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An organic produce garden is being proposed for New Bern�s Duffyfield area that would benefit homeless and disabled veterans.
An organic produce garden is being proposed for New Bern�s Duffyfield area that would benefit homeless and disabled veterans.
Lovay Wallace-Singleton, a 20-year air traffic controller for the U.S. Navy and a disabled veteran, recently presented the proposal to aldermen, saying the Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden would provide transitional employment for about 10 homeless and disadvantaged veterans in Craven County.
The garden also would provide horticulture therapy and rehabilitation for disabled veterans, Wallace-Singleton said.
Aldermen took no action on the proposal and asked for more information.
Craven County has 804 disabled veterans, according to the New Bern Employment Security office, Wallace-Singleton said.
Last year, Religious Community Services reported serving 21 homeless veterans, she said.
The purpose of the Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden, which is sponsored by the N.C. Coastal Land Trust, would be to decrease the veteran homeless population in Craven County, improve the quality of life for disabled veterans and increase organic produce in the county, Wallace-Singleton said.
Some of the produce would be sold at the Farmers Market, but it would also be given away to residents in the community, Wallace-Singleton said.
Wallace-Singleton is hoping to lease about 2 acres for the garden and an office in the city�s Henderson Park that is part of Stanley White Recreation Center. She is asking for a lease of 10 years at $2 a year, but city staff is recommending a five-year lease.
The creation of the garden would also require a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and New Bern employment office, Wallace-Singleton said.
Singleton said she also would seek grants, fundraising opportunities and donations to fund the first year of operations. Start-up cost for the garden is estimated at $30,500, with fencing, raised bed bins, a greenhouse, equipment and an office and shed, according to her presentation.
Alderman Victor Taylor asked how veterans would benefit if the produce from the garden is sold at the Farmers Market.
Wallace-Singleton said disabled and homeless veterans would be paid minimum wage to work around their schedules in the garden, which would supplement their disability wages. They also would find it therapeutic working in the organic garden and interacting with fellow veterans, she said.
�Many of our veterans still have a lot to offer the community and this is a good way to allow them to do that,� Singleton said.
Alderman Bernard White, who said there really wasn�t enough space in the park for youths, wanted to see the proposed site before making a decision on the lease.
Wallace-Singleton said they also were working with Havelock to create a veterans� garden in that city.
Alderman Sabrina Bengel said New Bern would benefit because food from the garden would be available for residents in the Duffyfield area. Several community gardens have already been started to try to get people to eat healthier, she said.
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Many companies are not increasing their data management capabilities at the same pace that data is growing. In fact, 30 percent of IT staffers surveyed by Kroll Ontrack said they do not have clear insight into what specific information is stored within their tape archives — and that's just one type of storage system. IT departments must address how they back up and store information to be able to garner value from data.
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With Mexico's new oil and gas reform laws set for release later this month, international oil companies likely will look toward investment opportunities in energy production because the risks will bring higher rewards now, a leading industry expert said Monday.
Mexico approved reforms in December to break up the country's state-run oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, which has held an energy monopoly for more than 75 years. The action opens up the market for private companies to bid on potential production fields starting in 2015.
The timing is "pretty exquisite" in terms of investing in Mexico, said Citigroup Head Commodities Researcher Ed Morse at a conference sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
With the reforms, private Mexican firms and international companies can invest and produce oil, gas and electricity. The goal of the reform, announced with fanfare by President Enrique Peña Nieto last year, is to garner more outside interest in energy production and increase Mexico's gross domestic product by 1% by 2018, according to the Mexican government.
"The constitutional amendments that were passed … only last December are really a game changer," former Pemex General Director Jesus Reyes Heroles said.
Combined, the U.S., Mexico and Canada would become a surplus sour crude supplier, possibly pushing out sour crude supplies from the Middle East and Russia, Morse said. With North America's 6.3 million barrels per day crude production plus crude production from Iraq and other European refining capacities, Morse said the Atlantic Basin can move from structural balance to crude oil oversupply.
"North America has a necessary energy resource to fuel its economic growth for a long time," Mexican Ambassador Eduardo Medina Mora said. "Through energy reform, Mexico will redefine its role in the energy sector, while the U.S. is adjusting to a new reality as a potential exporter for oil and gas."
Mexico is one of the top oil producers in the world, ranking ninth in 2012, and is the third-largest petroleum exporter to the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But production hasn't been as strong over the years, making this a prime time for the reforms to take place.
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Genealogy Day: My Plan for Cornelius Vollick
This Friday, October 1st is the big day! Hubs and I have each decided to take our first day as an organizational day. Each of us is going to choose an individual in our ancestry, and organize our notes, documents etc for that person. Then we are each going to come up with a plan for doing more research on that person. That will be our second Genealogy Day - an excursion to do the actual research.
I've chosen my 4th great-grandfather Cornelius Vollick. Cornelius was the son of a Loyalist in Butler's Rangers, and may have been a Loyalist himself. I've got conflicting information on whether or not he too was in Butler's Rangers that needs studying.
Years ago I acquired many petitions, land records and other documents regarding Cornelius but I need to go through them and study them for clues I might have missed first time around. I also plan to make a list of all petitions for Cornelius in the online Upper Canada Land Petitions Index. Part of my plan is to visit the new Ontario Archives building and get all of them again. I have them all but many are bad copies so I want new. Perhaps I missed one or two and if I did, this is my chance to get them.
My land documents and notations for Cornelius desperately need organization. A quick glance last night showed me that I have a lot of land documents, but there is no order to them and I haven't studied them in depth to think about clues found in them.
Cornelius is an important ancestor for me for two reasons. Without absolute proof that he is the father of my Richard Vollick, I can't get my Metis status back. I had Metis status but my tribe (Woodland branch of Ontario Metis Aboriginal Assocation) was disbanded (it's a long story!) and so I need to reapply through the Metis Nation of Ontario. They've already but accepted an application from a "cousin" so I know there is hope. However I descend from a different brother than my "cousin" does, so I have my work cut out for me.
Cornelius is also important because I can't obtain my UEL (Loyalist) status without that same absolute proof that he is the father of my Richard Vollick.
Hubs is going to talk about his plan for Genealogy Day on his blog AncestorsAtRest but without spoiling his blog post, I think he plans on organizing his records on his black ancestor Jonathan Butler, who settled circa 1840 in the Queen's Bush area of Upper Canada - a settlement area set aside for fugitive slaves.
We are excited about this Friday and the first of our monthly Genealogy Days! Do you have your day planned?
5 comments:
- Sarah said...
What a great idea! I need to have many "Genealogy Days" (especially for the organization portion).
Thanks for sharing your plans.
- Michelle Goodrum said...
This is something I need to do! It seems I always have "plans" to work on a specific genealogy project but other things get in the way. Maybe the one day a month idea is the way to go.
- Ginger Smith said...
Wow that is a really great idea. Way to take control of your time and your research. I'm sure it will help you stay focused as well! I can't wait to hear what you learn!
- Greta Koehl said...
I haven't done it, yet, but I am planning on following your example. One of the best ideas I've read yet!
- Anna said...
The first time I went to the new Ontario Archives I took my camera and got great digital images of the land petitions & other records from the big monitors.
Since it is much quicker & easier than using the copier, now I need to go through the online index (thanks for mentioning that), figure out what I'm missing, and go back and get images of them too.
Then I can print them all out so I have a digital & paper copy of everything.


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The Memphis legal community will continue a tradition next month that began a few years ago, in which the pro bono efforts of legal professionals are celebrated, encouraged and promoted for the entire month of October.
The American Bar Association kicked off its first annual "Celebrate Pro Bono Week" in 2009, and former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen that same year issued a proclamation naming October as "Tennessee Celebrates Pro Bono Month."
"The purpose of the month is just to shine a spotlight on what attorneys do in the pro bono area and to encourage more attorneys to get involved," said Memphis Bar Association executive director Anne Fritz.
The slate of events kicks off Oct. 4 with a pro bono training seminar. Classic American Hardwoods owner and former Manassas High School football coach Bill Courtney, featured prominently in the Oscar-winning documentary "Undefeated," will share some inspirational words with attendees before they break into groups. During those sessions, they'll be trained on how to handle different types of pro bono cases.
Later in the month, there'll be a Saturday Legal Clinic at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, as well as more social functions. The bar association's Young Lawyers Division is hosting a "Triple Threat CLE & Happy Hour" at The Crescent Club Oct. 18 that will feature jazz, hors d'oeuvres and cocktails.
That same week, the bar association will present "Entertaining Motions 2012." At that event, held at the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, the Community Legal Center and the bar association's Access to Justice Committee will honor volunteers.
Toward the end of the month, the Community Legal Center will host its second annual "Strut! Memphis" fundraiser at Mercedes Benz of Memphis.
"With poverty at historic levels in our city, state and country, pro bono work has never been more critical to our community," said George "Buck" Lewis, a shareholder in the Memphis office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz PC and a former president of the Tennessee Bar Association. "Pro bono month is a great annual reminder of its importance for our profession and well-deserved recognition for all that lawyers do all year long."
Memphis-area lawyers and lawyers-to-be are paying more attention these days to how much the community depends on pro bono service. Poverty and unemployment present some of the effort's motivation, for example, in a city where a Federal Reserve report recently noted that employment changes in the Memphis metro area have been "unusually volatile" lately.
Students in the current first-year class at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law will be among the first who will have to perform a certain amount of pro bono legal work to graduate. More attorneys in Tennessee also are performing pro bono work for clients.
According to new data from the state Board of Professional Responsibility, Tennessee has the highest percentage of pro bono reporting since attorneys began to voluntarily report their pro bono work in 2009.
Meanwhile, other events happening during Pro Bono Month include conservatorship training Oct. 26 and a legal clinic at the Lewis Senior Center at 1188 North Parkway Oct. 27.
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What do you do when two friends don't get along? And when they are two friends that you think should go perfectly together? Everyone loves each of the friends separately…yet those two just can not seem to pretend to like each other get along. They have so many things in common…like drinking, an obsession with small dogs, and loving me. So why can't they just play nice? I have considered many options…like confronting them and telling them to put on their big girl panties. I have tried just letting it go and seeing if they finally figure it out themselves. But it is not working and I have no other decent ideas (there is one that involves a padded room and foam baseball bats but I'm not sure how to make it happen).
So I have decided to do what I have done with my stirfry and rice. They really don't go together well. They should…since it is rice and a stir fry, which usually goes hand and hand. But since the rice has carrots and honey roasted peanuts…and the stirfry is filled with cashews and Catalina sauce…they just don't. So what do I do? I shove them together anyways. Put them in one small space and let them duke it out. It worked for the stir fry and rice situation. Who knows, maybe it will work for the friend one too!
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Despite attempts to get porn stars to wrap it up, the adult film industry swears its actors are safe from HIV and has an unusual method to prove it.
Voters in LA County have the chance today to approve Measure B, an initiative sponsored by California health officials and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which would require porn producers to get a permit to shoot a raunchy scene.
The permit fee would pay for random inspections to ensure actors are wearing condoms, according to CBS Los Angeles.
But producers worry the requirement will destroy their works' authenticity and drive them out of business.
Plus, according to a recent New York Times profile of the industry, producers are already doing plenty to keep their stars safe.
Before they shoot a scene, performers have to show each other an email from a lab proving they tested negative for H.I.V., syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea.
Shylar Cobi, a porn producer, also checks an industry database to confirm those results are less than 15 days old and inspects actors for signs of STDs.
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"I don't think there's any question that it works," Canadian AIDS specialist Dr. Allan Ronald told the Times. "I'm a little uncomfortable, because it's giving the wrong message — that you can have multiple sex partners without condoms — but I can't say it doesn't work."
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Wayland expands service into Oklahoma with Altus site
Wayland Baptist University is expanding its already growing external presence by offering classes at Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma.
The site will be a satellite of the Wichita Falls campus, which is located on Sheppard Air Force Base under the leadership of Dr. Georgia Flanagan, dean. Anne Kinsey, a former employee at Wayland's Hawaii campus, will serve as coordinator and academic adviser at Altus.
Classes will begin in Altus in November, and Wayland has been approved to offer the bachelor's degree. Wayland's offices and classes are located in the Billman Education Center and will serve primarily a military population, though civilians will be phased in as the site grows.
According to Dr. Bill Hardage, vice chancellor for the Wayland University System, the site will remain under the Wichita Falls campus until it gets large enough to be its own campus. Some faculty members from Wichita Falls, which is about 90 miles away, will be teaching courses at Altus. Other adjunct instructors from Oklahoma may be added in the future as well.
Hardage said the Altus venture goes along perfectly with Wayland's goal of carrying its unique brand of higher education with Christian values.
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Gov. Snyder makes it official: He'll run for office again
For months, Gov. Rick Snyder's campaign team has been working, campaign ads have been produced and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley has been campaigning for his spot on the ticket.
But Snyder hadn't officially announced a run for a second term — until Thursday night.
Snyder will kick off his re-election campaign Monday in Detroit during an event at James Group International. It will be the first of six campaign stops over a two-day period. He will travel to Lansing and Grand Rapids later that day.
Tuesday, Snyder's campaign will travel to Traverse City and Frankenmuth and end with a stop at the Oakland Community College campus in Farmington Hills.
The campaign stops, aside from the final stop at OCC, will take place at family businesses that have benefited from Snyder administration policies, according to his campaign.
The two-day tour that begins Monday will follow an ad Snyder's campaign is running during Sunday's Super Bowl.
Snyder's initial campaign for governor took off four years ago after the largely unknown venture capitalist and former president of Gateway Computers aired a commercial during the Super Bowl in which he introduced himself to voters in the state as "one tough nerd."
Today, Snyder plans to keynote a Michigan Press Association luncheon in Grand Rapids and answer questions.
Zach Pohl, spokesman for presumed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer, said Snyder's announcement makes clear the governor is "desperate to start his rebranding tour."
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IOWA CITY, IA – With construction of a new $69.2 million campus recreation and wellness center set to begin Oct. 19 at the University of Iowa, the school's student activity fee will jump from $4 annually to $219 for the fall 2009 semester.
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A Warming Australia: Fact or Fiction?
The media has recently been reporting apparently unprecedented heat in Central Australia in the context of human-caused climate change. But is the current heat wave, with extended periods of days above 40oC at Alice Springs really unprecedented? To answer this question it is necessary to examine the data.
There are two sites at Alice Springs for which readily accessible temperature data are available. The first is the Alice Springs Post Office commencing in 1878 and ceasing in 1953; the other is the Alice Springs airport commencing in 1941 and currently the official observing site for Alice Springs. The sites are about 10 km apart; the difference in January monthly mean maximum temperatures between the sites during the period of common observations (1943-53) was 0.2oC with the airport being the warmer of the two.
For the airport site the January monthly mean maximum temperature for all years of record (1942-2012) is 36.2oC. The monthly mean January maximum temperature for all years (1879-1953) at the Post Office is 0.3oC cooler at 35.9oC. The impression is that, when combined, we have a relatively homogeneous maximum temperature record for Alice Springs that spans 134 years.
The airport site is the basis for conclusions being drawn that warming has occurred during the second half of the 20th century. The 95th percentile for the monthly mean maximum temperature data is 39.0oC; five years exceeded this value making the hottest Januarys 1994, 1999, 2004, 2006 and 2008, all in recent decades. The warmest year (2006 with a monthly mean of 40.0oC) started with 12 consecutive days above 40oC and with a subsequent 4 days above 40oC. To date, 2013 is up with these previously hot months having experienced the first 14 days with temperatures reaching 40oC or above. On these data alone one might conclude central Australia has been getting hotter.
The Post Office data, however, show a quite different picture. The 95th percentile value is 39.3oC, or 0.3oC warmer than for the airport. The hottest years from the Post Office record were 1879, 1881, 1887 and 1881, all in the late 19th century. The hottest year in the Post Office record was 1887 and had 11 days above 40oC, a brief respite then another 10 days above 40oC. Taken in isolation the Post Office record would suggest a very warm late 19th century with a cooling trend since.
When we plot the monthly mean data for both sites an extended pattern of cooling followed by warming emerges. Temperatures are now only recovering to the values of the late 19th century.
It is unfortunate that the Australian government has not considered it sufficiently important to digitise and make publicly accessible all of the meteorological records from earlier years. The Bureau of Meteorology website has a range of important statistics about changing climate but most are generated from data subsequent to 1910 and based on a digitised selection of those recorded. As a consequence, statements based on the post-1910 data that suggest an ongoing warming trend are incomplete and likely misleading.
There is fragmentary accessible data (such as the above for Alice Springs) and much anecdotal evidence to suggest that during the late 19th century over central Australia, western New South Wales and South West Queensland the temperatures were as warm as or warmer than for recent decades. Without ready access to the existing earlier meteorological data a faulty picture of a warming Australian climate is portrayed in official statements. However, based on the Alice Springs data, a coming period of cooling cannot be discounted.
William Kininmonth
Kew, Vic 3101
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The UCI hasn't announced the world cup schedule yet.
However, the World Championships are set for London March 2-6 2016
(Dates were changed from initial announcement)
Full schedule:
By the way, you can watch Day 1 - 4 of the 2015 World Championships on German Youtube. I'm not sure about day 5. (In Paris, I could watch the replay on US Youtube. But, back in the states, it is blocked here.) I don't see why geo-blocking is necessary after the initial week of tv coverage.
There should be lots of athletes striving to shine at the World Cup series, lining up for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.


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By Jason Keidel
March Madness. No sport has coined its golden moment better than men's college basketball. Not March Mayhem. Not March Delirium. Not March Playoffs.
It's the rare moment when we are allowed to forget our bills, our troubles and our lives.
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Even the Super Bowl, America's preeminent sporting event, lasts only a few hours. And we're often reminded that it's also a business transaction, with commercial spots selling for seven figures, a Twitter god singing at halftime and a beleaguered commissioner handing the Lombardi Trophy to a team that took him to court.
Even the World Series, the peak of our pastime, has suffered under the iron fist of the NFL, which has surpassed MLB as our favorite sport. Indeed, baseball, while still profitable and prosperous, has seen sagging ratings, with playoff coverage splintered into a TV tree of networks. It took the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, two teams that had gone a combined 160-plus years without a World Series title, for baseball to produce epic ratings.
But March Madness is about unfiltered joy, about school spirit and esprit de corps. It's about Northwestern, a media powerhouse and hardwood pauper, making its first tournament ever, and then winning its first game, after six lead changes in the final 90 seconds and a silly foul that will haunt a young Vanderbilt man for the rest of his life. No matter how it happened, there were 220 NCAA men's basketball teams (including Vandy) that won a tournament game before Northwestern finally made the archives. You need not be named Warren Beatty, Stephen Colbert or Joe Girardi — all Northwestern alums — to smile toward Chicago.
But even the NCAA Tournament has to fend off the smog of industry. While Northwestern's players, students and alums danced the day away, pundits took to the TV studios to explain the firing of Tom Crean, who just a year ago was the toast of Bloomington. Now the Indiana Hoosiers are looking for a new coach, no doubt on a crusade to bring back their native son, Steve Alford.
Wasn't Indiana reality-proof? Isn't it not only the home of the Hoosiers, but also the home of Hoosiers? Didn't Gene Hackman become our surrogate coach? Isn't Indiana the spiritual embryo of high school basketball, the birthplace of John Wooden?
>>MORE: Commentary from CBS Local Sports Voices
So March Madness, for all its splendor, has only so much Teflon. The tourney doubles as a portal to spring weather. But someone forgot to tell Stella, which tossed a thick, white blanket of snow over the East Coast, from Virginia to Boston.
But not even snow can freeze our feelings, or our bracket, in duplicate, triplicate or those phone apps that allow you to create 20 brackets. To be the lord of your office, king of the cubicles. To sneak out of the office and storm your local pub, swathed in college colors, or to flop on your couch, nestle next to a beverage and bag of pretzels. It's the one time the term "gambling" is benign, a cozy euphemism for fun. Your thumb strains from pounding the remote, between TBS and TNT and truTV and the epicenter of the sport, CBS.
The best way to spread fairy dust on March Madness is for Cinderella to finally break through. Not just make the last weekend, but snip those nets from the rim. Every time George Mason or Butler crashes the party, there's a blue-blood bouncer at the door, unwilling to lift the velvet rope.
There's too much time, money and manpower devoted to the powers — to Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, UCLA, etc. — to keep them out of the Final Four. And, frankly, we need them. For all the lamentations about the same teams in April syndication, we need villains as much as we need heroes. It would just be nice for a basketball version of the Cubs to climb that ladder on Monday night.
But not even the hardwood aristocracy can stain this moment, these first four days of mayhem, of incessant basketball, literally more games than we can watch, beyond our eyes' poor power of correction. Whether you attended one of these schools or just feel some spiritual connection to them, there's no sport that can produce this kind of magic. Sixty-four teams, beaming with optimism, get reduced to 32, to Sweet 16, to Elite Eight, to Final Four, to two…
Forget that networks spend billions for the right to broadcast these games, or that players graduate, or that coaches get fired. Give us this long weekend to fit small schools for glass slippers, to dream of our favorite team drowned in confetti, for our hated team to taste defeat. Allow us these four days of March. Of magic. Of mayhem. Of Madness.
Jason writes a weekly column for CBS Local Sports. He is a native New Yorker, sans the elitist sensibilities, and believes there's a world west of the Hudson River. A Yankees devotee and Steelers groupie, he has been scouring the forest of fertile NYC sports sections since the 1970s. He has written over 500 columns for WFAN/CBS NY, and also worked as a freelance writer for Sports Illustrated and Newsday subsidiary amNew York. He made his bones as a boxing writer, occasionally covering fights in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, but mostly inside Madison Square Garden. Follow him on Twitter @JasonKeidel.
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Ryanair faces ban on luggage charge auto-opt-in
Stealth tactics to be stopped
Budget airline Ryanair is on a collision course with the European Commission over a proposed ban on opting web customers in to extra luggage and insurance charges by default.
Brussels plans to outlaw such practices for all e-commerce websites.
Ryanair - well known for charging extra to carry hold luggage, and for its websites' assumption that customers want to pay the charge - is likely to be one of the highest profile companies to be forced to change its business practices.
Other travel operators and retailers are also guilty in the Commission's eyes of taking advantage of online customers' tendency to click through purchase screens without checking what extra charges they may have incurred.
David Mair, head of the Commission's consumer markets unit, said figures from a train company had showed take-up of an ancilliary services online jumped from about 20 per cent to more than 60 per cent when the options were ticked by default. Customers were being harmed, he added.
The ban, although sure to attract fire from Ryanair's famously combative PR corps, is likely to be one of the more popular of a package designed to harmonise consumer rights across the bloc.
Currently working their way through the convoluted European legislative system, the laws as envisaged by the Commission would cut the period when UK consumers have the right to return faulty goods from six years to two. Officials believe it will mean more retailers will sell across borders and prices will come down, but they face opposition from consumer organisations. ®


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Electromach in Brazil
(by our Senior Field Engineer in Brazil, Jan Willem Gerdingh)
From his first 'field job' Electromach's new Field Service Engineer, Jan Willem Gerdingh, has kept a travelogue. This is his story:
It has been almost 5 weeks since Electromach colleague, René Mikkers, and I boarded the plane towards Brazil. My first trip in that direction and also my first field job for Electromach. René will support me how to act with ATEX installations, the specialization of Electromach, and I will support René with the PLC control and communication with various monitoring and control systems from other vendors.
Ex-news: Actual Ex Standards and 31/952/NP
In every newsletter you will find an actual overview of standards relating to explosion safety. In this issue the updates of the EN 60079 will be published.
Click here for the actual status of the EN 60079.
The development of new standards is also going on.
However, it will take several years before standards can be published as International Standards or Technical Specifications. First, the new standards are announced as 'NP'. NP stands for New work Proposal.
6050: NEW Zone 1 LED pendant light fitting
Equipped with a 28 LED array, R. STAHL's new 6050 series pendant light fittings are suitable for use in Ex zones 1, 2, 21 and 22.
At a light current of 5,700 lm, the LED units reach a luminous intensity of 10,000 cd at a ±60° angle in front of the lamp. With various reflectors, 20,000 cd at a ±30° angle or 30,000 cd at ±15° are also possible.
Requiring merely 75 W (65 W for the LED), the new lights are considerably more energy-efficient than functionally similar products with conventional lamps.
ACHEMA: June 18-22, 2012
Location: Frankfurt am Main (D)
Booth: FG2 (outdoors), stand B2.
During the ACHEMA, Electromach will demonstrate the demo-container. The container is equipped with several Ex solutions, including a sunlight readable HMI with an Ex-camera system.
NEW manual call point with GRP enclosure
Following on from the BEXCP3 range, we are now pleased to introduce a range of manual call points manufactured with GRP enclosures. Designed for the manual activation of fire alarms, gas detection and emergency shutdown systems, the units are environmentally sealed to IP66.
They meet the requirements for rugged, corrosion resistant non-metallic units for both onshore and offshore environments, and offer outstanding reliability when installed in harsh environments.
Available as standard in a range of colours, including striped versions, different systems can be colour-coded to enable rapid visual identification in an emergency.
CityRunners have established their goal
On April 22, it was the 65th anniversary of the Enschede Marathon. A group of Electromach employees had prepared themselves for running a 10k, the CityRUN 10k. Not for everyone the preparation went smoothly, so unfortunately some of the group could not start the 10k. Eventually 9 runners appeared at the start line under the leadership of Sales Director Robert André de la Porte. After a windy and cold start, everyone successfully made it to the finish line.
Job openings
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Central Vermont Public Service Corp. is considering introducing a new 5.4-mile, 46kV power transmission line that would extend from substations in New Haven and Weybridge, a project designed to enhance electricity delivery and reliability for around 4,400 customers — including businesses in Middlebury's industrial park.
CVPS spokesman Steve Costello stressed plans are very conceptual at this point. Ultimately, the state's largest utility would need to apply for permission from the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) to proceed with the $4 million project, which would not be subject to local review.
"We are trying now to get public input before we seek a permit," Costello said. "We are probably a year away from filing an application with the PSB."
The 4,400 customers that would be affected by the project are currently served by a dead-end radial line that extends from the Vermont Electric Power Co. (VELCO) substation in Middlebury to the CVPS substation in Weybridge. Costello explained that since the line is a dead-end, it is more vulnerable to interruptions of service in the event of a downed tree or some other natural disaster that could take down poles or other infrastructure.
"(The line) is not looped," Costello said. "There is nowhere else to feed it."
With that in mind, CVPS officials are considering a new 46kV line that would run along an existing electricity distribution right of way from the New Haven VELCO substation off Route 17, across Town Hill Road and through fields and cleared land before crossing Route 7. After crossing Route 7, it would travel across country, paralleling Campground Road and Twitchell Hill Road before tying into the existing 46kV line feeding the CVPS Weybridge substation, which is on Quaker Village Road.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
FERRISBURGH — Dozens of Ferrisburgh residents and a Vergennes Union Middle School class crowded into town offices for a Nov. 19 planning commission hearing on a petitioned zoning change. The petition was sparked by a recent proposal for a combined McDonald's Restaurant, gas station and convenience store on Route 7.
That proposal has generated more interest — and opposition — than any in recent Ferrisburgh memory, even more, said planning commission member Bob Beach, than a proposal for more than a hundred homes and shops on a parcel next to the school and town offices two summers ago.
With those strong feelings in mind, Beach said planners are likely to make some kind of recommendation to selectmen for a zoning change, he said, although the issues are complicated.
"It's important to note that it's the biggest turnout ... I've ever seen come forward on a planning commission issue," Beach said.
The petition in question asked for a zoning change for "commercially zoned areas" along Route 7 "to allow for no more than one gas station, convenience store, and/or fast food restaurant within each of our three commercial zones."
It offered as a rationale that the areas are "too small in road distances (one-half mile or less in each designated area) to allow for safe ingress and egress of more than one of these businesses in each zone," and requested the change "to ensure the safety of all motorized vehicles and passengers" traveling along Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.
Town Clerk Chet Hawkins assessed the mood of the crowd, estimated at roughly 75, without himself taking a position.
"It was predominantly in support of the bylaw to not permit the high-volume use of Route 7," Hawkins said.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury's newly renovated Town Hall Theater (THT) on March 2 will take a brief holiday as an entertainment venue in order to return to its roots as the hub of municipal government.
Selectmen and THT officials have confirmed Middlebury's annual town meeting will return to the theater building after a more than 50-year hiatus.
"I think it's a wonderful opportunity," Middlebury selectboard Chairman John Tenny said of town meeting's impending relocation to the THT. "We are hoping for a very strong showing (from townspeople)."
The venerable building at 68 South Pleasant St. was erected in 1884 as Middlebury's first town hall. The structure featured a 600-seat theater that hosted — along with Middlebury's annual meeting — a variety of plays, concerts, dances, speeches and eventually, movies.
But the building's run as town hall ended during the 1950s, when local leaders moved Middlebury's municipal offices to their current location: The former Middlebury High School complex off College Street. Meanwhile, the former town hall was sold to private owners, who over the years used it as an eatery and for other commercial purposes.
It was around a decade ago that a group of drama enthusiasts and community members organized an effort to purchase the building from the Middlebury Knights of Columbus, and transform it into a performing arts center. Organizers were able to take their bow this past summer, when they opened the THT after having raised more than $5 million to acquire and completely renovate the landmark property.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — For years, Lincoln resident Christian Schider traveled all the way to New York City for his Thanksgiving meal, sitting down for what could be the year's most-talked-about meal not with family, but with strangers from all over the world.
Schider was in his late teens when he struck up this nontraditional tradition, making the trek to sit at a community table at the well-known vegan restaurant Angelica Kitchen. At the time, he said, he was a fairly militant vegan, someone who has chosen to eat no foods containing animal products.
After his animal-free Thanksgiving meal he'd travel to Long Island to visit with tryptophan-drugged family, but his sit-down supper with strangers was a longtime holiday highlight.
Schider gave up his vegan diet recently, during his wife's pregnancy, and this year, the produce buyer at Bristol's Mountain Greens Market and Deli plans to stay a bit closer to home for the holiday.
But what Schider's memories of Thanksgivings in New York suggest is that "Turkey Day" for vegans and vegetarians is about everything but the turkey.
Take one of Schider's co-workers at Mountain Greens, 24-year-old Courtney Lucia. Lucia is planning for her seventh vegetarian Thanksgiving. Leaning over the deli counter, where Lucia works, she said that her family doesn't do any of the "fake stuff" — "tofurkeys," for instance, or "smart bacon," both vegetable-based products designed to mimic meat dishes.
That's not to say there isn't plenty at her family's table she can happily gobble up.
"I always bring something that I've made that I know I can eat," she said. It's hard, sometimes, to turn down dishes that she knows her family has worked hard to make. But does politely declining a serving of white meat change the holiday for her?
VERGENNES — Late last week Vergennes interim city manager Mel Hawley had one word removed from his title — interim.
Mayor Michael Daniels said Hawley, 55, who previously served from 1981 to 1998 as the city's manager, was the unanimous pick as the city's new manager by a hiring committee that included Vergennes aldermen, City Clerk Joan Devine, planning commission chairman Neil Curtis, and city resident and American Legion Post 14 official Henry Broughton.
Aldermen accepted the committee's recommendation at a Nov. 18 executive session, and Daniels made the choice of Hawley official on Thursday, after Hawley's employer since he left the city's employ in 1998 — Vergennes outdoor equipment manufacturer Country Home Products — had been notified.
Daniels said there were several strong candidates for the post, including one other finalist besides Hawley. Hawley's familiarity with the city's operations and his track record made him stand out, the mayor said.
"With Mel's knowledge of the city's working operations as it is, he was the better fit of the two," he said. "We feel that the transition ... will be smoother and a lot faster because he is so near to the pulse of our city."
Daniels said the committee was also impressed with Hawley's responses to a series of questions that were formulated not only by committee members, but also by the city's department heads.
Specifically, the mayor said, committee members believed Hawley would give city employees latitude to perform their jobs, while still insisting they get their work done right.
"He's going to hold department heads accountable ... but yet with a little bit of free rein," Daniels said.
MIDDLEBURY — Directors of the Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow (VSCC) are working aggressively to raise money to help the 37-year-old, nonprofit arts organization navigate some choppy financial waters heading into its key holiday sales period.
The VSCC currently hosts galleries and a wide range of arts education programs at its locations off Mill Street in Middlebury and Church Street in Burlington. But this year has been tough for Frog Hollow, which this summer closed its Manchester branch in reaction to sagging revenues and a slumping economy. And the economy has only gotten worse this fall.
"We are finding ourselves in the same situation that a lot of retail and sales-based businesses are finding themselves in," said VCSS Executive Director Deidre Healey. "We've been hit as hard as any Main Street business and our focus right now is finishing the 2008 season as best as we possibly can."
With that in mind, the VCSS is seeking to raise $50,000 in donations before the end of January. That effort could be greatly boosted by the potential offer of an anonymous, $100,000 matching grant the VCSS is now trying to secure.
Frog Hollow leaders met last week with local legislators and state and county economic development officials. Healey said she and her colleagues made a request for $75,000 in state aid. They were told it's unlikely such a request could be honored, in part due to the fact that the state's economic aid programs are geared toward for-profit businesses.
"We are looking for any support the state can give us," Healey said. "But we have not be able to secure any of the financial support we have needed from the state."
GLORIA KAMENCIK AND Nathan L'Heureux take a twirl on stage during a rehearsal Tuesday night of Mount Abraham Union High School's production of "Beauty and the Beast." The show will be performed Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. For more photos from the show, see the print edition of the Independent.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
BRISTOL — Middlebury selectmen will spend the next five weeks trying to put together a fiscal year 2009-2010 municipal budget that features no local tax increase.
Selectmen are seeking to maintain the current municipal rate of 80.6 cents per $100 in property value in deference to Middlebury residents who are struggling through a tough economy. Several local businesses have laid off workers during the past year. Meanwhile, economists on Tuesday predicted a $30 million decline in general fund revenues for the current fiscal year and a state unemployment rate that could soon reach 7 percent.
"We come at this budget in a little bit of a different way, intentionally," Middlebury selectboard Chairman John Tenny said. "I think it's a good change in the process for what is clearly going to be a difficult year, if not two or three years. Because of the difficult financial situation, this leads us toward a budget presentation and preparation unlike previous years … where we've set the baseline as 'maintaining the level of service.' This is looking at holding the line financially, and a more arbitrary financial limit because of the economic stress that is perceived in the community."
Middlebury Assistant Town Manager Joe Colangelo on Tuesday spelled out the impact a level municipal tax rate would have on next year's budget.
First, he noted a projected 1.5-percent increase in Middlebury's grand list would give the town roughly $6,760,000 in revenues, a sum that would fall approximately $259,496 short of the $7,020,147 needed to maintain the same services that local residents are currently receiving.
The lion's share of the gap — almost $165,000 — is associated with increases in wages and benefit premiums for municipal employees, hikes that are guaranteed through negotiated contracts.
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The Complete Book of Spirits: A Guide to Their History, Production, and Enjoyment
Hardcover(First Edition)
An indispensable follow-up to his classic Complete Book of Mixed Drinks, Anthony Dias Blue presents The Complete Book of Spirits, a comprehensive collection of history, lore, and tasting tips, along with recipes for select cocktails. Here, in one concise and easy-to-use volume, is all the information a consumer needs to shop, mix, and sip like a spirits expert.
From bathtub gin to mojito madness, Blue brings the dynamic history of the spirits industry alive, demonstrating that spirit making is not only one of mankind's oldest pursuits but also perhaps its most colorful. In ten captivating chapters, readers are treated to everything they ever wanted to know about their favorite liquors, including vodka, aquavit, tequila, and whiskey. Blue also provides step-by-step instructions on how to host spirit tastings to educate your palate and to help you and your friends discover your favorite brands and blends. For every chapter and every spirit, there is also a handy tasting-notes section, with Blue's expert comments and his favorites, along with price points.
If you've ever wondered about the difference between potato and wheat vodkas, or between mescal and tequila or American and Irish whiskeys, or what makes single malt Scotch so desirable, look no further. With Anthony Dias Blue, America's leading wine and spirits expert, and The Complete Book of Spirits as your guides, you will take your enjoyment to a new level.
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Anthony Dias Blue is the author of several books, including The Complete Book of Mixed Drinks and American Wine: A Comprehensive Guide. For twenty years he has been Wine and Spirits editor of Bon Appétit. His reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the country, including Wine Spectator, Robb Report, epicurious.com, American Way, and Decanter. Mr. Blue's Lifestyle Minute is broadcast several times daily on CBS radio. He lives in California.
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