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Air Littoral, one of the troubled French regional airlines once owned by SAirGroup, has found new footing following a hard-fought agreement with employee unions. The deal ended a 48-hour strike that paralyzed the regional airline in September. The unions took strike action over the company's compensation proposals for employees who stand to lose their jobs in the airline's planned reorganization. Management threatened to suspend the restructuring plan if the sides could not reach an agreement.
The difficulties began after Marc Dufour, Air Littoral's chief executive, took over the regional airline from SAirGroup this summer. Before the deal in which Swissair ceded fellow French regionals Air Liberté and AOM to the new Holco consortium, Dufour had served as Air Littoral's president. Some union representatives attributed the company's lack of success partly to Dufour, and expressed concern that his management style would lead to a repeat of past failures.
But the airline and the joint union committee, representing all categories of employees, came to an agreement on redundancy payments to the 127 employees who stand to lose their jobs following the takeover. The number of expected job losses originally totalled 217, but 90 employees, most of them administrative and commercial staff, managed to find jobs elsewhere, many of them with Air France. Air Littoral's original workforce of almost 1,200 now totals less than 1,000.
The sides agreed that ground staff and administrative personnel losing their jobs will get 1.5 months of salary for each year of service with the airline. Pilots and other airborne employees forced out of their jobs will receive 1.75 months of salary for each year with the company. Dufour said that the terms of the agreement were a considerable advance on the original proposals and constituted a "more dignified package for those having to quit the company over the next few weeks." The agreement also improved payments for 160 company employees who will have to relocate following the airline's decision to concentrate its ATR 42 fleet in Montpellier and its CRJs in Nice, its two hubs.
The airline intends to keep a fleet of 32 aircraft, including 17 CRJs, 10 ATR 42-500s and five Fokker 70s. In all, it will shed four ATR 42-500s, six Beech 1900Cs, two Fokker 27s and one Fokker 100.
With the agreement signed and the present conflict over, the workforce now backs Dufour's two-year plan to return the airline to financial health. Air Littoral plans to increase its capital by FFr835 million ($111 million) and restructure its existing network, axing about one-quarter of its routes. However, new routes such as Paris Orly to Béziers in southwest France and the short route between Béziers and Nîmes were to open at the end of September. The airline hopes to transport two million passengers next year.

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Given the dismal jobs climate, it is understandable that elected officials are looking for any way to boost employment. But the idea in Hillsborough County to steer government contracts to local vendors is a heavy-handed and unfair scheme that could cost local taxpayers and end up backfiring on area businesses. The county has better ways to put locals to work that do not require manipulating the market with wasteful public subsidies.
County Commissioner Les Miller is behind a so-called local vendor ordinance that would give preferential treatment to area businesses when the county contracts for goods and services. County staff is still developing the specific language in advance of a vote. But Miller wants businesses in Hillsborough and in four adjacent counties — Pasco, Pinellas, Manatee and Polk — to have a second crack at winning county business if their bids were only slighter higher than those of out-of-town competitors.
Here's how the program would work: On contracts worth less than $50,000, an area vendor who bid within 5 percent of the winning price would have the opportunity to match the lowest competitor. That margin would shrink under a sliding scale as the contract price escalates. For a $3 million job, for example, local vendors would need to bid within 2 percent of a winning competitor; for a $5 million job, within 1 percent, and so on.
The county considered a local vendor ordinance years ago, before Miller joined the board and before the economy felt the full blow of the recession. It was a bad idea then and is a bad idea now. Local vendors have every opportunity already to compete for county work. Some services, such as supply and maintenance, already benefit local businesses because proximity to county offices reduces transportation and other expenses.
But the real issue is fairness. Why should local companies get a second chance to undercut their competitors? That rewards bid-padding the first time around. It punishes companies outside the area that have made their operations more efficient. Taxpayers could end up paying more because local companies would have no incentive to put their best price forward. Giving locals an edge could discourage outside companies from bidding, driving down competition while driving up the price. The move could also spark a trade war with other communities, which could retaliate with special treatment practices of their own.
Rather than risk blacklisting Hillsborough businesses in other markets, the commission should look for constructive ways to reach out to local employers. It would not require too much time and effort for Hillsborough to do a better job of advertising these contracts and working with local businesses to prepare them to bid for and obtain work. That would be more effective. It also would protect the integrity of the county's contracting process.


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JUDY WOODRUFF: And we return to the surveillance programs and the questions surrounding them. Beyond the government itself, there are many concerns about the role of companies like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!
Today, Google sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the FBI, saying it wants to be allowed to be more transparent about the government's requests for data — quote — "in terms of both the number we receive and their scope."
Within hours, Facebook and Microsoft issued similar statements and requests of the government as well.
Jeffrey Brown spoke with Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, from Amsterdam this afternoon. It was Google's first U.S. broadcast interview since the news broke.
JEFFREY BROWN: David Drummond, welcome.
In your letter to the attorney general, you appear to acknowledge that Google does comply with government requests for user data, so that is in fact the case?
DAVID DRUMMOND, Chief Legal Officer, Google: Yes, yes, that's the case.
We sent that letter because there's been a serious misimpression that's been created in the wake of the stories that came out in the last few days, stories that we were as shocked by as everyone else. And the misimpression is that we're doing some kind of large-scale — or participating in a program that does large-scale surveillance on our users.
And that's just not the case. And we want to be able to be more transparent about what we do do, which is occasionally comply with national security orders, as we're required to do. What we would like the government to do is to allow us to say more.
JEFFREY BROWN: There seems to be a distinction between direct and indirect access to data. What exactly is the government allowed to look at?
DAVID DRUMMOND: Let me be very clear about this. We do not participate in any kind of a program that gives the government any access to access to our servers, direct or otherwise, nor do we allow the government to place any kind of equipment on our systems.
What we do do and what we have been transparent about as much as we can is that we comply from time to time with these government orders. We take them very seriously. We review them very carefully. We push back if they are overbroad.
And here's the important thing. We serve hundreds of millions of users. The — only a tiny, very tiny fraction of our users have ever been subject to one of these requests, national security requests. So this idea that we are sort of participating in a broad program here is simply false. And we want to make that clear and we want to make that categorically clear.
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, how exactly do these requests work? Do you get a court order? Do you have to have one? Who sees it on your end, and who approves it?
DAVID DRUMMOND: Yes, these are the FISA court orders that you have heard about. And we have a team that handle these directly.
And we have experience with those. As I said, we review them very, very carefully. And when we determine that we need to comply, then we deliver the information to the government. And it's very clear. We deliver it to them. We push it out to them. They don't come access it through any machines at Google.
JEFFREY BROWN: Are there specific cases where Google has said no to a request for access?
DAVID DRUMMOND: Well, we're on record in other contacts of having pushed back. And so we are willing to push back if something is overly broad.
JEFFREY BROWN: So people who are wondering where are the limits when you do comply, is that a broad brush for data or very targeted and specific with what the government is looking for?
DAVID DRUMMOND: Look, one of the things we're asking here, what we wrote in the letter is that we would like to be able to say more about the number of these requests that we get, what they cover, and be more transparent about it.
We have pioneered this concept of being transparent about the government requests that we get. We think it's really important as a check on our behavior, as a check on the government's behavior. And we would like — we are asking the attorney general and the FBI director to allow us to provide more of that information.
But what I can tell you is that these are targeted requests, as I said, of the hundreds and hundreds of millions of users. We're talking about a tiny fraction that's affected. And we would like to say more about that.
JEFFREY BROWN: And what about sharing with other governments? We're talking about the U.S. government here. Do you get these kinds of requests from other governments, the U.K. or others?
DAVID DRUMMOND: Well, we have received requests from other governments from time to time. I think it's important to understand that Google is a U.S. company. The data is based here in the U.S. We typically ask those countries to go through the treaty-based process, law enforcement, to get access to that material.
JEFFREY BROWN: You sound very frustrated, just listening to you talk about what you can and cannot say and about what you see as misperceptions about how this works.
DAVID DRUMMOND: Well, yes, it's a little bit frustrating. But that's why we want to say more, because we want it to be clear that what the actual facts are. And there have been a lot of things being said about our participation in the program that just aren't true.
And so we really would like to set the record straight. As I said, we were surprised, one, by the Verizon national security order involving phone records. We have never received anything so broad. We were surprised by the allegations made about this so-called PRISM program. And I said we don't participate in anything that's described there.
So we really wanted to get the record straight and we wanted to make the request of the government to help us make — set the record straight by allowing us to provide more detail in our transparency report about these kinds of national security orders.
JEFFREY BROWN: David Drummond of Google, thanks for joining us.
DAVID DRUMMOND: Thank you for having me.
GWEN IFILL: You can read Google's full letter to the Department of Justice on our website.


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Curriculum for the Bioregion
Curriculum for the Bioregion is an initiative of the Washington Center that aims to prepare undergraduates to live in a world where the complex issues of environmental equality, community health and well-being, environmental justice, and sustainability are paramount.
We see "curriculum for the bioregion" not as a single, add-on course. Rather, we envision a collection of teaching approaches that could be used in existing courses and that engage students with the issues facing the bioregion. We also envision a community of faculty and staff engaging students in bioregional learning with those people and organizations working on solutions.
To reach large numbers of students, the Curriculum for the Bioregion initiative is enabling college faculty to build sustainability concepts and place-based learning into a wide array of undergraduate courses.


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Today, Dec. 7, marks the 72nd anniversary of when families across our nation lost loved ones when the attack on Pearl Harbor entered us into the Second World War.
Crescent City was no exception. Rosco "Rocky" Peterson was aboard the battleship USS Arizona when it went down.
Rocky was an outstanding basketball and baseball player while competing for the Warriors. While Rocky was good on the basketball court, he really excelled on the baseball diamond.
At age 14, when most teenage athletes were looking to play on a youth team, Rocky became a starting player for the Crescent City Merchants, which was an adult men's baseball team that played the best teams in Southern Oregon.
Between his junior and senior years, Rocky signed a professional baseball contract to play for Yakima, Wash., of the International League, so he was ineligible to play for the Warriors. After his season with Yakima, he was assigned to play for Lewiston, Idaho, where he had another great season.
He was then assigned to play for the Portland Beavers in the Pacific Coast League, one step from the majors.
Rocky knew he had a military obligation coming and wanted to perform his service to his country so he could then continue his baseball career. He joined the Navy and was assigned to the Arizona.
I have had the honor of visiting the Arizona Monument in Pearl Harbor and I cannot describe the emotional feelingI experienced standing over so many of our fallen heroes. It was even more emotional knowing that a former Del Norte Warrior was among them.
Here was a great young man whose dream of becoming a major league baseball player came to an end in defense of our country.
Today the local residents visit our local baseball facility, Peterson Park, a fitting memorial for Rosco "Rocky" Peterson.
Dick Trone writes on his reflections and the history of Del Norte High sports. He played football for the Warriors and graduated in 1951, later serving as the school's football coach for a number of years.


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Main Street Mechanicsburg (MSM) was formed in November 2004 as a result of the Borough of Mechanicsburg's strategic planning process in 2002 when public hearings and focus groups were held to identify priorities for the future.
The creation of a Main Street Mechanicsburg organization, dedicated to downtown revitalization, was one of those recommendations. A few others were:
Creation of a historic district completed in 2006.
Updating the 30 year-old comprehensive plan completed in 2007.
Improve traffic flow traffic signalization project is presently underway.
Since its formation, MSM has developed a set of bylaws, seated a 14-member board of directors and created a 25-person advisory council. MSM has a mission statement, created a logo and tagline (Main Street Mechanicsburg Yours to Discover) and is working on a web site.
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Ken LaCrosse <klacross(at)raleys(dot)com> wrote: > I'm trying to build a trigger which will dynamically create SQL statements in pgplsql that reference different table names (for child tables of a partitions parent table). > Can I do this without performing an EXECUTE? If the table your trigger is inserting into must be computed dynamically, you probably need to use EXECUTE. > If not how do I need to reference NEW.* in the SQL command? Basically if I don't use an EXECUTE then postgres doesn't like the variable used where a table named is expected and if I do use an EXECUTE then it doesn't like the reference to NEW.*. > > Here's the code: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fp_eitem_price_insert_trigger() > RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ > DECLARE > sql varchar; > child varchar := get_TblName(NEW.store_number, NEW.effective_date); > BEGIN > -- sql := 'INSERT INTO ' || child || ' VALUES (NEW.*);'; > -- EXECUTE(sql); > -- INSERT INTO fp_ep_113_20120530 VALUES (NEW.*); [snip] Try the EXECUTE ... USING construct, available in Postgres 8.4+, like so: EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO ' || quote_ident(child) || ' SELECT $1.*' USING NEW; You might want to specify the schema name of the child table explicitly as well. See also this similar question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1997337/inserting-new-from-a-generic-trigger-using-execute-in-pl-pgsql Josh
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ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Tuesday said that for the first time in the history of country the parliament had acquired the right of giving outlines for the formulation of foreign policy.
Congratulating the parliamentarians for discussing the report of Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), Babar told the joint sitting of parliament that the previous political governments had strived to exercise the right to devise foreign policy but they could not succeed in their efforts.
He said it was a big change that an elected parliament was giving outlines for making a revised foreign policy for which all the political parties and their leaders should be appreciated.
The senator said that the parliament had a very vital role in the appointment of judges of superior judiciary and members of the Election Commission, and even in the constitution of caretaker government for the forthcoming elections.
Rejecting the impression that the present parliament was "rubber stamp", he said that the government had halted Nato supplies and got vacated Shamsi airbase in the light of the resolutions passed by the parliament against attacks on Pakistan's territory.
He urged the parliamentarians to work hard and take part in the serious debate in the parliament to sustain this right.
Commenting on the report of PCNS, he said the representatives of all the political parties were included in the committee, who took active part in finalising the recommendations.


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A diver has died after getting into difficulties off Trevose Head near Padstow.
Falmouth Coastguard contact police at 2.30pm yesterday. Officers found that a 63-year-old man had been taken from the water and pulled onto a boat.
From there he was airlifted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, where he was pronounced dead.
An enquiry is ongoing trying to establish the exact nature of the incident.
Police said that the diver was not local to the area and was diving with a group of friends.


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The NC State defense was noticeably different when Terrell Manning was on the field this season. He was out with a knee injury for the Cincinnati and Georgia Tech contests while the Pack defense was torched for 44 and 45 points, respectively, in a pair of losses.
Despite the two missed games, Manning made a legitimate push for All-ACC first-team honors with the way he closed the season; he tallied 63 tackles, including 11 for loss, five sacks, three fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles, two interceptions, three quarterback pressures and a pass break-up in the seven games after he returned from surgery.
On the year, he tallied 83 tackles, including 14 for loss, 5.5 sacks, five quarterback pressures, three interceptions, three recovered fumbles, two forced fumbles and two pass break-ups. He tied for sixth in the ACC with three interceptions while he lead the league in forced fumbles (0.36 per game), fumble recoveries (0.27) and tackles for loss (1.32).
Injuries may be a little bit of a concern for Manning, who battled back from a knee injury suffered in the final game of his prep career and then suffered another knee injury this season early in the South Alabama game. However, the 6-3, 233-pounder missed just two full games following knee surgery this fall and returned to the field quicker than anyone, including coach Tom O'Brien, expected. In 2010, his first year as a full-time starter, he proved to be very durable and started all 13 contests; he emerged as a star defender that year despite playing in a crowded linebacking corps that also included fellow draft prospect Audie Cole and Denver Bronco Nate Irving, who was tabbed in the 2010 Draft's third round.
Although Manning is not as instinctive as his former teammate, Irving, he is still a dynamite play-maker with an outstanding nose for the ball. In just 36 career games (26 starts), the Laurinburg, N.C. native notched 207 tackles, including 27 tackles for loss, 10.5 sacks, five interceptions, five forced fumbles and five recovered fumbles. As his numbers indicate, he is a fierce, well-rounded and explosive defender. He even sometimes put his hand on the ground and played out of a defensive end position this fall for the Pack.
Manning probably fits best as a 4-3 outside linebacker and he lined up on the weakside during his collegiate career. He is able to drop back and has adequate coverage skills while he also shows good speed and pursuit. He can do it all - blitz, play the run, cover and bring the wood. It's safe to say that he plays bigger than his listed size and he should be a solid middle-round pick. If Manning runs well for scouts, it is thought that he could even work his way up into the third round.
ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper, Jr. ranked Manning as the No. 4 junior outside linebacker in the land on Dec. 1 while NFLDraftScout.com sees the early entrant as the No. 12 outside linebacker and the No. 94 overall player in the Draft.
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Israeli and Egyptian artillery and tanks dueled across the Suez Canal for over an hour today in the first exchange of heavy gun fire since last Thursday. Each side blamed the other for starting the action. An Israeli military spokesman said the Egyptians opened fire with artillery at noon following a three-hour exchange of small arms fire south of the Bitter Lake. He said one Israeli soldier was slightly wounded in the exchange that lasted 75 minutes. The shelling was concentrated in the Port Tewfik and El Shat areas near the canal's southern entrance.
Cairo radio claimed that Israeli gunners opened fire on Port Tewfik and started several fires in the city which were quickly extinguished. The Egyptians said they suffered no casualties but claimed to have "destroyed Israeli equipment and killed their personnel who opened fire."
A 22-year-old Israeli Army officer was buried in Kibbutz Amir, his Upper Galilee home today, after succumbing to wounds inflicted by an Egyptian sniper along the Suez Canal. Lt. Bezalel Halperin was wounded on March 14, a military spokesman said.


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By Carl DelfeldNEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- When I lived in Washington D.C., one of my favorite places to visit was George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. Washington was an avid student of the neoclassical architectural style and you can see his salute to balance and symmetry everywhere at Mount Vernon. For starters, 32 equidistant poles surround the ellipse in the front courtyard, with a sundial placed at its exact center. The uniformity continues inside the mansion. Even as the British were closing in, the general issued these instructions to his manager, written in 1776 from Harlem Heights: "The chimney of the new room should be exactly in the middle of it -- the doors and everything else to be exactly answerable and uniform -- in short, executed in a masterly manner." If only our approach to money management was so clear and precise. But it turns out we can learn a thing or two from George Washington when it comes to investing and portfolio diversification. Apply the "Washington Balance" to Your Global Portfolio: In today's highly uncertain and volatile climate, do you have a balanced investment approach that marries capital preservation with growth? For starters, consider one of the portfolios that I use as a building block for my private clients. As you can see, it's divided equally into two main sections. 1. "Safer" Investments: This includes 20% in long Treasuries, represented by the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bonds ( TLT); gold and silver, with 5% allocated to the SPDR Gold Shares ( GLD); and iShares Silver Trust ( SLV); the Swiss franc, represented by its CurrencyShares Swiss Franc Trust ETF ( FXF); plus 15% in cash investments. 2. "Aggressive" Growth-Based Investments: The other 50% of the model portfolio is divided among strong equity positions and emerging markets. This includes 10% in the iShares S&P Global 100 Index ( IOO), an ETF that tracks the performance of 100 large-cap multinational firms; and 5% in the PowerShares International Dividend Achievers ( PID), which seeks to replicate the performance of U.S. and foreign stocks that have consistently raised their dividend payments to shareholders over the past five years. The remainder is divvied up into more speculative emerging market equity positions -- the broader WisdomTree Emerging Markets Small Cap Dividend Fund ( DGS) -- and a more aggressive tilt toward specific markets like China, Germany and Singapore.
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What they said: Dustin JohnsonJune 10, 2012
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DOUG MILNE: All right. We'd like to welcome the 2012 FedEx St. Jude Classic champion, Dustin Johnson. Was a great week for you, what a more fitting place to pick up 500 FedExCup Points than the FedEx St. Jude Classic to move to No. 18 on the list. You're back, you're healthy, a big week. You picked, you know, your sixth with win on the PGA TOUR. Just some thoughts about the win.
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Well, it feels really good. Especially having so much time off, coming back. You know, last week helped a lot competing and getting back in the groove of things. And then, you know, I came out this week and I really -- I just played well all week.
DOUG MILNE: Okay. With that we'll go ahead and open up and take some questions.
Q. Can you talk a little bit about the injury. The back injury was in March, and then -- was there another injury that you had that you talked about??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I had knee surgery in the off-season. And then right before the Masters, I don't remember the date, it was right before the Masters that I just pulled a muscle in the back. And, you know, it's fine now.
I rested it, did a lot of physical therapy on it, and, you know, stim and ice and manual work. Everything's good, feeling healthy and great. Glad to be back out here.
Q. The round today with so many people tied at times at the top of the leaderboard, how did you handle it? Did you look at the leaderboard, keep track of where were you, especially as you went to No. 16 and 17?
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I try not to. Try to just play my game today, you know. I'm hitting the ball well. I was driving it good. I was hitting good iron shots. I was just trying to play my game and get as many looks at birdies as I could. And, you know, I did that.
I had a lot of looks, lot of good looks, and made a few putts coming down the stretch. Made great birdies at 16 and 17. Made a good up and down on 16 for birdie, and then hit two good slots in there to about 10 feet on 17 and made a good putt.
Q. Rory McIlroy came here literally because he wasn't playing particularly well. Got a lot of attention for that. You typically have not come. Was it just you wanted the extra play? But for the injury, would you not have been here otherwise? How did you set it in your schedule?
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I'm not real sure. You know, always play Memorial, I really like that place. I've never been here. I just was one of those -- it just fell in an awkward spot for me. So, you know, I haven't really played here. Obviously I like this place, so I'll probably be coming back laughter.
Q. Take me through the painting. Did you know there was going to be this portrait of you that -- you were prepared for this and did you -- or did you see it and were awed by the -- how did it work out??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: One of the FedEx guys told me they were going to do it. I went and -- I was going to bid on it, at least I told them at least I would bid on it enough to get the price up.
But, you know, it's just one of those things. St. Jude, they do such good things, and I felt like, you know, I wasn't -- the money I was going to donate to them or that I spent on getting the painting was going to a very good cause. I was happy to do it. You know, worked out where I got it.
Q. So in view of your back, you're going to get someone else to hang it??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: No, it's not going to hang anywhere in the Houston (laughter). I don't know what's going to happen with it. Probably sit in the garage for awhile.
Q. What does it mean to you, Dustin, to have won a TOUR event each year you've been out here on Tour since college??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Well, it means a lot. Obviously it means I'm playing good golf, too. You know, I come out every week and I try to just put myself in a position to have a chance to win on Sunday, and I did that this week.
I played well yesterday, and then obviously I played really well today. Shot my best score of the week today on Sunday. If you do that, usually you're going to play well. You're going to finish up at the top of the leaderboard.
Q. Because you had never been here before, now that it's over, what did you like best about the golf course??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I just think it's just a good all-around golf course. There's a lot of good holes out here. You know, they're all -- if you don't drive it in the fairway, you can make an easy bogey on any of the holes just because, you know, getting in the rough out here it's really hard to control your golf ball.
But, you know, I like the shape of all the holes. It sets up good to my eye and I just -- you know, just something about the course that -- each hole is different, but, you know, I like the sight lines off the tees. I think I got -- I had a good game plan to play this course.
Q. Dustin, after being off for like 11 weeks coming back and having a Top 20 finish at Memorial, coming in this week, what were your expectations??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I mean, I was confident coming in this week, especially after -- I didn't really know what to expect going into Memorial, my first week back in a long time.
Didn't know what to expect there. I played really well. Even on Saturday and Sunday I played well. I just didn't finish my rounds off well. I played the last three holes 3-over on Saturday and Sunday. So, that hurt a lot.
So, but it gave me confidence coming in this week because I was hitting some good shots, I was chipping and putting it pretty well. You know, I knew just out here I just needed to get the ball in the fairway and then -- because I was swinging my irons well. I was going to have a lot of looks at birdies.
Coming into this week, I was really just, you know, trying to put myself in position to have a chance to win on Sunday, which I did.
Q. Can you take us through 17. 17, what did you play on 17??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I hit 3-wood off the tee. I hit it really well. It went just through the fairway in the rough down there. I think I had 128 hole and then the pin was on like -- 128 to the front and then the pin was on 27. So I had 155. I hit sand wedge off the rough. It was straight downwind. But, you know, came out perfect and hit it just past the hole about 10 feet.
Q. Going to 18, did you have an idea of where you stood at this point and the idea of just getting the ball into the fairway to try and keep it safe at that point??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I didn't really know because I wasn't paying -- I didn't look. I knew I was probably tied for the lead, or, if not, you know, leading by 1.
So, I knew I needed to hit it in the fairway. I was trying to hit it in the fairway. And then on my second shot, it was a good sand wedge yardage, but I hit it a little bit hard because I didn't want to come up short.
But, you know, still trying to get a putt in there because I didn't know where I stood. I wanted to at least have a decent look at birdie.
Q. I want to get back to why you've never played here before. Had you heard anything about it from the other guys? Did you have any knowledge of the golf course whatsoever?
DUSTIN JOHNSON: No, not really. I mean, you know, the people I talked to said it was a good course. I knew coming into it that everyone liked the golf course and it was -- the greens are good, which, you know, any golf course, they have good greens, you're going to like the course. These greens roll very well. They're quick, but they're true.
You know, I really -- there's really no reason why I never played here other than just where it fell on the schedule. But I will be back.
Q. Did you watch Merrick's chip at the end??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: No, I wasn't watching. I was standing there with Feherty. He was giving me the play-by-play of what was going on.
Q. Dustin, just go back to your injury. You injured your back moving a jet ski??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Yeah.
Q. Your lower back??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Lower right side.
Q. You just had to do some rehab??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: I went and got x-rays, MRI on it, and it was just pulled muscle. And so yeah, I just rest. That's all the doctor said was rest. I took some anti-inflammatories and, you know, just rested. No manual work.
Q. Dustin, no one has won on TOUR and then gone into the Open and won there. At this point coming off the injury you just had, you know, to get a win and now worry about going to the Open and trying to play well there??
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Yeah. I mean, you know, I wasn't worried about the Open today. I was worried about winning the FedEx. Next is a whole different week. It has nothing to do with this week. I'm going to go out and get a game plan together to play that golf course and stick with it. Hopefully just give myself a chance to win on Sunday.
Q. One last thing on your back. When you were out, how long were you home? How long was it that you didn't even swing a club?
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Probably six weeks.
DOUG MILNE: All right. Dustin, congratulations.
DUSTIN JOHNSON: Thank you.


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Norwegian perspectives - WTO and Agriculture
Historical archive
Published under: Regjeringen Stoltenberg II
Publisher Landbruks- og matdepartementet
CUTS seminar on WTO - India, February 6th 2009
Speech/statement | Date: 06.02.2009
By: Minister of Agriculture and Food Lars Peder Brekk
Ladies and gentlemen,
When discussing the stalled negotiations in the World Trade Organisation, it is increasingly common to focus on a list of indispensable nations. Those that had not been paying attention before can have little doubt after last summer that India is firmly positioned high up on that list. It is therefore with great humility and with an inquiring mind that I take part in this seminar, after which I hope to better see the challenges ahead from an Indian perspective.
In my opinion, however, India's relevance in the WTO negotiations on agriculture can not be understood, nor legitimised, merely from her status as an emerging economic great power. It is equally important to look at what India represents in these negotiations. For this round to succeed we must focus less on indispensable nations, and more on indispensable ideas.
I will focus on three such ideas today. One is almost resolved, one is on its way, and the third will be a vital component if we are to bring these negotiations to their conclusion.
In the ministerial meeting in Hong Kong, the members of the WTO agreed to eliminate export subsidies by 2013 as part of a Doha round agreement. Although the conclusion of the round has drawn out, Norway is prepared to maintain 2013 as the date for this elimination. With this commitment, the members moved closer to agreeing upon the indispensable idea that where our policies lead to imbalances, we shall not make those less fortunate carry the burden of our own excesses.
Another indispensible idea where progress has been made, is the notion that we offer more, and we demand less, in our treatment of Least Developed Countries. Norway has already gone further than the commitment from the Hong Kong ministerial where all developed countries pledged to provide duty and quota free market access for 97 per cent of imports from LDCs. Norway offers such market access for all products from 64 developing countries, and we hope others will follow our lead. But being offered the moon and the stars has little value for those without the means to get there. Aid for trade is one of several measures that need to be developed before this indispensible idea can bear fruit.
In my opinion what will make or break this round is whether we can share a third indispensible idea, namely that no country can be expected to sacrifice their agriculture or their food security on the altar of trade. I have repeatedly stated to my constituencies in Norway the need for a successful outcome of the Doha round. At the same time, it has to be an agreement with a burden sharing that is perceived as fair. The solution to the global challenges of climate change, poverty reduction and food security cannot be to leave food production to a handful of powerful exporters. It is increasingly important, and acknowledged, that all countries should maintain an appropriate level of self sufficiency.
The 153 members of the WTO differ greatly in their level of development, their production capacity and climatic condition, their export orientation, and in the level of commitment already undertaken. Fair and equal treatment for such a variety of members can only be achieved by differentiated commitments. Sometimes this needs to result in differentiated cuts, sometimes in exemptions, and sometimes in longer implementation periods.
In Geneva, Norway is sometimes confronted by those who feel we are benefitting from a vast number of flexibilities that are eroding the benefits from the negotiations. My response to this is that it is in fact those flexibilities that can enable an ambitious result to the round. Norway's climatic conditions and high cost levels make us more vulnerable to tariff and subsidy cuts than most other developed countries. But we have not held back progress on the negotiations by insisting on a lowest common denominator approach. Instead, we have indicated the few areas where the same cuts as the European Union or the United States would mean an end to a viable agricultural sector in Norway. I believe this is in keeping with this last indispensable idea, and is precisely the path we need to continue on if we are to succeed with this round.
That is why we have said that we can discuss a tariff cap, but not for our sensitive products and a limited number of non-sensitive products.
That is why we insist that we can not let arbitrary designs decide what products may or may not be designated as sensitive products.
That is also why we listen attentively when India or other WTO members explain their difficulties – with the SSM, with Special Products, or in other areas of the negotiations.
In the preamble to the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, the members noted that "commitments under the reform programme should be made in an equitable way among all Members, having regard to non-trade concerns, including food security and the need to protect the environment, having regard to the agreement that special and differential treatment for developing countries is an integral element of the negotiations, and taking into account the possible negative effects of the implementation of the reform programme on least-developed and net food-importing developing countries…"
So you see, these indispensable ideas that I have mentioned before do not have to be invented in the WTO. They merely need to be realised.
Thank you very much.


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Located in the Midlink Business Park in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this facility will serve as the company's headquarters and North American center of operations. The 1-acre site is an evolution of a system developed by members of Fritz Hark's family in Europe.
The new facility includes climate-controlled laboratory space, cultivation areas, a production center, and distribution space to serve the demands of the company. The building's sleek, clean lines embody a European office aesthetic, which reflects the company's original laboratory in Lippstadt, Germany. Another key feature to the site are the clean rooms, which are set up with clean benches to perform sterile cuttings on original plant sources.


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Only one thing really matters in the immigration bill that a bipartisan group of eight senators will unveil this week—11 million immigrants living in the United States without papers who fear deportation every day. Give them a break, and the rest will sort itself out.
That's the nascent attitude of business, labor, immigration-reform advocates, the religious community, most Democrats, and even a few Republicans. Some of the more liberal lobbying forces would be perfectly happy if an immigration bill did nothing but legalize the undocumented population. Forget border security and guest workers.
That's why conservative darling Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appeared on all five Sunday news programs in advance of the "Gang of Eight's" rollout of the bill, slated for Tuesday. Rubio is the GOP's go-to guy for assuring wary conservatives that he won't let the liberals run away with the legislation. He made sure that viewers knew that the Senate measure has the toughest border security provisions ever proposed. (They are so tough that analysts say they are impossible to meet, but that is not a political problem Rubio needs to worry about right now.)
Rubio also repeatedly insisted Sunday that the unauthorized population will get no special treatment—except, of course, the right to remain here and, eventually, become citizens.
"They don't get anything. What they get is the opportunity to apply for it. They have to pass a background check. They have to pay a registration fee. They don't qualify for any federal benefits. No federal benefits. No food stamps. No welfare. No Obamacare. They have to prove that they are employed. And they will have to stay in that status until at least 10 years," he said on Fox News Sunday.
Why would they bother, asked CNN's Candy Crowley. "Life is not OK right now for them. They're living in the shadows. They have to lie," Rubio replied.
That is the crux of the entire debate. That is the reason that 72 percent of Hispanics voted for President Obama. Without legalization for unauthorized immigrants, Congress's talks on border conditions, work visas, and employment verification are going nowhere. With legalization, those items can be worked out and probably changed in the future.
"It will make a significant difference if the issue of the undocumented is being dealt with and is taken off the table," said Angela Kelley, vice president for immigration policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. "If the titles that are alongside them in the bill aren't functioning, it may be easier to correct them because you're not going to have the influence of illegal immigration operating in quite the same way than it is now."
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., a colleague of Rubio's who is helping craft similar immigration legislation in the House, said the Senate's swift movement on its bill will "leave a lot of issues open" that will have to change before House Republicans can sign off.
"I'm not so concerned as long as we're on the same planet," he told National Journal. "There's nothing there that I don't think we can work out."
Diaz-Balart also believes the prospects for success on immigration are greater than ever before. "There are a few fringe individuals out there" who are good at blocking immigration legislation, he said. "In the past, there was a reluctance to take them on. That has changed."
A veteran on immigration issues, Diaz-Balart is still bracing for a "long, painful, complicated" process in which he will field lots of "ugly reactions" from opponents. "The extremes are going to be fuming," he predicted.
Business groups are trying to keep a big-picture approach as they buffer complaints from the right and the left. Even though employers desperately want new work visas, legalization of the undocumented workforce by itself would solve a host of their problems. They would not have to worry about raids, and they could feel free to hire loyal foreign workers for the long term. The immigrants themselves would have more money and opportunities to contribute to the economy. Legal workers make 15 percent more than unauthorized workers, on average.
"People are going to go and get legalized and raise their hands and have the opportunity to become citizens, and then go out and get a burger or a taco or whatever," said Angelo Amador, vice president of labor and workforce policy at the National Restaurant Association. "You can get a license. You can get on a plane. That helps restaurants. That helps the hospitality industry."
Make no mistake. There is a lot of hand-wringing among immigration-reform advocates that the legislation will wind up doing more harm than good. Republicans are holding their noses over an agreement on low-skilled work visas between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO. That portion of the bill is a mess and everybody knows it, but supporters are holding their fire because they don't want labor to walk away from the table.
The proposed new work visa system doesn't accommodate the robust "future flow" of immigrants envisioned by free-market conservatives. "I don't think it's going to work," said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst for the libertarian Cato Institute.
Labor-supported provisions designed to protect American job seekers would make it virtually impossible to attain work visas for low-skilled foreign workers. The proposal would not allow any work visas to be issued if the unemployment rate in a certain area is above 8.5 percent, which is the norm in many cities. And it sets the annual cap on visas in the initial years at 20,000, significantly lower than businesses' request for 400,000 to 500,000.
Without an easy way for low-skilled job seekers to come into the country legally, 90 percent benchmark for border apprehensions in the Senate bill "is probably impossible to achieve," Nowrasteh said.
On the positive side, the 90 percent threshold would be easily accomplished if the new work visa system actually created trouble-free, legal border crossings, Nowrasteh added.
But that might not happen, at least in the Senate.
Businesses and civil rights groups also are worried that a new requirement for employers to electronically verify all new employees won't protect people if the computer system fails. On a purely logistical level, the computer check system could cause headaches for legal immigrants (and the employers who want to hire them) if they have hyphenated names or alternative spellings or if they are in the country on special visas.
Smaller employers, who are used to a simple paper I-9 form, might find themselves coping with technical and bureaucratic burdens that could harm their bottom lines.
The error rate for the now-voluntary electronic verification system is low, but it isn't perfect. Lawmakers are already talking about amendments to the Senate bill that would require the error rate to be better than 99 percent before small employers must comply. The business community will insist that employers would not be penalized if they unwittingly hire an unauthorized worker who has the fake IDs to get through the system.


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The 21-Day Sugar Detox Talk & Book Signing - San Diego, CA
Diane Sanfilippo, BS, NC
Sunday, January 12, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
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Event Details
Join me at Barnes & Noble in San Diego, CA (Mira Mesa) for a book signing and Q&A about my new book, The 21-Day Sugar Detox (and of course I'll also take questions about Practical Paleo as well). If you would like to hear the talk and Q&A portion, please arrive at or before 2pm as I will be speaking for the first portion of the time, then signing thereafter.
Just a heads up...
We will be having a short talk / Q&A at the event's start time - so please arrive early/on time if you would like to hear this portion of the event before you get your book signed and come to meet us. We don't want you to miss out - and sometimes folk assume the timeframe listed on the event means an "open house" sort of event, which isn't the case. It's simply a start and end time.
Also note that if you are unable to make the event that cancelling your RSVP via the email ticket/confirmation you received will greatly help us out. The events are all near capacity so we don't want to turn anyone away if folks aren't going to be able to make it who are holding spots. You can cancel your ticket(s) by clicking through on the link in your original confirmation from Eventbrite, please do not reply to this email.
Thanks and see you there!
Diane (and Hayley & Bill!)
Note: You may bring previously purchased books to this event, but it's always encouraged to supoprt the hosting store whenever possible.
The 21-Day Sugar Detox is a clear-cut, effective, whole-foods-based nutrition action plan that will reset your body and your habits! Tens of thousands of people have already used this groundbreaking guide to shatter the vicious sugar stronghold. Now it's your turn!
Use the easy-to-follow meal plans and more than 90 simple recipes in this book to bust a lifetime of sugar and carb cravings in just three weeks. Three levels of the program make it approachable for anyone, whether you're starting from scratch or from a gluten-free, grain-free, and/or Paleo/primal lifestyle.
And... because we love you guys and want to help you meet as many of your favorite Paleo authors as possible in one event, you will be able to...
They'll be on-hand to meet you, answer your questions, and sign your books!
When & Where
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10775 Westview Parkway
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Sunday, January 12, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (PST)
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Company to create 15 jobs in Fairfax, 46 in Lunenburg County
Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that Fairfax County-based Safety Technologies, Inc. (STI, www.safetydss.com), a technology leader in providing a permanent, cost-efficient solution for any type of fuel storage tank against explosions, blasts and fire, will invest $5.89 million to expand its administrative offices in Fairfax and to open a manufacturing plant in Lunenburg County, Virginia. The company will create 15 jobs in Fairfax and 46 jobs in Lunenburg, about 175 miles south of Fairfax.
STI holds the exclusive marketing and manufacturing rights for the Detonation Suppression System (DSS™) within North America and marketing/distribution rights to a number of other countries. DSS™ is a patented technology developed to prevent explosions and mitigate blasts and the spread of fires in any fuel storage system. The DSS technology also provides significant environmental and energy savings. The company's operation in Lunenburg will manufacture an aluminum foil product used in the DSS™. Virginia competed against Alabama, Maryland, New Mexico and Pennsylvania for the project.
"STI is an excellent demonstration of how the growth of a company in Fairfax County can also benefit another part of the Commonwealth," said Gerald L. Gordon, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA). "Virginia is a great place to conduct a wide variety of business operations."
"Virginia is an ideal location for business," said Nick Stergioulas, Ph.D., founder and CEO of STI. "The Commonwealth offers a strong manufacturing base, the best access to domestic and global markets, and the cost of doing business and quality of workforce are among the best in the country…We are also very appreciative of the tremendous support we have received from the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Lunenburg County, Fairfax County, the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, and the Virginia Department of Business Assistance. Their assistance has far exceeded our expectations."
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Lunenburg County and the FCEDA to secure the project for Virginia. Governor McDonnell approved a $100,000 grant from the Governor's Opportunity Fund to assist Lunenburg County with the project. The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission approved $160,000 in Tobacco Region Opportunity Funds. STI is eligible to participate in the Virginia Enterprise Zone Program run by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. Through its Virginia Jobs Investment Program, the Virginia Department of Business Assistance will provide funding and services to support STI recruitment and training activities.


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my son is on 40mg every other day and have prescribed with clindoxyl gel to use along with, is it ok to use them together? it seems a little red and did not see any improvement yet. however the skin did not get dry and still breaking out. we have started accutance for 12 days and used the clindoxyl for the last 4 days. should we continue to use the gel or just let accutance to work on its own?
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It's fine to use something topical if that's what your doctor recommended. Follow the specific plan laid out by his prescribing physician. He's only been on the medication for 12 days so he shouldn't be noticing much of anything. And remember his acne may actually get worse for a bit while his acne and pores are changing. This is probably why the topical was recommended.
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Credit unions are democratically owned and controlled institutions based on 'people helping people' principles. Credit union boards of directors are elected by members; each member has an equal vote, regardless of how much he or she has on deposit. Only members may serve as directors, and directors serve without compensation. Credit unions have no outside stockholders, so after reserves are set aside, earnings are returned to members in the form of higher dividends on savings, lower loan rates and lower cost services.
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Conservative activist: Video shows campaigns encouraging illegal votes
Posted October 30, 2014
Raleigh, N.C. — Filmmaker and provocateur James O'Keefe's Project Veritas nonprofit has released a video showing what appears to be people working on behalf of various political campaigns in Mecklenburg County encouraging an undercover actor to vote, even though she says she is in the United States illegally.
The video, O'Keefe said during a news conference in Raleigh Thursday, is the first of at least two he plans to release about North Carolina by early next week. Tuesday is Election Day.
The Mecklenburg video is typical of the filmmaker's oeuvre, in which he goads unsuspecting campaign workers or other individuals into endorsing apparently illegal or unethical activity.
"Clearly in the video, people are instructing and telling people to vote even though they completely understand they are non-citizens," O'Keefe said.
None of the people in the video are state officials, nor are they candidates themselves. Rather, O'Keefe's video captures people who are handing out literature outside polling places on behalf of candidates, such as the Republican and Democrat running for sheriff, the father of a judicial candidate and those working the polls for legislative candidates.O'Keefe's video plays off a potential problem with North Carolina voter rolls. The North Carolina State Board of Elections has confirmed that 109 people under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are presently on the voter rolls but have not voted in any prior election. DACA allows some people who arrived illegally in the United States as children to remain in the country.
There are roughly 6.6 million people registered to vote in North Carolina.
"We are working to ensure that no ballot cast by a non-citizen will count in this or any future election," state elections director Kim Westbrook Strach said in the news release.
O'Keefe said his group has been doing similar work in both Wake and Durham counties, but he declined to specify what his next video might show.
He has been criticized in the past for heavily editing videos that slammed organizations such as National Public Radio and the community organizing group ACORN. He declined to release raw footage of the Project Veritas work in Mecklenburg County, saying his actors were undercover.
"All journalism is selectively edited, especially print journalism," O'Keefe said. "No TV organization I can think of releases their full raw tapes," adding that everything that was said was "in context."
O'Keefe is known for videos in which he or his associates go undercover and bait their targets into saying things that suggest illegal or unethical activities. He may be best known for appearing to pose as a pimp soliciting advice from ACORN on how to conceal illegal income. Conservative writers and groups have embraced O'Keefe's work, which tends to go viral on social media after being promoted by Republican-leaning websites such as NewsMax and WND.
He is reviled by the political left, and critics point to O'Keefe's missteps. He reportedly paid $100,000 to a former ACORN worker to settle allegations the well-known sting misrepresented him, was fined and put on three years' probation by a federal court for a stunt involving Democratic Louisiana U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's office and attempted to lure a CNN reporter with a sexually suggestive prank.
Most recently, his group has released videos purporting to show Democratic campaign workers in Colorado condoning illegal voting and staffers for Democratic Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes undercutting her message on coal production in the state.


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Nilotica (NILE-ot-i-kah) is a certified organic skin superfood — harvested seasonally from 20-year old trees, only at the source of the Nile River. Leila Janah founded LXMI after a chance discovery of Nilotica at a market in Uganda. She was astounded by the rare butter's ability to transform her moisture-deprived, overly-traveled skin from lackluster to luminous. Once she learned that she could help marginalized East African women find dignified work through the wild harvesting, production and exportation of Nilotica, she knew she had to change her life to share her new skincare secret with the world.


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Universal Property and Casualty Insurance has received approval from Florida regulators to raise its average homeowners insurance rates about 14.6 percent statewide.
Universal is the second-largest private insurer in Florida behind State Farm, which is in the midst of negotiating a withdrawal from the state's property insurance market. As of the beginning of this year, Universal had 461,000 policies, or about 7.5 percent of the market, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.
The company is among a flurry of insurers that have sought to raise rates in recent months.
Despite a third straight mild hurricane season, insurers contend their revenue and expenses are taking a hit. In particular, insurers have cited higher reinsurance costs and lowered premiums because of state-mandated discounts for homeowners who have taken steps to shore up their homes against hurricane damage.
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has said that each request is being considered on its own merits, but in general he sympathized with the rationale for seeking higher rates.
"They're not generating enough revenue. They're not making adequate profits," McCarty told the Times earlier this month.
The upward trending in rates also affects the largest insurer in Florida, state-run Citizens Property Insurance, which has been allowed to end a three-year rate freeze. Effective Jan. 1, Citizens plans to raise rates 10 percent for most of its 1 million policyholders, the first step in what the company sees as a multiyear effort to build reserves through higher rates.
And State Farm recently was allowed to eliminate some long-standing discounts for customers. The lost discounts translated to premium increases for homeowners of as much as 28.4 percent. State Farm said the move, which would bring it an additional $278 million in premiums, was necessary to stay solvent as it slowly pulls out.
Universal's higher rates were effective Thursday for new business and Dec. 11 for renewal business, according to the company's Fort Lauderdale-based parent, Universal Insurance Holdings.
Jeff Harrington can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8242. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jeffmharrington.


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World War II Online Expansion Available This Month Through Matrix Games
Matrix Games and Playnet (www.playnet.com) are very proud to announce a partnership to bring the new World War II Online: Battleground Europe to North America for the first time via the Matrix Games digital download system. Take control of a soldier fighting in World War II in a persistent massive multiplayer world of first-person combat with infantry, tanks, planes and ships.
This expansion to World War II Online boasts an improved graphical engine, new units and classes, new fields of battle, and much, much more! In Battleground Europe, you control an Axis or Allied soldier as you battle on land, sea, and air. Defeating enemy soldiers gains you experience, unlocking new weapons and vehicles. Also, as you gain ranks and fame you may be assigned to fulfill a command role, determining the grand scheme of things. Play well enough and you could soon find yourself in charge of thousands of other virtual soldiers.
The Battleground Europe world features over 600 cities and 29,000 buildings. The zoneless map covers 350,000 Km (Over 217,000 miles) of terrain with a whopping 4,000,000 trees. Battles can destroy any of the 200 bridges in the game and the servers can support thousands of players online simultaneously.
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POLANCZYK, Ricardo Antonio; GARCIA, Marcelo de Oliveira and ALVES, Sérgio Batista. Potential of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis Berliner for controlling Aedes aegypti. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 2003, vol.37, n.6, pp.813-816. ISSN 1518-8787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89102003000600020.
The importance of the entomopathogenic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis in the control of Aedes aegypti is presented. The use and potential of B. thuringiensis israelensis against the mosquito vector of dengue fever is described. Other aspects such as insect's resistance development against chemicals and advantages and constraints of using microbial control are discussed. Emphasis is given to the importance of the use of this bacterium in Brazil, which could contribute significantly to solving the mosquito problem without affecting the environment, humans and others invertebrate organisms in critical regions.
Keywords : Dengue [prevention control]; Aedes; Pest control, biological; Bacillus thuringiensis; Insect vectors; Aedes aegypti.


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This weekend my brother came for a visit from Chicago, bringing my 5-year-old niece with him. (And he wouldn't let me take her for a manicure! "She'll get hooked…" I have no idea what he's talking about. I only go like every five or six days tops to get my nails done. Maybe I can convince Six to go? He likes a bit of flashiness sometimes. Anyway.)
I love to be a tourist in NYC, so we headed to Central Park to the Bethesda Fountain. And we saw a ballerina, complete with tulle tutu, doing some sort of photo shoot. Very Sex and the City circa 2001. I was much more excited than my niece, who was fascinated by the unnaturally electric green water in the boat pond. Oh, this guy showed up, too:
While he's wearing low-rise jeans and not dance tights, I have to assume he's a dancer, too. Guys, if you doubt that male ballet dancers are athletes, I beseech you: LOOK AT HIS ABS. After gawking for a few minutes, we wandered on, following the sweet sounds of "Amazing Grace."
After an impromptu ballet performace, a beautiful concert, and an extra-salty pretzel, I can say it was a damn good Saturday in our city.


text: On Saturday, I went to pick up the 9 Georgia Associated Press awards the Savannah Morning News staff won for its work in 2005. It was a nice gathering with some of the best journalists in the state from papers of all sizes. Papers that serve communities like Savannah generally aren't part of what many call the "national media.� When you hear that over-used stereotypical label, you should also remember that for every one of those huge metropolitan papers, there are 20 other smaller papers working very hard to cover communities and crossroads like Savannah. Last week, one of those smaller papers, the Biloxi Sun-Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for its work during Hurricane Katrina. Those journalists never missed an edition, publishing out of the Columbus, Ga., newsroom for several weeks. I worked with them during the storm's aftermath, and I still marvel at the dedication they showed. They were determined to make sure readers in Biloxi and its region had information to navigate the awfully hard times they were (and are) facing. These staffers did this even though they didn't know what had happened to their own families, homes, pets or neighbors. Their work, and the work of journalists outside the "national media,� is focused a bit closer to the readers they serve. Their dedication to their towns ensures local governments respond to citizens, consumer rights are respected, area school districts help students grow and learn well, citizens know where to go for vaccinations and car tags and voter registration and church fundraisers. And, in the case of Biloxi, they make sure you know where the water distribution point is during disaster, as well as where to find clothing and shelter. If the Savannah Morning News isn't giving you the information you need to make better choices and navigate the political and cultural structures of the area, let us know. It's not a disaster situation, but we want you to be able to rely on us now, too. And when the big one hits, we'll still be there.


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It is no secret that there is a long history between Courtney Love of Hole and Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland. Today we would call them frenemies. The two women met in Portland in the early 1980s, hit it off immediately and decided to play music together. In 1985 the pair recruited Jennifer Finch (an old friend of Love's from LA) and started a band called Sugar Baby Doll. While that is a lot of strong personalities packed into one band, grunge and kinderwhore fans would freak out at the thought of seeing these three women live on stage together.
However, apparently the band was quite the opposite of legendary. Love was quoted in Courtney Love: The Real Story by Poppy Z. Brite as saying this about the supergroup that wasn't:
"We were going to make the most obnoxious music in the world… However, I had a doctor who gave me a hundred sedatives a week. So we ended up making this sort of faux Cocteau Twins music but I didn't really have the voice, and I was singing in a register way too high for me."
Sounds kinda terrifying coming from the queens of 90s grunge, doesn't it?
The band was short lived, mostly it appears due to Love's drug consumption. Kat Bjelland said on VH1's Behind the Music about working with Love:
"Every time she would do (drugs) she would take all of her clothes off, walk in circles, talk about stuff, not play music."
These disruptive band practices and fighting among the group ended the project. This is probably a good thing because Courtney Love went on to form Hole, Kat Bjelland started Babes in Toyland and Jennifer Finch joined L7. We got three great bands when we would have been stuck with just one. And of course, the "War of the Schmatte" began when Love and Bjelland argued over who created the kinderwhore look or who stole it from whom.
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Coronado water-polo coach banned from campus
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Alberto Avila is one of those slightly eccentric and endearing characters one runs in to from time-to-time in Southern California. With no more than a dustpan and broom, he creates murals out of sand on the street in Coronado.
We came across him today, where he was just completing a large heart shaped mural celebrating Mexico's 2-1 soccer win in a World Cup qualifier.
He showed me all his newspaper clippings demonstrating how famous he is and when I said I would put his picture in my blog, he created some script in sand referencing the San Diego Reader.
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County, tribes agree on deal for operation of trash transfer sitesJul 16, 2013 By Eric Blom, Staff Writer
The Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes are taking over operation of the four solid waste transfer stations on the Wind River Indian Reservation immediately.
The Fremont County Solid Waste Disposal District Board on Monday voted 4-3 to approve a contract paying the tribes $725,000 to manage the sites for three years.
The chairman of both tribal business councils had signed the contract previously, and the chairman of the Solid Waste Board signed the agreement July 15.
The new contract comes after seven months of disagreement among the entities involved.
"This gets us pretty much to where we'd hoped to be, and I hope the Wind River Environmental Quality Commission feels the same way," board member Mike Morgan said.
In an interview, Wind River Environmental Quality Commission solid waste coordinator Ryan Ortiz said he was pleased with the contract.
"We spent a lot of time working on it," he said. "I'm glad we can start moving forward."
Deal details
The contract stipulates that the tribes will run the transfer stations and collect tipping fees at or below the rates other county facilities charge. The tribes will haul the trash to county landfills or baling stations and pay to dump it at the same rate the Solid Waste District charges other users.
The contract will last three years, using July 1 as its effective date. The district will pay the tribes to operate the stations $250,000 a year for two years and $225,000 for the third.
For now, county trucks will transport the trash from transfer stations to dumps because the tribes do not have the necessary equipment, Ortiz said. WREQC is planning to use a federal grant to purchase trucks to haul the waste.
Under the contract, the Solid Waste District's payments to the tribes will be reduced $8,000 for each month the county hauls the waste.
Ortiz said the hours of operation for the four transfer stations are not finalized but would be different for each location. Schedules will be announced and posted online.
He said recycling is not yet available at the reservation stations, but his organization is planning to add that service.
Lengthy discord
Tribal and county governments had been unable to agree to a new contract after the previous one expired in December. Since then, the groups decided twice to continue operating under the old contract's rules as deadlines came and went.
The last so-called bridge contract finally lapsed on July 1. No agreement to extend it was in place, and a final contract had not been signed.
Ortiz said tribal governments took on operation of the stations for the past two weeks. They hired a waste management company to bring trash containers to the four reservation transfer sites, which have been open at all hours, he said.
The vote
The board did not discuss the details of the contract at the July 15 meeting, but it was the advertised subject of a special meeting June 26. Executive sessions at the June 13 and June 17 meetings also were forums for talks on the contract.
At the July 15 meeting, board members said they did not have a quorum on June 26 and so did not take minutes.
One board member at the July 15 meeting wanted the votes on the contract to be secret.
"I think when it comes time to vote on this, I think it needs to be a paper ballot because of all the complexities and stuff," board member Gary Weisz said at the July 15 meeting.
Morgan disagreed saying, "We don't get to be secret up here."
Chairman Mike Adams had the board vote by a show of hands.
Morgan, Jeff Hermansky and Travis Brockie voted for approving the contract. Weisz, Barbara Gardner and Rick Klaproth voted against signing it. Adams broke the tie by voting "aye."
Board members Steve Baumann and Jerry Crews were not at the meeting.


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It looks as though things are really hotting up between The Only Way Is Essex's Gemma Collins and James Argent after Gemma promised that the "chemistry" between them "will burst your TV screen", when the show returns for a new series.
The couple - who viewers saw getting close on the TOWIE summer special in Marbella - recently spent time together in Turkey, which is where Arg serenaded her when Gemma told Closer magazine:
"During one night, Arg plugged in his iPod at a bar and started singing Frank Sinatra songs, like That's Life, to me. Then we danced to Michael Jackson's You Are Not Alone and he bought me a pink rose. We had a great time."
Speaking to Digital Spy about how her chemistry with Arg, who used to date fellow TOWIE star Lydia Bright, will be seen on the new series of the show, Gemma exclaimed:
"It's going to be amazing Arg and I have developed a really close friendship since the cameras have been off, so just watch this space - it's going to be good... It's going to burst your screen!"
We can't wait!
TOWIE Stars Battle For Limelight At Wrap Party
Kourtney Kardashian Keeps Us Guessing Over Baby Date: 'I'm Not Even Due Yet'
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Roughly 90 health care providers and lay people took another step toward becoming a "more dementia-competent community" at the fourth annual Dementia Coalition Conference in Eureka on Sept. 12.
"There's so much gray area with dementia," said Rachael Riggs, coordinator of the conference and program manager for the Alzheimer's Resource Center. "The vast majority think dementia is dementia and don't know there is so much more. Dementia is not a diagnosis in itself, and too many people don't understand the foundational principles and need to be taught."
"New Perspectives on Dementia Care" focused on clarifying confusion around dementia, delirium, depression and pain.
The Humboldt County Dementia Care Coalition hosted the event.
"We make a lot of mistakes," said Dr. Patrick Dawson, medical consultant for Redwood Healthcare Services and keynote speaker for the conference. "Forty percent of acute care hospital patients have or develop delirium, perhaps more in a nursing home. We miss it. Because it isn't diagnosed, it isn't treated."
Dawson said delirium has an acute onset that changes over its course. It features disturbances in consciousness, attention, orientation, memory, perception and behavior.
Dawson defined dementia as a chronic, acquired decline in memory that involves at least one other cognitive function.
Unlike dementia, delirium can be resolved with treatment.
"We need to be looking for delirium," he said, as opposed to making dementia the fallback position.
"Always rule out delirium first," said Mark Lamers, mental health expert for Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services.
Lamers said patients with dementia are at "high risk of delirium" and listed urinary tract infections, dehydration, and metabolic disturbances as common causes.
Current theory varies as to how dementias and deliriums happen, but Dawson said a cholinergic deficiency is commonly associated with some. What many don't realize, he said, is that over-the-counter drugs commonly used by seniors such as Benadryl, Excedrin PM or Tylenol PM are anticholinergics. So are many other pain medications, anti-depressants and anti-psychotics.
Anticholinergics block the action of a chemical messenger whose range of duties in the body involves memory and cognitive function. Using an anticholinergic on someone who is already dealing with a cholinergic deficiency throws fuel on the fire, he said.
"If you want to see someone with Parkinson Disease Dementia get worse, give them an anti-psychotic (for the hallucinations)," he said.
"Anti-psychotics treat the behavior, not the underlying cause, but it happens when physicians are paid for 15 minutes and not for an hour," Lamers said.
Two attendees expressed surprise at how prevalent anticholinergics are, and the impact they can have on dementia clients if their use is not tracked and an anticholinergic burden determined.
"It makes me want to go back, consult with the doctors about the medication lists and re-evaluate," said Amanda Canonica, director of resident services at Alder Bay in Eureka.
"It was a wealth of information, but for me, the drug interactions were like, wow," summed up Laura Steel, administrator at Alder Bay. "An awful lot of people take pain medication and anti-depressants. There's a lot to do."
"Dr. Dawson surprised me a lot with the level of assessment we are able to do," said Bill Duncan, director of the county's transitional residential treatment facilities.
He said the conference improved his ability to assess and ask questions rather than attribute the problems to mental illness.
Dawson offered a set of principles to guide treatment after he detailed some of the specific behaviors and signs of varying dementias to help attendees determine what something is and is not. The principles included gathering a detailed, old-fashioned history and physical, remembering who you are treating, watching for side effects, and remembering to be specific and reassess.
"It's always the medicines. Start there and it will solve many problems," Dawson said. "The most dangerous thing I do as an internist? Prescribe pills."
Lamers focused on overlapping presentations, the increased risk for delirium that dementia patients have and the need to understand what is normal for a dementia patient who many view as abnormal.
"That means abnormally abnormal -- not regular for them," he said. "Behavior is meaningful. People with dementia who have changes in behavior have other problems they aren't communicating."
He also spoke about the so-called pseudo-dementia of depression.
"Being older is about accumulating losses," he said. "More losses. More stress. More funerals to go to, but they aren't your funeral."
Individuals can become isolated, negative and complaining. They may often repeat stories of past experiences or turn to alcohol, which fuels depression. Given a society that sees declining function and interest as a normal part of aging, help may be hard to come by.
"The most effective treatment for depression in older adults is not psychiatric," Lamers said.
Instead, he recommends exercise and movement to bolster dopamine functions and a social network that grows and develops through life so that some of the holes can be filled when friends and spouses start dying.
Laura Holmes, a social worker specializing in gerontology, focused on communication skills to deal with dementia clients. Her three key principles: Slow down and deal with one thing at a time; enter the world and emotional place they are in; and approach them as you would a friend -- with an open heart and concern for their feelings.
"When you come up and interact, it doesn't matter what you say; it's what you are feeling," she said.
Saying something pleasant while radiating feelings of irritation, anger and impatience is a recipe for problems, she said.
"They will pick up on it. If there's one thing to take away from my talk, this is it."
Volunteers from Access Humboldt taped the speakers and the half-hour Q & A that followed between the audience and the three guests. It will air at a future date to be announced.
Redwood Healthcare Services, Older Adults Collaborative, Broadway Medical Services & Supply, Elite Caregivers, Hospice of Humboldt, Humboldt Caregivers, St. Joseph and Redwood Memorial hospitals and Visiting Angels sponsored the continuing education conference.
Carol Harrison is a freelance writer who focuses on senior and health issues.