation of Independent Business: 80%
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League of Private Property Voters: 83%
Arab American Institute: 0%
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: 0%
Center for Security Policy: 100%
Children's Defense Fund (social liberals): 10%
Christian Coalition: 100%
Citizens Against Government Waste: 98%
Concerned Women for America (social conservatives): 100%
Eagle Forum (social conservatives): 100%
Family Research Council (social conservatives): 100%
Gun Owners of America: A
Human Rights Campaign (gay rights): 0%
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: 0%
League of Conservation Voters: 0%
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National Farmers Union: 0%
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Men's Fitness reckons there are 5 seasonings that "you should always have on hand to make nutritious and delicious meals": onion powder, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, garlic powder and oregano.
I agree with the cinnamon, oregano and cayenne, but I'll take fresh onion and garlic over the powder any day. This did get me thinking about my staple spices, which totally reflect my dependency on Mexican and Indian food. Here they are, in order of importance:
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- Cumin Seed
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Hammer Time! Alexa Hammer, South Florida's 'Pocket Paula' May be LPGA's next Breakout Star
Back when they still gave out things like Moroccan Belts as trophies, Old Tom Morris showed up at a pro tournament at somber old Carnoustie with his 16-year-old son Young Tom. Fellow pro Willie Park asked Morris, "What have ye brought the laddie for, Tom?"
Alexa Hammer & Her Dad Kevin
Old Tom responded, "Ye'll see what for soon enough."
The kid stunned Park in a playoff to win the first pro event he ever entered. Shortly thereafter, Young Tom won four consecutive British Opens.
The gray rains of Northern Scotland are a world away from the swaying palm trees and soaring sea birds of the Sunshine State, but in the Hammer family - for 50 years the "first family" of South Florida golf - the spirit of passing on the game to the next generation lives on.
Thirteen-year-old Alexa Hammer, daughter of well-decorated amateur champion Kevin Hammer and grand-daughter of legendary touring and teaching pro Laurie Hammer, has been skyrocketing up the junior rankings, collecting a closet full of trophies, and still living the free-spirited yet well-balanced life of a well-adjusted but uber-talented golf phenom. Blithe, blond and bubbly, prim, poised and plucky, little Alexa - a pocket-sized version of stout-hearted LPGA star Paula Creamer - may soon be the LPGA's next can't-miss smash hit.
Alexa is the third generation of a gold standard, golf bloodline in which the game is an indelible part of the fabric of the family's life. The eldest of three sisters, she started playing at age 6, entered tournaments at 8, and has since been a perennial standout in such top national and international junior events as the U.S. Kids World Tour, the U.S. Kids World Cup and the National Junior World Championships.
She's even excelled at adult events. Partnered with her dad, Kevin, they won this year's Florida State Mixed Team Championships at Plantation Golf & Country Club in Fort Myers. The pair opened with a 63 in the better-ball format on day one, then closed with a 64 in alternate-shot the next day to win the competition by four strokes.
For their part - unlike some families, the Hammers never engage in competitive parenting, the worst sport in America. Sure, Alexa is ahead of the curve academically, getting steady A's at the prestigious Heritage School, and she spent her youth jetting around the world to play at many of golf's most hallowed venues. But unlike the Wies or the Woodses or the Williamses - who all made the mistake of hovering far too close or never letting a kid simply be a kid, the Hammers have given remarkable freedom to their daughter to balance her own life and succeed on her own talent.
Alexa gravitated to golf because she liked it. "My parents have never pushed me," she explains as she pitches a ball out of a dismal lie to a foot from the cup. "They just support and encourage me. I have to say, 'Dad! Sign me up for more tournaments!' " she adds excitedly while tapping in for par.
Her record thus far has been impressive. At age 12, Alexa played for the U.S. team in the U.S. Kids World Cup. She placed T-6 at the National Junior World Championships. She shot even-par in the Junior L.A. Open and finished third at World Woods's famous Pine Barrens course with a respectable score of plus-4 from the 6,600-yard tees over two days. Her best round is a 68, which is impressive even from the ladies' tees.
Yet the Whiz Kid is still just a kid at the end of the day. She listens to bubble-gum pop music, doodles on her wrists with markers when bored in class, and laughs delightedly at her school's wild science-class experiments.
"I love science class," she beams as she laces a 5-iron to 15 feet. "We blew up a pumpkin the other day. We filled it up with chemicals, and it blew up! It was intense. Then we imploded a soda can. It shrank right up. It's really interesting stuff."
Indeed, her innocence is refreshing amidst the traffic of competition at the highest levels. Even-keeled and humble, just like her father and grandfather, she's just an everyday kid who dons an "S" on her chest whenever she gets to the golf course.
"I go to the gym, play on the computer and listen to Katy Perry, Bruno Morris and the Black Eyed Peas. I actually saw them in concert with my best friend Morgan Gonzalez, who plays in all the tournaments with me," she says.
Then her eyes light up and she turns to me, hopeful. "Make sure to get Morgan in the article! She's my best friend and it'll make her day!"
So I will. Alexa immediately brightens at the thought of Morgan, who lives in Chandler, Ariz., but sees Alexa at all the big tournaments. "I can't wait to hang out with her at the Jr. Honda Classic and the Doral Public Links Junior. We're staying in the same villa."
Alexa also sends a shout-out to her pen pal and golf friend Hannah Henderson from Northern Ireland. "She hosted us at Ballymena when dad took me to Ireland. We also played Royal County Down. That's one of my all-time favorites."
Still, it's all business on the golf course. Trained at the Gary Gilchrist Academy and IMG's school in Bradenton, she has a long, languid swing, great shoulder turn and creative short game. Plus, like Paula Creamer, she's tough as nails mentally.
"I actually like Paula a lot. Her and Annika," she says after lacing a long, straight drive to Position A. Then she pauses for a moment. "I used to like Tiger, but not any more."
Then, after missing her second short putt of the day, the fierce competitor comes out. "I'm going to the practice green for a while after the interview," giving her mutinous putter a fierce glance.
And so a third generation of Hammer carries on the tradition of golf excellence with the same ease and grace as the previous two. With pink shirt, black shorts, pink hat, stylish black nail polish like all the pop-punk kids these days, Alexa is a trendsetter. With magic marker drawings on her wrists, she's also one of the girls.
"When I get bored, I doodle," she admits sheepishly, showing me a red anchor drawn in magic marker. "My friends and I like to doodle on each other."
Yet golf is her first love. She even lists "Caddyshack" as her favorite movie. Tomorrow it's up at 5:30, off to the gym, then to school, and then to the course to play until she can't see the ball. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Admit it . . . you'd do exactly the same thing if you could, wouldn't you? It sounds like a good life to me.
Since launching his first golf writing website in 2004, http://www.jayflemma.thegolfspace.com, Jay Flemma's comparative analysis of golf designs and knowledge of golf course architecture and golf travel have garnered wide industry respect. In researching his book on America's great public golf courses (and whether they're worth the money), Jay, an associate editor of Cybergolf, has played over 220 nationally ranked public golf courses in 37 different states. Jay has played about 1,649,000 yards of golf - or roughly 938 miles. His pieces on travel and architecture appear in Golf Observer (www.golfobserver.com), Cybergolf and other print magazines. When not researching golf courses for design, value and excitement, Jay is an entertainment, copyright, Internet and trademark lawyer and an Entertainment and Internet Law professor in Manhattan. His clients have been nominated for Grammy and Emmy awards, won a Sundance Film Festival Best Director award, performed on stage and screen, and designed pop art for museums and collectors. Jay lives in Forest Hills, N.Y., and is fiercely loyal to his alma maters, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Trinity College in Connecticut.
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Diagnostic Nodal Staging with Nuclear and NIR Molecular Optical Imaging.
Eva Sevick-Muraca, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
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Grant Number: U54CA136404
The primary project is to focus upon translation of imaging agents and devices developed at The Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and translated in Phase I studies at The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Administration Medical Center (MEDVAMC) as well as at Ben Taub General Hospital (BTGH). Dual labeled imaging agents for nuclear and fluorescence imaging will be produced under the BCM and LI-COR expertise in the Chemistry Core; imaged with near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging and tomography devices built and algorithms written in the Instrumentation and Tomography Task Specific Projects; and approved following combinational FDA applications developed with safety and toxicity data generated in the Preclinical Testing Core. Initially we will translate two established agents which target (i) cancer cells within the lymphatic space and (ii) the reorganization of the stromal lymph node compartment as a hallmark of tumor malignancy in both breast cancer and melanoma patients. The results from Task Specific Projects that successfully validate additional candidate imaging agents will then be fed into the infrastructure of the primary project to conduct Phase 1 and Phase I/I I studies demonstrating nodal staging in Nuclear Medicine, intra-operative guidance for lymph node removal, and accurate molecular pathology. Provisions for including other consortia members are "build into" the infrastructure of the network for nodal staging of cancer.
This Network for Translational Research builds upon over a decade of development of
(i) NIR conjugates for cancer targeting,
(ii)novel instrumentation for time-dependent measurement of fluorescence in deep tissues, and
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The Latvia chapter of The Banknote Book is now available for individual sale at US$9.99, and as a free download to subscribers.
This 22-page catalog covers notes issued by the Latwijas Walsts (Latvian Government) from 1919 to 1940, the Latvijas Socialistiskas Padomju Republikas (Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic) in 1940, and the Latvijas Bankas (Bank of Latvia) from 1922 to 2009. Published 23 May 2014.
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Latvia to adopt euro on 1 Janaury 2014
Dec 26, 2013 07:40 PM Category: Europe
According to Latvijas Banka, Latvia will join the European Monetary Union on 1 January 2014 when it switches from the lat to the euro.
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Latvia new date (2009) 5-lat note confirmed
Jul 16, 2010 09:09 PM Category: Europe
5 lat (US$9.15), 2009. Like P52, but new date.
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Latvia new date (2009) 5- and 20-lat notes confirmed
Mar 31, 2010 06:29 PM Category: Europe
The Bank of Latvia has issued new 5- and 20-lat notes dated 2009. The 5-lat (US$10.10) note is like Pick 52, but new date. The 20-lat (US$40.35) note is like Pick 51, but new date. Both carry the same signature (Ilmars Rimsevics, Governor).
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Latvia issues revised 500-lat note dated 2008
Jan 19, 2009 07:54 PM Category: Europe
On January 19, 2009, the Latvijas Banka introduced a revised 500-lat note dated 2008. It incorporates the same upgraded security features as the 100-lat note issued on May 21, 2007.
500 latu (US$935), 2008. Like P48, but new date, new signature, varifeye window, heat-sensitive denomination in lower left front (see below).
Courtesy of Cleophas Elmakias Schockemohle and Frank van Tiel.
500 latu (US$935), 2008. Like P48, but new date, new signature, varifeye window, heat-sensitive denomination in lower left front (see below).
Courtesy of Cleophas Elmakias Schockemohle and Frank van Tiel.
Latvia issues revised 10-lat note dated 2008
Oct 01, 2008 09:37 PM Category: Europe
10 lats (US$19.40)
Violet. Front: River Daugava; oak-leaf. Back: Traditional Latvian bronze bow-broach; coat of arms. Windowed security thread. Watermark: Folk-maid wearing a traditional head-dress. Printer: Giesecke & Devrient (w/o imprint). 130 x 65 mm. 2008. Signature: Ilmars Rimsevics, Governor. Introduced 01.10.2008.
Courtesy of Dmitry Litvak and Tuyet Nhung Le.
Latvia revised (2007) 5-lat note confirmed
Nov 28, 2007 06:44 PM Category: Europe
5 lats (US$10.55), 2007. Like P49, but new date, new signature (Rimsevics, Governor), and new security features, including two relief inscriptions of the nominal value imprinted above the oak-leaf registration device, parallelagram of LATVIJAS BANKA microprinting beneath large 5 in OVI at left. Starting serial number suffix apparently R with replacement notes presumably continuing to use Z suffix. 130 x 65 mm.
Courtesy of Jacek Tylicki.
Latvia issues revised 5-lat note dated 2006
Oct 12, 2006 07:47 PM Category: Europe
5 lats, 2006. Issued October 12, 2006. Like Pick 49, but new date, new signature (Rimsevics, Governor), and new security features, including two relief inscriptions of the nominal value imprinted above the oak-leaf registration device, parallelagram of "LATVIJAS BANKA" microprinting beneath large "5" in OVI at left. Starting serial number suffix apparently "R" with replacement notes presumably continuing to use "Z" suffix.
Courtesy of Girts Eisters (IBNS member 9639).
Latvia issues revised 100-lat note dated 2007
May 22, 2007 01:45 AM Category: Europe
100 lats (US$194), 2007. Issued May 21, 2007. Like Pick 47, but new date, new signature (Rimsevics, Governor), and new security features, including serial number repeated in red in upper front left, horizontal band with 100 in greyish-brown print, 100 at lower left in larger reddish-brown OVI (also heat sensitive), vertical translucent band to left of portrait, transparent window with red semicircle of the Sun and Ls, silver Sun semicircle between the transparent window and the registration device, wider windowed security thread (with holograms and Ls 100), and 100 Ls as latent image in ornamental band on back right margin. Replacement notes suffix Z.
Courtesy of Girts Eisters (IBNS member 9639) and Frank van Tiel.
Latvia issues revised 20-lat note dated 2007
Jul 05, 2007 12:38 AM Category: Europe
20 lats (US$39.10), 2007. Like Pick 51, but new date, new signature (Rimsevics, Governor), and wider windowed security thread on back.
Courtesy of Gunars Troska.


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on November 16, 2012 - 9:01 AM
Dear Carolyn: I am getting married to a wonderful man, but have one recurring problem with his mother: She has this issue with communication. She calls him multiple times a day and texts him, and has this nasty habit of contacting me if he won't respond.
While it does bother me that she interferes so much, what really troubles me is that she treats me like his secretary. When we first started dating, she used to call me right away if he wouldn't answer her calls, sometimes when I was at work. He put a stop to that, but then she started texting me, saying it's important for him to call her.
My fiance has said things to her multiple times, but she hasn't stopped – and in fact it's getting worse.
How can I get her to stop with the text messages?
– Frustrated Future Bride
A: Oh, Honey. And I never call people "honey."
You can stop the text messages many ways, but that won't help if you and your fiance don't face the real problem, which is his mother's complete failure to recognize or respect boundaries.
That's because blocking her texts won't block these: her multiple calls per day; her apparent belief that there's nothing wrong with call-bombing an adult child; her sense of entitlement to immediate access to said grown child; her abuse of the term "important"; her treating you as her son's secretary; her refusal to change her ways despite a direct request to; I could go on but I'm getting annoyed just typing it out.
Whether the mom has a case of untreated anxiety or runaway self-absorption or some diagnosable amalgam of the two, the fact that the behavior is escalating is your warning to treat it not as "this issue with communication," but instead as something that could damage your marriage – and your relationship to your kids, if you have them. Just imagine her call patterns then.
Please talk to your fiance about what you both would like the relationship with his mom to be. Does he want this daily call deluge? Do you ever want her calling you to locate him? Does he want her deciding how you both spend time with her, or would he rather the two of you decided that? How often would he want to visit or speak to her by phone, under perfect-world conditions?
Once you and he start to see the terms of a healthy relationship emerge from this conversation, then please flick yourselves in the forehead and say, "This is up to us, and has been since Fiance became an adult."
He just needs to tell Mom he loves her, and also needs room to be himself without her voice in his head: therefore, he won't pick up the phone for multiple calls per day, and you won't relay her messages to him. And then you both need to stop responding – to the calls, texts, hyperbole outbreaks, or to the guilt-tripping/game-playing that will follow this lockdown.


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Solar systems can be economically feasible for many farmers and other commercial operations, say the owners of a Mississippi solar firm. Technological advances, government assistance, the need for reliable power, and the growing urgency to reduce the use of fossil fuels is making renewable energy systems increasingly attractive, they note.
Reliable, trouble-free
"I believe in this technology and have been very pleased with its reliable, trouble-free performance," Wilbanks says. "The nice thing about it is that you can start small, with just a few panels, as I've done, and keep adding modules to increase your electricity output."
While the TVA has been actively encouraging the adoption of solar technology, Wilbanks says the economics may not be as attractive in areas served by private electric companies, and that some private companies "have not been exactly enthusiastic or cooperative" about solar installations.
Safety concerns are always foremost, he says. "The utility company doesn't want somebody putting up a mail-order solar system and expect them to tie it into their grid. They want to be certain systems are properly designed and installed and that there are no potential safety hazards."
Other solar demonstrations on the tour included one by Don Stokes, representing Dr. John Guyton and the Adams 2XP School at Mississippi State University, featuring a "simple, efficient" solar hot water heater and a solar-powered Stirling engine.
"The Stirling technology has been around for almost 200 years," he notes. "Using a solar collector to supply the heat to operate it makes very efficient use of what can be a very powerful engine."
The Rev. Dr. Robert Stirling applied for the first patent on his engine in 1816. The modern Stirling engine, in addition to being efficient and very quiet, is also environmentally clean, because the heat that drives the pistons is supplied from outside the engine and transferred through heat exchangers to the pistons.
"This allows the engine to operate on many types of fuel — propane, natural gas, gasoline, diesel, ethanol 85, biodiesel, or heat from the sun, as we're doing here," Stokes says.


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By Mahipalsinh Rana on Jul 19, 2007
Gone are days when the Localization(L10n) support came in much later than the product release! We ship the product with 7 languages for every release we do. This means the product is fully localized in all aspects during the development cycle and there is only one multi-language release of any version. The official Sun supported languages are : German(de), Spenish(es), French(fr), Japanese(ja), Korean(ko), Simplified Chinese(zh-cn), Traditional Chinese(zh-tw).
We are members of Portal Globalization(G11n) team and are very excited to use this forum to discuss Portal Internationalization(I18n) and Localization(L10n) topics. We made lot of changes for the OpenPortal project to simplify the mechanics of how we manage l10n sources and how the translations get built and packaged with the product. For instance, we eliminated the need for separate l10n packages! We look forward to your suggestions and comments to improve our product for non-English customers.
The current release is Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 and we added lot of cool stuff in this release. Some of these are AJAX Container, Blog Portlet and Community feature enhancements- all of these are i18n ready and localized in 7 languages. We'll be blogging about each of these in more detail in the near future.
The G11n team for OpenPortal can be reached reached via this blog, or via the firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
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This question will probably only apply to UK/NI members, so sorry everyone else!
Basically I have both my aquariums set up and running nicely. I'm now trying to consider the cost per week/month for running both tanks simultaneously...
Both tanks are as follows:
Juwel Rio 180 - Deltatherm 200w Heater, set to 27. Included are an Eheim 2213 Classic and an Interpet AV3 Airpump. I turn off the Airpump at night (as I need my beauty sleep); the filter (although a weak flow) generates enough to move the water and (I assume) continue oxygenation of the water.
Interpet Fishbox 50 - Deltatherm 100w Heater, set to 27. Included is an Interpet Internal Power Filter (PF1) - I leave it at full blast in the day then close the venturi valve at night, much like the aforementioned airpump method......
The Juwel Rio has the T5 model of lighting, which I run for about 4-6 hours a day (just enough to keep my swords alive and kicking). The Interpet Fishbox has a day and nightlight; the bulb manufacturers are unknown but I think theyre 240V's respectively (although that might not be the case). I run that for the same length of time as the Rio (running both tank lights at the same time!).
So yes, how much electricity does this consume per week/month? As a student, I'm a bit worried about the costs of keeping my fishtanks!
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Portside Grille bldg
600 Rowland Dr., Port Deposit
410-378-4641 or 410-287-9172
Fax: 410-287-5311
|Special collection of Bainbridge military memorabilia. Saturday and Sunday, 1-4 from April 1st to Thanksgiving.
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Chesapeake City;
|Highlights the history of the busiest canal in the U.S., in operation since 1829. Exhibits, artifacts, and monitor giving up to the minute locations of ships in the canal; Waterwheel, and the oldest engines of their kind in the U.S. still on their original mount, on display. Mon. - Fri., 8-4.
|Cecil County Farm Museum
34 Buckley Avenue, Rising Sun
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|Historical Society of Cecil County
135 E. Main St., Elkton
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Historical Society of Cecil County
135 E. Main Street, Elkton
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98 N. Main, Port Deposit
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Market St., Charlestown
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|Upper Bay Museum
Walnut Street
North East Town Park
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|A unique museum collection that reflects the heritage of commercial and recreational fishing and hunting on the Upper Chesapeake Bay. Decoys, gunning rigs, antique marine engines, mahogany miniatures, and more. Annual decoy show held the first weekend in Oct. Hours: Wed. - Sun. 12 - 4 pm and tours by appointment. Closed major Holidays.
|Civil War Trail Markers
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Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz pledged Monday to continue pursuing the goal of federal government recognition of Native Hawaiians as an indigenous group, similar to Native Americans and Alaskans.
The so-called Akaka Bill, named after retired U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, failed to pass Congress. It aimed to establish a process for indigenous Native Hawaiians to gain recognition similar to an Indian tribe.
The issue of federal recognition of Native Hawaiians is expected to be among those Schatz addresses tonight when he speaks to the Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce at the Maui Tropical Plantation.
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"We will be talking about treating Native Hawaiians fairly with respect to the way the federal government treats Native Americans generally," he said during a wide-ranging interview at The Maui News. "Native Hawaiians are the only native group that doesn't have a government-to-government relationship acknowledged. And I think it's a matter of basic fairness that the federal government treat Hawaiians on an equal footing with Alaska natives and American Indians.
"I believe that separate is not equal and that Native Hawaiians need to be treated fairly," he said.
How federal recognition eventually translates to sovereignty for Native Hawaiians remains to be seen, he said. Questions about what a Native Hawaiian entity would look like and how independent it ought to be "are for the community to work out," he said.
"And they are very tough issues, and it's fair to say that there is no consensus yet," he said. "But my view is that my kuleana is to articulate and eventually work on that government-to-government relationship."
Although it's difficult to get any legislation through the gridlocked U.S. House of Representatives, Schatz, a Democrat, said that "we do have the ear of the Obama administration in terms of moving forward."
It's important while the Hawaii-born Barack Obama remains in office that "we take advantage of his understanding and sympathy for Hawaii and Native Hawaiians," he said.
Schatz discussed a variety of other issues.
Social Security solvency
Schatz recently joined Democratic Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Mark Begich of Alaska in introducing a bill to strengthen the solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund while still increasing benefits to seniors by about $65 per month.
The average Social Security benefit for Hawaii residents is about $14,000 per year, he said. "That's simply not enough to live on for most folks."
"The debate in Washington has unfortunately been skewed to being almost singularly about cutting Social Security, and my view is that Social Security is the most successful anti-poverty program in American history, and it ought to be enhanced and expanded rather than undermined."
Schatz said the proposal would be paid for by taxing all wages for Social Security instead of capping annual income taxed for the program at nearly $114,000.
Now, someone earning $114,000 a year pays the same amount in Social Security taxes as someone who makes $114 million a year, he said. "And we think that's a flaw in the tax code."
"If we simply lift the cap, we will generate sufficient revenue to keep the program for generations and also to increase the benefit for individuals," he said.
Pacific islands park bill
Schatz said he's "very encouraged" by the progress in the Senate of his proposed bill to direct the National Park Service to complete studies of what areas should be designated as national parks areas.
"The National Park Service can be a real resource to Maui when it comes to public lands preservation, and we want to make sure that as the Department of Interior and National Park Service think about what ought to be in national parks inventory, that we think about so many of our special places on this island," he said.
On Maui, the legislation broadly looks at Maui's north shore from Spreckelsville to Hookipa.
"We feel like we've got . . . support on the Senate side to move this legislation forward," he said.
For Maui's north shore, Schatz said, he sees a "collective interest in preserving that land" from Maui County leaders, nonprofits, landowners and members of the community.
Schatz emphasized that any area being eyed as a national park would need a community consensus.
"We are not interested in moving forward on any project if there is significant community opposition. It's hard enough to get a national park established. There's no need for us to do it over anyone's objections."
Sugar price supports
In May, Schatz and fellow Hawaii U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono voted to maintain price supports for sugar, a shelter against foreign competition for Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., which employs more than 800 Maui residents.
The supports were included in a farm bill that was passed out of the Senate but got rejected in the House. So far, a revised version of a farm bill has not been agreed on, and the federal government is operating under the status quo, Schatz said.
"Every time there's a farm bill, there's an attempt to eliminate the sugar price supports," he said, "and Mazie and I worked very hard on pushing back against the elimination of these price supports."
The Senate's version of the farm bill included price supports for sugar, he said.
"I will continue to remain an advocate for price supports," Schatz said. "Most other major agriculture industries have some form of price supports, and these don't cost the federal government a penny but they rather smooth out the unpredictable swings in the price of sugar, which would otherwise wipe out not just the jobs on Maui but tens of thousands of jobs across the nation."
Passenger pre-checks
Schatz said his proposal to ease some security check procedures at island airports is pending a review by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and a decision on the matter could come by the end of this year.
"We're very encouraged by their openness to the discussion," he said. "They have to do a fair amount of work to make sure there's no diminishment of the safety of passengers."
Schatz's request is for the TSA to expand its "PreCheck" program to Neighbor Island airports, enabling low-risk passengers to move quickly through checkpoint screenings. "PreCheck" passengers would not need to remove their shoes or outerwear or take out their laptops for screening, for example.
"For a lot of us who travel, it would make life a lot more convenient," he said. "It wouldn't change everything. You're still going to have the same checkpoint, but taking off and putting on shoes and belts and all that would be made a little bit more like it used to be."
On Inouye's legacy
Schatz, Hawaii's former lieutenant governor, was appointed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie to serve as a Hawaii U.S. senator after Inouye's death Dec. 17. Schatz was sworn in Dec. 27.
Schatz said he has tried to honor's the late senator's legacy.
"My admiration for Senator Inouye's legacy and his service and his heroism is deep, and as I interact with my colleagues I learn even more about how well loved he was, universally, (by) every single one of his colleagues, Republican and Democrat," he said. "My approach has been that the best way I can honor his legacy and his service is to work hard, and be humble, and to keep Hawaii's priorities in my heart, and that's what I've been trying to do."
Schatz did not express any uneasiness about one of Inouye's final acts, writing a letter to Abercrombie that his "dying wish" was for the governor to appoint U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa to succeed him. Now, Hanabusa has announced that she will challenge Schatz for Inouye's former seat in 2014.
"I think what we have in this race is an opportunity to define our future," Schatz said. "And I look forward to the discussion with Colleen about what's our preferred future in the state of Hawaii. I'm going to be focusing on middle-class issues, because those are my priority. I'm going to be focusing on opportunities in clean energy, because that means a lot to me.
"I think this race gives a real chance to have a discussion about what kind of leader we want and what kind of future we want. And so I think nothing good ought to come easy, and it's great that people have an opportunity to choose."
According to campaign spending reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Schatz reported total contributions of $2,029,713 and total disbursements of $378,339. Hanabusa reported total contributions of $731,384 and total disbursements of $133,359.
So far, Schatz said, he has received endorsements from 26 organizations, including many labor and progressive groups as well as former Vice President Al Gore, who praised Schatz's efforts to promote clean energy.
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The Liberty North High School marching band will perform in the inaugural parade for the president on Monday.
Liberty Public Schools said the Screamin' Eagles are the only marching band from Missouri picked to perform in the parade. The band is also the first from the school district to take part in the event.
Liberty North band members will join 47 other bands and floats in the parade.
The band was selected after submitting a video along with recommendation letters from state representatives and representatives in the U.S. House and Senate.


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Before Angela Hunt leaves office, a parting gift: breaking ground on the Katy Trail's Mockingbird Pedestrian Bridge
An invite some never thought would come arrived in the virtual inbox Wednesday.
"Councilmember Angela Hunt cordially invites you to a very special groundbreaking event," it reads. "The Mockingbird Pedestrian Bridge at the Katy Trail."
For those not keeping track, this bridge linking the Katy Trail to the White Rock DART Station was supposed to be finished by December 2011. Then, December 2012. Still, better late than never. And Angela Hunt was worried it would be never, which is why the outgoing council member got involved in kicking out the logjams to ensure a groundbreaking before she leaves office. It's set for June 18, three days after voters in Hunt's District 14 cast their votes in the runoff between Bobby Abtahi and Philip Kingston.
"This makes me very happy," says Hunt, who points out that she's been working on this for more than half of her eight-year tenure on the city council. As Hunt and city officials pointed out back in September, there were myriad hold-ups with property owners in the area, among them the Palomar, Mockingbird Station, Premier Place, Prescott Realty and Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Says Hunt, she "reached out" to the property owners "and got everything resolved." Hence the groundbreaking, at long last.
"There have been a million sticking points, and it's been a big frustration for me," she says. "The sticking points have been negotiations with DART where the footprint where the bridge would lie, since it's over their underground line, and where the pressure points of the bridge could be. That was a large part of it, just resolving with DART the engineering and location issues, since the engineering kept dictating the location issues."
Throw in issues involving easements and utilities, she says, "and it was the perfect storm of bureaucracies." But now comes the construction after the storm, which is expected to take about a year.
Below, a brief Q&A with Hunt about the bridge — and where it fits into her larger vision of connection the city's trail system, which is a bunch of beautiful pieces in need of being fit together.
Why has this one bridge been so important to you, and something you wanted to get done before you were out of office?
We have an incredible trail in the heart of our city. It's so incredible it's almost a victim of its own success, in that there are so many bike riders, pedestrians, runners, parents in strollers, everyone, but it's not part of a larger system. We're not thinking big enough in letting our trail system be more than a recreational system, but a transit system that allows people to go to work, that allows for a different forms of mobility.
We have a dangerous intersection for pedestrians at Mockingbird and Central Expressway, and we have a great development at Mockingbird Station, and people in the single-family houses nearby can't access it. Making that connection is important. The best way we can do it is by connecting the Katy Trail where it ends at Airline all the way over Mockingbird, which takes you all the way to White Rock Lake. And that connects you to that system and the trails in northern Dallas.
And, of course, you and Scott Griggs and Jason Roberts have long been at work on linking the Oak Cliff-Bishop Arts side of the Trinity to the Katy Trail …
The Trinity Trail will get you from Sylvan to the Santa Fe Trestle and the Trinity Strand and the Katy. We're starting to build a system, but it takes a conscious effort. At my last Quality of Life Committee meeting, we're going to discuss the priorities for our trails. I'm going to push for making connections and developing a system. We have an amazing trail system around the Audubon Center and where the Texas Horse Park will be, but it's connected to nothing. It's awesome, but it's not well used because you have to drive to it. It's about connections. We're going to need to make those.
This, along, perhaps, with the Lower Greenville SUP and your efforts to keep the toll road out of the Trinity, will be a big hunk of your council legacy. When you're done here in a few weeks, will you still be involved in the trails? I mean, you don't need to be a council member to get things done. In fact, some folks would argue that these days you can do more without City Hall's help.
There will be somebody new, hopefully Philip Kingston, who shares the value of a real trail system around the city. To the extent I can be a resource, I'd love to. If I can find a place with the trail system and bike-issue nonprofits I will. I don't know about that legacy stuff, but the stuff I am proud to have initiated is the Trinity Trail stuff Scott and I worked on. I believe it can be transformative. I believe it can get people in the Trinity the way other things didn't. It will change the way the city thinks about the Trinity. We went to the Wind Fest over the weekend and rode our bikes with the trailer to the part of the trail we worked on getting. It's amazing. It's so beautiful. You can see the river and this great tree line and the skyline, and it's this nice Katy Trail-like path. But right now it gets you to 35. In the months ahead we'll move forward on the extension that gets you to Sylvan. The Katy Trail has been remarkably successful, and I think that's how these Trinity trails will be.


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The Final Backer Update...
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Wow. The day has finally come. I'm kinda stunned, to be honest. BattleTails is now available for IOS!
We actually did it. We worked our... Read more
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Just a quick little note to let everyone know the status of the backer fulfillment. Decals have arrived, both print runs are printed and cut (will be signing and numbering... Read more
Thank you!!!
It's over. It's official! We're funded! We hit a few unexpected hiccups near the end but we still cleared $54000. Thank you!!
We will be sending out surveys over the... Read more
Only two days left! Help us reach our stretch goals on Kickstarter!
People really liked our previous "Finishing Move" teaser (vimeo.com/67374833) so here's another combo skill that's useful for clearing... Read more
Finishing Moves
Here's a live concept we've been playing with in designing the finishing moves for our favorite Battle Tails hero, General Shirokuri. If you can't tell, we're heavily inspired by 2d... Read more
The final stretch!
As we now enter the final stretch of the Kickstarter project, we've teamed up with Vampy for an awesome new stretch goal bonus. If we hit $75k, we're going to... Read more
New $10 tier, new add-ons, T-shirts!
We have just created a new entry level tier, a $10 Diecut Hero Sticker Pack. It will include three 4" die-cut stickers of 3 different Heroes from the BattleTails... Read more
Map of Kinausu add on, character sketches and a poll?
As of day 10 we have now raised over $54,000! And while we have indeed hit our funding goal we are now striving to push the support up to the... Read more
$50,000 goal achieved! We're funded at day 8!
Well hot damn, thank you!!! We hit $50,000 with 22 days still to go! BattleTails is funded! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
As a reward to our backers, we... Read more
Project Update #1: We've hit $31,000. A soundtrack sample, a map and Clan 6 Tails!
Hi Everyone!
As we near the end of our first week, we have raised over $31,000! We're well over halfway to our goal! W00t! And you made this happen. You... Read more