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100 Federal St. bought for $615 million
Despite the sale, the bank's Boston headquarters will remain at 100 Federal. The lender has signed a long-term lease for 787,000 square feet of space.
Boston Properties (BXP) is one of the city's largest landlords, owning a number of trophy properties including the tallest buidings in the city, the John Hancock Tower and the Prudential building in the Back Bay.
The 37-story property at 100 Federal St. features 1.3 million-square-feet of Class A office space located in the heart of Boston's Financial District. It is nearly 94 percent leased, according to the Downtown Boston Horizon Study by McCall & Almy, a Boston brokerage that only represents tenants.
Real estate insiders note that the per square foot price for 100 Federal of $473 was less than at least two other high profile property sales in Boston last year including 53 State St., which fetched $536 per square foot, and 33 Arch St., which netted $610.
Under constuction: Commonwealth Honors College at UMass-Amherst
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is building an $186.5 million residential and teaching complex to serve Commonwealth Honors College.
The facility will include 1,500 beds, nine classrooms and faculty residences, along with space for gathering, advising and administration of the program, according to UMass.
The new living/learning facility will be erected on the east side of Commonwealth Avenue between the Recreation Center and the Boyden Gymnasium. Plans call for buildings ranging from four to six stories arranged around a series of courtyards. The complex will open in the fall of 2013.
At its peak this summer, the project will have about 400 construction employees working on the site. The university is financing the project by borrowing conducted through the UMass Building Authority.
Commonwealth Honors College currently serves about 3,000 students in 88 majors. It provides an intellectually challenging honors curriculum, creates a community of scholars and requires a capstone project of students.
The college plans to gradually increase its incoming classes from 485 this fall to 600 per year.
Harvard moves to bolster safety at primate center
The actions come after the primate center was taken to task over the deaths of three animals. In the wake of the deaths, interim director Fred Wang left the center earlier this month.
Taunton set to vote on tribe casino June 9
In a letter to the state this week, tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell said the Wampanoags are working with Arkana Ltd., an internationally known developer of resort casinos, and are confident they will meet the requirements for a casino in southeastern Massachusetts, the BBJ reports.
Demandware IPO exceeds expectations
The e-commerce software firm becomes the second member of the Massachusetts tech community to go public in the past month, following the IPO of Cambridge-based Brightcove Feb. 17, the BBJ notes.
TJX same-store sales up 9% in February
Consolidated comparable store sales, a key metric for retailers, increased 9 percent for the four-week period ending Feb. 25. Sales were strongest in the Northeast and Southwest, TJX said on a call. West Coast sales remained in line with expectations, while the Southeast trailed averages.
The operator of T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and Marshalls stores said inventory is "extremely fluid" and the company is "very well positioned to snag" a good assortment of clothes for the next few months. The company reiterated its first-quarter outlook of 45 to 47 cents earnings per share, with same-store sales growth of 2 to 4 percent.
TJX expects its March comparable sales to rise 1-3 percent and April same-store sales of flat to up 2 percent.
In a statement, Chief Executive Carol Meyrowitz said "very favorable weather patterns" had "helped boost demand for spring apparel." The company will report March sales on April 5.
Babson dumps old business plan competition
"Our BETA Challenge competition is evaluating action that has taken place, learning that happened and how plans are tweaked, modified or have done a full pivot to move forward," said Janet Strimaitis, managing director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, in an interview.
Students are no longer required to submit a 30-to-50-page paper, but instead a slide presentation of about a dozen slides that answer key questions, Strimaitis said.
The new competition, which launched with the submission deadline on March 2, is called the BETA Challenge – Babson Entrepreneurial Thought and Action. Previously, Babson has run the Douglass Graduate Business Plan Competition and the John H. Muller Jr. Undergraduate Business Plan Competition.
The judges are alumni from around the world, who evaluate all of the submitted plans and choose six graduate and six undergraduate ideas. The next round is a venture expo on April 4, when the semifinalists present a 90-second elevator pitch, describing steps they have taken since submitting their ideas.
The finals of the competition are on April 18.
State unlikely to recoup Evergreen investment
Evergreen, which went bankrupt last year, expects to sell its shuttered Devens facility and pay over $5 million to MassDevelopment in a settlement, but as the Herald reports, the state will still be $9.6 million in the hole on its estimated $31 million investment in the company.


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A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between husbands and wives, at least if a new study that used voodoo dolls is right.
One of my favorite big city comfort foods is a staple of the diner scene -- the patty melt.
Here was the problem: I needed dinner ready by 7:15 p.m. But I was going to be out of the house for the two hours before that.
Asparagus has been a delicious symbol of spring since at least as far back as the Greeks, who called it asparagos -- literally, "to spring up."
Looking for a quick, easy treat for Easter? Let the kids help make these coconut cookies.
Maybe it's the bright color. Maybe it's the fresh, vibrant taste. Whatever the reason, Easter has become inextricably linked to lemon (and chocolate, of course).
There are many reasons to enjoy the Cotton District Arts Festival in Starkville Saturday. The Taste of Starkville culinary competition is a big one. In this good-natured food showdown, local restaurants and cooks vie for titles while offering up fare for every tastebud.
Just one more squash dish. Before spring truly arrives, I wanted to squeeze in just one more recipe for roasted butternut squash.
Though carrots often make it into the Easter feast lineup, I've never understood why. Maybe it's a nod to the Easter bunny.
Breakfast is now being served with a side of sticker shock.
Airline passengers might notice something missing these days from their vodka tonics or Diet Cokes: the lime.
The nail-biters can give it a rest for a few days. College basketball fanatics are celebrating or licking wounds, depending on where their allegiances lay this past weekend. But whether their team is still in or long gone from the NCAA Tournament, any fan who relishes the adrenaline rush of battle and buzzer beaters is picking teams for Saturday's Final Four. It's all down now to Florida, UConn, Wisconsin and Kentucky. But we still gotta eat, right?
At Thanksgiving, we stuff turkeys. At Easter we stuff ... ? Hams!
Palmer Home for Children has been growing produce for its own kitchen for years, but this season, it adds a whole new twist -- by sharing the harvest with the community.
Food is very trendy. One trend I have recently observed is that congealed salads are coming back. I love any kind of congealed salad. My mama always had one in the refrigerator when I was growing up. Her mama, my Mamaw, always had one as well. I prepare them occasionally, but my boys never really cared for them. Steve always said they were dessert.
Our spring feasts -- often centered around Passover and Easter -- typically call for a center-of-the-plate star like brisket or lamb. Of course they're delicious, but both can seriously ramp up the fat and calories in a meal that tends to put the groan into groaning board even before the main course is served.
Nobody had to be asked twice to line up for the buffet at Trotter Convention Center March 11. Tables laden with food and a room filled with tantalizing aromas did the job. The first annual Lowndes County Wildlife Tasting Supper was a solid success.
Invented in Buffalo, N.Y., during the '60s, buffalo chicken wings have become a national favorite. Big surprise! If fat is where the flavor is, and if everyone's a sucker for flavor, buffalo chicken couldn't lose.
It's no secret that some of the best cooking in any town can often be found in its houses of worship. Good fellowship and food are a natural pairing.
I've always been a big fan of eggplant Parmesan. There are a bunch of ways to make this classic Italian dish, but I'm partial to what you might call the full-fat version: thick slices of breaded eggplant that are sauteed, then baked until creamy, and finally topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese.
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Vitamin K2, Menatetrenone, Activator X or Whatever...It's Amazing | Free The Animal
Hey guys!
Hope youre doing well..
Ive recently wrote a new post on my blog entitled 10 Superfoods for Better Health, Fast Weight-Loss & Increased energy and Id like to have you guys feedback.
10 Foods for Better Health, Fast Weight Loss, and Increased Energy | TheFeelGoodLifestyle.com
Specifically, I want to know..
What do you think of superfoods?
Are you currently eating them?
If not, why not?
Its a topic Im passionate about and I really just want your honest opinion so I understand how others think about this topic.
Thanks a lot guys!
This guy doesn't buy into them
Vitamin K2, Menatetrenone, Activator X or Whatever...It's Amazing | Free The Animal
You definitely brought some new foods to my attention. I eat less than half of these things. But, I can't stand tea in general, so that leaves one out...
Started 9/15/11 at 323 pounds
2/16/13 at 241 pounds
Goal is 223 pounds or less
i don't buy into the superfood hype. 'specially not chia seeds. and i'll throw up if i see anything else about goji berries (aka the acai of 2012).
Jakey why don't you believe in chia seeds? Great source of omega 3, unreal source of fiber, has some protein.. and like I mention in the article it's used as a main energy source by the best super-long distance runners in the world.. I think they're on to something.
Why isn't kale on the list? Quinoa is too high in carbs --- especially for those of us who don't work out much. I'll add sweet potatoes back in in a couple months.
I eat the coconut oil. The raw cacao sounds interesting... may have to look for that.
5'0" female, 45 years old. Started Primal October 31, 2011, at a skinny fat 111.5 lbs. Low weight: 99.5 lb on a fast. Gained back to 115(!) on SAD chocolate, potato chips, and stress. Currently 111.
the kind of omega 3 in chia seeds is barely biologically available to humans. ALA is not the long chain stuff we're after. they're an incomplete protein too, i wouldn't think of the as a protein source. i'm not into super long-distance running, at all, but if it works for them, keep pumpin it!
by the way, you like great. keep eating whatever foods you've been eating.
I think the term is both misleading and counter productive to achieving good health. It feeds right into the "I can make up for all my crappy choices by munching a few magic berries" mentality. I know because I pre-primal I had this mentality.
The label superfoods encourages a 20% Primal, 80% CW diet instead of the other way round.
I'm not into the "super foods" concept. While I certainly believe that some foods are better than others (and certain foods are definitely great sources of antioxidants or other great things), I find the general idea to be too close to the "take a pill and keep eating garbage" concept of the U.S. It's too easy to think "well, I had some kale and blueberries today, so that balances out the slice of chocolate cake."
I try to eat good food all-around, and if some of it happens to be on someone's superfood list, then so be it.
You enthuse about "fat free" sweet potato methods, are very keen on fibre, want to add seeds to your cereal/oatmeal, mix your quinoa with lentils...
Uh huh.
Hope your website benefits from the extra hits but I call BS.


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Syracuse, NY -- Hess is still "yes" for the village of Fayetteville.
You're seeing it shut down and ominous right now, but that won't be for long, said Karen Shephardson, deputy village clerk.
"It's temporarily closed because of renovations," said Shephardson. "We've had a couple of calls because they have a lot of loyal customers here."
The fueling station and convenience store in the heart of the village is undergoing a management change. Hess corporate has taken it on, said Shephardson.
Hess is renovating the property, mostly with cosmetic touches.
It should re-open in approximately three weeks.
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- New York state's 40th BJ's Wholesale Club opened in Ithaca last weekend. The 85,000-square-foot store at The Shops at Ithaca Mall is BJ's latest prototype facility.
Believe it: This is the first warehouse club for Ithaca. So says Gina Speno, general manager of The Shops at Ithaca Mall, which is owned by Syracuse-base Pyramid (Carousel Center's owner).
"There's not a Sam's Club here, either, and people were going to Auburn and, I think, Binghamton," said Speno. "That's why we're really excited. The drive into the mall is shared, which is nice."
The look inside and, especially, outside the new BJ's is different. It's less Fortress BJ's and a lot brighter.
- Talk is chee. Let's see what actions occur. Cheeburger Cheeburger may be bringing a second location to Central New York, on Erie Boulevard East near Thompson Road in Syracuse, in the proximity of Chuck E. Cheese's. (Coincidence? I think not). The other Cheeburger Cheeburger we have hereabouts is in Camillus, across from Camillus Commons, and it's powerful tasty.
- While we're out in that direction, you know the Walmart near East Syracuse? That longtime McDonald's in-store restaurant is closed. Dunkin' Donuts is heading in.
- Speaking of store-within-a-store, the Delta Sonic Car Wash in Salina now has its Tim Hortons inside. DeWitt's Delta is getting one, too.
- Bargain Shopping Sunday (as in today): All of the Rescue Mission Thrifty Shopper thrift stores are having a 46-percent-off storewide sale all day today.
- Under the radar, but not for long, is Roberts Office Furniture Concepts. The company, located on Henry Clay Boulevard near Liverpool, buys, restores and sells office furniture built by Steelcase, Herman Miller, Haworth and the like. A new showroom is coming. A March 13 opening date has been checked, and the shop will be near Driver's Village in Cicero.


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Only 41 Atlantic City Electric customers in the Millville and Bridgeton areas were without service as of Wednesday afternoon according to the company's Outage Map on their website. Approximately 20 remain as of Thursday afternoon according to the map.
"Nearly two miles of wire was replaced in the Bridgeton and Glassboro areas," said Sandra May, media representative for Atlantic.
The company has been working around the clock to get it's customers back on the power grid.
"By late today, the remaining outages will be restored," said Robert Revelle, Atlantic City Electric Region Vice President in a press release on Wednesay.
"We're thankful for our customers' patience and the assistance we received from local officials," he added.
Millville residents, who were clearly hit worst by the storm, have had to deal with blocked roads, fallen trees and live electric wires on the ground for nearly three days. Atlantic has been working on repairing their lines while residents and the city have worked to clear trees and tree limbs.
The powerful thunderstorm left approximately 68,000 customers without power. About 7,000 of those were in Cumberland County.
The company encourages it's customers to develop plans for such emergencies.
"They (customers) should decide what to do in the event of a lengthy power outage such as seeking temporary shelter with family or friends," said May.
Dale Finch, commissioner and director of public affairs in Millville, said there wasn't much residents could have done to lessen the impact of the storm.
"Something like this, you don't know how or where it's going to hit. There's no way you can prepare," said Finch.


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Planned Parenthood news release - Friday, Dec. 16, 2011
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) Will Close Forks Health Center by Year End
SEATTLE -- Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) will be closing its Forks health center located at 231 Lupine Avenue, effective Dec. 31. The closure is part of a general reduction and restructuring of the organization in which two other health centers will also be closed. Those include: Oak Harbor and Silverdale. Additionally, PPGNW will be downsizing operations in Sitka, Alaska.
The decision to close these particular health centers was not made lightly. Throughout this economic downturn, it was previously possible for PPGNW's larger health centers to subsidize the smaller locations. Now, with additional loss of state and federal funding and increased eligibility requirements for family planning programs, fewer patients can access services. PPGNW is deeply saddened that federal family planning restrictions and inadequate state funding have contributed to the closure of these health centers. In this harsh economy, PPGNW can no longer sustain operations in Forks.
Critically important in making this decision was ensuring that PPGNW patients could continue to receive needed health care services at a nearby Planned Parenthood health center. The Forks closure will impact 71 patients who will be referred to the Planned Parenthood health center in Port Angeles. The Port Angeles Health Center is located at 426 E. 8th Street in Port Angeles.
"We don't want any of our patients to fall through the cracks and we will work with them to transition their care to our Port Angeles Health Center," said Chris Charbonneau, CEO/President PPGNW. "We will make every effort to get our patients the care they need." Additionally, PPGNW is working diligently to expand our telemedicine and other online services to better serve patients in the more remote areas affected by the closures.
PPGNW salutes the Forks staff who has worked tirelessly to provide the community with essential health care like life-saving cancer screenings, birth control, well-woman exams, education programs, STD prevention and treatment, and other family planning services. PPGNW would like to express its gratitude to all of our Forks donors and supporters who have stood by the health center throughout its many years in Forks. As PPGNW navigates the current economic downturn, we hope that you will continue to support the mission of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.
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The NBA's longest current winning streak belongs to the Miami Heat at 27 games. However the Knicks--a blue and orange blur charging up in the distance behind Secretariat--now have the league's second-longest current streak at five games.
Okay, New York doesn't have enough games left to overtake the 1971-1972 Los Angeles Lakers' record, but the real goal of an NBA season is for a team to be playing its best basketball at the end leading into the postseason.
And even though a litany of injuries will prevent them from doing that exactly, the Knicks do appear to be playing their best basketball, given the difficult circumstances. Tuesday's 100-85 win over the Celtics in Boston is another step in the right direction.
"We want to beat them," Carmelo Anthony said, as quoted by Newsday's Al Iannazzone. "Let's just be quite frank about it: We always want to beat Boston. New York in anything wants to beat Boston. When we do it, it's a great feeling."
The Knicks now hold a slight edge on the Indiana Pacers for the second spot in the Eastern Conference and they have a 2 1/2 game lead on the Brooklyn Nets for the top spot in the Atlantic Division.
A lot of the credit goes to a trio of former Denver Nuggets: Anthony, J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin.
"That kid talent-wise, man, he's one of the best talents in the league," Martin said of Smith, as quoted by Jared Zwerling of ESPNNewYork.com. "He can shoot the ball anywhere. The sky's the limit for him ... When he's getting to the basket, that just opens his game up even more. He makes tough spots, which he's proven time and time again."
Smith had a game-high 32 points on 13-of-24 shooting, which--as Zwerling pointed out--is the fourth consecutive game in which he's shot over 50 percent from the field.
Martin's performance was particularly rewarding because it came at the expense of the Celtics.
Marc Berman of the New York Post:
There was even sweet redemption for starting center Kenyon Martin, who again filled in for the injured Tyson Chandler with a fiery performance: nine points, including two monster putbacks, five rebounds, and a key block on a driving Avery Bradley.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers admitted the team inquired when Martin was a free agent but passed.
"It's their fault, they lost,'' Martin said. "There were talks, negotiations. They chose not to do it. It was out of my control. I'm a Knick now, so they lost.''
The irony of the Knicks' win is that it could set up a first-round matchup with the Celtics, who swept New York in the first round two seasons ago.
Frank Isola of the New York Daily News:
In shelving Garnett, Boston conceded the division before the Knicks took it from them. The feeling is that the Celtics wouldn't mind finishing seventh because they would avoid Miami for at least two rounds. A seventh-place finish could also set up a first-round date with New York. Maybe that is Doc Rivers' plan all along.
"This is a team we probably could face in the playoffs," Jason Kidd said. "So to be able to know that you can go on the road and beat them definitely helps."
In other Knicks news:
• As I wrote yesterday, Martin and Anthony have reconnected as teammates with the Knicks: "According to NBA.com's new stats tool, the Knicks have posted an offensive rating (points scored per 100 possessions) of 125.7 in the 97 minutes the pair has logged together, which is impressive considering that the team ranks third in that category for the entire season at 107.5... The Knicks' defensive rating (points allowed per 100 possessions) is also slightly better when the two are together--101.6 compared with a rating of 103.1 for the entire season."
• NJ.com's Tony Williams sees J.R. Smith as more than a scorer when he's at his best: "The fact that Smith was second on the team with those four offensive rebounds showed just how well-rounded he can be when he's fully engaged in the game. His energy actually helped the Knicks hold a 27-4 advantage in second-chance points through the first three quarters when the game was still hotly contested. When he's not just gunning and looking to get his numbers, the athletic Smith is one of the best all-around shooting guards in the NBA."
• Berman wrote that Knicks coach Mike Woodson wants to snap the Heat's streak: "The South Beach showdown is six days away, but Mike Woodson is hoping the Miami Dream Team enters with a 30-game win streak... 'They're playing at such a high level, nobody is coming close to beating them,' Woodson said before the Knicks' 100-85 win over the Celtics last night. 'It would be nice. Their streak could end. They're playing two good teams [beforehand]. [But if] they're undefeated and we go into Miami, hopefully we can be the team to break their streak.'"
• Zwerling explained that Woodson is in favor of a two-point guard backcourt: "The smaller lineup has led the team to four straight wins against the Jazz, Magic and Raptors (twice). Now, with Tuesday night's game against the Celtics marking the starting five's toughest test yet, Mike Woodson said that he likes the two point-guard backcourt."
• Knicks fans should check out "Walk With Me" tonight after the Knicks-Grizzlies game on MSG Network. An excerpt from the release: "The 30-minute program follows the Knicks coach for a week as he leads practices, goes over film with his coaching staff and interacts with his players – all while balancing a life as a husband and father."


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Chief Executive Breakfast Roundtable
80 Columbus Circle at 60th Street,
Welcome Remarks: Roundtable Discussion
Agenda 7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Arrival of Participants/Breakfast 8:00 – 8:10 a.m.
J.P. Donlon, Editor-in-Chief
Chief Executive magazine
8:10 – 8:30 a.m. Individual Guest Introductions 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
J.P. Donlon, Editor-in-Chief
Chief Executive magazine
Welcome Remarks:
Roundtable Discussion
Intangible assets account for about half of market value of most companies. Whether its patents, processes, customer services, intellectual property or delivery systems-its ideas and services that are the true coin of the 21st century firm. Intangibles assets in companies such as Microsoft or eBay can be as much as 80 percent of market value. Most high performing companies manage intangibles as rigorously as managing brick and mortar. This roundtable will explore the degree to which clever CEOs and their senior teams develop and leverage the intangible values that offer the springboard of future value. Just as important is how intangibles are measured, how they are perceived by shareholders and stakeholders, and what CEOs need to consider in monitoring how intangibles are managed and leveraged in order to have the maximum impact on value creation.
In preparation for the roundtable discussion, here are links to past articles that appeared in Chief Executive magazine and a white papers to shed some light on the topic for prior to the event.
Leading Your Business to Maximum Results
Three Questions Every Executive Needs to Answer, First – and the Tools for Getting the
The Reputation Question
Just how much does a company's reputation affect shareholder value- and what can you do about it?
Safeguarding Trade Secrets in China
A former USTR hand advises firms on how best to protect their company's assets.
IP Lawsuit Becomes Brand Battle on the Web: Lessons for Upstart Market Entrants
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky makes clever use of the Internet to ward-off industry leader Scotts.
Taking Intellectual Property Seriously
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The Cowboys path to the draft officially begins Thursday as the NFL Combine kicks off at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis. Let take a look at a few key dates for the combine and beyond.
NFL Combine: February 23-March 1, 2011
The NFL prospects will go through a whole battery of exams including; personal interviews, psychological assessments, medicals, agility, speed, and strength testing.
NFL Network will be onsite with live coverage, so be sure to tune in, their coverage is outstanding.
Offensive Lineman, place kickers, special teams, and tight ends workout Feb. 25-26
Wide Receivers, quarterbacks, running backs conclude workouts Feb. 27
Defensive Lineman, linebackers conclude workouts Feb. 28
Defensive Backs conclude workouts March 1
NFL Draft: April 28-30, 2011
1st Round (April 28th, Thursday, 6:30pm)
2nd-3rd Rounds (April 29th, Friday, 5pm)
4th-7th Rounds (April 30th, Saturday, 9am)
2011 Cowboys Draft Picks
Round 1 #9
Round 2 #40
Round 3 #71
Round 4 #109
Round 5 #139
Round 6 #170
Round 7 #209 (from San Diego)
Quick Prediction
Cowboys trade down and draft an offensive lineman, probably a right tackle to replace the run down Marc Colombo. Same could be said for LG, Kyle Kosier's durability is in questions and an early pick in the 1st or 2nd could address this as well. To me the "Cowboy Way" is smash mouth, mauling offensive lineman, and right now the Cowboys are missing that Erik Williams, Larry Allen player. Look for Garrett to find his guy in this draft, someone nasty.


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DECATUR, Alabama - The Decatur City Council will not vote Monday night on the proposed $10 million pipeline to bring more water from Decatur Utilities to Limestone County.
The vote has been delayed until August, said Council President Gary Hammon.
The Times/AL.com reported Sunday that the council was set to approve an agreement that would allow the Limestone County Water and Sewer Authority to construct a pipeline under the Tennessee River and quadruple the amount of DU water it buys from 1.5 million to 6 million gallons per day.
The project could take up to 3 1/2 years to complete at a cost of between $10 and $11 million.
Hammon said he pulled the pipeline item from Monday's agenda to add another rate price for higher demand.
The contract doesn't change much, he said, but it needs another pay rate in case LCWSA increases the amount it buys to resell. If the authority bought more water to resell at a profit, it will pay a higher rate, Hammon said.
It's still a "win-win for everybody," Hammon said, because Limestone County gets the additional water it needs for economic development and Decatur Utilities can earn more revenue.
"They're (DU) only using about 50 percent of the capacity they can produce, so this will help them," he said.


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Walking and talking
Apart from Jake the Cat and Mac the Dog, we have a pet peeve. It's when people-especially-Singaporeans say, "you can talk the talk, but can you walk the talk?" Can someone please tell people who say that that the correct/original/true saying is "you can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk"? WTF does one mean by "walk the talk"? The only time I "walk the talk" is when I drop my phone and step on it. Tweet


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BAY CITY — As Michigan's teachers union tries to battle proposed budget cuts in Lansing, its local union members are preparing to vote on what course of action to take.
The Michigan Education Association (MEA) sent letters two weeks ago to local union presidents and members asking them to take votes before April 15 authorizing job actions up to and including a strike, according to Bay City Education Association President Kevin Stapish.
The actions the MEA could be authorized to execute vary, Stapish said.
"It could include many different things," he said. "Positive PR campaigns, advertisement related to the things that school teachers actually do, informational picketing — anything within that range, up to a job action."
A strike is one of those job actions, Stapish said.
"That is a possibility," he said. "A strike would fall under the category of a job action."
The Bay City Education Association — the MEA's local affiliate — will hold its vote on Friday, Stapish said, adding that he had no inclination as to how his members will vote.
He voiced support for the MEA's mobilization, citing proposed budget cuts and legislation in Lansing, which he called "attacks" on public school employees.
"I think this is certainly the first step, and it's proper to do to gauge where individual members are in terms of their feelings of the attacks being made upon them and gauging what they intend to do about it," Stapish said.
"I think that much of the legislation that has been written recently are blatant attacks upon public school employees and the unions that represent them."
Gov. Rick Snyder in February proposed a $470 per-pupil cut in funding for public schools resulting from the diversion of $895 million in funds from the School Aid Fund to higher education.
Snyder also budgeted for an increase in the retirement rate for schools from the current 20.66 percent rate to 24.5 percent. That means that for every $1 a district spends on personnel, it must contribute 24.5 cents to its pension fund.
Some estimates — such as Bay City Public Schools' — suggest the total per-pupil cut amounts to more than $700.
Snyder's proposed budget has many in public K-12 education upset. Simultaneously, educators and lawmakers alike are at odds over the School Aid Fund's purpose.
Stapish said he would support a strike should his members vote to authorize one, although he acknowledged its illegality in Michigan.
"These attacks are so outlandish that perhaps an action such as a strike would be the only recourse, the only action that could be taken," he said. "This is being taken very seriously to consider. I think a statewide strike would be a last resort."
Bay City Public Schools Superintendent Douglas Newcombe said his district has no plan in place to deal with a teachers strike, but his administration has discussed it.
"I really don't have a take on it one way or the other," Newcombe said. "Strikes are illegal. It's against the law. While we may not always like what our legislators do and our governor does, I think we have a duty to respect the process and try to work through that."
Last week, Republican legislators in Lansing introduced measures that would levy intensified penalties for teachers strikes, such as suspending or revoking teaching licenses and imposing a $5,000 fine to the union for each day of a strike.


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Like earlier transformative phases in IT – the adoption of personal computing in the 1980s, client/server computing in the 1990s and the uptake of SaaS earlier this century – cloud has reached a similar tipping point that will create unprecedented opportunities for both new entrants and established vendors.
For many industry soothsayers, 2012 was going to be the year cloud went mainstream. Are we there yet? With IDC reporting that global spending on public IT cloud services will be more than $40 billion this year with a compound annual growth rate of more than 25%, it looks like 2013 will be the year that cloud pays off for many vendors and customers.
Here's how I see these trends playing out in 2013 and beyond:
1. Increased adoption of applications as a service impacts capital expense
While not a zero sum game, we are already seeing the inroads cloud is making against capital expense allocated to traditional IT infrastructure. Businesses are seriously considering buying services on-demand rather than purchasing physical hardware (e.g. servers, racks, network switches, PCs), software licenses and maintenance contracts. Conversely, cloud service providers are becoming much larger customers of hardware and software vendors.
2. The rise of specialist cloud consultants
As the money shifts to cloud we are witnessing an entire new industry of cloud consultants and specialists springing up to help businesses build and use cloud architecture. Joining the ranks of smaller independent niche consultants and hardware vendors with professional service arms, the traditional big consulting firms are all working to assemble the talent and skill sets needed to beef up their newly formed cloud consulting practices. At the same time, there are increasing opportunities for enterprise IT departments to become internal cloud specialists and play a more strategic role in helping provide their businesses greater agility in leveraging cloud capabilities.
3. Evolution of mobile cloud
The bring your own device trend and the continuing decline of the PC as the dominant computing platform will accelerate the move towards mobile cloud as more businesses become increasingly mobile and shift IT assets from their own data centers to the cloud. In this environment, security becomes more important than ever. As a result, enterprise IT will be entrusted with setting clear policies that provide security for accessing cloud applications on mobile devices without squashing the innovation enabled by cloud.
4. Cloud clarity will start to emerge in 2013
Today, a great deal of confusion still exists over the conflicting approaches to deploying cloud by various vendors and service providers, and it's not clear where businesses should turn. This fragmentation should begin to dissipate later in 2013 and beyond as the marketplace coalesces around standards and clear winners emerge. Open source will continue to gain relevance, and we'll see more commercialized services based on open source platforms coming to market.
5. Cloud standards slowly emerge
For cloud to truly go mainstream it needs to evolve from a vendor-by-vendor solution, as it is today, to a utility platform differentiated by reliability, scalability and standardization. Marketplace standards are driven by vendors, standards groups and market forces. APIs will have to be standardized, and interoperability and federated cloud formations will need to happen – both in a geographic sense and within industry verticals.
Source: IDC, 'Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2012-2016 Forecast', August 2012 (IDC #236552)


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A Cinque Port with a lovely medieval conservation area - but beware of the seagulls
How it rates
A pretty and historic town, created as one of the Cinque Ports by Henry I in 1278 to supply fighting ships and sailors to defend England from invaders. A patchwork of a place, with a lovely medieval conservation area, some fine buildings and pockets of less attractive high-rise apartments. Popular with people retiring by the sea.
Only two miles from the M20 and three miles from the Channel Tunnel. The nearest mainline station is just over a mile away, at Sandling. You can change at Ashford for the high-speed rail link to St Pancras or Paris.


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Rumors are swirling that XSeed is not happy with Nintendo for swooping in on Devil's Third publishing in North America.
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US publisher XSEED finally sheds some light on why the European version of Rune Factory 4 will not see the light of day.
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Backing up your Android's mail: An important chore
Admit it. You are guilty. Personal and professional emails that you send and receive from associates, friends, and family buzz between your Android device and the Google servers with ease, and you rarely, if ever, think about what would happen, if someday, that relation ship were to fail.
All that data is stored in "the cloud" on Google servers in what some consider the most state-of-the-art, redundant and reliable network of data centers located all over the globe. Your personal data is syncing with out a hitch. After all, if you can't rely on what is arguably the largest, most talent rich of cloud providers in the world, who can you rely on?
A quick Google search — yes, I understand the irony — reveals that there are plenty of people, who, like you and many other Android users, thought that their data was safe with Google – only to find that their sense of security was false. With just a little planning, research and sweat, you can avoid a similar fate and further protect your data. In order to minimize the chance of data loss, I have my Google-based email synced and backed up on two redundant off-site locations (other than Google's own network). Firmly place your tin foil hat on your head and take a short journey with me…
I own a small hosting and web design/consulting business and rent server resources from a data center. On that server, I have installed getmail along with a few custom configuration files based on those described by Googler Matt Cutts' blog posting. The files tell getmail where to pull my email from; in this case, from the Gmail servers, using a secure IMAP connection. Each config file also tells getmail which folders to retrieve from (eg. "Inbox", "[Google Mail]/All Mail", "[Google Mail]/Sent Mail", etc.);, to only get "unseen" messages; and in which format to store the messages, if not Maildir, then the native Gmail format, Mbox. Getmail runs every hour from a cron job and stores all new messages in the format of my choice: Maildir on my server. The mail is then encrypted and backed up nightly with all my other data on an off-site server using Duplicity.
I know, I know… not everyone has a shiny tin foil hat like mine that reads "Caution: Geek Below!" That does not excuse you from protecting your data. There are many more less intense, more GUI based options to protect yourself. Here are just a few:
While not an exhaustive list of options, these give you a taste of the many ways that you can help keep your Android phone and the tightly integrated Google services that you rely on working together with the peace of mind that should the impossible happen (think Titanic) you have enough life boats to carry your email data to shore.
So, what is your excuse for not backing up now?


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Boston's been to hell and back in the last week. It's safe to say a lot of the wounds, both physical and emotional, have yet to fully heal. But, in town for a three-game set with the Red Sox, some of the A's tried to lift the spirits of one bombing victim from the Bay Area.
Brandon Moss and Josh Reddick, both of whom played for the Sox before coming to Oakland last year, accompanied first base coach Tye Waller to visit 11-year-old Aaron Hern of Martinez in the Boston Children's Hospital Monday afternoon.
Moss was moved by the experience:
"Just an incredible kid, incredible family," Moss said. "The way he's handling this whole situation, the circumstances he's been given, I don't think I've ever been more impressed by a kid or a family. They're amazing people, they really were."
Hern, a sixth grader, was struck with shrapnel when the second bomb went off while he was waiting for his mother Katherine to finish running in the marathon. He suffered a deep wound to his left thigh and has reportedly undergone three surgeries in the last week.
Waller is confident the Hern and his family can overcome the challenges that lay ahead:
"I told them they made my day, and they really did. Knowing that he's going to be OK after all the surgeries made us feel good. I think we came out of there with them making us feel better rather than the other way around. I guarantee you that family will be OK."
The club reportedly hopes to honor Hern with a ceremony at the Coliseum later this summer.
[via Boston Globe, BANG]


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A man was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase Saturday night, and police later discovered a 13-year-old child in the car.Video Transcript
Now A Des Moines man charged with leading officer on a high speed chase from Pella to Oskaloosa with a 13 year old passenger in the car. Pella Police say 33 year old Ryan Bennett started the chase when he sped off as officers tried to stop him because of expired licence plates. Stop sticks ended the chase near Oskaloosa. And that's when the 13 year old boy was found in the car. Bennett now faces a long list of charges. Including neglect of a dependent person. Eluding. And going the wrong way on the highway.
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Griping about traffic laws, tolls and highway enforcement is nothing new for Americans.
But for New Yorkers, it may be twice as sobering to learn that the Empire State was recently named the most "exploitative" to its drivers than any other state.
So says the National Motorists Association, a Wisconsin-based driver advocacy organization, that released a study in May ranking all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. from worst to best based on their treatment of drivers.
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The study, which took approximately five months of data from January to May 2014, used 24 so-called "metrics" that rated each state's legal protections, regulations, enforcement tactics, state-imposed cost to drive and state fiscal responsibility.
Topping the "worst" list was Washington, D.C., followed by New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Vermont.
Wyoming was named the friendliest state for drivers, followed by North Dakota, Utah, Montana and Mississippi.
The complete rankings can be viewed at: www.motorists.org/2014-states-ranking.
"Motorists have an obligation to the state," said John Bowman, communications director of the National Motorists Association. "They need to pay their fees, fines and tolls ... and they have to drive safely and abide by traffic laws. But in return, the states have obligations to motorists. They have to enforce the laws fairly, protect motorists in courts of law ... and they have to be good stewards of the money they're collecting from motorists."
New York, according to the study, fared poorly under "legal protections" because it fails to offer trials by jury for traffic infractions or allow drivers to submit a written statement of defense to a judge. Moreover, the state does not allow drivers to engage in the discovery process, in which they can look at police evidence held against them.
Under the "regulations" category, New York also ranked low for having punitive actions deemed too harsh and disproportional, such as a 30- to 90-day license suspension for a first-time offender of driving while intoxicated.
Bowman, while acknowledging that such regulations keep dangerous drivers off the road, said "safety" was not the study's primary focus, but rather the rights and fair treatment of motorists.
This became even clearer in the third category of "enforcement," in which Bowman described New York's heavy use of red light cameras, particularly in New York City, as a money-making scheme for the state to generate revenue.
"A red light camera program is profitable (because) yellow light times at intersections are too short and don't meet established traffic engineering standards," Bowman said. "When the yellow light is short, it puts people who are driving through that intersection in a dilemma zone ... (many) get a ticket that they didn't really deserve."
Bowman insisted that if yellow lights were lengthened by an additional second, the number of accidents at intersections could be reduced by 40 percent and the number of citations by 50 percent.
"(Some states) are 'fixing the game' ... and taking advantage of motorists in the form of citations," he said.
The "state-imposed cost to drive" category, which looked at tolls, the state fuel tax and other fees, determined that New York adds a cost of 4.9 cents for every mile driven. The average cost is about 3 cents.
The final category of "fiscal responsibility" revealed that New York uses a substantial amount of revenue from drivers to pay for mass transit projects rather than roads and bridges. This was frowned upon by the National Motorists Organization.
"Drivers are obligated to pay a certain amount of money to use the roads ... and the states are also obligated to make wise use of those dollars and to spend them appropriately," Bowman said. "Some states are doing a better job than others ... a lot of them tend to be rural, southern and Midwestern states where there is more of a hands-off attitude about government and how it interacts with citizens."
Interestingly, in a recent study by the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit health advocacy organization, many of the states lauded by the National Motorists Association were also deemed the most dangerous to drive in.
The study, which analyzed the amount of traffic deaths, health care costs and loss of work for those in vehicle accidents, revealed that Mississippi had the highest motor vehicle-related death rate, followed by Montana and Alabama.
Wyoming, which was regarded the most driver-friendly state by the National Motorists Association, was ranked fourth in the "most dangerous" list, with slightly more than 100 fatalities per year.
Bowman indicated that further studies incorporating traffic safety are expected by his organization.


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Cranberry Walnut Pesto and Prosciutto Crostini
(slightly adapted from my old pesto recipe)
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup walnuts
1 cup fresh basil (firmly packed)
2 cloves garlic
1 TBSP red wine vinegar
salt and pepper
olive oil (2/3 cup approx.)
1 white baguette (1/4″ sliced)
250g package prosciutto
1 cup goat cheese
This month, I've seem to be on a bit of a crostini kick with the Kielbasa crostini and now these little guys. I suppose it is the season for bite-sized appetizers, though, isn't it? For the past week, I've been back home in Saskatoon for all sorts of Christmas festivities. While I was hope, Global Saskatoon asked if I would swing by their studio to do a short New Year's Eve cooking segment with them. Thus, this crostini was born. The segment will air tomorrow morning on Global Saskatoon, but here's the breakdown of the recipe here…
Balsamic Roasted Red Pepper Risotto and Giveaway
2 cups half and half cream
4 cups chicken broth (or veggie to keep vegetarian-friendly)
3 roasted red bell peppers (approx. 1 cup)
1/2 bulb roasted garlic
2 TBSP butter (softened)
1 yellow onion (finely chopped)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
2 cups arborio rice
salt and pepper
olive oil
fresh parsley (for garnish, optional)
I just finished filming two segments for Food Network Canada's series 'Eat St.' these past couple of days. It was a lot of fun, I got to talk about two of my favourite food trucks (Alley Burger and Perogy Boys), but two days of shooting in cold fall weather, with rain to boot, has officially chilled me to the bone! Damn…fall really is here now…
Well, what better way to warm up then with a creamy risotto? The thing some people don't like about risotto is all the stirring you have to do, but when you're looking to shake the chilly, then standing by the stove, spooning (not that kind of spooning) a hot pan for thiry minutes couldn't really be all that bad, right?
If you've ever made risotto before, you'll know that it comes off a lot more intimidating then it actually is. Hell, we even make risotto in my Start From Scratch class. If those kids can do it, you can do it! Anyway, onto the cooking…Start off by putting the cream and stock into a medium-sized pot, then let come to a simmer on high heat. Once it starts to bubble, reduce to low heat, you just need the broth hot, not boiling. While you're waiting for that to heat up, puree the roasted bell peppers, roasted garlic and butter using a blender or food processor. We'll add thisat the end of the risotto cooking process, so better to have it ready and waiting now!
Now, drizzle some olive oil in a large pan, throw in the chopped onion and garlic and let cook on medium-high heat until the onions soften, about 5 minutes. Add the balsamic vinegar to the pan and continue to cook until the liquid has reduced byhalf, about 5 more minutes. Now, pour in the arborio rice, stirring until everything is evenly mixed. Let the mixture cook for another couple minutes before you start adding the broth.
This is where all the stirring comes in, you don't really need to stir with religious conviction for the next 25 minutes, but be attentive and stir regularly. Add-in one ladle of broth at a time, letting the liquid become almost completely absorbed before adding more broth. Continue this process until you've used up all of the broth. Finally, stir in the roasted pepper puree and watch your risotto turn a beautiful orange-reddish hue. How autumn, right? Season with a bit of salt and pepper and dish out. Warm up by the mouthful!
Serves 4-5
Total cook time…40 min
As an added bonus today, The Rocky Mountain Wine And Food Festival is taking place this weekend in Calgary. The festival showcases amazing wines, spirits, as well as great food from local restaurants. Since I love to share, I'm giving away two sets of double passes to attend this event this Friday night, October 14th (doors open at 4 p.m.).
To enter to win one of the double passes simply share my recipe on twitter (mentioning myself, @dansgoodside and the festival, @rockywinefood), or leave a comment in the thread below. You have until Thursday night, October 13th, at 11PM to enter the contest. I'll announce the lucky winners on Friday morning! Good luck!
Garlic Zucchini And Fava Bean Dip
1 medium zucchini (cut length-wise, then quartered)
1/2 bulb roasted garlic
2 13.5oz cans fava beans (drained, reserve liquid from 1 can)
1 lemon (zest and juice)
1 TSBP red wine vinegar
2 TSP dried oregano
1 TSP dried basil
salt and pepper
olive oil
roasted hazelnuts (for garnish, optional)
If you have a vegetable garden, saying goodbye to summer usually coincides with saying: 'What the hell am I supposed to do with all of this zucchini?!' Let's be serious here, deep down, I know everyone has a secret, undying love for zucchini…or, maybe it's just me…I do seem to be on a bit of a zucchini kick lately, but too many recipes options than not enough, right? Anyway, this is a nice simple dip that will go over well as an appetizer, or even pretty rad as a spread for sandwiches. Hummus is so last year anyway…
Start by preheating your oven to 425 degrees. Place the pieces of zucchini in a medium-sized bowl, drizzle with some olive oil, season with salt and pepper, then toss a few times to evenly coat. Pop the chunks into a prepared baking dish and let roast in the oven for 20 minutes, turn over once at the halfway point. Once the squash is nice and roasted, remove from the oven and let cool for a few minutes.
Next, place the zucchini and all remaining ingredients (including the reserved liquid from the canned beans) into a food processor or blender. Slowly pour in some olive oil while pulsing the mixture. Blend until smooth. Add some freshly ground black pepper, taste, and then a pinch of salt if needed. Pour the mixture into a bowl and let chill inthe refridgerator for at least an hour. Top with toasted hazelnuts for an added crunch, and serve with some homemade crackers or warm foccacia!
Yields 4 cups of dip
Total cook time…30 min (not including chill time)
Roasted Zucchini 'Tartar' With Leek Buttered Crostini
2 zucchini (ends trimmed, quartered)
1 1/2 cups soft tofu
1/3 cup olive oil
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
2 cloves garlic
2 TBSP lemon juice
1 TBSP dijon mustard
2 TSP horse radish
1 shallot (minced)
1/4 cup capers (finely chopped)
1/4 cup gerkins (finely chopped)
salt and pepper
1 yellow onion
2 cloves garlic
2 leeks
2 TBSP margarine
2 TSP dried basil
salt and pepper
olive oil
1 baguette (sliced, 1/2″ pieces)
Don't you wish you could whip up a vegan appetizer that wasn't just an…umm…just a vegetable tray? Well, now you can. This dish is easier than a six piece Bob The Builder puzzle to put together, and even easier to impress with. Carnivorous cravings aside, only a cold-hearted, meat-loving T-Rex would not admit to loving this one. And, if you do, in fact, have a T-Rex over for dinner I both fear for you and am impressed with your ability to bring dinosaurs back from the dead…
Start off by preheating your oven to 425 degrees. Place the zucchini pieces in a medium-sized bowl, add some olive oil and a sprinkling of salt and pepper, then toss until coated. Place on a prepared baking tray and roast in the oven for 20 minutes, uncovered, turning once or twice. In the meantime, combine the soft tofu, olive oil, vinegar, garlic, lemon juice, mustard, and horse radish in a blender. Blend until smooth and set aside.
Once the 20 minutes are up, pull the zucchini out of the oven and let cool. When the squash is cool enough to handle, chop into tiny cubes, 1/4″ or so. In a a medium-sized bowl, mix together the chopped zucchini, tofu mixture, shallot, capers, and gerkins. Stir until evenly combined. Salt and pepper to taste, then place in the refrigerator to chill. (note: can be made a day in advance!)
Now for the crostini…Preheat your oven to 425 degrees (disregard if you have just made the zucchini portion, then just leave the oven on!) Place the onion and garlic into a large pan. Drizzle with some olive oil, add some salt and pepper, then cook down on medium-high heat for 5 minutes. Once the onions soften, add-in the leeks, and continue to let cook for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Next, add the margarine and basil to the pan. Stir until the margarine has melted and everything is evenly combined. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Place contents of pan into a blender and puree until smooth. Set aside until you're ready to butter the crostini.
Pop the baguette pieces onto a large baking sheet, brush the tops with some olive oil and bake until they start to turn golden brown, about 10-12 minutes. Serve them warm with a generous slathering of the leek butter, then top with some of the chilled zucchini 'tartar' or just serve it on the side.
What do you think, T-Rex?
Serves 4
Total cook time…1 hour (not including 'tartar' chill time)
Sweet Strawberry Salsa with Brown Sugar Chips
5 white medium-sized pitas (opened and quartered)
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1/4 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
3 cups strawberries (trimmed, finely cubed)
1/2 granny smith apple (finely cubed)
1 cup fresh mint (minced)
3 TBSP cane sugar
2 TBSP orange juice
1/4 TSP vanilla extract
Sick of less than wonderful spring-time weather? So am I. Making this sweet (both literally and figuratively) strawberry salsa will enable you to go on a mental tropical getaway. If the weather happens to drastically change while you're prepping this dish, then I would say this dessert version of chips and salsa are best enjoyed outside…with BBQ'ed anything.
For the chips…start off by preheating your oven to 40 degrees. In a small bowl, combine melted butter and brown sugar. Using a pastry brush, apply brown sugar/butter mixture to each pita 'chip'. Lay out chips evenly on couple of prepared baking sheets and bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or until the chips turn golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool.
For the salsa…combine all ingredients in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Toss until everything is evenly mixed and the cane sugar has dissolved. As with any salsa, if you give it some time to sit, chill, and flavour intermingle, it will taste that much better. I left the strawberry salsa in the fridge for 45 minutes before serving, longer probably would have been a bit better. Whatever time allows. (Hey, it's your fake tropical vacation, right?)
Serve this up the same way you would serve standard-issue chips and salsa. Best digested with a mojito in-hand. Sounds like summer to me! Bring on the sun!
Serves 4-5
Total cook time…1 hour (or so)
Sweet Potato Parmigiana
1 large sweet potato
4 tomatoes
1 yellow onion
3 garlic cloves
2 eggs
2 cups bread crumbs
1 cup flour
1 cup grated parmesan
1 cup grated mozzarella
1/2 cup fresh basil
2 TBSP balsamic vinegar
1 TSP white sugar
1 TSP oregano
1 TSP thyme
canola oil
olive oil
salt & pepper
Typically made with eggplant, this is my twist on a classic Italian dish. Nothing says: 'ultra delicious side dish' like a bread crumb coating, marinara sauce, and lots of cheese. This is the kind of thing you can serve to a self-proclaimed 'sweet potato hater' and still receive rave reviews, I promise!
First off we're going to make the sauce. So, chop up the onion, dice the tomatoes, and mince the garlic. Place the onion and garlic into a large-sized pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, turn to medium-high heat. Once the onions have softened, add-in the tomatoes, stir, and turn to medium heat. Let the tomatoes cook for 5 minutes, then add 1 cup of water and the balsamic vinegar. Once the mixture starts to bubble, add the oregano, thyme, and sugar. Stir again and let simmer for 10 more minutes. Salt & pepper to taste. Remove from heat and let cool down for a few minutes. Place the mixture in a blender or food processor with the fresh basil and puree until smooth. Set aside for now.
Now preheat your oven to 400 degrees, and let's get onto the sweet potato component: Peel, then cut the sweet potato into 1/2″ medallions. We are going to fry these quickly to get a nice crispy coating on them, so we'll need to set up a breading station here…3 bowls…
1. Flour 2. Eggs 3. Bread crumbs
Procedure: Lightly cover a medallion in flour, dip it in the egg, and, finally, give it a good coating of bread crumbs. Once you have several completed, start crisping them up! Add some canola oil to a large-sized pan and turn to high heat. Once it's nice and hot (a pinch of flour is a good test) place in a few pieces of the sweet potato. Let cook until golden brown, about 1 1/2 minutes, then flip to the other side. Once they're nice and crisp on both sides remove from heat onto a plate with some paper towel to absorb any excess oil. Repeat process until all of your sweet potato medallions have a beautiful golden brown coating.
Putting it all together: Somewhat similar to lasagna layering, spoon some sauce into the bottom of a prepared medium-sized baking dish. Next, make a layer of sweet potato followed by more sauce, a sprinkling of parmesan cheese, and repeat…Once you've finished layering cap it off with any remaining sauce, the mozzarella, and leftover bread crumbs for the perfect cheesy topping!
Bake, uncovered, in your preheated oven for 40 minutes, then take out and enjoy! Seconds may be requested…
Serves 4
Total cook time…1 hour 10 min
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Bainbridge Island author recalls Antarctic expedition
Colin Bull reads from "Innocents in the Dry Valleys" at 3 p.m. Sunday in Eagle Harbor Book Co.
In December 1958, a U.S. Navy helicopter deposited a young professor named Colin Bull and three comrades into the broad, wind-raked Wright Valley of Antarctica.
In those relatively early days of Antarctic exploration, Wright Valley was a literal blank spot on the map. Bull and his colleagues became the first to ever clamber through the valley's ragged terrain.
"It really was a thrill," Bull said, "realizing that you were the first person ever to trip over that blasted rock."
The four-member Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition – the first university-sponsored party to travel to the continent – would spend two months unlocking the secrets of Wright Valley.
Bull, now a Bainbridge resident, has recounted the expedition in his book "Innocents in the Dry Valleys" and will be on hand at Eagle Harbor Book Co. Sunday to share his story. While he would go on to become a foremost glacial scientist and organize many more polar endeavors, Bull's fondness for that early expedition resonates in a book brimming with humor.
Even the Wright Valley was not Bull's first foray into a polar region.
As a boy in England, he set his sights on becoming an explorer after reading, oddly enough, an account of Robert Scott's disastrous South Pole expedition.
While completing a doctorate in physics at the University of Birmingham in England, Bull joined an expedition to Spitsbergen, an Arctic island north of Norway. That adventure became the basis for another of Bull's books, "Innocents in the Arctic," published in 2005.
The Spitsbergen study landed Bull a spot on the British North Greenland Expedition of 1952-1954. The bulk of his time was spent slogging through a 25-month transverse of Greenland, which Bull contends set a record for the slowest in history. Bull and two companions spent the winter of 1953-1954 huddled in a hut 300 miles from the nearest humans, while temperatures outside dipped to negative 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Greenland expedition was, as Bull puts it, "a great time... in retrospect."
Shortly after marrying wife Gillian in 1956, Bull took a position as a physics lecturer at the University of Wellington in New Zealand. The newlyweds pulled up roots and moved halfway around the world to a location with rich scenery but scarce resources for scientific endeavors.
"(New Zealand) was the finest place in the world to live," Bull said. "Unfortunately it was a terrible place to work."
Ever restless, Bull soon turned his attention to organizing an expedition to Antarctica, which lay enticingly close to his new home. He found like-minded adventurers in a young zoology professor, Richard Barwick, and geology students Barrie McKelvey and Peter Webb. All three were fresh from stints in Antarctica.
Together they formulated a plan to explore an uncharted region of glacier-free "dry" valleys near the Ross Ice Shelf. It took some swift maneuvering for the team to gain support from the university brass and the Ross Dependency Research Committee, which oversaw New Zealand's involvement in Antarctica. But by the fall of 1958, the expedition had won over both bodies.
Armed with about $1,000 from a few grants, the expedition began assembling supply lists and writing myriad companies asking for contributions. Soon they were flooded with goods ranging from chocolate bars to wool socks, compliments of some two dozen sponsors.
Finally, on Nov. 24, 1958, the expedition set sail south. It would spend another agonizing two weeks at the Scott Base in Antarctica before a U.S. Navy transport to its base camp in Wright Valley could be arranged. But the wait gave them time to salvage more gear from the discard piles of other expeditions.
Wright Valley is one of a network of dry valleys, ringed by sheer, snow-crowned ridges and punctuated by shallow lakes.
The intent of the expedition was to collect biological and geological samples, while taking the necessary surveying measurements to fill in the blanks on the map. The party divided into pairs; Bull and Barwick would share a tent for 51 nights.
A fold-out map in the back of "Innocents" marks the hundreds of miles the four trekked through the valleys, slogging to survey points or lugging home loads of rock samples. None were trained explorers, and the research was physically taxing. But more than anything, it was a seemingly perpetual, sand-laden wind that wore away at the nerves of the expedition members.
"Our meals, the wonderful vistas and the knowledge that we were the first people here were the main reliably positive things in our lives," Bull wrote.
Among the expedition's stranger finds were the bodies of 98 crabeater seals in various stages of mummification.
As the first explorers in Wright Valley, the Wellington expedition had the privilege of naming landmarks in the area. A broad cut connecting Wright Valley to the nearby tangle of dry valleys still bears the name Bull Pass.
Helicopters finally returned in late January 1959 to whisk the explorers back to Scott Base. By mid-February the four were back in New Zealand.
For a small, hastily planned expedition, it had been a productive one.
The members wrote nearly 20 published papers based on various aspects of their Wright Valley studies, including titles such as: "The Paleomagnetism of some Hypabyssal Intrusive rocks..." (the work of Bull), or Barwick's "Seal Carcasses in a Deglaciated Region..." The first expedition would also spark decades of research in the dry valleys by the University of Wellington.
It had also been a grand adventure for four "innocents," men who would go on to ascend the ranks of academia.
"Whether or not there could ever have been another equally unprepared and equally successful venture is a matter for speculation," Bull wrote, "but I imagine not."
As for Bull, a connection he made at Scott Base led to a career at Ohio State University, where he helped build up the Institute of Polar Studies and eventually became dean of the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
Bull would return to Antarctica dozens of times, both in expeditions and, much later, as a guide aboard cruise ships.
When Bull left OSU more than 20 years ago, he and Gillian began looking for a new place to settle. A scientist, even in retirement, Bull factored in a complex set of criteria to narrow down his international search for a new home.
It was Bainbridge Island that scored highest, with a lively arts scene (Gillian is an accomplished painter) a low pollen count, and perhaps most important for a restless explorer: a view of the sea.
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Colin Bull reads from "Innocents in the Dry Valleys" at 3 p.m. Sunday in Eagle Harbor Book Co.
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Carolee and Heather at Washington Cathedral
The contemporary Christian mother and daughter duet, Carolee and Heather, will perform Saturday, Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 30 at 9, 10:15 and 11:45 a.m. during worship services at Washington Cathedral.
The church is located at 12300 Woodinville-Redmond Road NE. Carolee and Heather will be featured in a 20-minute mini-concert at their Saturday evening performance.
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Neither involved a tax increase. Instead, the districts were proposing to extend their current debt levies -- the governmental equivalent of refinancing your mortgage.
But when voters went to the polls Tuesday, the outcomes were starkly different. In Gull Lake 58 percent of voters approved their bond, with a vote of 1,256 to 915. In Galesburg, 66 percent of voters rejected both Proposal 1 (vote of 324 to 640) and Proposal 2 (vote of 327-638).
In fact, of the five school districts in the Kalamazoo area with multimillion-tax requests on Tuesday's ballot -- Gull Lake, Galesburg, Allegan, Bangor and White Pigeon -- Galesburg's two requests were the only ones rejected by voters.
So what happened?
It's not the composition of the communities: Both the Gull Lake and Galesburg school districts serve some of the most politically conservative, anti-tax areas of Kalamazoo County, and both have a mixed record with passing bond requests.
In addition, while no tax increase was involved, it was clear that the Galesburg plan would prove much more costly for its residents in the long run.
Let's examine the first factor.
Gull Lake was proposing to spend most of its bond issue on new technology, including personal devices for students. Voters liked that idea: In a professional survey commissioned by the district in January, two-thirds of survey respondents said they supported the bond proposal because it emphasized technology.
By contrast, the centerpiece of the Galesburg-Augusta proposal was using the bond issue to expand Galesburg-Augusta High School into a junior/senior high serving grades 7-12.
Galesburg school officials also commissioned a professional survey: That survey found that 55 percent residents would support an $11 million bond issue if taxes stayed the same. But only a third of survey respondents backed creation of a junior/senior high school.
So why would the Galesburg school board put an unpopular idea on the ballot?
"It's all about the community's dream and vision," Superintendent Tim Vagts said in January.
Only it turned to be more a vision and dream of the board than the community. Many residents didn't like the idea of a junior/senior high on principle, regardless of the cost: They simply didn't want 12- and 13-year-olds on the same campus as older teens.
On the financial side, outside of the "no tax increase" factor, the Gull Lake and Galesburg were quite different in terms of impact on taxpayers.
Gull Lake voters currently have a school debt levy of 4.2 mills. By approving Tuesday's request, the district will keep that debt levy for another 12 years.
But the amount at stake was relatively minimal: If the request was rejected, the tax rate would have dropped by 0.29 of a mill, or about $29 on a house with a market value of $200,000 and a taxable value of about $100,000.
By contrast, Galesburg has a current school debt levy of 7 mills. Currently, the levy is scheduled to drop to 6 mills in 2013 and continue to gradually decline until it expires 2030. School officials are proposing to keep the debt levy at 7 mills until 2033, then it would decline until the bond is paid off in 2037.
In short, compared to Gull Lake, the Galesburg request was asking voters to pay much more for much longer.
But clearly, it appears the deciding factor in the Galesburg request was likely disconnect between the board and the community on how the money would be spent.
More than a decade ago, when I first started covered school tax requests, a savvy school administrator told me the key to a successful tax request is surveying residents and than paying close attention to the survey results. His rule of thumb: Don't ask voters to approve something they don't want.
Julie Mack is a reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Contact her at email@example.com or 269-350-0277, or follow her on Twitter at Twitter.com/kzjuliemack For all posts by Julie Mack, click here.


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DOCLINE® Routing Table(s) in the Pacific Southwest Region
SERIALS Routing Table
Each DOCLINE library has two routing tables that determine where DOCLINE requests are sent. DOCLINE requests for journals use the serials routing table, and requests are routed based on each library's journal holdings information in DOCLINE. Routing for other materials is described at the end of this document; see the M/A/N/ Map section.
The serials routing table includes 9 cells, each of which can include up to 20 libraries or 1 library group. Requests route from cell 1 through cell 9 until the request is filled. Routing takes into account the supplying library's holdings, delivery method(s), service level, EFTS, and color copy, etc. All libraries within a cell are evaluated for routing a request before the routing algorithm moves up to the next higher cell. Routing within a cell is random to provide a degree of load balancing. Since routing within a cell is random, institutions are displayed in alphabetical order within a cell. There is no "position" within a cell that determines routing order. For a detailed description of DOCLINE routing see FAQ: DOCLINE -- New Routing.
You can also send a request directly to a specific library. This is called "prefixing" the request. If that library does not fill the request, automatic routing will take over. However, DOCLINE recommends that you rely on automatic routing through your routing tables and only using "prefixing" in unusual circumstances.
You will have the best success with DOCLINE when you carefully think through your routing tables. We recommend that whenever possible you have a conversation- either in-person, by telephone, or by email - with the ILL contact of the library you are considering for your routing table. You will want to make choices based on libraries' collection focus, breadth of holdings, ILL policy, delivery methods, EFTS participation, and costs and charges. In addition, the guidelines and tools below will help you develop your routing table.
You may make changes to your routing table at any time. When you make changes, you must click on the Approve button to route your proposed Routing Table to the Regional Network Office. The staff can also help you by providing advice on how to select libraries for your routing table.
Selecting Libraries for the SERIALS Routing Table
Follow these principles when developing your routing table:
- Include only open libraries that report serials holdings into your routing table.
- Put your most active DOCLINE partners into the lowest cells, before other libraries or library groups.
- Put libraries that do not charge you before libraries that charge.
- Put libraries with lower charges before libraries with higher charges.
- Put libraries with comparable collections to yours in your lower cells; libraries with larger collections should be placed higher.
- If you are a FreeShare library, place other FreeShare libraries before libraries that will charge you for service.
- If you are an EFTS participant, place other EFTS libraries before libraries that do not participate in EFTS.
- You must include the Pacific Southwest Region resource libraries in your routing table.
- You may include libraries from other regions in your routing table.
- The START/STOP feature of DOCLINE enables libraries to send requests to specific groups of libraries. You may wish to construct your routing table so that you can START/STOP at specific cells.
- However, ALWAYS consider the quality of service provided by a library; do not make routing table decisions on cost factors alone.
Here are some suggested guidelines for placing libraries in your routing table:
Cells 1-3: Put your best borrowing partners first, followed by other libraries with whom you have reciprocal agreements.
Cells 4-6: Put larger libraries and libraries that charge more into these cells. You may want to designate a specific cell for libraries with significant collections in specific subject areas important for your institution.
Cells 7-9: Place Resource Libraries and the Regional Medical Library in these higher cells. You may place some of the resource libraries, for example, those that are close to you geographically, in cell 7 or 8.
Selecting Library Groups for the SERIALS Routing Table
In March 2006, a new capability was added to DOCLINE - routing by DOCLINE Library Group. When adding a library group to the routing table:
- Your library must be a member of a library group in order to add the library group to your routing table.
- Put one library group, and one library group only, into a specific cell in your routing table. Do not include other library groups or individual LIBIDs into the same cell as a library group.
- In general, put library groups that provide reciprocal, free, or low cost service before library groups or libraries that charge higher rates.
- Put your most active DOCLINE partners into the lowest cells, before other libraries or library groups.
DOCLINE Library Groups in the Pacific Southwest Region
DOCLINE Library Groups in the Pacific Southwest Region provides the name, abbreviation, and geographic coverage for library groups. A link to the organization is provided when available.
Monograph/Audiovisual/Non-NLM journals lacking an NLM Unique ID (M/A/N) MAP
- This part of the DOCLINE routing table is completed for borrowing books, audiovisuals, or non-NLM journals lacking an NLM Unique ID.
- There is no machine-readable holdings information for these types of materials; therefore, no match can be made to the institution holding the item. These types of requests are sent sequentially to the libraries in the routing table.
- There are nine cells. Only one LIBID can be included in each cell.
- The table includes institutions from which these items are borrowed, such as the regional resource libraries.
- Libraries MUST complete this routing table and include at least one institution from which books, audiovisuals, or serial titles NOT located in either PubMed or LOCATORplus are borrowed. The institution can be the Regional Medical Library, the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.
If you have any questions, please call the Regional Network Office at (310) 825-1200. You may also send your questions via email at email@example.com.


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Laura Mercier's Woes; Tracking Counterfeit Cosmetics
Laura Mercier's skin is tortured, Dior makes eye shadow that's (gasp) too frosty, and why today feels like Christmas for beauty bloggers.
• Laura Mercier: "I go from hot to cold, humid to dry, I take medication for asthma that dries my skin out like crazy, I'm tortured." Tell us about it! Today we went from inside to outside to inside and took an Advil. [Calgary Herald]
• Liz Claiborne Cosmetics uses special technology to track counterfeit beauty products. In Europe 1.6 million were seized in 2006, and in the U.S. many are sold on sketchy eBay. [Cosmetic News]
• Dior's new palate of gold-hued eye shadows is really, really awesome, but a hint too frosty. We thought only cupcakes had that problem. [Temptalia]
• The summer collection from Zoya launched today called Chit Chat. Beauty bloggers are really excited about it because the shades are named after them. "This is better than Christmas!" one writes. To each her own. [Makeup Bag]
• Natura Bliss's oxygen therapy Finishing Mask was so successful the brand's launching another oxygen-saturated product for the body. You can get it at Neiman Marcus for $80. Or if you're on a budget just stand naked in the middle of a bunch of houseplants. [Beauty Snob]


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DECATUR -- Two north Alabama community colleges are jockeying for a robotics center that is being touted as a national center for robotics research, education, and training.
Gov. Bob Riley said he and two-year system Chancellor Bradley Byrne are meeting with officials from Wallace State Community College and Calhoun Community College and a decision is expected in coming months.
The cost and funding source for the three-phase Alabama Robotics Innovation Center project have not been determined, but it could possibly be around $40 million, Riley said.
"We'll sit down and try to figure which of the two or three places that would like this project would be the best location," Riley told the Decatur Daily in a Wednesday story.
"All will do a fantastic job, and the people they serve will benefit tremendously from this project," he said.
Wallace State Community College President Vicki Hawsey said her college is emphasizing its Hanceville location, which is near the largest number of advanced manufacturing industries in the state, near Birmingham, near the center of the state and near Interstate 65.
Wallace State officials met with Riley and Byrne in a closed meeting on Tuesday. Byrne also heard a presentation from Calhoun Community College officials, who made a similar meeting with Riley in January.
Calhoun promoted its Decatur location, saying it was near Huntsville and its high-tech and aerospace industries, in one of the fastest-growing areas, and near Redstone Arsenal.
Both colleges promoted their strengths in work force development and their existing robotics classes.
Both schools are in regional consortiums funded with federal grants that might benefit a robotics center and have property available for the center.
Calhoun officials offered more land possibilities at Tuesday's meeting with the chancellor, with Calhoun President Marilyn Beck presenting at least five locations.
Byrne said he would like to see the two schools form a partnership in robotics, although that doesn't solve the location problem.
"I said this morning that Calhoun's presentation would be a hard target (for Wallace) to reach, but Vicki and her crew presented an excellent proposal," Byrne said. "We have two excellent colleges and two excellent proposals."


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They mention a 4xMRT limit, so 4 x 4x32bit follows on from that anyway, seeing as 4x32bit is the fattest texture format
But yes, a "feature level" API would be nice, so you can ask the device what kind of limits it actually has.
BTW, I wouldn't dare use 4 x 4x32bit on the nextgen consoles! That's way too much bandwidth -- At 1080p, that's over 120MiB of framebuffer!
(or if you assume a perfectly optimal only 1 write followed by 1 read per pixel, then at 60Hz that's 14.8GiB/s of bandwidth)
3 x 4x8bit is a pretty standard setup for deferred rendering, and even that's uncomfortable from a bandwidth point of view...
Keep in mind that on Xbone, you want to keep your frame-buffers under ~30MiB! 3 x 4x8bit plus a depth buffer just barely fits in 32MiB of ESRAM.
3 x 4x8bit isn't uncomfortable on next-gen consoles. I guess Xbone has more restrictions here, but Infamous Second Son used 6 1080p gbuffer targets + depth + stencil - 3 of the gbuffer targets are 4x8bit, the other 3 are 4x16bit. See slide 41 here: http://suckerpunch.playstation.com/images/stories/GDC14_infamous_second_son_engine_postmortem.pdf


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When are two heads better than one?
The Challenger disaster, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the botched invasion of Iraq ... all these historical calamities have been blamed on dud group decision making. Bang heads together, it seems, and you dull people's minds.
And yet there's the almost-magic "Wisdom of Crowds" effect - average people's verdicts together and you'll arrive at a more accurate answer than any one person would have achieved on their own.
How to resolve this paradox? A series of intriguing new studies discussed on our Research Digest provides part of the answer, highlighting the roles played by people's confidence and the type of problem they're tackling.


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Health-care decision a victory for all
For the 1.3 million uninsured New Jerseyans, and the tens of millions more across the country who are uninsured or underinsured, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a tremendous victory.
As elected officials, the greatest obligation we have to our citizenry is protecting their health and welfare. In the 21st-century landscape, this is predicated on access to quality, affordable health care.
Health care should not be a luxury. No one should have to choose between their health and paying their bills. This landmark legislation will make quality and affordable health care possible for every New Jersey resident.
With the finality of the court's decision, it's time to get back to work on implementing the health insurance exchange component so that it is best suited to meet the unique needs of New Jersey and its 9 million residents. The exchange is the most significant component in ensuring that individuals have access to a health plan they can afford.
The Supreme Court has done right by the people. Now it's time for us to live up to our obligation.
-- Herb Conaway, M.D.,
The writer, a Democrat, represents the 7th District in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he is the lead sponsor of legislation to create a New Jersey health benefits exchange program.
Health-care decision sets dangerous precedent
It is clear — and the Supreme Court yesterday agreed — that President Barack Obama's health-care law is, in fact, a tax increase on the American people. Given how fragile our economy is and the unrelenting financial hardship South Jersey families and small businesses are already facing, the American people cannot afford and do not need another tax.
With the Supreme Court's ruling, President Obama's health-care law will now continue to decimate our small businesses and further discourage job creation. It will allow unelected bureaucrats on more than 100 new boards and commissions to make medical choices based on cost, not care. And it ensures that Americans will now have the disastrous decision of either paying a massive tax or higher insurance premiums.
Make no mistake: I will join again with my colleagues to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replace it with common-sense policies that will control costs, practice patient-centered care and protect the doctor-patient relationship.
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision is deeply disappointing and completely against the limited government principles our Founding Fathers had intended. The justices of the Supreme Court have now given President Obama and future administrations broad powers to mandate any action upon the American people. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent of an overreaching federal government.
-- Frank A. LoBiondo,
Mays Landing
The writer, a Republican, represents the New Jersey's Second Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Park sign points to wasteful spending
I am writing to register my horror at the sign that the Mack administration recently inflicted on the Parkside Avenue entrance to Cadwalader Park ("Historic Preservation Office questions legality of new Cadwalader Park sign," June 28).
Putting that monstrosity above the entrance to this Frederick Olmsted-designed park is like putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. And the fact that the taxpayers of Trenton apparently paid $17,000 for it adds insult to injury.
While the average Trenton resident cuts back and economizes to make ends meet and keep his or her taxes paid (unlike some in City Hall), the administration spends huge amounts of money on foolishness like this inappropriate, unnecessary sign.
Apparently, fixing the abysmal school system, getting control over the skyrocketing crime rate, cleaning up the trash and squalor, maintaining city-owned property and keeping a lid on taxes just isn't enough to keep the Mack administration busy. Instead, it is spending our precious dollars and resources on silly, wasteful projects, doing it either without taxpayer input or by ignoring the voices of reason that do manage to be heard.
The voters of Trenton will not forget these idiocies when the 2014 election rolls around.
-- William Kucas,
Second Amendment defends against threat from within
Contrary to what has become a popular view of the intent of the Second Amendment (letter, "The malignancy of guns," May 27), it was designed — like the rest of the Bill of Rights — to establish a central government totally unlike that of England. Whether or not a "well-regulated militia" (military) was in fact necessary to a free state, this is how the framers saw it; however, they also saw clearly that an oppressive central government would first seek to disarm the citizens.
The intent of the Second Amendment ensured that the people (of the individual states) would be able to defend themselves against a central government that would use the military as its primary tool of oppression. Now, one could argue that with our military today, the Second Amendment is moot, since what homeowner can afford howitzers, tanks, rocket launchers, jet aircraft, etc.?
This does not change original intent. So, if we think the Second Amendment is useless today, we should amend the Constitution. Apart from that, the individual states should resist any legislative attempt to deny its people the right to bear whatever arms they deem necessary to resist an oppressive central government.
-- James R. Plummer,
Gov. lets invectives fly at town hall meetings
There he goes again! Our governor is calling people names via his taxpayer-supported bully pulpit. ("Tough-talking Christie warns Democrats he wants his tax cut," June 27.)
It is not a surprise to anyone to hear him use such language or that he uses it in his favorite venue — the so-called political rally called a town hall meeting, which is anything but a traditional town hall meeting.
Gov. Chris Christie is upset that the Democrats won't give him his version of a tax cut. So he calls a senator an "arrogant SOB"! Ouch.
He already got his own "tax cut" when he vetoed the "millionaire's tax" after it was re-approved by the Legislature. It helped his own family to prosper as well as a majority of his wealthy Cabinet members, and it hurt my personal middle-class wallet.
I think the Legislature should not allow using taxpayer money for political purposes. Town hall meetings are mostly held in taxpayer-supported public facilities and manned by municipal full-time police, EMTs and fire personnel. This is flat-out wrong. I believe municipalities and school districts are afraid to deny the governor's request to use a site because they are afraid he'll retaliate against them, perhaps through the Department of Community Affairs or the Department of Education, with budget cuts.
If the governor wants to hold town hall meetings, as he's been doing, then he should bring his PAC checkbook and pay the price, i.e.: Share the pain, governor, and hold off on the expletives.
-- Joe Murphy,
The writer is a member of the Ewing Township Council.
Thank you, Hamilton firefighters
Earlier this month, at about 9 p.m., our smoke alarms started to wail. We had no way of checking the units, since neither of us can climb a ladder.
A neighbor suggested we call the non-emergency line of the fire department. We did, and, sure enough, they arrived within minutes. They replaced all the batteries at no charge. This solved the problem.
I thought I had installed 10-year batteries. Apparently not.
In any event, the firefighters were terrific, and we want to thank them publicly.
Thanks, men!
-- Barbara and Tim Eames,