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• A musical version of Ugly Betty is in the works! They want to use the original TV cast even though they all don't dance or sing as well as professional Broadway actors. An Ugly Betty musical sounds like the reincarnation of the Legally Blond musical we've not been waiting for. [Dish Rag/LAT]
• Veteran model Noémie Lenoir landed the June/July cover of French Vogue. Gorgeous. [Elite]
• Roberto Cavalli will give a lecture at Oxford University tomorrow. Because no college education is complete without a highbrow discussion in praise of animal prints and female flesh. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Who was that curly-haired man Naomi Campbell was seen dancing with at her birthday party in Cannes? A major Hollywood producer, that's who! His name is Lawrence Bender, and his credits include Kill Bill, An Inconvenient Truth, Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction. [Models Blog]
• Natalia Vodianova appears on the floor licking broken glass in an Italian Vogue editorial spread. And what do you do when you find yourself on the floor in a fabulous evening gown? [FabSugar]


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I used to use Kiss My Face Organics Under Age and thought it was great until I tried the MyChelle Night Cream - what a difference! My skin DEFINITELY likes the MyChelle better. The texture is thinner and "slippery-er" than I'm used to, but it moisturizes better than the KMF ever did without being greasy or weird.
the water and the cream are separated
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Nice texture.
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Su textura es agradable pero su absorción es lenta. No nutre con profundidad
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Today Williston—which sits atop the oil-rich Bakken shale formation—is enjoying a second life as a key player in the state's booming economy. Following several years of record population growth and real estate development, the town will soon boast one more draw: a $500 million retail mecca complete with shopping, a hotel and indoor water park. Not bad for a town of just 32,000 people. [...]
"The U.S. isn't overretailed, it's under-idea-ed" — cnbc.com
We discuss the decline and (perhaps inevitable) death of the American shopping mall on episode #32 of Archinect Sessions, "For in that death of malls, what dreams may come?"More info and recent news on dead malls:Dead Malls and Shopping DinosaursDead-malls and the return of Main StreetDebating the... View full entry »
Dead malls and ghost boxes haunt this week's episode, featuring special guest and longtime 'Nector, Nam Henderson. Whether you're mourning or reveling in the dwindling population of the great American mall, their lifeless carcasses on the economic and urban landscape are starting to stink, and we... View full entry »
"Our business is more regional and high-end focused," he said. "There are gradients of dead or dying or flat, but anything that's caught in the middle of the market is problematic." — NYT
Nelson D. Schwartz explores 'The Economics (and Nostalgia) of Dead Malls'. One response is articulated by Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones who has proposed Retrofitting Suburbia - whereby dying malls are rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited and parking lots our transformed into... View full entry »
The New South China Mall was once promoted as the world's biggest mall, but it's now pretty much deserted. — edition.cnn.com
The link between this New Urbanist development and a mall REIT is significant. It points to a danger raised by city planner Ann Satterthwaite: that post-mall neighborhoods will simply become outdoor malls, as controlled and sterile – and state subsidized – as indoor shopping centers. — The International
Robbie Moore reviews the current state of thought, among urban planners, academics and real estate analysts, studying the future structure of regional towns and suburbs – and the future of public space, after "the mall" has gone. Concepts/terminology include; "Dead Malls, Grayfields... View full entry »
As growth slows, China's huge investment in infrastructure is looking ever harder to sustain, leaving a string of ambitious projects - towns, shopping malls and even a theme park - empty and forlorn. — bbc.co.uk
Gruen's idea transformed American consumption patterns and much of the environment around us. At age 60, however, the enclosed regional shopping mall also appears to be an idea that has run its course — theatlanticcities.com
For generations, government policies have been geared toward creating endless landscapes of strip malls... In the process we have gutted our traditional downtowns. We have eaten up farmland and forest. We have, as Nate Berg reported this week, endangered the lives of our senior citizens. We have engineered a world where children cannot walk or bike to school without risking their lives. We have created countless places devoid of any real social value. — theatlanticcities.com
The giant mall you see in the photos here didn't die. It has never lived, having been nothing but empty since it opened seven years ago. According to its Wikipedia entry, it has an astounding 2,350 available retail spaces, only 47 of which are occupied.
Meet the world's largest shopping mall, the New South China Mall in Dongguan, China. It is twice as big as the huge Mall of America outside Minneapolis. — thinkprogress.org
Designers in Buffalo have proposed stripping down a mall to its foundation and reinventing it as housing, while an aspiring architect in Detroit has proposed turning a mall's parking lot there into a community farm. Columbus, Ohio, arguing that it was too expensive to maintain an empty mall on prime real estate, dismantled its City Center mall and replaced it with a park. — nytimes.com
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Former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is beginning a tour of Africa on Wednesday, the Lula Institute said in a statement.
The erstwhile head of state will visit Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria and will meet with political leaders, businessmen and representatives from civil society.
During his March 15-16 stay in Ghana, Lula will "participate in a discussion about social programs at the headquarters" of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the institute said.
He will also meet with the country's former president, John Kufuor, "who shared the 2011 World Food Prize with Lula, for his work in combating hunger."
On the last day of the trip, Lula will meet with Nigerian businessmen, as well as with authors from the African country and with the coach of Nigeria's national soccer team, the current African champions who are slated to participate this year in the Confederations Cup tourney in Brazil.
In addition, the former Brazilian leader will participate in the Nigeria Summit 2013, an event organized by The Economist magazine.
In November, Lula visited South Africa, Mozambique and Ethiopia, while the Lula Institute said that later this year he will visit countries in East Africa, although it did not specify which ones or on which dates.
Last month, incumbent Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff traveled to Nigeria to participate in the 3rd Africa-South America Summit.
In recent years, Brazil has notably intensified its trade and political relations with African nations and both Rousseff and Lula have visited the continent on several occasions. EFE


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Objective: High-flow humidified nasal cannula is often used to provide noninvasive respiratory support in children. The effect of high-flow humidified nasal cannula on effort of breathing in children has not been objectively studied, and the mechanism by which respiratory support is provided remains unclear. This study uses an objective measure of effort of breathing (Pressure. Rate Product) to evaluate high-flow humidified nasal cannula in critically ill children.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
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Patients: ICU patients younger than 18 years receiving high-flow humidified nasal cannula or whom the medical team planned to extubate to high-flow humidified nasal cannula within 72 hours of enrollment.
Interventions: An esophageal pressure monitoring catheter was placed to measure pleural pressures via a Bicore CP-100 pulmonary mechanics monitor. Change in pleural pressure (ΔPes) and respiratory rate were measured on high-flow humidified nasal cannula at 2, 5, and 8 L/min. ΔPes and respiratory rate were multiplied to generate the Pressure.Rate Product, a well-established objective measure of effort of breathing. Baseline Pes, defined as pleural pressure at end exhalation during tidal breathing, reflected the positive pressure generated on each level of respiratory support.
Measurements and Main Results: Twenty-five patients had measurements on high-flow humidified nasal cannula. Median age was 6.5 months (interquartile range, 1.3–15.5 mo). Median Pressure,Rate Product was lower on high-flow humidified nasal cannula 8 L/min (median, 329 cm H2O·min; interquartile range, 195–402) compared with high-flow humidified nasal cannula 5 L/min (median, 341; interquartile range, 232–475; p = 0.007) or high-flow humidified nasal cannula 2 L/min (median, 421; interquartile range, 233–621; p < 0.0001) and was lower on high-flow humidified nasal cannula 5 L/min compared with high-flow humidified nasal cannula 2 L/min (p = 0.01). Baseline Pes was higher on high-flow humidified nasal cannula 8 L/min than on high-flow humidified nasal cannula 2 L/min (p = 0.03).
Conclusions: Increasing flow rates of high-flow humidified nasal cannula decreased effort of breathing in children, with the most significant impact seen from high-flow humidified nasal cannula 2 to 8 L/min. There are likely multiple mechanisms for this clinical effect, including generation of positive pressure and washout of airway dead space.
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Getting Started With River¶
This document is going to explain how you can use the inbuilt "simple" services that come with River. More specifically;
The instructions assume that you're building from source as checked out from the SVN trunk. Currently this is necessary because the code snippets below use methods and classes which, at time of writing, haven't made it into the latest binary release yet. Having said that, the code you will need in the binary release isn't to far removed from what you'll see below, so you can progress with the binary release if you want to and are happy odifying the code.
If you are going to use the latest release then you will still need to download (from the SVN trunk) some of the Windows BAT files mentioned below. *nix sh scripts of those same batch files will appear shortly.
Environment Setup¶
The following instructions all assume that you have checked out River to some directory which is throughout referred to as
Running Code Which Uses River Services¶
Since River uses dynamic code downloading, we need to grant various permissions to our JVM to allow that. In the interest of simplicity, we are going to grant everything every permission. In the real world, this would obviously not be recommended.
To grant these permissions we need to create a policy file:
grant { permission java.security.AllPermission; };
Create the above file and save it somewhere that it can be easily referenced as a command line argument to some Java you're going to write - such as the working directory that you will run the code from.
Further, your programs which will use River services will need the following JVM arguments.
-Djava.security.policy=path/to/policy.all -Djava.rmi.server.RMIClassLoaderSpi=net.jini.loader.pref.PreferredClassProvider
Also, before doing anything with any River code you need to set an appropriate security manager. This needs to be done only once per program.
System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
Starting the HTTP server¶
What? Wait, why do I need to do that?¶
When services get marshalled for sending over the wire, the first part of their stream is the codebase URL. This URL tells the downloading JVM where to load the supporting JARs from. Often (although not always) in the River/Jini world this code base harks back to some HTTP server. There is a simple HTPP server packaged inside River which can be used for this. That's what we're going to start.
See 3.2 How codebase is used in Java RMI for more details.
Testing it¶
To test that the HTTP server is running correctly use wget or your web browser on the following URL
Starting a Service Registrar (Lookup Service)¶
What? Wait, why do I need to do that?¶
Typically, in an environment which uses River/Jini services, a Lookup Service will be used. This Lookup Service is then used by your code to find River/Jini services. Lookup Services always know the current state of the subnet or federated space.
Broadly speaking (although not 100% accurately) you need a Lookup Service in order to be able to find other services to use.
Testing it¶
There are two ways to find our Lookup Service. Remember that the interface which fulfills the role of a Lookup Service is
If we know where our Lookup Service is running, we can use unicast to connect straight to it.
LookupLocator ll = new LookupLocator("jini://localhost:4160"); StreamServiceRegistrar sr = ll.getStreamRegistrar(); System.out.println("Service Registrar: "+sr.getServiceID());
Assuming you don't get a
If we know only that "some lookup services are on the subnet somewhere" then we can use multicast to find them.
DiscoveryListenerManagement dlm = new LookupDiscovery(LookupDiscovery.ALL_GROUPS); LeaseRenewalManager lrm = new LeaseRenewalManager(); ServiceDiscoveryManager sdm = new ServiceDiscoveryManager(dlm, lrm); Thread.sleep(500); //need to wait a little bit for the Lookup Service to generate the events to the sdm ServiceTemplate srTemplate = new ServiceTemplate(null, new Class[] { ServiceRegistrar.class }, null); ServiceItem[] sis = sdm.lookup(srTemplate, 10, null); for(ServiceItem si : sis) { System.out.println("Service Registrar: "+si.serviceID); } dlm.terminate();
This approach is slightly different. It is relying the
This approach can be modified if you know which hosts on the subnet might be running lookup services. You can define and pass this list to the
Starting a Java Space¶
What? Wait, why do I need to do that?¶
Finding a Lookup Service is only useful if there are some other services on the network which you want to use, so now we're going to start a Java Space, and find that. Using the Java Space is outside the scope of this document, although the "how" is relativily straight forward.
Testing it¶
To find any kind of service we must first create a template.
This is an instance of
ServiceTemplate template = new ServiceTemplate(null, new Class[) { JavaSpace.class }, new Entry[0]());
Using the unicast and a
ServiceMatches sms = sr.lookup(template, 10); if(0 < sms.items.length) { JavaSpace space = (JavaSpace) sms.items[0].service; // do something with the space } else { System.out.println("No Java Space found."); }
Using the
ServiceItem si = sdm.lookup(template, null); if(null != si) { JavaSpace space = (JavaSpace) sms.service; // do something with the space } else { System.out.println("No Java Space found."); }
Starting a Transaction Service¶
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Because you'd like to find something that will give you a nice distributed transaction.
Testing it¶
Testing it is done in the same way as for the Java Space. However, the constructor of the
ServiceTemplate template = new ServiceTemplate(null, new Class[) { TransactionManager.class }, new Entry[0](0.html));
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Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology. By Gordon W. Lanthrop. Fortress, 236 pp.
Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology. By Gordon W. Lanthrop. Fortress, 246 pp.
Though the World Council of Churches' consensus document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry is a work of enormous significance, it may strike one as bland. Gordon Lathrop, a Lutheran theologian, presents much the same material in two books (the first published in 1993) that are lively, provocative and challenging.
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By David Hogg
Related Scripture: John 4:718, 2526, 39
Bible Studies for Life
Academic Dean at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
From Failure to Salvation
John 4:7–18, 25–26, 39
Recognize Your Need (7–14)
The stunning truth about John 4 is that it comes immediately after John 3. Granted, you probably knew that, but have you stopped to consider the similarities and differences between these two chapters? In John 3 we meet Nicodemus. Here is a Pharisee, a man of education and probably of at least moderate income if not reasonably well off.
Nicodemus is a man who knows his Bible and teaches it. But he is also a man who struggles with courage — after all, he came to Jesus in the night.
In John 4, however, we meet not a man but a woman. She does not appear to be well-off or well-educated. She certainly does not teach the Bible to anyone and is not a leader in the community. She meets Jesus during the day and has the courage to go tell everyone she can find about Him.
In the space of two chapters, Jesus meets two very different people.
In light of this, you would be right to ask what could possibly be common or similar between these two? The answer is quite simple: Jesus.
What matters in these two stories is not simply that both of these people met Jesus, but that they were both in need of Jesus. Moreover, while both of these people needed Jesus, it appears that neither of them knew they needed Him. Left to our own wisdom and knowledge not many of us realize how much we need Jesus. Many people either are convinced they are doing just fine or think Jesus cannot help them for one reason or another. After all, what could Jesus have to add to a Ph.D.-holding community leader who has a whole lot of religion already? How can Jesus be relevant to a woman of five failed marriages, a sixth on the go, who is low on the social scale and belongs to a people group the spiritual elites despise?
John is not merely weaving stories together, but drawing our attention to the fact that no group of people is beyond needing Jesus. In fact, no one ever gets past needing Jesus.
Confront Your Failure (15–18)
The reason no one ever gets past needing Jesus is that we are continually in need of being confronted by our own sin. What is amazing about the way God deals with our sin is how direct and specific He is. It is not enough to think of our sin in generic terms, as though it is not really personal; rather, Jesus gets to the heart of our sin, which is the sin in our heart.
Confronting our sin is never easy though. Notice how the woman deflects Jesus' request to go and get her husband: "I have no husband." In other words, let's not talk about me; let's get back to this living water of which you speak.
How many of us would love to have eternal life and happiness without having to address our sin? The prospect of affirming that I am fine and I just need a little help is very appealing, but that is where the danger lies.
Apart from confessing our sin and seeking forgiveness from Christ, there is no hope of eternal life and blessing. The problem is not that we are a little bit bad, but that we are completely sinful and in need of being created anew.
Jesus was no television evangelist saying, "Just believe"; He is the Way, the Truth and the Life calling us all to repent in addition to believing.
Tell Others About Jesus (25–26, 39)
I once heard a well-known preacher answer the question, "Why are you always so excited to preach and proclaim the gospel?" He said he was excited because he never got over the fact that Jesus died for him and saved him.
There is no better impetus for evangelism, for urging others to "come and see ... the Christ," than gratitude for what Jesus has done in our lives.
Who will you tell today?


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Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 3: Implausible Claims and Formal Ethics Statements
The Ethics of Implausible Medical Claims (IMC)
In Part 2 of this series* we learned from David Katz, MD, a key member of the Yale School of Medicine's "integrative medicine" program, that he had been "pushed toward integrative medicine by the needs of [his] patients." We also learned that Dr. Katz's rationale for this decision justifies a wide range of quackery—both in principle and in fact. I had previously alluded to arguments like those of Dr. Katz in a comment on SBM several months ago:
…we must be true to medical ethics, no matter what else we do. If that means losing a few patients, so be it. Patients are free agents, and we can only do so much to influence them. To the extent that we don't do that as well as we might (which is obviously true in some cases), we might do better. But our ethical obligation is to science and truth; it is not, as many modern physicians would have it and as much as we may lament sometimes losing patients to woo, to seducing patients to stick with us no matter what, if the "what" includes engaging in a charade about "integration" or "complementary therapies"…
Realizing that some might argue that physicians' obligations to patients ought to trump their obligations to "science and truth," I later revised that statement:
Several weeks ago I argued here that a physician's primary ethical obligation is to science and truth. In retrospect I probably should have put it a slightly different way: a physician's primary ethical obligation is the same as everyone else's. It is to honesty and integrity. For physicians, however, that means being true to real medical knowledge, among other things, and real medical knowledge comes from science.
In spite of that revision, two readers whose opinions I respect challenged my assertion. Dr. Peter Moran's worthy efforts to educate patients about the realities of "alternative" cancer treatments are considerable. Here on SBM he has repeatedly challenged us to explain how, when confronted with testimonials of "alternative" cures, we ought to respond without using "a high-handed, 'we know best' stance" and thus "appear to want to distance [ourselves] from the intimate concerns of [our] patients." I was thinking mainly of him when I wrote the revision above, because on this key topic—how to respond ethically, but with compassion, to patients who want to believe in implausible treatments—I've come to think of Dr. Moran as the "conscience" of Science-Based Medicine. Those with cancer, he has reminded us, "are folk very like you and me who are simply grasping at any straw that might save or prolong their lives." His take on why IMCs are appealing to those with less ominous problems is well-developed and agrees with my own, mostly. We part ways, however, when he concludes (also here and here) that ethical physicians might have good reasons—unlike Dr. Katz's—to entertain benign, if implausible treatments:


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|Cato Policy Analysis No. 401
|May 24, 2001
by Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato Institute).
Executive Summary
The end of the Cold War has reduced the danger to the United States everywhere in the world, including Southeast Asia, but Washington hasn't seemed to notice. Instead of reducing America's commitments and force presence in Southeast Asia, as would be appropriate, the Clinton administration expanded the U.S. role. Washington added new agreements, training exercises, naval visits, weapons transfers, and implicit security guarantees for nations such as Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, and even erstwhile adversary Vietnam. The Bush administration seems determined to continue that course.
There is little that the United States can do to maintain stability in Southeast Asia. Cross-border wars are not threatening to overwhelm the region. If it is not willing to use U.S. forces, there is little Washington can do to prevent such wars from breaking out in the first place. America's security interests in the region are modest, at best, and do not warrant military intervention. Indeed, the region's most serious problems are internal: ruthless repression in Burma, potential disintegration in Indonesia, political unrest in the Philippines. In such cases, a U.S. pressure is apt to prove ineffective at best and counter-productive at worst.
The other concern is aggression from an outside power, namely China, but Beijing's ambitions seem limited to the South China Sea. Even there, China has been only cautiously assertive; its greatest success has come as a result of disarray among its competitors. In particular, the Philippines' lack of a serious military provides an open invitation for Beijing to push its claims to the Spratly Islands.
Instead of entangling itself in squabbles of limited international significance, Washington should encourage friendly states to better arm themselves and to create cooperative relationships with each other, for example, through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and with reliable outside players, particularly India and Japan. The United States should adopt a lower military profile in the region and abandon expensive and risky commitments that no longer serve the interests of the American people.
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Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York (USA, 2008, 124 mins.) [Second showing on Thursday starts at 9:30PM instead of 9:15PM] Synecdoche, which means the use of a part to refer to the whole, represents the attempt by a wounded theater director and tortured artist (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) to discover that big picture of which he is a part. Deteriorating health and troubled relationships with his wife and daughter increase the urgency of his quest. With surreal techniques that bend time and defy logic, filmmaker and writer Charlie Kaufman plots a zigzag course of creativity, setbacks, and discovery spanning a biography of forty years and taking the director from his home in aptly named Schenectady, New York to Berlin and New York City. He learns that life is like theater (or to employ synecdoche, the stage), and that being alive means both directing and acting. It isn't always easy, but the show must go on.


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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
This article is part of the Tobacco portal on Sourcewatch funded from 2006 - 2009 by the American Legacy Foundation.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo is/was a Professor of Economics at Loyola College in Maryland and George Mason University who attacked tobacco control researchers in the press. He is currently a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. [1]
- Advisory Board, Second Vermont Republic [1]
- Advisory Board, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow [2]
- Columnist, Lewrockwell.com [3]
DiLorenzo and the Tobacco Industry
DiLorenzo served as a research fellow at the Independent Institute and the Capital Research Center, two public policy think tanks that have accepted tobacco industry funding.[2] In 1994 the Independent Institute accepted funds from R.J. Reynolds (RJR) specifically to fund anti-tobacco control research by DiLorenzo.[3]
DiLorenzo was paid $30,000 by R.J. Reynolds to write a book called "CancerScam" denigrating the ASSIST Project, a 17-state national tobacco control program, and "Unhealthy Charities" a book attacking the major voluntary health charities (American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association). Pay request was sent to R.J. Reynolds and payments made to the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.[4]
DiLorenzo has co-authored books funded by tobacco companies with James T. Bennett of George Mason University. In 1995, Bennett and DiLorenzo billed RJR $100,000 [4] to produce a book a called Cancerscam: the diversion of federal cancer funds to politics, that attacked health charities for spending what the authors deemed a disproportionate amount of their income on political advocacy. The authors argued the money should be spent on research instead. The Cancerscam book comported perfectly with a 1993 Philip Morris internal Corporate Affairs plan to work towards constraining health charities by restricting how much of their funds could be spent on research and capping the amount the charities could spend on salaries and lobbying. Bates Page -6028 of the 119 page plan
Books and Publications by Thomas DiLorenzo
- The Mirage of Sustainable Development, article from The Futurist (Magazine/Journal) September 1, 1993.
- Unhealthy Charities: Hazardous to Your Health and Wealth (Paperback) by James T. Bennett, Thomas J. Dilorenzo, June 1995, Basic Books.
- Public Health Profiteering (Hardcover) by James T. Bennett, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Transaction Publishers, August 2001.
Contact Information
Thomas DiLorenzo
Ludwig von Mises Institute
518 West Magnolia Avenue
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Phone: 334 321-2100
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
- ↑ Advisory Board, Second Vermont Republic, accessed January 5, 2009.
- ↑ Advisory Board, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, accessed September 19, 2008.
- ↑ About, Lewrockwell.com, accessed June 24, 2009.
- ↑ J.T. Bennett, George Mason University This letter sumnarizes our discussion on August 18 regarding our activities during the coming year. Letter. August 31, 1995. 1 page. Bates No. 517118301
External Sources
Wikipedia Entry includes attacks on Abraham Lincoln and chemical protection.
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I wanted to meet some other people who are probably gonna go to Georgetown also.
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I got in.. don't know if I really want to go. Georgetown College, Econ. major, though.
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MrGuster, stats?
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Is Georgetown considered IVY league?
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It's not Ivy League, but SFS is like second only to maybe the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton...but hey thats Princeton and being in Washington DC is so much better than in snooty Princeton.
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ASM introduces the latest addition to the POSIROT® family, PRAS3, a new magnetic angular position sensor in a compact 36 mm (1.4 in.) diameter housing. The active sensor element uses an internal, contact-free permanent magnet to determine the angular position. The measurement ranges are available in 15° increments: 0-15°, 0-30°, 0-45° up to 0-360°. The servo flange mounting insures quick and easy installation for the PRAS3 series.
With its stainless steel housing that is rated up to IP69K, the PRAS3 series is well suited for the extremely harsh conditions such as those found on off-highway construction equipment and many industrial applications. The sensor is equipped with two extra strong ball bearings to handle axial and radial loads along the sensors 10 mm shaft.
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My pictures from the MTV Movie Awards
So I can't even begin to tell you how much fun I had at last night's MTV Movie Awards! First of all, it was a nightmare getting there!! I spent over $60 in cab fare, because it took 2 hours to get about 10 miles! The fire at Universal Studios created mass chaos, and I was so scared I wasn't going to make it in time!
I finally made it to Universal Studios – and made my way to where I needed to be! That's where I met up with the amazing MK from Popbytes and Vera from I'm Not Obsessed. I've talked to these two for years – and it was my first time meeting them! We had such a blast, MK and I have so much in common – it's crazy.
We each made our way out to the yellow carpet, and claimed our stake. I was standing right next to the entrance, so it was a good spot – and a bad spot. Good part was I got to see everyone – bad news was, by time they got to my end of the yellow carpet, they were haulin butt to get inside the amphitheater. I took a TON of pictures, which is part of the reason why it's taken me so long to get them up. So forgive me!
My favorite red carpet moment had to be when Sarah Jessica Parker walked over to where I was standing, and was being interviewed by MTV. After her interview was over, I screamed out her name like a crazy person, and I asked her if I could take her picture. She looked at me, said "sure" and let me take her picture. She looked gorgeous, and tiny – and even though all she said was "sure" she still said it to me! 🙂
Once the yellow carpet was over, Vera, MK and I headed inside to watch the awards. We each received tickets to watch the show from inside (if you missed my recap, go read it here!) It was SO much fun! MK, Vera and I were so close – the celebrities were just right there! We were able to people watch…every commercial break, everyone got up – and chit chatted with other celebs. Paris Hilton and Benji Madden left at nearly every commercial break. I'll never forget seeing Ellen Page in person – and realizing my 7 year old son is about the same size. 🙂
There were so many great surprises…seeing Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise in person was really exciting. There was such a great energy from inside – everyone was having a really great time. During the commercials – everyone had a lot of fun. I just had such a great time, and I really want to thank everyone at MTV who made it possible, most of all Mylan.
I hope to be invited next year, this was by far the high-lite of my hear!
I'll start posting my 5,000 pictures now…bear with me!
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Kissing and its positive effects
1. Kiss and hiccups
Kiss is a good cure for hiccups.
2. Kiss and compatibility
Kiss gives you the opportunity to feel how compatible you are with the other person. Did not ever happen to look at another other person with different eyes after you've kissed?
3. Kissing as a vaccine
Kissing is like a vaccine because saliva attack germs. Through the exchange of saliva are also produced antibodies that protect you from germs.
4. Kiss and pressure
Kissing prevents the formation of stress hormone, cortisol, which is responsible for tension, muscle weakness and insomnia.
5. Kiss and calories
Kissing burns up 12 calories, if it lasts more than 5 seconds.
6. Kissing and facial muscles
Kissing stimulates over 30 facial muscles that are responsible for your skin suppleness and smoothness.
7. Kiss and heart
Kissing regulates the cardiovascular system, reduces tension and cholesterol levels.
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Waitress Who Posted Pastor's Tip-less Receipt Fired
Yesterday, we brought you the story of a St. Louis-area man claiming to be a pastor who—following an unsuccessful attempt to dodge paying a restaurant's auto-gratuity policy—chose to leave no tip whatsoever, writing in the margin of the receipt, "I give God 10%, why should you get 18?" Today comes word that the waitress who posted a picture of the receipt to Reddit was fired from Applebee's for the deed. "I originally posted the note as a lighthearted joke," Chelsea, the waitress, told The Consumerist. "I thought the note was insulting, but it was also comical. I posted it to Reddit because I thought other users would find it entertaining." The picture went viral, and along with it, the pastor's signature (although nobody seems to be able to read the signature—the identity of the pastor remains a mystery). Nevertheless, according to Chelsea, the alleged pastor got wind of it and promptly called the Applebee's, lovingly demanding that everyone in the entire place be fired. That didn't happen, but Chelsea did lose her job. "I was just trying to make a joke," she said. "But I came home today unemployed" ...
UPDATE: The Smoking Gun is reporting that the pastor, Alois Bell, has apologized for a "lapse in [his] character and judgment," saying, "My heart is really broken, I've brought embarrassment to my church and ministry." Thanks for the tip.
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It's just the way the world works these days, I guess. 99.9% of all Christians -- and pastors -- tip their servers, and tip them as well as they can. Then, when one person in a million does something stupid like this, and does it in the name of Christianity, THAT's when the Internet explodes. Negativity sells. Maybe that's why Jesus told us to keep on doing good works "in secret."
Unfortunately, there are many people in leadership positions within the church who clearly do not demonstrate the love of Christ when they interact with others. The pastor would have been wise to let the matter drop and apologize to the waitress to whom he had been so rude to. Going back and demanding that she and everyone else be fired demonstrated a continued lack of judgment and was not a testimony of God's love and grace. It is an opportunity for growth on the part of both the pastor and the waitress. Hopefully, they will be able to put it behind them and move forward.
This is honestly why being a server... especially on Sundays... is terrible at times.
Very sad. My daughter waited tables for 7 years--through high school and college, and the single most dreaded day was Sundays. Not only did they not tip—they were the most rude and demanding folks in the place. I've never forgotten that and as a director of a nonprofit ALWAYS instruct our staff to tip generously—and to be gracious. The least we can do/be.


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Over the last 25 years, wealthy individuals have increasingly incorporated family limited partnerships (FLPs) into estate plans. Some of the benefits that FLPs offer include centralization of asset management, dispute resolution among family members, ease of gifting without fractionalizing assets and protection against future creditors' claims, with the added possibility of valuation adjustments for transfer tax purposes—all attractive features.
As time has passed, the senior generation has transferred FLP interests to the next generation through inter vivos and testamentary transfers. As a result of these transfers, an increasing number of their descendants now own valuable interests in FLPs that are encumbered by transfer restrictions. Although the senior generation may not have anticipated it, the ownership interests in FLPs often create significant issues in the estate plans of the next generation, particularly for married individuals who own the FLP interests directly. Once next-generation clients learn about the transferability restrictions, they're often surprised that the FLP agreements' terms result in an unexpected estate tax liability on the first spouse's death. In situations in which this discovery is made too late, even more draconian results can follow.
It's essential to understand whether a client has an interest in an FLP and, if so, the FLP agreement's terms. Accordingly, planning for next-generation clients who own FLP interests must encompass an analysis of the transferability restrictions in the FLP agreement, so those restrictions can be factored into an appropriate estate plan. Failing to take these steps could result in undesirable surprises for both the client and the estate planner.
The stakes are high when considering the transferability restrictions in FLP agreements. In some instances, a purported transfer to an unauthorized transferee can even result in the loss of the FLP interest through a buy-sell provision, thus depriving the client's family from enjoying the appreciation on a valuable asset.
Permitted Transferees
"I had no idea that's what the agreement said!"
What you don't know can hurt you. Almost every FLP agreement includes provisions that restrict a partner's ability to freely transfer an interest in the FLP. For example, a partner may only be permitted to transfer his FLP interest to a defined class of persons (often referred to as "permitted transferees"). Transferability restrictions can protect the FLP interest from a partner's personal creditors and add control over who can become a partner of the FLP, both of which add important safeguards against unintended future owners of the FLP. As such, these provisions benefit all of the FLP's partners and are, therefore, considered beneficial.
Although transferability restrictions are generally beneficial, in most instances, the senior generation that created the FLPs didn't involve their descendants in the structuring of the FLPs. As a result, the next generation wasn't part of the decision-making process concerning the universe of permitted transferees. In fact, it's not uncommon for the next generation to be entirely unaware of the transferability restrictions, which can result in unintended negative consequences.
Consider the following definition of a "permitted transferee" commonly found in FLP agreements:
Permitted Transferee means (i) any Partner;
(ii) a descendant of a Partner, including descendants by adoption, provided that such adoption was of a minor and the adoption occurred before the minor attained eighteen (18) years of age;
(iii) a Partner's parent or sibling; (iv) a descendant of a Partner's sibling; (v) a trust for the benefit of anyone described in (i) through
(iv) above; or (vi) any organization described in sec-
tion 170(b)(1)(A), section 170(c), section 2055(a) or section 2522(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
This definition works perfectly in the estate plans of the senior generation because both spouses are undoubtedly founding partners. Problems can result, however, for an unsuspecting member of the next generation.
Take the case of an individual from the next generation who's the outright owner of an FLP interest and is married with children. The obvious choice for the testamentary disposition of the FLP interest would be to allow it to pass to a bypass trust, a marital deduction trust or a combination thereof, for the benefit of his immediate family. Unfortunately, neither a bypass nor marital deduction trust complies with the scope of the permitted transferee provisions above. The FLP interest, instead, must specifically be given directly to descendants of the founding partners, either outright or in trust.
Consider the complications that could arise if the FLP interest is worth significantly more that the partner's available estate tax applicable credit amount. In such a case, the partner may not be able to have a zero-tax estate plan if he predeceases his spouse. Rather, the partner will be forced to address the potential estate tax exposure resulting from the partnership interest.
In some cases, if there's no liquidity available in the partner's own estate or no other preventative planning has been implemented, the partner might even feel forced to sell the FLP interest to other partners or the partnership (likely at a discount). Alternatively, the partner might consider giving a portion of the FLP interest to charity at his death (if allowed in the "Permitted Transferee" provision) to manage the estate tax exposure. The remaining partners could always amend the FLP agreement to expand the definition of permitted transferee or could vote to admit a particular impermissible transferee as a partner on an ad hoc basis, but differing views among family members makes reliance on such actions unpredictable.
These issues will only grow more significant over time, as the senior generation transfers more and more equity to their descendants and asset values increase inside FLPs (sometimes explosively, in the case of oil and gas interests). They would be significantly compounded if future legislation denies valuation adjustments to FLP interests.
Bloodline Restrictions
"Sorry honey—no spouses allowed."
The senior generation often desires to keep the FLP ownership in their bloodline. As a result, FLP agreements often preclude a partner's spouse or trust for their benefit from becoming a successor partner, as in the case of the sample permitted transferee language above. Often, however, failing to provide for a spouse is entirely inconsistent with a partner's testamentary wishes. Accordingly, it's crucial that clients with interests in FLPs consider any transferability restrictions to ensure that their estate planning complies with the FLP agreement.
For example, consider the case of a husband and wife who were high school sweethearts, have been married for decades and have several children. Years ago, the husband received an interest in an FLP that his father created. The couple desires to have wills prepared in which all of the predeceased spouse's property will be given to the surviving spouse. On the surviving spouse's death, the remaining property will pass to the couple's children. Unfortunately for this couple, if the wife isn't a permitted transferee under the applicable FLP agreement, their testamentary desires can't be effectuated.
From a non-tax perspective, there are legitimate reasons for not including spouses in the definition of permitted transferees. Allowing spouses to become partners can cause problems in the event of a subsequent divorce (in the case of lifetime transfers to a partner's spouse) or on a surviving spouse's remarriage (in the case of interests received upon a partner's death), as the surviving spouse could then transfer her FLP interest to the new spouse—undoubtedly an unacceptable result for other partners. Further, a partner's inability to transfer an FLP interest to his spouse can cause significant family disharmony. (Not to mention the silent car ride home after the couple's estate planner explains that the spouse isn't a permitted transferee!) It's not uncommon for the non-partner spouse to feel alienated from the partner's family because of this restriction, which is particularly troublesome after the partner's death. From a practical perspective, the couple may find it undesirable for their descendants to receive extremely valuable FLP interests on the partner's death that are more valuable than the partner's remaining personal estate available to the surviving spouse.
In addition to the non-tax consequences, a permitted transferee definition that excludes spouses can result in serious estate tax problems for the predeceased partner's estate. For example, if the value of the partner's FLP interest exceeds his applicable credit amount at the time of death, an estate tax liability would be due as a result of the transfer of the FLP interests to individuals other than the partner's spouse because the unlimited marital deduction would be unavailable. Perhaps the partner's estate has other liquidity that can be used to pay the estate tax liability resulting from such a disposition, but this loss of liquidity may then affect the surviving spouse's financial security.
If anticipated early enough, a simple answer to the estate tax liquidity problem might be purchasing a life insurance policy on the partner's life, likely through an irrevocable life insurance trust. The proceeds of the life insurance policy could be used to satisfy the estate tax liability resulting from the partner's death. Of course, not only does this require that the partner be insurable, but also that he be aware of the issues and timely address the need for liquidity.
Naturally, both the non-tax and tax issues could be avoided if spouses are included in the definition of permitted transferee under the FLP agreement. First, this would help to reduce the marital disharmony and resentment that restrictions often cause. Second, it would defer the partner's descendants from receiving valuable assets until after the surviving spouse's death, which clients often desire. Finally, not only would the availability of the unlimited marital deduction provide for estate tax deferral, but also it could facilitate the use of the surviving spouse's applicable credit amount to offset the overall estate tax burden caused by the FLP interest, which may be particularly beneficial if the surviving spouse wouldn't have otherwise fully consumed her own applicable credit amount.
It's important to acknowledge that there are downsides to including spouses in the definition of permitted transferees that shouldn't be overlooked. Nevertheless, there are ways to mitigate these downsides (although not eliminate them entirely). For example, an FLP agreement could allow a spouse to only indirectly enjoy a beneficial interest in the FLP through interest in a trust. In such event, the FLP agreement could even require that for such trust to qualify as a permitted transferee, the trustee must be a descendant of the founding partners and the remainder interest must vest in the founding partners' descendants. Alternatively, the FLP agreement could permit transfers of FLP interest to intervening entities that the senior generation's descendants control, thus allowing a spouse to indirectly benefit by virtue of owning a non-controlling interest in the intervening entity.
Permitting the surviving spouse to own an indirect interest in an FLP could offer a compromise that maintains restrictions on the transferability of interests to a certain degree, yet allows for estate tax deferral and the potential utilization of the non-partner spouse's applicable credit amount, not to mention maintaining family harmony. The spouse may still be in a position to assert herself, but she wouldn't be permitted to sit directly at the FLP table. Further, assuming that the spouse's children are the descendants of the predeceased partner, consideration of their current or eventual interests might help provide constraints on the overall arrangement. Even if the FLP's creators aren't comfortable with allowing a spouse to have outright ownership of the FLP interests, creative planning that also allows for the marital deduction can go a long way toward avoiding marital disharmony and the potential reduction in estate tax liability.
As a result, clients from the next generation who are considering forming their own FLPs may wish to consider the recurring issues that have arisen in the past when spouses aren't included in the definition of permitted transferees. With creative planning and consideration of the issues, it's possible to structure the FLP agreement so that the client can enjoy the best of both worlds.
Buy-Sell Provisions
"You mean I don't get to keep it?"
When an FLP partner is unaware of the transferability restrictions in the FLP agreement or is aware of the restrictions, but doesn't fully understand them, and purports to transfer his interest to a person who's not a permitted transferee, many FLP agreements include a provision that grants the other partners or the FLP itself the unilateral right to buy the transferred interest from the impermissible transferee.
If the buy-sell provision is triggered by a transfer in violation of the FLP agreement, it's likely that the purchase price as determined under the agreement will include a lack of control and/or a lack of marketability discount. This will result in the impermissible transferee (often a surviving spouse) receiving less value than she would have otherwise received if permitted to be a partner of the FLP. To add insult to injury, the FLP often has the right to repurchase the interest on an extended payout basis, meaning that not only will the estate/surviving spouse receive less than full value, but also, she's not even entitled to receive the purchase price in a lump sum!
In addition, if a transfer in violation of the FLP agreement results in the exercise of the buy-sell provision, the deceased partner's descendants aren't able to benefit from the appreciation of the FLP interest that they would have otherwise eventually enjoyed when they received the interest (usually on the surviving spouse's death).
Many times, clients are shocked to learn of the specter of buy-sell provisions. Knowledge of the transferability restrictions in the FLP agreement is essential to avoid the potential triggering of an automatic buy-sell provision.
Sharing Information
"Son, you're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know!"
Founders of FLPs were sold on the structure because of their ability to continue to manage the assets contributed to the FLP and, therefore, consider the FLP to be their deal. As a consequence, some, but certainly not all, founders aren't very open to discussing the entity with their descendants or to providing copies of the agreement. If the senior generation hasn't shared copies of the FLP agreement with the partners from the next generation, it's nearly impossible to achieve the next generation's estate-planning goals. As such, it's often necessary to reassure clients who are uncomfortable asking the senior generation for a copy of the FLP agreement that they're entitled to as much and that the failure to review and understand the agreement could have a significant impact on their own estate plans.


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- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Want to know when to expect the next meteor shower? There's a calendar at earthsky.org. If the date is right, your students may be lucky enough to see one. If not, there are many videos of meteor showers that you can watch on nasa.gov. Invite your students to make the meteor shower the center of a creative writing piece. It could be a poem about the night sky, or a short story about a meteor hitting the school. Whatever medium your students choose, the meteor shower is sure to inspire them!
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Charter schools win funding victory in Georgia
Earlier this week, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upheld a simple principle of law: school districts cannot unilaterally reduce charter school funding in an attempt to shore up their own weakened financial position. The dispute arose when the Atlanta Public Schools decided to change years of practice by reducing funding for every charter school in Atlanta. The district did so by calculating a proportionate share of the district's pension liability and subtracting that from the charter school payments.
The problem with this approach? The law doesn't allow it. Instead, the law sets out a very specific process to follow for allocating money to charter schools.
The trial court judge saw through the district's arguments and ruled in favor of the charter schools on all counts. As expected, the Atlanta school district appealed the decision. On Monday of this week, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upheld the trial court. In the judicial version of a smack down, the court agreed with the charter schools that districts cannot simply ignore the law and fund schools at their own discretion. To put it in legal terms, a district cannot unilaterally change a bilateral contract.
Why is this case significant? First, it means that the charter schools will be reimbursed for the more than $3 million the district has illegally withheld, which means that the students will not suffer because of the district's actions. In a deft move by the plaintiffs' lawyers, the court entered an order requiring the district to deposit the disputed funds in the registry of court, which will make disbursing the funds to schools straightforward.
Second, districts routinely use similar methods to withhold funding from charter schools that is due under law—in many cases for "services" charters never requested and the law never contemplated. I worked at the lead authorizer in the state of Georgia for many years and can think of countless examples of this. The court ruling sets precedent in case any future district attempts some funding shift, so the real impact is far greater than the $3 million.
Finally, this also illustrates perfectly why litigation is a key lever in our school reform battles and why having a national charter school legal defense strategy is critically important. As long as districts retain authorizing power, they will have leverage over the schools they authorize. In such a situation, courts provide a key check and balance.
With precedent now firmly established, Atlanta charters can get back to the work of educating students. That is something we should all be thankful for.
Andrew Broy is the president of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools.
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It's been a little more than two months since Sparta residents voted in favor of allowing beer to be sold within city limits. Area businesses have begun applying for licenses, and those beer sales are starting to take off.
Six businesses have been approved for a beer license, and four more will be approved later this month.
Jaymin Patel, owner of the Amish Cheese House, in Sparta, has already noticed quite a difference in sales since having beer on his shelves, but one store's gain means another store's loss.
When you pull off Interstate 90 into Sparta you'll see the Amish Cheese House. Sandwiched between two hotels, the store receives a lot of travelers.
"End of the night they are looking for beer, which we didn't have here for a long time. Now we got it and they are really excited about it," Patel said. "Just last week alone we sold $2,500 worth of beer in here."
Go just outside the Sparta city limits and you find Fast Eddy's, who has sold beer at that location since 1963.
Since other stores in Sparta have been selling beer, business there has slowed down a little.
"I keep very good records and I have been keeping track of all my packages, and my six packs and my 12 packs have taken a hit," owner of Fast Eddy's, Ed Habhegger, said.
With the loss in customers Habhegger thinks his family-owned business will need to try something new to get them back.
"We will probably have to venture out into other things to put here to get people to come. You know, because you go to the other stores and they have everything, so we're going to have to move into more things to maintain our amount of business we need to operate this," Habhegger said.
Back on the other side of town, at the Amish Cheese House, Patel thinks the added locations to buy beer will benefit the customer.
"It's going to help people save money on gas, and with the advantage of 10 businesses selling beer it's going to be a lot of competition, people are going to get cheaper stuff, so it's good for everybody," he said.
The Amish Cheese House is in the process of building a beer cooler that it hopes to be operational Friday.
The license only allows businesses in Sparta to sell beer. Fast Eddy's said its wine and liquor sales have stayed consistent.


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The Filibuster
"As much as you dislike the National League, its purer rules have provided an abundance of drama this week as pitchers have been coming through at the plate: Micah Owings' game-tying homerun versus the Astros, Carlos Zambrano's opposite field shot at Wrigley and the Cincinnati Reds couldn't get former pitcher Rick Ankiel out to save their lives. It's late in the game, your bench is empty, but you need a clutch at-bat from one of your pitchers. Who do you send to the dish and why?"
I actually think that this is a great question and it's something I was thinking about earlier this week while I was looking at the recap of Owings' heroics. As much as I talk about the American League being superior to the NL, I do like the analytical aspect of having the pitcher bat. It makes the role of the manager much more important and allows for more creativity.
However, I think this question also leads to some other interesting facets of the game because it's interesting to see how pitchers react when they switch leagues. For instance, Johan Santana is not someone you think of as a hitter but that's because he's spent his entire career until now in the AL. But, when you look at his numbers in the few games he played interleague, he didn't acquit himself all that terribly. So, the Mets, in addition to getting one of the best pitchers in the game, also picked up a guy who's not a total liability in the nine-hole. That's a huge advantage to any team.
Now, I'm not saying that I'd send Santana up to bat at the end of the game when I need some clutch hitting but it's nice to get a little more than you bargained for. And let's be honest here, at this point in the season, I'd say it's a pretty easy decision that
the guy you'd love to have available is Micah Owings. I mean, the guy
is just a hell of a good hitter no matter how you look at it. Zambrano
has his upsides and Rick Ankiel is a good story but Ankiel is a
position player now so he doesn't really count. And I'd say that
Zambrano and Owings are the only two pitchers I'd ever feel comfortable
sending to the plate when I really need to get something going.
Having said all that, I have to take exception to your initial premise that the NL is more pure. Like all sports, baseball has evolved over time and the DH is merely one more step in that evolution. You could easily argue that basketball is much less pure because they introduced the three point line and the shot clock. I mean, if it was still the same way Naismith wanted it, games would end 12-6 and you'd be bored out of your head. When it comes down to it, sports exist to entertain the masses and it is the masses that decide what they want. This leads to inevitable conflict between the strict constructionists (people like you) and the reformers (people who wear pink hats). So, perhaps "pure" is the correct term after all but pure does not always equate to "better." If you aren't convinced, maybe you should take a look at what Scalia, Cheney and their merry band of strict constructionists have done to the Consitution.
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Nice Entry!!! I hope all is well.
The Baseball Collector
In 2007 seven of the top ten teams in terms of average attendance were from the National League. Clearly the masses prefer the NL to the bloated AL.
Hey! I got a quote on the Andrew Sullivan blog-under "another convert". I am now officially a political big hitter and will soon be appearing on MSNBC to give my in depth analysis of the race for the White House.


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This Friday, October 18, University of Iowa President Sally Mason will commemorate the naming of the UI Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research on the campus of the UI. The Institute is named in honor of Mr. Wynn's $25 million gift commitment, which has significantly accelerated the organization's mission to prevent and cure blinding eye diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.
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Upping the Ante on Green Living
Christine Lenches-Hinkel of Waste Less Living offers her recycling expertise to businesses and nonprofits that want to minimize their carbon footprint.
By Carole Jacobs 11/08/2012
Businesses generate mountains of trash every day.
Two-thirds of that trash is organic and,
in the right hands, could be converted to compost. Yet it usually winds up in landfills, where it breaks down into dangerous methane gases and contributes to the pollution of local water sources, says Christine Lenches-Hinkel, an environmental planner, waste management specialist and owner of Waste Less Living in Pasadena.
Lenches-Hinkel is on a mission to reverse that trend by teaching local schools and businesses the ABCs of safe and efficient recycling. Since its inception in 2007, Waste Less Living estimates it has prevented more than 43,000 pounds of organic waste from reaching landfills, diverting it instead to commercial composting facilities where specialized equipment and high temperatures transform it into much-needed compost. "Even eco-friendly businesses who think they're doing everything right dispose of things in the trash or recycling bins under the misconception that it will break down in the landfill," says Lenches-Hinkel. "There's a huge difference between recycling and composting. People don't realize that when you put eco-friendly organic trash in a landfill, it doesn't biodegrade. It becomes toxic."
Fortunately, Lenches-Hinkel has a simple, sure-fire approach to recycling that has turned some aspiring eco-friendly businesses and community organizations into virtual green giants. Consider Waste Less Living client Robert Shahnazarian, Jr., general manager and co-owner of Noor, an upscale event space located in Pasadena's Paseo Colorado. For the past two years, Noor has been recycling leftover food from weddings, banquets and other events to Union Station Homeless Services in Pasadena. "It doesn't just feel like a humane thing to do, it feels like my duty," says Shahnazarian.
Noor was already using Waste Less Living for recycling compostable trash at all its events when Lenches-Hinkel approached the company about a year ago about a complete eco-overhaul — from its trash to its lighting fixtures. Noor jumped at the chance to help Pasadena become more eco-friendly, says Shahnazarian.
Lenches-Hinkel analyzed the company's waste management system, trained the kitchen staff to recycle and installed color-coded bins around the facilities. Then she inspected the company's two indoor ballrooms and large outdoor facility for some fast and easy energy fixes. "At Christine's suggestion, we switched to energy-efficient light bulbs and replaced a carpet in the main ballroom [which had to be cleaned regularly] with a wood floor that our clients absolutely love," says Shahnazarian. "We're still in the planning stages as there are so many levels to recycling and saving energy, but we expect to be fully with the program by Jan. 1."
So why aren't more local businesses following suit?
"Going green is initially quite expensive," says Shahnazarian. "Fortunately, even in this economy, people still need to get married and corporations still need to have conventions, so Noor is doing really well."
While Lenches-Hinkel is finding some companies reluctant to be partners, several nonprofits and schools have jumped on the eco-train. One success story is Flintridge Center, a nonprofit Pasadena organization well known for its community programs in Northwest Pasadena and Altadena, such as the Mustangs on the Move after-school program, apprenticeship preparation classes and educational services for nonprofit organizations. While this big-hearted group has helped countless youth, its administrators had a hunch it was doing wrong by its trash. "Our president, Jane Moseley, has always been interested in the environment and wanted to make sure we were doing everything we could," says the center's Karen Gerst.
In January, 2011, Lenches-Hinkel came in to provide the organization with a complete waste management overhaul, starting with an analysis of the environmental impact of Flintridge's current waste-generating practices. How much "good trash" did the company produce which could, in turn, be recycled into compost?
After investigating the refuse, Lenches-Hinkel turned to the employees, offering them a crash course in recycling and composting. "We thought we knew the difference between them, but Christine really opened our eyes," says Gerst.
From Lenches-Hinkel's primer on trash: "Good trash" includes food waste, biodegradable tableware, paper towels, juice and milk cartons, paper, cardboard and yard waste, as well as recyclables like plastic and metal containers and utensils, aluminum soda cans and Styrofoam. "Bad trash" — the kind that should be sent to a landfill — includes everything else, from bottle caps, plastic baggies, used candy wrappers, plastic plates and utensils to headless dolls and toy airplanes without wings.
Gerst said Lenches-Hinkel also taught them everything they ever wanted to know about compost. More than mere dirt, compost is a valuable but rapidly diminishing
resource that reduces the need for pesticides and irrigation and increases crop yields while improving the soil, Lenches-Hinkel said. The U.S. is losing soil 10 times faster than it can be naturally replenished and paying a steep price for it — about $37.6 billion a year in lost soil productivity, she said.
Thoroughly versed in recycling and compost, Flintridge Center employees were ready to take a stab at managing their trash. To ensure good and bad trash didn't get mixed up, Lenches-Hinkel installed color-coded bins (one color for each type of trash) at key locations throughout the center, including the lunch and meeting rooms. To spread the word about recycling, instructions and bins were also placed in Flintridge's Retreat Center, a meeting/convention room the nonprofit rents out to local businesses. (The results were mixed, acknowledges Yvonne Taylor, director of administration. "Some businesses really got with the program, but we could tell when businesses didn't try or didn't care," she said. "People have to care about the environment for the system to work.")
Finally, Lenches-Hinkel worked with trucking firms to coordinate regular trash pickup and ensure that compostable items went to a commercial composting facility and bad trash went to landfills.
A year into the program, the results are encouraging, says Gerst. "It's been a learning curve and it was confusing at first what to put where, but I think we finally have the hang of it, although I think there's room for improvement," she says. The organization's goal is an 80 percent waste-diversion rate, leaving only 20 percent for landfills.
In addition to overhauling waste management systems, Lenches-Hinkel offers an eco-event-planning service for businesses interested in staging a green party, convention or banquet. So far she has helped organize zero-waste parties for big clients like Warner Brothers, the Audubon Society, the Boy and Girl Scouts of America and the Jet Propulsion Lab, as well as for local caterers whose customers want to hold a sustainable dinner party but don't want to set the table — or take out the trash.
Talk about the hostess with the mostest: Lenches-Hinkel comes in before the party to set the table with her own product line of biodegradable and 100 percent compostable plates, cups, utensils, napkins and trash bags. When the party's over, she handles the cleanup and arranges to have all the waste, including tableware and scraps, trucked to a commercial composting facility.
"Whenever we have catering clients who want to go green, I call Christine," says Patty Fallahee, co-owner of The Spot Gourmet catering company in Pasadena. "When the party is over, she comes in and takes over. We don't have to deal with the trash and we also know that what we're doing is good for the environment."
Waste Less client Rickey Smith, founder of Urban Green, also brings in Lenches-Hinkel to reduce the company's footprint after catering events and parties. Urban Green, headquartered in Pasadena, restores green space in the Los Angeles area and runs a small organic farm in Alta Loma that supplies its two culinary outlets, The Sweet Spot and Urban Green Cuisine. While more people are interested in sustainability, Smith says, they may need a company like Waste Less to give them the tools to accomplish it. "So many people want to do the right thing, but they use biodegradable utensils that end up in the landfill anyway because they don't understand how to recycle," he says. "With Christine, we never have to worry about anything going into the wrong bin."
Beyond good stewardship of the planet, Shahnazarian says it's too soon to tell if going green will save Noor money or generate more business. "It will take about a year to see if we realize any savings on things like electric bills," he says. "From a marketing perspective, I don't think it will help business much, unless it's important to a client to have a green wedding or event."
That said, "The real value for Noor [when it comes to going greener] isn't economical but philosophical," says Shahnazarian. "Recycling is the right thing to do. Pasadena will be cleaner and we'll be able to better our city and community. When it came to going green, that was our first decision-maker."
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