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NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Johnson snapped out of a slump with 23 points against his former team, and the Brooklyn Nets matched a season high with their third straight victory by beating the Atlanta Hawks 91-86 on Monday night.
Mirza Teletovic scored 16 points and Alan Anderson added 14 starting in place of the injured Deron Williams as the Nets moved to 2-0 on four-game homestand that finishes with visits from Golden State on Wednesday and Miami on Friday.
Despite yet another injury to a key player, the Nets look ready to test themselves against those powerful teams after matching their three consecutive victories from Dec. 7-12.
Paul Millsap scored 16 points for the Hawks, who lost their third in a row to equal their worst stretch of the season.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kevin Love scored 16 of his 26 points in a dominant third quarter and Nikola Pekovic had 16 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves to a win over the 76ers.
Kevin Martin scored 18 points and Corey Brewer had 15 to help the Timberwolves move back to .500 (17-17). Minnesota made 16 of 26 3-pointers.
Thaddeus Young scored 20 points for the Sixers, who snapped a four-game winning streak. The Sixers had won the final four games of a six-game road trip.
The Timberwolves ended any threat of Philadelphia extending its streak in a hurry. They led by 16 at the half and Love hit a pair of 3s in the third to build a 31-point lead.
The Timberwolves had seven players score in double figures.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Darren Collison scored 19 of his 21 points in the first half and had seven assists in his second start at point guard since Chris Paul's injury, leading the Los Angeles Clippers to a rout of the Magic.
Paul, who separated his right shoulder in Friday's win at Dallas and is expected to be sidelined for at least six weeks, sat behind the Clippers' bench in a suit and tie while Collison orchestrated things without a hitch against the last-place team in the Southeast Division.
The Clippers enjoyed one of their best defensive efforts of the season, after surrendering 70 first-half points in each of their previous two games against Dallas and San Antonio — both on the road.

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Cost And Effect
This story appears in the January 1998 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
In the movie "Dr. No," James Bond is admiring a huge aquarium in the archenemy's laboratory when a voice from out of nowhere surprises him. "One million dollars, Mr. Bond," Dr. No says, walking into the room. "You were wondering what it cost." Bond coolly responds, "As a matter of fact, I was."
Small-business experts say entrepreneurs should be more like Bond--not necessarily employing a license to kill but being more concerned about costs. "Usually small-business owners think growth in sales is all they need to worry about," says William F. Doescher, senior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet, an international research-based business information provider in Murray Hill, New Jersey. "But they might grow right out of business if they don't watch their costs."
To help small-business owners control costs, Dun & Bradstreet and Entrepreneur surveyed 501 small businesses to find out what they're spending on, how it's changing and why. The results reveal some surprises, a lot of strengths and more than a few weaknesses in the ways entrepreneurs measure, understand and control their costs.
Budget Busters
What takes the biggest bite out of small-business budgets? According to the survey, compensation, taxes, sales and marketing, and employee benefits represented the highest costs for small-business owners. An average of 28 percent of total sales went to compensate employees, while taxes consumed another 15 percent. Sales and marketing expenses accounted for 9 percent, and more than 4 percent of revenues was devoted to employee benefits.
While these results were fairly predictable, other findings were more surprising. For instance, entrepreneurs expected to lose only 2.7 percent of their 1997 revenues to bad debt. Slow payers were likewise not a problem, with more than three-quarters of customers paying on time.
The survey broke down results by size of business and type of ownership, allowing for other surprises. For instance, women-owned businesses lagged behind others in providing employee benefits, including health insurance. And while firms with 21 to 100 employees led smaller firms in the use of technology, minority-owned firms were the most active of all in technology use.
Costs By Category
It's no surprise that employee costs are a major burden on small businesses. Al White, owner of a Form You 3 Weight Loss Centers in Tallahassee, Florida, found it so burdensome that last December, she laid off the last of her nine employees. While White is now working harder as a nonemployer, she's getting more out of her business.
Other small-business owners appear to be getting more as well. Of the 28 percent of revenues devoted to employee compensation, 60 percent went to pay executives. This seemingly high proportion is explained by the responding firms' small sizes rather than by excessive pay rates for the executives, experts say. And, along those lines, the percentage of revenues consumed by executive pay was smaller among larger firms, amounting to less than 38 percent of total pay for firms with more than 20 employees.
Employee compensation doesn't have to suck up all your capital. Employers can control costs by using incentives to encourage savings, says Tom Gillis, a management consultant and author of Guts & Borrowed Money (Bard Press). Pay your employees, especially managers, a percentage of savings resulting from any cost-cutting ideas they come up with, Gillis suggests. To be most effective, the amount should equal 5 percent to 20 percent of the employee's base pay, he says.
You can also control employment costs by using temporary workers, who can be brought on to respond to growth and dismissed when not needed. Similar flexible spending approaches can be applied to many other areas such as by outsourcing for professional services and using leased facilities and equipment. These strategies are especially important for controlling costs in a business's early years, says Murray Low, director of the entrepreneurship program at Columbia University in New York City.
Few entrepreneurs are taking this advice to heart, however: Less than 1 percent of sales is spent on outsourced labor, according to the survey. And while most firms outsourced legal and accounting work to professionals, only a minority used outside help for marketing, consulting, credit and collections, and payroll.
Entrepreneurs should also try to use nonfinancial compensation, says Low. That may include anything from simple praise to opportunities for advancement. Knowing your employees well is key. "You have to figure out what is most cost-effective to provide and in what combination," Low says.
Just as larger firms devote smaller percentages of revenues to executive pay, they devote more money to employee benefits. In fact, three out of 10 small companies offered no benefits to employees. The fact that women-owned firms trailed in offering health benefits can probably be explained by the fact that women-owned firms tend to be service companies, which, as a group, offer fewer benefits, according to Karl Egge, an economics professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Small-business owners who don't offer benefits may be losing out, however, because of their inability to attract high-quality employees, warns Doescher. "If prospective employees have to choose between a job they like and one with benefits, they'll go with the one that provides benefits," he says.
However, Doescher adds that it's not necessary for small-business owners to attempt to match the benefits provided by large employers. Instead, he says, they should aim to match what other small businesses provide.
High-Tech Lowdown
Michael Kurela suffered a loss his first two years in business, largely because he invested in computers and other technology that were needed to open Penn Consulting, his one-person Pittsburgh financial management and consulting firm.
"My costs were extremely high," Kurela recalls. "I didn't want to take [on] debt to fund the business, and my first few years were complete losses."
Like Kurela, almost 90 percent of small businesses surveyed had computer equipment in their offices, and a majority also reported having fax machines and copiers. But, surprisingly, expenditures for technology, not including telecommunications, accounted for only a fraction of 1 percent of the median annual sales of the surveyed companies.
Why? Experts say costs for new PCs and other equipment occur infrequently. Every two to three years, a small business adds or replaces its PCs and other gear, spreading the purchase out over many months.
One area where entrepreneurs should spend more now to save in the long run is on information technology for gathering cost information. Only 71 percent reported using accounting software, and even fewer use spreadsheet software.
Low says failure to gather and analyze financial data is a common error of small businesses when it comes to understanding and controlling costs. "You need to have internal accounting [in place]," he says, "so you can observe and manage your own trends."
The Rest Of The Story
The 15 percent of sales consumed by taxes may seem high, but Egge says the survey results are in line with what larger businesses pay. And while you may not be able to escape taxes, there is probably plenty you can do to limit expenditures for other costs that, while smaller, are still important.
Facilities costs amounted to a little more than 2 percent of total sales, but they could be even lower if entrepreneurs took advantage of just-in-time inventory practices to minimize space required for inventory, says Gillis. Leasing space, practiced by just half the small businesses surveyed, is generally preferable to owning a building or other space, stresses Low.
Sometimes low costs may indicate a problem. The very low bad-debt ratio cited in the survey may be explained by the fact that small businesses tend to do mostly cash business, without extending credit to customers, says Egge. Many are retailers who offload all risk of nonpaying customers onto bank charge cards, he adds. However, low bad-debt ratios also suggest small businesses are stunting their own growth by turning away credit-worthy customers.
According to the survey, nine out of 10 small businesses carried some type of insurance, but insurance costs as a whole were small--less than 2 percent of revenues. However, White says the insurance savings she has realized by getting rid of all her employees has saved her considerable money. "I've cut down on the types of insurance I carry," she says.
Experts warn that entrepreneurs should be cautious when deciding where to cut costs. The figures reported for one major expense--sales and marketing--may actually represent underspending by small businesses. "Small businesses should advertise more," says Doescher. "Some don't advertise at all." In fact, the survey results showed that one in five small businesses does no advertising or promotion.
So where are they spending the 9 percent of annual sales devoted to sales and marketing? Print ads were used by most, while smaller numbers used direct mail, radio, television, telemarketing and billboards.
Future Forecasts
This is the first survey Dun & Bradstreet has done on small-business costs, so it's difficult to spot any trends. However, experts identify several long-term changes in costs that small businesses should be aware of.
First, Gillis says to be on the lookout for changes in the way costs are accounted for. He points to the growing popularity of activity-based accounting, a way of allocating costs to specific activities in a business, as an example of the way the accounting field is changing its approach.
Technology is also changing the way costs are measured, says Gillis. Faster, cheaper computers and improvements in data-gathering tools such as bar codes continue to make cost-accounting faster and more accurate. "Those advances help you know what your costs are and how to handle them," he says.
Another important consideration is finding new ways to whittle down the biggest overall cost category--compensation and benefits. Low predicts that outsourcing will become much more common for small businesses in the years ahead.
Entrepreneurs may also want to watch for new costs that are growing in importance. Egge feels one of the major ones, which is barely recognized now, will become far more significant for small businesses in the near future.
"It's called opportunity cost," Egges says. "It occurs when CEOs and presidents have to wear too many hats at one time. They have to [evaluate] whether to go with computers, hire more people, buy more insurance or do more outsourcing. [By failing to plan ahead], they're jumping around like chickens with their heads cut off--that's a major cost of doing business."
When all is said and done, how important are costs? Too much emphasis on cost control can hamstring a company's growth just when it needs it most. Too little, as Doescher warns, can cause you to grow right out of business.
About Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), with the world's largest business information database, tracks 47 million companies worldwide--11 million in the United States alone. Businesses use D&B's services to find new customers and evaluate their creditworthiness, identify potential suppliers, and collect overdue receivables.
Through face-to-face and telephone interviews and public records searches, more than 200 million financial transactions are added to D&B's files annually, and that's just in the United States. D&B updates its information base continually--more than 960,000 times each business day.
When businesses are entered into the D&B database, they are issued D&B D-U-N-S Numbers (comparable to Social Security numbers for companies). Required by the U.S. government for all businesses in its Central Contractor Registration database and used by the United Nations and the European Union, the D&B D-U-N-S Number is quickly becoming the universal standard for identifying businesses on the World Wide Web as well.
To have a D&B D-U-N-S Number assigned to your business free of charge, call (800) 234-3867.
Dollars And Sense
How should you use the results of a small-business cost survey? "Benchmark your company against the survey results, and see how you score in the various categories," suggests William Doescher, senior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet. Cost data could help you become the most efficient producer of your product or service.
That's a fine suggestion, but it's not that easy in practice. What's typical for one company isn't for another. For best results, you need competitive intelligence. That means finding out the spending patterns of your direct competitors. Then you can try to beat them at their own game. The problem? "Competitive information is hard to get," says Tom Gillis, a management consultant and author of Guts & Borrowed Money (Bard Press).
Comparative shopping, pumping vendors for information and simple observation will help some. You may also obtain good information from an industry association. For instance, many automotive trade groups have model financial statements describing what percentage of revenues average member firms actually spend on various costs, according to Gillis.
Another caveat: Even if the survey results are from the right industry, cost surveys will show different results depending on the age of the company. For instance, says Murray Low, director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University in New York City, a start-up company will spend less on fixed costs such as machinery and more on variable costs such as labor than an established firm.
One thing even the most general costs survey can do is alert you to the need for good record-keeping and cost accounting so you can identify your own costs. "If you got that one idea from this survey," says Doescher, "you would have spent your time wisely."
Contact Sources
Form You 3 Weight Loss Centers, 1233 N. Adams St., Tallahassee, FL 32303, (850) 222-2311
Tom Gillis, (713) 622-2818, tsgillis@ att.net
Penn Consulting, (412) 766-3311; http://www.penncon.com


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Bayside-area residents say they are getting fed up with what they believe to be unfair tax increases on co-ops and condos throughout northeast Queens.
"They look at it as they might as well buy a house, which is a larger down payment, than come here and pay enormous amounts in taxes," said John DePasquale, general manager at Alley Pond Owners Corp., a self-managed co-op in Bayside.
The unhappy apartment owners say this problem stems from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's lack of action in pushing for a new state tax code that would eliminate the high tax increases on middle-class co-op and condo owners. They hope the next mayor will take action on the issue.
Warren Schreiber from the Presidents' Co-ops & Condos Council, which represents more than 100,000 owners, said northeast Queens has been hit the hardest by the increased tax evaluations.
"There have been double-digit and in some cases triple-digit increases in tax evaluations," said Schreiber.
The city Department of Finance lists private homes as Class 1 properties. This means their assessed value, which is set at six percent of the property's market value, cannot be increased more than six percent a year.
However, co-ops and condos are listed in Class 2, along with rentals and other revenue streamed housing. Their assessment value is 45 percent of the property's market value, and there is no cap on yearly assessment increases.
While the property tax code is a state law, it is up to the mayor to request changes to city tax classifications.
"Mayor Bloomberg and his predecessor Rudy Giuliani have always opposed changes in the classification system," said State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky.
Stavisky said the property classification system for co-ops and condos is unfair and has led to inconsistencies in tax assessments throughout the city. She said she's working closely with Assemblymember Edward Braunstein to address this issue.
"We're just part of a middle class that continues to get squeezed harder and harder," said Arthur Getzel, a teacher at P.S. 26. Getzel, 59, said many co-ops in the area have been forced to charge higher maintenance fees due to increased tax assessments.
Kevin O'Brien, a recently retired co-op owner at Bell Park Gardens, agreed that the tax situation is unfair.
"If you go to any other co-op development here, Windsor Park, Windsor Oak, Hollis Court, they're all going to say the same thing," said O'Brien, 43. "They don't understand why we're paying so much property tax for a small number of square feet."
Others worry about the effect on older owners.
"I think the tax increases are going to push the elderly people out," said Jennifer Santaniello, 48, of Hollis Court. "I don't think they're going to be able to afford to live in Queens."
A co-op since 1983, Hollis Court currently houses 376 families, according to Santaniello, and 60 percent of its residents are elderly.
Schreiber said the city's co-ops and condos house tens of thousands of working-class people who are the backbone of the city.
"What many people don't understand," said Schreiber, "is that without the money from the co-ops and condos, the city would go bankrupt."


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Trained in dance. She loves to sing, swim, rollerblade and go horseback riding. She has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Has kept in touch with most of her "Once and Again" (1999) castmates: Mischa Barton, Julia Whelan, and Shane West. Sings two songs on the "School's Out" Christmas album (Christmas Isn't Christmas, and Silver and Gold).


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Cookie dough production facility comes to NWA
Facility will employ 150 people
A wholesale manufacturer of frozen bakery products says it's opening a production facility in northwest Arkansas.
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission and South Coast Baking Company said in a news release on Wednesday that the Irvine, Calif.-based company plans to open a production facility in Springdale.
The company is investing nearly $8.7 million to transform an existing 104,000 square foot building in Springdale. Officials say the facility will employ 150 Arkansans and produce frozen cookie dough for food retailers.
The company says operations will likely begin in July after remodeling efforts start next month.
South Coast Baking Company produces cookie dough for Broomfield, Colo.-based Mrs. Fields, and it's a major supplier for Bentonville-based Sam's Club and St. Louis-based Panera Bread.


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by Bishop Robert Reed
A homily for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
A homily for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
I can clearly remember a time when the highlight of my summer was a trip to Canobie Lake Park. I only got to go once a year, and I thought about it often, it got me though the last weeks of the school year. In days just before the trip, I could barely think of anything else. And as we rounded the corner and the old wooden roller coaster came into view, I was in Heaven!
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Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee told Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo White, Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Friday to provide them with documents and answers by May 16 on how the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Financial Stability Board determines which nonbanks will be determined to be global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs).
See also: Fed briefs Council on enhanced SIFI standards
In a letter to the three members of FSOC, the GOP committee members — which included its chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, as well as the chairman of the committee's capital markets subcommittee, Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J. — said that because the FSB is in the process of "examining certain U.S. companies for possible designation as G-SIFIs," the lawmakers want to "fully understand the process the FSB uses to designate G-SIFIs, and that we understand the current state of these deliberations," as they have "concerns that decisions are being made that could have significant impact on the U.S. economy."
The GOP lawmakers also stated that they have three "broader concerns" about the FSB and FSOC: the lack of transparency and due process in the designation of firms as systemically important; the types of firms that are being considered for designation and why; and the consequences of designation on individual companies, industries and the economy as a whole.
Said the lawmakers: "Both FSB and FSOC appear to take a 'we-know-it-when-we-see-it' approach to identifying firms that pose a risk to financial stability. In particular, there do not appear to be clear rules or criteria to determine when a nonbank financial institution qualifies as a 'systemic risk" to the U.S. or global financial system."
The lawmakers went on to argue that there is still no "universally accepted definition of a 'systemic risk,'" adding that once a designation is made neither FSOC nor the FSB provides steps the companies can take to have the designation revoked.
"The overall lack of transparency and due process injects needless uncertainty and instability into our financial markets," the lawmakers wrote.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Life lessons: Umbrellas.
But now in Melbourne, it's not often cold AND rainy. So, I've started carrying around a small pocket umbrella in case there is a rainy day when I don't bring my raincoat (because hey, small umbrellas are smaller than a bulky raincoat to carry around everyday - who knew?)
After surgery, when I was confined to my couch, a coworker came over one day to talk about work and it started raining so I let her borrow my umbrella.
This is an important life lesson: people do not return umbrellas.
It has rained all this week in Melbourne and while I've been happy to be wearing my rain coat that protects me from both the rain and the wind - now I find myself missing my little umbrella that fit so perfectly in the pocket of my backpack.
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It's true, people are TERRIBLE at giving back umbrellas. And an umbrella has DEFINITELY been required this week! (Today, a coat was required as well. Holy Hell, it was cold walking home tonight!)ReplyDelete
If it's any help, I got my umbrella from Target for $12...
I was not expecting your post to go where it did, it made me giggle with surprise that someone stole your umbrella. Of course, this was immediately followed by incredulity that SOMEONE FLIPPIN' STOLE YOUR UMBRELLA.ReplyDelete
Life Lesson: People don't return DVD's either. Or perhaps that's only the case here in SA ;PReplyDelete
My umbrellas always blow inside out so I buy cheap ones. Because my umbrellas are cheap they blow inside out. It is a catch 22 of epic proportions.ReplyDelete
I've had the same black umbrella for years. I totally borrowed it from a student back in my teaching days and never returned it. I'm badass like that ;)ReplyDelete
I had the same umbrella for about 15 years (I got it for free at a conference). Then it went completely kaput...in the rain in Amsterdam. So I bought a 5 euro tourist one (the first one I found)and it didn't last a month. Then I bought another one and lost it. Bought a third one and found the 2nd one. Of course. But since I mostly ride my bike I don't often need an umbrella. Now I have two. I'd be happy to loan you one if you promise to return it :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 3, 2012 at 9:10 AM
So true!! You know what people also tend to not return? Books and DVDs. So annoying =(ReplyDelete
Regarding books - I have a policy to not keep books (in part because no one returns them)...so this one doesn't bother me as much...but dvds would make me sad.ReplyDelete
Ahh that sucks! Hope you get it back soon!ReplyDelete
Also I loved your post below. Me and Joel always fight when we don't see each other that much, and I always thought it was really weird. But after reading your post it kinda makes sense, so thank you :)
Aww, you're right. People do not return them. But, I'm sure you could adopt a lost one from any number of locationsReplyDelete
Lame! I don't like lending people anything because I never seem to get my stuff back.ReplyDelete
My mom and I argue often (not serious) over damn umbrellas! I don't like when people don't return stuff but I'm certain they don't like it when I don't return stuff back either. Ughh!ReplyDelete
It rains all the time in the winter in Chile and I always carry around my pocket-sized umbrella. I <3 it. It isn't often a warm rain like in Minnesota summers, or the Costa Rican rainy season, so everyone here has to get bundled up to battle the cold.I would argue that in most cases they overdo it and end up going outside dressed for 50 degrees like I would dress for -30.ReplyDelete
I HATE umbrellas probably because I'm always irrationally afraid of them pinching my fingers. I also hate getting wet in the rain, but not as much as I hate umbrellas.ReplyDelete
Basically: I would never steal your umbrella.
haha, it's true! People are awful at returning umbrellas. They're actually pretty awful about returning lots of stuff - tupperware included.ReplyDelete
Haha - nope, they really don´t, have no clue of how many I´ve lost that way during the years! :-DReplyDelete
Hi! I hope you see your umbrella again soon :) You're going to need it where you live! Thanks for stopping by my blog yesterday :)ReplyDelete
I do think it's wrong for people not to return something that they borrowed :(
Coming from you in rainy Seattle, those pocket umbrellas are a lifesaver! I have several, one tucked in each of my various purses and bags. :-)ReplyDelete
You've been tagged BTW :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 9:27 PM
It was my time living near Seattle that taught me the importance of always carrying a small umbrella! But I've always preferred them to raincoats just because I hate the feeling of being pelted with rain, and have yet to find a coat that will actually keep my dry ;) So sorry that someone absconded with your umbrella!ReplyDelete
What's with that? I lost a nice umbrella in a similar way, to a co-worker too. So strange. Can't recall ever borrowing one myself but I'm sure I'd return it if I did!ReplyDelete
I am always the worst with remembering an umbrella. I need a find a cute coat!ReplyDelete


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PHOENIX, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday an awkward meeting between him and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was "not a big deal."
Brewer greeted Obama in Phoenix Wednesday with a letter and what political analysts said appeared to be a piece of her mind. Observers, who could not hear what the two were saying, said the president and the governor appeared to be talking at the same time, and at one point, Brewer -- a Republican and advocate of cracking down on illegal immigrants -- pointed her index figure at Obama.
Obama apparently walked away from the governor while she was still talking. She later told reporters the president left while she was in the middle of a sentence.
In an interview with ABC News Thursday, the president said he was not "tense" during the encounter and joked that he is "usually accused of not being intense enough."
"I think it's always good publicity for a Republican if they're in an argument with me," Obama said. "But this was really not a big deal. She wanted to give me a letter, asking for a meeting. And I said, 'We'd be happy to meet.'
"Last time we met, she wasn't fully satisfied. But, you know, I think this is a classic example of things getting blown out of proportion."
Brewer said the letter was a handwritten invitation to discuss the "Arizona comeback" and to visit the Mexican border with her. She said she offered to give Obama lunch on the trip.
"He was a little disturbed about my book, 'Scorpions for Breakfast.' I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president," Brewer said. "The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So."
A White House spokesman said Brewer handed the president a letter and said she was inviting him to meet with her.
"The president said he'd be glad to meet with her again, but did note that after their last meeting, a cordial discussion in the Oval Office, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book," the White House said. "The president looks forward to continuing taking steps to help Arizona's economy grow."
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in an interview Thursday with Fox Business Network, said Obama can be abrasive.
"Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president," McCain said. "It's very well-known that he has a prickly personality and I think it's been displayed in both of those cases. And I also think that Jan Brewer is very concerned about the security on our border."
Brewer's spokesman said the governor will not release a copy of the letter, which the spokesman described as "personal, handwritten." Matthew Benson said Obama has the only copy of the letter, The Arizona Republic reported.
The White House said the executive branch does not, as a rule, publicly release letters sent to the president, the newspaper reported.
Speaking with reports during a flight to Colorado, White House press secretary Jay Carney called the episode "political theater," the Los Angeles Times reported.
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First U.S. BPA Lab Study on Humans Finds Troubling Health Effects at Levels Deemed 'Safe'
The first U.S. study of the effect on people of exposure to a hormone-disrupting chemical widely used in food packaging showed that levels the Food and Drug Administration deems "safe" can alter insulin response, a key marker for diabetes.
The groundbreaking study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, administered low doses of bisphenol A, or BPA, to 16 people, then tested their insulin production in response to glucose, commonly called blood sugar. When insulin and blood glucose levels were compared to the same measurements taken without exposure to BPA, researchers found that BPA significantly changed how glucose affected insulin levels. Similar insulin and glucose tests are used by doctors for diagnosing diabetes.
"We're living in an age where type 2 diabetes is rampant. Here is a signal of a new path to explore for what is causing it," Pete Myers, a co-author of the study, told Environmental Health News.
Myers is founder, CEO and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences. Other researchers for the study were from the University of Missouri at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Elche in Spain.
"These troubling findings should raise alarms at the Food and Drug Administration and ignite renewed efforts to drastically reduce all Americans' exposure to BPA," said Alexis Temkin, Ph.D., an EWG toxicologist. "It's appalling that the FDA and other federal agencies continue to say current exposure levels to BPA are safe, and refuse to ban BPA from food and food packaging."
The study also adds to the body of literature suggesting that insulin response could be a key link between BPA exposure and obesity. In recent years, studies from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University and the University of Michigan reported that children exposed to BPA had increased amounts of body fat.
In the new study, people who were less effective at controlling blood sugar levels seemed more sensitive to BPA's effects. In addition to diabetes and obesity, it has been linked to ADHD in children and breast cancer in laboratory animals.
It leaches from can linings into foods, beverages and even infant formula, and ends up in the bodies of more than 9 in 10 of Americans. Another main route of exposure to BPA comes from handling store receipts. In 2010, EWG found BPA in 40 percent of receipts sampled from major U.S. businesses and services, including outlets of McDonald's, CVS, KFC, Whole Foods, Walmart, Safeway and the U.S. Postal Service.
Independent research consistently documents serious health problems associated with low-dose exposure to BPA, yet the FDA continues to insist that the chemical is "safe at the current levels occurring in foods."
This week, independent scientists who have studied BPA held a webinar discussing results of a joint FDA and academic study that found statistically significant adverse health effects associated with low level exposure to BPA. The webinar presenters stated the FDA's reference dose for BPA would need to be cut by 20,000 times in order to protect public health.
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How To Shop for Cleaning Products - While Avoiding Toxins
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By Gwen Ranniger
In the midst of a pandemic, sales of cleaning products have skyrocketed, and many feel a need to clean more often. Knowing what to look for when purchasing cleaning supplies can help prevent unwanted and dangerous toxics from entering your home.
1. Fragrance – Avoid It
One of the fastest ways to narrow down your product options is immediately eliminating any product that promotes a fragrance, or parfum. That scent of "fresh breeze" or lemon might initially smell good, but the fragrance does not last. What does last? The concoction of various undisclosed and unregulated chemicals that created that fragrance.

Many fragrances contain phthalates, which are linked to many health risks including reproductive problems and cancer.

2. With Bleach? Do Without
Going scent-free should have narrowed down your options substantially – now, check the front of the remaining packaging. Any that include ammonia or chlorine bleach ought to go, as these substances are irritating and corrosive to your body. While bleach is commonly known as a powerful disinfectant, there are safer alternatives that you can use in your home, such as sodium borate or hydrogen peroxide.

While you're at it, check if there are any warnings on the label – "flammable," "use in ventilated area," etc. – if the product is hazardous, that's a red flag and should be avoided.

3. Check the Back Label
Flip to the back of the remaining contenders and check out that ingredient list. Less is more, here. Opt for a shorter ingredient list with words you recognize and/or can pronounce.

You may notice many products do not have ingredient lists – while this doesn't necessarily mean they contain toxic ingredients, transparency is key. Feel free to look up a list online, or stick to products that are open about their ingredients.

4. Ingredients to Avoid
We already mentioned that cleaners containing fragrance or parfum, and bleach or ammonia should be avoided, but there are other ingredients to look out for as well.

Quaternary ammonium "quats" – lung irritants that contribute to asthma and other breathing problems. Also linger on surfaces long after they've been cleaned.

Parabens – Known hormone disruptor; can contribute to ailments such as cancer

Triclosan – triclosan and other antibacterial chemicals are registered with the EPA as pesticides. Triclosan is a known hormone disruptor and can also impact your immune system.

Formaldehyde – Causes irritation of eyes, nose, and throat; studies suggest formaldehyde exposure is linked with certain varieties of cancer. Can be found in products or become a byproduct of chemical reactions in the air.

Cleaning Products and Toxics: The Bottom Line
Do your research. There are many cleaning products available, but taking these steps will drastically reduce your options and help keep your home toxic-free. Protecting your home from bacteria and viruses is important, but make sure you do so in a way that doesn't introduce other health risks into the home.

Reposted with permission from Environmental Health News.

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Tofurky Hit Grocery Store Shelves 25 Years Ago, It's Had a Lasting Influence
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Twenty-five years ago, a food called Tofurky made its debut on grocery store shelves. Since then, the tofu-based roast has become a beloved part of many vegetarians' holiday feasts.
Biden Urged to 'Honor Indigenous Sovereignty and Immediately Halt' Fossil Fuel Pipelines
By Jessica Corbett
A leading environmental advocacy group marked Native American Heritage Month on Wednesday by urging President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Kamala Harris, and the entire incoming administration "to honor Indigenous sovereignty and immediately halt the Keystone XL, Dakota Access, and Line 3 pipelines."
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Returning the 'Three Sisters' – Corn, Beans and Squash – to Native American Farms Nourishes People, Land and Cultures
By Christina Gish Hill
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native American farming practices tell us that squash and beans likely were part of that 1621 dinner too.
Abundant Harvests
Historically, Native people throughout the Americas bred indigenous plant varieties specific to the growing conditions of their homelands. They selected seeds for many different traits, such as flavor, texture and color.

Native growers knew that planting corn, beans, squash and sunflowers together produced mutual benefits. Corn stalks created a trellis for beans to climb, and beans' twining vines secured the corn in high winds. They also certainly observed that corn and bean plants growing together tended to be healthier than when raised separately. Today we know the reason: Bacteria living on bean plant roots pull nitrogen – an essential plant nutrient – from the air and convert it to a form that both beans and corn can use.

Squash plants contributed by shading the ground with their broad leaves, preventing weeds from growing and retaining water in the soil. Heritage squash varieties also had spines that discouraged deer and raccoons from visiting the garden for a snack. And sunflowers planted around the edges of the garden created a natural fence, protecting other plants from wind and animals and attracting pollinators.

Interplanting these agricultural sisters produced bountiful harvests that sustained large Native communities and spurred fruitful trade economies. The first Europeans who reached the Americas were shocked at the abundant food crops they found. My research is exploring how, 200 years ago, Native American agriculturalists around the Great Lakes and along the Missouri and Red rivers fed fur traders with their diverse vegetable products.

Displaced From the Land
As Euro-Americans settled permanently on the most fertile North American lands and acquired seeds that Native growers had carefully bred, they imposed policies that made Native farming practices impossible. In 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which made it official U.S. policy to force Native peoples from their home locations, pushing them onto subpar lands.

On reservations, U.S. government officials discouraged Native women from cultivating anything larger than small garden plots and pressured Native men to practice Euro-American style monoculture. Allotment policies assigned small plots to nuclear families, further limiting Native Americans' access to land and preventing them from using communal farming practices.

Native children were forced to attend boarding schools, where they had no opportunity to learn Native agriculture techniques or preservation and preparation of Indigenous foods. Instead they were forced to eat Western foods, turning their palates away from their traditional preferences. Taken together, these policies almost entirely eradicated three sisters agriculture from Native communities in the Midwest by the 1930s.

Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region pre-European settlement. Milwaukee Public Museum / CC BY-ND
Reviving Native Agriculture
Today Native people all over the U.S. are working diligently to reclaim Indigenous varieties of corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and other crops. This effort is important for many reasons.

Improving Native people's access to healthy, culturally appropriate foods will help lower rates of diabetes and obesity, which affect Native Americans at disproportionately high rates. Sharing traditional knowledge about agriculture is a way for elders to pass cultural information along to younger generations. Indigenous growing techniques also protect the lands that Native nations now inhabit, and can potentially benefit the wider ecosystems around them.

Climate Coalition Pressures Biden to Reject 'Corporate Shill' Ernest Moniz as Energy Chief
By Jake Johnson
Amid reports that oil industry-friendly former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz remains under consideration to return to his old post in the incoming Biden administration, a diverse coalition of environmental groups is mobilizing for an "all-out push" to keep Moniz away from the White House and demand a cabinet willing to boldly confront the corporations responsible for the climate emergency.


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Drew Pomeranz tossed five scoreless innings for his first win in more than two months and the Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 on a rainy Wednesday night.
Drew Pomeranz tossed five scoreless innings for his first win in more than two months and the Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 on a rainy Wednesday night.
The game was delayed by rain in the seventh inning for 1 hour, 24 minutes.
Charlie Blackmon homered and Chris Nelson had two hits and two RBIs in the Rockies' third straight win.
Dave Sappelt had two hits for Chicago, which is winless in 15 road games against NL West opponents.
Pomeranz (2-9) had been 0-6 with a 6.84 ERA since the All-Star break and had lasted past the fourth inning just once in his last 10 starts.
Pomeranz allowed three hits in his first win since July 6.
Alex White and Rob Scahill combined for four innings of two-hit ball to finish the shutout.
He got plenty of support from Colorado's bats, which reached double-digits in hits for the seventh straight game. Every starter reached base at least once as the Rockies piled up 10 hits.
The Rockies scored twice in the first off Jason Berken (0-2). Jordan Pacheco had an RBI double and scored on a single by Tyler Colvin.
The Cubs loaded the bases in the second before Berken grounded out to end the inning.
Colorado added to its lead in the third. Blackmon led off with his second homer of the season, Nelson hit a bases-loaded, two-run single and Colvin scored on a double-play grounder by Andrew Brown to make it 6-0.
Berken allowed six runs on nine hits in four innings in his third start for the Cubs.
Chicago's best chance to score was thwarted by a great play by Nelson at third. With runners at second and third and one out in the seventh, Sappelt hit a deep drive to left. Blackmon caught it at the wall and threw to Nelson at third, who made a sweeping tag on Joe Mather before Josh Vitters could score on the tag-up.
NOTES: Cubs 2B Darwin Barney extended his errorless streak to 140 games. He needs one more game to tie for the major league record, set by Placido Polanco of the Detroit Tigers in 2007. ... The Rockies are trying to become the first team to hit .300 at home since 2007, when the Angels and Yankees did it. ... Colorado C Wilin Rosario was 0 for 4. It's the first time in six games he failed to get at least two hits.


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Investigators won't give up on old homicides, missing person's cases
"Not a day goes by that I don't think of her," sighed Lisa England, as she flipped through a scrapbook of newspaper articles covering her friend's disappearance.
England and her husband, Steve, have worried for nearly two decades about Audrey Groat. "We'll never forget," Lisa England said.
Groat, a mother, vanished from the central Vermont community of Northfield in 1993. Vermont State Police believe she was murdered, but her body has never been found; her killer never brought to justice.
The Englands now closely watch news coverage of other major crimes, including last week's stunning murder in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Investigators arrested a married couple for allegedly luring and killing a beloved St. Johnsbury Academy physics teacher, 33-year-old Melissa Jenkins. In court, Allen & Patricia Prue denied strangling and beating Jenkins to death.
Jenkins' family praised search crews and detectives. "The professionalism and quick response of these individuals is greatly appreciated," cousin Eric Berry told reporters Friday.
"That's one of the things that struck me was the speed with which they got this resolved," Steve England said, applauding the police work in the Jenkins case. "It didn't happen that [quickly] with Audrey."
The Audrey Groat disappearance is one of at least 70 cases in Vermont of missing people or homicides that still haven't been solved, going back to the 1940s, State Police said. "Don't give up hope," said Maj. Ed Ledo, the head of the Vermont State Police major crimes unit.
Ledo said all the unsolved crimes are assigned to his detectives. He expects each gets regular attention, even if only for a few hours a month between work on more active, fresher cases. "We don't let up," Ledo promised. "We'll dog a case as long as we physically and mentally can."
That tenacity paid off in 2008, when new evidence helped convict Howard Godfrey for the rape and murder of Patty Scoville in Stowe 17 years earlier. "It's very satisfying when you get to solve an old case," Ledo said.
Vermont State Police have brand-new tools at their disposal: subscriptions to a system that lets people submit anonymous tips through a website or text message. The partnership with CrimeReports and TipSoft gives Vermonters the ability to send the tips to law enforcement via text message, iPhone and Android, as well as an online web form, State Police spokeswoman Stephanie Dasaro explained.
Ledo noted that while anonymous tips can be extremely helpful, most detectives would prefer the opportunity to speak with someone who has information, if possible.
The new tip system was used for the first time in the Jenkins investigation last week. But in that case, a police affidavit filed in court suggests a phone call from Melissa Jenkins to a friend, letting him know where she was going before her disappearance, may have been the most critical piece of evidence that led detectives to their suspects.
Lisa and Steve England now hope the software could bring an end to the wondering for Audrey Groat's friends and family, if someone comes forward with an old memory. "They may think it's a small thing, not a big deal, but yeah, it could be," Lisa England insisted.
Cell phone users can text message their tip to "CRIMES," the word formed by the phone numbers 274637. Tipsters should be sure to use the keyword "VTIPS" in their message, Dasaro explained, to make sure the system recognizes the information as pertaining to a Vermont crime.
People with information on Vermont crimes can also use an online form to submit their tips.


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Paper hearts, steel resolve: A 'Million Moms' in motion for tighter gun control laws
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president.
Wayne LaPierre's call to put "armed officers in every school" back-fired big time for the National Rifle Association after his poorly received comments instead inspired a call to action for stricter gun controls.
Within one group of Connecticut women, several gave LaPierre credit for their presence at the first official meeting of One Million Moms for Gun Control Central Conn. The newly formed local chapter is part of a national grassroots effort that started just hours after a massacre that took the lives of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shooter's mother was the first person murdered that fateful day which later culminated with the gunman's suicide.
Different reasons motivated others to become gun control advocates. One Bethany mom described a moment of clarity while making Christmas decorations with her young kids, who had been given some explanation of the tragedy nearby. While working on a craft project, this mother complimented her daughter's choice of the color red, describing it as a bright, cheerful choice for the holidays, she said.
"No mommy, it's red because it's a bloodbath," corrected her young daughter, to her mother's horror, she said. Voice cracking, she went on to share her shock and sadness about Newtown and her children's forever changed perspectives. It's what motivated her to take an active role on the guns issue, she said.
At the meeting held in West Hartford on Saturday, the women one-by-one described their need to transform sadness, fear and anger into logical action to help stop gun violence in America. Other local chapters of the group already represent Fairfield County and Eastern Conn. towns.
Chapter Co-Leader Deborah Lewis was not the only one who admitted nearly crashing a car after listening to LaPierre's comments on her car's radio in the wake of the Newtown shootings.
"I was repulsed and angry," said Lewis, admitting "I almost couldn't get over it."
Instead, Lewis saw a social media post about One Million Moms for Gun Control and quickly connected with an outlet to constructively channel her energy. Lewis now feels energized and excited.
"I'm still angry at what has happened," said Lewis. "But now I feel like I can help make a change for sensible gun laws."
Judy Kulakofsky was also "outraged" after Sandy Hook and too many other mass shootings.
"I'd contact my state senators and just get perfunctory answers," said Kulakofsky, who hopes her active advocacy will help secure tighter gun controls soon.
People are tired of being "bullied" by groups like the NRA, said Maureen Payne-Hahner, chapter co-leader. "I refuse to let four million NRA members dictate to 300 million Americans."
The New Haven-area mom described being "heartbroken" recently after her young daughter cried to her because, "Her classroom did not have an alcove, like some of the other classrooms, where kids can hide in an emergency," she said.
Portland mom Kristen Esteves was also emotional as she described the new normal outside St. John's School, in Middletown, where security is now posted near classrooms where her kids learn every day.
"Just last week, we did lock down drills...and it just breaks my heart," said Esteves.
The One Million Moms group issued a statement last week applauding President Obama's proposals to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and to widen background checks for gun buyers. The group also seeks to regulate and track ammunition.
Not all members are moms, nor do you need to be need to be woman to join the group, according to organizers. Membership is open to anyone who wants to support the cause.
"Behind every great woman is a man who says, 'Go,'" said one woman, during a lighter moment.
During the meeting, various outreach efforts were discussed. Most ideas lean heavily on social media platforms and personal connections that can help to attract more people to the cause. The group also plans to confer later this week with leaders from Connecticut Against Gun Violence.
A call to action has been issued by the group to join the March for Change rally scheduled at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14 at the state Capitol in Hartford. The rally is intended to show support for common sense gun laws in Connecticut, including a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
The national group plans a march in Washington, DC, on Jan. 26, according to the website. It is actively fundraising to cover costs for the non-profit. A petition is also available for supporters to sign.
The new chapter wants to engage any individuals, groups and organizations, like parent-teacher networks and faith-based collectives that share its goal of reducing gun violence. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit OneMillionMomsForGunControlCTC on Facebook.


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StudioLive is truly a third-generation digital mixer. Easier to use, better sounding, and flawlessly integrated with state-of-the-art software, it delivers the most creative environment possible for both live performance and studio music production.
Here, in one portable device, are high-headroom XMAX? microphone preamplifiers, a built-in FireWire recording and playback interface, more than 90 signal processors, a big library of DSP effects, 6 (16.4.2) or 10 (24.4.2) aux buses, 4 subgroups, extensive LED metering, mixer save and recall, channel-strip save/recall/copy/paste, talkback, and more.
Create live mixes that glisten with clarity and detail?then record and enhance the performance with the power of StudioLive.
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Its a creative environment built for intuitive use, speed, and efficiencyand yet its robust enough for the most complex productions. Its the DAW that a band of leading recording-hardware engineers and a team of industry-defining software-design veterans want to use for themselves. Its incredibly easy to use yet provides a wealth of professional features.
Far from just another music-production program, Studio One changes the rules of the game. Fresh code, innovative drag-and-drop MIDI mapping and plug-in management, auto-configuration with PreSonus hardware, insanely good audio quality, unlimited tracks and plug-ins per track, and a powerful, inventive Start page that literally puts the whole project right in your hands are just a few of the compelling features of Studio One.


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Alexandria Eregbu performs a scene from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man—reinterpreting Louis Armstrong's simultaneous playing and singing of "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue." This perfo
Alexandria Eregbu performs a scene from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man—reinterpreting Louis Armstrong's simultaneous playing and singing of "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue." This perfo
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I'd been using it for a while, but recently my host upgraded the php version to 5.3.17 I'm not sure if this broke something...
I'm able to create the e-card no problem. It sends the mail, the link to the card works... the typed message appears in the email just fine. It's just that the e-card itself isn't presenting the text. When I try to view it, an error is generated in my log:
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Register globals are on too... unless the following isn't correct? #php_flag register_globals 1 (in the .htaccess)
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Jazz Fest includes Native American music
NEW ORLEANS -- Mixed in among the jazz, Cajun, blues and zydeco flowing from the stages here are the singing, chanting and drumming of Native American acts featuring dancers donned in colorful feathers and fringe.
Louisiana Native Americans have long been represented at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but this is the first year the focus on the culture has been expanded to include tribal nations from elsewhere in the United States, as well as Canada and Latin America.
At the center of the festival is a makeshift "village" with a tepee, a thatched hut made of palmetto branches and an open fire where demonstrators cook traditional Native American dishes such as squash with wild rice and hominy with black walnuts.
The village is also filled with music and festive drum and hoop dances, and features music sets by singer Pura Fe, flutist Robert Mirabel, and others.
Roughly 50 nations are represented at the 2013 festival, which continues through Sunday.
"The main purpose is to show the diversity of the Native American culture," said Gray Hawk Perkins, a New Orleans native of Choctaw and Houmas tribal descent. "That's what this is giving us a chance to do, to see how much sometimes we're alike but often see how much we are different."
On Thursday, crowds braved scattered showers. Through a short downpour, New Orleans singer Mia Borders sang "Mississippi Rising."
"I'm a child of the bayou, Southern through and through ... The tide is rising. Don't wash us away," she sang, wielding an electric guitar before a crowd thinned by the rain.
Borders dedicated the song to her hometown and professed her excitement at her Jazz Fest debut, even if it was in the rain.
"I made it, Momma!" she shouted to the crowd.
Southern rock jam band Widespread Panic played throughout another sudden downpour as the festival neared its close Thursday. The group drew a dense crowd despite the weather. Most were in rain gear and some hoisted umbrellas as they defied the wind, rain and cool temperatures to dance and sing along with the band.
Several Native American acts are playing the festival's big stages as well as in the village area.
It's also an opportunity to show that Native American music still has a place in mainstream music, Perkins said.
"Here at Jazz Fest, it's a chance to hear the Native Americans and then walk over to another stage and go, wow, I heard that over at the Native American area. I heard that same rhythm," said Perkins, whose band will perform Sunday.
Last weekend's featured performers were the Stoney Creek Singers and A Tribe Called Red, a trio of DJs from Canada who incorporate Native American singing and drumming in their electronic music.
"We like to describe it as a cultural continuance," said Ian Campeau, whose stage name is DJ NDN. "We're just continuing a certain powwow culture that's always been around. It's still happening, so it's a very vibrant culture. We're just putting our urban spin on it."
Mirabel and Pura Fe will perform on the main stages this weekend.
On the festival's other stages were brass bands, Mardi Gras Indians, Latin groups and gospel singers.
R&B singer, songwriter and producer Kem, in his festival debut, closed one of the 12 stages set up throughout the Fair Grounds.
"Anytime we have an opportunity to play here we jump at it," said Kem in an interview before his set.
Kem said there's a different dynamic when performing outside. "It's not as intimate, but over the last couple of years we've tapered the show to fit the outside elements. We just try to have fun and the weather plays into it."
His fans withstood the rain to see him perform hits including "Share My Life," "Find Your Way (Back in My Life)," "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Love Calls."
Kecia L. Wright and her friend, Herlanius Tate, both of New Orleans, were among them.
"We saw him 10 years ago at the House of Blues and he was awesome. I love him. He's easy on the eyes too," Wright said laughing.
Earlier Thursday, Sandra Hughes, wearing a bright orange poncho and flip-flops, sipped a margarita as she listened to The Honeypots, a group of all-female New Orleans singers.
"We're loving it," said Hughes, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who's taking in her 14th Jazz Fest with her husband, Bart Hughes. "That's the beauty of this festival. Whatever your mood, you can find something to match it here."


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Along the way he hit several road bumps and needed other parts to make things work. By the time he was done, he'd logged five trips to the new Waynesville Bicycle Company for tools, parts and advice, which saved a lot of driving time to the next closest bike shops in either Asheville or Sylva.
Waynesville Bicycle Company is the third bike shop to open in Haywood County in recent years. More than a year had passed since the last one closed, and members of the local biking community missed having the hub a bike shop provides.
Gatis said bikers were curious when a bike shop sign appeared in the window of a store on Main Street last fall.
"We were all kind of excited when we saw a bike shop was coming," Gatis said. "We just didn't know if it was going to be road biking or mountain biking or what. We kept driving by until we saw an 'open' sign."
For Nancy Luxe, a professional road biker in Waynesville, the new bike store is more than somewhere to talk bikes or order tubes. For starters, it will free up some of her husband's time. Her husband, Don, was still widely known in bike circles from working at Blue Ridge Cycle, one of the former bike shops. He became a de facto mechanic for friends in the absence of an official bike shop.
"People would call him and say 'Don, I need my wheels trued,' and he would try to get to it for them," Nancy said. A biker getting his wheels trued is the equivalent of a tire allignment on a car.
The owner of Waynesville Bicycle Company, Ron Hight, 37, has worked at bike shops since he was 22 years old. Twice, he helped friends open bike shops and then ran them.
Hight said he hopes to serve the entire spectrum of bike needs in Haywood County.
"If someone wants a kid's bike, I want to have a kid's bike," Hight said. "If someone wants a $6,000 road bike, I can build them a $6,000 road bike."
Ron Howell, a long-time road biker, was also glad to see another bike shop had opened after more than a year without one.
"Every time there's been one, it has always been a benefit, but it didn't work out for whatever reason," Howell said. "I'm really happy there's a new bike shop in town. You can't have too many of them."
The owners of the past two bike shops had other interests that prevailed over biking, and that's why they closed — not a lack of bike business. Howell said the most important thing a new bike shop owner can do is participate in the biking scene.
"If people see you out riding, it will get other people to ride," Howell said. "You have to talk it up and get people to go on rides, and if you do that you will get people to patronize your business."
Without a bike shop holding the riding community together, weekly group rides have become less formal over the past year. Hight said he wants the shop to serve as a meeting place for weekly road rides come spring. He also wants the bike shop to organize group mountain bike rides on the weekends.
Opportunity knocks
Hight still remembers one of his first bike shop experiences. He was looking for a bike rack for his Camaro. He went into one bike shop after another that told him "sorry, nothing fits a Camaro."
Hight couldn't believe the merchants wouldn't take the time to walk outside the front door and at least look at his car— not until the fifth bike shop he visited.
"He took a rack off its box, took it out to the car, put it on my car and said 'Here this will work,'" Hight recalled. Hight asked the owner if he needed a bike mechanic.
"At first I was just doing it on the weekend, and about a month later he was like, 'You want a full-time job?'" Hight said. Thus began his bike shop career.
Hight grew up in West Palm Beach, Fla. Dismayed by the growth that had taken over his own hometown, he moved here four years ago.
"The mountain bike trail we used to ride all the time was bulldozed for a Toys-R-Us and a shopping mall," Hight said. "It was getting overpopulated. The way it is here now is kind of like the way it was down there when I was a kid."
There were no openings at bike shops when Hight moved here. Despite constant bike shop employment for the past dozen years, the owner of Waynesville Cycle, a motorcycle shop, decided Hight's mechanic skills qualified him to work on motorcycles too.
Hight decided to open a bike shop almost as soon as the last bike shop in Haywood County closed but took a while to find a good location and to finance his own business.
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The first question biker patrons want to know is whether Hight is a road biker or mountain biker. Hight claims "yes" to both.
Hight started racing BMX bikes as a teenager. He dropped biking for a few years after getting his driver's license, but at 21, he took it back up again. The local BMX track was only open one night a week.
"Everyone was just like, 'Go to the mountain bike trails and practice your BMX on those,'" Hight said. "When I did, I saw people jumping on their mountain bikes and was like 'Yeah, that's it. Forget the little BMX bike. I'm going to get a mountain bike.'"
Hight's new interest in mountain biking soon pedaled into road biking.
"Someone said if you want to get faster at mountain biking, get into road biking to build your stamina up," Hight said. "So I built my first road bike."
Somewhat by accident, Hight's road biking soon got him hooked on time trials racing He and seven road biking buddies had too much wine at dinner one night and somehow convinced themselves to go to a time trials race the next morning.
"We showed up totally unprepared with just our regular road bikes instead of time trial bikes, but I came in just five seconds under the top guy, so I thought 'Hmmm ... there might be something to this,'" Hight said.
Mountain biking didn't fall by the wayside, though. His parents had a second home in Maggie Valley, and he regularly brought friends up for a mountain biking weekend.
Waynesville Bicycle Company is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. To reach the shop call 828.454.9898.


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Both driver and passenger survived when this Ferrari 360 cut off the road above LA and rolled down the steep embankment.
Mulholland Drive car, bike, and crash spotter RNickeyMouse uploaded the video today.
RNickeyMouse left the following description on the video.
Ferrari 360 Modena strikes a tree then rolls down a steep hillside in Malibu. Driver had cuts to head but was otherwise ok, passenger was uninjured.
Things could have been much worse, but this is what every exotic car driver's nightmare looks like.


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Raised in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Gashu Fukami attended Doshisha University in Kyoto, graduating in 1975. During school he discovered the works of Umetaro Azechi and Takeji Asano. These artists inspired Gashu to pursue woodblock printing in 1977, before traveling to the United States in 1978 to study at Kaji Aso Studio in Boston. He returned to Kyoto in 1983, holding his first solo show in 1988. By 1997, he had moved to Nagasaki, before settling in Fukuoka in 1999. Gashu has held multiple solo shows in Japan, as well as at the Ronin Gallery in New York. Self-carved and self-printed, his works carry the spirit of Sosaku Hanga into the contemporary. Striking yet whimsical, Gashu's woodblock prints make the familiar look uncanny, breathing exuberance into the everyday.
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We have designed these projects on Our Planet-Earth to help you and your child search for useful ideas and tips for your experiments. Here, you will find literally hundreds of experiments of every kind in every discipline of science from chemistry, biology, physics to even human psychology.
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Jones Soda Launches Campaign Cola
Jones Soda loves holidays and seasonal hoopla, as proven by its Candy Corn flavor during Halloween and (questionably delicious) Wild Herb Stuffing one in November. So it's no huge surprise that it launched Campaign Cola 2008, where three limited-edition colas honor each presidential pursuer. To vote, just click on your candidate's cola: Obama's Yes We Can, McCain's Pure McCain or Clinton's Capitol Hillary. (Though she may not be in the presidential race, she's still in the bottle race!)
The polls as of this morning:
Obama = 2,694 bottles
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Clinton = 996 bottles
Jones Soda adds an educational layer to this marketing approach by linking to voter registration info and important quotes from each candidate, encouraging cola drinkers to make wise decisions when purchasing their $14.99 six-packs.
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The Woolmark Co. has named Narciso Rodriguez as ambassador for merino wool in its No Finer Feeling global marketing campaign.
Ads will appear in fashion magazines in the fall touting the versatility of merino wool as a fiber. Rodriguez will include merino wool pieces in two upcoming collections and will champion the benefits of wool as a luxury fiber. Starting with Rodriguez's fall collection, being shown during New York Fashion Week Feb. 12, select pieces will include merino wool and carry the Woolmark logo. Rodriguez's ambassadorship will extend through spring 2014, and the number of garments featuring merino wool will increase each season.
This story first appeared in the January 30, 2013 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
"I've historically used wool as the core of my collections. This collaboration happened quite naturally. I'm a true believer in wool and have been cutting wool on the bias since I was in school," Rodriguez told WWD.
Stuart McCullough, chief executive officer of Australian Wool Innovation, parent company of Woolmark, said, "Narciso's innovative vision and meticulous focus on craftsmanship make him a perfect partner to demonstrate the beauty and versatility of merino wool as a fiber."
McCullough added that Woolmark invests in product development and marketing with those designers selected. The No Finer Feeling ad campaign aims to inform consumers about the natural benefits and attributes of merino wool. "Influential fashion leaders, including Vivienne Westwood, have become ambassadors for the initiative and merino — sharing the reasons why merino wool is their preferred luxury fiber," McCullough said.
Rodriguez noted that Woolmark is supporting his company with research and development. "Their resources are endless. They've opened their design library to us. It's there for all designers to use, and we forget there are all these great tools for us to use," he said. Rodriguez said he uses wool for all his categories, including shoes, bags, coats and dresses. "There are so many different types of wool. We use high-twist yarns that have great natural stretch that we run consistently," he noted.
No Finer Feeling is a three-year, 20 million Australian dollar, or $21.1 million, campaign that has seen AWI partner with more than 30 designers and brands, including Westwood, Giorgio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, Lanvin, Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs via co-branded media and point-of-sale campaigns in the U.K., Europe, China and Japan, or wool ambassadorships.
McCullough noted that Rodriguez will be involved with the creative direction of the ad campaign and will participate in some of AWI's educational programs.
Rodriguez's participation is part of Woolmark's re-branding efforts in the U.S. market "and reinforces The Woolmark Co. as the world's best-known textile fiber brand," said McCullough. He noted that the New York office has been dormant since the financial crisis "and now we're reestablishing The Woolmark Co.'s profile and presence in this very important market. Additionally our ambassadorial partnerships are our way of reaffirming our commitment to the fashion industry."
McCullough became acquainted with Rodriguez when the designer was one of the judges of the 2012 U.S. regional event of the International Woolmark Prize. "It was there we spent time with him and realized he would be a perfect ambassador for us. His admiration for wool as a fiber and innovative use of it in his collection illustrated to us that he would be a natural partner to help promote the benefits of merino wool to the fashion industry as well as consumers," McCullough said.
For the 2013-14 financial year, starting July 1, AWI's marketing budget will increase by 56 percent to 54 million Australian dollars, or $56.6 million at current exchange, the result of a vote by Australian wool growers late last year to devote more funds to marketing over the next three years. The priorities are to reestablish the New York and Paris offices after several years' hiatus in both markets and completing the 2012 International Woolmark Prize.
The International Woolmark Prize final will be staged at London's ME hotel on Feb. 16. Finalists Christian Wijnants, Sophie Theallet, Dion Lee, Dressedundressed, Ban Xiao Xue and Pankaj & Nidhi will compete for 100,000 Australian dollars, or $105,467, in prize money and the opportunity to have their winning merino collection sold through a global retail network that includes Bergdorf Goodman and Harvey Nichols.


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Parking isn't all that hard. By using the steering wheel, you can deftly place a car between the two painted lines on the pavement, leaving adequate room on each side for other people to park.
Or, alternatively, you can just ignore the lines and park wherever you damn well please like these three BMW drivers.
These BMWs (why does it always seem to be BMWs?) were seen outside a Casual Male in Virginia this morning. We aren't sure which was the first one there. Maybe they all arrived at the same time?
Perhaps they were all in such a rush to purchase reasonably priced casual clothing that they couldn't be bothered by parking in a space at all.
Or maybe they're just huge asshats. One or the other.
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President Stroble Receives Norman Stack Award from St. Louis JCRC
Jun. 11, 2013
ST. LOUIS, JUNE 11, 2013 - Webster University President Elizabeth "Beth" Stroble received the Norman A. Stack Community Relations Award from the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC).
The award was established 25 years ago to honor St. Louis community leaders who made significant contributions to interfaith understanding, intergroup relations and social justice. It's named after the former executive director of the JCRC.
"I am grateful to the colleagues, trustees, friends of Webster who are present with me today – too numerous to mention – for the leadership they provide in this community and many others, modeling for our students what it means to live an engaged life," Stroble said at the awards ceremony. "It is our collective intent to engage our world, member by member, community by community, to meet unmet needs, to transform the world and ourselves."
Stroble was selected for the award for her "immediate positive impact for Webster University and for her new community of St. Louis," a statement from the JCRC said.
Stroble, who was named president of Webster University in 2009, previously was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2010 as one of St. Louis' most influential businesswomen. In 2011, she received the St Louis Argus' Distinguished Citizen Award, and last year was recognized by the St. Louis NAACP as an inspiring leader.
Past recipients of the Norman A. Stack award include Opera Theatre of St. Louis General Manager Timothy O'Leary, Dr. Ghazala Hayat from the Islamic Foundation of St. Louis, and Fontbonne University President Dennis Golden.
Stroble was recognized alongside Hilary Cedergreen, who was awarded the Michael N. and Barbara Newmark JCRC Emerging Leader Award, and Marshay Coleman, who was awarded the Milton I. and Merle K. Goldstein 2013 Scholarship.
The awards were presented during the 75th annual Jewish Community Relations Council meetings on May 22 at the Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel.