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Getting Enough Folic Acid
Topic Overview
What is folic acid?
Folic acid is one of the B vitamins your body needs for good health. Getting enough of this vitamin prevents folic acid deficiency anemia . It also prevents certain birth defects.
The vitamin is also called folate, but there is a difference:
- Folate is the natural form of this vitamin. It's found in food.
- Folic acid is the man-made form. It's put into vitamin pills and fortified foods, such as fortified breakfast cereals.
Most people just say "folic acid" for either form of this vitamin.
What is the recommended daily amount of folic acid?
Most people can get the amount of folic acid they need by eating a well balanced diet.
Category | Age | Daily amount of folic acid |
Babies |
0 to 6 months |
65 mcg ( micrograms ) |
7 to 12 months |
80 mcg |
Children |
1 to 3 years |
150 mcg |
4 to 8 years |
200 mcg |
9 to 13 years |
300 mcg |
Older children and adults |
Over 13 years |
400 mcg |
Do some women need more folic acid?
Although the recommended amount of folic acid for all adults is 400 mcg a day, many doctors recommend higher amounts for women who are able to get pregnant. This is because folic acid plays a big role in preventing birth defects.
Women who don't get enough folic acid before and during pregnancy are more likely to have a child born with a birth defect, such as:
- A neural tube defect , like spina bifida . Neural tube defects are some of the most common types of birth defects in the United States.
- A cleft lip or cleft palate .
Category | Daily amount of folic acid (folate) |
Pregnant women 1 |
600 mcg |
Breast-feeding women 1 |
500 mcg |
Women who are able to get pregnant 2 |
400 mcg to 800 mcg |
If you're breast-feeding, getting this extra folic acid will make sure that your baby gets the folic acid he or she needs to stay healthy.
Here's an odd fact: The man-made form of this vitamin is actually absorbed better by our bodies than the natural form is. So even if a woman eats a well balanced diet, she may not get the extra folic acid she needs to prevent birth defects unless she also takes a supplement.
It can be hard for women to get extra folic acid from food. So experts say that all women who are able to get pregnant should take a daily supplement that has 400 to 800 mcg of folic acid. 2
Some women need even higher doses.
- Women who are pregnant with twins or more should take 1000 mcg a day. 3
- Women who have a family history of neural tube defects, who have already had a baby with a neural tube defect, or who are on medicines for seizures should take 4000 mcg a day. 4
Follow your doctor's advice about how to get higher amounts of folic acid. Don't just take more multivitamins. You could get too much of the other substances that are in the multivitamin.
What if you're not planning to get pregnant right now, or ever?
Even if you aren't planning to get pregnant, your doctor may recommend a daily supplement.
Many pregnancies aren't planned. And the birth defects that folic acid can prevent start to form in the first 6 weeks of pregnancy. This is often before a woman even knows she's pregnant.
So you can see why getting enough daily folic acid—even before you get pregnant—is so important.
What foods contain folic acid?
Foods high in folate include liver, citrus fruits, dark greens like spinach, and fortified breakfast cereals and breads. Read food labels to see how much folate the food contains.
Food | Serving size | Folic acid amount |
Fortified (with 100% of daily requirement) breakfast cereal |
1 cup |
400 mcg or more |
Spinach, cooked |
1 cup |
263 mcg |
Beef liver, cooked |
3 oz |
221 mcg |
Frozen peas, boiled |
1 cup |
94 mcg |
Asparagus, boiled |
4 spears |
89 mcg |
Enriched white rice, cooked |
1 cup |
235 mcg |
Frozen broccoli, cooked |
1 cup |
168 mcg |
Strawberries |
1 cup |
40 mcg |
Orange |
1 small |
39 mcg |
Kidney beans, cooked |
1 cup |
230 mcg |
Pinto beans, cooked |
1 cup |
294 mcg |
Lentils, cooked |
1 cup |
358 mcg |
Enriched macaroni, cooked |
1 cup |
167 mcg |
Folic acid tips
- Breads, breakfast cereals, and pasta are often fortified with folic acid. Read labels for the folic acid amount.
- Eat vegetables raw or lightly steamed. Cooking may destroy some of the folic acid found in food.
- Multivitamins often contain folic acid.
Related Information
- Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine (2012). Dietary reference intakes (DRIs): Recommended dietary allowances and adequate intakes, vitamins. In LK Mahan et al., eds., Krause's Food and the Nutrition Care Process, 13th ed. St Louis: Saunders.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2009). Folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects. Available online: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf09/folicacid/folicacidrs.htm.
- Cunningham FG, et al. (2010). Multifetal gestation. In Williams Obstetrics, 23rd ed., pp. 859–889. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Cunningham FG, et al. (2010). Prenatal care. In Williams Obstetrics, 23rd ed., pp. 189–214. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (2011). Nutrient data laboratory. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference , Release 24. Available online: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964.
- Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (2010). Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Folate. Available online: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Folate-HealthProfessional.
Other Works Consulted
- Finger LB, Henshaw SK (2006). Disparities in rates of unwanted pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 38(2): 90–96.
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HOPE MILLS - When Jack Britt forward Jonny Goffredi scored the opening goal against South View on Wednesday from 25 yards out, striking with his dominant right foot, he wasn't satisfied.
"I was willing to try it from anywhere," the senior said. "I was feeling it tonight - and with both feet, too."
On Goffredi's next attempt, he drew up at 35 yards out and sliced a shot left-footed near the post for another goal.
Goffredi's two-goal effort helped lift the visiting Buccaneers over South View 3-0.
The Bucs (12-4-2, 6-2 Mid-South) took advantage of a poor defensive showing by the Tigers (9-7, 5-4) to split the regular-season meetings.
Jack Britt coach Damon Herbert said his team was patient and moved the ball while waiting for shooting opportunities.
"On a couple of our goals, their back line just backed off," the coach said. "And if they're going to do that, we're going to shoot."
Goffredi said the Britt midfield had space throughout the game.
"Every time we would move forward, their line moved back," he said. "It left me and our other midfielder with acres of space."
The Tiger defense usually includes Kevan Fox, but coach Bryan Pagan said the senior was sidelined with a concussion.
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Both of Goffredi's goals came in the opening half, giving the Bucs a 2-0 lead at halftime.
Teammate Sebastian Flores, who leads Cumberland County with 16 goals, added a third 17 minutes into the second half.
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05-16-2012, 01:09 PM #12Nice looking truck. Why did it take 10 weeks? Did 3 guys from GM push it all the way to Canada?
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If the owners of the gyms are never around, I have to assume they are either running a very well managed facility or the demand for courts is so high, that easy profit can be made.
The good things are property prices are relatively cheap now. Location is important in that the facility should be easy to find (GPS is not 100% certain).
30mins driving one way I think is quite reasonable. Mind you, I have been to places where it takes an hour one way but that's me being a badminton addict.
I really think experience of the whole picture counts from the needs of casual players up to to tournament players up to coaches. That way you can understand the dfferent needs and the facility can appeal to different market segments. I have got started in running a club (not the facility) and the difference in perspective between myself and some of the other pre-existing committee is huge. They have an ambitious aim to progress and attract good players. But the mainly socially orientated committee don't understand what brings people in despite having access to a great location. So the club has been stagnant. I am on the same wavelength as the coaches but a lot of the committee are not.
I guess why mainly ex-pros/coaches open gyms are a) it's the one thing they know really well, b) they understand underneath the surface how to fill it up quickly and minimise the potential losses. It's easier for them to tap into badminton addicts and find backers. If you were a financial backer, who would you give your money to? Would it be somebody who hasn't got much of a track history?
If you have a large warehouse, opening 10courts initially an then adding more is inefficient - if you already have the space for 16, but only open 10 courts, then you are wasting rental. Later you might have the headaches of trying to expand the flooring, lighting whilst keeping the other courts open. Nobody would like to breath in solvent fumes and extra dust while they play.
I think that's why the badminton gyms are so large in SF/Bay area. A larger facility can also spread out the staff costs. 2 people can run an 8 court facility, and they can also equally run a 12 court facility (plus the availability of large warehouses).
One thing many of us cannot assess is the demand. Are people complaining they cannot book courts? Are they complaining of the distance they have to travel to get to courts? The fact that large gyms are still busy in an economic downturn is very encouraging.
divinefavor, please ask yourself this question. There are a ton of badminton addicts would love to own a club which they can play whenever they want, share badminton stories with other addicts etc while making money at the same time. What a perfect picture. Now back to reality, why are 99.9999999% of badminton addicts not owning a club? May be you are the chosen one. If we do a survey re who would like to owning a club but dare not to because of too risky, I believe the writing is on the wall. As I mentioned earlier, I admire your determination. Again good luck if you do opening one. Don't forget to keep us informed cause everyone here in this forum love to wish you well.
divinefavor, why don't you partner with a coach (or two)?
Good to see someone at least having a plan to do so. However, by my own understanding, the OP needs to be conservatitive, unless s/he has a lot of $$$ to burn, especially at the beginning stage.
1. Sure, you do not need to be a top level player to own a gym. Same as you do not have to be an iron chef to open a cafe. However, for small business, you need to save everything you need, and be "the expert" not only save cost, but give you more "quality control", and give you the freedom to offer more products (service in badminton term).
2. It is very hard to balance the book, if you start any business in metro area. The high cost of living (or running business) such as rent, tax, labor, insurance, fine (if not lucky), utility bill, etc can be troublesome. So, if a gym is just opened for court renting or open walk-in, you cannot survive. You need additonal services, such as coaching, pro-shop (product sales and stringing, etc), tournament, etc to balance the book. Therefore, if yourself is a top level player / stringer, you see where your skill kick in. If you have to hire others to do so, not only it's a $$$ issue, you can be the hostage.
3. It's always good to be a volunteer helper for an exisiting club, to learn the skill (daily management, social skill and event organization skill) and to know the community, before diving in blindly. You need ppl to trust you (not necessarily say top notch playing skill), in order for them to give up their comfort zone, and hand in their hard earned $$$ to you. It is very easy to make a lot of friends in a gym to have fun together. It is a totally different story, when you try to convience them to hand you a $1000 check on a consistant base.
4. You would rather want to be over-prepared, and realize that the reality is not as bad (hardly the case), rather than under estimate the situation, give up all your $$$, all your energy/effort, all your career and family, only to face the harsh reality.
I used to take a lot of things for granted, and tend to complain this and that in gym (or event), as soon as something does not come to me in a perfect way. After I start to volunteer to help organize some local tournament, I have a lot of more respect for the ppl doing this on a regular base. Dealing with human being, with limited time and budget, is a lot of harder than dealing with a pre-programmed machine. Also, you are always on the losing end, even if your customers (players) broke certain rule. You cannot just throw the books at them, because they have nothing to lose, but you have your entire career on the line...
there are a few factors to opening a gym.
- location. do you have a location in mind?
- financials. the most important one, as you are a business, you won't stay afloat unless you have a sound financial plan. after you have a location in mind, do you have an estimate cost of the running costs? including (as you mentioned) cost of the land, the construction; or if you decide to go rent, the rental rate. after you get the cost of running the facility, next is how are you going to generate income? with around US$8 dropin, and then some membership that runs around $300-400/year these days (to stay competitive). do you think that will sustain your busines?
after the run the numbers, you will then realize that this will be tough. unless you provide a facility that is way more excellent than the usual suspect of Bintang/BBC, etc, you will need to stay competitive with the pricing and to be honest, a $8 drop in for 2-3 hours of entertainment is really dirt cheap and doesn't bode well for club owners. at best, you will be break-even with dropin/membership. your only way to sustain is to pad it up with 2 other things.
coaching: coach is profitable, with most group classes going at $30-40/2 hours for a group of 8. that is great income. however, you also need to share profit with the coach. the other factor is where are you going to find coaches? coaches are in high demand and club fights for them constantly.
equipment: you need to run a shop, and not just a shop like most clubs, you need to run a very efficient online shop. in person sale is too little, most people don't buy from the shops, you need to expand out to online in order to survive. some of the clubs here are more successful than others in this respect.
snack/beverage: a smaller portion of the income, but potentially will generate some profit. everyone needs to drink/snack during a game, and the more attractive they are, the more likely you will get good business.
do your do diligence on the costs / revenue involved, run the numbers, and come tell us if that still sound like a good idea.
for now though, it seems that the market is quite saturated. hard to find any location in which there is a good demand and a good supply of land/warehouses to start a badminton gym.
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If you are thinking of renting. You better figure out what the rent will be and what the maximum rent it can be raised the next year. You'd be dead in the water if the landlord raises the rent 100%. I've heard of crooked landlords (in Vancouver) doing something similar like that. Or purposely making it difficult for the owner to run the business...making them get out of the contract early (on a multi-year lease) and paying a penalty.
badminton is very space inefficient business. a badminton court is 20' x 44'. give it a bit more around the side you are talking about at least 25' x 50' of space you have to provide. and that's for the entertainment of 4 people on court, and they can potentially stay there for a few hours.
the other end of the spectrum, a movie theater. they packed u in there like sardines, each maybe get a few sqft of space, and then they have multiple showings per evening. they do have to pay for the movies, but they make up for it from $12 each round in a very densely packed space, and then they charge ridiculous price for the beverages also. imagine charging $5 for a drink in a badminton gym, that will never fly.
the major problem for running a badminton gym in the bay area is that the entry pricing has been too competitively low. you will never be able to find such prices for other sports clubs. $300 is probably what people pay per month on a tennis club or other health club (i am not sure, just guessing).
this makes it really hard for someone small to enter the business. esp when the market is already so saturated.
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I am glad I came across this thread.
I am a similar situation, thinking of starting a badminton club. The influx of people in this city who will play badminton is really high, and there are only 2 (maybe 3) places in the entire metro that have badminton facilities - and I am reading of high wait times and less opportunity for the less advanced players to play.
I have never owned a business, so am just getting a feel of it from forums right now.
Yes, this is not a small investment business.
You need land and economy of scale you can't build a small gym,
it's really expensive and car park is one hell of space killer!
I don't know about US new building requirements
but i know in Malaysia all those baddy courts are zinc roof, steel column
and very little concrete wall and we don't get a permanent OP or occupation permit.
Mostly its temporary and renewal every five years
so here bank won't lend you money based on your 'property'
but you could get some money if your land is charged
Key thing is to specialize. There's a local badminton place that has tried to do everything under one roof, I.e., restaurant, ping pong, etc and I think it's a mistake.Seeking out PARTNERS to fill those roles makes more sense. For instance, share the rent with a bubble tea or Vietnamese coffee joint. That would be a perfect fit.Maybe even get a pro shop in there.
You're talking about Badminton Vancouver right?
I think the ping pong was a mistake as I seldom see it ever being used. That extra space could have been better used to space out the courts better.
The restaurant isn't such a bad idea. Since there's no real restaurant in the nearby area. It's upstairs on top of the washrooms, foyer, and pro shop (which would have been wasted space anyways). They should have a liquor license by now. So after a session...take a quick shower and head upstairs for a burger and brewski.
There is a pro shop as well...albeit a small one just behind the front desk area. They partnered up with All Court Stringing...so they bring the rackets and do the stringing. And they provide demo rackets to try out (at $10 deposit towards a racket purchase). I haven't seen any courts that do that.
They have a former Olympian Anna Rice as a coach to provide lessons as well.
All in all...it's not a bad set up. My only complaints are the flooring is a bit hard (imo) and the lighting on some courts are terrible (especially if you are looking at the foyer...maybe they should have drapes or something to block out the sunlight). Haven't tried the drop-in on a busy weeknight...so I can't comment on that.
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And if you go to a fast-food drive-thru, chances are that the cashier who rings you up is relying on public assistance. UC Berkeley researchers report that despite working and taking home a paycheck, more than half of fast-food workers rely on public assistance programs like food stamps or Medicaid.
NPR food and health correspondent Allison Aubrey joins us now. And Allison, more than half?
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: That's right, Jeremy. And when you think about it, given that the median wage of folks on the front lines in these fast-food restaurants - so we're talking cooks, cashiers and crew - that they're making about $8.70 an hour, maybe it isn't that much of a surprise.
HOBSON: Well, is that what people are pointing to, is just the waves that these people are making, because obviously there are industries where people also make that kind of wage?
AUBREY: That's part of it. I spoke to Ken Jacobs, who chairs Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education. He's one of the authors of the report. And, you know, what he said is really surprising here, is who's really working at these fast-food restaurants; it's not the case that the typical worker is a teenager, someone living at home with their parents.
KEN JACOBS: The income from fast-food restaurants is not sort of extra supplemental income for a family. In the vast majority of the families with fast-food workers, that income is core to their family finances. And it's too low and too few benefits that are provided for families to make it on their own.
AUBREY: So what he's really saying here is that it's not just below hourly wages. But in many cases it's lack of health care benefits and often that fact that only part-time hours are available.
HOBSON: And I assume that people may say, well, they should just pay them more. And the fast-food restaurants might say back to that, well, you're going to then pay more for your burger. But what do we pay more as taxpayers to help pay for these public assistance programs?
AUBREY: That's right. So it's us, the taxpayers, who are footing the bill for these public assistance programs. And the researchers put that price tag at about $7 billion a year.
HOBSON: Wow.
AUBREY: They've tallied up the demand for various programs, and they found that the workers in the fast food sector create substantial need to the tune of $3.9 billion in Medicaid and children's health insurance programs, subsidies, $1 billion in SNAP subsidies. These are food stamps. And another $1.9 billion per year in earned income tax credit payments. These are subsidies for low-wage workers. So you put that together, that's $7 billion that U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for.
Meanwhile, McDonald's shareholders have seen their dividends increase and companies such as Yum! Brands have reported, you know, increased profits and stock prices.
HOBSON: So what's the solution here? Is it just to raise the wages of these workers?
AUBREY: Well, sure. I mean the economists involved in this study say raising the wages of workers is the place to begin. Now, you know, I should point out that the report was funded by Fast Food Forward, and this is a coalition of groups campaigning for higher wages for fast-food workers in New York. But you know, definitely there are competing views here of the best thing to do.
I mean more conservative-leaning economists say that raising wages would lead to a significant slow down in hiring by these fast-food companies, and that the unintended consequence would be that there would be more workers looking for jobs and that that would create the need for more public assistance, not less.
I spoke to Michael Strain. He's a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He describes himself as a center-right economist. And he said, you know, in his view, this $7 billion taxpayer bill is not necessarily problematic.
MICHAEL STRAIN: Not to say that it's working perfectly, but in general the government is making sure that these people's basic needs are met, which is an appropriate role of government. And businesses are paying them a wage that businesses judge to be, you know, roughly equal to the value they're adding to the production process.
AUBREY: You know, so in his view businesses are calculating wages based on productivity, and the government is stepping in as the safety net. And he says that's OK. So I really think there's a lot more to come on this topic.
HOBSON: Allison Aubrey is NPR's food and health correspondent. Allison, thanks as always.
AUBREY: Thanks very much, Jeremy.
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And he can't be done -- -- -- A congressional investigation is heating up as -- EPA official is caught on tape saying he wants to crucify.
Oil companies listen.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- So.
These days.
So is this type of attitude towards energy companies -- gas prices are high and will continue to remain high.
Well hello ever wanna show the sunny and welcome the cash advance our accident crew this week we have Wayne Rogers Jonathan Hoenig Tracy Byrnes and John late build.
And also joining us is that we had democratic consultant Julian Epstein -- welcome all of you and Jonathan I'm curious what you think here is this.
EPA attack on energy companies and big clue as to why gas prices are high now on the -- -- -- up.
Well that's the EPA's goal -- that's the Green movement's goal is to raise gas prices to make it harder and harder -- man to actually use the earth to his benefit I mean they're -- really.
-- -- hurt mankind so of course they put all the -- of bans on drilling and exploration they put these ridiculous mandates on elegy make it harder for companies like Exxon actually.
Get permits and it's essentially a cruise vacation as the as the the EPA official put it.
Not towards a liar no militant Islam or our enemies but -- actual productive American companies it's a shame and it's why gas prices are going -- And -- -- fill we did get earnings from Exxon and they did talk about less drilling.
Permits things like that -- -- the -- that's why gas prices are high because we have less oil production here in this country and maybe this is the reason this attitude from the -- I think this is part of a look at the main reason gas prices are highest China went from four million barrels a day -- -- barrels a day and in the past decade were stuck at 86 million barrels.
Total capacity -- in the entire globe right now as -- the United States yes this hurt significantly.
From 22 until now -- -- -- is down the government has said it's about the government's that is down but the energy administration.
Information by the US government says it is down.
And -- -- reasons -- on this -- 200000 jobs.
Waiting on fracking regulation in Ohio the EPA need to be told by the president listen I don't hear you hate these guys make a ruling make a ruling that's fair and stick what is -- we can go and create jobs in this country.
Well you know -- -- congress is gonna get involved here you've got.
Congressman Darrell ice that he wants to investigate this type of attitude this obviously -- the statement coming from the CPA official.
-- and -- wants to go after find out what's going on here what it did pick -- fine.
Well I think they're gonna pharmacist look at the -- of facts here first saw this was a low level EPA official secondly he was talking about going after polluters people who break the law.
Third the point here I think is that.
Gas production -- production is that a seven year high right now the Obama administration.
-- license over 400 new permits for -- We have more rigs operating United States than anywhere else in the world right now.
The Obama administration -- opened up millions of acres for exploration.
They've approved dozens of pipelines including part of the Keystone Pipeline.
We have more production gas and then then we've had in the last seven years gas prices have gone down for three weeks in a row right now.
And the fact that gas prices are going up -- as we've discussed on this show before has nothing to do with the laws of supply and demand we see is demand goes down supply goes up.
Of gas and oil prices are still going up because of the manipulation of markets this isn't an -- -- -- Tracy you shaking your head why.
Lows so many things -- first look at roaming cats -- -- hear the word cruise vacation again I'm gonna blow my head off OK you don't look I thought that's not well.
Great kid gloves here these oil companies are doing what they're supposed to do.
Now look I don't know about what Jonathan is saying that EPA wants and destroy mankind and -- that kind of stuff but I do know.
It all the attention -- this guy is why companies are not the reason for high gas prices you know reason.
And John -- says it every week on the show we have no energy plan to.
Didn't we have no energy policy we are complete out there and as a result we are reliant on -- like I ran to Jack up our gas prices whenever they feel I don't wait -- he should -- -- somewhere on your body that.
I don't I apologize on the show everybody does this quote from him to -- -- -- -- -- he apologized -- -- -- I apologize to -- -- offended.
That -- -- -- of words it was an offense -- -- -- -- betray our efforts to address potential violations.
Art nations environmental -- so he he's trying to make a -- that is not enough.
Now I mean why does he sit in the first place of course it's not enough I mean when you hire people like that -- supposed to be working for.
The people this guy's not working for the people is marked for himself but he's -- -- is a little bureau he is a little bureaucratic -- that's what he has looked -- If you talk about you mentioned keystone why has not the president approved the total keystone.
It is everybody is behind -- the unions want it it's got to create jobs he talks about job creation and doing all of that and yet he will not approve this.
Why because that's a political act it has nothing to do with me the economy he doesn't care he's not doing this for this he's got to approve this.
After he gets elected yet when he thinks he's -- that's all the best of the -- so what's the -- -- against it's against what the people to do it's against what he's supposed to be doing at the pres the United States shot -- well he's I I agree and it's a mystery to me Il Y a private investment by a private company would need.
The kings permission we need the president's permission but he.
Harry Reid's permission and the whole idea of a free economy Cheryl is free from government you'll have to ask permission.
Every time wanna make an investment and to -- your point -- I mean this isn't government going after criminals this is government going after law abiding producers people actually want to.
Will create the energy and fuel the economy forward were standing in their way not through the economy but through regulatory force.
Julian what would it I think is the EPA has been going after whatever comes our companies -- the issue fracking -- and that but they haven't always found.
Violations from companies but there has been a lot of companies that have been.
I guess investigated as the best word here do you think that they're going down the wrong path here when -- -- bishop -- administration's support production whether it's natural.
Gas or oil.
I think we draw false dichotomy here I don't think that enforcing the environmental laws whether you're talking about the pipeline and there were legitimate environmental issues in keystone.
And with -- there are legitimate environmental -- making sure they comply with environmental laws.
Doesn't mean that the production doesn't go forward as I point out.
We have we I mean in nobody responds on this panel to the fact that production -- at a seven year high demand is low supply is higher than it ever has been and -- prices are still going up.
It is an -- and you know what to do that to the other point she gee are we we're we have 2% of the energy reserves we consume 20%.
Of the world's energy.
So what -- simply drilling in the event for you know way up just think gonna work right scandals let's go to LG and candles and not make the point -- you mentioned -- imagine if the government had put regulations.
It in front of tracking people are saving 20% a year and heating their home here here because of the low price of natural gas regulation that prohibited that activity gas prices -- -- -- you know -- Ignoring the point we're producing more we're putting more permits were -- exporter more exploration.
That we ever -- yeah.
I'm no good guys they -- anywhere in the world you know that.
-- -- -- -- -- -- get the permits they need I got representative -- man Joba didn't teller's home somewhere else okay guys and there's a -- all the bad at all.
-- this site of this administration is responsible for this increase and -- domestic production is absolutely insane.
The Bush Administration is not responsible party leader it is -- technology innovation and also look at the government numbers it's down since twenty TN.
This whole thing with the Keystone Pipeline this is not about the environment you have 45000 -- -- all pipeline right now this is 200.
Miles you're talking about this is all politics probably the president is going to approve this he had just gonna wait -- after the election to do it this is all bulls down the politics.
I -- the question here -- I went Rogers is will be EPA.
Being in the right role for this as we do tried to increase domestic production is the EPA gonna play fair.
Well I -- -- and Jillian makes the point -- this guy's a low level you know EPA bureaucrat it doesn't matter what level it is it's the attitude that comes from the top as they say in the mafia the fish stinks from the head.
And this comes just -- a hole.
-- -- -- -- -- -- rule -- -- and things of people who are out of crucified people as he -- is he said -- people I'm sorry about that yet but he said.
And he's up to get people that's your souls -- whole attitude of hostility toward somebody who's trying to do something productive to Wayne.
How I know what the mafia has to say I don't sound.
-- guys thank you very -- -- -- -- current --
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New York…by Tova Ross…Welcome news in this tight economy: Jewpon and jdeal are two new ventures that are capitalizing on the popular Groupon deals for city residents that offer amazing deals – this time, savings that cater to a Jewish and kosher audience. Jodi Samuels not only runs MetroImma, an online social network for working mothers, but she also has three children, is a frequent organizer of blogger and social media events, and is now the co-founder of jdeal. A wildly successful initiative offering "Jewish" coupons and deals to the public, jdeal follows the model of Groupon, which asks for a person's city of residence, likes, and e-mail – and then sends them personalized discounts and coupons each day. Samuels explained, "My partner Allen Ganz and I were looking for business opportunities over the past year when I stumbled across the Groupon model. I thought it would be a great thing to the Jewish community."
After much research and investing in the brand, they launched last month in the New York area. Since then, they have amassed over 3,000 e-mails of people interested in receiving great deals geared for a Jewish customer base. Jdeal has already built lists in other major Jewish cities and plans to launch soon in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, and in Toronto and Montreal. Samuels, who said she is averaging about three hours of sleep a night, said that many Jewish merchants are now realizing the potential of building a strong customer base by featuring a great deal on this particular site. "With Groupon and other similar not specifically Jewish coupons sites, many Jewish business feel that they won't get repeat customers out of the coupon buyers ; rather, one-timer store patrons who just snapped up some great deal" she explained. "But with jdeal, if a kosher restaurant gets kosher consumers into their store for a deal, chances are, those people will keep returning if they like the food."
The coupons that sell out the fastest? "This may be stereotypical, but the food-related discounts are always sold out within a few hours," said Samuels. A recent jdeal offered $100 worth of groceries from Kosher.com for a mere $50. The vouchers, of which jdeal only had 100, sold out in under 2 hours. A link on the site invites merchants and business-owners to apply to be featured on the site.
Samuels explained, "I think this is an extension of marketing for Jewish businesses, what I call 'on-steroids' marketing using the power of social media. This is a way to see instant results of advertising – these businesses are spending money on marketing anyway, and this is marketing that you know delivers great and instantly-seen results."
Zalmi Duchman, who recently founded Jewpon, came about his kosher coupon business another way. As the chief executive of The Kosher Diet, a diet delivery service based in South Florida that he founded with his brother several years ago, he was contacted by Groupon in 2009, asking for his business to be featured. "It was a super-successful move on our part," recalled Duchman. "Being featured by Groupon generated half a million in sales." Duchman and his brother had long wanted to offer a kosher diet delivery service, but when the idea was suggested to Groupon, the company wasn't receptive. "They didn't want to feature something that was only tailored for what is seen by some as a limited audience," said Duchman. The two decided that there certainly was a healthy market hungering for great deals on kosher food, and so they decided to found a similar model of Groupon for a kosher audience: and Jewpon was born. "The response has been unbelievable," said Duchman. "Our first deal featured Kosher Keepers, and our second deal, Cucumbers Café. One of our most successful ones we featured is BenZ's Gourmet, a shop in Brooklyn." Recent deals featured a kosher-for-Shabbos toothbrush from Kosher Innovations and a Judaica package from Aspaclaria Judaica, based in Florida. The service sends e-mails to about 3,000 people, 80 percent of whom are based in New York and the others in Miami, LA and Chicago. The service will soon expand to other cities nationwide and internationally, including, the brothers hope, in Jerusalem. Duchman said he and his brother are handling running one successful company and one burgeoning venture pretty well. "With the Fresh Diet, we have a lot of resources at our disposal," he explains, "and we can use them as a great backbone to help us run this new business."


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Response of Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process and Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights to remarks on Sri Lanka made by Non-Governmental Organizations during the Inter-Active Debate on the Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr President, let me begin by thanking those Non-Governmental Associations which put in such a sterling performance last evening, running the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. Until they spoke, given the adult approaches with regard to Sri Lanka of the many countries that addressed this assembly yesterday, and the helpful meetings we had with so many responsible authorities, I was thinking that my staying on in a freezing Geneva was a waste of time and energy and money. This last was particularly upsetting, for we are a poor country, and our taxpayers cannot really afford the exorbitant rates for hotels that our well funded NGO colleagues find negligible.
At some stage, Mr President, if this privileging of the claims of the unaccountable finger pointers continue, I hope that, in the interests of the economic and social rights of the poor, you will take steps to have sittings of this Council in more affordable settings. Meanwhile let me respond to some of the more outrageous claims of our irresponsible friends, and request Her Excellency the High Commissioner to look further into a response on our websites to a longer effusion from Human Rights Watch, which they referred to in their performance yesterday.
I used the word irresponsible, and all I can say is that Human Rights Watch, which refused a meeting with me in Geneva, should really refrain from pronouncements about Sri Lanka made with no reference to any Sri Lankans. Instead they cite several great white authorities, which turn out to be the same authority. HRW refers to a BBC report, which we have shown to be fraudulent, in another release on our websites which I trust you will enjoy reading. That report dramatized an interview with an ICRC official who the ICRC told me had been misquoted. ICRC have now put up the text of the interview on their website, and it shows just how misleading the BBC version was.
HRW then quotes the United Nations and one of its spokesmen, Gordon Weiss, but the head of UNDP says – and I quote from an SMS – that 'he was oddly misquoted. A visiting AP journalist in town for 1 week spoke to him. He referred him to the ICRC report of several days ago, and then the journalist attributed it to GW. Then HRW issued a statement quoting from AP!' Since then I have been told by the UN that the reference was, not to the ICRC report, for there was none, but to 'the quote as referred to in the BBC story'.
Mr President, Sri Lanka strongly condemns these attempts by interested parties to damage the good relations between Sri Lanka and its partners by such deliberate or culpably careless misquoting. The ICRC and the UN do good work under difficult circumstances, and agencies such as Human Rights Watch with nothing better to do must not waste their time and ours in pursuing clarifications.
And this coterie of self-sustaining hysterics is the press that our more circumspect friends in Amnesty International want us to take to the conflict zone. Mr President, we are concerned about our people, and we do not need to be told by people who think that cluster bombs come out of the barrel of a gun how to look after our own. Read the ICRC reports, discuss them with us, but do not think that you know more than people who have to account financially and at elections for their actions. We are aware that the Western press is sensationalistic and confrontational, we do not blame them for that since it is a result of cultural conditioning, but when it includes allegations that are made use of by terrorists, then really some moral self-questioning should be in order.
Mr President, I have important things to do back at home rather than playing Sherlock Holmes in a cold and comfortless Geneva, finding out the origins and the rationale for falsehoods. I should be working on rehabilitation and education and empowerment for people who have suffered for so long from terrorism, but unfortunately people take Human Rights Watch seriously, and unless their distortions are dealt with, I might well – as the only person they named in their last diatribe against Sri Lanka - soon be hauled up before the International Criminal Court, and have to spend time in an even more cold climate.
Mr President, there are problems in Sri Lanka which we need to solve. We look forward to the cooperation of serious countries and serious people such as the High Commissioner to improve matters. But we also want concerted action to ensure that the civilians now held hostage by the LTTE are set free. I want that, you want that, he and she and it want that, we want that, the LTTE are the only people who don't want that.
So why this coyness about naming them? Indeed, while Human Rights Watch does mention them, in pretending that a democratically elected government and totalitarian terrorists are as bad as each other, the other NGOs, like Victorians with a love that dare not speak its name, do not even mention the terrorism from which we suffer. In the long run though, perhaps that is preferable to what seems the main point of all recent Human Rights Watch assaults on us, the demand that we reach agreement with the LTTE, thus restoring respectability to terrorists.
Is this balance? Is this basic decency? This Council, Mr President, should not be about pompous pronouncements from people who cannot even bother to check their references, and think terrorism should reap rewards for its intransigence. This Council is intended to improve the Human Rights of your people and my people and our people, not to provide platforms for those with more money than sense, and swell the coffers of the Geneva hoteliers, whose charm as they made their money Victorian novelists characterized so presciently over a century ago.


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