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Audio Recording of Police Shootout With Boston Bombers
There was a car chase and shootout in Boston last night, after a campus police officer at MIT was shot and killed by the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects. The two suspects then carjacked a Mercedes and led police on a chase, and at one point they started throwing EXPLOSIVES from the car. This is from a video someone posted of the shootout between the car chase suspects and the police. You can hear dozens of gunshots, and cops yelling directions to each other about whom to shoot at. (At :16 someone asks, quote, "You guys got rifles?" A few seconds later someone says, quote, "White t-shirt! White t-shirt!" And at :25 the guy behind the camera asks something that sounds like, quote, "Is this related to the, the terrorists?" The Boston Globe reported later that there was one suspect from the Boston Marathon bombing dead, after the car chase ended in Watertown, about ten miles west of Boston.)


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WHEREAS, a proclamation was issued February 10, 1890, by the President, making known and proclaiming the acceptance of the Sioux Act approved March 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 888) by the different bands of the Sioux Nation of Indians, and the consent thereto by them as required by the said Act:
AND WHEREAS, the proclamation contains the following clause:
AND WHEREAS, a proclamation was issued February 7, 1903, by the President, declaring said lands subject to disposal under the provisions of the said Act, except 160 acres of land reserved and set apart for the use of St. Johns Mission School;
AND WHEREAS, due notice has been received that the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society no longer desires the use of the lands
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set apart for the St. Johns Mission School by the Secretary of the Interior, and excepted from disposal in the proclamation of February 7, 1903, as aforesaid, said lands being described as follows:
NOW, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do declare the said tract of land subject to disposal under the provisions of said Act.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.
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Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy -- Prishe's Voice Actress Revealed
Plus, find out how you can get some special clothing for Squall!
Final Fantasy XI's Prishe made her Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy debut in a trailer shown at Square Enix's 1st Production Department Premier event a couple of weeks back. The magazines have at last caught up on the coverage, with the character getting some space in Weekly Shounen Jump this week.
The big revelation in the article is that Prishe will be voiced by Aya Hirano, a prolific voice actress with numerous anime and games to her credit (including Hana from the Yakuza series and Kanonno from Tales of the World).
The magazine doesn't seem to say much about the character in the way of gameplay details, only noting that she uses a fighter style. For a more in-depth look, we'll probably have to wait for Famitsu (which usually trails Jump by about a week for Dissidia coverage).
Also in Jump, a look at Vaan's Third Form, which is themed around the character's Final Fantasy Tactics A2 look, and gives him a bowgun for use in battle.
The magazine also reveals that the April issue of sister monthly publication V Jump (due for release on February 21) will have a huge feature on Duodecim. The magazine will include a product code for a costume of some form for Final Fantasy VIII's Squall.


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Two arrested in Eureka Police Decoy Shoulder Tap Operation
EUREKA- Two men were arrested and cited during a Eureka Police Department Decoy Shoulder Tap Operation targeting adults who purchase alcohol for minors.
On Saturday 39 year old Junior Rudy Ramirez of Eureka and 38 year old Ronald Edward Griffith of Yreka were arrested during the operation. Both allegedly agreed to buy alcohol for a minor working with the police.
The program is meant to cut down the availability of alcohol to minors. Those who do purchase alcohol for minors can face a minimum of a $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service.


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7 Recommendations
J-Yazdani's recommendation
Prepare to rock around the globe with Guitar Hero⢠III: Legends of Rock. Battle against some of the greatest legends to ever shred on a guitar and become one yourself! Take your skills online against other Guitar Hero players from around the world.
Thanks for posting this - guitar hero is a great game - nice to see there's a new installment.
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Lastblade's recommendation
Fun game
DeliFresh's recommendation
Slayer? Fall Of Troy? Master Tracks as opposed to re-recorded songs? The new Guitar Hero is a blast.
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KGB's recommendation
Addicting. The newest addition to the Guitar Hero gaming line up adds may new artists to happily play along with. Some which stand out are: Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Slayer, Iron Maiden, and Aerosmith. Their songs were made to be played to. The other plus is how the new wireless controller makes playing along with the on screen notes very fun. You are no longer tethered to your system and can now move around however you like. The addition of the online gaming aspect makes it feel like your buddy is right there beside you playing. I have the Xbox 360 edition so I can not review how the PS3 edition works. But I'd guess it to be similar. With games being prices above 50 and above these days, my budget only allows for a few to be purchased per year. Guitar Hero has not disappointed so far.
whosdiary's recommendation
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock:-$60.00
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pokelovesyou's recommendation
keeps life awesome!
kormiston1's recommendation
Yes I know. It Is Trendy, but once I learned how it worked I could not put the stupid thing down haha. I had to get one of my own so I could practice for the next "concert" aka wii party.
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The chief executive of the TTC is promising a "fresh start" to east-end residents whose battle over second exit proposals for Donlands and Greenwood stations was the subject of a damning report from the city's ombudsman.
Fiona Crean's investigation exposing a "total failure" on the part of the transit agency to engage in meaningful public consultation is littered with unflattering adjectives, describing the TTC as "arrogant," "patronizing" and having demonstrated a "callous disregard" of the residents it serves.
The probe dates back to June 2010, when the Toronto Transit Commission informed residents near Donlands and Greenwood stations that it intended to build two second exits on Strathmore Blvd by tearing down four houses.
While a complaint was submitted by residents who live near Donlands, the ombudsman's report found that neither community was properly consulted.
Ms. Crean listed numerous missteps by the TTC in an October report, from a failure to give property owners enough notice — a man was informed by the media that his Greenwood area property was to be expropriated, and only contacted by the agency on the day the acquisition was to be approved — to creating a "two- minute rule" that supposedly stipulated the amount of time passengers have to travel from the platform to a point of safety. TTC relied on that rule, which didn't exist until then, to discard virtually all the alternative options put forward by Donlands residents.
At a TTC meeting on Wednesday, Commissioner Glenn De Baeremaeker called it a "dark day for the TTC," saying it had "betrayed public trust" throughout the episode.
CEO Andy Byford, who was not at the helm of the agency at the time, said the report makes him cringe. "No argument from us: the consultation was nowhere near good enough," he told commissioners. "We need a fresh start of this process."
He accepts all of Ms. Crean's recommendations, which have been or will be implemented, and recently attended a public meeting during which he explained the status.
The Greenwood project has been deferred for five years while Donlands' second exit has been put off for two years, in part because it may be a terminus for a Downtown Relief Line.
But Mr. Byford disputes some of Ms. Crean's findings, such as the allegation that the TTC treated Donlands and Greenwood residents differently and that it failed to consider other exit options. The TTC has already overhauled how it communicates with the public and local councillors on construction projects. Strathmore residents remain skeptical that anything will change.
"This is not an issue of NIMBYism," said Lisa Dymond, a leading voice opposing the Donlands plans. "All of the alternative locations that the community has put forward still require a large portion of my front lawn to build the tunnel." She said she only found out earlier this year that a construction budget had been approved when she encountered a TTC engineer taking pictures of the front of the house.
"When I asked about it she said she was designing the ramp and the walkway I would have to take to get out of my house during construction," said Ms. Dymond.
She also voiced concerns that the TTC is proceeding with the purchase of two properties.
Mr. Byford said doing so enables him to keep all options open, but does not preclude other choices.
The commission asked Mr. Byford to report back on suspending the budgets of the two projects, on reviewing their mandates, retaining a third party oversight monitor and bringing final approval of the second exit locations to the commission.
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Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act of 2004
The Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act of 2004[1] established the legal framework for the distribution of the "Western Shoshone Judgement Funds" stemming from docket 326-K before the Indian Claims Commission. It further establishes an educational trust fund, the "Western Shoshone Educational Trust Fund" comprising the "Western Shoshone Joint Judgement Funds", appropriated in satisfaction of dockets 326-A-1 and 326-A-3 before the United States Court of Claims.
Western Shoshone Judgement Funds[edit]
100% of the Western Shoshone Judgement Funds are designated by the act to be distributed to eligible Western Shoshone members in equal per-capita shares. The progress of the distribution of these funds can be found at US Department of Interior: Indian Affairs website.
According to the testimony[2] of Neal A. McCaleb, then Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of Interior, the judgement funds stem from a 1951 claim by the Te-Mock Bands of Western Shoshone that was concluded in 1979 in Docket 326-K before the Indian Claims Commission. The award was in the amount of $26.1 million. Funds were appropriated on December 19, 1978, to cover this amount.[3] At the time of McCaleb's testimony, the fund contained some $137 million.[3]
Western Shoshone Educational Trust[edit]
The Western Shoshone Educational Trust is charged with distributing the interest from the trust to Western Shoshone members in the form of grants and other educational assistance. The administrative committee comprises seven members; one each from the Te-Moak, Duckwater, Yomba, Ely tribes, one from the Fallon Band of Western Shoshone, one from the Committee of the Duck Valley Reservation, and one representing the general public. The Western Shoshone committee members are each appointed by their various groups, while the member representing the public is appointed by the Secretary of the Interior.
McCaleb's statement[3] identifies the original source and amount of the principal for the trust as one award (Docket 326-A-1) in the amount of approximately $823,000, appropriated by Congress in 1992; and a second in the amount of $29,000 (Docket 326-A-3) appropriated by Congress in 1995. At the time of his testimony, the principal fund of the trust contained some $754 thousand, and the interest fund contained approximately $592 thousand.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Newe (Western Shoshone) website, "Shundahai Network", "Claims Action Alert"
- "Western Shoshone Struggle Earns World Recognition"
- ^ U.S. Public Law 108-270 (July 7, 2004). "Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act" (PDF).
- ^ "McCaleb Statement" (PDF). Statement of Neal A. McCaleb Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on S. 958. August 2, 2002.
- ^ a b c "Indian Affairs - Western Shoshone Claims". U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 1 May 2011.


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Statewide Food System Assessments
Ken Meter, often with Associate Megan Phillips Goldenberg, has performed statewide (or provincial) food system assessments in fourteen states and provinces: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Hawai'i, Indiana, Manitoba, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, & West Virginia. Seven of these are in-depth, and linked below. The others can be accessed by clicking on the box at the right.
Hawaiʻi's Food System: Food for All (2017)
Alaska: Building Food Security in Alaska (2014)
An Overview of Mississippi's Farm & Food Economy (2014)
South Carolina: Making Small Farms Big Business (2013)
Hoosier Farmer? Emergent Food Systems in Indiana (2012)
Ohio's Food Systems: Farms at the Heart of it All (2011)
Mapping the Minnesota Food Industry (2009)
USDA/AMS Toolkit: How to Measure Economic Impacts of Local Foods Work
The long-awaited Economic Impacts Toolkit has been released. Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg of Crossroads Resource Center are co-authors. The Economics of Local Food Systems: A Toolkit to Guide Community Discussions, Assessments and Choices
How do we uphold the integrity of local food?
As more consumers demand local food, some vendors have expanded their concept of "local" in questionable ways. How do we know what is the Real Deal?
Our research for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) found that the foremost quality of local food is that it creates community connections. To learn more, see: The Real Deal: How Do We Define "Local" in a Meaningful and Measurable Way?
Economic Impact Reports!
Critical Analysis of Economic Impact Methodologies
Economic impact analyses often are not as useful as they might be because the data used in calculating impacts is not as precise as users think it is. Furthermore, impact analysis software such as IMPLAN is often used inappropriately, since it is not fully sensitive to the business sectors that drive local foods work. Ken Meter and CRC Associate Megan Phillips Goldenberg have produced a critical analysis of these methodologies, and suggest new directions for measuring economic impacts. This is part of a larger report published by the Illinois Public Health Institute with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Exploring Economic and Health Impacts of Local Food Procurement
Interviews with local food leaders in five selected regions across the U.S. showed how farm-to-school and other institutional food purchasing can help create, and help lead to, positive economic and health impacts. Drawing upon case examples from Vermont, Louisville, Southwest Wisconsin, Tucson, and San Diego, this new report highlights the ways in which economic and health impacts may be measured. Meter and Goldenberg were part of the team that produced this study, published by the Illinois Public Health Institute with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Food Hub Resources from the Midwest:
What is needed for a food hub to thrive?
Shane Tiernan, a banker in Grundy, Iowa, spells out what details need to be pinned down if a food aggregation facility is to cover its operating costs. His report, Can a Diversified Locally Grown Food Aggregation (Hub) Facility be Economically Sustainable in Iowa?, raises most all of the difficult issues that emerge when one plans a food hub. This is an important report to read!
The long road to a cluster of food businesses:
The Twin Cities cooperative grocery sector is now $180 million strong—and it took 40 years to get there. Read this report— The Twin Cities Cooperative Local Food System—by Cooperative Development Services as an antidote to "quick fix" solutions that imagine a food hub can be built overnight. You can also learn what propelled a cluster of food businesses forward in one region. These lessons transfer to other regions as well.
"Food Production Nodes" Build a Web of Support Around a Food Hub (2013)
Many local foods efforts find, when they try to start food hubs, that there is not nearly enough supply of locally grown produce to pay for the operation of an entire warehouse. This poses a dilemma for local foods leaders: do you build an aggregation center and hope that farmers will surface to fill it, or do you work to expand farm production when there is no central place to take the product? Harder still, supply and demand must be in balance at each step of the way, or the situation will be unstable. How do you move forward? Read more
Emerging Greenhouse Technology in the Netherlands (2012)
The Koppert Cress greenhouse near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, aspires to be the "world's most sustainable greenhouse." Here, micro-greens are grown under LED and natural light, then shipped to gourmet restaurants globally. This first-hand report offers a glimpse of pioneering innovations at all stages of production. The firm also operates a similar greenhouse on Long Island in New York. Download report below:
Download Greenhouse report with pictures (large file – 98mb)
Download Greenhouse report without pictures (text-only – 131k)
Local Foods: Potential to Build Wealth & Health in Alabama (2012)
The Food Bank of North Alabama published a beautiful four-color brochure showing the results of Ken Meter's study of their region's farm and food economy in early 2012. The findings were unveiled for the first time at a public meeting sponsored by the Commissioner of Agriculture, John McMillan, in his offices in Montgomery. Read about the food bank's vision for economic development in the Huntsville region. Posted with the permission of the Food Bank of North Alabama.
Local Food Systems: Building Health & Wealth in the Delta (2012)
The Delta Fresh Foods Initiative commissioned the Mississippi Delta Farm & Food Economy study from Ken Meter in early 2012. They used these findings to produce a colorful brochure, outlining their case for addressing what they call a "double crisis of food and health" by building a strong and resilient food system in the Delta. "The key to economic recovery in the Mississippi Delta will be to bring the economy back home," DFFI says, and their document shows just how they will do that. Posted with the permission of the Delta Fresh Food Initiative.
Promising Community-Based Food System Initiatives (2010)
Looking for inspiration? Here is a concise overview of some of the reasons the community-based food movement must flourish, with selected examples of groundbreaking local foods initiatives across the U.S.
The Potential for Urban Agriculture (2009)
Urban Agriculture holds great potential. Did you know that forty-one percent of all farm commodities are sold from farms in metropolitan counties? And that 55% of the money made from producing farm commodities was made in metro regions?
Proposals for Census of Agriculture 2012 (2009)
What if the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture helped communities measure their own health, wealth, connection and capacity, not just farms and commodities? Read these recommendations by Ken Meter of Crossroads Resource Center.
Local Food as Community Economic Development (2008)
Local and state governments now spend $50 billion per year giving incentives to businesses, and often don't get much in return. Building community-based food systems is a better way to refashion the U.S. economy.
Local Food Systems: Building Health & Wealth in Metro Denver (2008)
Food has become a leading cause of death, rivaling tobacco. Colorado spends $874 million per year to pay for the medical costs of obesity. The Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission asked Angie Tagtow and Ken Meter to show the potential local foods systems have to reduce public costs for food-related health conditions. Data like this might help your local officials support the local foods cause.
Neighborhood Balance Sheets Assess Local Economies
How does a low-income neighborhood create a regional destination? First, by understanding its local economy, and then by acting together to strengthen existing capacities. See Ken Meter's White Paper, written for the American Planning Association (APA) (1998).
New Updates! Strategic Recommendations for Regional Farm and Food Economies:
Northeast Indiana (2016)
Economic Developers in the Fort Wayne region asked our team to write an action plan for building local food networks in their region. Our plan will be featured at the International Economic Development Council annual meeting in Toronto in September, 2017. Produced in partnership with Manheim Solutions, Inc., and Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership. Northeast Indiana Local Food Network — Phase 1 Report
Lakes Region (Maine, 2016)
This strategic plan for building local food networks in an area rich with forests and lakes, and a deep heritage of agriculture, found that New England-wide initiatives were less significant than concerted local activity. In particular, we recommended that a local coordinator be hired to ensure that food from local farms was featured in more than 200 community meals that are held each year. In partnership with Cumberland County. Strategic Recommendations
ArkLaTex Region (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, 2016)
Produced in partnership with Slow Food North Louisiana and We Grow Together! Strategic Recommendations
Hancock County, Indiana (2015)
In partnership with Hoosier Harvest Market and the Indiana State Department of Health. Opportunities for Farm-to-School in Hancock County, Indiana
Adams County, Colorado (2016)
In partnership with Logan Simpson Design Firm, Two Forks Collective, City of Brighton & County of Adams. Market Study for Adams County — Special Ag District. District Plan
Spokane Region, Washington (2014)
In partnership with Spokane Region Food Council. Investing In Relationships: How Spokane can best support its emerging local foods industry
Arkansas Farm & Food Economy (2015)
In partnership with Heifer Project International. (Still to be released)
Southwest North Dakota and the Center of North America Coalition (CONAC) Regions of North Dakota (2015)
Three reports produced in partnership with FARRMS in Medina, ND:
Next Steps for Two REAP Zones in North Dakota (2015)
CONAC Region (North Dakota) Local Farm & Food Economy (2015)
Southwest REAP Region (North Dakota) Local Farm & Food Economy (2015)
Rappahannock-Rapidan Region (Virginia, 2015)
In partnership with Rapidan-Rappahannock Regional Commission. Rappahannock-Rapidan Farm & Food Plan
Lewiston + Auburn Region (Maine, 2015)
In partnership with Karp Resources and Grow L+A. Lewiston-Auburn Regional Food Hub Feasibility Study
Now Underway:
Coeur d'Alene Reservation (2016)
In partnership with Benewah Medical Center.
Kalamazoo Valley Region (Michigan, 2016)
In partnership with New Growth Associates and Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
Alaska: Building Food Security in Alaska (2014)
Like most other states, Alaska imports about 95% of the food it purchases. Yet this state is more distant from prevailing food production regions than other states. Alaskans feel a special sense of vulnerability. Despite a rich history in dairy and cattle production, most of these foods are now imported. Much of the arable farmland has been paved over by development. Moreover, Alaskans who wish to purchase some of the $3 billion of seafood harvested from its ocean waters typically have no choice but to buy through Seattle vendors.
Still, farms produce a rich variety of crops and livestock. Direct sales from farmers to household consumers run at 13 times the national average, amounting to one of every six dollars farmers earn selling food to humans. Lettuce, peppers, and cucumbers are available year-round from indoor farms. Chickens are grown inside greenhouses that rely upon surplus heat from nearby buildings.
In no other state is harvesting wild foods as important. Subsistence and personal use hunters bring in an estimated $900 million worth of salmon, caribou, moose, foraged greens and berries, and other foods. Yet even here, hunters and gatherers face special challenges: a decline of hunting skills, weakening ice, changing migrations, and radioactive fallout.
Our study, written by Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg, offers practical steps for building a more reliable food supply by growing, storing, and marketing more Alaska-grown food to Alaskans. Commissioned by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
South Carolina: Making Small Farms Big Business (2013)
Early in 2013, the State of South Carolina commissioned Crossroads Resource Center to produce an investment plan for local foods. Five short months later, after interviewing more than 150 food system leaders, Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg put forward a $9.5 million plan. It calls for a statewide marketing campaign — "Eat Five, Buy Five" — asking consumers to eat five fruits and vegetables each day for health, and to buy $5 of foods direct from farmers each week. If every consumer in the state bought $5 per week, South Carolina farmers would earn $1.2 billion of new revenue, rivaling sales in the state;s produce industry. The plan also calls for the creation of a competitive grants program to support clusters of farms that supply local markets: "Food Production Nodes" that help build a web of support around food hubs. It also calls for ongoing farmer training, with greater statewide coordination. Read more.
"One of the best documents that has been produced in the state to promote rural prosperity in decades."
— Dana Beach, head of the Charleston-based Coastal Conservation League, and founder of GrowFood Carolina
"This is the most massive project ever undertaken to develop a local food supply in South Carolina. Implementation of the results of the study can increase significantly the income of rural counties in our state."
— Jack Shuler, president of the Palmetto Agribusiness Council
Commissioned by the State of South Carolina (Departments of Agriculture and Commerce), South Carolina Farm Bureau, Palmetto Agribusiness Council, Bank of South Carolina, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Coastal Conservation League, and Clemson University Extension.
Hoosier Farmer? Emerging Food Systems in Indiana (2012)
Food business clusters have been emerging in Indiana since the mid-1970s. They are now taking root in farm commodity producing regions. Young members of the Indiana Farm Bureau are positioning themselves for a future of farming that may be very different than the past, knowing that if each Hoosier spent less than $5 per week buying food directly from Indiana farms, this would generate $1.5 billion of new farm income for state farmers—a 20% increase in farm revenue.
Ohio's Food Systems — Farms at the Heart of It All (2011)
Clusters of local foods businesses are forming across Ohio, as residents innovate ways to provide healthier food options,
and bring farmers into more direct contact with consumers. These business clusters focus their attention on building strong relationships of
trust, overcoming a long history of export agriculture. Written by Ken Meter of Crossroads Resource Center for the
University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center, with funds from the
Ohio Department of Agriculture.
Mapping the Minnesota Food Industry (2009)
A study of Minnesota's food economy shows relationships are the key to creating the food industry of the future. Read close interviews with food business leaders, and learn a wealth of facts and figures.
Food With the Farmer's Face On It: Emerging Community-Based Food Systems (2003)
Emerging in thousands of communities all over the U.S., the community-based foods movement seeks to find "Food With the Farmer's Face On It." The W. K. Kellogg Foundation asked Ken Meter to produce a media guide introducing readers to this vital movement.
Generic Scope of Work for Local Economic Analysis
Local foods leaders of 95 regions in 32 states and one Canadian province have asked Ken Meter to study their local farm and food economy. His analysis has played a critical role in animating local foods activity across the continent.
Finding Food in Farm Country (2001)
Launching all of this activity was Ken Meter's original "Finding Food in Farm Country" study of Southeast Minnesota, commissioned by Community Design Center and the Experiment in Rural Cooperation. This has been used as a reference in at least 12 university programs.
Fifty-Year Vision & Indicators for a Sustainable Minneapolis
The City of Minneapolis won national recognition for its sustainability initiative. Central to that effort was a fifty-year vision for the city's future, and specific measures of sustainability, devised by city residents. The public process for defining these indicators was coordinated by Ken Meter of Crossroads Resource Center. This is a fundamental document to read if you want to measure sustainability.
Neighborhood Commercial Development for the Long Term
Our position paper shows that building strong neighborhood commercial districts involves building wealth for local residents.


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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: >> Um, no. This is a useful counterexample: >> WHERE t.a > x.c1 AND t.a < y.c2 > Well, OK. So maybe you also need the operator to be the same as well. Nope. A counterexample to that claim is a GIN index on an array column: WHERE t.arraycol @> array[1,2,3] AND t.arraycol @> array[4,5,6] This restriction is equivalent to WHERE t.arraycol @> array[1,2,3,4,5,6] which is substantially more selective than either constraint alone. If the two RHS arrays are not constants, but are coming from different tables x and y, then we have something isomorphic to the previous example (at least from the perspective of indxpath.c), but it would not be good for indxpath.c to assume that these clauses couldn't be useful together. We *can* make a simplifying assumption of the kind you suggest when we know that the clauses were all generated from the same equivalence class, because then we have very strong assumptions about what the clauses' semantics are. (And indeed the patch does take care of that case separately.) But for the general case of non-equijoin clauses we can't assume very much at all about whether clauses are redundant, at least not without knowledge that indxpath.c hasn't got. >> .... As patched, it will indeed limit what it considers >> to at most one additional clause per index column, once it's hit the >> heuristic limit --- but it's entirely possible for it to miss useful >> combinations because of that. > Seems unfortunate, but I don't understand the code well enough to know > how to do better. Me either. What I will say is that as patched, the code will still find all useful clause combinations as long as there aren't too many other relations involved. I've not been able to think of another way of restricting the search that doesn't reject possibly-useful combinations even in otherwise-very-simple queries. regards, tom lane
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[Vishal Achanta has contributed the following guest post. Vishal is a 5th year student at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi]
Recently, two investment vehicles have been introduced that as per the relevant SEBI regulations are to be set up as trusts: Real Estate Investment Trusts ('REITs') and Infrastructure Investment Trusts ('IITs'). Both are intended to be pooling vehicles for domestic and foreign capital, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India ('SEBI') indicated that further guidelines regarding foreign investment into these vehicles would be laid down by the Reserve Bank of India ('RBI'). This turns the spotlight onto a rather dimly lit corner of our Foreign Direct Investment ('FDI') policy that will need to be evolved to accommodate these vehicles: that of FDI into trusts. The aim of this post is to explore the rules that currently govern these transactions, and suggest the direction that future regulation might take.
Trusts have been the fund vehicle of choice for Venture Capital Funds ('VCFs'; these are nowadays better referred to as Alternate Investment Funds or 'AIFs'[1], and are employed by private equity and venture capital investors) due to their tax efficient nature. Much like REITs and IITs, AIFs are 'domestic pooling vehicles': they are regulated by SEBI and situate in India, but will often collect and deploy foreign capital.
An AIF set up as a trust will issue 'units' in exchange for contributions from investors; the possession of a unit will make the investor a beneficiary of the trust. Again, like REITs and IITs, an AIF's units come with some management rights and entitle the holder to a share of the vehicle's profits (making these 'units' similar to a company's equity). AIFs set up as trusts essentially twist the trust form to mimic a closely held private company or a limited liability partnership ('LLP'); the closest analogy for a REIT or IIT would be a listed company with diffused shareholding.
Thus, in the context of trusts, the FDI is made in consideration for the issue of trust 'units' as opposed to equity or hybrid securities of a company. The transfer or issue of a trust unit for consideration could be regarded as a 'capital account transaction' as defined in section 2(e) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.
Consequently, the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion's ('DIPP') Consolidated FDI Policy 2014, and the RBI's 2014 Master Circular on Foreign Investment lay down that the only trusts that can receive FDI are AIFs[2] set up as trusts, and that such investments will always require a Foreign Investment Promotion Board ('FIPB') approval. That trusts are treated with skepticism is apparent from the Consolidated Policy's readiness to allow AIFs set up as companies to take in FDI through the automatic route, while denying this benefit to AIFs set up as trusts[3].
This discriminatory treatment of trusts is seen in each of the Consolidated FDI Policies released since 2010, and the rationale for this can perhaps be found in the FIPB's 2009 Review[4]. Therein, the DIPP observed that unlike a company, it was difficult to ascertain with whom the ownership and control of a trust lay; in this connection, there have been news reports of proposals for FDI into trusts being rejected because the identity of the beneficiaries was unknown[5]. The DIPP acknowledged that the application of DIPP Press Notes regarding downstream investment to trusts was difficult, and expressed the concern that trust vehicles were largely unregulated[6].
In the 2009 Review, the DIPP had also insisted that a foreign investment made into the defence sector through a VCF set up as a trust adhere to the sectoral cap and other conditions, interestingly reasoning that the units of that particular trust were nearly akin to equity in a company, since the unit holders (i.e., the investors) were able to exercise a high degree of control over the trust. The DIPP suggested that the downstream investment made by a trust into investees should itself be regarded as an indirect FDI in terms of Press Note 2 of 2009, implying that the investment into the trust is the 'upstream' FDI.
In its 2011-2013 Review[7], the FIPB clarified that investments made by the AIF would be regarded as FDI and would have to confirm to sectoral caps and conditions laid down in the Consolidated FDI Policy. The FIPB also seemed to suggest that an AIF could only raise funds (investment into the trust) from investors registered with SEBI as Foreign Venture Capital Investors ('FVCIs'; importantly, FVCIs are not subject to pricing restrictions when they buy, sell or redeem trust units). Another condition imposed by the FIPB was that an AIF's investors must be resident in a country that is a member of the Financial Action Task Force and is a signatory to IOSCO's Multilateral MoU.
From the above paragraphs, two conclusions may be drawn: Firstly, the FIPB Reviews and the news reports cited above point to the conclusion that the concerns that the DIPP/FIPB have with trust vehicles has engendered an attitude of suspicion; resultantly, they only feel comfortable with trust vehicles if the investors into the trust are themselves regulated (like FVCIs are by SEBI), if the investments are subject to their approval, and if certain safeguards against money laundering, securities fraud and terrorist financing exist. For REITs and IITs, the implications of this may be that investors will be required to go through a lengthy and cumbersome approval process before multiple regulators and/or subjected to heavy regulation.
Secondly, an FDI employing a trust, when permitted, is potentially comprised of two 'legs'. The 'first leg' is the issue of trust units to an investor. In the context of AIFs, this is the 'pooling' or 'fund raising', which requires an FIPB approval. The 'second leg' is the downstream investment by the trust: this is regarded as a direct FDI. Whether the 'first leg' is also characterized as a direct FDI, and must comply with FDI rules such as pricing guidelines on purchase and sale/redemption of trust units, is unclear. The Consolidated FDI Policy is silent on this aspect, and it seems strange to suggest that both the 'first leg' and the 'second leg' should be regarded as direct FDIs.
From a conceptual point of view, an argument might be made that the 'first leg' should stand outside the FDI regime, since it is a pooling of capital and not a deployment of it. This would mean that the foreign investment into the trust would be free from FDI conditions such as seeking approvals and pricing guidelines on purchase and sale/redemption of trust units. In the context of REITs and IITs however, the DIPP/FIPB will most likely try to regulate the 'first leg' by making it subject to their approval due to the nature of the investment and the vehicle. It would be desirable if REIT and IIT investors were not subject to pricing guidelines.
The law as it currently stands lacks clarity with regard to the rules that govern the 'first leg', and is marked by a cautious approach to trusts as vehicles for FDI. The status of the 'second leg' also needs to be clarified, given that REITs and IITs may employ special purpose vehicles ('SPVs'), and that these SPVs may be organized as LLPs. Unless addressed promptly in the correct manner, these might prove detrimental to the success of REITs and IITs. It might be productive to begin from the ground up when laying down rules for investment into REITs and IITs, rather than trying to integrate these rules into the current FDI framework. In conclusion, it is worth noting that the only thing that might dissuade investors as much as an adverse regulatory climate is regulatory uncertainty.
- Vishal Achanta
[1] In 2012, SEBI replaced the Venture Capital Fund Regulations, 1996 with the Alternative Investment Fund Regulations. The latter delineates three categories of AIFs, of which VCFs are one sub-category.
[3] See also, Paragraph 220.127.116.11 of the 2014 Consolidated FDI Policy, which requires FIPB approval to be obtained for FDI into every Indian company that is engaged only in the activity of investing in other Indian companies.
[6] At the time the DIPP made these observations, VCFs set up as trusts could choose to remain unregulated by SEBI. This is no longer the position; VCFs, as a sub-category of AIFs, must register with, and be regulated by SEBI.


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The youth internationals scored five in the first half and four in the second to record their biggest win for over 40 years, with Raheem Sterling among the many to hit the net
First-half goals from Michael Keane, Raheem Sterling, Danny Ings, James Ward-Prowse and Thomas Ince gave the hosts an emphatic lead going into half-time having controlled the first-half with ease.
The action resumed in similar vein in the second half as Ings bundled the ball over for the sixth before Sterling added his second and Carl Jenkinson and Will Hughes completed the rout.
England were missing top goalscorer Saido Berahino via suspension, thus allowing Burnley striker Ings the chance to impress up front as one of five changes, while Wilfried Zaha sat on the bench.
Meanwhile, the visitors made three changes from their 2-0 defeat against Moldova on Friday with Mirco Ciambotta, Lorenzo Liverani and Marco Bernardi all starting for the bottom-placed side.
The Young Lions took five minutes to open the scoring last time these two sides met in a 4-0 victory as Keane opened the scoring and Harry Kane hit a hat-trick and it proved a similar story.
It was Keane again who gave England the lead on this occasion, just after 10 minutes, as he rose high from an Ince corner to head a looping ball over the defence and into the corner of the net.
Shortly afterwards, England had doubled their lead through Sterling, who – inside the box – had his shot on goal blocked although San Marino's desperate attempts to clear failed as it rolled in.
Ings, who was making his second appearance for the Under-21s, then gave his side a quick third after finding space in the box to meet a right-wing cross with a cushioned header off the post.
Ward-Prowse then added a fourth goal with a stunning free kick that was weighted perfectly away from the keepers reach before Ince netted one of his own after Ings pulled the ball across the box.
Ince, who had earlier provided the assist for the opening goal, had now scored the final goal in a comfortable first-half display for England where his trickery was a constant threat on the right.
The second half started in similar fashion with England finding an early goal. An attack from the left saw the ball enter the box and Ings dispatched with a scrappy goal similar to the second.
Sterling had his second ten minutes later, lifting the ball into the net over an onrushing keeper. Jenkinson got in on the act almost immediately afterwards with a well-struck shot across goal.
England were in cruise control at this stage and had eclipsed their record win of 8-1 against Finland back in 1977. Hughes then edged them closer to double figures with a stunning strike from distance.
But the Young Lions ended the game with nine as they now take a six-point lead at the top of Group 1 with three games to play and a crunch match with Wales in March next up on the list.


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'It gives me gooseflesh': Remarkable find in S. Side attic
BY KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter firstname.lastname@example.com March 10, 2012 Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), Harvard Class of 1870
• First African American to graduate from Harvard, in 1870.
• Appointed professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, in 1873.
• Admitted to practice law before Supreme Court of South Carolina, in 1876.
• Made dean of Howard University School of Law, in 1879.
• Helped elect several Republican presidents and in 1896 helped persuade the Republican Party to give an unqualified condemnation of lynching.
• Appointed to work for the foreign service in Vladivostok, Russia, in 1898.
• Awarded the Order of the Double Dragon for his services to China, in 1902.
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It wasn't much more than a ghost house by the time Rufus McDonald got the call.
The front door of the abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon was unlocked and swinging in the wind.
Drug addicts, squatters and stray animals carried away whatever they wanted. Everything that wasn't termite-infested seemed to have been stolen. Even the copper pipes were gone.
But the scavengers missed something incredible.
Hidden in the attic that McDonald was contracted to clear before the home's 2009 demolition was a trunk. Inside were the papers of Richard T. Greener, the first African American to graduate from Harvard.
"I didn't know who he was," said McDonald, 51. "But as soon as I found out, I knew this was a story that had to be told."
Historians thought the documents were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake because Greener had passed through at the time. They were astonished to learn in the past week that Greener's 1870 Harvard diploma — water-damaged but intact — his law license, photos and papers connected to his diplomatic role in Russia and his friendship with President Ulysses S. Grant have survived.
"It gives me gooseflesh," said Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who leads Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African-American Research. "Greener was a leading intellectual of his time. It's a remarkable discovery."
His graduation blazed a trail for black Harvard intellectuals including Gates' friend, President Barack Obama, the professor added. "He was the voice before DuBois and the president's predecessor."
Declined money on the spot
When McDonald found the steamer trunk in the Englewood attic, he suspected the contents inside were important but wasn't sure.
The presence of the 1853 book Autographs for Freedom inside added to the intrigue.
Members of his clean-out crew told him to throw the heavy trunk and its contents away.
McDonald knew better.
He packed up the documents in a brown-paper bag and hauled them out of the house, bringing them to a book expert on the North Side.
"Do you know who Richard Greener was?" McDonald was asked. When he told him he didn't, the expert explained Greener's importance.
McDonald was offered money for the documents on the spot, but he declined.
He went back to the Englewood home, hoping to retrieve the steamer trunk. By then, however, not only was the trunk gone, so was the entire house. Demolished.
How the documents got to the Englewood attic is a question that might never be answered. Greener lived the final years of his life with cousins in Hyde Park. But there's no evidence he ever lived in the Englewood home, which is nearly six miles away.
Sadness in personal life
If Greener's importance as a "black first" and his public roles as a brilliant attorney, scholar, diplomat and orator devoted to racial equality secure his place in history, his private life was tainted by sadness, historians say.
Though Greener was helped by a handful of whites, he was resented by some blacks and was trapped under a glass ceiling that prevented him from becoming a more significant figure, they add. The discovery could encourage a fresh look at his legacy.
Born to the son of a slave in Philadelphia in 1844, he left school at 14 and became a porter at a Boston hotel.
A pair of white businessmen took him under their wing and helped him enroll at Harvard in 1865.
Harvard admitted him as "an experiment," according to historian Michael Mounter, who wrote a Ph.D. thesis on Greener. Greener initially struggled but eventually thrived. He made allies including U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner and won prizes for public speaking and essays.
In 1873, he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He dodged an assassination attempt by a "red shirt" at an 1876 rally, but lost his job a year later when racist Democrats were elected.
Became law school dean
Married to Genevieve Ida Fleet, with whom he had six children, he became dean of Howard University's law school; worked at the U.S. Treasury and in Republican politics and law in Washington, and befriended President Ulysses S. Grant, whose memorial he helped build.
A friend and sometimes rival of other leading African Americans of his era, including Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, he wrote in 1879: "The negro has received so many hard knocks, and experienced so little consideration, charity, or justice from those who criticize him, that he has no quarter to give."
In an 1894 essay he pointedly renamed the "Negro Problem" as "The White Problem."
Sick of Washington politics, in 1898 he accepted a post from President William McKinley in Vladivostok, Russia. Leaving his family, he took a Japanese common-law wife, Mishi Kawashima, with whom he had three children. He was praised for his efforts as a U.S. agent during the Russo-Japanese war, but he was fired in 1905 after a smear campaign.
From 1909 until his death in 1922 he lived with cousins at 5237 S. Ellis in Chicago. Cut off from both his families, he was likely visited just once in Hyde Park by his daughter Belle da Costa Greene, according to biographer Heidi Ardizzone.
Along with the rest of Greener's first family, da Costa Greene — the chic director of banker J.P. Morgan's personal library — changed her last name to pass as white in elite New York society. "Greener had so much intelligence and passion and to see his equally talented children not have their achievements counted as African American must have been heartbreaking," Ardizzone said.
Da Costa Greene burned her own personal papers before her death in 1950. The discovery of some of her father's documents in an Englewood attic is "every historian's dream," Ardizzone said.
McDonald "is to be commended" for his discovery, Gates added.
Harvard would love documents
Harvard, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium and Greener's granddaughter from his second marriage, Evelyn Bausman, 75, of Connecticut, all are interested in the documents. Bausman called the find "amazing."
Gates — known for his 2009 "beer summit" on the White House lawn with President Obama and a Cambridge cop who arrested him on his own doorstep — says he would "love to bring the artifacts to Harvard." He said he would offer "a fair price" but warned McDonald not to expect to get rich.
McDonald's own education ended when he graduated from Calumet High School. But he says his research into the story behind the documents has made him proud of Greener's story.
"You have to wonder, if Greener hadn't graduated from Harvard, would Obama have gone to law school there?" he said. "Would Obama be president?"
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by Michael Robert Mounter
Born on January 30, 1844 in Philadelphia, Richard Theodore Greener was raised from the age of ten in Boston. He attended the Broadway Grammar School in Cambridge, Massachusetts until he was fourteen, then dropped out of school to help support his family, working as a porter, clerk and night-watchman in an assortment of jobs. With help from two of his employers, August E. Batchelder and George Herbert Palmer, Greener attended preparatory school at Oberlin College from 1862 to 1864 and Phillips Academy at Andover from 1864 to 1865. Batchelder arranged for Greener's admission to Harvard in 1865 as an experiment in the education of African-Americans. In 1870 Greener graduated from Harvard with honors, the first African-American to do so.
After teaching for two years at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and then serving as principal at the Preparatory School for Colored Children in Washington, D.C. in 1873, Greener accepted the professorship of mental and moral philosophy at the University of South Carolina in October of 1873. On September 24, 1874, Greener married Genevieve Ida Fleet. When the university was closed in June of 1877 by Wade Hampton and the newly elected Democratic regime, Greener moved to Washington, D.C., where he took a position as a clerk in the Treasury Department and as a professor in the Howard Law School. He served as dean of the Howard Law School from 1878 to 1880 and opened a law practice. From 1885 to 1892, Greener served as secretary of the Grant Monument Association and from 1885 to 1890 as a civil service examiner in New York City. In the 1896 election he served as the head of the Colored Bureau of the National Republican Party in Chicago. In 1898, Greener was appointed as the United States Commercial Agent in Vladivostok, Russia, a position he held until 1905.
Greener left the foreign service in 1905, settling in Chicago with relatives. He held a job as an agent for an insurance company and practiced law. He occasionally lectured on his life and times for the remainder of his life. Richard Theodore Greener died of old age in Chicago on May 2, 1922
1880 United States Federal Census about Richard T. Greener
Name: Richard T. Greener
Age: 33
Birth Year: abt 1847
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Home in 1880: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Genevieve Greener
Father's Birthplace: West Indies
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
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Occupation: Treas. Clerk
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Genevieve Greener
Louisa Greener
Lowell Greener
Belle Greener
Mary A. Askins
1880 United States Federal Census about Genevieve Greener
Name: Genevieve Greener
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1853
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Home in 1880: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Richard T. Greener
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: District of Columbia
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Keeping House
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Richard T. Greener
Genevieve Greener
Louisa Greener
Lowell Greener
Belle Greener
Mary A. Askins
Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 about Richard T. Greener
Name: Richard T. Greener
Birth Date: 29 Jan 1844
Birth Place: Phila , PA
Death Date: 2 May 1922
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 5 May 1922
Cemetery Name: Graceland
Death Age: 78
Occupation: School teacher
Race: White
Marital Status: W
Gender: Male
Street Address: 5237 Ellis Ave.
Father Name: Jacob Greener
Father Birth Place: MD.
Spouse Name: Genevieve Fleet
FHL Film Number: 1877159
Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922 about Richard T Greener
Name: Richard T Greener
Birth Date: abt 1844
Death Date: 2 May 1922
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death Age: 78
Gender: Male
Father Name: Jacob Greener
Spouse Name: Genevieve Fleet
FHL Film Number: 1378963


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The wreck happened about 1 p.m., which led to the lanes' closure. Police diverted eastbound traffic into the turn lane for some 30 minutes before the wreck was cleared.
According to authorities, a Nissan Altima rear-ended a Nissan Versa that was trying to turn right onto Rosewood Road.
A passenger in the Versa was injured and taken to the hospital. The extent of the injuries is unknown.


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Hayley Power, Kyle Short, Emma Keats, Hailee Hoyles, Hannah Doyle and Jasmine Crawford, recently graduated Grade 5 students, have turned recycling at their school into something bigger.
The group began collecting the aluminum tabs in October, and to-date have collected several hundred thousand.
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Turns out, the legend is true that collecting the tabs can generate enough income to purchase a wheelchair. But they are not ready to cash in yet.
The magic number of tabs to cash in has to "fill a bathtub."
The students and teachers, Suzanne Chafe (Grade 5) and Judy Hoyles (Grade 6), believe that to be around one million tabs.
On June 25, the students showed The Compass three big boxes and a large plastic tote filled to the top with the collected tabs, but this is just the beginning.
"The students expect to keep going while they are here at Carbonear Academy," Mrs. Chafe explained.
There are signs around the school telling students, teachers, other staff and visitors that they could drop off their tabs at Mrs. Chafe's classroom this year, explaining that they wanted to donate a wheelchair to a sick child in need at the Janeway. Next year, they'll be able to drop them off to Mrs. Hoyles classroom.


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Cool things to do on NYC rooftops when the sun comes out this weekend
Close your eyes, ignore the weather and think of cocktails, art shows and movies at NYC's best rooftop venues
Wed Apr 30 2014
Beth Levendis
Everyone, keep it together. Yes, it's diabolical out there today—New York has moved from medieval winter to monsoon spring in one dastardly stroke. But the sun is in sight! Just check your smartphone weather app now if you don't believe us. See? Temperatures in the mid-60s and actual sunshine on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Boom! What does that mean to you, dear beleaguered New Yorker? It means that at long last, you can get your ass up on a rooftop and do something delicious and outdoorsy this weekend.
Like what? Well, like day-drinking and night-drinking, for one (or two). We recommend you check out our comprehensive list of the best rooftop bars in NYC and take your pick from Gotham's finest elevated booze outposts.
And if your tastes move beyond simply sipping something wet and alcoholic, go straight to our guide to cool things to do on NYC rooftops. Our favorites include catching a movie via Rooftop Films, taking a way-up-high yoga class, having tea at Bloomingdale's and gawking at the Met Museum's gorgeous new rooftop installation. Feel better now? It's going to be okay, New York.
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Then there's the way that everything seems to have been carefully calculated to ensure that Lucy doesn't do or say anything that the public Britney wouldn't. The situations in which she's placed and the dialogue she's been given coyly refer to much-publicised elements of her "private life", but they're devoid of the playfulness that might have given them spark. So it was no surprise that the sizeable audience of teenagers with whom I previewed Crossroads laughed long and hard at it, and at Britney. For her to fulfil the glimpses of promise evident here, she'll have to be prepared (or permitted) to loosen up a lot.
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Catholic church: Pray for the woeful Canadiens
It's come to this for the Montreal Canadiens: The Catholic church is asking people to pray for the last-place NHL team.
The church has placed an ad in Montreal newspapers in hopes of an eighth-place finish and a spot in the playoffs. The ad shows the Eastern Conference standings with every team listed except the Canadiens. In eighth place, the final playoff spot, it simply says "Prions," French for Let Us Pray.
The Canadiens (21-24-9, 51 points) are last in the Northeast Division, and in second-to-last-place in the 15-team Eastern Conference.
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Faced with declining church attendance, the Archdiocese of Montreal is known for its clever campaigns to solicit funds each year. The one-time ad was designed by local firm Bos advertising and appeared in French-language newspapers on Thursday.
"You know, the Catholic church doesn't have the same means as other advertisers, so they need to make an impact," Hugo Leger, vice-president of Bos told The Canadien Press.
The firm says it has long been considering an ad that combines Quebec's two major religions — Catholicism and the secular passion of ice hockey.
According to TSN, Leger said when people get past the joke, they will find a simple message that encourages prayer.
"We just want to remind people that the church exists," Leger said. "And when we say pray, that could mean for the Canadiens, or an invitation to pray in general."
The church has a recent history of using a popular issue to get some attention. Last April, it installed a billboard visible from the crumbling Champlain Bridge that urged motorists to, "say your prayers."
The billboard attracted public attention as the media were reporting almost daily about the need for a new bridge to replace the aging Montreal structure.
Thursday's ad was described as a one-shot deal; the spots were scheduled to appear in two French-language daily newspapers, for one day only.
A spokeswoman for the archdiocese says Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte saw the advertising pitch just a few days ago.
"He immediately accepted and loved the concept," said Lucie Martineau. It was a concept that allows us to be right there with what the people are preoccupied with right now, and send them a little message to pray for the Canadiens."
The Canadiens had high hopes entering the season, but the year has been marred by injuries, notably to top defensemen Andrei Markov and captain Brian Gionta, and by the worst power play in the league. The coach was fired, and the choice of replacement — non-French-speaking Randy Cunneyworth — prompted a protest outside the Bell Centre. The Canadiens would-be sniper, Michael Cammalleri, was traded to Calgary after disparaging what he described as the team's losing attitude.
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(Keep reading through — I'm giving away a really cool New Balance jacket at the end of the post!)
It's been a long, long time since I ran with anyone other than Audrey. When I was training for my first half marathon back in 2009, I used to meet up with some blogging buddies to run before work (holy moly, I just looked and it was four years ago this week that I was "showering" in a Starbucks) but my schedule in recent years just didn't make that possible.
But I knew I needed…something. Inspiration for my long runs, and a community who could support me as I gear up for a busy race season. So this weekend, on my daughter's first birthday (as I said on Instagram — I figured that a year before we were up early and in pain together so why not celebrate the same way, with a long run?), I packed up the running stroller and a smiling toddler and headed out to meet a group of fellow runners for a 7 a.m. fun run.
(It's a regular and free event, and usually there are between five and 50 runners who come by. It's informal, but there is a regular route and even some water/ice pop stations along the way.
You can come for as long as you want! For anyone in Orlando, you can learn more here: http://www.orlandorunnersclub.org/ Let me know if you want to come — it would be so fun to see some familiar faces!)
I didn't know how far we'd run, whether we could keep up, whether we'd actually enjoy it…but we did. So much so that I'm hoping to make this a regular Sunday tradition.
We planned on running five miles, but after making it that far with the group, Audrey and I did an additional 2-mile cool down on the way back to our car. I had a blast talking with people along the course, running at my own pace and watching the beautiful sunrise come up in a really gorgeous neighborhood. Not only were the people nice, I found that I enjoyed the entire adventure more because I wasn't alone.
I don't know that group runs make sense (for me) for shorter training runs, but certainly for five and over, it's a great way to stay motivated (plus, I learned about a few upcoming events that aren't on the highly publicized race calendars as well as some new routes that are apparently really scenic).
Do you prefer running alone or with friends?
1) I'm hoping to PR at the St. Petersburg 5K this fall, and I'd LOVE to have you join me at that event or one of the other Women's Running Series races in the next two months:
- Scottsdale-Tempe, AZ – November 3, 2013
- St. Petersburg, FL – November 24, 2013
If you sign up for the half marathon in St. Pete, use the discount code FITFLKATY for $10 off. (Note: I am being compensated for helping to promote this race but believe me, the sweat and tears I'm putting into training are all mine.)
More information is on Facebook and Twitter (follow the hashtag #BeAmazing).
2) See that cool orange jacket I'm wearing in the pictures above? New Balance sent this High Visibility Beacon Jacket to me [disclosure!] and I love it — it glows in the dark, is lightweight and definitely made me feel safer during my pre-sunrise miles. You can actually charge it for 10 minutes before you head out and the jacket gets super, super bright.
I love it so much, in fact, that I asked New Balance to give one of YOU the same jacket. To enter, you just need to leave a comment on this post that says "PLEASE ENTER ME!" Please note: New Balance only has this jacket in a women's medium (sad face) to give away, so you either need to wear that size or have a friend to gift that size to.
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I'll be picking a winner after Sunday, October 20th at 5 p.m. Sorry, all — U.S. addresses only!


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THE new hit TV series Boardwalk Empire is about to do for 1920s fashion what Mad Men did for 1950s and early-60s looks.
Set in Atlantic City in the prohibition era, the award-winning series from cable network HBO had viewers salivating over the glamorous, hand-beaded gowns, fur stoles, sequinned headbands and pearls when it premiered in the US in September.
It starts on Australian cable channel Showcase this month.
The sumptuous-looking drama by The Sopranos's Terence Winter and Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, which charts the birth and rise of organised crime in the US and features suited gangsters and flapper-wearing molls, is already affecting fashion trends.
At the autumn-winter collection shows in Paris last week, dozens of labels, from Miu Miu to John Galliano, referenced the Roaring Twenties with drop-waisted dresses, long, lean silhouettes, opulent beading and sequins, and fur coats and stoles.
At this week's Melbourne Fashion Festival, 1920s looks are set to be among the key trends on the autumn-winter catwalks.
Fashion designer Aurelio Costarella's collection, to be showcased at the festival on Friday night, is awash with 1920s-style gowns. ''[It] was a time when women were freed from their corsets,'' he says. ''It was about comfort and loose-fitting shapes that fell over the body. They wore these beautiful, flimsy fabrics that showed off boyish figures.''
The androgynous, straight-up-and-down silhouette of the 1920s did, however, require some women to wear chest-flattening bras.
Melbourne Fashion Festival director Grant Pearce says he is not surprised by the influence of Boardwalk Empire, as costumes in period films and quality television series have often filtered into fashion trends.
Designer Arthur Galan, who will showcase his collection on Tuesday night, says Boardwalk Empire is also influencing menswear. ''That whole decadent, dressed-up look for men is very much coming back,'' says Galan. ''We're seeing three-piece suits, rich fabrics like velvet and big, bow ties. It's about looking like a gentleman with a bit of underground chicness.''
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Editorial: Documentary tracing the life of Rubťn Salazar is worthy
El Paso Times Editorial Board
Rubťn Salazar, the pioneer journalist from El Paso, Texas, and martyr of the Chicano rights movement, is one of those figures who becomes so iconic that itís easy to lose sight of the man behind the imagery.
A new PBS documentary, ďRuben Salazar: Man in the Middle,Ē which will air nationally April 29, should add to the public knowledge base of Salazar and introduce him to an entirely new audience.
ďAt the heart of the story is Salazarís transformation from a mainstream, establishment reporter to primary chronicler and supporter of the radical Chicano movement of the late 1960s,Ē the filmís producers say in promotional materials. ďKilled under mysterious circumstances by a law enforcement officer in 1970, Salazar became an instant martyr to Latinos ó many of whom had criticized his reporting during his lifetime.Ē
Salazar was born in JuŠrez, Mexico, in 1928, and his family moved to El Paso the following year. He served in the Army and then attended Texas Western College, now known as the University of Texas in El Paso, where he graduated with a journalism degree in 1954.
He began his journalism career at the El Paso Herald-Post in 1955, then moved on to the Los Angeles Times in 1959, making him one of the few Mexican-Americans working at the time at a major American newspaper. He became a foreign correspondent, covering the Vietnam War and then Mexico for the Los Angeles Times.
He later worked as a columnist for the Times, writing frequently about the growing Chicano movement.
He went on to work at KMEX, a Spanish-language television station in Los Angeles, in 1970.
On Aug. 29, 1970, he was killed while covering the Chicano Moratorium, a protest against the Vietnam War. Salazar, who was seated inside the Silver Dollar Cafe, was struck in the head by a tear-gas projectile filed by a sheriffís deputy.
No charges were ever filed in Salazarís death, but controversy has swirled ever since.
Filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez takes a fresh look at Salazarís death in his documentary, drawing on documents recently released by the Los Angeles County Sheriffís Office.
Rodriguez says the film attempts to remove Salazar from the ďshadows of legendĒ and put him in his rightful place in history.
ďThe Salazar story had long been considered to be an ethnic story, a regional story,Ē Rodriguez said. ďBut it is much bigger than that. This is a story about a regular guy who, motivated by principle, challenges an abusive authority at great risk to himself ó itís a classic American story.Ē
Itís also a story that deserves a broad audience, which PBS can provide.
Salazarís life deserves study and celebration. The documentary is well worth watching.


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Marine Corps Seeks to Diversify Its RanksELIZABETH TENNYSON , Associated Press
Apr. 10, 1994 1:57 PM ET
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ The few, the proud - the diverse?
Well, not yet, but the Marine Corps says it's working toward that goal.
The Corps admits it has had problems recruiting and promoting minority officers in the past. Now it has special programs in place to try to correct that.
A first step was assigning someone to oversee the effort. Lt. Col. Alfonse G. Davis is the new equal opportunity adviser to the Marine Corps commandant.
''I'm a common sense guy who says, 'Hey, these are the things we need to do to make sure that our service appears attractive to everybody,''' Davis said.
Recruiters say it won't be easy to find the right minority officer candidates.
''Our competition is not the Army or the Air Force or the Navy,'' said 1st Lt. Robert Bradley Deardorff, a selection officer based in Raleigh. ''Our competition is the civilian marketplace, the Fortune 500 companies. We're looking for the same quality students.''
The effort to find those students begins with re-educating Deardorff and other recruiters.
''Everybody like me is getting information pushed down in the chain of command concerning what our records have been in the past, what our goals have been in the past and what our goals will be in the future,'' he said.
In 1942, the Marine Corps admitted its first black, becoming the last branch of the military to do so. And while the number of minorities in the Corps is growing, the proportion of minority officers still is relatively small, the Corps admits.
There were two black Marine colonels in 1982, compared with 15 today, according to the public affairs department at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington.
The Corps says it doesn't keep a day-to-day count of total Marines, but it said its 1994 planning goal was 174,000.
One aspect of the Corps' efforts to diversify is a program called the 2015 Plan, which seeks to have 5 percent black colonels and 4.75 percent Hispanic colonels by the year 2015.
Why not sooner? Because, according to Marine Corps statistics, it takes 22 years to turn a 2nd lieutenant into a colonel.
Other aspects of the campaign include a direct-mail program aimed at honors students and members of the National Society of Black Engineers, and recruiting visits to colleges and universities with large minority populations.
One such visit was a minority forum held Thursday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Davis was joined there by retired Brig. Gen. George H. Walls Jr., who offered students a historical perspective.
''When I joined the Marine Corps, there were 97 black officers out of about 24,000 officers,'' Walls said. ''We pretty much knew each other.''
Racial bias in the Marines gained national attention in November when Corps commandant Gen. Carl Mundy told ''60 Minutes'' minority officers didn't shoot, swim or use compasses as well as white officers.
He later apologized for the comments, which he said referred to scores from military skills exams given at the end of The Basic School for officers.
Since the public outcry over Mundy's remarks, the Marines have taken another look at the exam process, Davis said.
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The centrist fantasy of a Grand Bargain on the budget never had a chance. Even if some bargain had been reached, key players would soon have reneged on the deal – probably the next time a Republican occupied the White House. For the reality is that our two major political parties are engaged in a fierce struggle over the future shape of American society.
Democrats want to preserve the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – and add to that what every other advanced country has: a more or less universal guarantee of essential healthcare. Republicans want to roll all of that back, making room for drastically lower taxes on the wealthy.
Yes, it's essentially a class war.
The fight over the "fiscal cliff" was just one battle in that war. It ended, arguably, in a tactical victory for Democrats. The question is whether it was a Pyrrhic victory that set the stage for a larger defeat. Why do I say it was a tactical victory? Mainly because of what didn't happen: There were no benefit cuts.
This was by no means a foregone conclusion. In 2011, the Obama administration was reportedly willing to raise the age of Medicare eligibility, a terrible and cruel policy idea. This time around, it was willing to cut Social Security benefits by changing the formula for cost-of-living adjustments, a less terrible idea that would nonetheless have imposed a lot of hardship – and probably have been politically disastrous as well. In the end, it didn't happen.
And progressives, always worried that President
There were also some actual positives from a progressive point of view. Expanded unemployment benefits were given another year to run, a huge benefit to many families and a significant boost to our economic prospects (because this is money that will be spent, and hence help preserve jobs). Other benefits to lower-income families were given another five years although the payroll tax break was allowed to expire, which will hurt both working families and job creation.
The biggest progressive gripe about the legislation is that Obama extracted less revenue from the affluent than expected – about $US600 billion versus $US800 billion over the next decade. In perspective, this isn't that big a deal. Put it this way: a reasonable estimate is that gross domestic product over the next 10 years will be around $US200 trillion. So if the revenue take had matched expectations, it would still have amounted to only 0.4 per cent of GDP; as it turned out, this was reduced to 0.3 per cent. Either way, it wouldn't make much difference in the fights over revenue versus spending still to come. And not only did Republicans vote for a tax rise for the first time in decades, the overall result of the tax changes now taking effect – which include new taxes associated with Obamacare as well as the new legislation – will be a significant reduction in income inequality, with the top 1 per cent, and even more so the top 0.1 per cent, taking a much bigger hit than middle-income families.
So why are many progressives – myself included – feeling very apprehensive? Because we're worried about the confrontations to come.
According to the normal rules of politics, Republicans should have very little bargaining power at this point. With Democrats holding the White House and the Senate, the GOP can't pass legislation; and since the biggest progressive policy priority of recent years, health reform, is already law, Republicans wouldn't seem to have many bargaining chips.
But the GOP retains the power to destroy, in particular by refusing to raise the debt limit – which could cause a financial crisis. And Republicans have made it clear they plan to use their destructive power to extract major policy concessions.
The President has said he won't negotiate on that basis, and rightly so. Threatening to hurt tens of millions of innocent victims unless you get your way – which is what the GOP strategy boils down to – shouldn't be treated as a legitimate political tactic.
But will Obama stick to his anti-blackmail position as the moment of truth approaches? He blinked during the 2011 debt limit confrontation. And the last few days of the fiscal cliff negotiations were also marked by a clear unwillingness on his part to let the deadline expire. Since the consequences of a missed deadline on the debt limit would potentially be much worse, this bodes ill for administration resolve in the clinch.
So, in a tactical sense the fiscal cliff ended in a modest victory for the White House. But that victory could all too easily turn into defeat in just a few weeks.
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