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Information about small-business incentives in Albuquerque.
New Mexico offers a broad range of business incentives to encourage relocation of new businesses and expansion of existing businesses. They range from bonds and funding sources to training programs and tax credits.
Expansion Management Magazine said in 2002, "Albuquerque has a gold mine of incentives… The city offers industrial revenue bonds, an investment tax credit, a job training program, no inventory taxes and a technology jobs tax credit."
The two primary incentives are:
- Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs). The City of Albuquerque can issue industrial revenue bonds to finance economic-based industry projects (defined as exporting a majority of goods and services out of state). This includes construction or renovation of manufacturing plants, research and development facilities, corporate headquarters and certain other facilities, and purchase of land and equipment. Because the project is owned, technically, by the government entity and leased to the company, it's exempt for up to 20 years from property taxes on land, buildings, and equipment. Equipment purchased with bond proceeds is exempt from gross receipts or compensating taxes. The City does not provide any direct financing; the company is responsible for securing its own financing. For more information see IRBs Explained (Also see Tax Exemption Related to IRBs.)
- Job Training Incentive Program. This highly flexible incentive reimburses economic-base companies (those selling a majority of goods or services out of state) the cost of classroom and on-the-job-training for newly created jobs in expanding or relocating businesses for up to six months. The program reimburses 50 to 70 percent of employee wages and required travel expenses. It also pays 100 percent of classroom training costs and on-the-job training provided by New Mexico institutions and part of the per-diem and travel costs of outside trainers. Job applicants must be New Mexico residents or have lived here for at least a year in the past.
Financing Incentives
Funding mechanisms include:
- Direct Investment. A unique program of the State Investment Council is direct investment in New Mexico-based companies with the potential to create or add high-wage jobs, as long as a qualified co-investor, such as a venture-capital fund, also invests. The state can also invest in out-of-state companies that move to New Mexico. The state can't own more than half of a company, and no more than 10 percent of the program's funds can be invested in any one company.
- Business bonds. The state can invest up to $20 million in an American company's bonds, notes or debentures issued to create or expand a business in New Mexico. For information see Sun Mountain Capital or the State Investment Council .
- Market Rate Real Estate Investments: If a financial institution agrees to maintain a significant share of an existing first mortgage, the State Investment Council can become a participant in that mortgage.
- Venture Capital Investment Program. The state can invest up to $15 million in qualified New Mexico-based venture capital funds.
- Metropolitan Redevelopment Bonds. The City can issue bonds to finance business expansions (including land, buildings and equipment) in designated Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas. The city does not provide the financing or credit; the applicant is responsible for securing financing. MRBs provide a property-tax abatement for up to seven years on the value of net improvements to the property. For information, contact the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency at 924-3335.
- Tax Increment Financing (TIF). This allows a property owner, or group of owners, to form a Tax Increment District, with approval of the City. The district can then bond against the increase in taxes to pay for streets and other infrastructure to serve the TIF District.
Business Loans
There are a variety of loan programs to help companies buy land and buildings and support expansion. See Finding Loans and Investments.
Tax Credits
New Mexico has no inventory tax, and it provides a number of tax breaks for business, including:
- Tax Exemption Related to IRBs. Initial purchases of
equipment using the proceeds of an Industrial Revenue Bond are not subject to the state's gross receipts tax or compensating tax.
- Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit. Manufacturers can take a credit of 5 percent of the cost of qualified manufacturing equipment if they have hired one new worker for each $500,000 to $1 million in equipment, depending on the claim. The credit applies against gross receipts, compensating or withholding taxes and can be used with equipment purchased with IRB proceeds. The manufacturer simply reduces its payment of the taxes up to 85% per reporting period until the amount of investment credit is exhausted. (The credit doesn't apply against local gross receipts taxes.)
- Technology Jobs Tax Credit. A company can take a credit of 4 percent of technological research costs against gross receipts, compensating or payroll taxes, and the credits can be carried forward. Costs can include buildings, land, payroll, software, consultants and equipment. The company can use an additional equal credit for increasing its payroll by at least $75,000 over the year previous to applying for the credit and for each $1 million in qualified expenditures.
- Double-Weighted Sales Factor. This is a favorable way to calculate New Mexico corporate income tax liability, especially for companies with investment in plant and payroll in New Mexico but substantial product sales outside New Mexico. It allows a company or group of companies filing together with income from New Mexico and outside the state to apportion the income based on a formula. New Mexico taxes total corporate income times the average proportion of corporate sales, payroll and property in in the state. Sales, payroll and property have equal weight in the formula, or 33 percent each. Through 2010 manufacturers can use a modified formula, in which sales is 50 percent and the other two factors are to 25 percent each (hence the name "double-weighted sales factor").
- Research and Development Gross Receipts Tax Deduction. Services exported from the state, including R&D services, are exempt from gross receipts taxation.
- Research and Development Small Business Tax Credit. Businesses in which R&D is at least 20 percent of expenditures can take an exemption from the state's portion of gross receipts and compensating taxes and a credit to offset withholding taxes for a period of three years.
- High-Wage Jobs Tax Credit. Eligible employers can take a credit of 10 percent of wages and benefits for new employees earning at least $40,000 in economic base jobs. The credit, up to $12,000 per eligible employee (New Mexicans not related to the employer or shareholders with more than half the equity) for up to four years, is against state gross receipts, compensating, withholding tax and associated taxes but not local gross-receipts taxes. "Economic base" means that more than half of sales are to buyers outside New Mexico. The company must be expanding and must also be eligible for in-plant training assistance.
- Child Care Income Tax Credit. Employers can take a corporate income tax credit for employees' childcare services they provide or pay for. The credit applies to dependent children under 12. Companies can deduct 30 percent of eligible expenses from corporate income taxes.
- Telemarketing Gross Receipts Tax Exemption. This exempts WATS and private communication service from both the gross receipts tax and the interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax on telemarketing operations.
- Aerospace Tax Deductions. New Mexico offers three deductions for the aerospace industry. Under the Research and Development Tax Deduction, aerospace R&D services for the U.S. Air Force or to an intermediary for resale to the Air Force are deductible. The Aircraft Manufacturing Tax Deduction provides a gross receipts tax exemption to an aircraft manufacturer selling a plane. Aerospace companies can also use the Aircraft Refurbishing or Remodeling Tax Deduction from gross receipts taxes for maintaining, refurbishing or modifying commercial or military aircraft over 10,000 pounds gross landing weight.
- Renewable Energy Production Credit. A qualified energy generator can earn one cent per kilowatt-hour for the first 400,000 megawatt-hours of electricity for ten years. Qualified energy generators are New Mexico operations producing at least ten megawatts from biomass, solar, wind or fluidized bed technology and selling to an unrelated person.
- Distilling and Brewing Preferential Tax Rate. Microbreweries producing less than 5,000 barrels of beer annually and small wineries producing less than 560,000 liters of wine per year qualify for a lower Liquor Excise Tax rate. Small wineries pay 10 cents per liter on the first 80,000 liters and 20 cents after that instead of the usual 45 cents. Small brewers pay 8 cents a gallon instead of 41 cents.
- Film Production Tax Rebate. The state offers a 25 percent tax rebate on production expenditures subject to taxation by the state.
- Angel Investment Tax Credit. The credit is 25 percent of a qualifying investment, up to $25,000. An investor may claim credit for up to 2 investments per year and invest in the same business for 3 years.
- Advanced Energy Manufacturers Tax Credit. For renewable energy manufacturing, there is a credit equal to 5 percent of the value of qualified manufacturing equipment.


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Is it possible to put some type of status as to who the last username was that posted before clicking on the actual thread? nothing pisses me off more than clicking on a thread and realizing mbd is the reason that the thread was bumped.
It's a complete waste of time and complete waste of my phone's battery.

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Copying Leads To Competition, Competition Leads To Innovation
from the the-spirit-of-progress dept
Marco Arment, the creator of the popular read-it-later tool Instapaper, has an excellent blog post discussing copying, innovation, and the best ways to react to competition. Arment discusses a new Instapaper competitor called Readability, which launched last week and received a lot of praise for including custom fonts, something Instapaper lacks:
I could have interpreted this defensively and complacently: "Georgia and Verdana are great, versatile, highly screen-readable fonts! I don't need to do what competitors do! Newer isn't always better! My crusty old fonts have some technical advantage that you don't care about!" And so on.
That would have just made me look stubborn and out of touch, failing to understand (in fact, trying very hard not to understand) why newer fonts could be attractive to customers, and failing to admit that I should have done it first.
Instead, I'm taking this misstep as a wake-up call: I missed an important opportunity that's necessary for the long-term competitiveness of my product. So I've spent most of the last week testing tons of reading fonts, getting feedback from designers I respect, narrowing it down to a handful of great choices, and negotiating with their foundries for inclusion into the next version of Instapaper. And the results in testing so far are awesome. I wish someone had kicked my complacent ass about fonts sooner.
Reacting well to competition requires critical analysis of your own product and its shortcomings, and a complete, open-minded understanding of why people might choose your competitors.
This is someone who understands how innovation and iteration really work. Interestingly, when Readability was announced last year, it had a different focus and was actually going to work in conjunction with Instapaper, but then it morphed into a direct competitor. At the time, other developers tried to shame them for that, but Arment himself was unsurprised and untroubled, saying "this is a very big and increasingly crowded market, and there's no reason why we can't respectfully share it."
He never tried to claim that copying was wrong or even unneighborly—not then, and not today. Arment clearly respects his competitors, recognizing what they bring to the table and using it as motivation to improve his own product. That's the mark of a true innovator.
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Well done, Bladen. That means you've got into college, right? Good luck with that.
Radioactive_hairgel, well done. And don't wortry about Maths.
Irtsih_emz, your results are very impressive, especially considering all the time you had off due to illness. I think they are likely to make an exception for you with Latin, considering that.
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I had the good fortune of attending President Bush's appearance on behalf of Rep. Mark Kennedy at the Minneapolis Hilton this afternoon. Minnesota's Republican varsity turned out in full force for Mark and the president: Senator Norm Coleman, Foundation for Democracy Chairman Vin Weber, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Jim Ramstad, Rep. John Kline, state auditor Patty Anderson, and host Rudy Boschwitz. I like our team.
Vin Weber noted that the protestors outside signalled the success of the event; he reassured us that there was no truth to the rumor that the Star Tribune editorial board was leading the demonstrations. Less humorously, he observed that the Democrats were reverting to form in their current peacenik turn. He recalled his own days in Congress during the Reagan administration when the heart of the party yearned for the nuclear freeze, "essentially the Soviet negotiating position in Europe." I remember it well.
John Kline spoke of his fourth trip to Iraq, a trip he delayed until he cast his vote against the cut-and-run resolution in the House. He recalled his visit to his son Major John Daniel Kline, flying Black Hawks with the 101st Airborne Division in-theater. John powerfully noted the sense of mission he felt among his son and his colleagues during his visit.
The president took the podium to a rousing welcome and spoke for half an hour. Although the text of his speech was on the podium, he rarely looked at it, comfortably touching on the themes we had come to hear: the change wrought by 9/11, the progress of the war in Iraq, the transformative power of democracy, the economic recovery and the need for allies in Congress. He asked Minnesota to send him a Kennedy he could work with in the Senate and joked that if Mark's entire family turned out to vote, the result would be a landslide.
I stood about 15 feet from the president. Observing him up close, I was most struck by his passion and his engagement with the audience. He seemed almost liberated in addressing the Democrats' cut-and-run attack on the war. When he concluded his speech, he stepped down to shake hands along the rope holding the audience in front of the podium, reaching three rows deep into the crowd.
According to the Star Tribune, state DFL chairman and Rocket Man law partner Brian Melendez took out a twentieth-floor room at the Hilton to respond to the president's speech. From his aerie at the Hilton Melendez contributed the lame rhetoric of class warfare that is the party's staple contribution to Minnesota's civic discourse.


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I killed my first squirrel last year.
Squirrels and I have an adversarial history. I'm not one of those strange people who find squirrels adorable, who create a market for fuzzy squirrel stuffed animals and children's books starring wide-eyed squirrel protagonists. In my opinion, squirrels are pests, bothersome rodents who are spared widespread extermination only by their fuzzy tails.
I don't trust those tails.
Squirrels respond to my dislike by acting…squirrelly. They skitter through my yard and across my roof. They leap across perilously thin tree branches, littering the grass with acorns. They make nests in the attic and attempt to burrow under the chicken yard fence. In all of this, they show very little fear of me.
I don't trust wild animals that aren't afraid of me.
This started a couple of decades ago, when I attended a high school summer enrichment program at the University of Richmond in Virginia. I'd never paid squirrels any mind before that summer, but there was something decidedly off about those Richmond squirrels. I can only assume that many had been the victims of fraternity hazing rituals; all of them had a slightly crazed look in their eyes, and several were missing patches of fur – whether from mange or the razors of frat boys, I never knew. One particularly horrifying squirrel had lost all the hair on its tail – visual proof that a fuzzy tail is all that separates squirrels from rats.
And those squirrels had no fear – NO FEAR – of people. Anybody in their right mind would've been terrified at the throngs of overachieving high school students who ranged the campus that summer, but not the squirrels. Oh no; when they saw a pack of teens headed their way, those squirrels raised their tails and charged.
True story. And it made a lifelong squirrel hater of me. (Don't laugh – it's a real condition. The technical term is "sciurophobia.")
I was able to avoid close contact with squirrels for most of my adult life by living in urban areas. Then, we chose to settle in Vermont. In the woods.
Now, I'm surrounded by squirrels all day. Fortunately, there's so much else happening in these woods that the squirrels aren't very interested in me. But last year, starting around Labor Day and lasting throughout early fall, I noticed something about my local squirrels: they were becoming roadkill in record numbers. For a couple of months, I couldn't turn a corner without seeing yet another dead squirrel. They were flattened in the middle of the road, lying lifeless on the shoulder, a squirrel massacre on every byway in Addison County.
It was during this season of dead squirrels that I killed my first squirrel.
It was an accident; despite my anti-squirrel rhetoric, I'm strictly an armchair squirrel antagonist. It happened as I was driving my daughter to preschool. I've since learned that squirrels first respond to predators by freezing, and then by running in all directions to create confusion. While this strategy might work on cats, it's not much good on cars. I abruptly stopped the car when I saw a squirrel crossing the road (which I could do safely because I was on a back road in Vermont). In response, the squirrel froze in front of my car. I attempted to scare the squirrel across the road by driving forward a bit, at which point the squirrel started running in all directions – including under my wheel.
I felt terrible. I was sure that the squirrel had friends, a family, someone waiting back in the nest. Maybe it was a mother squirrel getting acorns for her babies. Maybe that squirrel was just like me.
To make matters worse, I had to drive past the squirrel's corpse after dropping my daughter off, and again – TWICE – when I went to pick her up.
This September, when the local roads again became squirrel killing fields, I did a little research. Here's what I learned about the Eastern Gray Squirrel: The new litters of squirrels are born in August and September, and their mothers abandon them after they're weaned at 8 or 9 weeks. Also in September, a process called the "fall reshuffle" begins, in which yearlings set out to establish their own territories. So in early fall, hundreds of baby and adolescent squirrels are striking out on their own. And often, whether from lack of experience or basic probability, they're struck.
Here's what else I learned: Sometimes, when you consider some creature pesky or scary or squirrelly, and you think, "I wish they were dead!" – you probably don't. Not really.
But I'm not quite ready to get cozy with the squirrels, because I also learned this: in March 2011, a rogue squirrel attacked three people in Bennington, VT. True story – made national news.
So be careful out on those roads, especially in the morning and evening hours during early fall. Also, watch your back. Don't hit or be hit, that's my new motto.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, three young daughters, one adorable puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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A J.R.R. Tolkien dragon will torch the competition as "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" slithers into theaters this weekend.
The 3-D "Hobbit" sequel, starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen as the wizard Gandalf, is expected to take in around $80 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada through Sunday, according to people who have seen pre-release audience surveys.
The movie, a New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. production, cost about $225 million to make and was co-financed by MGM and Warner Bros.
PHOTOS: 60 images from 'The Hobbit: Desolation Smaug'
Directed by Peter Jackson, who made all three "Lord of the Rings" movies and last year's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," the big-budget "Smaug" will easily unseat Walt Disney Pictures' 3D animated musical "Frozen" for the box office crown.
The first "Hobbit" movie opened with an $84.6-million haul and went on to make $303 million through its run in the U.S. and Canada -- and more than $1 billion worldwide. Not adjusting for inflation, the "Lord of the Rings" triology and "Unexpected Journey" have made more than $3.9 billion.
The new film, part of a triology based on the beloved Tolkien book, follows Baggins and Gandalf as they try to help a group of dwarves retake their homeland from the dragon Smaug, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.
The weekend's first box office runner-up is expected to be the latest comedy from the prolific producer Tyler Perry, in which he again stars as the over-the-top African American matriarch, Madea. Lionsgate's "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas" is expected to make close to $28 million in ticket sales through Sunday, on a budget of around $25 million.
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If the movie's take matches that estimate, it would be in line with or better than the openings for several recent movies featuring the title character. The 2012 film "Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection" grossed $25.4 million in its first weekend. The franchise's biggest opener ever, "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail" debuted with $41 million in 2009.
"A Madea Christmas," which also stars Larry the Cable Guy, is Perry's eighth Madea movie with Lionsgate and his 16th film overall with the company.
This weekend will also see limited releases for a couple of highly anticipated movies.
"American Hustle," Sony Pictures' 1970s-set con man drama, will open in three theaters in Los Angeles and three in New York. The movie, which was directed by David O. Russell and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, has received rave reviews and is considered a top awards season contender. It received seven Golden Globe Awards nominations, including one for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy).
Also opening in a limited number of cinemas is Walt Disney Pictures' "Saving Mr. Banks," about the adaptation of "Mary Poppins" from the P.L. Travers book into the classic Disney film. It debuts in eight major cities Friday, with the studio hoping to generate strong word-of-mouth for the movie that cost $35 million.
[For the Record: An earlier version of this post misspelled Tyler Perry's name.]
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With the IKA proposal to make Formula Kite as an Olympic Class; it seems that the current IKA apporved boards under 5.5 kilo's are not allowed to qualify for for this class.
This would mean that the current Zaijcek and North boards would be able to participate in IKA/ISAF events but not in the Olympic class.
Anyone an idea if people will switch to other brands, or that boardbuilders will start building stronger and heavier? It appears that Mikes Lab put the Zaichek in production at 6.0 kilo's what will be meeting the minimum weight-limit.
Do you expect to see a shift of sailors switching to other brands or more heavy boards?


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Both sexy and classy, Sarah Clayton is a 26-year-old model from Drums, Pa. She's already appeared in the pages of Playboy, Maxim and Men's Health, so you may have already seen her. (Just know that you haven't met her in real-life, dude. You sometimes have a problem distinguishing between the two.)
In addition to her print work, Clayton has served as a model for QVC, where she may have helped sell someone you know something they didn't need — in a variety of eye-catching colors!
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For the complete Bragging Rights rules and to vote for other matchups, click here. We move now to the East region, with No. 1 seed Wake Forest taking on Memphis, fresh off a win over Marquette in last week's play-in game.
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Starters (all stats per 48 minutes):
Chris Paul, Hornets: 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 13.1 assists, 0.1 blocks, 3.3 steals
Josh Howard, Wizards: 17.8 points, 8.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 0.6 blocks, 1.5 steals
Tim Duncan, Spurs: 22.5 points, 15.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 3.3 blocks, 1.2 steals
Al-Farouq Aminu, Clippers: 15.6 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 0.8 blocks, 2.0 steals
James Johnson, Raptors: 15.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, 4.9 assists, 2.9 blocks, 2.4 steals
Missed the cut: Darius Songaila, Sixers; Jeff Teague, Hawks; Ish Smith, Grizzlies
Team synopsis: Wake Forest may not seem like much, but they do have the best point guard in the NBA and the greatest power forward of all time, which makes them pretty dangerous no matter who else is on the court. Howard may not be the All-Star he was in Dallas, but he can still be pretty dangerous. Aminu and Johnson are youngsters with talent who don't get a ton of minutes, but their per-48 stats suggest that could change down the road.


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I'm going to go home after all that, take off all my clothes
Quote from: Dice on September 27, 2012, 11:36:21 PM I'm going to go home after all that, take off all my clothesWas there more to that post?(Btw welcome to miderms)I just found out I have three weeks of vacation in December. \(^^)/Scuba diving!
I had some editing troubles, changed what I wrote, deleted, forgot to put back, posted, and you caught it. HahaBut year, seriously. Good news about midterms is a lot of games come out around them, specifically Assassin's Creed and Res 6 which involve lots of killing as an outlet for exam frustration. :D


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Thanks for the rep!
I know you are on my FB. I am much more active there though. These days it just makes me sad though. Too much negativity there....
Pleasure! I am missing ODN sometimes.
Good points. I think Frank ran from the argument. His position was poorly thought out and he was denying his presuppositions at the same time affirming them, IMO.
Thank you for your support yet once again!
Thank you, MindTrap!
also, you seem to be living out a dream of the wife and i, traveling the country. tipped cow is out there some where with a park, and good bbq.
quick point about tipping. i was a waiter at two different restaurants over 4 years. one a full service middle to upper class place, the other a buffet. at both places, i was tipped the most when i first started, with tips dwindling till i had to quit. this not only by me, but all waiters. the first was because the resturant was becoming older, and a lot of new places opened up. the second was because we had a bunch if regulars, that would eat once or twice a week. that decrease was fulled by being too busy and slowly pissing everyone off because they got poor service. the attitude that drove this goes like this. "he gave me bad service last time/that one time, thus i will not tip him again/as much". also a buffet has a larger % if people who don't tip to begin with. point is, there is an apparent downward trend in tipping that seems typical for the industry.
Sure, here is the final round from the tournament I won: https://www.qallout.com/debate/3085-...5-at-11-pm-est
This one is a more casual non-tournament debate: https://www.qallout.com/debate/3324-...bill-of-rights
Mostly I'm blogging: www.TrailAndHitch.com is my most active. I also wrote a video game strategy guide and other random things. The new one is my debate blog www.DebateDojo.com
No novels yet.
Excellent. Traveling around America, plying my trade as a writer. Not making much money but enjoying myself to no end. I've been having a blast doing video debates lately.
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Warming up for the upcoming winter. Get ready for the unexpected excessive appetite. Waking up in the morning feels like waking up in middle of midnight. Taking a shower inside a bathroom sized-fridge. Starting to look like a bear by wearing mostly the same coat through the next 4 months.
But please don't be sad!
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- It's all about the team, Mo'ne Davis has made it a point to remind us.
Throughout her incredible ascent to household name and Sports Illustrated cover queen, the 13-year-old girl with the fiery fastball has given us some clever quips ("Throwing 70 miles an hour… that's throwing like a girl" is an instant classic) and acknowledged that what she's done here at the Little League World Series is good for girl power.
She is, however, equally quick to note that it's the intelligent interplay of the Taney Youth Baseball Association -- the teamwork and the attention to detail taught on Philadelphia's back fields -- that gave her this high-profile platform in the first place.
And this, ultimately, might be the biggest lesson of the Mo'ne Davis experience -- the tale of an inner-city squad made up of kids from all manner of socio-economic circumstances coming together under the blanket of baseball. Because no matter where the amazing Mo'ne goes from here, that's the story -- one that has arrived in coincidental-yet-undeniable conjunction with that of the all-black, Chicago-based Jackie Robinson West, Taney's opponent in Thursday night's U.S. semifinal -- that matters most to baseball in the immediate future.
"Major League Baseball can take a look," Taney coach Alex Rice said on the eve of his team's matchup with Jackie Robinson West, "and see the product that's on the field and the potential of what they can find in the inner-city."
Media hand-wringing about the game's place in black America has become an annual event, generally centered around the April anniversary of the day Robinson broke the color barrier. But what's happened at Howard J. Lamade Stadium these last couple weeks is a welcomed reminder that the game still resonates with all races, provided proper opportunity is put in place.
This is something the Commissioner-elect clearly understands.
"Black, white, male, female, urban, rural, rich, poor," Rob Manfred said Wednesday. "We want all kinds of kids playing. And I think that, particularly, when you have a diverse group, like the Philadelphia group, it sends a message that baseball is a wide-open sport."
Remember, that wide-open ideal does reveal itself at the big-league level, where 26.1 percent of players on opening day rosters were born in areas outside the United States and 16 countries and territories were represented.
But the number that gets much greater traction in the reporting community is 8.2 -- the percentage of U.S.-born black players on those rosters, matching an all-time low from 2007, according to Dr. Richard Lapchick's oft-cited annual report.
Efforts have been made to increase that total, with some notable successes. Thirty players taken in this year's draft had ties to MLB's Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities Program, the Urban Youth Academies in Houston, New Orleans, Cincinnati and Compton or the Breakthrough Series, which seeks to showcase a diverse group of high school baseball players to scouts and college recruiters. And 14 African-American players are on MLB.com's current 100 Top Prospects list.
"We think it's crucial," said Manfred, "to commit energy, resources and time to the development of the game, particularly in inner cities."
The grassroots level, though, still needs seeding, and Taney teaches us that. Because for all its success at this Series, the league that brought us Mo'ne doesn't own any of its own fields or enjoy any of the accoutrements of the modern suburban Little League mecca.
"We do a lot of tournaments in Medford, N.J.," said James Waddington, who coaches Taney's 10-and-under team. "They've got all artificial turf, netting across the field to stop foul balls, all of that. And then on our fields in Philly, third base is up on a hill, first base is down below. So we really need the city to step up and get them facilities to play in. Otherwise, they're not going to produce quality."
Steve Bandura -- the man credited with "discovering" Mo'ne and prodding her to give baseball a go -- has faced these challenges for years and been vocal about finding solutions for them.
Bandura has been coaching inner-city youth athletics for about half of his 53 years, and his Anderson Monarchs travel team has featured seven of the 12 members of Taney's World Series roster. The Anderson program operates on a shoestring budget with no financial support from the city, but Bandura rounded up enough local donors and advertisers to produce a quality field in a once-lonesome block in Philly's Graduate Hospital neighborhood. And on his roster is living, breathing proof that African-American kids from the inner city can still fall in love with the sport.
The problem, of course, is finding ample opportunity for them in a game that has gravitated toward expensive year-round travel leagues at the youth level.
"The African-American kids in the suburbs play," Bandura said. "So what, if they go inside a certain boundary, all of a sudden they're not interested in the game? None of those stereotypes make any sense. A six-year-old kid is not saying, 'Well, I'm not going to play baseball because there are more scholarships in football for college.' It doesn't make any sense, and I'm tired of people running out those stereotypes."
Bandura's dream -- and it's one he's articulated to MLB's On-Field Diversity Task Force via a 15-page report -- is for every Major League club to open a team-run baseball academy in its own city, much like the academies they are currently running in the Dominican Republic.
One could see, though, where such a setup could pose a stateside conflict. Why would the Reds, for instance, want to spend their money to groom a player who could be drafted at in the first round by the Cubs?
This Little League exposure, though, has people talking about a topic worthy of the exposure. And perhaps the conversation will continue in the boardrooms of, say, major athletic apparel manufacturers who might see the benefits of stamping their name on such a startup.
"I hope it's eye-opening," Bandura said. "Maybe this is the stage, right here. Here's the proof, right here. The top three Little League teams in the country, and two of them are inner-city teams? That's incredible. But it's not surprising if you're on the ground level and see these kids develop from a young age."
Kids like Mo'ne, who took an opportunity and turned it into an outcome that has captivated the baseball world.


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Linda Askan, Santa Clara, Polychrome Nativity set with 13 pieces
Pueblo: Santa Clara
Dimensions: 1 1/4 in H by 1 3/4 in Dia Measurement of largest dimensions
Item Number: xxscj8080
Price: $ SOLD
Description: Polychrome Nativity set with 13 pieces
Condition: Excellent
Signature: L. Askan SCP 2018
Date Created: 2018
Linda AskanSanta Clara
Part Santa Claran and part Navajo, Linda Askan was born into the Summer Clan as the daughter of Marie and Andy Askan and, as tradition goes, grew up with her mother's family on Santa Clara Pueblo. Her Tewa name, given to her by Adelaide Sisneros (her grandmother) is Jo Povi, meaning "cactus flower." Linda attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and worked as a Respiratory Therapy Technician before she decided to become a full-time potter.
Her grandmother and her mother were influential in teaching Linda the traditional ways of making pottery as she grew up. As a child she played with broken pieces of clay. Then she started polishing the broken pieces with a stone. Putting her hands to the clay and creating something with it was a natural evolution after that. "We would fire together at my grandparents' corral," she remembers. The traditional method leads to firing outside over an open fire, using cottonwood, piñon pine and dry horse manure for fuel. She says, "We experience firing visually: paying attention to the fire, making sure it's evenly burning, being aware the whole time."
As generations of Pueblo potters have done before her, Linda digs her clay in the hills, coils the shapes by hand (pinches the miniatures), and creates black-on-black and red polychrome pots, plates, wedding vases, figures and animals. Her work is elegantly carved and painted in detail. She likes to create pieces that show her reverence for life and reflect her sense of whimsy. Thankfully, the clay that chooses to work with her cooperates in that.
Her miniature nativity sets with thumb-size figures have become collector's items. Evolving over time, her sets often reference sources in Navajo culture with details in the blankets her figures wear. The wise men are modeled after buffalo, deer or eagle dancers, each wearing the respective traditional headgear and robe or blanket. She says she began making her figures this way after participating in the Santa Clara Pueblo Buffalo Dance as a dancer. "I felt the dance," she says. "It was very different from watching, more uplifting to your spirit."
"I make my sets in miniature because it's a size that people can afford," she says. She also likes to offer something collectors might find different: a sense of embodied sacredness from the Native American perspective in combination with the familiar story of innocence and light that is evoked by the nativity scene. She tells us her nativities are designed to carry a powerful and simple message: "Our sacred relationship with the land, the sky, the animals and the elements, passed down through the generations from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter."
Linda has two daughters, Diana and Rose, and she has taught both the traditional art of pottery making.
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Santa Clara Pueblo
Ruins at Puye Cliffs, Santa Clara Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo straddles the Rio Grande about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. Of all the pueblos, Santa Clara has the largest number of potters.
The ancestral roots of the Santa Clara people have been traced to the pueblos in the Mesa Verde region in southwestern Colorado. When that area began to get dry between about 1100 and 1300, some of the people migrated to the Chama River Valley and constructed Poshuouinge (about 3 miles south of what is now Abiquiu on the edge of the mesa above the Chama River). Eventually reaching two and three stories high with up to 700 rooms on the ground floor, Poshuouinge was inhabited from about 1375 to about 1475. Drought then again forced the people to move, some of them going to the area of Puye (on the eastern slopes of the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains) and others to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo, along the Rio Grande). Beginning around 1580, drought forced the residents of the Puye area to relocate closer to the Rio Grande and they founded what we now know as Santa Clara Pueblo on the west bank of the river, between San Juan and San Ildefonso Pueblos.
In 1598 Spanish colonists from nearby Yunque (the seat of Spanish government near San Juan Pueblo) brought the first missionaries to Santa Clara. That led to the first mission church being built around 1622. However, the Santa Clarans chafed under the weight of Spanish rule like the other pueblos did and were in the forefront of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. One pueblo resident, a mixed black and Tewa man named Domingo Naranjo, was one of the rebellion's ringleaders. When Don Diego de Vargas came back to the area in 1694, he found most of the Santa Clarans on top of nearby Black Mesa (with the people of San Ildefonso). An extended siege didn't subdue them so eventually, the two sides negotiated a treaty and the people returned to their pueblo. However, successive invasions and occupations by northern Europeans took their toll on the tribe over the next 250 years. The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 almost wiped them out.
Today, Santa Clara Pueblo is home to as many as 2,600 people and they comprise probably the largest per capita number of artists of any North American tribe (estimates of the number of potters run as high as 1-in-4 residents).
Today's pottery from Santa Clara is typically either black or red. It is usually highly polished and designs might be deeply carved or etched ("sgraffito") into the pot's surface. The water serpent, ("avanyu"), is a traditional design motif of Santa Clara pottery. Another motif comes from the legend that a bear helped the people find water during a drought. The bear paw has appeared on their pottery ever since.
One of the reasons for the distinction this pueblo has received is because of the evolving artistry the potters have brought to the craft. Not only did this pueblo produce excellent black and redware, several notable innovations helped move pottery from the realm of utilitarian vessels into the domain of art. Different styles of polychrome redware emerged in the 1920's-1930's. In the early 1960's experiments with stone inlay, incising and double firing began. Modern potters have also extended the tradition with unusual shapes, slips and designs, illustrating what one Santa Clara potter said: "At Santa Clara, being non-traditional is the tradition." (This refers strictly to artistic expression; the method of creating pottery remains traditional).
Santa Clara Pueblo is home to a number of famous pottery families: Tafoya, Baca, Gutierrez, Naranjo, Suazo, Chavarria, Garcia, Vigil, Tapia - to name a few.
Santa Clara Pueblo at Wikipedia
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, Daniel Gibson, ISBN-13:978-1-887896-26-9, Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001
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- The most obvious tip: Yes, the pots will break if you drop them!
- Do not expose pottery to water (Inside or outside). Do not wipe with a damp cloth.
- Dust pottery only with a soft, smooth cloth (no terry cloth or textured fabric). A very soft paintbrush (sable or camel) can be used.
- Always use two hands to carry your pot: one on top and one on the bottom, or one hand on each side. Be careful with handles, they can be fragile. Do not grip or lift pots by the rim. Take care when wearing jewelry, rings can scratch the finish.
- Place a piece of felt or cloth between the pot and the shelf to protect the signature.
- Avoid exposing pottery to extreme temperature changes.
For those who live in "earthquake country" (also good for mischievous pets):
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- Secure your shelves; make sure they are well attached to the walls. Shelf brackets should be of sufficient length and strength to support the weight of your pottery.
- Prevent pots from sliding. Consider attaching a small wooden molding to the front of shelves. Line shelves with non-slip material (a thin sheet of rubber foam, Styrofoam sheeting, etc.)
- If you need assistance with special problems, major cleaning (your grandchild spills ice cream on your pot), restoration or repair (the cat breaks a pot), or replacement (irreparable damage), please feel free to call us.
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James Ferace's original plan for Halloween was to take his 9-year-old daughter to Mystic Seaport for the outdoor trick or treat event.
Father and daughter were dressed as vampires. Ferace said his daughter Raven insisted on his dressing up with her, as her "vampire daddy."
The heavy rains Thursday afternoon, in the end, led Ferace to a change of plans.
They decided to try to stay indoors and headed to the Crystal Mall in Waterford, where Ferace remembered successfully trick or treating years ago with some friends and his nephews.
The visit to the mall early Thursday evening started well, Ferace said, when he was greeted at the mall entrance by some store employees, who congratulated the pair on their costumes.
"I was kind of beaming with pride," Ferace told me Friday.
Ferace was wearing an old top hat he had unearthed from a closet and a long black coat. He had on some whitish makeup and wore plastic fangs. His daughter was wearing a vampire dress he bought her at Target.
Inside the mall, too, things started out well, as the pair began making their way to stores welcoming trick or treaters.
Then the scary part of the evening began.
Ferace said he was confronted by a gruff security guard who told him he had to leave because he was wearing a mask.
Really? Ferace recalls saying. But it's Halloween.
The security guard, though, was not to be persuaded, Ferace said. He angrily told them they were breaking the rules and had to leave right away.
Ferace thought about protesting, but then he saw some other parents in costumes — one was a jester — being confronted by several other security guards. Those parents were also upset, Ferace said.
He decided to get out of there.
In the end, the same guard who rudely confronted him also led him and his daughter to the exit, Ferace said, like criminals.
As if his daughter's tears were not bad enough — her night out with her vampire daddy ruined — Ferace, a writer who lives in Gales Ferry, got no satisfaction when he called the mall later to complain.
They told him again he had broken the rules. In the end, he added, they hung up on him.
When I called the mall public relations agency Friday they sent me a statement that noted the mall's "Malloween" promotion this year was actually last Saturday.
But the spokeswoman I talked with did say that some stores were still giving out candy to trick of treaters Thursday night, even though it wasn't an official mall event. The mall stopped celebrating Halloween on Halloween two years ago, she said.
The statement noted that the "mall has a code of conduct that is enforced year-round that no face masks, face painting or anything else concealing the face is allowed for those over 17 years of age."
Clearly no exceptions are made for Halloween, especially when you are trying to celebrate Halloween on Halloween.
Ferace said he saw employees at a McDonald's dressed up Thursday, having fun. I, too, saw employees at two big chain stores, the Big Y and CVS, in full costume Thursday, enjoying the holiday with each other and customers.
Some of them, like the witch who checked me out of the Big Y, had their faces completely obscured.
They need to loosen up at the Crystal Mall. Don't some people conceal their face as a religious observance? Isn't the face of the mall's own Santa obscured? The Easter Bunny?
I don't blame Ferace at all for deciding he won't ever shop there again.
I'll bet the parent confronted in his jester costume isn't laughing either.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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Optimizing library services for mobility is the new frontier in libraries! As the number of smart phone and iPod users increases, libraries, library vendors, and publishers are developing mobile interfaces for their products. We've collected as many of these as we were able to find in a new LibGuide devoted to mobile apps, widgets & tools. The guide also features library Facebook applications and widgets.
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A proposal to close visitation to DuPont State Recreational Forest at night, except by permit, has divided a citizen advisory committee and raised questions about how best to balance resource protection and free access to public land.
A proposal to close visitation to DuPont State Recreational Forest at night, except by permit, has divided a citizen advisory committee and raised questions about how best to balance resource protection and free access to public land.
Forest Supervisor Jason Guidry, six months into his new position, said he first approached the DuPont State Forest Advisory Committee in October with the idea of limiting operating hours as a way to deter illegal activity occurring at night.
Guidry said rangers have dealt with large groups partying and littering beer cans at Fawn Lake and Hooker Falls after dark, along with sporadic vandalism, drug use in parking lots and other issues. In 2007, vandals dug up a grave at the forest's Moore Cemetery near Hooker Falls.
"A lot of stuff goes on at night," Guidry said. "If you're out here at 2 o'clock in the morning, what are the odds you're up to no good?"
DuPont has six full-time staff, but just three full-time rangers who regularly patrol the forest's 10,400 acres, and only at night when dispatched. With visitation at an all-time high, Guidry said his staff is stretched pretty thin, has no law enforcement rangers and relies on sheriff's deputies and wildlife officers for help.
By establishing operating hours with signs excluding all but "authorized visitors" from an hour after sunset to an hour before sunrise, Guidry suggested the park could deter illegal activity while still accommodating legitimate nighttime users through special-use permits.
"It's not to restrict use; that's not the intent. My hope is that the signage and hours will do some of the work our rangers can't," Guidry said, adding the N.C. Forest Service has just five law enforcement rangers statewide who carry a duty weapon and make arrests. "If it keeps some of the riff-raff away, then it's a success."
Moreover, Guidry said state rules require all forests to post hours of operation at every entrance, office and on its websites. Those rules state, "No person except forest employees and authorized persons shall be allowed within the forest between closing and opening hours except under permit."
Currently, DuPont issues permits for search and rescue exercises, Scout groups and hunters, among others. Forest officials are still working with the advisory committee to ponder nighttime permit specifics such as duration and approved uses.
DuPont is the only state forest without posted operating hours, Guidry said. After hearing no objections at the October advisory committee meeting, "we actually had signs made up," he said. "We thought we'd gotten the feedback. And then we just heard more and more concerns about it."
Several members of the 12-person advisory committee, appointed by the state forester to represent DuPont stakeholders, criticized the potential nighttime closure during the group's January meeting. Among them was committee member R.R. Hebb, a retired wildlife officer who lives near DuPont.
Restricting hours at DuPont runs counter to the principles of open public access under which the state's first recreational forest was founded, Hebb said. He agreed few people use DuPont after dark, but even those who don't find "solace and relief from the everyday troubles of life" knowing they can retreat to the forest, day or night.
Hebb believes DuPont has existing rules, including one allowing violators to be expelled from the forest, that rangers should enforce fully with the help of local sheriff's deputies, game wardens and Alcohol Law Enforcement agents before instituting new ones that "penalize" legitimate users.
Pisgah National Forest, which Hebb patrolled as a game warden, has experienced problems with litter and partying in select areas yet remains open 24 hours, he said. "We'd work it until it wasn't a problem anymore. They need to get in there and enforce the law, and pound them awhile with tickets that get into people's pocketbooks."
However, Guidry said if rangers encounter partiers in the forest at night, "we have to catch them in the act. If they put their beer down and claim it's not theirs, how do we ask these folks to leave? Hours would give us the ability to say, 'Hey, do you have a permit? If not, you don't have a right to be on the forest at night.'"
That argument makes sense to Aleen Steinberg, a member of the advisory committee who supports closing DuPont at night. She said legitimate nighttime users, such as solstice hikers, mountain bikers or people viewing the forest's famous blue ghost fireflies, won't be barred under the proposed permits.
"There have to be parameters," Steinberg said. "We live in a society that has parameters. Just to have five parking lots, it's hard to control, it's hard to patrol and it's hard to monitor if you don't have some rules to go by."
Like Steinberg, committee member Woody Keen of Cedar Mountain worked to save DuPont from development back in the 1990s. He often mountain bikes and hikes in the forest at night and thinks a permit system would inconvenience casual users, while adding to administrators' already-hefty workload.
"To me, that doesn't make sense," Keen said. "I want a scenario where people can make a spur-of-the-moment decision to go based on conditions that evening."
A long-time trails advocate and builder, Keen argued the best way to displace "rogue behavior" on public lands is "putting legitimate uses in that spot. You need eyes and ears on the property to curtail bad actors, and those eyes and ears don't have to be land managers."
But Keen, who works with the Pisgah Area Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, said he could support closing DuPont from midnight to 6 a.m. "That would allow 99 percent of the legitimate use after dark," including bikers who want to get in a ride after work in the winter or hikers who want to stargaze up on Big Rock, he said.
Page Lemel, a Transylvania County commissioner who sits on the advisory committee, sees both sides of the issue. A camp owner and commercial outfitter, Lemel understands the challenges DuPont officials face in managing a growing number of visitors while protecting forest resources. But meeting the needs of legal, recreational users is critical, she said.
"Honestly, I suggested we look at (permits) like a library card," Lemel said. "It could be free to residents of the two counties, good for two years or what have you, and you have it hanging on your car rearview. That way they're able to distinguish who they're dealing with (at night) and it would provide rangers with knowledge about who's in the forest then."
Chairwoman Beth Carden said the advisory committee will meet again March 20 to discuss the issue of operating hours and potential permitting, adding consensus might be difficult to achieve given the split opinions of the group.
"The bottom line is the staff will do what the state tells them to do with regard to hours," Carden said. "We can advise them, but we're not in control of setting policy."
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Being in the kitchen is therapeutic to me, its my time out, where I can create and enjoy a little time by myself, and recharge the old batteries. I'm not talking that time where you have to whip up the dinner with a hungry baby crying in your ear. I'm talking the babies-in-bed-silence, glass of vino in hand and the-world-is-your-oyster type of kitchen time.
I knew that was what I needed to cheer myself up, and when my darling hubby came home I got just that. What was something totally superfluous that I could make? Then I remembered how everyone had enjoyed the homemade bounty bars I had recently made and set about making just that...but in balls, covered in dark chocolate. Talk about a cure for the "baby blues"!
I am pleased to say that there are no blues anymore, it seemed to be the perfect cure. And...my babies are sleeping much better (bye-bye insomniacs) and that my dear, is why I am able to blog a little! Ah the simple things in life. The greatest pleasures. (They're gluten free sweets, too!)
3 cups dessicated coconut
200g sweetened condensed milk
1/2-3/4 cup icing sugar
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350g dark chocolate, melted
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The reactions by the two leading candidates for governor on the latest news from Vermont Yankee speaks volumes about each candidate's approach to leadership — and each has its pros and cons.
Democrat Peter Shumlin, a long-time proponent of Vermont Yankee until shortly after it was purchased by Entergy, came out swinging and is more convinced than ever that a tough approach needs to be taken by the state to avoid sticking Vermont taxpayers with unforeseen costs down the road as a consequence of the tritium leaks.
Shumlin immediately called for Entergy to mount a greater effort to pump out the contaminated water from around the plant (there are currently only two pumps being employed for that use, and Shumlin has cited spills at other plants in which numerous pumps were put into place to catch contaminated water) and suggested that Entergy be held responsible for providing non-contaminated water to the residents of Vernon if that town's ground water is found to be compromised later on.
It's a tough approach, but it's important to note that his suggestion is based on what other nuclear power plants in the country have done successfully in response to similar leaks. And it's equally important to note that Shumlin's first instinct is to protect the Vermont taxpayer from future liabilities, not to protect Entergy.
Republican Brian Dubie, on the other hand, has backed off of his earlier unqualified support of Vermont Yankee and Entergy and is now trying to qualify it with requests that Entergy demonstrate that the aging plant can be safely operated. Still, Dubie continues to throw his support to extend the plant's operating license for another 20 years and has not suggested any further compensation from Entergy as a result of the spill.
Opponents of Shumlin's will fault his eagerness to say "I told you so," and with reason. He has been quick to categorize the leaks as hugely significant, while other state officials and, of course, Entergy, have played down the consequences.
"I have been saying for a long time that the crisis at Vermont Yankee is going to be both costly and devastating for those who live near the plant," Shumlin said on Monday. "How many leaks and lies does Brian Dubie have to live through before he will stand up for the people of Vermont instead of the stockholders of Entergy Louisiana? We need a governor who gets it right the first time and has the courage to stand up to corporate power when it is wrong."
It's that bravado that rubs some people the wrong way, and it borders on being alarmist. The spill might turn out to be the biggest "man-made disaster" Vermont has ever faced, as Shumlin says, but we don't know that now, and saying it is so is akin to fear-mongering.
Dubie's response, however, was almost an apology for Entergy. He continues to minimize the potential cost of the leaks to Vermonters, has not commented on whether Vernon's water supply might become contaminated and what to do about it if it happens (put it on Vermonters' tax bills as an Entergy bailout?), and has given no indication that he would ask Entergy for anything other than their verbal assurance they'll run the plant safely to get his continued blessing for the plant's extension.
Dubie's approach, in fact, mirrors that of George W. Bush's administration when it comes to big business: champion lower taxes (but without any evidence it will stimulate more business growth), lower regulations (often at the expense of the environment), and run interference for big industry profits even though the public may be asked to pick up the tab if disaster strikes. Dubie even sided with Entergy when the company tried to create a shadow company to take on the task of decommissioning while letting Entergy (the company with the deep pockets) off the hook.
As Americans have learned time after time during the Bush years, when government drops the ball and lets industry operate without due restraint, industry does what it does best: maximize profits. And that is not usually in the best interests of the common good, as was proved by the collapse of the financial industry and real estate market, BP's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, among dozens of other examples.
Shumlin knows that a strong state leader carrying a big stick is crucial when it comes to dealing with Vermont Yankee's recent spill if the public is to avoid being charged (directly or indirectly) for a company's misdeeds or poor execution. More important is how the next governor will deal with the decommissioning costs of that plant, and who will pay — Vermont taxpayers or Entergy?
Shumlin's approach may grate on a person's sensibilities, but he was right early on with Entergy's management of Vermont Yankee and his early skepticism has been prophetic. Why is that? Because he studies the issues; he applies a critical approach to understanding a problem and doesn't accept the pabulum of industry double-speak; and his first instinct is to watch out for the little guy.
It's another stark contrast between these two candidates in the race for the state's top job.
Angelo S. Lynn


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Officials urge safety ahead of July 4 holiday
You don�t have to be next to a firework to be injured.
The West Virginia Record contains a story regarding a lawsuit arising out of a 2011 fireworks stunt. On the back deck of a fraternity house, a Marshall University student attempted to fire a bottle rocket out of his buttocks. The stunt so startled another student that he was injured falling off the deck.
Ahead of the July 4 holiday, local officials are stressing safety so residents aren�t subject to injuries resulting directly or indirectly from fireworks.
The Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office released the following tips:
nNever give fireworks to small children, and always follow the instructions on the packaging.
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nMake sure the person lighting fireworks always wears eye protection.
nLight only one firework at a time and never attempt to relight �a dud.�
nStore fireworks in a cool, dry place away from children and pets.
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nLeave any area immediately where untrained amateurs are using fireworks.
nNorth Carolina law prohibits fireworks that explode or leave the ground.
�Following these precautions will help the children and residents of Lenoir County stay safe and healthy this holiday weekend and throughout the summer,� Sheriff Chris Hill said in a statement.
For safety ideas, the Office of the State Fire Marshal directs residents to the National Fire Protection Association, which bills itself as �the authority on fire, electrical and building safety.�
A report issued this month says fireworks-related injuries sent 9,600 people nationally to hospital emergency rooms and started an estimated 17,800 fires.
Sparklers, which are legal in North Carolina, accounted for 24 percent of all fireworks-related injuries.
�They have very hot sparklers that can get up to 2,000 degrees and they can hurt somebody real quick,� said Woody Spencer, spokesman for the Kinston Department of Public Safety.
According to state law, the only legal consumer fireworks in North Carolina consist of snake or glow works, smoke-making devices, trick noise makers, wire sparklers and other sparklers that do not fly, spin or explode.
The vast bevy of what�s available just over the border in South Carolina � bottle rockets, firecrackers, ground spinners, mortars, Roman candles and anything that flies or explodes � is officially off-limits.
�The best thing to do is just not use illegal fireworks. It�s illegal,� Spencer said. �The worst part is somebody�s going to get hurt if they start playing around with something like that.�
Violation of the state pyrotechnic law is a Class 2 misdemeanor and can result in a fine of up to $500 and 30 days to six months in jail.
Spencer suggested letting the professionals handle the job, and there are several fireworks displays happening on July 4.
Fireworks will be ignited over the Neuse River at Pearson Park at 9 p.m., following music at the Sand in the Streets event. There will be fireworks in Emerald Isle at the Bogue Inlet Pier at 9 p.m., in Goldsboro at the Berkeley Mall at 9 p.m., in Greenville at River Park North at 8 p.m., in Jacksonville following Freedom Fest at Onslow Pines Park at 9 p.m., in New Bern at Lawson Creek Park at 9 p.m. and in Wilson at Fleming Stadium after the Wilson Tobs play host to the Petersburg Generals.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 and email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.
Fireworks shows on July 4
Kinston� Pearson Park, 9 p.m.
Emerald Isle � Bogue Inlet Pier, 9 p.m.
Goldsboro� Berkeley Mall, 9 p.m.
Greenville� River Park North, 8 p.m.
Jacksonville� Onslow Pines Park, 9 p.m.
New Bern� Lawson Creek Park, 9 p.m.
Wilson� Fleming Stadium, following baseball game


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Firstly, due to time constraints I only want to run 3x per week in the morning (I plan to have 1 rest day and eventually three morning sessions of bodyweight training and Tai Chi on my non-running days). Secondly I really don't like complicated interval training etc. if I can avoid it - I much prefer "just running". I built up to 5k by running until I was tired, pushing on for 15-30 seconds at the same pace, and then walking until I felt I could run again. I did this until I could run 3k without walking, then pushed up the distance over about six weeks, while maintaining my pace as much as possible.
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- Then work on pace - I'm planning to work on this by doing pretty much the same thing I did to start running - increase my pace until I feel tired, continue for 15-30 seconds, then drop down to my previous pace.
- Then work on endurance - push my weekday runs to a full 30 minutes (my 5k time from this morning was 33 minutes, but I expect that to come down), and my Saturday run to a full hour.
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> Two 4 yr old F cavaliers in Wales
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Two 4 yr old F cavaliers in Wales
2nd July 2005, 04:15 PM
Two ex-breeding bitches from Welsh puppy farms are at Many Tears Rescue: http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/howtoadoptandrescueme.htm
3rd July 2005, 02:17 PM
These two girls are now being home vetted so lets hope its a happy outcome for them. I dispare of human beings doing this to any dog let alone our beloved breed who love and give so much. I do hope they get forever homes soon.
Cathy T
3rd July 2005, 09:30 PM
They are so pretty I can't imagine them not finding a forever home. Are they being homed together?
Camilla Berntsson
26th August 2005, 07:22 PM
I bless him above that I'm not living in the U.S or UK/Ireland!
(Don´t missunderstand me, the countries are great, and as I love the Irish dialect I have always said that IF I was ever to get married it would be to a Irish man.)
But if I had seen all the poor cavaliers/dogs who need a new home, I would most certinly fill the whole house with them! Regardless what sex thay had, or if they where neutered or not.
we have probably some of the problems here in Sweden too, but I don´t believe in cavaliers as there are always people looking för an adult cavalier as a pet.
Oh, If I only had money I would ship all the cavaliers who need rehoming , here to me!
27th August 2005, 12:39 AM
They don't come up too often for rehoming, but some that do come in are dogs like these, ex-puppy farm dogs. Those are the ones that really break your heart. They do all tend to find new homes pretty quickly; that's the good news! :)
27th August 2005, 11:04 AM
Yes, Karlin is right. The Rescue Cavs are always re-homed almost immediately.
I have tried for three recently and each time the dogs had found new homes almost immediately that they were put on the websites :D
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