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With animal studies a quickly growing interdisciplinary field around the globe, Farm Forward recently launched the Eating Animals Education Project to increase the reach of this important book to students everywhere. Farm Forward is now sponsoring a series of virtual visits by author Jonathan Safran Foer to high school and college classrooms, in addition to supporting educators with a robust collection of subject-specific assignments and experiences shared by professors who are already assigning the text.
We are pleased to announce that a documentary film version of the New York Times best-selling book Eating Animals is in production! Farm Forward collaborated extensively with author and Farm Forward Board Member, Jonathan Safran Foer, for three years while he wrote Eating Animals. Just like Foer's book, the documentary will use a combination of humor, adventure, muckraking, and memoir to explore the realities of contemporary animal agriculture alongside the complexities of food ethics.
The Eating Animals documentary is being produced by Academy Award®-winning actress and animal welfare advocate Natalie Portman and directed by Christopher Quinn, the award-winning director of God Grew Tired of Us. We are thrilled to see these acclaimed filmmakers tackle the important subject of animal agriculture.
Farm Forward CEO Aaron Gross met with Portman and is working as closely with Quinn on the documentary as he did with Foer on the book. As preparation for the film, Quinn and Gross visited many of the locations mentioned by Foer in Eating Animals, including farms using high-welfare practices, like Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch, Niman Ranch, and BN Ranch. On a separate trip, Quinn traveled with Farm Forward Program & Policy Coordinator Michael McFadden to visit East of Eden Farm, one of several North Carolina operations raising heritage chickens on pasture. Just as importantly, Quinn and Gross also traveled on public roads adjacent to factory farms in California (that would not allow filming on their property) and met with animal advocates who have gone undercover to see firsthand the cruelty of industrial agriculture and slaughter.
Farm Forward believes the film will build even greater momentum in the push to end the abuses of factory farming, introducing new audiences to the worst and best of animal agriculture and inviting them to think about eating animals in new ways. We hope you are as excited to see the film as we are!
Is there something you're excited to see in the film? Let us know and we'll make sure to share the best ideas directly with Jonathan, Natalie, and Christopher! Just post your ideas on our Facebook page or drop us an email. And if you'd like to join us in supporting this important film, please consider making a donation to Farm Forward.
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A Tattooing Competition Show? "Best Ink" Sounds Awesome!
I've watched reality shows where contestants design clothes. I've watched reality shows were contestants cook. I've watched reality shows where contestants cut hair. I've watched reality shows were contestants design rooms, write magazine layouts, make creme brulee, etc, etc. So you best bet that I will be watching Oxygen's "Best Ink," a series the network greenlit last week. Why? Because it's a reality competition series for tattoo artists. Ten tattoo artists will compete to see who is the best, and the winner will take home $100K plus a cover story in Tattoo Magazine.
Umm, why did no one think of this sooner? Sure, this show is related to "Miami Ink" and its spin-offs, but those series perpetually bored me because they insist on giving the (usually sad, usually involving a dead relative or friend) story of why a person wants a specific tattoo. Watching tattoo artists compete will be far more entertaining, because I'm betting they will have fascinating personalities. We'll see different styles and tattooing philosophies. Not to mention that if the show follows the genre formula, contestants will be given weekly tattooing challenges. Hopefully, they'll be executing their work on people. That's a little higher commitment than models wearing a dress to an event or getting their hair trimmed. So here's hoping their work is awesome!
All I have to say is, good thinking Oxygen. Sure, this feels like a really random show for a female focused network, but hey, I'm all for it.
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Proposed Michigan Mammogram Law Considers Breast Density
The proposed law in Michigan that would force doctors to tell their female patients if they have dense breast tissue has been on the back shelf in one committee for more than a year, but now the head of that state House committee says it will be put up for discussion.
Because dense tissue can hide cancers that might otherwise appear in a mammogram, some lawmakers think doctors should be forced to tell patients about getting an alternative test.
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Today, I visited my friend in a nasty part of town. When I saw the shattered window of the car next to me, and the missing stereo, I moved my car to a safer location. Luckily, though, I have a common car, so the thieves were able to jimmy the lock and steal my stereo without making any noise. FML
Today, at my volleyball tournament I was extremely pumped to start playing so I went to take my sweats off and everybody began to stare at me then I looked down to come to realize I had no spandex on, just a thong. FML
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I certainly wouldn't want to be Alex Rodriguez right now, but it would be way better to be him than whoever it was dropped the dime on him:
The judge in the Barry Bonds perjury case could find BALCO prosecutors, investigators or officials in contempt if evidence connects them to the leak of formerly anonymous 2003 Major League baseball drug tests that resulted in allegations that Alex Rodriguez took steroids.
A source familiar with the proceedings between the government and MLB players union said, "It is not possible this was leaked without there being a violation of the law."
There's a lot more to it, so anyone interested should read it all. The kicker here is that the question of whether those tests — A-Rod's included — should ever have been seized in the first place is still pending before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. If they find that the original search warrants were illegal, the leaker will not only have violated the court order of a U.S. District Court judge, but he will have exacerbated the violation of the players' Constitutional rights. The former will get that person sanctioned by Judge Illston. The latter, assuming the leaker was a lawyer, could very well get him disbarred.
In any event, I sure hope Selena Roberts is enjoying her victory lap over her scoop, because she may very soon find herself in front of Judge Illston being ordered to reveal her sources.


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If approved by voters May 6, a proposed additional 1-mill police levy could bolster the small police department in Marlboro Township.
The mill, which would be in addition to 3.5 continuous mills approved by voters in November 2007, is expected to generate $86,305 beginning with tax year 2014 and cost the homeowner with a $100,000-valued home an additional $35 per year, according to figures provided by township Fiscal Officer Tracy Ferrett.
Estimated revenue received from the existing levy is $300,802.
"We're always operating on a tight budget, and we enjoy doing that," said Marlboro Township Police Chief Ron Devies, "but we're just barely making it."
He said the department has a difficult time retaining officers because of low wages and is struggling to keep up with the appropriate upgraded equipment needed for the changing models of used vehicles in its fleet.
"We've had a large turnover in the last few years because our wages aren't competitive with other departments," Devies said, adding there are now only 14 of the maximum 25 officers allowed on his payroll.
"The state is continually putting continuing education demands on training as well," and uniform costs are high, he said.
Each Marlboro Township officer is trained as a first responder, and crews provide services such as vacation watch, vehicle lockout responses and attempt to rejoin lost dogs with their owners, but services like that could be on the chopping block if the levy doesn't pass. "It's the little things that we do that we enjoy doing, but at the end of the day, they still cost money," said Davies.
Devies said the proposed 1 mill, if approved by voters, should meet the department's needs for the next decade.
"We're very proactive right now; we don't want to have to switch to (being) reactive," he concluded.
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A collection of useful phrases in Old English, a Germanic language that was spoken in England from about the 5th to the 11th century.
You can see them in many other languages by clicking on the English versions.
Key to abbreviations: frm = formal, inf = informal, sg = singular (said to one person), pl = plural (said to more than one person).
|Ænglisc (Old English)
|Hello (General greeting)
|How are you?
|Hū eart þū?
|Reply to 'How are you?'
|Fægere þancung, ond þū?
|Long time no see
|Lang fierst besēað nā
|What's your name?
|Hwā ēower nama īs?
|My name is ...
|Mīn nama is ...
|Where are you from?
|Hwiðer eart þū fram?
|I'm from ...
|Ic ear ...
|Pleased to meet you
|Fægen tōgēane þū
|Good morning
(Morning greeting)
|Gōdne mergen
|Good evening
(Evening greeting)
|Gōd ǣfen
|Good night
|Gōd nihten
(Parting phrases)
|Wes þū hāl
God þē mid sīe ("God be with you")
|Good luck!
|Gōd hælo
|Cheers! Good Health!
(Toasts used when drinking)
|Have a nice day
|Habbe ān gōd dæg!
|Bon appetit /
Have a nice meal
|Gōd metesōcn
|Bon voyage /
Have a good journey
|Gōd fōr
|I understand
|Ic ācnāwan
|I don't understand
|Ic ācnāwan nā
|Gea; Giese
|I don't know
|Ic cnāwan nā
|Please speak more slowly
|Ic bidde þē spraec māra slāwlice
|Please say that again
|Ic bidde þē cweðer eft
|Please write it down
|Ic bidde þē āwrīte dun
|Do you speak Old English?
|Spraec thu Ænglisc?
|Yes, a little
(reply to 'Do you speak ...?')
|Gea, an fea
|Speak to me in Old English
|Sprece tō mec in Ænglisc
|How do you say ... in Old English?
|Hū sægest þy ... in Ænglisc?
|Excuse me
|Forgiefe mec
|How much is this?
|Hū miccle þās is?
|Thank you
|Reply to thank you
|Where's the toilet?
|Hwider meoxhus is?
|This gentleman will pay for everything
|Þās mann sculan fore eale gielde
|This lady will pay for everything
|Þās hlǣfdīge sculan fore eale gielde
|Would you like to dance with me?
|Gelīc þū tō mid mec sealtia?
|I miss you
|Ic lange fore ēow
|I love you
|Ic lufie þē
|Get well soon
|Bēo gesund hraðe
|Go away!
|Gege onweg!
|Leave me alone!
|Forlǣte mec!
|Call the police!
|Hierden angecealle!
|Christmas and New Year greetings
|Blīþe Crīstesmæsse ac Fægen Nīwe Gēar
|Easter greetings
|Fægen Ēastran
|Birthday greetings
|Fægen Borendæg
|One language is never enough
|An geþēode nǣfre genōg is
|My hovercraft is full of eels
Why this phrase?
|Mīn wandrian-scyf ful ǣlen is
Phrase supplied by Matthew Leigh Embleton
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Finally finished my painting that I started in January...talk about procrastination mixed with lack of inspiration.
I copped this canvas print from URBN for $10. It reminds me of simpler times when I actually worked there and enjoyed a pleasant discount. *sigh*
However, I always manage to find time to spend money that I shouldn't but I can't help it because the sales are so good!
I got all 12 of the CDs pictured for $6 from the Salvation Army because they were having a 2 CDs for $1 sale. I might venture out for more today because .50 cent CDs are way cheaper than Amoeba(although I love Amoeba dearly!
sidenote: PLEASE don't ask me why I bought the Space Jam soundtrack. It was a total accident. Why would I want to hear Bugs Bunny rap?
Today also marks the 1 year anniversary of the death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. I'm sure most of you know there is 3 things that you don't mess with me about 1.God 2.My Money 3.Michael Jackson.
I've had a good couple of shouting matches defending all 3. I miss him. I might go out to see his resting place today and celebrate at a few other L.A. events later. Too Soon Michael, Too Soon.
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Neglecting the blog is so alt. Don't feel bad guys I also neglect my twitter. It's crazy so much stuff is going on right now!
I'm definitely on my Hollywood grind right now, auditions, shoots and shows. I'm so spent. I just want to have a day where I can come home, eat pizza and watch "Everybody Hates Chris."
Enough ranting, the photos above feature me dancing for the psychadelic Spankie Valentine (who is an amazing artist BTW and it's her birthday today! Yay!) We had a pretty successful show in Venice this past week with more to come! I'm so excited to be a part of it all. Hopefully, I'll be able to interview Miss Spankie for MissRiot.com soon!
Oh and here I am outside of Spaceland for the Abandoned Pools show last Tuesday, which I missed but I got to hang out with an old URBN co-hort so it was worth it.
I hear they're playing at the Viper Room on Wednesday...who wants to go?
Today is the Summer Solstice (i.e.) the longest day in the entire year! Figure I'd leave you guys with this awesome summer mix I found on Music For Kids Who Cant Read Good CLICK HERE AND BE AMAZED!
Categories: music
Does anyone remember this music video from the beginning of A Goofy Movie(one of the coolest Disney movies IMO)?
It's so catchy. "Dr. Looneeeeeeeeeeeey's Remedy"
Adult Swim- (my favorite programming block to watch on TV) has teamed up with Kia to release the project, 8 Singles in 8 Weeks.
I'm stoked because Track 4 is none other than Washed Out with Chairlift lead singer, Caroline Polachek!
Washed Out feat. Caroline Polachek- You and I
Check out more about the project HERE
So far they have Killer Mike (who voices Taquil on my favorite Adult Swim show, Frisky Dingo!) paired with Flying Lotus for Track 3.
Each week a new track is released. This is rad bad rad.
Categories: music
Can you see this is Rachel True from "The Craft" and "Half and Half"? I don't know what movie this is however.
So I attended First Fridays at the Natural History Museum for the first time in L.A. with my buddy Richard. This month Neon Indian headline the show.
I've heard about First Fridays before, I know they showcased a few big names there earlier this year like Yeasayer (LOVE THEM!)
Anywho, the visit was fun and the show was amazing! I think I might be a scene kid...I'm in too many places way too often.
I also saw "Get Him to the Greek" on Saturday at the Hollywood Arclight...which was $16 for one movie ticket! *Sigh* The movie was hilarious. Diddy/Sean Combs gave a fairly decent comedic performance as well as Russell Brand. Some parts lost my interest a bit, like the sleeping girlfriend character...yawn.
Categories: music events
I was totally bummed with the world earlier. Amongst my personal life tribulations, another Golden Girl, Rue McClanahan died this morning. Miss ya Ruth!
Totally turned my day around after seeing this video. I love Neon Indian and my good friend Richard got me tickets to see him this Friday!
I've had way too much to do to break into this "industry" as of late. That's the main reason why I'm not updating as much as I'd like to but I love you guys none the less...Especially when you show me love!
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That miscalculation could mean serious trouble in terms of actuarial soundness.
Social security encourages behavior which undermines the actuarial soundness of social security itself.
But while support for ending the death penalty was cold and actuarial, opposition to the measure was emotional and raw.
At 79 years of age, actuarial tables say a woman is likely to live another 9.74 years.
There is also literally a conversation about contemporary practices in actuarial mathematics.
The financial and actuarial basis of the scheme has been very carefully studied by the light of all available information.
He outsold many men with actuarial minds, and extended knowledge.
The per capita cost of $1.23 in 1906 is far below the actuarial cost.
The business of life insurance upon the continent of Europe has given an extraordinary stimulus to actuarial studies.
Few seem to be aware how greatly the knowledge of what may be termed the actuarial side of heredity has advanced in recent years.
1550s, "registrar, clerk," from Latin actuarius "copyist, account-keeper," from actus "public business" (see act (n.)). Modern insurance office meaning first recorded 1849.
A mathematician who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums.


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|Ultra Parallel Rare
|Japanese (romanized)
Parareru shiyō Urutorarea
|Japanese (translated)
Parallel specification Ultra Rare
An Ultra Parallel Rare, known as Parallel specification Ultra Rare (パラレル仕様ウルトラレア Parareru shiyō Urutorarea, abbreviated as P+UR) in the OCG, has a gold card title and holofoil image like Ultra Rares, but also has a coating across the surface to make the whole card reflect. The coating tends to stiffen the card and when scanned the coating creates a uniform haze on the card. It should be noted that the reflective "parallel" effect can be wiped off with one's fingers, so extreme care should be taken in order to keep these cards in mint condition, but the thick, hazy coating that stiffens the card will remain, so even if the "parallel" effect is removed from the card, it is still possible to identify it as a Parallel Rare.
On the official card database, this rarity is unmarked in the TCG, but marked as P+UR in the OCG.
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|Re: Part1: What's up dev? About energy.
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Bob Dionne <email@example.com> wrote: > Hi Benoit, > > I can understand your view and to some extent share your concerns. > > I took a look at the refuge project and things like couch_core are interesting. I'm impressed how prolific you are. thanks :) > > I'd definitely love to see simpler internals and a better separation of concerns, especially with respect to couchapps. I've always been enamored of the idea and wonder why the implementation seems to get so mired in the mud, but I'm not a web programmer, I'm sure there's issues I'm missing. Not sure as well. Actually a more efficient js evaluation would solve most of the problem we have and open new possibilities... > > My hobby interest in couchdb is primarily as a document store. I'd still like to see a native full text indexer and I'm also interested in a simple triple store whose tuples are doc ids, mainly to enable algorithms over graphs. Not large social graphs such as "who likes who", but rather graphs that are used in description logics and proof theory, of order a million nodes with high connectivity. I toyed with pulling out the essentials into a couch_store (not to be confused with the one from Couchbase) that would give me something like a bitcask API, if that makes sense. For me something like that with the ability to load other gen_servers as needed would be really useful. CouchDB is kind of there now in that regard, but the internals still need a lot of work. Anyway I recognize this is a niche use case, though a native FTI might be of general interest. That would be awesome indeed. It doesn't need to solve all the problems imo. I also have a look on bindings like the xapian one: https://github.com/arcusfelis/xapian-erlang-bindings unfortunately xapian is under GPL... > > Anyway, sorry to be so vague. I'm definitely +1 on better OTP/rebar use and so forth and happy to help as I can on the internals. cool :) > > With respect to BigCouch, do you think Fabric is the best way to provide a unified API for both the single instance and clustered cases? Can be yes :) I think we may need a way to merge couchbeam/fabric so it can be used for the replication and other remote needs as well. I am working on such thing. I am trying to understand these days how rexi usage could also be done on top of http/ > It seems to me a single instance is just the special case of R=W=Q=N=1. I know PaulD, BobN, and others have lots of good ideas here and I think we'll all soon be in the middle of it. Can be yes. Not sure how it would be optimized or to rebalance to a new node after . But indeed .... > > Regards, > > Bob > > On Sep 24, 2012, at 5:20 AM, Benoit Chesneau <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> What's up devs? >> >> Following our last discussion with @nslater on twitter, I wanted to say >> a quick HI on the mailing-list. This mail is splitted in 2 parts. A long >> time really. These days I miss what make me enjoy CouchDB at the >> beginning. The energy you could feel on the chan and sometimes IRL. The >> time when anyone was aware of who was working on a feature. Which >> feature was in progress. Today IRC is more like a support channel where >> sometimes ideas emerge but you don't feel they are very supported. There >> are private discussion somewhere. But well they are... private. Same >> for tickets. We see tickets but more often no real incentive from each >> others (and I am to blame too) to fix them. >> >> Today to be honnest, this lack of energy annoys me a lot. This is quite >> more important than the rest. At least for me. I don't have 4 devs on >> the projects working with me in my office where I can speak with each >> other about possible fixes and such .. Communication inside the project >> is really important. Apache CouchDB is an opensource project >> distributed around the world (at least 2 continents). >> >> Anyway I still keep my confidence in the project. I know there have been >> lot of codes developped around. Today if we don't count the couchbase >> fork (wich is still named couchdb and all...) there are 2 friendly forks I'm >> aware of couchdb: bigcouch, refuge. >> >> Bigcouch was announced to be merged in. But since then we don't know as >> couchdb devs how it will be. How can we keep couchdb working standalone >> and on a cluster. It blocks everything else today for me since I don't >> know if I will work on a cluster or still can continue to think I can >> use couchdb standalone on one node (and possiblit migrate to the >> cluster thing easily). I didn't see anything about in >> bigcouch recently as well. . As a CouchDB developper I would like to see >> a branch in couchdb so we can hack on all together or just review or >> document. >> >> Rcouch my own fork which has the following features: >> >> - OTP compliant (build an erlang release, support hot upgrades), bigcouch >> is as well. Today couchdb isn't really erlangish and is based on >> autotools >> - static build support. Packages for deb, rpm, macosx, arm platforms >> - View changes: get changes in an ndex in real time >> - Replication using view changes >> - couch_randomdoc : pick a random document inside a db or a view >> - dnssd : discover couchdb over bonjour in your lan >> - upnp : make couchdb easily accessible on the net >> - refuge_spatial: fork of geocouch adapted to use latest couch_index. >> (note that a version also exists for bigcouch) >> - HTTP api based on ranch and cowboy (using mochicow for the >> transition). more stable and efficient HTTP handlers >> - doc read validation (like update validation) >> - dropbox features (anyone can upload only readers or admins can read >> doc uploaded) >> - some replication fixes. >> - no refcount db , using a patch from @davisp similar to the one in >> bigcouch >> - .. >> >> And coming this week: view merge & cors. >> >> I would like to merge it in couchdb as well. But I don't know how. And >> each time I asked for having a discussion on it it fails because some >> were busy or anything (but never came back). Can we put a roadmap for >> that and start to put the code online? >> >> >> Second part about couchapps in next mail. >> >> - benoît >
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Running: Corporate Challenge winners get to London
The three winning teams of the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in Buffalo earn the chance to go to the overall championships the following year in one of the participating cities. The 2013 champs did quite well when it comes to an exciting place to run.
Twelve runners took part earlier this month in the race against the world's best Challenge participants in London.
"It was a lot of fun," said Dan Snitzer, one of the members of the Praxair men's team. "The race itself was pretty good, and the experience in London was really cool."
The team had about 13 months to think about the trip. That led to a buildup around the office, as company newsletters highlighted the achievement of team members Snitzer, Patrick Moran, Ryan Bierl and Ben Kuch.
"The biggest question we got all the time was, 'Is Praxair paying for the trip?' " Moran said with a laugh.
The Challenge's sponsor took care of expenses, sending participants to London a bit early to allow them to do a little sightseeing.
"J.P. Morgan put us up in a nice hotel. There were pretty good meals," Snitzer said. "One of the nights, we went to Lord's Cricket Ground, a 200-year-old cricket ground. That was a super-cool experience. I've never been to anything like that before."
Cities such as New York, Shanghai and Sydney send teams, so Buffalo is at something of a demographic disadvantage in the race. The Praxair team finished sixth out of 13 teams, which was very satisfactory.
"It was fun to see competition that's just way better than usual," Moran said.
How good? Johannesburg had all four of its runners break 17 minutes for 3ø miles.
"That team was phenomenal. It had four of the first five runners," Moran said.
Also participating were the women's team from Blue Cross/Blue Shield – Liz Koepsell, Kaitlyn Gorczynski, Moira Giammaresi and Grace Jackson – and the mixed team from M&T Bank – Richard Testa, Turner Gutmann, Katrina Ziolo and Molly Daetsch.
Heavy medal
Have some old marathon or half-marathon medals sitting in a box somewhere? An international organization wants to put them to good use.
Medals4Mettle gives out the prizes to people – often children – who are fighting major illnesses. So far, 45,000 medals have been presented.
This started with Dr. Steven Isenberg of Indianapolis, who in 2003 ran a marathon … and then presented his finisher's medal to a colleague who was battling prostate cancer. Medals4Mettle was formed in 2005.
"Now we have about 75 chapters in four countries," said Robin Blosser, director of outreach and community programs for the organization, who works out of Long Island. "It's incredible what we do here. The medals are mostly from marathons, and the athletes bring them to hospitals to give them to kids with cancer."
Many adults might wonder how much good a program like this can do. They'd be surprised.
"Lots of my runner friends don't really get it until they see it for themselves," Blosser said. "These kids love it. The Disney medals, the Rock 'n' Roll event, places they've traveled or want to travel to, the recognition that someone ran 13.1 miles or 26.2 miles for them – the kids get it right away."
One 7-year-old at a hospital in Stony Brook, Long Island, recently had received some medals for his fight against leukemia. When he ran into a friend at a hospital, he decided to pass along one of his awards. He remembered how the medal had cheered him up, and he told his mother he wanted to cheer up his friend in the same way.
A very short article in Runner's World magazine prompted some local runners to ask about ties between the nonprofit organization and this area. Buffalo does not have a local chapter of the organization; the closest ones are in Hamilton, Ont., Toronto and Cleveland. Blosser, who works as a pediatric nurse, has a family connection to Lewiston and would love to see a Western New York chapter. That admittedly would take a lot of work.
There are simpler ways to help, though. You can send a medal to the national office or a local chapter, or you can donate funds. A $25 check, for example, earns a T-shirt.
Full details are at medals4mettle.org.
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• Tofurky Trot, 5K, Delaware Park, 11 a.m. today, 348-8346.
• Telegraph Road Race, timed race, Telegraph Road, Medina, 2 p.m. today, 549-5100.
• The Mud Run, 6K, South Feddick Road, Boston, 6:30 p.m. Monday, 941-1004.
• GBTC 5,000 Meter/1 Mile Track Races, 4301 Main St., Amherst, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
• Soaker 7.7 KM Race, NFTA Boat Harbor, Buffalo, 7 p.m. Thursday, 250-6494.
• TRZ Races, 5K & 10K, Firemen's Grounds, Frewsburg, 9 a.m. Saturday, 397-2519.
• Erie County Fair 5K, Erie County Fairgrounds, Hamburg, 9 a.m. Saturday, 649-3900.
• Christine Padasak Memorial/Autism Awareness 5K, 393 North St., Springville, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, 949-4072.
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Hypothermia is defined as the unintentional lowering of the deep body
(core) temperature below 95.0°F (35.0°C). Hypothermia can be mild
(90.0°F–<95.0°F [32.2°C–<35.0°C]), moderate
(82.5°F–<90.0°F [28.0°C–<32.2°C]), or severe
(<82.5°F [<28.0°C]). Common risk factors for hypothermia include
exposure to cold while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, altered mental
status, and immersion in cold water.1 During
1979-1998, approximately 700 persons (range: 420-1,024) died annually in the
United States from hypothermia; approximately half of these deaths were attributed
to extremely cold weather.2 This report
presents three cases of hypothermia-related deaths in Philadelphia during
2001 as examples of risk factors for hypothermia and summarizes information
about hypothermia-related deaths in the United States during 1999. Hypothermia
deaths are preventable; by avoiding hypothermia, persons also can prevent
other adverse health effects of cold weather.
Case 1. In January 2001, a man aged 60 years was found dead by police; he was
lying on a sofa inside an abandoned house that had no heat or electricity.
Other inhabitants in the house reported that the man had been drinking alcohol
before his death. During the 24 hours before the man was found, the minimum
temperature was 21.0°F (-6.0°C). On autopsy, the man was found to
have a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.23 g/dL; in Pennsylvania, drivers
are considered intoxicated if their BAC is ≥0.10 g/dL.
Case 2. In January 2001, paramedics were called to assist a man aged 25 years
who was found unresponsive on a sidewalk late at night. The low temperature
during the previous 24 hours was 31.0°F (-0.6°C). The man was transported
to a hospital, where he was resuscitated through advanced cardiac life support
protocol. He remained in a vegetative state and died 9 days later. His BAC
at the time of admission was 0.48 g/dL; the underlying cause of death was
listed as acute alcohol intoxication, with hypothermia as a contributing factor.
Case 3. In February 2001, a woman aged 48 years was found collapsed along a
roadside. During the previous day, approximately 2 inches of snow had fallen,
and the minimum ambient temperature had been 29.0°F (-1.6°C). After
transport to a hospital, her core body temperature was 91.5°F (33.0°C).
The woman died despite extensive efforts at resuscitation, including intravenous
infusion and peritoneal lavage with warmed fluids. Autopsy revealed bilateral
pneumonia and positive blood toxicology for morphine and diphenhydramine.
Sepsis was listed as the primary cause of death, with hypothermia as a contributing
Since 1999, CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has used
information from death certificates categorized with International
Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes to estimate
national mortality trends. During 1999, exposure to excessive natural cold
(ICD-10 code X31) was listed as the underlying cause of death (i.e., the circumstance
of the accident that produced the fatal injury) for 598 persons in the United
States, and hypothermia (ICD-10 code T68) was listed as a nature of injury
(i.e., an injury that occurred to the decedent) in 1,139 deaths.2 Of
the 598 hypothermia-related deaths, 380 (64%) occurred among males, and 359
(60%) of the 597 persons who died of hypothermia and whose age was known were
aged ≥65 years. During 1999, Pennsylvania and New York had the greatest
number of hypothermia-related deaths (36 each),2 and
Alaska had the highest crude death rate (1.9 per 100,000 population), approximately
twice that of Montana, which had second-highest rate (0.9).
H Mirchandani, MD, Medical Examiner's Office; C Johnson, MD, Div of
Disease Control, Philadelphia Dept of Public Health, Pennsylvania. Div of
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental
Health; C Newbern, PhD, C Sanchez, MD, EIS Officers, CDC.
Hypothermia is an important cause of preventable deaths in the United
States, especially among persons who abuse alcohol.3 Ethanol
causes vasodilation, which produces a brief "warming" sensation that interferes
with peripheral vasoconstriction, the physiological defense against cold,
while also inducing hypoglycemia. Alcohol consumption in cold surroundings
is a dangerous practice. Unattended children and persons aged >65 years also
are at greater risk for hypothermia.3
Hypothermia during cold weather is the result of decreased heat production,
increased heat loss, or impaired thermoregulation.1 Older
persons, who have a decreased basal metabolic rate, might be at further risk
for hypothermia because of impaired physical exertion, which produces heat
to keep the body warm.4 Inactivity limits
heat production through physical exertion, but overexertion can increase evaporation
from the respiratory tract and cause fatigue. Shivering also can cause enough
lactate generation eventually to produce acidosis and fatigue. Exposure to
high winds can further increase heat loss. As body temperature decreases,
the hypothalamus fails to compensate body temperature, and the central nervous
system follows the progressive systemic depression of metabolism. Finally,
metabolic impairment from alcoholism, malnutrition, hypothyroidism, or advanced
age can cause poor endurance to cold.4
Warning symptoms for hypothermia in adults include shivering, confusion,
memory loss, drowsiness, exhaustion, fumbling hands, and slurred speech. In
children, symptoms include bright red, cold skin and extreme low energy.5 Immersion in warm water is highly efficient in
raising body temperature but might hinder cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
and more invasive techniques if needed. Drinking warm, nonalcoholic beverages
can help raise body temperature if the person is conscious.5 However,
none of these procedures substitutes adequately for proper medical attention,
and special care should be taken when handling and transporting a patient
because skin can become numb and slough easily.
In the presence of severe hypothermia with cardiac arrest, CPR should
be initiated on site and continued during transportation.5 Because
of the protective effect that a low temperature might have on brain ischemia
(especially if asphyxia has not preceded circulatory arrest), attempts at
rewarming victims with severe hypothermia and cardiac arrest outside the hospital
are not recommended.6 Core body temperature
before rewarming might not be a good predictive factor for positive outcome,
and persons with a core temperature as low as 59.0°F (15.0°C) have
survived.1 The time between rescue and rewarming
does not predict outcome1; in the most extreme
case, a boy aged 5 years recovered without apparent cerebral sequelae after
40 minutes of submersion in ice-cold water.7
Overall death rates from all causes increase during winter3;
in addition to hypothermia, cold temperature is associated with excess mortality
from ischemic heart disease8 and cerebrovascular
disease.9 Cold-induced vasoconstriction
and later hemoconcentration can result in rupture of atheromatous plaques
and arterial thrombosis. Cold temperature also can lower the immune system's
resistance to respiratory infection, causing an increase in respiratory disease
Hypothermia-related morbidity is not exclusive to cold northern climates.
Persons from regions with warmer winters might be at greater risk from the
indirect effects of cold weather than persons from regions with colder and
longer winters.9,10 However,
geographic distributions might represent not only seasonal temperature variations
but also socioeconomic status (which can limit access to controlled indoor
temperature), cultural backgrounds (which can influence behavior toward individual
protection from cold as well as outdoor activity), or populations with a higher
proportion of elderly persons.10
Persons should take precautions to maintain body temperature both inside
and outside during cold weather by heating the home (taking care to avoid
carbon monoxide intoxication), especially at night, and by wearing properly
insulated clothes while performing outdoor activities. The outer layer of
clothing should be tightly woven and wind resistant. Inside layers of wool,
silk, or polypropylene are preferred over cotton. Persistent shivering always
is a signal to return indoors.
Hypothermia Related Deaths—Philadelphia, 2001, and United States, 1999. JAMA. 2003;289(10):1236-1238. doi:10.1001/jama.289.10.1236
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The Pomeranian Dog Breed
Lee Dobbins
The Pomeranian is a lively and intelligent toy breed dog. This dog has a double coat with a soft dense undercoat and longer, harsh outer coat. He is short backed with a plumed tail that is held high and folds over to sit flat on his back. This animated dog seems to always be smiling.
The ideal weight for this breed is 4 to 6 pounds and the breed limits are 3 to pounds. The dog should be sturdy when examined. He is compact with the distance between shoulders and buttocks a bit shorter than the distance between withers and ground.
The Pomeranian has a triangular head with the top of the skull being rounded with a well pronounced stop. He resembles a fox in appearance although his muzzle is rather short. The almond shaped eyes are bright and alert and dark in color. He has small ears that are upright at the top of his head and carried perfectly erect. The nose and eye rims should be black with the exception of the blue and brown colorations.
The stance of the Pomeranian is a proud one with the head carried high. He has a compact body and moderately muscled shoulders. His feet should be set straight ahead and not turn to the inside or point out.
The double coat of the Pomeranian helps give it it's fluffy appearance. The coat is longer in the neck and chest and shorter on the legs. The tail has long lustrous hair that flows over the dogs back. There are many colors and patterns permissible in the breed. The black and tan pattern allows for tan above the eyes, on the forechest, muzzle, throat, legs and feet. The brindle pattern has a base color of red, gold or orange with black stripes. A Parti-color Pomeranian is white with patches of any other color and has a white blaze on the head. Poms can come in red, sable, orange, cream, white, black, brown and blue.
Although the Pomeranian can appear to be somewhat dainty, he is also a lively extrovert with extreme intelligence that will steal anyones heart. He has a free moving gait and lively step. They make wonderful companion dogs as well as great show dogs.
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I would wash the blood clot out before the pickle, you are going to pickle it aren't you? I would only use cold water to soften and wash the blood out. The pickle will turn the blood, if any left after the wash, a brown color. I would think that you used a small caliber bullet to kill a groundhog, so after the tan I would cut the hole a tiny bit larger to remove any brown left, if any. But the wash should take it all out. Deer have hollow hair and when bullets cut an entrance hole, blood gets into the inside of the hair and leaves the tips brown after the pickle and tan. You will have no problem with this because of the groundhogs fur is not hollow. Just wash it first, and you're problem is solved.


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Here's another question. Who's the royal couple of the sports world at the moment?
All-time, you'd have to go with Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe. Frank Gifford and Kathie Lee have had a good run. Mike Tyson and Robin Givens owned the headlines for a time, and Chris Evert and Greg Norman looked like contenders but flamed out in near-record time. And don't forget that Canadians still blame Janet Jones for taking Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles.
For our current-day nominees, we're giving you six couples that have made it to the altar, one that's headed there after the recent engagement of Bears QB Jay Cutler, and one that may eventually happen for the Yankees captain.
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TOKYO: Poor Japanese manufacturing data yesterday gave new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe more ammunition to push for big spending and easy money to salvage the world's third-largest economy from decades of deflation and its fourth recession since 2000.
Japanese voters and the financial markets have welcomed the Abe government's aggressive stance on pumping cash into the economy, pushing the benchmark Nikkei share average yesterday to its highest level since the March 2011 tsunami, despite the worse-than-expected drop in factory output.
Opinion polls published by major newspapers showed half to two-thirds of the public supported Abe's conservative government, with the stagnant economy the top priority.
Top officials of the new government, sworn in just two days ago after a landslide election victory, say Abe's administration is under pressure to achieve quick results.
"(Public support) will drop if speculation mounts that we are unable to deliver," Akira Amari, the minister in charge of reviving the economy, told a news conference after a morning cabinet meeting.
But many economists warn that Abe's emphasis on stimulus, rather than structural reforms to boost competitiveness, may have only short-term effects and could worsen Japan's bloated public debt, the worst among the industrial nations.
The government is keeping up pressure on the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to step up its monetary stimulus, even after it loosened policy in December for the third time in four months.
Abe has threatened to change the law which guarantees the central bank's independence if it does not pursue more aggressive easing and has called for a doubling of its inflation target to two per cent.
Finance Minister Taro Aso said he was paid a courtesy visit by BoJ governor Masaaki Shirakawa yesterday in which the two agreed to hold talks on issues including co-ordinating policy.
Aso later said the government wanted to firm up by next month, before the central bank's next policy meeting, its position on a joint policy accord it aims to forge with the BoJ on how they will tackle Japan's entrenched deflation.
The government has not yet tipped its hand on what specifics might be in the accord but the BoJ has already signalled it may set a higher inflation target at its January 21-22 meeting, even while market participants express doubt that it has the means to achieve it.
Aso also warned that the government stood ready to intervene in the currency markets against sharp speculator-driven moves that would hurt the economy, although Abe's monetary easing campaign has eased some of the persistent yen strength that has battered Japan's exporters.


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I'm pretty appalled at the weight. This isn't progress. It is unavoidable I suppose because the chassis just keeps getting bigger every generation (why? stop!).
To put all this money into the engine, to make it 30lbs lighter, and the roof, and end up 61lbs heavier than the e46 which was already too heavy, is ridiculous, imo.
You can't make up for weight with power alone, unless you are just a drag racer (in which case you could have bought a mustang)
Part of the greatness of BMW is nimble handling, grip, and all around performance. You cannot get that with 3,500lbs of weight. To handle the thermal load from a car that heavy when cornering you would need something like 335mm
all around and that isn't going to be nimble, or reasonable.
I guess I can vote with my dollars and go buy an E36 M3, and find a way to get this new engine in it =)
The new M3 is a sweet car, but it seems more like a slightly lighter M5 than what I think of as being a great M3. When comparing the M3 to cars like a GTO or Mustang you used to be able to point and laugh at the overweight american iron...not so much anymore.
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No experience necessary, but an adventurous spirit is! Minimum age: 10.
Belize Adventure Week -- our ever-popular, action-packed tour -- explores this fascinating country using a multi-sport format. Our trend-setting itinerary is the culmination of twenty-six years of exploring Belize; and we have designed an itinerary that packs in fifteen different sports into eight days!
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrive at Belize International Airport, then taxi to the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel for a 4:30 p.m. meeting in the lobby. We leave for Maya Mountain Lodge no later than 5:00 p.m. Please note: it is important that your flight arrive no later than 4:30 p.m. in order to guarantee that you not miss your ride to western Belize. If you must land later than 4:30 you will have to catch up with the group (see If Late or Delayed, page 8). You may also meet us at Maya Mountain by 6:30 p.m. if you are already in the country. Orientation, dinner, and overnight at Maya Mountain Lodge, our base for the next three nights.
Day 2: After breakfast we drive to Che Chem Ha Mayan Cave, one of the most impressive archaeological treasures in the region. This cavern was discovered only a few years ago by a local farmer who will also be our guide.
We hike about one mile to the cave entrance; entering we soon see hundreds of ceramic offerings left by Mayan shamans. Descending further, we reach a final ceremonial chamber. After lunch we drop into the lower gorge of the Macal River where we embark on a 5-mile run on sit-on-top kayaks. We begin with a training session on river safety and basic kayak technique, then launch downstream where numerous, easy rapids are encountered. The spectacular gorge is hemmed in by virgin rainforest and numerous iguanas, parrots and other birdlife are commonly seen. If the Macal is too high to run, we run the Mopan.
Day 3: Another early breakfast sees us off to the amazing ruins of Tikal in nearby Guatemala, the region's most extensive archaeological site. There a local guide leads us through the ruins, giving interpretive talks as we explore the many temples and buildings that cover several square miles. Tikal is also an excellent place to see wildlife, such as monkeys, exotic birdlife, and small mammals. We visit the park museum where an array of artifacts and carvings found at Tikal are displayed, and some excellent gift shops can be found on location as well. Tikal is a must-do experience for all visitors to Belize. We return to the jungle for a final night.
Day 4: This morning we pack up and head out to the Caves Branch River. After a short river orientation we launch on our underground journey in rafts and kayaks, navigating four caverns by headlamp. This unique trip combines caving and river running for an unusual, captivating ride. Stops include short hikes up tributaries and a visit to a Mayan "totem pole" carved into a stalagmite. We also negotiate a quarter-mile portage on a jungle trail. This fabulous odyssey is arguably the best one-day adventure in the country, a must-do for any visit to Belize! Upon finishing this trip, we drive back to Belize City to our accommodations at the Belize Biltmore hotel, where we are joined by others on the Adventure Island at Glover's Reef Second Half package. Before dinner, your guide covers information on the island and the boat ride coming up the next day.
Day 5: Time to hit the Caribbean! After breakfast we head out to our island, Long Caye, on our private shuttle boat (2.5 hrs). Arriving before noon, we tour the island facilities, have lunch, and move into our cabanas. Soon after that we assemble for our fist snorkel excursion, swimming into the reefs right from shore. Time permitting; some guests may want to try out kayak surfing if the waves are up before happy hour and dinner. You retire to your cabana on the shore where the sounds of the sea lull you to sleep.
Day 6: Sea kayak orientation starts the day. Our guides cover paddle strokes, entering and exiting the kayak from the water, and other basic techniques. After lunch we paddle to a nearby reef to snorkel from the kayaks. Scuba diving is available whether you are a certified diver or want to try scuba for the first time.
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Larong Pinoy is a children's book written by Estelita B. Capiña with the help of Lydia P. Lalunio. It was published in 2001 by LG&M Corporation, an affiliate of Vibal Publishing located in Quezon City.
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Larong Pinoy is a book that will introduce children to the games their parents and grandparents enjoyed playing in the past. This is to show them that there are other games which they can enjoy aside from the emerging state-of-the-art video and computer games.
The traditional Filipino games that are included in the book are: sipa, luksong tinik, siklot, sorpresa sa supot, tumbang preso, trumpo, takip-silim, saranggola ni pepe, palo sebo, pabitin, paluan ng palayok, karera ng sako, taguan, patintero, hulaan mo, ibon, lipad, holen, karera ng bao, karera ng tiyakad, gabi at araw, at laglag panyo.
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- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 6 thin slices of pancetta (3 ounces)
- 1 small leek, halved lengthwise and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 cup baby spinach
- 8 large eggs, beaten
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3 ounces fresh goat cheese, crumbled (1/2 cup)
Preheat the oven to 400°. Heat the olive oil in an ovenproof 12-inch nonstick skillet. Add the pancetta and cook over moderately high heat until crisp and brown, about 3 minutes. Transfer the pancetta to a plate and let cool, then crumble it.
Add the leek to the skillet and cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until softened and lightly browned, about 2 minutes. Add the spinach and cook until wilted, about 1 minute. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the leek and spinach to the plate with the pancetta.
Season the eggs with salt and pepper, add them to the skillet and cook for 1 minute. Scatter the reserved pancetta, leek and spinach and the crumbled goat cheese over the eggs and bake for about 4 minutes, until the spinach and goat cheese frittata is set. Slide the spinach and goat cheese frittata onto a cutting board, cut it into wedges and serve at once.


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Little wonder.
The last few years have not been kind to investors. Despite trading at five-year highs, the equity markets are still relatively unchanged from where they were a decade ago. Do not despair, I have an answer you might find extremely useful in today's capricious investment climate.
But first let me repeat my mantra that individual stocks, if selected correctly, are and always have been the best investment for increasing your wealth. The key questions, of course, are what to buy and when. The last question is easy to answer: Anytime. So the only remaining issue is which companies?
Now let me offer you a shortcut you might find extremely useful. I am reminded to bring this topic up every year at this time because it is part of my teaching curriculum.
Suppose for a moment you had a list of about 260 solid, high-quality, dividend-paying companies that have withstood the test of time. .. would that help? Well, such help is available in the Mergent Handbook of Dividend Achievers, which remains, in my opinion, the single most useful tool for individual investors.
I was once asked the question that if you took away my computer, access to the Internet and my telephone and only allowed me to use one item with which to select investment candidates, what would it be? This book would be my answer. No, I do not have and never have had any financial ties to Mergent other than receiving an occasional review copy.
The book profiles companies that have increased their regular annual cash dividend for a minimum of 10 consecutive years. If a company misses a year, it is off the list and must again increase dividends for 10 consecutive years to be added again.
Mergent is not content to simply list the stellar dividend performers. Rather it slices and dices its list in a variety of ways, including ranking them by total return based on one-, three- and five-year increments and listing the top 20 companies in 12 different categories, such as total assets, return on assets, return on equity and dividend yield.
Yet, the various lists comprise only about 36 pages of the book. The remaining pages are devoted to a detailed description of each company, including six years of annual financial data, along with the two most recent quarters and a chart of stock prices for 10 years.
I have used and written about the handbook for more than 20 years, and I believe it to be one of the few true bargains in the arena of independent investment research. You don't need any professional advice to benefit from what Mergent has put together. Some of the companies discussed in this column were brought to my attention by the handbook.
Want to know which company has the longest dividend track record? It is a three way tie: American States Water, Diebold and Procter & Gamble hold the record at 57 consecutive years. And you say you cannot figure out what to invest in!
What do I not like about the book? Two things. The first is that Mergent has become quite commercial with what used to be a relatively inexpensive investment tool. Four issues per year is probably overkill, and the price of a single issue, while not prohibitive, is not what I would call inexpensive.
The other point is relatively minor but annoying nonetheless: The print is rather small, the result of incorporating as much data as possible in a relatively small space. Personally, I keep a magnifying glass nearby.
Mergent sells the book, both as a one-year subscription for $199 or as a single copy for about $50, plus a $6 shipping charge. You can contact Mergent at (800) 342-5647.
Lauren Rudd is president of Rudd International, an asset management firm. Neither he nor his employees hold any shares discussed or have plans to buy them within 30 days, nor is there any intended inducement to buy or sell any security. Email him at LVERudd@ aol.com. Calls accepted 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. at (941) 706-3449. Back columns at ruddreport.com. Rudd offers commentary Thursdays on SNN Local News during the 5:30 p.m. newscast.
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The Abbott government has endorsed the US Federal Reserve's decision to begin tapering its bond buying program as a sign of "renewed confidence" in the world's biggest economy.
News of the reduction in monetary policy stimulus in the US represents a potential tailwind for the federal budget if it puts downward pressure on the Australian dollar.
This in turn is likely to support higher nominal gross domestic product growth – the primary driver of federal tax revenue. This week's mid-year fiscal and budget update includes an assumption that the Australian dollar will average US91¢.
If the dollar is weaker than Treasury assumes, it indicates revenue could be higher, given corporate export dollars earned in foreign currencies are worth more when repatriated into a lower local exchange rate.
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However, he said that by the time it starts, markets will have become accustomed to the idea and won't tie it to short -and long-term interest rates.
"Tapering is just buying a bit less this month than last month and then at some subsequent point a bit less again and eventually stopping buying," he said. "A rise in interest rates is still some time off. The Fed has said that it will depend on economic conditions, as obviously it must. Moreover it will only be one step on what is likely to be a fairly long path back towards normal monetary policy in that country."
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Targeting Industry Clusters for Regional Economic Development: An Overview of the REDRL Approach
An industry cluster is a geographically bounded collection of similar and/or related firms that together create competitive advantages for member firms and the local economy. The targeting of economic development programs at industry clusters provides three principal advantages: multiplier effects are stronger, employment growth potential is enhanced, and new firm spin-offs are promoted. The Clemson University Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory (REDRL) targeting method uses a screening process to identify local industry clusters with high potential for future growth. The region's industries must pass five screens to be selected as a targeted cluster: substantial local presence as indicated by number of establishments and employees, industry employment in the region is growing, the region is relatively specialized in the industry (LQ> 1.0), and local employment growth exceeds the national industry average. Next, industry value chains are identified to determine if linked industries are good prospects for targeting. Finally, the identified high potential industry clusters are rated according to workers' wages, potential future employment growth, import substitution potential, average plant size, and linkages to the local economy. Comparisons of these industry characteristics provide communities with insights regarding the potential economic and fiscal impacts associated with the attraction of an establishment in one of the target industries. In summary, the industry cluster targeting approach provides community leaders with (1) a list of industries for which they have a reasonable likelihood of attracting and (2) information regarding the likely benefits and costs associated with each industry. As such, a targeting approach permits communities to use their limited industrial development resources more efficiently to meet their industrial development goals.
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Sarah Lavely's new business is a perfect case of "the right idea at the right time."
In August she opened Sarah's Smash Shack, a shop in San Diego where patrons can come in and smash stuff against a wall. If you're going through a breakup, layoff or other personal crisis, Lavely knows that sometimes nothing feels as good as tossing a wine glass or a fancy plate.
"We leave Sharpies in the break rooms and people will write on a plate before they throw it, " she says in this CNN story. "I don't read what they write, but when those customers are finished you can see they feel pretty emotional."
The store's website includes the "menu" and photos of satisfied plate-throwers. NPR has also spotlighted the unique business, which customers are flocking to during the economic crisis.
If the shack is still in full swing during next year's Comic-Con, I just might have to stop by and relieve some stress. Thanks to Justin, aka ZigIsAwesome, for the tip.
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They built a smokehouse, planted extensive gardens, and curated an enviable wine cellar.
We used to dig up dirt in the smokehouse and boil it and dry it and sift it to get the salt to season our food with.
After six weeks take out the hams and bacon and hang in the smokehouse.
Dey carried de horses off de plantation and de meat from missus' smokehouse and buried it.
And dad, who used them in his smokehouse, used to say they beat sawdust for flavor.
Mrs. Harper instructed Emmaline's mother to run to the smokehouse, lock the door and bring her the key.
Another group robbed the smokehouse and smashed so many barrels of syrup that it ran in a stream through the yard.
However, Mr. Bland says that they never had to break in the smokehouse because of hunger.
Salona was a working farm with a large barn, smokehouse, ice pond, and cabinetshop.
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(4/9/2009) New Haven Commercial Market Digs In
Institution-dominated Elm City weathers recession better than some
By: Karen Singer
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The commercial real estate market in New Haven County has not fared as poorly as other places in recent months, but the recession is taking a toll.
Building sales are down. Retail is in retreat, and other areas are sluggish.
"Clearly the amount of deal activity, both leasing and sales, has slowed, but we have definitely not gone off the cliff like other markets have around the country," says Robert Motley, director of Cushman Wakefield's New Haven office.
"Overall, it's quieter," says Kristin Geenty, president of the Branford-based Geenty Group. "Biotech space is still relatively strong and medical uses are still moving, but not as much."
Service industries are becoming busier as office and light warehouse needs contract, adds Geenty.
"People have a bunker mentality," says Richard Michaud, president of the Michaud Co., a New Haven commercial real estate appraisal firm. "They're waiting for economic signs to appear a bit more positive before moving ahead with investment, whether it's a bank looking to lease or buy, or any variety of businesses looking to expand or make economic decisions. Many are contracting from the lack of business affecting the market by fewer sales, fewer leases and less financing overall, whether [in] refinancing or sales.
"It simply has slowed the level of business activity in all areas, especially in the area of retail property, where retailers have been particularly hard hit by a change in consumer confidence and spending," Michaud adds.
Financing also has become more difficult, except for redevelopment projects under $5 million, according to Geenty.
"The largest banks are lending but lending criteria have really tightened up, and smaller banks are filling the void," Motley says.
Investors hurting most are those "with short-term financing needs and a high level of debt," adds Steve Inglese of the New Haven Group.
Commercial building sales are down markedly. Data from the Conn-Comp transaction database show just four sales between January 1 and mid-March, with prices ranging from $2.4 million to $3.8 million.
Twelve deals took place during the same period in 2008, priced at $2 million to $11 million.
The New Haven office market is "continuing on its own stable path," notes John Keogh of Colliers Dow & Condon, who writes a quarterly report on the subject.
"The one thing that has been pretty remarkable is there's no sublease space in New Haven," Keogh says, adding the reason is "the local market is not dependent on Fortune 500 and financial-services companies that have been badly damaged by the recession and the financial crisis.
"The market here consists primarily of Yale, law firms, state and city agencies, non-profit groups and architects," he explains.
Two major changes "offset each other with a net positive" during 2008, Keogh says. Yale leased 165,000 square feet at 25 Science Park, while AT&T vacated around 100,000 square feet at 55 Long Wharf Drive.
During 2008, New Haven's Class A office vacancy rate increased from 8.6 percent to 14.4 percent, while the Class B office vacancy rate declined from 19.3 percent to 12.5 percent, according to Keogh.
Geenty believes 2009 will be a "year of trepidation" with "a lot" more national foreclosure and some local retail foreclosures, beginning perhaps as early as summer.
"People are expecting the current condition to continue for another quarter or two," Michaud says. "Beyond that nobody knows."
Below are some recent commercial real estate developments in and around New Haven:
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The New Haven building owned by developer Bob Matthews is in receivership and could be headed for foreclosure.
According to the Connecticut judicial Web site, on October 14, 2008, US Bank National filed a foreclosure case against Matthews' partnership, Elm City, LLC et al.
On October 27, 2008, Konover Commercial Corp. became the court-appointed "receiver of rent" for the property, and also has been managing it since that time, according to Konover President Elizabeth Judd. "We're the interim placeholder," Judd says.
Various motions and exhibits have been filed since then; the latest is an objection to discovery filed on February 18 of this year. The status of a hearing scheduled for November 13, 2009 is shown as "off."
Neither Matthews nor his attorneys, nor attorneys for the US Bank National, could be reached for comment.
United Illuminating
In late November UI purchased the 34-acre former Showcase Cinema property in Orange from Summit Development, LLC of Southport for $21.25 million.
A month later, the utility signed a long-term lease for 22 acres of nearby farmland.
Summit's sale to UI was made several weeks after Summit bought the Orange movie theater from National Amusements as part of a $45 million deal to acquire four Showcase Cinema sites in Connecticut.
UI plans to demolish the former movie theater and construct an operations site on its original footprint for 500 to 600 field and support personnel. An office building for some 500 workers will sprout on the farmland.
UI employees will relocate from North Haven, Shelton and 205 Church Street, New Haven, where the company's lease expires in June 2012.
"That is our date to have everybody in that central [operations center] facility," says UI spokeswoman Anita Steeves.
Coliseum Site
A memorandum of understanding between the city of New Haven and Northland Investment Corp. should be finalized shortly, while concerns over state funding and its own capital campaign could hinder Long Wharf Theatre's plans for its new theater on the redeveloped 4.5-acre site.
"Long term, everyone is completely committed to this project," says Peter M. Standish, Northland's senior vice president of acquisitions and development. "The Long Wharf piece is a little further behind.
"We continue to refine how this project is going to happen and who's doing what," Standish adds, "and to try to craft it into a single vision what's best for everyone."
Gateway Community College
The long-anticipated groundbreaking on the new downtown New Haven campus may happen in late August or September of this year. State officials announced last month that the construction manager for the project is Dimeo Construction Co. of Providence, R.I. and the job could be done by January 2012.
Gateway classes, however, won't start until autumn of that year, GCC spokesperson Evelyn Gard says, adding school officials are hopeful the state will shortly approve a $147 million bond for construction work.
Meanwhile, the city will soon begin replacing the tunnel under the old Macy's building site with a new floor, lighting and supports and update its ventilation and drainage systems.
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Every sperm and every egg, fertilized or not, is a living, breathing person, endowed by its Creator with certain inalienable rights. At least, that's what the proposed 2010 personhood amendment to the Colorado state constitution implies. No, it doesn't say that literally, but thanks to the vague wording of the amendment, that's one possible interpretation.
It's also clear from an article in The Colorado Independent that this is only half of what the amendment's authors intended.
"It's intended to account for human beings who may be created through asexual reproduction in laboratories and used as raw material for research, organs, or stem cells. Fertilization would not have properly applied to asexually reproduced humans, but even asexually reproduced human beings have a definite biological beginning," [Gualberto Garcia] Jones explained. (Jones heads the organization that initiated this year's amendment)
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The national road toll for the Easter weekend stood at 12 on Saturday evening, including two deaths in NSW.
Four people had died in Queensland accidents, the largest number of any state. A motorcyclist died and a trail bike rider was in a serious condition after two separate crashes in the state on Friday.
A 41-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle struck a tree in state forest in south-east Queensland. Police said the Maroochydore man lost control on a bend in the Mount Binga State Forest, north of Toowoomba, about 10am on Friday.
And a 36-year-old man was flown to hospital with head injuries after falling from his trail bike.
Two women died in a head-on collision on the Kennedy Highway near Mareeba in far north Queensland on Friday night.
Earlier, a police officer was killed in a smash at Georgetown, also in the state's far north.
In South Australia, a 17-year-old boy has died after a car carrying five passengers crashed on Friday night near Balaklava, north of Adelaide.
The 17-year-old female driver is being questioned. The other passengers, all girls aged between 14 and 17 years, received non-life threatening injuries.
The boy's death brought South Australia's Easter holiday road toll to three, while NSW and Victoria have each recorded two deaths and Western Australia one.


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A refugee, as defined by the Refugee Act of 1980, is a person who is outside of their home country and is unable or unwilling to avail himself/herself of the protection of the home country due to persecution or fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The refugee often flees or is forced to leave suddenly and therefore leaves with few possessions. The Refugee Act of 1980 authorized The Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP) to provide cash assistance, medical assistance, and social services to refugees. The Fascell-Stone Amendment to the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 extended to Cuban and Haitian entrants the same benefits and services available to refugees. The Refugee Assistance Amendments of 1982 amended the law. In the Continuing Resolution of 1983, the Cuban/Haitian Entrant Program was combined with the RRP so that the same program served both refugees and entrants. The Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986 further amended the law. In 1988, the Amerasians Homecoming Act admitted Amerasians and their families as immigrants but made them eligible for refugee benefits. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 admitted victims of severe forms of human trafficking and made them eligible for refugee benefits. Asylees are also eligible for refugee benefits as added by the Refugee Act of 1980. Afghan and Iraqi Special Immigrant Visas and Central American unaccompanied minors are also eligible for refugee benefits.
Voluntary resettlement agencies are national agencies responsible for helping refugees through the first 90 days of their period of resettlement in the United States. The initials of the national agency will be found on the refugee's I-94 Form (i.e., EMM, HIAS, IRC, LIRS, USCC, WRRS, ECDC). New American Pathways, International Rescue Committee, Lutheran Services of Georgia, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and World Relief are the local agencies in Georgia who resettle refugees.
Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and Refugee Medical Assistance (RMA) are available to refugees during their first eight months in the U.S. To be eligible for RCA, a refugee must be ineligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). A refugee who is eligible for RCA and/or RMA and then receives increased earnings from employment will continue to be eligible for RMA until the end of his/her 8-month eligibility period.
The Division of Family and Children Services Refugee Program provides funds to the Division of Public Health through a Memorandum of Agreement to provide health screening and follow-up treatment to refugees. Refugees receive the health screening during their first 90 days in the country. The Division of Public Health has bilingual staff to assist with the health screening and follow-up treatment.
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So it appears that the Sebring name is actually going to go, as I predicted a few weeks ago, and it will be replaced by "Nassau" according to unofficial reports.
This name change ought to give new life to this much loved and much reviled car, which will also undergo a facelift.
This is the car that was meant to take on the Honda Accord, the Ford Fusion and Hyundai Sonata among others. Automobile Magazine tells us how to pronounce the word (na-SAW), which would be familiar to almost any wealthy person but not, perhaps, to the target market of mid-size budget car buyers.
Nassau, of course, is the catital of the Bahamas and this name is yet another name that draws, "Inspiration from tourist destinations. In the past, Chrysler has had the New Yorker, Fifth Avenue, Cordoba (a city in Spain), Saratoga, Windsor, and, most recently, the Aspen and Pacifica"
The debate rages on over whether or not Chrysler should keep the Sebring name and give it a new life, much like Ford has with the Taurus. After all, the car will be fighting for brand recognition against a host of very well established brand names, including the mighty Toyota Camry.
My opinion is that it is a good move to ditch the Sebring name. The Sebring was not a well loved car, and Chrysler is desperate to create a product that will really rock the category.
I like the Nassau name but its potential buyers are going to find it hard to spell and pronounce. It would be better on a more high-end car aimed at an older demographic; the type of person who might actually retire in the Bahamas.
The Sebring name hearkens back to the company's list of weather related car names. "Chrysler Cirrus, Dodge Stratus and Plymouth Breeze" were all stalwarts of the 1990s. mLive reminds us of when the Cirrus turned into the Sebring.
I would think that this new car might return to that scheme in some way rather than get named after a city that was preferred by secret agent James Bond. Although Bond's version of the Nassau might need to be a bit faster and possibly have an ejector seat.
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