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From buying paper and furniture to defibrillators and health insurance, consortia of higher ed institutions are saving up to millions of dollars annually on items bought in bulk-while at the same time breeding greater, long-term relationships built on trust. That adds up to saved time, fewer headaches.
There is a good deal of talk about the need for accountability today-defining learning outcomes, for example, or asking that faculty be accountable for the effectiveness of their teaching. In short, there is a shift from offering programs and degrees to creating value.
During Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the presidency, Democratic strategist James Carville took a simple route to keeping the campaign on message. Carville posted a sign at the Little Rock, Ark., headquarters of the campaign reminding staffers and Clinton of the now-famous phrase, "It's the economy, stupid."
Faculty and students push knowledge forward in their own ways every day. They expect that freedom, and the academy is designed to give it to them. But donors, whose gifts often come with usage restrictions, may not be so generous.
The e-mail marketing community is still quaking over recently announced plans by America Online and Yahoo to begin charging internet postage for optional "preferred e-mail" service, which would enable company e-mails to breeze past the spam filters of the two e-mail service providers.


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LOVE your resurrection day cookie Pam! I hope you had a blessed Easter with family!
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump take the stage on Monday night, as new polling shows a race that's too close to call.
For decades, the candidate has willfully inflicted pain and humiliation.
Donald J. Trump has a cruel streak. He willfully causes pain and distress to others. And he repeats this public behavior so frequently that it's fair to call it a character trait. Any single example would be off-putting but forgivable. Being shown many examples across many years should make any decent person recoil in disgust.
Judge for yourself if these examples qualify.
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In national politics, harsh attacks are to be expected. I certainly don't fault Trump for calling Hillary Clinton dishonest, or wrongheaded, or possessed of bad judgment, even if it's a jarring departure from the glowing compliments that he used to pay her.
But even in a realm where the harshest critiques are part of the civic process, Trump crossed a line this week when he declared his intention to invite Gennifer Flowers to today's presidential debate. What kind of man invites a husband's former mistress to an event to taunt his wife? Trump managed to launch an attack that couldn't be less relevant to his opponent's qualifications or more personally cruel. His campaign and his running-mate later said that it was all a big joke. No matter. Whether in earnest or in jest, Trump showed his tendency to humiliate others.
In a unique, home-spun experiment, researchers found that centripetal force could help people pass kidney stones—before they become a serious health-care cost.
East Lansing, Michigan, becomes a ghost town during spring break. Families head south, often to the theme parks in Orlando. A week later, the Midwesterners return sunburned and bereft of disposable income, and, urological surgeon David Wartinger noticed, some also come home with fewer kidney stones.
Wartinger is a professor emeritus at Michigan State, where he has dealt for decades with the scourge of kidney stones, which affect around one in 10 people at some point in life. Most are small, and they pass through us without issue. But many linger in our kidneys and grow, sending hundreds of thousands of people to emergency rooms and costing around $3.8 billion every year in treatment and extraction. The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
There's no good evidence that the invasive policing strategy brought down crime. The real question is what made crime rates climb in the first place. This post is part of a debate series on "Is Stop and Frisk Worth It?," an article featured in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine.
When former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was asked what would happen if stop-and-frisk were curtailed, his response was characteristic of his tenure: "No question about it," he said "violent crime will go up." When homicides rose in Chicago, Chicagoans clamored for NYPD-style stop-and-frisk. The same premise is repeated by proponents of stop-and-frisk throughout Daniel Bergner's illuminating Atlantic article: if you want to reduce crime, you have to be willing to suffer more aggressive policing tactics.
In reality, there's no good reason to assume that these strategies work to reduce crime. David Greenberg has conducted the most comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the NYPD's practice of stop-and-frisk and crime levels to date, and he finds "no evidence that misdemeanor arrests reduced levels of homicide, robbery, or aggravated assaults."
Who will win the debates? Trump's approach was an important part of his strength in the primaries. But will it work when he faces Clinton onstage?
The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It's about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally televised general-election debate in the United States.
The story is that Kennedy looked great, which is true, and Nixon looked terrible, which is also true—and that this visual difference had an unexpected electoral effect. As Theodore H. White described it in his hugely influential book The Making of the President 1960, which has set the model for campaign coverage ever since, "sample surveys" after the debate found that people who had only heard Kennedy and Nixon talking, over the radio, thought that the debate had been a tie. But those who saw the two men on television were much more likely to think that Kennedy—handsome, tanned, non-sweaty, poised—had won.
Communal living is hardly a departure from tradition—it's a return to how humans have been making their homes for thousands of years.
For most of human history, people were hunter-gatherers. They lived in large camps, depending on one another for food, childcare, and everything else—all without walls, doors, or picket fences. In comparison, the number of people living in most households in today's developed countries is quite small. According to the Census Bureau, fewer than three people lived in the average American household in 2010. The members of most American households can be counted on one hand, or even, increasingly, one finger: Single-person households only made up about 13 percent of all American households in 1960. Now, that figure is about 28 percent.
Belonging to a relatively small household has become the norm even though it can make daily life more difficult in many ways. Privacy may be nice, but cooking and doing chores become much less time-consuming when shared with an additional person, or even several people. Water, electric, and internet bills also become more bearable when divided among multiple residents. There are social downsides to living alone, too. Many elderly people, young professionals, stay-at-home parents, and single people routinely spend long stretches of time at home alone, no matter how lonely they may feel; more distressingly, many single parents face the catch-22 of working and paying for childcare. Living in smaller numbers can be a drain on money, time, and feelings of community, and the rise of the two-parent dual-earning household only compounds the problems of being time-poor.
A new study of pregnant women finds nausea and vomiting are associated with a reduced risk of miscarriage.
People are always saying the wrong thing to pregnant women.
Expectant mothers hear everything from the obnoxious ("You're huge!") to the outright bizarre ("If you eat that Sriracha, your baby will come out bald").
Then there are the well-meaning—yet utterly unhelpful—superstitions and platitudes: "I can tell from how you're carrying that it's a girl." (No, you can't.) "At least the terrible sleep you're getting now is great preparation for all those sleepless nights you're going to have with baby!" (Bone-splitting exhaustion is not something you need to practice ahead of time.) "But morning sickness means your baby is healthy!"
Actually, there might be something to that last one.
Pregnant women have long been told that feeling miserable every single day for several months may indicate that a developing baby is doing well—especially in the first trimester, when nausea and vomiting are most common. Now, there's more science to support the idea.
The Republican nominee, stumping for black votes, espouses a policy that's ineffective, often unconstitutional, and generally unpopular with African Americans.
At a town-hall-style forum hosted by Sean Hannity and airing Wednesday night, Donald Trump was asked what he'd do about black-on-black crime. His answer, reported by NBC's Alexandra Jaffe, is worth reading in full:
Right, well, one of the things I'd do, Ricardo, is I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to. We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically, you understand, you have to, in my opinion, I see what's going on here, I see what's going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk. In New York City it was so incredible, the way it worked. Now, we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that could be one step you could do.
The Donald J. Trump Foundation reportedly used $258,000, most of it other people's money, to settle legal disputes for the Republican nominee.
For people at certain income levels, finding creative ways to avoid taxes is practically a leisure sport. Donald Trump, golf and casino magnate that he is, would never miss out on a leisure sport, would be?
In a new article, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who's already collected a series of scoops on the Donald J. Trump Foundation, reports that Trump sometimes had people who owed him money pay his foundation instead—to the tune of at least $2.3 million. That's legal, provided that the person who would have received the income still pays taxes on the money, which is where things get unclear. A Trump adviser initially denied that Trump had ever directed fees to his foundation, but when presented with evidence that he had a $400,000 fee for appearing on a Comedy Central roast (nice work if you can get it) sent to the foundation, the adviser said Trump had paid taxes on it. But he refused to say whether Trump had paid taxes on the rest of the $2.3 million.
See how your own perception of crime in America stacks up against the reality.
Americans don't feel safe. More than half worry "a great deal" about crime and violence, the highest rate seen in 15 years. Nearly the same proportion believe shootings will become more common over the next decade. And doesn't it feel like things are getting worse? Each week offers a new horror—the massacre in Orlando, five dead officers in Dallas, a man bleeding out before the world on Facebook Live. "Crime is out of control, and rapidly getting worse," Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday. "Not good!"
So let's try something. In the chart below, click the red dot and trace out your best guess for how the murder rate changed between 1985 and 2014. I'll show you the rest of the story once you're done. (Hat tip to the folks at The New York Times, who tried this before with college attendance.)
In a StoryCorps animation, Patrick Haggerty remembers the remarkable advice he got from his dairy farmer dad.
A bartender's camera captures the seedy street life of retro New York.
The Republican candidate's strategy is domination and humiliation. How will Hillary respond?


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Pretty distastefully, too.By Chris Rovzar
Pretty distastefully, too.By Chris Rovzar
"Fighting legal cases across five countries? $1,000,000."By Chris Rovzar
His name is Keats and he wears a fedora.By Nitasha Tiku
Like "forever alones" didn't have it bad enough.By Nitasha Tiku
Ooh la la!By Chris Rovzar
We hazard a guess as to one of the queries.By Nitasha Tiku
Apparently we're in the middle of "#hackercup2011."By Nitasha Tiku
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AUGUSTA – The state prison system is overcrowded by nearly 300 inmates, and immediate action is needed to ease the pressure on the staff and facilities, Corrections Commissioner Martin Magnusson told a legislative committee Tuesday.
"We've reached the emergency level," Magnusson told the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. "If we don't deal with this, I'm afraid of staff getting hurt."
Magnusson said steps have been taken to make room for extra inmates in the adult facilities, which he said are over their rated capacities by 293 systemwide. If nothing is done, that number is expected to increase, he told lawmakers.
The crowding is taking a major toll on staff, who are working so much overtime that some are sleeping in their cars after their shifts because they're too tired to drive home, said the commissioner, who met with 250 corrections staff on Monday to hear their frustrations.
"They're at the point of giving up," said Magnusson, adding that he has had to cut back on mandatory staff training in order to save money.
Responding to a question by a committee member, Magnusson said the number of inmates is rising for several reasons, the biggest being enhanced sentences mandated by the Legislature for some crimes.
The system also is seeing a sharp increase in the number of offenders sent to the prisons each day for relatively short sentences, he said. Crowding is not an issue in the state's juvenile facilities.
To address crowding in the adult facilities, Magnusson suggested a mix of options, including sending about 125 inmates to an out-of-state facility and using a vacant dorm at the minimum-security Charleston Correctional Facility, which would require additional staffing.
Also, more inmates would be placed under supervised community confinement and in county jails, and more female offenders who are nearing the end of their sentences would be placed in transitional housing.
The changes to make more room have an estimated cost of $1.3 million – and maybe less – for May and June, the two months remaining in fiscal 2007. The estimated annual cost for fiscal 2008 is $7.8 million, Magnusson said.
The legislative committee will review figures before sending them to the Appropriations Committee so they can be added to the governor's proposed budget, said Sen. William Diamond, D-Windham, the committee co-chairman.
Of the measures advanced by the commissioner, the plan to send inmates to private, out-of-state facilities generated most of the discussion. While Magnusson has outlined which inmates would get priority for transfer, he said he sees the move as an opportunity to get rid of the Maine system's "bad actors" first.
Those include members of a burgeoning Aryan Brotherhood, which is considered the dominant white supremacist gang in prisons, and individuals who are identified with inmate violence and extortion, Magnusson said.
In response to a committee member's question, Magnusson said corrections officials are aware of 13 gangs inside the Maine State Prison in Warren. Officials believe an increase in tattooing activity points to a rise in prison gang activity.
"There are some real gang affiliations that are connected to other states and other prisons," the commissioner said.
Magnusson said crowding has forced many inmates to wait longer to be enrolled in programs and training.
One of the committee members, Rep. Anne Haskell, D-Portland, said crowding frustrates attempts to rehabilitate inmates because they cannot be rewarded with programs or more favorable cell space.


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It was so hard to get my hands on that fab Spell dress. Out there, there is a big hype around it as Spelly and Lizzy are geniuses in social media marketing. They seduced me to switch dresses and wear their beauty instread of my Zara dress for the Vegas wedding. But as my friend Emmett Katherine from Hippie Lace said: It doesn't make sense to wear something that doesn't give you the Wow-factor. So, I stayed up all night and finally grabbed a XS at Spell's online store and a S at Naked Labels boutique. Let's see which one wins!
Although my blog has now a bridal blog attitude, I will go on with something else and hope I won't totally bore you (but I'm so excited to say YES a second time - and this time in a pink cadillac, haha!). I couldn't resist and snapped this wonderful necklace by The2Bandits in silver and moonstone. It's the perfect match with that fab Spell Designs maxi dress and will look amazing with my Navajo silver jewelry and other silver toned gems I already do own from the label. And it was 30% off the RRP!!
And the Desert Wanderer tee... perfect for our "honeymoon" in the desert! Love the sleeveless look of it, instantly reminds me of band shirts I used to wear in the 90s when I was in primary school ;).
Linking up to Patti and the gang.
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By Natalie Strom email@example.com British Petroleum was recently found guilty by the U.S. Supreme Court on 11 felony counts of misconduct or neglect pertaining to the Deepwater Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Over the next six years, BP is expected to pay an additional $4.5 billion dollars, on top of what the company has already paid towards the massive oil spill disaster. The British oil giant seems to be wasting no time doling out the federally mandated money; on November 7, Marco Island, Naples and Collier County were awarded grants totaling $1,313,650. The three government entities ... Read More »
Daily Archives: November 29, 2012
By Danielle Dodder Vital input and citizen perspective often come to city managers via the nine committees that advise, and sometimes help create policy. The Planning Board, for example, makes key recommendations on growth and development, and was tasked alongside the Waterways Advisory Committee to develop a workable solution on seawall construction standards. Post-election, the city is seeking 56 volunteers for all nine committees, all of which will be completely re-sat, with the exception of the Code Board, at the January 7th city council meeting. "We are encouraging the residents at large to apply," says Nancy Richie, the city staffer ... Read More »
New Council Questionnaire: Ken Honnecker
By Danielle Dodder Newly elected council Vice-Chair Ken Honnecker answered the set of questions we posed to all newly elected members. His responses follow below. What do you feel will be your three biggest challenges when it comes to governing the city and communicating with your constituents? I feel that one of the biggest challenges will be putting an end to the "us vs. them" mentality that has taken hold over the City the past few years. Two other challenges will be: 1) Getting a complete understanding of the Utilities' debt. 2) Making the citizens feel that their concerns are ... Read More »
Goodland artists gather
By Natalie Strom email@example.com It was late summer and the natives were getting restless. The slow, humid days dragged on and the mosquitoes – while not as bad as usual – pestered in the ears of us as we sat in front of our a.c. units to keep cool. We needed something fresh. We needed something new. And we were in the mood to get creative. Because we're artists; all of us in one medium or another. And so it came to be, that on October 7, 2012, 12 artists from Goodland came together under the pavilion at MarGood Park ... Read More »
Joy of Giving for 24 years
By Coastal Breeze News Staff Every year while we enjoy the holidays, many among us aren't able to have a pleasant holiday. The hardest impact is on little children, who might not have enough to eat on Christmas day, let alone a single present. Twenty four years ago, an islander was feeling very alone over the holidays. That person was Nicki Davis. Rather than allow herself to feel alone with her nearest family over 5,000 miles away, she thought of others who were less fortunate, and decided to buy Christmas toys and presents for a few needy children in the ... Read More »
City of Marco Island Marco Island has six miles of spectacular beaches, including a three-and-a-half mile crescent beach. From Tigertail Beach with its abundance of native flora and fauna, to South Beach, where a variety of beach experiences and activities are available, Marco Island offers a unique and fantastic beach experience to all of its visitors and residents. Tigertail Beach Tigertail Beach, part of the Great Florida Birding Trail, is operated by the Collier County Parks and Recreation Department and hosts 60 species of migrating and resident coastal birds. The widest beach in Collier County opens up south of Tigertail ... Read More »
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COASTAL COMMENTS Donna Fiala email@example.com Hopefully everyone reading this column had a truly Happy Thanksgiving! Our family had so many things to be thankful for, which we prayed about at our Thanksgiving feast. I love it when families gather together around the Thanksgiving table (rule – NO cell phones or texting) and share in each other's lives. Lely High School is paramount in my thoughts at this time because of some outstanding achievements received recently, plus some new activity in the sports department. A new man, Stacey Stewart, has been hired to be the Football Coach at Lely High School. ... Read More »
By Monte Lazarus firstname.lastname@example.com Is it my imagination, or are holiday times accelerating? I believe I just received my first Christmas catalog – for 2014 that is. This year (I think this year is 2012, although it's disappearing rapidly) Halloween began at the Fourth of July; Christmas began before Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving seemingly disappeared, only to reemerge this week. The deluge of catalogs doesn't help. From Hammacher-Schlemmer to LLBean nary a day goes by without a clogged mailbox. We've been overwhelmed by offers for oranges, solar toys, stray dogs and cats, clothing for women, men, kids, pets and stuffed animals. ... Read More »
REMEMBERING HELEN: Building the Marco Community
By Craig Woodward email@example.com On Wednesday, November 14, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, a church which first opened 46 years earlier in November of 1966, many old timers came together to celebrate the life of a Modern Marco pioneer – Helen Tateo. She and her husband, Vince, moved to Marco Island in August of 1966, just a little over a year and a half after the official grand opening of the Island on January 31, 1965. They had first visited in February of 1966 and within eight months moved here permanently, bringing with them their three young sons: Paul, age ... Read More »
Sandy victims need 'Change'
By Danielle Dodder Working actors don't get free designer gowns. They hear 'no' more often than they land a part. They don't have layers of hired handlers, to steer them away from the unscripted side of their personalities. One of these actors, Sean Ringgold isn't just climbing the fame ladder. He is putting his all into making a difference in his old neighborhood. He came to Marco to take part in Soapfest, where he vividly described the harsh reality of what poor neighborhoods experience when a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy hits. The negative impacts that unfold for months, and ... Read More »
Medical Center on track for January opening
By Coastal Breeze News Staff CEO of Physician's Regional Collier campus, Scott Campbell, is excited about the heathcare system's introductory foray into the Marco medical market. Campbell expects the new medical center coming to the Shops of Marco to be on track for a mid- to – late January opening. "We continue planning and development for the opening- placement of physicians for the walk-in component," says Campbell. The 8,200 square foot facility will house a walk-in clinic open 12 hours per day, seven days per week. It will also provide full-time primary care physicians and specialists on rotation, as well ... Read More »
Flotilla 95: Semper Paratus
By Natalie Strom email@example.com For more than 40 years, the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 95 has been offering boating education programs on Marco Island. Its mission is simple: "contribute to the safety and security of our citizens, ports, and waterways." It's motto is direct: Semper Paratus – Always Ready. Through its education programs, Flotilla 95 is ensuring that all local boaters are informed and prepared. Recently wrapping its first round of courses, Flotilla 95 has set its eyes on the New Year as it prepares for the 2013. Below is a list of classes and their descriptions. Sign ... Read More »
Hilton completes renovation
By Coastal Breeze News Staff The Hilton Marco Island Beach Resort and Spa recently announced the completion of its guest room renovation. The AAA 4-Diamond deluxe 11-story resort now features completely redesigned rooms from floor to ceiling The renovation is part of a three-year, $3 billion plan of significant property renovations currently under way across the global portfolio of Hilton Hotels & Resorts, the flagship of Hilton Worldwide. Designed by Douglas L. Burbank, ASID of Atlanta based Design Continuum, Inc., Hilton Marco Island Beach Resort and Spa now offers guests a luxurious Hilton Serenity Bed, 32" LCD television, Cuisinart single-cup ... Read More »
Many hands fill Meals of Hope
By Coastal Breeze News Staff The Meals of Hope exceeded each goal set by event chairman, local attorney Neil Snyder; better known to his committee members as "Captain Hope." The Captain and his "Hope Warriors" challenged the Sunrise Rotary Club, Noontime Rotary Club and Kiwanis Club, as well as schools, churches and organizations on the island. Then, they watched magic happen! The Meals of Hope takes dry ingredients, along with a mixture of protein and vitamins and packages them together. "There are rice meals and a macaroni and cheese meal. Each meal will feed six people." According to Steve Popper, ... Read More »
Let it…SNOW?!!
Submitted "The sound of flutes and bells together is exquisite," said Pinky Larson, director of Wesley United Methodist Church's Wesley Ringers. The Wesley Ringers will join the seven member flute virtuoso group Flute Cocktail and the Marco Presbyterian Church's Praise Bells at the 6:00 PM, December 2 Christmas Concert hosted by Marco Presbyterian Church, 875 West Elkcam Circle, Marco Island. The concert is free. A love offering will be received. Flute Cocktail consists of seven flute players comprised of professional and amateur flutists dedicated to the art of good music and fun. The group was organized by director, Wendy Willis ... Read More »
Christmas Island Style
Submitted First, it was Thanksgiving Day. All the wonderful foods, desserts and the tradition of watching football consumed us over the holiday weekend. Then we would found islanders scurrying around to merchants on the island and over the bridge, in search of that elusive great deal on Black Friday, as the unofficial first day of holiday shopping season began. For many Marco Islanders and their youngsters, it was Friday night at the Shops of Marco that would have them focusing on the aerial delivery of Santa for his first official visit to Marco Island this year, kicking off the 2012 ... Read More »
"Practice" Flower Show
By Calusa Garden Club On Monday, November 12, the Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island held their regular meeting in Fellowship Hall of Wesley United Methodist Church. Among the environmental issues discussed was the Junior Gardeners Program at Tommie Barfield Elementary School where a hands-on recycling program was presented at the last Junior Gardeners meeting. Linda Turner reported on the Island's nesting Eagles. Sue Oldershaw described the new Garden Therapy program recently implemented at Sanitasole, 218 South Barfield. Sanitasole residents helped design fresh and artificial fall table decorations for their dining room. The next several Garden Therapy programs will involve ... Read More »
MIW and the Law
By Coastal Breeze News Staff Marco Island Writers met at the Center for the Arts on Wednesday, November 14. Two speakers brought a wealth of information to the group of over 20 members and guests. For the first hour, Tina Murray, PhD, romance author of "A Chance to Say Yes" brought her insights in her talk titled "Believe in Your Writer- Self." It emphasized the need for authors to believe in themselves and to give themselves permission to explore their inner child as a source of their inspiration. For more information about Murray's book and newest edition of her trilogy, ... Read More »
Local author gets big backing
By Natalie Strom firstname.lastname@example.com It isn't every day that one receives an endorsement from Donald Trump. Local author, Roy Eaton, has received three. A former classmate of Trump's, Eaton recently released his third book, "Makers, Takers & Shakers." Not only has Trump thrown his support behind the book, he even went as far as to share his sentiments about the book on his Twitter page. "Makers, Takers & Shakers" is a collection of Eaton's published newspaper pieces. Discussing a wide range of political and social issues, Eaton also outlines his own life through articles about his family, education experience, owning ... Read More »
MIHM store makes every day a gift day
By Diane Bostic One of the delights to be found in our very own Marco Island Historical Museum, the newest of Collier County's five museums, is the well stocked gift store. Although small, it is chock full of beautiful and educational items for purchase. With the holidays just around the corner you might be searching for something special to give to that special someone on your list. Look no further as the Museum Store has a beautiful selection of jewelry. Lisa Estrada's necklaces and bracelets are hand made of polymer clay in colors to perfectly catch the color of our ... Read More »


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The Common Potoo is a bird of Central and South America that has an amazing ability to blend itself into it's surroundings with an amazing show of confidence.
While many birds of the same region are brightly colored and easy to spot, the Common Potoo has a different goal in mind and accomplishes it well! This nocturnal bird has the ability to hold remarkably still, giving it the appearance of a broken tree branch. Check out this video to see how a mother Common Patoo protects its young!
This caribou was trying to camouflage himself, but the results are kind of, well, derpy...
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This widdle chameleon is doing an impressive job blending into his surroundings. He's got the color down, and just needs to work on his hiding skills.
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A local teacher wants the Boy Scouts of America to be prepared for metal.
The organization offers merit badges for plumbing, woodwork and coin collecting.
So why not a merit badge for welding?
Jack Compton, welding professor at College of the Canyons, is part of a committee initiated by the American Welding Society that plans to submit a curriculum to the Boy Scouts of America in the fall for a welding badge.
"There's a great need for welders," Compton said.
Recent research shows that by 2010, the country will need 200,000 welders to replace retiring welders from the baby-boomer generation, said Compton, who has taught at the community college for 33 years.
"Everything we have today is, in one way or another, associated with welding," Compton said.
That includes infrastructure like buildings, bridges and towers.
"All these things are going to be built or need to be built," Compton said.
The American Welding Society wants to reverse common misconceptions that welding is a dirty and dangerous job, David Landon, chairman of the welding merit badge comittee.
"We want to expose as many people in the school systems and in the scout programs, both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, to welding as a career," he said.
Welding goes beyond opening career opportunities for young students and teaches kids about teamwork, safety and responsibility, he said.
Chase Shillig, leader of Boy Scout Troop 587, gave about 30 of his Scouts, ranging in age from 12 to 18, the opportunity to weld with Compton.
"It really helps them to see what's out there and hopefully just gives them some common skills," he said.
Even if kids don't pursue a career related to welding, they would pick up beneficial skills for everyday life, especially when things around the house break, Shillig, who holds multiple welding certifications, said.
"I think it's more important to have merit badges like this," Shillig said.
Two of Compton's current students at College of the Canyons are active with the Boy Scouts of America.
Bleys Foust, 18, took his first welding class after his dad encouraged him to learn the trade.
"We started out with just one little welding class," he said. "After that, we were blown away. We really liked it."
Foust plans to become certificated in the trade. His goal is to find a job that uses welding skills, he said.
Foust's brother, Brand, 16, also takes welding classes at College of the Canyons.
"It was really interesting because I had no clue what welding was," he said.
Foust thinks young Boy Scouts would benefit from having a welding badge.
Compton developed a passion for welding at age 8, after working with his dad, a sheet-metal worker, on projects, he said.
He spent 12 years working as an aerospace welder before beginning his teaching career.
Decades later, the task of welding still amazes Compton, something he tries to show his students.
"I think it is so amazing that I could take two pieces of solid metal and bring them together," Compton said.


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Michael Brantley went 4-5 tonight with 2 doubles, 2 singles, 2 RBI, and a run score, giving him tonight's Player of the Game Honors. Brantley raised his batting average up to .256 with tonight's performance. With a score of 5.20, this was Brantley's 2nd award of the season. Jack Hannahan came in second behind Brantley with a 2-run homer, a single, and 2 RBI, scoring 4.58.
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The Tribe bats came alive tonight. The scoring started in the 2nd inning when Casey Kotchman hit a sacrifice fly scoring Shin-Soo Choo (walk). Jack Hannahan then hit a 2-run home run scoring Michael Brantley (double). The scoring continued in the 3rd inning after Jason Kipnis lead off the inning with a solo homer. A single by Asdrubal Cabrera, a Travis Hafner walk, and double by Choo and Brantley added a couple more Indians runs and forced Red Sox starting pitcher Josh Beckett to be taken out of the game.
Derek Lowe was solid again tonight. He was hit quite a bit, giving up 7 singles and 2 doubles, but he minimized Boston to just 2 runs.
Feathers Down
Tony Sipp is not quite as dominating as he was last year. Tonight, Sipp gave up a solo home run in the bottom of the 7th inning. He was removed from the game after recording just 2 outs.
Play of the Game
Jack Hannahan hits a 3-run homer in the 2nd inning
Fianl Score: Cleveland Indians 8 – Boston Red Sox 3


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- March 17, 1975
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Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Nearly Did Them Part
Two blood vessels in Jones's brain had popped, and for six days he wavered near death, unaware even of his own name. "If you don't want to live, it's so easy to go," he says. "But all I could think was, 'God, I'm not ready yet.' " Brain surgeons operated, discovered an even more dangerous aneurism, and scheduled a second operation in eight weeks with the warning that even if he survived, permanent paralysis was a possibility. Quincy remembers having "to sign papers about what to do with the body. For a few weeks I went crazy with money."
But sanely, too, during this period he finally got a divorce from his second wife (Swedish model Eula Andersson), and the next day Quincy and Peggy were married in the garden of her parents' Beverly Hills home. Then followed the perfect wedding gifts. Body Heat went gold and, like 30 of Quincy's previous records and albums, was nominated for a Grammy. Most important, his seven-and-a-half-hour second operation was a success. "The doctor told me that they sawed off my skull and put it on the table," he marvels. "Then they put it back on with six metal clips."
Otherwise, the 42-year-old Jones is all but completely recovered. Though he suffers some memory lapses, Quincy has cut a new album, and this week he and his latest band launch a two-month concert tour in San Francisco. Joining them will be Peggy, who hasn't performed since the Mods made their last collar in 1973, and Kidada (her name means "Little Sister" in Swahili). Peggy likes to sing along with Quincy's group in a voice he describes as "smoky, but needs work." The first time she tried it in Japan, she says, "I was more nervous than I had ever been in my whole life."
She is talking about 28 years. Her father, a prosperous Jewish lawyer, set up her first modeling jobs in New York, where they then lived. Her mother, a rather driven artist, encouraged her to take acting lessons. And with that kind of pressure, Peggy developed a cover-girl smile—and a stammer that still lingers when she's nervous. When the Liptons moved to L.A., Peggy worked as a movie usherette before acting in TV dramas like Bewitched. She evolved into what she calls "a Topanga Canyon hippie," living on cottage cheese and rice cakes and drifting from meditation to yoga, until 1968. That was when Mod's youth-smitten producers picked her wounded-canary looks for the female hipster of the three-agent squad. "I enjoyed it, but I didn't realize how violent Mod Squad was," she says now. "When it was over, I was so happy I couldn't wait."
Quincy bloomed just as rapidly as Peggy. One of a carpenter's nine kids, he grew up near Seattle, where he started a gospel quartet at the age of 13 and was blowing trumpet and writing songs with buddy Ray Charles (who though only two years older is still referred to by Jones as "the guru"). Quincy's composing for the Seattle University band won him a scholarship to Boston's Berklee School of Music, and he also studied in Paris with the master teacher Nadia Boulanger. As arranger-writer-trumpeter, he was a formative music figure, touring the world, playing the White House, working with the great bands of the time—Lionel Hampton, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie and a 30-piece orchestra of his own that included flutes and flugelhorns. Then, in 1961, after getting into a bind with the IRS, Quincy alienated the purists but made back his bundle in Hollywood by pioneering the first jazz soundtracks for such movies as In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night and The Getaway.
Quincy met Peggy in 1969 in the Bahamas on a sailboat chartered by a mutual friend. "I thought he was adorable," she says, "but there was no point in getting excited." Two years later, after dating the likes of Ryan O'Neal and Elvis Presley, Peggy was tipped that Quincy had just split with his wife. She pumped a model friend, Quincy's oldest daughter, Jolie, about her chances, and "Jolie called back and said I was definitely in the top ten." ("But you had a bullet, baby," Quincy now quips in record-trade lingo for a fast-rising hit.)
The next time Quincy ate at Jolie's, guess who came to dinner? "Jolie was cooking corned beef hash," remembers the then horrified Peggy, still a health-food freak. "But I said to myself, 'If I'm going to spend the rest of my life with him, I'm just going to have to give up vegetarianism.' " She also had to take up cooking because, says Quincy chauvinistically, "she couldn't even manage cornflakes, and I don't believe in a woman who can't cook." Within a month Quincy moved in with her, though he insists that "if we hadn't ordered food in, we would have starved."
Peggy still talks wistfully of resuming her fledgling musical career but admits that "after two years of laying back and being a mother I'm not sure." For 10 months she was "hooked" on breast-feeding her daughter, whom she plans to send to Montessori classes at 2½ and then to UCLA's experimental grammar school. "If there was a public school where she wouldn't be the only black or mixed kid," she continues, "I would do that."
Jones, more frenetic, has been working 18 or 19 hours a day finishing his album. "I can't do those 24-hour days anymore," he finds, but he isn't complaining. He knows what Stevie Wonder, recently recovered from his near-fatal auto crash, meant when he called and asked, "You saw the high ground, didn't you?" Says Jones: "I feel blessed."
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The Woodinville City Council wants to know how city staffers feel about their jobs after five years of cityhood. "Things are changing. We just want to take the temperature of the organization," Mayor Don Brocha explained last week.
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Crucial final day for Sri Lanka at World Junior Tennis C'ships
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Sri Lanka's hopes of entering the final round of the World Junior (under-14) Boy's Tennis Championship to be staged in the Czech Republic from August 12 to 17, will depend entirely on the singles match between Franklyn Emmanual vs Australia's Todd Lea which was stopped in the third set with the latter leading 4-3 due to rain at the National Tennis Centre (NTC) in Greenpath yesterday. Emmanual won the first set 6-4, while Lee won the second 6-3. The doubles match will also have a impact on the final outcome.
In the earlier singles, Australia's Stephen Potakis beat Sri Lanka's N. S. Nishendran in a three setter (2-6, 7-5, 6-4) and the decider will be clinched today in the morning in the continuation of the other singles and the doubles where Sri Lanka's pair will be Nishendran and Emmanual. Australia are seeded No. 3 and Sri Lanka No. 6.
Earlier in the morning, Sri Lanka, sealed their victory against Japan to earn the top slot in Group III. On Friday, Emmanual won his singles for Sri Lanka beating Japan's Fumiaki Kita in three sets (4-6, 6-3, 6-4), while Kazuyo Ono beat Nishendran also in a three setter (4-6, 6-3, 6-4). Then in the crucial doubles, Sri Lanka's Emmanual and Nishendran won the final set in a tie breaker (7-6) after being one set all on Friday. Japan were seeded No. 4.
Already, India (seed No. 5) and China (seed No. 2) have entered the final round, while the other two slots will be between the winners of the Australia vs Sri Lanka match and the South Korea vs Thailand match which will be continued today.
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quote: We all immigrated unless you are a native American. Some will argue, "but, we all immigrated legally," and this would be correct. Most of us did. The majority came through New York and were processed through the system like everyone else.
quote: But, what I do know, is many of them bust their tails like any other American trying to make a better life for themselves.
quote: I guess, but doesn't "trying to make a better life" include going through the formality of getting U.S. citizenship, opening up bank accounts/credit cards (and not only paying for things with cash) to build credit (to qualify for a car loan or mortgage), becoming fluent in English, and pushing yourself academically & professionally up the career ladder to provide more for your children?
quote: This is the amnesty argument: We can't get rid of them so let's let them all stay and legalize it. This is an incentive that encourages illegal immigration.
quote: Amnesty is never a one time thing. The US will get a flood of illegal immigrants when word gets out that it's coming.
quote: Why not reduce the dollars we spend overseas and spend some getting Mexico in line since it impacts the US?
quote: Whole cities are routinely massacred in Mexico. It's horrifying.
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Listening to the Paul Ryan Budget Reduction Bill, I've decided it is very good, except for the part that cuts the Veterans Pension by 1%. If anything it should be raise....
Thanks for your comments and sorry I come across as such a hothead. I still don't understand using the current active-duty military number in the percentage rather than the number of veterans currently receiving benefits. Anyway, thanks to veterans and I'm glad I chose to serve too. Have a nice day.
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If I was a betting man, I believe Congress is going to vote to repeal these cuts this month, because it's the right thing to do.
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Strike that, I had a brain lapse. But you get my point. You served and you had the opportunity to make it a career. Don't condemn those that chose to do so.
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Oh and btw Dean, you're right. Take children out of the equation and it makes the actual percentage of military retirees even smaller. Yet they choose to target that VERY small group.
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Dean, you're right. There is waste in the DOD just as there is in EVERY department and agency within the federal government. I too saw it first hand. But why is it that they always turn to the DOD as the first stop whenever they decide it's time to make cuts? And why is it within DOD the troops and veterans are the ones that they always go after first? How much money did you see wasted on the troops themselves compared to the billions wasted on defense contracts and cost overruns? How much money is wasted on bases overseas that no longer have any relevance? Do you really feel that cutting 6 billion in military pensions is necessary when there is billions of dollars elsewhere that can be cut first? Spending two decades or more in the military is a huge sacrifice and career service members are essential to our military. You start sending messages that their long career means nothing and retention rates will plummet, and that will severely degrade mission readiness.
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Does it really make sense to use the entire population (e.g. children) in the denominator/base of your 1 percent calculation? Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
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MoMRNRmR: Don't lecture me. I have honorable discharges from active-duty Army and the Air Force Reserves. The military has been a huge drain on the U.S. treasury for decades and it's time to stop the madness. I saw so much waste it made my head spin. What about all the equipment etc. we just left in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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MoMRNRmR-"we have local school teachers, local policeman, fireman, etc. that receive 100% of their pay and benefits after 20yrs-30yrs."
If you are telling us that they are receiving pensions at retirement equal to their pay while they were working, after 20 to 30 years of service that is simply untrue.
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2 things to note;
Military personnel currently serving in the US Armed Forces make up less than 1% of the population.
A veteran does not equate into a retired military personnel.
There are currently over 1,300,000 retired military personal collecting retirement benefits, making them just under 1/2 of 1% of the population.
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No I am not, but I am a veteran and pay very close attention to veteran matters.
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Your Statics on that Website are just Static's! Wormer and Gavinf56 are You retired U.S. Military?
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Dean Wormer, Active Duty Military is 1% of the Population. My husbands was a U.S.Army Soldier for over twenty-five years, I make it a point to now the FACT's do you? Where are you getting your facts?
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I have no idea where you're coming up with this "1 percent" figure. According to the BLS, 9 percent of Americans age 18+ were veterans in 2012.
People can play all sorts of tricks with statistics.
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..but the Federal budget (which pays the military retiree's benefits) has nothing to do with the local teachers, fireman, and police.
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I'm NOT confused, I'm comparing. Thank You.
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MoMRNRmR, I think you are confusing local and state budgets/pensions (teachers, fireman, police) with Federal budgets/pensions.
A better representation would be Federal workers (FDA, IRS, EPA, et al) to include Congressional our retired Congressional representatives.
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Yes, it's a BIG slap in the face! My big beef is that we have local school teachers, local policeman, fireman, etc. that receive 100% of their pay and benefits after 20yrs-30yrs. I find it amazing that our 1% Military Population was singled out and targeted to get "Retirement Cut's". A slap in the FACE is an understatement.
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MoMRNRmR, I agree with you 100%! But I think the only ones that would fully understand why we are so passionate about this issue are the retiree's and their families. It's not even so much about the money, but the fact that they choose to target us after we gave so many years and at the same time billions are being wasted and squandered in government. It's a slap in the face. Like Phil said, you want to change the rules for the young men and women enlisting today, then do it and let them decide if they want to continue to aerve. But don't take from those that have already served decades for this country.
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This subject hits home for me, as I'm married to a retired U.S. Army Veteran and War Hero. I want to let you know, that all U.S. Veterans whom have spent 20+ years as a Soldier don't deserve to be treated with such disrespect! Our Military is 1% of the Population, 1%! Regardless of the AGE of the Retired soldier, should we start to penalize the rest of the RETIRED Population too! Retired military receive 50% of Base Pay and then from that money have to pay: Healthcare, Dental care, Survivors Benefits and Taxes. Why is it that the Welfare Benefits are way better than OUR Military Hero's? Welfare recipients receive: Housing, Food, Clothes, Cars, Phones, etc. and don't work. Any thoughts on that…. Happy New Year!
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...and I disagreed with both terms and said sacrifice would be a better term.
You then questioned whether a "career was a sacrifice". If you knew the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make you wouldn't have made the comment "a career is a sacrifice?".
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Thanks for the forgiveness.
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Gavin, you did not follow the conversation. Capricorn1 is talking about career military. He referred to that as being an elite group and I disagree with the word elite and said exceptional would be better. Then you decided to attack me.
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It has long been the case that people pursued lower paying and dangerous careers because of the security and benefits, especially retirement benefits. It's only right to let retirees and near retirees receive the benefits they earned. There's nothing wrong with changing benefits for people just entering these fields as they can decide if the career is still worth pursuing.
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"Listening to the Paul Ryan Budget Reduction Bill, I've decided it is very good, except for the part that cuts...." I imagine many people could have written that first sentence and then ended it with their own example of what shouldn't be cut. Politicians know that, and that is why things don't get cut.
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CMReeder-you had to go an spoil a very interesting thread. Your forgiven. Happy New Year
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Convenience-store giant 7-Eleven Inc. has put 30 former Wilson Farms locations in upstate New York on the auction block through a third-party broker, as it prunes the 188-store network that it acquired last year from a private equity firm and the Nanula family.
The Dallas-based company, known for its Big Gulp and Slurpee drinks and its ubiquitous brand, hired Chicago-based NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC to sell the stores in upstate and Western New York through a sealed-bid process. The sale will be formally launched on Aug. 15, and bids are due Oct. 18.
The locations stretch from Fredonia to Lake Champlain in eastern New York, but only seven are in the eight-county Western New York region, according to NRC. Two are located in Buffalo � in the 136 North dorm for Erie Community College at 136 North Division St. and at 1540 Broadway � while one is at 1500 Main St. in Niagara Falls. Two others are in Batavia, while there�s one each in Albion and Fredonia. Others are in Rochester, Watertown, Elmira and smaller communities in between.
A complete list and details can be found online at the Strictly Business blog at BuffaloNews.com.
�In any acquisition of an entire chain, there will inevitably be some stores that don�t fit with a buyer�s long-term strategic plans. Such is the case with these 30 properties,� Robbie Radant, 7-Eleven vice president of mergers and acquisitions, said in a press release from NRC, without elaborating on the reasons. �While not right for our current operations, we believe they will provide great opportunities for the right buyers, as they did for Wilson Farms over the years.�
The stores are being sold without 7-Eleven branding. Twenty-four of the stores offer Mobil, Sunoco or unbranded gas, while the other six have only convenience store services. The stores range in size from 1,100 square feet to 3,525 square feet in size, on lots as large as 1.85 acres.
All but one are leased locations, with terms mostly expiring in 2015 but renewal options through 2020 or even 2030, according to the NRC website, and all but one are currently operating. Buyers can purchase as few as one store or up to the entire portfolio.
�We think that this sale provides some great opportunities for others already operating in these geographic areas as well as for those looking to enter these markets,� Dennis Ruben, executive managing director of NRC, said in the press release.
7-Eleven paid an undisclosed price last year to buy Wilson Farms from the Nanulas and investment firm Bruckman Rosser Sherill & Co. LLC, boosting its Western New York presence more than 10-fold. It�s been remodeling and converting most of the stores to its own brand while eventually turning them into franchises.
The company operates, franchises or licenses about 9,400 stores in North America and more than 47,300 in 16 countries worldwide, generating total sales last year of more than $76.6 billion. It launched a massive expansion into New York City last year, and has been adding or converting stores in other major metro areas as it seeks to build scale in such markets. Plans call for it to add at least 630 U.S. and Canadian stores this year, including re-entering markets like Charlotte and Jacksonville.
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Ferragamo — Capital Raising 'With Heart'
Which is more fashionable — Milan or Hong Kong?
When it comes to raising funds for luxury goods, the Asian city has witnessed a parade of top end labels recently, including Prada, which listed in Hong Kong in June. Coach plans to issue depositary receipts there by the end of 2011. The argument for listing in Hong Kong is that deep-pocketed investors in the city understand the Asian consumer market is driving luxury sales.
One company that bucked the trend is Italy's Salvatore Ferragamo SpA, which listed its shares in Milan in June.
In Hong Kong last week, the company's chairman Ferruccio Ferragamo explained: "On the road show, everybody was asking me [why Milan]? I didn't have the answer then. Now I have the answer to your question. We are a 100% made-in-Italy product. Sometimes we make decisions that aren't financial, but financial with heart. We decided Milan would be the best place because we produce all our products in Italy."
That may have sounded like a tacit dig at luxury rivals that make their products in low-cost facilities in places like China or Turkey. But Mr. Ferragamo, who was in Hong Kong to launch a new line of men's shoes, certainly had a different view to some of his peers on capital raising.
"To produce our share certificates outside of Italy would not be logical. But thank God, the multiple that we have reached rewarded our decision."
Ferragamo's shares are currently trading in Milan at about 27 times forward earnings estimates. By comparison, Prada trades at about 22 times forward earnings.
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text: The mother of iconic Minnesota author and broadcaster Garrison Keillor has died. Grace Keillor died Friday at her home in Brooklyn Park at age 97, Garrison Keillor said in a news release. The "Prairie Home Companion" star wrote, "Mother had a good, long life" and said his mother "died in the house Dad built in 1947, with her children around her holding her hand and singing hymns."


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July 26, 2001
7 Days In Arts
Saturday, July 28
With the famous line: "It matters nothing if one is born in a duck yard, if one has only lain in a swan's egg," Hans Christian Andersen's play became a classic success. "The Ugly Duckling" proved to be a story with a moral for children of all generations. Today, the perfect Saturday afternoon outing for the kids is to take them to see the new version of the production by A.A. Milne. In this humorous rendition of the 1941 fable, Princess Camilla is distraught from years of being branded as the ugly one, unfit for marriage. Her endearing determination at proving everyone wrong and showing her true worth is exceptionally inspiring. Free admission. Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Through Aug. 5. For more information, call (310) 712-5482.
Sunday, July 29
Tatjana is a woman who can do it all, from singing popular Broadway musicals to dancing in hilarious skits, she never fails to captivate the audience with her one-woman shows. She eloquently gushes songs from Gershwin, Porter, Mancini, Bernstein and Weber, flooding the stage with her graceful and passionate dramatic performances. The Yugoslavian beauty has studied around the world with notable opera, jazz and drama teachers, leading to her chameleon-like abilities of changing from one act to the other with rapid and entertaining ease. $10 (members); $12 (nonmembers). Discounts for students and seniors available. 2 p.m. Westside Jewish Community Center, 5870 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. For reservations or more information, call (323) 938-2531 ext. 2225.
Monday, July 30
Jascha Heifetz played at Carnegie Hall at the age of 17 and received unprecedented acclaim from the audience and press. Because he was such a frequently requested violinist and public performer, the 4th Annual Los Angeles International Laureates Festival 2001 is dedicated to his memory, celebrating the centenary of his birth. The event lasts for five days, each performance complimented by a distinct instrumental flavor all its own. From Sunday, July 29, the Chamber Orchestra will play with Eduard Schmeider conducting, soloists play strings emulating Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence and Heifetz's most promising student, Erick Friedman, will join the orchestra of piano and violin through Sunday, August 5. Performances vary in admission price. Sun., July 29, 6 p.m.; Mon., July 30, 1 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 2, 8 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 4, 8 p.m.; and Sun., Aug. 5, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Locations vary. For tickets or more information, call (310) 281-3303.
Tuesday, July 31
The only way one could determine the role that Jews play in society is to pretend they never existed as the movie "The City Without Jews" has done. Based on a popular novel, the dark comedy chronicles Austria's choice to enact anti-Jew laws during the onset of World War II. When the laws are finally implemented, the country realizes the loss it has incurred upon itself as the economy is left without its livelihood. The movie is silent and the audience is guided through the drama by Robert Israel. $6 (general admission); $5 (members); $4 (students). 7:30 p.m. Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. For tickets or more information, call (323) 655-8587.
Wednesday, August 1
In the mood for a little romance? Go with your sweetie to the Hollywood Bowl and relish in the sweet sounds of jazz. A starry hot summer night is not complete without vocalist Dianne Reeves and ballad singer and pianist Shirley Horn's harmonious musical union with the Henri Mancini Institute Chamber Orchestra. Ticket prices vary. 8 p.m. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles. For reservations or more information, call (323) 850-2000.
Thursday, August 2
Every Thurday night at the Skirball offers an escape to a different country with its free outdoor evening concerts of August. Tonight, journey to Cuba with the sweet sounds of flutist Danilo Lozano, an originator of the Hollywood Bowl orchestra. The performance will express rich and lively Cuban culture spiced with a hint of American musical flavor. Along with Lozano, Ilmar Gavilan will play the violin, the piano will be graced by Alberto Salas, Carlos Puerto is on bass and clave and Luis Conte is the percussion. 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 30. Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. For more information, call (310) 440-4500.
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Average air pollution levels from secondhand smoke directly outside designated smoking areas in airports are five times higher than levels in smoke-free airports, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study, conducted in five large hub U.S. airports, also showed that air pollution levels inside designated smoking areas were 23 times higher than levels in smoke-free airports. In the study, designated smoking areas in airports included restaurants, bars and ventilated smoking rooms.
Five of the 29 largest airports in the United States allow smoking in designated areas that are accessible to the public. The airports that allow smoking include Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Denver International Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport, according to the CDC. More than 110 million passenger boardings, about 15% of U.S. air travel, occurred at these five airports in 2011.
The findings "further confirm that ventilated smoking rooms and designated smoking areas are not effective," Tim McAfee, MD, MPH, director of the CDCs Office on Smoking and Health, said in a news release. "Prohibiting smoking in all indoor areas is the only effective way to fully eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke."
A 2006 Surgeon Generals Report concluded that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Although smoking was banned on all U.S. domestic and international commercial airline flights through a series of federal laws adopted from 1987 to 2000, no federal policy requires airports to be smoke-free.
"Instead of going entirely smoke-free, five airports continue to allow smoking in restaurants, bars or ventilated smoking rooms," said Brian King, PhD, a coauthor of the report and an epidemiologist with the Office on Smoking and Health. "However, research shows that separating smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air and ventilating buildings cannot fully eliminate secondhand smoke exposure. People who spend time in, pass by, clean or work near these rooms are at risk of exposure to secondhand smoke."
Secondhand smoke causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and is a known cause of sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory problems, ear infections and asthma attacks in infants and children. Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can trigger acute cardiac events such as myocardial infarction. Cigarette use kills an estimated 443,000 Americans each year, including 46,000 nonsmokers from heart disease deaths and 3,400 nonsmokers from lung cancer because of exposure to secondhand smoke.
The report appeared Nov. 20 in the CDCs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and is available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm61e1120a1.htm?s_cid=mm61e1120a1_w.


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Comcast Corp. reached a "tentative settlement" in early June with lawyers representing about two million Philadelphia-area Comcast cable-TV customers in a $875 million class-action lawsuit.
But Comcast says the deal was not final and has declined to follow it because two weeks later the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of the case.
Details of the settlement - including cash payments, service discounts or credits for Comcast cable-TV customers - are now under a court-approved seal order.
It is the latest development in the long-running antitrust suit, filed in 2003, that claims Comcast clustered cable systems in the Philadelphia area through a series of swaps with other cable companies in the late 1990s, enabling it to control and raise cable prices.


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VBS Script Help Needed Please
Hi sorry if im in the wrong section but I came across this forum and I saw vbs on the title and I thought It was appropriate. :embarasse
Im hoping some one can help me with the problem that im having regarding a script that I put together from a couple of others.
Long story short Im having an issue with user roaming profiles that have been configured for Citrix. Some of the server only see a folder if the user has full control over the folder + folder name = username and others only see the folder if the user has full control + folder name= username.domain. The issue was introduced because some of the citrix TS servers are 2003 and others are 2003 Sp2.
Patching is not a solution that is currently on the table. After having a look around I found several methods but non of witch worked hence I came with this script
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c. Assign full control from a user to the folder.
The scipt works fine it creates folder/checks them. It assigns proper permissions to the folder. But the issue is that when the script is runs on login it comes up with an error Line X Char X errors. Now after going through the script I have tried to fix as many of these as i can but the errors still pop up. Unfortunately my knowledge of VBS is very limited and Im not able to figure out why the script continuously errors. :worried:
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UPDATE: All lanes reopened.
All southbound lanes of Interstate 81 were reported closed Wednesday in Antrim Township just north of the Maryland border after a crash involving multiple vehicles.
The crash took place between mile markers 4.5 and 2.5 and involved at least two vehicles, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's traffic alert website.
Police and emergency responders arrived at the scene at around 7:15 p.m. and made the decision to close the interstate.
It was not immediately apparent if any injuries resulted from the crash.
Traffic was beginning to back up along I-81 in the southbound lanes approaching the crash, as well as on Buchanan Trail East/Route 16 at Exit 5, according to PennDOT.


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'Giant Slayer' scares up $28M
It wasn't exactly a mighty victory, but "Jack the Giant Slayer" won the weekend at the box office.
The movie based on the Jack and the Beanstalk legend made $28 million, but it still has a way to go before it recoups its $200 million budget.
But the studio also hit a milestone on the global front when Peter Jackson's fantasy epic "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide. The first of three films based on the classic J.R.R. Tolkien novel has made $301.1 million domestically and $700 million internationally.
Domestically, this is the sixth weekend in a row that movie ticket sales were down, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. He pointed out that many of the action pictures aimed at men this year have been disappointments at the box office.
Among the few bright spots, "Identity Thief" has become the first film to cross the $100 million mark this year. Now in its fourth week in theaters, the comedy has made $107.4 million.
But Dergarabedian is optimistic that things will turn around with the opening this week of Disney's "Oz the Great and Powerful," a much-anticipated prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" starring James Franco and directed by Sam Raimi. It's expected to open in the $75-100 million range.
Dish, CBS tangle over Cuoco's tweet
A tweet from Kaley Cuoco, co-star of CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," is making a big bang of its own.
Cuoco tweeted praise for Dish Network's new DVR called the Hopper as part of an endorsement deal with the satellite broadcaster. She said, "Amazing! Watching live TV anywhere on the. Hopper looks pretty awesome! Now where can I find a tiny beer?"
Then the tweet disappeared and Dish accused CBS of ordering her to take it down. CBS is engaged in a legal fight with Dish over the commercial-skipping feature in its Hopper DVR.
"It is disappointing that CBS -- once the exemplar of editorial independence and innovation -- continues to use its heavy hand to hold back progress from consumers," Dish Chief Executive Joe Clayton said.
CBS didn't like being dissed by Dish and fired back that it did not tell the actress to yank her tweet.
Klum joins judging panel of 'America's Got Talent'
NBC has added Heidi Klum to "America's Got Talent" as its fourth judge.
The supermodel will join fellow incoming judge Mel B this summer for the talent competition's eighth season. Howie Mandel and Howard Stern will be back at the judges' panel.
Klum says she's excited to join the show and size up the talent, "from the ridiculous to the fantastic!"
She continues to host the Peabody Award-winning "Project Runway" on Lifetime, as well as Germany's "Next Top Model."
CW axes '90210' after 5 seasons
The CW announced it is pulling the plug on "90210" after five seasons.
The show, a sequel of Fox's popular teen drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," will sign off after its remaining seven episodes of this season air.
"The CW has had five great seasons with America's favorite ZIP code, 90210," said network president Mark Pedowitz. "I'd like to thank the talented cast, producers, and crew for all their hard work."
The series has seen its ratings drop significantly over its run. It debuted in 2008 to 4.6 million viewers, but now hovers around 500,000.
Its finale is set for Monday, May 13.
Ja Rule to remain in jail until July
Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule remains in a New York City jail and won't be released until July.
The 36-year-old rapper left a state prison in central New York last week after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession and went straight into federal custody in a tax evasion case.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons officials say he has since moved from an upstate jail to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, which houses prisoners awaiting court dates or having short terms left on their sentences.
His expected release date is July 28.
Ja Rule admits he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million earned between 2004 and 2006 while he lived in New Jersey.
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The Beef Carcase Classification scheme: work as a classifier
Find out how to become a licensed classifier for the Beef Carcase Classification (BCC) scheme.
To classify beef carcases you must get a proficiency licence from the Meat Technical Schemes section of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
The application process involves a test.
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After you send in your completed form, an inspector from the Livestock and Meat Inspectorate (part of RPA) will check that you understand the principles of carcase classification. If they're satisfied, they'll arrange for you to take a test which involves grading 40 carcases. Inspectors will assess whether your work is of an acceptable standard.
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Perry Stands Firm on Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
Just six months ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Florida Gov. Rick Scott were fishing together on Fox News, pitching then-presidential contender Mitt Romney's Medicare plan and arguing that decisions about health care should be made by states, not the federal government.
On Wednesday, Scott reversed course, joining a growing number of Republican governors who are reluctantly embracing the key tenet of President Obama's federal health reform — a sweeping Medicaid expansion.
"While the federal government is committed to paying 100 percent of the cost," Scott said at a press conference, "I cannot in good conscience deny Floridians that ...


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Football Outsiders took a look at coaching aggressiveness as expressed by their fourth down decision making. Needless to say Caldwell didn't fare well nor did many coaches. FO wonders when it will end:
You'd think that a quick perusal of the career AI rankings showing five Super Bowl-winning coaches among the top seven would motivate more coaches to keep their punters and kickers on the sidelines. Apparently not. Analysts have also put forth many logical arguments in support of the data. If the coaches are listening, it hasn't changed the way they approach their decision-making on game day.


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To assess whether rates of amputation and leg-sparing surgery for peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities differ between African-American and white patients.
Retrospective cohort study using Medicare claims data for 1989 and 1990.
A total of 3313 hospitals in the United States.
Random sample of 19 236 Medicare Part A enrollees who underwent amputation and/or leg-sparing surgery for peripheral vascular disease.
Main Outcome Measures:
Adjusted odds of toe and/or foot amputation, below-knee amputation, above-knee amputation, lower extremity arterial vascularization, and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for African Americans relative to whites, controlling for case-mix, region, and hospital characteristics.
African-American patients were significantly more likely than white patients to undergo above-knee, below-knee, and toe and/or foot amputation and significantly less likely to undergo lower-extremity arterial revascularization and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. These associations occurred for diabetic patients and nondiabetic patients but were more pronounced among patients who did not have diabetes.
Potential explanations include unmeasured factors such as severity of disease and the technical expertise available at hospitals or other factors such as lack of compliance with medical treatment and racespecific treatment decisions by providers. Whatever the cause, interventions aimed toward reducing the number of amputations among African Americans are needed. Further work is required to determine where such interventions should be targeted.(Arch Surg. 1995;130:381-386)
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A RECORD number of operations have been carried out in the county's hospitals but bosses say they still face a struggle to reduce the backlog of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment.
The warning comes from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust as Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledges an extra £250million to bring down waiting lists, particularly for those who have been waiting more than a year for treatment.
Although no one has been waiting longer than 12 months in Worcestershire a total of 1,612 have waited over the 18 week target time with some more than 37 weeks.
The issue has become more politically sensitive as the General Election draws nearer with both the Department of Health and NHS England pushing Trusts to clear any backlog by September.
The Trust has responded to the problem by increasing the number of operations performed. About 300 additional inpatient operations and around 600 additional day cases were carried out in June, cutting the backlog by close to 400 patients.
GPs are also reviewing those caught up in the backlog and offering them treatment in the private sector but paid for by the NHS.
But at the same time demand is increasing with orthopaedics alone being hit by a 7.7 per cent increase in referrals into the Trust.
A lot also depends on the number of patients admitted through A&E as a sudden surge in demand could tie up beds and result in cancelled operations.
Stewart Messer, the Trust's chief operating officer, said to clear the backlog by September would require another 600 patients to be treated during August on top of the 960 treated in June, which was an all time record.
"You do start to run out, not necessarily of people capacity, but of physical capacity." he told a board meeting last Wednesday (July 30).
The Trust remains on course to clear the backlog by November but that is based on demand reducing as well as extra operations being carried out.
"It is like turning a very big oil tanker in terms of getting this back on track." Mr Messer added.
Chief executive Penny Venables said on some occasions there were good clinical reasons for delaying treatment due to the complexity of a patient's condition.