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Selena Gomez has been shutting it down lately in the style department. The "Come and Get It" singer flashed some skin in a sexy LBD she wore at Beverly Hills hot spot Hakkasan. And for a photo shoot with Flaunt magazine, the 21-year-old sizzled in lingerie.
For a trip to the new Verizon Store in Minneapolis' Mall of America on Wednesday, Selena showed off her chic style once again. This time around, the single lady wore a sparkly black top, feather earrings and dark pants. She added a pretty pop of color by wearing a bright shade of pink lipstick.
Gomez was the flagship store's first customer, touring the chic space with COO Marni Walden. 2013 has been a big year for the pop princess.
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"I'm having fun. This has been the best year for me," she told E! News. "I just turned 21, my record, the tour. I have a really good thing going."
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VICTORIA, British Columbia — The deal was signed; the sperm was collected; the baby was conceived. All the usual steps in the surrogate motherhood cycle were successfully completed. Then something went wrong. The dream baby the young, wealthy British Columbia couple had planted in the womb of a young, poor single mother turned out to have Down syndrome.
The prospective parents pulled out and called for an abortion post haste. They didn't want damaged goods. But the surrogate mother refused. She would raise the child, she said, if only they would help her with expenses. That was not part of the deal, they responded. It would be totally her responsibility. As a single mother with two children of her own, and a contract that gave her no leverage, she reluctantly had the abortion.
When the case was raised — with no names attached — at a recent fertility conference in Canada, it created headlines and debate nationwide — and set antennae atwitter in the U.S. too. No surrogacy contracts have ever been contested in Canada, but ethicists warned that it was bound to happen, and when it did, those contracts might not, and should not, stand.
Similar issues will arise increasingly in the U.S., ethicists warn, where only a handful of states specifically back surrogacy contracts.
"This should be a matter for family law, not commercial law," declared Juliet Guichon, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Calgary's medical school. "In family law, the interests of the child come first."
Another ethicist, Jennifer Parks of Chicago's Loyola University, agrees. "I read so many papers on surrogacy which are morally bankrupt. They are based on economic theories that assume these agreements are between rational and equal adults. They sidestep ethical issues and ignore the rights of the child."
Guichon hopes that someone will challenge a surrogacy agreement in a Canadian family court. There, she says, it doesn't matter what the parents agreed to before a baby was conceived or born through natural means; it just matters who was biologically responsible for the conception.
"If the mother claimed she was on the pill or if the man said he wouldn't provide support if she got pregnant, the family court doesn't care about that," said Guichon. "The baby needs support, so the court looks around for who can provide it. And it looks to the genetic parents."
Guichon believes that under family law the court would put a financial onus on the commissioning parents regardless of the pre-existing contract. After all, she notes, "all three people came together to create a child."
In the U.S., says Parks, "there is a patchwork of laws from state to state." Some have no laws; others have outlawed surrogacy, regarding it as tantamount to baby selling. According to the Human Rights Campaign website, six states explicitly accept surrogacy contracts: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington.
On the other hand, at least 19 states ban them, another 13 won't enforce contracts, and 10 ban a third party — such as a lawyer — from profiting from such contract agreements.
Parks and Guichon say that contract law is inadequate when human life is involved. Said Parks: "We are not born into contracts; we are born into relationships and into families. In relationships we ask: What do we owe the other person? What do the wealthy intended parents owe to the poor surrogate mother? Is it only money?"
Parks says that feminist thinking and Catholic thinking converge on surrogacy because "both are concerned with the dignity of the persons involved" and see the contractual relations involved — especially with commercial surrogacy — as destructive of human dignity for both the mother and offspring.
What's more, both see the surrogate mothers as being coerced by their poverty into ignoring the health risks and the social costs, says Parks. In India, for example, surrogacy must be done in secret; it is regarded as a shameful act akin to prostitution. There, according to an article on the New Delhi TV website, women are paid as little as $5,600 to bear a child, or "double of what [one surrogate mother] earned as a sales executive in a year."
Guichon goes further. She has seen anecdotal evidence suggesting surrogate mothers are having these babies out of guilt over a previous abortion or having given up a previous child for adoption. Some have been sexually abused and have learned, like prostitutes, to "disassociate themselves from their bodies and have a stranger's baby, just as a prostitute can have sex with a stranger."
The charge of exploitation also attaches to egg donation, another route to enhanced fertility, where a woman bears the child she wants to raise using implanted eggs.
In fact, Jennifer Lahl of the California-based Center for Bioethics and Culture, has titled her new documentary film on the commercial traffic in human eggs Eggsploitation. The film, released in August, argues that women living in poverty, or students with daunting educational debts, are lured into psychologically and physically risky medical egg-donation procedures by fees as high as $50,000 in the U.S. and considerably less in Eastern Europe or Asia.
But Lahl says the women aren't told of the risk of infection and infertility that could result from being given several large doses of various hormones to accelerate the production of mature eggs. Eggsploitation focuses on three women who lost their fertility and one who died from complications from donating eggs: "But there are no follow-up studies of donors, so no one really knows the risks."
But if the risks aren't known, she says, it follows that "there can be no informed consent. And if money is on the table when the offer is made to a poor woman, that isn't informed consent either."
Lahl says the commercialization of childbirth and fertility leads society to devalue human life. The production of eggs and embryos for experimentation is one outcome. She worries, too, about children born through artificial means, who may yearn for contact with or knowledge of their biological parents: "It's a huge social experiment we are engaged in."
Lahl's film is being promoted by Feminists Choosing Life of New York, which is using it in its fight to stop state funding, of up to $10,000 per donation, to induce women to donate eggs for stem-cell research.
But Sally Rhoad, a former surrogate mother who runs an Ontario website assisting both prospective "intended" parents and surrogates, says the new reproductive technologies "are wonderful when they are successful. Thirty years ago people with fertility problems just wouldn't be able to have babies."
She remains in touch with the child she bore as a surrogate.
She admits, however, that most surrogacy procedures fail. She has helped arrange 18 surrogacies this year, she says, "but only four are pregnant."
Nobody involved takes the process lightly, she says. "They don't do this on a whim, and when it fails, it is devastating."
Register correspondent Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.


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As a refresher, Periscope is a three month-old, free mobile app that allows any user to live stream from wherever they are. Jennifer bravely responded to our call out for 'Nonprofit Periscopers' and she had a lot of great advice to offer in our Q & A.
1) What made you want to try out Periscope? Was it a strategic move as part of a larger social strategy, or did you want to experiment with the app first to see if it would work for your nonprofit?
I saw the Michigan Secretary of State staff using Periscope at a press conference during National Donate Life Month in April. (In Michigan our Secretary of State oversees the DMV, and helps coordinate the state's organ donor registry.) It seemed like an easy way to engage a broader audience in an event. I watched a few other broadcasts on the iPad and was intrigued by the possibilities to engage distant supporters in real-time. I decided to experiment with it a bit, to see how it might benefit our organization and cause.


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I've been delving into internet marketing for the past two years, learning as I go. I still have a day job - for that, I am basically a consultant who helps do-it-yourselfers with the design and components for in-floor radiant heating systems.
Prior to that I worked as a composer, producer and audio engineer for a few area recording studios - I know kind of a weird twist. It gets a bit more weird. Before the recording studio, I had long hair and sang/played keyboards in local top 40 bands.
My son Stephen and I met Sheryl, Brad and Cait through the 2008 thirty day challenge - we're doing it again this year. Although this time I'm not planning to blog about it like I did last year. As an outgrowth of last year's challenge, I've ended up doing SEO consulting for a few clients. It's bringing in some fairly steady money while the housing industry is down (which affects my radiant heating job).
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This post is a little out of character, okay a lot, for a cemetery blog; however, I want to acknowledge, and say thank you, to whomever nominated this blog for Family Tree Magazine's 40 Best Genealogy Blogs 2011.
THANK YOU!!! I feel very honoured to be nominated alongside wonderful and inspirational cemetery blogs, such as Cemetery Explorers. Again, THANK YOU! I very much enjoy the process of producing this blog, sharing the photos I've had the honour to shoot, and learning about the history of the individuals who have gone before us.
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Gas prices are sky high and it beats idling in gridlock. Both the planet and our bodies deserve better than motoring from every Point A to every Point B. Last but not least, it's fun. Cyclists offer all these reasons and more to explain why their ranks are growing steadily in Massachusetts.
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Gas prices are sky high and it beats idling in gridlock. Both the planet and our bodies deserve better than motoring from every Point A to every Point B.
Last but not least, it's fun.
Cyclists offer all these reasons and more to explain why their ranks are growing steadily in Massachusetts. By just one measure, the number of Bay State commuters who mainly biked to work spiked 80 percent from 2000 to 2011, from roughly 12,300 people to 22,200, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
The rise has been rapid in a handful of cities – Cambridge estimated there were three times as many people biking on its streets last year compared to 2002.
Add people who bike mostly for fun or fitness and the numbers soar. About 688,000 people in Massachusetts biked more than once in 2011, according to estimates by the National Sporting Goods Association. That's about one in 10 state residents.
Also climbing now: The number of state and local leaders who say they want to build on this trend as an alternative to congested roads and streets originally built mainly for cars.
In a recent sign of this shift, the state Department of Transportation (MassDOT) announced last fall it aims to triple travel by biking, walking and public transit by 2030. It's not about just accommodating people who bicycle for fun, but recognizing bikes as a form of transportation, said Catherine Cagle, manager of sustainable transportation at MassDOT.
"We want more of them," she said.
But to get more people cycling on a larger scale across eastern Massachusetts, it could take time, more infrastructure and more concentrated efforts to educate people about rules of the road, say transportation advocates and planners.
Advocates credit the recent expansion of bike lanes, paths and places to lock up bikes in part for the growth of cycling, making it more convenient and safer for more people to hop behind the handlebars.
For example, in the 101 towns and cities served by the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, there are now about 103 miles of striped bike lanes, 43 miles of shared lane markings and 67 miles of shared-use paths, according to the commission.
"When you build it, they come," said Jason Schrieber, a principal at Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, a planning firm that specializes in bicycle and pedestrian plans. "Embracing cycling is not a hurdle for most people – they've been doing it since they were five. It's just that we never really gave them the environment to do it safely, until now."
Cyclists also credit bike-friendly shifts in public attitudes and values. More people – especially younger generations – are moving to more urban areas and seeking healthier, greener and simpler ways to get around, and more leaders are embracing that shift.
Much of the growth of cycling has not been among the stereotypical, spandex-clad crowd, said David Watson, executive director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, or MassBike.
"They're just regular people, very often riding inexpensive bikes, wearing regular clothes, just to get around," he said.
But cycling's growth has been uneven. In Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth and Worcester counties, there are fewer bike commuters than the state average.
Beyond Boston and nearby communities, bike infrastructure can be scarce or disconnected from other lanes, trails or common routes. More towns and cities are embracing lofty goals for bikeable, walkable streets on paper, but this doesn't always yield results on the ground.
The next ring of communities outside Boston – including suburbs and other cities – will need to catch up, said Steve Miller, executive director of the New England Healthy Weight Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health and a board member at the Livable Streets Alliance, where he writes a transit blog, "The Public Way."
"Bicycling is going to be one of those lifestyle harbingers of future economic growth," he said.
Many advocates also see room to improve safety as more bikes hit the streets.
Statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show 39 cyclists died on Bay State roads from 2007 to 2011 – roughly 2 percent of all crash deaths combined for those years. Seven deaths occurred in Boston, with the rest distributed throughout the state.
A more recent case illustrated what many cyclists viewed as a failure to recognize their legal right to share the road. A grand jury in February decided not to indict a truck driver, Dana McCoomb, who police say struck and killed cyclist Alexander Motsenigos in a hit-and-run in Wellesley last summer. At the time, MassBike condemned the decision.
Police departments also reported to MassDOT that more than 2,100 people riding bikes suffered non-fatal injuries in crashes from 2007 to 2010, though the count is inexact and does not include most crashes in Boston. And while many cyclists say tensions with drivers are rare, they do arise – in a recent example, Cambridge police in February charged a Lowell man with assault after he allegedly got out of his car and slapped a man on a bike in the face.
In part, cyclists are aiming for more safety in numbers – in some U.S. cities, overall bike crash rates have declined as more people pedaled. At MassBike, Watson favors more public education on sharing the road, but most of all, more regular bike education in schools.
"If we want to make the real shift, where people are instinctively looking for bicyclists and thinking about the safety of all the different users of the road, we really need to start with the kids," he said.
MassBike also backs legislation this year aimed at safety, including a bill to stiffen fines and require traffic safety training for drivers who harm, threaten or assault cyclists, as well as pedestrians, skaters and other so-called "vulnerable road users."
Another bill backed by a coalition of public health and transit groups this year would provide new financial perks to towns that adopt bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly street standards.
As state and local leaders look to fill gaps in the region's cycling infrastructure and make other improvements, Boston Bikes Director Nicole Freedman noted her city was once rated among the worst in the U.S. for bicycling.
Since 2007, it has added 60 miles of bike lanes, launched the Hubway bike-sharing program and made other strides.
"Five years later, we're one of the top cycling cities in the country, in a city that has narrow, tight streets and has winter," Freedman said. "That really says: Look, it's doable anywhere."
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BONIFAY � The Holmes County Sheriff�s Office reported the arrests of three people following two high-speed chases over the course of two nights.
Wesley Adam Thompson, 30, of DeFuniak Springs and Peggy Jo Turner, 38, of DeFuniak Springs, were arrested after a 20-minute high-speed chase on the evening of May 8.
A Holmes County deputy attempted to stop a red Chevrolet pickup for registration and seatbelt violations when the vehicle sped up and led the deputy on a 20-minute high-speed chase, according to the report.
The chase went almost to the Alabama State line when the truck seemed to experience some mechanical problems and then the driver, Thompson, �bailed out� of the vehicle and was caught by the deputy after a short run, according to the report.
After a search of the truck, deputies say they found meth and paraphernalia and arrested Turner, who was the passenger.
Thompson is being charged with fleeing and attempting to elude, willful and wanton reckless driving, attached tag not assigned, possession of meth and possession of paraphernalia. Turner is being charged with possession of meth and paraphernalia.
Both Thompson and Turner are being held at the Holmes County Jail until their first court appearance.
David Earl Blackmon, 42, of Dothan, was arrested after a high-speed chase in the early morning hours of May 9.
According to the report, deputies were responding to a call reporting a robbery and that the suspect took off in a Ford Mustang.
The deputies were on their way to the scene when they met the suspect�s car speeding west on State Road 90, according to the report.
The suspect then sped up to 120 miles per hour, turned off his headlights in an attempt to lose the deputies and lost control of his car when he tried to turn onto Tobe Rutherford Road, finally coming to a stop in the woods.
Blackmon then tried to get away on foot through the woods but was quickly caught.
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Mark Chaney has a favorite story he likes to tell about his early career days. It involves nearly getting fired by Danny Wegman.
Chaney was having a good run working at Wegmans Food Markets Inc. on East Avenue. He was 16, enjoyed the job and was engrossed in his duties. At times, however, he may have been too engrossed.
While putting up an aisle display-shirt untucked and hair unkempt-Chaney was stopped by a man who asked him to tidy up a bit. He told the man sure, when he finished the job; then he turned and went about his business.
He later learned that man was Wegman, and he had approached Chaney's manager after their exchange, saying he wanted Chaney fired. His manager, however, stuck up for him and Chaney ended up keeping his job.
It left a lasting impact, he says.
"I realized it's not enough to be hard- working; you have to be aware of others and the impact you have as part of a team," he says.
Chaney, 49, carries that lesson into his own business, Calvary Automation Systems Inc. He is president and CEO of the Webster company, which designs and manufactures production machinery and equipment primarily for the alternative fuels, automotive, biomedical and consumer products markets.
Chaney started the firm in 1994 and is the sole owner. Calvary employs roughly 250 workers, and Chaney expects it to log sales this year of $80 million to $100 million.
Over the next 18 months, he predicts, Calvary will add 100 workers and grow annual sales to $110 million to $130 million.
Chaney, who related the story about his near-firing to Wegman at a recent dinner-Wegman remembered the incident-remains impressed with the way Wegman runs his business.
"My goal is to become the Wegmans of automation," Chaney says.
Early aptitude
As a child, Chaney was drawn to mechanical objects. He remembers taking things apart as a 4-year-old and asking how to put them back together.
He was born in Daytona Beach, Fla., but spent part of his early childhood in Vestal, Broome County, where his father was a systems analyst with IBM Corp., owned 70 apartments and ran a farm. Chaney did not realize it in his early years but now says he likely inherited his father's work ethic.
Chaney decided to move to Rochester and live with his mom in his teens, then at 17 decided to venture out on his own. He found his own place and took a job first at Star Market and then Wegmans while going to high school.
After graduating from East High School in 1981, he began taking classes at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he studied engineering. While there, he worked odd jobs as a lifeguard, limousine driver and general contractor.
He never finished college and instead took a job at Rochester-based Rogers Associates Machine Tool Corp. Chaney worked there for 12 years in jobs such as a tool maker and mechanical engineer. While there, he had a number of ideas but never saw them come to fruition. Finally, frustrated, he started Calvary Design Service.
Even as the company leader, Chaney says, it is still a struggle to get people to sign onto his ideas.
"I've never had one idea anyone (initially) liked," he says.
Luckily, once they give his ideas a try, people are usually happy with the outcome, he says.
Take, for example, his idea to give Calvary engineers two computer monitors to do their work. Everyone's initial response was no, so Chaney made one engineer try his idea. Before long, all were working with two monitors, and now they claim they do not know how they did their work without them, he says.
Chaney emphasizes rewarding people for jobs well done. Numerous incentive programs are available at Calvary for those who want to work toward them.
"I'm a big believer in rewards as a motivator," he says.
Continued growth
After buying a 400,000-square-foot building in Webster for $4.6 million and spending $4.5 million to renovate it, the company moved to the larger facility from Henrietta in May.
In addition to the local site, Calvary has sales staff in other parts of the world and recently opened a 50,000-square-foot facility in Malaysia to provide service, support and fabrication for customers.
Its customers are worldwide, including local customers such as Eastman Kodak Co., General Motors Corp. and Xerox Corp.
A few years ago, Calvary shifted its focus from being a custom engineering firm that provided prototypes for customers to one that can supply larger orders of the machines. That business is growing steadily.
More recently, Calvary opened up a new business opportunity by creating separate units that focus on new product development.
Calvary has either partnered with smaller firms or bought stock in other companies to increase its offerings. One such firm is CGS Fabrication, a manufacturer of high-speed machining, computer numerically controlled milling and turning, fabrication and assembly of components.
Calvary also partnered with OptiCool Technologies LLC and has a majority ownership in the business. The firm builds cooling products for data centers. Its systems are smaller than other units on the market and more energy-efficient, Chaney says.
Both CGS and OptiCool are located in Calvary's Webster building.
Calvary is working with two other companies to set up similar deals. The business looks for companies with strong management and technological capabilities, he says. It then commits money and people to bring the products to market.
Though Calvary is expanding its workforce in other locations, Chaney said, the company's core engineering and purchasing operations will remain here.
Chaney travels no more than one week per month, mostly throughout the United States, Asia and Europe.
Meeting driven
He begins each day at Midtown Athletic Club, playing tennis. Laid back and friendly, Chaney enjoys talking about his business and makes an effort to get his points across with interesting stories and anecdotes rather than reciting a stream of business jargon.
His office-the last spot to be completed since the move-includes a seating area with a fireplace, conference table with a smart board and teleconferencing capabilities, as well as a kitchenette. Family photos surround his desk.
Roberta Chaney, his wife, says her husband strives to be approachable and generous to employees. He makes sure he knows the names of their spouses and children. He also has an open-door policy at the office and even, at times, at his home.
"He respects and values the team he has," Roberta says, adding that his style derives from being a self-made success. "He believes it's important for everyone to be recognized."
She also describes her husband as loyal and honorable.
"He can relate to everyone; he doesn't put himself on a pedestal," she says.
Chaney describes his management style as hands-on. He believes in developing innovative products and bringing them to market inventively.
"To achieve this, I have to find and develop leaders who are passionate about the project and the people," he says. "My best attribute is being a good talent scout."
At the office, Chaney focuses on sales strategies, operations and team-building through hiring, training and motivating.
"Mostly I prepare for meetings and go to meetings," Chaney says; he averages more than 100 meetings with key personnel monthly.
He compares his daily schedule to that of a dentist.
"I go from meeting to meeting-instead of patient to patient-trying to improve the department's health and eradicate problems," he says. "From their point of view, I am exerting pain in areas that could have been left alone for a while longer. No one likes change, but it is part of continuous improvement."
He meets regularly to adjust techniques. The collaboration on new products, as well as developing new leaders, is Chaney's favorite part of the business. What he does not like is losing projects during the sales process.
While there are many industry challenges, Chaney says the biggest challenge for him is developing the next generation of engineers and technicians who will have the skills and passion to succeed and drive company growth.
He gets different types of inspiration from a few business titans. He admires former General Electric Corp. chairman and CEO Jack Welch for his business strategies; the late Steve Jobs for his innovation as co-founder of Apple Inc.; and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates for his philanthropy.
And then there is Wegman for his success with a local business.
"He has taken the grocery store to a new level," Chaney says.
Bill Krug, with Rochester-based S&W Technologies Inc., has known Chaney for more than 25 years and praises his business acumen.
"What makes Mark a great leader is his blend of innovative thinking and ability to capitalize on developing markets," Krug says. "Attracting and motivating top industry talent to execute on company targets has also been key to Mark's thriving businesses," he adds.
Off the job
Chaney and his wife live in Victor with their two children, Gia, 10, and Ryan, 8. They family moved back to the Rochester area in 2009 after living in Naples, Fla., where Chaney owned some properties, for four years. Chaney ran Calvary from there, making numerous trips back to the area, but finally decided the Rochester area was more family-friendly than Florida.
At home, he prefers to spend his time with his family. That includes sit-down meals. His wife, born and raised in Italy, is a phenomenal cook, Chaney says.
"Needless to say, we are a close family and we eat well," he says.
He also enjoys tennis, golfing and boating. An avid reader, Chaney often finishes one book a week.
Chaney says his professional focus remains on growing his business.
"Over the next five years I hope to hire hundreds and continue to build the company," he says.
Mark Chaney
Position: President and CEO, Calvary Automation Systems Inc.
Age: 49
Education: East High School, 1981
Family: Wife Roberta; daughter Gia, 10, and son Ryan, 8
Residence: Victor
Activities: Tennis, golf, boating, reading
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We were the first to arrive and waited a little to everyone to arrive. The guides provided life vests with pockets on the chest, sun block and water bottles. We were given a brief talk on how to maneuver, and we took off as a group.
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|Underwater shot of sea weed.
|The penguins at Boulders Beach live so close to humans!
|Can you spot the seal?
|Our guide and the premier South African Navy boat.
On our trip, we saw African "Jackass" Penguins, two seals, and several types of birds.
|They didn't even bat an eye when we floated by.
I expected to be very sore in my upper body and arms, however, the next day it was more of my back that was sore.
The Hubs has been dreaming about getting our own single kayak for days at the beach. Not sure if that'll ever happen, but...
I'd do it again in a heart beat!


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Don't declaw your cat: furniture-saving tips and tricks
By Dorian Wagner
The best way to prevent kitties from damaging your valuable furniture is to provide them with something valuable to them -- a fancy scratch post or board. Cats like durable objects with certain textures more than they like your new furniture. Give them a better scratch device and they'll choose it over your couch.
Cats need to climb and be animals. Make sure your home offers your cat opportunities to be the hunter it is. Does it have enough toys, ledges and climbing spots? Before you blame your cat for ruining your furniture, check to see that you have enough to entertain it.
If your cat is scratching a specific spot time and time again, try covering that area with a blanket or thick towel. If you limit access to the spot, your cat will likely back off. If your cat needs more guidance, try double-sided tape for a while. It's not pretty, but it does the job. Certain fabrics also deter cats from scratching. Microfiber is known to be scratch-resistant.
If your cat still wants to scratch, try a product called Soft Paws, which are nail caps for cats. These are vinyl caps that fit over your cat's claws to prevent scratching. As a bonus, they come in a variety of colors -- fashionable and functional!
Try not to punish your cat for scratching your new couch. Punishment may keep your cat from scratching while you're around, but it won't keep your cat from scratching when you're not around.
Finally, talk to your vet before you completely give up. Often, destructive behaviors lead people to give up their animals. There may be solutions that your vet can offer. Try all of your options before you throw in the towel.
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Local to capture Continental Divide Trail
Freezing temperatures at night; boiling desert stretches in the day; grizzly bear territory and elevations that top at 14,000 feet. Those are just a handful of the elements that Park City local Shay Blackley, 24, will face starting this April as he begins a solo trek along the 3,100 mile-long Continental Divide Trail.
Only a handful of people have traversed the entire trail, which covers 3,100 miles starting in Mexico and ending in Canada. But what sets Blackley apart is how he hopes to highlight the importance of the trail. Blackley, who grew up with Park City as his backyard, hopes to take one picture every 10 seconds for the entire length of the trail, capturing some of the wildest landscapes in the American West.
"I want to show people what the trail is. A lot of people would like to do it, but the hike can seem overwhelming," he said.
Blackley said the pictures he plans to take are a public service, which he will compile into a time lapse where people can research portions of the trail as a way to mentally prepare for it. With plans to also film an accompanying documentary, Blackley will track his solo trip. The media he is creating will serve as an effort to get people interested in hiking and maintaing the Continental Divide Trail.
"There are not many resources for this trail," he said. "The main nonprofit that helped organize volunteers and trail maintenance, all that stuff, they disbanded a little over a year ago.
"Now think, if you looked at a piece of trail in Park City and said only 10 people walk it in a year and you never do maintenance on it, that trail is probably going to erode very fast."
To fund the supplies he will need to document the trip, Blackley turned to Kickstarter, a website that uses an online pledge system to fund creative projects. For solar chargers and iPhones capable of taking and storing the photos, Blackley is hoping to raise $2,500. His campaign ends in just more than a week.
"I'm doing this hike regardless," Blackley said. "I want to get people to realize that the trail is there. It's falling into disrepair. And having this media source, people can check it out. Even something like a highlight reel on YouTube could impact how people think about this trail."
In past years, Blackley has hiked both the Pacific Crest Trail and the Appalachian Trail, among other trails, he said. He works with the snow patrol at the Park City Mountain Resort and also serves as an Outward Bound Leader Instructor. But even with his experience outdoors, Blackley admits the Continental Divide Trail will be a severe undertaking. Only 70 percent of the trail is completed, meaning at certain points he will be completely on his own.
"This means you have a map and a compass and the trail ends," he said. "You're walking through total wilderness.
"The trail motto, it's 'Embrace the Brutality.' You have to be prepared for the extremes of everything."
To help fund the project, visit http://www.kickstarter.org and search "A Time Lapse of America's Wilderness."
County loses employees with half-century of experience, ties to East Side
Anita Lewis, Brent Ovard and Travis English were influential in shaping how residents interact with the county.


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Due to my occasional over buying of bananas I have baked a lot of banana bread - one of my favourites being to bake the bananas in the oven with some rum and sugar first before adding to the bread batter, however we may have found a new favourite. Even better than rum baked bananas?
I give you my new favourite baking ingredient - butterscotch morsels. I was given two packets a while back by an American friend and oh my they add a touch of deliciousness to everything. And are quite tasty straight from the packet too.
Banana bread isn't the prettiest is it? Butterscotch morsels make it taste great but don't do much for the look of it. It didn't help that my house has been completely dark for the last week due to massive mounds of earth outside due to Overground engineering works - so sorry for the incredibly dark pics.
The recipe I tarted up is from How to be a Domestic Goddess and is bake for this months Forever Nigella hosted by Maison Cupcake.
The recipe can be found here and to make my version all you do is take out the sultanas and replace with butterscotch chips. Butterscotch beats sultanas every time surely?
Oh and I may have overdone the walnuts a little - I like a lot of them in my banana bread - as you can probably see. Just follow the recipe if you don't like quite so many. I promise it makes a lovely banana bread - delicious with a cup of tea.


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I go to "Advanced/AI Matches" and the select "Very Easy" team. Play the match and if I am able to finish I click "Full replay" and it crashes immediately.
I don't have a /map folder under /FrozenCortex
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The console.log file had some errors near the end. Do you want that, where do I submit bugs to?
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game has ended: result: 25^25^0, time: 2208
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REPL: 12 objects to replicate
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Go to any typical stop sign. Pick your location of choice. Pick one that is comfortable because you might be there a while. Now watch. Don't bother watching cyclists. Most of them will blow right through the sign without even looking. THEY would clearly be in violation of the Idaho law, not to mention all other laws. No, instead, watch the motorists. It won't take too long before you'll notice that MOTORISTS generally operate in accord with the Idaho law - or they would if it actually APPLIED to motorists. You'll see that that they mostly slow down, and, if required for safety, stop before entering the intersection.
If we follow the "same road, same rules, same rights" principle, the law would apply to motorists and bicycles alike. After all, motorists operate that way anyway. Why make them all, technically, into criminals? You might wonder what is the point of stop signs if not to make people stop? Well, that WAS the original purpose, but over the years, stop signs have grown up willy nilly, mostly in places where yield signs or less would be MORE than adequate. Still, how much would it cost to change all those signs, with local people fighting it every step of the way? Instead, might it not simply make more sense to change the law and match the way traffic really operates? Rantwick would be clearly legal. So would anyone driving (or riding) in accordance with conditions. And, honestly, would you, as a cyclist, begrudge any motorist operating safely at a stop sign, even if that same motorist didn't strictly come to a complete stop? Heck, I've OFTEN been passed by motorists as I stopped for stop signs. ALWAYS safely. If necessary, the few signs that really OUGHT to be stopped at could have something at the bottom along the lines of "really!"
Now, you might criticize such a proposal, noting that if you made such behavior legal, motorists would abuse it. Well, do you have any OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE to support such a position? We could always repeal such an "equal opportunity" law. Besides, even though it is clearly illegal, people on bikes ride the way they ride. Why should motorists be any different?
|Run the Stop Sign? On a Bike or in a Car?
NOW, let's move on to traffic lights. THAT, to me, seems a bit more dicey. I've experienced motorists passing me in order to run a red left turn signal. That seems a much more cut and dried case and I have not got a lot of sympathy for a motorist or cyclist that blows a red light. I might not mind a law that clarified how long someone must wait at a red light before ignoring it, but the Idaho law seems like it'd make me nervous if literally applied to motorists as well as cyclists. It fails the "same rules" smell test.
|Going to the Right of the Motorist and THEN Blowing the Light Would be Illegal in Idaho
|Running THIS Light Would be Legal Anywhere!
I guess, what I'm saying, is if we are talking about safety rather than simple convenience, that what is good for the goose (people on bikes) is good for the gander (motorists). If you are unwilling to extend such things to motorists in a given circumstances, go back in my blog and reread the Land Rover Rule. If such things would be safe if performed by a motorist, maybe we should stop restricting people needlessly. Just sayin'
|In this case, Cyclists are the Geese, Motorists are the Ganders


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US stocks finished nearly flat on Tuesday, although the Dow eked out another record closing high as utilities' shares fell while 10-year bond yields hit their highest level in a month.
Six of the 10 primary S&P 500 sector indexes ended the session lower. The decline was led by a 0.3 per cent drop in the S&P utilities index. Utility stocks' high dividends tend to lose some of their appeal when bond yields jump.
It was the Dow's fourth straight record closing high. The S&P 500, though, broke its four-day string of record high finishes.
The benchmark S&P 500 moved within less than a 7-point range, continuing its recent tight trading pattern.
"Obviously, a lot of people have been concerned the S&P 500 has hit so many price targets that it does need to consolidate a bit, so that's why the activity is a little quieter than normal. People don't have a reason to sell, but they also don't have a reason to go out and buy with any type of enthusiasm, so you kind of end up in this holding pattern," said Michael O'Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Shares of eBay fell 2.7 per cent to end at $48.25, ranking as the second-biggest drag on the S&P 500. The stock's slide came after news late Monday that David Marcus, who has led eBay's fast-growing payments unit PayPal for the past two years, will step down this month to run Facebook's messaging products. Facebook Inc shares rose 4.6 per cent to $65.77.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 2.82 points or 0.02 per cent, to 16,945.92, a record closing high.
The S&P 500 dipped 0.48 of a point or 0.02 per cent, to finish at 1,950.79. The Nasdaq Composite added 1.75 points or 0.04 per cent, to 4,338.
Strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch slightly reduced their recommended equity allocation for clients with a moderate risk tolerance, reflecting a bit more cautiousness, but still remained positive on stocks, according to a note. The firm's Resource Investment Committee said it cut its equity allocation for moderate-risk clients by 2 percentage points to 66 percent.
Volume was once again below average. With just 5.2 billion shares changing hands on US exchanges, Tuesday's volume was below the 5.76 billion average for the last month, according to data from BATS Global Markets.
The CBOE Volatility Index ended down 1.4 per cent at 10.99. Further evidence of the low volatility and the slow grind in the market: The 14-day Average True Range on the S&P 500 hit 10.09, the lowest since February 2013.
Besides Facebook, other momentum stocks ranked among the day's biggest outperformers, including Netflix Inc, up 1.2 per cent at $428.29.
Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc was among the Nasdaq's most-active names, surging 83.3 per cent to $7.79. The company said on Tuesday that the US Food and Drug Administration let it resume the development of one of its hepatitis C drugs. JMP Securities upgraded the stock to "market outperform" from "market perform."
The biotech sector got a lift from Receptos Inc, which shot up 36.8 per cent to $39.94 after the company's experimental multiple sclerosis drug met its main goal in a mid-stage trial.
Copyright: Thomson Reuters 2014


text: We're all looking forward to our Uncle Joe Biden's appearance on Parks and Recreation this Thursday, but did you know that this won't be the his first appearance on a much-beloved television series? Come, friends, and let's travel back to a magical time called 1993 during which the VP — who back then was but a lowly, chrome-haired senator — appeared on the children's classic Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego. Interesting fact: Sandiego is still at large and is currently #27 on the terrorist watch list.


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Originally, Facebook did not want to comment on our story about Mark Zuckerberg's attitude toward privacy or the instant-message exchange we published earlier.
(In the IM exchange, which may just have been silly dorm-room chitchat, Mark called Harvard students who trusted him with their phone numbers and email addresses "dumb.")
The company has since given us a statement:
"The privacy and security of our users' information is of paramount importance to us. We're not going to debate claims from anonymous sources or dated allegations that attempt to characterize Mark's and Facebook's views towards privacy.
Everyone within the company understands our success is inextricably linked with people's trust in the company and the service we provide. We are grateful people continue to place their trust in us. We strive to earn that trust by trying to be open and direct about the evolution of the service and sharing information on how the 400 million people on the service can use the available settings to control where their information appears."
For the record, we believe every word of this statement. Persuading Facebook's hundreds of millions of users that the company is committed to protecting their privacy is critical to the company's future success.


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Jones Day has just demoted at least two of its London partners to counsel. Both partners – RoF is sparing their blushes and not naming them – are senior and widely regarded. Insiders say that the decision was made by Steve Brogan, the firm's Managing Partner in Washington, and that John Phillips, the partner in charge of London, was unable to protect them.
Not for the first time. Insiders say that the firm's London management is entirely under the thumb of its American paymasters and generally about as effective as a one-armed monkey. The office saw the demotions of at least four of its partners in 2016, at least three in 2013 and at least five in 2009. These are only the numbers of which RoF is aware – the actual figure could be much higher. At the most charitable that runs to 14 demotions at an office that currently numbers just 62 partners.
Most firms manage their equity and are able to reduce their partners' remuneration. But they don't choose to humiliate them into the bargain. There's no reason why the former Jones Day partners could not have taken a pay cut and remained on the letterhead without having to hand in their business cards, change their email signatures and be embarrassed in front of their families, colleagues, clients and friends.
Or maybe there is a reason, but as ever Jones Day refused to comment so the firm's rationale remains shrouded in mystery.


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How about a startup rate where we can apply and you verify our size? I am willing to pay but $500 a week is far too much for us.


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To fight obesity, USA needs a plan
Three experts offer their ideas for how to reverse the obesity epidemic.
What will it take to reverse the current obesity epidemic? Two-thirds of adults and a third of children in the USA are overweight or obese, government statistics show. Three national experts weighed in on what it will take to solve the obesity problem.
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Communities must experiment, urge healthy choices
"I am very confident we can reverse the obesity epidemic. I don't think we are going to treat our way out of the epidemic with pills or surgery.
"We will solve this by empowering communities and individuals to make the healthier choices the easier choices.
"It starts with a healthy pregnancy, breast-feeding, early childhood healthy feeding. We are increasingly recognizing that early childhood experiences are very important for health throughout life.
"It's crucial that communities try different things to reduce the obesity epidemic and that they rigorously study the impact of those efforts. Forty years ago, we didn't know how to reduce the tobacco epidemic, but because communities tried different things, we now have a strong list of things that reduce tobacco use. We (the CDC) are helping dozens of communities try things and rigorously evaluating their impact. The more things we try, the more we'll know how we can support people.
"We are seeing signs of hope. We are seeing communities throughout the U.S. that are seeing childhood obesity not only stabilize but decline. We are not out of the woods, but there is real progress.
"We can reverse the epidemic by making healthier choices easier at every stage of life and every place."
STORY: We're fighting fat, but odds long
STORY: Readers weigh in on obesity epidemic
MORE: Want to join Family Fitness Challenge?
Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest:
Let's work on school foods, better restaurant options
"The solutions to addressing obesity will have to be as multifaceted as is the problem itself. Some ways to reverse the epidemic:
"Improve school foods. This school year, schools are working hard to implement new healthier school lunch standards. The new standards mean that school lunches should have twice the fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, less salt and unhealthy saturated and trans fats, and more appropriate calorie levels. But these are tough changes — for schools and kids. We need a major nationwide effort to support school food service to serve healthier foods and encourage children to eat them. Another important solution to addressing obesity is to get sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks out of vending machines, school stores and other school venues.
"Clean up food marketing to kids. Studies show that food advertising and marketing affects children's food preferences, choices, diets and health. Thanks to some industry efforts, there has been a modest reduction in unhealthy food ads. However, still over 80% of food advertising to children is for foods of poor nutritional value. Food companies should strengthen their nutrition standards and cover all media used to market food to kids. Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and other media companies should follow the lead of Disney and Ion Media and limit unhealthy food advertising during its children's television programming and on its websites.
"Improve options at restaurants. Dozens of studies link eating out with obesity. Most of the time, we should try to eat healthfully at restaurants. To help, Congress passed a national law in 2010 requiring chain restaurants with 20 or more outlets to list calories on menus and menu boards.
"Restaurants also could help by normal-sizing portions of foods and drinks, promoting and reducing the prices of healthier options to make them more competitive choices. Restaurants should have meals come automatically with healthy sides and low-calorie beverages.
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health:
Problem is one of misperception, not of willpower
"How do we turn this situation around? We didn't get here quickly or easily. Don't let anyone tell you that there is just one simple solution. At the National Institutes of Health, we have a vigorous ongoing research program to test interventions and to determine what works and what doesn't. Here are some of the lessons we have learned:
"For the individual, we need to overcome the perception that obesity is just a matter of willpower — blaming the victim doesn't help. And for real change, individuals need to get past the crash-diet mentality to a lifestyle plan of healthy eating and increased physical activity. People need tools that can assist them in making these changes, including support groups and Web- or cellphone-based tools that allow tracking of diet and exercise to provide feedback.
"Families are crucial — unless the whole family gets involved in a plan to adopt a healthier lifestyle, it will be difficult for the individual to succeed.
"Communities are essential to success. Public education programs are critical. Redesigning the built environment to promote active lifestyles and access to healthy foods needs to be a priority; schools need to develop healthier lunch programs and access to physical education.
"Businesses that get engaged in providing incentives for a healthy lifestyle are finding that this yields results in productivity and reduced health care costs.
"National policies need to promote healthy eating and active lifestyles instead of working against them.
"America, we have a weight problem. But don't despair, we can beat it. We have faced other challenges as a nation, and we can overcome this one, but we'll have to do it together."


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POMONA — It's been a very busy offseason for John Force and his drag racing staple, John Force Racing. He's been on the move looking for sponsors to replace the two major ones that will end their business relationship at the end of the current Mello Yello Drag Racing Series campaign.
On Friday, John Force Racing took the first major step toward replacing some of the $20 million destined to leave following the season-finale Auto Club Finals at the same venue as the opening Winternationals. It was announced Peak Antifreeze and BlueDEF Diesel Exhaust Fluid signed a three-year deal as a "major associate sponsor."
The deal is good for all three JFR Funny Cars and the JFR Top Fuel dragster, as well as team uniforms and haulers.
"We are excited to add Peak and BlueDEF," said the 16-time Funny Car champion and the all-time winngest NHRA driver. "We pride ourselves on treating all of our sponsors like family for more than three decades. Bringing Peak and BlueDEF into the family will make us stronger in 2014 and for many years to come.
"We have had a lot of conversations about the future and I know this will be a great deal for everyone."
Peak started sponsored sportsmen Dan Flecth including Claremont's Jay Payne, Dan Fletcher (driving for Redlands' Rick Braun) and Duane Shields.
"We're proud to expand our support of the NHRA and its fans through our new relationship with John Force Racing," said Bryan Emrich, chief marketing officer for Old World Industries. "Partnering with JFR, a respected organization with a history of success, was a natural fit for our family of automotive products. We're looking forward to a longstanding, winning relationship together."
Split vision
Defending Pro Stock Jeg Coughlin will be busy with the season-opening event in Pomona, but he'll keep an eye on the television watching the Winter Olympics from Sochi. He has a vested interest in the four-man bobsled team which he witnessed win gold in Vancouver four years ago.
That's because JEGS, the family-owned high-performance parts company, has supported the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project which built the sled the U.S. will use at the Games. Coughlin has a close relationship with Bo-Dyn founder and former NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine, who took Coughin to the Games four years ago.
"I think the excitement for Sochi is very high. Steve Holcomb and his team seem to be peaking at the perfect time," said Coughlin "They've won a bunch of world cup races this year in both four-man and two-man and took the overall gold, so I'd say they are perfectly placed to defend the gold medal.
"The women will be right there as well. We'll definitely be cheering them on from home and wish them nothing but success. The sense of pride and patriotism is overwhelming when you're actually there on the massive stage of the Olympics," Coughlin said. "To watch the entire USA team do so well in Vancouver is something I will never forget. It was just a special feeling every step of the way."
Edwards speaks out
Mike Edwards stunned the sport during the off-season by selling all his equipment and disbanding his Pro Stock team. The two-time champion did not enter the season opener and maintained his traditional low profile.
According to a press release issued by the team, "Edwards has always chosen to fly under the radar and take his own path. The soft-spoken Oklahoma native has never raced to be the person with the media attention, notoriety, applause, farewell tours, or goodbyes. Edwards just wanted to race and let that be his legacy."
That include 40 class wins in addition to the titles, 56 No. 1 qualifying spots.
"While we may not know what the future holds, we are confident in who holds our future," Edwards said. "Lisa and I are blessed to have made many great friendships and worked with some of the best sponsors in the sport and will cherish those relationships as we move forward. We are not certain how our drag racing family will be a part of that, but we put our faith in God that he will guide us in the direction we need to go."
Pit stops
ESPN2 will once again televised selected NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events in 2014 with Dave Reiff calling the action. The series will be featured in 16 one-hour shows. … It was made very clear by Don Schumacher Racing that the Make-A-Wish Funny Car driven by Tommy Johnson Jr. is not funded by the organization. Car is sponsored by Terry Chandler.


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For any larger special event, give yourself a hand by writing a timeline for the food – there's nothing worse than reaching to serve the roasted potatoes, only to realize you forgot to put them in the oven! Any cook can be distracted once the guests start to arrive and the festivities take over. Do your thinking in advance and write a timeline to identify when you need to do what, including important details like what time to turn on the oven to preheat. Then, when the party is in full swing, all you have to do is refer to your timeline and do what it says. A timeline will also help identify glitches in the plan. For instance, you have one oven and it needs to be at two different temperatures at the same time – time for a re-think. A timeline is also handy for giving helpful guests an assignment or two!
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