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United States Reaches Agreement with Suncoke Energy Resolving Clean Air Violations at Plants in Illinois and Ohio
SunCoke Energy Inc. and two of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay $1.995 million to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations of emission limits at the Gateway Energy and Coke plant in Granite City, Illinois, and the Haverhill Coke plant in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, announced the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The companies will also spend $255,000 on a lead abatement project in southern Illinois to reduce lead hazards in owner-occupied low income residences with priority given to families with young children or pregnant women. The companies will pay a penalty of $1.27 million to the United States, $575,000 to the State of Illinois, and $150,000 to the State of Ohio. Illinois and Ohio are co-plaintiffs in this case.
"This settlement is good news for communities in Illinois and Ohio, who will benefit from these substantial reductions in harmful air pollution and enjoy cleaner, healthier air to breathe for many years to come," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Robert G. Dreher. "It also reflects our continuing commitment to protecting the people and environment of the United States through the vigorous enforcement of the Clean Air Act."
"The substantial upgrades required by today's settlement will reduce air pollution that can harm public health and the environment," said Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "EPA is committed to reducing toxic air pollution from sources that have an impact on the health of communities."
"This settlement provides a long-term solution to protect air quality and control emissions," said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. "We will continue to work with other agencies to protect Ohio families from environmental harm."
"The facility upgrades and stricter emission limits mandated in this settlement will dramatically reduce harmful pollution levels and improve overall air quality in the communities surrounding these facilities," said Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
In addition, the companies will spend approximately $100 million at the two heat recovery coking facilities to install equipment known as heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) to ensure that hot coking gases are routed to pollution control equipment and not vented directly into the atmosphere. If future emissions exceed the requisite threshold at a third facility, in Middletown, Ohio, then SunCoke will have to install an additional HRSG at that facility to prevent uncontrolled venting of coking gases. They will also spend an estimated $700,000 on equipment to continuously monitor sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions at the Gateway and Haverhill facilities.
Further, the companies have agreed to accept more stringent emission limits than required in their current permits for SO2 and particulate matter and, in the case of the Gateway Facility, lead. SO2 contributes to acid rain and exacerbates respiratory illness, particularly in children and the elderly. Exposure to particulate pollution has been linked to health impacts that include decreased lung function, aggravated asthma and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.
The primary violations alleged relate to excessive bypass venting of hot coking gases directly to the atmosphere, resulting in excess SO2 and particulate matter emissions from the facilities' waste heat and main stacks, in violation of applicable permit limits. Coke oven emissions are a known human carcinogen. Chronic (long-term) exposure in humans can result in conjunctivitis, severe dermatitis and lesions of the respiratory system and digestive system. The additional equipment installed at the facilities will result in estimated emissions reductions of over 1200 tons per year of SO2, over 130 tons per year of particulate matter, 252 tons per year of hydrochloric and sulfuric acid gases and over 1800 pounds per year of lead.
Both facilities are located in areas that do not meet federal health-based standards for soot. The Illinois facility is located in an area that also does not meet the federal air pollution standard for lead.
Reducing illegal emissions of toxic air pollutants at facilities that have a significant impact on air quality and health in communities is one of EPA's national enforcement priorities. Excess emissions from chemical plants and other industries can result in releases of hazardous air pollutants, or air toxics that are known or suspected to cause cancer, birth defects, and seriously impact the environment.
The Consent Decree, lodged in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, is subject to a 30-day public comment period and approval by the federal court. It is available on the Justice Department website at www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html


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The White House and Congress won't be immune to the automatic cuts in federal spending scheduled to kick in Friday. But for all the grim warnings the Obama administration has been detailing about the effect on everything from meat packing plants to airports, the consequences of the cuts on the politicians who concocted the idea are much sketchier.
To be sure, the legislative branch and the executive office of the president will take a hit if, as expected, $85 billion in across-the-board reductions begin to take effect in three days. As with other agencies, the impact won't necessarily be immediate.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said this week that White House personnel, like other non-exempt agencies of government, will experience reductions in pay and "there will be furloughs." But he said he had no breakdown of those numbers. Other government agencies have said they will spread out their furloughs so that workers will have to take one or two days off without pay per pay period.
President Barack Obama himself won't be among those affected. Included in the law's long list of exemptions to the cuts, in there along with Social Security benefits and food stamps, is the compensation of the president. Also exempt are the pensions of former presidents and payments to the widows and heirs of deceased members of Congress.
Still, there will be pain at both ends of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. According to a document prepared last September and modified in December by the White House Office of Management and Budget, most of the White House accounts, including the $113 million in salaries and expenses in the office of administration, would take an 8.2 percent trim. Likewise, the $396 million budgeted for senators' personnel and office expense accounts and the $1.226 billion budgeted for House salaries and expenses would take the same cut.
Those figures and percentages, however, were calculated before Congress took steps to delay the effective date of the reductions from Jan. 1 to March 1. As a result, the cuts might be slightly smaller.
Each congressional office operates independently and will determine how to find the reductions. The offices are not required to make public their plans to implement the reductions.
Other administration departments, acting to pressure Congress to change the cuts, have been eager to spell out the details.
Last week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appeared in the White House briefing room to say that more than $600 million of Transportation Department cuts would come from the Federal Aviation Administration and that the agency's nearly 47,000 employees would have to be furloughed for about a day per pay period until the end of September. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the White House press corps that the cuts would be equal to 5,000 fewer Border Patrol agents.
White House officials said the budget office is still working on how the cuts might specifically affect White House operations and personnel.

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D-backs unveil Children's Museum exhibit, give $100K
PHOENIX -- The D-backs unveiled their Move It! exhibit at the downtown Children's Museum of Phoenix on Saturday and the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation donated $100,000 to the museum as part of its Grand Slam Grants program.
The ribbon cutting ceremony for the exhibit, which provides children with a place to learn through play and movement, was attended by club president Derrick Hall and D-backs reliever J.J. Putz.
"Through our foundation, we're very proud of the impact we've been able to have with our grants and Grand Slam Awards and we give away so many of those each year," Hall said. "[We donate] anywhere from $50,000 to $75,000 with the grants and then our Grand Slams, where we give four or five each year of around $100,000 each.
"We can make quite an impact at places like the Children's Museum, where we now have this Move It! exhibit which kids can enjoy throughout the year. From an exploratory or educational standpoint, this is a perfect place for us to be attached to because of their focus on youths and because they're our neighbor right up the street [from Chase Field.]"
The exhibit provides innovative design and the use of repurposed materials invites active exploration, imaginative play and thought-provoking discoveries as well as physical activity of both fine and gross motor skills. Elements of the exhibit include the Willie Maze, Diamond, Dugout, Snake and the Bases that incorporate baseball themed items, the D-backs said in a press release.
"The Children's Museum is an amazing place," Putz said. "They just have so much room for activities and they've got some really creative exhibits. The kids love to come here and run around and go crazy but I think they're actually learning something while they're running around."


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A few rumors have gone around suggesting Apple's going to revolutionize the TV with Siri and Sony's already quaking in its boots. Sony CEO Howard Stringer says it's already building a "different kind of TV set" to "compete with Steve Jobs." Does that mean Sony's "cracked the TV" too as the late Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson in his biography?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony's Stringer said that the company is losing money on every single TV it makes. To stop the bleeding, it's going to start creating better synergy between products from within. Looking ahead Sony's going for a "four-screen strategy" that involves concentrating on the PC, smartphone, tablet and TV.
Stringer didn't detail what specs a "new kind of TV" would have, either, so it's really just chatter right now. It could be a TV with Siri-like voice controls, or a touchscreen TV, or something completely brand new. It could be glasses-free 3D. It could be anything!
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What's interesting is that Sony's building a new TV to defend itself against a product that's merely vaporware. The real Apple iTV (or whatever it's real name will be) is just a rumor or prototype. And just because there are rumors that Apple is working on an iTV, doesn't mean it'll ever be released — much like that MacBook Pro with the 3G antenna that never saw the light of day.
I guess even after his death, Steve Jobs is still keeping every tech company on its toes. Man, that guy.


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Time and again, our opponents have come after women ? women's rights, women's health, women's economic security.
They tried to defund Planned Parenthood through the budget process. They tried to restrict women's health care through Medicare and Medicaid. This time, they tried to get Komen to cut off support for Planned Parenthood.
Enough is enough. We may have won this latest round, but our opponents aren't going away. They're launching endless attacks against women every single day, and we need to rise to the challenge.
We've got to build a grassroots force that's ready to take them on whenever and wherever they attack women's rights and women's health.
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American military forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with a football game wearing jersey's donated by the New York Jets. NBC's Atia Abawi reports.
Obama, as has been his practice during previous holidays, reached out to service members from the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy.
"The president thanked each of them for their service and sacrifice and wished them and their families a happy Thanksgiving," the White House said.
The president was joining first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, later Thursday for dinner, where they were to be joined by White House staff members and guests.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, released in connection with the holiday, Obama urged Americans to put aside partisan differences and come together as a nation.
He said the country has "just emerged from a campaign season that was passionate, noisy and vital to our democracy."
While the election required voters to make choices, Obama said that Thanksgiving offered "a chance to put it all in perspective — to remember that, despite our differences, we are and always will be Americans first and foremost."
In the Republican Party address, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state said the GOP is ready to work with Obama to avert impending tax increases, big spending cuts and other problems at year's end.
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LITTLE ROCK — A state legislative panel on Friday reviewed without discussion an administrative rule change incorporating new restrictions on abortions in Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK — A state legislative panel on Friday reviewed without discussion an administrative rule change incorporating new restrictions on abortions in Arkansas.
The House and Senate committees on public health, welfare and labor reviewed new rules for the regulation of abortion clinics incorporating the requirements of Act 171 of 2103, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which bans most abortions at 20 weeks or later into a pregnancy.
Act 171 asserts that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks. Under the law, a woman seeking an abortion who is at least 20 weeks pregnant must undergo an abdominal ultrasound to check for a fetal heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, the law prohibits the abortion from being performed, unless the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest or the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother or protect her from substantial and irreversible physical impairment.
Robert Brech, chief financial officer for the state Health Department, told the public health committees that the rule change received no comments during a public-comment period, other than a question about whether it was being written into the correct section of the Arkansas Code.
Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, the sponsor of Act 171, told reporters he believed the rule change did not attract controversy because the law has already been heavily debated elsewhere, especially during last year's legislative session.
"Those discussions have gone on and on and on, and at this point I think that the rule implementation is just kind of secondary to that," he said.
The Legislature also passed a 12-week abortion ban last year, but a federal judge has barred it from taking effect while the Arkansas Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights Challenge it in court. To date, the 20-week ban has not been the subject of a lawsuit, although the ACLU has said it intends to file one.
Gov. Mike Beebe called both measures unconstitutional and vetoed them, but the Legislature overrode his vetoes.


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Letter, Wm. Hutchinson to [John Brown?]
Author: Hutchinson, William , 1823-1904
Date: ca. 1857
On the bottom of an incomplete listing of weapons distributed (e.g., Navy Revolvers), William Hutchinson wrote regarding his "earnes effort for you [John Brown?] in this place.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John Brown Collection, #299, Box 1, Folder 18
Item Number: 102559 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Bassett, O. A. (Owen Abbot); Border disputes and warfare; Border disputes and warfare - Free state perspective; Eldridge, Shalor Winchell, 1816-1899; Guns; Hutchinson, William, 1823-1904; Kagi, John Henry; Weapons (see also Guns); Whitman, E. B.
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I dont want to see the same characters released in different clothing for a long time, a long time.
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I have to agree i am a bit unhappy with this. Too many Lukes too soon. They should have held off on this one. With that said i am planning on ordering it and hoping for 2 different heads. 1 normal and one battle damaged. Any other thoughts on the exclusive, thats the best i could come up with.
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All pets, whether they
are kept indoors or outside, should be in good health, show no evidence of
disease, and be friendly toward children. The following suggestions benefit
your pets and may also help protect young children from both illness and
you have a dog, train and prepare it for contact with children. Many dogs will
try to dominate children because of their small size. Also, some
children aren't well-behaved around animals. These things put children at
risk for injury. To help prevent such problems with dogs and other pets, you can:1
Be especially careful when
bringing a newborn home where a pet has enjoyed "only-child" status. Animals
can become jealous, aggressive, and defensive about trying to protect their
place in the family. Also, newborns don't act, smell, or sound human,
which may confuse pets. The weak, high-pitched cry of newborns may also sound
like prey to animals. Even a very loving, well-behaved pet can quickly
transform into predator mode with a newborn.
Try the following to
prepare your pet for sharing its home with an infant:1
Children will likely encounter pets whether or not they have them in
their own home. Teach your children how to approach animals, and set rules. For example:2, 3
Also, teach children how to react if they are confronted with
an aggressive pet. The following apply specifically to dogs, but some concepts
can apply to other household pets:
This CDC website has advice for preventing infections that can arise from contact with pets (including exotic pets). There are tips for interacting with animals, keeping your pet healthy, and more.
CitationsHumane Society of the United States (2010). Introducing your pet and new baby. Available online: http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/resources/tips/pets_babies.html.American Academy of Pediatrics (2012). Safety around animals. Available online: http://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at-home/Pages/Safety-Around-Animals.aspx.Pickering LK, et al. (2008, reaffirmed 2011). Exposure to nontraditional pets at home and to animals in public settings: Risks to children. Pediatrics, 122(4): 876–886.
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Did you know? "Prehabilitation" is just as important as rehabilitation after an ACL tear?
If you're an athlete, you're at a greater risk for knee injury than someone who doesn't participate regularly in a sport. One of the most common sports injuries, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear, can happen suddenly. Twist your knee sharply or extend it beyond its normal range during play, and you may hear the telltale "pop."
While many sports injuries can be treated non-surgically, some, like an ACL tear, may benefit from surgery. The sports medicine physicians, physical therapists, and certified athletic trainers at the Emory Sports Medicine Center have designed the ACL Rehabilitation Program to help you prepare for ACL surgery, enjoy a successful post-op recovery, and ease back into play.
When an ACL tear requires surgery, pre-surgery care, or "prehabilitation," will go a long way toward ensuring a successful post-operative recovery.
The 4 Key Goals of the Prehabilitation are to:
- reduce swelling
- retain range of motion
- retain muscle size and strength
- maintain cardiovascular fitness
After an ACL injury, your first step is to get the swelling down. During the initial 48 hours, be sure to ice your injured knee for 15–20 minutes at least two to three times a day. While you're icing your knee, keep your knee elevated above your heart as much as possible. To decrease inflammation, provide compression for your injured knee with a knee sleeve or ACE bandage.
In addition to reducing swelling with ice, elevation, and compression, you'll want to retain your range of motion and muscle size and strength and maintain your cardiovascular fitness. To do this, you'll need to keep exercising. Emory's physical therapists and certified athletic trainers will work with you to create an individualized exercise plan that will help you prehabilitate your knee without reinjuring it.
Check out Emory's ACL Rehabilitation Program website and watch videos that will take you step by step through exercises to do during prehabilitation, surgical recovery, and when you're returning to play.
Have you had an ACL injury that required surgery? We'd like to hear about your experience. Please take a moment to give us feedback in the comments section below.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese man previously accused of contributing to Iran's ballistic missile program has been charged in the United States with making millions of dollars in illegal financial transactions to avoid economic sanctions, the Justice Department said.
Li Fangwei, who is also known as Karl Lee, faces charges of money laundering, wire fraud and other crimes as part of an indictment issued in New York City. Prosecutors say the federal government also seized nearly $7 million used by front companies he set up to evade sanctions previously imposed on him for his business dealings with Iran.
"These actions send a loud and clear warning to those involved in the illegal proliferation of sensitive materials to Iran that the United States will not spare any efforts to disrupt their actions and bring them to justice," John Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Beijing rejected the U.S. charges against Li. "China is firmly opposed to the U.S. invoking its domestic law to unilaterally sanction Chinese companies or individuals," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said. "The steps the U.S. took do not help resolve the problem and hurt the bilateral cooperation in nonproliferation.
"The Chinese government gives high priority to efforts on nonproliferation and harshly punishes any acts which violate its laws and regulations on nonproliferation," Qin said.
A fugitive living in China, Li was indicted on similar allegations in 2009 by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and is now the subject of a $5 million bounty being offered by the State Department for information leading to his capture. The Treasury Department also imposed a new round of sanctions Tuesday, against individuals and front companies, designed in part to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Prosecutors say Li, who controls a network of companies in China that have done millions of dollars in business with Iran, has for years supplied the country with ballistic missile parts.
Though the products were banned, and Li and his company previously sanctioned, prosecutors say Li thwarted the sanctions by creating a web of front companies through which he did roughly $8.5 million in business in more than 165 separate transactions. According to the indictment, Li went "underground" after the sanctions, continuing to deal with Iran but through his front companies and using aliases and fake business names to hide the beneficiaries of electronic wire transfers.
Though money was moved through U.S.-based financial institutions, no bank is accused of any wrongdoing, the Justice Department said.
Associated Press news assistant Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report.


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5 Creative People
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Ravi Naidoo
Ravi Naidoo, CEO of Design Indaba (South Africa)
Ravi Naidoo is the founder and managing director of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town based media and marketing company.
Ravi completed his MBA degree at University of Cape Town in 1994, where he was nominated as the Nedbank MBA Student of the Year. Ravi also has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physiology from UCT.Besides the three years as an Account Director at Young and Rubicam (90-93), where Ravi managed a few multinational accounts, his main business focus has always been on media, marketing and project management.
In 1994, Ravi founded Interactive Africa. One of the company's more recent projects has been project managing the First African in Space Mission and marketing of South Africa's Bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup, as well as for the 2006 campaign. He also directed the African Connection Rally – the trip from the northern to the southern tip of Africa in April 1999, which promoted telecommunications investment in Africa.
Ravi is the co-founder of CITI, the Cape IT Initiative, a non-profit company is dedicated to promoting the IT cluster in the Western Cape. He also founded the International Design Indaba, a leading design institution, that's best known for its flagship conference and expo held in Cape Town annually. He also consulted to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games company, and assisted in their successful campaign.
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«Agreed. The idea needs to be celebrated. Ideas are the enduring, indestructible assets. Like the natural law of energy, ideas can never be destroyed, only transformed. But even the idea, without empathy and understanding of people, is meaningless.»
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- Omer Arbel, 20 things you should know about Omer Arbel...
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My interest in the class of drugs known as statins, widely prescribed and used in the U.S. and abroad, began in a most unusual fashion.
Last March, I was attacked by a wild turkey while walking through Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. half a square mile of beautifully landscaped gardens, trees and monumental sculpture. Surrounded by a bustling city, only one other living soul was near.
As that individual ambled up, he informed me that turkey mating season was beginning. Males are highly aggressive, and go for the eyes with beaks about three inches long. The gentleman, on his daily walk, moved hesitantly, assisted with a pair of canes. After six months, he was progressing he had been in a wheelchair. His slowly resolving disability had been attributed to statin use, to lower cholesterol especially bad LDL cholesterol.
Deaths rates from heart disease have declined during the last decade or two. The statins, better emergency treatment, less smoking, possibly improved diet and other factors share credit. The prestigious British journal, Lancet, correctly stated in 2007: For most people, statins are safe and well-tolerated, and their widespread use has the potential to have a major effect on the global burden of cardiovascular disease. Harvard Health informs us that one in four Americans, ages 45 and older, are taking a statin, totaling 32 million.
In the liver, statins block a fundamental, biochemical pathway whereby cholesterol and LDL are produced. So, its no surprise that liver injury from statins can occur, especially with undetected, pre-existing liver disease, or heavy alcohol or cocaine use. When statins cause muscle injury, the release of myoglobins from muscle fibers may result in kidney failure. Such muscle injury (myopathy) from statins is rare: A handful out of 100,000 people using the medication for one year. On the statins benefit side, about 1,600 fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events are prevented in 100,000 patient-years. Thats 1.6 percent annually, 16 percent through a decade. The ultimate unanswered question is: Which of the 100,000 would have no event without statin treatment?
A colleague of mine, taking a statin for almost 10 years, experienced weakness and difficulty swallowing, choking so severely that he necessarily Heimliched himself on five occasions. Subsequently, when he developed neck muscle pain and profound fatigue, he recognized the problem. He stopped the statin, and, with help from the Mayo Clinic, eventually recovered. He knows several others who have experienced similar serious, disabling problems. Have they slipped through statistical cracks?
Muscle pain (myalgia) is the most frequent side effect of statins, estimated to occur in 15 percent (or more) of patients. Severe or persistent pain, lasting more than a few weeks, should raise a flag. My cemetery acquaintance and my colleague had immune mediated necrotizing myopathy rare, and much scarier than wild turkey attacks, which actually are not uncommon.
In my instance, I was holding a sheaf of papers, which I flailed in the turkeys face, backing him away. After several repeats and finally a double flail, he stopped, momentarily, allowing me to snatch a stick game instantly over a very perceptive, intelligent bird.
www.alanfraserhouston.com. Dr. Fraser Houston is a retired emergency room physician who worked at area hospitals after moving to Southwest Colorado from New Hampshire in 1990.


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The phrase "heritage brand" gets thrown around a lot by companies these days, but how much truth is there to those stories? In the case of Korchmar, the proof is woven into every fiber of the brand's luxury leather goods. For the last 100 years, the family-owned and operated business has continually produced some of the finest leather goods on the market. Sitting down with Michael and Mike Korchmar (now the third and fourth generation to run the business, respectively), one gets the feeling that what makes their products special is the fact that they come from a long lineage of quality.
The company began in 1913, when Max Korchmar came to the United States from the Ukraine to start a new life. At the time, Max was only 13 years old and his mother had died of cancer, leaving him to find his own way in the world. He landed in Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked on the docks. Not long after his arrival, Max began creating small leather caps for the corners of luggage, as well as caps for the lights on the first motor vehicles. He quickly began a larger enterprise in the 1920s designing leather medical bags for doctors. At the advent of World War II, Korchmar began manufacturing leather bags en masse, designing military bags for those sent to Europe as soldiers.
At the end of WWII, the company was left reeling. Both of Max's sons had fought in the war, and only six employees were left working in the factory. To make matters worse, his health was failing. In 1949, Michael Korchmar's father, an engineer, took over the business in an attempt to revitalize it. Over the next 20 years, business boomed. Korchmar had weathered the cultural and economic storms through the 1950s and 1960s to become the world's largest manufacturer of luxury leather briefcases and eventually branched out into creating leather for instrument cases and luggage. Up until the 1970s, every product produced by the company was designed and created in the United States.
In more modern times, the brand has expanded its reach, producing some of its wares in the Dominican Republic while maintaining their main facility in Florida. Since establishing themselves as the best in the business, Korchmar was at one time manufacturing all of the leather products for luxurious household names such as Coach and TUMI. One of the biggest problems they encounter today? "Our stuff is built so well that products last for a long time, which can make it difficult to grow," claims Michael Korchmar.
To celebrate their centennial anniversary, Korchmar has put a modern twist on their classic bestselling pieces. Both Mike and Michael expressed pride in the quality of the leathers that they source for every product explaining that, "we have a level of obsession with high quality that often goes beyond good business sense." For their latest collection, they chose to expand their classic attache briefcase. The design is smaller, sleeker and more lightweight than the traditional product, giving it a more modern feel without losing necessary amenities like a laptop sleeve. Every product is considered with the traveler or business person in mind, while still paying homage to the brand's traditional design elements. It's safe to say that the family is excited for the next 100 years of business. The company ethos rang true as Mike said, "when we sell a Korchmar product, it is a true Korchmar product. You can trust that we made it from scratch ourselves."


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For young children, the home is a playground, and while many parents childproof to ensure that their home is a safe place, some may not be aware that unsecured TVs, furniture and appliances are hidden hazards lurking in every room. Today, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging parents once again to take simple, low-cost steps to prevent deaths and injuries associated with furniture, TV, and appliance tip-overs.
CPSC staff estimates that in 2006, 16,300 children 5 years old and younger were treated in emergency rooms because of injuries associated with TV, furniture, and appliance tip-overs, and between 2000 and 2006, CPSC staff received reports (pdf) of 134 tip-over related deaths. Additionally, CPSC staff is aware of at least 30 media reports of tip-over deaths since January 2007 involving this same age group.
"Many parents are unaware of the deadly danger of this hidden hazard. I urge parents to include securing TVs, furniture, and appliances in their childproofing efforts," said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. "Taking a few moments now can prevent a tip-over tragedy later."
"You may think your home is safe, but everyday things like a television can hurt your child. I was right there and it happened," said Sylvia Santiago, of West Haven, Connecticut who lost her two-year old daughter in 2008.
Typically, injuries and deaths occur when children climb onto, fall against, or pull themselves up on television stands, shelves, bookcases, dressers, desks, chests, and appliances. In some cases, televisions placed on top of furniture tip over and cause a child to suffer traumatic and sometimes fatal injuries. "The most devastating injuries that we see resulting from furniture tipping on children are injuries to the brain and when a child is trapped under a heavy piece of furniture and suffocates," said Gary Smith, MD, DrPH, Director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Recent revisions to the voluntary safety standards for clothes storage units provide for the inclusion of warning labels and additional hardware to secure the furniture to the floor or wall. To help prevent tip-over hazards, CPSC offers the following safety tips:
-Furniture should be stable on its own. For added security, anchor chests or dressers, TV stands, bookcases and entertainment units to the floor or attach them to a wall.
-Place TVs on a sturdy, low-rise base. Avoid flimsy shelves.
-Push the TV as far back as possible.
-Place electrical cords out of a child's reach, and teach kids not to play with them.
-Keep remote controls and other attractive items off the TV stand so kids won't be tempted to grab for them and risk knocking the TV over.
-Make sure free-standing ranges and stoves are installed with anti-tip brackets.
Watch the video on CPSC's Blog site and on YouTube.
Download CPSC's new safety alert (pdf) and the Neighborhood Safety Network Tip Over Dangers Poster (pdf).
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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Aaron Detroit, Buyer at Amoeba Hollywood. As you may know, I've worked in Hollywood for 8 years, but started my time with Amoeba - way back in 1998 - at the San Francisco store. This is my extensive list of 2011 releases that I fell in love with or had hot and heavy affairs with this year.
50 Favorite Albums of 2011
- Wild Beasts Smother
In 2008, Brit quartet Wild Beasts released their shaky-legged -but- stunning debut, Limbo Panto. In the four years since, the band has released two thoroughly dazzling masterpiece full-lengths of deceptively delicate indie rock, lyrically bent towards looking in the dark recesses of the heart and libido, largely sung by co-vocalist Hayden Thorpe in his trademark falsetto. Smother finds the band adding a new restraint to their arrangements that allows the tension in the lyrics to hit with hair-on-end chills. It is a singular LP by a singular band that I expect will eventually reach a Radiohead-level stratosphere.


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Where does the year go? With the end of our Australian school nigh it is time for the Edublogs Awards. Many people argue against awards for a variety of reasons but these awards are special as they are organic, nominated and voted for by the general public, highlight those who are doing some wonderful things both in and for, education and give us a wonderful resource bank of trends, thinking and learning. There are no prizes attached but the fact that blogs, resources and other online tools are nominated brings to the attention of us all those that have a special place in the lives and education of many.
In the school holidays, I love to go through the many nominations and see which resources will be of relevance and interest to me. There are new blogs to peruse, apps to try and online tools to experiment with.
It was with some surprise that I noticed my name had been added to the edblogs twitter list for "life time achievement' awards. Whoever nominated me, I wish to thank you very sincerely. It makes much of the risk taking, the high evergy intake and time taken worthwhile. It also shows the value of the PLN and its wonderful place and role in pushing learning in innovative directions.
However, I was really surprised to read a tweet by my valued friend and colleague, Julie Lindsay asking people to consider voting for this blog as it had been nominated for the Best Teacher Blog. I had no idea that it was on the list until that tweet.
Vote for 'On an e-Journey with Generation Y' 'Best Teacher Blog 2014 Edublog Awards' http://t.co/IbulSlCiJB @murcha #globaled #flatconnect
— Julie Lindsay (@julielindsay) December 6, 2014
Again it is such an honour to be nominated and although I will not actively persue on a public scale, if you do vote for me, I thank you so much, not only for the vote but for being a special part of my life!
If you should wish to vote for any of those nominated across the globe, please goto the Edublogs Awards site and 'get lost' looking at all the onderful nominations. Click on the like button and follow the prompts.
Others that are special to me include:-
- Best Open PD – Unconference Series – The Global Education Conference
- The Global Classroom Project Wiki – Best Educational Wiki
- Global Classroom hashtag #globalclassroom for Best Twitter Hashtag or Chat
- Skype in Education Best educational use of a social network
- Many of the nominations in the Lifetime Achievement – Sue Waters, Peggy George, Sue Wyatt (all have played an important role in my journey)


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Kent State Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Invites Faculty and Staff to Fall Reception
Kent State University's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion invites Kent State faculty and staff to its fall reception on Monday, Sept. 9, from 3:30-5 p.m. at the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony.
The reception will mark the official launch of the division's five-year strategic Equity Action Plan, "Charting Our Future." Copies of the plan will be available for senior leadership in attendance. The reception also gives members of the university community the opportunity to learn about the division's initiatives for the academic year, and also get introduced to staff of the division, including newly hired staff members.
"Our Equity Action Plan, the first of its kind at Kent State, is designed to promote fairness and inclusive values for all members of the Kent State community, and more specifically, to increase opportunities for underrepresented and underserved groups," says Alfreda Brown, Ed.D., vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion at Kent State. "The plan impacts all Kent State colleges and divisions, including students, faculty, staff, administration and alumni, so we invite you to join us on Sept. 9 as we formally launch and share details of the plan."
The reception will feature light refreshments and appetizers with informational folders provided.
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Have you ever experienced one of those weeks where you feel as if you've walked out of your front door straight onto a spinning carnival ride? I say carnival with purpose because you know that ride isn't maintained very well and anything could happen. Can you say...out of control?
Imagine receiving a phone call from a person that you have not spoken to in fourteen years. You know nothing of what he/she has done over the past fourteen years or if they are even the least bit trustworthy. Then also imagine that person asking for one of your most loved and valuable possessions. And imagine one more thing. Imagine that this person expects you to hand it over...willingly, without any qualms.
If you were able to imagine such a scenario, then you have imagined this story:
The Unbelievable Request
A young girl falls in love with a young man. The two are married and are given a very small gift. This gift is a house. The house is extremely small, only one room and needs a lot of attention and care. The couple gladly take the gift, even knowing all the while that eventually the gift will have to be returned one day to the original owner. A year goes by and the couple work hard to make the little house into something beautiful. The house is a lot of work and sometimes required a lot of time and attention. The young woman never quit. She labored day and night on that house, but she noticed that her husband began to lose interest. He no longer wanted to spend anytime in the house. He would make excuses to not help with the work on the house and then one day, a couple of years later he never returned to the house. She was all alone in the house that still needed so much time and attention. One would think that maybe she should of given the house back, walked away from the challenge, but the fact was...she loved the house.
Over the years she continued to nurture the house and create a unique dwelling unlike any has ever seen. Fourteen years, she cried, loved, hurt and worked until she had turned that little one room fixer upper into a handsome, strong, reliable, incredible home. Everyone talked about how wonderful her house was, and she was extremely proud. She also knew that very soon she would have to give the house up, because it had become to big for her to keep. The house needed to have new experiences and even transform into something more unique and incredible.
Then, right before she was able to set the house free...she received a call from the man that left her with the house fourteen years ago. Although he never cared for the house and walked away from it for his own selfish desires instead of making the necessary sacrifices...he still felt entitled to the house. He asked the most unbelievable request...
"I want the house. I know that even though I was never there to do any of the work, or even check over the years to see if the house was okay or if you needed any help with the house, I still feel like I should be able to have access to the house. Remember...it was given to me as well."
So, she looked at her home, with tears in her eyes and replied, "You are the home you are supposed to be because of me. I painted your walls, repaired your roof and fixed the broken windows, knowing all the while that this day may come. The choice is yours."
The house responded, "I have to know. Was it me? Was I not good enough for him? This, I have to know."
The woman replied, "Yes, you will have to find that out for yourself, but I already know the answer. He was never good enough for you."


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I had to think for a long time to remember the right wording, but I never did find the exact words in my books. Come to think of it, it's from memory so you could consider it my paraphrase.
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Somerville87 brauchte ein neues Print oder Verpackung Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 84 Designs von 21 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
This will be an Urban/RnB event in England, with lots of fresh Urban music with lots of old school RnB.
Aimed at women between 18-25.
Inspired by Rihanna.
This event is totally aimed at women aged 18-25. Theory being that men will follow where ever the beautiful women are.
In the North, girls are obsessed with Rihanna. So her image, style and album art work should be the key note for this design. Obviously not her actual image due to copyright.
Images such as:
Use this file as guidance for the look I want:
Double sided DL Sized flyer (99mm x 210mm)
An A3 Sized Poster of same design.
An "F" logo/Stencil
1 Banner 1 Meter tall by 3 meters wide
I have quite a strong idea in my head of what I want, but I am VERY open to other ideas. The last contest I held on here, I eventually went for something very different from my original idea.
But I'd very much PREFER it to be based heavily around a (recent) Rihanna album cover.
Use this Zip file with images in as a guide to Style/Text/Model that I'd want:
The psd file must have the text files editable and not Rasterized as there may be a change in dates/Djs.
Front of DL flyer:
"The RnB/Urban night that will change everything."
"Launches in Diva, Sunderland."
"April 1st"
Rear DL flyer:
"Soon to be the biggest RnB/Urban night in Sunderland"
"With the most prestigious DJs to ever grace the City"
Fenton Gee
(Paris Hiltons personal DJ And DJ to the Stars)"
"Devon Kosko
(Producer for Tinchy Stryder and one of the best RnB Djs in the North)"
"With new, delicious decor in Diva, VIP area with private booths and VIP hosts."
"Modelling scouts from NorthEast Models will be offering Modelling contracts to selected guests on the launch"
"Only 600 golden tickets will be available... "
"It's the event that will change everything... So don't miss out"
"For a chance to party in the VIP with the celebs and win a bottle of ???? Champagne, priced at £???, text Faith followed by your name to 8???"
"For your ticket, join Facebook group "I love RnB/Urban: Sunderland"
Leave room at the bottom for Faith, And Launches April 1st, too. Plus the Facebook logo
I want an "F" Logo that follows on from the design that can be spray stencilled.


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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Blue Ice G Vodka
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
I got married for the normal and noble reasons that Bottom Shelf research director Emily is very pretty and has good employer-provided health insurance, plus my luscious head of hair isn't going to last forever so let's not kid ourselves about my options down the road. Proposing to Emily in January was the best decision I ever made, which means quite a little bit coming from the man who invented the Slim Jim-studded hamburger: I know from good decisions.
So I got married for the obvious, rational reasons, which means I've been pleasantly surprised by all the unexpected ancillary benefits that come along with picking up a cool new wife with primo health insurance. I particularly love that there's a whole new round of milestones. It's like resetting the meter on what had become a tired, old life. For instance, I've been to two airport bars before noon plenty of times before, but it wasn't till we left for our honeymoon that I got to do so as a married man. Then last week we had our first hurricane together. And just two days ago we got to engage in our new family's first act of voter fraud!
OK, I'm not sure if it was technically voter fraud. But it was at least voter misbehavior. This is how it went down: We went to vote together because we're adorable and codependent and because the elementary school's on the way to the bar. We happened to end up in adjacent booths, and since I'm not so great at going 180 seconds without speaking, I needed to pipe up when I flipped the ballot and got to Question 4. See, I'd only prepared for three questions, then they sprung a few extras on us last minute. TOTAL bullshit.
"Hey Em, what's this Question 4?" "I dunno, it's nonbinding so who cares. Same with 5 and 6." "But I gotta color in a circle!" "No, you don't. It's nonbinding. Stop talking please." "But you used to love it when I talked! You've changed!" "The sooner you stop talking, the sooner we're drinking rum."
So we did our heroic double-duty of voting and stimulating the local economy and then we went home to watch people shout confusing numbers on TV for a couple hours until we celebrated or commiserated or whichever, doesn't matter, who cares who the cheap vodka columnist voted for. I come to you in a spirit of bipartisanship, and one thing I think we can all agree on is that if America is going to return to its former glory, we need to increase domestic production of decent, reasonably priced vodka.
Los Angeles-based 21st Century Spirits is doing its part with the Blue Ice line of vodkas. The flagship Blue Ice potato vodka and Blue Ice Organic Wheat have just been joined by Blue Ice G, which bills itself as "American handcrafted" and "multigrain." The multigrain thing is a small measure of genius, isn't it? I figure it really means "I dunno, potatoes and wheat and grass and corn and a different kind of grass and rye if it's on sale," but it can also be interpreted as "you know, healthy, like the brown English muffins." I could sit here and poke holes in vodka marketing all day, but that wouldn't get our country back on its feet or get me drunk by sundown, so let's move on to the more important matter of how this stuff tastes.
Blue Ice G is remarkably smooth for a $15 bottle of vodka. It has the faintest odor of lemon-scented nail polish remover, but there are no signs of corruption once you get down to the drinking, and it feels petty to even mention the off smell in a liquor that's not meant for sniffing.
The taste is minimal, as it should be, but there is a distinct sweetness to Blue Ice G that sets it apart from the lower-middle-class vodka pack. They sent me a bottle for free, but I won't mind paying for it when I run out. Blue Ice G is the new official vodka of the Bottom Shelf.
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Andy Grammer, 'Back Home' – Acoustic [VIDEO PREMIERE]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
If you can't stop singing Andy Grammer's addictive new single, 'Back Home,' then you're going to be all about the acoustic version of the track. And lucky for you, we have the exclusive premiere of Grammer's 'Back Home' acoustic video — just in time for the release of his brand-new album, 'Magazines or Novels'!
For a true singer-songwriter and musician like Grammer, he shines in the intimate, acoustic setting, as evidenced in the black-and-white video for 'Back Home' acoustic. While the stripped-down version of the song boasts the same heartfelt lyrics and strong vocals as the original, there's no doubt that Grammar really steals the spotlight in the acoustic video, allowing fans to see the passion in his performance and hear the emotion in his voice — something he fully intended on doing with his sophomore album.
"The first album for me was more of an introduction and this album is a bit more how good friends would talk, sharing more and being a little bit more honest with myself and my fans," Grammer tells PopCrush.
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Before you set out in search of something to chew to death in Seoul, it is best to tell no one. First, people are apt to scare you ("Is that sanitary?" asked my father, who is a health inspector). Second, and more important, if you do not complete the task, you will look like an ass.
I arrived in Korea's capital for a weekend, looking forward to trying sannakji, a Korean dish of live octopus, or octopus so recently chopped that the tentacles still squirm on the plate. A Korean friend said that the creatures were delicious but could be quite aggressive. It is said that some diners have choked to death. That's why it is essential to fully commit to the task, then be unrelenting in your mistication, lest a tentacle adhere to the back of your throat. Think Oldboy, the famous 2002 Korean film in which the hero holds a live octopus in one hand, chomping it like a caveman with a turkey leg.
Company bolsters bravery, so I enlisted two friends, Roopa and Brandon, to join me at the Noryangjil seafood market, near the south bank of the Hangang River.
We had been advised to search the sprawling 66,000-square-foot market for a stall that sells only octopus. Here, we could buy baby octopus ("Oh my God, we're going to eat babies," Roopa murmured on our way there) because they would be less likely to fight back going down, then find a small restaurant in the market that will cook seafood for a fee.
We wandered the wet pavement, scanning the tanks and buckets filled with sea creatures: huge prawn in neat rows, peppercorn eyes staring ahead; bloated fish splayed on beds of ice, their abdomens unfolded beneath overhead lights, resembling bodies after an autopsy; hundreds of eels rolled in plastic tubs, looking like boiling vats of dark broth.
Vendors, wearing colourful rubber gloves, aprons and boots, leaning over their bubbling tanks, beckoned to us, offering us seafood to taste. We watched as a man in a pageboy cap and a backpack purchased a small squid from a tank, held the white creature between his thumb and index finger and directed it carefully into his mouth. A tentacle hung from his chin like a tendril of mucous.
We eventually found shelter inside a restaurant with a tank of octopus at the entrance and three tables within. Brandon told the owner, in minimal Korean, that we wanted octopus. He mimed wrapping the octopus around a chopstick. The owner made a face.
But she soon returned with a red bowl containing two soft brown blobs. She stuck a pair of chopsticks through one of the bulbous heads -- its sticky tentacles clung to everything on the table that they touched, the bowl, the half-empty bottle of makkoli (rice wine) -- and thrust it toward Brandon's face.
He flinched, then pressed his hands to his cheeks, momentarily panicked.
Maybe the restaurateur thought he would lose his nerve. She wound the legs around the head, as if it were spaghetti around a meatball, dipped it into a dish of hot sauce, then rammed the fist-sized clump of squirming, wet, grey matter into Brandon's mouth.
"Chew, chew, chew," Roopa urged him on. "Chew, chew, chew."
Another patron came by and poured Brandon a drink. "Don't choke," he said in Korean.
As for Roopa and me, we knew as soon as we saw the two octopuses sliding around in the bowl that we could not do it. They were so big. Not at all like the babies we'd been told to look for.
The restaurant owner chopped up the second octopus and tossed the pieces in garlic and oil, the way sannakji is more commonly eaten.
The truncated tentacles continued to wriggle on the plate for several minutes, due to residual energy in the nerves, and the suckers stuck to the plate and to our fingers. We plucked the slippery, sticky morsels up with our chopsticks and ate them sprinkled in salt and dipped in sesame oil or hot sauce. Once in my mouth, activity was almost imperceptible -- not even close to the sensation I got when I ate Pop Rocks as a kid. The bits were fleshy, a little briny and slightly chewy.
By the time Roopa and I were halfway through our dish, Brandon was still chewing his mouthful. "I just got two crunchy bits," he said, once he could. "I think they were the eyes."
- The Noryang jin Fisheries Wholesale Market is always open. Take Subway Lines 1 or 9, get off at Noryangjin Station and cross the footbridge to a parking lot. You will see the market and its 700 stalls from the balcony. Restaurants are located along the balcony.


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20 Ways To Make The Most Of Your Groceries Without Spending An Extra Cent
Americans throw away a quarter of our food uneaten, which translates into serious wasted cash over time. The Guardian compiled an excellent list of ways to shop smarter so you end up buying what you need, and eating what you buy.
- Make A List! Shopping lists top every saving strategy we offer, and for good reason. Lists make for routinized, disciplined shopping.
- Don't Fear An Empty Fridge: Food grows mold, not interest. An empty fridge is a strong sign that your buying matches your consumption.
- Approach Deals Skeptically: Just because an item screams "Two for One!" doesn't mean that you need two. Make sure the item is something that you'll use, and something that won't expire quickly.
- Avoid Supermarkets For Perishables: Buy your vegetables, meats, and fish at local establishments. You'll spend less per visit, while honing your comparison shopping skills. In our neighborhood, the Korean vegetable stand is usually 30% cheaper than the supermarket around the corner.
- Buy Non-Perishables In Bulk: If you can store them, buy your pasta and rice in bulk. Just don't try to buy more than one bag at a time.
- Buy Quality Products: Somewhat counterintuitive for those who focus exclusively on the bottom line, but if you pay more for a high-quality ingredient, you're less likely to let it go to waste.
- Grow Your Own Herbs And Salad: Herbs and salad expire quickly in the fridge. If you have the space, grow your own and save.
- Buy Whole Vegetables: Bagged lettuce? Washed carrots? Like any vegetable, they start to decompose as soon as they're processed.
- Be Storage Savvy: Keep your food fresh with proper storage. If you're a fresh fruit lover, invest in an ethylene gas guardian to stave off spoilage.
- Plan Your Meals: Planning is a key part of list building, and one of the best ways to prevent abandoned foodstuffs from clogging up your fridge.
- Cook! Don't just follow recipes. Real cooks now how to whip that extra bit of coconut milk or leftover celery into a tasty meal.
- Cook In Bulk: Since you're already at the stove, double the recipe and save the leftovers.
- Use Your Freezer: Freezers are more efficient when they're full, so fill 'em up.
- Learn To Love Leftovers: Mmm, leftovers! But seriously, don't throw away perfectly good food.
- Watch Your Portions: The less you eat, the less you spend. If you have trouble eyeballing portions, consider buying a scale.
- Learn From Your Parents: Your pappy's pappy would smack you silly for your wasteful ways. Says Sheila Tremaine, 81, "We never threw anything away, because if you didn't use everything up you had nothing to eat. People just seem to have lost that skill."
- Rediscover Packed Lunches: Dust off that old He-Man lunch box and take your meals to work. Why waste $5.95 on a lunch special when you can eat from your own fridge?
- Equip Yourself: "Make your own bread. It's quick, easy and so much better tasting than shop-bought. It's also much cheaper. Make your own ice cream, it's a doddle. Invest in a mincing machine as an attachment to a food processor, and turn the leftover roast lamb into a base for shepherd's pie. While you're at it, invest in a sausage stuffer and ask your butcher for some sausage skins when you buy the pork."
- Don't Trust Use-By Dates: If it isn't soft cheese, pate, seafood or processed meat, then it will last for a while. "Chicken, raw meats and fish will all look and smell unpleasant long before they're actively unsafe (as long as you cook it thoroughly, chicken, for example, is good for at least a week past its sell-by date). Apples last for months; potatoes are fine as long as you chop the green shoots off before cooking; tins and jars will last decades if not centuries; hard cheese is indestructible; and dry foods will last for years too."
- Become A Freegan: If all else fails, ditch your wasteful ways and become one with your urban landscape.
Waste not … [The Guardian]
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"Neil Young" Performs 'Fancy' With Crosby, Stills & Nash [VIDEO]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
Iggy Azalea's 'Fancy' is everywhere! From a lip syncing viral video to a pregnancy parody, everyone is rocking out to the chart-topping hit. The latest performers putting their own special spin on 'Fancy'? Iconic rockers Crosby, Stills & Nash, alongside Jimmy Fallon, who was impersonating Neil Young.
Last night (July 7) on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,' the host and legendary musicians covered Iggy's hit with a folksy twist. While the original version kicks off with an electro beat and the singer's confident rapping, the 'Tonight Show' rendition opened with Fallon-as-Neil-Young strumming a guitar. He even channeled Neil's signature vocals before launching into a harmonica solo.
Jimmy was intriguing enough, but when he was joined onstage by Crosby, Stills & Nash, the audience went wild. Together the four men harmonized 'Fancy,' while adding a country rock spin to the pop hit. Iggy's version is catchy, but we love this one too!
Check out Jimmy Fallon channeling Neil Young in a performance of 'Fancy' with Crosby, Stills & Nash in the video above!


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Every time another Holocaust denier rears his ugly head our thoughts turn to those Jews who survived that great tragedy and lived to tell the true story of what happened.
While we mourn the death of millions of our brothers and sisters in the Holocaust we continue to be inspired by the tales of those who survived. Only G-d knows why some were chosen to be survivors while others perished. The story of each survivor is therefore one of miraculous Divine intervention.
One such survivor was a young girl at the time that she was taken to a death camp together with her family and neighbors. After days of sweating and thirsting in a sealed cattle car they were all anxious for a shower and a drink. When their deceitful captors led them to the disguised gas chambers they told them that they were being given an opportunity to shower. The women in this girls group desperately began pushing to get ahead in the line headed for the "showers". But she remembered being taught by her mother never to push others and time after time she remained at the end of the line. Finally the remaining women were sent off to a work camp and she survived the war.


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Home Depot workers retrofit colleague's home after surgery
Complications from surgery forced amputation of leg
Employees at a local Baltimore County Home Depot are pitching in to help a coworker who went in for surgery and ended up getting a limb amputated.
The employees of the White Marsh Home Depot want to make sure Karen Holt's house is ready for her new lifestyle when she returns home.
A few weeks ago, Holt went in for artery surgery but complications have left her with an amputated right leg. So, to make sure her house ready for her to come home to, they're building a ramp and making handicapped-accessible improvements to her bathroom.
"We're working on the railings to make sure she has enough space and it's safe with the wheelchair," said Tom Brocht, a Home Depot employee.
"So, it will make that transition for Karen to come home a little bit easier. She already has enough to worry about so she doesn't have to worry about just coming home and having those simple things become complicated," said Curtis Ingram, the store's manager.
Holt's coworkers are volunteering their time to help with Home Depot donating materials and labor, and it's a generosity for which her husband, Michael, is grateful.
"It's incredible, it's overwhelming. She's beside herself and she gets emotional every time we talk about it. I kind of do sometimes, too," Michael Holt said.
"She's going to freak out. She's going to be really surprised. We all pitch in a little bit and get it all done for her," said Edgar Angarita, a Home Depot employee.
The project is being paid for through The Homer Fund, which is a special fund set up specifically set up for Home Depot employees, and without it, the undertaking would cost thousands of dollars.
"I'm The Homer Fund captain of our store and we've done everything we can do. She's just wonderful. She works with me in bookkeeping sometimes, and she's also at the service desk. So, as soon as we found out she needed help, here we are," said Sue Demas, a Home Depot employee.
"Not always do you get a chance to do something for somebody that really needs it. Most of the time, you're building something that somebody's paying for and stuff. It feels good to be able to just to help," Brocht said.
Karen Holt continues rehab, hoping to return home before the end of July. Despite losing a limb, she's said to be in great spirits.
"From day one, she guaranteed she would get a prosthetic, she would walk again and go back to work again," Michael Holt said.