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Genealogical research has taken some tough blows in the last few years, with the National Archives raising their fees to obtain records that rightfully belong to all of us, to county courthouses completely refusing to allow access to their records at all.
So, it was a nice surprise to read today on Flickr that they are teaming up with the Library of Congress with a new service to give you (the public) a small taste of the very large holdings the LOC holds. You may not be aware of it, but the Library of Congress has over 1 million images that they make available on their site, and have done so for the last ten years.
This new collaboration with Flickr is titled The Commons, and it gives the public an opportunity to tag or label the photographs seen in each collection. Not only are you able to see photos you might not otherwise see, but you get to contribute your reactions to them, which in turn makes it easier for all of us to find them. Keep in mind too, that it is entirely possible that you might find a photo of someone in your ancestry and that by adding a tag and/or a comment you help preserve our United States history a little more accurately.
Truck load of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon (LOC)
Personally, I think this is a wonderful collaboration, and I hope that all of you will agree. In doing my own research for my William Livingston Holmes biography project, I found a previously undiscovered set of drawings of Mr. Holmes house that he built in early Oregon City, Oregon. They were in the American Memory collection on the LOC site and added one more clue to his personality when I read in the notes that he built the home as a replica of the one he lived in as a boy in Tennessee.
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PORTERVILLE, Calif. — Four years after an Asian citrus psyllid infestation was discovered near San Diego, the California citrus industry continues to keep the disease-carrying pest at bay.
Efforts against the psyllids in Florida and Texas, are also gaining momentum, according to presentations at the 2012 California Citrus Conference Oct. 10, which was sponsored by the Visalia-based Citrus Research Board.
"We are so far ahead of other places in the world that have this (psyllid) problem," said Nick Hill, chairman of the California Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Committee and managing partner of Green Leaf Farms Inc., Kingsburg. "The idea is to save our citrus industry, to save back yard citrus trees and to have this industry around for your children and their children."
Psyllids can carry huanglongbing, the bacterial disease that destroyed more than 200,000 acres of citrus groves in Florida. The disease, also known as HLB, was detected in Texas for the first time in December.
Texas lessons
"California can learn from Texas what not to do," said Mamoudou Setamou, associate professor for Texas A&M University, based at the Kingsville Citrus Center, Weslaco.
Psyllids were discovered in Texas in 2001, but the state's citrus industry did not proactively fight the pest until 2006, Setamou said. Much has changed in Texas in recent years, and the psyllid population is slowly diminishing in commercial groves. The Texas Department of Agriculture established a nursery committee to ensure nursery stock is psyllid-free.
"Most, if not all nurseries, are still open-field operations," Setamou said.
By Sept. 30, 2013, all nurseries with citrus stock will have to be enclosed.
Florida's programs
In Florida. Nearly 40 Citrus Health Management Areas covering 480,000 (more than 85% of the total) citrus acres have been created, said Michael Rogers, University of Florida associate professor stationed at the Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred.
The free program is grower-driven and voluntary, he said. Growers coordinate psyllid control efforts, including pesticide use, to help manage infestations. A companion program, a joint effort of the state and federal departments of agriculture, uses scouts to check more than 100,000 acres of citrus every three weeks, Rogers said. The year-old programs are chalking up impressive records, and results are posted at www.flchma.org.
"We've seen about a 68% reduction in the finding of psyllids per block," Rogers said, "and there are blocks where the psyllid population has been knocked back so much we can't find any individual psyllids at all."
California's proactive stance
California, which began to map an anti-psyllid/HLB game plan two years before the pest was discovered in the state, continues to be aggressive. In September, the Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Committee approved a fiscal 2013 budget of $15 million, mostly generated by growers, Hill said.
Growers also agreed to increase the per-box assessment from seven cents to nine cents, he said.
A buffer zone around the Los Angeles Basin, aimed at keeping psyllids from the desert, coastal and San Joaquin Valley growing regions remains a priority, Hill said.
California is raising millions of psyllid-killing wasps at Cal Poly-Pomona, with a plan for a mass release in the next 18 months, Hill said, and an urban outreach program has been expanded in multiple languages.
A combination of a broad spectrum pesticide and a systemic pesticide on infestations has proven effective, said Beth Grafton-Cardwell, University of California at Riverside Integrated Pest Management specialist, research entomologist and director of the Lindcove Research and Extension Center, Exeter.
"Treatments can be very, very effective in terms of knocking the psyllids down so low that you don't find them for many months, even years," Grafton-Cardwell said. "When groups of people, whether they be urban or commercial, agree on an area-wide program and act to suppress the psyllid, they can make a huge dent in the population."
Organic fruit, however, still remains vulnerable, Grafton-Cardwell said. Treatments need to be applied every 10-14 days, because they don't kill all the psyllids.
"So we really don't have an organic solution to the Asian citrus psyllid problem."
Researchers, however, are constantly testing new products on organic citrus.
While the pest and disease have devastated much of the Florida citrus industry, the scouting program has turned into a research tool, Rogers said.
"We're actually able to look at real world situations, not small research plots, but commercial groves on a large scale," Rogers said.
The psyllid monitoring and the CHMA program are giving the Florida industry the opportunity to validate some things that are coming out of the university's research program, Rogers said.

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I just finished my 1st round of xeloda and was wondering as I am getting these red spots on my hands and a few on my legs & arms. I know to use lots of lotion but should I be putting anything on the spots?
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I just finished my 1st round of xeloda and was wondering as I am getting these red spots on my hands and a few on my legs & arms. I know to use lots of lotion but should I be putting anything on the spots?
I don't remember getting spots. I would possibly treat them with the lotion, and definitely call the doctor. Are they hot, sore, or itchy?? Do they bother you or are they just red? If they aren't bothering you, maybe the lotion will be what the areas need.
My hand and feet got red, but nothing els. Hopefully someone will chime in.
How are you doing on Xeloda otherwise?
Kris, Most of them are just red spots. A couple are kind of tender. I am dong ok. Was nauseated during the night last night. I can't take the anti-nausea drugs cause I get constipated. I was a little constipated last night too. I take miralax 2 times a day & colace. This is without taking the anti nausea drugs!!! I have some hemp oil that seems to help the nausea and helps me sleep most of the time. Yesterday was the 1st day off xeloda for a week.
Hi, my wife do get those red spots with Xeloda.. they will turn to black colour later on (I think that's around 2nd 14days cycle)... yes both hands and feet... Dr said those spots will fade out after treatment stop.
Pattymelt....Stool softeners before each meal might be helpful and tons of liquids. At times we resorted to suppositories (Kris calls it her "bullets" to keep things moving. Either way, pain medications will plug you up and this is an issue must discussed on this site. Continue to try different things such as Colace, so that you can achieve a bowel movement. Others may also chime in to help us out.
Thanks! I have been ok with miralax 2 x a day & colace! Will see ONC tomorrow to schedule 2nd round.
Good luck.
Good luck at the onc, Patty!
I hope your meeting with the onc goes well Patti. Good luck, fingers crossed for you!!
Good luck at the onc!! Will keep my fingers crossed for you. Good thoughts!!
Saw my oncologist today. Everything is a go for my second round of Oxi/xeloda.
Another $650 copay!! My Ca-19 is still really high but it hadn't risen drastically as it had before while on Gem/Cis.
I got a call later from the oncologist at UCI regarding my tests for being in a trial. The tests were negative for the 3 mutations so I don't qualify It was for PF-02341066, A C-MET/HGFR Selective Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor!! Has anyone heard of this trial?
He said I could see about having another test done that would test 400 things to see about other trials BUT would cost $5000. - $6000!! We are not in a financial situation to afford that!
Will pursue to see if our insurance or something could help.
Just have to keep swimmin with my Jesus floaties! God is my Great Physician!!
My oncologist said it is ok to get a flu shot. Any comments about that??
I had a flu shot last year in the middle of my Gem/Cis but I don't know any research behind it.
Hi Pattimelt. These charges today are cwazy!!! I start my Remicade infusions Sept 20th and my co-pay is 1200.00 per infusion! And I am in catastrophic on my insurance because of so much this year. I can't even imagine what my co-pay would be if I was not in the high bracket. I have 5 before the end of the year so will have to start all over with a higher co-pay for the other 3.
I have not had a flu shot in over 8 years and have not had a cold or flu in that long. I attribute my no colds or flu in 8 years to Zinc. Sorry about the negative for trials but you will always qualify for us!!!
I had a flu shot the first year I was diagnosed. They gave it to me in the hospital after my first resection and I got sick from it so I have chosen to not get one. I wish you luck with your next appointment.
I got flu shots both flu seasons so far, and had no problems.
For help with the Xeloda copay, call Genentech at 877-987-2487 and see if they can help. They got mine reduced from around $500 to around $250 or something like that. Still high, but better.
I'm sorry your trial testing was negative. Hopefully you can find another one that may use your biopsy results.
Hi Patti,
Glad to hear that everything is a go for your second round of your Oxi?xeloda, hope it all goes well. And that is a mad amount of money to be asked to pay to have these tests done! Hope that Kris's suggestion is something that you could look at as that sounds much more affordable.
My dad also got the flu shot, recommended by his medical team. Here's a few links for you regarding flu and cancer.
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer- … lu-vaccine
My dad also got a pneumococcal jab one year too along side his flu jab. He got them both at the same time, one jab in each arm!
Best wishes,
Patty...as Kris has mentioned, Pharmaceutical Companies have compassionate use programs in place. I believe that your combined family income cannot exceed $75.000. I would contact Genentech (Roche) and Pfizer for Oxaliplatin.
Thanks everyone! I got my flu shot today. I had one last year right before my diagnosis and I haven't been sick all year. Cancer but no flu!
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February 4, 2013
Arbitration Showdown
Mock Hearing: Chase Headley
It's salary arbitration season in Major League Baseball, and here at Baseball Prospectus we're holding mock hearings, arguing for or against the actual team/player filing figures before a three-person panel of certified arbitrators. We've selected 10 of this winter's most intriguing, highest-dollar cases to cover in depth over the first two weeks of February (regardless of whether the players' real-life cases remain unsettled). After each side's opening argument and rebuttal/summation below, we'll give you a chance to vote on what you think the result should be before seeing the panel's decision. For more on the arbitration process, read the series intro by Atlanta Braves Assistant GM John Coppolella, listen to his appearance on Episode 35 of Up and In, or check out the BP Basics introduction to arbitration.
In Part One of this 10-part series, we'll tackle San Diego Padres third baseman Chase Headley, who (unbeknownst to our arbitrators) settled with San Diego for $8.575 million last week.
The complete procedure for salary arbitration is available in the Basic Agreement.
The Case
Since Petco Park opened in San Diego in 2004, not one Padre before 2012 had led the National League in a major offensive category in a season: not runs or RBIs, not home runs or doubles, not batting average or hits, not on-base or slugging percentage. The cavernous park and damp seaside air simply punish the batters who call Petco home. Since 2010, the National League has scored nearly 20 percent more runs away from Petco Park than at Petco Park.
Trying to lead the league in an offensive category at Petco is like giving everybody else a one-month head start.
Last season, though, Chase Headley did what no Padre had. He led the National League in runs batted in, while also leading all NL third basemen in home runs, runs scored, and games played. That he did it in the offense-strangling environment of Petco puts his performance among the best by a third baseman in the past decade.
Such a comparison, already flattering to Headley, doesn't account for the obstacles of hitting in Petco Park. No team would try to deny the effects of such a park; they are a basic and accepted part of any player evaluation. Remove the distorting bias of the ballpark and focus on each player's performance on the road, where Bautista and Headley can be compared on an even field:
Headley was substantially better in visiting parks in his breakout 2012 season than Bautista was in his breakout 2010 season.
Headley strengthens his case with the timeliness of his hitting. In 2010, Bautista drove in 19.1 percent of the runners that were on base for him, an elite rate and the seventh-best in baseball that season. In 2012, Headley was even better: he drove in 19.9 percent of runners.
It's not easy to find players comparable to Headley; few players are as productive at such a premium position. Over the past five seasons, just six players have driven in 110 runs and slugged 30 home runs while playing third base regularly. It's an elite group: Alex Rodriguez, David Wright, Evan Longoria, Miguel Cabrera, and Bautista and Headley. Headley deserves to be paid like the others in that group, and he deserves a raise comparable to Bautista's after 2010. —Sam Miller
It would test the patience of this panel for the Club to claim that Chase Headley did not have a good 2012 season. Headley's requested salary, however, should similarly test the panel's patience: over $10 million is an extraordinary amount for a player in his position. No third baseman with Headley's service time in the last six seasons has been paid a salary as high as Headley's request. Indeed, none of them has even been paid more than the $8.6 million midpoint.
Highest salaries for 3B with Four Years of Service Time, 2007-12
Further, Headley's year, as good as it was, was also likely a one-time event rather than a sign of things to come. From 2009 to 2011, a three-year span in which he played 430 games, Headley hit 27 home runs. Suddenly, in 2012, he hit 31. The website HitTrackerOnline records data about all home runs hit. The home runs are rated on a scale from "no doubt" to "just enough," based on how far past the fence they flew. Eleven of Headley's homers, more than a third of his total, were rated as "just enough," tied for third in the National League. Three of those 11 were given the tag "lucky," meaning that without weather effects, they would not have been home runs. Headley is thus at least inconsistent in his home-run hitting (the major factor in his leap forward in 2012) and at worst a mirage.
Headley also shows signs of decline on defense. Both Defensive Runs Saved and Ultimate Zone Rating ("UZR"), systems that measure a fielder against his peers while adjusting for the difficulty of opportunities he faces, show that Headley is not the defender he was in 2010. Indeed, DRS rates him below-average overall, and most of his positive UZR is attributable to avoiding errors, a skill that again may well be a fluke given that he has never shown it before.
Headley enjoyed an excellent 2012, but as he will be 29 in 2013 (an age at which many players begin to decline) and cannot be expected to repeat his 2012 season in important ways. As he cannot show himself to be an extraordinary player, but merely a good one, the panel should not grant him an extraordinary salary. —Jason Wojciechowski
It is interesting that the Club says in its presentation that "the arbitrators should award Headley this extraordinary salary only if he is an extraordinary player." Headley's extraordinariness shows in his 2012 statistics, but it also shows in his manager's own words:
The Club's position that "no third baseman with Headley's service time in the last six seasons has been paid a salary as high as Headley's request" is disingenuous at best. Headley has four years of service time, but he was a Super Two player, which makes this his third arbitration-eligible offseason. That requires that he be compared to players who will, in most cases, have five years of service time. Headley's salary demands are far from unusual for a player with five years of service time.
The two most similar to him statistically—which is to say, the two other elite third basemen in the National League—are Ryan Zimmerman and David Wright:
The Club suggests Headley was lucky because 11 of his home runs cleared the fences by "just enough," but that point strengthens the Player's argument that his home ballpark is an obstacle. The home run-tracking website cited by the club also lists, for each home run, whether it would have been a home run in the league's other ballparks. Here is how each of the 11 "just enough" home runs would have done elsewhere:
Most of the home runs that the Club claims were "lucky" would have been out of nearly every ballpark in baseball. With the Padres planning to bring Petco's fences in this year, those "just enough" home runs might disappear, all right. They'll just now be "no doubt" home runs.
The three supposedly comparable players that the Player raises have one notable factor in common: recognition by the baseball community of their extraordinary ability. Through 2010, Prince Fielder made two All-Star games and finished in the top four in the MVP voting twice. In 2010, Jose Bautista made the All-Star Game and finished fourth in the MVP voting. And through 2011, Josh Hamilton made four All-Star Games and won an MVP. Chase Headley has not made a single All-Star Game.
One significant reason why Headley was not chosen for the Midsummer Classic in 2012 is that the vast majority of his production occurred after July. From August 1 through the end of the season, Headley batted .318 with a .632 slugging percentage. Before August 1, he hit only .268 with a .422 slugging percentage. A whopping 63 of his RBI (54 percent) came in the final one-third of the season. For a team in the pennant race, this would be a good thing, but heading into August, the Padres were 44–61 and 13 games out of first place. Baseball Prospectus's sophisticated simulations gave the Padres a zero percent chance of making the playoffs at the time. Headley did the vast majority of his damage long after the games ceased to have any importance in the standings.
Relatedly, all but one of the players listed in the Player's brief have led their teams to the playoffs or even World Series championships, while Headley has never played in the postseason. Headley's individual production is fine, assuming it holds up in 2013, but baseball teams have to win, and Headley has not yet shown that he can make that happen.
The Club's offer represents a significant raise, but the Player has not demonstrated that he is so extraordinary as to deserve a near-tripling of his salary. —Jason Wojciechowski
Before scrolling down to read the three-person panel's decision, record your own decision here:
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Burt Fendelman is an attorney with more than 45 years of experience, initially in corporate finance and securities laws working as inside counsel for several major securities brokerage firms. He has performed as an arbitrator for FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), the American Arbitration Association, and currently as an arbitrator and mediator for the New York County Lawyers Association in fee dispute-related matters. He is presently a self-described "work in progress", working with clients in areas related to art and antiques. He attended Washington University in St. Louis and NYU Graduate School of Tax Law, and he now lives in Manhattan.
Doris Lindbergh is a retired lawyer who is an arbitrator with FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) and its predecessor forums, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and the New York Stock Exchange. She also arbitrates for the National Futures Association (NFA). She attended Washington University School of Law and has a Master of Arts from Fordham University. Her employment history includes stints at Wall Street investment banks and, most recently, the MTA New York City Transit Authority, but her most challenging assignment was raising a future Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Prospectus.
David Marcus is a retired lawyer and serves as an arbitrator with the Financial Advisory Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He lives in Metuchen, New Jersey. He attended Columbia College and Yale Law School, after which he served as an enforcement attorney with the SEC. His subsequent career includes working for the New York Stock Exchange heading its regulatory division, and working for several broker-dealers as a regulatory attorney or General Counsel.
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The Sabermetric Perspective/Additional Commentary
As John Coppolella wrote in his Arbitration Showdown introduction, real-life "hearings are held in front of three arbitrators, lawyers who usually have little baseball experience or background." The same is mostly true of today's mock hearing (sorry, Mom). In a real hearing, each side has two hours, all told, to present its case, rebut its opponent's, and deliver a summation. With time at a premium and clarity of the utmost importance in persuading the panel, it's risky to spend much time explaining complex sabermetric concepts in order to communicate your case. For that reason, the statistics cited in salary arbitration tend to be more simplistic and traditional than those found in the typical player evaluation piece at Baseball Prospectus, which is why you saw all those mentions of Batting Average and RBI above.
Since this is BP, we've set aside some space for a short section at the end of each hearing to present the sabermetric perspective that might have been missing from the mock hearing itself. In this instance, there's not much to add: while a more sabermetric-minded argument might have mentioned that Headley had the fourth-highest TAv in the NL (.324) despite his somewhat underwhelming slash stats, the Player's case did convey the impact of Petco Park on Headley's offensive statistics (though it didn't play up the mechanical tweaks that could have enabled him to add power). The Club side could have used Headley's -16.3 FRAA over the past two seasons (-26.9 career) or his -2.4 BRR in 2012 (the third-worst total on the Padres) to argue that he'd lost a step, but as it turned out, the Club didn't need any extra help.
However, there is one unusual feature of the case presented above: the Club's contention that Headley is "not extraordinary." The Player's rebuttal addressed the substance of this claim, but the language itself is more inflammatory than one would expect to encounter in an actual hearing. Regardless of whether the claim that Headley isn't extraordinary would help or hurt the Club's case, it could have significant consequences outside of the hearing room.
Players usually attend their own arb hearings, which is one reason why teams try to settle before those hearings are scheduled: it's usually not in their best interests to make their players mad. Although the two sides couldn't come to an agreement on a long-term extension this offseason, the Padres are reportedly interested in pursuing one, so it might not make sense for them to alienate their franchise player by downplaying his performance in a career year, even if it could potentially lead to short-term savings. San Diego would also have to consider the possibility that Headley would tell his teammates about the team's hostile arbitration tactics, which wouldn't improve the mood in the clubhouse or make players more inclined to re-sign with San Diego.
An alternative to "not extraordinary" that's more likely to be mentioned in an actual hearing is "not decorated." As the Club's case above points out, Headley has yet to make an All-Star team or win an MVP Award; "not decorated," a phrase often heard in arbitration, is a more tactful way of drawing attention to his lack of career accolades. While one's extraordinariness can be debated, the contents of one's trophy cases can't. —Ben Lindbergh
Thanks to Colin Wyers, Hudson Belinsky, Jonah Birenbaum, and Andrew Koo for research assistance.
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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Interesting article, I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Feb 04, 2013 04:19 AM
Karl Barth
I think this is a great concept and I think BP has the chops to do it well. I like this first article very much.
Feb 04, 2013 06:16 AM
Andy Cochrane
Great article. Really interesting. I sided with Headley in the simple Club/player choice in the survey but in reality I do think the midpoint is the best option. As that is what they have agreed to in real life I think that they have come to the correct decision.
Feb 04, 2013 08:26 AM
Awesome. I loved reading this and thinking through my own opinion.
Feb 04, 2013 08:56 AM
Do arbitration cases really take team metrics like fan attendance and won-loss record into consideration?
Feb 04, 2013 09:46 AM
Jason Wojciechowski
BP staff
Without being able to speak to how arbitrators perceive such arguments, the last line of the relevant paragraph in the CBA refers to "and the recent performance record of the Club including but not limited to its League standing and attendance as an indication of public acceptance."
Feb 04, 2013 10:24 AM
Although Ellsbury was only 2nd time eligible after last season, he could have been used as a comp for Headley just to get another guy with a raise past the midpoint.
Feb 04, 2013 09:49 AM
Shaun P.
The problem with using Ellsbury, I think, is that he plays a completely different position. I don't recall if that's against the rules, but if the job is find comparables, going away from the most easily compared item is probably not a good idea.
Feb 04, 2013 10:57 AM
Jason Wojciechowski
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Two thoughts and notes on this from a participant:
Feb 04, 2013 10:34 AM
Great article. What I'd love even more is a retrospective reporting of actual hearings. I don't know the extent to which they are governed by confidentiality agreements, but hearing a rep from the club actually explain their arguments for a specific player, and that player or his reps describing the counter (and any emotions generated from the hearing) would be fascinating and help get at how a club can effectively disparage a player while still maintaining a productive relationship.
Feb 04, 2013 10:45 AM
If hockey can be used as an example (the NHL also has a similar arbitration process in place) it can be rough. There are well-documented cases of players leaving the hearing in tears and trades occurring shortly thereafter. As Mr. Coppolella noted, in most cases after going to the panel, the player and team part ways within three years.
Feb 04, 2013 13:00 PM
But Headley's fielding percentage, and Headley's Gold Glove, are facts.
Feb 04, 2013 16:43 PM
Chase Headley is a terrible pitcher. He has precisely zero major league wins.
Feb 05, 2013 03:18 AM
I've been trying to understand more and more about baseball the past two seasons. This was an area I always heard on the radio but never really grasped it. This article sent me into your archive and really get a little dirty trying to figure out all your discussions.
Feb 05, 2013 21:00 PM
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Noah Zatz's interests include employment & labor law, welfare law and antipoverty policy, work/family issues, feminist legal & social theory, and liberal political theory. His writing and teaching address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in the modern welfare state. Zatz's primary focus is on which activities become recognized and protected as "work," how work is defined in relationship to markets, and how the boundaries of markets are themselves mediated by gender and race, among other things. His published scholarship engages these questions by studying the legal concepts of "work" in welfare work requirements and "employment" in labor & employment law, especially with regard to the status of family caretaking, prison labor, workfare, and sex work. Another major interest is how antidiscrimination law, and employment law more generally, address labor market inequality that is jointly produced by workers' interactions with employers, coworkers, and actors outside the workplace.
As a teacher, Zatz is particularly committed to training public interest lawyers and to engaging students with law's possibilities both as an instrument of injustice and as a contributor to emancipatory social change. To these ends and others, Zatz actively participates in UCLA's Epstein Public Interest Law & Policy and Critical Race Studies programs.
Before entering law teaching, Zatz was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in New York City. As a NELP staff attorney, he represented low-income individuals and community organizations in matters at the interface between the low-wage workplace and the welfare system. After law school, Zatz clerked for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also has been a fellow at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs, a visiting fellow at the University of New Mexico School of Law and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and at Yale Law School.
Zatz's current research explores how U.S. antipoverty programs exclude child care from assessments of a household's economic needs and how this exclusion links family caretaking's status as nonwork with the inadequate provision of child-care assistance to employed parents. Another current project analyzes the theoretical basis for the "disparate impact" claim of discrimination, with an emphasis on the significance of intra-group differences and the importance they take on in contexts such as the racial significance of exclusions based on criminal records.


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Today the developers at Team17 announced their next game: Worms Revolution.
In 1995, Andy Davidson created the turn-based strategy game Worms. The upcoming installment in the series uses a fresh game engine and introduces new challenges and features, while familiar ones like the Super Sheep and Holy Hand Grenade will return.
Steam recently released Worms Reloaded: Game of the Year Edition. You buy it for $24.99.
Worms Revolution is scheduled for Q3 of this year and will release for PC and consoles. Watch the teaser trailer and share your thoughts in the comments below.
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'Despite the losses of Drury and Daniel Briere the Sabres aren't exactly hurting at center, not if Tim Connolly and Paul Gaustad return healthy and Derek Roy's arbitration award fits into the budget. All three are on the rise. All three are and assets on special teams. Their presence relegates Peca to the fourth line, so what's the sense?'
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An electronic glitch that rendered purchase cards for about 17,000 county food stamp recipients inoperable was fixed Tuesday morning.
Michael Weston of the state Department of Social Services in Sacramento said the account balances on those cards and those of about 20,000 others around California were restored about 8 a.m.
The problem developed on Sunday when a software update went awry, causing the cards issued to those eligible for food stamps to suddenly show a balance of zero.
"Everyone whose card was canceled has had it reactivated or been issued a new card," Weston said.
The problem hit recipients of the state's food stamp or CalFresh in 17 counties in California, Weston said.
The glitch apparently occurred when Hewlett-Packard was conducting a software update. A fix was worked out with state officials and Xerox, the prime contractor for the debit-style electronic balance transfer cards.
Some recipients who tried to use their cards on Sunday or early Monday went to local county assistance offices to get new cards. Officials at area food banks also were prepared to help those with an immediate need for groceries.
Anyone who believes they should have a balance available but finds their "electronic balance transfer" or EBT card isn't working can call a service center at (877) 328-9677.
Nearly 257,000 San Diego County residents receive food stamp assistance. The maximum amount for an individual with no income is $200 a month. For a family of seven with no income, the maximum monthly allocation is $1,052. As income goes up, the amount of benefit goes down.
Through September of last year, slightly more than 4 million California residents were receiving food stamp assistance.


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Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Azerbaijan hosted a reception to celebrate the achievements of a three-year economic growth project. The formal reception marked the completion of the Azerbaijan Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) project and allowed U.S. Ambassador Richard Morningstar and USAID to thank its counterparts, partners, and beneficiaries for their contributions to the success of the project. The reception gathered representatives from the U.S. and Azerbaijani governments, private sector partners and counterparts, and beneficiaries including from the regions outside of Baku.
The $22 million ACT project, co-financed by USAID and the Azerbaijani Government, helped Azerbaijan to improve its domestic business environment; develop a free and transparent trade environment; and improve targeted agricultural value chains in Azerbaijan.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmud Mammadguliyev expressed his gratitude to USAID for the support for the economic development reforms in Azerbaijan. Ambassador Morningstar stated, "Among the many accomplishments of this project, I would like to highlight the progress the Government has made toward World Trade Organization accession. This includes more than thirty pieces of legislation and administrative procedures drafted or approved." USAID Mission Director Dr. Brooke Isham highlighted and stressed USAID's commitment to Azerbaijan's growth and development working hand-in-hand with the government. She stated, "Through the ACT project USAID worked to support growth in the non-oil sector through: improvements in the business enabling environment, greater transparency and openness in the trade environment, and increased competitiveness of Azerbaijani goods and services especially in the agriculture sector."
Over three years, the USAID ACT project worked with the public and private sectors to improve competition, taxation, banking, and job creation, among others. The project also partnered with the banking sector to increase access to finance for small and medium enterprises, in particular in the agricultural sector. It did so by streamlining lending processes, and developing mechanisms to encourage banks to increase lending to the sector.
Furthermore, the ACT project supported the Government of Azerbaijan in meeting international trade and investment standards and assisting in the process of accession to the World Trade Organization. The project improved market competitiveness of pomegranates, apples, hazelnuts, and aquaculture. The project introduced new production technologies for local institutions and the capacity to use them.
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read this on twitter 1hr ago
interesting how redsn0w 0.9.8b4 came out before iOS 4.3.5 and can still jb it
It'll always work as tethered because of the limerain exploit until they change the hardware, or am I wrong?
Correct link for Windows is https://sites.google.com/a/iphone-de...in_0.9.8b4.zip
Sorry, I'm on holiday with VERY limited access to the outside world....
I downloaded the above redsnow version (yes correct version downloaded) and also downloaded the IPSW file from http://appldnld.apple.com/iPhone4/04...1_Restore.ipsw
and when I select the IPSW file, it says processing firmware and later complains about "Unable to recognize specified IPSW".
Not sure what I have been doing wrong. Help.
Thanks in advance
It also needsto be the Ipsw for the 3GS - from what I can see of the path of the dile downloaded it looks suspiciously like the iPhone 4 Ipsw.
[edit] This is what you get on a poor connection on an iPad - apple changed the path to iphone4 with iOS4 - and it's a file, not a dile[/edit]
But it caused more problems - with "Cydia" app being as a White icon and crashes each time I launch it. Not only Cydia does not work, my Safari also crashes. So basically stuck with this.
I have done jailbreaks in past without issues and this one has caught me badly.


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A federal judge has ruled that US authorities are not allowed to import sodium thiopental, a drug used to knock prisoners unconscious in executions, because it is not approved for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, the New York Times reported. He also directed five states that had imported the drug – Arizona, California, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee – to return their supplies to the FDA immediately, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In 2011, the only US company that manufactured the drug, Hospira Inc., stopped making it, the Wall Street Journal reported. While some states replaced the drug, used in lethal injections, with a different sedative, others got the FDA's permission to buy sodium thiopental from foreign manufacturers.
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A group of death row inmates sued the FDA for improperly allowing a drug that is not FDA-approved into the country, Reuters reported. (Two of the inmates did not live to see the judge's decision today as they were executed by the state of Arizona last year.)
The FDA argued that it had the discretion to allow shipments of the drug into the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court in Washington disagreed, Reuters reported. "The FDA appears to be simply wrapping itself in the flag of law enforcement discretion to justify its authority and masquerade an otherwise seemingly callous indifference to the health consequences of those imminently facing the executioner's needle. How utterly disappointing!" he wrote in his opinion, according to Reuters.
Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno cheered the decision, telling Reuters that, if the sodium thiopental was obtained from abroad, "we don't know the conditions under which those drugs were housed and transported, which could affect their quality."
The decision shows that "even death row inmates are entitled to the protection of the law," Bradford Berenson, a lawyer for the inmates, said, according to the New York Times.
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Austin Indie Singer Suzanna Choffel To Release New Album
Suzanna Choffel, whose dusky vocals are as intriguing as her indie-soul-pop originals and sultry stage presence, releases on Tuesday, May 24, her latest album, STEADY EYE SHAKY BOW, a collection of upbeat melodies and ballads that Choffel describes as "blues-colored dark grit" drawing from musical influences that include Stax-style jazz and Motown R&B.
Choffel and her band — Kyle Thompson on drums, Johnny Vogelsang on bass, Laura Scarborough on vibraphone and synthesizer, and Chris Gebhard on keys and guitar —will make numerous special appearances around the new release. The band recently performed at SXSW Music Festival, including a show at Auditorium Shores with Blue October.
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A MAN was found covered in blood in a Blackburn street after being attacked.
The 31-year-old local man was discovered with head injuries close to Blackburn Fire Station, in Freckleton Street.
A passer-by banged on the door of the station, in Byrom Street, and asked for help from firefighters at about 11pm on Monday.
Watch manager Chris Fogarty said: "We were asked by a member of the public for help with a gent who had been involved in some sort of fracas.
"The man was covered in blood and had a head wound. We gave first-aid until police and an ambulance arrived."
Police arrived at the scene shortly after 11.10pm, and they discovered the man had injuries to the back of his head.
He was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital for specialist care, but his condition was not serious, a police spokesman said. It is not believed the attack was random.
A 39-year-old woman and two men aged 38 and 42, all from Blackburn, were arrested on suspicion of assault but later released without charge, a police spokesman said.
It was the second time on Monday that fire crews had to administer first-aid in the street.
At about 6pm, a man in his late 40s suffered head injuries after an apparent fall outside the station.
Mr Fogarty added: "Crews went out and delivered first-aid until the ambulance arrived. He had hurt his head, and was bleeding quite badly. We believe he fell."
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1. Gonzaga (23-2)
Zags are No. 5 in Associated Press Top 25 rankings and received a pair of first-place votes, but still might be underrated
1. Gonzaga (23-2)
Zags are No. 5 in Associated Press Top 25 rankings and received a pair of first-place votes, but still might be underrated
2. Arizona (20-3)
Just when Wildcats appear to be the class of the West, they go and lose on their home court to a mediocre California team
3. Saint Mary's(20-4)
Gaels haven't lost since Dellavedova's Hail Mary beat BYU, but they face powerful Gonzaga on Thursday at home
4. New Mexico(20-4)
Played well in spurts in 64-55 loss at UNLV on Saturday, but still can't seem to score consistently away from the Pit.
5. Colorado State (19-4)
Rams have won four straight in tough MWC, but face a huge test on Wednesday night when San Diego State pays a visit
6. Oregon (19-5)
Broke a three-game losing skid by eking out a win over hapless Utah at home, lucky to still be in Pac-12 title chase
7. San Diego State (18-5)
Aztecs gutting out some wins without Xavier Thames, who is sidelined by a back injury; when he returns, expect them to ascend to top of MWC standings
Nice 64-55 win over New Mexico on Saturday shows Rebels still have it after they went 0-2 on road swing at Boise State, Fresno State
Swept the Washington schools, but had a more difficult time than expected doing it, still underachieving
10. Arizona State (18-6)
Where would Sun Devils be without freshman sensation Jahii Carson? Probably at the bottom of mediocre Pac-12 standings
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This past summer, the heat arrived and the rain went away. All of Nebraska and about two-thirds of the United States was left in a crippling drought.
Despite remarkably higher prices, the Nebraska Corn Boards latest estimates are that Nebraskas corn crop will be worth about $240 million less this year than last years.
You look overall and where we should be on a trendline yield and we are down 18 to 22 percent, said Kelly Brunkhorst, Director of Research for the Nebraska Corn Board.
Over the last decade Nebraska has produced an average of 1.4 to 1.5 billion bushels of corn. That comes out to about 12 percent of the annual U.S corn crop. This year, Brunkhorst says, Nebraska is projected to produce about 1.3 billion bushels.
Hardest on dryland farmers
Sixty-five percent of Nebraskas corn crop is irrigated. But farmers who rely solely on rain to water their crops had a difficult time this year.
Don Hutchens is one of those farmers.
Hutchens owns farm ground in the southwest part of the state. His 1,600 acres of irrigated corn produced its normal amount of 200-220 bushels per acre. His 400 acres of dryland corn, however, was considered a total loss. It yielded just one bushel per acre.
The loss on dry land was terrible but I had crop insurance that will cover my cost of production, but not make land payments or interest payments, Hutchens said.
Hutchens said that the drought isnt only hard on him, however.
One of every 3 jobs depends on agriculture, and drought is hard on the land, the people and the economic strength of the state.
Nebraska farmer Dave Nielsen owns ground in northeast Lancaster County. He said his dryland corn produced just over half of its normal yield at 90 bushels per acre.
Supply, demand, prices
Brunkhorst says Hutchens and Nielsen arent alone.
Normally we harvest 97 percent of acres planted, this year it was 91 to 92 percent. Others will be abandoned or cut for silage.
Economics 101 suggests when supply goes down and demand remains the same, prices go up. Thats been the story with corn prices this fall.
According to Brunkhorst, cash prices right now are between $7 and $7.50. Over the last several years, prices have been in the $4.50 to $5 range.
While corn farmers can ease the pressure on their bottom line by cashing in on crop insurance and selling corn at high prices, beef producers may expect to take a hit.
Corn prices increase the price of food that goes into rations, Brunkhorst said.
Your pocketbook
According to a Nov. 27 article in the Lincoln Journal Star, those extra costs are already being passed off to consumers, who can expect to see higher beef prices through 2013.
Consumers could see higher prices at the grocery store as well.
Take your breakfast, for example. According to Corns Talk magazine, assuming that corn is priced at $8 per bushel, a dairy cow eats 25 cents worth of corn to produce a gallon of milk. An 18-ounce box of corn flakes contains 11 cents worth of corn. And theres roughly 37 cents worth of corn in every pound of hamburger.
Very few parts of the state were experiencing drought when corn was planted in April. But things changed drastically by harvest time in October.
When will it end?
Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center on East Campus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the answer lies in the oceans.
Winters with warmer ocean temperatures are known as El Niño winters and generally mean more moisture makes its way into the jet stream. On the contrary, winters with colder ocean temps are known as La Niña winters, and dont send as much moisture into the air.
According to Svoboda, the last two winters have been La Niña events. But as of now, water temperatures are stuck in neutral, leaving forecasters scratching their heads.
There wont be any major change that they could predict because they dont have a strong oceanic signal to help drive the forecast, Svoboda said. Its not likely youll see a major change in the extent of the drought, but you may see a little bit of a reduction in intensity.
The odds
The odds simply dont appear to favor the farmers. Svoboda said that moisture levels are down anywhere from 25 -50 percent or 9-12 inches statewide. Whats worse is that it takes nearly a foot of snow to equal one inch of rain. And that is assuming the ground is thawed enough to absorb the moisture.
Svoboda said we are now in the middle of a critical period, between when crops are planted and harvested, when the moisture in the soil needs to be recharged.
Keep it in mind that three month period between now and say the end of February before spring rolls around, you just dont see a great percent of your annual (moisture) total, less than twenty percent, he said.
While it may seem like only farmers and ranchers are the only ones who should be looking hopefully towards the skies, Hutchens says the drought is a more universal problem.
In America we have the most abundant, safest and most economical, food supply. But a drought will mean higher food costs and less economic strength of our communities and our state.
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SBA Lending in North Dakota Almost Doubles in 2013
In the first four months of Fiscal Year 2013, October 1, 2012 through January 31, 2013, SBA approved 69 loans or $35.6 million in financing for ND small businesses. The $35.6 million is almost double the amount approved in the first four months of Fiscal Year 2012.
For the fiscal year ending October 31, 2012, SBA approved 215 loans for a total value of $97.5 million. A review of the approved loans shows that the size of individual SBA loans has increased significantly. The largest loan was for an auto dealer in western North Dakota, but a loan as small as $5,000 was also approved for an electrical contractor in eastern North Dakota. From motels to lawyers and from pet clinics to specialized child learning centers, SBA continues to provide financing for start-up and existing businesses in North Dakota.
The number of lenders participating in SBA programs has increased this year as well. Thirty-two different lenders provided financing using SBA programs compared to 26 for the same period last year. The largest growth in SBA financing came through the use of SBA's 504 program. The 504 program provides favorable terms with long-term financing at a fixed rate for real estate and equipment. The current interest rate for a ten year maturity is 3.6825% and twenty year financing is at 4.212%. Loans through the 504 Program can finance up to 90 percent of a project's cost using a combination of three resources: the borrower, the bank or credit union and a Certified Development Company (CDC). There are four CDCs in North Dakota. Low interest rates and a vibrant economy have fueled significant growth throughout the state.
As can be expected SBA lending in western North Dakota is strong, but eastern North Dakota is not left out of the mix. Over half of all SBA loans and over a third of all capital provided to small business through SBA programs have been approved for businesses in counties in the eastern part of the state in 2013. For more information on SBA programs including a list of CDCs, visit the North Dakota District Office web page at www.sba.gov/nd.


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Bluebirds win again as Borelli scores early goal
6:02pm Tuesday 18th March 2014
6:02pm Tuesday 18th March 2014
Welsh League, Division One
Goytre United 0
THE last-ditch defence protected the lead given them by a fine early goal from Luke Borelli, writes Robert Nisbet.
The visitors looked sharp from the outset, with ex-Bristol Rovers first-teamer Jack McKenna at the head of their line and with a fine performance in the elusive-pimpernel manner from ex-Bluebird Nicky Palmer, who roamed dangerously from attack to midfield. But after 13 minutes came a finely-worked Blues goal when Ricky Watts slipped a ball through to Borelli, who cut in from the right and drove in low from a narrow angle.
Goytre continued to press though, but set up remarkably few clear-cut chances, with the only really menacing flurry coming in the 44th minute when McKenna was well-positioned but shot well wide. The Blues meanwhile had been closer with another Borelli shot, an O'Sullivan free kick and a low shot from Richie Lewis.
The second half gave us a similar pattern with it seeming as if Goytre were well on top and yet hardly ever looking as if they might capitalize. The only time they came close was in the 80th minute when Sam Rodon conceded a yellow card and a free kick with a heavy challenge out on the Goytre left, and Palmer's free kick swung in for Craig Morris to have to finger-tip it on to the bar and to safety.
At the other end there had been a few quite dangerous attacks. Tim Hicks swivelled and sent in a shot which was turned for a corner and after his appearance as sub Declan Carroll sent in several rasping drives.
What gave the Bluebirds the clean sheet and the three points was of course some really strong last-ditch defence. Goytre shots were blocked certainly and there was a string of blocks, tackles and interceptions in and around the Blues penalty area. The defence had a fine game, and none more so than skipper Dale Griffiths, twice going off to have his head bandaged but still able to staunch a flow of Goytre attacks.
Right at the end, as the Goytre attacking was getting hectic, Lewis picked up a ball on the edge of his own area and went on a scorching run to the other end to force an corner and take much of the steam from the Goytre comeback.
If the Blues are to win promotion there will inevitably be games like this when they battle through and tough out the points on days when things are not going as planned. When all is said and done they played for and deserved the win.
The programme sponsors were Jill and John Donachie of Lamphey, and the match ball sponsor was Mr Rhodri Roberts.
The Blue stay top of the table with this win, with Cambrian & Clydach falling off a little after two defeats last week, but with Monmouth Town beginning to loom ominously in third place.
Next Saturday they are away to Aberdare Town.
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Stevie Wonder pulled out of a performance at a fundraiser for the Israel Defence Forces, a source told JTA.
Wonder's representatives said that he did not know the nature of the group, the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and that he believes such a performance would be incongruent with his status as a UN "Messenger of Peace," according to a source who has read email exchanges between Wonder's representatives and organizers of the event.
Wonder was scheduled to headline the Friends of the Israeli Defence Forces annual gala in Los Angeles on Dec. 6. The event raises millions of dollars annually to support the Israeli military.
The head of the Friends of the IDF, Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Gershon expressed his regret that the Grammy-Award singer withdrew.
Wonder had come under intense social media pressure to pull out of the event. An online petition calling on him to cancel his performance had garnered more than 3,600 signatures.
The petition was launched more than a day ago on the change.org website.
Wonder performed at a 1998 gala honoring Israel's 50th anniversary.


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August 23 2013 My husband went into the Doctors because he was yellow. Jaundice turned into Cholangiocarcinoma Cancer. We have been very lucky so far as it seems each day we have been able to go to the next doctor and next appointment. As it sits right now we find out Monday if my husband will be a candidate for surgery. To me the Doctor did not sound very optimistic but my husband feels he was. I am holding onto my husbands optimism. We know the mass is around 4cm by 5cm.


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Selig hints at All-Star Game in Petco's future
SAN DIEGO -- When Commissioner Bud Selig visited Petco Park on Tuesday to witness the dedication of the Selig Hall of Fame Plaza, it didn't take long for San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer to playfully bring up the possibility of his city hosting an All-Star Game in the near future.
That's something Padres fans have been awaiting for quite a while now. San Diego has hosted the Midsummer Classic twice, but the last time was in 1992 at Jack Murphy Stadium.
Selig hinted Tuesday before the Padres' 4-1 victory over the Brewers that the wait could soon be over for Petco Park, which was built in downtown San Diego in 2004 and is widely considered one of the best ballparks in the game.
"I'm working on All-Star Games. I'm going to do that, particularly with [Commissioner-elect] Rob Manfred," Selig said. "The only thing I'll tell you about San Diego is, I like their chances."
This year's contest was held at Target Field in Minnesota, and the 2015 game will be held at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park.
MLB has usually favored alternating between American League and National League venues, and with Camden Yards' 25th anniversary approaching in 2016, the Padres' next best chance could be in 2017.
"They're better than a prime candidate," Selig said. "Who wouldn't want to be here during the summer?"
Will Laws is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., or PBGC, says its News Year's resolution is to account for the 31,313 missing people on its books. In all, these pensioners could be owed a grand total of $280 million.
The PBGC insures the pensions of about 40 million workers who have been promised a defined-benefit pension plan from one of more than 26,000 companies.
A PBGC spokesman explains that when the PBGC takes over a pension, it gets a list of names and how much the company says each person is owed. What it often doesn't get is accurate contact information. If all its efforts to contact someone come back "addressee unknown," then the potential claimant is added to the missing persons' list.
The PBGC knows that people go missing for three main reasons:
Death. They died before they had a chance to claim.
Forgetfulness or ill health. Some people just don't remember that they once earned a pension or they are in no shape to track it down.
The employer dropped the ball. The now-defunct employer kept bad records or otherwise failed to provide accurate information even if the former employee asked about his or her pension.
The amount owed individuals ranges from a few cents to nearly $1 million -- a real retirement planning windfall. The states with the most missing pensioners, the number of people owed money and the total amount owed are:
- New York (6,678/$40.33 million)
- Illinois (4,344/$85.36 million)
- California (2,966/$7.64 million)
- Texas (2,278/$10.68 million)
- New Jersey (2,114/$11.7 million)
- Ohio (1,908/$12.82 million)
If you think that you or a family member might be among the missing, the PBGC urges you to go to its website at pbgc.gov and click on "Find an unclaimed pension." You can search by company, last name or state.
If you think you've found your name on the list, send an email to email@example.com and be prepared to prove your identity. If you think you found a deceased family member on the list, use the same address to notify the PBGC. In some cases, close family members also can claim. In any case, it will help the PBGC to cross a name off the list and that's good retirement karma.


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SMASH Character Card - Katharine McPhee as KAREN CARTWRIGHT
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Dear Members,
Does a cloned animal have buddha-nature?
[By Dr.David N. Snyder]
The third characteristic of existence is the doctrine of no-self. This is one of the most
controversial and misunderstood doctrines of the Buddha. I have prepared an explanation in this
section utilizing information from an ancient teaching on no-self along with information from the
new modern scientific procedure of cloning:
The famous zen koan (riddle), does a dog have buddha-nature? Answer: Mu (no). Zen
Buddhists and others interested in zen and koans have been working on this riddle for
This koan is difficult because we do know that all living beings have buddha-nature, that is, the
capacity for insight and enlightenment. All living beings are sentient beings with consciousness
and experience pleasant and unpleasant emotions, feelings, and sensations.
This koan has no specific right answer, but can have many wrong answers. For example, if we
try to analyze the words, we might come up with something like, the dog is not yet human and
not ready for enlightenment and the answer is referring to his need for a future rebirth. This is
wrong! This koan, like other koans is trying to get the practitioner away from such analytical
thoughts and to spark an insight with an answer beyond the use of intellect, but rather a
direct experiential answer.
The point of the koan (and other koans) is to get us beyond dualistic thoughts. The Buddha's
teachings are full of stories and similes that attempt to get the listeners to see beyond
dualism. The Heart Sutra works to just that end of seeing beyond the opposites, beyond dualism:
Form is only emptiness, emptiness only form. Form is no other than emptiness,emptiness no other
than form. Feeling, thought, and choice, consciousness itself, are the same as this.
The Buddha's teachings on soul-theory and no-self are the same as this. The Buddha's teachings
were revolutionary on many issues, but not the least of which was the concept of no permanent
soul or no-self. The Buddha completely rejected the prevailing philosophy that each human
and/or animal had a permanent soul or self. To this day most religious traditions adhere to the
concept of a permanent soul.
The concept of no-self is difficult for many people to grasp, among Buddhists and non-Buddhists
alike. It is difficult because people feel that if they accept the notion of no-self then they are
adhering to an annihilationist view that they do not exist or will not exist beyond death. The
Buddha was not an annihilationist, nor was he an eternalist. The Buddha refused to say that we
exist after death or in nibbana and also refused to say that we do not exist after death or in
nibbana. The Buddha did not want to be confused or misinterpreted as an annihilationist, which
is why he refused to say flat-out that there is no self. Instead he preferred to word it the other
way by saying that the view that there is a permanent self is wrong.
―Venerable Ananda said to the Blessed One, Why is it, venerable sir, that when the Blessed One
was questioned by the wanderer Vacchagotta, he did not answer? The Buddha responds, If
Ananda, when I was asked by the wanderer Vacchagotta, Is there a self? I had answered, There
is a self, this would have been siding with those ascetics and Brahmins who are eternalists. And
if, when I was asked by him, Is there no self? I had answered, There is no self, this would have
been siding with those ascetics and Brahmins who are annhilationists.
If, Ananda, when I was asked by the wanderer Vacchagotta, Is there a self? I had answered,
There is a self, would this have been consistent on my part with the arising of the knowledge that
all phenomena are non-self? Ananda replied, No, venerable sir.
And if when I was asked by him, Is there no self? I had answered, There is no self, the wanderer
Vacchagotta, already confused, would have fallen into greater confusion, thinking, It seems that
the self I formerly had does not exist now. Samyutta Nikaya 44.10
The concept of each mind being like a drop of water entering a Divine ocean in nibbana is very
similar to pantheistic ideas and not exactly to the Buddhist view of nibbana, but it does provide a
―near definition for us until we actually see and experience the wisdom of enlightenment.
There is some wording similar to this given by the Buddha in similes in the discourses:
―Bhikkhus, just as the river Ganges slants, slopes, and inclines toward the ocean, so too a
bhikkhu who develops and cultivates the Noble Eightfold Path slants, slopes, and inclines toward
Nibbana.Samyutta Nikaya 45.97-102
And here in the following discourse there is a more direct correlation to the pantheistic concept:
―Just as the river Ganges inclines toward the sea, flows towards the sea, and merges with the
sea, so too Master Gotama's assembly with its homeless ones and its householders inclines
toward Nibbana, and merges with Nibbana.
Majjhima Nikaya 73.14
**********to be continued************
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Hanzze wrote:Well they have been to much attached on what is beautiful... so take care.
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
I really liked INXS' "Welcome To Wherever You Are" album, which incidentally had Beautiful Girl on it - one of the songs listed in Yawares' post above.
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Yawares,
My favourite INXS songs are The Gift and Heaven Sent.
James the Giant wrote:Do they poo beautiful excrement too?
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There's nothing like a raunchy, lewd, obnoxious movie to make you cringe and laugh out loud. Seriously...considering fart jokes are always funny and, as of late, Russel Brand and Johan Hill have become the "go to" guys for this sort of humor, Get Him to the Greek encompasses all that is raunchy, dirty and laugh out loud funny...if your tastes include that sort of thing.
An extension of the previously released Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek follows the previous film's rock star Aldous Snow (Brand), a down and out musician who, following the release of a terrible song, finds himself with down and out and, luckily, with a unique opportunity to redeem himself and get back into the public's good graces. Enter Aaron Green (Hill), a young music exec, who's fighting tooth and nail to ensure Snow makes it to the show on time. Ironically, the two men share more in common than their similar taste in booze and broads as both seem to suffer from woman troubles and have regrets about their lives which it seems their misadventures together put into perspective.
While I'm not personally a big fan of films like this, both Brand and Hill do a great job of making Get Him to the Greek a hilarious buddy film that'll have viewers laughing out loud at the true gross negligence and total disarray of these two characters' lives. With plenty of comedy, drama, and even a taste of romance thrown in for good measure, Get Him to the Greek does a great job of delivering a uncouth movie with a positive and very real message.
The blu-ray features a solid video transfer in full 1080p in the film's original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The English DTS-HD Master Audio track delivers plenty of sound; especially the music, which is a key factor in this film about a rock star.
Something that'll impress those who like to watching extras is the loaded Blu-ray and DVD which includes a smorgasbord of special features, including two versions of the film (original and uncut) as well as an unrated commentary with director Nicholas Stoller, producer Rodney Rothman, and castmembers Brand, Byrne and Moss; three featurettes, the 30-minute "Getting Into Get Him Back to the Greek," a 15-minute "Getting in Tune With the Greek," and "Making of African Child." Each focuses on both the characters, music and the very ridiculous video featured in the film. And speaking of the music, a load of music videos are also here, including "Greek Concert 1999," "Greek Concert 2009," "The Today Show," "VH1 Storytellers: Furry Walls," "World Tour: Riding Daphne," "London 02 Concert," and "Karaoke."
Other special features include two gag reels, a "Line-O-Rama" made from various lines from the film, both an alternate ending and intro, 17 deleted scenes, 22 extended and alternate scenes, various uncut interviews with Aldous Snow (from the film), cast auditions, and a mix-mash of laugh-out-loud scenes from Sarah Marshall's show Blind Medicine.
Overall, the set comes loaded to the gills with enough bonus features to warrant a purchase, especially since the film itself is funny as a drunk British rocker making a comeback by singing about a STD on the Today Show (yes, that happens in the film and yes, it's that funny!)
While personally not a fan of this sort of humor, I have to say I almost peed myself from laughing at many a scenes from this film. With a cast that knows how to make audiences both cringe and crack up, a story with a heart...and a drunken depravity, and a solidly entertaining sound track, Get Him to the Greek makes for an enjoyable home video experiance.
Get Him to the Greek is rated R for strong sexual content, drug use throughout, and perverse language (and the unrated cut is even worse!). The DVD and Blu-ray is available now wherever fine home video is sold.
- Jess C. Horsley


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Riley Aleen Flesch - February 09, 2011
To Jory and Mandy Flesch of Gothenburg on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital, a daughter, Riley Aleen, weighing six pounds, 11 and one-half ounces. She was welcomed home by a sister, Regan.
Paternal grandparents are Jim and Georgie Flesch of Gothenburg. Maternal grandparents are Mark and Sharon Seebohm of Fremont, and Steve and Mina Bessey of Omaha.
Great-grandparents include Phyllis Drumheller of Alliance, Ray and Geri Groenewold of Farnam, and Connie and Cecile Morton of Vista, CA.


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As the High Park Fire in northern Colorado raged, evacuation orders were issued across the area. In Larimer County, Colo., one dairy was allowed to stay to tend to its herd. However, Morning Fresh Dairy Farm didn't just care for its cattle; it refused to let the fire win.
The flames crept closer to the gates of their farm last weekend, and owners Rob and Lori Graves, their family and dairy employees joined forces to protect their cows and farm.
"The fire burned up to the edge of our irrigated fields and then couldn't go beyond that," Lori Graves told the Northern Colorado Business Report.
To stop the fire from spreading, the dairy ran 10 of its irrigation sprinklers for 24 hours, keeping the fields wet enough to deter the flames.
Though the dairy lost 6,000 of non-irrigated pastures and grazing land to the blaze, efforts by the dairy staff were enough to save their cows and farmstead. They also protected the surrounding community from going up in flames. The exact number of houses spared from the inferno is unclear, but Graves is confident that the efforts the dairy took prevented the flames from reaching a nearby housing subdivision.
"Whether their houses would have caught on fire, nobody knows," Graves said. "But we feel like it helped, putting water down in between a fire and a dry house."
Neighbors have applauded the dairy's efforts in keeping their houses from danger.
Check out the Morning Fresh Dairy Farm Facebook page to read their thoughts on the event and find more pictures from the fire.


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Topic: BEST UK HOSPITAL FOR CC?
My dad was recently diagnosed with cc. It
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Hi Ash,
Welcome to the site although I am sorry that you had to find us. I know how you are feeliing right now as I felt the same when my dad was diagnosed. He was diagnosed with inoperable CC back in late summer of 2008. Can you give us more information as to your dads diagnosis and what his doctors have said about regarding treatment options?
Some hospitals and doctors in the UK that you may wish to contact are -
Dr Valle, Christies, Manchester
Dr Peter Lodge, St James, Leeds
Prof David Cunningham, Royal Marsden London.
I hope that you will keep coming back here and let us know how you get on.
My best wishes to you and your dad,
Dear Ash, welcome to our wonderful family. We have quite a few members from the UK so you are definitely not alone. Like Gavin asked, can you tell us a little more about the diagnosis. Has a game plan been set in place? I promise you once it is, you will feel better. We also have some miracles on our board as well. My husband is one of them. You have come to the right place and feel free to ask, vent or advise. Looking forward to your posts.
Ash....you might also want to use the search function, top, right hand side, and enter UK hospitals, or physicians UK, etc. Previous conversations will appear re: treatment centers and doctors in the U.K.
Good luck,
Hi Ash
I am in the UK and my mum was recently diagnosed as well. We are actually in Wales and having to travel to England to get a decision on surgery. Tomorrow we are off to Basingstoke to the liver unit there. I don't know whether they have much experience of cc so I willl be asking them some hard questions and if they are not good enough I will be taking Mum to one of the hospitals that Gavin listed above.
I have heard that Birmingham has a good reputation too.
It is about two and a half months since my Mum was diagnosed and like you I would read all the stories on here and just cry. Now I am at the stage where I am ready for a fight and will do anything, read everything and contact everyone in order to get the best treatment for her.
As for private vs. NHS well the doctors and specialists have all said to go NHS and that going private will not speed things up. I think this is probably true at the beginning but if my Mum gets turned down for surgery then we may go private for a second opinion, and for any 'newer' treatments such as Cyberknife and sirspheres.
Warmest wishes to you and to your Dad
Hi Ash.
I know how you feel, it is terrifying and heartbreaking when you go through the diagnosis. My dad was diagnosed in December, and had surgery at St James hospital in Leeds. Prof Lodge is head of the team there; I believe he does the Liver transplants. He has saved many, many lives. We could not fault the treatment at the hospital, it was wonderful.
It is important to find out a bit more about the diagnosis, and what treatment the specialist thinks is possible? My dad's initial treatment at Bradford Royal Infirmary was very good, and they didn't hesitate to refer him to Leeds when they thought surgery was possible.
We have been told that going private would not have speeded things up (although the diagnosis may have been marginally sooner) and the treatment would be exactly the same. My uncle who's a GP says that the cost of going private would be prohibitive for most people, as you then have to pay for ALL your treatment, drugs etc. They also said that going private would not help because there just aren't the private oncology facilities.
Let us know how you get on, stay strong. I always found it eased thing to keep reading and researching, but I suppose we all find our ways of dealing with it. Thinking of you.
Ash - just wanted to let you know I am thinking of you. Dad was diagnosed in January with inoperable CC, which means we have no idea how long we have left with him. I know exactly what you mean about not being able to stop the tears, and not knowing how you really feel. It gets better... once there is a plan, even if you know that the plan won't keep your Dad with you forever, really does make you feel better. You will have your days when if feels like the world is ending, but those days are all part of the process, I think. Please just know that you have people all over the world thinking of you and praying for you and your family.
You might want to ask Helen Morement (I hope I spelled that right). She has a cc foundation in England called AMMF. She probably knows where the cutting edge treatments and best practices are. You could also check the Gem/cis study to see where the research was done.
I was diagnosed with cc (ampullary cancer) in York Hospital. And was then referred to St. James Hospital in Leeds. I had a whipple operation last april by keyhole surgery. 1 lymphnode involved. Six months of chemo. The name of my surgeon was Dr Krishna Menon. He is the best in the business for cc so I have been informed, and he was the first in the UK to do the whipples by keyhole. He is in Professor Lodges Team.
Thank-you July girl and congratulations on your 1 year anniversary. It is inconceivable to me, having a Whipple, keyhole. WOW! CC procedures are coming along even if slowly. That is amazing and so are you. Now your is a story of hope!
Yes Lainy. Dr Menon is an amazing surgeon. All the other nurses and doctors at St. James are in awe of him. And he is such a kind and compassionate too. Very warm and friendly.
My whipples wasn't without it's problems though. It was 12 hour surgery (takes a lot long by keyhole). Then I had problems with a fistula where the head of the pancreas had been cut away. I was vomiting bile for two weeks, and being fed on TPN for 3 weeks. Had a bowel infection too. But it was all worth it. The fistula healed on its own. Worst thing was the drainage bags. They were so uncomfortable, because one of the junior doctors changed them and did the stitches too tight.
If I understand correctly, keyhole surgery is considered for all ampullary cancer patients. Whether keyhole is used for higher up in the bile duct I don't know. But Dr. Menon is a truly amazing man.
Ash, try to get to St. James. It is a centre of excellence in the UK, and the biggest cancer centre in Europe. good luck. xx
And all I have to show for it are three tiny tiny scars on my abdomen, (like little dots), a half inch scar inside my belly button, and a scar of about 4 " long in the pubic area where the tumour was removed. and that cannot be seen. the wounds healed within days. I have 6 monthly check ups, and am so far okay. Hoping for no recurrence. Love to all of you who are fighting this beast.
Julygirl, that is just so amazing to us! Since Teddy's Whipple, will be 5 years in August, he has gone to the ONC every other month with LABS drawn every month. He had a recurrence 2 years ago when it returned where his duodenum used to be and we zapped that one with cyber knife. We are now awaiting results from tests he took Friday as there are 2 new tumors. One seems to be at the Ampulla of Vater (top of Pancreas) and the other in the upper right "crook" of his intestines. This waiting part is the pits. I told Teddy yesterday about your key hole surgery and he almost fell off his chair! HE also healed as you did with a couple of fistulas, hiccups for 6 months etc, etc, but after that he did just fine and he is going to be 78 this Fall. Continued success and keep us all posted.
Totally agree about Mr Menon, a wonderful surgeon, and it's amazing that they can now do it by keyhole.
Julygirl - what chemo did you have? I understand that in the UK the standard of treatment after surgery is just wait and see (no chemo) and the standard treatment for inoperable cc is Gem/Cis?
Did you enter a trial like my dad - Bilcap?
Ash - hoping to hear what your options are.
After my recovery from the whipples, Mr Menon referred me back to York Hospital so that I wouldn't have to keep traveling to Leeds, and I came under the care of Dr Kim Last, medical oncologist. I was on 5-FU once a week for six months. I had the chemo because the pathology report showed that I had involvement in one lymph node. All the tumour was taken out, and the chemo was adjuvant chemo, to hopefully kill off any cancer cells which might be floating around. No, it was not a trial. I tolerated it very well, my hair got a bit thinner, and I had runny eyes and nose and red hands and brittle nails, and only one incident of upset stomach, for which I missed a week of chemo, and it was tagged on to the end.
I forgot to add that after surgery I lost nearly two stones in weight. But I have regained all of the weight I lost. I have to take creons for the rest of my life, but that is a small price to pay.
Thank you everyone for your kind words and support. I don
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