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Unanimous vote: City Council lowers nighttime noise law to 55dB
Just five months after lowering the limit from 75 to 65 decibels, City Council voted unanimously Monday to lower the late-night noise level restaurants are allowed to emit to 55 decibels.
The August 16 action brought a wave of applause in the first row of City Council Chambers; and it came despite the recent demise of the Belmont neighborhood restaurant that had been responsible, according to Council's discussion, for 100 percent of the recent sound complaints.
According to a city report, the recent noise complaints were rendered moot–- though certainly not mute–- because the readings measured the offending noise at an average of 58 decibels, which is above the new limit. Something that was recently rendered both moot and mute was Bel Rio restaurant, which inexplicably went out of business in July.
Bel Rio, and a predecessor restaurant at that site called Saxx Jazz Club, featured musical performances on a small stage with thumping bass that disturbed the sleep of many Belmont neighbors who waged a long-running campaign to enact a stricter noise ordinance. When the 65dB limit was first debated in February, many seemed wary of the 55dB level.
Back then, Councilors heard from Jim Baldi, the owner of Bel Rio, who said that a man with a decibel meter found that merely opening the door to the City Council chambers registered 62 decibels. Since then, however, Baldi's star has fallen, as he's vanished amid an Albemarle police investigation that includes an arrest warrant for him on an embezzlement charge
The only City Councilor to express much reservation about Monday's sound clampdown was David Brown, who said it seemed like a "broad tool to deal with one particular business." Mayor Dave Norris noted that a recent code redefinition amounts to a ban on nightclubs (which the zoning code calls "music halls") and may actually bring more benefit for noise-averse residents. Nonetheless, Norris joined the other four Councilors in amending the noise ordinance.
The law only applies to sounds emitted from 11pm to 6am in the so-called Neighborhood Commercial Corridors, which currently exist only in the Belmont and Fontaine neighborhoods.
In another closely-watched issue, Council also unanimously voted to ban panhandling near the two automobile crossings over the Downtown Mall. During a public comment session, the Council heard from Downtown Business Association Director Bob Stroh, who favored the ordinance in the name of safety. The Council also heard from recent City Council candidate Paul Long, who opposed the ordinance in the name of freedom.
One thing that came up just moments before the panhandling vote is that the amended ordinance–- which now bans any solicitation within 50 feet of the crossings at 2nd Street West and 4th Street East when they're open for traffic–- will actually ban musical busking in those areas. That was zoning director Jim Tolbert's interpretation, yet all five Councilors nonetheless voted their support for the ban.
After the vote, a man stood up to blast the move as an attack on the society's unfortunate. "It is only going to be enforced against the very poor people," said the man. "They have every right to be there and solicit contributions. I am more than disappointed; I am angry."
Councilor Satyendra Huja then defended that vote, as did Holly Edwards, the latter of whom cited a Biblical passage and pointed out that this Council has enacted several measures aimed at bolstering human livelihoods in the hope of obviating the need to beg.
In other actions Monday, the Council appropriated funds for new police cruisers, a set of nine Ford Crown Victorias to be purchased from Crossroads Motors of Virginia, Inc., which won a recent bidding process with a price of $225,400–- or $25,044 each.
The Council also enacted a new slate of building code fees including $400 to gain a temporary certificate of occupancy, $100 to petition the Building Code Board of Appeals, and a fee equal to double the normal building permit fee after a contractor has been hit with a stop-work order.
Finally, the Councilors voted to repeal 50 percent of the increased property tax from a planned $20 million downtown development by Waterhouse LLC. Designed by architect Bill Atwood and marketed by Great Eastern Management, the project was envisioned as the new home for Worldstrides travel company. Criticism has already been aired in the Daily Progress for a development which merely lures workers from Albemarle County into Charlottesville. Nobody spoke out against the special grant to a private business, and Council unanimously approved the the tax repeal, which will last for five years.
– story updated 9:03am Tuesday, August 17 with photo and a little more background on noise law
39 comments
(I broke my word to myself and looked at this darn blog again;
but this is it! No more after this.)
I am tired of "Tired of Caesonia" and the negativity and name calling
and sour grapes. I loved Belmont before all this Belrio-noise-chaos
and am glad it has finally been resolved with the help of residents
who took their time, and became lighting rods, for speaking up for us.
The negativity was the result of too much late night noise...and that
could have been stopped years ago as it was in the lease to only have light jazz. Individuals who stood up to that aggravating noise were re-acting
to the initial problem, not creating negativity.
Now problem should be over, so I suggest people move on from this blog which has deteriorated into name calling and extreme nastiness, such as this blip which I find cruel, scary and repugnant:
tired of caesonia August 17th, 2010 | 5:22 pm
... Bel Rio is gone. The only thing that is bringing down the property value in Belmont is the fear of living next to someone like you.
.... If this was a competition, you won. I think it is sad. I hope that your victory is sweet, but watch your back because karma is a b*tch. And watch your cat, I saw it eating a bird the other day.
Ordinarily I do not want to get sucked up in the annonymous
and high school-ish blogs, but want to
thank my neighbors who bravely and unselfishly and intelligently
stood up for the many residents who were disturbed by a few
noisy late night venues. It took time and courage and commitment.
These wonderful people spoke up for those who are tired, or disempowered,
or too busy earning a living for themselves and those they are supporting ( I can think of 3 such families right off the top of my head), are to be congratulated. Those living IN Belmont thank
those who took a stand, and did the right thing!
Want thumping noise and drinking late at night? Fine, have it at YOUR house! I am indebted to those who stood for my neighborhood.
Stop being sour grapes, those of you who invited restrictions.
A gentrified Hogwaller: that pig needs a boatload of lipstick...
The noise ordinance has been passed. Bel Rio is gone. Why can't you, Old Timer AKA Caesonia, leave Belmont alone? There are so many people that come to Belmont who love, treasure, and respect the neighborhood. Many of these people, myself included, live in the neighborhood and call Belmont home!! The only thing that is bringing down the property value in Belmont is the fear of living next to someone like you.
I pray that the positive energy is going to out way the negative energy that a handful of residents have managed to cast over an entire community.
Old Timer, I know that this has given you a sense of self-importance but I think that it is now time for you to move on and spend your energy on things that matter since this issue has been resolved. If this was a competition, you won. I think it is sad. I hope that your victory is sweet, but watch your back because karma is a b*tch. And watch your cat, I saw it eating a bird the other day.
Don't sit on your porch and talk after 11pm, Belmont. You might get cited.
I guess the daily city council flatulence is on the way out.........
So does the ordinance apply to peoples AC units? They are almost ALL over 55db......
50 dB refrigerator
50 - 75 dB washing machine
50 - 75 dB air conditioner
50 - 80 dB electric shaver
55 - 70 dB dishwasher
60 - 85 dB vacuum cleaner
60 - 95 dB hair dryer
65 - 80 dB alarm clock
75 - 85 dB flush toilet
80 dB ringing telephone
110 dB baby crying
90 - 115 dB subway
120 dB ambulance siren
130 dB jackhammer, power drill
130 dB percussion section at symphony
140 dB airplane taking off
95 - 110 dB motorcycle
110 dB symphony concert
110 dB car horn
110 -120 dB rock concert
112 dB CD player on high
117 dB football game (stadium)
150 dB firecracker
157 dB balloon pop
162 dB fireworks (at 3 feet)
163 dB rifle
166 dB handgun
170 dB shotgun
Make a silly statement, get the response you deserve.
"So none of these can happen after 11PM"Š.or you get cited"Šinteresting"
Seen anybody getting cited in the other residential neighborhoods of Charlottesville for running a vacuum after 11PM in their home?
"163 dB rifle
166 dB handgun
170 dB shotgun"
These get you arrested, not cited.
Do yourself a favor. Read the City Code before you try and make a point through sarcasm. Your ignorance just makes you look like a complete idiot and destroys your credibility.
Old Timer, I understand your position. But I think very old timer's cynicism might come from the fact that a 55 dB rule won't in and of itself stop vandalism, public urination, etc. from the late night rowdies.
I think the City (and ourselves) should ask the tougher questions. Is our concern really the late night noise? Or is it the negative externalities caused from nightspots being in a (mostly) residential neighborhood? Solutions to these 2 problems are much different.
Lastly, is it possible to quantify this at all? How many people have complained about noise? Is it 5 or 6 or are whole blocks taking action and petioning the city? My guess is that a relatively few number of people have complained so I'm guessing the City is throwing them a bone with a weak and difficult to enforce noise ban. Belmont still appears to be a neighborhood where some people want to live and I'm guessing the City doesn't want to rock this boat and is unwilling to rezone to kick the restaurants out.
"I guess nobody gets drunk after a night at MAS and pukes in peoples yards. I guess nobody ever got into an argument at MAS and carried it down the street."
Apparently not. Otherwise you would have gotten complaints from those very same residents 2002-early 2006. That was before Saxx, Bel Rio, and la Taza decided to open a Tiki Bar.
"The history of Belmont has been told from different points of view depending on which house you live in. The fact that cannot be denied is that there has never been a time in Belmont where the really nice houses exceeded the dumps. That is still true today."
No, the history of Belmont is generally rewritten by resentful people like who think going into a neighborhood to eat a meals gives you the right to do whatever pleases you to those who live there, or take whatever pleases you from them.
Belmont was THE first subdivision in Charlottesville, in the area now known as Downtown Belmont, and there isn't an outhouse or shack being lived in. They got rid of those when they put plumbing in the early 20th century. It was the rest of Charlottesville living without indoor toilets.
"lipstick they put on a few pig houses."
Boy, and you are so desperately angry that you don't get to be a part of the pig pen. You sound awfully jealous that you were told you couldn't keep your snout in the trough if you weren't a pig in a pig house. You sound jealous of Mas too, the oldest trough in that section.
It must really bite when you squeal so loudly even the pigs won't tolerate you. :>))
What's stopping you from starting your own Bel Rio next to your house in your own neighborhood? At least then you'll find that you won't have to be doing it around the piggies.
I guess nobody gets drunk after a night at MAS and pukes in peoples yards. I guess nobody ever got into an argument at MAS and carried it down the street.
There are laws on the books and taxes to pay for cops. THe laws agasinst public urination and vandalism are fine with me.
The sound level at 55db is too low and I don't believe that it will stand up in court because I don't think the meter will read lower than 55db when the music stops if an A/C unit is nearby.
We will see. I am entitled to my opinion about Belmont which is expressed because the crybabies in Belmont preofessed about how great it now is thanks to them and the lipstick they put on a few pig houses.
The history of Belmont has been told from different points of view depending on which house you live in. The fact that cannot be denied is that there has never been a time in Belmont where the really nice houses exceeded the dumps. That is still true today.
I wonder if the Police will stand across the street fromn MAS on a busy night when every table is full with people talking and charge them with violating the law.
Excuse me, the rest of Charlottesville living with outdoor toilets.
What "good bands" is Charlottesville going to miss out on now that the treasure that was Bel Rio is no more?
"didn't start slamming Belmont until caseonia and others bragged about how they were entitled to quiet because they spent money fixing up their houses and saved belmont from its saddened state."
In all my reading of the comments over this long period, no one bragged about anything until the false claim that places like Bel Rio saved Belmont was posted over and over in forums like this. It was an insult to many residents who have over the last 20 years or so, invested via sweat equity/cash equity into their homes. All those people absolutely have a right to take pride in their efforts and defend it in the face of such absurdities such as nightclubs saving Belmont.
Whomever Caesonia is, he/she was hardly the only one to claim the residential investment as an important factor. Maybe the most vocal, but why is that a problem? It makes their points no less valid or untrue.It does however, appear to threaten individuals like you? Why is that?
You do realize that by making up all the false statements about Belmont and ignorant/belittling statements about railroad or blue collar workers you destroy any credibility you might have at all?
There are no outhouses with chandeliers along Hinton, Belmont,Graves, Douglas, and many other streets in that area. There are more humble homes as you go down the hill towards the stockyards, but you will also notice that there are no nightclubs or restaurants, other than Moore's Creek, which has been there a long time.
I do agree with you that the investment thing shouldn't determine a sound level. I also happen to hold that standard to business and resident alike. What should determine that is the basic humanity of treating people who live in an area with respect and dignity regardless of their socio-economic income or the value of their property. A small business should no more be run out by a few developers in cahoots with the City than the residents.
Apparently you have decided that only people of certain socio-economic classes have a right to a peaceful neighborhood.
Belmont has always been primarily residential, and that character hasn't changed in over 100 years. Most homes there are zoned r-2 if you look at maps. Thus, I think that Belmont should be given the same treatment of other residential communities like Greenbrier, Park St, Greenleaf, Westwood/Rugby area. 55dbs. If you think it won't stand up in court well, you had better start doing research because 55dbs is a residential standard all over the country.
What's more, I happen to think its the residents and businesses there that should determine it. A general vote would have probably been better. The last people that have any right to determine what is right sound wise for any residential area are musicians from other neighborhoods and counties that slam their ear drums routinely with 90 dbs of sound in a small space.
Pretty much all I am hearing from you is a lot of sour grapes, and anger at a single blogger who has been very vocal about a few principles. That blogger worries you a great deal. Of credibility you have zero.
Mr Brown seemed to forget that 3 restaurants have now been at the center of noise complaints in that section for 4 years. It started with La Taza, then moved on to Saxx, and then Bel Rio. The Easters seemed bent on having rowdy crowds one way or another. Obviously some people and their patrons need to understand that this was just not the place for late night loud screaming and yelling.
The fact is, these places could not compete with the suiperior surroundings, and that's not the residents' fault.
What I really don't get is why this Council, one claiming to be Democratic, thinks that the 50k of a business owner is worth more than the 50k + of a resident? What, a resident who puts down bucks to by a home and invests in it is less worthy than somebody like Jim Baldi?
Yeah. Right.
the only thing loud in Belmont is Allison Ruffner.
and yes, i do know that i spelled "outweigh" wrong before anyone corrects me. iPhones are really small and hard to read.
All the good bands will now be appearing in other towns, thank you, whilst you sit with your hands folded in your quiet neighborhood.
@tired of Caesonia: "...iPhones are really small and hard to read.": That's what she said...
Tired of Caesonia -
Do you have proof that Allison Ruffner is Caesonia? Would you care to demonstrate how you have proof of that?
turn it down!,
Normal conversation 55 dbs. Are you saying there is problem in expecting people to have normal conversations after 11PM?
All residential areas in Charlottesville have ordinances limiting the sound to 55bs after 11PM.
Very Old Timer,
If you would like to complain about an AC unit in your neighborhood, do so. Have a sound measurement taken at the property line. If it can be measured above 55dbs, they can be cited. The rules are there. Go do it. Or do you just want to be sarcastic because a little bit of civil conduct is being forced on the guests who have been trashing a neighborhood for the last 5 years?
Are they using the A or C weighting scale, fast or slow response? These numbers are meaningless unless the scale is defined. Would someone please tell the public which they are using as their reference. A meter measuring 55 C weighted will likely fall to approx 52 A weighted..
Yes I AM being sarcastic. I think the entire argument is ridiculous. Belmont was a white trash depository with a few nice houses mixed in. Now it is a snobberium of people who think that it is not a dump. Putting a chandileer in an outhouse does not make it a dining room.
If I had a club in that neighborood and was attacked I would go around with my meter and create just as big a problem for the complainers as they did for me.
This whole thing has been blown up by a small group of people who have sleep disorders due to other issues in their lives.
Probably nothing that couldn't be fixed with a weightloss program a paper bag and an overdose of viagra.
50 - 75 dB washing machine
50 - 75 dB air conditioner
50 - 80 dB electric shaver
55 - 70 dB dishwasher
60 - 85 dB vacuum cleaner
60 - 95 dB hair dryer
65 - 80 dB alarm clock
75 - 85 dB flush toilet
80 dB ringing telephone
110 dB baby crying
90 - 115 dB subway
120 dB ambulance siren
130 dB jackhammer, power drill
130 dB percussion section at symphony
140 dB airplane taking off
95 - 110 dB motorcycle
110 dB symphony concert
110 dB car horn
110 -120 dB rock concert
112 dB CD player on high
117 dB football game (stadium)
150 dB firecracker
157 dB balloon pop
162 dB fireworks (at 3 feet)
163 dB rifle
166 dB handgun
170 dB shotgun
So none of these can happen after 11PM....or you get cited...interesting
very old timer,
All your response reminds us is WHY there had to be a sound ordinance.
Your labeling and complete dehumanization for the residents whose lives have been overturned for your pleasure and that of other non-resident rowdies is
So if they are white trash or snobs - and who are you to judge -, does that make it OK to use their yards as toilets? Scream outside their windows? Vandalize their cars or property? Does the inhabitant of any neighborhood have to meet a certain background check to be allowed to be treated with common courtesy for the safety of their person and their property and to be allowed to sleep unmolested in their homes by business patrons?
Let us know, Grand Master, so the Belmonters can live the quality of you deem acceptable for them in their ghettos, along with their supporters like Mas Tapas.
Some woman lives for 40 years in a neighborhood and never has trouble sleeping until a few of these clubs which were supposed to be restaurants open now suddenly has a 'sleeping disorder' and needs viagra? That's like saying someone with a knife in their back has a pain disorder.
I'd say that those upset by the ordinance have a hearing disorder. Get hearing aids. The respect disorder will need more work. Maybe the ordinance will help start the process to recovery.
If not, do it in your own neighborhood. Where you sleep. Obviously your own nest is far superior to that of Belmont, and you wouldn't want to be heard hanging out with such trash.
Or won't your neighborhood wear a Bel Rio?
"The history of Belmont has been told from different points of view depending on which house you live in."
No matter what one's view of the noise ordinance is, the existence of the new restaurants in general, or of the progression (or regression) of Belmont, I think this is a statement we can all agree on!!
"Some woman lives for 40 years in a neighborhood and never has trouble sleeping until a few of these clubs which were supposed to be restaurants open now suddenly has a 'sleeping disorder' and needs viagra?"
Thought that little blue pill created sleeping disorders....
I agree with you that the noise ordinance won't stop all the vandalism or misbehavior. But because I have gone through in another location I can tell you that late night over amplified music combined with alcohol does have a direct correlation with it. Having spoekn with some of the neighbors what I experienced was very similar to what they experienced.
And similar noise concerns due to music/alcohol can easily be found in many different places:
When it was just Mas and the BBQ and Taza closed early you didn't hear any complaints. No one seems to complain about Tavola at this time.
"Is it 5 or 6 or are whole blocks taking action and petitioning the city? My guess is that a relatively few number of people have complained."
Well, there is an old rule of thumb from industry; for every one complaint you receive, you can bet there are twenty more with the same complaint who didn't say anything. I can tell you I know there are more than 4 or five people complaining, even if they aren't showing up at City Council. You can also be sure that the complaints get fewer the further you are from the source.
My understanding is that group of people predate all the restaurants, and all those homes predate the restaurants. Belmont as a rule has lived in harmony with it's businesses, a few newcomers shouldn't be allowed to come in and upset an entire culture just because they want to be cool, or can't make it on their original business plan.
Even if it were four or five people, does that make it OK? Should you have to move after 40 years because a few businesses don't want to take responsibility for their decision to establish something right next door to a residence, a residence that might be zoned residential?
Is it OK to torture people even if it's only four or five? Because I tell you something. What was happening mimics exactly the way in which the CIA and Army use music as a weapon of war and a no-touch torture item. Sleep deprivation and continuous sensory bombardment break people down faster than anything else.
The simple fact of the matter is that if the civil misconduct and over amplified music hadn't been there, no one would have asked for a noise ordinance. People aren't bad guys for standing up to those who disrespect them.
ummm.... good one
This debate has been going on for months. I didn't start slamming Belmont until caseonia and others bragged about how they were entitled to quiet because they spent money fixing up their houses and saved belmont from its saddened state. Belmont is Belmont and will always be Belmont. It was never the noble place that they proclaimed. Ask some of the older blacks in this town whether or not they even had the nerve to enter belmont in the early 60s.
I feel that 55db is too low and unreasonable. I also think that the deck at MAS exceeds that from the cumulative voices gathered there on a crowded night.
I think a vocal few want to control things and the city gave in. I hope it backfires in their face.
I hope that whatever opens there next is a resturant with horrendous odors or loud delivery trucks at 6:00am so that these folks can get what they asked for.
Lofts right next to the subway in new york sell for 800k to start. Those people seem to sleep fine.
When they did not have their way this group was comprised of babies. Now that they got their way they are bullies.
With the new law in place we will see whether there are unintended consequences or not.
I have serious doubts that this group will all of a sudden have their sleep disorders resolved. They still have to live with the real reasons they cannot sleep.
very old timer-- What do blue collar workers dumping oil in the sewers have to do with having a nightclub move in next to your house? Said nightclub playing loud music into the wee hours equates to someone speaking on a cellphone on the curb? You seem to have an emotional investment in perpetuating a bizarre and negative image of Belmont that says it's doomed forever due to the actions of some past residents. Newsflash: Lots of people across this country used to do dumb s**t like dump oil. Lots of people are now smarter about stuff like that. Once again, the oil/Bel Rio connection escapes me.
I've experienced Belmont over many decades. For the life of me, I can't understand how anyone can make the logical leap from the period when Belmont was experiencing high crime rates, to nightclubs being the cure for that problem. Your solution is not restaurants, not cafes, and not family grocery stores, but NIGHTCLUBS?
Things got better in Belmont due to many different reasons and circumstances. I'm against making any area yuppified and sterile (Fifeville, I'm looking at you!). That doesn't mean that anarchy is the cure either. Is planning, compromise, and striking a happy medium outside of your comprehension level?
I'm only guessing here-- but are you a musician who has posted similar negative hyperbole about the Carlton/Hogwaller area in the past?
While nois issues and panhandling may be "sexy" issues for people to get worked up over, maybe they should be paying more attention to things like the increase in building code fees that Council passed.
$400 for a "certificate of occupancy"? If I build a home, have to pay the city $400 for permission to move into it. Is there no limit to their passion for picking our pockets?
Someone posted a great comment on the Daily Progress story about panhandling.
"Whats the difference between City Council and the panhandlers on the Mall?
When you don't give the panhandlers the money they ask for, they leave you alone."
55 db is entirely too low. The city should enforce the rules already on the book or find a way to get rid of the nightclub. This is just a symbolic change that will do little for the community and will not resolve the core problem: People don't want to live next to a nightclub.
I disagree the 55 dbs has no impact or that it is too low. We are talking after 11PM, not all day, and in an area where the houses bordering literally are zoned R-2 at 55dbs after 11PM, and 65dbs in the day.
I absolutely agree that zoning changes should occur to stop another nightclub. The city has recently made some. Enforcing rules are the most crucial issue in any case. The city waived certain zoning requirements , highlighted in the rezoning of a residence on Hinton.
Such actions have led to this conflict.
But current businesses are grandfathered in to the older zone rules, as anywhere else in the city. thus the current establishments have little incentive to not do what the nightclubs did except good sense.
very old timer is just tired! you were so busy with all the accusations and slander towards supporters of the reduction in noise you forgot to mention it's supported by the real restaurants who want to continue thriving in a rich, cultural and vibrant neighborhood. if you don't like the quiet stay on your side of town or wherever you shack-up. but stop knocking Belmont - you never know you might like it down at the hogwaller.
tired of caesonia,
I just want to understand a few things.
Are your comments directed at me, Caesonia, or Allison Ruffner? Or perhaps all three as you seem to imply we are all the same person though you kind of mix and match as you post.
Help us out here. I mean, like that guy Gas Bag Self Ordained, I have no problems with people trying to out folks handles. It can be fun. It's also about freedom of speech. You have a right to your opinion.
Belmont was neighborhood of railroad workers and other blue collars. Saturday mornings used to be filled with people out in the street working on their own cars and dumping the oil down the sewers.
This ordinance will most likely not change anything because people like casesonia cannot be satiated. I suppose the next target will be someone talking on a cell phone on a curb.
Your fairytale about belmont being the first neighborhood with indoor plumbing is a nice story but not true.
I thought Orchid was Tomas from Mas. Are Old Timer and Caesonia one and the same? I think they're also Tomas. He's the one who doesn't want any competition.


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Depending on which nutrients are not being absorbed, CD can produce symptoms that range from diarrhea and anemia to osteoporosis, joint pain, chronic fatigue, skin lesions, dementia, and in rare cases, lymphoma.
For years, CD was considered a rare disease outside of Europe. In North America, it was thought to affect only one in 10,000 people.
But in 2003, Fasano and his research team did a U.S. study of 13,000 people and found that celiac was underdiagnosed, and that one in 133 apparently healthy subjects had the disease. Similar numbers have been found in many countries all over the world.
That so many people went undiagnosed for so long, and still do, is partly because the classic signs of CD — persistent indigestion and chronic diarrhea, appear only when large and integral sections of the intestine are damaged, Fasano says. In other cases, the delay is a result of patients having atypical symptoms, or symptoms common to other diseases, or sometimes no symptoms at all.
A survey of 2,681 members of the Canadian Celiac Association in 2006 found, on average, it took 11.7 years for a patient to be diagnosed properly.
Before they were found to have CD, 40 per cent were told they had anemia, 31 per cent were told their problem was stress, and 29 per cent were diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome.
The development of better tests and a greater awareness of CD have led to more people being diagnosed as celiacs. But that alone can't explain the increase in the disease, or the number of people who test negative for celiac but have symptoms and feel better when they stop eating gluten.
Gluten sensitivity was considered a fad before 2011, when Fasano and his team found evidence it was a different condition from CD. They also found that sensitivity does not require a genetic predisposition and does not damage the walls of the lower intestine the way celiac does. Symptoms include foggy thinking, tingling in the hands, joint pain, headaches, memory loss, and hair loss. For some, it doesn't take much of a trigger.
Karen Boida ate the core of a cinnamon bun someone brought to work recently, and within half an hour had a headache and was so nauseous she had to go home early.
"I was like, really? Can it really be from that? It's just weird to think it would do that to you, but I'm coming to realize that it is, and I've just got to get my head around it, because it's getting to be too much of a coincidence now."
Boida tested negative for celiac disease but her reaction to food containing gluten over the last year indicates a gluten sensitivity, her doctor says. She has switched to gluten-free bread but isn't ready to give up gluten completely as she continues to search for a threshold of tolerance.
"Maybe I can slip in a bit once a week, but it's almost getting to the point where it's not worth it."
Fasano is currently working on designing a diagnostic test for gluten sensitivity. He thinks it will take three to five years. He doesn't know how many people are gluten sensitive but estimates it could be up to seven per cent of the population.
Without diagnostic proof, some doctors remain skeptical that it's a "real condition," which results in patients bouncing from physician to physician, or specialist to specialist, and, when they still can't find an explanation for their symptoms, further visits to alternative health professionals, such as naturopaths and chiropractors.
Two years ago, Davis offered an explanation in his book, Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health. He conducted no research of his own to back up his claims, but cited sections of other studies and anecdotal case studies of 2,000 of his patients who told him their health problems improved or disappeared after they stopped eating foods with wheat in them.
"Wheat Belly represents the distilled experience and lessons I've learned over these last several years, lessons learned by accident in my quest to help solve the dilemma of heart disease. And, by the way, I hardly ever see any heart attacks anymore," he writes on his blog.
The book helped trigger an anti-wheat movement, and both Wheat Belly and Davis's followup book, The Wheat Belly Cookbook, became bestsellers. That prompted a few celebrities and about 25 per cent of the general population to cut back or cut out their wheat consumption, believing it's a healthier way to eat.
But Fasano says the diet can actually be worse, because gluten-free foods often have a higher sugar and fat content to make them taste better. Consider that a regular Oreo cookie has 70 calories while a gluten-free equivalent has 210 calories, which is why the diet is not the best idea if you're wanting to lose weight, Fasano advises.
It's also a hard diet to stick with, because you have to be vigilant about everything you put in your mouth, which takes the fun out of eating. And it's expensive — two to three times more than the cost of regular food.
Healthy people who say they feel better after going gluten-free are likely experiencing a placebo effect, Fasano says. If they're doing it right, they're eating healthier, cutting out gluten-filled baked goods, snacks, and processed foods that are bad for them anyway, and adding more fruits and vegetables.
Or it could indicate the person has an undiagnosed gluten-related disorder, or some other illness, which is why people should always check with their doctors before starting the diet, Fasano says. They also have to be eating their regular gluten-filled diet when tested or the results can be negative even if they have CD.
Yet many people self-diagnose and go gluten-free without a medical reason for doing so. They mistakenly think it means they just stop eating bread, not realizing they have to find alternate sources of fibre and vitamins found in fortified wheat.
There's a lot of misinformation out there, says Richard Phillips, executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada.
For one thing, modern wheat is not genetically modified. Traditional plant breeding has improved the quality and quantity of wheat, and while some types have more gluten than others, for the most part the gluten content has not changed much in the last 100 years, he says.
If anything, our eating habits are to blame. "It's gluttony, not gluten," Phillips says.
Paul Hetherington, president and CEO of the Baking Association of Canada, says the gluten in wheat flour has changed little over the last century, though individual bakers can add more gluten to breads and baked goods.
Registered dietitians and nutritionists who understand the links between good health and exercise and a balanced diet took Davis to task for downplaying the importance of being active and for recommending that people stop eating an entire food group.
Nutrition educator Julie Miller Jones, a member of the scientific advisory panel for the Grain Foods Foundation in the U.S., examined each of Davis's claims and countered them with scientific facts that appeared last summer in the peer reviewed publication, Cereal Foods World.
Meanwhile, the Baking Association of Canada, the Canadian National Millers Association, Canada Bread Co. Ltd., and Weston Bakeries banded together last fall and created the Healthy Grains Institute. The not-for-profit institute is guided by an independent scientific advisory council that studies and compiles research on the benefits of eating whole grains, says council member Shelley Case, a Regina-based registered dietitian, celiac nutrition expert, and author of Gluten-Free Diet.
Since agronomists say the qualitative characteristics of gluten have not changed in the last 60 years, the increased amount of gluten people ingest may have something to do with the epidemic of gluten-related disorders, say Fasano and other researchers.
"Our grandparents knew exactly where gluten was coming from — from eating pasta, pizza, bread or drinking beer — nowadays, it's not so clear," he says. Chicken, meat, sausages, salad dressing, yogurt, soya sauce, dried fruit (dusted with wheat to prevent sticking), even red licorice can contain gluten.
"So you end up eating more gluten at the end of the day than you did in the past."
It's simplistic to blame one food group for the increase in gluten-related disorders, given that other autoimmune diseases are also increasing, including Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, Fasano says.
He's one of several scientists turning his research to the ecosystem of microbes in the gut for answers to why some people can tolerate gluten while others react to it like poison. Infections, antibiotics, surgery and pregnancy all have a tremendous impact on the mix of good and bad bacteria, he says.
"A lot of cases of celiac disease start after one of these occur."
It's likely, Fasano says, that the increase in celiac and gluten sensitivity is due to multiple factors, not one thing.
For doctors and their patients, the search for answers continues.
© Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal


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Apple is not overvalued ... yetAugust 21, 2012: 12:34 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, and Abbott Laboratories, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Asking the following question may be considered blasphemous to the throngs of Mac geeks and iFaithful out there. But here goes: Are shares of Apple (AAPL) finally getting TOO expensive?
Apple hit another all-time high Tuesday, coming close to $675 per share before pulling back a bit. The company is now worth approximately $620 billion. That's nearly two-and-a-half times the market value of Microsoft (MSFT) and almost three times what Google (GOOG) is worth. Those two companies are the only tech giants with a market capitalization even remotely close to Apple.
So it's fair to wonder if Apple's stock, which is up 63% year-to-date, has risen too far too fast.
The good news is that Apple shares are still reasonably valued. It doesn't have a triple-digit price-to-earnings ratio like Cisco (CSCO) did in the late 1990s -- a time when many on Wall Street and Silicon Valley were predicting that Cisco would be the first tech to hit a market value of $1 trillion. Apple's stock is trading at 15 times fiscal 2012 earnings estimates, a fair price for a company whose earnings are expected to increase by 22% annually, on average, over the next few years.
But Apple is no longer the slam-dunk bargain it used to be. The earnings multiple is not just keeping pace with earnings growth, it is expanding. When I wrote about Apple nearing an all-time high just a few weeks ago, shares were trading at 14 times earnings estimates. And when Apple's share price topped the $500 mark for the first time back in February, I noted that the stock was trading for less than 12 times fiscal 2012 forecasts.
With the end of Apple's fiscal year rapidly approaching, it will soon be time to look at fiscal 2013 predictions as the best gauge for Apple's value. On that front, Apple is not dirt cheap. The stock trades at about 13 times fiscal 2013 estimates. What's more, analysts have been cutting their earnings targets for next year, following Apple's warning that its current quarterly earnings will be below estimates.
Now, don't get me wrong: Investors shouldn't be nervous just yet. The company has $117 billion in cash. It's finally using some of that mountain of moolah to pay shareholders a healthy dividend. Doing so makes Apple a stock that both growth-hungry momentum investors and yield-starved income investors can comfortably own.
Related: Apple and Cisco show investors the money
And unless the upcoming iPhone 5 (or will it merely be the "new iPhone"?) looks like Apple's ill-fated Newton from the early 1990s, it seems unlikely that consumers are going to suddenly fall out of love. Competitors like Research and Motion (RIMM) and Nokia (NOK) may be on their last legs, which can only help Apple in the long run.
But investors would be foolish to ignore risks. Regardless of what happens with the Apple-Samsung patent infringement trial, Samsung and others that have joined the Google Android camp have emerged as tough competitors. Microsoft, which will soon start selling its Surface Tablet and Windows 8 operating system, seems to have rediscovered its innovative roots. Intel (INTC) is aggressively pushing ultrabooks as an alternative to tablets.
Apple is in a business that requires constant product refreshes. There is no time to rest on one's laurels. As soon as the iPhone 5 is out, people will start wondering when the next iPad will be released. Expect even more questions about when Apple will finally reveal the long-rumored Apple TV product, which may or may not be an actual television.
And what happens if another company creates a product that makes tablets look obsolete? Just ask Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ) how sticking with PCs for too long has turned out.
Related: Now is the best time to trade in your iPhone
"When Apple's stock finally does begin to come down, it will be because of competitive reasons," says David Darst, chief investment strategist with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. "Valuations are not stretched."
True. Shares of Apple may not be overvalued at $670. As long as the company's sales and earnings continue to shine, it could very well surpass $700, $800, and continue its march toward a quadruple-digit stock price and $1 trillion market valuation.>
But the stock is no longer cheap, and investors can be unforgiving. The one major negative that comes with being a stock that just about everybody loves and owns is that everybody might be quick to head for the exits if Apple ever stumbles -- or if investors suddenly decide that it's time to dump tech and move elsewhere.
So if you want to own Apple, don't go overboard. Any S&P 500 or Nasdaq-100 index fund will give you substantial exposure to the stock.
In case you forgot, Cisco and Microsoft -- the company that used to claim the title as the most valuable company ever -- are nowhere close to where they were trading more than a dozen years ago. Apple isn't necessarily destined for the same fate, but there's a saying about history repeating itself for a reason.


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- The Problem: I see wierd letters when trying to search something in hebrew on WTT .
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- Tried playing with fonts and etc.
- Reinstall many times + playing with trouble shooting options .
- No problem in programs/web = System Locale = Hebrew(Israel) = In the picture I'v add to this post - you can see that when pressing enter on the search field - the pop up window that says that the word is not found - shows the text ok as hebrew .
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Tom Donohue
Tom Donohue is the CEO of U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Before taking the helm of the Chamber in 1997, Donahue spent 13 years as president of the American Trucking Association, where he fundraised and lobbied against the Teamsters union. Prior to the ATA, Donohue lobbied for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and worked as a labor negotiator for the U.S. Postal Service. Donohue was born in Brooklyn in 1938, earned a bachelor's degree from St. John's University and a master's degree in business administration from Adelphi University.
Source: WhoRunsGov
Since becoming head of the Chamber, Donohue has received a lot of attention for his lobbying and fundraising practices as well as for his $3.7 million salary, chauffeur-driven cars, and private jets. He is currently the sixth highest paid lobbyist in the country.
Donohue has been both praised and criticised as a leader by members of the US chamber of Commerce. He has refocused the Chamber's lobbying and outreach efforts on policies that suit the Chamber's largest and wealthiest corporations. This strategy has increased the the Chamber's income through fundraising, but has alienated many of the small businesses that make up the majority of the Chamber's membership. Donahue has also ramped up the Chamber's spending, doling out $120 million in 2009 on lobbying alone, five times what its nearest cohort, Exxon Mobil, spent.
Source: Washtington Monthly
The LA Times notes, "Under Donohue, the [U.S. Chamber of Commerce] has also frequently aligned itself with GOP priorities."
We will not allow the business community to be intimidated, and we will use every tool at our disposal to challenge those who try to silence our voice."
-Washington Post, January 11, 2011
"Show me the money!"
-Washington Monthly, July/August, 2010
"You can never have enough money."
-Washington Monthly, July/August, 2010
"There is no place in our society where there is not warts. The media? Wow. The Chamber business? The lobbying business? The business business? The church? The Boy Scouts? We got jerks every place."
-Washington Monthly, July/August, 2010
"People seem to listen to you more when you've got a bagful of cash."
-New York Times, November 28, 2009
"Members come and go all the damn time."
"Is the science right? Is the science not right? I don't know."
"If we got the EPA one [ability to regulate greenhouse gases], then we are in deep shit as a country."
-Politico, October 26, 2009
"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed."
"I'm concerned about anti-corporate and populist rhetoric from candidates for the presidency, members of Congress and the media. It suggests to us that we have to demonstrate who it is in this society that creates jobs, wealth and benefits -- and who it is that eats them."
"I will disclose any funds I am legally required to disclose -- and not disclose any others."
-Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2008
"If energy independence is what we truly want, we can certainly achieve it; we have more than enough energy sources, ranging from coal and oil shale to wind and photovoltaic, that when used in conjunction with one another, can make the country energy independent, but not any time soon and perhaps not even in this century."
-Congressional testimony, June 28, 2007
Donohue has used millions of the Chamber's money to weaken or prevent the passage of bills concerning financial reform, health care reform, and climate and energy legislation. Donohue himself states that by doing the more unpopular lobby work for companies, they can deny direct involvement in interfering with Congressional efforts.
Shortly after the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, Donohue announced that the Chamber would raise $40 million to spend on electing politicians in 2010 who would support the interests of big businesses. The budget later increased to $75 million.
While Donohue expresses a willingness to address climate change, he has opposed viable efforts to do so. Following an EPA decision to classify carbon dioxide as hazardous to human health (due to its effects as a greenhouse gas), the Chamber submitted comments to the agency claiming that planetary warming would "be beneficial to humans."
Donohue oversaw the Chamber's spending of over $132 million on lobbying in 2010, part of a $494,000,000 lobbying investment over the last five years, including specific amendments to the U.S. House American Clean Energy and Security Act, and energy-relation provisions of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The Chamber's Political Action Committee has spent over $1.4 million on electing political candidates since the 2000 cycle. The Chamber spent $33 million on electioneering communications designed to support or oppose target candidates in the 2010 election.
As a member of the Board of Directors for Union Pacific Railroad, which depends on shipping coal for 20% of its revenue, Donohue's role against climate legislation within the Chamber has been questioned as a conflict of interest. Union Pacific Railroad also donates directly to the Chamber of Commerce.
Donohue impressed upon the country that the Chamber boasted 3 million members, although he stopped using this figure when it was revealed that he may have been exaggerating by a magnitude of ten.


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Norfolk Southern Corporation [NORFOLK, Va.] (NYSE: NSC) announced that it has appointed Cynthia C. Earhart as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Earhart succeeds Thomas E. Hurlbut, NS' vice president and controller, who has served as interim chief financial officer since Aug. 1, 2017, following the retirement of Marta R. Stewart. Earhart joined NS in 1985 and most recently served as executive vice president and chief information officer. In connection with her appointment as CFO, Earhart will retain her information technology responsibilities. Since joining NS' accounting department in 1985, Earhart held positions of increasing responsibility in the accounting department, including assistant vice president, before transitioning to information technology. She was named vice president, information technology in 2001. In 2007, Earhart was named vice president human resources, and in 2013, she was appointed executive vice president administration. She assumed expanded responsibilities as executive vice president, administration and chief information officer in 2015. Earhart, a former certified public accountant, began her career at NS following her service as an accountant at Ernst & Young's predecessor CPA firm Ernst and Whinney.
HBC [TORONTO & NEW YORK] (TSX: HBC) announced Edward Record has been named Chief Financial Officer, effective August 28, 2017. He joins HBC after more than three years as Chief Financial Officer for J. C. Penney Company, Inc. ("JCP"). Prior to JCP, Record most recently served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Stage Stores, and previously as its Chief Financial Officer. Record has also held executive leadership positions in finance at Kohl's and Belk. Record began his extensive career in retail at Kaufmann's, a division of The May Department Store Company, holding various roles across the finance department, ultimately working his way up to VP of Finance and Controller. Mr. Record succeeds Paul Beesley, who, as previously announced is leaving HBC. Mr. Beesley has agreed to remain with the Company for a period of time to ensure a smooth transition.
Knoll, Inc. [EAST GREENVILLE, Pa.] (NYSE: KNL) named Charles W. Rayfield its new Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Rayfield joined Knoll in 2015 as the Company's Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller; since June of this year, he has also served as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer and Acting Principal Financial Officer. Prior to joining Knoll, Mr. Rayfield served as Vice President, Controller of Tucson, AZ – based Providence Service Corporation. He has also served as the Corporate Controller of Malvern, PA – based BioTelemetry, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held various positions with Ernst & Young LLP, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP.
SpartanNash [GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.] (NASDAQ: SPTN) announced that the Company has appointed Mark Shamber as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective September 11, 2017. Shamber previously served as Chief Financial Officer for United Natural Foods, Inc. Following his departure from UNFI at the end of 2015, Mark has been working as an independent consultant and serving as the Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of Day Kimball Healthcare, Inc. Earlier in his career, Shamber worked in the audit practice of Ernst & Young and in the finance department of Reebok International. Shamber replaces Tom Van Hall, who has been acting as SpartanNash's interim CFO since July of 2017.
DigitalOcean [NEW YORK] announced it has hired Steve Senneff as chief financial officer. Senneff joins DigitalOcean from Cotiviti. Prior to Cotiviti, Senneff spent 16 years at Nielsen. During his tenure, Senneff served as regional and group CFO for several international divisions of the company. Senneff began his career at Abbott Laboratories as a senior financial analyst.
Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. [MEDFORD, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: CEMI) announced that Richard J. Larkin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has informed the Company of his intention to retire by December 31, 2017.
Surna Inc. [BOULDER, Colorado] (OTCQB: SRNA) appointed Paul Kelly as the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Since 2004, Mr. Kelly has been a consultant to numerous smaller private companies, mostly in fractional or interim Chief Financial Officer, Controller, and other senior financial and accounting roles, at the following companies: Wave Solar Technologies, Inc. (2016 to 2017); Bluenergy Solar Wind, LLC (2015 to 2017); Novinda, Inc. (2011 to 2014); ION Engineering (2012 to 2015), Anzode, Inc. (2010 to 2014); and Firefly Energy, Inc. (2004 to 2008). Mr. Kelly was the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of Visual Products Corporation ("VPC") from 2001 to 2004. In addition, Mr. Kelly was Chief Financial Officer of Bolder Technologies Corporation ("Bolder") from 2000 to 2002. He also served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of CET Environmental Services, Inc. in 1999. Mr. Kelly was the VP Finance for Technology Management Advisors from 1997 to 1999. From 1985 through 1997, Mr. Kelly was employed by the Adolph Coors Company and its affiliated companies in various senior financial management positions including the Controller for the Membrane Separations and Engine Components Unit of Golden Technologies Company. Mr. Kelly was also the Director of Strategic Planning and Finance for the Coors Advanced Electronics Group and began his career at Coors as the Internal Audit Manager at the parent company. Prior to that, Mr. Kelly was employed as an Audit Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
KEPRO [HARRISBURG, Pa.] announced that Paul Solomon has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Mr. Solomon was the Chief Financial Officer for VetCor Professional Practices, LLC.
Transforming Age [BELLEVUE, Wash.] announced Michael Connell as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining the Transforming Age executive team, Connell served as the CFO at Asbury Communities in Germantown, Maryland. His not-for-profit senior living experience also includes several years as the CFO at Ingleside Presbyterian Retirement Community in Washington, D.C. and Lourdes Residence in West Palm Beach, FL. He also brings previous experience in both for-profit senior living and as a health care auditor at Ernst & Young. Connell succeeds Jerry Schoeggl, who has served as CFO at Transforming Age for just over a year in a part time capacity. Jerry will continue to play a significant role in shaping strategic financial initiatives for the organization as Assistant Treasurer.
Arrow Financial Corporation [GLENS FALLS, N.Y.] (NASDAQGS: AROW) announced Edward J. Campanella will join the company as Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer for Arrow, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Company's lead subsidiary, Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company, effective September 5. Mr. Campanella, who is currently serving as CFO of National Union Bank of Kinderhook, brings 19 years of finance and banking experience to Arrow. Prior leadership roles include Treasurer and Director of Finance at Opus Bank in Irving, California, and Treasurer at Cambridge Savings Bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began his career in finance as an analyst for Darling Consulting Group. He succeeds Terry Goodemote, who in February announced his intent to retire as Arrow CFO after more than 20 years of service to the Company, including more than 10 years as the Chief Financial Officer.
Kinderhook Bank Corp. [KINDERHOOK, N.Y.] (OTCQB: NUBK), the parent bank holding company of The National Union Bank of Kinderhook ("Kinderhook Bank"), announced a change in the executive management team. Edward J. Campanella, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kinderhook Bank and the Company, has announced his plans to leave the organization in order to accept a position with a larger financial institution. The Boards of Directors of the Company and the Bank have appointed the Company's and the Bank's President and Chief Executive Officer, John A. Balli, as interim Chief Financial Officer of both the Company and Kinderhook Bank effective upon Mr. Campanella's departure. Mr. Balli, a certified public accountant, previously served as the Company's Treasurer and Kinderhook Bank's Chief Financial Officer for approximately ten (10) years prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Balli will serve in these additional capacities until a new Chief Financial Officer is named.
Peak Resorts, Inc. [WILDWOOD, Mo.] (NASDAQ: SKIS) announced its succession plan for chief financial officer, Stephen J. Mueller. Mueller, 69, will step down on October 3, 2017, following the company's 2017 annual meeting of stockholders. He will remain with the company for an initial period of three years, as Executive Vice President to assist in the transition of financial reporting matters and provide assistance with special projects and growth initiatives. He will also remain a member of the board of directors. In this planned transition, Christopher J. Bub, chief accounting officer, will assume the CFO role on October 3, 2017. Before joining Peak in June 2015, he served as senior director of finance for Nortek Global HVAC, formerly NORDYNE LLC. Prior to joining NORDYNE LLC, he held a variety of managerial and leadership positions at The Boeing Company and Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
Kirby Corporation [HOUSTON] (NYSE: KEX) announced that C. Andrew Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kirby, has informed Kirby that he is resigning from his position effective September 7, 2017 to accept another opportunity. David Grzebinski, Kirby's President and Chief Executive Officer, will then serve in the dual roles of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis until Kirby identifies a new Chief Financial Officer.
NRT LLC [MADISON, N.J.], a subsidiary of global real estate leader Realogy Holdings Corp. (NYSE: RLGY), announced that Roger Favano has joined NRT as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Favano brings more than 25 years of financial leadership experience mostly spent at General Electric Capital Corporation in senior financial leadership roles including chief financial officer in risk management, chief operating officer in risk management, and chief financial officer in GE corporate treasury, among others from 1997 through 2016. He most recently served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of DFC Global Corporation. With this appointment, Favano replaces Kevin Greene, who will be stepping down from his role with NRT later this year after assisting in this transition.
Medovex Corp. [ATLANTA, GA] (NASDAQ: MDVX) reported it has named Charlie Farrahar as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Farrahar was the first Chief Financial officer of the Company from its inception through IPO. He remained with the Company as its Secretary only from January 2015 until August 2017, when he agreed to resume the CFO role. Mr. Farrahar currently serves as Chief Financial Officer for several small private biotech companies in the research and development stage. In 2003 he joined a private governmental assistance startup as it's CFO and Director of Human Resources, helping with the sale of that company to a private entity in 2011 after it had grown to a multi-state operation with over 400 employees. In the late 1990's he was CFO of Credit Depot Corp. Jeffery Wright, the former CFO, agreed to become the Company's first Controller.
Analog Devices, Inc. [NORWOOD, Mass.] (NASDAQ: ADI) announced that Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah will join the Company on September 28, 2017 as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mahendra-Rajah currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of WABCO Holdings Inc., a position he has held since June 2014. Prior to his appointment at WABCO, he served as Corporate Vice President and Segment CFO for the Silicon Systems Group, a division of Applied Materials, Inc. Previously, Mr. Mahendra-Rajah held global finance and operational positions at Visa and United Technologies. Eileen Wynne will continue serving as Analog Devices' interim Chief Financial Officer and Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer until Mr. Mahendra-Rajah's first date of employment, after which she will continue to serve as the Company's Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.
NeoPhotonics Corporation [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NYSE: NPTN) announced the appointment of Elizabeth "Beth" Eby as the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Beth is replacing Sandra Waechter, Interim Chief Financial Officer. Beth Eby brings to NeoPhotonics more than 25 years of financial experience at Intel Corporation where she most recently held the position of Vice President of Finance and Group Chief Financial Officer for Intel's Internet of Things Group. Prior to that she was Vice President of Finance and Group Controller for Corporate Financial Planning & Reporting. Over the course of her career Ms. Eby also held finance leadership roles related to cost and manufacturing, sales and product planning, including two multi-year assignments in Asia.
Compressor Engineering Corporation (CECO) & CECO Pipeline Services [HOUSTON] announced that Heath Cleaver has been named the company's Chief Financial Officer. Recently, Mr. Cleaver has been providing CFO consulting services for a diverse range of clients in the home water purification, manufacturing and oil and gas industries. Prior to providing CFO consulting services, Mr. Cleaver was the CFO of Global Fabrication Services, Inc., Porto Energy Corp., as well as Chief Accounting Officer of BPZ Resources, Inc. Mr. Cleaver also serves on the board of Bio-Path Holdings, Inc.
OnSolve [ORMOND BEACH, Fla.] announced the appointment of Pat Clark as Chief Financial Officer. Clark joins OnSolve from his role as Chief Financial Officer at Optima Healthcare Solutions.
NuVasive, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: NUVA) announced the appointment of Rajesh (Raj) J. Asarpota as the Company's new executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective September 1, 2017. Mr. Asarpota began his career at General Electric (GE) in the GE Financial Management program. He then joined the GE Corporate Audit Staff program and from there moved to GE Healthcare where he held a variety of key finance operating roles. In the last 15 years, he has accumulated critical experience in both public and private enterprises, highlighted by his decade-long tenure at Life Technologies. More recently, Mr. Asarpota was the CFO of publicly-traded Questcor Pharmaceuticals.
Epizyme, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: EPZM) announced a leadership transition plan for its finance organization. Andrew E. Singer, executive vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer of Epizyme, will be leaving the Company at the end of August to pursue other business opportunities. As part of this transition, Susan Graf, chief business officer of Epizyme, will assume responsibility for the finance organization going forward, including Epizyme's financial reporting and analysis group.
Novasyte [CARLSBAD, CA] announced that Neil Thomas joined the team as Chief Financial Officer. Neil joins from AMN Healthcare, where, most recently, Neil has been working directly with the investor community in the role of Senior Director of Investor Relations. Neil started his career in public accounting before joining AMN Healthcare in 2005. At AMN he served in a variety of finance and operational roles.
BrainChip Holdings Ltd. [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (ASX: BRN) announced the appointment of Ryan A. Benton as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining BrainChip, Mr. Benton served as Chief Executive Officer at Exar Corporation. Previously, Mr. Benton served as Chief Financial Officer at Exar. Mr. Benton will assume all responsibilities customary for a public company CFO including those responsibilities previously managed by the Company's VP of Finance Cossette Drossler, who has left the Company. Prior to joining Exar, Mr. Benton was Chief Financial Officer of SynapSense Corporation. Prior to SynapSense, from February 2007 to May 2012, Mr. Benton was Chief Financial Officer of SoloPower Inc. Prior to joining SoloPower Inc., from November 2004 to February 2007, Mr. Benton served as a financial consultant for the United States subsidiary of ASM International NV in Phoenix, Arizona, a semiconductor capital equipment company. Mr. Benton began his career in 1991 at Arthur Anderson.
PS Business Parks, Inc. [GLENDALE, Calif.] (NYSE: PSB) announced that Edward A. Stokx, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company, resigned from his position with the Company effective August 31, 2017. Maria R. Hawthorne, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will act as the Company's principal financial officer and principal accounting officer.
ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: ALJJ) announced that it appointed Brian Hartman as its new Chief Financial Officer, replacing Rob Christ. At the same time, ALJ also announced the appointment of Rob Christ as the CFO for its subsidiary, Carpets N' More. Mr. Hartman joins ALJ from Arcade Beauty, where he served as SVP, Chief Financial Officer beginning in March 2012. Prior to his role as CFO of Arcade Beauty, Mr. Hartman held a variety of executive positions, serving as the Vice President, Corporate Controller for Visant Corporation, and as Corporate Controller for Metallurg, Inc. Prior to this, Mr. Hartman held various accounting and auditing positions at Witco Chemical Corp. and Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Mr. Hartman is a certified public accountant.
Riskalyze [AUBURN, Calif.] announced the appointment of Andrew Palmer as Chief Financial Officer. Palmer most recently served as vice president of finance at Trintech. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer of the Technology Group at Availity, and has held other senior finance and operating positions at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
Diamond Resorts International [LAS VEGAS] announced that Peter Crage assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer. Most recently he was Chief Financial Officer for SeaWorld Entertainment. Prior to his role with SeaWorld, Crage held the role of Chief Financial Officer for Extended Stay America. Effective December 31, 2017, Alan Bentley will retire as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Bentley will continue to support Diamond Resorts for the remainder of the year in an advisory role.
Global Medical REIT Inc. [BETHESDA, Md.] (NYSE: GMRE) announced that Robert Kiernan will join the Company as its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Kiernan succeeds Donald McClure who is pursuing other opportunities. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kiernan served as the Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of FBR & Co. commencing in October 2007. Prior to joining FBR, Mr. Kiernan served as the Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. commencing in April 2003. Prior to joining Arlington Asset, Mr. Kiernan was a senior manager in the assurance practice at Ernst & Young.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: MACK) announced that it has strengthened its executive management team with the appointment of Jean M. Franchi as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Merrimack, Ms. Franchi most recently served as the CFO for Dimension Therapeutics. Previously, she was the CFO at Good Start Genetics. Ms. Franchi also spent 16 years at Genzyme (now Sanofi Genzyme), including as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance.
Photronics, Inc. [BROOKFIELD, CT] (NASDAQGS: PLAB) announced that Sean T. Smith will retire as senior vice president and chief financial officer of the company, a position he has held since 2002, effective September 4, 2017. Smith will remain with the company as principle accounting officer through September, and then as a consultant through early December, to ensure a smooth transition. The company also announced that it has named John P. Jordan as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective September 5, 2017. Jordan has most recently been interim vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer and controller of AstroNova, Inc. Before joining AstroNova, Jordan served as vice president, CFO and treasurer of Zygo Corporation from 2011 to 2014. Prior to that he was vice president, CFO and treasurer of Baldwin Technology Company, Inc. for four years. Jordan also held senior finance roles at Paxar Corporation, Amscan and Bodwell Fashion Group.
FalconStor Software, Inc. [MELVILLE, NY] (NASDAQ: FALC) announced the appointment of Patrick McClain as Chief Financial Officer. Dan Murale, formerly FalconStor Chief Financial Officer, resigned to pursue other opportunities. Prior to joining FalconStor, McClain was CFO for Aurea Software, CFO for Rules Based Medicine (currently Myriad RBM), and a fractional CFO for over 20 software and technology clients. Mr. McClain began his career with Price Waterhouse as an audit manager.
Lucktastic [NEW YORK, NY] announced that Rick Busch has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Rick comes to Lucktastic from Publishers Clearing House (PCH) where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.


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Chapman University has a mandatory parking permit policy. Parking regulations are enforced at all times. Parking in university owned or operated parking areas without a valid permit, will result in a parking citation. All students are automatically charged a parking permit fee. To obtain a permit, you must register on-line and then go to the Public Safety Office to pick up your permit. Returning students will be required to verify their vehicle information and then go to the Public Safety Office to receive the permit. This must be done at the beginning of each academic year of attendance.
If you are living on campus without a vehicle or commuting via alternative means of transportation (AKA not driving a vehicle to campus), you can request a parking fee waiver online during the first three weeks of the semester. Once approved, your student account will be credited for the amount of the parking fee. This must be done at the beginning of each academic year of attendance.
Parking on city streets or in public lots, including the Metrolink Lot, while attending classes at the university violates the university's Vehicle Rules and Regulations as well as our agreement with the city. Those found doing so are subject to referral to student conduct. We appreciate your adherence to our parking policy as we work together to be good neighbors to the surrounding community.
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So last night, instead of going to the gym and completing my challenge for the day I went to the ER with a friend because her brother was sick. So I missed a day, but it was necessary for me to skip because of that. I don't feel bad and I'm looking forward to having tons of time to get after it this weekend at the gym and running. I have lots to do this weekend and I'm looking forward to checking all these things off my list and continuing the challenge!
I'm going to hit up the gym tonight and tomorrow as well. It's been so rainy and blah here so I'm even looking forward to a run tomorrow morning before traveling to the gym. Hopefully I can get in around 3-5 miles, pending how I'm feeling. I'm so looking forward to this weekend and just sitting at home. Sadly, B is working a three day so he'll be gone all weekend, but it means I can get tons of stuff done and catch up on lots of TV! :)
Here's more of the stuff I diligently worked on while watching TV this week. The "garland", some flags and some with table numbers, and the "chalkboard" wedding menu. Working on all the little things makes it much more fun!
I can't wait to run tomorrow too. Something to clear my head and kick the day off right. I have a few new fun things to review next week so stay tuned!


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The two states have made progress on a shared MMIS over the past year, but full completion is likely years away.
Michigan and Illinois are in the midst of a project where the states will share one Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) through the cloud. Yet, while progress has been made, the work hasn't gone quite as fast as state leaders had hoped when the partnership was announced last year.
The first phase of the shared MMIS – adding an Electronic Health Records Medicaid Incentive Payment Program (eMIPP) – was completed in November 2013. But a decision was made to then spend time working on the governance model between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the states, instead of moving into the provider enrollment stage of the project as originally planned.
Karen Parker, director of the Bureau of Medicaid Operations for Michigan's Department of Community Health (MDCH), explained that even though the federal government has been pushing states toward using shared systems, Michigan and Illinois are the first two to try it. So before barreling forward to the next step, the states took a cautious approach to get it right the first time.
"CMS is struggling with their reimbursement methodology and how they typically fund these types of projects," Parker said. "So we've been working closely with CMS as we've moved through the process, to make sure we're totally aligned."
The provider enrollment phase of the Michigan-Illinois MMIS project will kick off next week, approximately six months later than Nick Lyon, chief operating officer and deputy director of MDCH, had estimated last year. Work on the provider enrollment program should be finished in July 2015, according to Linda Pung, customer service general manager for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB).
An MMIS is a mission-critical system that retrieves Medicaid information and processes claims. Federal law requires states to operate technology to support administrative functions of their Medicaid programs. But states are moving to modernize their legacy systems as Medicaid expands under the Affordable Care Act.
As a result, Uncle Sam is offering to put up 90 percent of MMIS upgrade costs to help spur states along. According to Michigan and Illinois, the CMS says the states' technology-sharing approach meets federal regulations. And with the two states operating on Michigan's MMIS, it saves the feds from dishing out more capital to help fund a separate Illinois system. So in theory, the partnership is a winner for all governments involved.
Once the provider enrollment phase of the multi-state MMIS retrofit is done, officials will turn to the third portion of the project – the task of building a multi-tenant architecture that enables Michigan to provide cloud-based MMIS to Illinois as software-as-a-service. Termed the "cloud-enablement" phase, Pung said the process could take up to three years, marking July 2018 as a tentative finish date.
It's hard to define exactly how long the cloud-enablement segment will take, however, because it will largely depend on getting federal approval to start, Pung added. But Michigan is working with CMS to find a way to speed up the timetable.
"With the cloud-enablement phase, we're looking at what portions of that can be broken up and staggered … instead of waiting 36 months before you get an additional implementation and production," Pung said.
Parker's not worried about the technical parts of the MMIS project. She's confident that existing technology can connect the states. But Parker was adamant that Michigan and Illinois have to speak the same language in order to achieve the maximum efficiency and cost savings a shared MMIS can provide.
"It's a matter of getting both states aligned and agree[ing] to use the same business processes," Parker said. "That's probably been the biggest struggle."
Government Technology reached out to Illinois CIO Sean Vinck and Stephen DePooter, CIO for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, for comment on the state of the shared MMIS project, but did not receive a response prior to press time.
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Registration is $50 per rain barrel which covers the cost of supplies including the 55 gallon barrel, faucet, screen, caulk and gasket. Cash and credit card payment may be provided upon entry. All payments are handled by Texas A&M AgriLife Water University.
The workshop will be held at the Zula B. Wylie Public Library at 225 Cedar Street.
The class is open to all residents and non-residents. Rain barrels are 55 gallons, food grade and BPA-free. Workshops will be from 9 am to 11 am. Please have a vehicle to bring your rain barrel home after the workshop. The barrel typically fits in the back seat of a sedan. Bring towels or blankets to protect your vehicle interior from damage. The City of Cedar Hill and Texas A&M AgriLife Water University are not responsible for any damages to your vehicle.


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Quincy, MA, April 19, 2011 - Icelandair has teamed up with DJ Margeir to premier the new album from Icelandic electro heroes, GusGus – the first time a record has been premiered onboard an aircraft.
The premiere of Arabian Horse is a part of DJ Margeir's contribution to Icelandair's in-flight entertainment system.
DJ Margeir has selected 40 albums and created 7 unique playlists comprising the most exciting Icelandic and international music, offering Icelandair passengers a one-of-a-kind in-flight entertainment experience.
Highlights of DJ Margeir's playlists include James Blake, GusGus, Hjalmar, Arvo Part, Ligeti, Gorecki, Caribou, Four Tet, Beach House, Neu!, Nicolas Jaar, John Coltrane, Trentemoller, Bjork and Sigur Ros.
Icelandair's musical revamp is part of its broader philosophy to maximize the positive travel experience for customers, giving them a taste of Iceland even if they travel no further than Keflavík Airport. The idea with the music is that customers can choose from any playlist and listen to a carefully composed mix without making any effort, or they can select individual tunes or albums using their touch screen menu - these playlists will be changed every three months.
"I want people to listen to this music and have a different experience," explains DJ Margeir on his decision to become involved in this new project. "I want them to put on their headphones and for the music to inspire them somehow, to expand their musical horizons."
The album titled, Arabian Horse, is being premiered for Icelandair passengers a month before general release. Once officially released on 23rd May, Arabian Horse will be the 8th album by GusGus, who have already sold over 700,000 albums worldwide.
"People will be listening to this album for the first time at 30,000 feet," explains DJ Margeir, one of Iceland's most successful club DJs. He followed by saying, "when you think about the fact that Iceland's population is around 320,000 people, it's incredible how much Icelandic music has spread throughout the world…of course we have bad music here in Iceland, but you'll have to fly with someone else to hear that."


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Meaning of name Bron
Etymology : Short form of BRONWEN
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Bron is a sweet-tempered and charming woman once you get to know her, however she can appear introverted, conventional and wary at first. She is highly emotional and extremely sensitive, to the extent where she is vulnerable to the slightest emotional trauma. She tends to protect herself through a certain reserve, although this doesn´t prevent her from being a generous and altruistic soul. Of considerable emotional plasticity, she can easily be hurt or even wounded by life, and Bron can be known to escape into daydreams and fantasies that are more or less unrealistic or utopic. She is fascinated by all that is weird and wonderful, and could even be tempted by artificial paradises (especially if she was born on the 9th, 18th or 27th day of the month). Because she cares so deeply about her family and takes the corresponding responsibilities seriously, Bron often forgets her own needs in the process. With such virtues, as a child she makes the perfect big sister who can fill in for her mother if necessary. However beware of the danger in taking advantage of her big heart: she is only too ready to sacrifice herself or to assume the role of the "victim"... Love and affection are necessary for her to bloom and her upbringing doesn´t need to be very firm. Indeed all forms of aggression or guilt-tripping are to be avoided because Bron is already of scrupulous nature, and it would be preferable that this doesn´t become stifling. And last, but not least, it would be desirable for her to practice an artistic or musical hobby, as well as any form of artistic expression (the theatre for example), which would provide an outlet for her potentially overwhelming emotions.
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A humanist, Bron likes to devote herself to a cause, especially to movements concerned with solidarity and community - even mysticism. Receptive, intuitive and highly imaginative, she loves to dream and romanticize and is therefore interested in art and all forms of expression. In matters of the heart, her challenge will be to establish her limits, because her selflessness can result in situations where her happiness is not necessarily on the menu.
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She excels in occupations of a humanitarian or social nature, unless it has a true vocation (art, religion, law, education or health, especially if she was born on the 6th, 9th, 15th, 18th, 24th or 27th day of the month). Anything unusual or unconventional would equally be suitable (healer, parapsychologist, dowser...), commercial occupations or those in connection with food (hotels, bakery, cuisine, dietetics...), occupations in connection with the public and travel.
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Love :Couples: Harmony will once again reign between the two of you. Singles: Make the most of your own company, you are unlikely to meet "the one" today.
Money :Today is a perfect day to clarify your financial objectives.
Health:You're lacking in calcium and vitamin D Bron . Get enough sunshine and eat plenty of brocolli to keep your bones healthy!
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