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The Regional Transportation Authority is staring at a $300 million shortfall.
And it's going to require creative solutions or painful decisions to close it, organization leaders say. Translation: More taxes or something won't get built.
When voters approved the RTA package in 2006, projections showed the half-cent sales tax would generate $2.1 billion over the 20-year life of the transportation plan.
But the economy soon plunged, and along with it consumer spending.
Current estimates show if RTA tax receipts go up 5 percent every year, the overall revenues collected would be around $1.8 billion, RTA Transportation Services Director Jim DeGrood said. He said they now average about 4.8 to 4.9 percent annual growth.
Beyond less-than-planned revenues, the $1.8 billion is calculated using 2006 dollars, so the RTA still must account for inflation when it actually spends the money, DeGrood said.
On a positive note, DeGrood said many of the road-construction projects have been coming in under budget, although not low enough to offset the decrease in revenue.
Because DeGrood doesn't foresee the economy booming any time soon, the transit authority needs to start weighing its options on how to close the gap.
"The test for us is how we react to it," DeGrood said. "We need to make smart moves."
While the "sky is not falling" and there's no need to rush into any decision, he said, the RTA does need to start discussing how it's going to align expenses with revenues.
First up is to figure out exactly what the authority has to work with. DeGrood said the University of Arizona's Eller School of Management will run the numbers in September.
Once it has exact numbers, talks about what to do next will begin.
Some of the options include cutting RTA projects equal to amount the authority is short. In this case, that would mean trimming about 15 percent across the board for road improvements, transit and other projects.
Cuts could mean anything from scaled-back road projects to less money for streetcar operations and maintenance.
The latter wouldn't surprise one city official.
"I've been preaching for over a year that we can't rely on the RTA for O&M (operations and maintenance on the streetcar," said Councilman Steve Kozachik. "If they shave that $11 million they earmarked for O&M out of that project, our general fund is going to take that as a direct hit. I hope that's not where they go to fund their shortfall, but for some of us, it wouldn't be a huge shock."
Kozachik said it's no surprise the cash flow is less than predicted. He said many RTA projects are overdue for a second look to see which are necessary and which can be trimmed.
"It's time they finally agreed … to give some of the road construction work a haircut and save millions of taxpayer dollars instead of blindly spending money on work that's neither justified by travel habits or population levels," Kozachik said. "We've got a citizen task force working on the Broadway design that has been begging the consultants for months to be allowed to show some creativity in what they propose. Maybe finally the piggy bank will be the tipping point for getting to that point."
But cuts aren't the only option.
Another would be having voters extend the RTA's charter beyond the 2026 deadline. An extension would allow the RTA to collect enough tax dollars to cover the gap, DeGrood said.
A third option could involve asking for bond money. Although interest from a bond would eat into revenues, DeGrood said low interest rates would minimize the impact.
Before any of that happens, discussions have to take place among RTA staffers, its board and local governments.
City spokesman Mike Graham said city officials will have to sit down with RTA folks on how they'd like to proceed and bring the results before the mayor and council.
The county expects every program to share in the burden of shouldering the revenue shortfall, said county administrator Chuck Huckelberry.
Also, plans should be made sooner rather than waiting another decade and scrambling for a solution, he said.


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Lima Green Project public input open house is April 1
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The Gunflint Ranger District is developing a proposal for vegetation management activities for the Lima Green Project. The project proposes to enhance moose habitat, restore red and white pine, enhance the scenic quality along the Gunflint Trail and improve forest conditions through vegetation management, harvests and planting.
The Forest Service is hosting an informal open house to gather more data, ideas and direction from the public. The open house is Friday April 1, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at the Gunflint Ranger Station. WTIP's Jay Andersen has this report.
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The 700-passenger vessel will undergo its nine-day renovation in Marseille before setting sail on a 10-night Lands of Myths, Seas of Fables cruise from Rome to Venice.
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Sir Herbert Samuel, noted English statesman and former High Commissioner in Palestine, is expected to be the chief speaker at a mass meeting to initiate a drive for twenty thousand dollars for the relief of German Jews. The meeting will be held at the Royal York Hotel on September 17.
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, who recently returned from a tour of Germany, and Rabbi Sachs, will also speak. All classes of the Jewish community here are united in the relief drive which is expected to go ovr the top.
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Photo Flash: Cast of Bay Street's THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Celebrates Opening Night
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presents THE DIARY OF Anne Frank live on stage now thru Tuesday, November 26. The play is suggested for ages 13 and up. The program is sponsored in part by The Dana Foundation; Halstead Property; Suffolk County; The Sunny & Abe Rosenberg Foundation; Colgate-Palmolive, and the Town of Southampton. Public performance pricing is set at $12 for students and $25 for adults with special rates for schools and other groups. Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm.
The Diary of Anne Frank, written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is presented as part of Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! 2013 educational program, which presents a piece of literature selected from the core curriculum and brings it to life on stage for the general public as well as for schools across Long Island.
The Cast of THE DIARY OF Anne Frank: Sawyer Avery (Peter van Daan), Keith Cornelius (Mr. Frank), Chloë Dirksen (Miep), Terrance Fiore (Mr. Dussel), Lydia Franco-Hodges (Mrs. Frank), Josh Gladstone (Mr. Van Daan), Jessica Mortellaro (Anne Frank), Kate Mueth (Mrs. Van Daan), Joe Pallister (Mr. Kraler) and Georgia Warner (Margot Frank).
Literature Live! is a BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program. Plays chosen are from standards-based literature and are supported with teacher-developed lesson plans and reference materials. All performances are 90 minutes and weekday shows are followed by a question and answer session with Werner Reich, a Holocaust survivor.
THE DIARY OF Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is a stage adaptation of the book. The story, which made its debut in 1956, won both a Tony award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. This riveting play about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed space above a warehouse allows audiences to feel their claustrophobic existence, their hopes, their fears and their indomitable will to survive.
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SARASOTA, Fla. -- Swift Road is open again after a bomb squad was called out to destroy an unknown object found in the road Monday.
Around 1pm Monday, the Sarasota County Hazardous Devices Unit was called to Swift Road near Grand Cayman Street (just north of Proctor Road) after a ceramic bowl containing a chicken head and feathers next to a cylindrical object inside of a paper bag was found in the road.
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Jacoby Jones tied an NFL record with a 108-yard kickoff return and Baltimore won its 14th straight regular-season home game with a 31-29 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
Dallas ran for 227 yards, most ever against the Ravens, and totalled 481 yards offence. But the Cowboys (2-3) missed a two-point conversion after closing to two points with 32 seconds left.
Dallas recovered the onside kick, and Dan Bailey was wide left on a 51-yard field goal try with six seconds left.
Ray Rice scored two touchdowns and Joe Flacco threw for a score to help the Ravens (5-1) secure their fourth consecutive victory and enhance their grip on first place in the AFC North. Baltimore's home winning streak is the longest current run in the NFL.
LIONS 26, EAGLES 23: Jason Hanson kicked a 45-yard field goal in overtime and the Detroit Lions rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit.
Held in check most of the game, Matthew Stafford led Detroit to 17 points in the fourth quarter. He threw a TD pass and ran for a score.
Detroit had two shots from the Eagles 1 after a pass interference penalty on Colt Anderson with 13 seconds left in regulation. But Stafford misfired on both passes and Hanson kicked a 19-yard field goal to send it to overtime.
The Lions (2-3) sacked Michael Vick on the first two plays of the extra quarter, forced a punt out of the end zone and started at midfield.
Stafford hit Calvin Johnson for a 17-yard gain to the Eagles 27 on first-and-20. A few plays later, Hanson nailed the game-winner.
The Eagles (3-3) head into their bye week with two straight losses.
REDSKINS 38, VIKINGS 26: Robert Griffin III ran for 138 yards and two touchdowns, including a 76-yard scamper with 2:43 to play, and Washington snapped an eight-game home losing streak.
One week after he left the game early with his first NFL concussion, Griffin also completed 17 of 22 passes for 182 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
The Redskins (3-3) feasted on a Minnesota team that had not allowed more than 23 points in a game this season. Minnesota's three-game winning streak ended. The Vikings are 4-2.
Minnesota held an early 9-0 lead but paid the price for getting field goals instead of touchdowns in the red zone.
Christian Ponder completed 35 of 52 passes for 352 yards.
SEAHAWKS 24, PATRIOTS 23: Russell Wilson found Sidney Rice behind the secondary for a 46-yard touchdown with 1:18 remaining, and Seattle rallied for 14 points in the final 7:31.
The matchup between the Patriots' No. 1-ranked offence and Seattle's No. 1 defence instead turned into a starring performance for Wilson — and a shocking rally.
Wilson hit Braylon Edwards on fourth down for a 10-yard TD to get the Seahawks within 23-17. After a pair of holds by Seattle's defence, Wilson found Rice open on a double move. Steven Hauschka's extra point gave Seattle the lead.
Tom Brady and the Patriots (3-3) were then stopped on fourth down at their 28 when Wes Welker came up two yards short, and the Seahawks (4-2) were able to celebrate the unlikely comeback.
FALCONS 23, RAIDERS 20: Matt Bryant kicked his second game-winning field goal in three weeks, a 55-yarder with one second remaining.
Overcoming Matt Ryan's three interceptions, the Falcons (6-0) extended the best start in franchise history. But it wasn't easy against the pesky Raiders (1-4).
Atlanta pulled ahead when Asante Samuel returned an interception 79 yards for a touchdown with 2:40 remaining, only to wind up tied again when Carson Palmer led Oakland down the field for a tying score. Darren McFadden powered in from the two-yard line with 40 seconds left.
That was just enough time for Ryan and Bryant to pull off another fourth-quarter victory. Ryan completed four passes to set up the winning kick.
GIANTS 26, 49ERS 3: Antrel Rolle intercepted two passes by Alex Smith and Prince Amukamara picked off another for New York in a rematch of last season's NFC championship game.
After outscoring the Bills and Jets by a combined 79-3 the last two weeks, the 49ers (4-2) met their match again in Eli Manning and New York's top team. No overtime needed this time, and not much of Manning either.
Manning threw for 193 yards and one touchdown, Ahmad Bradshaw ran for 116 yards and a score and the Giants (4-2) rode a dominant defence and four field goals by Lawrence Tynes to hand outspoken 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh the most lopsided loss of his tenure.
BUCCANEERS 38, CHIEFS 10: Josh Freeman threw for 328 yards and three touchdowns and Ronde Barber scored on a 78-yard interception return.
Freeman teamed with Mike Williams on a 62-yard scoring play in the first quarter and threw TD passes of 19 and 17 yards to Vincent Jackson in the second half as the Bucs (2-3) stopped a three-game losing streak.
The Bucs intercepted Brady Quinn — starting for the Matt Cassel (concussion) — twice in the Kansas City quarterback's first start in nearly three years. They also limited NFL rushing leader Jamaal Charles to 40 yards on 12 carries.
BROWNS 34, BENGALS 24: Rookie Brandon Weeden threw two touchdown passes and Cleveland snapped an 11-game losing streak that dated to last season.
Cleveland had not won since Nov. 20, matching a franchise record for consecutive losses. But for the first time this season everything fell into place for the Browns (1-5).
Montario Hardesty, filling in for injured rookie Trent Richardson, scored on a one-yard plunge and cornerback Sheldon Brown intercepted Andy Dalton and returned it 19 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter as the Browns outscored the Bengals (3-3) in the second half 27-10.
JETS 35, COLTS 9: Shonn Greene ran for a career-high 161 yards and three touchdowns, Mark Sanchez was efficient and Tim Tebow made a few big plays.
Even the Jets' maligned defence was able to shut down Andrew Luck and the Colts offence as New York snapped a two-game losing streak that had many wondering if the season was about to spiral out of control.
For a week, at least, Sanchez was in total control and the Jets (3-3) had their best overall performance — save for a handful of personal foul penalties — since an opening-week rout of Buffalo.
Indianapolis (2-3) trailed 21-6 at halftime and couldn't erase a big deficit for the second straight week after coming back from 18 points and beating Green Bay last Sunday.
DOLPHINS 17, RAMS 14: Ryan Tannehill threw two touchdown passes and Miami withstood a late rally.
The Rams faced a fourth-and-eight at the Miami 48-yard line with 30 seconds left, and rather than go for a first down, coach Jeff Fisher sent out rookie Greg Zuerlein to try a 66-yard field goal, which missed wide left.
Zuerlein made two field goals to improve to 15 for 15 this season, but then missed three times in a row, including from 48 and 32 yards in the first half.
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New Musical FIRE & BLOOD Set for Richland College Fannin Performance Hall, 10/17-26
Experience the world premiere of "Fire & Blood," a new musical by Andy Long and Adam C. Wright at Richland College. In this new take on a familiar legend, the city of New Orleans finds herself rid of the poor in the wake of Katrina. All that remains is an unspoken balance between the city's socialites and its colony of vampires that have long inhabited the French Quarter. When a more powerful presence from an old European bloodline makes the city his new home, that balance is quickly thrown out of control. As the fight for power, love, and lust climaxes, one thing is certain ... there will be blood. This haunting re- imagining of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" proves that some stories never die. Recommended for mature audiences.
Oct. 17-19 and 24-26 at 7:30 p.m.; matinee on Oct. 19 and 26 at 2:30 p.m. Call 972-238-6256 for info. Richland College is located at 12800 Abrams Road in Dallas.


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Squadron Leader Tony Pickering was the star of the show as this year's second coach tour of "Hellfire Corner" proved as successful as the first 2012 event in the early summer.
The Trust is already working on exciting new plans to build on this year's well-supported, exclusive tours of the area that saw much of the aerial fighting during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Details of the 2013 tours will be finalised in the spring, with enthusiasts warned to sign up quickly as spaces will again be limited. Past tours have included attractions such as the Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge, with its extensive collection of memorabilia, and the village of Elham, which played a unique role during the Battle.
The tours are led by author and historian Geoff Simpson, a member of the RAF Historical Society and author of many texts on the Battle including "A Dictionary of the Battle of Britain". Uniquely, they include lunch and afternoon tea with one of the Few.
September's end-of-season tour saw Squadron Leader Pickering in fine form, entertaining the guests over lunch and talking to them throughout the rest of the tour.
The tours offer enthusiasts an unbeatable opportunity to combine a great day out with the chance to learn more about the historic events of the Battle of Britain, much of which took place in the skies over this part of the country. The tours start at the National Memorial to the Few at Capel-le-Ferne.
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Last night Daniela and I recieved a note from our friend Phil (the australian guy we met in Vienna). It turned out he was in a hostel down the street from us in Interlaken and wanted to meet us for a drink. We went over to his hostel and watched the England v. Poland world cup qualifying game. His hostel was much livlier than ours and we stayed there until about 11. We came back to our hostel and packed for our departure in the morning. We left around 9 this morning and arrived in Milan at 1:30. We are now just hanging out in our hostel for the night. We are going to catch the 7:30am bus to the airport tomorrow and finally finsh our European Adventure.


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Warm greetings from the Manila Electric Company!
Meralco invites you to be part of the company as it continues to grow and evolve in response to a changing and deregulated business environment.
Meralco's core business is electric distribution and as the premier electric company, Meralco has become an inseparable partner of the country in the cyber age. As such, the company continues to embark on a transformation to promote more efficient operations, streamlined and automated processes, and on-line information for better decision-making and faster processing time.
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Suspected Al Qaeda gunmen killed 12 Yemeni soldiers and a civilian on Thursday in a southern province where troops have been battling the rebels since late April, a security official said.
The militants attacked a checkpoint near the Shabwa province village of Bayhan with automatic rifles, also wounding a number of soldiers, the official said.
The army has been engaged in a major ground offensive against Al Qaeda in Shabwa and neighbouring Abyan province in a bid to expel it from smaller towns and villages that escaped a previous sweep in 2012, AFP reported.


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Headline News from PaymentsNews.com - June 3, 2013
On the web:
- Disrupting payments - Bdaily - "The spark for iZettle came from a conversation between the founder, Jacob de Geer and his wife."
- CFPB exodus: Brain drain or growing pains? - Politico - "There is both a push and a pull on these folks."
- Consumer Complaints on Checking Accounts Show Need for Action - Pew Charitable Trusts
- Mobile money making its mark with major groups: Millicom, MTN, Vodafone, and Orange - GSMA - "The four telecom groups represented in this blog post account for over 55 million mobile money subscribers according to their latest published figures."
- The cash-free challenge... are contactless cards a safe way to pay? - London Evening Standard - "People will argue forever that they don't own contactless cards and then will open their wallet and find one…"
- Banks Battle Telcos for Cash in South African Townships - Bloomberg BusinessWeek - "Mobile-phone payment services like M-Pesa have blossomed in east Africa, while in South Africa they have struggled because of regulation and a lack of a network to deposit and withdraw cash…"
- Consumers ready for biometric payment methods - Cards International - "Instead of entering a PIN, users only had to place a finger on a reader to be authenticated."
- Calculating The Long-Term Value Of A Bitcoin - TechCrunch - "First, I agree with the common sentiment that in 10 years, bitcoins will either be worth nothing, or a lot more than they are now …"
- Do Digital Currencies Need Bank Secrecy Act Regulations? - Portals and Rails - "At the heart of the issue with this particular digital currency is its anonymous nature. "
On the wires:
- Silicon Valley Bank Hires New Chief Information Officer (Beth Devin) - "Beth is a great addition to our team with experience that will help us better serve our clients, and take advantage of disruptive financial tools…"
- i-Free, Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank and MasterCard come together to introduce first NFC wallet with remote Mobile MasterCard PayPass® issue in Russia and CIS - "This launch of the first NFC service in Russia that supports remote Mobile MasterCard PayPass card issue and personalization is a milestone event in the development of NFC infrastructure and services available to Russian banks and their customers…"
- Gemalto delivers micro-banking technology in Bangladesh - "This is a great example of how digital security can benefit a developing market and bring essential financial services to the world's under-banked…"


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Lifelong volunteer will lead Mt. Pleasant festival parade
As young girl growing up in Queens, N.Y., it didn't take very long for Marie Albertini-Dawson to find a way to lend a hand.
At the time, she was an eighth-grader attending St. Elizabeth's Catholic School in the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City.
When the secondary classes let out at 2:45 p.m. daily, Albertini-Dawson took notice of a nun who taught first grade there known to her only as Sister Carlene, and her efforts to keep students occupied until their end time of 3:30 p.m.
One day, she approached the young nun to ask her if she would like some help looking after the children.
"I went down there and I'd read those kids stories, sometimes for 45 minutes, until their parents came to get them. I did it five days a week. It was fun," Albertini-Dawson said.
Such a drive to aid those around her has continually symbolized the life of Albertini-Dawson, who has lived in Mt. Pleasant since 1977.
It's what compelled the Mt. Pleasant Glass & Ethnic Festival committee to name Albertini-Dawson as parade marshal for the 27th annual event's Main Street procession to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the borough.
Borough manager and festival committee co-chairman Jeff Landy, who in 1986 co-founded the festival with borough Mayor Jerry Lucia, vowed that a better candidate to fulfill that role could not be found.
"Marie has been a hard worker for years," Landy said. "She's been the ultimate volunteer for this community."
Albertini-Dawson first moved to Mt. Pleasant with her husband, Al, and the couple's three young sons: Donald, Al Jr. and Brian, who at the time were ages 12, 9 and 4, respectively.
"We had friends in Scottdale that we used to come see, and my husband's a baker and he got a job at Barsotti Brothers in the Southside, and the rest is history," she said. "Coming here was a good move. To me, Mt. Pleasant is like country after you come from New York."
Prior to moving to the area, Albertini-Dawson's volunteer drive led her to become a denmother with the Cub Scouts of America in New York.
Upon her arrival, Albertini-Dawson admitted it took some time to get acclimated.
"It was culture shock. But my three boys were in school all day, and you can only cook and clean so much, so I decided to start volunteering in the community," she said.
Albertini-Dawson started volunteering at Frick Hospital by taking water to patients and delivering their mail to them. Over the years, she took on increased responsibility there, including data entry using computers in the 1980s.
One day in 1990, Albertini-Dawson said she noticed an ad in the newspaper seeking volunteers for the Mt. Pleasant Glass & Ethnic Festival.
"When I first got involved with the festival, we would send out sponsorship letters for the parade, take pictures of the festival each year, and hold different fundraisers around the year," she said.
Albertini-Dawson also volunteered at the festival food booth.
Eventually, Albertini-Dawson once again earned even more responsibility, as the festival committee entrusted her with making a yearly photo album containing festival photographs and articles from all the local newspapers.
She said her proudest festival accomplishment came when the late U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Johnstown, a Mt. Pleasant native, nominated the festival for the Library of Congress's Local Legacies Project.
"I followed their guidelines and I worked for months on compiling the pictures and news articles of all the previous years and submitted it to the Library of Congress," Albertini-Dawson said. "Once we were accepted, we were invited to Washington D.C., for the induction party."
Albertini-Dawson's philanthropic largesse also extended to the nation's military, as she helped organize a group to support service men and women during Operation Desert Storm.
She personally received and kept track of all applications for military veterans' names which appear on the Veteran's Memorial Wall and accompanying tablets at Veteran's Park in the borough.
"That was a project in itself, but I am patriotic," Albertini-Dawson said.
Having volunteered for several years in the 1990s for a telephone answering service at the borough building, Albertini-Dawson became secretary for former state Rep. James Shaner upon his election to represent the 52nd Legislative District in 1994.
"I'm a people person, that's all I can tell you," she said.
Albertini-Dawson worked for Shaner until his retirement from office in February 2006, when she was retained later that year by current state Rep. Deberah Kula, D-Fayette/Westmoreland.
"When I was elected, so many people in Mt. Pleasant asked me 'You're going to keep Marie, right?'" Kula said with a laugh. "Her heart started in New York but her heart is now in Mt. Pleasant. She puts her whole heart into everything she does there."
As far as all the attention she has received since being appointed parade marshal,
Albertini-Dawson said she would just as soon work quietly behind the scenes.
"I'm try to be a giver; I'm not much of a receiver," she said.
However, she did receive one thing for her volunteer services she has kept all her life — a medal given to her by Sister Carlene for the aid she rendered so long ago.
"I still have it," Albertini-Dawson said. "The only time I took it off was when I was a patient in the hospital."
During Saturday's parade, Albertini-Dawson will be riding in the lead car with her grandson Killian Dawson, 11, and her granddaughters Sylvia Dawson, 12, and Abigale Dawson, 8.
A.J. Panian is an editor for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-547-5722 or email@example.com.


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Self-defense bill fails
A plan to expand Minnesotans' right to protect themselves by using deadly force suffered a near-fatal blow when it failed to pass a House committee.
The so-called Castle Doctrine gives citizens the right to use deadly force in their home if they feel their life is threatened.
A bill by Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder, expands that to a person's property and vehicle.
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It is, however, a form of the noble game that bears little resemblance to that presided over by the mandarins at the Royal and Ancient in St Andrews. Sedate wanders around picturesque seaside courses simply won't do for the new generation of 'extreme' golfers.
From the depths of the Black Forest to the peaks of the Rockies, young outdoor types are packing compasses and climbing poles along with their sand wedges and drivers as they take the entire sport out of bounds.
Thousands are heading out into wilds, brandishing their golf clubs but otherwise unencumbered by any sense of golfing tradition.
And now the new age of golf has arrived in the very country where the old game originated. In clubhouses across Scotland, heads are shaking as the old school realise that the name of the sport they love is being dragged through the mud.
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An entire day can be spent playing a single 'hole' as golfers take hundreds of shots. Lost balls need not incur a penalty stroke and there is no putting. Simply aim for the 25-metre painted white circle on the ground that is also marked on the participants' maps.
It is the antithesis of golf as most players know it. Gone are the crustless smoked salmon sandwiches and annual general meetings in stuffy clubhouses. Replacing them are mid-match beer stops and campfire cook-outs.
The contrast with the perceived snobbery of the old game is part of the attraction. Some would be turfed off traditional courses as they hacked out chunks of grass. But for many others, extreme golf, which is also known as cross-golf and turbo-golf, is simply another opportunity to enjoy the wilderness.
Scottish golf rebel Mark Sim is no stranger to the renowned links courses that line the coast of his native Ayrshire. Yet this 16-handicapper is spending more weekends in his walking shoes than his golf spikes.
For Sim is getting in some practice for an extreme golf test he has set himself and three friends. The Missing Links Challenge will see the foursome move off-course for three excursions on to hiking country they have visited before without their clubs.
'We're not giving up golf in favour of this,' said Sim yesterday. 'It just sounded like a mad new challenge. I had read about extreme golfers in America and Europe and knew I had to give it a shot.
'There's a few of us who love to swing the sticks some days, while other weekends we'd rather head for the hills. Here was the perfect opportunity to do both.'
In the new year, the Missing Links quartet will tackle a trio of single-target challenges. The first will be an assault on the 2,320ft Tinto Hill in Lanarkshire. 'We'll be aiming for a target on top of the hill,' Sim declared. 'If that goes well, we'll head for the Galloway Forest later in the year.'
The climax of the Missing Links challenge will be a journey across Arran, off the Ayrshire coast.
'We'll be going from Brodick, where the ferry drops us, over to Blackwaterfoot, where there's a nice 12-hole course we might play the next day.'
Changes to Scottish land laws allowing greater rights of access are likely to ease the rebel golfers' passage. The new laws have already been welcomed by ramblers, who, perhaps surprisingly, remained unperturbed about the prospect of golf-balls flying around the countryside.
'Anything that gets people into the great outdoors has to be a good thing,' said a spokesman for the Ramblers' Association. 'As long as they are careful about where the balls are being hit, and keep and eye out for other people, they we wouldn't have a problem with extreme golfers.'
As with rugby, there are rival codes in the world of off-course golf. Both Americans and Europeans lay claim to having founded the sport, but the US version is more established and organised.
The UX Open tour first ripped the plus-fours off the old game in 1999, when it was founded by Rick Ryan, who first took to the mountains with college friends, a case of beer and his clubs in 1981
The sports-marketing executive realised 18 years later that his alternative version of the game had the potential to become traditional golf's younger, hipper sibling - what snowboarding is to skiing.
In the four years since Ryan started the tour, it has already grown into a four-event summer series that culminates in a televised championship. The tournaments are played at mountain resorts around the United States.
UX Open golf caters for beginners, with rounds costing $75. Included in the price are the services of a team of ball-spotters - highly recommended in such harsh terrain - and a chance to qualify for the tour championship. Players are allowed a maximum of four clubs.
Jeff Milender is addicted to the thrill of hiking for miles before swinging a club and watching the drive hang for a good 10 seconds, hundreds of feet above the ground. 'When else do you get to hit a golf ball off the top of a mountain" said the UX Open golfer.
Yet even the few rules of the UX Open are too many for the anarchic golfers of Central Europe. They plough through fields, building sites and town centres in pursuit of bizarre targets such as a mock living room complete with sofas and tables set afloat on a lake.
Cross-golf, which takes its name from cross-country, is flourishing throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and has made inroads in Asia.
Its roots were laid down by Torsten Schilling, a 39-year-old television producer who began playing golf in hotel corridors at night. Now Schilling has quit his day job to run the cross-golf group Natural Born Golfers. The team logo is a skull with golf clubs for crossbones. Tattered jeans and motorcycle jackets are the unofficial clothing.
Natural Born Golfers' website suggests there are now tens of thousands of cross golfers tearing across Central Europe.
In Austria, the Hotel Toni has added cross-golf tournaments to its guest activities. According to the owner, Franz Wenko, the north Tyrol landscape around the hotel makes for adventurous backwoods golfing.
There are few rules, although, Wenko said, 'it's not good form to try to hit the cows. Then we get problems with the farmers'.
Corporate clients such as Microsoft and Volkswagen have even hired Natural Born Golfers to devise games for clients in six German cities. At a match in Berlin they were led through a day of hitting golf balls from a hotel rooftop, across a river and into the Reichstag.
Schilling has further development plans for the sport. He has acquired three carts and is giving them a Harley-Davidson-style makeover complete with painted flames for a tournament in the spring.
But for Mark Sim and his fellow Missing Links golf rebels such stunts reek of commercialisation. 'This should be about the wilderness and getting away from it all. Sponsorship and corporate deals ought to be left to the fairways and clubhouses.'
There is one multi-national organisation all the various cross-golfers can be sure will not get involved in their sport. When asked what its members thought of the emergence of the new codes, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews simply issued a terse 'no comment'.


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EXCLUSIVE: Fox is waving the white flag on what is supposed to be a worth-the-price-of-admission movie which in and of itself is a rarity these days. The studio was supposed to open its 'romantic action comedy' This Means War on Tuesday aka Valentine's Day. But the studio hasn't seen the pic's poor tracking pick up at all in recent days, while Sony Pictures/Screen Gems' The Vow is soaring in wannasee. So Fox has decided to get out of the way. In an unusual move this late in the game, the studio will sneak This Means War on Tuesday and then hope word of mouth spreads before its new release date of Friday, February 17th. I don't get what the moviegoing public's problem with this pic is: Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, and Reese Witherspoon are just as cool casting as Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams (though apparently not as box office) and the trailers have been engaging (though thrust into a lot of clutter) and the film didn't look dumb (and that's half the battle with this genre).
Fox Delays 'This Means War' Release
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I actually think this movie looks pretty good. But not sure why their outdoor campaign is making the title so confusing to understand. The tag line is much larger than the movie's title itself — I bet the lack of title recognition is having some impact on its tracking. Big waste of an outdoor spend.
Exact same issue with the "Safe House" billboards and bus shelters out there right now. The title is in tiny writing — and the tag line, "No One Is Safe," is enormous. I bet people think the title of the movie is: "No One Is Safe."
The marketing doesn't convey that this is a feature film.
I've seen a dozen billboards, and until this moment, I thought they were about some cable TV show.
You can't have product awareness if the marketing doesn't give an indication of what the product IS.
Also, there was so much digital rework on Reese, that I didn't recognize her in the ads.
Marketing blew it on this one.
People just don't like Reese Witherspoon. It shocks me that she keeps getting cast in these things and studios are surprised when there is no lead in buzz. CIA agents abusing their power to get a girl? Believable. Those same agents fighting over Witherspoon, not so believable.
+1 on not liking Reese Witherspoon. Has she had any box office hits besides Legally Blonde in the last decade?
Amen. She's the reason I'll be watching this on my next Southwest flight. I kid, I'd never fly Southwest. If they play down Witherspoon and play up the two terrific male leads then they stand a chance.
This advice is assbackward. They should be playing up the only star in the movie and burying the two nobodies. Then this movie would have a chance.
You're kidding, right? Reese Witherspoon isn't that huge of a star. Her biggest hit was Legally Blonde in 2001 and Sweet Home Alabama in 2002, while her last 10 films, with the exception of Monsters Vs. Aliens and Walk the Line, were rather lackluster.
Chelsea Handler has no appeal or talent either, and her inclusion in the film doesn't help its chances. It's odd that she'd be included in any major releases given how obnoxious she is. For example, she repeatedly says that she doesn't like minorities or Eastern Europeans. That's incredibly stupid, not to mention intolerant, when you're depending on as many people as possible to support your projects and more importantly, make you money. I definitely won't be seeing This Means War because of her bigotry.
Wait, Southwest now has in-flight movies?
Nice catch. Anyway, Southwest is awesome. But this movie is terribly marketed.
Agreed. And no points for the clip that shows Reese's character criticizing Pine for have small feminine hands and Hardy for being British. What were they thinking? "Why don't we piss off most of Pine fans and 9/10 of the British Isles?"
LOL@you. Pine has no fans.
Two hot guys fighting over a hot girl? See Vampire Diaries.
I like Reese Witherspoon, but this doesn't make sense for her.
The Chelsea Handler-heavy ads over the weekend totally killed my interest in seeing this movie.
Yes! This!
Me, too!!
I totally agree. Her & Reese Witherspoon just don't inspire me to watch…what is this, a romantic comedy? Just a comedy? A dramedy? The marketing didn't feel clear or pique my interest, All I got was that Reese/Chelsea are front & Center.When I see Chelsea all I think of is someone promoting drugs & Alcohol (something people close to me have died from), man-bashing, being foul mouthed, and hating people who aren't like her. THAT's what I'm supposed to go see for valentine's day? uh, no thanks.
I'd be more likely to see the "The Vow" because I Like the 2 leads. I'd rather see "The Grey" because I loved Liam in "Taken" (yes, Im a girl), and I love good action movies. I'd rather go see "Red Tails" because I remember hearing about the Tuskegee Airmen and I love a passion project.
"the film didn't look dumb"? Are you kidding me? Have you seen the trailer? The story line is almost unimaginably dumb.
I second every word in this post.
BTW, while Reese Witherspoon is not my cup of tea, I think it's a bit unfair to blame her for her age; it's just Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy don't seem to have great comic timing and sense judging by the trailer and I am not going to waste my money to find out if it's the contrary.
The funniest part of the trailer was when it ended, a girl sitting behind me said, "I hope it ends with the guys realizing they're really in love with one another."
And I've learned to lower expectations of any film directed by McG.
"I hope it ends with the guys realizing they're really in love with one another."
Horrifically bad trailers. I've heard the film is quite clever and tested great but you'd never guess it from a LCD campaign that plays like Spy vs. Spy with a girl instead of a bomb.
Looks like a generic, terrible film.
Yeah, the film looks ridiculous. Really, two CIA agents fighting in public over a woman, shooting down drones, etc.? This means box office bomb.
I love Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy. Chris Pine? Not so much.
The problem is it doesn't look funny
Who cares about cool casting, they should try funny casting
And by the way, it does look dumb
The trailer had like three penis jokes in it
The trailer is abysmal. Those are the best gags you can come up with to get someone interesed? C'mon nothing original in the gags and no good solid comedy moments that say wow got to see this.
Combine all that with most of all you have two hip sexy leading men and then you have Reese Witherspoon – she is the girl next door and definitely not sexy. He has an okay body but her face is NOT sexy. They needed to cast someone maybe less known, but hot as shit so the audience would go along with the concept that these two hot guys will do anything to win over the sexy girl.
This trailer says studio greenlit this because of the cast. Reese Witherspoons characters is the most important and she is the most miscast.
Um, you have 1 "hip" sexy guy, one girl next door, and one next generation William Shatner. Fixed it 4 you.
Ahh — actually this film does look dumb — with Mr. and Mrs. Smith there was jeopardy and relevant humor — from the trailer this looks as if it has neither — all goofball — casting of this should have been Jack Black et al… then it might open…
It doesn't help the movie that Reese Witherspoon has been saying in interviews that it's "sort of like Mr. & Mrs. Smith". All that does is make people want to see Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie's movie – which they can do for free several times a week because FX seems to have the movie on every other day – and twice on Saturdays.
It also doesn't help that nobody buys the notion that two secret agents would do battle to win Reese Witherspoon. She's about as sexy and enticing as a bowl of cold oatmeal. The trailers I've seen on TV also feature more Chelsea Handler than Chris Pine or Tom Hardy, which defeats the purpose of the movie. How can you have a love triangle with the "best friend" is more prominent in the trailers than the leading men? Aside from those things, the movie looks to be about as original and cutting edge as Jennifer Aniston movie – and we all know how unwatchable her movies are.
Silly as it may sound, I think a big part of the problem is the title. Some titles are just box office repellants (Mars needs moms) and they should be seriously reconsidered.
"Mars Needs Moms", definitely. "John Carter", yes. What's so bad about "This Means War"?
Great point about movie titles today! In many cases they seem like insiders trying to be clever but in no way resonate with the the film-goer.
I agree with Richard. If you're going to open a movie on Valentine's for the couples and dates, "This Means War" is as far from romantic as it can get.
The problem isn't with the casting, but the release date. Why not open this romantic action-comedy closer to summer or in September? It's just off for Valentine's.
Couples would rather see their love and relationship reflected in "The Vow" than test it with "This Means War".
It does look dumb. She's too old for Chris or Tom and doesn't seem like the type that would juggle two men.
How is she too old for them? She's 35 and Hardy is 34. Pine is 31. So try again.
The people here hating on Witherspoon for her age are disgusting.
The only thing cool about this movie will be the seats in the empty theaters. Boom!
Uh oh. This doesn't sound good at all. Personally, I thought the poster and trailer looked solid. And, frankly, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine look delicious together. Was actually looking forward to this, but now. Yikes.
Begging to differ with our esteemed host, but I think the problem is exactly that this movie looks dumb.
The two battling spies show themselves to be fools, spoiling the entire premise of them being "top agents". It looks like a film about two immature, entitled morons abusing government dollars to carry out a personal war… (and here's the kicker) over Reese Witherspoon. What makes Reese so worth the fuss? What does Reese see in either of these men? When everyone is so dumb in the movie and the stakes are so low, it's easy to believe it's tracking poorly.
Agreed–if these guys are this immature, why should we care who ends up with whom…or why? As well, this looks like the kind of movie Ebert rightly rails against, in which everything could be resolved in ten minutes if the characters just talked to each other.
The trailers/spots forgot to feature a bad guy. That's pretty much it.
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, Jack! I concur.
Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are not movie stars. Not even close. And this is NOT the type of movie that Reese Witherspoon's fans want to see her in. She has been getting very poor career advice.
They should have cast an unknown as The Girl. Witherspoon is distracting and reduces the film to another annoying rom-com.
Then they'd all be unknown. They should have cast two real stars as the guys instead.
In addition to looking terrible, the marketing for this one has been atrocious. Dig up the original trailer and re-watch it. By the time it's over you aren't sure if the film is called "Spy vs Spy" or "This Means War". The same can certainly be said of the big ass poster I saw in a number of theaters.
This Means War looks like a very fun movie while The Vow looks just awful. Guess the teen girls are going to be making a very sappy choice for V-Day this year. Hopefully word of mouth will spread and TMW will spark a flame so to speak. It looks like the smartest move Witherspoon has made lately.
No one wants to see Chelsea Handler. How did that happen?
It's not that Tatum & McAdams are box office– it's THE NOTEBOOK redux.
Yes, The Vow aspires to be the next The Notebook, but you have to give credit to the casting. Tatum and McAdams fit perfectly, and people want to see them together.
I don't know anybody who wants to see Tatum. I do want to see the Vow however. Everyone will just have to do their best to ignore him.
Seriously? Tatum's millions of social media followers would beg to differ.
it's a tired idea. how many of these "spies amongst us" action comedies do we have to endure? how about an original idea? i'll go see chronicle again before this garbage.
"the film doesn't look dumb" – gee, that extended scene where Tom Hardy takes out a bunch of kids in a paintball game to impress Reese sure doesn't look stupid at all…
It was directed by McG. That should say everything.
McG gets a bad rap, but I actually think he's a good director. I hear that this movie is really funny. But that is not being effectively communicated in the marketing.
mcg is a video director who has repeatedly over and over not been able to tell a story…
I disagree – this movie looks all sorts of dumb. And Reese Witherspoon doesn't play sexy well. And McG directing? Strike three.
Well, from their TV spots I'd never know that Reese Witherspoon is a lead in the movie. Sorry, but Chris Pine and Tom Hardy combined don't have the recognition as she does. Make it a Reese Witherspoon starrer, not a looks-like-every-other-young-actor with small stunt casting – the marketing's been way off.
Outside of miscasting Reese Witherspoon, I don't get the poor tracking. Look at comments and reviews online from people who've been to screenings of This Means War. They all say they are surprised at how much they like it. If people expect to not like it, but come out liking it, it must be pretty good. Fox should look at their marketing of this movie.
Couldn't agree more. I saw it at a screening and the audience laughed through the whole movie. I just don't get the negativity about a movie people haven't even seen.
One mistake Fox made was marketing it as an action film instead of playing up the comedy aspect. It is hilarious and Chris Pine and Tom Hardy have real chemistry together.
Go see it before you judge that it's awful.
The same thing happened on Pine's "Unstoppable". Pine is the problem.
Could it be that Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play 10 years younger than Reese?
Or maybe that the film's central conceit looks like it could be solved with one line of dialogue: "Let's go talk to her together and see who she picks"?
Or that Reese doesn't come off as a woman that two guys who seem to be best friends would kill each other over?
There's three reasons…I'm sure others will add more. (and I agree with Eric B. — Chelsea Handler in a close up on a big screen…kinda scary.)
I thought it could be a fun movie.
I asked my wife if she wanted to go to see at a FREE screening. She saw the trailer and said "Pass!".
Chris Pine and Tom Hardy just do not have the name recognition yet.
I'll also say that putting so much of Chelsea Handler's mug in the trailer didn't help.


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ornamental cherry
- Position: full sun
- Soil: moist, well-drained, fertile soil
- Rate of growth: fast-growing
- Flowering period: April to May
- Hardiness: fully hardy
A graceful, spreading tree that is smothered in semi-double, rose-pink flowers in mid-spring. The dark green leaves turn a vibrant orange in autumn. This is one of the most reliable and prettiest cherries for the small garden, and it gives the best display when planted in full sun.
- Garden care: When planting incorporate lots of well-rotted garden compost in the planting hole and stake firmly. Lightly prune in summer to retain the shape and cut back any dead, diseased or branches which cross to healthy wood.
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Q:Hello, can you tell me how much garden space each tree requires? I'm trying to find out how many our garden has space for. Thank you!Asked on 16/7/2014 by Cheryl from Bristol
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We do have this information on each plant card - you can find it in a diagram near the top on the right hand side.Answered on 18/7/2014 by helen from crocus
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Hi, What is the depth of hole I should dig for the Cherry tree 10L pot please? What type of compost should I use? Should I plant the pot the plant comes in as well or remove it before planting? How often should I be watering this tree if I plant it within the next two weeks? i.e. Ever other day for two weeks, etc. Regards, ScottAsked on 30/6/2009 by Scott Gilmour
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A:Hello Scott, You should dig a hole twice as wide and deep as the existing rootball of the plant. You should then dig in lots of composted organic matter (or John Innes No 3 compost) and backfill until the plant will sit (without its pot) at the same soil level as it had in the pot. You can then gently backfill the sides around the rootball and firm it down without compacting it. As for watering, this will depend on a number of factors, but to be sure all you need to do is keep an eye on it and water it when the surrounding soil feels dry. We do have an article on how to plant on our site which you may find useful - just click on the following link to go straight to it. http://www.crocus.co.uk/features/_/artcat.114/ I hope this helps. Helen Plant DoctorAnswered on 4/7/2009 by Crocus Helpdesk
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Please can you advise me..... I would like to send a gift of to some friends who have just moved into a new house. I would like to send them something that is long-lasting. Do you have some suggestions?Asked on 27/2/2005 by Susie Tomlin
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A:We have some gorgeous plants, which as a keen gardener myself, I would love to receive! Roses - all of these have a knock-out scent http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/roses/plcid.8/vid.250/ Lavender - always a favourite - you could also buy a pot to plant this in. http://www.crocus.co.uk/search/_/search.lavandula/?s=lavandula Black Bamboo - the canes turn a gorgeous near-black as they mature http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/bamboo/exotics/phyllostachys-nigra-/classid.1601/ Camellias - flowers during the coldest months of the year http://www.crocus.co.uk/search/_/search.camellia/start.1/sort.0/cat.plants/ Magnolia - much-loved shrubs and trees http://www.crocus.co.uk/search/_/search.magnolia/?s=magnolia Prunus Accolade - one of the best ornamental cherries for a small garden http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/trees/other-trees/deciduous/small-garden-trees/ok-for-small-gardens/prunus-accolade/classid.4619/ Acer palmatum Sango-kaku - a Japanese maple with all year round interest http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/trees/deciduous/small-garden-trees/ok-for-small-gardens/acer-palmatum-sango-kaku/classid.110/ Acer palmatum var. dissectum Inaba-shidare - Exquisite, red-purple fern-like leaves http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/trees/deciduous/small-garden-trees/ok-for-small-gardens/acer-palmatum-var.-dissectum-inaba-shidare/classid.95/ Dicksonia antarctica - one of the oldest plants in the world http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/shrubs/ferns/exotics/dicksonia-antarctica-/classid.1817/Answered on 28/2/2005 by Crocus
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I say better. Clearly the Jinn of the Sacred Herb is trying to tell our boys something here. As I'm from Vancouver, I may be able to suggest what that might be. My guess is the Herb Jinn is trying to send a message to both sides: Be one with the marijuana.Post a Comment
It would be like that famous game of soccer between British and German troops during a lull in the fighting at Christmas Day one time in World War One. Except this time, some Taliban jihadis and Canadian NATO troops could sit in a big-ass field of ripe herb and smoke some fatties together. Screw shooting at each other: they'd be way better off getting high together!


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About Body Fat
The only way to tell the real fatness is to measure the actual fat content in the body.
What is Ideal Body Composition?
Body shape, body fat, menopause, and fat burning
This is what you consist of. About body composition
Even with the same frame type the actual muscle mass can still be very different depending on muscle use and nutritional status. For example, a wide-framed sedentary person who puts on 20 pounds of pure fat will differ from the same frame body builder who puts on 20 pounds of muscle mass. So the only way to tell the real fatness is to measure the actual fat content in the body. There are several ways of measuring body fat, some doesn't require any tool. For example, you can use our free downloadable calculator; you'll only need a measuring tape -> click here
But let's start with the simplest one where all you need to do is measuring your waist. Read why this is important: What Your Waistline Can Tell Your doctor (click here)
The waist measurement must be done at the level of halfway between the upper pelvic bone crest and the rib cage.
Interstingly enough, there are findings that this number alone, evenwithout relating to height, can tell enough about risks for coronary heartdisease and is only gender-specific:
Increased risk
Men > or = 94 cm (37 ins)
Women > or = 80 cm (32 ins)
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Men > or =102 cm (40 ins)
Women > or =88 cm (35 ins)
But first let us see what our bodies' major constituents are. Of these, two principal body components are: dry matter and water. You might want to consider lean and fat matter as well, but these two are closely related because muscles contain a lot of water while fat has much less. This is the basis of measuring body fat percentage using so called electrical impedance method (or bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). The more water -- the easier for very low electrical current to pass through the body.
However, this machine can be easily confused by such a common difference in people bodies' composition as hydration status that does not relate to the fat content. Depending on how much water is being retained, one's body weight might vary throughout a day as much as 4.5 to 5 pounds. Consequently, that varies the electrical resistance to the current of a fat measuring machine. This is why you are told not to drink coffee the day of the test, abstain of food intake for at least 4 hours before your fat test, and to lie down for at least several minutes. All the machine of this type have inbuilt software that adjusts the only parameter measured depending on many other parameters that are just being asked: age, gender, ethnicity, physical activity level. etc. I toyed around with this software myself and was amused having my fat percentage magically decreased as a result of cheating with my athletic level.
Another method, a good old one, is a so called skinfold measurement. You purchase a skinfold caliper (it's usually very inexpensive) and pinch your skin along with under-skin fat in several (7 to 20) designated areas, then produce a simple calculation as your caliper manual instructs. Why so many pinches? Because one can store his or her fat in quite different places: as you surely noticed, there are people having a tine waistline and broad hips, or that are heavy in the bottom and slim in the shoulders, and so on. By the way, the very fat distribution can tell about this particular person's health risks (you've heard of course of "apples and pears") - read about it below.
There is also a test named Hydrostatic of Underwater weighing. It is based on the fact that fat and muscle have different physical density with the same volume of fat being much lighter than that of muscle. Immersing the body into the water (head is being left above the surface, but then it usually doesn't have too much of fat), it is possible quite accurately measure the overage body density and thus body fat content. The disadvantage is that the lung volume can contribute rather significantly to the total body volume, and the lungs inflate if a person is under a considerable stress. Imagine what happens if the person being tested is a hydrophobic or is hyperventilating: he or she will respirate excessively, with all the gasped air measured as the fat volume.
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THIS is the movie of the stage show that has packed out theatres all over the globe during the past decade.
Powered by the irresistibly catchy back catalogue of '60s pop superstars Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons — whose colourful career is charted here — Jersey Boys is very much a crowd-pleasing jukebox musical.
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However, this well-crafted screen adaptation is not about to let the hits (Sherry, Oh, What a Night, Big Girls Don't Cry, etc.) do all the heavy lifting, allowing the storytelling to get off lightly.
Under the watchful eye of director Clint Eastwood, Jersey Boys steadily goes about earning its audience's respect the hard way, and the right way.
The initial lack of razzle-dazzle in the opening act is noticeable, but certainly no cause for concern.
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Just like the stage version, the screenplay traces a familiar arc of rags-to-riches-to-ructions, one that has been experienced by many a successful group across the history of popular music.
Eastwood freshens up the tale by focusing on how the group's smooth sound was achieved in direct contrast to the rough-and-tumble nature of their personal lives.
It all goes back to the formative days of the Four Seasons on the mean streets of New Jersey in the late 1950s.
Three members of the quartet could easily have missed their shot at the big time had they stuck with their second jobs as small-time crooks.
Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young) might have had the voice of an angel, but he ran with a devilish crowd.
Band mates Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) and Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) both did jail time for minor felonies, and Valli went close to joining them on more than one occasion.
It was only with the reluctant recruitment of clean-living songwriter and arranger Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen) that the Four Seasons finally got their act together.
In fact, success came relatively quickly to the outfit, largely due to the rare alchemy of Valli's unworldly falsetto paired with Gaudio's killer melodies.
However, no matter how rosy the future did often look for the Four Seasons, their past troubles always threatened to drag them back to square one.
In spite of a largely unknown cast — many of whom were recruited from past stage incarnations of Jersey Boys — this film clicks into place very quickly, and rarely looks like coming apart.
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Many of the best non-musical moments land in the lap of the great Christopher Walken, playing a veteran mobster who tenderly mentors Frankie and the boys when times are tough.
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Congratulations if you have received off-campus status. We hope that you are excited about living off campus and securing your own housing for next year. This site can serve as a resource for you with respect to landlord-tenant responsibilities, city of Oberlin resources and services, and Oberlin College resources and services. We hope that this is useful to you and that you have a positive off-campus living experience.
Please note that this information is prepared as a helpful information aid for students who obtain off-campus status. Nothing in this site creates a legal relationship between you and the college or with any third party regarding off-campus housing. The information contained in the booklet was up to date at the time of publication (July 2012) and is subject to change.
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The historic drought of 2012 will impact the cattle industry for years to come. With an inventory already at its lowest point in more than 50 years, a majority of U.S. ranchers were forced to thin their herds even further due to dwindling feed resources. Now they're headed into winter with short harvested-forage supplies and staring at hay and feed prices that are at least double what they were last year.
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• Cull cows — Now is not the time for freeloaders. Cull and market cows that have lost their calves, are open, are unsound or are generally poor performers. Pregnancy-check cows to minimize the drain of open cows on your resources.
• Use alternative feeds — Crop residues such as wheat straw and corn stover will require supplementation. Distillers' grains may be an affordable option for some producers. Low-quality forages can also be treated with anhydrous ammonia to increase the protein content, improve forage digestibility, increase forage intake and improve cow performance.
• Minimize hay waste — Inspect feeding facilities such as bunks and large round-bale rings to be sure they are properly maintained. Stretching those precious hay supplies can also be achieved by limiting cow access to large round bales. A Purdue study found cow weight change and body-condition score change were not severely affected by length of access time for cows allowed 4-, 8-, 12- and 24-hour access per day to large round bales. However, the study revealed 37 percent, 17 percent and 4.4 percent reduction in total hay dry-matter disappearance for the 4-, 8- and 12-hour treatments, respectively, compared to the 24-hour treatment.
• Limit feeding hay — Other Purdue research suggests that limiting daily hay intake can also meet cow requirements if a properly formulated grain-mix is fed. The program limit-feeds a high concentrate ration that is similar to a feedlot ration. The researchers say this requires careful management and 30 inches of bunk space per cow to provide all cows equal access to limited amounts of feed. Consult a nutritionist or your local Extension agent for additional information.