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Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors are serious problems in the United States with long-term adverse consequences for children and society as a whole, and federal agencies should work with state and local partners to raise awareness of these issues and train professionals who work with youths to recognize and assist those who are victimized or at risk, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.Minors who are prostituted or sexually exploited in other ways should be treated as victims rather than arrested and prosecuted as criminals, as they currently are in most states, the report says.
"Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors are often-overlooked forms of child abuse," said Richard Krugman, co-chair of the committee that wrote the report, and vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine."Our national, state, and local laws and policies should recognize that and provide these children and adolescents with the support they need. Right now, they are often invisible to us, and when we do recognize them, we fail to see them as victims and survivors of abuse and violence.We hope our report will help open our nation's eyes to a serious domestic problem in need of solutions."
Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors refer to a range of crimes, including recruiting or transporting minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation, exploiting them through prostitution, or exploiting them through survival sex (exchanging sexual acts for something of value, such as shelter or food), among other offenses. Young victims and survivors of these crimes face both immediate and long-term social, legal, and health consequences. As directed by its charge, the committee focused its report on exploitation and trafficking of minors who are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the U.S. and its territories, but urged readers and policymakers to consider the broader implications of its recommendations as they apply to all children and adolescents.
Despite the gravity of the problem, there is no reliable estimate of the scope or prevalence of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors, the report says; estimates of the number of prostituted children and adolescents in the U.S., for example, have ranged from 1,400 to 2.4 million. These crimes are overlooked and almost surely underreported because they frequently happen at the margins of society and behind closed doors, and the young people involved often do not recognize themselves as victims of abuse. Those especially vulnerable to exploitation include youths who have been neglected or abused; those in foster care or juvenile detention; lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual youth; racial and ethnic minorities; and homeless, runaways, and "thrown-away" children who have been asked or told to leave home.
Efforts to prevent the commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of children in the U.S. are largely absent, the report says, and though efforts to respond to these problems are emerging, they are generally insufficient, uncoordinated, and unevaluated.Many professionals who interact with youth — such as teachers, health care providers, and child welfare and law enforcement professionals — are either unaware that trafficking and exploitation happen in their communities or lack the knowledge and tools to identify and respond to young people who are at risk.
Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors should be understood as acts of abuse and violence, the report says.All states have statutory rape laws specifying that a child under a certain age cannot legally consent to having sex and must be treated as a victim of a crime.And federal law on sex trafficking recognizes children as victims.However, in most states, commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors often are viewed through the lens of prostitution laws. As a result, laws allow prostituted minors to be arrested and charged with crimes instead of treating these sexually exploited minors as victims of crimes.These children and adolescents may be subject to arrest, detention, adjudication or conviction, and commitment or incarceration; they may have permanent records as offenders.
The report calls for all national, state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions to develop laws and policies that redirect young victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation under the age of 18 away from arrest and prosecution and toward systems, agencies, and services that are equipped to meet their needs.A small but growing number of states have enacted "safe harbor" laws designed to send young victims of exploitation to agencies that provide supportive services instead of sending them to the criminal or juvenile justice systems.
The U.S. departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education, working with other partners, should support national, regional, state, and local efforts to raise awareness of these crimes, the report says.These efforts should include training for professionals and others who routinely interact with minors. Health care and child welfare workers, the education sector, and the private sector have an important role to play in preventing, identifying, and responding to these problems.Efforts should also include campaigns to raise public awareness and specific strategies for raising awareness among children and adolescents. In addition, in the absence of an exhaustive list of resources for victim and support services, a digital information-sharing platform should be created to deliver reliable, real-time information on how to prevent, identify, and respond to the problem.
Despite the hard work of prosecutors and law enforcement in many jurisdictions, individuals who sexually exploit children and adolescents largely escape accountability, the report says. All jurisdictions should review and strengthen laws that hold exploiters, traffickers, and solicitors accountable for their role. These laws should include a particular emphasis on deterring demand, both through prevention efforts and penalties for those who solicit sex with minors.
In addition, the report recommends that the departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education collaborate and partner with others to implement a national research agenda to advance understanding of this kind of exploitation and develop evidence-informed interventions to prevent youth from becoming victims and to assist those who have been exploited.
"It's time to direct greater effort to preventing this kind of abuse, identifying young people who have become ensnared in it, and developing effective approaches that can enable them to reclaim their lives," said committee co-chair Ellen Wright Clayton, Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics and professor of law at Vanderbilt University.
The study was sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the U.S. Department of Justice. Established under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council provide independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, the private sector, and the public. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies.
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It is indeed amazing to consider how much blogs have changed communication. They effect the media, the war, politics, business, education, religion and countless other social and business establishments. I wish they'd effect gas prices. :-)
Since we started our blog last year we've enjoyed receiving messages from friends, clients and other photographers who stop in and visit on a regular basis. And obviously, if you're a regular visitor you know that we use our blog to post our most recent weddings, e-sessions, family shoots, and everything else that we're trying to keep up with.
A couple weeks ago we attended WPPI in Las Vegas. And as we toured the tradeshow it was amazing to see what digital technology has done to the business. And of course the changes continue daily. With the advent of digital technology, and the affordability of equipment, it's not uncommon for an occasional guest at a wedding to be using the same cameras as we use. Over the past year we've spent a great deal of time researching what other photographers are doing, looking at their images and discovering what it is that sets apart a good photograph from an average photograph. And we always put a big emphasis on bettering ourselves by attending workshops and seminars as often as possible.
So over the next several weeks we're going to be posting a series of entries called "Image of the Week", inspired by David Beckstead. It will be both fun and educational. Hopefully some of the photo students that we visited with at Southern will get this. We'll try to do them on the weekends, but they may be posted on Friday or possibly on Monday. Obviously, we're not getting off to a good start because here it is, Monday evening. Anyhow....
The entries will be interspersed with our other work, so it may take a minute to scroll through. We hope that you'll find this both enjoyable and educational. And of course, if you agree or disagree on a particular image, please feel free to let us know. The more feedback we receive, the more we continue to grow.
Introducing......"Image of the Week"
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- Holritz Photography said...
Love the idea!!! Post the tech info too!
Love this idea too! Anytime we get to see more of your images "it's a good thing."
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- Davina said...
I am looking forward to your image a week. What a great idea.
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Have you ever wondered why reality television is so compelling? Why do audiences tune in, week after week, to watch the drama of non-celebrities competing for a record deal, a modeling contract, or a chance at true love?
Like most forms of televised entertainment, reality TV is all about the telling of a good story. But unlike real life, the drama of reality TV is acted out against a well thought-out, and visually stimulating backdrop. The settings for popular reality shows are designed to maximize the dramatic effect of otherwise unremarkable situations like a dance audition or a first date.
James Pearse Connelly, a production designer and primetime Emmy award winner, is the man behind many of those reality TV sets. His work has been seen on "The Voice," "America's Next Top Model," "America's Best Dance Crew," MTV's "Miss Seventeen," VH1's "Glam God," the Grammy Awards, "Lopez Tonight," the MTV Video Music Awards, and the HBO series "Big Love." He also served as art director on the hit movie "The Kids Are All Right," starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore.
Connelly said the secret behind his dazzling sets is using set design to tell a story.
Connelly realized fairly early in life that he liked to tell stories. The son of an art teacher and an architect, his sensibilities were formed in part by his creative parents, he said.
But his passion for spinning a good yarn comes from the theater.
"It really wasn't until drama club in high school, and the community and freedom of expression I found there, that I knew that storytelling was totally fun," said Connelly, a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. "I loved listening to a story and trying to reinterpret the environment it was placed within."
This love of listening and retelling stories led Connelly to pursue a career as a designer, and after completing a degree in theater arts and set design, he moved to New York and then Los Angeles, where he worked for different studios and learned the ins and outs of his trade.
After more than 10 years of working for others, Connelly decided to start a business of his own based in his home in Los Angeles. Being his own boss has proven to be an exciting and liberating experience for this 32-year-old designer.
"I'm obsessed with the freedom of taking my own risks and standing by my own point of view," he said.
Setting the stage
Connelly's job is all about setting the stage for the telling of a good story. In order to make that happen, he must collaborate with the director of whatever project he's working on and decide how to bring a particular scenario to life. This process usually begins with a simple conversation and a decision about the mood of a story, he said.
"Sometimes you hit a home run right out of the gate," Connelly said of this collaborative effort. "It's an organic process, and we're going to get it right together. We're in the business of working together. It's about establishing a working relationship."
Because his job revolves around the creative process and the intertwining of various points of views, there's always room for improvement. In fact, Connelly admits that the thing he loves most about his job is getting the chance to improve with every new venture.
"I love doing something different with every project," he said. "Experiencing new challenges with the same friends and teammates is the best."
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The up-and-coming actress is living proof that ponytails should not be relegated to the gym. Glammed up for the 2012 Oscars, Dobrev's locks, despite appearing somewhat ringlet-like, are actually braided. To replicate the style, make a low, smooth ponytail. Thicken it with a ponytail hair extension, braiding the fake hair into your existing ponytail. Secure with an elastic band.
At once easy-breezy and dolled up, the South African beauty donned a ponytail that — lucky for us — is easy as can be to recreate. Blowdry hair straight, create a deep side part, and pull into a low side ponytail. Pull out fringe or bangs, or allow them to come loose organically over time.


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Hello! Welcome to Wearrior Instinct. I'm Ainul! My style is described best as 'mix and match'. Fashion, to me, is a form of self expression. I dress for myself and I love exploring new and different ways to do it. I believe strongly that we all have the potential to be the best we can be; all we have to do is to follow our (Wearrior) Instinct.
Hey! I'm Mu'izz. I'm currently taking my masters degree in Political Science at UCL. I would probably say that my fashion style is best described as "Good-boy Oxford look" and I love colours. Although, I am preppy for most of the time, I do also like to mix elements from other fashion style. Right now, I am exploring more of the urban style. For me, Fashion is a platform that expresses and embraces one's individuality. Hopefully, it will inspire you to wear your (Wearrior) instinct! – I am on a research leave at the moment, I will be back soon!
Hi! I'm Alia Alkaff, a 20-year-old Graphic Design undergraduate at Norwich University of the Arts. Black enthusiast and a lover of all things minimalistic, which also happens to best describe my style of Fashion. With being a part of Wearrior Instinct it has encouraged me greatly to be proud of what I wear and I hope we as a team will have that effect to bring out your inner Wearrior Instinct!
My name is Faiz, but most people call me Fez. I studied at the the University of Leeds and graduated in 2015. I currently run a pop-up based coffee business called Aoyama Coffee. My interests in fashion lie more in on streetwear - and bridging the gap between it and menswear. I'm a fan of the little things in labels that set them apart from others, and my taste is a little unconventional, to say the least. I'm also really into raw denim. I should mention that I'm on hiatus at the moment - but I will be back!
Oh hi there! I run a YouTube channel called AMSAIMA, where I create beauty and styling vlogs. I like to think of my fashion sense as multifaceted - I could dress to the nines with textured garments, look quirky while donning a pair of boyfriend jeans, or go for an alternative retro. Wearrior Instinct doesn't just provide a space for me to document my looks and write about the pieces I've put together, but as I'm all about body positivity, I see this as an opportunity where confidence can be both built and encouraged. Lots of love, Amalsaima (or simply, Amal).


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Everyone has heard about Tempur-Pedic mattresses. The famous Tempur-Pedic mattress is known for its design in the way that it curves and shapes around the sleeper's body. Best Prices On Tempurpedic Beds in Johannesburg the brand carries different models and designs for different preferences. A lot of research has been put into these mattresses to ensure the quality and effectiveness of a great mattress. Because of the advanced research and design of the mattress, Queen Tempurpedic Mattress Set the pricing on them can be much higher than most people expect to pay for a mattress. The key to being able to afford a Tempur-Pedic mattress is to look for a Tempur-Pedic mattress sale.
Sales allow consumers to purchase these mattresses for lower than retail prices. This also makes it so people that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it can afford a mattress that is comfortable and state of the art. The first step I would take in looking for a Tempur-Pedic mattress sale is by collecting store ads as they come in the mail. Furniture and mattress stores often mail out flyers and catalogues of their store items and display current or upcoming sales. These catalogues can prepare you to know about the sale and to also price shop based on the different store ads you receive.
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The first step in finding the most comfortable price for you for your mattress is by visiting a store and ensuring this is the mattress for you. You should also see which of the types of Tempur-Pedic mattresses you prefer, as well if you are interested in any of the extras they offer. Once you have decided to purchase this mattress, you should be prepared to wait for the best sale to come around. Do you research online, How Much Does A Tempurpedic Cost and then purchase the newspapers with the stores ads in them. Do some comparisons and when the best deal comes around – be sure to jump on it.
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Tempur-Pedic was the first to employ viscoelastic material in the manufacture of its mattresses and still remain the market leader in memory foam mattresses. Many other companies now make memory foam mattresses like the Simmons ComforPedic Mattress and the Sealy TrueForm Mattress. But why have memory foam mattresses proved such a success? The answer lies in the indisputable benefits of memory foam.
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All memory foam mattresses like the Tempur-Pedic mattress are sensitive to weight and body heat: the higher the body temperature the more soft memory foam mattresses become; the cooler the body, the firmer the mattress. Most people enjoy this sensation. More importantly, the mattress changes shape to match the exact contours of your body, giving better support and correct spine alignment. Many orthopedic expects concur that memory foam (like the Tempur-Pedic mattress) delivers the best, orthopedically correct alignment of your neck and spine. Testing by the Institution for Clinical & Physiological Research at the Lillhagen Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden of 23,000 patients for a period corresponding to approximately 8 years of clinical and in-home use concluded that the patients suffered from less pain and experienced greatly enhanced and deeper sleep when they slept on a memory foam mattress.
A good quality mattress is a hefty financial investment and the Tempur-Pedic mattress is probably the most expensive memory foam mattress on the market. Despite the cost factor, the Tempur-Pedic memory foam mattress remains the most popular on the market. I know that marketing can artificially increase a company's market share but Tempur-Pedic has been in the market long enough now that the novelty value and shrewd marketing pitch doesn't fool the consumer: the reason the Tempur-Pedic mattress is the most popular brand of memory foam mattress is because of the genuine sleep benefits that most people have experienced with it.
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I didnt give it much thought for the longest time, but you do have to think about your choice when you buy a bedside table. These, at least in my home, are a great place for an alarm clock, and they also hold the little things you need each day but dont really have a place for. That might be extra change, earrings, or your watch. I cleaned homes for a living a long time ago while going through college, and to see a home without these tables was a rare sight indeed. Most people like to have them. Those with large beds often dont have to think about anything by style when they buy a bedside table, but those with small and shorter beds have to think about a few things. I once had a glass bedside table, and I almost cut my head open on it one night. I am not sound sleeper, and I roll around a lot. I woke up after banging my head on it, and realized had I moved just an inch lower, the corner could have cut my head. I got rid of it that day and went shopping for a new set for my home. If you have a bed that is not far from the floor, you have to get a bedside table that is completely level with the side of your bed, or one that is significantly taller so that you dont cut your head like I almost did. You should also look for something that has rounded corners in the event that you do bump your head or even your arm or leg on the bedside table. That would be a nasty shock in the middle of the night for sure. For the most part, you can find a wide variety if bedside tables anywhere you can buy furniture. If you are buying a bedroom suite, but you arent sure about the tables that come with it, ask for a substitution. Most places will do this for you if something that matches can be found. You can also look online to find styles of bedside table that you may not find near your home. These are probably ones you have to put together, but that is a small price to pay for getting the right kind so you can sleep peacefully at night. Its certainly not something that most think about until there is a problem. However, prevention is always a great idea.


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Clay Shaw's acquittal on conspiracy charges to assassinate President John F. Kennedy owes a great deal to his willingness to perjure himself at that 1969 trial.
by Don Fulsom
Clay Shaw (a.k.a. Clay Bertrand) holds the distinction of being the only individual ever tried as part of an alleged conspiracy to murder President John F. Kennedy. In 1969, after a 39-day trial, a New Orleans jury took less than an hour to find the wealthy local businessman not guilty.
Then 55, the tall, white-haired, distinguished looking Shaw was indicted and tried by a rather flamboyant ex-FBI agent—the parish's controversial district attorney, Jim Garrison. The D.A. and his staff produced enough evidence to convince the jury there was a conspiracy—but the jurors said Shaw did not participate in it. Could the jury have been mistaken on Shaw? Looking at the case through history's rear-view mirror, yes indeed.
Shaw was a military intelligence officer in World War II. His first post-war job was with a CIA proprietary, the Mississippi Shipping Company. At the time of his trial, Shaw was a director of Permindex, a Swiss firm suspected of not only being a CIA front, but of laundering money for organized crime.
He was also the director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans—a position that entailed extensive foreign travel. It was not until 1996 that the CIA disclosed Shaw had obtained an agency security clearance as far back as 1949.
We now know the defendant (played by Tommy Lee Jones in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK) lied under oath when he answered the most critical question of his trial: "Mr. Shaw, have you ever worked for the Central Intelligence Agency?" His response: "No, I have not."
Shaw lied yet again—and even more boldly—after the trial, telling Penthouse: "I have never had any connection with the CIA."
In 1979, however, former CIA Director Richard Helms acknowledged under oath that Shaw had been a contact in the CIA's Domestic Contact Service.
As a CIA contact, Shaw used his cover as a businessman to feed the agency intelligence from his frequent foreign travels. JFK assassination researcher Martin Shackelford reports that Shaw's CIA activities included a still-secret conspiracy that involved a future Watergate felon:
As late as 1967, Shaw had a "covert security" classification for a top-secret program called QKENCHANT. The program remains so highly classified that we are still unable to learn anything about its nature, but Shaw's classification was approved by the CIA's then covert operations chief, Richard Helms … Former CIA official Victor Marchetti said that QKENCHANT was most likely run out of the Domestic Operations Division of the Clandestine Services, headed by Tracy Barnes. Support for this comes from recently released documents identifying Barnes' then-deputy, E. Howard Hunt, as another individual involved with QKENCHANT.
A top CIA spy before he became a secret agent for President Nixon's "black projects," E. Howard Hunt has long been a JFK assassination suspect. In a deathbed confession, Hunt said he was in on the Dallas plot—but only as a "benchwarmer." [A note of caution: Hunt was such a master of deceit and disinformation it is hard to give much credence to even his final words on earth.] Hunt died of pneumonia in Miami in 2007.
Nonetheless, if Hunt and Shaw had worked together on QKENCHANT, it seems fair to ask whether they might also have been key players in the murder of our 35th president.
Additional clues about a possible Shaw-Hunt connection might reside in a big pile of potential evidence still in government hands. The National Archives has yet to make public some 366 pages of CIA documents dealing with Hunt.
The CIA does not have an exemplary record in declassifying documents. So don't expect to see these documents anytime soon. The agency also has a habit of blacking out much of the material it does reluctantly and eventually make public.
At Shaw's trial, the defendant was shown a picture of the late David Ferrie—another prime suspect in the JFK assassination—and was then asked, "whether you have ever known this man?" Shaw declared, "No, I never have."
Was Shaw dissembling again on the witness stand? According to many credible witnesses, he was. Several prominent citizens of Clinton, Louisiana, testified that they had seen Shaw in the company of Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald. Longtime Ferrie friend Raymond Broshears said he saw Shaw and Ferrie together a number of times; and a Ku Klux Klan member named Jules Ricco Kimble said Ferrie introduced him to Shaw. (Photographic evidence has since turned up showing that Ferrie and Oswald were friends.)
Vernon Bundy told the Shaw jury he had seen the defendant meet with Oswald at a seawall on Lake Pontchartrain in June 1963. (Shaw also swore at his trial that he never knew Oswald.) Mailman James Hardiman testified that he had delivered letters addressed to "Clay Bertram" to a forwarding address for Clay Shaw—and that none of the letters was ever returned.
Standing six-foot-six in socks, "Big Jim" Garrison was an imposing figure with a booming voice. His key witness was Perry Russo—then a 21-year-old insurance agent. Russo positively identified a photo of Clay Shaw as "Clay Bertrand." He testified that, in September 1963, he had overheard Shaw discussing plans to assassinate Kennedy. Russo said others present were Ferrie and a man introduced to him as "Leon Oswald."
Shaw's defense team, led by F. Irvin Dymond, undercut Russo's testimony by saying Garrison had drugged and hypnotized the witness to obtain his statement. The D.A. insisted Russo was hypnotized and given "truth serum" only to make certain of his honesty.
The speedy not guilty verdict strongly indicates the jurors bought the Shaw legal team's major contentions, including this one. All the jurors agreed, however, that Garrison had proved that the President's death resulted from a conspiracy.
For the rest of his life, Russo stuck to his story about being at a pre-assassination meeting attended by Shaw, Ferrie and Oswald. Years after the trial, in a videotaped interview, Russo remembered that "Ferrie was in control of the gathering … He was in one of his obsessive evenings concerning his hatred of the President of the United States."
A pilot for both the CIA and for New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, Ferrie died on February 22, 1967—just as Garrison was about to indict him. Ferrie was found lying on a couch in his apartment with a sheet pulled over his still-bewigged head.
Two typed but unsigned suicide notes were found nearby. The first began "To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect." The second simply said that "when you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible."
Metro Crime Commission director Aaron Kohn believed Ferrie was murdered. But the coroner ruled his death was natural—caused by a cerebral hemorrhage.
Clay Shaw did not live to bear the added burden of being exposed as a perjurer when the CIA, in 1979, finally admitted he had worked for them. He was carrying a heavy enough load when he died: despondency over a stack of unpaid legal bills and depression over his outing as a homosexual. A chain-smoker, Shaw died in 1974—apparently of lung cancer. He was buried before an autopsy could be performed.
Sources include: Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination; Who's Who in the JFK Assassination by Michael Benson; Crossfire by Jim Marrs; A Farewell to Justice by Joan Mellen; Fair Play; Salon; and transcripts of Clay Shaw's trial from the Mary Ferrell Web site.


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The scale of post-Sandy challenge in NY, NJ is unprecedented
NEW YORKTwo major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to feed and rescue flood victims two days after superstorm Sandy struck.
For the first time since the storm slammed the Northeast, killing at least 72 people nationwide and inflicting billions of dollars in damage, brilliant sunshine washed over the nation's largest city a striking sight after days of gray skies, rain and wind. The light gave officials and residents a true glimpse of destruction on a scale that the region has never seen before.
At the stock exchange, running on generator power, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave a thumbs-up and rang the opening bell to whoops from traders on the floor. Trading resumed after the first two-day weather shutdown since the Blizzard of 1888.
New York's subway system was still down, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo said parts of it will begin running again on Thursday. And he said some commuter rail service between the city and its suburbs would resume on Wednesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, Manhattan's roadways were choked with desperate drivers, prompting Bloomberg to announce that only cars with at least three people in them would be allowed to cross the recently reopened bridges and tunnels on Thursday.
Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports began handling flights again just after 7 a.m. New York's LaGuardia Airport, which suffered far worse damage and still had water on its runways, remained closed.
It was clear that restoring the region to its ordinarily frenetic pace could take days and that rebuilding the hardest-hit communities and the transportation networks that link them could take considerably longer.
About 6 million homes and businesses were still without power, mostly in New York and New Jersey. Electricity was out as far west as Wisconsin and as far south as the Carolinas.
The scale of the challenge could be seen across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where National Guard trucks rolled into heavily flooded Hoboken to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate people from their condo high-rises, brownstones and other homes.
The mayor of the city of 50,000 issued an appeal for people to bring boats to City Hall to help with the evacuation.
Natural gas fires raged Wednesday in a section of Brick Township, N.J., where dozens of houses were devastated by the storm's surge. No injuries were reported.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie issued an order postponing Halloween trick-or-treating until Monday, saying floodwaters, downed electrical wires, power outages and fallen trees made it too dangerous for children to go out.
President Obama and Christie flew over the Jersey Shore Wednesday to assess the devastation that superstorm Sandy left in its wake, stopping at a community center to reassure the storm's victims that state and federal officials are working together to help the state recover.
"We are here for you," Mr. Obama told residents during a news conference following their tour. "We will follow up to make sure you get the help you need until you rebuild."
Mr. Obama praised Christie's response to the storm, noting that he has been "aggressive in making sure the state got out in front of this storm. I think the people of New Jersey recognize he's put his heart and soul in making sure the people of New Jersey bounce back."
Christie, a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, says he "can't thank the president enough" for his concern and compassion during the storm.
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Outages in the state's two largest cities, Newark and Jersey City, left traffic signals dark, resulting in fender-benders at intersections where police were not directing traffic. At one Jersey City supermarket, there were long lines to get bread and use an electrical outlet to charge cellphones.
Amid the despair, talk of recovery was already beginning.
"It's heartbreaking after being here 37 years," Barry Prezioso of Point Pleasant, N.J., said as he returned to his house in the beachfront community. "You see your home demolished like this, it's tough. But nobody got hurt and the upstairs is still livable, so we can still live upstairs and clean this out. I'm sure there's people that had worse. I feel kind of lucky."
As New York began its second day after the megastorm, morning rush-hour traffic was heavy as people started returning to work. There was even a sign of normalcy: commuters waiting at bus stops. School was out for a third day.
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan, and the Holland Tunnel, between New York and New Jersey, remained closed. But bridges into the city were open, and city buses were running, free of charge.
On the Brooklyn Bridge, closed earlier because of high winds, joggers and bikers made their way across before sunrise. One cyclist carried a flashlight. Car traffic on the bridge was busy.
The subway system suffered the worst damage in its 108-year history, with floodwaters swamping tunnels and stations and threatening the electrical wiring. Experts said the cost of the repairs could be staggering.
Amtrak trains were still not running in or out of New York's Penn Station because of tunnel flooding.
Power company Consolidated Edison said it could also be the weekend before power is restored to Manhattan and Brooklyn, perhaps longer for other New York boroughs and the suburbs. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost power.
The recovery and rebuilding will take far longer.
When New Jersey's governor stopped in Belmar, N.J., during a tour of the devastation, one woman wept, and 42-year-old Walter Patrickis told him, "Governor, I lost everything."
Christie, who called the shore damage "unthinkable," said a full recovery would take months, at least, and it would probably be a week or more before power is restored to everyone who lost it.
"Now we've got a big task ahead of us that we have to do together. This is the kind of thing New Jerseyans are built for," he said.
Forecasting firm IHS Global Insight predicted it would cause $20 billion in damage and $10 billion to $30 billion in lost business. Another firm, AIR Worldwide, estimated losses up to $15 billion.
In Connecticut, some residents of Fairfield returned home in kayaks and canoes to inspect the flood damage.
"The uncertainty is the worst," said Jessica Levitt, who was told it could be a week before she can enter her house. "Even if we had damage, you just want to be able to do something. We can't even get started."
In New York, residents of the flooded beachfront neighborhood of Breezy Point in returned home to find fire had taken everything the water had not. A huge blaze destroyed perhaps 100 homes in the close-knit community where many had stayed behind despite being told to evacuate.
John Frawley acknowledged the mistake. Frawley, who lived about five houses from the fire's edge, said he spent the night terrified "not knowing if the fire was going to jump the boulevard and come up to my house."
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Some Atlético Madrid fan did all the Cristiano Ronaldo haters a favor today by pinging a lighter off the eminently hateable star's head. Even your teammates are laughing at you, Ronaldo!
Considering how much product Ronaldo undoubtedly uses, the real miracle here is that his whole head didn't burst into flames. Lest you think Sergio Ramos really is a horrible teammate, this alternate view shows that Ramos did eventually feign concern:
The rebound of that sucker means it was coming in pretty fast. Still laughing, though.


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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
Well, now I have a GPS; so I don't ask the "How do I get there from here?" question much, at least not when it comes to driving. But it is a question I ask, and perhaps you also ask, when it comes to our spiritual life.
Jesus promises us heaven. He tells us that there is a place for each of us in His Father's House. St. Paul adds that the eye has not seen nor the ear heard the wonders that God has in store for us. The union with God, the eternal swirl of His Love, is there for us. Union with our loved ones who have gone before us, union with the great ones of history, union with the Mary and the saints and the angels is all waiting for us.
So, we join Thomas in the Gospel and ask, "How do I get there from here?" And Jesus says to Thomas and to all of us, "You know the way. I am the way, the truth and the life."
But where exactly is there? The final goal of the race of our lives is heaven, but there is not just heaven. There is living our spiritual life to the fullest. There is overflowing with the Presence of the Lord sp that we can naturally bring His Life to
the world. There is being where Paul said that all Christians are when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:14, "The love of Christ compels us."
This what I want. This is what you want. But I, we, often fall short, very short of the goal. Distractions domineer us. We are more concerned with the minutia of life than the reason why we do what we are doing. Teens may be more concerned with going to school than the reason why they are there, to develop their God given abilities to serve Christ. Parents may be so concerned with the daily chores of raising children that they forget why they are working so hard, doing so much. They may forget that they are raising children of God and for God. Priests can get so involved in the minutia of performing their duties before the Lord, that like the Temple priests and Levites in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, they often walk right by the opportunity to serve the Lord in the man on the side of the road.
And then there is the constant noise of our society that keeps our minds from our mission. The bickering and gossip of our everyday lives is just plain noise, distracting us, hurting others. Movies and television shows are often written by people determined to promote atheism, abortion, and immorality and looking for any excuse to take a shot at Christians, particularly Catholics. They distract us from standing up for whom we are and even whittle us down into accepting their lies to a degree. And the internet with its virtual worlds, be they social networks, complex games, or the things that moral people need to avoid, not only cause us to waste hours a day, but lead us where we should not go.
We can't get there, to the place we want to be, unless we let Christ lead us away from the distractions. We can't get there to the place we want to be unless we focus on Christ as we go about the daily duties and chores of our lives. We can't point others to where they also need to go unless our lives are pointing to the Lord.
Jesus is the way. When we focus on Him, He draws us to Himself. He draws us away from the distractions, away from the noise. The One who loved us to death, now loves us to life. He loves us so much that He draws us to His Life if only we let Him into our lives.
That is why we need to have an active prayer life. An active prayer life includes talking to the Lord throughout the day, but that is not enough. We also need to set time aside for prayer. We have to be a little cautious when we consider what an active prayer life is, though. An active prayer life does not mean feeling the prayers, feeling all warm and fuzzy like we do at times during retreats, or during Holy Week. All that is good, but it is simply one of many manifestations of our union with God. A prayer life is active even though we often struggle just to concentrate on what we are doing and saying when we pray.
Many distance runners purposely hold a little back during the race and focus in on the runner ahead of him or her. They let that runner draw them, then they pass the runner and focus on the next runner until the only runner left is the one leading the race. With their eyes and minds focused on the leader they draw close and use the energy they have been storing to sprint to the finish line.
The spiritual life is a distance race. Our eyes are fixed on the Leader of the race. He draws us to Himself. He gives us the energy to sprint to the finish line. He gives us the power to get there.
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#CraveFace Campaign, Unique App Distribution Debuts
AUSTIN, Texas, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kim and Scott Holstein , the duo behind Kim & Scott's Gourmet Pretzels, is introducing its new ice cream novelty product at the 2013 South by Southwest (SxSW) annual music, film and interactive conference and festival held in Austin, March 8-17.
Kim & Scott's Crave Bar is available immediately at thecravebar.com, specialty markets and entertainment venues. The sweet and savory indulgence features premium vanilla ice cream topped with rich dark chocolate and bits of hard pretzels and sea salt, all on a crunchy chocolate and caramel dipped pretzel rod.
"SxSW is an ideal stage for us to introduce The Crave Bar," said Kim Holstein , Chief Inspiration Officer of Kim & Scott's Crave Bar. "We know the festival goers will not only crave our new ice cream bar, but also respond positively to the Kim & Scott's CraveFace interactive campaign and our distribution through the BUZZtheBar app."
CraveFace, an interactive campaign created by Chicago's Simple Truth, celebrates the Crave Bar experience (#CraveFace). Festival goers can stop by Kim & Scott's Crave Bar cart, located around the festival grounds to enjoy a 3.5 oz bar. Cart locations can be found on thecravebar.com, Facebook and Twitter. Once they have a well-earned "Crave Face," guests can use Instagram to snap a picture of their satisfied smiles with a smart phone, tweet #CraveFace and earn their place at thecravebar.com.
Additionally, visitors to SxSW can purchase a Kim & Scott's Crave Bar through the BUZZtheBar iPhone or Android app and have a Kim & Scott's Crave Bar delivered to a nearby location in the Convention Center and at bars on Sixth Street. BUZZtheBar, a New York based smart phone app, offers mobile order, pay and delivery.
BUZZtheBar is the only way to try out a Kim & Scott's Crave Bar inside the Convention Center. Pre-SxSW, post "I CRAVE bars" to Kim & Scott's Crave Bar Facebook and Twitter pages and #CraveBar and #BUZZtheBar for a free Crave Bar at SxSW.
Free Kim & Scott's Crave Bars will be given away at select times during SxSW. Visit Kim & Scott's Crave Bar Facebook and Twitter pages for those opportunities.
A portion of the proceeds from Kim & Scott's Crave Bar sales at SxSW will benefit KIPP Academy Austin, a charter school that prepares students in underserved communities for success.
Husband and wife team Kim and Scott Holstein founded Kim & Scott's Gourmet Pretzels in 1995. After 17 years, the brand sold and the Holsteins moved into frozen novelties. Kim & Scott's products and philanthropic efforts have been highly praised by Fortune Magazine as a company "Breaking Big." They have been deliciously touted by USA Today, Entrepreneur, CNBC's Power Lunch, CNBC's Donny Deutsch , Food Network's Dean Brothers and Roker on the Road.


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Last week, fellow IBMer Ron Riffe started his three-part series on the Storage Hypervisor. I discussed Part I already in my previous post [Storage Hypervisor Integration with VMware]. We wrapped up the week with a Live Chat with over 30 IT managers, industry analysts, independent bloggers, and IBM storage experts.
This week, Ron continues this meme with his post [Enabling Private IT for Storage Cloud -- Part II (management controls)]. Here's an excerpt:
A storage hypervisor increases the utilization of storage resources, and optimizes what is most scarce in your environment. For Linux, UNIX and Windows servers, you typically see utilization rates of 20 to 35 percent, and this can be raised to 55 to 80 percent with a storage hypervisor. But what is most scarce in your environment? Time! In a competitive world, it is not big animals eating smaller ones as much as fast ones eating the slow.
If this sounds all too familiar, it is similar to the benefits that one gets from a server hypervisor -- better utilization of CPU resources, optimizing the management and administration time, with the agility and flexibility to deploy new technologies in and decommission older ones out.
Arthur Cole disagrees. His blog post asks [
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Jon Toigo on his DrunkenData blog brings back the sanity with his post [Once More Into the Fray]. Here is an excerpt:
Did you miss out on last Friday's Live Chat? We are doing it again this Friday, covering parts I and II of Ron's posts, so please join the conversation! The virtual dialogue on this topic will continue in another [Live Chat] on September 30, 2011 from 12 noon to 1pm Eastern Time.
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I last wore these tights when I was a confused and emo(tional) teenager, but I recently saw someone else wearing them and it inspired me to dig them out again. Tights are v important and dernier is everything.
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We created Antiquities in the mid 90s just as two things were happening: the vintage guitar market was booming, and guitarists were beginning to relic their own instruments. Antiquities are our way of delivering the tone you find in a well-seasoned, well-worn guitar, but making it available in a new instrument – or giving you a vintage-accurate aged pickup to bring a modded vintage piece back to original spec. Imagine going back in time and buying a brand new Les Paul in 1959. It would essentially have pickups like our Seth Lover humbuckers in it. Now imagine playing the same guitar today after all those decades: that's Antiquity. $30,000 tone for $144.
Original P.A.F. humbuckers sound clearer and more open than later, hotter pickups. They're simultaneously airy and sweet, with a very specific 'growl' when pushed. Our Antiquity humbuckers give you the same tone and look you would find in a 60-year-old P.A.F, right down to the way the magnet and cover age after decades of playing. The bridge model is wound a little hotter for better balance (and to reflect the mismatched sets that were extremely common among the originals), and every bottom plate and bar magnet is signed by Seymour to guarantee that you are getting an original Seymour Duncan Antiquity.
Antiquity Texas Hot for Strat Set
Great Stratocaster tone can mean different things to different people. If your idea of the perfect Strat is spanky attack and bell-like chime but with the slight sweetness that only six decades of ageing can provide, the Antiquity Texas Hot is for you. Doubly so if you like a little more growl and midrange from your bridge pickup. Custom-aged Alnico 2 rod magnets generate less string-pull and more sustain. Each pickup is custom aged both cosmetically and magnetically to simulate the wear and tear that a pickup goes through after decades of playing, and each is lacquered and potted in lamp black paraffin wax, like the originals.
Antiquity II Surfer Set for Strat
Classic single coil sounds of the 60s were a little more beefy than their 50s counterparts, but not at the expense of classic Strat chime and bounce. The Antiquity II Surfer set uses specially calibrated Alnico 5 rod magnets and a custom scatter-wound coil for subtle sweetness amid the high-end sparkle. The bridge pickup is wound 50% hotter for more mids, and the treble is then softened with degaussed magnets. Cut through the mix with fatness and power without sharp high end. Each pickup is aged to look and sound like a 1960s originals, with vintage-correct blue/yellow cloth pushback lead wire, light gray bottom flatwork, and custom aged covers. for just the right look. They are all lacquered and wax potted.
Antiquity for Telecaster – bridge
If you play a vintage 50s Telecaster pickup, you'll find that the high end has softened and sweetened a little. It's a little too tempting to say it ages like a fine wine. Maybe more like a fine guitar. The Antiquity Tele Lead will give you that early 50s Tele tone, but with the high end sweetened by the custom-calibrated hand-ground Alnico 2 rod magnets for classic Tele twang and snap but with a treble response that is nice and bright without being piercing. Like the originals, the ferrous bottom plates are not wax potted, which gives you just that little extra edge and snarl, while the rest of the pickup is lacquered and potted in lamp black paraffin wax just like they were in the 50s.
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The Jazzmaster defined the sound of 60s instrumental music but it's played an equally important role in post-punk, alternative, goth and roots music. Our Antiquity II Jazzmaster bridge pickup uses hand-ground Alnico 5 rod magnets and a special coil wind to deliver bright, 60s Jazzmaster tone with crispness, glassiness and snap. Clean tones are sharp and clear, while dirty tones have a gloriously ragged bark that cuts through and demands to be heard. We use heavy Formvar mag wire, vintage-correct gray flatwork, cloth push-back lead wire and the same lacquer and wax potting as the originals.


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Multimedia: Pioneer Athletics shine in student-created video series
March 25, 2010
Remy Neymarc '12 is drawing on his talent as a photographer to create a series of inspiring videos about Pioneer Athletics.
Offering a glimpse of the experiences of Lewis & Clark student-athletes, the videos feature students in action, set against the Northwest's lush natural backdrop.
Neymarc's first completed video offers a taste of things to come: this brief trailer featuring the men's rowing team is a preview of Neymarc's longer video projects that will debut later this year.
"For the rowing video, I shot all the scenes myself, tripod-mounted in the motorboat," Neymarc said. "The editing I did progressively, practice after practice as the scenes came in—about twenty hours overall. We're missing too many scenes to make the official video I have in mind, but in a few weeks I will be going back out to shoot more important scenes for the video. I hope to make a difference in the rowing community by giving it the attention it deserves."
Neymarc was hired by the Department of Athletics to create three separate videos: one showcasing all 19 Pioneer teams, one featuring Lewis & Clark's athletics facilities, and one offering visual interpretations of the mission of athletics at Lewis & Clark.
"We found Remy almost by mistake," said Monica Baker, assistant director of athletic development. "I was looking for photographs to incorporate into a project and noticed some amazing rowing photos displayed on the rowing bulletin board. After speaking with our rowing coach, I got Remy's contact information and gave him a call. After I found out he was interested in creating videos, I proposed he create one for the department that incorporated all of our sports and that could be used not only for our fans to enjoy, but in recruiting prospective student-athletes. That one video grew into three."
The videos, which Neymarc hopes to complete by the end of spring term, benefit from the young filmmaker's artistry and his perspective.
"As a student, Remy knows what is appealing to prospective students," Baker said. "His excitement for the project is contagious and his talent amazing. I've seen little pieces of the projects he is working on for us so far and can't wait to see them launched."
The athletics projects offer Neymarc an opportunity to explore a possible career path as he builds content for a YouTube channel, NeymarcVisuals, that he created with his brother Andrew. Although Andrew is currently studying business in London, Remy considers him an essential creative partner and credits him with assisting on the rowing video from afar. Though the brothers chose to pursue different academic interests, they hope their shared interest in filmmaking will lead to more collaboration.
"I am a double major in psychology and computer science, but I would major in everything if I could," Remy said. "My brother and I have many video projects in mind and are working hard to fit filmmaking into our academic lives. We aren't sure of where it is going lead us, but what we do know is we will choose a career that involves being together."


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RSBS Special Correspondent and Podcast Dolomite, Mr. Johanna Mahmud reports:
There is a movement coming. Axel Foley is coming.
I've been trying to get over my most recent trampoline accident and my cat circus just went bankrupt… BUT!!! One of my favorite cites (DETROIT) is having a renaissance. I got Iraqi, German and Chicago in me, yes. But I'm thinking that maybe I watched Beverly Hills Cop too many times and listened to too much Motown, because I got definitely got some Detroit in me too. In fact, I feel the need to go undercover to find out what Detroit's new secret is. Maybe in drag?!?!
If those Chrysler ads don't pump you up then YOU HAVE NO SOUL. I want cars that talk back to you. DETROIT CAN GIVE YOU THAT! And I want a lot of things back in my life. I want sideburns back. I want Paul Reiser and Judge Reinhold back. And though I don't smoke, I want people to bring smoking indoors back!!!
Meanwhile, Detroit needed a pick-me-up and the Lions and Tigers have delivered.
This song has nothing to do with Axel Foley, nor the Motor City, but something about it makes me feel like I'm in the mitten. (Or is Michigan a glove?) Anyway, it gets me pumped up for my second city so much that when I hear it I can't help but take a swig of a cold Samuel Jackson before pouring a little out for Jack Kevorkian and Gilda Radner. (I was going to mention Barry Gordy here but I just googled him and he's still alive!!!)
The freaks are coming out! Lions, Tigers, and Wolverines …oh my! This is the best gift life could ever give our fellow RSBS writer, Allen.
The Tigers!!! Verlander makes me woozy. Miguel Cabrera is the Natural. And bad@$$ Jim Leyland is The Marlboro Man! If Sam Elliott had turned down his role in The Big Lebowski, the Coen Brothers would have had ol man Leyland on the phone in a jiffy.
His Tigers can do it all. And if you want, they can also chain you to a wall in a sex dungeon and make you watch two octogenarians go at it with mayonnaise all over them. NOW THAT'S PROGRESS.
Michigan State basketball couldn't save Michigan but Emmmminnneeemmmm, the Lions and Verlander will by golly.
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FARMINGTON � Naoko Sears had a recipe for blue ribbon success at the Rochester Fair that required between five and six dozen eggs, and yet she entered neither a giant cake nor an exhibit in the poultry barn.
She had worked on her project every night, from supper to midnight, for three and a half months, and created a Japanese eggshell mosaic of arresting beauty, using a technique that she learned in grade 4 back in her native Japan. She knew it as �mosaiku� back then.
Comprised of thousands of tiny, painted eggshell fragments, and measuring 40� by 27�, her Fair entry depicted a lake scene, and the judges awarded the mosaic the best of its class in the Exhibition Hall�s art department.
It might be thought that Naoko, now age 65, has been creating eggshell mosaics for over 50 years, but in actuality, there has been a 50-year gap, for she only resumed her schoolroom craft earlier this year.
�I go on the craft circuit but I mostly do sewing,� said Naoko, who can be found a couple of afternoons a week at the Rochester Farmer�s Market on Wakefield Street.
�I wanted to do mosaiku for a long time, but I wasn�t sure there was a market. Then a Japanese friend of mine from Moultonboro made one and sold it, so I said, �Someone�s interested,�� Naoko said.
Her technique is to take backboard or poster board and glue white paper over it, and do a rough, light sketch on the surface.
At this point she has to decide which tints and shades will be in her picture, select the various acrylics, and paint all the egg shell halves that will eventually comprise the mosaic. Then she meticulously breaks off little fragments of egg shell with her fingernail and scatters them over her worktable, rather like a jigsaw. Then, tiny piece by tiny piece, she glues them to the paper. Sometimes, when the painting includes rocks or clouds, for example, Naoko will use unpainted shell fragments of brown or white or gray.
Her subject matter is varied, and she often works from photographs. Her very first work, when she took up mosaiku again was The Old Man of the Mountain, and since that time she has completed other iconic works like Iwo Jima, a firefighter silhouetted against a blaze and the lighthouse at Portland Head. She has sold her works at craft fairs in Alton Bay, Wolfeboro and Hopkinton Fair, and would like to make a sale of a mosaic at the Rochester Farmer�s Market, where her sewing is the item in demand.
Pam Talon who manages the Rochester Market, said of Naoko, �She is really a gifted person and is a welcome addition to the downtown market.�
The market is held in the Ben Franklin Crafts parking lot on Tuesdays and Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. through October.
Naoko Sears and her husband Richard, who is retired from the U.S. Air Force, have lived in Farmington for the past 26 years. They met when he was serving in Japan and were married in 1971.
For the past 15 years, Naoko has sold her creations at the Lilac Mall during the holiday season, and will be there this year from Nov. 8 to Dec. 24. This year her table will include examples of mosaiku.
Recipe for success Farmington artist's mosaics use delicate eggshell method
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for the chicken:
1 whole chicken, cut up
1 small onion, sliced
5 cloves garlic
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 tablespoons hot sauce
2 cups Wonder (or other superfine) flour
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon hot paprika
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
freshly ground black pepper
4 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon hot sauce
for the waffles:
2 1/4 cup flour
2 cups buttermilk
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
peanut oil (for frying)
The night before you want to fry the chicken: place the chicken, onion, garlic, 1 1/2 cups buttermilk and 2 tablespoons of hot sauce in a marinating container or resealable bag. Refrigerate overnight.
Heat 1 inch of peanut oil in a 14 inch cast iron skillet.
Place the Wondra flour in a shallow bowl. Place the flour, paprika, garlic powder, pepper and salt into a second shallow bowl and whisk together. In a third shallow bowl, beat the eggs, hot sauce and buttermilk together. Dip the chicken pieces in the Wondra flour, then the egg mixture then the flour. Dry the chicken in batches until golden brown. Drain on paper towel lined plates.
for the waffles:
Whisk together the dry ingredients in a large bowl. In a small bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir to combine. Follow the instructions included with your waffle iron to complete the waffles. For most large, Belgian-style waffle irons you would use 1 cup of batter for each waffle. I love my waffle maker. You can keep the waffles warm in a 200 degree oven until ready to serve if needed.
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To the left is the monument of Capt. Orrin F. Avery, Company I 34 Regiment 10 Volunteers. I was struck by the unusual ornate carvings on the front of the stone. Two crossed spears, draperies, and a five-pointed star are situated above what could be a shield. The area on the shield, below Capt. Avery's inscription, reads, "Our Darling Baby Boy, Born and died Sept. 30, 1869."
On the side of the stone, engraved on another of the "shields", it reads, "My Beloved Husband, Orrin E. Avery". He was born in 1831 and died on May 24, 1870 – just 8 months after this dear woman lost her baby boy. This ornate stone still exudes the sadness and loss of 110 years past.
The Clarke monument, pictured below, featured two very large stone vaults. I am assuming the caskets were placed inside. I had never seen anything like this before.
Above, a simple variation on the "log" theme. Below, more ornate…
The plant carvings were very ornate, and the way the logs are laid out is unlike anything I've seen. Three individual stones are modeled after stumps.
This small house was sitting on a hill at the entrance to the cemetery. There did not appear to be any burials nearby. I'm not sure why it's there, or if it's supposed to represent anything in particular, but it was an unusual and unexpected sight.
And lastly, we ran across this stone near the gate as we were leaving the cemetery. I wondered if it had been strategically placed by the owners, as a way of bringing a smile to the faces of visitors…


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There is an array of solar providers in the marketplace, and it can be a challenge sorting out the best from the rest. Quality solar panels typically are installed with 25-year guarantees, and the mounting systems are usually good for 50 or more years. Prior to selecting a dealer and system, it's best to interview at least three licensed California contractors, get bids from each, and do background checks. Reputable solar providers can be located through the Go Solar California Web site (gosolarcalifornia.org), Find Solar (findsolar.com), the California Solar Energy Industries Association (calseia.org), and the Better Business Bureau (bbb.org).
SunPower, a solar system manufacturer based in San Jose, offers a patented all-black solar panel that is as aesthetically pleasing as it gets. The company's 225 and 230 models are reported to be the highest-efficiency solar panels commercially available for residential use. SunPower panels convert an average of 20 to 22 percent of sunlight into energy, compared to 16 to 18 percent of their competitors'. The high efficiency is due to the design of the panels, which feature electrical contacts at the bottom of the panels to increase surface area.
These panels offered by SunPower (with similar results reported from other manufacturers) are 50 percent more efficient than conventional panels, according to Dura-Foam Solar Center's Randy Feriante, whose company is a SunPower authorized dealer. "They look like skylights on your roof when they are installed, and most of the time they are hardly noticeable," Feriante says. "We only need 55 square feet per kilowatt, which is half the size of an average installation."
Akeena Solar, a solar provider since 2001 with offices throughout California, offers a 'plug and play' solar system that is factory-assembled, has a 25-year warranty, and features a dark appearance. The company's flat-roof system can be mounted without penetrations (if local building codes allow it), and it's aerodynamically designed to minimize wind loads. "Generally, no holes or less holes is better for the integrity of your roof," says Gary Mull, vice president of Akeena Solar.
Home Depot teamed up with the manufacturer BP Solar to provide a turnkey way to add solar to the home. Homeowners call the retailer's solar power hotline to schedule a free in-home solar consultation. Home Depot handles the forms and subtracts the rebate directly from the purchase price. The retailer says installation usually takes less than two days. After the installation, a service professional performs a quality audit and inspection followed by a six-month check up on the system. BP Solar provides a 10-year full service warranty and a 25-year limited warranty on the solar panels.
For homeowners who can't afford the upfront cost—yet have a FICO credit score above 720—SolarCity offers a lease agreement (called SolarLease) that allows homeowners to pay as they go. Seventy to 80 percent of SolarCity customers, according to the company, lease solar systems, and the lease payments on average cost less than buying power from a utility company. "On average, we save customers about 10 to 15 percent off their overall electric bill," Rive says.
For a home with a monthly electricity bill of $250, SolarCity recommends installing a four-kilowatt system. When the lease ends, homeowners can upgrade to a new system, renew the lease, or opt to remove the system.
Many solar experts agree that now is a good time to invest in solar-electric systems. Technology recently reached a plateau, with inverters running at about 95 percent efficiency and prices remaining stable.
"I don't see them getting cheaper," Feriante says. "Even if raw materials prices go down, labor prices abroad for manufacturing these panels are bound to go up. For people who have available funds, or the ability to finance a system, there's really no reason to wait."
According to a recent study from the Appraisal Institute, the selling price of a home increases by $20.73 for every one dollar decrease in annual electric bills. Using this 20:1 multiplier, a typical three-kilowatt system—costing about $12,000 after incentives and saving about $1,000 in annual energy costs—will increase the value of a home by $20,000.
"You can put money in the bank and get a one or two percent return," says Akeena Solar's Gary Mull, "but when you invest in solar, you can get a 15 percent return on the investment—based on reduction of cost of utilities and the added value to your home."
Photos: John Eng; and courtesy Dura-Foam Solar Center, SunPower, Kevin and Stephanie Gray, Alexander Victa, Michael Hemming
Akeena Solar: akeena.net
Dura-Foam Solar Center: durafoamsolarcenter.com
SolarCity: solarcity.com
SunPower: sunpowercorp.com
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Yesterday I attended a memorial service for a friend who died; a loving, well-respected man who gave of himself to everyone he met. Everyday since his illness began, I've prayed for him and his family, and everyday, I've imagined what they were going through, knowing their time together was limited. On my way to his service, I imagined what his wife and his family were thinking and feeling because I was remembering how I felt the morning of James's memorial service. <PREVIEWEND>
It had been four days since James's death, since I'd last seen him, and I pictured where he was, both his physical body, as well as his soul. I knew the essence and soul of my precious James was in the presence of God, and I prayed that all was well with his soul. These last few days I've said the same prayer for my friend who died, but like James, he, too, was a good and faithful servant, so I give thanks that he's in the presence of God.
The day of James's memorial service, my emotions were eerily under control. Perhaps it was because I was numb, still in shock. As I stood in the receiving line, I felt like I was comforting those who waited patiently to pay their respects instead of the other way around. I was trying to make them feel better and tell them how much James loved and appreciated them. But yesterday, at my friend's memorial service, I came undone. As I sat in the pew, I cried and sobbed and struggled to catch my breath and not draw attention to myself. I cried like I thought I would have at James' memorial service, and a couple of times I felt light-headed and faint. It was sheer willpower, God's power, that kept me upright.
Today I'm so very sad for my girlfriend who lost her husband. I'm sorry for everything I know she still has to face. Her husband had a long illness, but then I know what that's like as well. While James died unexpectedly, my first husband died after a long illness. I sometimes think long goodbyes give us time to realize that living with a debilitating illness is not a life we want for our loved one, or ourselves as their caregivers. As difficult and unimaginable as it may be, most of us eventually arrive at a place where we're ready to let them go. Whether our loved one verbalizes it or not, I think many of them come to the same conclusion. This realization doesn't make it any easier when their final day comes; when we watch them take their last breath. It doesn't make the heartbreak and the finality of never seeing them, in this life, any easier.
I'm grateful my friend has real family who cares about and loves her, and unlike James's family, I'm certain hers will not break apart in the days to come. Then again, we never know how people will react after a loved one dies; what things they will tell themselves that allow them to redirect their heartbreak and anger. Perhaps, instead, we should consider the day when it's our turn to find ourselves in the presence of God. Like James and our friend who died, will you be able to look at Him and say, "It is well with my soul?"
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Peanut Butter and Nutella Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ahh…two of my best friends! Nutella and Peanut Butter (or PB as I call Him) :D Oh look! My other best friend, pill Cookie, healthful is joining the party! (I am aware that I'm weird. Don't judge).
This past Saturday I lead a workshop with some of the Jr. High girls from youth group called Beautiful. This was the second one I've done and I think it went pretty well! They're workshops that stress inner beauty and talk about how God views beauty and then also teaches photography. At this workshop, the girls and I went out and took pictures of each other, talking about different compositional elements and how to direct your models. It was a lot of fun!
I knew I wanted to bake snacks for the workshop (snacks are the true secret of getting middle schoolers to come anywhere ;) but I wasn't sure what to make. Ever since baking the crazy Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies, I've been more excited about baking cookies. I used to make cookies all the time and I loved using oats because of the taste and texture it gave to the cookies. It got to the point where I was just throwing oats into all the cookies I made haha :) I found this recipe a while back on Brown Eyed Baker's blog. I remembered it while preparing for the workshop and decided to make them! Everything about this cookie sounded absolutely delicious.
The original recipe says that it makes 16 cookies. Well I certainly wanted more cookies than that (I wasn't sure how many girls would show up, plus we needed leftovers of course!) so I decided to make 2 batches. Instead of making two batches of cookies with peanut butter, I made one with my beloved Nutella. I've been in such a crazy peanut butter mood for the past 6 months or so and have barely eaten any nutella at all (which is crazy if you know me!). But the other day I had some nutella with apple slices and then ended up eating several spoonfuls by itself…I had forgotten how insanely delicious it was!
Both of these cookies turned out great! They taste sooo delicious. I ate so much of the batter and then sampled the cookies once they were baked…my lunch on Saturday just consisted of cookies. But it was so worth it! And everyone loved them. The peanut butter cookies look really pretty. The nutella ones aren't ugly, but they spread out a lot. I have absolutely no idea why that happened…maybe it was just a fluke. Anyways, I totally recommend that you make these. The flavors are delicious. The peanut butter and nutella isn't overpowering (in fact, I would add more if I make these again) and the oats aren't incredibly noticeable, they just add a nice texture. These cookies were fun and really easy to make :)
Peanut Butter or Nutella-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Slightly adapted from Brown Eyed Baker.
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
1 stick (½ cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature
½ cup creamy peanut butter or 1/2 cup nutella
½ cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
½ cup rolled oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt with a wooden spoon (not required but it makes it more fun!)
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter, peanut butter/nutella, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract, until smooth, about 3 minutes. Then add the egg and continue beating until combined. On low speed, gradually add the flour until just combined. With your trusty wooden spoon, stir in the oats and the chocolate chips.
- Using a medium to large cookie scoop, form the dough into balls and place on the baking sheets. Place in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes (helps prevent some of the spreading). Bake for 9-11 minutes (depending on how gooey you like your cookies), or until the cookies are lightly golden. Cool completely on the baking sheet and then store in an airtight container at room temperature.
Makes about 16 large cookies or 18-20 medium cookies


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U.S. official Chuck Blazer to leave FIFA executive seat
NEW YORK (AP) -- The American member of FIFA's executive committee who went public with bribery accusations against his boss two years ago said he won't seek re-election for a fifth term and will leave his position in May after 16 years.
Chuck Blazer is the most senior American official in world soccer but his departure was expected after his role in the scandal over presidential election candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.
"It is time for new faces with new energy to take over the responsibility of FIFA's leadership,'' the 67-year-old Blazer said Saturday in a statement.
In 2011, he said that CONCACAF president Jack Warner and Asian confederation head Mohamed bin Hammam attempted to bribe Caribbean delegates $40,000 each to vote for Bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election. Warner's acting successor then tried to fire Blazer, setting off more disciplinary proceedings.
Warner resigned and officials from half of its 40 member countries were investigated by FIFA. Blazer left his job as general secretary of the continental federation for North America, Central America and the Caribbean in the fallout.
A contest to replace him at FIFA is expected between American federation president Sunil Gulati and Mexican president Justino Compean. Both are members of the CONCACAF executive committee. The election is scheduled on April 19 at the confederation's congress in Panama City. The winner will be installed into the FIFA board on May 31 in Mauritius.
In Panama, CONCACAF is expected to publish results of a forensic audit of its accounts commissioned after the longstanding Warner-Blazer leadership era ended.
Blazer was the target of widespread anger last year when members were told about the New York-based body's financial affairs. Though the American was credited with increasing CONCACAF's revenues since the 1990s, officials objected to contract commissions he received which were agreed to by Warner.


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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Last month the small city of Troy, Michigan, earned some national attention when its local leaders terminated plans for a transit center several years in the making. Troy Mayor Janice Daniels - who somehow kept her job despite posting a strong anti-gay slur on Facebook, and who's back in the news for another intolerant remark - objected to the transit center on the grounds that she didn't want to accept $8.5 million in federal funding that would go toward its construction.
But the Tea Party mayor's fiscal ideology wasn't the only reason behind the decision to cancel the Troy transit center. There was also a strong fear among local residents that the 24-hour building would become a criminal hangout. One city councilman worried it would be a "place where people who don't have another place to go hang out," according to the Detroit News.
Jeff Wattrick of MLive, who has followed the story closely, reported that one of Daniels's "key allies" in the transit center fight was a man who once referred to mass transit as a "mugger mover" in a tweet.
The fear that crime follows transit - or worse, that transit breeds crime - is a common one. The general public is often quick to assign causality whenever a crime takes place in or around a transit station. Anecdotal theories are many: transit stations attract city criminals to a new population of victims; criminals can linger at public stations freely without suspicion; travelers may not be familiar with their surroundings and therefore susceptible to crimes. But the empirical studies are few, and many of those that do exist have found no transit-crime connection.
A new report in the December issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs goes a step further and suggests that not only do transit stations fail to increase crime - they may even impede it. For the study, a trio of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte analyzed data of criminal activity that occurred within a half mile of stations on the Blue line of LYNX [PDF], Charlotte's light rail system. They evaluated monthly trends in the data from 1998, before the line existing, through its announcement in September 2000 and its completion in November 2007, all the way up to 2009. As points of comparison, they also looked at crimes in the station areas of two other proposed light rail lines in Charlotte that were never built, as well as criminal trends in the city at large.
The results of their analysis offer no reason to perpetuate "mugger mover" mythology. Crime near light rail stations dropped following the announcement of the line's creation, and while it increased slightly during the 7 years before the rail's completion, it then fell off again after operation began. After the announcement of the Blue line stations, larceny in those areas dropped by three crimes a month (or roughly 25 percent), burglaries fell one per month (26 percent) and robbery dropped by an average of half a crime per month (32 percent). Compared to proposed lines that were never built, the drop-off after the announcement of the Blue line stations is clear:
On the whole, the data suggest some validity to the idea that crime actually decreases with transit operation. After all, light rail attracts private investment to stations, which often results in general economic improvements to an area. Transit stations are also usually equipped with security cameras or even a small police presence to deter crime. And public infrastructure investments to transit areas, such as street lights, can increase public safety as well.
The researchers conclude that their evidence "dispels public perceptions that LRT may breed or encourage criminal activity in these neighborhoods":
While controlling for overall crime trends in the city utilizing two control transit corridors, our analyses indicate that the announcement of rail transit actually leads to a decrease in property crimes. Once the stations open, the crime decrease is maintained, and does not return to preannouncement levels. This dispels rail transit opponents' notion that light rail "breeds crime." In fact, we offer counter evidence that suggests light rail may actually "impede crime." This could be due to public and private decisions to invest along rail transit corridors, which gentrifies surrounding neighborhoods and may decrease criminal activity. This has important policy implications for metropolitan areas that are considering light rail or light rail extensions. Fear of increased crime around stations appears unsubstantiated by this study.
Perhaps someone should send Mayor Daniels a copy.
Thanks to study authors Stephen Billings and Suzanne Leland for providing a copy of the full report.
The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible.
Places like New York, Miami and Las Vegas have a higher share of the workforce in jobs with close proximity to others, putting them at greater Covid-19 risk.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.


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Hutchinson vows to fight EPA on clean air rules
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson on Monday said he'd push for Arkansas to join a lawsuit challenging the federal government's proposed new rules for power-plant pollution, limits that he says threaten the state's ability to create new jobs.
Hutchinson said if elected he'd ask the attorney general to join 12 other states in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030, with 2005 levels as the starting point. The rules are intended to curb global warming. The plan would require Arkansas to reduce carbon emissions by nearly 45 percent by 2030.
"As governor, I will cause Arkansas to join the 12 other states ... in challenging the new burdensome EPA rules as being a federal overreach, as hurting Arkansas ratepayers, hurting our industrial growth and I will fight for Arkansas in opposing these new EPA rules," Hutchinson said in a news conference at his campaign headquarters.
Hutchinson said he expected the cost of joining the suit to be minimal, and said he would also seek a resolution from the Legislature before joining the challenge. He also left open the possibility of hiring outside counsel if the AG doesn't agree to join the suit.
The proposed rules have been well-received by the state's environmental groups, but businesses and utilities foresee problems on the horizon if the federal EPA puts the regulations in place. Hutchinson cited a study from the National Association of Manufacturers that estimated the cost to Arkansas to be more than 10,000 lost jobs and $240 million in compliance costs.
Hutchinson is running against Democratic nominee Mike Ross. The two ex-congressmen are running to succeed Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, who is barred by term limits from seeking re-election.
Ross said he has a long-standing history of standing up to the EPA and said he had vowed earlier Monday in a speech to the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas to do everything in his power to fight the EPA rules.
"The EPA's recent attempts to go after electric generating facilities disrupts the balance between protecting our state's beautiful natural resources and the energy needs that support our way of life and keep energy costs low for working families in Arkansas," Ross said in a statement released by his campaign.
Hutchinson made the announcement the same day Attorney General Dustin McDaniel met with the EPA's general counsel to discuss the impact the rules would have on Arkansas. McDaniel is a Democrat and barred by term limits from seeking re-election this fall.
"The proposed rule will require Arkansas to make a very large reduction in emissions, but does not appear to consider the unique circumstances facing the state in doing so," McDaniel wrote in a letter to EPA General Counsel Avi Garbow. "The implications for my state will be far reaching and will have a great economic hardship on rate paying customers."
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Chicken casserole with red wine, ham & peppers
This rich, tomatoey chicken dish is full of flavour - and it improves with freezing
Nutrition and extra info
- defrost overnight in the fridge reheats in 45 mins
- kcal896
- fat59g
- saturates17g
- carbs9g
- sugars0g
- fibre3g
- protein71g
- salt2.39g
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 8 chicken thighs, on the bone
- 1 red pepper, seeded and quartered
- 1 green pepper, seeded and quartered
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 leek, trimmed and thickly sliced
Like garlic and onion, leeks are a member of the allium family, but have their own distinct…
- 225g cooked ham, cut into chunks
- 1 tsp paprika
A spice that's central to Hungarian cuisine, paprika is made by drying a particular type of…
- 300ml red wine
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme or ½ tsp dried
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley, to serve
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole and fry the chicken over a high heat until browned all over. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Reduce the heat slightly and add the peppers. Cook for 2-3 mins, turning, until they brown. Add garlic and leek, cook for 2-3 mins, then stir in the ham.
Sprinkle over the paprika, cook for a couple of secs, add the wine and bubble for a few mins. Tip in the tomatoes, purée and thyme and mix well. Pour in water to just cover the chicken, and season. Bring to a simmer, cover and transfer to the oven. Cook for 1 hr, until the sauce thickens and chicken is tender. Sprinkle over the parsley and serve with mash.
Recipe Tip
How to freezeCool completely, transfer to a freezer container, seal and freeze for up to two months. To serve, defrost thoroughly in the fridge overnight before reheating at 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 for 45 mins, or until bubbling hot. Sprinkle over the parsley and serve with creamy mashed potatoes.


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Poll: NH congressional races remain close
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — A new poll shows the races New Hampshire's congressional districts are close.
The WMUR Granite State poll shows Democrat Carol Shea-Porter leading Republican U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta 46 percent to 35 percent, with 18 percent still undecided.
In the 2nd Congressional District, Democrat Annie Kuster and Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass are about even, with 28 percent undecided.
Candidates in both races are in a rematch of 2010.
The telephone poll included samples of 273 likely voters in the 1st District and 325 voters in the 2nd District. It was conducted Sept. 27-30 by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The sampling margin of error was plus or minus 5.9 percentage points for the 1st District, and 5.4 percentage points for the 2nd District.