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Cel-Ray Soda Grabs New Fans
Regardless of whether you have tried Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda, you likely have an opinion about it. With its grassy smell and vegetal flavor, it's one of those foods — like licorice or Vegemite — that one either craves or despises with equal vigor. For some, it's an essential part of the deli experience, with the elixir's effervescent bubbles providing a refreshing counterpoint to meaty cuisine. Like an egg cream, Cel-Ray embodies nostalgia in a glass.
Now, thanks to the parallel food and drink trends of nouveau Jewish cuisine, retro soda fountains and artisanal cocktails, Cel-Ray is enjoying a modest culinary revival — as a soda, an element in creative cocktails and, perhaps most surprisingly, as a cooking ingredient.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have recently proposed a ban on the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, hoping to curb the city's obesity problem. But back in 1869, when Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic was first introduced, public opinion on the herbaceous fizzy water was largely favorable. Carbonated drinks called to mind the mineral water health spas favored by the era's homeopaths. And celery in particular was viewed as a 19th-century "superfood," thought to hold curative powers for a range of ailments, from anxiety to indigestion.
According to company legend at J & R Bottling, which took over production of Cel-Ray's glass bottles in 1974 (but not cans; those are produced by Pepsi), there was indeed a real Dr. Brown — a New York City physician who doled out spoonfuls of concentrated celery tonic to patients suffering from stomach trouble. "Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food" cookbook confirms that in the early years, Cel-Ray was considered "a real tonic, a health drink." It was not the only one, either: Cel-Ray had dozens of 19th- and 20th-century contemporaries, including Dr. Carpenter's Celery & Phosphate, from California, and Sedgwick & Smith Celery Tonic, from Iowa.
Yet only Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray would endure — following other sodas from pharmacy to soda fountain — and eventually become a staple in New York City delicatessens. Schwartz writes that, until the mid-1980s, Cel-Ray was sold exclusively in delis. Dr. Brown's early kosher status (Coca-Cola, by comparison, did not receive kosher certification until the 1930s) helped solidify its identity as a Jewish soda.
Nearly 150 years after Cel-Ray first hit the market it retains traces of its health drink roots. These days it's sweetened with corn syrup, but the drink's peppery bite still comes from celery seed extract. That's more than you can say for most national-brand colas, ginger ales and even root beers, which, as the "Saturday Night Live" character Linda Richman once said, contain "neither roots nor beer. Discuss."
Creative restaurants like Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen in Berkeley, Calif., have capitalized on Cel-Ray's nostalgic appeal. In 2009 they started making their own, in-house celery seed soda and cocktails. "We wanted to bring back deli's heyday, when every corner soda fountain had its own celery soda recipe," said co-owner Karen Adelman. In Manhattan, kitsch-inspired restaurants JoeDoe and Kutsher's Tribeca have followed suit, serving up a gin-spiked celery cocktail and a house-made soda infused with celery seeds and tops, respectively.
For armchair fizzy drink enthusiasts, two different companies — Bittermens and P&H Soda Co. — both recently launched Cel-Ray-inspired products. Bittermens' Orchard Street Celery Shrub bitters were developed in 2011 as a flavorful homage to the Lower East Side's tenement era. P&H's soda syrup, meanwhile, is actually flavored with the leafy green plant lovage, not celery. But proprietor Anton Nocito, whose father-in-law grew up drinking Cel-Ray on the Lower East Side, told me that he had the classic drink on the brain when he created the flavor last year. He sweetens his syrup with both sugar and golden raisins, which, he said, "cut through the plant's overpowering flavor," leaving behind a floral, celery-esque syrup perfect for spritzing with seltzer.
Bittermens co-owner Avery Glasser told me that customers have been using Bittermens' aromatic mix of celery, ginger, apple, caraway and apple cider vinegar to flavor "not just cocktails, but cooked dishes like potato salad, too." As someone who falls squarely into the Cel-Ray fan club, I find this news exciting. And also rather elegant. When used in the right situations, Cel-Ray's balance of sweet and herbaceous flavors brightens marinades, sauces, salads or, as I suggest in the this recipe, even a summery tomato gazpacho. Cel-Ray was born as a health tonic and grew up in the delicatessen. Perhaps now is the time to usher in its newest phase as the home cook's secret weapon.
Cel-Ray Gazpacho
Cel-Ray adds a hint of sweetness and celery flavor to this refreshing summer soup.
Serves 8
8 ripe tomatoes (about 4 pounds)
1 small red onion, peeled and roughly chopped
1 jalapeño pepper (or 2 if you like heat), seeded and roughly chopped
1 cucumber, peeled and roughly chopped
1 red or yellow bell pepper, cored and roughly chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled
1/4 cup loosely packed parsley leaves, plus more for garnish
3 tablespoons roughly chopped mint leaves
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
1 cup Cel-Ray
1-2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1. Bring a pot of water to boil over high heat.Meanwhile, score a small X into the bottom of each tomato and set aside. Add equal parts ice and water to a large bowl and set aside.
2. When the water is boiling, drop the tomatoes into the pot, one or two at a time. Boil for 30-45 seconds, or until the skin begins to peel off, then immediately transfer to the ice bath and let sit for 5 minutes. Once cooled, peel skin off tomatoes and discard skin. Core and roughly chop peeled tomatoes.
3. Place prepared tomatoes, onion, jalapeño, cucumber, pepper, garlic, parsley, mint and olive oil in a food processor and pulse to desired consistency. (Do this in batches, if necessary.)
5. Pour tomato mixture into a larger bowl and add Cel-Ray and desired amount of vinegar. Season mixture liberally with salt and pepper. (Salt is a tomato's best friend, so don't under-salt.)
6. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour, or ideally overnight, to let flavors meld. To serve, ladle into bowls and top with a drizzle of olive oil and additional parsley.
Leah Koenig writes a monthly column for the Forward on food and culinary trends. Contact her at [email protected]

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It feels a bit uncharitable to chide a blockbuster superhero movie for providing too much. After all, isn't excess job one for a movie like The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Marc Webb's sequel about Marvel Comics' famed Manhattan webslinger succeeds in being a largely well-produced comic-book movie extravaganza, but its weighty baggage may leave audiences wishing it had traveled light.
If The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is an embarrassment of riches (at a budget upwards of $255 mil), it doesn't embarrass itself, and kids are bound to love it in spite of its butt-numbing run time. Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner pick up where the 2012 film left off, with Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) tortured about dating the girl he loves, Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone), because of the inherent danger posed by his double life as Spider-Man. Danger obligingly arrives in the forms of Russian mobsters and a series of supervillains, but Peter and Gwen have a hard time staying apart. (And playing that dynamic, Garfield and Stone remain chemically charming.)
In the film's biggest tonal misstep, Webb directs Oscar winner Jamie Foxx to ham it up big-time as pocket-protected Max Dillon, who becomes the super-charged Electro as the result of that old comic-book standby, the tragic lab accident. The lab is, of course, located in the skyscraping Oscorp Industries, where Peter's old friend Harry Osborne (a commanding Dane DeHaan) inherits from not-so-dear old dad (Oscar winner Chris Cooper) both the CEO position and a fatal genetic disease. As Spidey fans—and all who saw Sam Raimi's first two Spider-Man films—know, Osbornes notoriously suit up as sky-surfing bad guys under the brand name of Green Goblin.
Throw in a large heaping of backstory involving Peter's long-gone parents (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz), a couple of juicy scenes for a third Oscar winner (Sally Field as Peter's Aunt May), and the emergence of at least one more supervillain (hello, Paul Giamatti—glad you could drop in), and you start to see how The Amazing Spider-Man 2 quickly reveals itself to be crowded, busy, and lumbering, whereas its predecessor, for its faults, etched relatively clean narrative lines.
But no one goes to this sort of thing expecting Chekhov; they go for the larger-than-life characters and all the action 250 million simoleons can buy. And on the "Amazing" score, Webb fares pretty well, in giant-sized confrontations on Manhattan city streets (and, natch, at a power plant). The freneticness of these scenes consistently threatens to spike into the red (and occasionally does), but they serve their purpose, and Spidey's high-flying CGI stunt double has become considerably more convincing over the years.
Does all of the sound and fury (including a distracting and off-putting score) signify anything? Well, there's a simple-minded clock motif (framed by Gwen's valedictory-speech assertion "Time is luck," whatever that means) and a rehash of the no-brainer notion that a hero provides hope. At least the plot doesn't shy from tough-minded consequences, which play into the real message: start saving your pennies now to see what's next, in the already primed spinoffs and sequels The Sinister Six, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, Venom, The Amazing Spider-Man 4...


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If you are using you existing driveway to access your yard to install your accessory, No, you do not need an additional permit.
If you will make a new ingress/egress over the Right-of-Way for construction, Yes, you will need a permit. This would cover, pole barns, pools, sheds, barns, etc.
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Before the surface or subsurface of any County Maintained road system can be tied into (private drive or new street) or altered in any way the Road Department must approve this action. This would include the changing of old or installation of new culvert for homesites.
Any utility work, encroachments into a public right-of-way or easement (other than mail boxes meeting the requirements of this Development Code), pavement cuts and associated road or lane closures must be reviewed, approved and permitted by the Director of Public Works.
The property owner is responsible for the cost of the culvert and the installation. We do inspect all culverts and driveway accesses.
On County Maintained Right-of-Ways the Public Works Department will clean out the culvert pipes when they are doing stormwater drainage ditch maintenance. The Road Department does not have permission to work on Private Property.
The Public Works Department will consider this option, only after reviewing an engineered set of plans. When you submit your Driveway Permit or Right-of-Way Encroachment Permit you must includes an engineered set of plans that include drainage plan and hydraulics analysis. This must include a means of collection and discharge of water.
No, this goes to local maintenance office of Georgia Department of Transportation.
Contact a local contractor that replaces driveway culverts and performs driveway repairs. Contact the Public Works office to obtain a Driveway Permit for repairs/maintenance. After the repairs have been completed contact the public works office again for inspection.
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Police are investigating whether an incident involving a man punching a woman in the face for no apparent reason is related to the "Knockout Game."
Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department said just after 4:30 p.m. Monday officers responded to a call of an assault and battery in the 14000 block of Blossom Hill Road. Witnesses told police a man confronted a woman in a strip mall parking lot and struck her in the face with a single closed fist.
The victim fell to the ground and sustained non-life threatening injuries.
Manny Singh, who owns the nearby Los Gatos Pizza, said he saw the victim after the incident.
"She was crying. She was crying really bad," he said. "She said she didn't do anything wrong. I don't know what happened to her."
The suspect ran away after the incident and before officers arrived on scene, police said.
Some people at a dance studio located near where the crime occurred are concerned that the attack is connected to a national phenomenon called the "Knockout Game."
The game involves people attempting to knock out unsuspecting victims with a single sucker punch for amusement purposes, according to police. Investigators, however, said they do not have enough evidence to connect the crime to the game.
"There is no specific indication that it is part of the Knockout Game, but again we're not ruling out any of those motives," Sgt. Clinton Tada said.
The suspect is described as an African American adult in his early- to mid-20s, 5 foot 9 inches to 6 feet tall, slender build and short, brown hair. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and a white baseball cap backwards.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department at 408-354-8600.


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WINSTON-SALEM – April 15, 2014 – Vitamin D deficiency and cognitive impairment are common in older adults, but there isn't a lot of conclusive research into whether there's a relationship between the two.
A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center published online ahead of print this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society enhances the existing literature on the subject.
"This study provides increasing evidence that suggests there is an association between low vitamin D levels and cognitive decline over time," said lead author Valerie Wilson, M.D., assistant professor of geriatrics at Wake Forest Baptist. "Although this study cannot establish a direct cause and effect relationship, it would have a huge public health implication if vitamin D supplementation could be shown to improve cognitive performance over time because deficiency is so common in the population."
Wilson and colleagues were interested in the association between vitamin D levels and cognitive function over time in older adults. They used data from the Health, Aging and Body composition (Health ABC) study to look at the relationship. The researchers looked at 2,777 well-functioning adults aged 70 to 79 whose cognitive function was measured at the study's onset and again four years later. Vitamin D levels were measured at the 12-month follow-up visit.
The Health ABC study cohort consists of 3,075 Medicare-eligible, white and black, well-functioning, community-dwelling older adults who were recruited between April 1997 and June 1998 from Pittsburgh, Pa., and Memphis, Tenn.
"With just the baseline observational data, you can't conclude that low vitamin D causes cognitive decline. When we looked four years down the road, low vitamin D was associated with worse cognitive performance on one of the two cognitive tests used," Wilson said. "It is interesting that there is this association and ultimately the next question is whether or not supplementing vitamin D would improve cognitive function over time."
Wilson said randomized, controlled trials are needed to determine whether vitamin D supplementation can prevent cognitive decline and definitively establish a causal relationship.
"Doctors need this information to make well-supported recommendations to their patients," Wilson said. "Further research is also needed to evaluate whether specific cognitive domains, such as memory versus concentration, are especially sensitive to low vitamin D levels."


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YHC Sustainability Committee
The College's institution-wide sustainability committee is comprised of faculty, staff and students. In 2010, the committee, previously structured as an academic entity, will partner with the Office of Safety and Compliance to establish Sustainability Tactics and Environmental Management (STEM), an initiative to implement campus-wide procedures that reflect the sustainability goals of the College. The committee is comprised of subcommittees that focus on the community, campus and curriculum to raise awareness about sustainability and implement new efforts to make YHC a more sustainable campus. To find out more about the goals of the Sustainability Committee, check out the Young Harris College Sustainability Strategic Plan: Learning to Think and Act Sustainably.
YHC Student Government Association – Sustainability Subcommittee
Young Harris College's Student Government Association is placing a bigger emphasis on sustainability efforts and selects a sustainability chair each academic year to help achieve this goal. SGA is constantly working to implement more "green" practices at the College. SGA also established an ad-hoc committee to accomplish many major goals regarding sustainability: to better market and distribute the green fee, to analyze all aspects of student life in regards to sustainability and to set long-term goals. In 2009, SGA purchased recycling bins for every room in each residence hall on campus with part of its "green fee" fund, established for campus-wide sustainability programs. YHC students pay a $5 per semester green fee, and the College matches the student contribution. In 2010, SGA led an effort for more student organizations to get involved and assist with campus-wide recycling by collecting plastics, aluminum and corrugated cardboard in return for a stipend for their organizations. In 2011, SGA finalized a Green Fee application process that enables students, faculty and staff to submit suggestions regarding how to best utilize the budget provided to SGA by the Green Fee.
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YHC founded a student chapter of Roots & Shoots in 2009. Roots & Shoots is a global environmental and humanitarian youth program of the Jane Goodall Institute. The chapter is currently focusing on campus recycling, allocating part of their funds to educate students about the correct way to recycle. The chapter also collaborated with the YHC Student Government Association (SGA) to produce signs for recycling containers purchased by SGA for all residence halls. In the future, the group plans to focus on animal rights outreach and help non-governmental organizations communicate the dangers of invasive plants and the benefits of planting native species.


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The director for the Florida Association of Insurance Reform has come out in defense of the beleagured board at Citizens Property Insurance, after a prominent lawmaker called for mass-resignations last week.
Jay Neal, the FAIR director who has not always agreed with the actions of Citizens, said boardmembers should be allowed to keep their positions, despite a number of controversies around lavish executive spending and corporate integrity.
Neal said the board has its flaws, but mostly has fallen into trouble when it followed the advice of Citizens staff.
In a letter to the editor, Neal pointed out that board members volunteer their time and are not paid.
"Service on the Citizens Board is no cake walk," he said. "An equivalent position in the private sector would provide a six figure compensation package. The Citizens Board members work for free."
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In the wake of a report from Governor Scott's Inspector General criticizing Citizen's travel expenses, some have called for the removal of the entire Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Board of Governors. This would be a huge mistake for Citizens policyholders and impede progress toward restoring Florida's private property insurance market. Whatever its size or future, while it exists, Citizens needs to be a good property insurance company, not a political football.
Service on the Citizens Board is no cake walk. An equivalent position in the private sector would provide a six figure compensation package. The Citizens Board members work for free. The considerable time these Board members are required to spend could be spent earning money in the private sector, meaning that in terms of opportunity costs, it actually costs them to serve. They do not serve to pad resumes. They have already reached the pinnacle of their professional lives.
Consider the two appointees of Governor Scott: John Wortman, now in retirement age, once presided over Louisiana's version of Citizens and offers decades of experience. John Rollins is a brilliant actuary, Duke University graduate, and a leading expert in his field. Although we have often disagreed on policy issues, I know them both to be conscientious and honorable public servants.
The other Board members are no less qualified, conscientious, or honorable in their service. That Florida taxpayers receive the benefit of their combined service for free is an exceptional value that should be preserved.
There are other challenges to service on the Citizen's Board. The eight members are appointed two each by four state officials--the Governor, CFO, Senate President, and House Speaker. As political appointees they are subject to Sunshine laws, meaning that they cannot talk company business to each other outside of public meetings. For a new Board, most appointed less than two years ago, this means that getting a grasp on the culture and operations of a large complex company requires time and a steep learning curve. It also means that staff has an advantage in what information they choose to share or withhold power that can be used to manipulate Board decisions. As a result, mistakes have been made. The Board harmed consumers by agreeing to staff proposals for reductions in coverage levels and to an ill-fated surplus notes program that was eventually abandoned. But other decisions have been both tough and prudent. Within the first year of their tenure, the majority of the Board realized that new leadership was needed. Just seven months ago, they appointed an outsider and seasoned industry veteran as CEO, Barry Gilway. He has no easy job. Reforming a large bureaucracy, like turning around an aircraft carrier, doesn't happen on a dime. The Board and Mr. Gilway have also now come to recognize that reducing policy coverage is not a solution for depopulation of policies, rejecting an unwise staff proposal to set a $15,000 sub limit for water damage. They immediately got it right when news of excessive travel expenses came to light in the press. Governor Carol Everhart presented a motion to conform Citizens travel policies to those followed by the rest of state government. Governor Don Glisson strongly advised abolishing company credit cards, which was promptly done.
We must also consider the cloud removal of this Board would cast over future Board recruitment. The best and brightest will simply decline to serve rather than risk public embarrassment in such a toxic political environment.
Individuals who violated policy should be disciplined, consistent with sound human resource practices and due process, not out of concern for how it will look in the newspapers. The problem for everyone else has already been solved.You can bet that all at Citizens will now think twice before every spending decision.
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PRESS RELEASE: For the versatile rocker, no guitar can speak as loudly or as delicately as the award-winning Taylor T5, the industry's best-selling electric/acoustic hybrid guitar. Just ask Serj Tankian, the accomplished, creative frontman and songwriter for the Grammy® award-winning rock band System of a Down.
Tankian, who recently released his first solo album, Elect the Dead, has played Taylor acoustic guitars for several years, and has spent the past two years touring with a Taylor T5. Now, Tankian brings his creative input, coupled with the expertise of Taylor's design team, to his own signature model, the STSM-T5.
The STSM-T5 is based on the popular T5-C and features a sleek, thinline opaque black body, crafted from sapele and paired with a maple top. Two stylized, unbound f-holes grace the top, and the fretboard and peghead feature a red "energy wheel" inlay design that was provided by Tankian. The same vibrant red binds the body, fretboard and peghead.
Says Tankian of his T5: "The way the T5 is designed, especially when playing in an arena environment, sounds like a great acoustic and is by far superior to anything else in terms of sound, clarity, depth and tone. When I'm writing music or lyrics, I'm just pouring whatever comes out of me from the universe and channeling it and structuring it into a quality record."
The versatility of this guitar lies in Taylor's proprietary T5 electronics and five-way switching, which together yield a wide range of guitar tones, from delicate acoustic to full-on electric crunch. Three magnetic pickups — an under-fretboard neck humbucker, a visible bridge humbucker, and an acoustic body sensor mounted to the inside surface of the top — provide a complete integration of tonal output.
"I try to make music in a way that I'd be interested in listening to it myself," Tankian says. "Using the T5 gives me the versatility of a pure acoustic sound or electric. It's light and thin too, so you can stand in front of the mic and just rock out. For a stage environment, the T5 works great."
The STSM-T5 is offered at a suggested retail price of $3,198 and comes in a ready-to-rock hardshell case with a certificate of authenticity signed by Tankian. The STSM is available at authorized Taylor dealers worldwide.
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Rock Creek subdivision will soon span the entire western aerial access to the airport so flights over this area are unavoidable. Currently, our noise abatement procedures encourage visual flight rules (VFR) traffic to fly south of the development; however, these procedures are not mandatory and will soon be impossible to perform. The Federal Aviation Administration flight check director determines the safest route for instrument flight rules (IFR) aircraft to follow with respect to terrain avoidance and airspace procedures. The airport can't change them, and we don't have control over aircraft after they leave our runways. Flight safety must take priority over all other concerns. Pilots generally want to limit their noise impact below, but they are occupied with the demands of aircraft control, navigation and traffic avoidance. For more details, call us at 303-271-4850.
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Most of the jet aircraft taking off and landing at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA) are following the established departure procedures or glide path for our instrument approach and must make certain altitude adjustments at certain points to perform a safe landing. An airplane's ability to fly the designated approach or departure is what primarily governs the design of these procedures.
An aircraft must be able to slow from its cruising speed to its landing speed during the approach, and it must maintain a certain minimum speed on departure to stay airborne. This limits a plane's climb angle. Terrain avoidance and obstacle clearance are also primary concerns. RMMA does not have any enforcement authority over aircraft that violate regulations and fly too low. If you believe an aircraft is flying too low, please contact the Federal Aviation Administration at 303-342-1100 and report the violation.
No. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Federal Aviation Regulations control the flight paths and aircraft routing into and out of every airport. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA) does not control traffic routing near the airport or anywhere in the Denver airspace system. Traffic arriving and departing RMMA become part of this system and must mix with traffic arriving and departing DIA, Centennial, Front Range and other airports. Each aircraft is assigned altitudes and headings that will safely integrate them in the system. The RMMA tower only controls aircraft within five miles of the airport and below 3,000 feet. Aircraft outside this envelope are generally controlled by Denver Center or are visual flight rules (VFR) and regulated by Part 91 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. Changing one component alters other parts of the system; therefore, changes to our aircraft routes are significant. But again, the FAA determines them.
Noise statistics are reported in a format similar to that used by Denver International Airport. Statistics are tracked by household and neighborhood to help determine problem areas. The offending aircraft can sometimes - not always - be tracked, and when the situation warrants, we can contact the aircraft owner to discuss the situation. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA) is part of the National Airspace System, and the federal government has designated it as a National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) facility. This means RMMA is essential to the nation's air transportation system and cannot deny access to any specific user, nor does the airport have the authority to limit hours of operation. Contact us at 303-271-4850 for more details.
We continually promote our program to our tenants and users and conduct quarterly meetings with the FAA control tower manager. As part of the ongoing campaign, airport staff visits many airport tenants with maps and information about why aircraft noise is a critical issue that everyone must help to mitigate. Because the program is voluntary, we focus on the most frequent airport users. It is important to note that business jets are normally on instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plans when arriving and departing, meaning they are limited in what they can do to minimize their noise footprint. As newer and quieter aircraft hit the market, airport noise will be noticeably reduced. We continue to gather information from the National Business Aircraft Association noise mitigation programs. For more information, contact us at 303-271-4850.
Those efforts are mainly for airports with residences that lie within an area of very high noise levels as delineated by the airport's noise contours. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport does not have a significant number of residences (if any) in this area, and the projected noise contours for the airport over the next 20 years show a decrease in noise contour lines due to quieter aircraft being produced. Airports that experience a classification change may also have their noise contours modified. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport is, and always has been, a "reliever" for Denver International Airport, and the master plan does not include changes to this status. For any other questions, contact us at 303-271-4850.
The line is used to track the noise program's effectiveness and attempt to identify excessively loud aircraft. There are naturally more complaints during the summer months because aircraft performance suffers in warmer temperatures and people spend time with windows and doors open or go outside to enjoy the weather. As a result, we know this is a time to heavily promote the program. Also, if there are several complaints against one particular aircraft at a specific date and time, we can sometimes track the "offender" and directly contact the company. Airport staff has found this direct company contact to be beneficial. Calling the noise line for every aircraft that flies overhead reduces the program's effectiveness.
We have a proactive noise abatement program that includes maps and guidelines for airport users. We meet with flight schools and other tenants to continually emphasize the importance of mitigating noise, and it is often a topic during our quarterly brief. The noise abatement program is designed to help the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport users coexist peacefully with the surrounding communities. It is every pilot's responsibility to follow the airport recommended noise abatement procedures, while staying within safe aircraft operational parameters; however, we can't control the traffic after it departs. This is the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) area of authority.
Additionally, we continue to advise surrounding cities and developers about how the airport will affect their developments. In some neighborhoods, avigation easements are included in the closing paperwork so residents are aware of the potential hazards associated with living near the airport. We will continue to make recommendations and promote our noise abatement program to try to minimize the impact of aircraft noise as much as possible. Contact us for any further questions at 303-271-4850.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations control the flight paths and aircraft routing into and out of every airport. Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport does not control traffic routing near the airport or anywhere in the Denver airspace system. The airport can only encourage pilots on visual flight rules (VFR) flights to fly over unpopulated areas, but these areas are disappearing rapidly. And VFR arrivals and departures account for only a fraction of the total operations conducted. Please call the FAA at 303-342-1100 with questions about aircraft operation in our airspace.
Airplanes at this altitude (5,670 feet above sea level) don't perform as well as they do at lower elevations. This means they can't climb as quickly because their wings, engines and propellers are less efficient in the thin air. The planes create more noise because they are forced into a more shallow climb angle. At lower elevations, pilots typically use the lowest power setting possible for take off, reducing engine wear, saving fuel and creating less noise. At a high-altitude airport like ours, pilots must use a higher power setting for safety reasons; plane engines don't provide as much thrust at this elevation. The result is more noise because planes must fly closer to the ground for longer periods; nothing can change this physical fact. Call us at 303-271-4850 for more information.
Jet aircraft operate in the early morning and late-evening hours for various reasons. Many are medical flights with patients or critical organs on board or check-carrying cargo operations. Other flights involve corporations and businesses based near the airport.
All homeowners in our influence area are required to sign an avigation easement when they purchase their home. This document ensures residents are aware of and accept the noise and vibration aircraft may generate while operating at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. Consult your closing documents or call your city for more information.


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Four e-business busters
Are any of these statements true? Nine times out of 10, no. But they're just the kinds of Internet myths entrepreneurs read about every day, leading many to frantically start e-commerce operations without taking the time to seriously consider the issues — and difficulties — involved.
The growth in the number of small-business Web sites has been significant. According to a recent study by high-tech market research firm International Data Corp., the number of small businesses (defined as businesses with fewer than 100 employees that are neither homebased nor branch offices of larger firms) conducting business on the Internet at the end of 1997 was 150,000; that number had grown to 850,000 by 1999.
We don't have to tell you why these small businesses are going online — a good Web site can build a company's image, provide better customer support, make technical information more easily available to customers, help you develop a prospect list, conduct customer surveys, offer products and take orders. But the actual process of setting up a Web site is not always as easy as it may seem. Following are several prevailing Internet myths that continue to distort the realities of getting into e-commerce.
#1: Setting up a Web site is easy and cheap
Product literature and, yes, even magazine articles can be blamed for spreading the rumor that great Web sites are easy and inexpensive to set up. While a static page can be put up in no time and at a low cost, setting up a professional Web site can be a very costly and time-consuming endeavor.
"If you're doing 'brochureware,' it can be pretty cheap," says Charles Rutstein, an analyst with Forrester Research. "You can do it in your spare time with off-the-shelf software in the couple-hundred-dollars range."
But putting up a good transactional Web site takes several months and costs anywhere from $10,000 to the six- or even seven-figure range. "You have a whole new spread of things to think about, such as how you're going to take orders, track inventory and fulfill orders," says Rutstein.
And then there's the burden of keeping your product information up to date. "Keeping inventory information current is a difficult task that many small-business owners don't even think about when they first decide to venture onto the Web," says Martha Frey, an analyst at Patricia Seybold Group, an e-business research and consulting firm in Boston. "This usually means integrating your Web site with some back-end systems. The major challenges arise when you enter this world of integration."
Well-designed Web sites should also have sophisticated customer support mechanisms in place, such as customer support software and a strong support staff that can respond to the whole world 24 hours a day.
Effective Web sites often require the work of agencies, consultants and integrators. "You really need a Web advertising agency and a Web engineering firm," says Frey, "so you cover both the creative side and technical side."
#2: If you build it, they will come
Some Web site owners think that after spending money to set up their sites, they don't need to spend more money on advertising or promotion.
That's simply not true. Setting up shop is no guarantee visitors will come. If you want a successful, well-visited site, you must embark on an advertising or promotional campaign to get customers there. In fact, Web retailers probably spend more on advertising and promotion than their offline counterparts. According to a 1998 study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group, an international strategy and general management consulting firm, and shop.org, a trade association focused on Internet retailing, Web retailers reinvest about 65 percent of their revenue in marketing and advertising, compared with offline retailers, who reinvest only about 4 percent.
A good place to start, according to Frey, is to spend a minimum of $1,000 per month on a keyword banner ad on Yahoo!'s Internet directory, http://www.yahoo.com. When you purchase this service, an ad for your company will pop up on the search page each time your company name is keyed into Yahoo!'s search engine.
"Often, small businesses get lost in big directory listings," says Frey. "But [buying a banner ad] helps people who are looking to find you — especially if you weren't able to secure a URL that is really obvious, which commonly happens to small businesses."
Frey also touts the importance of using banner ad exchanges and another emerging type of banner exchange program called "check-out banners," which are postage-stamp-sized ads that pop up on a Web page after a visitor has placed an order for a product. The ads are usually for products and services similar or complementary to the product or service the visitor has just purchased. You can place a check-out banner on another Web site or have companies buy banners on your site. These ads are designed to entice Web buyers — the type of Internet browsers most likely to buy again — to come to a Web site.
Entrepreneurs often underutilize data analysis tools that can help them learn more about their customers and prospects, and they don't bother to launch enough targeted e-mail marketing programs to spread the word about their products to their best customers. Offline advertising is also not being used to its full advantage, experts say, even though it's an important promotional avenue for Web businesses and for "click and mortar" companies — those that have both an online and an offline business.
#3: No need to worry about privacy
Even though protecting the privacy of Internet customers has become the subject of a heated legal debate among consumer protection groups, business associations, government agencies and even the White House, many entrepreneurs still don't bother to publish a privacy policy on their Web sites.
"Small businesses don't fully appreciate the importance of privacy statements, and every Web site needs to have a comprehensive, thoughtful privacy statement," says Frey.
Privacy statements can be very broad-based and general. They're simply there to inform your customers that you don't intend to sell their personal information for profit to any third-party and that they are free to remove their names at any time from a mailing list they may have signed up for on your Web site. (For additional information on privacy and the Internet, see our May 1999 "Net Profits."
#4: It's too late to get on the Web
Although many entrepreneurs might be led to believe they've missed the Internet boat, it's still not too late to jump on.
"The reality of it is that we're in the dawn of the Internet age," says Forrester's Rutstein. "There's a lot more to come."
While Rutstein says there's no way to know exactly how the Internet will grow in the years to come, two things are certain: Bandwidth will explode, making it easier and faster for people to buy products and services on the Internet; and the Internet will become more popular all arond the world in the next few years, making it a major form of global commerce. And that's no myth.
Melissa Campanelli is a technology writer in Brooklyn, New York, who has covered technology for Mobile Computing & Communications and Sales & Marketing Management magazines.


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Carlos Delgado to announce his retirement
On Wednesday Carlos Delgado is expected to announce his retirement from Major League Baseball, according to a story on ESPN.com.
The 38-year-old played for the Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins, and New York Mets over his 17-year career in which he collected 473 home runs, 30th on baseball's all-time home run list.
In his first year with the Mets in 2006, Delgado led the team to its most recent playoff appearance as he hit 38 home runs and accumulated 114 RBIs.
But as of late, Delgado has battled hip injuries and hasn't seen major league action since the 2009 season.
The article says:
"He was unbelievable for us when he was healthy, and he taught me how to play the right way," former Mets teammate Jose Reyes said, according to the Daily News. "We were one victory away from the World Series and he did everything he could to get us there."
Perhaps Delgado's best season came in 2000 with the Blue Jays.
He played in all 162 games while collecting 196 hits, as well as 41 home runs and 57 doubles, while compiling a career-best batting average of .344 and a slugging percentage of .644, also a career-high.
The article also says:
"He still owns Blue Jays team records for most runs (889), doubles (343), home runs (336), RBIs (1,058), walks (827), and strikeouts (1,242)."
Delgado's last attempt at a return to the big leagues was denied after only five games with Triple-A Pawtucket last season.


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And... Entries for this year's short fiction competition are closed. I'll be processing the stragglers next then spend November grading the stories. Our judges will receive the semi-finalists by the start of December. Once again, I'm overwhelmed by the range of authors who submitted. The judges are going to have their work cut out for them. It's not going to be easy to pick the winner this year.
Further to this, if you missed the actual Bloody Parchment event, you can read more about our evening of terror and thrills here.


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Author: Louis Sachar
Publication Date: 8/20/98
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Blurb(GR): A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment. Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile
detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over a hundred years - and it's hardly a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she is really using the boys to dig for loot buried by the Wild West outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow. The story of Kissin' Kate, and of a curse put on Stanley's great-great-grandfather by a one-legged gypsy, weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters - and their forebears - for generations. With this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has written his best book to date.
I am very sad that I never read this as a young person, because I think that I would have loved it even more than I do now. I think that it probably would have blown my mind. I have to applaud Louis Sachar for being so courageous in a children's novel.
Effortlessly weaving together the past, present, and ancient history of these characters, Mr. Sachar examines the impact of our history and the nature of hope and human compassion, all while maintaining a light, humorous quality. This is a book for children, but one that never speaks down to children. It is both mature and youthful.
Stanley is tried and convicted for a crime that he didn't commit, sent to a reform camp for boys, and forced to work day after day in the hot sun digging holes – without any hope of aid. He's treated callously and unfairly, but he must learn to keep going, get along with the boys around him, and survive.
This is not a book that promises (like so many other children's books do) success and rewards for good behavior, for choosing all the right paths. That's not what real living, real maturity is all about. It's about learning to deal with adversity and tragedy and failure when they come – because they will. It's about making the right choices even when there are no rewards, no promised successes, simply because they're right. And more than that – it's about choosing kindness and compassion, even when everything around you is hard and unfair.
The only part of this novel that I don't quite like is the ending, which seems to undermine the more realistic quality of the rest of the novel. I wish that Stanley and Hector could survive happily without a fairy tale ending, because
after all of that, they know that they don't need one to be happy. But I think that as a child, I would have enjoyed seeing them win the day.
Perfect Musical Pairing
Brett Dennen – Darlin' Do Not Fear
Your confidence is faultless your faith etched in stone
and neither could comfort you from the wild unknown
So bury your burning hatred like a hatchet in the snow
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know.
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Small Business Holiday Prep
While many consumers complain about "Christmas creep" (holiday messages and displays increasingly showing up in October, it's never too early for small businesses—especially retailers, including online merchants to prepare.
All indications point to a healthy holiday season. The holiday sales forecast from eMarketer predicts 2021 sales will increase 2.7% to $1.093 trillion, and e-commerce revenues will rise 11.3% to $206.88 billion. They also say e-commerce will account for a record 18.9% of total holiday season retail sales. This forecast is from February, so the numbers could well increase—and we're still waiting to hear the holiday sales forecast from the NRF (National Retail Foundation), which raised their initial 2021 sales forecast in May.
EMarketer cautioned that actual sales will be dependent on the state of the economy. The good news is that in the August Monthly Economic Review from NRF economist Jack Kleinhenz says that retail sales were "up 16.4% year-over-year for the first six months of the year, [which is] in line with NRF's revised forecast that 2021 sales should grow between 10.5 and 13.5 percent over 2020." But he notes, there was a "pullback" of consumer spending in July.
In other good news for in-store retailers, many of the big box stores that have been open on Thanksgiving Day (depressing in-store shopping on Black Friday, affecting sales at nearby small businesses) will be closed this year. This will likely lift online sales on Thanksgiving this year—so make sure you're prepared.
Now that you know the landscape, how else can you prepare? BigCommerce has an excellent and thorough guide up for small online retailers, The Complete 2021 Guide to Preparing Your Ecommerce Store for Holiday Magic. In the report, BigCommerce lays out a detailed 5-step program for preparing for the upcoming holiday season:
- Prepare for incoming traffic
- Create a hassle-free customer experience
- Surprise and delight with shipping and fulfillment options
- Create strategic holiday marketing and promotions
- Ramp up customer service and support
Let's take a deeper look at some of the steps.
Be Ready Before the Cyber 5
If you want to be truly prepared for incoming traffic, your technology needs to be updated and able to handle the increased holiday shopping traffic, especially from Thanksgiving Day-Cyber Monday (referred to as the Cyber 5). You don't want your site to go down during this crucial sales time.
You also want to make sure your site loads quickly—two seconds is ideal for e-commerce sites. You can test your site speed here.
It's All About Your Customers
Whether you sell online or in-store (or both), your inventory should be fully stocked. If customers can't get what they want, they'll go somewhere else to get it.
Your website needs to be easy to navigate, with an upgraded look and feel. It should reflect your branding, and the checkout process should be quick and easy. BigCommerce reports that according to a survey, 21% of online shoppers have abandoned their shopping carts due to a long, complicated checkout process.
Those customers are not necessarily lost, however. Emails sent to consumers who have abandoned their carts typically have great conversion rates, especially if tailored for holiday shoppers.
Highlight Your Merchandise
Highlighting the products you want to sell is a smart strategy for both online and in-store retailers. Create gift idea bundles to make the shoppers' job easier. Assemble gift baskets of all sizes. Offer suggestions, such as "Ideas for teachers," etc. Give customers the option of building their own baskets.
Online, consider creating a holiday section on your site, making it extra easy for consumers to find what they need.
Personalization Sells
Personalized shopping experiences make customers feel "seen," valued, and welcome. BigCommerce says, "Nearly 89% of marketers report using personalization results in increased revenue."
The BigCommerce report suggests you can do this by asking people ahead of time (via surveys and pop-ups) who they're shopping for. "Tag their profile so when it comes time to send promotional content, you can send content that's relevant to shopping for a specific person (e.g., cousin, uncle, daughter, etc.) to them. This will increase conversion rates and revenue."
Make it Easy to Pay
If you haven't already expanded your payment options, you should do so immediately. According to eMarketer:
- In-store mobile payment app use will hit a milestone in 2021, reaching 101.2 million among Americans ages 14+.
- This comes after 29.0% y/o/y growth in 2020.
- Usage is now on track to surpass half of all smartphone users by 2025.
There are numerous payment options to consider today, including the many digital wallet options, such as PayPal, Venmo, Google Pay Send (previously Google Wallet), and Apple Pay
Expand Your Sales Channels
Where do you sell now? If you have a physical store, hopefully, you already have a thriving e-commerce site as well. If you don't, build it now! There is no time to waste. Even if you already have a website, or the web is your only sales outlet, you should also be selling your products on mega-marketplaces, like Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, and more.
Social commerce—selling from your social channels is on the rise as well—eMarketer projects the number of social commerce buyers will grow 13% to 90.4 million this year.
Customers Want Convenience
If there's one thing in-store retailers should have learned from the pandemic, it's that convenience is key to satisfying shoppers. So they want—actually, they expect—retailers to offer them a seamless shopping experience by offering curbside pickup and BOPIS (buy online, pickup in-store). Collectively they're known as click & collect.
And the number-one factor encouraging shoppers to buy has not changed in years—free shipping—it's the number-one factor cited by online shoppers as enticing them to buy. All year-round, but especially during the holidays, customers want to track their purchases to know when they will be delivered.
BigCommerce also notes a survey that found 96% of consumers will return to merchants who "made returns and exchanges as seamless as possible." That means offering a clear return policy that you prominently display, both on your site and in your store. If you typically provide a limited-time return policy, that needs to change. Consider extending it to January 31. It also helps to offer to send gift receipts with the order.
Holiday Promotions
The key is to plan your holiday marketing now and, according to the BigCommerce guide, be ready to launch November 1.
You can't sell anything these days without a robust SEO strategy, and if you want to "generate new, organic traffic, you need to start immediately, according to the BigCommerce report.
Don't forget to add gift cards to your merchandise mix, whether online or in-store. Other extras that make consumers want to shop with you include free gift-wrapping services. For online shoppers, consider adding some gift wrapping to packages with over a certain amount of sales.
Customers shop where they feel valued—and one way to do that is to reward them. Make sure you have a loyalty program in place that syncs online and in-store purchases.
Community Marketing
If you own a local physical business, whether it's a store, a restaurant or a salon, or gym, etc., there are several ways you can boost your holiday sales. Consider teaming up with other nearby businesses to host a holiday shopping event, like sidewalk sales, and offer discounts to each other customers.
Does your community host holiday-related events? Then, join in the festivities, whether that's buying a booth, being a sponsor, donating money or merchandise, or volunteering.
Consider hosting VIC (very important customers) events. In the past, business owners would invite their best customers to these events. But these days, consider your customer demographics. For example, would older people or moms with kids prefer shopping when the store isn't crowded with people?
Make it Festive
Don't forget the holidays are a time to celebrate. So, decorate your store and your website appropriately. If you have a store, play holiday music, snacks (pre-packaged are best for COVID-wary customers).
Consumers are busy. And online stores are always open, so think about extending your hours or operation. Be sure to promote your new holiday hours in your store, online, and in your Google My Business listing.
Finally, make it urgent. Everyone is shopping on a deadline. And this year, Hanukkah starts November 28, only three days after Thanksgiving. Offer time-sensitive promotions, all season long.
It's a lot, and you may need help figuring it out. A SCORE mentor can help guide you through the journey. Find one here.
Copyright © 2023 SCORE Association, SCORE.org
Funded, in part, through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.


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Guest post by Heather McNamara
So, who's heard of Julie Burchill and her "censored" article?
Coming to the defense of her maligned feminist friend, columnist and author Julie Burchill wrote an article about trans women. Apparently, her friend Suzanne Moore's latest article contained a faux pas. In Burchill's words:
She wrote that, amongst other things, women were angry about "not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual".
At best, this is simply a poorly constructed byproduct of the aged-out argument that idealized beauties are expected to be voluptuous in ways white women can't achieve (Brazilian!) and skinny in a way that cis women can't achieve (transsexual!) simultaneously. It juxtaposes the hyperfeminized (big boobs!) and masculinized (skinny hips!) to demonstrate the absurdity and impossibility of beauty ideals.
It's aged out because modern feminists can generally agree that however rare these body types are, shaming the women who possess them as plastic and/or masculinized is just repackaging the same old worms. Moore's statement was poorly thought out. It was also a microaggression. It was clearly not intended to upset or dismiss transsexual people, but to make a cheap and thoughtless argument. The problem was that she completely disregarded trans people in doing so. She decided that their opinions or their audience was not worth acknowledging and that their identities were therefore free and available to use as a brazen and absurd example of what not to be.
Not surprisingly, some trans people didn't like this. Moore was apparently harassed quite a bit on Twitter and felt forced to delete her account. Julie Burchill to the "rescue!" I won't bother going into the specifics of the article, because it's all ugly. There's some stuff about bed-wetting and bad wigs and a hilariously sophomoric display of Burchill's feeble grasp of How Words Work. For example:
having recently discovered that their lot describe born women as 'Cis' – sounds like syph, cyst, cistern; all nasty stuff
Why but Burchill rhymes with Churchill, so if I call her Burchill, am I calling her a wrinkly old white guy who hates Lady Astor? What an idiot.
It was originally published in The Observer, but the editor didn't take long to realize their mistake and took it down. Of course, any editor worth their salt wouldn't have published it to begin with, but don't tell that to Toby Young! Why he was so offended at this "censorship" that he chose to republish this snot on The Telegraph, proving that British and American conservatives have at least one thing in common: they really have no grasp of the concept of censorship at all.
But why did Burchill do this? To defend Moore's honor? I once found myself in Moore's position, and I can sympathize… almost.
Not too long after my marriage went downhill and my ex lost his main source of income in the flailing economy, I was forced to take a job – literally any job I could get. My skills and experience were pretty okay, but at every job I applied for, I was competing against literally hundreds of thousands of unemployed people in my area. It was taking forever and I had children to feed. I was about to get evicted. So, I took a job I wouldn't otherwise take at a call center that hired anyone that came through the door: felons, addicts, anyone.
Every day after work, I would apply for more jobs, but for a while I was stuck there. Well, as anyone who has seen any of my videos on Zinnia's channel or any of our live shows on BlogTV knows, I present in a fairly masculine manner. I stand well above average for a woman at 5'10". I'm also very obviously a lesbian, and it didn't take long for my coworkers to notice, but I am not trans. I do identify as a woman. As one of the few people at the office who didn't show up to work on a lot of drugs every day, I was also fairly successful.
I worked my way up a rank fairly quickly and soon found myself on a level that very few women in that office ever achieved. My coworkers and bosses were all men. This privilege of being promoted, I was often told, had something to do with my "being one of the guys." Never mind my performance, I guess. There were frequent jokes about how "manly" I was. They called me by my last name rather than my first. I think this was all meant as showing respect by defeminizing me. As a feminist, this was extremely offensive, but driven to feed my kids and not really in a position to hire a lawyer, I kept my mouth shut.
One day, we came to work and discussed the dress code. They were tightening it up, they said, and men would be required to wear collars and slacks. Somebody asked about women's blouses. Could women wear shirts that didn't have collars? Of course, they conceded. Women's blouses are appropriate. I asked if I could wear shirts without collars. They said no. Somebody made a joke that I would look like a man in women's clothing. I grimaced quietly.
So, along comes Halloween and there's a costume contest at work. I thought it might be a good idea to up the ante, so to speak, on their crap. I put on one of my old dresses from back when I used to try to look femme. I did not shave my legs and had not in over a year at that point, so I let my fur fly. I also stuffed some tissue in my bra and put on some makeup to look like a five o'clock shadow and some chest hair. I wore a pink feather boa. I was a bad drag queen. My trans girlfriend thought this was hysterical. So did I.
I did not make much money. We rarely had enough to survive. In the absence of the resources to hire a lawyer and draw any real kind of line, I'd asserted my femininity and shone a spotlight on the absurdity and inappropriateness of my coworkers' jokes. I felt liberated and empowered for the first time in a very, very long time. I carved a pumpkin with a feminism symbol on it and took a picture sans the boa, which was itchy by then. I posted it on reddit.
At first, the thread went fairly well. People thought it was funny. Then, somebody pointed out that this was transphobic. There was much anger. A trans woman who goes by the internet handle LifeInNeon wrote an essay about how offensive I was. This essay become quite popular. My inbox was filled with death threats and sundry vitriol. I was humiliated and exhausted. I responded defensively. Because this was an empowering statement of my gender during a time when I had very little to feel good about, I would not apologize.
The joke, as I attempted to explain to people, was that I looked like a man in a dress. But the way they saw it, I was mocking trans women as looking like men in dresses, simply by looking like a man in a dress. Individually, Zinnia and I managed to explain this to those who would be willing to listen. When I calmed down a bit, I apologized not for doing what I did, but for irresponsibly posting it without the very necessary context, thereby setting into motion the inevitable consequence of appearing to be another one of those transphobes, of which there are more than plenty.
Those who were willing to listen, LifeInNeon included, agreed that while I certainly could not have expected to be perceived as anything other than a transphobe, this was not bigotry and mostly a horrible mistake. I hold myself and no one else responsible for whatever offense I caused, and I hold the authors of the death threats and no one else responsible for their violent behavior. That's the end of that.
Due to my experience, I have a unique understanding of what Suzanne Moore must have endured when her words went roaring through the trans activist circles online. People can be really awful. Over a year later, I still sometimes get replies to old reddit comments about how I'm a transphobe. People still post that picture whenever they disagree with me, their version of the ultimate ad hominem.
But however vitriolic and sometimes violent those who responded to me may have been, I would never resort to transphobia. I would never denigrate an entire group of people who are just trying to go about the business of living their lives and achieving the same amount of respect that even Moore and Burchill implicitly receive with crass, base insults about the genitalia of an entire group of people, most of whom probably have no idea who Moore even is.
Did Moore have to apologize to every single person who ever got offended or sent a rape or otherwise violent threat? No. Frankly, I'm not a fan of demanding remorse. Apologies taken are not the same as apologies given. But when you're calling yourself a voice for equality and social justice, there are some basic rules that people will generally expect you to follow, if for no other reason than to demonstrate that, while you may mess up, and may not always practice what you preach, you at least have some kind of idea of what you're preaching.
I wouldn't say that I necessarily handled my personal debacle with the utmost of grace and dignity, but I can say with certainty that Burchill's handling of Moore's debacle was beyond the pale. Burchill claims she did this in the spirit of feminism, aggressively claiming women's voices in a sea of men, in which she includes trans women. But what she's demonstrated is that her version of feminism has less to do with equality of the sexes, and more to do with making sure sewage just rolls a little further downhill than herself. Armed with the same body-shaming, shallow insult tactics that have been used against women since the beginning of time, Burchill is nothing more than a common hypocrite, and would do well to remember that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.


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In general, fences located within the front yard shall not exceed a height of forty-eight (48) inches. No fence within the side and rear yard shall exceed a height of eight (8) feet. Please refer to Article 2.Q - Walls and Fences of the Zoning Code for more information or contact the Planning Division at (434) 799-5260.
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In order to get zoning information for your parcel, you can access the Real Estate Assessment GIS web page by entering your address or you can find the zoning of your property on the Zoning Map. You can view the Zoning Code for specific zoning regulations or call the Planning Division for help anytime Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at (434) 799-5260.
Home occupations require approval from the Planning Division prior to the commencement of business operations. Zoning approval is needed prior to the issuance of a City Business License. There is a $10 fee to obtain a zoning clearance. For more information on Home Occupations, please refer to Article 2.T of the Zoning Code or contact the Planning Division at (434) 799-5260.
In residential districts, no motor homes, recreational vehicles (RV), trailers or boats shall be parked on the public street right of way. No more than two (2) of any combination of the above cited vehicles shall be parked on a residential lot. No parking of any of the above vehicles shall be permitted in a front yard of a residential lot. No such vehicle shall be used for any form of habitation on a residential lot and no such vehicle may be connected to a private or public utility. (Refer to Article 2.P.3 of the Zoning Code).
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U.S. Stroke Patients Are Getting Younger
Study found rise in rates among adults aged 20 to 54
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Specifically, researchers found that while stroke patients between the ages of 20 and 54 made up nearly 13 percent of all stroke patients in 1993 and 1994, that figure rose to just shy of 19 percent by 2005.
The result: In the interim, the average age at which strokes now occur has dropped significantly, down from roughly 71 years old in the mid-1990s to about 69 a decade later.
"This is pretty important, and a pretty big jump," said study lead author Dr. Brett Kissela, professor and vice chairman of neurology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. "And what it means is that even though young people typically feel like they're healthy and that a stroke can't happen to them, the fact is that our study is evidence that that is not true."
Kissela and his colleagues discuss their observations in the Oct. 10 online issue of the journal Neurology.
According to the American Stroke Association, strokes are a major cause of disability, and now the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.
To get a sense of how stroke incidence has been trending, the authors analyzed data concerning first-time stroke patients residing in the greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region, home to roughly 1.3 million men and women.
Stroke snapshots were taken in 1993 and 1994, and again in 1999 and 2005.
After comparing the three periods, the team concluded that strokes among young and middle-aged adults account for a larger piece of the puzzle today than they did before.
What's more, the observed trend appeared to apply to young people across the board, regardless of race. For example, the team noted that what had been 83 strokes for every 100,000 young black residents in 1993 and 1994 rose to 128 strokes per 100,000 by 2005. Similarly, among young white residents those figures rose from 26 strokes per 100,000 in the 1990s to 48 per 100,000 by 2005.
One possible explanation: A rise in the use of MRI scanning technology may be uncovering more strokes among younger patients than had been the case in the past.
"But for now we really can't say for sure why this is happening," Kissela cautioned. "But I would add that I think the findings are maybe not completely unexpected, given the rise of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol among younger and younger people. All of these are risk factors for stroke, and so that would naturally mean that the risk for stroke would get pushed forward."
"Young people should regularly go to their doctor and make sure their lab values are being checked," he added. "Because the consequences can be serious, even at a young age."
The new study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Ralph Sacco, chairman of neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, pointed to insufficient physical activity as a possible culprit for the observed trends.
"There are three things that the American Heart Association has highlighted as being of greatest public health concern with regards to the decade that just ended," he noted. "Obesity, diabetes and physical inactivity."
"In the last decade, we saw reductions in stroke and heart mortality, and improved high blood pressure and cholesterol control overall," Sacco said. "But we did not see as much change in physical inactivity. Over the past decade it only dropped by 2.5 percent."
"So this problem may now be beginning to show up as an increased risk of stroke at younger ages," he suggested. "This study can't prove that. But it is certainly of great interest."
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With another debt ceiling crisis looming that threatens a first-ever default by the Treasury and another government shutdown, there is a growing school of thought in the Senate that lawmakers should swiftly increase the government's legal borrowing authority in the next few weeks before adjourning for the summer.
After initially urging swift action on the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin conceded a week ago that the Treasury could probably make it through September without running out of cash to run the government and pay creditors.
Related: Team Trump Gets a 30-60 Day Reprieve from Raising the Debt Ceiling
Mnuchin's ambivalence reflected sharp divisions within the Trump administration over how best to handle the thorny issue, with some like White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney eager to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip this fall to achieve deep spending cuts.
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other senior GOP senators are increasingly inclined to resolve the debt ceiling issue in the coming weeks, before the August recess, rather than allowing it to fester and become enmeshed in partisan battles over defense and domestic spending this fall that could trigger another fiscal crisis.
Politico reports that there is also an "emerging consensus" among congressional leaders on both sides of the hill that the debt ceiling -- currently a staggering $20 trillion – should be raised by an amount large enough to preclude having to have another vote for at least several years.
Lifting the debt ceiling has been a politically onerous task dating back to the 1950s because neither party wants to be perceived by voters as accommodating runaway government spending. That's ironic because the debt ceiling law has nothing to do with increased spending. Rather, it authorizes the Treasury to borrow money to cover spending already authorized by Congress and the President.
Related: Mulvaney's Debt Ceiling Ploy Protects Treasurys, Not Social Security Checks
New debt ceiling authority almost always is decided with other major spending and tax disputes. That was the case in 2011 when Congress and the Obama Administration came within hours of default before breaking an impasse over spending and taxes. And the party in power frequently must make concessions to the minority to round up enough votes to pass the debt ceiling legislation in the two chambers.
Since 1960, Congress has acted 78 separate times to permanently raise, temporarily extend, or revise the definition of the debt limit. That happened 49 times under Republican presidents, 29 times under Democratic presidents, and each time, the stakes couldn't have been higher.
Failure to raise the debt ceiling would do irreversible damage to the U.S. credit rating, touch off an uproar in U.S. and global markets, drive up the future cost of borrowing, postpone Social Security payments and tax returns, and force layoffs of non-essential government workers. Even the threat of a default in August 2011 prompted Standard & Poor's to impose the first-ever downgrade to the country's gold-plated credit rating.
Congress and the White House have extended the Treasury's borrowing authority for long periods in the past to avoid having to repeat the excruciating exercise or get past an important congressional or presidential election without having to fight over the debt. In agreeing to a bipartisan budget deal in November 2015, the Obama administration and congressional Republican leaders suspended the debt ceiling through March 15, 2016, well past the 2016 election.
Related: Putting Trump's 'Historic' $54 Billion Military Spending Boost Into Context
At that point, the debt ceiling was reset to reflect cumulative borrowing up until then. And the Treasury began taking "extraordinary measures" to effectively buy more time for the government to pay its creditors and cover revenue shortfalls to keep the government operating until it received new borrowing authority.
But as the government braces for what could likely be another nasty fight over the debt ceiling this fall if the House refuses to go along with the Senate in acting now, some are asking why we need a debt ceiling at all. Rather than extending it again, they say, why not simply repeal the statute?
For instance, Jason Furman, former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama Administration, and Rohit Kumar, a former policy director and deputy chief of staff to McConnell, argued in a joint column in the Wall Street Journal this week that the debt limit "has outlived its usefulness as a mechanism for restraining the size of the national debt."
"Put more precisely, we think that whatever residual value the debt limit may have is far outweighed by the risk that a potential U.S. default poses to the global economic order," the Democrat and Republican wrote.
Related: New Debt Ceiling Deadline Could Ruin Lawmakers' Summer Vacations
Under the Constitution, Congress has the power to tax and spend as it sees fit, and to borrow money on the credit of the U.S., to cover shortfalls in revenue or emergency spending in times of crisis. Without this borrowing authority, the government would face a default on its debt to bondholders and miss payments to government agencies, taxpayers entitled to refunds, Social Security beneficiaries, defense contractors and a vast array of other creditors.
Related: Trump Could Face His First Fiscal Crisis Over Raising the Debt Ceiling
"Lawmakers are right to be concerned about steep increases in the debt," Furman and Kumar wrote. "But those worries should be expressed when the policies that actually increase the debt are voted on. Once new policies become law, defaulting on interest payments or veterans' benefits is hardly productive."


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Personalize the User Experience of an Alexa Skill
Note: Sign in to the developer console to build or publish your skill.
The following resources help you personalize the experience of using an Alexa skill.
Concepts and procedures
- Add Personalization to Your Skill – How to make your skill personalize its responses for recognized speakers.
- Access the Alexa Shopping and To-Do Lists – A description of how to enable your skill to read and modify the user's to-do and shopping lists.
- Understand Account Linking – The documentation about how to connect the user's identity with a user account in a different system.
- Configure Permissions for Customer Information in Your Skill – Some information about the permissions that your skill can request from the user.
- Enhance Your Skill With Address Information – A description of how your skill can request the user's permission to use address data associated with their Alexa device, and how to query the Device Address API for this data.
- Location Services for Alexa Skills – A description of the services that your skill can use to find the current device location of the customer.
- Request Customer Contact Information for Use in Your Skill – A description of how your skill can request the customer's permission to access their contact information and how to query the Customer Profile API for this information.
API reference
- Session object – The API documentation for the session object, which includes the user ID and other information that you can use to personalize your skill's response.
Blog posts
- How to Use Session Attributes in Your Alexa Skill to Enhance the Voice Experience – A discussion of how you can use session attributes to personalize the user experience.
- Code Deep Dive: Slots and Session Attributes in the ASK SDK for Node.js – A discussion of how to capture user input using slots so that you can cater responses accordingly, as well as a deep dive into session attributes.
- Personalize Your Alexa Experience in Minutes with Alexa Skill Blueprints – A description of blueprints, which are skill templates, and how to use them to create customized experiences for Alexa.
- How Building for Voice Differs from Building for the Screen: Individualize Your Entire Interaction – A discussion of how to individualize the voice experience through personalization.
- Alexa Skill Recipe: Using Session Attributes to Enable Repeat Responses – A description of how to implement functionality that enables users to have Alexa repeat what she just said.
- Alexa Account Linking: 5 Steps to Seamlessly Link Your Alexa Skill with Login with Amazon – The basics of account linking with Login with Amazon (LWA) and the steps to configure your skills to use it.
- 10 Tips for Successfully Adding Account Linking to Your Alexa Skill – Some best practices for creating a high-quality account linking experience for your customers.
- Beyond the Basics: Best Practices for Adding Account Linking to Your Alexa Skills – An additional list of best practices to help you provide your customers with a seamless account linking experience.
Videos, podcasts, and webinars
- Developing Alexa Skills – Account Linking – A video that describes how to incorporate account linking into your skill.
- Alexa Skill Blueprints – Create your own Fairy Tale Story – A short tutorial that demonstrates how to create a fairy tale story.
- Alexa Skill Blueprints – Create your own Family Trivia Game – A short tutorial that demonstrates how to create a family trivia game.
Twitch streams
- VOD - Alexa Account Linking – A broadcast that describes account linking and how to implement it in your skill.
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Fallon Sherrock delighted with 'unforgettable' Premier League debut draw
Fallon Sherrock called her draw against Glen Durrant at the Unibet Premier League in Nottingham an experience she will "never forget".
Sherrock, who became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship in December, narrowly failed to create more history as she drew 6-6 with Durrant.
The 25-year-old was bidding to become the first challenger to win at the tournament.
She stayed in the match throughout and had the crowd on their feet in leg seven with three triple-figure visits before a superb 92 checkout with bull, six and double 18.
Sherrock threw for the match in the final leg but was broken by the three-time BDO world champion and had to settle for a draw.
"It feels amazing because my aim when I went up there was just to not lose," said Sherrock. "I got a draw and I'm so happy. The first woman to play in it and I got a draw, I'm so chuffed.
"I'm going to take time to reflect on everything and just enjoy it. I'll look back at all this and just think it was an amazing experience. These are experiences I will never forget.
"I'm not disappointed (after being 6-4 up). If he missed doubles I was just so confident I would take mine out.
"I felt so comfortable up there and I am so looking forward to the UK Open. It's so amazing that women can compete against the men and show what we can do. I'm so excited."
Durrant missed a string of doubles throughout the match but finally found his range in the last leg to break Sherrock's throw and earn himself a point.
The 49-year-old paid tribute to his opponent, who had the vociferous backing of the Nottingham crowd.
"All credit goes to Fallon," he told Sky Sports. "She's just had the most amazing couple of months. That just cemented that.
"To play in the Premier League... that was the toughest game I've ever had. Playing Fallon Sherrock on that stage is a lot harder than maybe I anticipated. I'm very lucky to get the draw."
Defending champion Michael Van Gerwen is the only player with maximum points from the opening two weeks and he tops the table following an exceptional display to defeat Daryl Gurney.
Van Gerwen claimed a 7-1 win over Gurney with a 105 average, as well as hitting seven out of 11 on the doubles. Gurney on the other hand is down in last place with no points after a crushing defeat.
Rob Cross got his first win with a dramatic 7-5 success against Nathan Aspinall. "The Asp" twice squandered a break of the darts, in leg three and leg seven, but on each occasion failed to stamp his authority and allowed his opponent to stay in the match.
Cross saved his throw with an incredible dart at double 16 from well wide of the oche in the penultimate leg before winning the match with a break of throw at the same double.
Gerwyn Price, who drew with Cross during week one in Aberdeen, staged a remarkable comeback to draw again and deny Michael Smith what seemed like a certain victory.
The 2018 Premier League runner-up lived up to his "Bully Boy" moniker early on by storming into a 6-2 lead. He missed the seventh dart of a possible nine-darter en route to hitting two 10-dart legs and averaging, at one stage, 120.
However, Price displayed the never-say-die attitude for which he is renowned, reeling off the final four legs to snatch a point.
Peter Wright got off the mark with a hard-fought draw against Gary Anderson.
The world champion injured himself jumping on the stage but he hit a brilliant last leg to snatch a draw from Anderson who was left on a finish and ready to inflict back-to-back defeats on his fellow Scot.
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