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STOCKTON - Paco Martinez had a bright future as an electrician. Despite growing up in a neighborhood besieged by gun and gang violence, the 21-year-old Stockton native would have none of it.
STOCKTON - Paco Martinez had a bright future as an electrician. Despite growing up in a neighborhood besieged by gun and gang violence, the 21-year-old Stockton native would have none of it.
He had completed San Joaquin Delta College's rigorous general electrician certification program and recently earned his certification. He had his second-round job interview scheduled this week with Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the same week as his funeral.
Francisco "Paco" Garcia Martinez, the third of four brothers who lost their father in June, was the victim of a stray bullet that crushed into his chest during the minute or so he walked outside his south Stockton home. That was around 7:30 p.m. March 10, and he was just going to check out a friend's car.
Stockton police say Martinez was an unintended victim, hit by a single gunshot. It was one of more than a half-dozen shots fired from the corner of Anne and East Eighth streets by an unknown shooter apparently toward a house across the wide street from the Martinez home, according to what the family has learned.
"He just walked outside. He wasn't even out there for two minutes," older brother Alfonso Martinez said Friday. "He grabbed his chest and laid himself down."
The youngest Martinez brother, Jesus, 15, witnessed what happened to his brother. Before the bullet struck Martinez, it went completely through a mailbox. A neighbor who is a nurse ran over to apply pressure on Martinez's chest until paramedics arrived. Police reported that Martinez died after being taken to a hospital.
Alfonso Martinez described Paco as shy, a good student who graduated from nearby Merlo Institute of Environmental Technology high school, went straight off to Delta College and held down a part-time job to help the family with expenses.
He was particularly attentive to his mother, Lourdes, and baby brother Jesus following the death of the family patriarch, also named Alfonso Martinez. He regularly collected Sunday offerings at St. Linus Catholic Church, and he and his mother would often bring the sacramental bread and wine up to the altar during Mass.
"My brother was a really good boy. He was never involved with gangs or drugs. He was always here to watch my little brother - make sure he did his homework and cook for him, because Mom would work," Alfonso Martinez said.
"He was like a homebody. He was really religious," Martinez said as nieces Janessa, 7, and Jasleen, 2 - the daughters of oldest brother Manuel Martinez - walked into the tidy living room where the family is holding a nine-day novena, a cultural tradition among Catholic Latinos.
"Paco is sleeping," Jasleen said.
In addition to school, work, family and church, Paco Martinez was an avid Oakland Raiders fan.
"He would save up his money to go to the games with our older brother. And they'd take our little brother sometimes," Alfonso Martinez said.
The family is coping with the death. Their mother is "really religious. She believes he's in heaven with God watching over us. God just knew that's the way he was going to take him. My little brother is more in shock. He's just quiet," Martinez said.
Police are seeking the public's help and for witnesses to come forward. This week, they released a cellphone video that shows people on the street when the gunfire begins, with a number of shots being heard in the background before the photographer leaves the scene.
Investigators are asking people with information to call the Stockton police at (209) 937-8377, the Investigations Unit at (209) 937-8323 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600. Callers can remain anonymous.
Tips can also be submitted through the Stockton Police Department Facebook page or texted to CRIMES (274637) by typing the keyword "TIPSPD" and then the tip. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000 for information that leads to an arrest.
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By Pavel Polityuk
KIEV, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Yulia Tymoshenko, sprung from jail
on Saturday as President Viktor Yanukovich's grip on power
crumbled, is a former gas magnate whose ringing rhetoric
electrified thousands during Ukraine's 2004-5 Orange Revolution
and propelled her to power.
Her release sends shockwaves through Ukrainian politics, at
a moment of deep turmoil following the worst unrest in the
sprawling country since the days of the Soviet Union.
The 53-year-old, instantly recognisable for her
peasant-style braided blonde hair, shot to fame with her
impassioned speeches against a rigged poll won by Yanukovich in
With the post-Soviet establishment turfed out, Tymoshenko
became prime minister, but fell out with her fellow Orange
Ousted after Yanukovich beat her to the presidency in 2010,
she was jailed in 2011 over a gas deal she signed with Russia.
She spent much of her incarceration in hospital for a back
problem in the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
The West said her imprisonment was politically motivated,
and the European Union repeatedly pressed for her release, only
to be rebuffed by Yanukovich.
Tymoshenko is reported to have made millions in the 1990s as
president of a company that was for a while the main importer of
Russia natural gas, earning her the sobriquet "Gas Princess".
Her sharp tongue and combative style brought her both devout
followers and arch enemies.
Born in 1960, in Russian-speaking Dnipropetrovsk in eastern
Ukraine, Tymoshenko studied at the local university, married
while still a teenage student and had a daughter in 1980.
Taking advantage of an entrepreneurial climate in the Soviet
Union under leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Tymoshenko had her first
taste of self-made money from a video rental store she set up.
She soon crossed into the energy sector and went on to
become head of Unified Energy Systems.
Tymoshenko entered parliament in 1996 and was made a deputy
prime minister in 2000. She fell victim, however, to political
intriguing under President Leonid Kuchma and spent several weeks
in jail on corruption charges. She was cleared.
On leaving prison, she changed her image, lightening and
braiding her hair and wearing sharply tailored, folk-inspired
designer outfits. Her stylist told media the look was designed
to distance herself from an association with wealth and to
emphasise a national Ukrainian identity.
She is now immediately catapulted to the forefront of
Ukrainian politics, but will find the stage more crowded than
before, with a new generation of revolutionaries who led the
mass protests that appear to have brought down Yanukovich.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the Keccak algorithm as the winner of a five-year competition to create a new Secure Hash Algorithm standard.
Keccak (pronounced "catch-ack") is a little stronger and a little faster than the current SHA-2 standard algorithms and will become a candidate for the new federal SHA-3 standard. But NIST scientists say it is not intended as a replacement for SHA-2 -- at least not for the foreseeable future -- and they do not want to derail agencies' use of the current standard.
NIST is in the process of moving away from the old SHA-1 hash algorithm, which is reaching its end-of-life, and requiring the use of SHA-2 in its place. Agencies should not wait to make that upgrade, thinking to leap-frogging to SHA-3, scientists warn.
"In current protocols there is not going to be any major push to move to SHA-3," said Tim Polk, manager of NIST's Computer Security Division's Cryptographic Technology Group. "SHA-2 is a very good algorithm. For existing protocols in use today, SHA-2 is the way to go."
A hash algorithm is a cryptographic tool that can create a digest, or string of bits of a specific length, for a digital document. The digest is unique to the message and can be used to verify that the contents of a digital document have not been altered. If a message is changed by a third party, the before and after digests produced by the hash algorithm no longer will match. Hash algorithms also can be used to create digital signatures.
Although NIST has a lot of faith in SHA-2, today, "when we started the competition, we had less confidence in SHA-2," Polk said.
Back in 2007 cracks had begun to appear in the algorithms that collectively make up SHA-2 and it was decided to begin a competition for a new, stronger algorithm. But in the last five years the weaknesses did not develop as feared, and SHA-2 remains stronger today than expected.
"We know more now," Polk said. And that is one of the advantages of running a public competition for a new secure algorithm. "We moved the state of the art forward in this area."
The resilience of SHA-2 was not the only surprise. In NIST's previous cryptographic competition, for the Advanced Encryption Standard, the winning algorithm was considerably stronger and faster than the predecessor 3DES. "We got everything we could have wanted," Polk said.
But advances were not so great in the SHA-3 competition. "What was surprising is that we weren't getting a big speed-up in performance across the board," he said. "We couldn't have predicted that at the time we started the competition."
It is somewhat faster, however, and somewhat more secure. Perhaps most important, Keccak is not vulnerable to the same types of attacks that SHA-2 might be vulnerable to, so if SHA-2 fails, SHA-3 would be available as a back-up. Other parts of the NIST crypto toolkit have multiple options, such as AES and 3DES for encrypting data. With the retirement of SHA-1, which is not approved for creating digital signatures after January 2014, there was no back-up Secure Hash Algorithm. SHA-3 would provide that insurance.
Keccak was created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP Semiconductors. It was one of 64 algorithms submitted in the competition.
NIST will draft a new Federal Information Processing Standard proposing Keccak as SHA-3, which will be published for public review. After comments are addressed, the final proposed FIPS will go to the secretary of Commerce for approval as a federal standard. Polk said he hopes the process will be complete within the next 12 months.
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With new cases of Asian soybean rust being reported on an almost daily basis in the lower Southeast, it's important that growers know how to make the most effective treatment when and if a fungicide application becomes necessary.
Coverage of the soybean plant at bloom stage is critical for the prevention of Asian soybean rust, and research conducted in South America and in the United States can help growers set up their sprayers for optimum effectiveness when treating for the disease, says Paul Sumner, University of Georgia Extension engineer.
Soybean producers in Georgia's Coastal Plain were advised to begin spraying for Asian soybean rust on July 19, after samples taken from a sentinel plot at the University of Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton were confirmed to be infected with the disease.
Extension specialists say they are unsure how the disease will progress, however, frequent thunderstorms in the area coupled with the reproductive growth stages of the crop necessitate protection with fungicides. Soybean rust also has been confirmed in a sentinel plot in southeast Mississippi, which is not far from confirmed rust cases in Baldwin County, Ala., where rust was found on both commercial and sentinel plots.
Rust is first established on the lower plant surfaces, says Sumner, so good fungicide coverage is needed on the lower leaves and stems. "The fungicide must get on the lower plant to protect it. The fungicides that are available for treatment of Asian soybean rust need surface coverage to be effective, and this is achieved best by smaller droplets," he says.
The two types of chemistries currently available for rust are contact and locally systemic, he adds. "The contact fungicides remain on the surface and will protect only the area that is covered. The locally systemic material is absorbed into the plant tissue.
However, this is not the same type of systemic movement normally seen in systemic-based herbicides. The fungicide will not move throughout the plant, but only within a small absorption zone, such as a single leaf," says Sumner.
For maximum plant surface coverage, Sumner recommends that growers use a nozzle that develops medium to fine droplets (225 to 325 microns). Some fine droplets are acceptable, he says, but they drift easily and may blow over a dense canopy, while coarse sprays drift less, but make fewer droplets available for coverage.
"The extended range and low drift fan nozzles can achieve good coverage when operated at pressures above 50 psi," notes Sumner. "At this pressure, spray is forced down into the canopy. Care should be taken not to operate your sprayer above 75 psi with these nozzles, as a large amount of fine droplets will be generated," he says.
Sumner recommends that growers consult nozzle manufacturer catalogues for droplet classification at the various pressure settings and nozzle sizes. "Total spray volume applied should be 15 to 20 gallons per acre for ground application. This will give sufficient droplets to cover the target area. Ground speed of five to seven miles per hour is desirable," he says.
The boom height, he says, should provide 50-percent overlap. Keep it as low as possible to give you better penetration, coverage, and to lessen drift potential, he says. If available, air-assisted sprayers, such as those used on vegetables, will do an excellent job of coverage using the same application rates, he adds.
Aerial applicators also should use a nozzle that will produce a medium droplet size (285 to 235 microns), says Sumner, with a spray volume of five to seven gallons per acre.
Two excellent publications on sprayer setup have been developed specifically for Asian soybean rust, he says. They include "Spraying Recommendations for Soybean Rust," Ohio State University Extension, http://www.tifton.uga.edu/spray/ohio0526.pdf, and "Aerial Application: Tips for Rust Control," University of Arkansas, http://www.tifton.uga.edu/spray/Rust%20Arkansas.pdf.
Soybean producers who suspect that a rust infection is nearby, or already has occurred, should include a triazole or triazole-strobilurin fungicide in their program, say University of Georgia Extension specialists. They advise growers to continue to follow the progress or lack of progress of the disease before making a second fungicide application. Should a second application of fungicide be necessary, it could be applied as early as two to three weeks after the first application.
Rust symptoms, they say, will appear first on the lower leaves of the canopy. The first symptoms of rust are very small brown to brick-red spots in a non-descript yellow spot on the upper leaf surface. Eventually, slightly raised pustules form in the spots, primarily on the lower leaf surface. As pustules become numerous, leaves turn yellow and drop prematurely.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Matt Holliday and Carlos Beltran homered and Shelby Miller pitched six strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-1 Friday night.
Miller (4-2) gave up seven hits and a walk in six innings while striking out five.
He was scoreless through the first five innings before allowing a sacrifice fly by Jonathan Lucroy. Carlos Martinez, Seth Maness and Fernando Salas held the Brewers without a run over the final three innings. Martinez and Maness made their major league debuts.


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and the story of that bill was told in cartoon form…
In those magical days congress worked in the following ways.
The House would pass a bill.
If the senate didn't like the house bill they would pass a bill of their own.
And then the two bills would go to a conference committee and the details worked out.
And then when both sides had passed bills they would work out the differences.
Now things have changed:
The House has passed a budget, the house has passed a tax bill, they have passed bills tackling the big issues of America.
The Senate has not.
They have dodged the big issues, they have punted, the one greatest deliberative body in the world has made a deliberate decision to avoid any decision that might affect their electoral futures and the country be damned.
The response to this inaction? Nobody in the media has challenged the Senate, nobody has pressured the senate, until the last few days nobody has called on the Senate to do anything.
And because the rest of America is too busy simply trying to survive when the media has blamed the house for inaction and ignored the senate the country has ignored them too and not pressured them to do anything.
Perhaps if the media called the Senate on this the people would have pressured them and we would have a bill in conference committee already.
But that is not to be, after all if the American Public is unwilling to punish the Senate for inaction there is no reason for action to take place.
And we once again get the government and the consequences we deserve.
The End.
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Reilly et al. (1996) review several studies that analyzed the effects
of climate scenarios at the farm scale. One important implication of these studies
is that changes in production activities and management adaptations could play
an important role in mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Survey-based studies on farm-level decisionmaking in response to climate change
have propagated since the SAR. Case studies in Canada suggest several farm-level
adaptive strategies to which farmers may resort (Brklacich et al., 1997;
Smithers and Smit, 1997; Chiotti, 1998). In southern Ontario, Smit et al.
(1997) found that farmers' choice of cultivar to plant in the current year
is highly conditioned by the climate experienced the year before. There have
been few quantitative, farm-level economic studies of response and adaptation
to climate change since the SAR. In the U.S. midwest, Doering et al.
(1997) used a crop-livestock linear programming model linked to the Century
biogeochemistry model to investigate the impacts of climate change on 11 representative
farms in the region under a doubled-CO2 scenario. The analysis considered
these farms under static technology and adapted technology; thus, the analysis
could be regarded as representing farm-level economic responses to climate change
as well as farm-level combined technological and economic adaptation. It showed
that climate change may cause substantial shifts in the mix of crops grown in
the upper midwest, with much less land planted to a corn-soybean rotation and
more land devoted to wheat than now. Earlier planting of corn increased returns;
hence, a more frost-resistant corn variety was found to be important to farm-level
adaptation. Using a similar methodology, Parry et al. (1996) predict
optimal agricultural land use in response to climate change in England and Wales.
Antle et al. (1999b) used an econometric-process simulation model of
the dryland grain production system in Montana linked to the Century model (as
reported in Paustian et al., 1999) to assess the economic impacts of
climate change in that region. Unlike other farm-level studies, this analysis
is based on a statistically representative sample of commercial grain farms
in the region, not on a small number of representative farms, so the results
can be interpreted as representing the entire population of farms in the study
area. Moreover, instead of using linear programming models, this analysis combines
site-specific data and econometric production models in a stochastic simulation
model, allowing representation of physical and economic heterogeneity in the
region. Simulations were conducted for baseline and doubled CO2 (Canadian
Climate model) with observed production technology, with and without land-use
adaptation and with and without CO2 fertilization. With climate change,
CO2 fertilization, and adaptation, mean returns change by -11
to + 6% relative to the base climate and variability in returns increases by
+7 to +25%, whereas without adaptation mean returns change by -8 to -31%
and variability increases by +25 to 83%. These findings provide support for
the hypothesis that ability to adapt plays a critical role not only in mean
impacts but also in the spatial variability of impacts. They provide empirical
support to the hypothesis advanced in the SAR that climate change is likely
to have its greatest adverse impacts on areas where resource endowments are
poorest and the ability of farmers to respond and adapt is most limited.
None of the economic studies in Reilly et al. (1996) analyze the environmental
consequences of adaptation to climate change, such as increased demands on land
and water resources. Adams et al. (1998) observe that this shortcoming
remains true of most recent studies. However, Darwin et al. (1995) do
include an analysis of impacts of climate change on land and water resources
in a global model with the world subdivided into eight regions. They argue that
competition from crop production could aggravate direct climate-induced losses
of forests in moist tropical regions. IMAGE 2.0 simulations with future scenarios
of limited CO2 emissions show that increased deforestation increases
agricultural capacity because of a smaller CO2 fertilizaton effect
on crops than if emissions continue on the current trajectory (Leemans, 1997).
Lewandrowski and Schimmelpfinnig (1999) draw implications for impacts on land
and water resources, wild species, and natural ecosystems from the literature.
They suggest that increased demand for irrigation predicted by these studies
is likely to increase the opportunity cost of water and possibly reduce water
availability for wildlife and natural ecosystems. However, it is difficult to
go beyond such generalities with these aggregate models because most environmental
impacts of agriculture are site-specific. Strzepek et al. (1999) show
that some scenarios of climate change may reduce irrigation system reliability
in the lower Missouri River in the U.S. corn belt, which may induce instream
environmental stress. In many developing countries, current irrigation efficiencies
are very low by developed-country standards. Irrigation effeciency in the Philippines
in 1990 was 18%, compared to the global average of 43% (Asian Development Bank,
1998). Currently, 3,480-5,000 liters of water are used to produce 1.0 kg
rough rice (equivalent to 640 g milled rice) in the Philippines (Baradas, 1999)
and some neighboring countries. At those irrigation efficiencies, increased
irrigation demand caused by climate change would strain irrigation supplies.
Hence, one adaptation strategy is to increase irrigation efficiency.
Agriculture is a source and a sink of GHGs; hence, climate-induced agricultural
land-use change is likely to impact soil carbon stocks in agricultural soils
(Paustian et al., 1996; Lal et al., 1998; IPCC, 2000). Antle et al. (1999b) and Paustian et al. (1999) link a field-scale econometric-process
simulation model to the Century ecosystem model to assess the impacts of climate
change (from the Canadian Climate Centre model) on soil carbon in the dryland
grain production system of the U.S. northern Great Plains. In a related set
of studies, Antle et al. (2000) and Paustian et al. (2000) link
a regional economic agricultural land-use model to the Century ecosystem model
to assess the impacts of climate change on soil carbon in central U.S. cropland.
These studies demonstrate that adaptive changes in land use and management are
likely to have greater impacts on soil carbon than the direct effects of climate.
Thus, adverse effects of climate change on soil carbon tend to be offset by
the adaptive changes in land use that would be made by farmers in response to
climate change. The degree of this offset depends on the magnitude of CO2
fertilization effects on crop yields.
Adaptation is unlikely to come without cost. In a literature survey, Tol et
al. (1998) conclude that adaptation costs (as opposed to net costs of damages)
are not reported in most impact studies, especially in agriculture. Yet transition
costs (e.g., to retrain farmers in new practices) and equilibrium costs (e.g.,
to develop additional irrigation or apply more fertilizer) may be considerable.
The absence of a benefit-cost calculus for agricultural adaptation is a key
deficiency. Existing studies also fail to account for the process of long-term,
endogenous adaptation of technology in ways that are consistent with the extensive
economic literature on that subject (Antle, 1996b). This process also will involve
significant costs. An extensive body of economic research has studied the benefits
and costs of agricultural research and has shown that institutions that are
responsible for agricultural research adapt agricultural technology across space
and time in response to relative resource scarcity (Hayami and Ruttan, 1985).
Quiggin and Horowitz (1999) argue that changes in fixed capital for on-farm
and off-farm infrastructure may be the most significant cost associated with
adaptation to climate change.
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Use extreme caution when cleaning rodent-infested areas. Take the following precautions to avoid becoming infected with hantavirus.
- Wear rubber or plastic gloves at all times while cleaning.
- Before you start cleaning, open all doors and windows for at least 30 minutes. Stay out of the area until the 30 minutes is up. If you are in an enclosed place, you may also want to wear goggles and a respirator with a filter to avoid breathing contaminated dust.
- Do not stir up dust by sweeping up or vacuuming up droppings, urine, or nesting materials. Instead, wet all areas to be cleaned with a household disinfectant, such as Lysol, or a solution of bleach and water. To dilute household bleach, follow the directions on the label. Make sure you also treat the dead rodents, their nests, and droppings.
- Clean up droppings or nest materials with paper towels or rags and place them in plastic bags. Place dead rodents in plastic bags. Seal each bag before throwing it away in the garbage.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- All-OVC honorees Leigh Heffner and Kerri Reid have been named two of the Top 20 Players to Watch in the OVC after the contributions to the Tennessee Tech women's soccer team this season.
Both members of the sophomore class, Heffner and Reid were both voted second team all-OVC by coaches and sports information directors from around the conference at the conclusion of the 2010 season.
Heffner was also recognized as one of the Ohio Valley Conference's Defensive Players of the Week in October for her performances in the backfield against SEMO and Eastern Illinois. A nursing major out of Arvada, Colo., Heffner has maintained a 3.9 GPA for the duration of her time at Tech.
Reid was one of three Golden Eagles to be start all 17 games this season. She contributed two goals and three assists for 11 points on the year at her midfield position. Reid hails from Peachtree City, Ga., and is also majoring in nursing.
"I always think it's great for the TTU soccer program and our University when our student-athletes get recognized for their contributions," first year coach Daniel Brizard said. "Leigh and Kerri are both important parts of the future success of the TTU Soccer program. They have both been selected by the coaches and SID's as all-conference players, and have now deservingly been recognized as player to watch in the OVC over the next few years."


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Five Star, Nov 2003, 26.95, 408 pp. ISBN: 0786253347 Jinx Porter has returned as the Tarrant County constable following the resignation of his former girlfriend Raven. However, his second coming is not quite as pleasant as his first sixteen year term ago. Deputy Ivy did everything wrong as the team went to arrest Newton Marble Eye. Instead the felon escapes but not before he shoots Jinx. Jinx resides in the hospital with his roommate being ...
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Five Star, Dec 2002, 25.95 ISBN: 0786248270 The Fort Worth police arrest detective Roby Tyson for the murder of rookie cop Carri Crane, as the circumstantial evidence at the boarded up rooming house is overwhelming. Roby swears to his partner Cezanne Martin that he is innocent, but admits he had sex with the victim the night before. He pleads with Cezanne to defend him as her first client since she just passed the bar. Reluctantly she agrees t...
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In 1968 Don Hewitt created a new kind of TV news program, in which he strove to present reporter-centered stories in a magazine-like format. Almost 45 years later, "60 Minutes" is the longest-running prime-time program on television, and the many hosts and commentators it has introduced us to have become superstars of journalism.
Don Hewitt would have turned 90 today; he died just over three years ago at 86. Late, great 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace died earlier this year; award-winning reporter Ed Bradley six years ago. Legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite died in 2009; original "60 Minutes" host Harry Reasoner in 1991. Their stories, and Andy Rooney, today on Legacy.com.
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This exotic sweet and sour chutney is a zesty condiment. This chutney can be called the ketchup of the east.
- 1/2 lb tamarind, seeded
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons roasted ground cumin seeds
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black salt
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
- Break the tamarind into small pieces and soak in boiling water for one hour.
- Mash it into a pulp and strain, pressing the tamarind into the strainer to remove all the pulp. Add sugar to the pulp. Mix
well. Add the remaining ingredients. Mix and taste. Add more sugar, salt or pepper as needed.
- Chutney can be refrigerated for two to three months.
Serving suggestion:
- Tamarind chutney is delicious with samosas, pakoras, drizzled over dahi vadas, bhel poori, or any kind of chat.
- It is also delicious as a dipping sauce for French fries and as a spread over crackers.
- Try drizzling over rice to add a unique flavor to plain rice.
- To use as a dip, thicker chutney is ideal. To use as a topping, add water to make the chutney thinner.
- Add water and ice cubes to serve as a cool spicy drink.
- Add equal parts yogurt and chutney to make a dipping sauce.


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By Alex Folsom
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Standing in Horjesi Family Athletic Center on the campus of the University of Kansas before a recent practice, Erin McNorton presented a humble explanation for how she went from playing sparingly as a freshman and sophomore to becoming the Big 12 assists leader in her first season as the Jayhawks' starting setter-a job she did not know she earned until just prior to Kansas' first match.
"Everything is clicking, which is making it a lot easier for me to do what I need to do," said McNorton. "Bri is up there in digs and Jar is up there in hitting."
McNorton is referring to fellow Kansas juniors Brianne Riley and Caroline Jarmoc. Riley is currently 135 digs shy of the all-time Kansas career record while Jarmoc is hitting .396 with 300 kills so far this season. The Jayhawks also boast two strong middle blockers in Jarmoc, who recently set a career high with 12 blocks against then No. 14 Kansas State, and senior Tayler Tolefree. The experienced Tolefree credits McNorton's success to her unpredictability and timing on the court.
"We have confidence that she is going to deliver us a good ball," said Tolefree of McNorton's abilities as a setter. "In volleyball it might look like everything flows smoothly, but timing is everything."
In her first two seasons as a Jayhawk, McNorton played in 27 matches and compiled 129 assists while providing back up duty for Kansas starters Nicole Tate and Kara Wehrs. It was under the duo's tutelage that McNorton started to understand the game at the college level. It was also where she learned how to lead a team even though she is often the least vocal person on the court.
"People compare our personalities a lot," said McNorton of Tate's mentorship her first two seasons. "We're calm and we're not loud by any means."
Kansas head coach Ray Bechard acknowledges that he would like for McNorton to be more vocal on the court, but says that her quiet demeanor can be a calming influence on her Jayhawk teammates when the game is on the line. So far this season the Jayhawks have competed in four five-set matches-all since stealing a victory from Creighton late in the fifth set on Sept. 19. In each, McNorton has stoically delivered at least six assists, including setting up all 10 of her team's kills in the final set against Creighton, to help Kansas win all four fifth-sets it has played in 2012.
Some of McNorton and the Jayhawks' success this season can be attributed to the team's closeness on and off the court. Prior to the start of the fall semester McNorton and six other juniors on this year's team moved into a house together off campus; a move that originally made Bechard apprehensive.
"We thought the Towers were a great idea," said Bechard referring to the Jayhawk Towers on Kansas' campus which house many of the Jayhawks' student-athletes. "As coaches you always like to have a little bit of control over them. There are some really mature kids in that group and I am sure they have a good time, but at the same time they balance time like it needs to be balanced."
McNorton says that the bonds forged at the residence carry over into the team's play.
"We know how to interact with one another and know what each other need in order to do well," said McNorton. "We know who we need to get in their face and who to back off and talk to and calm down."
The teammates with whom she shares a house are not the only family McNorton has nearby. Though she was raised in Texas, her dad is from Topeka, Kan., and played football at Kansas State while her uncle, Kyle, played at Kansas. It's a friendly family rivalry that allows for her uncle to attend all of KU's home matches along with her grandparents. Her parents, even though they live two states away, make an effort to attend as many matches per year as possible, both in Lawrence and when the Jayhawks travel.
On Kansas' recent four-day road trip to Norman, Okla., and Austin, Texas, McNorton and the team stopped at McNorton's parents' home for dinner. It was the first time that KU's setter had been home since June.
"It was so exciting," said McNorton. "My family kept texting me about it."
As the Jayhawks continue to improve on the court and face a tough Big 12 schedule, McNorton hopes to sustain her consistent play and believes that she has been pretty reliable so far. Beyond maintaining a high level of individual output and leading her team as it forges ahead into the final third of the season, there is one thing on her mind.
"As a team it's been our goal every year to make it to the tournament, and so far we're making a good profile for ourselves," concluded McNorton. "I hope we continue to do that and show people what we can do."


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Census data still fascinate agency's veteran leader
After almost 40 years with the U.S. Census Bureau, Deputy Director Thomas Mesenbourg says he's still fascinated by the data that comes out of the bureau's once-a-decade count and the many other surveys it conducts. He was in Houston last week for a conference sponsored by the University of Houston's Hobby Center for Public Policy and talked with Chronicle reporter Jeannie Kever about how technology has changed the job, what will happen when Houston challenges its count and how a reorganization will save money.
Q: Data from the 2010 census has been coming out in bits and pieces since December. What's been most striking about what you've seen so far?
A: Just the richness and the diversity of the data. The foreign-born piece has been interesting (showing the increase among foreign-born residents). It's not a huge surprise, but the growth of the Hispanic population and the Asian population.
We went to the short form for everyone (in 2010), with 10 questions. All the more detailed questions - on ancestry, language spoken at home - are now collected on the American Community Survey.
Q: This week the bureau released economic data showing poverty levels are up and many Americans are still hurting from the recession. How might policy makers use that information?
A: I'm sure there were hundreds, maybe thousands of stories on that. We view that as being one piece of the puzzle that policy makers will be dealing with. We'll be putting out another crunch of data on (Thursday), when we release the 2010 American Community Survey. Typically, we put out the facts and let others draw the conclusions.
Q: Houston is one of a number of cities that felt some residents were missed, and it expects to appeal. How does that process work?
A: Any jurisdiction can file a challenge. They need to provide information that supports this.
In some cases, we may have placed the housing unit - most likely, a group quarters, a prison, a university (dormitory), maybe we placed it in the wrong jurisdiction.
We think we did a lot better job in this count than in the past. In 2009, we had about 250,000 folks that went out and validated the location of every address in the United States, but in some cases, mistakes were made.
If you can show us proof of that, we would correct the counts.
What's not a reason is, the mayor saying, 'There's gotta be 2.5 million people here, not 2.4 million'. The process will run through June 2013. If the data are found to be incorrect because of (jurisdiction or boundary) reasons, we will update that. Right now, we've got 63 challenges, out of 39,000 or 40,000 local jurisdictions.
Q: How has technology changed the job since you went to work for the bureau in 1972?
A: A lot. When I first came in '72, that was the first time we used bar codes on report forms. There was no such thing as a desktop computer. The Internet was still 15 or 20 years away. If you wanted to do a special analysis, you had to talk to a programmer.
Now we expect there must be a technological solution for everything we do, and access to the data in terms of really trying to make much more real-time use of information.
I think we made important strides on that in the 2010 census. We brought in economists and had them model what we expected the mail-back rate to be. ... When we lagged on the predicted response rate from specific census tracts, we could ... use that data to buy more advertising in certain languages, that sort of thing.
Q: Is the closure of the Dallas and other regional offices in response to federal budget cuts?
A: Not directly. Indirectly, it's a response to the budget, but not necessarily the developments of the last six months.
We are closing the Dallas office. We have 12 regional offices right now, and we're closing six of them at the end of 2012. There is some reduction in the brick-and-mortar infrastructure. We're changing the way we supervise enumerators in the field.


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Use might not yet be widespread, but some agencies are finding a use for it
Is the iPad a suitable tool for government use?
The sleek tablet PC seems at a glance to be more of a consumer tool, with its commercial apps and lack of a standard keyboard, but it appears to be making inroads at various levels of government.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is well-known for carrying it around and has touted its ability to improve efficiency. Other state and city officials also are testing the waters.
Bob Woolley, Utah's chief technologist and strategic planner, tested the iPad and wrote a report outlining 20 government use-case scenarios, writes Karen Wilkinson in Government Technology.
"It's been very effective, and surprisingly so," Woolley told Wilkinson.
Woolley's use cases include Web access, virtual private network access, note-taking in meetings, editing Google Docs and Microsoft Word files and testing battery life — all areas where the iPad scored high.
In fact, Woolley gives the iPad high marks in just about every category. Among the weak spots he identified were printing, its lack of a formal filing system, and the lack of Flash support, which limits the ability to view content on some websites. However, all of those problem have workarounds, he writes, and the lack of Flash support "turned out to be a much smaller issue than expected" because of the number of websites that provide H.264 video and non-Flash versions.
After the tests, Utah bought iPads for the state's governor, CIO, water quality inspectors and social workers, Wilkinson reports.
The iPad appeared in April amid a lot of fanfare over its sleek design and easy use. Discussion soon followed about whether it would be good on the job. The GCN Lab's review gave 10 reasons why it would be good for government, and 10 reasons why it might not be.
Although the iPad isn't likely to displace a lot of government laptops or smart phones very soon, the device is gaining fans.
Woolley posted his report on GovLoop and started a discussion.
In August, the New York State Senate introduced the first iPad app for legislation, NYSenate for iPad, which posts releases from all of the Senate's offices in a newspaper-style format. Developed by Senate staff members, the app is free from the iTunes App Store.
And if you're considering buying one, the website OhMyGov lists 14 iPad apps that make a government job easier.
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Full-color holograms were once just an imaginary mode of communication between rebel princesses and venerated Jedi masters. Daniel Smalley, a graduate student at MIT, has made the technology a reality with a new method that creates displays that are vibrant, detailed, and inexpensive. The resolution of his prototype is equivalent to that of a standard TV. Able to refresh images 30 times a second, his invention can simulate the illusion of movement. The device relies upon a small chip that resembles a microscope slide that Smalley was able to fabricate for only $10 in the MIT labs.
A hologram functions by using a beam of light passing through a diffraction fringe. This bends the light so that it emerges at different angles. To produce a hologram, Smalley was able to take advantage of a technique known as called acousto-optic modulation. This method sends precisely engineered sound waves through a piece of transparent material. Utilizing the crystal of a material called lithium niobate, Smalley created microscopic channels known as waveguides just beneath the surface. Each waveguide sports a metal electrode that can produce an acoustic wave which manipulates the trapped light. A pixel corresponds with each waveguide through which beams of red, green, and blue travel. As they pass through the crystal, the material determines which hues are to be filtered out. Combination colors, such as purple, do not require a separate waveguide but instead rely on an acoustic-wave pattern.
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Since I've been authoring the Pricci "Morning Line" Blog for more than five years, I feel eminently qualified to answer this posit with a question: "What, You Expect Me to Get a Real Job Now?"
Well, it's too late for that, but, of course, I'm being a little facetious: After all, I have devoted my entire professional life to becoming an expert on such matters.
While it is arguable whether or not I've achieved such status, I can state without equivocation that I play one on TV, radio, and on a stage that cannot possibly be any bigger, the World Wide Web.
And, so, I will quote his thoughts, edited for brevity but keeping ideas in context. Statements will appear in quotes, my thoughts below in italics, which I gleaned from the seldom referenced Indulto Internet Style Book.
"At some point in your life you have (or will) come across a process [constructing morning line odds] that seems so outdated that you wonder why it still exists."
As that great philosopher, Meatloaf, would say: stop right there! Never have I wondered why it still exists, and not because "that is the way we have always done it."
Who is this 'we', anyway, Kemo Sabe? Never have I wondered, nor has anyone ever asked "what is this, and why do we need it." So I won't say because that's the way it's always been done. Instead, I'll just call it what my gang calls it; an Is-Be.
"Just because it worked fifty years ago does not mean it works today. [The Morning Line is] not necessarily how that person would bet the race nor do [the prices] represent what that person believes are fair odds for each horse…My question is what value does the morning line provide? Honestly, none, therefore why do we need it?
]Just because it worked 50 years ago is PRECISELY why it works today. It also provides continuity, historical context, allowing the faithful to impart its wisdom to an uninformed audience or potential fan.
Why provide a pointspread or an early betting line on football games? Because the market otherwise could not set a price upon which to wager until something like a one-on-one betting exchange is created.
It works. There is no way to improve it, short of fixed odds wagering, but that doesn't mean it should be eliminated.
To the casual racing fan or even some of the lesser sophisticated weekend warriors, the horses other than the famous ones in the day's feature race, they would be just names on a page without context. How does eliminating the morning line accomplish anything at all?
HRI regulars will note that we eschew the term Morning Line and refer to it as an Early Line, quotes that generally appear well in advance of that day's entries.
Technically, a Morning Line should be set after scratches and track conditions are known, the morning the races are run. Until then, the early line provides context, a sketch of which the most likely winners are, talking points for the cognoscenti.
"Imagine that you woke up tomorrow, opened your past performances and found that there was no morning line. Would you be able to handicap the races? How would it impact your selection process? Would you be able to determine the fair odds for each horse in each race? Would you be excited or scared? Chances are the race would be bet in a completely different way than you would expect. That one small change would throw the parimutuel pools into chaos."
Of course, horseplayers would be able to handicap a race without a morning line. I know what I know, and what other serious players know, but would not have no guide as to which horse "the public" might choose.
Early bets are made as a function of the morning line and insider knowledge. Without a morning line, I'm not sure I could discern with any certitude which horses were "dead" on the board.
The technique of playing the odds board is quite nuanced, especially in the more sophisticated markets. More than I would surmise, I'm often surprised by how races are bet. The early line helps define my broad understanding of any particular race.
I want morning line odds set by competent line makers, such as New York's Eric Donovan or Florida's Chuck Streva, two of the best, to help define my tote-board reads. Further, they shade the hot trip horses, or live connections.
I don't know every venue that's not part of what is referred to as "the good horse circuit." I want early line help when I look at entries for Laurel or Delaware, or even the major California tracks.
How could I immediately recognize a possible betting opportunity without it unless I quickly handicapped the race. Without so many hours in one betting session, I likely would pass. This doesn't necessarily hurt me, but it's not good industry business.
"Within the Chaos Lies Opportunity…That chaos would create opportunities for savvy horseplayers because it would result in horses being bet inefficiently. There would be ample opportunity to find overlays that might not otherwise exist…
"A horse that should be 5/1 that would be 4/1 on the morning line might be 8/1 with no morning line… Without a morning line…pools would be bet less efficiently and value would be created."
Indeed, chaos by definition creates opportunity. But sometimes it only creates more chaos. With a morning line, races still will be bet inefficiently. And if the public over-bets favorites as a result of the morning line as guide, value would increase exponentially on non-favorites, would it not?
"Let the Market Determine the Odds… What the morning line does is influence process of determining the final odds. Why not give the betting public the opportunity to determine the final odds for each horse without the influence of the morning line? There is no harm in doing so and as mentioned earlier value would be created."
The betting public IS the market, and it already determines the final odds. But what's the goal here; to fleece the squares, to take an edge from pools created by unsuspecting, unsophisticated bettors.
Those bettors--the unsophisticated betting public--are all gone except for major event days a short, boutique race meets. All who remain are us, cannibalizing each other, until the takeout kills us all.
Knowledge is power. Even a morning line has power in that it can be a teaching instrument that could grow the game through understanding. The game's hard enough, even when bettors are guided by sophisticated oddsmakers.
High takeout? Now that's the enemy everyone should be fighting.


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JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest structured notes issuer in the U.S., is capitalizing on growing investor appetite for risky assets by selling securities betting on corporate debt.
JPMorgan sold $50 million of structured notes tied to Invesco Ltd.'s PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio exchange-traded fund to a bank loan ETF. The New York-based lender also issued notes linked to the iBoxx Liquid High Yield Index, according to prospectuses filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. The securities, which mature in about 4 months or less, offer a coupon of 5 percent annually as well as the gains and losses of the index or fund.
Demand for speculative-grade borrowings has grown as the Federal Reserve's policy to keep its benchmark rate near zero for five years pushes investors to assets that generate higher yields. That has allowed the bank to structure notes that package debt with derivatives to offer customized bets.
"Structured notes are basically just a reflection of where investors' interests lie," said Serge Troyanovsky, managing director and head of North American structured product sales at BNP Paribas SA in New York. As long as debt funds are popular with investors, "at some point, you're going to have issuers who want to issue products linked to those ETFs."
The notes sold by JPMorgan are the first tied to the high- yield index and the loan fund that were publicly offered and registered with the SEC, Bloomberg data show.
Elizabeth Seymour, a spokeswoman JPMorgan in New York, declined to comment.
Record Inflows
The JPMorgan note offering comes as leveraged loans have received record inflows this year. Funds that purchase the floating-rate debt, have recorded gains of more than 32 percent in assets, or about $25 billion, according to a report from Bank of America Corp.
Leveraged loans are attracting interest as investors look for alternatives to preserve income on their investments on expectations of a rate rise. Loan buyers have more downside protection than bonds as they are paid first in a bankruptcy or liquidation, while offering a hedge against inflation because the coupon is tied to a floating-rate benchmark.
Invesco's PowerShares Senior Loan fund, started two years ago as the first ETF solely dedicated to purchasing floating- rate debt, has seen its market value nearly triple to $4.2 billion from $1.5 billion at the start of the year.
Loan ETF
The PowerShares ETF, traded under the ticker of BKLN, is based on the Standard & Poor's/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 index, investing at least 80 percent of its holdings in the gauge's component securities. The S&P/LSTA measure, which tracks the 100 largest dollar-denominated, first-lien leveraged-loans, has climbed to 98.85 cents on the dollar, at about the highest level since July 2007.
Leveraged loans have gained 3.2 percent this year, S&P/LSTA index data show. Junk bonds have returned 5.3 percent, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Index data show. They are a form of high- risk debt that carry ratings of less than Baa3 by Moody's Investors Service and below BBB- at S&P.
The notes expose investors to "both issuer credit risk as well as market risk -- in this case, the credit risk of the leverage-loan or high-yield market," said Tim Dulaney, senior financial economist at the Securities Litigation & Consulting Group Inc., a Virginia consulting firm, in an e-mail.
Last year, JPMorgan, as well as BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse Group AG, sold notes tied to the iBoxx indexes of European companies. The issuers sold notes as well as total return swaps, which are derivative contracts used to exchange the economic benefit and risk of loans for steady periodic payments.
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Rams Take Panthers by One
Farmingdale State - 74, Old Westbury - 73
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's basketball team defeated Old Westbury (7-4, 3-1) tonight in a 74-73 conference victory to improve to 6-3 overall and 4-0 in the Skyline. Junior forward Gabrielle Green (North Babylon, N.Y./North Babylon) scored career-highs of 21 points and 13 rebounds to push the Rams to victory.
Old Westbury led at the break, 35-34, and in the second half the lead changed 11 times. A six-point advantage by the Rams, with 14:44 to play, proved to be the largest lead over the next 12 minutes. Old Westbury went ahead by four points, 71-67, started with a three-pointer by sophomore guard Samantha Johnson (Queens Village, N.Y./Martin Van Buren) with just under two minutes remaining.
Farmingdale began the comeback as Green connected in the paint to cut the deficit to 71-69, with 1:30 on the clock. The Rams forced a turnover and a foul on the next Panther possession, and one-of-two successful free throws by junior guard Kim Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) put her team behind by just one point with 49 seconds left. Another Old Westbury foul gave Blakney two more shots, and she sank both shots, 72-71 Farmingdale.
The crucial basket at the end was forced by a Blakney steal and a layup by freshman guard Shemique Hooks (Westbury, N.Y./Westbury) with the assist by junior guard Tiffara Steward (Elmont, N.Y./Sewanhaka) for the three point lead with 21 seconds remaining. The Panthers were able to make one more layup, but fell by one.
For Farmingdale, Blakney finished with 16 points, while Hooks contributed 14 of her own. Freshman forward Dominique Cunningham (Amityville, N.Y./Copiague) pulled down 12 rebounds.
Old Westbury's Johnson finished with 23 points, senior guard Pamela Robinson (Wheatley Heights, N.Y./HHH West) had 17 rebounds, while freshman center Courtney Milton (Bronx, N.Y./Washington Irving) had a double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds.
The Rams will travel to St. Joseph's on Thursday, January 8th for another conference game against St. Joseph's in Patchogue, N.Y. at 5:30 p.m.


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The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit accusing several California auto loan modification operations of deceiving consumers with false promises and then leaving their cars to be repossessed.
The agency alleged that Hope for Car Owners in Folsom and Kore Services in San Diego charged clients hundreds of dollars in up-front fees for help obtaining car loan modifications, but then did nothing and refused to provide the full refunds they had advertised.
The FTC also said it filed suit against individual participants Patrick Freeman from Hope and Michael Kamfiroozie and Naythem J. Nafso of Kore, which conducted business as Auto Debt Consulting. The suit also names NAFSO VLM in Roseville as a defendant.
The suit is the FTC's first action against auto loan modification scams, according to documents filed Wednesday morning. The complaint asks the U.S. district court in Fresno to shut down the companies while the FTC pursues the case.
Consumers were allegedly told by Hope and Kore counselors to stop paying their auto lenders and shell out fees to the loan modification companies instead. Hope allegedly promised to lower monthly payments by 30% to 50% for clients who paid fees ranging from $200 to $500, luring consumers with ads that stated: "Join the thousands who have already SAVED!"
Kore, as Auto Debt Consulting, promised 25% to 40% reductions in exchange for fees of $350 to $799, "regardless of your credit score!" If the modification was unsuccessful, at least one of the company's websites pointed to a 100% money-back guarantee, according to the suit.
But once the companies collected the fees, they never tried to modify their customers' loans, the FTC alleges. Some consumers were told to hide their cars to avoid repossession; at least one client's vehicle was repossessed after she paid $400 to Hope for Car Owners, according to the suit.
The schemes leave "financially distressed consumers in worse shape than when they began," David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement.
The Better Business Bureau gave Auto Debt Consulting a grade of D-minus while handing F's to both Hope for Car Owners and NAFSO.
After reaching out to Hope, the BBB said that the company removed online claims that its services saved consumers millions of dollars. The BBB also said that the company's refund guarantee came with hidden conditions that weren't advertised and that Hope couldn't substantiate its claim that it had "nearly a 99% success rate."
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First State Academy of Dance performer Angela Zielen's fancy footwork has landed her an invitation to the esteemed Youth American Grand Prix Job Fair in New York City later this month.
First State Academy of Dance performer Angela Zielen's fancy footwork has landed her an invitation to the esteemed Youth American Grand Prix Job Fair in New York City later this month.
The YAGP Job Fair is a special audition offering young dancers, between the ages of 9 and 19, the rare opportunity to showcase their skills before many artistic directors of dance companies from around the world for the chance of earning professional work. More than 20 dance companies will be in attendance including: Royal Winnipeg Ballet (Canada), Tokyo City Ballet (Japan), Karlsruhe Ballet (Germany), Dutch National Ballet (The Netherlands) and North Carolina Dance Theater (United States).
Since Zielen is 19, this is the last year the Viola-based dancer can participate in the YAGP Job Fair, though it's also her first. Being that it's difficult for dancers to receive professional work, Zielen is hopeful she can receive her big break at the event, which will be held on April 18 and April 19.
"I'm really excited for her," said First State Academy of Dance Director Michele Xiques, who has been Zielen's dance director since she enrolled at the Academy 10 years ago. "She was born with a special talent and beauty and grace about her that's finally being recognized beyond her state."
Zielen earned her invitation to the YAGP Job Fair after she recently competed in the YAGP's ballet competition in March, where she advanced to the semifinals. Though she lost in the semis, Zielen's dance skills were impressive enough to receive an invitation to the job fair, Xiques said.
The YAGP is the world's largest student ballet scholarship competition and it awards more than $250,000 annually in scholarships to leading dance schools worldwide.
Reasons why she's great
Zielen displays a dynamic style of dance that's balanced with adagio (or slower movements) and allegro (faster movements) all anchored with fabulous technique, beamed Milford's Xiques.
In addition to her lovely footwork, Xiques says Zielen's stage presence is a great quality that allows her to sparkle.
"When she walks on that stage and smiles, it warms your heart instantly. She connects with the audience so well," Xiques said.
Xiques frequently pays her student with this glowing compliment: "You're the type of girl that could stand on stage, point your foot and [instantly] get a standing ovation."
Zielen will star in the First State Academy of Dance's production of "Alice in Wonderland," opening April 27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts in Dover.


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DEERFIELD, IL--(Marketwired - Feb 27, 2014) - Horizon Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: HZNP) announced today that its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2013 financial results will be released on Thursday, March 13, 2014. Following the announcement, Horizon's management will host a live conference call and webcast at 8:00 am Eastern Time to review the Company's financial and operating results and provide a general business update.
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Gambling charges against Lebanon Legion post dismissedBy BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Sunday News
August 16. 2014 11:55PM
HAVERHILL - Grafton County Attorney Lara Saffo has dismissed two felony counts of illegal gambling against an American Legion post in Lebanon.
In a filing at Grafton County Superior Court, Saffo said her office couldn't prove its case against Guyer-Carignan Post 22.
In the filing, she appeared to agree with the post's financial officer Bill Wilson who said in an interview earlier this year he believed the post was operating within the law in February when administrators organized and ran raffles "used to benefit charity."
"The activities at issue in this case were not done in accordance with the law," Saffo wrote.
"However, post indictment, evidence of the efforts of the ... American Legion to ensure that they were following the law came to light."
Attorney George Ostler of Norwich, Vt., who represents the Legion post, said Saturday he was "really happy for the Legion."
Calling the post's members and administrators "incredibly stand-up guys," who had no intention of breaking the law, Ostler said they worked hard following a similar incident in 2010 to make sure all their gaming activities were conducted within New Hampshire law.
He said that effort included having a 34-page document prepared that outlined their plans and getting approval by both the New Hampshire State Liquor Commission and the Lebanon Police Department for running games of chance in the future.
Ostler said, however, that the liquor commission somehow did not have a copy of that document this year prior to its agents' Feb. 1 gambling raid on the post.
In April, a Grafton County Superior Court grand jury indicted the post on two Class B felony counts for gambling, and a charge called "entertainment and entertainers."
The latter charge refers to gambling at an establishment that's licensed to sell "alcohol and/or liquor," according to the indictment.
State Liquor Commission agents raided the post Feb. 1 and confiscated about $15,000 in what they said were illegal gambling proceeds.
It was the second time in four years the post had been raided, though the state dropped the matter in the first incident and returned seized money.
Ostler said Saturday he would work now to have the state return the post's most recently seized money.
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The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. economy created 204,000 jobs in October after adding 163,000 jobs the prior month.
This is much better than was expected, but still well below what is needed to bring unemployment down to acceptable levels.
The jobless rate rose a tick to 7.3 percent, further indicating the challenges ahead owing largely to recalibration of population statistics.
The government shutdown negatively affected employment but the impact was not large.
Federal employment was down on 12,000 in October after falling 5,000 in September. Some contraction was to be expected owing to continuing effects of sequestration.
Subpar economic growth remains the much larger problem.
Preliminary estimates indicate the economy expanded at 2.8 percent in the third quarter, up from 2.5 percent in the second. However, consumer and business demand weakened, and much of the growth was inventory build and a slowing of imports, and those are likely to reverse in the fourth quarter.
Topping out of auto and home sales, along with the large litigation settlements paid by Wall Street's larger banks, will subtract from growth too, and preliminary estimates for the fourth quarter are closer to 2 percent.
ObamaCare mandates for employer paid health insurance coverage, anticipated for 2015, are already encouraging more part-time hiring.
Along with the visceral anti-business campaigns waged by unions, such as those targeting McDonalds and Wal-Mart, these trends are creating a broad part-time economy in hospitality, retailing and other sectors where wages are subpar and job security nonexistent.
The jobs count may be up but for recent college graduates and older adults the situation is grim, and many working age adults have abandoned job searches.
Adding in part-timers who want full-time employment and discouraged adults who have abandoned searching for jobs, the unemployment rate becomes 13.8 percent.
Even with more full time positions, the pace of jobs creation is well short of what is needed. About 360,000 jobs would lower unemployment to 6 percent, but that would require GDP growth in the range of 4 to 5 percent. Over the last four years, the pace has been a paltry 2.3 percent.
Much stronger growth is possible. Four years into the Reagan recovery, after a deeper recession than Obama inherited, GDP was advancing at a 4.9 percent annual pace, and jobs creation was quite robust.
Administration policies and Congressional neglect of fundamental economic issues, and endless ideological infighting and obsession with social issues bear considerable responsibility.
Important examples include restrictions on domestic petroleum development, unwillingness to address Asian export subsidies and artificially undervalued currencies and increasingly costly regulatory reviews.
Together these impair American competitiveness, increase imports, drive jobs overseas, and institutionalize a buyers' market for labor and suppress wages.
Eliminating the resulting $450 billion trade deficit would create more than 4 million new jobs directly, and at least another 2.5 million as those additional workers' spending spread through the economy. This would raise living standards and reduce income inequality much more pervasively than a living wage law could ever accomplish.
Also, speeding up regulatory reviews to protect the environment, consumers and financial stability would free up government resources for growth promoting infrastructure and R&D investments and creative talent in the private sector to more productive pursuits.
The White House is bogged down in the Affordable Care Act morass and appeasing the left's cultural agenda, and Republicans endlessly obsess about legislation—from repealing the ACA to new restrictions on abortion that will never pass Congress.
Promoting growth remains a stepchild.
Peter Morici served as Chief Economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission from 1993 to 1995. He is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.


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Western central banks have tried to shake off the constraints of gold (COMEX:GCG14) for a long time, which has created enormous difficulties for them. They have generally succeeded in managing opinion in the developed nations but been demonstrably unsuccessful in the lesser-developed world, particularly in Asia. It is the growing wealth earned by these nations that has fuelled demand for gold since the late 1960s. There is precious little bullion left in the West today to supply rapidly increasing Asian demand. It is important to understand how little there is and the dangers this poses for financial stability.
An examination of the facts shows that central banks have been on the back foot with respect to Asian gold demand since the emergence of the petrodollar. In the late 1960s, demand for oil began to expand rapidly, with oil pegged at $1.80 per barrel. By 1971, the average price had increased to $2.24, and there is little doubt that the appetite for gold from Middle-Eastern oil exporters was growing. It should have been clear to President Nixon's advisers in 1971 that this was a developing problem when he decided to halt the run on the United States' gold reserves by suspending the last vestiges of gold convertibility.
After all, the new arrangement was: America issued the petrodollars to pay for the oil, which were then recycled to Latin America and other countries in the West's sphere of influence through the American banks. The Arabs knew exactly what was happening; gold was simply their escape route from this dodgy deal.
The run on U.S. gold reserves leading up to the Nixon Shock in August 1971 is blamed by monetary historians on France. But note this important passage from Ferdinand Lips' book GoldWars:
Because Arabs did not understand bonds and stocks they invested their surplus funds in either real estate and/or gold. Since Biblical times, gold has been the best means to keep wealth and to transfer it from generation to generation. Gold therefore was the ideal vehicle for them. Furthermore after their oil reserves are exhausted in the distant future, they would still own gold. And gold, contrary to oil, could never be wasted.
According to Lips, Swiss private bankers, to whom many of the newly-enriched Arabs turned, recommended that a minimum of 10% and even as much as 40% should be held in gold bullion. This advice was wholly in tune with Arab thinking, creating extra demand for America's gold reserves, some of which were auctioned off in the following years. Furthermore, Arab investors were unlikely to have been deterred by high dollar interest rates in the early 1980s, because high interest rates simply compounded their rapidly-growing exposure to dollars.
Using numbers from BP's Statistical Review and contemporary U.S. Treasury 10-year bond yields to gauge dollar returns, we can estimate gross Arab petrodollar income, including interest from 1965 to 2000, to total about $4.5 trillion. Taking average annual gold prices over that period, 10% of this would equate to about 50,500 tonnes, which compares with total mine production during those years of 62,750 tonnes, over 90% of which went into jewellery.
This is not to say that 50,000 tonnes were bought by the Arabs; it could only be partly accommodated even if the central banks supplied them gold in very large quantities, of which there is some evidence that they did. Instead, it is to ram the point home that the Arabs, awash with printed-for-export petrodollars, had good reason to buy all available gold. And importantly, it also gives substance to Frank Veneroso's conclusion in 2002 that official intervention – i.e., undeclared sales of significant quantities of government-owned gold – was effectively being used to manage the price in the face of persistent demand for physical gold as late as the 1990s.


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans often feel that billionaire Carlos Slim owns everything in their country, from telephone and Internet companies to banks and chain stores, but his latest acquisitive foray is meeting resistance after touching a national passion: soccer.
Slim recently bought part of two of Mexico's first division soccer teams, setting up another showdown with television giants Televisa and TV Azteca, major players in the soccer field that are in turn trying to push their way into Slim's telecommunications and Internet markets.
The owners of the 18 Mexican first division clubs are scheduled to meet Monday to decide whether one person or one company can own more than one first-division soccer team, and many see Slim as the target.
Each team has one vote in decisions by the Mexican Football Federation, so purchasing more teams would give Slim more power in the federation. Recently, there have been rumors in sporting circles and on social networks that Slim also plans to buy or acquire the broadcast rights for Chivas, one of Mexico's two most popular teams, along with Televisa's America. The billionaire's spokesmen have denied that.
"What is evident in their business decisions is that Televisa is interested in entering Slim's mobile and broadband fields and Slim is interested in entering the soccer field, which has been under the monopoly of the two television networks," said telecommunications analyst Gabriel Sosa Plata, referring to the fact that the networks long had exclusive broadcast rights to the games of all 18 teams.
Slim ventured into soccer in September, when he bought 30 percent of the shares in the Leon and Pachuca teams through his telecommunications company America Movil. In December, he bought all the shares of the second division team Estudiantes Tecos.
Following the acquisitions, team owners in February decided to discuss the issue of multi-ownership.
The decision raised some eyebrows since TV Azteca currently owns two teams, the Jaguares and Morelia, and Televisa once owned three first division teams, America, Necaxa and San Luis, without notable complaints within the federation about the issue of multi-team ownership. The world football authority, FIFA, however, has expressed concern about conflict of interest questions raised by the issue.
Pachuca's owner, Jesus Martinez, said he was shocked that the subject of multi-ownership has come up since Slim ventured into soccer.
"It's laughable because that (multi-ownership) has been going on for more than 25 years," Martinez said.
But Televisa currently owns just one team, America, and TV Azteca is reportedly thinking of selling the Jaguares to a business group that would relocate it from Chiapas state to Queretaro. A Jaguares' spokesman wouldn't comment on the report but if the purchase takes place, Slim would be the only businessman with multiple teams in the first division.
Neither Televisa, the world's largest producer of Spanish-language TV programs, nor TV Azteca immediately responded to interview requests by The Associated Press.
Decio de Maria, president of the Mexican Soccer League, said that if there is a vote against a single person or company owning several teams, Slim wouldn't be obligated to sell one of his teams but he would be prevented from buying more first division teams.
"In the next owners assembly, they will discuss whether there are differences between multi-ownership now and what has been happening in the past and if there are then we will take the necessary measures," said Slim's spokesman Arturo Elias Ayub.
So the upcoming vote on the subject seems geared to preventing Slim from buying more teams, not forcing him to shed one he already has.
Slim's foray into the world of soccer is also threatening the two TV networks in an area they hold dear: broadcast rights to games.
Slim's America Movil is a leading provider of cable and satellite television in Latin America but he has not been able to launch a network of his own in Mexico, something that could change after a recent approval of a reform that allows for more competition in the telecommunications sector.
Lacking his own station, after acquiring part of Leon, Slim began marketing the rights to broadcast its games, ending the duopoly held by Televisa and TV Azteca.
"Soccer is important for non-paid television because it is part of Mexico's most watched programming and for Televisa and TV Azteca it was an area they completely dominated," Sosa Plata said. "Slim's entry into soccer is reorganizing the field and giving a new perspective to a business that seemed stagnant."
The billionaire sold the broadcast rights for the Leon games to Telemundo in the United States, and the cable channel Fox Sports in Mexico and the rest of Latin America and to the website mediotiempo.com, which belongs to CNN/Expansion. The games are also sown on the Internet through UNO TV owned by Slim's business group.
Pachuca's broadcast rights belong to TV Azteca but that contract expires in December and Martinez has said he will negotiate with the highest bidder, which suggests that his partner Slim won't be excluded from the possibility of buying the rights.
Slim "is a very important partner in our group, he's helping soccer to grow, which is what really matters," Martinez said.
Slim is also moving into broadcasting sports outside Mexico.
In March, America Movil trumped its rivals by announcing it had acquired the broadcast rights across all media platforms for the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 and Brazil 2016 for Latin America, except Brazil.