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1. On the Economy & Thursday's GDP Report
2. More Americans Believe Economy Will Get Better
3. Pew Research Survey - CAPITALISM vs. SOCIALISM
4. The United Nations Wants Control of the Internet
Today we look at a Pew Research Center survey that polled Americans for their feelings about capitalism versus socialism. The survey included all races, different ages and various income groups. I think it's safe to say, this survey will SHOCK YOU!
But before that, let's take a quick look at the latest economic reports and the consensus view for Thursday's 3Q GDP report. There is also news that Americans are more optimistic about the economy now than they have been in a decade – but are they really?
And finally, did you know that the United Nations is planning to hijack the Internet? The UN wants to control the World Wide Web. And it could happen as early as next week. You need to know about this.
On the Economy & Thursday's GDP Report
The government's second estimate of 3Q Gross Domestic Product looks to be the highlight of this week in terms of economic reports. GDP is the broadest measure of aggregate economic activity and encompasses every sector of the economy.
In the last week of October, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its "advance" estimate showing that 3Q GDP rose by a better than expected 2.0% (annual rate). That compared to growth of only 1.3% in the 2Q.
The pre-report consensus for the second estimate of 3Q GDP is for a jump from 2.0% to 2.8%. That would be a huge jump! The 2.8% consensus is the result of economist surveys by both Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. The range of expectations is 2.4% to 3.0%, all of which are above the initial BEA report of 2.0% last month.
Some analysts now believe that inventory building in the 3Q was better than previously reported in the advance estimate. Others cite a better than expected net exports number than previously estimated.
Admittedly, these monthly estimates of the GDP can be volatile, especially from the advance estimate to the final number, but it remains to be seen if this week's report shows a rise from 2.0% to 2.8%. The latest GDP report will be released by the BEA on Thursday at 8:30 AM Eastern Time.
The Conference Board reported this morning that the Consumer Confidence Index rose to 73.7 in October, a little better than expected, up from a revised 73.1% in September. While the latest report puts the confidence index at the highest level since the recession ended, it still has a long way to go to get back to pre-recession levels.
Also, the Commerce Department reported today that orders for durable goods were flat in October, a little better than expected. That followed a huge jump of 9.2% in September. Durable goods are bigger-ticket items that are expected to last at least three years.
Other economic reports this week include new home sales for October, which are expected to rise very modestly from 389,000 units sold in September. That report will be out tomorrow. The personal income report for October will be out on Friday morning, and it is expected to be unchanged or modestly higher.
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More Americans Believe Economy Will Get Better
A new Bloomberg survey taken just after the election found that more Americans believe the US economy will improve than at any time in the past decade. The percentage of households projecting the economy will get better rose to 37% in November, the highest reading since March 2002, according to Bloomberg.
Of course, this finding was heavily influenced by a surge in Democrat respondents following the re-election of President Obama. Bloomberg noted that the jump in expectations this month was the largest among registered Democrats, with 63% indicating the economy will improve, up 12 percentage points from October. The survey results among Republicans and Independents were largely unchanged from the last Bloomberg survey in October. No surprise there.
"The gain is largely political in nature, occurring very disproportionately among Democrats," said Gary Langer, president of Langer Research Associates in New York, which compiles the index for Bloomberg. "Gains in views the economy is improving, to be truly persuasive, will need to be more broadly based."
Other than the election, Bloomberg notes that home prices appear to have bottomed and are rising modestly in several regions of the country; new-home construction climbed to a four-year high in October; gasoline prices are falling; and the economic recovery is gaining momentum (which may be confirmed in Thursday's GDP report).
Separate surveys have recently shown that a majority of Americans believe that lawmakers will be successful in solving the "fiscal crisis" and largely avoid the $607 billion combination of spending cuts and tax hikes starting on January 1. I wish I were so sure! I still believe that the president and some Democrats in Washington are willing to let the economy go over the edge (see second link below in SPECIAL ARTICLES). I hope I'm wrong.
Speaking in New York last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke shifted from focusing on how bad the fiscal cliff will be to how much better things will be next year if lawmakers reach a deal to avoid it:
"There's important potential for the economy to strengthen significantly if there's a greater level of security and confidence about where we're going. A plan for resolving the nation's longer-term budgetary issues without harming the recovery could help make the new year a very good one for the American economy."
While focusing mainly on the positives for next year, Bernanke did repeat his warning that a failure to reach an agreement on the fiscal cliff would likely send the economy "toppling back into recession."
One thing is for sure: if we go over the fiscal cliff and the economy sinks into recession next year, the Bloomberg survey on economic optimism will reverse, perhaps sharply lower.
Pew Research Survey - CAPITALISM vs. SOCIALISM
Since the re-election of President Obama by a comfortable margin, a great deal of energy has been focused on the changing American electorate and the role of minorities in particular. So much so that a Pew Research Center survey from late last year has resurfaced and is getting a lot of attention.
Pew asked Americans of all races and various age groups to give their views (positive or negative) on Capitalism and Socialism. Let me warn you in advance: The survey results shown in the table below may shock you. Take a few minutes to let the data shown below soak in.
While whites are firmly positive on capitalism and overwhelmingly negative on socialism, other categories are troublesome. Going down the list, a slim majority of blacks (51%) are negative on capitalism and 55% are positive on socialism. Hispanics are also negative on capitalism (55%) but are net negative on socialism too.
Perhaps most surprising, young people (18-29) are about even on capitalism but are net positive (49-43) on socialism. This is so sad! Those ages 30-65+ are all net positive for capitalism and comfortably net negative on socialism. Still, the negatives for capitalism were higher than I would have expected for this older group.
Not surprising, those with higher family income were decidedly positive on capitalism and negative on socialism. Those with family income of less than $30,000 were clearly negative on capitalism (47%) and too close for comfort on socialism (43-46).
These numbers are deeply disturbing to most conservatives. The reasons should be obvious, and the trends are not in our favor. On the day after the election, Rush Limbaugh said, "I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country. I don't know how else you look at this."
I have a link to a good article that includes the chart above and some good analysis from several commentators on this subject in SPECIAL ARTICLES below.
The United Nations Wants Control of the Internet
The UN wants to control the Internet, and the first step in doing so could happen as early as next week when the UN meets in Dubai. The US needs to get serious about stopping this stealth attempt to hijack the World Wide Web. The following article on this threat was in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday:
The U.N.'s Internet Sneak Attack
Who runs the Internet? For now, the answer remains no one, or at least no government, which explains the Web's success as a new technology. But as of next week, unless the US gets serious, the answer could be the United Nations.
Many of the U.N.'s 193 member states oppose the open, uncontrolled nature of the Internet. Its interconnected global networks ignore national boundaries, making it hard for governments to censor or tax. And so, to send the freewheeling digital world back to the state control of the analog era, China, Russia, Iran and Arab countries are trying to hijack a U.N. agency that has nothing to do with the Internet.
For more than a year, these countries have lobbied an agency called the International Telecommunications Union to take over the rules and workings of the Internet. Created in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union, the ITU last drafted a treaty on communications in 1988, before the commercial Internet, when telecommunications meant voice telephone calls via national telephone monopolies.
Next week the ITU holds a negotiating conference in Dubai, and past months have brought many leaks of proposals for a new treaty. U.S. congressional resolutions and much of the commentary, including in this column, have focused on proposals by authoritarian governments to censor the Internet. Just as objectionable are proposals that ignore how the Internet works, threatening its smooth and open operations.
Having the Internet rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla. The Internet is made up of 40,000 networks that interconnect among 425,000 global routes, cheaply and efficiently delivering messages and other digital content among more than two billion people around the world, with some 500,000 new users a day.
Many of the engineers and developers who built and operate these networks belong to virtual committees and task forces coordinated by an international nonprofit called the Internet Society. The society is home to the Internet Engineering Task Force (the main provider of global technical standards) and other volunteer groups such as the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Research Task Force. Another key nongovernmental group is Icann, which assigns Internet addresses and domain names.
The self-regulating Internet means no one has to ask for permission to launch a website, and no government can tell network operators how to do their jobs. The arrangement has made the Internet a rare place of permissionless innovation. As former Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard recently pointed out, 90% of cooperative "peering" agreements among networks are "made on a handshake," adjusting informally as needs change.
Proposals for the new ITU treaty run to more than 200 pages. One idea is to apply the ITU's long-distance telephone rules to the Internet by creating a "sender-party-pays" rule. International phone calls include a fee from the originating country to the local phone company at the receiving end. Under a sender-pays approach, U.S.-based websites would pay a local network for each visitor from overseas, effectively taxing firms such as Google GOOG -0.83% and Facebook FB +7.88%. The idea is technically impractical because unlike phone networks, the Internet doesn't recognize national borders. But authoritarians are pushing the tax, hoping their citizens will be cut off from U.S. websites that decide foreign visitors are too expensive to serve.
Regimes such as Russia and Iran also want an ITU rule letting them monitor Internet traffic routed through or to their countries, allowing them to eavesdrop or block access.
"The Internet is highly complex and highly technical," Sally Wentworth of the Internet Society told me recently, "yet governments are the only ones making decisions at the ITU, putting the Internet at their mercy." She says the developers and engineers who actually run the Internet find it "mind boggling" that governments would claim control. As the Internet Society warns, "Technology moves faster than any treaty process ever can."
Google has started an online petition for a "free and open Internet" saying: "Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future." The State Department's top delegate to the Dubai conference, Terry Kramer, has pledged that the U.S. won't let the ITU expand its authority to the Internet. But he hedged his warning in a recent presentation in Washington: "We don't want to come across like we're preaching to others."
To the contrary, the top job for the U.S. delegation at the ITU conference is to preach the virtues of the open Internet as forcefully as possible. Billions of online users are counting on America to make sure that their Internet is never handed over to authoritarian governments or to the U.N.
We all need to be paying attention to this and hope our president stands up for free speech on the Internet!
Hoping you had a great Thanksgiving,
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SALT LAKE CITY - Fish consumption advisories have been issued for certain species of trout in six popular fishing areas, including two in northern Utah and four in southern Utah after state officials found elevated levels of mercury in fish.
The advisories are in effect for brown trout from the Weber River near Morgan, Utah and Jordanelle Reservoir in Wasatch County; rainbow trout from the Upper Enterprise Reservoir in Washington County and Newcastle Reservoir in Iron County; brown trout from Calf Creek in Garfield County and splake trout from Joe's Valley Reservoir in Emery County.
Fish consumption advisory signs will be posted at access points to Joe's Valley and Upper Enterprise reservoirs stating that:
- Adults should limit their consumption of splake Trout taken from Joe's Valley Reservoir and rainbow trout from Upper Enterprise Reservoir to no more than one eight-ounce serving per month
- Women who may become pregnant, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children should not eat more than one two-ounce serving per month from either location.
Fish consumption advisory signs will be posted at access points to Jordanelle and Newcastle reservoirs, Weber River and Calf Creek stating that:
- Adults should limit their consumption of brown trout from Jordanelle and rainbow trout from Newcastle reservoirs and brown trout from Weber River and Calf Creek to no more than two eight-ounce servings per month
- Women who may become pregnant, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children should not eat more than one four-ounce serving per month from any of the locations.
Eating more than these amounts over a long period of time could result in an intake of mercury that exceeds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health recommendations, according to an analysis completed by the Utah Department of Health. Any health risks associated with eating fish from the affected areas are based on long-term consumption and are not tied to eating fish occasionally. There is no health risk associated with mercury for other uses of the reservoirs, river or creek, such as swimming, boating and waterskiing.
Fish were collected from the waterbodies as part of an ongoing water quality investigation. Officials from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Utah Department of Health, Utah Department of Natural Resources, and the local Health Departments worked in partnership to issue this advisory.
Information about the advisory and the health effects of mercury is available at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality's Web site and each of the agencies' Web sites. The final report on the evaluation of mercury concentrations in fish sampled from streams, lakes and reservoirs in Utah can be found at the Utah Department of Health's Web site.

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7 Amazing Transparent Animals – Wonders of Nature
August 29, 2010 by Chill Out Point
Filed under Animals, Odd World
Nature is fascinating and often weird, it surprises us when we least expect. Some creatures use the camouflage techniques as a hunting and defense mechanism, others show everything they have - like transparent animals. Despite of what we are inclined to think, transparent and translucent animals live also on the ground, not only in the abyss of the ocean and we have visual proof of it. Nothing is photoshopped!
1. Transparent Frog
Umm, not so fast, prof… have you seen the "glass frog" (above), native to the Venezuelan rainforest? Like the transparent frogs selectively bred in the lab from generations of pale-skinned Japanese Brown Frogs, the Glass Frog's internal organs and eggs can be seen without too much trouble. Word to Professor Sumida: take the grant money and run!
2. Transparent Cave Crayfish
Caves are some of the darkest places on the planet – even sophisticated light-gathering instruments are unable to register a single photon in the deepest, darkest caves. Under these conditions, creatures including fish, spiders, insects and crayfish have evolved into "troglobites": animals so precisely adapted to living in darkness that they cannot survive outside cave environments. Under such conditions, neither eyes nor pigmentation are necessary.
3. Transparent Sea Cucumber
Slow moving, soft bodied bottom dwellers for the most part, Sea Cucumbers are an ancient lineage of sea creatures who have evolved a variety of ways to survive and thrive over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. For some Sea Cucumbers, being transparent allows them to fly under the radar, as it were, of predators in search of a quick & easy ki**.
4. Transparent Icefish
Fund in the cold waters around Antarctica and southern South America, the crocodile icefish (Channichthyidae) feed on krill, copepods, and other fish. Their blood is transparent because they have no hemoglobin and/or only defunct erythrocytes. Their metabolism relies only on the oxygen dissolved in the liquid blood, which is believed to be absorbed directly through the skin from the water. This works because water can dissolve the most oxygen when it is coldest.
5. Transparent Amphipod
Called Phronima, this unusual animal is one of the many strange species recently found on an expedition to a deep-sea mountain range in the North Atlantic. In an ironic strategy for survival, this tiny shrimplike creature shows everything it has, inside and out, in an attempt to disappear.
6. Transparent Squid
Found on the southern hemisphere's oceans, the Glass Squid (Teuthowenia pellucida) has light organs on its eyes and possesses the ability to roll into a ball, like an aquatic hedgehog.
7. Transparent Siphonophores
Siphonophores belong to the Cnidaria, a group of animals that includes the corals, hydroids, and true jellyfish. Marrus orthocanna, a deep sea siphonophore. The combined digestive and circulatory system is red; all other parts are transparent.
Tweeters Watch Out for the Wheat Thins Team Lurking with Surprises
July 7, 2010 by Chill Out Point
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Important info to all the Tweeters out there! Your tweets are being watched and carefully monitored by the Wheat Thins team. A lot of tweeters have experienced this first hand. Tim found himself in an unlikely situation when he found out that his complaint about Wheat Thins being the loudest snack ever, was scooped of the internet and brought Wheat Thins team to his aid and a genius set of crunch-proof headphones.
Here is a couple more videos of those lucky tweeters who got a visit from Wheat Thins team. The first video featuring Tabatha, who found herself in a critical situation when she found out she was out of Wheat Thins and got a truck load of Wheat Thins to her great surprise. The second video featuring a guy named Dan who uses Wheat Thins as a guitar pick for his 'air' guitar, having loads of fun with his new pick pack.
How come this never happens to me, you wonder. Well, good things come to those who wait. So tweet away and hope for the best.


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Indonesian Muslim group wants halal television.
An Islamic council in Indonesia wants the country's broadcasting commission to consider certifying TV programs as religiously acceptable.
But the country's broadcasting commissioner has ruled out certifying TV programs based on whether they're acceptable to Islam.
The term halal most commonly refers to foods that are permitted by Islam, but now the West Java branch of Indonesia's Islamic Council is suggesting halal television too.
Indonesia's Broadcast Law states that content should educate and entertain, but also implement religious values and the country's culture.
So the Islamic Council is suggesting TV should be subject to a certification system, like foods, to show whether they're religiously permitted, or halal.
The West Java Broadcast Commissioner, Nursyawal, says that's not going to happen.
He says it's up to Islamic Clerics to issue their own fatwa or religious law forbidding certain programs.
I never saw anything labeled as halal in my childhood. It is around 20 years ago I found that a word halal invaded the world. Muslims want everything halal or everything Islamic whatever they eat, or drink, or touch, or hear, or see, or smell. Muslims are now becoming more and more intolerant, ignorant and arrogant. The whole situation is so weird now that I do not need to know whether they are fundamentalists, they are Muslims or they believe in Islam–it has become a good enough reason to stay away from them.
Aren't they becoming jokers too? Muslim women in Egypt have their Islamic TV. A bunch of faceless shameless women are placed there to humiliate human race. Now an Indonesian Muslim group demands for an halal or Islamic TV. It's very simple. Their ancestors used swords to convert people to Islam. Today's Muslims use hi tech media to convert people to Islam or just to brainwash millions of people everyday with misogynistic superstitions. Their aim is to occupy the world or make the world darul Islam or land of Islam. The aim has been the same, only the weapons are different.


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ETS, NEA Study Identifies Pathways to Increasing Teacher Diversity
Minority students make up 40% of classrooms, minority teachers 16%
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New, collaborative research recently completed and published by Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the National Education Association (NEA) provides insights into how to close teacher diversity gap. Identifying potential intervention opportunities and focusing attention on the need for intensive candidate support, the report outlines what teacher preparation programs can do to help minority teacher candidates struggling to pass their licensure exams.
"Toward Increasing Teacher Diversity: Targeting Support and Intervention for Teacher Licensure Candidates" focuses on the performance gap between White and minority teacher candidates, and takes an in-depth look at candidate performance in various content areas as part of The Praxis Series™ assessments. In addition to assessing candidate performance in the areas of academic skills, content areas, and pedagogy, researchers conducted site visits to six universities to learn more about the challenges they face and strategies they've implemented to help minority candidates.
"Our analysis found some significant differences in performance between White and minority test takers on licensure tests, but the differences were not the same across the board," said report author and ETS Vice President and COO for Teacher Licensure and Certification Linda Tyler. "We also found some important performance patterns in a number of sub-areas on high-volume tests like elementary content knowledge and the pedagogy tests. The findings offer information on areas where the greatest opportunities for improvement lie."
Analyzing the records of over 300,000 teacher candidates from ETS's Praxis database, the report looks at where performance gaps lie, test taker characteristics that most highly correlate with performance, intervention opportunities and the possible implications of raising or lowering state cut scores in light of the performance gaps.
"The evidence is clear that all students benefit from a more diverse teacher workforce," said NEA Executive Director John Wilson, "with benefits that are both social and academic. This
report yields important information and insights that can help improve efforts to educate, prepare, recruit and retain highly qualified minority candidates in the classroom."
Key research findings from the ETS/NEA study include:
- Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American first-time test takers have significantly lower passing rates than White first-time test takers on almost all the tests examined for this study, although the gaps vary widely across titles and racial/ethnic groups.
- Of all the test taker information gathered from Praxis candidates, undergraduate grade point average and candidate education level at the time of testing appear to offer the most actionable information for teacher preparation programs.
- All racial/ethnic groups performed best on average in Language Arts on the Elementary Education Content Knowledge test; the three other areas covered by the test (Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science) offered more room for improvement.
- A common perception that minority test takers perform uniformly worse on constructed-response items (versus multiple-choice) is not supported in the analysis.
NEA and ETS are committed to helping ensure that candidates of color are supported and have access to intervention tools and resources that will enable them to close score gaps. Additionally, they encourage their industry colleagues and partners to join them in research, data-sharing, gathering additional data, and developing intervention strategies.
The complete research results are available in this free technical research report available for download at http://www.nea.org/home/42951.htm.
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Antonio Brown's status 'very much in doubt' for Chiefs game
Steelers WR likely out with sprained ankle
The Pittsburgh Steelers will likely be without leading receiver Antonio Brown on Monday night when they host the Kansas City Chiefs.
Brown sprained his right ankle in last Sunday's 24-20 victory over the New York Giants. Coach Mike Tomlin called Brown's status "very much in doubt." Brown leads the Steelers with 42 receptions and is second on the team with 499 receiving yards.
If Brown sits, it's likely Emmanuel Sanders will take Brown's spot in the starting lineup, with veteran Jerricho Cotchery moving up to starting slot receiver.
The Steelers will also be without safety Troy Polamalu, who will miss his fifth straight game and seventh overall with a right calf injury. Running back Jonathan Dwyer, who sat out last week with a right quad injury, is expected to play.


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Nutrition is an integral component of comprehensive cancer care. Cancer, and the treatments for cancer, can have detrimental effects on a patient's nutrition status. Eating the right foods before, during, and after treatment can help the patient feel better and stay stronger. Having cancer puts stress on the body, requiring more calories and protein to fight harder. Optimal nutrition for cancer patients must be developed on an individual basis as each person has specific nutritional needs. Eating right during and after cancer treatment is easier when nutritional counseling and sound nutritional information are readily available.
The Maimonides Cancer Center has established a nutrition program to provide patients with guidance during cancer treatment. The nutrition program works toward this goal by providing early nutrition intervention, identifying problems that affect the success of anticancer therapy. Finding and treating nutrition problems early may help the cancer patient gain or maintain weight, maintain energy and strength, lessen side effects, improve the response to cancer therapy, and reduce complications of treatment.
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John Cusack dined at Accanto in Logan Square Sunday. Accanto had been closed for a two-week summer vacation but opened exclusively for Cusack and his friends. The "Hot Tub Time Machine" star ordered the strawberry risotto.
Sienna Miller and a guest dined on Le Colonial's sidewalk cafe Monday. They ordered banh cuon, monkfish, and bbq pork.
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The Worcester district attorney�s office has identified three cases in which former state chemist Annie Dookhan signed the drug certifications, Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. confirmed yesterday.
The discovery was made Friday, while officials from Mr. Early�s office continued to check a list of cases that might be affected cases.
�It appears that we have three cases where the drug certificates have Annie Dookhan�s name on them,� Mr. Early said. �I can�t identify them (the defendants) at this time.�
The cases involve an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and were prosecuted in Worcester Superior Court, Mr. Early said. The case involved a bust with more than 100 pounds of marijuana.
While Mr. Early did not identify the names involved in the cases, he said all three are co-defendants. At least one person is serving time in a prison facility, and it appears that person is scheduled to be released sometime in December 2013, Mr. Early said.
Another defendant is wanted on a default warrant, and the third case is still being reviewed.
�There was a stipulation between defense counsel and the prosecutor before trial that the drug was in fact marijuana,� Mr. Early said. It is unclear if that agreement was made based on the test results.
Mr. Early believes the marijuana in the case went to the now-closed Jamaica Plain drug lab, called the Hinton State Lab, because of the DEA�s involvement in the case. Drugs from the Worcester district attorney�s office go to UMass Memorial Medical Center for testing.
The defense lawyers will be notified along with the DEA, Mr. Early said.
The lab in Jamaica Plain was shut down as the investigation into Ms. Dookhan�s alleged actions continued.
Ms. Dookhan, 34, of Franklin, has been charged with obstruction of justice and falsely pretending to have a degree from a college or university. Authorities claim she tested more than 60,000 drug samples involving cases for 34,000 defendants during her nine years on the job.
Ms. Dookhan resigned from the Department of Public Health and was later arrested.
Mr. Early is preparing a request to the state and Legislature for money to pay for prosecutors to handle the cases involving Ms. Dookhan. He is looking for funding to pay for three or four prosecutors to handle appellate court, superior court and district court cases. He is also looking for an administrator for the cases.
The Worcester district attorney�s office was reviewing 32 to 40 cases that might have had drug certifications signed by Ms. Dookhan. Authorities believed most of the cases affected by Ms. Dookhan�s alleged transgressions would hit Suffolk, Norfolk, Middlesex and Barnstable counties hardest. There are 1,141 individuals currently serving prison or jail time who had drug evidence analyzed by Ms. Dookhan.
A review of cases involving those in federal prison, those who are awaiting trial and people who already served jail or prison time and people on probation will be completed as well. District attorneys will be notified if Ms. Dookhan was somehow involved in those cases.
�I messed up. I messed up bad, it�s my fault,� Ms. Dookhan allegedly told state police investigators. �I don�t want the lab to get in trouble.�
Ms. Dookhan is accused of �dry labbing� while analyzing samples. She allegedly admitted to investigators that she would look at drug samples and identify the drug that way, without conducting the proper testing. She also allegedly told investigators that she contaminated samples.
�She stated that she �only contaminated samples a few times,� � the 100-page state police report said.


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CERN, 13th December 2011
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The Higgs boson is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics that has not yet been experimentally observed. Its observation would be a major step forward in our understanding of how particles acquire mass. Conversely, not finding the SM Higgs boson at the LHC would be very significant and would lead to a greater focus on alternative theories that extend beyond the Standard Model, with associated Higgs-like particles.
Today the CMS Collaboration presented their latest results in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson, using the entire data sample of proton-proton collisions collected up to the end of 2011. These data amount to 4.7 fb-1 of integrated luminosity[1], meaning that CMS can study Higgs production in almost the entire mass range above the limit from CERN's Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider of 114 GeV/c2 (or 114 GeV in natural units [2]) and up to 600 GeV. Our results were achieved by combining searches in a number of predicted Higgs "decays channels" including: pairs of W or Z bosons, which decay to four leptons; pairs of heavy quarks; pairs of tau leptons; and pairs of photons (Figure 1).
Our preliminary results, for several statistical confidence levels [3], exclude the existence of the SM Higgs boson in a wide range of possible Higgs boson masses:
A mass is said to be "excluded at 95% confidence level" if the Standard Model Higgs boson with that mass would yield more evidence than that observed in our data at least 95% of the time in a set of repeated experiments.
We do not exclude a SM Higgs boson with a mass between 115 GeV and 127 GeV at 95% confidence level. Compared to the SM prediction there is an excess of events in this mass region (see Figure 2b), that appears, quite consistently, in five independent channels.
With the amount of data collected so far, it is inherently difficult to distinguish between the two hypotheses of existence vs non-existence of a Higgs signal in this low mass region. The observed excess of events could be a statistical fluctuation of the known background processes, either with or without the existence of the SM Higgs boson in this mass range. The larger data samples to be collected in 2012 will reduce the statistical uncertainties, enabling us to make a clear statement on the possible existence, or not, of the SM Higgs boson in this mass region.
The excess is most compatible with an SM Higgs hypothesis in the vicinity of 124 GeV and below, but with a statistical significance of less than 2 standard deviations (2σ) from the known backgrounds, once the so-called Look-Elsewhere Effect [4] has been taken into account. This is well below the significance level that traditionally has been associated with excesses that stand the test of time.
If we explore the hypothesis that our observed excess could be the first hint of the presence of the SM Higgs boson, we find that the production rate ("cross section" relative to the SM, σ/σSM) for each decay channel is consistent with expectations, albeit with large uncertainties. However, the low statistical significance means that this excess can reasonably be interpreted as fluctuations of the background.
More data, to be collected in 2012, will help ascertain the origin of the excess.
UPDATE: CMS publishes Higgs boson search results using 2010–2011 data
More information may be found on the CMS web site: http://cern.ch/cms.
CMS is one of two general-purpose experiments at the LHC that have been built to search for new physics. It is designed to detect a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in the LHC's high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions and will help to answer questions such as: "What is the Universe really made of and what forces act within it?" and "What gives everything substance?" It will also measure the properties of well-known particles with unprecedented precision and be on the lookout for completely new, unpredicted phenomena. Such research not only increases our understanding of the way the Universe works, but may eventually spark new technologies that change the world in which we live as has often been true in the past.
The conceptual design of the CMS experiment dates back to 1992. The construction of the gigantic detector (15 m diameter by nearly 29 m long with a weight of 14000 tonnes) took 16 years of effort from one of the largest international scientific collaborations ever assembled: more than 3100 scientists and engineers from 169 institutions and research laboratories distributed in 39 countries all over the world.
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Bye Bye Psyduck (さよならコダック!またきてゴルダック? Goodbye Psyduck! Come Again Golduck?) is the 11th episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.
Ash and Co. arrive at Kinnow Island and meet a girl named Marina, who was just as crazy about Water-type Pokémon as much as Misty. They noticed that Misty's Psyduck's tail had begun to glow, meaning it was a sure sign it was ready to evolve. During a battle between Misty and Marina, a Golduck appears out of nowhere and Misty immediately thinks her Psyduck has evolved. After a battle with Team Rocket, when she called Golduck back, her Psyduck popped out, revealing that it never evolved so Misty realises she is stuck with Psyduck.
Episode plot
The heroes have a relaxing day at the beach. Psyduck sleeps on Lapras' back and when Lapras goes away, Psyduck falls in water and drowns, still asleep. Suddenly, Pikachu makes a fuss and Misty realizes Psyduck is gone. A girl fishes along with Tentacruel and sees a Psyduck emerging from water that cannot swim. The gang's Water Pokémon were sent, but they did not found Psyduck. Ash calls Lapras back and sees this was not easy to get rid of Psyduck. Misty gets riled up, as they need to continue searching for Psyduck, but Ash gets her confused by responding that she suddenly cares about it. Tracey believes it is love, thinking Psyduck is her favorite Pokémon Misty denies it, but they see a woman, whose Tentacruel carries Psyduck, with a pink tail.
The girl meets the gang, whose name is Marina. Seeing Psyduck's tail, Marina heard with a color like that Psyduck will evolve soon. Ash remembers that Psyduck evolves in a Golduck, causing Misty and Marina to be amazed by this discovery. Misty and Marina hear that they love Water Pokémon and have a conversation, making Ash, Pikachu and Tracey baffled. They show each other their lures and think of capturing the Legendary Pokémon. Marina asks Misty how come Psyduck cannot swim (making Ash and Tracey wonder about it, too). Misty is nervous but responds that trait is what causes Psyduck to be rare, plus she wants it to trade for Tentacruel. Marina has a doubt about that, but proposes a battle to see which trainer is better. Misty accepts this challenge.
Team Rocket try to find the twerps but do not know where to look. Meowth tells Jessie to let him see but gets pounded instead. James asks if they can at least have lunch, but Jessie does not want to, wanting to find those twerps. Suddenly, she sees them, as they are about to have the battle. Marina proposes a 3-on-3 battle and Misty accepts. Marina sends Tentacruel and Misty her Goldeen (with Marina acknowledging her cuteness). Tentacruel goes to wrap Goldeen, but Goldeen responds using Agility. Goldeen goes to use Horn Attack but gets defeated by a Poison Sting. Misty calls Goldeen back and sends Staryu. Marina and Misty compliment Staryu, so Ash asks if they are going to talk all day. Staryu uses Swift, immediately defeating Tentacruel. Marina sends her strongest Pokémon, Psyduck, much to the heroes' surprise. Staryu uses Water Gun, but Psyduck uses Confusion to reflect it to Staryu. Misty calls Staryu back. Marina proposes to send Psyduck since it will evolve soon. Misty agrees and sends it, but...
...but the Poké Ball is empty. Ash goes to search in Misty's backpack, but cannot find it. He throws it to Misty but misses. Misty goes for her backpack and gets it, but upon taking it, she sees Golduck. Misty is delighted to see it and hugs Psyduck, thinking nobody will say any bad things to it. Tracey knows this is love, as Psyduck loved Misty back. Meowth tells they can grab Golduck and Pikachu, so Team Rocket proceed. Psyduck uses Confusion to make a wave. Golduck uses Confusion and rides the wave, but Psyduck begins to spin around, as Team Rocket appear from the submarine. They engulf the heroes with a wave and capture the Pokémon. Team Rocket think it is better to capture the Pokémon without the motto, but see they caught a Psyduck and a Tentacruel.
Misty sees Golduck is fine, although Marina has got her Pokémon captured by Team Rocket. Marina sends Starmie, who goes with Golduck to save the Pokémon. Team Rocket argue whose fault it was for capturing these Pokémon, but seeing Golduck, they go to capture it. However, Golduck uses Confusion, controlling the submarine, causing the submarine to crash. Marina demands her Pokémon, so Jessie and James tell she can have it. Meowth stops them, as they need to trade Pikachu for these Pokémon, making Jessie and James admire his intelligence. Pikachu goes to electrocute them, but Ash warns him if he attacks, Marina's Pokémon will get shocked. Marina asks her Tentacruel and Psyduck if they can get out. They cannot, as Misty worries they have been exhausted, so Marina goes to save them herself.
Jessie sends out Arbok, but Marina does not back down. Arbok goes to attack, but Golduck pushes it using Water Gun. Arbok uses Poison Sting, but Psyduck reflects the attack, then uses Confusion to blast it off. Using Hyper Beam, Golduck blasts off Team Rocket. Marina asks what happened to her Pokémon and sees Golduck returning with them. Seeing Golduck's awesomeness, Misty hugs it once more. Marina and Misty go to finish the battle. Golduck uses Fury Swipes, but gets tackled by Starmie, then hits it using Bubble. Golduck gets ready to use Hyper Beam, but Starmie uses Light Screen to counter it. However, the beam was so powerful, the Light Screen shattered, leaving Starmie to get hit and defeated. Marina congratulates Misty, who likes Golduck evolved. Tracey, Pikachu and Ash clap for her.
Misty goes to send Golduck back, but surprisingly, Psyduck comes out. Misty is confused how this happened. Golduck hears some girls and goes to them, posing and making them impressed. Marina tells Misty that the Golduck wasn't hers at all for it's just a wild Pokémon who likes to show off for pretty girls. Misty is depressed by this revelation. They ask where was Psyduck and Tracey believes it was resting in its Poké Ball. Misty asks about the pink tail, but Marina seems to know that was not true. Tracey tells Misty that Golduck got her fooled. Misty responds with a glare but gives up. Marina tells Misty that she handled a wild Golduck, which was impressive. However, Ash tells she did not win the battle, as Golduck was not her own. Tracey thinks he was wrong about the love explanation, as Misty gets riled up with a headache. The heroes depart on Lapras and say goodbye to Marina.
- "It's just a Pokémon version of Brock." - Misty about the wild Golduck
- This was the episode that premiered worldwide the special Mini-Misty Lure.
- Brock was mentioned by Misty in this episode because the Golduck she thought was her Psyduck evolved liked to flirt with girls, but unlike Brock, the Golduck is successful at flirting.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Mewtwo.
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Democrats Cover Up Bush Era War Crimes
The Associated Press writes:
"Two Obama advisers said there's little—if any—chance that the incoming president's Justice Department will go after anyone involved in authorizing or carrying out interrogations that provoked worldwide outrage."
And when Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy was asked if Bush officials could face war crimes, he responded:
"In the United States, no. These things are not going to happen."
This is not entirely surprising, given that Democratic congress members Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman and John D. Rockefeller were secretly briefed on torture many, many years ago, and yet did nothing to stop those unlawful programs. Indeed, they egged the torturers on (the linked Washington Post article says "no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder").
Remember, those who authorize or cover up war crimes are themselves guilty of war crimes. The Democratic leadership thus has every incentive to cover up war crimes.
The fix is already in. Only massive pressure on the government can force war crimes trials.
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The Crusades were a several centuries delayed response to Islamic jihad. When Pope Urban II called the First Crusade in 1095, the followers of the prophet had already spread across the Middle East and North Africa by force.
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Christian occupation of Syria disappeared after the ninth crusade.
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A popular pastime during Middle Ages in which participants celebrated the King of Peace by raping and slaughtering every Muslim in sight. Generally considered the beginning of the age-old Christian tradition of killing those who are different from them.
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A series of wars n shit that happened in ancient medieval times. So you got the Holy Land, Jerusalem. This place is like Mecca to christians and catholics. For some reason the Arabs, Islams, Saracens etc wanted it. So the Arabs marched thier huge army and said "we'll take it". Meanwhile in Europe, all the white boys there got really pissed off about this and got together, got some weapons and marched to Jerusalem getting into all kinds of shennanighans on the way. So the White boys get to Jerusalem and slaughtered the arab army and the Pope was all happy again. Then you get this guy named Saladin who had a huge army and wanted Jerusalem back from the "Blue Eyed Demons" as ahe called the white men from Europe. One of this "Blue Eyed Demons" happened to be Richard the Lionheart from england. He also had an army that was a bit smaller that Saladins but he himself was a tough, streetsmart fucker who could handle himself on the battlefield. The forces meet and a huge battle called Asurf takes place. Richards white boys win the battle against the arabs. Saladin gets realy cut about this and puts a Jihad on their ass. This is serious shit coz u got muslims with jihads and eurotrash with crusades. So the white boys spill heaps of innocent blood and kill and murder and make one hell of a mess then sign a peace treaty with the muslims. Like whiteboys do, they kill n make mess and when things get hectic they think fuck this and leave. They went back to Europe and im pretty sure that they come back a few times to cause a bit more trouble. Meanwhile the Jews who lived here just stood back and hoped that the white boys would protect them coz they aint had an army scince the romans fucked them. Sadly today theres still bitchin about who lives here.
"Man those crusades were fucked up hey"
by HIstroian Almighty June 09, 2006
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by shannon d August 19, 2008
A series of conflicts (1096-1204) in which European conscripts called by the Catholic Church attempted to conquer the Holy Land. The First Crusade (1096-1099) was actually an answer to the Byzantine Empire's (the surviving eastern half of the Roman Empire, and the largest Christian country at the time) call for assistance fighting the Muslims. Pope Urban II asked the Catholics to go on an "armed pilgrimage" to the Holy Land and establish a kingdom there. This call wasn't answered by any monarchs, and very few nobles or knights. For the most part, the "crusaders" were an angry mob of commoners such as peasants, merchants, and prostitutes. Somehow this mob managed to establish a kingdom in Jerusalem, which later fell to the Muslims. The Second Crusade (1147-1149) was a bit better organized, but was met with heavy Muslim resistance. The Third Crusade (1189-1192) was answered by King Richard I of England, King Philip II of France, and Frederick I Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany). Frederick drowned in a river on the way to the Holy Land, and Philip and Richard began fighting among themselves. The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) was the last major one. These crusaders weren't even after the Holy Land this time; they sought to defeat the Byzantine Empire, and thus were fighting other Christians.
The fact that the Crusades even happened is sadly ironic, as Jesus' teachings were of love and peace.
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The shift among advisors to independent registered investment advisor (RIA) status continues at a strong pace. At Schwab Advisor Services, the RIA-industry's largest custodian, 166 advisor-teams representing $12 billion in assets affiliated with the company in 2011. According to Tim Oden, senior managing director of business development for Schwab Advisor Services in San Francisco, Calif., deals with advisors coming from wirehouses have accelerated in 2012 and are driving a greater percentage of the company's growth.
If you're considering joining the RIA ranks, it's natural to focus on the numerous steps involved: regulatory requirements, custody and account transfers, back office setup and so on. But before you declare independence, consider your motivations for the change. Reviewing your reasons before you start the transition can help clarify your goals and give you an idea of whether you'll be served better under a corporate-RIA or by setting up your own shop.
Freedom, Flexibility, Control
Broker-dealers and wirehouses have their own business models, profit targets and regulatory procedures. If an advisor wants to adopt practices and processes that differ from the affiliated company's model, the partnership can get strained. "Advisors want to be able to run their own businesses in the way in which they want to run them," says Derek Bruton, managing director and national sales manager, LPL Financial in San Diego. "They want to service their clients in the way they'd like to."
Mark Tibergien, chief executive officer and managing director, Pershing Advisor Solutions in Jersey City, N.J., says increased operational freedom is a key motivator for going independent. "If you're in a captive environment you may be stuck with more proprietary solutions or you may not be able to do certain things because you're governed by their own sales practices," says Tibergien. "So that freedom of choice is a big part of it. So, too, is the freedom of who they choose to work with, both of which could be restricted in certain captive brokerage environments."
Deborah A. Stauring, CFP, ChFC, AIF with Winthrop Financial in Buffalo, N.Y., went independent because she wanted the ability to make quick decisions and to choose the services she and her colleagues provided. "We can select securities and tools that we want without committees and delayed decisions, or no decisions at all, from a large company," she says. "We are traditionalists and don't want to be told to buy the latest thing."
Some advisors' desired business model simply doesn't fit within a larger firm. Amy Jo Lauber, CFP with Lauber Financial Planning in West Seneca, N.Y., decided to go independent because she wanted to focus on financial planning that included aspects of behavioral finance. There was a twist, though: She wasn't interested in managing clients' investment assets, a key source of profits for many firms.
"I got tired of meeting with prospects who didn't have any assets for us to manage because everything was tied up in a 401(k) and we couldn't take them on as a client," she says. "I said, this is ridiculous. There are tons of people who are starving for good financial information and guidance and there are so few models that can accommodate that. So that's where I went."
Nate Stibbs, senior vice president with Triad Advisors in Atlanta cites increased control as the most common reason he's encountered among advisors affiliating with his company. Independence allows advisors to build their ideal platform, he says, which in turn provides increased control over managing the business, client portfolios and technology. "It just gives you a different dynamic to your business that you don't otherwise have if you're at a wirehouse or at a large independent," he says.
An advisor's marketing efforts can also benefit from RIA status. Rett Dean, CFP, EA and his partner went independent Riverchase Financial Planning in Lewisville, Texas. One motivation Dean cites was the desire to have more control over the firm's marketing efforts. He notes, for example, that broker-dealers usually impose constraints on their reps' interactions with the media. If a rep wishes to speak with a journalist, the broker-dealer's compliance department will want to see the questions in advance and approve the rep's responses.
As an independent RIA, Dean can respond more freely to the media, although he recognizes that freedom transfers compliance oversight back to his firm. "Others would argue that you're taking in that liability yourself and I don't deny that," he says. "At the same time, though, I believe and my partner believes that we're not going to say anything that would potentially create a conflict or put us at risk of having some litigious situation arise. We're not going to go out on a limb on something we don't feel confident talking about. We're not going to go into a subject that we don't feel we can talk at some level professionally about."
Economic Factors
Economics can be a major motivator, according to Bill Van Law, president of Raymond James Investment Advisors Division. From an operating perspective, he notes, affiliated and captive advisors can find themselves paying for corporate services that they don't need and that don't benefit their clients. Part of those paid-for services includes promoting the corporate brand, says Tibergien, but that affiliation can have little value for many successful advisors. "Many practitioners who get to a level of maturity find that they don't need to have a big brand name anymore," he says. "They want to create their own brand. And, so, the cost of whatever they're giving up in override is not worth the retention of the brand because they've created their own brand."
From a longer-term perspective, independence allows advisors to build value in their firms that is more easily monetized in a future ownership transfer. Non-independent advisors who retire and transition their business, particularly at wirehouses, are shifting income, says Van Law. The typical transition arrangement is that they receive a percentage of previous income over time on a downward sliding scale. This is ordinary income versus an outright business sale that can generate a lump sum or potentially qualify for preferential capital gains treatment. Consequently, Van Law notes, such sales are not nearly as attractive economically as building an independent business and selling it.
Less Regulation? Maybe
In Dean's experience with the RIA structure, he and his partner have fewer regulatory obstacles in dealing with news media. Stauring also cited the desire for a reduced regulatory burden in her firm. She previously had been dual-registered and found that arrangement's compliance regime was time-consuming and burdensome. "The independent RIA route was important to us in order to concentrate more on the client base than the regulators," she says. "We were taking up so much time developing processes and satisfying compliance from two regulators that it didn't make sense anymore. Also, the cost in staffing needs and technology and dual registration was unnecessary and wasteful."
Not all advisors switching to RIA-status should expect a lighter regulatory burden, though, and advisors who want or need assistance with compliance might be better off affiliating with a corporate RIA or outsourcing their compliance management. Tibergien believes it's a "great myth" to think that things are easier from a regulation perspective as an RIA versus operating within a broker-dealer.
"People who go in with the notion of regulatory arbitrage are often surprised by the degree to which compliance takes on a bigger role in their lives," he maintains. "One way in which it takes on a bigger role is that now that they're independent they are absolutely on the hook for their own compliance and oversight versus having that performed by the broker-dealer. So, that is one motivation that I think is not valid."
Compliance poses an additional burden for smaller independents because staff resources in those firms usually are stretched thin. Given the changes in the industry's regulatory changes, Stibbs believes firms face a "massive" increase in compliance and regulatory costs across the board and that can be a challenge. "I think as an advisor you've got to have the depth of scale, you've got to have the depth of infrastructure internally to be able to manage the compliance within a separate RIA model," he says. "For a lot of solo practitioners I think it's a challenge, frankly. For larger firms, for teams, ensembles, I think it can still be a challenge but you've got to have the depth of staff, you've got to have the depth of internal resources and compliance to be able to manage that on-site."
Is It Worth It?
Despite the challenges, the advisors interviewed for this article are unanimously satisfied with their decisions to go independent, even when their incomes decline for the short term. Lauber's summation captures the consensus: "At first it was very difficult (especially registering as an RIA) and slow-going, but now that I'm rounding the two-year mark, I'm very, very busy and am easily meeting my stated goals."


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2006 Western Regional Barista Competition: Part 2, The Honor Roll
Posted by TheShot on 06 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Local Brew
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the 2006 Western Regional Barista Competition was held in Petaluma over this past weekend. Twenty-two baristas from across California and Hawai'i participated in the annual competition — many for their first time. In addition to bringing out some of the best espresso preparation the region has to offer, it was naturally a great social event for many people in the industry to get together, share stories, and do so over some fantastic espresso.
Representing San Francisco in the competition were two baristas each from Café Organica and Ritual Coffee Roasters.
Eton Tsuno, owner of Café Organica, performed early on in the competition (too early for this blogger to arrive at 9:30AM on a Saturday morning in Petaluma, I'm afraid) and didn't seem too encouraged by his performance. Still, Eton was visibly beaming over the new espresso machine he acquired for Café Organica: a Mirage designed by Kees van der Westen. Kees' machines are considered some of the most coveted in the industry, and apparently Eton's new device is currently the lone example in all of California.
Danielle Joray, also of Café Organica (and a former barista at Washington D.C.'s famed Murky Coffee), entered the competition as a first-timer.
Representing Ritual Coffee Roasters was Ryan Brown and Gabriel Boscana. Gabe took second place in the 2005 WRBC, then as a barista at Pacific Bay Coffee in Walnut Creek. (Click here for a PDF of the final scores from last year's competition.)
Ritual Coffee Roasters also brought quite an entourage to the competition, including co-owners Jeremy Tooker and Eileen Hassi (who also served as a judge … and was one of the friendliest faces at the event). And while Flying Goat Coffee may have printed signs for their cheering section, Ritual's cheering crew took the prize as the most vocal.
In addition to Flying Goat and Pacific Bay Coffee, the Bay Area was also well-represented by Andy Newbom of Barefoot Roasters, who served as an event emcee (…and boarding house for one of the competitors — among the many he has helped take under his wing). Duane Sorenson of Portland's Stumptown Coffee Roasters (and supplier to Ritual Coffee Roasters) was in attendance "to support good coffee" — as he put it.
Representation for Southern California came in the form of Coffee Klatch Roasting of San Dimas. Owner, Michael Perry, was in attendance, as was noneother than Heather Perry, the 2003 U.S. barista champion and defending winner of the WRBC.
Just to show how some things can go wrong during the competition, Heather was forced to call a "technical" during her first attempt at a 15-minute presentation. During the prep time at her station, one of the two steam boilers of her La Marzocco ran low on pressure — down to 0.5 bar, versus the 1.0-1.2 bars that are recommended for proper operation. This caused her milk-frothing to go awry. Fortunately she was allowed to start over from the beginning at a later time during the competition.
Hawaiian Style … and discovering a live Dodo
The event's lone representative from Hawai'i this year was Chester Huan of the Aloha Center Café. He opted for a full-Hawaiian presentation — down to his choice of the single origin Maui Moka bean for his espresso.
It would have been unusual enough to have witnessed a competitive barista select a single origin bean for their espresso (blends typically offer the range of sensory properties you look for in a full espresso experience). But the Maui Moka bean is legendary among some home roasters — myself among them. What makes this coffee bean particularly legendary is that I, among many others, have presumed that it has been extinct on the market since its last harvested crop from Maui's Ka'anapali Estate in 2002.
When I mentioned the Maui Moka bean to others at the competition, no one else I talked with had heard of it — making me surmise that if anyone else at the event was also an avid home roaster on the side, they haven't been at it for that long. For a little background, the Maui Moka bean is derived from Yemeni Cultivar seed stock in the original Arabia Felx, the birthland of all coffee. And it has a few unique properties: one is it's incredibly small bean size, another is that it produces the most intensely chocolate flavors of any single origin bean I have ever tasted.
In 2002, the Ka'anapali Estate in Maui, where it was grown, succumbed to the bulldozers of progress in the form of condos and real estate development. There were long-standing rumors that James Falconer, formerly of Ka'anapali and now working for Kauai Coffee Company, was on a mission to rescue and revive the bean. But this was the first time I had actually seen or heard proof of it.
The bean isn't a peaberry, which often look small because they come as two halves. But it is very problematic due to its small size — affecting the overall weight of the harvest and being incompatible with standard commercial roasting equipment. Chester had to pull his shots longer than usual with the bean to balance out its acidity as a single origin espresso.
And the nominations are…
But enough about bean stocks and roasting. This event was about preparation. And Saturday's showcase was judged down to these six finalists for Sunday's competition:
- Pele Aveau, Flying Goat Coffee
- Gabe Boscana, Ritual Coffee
- Ryan Brown, Ritual Coffee
- Eugenia Chien, Barefoot Coffee
- Heather Perry, Coffee Klatch
- Eton Tsuno, Café Organica
And the awards go to…
OK, so I missed Sunday's finals. Even I have my limits of coffee geekdom sometimes… life intervenes. But Sunday's finals competition produced the following award-winners:
1st Place
Heather Perry, Coffee Klatch
2nd Place
Gabe Boscana, Ritual Coffee
3rd Place
Eton Tsuno, Café Organica
Congratulations to all the winners. Heather demonstrates her competition dominance once again and earns an all-expenses-paid trip to the U.S. Barista Championship held at the SCAA annual conferece in Charlotte, NC next month. Good luck!
As if you haven't seen enough already, click here for far more event photos … and hope to see you at next year's WRBC.
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[…] All that talk about what phenomenal coffee I expected of Coffee to the People made me homesick for Café Organica, across the (Golden Gate Park) Panhandle. So after visiting this past Saturday, I headed over to Organica, wanting to congratulate owner, Eton Tsuno, on placing third in last weekend's Western Regional Barista Competition — and wanting to check out his new Mirage. […]
[…] The pair are heading out to Charlotte, NC today to compete for the national barista championship title after qualifying in the recent Western Regional Barista Championships. Best of luck to our hometown heroes, who also include Eton Tsuno of Café Organica. […]
[…] Also included in the article is a photo of local coffee luminary, Andrew Barnett, owner/roaster of Santa Rosa's Ecco Caffé and judge at the 2006 USBC. (Andrew also served as a judge at the recent Western Regional Barista Competition.) You can check out more photos of the competition at the Charlotte Observer photo gallery. […]
[…] Here's an update for the fellow home roaster geeks who have lamented the demise of Hawaii's Ka'anapali Farm … from today's The Maui News: Buzz over coffee has come back to Kaanapali. As reported here in March, I first spotted the return of the Maui Moka bean — easily my favorite bean stock for homemade single-bean espresso — at this year's Western Regional Barista Competition. Production of the Maui Moka bean had collapsed with the shut down of its parent farm, Ka'anapali Estates, in 2002. […]
[…] This blend, the only espresso blend on this list, was developed for and used by Heather Perry when she won the Western Regional Barista Championship in 2006. Intelligentsia's Colombia Tres Santos Micro-Lot Almague also made the list. […]
[…] Barefoot starts with Andy Newbom (owner and CEO, or "Chief Espresso Officer"), and I couldn't think of a better person for the role. I first met him as emcee at the last Western Regional Barista Competition (WRBC). There are many great inside stories of how he's offered his time, energy, and even his spare bedroom to support the training and development of budding, high-quality cafés throughout the West. But most of all, he exudes an infectious enthusiasm for good espresso. Andy visibly loves good espresso the way Homer Simpson loves donuts. […]
[…] Barefoot starts with Andy Newbom (owner and CEO, or "Chief Espresso Officer"), and I couldn't think of a better person for the role. I first met him as emcee at the last Western Regional Barista Competition (WRBC). There are many great inside stories of how he's offered his time, energy, and even his spare bedroom to support the training and development of budding, high-quality cafés throughout the West. But most of all, he exudes an infectious enthusiasm for good espresso. Andy visibly loves good espresso the way Homer Simpson loves donuts. […]
[…] Yes, it's that time of year again. So if I may return to my regularly scheduled curmudgeoness… Ho hum. Another year, another series of competitions, another national and world barista champion. I'm not sure why barista competitions suddenly seem so trite and tiresome to me this time around. […]
[…] Congratulations again to Heather Perry of Coffee Klatch in San Dimas, CA. Over the weekend, she successfully defended her 2006 title at the 2007 WRBC: Western Regional Barista Competition March 16-18, 2007. Also placing were Kyle Glanville of Intelligentsia in Los Angeles (yes, you read that city correctly) and Chris Baca of SF's own Ritual Coffee Roasters. […]
[…] Many congratulations are in order for Heather Perry of Coffee Klatch in San Dimas, CA: Specialty Coffee Association of America Names 2007 United States Barista Champion. Heather entered the 2007 U.S. Barista Championship as a reigning three-peat winner of the Western Regional Barista Competition (or WRBC). […]


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- Született: 1926 Egyesült Királyság
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Income /sovereign grant overview:
BBC June 2017: £82.2m - Amount the Queen is expected to get from the Sovereign Grant in 2018/19
CNN June 2017: The Queen received £42.8 million ($54.6 million) in tax-free income from the state last year as her annual "sovereign grant." This year the payment will balloon by 78% to £76.1 million ($97 million).
Guardian June 2016: The Queen's annual accounts show the monarchy cost the taxpayer £40.1m during 2015-16, The Queen is set for a £2.8m pay rise next year, a 6.5% increase on this year's £42.8m.
Guardian June 2015: for 2015: £39.9 million - Overall royal spending (salaries including those of the household /travel/maintenance palaces and so on) stayed flat from the previous year at £35.7million, with £2.2million added to reserves. Next year 2016 would see a pay increase based on 15% of the annual surplus of the crown estate, which would make about £43 million. Scotland is set no longer to contribute, which would be a reduction of £2 million.
BBC June 2013: The Sovereign Grant, which funds the Queen's spending as Head of State, will rise in 2014 from £36.1m to £37.89m.
Dailymail 5 Dec. 2011: The queen is set to feel the pinch of the economic downturn as she faces a pay freeze until 2015. The monarch's funding is now linked to profits at the Crown Estate instead of taxpayers money paying for royal travel and royal palaces. The Queens funding will now equal 15% of the profits made 2 years previously by the Crown estate (the Crown Estate estimated that in 2014 it will donate £250 million to the Treasury, suggesting that the Queen will be paid £37.5 million until 2016) Her taxpayer funding is set at £30 million per year until april 2013. She will receive an one-off payment of £1 million to fund the cost of the diamond jubilee.
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