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Baked Macaroni and CheddarApril 2008
This comfort-food classic received tons of requests for a healthy makeover. A layer of broccoli adds vitamins and fiber, but no one will ever know it's good for them.
Makes: 4 servings
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 35 mins
- 1 large bunch broccoli, cut into bite-size florets and stalks peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 pound whole wheat elbow pasta
- 2 1/2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup finely chopped shallots (about 3)
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 3 1/2 cups low-fat milk
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 12 ounces cheddar cheese, cut into small cubes
- 6 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
- Salt and pepper
- 1 clove garlic, smashed
- 3 tablespoons bread crumbs
- Fill a large pot with enough water to reach a depth of 2 inches and bring to a boil. Add the broccoli and cook for 1 minute; drain and rinse with cold water. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and add the broccoli in an even layer.
- Fill the same pot with salted water and bring to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente; drain.
- Position a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees . In the same pot, melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat. Add the shallots and cook, stirring, until softened, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in the flour for 1 minute. Whisk in 1 cup milk until thickened, then whisk in 1 cup more. Whisk the cornstarch into the remaining 1 1/2 cups milk, then whisk the mixture into the pot. Simmer, whisking, until the sauce thickens, 2 to 3 minutes. Lower the heat and stir in the cheddar and 4 tablespoons parmesan. Season with salt and pepper, then stir in the pasta. Spoon the mixture over the broccoli.
- In a small heatproof bowl, combine the garlic and remaining 1/2 tablespoon butter; microwave at high power until melted, about 20 seconds. Stir in the bread crumbs, the remaining 2 tablespoons parmesan and 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper. Discard the garlic, then sprinkle the bread crumb mixture on the pasta. Bake until golden, about 15 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.


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Who are Green Consumers? What are they buying, and why? As companies continue to increase investment in sustainable products and services, leading executives and faculty gathered at UCLA to address vital questions to ensure success on May 10 2012. The Institute's Corporate Partner Program brings together executives and academics to discuss research in corporate sustainability and feature talks by leading practitioners in the field. This event was co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and Net Impact.
Magali Delmas, Professor of Management at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Anderson School of Management, started by presenting her latest research on Green Markets and Greenwashing. While noting the risks and challenges of "greenwashing," Delmas noted that, in just 20 years, U.S. sales of organic food and beverages have surged from $1 billion (in 1990) to nearly $27 billion (in 2010). As well, Delmas presented a "Green Consumer Bell Curve" (comprised of Dark Green Consumers, Light Green Consumers, Excuse-Makers, and Brown Consumers) and survey results indicating that people purchase green products primarily to achieve "improved personal health" – secondary to "reduced environmental impact."
Following Professor Delmas, Joe Baratelli, Executive Creative Director at Rubin Postaer and Associates (the second-largest advertising agency in Los Angeles), presented his firm's work on behalf of Honda Motor Company. Baratelli presented its campaign for the Honda Insight hybrid-electric vehicle and said his firm is currently preparing for the launch of the 2013 Honda Fit EV (electric vehicle). To reach Green Consumers, Baratelli emphasized the importance of developing an emotional connection – and the goal "to be a company society wants to exist."
Debbie Levin, President of the Environmental Media Association (EMA), a nonprofit organization that harnesses the entertainment industry and media to motivate sustainable lifestyles, explained how the EMA helped the Toyota Prius achieve outstanding success with Green Consumers. She noted the EMA's role in placing the Prius with celebrities such as Cameron Diaz. The vehicle became synonymous with "cool," thereby helping motivate the trend of purchasing the Prius. Levin said that celebrities want to be smart and passionate about causes, so celebrities love supporting and affiliating with the environmental movement.
Finally, Steve Boyd, General Manager of North America at Tern Bicycles, a leading manufacturer of folding bicycles, presented his firm's efforts in approaching Green Consumers. Boyd cited exemplar companies Patagonia and Method in emphasizing the importance of authenticity. He said Green Consumers are the "most passionate and savvy" group, so it's important to live sustainability every day. Boyd also noted the importance of "re-framing" for Green Consumers; his product is not "just a bike" but rather a solution to three of our largest problems: congestion, pollution, and obesity.
The Corporate Partners Workshop was followed by a celebration for the Class of 2012 Leaders in Sustainability Graduate Certificate Program. At that event, the keynote speaker was Gary Lawrence, Chief Sustainability Officer at AECOM Technology Corporation, a UCLA Corporate Partner.
The Corporate Partners Workshop was sponsored by the Institute's Corporate Partners Program, the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance, and Net Impact.
To view additional images from the event click here to check out the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability on Pinterest.


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#148299 - 09/25/05 10:56 AM Have you been Tingoed?
Registered: 09/25/05
Posts: 1
Loc: British Columbia
I came across this in an article in the Telegraph (UK) this Saturday. I simply HAVE to get this when it hits the shelves! (Penguin Books, ISBN 0140515615 )
You know when you've been Tingoed - just ask an Easter Islander
By Neil Tweedie
(Filed: 24/09/2005)
Ever been disappointed when something turns out better than you expected? Lots of Germans have because they invented a word for it: scheissenbedauern.
Or owned a camel that gives milk only when tickled on the nostrils? Nakhurs, they call them in Iran.
Or dealt with a koshatnik - Russian for a seller of stolen cats?
English prides itself on a wealth of words describing almost the same thing, and the precision it brings. But, as a new book shows, other languages contain words with no direct English equivalent that do the job of whole sentences in the Anglo-Saxon world, and which describe the strangest jobs, emotions and practices.
The Meaning of Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinod draws its title from the Pascuense language of Easter Island - tingo meaning to borrow objects one by one from a friend's house until nothing is left.
Beware the new neighbour who pops round for a cup of sugar. It could be the start of tingo. Mr Jacot de Boinod stumbled across some of his words while researching for the BBC comedy quiz show QI.
There may be English women who appear better from behind than the front, but only the Japanese have a word for such a looker: bakku-shan.
And in neko-neko the Indonesians have devised a noun for that indispensable member of the office: the person whose creative idea only makes things worse. The Inuit, meanwhile, rely on areodjarekput, the practice of exchanging wives for a few days, to combat the monotony of the long arctic night.
The internet, foreign language dictionaries and even embassies provided the words. "English is brilliant at naturalising foreign words, such as ad hoc or feng shui," said Mr Jacot de Boinod. "I'd like to see some of my favourites from the book in general use."
Everyone has heard of the Inuit having dozens or even hundreds of words for snow, but who would suspect the Albanians of having 27 different words for eyebrow, and 27 for moustache.
There are also a number of dubious compliments, including mahj - Persian for looking beautiful after a disease - and the wonderful Italian word for one tanned by sun lamp, slampadato.
The Russians, who excel in the art of misery, offer razbliuto for the feeling one has for a former lover no longer loved.
And it is only natural that the fearsomely industrious Japanese risk karoshi, death from overwork.
Mr Jacot de Boinod said: "A frustration has been finding wonderful words that I have been unable to verify and so had to leave out of the book. Age-otori for example - a Japanese word supposedly meaning 'to look worse after a haircut'.
"Even though I found it on a website the Japanese speakers I consulted didn't think it existed, and I couldn't track it down in any dictionaries. So out it went."
Some other unusual words and their meanings discovered by Mr Jacot de Boinod: marilopotes (Ancient Greek), a gulper of coaldust; cigerci (Turkish), a seller of liver and lungs; madogiwazoku (Japanese), window-gazing office workers with too little to do; seigneur-terrasse (French), a person who spends much time but little money in a cafe; tuji-giri (Japanese), the practice of trying out your new sword on a passer-by; torschlusspanik (German), fear of diminishing opportunities due to advancing age.
#148300 - 09/25/05 11:36 AM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/28/00
Posts: 2891
This looks like advertising.
#148301 - 09/25/05 11:52 AM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/13/05
Posts: 3290
Loc: R'lyeh
Ever been disappointed when something turns out better than you expected? Lots of Germans have because they invented a word for it: scheissenbedauern.
Oh, no, not one of these books again. Googling scheißenbedauern or scheissenbedauern only returns pages in English. If it's so popular with Germans why aren't they using it online? Besides most of those pages attribute the word coinage to a humorist Joe Queenan who wrote: Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon. Lower down in the article, Inuit snow vocabulary is mentioned uncritically._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#148302 - 09/25/05 03:54 PM Mantled again...
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/06/01
Posts: 6944
Loc: Worcester, MA
...the whole Board this time!
Some other unusual words and their meanings discovered by Mr Jacot de Boinod: ... torschlusspanik (German), fear of diminishing opportunities due to advancing age.
We've discussed this one here, a while ago and maybe even recently.
Edit: here:http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=german&Number=87692 et seq...
#148303 - 09/26/05 01:21 AM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
Posts: 3065
Loc: Jakarta
In reply to:
And in neko-neko the Indonesians have devised a noun for that indispensable member of the office: the person whose creative idea only makes things worse.
Errr, no. Firstly neko-neko is actually Javanese, not Indonesian. Secondly it doesn't mean that. It seems to be the Javanese equivalent of macam-macam, which can mean "various kinds of" or "muck somebody about, try it on with somebody".
#148304 - 09/26/05 09:19 AM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Registered: 03/14/01
Posts: 2379
Loc: New York City
Ever been delighted when something turns out more disappointing than expected? This has been a delicious thread.
#148305 - 09/26/05 09:33 PM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
#148306 - 09/27/05 10:35 AM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Registered: 03/22/05
Posts: 500
Loc: Northern Ontario, Canada
tuji-giri (Japanese), the practice of trying out your new sword on a passer-by
Oh, I would love this word to be true, as such a thing takes place in one scene of "Zatoichi"!
#148307 - 09/27/05 11:54 AM Re: Have you been Tingoed?
Registered: 03/14/01
Posts: 2379
Loc: New York City
>>I woud love it to be true<<
I don't know about the word, but such a thing did was in-fact, the practice -- although I think the "passer-by" was a slave.
#148308 - 09/27/05 02:44 PM Have you been Tsuji-giri'd?
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/06/00
Posts: 2788
Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
Some Japanese Samurai, during the Edo Period, randomly tested their swords by hacking up people of lower social station. The practice was called tsuji-giri. The clans combined to prohibit the practice through a law called Hyakkajou.
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Boulder, Colo. - Geoscientists from around the globe will gather March 25-27 in the Washington, DC, area at a joint meeting of the Northeastern and Southeastern Sections of the Geological Society of America. The meeting takes place at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA. Approximately 1100 scientists, students, and K-12 educators are expected to attend.
Geoscientists from the American Geological Institute, Frederick Community College, George Mason University, George Washington University, Nomad Geosciences, the US Geological Survey, and the University of Maryland are hosting the meeting.
Journalists are invited to attend sessions of interest, interview scientists, and visit the exhibit area. Information on complimentary media registration and procedures for arranging onsite and telephone interviews during the meeting follow the program highlights below.
The technical program includes local, regional, and national topics of interest. Sessions address:
The program also includes a full-day public policy session. Speakers include Celia Merzbacher, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, discussing "Science Policy: A View from the Executive Office of the President," and Craig Schiffries, National Council for Science and the Environment, on "Improving the Scientific Basis for Environmental Decisionmaking."
A tip sheet highlighting specific talks will be issued next week. To view the technical program visit
Eligibility for complimentary media registration is as follows:
Complimentary meeting registration covers attendance at all technical sessions and access to the exhibit hall. Media must pay regular fees for paid luncheons, field trips, etc.
Media representatives may register at the main meeting registration desk located in the Hilton Pre-Function Foyer on the Lobby level. Registration will be open Wednesday, March 24, from 4:00-8:00 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 25-26, from 7:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 27, from 7:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. All media registrants will receive a name badge and the program/abstract book upon arrival.
Media registrants may arrange on-site interviews after attending the session in which the talk is given or by leaving a note at the GSA Registration Desk requesting an interview before or after the talk. Interested media unable to attend may telephone the Registration Desk at 703-761-5102 and leave a message requesting a callback from the speaker.
A media and public affairs room (unstaffed), located in the Estate Board Room on the lower level, is available for use by members of the press from 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24, until noon on Saturday, March 27.
For additional information before March 25, contact Ann Cairns, GSA Director of Communications, at 303-357-1056. During the meeting, March 25-27, contact the GSA Registration Desk at 703-761-5102.
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Basically I have a table with some domains, after a query I split them by "," then I want to check if the referer is one of those domains in the DB, if true nothing happens, if not they got redirected to a new page, I can't figure out what is wrong, can someone please help me?
Thanks in advance!
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$streama= preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/", "", $_GET['ch']);
mysql_select_db($database_ovcast, $ovcast);
$query_Recordset1 = "SELECT nome, visitas, ban, password, dominio FROM CANAIS WHERE nome = '".$streama."'";
$Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $ovcast) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);
$totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1);
if ($row_Recordset1['dominio'] != "n/a"){
$parts = split (",",$row_Recordset1['dominio']);
$urlInfo = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
$domain = $urlInfo['host'];
$conta = count($parts);
for ($i = 0; $i < $conta; $i++) {
//echo $parts[$i]."\n";
if ($parts[$i] <> $domain)
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Geocaching: the hunt for cache
In addition to leading the group Northeast Pennsylvania Geocachers, Chris Mackey is one of the preeminent designers of geo-coins in the world. A geo-coin is a metal or wooden medallion used as a common and often coveted form of treasure in geocaching. Groups or individual geocachers design their own unique coins that represent personal significance; these are then cached and shared with others. Specific geo-coins are sought and collected, and many coins contain a tracking ID so cachers can log the location of the coin. Its journey, which often spans the globe, can be recorded and followed by all.
I met Chris at his office in the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce building on a warm, late summer morning for a crash course in geocaching. Before we set out on our hike through the Merli-Sarnoski Park in Jermyn, PA, Chris explained that, although geocaching does not require more than a pair of sneakers and a smartphone, it is essential to the spirit of geocaching that all cachers follow a few ground rules while treasure hunting.
First, he stressed the importance of treading lightly and of practicing the "Leave No Trace" philosophy while hiking in order to minimize the impact on nature. Second, it is understood that one should not take something from the geocache without replacing it with something of equal or greater value. This practice of anonymous gift-giving and reciprocity is what defines the heart of geocaching and has connected people from all walks of life, while creating a strong community that extends all over the world.
Chris led the way through the park to our first cache using his handheld GPS. The trails were well maintained and he walked at a brisk pace, occasionally glancing down at his GPS to make sure we were heading in the right direction. The coordinates brought us to a stop at an inconspicuous pile of rocks just off of the main trail. There, behind a mismatched slab of bluestone, we spotted the cache—a military ammo box. Ammo boxes are the gold standard of containers because they are waterproof and animal resistant, and they have plenty of room for "swag," or trade items. This cache contained sundry items, from personal trading cards to a matchbox car.


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Go Japan! Robot T-Shirt & More Dorkiness
Come forth, Fall!
But We Still Want Dorky T-Shirts.
Summer Wanes, but it's still t-shirt time.
But not all t-shirts are decorated equally.
Come forth, Fall!
But We Still Want Dorky T-Shirts.
Summer Wanes, but it's still t-shirt time.
But not all t-shirts are decorated equally.
Terrie's Take is a selection of Japan-centric news collected and collated by long-time resident and media business professional Terrie Lloyd. AkihabaraNews is pleased to present Terrie's learned perspective; we all could use another take on the news - here's Terrie's:
The Takao Laboratory of Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Applied Chemistry is engaged in the research and development of artificially creating various organic compounds extracted from natural sources.
An exhibition of Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) will begin on November 28th through January 25th at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo. Ahead of the opening day, digital signage advertisement is being displayed for a week only at the Roppongi Station metro platform of the Toei Oedo Line.
The ads might give you a giggle.
'Japan can't do startups.'
Monster Cup of Tea
Seeing this is disappointing, in a way, but it's also rather pleasing. And it's not that we didn't know there was a guy in there, it's just that the original imagery is so very iconic that one can kinda, you know, lose track of the fact.
This week nothing very interesting happened on Friday night. And then on Saturday night - which is now - nothing very interesting happened again. Except for gas-propelled cream splat face prank and, oh yeah, this Japanese company 3D-printed a working model of a jet engine. So there's those things that happened.
Unlike a traditional mobile phone or Android smartphone, iPhone doesn't support mobile wallet services. But, NTT docomo made it possible to join those services using your iPhone.
They are going to release Osaifu Keitai Jacket 01, a device for iPhone that transforms the iPhone into a mobile wallet compliant device.
Halloween is Coming!
As you might have noticed, we're getting an early start on Halloween. In doing so, we're compiling and collating the J-Halloween Prep 2014 series.


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INGREDIENTS:20 lbs. tater tots, frozen 1 lb., 8 oz. margarine or butter 1 lb., 8 oz. all purpose flour 3 Tbsps.+1 tsp. salt 2 Tbsps. dry mustard 2 tsps. white pepper 2 Tbsps. paprika 2 gal.+2 qts. low-fat milk or reconstituted nonfat dry milk 1 Tbsp.+1 tsp.Worcestershire sauce 1 gal.+1 qt. low-fat cheddar cheese, shredded 2 cups Parmesan cheese, gratedTopping 1 qt. soft bread crumbs 2 qts. low-fat cheddar cheese, shreddedDIRECTIONS:1. Melt margarine or butter in a stock pot or steam jacketed ...
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By Tom Philpott: Military Update
Proponents for strengthening Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) benefits for the National Guard and Reserve say the critical issue is fairness. Reserve rates, frozen for years, need to be raised. Reserve benefits need to be made as portable as MGIB for active forces, their wartime deployment partners.
Not so, said a senior Defense official. The critical issue is how best to manage finite resources. There is no reason to raise Reserve GI Bill benefits as long as enough personnel join and re-enlist with reserve components.
The arguments were as blunt as that last Wednesday during an unusual joint hearing of the House armed services subcommittee on military personnel and the veterans' affairs subcommittee on economic opportunity. The two panels share oversight responsibility for MGIB programs.
The Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the personnel subcommittee — John McHugh of New York and Vic Snyder of Arkansas — were in sync laying out their case for raising reserve MGIB benefits perhaps next year. Snyder in particular sees two major inequities that need correction.
The first, he said, is that MGIB for reservists ends when they separate after a typical six-to-eight-year service obligation. That's true even now, in wartime, with Reserve and National Guard members being mobilized routinely for 16-to-18 months, and spending a year in Iraq or Afghanistan. When active duty members leave service, they take along MGIB benefits. Reserve benefits can only be used while they remain in drill status.
"How is it fair when two members serve side by side in combat, they return home together, both leave the service, but one will have education benefits (and) the other will not have any?'' asked Snyder.
"This seems to me to be unconscionable."
A second inequity is the level of benefits under MGIB for Selected Reserves. Payments used to be set to equal 47 percent of benefits for active duty MGIB users. But cost of living increases to active duty MGIB, which the Department of Veterans Affairs administers and VA committees oversee, have not been applied to Reserve benefits since the attacks of 9/11.
The armed services committees are responsible for Reserve MGIB and so can be blamed for letting benefits slip. But it's also true, Snyder said, that the Bush administration has not asked for money to adjust Reserve MGIB. On Sunday, when active duty benefits went up once again, Reserve MGIB benefits stayed frozen and their value, relative to active duty MGIB, fell to 27 percent.
"Shouldn't we at least bring that benefit up to where it was at the time the program was (established)," Snyder asked Michael L. Dominguez, principal deputy under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
Dominguez refused to concede the point, instead providing what he described as "a number-crunching, bean-counter" view. Reserve MGIB was designed primarily as a retention tool to keep members in drill status.
"If we look at our recruiting and retention numbers, we're achieving the purposes for which the program was intended," said Dominguez, a 1975 West Point graduate. For five years, until last July, he served as assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs.
Following that logic, an angry Snyder told Dominguez, if the Reserve MGIB "deteriorates to 3 percent of the (active duty) benefit … or 1 percent, you're going to be perfectly satisfied as long as Americans are stepping forward and signing enlistment contracts for reasons for patriotism, family heritage, for love of country. You don't care where that benefit deteriorates to … I think you stepped in it, Mr. Secretary."
Dominguez refused to reverse field, however.
"If people understand what we offer in return for their service, and they know that up front and they agree to that service, under those conditions I think that needs to be honored," he said.


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Is CM Finance Inc. (NASDAQ:CMFN) ready to lock in early pre-market gains? The stock is gapping higher before market open, indicating low risk for the upcoming session. Will the stock hold onto the upward movement today? Investors will be taking close notice. The shares are currently gapping 2.06% pricing at $9.90.
A gap is a change in price levels of a stock between the close of one session and the opening of the next one. Gaps happen for both fundamental and technical factors. If a company's earnings, for example, are much greater than previously expected, their stock might gap up the next trading session, opening higher than it closed the day before, leaving a gap.
Investors who partake in gap trading use a simple, disciplined approach to buying and selling stocks. Gap traders find stocks that have a price gap from the previous close and then watch the first hour or so of trading in order to identify what the trading range is. If the stock rises above the range then a buy is signaled, and a sell if it falls below.
CM Finance Inc. (NASDAQ:CMFN) stands 7.04% away from its 50-day simple moving average and also 15.86% away from the 200-day average. Recently, the commodity stands -1.00% away from the 52-week high and 74.81% from the 52-week low. The RSI (Relative Strength Index), an indicator that shows price strength by comparing upward and downward close-to-close movements is 65.55.
CM Finance Inc. (NASDAQ:CMFN)'s performance this year to date is 8.20%. The stock has performed 2.65% over the last seven days, 4.59% over the last thirty, and 4.68% over the last three months. Over the last six months, CM Finance Inc.'s stock has been 27.03% and 0.32% for the year.


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Stocks Slip from Record Highs as Investors Digest Fed Direction
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks slipped on Thursday as investors processed a barrage of economic data a day after the S&P 500 reached new highs driven by the Federal Reserve's pledge to maintain its $85 billion a month bond-buying program pending stronger evidence of a healthy U.S. economy.
The S&P 500 fell 0.2% to 1,722.34 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was dropped 0.3% to 15,636.55. The Nasdaq rose 0.2% to 3,789.38.
The Fed on Wednesday said it will maintain its current level of asset purchases given that the unemployment rate remains "elevated," mortgage rates have risen and economic growth appears still to be restrained.
Bank stocks tumbled led by JPMorgan Chase
Bank of America
A spate of economic reports offered investors a mostly positive view of the U.S. economic recovery.
Existing home sales rose to their highest level in six-and-a-half years in August as median prices rose nearly 15% year-on-year, defying expectations for a slowdown caused by rising interest rates. Also, the Philly Fed index of manufacturing activity surged to 22.3 in September, reversing the deceleration seen during the previous month and coming in above expectations of a rise up to 10.
Meanwhile, the Conference Board's Index of Leading Economic Indicators meanwhile showed a sharp rise in August following strong gains in July, marking a resumption of an upward trend after a brief pause.
A rise in initial jobless claims during a non-farm payrolls survey week was reported by the Labor Department Thursday. Claims increased by 15,000 to 309,000 in the week of Sept. 14 after the prior week's figure was revised to 294,000 from 292,000 or what had been the lowest initial claims print since March 2006 thanks to state computer system upgrade that resulted in delayed claims processing. It's expected that the computer system upgrades will require a few more weeks to be completed.
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I don't wear nearly enough separates. For me it is usually a reach for the most appealing (often meaning newest) dress and then coordinating around that. Separates take a little more thought. However, I wore a version of this outfit in my most recent remix and decided that I wanted to wear this white lace blouse again. The blouse also seemed like a perfect match with my lace sock garters from SWANclothing.
Lace For A Lady, Letters For A Spy
I don't wear nearly enough separates. For me it is usually a reach for the most appealing (often meaning newest) dress and then coordinating around that. Separates take a little more thought. However, I wore a version of this outfit in my most recent remix and decided that I wanted to wear this white lace blouse again. The blouse also seemed like a perfect match with my lace sock garters from SWANclothing.
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- ZombieLace said...
Yes the garters are absolutely cool. Cool like a female version of one of the gangsters in Guys n Dolls. And just so you know, you look cool lots of other times too.
- June 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM
- enna. said...
- June 7, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Tara said...
I know what you mean about hardly ever wearing seperates; I really need to start working on that! I love those garters, they are such a fun accessory!
- June 7, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Mae Lu said...
Definitely cool, those garters. I've seen them before, and I was thinking of purchasing a pair for fall so I can wear thigh highs without the worry that those big cotton things will fall down, as they've been apt to do. However, with us potentially moving to Hawaii next year, it seems kind of wasteful for such a wonderfully novel accessory.
I like that skirt. It's nice a full, but still short enough that it gives you that youthful kicky-ness.
I'm in search of a good petticoat for my flowy high waisted skirt... and a good lacy shirt. I think I found one at Madewell.
Much XX.
Mae Lu, thereafterish.
- June 7, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Clare said...
Such a cute outfit. I'm so with you on the dress rather than separates idea.
Love the little garters on you too.
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- June 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM
- joelle van dyne said...
love love love those sock garters so much! i have a pair that i'm still too self-conscious to wear. i don't know why, really. but anyway they looks great on you, and i love how you style them with a fairly unassuming outfit. ~joelle
- June 7, 2010 at 8:47 AM
- Jana said...
i love the shoes!
- June 7, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- My Republic of Fashion said...
Those sock garters are just brilliant. Love your outfit as usual.SarahD
- June 7, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- Carmen said...
The sock garters is amazing! Love the volume of the skirt too!
- June 7, 2010 at 9:11 AM
- Marika said...
Wow! aha, that is so sweet what you did with socks!
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- June 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- joanne said...
i get what you mean, separates are slightly more tedious to put together.
I face the same problem too. On lazy days, I will just pick any dress I see and a blazer/jacket to match.
I like your entire outfit, even the garters which is strange cause I nv did like the idea of garters being worn as part of an outfit.
- June 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Jenni said...
I love sock garters soooo much. I love this top on you, too. You do look pretty cool. :D
- June 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- katthroatworld said...
ADORABLE look.. lovelovelove the sock garters and lace top. :)
- June 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- Casey said...
Isn't it awesome how an accessory can take an outfit from "fun" to cool?! I love the sock garters addition; they definitely add an edge to a sweet outfit. ;)
♥ Casey
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- June 7, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- L said...
you look especially dazzling today.
and you look happy, i love happy people!
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- June 7, 2010 at 11:17 AM
- Christy said...
Ha ha, I like subversive accessories. I agree that skirt/shirt combos are sometimes a little harder to pull off but you do it well here. Lace is always classic.
- June 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- revital said...
I have a skirt that looks exactly like yours!!
- June 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Kathyrine said...
I personally love separates! Its hard for me to find a dress that is flattering on all parts of my body so separates all the way for me! :)
Lovely outfit!
- June 7, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Louise said...
Cool garters!
- June 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- KD said...
You certainly look cool! I think this outfit is awesome. And the scenery . . . !!
- June 7, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- fashionforwriters.com said...
I used to wear so many skirts and tops but these past few years have got me obsessed with wearing dresses. They're so easy and so appealing and sometimes I can't justify buying a top that costs the same as a dress or a skirt that costs the same as a dress, even though if I really thought about it, a top or a skirt would probably get tons more wear and would probably be way more versatile in the end.
I blame it on the plethora of cute vintage dresses and amazing dressed by independent designers tempting me to forgo separates and put on a dress!
I think your sock garters are gorgeous and totally cool. I've never even considered for a moment that I could pull them off but seeing you in them makes me want to try.
xo Jenny
- June 7, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- SwanDiamondRose said...
i love these photos so much! i love the close up with that background. so much! and thanks very much for the sock garter love all :)
- June 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM
- rebecca said...
I really need a pair of those garters! And I find separates far more easy to dress than a... dress :p I guess it's just personal preference (:
- June 7, 2010 at 2:44 PM
- Lynzy said...
The garters and the boots! to die for!
- June 7, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- reckless daughter said...
yay for separates. I've been in a onesie or dress mode the past few weeks but I'm gonna branch out again!
- June 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM
- The Red Velvet Shoe said...
You are too adorable...it was such a fun surprise to scroll down and see lace garter socks! And you know I just heart those shoes.....
- June 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- MarieBayArea said...
that lace suspenders are wild and very very cool.
- June 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Cupcake.Fashionista said...
love the contrast of the white lace and the black skirt!
like always, you look flawless :)
- June 7, 2010 at 10:21 PM
- Chloe, Butterfly Cupcakes said...
I really love that lace top, it's quite beautiful and I will agree it goes well with the lace garters.
- June 8, 2010 at 12:39 AM
- Daisy said...
Lovely !
- June 8, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- libys11 said...
love the sock garters.. they add a quirky touch to the outfit! :D
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- June 8, 2010 at 7:34 AM
- megannielsen said...
YES those garters are super cool!! Mental note: must find garters stat!
- June 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Kyla said...
Love these! And I always thought you were cool :)
- June 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM
- Eyeliah said...
I am so glad to see these garters on you (and Rumi and Jennine etc). I totally dig them!
- June 8, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Lovers, Saints & Sailors said...
The garters with those shoes just work so, so well.
- June 9, 2010 at 2:19 AM
- Passport Smiles said...
Oh my God! I'm in love with the shoes but especially the garters! I've been wanting some like this for years, so thanks oodles for posting the link to etsy. I will def have to order some! I just hope I can pull it off as good as you.
- June 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Sarah-Leigh said...
I am sooo coveting a pair of sock garters this summer!
- June 10, 2010 at 7:06 AM


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The first government shutdown in 17 years has resulted in furloughs for about 800,000 federal workers across nearly every agency imaginable.
But for the nation's 21 million veterans, there's good and bad news as Republicans and Democrats in Congress attempt to gauge who will blink first.
Thanks to advance appropriations of $54 billion for the Veterans Health Administration, 1,700 VA hospitals, clinics and nursing homes will continue to treat military vets without disruption through next fall.
"One of the things we're grateful of is some things are still continuing despite the gridlock in Congress," said state Rep. Mark Takai, a Democrat who chairs the Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts Committee.
However, if the government shutdown lasts toward the end of October, then disability payments for veterans could be threatened. A posting on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website states the following:
"VA has funds available to ensure claims processing and payments in the compensation, pension, education, and vocational rehabilitation programs will continue through late October. However, in the event of a prolonged shutdown, claims processing and payments in these programs will be suspended when funds are exhausted."
For U.S. Army veteran Patrick Collins, 30, the government shutdown places his first disability payment of $810 per month in limbo. Collins' application was approved by the VA just three days before the impasse in Congress began.
"I'm not working at the moment," Collins told KITV4. "That would be a really, really tough situation for me. I don't really have any income coming in."
Although Takai admits there are concerns with President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, he doesn't believe Republicans should use the federal budget as a negotiating tool.
"I would hope that once the budget gets resolved that there will be some discussion and debate on that particular measure," he said. "But, it's not good politics, not good business (and) it just doesn't make sense to handcuff the entire nation's budget on one piece of legislation."
The VA has set up a veterans' field guide for the government shutdown on its website. The Web page can be found on the "As Seen On" section of KITV.com.
Disability benefits for veterans living on their own range from $129 dollars per month up to $2,800 per month, depending on the severity and type of injury.


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Just got back from Interop 2011 in Las Vegas … and did not return empty handed!
Vidyo won the Best of Interop award in the Collaboration category, for delivering video communications and collaboration on mobile devices via its recently announced VidyoMobile product! This is the 3rd time Vidyo has won Best of Interop in this category over the past 4 years.
Here's some of what Eric Krapf, Editor of No Jitter, and one of the judges of the Best of Interop awards, had to say about Vidyo and its award-winning product:
"VidyoMobile represents a commendable step forward for the industry. Vidyo's Adaptive Video Layering architecture promises to deliver high-definition 720p video with resolution up to VGA on smartphones and tablets. This is critical, especially in enterprise environments, where lower-quality video and audio act as a constraint upon widespread adoption. VidyoMobile will let enterprises quickly and efficiently deploy a high-quality, bandwidth-efficient video client to smartphones and tablets across the enterprise, helping to drive adoption of mobile video within the enterprise. As such, it is worthy of recognition as Best of Interop for the Collaboration category."
According to Information Week Analytics, the group that oversees the annual awards, the Collaboration category is extremely significant and relevant to the Enterprise as more and more employees and contractors work outside of corporate offices, bringing the need for real-time, converged applications to the fore. "The goal: improve business by helping people team up in today's virtual workplace, quickly and easily, whenever and wherever they need to; ensure that employees can locate and collaborate with the knowledge experts they need to succeed; and cut costs while boosting productivity."
The Collaboration category includes products and technologies that facilitate collaboration, such as multimedia, streaming media and voice-based applications. This category encompasses enterprise 2.0 collaboration and social networking products as well as asynchronous and real-time collaboration offerings such as unified communication software and services. This category also covers Web 2.0 tools and services, such as blogs, wikis, RSS and AJAX; streaming media delivery and videoconferencing technologies; portal software; and messaging applications.
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Teacher's lessons include details of JFK assassinationKeene (N.H.) Sentinel Photo
Brattleboro Union High School teacher Bill Holiday holds an 8mm copy of the Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
BRATTLEBORO — The small film reel F. William Holiday Jr. cradles in his hands is something he won't let anyone else touch. It's one of his most prized artifacts, and for good reason.
The original 8mm footage from which Holiday's film was copied captures from beginning to end the assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, of America's youngest president. In approximately 26 seconds of full-color frames, the home-movie camera of Abraham Zapruder, a previously obscure Dallas businessman, captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 50 years ago Friday.
Holiday's copy hasn't been pulled from the Internet, or recorded from television. It's a direct descendant of the Zapruder film, an honest-to-goodness, grainy, frame-by-frame version, far from the digitally enhanced footage seen today.
The story of how he obtained it, though, he keeps a mystery.
Holiday, a history teacher at Brattleboro Union High School, has spent the past four decades working to give his students intimate access to the people, the places and the archives to help them grasp a major tragedy in American history. He has shared with them the vivid details from interviews with nearly two dozen people who were in Dealey Plaza in Dallas the day Kennedy was killed there, or who were otherwise directly connected to the tragedy.
And Friday, on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, Holiday and his wife were in Dealey Plaza for a remembrance ceremony, hosted by the city of Dallas and restricted to 5,000 people. Holiday had to apply to attend the ceremony and obtained clearance after a background check, he said. He is also scheduled to speak at a conference hosted by the Coalition on Political Assassinations in the city today about how he teaches the assassination.
For Holiday, the assassination of an American president in broad daylight, on a major city street, is something he — and millions of others — continues to grapple with.
The theories about who shot and killed Kennedy vary from one man who acted alone, to an inside job, to the gun of a Secret Service agent that went off accidentally in the car behind Kennedy.
But after Holiday's decades of research and his attempts to set aside the possible from the ridiculous, he said he is certain of one thing: "There doesn't seem to be any doubt that Kennedy was shot from different directions."
If Lee Harvey Oswald was a part of the plan to kill Kennedy, Holiday said, "he was only one part."
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, also known as the Warren Commission, was established in 1963 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination. It concluded Oswald acted alone, firing three shots.
More recent review boards and commissions have formed and released their own findings, which offer varied conclusions including contradictions of the Warren Commission's analysis.
Holiday, a Brattleboro native, was 13 years old and in junior high school the day Kennedy was killed. He still remembers his principal's announcement over the intercom that alerted him and his schoolmates to the incident. School closed early that day.
Holiday went home, where he and his family were glued to the television, which showed nonstop coverage of the assassination. Questions circulated among family, friends and neighbors, who asked why and how such a thing could have happened.
"You wanted to know why. Why would a guy do that? And what was his beef with the president?" Holiday said.
Holiday said he was too young to think about conspiracy theories or question the Warren Commission's findings. But that would change about a decade later, when he began teaching U.S. history and exposing himself to workshops and presentations on the Kennedy assassination.
"It snowballed in the mid-'70s and picked up steam," he said of his research.
Interest is what drove him to seek out eyewitnesses for himself, he said. "But also you come to the realization that they are just real people and they are willing to share stories of what happened if you can find them."
Holiday has organized trips to Dallas for his students about 10 times so far. And every so often during those trips, he said, word of mouth has let eyewitnesses — or those with connections to the Kennedys — know he is in the city.
Some of Holiday's conversations with eyewitnesses tugged at his heart, as they evoked the emotions of that tragic and confusing day in 1963.
During one of Holiday's visits to Dallas, Beverly Oliver returned to the grass between Elm and Main streets where she had stood to watch the president's motorcade. She immediately broke down, Holiday recalled.
He's also met onlooker James Tague, who was hit by shrapnel. "I remember when he put his hand up to his face for the first time to show where he'd been injured by a stray shot," Holiday said. The gesture was simple, but meaningful.
In the years after the assassination, the students who accompanied Holiday to Dallas would experience moments such as these. But today, new technologies, such as Skype, have made it so Holiday's students learning about the assassination can be face-to-face with those same eyewitnesses without leaving the classroom.
For his senior seminar class in fall 2006, Holiday even requested the assistance of the Brattleboro Police Department to set up a mock motorcade behind the school with hidden shooters stationed at three locations. He said the echoes from a rifle and two pistols firing made it difficult for students to agree on how many shots were actually fired. The re-enactment was designed to help illustrate the confusion on Dealey Plaza in 1963.
"Kids are as interested today as they've ever been, like it happened in their time," Holiday said. "The more you show them, the more intrigued they are, and the more they want answers."
Had there been a film and photographs of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the intrigue may have been comparable, he said.
"Lincoln was something of an iconic figure, more so after his death than in his time in office. Kennedy's allure has increased since his death, too, in part due to the assassination and a lack of concrete answers."
Kennedy's assassination marked the beginning of a profound change in how Americans later came to view their government, Holiday said. And, he said, those effects are present today.
"My generation is probably the last generation whose innocence was changed by an event like that."
Secrets about America's unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba, known as the Bay of Pigs, in 1961, and the following year's Cuban Missile Crisis — which pitted Cuba and the Soviet Union against the U.S. — got the wheels of skepticism turning, Holiday said.
"Today's generation is very skeptical of anything government. It started here."
There are still many unanswered questions about the Kennedy assassination, including what happened during the autopsy and whether actual photos of Kennedy's body will ever be released, Holiday said.
And as those questions await answers, the public's interest isn't likely to wane.
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Any district may use Title II, Part A funds to develop and administer rigorous State tests required of teachers new to the profession (and available to teachers not new to the profession) to determine whether they have subject-matter competence, and to assist them in meeting State certification requirements, e.g., by paying for the costs of additional required courses. [U.S. Department of Education Title II, A Non-Regulatory Guidance (2006)]
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Under Title I, Part A (Sec. 1119(b)(1)(A)), each LEA receiving Title I funds must publicly report annually on its progress, both at the district and school level, ensuring that all teachers are highly qualified.
Section 2141 of the NCLB describes what districts must do if it fails to make AYP or ensure all core academic subject teachers are highly qualified. If ISBE determines, that a district does not have 100% of core academic teachers highly qualified for two consecutive years, the district must develop an improvement plan that will enable it to meet the highly qualified requirements.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- This is an article about the Windows 8 operating system for the PC and tablet, not for the phone.
Windows Phone 8 is a separate discussion, and you can find my initial opinion about that operating system in "Windows Phone 8 Review: Good, But Not Good Enough."
For several months, I had been very negative on Windows 8 for the PC, but I recently changed my mind. Today I'll explain why.
My impression had been very negative because I'd been playing around with Windows 8 on old, non-touch-screen hardware -- basically Windows 7 laptop and desktop computers that had been upgraded to beta versions of Windows 8 in various stages beginning in February.
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Using Windows 8 on a non-touch PC is a major pain. The new tiles and menu/touch-points do not lend themselves to a trackpad or mouse. Why? Because you have to hunt from side to side, from corner to corner, and that is an exercise in frustration. Beta-user feedback seemed overwhelmingly negative, confirming my own experience.
But then on Oct. 25 and 26, something happened. For the first time, I got to use both desktop/tablet versions of Windows 8 on purpose-built touch-screen hardware. As it turns out, this made all the difference.
Practically, how does this work? The point here is that as a user, you will be spending most of your time in the major Office apps (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), a browser and some other apps you may use such as Skype and Apple's (AAPL) iTunes. When you use most of these apps, you will not need a touch screen. You will use a trackpad or mouse just as would with Windows 7.
However, when you switch apps -- and, more importantly, when you start the computer -- you will find that you prefer to use the touch screen. It's just faster, easier and more logical that way. That's why a touch screen makes all the difference in terms of Windows 8 being an acceptable platform.
In other words, you will be spending 99% of your time in Windows 8 using a trackpad/mouse as usual. The problem is that if the other 1% is dysfunctional, it completely ruins the experience for the other 99%. As a result, you should at all cost avoid running Windows 8 on a non-touch-screen PC. Without a positive 1%, the other 99% will be miserable.
Still, using Windows 8 on a purpose-built touch screen is not necessarily enough to make the operating system a success. Even if that 1% touch-screen experience is as smooth as can be, it comes with a learning curve. The absence of a start button in particular means that you have to figure out basic menu navigation. Learning this may take some people five minutes or less, but for others it could require up to 25 minutes.


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A Whitewater woman was killed when her SUV was rear-ended by a car driven by a suspected drunken driver, according to the Walworth County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were called to Highway 89 south of Island Road in the town of Whitewater at 4:53 p.m. on Sunday for a report of a two-vehicle crash.
Investigators said a car driven by Craig Michael Seefeldt, 50, of Whitewater crashed into the back of an SUV driven by Melissa Patrick, 40, of Whitewater, as she was slowing to enter a driveway. The SUV was forced into the ditch and overturned.
Patrick was ejected during the rollover. A girl riding in the SUV was taken to Fort Atkinson Hospital with moderate injuries.
Seefeldt was arrested on suspicion of OWI causing homicide, OWI causing injury and reckless driving endangering safety.


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The effort by five of the nine county legislators to remove the county manager was finalized February 21 with the announcement that the legislature had voted to approve a separation agreement. A statement issued jointly by county manager David Fanslau and Scott Samuelson, chair of the legislature, read, "Mr. Fanslau and the Sullivan County Legislature have amicably agreed to enter into a Separation Agreement, ending Mr. Fanslau's position as Sullivan County Manager, effective at 12:01 a.m. on March 2. The legislature thanks Mr. Fanslau for his years of dedicated service to Sullivan County, and wishes him the best in his future endeavors."
Deputy county manager Joshua Potosek will serve as interim county manager while the legislature begins the search for a new manager.
The announcement came a few hours after lawmakers voted to move forward with a local law that will change the county charter to allow a simple majority of the legislature to remove a county manager from office. The charter was amended in 2007 requiring a supermajority to remove the county manager, and the issue has been a source of tension since June 2012, when five of the legislators indicated to their peers that they would not vote to renew Fanslau's contract, which expired at the end of the year.
Before the vote, most of the legislators weighed in with their thoughts on the matter. Legislator Kathy LaBuda called the resolution "totally inappropriate" and "disrespectful," noting that the supermajority rule was recommended by a unanimous charter commission back in 2007.
Legislator Jonathan Rouis agreed, saying that the charter is, in essence, the county's constitution and changing it should not be done by five legislators, but by public referendum or through a charter commission.
The change is subject to permissive referendum, meaning that if opponents gather enough signatures the public will have an opportunity to vote on the matter. Legislator Ira Steingart said, "I do think we'll get the signatures, and that it's going to go to the public." He added, "I think it's wrong that five politicians" can make the change.
On the other side of the issue, legislator Alan Sorensen said the revision would restore the original intent of the charter. He also said that the 2007 change was done incorrectly because the public at the time received no notice that the revision was subject to permissive referendum.
Legislator Cora Edwards was one of several legislators who said that as the charter now stands a minority of the legislature can thwart the will of the majority. She said, "Since June, a minority of four has been holding a majority of five in a holding pattern."
Lawmaker Cindy Gieger said the charter change in 2007 "changed the power structure of the legislature," and she supported the change to a simple majority.
Public comment on the question was split, with resident Ken Walter opposing the change and resident Star Hesse supporting it.


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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Portales nursery owner Curt Jaynes said a good way to check on a tree's freshness is to pull on its branch, and remember healthier trees are slower to shed needles.
By Gabriel Monte: CNJ Staff Writer
Across the country millions of people are flocking to nurseries and tree farms to pick out Christmas trees.
About 31 million trees were bought throughout the country last year,
according to the to the National Christmas Tree Association.
At his nursery in Portales, Curt Jaynes said he usually sells out of
christmas trees. This year he bought 40 cut Christmas trees and about
60 live potted trees.
Allsup's tree lot employee Matthew Hill said there are about 500 trees spread throughout Clovis' Allsup's locations.
Here are a frew tips from local nurseries on selecting and maintaining christmas trees during the holiday sesaon:
Is it fresh?
Unhealthy trees shed needles quicker, according to the national Christmas Tree Association Web site.
Pulling on the branch is one way to test the freshness of a tree, according to Jaynes.
Guthals Nursery owner Charles Guthals suggests thumping the trunk of
the tree against a hard floor to shake the needles out is another way
to inspect the freshness of a tree.
Keep it moist
"Every tree that's in everybody's lot, mine included, are in the
process of dying the day your looking at them because there' s no root
system," Guthals said regarding cut trees.
Trees should be placed in water as soon as they are purchased, according to Jaynes.
A basin filled with water under the tree would keep the tree as fresh as possible, Guthals said.
For trees that have not been preserved before purchase, the National
Christmas Tree Association Web site suggests cutting off a half an inch
from the trunk before placing it in water.
Guthals said trees should be kept away from heat sources to prevent them from drying out.
He said applying snow flock to the tree keeps trees from shedding neeles, and also acts as a fire retardant.
Recycling trees
Cut trees can be used as mulch for gardens and lawns, according to
Jaynes. Guthals suggests allowing the mulched tree to sweat out harmful
acids until decomposition is visible before applying it to the soil.


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Home sales in Spokane are seeing an upturn and no where is this more apparent then on Grand Blvd. where drivers are noticing almost a whole block is up for sale.
The owner of the homes passed away and now the family is selling and it could be the perfect time . Throughout Spokane home sales are up.
Between 18th Ave. and 19th Ave. there are five houses with five signs.
"Right across from Manito Park in the 20 mile-an-hour zone. People have to slow down," said Bob Cooke with R.H. Cooke and Associates.
Almost the whole block is up for sale.
"Four, five years ago it was tough to sell a house in Spokane. It was tough to sell a condo or house any place in the United States," said Cooke.
R.H. Cooke and Associates listed the homes mid February.
"And right off, right out the shoot we had several offers," said Cooke.
The homes are being sold as a bundle for just under $600,000 but Cooke is taking individual offers as well. Buyers can keep the homes and enjoy the 7 percent cap rate or redevelop.
"And it makes sense to put in multi-family or commercial in there simply as a buffer," said Cooke.
And throughout the neighborhood for sale signs are popping up with the market slowly moving from buyer to seller.
"It's in transition right now. The really good deals, where the bottom feeders were coming in and buying everything, two or three years ago, they're not there anymore," said Cooke.
Cooke says that's a good sign. Prices are up 8 percent from last year and inventory is down 10 percent.
"It's very good news. Things have finally turned around," said Cooke.
With sales up 8 percent compared to last year Cooke hopes these five homes get five new sold signs very soon.


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March 14, 2012 —
Following many months of ruthless cuts aimed at creating an austere budget, Eldred Central School District (ECS) officials presented highlights of the near-final proposed 2012-13 budget. Despite a substantial increase of 5% in health insurance and a 30% rise in employee retirement, the proposed budget represents a decrease from the 2011-12 budget of 4.55%, resulting in a total budget of $15,778,153.
School business administrator William Thornton said the budget is 99% complete, pending final figures from BOCES. A budget workshop is currently scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on March 22 at the Junior/Senior High School in Eldred, but may be unnecessary. The public is welcome, but should check the school website for updates (ecs.schoolwires.com/Page/1).
In other matters, it was announced that a board of education (BOE) seat will become available when Douglas Reiser's term expires on June 30. The term for a BOE member is five years, beginning July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2017. Interested individuals should contact district clerk Bonnie Robertson at 845/456-1100, ext. 5128 for a petition. The deadline to file to run is April 16, 2012.
Superintendent Robert Dufour reported that more than 80 resumes have been received in response to the search for a new principal at George Ross Mackenzie Elementary School. Dufour will review resumes with the intent to interview 10 to 15 candidates and to select three to be interviewed by the various committees being established for this purpose. Two hundred and five responses to a community survey about the desired qualities for the new principal have been received. Dufour will present an overview of the survey results at the BOE meeting on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. for discussion.
The ECS Key Elements a cappella group has launched a fundraising effort to raise $7,000 to record their first CD through Kickstarter.com. Twenty-one students from seventh through 12th grade are attempting to raise enough to record the 10-song album. Visit
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McHenry County College has succeeded in weathering the economic challenges present over the past few years by being financially responsible while maintaining quality academic programs that result in student success.
The college has focused on smart planning and budgeting to ensure that we meet short-term and long-term needs.
Traditionally, the college has three revenue sources from which the budget is built: state aid, student tuition and fees, and local tax support. Since MCC is a people-based operation, the biggest part of our expenditure budget, over 71 percent, is salaries and benefits for our employees.
The college continues to innovate by identifying ways to do more with fewer fiscal and physical resources. Faced with declining state support and increases in fixed costs and contractual obligations, our strategic decisions have reduced costs and increased efficiencies while maintaining quality and initiating needed academic programs in the manufacturing, health and technology fields. To accomplish these innovations, the college over the past two years – through prudent planning – has realized savings and efficiencies totaling over $2.5 million.
The college has increased fiscal savings and efficiencies through a variety of activities, including revamping print management system (saving $382,000), outsourcing grounds maintenance ($132,000) and custodial services ($675,961), implementing computer desktop visualization ($138,000), negotiating better leases for computers and software ($177,000), renegotiating the cost of our debt service ($89,000), adopting a new online learning management system ($196,500), and installing energy-saving systems and locked in pricing for gas and electricity ($329,000).
Such savings and efficiencies were critical so that the college could put those savings toward new academic programs, repairing infrastructure and increasing the quality of educational activities. The college also has focused on the writing of and receipt of grants to fund academic program start-up costs, programs for student success, cost coverage of energy efficiency equipment, and implementation of our sustainability initiatives. MCC has received over $1.4 million in grants to fund these efforts.
In addition to fiscal savings and efficiencies, MCC has leveraged partnerships to ensure that the college can meet its mission: Our focus is learning; student success is our goal. Our partnerships with the high school districts include scheduling dual credit, college-level courses in the high schools so that high school students can graduate from high school with a high school diploma and several college credits at once.
The partnership involves sharing high school laboratory facilities in culinary management and computer numerical control. During the day, the high school teaches classes, and in the evening, the college teaches college classes. We also have partnerships with businesses, where we bring classes to their place of business, and the business allows us to use space and for their employees to take the class on-site.
Even with our fiscal challenges, MCC continues to focus on helping students learn and succeed. Our efforts at improving the quality and learning of students have been successful. Over the past three years, we have increased the number of students who are retained from semester to semester. That is important, since the more students you retain, the greater chance they have of attaining their certificate or degree.
Our student success rate also has increased over the past three years, indicating that more students are doing well. That is the result of our excellent teaching faculty and the high-level student academic support services available to our students.
Further evidence of MCC's educational quality was reported through a recent Northern Illinois University study, showing that MCC transfer students' average annual grade-point average at NIU was 3.032, higher than NIU native students (2.858) and other northern Illinois community colleges' students (2.943).
More wonderful news came recently when MCC was notified that we were in the top 150 of the over-1,000 community colleges in the country, and eligible to compete for the 2015 Aspen Prize from the Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program. MCC was selected to compete because of the Institute's assessment of our institutional performance, improvement and equity on student retention and completion.
This is further evidence that the college's attention to fiscal responsibility while improving the quality of our educational programs is being recognized.
• Vicky Smith is president of McHenry County College.


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1933 - 1st gas well on Skinner-Harris. Dirks and McMurrey drilled. Driller, Skinner and Roy Harris in picture. Teal pusher Moon Mullins.
This photo of Bee County's first oil shipment in 1930 was found in the Beeville Bee-Picayune's archives.The shipment was from the McKinney #1 and loaded at Pettus March 3, 1930.


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John Grega was convicted of killing his wife, Christine, in 1994, and then released from prison last August when newly tested DNA evidence suggested that someone else was involved in the murder.
But the state filed a new aggravated murder charge against Grega. He pleaded not guilty last month. His lawyer asked a judge to dismiss the charge, or at least reduce it because the state has not been able to identify a weapon.
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A witness who said she was driving behind a 2000 Freightliner tractor pulling a flatbed trailer, loaded with pipe, told troopers at the scene that the truck driver did not stop for the stop sign.
She told troopers that she did see the woman driving the southbound 2006 Plymouth 300 sedan stop and then start making a left-hand turn.
The westbound truck apparently continued through the intersection and collided with the left side of the Plymouth.
The Plymouth ended up on the south side of FM 351 just west of the intersection. The truck continued going west on 351 and ended up crashing into "truck route" sign on the south side of the highway and then into a caliche embankment.
The driver of the Plymouth, 46-year-old Mirella Escamilla-Davis, was taken by an Angel Care Ambulance Service ambulance to Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville; her teenage female passenger was not injured.
Members of the Beeville Volunteer Fire Department were called to the scene to remove the sedan's driver's side door so they could get to the victim.
Highway Patrol Trooper Marvin Baker said after the collision that the driver of the truck, José Ramirez of Houston, did receive two citations. One was for disregarding a stop sign and the other was for not carrying a log book.
The trooper said Davis probably had broken bones, but her passenger, her 11-year-old daughter, was not injured.
Baker said he was told that Mrs. Davis was later transferred to a hospital in Corpus Christi for additional treatment.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 343-5220, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I have been waiting to find out if I was going to get this amazing editing mentorship with Walter Murch for the past five months. I found out that I was nominated in late 2011 for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. There was a very extensive application process that included multiple essays, a video, numerous copies of my work and assorted references.
I'm not sure how many people were nominated but I found out in March that I was one of four finalists. It was an amazing honor and also meant that I would be meeting Mr. Murch himself as he would make the final decision.
The meeting was amazing. It was just the two of us and we met in his editing room in New York. He told amazing stories, inspiring stories. He had seen my work and we spoke about that. We talked technical: the future of editing software, and he showed me his Final Cut sequence. I can't say enough about how amazing it was.
Up until then, I had taken an emotional backseat approach to the whole thing. After the meeting, I really wanted him to choose me. I knew that I would learn tons from him.
A few weeks went by, during which I tried my best not to think about it. Then I was sitting at my desk thinking, I bet I find out today when my phone rang. I picked it up. It was my Rolex contact, a nice woman who had been my liaison through the whole process. "I have bad news," she said. We talked for a little while longer but all I could think about was an intense desire to get off of the phone.
It was a bummer but the disappointment washed over me for a few days. I thought about it a lot. I tried not to get into why I had not been chosen. But naturally your mind goes there anyway.
The whole experience had been a positive one. Overwhelmingly so. And the disappointment made me much more thankful for the things that I do have in my life. It also gave a great deal of perspective to all of the positive things that have been happening for me over the past few year.
It reinvigorated me on my current project. I have been working on a documentary for the past year and I am just finally getting to a point where it is coming together. There is finally something to work with. I think that we have struck on the tone of the film. I feel like I am closer to knowing what that is now. It's a good feeling.
The wall of my office is covered with different colored note cards outlining the story, reading left to right from top to bottom. It's the way that I organize my thoughts. The story is too big to keep everything in my head all at once. Working back and forth between reordering and changing the cards on the wall and doing the same with my Final Cut Timeline. (I also have a new organizational trick or two up my sleeve from Mr. Murch.)
My cut is currently four hours long, and growing more and more every day. Hopefully when finished, this first real cut of the film will clock in around five hours. Then we can start working on cutting it down to 90 minutes.
We are still experimenting with shooting b-roll. We did a day of b-roll yesterday. (After I finish this column I will start implementing it into the cut.)
It was nice to be shooting again. It's been awhile since I've been on a set of any kind.
We ended our day up at the Katonah train station in Westchester. One of our characters may or may not have gotten onto a train from that station 30 years ago. It was the 10 p.m. and we were there shooting an actress get on a train and then not get on the train to show two conflicting version of the story. If it works, it will be a way for us to visually simplify a very confusing story.
The train pulled up and we got our shot, while waiting for the second train to pull in to get the variation. I took a moment; the night was cool and I sipped a hot coffee. The station was deserted. I felt the energy of this place and no matter how many times I have heard the scene described, there was something about being there that made me feel closer to this story.


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Will art help us harness big data better than we handled big oil?
Big data could be the new big oil. That's the good news — or the bad news, depending on how we manage this vast resource.
Big data is the seemingly ubiquitous term we use to describe the growing ocean of digital information, including the data generated by all of us as we carry out our modern lives. The trail of data produced by our travel, transactions, even our physical locations constantly contributes to this vast, expanding digital reserve. It's a hot topic in business as well as social innovation.
Jer Thorp (PopTech 2012) has launched The Office For Creative Research. Thorp joins a chorus of data specialists who see the potential for powerful social innovations hidden in that sea of data, but Thorp also sees potential disaster unless we move forward thoughtfully.
That's because the barely tapped potential of big data to make money and change the world in all kinds of ways is considered so powerful that some people have begun to call big data the new big oil. In his 2012 PopTech talk, Thorp says that metaphor may be apt, but that he finds part of that proposition "terrifying."
"We didn't do very well with oil," Thorp explains, as he shares a frightening set of slides of oil spills, traffic jams and polar bears clinging to shrinking ice flows.
He is glad that social innovators are exploring ways to aggregate, splice, dice and manipulate some of that data in ways that could help us prevent transmittable diseases, build better cities, and reduce traffic. But what Thorp finds terrifying is that private corporations have mostly led the way in aggressively exploiting big data. He argues that important considerations such as privacy and ethics should not be primarily adjudicated by businesses whose primary interest in big data is to increase profits.
"I'm really interested in how we can do a better job with data than we did with oil," he explains. Thorp wants to provoke a social consensus on the handling and use of big data, from data ownership to data ethics.
As an artist, Thorp sees an opportunity to use art derived from big data to move that conversation forward, for "sharing with people and exposing to people what is happening in this data world."
"What is the subjective experience like of living in this world of big data?" he asks. "What is it like to be us living in this ever-more complicated world?"
Thorp's massive, multi-colored, often 3-D pieces depict cell phone calling history over time, peoples' daily travel patterns, Tweets from passengers disembarking from airplanes, or patterns of good-morning Tweets.
The idea is to get people to understand the breadth and potential power of all this data. "Let's try to not make the same mistakes with this new resource that we have with the last ones," he says.
Jer Thorp's Camden 2012 talk appears below:
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