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Bearish Rupee Bets at '08 High as Confidence Ebbs: India Credit
International investors are boosting bets that India's rupee will extend the worst slide since 2008 as an economic slump deepens, suggesting a lack of confidence in the central bank's steps to curb exchange-rate volatility.
Twelve-month non-deliverable forward contracts on the rupee dropped 2.6 percent this month to 56.19 per dollar even as the Reserve Bank of India introduced measures to boost dollar supply and curb rupee sales. Forwards fell as much as 6.5 percent below onshore spot rupee prices yesterday, the deepest discount since 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Similar contracts signal a 0.8 percent drop in China's yuan and a 1.1 percent decline for South Korea's won.
Bond risk in India has surged the most among the largest developing nations this year as the rupee's 15.3 percent tumble threatens to further fuel inflation that's already more than 9 percent, according to CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. The sliding rupee is also boosting costs for Indian companies, faced with a record $11.4 billion of dollar-bond repayments in 2012.
"While the RBI has taken decisive steps to reduce speculation, these measures don't necessarily address the underlying cause for the rupee's weakness," Olivier Desbarres, head of foreign-exchange strategy for Asia-Pacific ex-Japan at Barclays Capital in Singapore, said in an interview on Dec. 16.
The rupee, the worst performer against the dollar among Asian currencies and of the so-called BRIC nations in 2011, plunged to a record low of 54.305 per dollar on Dec. 15, poised for a third straight quarter of declines, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Worst of BRICs
Brazil's real lost 10.7 percent this year to 1.8598 per dollar and the Russian ruble retreated 3.8 percent to 31.74. The Chinese yuan gained 4.1 percent to 6.3395. The rupee may slide to 60 per dollar next year, according to CLSA and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB.
Currency options signal further declines in the Indian currency. Implied volatility on three-month dollar-rupee options, a gauge of expected exchange-rate swings, doubled in the second half of 2011 to a 19-month high of 14.2 percent this week, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Similar-dated contracts offering the right to sell the rupee against the dollar cost 350 basis points more than those to buy today, compared with 115 at the end of June. The so-called risk reversal rate was 71 basis points for the yuan, 475 for the ruble, and 800 for the real.
'Not Real Money'
"This is a sign of rupee weakness driven by foreign investors," Dariusz Kowalczyk, a senior strategist at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong, said in a phone interview on Dec. 13. "Offshore forwards are leading onshore forwards. This means it is possibly not real money."
Forwards are agreements to buy or sell assets at a set price and date. Non-deliverable contracts are settled in dollars on currencies that are traditionally not easily convertible for foreign investors.
The rupee has rebounded 2.9 percent from last week's lows after the Reserve Bank restricted trades in onshore forward contracts to temper speculation and freed interest rates on dollar deposits held locally to spur fund inflows.
Companies can't enter into multiple forward contracts to cover a single overseas transaction, the central bank said on Dec. 15. The monetary authority eased rules for overseas borrowings by microfinance companies on Dec. 19.
'Other Measures'
Last month, policy makers relaxed rules for firms to sell foreign currencies through swaps. They also sold dollars in recent weeks to curb the rupee's slide, according to Mumbai-based IndusInd Bank Ltd. The central bank sold $943 million of foreign currency in October, compared with $845 million in the previous month, data on its website show.
"These are not the only measures we have," Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn told reporters in Mumbai on Dec. 20. "There are other measures we can undertake to bring stability to this market. But for the moment, clearly some degree of stability has returned, and that's important."
Indian local currency-denominated debt has returned 6.3 percent this year, compared with the 17 percent earned on Brazilian real bonds, JPMorgan data show. Chinese notes returned 6 percent, while Russia's gained 5.4 percent, the data show.
The rupee fell more than other Asian currencies as India's economy slowed and Europe's debt crisis spurred capital outflows from developing nations. India is more vulnerable as it has Asia's widest current-account deficit.
Investor Exodus
Factory output fell 5.1 percent in October from a year earlier, the first decline since June 2009, government data showed last week. Governor Duvvuri Subbarao, who has raised borrowing costs 13 times since early 2010 to stem inflation, left rates unchanged on Dec. 16 to support the slowing economy.
Global investors pulled almost $20 billion this year from the stock markets of India, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, exchange data show. India's current-account shortfall widened to $14.2 billion in the three months ended June 30, from $5.4 billion in the first quarter, government data showed.
The gap may widen to 3.5 percent of gross domestic product in the year ending March, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said this month. India's GDP was $1.7 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.
"The RBI's measures, along with some intervention, will buy time for the country to address medium-term issues such as the current-account deficit and capital outflows," Ananth Narayan G., Mumbai-based head of South Asia currency and bonds trading at Standard Chartered Plc in Mumbai. "Those are the root causes of the rupee's weakness."
Bond Risk
Yields on 10-year government bonds climbed 41 basis points, or 0.41 percentage point, in 2011. The yield on the 8.79 percent note due 2021 fell one basis point today in Mumbai to 8.33 percent, according to the central bank's trading system. Rupee-denominated bonds returned 6.5 percent in 2011, compared with the 20.5 percent earned by Indonesian debt, HSBC Holdings Plc indexes show.
The cost to protect the debt of State Bank of India against non-payment has surged the most this year since 2008 as the rupee weakened. Credit-default swaps on the state-owned lender jumped 234 basis points in 2011 to 395 basis points, according to data provider CMA, which is owned by CME Group Inc. and compiles prices quoted by dealers in the privately negotiated market. China's government bonds increased 80 to 152, while those for Russia climbed 126 to 273 and Brazil's added 53 to 164.
Retail Investment
The swaps pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a company fail to adhere to its debt agreements. State Bank is viewed as a proxy for India by investors as the nation doesn't have dollar-denominated debt.
The central bank predicts Indian inflation, which slowed to 9.11 percent in November from 9.73 percent the previous month, will slow to 7 percent by March.
"Since inflation is on an easing path, investors are betting on a cut in interest rates in the coming months," N.S. Venkatesh, head of treasury at Mumbai-based IDBI Bank Ltd., said in an interview on Dec. 16. That is "encouraging for bond investors."
Overseas funds boosted holdings of rupee-denominated government and corporate debt by $8.16 billion this year to a record $25.8 billion on Dec. 20, exchange data show. Investors still demand extra yield of 637 basis points to hold India's 10-year sovereign notes over similar-dated U.S. Treasuries.
The central bank's latest measures show "the commitment of the RBI to fight further rupee depreciation," Sebastien Barbe, chief emerging-market strategist in Paris at Credit Agricole CIB, said in an interview on Dec. 15. "I think this draws a line in the sand at close to 54 per dollar."


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Where: Ross Rogers Complex.
When: Friday through Sunday.
Format: An individual stroke-play event that is flighted by handicap. The championship flight will begin Friday on the WildHorse layout. Those in the championship flight will play the Old Course on Saturday and conclude Sunday on WildHorse. The remaining flights will begin play Saturday on the Old Course and WildHorse.
Times: The championship flight qualifier begins at 3 p.m. Friday. The entire field will play Saturday and Sunday beginning with a shotgun start at 9 a.m.
Last Year: Bobby Barber shot rounds of 69, 69 and 67 for a 11-under 205 total and finished five shots ahead of runner-up Jimmy Jameson. Josh McCoy and Codie Scott finished at 4-under 212, while Luke Kane finished fifth at 3-under 213.
Did You Know?: Kane will try to win his third straight individual open tournament. He has already won the Miller Lite Open and Michelob Ultra Men's City Championship. The only other player to win all three individual open tournaments in the same year was Casey Weiss in 2007.
Interesting Fact: This tournament was played at various courses in the area for a number of years before Ross Rogers became its permanent home in the late 1980s.
At Stake: The winner can earn a berth in the Coors Tournament of Champions in August. The T of C field consists of defending champion Jud Hightower, Duncan & Boyd Jewelers Senior Charity Classic winner Daniel Higgins, Kane and Richard Coon, the winner of the ACC Men's Championship.
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1954-55 Topps Hockey Original Artwork Collection (7)
Starting Bid - $1,000.00, Sold For - $1,725.00
Collection of seven original artworks from the landmark 1955 Topps Hockey series, the first Hockey set issued by Topps. This important set includes only 60 cards, thus the offered collection of seven original artworks represents over ten percent of the set. The 1955 Topps Hockey set features players from the four American teams: Detroit, New York, Chicago, and Boston. The offered seven artworks each feature Boston Bruins players, and include artworks to the following cards in the set: #6 Real Chevrefils, #25 Fern Flaman, #31 Lorne Ferguson, #36 Fleming Mackell, #49 Bill Quackenbush, #50 Warren Godfrey (accompanied by example of issued card in Nr/Mt condition), and #60 Milt Schmidt (the final card in the set). Years ago, the artwork to the entire set surfaced in the hobby, and was broken up among collectors. Most had a little surface residue, and most had a very slightly irregular die-cut along the bottom border, related to the production process (a few were extremely irregular in shape, though none of those are included in this collection). Today, it is rare to see even a single original artwork offered from this classic 1950s hockey set, let alone a group of originals from the collection. Somehow these seven examples have survived together, just as they have since 1955, and they will remain together in this lot, offered as a group. Each artwork has some surface residue (believed to be glue) on the front, as well as glue residue on the blank reverses, which is also standard for these artwork originals. Each artwork measures 3.5 x 4.25 inches. Total 8 items (7 original artworks plus one issued card example). Reserve $1,000. Estimate $2,000/$3,000. SOLD FOR $1,725.00
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One month from today, SEC Media Days will kick off in the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover -- the talk-fest that brings together league coaches, players and more than 500 media members.
It figures to be a lot of fun as the league seeks a fourth straight national championship. But the talk will likely focus as much off the field as on it.
There will be mass media coverage of Lane Kiffin and Lane Kiffin's words and Lane Kiffin vs. Urban Meyer and, for that matter, Urban Meyer vs. everyone.
There will be overblown chatter about secondary violations (and, BTW, welcome Florida to the secondary violation parade).
There will be talk about Alabama's recent NCAA probation sanctions, slowing the crime-free reform of SEC commissioner Mike Slive.
There will be discussion of minority hirings in the SEC, which has jumped back into the spotlight with the depature of Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State and the curious lack of head coaching opportunities for Florida defensive coordinator Charlie Strong.
As for the on-the-field topics:
***Can Tim Tebow win a second Heisman?
***Can LSU recover from the worst season in SEC history for a defending national champ?
***Can Tennessee prosper under the Lane Kiffin spotlight?
***Can Gene Chizik make those initial outcries of protest when he was hired seem silly?
***Can Alabama replace its quarterback, tailback, left tackle and defensive leader and win the West again?
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SHALAGRAM a crystallized energy unit, creating subtle shifts in physical, emotional,psychological senses , feeding searching minds and souls, in accordance with schools and faiths of belief , putting down roots and help reach up to the world of conception of sacred. Shalagram is an aniconic representation of Lord Vishnu, in the form of a spherical usually black coloured fossil found in the Sacred River Gandaki, Nepal.
The Lord resides in many places in which he may be worshipped, but of all the places Shalagrama is the best. - Garuda Purana
"Any shila from the place of shalagrams can never be inauspicious though cracked, chipped, split in two though still in one piece, or even broken asunder." - Brahma Purana
"Shalagramas do not require installation ceremony. When one begins the worship of shalagrama, however he should start with elaborate puja using all articles. The worship of shalagrama is the best form of worship, better than the worship of the sun." - Skanda Purana
All those holy rivers awarding moksha, such as the Ganga, Godavari and others, reside in the Charanamrita (bath water) of Shalagram. - Padma Purana


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You fucking idiots! A fiddle is a stringed instrument. Much like a violin.
Hey Mr MacIsaac, Quit diddlin that little kid and concentrate on your fiddle.
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Verb- To play with, used in conjunction with sexual pleasure and pleasing.
I fiddled your mother's privates. She moaned like a wilderbeast.
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What rednecks call a violin.
Somewhere in Houston, TX
'My, what a nice violin you have there!'
'Viowhat? This here's a fiddle, ma'am.'
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'Viowhat? This here's a fiddle, ma'am.'
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Someone who is easily tricked or manipulated (or rather, played) by others. Usually too nice for their own good. Derived from the phrase "playing someone like a fiddle"
That guy is such a fiddle, next thing you know everyone will be taking advantage of him.
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Another way of saying 'Fiddler on the roof' which often refers to a short person who plays a violin on the roof.
Fiddles can also mean a short person.
Fiddles can also mean a short person.
Aye Fiddles, you gotta drink some milk to grow taller
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to gently rub or play with: tickle
He fiddled my asshole.
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A gathering of 4 or more gingers in close vicinity. Each individual ginger is referred to as a "string"
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Not to be confused with the 1979 Bo Derek movie, the newest 10 has everything to do with a birthday and nothing to do with Bolero. This is a musical extravaganza, a birthday salute to ourselves and to all of those who have made PEOPLE'S first decade such a phenomenal success. Produced by Nathaniel Lande and narrated by Fritz Weaver, it features a cast of 12 "Baby Boomers," hand-picked from 1,200 actors who auditioned. They perform skits and a dozen songs, including two written by Gait (Hair) McDermot. 10 certainly isn't above poking a little fun at the magazine it celebrates. One sketch, for instance, is called "Undercover People" and is based on our closet readers. They're the folks who will never admit to reading PEOPLE but can always quote from the latest issue.
The show, which has played New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit, was booked into Manhattan's Lincoln Center on June 27, where the PEOPLE staff was invited to a gala, black-tie birthday party. Among the 7,000 who have seen the show on the road were such past PEOPLE story subjects as Donna Mills, Patty Hearst, Linda Blair, Mike Wallace and Morgan Fairchild. One woman even told me after our performance in Detroit that "it was better than half the stuff on Broadway"—and we're pleased she thought so. A highlight of the last evening was the scheduled appearance of Tommy Tune, star of the Broadway hit My One and Only. Tune promised to bring along his 10-member chorus and perform an adaptation of the showstopping number High Hat, especially for our 10th. So pleased was he with the way rehearsals went that he decided to use the new choreography in his show—and, of course, we're delighted.
There's something else I should mention. While touring with our show, I discovered that more and more families are reading PEOPLE. I've had grandparents tell me that it helps them understand why their grandchildren like Boy George—or why their children voted for Gary Hart. PEOPLE is a bridge between the generations.
On that note we'd like to thank all of you who've made us what we are today. We're still growing—the special 10th anniversary issue (March 5) was our largest-selling single issue (3,687,000 copies). Our vital signs are good, and we look forward to celebrating another decade, in another decade.
So hats off to all—and here's to our 20th anniversary...in 1994.
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Friends, we are coming amazingly close to the end of yet another fabulous year in school. What does it feel like, you ask? I'm still caught between euphoria and disbelief. On one hand, I am ecstatic to complete another semester and spend some quality homework-free time with friends and family. On the other hand, I am dazed at how quickly my sophomore year has flown by. So much has been packed into this year that I had convinced myself that it will never end, and now I am trying to get used to calling myself a soon-to-be junior in college.
While I am in the midst of finals week, I am immensely thankful for a few moments I get to spare spending time on my couch, listening to Simon and Garfunkel, and reflecting on how richly I have been blessed over the course of my second year at CBU. While I have encountered difficulties as well as triumphs, I can honestly say that I have learned so much this year and am so thankful for each new experience.
In summary, I would like to point out some of my greatest highlights over the course of the past year.
- Living in an apartment was an entirely new experience. For the first time in my young adult life, I felt like a grown up with a place away from home to share with roommates. Living in the Colony on campus meant community, a kitchen, and more room to decorate. While there were these perks to apartment life, it also meant needing to buy our own cleaning supplies and toiletries, but that is something we all have to learn sooner rather than later. Overall, I have adored living in the on-campus apartments and with three wonderful women I am proud to call roommates. We studied together and burned cookies together, and those are moments I will not easily forget. Roomies, I will miss you so much over the summer, but there will be visits, I promise! I love you all and thank you so much for adding so much to the goodness of this year.
- I really dove into my major classes this past year, and learned so much from each of them. I did not think that it was possible for me to become more passionate about literature than I already was, but after learning from some incredible professors, my passion has increased tenfold. My professors have even helped to awaken new passions in me, as I have recently declared a minor in film studies, which I am ecstatic to dive into. The classes offered at CBU and the caring, intelligent professors heighten the university's integrity, and provide students with opportunities to grow so much in their academic abilities. I am so excited to continue my education here next year and in the years beyond.
- As always, I have to express my gratitude for the people I have met at CBU who have provided me with incredibly edifying friendships and have pushed me constantly closer to the God we serve. I have made priceless friendships with like-minded people who are all passionate about learning and growing together, and I know that this year would not have been nearly as wonderful without them. My friends are responsible for countless great conversations over many a cup of coffee, and for side-splitting laughs that helped us to relieve stress and remind ourselves that life is a beautiful, enjoyable endeavor. Over the summer I will miss the concerts, the trips to Late Night Briscos, the movies, and the constant companionship, but I cannot wait for more to come. Next year, I know I can continue to grow, laugh, and learn with all of my wonderful friends, and I know that together we will continue to make the most of our experience as students at CBU.
This past year at CBU has been extraordinarily wonderful, and as eventful as I could have hoped for. God continues to bless me with opportunities to serve, learn, and experience life here, and I have really adored the wonderful ride that my sophomore year has been. Readers and friends, you are so valued and I pray that the end of this year brings with it as much blessing as was brought throughout. Thank you for enjoying this beautiful life at CBU with me!


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On May 23, our Senate overwhelming decided we do not have the right to know whether the foods we eat have genetically modified organism products in them.
Sen. Jon Tester voted for the labeling; Sen. Max Baucus voted against this. Please take the time to thank and condemn each one for their vote.
Tester: www.tester.senate.gov/?pemail_senator.
Baucus: www.baucus.senate.gov/?pcontact.
Here is the official Senate link that covers this government denial of letting us know what's in our food: www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress113&session1&vote00135#state.
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U.S. Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn - both Texas Republicans - were almost effusive in their praise of President Obama's selections for four U.S. attorneys posts, including one for the Northern District of Texas, which includes the Panhandle.
But they need to deal with an issue that has been hanging over the federal judicial system in the Lone Star State, which is the troubling delay in getting these appointments made in the first place.
Sarah Saldana, an assistant U.S. attorney for the district since 2004, now is expected to take the top job pending Senate confirmation, which she should win handily. She's a fine selection, having served in the federal office, in private practice and as a clerk for legendary U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders.
Hutchison and Cornyn, issuing a joint statement, praised the independence of the prosecutors appointed by Obama. They didn't single any of the lawyers out, but did offer high praise for their integrity and tough approach to prosecuting those accused of committing federal offenses.
But it's been more than two years since the U.S. attorneys offices were vacated when the White House changed from Republican to Democratic control. Given that these are political appointments, it's rare to see a federal prosecutor stay on the job when the presidency changes parties.
President Obama has complained that Republican senators have dragged their feet in states where the GOP is in control. Republicans gripe that Obama has failed to nominate anyone for these key posts.
Whatever the cause, it defies good judgment and common sense to keep these offices vacant for so long after a new president of a different party takes office.
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They come from different political perspectives and sit on opposite sides of the aisle, but the Southeast Valley's two U.S. representatives are in sync on the need for immigration reform.
Matt Salmon, the Republican veteran, and Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic freshman, shared the platform Tuesday at the 2013 East Valley Statesperson's Luncheon in Mesa presented by the East Valley Partnership.
Salmon represents Congressional District 5, which includes east Mesa, Gilbert, Queen Creek and parts of Chandler. He was re-elected in November after a 12-year absence from the U.S. House, where he served three previous terms. Sinema's District 9 cuts a swath from north-central Phoenix through Tempe, west Mesa and Chandler into Ahwatukee.
"I think something will happen" this year on immigration reform, Salmon said, agreeing with Sinema on key elements of a plan that would improve border security while providing legal ways for foreign nationals to work here.
Sinema said legislation is likely to emerge from the House this month, but the end product will have to mesh with a Senate bill being pushed by the so-called "Gang of Eight," which includes Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake.
Salmon and Sinema both said reform will help the economy, and it's vital to provide ways for highly educated people to stay.
"One of the worst things we're doing right now is bringing those folks here, training them, educating them, and then sending them back to their country where they are going to compete with us," Sinema said.
Salmon agreed. "I'd like to see us operate a little more like the National Basketball Association," Salmon said: If you can play, you can stay.
The lawmakers also talked about federal budget issues, which continue to make headlines as the so-called sequestration budget cuts slice day-to-day federal operations.
Sinema lamented the lack of bipartisanship on budget issues, but Salmon said the problems are more profound than that.
It's vital, he said, to find ways to cut the mandatory portions of the budget — now amounting to 65 percent of all federal spending. Those programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and debt service.
Salmon advocates raising the retirement age and other measures to keep future spending in check. "If we don't, a lot of people are going to get hurt — a lot more than we talk about on the sequestration side," he said.
Salmon and Sinema also agreed on the need to promote Arizona's place in the inernational marketplace; Sinema said she has joined a group called the New Democratic Coalition, which includes about a quarter of House Democrats and is specifically interested in promoting global trade.
The biggest threat to that, she said, is America's vulnerability to cyber-attacks.
"This is an area that is not talked about very much," Sinema said, mostly because much of the information is classified. She added:
"But, I will tell you that the threat that our country is facing as a result of cybersecurity breaches is significant. The amount of money that we already have lost as a result of our inability to protect ourselves effectively from cybersecurity threats is literally in the trillions of dollars."
Hackers in Russia, China and Iran are busily swiping financial data, patents and other sensitive information, Sinema said, and Congress hasn't done nearly enough to stop them.
Kevin Rogers, president of the Arizona Farm Bureau, asked the lawmakers to intervene in the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to force the Navajo Generating Station in northern Arizona to install expensive air scrubbers.
The resulting higher costs for electricity, he said, will hurt everyone in Arizona.
"I'm scared to death about the EPA proposals," Salmon said. "It will dramatically increase the costs of water, and then the cost of everything. ...We've got to put our best foot forward to stop this from happening."


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WARREN TWP. — A State Police trooper whose vehicle overturned on Interstate 78 Thursday morning was attempting to avoid a vehicle that had pulled into his lane, according to State Police.
Turner attempted to avoid crashing into the sedan by swerving into the left shoulder of the highway when he lost control of his vehicle, Spies said.
The vehicle then traveled into the grassy median, where it overturned, she said.Turner, who is stationed at Somerville barracks, was transported to Morristown Medical Center as a precautionary measure, Spies said. No injuries were observed at the scene, she said.
The dark-colored sedan was not at the scene of the crash when additional police arrived, Spies said.
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MONTVILLE — The Land Conservancy of New Jersey has cut its use of heating oil and halved its energy bill by switching to geothermal energy, said a report in the Daily Record.
Thanks to the switch, the building's use of fossil fuels is expected to drop from about 1,500 to 100 gallons-per-year, the Conservancy president told the Record.
Contractors built a 600 foot-deep well last month to pump water which is cooled and heated to set the temperature at Conservancy's headquarters in Wild Acres Preserve, said the report.
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Senior Ally Miller broke a scoreless tie in the 72nd minute to lead the Marquette women's soccer team over Notre Dame, 1-0, in the Big East semifinals Friday.
Marquette (15-2-2) will play Georgetown in the championship game at 11 a.m. Central time Sunday in East Hartford, Conn.
UW-Milwaukee women 1, Loyola 0: Junior Krissy Dorre scored in the second overtime as the Panthers (7-8-1) advanced to Sunday's Horizon League title game against Wright State at 1 p.m. at Engelmann Field.
Wisconsin women 2, Minnesota State 0: Alex Rigsby made 14 saves to extend her shutout streak to 129 minutes.
Erika Sowchuk and Alev Kelter scored for the Badgers (6-3-2, 2-3-2-2 WCHA), who outshot the Mavericks (4-5-2, 2-3-2-1), 39-14, in Madison.
Notre Dame 70, Cardinal Stritch 56: The Wolves battled the Irish all night before falling in an exhibition game in South Bend, Ind.
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All school year my kids have been talking about Gogo's. I don't quite get it, but my kids think they are amazing. I guess they are the new "it" thing at school and everyone has these little things that they carry around. I heard they were coming out with a video game for Gogo's Crazy Bones and asked my little gamer if he wanted to try the game out. Of course he said, "YES!" He continued to ask me about the game until it arrived.
Gogo's Crazy Bones are small, colorful, figurines with endless gaming, collecting and learning possibilities. Developed by Magic Box International and PPI Worldwide Group and distributed in the US by JDNA, the collectable sensation has taken the toy market by storm, topping collectables sales charts around the world. Players will find Gogo's Crazy Bones the game jam-packed with more than 70 puzzles and 30 favorite Gogo's to collect, each one with a unique name, design, personality and special ability. Unlock five Gogo's in every level as you take on popular Gogo's games like Knock Out, Battle and Basket Attacks. Earn stars and unlock rewards as you explore interactive environments from the bus stop to the playground. Gogo's Crazy Bones the game provides hours of fun and entertainment as you collect, trade and play with friends!
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King Solomon might not have come up with a better solution. The question of which agency will acquire outer harbor land from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority has been answered in a way that appears to protect the public's interest while giving the city a place at the table.
Both the City of Buffalo and the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. wanted to control the 384 acres the NFTA will be giving up. The ECHDC was the obvious choice, given the nature of its mission and its welcome insulation from the cold drafts of city politics. But the city and Mayor Byron W. Brown didn't want to be left out, and there the standoff stood for several months.
On Monday, a deal was struck. The Harbor Development Corp. would acquire the land from the NFTA and enter into a memorandum of understanding with the city for its operation, maintenance and future development. Given that the two entities were the only ones that responded to the NFTA's request for proposals, it is all but certain that the arrangement will play out that way. All that remains is for the players to settle on a price.
The arrangement looks like one that is both fair and workable. With the Harbor Development Corp. taking the lead role, city politics should be held mainly at bay. The memorandum of understanding, meanwhile, should give the city sufficient influence on the project to satisfy its craving.
This deal has been a long time coming. The NFTA acquired the land from the city 55 years ago, when it was a port authority. As a transportation authority, though, it was the wrong agency to control the waterfront. It was a distraction from the NFTA's core mission – and an expensive distraction at that.
One of the reasons the NFTA finally decided to get out of the waterfront land development business is that the Small Boat Harbor requires $39 million in work right away – for a new breakwater, dock repairs, dredging of the harbor, rehabilitation of the parking lot and a new maintenance building. Another $10 million is required at the Terminal A and B building, mainly for a new roof.
At a time when the NFTA was talking about increasing fares and cutting routes, it was plainly time for the authority to retrench.
Its initial plan was to offer the acreage to private businesses for development. Fortunately, that didn't work out and the authority switched gears, opting to offer the land to an entity that would keep it in the public domain. With neither Erie County nor the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation interested, the city and Harbor Development Corp. were left as the only applicants.
Now, with that question creatively settled, the NFTA and Harbor Development Corp. can talk seriously about the price. It may be more than the $2 suggested by Rep. Brian Higgins – a powerful force behind this project – but it also shouldn't be market rate of many millions of dollars.
Let the NFTA get out of the waterfront development business gracefully and let the ECHDC and the city begin the happy task of creating a waterfront in which the public can revel.


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This conference proposes to examine the notion and role of vestige in the Near East and Mediterranean world in English, French and francophone literature. Vestiges are the traces of past history and civilisations, what the passing of time and the eroding effects of the climate have left to the local inhabitants, and to the travellers who discover them and appropriate them through a visual process and in their writings. They are both ruins and fragments, signifying disappearance, silence and loss, the mark of the past and of a cultural heritage, often used as the emblem of present times.
The Near East and Mediterranean world are a land and sea of passages and exchanges, a contact zone interlacing diverse cultures and civilisations. Thus the local vestiges are not only a sign of erasure, but they constitute a palimpsest. Different periods are interwoven in the traces which show on the surface; they testify to various influences that may be seen as contradictory and a source of memorial conflicts as regards past history and in present times. Vestiges « re-present » and stand for the past ; although they signify absence, they make the past present (Ricoeur) ; they constitute documents and archives (Foucault), they hold the memory of places formerly inhabited by various people and cultures, but they are also turned towards the future as the cultural and linguistic heritage is a legacy for future generations (J. Hassoun).
Marks of a past which re-surfaces, and signs of a « survival » (Didi-Huberman), vestiges come to life again through the photographer's or painter's eyes, and with the writer's pen. Traces can thus also be textual and iconographic; they disseminate and form a web of tropes, images and figures; they are transformed by the cultural gaze of the newcomer who appropriates, reinvents, reshapes and fixes them. As objects of scientific or aesthetic discovery made by archeologists and ordinary travellers, vestiges acquire a mythopoietic dimension in the process. The diversity and hybridity of traces, languages and cultures in the area may also be found in the deterritorialisation of writing and images which become "nomadic" (Deleuze et Guattari).
The organizers of this international and interdisciplinary conference in anglophone et francophone studies (literature and visual arts) propose to examine the following notions : vestige, trace, imprint, mark, exchange and passage, contact zone, palimpsest, re-writing, hybridity, nomadism and deterritorialisation, and their modes de representation in fiction, autobiography, letters and essays, travel books photography and painting (18th-21st century)
Submissions for papers including an abstract (about 300 words) and a short bio-bibliographical note should be sent before 15 June 2013 to the organizers Catherine Delmas (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Daniel Lançon (firstname.lastname@example.com). Acceptance of proposals will be notified by September 2014. All papers must be delivered in English or French and a selection of the proceedings will be the object of a publication.
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Barolo Pioneer Looks Abroad as Italy Drinks Fizz: John Mariani
Pietro Ratti, head of the Piedmont wine company that bears his late father's name, Renato Ratti, looked a little forlorn as he ate his gnocchi at New York's Armani Fifth Avenue restaurant.
"The Italians are drinking less and less wine," he said, with the gaunt visage of an El Greco saint contemplating the heavens. "They don't drink at lunch anymore. And the drunken driving laws are now very strict about people driving 120 kilometers an hour down the autostrada after consuming a few bottles of wine."
As one of Piedmont's premier winemakers, whose estate-bottled Barolos are considered among the finest and most innovative in Italy, Ratti, 42, says there has been a cultural shift in Europe about wine.
"Before, Europeans regarded wine as a food and a part of everyday life," he said. "Now, it's considered an indulgence."
The Italians, he said, are especially trendy when it comes to wine and have followed the fashion for sparkling wines.
"Champagne if they can afford it, or prosecco," he said. "And they drink more of their own regions' wines because, frankly, they have really gotten so much better over the last decade."
As a result, Ratti's most expensive wines sell better outside Italy -- 70 percent of his barolos are exported -- with the U.S. his best market, followed by Scandinavia. Ratti also makes lower-priced nebbiolo, dolcetto, and barbera d'asti, which sell well in Italy but have smaller profit margins.
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As with a handful of Super Tuscan wines, the Ratti barolos, along with star Piedmont names like Angelo Gaja, Paolo Scavino, Bruno Giacosa, and Giacomo Conterno, are about as close to cult wines as Italy produces, though the prices never get into the $1,000 California cult stratosphere or those of First Growth bordeaux and Grand Cru burgundies.
Ratti's 2006 Marcenasco estate barolo, showing all the elegance and balance the winery is renowned for, retails for about $47. The more robust 2006 Rocche, made from 50-year-old vines, is only $87, and the silky, mineral-rich 2006 Conca is $75.
Pietro's father, born in 1934, was one of the pioneers in Piedmont. In 1965 he bought a small plot in the area called Marcenasco to make the first single vineyard Barolo. At the time, most wines in the region were made from other growers' grapes, which Ratti also bought. Traditionally barolos were special wines given as gifts locally and not readily sold elsewhere.
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Back then the grapes might be macerated for 90 days or more and were highly tannic, taking years to smooth out. Ratti wanted to make softer, easier-to-drink, more complex barolos, so he began buying more and more of his own carefully chosen vineyards. The fame of his innovations opened Ratti up to markets outside Piedmont and eventually around the world. Spurred by his success, the growers themselves were fast creating their own labels by the 1990s.
Pietro carried on his father's work, constructing new state-of-the-art cellars in 2000, relying on gravity for gentler pressing, and using only natural yeasts.
"Our workers wear cotton gloves," he said. "So their fingers never touch the skin of the grapes."
Two months ago Pietro was elected president of the Barolo Consortium, like his father, drafting the rules and regulations governing the appellations of Alba wines to maintain the quality guaranteed by Italy's prestigious D.O.C.G. award.
"By this fall we shall have in place laws that will guarantee that 'single vineyards' listed on barolo labels truly come from those vineyards," he said. "Until now a producer could put any name on the bottle he liked but the wine might have come from anywhere in the barolo region."
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The younger Ratti is also involved with the marketing, promotion and sales of his wines abroad, his reason for having dinner with me that evening in New York.
"This is a very tough time for wine selling everywhere," he said. "It's important to keep our less expensive wines like dolcetto, barbera, and nebbiolo always in the market because in some years our customers may have too much barolo in inventory and buy much less or pass."
As for China and Russia, Pietro sees great possibilities.
"China is for the moment buying up the most expensive bordeaux at auction the way Las Vegas used to," he said. "I think the markets will open up to more Italian wines, but with China and Russia, you must always ask for the money in advance and in euros."
(John Mariani writes on wine for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)


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Gourmail, Inc. dba Jyoti Natural Foods 5/22/14
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
900 U.S. Customhouse
2nd and Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Telephone: 215-597-4390
May 22, 2014
Vijay P. Gupta, CEO/Owner
Gourmail, Inc., dba Jyoti Natural Foods
300 Elmwood Avenue
Sharon Hill, PA 19079
Dear Mr. Gupta:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected your manufacturing facility located at 300 Elmwood Avenue, Sharon Hill, PA, on April 30, 2014 through May 1, 2014. The inspection found significant violations of FDA's Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations for manufacturing, packing, or holding human food, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110 (21 CFR Part 110). These violations cause the foods manufactured at your facility to be adulterated within the meaning of section 402(a)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 342(a)(4)], in that they were prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been contaminated with filth or rendered injurious to health. You can find the Act and its implementing regulations on FDA's home page www.fda.gov.
Our inspection of your facility revealed the following CGMP violations:
1. Your firm is not constructed in such a manner so that ceilings may be adequately cleaned and kept in good repair; and that drip or condensate from fixtures does not contaminate food, food-contact surfaces, and food-packaging material, as required by 21 CFR 110.20(b)(4) (FDA-483 Observation #1 and #2). Specifically, on April 30, 2014, our investigators observed the following:
a. Water originating from the roof of your firm was observed dripping from an exhaust vent in the ready-to-eat (RTE) airline meal production area. The water was dripping onto a kettle lid that contained a one (1) inch gap that runs approximately one-third the length of the kettle lid; thus, failed to preclude the liquid from splashing into the kettle. The kettle contained in-process (b)(4) Lot #(b)(4), which is a component of a RTE airline meal identified by product #(b)(4) and batch #(b)(4). We acknowledge that on May 1, 2014 you informed our investigator that this product was voluntarily destroyed and you showed him that a tarp had been positioned below the exhaust vent, but above kettles #1 through #4 to block the dripping rain water from reaching the kettles. This measure is not an adequate corrective action to prevent contamination of your products. Further, you were unable to provide our investigator with a time frame for the repair of this serious deviation, and as of the date of this letter, we have not received any correspondence from your firm to indicate that the roof has been repaired to prevent any future adulteration of your products.
b. Ceiling tiles, directly above food preparation areas, were observed to be stained by previous roof leakage. Further, these ceiling tiles are textured and did not appear to be composed of an easily cleanable material to preclude the contamination of food. During the inspection, you informed our investigators that you would replace these tiles. However, as of the date of this letter we have not received any correspondence from your firm to indicate that the ceiling tiles have been replaced with tiles that are easily cleanable.
2. Your firm failed to take all reasonable precautions to ensure that production procedures do not contribute contamination from any source as required by 21 CFR 110.80 (FDA-483 Observation #3). Specifically, on April 30, 2014, our investigators observed a hose adjacent to kettle #2, in the RTE airline meal production area, laying nozzle down on a movable step that workers stood on to access product inside the cooking kettles. Further, your firm's Business Manager informed our investigators that water from this hose is added directly to in-process product. The movable step that the hose nozzle was laying on had visible filth on it, from prior use.
This letter may not list all the violations at your facility. You are responsible for ensuring that all of your products are in compliance with the applicable statutes and regulations administered by FDA. You should take prompt action to correct these violations. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in regulatory action by FDA without further notice. Such action includes seizure of your products and/or injunction.
We request that you respond to this office in writing within 15 working days of receipt of this letter. Your response should include the specific steps you have taken to correct the deviations, to include documentation of those corrections. If you cannot complete all of the corrections within 15 working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which corrections will be completed.
Section 743 of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 379j-31) authorizes FDA to assess and collect fees to cover FDA's costs for certain activities, including costs related to re-inspection. A re-inspection is one or more inspections conducted subsequent to an inspection that identified non-compliance materially related to a food safety requirement of the Act, specifically to determine whether compliance has been achieved. Re-inspection-related costs means all expenses, including administrative expenses, incurred in connection with FDA's arranging, conducting, and evaluating the results of the re-inspection and assessing and collecting the re-inspection fees [21 U.S.C. § 379j-31(a)(2)(B)]. For a domestic facility, FDA will assess and collect fees for re-inspection-related costs from the responsible party for the domestic facility. The inspection noted in this letter identified non-compliance materially related to a food safety requirement of the Act. Accordingly, FDA may assess fees to cover any costs related to re-inspection.
Your response of corrective actions should be directed to Ms. Lynn S. Bonner, Compliance Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Philadelphia District Office, 900 US Customhouse, 2nd & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19106. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Bonner at (215) 717-3074, or you can email her at email@example.com.
Anne E. Johnson
Acting District Director
Philadelphia District
cc: Pennsylvania State Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services
Attention: Dr. Lydia Johnson, Director
2301 North Cameron Street
Harrisburg, PA 17110-9408


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Athletes Honored at Penn State York
Penn State York honored its student athletes at the 40th annual Athletic Awards Banquet Friday, April 8, in the Lion's Den of the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center at the campus. The evening event not only honored athletes for their performance in their respective sports, but also honored those with outstanding academic achievements. Awards were presented following a 6 p.m. dinner.
Thirty-two Penn State York students earned the distinction of Academic All-Conference. This honor is bestowed on those student athletes who have a semester grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher during the semester of competition or a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and completion of at least 24 credits. Recipients in their sports are: Baseball: Matthew B. Arentz, Hanover, Pa.; Donovan M. Blessing, York, Pa.; Robert A. MacCubbin, Delta, Pa.; Andrew D. Taylor, Delta, Pa.; and James E. Volz, White Hall, Pa. Women's Basketball: Hannah M.Kuhn, Red Lion, Pa.; and Laura A. Hoffman, Hanover, Pa. Soccer: Scott D. Barrera, York, Pa.; Patrick W. Betmarik, Hanover, Pa.; Stephen P. Higgins, Nathan R. Hunt, York, Pa.; York, Pa.; Mihir L. Jadhav, Mumbai, India; Cody J. O'Connor, Hanover, Pa.; Karan U. Shah, Mumbai, India; John F. Suarez, Dominican Republic; and Timothy J. Weikert, York, Pa. Team Tennis: Aaron M. Dunlevy, Dover, Pa.; Michael N. Duong, Howard County, Md.; Christopher M. Lawyer, York, Pa.; Anh T. Nguyen, York, Pa.; Zil B. Vyas, York, Pa.; and Janessa T. Wagner, Dillsburg, Pa. Women's Volleyball: Sabryna D. Holmberg, Glen Rock, Pa.; Lauren R. Kline, York, Pa.;Hannah M. Kuhn, Red Lion, Pa.; and Erin R. Murphy, Hanover, Pa. Men's Basketball: Ryan R. Bradshaw, Baltimore, Md; Joshua D. Czerski, Baltimore, Md.; Johan Erimee, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Chemin F. Lambert, York, Pa.; David B. Salerno, Bethlehem, Pa.; and Seth A. Warren, Dover, Pa.
Eleven students earned Athletic All-Conference in the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC). This award is given to athletes chosen either by their coach or other coaches in the conference for their athletic performance. Recipients are: Women's Basketball: Hannah M. Kuhn, Red Lion, Pa.; and Jennifer L. Fink, New Oxford, Pa. Men's Basketball: Durant K. Harvin, Reisterstown, Md. Team Tennis: Mikesh J. Desai, York, Pa.; Michael N. Duong, Howard City, Md.; Nathan J. Gambino, York, Pa.; and Zil B. Vyas, York, Pa.
Durant K. Harvin, Reisterstown, Md., received the Trimmer Award in basketball. This award is named in honor of former Penn State York Basketball Coach Ron Trimmer and is given to the most improved player.
Gregory S. Ebersol, Leola, Pa.; received the Broadbent Award given in honor of Bruce Broadbent, Ph.D., former assistant professor of kinesiology at the campus and division head of health and human development at the Commonwealth College. Broadbent was the campus' first athletic director and worked for more than 30 years to promote the campus' athletic programs.
Corey J. Magliore, York, Pa.; received the Christopher C. Miller Sportsmanship Award for soccer. This award is given to an athlete who displays a high level of sportsmanship not only on the soccer field but also in everyday life. The award was established in 2002 to honor the late Christopher C. Miller, the son of former Penn State York Soccer Coach George Miller, who passed away on July 9, 2001, at the age of 16. During his soccer career, Christopher played between 350 and 400 soccer games and never received a yellow or red card for unsportsmanlike play. His love of the game of soccer and outstanding sportsmanship will always be remembered through this award.
Michael Arnold, York, Pa.; tennis coach at Penn State York, was named the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) Coach of the Year in Tennis for the second consecutive year for his outstanding leadership.
In the PSUAC, Hannah Kuhn, Red Lion, Pa., was named to the All-Conference First Team in women's basketball; and Jennifer L. Fink, McLean, Va., women's basketball, and Durant K. Harvin, Reisterstown, Md., men's basketball, earned Honorable Mention All-Conference.
Prior to the start of the awards presentation, Joel M. Rodney, chancellor of Penn State York, presented a plaque to Kerry Magni for her 10 years of service as the campus' athletic director. Magni is stepping down from that position.
Team coaches presented awards to their athletes:
Baseball (Head Coach Jason Aspito, Assistant Coach Joseph P. Royer, and Score Keeper Barbara Eshbach) First-year awards: Jose J. Aracena-Tavarez, York, Pa.; Matthew B. Arentz, Hanover, Pa.; Christopher R. Farscht, York, Pa.; Nathaniel J. Gambino, York, Pa.; Robert A. MacCubbin, Delta, Pa.; Christopher M. Miller, Red Lion, Pa.; David L. Pottle Jr., York, Pa.; John S. Smith, Lancaster, Pa.; and James E. Volz, White Hall, Pa. Second-year awards: Donovan M. Blessing, York, Pa.; Anthany L. Heindel, Downingtown, Pa.; Andrew D. Taylor, Delta, Pa.; Nicholas D. Wallin, Hanover, Pa.; and Kent T. Weibley, York, Pa. Third-year-award: Trevor E. Neff, Dallastown, Pa.
Women's Basketball (Head Coach Eric Leese and Assistant Coach Tom Leese) First-year award: Hannah M. Kuhn. Second-year-awards: Amanda G. Ball, McLean, Va.; Jennifer L. Fink, New Oxford, Pa.; and Laura A. Hoffman, Hanover, Pa. Third-year-award: Lindsay E. Mumma, Dover, Pa. Fourth-year-award: Kaitlyn O. Toomey, Dover, Pa.
Men's Basketball (Head Coach Parrish Petry and Assistant Coach Alex Knox) First-year awards: Ryan R. Bradshaw, Baltimore, Md.; Zachary A Harlem, York, Pa.; Chemin F. Lambert, York, Pa.; David B. Salerno, Bethlehem, Pa.; and Seth A. Warren, Dover, Pa. Second-year-awards: Johan Erimee, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Durant K. Harvin, Reisterstown, Md; Matthew V. Rotonda, Tom's River, NJ; and Xavier E. Smith, Bel Air, Md. Third-year-award: Joshua D. Czerski, Baltimore, Md.
Soccer (Head Coach Richard Chilcoat, Assistant Coach Ben Otterson) First-year awards: Scott D. Barrera, York, Pa.; Adam M. Beck, York, Pa.; Daniel H. Brinkley, Camp Hill, Pa.; Jeffrey S. Childress, Dallastown, Pa.; Michael G. Chronister, York, Pa.; Lelish A. Depaso, York, Pa.; Gregory S. Ebersol, Leola, Pa.; Jordan E. Fair, Hershey, Pa.; Stephen P. Higgins, York, Pa.; Mihir L. Jadhav, Mumbai, India; Daniel J. Lynd, Hanover, Pa.; Cody J. O'Connor, Hanover, Pa.; Nicholas J. Ridolfi, Dallastown, Pa.; and Karan U. Shah, Mumbai, India. Second-year-awards: Aldin Avdic, York, Pa.; Patrick W. Betmarik, Hanover, Pa.; Cole J. Houser, Thomasville, Pa.; and Corey J. Magloire, York, Pa. Fourth-year-awards: Joseph D. Dizio, York, Pa.; Nathan R. Hunt, York, Pa.; John F. Suarez, Dominican Republic; and Timothy J. Weikert, York, Pa.
Team Tennis (Head Coach Michael Arnold) First-year awards: Matthew A. Culler, Dover, Pa.; Christopher D. Dill, York, Pa.; Michael N. Duong, Howard City, Md.; Christopher M. Lawyer, York, Pa.; Anh T. Nguyen, York, Pa.; Zil B. Vyas, York, Pa.; and Janessa T. Wagner, Dillsburg, Pa. Second-year-awards: Mikesh J. Desai, York, Pa.; Aaron M. Dunlevy, Dover, Pa.; and Nathan J. Gambino.
Women's Volleyball (Head Coach William Hahn) First-year awards: Tessa M. Berger, White Hall, Md.; Kathlyn M. Claycomb, Hanover, Great Britain; and Hannah M. Kuhn, Red Lion, Pa. Second-year-awards: Sydney R. Bondar, Reisterstown, Md.; Sabryna D. Holmberg, Glen Rock, Pa.; and Lauren R. Kline, York, Pa. Third-year-awards: Lindsay E. Mumma, Dover, Pa., and Ann P. Shaw, Spring Grove, Pa. Fourth-year-award: Erin R. Murphy, Hanover, Pa.
Learn more about Penn State York's athletic programs by visiting the website.


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The book "Crystal Lake Memories" will become an ebook to be released Friday April 13th. It will be an enhanced version with video shorts. Here is the link:
This book is on the making of the film. This ebook is designed for the color ereaders. THe cost is $14 for the ebook version.
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Joseph Phelps Vineyards was born out of owner Joseph Phelps's love for the Napa Valley, which he discovered while his construction firm was building a winery near St. Helena. Today, Joseph Phelps Vineyards produces several wines that are 100% estate grown, including the flagship Insignia, a lush, highly concentrated blend of Bordeaux varietals.
2008 Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley (half bottle)
Producer: Joseph Phelps
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Cabernet Sauvignon
Origin: California
Region: Napa
89(+?) Points | Stephen Tanzer's IWC - May/June 2011
Dark ruby-red. Showy aromas of cassis, cedar and flowers. Sweet and ripe but a bit youthfully austere compared to the 2007 and 2009 versions, showing a strong core of blueberry and cassis fruit. This very tight wine is taking its time to open up but appears to have the fruit intensity to support its serious tannic spine.


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The following letter was written by NAPT Executive Director Mike Martin on behalf of the association's board of directors.
We were all shocked on Nov. 20, 2006, when a school bus plowed off an interstate overpass in Huntsville, Ala., and plunged head first into the pavement below from more than 35 feet in the air.
We all were — and still are — grief-stricken by the fact that four young women died in this horrific crash and many others were seriously injured.
Almost instantly, major media outlets began reporting that the school bus did not have seat belts, seizing the chance to stoke smoldering embers surrounding a controversial topic that has been the subject of public debate for nearly 40 years. These transparent attempts to encourage people to deduce that seat belts would have saved lives in the Huntsville crash were, in our view, appalling. No one could have known for sure that day if seat belts would have prevented anyone from dying in that crash.
This letter, therefore, is not addressed to people who can be easily persuaded, especially by the media. It is intended for anyone and everyone who is genuinely interested in making and keeping children as safe as possible in a school bus.
Many of you believe to your core that children are always safer when they wear seat belts, whether it is in a car, a plane or a school bus. Although you embrace hard data when it is available, you do not necessarily need hard data to support your belief on this issue; you know it in your bones. Your commitment to child passenger safety in this respect is not only honorable — it is admirable, and we respect you for it.
Yet while we respect the intensity of your passion, we assure you that ours is equally steadfast. Perhaps, then, we should consider using our collective willpower to move a mountain. Together. The paragraphs that follow explain how.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation that is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes, is the federal regulatory body that NAPT and the vast majority of its membership look to for clear guidance and definitive recommendations on school bus safety issues in general and passenger crash protection in particular.
NHTSA and an overwhelming majority of vehicle safety experts consider a yellow school bus the safest form of ground transportation in America — even without seat belts. These same experts also acknowledge that this is due in large part to the current passenger crash protection system integrated in the design of every school bus built since 1977, called "compartmentalization," as well as other federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS) that apply to school bus design and construction.
In April 2002, NHTSA completed an extensive evaluation of school bus passenger crash protection and sent a report on its work to Congress. We, like you, were expecting them to settle the issue of whether or not lap/shoulder belts should be integrated into the passenger crash protection system of school buses. We, like you, were disappointed that we didn't get a definitive answer. Whether NHTSA was unable or unwilling to settle the matter is, at this point, irrelevant; the outcome is the same in either case — everyone who wanted and needed a clear answer from NHTSA is currently frustrated and perplexed.
As a consequence of NHTSA's research and reporting, we believe modifications to the current system of school bus passenger crash protection should only occur when we can be sure beyond a reasonable doubt that those modifications will improve the safety of each and every child in a school bus. In other words, we will only support changes to compartmentalization when we are sure that those changes will not compromise student safety.
We fully understand the national resolve to increase belt use in traditional passenger vehicles, and the common opinion that, "If my car has seat belts, so should my child's school bus." It is one of the reasons that calls for seat belts in school buses make headlines after every serious crash. In these situations, we wish NHTSA would, at the very least, remind parents and the news media that school buses and the family car are very different vehicles from a crashworthiness perspective and, therefore, do not necessarily utilize the same safety strategies. But they don't, so we do it, even when it's not the popular thing to do.
In order to help everyone interested in and affected by the seat-belts-on-school-buses debate, we have called upon NHTSA to re-evaluate, on a priority basis, FMVSS 222, "School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection," with the goal of establishing a safety system that will definitively enhance the current passenger crash protection for all children who ride a school bus. Moreover, we have also called upon NHTSA to make an active effort to educate the American public about the importance of safe school bus transportation as a logical way to reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes. We have also called upon Congress to provide, if necessary and in the most expeditious timeframe possible, a mandate and complete funding for this work as well as any necessary changes substantiated by the research.
We invite you to join us in this effort. We, like you, believe it is vitally important to constantly reassess existing safety measures no matter how safe our children currently are on school buses. It has been 30 years since the initiation of compartmentalization, and over that time, there certainly have been advances in materials and information from crash investigations that would merit consideration of an upgrade.
Although we have differences of opinion, on the bottom line, we want what you want: safer school bus transportation. We believe we can work together to ensure that students riding in a school bus are as safe as humanly possible and to ensure that the public is better informed about school bus safety issues generally. We hope you agree.
After all, our children ride the school bus with your children, and we want them all to be as safe as possible.
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Lazistan Sanjak
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Lazistan (ლაზონა – lazona in Laz, ლაზეთი – lazeti or ჭანეთი – chaneti in Georgian or Turkish: لازستان, Lazistān) was the Ottoman administrative name for the sanjak (under Trebizond Vilayet) comprising the Laz or Lazuri-speaking population on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. However, its boundaries did not coincide with the Laz-speaking area. It covered the land of contemporary Rize Province and the littoral of contemporary Artvin Province.
The Georgians call Lazistan Chaneti, and the people Chan, plural Chan-ni. The Swanetian form of Chaneti (from which the Turkish Lazistan seems to derive) is Lazan (i.e. La—territorial prefix+Zan<—>Chan). The root form Chan<—>Son is widespread throughout the Caucasus, particularly as applied to tribal and place-names in the western part. The Laz by their language are closely related to the Mingrelians (who are themselves called Chan-ar by the neighbouring people of Swaneti).
In ancient times, the region was a part of the Kingdom of Colchis. In the Middle Ages, this region was a part of Georgia until 1578 when it was conquered by Turks. In 1878, the eastern portion of Lazistan (including Batumi) became part of the Russian Empire and the centre of the sanjak was moved from Batumi to Rize. [1] After the occupation of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by Kemalist Turkey and Bolshevik Russia (since 1922), the territory has been divided between Turkey and the Soviet Union. The sanjak and name was abolished by the new Turkish Republic in 1925.
Kingdom of Egrisi, known to the ancient Anatolians and Romans as Lazica was known to Persians as Lazistan.
Historically, Lazistan was known for producing hazelnuts, which were exported to and from Trabzon.[1] Lazistan also produced zinc, producing over 1,700 tons in 1901.[2]
- ^ Prothero, W.G. (1920). Armenia and Kurdistan. London: H.M. Stationery Office. p. 52.
- ^ Prothero, W.G. (1920). Armenia and Kurdistan. London: H.M. Stationery Office. p. 73.
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The Burlington County Farm Fair had barely begun Wednesday morning when a lively little goat named Valentine bagged a blue ribbon.
Harrison Layton, 10, beamed as his 5-month-old Boer with its distinctive white body and brown head took a top showmanship prize in the opening round of the 4-H Goat Show.
"Pretty good," Harrison, of Juliustown, said modestly as Valentine bleated in the blessed shade of the South Show Tent.
The fair blends competition with elements of a carnival and a craft show, offering an all-ages excuse to sample cotton candy, "Fresh Pig Roast Sandwiches," and midway attractions with names like "Cuckoo Haus."