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LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Police are investigating a one-car accident that killed a 51-year-old New Ashford woman on Thursday night.
Sheryl A. Surprenant of State Road in New Ashford was driving northbound on Route 7 when her car crossed lanes and went off the road, crashing through the sign for the former Lamp Post Motel, on the southbound side, said police.
Officers responded at 9:22 p.m. to the report of a vehicle off the road near the motel on Route 7. The Chrysler had flipped and was lodged in trees and brush.
"The vehicle was on its roof and in the trees. She was pronounced dead on the scene," said Sgt. Gary Kirby on Wednesday. "It was a very difficult extrication by Lanesborough Fire and EMS."
A passerby, who works in the tree removal business, reported the accident and began clearing brush until emergency responders arrived. Speed was a factor based on evidence at the scene and a witness account, according to police, but the rest of the circumstances are still under investigation.
The accident caused some backed up traffic but the road remained open.
Kirby was not on the scene that night but Officers Brad Lepicier and Robert Moore, and Investigator Timothy Sorrell responded along with Lanesborough firefighters, emergency medical services, and County Ambulance. The Massachusetts State Police accident reconstruction team is assisting with the investigation.
Suprenant, a Pittsfield native, resided for many years in Southwick before returning to the area.
Early Morning Fire Burns Down V's Doghouse
|The Lanesborough Fire Department took this photo of the early morning fire.
Update 11:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2014:
The Sept. 28 fire at V's Dog House Restaurant was electrical, according state Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan and Lanesborough Fire Chief Charles A. Durfee.
The fire started inside a wall between the kitchen and bar around 4 a.m. The restaurant was closed at the time and there were no injuries. The estimated damage is $700,000. The building did not have fire sprinklers.
The fire was investigated by the Lanesborough Fire Department and state police assigned to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Assistance was received from an electrical expert and State Police Crime Scene Services.
Update at 4:35 p.m.: The state fire marshal has ruled out arson as the cause of the blaze that destroyed V's Dog House early Sunday morning.
Fire Chief Charlie Durfee said there are two locations in the building that fire investigators are focusing on to determine the cause. He expected them to have an answer by noon Monday.
The damage is estimated at $700,000, he said. The building (business was previously known as Zen's Dog House) was purchased by Edward L. Vella Jr. in 2009, according to documents in the Registry of Deeds.
Durfee also said the hydrants, owned by the Berkshire Mall, are maintained and functioning but firefighters ran into difficulties getting them open. There are no hydrants on the Route 8 side.
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — V's Doghouse on Route 8 burned to the ground early Sunday morning.
Possible Abduction Attempt in South Berkshire
NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — Parents in the Southern Berkshire Regional School District are being advised to be alert after a possible abduction attempt Thursday afternoon.
Authorities say the incident happened about 3:30 on Norfolk Road in New Marlborough as an 11-year-old boy walked home from school.
The boy told investigators he was approached by a man in a gray, four-door car with blue and white New York license plates.
The driver was described as a white man, approximately 30 to 40 years old with a thin build and medium-length black hair that looked a little shaggy.
Anyone who might have seen a vehicle matching this description is asked to call the state police barracks in Lee at 413-243-0600.
In a letter to parents, Mount Everett Regional School Principal Glenn Devoti said the suspicious man "may have attempted to abduct a 6th grade elementary student."
The police and bus company were notified, wrote Devoti.
The New Marlborough Police Department, state police detectives assigned to the district attorney's Office and state troopers from the Lee barracks are investigating.
"Please be cautious about leaving students unsupervised at bus stops and notify police or school personnel if you observe anyone matching this description or observe any other suspicious behavior," he asked.
Lanesborough Police were also looking for a New York vehicle earlier this week, that one a red sedan, possibly a late 1990s model similar to a Pontiac Grand Am, and operated by an older white man with facial hair.
In that case, police said the car had been seen around school bus stops in Lanesborough and they wished to speak with the operator.
Crash On Mall Road Sends Four to the Hospital
State Police closed off the Mall Road at the intersection of Route 7.
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — A two-car crash closed the Mall Road for about two hours Thursday night and sent four to the hospital.
According to Police Officer Brad Lepicier, two sedans collided on what is officially known as the Route 7/8 Connector Road and one vehicle had caught on fire.
Bystanders pulled three people from the burning vehicle and they were transported to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. The driver of the other vehicle, who was traveling eastbound, was also transported to the hospital.
"All four people were transported to the hospital," Lepicier said, later adding that "bystanders pulled three people out of the car that was on fire before I got there."
The extent of the injuries is not known at this time but initial scanner reports indicated the injuries were "serious."
On Thursday night, Lepicier said he had not determined a cause of the crash and is not yet releasing the names of those involved.
Police immediately closed the road after responding to the call at about 7:30 p.m. and Cheshire Police and State Police were stationed at each end: Cheshire near the Berkshire Mall and state police at the intersection of Route 7. Lanesborough Fire and Ambulance responded as did County Ambulance.
The road was reopened at about 9:30 p.m. The accident happened near the top of the long, steep Connector Road, which was recently rebuilt. Snow and ice during the day Thursday created dangerous conditions on many county roads. The Mall Road call was the second major accident Lanesborough Police responded to on Thursday. They were also called to assist Williamstown Police in response to a head-on collision on Route 7 earlier in the day.
Lanesborough's Foam House Burns Down
|A fire completely destroyed the National Street home. At left as seen in a realty advertisement.
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The foam house on National Street burned to the ground Thursday afternoon.
The seasonal home is somewhat of a local landmark. The foam created a rounded, bubble-like appearance which led many to dub it "The Flintstone House."
According to Fire Chief Charlie Durfee, firefighters responded to the fully engulfed structure fire shortly after 2 p.m. on Thursday.
The house, a wooden structure encased in foam, was already mostly burnt and the firefighters launched a "surround and drown" attack to prevent the flames from damaging nearby properties.
"I was on Narragansett Street, came around the corner and saw this house fully involved and called in a structure fire," Durfee said. "It's the foam house at the bottom on National Street and was built right around 1972."
The foam fueled the fire and the focus was on protecting nearby properties, Durfee said. The flames were so hot that they dried up leaves wet from the rain and threatened to spread. Pieces of foam flew in the sky and littered nearby properties.
The electric was shut off after the wires caught fire.
Durfee said he immediately called in support from Cheshire and Pittsfield and attacked the fire from both National Street and from Imperial Street — which runs parallel — to put out the flames in about 45 minutes. County Ambulance responded on scene as well.
The building at 45 National St. is used seasonally and no one was there at the time. It is owned by Denise Barrierre of Rhode Island. The small structure had one bedroom and one bath and was about a 1,000 square feet in size.
It was built in the 1970s with foam with a focus on being energy efficient. There were no firefighters injured in the process of knocking down the flames during the heavy rain.
The cause is undetermined after a fire inspector arrived on the scene Thursday afternoon.

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Were Army crime lab problems withheld from some defendants?
WASHINGTON — At a crossroads, the military's chief crime lab kept Army Staff Sgt. Kirk Holcombe in the dark.
Holcombe served 39 months in Iraq. Roadside bombs repeatedly raked him hard and rattled his brain.
Then, home again, the decorated soldier faced a sexual accusation whose verisimilitude relied in part on DNA evidence. Holcombe said he was innocent. Belatedly, the crime lab revealed to him potential problems with the lab's DNA expert. But Holcombe, feeling trapped, took a general discharge last April that stripped away his veterans' health benefits.
'It's ruined me," Holcombe said of his legal ordeal.
The 31-year-old Indianapolis resident now is hoping to regain veterans' benefits. Pentagon investigators, meanwhile, are probing a question that goes well beyond Holcombe's troubling case:
Did the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory properly notify hundreds of defendants about potential problems that involved a different lab analyst? Some attorneys fear that the answer is no; what happened with Holcombe, they worry, may be a recurring problem.
"I think USACIL intentionally withholds, I don't want to say their bad laundry, but their bad paperwork," Holcombe's attorney Duane Kees said. "USACIL knows exactly what's going to happen when they turn it over: It automatically calls into question their findings."
Based near Atlanta, the Army crime lab processes evidence used against members of all branches of the military. The analysts handle more than 3,000 cases annually, examining everything from blood and semen to hair strands and handguns.
The painstaking work can help nail the guilty. Sometimes, though, it can be flawed, leaving lab officials with the legal obligation to let defendants know about potential problems.
The Army defends the lab's work, citing improvements made and efforts to communicate with defense attorneys.
"The USACIL has invested time, money, training and personnel to improve overall capabilities," the Army Criminal Investigation Command told McClatchy in a written statement earlier this year. "The USACIL has instituted additional checks and balances in laboratory operations, and will continue to provide the most accurate and reliable scientific information possible."
On Friday, the Army added in a statement that it was "unaware of what information" Holcombe claimed not to have received, and referred further questions to trial attorneys, who could not be reached.
"Discovery requests are responded to in accordance with rules for courts-martial," the Army said in its Friday statement. "This would include incident reports and corrective action reports where required or relevant."
In some cases, though, notification has seemed haphazard.
Navy Lt. Roger House, for instance, resigned in 2003 after he realized that his military career was over. Harris had been reprimanded after an enlisted woman's allegation, rejected by a court-martial panel, that he'd raped her.
House later learned that Army crime lab analyst Phillip Mills had falsified and contaminated DNA test results in a different case. The lab discovered Mills' problems in 2005, after House's discharge. Then a 2006 retest of Mills' work cleared House. House learned of the 2006 retesting only in May 2009, however.
"For reasons unexplained, this exculpatory information was provided neither to plaintiff nor to his counsel at or around the time it was discovered," U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Francis M. Allegra noted this July, calling the failure an injustice.
In a separate case newly uncovered by McClatchy, the attorney for Pvt. Abdi Mohamed, who was convicted in 2004 of stabbing a fellow soldier, says he was never notified after re-testers found discrepancies in Mills' work. Mills had identified blood on the knife, but the re-testers didn't find it, according to documents McClatchy obtained. The re-testers also detected the DNA of an unknown person that Mills had missed.
"He had a due-process right to know if mistakes were made," Mohamed's attorney James Culp said in an interview, adding that even if the results wouldn't change the trial, "I should have been told."
The Army, in its statement Friday, disputed Culp's characterization but declined further comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
McClatchy also has learned that last May, the government didn't immediately reveal in a capital murder case that another Army crime lab analyst had flubbed a fingerprint during a proficiency test. The defense attorney was prompted to seek more information after seeing McClatchy's lab coverage. By the time that information was turned over, the analyst already had testified. The unhappy judge threw out her testimony.
Also prompted by McClatchy's reporting, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, joined Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa in asking the Defense Department's inspector general to investigate. So far, the investigators have identified 461 of 465 criminal cases that Mills worked on. They've have asked military judge advocates to provide proof that each defendant "received notice concerning the discredited lab work, or the reason such notice was not provided," Assistant Inspector General John Crane wrote the senators Dec. 7.
The Army took the Mills situation "very seriously from the start," the Army Criminal Investigation Command advised McClatchy earlier this year. Officials cited a number of notifications made to attorneys as well as judge advocate staff members.
"I've been dealing with (the lab) for quite a while, and I don't have problems with them filling requests for information," said Dean Wideman, a forensic scientist who works with defense attorneys.
Military and civilian judges agree that defendants deserve to know potentially exculpatory information, or information that undermines the credibility of government witnesses.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Mark S. Jackson, for instance, was accused of using methamphetamine in 2000 while stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Jackson's attorney wasn't informed of testing problems with lab analysts from an Air Force facility in Texas until well after the court-martial.
In 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces dismissed Jackson's conviction, noting that the non-disclosure of lab problems "deprived the defense of information that could have been considered by the members as critical, the reliability of the lab report."
Kirk Holcombe thinks this is what happened to him.
The Grand Rapids, Mich., native entered the Army after his 1999 high school graduation. He planned on a military career.
In April 2003, while with the 3rd Infantry Division, Holcombe was awarded the Bronze Star for exposing himself to hostile fire in order to get a clean shot at nine Iraqi soldiers. He kept returning to Iraq on other combat tours.
A roadside explosive hammered Holcombe in August 2007, while he was with a scout platoon. He suffered a concussion, lacerations and a torn tendon. Eight months later, another roadside bomb knocked him out cold and blew out an eardrum.
Holcombe now is prescribed medication for pain, depression and anxiety. Without Ambien, he can't sleep easily. Sometimes he wakes up thrashing. His lower back hurts. His knees and shoulders feel wrecked, an old armored cavalryman's lament. He needs psychotherapy, but must forgo it because he can't afford it.
He's been denied Veterans Affairs benefits because of the events that began unfolding in June 2010, while he was stationed at Fort Knox in Kentucky.
An 11-year-old friend of his stepdaughter's said that month that Holcombe had tried to unzip her shorts while she was asleep. Holcombe denied it.
The girl's story was inconsistent on certain points, and child protective services in Hardin County, Ky., wrote Jan. 18 that "the charges have been found to be unsubstantiated." That same day, Holcombe's captain wrote that the case "should have been stopped" early.
Nonetheless, the Army had proceeded, with Holcombe's colonel citing "the scientific nature of the DNA evidence" analyzed by an Army crime lab worker named Alejandro Vara. The evidence showed a possible match between Holcombe's DNA and skin DNA — not blood or semen — found on the girl's zipper.
The girl had been sleeping on the Holcombe family couch for some seven hours, presenting an alternative scenario to explain picking up DNA.
Still, on Oct. 29, 2010, the crime lab attorney had assured Holcombe's attorneys in writing that "neither the USACIL nor I am in possession of any derogatory information or materials relating to Mr. Vara."
"It was the usual rubber-stamp answer," attorney Kees said.
And it was incomplete.
At the urging of its own DNA expert, Holcombe's defense team resubmitted more detailed questions. Last January, several months after the lab's original reassurances, the defense struck gold.
On Oct. 20, 2010, the lab revealed, a technical reviewer had noted in a memo "several discrepancies" in Vara's work in reviewing other cases. A supervisor agreed "there does seem to be an issue with (Vara's) attention to detail." The supervisor had taken to double-checking Vara's work.
Other discrepancies were noted, and lab officials prepared a "corrective action plan" for Vara on Nov. 5, 2010, designed to "address his lack of attention to detail."
This belatedly delivered information may have undermined the government's case, but it arrived after an Army hearing officer had let the case proceed, building the momentum against Holcombe.
After the lab's complete report was provided, and after considering the alleged victim's testimony, Army officials offered Holcombe a generable discharge in lieu of a court-martial.
The choice meant Holcombe could risk prison in hopes of acquittal, or he could leave 12 years of Army service with less-than a perfect discharge. He picked discharge.
"It seemed like nothing was going my way," Holcombe explained. "I wasn't risking going to jail and having to register as a sex offender."
But military justice still cornered him.
Holcombe's captain supported a general discharge under honorable conditions, leaving him eligible for VA benefits. However, the brigade colonel, David E. Thompson, downgraded Holcombe to a discharge under other than honorable conditions.
Explaining the discharge in an April 5, 2011, memo, Thompson cited "admission of guilt." Thompson hadn't spoken to Holcombe, and Holcombe steadfastly denied guilt.
Rather, Holcombe says, in accepting the general discharge, he was acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to find him guilty, over his objections. It was an administrative concession, not a legal admission. And it was made, he said, without realizing that a downgraded discharge would eliminate VA aid.
Thompson couldn't be reached for comment
Holcombe now is working as a recycling plant manager, keeping his marriage together and hoping, somehow, to secure veterans' health benefits.
"I just want my name cleared, and to get the help I need," he said.
McClatchy's Military Injustice series
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This book and, of course, I myself lean strongly to a more natural and vegetarian-type diet as one that is more healthful, especially as compared with a typical American diet. The suggestion is not that people become vegetarians, which is a very scary proposition to many (What? Give up my meat?!), but that people become more vegetarian, eating less meat and animal fats. Moving toward meatless meals is a beginning step. A more vegetarian diet clearly reduces our risk of many common chronic diseases, and as long as we consume adequate protein, we are safe from deficiency problems.
The most common reason for not giving up meat, besides people being used to the taste, is the fear of not getting enough protein. I believe the protein concepts perpetrated by American nutritionists to be one of the biggest fallacies about our diet. We do not really need as much protein as we might think, and it is likely that excess protein is a bigger concern than protein deficiency, at least in Westernized cultures. On the other hand, vegetarians need to be aware of obtaining adequate protein, and maintaining efficient digestion and assimilation; I have seen many people with problems in these areas.
A mixed vegetarian diet with or without eggs or dairy products can theoretically supply adequate protein, though it may take more effort than with the omnivorous diet. As long as the diet is not filled with a lot of sugars and other empty calories, the protein content is usually adequate.
Protein combination, or complementarity, suggests (this is a theory) that we mix two or more vegetable protein foods at a meal so as to provide sufficient levels of all the essential amino acids. Usually one or two of these amino acids may be low in each food, and mixing them at the same meal will mean that our body has what it needs to make new proteins. However, it is important that the vegetarian eats sufficient calories so that the body does not use the proteins for fuel instead of its many other functions.
Carbohydrates and fats are more readily used for fuel, and it is they, not protein, that actually nourish the active muscles. Protein (amino acids) builds the tissue during growth, though, and this may come from dietary protein of either animal or vegetable origin. Another fallacy in many people's concepts about protein is that animal proteins are needed for strength and endurance, or athletic prowess. Although the percentage of vegetarians in our culture is generally very low compared to omnivores, there have been some outstanding athletes and record setters through the years who were vegetarians.
The human body is really more adapted to eating as vegetarians. Our long and convoluted intestinal tubing is very different from the carnivore's short system, where the meats can move through rapidly before they putrify. Our digestive tracts are more like those of the herbivores, where the length allows increased absorption area to help break down the plant fibers and utilize the nutrients.
The strengths of the lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet are many and the weaknesses
few. Both are more pronounced for the strict vegan diet, but here we focus on the lacto-ovo diet, which usually provides sufficient protein, calcium, iron, and vitamin B12, all of which are concerns for any vegetarian. If eggs or milk products are eaten once a Day along with other wholesome foods, the diet should be fairly balanced in all respects.
Vegetarians have in general lower blood pressure and weight than their meat-eating companions. Their incidence of hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer are all reduced. Studies of the Seventh Day Adventists, a large vegetarian population, shows their incidence of coronary artery disease about half that of the average population. The incidence of coronary artery and heart disease correlates with each country's intake of meat throughout the world.
The high amount of fiber and lower amount of fat in the vegetarian diet are also very helpful in keeping cholesterol down and digestive tract diseases at a minimum. The high amounts of vitamins and minerals present in vegetables, especially, are also an advantage. Many vegetarians find that they have a higher level of energy. I certainly did when I changed to vegetarianism, and this has continued through the years. My diet has been re-created numerous times to suit my lifestyle and the changing seasons. It is still primarily vegetarian, with occasional fresh fish or organic poultry.
Potential problems for vegetarians include a reduced iron and vitamin B12 intake and thus a higher incidence of anemia. As stated earlier, this is less a concern for the lacto-ovo-vegetarian than for the strict vegan, but it is still something of which to be aware. Oral iron and vitamin B12, or even B12 injections, could be needed to fulfill the body's needs (more likely with poor digestion and low hydrochloric acid output) and maintain the tissue stores of these important nutrients.
There is some concern that infants, growing children, and women who are pregnant or lactating should avoid vegetarianism. This is unfounded, particularly for the lacto-ovo diet. Pure veganism, in these cases, I think, should be avoided. If children can eat a wholesome diet with a good protein balance, they can grow well and be healthy on a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet, as can pregnant women. Sometimes they may be even healthier, perhaps because vegetarians tend to have better food habits and less abusive tendencies in general than the average population.
This is the strict, or pure, form of vegetarianism. No animal products are consumed, only fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts, and seeds. No eggs, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, or other milk products are eaten.
This diet is not suggested for children unless the parents can painstakingly oversee it and select the right foods. It is difficult with this diet to obtain a balanced intake of all the nutrients that are needed during growth; however, it can be done. This is true also in pregnancy and lactation, where higher intakes of most nutrients are needed. I am not suggesting that this cannot be done; it just is more dangerous in its risk of creating deficiencies and subsequent health problems.
Overall, the vegan is often of a lower than average weight, even underweight for his or her size, and usually has a low cholesterol level. Many of the advantages of the lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet are even truer of the vegan diet. There is a much lower incidence of hypertension, obesity, heart disease, and some cancers, most notably of the colon, breast, uterus, and prostate. The fiber content of the diet is usually very good.
However, the potential nutrient deficiencies are a concern. Vitamin B12 is the main one. Iron and calcium may also be low. Protein levels may be all right if the person is very conscious of protein intake and complementing food. Vitamin A may be low unless a high amount of the orange, yellow, and green vegetables is consumed. Vitamin D is often low; some sunshine will help. Zinc may also be low unless seeds and nuts are consumed regularly.
In general, though, I suggest a good supplement program for vegans, includ-
ing those above-mentioned nutrients. A vitamin B12 level and general biochemical profile every few years will help reassure us that the diet is providing adequately for bodily functions. As with any type of diet, if health is faltering or sickness is recurring, an investigation should be made. Overall, though, with the right intention and knowledge, the vegan diet may be a very healthy one.
Macrobiotics is a philosophy of life centered around a diet originally brought to this country from Japan by George Osawa. It has been expanded upon and shared with many by teachers and authors Michio and Aveline Kushi, a Japanese couple living in the Boston area, and by the magazine East West Journal. Macrobiotic diets, either very strict or more liberal, have been adopted by a great many young people in this country and throughout the world.
A macrobiotic diet consists almost exclusively of cooked foods. Raw foods are felt to be difficult to digest and too cooling for our system. A minimum of fruits is consumed, less than 5 percent of the diet, and most of those should be cooked. Dairy foods and eggs are usually avoided; the only animal products recommended are whitefish such as halibut, trout, and sole, and these are also kept to less than 5 percent of the diet. Thus, it is primarily a vegetarian, almost vegan, diet, but it seems to contain more protein and nutrients than the standard vegetarian cuisine.


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Americans are vacation-deprived -- even though they earn fewer vacation days on average than workers in other developed nations, they still leave an average four days unused.
An Expedia.com survey released earlier this year found nearly 50 million Americans -- about a third of the workforce -- don't take all their vacation, some taking only a day or two.
The average U.S. worker earned 18 vacation days compared with 37 for French workers, who left just an average two days unused. Forty-six percent of U.S. workers say they work more than 40 hours a week, but only 38 percent say they use all their vacation days, the survey found.
"I think there are multiple reasons for Americans not taking more time off," Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, a professor of psychiatric research at the Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, told United Press International in an interview.
"There is a perception that people who work long hours -- those that are the first ones at work and the last to leave -- get more credit than those who work fewer hours; there is more fear in the workplace after the recession; due to the recession layoffs there are fewer people to replace a vacationing employee so some might not be able to take time off or they dread the pile of work they have to face when they return.
"Of course, working the longest hours doesn't mean the person deserves more credit than those who don't -- but that is the perception. It is not the amount of time a person works, it is how effectively they work, but this is the way people see it."
Another reason might be cultural: Unlike other countries, the United States has no laws mandating vacation days.
"The bigger issue is this emphasis on working long and hard. (It) is a cultural influence -- not an overt decision -- and for some this approach and lifestyle might help account for the high performance America has in the economy," Trivedi added. "For some working all the time gives them tremendous benefits."
Respondents recognize vacations are good for professionals, leaving them feeling better about their jobs, more productive, rested, rejuvenated and reconnected with their families.
"Because people have been taking fewer vacations, they may forget how much better they feel when they return to work after a vacation," Trivedi said.
There are numerous studies on how vacations or time off improve employee health, social relationships and productivity. In fact, people don't have to leave town -- any time off has health benefits.
Karen Matthews of the University of Pittsburgh's Mind-Body Center surveyed 1,399 study participants participating in other studies on breast cancer, cardiovascular disease and other conditions.
The 2009 study found leisure time contributes to more positive emotions, fewer negative emotions, less depression, more life satisfaction and more meaning in life. It also left people feeling more religious or spiritual.
The study found those who took time off had a larger network of friends and family -- a support network other studies have found key to survival of diseases like cancer.
Matthew's study found tangible health benefits of lower blood pressure, lower stress hormone levels and smaller waists -- all of which contribute to less risk of diabetes and heart disease.
The landmark Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948 to identify the risk factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease by tracking men and women over a long period of time, found the more frequently the men vacationed, the longer they lived. The study also found women who didn't take vacations were as much as eight times more likely to suffer from heart disease than women who took two vacation breaks a year.
Dr. Munro Cullum, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said some level of stress can help people keep going and hasten projects and accomplishments, but if stress becomes too much, it can also result in negative physiological reactions that can lead to illness.
Exercise, a healthy diet and adequate sleep are important to maintain health, but people need some down time, to allow their brains to work "offline," Cullum said.
Cullum said even taking a short break can be rejuvenating, but significant de-stressing might take several days "just to get ourselves used to the idea of relaxing."
"Getting away for a vacation allows us time to simply play and leave the 'baggage' behind," Cullum said in a statement.
So why don't Americans take more vacations?
Tony Schwartz, author of a Harvard Business Review article "The Productivity Paradox: How Sony Pictures Gets More Out of People by Demanding Less," says fewer U.S. workers are working and those who are working are working fewer hours than before the recession.
"If colleagues are being laid off and cut back, we can't help worrying that you might be next and we push ourselves harder, we get more done, which sounds like good news and certainly explains higher productivity," Schwartz said. "But just as you'll eventually go broke if you keep withdrawing from your bank account without offsetting deposits, you will also ultimately burn yourself out if you spend too much energy too continuously at work without sufficient renewal."
Schwartz, whose company addresses work performance and the problem of employee disengagement, said a comprehensive study by Ernst & Young showed the longer the vacation employees took, the better they performed.


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Electronic Lien Program Responsibilities - DMV
Lienholders Codes for Participants
DMV will maintain a lienholder code table in its automated files. The table will be updated as needed, based on information received from participating financial institutions.
Routine Transmission of Data
- DMV will transmit information to each lienholder, nightly.
- Transmissions will be done as part of regular nightly production, at the end of DMVs batch cycle.
- Transmissions will include all:
- title establishment transactions processed by DMV that day during working hours
- confirmations of all messages received from the lienholder
- correction messages to data previously transmitted to the lienholder by DMV.
- DMV will retrieve lienholder transmissions daily, upon completion of all lienholders transmissions.
Corrections of Errors
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Printing of Titles
Unless otherwise specified, Lien Satisfied and Print Title transactions will be handled the same evening received. All titles will be printed during nightly production. At the beginning of the next working day, the titles will be mailed to the vehicle owner (Lien Satisfied) or lending institution (Print Title). Paper titles needed in an emergency situation should be requested through the "Emergency" folder and with a "distributive printing" message.[Back to Top]
Automated Interface / On-Line Dealers Work Center
- The work center, located in the Richmond, Virginia DMV headquarters building, is open from 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday.
- The work center operates a dedicated telephone line reserved for use by electronic lien program participants.
- Work center personnel will be available to answer questions and resolve problems during normal business hours.
- The work center can be reached at (804) 367-2495 or 367-2841.


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Since Google introduced "Search Plus Your World," most Google Search users have seen results that add more emphasis to sites shared on Google+.
One search engine marketing firm, TastyPlacement, took it upon themselves to conduct an unscientific-ish study to determine just how much of an effect Google+ promotion has on search ranking.
It turns out having Google+ followers boosts the ranking the most, while a "+1" still does way more for your search ranking than Facebook or Twitter.
Twitter actually ranks the lowest — which, given the bickering between Google and Twitter, isn't all that surprising either.
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The recent elections made one thing very clear: Americans want a cheaper, smaller, more effective federal government. Today we have powerful evidence that a terrific place to start giving them that is education. New National Assessment of Educational Progress – so-called "Nation's Report Card" – scores are out, and despite years of massive increases in federal education spending, as well as nearly a decade of No Child Left Behind "accountability," stagnation is what we've gotten. Reading scores for 12th graders – our schools' final products – are lower than they were in 1998 and 1992. In math all we have is a slight bump between 2005 and 2009, and no data before that because NAEP changed its math framework, making today's results essentially meaningless. Looking at other NAEP tests – notably the long-term trends exam that tracks from the early 1970s – overall math achievement is almost certainly as lifeless as reading.
The Constitution gives Washington no authority to govern or fund American education, which is reason enough to get the feds out of our schools. If that doesn't do it for you, however, that federal meddling has produced nothing but expensive failure should clinch it: It's time to listen to voters and get Washington out of education.


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October 24, 2006
LOS ANGELES - Allied with Johnson & Johnson, UCLA Anderson experts traveled to Kenya to present the first Johnson & Johnson/UCLA HIV/AIDS Management Development Institute. The curriculum was customized for East African agencies and organizations coping not only with an unprecedented health care crisis, but the massive relief effort that crisis has spawned. Approximately 30 participants attended the institute with the goal of enhancing the quantity and quality of services they provide in an increasingly complex and decentralized system.
"As organizations scale up their efforts to do more to meet the enormous health and social challenges that the AIDS epidemic has caused, they find that they lack the requisite management and organizational skills and techniques," says Faculty Director Victor Tabbush. "Building their management capacity is Anderson's contribution in this crucial area."
That contribution would not be possible without strategic partnerships. The Johnson & Johnson/UCLA HIV/AIDS Management Development Institute is the latest in a series of sponsored Johnson & Johnson management programs at UCLA Anderson. The institute was offered in cooperation with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) and the Global Business School Network. Classes were held at AMREF's Nairobi headquarters, and the cost of the program (plus food and lodging) was provided to participants by the sponsors. The intensive, one-week program was designed and taught by Anderson faculty with the assistance of faculty from East African universities.
Tabbush was joined in Africa by UCLA Anderson Senior Associate Dean Al Osborne; Professor Kumar Rajaram; alumnus Jeff Luck ('86), associate professor of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health; and Gayle Northrop ('96), owner and principal of Northrop Non-Profit Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy, organizational development and group process facilitation.
Six essential areas of management comprised the institute coursework: organizational planning, operations management, health care systems, program evaluation and monitoring, leadership and human resources, and financial management. Participants were required to produce a Community Health Care Improvement Project. This action implementation plan prepared them to apply the learned curriculum at their home organizations, thereby greatly increasing overall productivity and effectiveness in the field. A key goal also was to help the East African organizations achieve financial sustainability.
The Johnson & Johnson family of companies has generously supported UCLA Anderson with gifts directed to the Head Start/Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows Program, the Johnson & Johnson/UCLA Health Care Institute and the Johnson & Johnson/UCLA Health Care Executive Program. These Johnson & Johnson-sponsored programs are managed through the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA Anderson.
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UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 35,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.


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Daughter with SD Disease
My daughter is 2 years old and was diagnosed with SD disease. Can you please tell me what the complications are with this disease?
Hemoglobin SD disease is an inherited disorder that affects the red blood cells – the cells of the blood that carry oxygen. The part of the red blood cell that carries the oxygen is called hemoglobin. There are different types of hemoglobin – most people of hemoglobin A. Some other types of hemoglobin include D, E and S. They are due to changes called mutations in the HBB gene – the gene that codes for hemoglobin.
When someone has 2 copies of Hemoglobin S (SS) it causes sickle cell anemia. When someone has 1 copy of S and 1 copy of hemoglobin D – it can cause a similar disease called SD disease. Hemoglobin S can change the shape of red blood cells into a sickle (crescent) shape and Hemoglobin D prevents red blood cells from carrying oxygen effectively. Problems seen in SD disease can vary from mild anemia to more serious problems such as frequent episodes of pain, infection and organ damage.
SD disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion. If a child has SD disease that means that one of the parents has a copy of hemoglobin S and the other parent has a copy of hemoglobin D. Someone who has one normal gene and one gene that codes for hemoglobin S or hemoglobin D is called a carrier. They do not have any health problems. But when they have children there is a one in four or 25% chance the child will get the two genes which make hemoglobin S and hemoglobin D and that child will then have SD disease.
This is an important question. I would recommend that you talk to your daughter's doctor about these issues. Hematologists are specialists that often take care of people with SD disease. You may also want to talk about the inheritance of SD disease with a genetic counselor or geneticist. The National Society of Genetic Counselors website has a resource for locating a genetics center near you.
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text: 09 Dec 2013 12:30 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates,has announced key new appointments within its commercial division which span the globe and cater for the airline's growing requirements. The changes see Adam Phillips return to Abu Dhabi to take the position of Vice President Commercial Strategy and Planning; Craig Thomas will move to Bangkok to replace Adam as Vice President Asia Pacific North and the Indian Subcontinent; and Alan Glover will move from Dublin to Australia to replace Craig as Manager Sales Victoria.Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways' Chief Commercial Officer said: "These are exciting moves within Etihad Airways' Commercial Division and support the continued transformation of our business. Adam, Craig and Alan have been part of the Etihad Airways family for several years and will bring this crucial knowledge of the business to their new roles."Adam Phillips' new role as Vice President Commercial Strategy and Planningwill see him develop and implement innovative sales and distribution strategies across the global commercial division as well as evolving the methods that Etihad Airways uses to sell flights and increase ancillary revenue. Adam will report directly to Peter Baumgartner.Craig Thomas will move from his current role as Manager Sales Victoria in Melbourne to replace Adam as Vice President Asia Pacific North and the Indian Subcontinent, and will relocate to Bangkok.Craig will be responsible for sales in the markets of Bangladesh, Belarus, China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Craig will report directly to Abu Dhabi-based, Vice President Global Sales, Danny Barranger.Alan Glover will move from his role as Manager Corporate Sales in Dublin to replace Craig as Manager Sales Victoria in Melbourne. He will report to Luisa Pastrello, Country Manager Australia, and look after sales in Melbourne and across the state of Victoria, as well as neighbouring states of South Australia and Tasmania. Get in touch with us. Contact us Let us know what you think Send feedback Join our community Etihad Facebook Watch our latest videos Etihad YouTube Follow us Etihad Airways


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With the impending birth of the little one, my yarn room had to move. What used to be the yarn room is now (in process of being) set up as the nursery, and what was the home office has now all but disappeared and been replaced by my studio. It's not perfectly organized, not neat and orderly, but it's mostly reached the point where I can find things, which took awhile.
Wanna see?
It does get a decent amount of daylight, especially for a basement. It was a bit difficult to get photos, actually, because the windows were completely blowing out!
On the west wall is a couch, which serves double duty as a guest bed.
Oh, I almost forgot: A bookshelf in the next room, right next to my usual knitting spot, has my reference books and patterns.
It's not perfect, but it's functional, which is better than perfect. I'm so thankful for all the hours Paul put in getting it all moved, the floor painted, and helping me get it semi-organized. And it's *done enough* that we've been able to focus on other things the past few weeks, which has been a necessity.


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A read-only bean is an EJB 2.1 entity bean that is never modified by an EJB client. The data that a read-only bean represents can be updated externally by other enterprise beans, or by other means, such as direct database updates.
Read-only beans are specific to the GlassFish Server and are not part of the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v2.1. Use of this feature for an EJB 2.1 bean results in a non-portable application.
To make an EJB 3.0 entity bean read-only, use @Column annotations to mark its columns insertable=false and updatable=false.
Read-only beans are best suited for situations where the underlying data never changes, or changes infrequently. The following topics are addressed in this section:
Read-only beans are best suited for situations where the underlying data never changes, or changes infrequently. For example, a read-only bean can be used to represent a stock quote for a particular company, which is updated externally. In such a case, using a regular entity bean might incur the burden of calling ejbStore, which can be avoided by using a read-only bean.
Read-only beans have the following characteristics:
Only entity beans can be read-only beans.
Either bean-managed persistence (BMP) or container-managed persistence (CMP) is allowed. If CMP is used, do not create the database schema during deployment. Instead, work with your database administrator to populate the data into the tables. See Chapter 10, Using Container-Managed Persistence.
Only container-managed transactions are allowed; read-only beans cannot start their own transactions.
Read-only beans don't update any bean state.
ejbStore is never called by the container.
ejbLoad is called only when a transactional method is called or when the bean is initially created (in the cache), or at regular intervals controlled by the bean's refresh-period-in-seconds element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file.
The home interface can have any number of find methods. The return type of the find methods must be the primary key for the same bean type (or a collection of primary keys).
If the data that the bean represents can change, then refresh-period-in-seconds must be set to refresh the beans at regular intervals. ejbLoad is called at this regular interval.
A read-only bean comes into existence using the appropriate find methods.
Read-only beans are cached and have the same cache properties as entity beans. When a read-only bean is selected as a victim to make room in the cache, ejbPassivate is called and the bean is returned to the free pool. When in the free pool, the bean has no identity and is used only to serve any finder requests.
Read-only beans are bound to the naming service like regular read-write entity beans, and clients can look up read-only beans the same way read-write entity beans are looked up.
For best results, follow these guidelines when developing read-only beans:
Avoid having any create or remove methods in the home interface.
Use any of the valid EJB 2.1 transaction attributes for the trans-attribute element.
The reason for having TX_SUPPORTED is to allow reading uncommitted data in the same transaction. Also, the transaction attributes can be used to force ejbLoad.
There are several ways of refreshing read-only beans as addressed in the following sections:
Invoking any transactional method invokes ejbLoad.
Use the refresh-period-in-seconds element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file to refresh a read-only bean periodically.
If the value specified in refresh-period-in-seconds is zero or not specified, which is the default, the bean is never refreshed (unless a transactional method is accessed).
If the value is greater than zero, the bean is refreshed at the rate specified.
This is the only way to refresh the bean state if the data can be modified external to the GlassFish Server.
By default, a single timer is used for all instances of a read-only bean. When that timer fires, all bean instances are marked as expired and are refreshed from the database the next time they are used.
Use the -Dcom.sun.ejb.containers.readonly.relative.refresh.mode=true flag to refresh each bean instance independently upon access if its refresh period has expired. The default is false. Note that each instance still has the same refresh period. This additional level of granularity can improve the performance of read-only beans that do not need to be refreshed at the same time.
To set this flag, use the asadmin create-jvm-options command. For example:
asadmin create-jvm-options -Dcom.sun.ejb.containers.readonly.relative.refresh.mode=true
Typically, beans that update any data that is cached by read-only beans need to notify the read-only beans to refresh their state. Use ReadOnlyBeanNotifier to force the refresh of read-only beans.
To do this, invoke the following methods on the ReadOnlyBeanNotifier bean:
public interface ReadOnlyBeanNotifier extends java.rmi.Remote { refresh(Object PrimaryKey) throws RemoteException; }
The implementation of the ReadOnlyBeanNotifier interface is provided by the container. The bean looks up ReadOnlyBeanNotifier using a fragment of code such as the following example:
com.sun.appserv.ejb.ReadOnlyBeanHelper helper = new com.sun.appserv.ejb.ReadOnlyBeanHelper(); com.sun.appserv.ejb.ReadOnlyBeanNotifier notifier = helper.getReadOnlyBeanNotifier("java:comp/env/ejb/ReadOnlyCustomer"); notifier.refresh(PrimaryKey);
For a local read-only bean notifier, the lookup has this modification:
Beans that update any data that is cached by read-only beans need to call the refresh methods. The next (non-transactional) call to the read-only bean invokes ejbLoad.
For Javadoc tool pages relevant to read-only beans, go to https://glassfish.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/v3/api/ and click on the com.sun.appserv.ejb package.
Read-only beans are deployed in the same manner as other entity beans. However, in the entry for the bean in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file, the is-read-only-bean element must be set to true. That is:
Also, the refresh-period-in-seconds element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file can be set to some value that specifies the rate at which the bean is refreshed. If this element is missing, no refresh occurs.
All requests in the same transaction context are routed to the same read-only bean instance. Set the allow-concurrent-access element to either true (to allow concurrent accesses) or false (to serialize concurrent access to the same read-only bean). The default is false.
For further information on these elements, refer to The sun-ejb-jar.xml File in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.


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Luxury is about delivering symbolic and experiential value.
Dear Colleagues, below I am sending you a call for papers for the Luxury Research Journal.
Workshop "The Making of a High-end Brand" on top of the Diwang Tower with about 40 entrepreneurs from Shenzhen interested in de
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Surprisingly, at least for a luxury brand, Gaggenau is very successful in the Chinese b2b market.
Giving a course about "Luxury Brand-building" at the Sogang International MBA Global Summer School 2016 in Seoul.
Guest lecture about "The Development of Luxury Brand Idenitity" at the
Managing a luxury brand in China - a project about the launch of a top-end perfume into the Chinese market.
Downturn, what downturn?
Heine, K., Phan, M. & Atwal, G. (2016) Authenticity and Prestige: What Luxury Brands could learn from the wine industry?
Conference co-organization: The two-day conference explored contemporary issues and innovative research in the area of luxury b
A project on luxury HR marketing: How to attract the right talents to the right brands?
Developing a digital brand communication strategy for the Chinese market.
Kicked off at Richmont's famous Kee Club in Shanghai, the project aims at studying in-depth the multi-brand POS & luxury watch retail landscap
A new EMLYON cooperation project: How to further improve the retail performance of PRL in Shanghai?
G.P. Grant is a manufacturer of high-end smoking accessories headquartered in Switzerland.
This is a call for conceptual and empirical contributions for my track chair on "Luxury Brand-Building" at the Global Marketing
Art for the Ear, here it were it comes from - you can feel their passion for their audio systems and speakers!
Gobi Cashmere is a high-end brand from Mongolia with much ambition to develop their brand in Western markets.
The two-day conference explores contemporary issues and innovative research in the area of luxury branding management.
Surprise, surprise, there exist already a number of Chinese luxury brands.
Final presentation of the EMLYON & Jiao Tong university student team at the Gaggenau showroom in Shanghai to the Gaggenau C
Visitng the "annual Concours d'Elegance dedicated to the Chinese and Asian automobile enthusiasts and classic car community." The highlight was th
The Journal of Brand Management presents this call for papers for a special issue on "Luxury Brand-Building and Development: Ne
Kick-off meeting at Jiao Tong Luxury Research Center.
Kick-off meeting with Mr. Mi Changhong, the founder & CEO of Longio.
Market and trend research and lot's of creativity for three months to come...!
The new ranking "Top 50 German Luxury Brands" is out.
Track chair on Luxury Trends and Strategies
Discussing future opportunities in the Chinese high-end market.
The CEIBS 7th Prestige Brands Forum 2015.
The Handmade in Germany Tour in Shanghai.
The Change of Luxury: New Challenges and Opportunities for Market Research and Marketing in the Luxury Food Industry.
During my course "Luxury Brand Management" (as part of the EMLYON Luxury Management & Marketing Master program), student te
Kick-off meeting at MPH in Shanghai.
Two-day training program with the team and their agency.
Heine, K., and Petersen, F.E. (2015) Marketing Lessons Luxury Wine Brands Teach us About Authenticity and Prestige.
Klaus Heine and Michel Gutsatz (2014) Luxury Brand Building in China: Eight Case Studies and Eight Lessons Learned.
You are cordially invited to submit papers for our conference track "New Luxury vs. Old Luxury: Luxury Trends and Strategies".
A new book about Wine Business Management edited by Steve Charters & Jérôme Gallo and published by Pearson.
LRJ is a new cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high-quality conceptual and empirical articles (using quantita
2014 Global Marketing Conference at Singapore "Bridging Asia and the World: Globalization of Marketing & Management Theory and Practice"
Sonntag, Mediengruppe Madsack (2014) Man Gönnt Sich Ja Sonst Alles.
Vera Waldschmidt and Klaus Heine contributed several articles to the Meisterkreis China Compendium.
Upmarkit Ltd.


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