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Haha, I have cried! A couple times. When I found out my engine was bad, when I found out how much it would be to have someone fix it, and once the weekend of November 4th, when I realized that I had put all of the right head valves into the left head. And had to pull them all, and redo them. I was feeling like the project was never going to get finished at that time, but since then things have been going much better. Good thing I'm tenacious. There were a lot of little things that were taking a long time before which I didn't absolutely need to do as part of the fixing-it process, such as porting and polishing everything, super cleaning everything, retaping my wire harness, de-rusting/scraping/rust treating/sanding/painting a lot of parts, etc. The biggest time vampire was just waiting for the freaking parts to get to me after I ordered them. I didn't order everything at once, since I didn't really know what all I would need at the beginning of the whole thing. So I'd fix as much as I could, run into some problem, order another part, wait some more.. repeat process.Wow! Look at the size of that ...pole-barn! There's no way I could do that in my 2-car garage. After looking at the complexity of it all, I really feel for you. I think I would cry if I had to go thru that. At this rate, you'll be done in time for Christmas! Thanks for the pics!
So, will I see you at Sno*Drift?
I could have skipped some of the time consuming things like wire wheeling the corrosion of my intake manifold and other various parts, but I figured if I'm doing this, I should just do the best job that I can do, you know? My pics are a bit behind. My intake manifold is all attached and uppipe as well, and a bunch of hoses and tubes. I think the turbo will go on tonight. It's 31 degrees out, I'm really looking forward to my evening.
My goal is still to have it all together by this Monday. Wish me luck so things continue going well
First time I've heard of sno drift, that looks fun.
Epic win right here.
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Occasionally my dad. He helped me a lot when we had to pull the engine out of the car. It was really fused to the transmission due to corrosion. I had no idea how to do a lot of this stuff, so he was my #1 resource along with the internet and the FS manual. He helped me balance and peen my rods, balance my pistons, and hone my block. He has also helped me remove several bolts from the head and block that I broke when trying to remove them. Good thing, because I probably would have destroyed something if I had tried to get them out. He helped putting the timing belt on, which was really nice to have an extra set of hands to hold the spring loaded cam gears in place. He showed me how to port and polish and let me use the air grinder at his work, and then I did that myself. I've been putting everything back together on my own, but I'll need help again when hoisting it up and getting it back in my car without breaking something. I also had some help from my boyfriend cleaning parts and retrieving beer
At times it has been really overwhelming, but I can't say that it's hard. If a person can read, research, and follow directions, and you have tools, tenacity, problem solving skills, and a general knowledge of how an engine works, then that person can do this project. I say that now... maybe I should wait til Monday to see it it fires up. I've thought about that a lot.. there are so many places where I could have done something wrong, I think my odds of it running right the first time I turn the key are low.
I have some other things I will be doing before its done as well. I purchased a wideband a/f ratio gauge, boost gauge, and oil pressure gauge. And a boost controller. I need to install those. Also, my wiper fluid squirter thingies stopped working, and it's not because the motors are bad. Wiring problem, switch, or something. I'm too cheap to replace the whole turn signal lever thing, so I'm going to ghetto rig a switch as inconspicuously as possible so I can clear the salt and crap off my windshield this winter.
a downpipe, access port, and bigger fuel injectors are on my wish list for santa
I'd thermal coat the intake if it were me.. Keeps heat from getting in or out depending on how your using it.
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Resident Clubdub Debbie Downer. I'd love your ideas if you kept them to yourself. Subarus suck, get a new wife.
Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you to their level and beat you with experience.
oooh how cheap?
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I don't unfortunately. But I've thought about it. I'm actually not sure about some hoses that I connected. I wish I had a hose diagram or something. Anyone have any helpful suggestions? Most of the things kind of fall into place, but some I had to guess on. it would kinda suck to find that I attached a coolant hose to an oil thing.. or something like that.
As far as the checklist, you could write your own. Take a break from the hard labor, and sit down in a quiet place and write down everything you can think of. Then place it in an order that makes sense. (a spreadsheet would prolly wok best) You could post it here and we could review it to make sure you got everything. --just a thought.
Other thoughts, anyone?
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anyone want to buy a wrx thats fully assembled with lots of new parts that wont start bc it has no spark? i'm jumping off a bridge.
hahahahaha did you connect the coil packs
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Elmagister wrote:It took three drives after Hernandez went down for Welker to be targeted, and he didn't come on the field until a few minutes had passed. I don't think Hernandez is the root of the Welker issue.
infntnub wrote:I'm buying for the next 3-4 weeks; whenever Hernandez comes back.
Sell the moment you hear Hernandez is on the upswing lol.
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According to CBS Sports, there is "more than some remote possibility" the Patriots are preparing to shop Wes Welker.
The word comes via "several league sources." Trading Welker and the salary remaining on his one-year, $9.5 million franchise tender would make more sense than reducing him to a part-time player, but it's hard to ever truly know what's going on behind the scenes in New England. Randy Moss was dealt in a walk year, but under vastly difference circumstances. This year's trade deadline is October 30.
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"It's pointless to bet against the euro," said European Central Bank president "Super" Mario Draghi last week.
Wrong! Just take a look at the past few months: a pound, which bought €1.17 at the end of February, now buys €1.27, a healthy 8% return on your investment. The single currency has also tanked almost 10% against the dollar over the same period. So it's not a pointless bet. It's been rather lucrative.
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After last week's story about ad agency M&C Saatchi's free Maurice Bikes for staff, here's another Olympic traffic-busting idea: fashion website Net-A-Porter has invested in a fleet of Piaggio scooters to ensure its shopaholic customers get their deliveries on time during the Olympics. Net-a-Porter has produced a series of moody publicity shots of handsome chaps delivering the goods, which has prompted an outpouring of comments on its Facebook page from female fans, discussing what they would like to do to these delivery men. And it doesn't involve wearing clothes.
* At least one big-hitter is banking on the collapse of the euro. John Paulson, who earned $3.5 billion betting against toxic subprime waste in 2007, tells clients there's a 50-50 chance the euro will implode over the next two years. Paulson has been off form — his main fund is down 16% this year — but City Spy wouldn't bet against a stunning recovery if the worst happens. One hopes there'll be a few banks left standing to pay him.
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PHAI Submits Comments to Support Smoke-Free Low Income Housing to MA Dept of Housing and Community Development
Thursday, January 5th, 2017
PHAI, on behalf of the Tobacco Free Living Community of Practice (a statewide coalition organized through the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health), submitted recommendations to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development ("MDHCD") for its 2017 Qualified Allocation Draft Plan and Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
MDHCD implements the federal Law Income Housing Tax Credit and helps encourage the development of private low-income housing. Its 2017 Qualified Allocation Draft Plan, which includes a competitive scoring system for applicants seeking to build low-income housing and claim tax credits, provides points to applicants that promote clean indoor air.
Chris Banthin, PHAI's Director of its Tobacco Control Resource Center, suggests in Comments submitted in December 23, 2016, that applicants should be required to include smoke-free policies for all indoor common areas and living units or, alternatively, that points be awarded to applicants that agree to implement such policies.
The following organizations signed on to the comments to lend their support:
• American Lung Association, Northeast
• Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, New England Chapter
• Beacon Communities LLC
• Boston Alliance for Community Health
• Boston Children's Hospital
• Boston Public Health Commission
• Charlestown Coalition
• Codman Square Health Center
• Codman Square Neighborhood Council
• Dorchester Bay EDC
• East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
• Fenway CDC
• Harbor Health Services, Inc.
• Health Resources in Action
• Healthy Weight Initiative, HSPH
• Massachusetts Environmental Health Association
• MGH Center for Community Health Improvement
• New England Regional Council of the National Association of the Housing and Redevelopment Officials
• Peabody Properties, Inc.
• Public Health Advocacy Institute, Inc.
• Vaughan W. Rees, PhD, Director, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Resilient Sisterhood Project
• South Boston Substance Abuse Prevention Collaborative
• South End Community Health Center
• Tobacco Free Mass
PHAI's Gottlieb Comments on FDA Regulations' Effect on Vaping Industry on All Things Considered
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
On August 8, 2016, new regulations by the FDA went into effect that have a profound impact on a major segment of the electronic cigarette industry: vape shops. The shops that mix flavors for vaping products are now considered to be manufacturers and subject to the same requirements as manufactures owned by the companies that make Marlboros, Camels, and Newports.
The new rules will require each and every flavor variation of electronic cigarettes to be approved by the FDA as a new tobacco product. The cost associated with each application is estimated by the agency to average over $300,000. Vape shops had typically created many dozens of varieties of "e-juice" every month and, under the new rules, the revenues from these flavor varieties would account for only a small fraction of the cost for submitting new tobacco product applications. This has led some vape shops to close their doors.
WGBH's Isaiah Thompson reported on these developments for NPR's All Things Considered (with an expanded written version). PHAI's executive director, Mark Gottlieb, is quoted in the piece.
Spending 45 Minutes with 80 of My Fellow Altria Shareholders
Monday, June 6th, 2016
by Edward L. Sweda, Jr.
As soon as Altria Group, Inc. Chairman, CEO and President Martin J. Barrington opened the 2016 Annual Shareholders Meeting, he boasted that 2015 had been "another terrific year." The "excellent business results" included dividends increasing by 8.7% (to $4.2 billion) and a shareholder return of more than 23%. Marlboro, with 44% of the retail share in the United States, is larger than the next 10 brands combined. But, just as at the Reynolds American Inc. meeting two weeks earlier, the tobacco company executive made no mention of other numbers – numbers that tally the toll in death and disease that is directly caused by the intended use of the company's main product.
By distributing to shareholders a colorful, glossy handout summarizing the company's 2015 business accomplishments, Mr. Barrington significantly cut back on the length of his oral business report compared to previous annual meetings. After that report and some perfunctory votes on election of the board of directors and the accounting firm were completed, the meeting's agenda quickly came to the question and answer session.
After an initial question from a company-friendly stock analyst, I asked the following question of Mr. Barrington:
"Just within the past two months, the following developments have occurred.
- "On March 17, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in the Soffer case that the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer can seek punitive damages against a tobacco company on strict liability and negligence claims.
- "On March 24, the Florida Supreme Court in the Ciccone case ruled that a smoker did not need an official diagnosis before the cutoff date for membership in the original Engle class.
- "On April 25, the Connecticut Supreme Court in the Izzarelli case ruled that the "good tobacco" language of the Restatement 2nd of Torts does not shield tobacco companies from product liability lawsuits. (See news coverage) This is similar to a ruling in Massachusetts
- "And, earlier this week on May 16, the U.S. Supreme Court in the Schwarz case declined Philip Morris USA's request to review an Oregon jury's $25 million punitive damages award to a widower whose wife died of lung cancer.
"Why shouldn't Altria Group's shareholders and investors be very concerned about these negative litigation developments for the company?"
Mr. Barrington's response echoed the traditional party line from the top executives of the major cigarette companies in the United States: tobacco litigation is a "well-managed risk" that should not alarm shareholders and investors. He commended the quality of the work of the company's lawyers, including Denise Keane, Altria's General Counsel.
A representative of the AFL-CIO's Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) cited "poverty wages and squalid housing" on tobacco farms and called on Altria to crack down on the abuses of farm workers in tobacco fields. He also specifically mentioned Jackson Farms in North Carolina, where seven workers who had filed a wage theft lawsuit were subsequently blacklisted. Mr. Barrington responded by confirming that Altria does not use Jackson Farms to get any of its tobacco.
Amber Updike, a 14-year-old member of New York-based Reality Check , mentioned Altria's having spent $9 billion annually in marketing to youth in the United States. Mr. Barrington responded by denying that Altria targets youth and referred her to the company's websites. He also claimed that Altria "led the effort to get cigarettes off the [store] counter."
Cathy Rowan, representing Trinity Health, spoke in favor of a resolution calling on Altria to "undertake a thorough analysis, engaging chemical and pharmacological experts as needed, of all the harmful liquids, additives and chemicals and their potential health consequences when each brand of our tobacco products is used as intended by consumers and report the results of the analysis on the Company's website." Ms. Rowan noted that there is no clarity regarding the ingredients in Altria's cigarettes and e-cigarettes and that compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) deeming regulations (which were adopted on May 5, 2016) could take up to three years.
Altria opposed the resolution, preferring to leave the matter to the FDA. The resolution was defeated with 93% of the shares having been voted "No."
The second shareholder resolution, which was sponsored by the national AFL-CIO, called on Altria to follow the lead of Pepsico and follow the United Nations' Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. A company would have the following: a) A policy commitment to meet their responsibility to respect human rights; b) A human rights due diligence process to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their impacts on human rights; and c) Processes to enable the remediation of any adverse human rights impacts they cause or to which they contribute."
Since agricultural workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, it is important to have non-judicial grievance mechanisms to remedy human rights violations. Altria opposed the resolution, arguing that its "responsible supply chain management practices appropriately address the objectives of this proposal." This resolution was defeated with 94.1% of the shares having been voted "No."
After the 45-minute meeting concluded, I went outside to meet some of the 40 youth members of Reality Check who had protested against Altria's targeting of youth. [Insert photo] The loud protests were heard inside the Richmond Convention Center (especially as attendees came to and from the restrooms) before, during and after the shareholders meeting.
It was a distinct pleasure to meet with Gretchen Galley, Ken Dahlgren and Jon Chaffee, as well as the youth – about 40 in number – who sent the clear message to Altria that "We have seen enough!"
PHAI's Daynard Discusses Tony Gwynn Lawsuit on ESPN and in the New York Times
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
On May 23, 2016, the widow and children of baseball great Tony Gwynn filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Altria Group alleging that the manufacturers of Skoal smokeless tobacco's negligence, fraud, defective design, and failure-to-warn caused the death of the Hall of Famer in 2014.
Richard Daynard, PHAI's president and University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University, discussed the case in the New York Times and also on ESPN along with Neil Romano of the National Spit Tobacco Education project.
May 5, 2016 – a RAIny day in Winston-Salem
Friday, May 13th, 2016
By Edward L. Sweda, Jr.
When Reynolds American International (RAI) President and CEO Susan M. Cameron told the company's 2016 annual shareholders meeting that it is "always a pleasure to report good news," this shareholder was reminded of a similar message: "Alive with Pleasure." That ubiquitous advertising slogan for Newport cigarettes – which RAI acquired
in 2015 when it purchased Lorillard Tobacco Company – emphasized the short-term, pleasurable qualities of the deadliest consumer product while ignoring the long-term consequences of using that product.
Ms. Cameron listed the examples of "good news" from 2015: shareholder return of 49%; an increase of 7.5% in dividends; a 2 for 1 stock split. Integration with the Newport brand has "done well," she said. Vuse, RAI's leading brand of "digital vapor cigarettes", was the most successful new product in convenience stores.
There was no mention of the enormity of cigarettes' 2015 death toll during the course of the 80-minute shareholders meeting. Nor was there any mention of litigation against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. until Agenda Item #10, the Question & Answer session. My question to RAI Chairman of the Board Thomas C. Wajnert was as follows:
"Just within the past two months, the following developments have occurred:
"On March 17, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in the Soffer case that the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer can seek punitive damages against RJR on strict liability and negligence claims.
"On March 24, the Florida Supreme Court in the Ciccone case ruled that a smoker did not need an official diagnosis before the cutoff date for membership in the original Engle class.
"On April 21 and 22, a Florida jury returned verdicts in the Turner case totaling $13 million for the children of a heavy smoker who died of lung cancer, finding that RJR hid the dangers of cigarettes from her until she was hopelessly addicted.
"And just last week, on April 25, the Connecticut Supreme Court in the Izzarelli case ruled that the "good tobacco" language of the Restatement 2nd of Torts does not shield tobacco companies from product liability lawsuits.(see news coverage) This is similar to a ruling in Massachusetts.
"Why shouldn't RAI shareholders and investors be very concerned about these negative litigation developments for the company?"
For a response, Mr. Wajnert turned to Mark Holton, RAI's executive vice president, and general counsel. While acknowledging the litigation developments I had just cited, Mr. Holton advised that shareholders and investors should consider the company's overal
l litigation strategy, that has been used for many years, rather than a string of setbacks that had occurred since mid-March. He also mentioned that there had been some recent defense verdicts during that time span and, as to the Izzarelli case, he noted that RJR still had other legal grounds for its appeal of the jury's $28 million verdict. On that case, Mr. Holton congratulated me on the ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court and noted that I had submitted an amicus curiae brief for the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) on behalf of Ms. Izzarelli.
The day before the RAI Annual Shareholders Meeting, the Associated Press reported that several growers who sell tobacco to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. had children under the age of 13 working in their fields, despite RAI's pledge to prohibit the hiring of children of that age. A news release by the Farmworkers Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) commented that the "presence of child labor, which the company has denied for years, confirms what the farmworkers' union, FLOC, has been telling the company since 2007: the tobacco industry is guilty of turning a blind eye to child labor, dangerous working conditions, and many other abuses for far too long." That news was consistent with the findings of a December 2015 report by Human Rights Watch, entitled, "Teens of the Tobacco Fields: Child Labor in Unites States Tobacco Farming."
During the question & answer session, several speakers raised the issue of working conditions for farm workers. Hillary Laslo, a FLOC member from Toledo, OH, spoke of abusive conditions on the farm and the fear of retaliation. Julie Taylor, the ex-Director of the National Farm Worker Ministry, visited farm labor camps and saw "terrible housing" conditions. A 20-year-old FLOC member described many problems working in the fields, including not getting necessary breaks while working in the fields, especially on brutally hot days.
Fred Romero, a 14-year-old high school freshman who had worked in the fields for the last 2 to 3 years, described how he had gotten ripped off, being paid even less than the $7.25 per hour minimum wage. He noted how his mother struggles hard to pay the family's bills; he asked Mr. Wajnert whether RAI will sign an agreement to get a livable wage paid for those who work on farms that provide the tobacco for RAI. Mr. Wajnert answered that the company would not do so.
After the meeting concluded at 10:20 A.M., more than 100 FLOC supported demonstrated in the rain against RAI for its refusal to do more to improve working conditions for farm workers and to end child labor in tobacco fields.
Just a week after the meeting, RAI suffered yet another courtroom loss when a Florida jury in the Dion case returned a $12 million verdict to the widower of a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking for decades.
PHAI Urges HUD to Expand Proposed Smoke-free Public Housing Rule to All HUD-Funded Housing
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
The Public Health Advocacy Institute submitted comments to a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") to make its public housing smoke-free. The proposed rule would affect 1.1 million households, but leave 3.4 million other HUD-funded households unprotected. These include the agency's tenant-based and project-based rental assistance.
PHAI argues that there is are several ways that HUD could expand the proposed protections:
- HUD maintains significant control over the development and operation of many mix financed properties, in part, through the Housing Assistance Payment Contracts. HUD has a legal right to change these contracts during the renewal process. Going smoke-free could simply become part of the eligibility requirements, for example, under the all HAP contract renewals going forward. Just like it currently prohibits marijuana use in all the housing it finances, HUD could require a smoke-free environment, too.
- There is widespread support for smoke-free policies among owners and property management companies of mix-financed, affordable properties. In Massachusetts, some of the leading management companies of mixed financed affordable properties have made many, and in some cases all, of their properties smoke-free. Examples include Beacon Communities, Peabody Properties, and Corcoran Management.
- Surveys show that residents who are eligible for affordable housing prefer a smoke-free building, despite the high smoking rates in affordable housing.
- Smoke-free rules reduce maintenance costs, which would benefit the private owners and funders of affordable housing.
- The health and safety risk to residents exposed to drifting secondhand smoke is the same regardless of whether the resident lives in public housing or another type of affordable housing.
- Requiring smoke-free buildings for the use of tenant-based assistance would cause approximately 700,000 landlords to go smoke-free. This change would benefit all residents living at these properties, not just the voucher holders.
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PHAI operates the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Smokefree Housing Program as well as the Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center, which provides services, including smoke-free housing legal and policy technical assistance, to entities funded by the New York State Bureau of Tobacco Control.
Top Boston Firms Join Forces with Public Health Advocacy Institute
Monday, September 21st, 2015
Contact: Mark Gottlieb or Andrew Rainer 617-373-2026
In March, the non-profit Public Health Advocacy Institute ("PHAI") announced that it had formed a center to bring important public health litigation, and had hired a former Assistant Attorney General to oversee this litigation in the Massachusetts courts. Today, PHAI, which is based at Northeastern University, announced the filing of its latest suit, and also the formation of a strategic alliance with a group of prominent Boston lawyers to pursue important public health cases, including cases against the tobacco industry on behalf of the families of former smokers who have suffered devastating disease from cigarettes.
"We are so pleased to be working with this outstanding group of lawyers to help some of tobacco's victims in Massachusetts," said Andrew Rainer, PHAI's Litigation Director and Director of the Center for Public Health Litigation. Working together with PHAI will be:
- Lisa Arrowood, Kevin Peters and Jed DeWick of Arrowood Peters, LLP
- Sam Perkins of Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten, LLP
- Neil Leifer, of Neil T. Leifer, LLC
- Leo Boyle, Michael Bogdanow and Valerie Yarashus of Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, PC
PHAI's latest suit, filed today in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn together with Perkins and Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten, LLC, is brought on behalf of Linda Troupe and her husband Carleton against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Donelan's Supermarkets, Inc. of Littleton, Massachusetts. Mrs. Troupe, who smoked Winston and Kool cigarettes for over 35 years, was diagnosed in 2013 with throat cancer. The suit alleges that, in order to treat Mrs. Troupe's cancer, doctors had to remove her larynx, and she has lost most of her ability to speak with her four children and eleven grandchildren.
Arrowood, Peters, DeWick and Leifer will be working with PHAI on two cases previously filed in the Middlesex Court — the first brought for the family of James Flavin, Jr., a former executive of Filene's and Staples, who died of lung cancer in 2012 after smoking Newport cigarettes for over 40 years, and the second brought for Patricia Greene, a Newton realtor, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013, even though she had stopped smoking Marlboro cigarettes 25 years earlier.
Arrowood is the current President of the Boston Bar Association, and a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Perkins is a founding partner of Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten, and a previous Lawyer of the Year. Leifer, a former partner of Thornton & Naumes (now the Thornton firm), represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in its successful litigation against the tobacco industry to recover the health care costs incurred by the state in caring for residents harmed by smoking. Boyle and Yarashus are past Presidents of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Boyle also served as President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now the American Association for Justice), and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
R.J. Reynolds' Shareholder's Report from Winston-Salem: A "Good Year," a Proposal to Merge and a Death Toll that Must Not Be Acknowledged
Monday, May 18th, 2015
By Edward L. Sweda, Jr.
Like clockwork, the 2015 Reynolds American (RAI) Annual Shareholders Meeting started precisely at 9:00 A.M. on Thursday May 7, 2015 at the company's headquarters in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. Seventy-five minutes later, the meeting was adjourned.
Before I could attend the meeting, I had to proceed through intense security, with machines provided by Security Detection, empty my pockets and hand over my camera to the RAI staff.
The meeting was held again in the company's main auditorium that seats around 200 people. On the dais were the following representatives of RAI management: Thomas C. Wajnert, the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, who ran the meeting; Dara Folan, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary; Mark Holton, Executive Vice President and General Counsel; Andrew Gilchrist, the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President; and Susan M. Cameron, RAI's President and Chief Executive Officer. After announcing the rules of conduct for the meeting and potential penalty for violation of the rules, Mr. Wajnert turned to Ms. Cameron for an overview of the company's business performance for 2014. Curiously, Ms. Cameron began by noting that 2014, while being a "good year" for RAI, "seems a long time ago." She cited some specifics of RAI's 2014 performance, including Camel's high market share and VUSE's "successful national expansion." She described RAI's plans to acquire Lorillard Tobacco Company as the "Right Decision at the Right Time" that is still awaiting regulatory approval by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She also called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to adopt different regulations for e-cigarettes than for combustible cigarettes. Ms. Cameron made no mention of any of the company's customers who died during 2014 from smoking-caused diseases.
Much of the remainder of the meeting dealt with farm labor issues. Many members of FLOC (the Farm Labor Organizing Committee of the AFL-CIO) were in the audience; they dominated the 30-minute question-and-answer session. While Mr. Wajnert admitted that "bad conditions exist" on tobacco farms in North Carolina, he claimed that "we are working with our growers" to try to remedy those conditions. FLOC representatives cited ongoing violations of child labor laws in the tobacco fields and emphasized that many of the farm workers were doing extremely hard and dangerous work for a minimum wage salary of $7.25 per hour. Another major grievance was the fact that RAI, despite its claims of transparency, continues to refuse to provide FLOC with a list of tobacco growers with which RAI has contracts to provide it the tobacco for its cigarettes.
During the question-and-answer session, I asked the following question on ongoing tobacco litigation.
"During last month's RAI First Quarter Earnings Conference Call, Chief Financial Officer and Executive VP Andrew Gilchrist said that 'a significant portion of our legal budget at this point is being spent on Engle.' The Engle verdicts in Florida keep on coming. Just last week, a Florida jury returned a verdict of over $6 million for a plaintiff. Meanwhile the Boston Globe last month reported on an upsurge in tobacco product liability lawsuits being filed in Massachusetts – an upsurge that was spurred on by a recent state supreme court ruling that is favorable to plaintiffs.
"I have a two-part question. Would you clarify that when Mr. Gilchrist or other executives refer to the company's legal budget, that it includes not just salaries of company lawyers and payments to local counsel but also the payment of judgments in cases where plaintiff verdicts have survived all appeals?
"Secondly, instead of using broad adjectives like 'significant,' would you give shareholders the specific dollar amount of the company's legal budget and a breakdown by category of cases?"
In response, Mr. Holton said that the amount paid in judgments is not included in the "legal budget" category. He also said that the company provides overall amounts for the legal budget, though not broken down by category of cases, to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Two shareholder resolutions were defeated. The first, supported by the North Carolina AFL-CIO, called on RAI's Board of Directors to prepare a report "on the steps the Company has taken to reduce the risk of acute nicotine poisoning ('Green Tobacco Sickness') for farmworkers in the Company's supply chain for tobacco. The report should include a quantitative summary of the results of the Company's inspections of its suppliers." The supporters of the resolution noted that children "who are under age 18 work as tobacco farmworkers in the United States and are exposed to Green Tobacco Sickness as an occupational risk. A 2014 Human Rights Watch report described symptoms of Green Tobacco Sickness in nearly three-quarters of 141 child tobacco workers, ages 7 to 17, who were interviewed and worked in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia in 2012 or 2013."
The second resolution, which dealt with issue of forced labor in tobacco fields, was sponsored by the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Specifically, the proposal noted that, "with U.S. immigration reform stymied, undocumented workers (often the main workforce in many agricultural areas) can be exploited. In their country of origin they often must pay contract labor brokers thousands of dollars to cross our borders; once here, they often are under the control of other labor contractors in order to work on U.S. farms. This practice results in forms of forced and compulsory labor on many, if not most, U.S. farms, including tobacco farms."
The proposal called on RAI's Board of Directors to "create a policy that all its suppliers throughout its tobacco procurement supply chain verify (with independent monitoring) their commitment and compliance regarding non-employment, directly or indirectly, of laborers who have had to pay to cross the U.S. border to work or, once here, to work on U.S. farms."
Father Michael Crosby presented the proposal and noted that currently RAI is financially benefitting from forced labor. That is a fundamental moral issue that must be addressed, he added.
In seconding this resolution, I noted that RAI's opposition statement that the issue of forced labor is "an issue that should be addressed in a comprehensive manner as part of immigration reforms and policies at the national level" was technically true but amounted to an excuse to pass the buck since there is no likelihood that the current Congress will allow a comprehensive immigration reform bill to be voted upon, given the track record of the House majority in the last Congress.
So, in this regard as in so many other aspects of Reynolds American's business, the status quo continues.
PHAI Submits Comments on Proposed Mass AG Regulations for E-Cigarettes
Friday, May 1st, 2015
On April 23, 2015, the Public Health Advocacy Institute submitted the following written comments concerning proposed regulations for electronic cigarettes issued by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey:
April 23, 2015
Amber Villa, Assistant Attorney General
Consumer Protection Division
Office of the Attorney General
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Re: Massachusetts Attorney General Proposed Regulations of E-Cigarettes Retail Sales
Dear Assistant Attorney General Villa:
On behalf of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law (PHAI), I am writing in response to Attorney General Maura Healey's
request for comment on the proposed regulation of e-cigarettes sales. We at PHAI are dedicated to protecting and improving public health through law and legal policy. We enthusiastically support the proposed regulations to reduce youth access to e-cigarettes.
The three-fold increase in e-cigarette use among middle and high school age youth from 2011 to 2013 demands a response. [1] Now a quarter of all high school age children and eight percent of middle school age children use e-cigarettes and do so regularly. [2] We appear to be watching tobacco become 'cool again' among youth, and this time it is e-cigarettes.
This alarming trend sadly is not surprising. E-cigarette advertisements appear everywhere, promoting brands like Blu, which suddenly have become as recognizable as Marlboro and Camel. Additionally, candy and other exotic flavored e-cigarettes are contributing to the growing popularity among youth. Tobacco industry documents discovered through litigation tell us that manufacturers used such flavors in the past to target sales at children. [3] Today, e-cigarette manufacturers may be doing the same thing with flavors like Cotton Candy, Sweet Tart and even Unicorn Puke. [4] Unicorn Puke is a mash-up of candy flavors.
PHAI applauds Attorney General Healey's effort to stop the sale of e-cigarettes to children. Although some municipalities already established similar youth access
protections, many have not. [5] The thousands of retailers in these municipalities can legally sell to children of any age. Unattended vending machines and self-services displays, which lead to youth acquisition of tobacco products, are allowed. Even online retailers do not need to verify a buyer's age, if the product is delivered anywhere in these cities and towns. Attorney General Healey's proposed regulation would stop these retail practices.
The leadership shown by Attorney General Healey also challenges others to join her and develop a more comprehensive public health response to e-cigarette use. Our state legislators, state agencies, and public health partners working at the municipal level must also respond in a coordinated and sustained manner. The e-cigarette industry appears to be acting just like tobacco manufacturers did decades ago. Partly, this similarity can be explained by the fact that many cigarette manufacturers also manufacture e-cigarettes. [6] Another, perhaps more important reason we appear to be reliving the tobacco industry's past is because we are letting it happen through our own inaction.
Consider just some of the differences in regulatory oversight. E-cigarette advertisements are on television and cable. Other tobacco products are not because it would be illegal. The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which prohibits the use of cartoons in tobacco advertising and tobacco brand sponsorships at youth oriented events, is not applied to e-cigarettes. [7] Candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes are prohibited, [8] but exotic flavored e-cigarettes are heavily promoted and sold in Massachusetts. We tax tobacco products to dissuade use and help pay for tobacco prevention programs. [9] There is no tax on e-cigarettes. We passed smoke-free workplace laws to protect against secondhand smoke exposure and to de-normalize smoking. [10] Except for a few municipalities, [11] no such equivalent protection exists for e-cigarette emissions.
Attorney General Healey takes a strong first step in establishing at least some proportionality in e-cigarette regulation compared to other tobacco products. Although initial research suggests that e-cigarettes are a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, scientific research also tells us that e-cigarettes are not safe. Just last week, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden stated that e-cigarettes are not safe, in part, because "research had found that nicotine harms the developing brain." [12] In addition to a lifelong addiction to nicotine, exposing the young, developing brain to nicotine acts as a 'gateway' to other drug addictions. [13]
Additionally, e-cigarettes emit other constituents that should raise concerns for the public's health. Monitoring of e-cigarette emissions has found varying levels of toxins and carcinogens in different brands and product types. [14] The range is broad. Some brands emit trace amounts of carcinogens, while other e-cigarette products, like refillable tank systems for example, can produce levels of formaldehyde comparable to combusted tobacco products. [15] Currently, there is no regulation of liquid or gel solution in e-cigarettes or how they are vaporized. Put simply, e-cigarettes are not a cessation product designed to end the harm caused by tobacco use or nicotine addiction.
PHAI would recommend one technical change in the proposed regulation. The regulations should not set "18 years of age" as the minimum sales age. Instead, the proposed regulations should use the minimum sales age set by the Legislature. Currently, that age is 18, but proposed state legislation would raise it to 21. [16] Several municipalities have already taken this step. [17]
Respectfully submitted,
Christopher Banthin, Esq.,
Program Director
1 Intentions to Smoke Cigarettes among Never-Smoking U.S. Middle and High School Electronic Cigarette Users, National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2011-13, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, April 2015.
2 Id.
3 United States v. Phillip Morris, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., 449 F.Supp.2d 1 (D.D.C. 2006).
4 Sabrina Tavernise, Use of E-Cigarettes Rises Sharply Among Teenagers Report Says, New York Times, April 17, 2015.
5 Donald Wilson, Municipal Tobacco Control Technical Assistance Program, Mass Municipal Ass'n (March 2015).
6 Big Tobacco Companies are Putting Big Warning Labels on Their E-Cigarettes, Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2014.
7 http://www.naag.org/naag/about_naag/naag-center-for-tobacco-and-public-health.php, visited on April 19, 2015.
8 21 U.S.C. § 387g.
9 Mass Gen Law. Ch 64C.
10 Mass. Gen Law. Ch. 270, Sec. 22.
11 Donald Wilson, Municipal Tobacco Control Technical Assistance Program, Mass Municipal Ass'n (March 2015).
12 Tavernise, supra, n. 4.
13 Eric Kandel, et al., A Molecular Basis for Nicotine as a Gateway Drug, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 371, Pp. 932-41 (2014).
14 US Food and Drug Administration. Final Report on FDA Analyses, May 4, 2009, available at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf
15 Matt Richtel, Some E-Cigarettes Deliver a Puff of Carcinogens, New York Times, May 3, 2014.
16 House Bill 2021, An Act Further Regulating the Sale of Tobacco Products to Teenagers, 189 General Court 2015.
17 Wilson, supra, n. 5.
PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mark Gottlieb – 617-373-2026
The Public Health Advocacy Institute ("PHAI") announced today that its newly formed Center for Public Health Litigation has filed lawsuits against two major tobacco companies and several local distributors on behalf of the families of two former smokers who suffered devastating disease from smoking cigarettes.
"This is the first time a non-profit organization has directly taken on the tobacco industry in court," said Richard Daynard, University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University School of Law and the President of PHAI. "Big Tobacco kills more than 50% of the people who buy its products, and it has for years tried to deny its legal responsibility for this public health calamity. The Center for Public Health Litigation is going to ask the Massachusetts courts to hold the tobacco companies accountable in these two cases, and in more cases to be filed soon."
The two cases were filed yesterday afternoon in the Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn. The first was brought for the family of James E. Flavin, Jr., a former executive of Filene's and Staples, who died of lung cancer in 2012 after smoking Newport cigarettes for over 40 years. Mr. Flavin had tried repeatedly to quit smoking, using almost every method he could find, including
nicotine patches, hypnosis, and numerous other cessation products. The companies named as defendants in Mr. Flavin's case are Lorillard Tobacco Company, manufacturer of Newport cigarettes, and two local distributors, Garber Bros, Inc. of Stoughton and Albert H. Notini & Sons, Inc. of Lowell.
The second case was brought for Patricia Greene, a Newton realtor, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013, even though she had stopped smoking 25 years earlier. Ms. Greene, like many others, had begun smoking as a result of being given free Marlboro cigarettes in downtown Boston when she was a teenager. The companies named as defendants in Ms. Greene's case are Philip Morris USA, Inc., manufacturer of Marlboro, and Star Markets Company, Inc. of West Bridgewater, owner of the store where Ms. Greene bought her cigarettes for years.
According to Andrew Rainer, the Director of the Center for Public Health Litigation, "Massachusetts is now the best state in the country in which to bring suit against the manufacturers and sellers of cigarettes, because of a 2013 ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court." In that 2013 case, Evans v. Lorillard Tobacco Co., the Court ruled that a manufacturer of cigarettes could be held responsible for the death of one of its customers, because it could have manufactured a cigarette that was safer and less addictive, but chose not to. The high Court's decision also upheld an award of damages to the deceased customer's family of $35 million plus interest. The case was later settled for $79 million.
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Chevrolet showed off the new Colorado and it is coming to America soon. I think it is already screwed because it is using the old design style from the old Traverse, while the new Traverse and Impala have moved onto a completely different look( thats also better). Will this make the new Colorado look old and dated? Even though the new Colorado is supposed to be a totally new truck, will the old Traverse style make it DOA?
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The Colorado has been doomed since day one with the current. Looks like a foreign truck and a reason the new one might not do well. Probably why the global Ranger isn't coming to the US.
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The biggest reason the Colorado is doomed is that people don't buy small trucks anymore.
atvman:The biggest reason the Colorado is doomed is that people don't buy small trucks anymore.Thats it.
I'm guessing it gets the new front clip when it gets here.
GM to the end.
I too think it will get a tweaked front end when it arrives but its still not a pretty truck.
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I must be the only one who likes the front end. It's very elegant for a truck.
The softness of chevy's car "face" doesn't belong on a truck. Makes it looks soft and weak....so yes, unless it gets a new more rugged face I have doubts. Honestly, even with a more trucklike look I don't think it'll do much better than the current twins are. Maybe some increased sales with the Ranger no longer around.
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Really? It's obvious the market is dying for a small truck that doesn't suck. The Tacoma is the best in the segment but even it sucks big time compared to all the full-sizers. If a small truck had the technology, refinement and style of a full-size it would sell like crack in the ghetto.
GM to the end.
What goes around comes around. With current and increasing gas prices, smaller trucks will return. In fact, I traded my Dodge Hemi Ram 1500 for a Chevy Equinox, but miss having a truck and plan to trade for the 2013 Colorado BECAUSE it is a smaller truck and has a passenger car appearance. Not all trucks have to be Macho.
I can't see changing the front end being too hard. If they don't, then i don't have high hopes for it. it isn't very attractive in it's current form, and considering how great the new 'Nox and specifically Impala are going to look, switching the styling seems like a no brainer for the Colorado. Plus i think their new styling has a little more tough and "macho" look to it, more suitable for a truck.
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i don't think so, there was that one Colorado Tester a while back on WOT.why would they cover the Colorado with camo? unless it was to get some US exclusive sheet steel or it could have been the Canyon. either way ours will probably look different just like the Colorado we get is way different from the Holden Colorado but based on the same truck.
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what i find funny though is that the current Chevy grill was first worn on the Tahoe, a truck.
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If anything the new Colorado looks like a buff Equinox, not a Traverse, I dont see that whatsoever outside of sharing a split grill. This forum has such weird taste sometimes, this is the only place I've heard of anyone who didn't like the elegant-yet-chiseled look of the new Colorado.The new truck needs two things for success: great powertrains and its gotta be much more affordable than the Silverado, both of which the old truck failed to do.
I think if they gave the Colorado the new Traverse grill and the side styling from the new Impala that it would be a really nice looking truck. No matter what they do it will look better than its competition.
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(March 25, 2005)--The university magazine, Sombrilla, has won four awards for its editorial and design and content.
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The awards, given by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), will be presented in April at the 2005 CASE District IV conference in Houston.
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The Sombrilla production team received two awards each in writing and design for work in three 2004 issues.
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Peter Gammons' unfortunate incident focused the spotlight on cerebral aneurysms, but my connection is more personal. My mother had a cerebral aneurysm rupture way back in 1977 and was fortunate to survive.
|Draft Strategy: Be strong at scarce positions offensively, avoided the dreaded Pitcher-AAA as always, and work on building a better bullpen to compensate for the lack of early starting pitchers. I sort of strayed from that strategy by taking John Lackey relatively early, and I might have a problem at second base if Jose Lopez doesn't pan out. I wanted to build a good core under the age of 30, and I did a fairly decent job of that. One of my harder decisions was my first one--Grady Sizemore vs. Joe Mauer. The consensus seems to be that I went the wrong with Sizemore--the consensus could be right, but I get the idea that three years from now Mauer won't be catching as often, to preserve his knees. Maybe that's too far forward to look, but at the same token, I see Sizemore as basically being risk-free.
I participated in the Mock Draft in the Scoresheet newsgroup, and because of that I expected the draft to be a little more prospect-heavy early-on. With the notable exception of Nate Silver, it wasn't, which suits me fine. I'm happy to have Brignac and Adam Miller among my top prospects.
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Jonah Keri introduces us to the participants in Baseball Prospectus' Celebrity Scoresheet League.
Even the most die-hard Rotisserie player would stop short of calling the game a perfect proxy for the real thing, though. Roto's focus on statistics such as RBI, stolen bases, saves and wins are enough to make any card-carrying stathead scurry for the soothing comfort of his VORP tables. Luckily there are games that do a better job of replicating real-life baseball. Strat-O-Matic incorporates such elements as defense and strategic decisions (taking the extra base, bunting, hit-and-run plays) into its game. Strat does fall short in one element though, as it relies on the previous season's stats to generate the action. "What, Derrek Lee hit another three-run homer? Shocking!"
Scoresheet Baseball, on the other hand, combines realistic game results with current-year statistics. If Eric Chavez goes 11-for-24 in a given week, you get the benefit of that offensive outburst and Chavez's Gold Glove defense during the corresponding week on the Scoresheet schedule. Scoresheet has a few flaws too. It doesn't account for park effects for one, making Rockies hitters and Nationals pitchers appear more valuable than they are in reality. Still, it's a challenging, fun-to-play game that's a departure from traditional rotoball.
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The Marlins are undertaking another fire sale, but as Nate argues, this one can be justified by the numbers.
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11/01/2013 / Christian Living
We live in a day where there is a significant amount of training, seminars and conferences for everything you can possibly name, especially on the subject of leadership. In most leadership books and seminars they will tell you, true leadership can be defined as "Influence". Whatever or whoever has the "influence" has the leadership. So, if that is true and I believe most people would agree with that statement. We must ask the question. What or who is truly influencing our generation in the times we live in? Those types of questions must truly be asked in order to change our current culture for the better. The greatest influencer/ leader of all time was the man Jesus Christ. He was able to take 12 men from all different types of back grounds and change the World. In 3 years time with these 12 men, they created a stir with a message that burned in the hearts of men when they heard it and touched a generation forever. Still today the influence they had is spread all over the world in churches, televisions and in our living rooms. Jesus was able in a short time to create a burning passion in the hearts of men that caused them to come and follow him and live a life of faith that never had been seen before. Today we need to be inspired once again to leave everything like the disciples did and follow Him with reckless abandonment!
Not only was Jesus a great man of influence He was a man that inspired people to follow Him. In Job 32:8, says- "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding". The word inspiration means here "God Breathed". We need to be inspired once again in our churches, youth groups, home groups, high schools, and universities. We need God to breathe on us again and again in a fresh way. So we can burn with a great passion for this generation and the lost just like Jesus did! The bible says, "As He is so are we in this world". That burning passion that Jesus possessed was a passion He received from the Holy Spirit. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to once again be real and relative in America, in our cities and in our churches. We see great miracles and true hunger in 3rd world countries for God to touch them ever where we travel. I have come to this conclusion. The same Holy Spirit that is in Africa and Central America is the same Holy Spirit that is here in our churches and all of America. When the Holy Spirit descended from Heaven and landed on Jesus, that moment thrust Him into His ministry!! Then He told us in the Gospel of Luke to wait for the promise of the Father and to be endowed with power from on High! The ministry of the Holy Spirit is readily available for us today to demonstrate the power and love of Jesus Christ. When we allow Him to influence us and lead us. When we allow Him to inspire us once again and breathe on us in a fresh way, He Will burn us and mark us with the same passion and burning that Jesus possessed. Then we too will be a generation and a church changed by Holy Ghost fire. Then we can truly say, "As He is so are we in this World". Burning for the lost, changing a generation and being led by the influence of the Holy Spirit!
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A fighting game in French
Friendly Strike is fighting game for 2 players, controlled by the cpu or a friend. The objective is to defeat your opponent in a face to face combat and to collect as much money as you can to by better weapons.
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Why Does Steve King Need To Be Reminded Of His Responsibilities To The People Of Iowa's 5th District
Why Does Steve King Need To Be Reminded Of His Responsibilities To The People Of Iowa's 5th District?
King Claims His "Most Important Job Right Now" Is The Iowa Republican Party
As Republican Steve King (IA-05) contemplates a gubernatorial run in 2010, he seems to have forgotten his responsibilities to the people of Iowa's 5th Congressional District. During a taping of Iowa Public Television's "Iowa Press" on Monday, Congressman King said "his most important job now is to work to reunify the Republican Party in the state." Since when is reunifying a broken political party the priority of hardworking families in western Iowa, and how exactly does this help them during these difficult economic times?
"Times are tough, as Iowa families continue to lose their jobs and parents worry about putting food on the table, it is inexcusable for Congressman Steve King to ignore the needs and priorities of his constituents so he can advance his political career," said Gabby Adler, the Midwestern Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Steve King's job in these difficult economic times is to put aside partisan politics to help create jobs, spur economic growth, and protect the people he represents. If Congressman King doesn't like his job, he can always go back to King Construction if his company can survive the recession affecting so many others."
Congressman Steve King just doesn't get it. While he focuses on his political career more than 2.6 million Americans have lost their jobs, the stock market has plummeted wiping out nearly $7 trillion stock market wealth and endangering thousands of investors' nest eggs, and one in 10 homeowners was delinquent on mortgage payments or is in foreclosure this fall. Currently, there are 77,100 Iowans looking for work to seemingly no avail.
Congressman Steve King continues to 'just say no' to passing a responsible recovery package that would immediately jump-start the economy, create jobs, and help struggling families and communities. Instead, King professes partisan ideals and pushes for failed economic policies, including a suspension of the capital gains tax.


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A blog post from Christopher Lilienthal, originally published on Third and State.
So have you ever used Travelocity to book a flight? Or the Consumer Reports web site to research a new car?
Then you probably know the value of comparative shopping. I, for one, never book a flight before comparing just about every option and airline. What is the cheapest day of the week to fly, which airline offers nonstop flights, how long will I be in the air?
As Antoinette Kraus of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) wrote in an op-ed last week:
Sites like Travelocity have made air travel, car rentals and hotel bookings more convenient, competitive and affordable.
The same can't be said for health insurance, but that's about to change. The federal Affordable Care Act calls for the creation of competitive health-insurance marketplaces by 2014 to provide individuals and small businesses with a place to buy high-quality, affordable health coverage.
Pennsylvania's Insurance Commissioner is holding hearings this month to gather public input on what the state's new health insurance marketplace should look like. Hearings were held outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia earlier this month, with the third and final hearing happening today near Harrisburg. Sharon Ward of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center will be one of the testifiers at that hearing.


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Published in electronic (PDF) format by Coca Cola's Business Solutions unit is the original 1994 report, 'Measured Marketing', which at the time became the 'Loyalty Bible' for food retailers around the world, providing a framework for a profitable loyalty program. Although Woolf's more recent 'Access Pricing' mechanism should be considered in addition, at the time of the study (given the limited technology of the time) two-tier pricing was recommended because it cost nothing (as opposed to the 1% sales rebate programs that were then in place within a few European food retailers)...
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Brian Woolf explains how today's true Loyalty Leaders are doing it...
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The techniques and metrics Brian Woolf has developed have become guiding principles for those operating some of the world's most successful programs. He is the President of the Retail Strategy Center, and has consulted, and spoken at conferences, in the US, Europe, Japan, and Australasia.
Prior to his total commitment to loyalty marketing, his corporate roles included Deputy Managing Director of Progressive Enterprises, a major New Zealand retailer; and Chief Financial Officer of Food Lion, a leading US food retailer. He has an M.Com. (Economics) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.


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Located in Lenexa, Extended Stay America Kansas City - Lenexa - 87th St. is in the suburbs and close to KC Indoor Skatepark and Overland Park Farmers Market. This aparthotel is within close proximity of Oak Park Mall and Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park.
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They came, they shopped, they explored, and by the end of their whirlwind tour in Vacaville this week, two happy-go-lucky Colorado-based travelers were a little loath to leave.
"It's fun," said Juliana Broste, 28. "Everyone's very excited."
Broste, also known as TravelingJules, and her 62-year-old mom Joan Broste, also known as TravelingJoan, popped into the city Saturday night in their little Saab. Their goal -- some intense sightseeing as part of a "Best of the Road" contest sponsored by USA Today and Rand McNally.
The mother-daughter team is one of five chosen to drive across America in search of the nation's best small towns. They've explored, blogged reviews, shot photos and more during their investigations. If found to be the best traveling duo, they'll win a $10,000 prize.
Vacaville, meanwhile, is a finalist in the "most fun" category, with 101 votes helping to pave the way toward national recognition. Competitors include Glenwood Springs, Colo.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Santa Claus, Ind.; Park City, Utah; and Yellow Springs, Ohio. Should Vacaville be victorious, it will be featured in Rand McNally's "Best of the Road" cross-country rally this summer and in the 2013 Rand McNally atlas.
The Brostes have been busy since their arrival, mingling with locals and sampling local fare. Highlights included shopping at the Vacaville Premium Outlets and spa pampering at 36 Oaks. Monday found the pair at Peña Adobe Park and its museum, awestruck by the Africa exhibit at the Vacaville Museum, indulging in tasty fare at Los Reyes in Town Square and hopping into a Jelly Belly Plane at the Nut Tree Airport, among other activities.
On the agenda that night -- enjoying a pre-grand opening celebration of Buffalo Wild Wings, slated to welcome the public on Wednesday.
"We're looking for a broad range of fun. A diversity of fun, for people who are active and not active, who have money and don't have money," explained Joan who, like her daughter, have traveled extensively internationally. There's got to be something for everyone, she continued, for individuals and families, those who love art and those who want to shop, and more.
"We look at things through different lenses," added Juliana. "We have more difference than we have in common."
Juliana described herself as sporty and in search of active ventures. Joan, meanwhile, is a retiree who still loves adventure but "likes plants and to see what's in people's window boxes."
Each found much to like about Vacaville, they said, as well as the other locations they've scouted.
"I really like most small towns from this experience," said Joan, promising to visit more of them during her frequent jaunts.
"I love that uniqueness," Juliana chimed in. "We're really excited to point out to the judges how each town excels. We really had a great time in all the cities.
Winners in all "Best of the Road" categories are slated to be named within the next week or so.
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CORBIN, Fannie (Faye)
On Friday, January 25, 2013, at her home. Beloved wife of the late Ralph Corbin. Loving mother and mother- in-law of Shauna, and Barry and Ruth. Devoted grandmother of Daniel, Jonathan, and Samantha. Predeceased by her siblings Goldie, Percy, Etta, and Chippy. Special thanks to her caregivers Erly, Babylyn, Jacqui, Helen, and Glenda. A woman who spent her life helping others, giving unreservedly and without expectation, she will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin) for service on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. Interment Holy Blossom Memorial Park. Shiva 112 Roxborough Drive. Memorial donations may be made to the Corbin Family Endowment Fund c/o The Baycrest Foundation, 416-785-2875 or www.baycrest.org/donations, or to a charity of your choice.
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A Greenbush woman accused of taking part in a major bath salts operation in the Bangor area has admitted to the crime.
Jessica Bryden, 22, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute the drug.
Authorities say the drug ring took place between April and December of 2011.
Bryden is one of fourteen charged as part of the conspiracy.
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