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The 10.8-acre site on Hungry Hill Road, on which the Millennium Pipeline Company would like to build a compressor station, reportedly came into the company's possession after the company caused serious damage to the home on the property.
When Millennium replaced the existing pipeline with a larger one in 2008, The River Reporter printed several stories on Anna Andersen and Bill Zelop, who complained at the time that the company damaged their septic system and the foundation of their home. According to an email from Bruce Ferguson of Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, who attended an informational meeting about a proposed compressor station on or near the parcel on which the couple's former home is located, work on the pipeline at the time also contaminated the couple's well beyond repair.
Now, various sources say the company ultimately purchased the property from the couple; Mike Armiak, a spokesman for Millennium Pipeline, said, "I think it was the same couple."
The couple is no longer in the area and has reportedly signed an agreement not to talk about the matter. In a brief phone call, Andersen's mother said, "She won't talk to you. She signed a gag order."
With that as background, about 65 residents, many of them part-time residents who live near Lake Delaware, turned out to an informational meeting regarding the proposed compressor station that Millennium wants to locate on or near the property.
Among the concerns of those in the neighborhood are the noise that would be generated by the compressor station and access by emergency responders on the narrow road to the site.
Additionally, many of those on hand doubt that Millennium ever seriously considered other sites, as required by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, because the site on Hungry Hill is perhaps the least expensive and most convenient for the location of the station.
Adding some weight to that supposition is reporting by The River Reporter in February that Gerald Euker, planning board chairman of the Town of Delaware, produced an email from Ken Sikorski, president of Eagle Land Services in New Jersey, who was reportedly doing work for Millennium. The email said, "The political climate in Sullivan County is not very warm for any gas company activities (mining, fracking, etc.), and although that is not [the] purpose for a new station, the county politicians are making it clear they will oppose any plan for a new compressor station."
As it turns out, the climate on Hungry Hill, at least among some of the residents, is not much warmer.
Of seven possible sites for the station, ranging from Cochecton in Sullivan County to Deposit in Delaware County, Millennium revealed the following information:
• The Hungry Hill site is the smallest, at 10.8 acres; the next largest in size is one in the Town of Fremont, at 54.1 acres.
• The Hungry Hill site could be built with the shortest driveway, thus saving money for Millennium.
• The Hungry Hill site would come with the greatest wetland impact at 0.04 acres; four of the sites would have no wetland impact.
• The Hungry Hill site would require the crossing of two water bodies; two of the other sites would require crossing one water body each, and the other three would cross no water bodies.
• Hungry Hill is the only site Millennium is proposing for the project; the other sites are considered but "not proposed." Four of the other sites were rejected, at least in part, because Millennium was "unable to come to an agreement with the owners of the property."
One site was rejected only because of a lack of agreement with the owners. One of the reasons for rejecting the 81.4-acre site in Cochecton was that the "Indiana bat is known to occur in Sullivan County; therefore, development of this site could impact the Indiana bat or, alternatively, be subject to restrictions on tree clearing, which would impact Millennium's construction schedule."


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Federal money tough to pin downBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | July 24,2013MONTPELIER Economists for the state can forecast with surprising accuracy the tax revenues expected to flow into the treasury over the next fiscal year.
But predicting one of the largest sources of funds to Vermonts $5.2 billion budget federal revenues has proven a more difficult task. And despite a recent analysis done by experts for the Legislature, pinning down the federal funds on which the state so heavily relies is still something of a guessing game.
There are just so many unknowns at this point, said Steve Klein, chief fiscal officer at the Legislatures Joint Fiscal Office. And there are a lot of political choices that are going to get made that are totally outside our control.
Official state revenue forecasts, the most recent of which arrived Tuesday, are historically reliable, deviating by only about 2 percent on average over actual revenues.
That record of success gives lawmakers a high degree of confidence in the $1.56 billion in general fund revenues forecast to flow into Montpelier over the next 12 months.
Getting similarly reliable estimates for money flowing from the federal government is more difficult. But Klein said one thing is clear: risk for Vermont is to the downside.
In a report titled Federal Funds Reductions Today and Tomorrow, Klein surveyed the federal landscape in an attempt to divine how decisions in Washington, D.C., will affect Vermont. From health care and transportation to grants that support human services, Klein said Tuesday that federal funds coming into Vermont will likely shrink in the coming years.
And one area where that could be extremely noticeable is in transportation, Klein said.
The reauthorization of the five-year federal transportation bill will likely overhaul a state-by-state allocation formula that has until now been favorable for the state. Vermont gets $2.85 cents from the feds for every $1 in gas tax it sends to the federal treasury, a ratio Klein said he expects will narrow in the next five-year bill.
Projected declines in federal discretionary spending, according to Klein, also imperil some of the federal dollars coming into Vermont. Non-defense discretionary spending supports everything from assistance for low-income populations and energy investments to public safety grants and environmental protection.
As a share of gross domestic product, according to Kleins report, non-defense discretionary spending is expected to drop by a third over the next 10 years, from 8.3 percent to 5.5 percent.
The reductions will come at a time when Vermont is more reliant on federal funding than at anytime in recent memory; federal funds now account for 46 percent of Vermonts non-education budget.
At a meeting of the Joint Fiscal Committee on Tuesday, lawmakers said uncertainty around federal funds exposes Vermont taxpayers to volatile budgetary swings. The issue surfaced during a discussion about whether to accept a $42.7 million federal grant for the new health insurance exchange.
Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell said the receipt of federal funds and the creation of positions to which some of the money will be allocated threatens to leave Vermonters holding the bag when the federal funds run out. He said after the meeting that he has the same concerns about federal funds drying up elsewhere in the state budget.
Any time the federal government wants to offer us money were all licking our lips and drooling, Campbell said. But we need to start thinking about what were going to do two or three or four years down the road when that money isnt there any more.
Preserving programs that sprouted with federal money, Campbell said, could put undue pressure on Vermont taxpayers when Congress withdraws support. But ending those programs, he said, could pull the rug out from under people that have come to rely on them.
The fact is that we have to beware federal agencies bearing gifts, Campbell said. Like my father said, aint nothing free in this life.
A $6.5 million reserve set aside by lawmakers earlier this year is designed to offset declines in federal funding between now and next July. Asked whether that would be sufficient to cushion coming blows, Klein said its impossible to say.
We just dont know, said Klein, noting that diminished federal heating assistance alone could deliver a $5 million hit to the state.
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Nonprofit Representatives Meet, Discuss Common Issues and Collaboration
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Bluefield, WV – Thirteen representatives from ten nonprofits in Mercer and Tazewell counties met on Saturday, November 12, in a Nonprofit Summit sponsored by the Bluefield State College Foundation's Center on Philanthropy. Their organizations serve a spectrum of constituencies: arts, education, health, seniors, disadvantaged women, disabled children, and a town municipality. Their concerns are similar: raising funds, finding partnership opportunities, and getting the word out about their services to the community.
The participants chose to focus on the topic of volunteerism for most of the discussion. Karen Harvey, executive director of the Bluefield State Foundation, organized and facilitated the summit. "We shared ideas on how to find volunteers and make the experience positive for them as well as useful to the organization," she said.
The group quickly reached a consensus that volunteer training is essential, and written job descriptions are the best way to communicate expectations. Patti Cettin of TASK (Taking Action for Special Kids) noted that government regulations apply to staff as well as volunteers working with special needs children and their families. The organization has to inform paid and nonpaid workers about such rules to maintain compliance. Dress codes, confidentiality and sensitivity to those served by the nonprofit are as important as job responsibilities, and they also should be covered in job descriptions.
Summit attendees shared the names of resources for finding volunteers, including the website www.volunteerwv.org hosted by the state's Commission for National and Community Service. Roger Topping of Princeton Health Care Center recommended RSVP in Princeton. A national organization, the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program matches seniors who want to volunteer with local nonprofits. Jeri Elmore of the United Way of the Virginias also said the Mercer County Fellowship Home and Day Report Center are resources.
The United Way has a national program called "Day of Action," where individuals from an area devote a day volunteering for a number of local nonprofits. Often scheduled to kick off United Way annual campaigns, the event provides thousands of hours of assistance while raising the spirit of giving in a community. The next one will be June 21, 2012.
Another topic was finding young volunteers. Suggestions included contacting high schools' Interact Clubs (affiliated with a local Rotary Club), the Bonner Scholarship Program at Concord University, and Appalachian Teen Challenge. Many groups work with student organizations at the colleges, and a suggestion was made to create an electronic clearinghouse where students and organizations could be paired. Harvey took that as an action item.
Other suggestions to attract young donors included offering references and internships and organizing a Family Volunteer Day, where parents and children would spend time together helping others. Organizing via Facebook and other social media was also discussed.
The need to recognize volunteers was another topic. "Feed them," said Ellen Light of the Alliance for the Arts. "We always feed them." Topping added that they give certificates to all volunteers, and T shirts are popular items at a number of the organizations represented. Some hold an annual volunteer recognition event such as a dinner.
Participants also strongly agreed that the opportunity to network with others working in the nonprofit sector and developing partnerships would be of great value. Harvey noted that the area currently does not have professional organizations for fundraisers such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), which has no chapters in the State of West Virginia. Future meetings hosted by the BSC Foundation's Center on Philanthropy will foster outreach and affiliation with other nonprofits and resources such as the Chamber of Commerce of the Bluefields.
The Center on Philanthropy will also provide seminars on topics of interest to nonprofit workers, paid or unpaid. The group agreed on the following subjects, dates to be determined:
• Grant Writing
• Budgeting and Annual Funds
• Marketing
• Major Gifts
The following groups were represented at the first Nonprofit Summit hosted by the BSC Foundation:
• Alliance for the Arts
• Gary Bowling's House of Art
• GlenWood Park Retirement Village
• Princeton Health Care Center
• Second Chance Learning Center
• TASK (Taking Action for Special Kids)
• Town of Bramwell
• United Way of the Virginias
• WISE (Women in Search of Empowerment)
For information on these groups, the upcoming seminars or ways to join the conversation, contact Karen Harvey at 304-327-4031 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bus-sized mural made by Grand Valley charter school students unveiled
Posted on February 25, 2013
A group of students at a Grand Valley State University-authorized charter school took part in a reception on February 22 that featured the unveiling of a bus-sized mural they created over the past year.
Eleven students created the mural under the guidance of Grand Valley alumnus and well-known artist Hubert Massey. The yearlong project involved the students framing and stretching their own canvas, composing the original design and painting the entire piece.
Called "Michigan's Outreach: Evolving the Global Spirit," the mural measures 8 feet by 38 feet, and will make its permanent home in Grand Valley's nearly completed L. William Seidman Center. The piece will also be entered in ArtPrize this fall.
The student artists from the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies were joined at the reception by Rashid Faisal, principal at HFA: SCS; Manal Kadry, lead art teacher at HFA: SCS; Hubert Massey, artist; and Ellen Sprouls, curator of education at Grand Valley.
HFA: SCS is Detroit's premier college prep school focused on art and design, and serves nearly 800 students in grades 6-12. The school is located in the College for Creative Studies' A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. All students attend tuition-free.


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February 27, 2013 —
Some fly fishers have come into possession of a particular fly pattern via an unexpected opportunity. They value that fly above all others. In fact, Barbara Ann has two such flies. However, her flies have never been tied onto a tippet, nor have they ever floated cockily on any currents tempting trout.
On Friday evening October 9, 1970, Barb and I arrived at the famous Henryville House on the Paradise Branch of the Broadhead Creek. We were there to take part in the annual outing of the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers. Henryville House, which was built in 1848, played a large part in the early history of fly fishing in the Northeast.
The fishing that weekend was excellent. In a day and a half, Barb and I caught 22 trout that ran up to 15 inches in length. We found no mayflies hatching, but the trout willingly took nymphs such as Schwiebert's Ephemerella pattern and Jack Atherton's Light nymph. As often happens, Barb caught 17 of the 22 fish. The largest was a corpulent 15-inch brown trout. She fished up ahead of me both days and it seemed every time I looked up she was playing a fish.
On this particular weekend, we had the pleasure of meeting Don Zahner. In May 1969, Zanhner had begun publishing a fishing magazine titled Fly Fisherman. A number of anglers believed that Zahner's new venture had little chance of succeeding. Fly Fisherman is now 44 years old and is still popular with fly fishers.
That weekend Ralph Graves and Bob Morse generated a good deal of interest in their new fiberglass rods.
These rods, even though they were slightly over six-and-one-half feet long, were made in one piece. Vince Cummings, who was well known for building fine fiberglass fly rods, was the maker. Unfortunately, Bob Morse is no longer with us, but I now own his nifty one-piece rod. I make sure to exercise it at least once every season.
Friday evening, Ernest Schwiebert was to give a fly tying demonstration for those attending the outing. There was quite a crowd around the vice as Ernie began to tie. Barbara Ann, being a tiny lady, wiggled among the taller males to a position right at Schwiebert's elbow.
He asked what fly the group wanted him to tie first. There were loud requests for him to tie a Schwiebert Hopper. He had perfected this grasshopper imitation on that famous spring creek, the Letort. Barb and I were both surprised to notice that when he sat down to tie his hands were obviously shaking. It was hard to believe that so well known an angler would be nervous in this situation. He proceeded to tie a perfect Hopper, while explaining each step as he tied.
He ejected the fly from the vice and held it in the palm of his hand for all to admire. Now, Barb is normally so self-effacing that if I happen to mention her fishing ability in front of male friends she becomes very uncomfortable. Therefore, I was stunned to hear her ask, "Mr. Schwiebert, may I have that fly?" He smiled and immediately placed the fly in her hands. She later admitted that without thinking she had blurted out her request.
Ernie's next fly was a Henryville Special. When the fly was finished, his eyes searched for Barb in the crowd. He then passed the second fly along to her.
During the drive home, she mentioned that those two flies meant more to her than the fish she had caught.
Those two flies now sit in a prominent place in our Texas fly tying room. Sorry, they are not for sale.


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WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc., of British Columbia, Canada, today announced the voluntary recall of more than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo. The recall involves approximately 1,213,000 units distributed in the United States and 968,000 units distributed in Canada.
CPSC urges parents and caregivers to immediately stop using the recalled cribs, wait for the free repair kit, and do not attempt to fix the cribs without the kit. They should find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby. Consumers should contact Stork Craft to receive a free repair kit that converts the drop-side on these cribs to a fixed side.
The cribs' drop-side plastic hardware can break, deform, or parts can become missing. In addition, the drop-side can be installed upside-down, which can result in broken or disengaged plastic parts. All of these problems can cause the drop-side to detach in one or more corners. When the drop-side detaches, it creates space between the drop-side and the crib mattress. The bodies of infants and toddlers can become entrapped in the space which can lead to suffocation. Complete detachment of drop-sides can lead to falls from the crib.
CPSC, Health Canada, and Stork Craft are aware of 110 incidents of drop-side detachment; 67 incidents occurred in the United States and 43 in Canada. The incidents include 15 entrapments; 12 in the U.S. and three in Canada. Four of the entrapments resulted in suffocation: a 7-month-old in Gouverneur, N.Y.; a 7-month-old in New Iberia, La.; a 6-month-old in Summersville, W.Va.; and a 9-month-old in Bronx, N.Y. Included in these incidents are 20 falls from cribs; 12 in the U.S. and eight in Canada. Fall injuries ranged from concussion to bumps and bruises. The cribs involved in these incidents had plastic drop-side hardware that had broken, missing, or deformed claws, connectors, tracks, or flexible tab stops; loose or missing metal spring clips; stripped screws; and/or drop-sides installed upside-down.
This recall involves Stork Craft drop-side cribs and Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo. This recall does not involve any cribs that do not have a drop-side. This recall does not involve any cribs with metal rod drop-side hardware. It involves only those cribs with plastic trigger and one-hand-system drop-side hardware.
This recall includes Stork Craft cribs with manufacturing and distribution dates between January 1993 and October 2009. This recall also includes Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher-Price logo that have manufacturing dates between October 1997 and December 2004. The Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher-Price logo were first sold in the U.S. in July 1998 and in Canada in September 1998. The cribs were sold in various styles and finishes. The manufacture date, model number, crib name, country of origin, and the firm's name, address, and contact information are located on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board. The firm's insignia "storkcraft baby" or "storkling" is inscribed on the drop-side teething rail of some cribs. In Stork Craft cribs that contain the "Fisher-Price" logo, this logo can be found on the crib's teething rail, in the manufacturer's instructions, on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board, and on the end panels of the Twinkle-Twinkle and Crystal crib models.
Major retailers in the United States and Canada sold the recalled cribs including BJ's Wholesale Club, J.C. Penney, Kmart, Meijer, Sears, USA Baby, and Wal-Mart stores and online at Amazon.com, Babiesrus.com, Costco.com, Target.com, and Walmart.com from January 1993 through October 2009 for between $100 and $400.
The cribs were manufactured in Canada, China and Indonesia.
For additional information, contact Stork Craft toll-free at (877) 274-0277 anytime to order the free repair kit, or log on to www.storkcraft.com
CPSC would like to remind parents not to use any crib with missing, broken, or loose parts. Make sure to tighten hardware from time to time to keep the crib sturdy. When using a drop-side crib, parents should check to make sure the drop-side or any other moving part operates smoothly. Always check all sides and corners of the crib for disengagement. Any disengagement can create a gap and entrap a child. In addition, do not try to repair any side of the crib, especially with tape, wire or rope.
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So, my 8 month old son was introduced to solids at 6 months old. He eats at 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 7pm. I give him BM at 7am, solids and BM at 11, solid and BM at 3, and then only BM at 7pm. Well, he's gotten to where he doesn't hardly eat any BM during the solids meals. Today he didn't eat any BM at the 11am meal, so at 3 I gave him BM first and then solids. He only at 3 oz of BM and then all of his solids. I'm not sure if this is okay or not. Do they start to wean themselves? He's only 8 months old and I thought that he needs BM until at least a year. So I'm not really sure what to do. I can't force him to eat, and he's already in the 10% of his weight in his age group. He's doesn't act hungry at all. Suggestions?
Oh I guess I should mention that he's teething too, which might be some of his reasoning for not eating much. Not sure if that's it or not.
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Checking In On The Economy, The Good And Sluggish
By Staff • Jun 3, 2013
Originally published on June 3, 2013 1:38 pm
The U.S. economy started showing signs of recovery in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Four years later, the economy is slow to recover in some areas. The stock market and housing are showing signs of growth, while unemployment still lags behind.


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George Harrison 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' guitar More than 50 years after being used to record Beatles hit 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', George Harrison's Rickenbacker 425 electric guitar managed to sell for $657,000 at an auction in New York last month. It's not the only famous guitar sold recently: the Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival fetched $965,000 last December, making it a record for an auctioned guitar, according to Christie's. It's not only guitars that belonged to renowned musicians that make good investments–vintage and rare designs can provide hefty returns as well. In 2008, London investment firm Anchorage Capital created the Guitar Fund, a hedge fund specialised in buying such assets. The fund says its objective is to outperform the 42 Guitar Index, created by Vintage Guitar magazine. The index has gone up 7.9% this year and 84.6% in the last 10 years, outperforming the S&P 500 on both accounts. The 42 Guitar Index, however, excludes some of the rarest items that can provide most value. For those wanting to invest in vintage guitars, here are some models that are likely to increase in value with time. (Photo credit: Julien's Auctions)
Guitars: The ultimate in rock n roll investments
As George Harrison's guitar used to record 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' fetches $657,000 at auction, we look at the hefty investment returns on offer from vintage guitars. Words by Jon Sindreu.


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Quote from: Sven Kolfinsson...it worked pretty good until a side fell.tl;dr: the history of warfare
...it worked pretty good until a side fell.
Running the fiberglass through the PVC will weaken it, and gluing it between layers will weaken the shield it's self because the two layers will try and pull apart from another when you're hit. Here is a good tutorial for making a shield. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEUeYRbVNOk
This is going to be the best winter EVER.
......Just secured my handle to my punch shield today using guidance from this tut. The Gorilla Glue is still drying, so I can't tell if it's super sturdy or not, but I have faith in it.
Mikhail spelled it out perfectly.
Garret, that's not true. 5*7/16 = ~2.18"
Arrakis, I keep hearing about zip ties, but what do you do with them? Just thread them through the layers of foam?


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My DD and DS started solids around 6, 6 1/2 months. My DH wants to start solids on my 3rd DS who is 5 1/2 months old, but I don't want to. First off both of my other two had a huge slow down in growth as soon as they started solids, and my 3rd ds is small. Second My second DS, Joshua, has food intolerances, nasel allergies, a dairy allergy and can't digest complex carbs or lactose, I know there could be a chance that my 3rd DS, James, has the same thing, and I know if we wait he might be able to avoid the allergies, and all the scarey problems we went through with Joshua..and I want too beef James up on BM some! Plus James has green mucusy poos with an allergy ring, so I think he is allergic to some of the things Joshua is-although James isn't fussy.
DH's arguement is that he thinks James needs more food since he is getting bigger, but James is very content on nursing every 2 1/2 too 3 hours on demand, and sleeping 8 too 10 hour stretches at night, so I don't think he needs more food...
My personal problem is that I'm just not ready to start him on solids and say buy buy to those sweet BFed baby poos and the start of him growing up too fast... But I don't want my own emotional state to dictate what is best for my baby. I want to do what he needs.
So, what would you do??? Wait? how long? Or listen to DH and just try cereal?


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Omya could add four more calcium carbonate plants
Looking to expand its calcium carbonate business in Europe and North America, Omya has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire four calcium carbonate plants from Imerys, a French industrial minerals company.
Headquartered in Switzerland, Omya already operates plants around the world, including Pittsford, home to the companys largest calcium carbonate plant in North America.
The plants Imerys is looking to sell are in Wisconsin, Sweden, France and Italy. The plants make ground calcium carbonate used in the manufacture of paper products.
Company spokesman Wolfgang Weber-Thedy said Omyas desire to acquire the plants is part of a long-term strategy.
Its aim is to strengthen its calcium carbonate business with the paper and (paper) board industry, Weber-Thedy said Friday in a telephone interview from Zurich. This emphasizes its continued commitment to the sector despite the challenging business environment in Europe and North America.
One factor helping to drive the acquisition is the location of the four plants relative to Omyas customers. Weber-Thedy said the acquisition would allow Omya to reduce its transportation costs.
He also said that if negotiations are successful the acquisition of the Wisconsin plant would not affect production in Vermont.
This is a move to optimize, not downsize, he said.
Because Imerys is a publicly traded company on the Paris stock exchange, it was required to disclose the negotiations. The company said that if negotiations are successful, the sale to Omya could be completed in the first quarter of 2014.
According to Imerys, last year the four production facilities generated revenues of nearly $100 million.
Imerys has 250 industrial sites in 48 countries, including the U.S. In Vermont, it operates a talc mine on East Hill Road in Ludlow.
Omya, based in Oftringen, Switzerland, is a privately held company with 100 sites in more than 50 countries and 7,000 employees.
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Alex Semuskie, 91 of Iselin, PA passed on Sunday, January 6, 2013 at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
He was the son of Michael and Anna (Duda) Semuskie, born on March 18, 1921 in Iselin, PA.
Alex was a life long resident of Iselin where he graduated from elementary school. He worked for the CCC then returned to Iselin to work in the mines for R & P Coal Co. for 18 years with his brother Stanley.
In 1942 he joined the United States Navy for over 4 years serving during WWII. He served in Europe, North Africa on the USS Delta and in the Pacific on the USS Briscoe as a Boatswains Mate 1st Class.
1948 he married the late Edith (Clemens) Semuskie. 1958 began as maintenance supervisor for Elders Ridge High School retiring from that position in 1982.
In the late 40's and thru the mid 50's he was a stand-out baseball player in the Indiana County leagues playing for Coal Run and Iselin teams. This quote from the Indiana Evening Gazette sums up his love for baseball and his versatility as a player. "Who is responsible for this robust exhibition of powerhouse baseball. Not one man by any means! Iselin has several great acquisitions to their 1949 personnel including Alex Semuskie, the handy one who did everything but umpire the games at Coal Run in the R & P circuit last year."
Alex Semuskie, known as "Latch" to his many friends, never stopped working after retirement. He always had time to help a neighbor, a friend and his 5 sons. He welcomed all to his home and delighted in visiting people sharing his zest for life.
He lived his life to the "enth" degree as long as he could work by day, play ball by late afternoon and dance (polka) through the night with Edith. They were so smooth – they twirled around the dance floor like a wedding cake top – round and round, they never tired!
Up until late fall Alex loved going to Avonmore to take a "Spin". There was always a pretty girl to catch his eye for a polka lesson (Slovenian style).
Desmond Tutu once said "We are only the light bulbs in life and our job is just to remain screwed in". "Alex "– "Dad" – "Pap", you were our light in life showing us the way.
He is survived by five sons, Stanley and wife Gretchen from Patton, PA; Alex and friend Kim from Smithton, PA; Timothy and wife Debbie from Iselin, PA; Gregory and wife Wendy from Damascus, MD; Michael and wife Nancy from Gettysburg, PA; he was a very proud grandfather of 11, Steven, Alexis, TJ, Alise, Andrew, Elliot, Sam, Kathryn, Stanley, Matthew and Felicia; two great-grandchildren, Riley and Rachael; one sister, Nellie (Semuskie) Knopick from Punxsutawney, PA.
Alex was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Edith (Clemens) Semuskie; three sisters, Mary, Kathrine, and Jenny; two brothers, Stanley and Tony.
Family and friends will be received on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from 6-8 p.m. Wedneday, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. with a prayer service at 3:30 p.m. at the Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home, Indiana. His funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. at the Church of Good Shepherd, Kent, PA., with Fr. Timothy Kruthaupt as celebrant. Interment will follow in Iselin Union Cemetery.
The family requests the memorial contributions be made to: The Iselin Union Cemetery, c/o 120 Orchard St., Apollo, PA 15613.
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iPad 3 Update
Posted on February 28, 2012
Almost three weeks ago, your favorite iPhone repair company brought you the first images of the iPad 3 back housing. To say we got everyone talking might be somewhat of an understatement. Right after our pictures went viral, a slew of other leaks brought us a lot of information on the iPad 3 and what we can expect. With Apple's announcement only a week away, we still have some time to speculate on what we will hear about the tablet's update.
Before we were able to show you an unfortunately low-res picture of the iPad 3 back case. Now we have our own iPad 3 back housing, and our techs have spent some time examining it. Below are some of the changes we can confirm with our previous intel and other sources.
- The LCD mount is different, and that coincides with the rumors and evidence we have had pointing to a higher resolution display that will be different from what we had on the iPad 2.
- Now that we have had it in our hands, we can confirm the battery area of the iPad 3 is 5/8 inch larger than the iPad 2. More battery to allow for that high-resolution screen and to keep your iPad from the charger for the same amount of time we have grown accustomed to.
- The charger port dock is different. After comparing the two iPads, our techs believe that the iPad 3 charging port has been beefed up to provide more stable support. We have had several customers with bent USB ports on iPad 1 and 2, and this added support should keep that from happening as often for iPad 3 users.
- The housing on the iPad 3 is a measly 1mm thicker roughly, but it's such a minor change you probably wouldn't notice the difference.
Not a great deal of information, but enough to see where rumors are going right, and a lot to support them. Now we just have to wait that week until we are able to find out if all of the rumors were true.
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EXCLUSIVE - iPad 3 Back Housing
Posted on February 8, 2012
RepairLabs is exclusively able to confirm some changes in the iPad 3, thanks to industry insiders in China. Pictured above is the new iPad 3 back housing, juxtaposed with the current back of the iPad 2. You can see that there are several subtle differences, and together with our techs, we are able to tell you just what to expect when Apple announces the iPad 3. We looked at the pieces closely, and below you can find our conclusions on what the obvious differences might mean, and how close some of the speculation has been.
A. You can see here that the mounts for the logic board are very different, which means the logic board shape will be different allowing for . . . .
B. More battery. The width of where the logic board sits on the iPad 2 appears much larger than that of the iPad 3. We have long heard that the iPad 3 was going to provide longer battery life, and this back housing seems to support that.
C. The camera is different. It is hard to make a judgment just by looking at the casing, but what we can expect is a different camera on the iPad 3 than what we had on the 2.
D. LCD will be different than what we have had before. Whether or not it will be the super screen we have seen reported will have to wait. But the different mounting does mean that the LCD has been redesigned at the very least.
The LCD is probably what most of us are eagerly awaiting, especially with some of the reports of the upgraded part. However, our insiders tell us that so far the screen is not out there yet. That could mean that the finished product has not been signed off or that it is being kept top secret.
Our source also told us that the housing itself did not seem thicker on the iPad 3 than it does on the 2. There have been a lot of reports that said the iPad 3 would be a millimeter or two thicker than the 2, and according to our source, that could be false. It is a little bit hard to conclude without measuring both with screens in place, however.
Whatever the case may be, this back housing provides an interesting look into the changes we can expect when the iPad 3 is officially announced.
Larger iPad 3 image is available.
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Posted on February 1, 2012
From your favorite iPhone repair site comes another great app recommendation - and this one is a pretty awesome tool for only $1.99. MealBoard, simply put, lets you plan a menu for your week, import recipes, and takes the meals you've planned and creates a grocery list. Fully customizable and loaded with some great recipes already, MealBoard is easy to use and helps organize your meal times. Great for planning out family dinners or for those who want to plan ahead, you can even import recipes from top sites like AllRecipes.com and Epicurious. The web app gives you a lot more control and syncs back to your iPhone or iPad.
It customizes your grocery list, letting you know just how much you need. With MealBoard, you can even choose your portion sizes, which will in turn adjust your shopping list and recipe. Get organized and stop cooking spaghetti for every other meal!
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Williamstown bond petition is a numbers game
WILLIAMSTOWN A petition being circulated has raised questions about how many signatures are needed to force a second vote on a bond issue that was narrowly approved in Williamstown less than a month ago.
Is it 5 percent of the local electorate, or 10 percent?
That depends on who you ask and where you look in state statutes, because unlike the signatures on the petition, it isnt black and white.
Organizers of the effort to challenge voters 298-283 approval on Town Meeting Day of a bond issue to construct a $2.5 million public safety building have until Thursday at 4:30 p.m. to turn in the petition.
Petitioners claim they are comfortably over the 5 percent target 102 of the towns 2,031 registered voters that they were aiming for and that everyone, from the Select Board on down, assumed they needed as recently as Friday.
However, that changed Friday afternoon based on the briefest of emails from the towns bond counsel, Paul Giuliani.
In one of four short sentences, Giuliani suggested forcing a revote on the bond issue could require a petition signed by 10 percent of the local electorate. Though his opinion had petition-wary town officials breathing a little easier over the weekend, it had an election official from the secretary of states office scrambling for answers and the executive director of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns scratching his head Monday.
Is it 5 percent or 10 percent?
Giuliani concedes that depends on the wording of a petition that he hasnt seen. He said a petition to rescind is a different animal from a petition to reconsider, and he stressed that his emailed observation assumed the petition being circulated in Williamstown is asking for reconsideration of the positive bond vote.
According to Giuliani, such a petition would require the signatures of 10 percent of the local electorate a figure that can be traced to a section of Title 24 that doesnt say anything about reconsideration or rescission, but does outline the ways bond issues can be placed on a ballot to begin with.
The section states in pertinent part: On a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the voters of a municipal corporation, the proposition of incurring a bonded debt to pay for public improvements shall be submitted to the qualified voters thereof at any annual or special meeting to be held for that purpose.
A petition in that circumstance assumes that the local legislative body in this case the Select Board is either unwilling or unable to legally warn the bond vote on its own and establishes a higher bar for exposing town taxpayers to long-term debt than the 5 percent threshold that applies to all other ballot initiatives.
Giuliani conceded the statute is silent when it comes to reconsideration and rescission, but he believes at least with regard to reconsideration that a case can be made for the higher figure.
If you need 10 percent to bring the proposition in the first place, then it makes sense you need 10 percent for reconsideration, he said.
Not according to VLCT Executive Director Steve Jeffrey, who said the section of the law Giuliani cited doesnt trump a provision of state law that spells out in detail the process for petitioning for a revote.
I dont see how that would apply to reconsideration, Jeffrey said of the provision of Title 24 cited by Giuliani.
Jeffrey said he would turn to Title 17, which states in part: If a petition requesting reconsideration or rescission of a question considered or voted on at a previous annual or special meeting is filed with the clerk of the municipality within 30 days following the date of that meeting, the legislative body shall provide for a vote by the municipality in accordance with the petition within 60 days of the submission at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose.
That portion of the law doesnt include any exception for bond votes and does indicate that barring a voter-approved increase that hasnt occurred in Williamstown the signatures of 5 percent of the local electorate are all that is required to force a revote.
Though one election official struggled with the question earlier in the day, Deputy Secretary of State Brian Levin said that bond issue or no Jeffrey was looking at the right portion of the law.
The default is 5 percent, Levin said.
Giuliani said that hasnt always been the view of the secretary of states office and cited at least one instance when a water district in Vergennes turned down a petition for reconsideration that was signed by less than 10 percent of its voters.
However, Giuliani said the town hasnt asked his advice and that he was ill-equipped to offer it without reviewing a petition that hasnt yet been submitted.
There are a whole bunch of variables I would want to know before I gave a recommended course of action, he said.
What would Jeffrey advise the board to do if it receives a valid petition signed by more than 5 percent but less than 10 percent of the towns registered voters before Thursdays deadline?
At that point, if I was the Select Board, Id go ahead and warn the (special town) meeting, he said.
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SINGAPORE — The mood was buoyant as the doors closed on the opening VIP night of Art Stage, with galleries seeing healthy sales with some six-figure star pieces snapped up.
Galerie Perrotin led the charge with the sale of Japanese A-list artist Takashi Murakami's acrylic-on-canvas for $550,000. The painting, titled "And Then x 6 (Red Dots: The Superflat Method)," was sold to a Korean doctor. Other big-ticket items sold by the Paris- and Hong Kong-based gallery were a painting by Japanese Superflat artist Aya Takamo, called "Across Two Hundred Years We Send Our Blessings," which went for $85,000, as well as a work by top Indian artist Bharti Kher at €55,000 ($73,4000).
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The discovery of the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk in the Sahara Desert was described by one military historian as "the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb."
A remarkably well-preserved fighter plane that crashed in the Sahara Desert during World War II has been found 70 years later, shedding new light on the pilot's struggle to survive.
The American-made Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk was discovered by a Polish oil worker, Jakub Perka, who was exploring the desert in Egypt, The Telegraph newspaper reported. It was about 200 miles from the nearest town.
It is believed that the pilot, Dennis Copping, 24, ran into trouble while flying in 1942 but still managed to land the plane on the sands, the paper said.
Military historian Andy Saunders said that the British flight sergeant "must have survived the crash" because a photograph of the plane showed a parachute had been put up on the side of the plane, apparently as a form of shelter, The Telegraph reported.
"The radio and batteries were out of the plane, and it looks like he tried to get it working. If he died at the side of the plane, his remains would have been found," Saunders added. "Once he had crashed there, nobody was going to come and get him. It is more likely he tried to walk out of the desert but ended up walking to his death. It is too hideous to contemplate."
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The website said there seemed to be a growing consensus that the plane's serial number was ET 574, based on what could be made out from photographs. If this is confirmed, the website said it was possible that Canadian flying ace James "Stocky" Edwards had previously flown the fighter.
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In my years at the Northwest Herald, I've seen the McHenry County Good Ol' Boys Network time and again protect its own from conduct that would land regular Joes in very big trouble.
Repetition doesn't make it any easier to take. If you keep poking me in the eye, it doesn't hurt any less.
It looks like I'm not alone, given the outrage in the community – and elsewhere, given the folks in Guy Fawkes masks wandering Woodstock Square – over the handling of the scandal surrounding Woodstock Police Sgt. Chip Amati and the "punishment" he received.
Amati received a 30-day suspension last October after an Illinois State Police investigation disclosed that he inappropriately used the state criminal database to look up information on his girlfriend. That investigation was prompted by the fact that the woman had come forward with texts showing that Amati had asked her 12-year-old daughter to text him "sexy pictures."
Both the police chief and the state's attorney's office, which decided not to press charges, have maintained that the punishment fit the offense.
I can say with certainty that they would not have been so forgiving had I or you, the reader, been the offender. We lower creatures who are not government officials, monied interests or friends of either one go to jail for such things.
If there's one lesson that Illinois residents have learned, much to our mounting disgust, it's that two sets of standards exist. Regular Joes have to live up to the stringent one. Said officials and monied interests get to live and work under the lax one that is much more forgiving of mistakes.
Don't believe me? Amati isn't the only high-profile public official who made recent headlines for getting a pass from the authorities. Ask my fellow School District 47 taxpayers.
A Crystal Lake police officer in September 2012 gave a break to a now-former District 47 superintendent, who appeared to be intoxicated in his car, that regular folks would not have received. It gets better. Barely a month later, the school board voted – I kid you not – to implement the "Character Counts" character-education curriculum.
I combed that news story and the online comments to find somebody willing to point out the hypocrisy of the move, but I was left wanting. That's because we're used to this. Character only counts for the little people. Government employees, not so much.
Need more examples? Name one head that rolled at the McHenry County Department of Health over its disgraceful handling of the McCullom Lake brain cancer cluster that lawsuits blame on pollution from a deep-pocketed chemical company, or over the bungled mismanagement of Animal Control before that.
In the case of McCullom Lake, health department and County Board officials saw it as their duty to ride to the rescue of a multibillion-dollar chemical company. The Good Ol' Boys Network circled the wagons to protect them after I reported in several investigative stories that the all-clear that the health department tried to sell had less scientific integrity than a third-grade class project.
Had the health department been right and had I screwed up the big investigative story, the Northwest Herald would have fired me. That's what happens in the real world to regular people who have to live by the stricter set of standards.
Had any of us been in Amati's shoes, how many of us would have lost our private-sector jobs on top of facing criminal charges? I'd lose my gig, that's for sure.
Even more frustrating to me, I'll wager that my career would, in fact, encourage elements of county government and law enforcement to go the extra mile to secure an indictment, regardless of whether a conviction would stick.
I have no idea why the hacking group Anonymous – the aforementioned folks with the Guy Fawkes masks – got involved with the Amati issue, but I'm thankful that they did. Government employees get breaks that the people who pay their salaries don't, and people are sick of it.
It's not disgraceful that they hide behind masks. Hiding behind the McHenry County Good Ol' Boys Network, on the other hand, is the biggest disgrace.
• Kevin P. Craver is senior reporter for the Northwest Herald. He has won more than 70 state and national journalism awards during his 13 years with the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4618 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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True story.
Okay its official, the Atlantic Division is no longer a joke.
Danny Ainge has single handedly beefed our divison up in a matter of 6 weeks. Our Knicks will have no choice but to grow up fast becuase if they had disgusting records for two years in a row in an anemic divison, they will get run out of the NBA if they keep praising morale victories in the divison we have now.
This is it fellas.
No more stupid fouls.
No more missing free throws.
No more Nate Robinson.
No more sulking on the bench.
No more giving Jarred Jeffries PT.
No more soft play from Curry
No more excuses.
If the Knicks have another crappy record, the playoffs will not be as easily attainable as it used to be (which we still couldn't get in, patheticly)
Do you really want to go to war with this roster????? I say we see how we do until December. At which point, we'll need to go after Artest. We can't wait for these guys to develop into a good team, becuase our division stopped waiting for us.
True story.
Hold up on the giddyup playboy!
The sky isn't failing. God you're a typical NY Fan. How healthy is Shuttleworth?(Ray Allen in he Got Game, if you don't know now you know.) We all saw H20 when things unravelled for him. That's gonna play a factor. How is that big 3 getting along? Until pre-season, these cats haven't played 1 second of NBA tic as a unit. As well they lost Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Ryan Gomes. Three young talented pieces. have you seen the roster besides the big 3. I'll tell you this much, Boston has little margin for error. The Knicks will be just fine.
This reminds me of the Heat when they first got Eddie Jones and Bryan Grant. They are both washed up now but think back to when Eddie was playing for the Hornets and was an all-star and B Grant played for Portland with Sheed. When the Heat traded for them their roster was projected to take the east and at the time the Knicks made no major adjustments. As we know the Heat did nothing until they got Wade and Shaq which was 5 years later. But the Celtics situation is different, much different. Garnett is in his prime. Boston's got three guys that can put up a consistent 20 pts when ever they want. We definitely have more depth on our roster but make no mistake, the Celtics have brought in two very consistent players. Ether way if Garnett goes to Boston that will be good for the league and good for the east. We need a good rivalry in the east.
yeah boston got ray allen, paul pierce and KG but after them who do they have, Scalabrine?? knicks are good for the moment but of course theres room for improvement, remember this, every night there will be a miss match down low, its either wit zach or eddy
We have no good matchups, KG or Curry, both can score,KG more consistent, and he plays crazy D. Randolph will dominate whoever he faces. Lee/Balkman Pierce. The which ever, they are in for a long night covering that guy. Ray allen v.s Q-rich/crawford again another long night. I have to say, lee on peirce and balkman on allen, may be our best bet, have steph at point and randoph curry? No one besides steph to spread floor.
Let's...Go...Lottery! Let's...Go...Lottery!!! Say it with me Knicks fans!
OK, i dont understand u guys...i agree with dr. carpy 100% When isiah makes a move to bring in a 20 and 10 guy to the team, we all get on him because "there is only one ball to go around" but when boston brings in a 20 an d 10 guy, its the best gm move in history...that gets me thinking if this is really a knick fan site....
I was looking at our 1-3 loosng record against the seltics last season...crawford started 2 games and did not play in one....the 2 games crawfors started, he lit boston up for two 37 point games...now the most outstanding fact to me in this series is Why did we loose the other 3 games.....well i have the answer, no PF.....
The one game that w ewon, Frye had 13 points....the other 3 losses, the highest pf point total was frye again with 6 in 2 games, and malik rose with 2 pts, and fry came off the bench to bring 7 pts......we now have that hole filled....i kno boston is different, in this series, Gomes had 22pts 13 rebs, Al. Jeff had a 26 and 9, 3 blks, green had 22, 4/5 3pts in anothe knick loss, and in our third loss, Gomes wen off again for 22 an 14 rebs.....now garnett can bring those numbers, but is an aging ray allen going to b hard for crawford to go off against? i believe in zach.....with a healthy knick team, and our supreme bench...the addition of Zach....we are still a beast in the east!!!!
I remember when the Lakers had Kobe, Shaq Diesel, The Mailman and the Glove...and got decimated by the Pistons.
The Lakers had no bench and when Karl got injured - their chances went with him.
The Celtics while very impressive at the 2, 3 and 4 - have NO bench.
Ray Allen is just coming off surgery, Pierce was deactivated for 35 games last season....these are BIG question marks for the team....they need to be healthy to put in the Celtics on top....and with no bench - it means that they will be logging much more minutes every night!
Where there is hope, there can be faith
Where there is faith, miracles can occur
the Nets, Celtics and Raptors are all going to finish in the 40 - 55 win range... I think we need at least 45 wins to make the playoffs... I think we're better than the raptors... I still think Jersey will win the division since they're deeper... but Bos is gonna make some noise...
It's an Atlantic division arms race at this point... let's see what else IT has up his sleeve...
Still... I think Boston gave up too much to get him though... since he might be a one year rental anyway... Minny is gonna be sick in 5 years or so if they keep all this talent... Green, Jefferson, Foye... draft picks...
But when it's time for war
I'm trying to score like Bernard King
"Behind Closed Doors"
~Pharaoh Monch
One thing that no one should ignore is hunger.
I read this in a blog today, but think about this...
KG, PP, and RA are probably 3 of the most hungriest players in the game. KG showed what he can do when he is around 2 great all stars already.
These guys are gona bond in an instant and put them over the decling Pistons as the best team east easily by just showing up. But when you add in the kind of drive these guys have to finally play on a contending team- watch out.
And don't think for a second Boston will sport that weak bench when the season starts. There are some very good role players that are still are free agents: Miki Moore, Chris Webber, Matt Barnes, Charlie Bell, and Earl Boykins can be attained dirt cheap.
Mikki Moore is overpaid in Sacto... Webber wants to go to Dallas or Detroit... dunno about Bell or Barnes and Boykins is a 5'5" two guard...
But when it's time for war
I'm trying to score like Bernard King
"Behind Closed Doors"
~Pharaoh Monch
ShairanXIII, Bell and Barnes are excellent defenders with jumpshots and can play multi positions. Boykins is a 5"5 guard who can score. Celtics don't need him though. Rando and Perkins can fit the roles perfectly. Rando is a good passer/excellent defender. Perkins can rebound the ball well. Gomes, Powe, Big Baby, Pruitt , and Tony Allen isn't bad. You just need an 8 man rotation, the other 4 guys are just in case for injury.
Its simple, Isiah has progressed the Knicks, no question. Isn't that his job though? He hasn't progressed the Knicks to medicore yet, we've still an unproven team who can reach .500. It took us what, 4 years to get to that level? Don't reward or credit Isiah. Ainge stock piled on young prospects and got the best player in the NBA, along with the best shooter in the NBA, automatically making the Celtics a top 2-3 team in the East.
I'm sick of riding on this 4th year of Isiah's 12 year slow ass plan. I have patience, but this is ****ing ridiculous. Why does everyone progress ahead of us, while we have to settle with sub par .500 basketball?
I'm also sick of this love Isiah has with his Chicago players. Eddy Curry? He's holding us back from getting better, along with Isiah. Why? Isiah believes Curry can be a franchise player and the main focus of the team. Okay, thats nice. Lets compare Curry to other Franchise players in the NBA and the main focus, why would he rank?
ATL - Johnson > Curry
ORL - Howard > Curry
MIA - Wade > Curry
CHA - Okafor > Curry
PHI - Iggy > Curry
BOS - Garnett or Allen or Pierce > Curry
TOR - Bosh > Curry
NJ - Kidd or Carter > Curry
DET - Hamilton or Billups > Curry
IND - O'Neil > Curry
CLE - James > Curry
Bucks - Redd > Curry
CHI - Deng/Gordon > Curry
LAL - Bryant/Odom > Curry
LAC - Brand > Curry
GSW - Davis > Curry
PHX - Amare, Marion or Nash > Curry
SAC - Martin > Curry (avg more points on less turnovers)
DEN - Anthony > Curry
UTA - Boozer or Williams > Curry
MIN - Jefferson > Curry
POR - Roy > Curry
SEA - Durant < Curry (right now)
DAL - Dirk or Howard > Curry
SA - Parker or Duncan > Curry
HOU - T'Mac or Yao > Curry
NO - Paul > Curry
MEM - Gasol or Gay > Curry
With that said, let me ask you guys and Isiah something.
How the hell are we going to the 07-08 season thinking we can be sucessful and compete with other teams when our "best" "franchise" and "main focus in offense" is Curry; when compared to the rest of the NBA it seems like we the weakest "best" "franchise" and "main focus in offense". Our "Franchise" player is a B- level player. All the other franchises in the NBA is a B+ or A level player. Thats not BEING very competitive at all.
Listen, everyone is progressing and I don't like it. Theres too much hope on Curry, and we need to get a real franchise player.
Isiah's standard of sucess is Layden's failure. This is why we're never going no where.
We didn't get KG because
Eddy Curry is "untradeable" Curry is no Al Jefferson, but I'm sure if you packed Curry, Crawford, Richardson for KG, thats as good as value Boston offered. Boston offered a starter and a couple of bench players. Jesus christ Isiah, what the hell are you doing with yourself? KG has an expiring contract too. We could of resigned him to whatever.
Isiah's love with our mediocre players continue to hold us hostage of this sub par .500 level of basketball. Kinda like how Fidel Castro holds back his Cuban boxers from being successful else where.
I know Metro you hate IT but lets see what else he atleast tries to do this off season to better us. If he decides to sit put, then I agree this guy doesn't get it, but with KG in the Atlantic expect another move for us.
Lastly of the players you compared Eddy to how many are Centers? Joe Johnson, Baron Davis, Ben Gordon, are a dime a dozen, they come along every draft, they are found anywhere from the # 5 pick to mid 2nd round. What makes Curry unique is how he scores the ball, and not too many players in the league demand his respect in the post, and there is not one player in this league who can shut him down every night one on one. Even Dwight Howard and Amare have said he's as tough as they come in the post. Eddy is no way shape or form a complete player and I agree is not amongst the best of the leagues franchise players, but you have some players rated better than him that just frankly aren't ie. Okafor and Kevin Martin, I know you wouldn't trade Eddy straight up for either of those players. Eddy is forreal to me I think he will have an even better season this year, and maybe end up An All Star. We all seem to forget this guy is only as old as a 2nd year player he still has room to grow.


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One week, we hear demand is up, and the economy finally is improving. The next week, it's gloom and doom for manufacturing. That has been the pattern for some time, but recently, we finally appear to be in the midst of actual recovery. Manufacturing demand is up almost everywhere, and many are thriving. Yet, as often is the case, some sectors and some organizations are recovering__and in some cases, booming__faster than others.
Take Caterpillar as an example. As John D. Stoll writes for Reuters, "the world's largest maker of construction machinery reduced its workforce by 33,000 people worldwide in 2009, closed plants, and posted lower profits." While Caterpillar once misjudged the scope of the recession, shrinking to ensure long-term survival, the company now "is emerging as the poster child for America's manufacturing renaissance."
Things have changed quickly. "In 24 months, 15 Caterpillar facilities have been built or updated in the United States, tens of thousands of workers have been added to the payroll, and $2 billion is committed for capital investments on its home soil this year," Stoll writes. A record backlog of some $30 billion in orders, three times higher than 2009's figures, also is boosting the company's optimism. Stoll cites a rise in domestic demand for heavy equipment, as builders seek to replace aging machinery while the improving economy makes credit easier to obtain.
"We haven't seen Caterpillar doing this much building in the United States since probably the 1960s," says Peter Holt, owner of San Antonio, Texas-based Holt Caterpillar, the largest Caterpillar dealership in the country. But Holt, whose family was instrumental in founding Caterpillar, is wary about the company growing too fast in spite of the potential danger of another recession. He says while Caterpillar always has attempted to forecast demand and build accordingly, the equipment maker has "never been any good at it because there is no consistency in the world economy." Effective and accurate S&OP
Holt is not alone in his assessment of the difficulty of predicting demand and how to build and develop preemptively. Professionals in organizations spanning numerous industries struggle with anticipating demand and managing capacity, production, inventory, and backlog. This is the basis of sales and operations planning (S&OP), which develops the tactical steps necessary to accomplish organizations' strategic objectives.
One way for supply chain and operations management professionals to become more adept at S&OP is by attending the Best of the Best S&OP Conference, presented by APICS and the Institute for Business Forecasting. Held this year in London and Chicago, the conference enables attendees to implement S&OP at their organizations, while expanding ability in S&OP areas including conflict resolution, risk management, and lean forecasting. Florian Doulliet, demand planning manager for southern Europe at SC Johnson Sarl, will present a session that focuses on Holt's sentiment that forecasts are always wrong. He will explain how his company faces similar challenges to Caterpillar, and how they improved their demand planning and forecasting processes to drive supply chain excellence.
The London event takes place May 10_11. If you are able to attend, I encourage you to register today.
On a related note, I recently arrived back in the United States from Shanghai, China, where I attended the APICS Asia Supply Chain & Operations 2012 conference. There, Caterpillar's own Jeff LeClair presented a session on his company's global supply chain strategy and the challenges of managing a truly international business. While the Reuters article indicates Caterpillar is expanding its presence in the United States, it's also clear the company has a strong commitment to overseas manufacturing and markets, including China.
If you attended the conference, are a native of the region, or simply are interested the unique issues affecting Asia in supply chain and operations management, I invite you to check out the Asia interest community on the APICS Supply Chain Channel and join in the conversation.
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Centerbridge attracts more than $11bn of demand in six weeks
Centerbridge Partners, the investment firm co-founded by the former head of private equity at alternative investment giant Blackstone Group, has attracted more than $11 billion of demand for its $5.75 billion third fund within just six weeks.
The firm, which has offices in New York and London and primarily focuses on private equity and distressed-debt investments, has received more than twice as much demand for Centerbridge Capital Partners III than its upper limit can allow within just six weeks of the fund's private placement memoranda being issued, according to investors.
This has meant that some limited partners have had to scale back the amount that they planned to commit, one of the investors said.
A first close, which could even be a first and final close, is expected by the end of the year, one of the investors added. A final close by year end would make it one of the fastest fundraisings of 2014. Private equity and distressed private equity funds globally have taken an average of 16 months to reach a final close so far this year, according to data provider Preqin.
A spokeswoman for Centerbridge declined to comment.
A Centerbridge fund was an investor in Extended Stay America, a hotel chain that floated last November raising $565 million in an IPO that gave it a market value of roughly $4 billion.
One investor said that limited partners want to invest with Centerbridge because of its ability to execute buyout and debt investments in both healthy and distressed companies through the same fund, a strategy that is also employed by Apollo Global Management. Centerbridge's debut fund, which raised $3 billion in 2006, is currently performing roughly three times as well as the industry average.
The fund was generating a net internal rate of return of 21.14% as of September 30, 2013, according to public disclosures from US pension fund California State Teachers' Retirement System, an investor in the vehicle. This compares to a 6.5% median IRR for private equity funds of that vintage and a 7.7% median IRR for distressed private equity funds of the same vintage, according to Preqin.
Centerbridge was set up in 2006 by Mark Gallogly, the former head of the private equity investment team at Blackstone, and Jeffrey Aronson, the former head of distressed-debt investing at hedge fund Angelo, Gordon & Co. Gallogly was at Blackstone for 16 years, while Aronson, a former securities lawyer, was at Angelo, Gordon for more than 17 years working on leveraged loans and distressed investing.
Centerbridge has since been involved in some of the world's most high-profile debt restructurings. The firm is one of a group of creditors including Angelo, Gordon & Co and Apollo that are owed $24.4 billion by a division of Energy Future Holdings, the private equity-backed energy company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April. Last year the firm also bought debt in Billabong International, the Australian surfwear maker that sought a rescue package after a debt-fuelled expansion began to unwind during the global financial crisis.


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Mission possible
International Secret Agents showcases the nation's hottest new Asian-American talent
By Jana J. Monji 09/03/2009
International Secret Agents will be on a mission Sunday at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, where audience members will be treated to hot hip-hop from Far East Movement, also known as FM, and comedy and commentary from online personalities like Wong Fu Productions and KevJumba, as well as a performance by the season three winners of MTV's "America's Best Dance Crew," Quest Crew.
James Roh of FM and Philip Wang of Wong Fu Productions said in a recent phone interview that this ISA concert builds on their success last year with sold-out concerts in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It also proves that selling Asian-American artists to the mainstream media isn't exactly Mission Impossible.
The fact is these guys haven't been exactly operating undercover.
Far East Movement (Kevin "Kev Nish" Nishimura, James "Prohgress" Roh, Jae "J-Splif" Chou, Virman "DJ Virman" Coquia), has a hit single, "Girls on the Dance Floor," from their album "Animal" — rated the No. 1 single on DjCity.com. — and has been on two world tours to Canada, Europe and Asia. TV viewers may have seen them as part of McDonald's Big Mac Chant Campaign, or as spokespersons for McDonald's Los Ring Campaign during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Partnering with FM is Wong Fu Productions, a San Gabriel-based group (Wesley Chan, Ted Fu and Philip Wang) that formed in 2003 when Chan, Fu and Wang were in school at UC San Diego. The threesome then started making videos that have been accepted at various film festivals, including Cannes, where two of their short films ("At Musing's End" and "A Peace of Home") were official short film selections.
"A lot of these artists doing a lot of great things don't get a proper venue as a mainstream artist," said FM's Roh. "Asian Americans haven't been embraced on the mainstream level, although they have huge fan bases … This is a completely artist-run venture and our fans really do have a say."
According to Wang, "We have talent that should be recognized. In California, there are so many Asian Americans. Around the country there are smaller populations that need the help, need more visibility."
To that end, under the sponsorship of JC Penney, the ISA Concert Series will be introducing new talent on Sunday when the winner of their JC Penney Schooled in Style Breakout Performer contest winner takes the stage.
The complete lineup includes: FM, Wong Fu Production, Quest Crew, Kina Grannis, David Choi, Jennifer Chung, Kevin "KevJumba" Wu, Bruno Mars and GLP (Gabe, Leejay, Passion).
Tickets are sold out online, but you might get lucky at the door. If that's a mission improbable, get on their mailing list because everyone wants to be an international secret agent.
International Secret Agents Los Angeles 2009 begins at 6 p.m. Sunday at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, 320 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel. Tickets range from $20 to $95. For information, call (626) 308-2865 or visit internationalsecretagents.com.
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Valery gives us so much in this set! We get cleavage teasing...lots of it. And when her boobs are bare, she squeezes, kneads, tugs and tweaks those sensuous suckers. You'll be able to worship them from any angle you need--from above, from straight on, and looking up at her, goddess-style! Dig the tattoos of butterflies that flutter across her tummy! Drool over her pretty size 6 toes, too! Check out her shaved pink pie, and then stare and stroke as she covers her titties in lotion until they shine, like an appetizer for the vibrator show she gives us at the end! And then she licks her own nipples, leaving gleaming drops of her saliva on those crinkly nubs. What a girl! Glad to have you with us, Valery!


text: sometimes my 18 month old DS likes to turn his head so that he is facing down towards my belly while he is nursing. Does anyone else's little nurser do this? it is a little annoying! I am just wondering why he does it. I wonder if the head turn pushes on a duct and causes a better milk flow?