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NEW ULM -Local businesses saw a flurry of cigarette carton purchases Sunday and throughout last week ahead of Monday's implementation of the new state tobacco tax hike.
Starting July 1, Minnesota's tobacco tax was increased by $1.60 per pack to bring the total state tax to $2.83 per pack. The tax increase makes a pack of Marlboro at the state minimum price cost around $7.83 per pack.
Area smokers went on a spending spree last week to buy cartons before the tax increase. Sales got particularly intense on Sunday night when smokers took advantage of their last chance to stock up.
Convenience stores and gas stations had the highest traffic of sales as well as the most dramatic anecdotes about their sales. Every one of these stores reported selling nearly twice their typical monthly sales in just the last week.
One store reported blowing through sales of 10 cartons of cigarettes in less than 20 minutes. A woman claimed to have stocked up by buying approximately $500 in cartons of cigarettes on Sunday.
Another store reported that it typically restocks their cigarettes every other day, but it had to restock the front desk supply twice on Sunday.
These stores reported selling almost no packs on Monday. In one instance, a store reported only selling one pack the entire day.
Larger business like Walmart and Hy-Vee only reported modest boosts in sales during last week. They did not experience the Sunday night buying spree that the gas stations did.
Nearly all of the business owners and managers said they believe Monday's drop was due to smokers stocking up on Sunday. However, they said they will be watching closely to see if this signals lower overall cigarette sales in the future.
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In informal questioning, a majority of people asked about the new tax said they were apathetic or had no opinion about it because they were not smokers.
The biggest and most negative response to the tax came from high volume smokers and store owners. A heavy smoker vehemently opposed the new tax and others described it as "discriminatory." The heavy smokers said they do not anticipate the tax impacting their smoking habits and that they expected it to negatively impact their monthly budgets.
A?New Ulm smoker who requested not to be directly named, said he believes smokers were unfairly picked to carry the tax burden because they are easy targets.
"They could have taxed anything else if they wanted," said Jim, "They knew they could do this and not get in trouble."
New Ulm Hy-Vee store director Brian Amsberry gave his perspective about the tax. The tax hike forced retailers to increase prices even though the stores would not see any additional profit. He said the tax increase is unlikely to impact the dedicated smokers that bought cartons before Monday, but casual smokers would likely be closer to determining it was too expensive to keep smoking.
A handful of people interviewed said the additional tax is an incentive to quit smoking or to help their existing efforts to stop smoking. Some said they might use the less taxed e-cigarettes to help them quit.
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Thanks Peter you were right. I went from low hydration to high, then settled on 60%. I'm very happy with my results. With the equipment I am working with I think have gone as far as I can. I can't complain, I think I can make a better pie than most of the pizza joints in town, and I get the enjoyment of tasting my own creation. I may try your Papa John's clone for fun. I have a couple of ideas on cracker crusts, that I will share later on in the forum. Thanks again for taking the to time to help. I could have not done it without you. Hey Bob! Hope you are having a great day. It was a 14" pie and the dough ball weighed 436.41 grams. I used 6 oz of Kraft low moisture part skim mozzarella. ATK said it was their first choice for low moisture part skimmed mozz. Not sure if I agree, but it tasted OK. Instead of running it through a grater, I used a food processor to crumble the cheese. I like how this melted better than using a cheese grater. I think the sauce really made the pie taste wonderful. I think you are right about the importance of sauce. I'll stick with Classico crushed maters.
Thanks Bob! Glad you had a great weekend. I was going to do a mixture of provolone and mozz. The store only had sliced provo. I also smoked some St Louis style ribs, a whole chicken and some burgers. Now we have more food than we can eat, and we even fed some relatives.I used to use 8 oz of cheese at first, but I have gotten down to 5 or 6 ounces for my 14 inch pies, and it still seems very cheesy and I do like the cheese. I had see a thread where you thought the sauce was the magic ingredient in the toppings. That's why I started using more in my last few pies. You were right, I always thought something was lacking. I was worried about using too much sauce and having the toppings slide off the pie. Haven't had that problem though. I was shocked at how good Classico was. I tasted it right from the can and was pleasantly surprised. It may not be a fave with a lot of the people on the forum, but it's the best I can find so far in Tulsa. A question? I was thinking about doing a 4 or 5 day rest in the fridge, to see if I can get more flavor and texture. The dough calculator for my recipe calls for almost a teaspoon of IDY for a 1 day rest. I am doing 3 day rests and using 1/2 teaspoon for that. Should I go down to a 1/4 teaspoon or less? Is there any way to calculate that, or is it a trial and error thing? I use a teaspoon of sugar for my 3 day, would I need to use more? Or is it worth it to go for a longer rest time in the fridge?
Thanks Norma. Your pies look so wonderful. You are an amazing pie guru. I would love to come your way to try a slice or two or maybe three. I will look forward to seeing some more of your amazing artistry.Yeah Bob, the selection of the Classico line at the Walmart was limited. They only had whole canned tomatoes, and crushed. They were both were 28 oz cans. They did have 3 of the Classico pasta sauces, which are pretty good. I could always run them in the blender and they would work. The 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes cost $1.00. I'll be going back to Wally World and stock up. Walmart has the Neighborhood Market stores here, maybe they have a wider selection. They are more upscale. I have noticed at my local grocery that they have made the shelf space a lot smaller for Classico. They have some new Italian brand sounding sauces I have never heard of taking up more space, and the price is a lot higher. I am always suspect when unheard of fancy new labels appear. I'll do some more investigating, I bet some are just rebranded sauces trying to create more revenue. I have read on the forum that the Walmart brand is good. Is it the Great Value brand?
Thanks for the info Bob. Heinz huh, and I don't like their brand. I'll try the Great Value, at least they still push that. I forgot to mention that my last two pies that I made, I kneaded them less than before. I mixed the dough with the paddle on 1 for about a minute. I let it rest for 5 minutes, then added the oil and mixed for another minute on 1 till the oil was incorporated. I then switched to the dough hook and kneaded for 4 minutes on 2 till the dough was just trying to get smooth. It was not silky but close. I had read that I should work the dough less when doing a long rest in the fridge. I was also very gentle in opening the ball. I created the edge, then used the middle of my fingers in a rocking motion to push out the dough. When I stretched it out to half size, I flipped it over. I held the dough with one hand and lightly stretched with the other till about 75 percent of desired size. I then picked up the skin and very gently stretched the skin with the back of my hands till I had the size I wanted. I'm not sure that any of this matters, but I think handling the dough gently does help with making the crust structure more light. Of course I could be wrong.
A question? I was thinking about doing a 4 or 5 day rest in the fridge, to see if I can get more flavor and texture. The dough calculator for my recipe calls for almost a teaspoon of IDY for a 1 day rest. I am doing 3 day rests and using 1/2 teaspoon for that. Should I go down to a 1/4 teaspoon or less? Is there any way to calculate that, or is it a trial and error thing? I use a teaspoon of sugar for my 3 day, would I need to use more? Or is it worth it to go for a longer rest time in the fridge?
Yes, this is quite a forum. I always get a kick out of seeimg that one stat "most online ever"...750 (July 08, 2009, 07:14:05 PM) .Is that for real man Must have been a mad house....bet Peter(bless his heart) misses that day!!

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April 22, 2008
Glenda Price
My dad always wanted me, his "spotter," along on deer hunts because in the woods I'm the one who sees the deer first. Also, if we park our vehicle and walk awhile I'm the one who knows which ridgeline we hunted and even what tree we parked beside.
But I cannot find my car, even if it's a big Suburban, in a city parking lot. My excuse is there aren't any trees, unusual rocks or anything else interesting in that huge ocean of antennas and hoods.
Have you ever noticed when you do something really stupid those closest to you — who are most likely to tease you forever — always find out about it or, worse, watch it happen?
One time my kids and I lost our car at the state fair, of all places. We walked, looked, cried, and finally went to the State Police office and declared our Suburban stolen. As it happened, the policeman on duty was a friend of my husband's. He dutifully called my husband (no cell phones in those days) and explained the situation.
After about an hour my husband showed up — driving the lost vehicle. He'd found it, exactly where I'd parked it. He and his policeman friend had a great laugh at my mortified expense.
Airport parking lots are the scenes of my worst embarrassments. Once, I had a meeting in the east, my husband had one in the west. I dropped him off at the airport, and the next day I left — as usual almost late even though it was just sunup when I wheeled into the long-term parking lot and caught the little shuttle to the terminal. I got checked in and everything was cool.
A couple of days later when I returned, I realized I hadn't paid attention to where I'd parked. It was nighttime, and the lot was full of all kinds of vehicles. After the other passengers got off the shuttle, I admitted to the driver that I had no idea where my car might be. I described it to him, and we drove up and down each row of parked vehicles (a lot of rows) until I finally saw it. I was grateful he was gracious, and didn't even yell at me.
I sure wasn't going to tell anyone about it.
Two days after that, I needed to meet my husband in San Diego. That time I actually wrote down my parking space number. I was so proud. The next night we returned together. It was really dark, again, but I found my little number.
We gathered our luggage and got on the shuttle. I didn't particularly notice the driver until he said, "Do you have any idea where your car is this time, ma'am?"
That driver and my husband had a wonderful laugh all the way to the parking lot. I, however, sat quietly — wishing I were in the woods, hunting.
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"In May 2008, the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved Portland General Electric's (PGE) plan to deploy over 850,000 smart meters, with deployment being completed by 2010. PGE has indicated that it expects to use the smart meters, which will be fully deployed by 2010, to facilitate future demand response and direct-load-control programs. It also anticipates creating a web portal through which customers using the smart meters can access information about their daily energy consumption." [1]
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Another Ironman journey
I'll have a look at changing the name to something more apt. Maybe something to do with sausages considering my wife said i looked like one the first time i modelled my new lycra cycling gear. Going out wearing that in public for the first time has been the most traumatic thing so far.
Piss taking & banter is right up my street so I should fit in then
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. Maybe something to do with sausages
ooo that may be a bad call... but your choice... so lets start the ideas ball rolling
Coctail ? , no offence
Battered Sausage ?,
if you happen to be from liverpool ?? Liver-wurst ?
or perhaps on the close fitting lycra theme .....
Fits like a glove (which neatly shortens to flag )
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Will the outlaw be your first full IM ?
If that is to Seren, you better read the Enduroman thread!!!!
You'll know what I mean then.
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Incentive program for FD housing advances
People who build new homes in Fort Dodge could avoid paying property taxes on them for up to seven years under an incentive program being crafted by city leaders.
Those who perform significant rehabilitation work on homes could also get tax breaks under a plan being developed to encourage the creation of new housing to meet the expected demand of those who will be moving to the city in the near future for jobs, especially in the industrial park known as Iowa's Crossroads of Global Innovation.
The City Council on Monday hammered out some details on the proposal, but did not take final action on it.
Council members agreed to establish a seven-year, 100 percent property tax exemption for new homes constructed in neighborhoods deemed to be blighted.
Councilmen Dean Hill, Robert "Barney" Patterson, Mark Taylor and Don Wilson, who participated in the meeting by telephone, initially supported the seven-year proposal. Councilmen Kim Alstott, Dave Flattery and Andy Fritz supported a 10-year, 100 percent tax abatement.
Other components of the incentive plan include:
- A five-year 100 percent tax abatement on the first $75,000 worth of value of a new home built anywhere in the city.
- A three-year 100 percent property tax abatement on new multifamily housing units built anywhere in the city.
- A five-year 100 percent property tax abatement or a 15-year abatement that gradually increases the amount of property tax owed on any new housing built on formerly abandoned property.
The abatements would pass from the builder to the buyer, meaning that whoever purchases and moves into a home would also enjoy the property tax break.
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FDA says tomatoes OK to eat again
July 17, 2008
The U.S. government lifted its salmonella warning on tomatoes Thursday but an investigation into a separate outbreak in Portales is continuing.
Hot peppers still get a caution: The people most at risk of salmonella — including the elderly and people with weak immune systems — should avoid fresh jalapenos and serranos, and any dishes that may contain them such as fresh salsa, federal health officials advised.
Investigators still don't know what caused the salmonella outbreak, which now has sickened 1,220 people in 42 states — the earliest falling ill on April 10 and the latest so far on July 4.
But Thursday's move, coming as the tomato industry estimates its losses at more than $100 million, doesn't mean that tomatoes harvested in the spring are cleared. It just means that the tomatoes in fields and stores today are safe to eat, said Dr. David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's food safety chief.
Early on, there was good evidence linking certain raw tomatoes to the sick, Acheson stressed. Yet inspectors haven't found the outbreak strain of salmonella Saintpaul on any farms, in suspect areas of south Florida and parts of Mexico, where they've managed to trace tomatoes thought to have been eaten by patients.
As the outbreak stretched into last month, more evidence emerged against fresh jalapenos — the FDA's hottest lead for now. The agency sent inspectors to a Mexican packing house that supplied peppers linked to a cluster of those illnesses.
Also still on the suspect list is fresh cilantro.
While the national outbreak may be slowing, state officials say they're still tracking the cause of an outbreak in Portales that they say is a different strain.
Six people became ill over the weekend in Portales, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. Those six people all ate at the same Portales restaurant. Officials don't know if the restaurant was the source.
Officials conducted interviews with customers of La Hacienda restaurant and took samples from it for testing. They said Wednesday that results of their investigation are still not complete.
There are signs that the outbreak is slowing, said Dr. Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC charted the dates when the ill say they fell sick. Between April and mid-May, illnesses steadily rose. Between May 20 and June 10, the outbreak hit a plateau, with about 33 people a day becoming ill. From June 11 to June 20, that dropped to 19 people a day becoming ill.
Those are the latest available statistics, because it can take two weeks or longer for the CDC to receive confirmation that someone who is sick actually has the implicated salmonella strain.
For every salmonella case the CDC confirms, it estimates there are 30 to 40 more that go undocumented, perhaps because people don't see a doctor or undergo the right testing.
How could two different types of produce be contaminated with what is a rare type of salmonella?
One possibility is that a large farm grew tomatoes in one section and peppers in another, and both went through a common washing station with contaminated water, Acheson said.
"Bear in mind this is not following the trail of a regular old produce outbreak," he said. "There's something else going on here that is a little unusual. You need to think outside the box."
The tomato industry — which held an unprecedented meeting with FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach and other officials on Monday — welcomed the announcement.
"We have long been confident that Florida's tomatoes were not associated with the salmonella Saintpaul outbreak," said the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, whose farmers are deciding whether to start planting for a fall tomato harvest. "Tomatoes from Florida's growing regions have been gone from the marketplace for weeks, so they could not have been the source of the contamination."
In Monday's meeting, the industry urged FDA to share more details of its investigation so producers could offer more possibly helpful information. If the sick were more likely to fall ill from chain restaurants than mom-and-pop establishments, for instance, the industry could help point FDA toward different lines of suppliers, explained Kathy Means of the Produce Marketing Association. The FDA promised to consider the request.


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Fishing lore: Officials present history of commercial fishing
ESCANABA – The Escanaba City Council Chambers were filled Wednesday night as Tom Elegeert and Dave Rivard told stories about commercial fishing in Delta County from the late 1930s to the mid '60s. The presentation was a collaboration between the Delta County Historical Society and the Escanaba Public Library.
Elegeert showed videos his uncle, Llewellyn Bramer, had taken in Nahma in 1939 and 1940 depicting ice cutting equipment, boats, and fishermen using various styles of nets.
One popular style of net still used today is the trap net. The nets sit near the bottom of the lake and have long runners that form a triangular trough which funnels fish towards the "trap."
"The fish are forced down a kind of triangle down to a point, and that's where the opening is to the net. The fish go into the net and they don't know how to get out," said Elegeert.
Because materials like nylon were uncommon even into the '50s, keeping nets in good condition was a challenge.
"All nets were cotton back in those days, but the trap nets were actually soaked in a tar because they stayed in the water so long they needed something to keep them preserved."
Damaged nets were not only ineffective but were costly to replace because each net had to be woven by hand.
"That was a talent, because this thing can be well over 100 feet long maybe 8 feet hight or 6 feet high and that's all woven into little diamonds," said Rivard.
Unlike the nylon nets which replaced them, cotton nets allowed some fish to escape. Some former commercial fishermen believe the nylon nets were the beginning of the decline of commercial fishing in the area.
"They (cotton nets) caught half of them and half of them got through. It wasn't until nylon nets came that things changed dramatically. Nylon let nothing go," said Elegeert, adding if a net broke loose it would travel around the lake catching fish indefinitely.
Because there was no refrigeration in the '30s and '40s, fish were loaded into wooden boxes – which were frequently built by the fishermen themselves – kept cold with ice. However, even on ice the fish could easily rot. To combat spoilage, fish were frequently packed into the crates whole, with scales, heads, and intestines intact.
The boats that fishermen used were also frequently built by fishermen.
"My uncle Ed said they made their own boats, they made them out of pine, two inch pine during the wintertime. They were very strong boats; they were very heavy. Nobody was going to steal those boats," said Elegeert.
Fishermen used lumber for more than just boats and boxes. During the winter months fishermen developed a system using short boards nailed together to stretch their nets under the ice.
"They would push it and that net would keep coming out of the box," said Rivard.
According to Elegeert, commercial fishermen began to lose their licenses in the mid to late '60s, largely do to the results of overfishing, nylon nets, and changes in tribal fishing laws.
"There's no question that there's certainly a lot more then than there are now," added Rivard.


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The human flea, Pulex irritans, is a cosmopolitan flea species that has, in spite of the common name, a wide host spectrum. It is one of six species in the genus Pulex; the other five are all confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.[1] The species is thought to have originated in South America, where its original host may have been the guinea pig or peccary.[2]
This species bites many species of mammals and birds, including domesticated ones. It has been found on dogs and wild canids, monkeys in captivity, opossums, domestic cats, wild felids in captivity, chickens, black rats and Norwegian rats, wild rodents, pigs, free-tailed bats, and other species. It can also be an intermediate host for the cestode, Dipylidium caninum.
- ^ Michael F. Whiting, Alison S. Whiting, Michael W. Hastriter & Katharina Dittmar (2008). "A molecular phylogeny of fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): origins and host associations". Cladistics 24 (5): 1–31. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00211.x. http://darwin.biology.utah.edu/china/PDFs/Fleas12.pdf.
- ^ Paul C. Buckland & Jon P. Sadler (1989). "A biogeography of the human flea, Pulex irritans L. (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae)". Journal of Biogeography 16 (2): 115–120. doi:10.2307/2845085. JSTOR 2845085.
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The government wants to replace kerosene lamps with 20 million solar lighting systems by 2022.operated by Husk. To date, microgrids provide just a tiny fraction of India's overall power needs. Although no comprehensive statistics exist on the number of microgrids, a conservative count shows that they serve at least 125,000 households in India, divided mostly between large, government-sponsored projects in the North Indian states of Chhattisgarh and West Bengal and private ventures centered on Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are among the most rural and least electrified states in India — a countryside packed with tens of millions of people, united by darkness.
By illuminating an entire village, a microgrid can spread light more quickly than solar lanterns.projects.) With the addition of two solar panels and a bank of lead-acid batteries, the system was good to go.
Some Hindu neighbors don't want to be on the same grid as Muslims.the microgrid occupying a unique niche in India's power system. In general, electrical service from a solar-powered microgrid costs the equivalent of 50 cents per week, or four to five times more expensive than grid electricity, which is heavily subsidized. On the other hand, it is far cheaper than a solar lantern, which might cost a villager more than $30 to buy — and then might break.
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Flies in several genera may cause myiasis (infection with the larval stage [maggots] of various flies) in humans, including, occasionally, flies in the New World genus Wohlfahrtia. Wohlfahrtia magnifica occurs in the Mediterranean basin, Near East, and Central and Eastern Europe; Wohlfahrtia vigil occurs in the northern United States and Canada. Adult Wohlfahrtia flies lay their eggs directly in, or in the vicinity of, wounds on the host. Larvae feed in the host for about a week, and may migrate from the subdermis to other tissues in the body, often causing extreme damage in the process.


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Memorial services for Dorothy Ahmann will take place in the late spring 2013.
Dorothy Ann Ahmann was born Nov. 9, 1921, in Hinckley to Bertha (Hausmann) and Earl Jefferson. The family later moved to Marshall where Dorothy demonstrated her musical and academic prowess as first-chair clarinet in band and, like her sister before her and her sister after, valedictorian for her graduating class.
Dorothy (DoAnn to her close friends) married Lee Ahmann on Nov. 30, 1945, in Watertown, S.D.; the couple had sons Dave and Jim and began their life in earnest. Always in attendance at the boys' events and actively involved in their community, the Ahmanns also combined Turk's brawn and Dorothy's brains to successfully manage Murphy Motor Freight Lines from their Marshall home for many years.
What many remember most about Dorothy, however, is how often she was spotted on one of her daily walks. Averaging 10 miles a day, this tall, stately, white-haired woman graced the sidewalks of Marshall and the hallways of Park Side or SMSU. With her straight posture – the result of a broken back from a horseback-riding accident – and her "dressed to the nines" appearance, Dorothy left a lasting impression.
A voracious reader, Dorothy also enjoyed golfing, bowling, playing bridge and volunteering for her Presbyterian church. She was a staunch defender of education, even insisting her boys take dance lessons when they were young; anyone who knows Dave and Jim knows how successful that was! A keen business mind, a fantastic cook, an ability to say what was on her mind – Dorothy Ahmann was definitely one-of-a-kind.
Yet it was Dorothy's role as Grandma that she cherished most. Pictures of Martie, Kellie, Ellie, and Tommy that still adorn the refrigerator show how proud she was of her grandchildren. Visits to Grandma and Grandpa's house were never complete until the candy drawer was emptied.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents and her sisters Arloine Stearns and Betty Olson.
She is survived by her husband Turk of Marshall, her sons Dave (and Sue) and Jim (and Deb), and her grandchildren, all of whom reside in Arizona.
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Charlottesville is nestled in the foothills of Central Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where rolling foothills blend into the cascading mountaintops of Shenandoah National Park. The town is home to the University of Virginia (UVA), a diverse mix of talented trail runners and endless miles of singletrack.
Charlottesville resident, John Holden, 66, has spent the past 28 years running in-town trails, which he says sets Charlottesville apart from other trail-running communities. "You can enjoy an amazing run, without driving to trailheads, on 100-percent trail with no road crossings," says Holden. The Rivanna Trail is a prime example. Accessible from various trailhead junctions around town, the trail passes through the Rivanna River Watershed, connecting in an 18-plus-mile loop of singletrack.
Greenberry's Coffee and Tea, located downtown, 100 yards from the Rivanna Trail in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, is a common meeting place for runners. "Baristas know runners by name," says Sophie Speidel, a trail runner and UVA alumnus. "The hot drinks and breakfast plates are good, too." Speidel is a regular organizer of social trail runs in town (including the Winter Solstice Run on the Rivanna Trail the first day of winter each year) and is an active member of the Charlottesville Area Trail Runners Club and the Virginia Happy Trail Runners Club.


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Monday, December 5, 2011 - Badminton World Federation
In three days, the hosts for the 2013 and 2014 World Championships, and the 2013 Sudirman Cup, will be decided.
Australia's Melbourne has withdrawn its bid for the 2013 Sudirman Cup.
Following Australia's withdrawal, this leaves Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur as the sole bidder for the biennial event. Kuala Lumpur will present their bid to the BWF Council on Thursday, 8 December, and the outcome of their presentation will be determined on Friday, 9 December, during the Council Meeting.
Copenhagen, Macau and Guangzhou will also be presenting their bids for the 2013 and 2014 World Championships on Thursday.
Macau (China SAR) and Copenhagen (Denmark) have each submitted strong bids to host the 2013 and 2014 BWF World Championships. Guangzhou (China) joins in to make the bid for the 2013 World Championships a three-way contest.
The prestigious BWF World Championships is an annual event on the BWF calendar, with the exception of the Olympic Games' years where the Games is deemed as an event of equivalent status to the BWF World Championships.
While Copenhagen is running for its fourth time hosting the event, Macau and Guangzhou are both vying for their maiden hosting right.
Though Guangzhou has hosted the Sudirman Cup in 2009, and has positioned itself as a top destination for sports events after the successful hosting of the 2010 Asian Games.
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NEW YORK—Allocations of lower cost electricity approved
Tuesday by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) Trustees will help make it
possible for two companies to build multi-million dollar manufacturing
facilities at an industrial park in the Village of Green Island and create
about 140 new jobs over the next three years.
Silhouette Optical, Ltd., a manufacturer of
high-fashion eyewear, and the Case Group, which makes window and door
systems, have promised to create the jobs in return for NYPA allocations of
450 kilowatts (kw) and 250 kw, respectively.
"The lower cost power will help create new
manufacturing facilities at the Green Island Industrial Park, along with
various tax incentives and other benefits stemming from the park being in
the boundaries of the Albany County Empire Zone," said Louis P. Ciminelli,
NYPA chairman. "Governor Pataki has worked to designate such zones in
various parts of the state to attract businesses and encourage investments,
which is precisely what we're doing in Green Island with the new jobs being
created there."
The two allocations will be made through the Green
Island Power Authority from a block of 108,000 kw set aside for economic
development for areas served by the state's 51 municipal electric systems
and rural cooperatives. These are systems whose full or partial electricity
requirements are met by NYPA, with the power that they purchase resold to
the electricity consumers in those communities.
Silhouette Optical is relocating to the Green Island
Industrial Park from Northvale, N.J., where space constraints have limited
its ability to expand production capacity and add new jobs. A new
50,000-square-foot facility is expected to meet its growth needs, with the
company planning to invest approximately $6 million and add about 110 new
The Case Group is moving to Green Island from nearby
Schenectady after considering locations in four other states for expanding
its operations. The company is planning to spend about $3.6 million on a
45,000-square foot facility in the industrial park. Its current employment
level of 12 is expected to increase to 40.
Last January, the NYPA trustees approved a third
allocation to the Green Island Power Authority to help the Sealy Mattress
Co. expand and create 230 new jobs over the next three years at a new
facility in the same industrial park. That allocation, from the same power
allocation program benefiting Silhouette and Case, totaled 500 kw.
Half of the electricity under the program is low-cost
hydropower from NYPA's Niagara Power Project near Niagara Falls. That power
is among the least expensive in the state.
The remaining half is available from other economic
power sources arranged by NYPA. Municipal systems like Green Island also
have the option of purchasing this amount on their own from other sources.
Charles Gargano, chairman of Empire State Development (ESD),
said, "Since taking office, Governor Pataki has put in place key initiatives
to encourage businesses to move to New York State. These important programs
include discount-priced electricity, as well as the successful Empire Zones
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February 28, 2013 by Ellen
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We have been talking about our BRAN NEW Tim Holtz KRaft-Core Shattered line a lot lately and today Designer Melissa Oliveira has a super sweet layout for you. And she uses the No. 1 for her background. Make sure you check out the detail shots so you can get the idea of how great this cardstock looks up close.
So, even though inking it and embossing it is a lot of fun, you can still use it as your go to cardstock for backgrounds in lieu of patterned paper.
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Saturday, August 13, 2011 - Badminton World Federation | Badminton Photo
Czech champion Petr Koukal is back on the Olympic qualification trail less than a year after an operation and chemotherapy for testicular cancer. And the 25-year-old has a clear message to young men from 15-35.
"Whenever they discover something on the testicles they should go immediately to their doctor and maybe they will be as lucky as me.
"It only took three or four months after I was diagnosed and now I am back in life and back in sport. And I believe I will back in top sport again soon."
The Czech added: "I would like to tell them that this kind of cancer can happen to them. Everyone thinks prostate and testicular cancer is for old people.
"It's not. Testicular cancer is the same thing the cyclist Lance Armstrong had a problem with and many other athletes."
Koukal was speaking at the Yonex BWF World Championships at Wembley Arena this week where he lost in the first round.
The problem was discovered in September last year just four days after the Czech's career-best performance reaching the semis of the Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold.
"It was like my top result ever and I felt it was what I needed to get into the leading 20 or 30 in the world."
But after confiding in a doctor at party about something on his testicles he was sent to a specialist who insisted on an immediate operation.
"It was like crazy," Koukal recalled. "All your life changes in a second."
Four weeks after the operation, he underwent a tough three months of chemo, losing his hair in the process though it has since returned.
"But a light at the end of tunnel was the start of Olympic qualification," the Czech said. "It was good timing as I kept thinking about sport and badminton and it really helped me a lot."
An extra incentive was the Czech national championship in February which Koukal duly won - for a fifth time in succession.
"I practised for three weeks and it was really hard because recovery after training always took so long but I did it - a fifth title."
Since then he has been on the circuit with results "up and down" but this week's worlds have been an extra spur.
Unfortunately, there was a setback, the Czech losing 21-5 21-8 to Ukraine's Dmytro Zavadsky on Tuesday in a hugely disappointing result.
He said: "I had been practising hard and when I came on court I though this is going to be my day, I'm going to kick his ass and play another match tomorrow.
"Thirty minutes later I was off the court. It was such a nightmare. I've never had such a big loss. And the nightmare now is not knowing why."
After the early exit, Koukal plans a couple of weeks rest before starting training again for the next batch of Olympic qualifying tournaments in Europe.
Like Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France champion, Koukal is involving himself back home with a special project to help spread the message about testicular cancer.
It includes making a documentary film which he hopes will air internationally after next year's Olympics.
The Czech also finds time to support the badminton charity Solibad, raising over 2,500 euros from auctions and exhibition matches recently to help children in Bali.
"I'm happy to be part of it and I hope to be able to help again," he said.
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Carolina Play Chair, Grass Green
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Our popular Carolina chair is sized just for kids and crafted of dense hardwood with a smooth, fine grain that makes it durable and easy to clean.
- 13" wide x 14" deep x 26" high
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One house, three quick sales, one familiar link
Questions multiply about a loan officer who is the key thread in a home's rise in hard times.
By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN
Published May 6, 2007
In late 2005, Barbara and Gregory Klein agreed to sell their St. Petersburg home for $535, 000 to a man who had seen their "For Sale By Owner" sign.
But when the Kleins sat down to complete the deal, their copy of the closing statement showed a different buyer - and a sale price of $599,000. In less than a year, the house changed hands twice again, each time at a price $50, 000 higher than the previous one despite the sluggish market.
All three transactions involved Victor Clavizzao, a loan officer whose suspicious real estate deals and lengthy criminal record were the subject of a St. Petersburg Times story April 29. After the story ran, the Kleins were among several readers who contacted the paper to share their experiences with Clavizzao.
"I didn't like the way that closing went," says Barbara Klein, a preschool teacher.
Experts say the recent housing boom has been fueled in part by questionable, even illegal practices - "straw" buyers, inflated appraisals, bogus sales prices and frequent turnover or "churning" of the same property. As the boom quiets, mortgage fraud is becoming more obvious.
"In a slowing market, it starts to show itself," says Mark Scott, spokesman for HomeBanc Mortgage Corp., one of the South's biggest lenders. "All of a sudden you've got this scam that's been pushing up the value of some homes, but the rest of the market isn't reflecting that any more."
Inflated prices enable borrowers to get more money out of mortgages. But they can hurt lenders, who are left holding the bag if the borrower defaults. And they can mean higher property taxes for all homeowners in an area if assessments are based on artificially high sales prices.
"If there are enough of them, it would skew the value up and that's something we're always concerned with," says Pinellas County Property Appraiser Jim Smith. "Garbage in, garbage out."
The FBI confirmed last week that it has an ongoing mortgage fraud investigation in south Pinellas County and is looking at "several individuals." The agency would not say if it is investigating Clavizzao's activities, but on Monday it contacted at least one person mentioned in the Times story of the day before.
Though widespread, mortgage fraud can be hard to detect and even harder to prove. It can involve real estate agents, appraisers, loan officers, mortgage brokers and borrowers working in concert. And key documents like appraisals and closing statements are not part of the public record.
"You often see a lot of conspiracy with fraud, but what's difficult about these cases is it's a paper trail, " says Corey Carlisle of the Mortgage Bankers Association, which represents real estate lenders. "You have to follow the trail - where the money is going - and it can be very difficult for law enforcement."
Closing day surprise
The Kleins say Victor Clavizzao contracted to buy their house for $535, 000, but seemed to have trouble lining up the financing. At one point, he gave them what he said was a letter from Bank of America approving him for a loan.
The letter - which the bank says it didn't issue - purportedly came from a Bank of America office at 5825 W Kennedy Blvd. in Tampa. That address would put the office on the Howard Frankland Bridge.
Clavizzao did not return calls seeking comment.
When the Kleins closed on the house in December 2005, they were surprised to see Peggy Lepzinski - not Clavizzao - listed as the borrower on the settlement papers. The sales price was shown as $599, 206, with the Kleins getting their $535, 000 and much of the extra designated for "Shea and Associates" with no explanation.
Lepzinski and her husband, Mark, are Clearwater real estate investors who have been involved in other deals with Clavizzao. Shea and Associates - owned by one of the Lepzinskis' neighbors - is a construction company that has done work on many of the couple's properties.
Records show the Lepzinskis mortgaged the house for $599, 000, leaving them with tens of thousands of dollars of extra cash. Mark Lepzinski said he planned to use the money to stucco the outside of the house, which Clavizzao and his girlfriend had moved into.
But Clavizzao stopped paying the rent, and Shea and Associates never did any work on the home, Lepzinski said. He said the money went to fix up other places he and his wife owned.
Banks and mortgage companies make loans based on the appraised value of a house. That means it is critical for the appraiser to fully document the home's existing condition, as well as any proposed repairs, renovations or additions that could affect its value. Otherwise, the lender could be misled.
"An appraiser is required to have plans and specifications in the work file, and usually the lender will insist after the loan is closed that either the appraiser or a representative of the lender go out and verify the work, " said Francois Gregoire, a member of the Florida Real Estate Appraisal Board.
"Even saying a house is subject to remodeling is, in my opinion, inadequate because remodeling to one person may mean repainting the door while to another person it means something entirely different, " Gregoire said. "The appraiser's responsibility is to make sure he produces a report that is clear and not misleading."
Federal law says it is a crime to make a "material misstatement, misrepresentation or omission that is relied upon by a lender" in funding a loan. In the past few years, the appraisal board has disciplined several of Florida's 11, 100 appraisers for participating in mortgage fraud schemes. One Clearwater man gave up his license last month after admitting that he never set foot on a property he supposedly appraised.
Lepzinski said an appraisal on the Kleins' home showed it to be worth $599, 000 even though he and his wife paid $535, 000 for it. The Tampa company that did the appraisal did not return phone calls. The lender, Acoustic Home Loans of California, is no longer in business.
Price goes up, up, up
About the time he moved into the Kleins' house, Victor Clavizzao became a loan officer for McNulty First Lending in St. Petersburg. Last August, the house sold for a recorded price of $650, 000 to John Lander, an airline pilot who is also a business associate of a former McNulty partner.
Lander said he bought the house because Clavizzao was still living there but "needed some time before he could arrange for someone else to buy it." Records show Lander sold the house three months later for $700, 000 to the grandparents of Clavizzao's wife. They say Clavizzao pressured them into putting their name on the purchase documents, claiming he would lose his job if they didn't sign.
Frequent sales of the same property can be a sign of fraud, experts say.
"One of the things they do with mortgage fraud is to try to inflate the value of the property, " said Scott of HomeBanc Mortgage. "If you get appraisals that are way out of line with other things in the neighborhood, if a property is changing hands numerous times in a short period, that's a tipoff. "
HomeBanc was not the lender in any of the transactions involving the Kleins' house. But it did lend a total of $1.6-million on two Clearwater condos that were recently purchased by Anthony Clavizzao, with Victor signing for his brother under power of attorney.
A notary stamp certifies that Anthony was in Pinellas County when he signed the power of attorney form on March 20. But on that day, he was actually 180 miles away in the Jacksonville jail serving time on felony drug charges.
"We're definitely taking a look at them, " Scott said of the loans made to Anthony Clavizzao. "We have a robust mortgage fraud unit, and we do keep our eyes open for signs" of fraud.
Lenders in general are getting far better at spotting evidence of fraudulent activity, says Carlisle of the Mortgage Bankers Association. But there is enormous pressure to close loans fast, with the result that inflated appraisals, suspect closing statements and even outright forgeries sometimes slip through.
"Unfortunately," Carlisle said, "the lender is always a victim."
Susan Taylor Martin can be contacted at email@example.com.


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The chefs are asked to create a meal with Thanksgiving in mind. But will they be counting their blessings when they open the first mystery basket and see a lowly cheese spread? Then in the Entrée Round, when the remaining chefs find a sweet scrumptious fall favorite and a bitter vegetable in the basket, they have to work hard to achieve harmonious holiday flavors. And with mushrooms and a Chinese condiment in the final basket, tradition goes out the window, but the door is open for some totally original desserts. (Episode: CQ0511TH)


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Fish smoker catches North Spokane house on fire
SPOKANE, Wash. - Firefighters quickly extinguished a house fire in Northwest Spokane early Thursday morning that started due to a fish smoker.
The fire started around 2 a.m. on the 6000 block of North Greenwood Blvd.
When firefighters arrived, the family living in the house was already outside and everyone was accounted for. Firefighters said there was a lot of smoke coming from the back of the house.
It took firefighters about 20 minutes to contain the fire, but they were on-scene for more than 2 and a half hours doing overhaul on the house. Firefighters said the kitchen, two bedrooms and the attic were heavily damaged.
A fire investigator determined a fish smoker on the back porch started the fire.
One of the people living inside the house was treated for smoke inhalation.
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In the United States, pinworm infection, or enterobiasis, is the most common of all parasitic roundworm infections. It primarily affects school-age children. Because pinworm infection is spread mainly by children, it is found most often in family groups, daycare centers, schools, and camp settings.
Pinworm infection is caused by an intestinal roundworm called Enterobius vermicularis.
Pinworms are small, threadlike roundworms found primarily in the colon and rectum. The life cycle of the pinworm—egg, larva (immature stage), and mature worm—takes place inside the human body and requires from 3 to 6 weeks to complete.
The pinworm is the most common roundworm parasite in temperate climates—even in areas that have to good sanitation practices.
Pinworms enter your body when you swallow their eggs. One female pinworm may expel thousands of eggs into the environment. As the eggs are moist and rather resistant to drying, they can infect humans even after being distributed in dust for several days.
The female pinworm deposits her eggs in the area around your anus. You can expose yourself to the infective eggs by scratching the contaminated area. The eggs then attach to your fingertips and from there go into your mouth. When you swallow, the eggs travel to your intestines.
The eggs also may be scattered into the air from bed linen and articles of clothing. They are capable of clinging to surfaces such as bedding, clothing, toys, doorknobs, furniture, and faucets for up to 2 weeks.
Folklore is filled with fantastic descriptions of symptoms and abnormal behavior attributed to pinworm infection. In fact, many people have no symptoms at all. Of those who do, the symptoms are usually mild and barely noticeable.
The movement of egg-laden female worms from your anus to deposit their eggs will often produce itching around the anus or vagina. This itching may become very intense, interfere with sleep, and make you irritable.
Your healthcare provider can diagnose pinworm infection by simply finding the eggs. The most common way to collect the eggs involves swabbing the anal area with the sticky side of a piece of transparent cellophane tape. Your healthcare provider will then put the tape on a slide and look for the eggs under a microscope.
If your healthcare provider prescribes medicine for this condition, everyone who lives in your house should take it, regardless of whether they have symptoms. Medicines, such as mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate, are the most useful in treating pinworm infection.
To relieve the intense itching that often happens with pinworm infection, your healthcare provider may also prescribe a soothing ointment or cream.
Because of the strong probability that children will be reinfected outside the home, in a daycare setting for example, major efforts to eliminate the eggs from the home are of little help.
Some of the ways that you and your children can prevent becoming infected or reinfected with pinworms include:
- Bathing after waking up
- Washing night clothes and bed sheets often
- Washing your hands routinely, particularly after using the bathroom or changing diapers
- Changing underwear every day
- Avoiding nail biting
Source: National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID
This information is provided by the Cleveland Clinic and is not intended to replace the medical advice of your doctor or health care provider. Please consult your health care provider for advice about a specific medical condition. This document was last reviewed on: 11/5/2010…#14073


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Fast Data: Go Big. Go Fast.
By Dain C. Hansen-Oracle on Oct 02, 2012
For those of you who may have missed it, today's second full day of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 started with a rumpus. Joe Tucci, from EMC outlined the human face of big data with real examples of how big data is transforming our world. And no not the usual tried-and-true weblog examples, but real stories about taxi cab drivers in Singapore using big data to better optimize their routes as well as folks just trying to get a better hair cut. Next we heard from Thomas Kurian who talked at length about the important platform characteristics of Oracle's Cloud and more specifically Oracle's expanded Cloud Services portfolio. Especially interesting to our integration customers are the messaging support for Oracle's Cloud applications. What this means is that now Oracle's Cloud applications have a lightweight integration fabric that on-premise applications can communicate to it via REST-APIs using Oracle SOA Suite. It's an important element to our strategy at Oracle that supports this idea that whether your requirements are for private or public, Oracle has a solution in the Cloud for all of your applications and we give you more deployment choice than any vendor.
If this wasn't enough to get the juices flowing, later that morning we heard from Hasan Rizvi who outlined in his Fusion Middleware session the four most important enterprise imperatives: Social, Mobile, Cloud, and a brand new one: Fast Data. Today, Rizvi made an important step in the definition of this term to explain that he believes it's a convergence of four essential technology elements:
- Event Processing for event filtering, business rules – with Oracle Event Processing
- Data Transformation and Loading - with Oracle Data Integrator
- Real-time replication and integration – with Oracle GoldenGate
- Analytics and data discovery – with Oracle Business Intelligence
Each of these four elements can be considered (and architect-ed) together on a single integrated platform that can help customers integrate any type of data (structured, semi-structured) leveraging new styles of big data technologies (MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, NoSQL) to process more volume and variety of data at a faster velocity with greater results.
Fast data processing (and especially real-time) has always been our credo at Oracle with each one of these products in Fusion Middleware. For example, Oracle GoldenGate continues to be made even faster with the recent 11g R2 Release of Oracle GoldenGate which gives us some even greater optimization to Oracle Database with Integrated Capture, as well as some new heterogeneity capabilities. With Oracle Data Integrator with Big Data Connectors, we're seeing much improved performance by running MapReduce transformations natively on Hadoop systems. And with Oracle Event Processing we're seeing some remarkable performance with customers like NTT Docomo. Check out their upcoming session at Oracle OpenWorld on Wednesday to hear more how this customer is using Event processing and Big Data together.
If you missed any of these sessions and keynotes, not to worry. There's on-demand versions available on the Oracle OpenWorld website. You can also checkout our upcoming webcast where we will outline some of these new breakthroughs in Data Integration technologies for Big Data, Cloud, and Real-time in more details.


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Injury patterns and severity among motorcyclists treated in US emergency departments, 2001–2008: a comparison of younger and older riders
- 1Division of Biology and Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Public Health Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- 2Department of Emergency Medicine, The Injury Prevention Center at Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- 3Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Correspondence to Tracy L Jackson, Department of Epidemiology, Public Health Program, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, 121 South Main Street S 121-2, Providence, RI 02912, USA; Tracy_Jackson{at}brown.edu
- Received 30 August 2012
- Revised 26 December 2012
- Accepted 3 January 2013
- Published Online First 6 February 2013
Objective To examine differences across age groups in patterns of injuries sustained from motorcycle crashes.
Methods Cross-sectional data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program were used to assess emergency department-treated injuries resulting from motorcycle crashes in the USA from 2001 to 2008. Trends in injury frequency, and types and severity of injuries sustained among those aged 20–39 years, 40–59 years, and 60+ years were compared.
Results An estimated 65 660 patients 60 years and older, 466 125 patients aged 40–59 years and 921 229 patients aged 20–39 years were treated in US emergency rooms for injuries sustained in motorcycle crashes from 2001 to 2008. The number of injuries increased in all groups from 2001 to 2008, with the greatest rate of increase occurring in the oldest age group. Older adults had a threefold increased rate of hospitalisation (OR=3.05; 95% CI 2.58 to 3.59) compared with younger adults. Middle age adults had a nearly twofold increased odds of hospitalisation (OR=1.89; 95% CI 1.70 to 2.11; p<0.0001) compared with younger adults. Analysis of injury severity showed a similar pattern with both older adults (OR=2.46; 95% CI 2.02 to 3.01) and middle age adults (OR=1.66, 95% CI 1.52 to 1.82) having significantly increased odds of severe injury compared with younger adults.
Conclusions Older adults involved in motorcycle crashes are prone to more severe injuries than younger adults. The increased number of older adults riding motorcycles should put further focus on risk of injury to this population.