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" Brand: Farringdon / Type: Cooling Rack "
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Cooling racks are an incredibly useful kitchen essential for anyone who does a lot of a baking. I am one such person and, of the two racks I own, one is this one by Farringdon. I can't remember where I got mine from as I've had it for so long but they cost around £5 from shops such as Amazon or Tesco.
This rack, like most, is rectangular in shape and comprised entirely of silver metal. The thin central bars run parallel to each other to form a square grid or criss-cross pattern. These are supported by a thicker outer bar running round the edge which dips in four places to form feet which raise the rack off the ground slightly. Each of the feet are of equal size so there is no wobbling and the rack sits nice and firmly on the worktop. It weighs barely anything so that even when laden with cakes it can easily be moved around if needed.
The size of the rack measures 40 (L) x 25 (W) cm. This is big enough to accommodate a single large cake or about 15 - 20 individual cakes such as cupcakes, muffins, scones or biscuits with some room to spare between each cake. This is ample room for me as I normally just bake a small batch for myself, freezing what I don't want. However for more serious bakers a larger rack might be more practical. The bars are well spaced so that air can circulate easily which allows food to be cooled effectively without becoming dry.
it can be a pit of a pain to clean as I always add icing, flour and other extras after cooling which tends to get stuck in between the bars. There's not much room to fit a cloth into each square and this is also quite time consuming. Rinsing it never seems to get everything off. Aside from this they have proven to be very durable and long-lasting. After years of regular use mine still look shiny and good as new. I would definitely recommend.
If you like baking then a cooling rack is an essential item. It allows your cooked goods to cool down quickly which means two things; i) you can ice them quicker and ii) eat them quicker!
==Price and availability==
You can buy a farringdon cooling rack for £4-£5 and they are available in home stores and department stores. You can also buy them on the Internet.
The cooling rack measures around 45 cm by 25 cm and is made from stainless steel. It has little feet that holds the rack off the ground. The rack is made from a series of interlinking metal grills so that the air can circulate underneath and cool the items quicker. The gaps in the grill are wide enough for air to move freely but not wide enough that your items fall and sag down the gaps.
==My experiences==
The cooling rack is useful and cakes often need to rest before you do anything with them and buns need to cool before you ice them. The wire tray can get warm as it conducts the heat from the baked items but it soon cools down afterwards as the goods cool also. The wire rack can get cake and food stuck to it do it often needs cleaning but the good news is that you can pop it in the dishwasher.
A wire rack is really helpful in baking as it provides an even surface for the cakes and goods to cool on. The rack allows items to rest and cool quickly. If you just stood them on the work top they will take a lot longer to cool. The overall quality and build of the rack is good, there are no sharp corners and the shiny surface cleans up well. I am happy with the rack, it is a good size to work with and it can take around two dozen buns spaced out or two good sized cakes.
=Farringdon Cooling Rack=
As I have said before I love to cook, and an essential item for any cook is a good set of cooling trays.
Whether it is Christmas cakes, Victoria Sponge, Mince Pies, Biscuits, the thing they all have in common is they need to be cooled before being put away.
=Local Shop=
I was on holiday about two years ago when I came across a little shop and they had these displayed in the window, they looked better than the cooling trays I had at the time.
When I went into the shop to have a look, I noticed the racks had been priced at £4 each.
The racks measure 40cm x 5cm.
=Why do I need cooling trays=
A cooling rack allows air to circulate around the cake, as when you first take the cake out of the oven you need to leave it in the tin to cool down, by placing this on the rack your allowing air to circulate around the cake, and this stops your cakes having a soggy bottom.
=Four legs=
I call them legs but really there the way the trays are designed and the feet are moulded into the trays.
I can fit 2 x 7in sponges side by side on the tray, and if I make a batch of buns or mince pies, I can fit about 36 on the tray.
These are excellent quality, I have had mine about two years and they look as good as new.
=To Clean=
I wash mine as normal in hot soapy water, I usually pop in the bottom of the oven after I have wiped them just to make sure they are dry,
=Would I recommend=
I would highly recommend these cooling trays, I know that cooling trays can be picked up for £1, but the difference between a £1 one and these will be the quality. They are a must for every cook.
I love to bake, at least once a week I will make a cake or a batch of muffins or biscuits. I have a couple of staple items I keep in my kitchen that I find invaluable for when I bake and one of these is a cooling rack. A cooling rack is a necessary piece of equipment when making cakes and cookies as it allows the air to circulate when cooling, which stops your cakes and biscuits getting soggy on the bottom.
The mesh that the rack is made of is a good size. I have had nothing fall through the squares, although it does leave a pattern of squares on my sponges.
I have had my cooling rack for quite a long time; I purchased it from a specialist cooking shop for about £4. The rack measures 40 x 25cm and is very strong. I can easily fit 2 dozen small muffins or two 7 inch sponges side by side on it. It is raised slightly from the work surface with four small integrated legs.
The cooling rack stands up well to high temperatures; I have used it in the bottom of my oven before to place a cooking tray on when I have ran out of oven shelves. I have also used it as a trivet when I have taken something hot out of the oven.
The cooling rack washes up well and still looks like new after many years of weekly use. I think it is a great kitchen essential and does not cost very much.
Thank you for reading.
My basic Farringdon wire cooling racks are used a lot in my home. I have two of them and they're both quite old now and to be honest they probably could do with replacing, but as yet, I haven't bothered. I have two the same size, thethey are both oblong in shape and measure about 42cm x 32cm. They cost about £2.99 each and they are metallic and very hardwearing.
I use these Farringdon racks if I've been baking and need to transfer things out of a hot dish or hot tray and need to cool them down. They are ideal for biscuits, cakes and scones and as they are wire racks and stand slightly proud of the kitchen bench, due to their little feet, this allows the cooler air to fully circulate all around, including underneath, and things cooler down quicker and also more evenly. Without the little feet, these wire racks would be pretty much redundant, as it's the fact that they stand up and off the counter that lets the air circulate all around and allows them too cool down quicker.
Last time I used one of my racks was when I'd baked a batch of ginger bread men. My daughter couldn't wait to start icing them and as I transferred them onto the wire rack and let them cool down, she was a bit dismayed to find that they all had little criss cross marks across the backs where the biscuits had still been cooling and the wire racks had made slight indentations on the gingerbread men.
Storage is easy. They are large but they are also flat, and so I am able to just store them out of the way inside my cold oven when I'm not using them and that way they are out of sight. As my racks are so old, they have started to rust ever so slightly in some of the joints but on the whole, considering how old they are, they're still in pretty good shape. They are easy to keep clean, and I alternate between a hot hand wash and a dishwasher cycle, depending on what I've been using them for.
They are a pretty indispensable part of my kitchen paraphernalia now and I'd be lost with out them. They are really handy, very versatile and I thoroughly recommend.
Also posted on Ciao! as basketofbuttons
Cooling racks are a great item to have in your kitchen and are especially good for when you make cakes or biscuits.
This Farringdon cooling rack is quite simple to use and is of good quality.
It is built of meshed wires which allow the cakes/biscuits to cool gently and air is able to circulate more rather than it being placed on a plastic tray.
The cooling rack has 4 little feet which enable it to stand and so it is raised from the worktop.
This would work much better than keeping the cakes or biscuits in the tray or cake tin they they were baked in.
Cleaning the cooling rack is pretty straight forward and easy and it can be cleaned with a damp cloth or using washing up liquid with no problems. I'm not sure if it can go in a dishwasher as I never paid attention to the label it came with but it doesn't take me long to clean by hand so it doesn't make much difference to me.
I bought my cooling rack from a local home store but i'm sure it would be available to purchase online on sites like amazon/ebay. I managed to get mine for around £3-£4 which is a decent price.
I can't say I use mine that much, but it does come in very handy for when you are doing baking.
It can be used for a range of foods and not just cakes - basically anything you would want to cool down after baking (that isn't liquid!).
I give the cooling rack 5 stars and can't fault it.
Basic but it's all you need and at a cheap enough price!
Thanks for reading :)
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Since getting married I have had a cooling rack that has done me just fine up until recently. With having a very active toddler running around I don't get just as much time to bake, so when I do I like to make scones etc in bulk. When making things in bulk, one cooling rack is simply not enough and so I went looking for a second one that wouldn't cost a lot, but do what I needed it to do, and having some money left on an amazon voucher, amazon was my first port of call, where I bought this Farringdon cooling rack which cost me around £4 at the time I purchased.
This cooling rack measures 40cm by 25cm so is obviously rectangular in shape but I find it to be a good size for what I need, especially when this is a second cooling rack. Like other cooling racks, this one has four small feet to keep it level on a surface but raised up. When I received this cooking rack, I was quite impressed with the quality of it, especially since the price I paid is less than other cooling racks on the high street and it is as good quality as my other cooling rack which I got on the high street.
Although it is mostly the likes of scones, muffins or fairy cakes that I make, I do also make the occasional cake which is obviously much heavier on the cooling rack, but I have found that this rack supports it without a problem and it re emphasises the fact that it has been built out of good quality material.
This cooling rack has been used a lot since purchasing it, and it has also been washed a lot since using it, and the quality has remained. It has not tarnished at all, and remains as flat as it was when I first got it.
All in all, I am very happy with my purchase. Any concerns I had about the quality before I purchased, have been put to rest after many uses. This is a good sized rectangular cooling rack, which is cheaper than the high street.
You wouldn't think that something so seemingly simple is actually worth researching before buying, but surprisingly it is! My wife bakes lots of cakes, and we tend to do a lot of cooking involving dishes where you can turf things out that isn't baking as well. Cooling trays are an important part of baking, in particular, and it's handy to have something that is practical in many ways, not least how the wires are designed.
These Farringdon cooling trays are slickly designed. Meauring approx 40cm by 25cm, they're designed to be able to hold a number of baked goods while supporting the weight with the angular feet allowing for a little bit of give. There's a cross thread of metal mesh that criss crosses all the way along, and this allows for the air to circulate around your baked goods and cool them efficiently to ensure you don't get any mishaps after doing everything else so well.
Each of the criss crosses here are of even design, and this is what I mean by the importance of checking out what you're buying. These racks are only £3 or £4 each, if you look for it, but the design means that it's even when you place things on them. I've seen some where they swear by interweaving the latticework they're providing a better way of the air flowing by creating extra gaps underneath your cakes/baked goods once you place them on the racks, but really I find they can leave grooves along the bottom of things. Not so much of an issue really, but this can sometimes have an impact in the more delicate of products. These Farringdon racks are basically smooth along the top, the criss cross pattern not undulating but going straight, and much like a bed of nails is supposed to do, it allows you to spread the weight evenly.
These balance the weight just right, no toppling or anything like that, and even if you place something on the edge before the middle, this tends to just sag the edge slightly until the edge is balanced out right. It's a testament to how well designed these are that we have used them countless numbers of times for all manner of baked goods but also as a sort of protective heat mat. Our heat mats were torn and battered and stained and we got rid of them, just before putting on a huge spread where we needed something at least to start with to rest hot dishes on, and although these racks looked flimsy, the careful design and gentle look were hiding such sturdiness that we now regularly use these as heat mats for having just taking something out of the oven. Curiously, it's good for cooling the bottoms of dishes as well!
The practical sense is also thought about. The crumblier the cake, the more likely you are to get bits of it stuck where the criss crosses cross. There are plenty of them, and this has with other such products caused issues when it comes to cleaning them. However, this is ridiculously easy to clean. We don't have a dishwasher, (although they are dishwasher safe) and when you wash them it's probably best to brush off what you can first before then washing it in the sink. We find that even icing tends to come off very easily with these, and as long as you don't go scrubbing at them with the wrong thing, these should last an awfully long time.
We only have a couple of these, but it's easy to how you could stack plenty on top of each other as well. At a decent price, it's certainly something worth getting, it's value for money in your kitchen if ever I saw it. Recommended.
I'm always baking cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Five days out of seven I would say that there's always a delicious smell of baking wafting from my kitchen.
One of the essential items for home baking I would say is a cooling rack. You can improvise though if you don't have one and use other household items instead; I've successfully used the shelves from my oven, the grill racks from my roasting tins, and 'Lamplig pot stands or trivets from Ikea. All of these have worked well enough for me, but there's drawbacks to all of them. If you use the shelves from the oven, then what happens if you need to put another batch of baked goodies in, or need to cook something else, plus the shelf will be hot. The drawback to the Lamplig trivets or pot stands is that the metal poles are spaced quite wide apart, it's a balancing act to get cupcakes to stay upright on the trivet, also these don't work for cakes as the metal poles are too thick and wide - they leave deep grooves in the base of your cake. The best option out of the three for improvising is using the grill racks from roasting tins, the only slight drawback to using these is that the wires are spaced slightly too far apart and that the wires only run one way; the ideal cooling rack has wires running both ways forming a criss-cross pattern, and the wires should be quite close together.
The advantage to using a cooling rack (or some sort of improvisation on a cooling rack) is that it lets air circulate around your cake, cupcakes or cookies. This enables your baked goodies to cool faster, and it also more importantly means that they don't go damp and soggy from being left to cool (and sweat effectively) in the cake tin.
I've got two of these cooling racks from Faringdon, both were bought from Amazon and were only about £3 or £4 each - certainly no more than a fiver anyway. I've had both of mine for a number of years now and they're still going strong. They are both exactly the same size, 40cm by 25cm. I believe that you can can get a number of different sizes and shapes in the Faringdon cooling racks, should this fairly large one be too big for your needs.
I honestly can't remember if these are dishwasher safe or not, however I do put mine in the dishwasher a few times a week and they are still perfectly fine, they haven't rusted or warped at all.
These are fairly large and will easily hold 3 dozen cupcakes per cooling rack. You could actually probably get 4 dozen cupcakes on each cooling rack, however I like to have adequate space between each cupcake to be able to frost them properly and then pick them up and transfer them to a plate or box without damaging the frosting. I can also easily get the two halves of a layer cake on the cooling rack, again with space to spare to fill the cake and then assemble it and frost it. As to how many cookies these will hold, well that all depends on how big your cookies are!
I've been really impressed with these for the low price that I paid, they've lasted well and they haven't warped or twisted out of shape at all, even under the weight of some very heavy cakes. They've had an awful lot of use, and they've stood up to this well. They don't sit too high off the worktop, just high enough for an adequate amount of air to circulate around the cakes, and so this means that they're not too big and bulky for storage. I just slide mine into the side of one of my kitchen cupboards when I'm not using them. I'd definitely repurchase when necessary, and I'd definitely recommend them.
I absolutely love to bake. Now I might not always be the best baker but occasionally I get something perfect. I have a cupcake maker for the days when I need to batch bake or want to just be lazy. This is fantastic and the majority of my cakes end up on this cooling rack. I bought my cooling rack about 2 years ago, maybe more, from Amazon and they can be picked up for just a few pounds. This is fantastic for something that can mean the difference between soggy slightly ruined cupcakes and light, fluffy delicious ones that are perfect.
This cooling rack is 40 cm by 25 cm and it is a generous enough size for the occasional baker. For example, today I baked two batches of scones. I made 16 scones that were a fairly generous size and they were just able to fit on this cooling rack with just one or two squished up next to one another. I have also been able to fit a full 23 or 24 cupcakes (my standard batch size from my cupcake maker) on this too when I've needed to. The rack is nice and lightweight and it has a criss cross design all over it. There are little bended metal feet that sit nicely on the worktop and don't wobble at all. This cooling rack is very sturdy and this is ideal as I often leave my cupcakes to cool on there before icing them while on there too. This is very simple for me as then if I need to move everything as long as I take care I can just pick the rack up and move it across my kitchen.
This rack appears to be stainless steel but I cannot confirm that for sure as I obviously don't have any packaging for it. Basically I wash this every time that I use it and I find it very simple to clean. Because of the criss cross design you can get bits of cake or icing that go along the bars but I just run a sponge scourer all over my rack and then rinse it clean in cold water. It comes up looking fantastic and despite weekly, sometimes twice weekly, usage this has not rusted and none of the coating (if there is any) has come off.
It is fair to say that I find this cooling rack incredibly useful. It is simple to use, it works very well and it looks good too. It has lasted a long time and it works fantastic at cooling items. It does not sag under the weight of two medium cakes side by side and I've not had any damage occur to this at all despite regular use, sometimes repeated use on the same day. The bars are criss crossed in a manner that still allows lots of air to reach the bottom of the cake and apart from a very heavy cake I haven't had a problem with the criss cross pattern marking cakes, also, on the one occasion it did I just iced the top and sides of the cake and it wasn't a problem at all. I really love my cooling rack and feel that it works incredibly well. I will rate it 5/5 stars and feel it is worthy.
==Farringdon Cooling Rack==
I love to do a lot of baking and when I make cakes I tend to make a good few at the same time which is why I finally caved in and bought a second cooling rack for my already bulging kitchen cupboards. My first cooling rack would only hold a half a dozen or so rock cakes and almost always I would make double and have to pile them on top of each other.
This Farringdon Cooling rack is a nice size at 40 by 25 cm and I purchased it from a local store which sells everything and anything at fairly reasonable prices. I paid £2.99p for this cooling rack which seems to be a far better price than what you would expect to pay when purchasing it online on Amazon.
The rectangle rack itself is fairly lightweight but is up to the job of holding a lot of cakes at any one time. I usually just give it a little wash in warm soapy water in the washing up bowl but if the dishwasher is going on then I have popped it in there before and it has not seemed to suffer at all from this.
It is made of a lightweight stainless steel material which means that it is hard wearing and although I do make sure I dry it off very well after washing it up or getting out of the dishwasher it hasn't rusted and still looks as good as the day I bought it.
The other half has used it in the oven before to cook a lamb chop to keep it raised off the tray and although I wouldn't have allowed this had I been present at the time of him doing this, again the cooling rack seemed to hold up well and although it needed much more of a clean than it usually did, it didn't seem to mind the weight of the meat or indeed the temperature of the oven.
Overall I can't really fault this cooling rack on any aspects of its use. I paid a really descent price for it and it is surely going to last a long time if I keep looking after it like I am doing. I think it is a top scoring product and worthy of a 5 out 5 star rating and a very high recommendation!
I do hope that this has been of some help/interest to you
Many thanks for taking the time to read.
For anyone who does baking of any kind a cooling rack is an essential item. I bought a little cheap one when I first moved into my own home but this has proved to not be big enough. I had thought about getting a 2 or 3 tier rack but I kept thinking that the food cooling in the middle rack is getting sandwiched between the heat from the racks above and below it. Instead I opted for the Farrigdon Cooling Rack which I found on Amazon for approximately £4.00.
The Farrringdon cooling rack is rectangle, which in my opinion is better than a circular rack, and measures 25cm's x 40cm's and I can easily fit 48 regular sized buns on the tray to cool. Its made from a silver metal as are most cooling racks and has 4 little feet which make the tray sit approximately 2cm's above the work top. It feels quite sturdy for the money and I'm pleased the holes in the racks are small so the things balance nicely on it.
To wash the rack you can pop it in the dishwasher if you have one but for me its a dunk in the washing up bowl which does just as well.
I use my cooling rack a lot. I do a lot of baking and we have a bread maker so make all our bread too. Its so important to get some things from their baking tins and onto a cooling rack quickly. I find some things tend to sweat when left too long in the backing tin and can go a bit soggy. Life is busy for a lot of us and anything that speeds certain jobs up is good in my book. The cooling tray is ideal if I have made buns or biscuits that I'm going to decorate. The tray enables me to get them cooled quickly so I can get on with icing them before they get eaten.
I always stand my cooling tray on a clean tea towel or tray to catch any crumbs that drop through, I also do this if I'm sifting icing sugar over a sponge cake, this way the cake gets a nice coating and the surplus is on the tray underneath.
I would certainly recommend the Farringdon Cooling Rack. It has been well worth the money as far as I'm concerned and whilst its used regularly it remains in good condition. . Its a nice size and seems to be well made. I can fit plenty of baking on it and its so much more practical than a round cooling tray.
A cooling rack is an essential tool if, like me, you like to do a lot of baking. There are various ones on the market but they are all pretty much the same. They are basically a wire rack which is used to place freshly baked items on so they will cool faster. Just about every recipe you use will indicate that once your cake is out of the oven you need to transfer it onto a cooling rack straight away and get it out of the hot pan that you were cooking it in so it does not continue to bake and get overcooked. Cooling it on the rack gives you somewhere to place it once it comes out of the oven.
What I also like about cooling racks is that once the cake has cooled down you can then ice it on the rack as it does not interfere with the icing method because the rack is flat and does not interfere on the sides of the cake like say a cake tin would.
If it has lots of slats in it you will get marks on your cake but always be sure to turn out your cake so that the bottom of the cake is the part that touches the rack so when you have iced it you do not notice the bottom anyway. Also I would not suggest using a cooling rack to help get your cake out of its tin. I learnt this the hard way many years ago when I attempted to get a hot cake out of a tin with the help of a wire rack. Well, the rack just made it break in many places and ended up as a bit of a mess so I had to start all over again. If you need help in getting your cake out of a tin I suggest using a flat plate and then transferring to the wire rack immediately!
Most cooling racks will have little feet on them, usually bits of metal that heave been bended to make a little arch. The feet are pretty much essential as the allow air to circulate completely around the food and cool it down better than a tray would.
It isn't just cakes that you can put on these cooling racks, if you bake biscuits or cookies they are great for this too and I sometimes even use mine as a heat stand and place hot dishes that have just come out of the oven on them. All in all a versatile kitchen item.


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For years, an ongoing story line on How I Met Your Mother was about Lily (Alyson Hannigan) hiding her shopping addiction and credit card debt from her husband, Marshall (Jason Segel). She managed to keep her fast-growing stockpile of cute dresses and shoes a secret—until they applied for a mortgage. Suddenly, the gig was up. Because Lily had completely destroyed their credit rating, the couple was forced to live in the only New York City neighborhood they could afford, which was the fictional "Dowisetrepla." That turned out to be shorthand for downwind of the sewage treatment plant.
That story line is likely to resonate with a surprising number of women—and men, too. A survey of more than 23,000 people by SELF and Today.com found that 46 percent lied about money matters to a significant other at some point—although only 28 percent said a partner had lied to them. One could argue that stretching the truth about one's spending habits is a harmless quirk of coupled life, as natural as keeping mum about the cute guy at the gym who stops by your treadmill to chat. After all, should you really have to explain to your husband why your new designer heels are worth the stratospheric price? And does neglecting to mention your latest purchase to your spouse truly count as cheating or dishonesty?
Many experts would say yes. "Whatever the amount of money in question, telling lies or keeping secrets threatens your relationship's stability," says Amanda Clayman, a psychotherapist in New York City who specializes in financial wellness. "Money is connected to our sense of security. Most people experience any breach of that security as a profound breach of trust." That's easy enough to agree with: In the SELF-Today.com survey, 70 percent of women say being honest about money is as important to the health of a relationship as being monogamous. Yet despite those numbers, 32 percent of women admitted that they'd hidden purchases or receipts from a partner; 26 percent said they'd pretended a new purchase wasn't actually new; and 25 percent had told a spouse they'd bought something on sale when in fact they'd paid full price.
Caroline Parker (not her real name), 26, cops to doing all of those things. An artist in New York City, she says her husband is supporting both of them at the moment. "He's the steady earner—what I make is the icing on the cake," she says. "But I haven't made much lately." A while ago, Caroline desperately wanted a new bag. "I kept visiting one particular purse over and over, even though I knew I couldn't afford it. But I couldn't let it go. So I bought it with the money I'm supposed to use for household stuff. I don't know how I thought I could hide it—you can't wear a bag underneath your shirt! I ended up keeping it under the bed for a week. That's like a month in purse time! When I finally put it on my shoulder and walked downstairs, my husband said, 'Nice bag!' and I practically screamed, 'I got it on triple clearance! They pretty much gave it to me when I walked in the door!'" Except, of course, they hadn't.
It's not only handbags women are hiding. It's haircuts and highlights and all the things we do to keep up appearances in the world. "Men have no idea how much it costs a woman to look good!" Caroline observed. "My husband thinks Botox costs half of what it actually does because I pay the rest in cash," one interviewee said. Other women fessed up to concealing spontaneous Internet purchases ("I try to rush home to hide the boxes from Net-A-Porter," one said) or what they buy for their children ("I am flat-out lying to my husband about how much I spent on goody bags for our 5-year-old's birthday party," another admitted).
What's the big deal about a goody bag or two? "If you're thinking, I can't tell him this because he'll be mad or he won't understand, you're probably avoiding dealing with issues in your relationship, like who holds the power," says Marilyn Wechter, a psychotherapist and wealth counselor in St. Louis. "Because often, money is power. For instance, maybe your spouse makes all the spending rules and lying is the only way you feel you can regain control." Or, maybe you're the major breadwinner in the household; because you're earning most of the cash, you feel entitled to splurge without telling your partner. "Bringing it up is going to feel uncomfortable," Wechter says, "but these feelings are worth thinking and talking about."
Stay silent, and little lies and omissions can lead to much bigger emotional rifts. Emily Rossi (not her real name) discovered that the hard way. The 35-year-old and her husband were living beyond their means, struggling to keep up with bills and mortgage payments. Then, one day, she went into his bag to grab her sunglasses. "I found a checkbook for an account I'd never seen," Emily says. "Tucked into it was a list of collectibles he'd been buying on the sly. He'd spent tens of thousands of dollars, and we were broke!"
Emily confronted her husband, who claimed he intended to sell the stuff for a profit on eBay—he just hadn't gotten around to it yet. He said he'd hidden his not-so-small venture because he knew she wouldn't approve. Suddenly, Emily saw their financial life—and her spouse—through new eyes. "I thought our debt was because of the house. Now I realized much of it was because of his secret spending," she says. Emily might have discovered this earlier, but she hadn't looked at a bill or bank statement in months. Instead, she left that to her husband. "I was so freaked out by our finances, I didn't want to deal," Emily says.
Her willful oblivion played a role in the deception, too, Wechter says. "When you're on the receiving end of a financial betrayal, you have to ask yourself, What was my part in this?" she explains. If you don't keep track of your finances—either because you're afraid of what you'll find out or because you have a fantasy that a man will take care of you—you're giving up responsibility for your own life, Wechter notes.
In the end, Emily wasn't able to get beyond her husband's patent dishonesty. Although the two tried couples counseling, she still felt furious. Shortly afterward, they divorced. In the SELF-Today survey, 13 percent of respondents who'd experienced financial betrayal said they ultimately broke up or, if they were married, divorced. Another 50 percent said it was tough to get the relationship back on solid footing. "Secrets create distance, which then starts to feel as if it's the norm," says Maggie Baker, Ph.D., a psychologist and author of Crazy About Money. "That's when the relationship begins to falter."
When It's Time for the Money Talk
If discussing money feels awkward, you're not alone. "Understandably, most people dread discussing their past s*xual history with a new partner; talking about money can be as tough," says Catherine Birndorf, M.D., founding director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and SELF's mental health expert. But to pave the way for an honest financial partnership, "it's ideal to have a talk early on—and definitely before marriage," she says. "You need to unpack your money baggage, whether it's lingering college debt or the 20 credit cards in your wallet. A partnership isn't only about love. It's about trust. Being honest about money creates the foundation for that trust."
So sit down and trade answers to the following questions: (1) How did your family handle money? (2) What are your financial goals, values, weaknesses and successes? (3) Are you a spender or saver? (4) Do you have debt? A secret nest egg? (5) What do you value spending money on? The questions may sound daunting, but if you begin your life in a place of openness, you're likely to continue on that way.
Once you have your mutual money histories down, you need to lay the ground rules for the future. Experts say there are two good strategies for building a healthy financial life together, whether you're just starting out or you've been together for years. The first (and, granted, this one isn't for everyone): Agree to keep each other in the loop about your day-to-day spending, whether it's weekly grocery bills or a spur-of-the-moment spring shopping spree. This kind of exhaustive financial accounting typically works best for a couple who is trying to recover from financial infidelity or one who is trying to save for something big, like buying a home. And it helps if both partners enjoy sitting down on a weekly or monthly basis and reviewing how far they've gotten toward their goal.
"The key is that you're checking in with one another because you're excited about your shared objectives, not because you're bent on micromanaging each other's spending," says April Lane Benson, Ph.D., a psychologist in New York City. If that's not the case, keeping track of every penny can feel stifling, especially if one person is more gung ho about this approach than the other. "Both of you have to be on the exact same page for this to work," Benson says. "If one person feels like she's dealing with the shopping police, it can lead to lying about spending."
What to Tell—and What to Keep Private
Not so excited about instituting a share-all, no-secrets-whatsoever policy? There's a second way to foster openness without laying everything on the table. Instead of itemizing your weekly expenditures, you and your partner agree on how much money each of you can spend every month without having to account for it. "People deserve some privacy and autonomy with money, as with other parts of the relationship," Clayman says. "The key is that you agree on how far that autonomy goes. To reach that kind of agreement, you need to look at your budget together and say, 'After we cover our main expenses and contribute to our savings accounts, each of us has X amount of money we can spend without having to justify it.' " Translation: If both of you keep to the agreed-upon parameters, a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy can be A-OK.
The payoff for all this financial frankness goes beyond a more robust bottom line. (Ahem—you may discover that when you're not seething at your guy, you're more apt to want to have s*x with him!) "I felt worse and worse about hiding my spending from the person I loved," Caroline says. "When my husband comes home, I don't want to think, OMG, I've got to stash the Zappos boxes! I want to think, Yay! I'm so glad he's here."
Why We Lie or Keep Mum
35% say: I lie when my husband and I disagree over what's worth spending money on.
34% say: I earn part of our money, so I deserve to be able to spend it, no questions asked.
23% say: I pay the bills, so I don't see a need to clue in my husband.
19% say: My husband gets angry about anything I spend, so I just keep quiet.
17% say: I like splurging on our kids, but my husband disapproves.
What to Say to a "Cheating" Spouse
Picture this: Your husband comes home one day with a surprise—a brand-new, top-of-the-line luxury car. It's a beauty, but your current car has only 20,000 miles on it. What to do: Wait until you're not hyperventilating with crazed, heartpounding fury, then ask him to make a date to discuss the issue, Benson says. The point is to clarify your mutual money values and start talking.
A sample convo…
You: "That's some car, honey!" (An open-ended statement will encourage him to talk.)
Him: "I know! I've always wanted a Beemer, and the dealership was having a crazy sale. You'll love it."
You: "I'm sure I will, but I thought we were saving for a big vacation this year. I'm open to making changes in our plan, but let's discuss them first." (Frame the issue at hand as an "us" problem. That way, he'll see you as caring, not a killjoy.)
Him: "I knew if I did, you'd put the kibosh on it!"
You: "Well, I might have. But that's because I worry that more car payments are going to increase our money stress. I think before either of us makes another big purchase, we need to sit down and see how it fits into our budget." (Explain your feelings without being accusatory.)
Him: "You're right. Next time, we'll talk first. Which reminds me, Best Buy is offering 15 percent off high-definition flat-screen TVs and…"
You: "Uh-huh. Nice try. You know what's also on sale? Cute spring dresses at Bloomingdale's."


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James Franco doesn't feel pressured knowing that his upcoming film "Oz: The Great and Powerful" -- opening March 8 -- will be compared to the 1939 Judy Garland classic "The Wizard of Oz."
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"This movie was very closely based on the first L. Frank Baum book, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' In a sense, it's a prequel to the Baum story rather than the Judy Garland movie," explained Franco, who plays Oscar Diggs, the future Wizard of Oz.
"Tonally, structurally, it's very different. ... This is not a musical. It has a lot of different characters.
"As an actor, I didn't feel too much pressure playing this role because Oz in the 1939 film is an older man. I'm playing a younger version, so there's no precedent for a younger Oz that I'm really competing with. ... "This side of him has never been seen before. I felt a certain amount of freedom."
That's not to say he didn't feel any pressure.
"Yes, sure, there's pressure because there's so much love for that movie -- it's an undeniable classic," he said. "For America, it's one of our great movies."
"Oz" -- which co-stars Oscar nominee Michelle Williams, who played Marilyn Monroe in last year's "My Week With Marilyn," Oscar winner Rachel Weisz ("The Constant Gardener"), and Golden Globe nominee Mila Kunis ("Black Swan") -- was filmed for six months in Pontiac last year. During that time, Franco resided in Royal Oak.
"I found Royal Oak to be very charming. There was a lot going on," he said. "We were there for six months, so we made it home. These new stages we used for filming the movie were fantastic -- they were state-of-the-art, huge, and I've really never seen anything like it. It was a good working experience, a good living experience."
"Oz" marks Franco's fourth collaboration with director Sam Raimi, a Royal Oak native and Wylie Groves High School graduate. They collaborated on three "Spider-Man" films, in which Franco played Harry Osborn.
"Our working relationship is one that's incredibly enjoyable," said the California native. "His shoots are very long. But he makes up for that extensive shooting schedule by being very easy to work with.
"He's always on in a comedian sense when he's working -- he likes people to have fun when they work. It's a lesson I've really taken with me when I direct my own little movies -- to really keep people's spirits up."
Raimi believed Franco was the best choice for the lead role.
"Any actor can effectively portray the selfish qualities of their character, something that exists inside Oz,"� Raimi said.
"Strip that away and you can find who they really are inside. For this role, I don't think it would have worked as well with an actor who is selfish inside. When the camera gets in close, you can't fake it. And James, despite his great humor and good looks and great ability, really has a good heart and soul."
Franco got his start working for another Royal Oak native -- writer/director Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids") -- in TV's high school dramedy "Freaks and Geeks," which lasted only one season, but has a cult following.
"There are a lot of high school shows, but this one decided to take a look at characters that aren't normally featured on those shows," Franco said. "I suppose a lot of the appeal is the characters are awkward, they're really figuring things out -- that's usually how I imagine most people feel in high school. You'd think a show like that would succeed if you had really beautiful people. I think it works because it is the awkward people, it does feature the underdogs, and I think people can relate to that more."
Franco won a Golden Globe for 2001's "James Dean," playing the legendary actor. He has had other notable roles in "Milk," "Pineapple Express," "Date Night," and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
He was nominated for an Oscar for 2010's "127 Hours," the story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who was forced to amputate his right hand with a pocket knife to free himself from a boulder in 2003. Danny Boyle directed it.
"Danny Boyle is probably the most innovative director working in commercial film today," Franco said. "To be on that adventure with him was a once-in-a-lifetime experience -- not only because I got to work with him at the height of his powers, but because it was such an unusually structured movie. I really don't think I'll have that kind of experience as an actor again. Aron helped quite a bit on the pre-production of the film. He met with Danny and I extensively while we were preparing to shoot. He basically just acted out everything he went through in that canyon."
Franco chooses roles for the personalities involved.
"The reasons vary," he said. "Usually, I'm interested in collaboration, so that means that I look for collaborators I respect and love. ... There's no master plan for my choices, other than I do what I'm interested in and I work with people I respect."


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Nypro is the world's leading injection molder of precision plastic parts, operating a global network of 21 plants. Nypro's strategy is for each plant to offer identical capabilities, because its customers are global companies with worldwide sourcing needs. The case describes the way Nypro manages product and process innovation across the global plant network.
Innovation; International operations; Manufacturing policy; Manufacturing strategy; Process innovation; Technological change
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GHOST SWAMP: The skeletons of dead cypress trees are all that remain of what once was a thriving freshwater wetland near Dulac, Louisiana.
SPEEDING ACROSS the seemingly endless marsh of south Louisiana's Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, an airboat flushes flock after flock of great and snowy egrets, the birds flashing bright white against the dark cordgrass that had sheltered them. Startled by the noisy contraption, dozens of great blue, little blue and green herons also take flight. Farther away, along a quiet canal, willets, stilts, coots and spoonbills probe the muddy banks for crabs and other crustaceans, as huge metallic blue dragonflies swirl above their heads.
The scene is spectacular, yet refuge biologist Tom Hess points out that this month, September, is a slow one at Rockefeller. "You come back here in October or November," says Hess, "and thousands and thousands of birds will just boil out of the marsh."
Strategically located at the southern tip of the continent's vast Mississippi Flyway, the 86,000-acre, state-managed Rockefeller refuge is truly a haven for birds, providing winter habitat for hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowl alone. Refuge marshes also house major seabird and shorebird colonies. And each spring, Rockefeller's wetlands and other ecosystems are critical to the survival of waves of hungry and exhausted Neotropical migrants--warblers, tanagers, grosbeaks and other colorful songbirds--that have just crossed the Gulf of Mexico as they head north to summer breeding grounds.
But critical as these habitats are--and healthy as they look to a casual visitor--all is not well at the refuge. A short walk from where Hess parks his airboat on the beach, he points to waves lapping against a waist-high mound of dark soil topped by a tuft of dead grass: former marsh that's been drowned by the sea. "Each year," says Hess, "we're losing between 35 and 40 feet of our shoreline." According to biologist and refuge manager Guthrie Perry, erosion has robbed Rockefeller of more than 3,000 acres of prime wildlife habitat since he arrived three decades ago.
Changeable coasts are, of course, a part of nature, and shoreline erosion is a well-recognized concern nationwide. But here in Louisiana, the situation at Rockefeller offers a glimpse of a massive coastal erosion problem that's far more severe than anywhere else in the country. Since the 1930s, the state has lost more than a million acres of the wetlands that make up the lion's share of its coast, the equivalent of a football field of marsh or swamp every half hour. Recent computer analyses predict that nearly 640,000 additional acres--an area the size of Rhode Island--will disappear by 2050. After decades of indecision and bickering over what to do to avert the crisis, state and local leaders recently agreed on an ambitious blueprint for coastal survival. Yet whether they can generate the political will and funding to implement the plan remains uncertain.
TATTERED: A healthy marsh in Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge looks little like one torn apart by oil, gas and navigation channels. Along with levees, draining and development, these channels are major culprits in wetlands loss. Among the victims are wading birds such as the great egret (above). Migratory waterfowl and songbirds also depend on Louisiana's marshes.
If it succeeds, the strategy could set an important precedent for others battling wetlands loss worldwide. But if it fails, the damage also would reach far beyond the state's borders. Home to a quarter of all wetlands in the lower 48 states--including 40 percent of all salt marshes--Louisiana's rapidly vanishing coastline is a national treasure. Its wetlands provide winter habitat to millions of migratory waterfowl--70 percent of the ducks and geese that use the Central and Mississippi Flyways. By weight, coastal Louisiana contributes nearly a third of the commercial fish and shellfish harvested in the lower 48 states, as well as 18 percent of the oil and 24 percent of the natural gas produced nationwide.
Some two million people also call coastal Louisiana home. Take away the wetlands, and this unique, culturally diverse mix of Americans loses its primary means of support and its only buffer against the devastating hurricanes and other storms that routinely pummel the region. (Every four miles of wetlands can absorb enough water to knock down the height of a storm surge by one foot.) In the words of Mark Davis, executive director of the Baton Rouge-based Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, "To us, it's not just a question of whether wetlands survive. It's a question of whether we as a community and a culture survive."
The Mississippi River created Louisiana's wetlands gradually over many thousands of years. Throughout this period, the Big Muddy, which drains water from 31 states, would overflow its banks each spring and deposit tons of the sediment and nutrients needed to build marsh. Forever seeking an easier route to the Gulf of Mexico, the river also tended to change course every thousand years or so, beginning the marsh-building process anew along another stretch of the state's 200-mile coast.
Because Louisiana's heavy, waterlogged soils eventually begin to sink under their own weight--a process called subsidence--some of the state's wetland loss might be considered natural. Yet before colonists arrived in the region, the river rebuilt most of these lost marshes.
A mighty river that routinely floods and unpredictably changes course is hardly compatible with permanent homes, farms and industries, however. Since the early 1800s, local residents have been trying to reign in the river by lining its banks with levees. Today's massive network of levees, constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and considered one of the world's great engineering feats, has indeed protected New Orleans and other communities from flooding, at least in the short term. But by preventing the deposition of sediment and nutrients once provided by spring floods, the levees also are starving the region's wetlands.
Compounding the problem, a labyrinth of canals, dug largely to exploit and export petroleum reserves, crisscrosses huge swaths of south Louisiana. By providing seawater easy access to inland marshes, these canals have killed vast amounts of salt-intolerant vegetation. Dead and dying plants in turn provide a weak storm buffer, giving waves an opportunity to wash away the soil.
GREEN REFUGE: Just south of Breaux Bridge, Lake Martin is Louisiana's largest nesting area for wading birds.
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Among the most destructive canal projects is the 70-mile-long Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, known locally as Mr. Go, dredged by the Corps to provide a shortcut for ships heading down the Mississippi to the Gulf. Constructed in the 1960s, the outlet is so shallow that it quickly grew obsolete as ships got bigger; now an average of just 1.3 ships pass through it daily.
But even underused, Mr. Go wreaks havoc, spawning so much erosion that its width has expanded from 500 feet three decades ago to 2,000 feet today. Without the marshes that have succumbed to erosion, even the Corps fears the levees lining Mr. Go are inadequate to protect surrounding communities from big storms. Says Pete Savoye, president of the St. Bernard Sportsmen's League and a tireless crusader against the outlet: "We're living in a bowl. If the levees break, we'll drown like rats in a bucket of water."
Together, levees, canals and subsidence, along with draining and development, continue to take a tremendous toll. Coastal scientists estimate that Louisiana loses between 25 and 30 square miles of marsh and swamp a year, 80 percent of total annual wetlands loss nationwide.
While the problem has been recognized-- at least locally--for decades, solutions until now have been small, fragmented and ineffective. Passed by Congress in 1990, the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) did provide some relief: up to $50 million annually over the following decade. Yet the scale of projects funded under the act remained inadequate to solve the problem.
Then in 1998, "Mother Nature gave us a wake-up call," says Davis. That September, Tropical Storm Frances dumped so much water on the greater New Orleans area that several major highways flooded and remained underwater for two weeks. Before long, Hurricane Georges also was swirling across the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to barrel right into the Big Easy. Although Georges weakened and changed course at the last moment, the experience terrified residents whose only evacuation routes were flooded.
Soon after this close call, representatives of national, state and local government agencies--including all 20 of Louisiana's coastal parishes--collaborated with scientists, environmentalists, business leaders and landowners to produce Coast 2050, touted as "a strategic plan for the survival of Louisiana's coast." According to Davis, whose organization helped draft the document, Coast 2050 is indeed different from efforts that came before it because it is broad, ambitious, integrated and, perhaps most important, the product of consensus. "This plan finally moves beyond hand-wringing to solutions," says Davis.
Those solutions, while certain to be challenging in their execution, are all simple in theory: Mimic the natural forces that originally created the wetlands--and harness their power if possible--to repair the damage humankind has done. Coast 2050's specific strategies include rebuilding barrier islands and opening holes in levees at strategic locations to allow fresh water, sediment and nutrients to replenish marsh on the other side.
Already, a handful of projects demonstrate that such strategies can work. Not far from the devastation wrought by Mr. Go, for example, what looks like ordinary marsh generates excitement among the passengers of a small boat cruising a canal in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans. "I'm pleasantly stunned," says parish historian William de Marigny Hyland, who last visited this spot in the 1980s when it was no more than a degraded remnant of wetland. Today the area's thriving, thanks to an experimental, CWPPRA-funded project called the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion, which carries Mississippi River water under levees and releases it into the marsh.
HOME SWEET HOME: In addition to avian denizens such as the common moorhen (above), alligators, frogs and crawfish abound in Louisiana's Lake Martin.
Photo: © NANCY CAMEL
Smiling, landowner Mike Benge nods. "I can tell the project's working," he says. "There's land where there used to be water, the marsh is firmer under foot, and alligators are abundant." According to Davis, the $26.1 million project proves that "it's possible to engineer our way out of an engineering disaster."
Still, many formidable challenges remain. One problem is that certain coastal residents have benefitted, in the short term, from increased salinity and retreating marshland. There are oyster and shrimp fishermen, for instance, "who have gotten used to being able to catch what they need in their backyards," says Benge. Without a long-term view recognizing that future shellfish harvests depend on wetlands to nurture larvae, some of them have opposed freshwater diversions such as Caernarvon--a problem compounded when the state continued to issue and renew oyster leases in areas targeted for restoration.
Yet the biggest barrier to implementing Coast 2050 is the blueprint's daunting price tag: about $14 billion. Advocates point out that Congress already has agreed to fund a similarly ambitious project to replumb the damaged Florida Everglades. Though the cost of restoring coastal Louisiana is estimated at twice that sum, NWF resource specialist David Conrad says "the cost of doing nothing would be much higher." If a big hurricane's storm surge broke through levees in and around New Orleans--a scenario many experts agree is likely--"the United States would face its most costly and perhaps worst natural disaster in history," he adds.
The good news is that if policymakers do act quickly and decisively, they'll have a substantial amount of wetlands to save. Despite centuries of loss, about 3,800 square miles of marsh and 800 square miles of swamp remain. According to Randy Lanctot, executive director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, an NWF affiliate that's fighting to save the coast, the state's wetlands encompass "an ecosystem so vast that it's hard for most people to comprehend." One boat ride across Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, which houses less than half a percent of those wetlands, is enough to drive his point home.
Greening the Corps
No federal agency has a bigger impact on the nation's wetlands, rivers and coastlines than does the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Since 1779, Corps projects have included 8,500 miles of levees and flood walls, more than 500 flood-control dams and 11,000 miles of inland navigation channels (above). Many of these hugely expensive projects yield questionable economic benefits at the same time they devastate wildlife habitat. In Troubled Waters: Congress, the Corps of Engineers and Wasteful Water Projects, the National Wildlife Federation and Taxpayers for Common Sense have identified 25 of the most wasteful and harmful works. Hoping to convince the Corps that it can change course and become a force for environmental restoration, NWF, through its Greening the Corps campaign, tries to steer the agency toward projects that help both people and wildlife and supports Corps reform legislation in Congress.
Laura Tangley is a senior editor for this magazine.


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Hispanic Business Lists AT&T Among Top Three Companies for Diversity for Fifth Time
Dallas, Texas, August 31, 2012
Hispanic Business Inc. has listed AT&T* among the top three in its 2012 list of the best companies for diversity. With a No. 3 ranking, this marks the fifth year AT&T earns a top-three spot.
Each year, Hispanic Business ranks the effectiveness of U.S. companies' efforts in diversity recruitment, retention and promotion, marketing and commercial outreach, supplier diversity, and in attracting Hispanics to the boardroom.
In this year's announcement, Hispanic Business recognized AT&T's exemplary diversity record, particularly in marketing, community outreach and supplier diversity.
"We appreciate Hispanic Business' continued recognition of our efforts to embed diversity and inclusion into everything we do," said Debbie Storey, AT&T's senior vice president for Talent Development and Chief Diversity Officer. "As a company that delivers game-changing innovation to an increasingly mobile and diverse global population, we'll maintain our leadership position by continually anticipating and addressing the diverse needs of our customers, employees, suppliers, and communities."
At AT&T, people of color represent 39 percent of the workforce. Latinos represent 12 percent of the total workforce and comprise 16 percent of all new hires.
AT&T sponsors 11 employee resource groups reflecting the company's diverse workforce. The Hispanic/Latino Employee Association of AT&T (HACEMOS), with Carmen Nava, senior vice president of Customer Information Services, as one of its executive champions, is one of the most active internally and in the community. The group is heavily focused on helping Hispanic youth stay in school and pursue careers in technology. For 14 consecutive years, HACEMOS has held High Technology Day, giving thousands of high school students nationwide a view of career possibilities in technology fields.
AT&T set one of corporate America's most aggressive supplier diversity goals—to reach 21.5 percent of total spend with certified diverse businesses by 2012. In 2011, AT&T spent $12 billion with diverse suppliers, surpassing its corporate goal a year ahead of schedule by hitting 23 percent.
On the community side, earlier this year AT&T announced an additional investment in education through its AT&T Aspire initiative. Aspire is AT&T's $350 million commitment to education, with a focus on helping more students graduate from high school ready for careers and college, and to ensure the country is better prepared to meet global competition. Hispanic high school students represent a significant focus for AT&T Aspire funding.
AT&T diversity and inclusion practices have been recognized by numerous organizations and publications including the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR), which gave AT&T its highest score on the 2011 Corporate Inclusion Index; DiversityInc, which ranked AT&T No. 5 on the Top 10 Companies for Latinos list in 2011; the National Minority Supplier Development Council, which named AT&T 2010 Corporation of the year; and the National Association for Female Executives, which recognized AT&T as a Top 50 company for female executives in 2012.For employment opportunities please visit www.att.com/jobs.


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I don't throw these discs anymore and they're just sitting around collecting dust. None of these discs are thrashed. Some have just been used a lot and are in good shape. There's still lots of life in all of these discs. I'll do a rating system of 1)being new or slighty used through 5) being the most used.
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NONE of these discs have my name or any others name on them. The only ink on them is the weight of the disc.
150 orange DX Leopard (1 1/2) only field thrown
148 orange DX Valkyrie (1 1/2) field thrown
149 yellow DX Shark (2)
172 orange DX Shark (2)
150 orange JK Gummy Champion Valkyrie (3) some scratches on the top
171 orange Champion Banshee (4)
174 orangish/brown tye dyed "JESUS" Champion Banshee (3)
165 glow/white X xClone (3) it has a Discraft factory misprint stamp on the bottom but I see nothing visually wrong w/ the disc.
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172 orangish/red small stamp Z Flash (4)
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Topic: DIA FISH Early Diagnosis
Hello, my husband, was diagnosed at Mayo in October. We have begun the protocol and now are planning the staging surgery and liver transplant. My question to many of you was how you were all diagnosed. My husband had PSC, did many of you have PSC? Also, my husband was diagnosed via FISH and DIA with no visible tumor, no positive cytology and a normal CA 19-9. Other than some random cholangitis he has been pretty asymptomatic. Had he not had that routine ERCP at that particular center (who uses FISH DIA) he never would have known. I am just curious if anyone else had a similar diagnosis.


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One of the most practical trends I am seeing in the promotional products market is "American Utility." My definition of American Utility is a product that is stylish, yet functional. The item can have a rustic or rugged feel to it. Heavier weighted fabrics, like canvas are prevalent, and are used to make backpacks, uniforms, and outdoor gear. Hardware is a major element to this trend; tool kits, knives, flashlights and various accessories are big on functionality. Key colors include khaki, grey, black, olive green, navy and orange. Camouflage and denim are also important.
On a marketing note, who would not want to give a product that isn't functional? Chances are the end user will think of you every time they reach for that multi-tool or Chillin Can Camo dispenser!
Here are some of my favorite American Utility discoveries.
Heritage Supply Duffel Bag– Check out the buffalo plaid lining!
Men's and Ladies Straight Collar Chambray Shirts. Love the darker wash!
Fred & Friends i Pound Stylus– SO hilarious, but useful!
Alternative Apparel Eco Jersey Hoodie in Camo/True Orange- So hip!
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The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) once again picked Sebring as the site for the opening race of its busy SPEED World Challenge GT season. The one-hour event runs late Friday afternoon, the day before the annual 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race. This year, nine Corvettes-including the race's top three qualifiers-filled the 30-car starting field.
Pole position was captured by Doug Peterson, who drove the No. 87 LG Motorsports C6 to a time of 2:07.679. SPEED GT newcomer Eric Curran was second fastest, wheeling the No. 30 Whelen-sponsored C6 to a 2:07.744. How's that for close?
Incredibly, Curran nearly missed the start altogether due to a practice fire that broke out earlier in the week. By pulling an all-nighter, Curran's crew managed to get the car back in competitive shape by the time the green flag fell.
Heavy rains soaked the speedway from noon Friday until 4 p.m., prompting the SCCA to delay the start for one hour to allow the track to dry. When the field finally took the green flag in a plume of spray, the first car to peek out of the mist was Curran's Vette, followed closely by pole-setter Peterson. Curran is no stranger to high-horsepower GT cars. During the 2000 season, he drove Reed Knight's C5 SpeedVision Corvette to many top-five finishes. He is an exceptional driver, especially in wet conditions.
We weren't surprised, then, to see Curran build a six-second lead by the end of the first lap. The rest of the field was bunched closely together, far behind the flying No. 30 Whelen Corvette. LG Motorsports paterfamilias Lou Gigliotti passed understudy Peterson on the first lap and held second for four laps before withdrawing with mechanical problems.
With Gigliotti out, Speed GT veteran Andy Pilgrim took over second in his No. 8 CTS-V Cadillac. He held this position for seven laps until a caution was waved on Lap Nine to allow for the removal of Brian Kubinski's broken C6 Corvette. This caution erased Curran's substantial 16.8-second lead.
At the restart, fellow Caddy driver Lawson Aschenbach passed Pilgrim to take over second place. Soon after, Pilgrim experienced transmission problems and began to fall steadily back from the leaders. Aschenbach, the reigning SPEED GT series champion, tried every trick in the book to close on Curran, but try as he might, he couldn't shrink the one-and-a-half second gap separating them.
As these two fought for the checkered flag, Tomy Drissi was making a name for himself in his own LG-backed C6. Drissi, a former Trans-Am Jaguar driver, started 10th in his Corvette, which wore paintwork promoting the Nicolas Cage film "Next." Driving cleanly, Drissi showed his enormous driving skill by passing car after car until he moved into third place.
When the checkered flag fell, the finishing order was Curran, Aschenbach, and Drissi. In victory circle, a happy Curran announced he would be driving for the Whelen team for the entire 2007 SPEED GT season. Curran told the crowd, "I wanted this win and wanted it for Whelen Engineering. Earlier in the week, I was bailing out of the car as flames were coming out from under the hood. The Whelen Engineering team worked so hard to get it back to where it was before."
We hope the SCCA's dreaded "performance adjustment" doesn't hurt the Corvettes' performance too badly in future races. As Eric Curran and Tomy Drissi showed at Sebring, there looks to be little else capable of standing in their way.


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Darden Restaurants: Are Activists Expecting Too Much?
Shares of once-staid Darden Restaurants (DRI) have become increasingly volatile as fundamentals suffer and activist investors treat the company as their play thing.
Darden's shares, for instance, rose 6.4% yesterday after an activist investor announced a position in the stock, after dropping 3.6% last Thursday when it released disappointing earnings and said it would spin off Red Lobster.
Wunderlich Securities' Robert Derrington thinks activist investors might be dreaming if they expect a big pop in the share price:
Activists Barrington Capital (2.8%) and Starboard Value (5.6%) have taken positions in DRI and argue that management's plan doesn't go far enough to improve shareholder value. Both argue to establish a public REIT to hold its restaurant properties, though vary in separating growth-oriented businesses from mature concepts. Barrington argues DRI could be worth $71-$80/share thru separating its mature, growth and real estate assets; a valuation we suspect may not be supported by declining revenue (SSS) stream.
Darden's shares dropped 0.6% to $54.01 today, even as McDonald's (MCD) gained 0.3% to $96.54, Yum! Brands (YUM) rose 0.2% to $74.10 and Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) advanced 0.4% to $533.11.


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The Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing new rules that would allow it to fund exceedingly wasteful rail transit projects that do nothing to relieve congestion. While the existing rules require transit agencies to demonstrate that proposed new rail lines are at least minimally cost effective, the proposed rules focus instead on such vague criteria as "livability" and "environmental justice."
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Should the Small Business Administration be Abolished?
That's the question being debated at the Wall Street Journal's website. Representing the pro-abolition position is Cato adjunct scholar Veronique de Rugy. Veronique and I wrote an essay for Downsizing Government that makes the case for terminating the Small Business Administration.
Reforming the Army Corps of Engineers
At Downsizing Government, we have published an essay on the Army Corps of Engineers.
What Policymakers Can Learn from Canada's Corporate Tax Cuts
President Obama and most members of Congress agree that the U.S. corporate tax rate should be cut. Thankfully, it is finally sinking in that having a 40 percent corporate tax rate when the world average is just 23 percent is suicide in a globalized economy.
CBO Perpetuates Small Business Administration Myth
A new brief from the Congressional Budget Office discusses the role of small businesses in the economy and how they're affected by federal policy. The CBO cites the Small Business Administration as one example of how federal policy favors small businesses over larger businesses:
Santorum's Tunnel and Federal Transportation Policy
If, like me, you're a Pennsylvanian who wants a smaller federal government, you've probably been scratching your head at Rick Santorum's success in the Republican primaries. An article in today's Washington Times on the former Pennsylvania senator's lack of popularity in the Keystone State is instructive.
Recalculating Romney's Four Percent Gimmick
My new piece at ForeignPolicy.com on Ron Paul and the Republican Party focuses on the strong support that Paul draws from young people, with some additional speculation about where those young people will end up, if and when Paul steps back from his very public role.
Corporate Welfare: A Bipartisan Love Story
I have previously discussed how multiple levels of government work together to provide businesses with taxpayer money (see here and here). And while Republican policymakers have enjoyed making political hay out of the Obama's administration's Solyndra problem, the truth is that both parties are willing partners in the corporate welfare racket.
Turning Taxpayer Money into Wine
Today's example of how the federal government has become too darn big is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Value-Added Marketing Grant program. This (relatively) little slice of corporate welfare will hand out approximately $56 million in taxpayer dollars this year to "producers of agricultural commodities" who can use the money "for planning activities and for working capital for marketing value-added agricultural products."
The Pentagon Budget: Myth vs. Reality
Over the past few weeks, a number of pernicious myths have popped up regarding the Pentagon's budget. Here I want to dispel these myths with an exhaustive, and exhausting, look at the details. The charts below, compiled with my colleague Charles Zakaib, should help.


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Bucs shuffle Alvarez to fifth for first time this season
PITTSBURGH - Facing a confrontation with Cincinnati left-hander Tony Cingrani, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle's search for an offensive pick-me-up led to Gaby Sanchez batting cleanup.
Pedro Alvarez, in the four-hole in each of his first 21 starts of the season, was dropped to No. 5.
"Just trying to help. Runs have been hard to come by," Hurdle said prior to the finale of the four-game series with the Reds. "I just want to find a way to get more guys into play. Gaby has shown up well against left-handed pitching, so we're trying to make the most of this opportunity."
The Bucs were facing a left-handed starter for only the second time this season. On the first occasion, Alvarez remained at cleanup against the Cubs' Travis Wood, going 0-for-3 against him. Later in that April 10 game, he struck a game-deciding three-run homer off another lefty, reliever James Russell.
So Cingrani's presence wasn't as responsible for lowering Alvarez in the batting order as the third baseman's overall struggles. He entered the game hitting .173, with three hits in his last 22 at-bats.
Alvarez is second in the National League with six homers, which have accounted for 10 of his 13 RBIs.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Phil Tingirides is a veteran cop who's been threatened and even shot at during his 32 years with the Los Angeles Police Department.
But the fear in his voice when he called his wife that day stopped her in her tracks. Emada Tingirides, an LAPD sergeant, pulled her car to the side of the road, thinking one of their children might have died.
Phil, an LAPD captain, got a call late on the afternoon of Feb. 6 telling him there was a serious threat against him and his family. He called their kids who were out and told them to get home. Police were on the way to their house.
For more than a week, the Tingirides family would live under the threat that they were being targeted by Christopher Dorner. Theirs was among about 50 families, mostly those of LAPD officers, protected around the clock until after Dorner was dead.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said he believed Phil Tingirides was "one of the primary targets" of the ex-officer's rampage. Tingirides was on the LAPD internal board that convicted Dorner of lying, which led to his 2009 firing, and he was threatened by name in Dorner's manifesto.
Addressing Tingirides and 11 other people, Dorner wrote, "Your lack of ethics and conspiring to wrong a just individual are over. Suppressing the truth will leave (sic) to deadly consequences for you and your family."
Beck said there was some evidence Dorner had visited houses of potential targets, though it's not certain which.
The Tingirideses volunteered to speak to reporters Tuesday to help the public understand the effect the threat had on officers and their families.
They also wanted to counter Dorner's allegations that the department is unchanged from the days of the Rodney King and Rampart scandals.
Phil, who joined the LAPD in 1980, said he's seen the department change vastly. He and his wife, a 17-year veteran, both work in South L.A., which has a large number of black residents. They said the LAPD has worked hard to develop better relationships with the public, especially minorities.
Unmentioned, but powerful in its quiet way, was the fact the Tingirideses are an interracial couple. Emada, 42, is black, and Phil, 54, is white. They said they didn't recognize the racist department Dorner described.
When Phil got the warning call from an Internal Affairs commander Feb. 6, his first thought was to put his wife, a police sergeant, on a helicopter.
"I don't do helicopters," Emada said with a laugh. The two met up at the South Bureau office just off the 110 Freeway and headed home to Irvine as fast as they could.
It was a long ride, filled with silence and their own thoughts. How did they tell their kids what was happening? How would they protect them?
The couple, who have been married almost two years, have six children from prior relationships, four his and two hers. They range in age from 10 to 24.
Two Irvine police cars were already parked in front of their house, and they were chatting with the officers when Phil got a call about dinnertime:
"We're rolling in hot."
Within minutes, seven marked LAPD cruisers zoomed down their street and stopped, officers piling out in tactical helmets and vests, carrying rifles.
"We're LAPD officers, and even for us, it looked impressive," Emada said.
The home would be a fortress for more than a week. Phil said the seriousness hit home when they found themselves explaining to their children what to do if they heard a certain sound or saw something in the night.
"I slept more than Emada, but it was not a good sleep," Phil said of the next week.
Emada would get up at 3 or 4 in the morning and see officers alert and "on point," as she put it. Their weapons were drawn. They were ready.
But ready for what? As police officers, Phil and Emada were used to being able to do something against a threat: call for a helicopter, set up a perimeter. Here, they didn't know where the threat was.
"There were literally days when we thought, `Is he down the street from our house? Is he across the street? Is he hiding by the kids' school?' " Emada said.
They weren't able to keep details about Dorner from their kids. They first tried explaining the security by telling their youngest daughter, who's 10, "There's a crazy man trying to do really bad things to a bunch of captains."
But the girl heard more from her friends through Instagram. Soon she asked:
Was the crazy man the one who'd already shot two people in Irvine? Then their son asked what "sniper" meant.
Phil and Emada stopped watching TV news and told their kids to deactivate their Facebook accounts. To pass the time, they played Xbox games and the board game Catch Phrase. They watched what seemed like every Adam Sandler movie in existence, purposely avoiding shoot- 'em-up flicks.
Phil spent a lot of time on the phone learning about Dorner. He heard about attacks in Corona and Riverside, the latter of which killed Riverside police Officer Michael Crain.
The family grew close to the LAPD officers keeping watch, leaving the doors unlocked so they could come in to use the bathroom. One day, Phil cooked up 14 pounds of carne asada, and they insisted the officers eat in shifts.
A department psychologist advised them to try to keep some sense of normalcy for the kids, so one went to a gymnastics event and another went to a baseball game - both times with police escorts.
Phil and Emada tried to be strong in front of their kids, so they went into the garage to cry. They were determined not to be prisoners in their home, and they started to prepare for this to last months, a year, two years.
On Feb. 12, someone called or texted Phil that they should turn on the news. For five hours the family watched TV as the standoff in the San Bernardino Mountains unfolded, including the death of another officer, San Bernardino County sheriff's Detective Jeremiah MacKay.
There was relief tempered with caution when Dorner appeared to be dead. By the next day, the security detail left their home, and life was returning to normal.
But the effects of the week under siege will linger for the Tingirides family and scores of other people.
"Yes, we're police officers," Beck said. "We all sign up for some degree of risk. Our families don't sign up for that. Our children don't sign up for that."