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Wild Turkeys! A Learning Kit was developed by James E. Cardoza and Marion E. Larson of MassWildlife as a teaching tool for conservation educators. Specifically, the kit is designed to teach about the wild turkey, but, additionally, materials are included which convey ideas and concepts about wildlife and their habitats in general.
The Learning Kit provides teachers with ideas and materials which can be used with students from grammar school through high school, as well as with adults. The Kit includes actual artifacts and biological specimens, audiovisual material (videotape, CD-ROM), reference materials, a series of questions-and-answers (FAQ's) and several exercises. Teachers may also develop their own lessons, using the material provided as well as the several references.
Funding for the Kit was provided by the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation , using monies from the Massachusetts account of the National Wild Turkey Federation SuperFund. This support is gratefully acknowledged.
Kits are available for loan free of charge to teachers, sportsmens' groups, and other interested parties. Seven Kits are available, which may be obtained from the Information and Education Section of MassWildlife's Field Headquarters in Westboro, MassWildlife's five District offices, and from the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation .
We hope that the Kit will enhance the understanding of wild turkeys and their habitats by both instructors and students. Particularly in Massachusetts, where it evokes the memory of Pilgrim times, the wild turkey is a symbol of wilderness and the forest primeval. By learning about wild turkeys, we can enhance our understanding, not only of that bird, but of our wild environment and our emotional and spiritual needs to understand, enjoy, and conserve our natural heritage.


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Physicians are strongly opposed to allowing advanced nurses more autonomy including the ability to prescribe, reports DoctorDirectory survey. Over 400 healthcare providers in the United States were eager to share their opinion.
Advanced practice nurses, or nurse practitioners, have taken an increasingly large role as primary care providers; this trend is expected to grow as demand increases as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). DoctorDirectory sought to uncover how physicians were reacting to the nurses' expanding roles.
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The negative responses far outweighed the positives. 50% of physicians strongly disagreed and another 16% somewhat disagreed that advanced nurses should be given more autonomy including the privilege to prescribe. Of the physicians opposed, 75% are strongly opposed as compared to those reporting being only somewhat opposed.
On the other hand, only 16% strongly agreed and 18% somewhat agreed that these healthcare professionals should be allowed to prescribe.
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Led by the don himself, the Bill Belichick mafia is slowly and surely taking over American football.
The master's team, the two-time defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, kicked things off Thursday with a 30-20 win over the Oakland Raiders.
Two days later, Belichick's former top offensive assistant, Charlie Weis, showed the system apparently works well in college football as well.
The rookie head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish humiliated heavily favoured Michigan on the road, leading the golden domers to a convincing 17-10 win at the Big House.
Then on Sunday, another advocate of the book of Bill authored one of the biggest upsets of the NFL weekend when Nick Saban's Miami Dolphins slapped the Denver Broncos with a 34-10 home win.
Yes, coaches coach and players play, but don't discount the influence of the former on yet another wild Week 1 in the NFL.
Forget that the perennial losers of the sideline fraternity once again proved themselves unprepared -- raise your hands Mike Martz in St. Louis, Mike Tice in Minnesota and Herman Edwards with the New York Jets.
Instead, competent, attention-to-detail coaching once again prevailed on Sunday -- raise your hands Tampa Bay Bucs boss Jon Gruden, Kansas City Chiefs' Dick Vermeil and even you, Buffalo Bills' Mike Mularkey.
First to Saban, whose Dolphins dead-heated with the San Francisco 49ers win over the St. Louis Rams as the shock of the weekend. Throughout the pre-season, the rookie NFL head coach would have anyone interested enough to listen believe the Dolphins wouldn't have a hope in the NCAA let alone the NFL.
Yet the former coach of the LSU Tigers led the Fish, sans suspended running back Ricky Williams, to a frighteningly easy win over the heavily favoured Broncos.
Saban isn't shy to admit his relationship with Belichick helped prepare him for the pros. Though the two worked together only briefly a decade ago when Belichick was head coach of the Cleveland Browns and Saban was a position coach, the two have remained confidants ever since.
So much so that they would swap strategies in their weekly conversations, trade talk that no doubt helped Saban's Tigers win the NCAA title two years ago and influenced Belichick leading the Patriots to wins in three of the past four Super Bowls.
"You name it, we've talked about it at some point in time," Saban said recently. "We have talked through the years about everything from team building to human behaviour to fire coverage to the best way to play cover two."
The two don't speak so intimately now, of course, considering they are coaching teams that are division rivals. In what is arguably the most competitive division in the NFL, suddenly the Dolphins are not the pushover they were expected to be.
Proving he is no fool Saban, who turned training camp into bootcamp, has mellowed. Following Sunday's home win, he issued 53 game balls for all of the Dolphins starters.
Players are no fools either. And when they trust their coaches, they are far more likely to trust themselves.
"The man has a plan," Dolphins linebacker Zack Thomas said of his new coach. "He knows exactly what he is doing. He has total confidence in his ability to make the right moves."
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If you're saying that, it's because you're either a wildly successful novelist or you've never tried to write anything longer than a grocery list. Trust me, writing a novel is more than adding a few verbs to that list. Writing a novel is a wrestling match with an idiot — one who happens to live in your head. And if you haven't met The Idiot in your head, then you've never tried to write a novel. The Idiot in your head is the heckler in the audience. She visits the art museum to point out the paintings she does not like. Everything disappoints The Idiot: Movies, people, meals, moments and — most of all — you. You suck. And so does your novel.


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Stopped by Callie's Cajun on the way home the other day and was extremely pleased with the food! She's on Old Las Vegas Hwy just off Old Pecos Trail, and has some terrific cajun food. After several great samples to introduce me to her food, I decided on Crawfish Pie, Shrimp Etoufe and Jambalaya. All three were great, as was the cornbread and coleslaw that came along with them.
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The 9.48pm train from London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill will be replaced by a bus west of Oxford both days.
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NATO says one international service member has been killed when a man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform fired at coalition troops working on a vehicle in northern Afghanistan.
A statement released by the alliance says coalition troops returned fire, critically injuring the shooter.
Friday's shooting, which is still being investigated, occurred on a coalition compound located in the Baghlan provincial capital of Pul-e-Khumri.
The nationality of the service member killed was not released. The majority of coalition troops stationed in the area are from Germany.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives in the eastern Afghan city of Khost Friday morning, killing at least eight people and injuring scores of others, police said.
Elsewhere in the east, more than 30 insurgents were killed in an overnight operation by NATO forces in Kunar province, a hotbed of the insurgency. Also, a NATO service member was killed Friday in an explosion in the south.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in Khost, which targeted a police station. Two policemen, a patrolman and an officer, were among the dead, said Abdul-Hakim Isaqzai, the police chief of Khost province, which borders Pakistan.
"It was very powerful, It shook Khost city," he said about the blast.
The explosion, in a crowded area of the city, damaged cars, houses and shops and sent a pillar of thick black smoke into the air.
"The blast was very large. It went off in the heart of the city near a police checkpoint," 35-year-old Noorullah of Khost told The Associated Press. "There is broken glass in the residential areas around the bombing, Even people in their houses were injured by broken glass."
Noorullah, who uses one name, said city residents were expressing fear and disappointment about the continuing violence.
"Continually we are facing this disaster," he said, adding that he has little faith in the ability of the Afghan government's peace council to reconcile with insurgents. "The government officials in Khost province - they are so scared. They cannot leave their offices, their compounds, to go out to talk to the people."
President Hamid Karzai's office condemned the attack.
Amir Pacha, director of hospitals in the province, said at least 30 other people, mostly civilians, were wounded in the blast.
In December 2009, a suicide bomber, who was a double agent, killed seven CIA employees at a U.S. intelligence base in Khost.
Farther north along the Afghan-Pakistan border, pro-government security forces on Thursday captured a leader of Hizb-i-Islami, a militant group made up of loyalists of regional warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the coalition said. A suspected insurgent also was captured and a local resident who threatened security forces was killed in the operation in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, NATO added.
The insurgent leader, who was captured, led a group of insurgents responsible for bomb attacks against coalition and Afghan forces and provided food and shelter to five fighters traveling from Pakistan, NATO said. Weapons, a roadside bomb and narcotics were confiscated at the site.
Even farther north, coalition troops patrolling from the air spotted a group of what they identified to be armed insurgents and fired on them in Ghazi Abad district of Kunar province, kicking off a more than four-hour battle late Thursday that left more than 30 insurgents dead.
The coalition after they opened fire, a large number of armed individuals emerged from a nearby building and they also were targeted and killed.
In southern Afghanistan, a coalition service member died Friday in a roadside bombing, NATO said. The coalition did not disclose any other details about the death, which brings to 17 the number of coalition troops who have died in Afghanistan so far this month.


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Effective Date: 08/01/2009, Docket: RP09-723-000, Status: Effective
Second Revised Sheet No. 503 Second Revised Sheet No. 503
Superseding: First Revised Sheet No. 503
Kern River Firm Transportation Services
1.1 "Authorized Overrun Rate" shall mean a unit rate per Dth stated in
Exhibit C to the Transportation Service Agreement for Authorized Overrun
1.2 "Authorized Overrun Service" shall mean a service in addition to Firm
Service as set forth in Section 2.2.2 herein.
1.3 "Billing Month" shall mean that Month of service hereunder which
immediately precedes the Month in which Transporter is obligated to
render a bill for such service.
1.4 "Btu": "Standardize the reporting basis for Btu as 14.73 psia and 60
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Volunteers are needed to assist with meal and comfort-tote deliveries, hairdressing and to visit with patients, in the patients' or caregivers' homes, Niagara Hospice House in Lockport and at long-term care facilities. Other volunteer opportunities include helping with community outreach, clerical tasks and fundraising efforts of Niagara Hospice Alliance.
Veterans also are needed to volunteer for "We Honor Veterans," an initiative of Hospice and WNY Veterans Administration.
Tricia Degan, director of marketing and public relations, said, "Our hospice patients who are veterans often don't talk about their service, but we have found that when we pair them up with a volunteer who is also a veteran, a special camaraderie is shared and patients find comfort and even relief being able to talk about their experience in the service with another veteran."
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Two 14-year-old boys have been charged with killing a student who attended Wylie East High School.
The body of Nahum Martinez was found in the 600 block of Linden Avenue in Wylie just before six Saturday morning.
"He didn't do anything to deserve being dead," Martinez's friend Baylie Etchieson said.
Martinez, 15, spent most of his mornings doing what he loves, running.
"I would see him running every morning with the track kids, and you could tell that he had a heart for track," friend Jason Etchieson said. "He loved it."
However, early Saturday morning, he was found dead on the street. Police said he was shot to death. The news sent a chill through the quiet North Texas neighborhood.
"It was shocking, you know. To come outside first thing in the morning and see a dead body in the street and not know what was going on," Wylie resident Matt Waycaster said.
Investigators searched the neighborhood and found the gun that was used to kill Martinez in a field nearby.
More evidence led to a home on Oxford Drive, where police said Martinez was last seen alive. Two 14-year-old boys that were also at this home were arrested and charged with murder.
Police have not released the names of the 14-year-old suspects because of their age.
"It's crazy. We all go to the same school. It doesn't feel right," East Wylie High School student Quincy Riley said.
"This is our second homicide in 2012 and it's, it's terrible no matter how large a community is or small," said Venece Perepiczka, with the Wylie Police Department.
For now, friends and family are left piecing together what happened.
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The Michigan Department of Treasury has extended the deadline for disregarded entities to file a separate Michigan Business Tax (MBT) Return or as part of a unitary group MBT return until July 1, 2012. The last extended due date was December 31, 2011 (see previous post).
Apparently, the Department is waiting for a legislative fix that will remove this filing requirement for disregarded entities. The legislative delay appears to have motivated the Department to simply keep moving the deadline. The first deadline was June 30, 2011. It was then extended to October 31, 2011, and then December 31, 2011.
According to the NOTICE, a person that is a disregarded entity for federal tax purposes, including a single member limited liability company or QSub, must file a separate return under the MBT or file as a member of a unitary business group if the requirements of MCL 208.1117(6) are satisfied. This requirement applies to all open tax periods under the MBT. A person disregarded for federal tax purposes that filed as a sole proprietor, branch, or division of its owner for MBT purposes (a "previously disregarded entity") is considered a non-filer for statute of limitations purposes under MCL 205.27a.
A person that previously filed an MBT return that included one or more previously disregarded entities, including a unitary business group, must amend its returns for all open periods, even if the amended returns do not result in a different tax liability.
A person required to file a return, or amend a return for a prior period, under this Notice must do so by July 1, 2012.
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MELBOURNE - Rafael Nadal, Robin Soderling and Andy Murray were among the third-round winners Saturday at the 2011 Australian Open.
The top-seeded Nadal continued his march toward a fourth straight Grand Slam title by taking out the last remaining Australian in the draw, 18-year-old Bernard Tomic, 6-2, 7-5, 6-3, in the final match of the night at Laver Arena. Soderling, the fourth seed, blew past Jan Hernych of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4, and the fifth-seeded Murray also had little trouble in a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 rout of Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.
Other seeded winners included Spain's David Ferrer and Austrian veteran Jurgen Melzer, while there were a couple of upsets. Canada's Milos Raonic took out 10th-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia and Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov eliminated France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, this year's 13th seed and the 2008 Aussie Open runner-up.
Nadal, the 2009 Australian Open champ, has not dropped a set in his first three matches, but had a little hiccup in the second set on Saturday. Tomic, after dropping the first set in 44 minutes, raced out to a 4-0 lead in the second set.
The world's top-ranked player, however, regrouped by winning the next four games. He broke for a 6-5 lead and quickly held serve in the next game to close out the set. Another break of serve to start the third sent Nadal on his way to a 24th straight Grand Slam match win and a fourth-round matchup with Marin Cilic of Croatia.
"I started the match playing well, but [Tomic] is this kind of player, he makes you play bad," said Nadal after the match. "It's very difficult to move him from the baseline. At the end of the match, I think I did something better, I was going to the net more times."
Cilic, the 15th seed, advanced with a five-set thriller against American John Isner, coming back to post a 4-6, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-2), 9-7 victory. A semifinalist last year in Melbourne, Cilic needed four hours and 33 minutes to sneak past the big-serving Isner, who fired up 26 aces on Saturday.
"I expected him to serve big, but not that big," Cilic said. "At some moments, I felt that it was really difficult to get a rhythm on his serve. At the end of the match, I just tried to stay in, started to serve much better, and felt easier with my game. I got a little lucky in this last game to win the match."
Soderling has yet to go beyond three sets thus far and is into the fourth round of the year's first Grand Slam for the first time in his blossoming career. The Swede has reached the final of the French Open each of the last two years and has been to the quarterfinals of every other Grand Slam, except Melbourne.
"Physically, I feel very good," Soderling said. "I haven't spent too many hours on court yet and I'm already in the fourth round, which is very good. So I think for me it's a little bit of an advantage."
Next up for Soderling will be Dolgopolov, who ousted a tiring Tsonga with a 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 triumph.
"I could see he was pretty tired," noted Dolgopolov. "His physical form is not probably the best now. I had to hold on and play consistent, try to make him more tired."
Murray needed a mere 82 minutes to advance on Saturday, taking advantage of 31 unforced errors from Garcia-Lopez. The Scot was last year's Aussie runner-up to Roger Federer and will next meet Melzer in the fourth round.
"I got off to a good start and played well from there," Murray said. "I mean, the first game, you know, doesn't always sort of dictate the way the match is going to go, but it definitely helped today."
Melzer, the 11th seed, was ahead of Marcos Baghdatis 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 6-1, 4-3 when the 2006 Australian Open runner-up retired because of a groin injury.
The seventh-seeded Ferrer cruised into the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 drubbing of Lithuania's Richard Berankis. He'll next take on Raonic in the fourth round, as the 152nd-ranked Canadian qualifier claimed a 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 win over Youzhny.
Fourth-round play begins Sunday with Federer, 2008 champ Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick among those scheduled for action.
Federer continues his quest for a fifth Australian Open crown and 17th Grand Slam title against Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo, while the third-seeded Djokovic squares off with 14th-seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro. Roddick, seeded eighth this year, takes on Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka. The other men's fourth-rounder pits a top-10 battle between Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic and Spain's Fernando Verdasco.


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Bankruptcy is a vile word to equity investors. It's the worst-case scenario because investors may get wiped out as companies pay back higher-priority creditors first.
During difficult economic times like these, bankruptcies skyrocket, making it even more important for investors to pick shares of companies with a solid financial footing.
But it's not easy to pick sick puppies, since net losses or massive debt loads by themselves may not have much bearing on a company's survival. To help address that, New York University professor Edward Altman developed a model known as the Altman Z-Score to determine the relative risk of a particular company filing for bankruptcy within two years.
The formula looks more like a regression equation than a straight financial ratio, with weightings being applied to the ratios used to predict potential insolvency. The track record for the model since its birth in 1968 has been impressive. While no model will be infallible due to the random events that affect the fate of companies, the Altman Z-Score's accuracy is as much as 90%.
The model can be stated as follows:
Where: W = Working Capital / Tangible Assets; R = Retained Earnings / Tangible Assets; E = EBIT / Tangible Assets; M = Market Value of Equity / Total Liabilities; and S = Sales / Tangible Assets. (Note: Total Assets can be used in place of Tangible Assets to simplify the calculation.)
The output from this formula will be a seemingly random number that only has value when applied against the following scale:
- Z is greater than 3.0: Safe Zone (little risk of bankruptcy).
- Z is from 1.8 to 3.0: Inconclusive "Gray" Zone (potential for bankruptcy heightened).
- Z is less than 1.8: Distress Zone (bankruptcy a strong possibility).
The scores produced by the formula are ordinal but non-linear, meaning that while a company that has a score of 4 is safer than a company with a 2, it's not twice as safe. It's also far more important to look at the progression of scores over several quarters since a one-time dip won't be nearly as troublesome as a streak of poor performance. Z-Scores are also impractical for financial companies since so much of the operations may be obscured in off-balance-sheet accounting schemes.
Applying the Z-Score to companies that are the picture of health and those that have been much maligned recently can help illustrate the model's output and the clear disparity between those companies that have a bright future and those that will have a tough road ahead.
Wal-Mart(WMT Quote) and Apple(AAPL Quote) are some of the clear winners, according to the Altman Z-Score. Wal-Mart gets a 4.79 and has stayed in a range of 4.5 to 5 for the past three years, indicating a stable financial situation. Apple is in a similar position, with a score of 4.67 and a history of 8-plus readings, leading to little reason to worry for shareholders.
The have-nots are far more varied. Rite-Aid(RAD Quote), a company that many see as teetering on the edge of solvency, has only recently fallen below 3 and currently has a score of 2.6, suggesting that while it is not a strong company, it's not in the danger zone quite yet.
Macy's(M Quote) has had similar concerns, yet it too falls in the gray zone. A score of 1.8, its first below 2.5 since 2006, is certainly on the low end of the range bordering trouble, but it doesn't suggest imminent danger.
A company that has more to worry about is Hertz(HTZ Quote). Its score of 0.5 is actually an improvement since it had spent all of 2008 in negative territory. Investors should be wary of the rental-car giant as the Z-Score is predicting bad things.
Sirius XM Radio(SIRI Quote) already nearly collapsed in February, saved by an investment from Liberty Media, which would have proved the Altman model correct as Sirius has had a negative Z-Score since 2006. Sirius currently has a shockingly bad Z-Score of minus 15.4, suggesting the Sirius Dog has left a steaming pile of trouble on the balance sheet.
While bankruptcy isn't a fait accompli, one thing that is certain is Sirius' legions of fans will spring to its defense with conspiracy theories and pledges of allegiance to "Mel," referring to Chief Executive Officer Mel Karmazin.
The Altman Z-Score has been a standard in financial analysis for more than 40 years. Consider using this measure in your analysis to help pick the wheat from the chaff.


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ATLANTA -- An imaging solution from VSoft Corp. that allows merchants to electronically capture and send checks for deposit has been added to Synergent's item processing services. The iMerchant Capture system allows businesses to use a low-speed scanner to capture images and securely transmit them over the Web to financial institutions regardless of location. Courier costs are eliminated and funds become available more quickly, according to Atlanta-based VSoft.
Synergent is based in Portland, Maine, and provides item processing, card, print and technology services to credit unions around the Northeast.
"Synergent has realized much success from VSoft's solutions in the past, which is why we decided to enhance our capabilities with the iMerchant Capture solution," said Hunter King, senior vice president of Synergent.
"We have significantly expanded our member base by eliminating geographic restraints for our member credit unions. Not only have we acquired new member credit unions, but we have also captured credit unions previously lost," King said.
VSoft's president, Murthy Veeraghanta, said, "By adding merchant capture capabilities, Synergent can deepen their relationships with credit unions and help them grow commercial business services."


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It was a glorious budget for housebuilders, an inevitable disappointment for infrastructure firms and a minor catastrophe for retailers.
In this period of extended mourning for HMV, shopkeepers were confident their long-standing complaints over business rates might finally be heard. A freeze was the hope; a cap at 2% was the expectation. Neither happened and so this year's 2.6% increase will proceed.
The chancellor's refusal to budge on business rates will remove the shine from many of his other measures, including the cut in the rate of corporation tax to 20% in 2015 and the new "employment allowance" that will reduce national insurance bills for small businesses.
Capping business rates at the target inflation rate of 2% would have cost £140m, the CBI calculated in its budget submission. In other words, very little in the context of the national insurance sweetener. In a budget full of helpful tweaks for business, a minor handout on rates was a strange omission.
Housebuilders, though, don't have to worry. The UK now has an interventionist mortgage policy to match its ultra-loose monetary policy. The Help to Buy scheme follows the FirstBuy and NewBuy schemes and is bigger than anything seen in the past.
The chancellor estimated it would fund £130bn of new mortgages over three years, equivalent to the current annual volume of mortgage lending. That's a very big scheme, assuming it takes off.
One half of the scheme is aimed at new-build homes and the other applies to all homes. From the point of view of housebuilders, the design of the former is perfect since they are not required to contribute to the shared equity loans. The government will instead lend 20% of the purchase price, on an interest-free basis for five years, to buyers able to find a 5% deposit. Housebuilders' share prices, naturally, flew– Barratt Developments was up 6%.
Yet the leg-up for homebuyers is odd in two ways. First, the best way to help first-time buyers would to concentrate resources solely on building new homes; and, given that home starts fell 11% last year, there's a clear need in that area. Second, a flood of cheap mortgages issued at high loan-to-value ratios risks creating another housing bubble.
That's tomorrow's problem, the government seems to have decided. In the meantime, it can enjoy quite a lot of bang for a small number of bucks since most mortgage guarantees will not show up as extra government debt.
Unlike mortgage guarantees, however, infrastructure spending requires up-front cash that could spoil the chancellor's borrowing forecasts. Thus his boost to infrastructure spending– £3bn a year from 2015-16 – is timid. The sum is the equivalent of about one quarter of a new nuclear power station. It's not a game changer and it will arrive – in theory, at last – once economic recovery has already started. Too little, too late, is the understandable complaint.
"The chancellor had over £11bn of under-spending in his arsenal and should have done more to fire growth now, particularly through accelerating investment in infrastructure," said Terry Scuoler, chief executive of EEF, the manufacturers' organisation.


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Madhur (meaning sweet as honey) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound by the Yamuna River in Delhi, where her grandfather often presided over dinners with 40 or more members of his extended family savoring together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were forever imprinted on Madhur's palate. Whether climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard, armed with a mixture of salt, pepper, ground red chilies, and roasted cumin, or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, the tastes and textures of those childhood pleasures bring back memories of growing up.
Independent-minded, sensitive, and ever curious, Madhur as a child explored the history of her family and was deeply affected by their personal trials. Despite obstacles that her schooling imposed and an insecure adolescence, she emerged well educated and gifted in the arts, ready to explore new territory as the world she had known crumbled around her. Climbing the Mango Trees is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food in our lives to evoke memory. Although by the time it ends, when Madhur leaves India, she had never cooked a meal, it was that longing to taste again the flavors of her childhood that drove her into the kitchen - to become eventually the internationally acclaimed food writer that she is today.
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"Jaffrey's graceful prose and sure powers of description paint a vivid landscape of an almost enchanted childhood. Her family and friends, the bittersweet sorrows of puberty, the sensual sounds and smells of the monsoon rain, all are remembered with love and care, but nowhere is her writing more evocative than when she details the food of her childhood, which she does often and at length." (Publishers Weekly)
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The poor sound of the recording. Way too low and muffled sounding.
the story itself
Only if it was recorded better.
I've never been moved to write about a poor recording before!
I just got this book after waiting for a few months and was quite thrilled to see familiar names and places mentioned. Being a distant family member, I am probably prejudiced but I think this book is a fascinating read, especially for someone brought up in Delhi. The book even has a family tree in the beginning, going back to the 1500s.
"An insubstantial book, poorly narrated"
After this book, I'd think long and hard about reading another book by Madhur Jaffery. I will definitely avoid books read by Sumeet Bharati.
The narrator routinely mispronounces both Indian and English words. Hearing her pronounce "agape" with three syllables was particularly jarring. She uses the same approximation of an Indian accent for all the spoken characters. Her delivery is robotic and inexpressive.
I think this book was written with a sequel in mind. It only covers her childhood. The problem is that there just isn't enough worthy material in this book. She should have written a memoir covering her whole life (to date) rather than trying to stretch it out over several books.
What a childhood! So different than mine. The beauty of it is captured so well. A total pleasure for the senses. If you want to know what it was like growing up in a middle class family in India 1930's until after all Partition changes - do read this!
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A gauge of economic activity among Minnesota's manufacturers continued to languish in October.
October was the fourth straight month in which the Minnesota Business Conditions index registered a pull-back in the state's manufacturing sector. The index hovered around 47 last month. Readings below 50 suggest economic contraction in the coming months.
Non-durable goods producers, especially food processors, are showing particular weakness, according to the survey produced by Creighton University.
The survey indicates the manufacturing sector will shed jobs at a slight pace in the months ahead.
The overall Mid-America index, which includes eight other Midwestern states, is pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing activity in the next three to six months.
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Hope you had a great Christmas June, as I did. The little ones had more fun ripping the paper off than what was inside it. Thanks June
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Usually reserved for holidays or special occasions, my bottle of Bailey's made an unusual appearance today.
A BBQ dessert request pointed to one recipe and one recipe only- How Sweet It Is's Bailey's Brownies.
I've returned to Jessica's Bailey's Brownie recipe many times. Opening the post only to drool over the idea of a drunken Irish brownie. The blogger behind How Sweet It Is, this girl knows how to do desserts. So, without further adieu…
Bailey's Brownies
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 2-3 squares baking chocolate (or 3 Tbsp. butter and 9 Tbsp. coco powder)
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 9×13 pan.
- If using coco powder, melt 3 Tbsp. butter in a microwave safe dish and stir in the coco powder.
- Melt butter and chocolate in a microwave safe dish. Cream together until well mixed.
- Add sugar and vanilla. Continue to beat until creamy, 2-3 minutes.
- Add one egg at a time, combining well.
- Stir in flour until just mixed.
- Pour in Baileys and mix well.
- Pour mixture into the prepared baking dish, bake for 35-45 minutes, or until just done.
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Though he was in the midst of prepping an enormous dinner for hundreds of people at the James Beard Foundation's Silver Anniversay Gala, Alfred Portale was kind enough to step outside the kitchen at the Four Seasons and submit to our questions — specifically, our obsession with Treme and his role in a crucial scene that he previewed in our last interview with him. Thanks, Mr. Portale!
We are obsessed with your involvement with Treme. We had an interview with you a while back before the episode aired, but now that it's been aired, we were wondering: how is it different from anything you've done on television in the past? Obviously, it's scripted, but how else was it different?
Well, it was certainly not the first time I've been on television, but the first time that I've been in that context. I was part of a scene with Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne, and David [Chang], which took place in New York. It was a dinner party. For me, it was fascinating to be behind the camera and see how much goes into a production like that. It was just astonishing. Our scene was maybe a few minutes on the show, but it took all of a day and a half to actually shoot.
A day and a half?!
To plan it, to set it up. To shoot it was about four or five hours.
And I heard that they had to keep feeding you the same food, over and over and over.
[Laughs] The food was not really meant to be eaten, but we were there for so long we started eating it! The problem was that one of the main characters could not pronounce "Lièvre [Hare] à la Royale", and he had to keep saying it over, and over, and over again! It was really hilarious.
Do you think that Anthony Bourdain was able to capture your voice, or the voice of any of the other chefs, in the script? Like, did his words sound like how the chefs spoke?
I did have a line, but I wasn't scripted to say anything.I don't know about Eric [Ripert]. It didn't sound like Eric, but it did sound like David Chang.
Well, they have some sort of mind synthesis, the two of them.
True. But with Eric, it's hard to understand what the heck he's saying anyways, so I'm not sure it matters.
Oh my goodness. How do you understand him, then?
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Hello everyone, and welcome to Woo's World. I'll be sharing all kinds of things about myself and hope to get to know you as well. I'm a Master Gardener, play Bridge (admittedly not well, but I try!), am a food junkie and was one of the founding members of the Krewe of Centaur. I personally coordinate all the Specialty Units for the Krewe of Centaur Parade and help to put it on the street.


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MONTREAL (AFP) Dec 05, 2005
The European Union sought on Monday to defuse discord with the United States over greenhouse gas emissions as world ministers were due to join a UN meeting on climate change Tuesday.
EU representatives said they would not insist on precise limits for greenhouse gas emissions in talks with the United States, which rejected the Kyoto protocol on climate change over its opposition to specific targets.
"The US does not have to fear that we want to come the next day and say, now you take on Kyoto targets," Sarah Hendry, head of the British delegation, told reporters.
"There is concern on the part of the US that we are jumping straight into negotiations," said Hendry, whose government currently holds the rotating EU presidency. But she said the talks were only a starting point.
Signed by 34 governments, the Kyoto protocol requires countries to cut gases that cause global warming. The protocol became fully operational Wednesday after the UN Climate Change Conference adopted final rules by consensus.
With the Kyoto protocol due to expire in 2012, the Montreal conference is trying to set out preliminary plans to further cut emissions when the accord ends.
EU ministers hope to pursue follow-up arrangements with signatory countries while also opening up sensitive talks with governments that rejected Kyoto, including major polluters such as the United States.
The United States, which emits 25 percent of the world's so-called greenhouse gases, made clear last week that it opposed any talk of extending Kyoto-style limits on their emission.
Since 2002, the administration of President George W. Bush said it has embarked on a voluntary policy to reduce US emissions by 18 percent by relying on new technology and without harming the US economy.
The Kyoto treaty called for reductions in emissions of six percent from 1990 levels but the US argued the limits apply more stringently to developed countries than to developing ones.
Environmental activists criticized the conciliatory EU approach, saying European states should instead assert leadership over the issue and not allow Washington to set the agenda.
The European Union "appears to be working on the basis of a major strategic mistake" by moving to accommodate the US government, said Tony Jupiter, director of Friends of the Earth. The European Union needed to be "taking the lead," Jupiter said.
Global warming is accelerating and the environmental and economic effects could be disastrous if governments fail to act, activists said.
Concrete limits needed to be agreed well before the Kyoto protocol expired in 2012, said Jennifer Morgan from the World Wide Fund for Nature.
"We want a clear, independent process to negotiate the post-2012 framework under the Kyoto protocol. We want this by 2008," Morgan said.
US environmental groups opposed to the Bush administration's stance presented the US consulate here on Saturday with 600,000 signatures on a petition seeking action on global warming, organizers said.
Some 10,000 delegates and members of environmental groups are meeting here for the conference, which runs through December 9.
So-called greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, which is generated by burning of fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal, enlarge an atmospheric layer that blocks radiant heat from escaping Earth into space.
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These killings should come as no surprise. We were warned
The Massereene murder attack comes after repeated warnings about the capacity and intentions of dissident groups, writes David Gordon
Sir Hugh Orde has never held back on his warnings about the determination of dissident republicans to kill. It was disclosed last week that the dissident threat level had been officially raised to "severe".
But in truth, the Chief Constable has been making a series of blunt comments for many months about the dangers facing the security forces.
In an interview in August last year, Sir Hugh stated: "We are seeing dissident republicans currently at the top end of activity in my experience here.
"For up to a year now I've been saying my major concern is dissident republicans."
The main focus of the chief constable's warnings have related to bids by dissident groups to kill his officers.
In the event, it was the British Army that fell victim to the murder attack.
Saturday night's events have been met with deep shock across Northern Ireland.
But given how close previous bids came to claiming a life, it was unfortunately not that unexpected.
In November 2007, two off-duty police officers were shot and injured within days of each other in Londonderry and Dungannon.
Another near miss came in May last year, when a booby-trap bomb exploded under a young officer's car.
He suffered leg injuries in the blast which occurred in the Co Tyrone village of Spamount.
In a more recent interview last November, the Chief Constable said: "What worries us is that there is probably an appalling competition between the dissident republican groups to be successful.
"In their eyes this would mean to kill a police officer. They are determined to kill an officer — they are just determined to cause mayhem."
He also stated: "The people we are arresting are not 50 or 60-year-olds from the old world. These are young people who are being targeted by dissidents — disenfranchised, marginalised young people who they are now using to do their dirty work."
The fact that these small groups are capable of attracting a new generation of recruits is obviously a serious concern.
But they have been seriously constrained by security force penetration, as well as violent internal tensions.
The latest report by the Government-appointed Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), published in November, referred to five separate organisations.
The Real IRA — the group which claimed Saturday night's murder — and the Continuity IRA constitute the biggest threat.
The IMC said there were "at least two factions" within the Real IRA and that it was involved in a wide range of serious crime.
Referring to the terror group's efforts over a number of months to enhance its capability, the Commission said: "Like other dissidents, it undertook targeting, mainly of security force personnel, and it gathered information about them. It continued to seek to obtain weapons from associates, criminals and from overseas as well as by manufacturing them itself.
"PSNI searches in July and August led to the discovery of a number of weapons which we believe were associated with RIRA.
"We conclude that RIRA is a serious and continuing threat and that it is likely to remain so."
A similar assessment was given on the Continuity IRA, together with the view that its criminal activities include drug dealing, robbery and tiger kidnapping, extortion, fuel laundering and smuggling.
The other identified dissident groupings included a splinter organisation calling itself the Irish Republican Liberation Army, which had emerged in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.
The IMC took the view that it is "essentially a group of criminals taking a republican banner in order to give supposed status to their activities".
It had been linked to a shooting in Belfast last summer but had also "claimed responsibility for more incidents than it may have actually carried out".
Also on the Commission list was the INLA and another splinter group, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH).
ONH was showing signs of becoming more active, adding yet another complication to the overall picture.
According to the IMC, its criminal activities included drug dealing, robbery, fuel laundering and smuggling, especially of tobacco.
"We believe that ONH continues to pose a serious threat, both as a paramilitary group capable of extreme violence and because of the criminal activities of its members," the Commission warned.
Five groups of differing strengths and sizes, but all of them ready to use violence to pursue their ends.
Saturday night's news should not really have surprised anyone.
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The delivery ceremony during which AWT received its first locomotive of such type took place at the Test Centre of the Railway Research Institute (Výzkumný Ústav Železniční) in Velim, Central Bohemia. The Test Centre features two test circuits, one of which is suitable for speeds of up to 230 kph – the top speed of AWT's new locomotives.
The first operational use of the new snow-white locomotive bearing the AWT logo on its sides can be expected before the end of the year.
In the words of David Kostelník, AWT's Chief Operations Officer: "This acquisition will enable us to provide services in a seamless fashion. Thanks to the variability of the locomotives' safety features, they can be operated in multiple countries, such as Germany, Austria and Hungary, in addition to the Czech Republic. A bonus for our freight transport is the locomotives' tractive force of up to 300 kN."
AWT's acquisition of the new locomotive is a further demonstration of the company's stabilisation and growth, which, according to AWT Chief Commercial Officer Edin Sose, is undoubtedly progressing well: "The introduction of new locomotives into our rail fleet will expand our capacity. We intend to keep modernising the fleet in order to ensure continued growth in the competitiveness and variability of our services offered across Europe. Our goal is to run a modern interoperable fleet capable of providing transport services in a growing number of European countries."
Commissioning the modern locomotives manufactured by Siemens will also improve the energy efficiency in heavy freight train transport. "It is a well-known fact that rail transport is an environmentally friendly type of transport. In comparing the fuel demands of internal combustion engines, we can say that transporting 1,000 tonnes over a distance of one kilometre by road consumes approximately 60 litres of diesel fuel, while the consumption level falls to just 10 litres by rail. In the case of electric traction, represented by the new locomotives, the energy demands are even lower – transporting 1,000 tonnes over one kilometre requires an average 16 kWh," said AWT Chief Operations Officer David Kostelník. It should also be pointed out that the Siemens locomotives are equipped with regenerative braking. This means that when the locomotive is decelerating it transforms kinetic energy back into electrical power, which is then returned to the grid. Regulating the performance of the locomotives with modern electronic operating controls is another factor with a positive impact on energy efficiency.


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WASHINGTON - NCUA Board Member Michael Fryzel said there is no need for the NCUA to increase the size of the agency's staff in next year's budget.
The NCUA board Thursday approved a mid-year net budget reduction of $1.1 million at its monthly meeting. That figure included a $1.525 million decrease in employee pay and benefits from the original 2014 operating budget, credited primarily to vacant positions that have not yet been filled. However, the mid-session budget review also included a recommendation for two new positions.
"I think we have sufficient employees now to operate very effectively," Fryzel said during a video interview following the meeting. "When I came on six years ago, the budgets had been cut repeatedly over time. We were left in a situation where we did not have enough examiners to adequately examine every credit union every year. Credit unions were being examined 24 or 36 months between examinations and that's totally unacceptable and a good regulator would not do that."
Watch the July 31 video interview with NCUA Board Members Michael Fryzel and Rick Metsger.
However, Fryzel said that situation has been remedied.
"We have the examiners we need to properly monitor credit unions to make sure that if there are going to be losses out there, we minimize those losses to the Share Insurance Fund so I would like to see it kept at the same head level," he said.
NCUA Board Member Rick Metsger said there were requests from various departments at the agency for positions that the board rejected as part of the mid-year budget. Metsger said the board would likely consider adding those positions in next year's budget.
"We're very careful – as you've noticed over the last few years – about that budget to make sure we have the tools necessary to meet our statutory responsibilities but we take a fine tooth comb to that and we'll do that again in November," said Metsger.
According to the board action memorandum, the two requested positions were not examiners, but instead help the agency meet new demands. The first position would report to the Office of Inspector General and support a substantial increase in congressionally mandated requests and an influx in mandatory audits from legislation such as the Dodd-Frank Act. The second position would support the new Office of Continuity and Security Management to handle increased workload associated with new requirements for all federal agencies.
Fryzel reminded credit unions that there would not be a check coming in the mail after the agency's mid-year budget adjustment.
"Sometimes they get this thought in their mind that there's going to be a check in the mail coming back to them for what they paid. That's not going to happen. We're the federal government. Once we take the money, we never give it back – that's just way it works," said Fryzel, adding that the amount will be deducted from the total budget next year.


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Oh it is true but the cats stay in at night. No dogs- who needs a dog when one has 3 furry bandit-faced assault weapons with teeth and claws?? Plus I saved 35 bucks on a dog license and $300 bucks on vet shots. My sis used to have a racoon that lived in her van and would attack anyone trying to break in. She has 6 racoons that live next to her house They go in and out using the doggie door to eat cat food in the kitchen and sometimes in her bedroom. Her cats don`t seem to mind.
I'm very happy for you and your sister! Sounds like an idyllic situation. Around here, we have possums which don't seem to bring positive attributes to the situation. How do you attract raccoons?


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TONY Abbott has used his first full day as prime minister to greenlight a major Sydney roads project, telling voters he wants to be known as the infrastructure PM.
"WestConnex is a goer," he told a press conference on Thursday, flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and Roads Minister Duncan Gay.
"I want to give our country the roads and infrastructure of the 21st century, and nowhere is this more needed than here in Sydney."
He confirmed $1.5 billion in commonwealth funding for the $11.5 billion network of motorways and tunnels that will link the city's west and southwest suburbs with its port, airport and CBD.
Construction on stage one, which involves widening the M4 between Parramatta and Homebush and extending the motorway to Haberfield via tunnels, is set to begin in 2015.
The whole network is due to be completed in 2023.
Critics have slammed the project as a white elephant that will create major bottlenecks at Haberfield, where the proposed three-lane tunnels from the M4 would meet the two-laned City-West Link.
But Mr O'Farrell said most motorists using the network would be heading to non-CBD destinations.
"Not everyone in Sydney works in the CBD, stop being Sydney-centric," he said.
"We're confident this project will deliver what people need."
NSW Labor roads spokesman Ryan Park said the government's announcement lacked transparency.
"When they won't release the full business case and the detail, and they cite commercial in confidence - despite the fact there is no tender out at the moment - then you have got every right to be sceptical about the information," he told reporters.
With the NSW government committing only $1.8 billion towards the total cost, concerns have also been raised about the price of the tolls that will fund the bulk of the project.
Mr O'Farrell said the distance-based tolling would be capped at $7.35 in today's dollars by the time the 33-kilometre network is complete.
Charges on the widened M4 - which drivers don't currently pay to use - would be the first to kick in and will likely cost a minimum of $1.50 and about $3 for most motorists.
Meanwhile, the roads minister said homes would be demolished to make way for the network, but he was unable to saw where.
"There will be very few," Mr Gay told reporters.
"We've brought the best brains in the country and the world together to come up with something that (will) cause the minimum amount of stress to the community."
The second stage of the project will involve widening the M5 East and building a six-kilometre tunnel between St Peters and Arncliffe, while the third stage will link up the motorway with a tunnel from St Peters to Haberfield.
Once complete, WestConnex promises to create 10,000 jobs, shave 40 minutes off a typical trip from Parramatta in the west to Sydney Airport and enable "urban revitalisation" along the Parramatta Road corridor.
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Warnings against using the smartphone photo app to document your ballot have been flying across the Internet since early Tuesday morning. As polls closed some of the warnings had turned to satire.
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URGENT: IF YOU INSTAGRAM YOUR BALLOT DO NOT USE 1977 FILTER OR YOU WILL CAST VOTE FOR CARTER/MONDALE— rob whisman (@robwhisman) November 6, 2012
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The Slowdown's Over, the Slide Has Begun
Purchases of consumer goods dropped in all categories in February.
For the first time since the global economic meltdown began in 2007, the recession in Israel has become clear as day. Sales of food, beverages and products for personal and household hygiene fell in February compared with the corresponding month of 2008, according to the Barometer test by market research company StoreNext, commissioned by TheMarker.
For months, growth of these purchases slowed compared with a year earlier, but it was still growth. That's what "slowdown" means. Now the growth trend is gone and in its place we find falling sales in all categories.
In nominal terms, the drop in February sales from a year earlier is 1.2%. If you eliminate the increase in prices during the last year from the equation, the result is even more startling: 3.6%.
Every day brings news of fresh layoffs in all sectors. Asset prices have tanked and economic growth has vanished. Consumer confidence has cracked, so no category in retail has been spared. Sales of food fell for the first time in February, by 0.6% compared with February 2008. If we weed out the increase in prices during those 12 months - and the increase was significant - we find that the change is a stark 4%, an unambiguous sign of recession.
Drinks were not spared. The drop in nominal terms was 2.5% from a year earlier, but when the price hikes are neutralized, we find a drop of 3%.
Naturally the sector that suffered worst was personal and household hygiene products, which are relatively easier to economize on. Sales of personal hygiene products fell 3.5% in nominal terms. But in this category, if anything, prices eased in the last 12 months, so after adjusting for that, we find a decrease of about 3%.
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In fact, the sales downtrend in all categories began in January this year.
When the Barometer test is applied to a longer period, from November 2008 to February 2009 compared with January-October 2008, we find a slight 0.3% drop in sales after adjusting for price increases. If we ignore this adjustment, we find a 4% increase in sales, which attests to the degree prices rose in that time.
In other words, Israelis spent 4% more money on buying in these categories during the latter part of the crisis, but we know - because food and drink prices increased sharply during that time - that they either bought fewer products, or bought cheaper ones.
For comparison, if we look at January-October 2008 compared with January-October 2007, we find a 14% increase in sales. After adjusting for price increases, we still find a 6% increase in sales.
When we look at the entire period since the economic crisis began its true meltdown, in November, one category stands out - personal hygiene products, where sales not only didn't fall, they increased slightly, after we adjust for price changes.
Naturally, shaken consumer confidence is hardly unique to Israel. But last Tuesday, the ABC news group reported a slight tick in American consumer confidence, which rose to minus-47 for the week ending March 15, from the previous week's reading of minus-48.
In another miniscule gain, the ABC survey showed 6% of respondents confident in the economic outlook, up from the previous week's 5%. Hardly a cry of confidence, but an uptick nonetheless.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium " The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization has raised its chip market predictions for the next three years, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association.
With the threat from Sars retreating for now, the organization sees double-digit percentage growth year-on-year for the worldwide market from 2003 through 2005, according to its fall 2003 forecast.
The market is now poised to grow 14.2 percent in 2003, reaching $160.7 billion. Market growth is expected to accelerate through 2004 to 19.4 percent, taking the annual revenues of $191.9 billion. In 2005, the market is forecast to grow 12.6 percent, to $216.1 billion, beating the previous record market of $204.4 billion scored in 2000, ESIA said.
A minor fallback is foreseen for 2006, although total worldwide sales are expected to remain above the $200 billion mark.
In June, WSTS predicted 11.5 percent growth in 2003, 18.4 percent growth in 2004 and 7.9 percent growth in 2005.
As a result, the global market is now expected to reach $216.1 billion in 2005. In June, WSTS was predicting it would reach just over $200 billion, below the 2000 high-water mark.
WSTS's June predictions were made towards the end of the Sars in Asia and amid concerns that the illness would hamper the semiconductor industry and the global economy. Those fears have since receded for now.
The personal computing, wireless communications and digital consumer sectors are driving the current upturn.
The flash memory market is set to grow 41.4 percent in 2003 and 38.0 percent in 2004 while the DRAM market is expected to grow 10.1 percent in 2003 and 29.1 percent in 2004.
The chip market for wireless communications, including DSPs, is expected to grow 29.2 percent this year and 25.3 percent in 2004.


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"It's premature to put a number on the actual supply for next year because manufacturing is continuing, and there are still some uncertainties with respect to Chiron, but we are very encouraged by being able to license this new vaccine, and also I think Chiron has reached a significant milestone in terms of their recent FDA inspection. We're encouraged by the positive track they're on, although the assessment is ongoing. The bottom line is it's encouraging. We certainly are hopeful that there will be additional vaccine beyond what was available last year."
"The letter that we issued to them this week is a positive development and shows significant progress on their part. However, additional work is needed to determine the amount of vaccine Chiron may be able to supply the U.S. market for the upcoming flu season. FDA will evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of their corrective actions going forward. In addition, any vaccine produced must pass all tests for safety and potency before it can be marketed in the U.S."
"We are pleased that the Chiron Corp. has taken steps to address issues at their facility in Liverpool as they prepare for the upcoming flu season,"
"We are enthusiastic about the potential of having a very accurate, simple test in the home to increase testing and awareness in people about their HIV status. But we are seeking broad input from our panel and the public on the benefits and any risks."
"This approval is the result of a tremendous cooperative effort among FDA, other public health agencies, the test kit manufacturers and the blood industry."


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#1 - I have no idea what procedure coke mom had done to her nose, but it looks atrocious.
#2 - This foreign born C list actress more famous for her modeling career than her acting was spotted making out with a random party goer in a corner of a room a couple of days ago. Oh, she is married.
#3 & 4 - This NBA all star was seen going into his hotel room with two women while his B list television actress significant other was nowhere to be seen


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Dreamer Plays Holiday Battle of the Bands at the Middle East in Cambridge Tonight
Rhode Island-based rockers Dreamer have announced a special performance at The Holiday Battle of the Bands at The Middle East Nigfhtclub in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dreamer are currently touring to promote their debut album, Turn It Up. Turn It Up features ten tracks filled with razor-sharp hooks, radio friendly melodies and a heavy metal wallop that can satisfy the most demanding headbanger. Renowned for their high energy live shows at venues across New England, the band has opened for bands such as All That Remains, Burn Halo, Candlebox, Firewind, Hawthorne Heights, Hollywood Undead, Lynch Mob, Saliva and Saving Abel.
The event will be presented by Sinizstar Promotions and Entertainment and take place tonight, December, 9, 2012. Doors open at 7pm and admission is $10.00. This is an 18+ event. The Middle East Nightclub is located at 472-480 Massachusetts Avenue. For more information, go to www.mideastclub.com.
Dreamer began in the fall of 2010 when both the founding members of Last One Standing, Christian and Nathan Shields, decided that a major change was needed to their music project. The brothers began writing music and producing a sound that was heavier than their previous songs. The tracks on Turn It Up include the first song on the album "Way It Feels," a hard rock anthem to a 350 Chevy ; "Sex Rocks," a tune about looking for girls and taking them home; the inspirational hard rock ballad, "Live For Today," and Dreamer's anthem, "Turn It Up."<
Dreamer is Christian Shields - Lead Vocals/Guitar, Nathan Shields - Drums/Vocals, Jake Bizarre - Lead Guitar/Vocals and Nathan Andreadi - Bass / Vocals. All lyrics and music written by Christian Shields and Nathan Shields. Turn It Up was produced by Anthony Santo at Westfall Recording and co-produced by Michael Gaudiello and Dreamer.
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219RE: [force_ev] Pb-acid Battery Charging
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> I am replacing a dozen, 12v, 125 amp-hour lead-acid batteries after someHow many miles did you get, Matt? I'm guessing around 13,000, given the
> 500+ charging cycles, but less than two years after purchasing them. I
> would appreciate any wisdom / experience with optimal recharging.
usage you mention. The pack in our '97 Force just went south after 12,500
miles, so it sounds like you're probably right on track. I'm upgrading our
car to NiCD batteries (see the web page covering the upgrade at
> With this set of batteries, I drove 15 miles to work (using around 15-18As I understand it, the way you're using them is exactly how you should --
> amp-hours), recharged, and 9 hours later drove 15 miles home, and
> recharged.
> I read that Pb-acid batteries should be kept charged, and not left in a
> discharged state, to prevent sulfating (or whatever the chemical
> degradation
> process is called). This worked well, but would I be better off charging
> only once a day (in the evening, only 9-10 hours after initial discharge,
> vs. in the morning at work - on the company's meter - 14-15 hours after
> initial discharge), and cutting the number of charging cycles in half, and
> not worrying about the batteries sitting partially discharged for several
> hours each day? This would also push the depth-of-discharge twice as far,
> which I read also cuts down on the number of recharging cycles.
recharge after every use, don't leave them discharged. Leaving them
partially discharged 9 hours a day will age them. I suspect David Roden
will have some better insight into this than me, though.
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Johnson, Derrick Mantrel v. The State of Texas--Appeal from 182nd District Court of Harris CountyAnnotate this Case
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DERRICK MANTREL JOHNSON, Appellant
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the 182nd District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 891,762
After the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence, appellant pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver between four and 200 grams of cocaine. The trial court sentenced him to 40 years confinement. We affirm.
Officers T.J. Chapman and C.E. Smith of the Houston Police Department Narcotics Division were driving an unmarked car in an area known for narcotics transactions. The officers observed appellant erratically back his car onto the street, nearly hitting the officers car. They also observed that appellant s radio was at a loud volume in violation of a city ordinance. When the officers attempted to run the license plate number, they noticed that appellant s license plate light was inoperative. Based on these observations, the officers contacted a nearby patrol car for assistance. Before the officers approached appellant s car, they saw him make furtive gestures towards the floor board of his seat. The officers retrieved a bag of crack cocaine from the driver s side floorboard, $1,200, and an additional amount of crack cocaine in the car. The total amount of crack cocaine found was 43 grams.
Appellant testified that he did not drive erratically, his music was not loud, and his license plate light functioned properly. Linda Malone, the owner of the house appellant was leaving before he was arrested, also testified that appellant did not back out of the driveway erratically. J. M. Castillo, who was hired by appellant to inspect appellant s car eight days after the arrest, testified that the license plate light was in working order at that time.
In two points of error, appellant contends that (1) the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence and (2) the trial court s denial of the motion to suppress violated his federal right to due process.
Standard of ReviewIn reviewing the trial court s ruling on the motion to suppress, we apply a bifurcated standard of review. Carmouche v. State, 10 S.W.3d 323, 327 (Tex. Crim. App. 2000). We give almost total deference to the trial court s determination of historical facts, while we conduct a de novo review of the trial court s application of the law to those facts. Id. During a motion to suppress hearing, the trial court is the sole trier of fact; accordingly, the trial judge may choose to believe or disbelieve all or any part of a witness s testimony. See State v. Ross, 32 S.W.3d 853, 855 (Tex. Crim. App. 2000); King v. State, 35 S.W.3d 740, 742 (Tex. App. Houston [1st Dist.] 2000, no pet.). When, as here, no findings of fact are filed, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the ruling and sustain the decision if it is correct on any applicable theory of the law. Ross, 32 S.W.3d at 855-56; King, 35 S.W.3d at 742.
Motion to Suppress Evidence
In his first point of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence.
Originally, the motion to suppress evidence was to be heard by submission of affidavits only. However, the trial court ordered a hearing with live testimony. Appellant argues that Officer Smith s sworn affidavit differed significantly from his testimony at the hearing.
In his affidavit, Officer Smith stated that, while the officers were driving north on Lomax Street, they observed appellant back out of a driveway at a high rate of speed. At the hearing, Officer Smith testified that he observed appellant back out of Lomax Court, a street that runs perpendicular to Lomax Street, and not a driveway as he testified in his affidavit. In court, he testified that he had assumed that Lomax Court was a driveway, but later found out it was a road.
Officer Chapman s testimony at the hearing corroborated Officer Smith s testimony. Officer Chapman described Lomax Court as almost a non-existent, uncared for road that the city has out there that just shoots off of Lomax with houses on either side of it going it s not a very long street at all . . . not well-lit. He further stated that the area surrounding Lomax Court was wooded and had fewer artificial lights than Lomax Street. Officer Chapman s testimony supports the proposition that Lomax Court could have been mistaken for a driveway. Officer Chapman did not give an affidavit prior to the hearing; therefore, his testimony was not contradicted.
The trial court was free to believe Officer Smith s testimony at the hearing. See Ross, 32 S.W.3d at 855. Moreover, Officer Chapman s testimony provides an independent basis for the trial court s ruling. We hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant s motion to suppress evidence.
The first point of error is overruled.
Due Process Violation
In his second point of error, appellant contends the trial court violated his right to due process by denying his motion to suppress evidence.
It is insufficient for appellant to make a general citation to a constitutional doctrine with no argument supporting why the doctrine was violated. See Vuong v. State, 830 S.W.2d 929, 940 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992). In order for a point of error to be adequately briefed, counsel must cite specific legal authority and provide legal arguments based on that authority. Tex. R. App. P. 38(h). Here, appellant cites the Fourth Amendment in his brief, offering no argument to support his claim. He does not state how the trial court violated his right, nor does he provide any citations to the record.
The second point of error is overruled.
We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Adele Hedges
Panel consists of Justice Hedges, Nuchia, and Higley.
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