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Bermuda's Search for New Wealth
Long a paradise for billionaires such as Ross Perot and Michael Bloomberg, can Bermuda attract the stupendously rich of today?
AQUAMARINA, THE HOUSE, SITS ON A LIMESTONE promontory overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Originally built as a bachelor pad, the three-bedroom house boasts its own disco, an enormous kitchen, huge teak doors, a yoga room and a glimmering rooftop swimming pool, topped at one end by a statue of a seated Buddha that radiates peace, harmony and a sense of prosperity. Visitors who climb some 40 feet down a path carved into the limestone bluff arrive at a private beach, where they can meditate, perhaps on the ebb and flows of world markets, as waves crash on nearby reefs. On a gloriously sunny day, Aquamarina is a stunning property, a steal, it would seem, for the $7.9 million price its owner, a re-insurance executive long departed for Singapore, is asking for it.
"This is a unique property," says Penny MacIntyre, a slim, no-nonsense realtor who delights in showing off the reflecting pools and waterfalls that the architect has incorporated into the house's design. Most Bermuda high-end properties are a reflection of the island itself—proud, conservative stone mansions painted in deep reds, dark yellows, browns and blues. They are built in what is known as the Bermuda vernacular style and boast distinctive wooden window shutters, tapered chimneys and white roofs that collect rainwater for the flowers in the lush gardens that fill the island. Not Aquamarina. One of a handful of futuristic styled houses in Bermuda, Aquamarina, says MacIntyre, is "very modern and forward thinking."
But modern and forward thinking, it turns out, have never quite been the forte of this fish-hooked island, known for its stately British airs, pink sandy beaches and currently, the fourth-highest per-capita income in the world. While MacIntyre may drive a fairly modern SUV, a lot of residents here navigate Bermuda's many twisting roads in small motorcycles that look straight out of a Steve McQueen movie. Downtown Hamilton, its capital, boasts one glass office tower, and its 10 stories stand out against the backdrop of much shorter, old colonial office buildings. Whereas the rest of the world seems to be opening its door to glitz and brand new, Bermuda, a self-governing British territory for four centuries, prides itself on a sheltered life with virtually no serious crime, no paparazzi and no income tax.
It's the kind of world a lot of rich people love. Or perhaps loved. While Aquamarina may be a steal, it has sat vacant and unsold for about a year. And as MacIntyre begins to rattle off some sale figures, a disturbing reality emerges about the island's small but lucrative market of island mansions, which range in price from $3.5 million to more than $40 million. More than 50 of these homes were sold between 2007 and 2011, including the proudly named Castle Point ($21.5 million) and the slightly more modest Tradewinds ($11.5 million). Last year, there were 34 properties on the market that the island's quirky and restrictive system allowed foreigners to buy. Of these, just one went into contract, in what was one of Bermuda's worst real-estate years on record. And things have only started to pick up this year. "It's been a quiet market," she says.
Indeed, after decades of reigning as a supreme destination for some of the world's elite, Bermuda is having a tough time competing for the patronage of the stupendously rich, creating a classic tug of war over old and new money. The island, an easy two- or three-hour jet jaunt from the U.S. coastline, still attracts such billionaires as Ross Perot and Michael Bloomberg, who maintain homes here. But government officials and business leaders say they are worried that the mores of high-end tourism are changing, along with the wealthy themselves, and that this magical archipelago must now fight to follow the money. "Bermuda is like a lady with a very long skirt on," says David Dodwell, a hotelier who is also chairman of Bermuda's tourism board. "We need to pull up our skirts a bit."
Without question, the geography of money is changing—and at an unaccustomed velocity. According to an annual survey of global wealth by Boston Consulting Group, private wealth in the "new world," primarily the Asia Pacific region, jumped around 12 percent last year alone, or more than double the rate of growth in the "old world," including North America and Western Europe. This new breed of nouveau riche tends to favor a lifestyle of supernova toys, with private elevators hauling sports cars into their living rooms and bar drinks costing thousands of dollars each. They like their homes to be modern, their nightlife late and their clothes as shiny as their jewelry. All of which has very little to do with sleepy Bermuda, whose nightlife shuts down at the stroke of 10 during the week and whose hotels haven't quite caught up with the concept of in-room infinity pools or 24-hour butler service. (Note: A special check-in area and afternoon tea is still considered a high-end perk at the Fairmont, the island's upscale, flamingo-pink resort.)
Beyond the need for celebrity chef restaurants and Prada boutiques, once-popular high-end resorts are discovering that it also takes a special cocktail of tax policies, real-estate laws and a host of business-friendly steps to reel in the big fish. That's a challenging task, especially for the smaller locales like Bermuda. Upset about its own struggling economy and a gaping national debt, the island's citizenry elected a new government last year that is promising some intriguing changes—including a few key overtures to the business community and the jet-setting rich it brings. But Bermuda is a place steeped in conservative traditions. Change does not come easy.
"I DON'T THINK Bermuda has enough zip for the younger crowd," says Wendell Hollis, a leading corporate lawyer who has represented many of the billionaires who have bought real estate here over the past 20 years. A tall, blue-eyed ruddy-faced Bermudian, Hollis is walking about his home, which boasts a castle-like battlement built on the remains of a 17th century pirate fort, still armed with 13 small-bore antique cannons pointing out to repel whatever invaders might be lurking at sea. These days, he worries that his home country is missing out on an opportunity to attract more wealthy residents. A former senator and adviser to several governments here, Hollis once wrote a paper showing how just three rich individuals contributed over $100 million to the Bermuda economy. "How many tourists or ex-pat workers does it take to produce such a contribution?" he asks.
The kind of population Hollis would like to see more of has been enjoying the enchanting qualities of Bermuda since the 19th century. Mark Twain, an early booster here, was quoted as saying: "You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda." He was joined by Vincent Astor, the son of Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, who used part of his inheritance to build an estate here, complete with a mini, narrow-gauge railroad, on a 22-acre property. In the 1920s, when Bermuda's worthies decided to create the island's first club and golf development, the Mid Ocean Club, it marketed heavily to wealthy Americans from New York and Boston. The Lowells might have talked only to the Cabots, and the Cabots only to God, but some of those conversations, according to the list of early club members, took place on the links of the Mid Ocean Club.
'The island offers friendly doormen and golf—but no limos, Prada stores or fancy nightclubs.'
Today, the Astors, Lowells and Cabots have been replaced by Perots (as in Ross), McGraws (of McGraw Hill) and Pritzkers (of Hyatt Hotels). And in place of Mark Twain, Bermuda has long counted on actor Michael Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, for a dash of celebrity glamour. The two raised their children here but have returned to New York, renting their home for the asking price of $28,000 a month. Most of these big names maintain homes in a secluded area of the island known as Tucker's Town but more commonly as Billionaires' Row. Few resort streets in the world can boast so many names of so many ultra-rich people living so close together. A visitor will find only one bored guard manning the gate to the neighborhood, known for its views of the Atlantic and its flowering white and pink oleander hedges.
The old money here say Bermuda has always had a special appeal, from its relatively close distance to the power elite of the U.S. Northeast, to a natural beauty that photographs can't quite capture. The island is emerald green, one big park, complete with a botanical garden and the occasional postage-stamp-sized garden farm growing onions and carrots. Not one blade of grass appears to be withered or out of place, even though Bermuda has hardly any fresh water and depends almost entirely on rain for its water supply. Bermuda could be England with palm trees and decent weather.
In this setting, the rich seem to get lost amid a population that could care less about them and local papers that ignore their comings and goings. "Bermuda is very unassuming," says Neal Churchill, a private banker with Butterfield Bank (UK) Ltd., who lived here for three years and was back for a visit from Monaco. "You can mingle with wealthy people and not know it." Pink from the sun as he sips a cup of tea at a hotel pool, Churchill says homes are the only status symbol here. "There is no showing off here," he says. "There are no flashy cars, no super yachts in the harbor." Drinking a rum punch on the terrace of the Mid Ocean Club, Nir Sadeh, chairman of the club's membership committee who also heads private banking at Butterfield, concurs. "It's not flashy," he says. "You have people walking down the street in shorts who are worth billions."
The problem is this happens to be the polar opposite of what today's new generation of global wealth wants. The 30-year-old Russian billionaire zigzagging around city streets in his new Lamborghini. The Chinese "whale" gambler giddy from another run of luck at the Baccarat tables in Macau. Bermuda doesn't expect, or want, to attract all of this kind of wealth. But its government officials are staring down some awful declines in the country's second-largest industry, tourism, that reflect Bermuda's staleness. At its peak in 1980, Bermuda welcomed some 500,000 plane-arriving tourists a year, and counted on some 12,000 hotel beds, says Shawn Crockwell, the island's minister of tourism. Last year, the island received about half that number by air, and had only 2,500 hotel beds to offer them. About 60 percent of last year's tourists were low-spending visitors who arrived on the island on cruise ships. The remaining 40 percent arrive by air, a figure that continues to decline. "We need to reverse that ratio," says Crockwell.
The British territory is also groaning under a record $1.4 billion in debt, the result of shrinking revenues not only from tourism but from the island's largest business sector, reinsurance. (Bermuda is famous for a so-called economic "miracle" of sorts: It produces almost nothing and imports almost everything, and has no income, capital gains or sales taxes. Yet it has thrived with a strong standard of living for decades on payroll taxes and import duties.) In response, the newly installed government, run by the One Bermuda Alliance party, thinks one solution is to send more positive signals to the international money elite, the people and firms who create the jobs and the lifestyle that spurs a stale economy. "I didn't think the business community was feeling the love," says Bermuda's new premier, Craig Cannonier.
Certainly, Bermudians will agree that the island, wrapped tightly in protectionism and red tape, has tended to irradiate a certain feeling of unfriendliness toward nonislanders. With just 69,000 souls jammed into its 21 square miles, the island has long feared that foreigners would push locals aside. So the country has done everything from setting time limits on how long nonresidents could live here (six years) to at one point banning Bermudians from selling any real estate to outsiders. In an interview, Cannonier, a bear-like U.S.-educated gas-station owner, says he is trying to put his foot down on a lot of this, quickly ending the residency limits. Members of his cabinet say it was a big move. "You would find that even if a top executive had term limits waived, there were term limits imposed on the nanny," says Michael Fahy, Bermuda's minister of home affairs. "If you are saying your nanny has to leave, then why stay?"
The rich are also getting a break on real estate now. Since 1926, Bermuda has imposed restrictions on purchases of land by non-Ber- mudians. Eventually, non-Bermudians were allowed to purchase only the most expensive of houses—those that have an annual rental value in the six-figure range. Today, that works out to homes worth about $3.5 million and up. What's more, foreigners had to pay a 25 percent license fee on home buys, which can drive even a billionaire a little batty. The high-rental rule remains, but Cannonier has temporarily cut the tax on real-estate sales to 8 percent of the purchase price, which then increases to 12.5 percent after 18 months. For now, a $4 million home no longer requires an extra $1 million, which MacIntyre, the realtor, says is "a very welcome change of pace."
'One olive branch to the rich: The government recently slashed taxes on high-end homes.'
But even government boosters say moves like these can only go so far in creating the kind of full-service playground the rich can so easily find elsewhere now. The island, for example, likes to boast that it has more golf per square mile than anywhere in the world. That's fine, except that today's rich—fitter and more active—want other options for high-end recreation, including celebrity trainers and yoga instructors working out of space-age gyms. In the Caribbean, it is possible to find a host of new private-jet airports, compared with Bermuda's one commercial facility. And once upon a time, it was charming that the country limited residents to one puny car per household, a policy dating back to when Mark Twain and Woodrow Wilson teamed up to help get motor vehicles banned for decades. But it is not exactly comfortable for today's stretch-limo crowd, which has to make due with the island's sparse supply of Mercedes-Benzes, which are available to rent by the hour.
From a corporate standpoint—and the island is keenly aware of how many wealthy executives encamp here when business flourishes—Bermuda doesn't even rate as an especially great tax haven. Sure it lacks taxes, but its conservative ethos requires a far more careful company-registration process than many newer and hotter resort countries have. Feeling the heat, the government two years ago extended the date that companies have before their tax-exempt status expires. Officials in Bermuda also argue that their island country maintains a program for registering off-shore companies that is respected around the world. Still, the number of tax-exempt companies in Bermuda has hovered around 12,000 over the past 15 years. In the Cayman Islands, by comparison, the number has nearly doubled in 10 years to more than 75,000.
SO THE QUESTION remains: How far into the fast lane will the island go to up its new-rich appeal, or will it just disappear someday off the high-end radar, like so many ships in the Bermuda Triangle?
As his government dreams up more ideas, including considering a proposal to start a high-end casino here (bow-tied gamblers included), Cannonier provides a telling story about Ross Perot. Manning his gas station one day, he recalls seeing the 83-year-old former U.S. presidential candidate show up in his gardening boots. "Here's a guy who can walk around Bermuda pretty much as he likes," Cannonier says. "They don't have to worry about the paparazzi. We've done a great job at protecting their privacy. That's one of the great things about Bermuda. They can come and relax."
For some, the country's best step may be just to concoct yet one more Bermuda miracle: a middle ground, way out here in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where East meets West, where new money finds enough razzle dazzle but old money can still enjoy the very anonymity and British DNA they have so long cherished. Hollis, the corporate attorney, likes to point out that the island, first settled by a ship running aground, goes by the motto "where fate take us" and that now it's about time Bermuda forged its own.
But if it does, some Bermudians past and present will always have a divided view of their home. Jon Paradine, the owner of Aquamarina and a native Bermudian who is now living half way around the world, says, sure, the island needs to "improve its product" and up its entertainment value. But get him talking about the days he spent there, the stunning views of the turquoise blue waters, the magnificently fresh salty air, and talk of change fades. Suddenly, it is hard to imagine how any of it—the dull shopping on Front Street, the MIA limos—really matters. As far as Paradine is concerned, his home would go for $50 million, easy, in Singapore, but you'll never find it there either. "The beach in Aquamarina is the most beautiful beach I've ever seen," says Paradine. "I miss the natural beauty of Bermuda."


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Okay so as any avid gamer , especially those who enjoy new consoles and nintendo hardware no doubt noticed- today nintendo announced the release date of their forthcoming 6th entry into the home console space. For those living under a rock that would rather read my blog then the 1up homepage- november 18th is the magic day this year which, like many nintendo hardware launches of the past puts it out the sunday prior to black friday. Essentially it cements a spot in the holiday shopping spree which occurs in north america.
The big sticking point left though is the price, going in to price prediction many gamers (myself included) were betting on the staple nintendo pricepoint being used once again - that price point for those wondering is 249.99 , the same price that every one of the previous 5 home consoles got launched it by nintendo. There was certainly change in the air though- the 3DS was priced higher then either the ds lite, ds XL or original DS when it came out last march and for the record I believe it was also more expensive at 249.99 then any of the game boy models ever were. Now in the past a 200 - 250 dollar pricepoint worked out quite well for nintendo, being a japanese company that was largely traded in yen they could manufacture cheaply in asia and thanks to a fairly robust american dollar sell at a tidy profit in the west. Since the financial collapse of 2008 though the yen has risen substantially against the dollar - the tradeoff being that in order for nintendo to continue enjoying the profits of the past they have no choice but to charge more.
There's also something to be said for the amount of competition available right now, sure walmart may have dropped the price on a 4gb kinect 360 bundle to 249.99 ,making it cheaper then the 299.99 lower price wii U but I'm of the opinion that you HAVE to have a hard drive in the 360, 4 gb doesn't cut it. Last I checked getting a 360 bundle that includes a nice sizable hard drive and I believe a couple games still costs 299.99 or even 399.99 depending on just what you want. So really, nintendo is launching at a price range comparable to the competition.
I suppose the question is moreso- are the 20 million north american wii owners that never bothered to "jump in" or "do everything" going to toss their money at nintendo once again? I'm thinking that they largely won't and at the end of the day will it matter THAT much ? Realistically here there's always enough hardcore fans looking for a new games console with decent software. All the current price point will do is soften demand a bit, I don't see stampedes to grab the hit new "wii toy thing" like there was in 2006, 2007. Once that launch window is done pricing will likely be altered to reflect demand, if it's selling reasonably well (200,000 + a month) it will likely maintain the 299.99/349.99 price , if it's not selling so well (less then 100K per month) I think we'll see 50 bucks lopped off the top and a "post launch" model available in april for 249.99. I can't help but think nintendo has noticed the 2 sku setup working quite well for MS and sony- you sell a barebones cheap console to promote a price that's "too low" and then have the real deal at the store for 50-100% more money. So any hypothetical price drop will likely only affect the white wii U.
Course at the end of the day there's only 1 question to ask yourself about buying a new console, especially a nintendo one- do you like the games this company makes ? Most people love nintendo games, I happen to love them too, I'm not convinced I need a wii U day 1 or even within those first few months but I will buy one to play a new zelda game , hell I'd buy one to play a ported up wind waker HD complete with the 2 missing dungeons and some cleaned up fetch questing. I'm basically a low rent whore for zelda games.
Nah, for me in particular it really seems like any complaining about the pricepoint and such is coming from a peanut gallary that never had any intention of buying this console this year anyways. It WILL go down in price and it WILL also include mario brothers within the first 12 months of release, mark my words here. The longer you wait the better a deal you will get. This is just a fact of game console life. Even after 7 years the 360/ps3 didn't really drop that much in price but they DO have much larger hard drives and tend to include 1-3 hit games so if you don't like the launch price on the wii U, wait a year, it'll still be there.


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NILES - In light of recent tragedies, a local agency is focusing on the mental health of first responders, people who must remain calm and take action in life-or-death situations.
April Caraway, executive director for the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board, is leading an effort to train teams of public safety officials like nurses, police, firefighters and EMS so they may offer stress debriefings to peers with the help of mental health professionals.
"For decades, there has really been no concern for the mental health of public safety providers," said John L. Popadak, president / chief paramedic for ACTION Ambulance. "Public safety is a very closed group of people. Police officers talk to police officers, firefighters talk to firefighters, EMS talk to EMS. It's a brotherhood, a sisterhood. (They) all have their own circles," he said.
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Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Ph.D., C.T.S., speaks Friday during the Crisis Management and De-escalation Team Training session Friday at the Trumbull County Educational Service Center in Niles.
"Peers are more likely to take the help from peers rather than mental health professionals. So we want to do it together," Caraway said.
The second part of a two-day session was held Friday at the Trumbull County Educational Service Center in Niles. About 35 volunteers from communities like Warren, Niles, Cortland, McDonald, Johnston, Leavittsburg and Canfield, took part in the event funded by the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board.
Caraway said after the training is concluded, teams will be able to offer services to area public safety providers.
Police officers are trained to shoot, firefighters are trained to battle flames and EMS are trained to heal people, but none of that training prepares them mentally for how to deal with what they have seen afterwards, said Popadak, who has worked as an EMS for 39 years, a sheriff's deputy for 10 years and a firefighter for 11 years.
"Basically, we're never taught to deal with those emotions for everything we see. We just push them down and push them down ... sometimes they come bubbling back up. In EMS, we call it paramedic burnout," he said.


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Evening when Konda said she bored, that just gave me a perfect reason to rush out to kitchen to make some more muffins. Well no reasons but then you don't really need a reason right! She was all excited that I promised she can do it all. We proceeded with whatever we had on hand. I didn't have a banana to bake those Banana Muffin again. Though I had half a tin of condensed milk still. I didn't have a soda. I decided I was just going to add whatever I have on hand and pray it will get done well.
Anyway I made both these Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes in Convectional mode and Microwave mode. Microwave Cupcakes were so so easy, will post on that in the following post.
If you see that frosting is not so professional, you can say we were in a hurry!..The muffins were still hot when Konda piped in the chocolate frosting and they melted right away!
How to make an Eggless Cupcake in step by step!
How to make Chocolate Frosting
This is the piping bag that I got to the do the job! But I was upset with so much that get left behind..
Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Yields - 18 Mini muffins
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Baking Time 15 mins
Temperature : 185* C
Ingredients Needed:
For Eggless Chocolate Muffin
All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
Cocoa powder - 3 tsp
Icing Sugar - 3/4 cup
Butter - 50 gms
Milk - 1 cup (sweetened)
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Cooking Soda a pinch
Cooking Oil - 2 -3 tsp
For Chocolate Frosting:
Butter - 50 gms
Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder - 1 & 1/2 tsp
Things Needed:
Piping bag
Mini Muffin Tray
Method to prepare:
The Eggless Cupcake:
In a thick bottom pan take the butter and melt it. Keep it aside to cool down.
Meanwhile shift together the flour, baking powder, cooking soda, cocoa powder, icing sugar.
Once the butter is cooled, add in the flour slowly and mix well. It tends to get thick so you can add the milk at this stage
I added the oil at this stage too. Pre heat the oven at 185* C and line the muffins with liners.
The batter will be of pouring consistency. Once the oven is ready, pour a spoonful of batter into the cups and bake it at 180*C for 15 mins.
Don't open until it has completed at least 13 minutes. Check with a tooth pick or sharp knife by inserting in the middle to see if it is done.
I kept it back for another 2 mins. but you can allow it to cool down on the rack.
For making the frosting
Take the butter in a bowl, cream it well by using a spoon, beat it well till it starts becoming fluffy.
Add the cocoa powder and icing sugar, continue doing it for about 10 mins or till your hands ache!
Scoop it down the piping bag and freeze for 10 minutes if required.
Once the muffins are cooled, decorate the top.
- If you want to bake it without the liners, grease the muffin tray with butter.
- This recipe doesn't required to be careful, this was manhandled by a 9 year old and still came out very well. Just make sure the batter doesn't lump on you, you will then end up breaking the lumps.
- Wait for the muffins to cool down, else the frosting will melt away. The milk I used was sweetened as it was kept for milkshake. So increase the sugar by tasting the sweetness of the batter.
- Increase the sweetness in the batter if you are not planning to make the frosting.
All the three were eagerly waiting for the muffins to be done. Chinnu wanted the icing and all of them gobbled 1 each right away, went on the second but managed to eat off the frosting and managed to bite more. Konda said she liked the Banana Muffins better. I think she said that because these didn't have those chocolate chips that I refused to part with. I know by tomorrow nothing will remain.
I thoroughly enjoyed these and I can see my diet plans going out for a toss. With the frosting it was divine!
Well I confess, because of these chocolate delights I ended up announcing a Chocolate feast for the Kid's Delight! It's on till the 15th of January do send in your favorites.


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Aug. 22, 2013 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — New students -- and even returning ones -- will see big changes at Grand Rapids Community College when classes kick off on Aug. 26.
Construction crews have been busy at GRCC's Cook Academic Hall and Main Building, renovating classrooms and labs before students return for fall.
Here's some of what students will notice:
- The business department has three new computer labs on the second floor of Main, with eight new classrooms coming in September.
- The nursing, occupational therapy assistant and workforce training programs will make use of new bed labs and a state-of-the-art simulation lab on the fourth floor of Cook.
- The health sciences resources and tutoring lab is locating to the fourth floor of Cook, with expanded computer resources and study spaces for students.
- The reading, writing and language arts tutoring lab will be located on Cook's fifth floor, with expanded computer lab services that can serve a few people working together or entire classes.
- Sleek new study areas -- for individuals and groups of different sizes -- are available throughout the buildings.
- Restrooms on Cook's fourth and fifth floors have been completely renovated.
While campus has been busy this summer with the completion of these changes, students will find plenty of help navigating them on the first day of classes. Faculty and staff will be in Bostwick Commons, the Main Building, the Wisner-Bottrall Applied Technology Center and Sneden Hall to help students navigate the campus. They'll be carrying tablet computers and wearing special GRCC buttons that invite students to "Ask Me."
"We have had employees volunteer for many years during the first few days of classes, but we decided that by using 'roaming' volunteers, we can become more engaged with our students," said Sara Dorer, GRCC's director of student life and conduct. "We can be present to help with questions, walk people to new locations if necessary, or simply stop and talk with someone about how their first week is going. Employees will be there to both answer questions -- but also to make connections."
Each of GRCC's campuses will highlight the many opportunities and activities being offered. Here are some key dates to note:
Lakeshore Welcome Day -- 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 5 at Thompson M-TEC, 6364 136th Ave. in Holland.
Student Welcome Week, with free food and entertainment -- 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 9 through 12 at GRCC's Bostwick Commons.
GRCC Club Days, an opportunity to check out all of the college's clubs -- 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 10 and 11 at Bostwick Commons.
Grand Rapids Community College, established in 1914, offers opportunities for more than 30,000 students annually in degree courses, certification and training programs, workshops and personal enrichment classes. GRCC holds classes on the downtown Grand Rapids campus as well as several locations throughout Kent and Ottawa counties.


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Officials look for deadly virus in east Erie County
Eastern equine encephalitis isn't typically seen in northwestern Pennsylvania. But with the potentially deadly virus in nearby Chautauqua County, Erie County health officials want to make sure it's not making a rare appearance.
Karen Tobin, the Erie County Health Department's director of environmental health, said her department and the state Department of Environment Protection are monitoring mosquitoes along the Pennsylvania-New York border looking for infected insects.
"It's not common in humans or this area, but if someone does contract it, then it is very serious," Tobin said.
Thirteen batches of mosquitoes in Chautauqua County have tested positive since late July, and airplanes are spraying insecticide to keep the virus in check there.
Tobin said traps were placed Monday in swampy areas, including some in North East Township and Greenfield Township. The Department of Environment Protection also placed traps in Warren County.
The first samples were collected on Tuesday and sent to the Department of Environmental Protection's laboratory in Harrisburg, Tobin said. Local officials are still awaiting results.
The viral disease is contracted from a specific species of mosquitoes that doesn't often bite humans, instead focusing on birds. The lab will first test if the mosquitoes caught are the right species and then determine if they carry the virus.
Local health officials are concerned about Eastern equine encephalitis because it is far more lethal than similar diseases like West Nile virus.
Like West Nile, most people who contract Eastern equine encephalitis never show symptoms. But the mortality rate from Eastern equine encephalitis is 33 percent for those who do become ill, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Many survivors suffer significant brain damage.
Tobin said this is the time of the year when West Nile virus is most prevalent. So far this year, three birds -- including one found in Erie and another found in Millcreek Township this week -- and eight pools of mosquitoes, including some this week from Harborcreek Township, have been found with the virus.
Tobin said the busy season for mosquito breeding will continue at least until the end of September.
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February 6, 2013
This Energy Company Could Erase the Trade Deficit
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Ask any economist about the future of America and you will likely get a sobering answer.
Data on exports and imports for the month of November 2012 showed the United States bought $231.3 billion of goods from foreign sources and exported only $182.6 billion of goods. To finance this $48.7 billion gap, the United States sells Treasury bonds -- which are basically IOUs financed by the government.
But the United States has been running a deficit for decades and the interest paid on the Treasury IOUs is a measly 2%, so why even worry about the trade deficit?
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Dwarf planets (which were formerly called asteroids except for the planet Pluto), and the smaller Solar System bodies still called asteroids today, are making front page news, particularly those that are newly discovered and those that might present a hazard to life on Earth by impacting our planet. In this age of giant telescopes and space probes, these small Solar System bodies have advanced from being tiny points of light to bodies worthy of widespread study. This book describes the dwarf planets and asteroids themselves, their origins, orbits, and composition, and at how amateur astronomers can play a part in their detection, tracking, and imaging. The book is divided into two parts. Part I describes physical properties (including taxonomic types) of dwarf planets and asteroids, how they formed in the early life of the Solar System, and how they evolved to their present positions, groups, and families. It also covers the properties used to define these small Solar System bodies: magnitude, rotation rates (described by their light-curves), and orbital characteristics. Part II opens with a description of the hardware and software an amateur or practical astronomer needs to observe and also to image asteroids. Then numerous observing techniques are covered in depth. Finally, there are lists of relevant amateur and professional organizations and how to submit your own observations to them.
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March 5, 2008, 02:16 PM
I have been trying to find a P228 so I may have to settle for the P226. Can someone tell me what the difference is between a P226 and P226 Navy?
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March 5, 2008, 02:50 PM
A little navy logo. Thats about it I think. I'll look it up to see if there is anything more. Give me a min.
March 5, 2008, 02:53 PM
Navy only comes in 9mm and does not seem to have night sights as an option. With the regular 226 you have the option of 9mm,40s&w,and 357sig. Also able to get night sights from the factory.
So yeah, only difference is the logo.
March 5, 2008, 06:09 PM
When the Navy's first came out, they also had phosphated intenals, which prevented corrosion and some felt helped smooth out the trigger.
There's been quite a bit of discussion lately on the Sigforum if that's still the case or not.
March 5, 2008, 08:36 PM
Don't waste your money, get the standard 226. If you want something special, the Elite is outstanding with it's SRT(short reset trigger).
March 5, 2008, 11:41 PM
My state police agency of about 24 guys are issued Sig 226s. Been acrrying the 40S&W for about 6 or 7 years now, and in 9mm since 1990 or so. Never a malfunction on the line when qualifying, etc. Outstanding handguns. Some of our guys also carry the 230 or 232 in .380 off duty. Hard to go wrong with any Sig.
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They used to have phosphated internals, but it's been hit or miss lately. A lot of them still have phosphated internals, but more than a few don't. Usually the price difference is not much more (if at all) than the cost of the extra mag that they come with (Navy's come with 3 mags). Only come in 9mm. I love mine. :)
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DAMASCUS - Syria and the Lebanese-based Hezbollah Shiite group have signed a defense pact that includes broad-based "field understandings," according to a report in the Kuwaiti paper al-Rai.
In the event of war with Israel, the two allies will provide military support for one another, including "combat cooperation" such as divvying up the bombing of Israeli targets.
The treaty also calls for setting up a joint operations center "to fill in all the intelligence gaps that can emerge in the battlefield," according to the Kuwaiti report.
The Syrian army will provide Hezbollah with intelligence information on the location of Israeli Air Force bases to target aircraft on the ground.
While Syria's alliance with Hezbollah is not new, signing an official pact will present the Israel Defense Forces with an even more complicated scenario than it faced in the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.
Other than providing an open border for Iranian armaments to reach Lebanon, Syria heeded Israel's warnings to stay out of that war. The new defense pact promises to complicate the next confrontation.
According to the most recent assessments, Hezbollah possesses an estimated 40,000 medium- and long-range rockets in its arsenal. Syria allegedly is arming some of its missiles with non-conventional warheads.
In the latest visit by Lebanese Prime Minister Sa'ad Hariri to Damascus, one of many over the past year, Syrian President Bashar Assad advised Hariri to support the Iranian-back group, which is now an integral part of the Lebanese government.
Last week, a prolonged gun battle on the streets of Beirut between Hezbollah's Shiite forces and pro-Syrian al-Ahbash Sunni Muslims left three dead.
At Least Three Dead in Beirut Clashes
Lebanese PM Supports Hezbollah's Claims
Lebanon, Hezbollah Ties Threaten Mideast Peace
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It is not every day that one of the major search engines announces plans to disclose some of its secrets, algorithms and plans for the future. If Bing's goal was to capture the attention of millions of people around the world, it certainly has with its new blog series entitled Bing Search Quality Insights.
With everyone keeping a close watch on search engines these days, everyone is certainly going to be keeping track of what is happening over at Bing. This is especially true since Bing plans on shedding light on some of its secrets, including but not limited to how the search engine works and the algorithms that drive Bing's search engines. However, that is not all that Bing intends to do with its blog series. The company hopes that people who are interested in improving the quality of search engines will get involved in the conversation.
Some of Bing's key players will be getting involved and participating in Bing's Search Quality Insight Blog series. Many major contributors at Bing will be blogging on popular topics, including but not limited to its search engine, search results, research and highlights from a list of other projects the company is working on with Microsoft Research and many others.
Bing hopes that its Search Quality Insights blog series will open the lines of communication and encourage people to post comments and information. Bing is really looking forward to creating a perfect search engine – or at least trying to. By creating a new blog series, Bing is certainly demonstrating that it is taking the steps to gain ground in the search engine industry. What we do know is that Bing's search engine didn't just happen overnight and is the product of what is years of research. The search engine is definitely taking a step in the right direction by offering users a unique search experience.
In a recent post written by Jan Pedersen, Bing's Chief Scientist for Core Search,
Jan offered a glimpse into what makes Bing so different. In his post, he discusses Bing's unique approach to searches and page relevance. Unlike Google, Bing is not as focused on page rank, but focused more on pinpointing everything users may need and providing enhanced search results. Bing's goal is to offer users everything they may need, including but not limited to maps, video and images. Bing's main goal is to personalize its search engine results and improve users experience by providing optimized search results.
Whether you use Bing's search engine or not, take the time to get involved and start reading Bing's Search Quality Insights blog series today. Bing may hold the key to the future of the search engine industry and this is definitely a unique opportunity to learn everything there is to know about Bing's unique approach to providing high-quality search engine results.


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Wisconsin Humane Society stages first 'Tails on the Trail' dog fest
The Wisconsin Humane Society will play host to hundreds of dogs at the first "Tails on the Trail" dog walk followed by the free Bark Bash on May 11 from 10 a.m. to 2:p.m. at Greenfield Park in West Allis.
There are already 550 people pre-registered to walk with their dogs. »Read Full Article
'Modern Family,' 'Behind the Candelabra' lead Wisconsin-tied Emmy winners
It was a big night for TV with Wisconsin ties at Sunday's 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
"Modern Family," created by Steve Levitan, who went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Emmy again for best comedy series — for the fourth straight year. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Rep's soaring 'Ragtime' makes sweet music
Less than 10 minutes into the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's spectacular production of "Ragtime" — the crown jewel thus far in director Mark Clements' Rep tenure — it's already apparent that the next three hours of theater will be special.
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Kevin Durant is concerned. The NBA's new proposal could potentially have a great affect on his team staying together.
One reason, among many I'm sure, that he's not a big fan of this new proposal.
The Thunder, a small market club without deep pockets, has a lot of young players to re-sign. Durant's already locked up to a max extension, but with Russell Westbrook due one along with James Harden, Serge Ibaka and even Eric Maynor, Oklahoma City could have a difficult time keeping its young group intact.
I wrote about how a hard salary cap could potentially destroy the core, but the league's latest proposal includes a stiff luxury tax for teams that spend over the cap. And when Durant was asked about, he wasn't happy about it.
Wouldn't you know it though, the NBA's labor ninja was stalking Durant's comment and came swooping in to correct him.
Question is: Is the NBA correct about that? Noam Schiller of Hardwood Paroxysm has an interesting take:
This time, though, my delusions of grandeur have caused me to feel somewhat involved in this most recent "David Stern is trolling on Twitter again" episode. And as a person who mistakenly thinks he is involved in something is wont to do, I must point out that Kevin Durant is right, and the NBA is wrong.
The NBA is absolutely correct that teams will have the chance to re-sign their own free agents. All recent indications have shown that the NBA and its owners have relented on keeping Bird Rights exceptions for luxury-tax paying teams. Theoretically speaking, this means that teams that are 30 million under the salary cap and teams that are 30 million into luxury tax territory have the exact same abilities to re-sign players who are finishing their contracts.
The issue, though, was never the legality of re-signing players – it was the cost. And it is the cost that will deter small market teams such as Oklahoma City. Re-signing Serge Ibaka to an extension is all fun and games if he clocks in at 5 years, 48 million (which I would randomly declare reasonable in old CBA terms and may or may not be way off), but how do you feel about 5 years, 55 million? 60? 65? 80?
This is the effect of the new luxury tax. Reports regarding exact amounts still vary, but at the very least, the first 5 million above the threshold should see penalization at a $1.50 to $1 rate, with growth every 5 or 10 million jump. As such, the decent back-up point guard that you signed after Maynor bolted for a bigger deal on a team without Russell Westbrook can suddenly cost you like your starting center. Never mind that you're already on the books for one of those.
The league is preaching competitive balance. And by that, it means balancing out to help small market like Oklahoma City compete with Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. But by doing that, they could impede a well-managed team like the Thunder where talent and players have been stockpiled.
The league wants to equally distribute talent out among the Minnesotas and Milwaukees of the world, but what about a team like the Thunder where all that talent is already on the roster? You really want to equally distribute that talent when a small market team is already doing it right?
Which is a major reason I see this competitive balance thing as a red herring for the league's owners to get the best deal possible. By preaching to help the little man, the league is also trying to line its pockets with a system that favors the owners in every way.
A team operating on a budget like Oklahoma City isn't going to bust into luxury tax territory, especially when there's a stiffer penalty against repeat offenders. Sure, the Thunder have a good chance of keeping the core together.
But to do it, they'll have to spend more money. And therefore, greatly risk a loss on the season in terms of money. Isn't that exactly the opposite of what the league's saying it's fighting for?


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BEIT SHEMESH, Israel - Israel is one of the few Middle East nations without a bountiful supply of energy. But recent discoveries might change that status in a big way.
Like many countries in the West, Israel imports most of its fuel and is dependent on foreign sources.
One site is located in a valley which is close to the spot where David slew Goliath, as mentioned in the Old Testament. It also may become the site of Israel's future energy supply. About 400 feet below the surface sits a huge deposit of shale oil.
More than Saudi Arabia
Experts say it could eventually produce more oil than Saudi Arabia.
"I would say that we have found a spectacular resource," Yuval Bartov, chief geologist for Israel Energy Initiatives, told CBN News.
The company is licensed by the Israeli government to explore for shale oil.
"Just within the license area, which is a small part of the basin, we're talking about 40 billion barrels," Bartov explained. "In the whole part of that extended area, we're talking about a hundred billion barrels.
"We know very accurately the numbers. But with respect to the entire country, we did a little bit rougher estimate but probably underestimating it now. But we're talking about 250 billion barrels just of what we have knowledge of in Israel," he continued.
"So when you're hearing big numbers of this kind and even higher, they're real. They're real because they're there. It's in the ground," Bartov added.
Those estimates, if true, rival Saudi Arabia's reserves of 264 billion barrels.
Environmentally Safe Extraction
At an exploratory well, IEI Chief Engineer Howard Vinegar told CBN News about their unique and environmentally safe way to extract the oil.
"What we basically do is drill wells using oil field technology, and the holes we drill in the ground are basically just six inches in diameter. By drilling horizontal wells rather than vertical wells, we're able to minimize the surface footprint," he said.
"And we actually only drill over a small strip of land compared to the amount of oil that's being produced," Vinegar explained.
Vinegar's process differs from fracking, the sometimes controversial method of pumping massive amounts of water mixed with sand and other fluids to break up rock and free trapped gas and oil.
He uses a technique begun by Sweden in the 1940s to heat the shale rock for months and then extract it.
Israel an Oil Exporter?
IEI believes the discovery of the deposit and the technology to extract it could one day make Israel an oil exporter.
"If America can get all the oil they need from Israel, if they eventually can get all the energy for themselves, it will change the whole world," said Howard Jonas, the chief executive officer of IDT Corporation.
The change could free Israel and much of the West from dependence on other countries.
"To release the free world from the dependence from Arab, I would say Islamic oil. I think that this company, this vision, will change the whole balance of forces in the region," said Effie Eitam, president of Genie Oil Company.
"It's an amazing discovery because it means technology-wise a Western country is able to develop means to extract oil from unknown before resources and free itself from the strangle of unfriendly countries," Relik Shafir, IEI's president, said.
The shale discovery comes at the same time Israel has found a major natural deposit off its coast.
Perfect Timing
"It just seems to mesh together in a revolutionary way. The long and the short of it is, I think Israel is on the verge of a revolution in its energy sources and within a decade Israel is going to be energy independent and a major exporter," he predicted. "And it couldn't happen at a better time for us."
"You know, when you have Iran that wants to nuke you, when you're at the mercy of Saudi Arabia and all these other countries -- now is when the danger is the greatest and now is when I think God has put the solution in our hands," he said.
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The weather's effects proved incomplete Tuesday as the Bridgeton raceway ran dry, Sunset Lake drained into the Cohansey River and the Maurice River continued to threaten its bounds.
"For a county like Cumberland with about 158,000 residents and limited resources, financially and otherwise, this is a catastrophic event," said Freeholder Director Bill Whelan at a press conference held Tuesday afternoon.
Whelan summarized that Sunday's 7 to 12 inches of rainfall in the county, exacerbated by a reported 4 inches of additional rain in portions of Gloucester County Monday night, caused damage he informally estimated at "easily into several millions" of dollars.
In an effort to find crucial means to restoration, Whelan reported he had contacted the White House and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to notify them of the devastation and request federal aid, had corresponded with NJ Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and had strongly urged Gov. Chris Christie to declare a State of Emergency in Cumberland County.
Whelan said, thus far, the county had secured commitments of support from U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin and Congressman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ 2nd District).
Of the 24 partial and complete road closures in the county as of Tuesday afternoon, Whelan identified West Park Drive and Sherman Avenue, the main thorofare to the South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center from the western side of the county, as first priorities moving forward. An eastbound lane of Sherman Avenue was reopened for emergency vehicles on Tuesday but remained closed to non-emergency traffic due to overflow of the Maurice River.
The inundation of water undermined the integrity of many roadways by washing out supportive materials beneath the surface, proven dangerous Monday night when a motorist bypassed a barricade and dropped through Finley Road nearby Seeley Lake, though the driver sustained only minor injuries.
Bridgeton Director of Public Works Dean Dellaquila said Tuesday he and staff were working to reopen roads deemed safe. They also spent time removing bicycles, trash cans, picnic tables and other long-forgotten items from the southern end of the spillway.
"The raceway was controlled elevation from the lake. An approximately 1,200-foot earthen dam breached, and there was no way to control it," Dellaquila said. "From the zoo to the fish ladder was pretty much wiped out. It was like a horror movie."
Matt Blake, project manager with the American Littoral Society, explained that the design of the Bridgeton raceway had been dangerously outdated for some time prior to Monday night's breach. Overflow from Sunset Lake spilled into the raceway, as intended, but "down-cut erosion" of the bare soil and trees lining the spillway impacted a breakdown of the water control.
Inspection of the raceway and Sunset Lake dam are necessary for future public safety moving forward, he said.
"We've gotten a taste of the types of storms that scientists are saying we can expect to see more of at a greater intensity in the future," Blake said. "Luckily, this time, we had no loss of lives, but we really have to get a handle on planning."
Blake estimated that Sunset Lake, located at the bottom of the main stem of the Upper Cohansey River Watershed, could refill naturally in less than a year.
"The worst thing that can happen is if water goes over the dam structure and it erodes where it is deepest. If that happened, we would have had one of those sudden wipe-outs and a tidal wave," Blake said. "It wouldn't have just been tigers swimming downtown. This whole incident has forced this issue to the fore."
"The tortoises, porcupine, pheasants, the pig — the ones that don't climb and were in low-lying areas — were relocated into our education building and crated," Hemple said. "There were high areas in about 98 percent of the enclosures, so no one got flooded. We were lucky over here at the zoo; we had no casualties and no injuries, except maybe for my back from lifting a tortoise."
Hemple lamented the damage to Sunset Lake and its beach, but she noted the lifeguards hired to patrol Sunset Lake this summer were put to work for pay cleaning the layers of mud and debris from the zoo with curator Kelly Shaw on Tuesday.
"We had no structural damage, just lost a couple sections of a handmade retaining wall that we did in our ponds, but we are getting in exhibits and raking everything up, getting rid of all the muck," said Shaw. "We had about 2 feet of water in here on Sunday that receded as fast as it rolled in. We're just so incredibly fortunate that the zoo was really spared."
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We can thank Linda Ronstadt for helping form the Eagles. The seeds for the legendary band were first planted when Ronstadt recruited session musicians Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, Randy Meisner and Don Henley to back her on tour.
"We would all sit around motel rooms together, and they'd be working out harmonies," Ronstadt recalled in an interview. "They were so good. I knew the Eagles were going to make it."
Decades later it was Ronstadt again who inspired Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey to record his latest solo album, "After Hours."
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"Linda made some records with Nelson Riddle (starting with the Grammy nominated 'What's New') and they were just beautiful records, immaculately assembled with not a note out of place," Frey explains. "I was very impressed. When I played with Linda she was basically a country rock singer. Once she attained some success, she went out and showed all of us that there's more to life than pop music. She did a lot of different things and put no limits on the journey she wanted to take. I was inspired by that. I wanted to make this kind of record for a long time and finally I made myself do it."
Many veteran artists from Rod Stewart to Paul McCartney have been drawn to covering classic songs. "Maybe we feel we have a unique appreciation for the material being songwriters," he notes. "We appreciate how well written and how great these songs are."
On his first solo album in 20 years, Frey covers classic love songs including standards like "Sentimental Reasons" and "My Buddy," alongside more recent tunes, like the Beach Boys' "Caroline, No" and Randy Newman's "Same Girl."
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Did he have any apprehension about taking on iconic material?
"You feel like you're sort of a caretaker and you don't want to mess anything up," he reports. "My approach was respect for the material and be true to the melody. I wasn't going to change very much in the way the songs are. My intention was to not goof anything up."
Heading to Maui to perform his only public concert in Hawaii on Saturday, Frey promises: "My show has a little bit of everything. I play a lot of stuff from my Eagles' days and stuff from my solo career, which I concentrated on in the '80s, and some 'After Hours' stuff. It makes for a very nice evening with a lot of rich music and a bit of rocking. It's going to be a great night at the MACC."
One of America's most popular bands, the Eagles helped define the Southern California music sound of the 1970s. As Rolling Stone noted, they "specialized in broadly appealing, masterfully crafted tunes."
Selling more than 100 million albums, Eagles' anthems like "Hotel California," "Take It Easy," "Life in the Fast Lane," "Peaceful Easy Feeling," "Desperado" and "The Long Run" are still routinely played on classic rock radio stations across the nation. Their "Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" album was ranked the best selling record of the 20th century and still today flip-flops between the No. 1 and No. 2 position with Michael Jackson's "Thriller" as the greatest selling album ever.
A new documentary, "History of the Eagles," released on DVD this week, traces the evolution of the band from its formative days to mass chart success, their demise in 1980, and triumphant reformation in 1994.
Frey says the musicians felt it was finally time to shed light on the checkered path of the group.
"The clock is ticking. We had it in mind for quite a while that we were going to do this. Once we put the band back together in 1994, we started having a guerrilla film crew around and we were trying to keep a visual record. We decided about three years ago that we were going to do it, and the most important thing was to hire the right people to help us make the film. So we hired Alex Gibney to produce it for us."
Unlike some sanitized biographies, "History" is definitely not sugar coated, as it illuminates both the highs and lows of the band's career.
"Alex won an Academy Award for Best Documentary for 'Taxi to the Dark Side' about Guantanamo,"continues Frey. "And he was also nominated for a documentary about Enron. People in my office sent me reels on some music bio stuff and I didn't like any of it enough. So I started looking at people who won Academy Awards for documentaries. Alex Gibney is a great storyteller and that's what we wanted. I had a meeting with him and said, 'let's tell the story, warts and all. Talk to everyone including people who maybe don't feel so much affection for everybody. He did that, he presented the whole picture. I'm very happy with the project."
The documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was later screened on the Showtime channel, provides many fascinating insights into the band. "There's much speculation about the Eagles because we didn't really say a lot about what we were doing, we didn't explain everything," he says. "So this was an opportunity to shed some light on the band. Another thing I took away from the film was how much fun it was. Some people think the Eagles were this sort of intense, dark, boiling cauldron of personalities. It may well have been, but one thing I remember now was how much fun it was."
Raised in Detroit, Frey found a mentor in rocker Bob Seger, who co-wrote a single recorded by a local group Frey played with, and in 1968, he was invited to sing backing vocals and play guitar on Seger's album, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man."
After moving to Los Angeles, Frey was asked to tour with Ronstadt and he suggested a new friend, Don Henley, as drummer.
At the time, bands such as the Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco, Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds were creating what was dubbed the "L.A. Sound," mixing folk, country and rock.
The Eagles would take that sound and soar higher than any predecessor.
Their first single from their debut album, "Take it Easy," written by Frey and Jackson Browne, entered the Top 10, and two other songs, "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and "Witchy Woman," were also hits.
As a follow-up, the band hit on a old Western-themed concept album "Desperado," which, while it's now viewed as one of their masterpieces, was derided (as revealed in the documentary) by one of their label's executives as a bunch of cowboy music.
"We were really helped by Ronstadt recording that song," says Frey. "It was a big boost for the song again and restimulated the album. It was one of the first songs that Henley and I wrote together. It's just a treasure in our catalogue."
So how does he approach composing with Henley?
"Don Henley is one of the most well-read people that I know and I used to jokingly sit down with him and say, Don, what's pissing you off?" says Frey. They (songs) usually come out of conversations. Sometimes he will have song ideas or titles and I will have song ideas or chords. We just start talking and stirring the pot a bit and usually something happens."
The Eagles released an album every year from 1972 to 1976, culminating with "Hotel California," which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide.
The album's epic final track, "The Last Resort," vividly evoked the colonialist destruction of native cultures. And as any Eagles fan in Hawaii is well aware, the song referenced the missionary impact in the islands.
"You can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahaina," Henley sang. "Just like the missionaries did, so many years ago. They even brought a neon sign: 'Jesus is coming,' Brought the white man's burden down, brought the white man's reign."
"We had been to Maui a few years before we wrote the 'Last Resort,' " Frey explains. "Don and I were on Maui I think in 1974 or '75, maybe the first time we went outside of Honolulu. You gather these experiences and sometimes they end up in songs. That song is a journey, it's quite an opus."
One wonders, does Frey have a fondness for any particular songs?
"They all happened at certain times in my life, so they mean something as chapters in my book," he says. "The thing that happens early in your career is that everything is a first, your first record deal, your first hit, your first big hall concert, your first number one, your first gold album, and it's very exciting and you never forget those starting with songs like 'Take it Easy' and going on and on through those six albums we made in the '70s."
After releasing one more album, "In the Long Run," the band broke up in 1980. Subsequently, each of the members pursued solo careers. Frey charted with "The One You Love" and "Sexy Girl," and then "The Heat Is On," featured in the movie, "Beverly Hills Cop," earned him a top hit in 1985.
Since the Eagles famously reported they wouldn't reform, "until hell freezes over," their reunion in 1994, was called the "Hell Freezes Over Tour." They followed with the album, "Hell Freezes Over," which has sold more than 10-million copies.
The Eagles continued to tour throughout the 1990s and 2000s, perennially ranking among the nation's most successful tours. They returned to the studio once again in 2007, for "Long Road out of Eden."
After 40 years of crafting Eagles' music, Frey says he still feels pretty amazed that their music is so loved.
"Every time I walk on stage I'm reminded of that. It's just a very good feeling to know that I'm still able to go out and perform either by myself or with my friends. It feels good."
Acclaimed kirtan musicians Benjy and Heather Wertheimer, known as Shantala return to Maui to perform an evening of the "Sacred Music of India/ Sacred Chants" at 7 p.m. on Sunday at Makawao Union Church.
Shantala has performed and recorded internationally with such sacred music luminaries as Krishna Das, Deva Premal and Miten, and Jai Uttal. Yoga Journal lauded their album, "Sri" as, "an intoxicating mix of Eastern and Western a sense of playfulness, devotion and authenticity shines through in each track."
A brilliant multi-instrumentalist, Benjy has also studied Indian classical music for more than 25 years with some of the greatest masters of that tradition including Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain and Ali Akbar Khan.
Their latest recording, "Jaya!," is a sublime collection of chants highlighted by exemplary world fusion musicianship. The concert will also feature guest multi-instrumentalist Sean Frenette, whose influences range from Segovia and Bach to Jimi Hendrix.
Advance tickets are $15 and now on sale at Maui Kombucha in Haiku or Monsoon India Restaurant in Kihei. Entrance at the door is $20 cash only.


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Barbara Arteta, age 63, of New Smyrna Beach, died Thursday, September 9, in Jesup, Georgia. Born in New York City, Mrs. Arteta came to this area in 1994 from Plattekill, New York.. During her working career, she was an executive administrator for a real estate company in Manhattan, the first female assembly line supervisor at the Ford Motor Plant at Mahwah, New Jersey, and a production scheduling manager at Star Expansion, Mountainville, New York, where she met her husband, Eugene.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mississippi ranks fourth among the nation's "Most Tax Friendly States," according to Kiplinger's, a personal finance and business magazine and website.
Kiplinger's released its 2014 rankings of the top 10 most tax-friendly and least tax-friendly states, along with an interactive map from which readers can glean tax rate information on individual states.
The rankings were compiled using a variety of state-imposed taxes, including income tax, sales tax, gas tax, so-called "sin" taxes (alcohol, tobacco), and more.
"The Tax Map is a valuable tool for anyone considering a move, whether it's cross country or just over to the next state," said Robert Long, Managing Editor at Kiplinger.com.
"It's also important for users to consider the potential tradeoffs associated with varying taxation policies. For example, states with lower tax revenues may not spend as much on critical services that residents might benefit from in other states."
Delaware was ranked as the most tax-friendly state in the U.S., followed by Wyoming. As they so often are, Louisiana (3rd), Mississippi (4th) and Alabama (5th) were lumped together, followed by Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina and West Virginia.
California, unsurprisingly, is the nation's least tax-friendly state, although six of the 10 state on that list are in the northeast. Connecticut was second, followed by New Jersey, New York, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Maine, Minnesota, Vermont and Illinois.


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Australia host South Africa in the third round of the 2013 Rugby Championship on Saturday, desperate to get their first win of the tournament and to snap an unbeaten Springboks' run that is starting to gather momentum.
Another defeat for the Wallabies—they lost their two opening games to New Zealand—and they can write off any hopes their still have of challenging for the title.
It has been a difficult introduction for new Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie, and his side desperately need a win to properly launch the post-Robbie Deans era.
But this South Africa side are making steady progress under Heyneke Meyer, and while they are by no means the finished article they will give nothing away.
We take a look at the key battle that are likely to decide who finishes on top in Brisbane—the Wallabies or the Springboks.


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Before a line can be cast to go for the big catch, fisherman need to make sure they have the right kind of license to avoid fines from the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. Licenses can be obtained multiple ways to ensure that when the big catch is landed, there is no legal trouble.
"There are three ways of purchasing a license," WVDNR License Unit Supervisor Doris Pringle said. "Licenses can be purchased 24/7 through our web site."
The WVDNR offers licenses online at www.wvfish.com. The Web site offers all types of licenses and Pringle said if they are purchased electronically there is no charge if a replacement license is needed. If the Web site is used for purchasing a license, there will be a $2 issuing fee.
Pringle said a license can also be purchased directly from the Hunting and Fishing License Unit by calling (304) 558-2758. Licensing by phone also requires a $2 issuing fee.
Licenses can also be purchased at 350 different retailers throughout the state. Everyone who purchases a license must purchase a $5 Conservation Stamp along with the $18 for the Resident Fishing Licenses.
If an angler chooses to go trout fishing, an additional $10 Resident Trout Stamp is required. The total for a fishing license without the trout stamp is $25 and $35 with the stamp.
According to Pringle, people ages 15 and younger and ages 65 and older do not have to purchase a license. For individuals between ages 15 and 17 a Junior Sportsman license can be purchased. The Junior Sportsman license includes hunting, fishing and trapping lucretius for the year. The additional $10 stamp for trout fishing must still be purchased.
"We recommend that people pick up a copy of the regulations when they purchase their license," Pringle said.
One of the regulations that one should be aware of is catch and release streams. According to the WVDNR Fishing Regulations, all black bass caught must be returned to the water at once. No black bass can be in an angler's possession while fishing in designated catch-and-release. There are several catch and release lakes and streams throughout the state. The fishing regulations can be viewed online at http://www.wvdnr.gov/Fishing/Fishing.shtm/. Follow the "Fishing Regulations" link.


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By Robert Brehm
A Philadelphia building collapses, people are killed, and the public demands reforms to prevent future tragedies. We have seen this sequence of events before.
There are lessons to be learned, but not new ones. Engineers already know the inherent dangers of demolition and the reasons for such failures. The questions have been asked 100 times and answered 101 times.
But the public outcry winds down, political will diminishes, and contractors complain that they are overregulated. As a result, nothing gets done.
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BANGKOK, 20 March 2012 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has found that some construction materials have disappeared, resulting in a sinkhole on Rama IV Road.
The BMA, along with the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) and the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA), announced that 50 cubic meters of construction materials such as sand on Rama IV and Chua Pleng Roads from Hua Lampong to Wat Chong Lom Water Station have disappeared. They speculated that the leakage from the Rama IV water drainage tunnel might have washed away some substance of the road.
As a result, a five-meter wide and 2-meter deep hole was found near Thai-Belgian Bridge on Sunday evening. There are three water drainage tunnels older than 40 years old in Bangkok; locating on Rama IV Road, Henry Dunant Road, and in Soi Senanikom.
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The Coalition's membership includes consumer organizations, state agencies, hospitals, professional associations for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, long-term care, as well as health plans, employers, policymakers, and researchers. The Coalition leverages the efforts of all of these organizations to accomplish the shared goal of improving patient safety. The Coalition promotes a systems-oriented approach to improving patient safety, identifying the causes of medical errors, and developing and supporting implementation of strategies for prevention.
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