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Capri Sun is a fruity pouch drink for the kids while grownups are more likely to prefer one of those vegetable concoctions that are so good at masking a dash of vodka. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercury is a Capri that's definitely not for the kids, and one that apparently isn't for the seller's wife either.
LJK Setright once averred that there was no engine smoother than Jaguar's magnificent V12. You might then expect the so-powered, and rarer than poultry orthodontia, Panther DeVille Convertible to have smoothly glided through yesterday's contest like shite through an English Goose, however it was not to be. Cruel fate and an onerous price saddled the neo-classic Panther firmly with a decisive 84% Crack Pipe loss, proving this Panther not to be the cat's pajamas.
There's this cartoon that appears in the paper called Love is. . . about a pair of naked
midgets little people who will do pretty much anything for one another- except, you know, in the butt. Much like that comics pages couple, but hopefully with more clothes on, is the builder of today's 1972 Mercury Capri sporting a 4.0 V6. You see, this gold over tan Euro-pony is just like the one the builder's wife had as her first set of wheels. Of course back then the hottest motor that could be found under the Capri's hood was the 2.6-litre edition of Ford's long-serving but somewhat weaksauce by today's standards Cologne V6, and that's why this doting husband has dropped the 202-pony SOHC V6 out of a 2005 Mustang in the Capri's engine bay.
Sadly, considering all the work he has put into it, the resultant car has proven to be too scarily fast for his pedestal-situated spouse. That makes it an opportunity for those without fear of unrestrained horsepower or cars with little more in the way of safety features than seatbelts and a feeble brake pedal. Woot, questionable judgement!
In addition to the Mustang mill, this Capri keeps it all in the family with the 'Stang's 5-speed automatic actuated through a modern Mustang T-handle amid a refreshed traditional Capri interior. On the outside, the gold paint and cool side stripes are offset by a set of matte-painted Rostyles and a hard-angled hood bulge that kind of makes you understand why these kind of conversions aren't more common.
This being a '72, it rocks the Mama Bear position in the original Capri lineup by having the bigger tail lamps but still the chrome blade bumpers. The front one is extended to make the insurance companies happy, but still weighs a lot less than the '73/'74's battering rams. In fact, from the factory these cars managed to tip the scales at a modest 2,345-lbs. Adding the four-litre and slushbox probably add around 300 to that so this is now probably rocking about 13-lbs per pony.
Yesterday's Panther may have been all about production exclusivity while today's mass-produced Capri seems to have reached rarity thorough attrition, there being few that show up in the classifieds here in the US anymore. Finding this one with the modern drivetrain and apparently nice condition strikes an even rarer note. Your job now is to determine if all of that together is worth the $14,950 that hubby is asking to part with his wife's unwanted gift.
What do you think, is this Capristang worth that kind of cash, perhaps as a gift for your significant other? Or, would paying that much for this custom Mercury guarantee a lifetime of sleeping on the couch?
You decide!
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Redbox is no Netflix: Coinstar stock plungesFebruary 8, 2013: 12:01 PM ET
Redbox is not Netflix. And Redbox parent Coinstar (CSTR) clearly doesn't have the momentum of Netflix's stock.
Shares of Coinstar tumbled 8% Friday after the company issued a much weaker-than-expected earnings and sales forecast for the first quarter late Thursday.
But Netflix (NFLX) has nearly doubled this year while Coinstar is down year-to-date and is closer to its 52-week low than its 52-week high.
That's why some traders on StockTwits were labeling the Coinstar sell-off as an overreaction.
$CSTR moving upward. P/E ratio 10. Analyst rating: BUY. Good growth going forward.
True. Coinstar does look cheap. But this is a company that does have a history of raising and lowering forecasts. It's getting harder to take the company's guidance at face value. That's never a good sign.
Still, others felt that the company will turn it around.
$CSTR nice intraday base here could see a pop here after 10:30 short covering on into the wknd. Valuation cheap. Biz model on track its a GO
$CSTR call: things that help 2013 Bluray, better CRM, RedboxInstant, Canada, add kiosk capacity/utilization
Coinstar has a lot riding on the Redbox Instant streaming video service, which Coinstar has developed in partnership with Verizon (VZ). Some investors clearly think that this will be a strong competitor to Netflix. But the outlook from Coinstar seems to tell a different story.
$CSTR gave poor guidance, good for $NFLX. Let's see how that is digested and spat out on the premkt tomorrow.
So $CSTR RedboxInstant is like $NFLX without the original content, oooooooook, that's gonna work great
I still think Netflix is overvalued and that Coinstar is a cheaper play on streaming video. But Netflix does deserve credit for realizing that streaming video is simply a commodity business unless you give subscribers a compelling reason why your service is different than others. The Kevin Spacey show "House of Cards" does that. Ditto for the eagerly-awaited return of "Arrested Development." Kudos to Netflix for resurrecting the saga of the Bluths. It's an illusion!
And now it's time for the Reader Comment of the Week. Apologies to all of you who do not live in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or Massachusetts and are probably sick of hearing about Nemo, aka the Snowtastic Blizzardgeddon Nor'easter of the Cenozoic Era!
Yes, this is going to be a bad storm. And I sincerely hope everyone in New England hunkers down this weekend and is okay.
But let's have some perspective. There are places around the world where large amounts of the powdery white stuff routinely fall from the sky every winter. And they just suck it up and get on with their lives. My wife is from Buffalo. Western New York (don't you dare call it "Upstate") always gets slammed with lake effect snow. Another reader who hails from Central New York was also taking this storm in stride.
Ha! So you're saying this is just a dusting? Maybe that's why snow removal equipment maker Douglas Dynamics (PLOW) was flat Friday. Love that ticker. Call Mr. $PLOW. That's my ticker. That ticker again, is Mr. $PLOW! (Barney should get started on a Plow King IPO. Thanks to the JOBS Act, it shouldn't be too hard.)

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Papi back at first base as Napoli rests foot
DENVER -- The Red Sox hope they play two or three more games this season under National League rules because that would mean they made the World Series. But Wednesday marked their final Interleague game of the regular season.
And for the second night in a row, David Ortiz broke out his mitt and played first base, while Mike Napoli was not in the lineup. Napoli hasn't started in the four games since the Red Sox clinched the American League East title.
Napoli has been dealing with plantar fasciitis for much of the second half of the season.
After going on a tear through the first half of September, Napoli has hit a mini rut of late, going 1-for-13.
Manager John Farrell has found of late that Napoli has responded well to rest.
"He's available to pinch-hit here tonight. He'll likely be back at first base Friday, when we get to Baltimore," Farrell said. "We're hopeful that it has the same results the last break provided. He came back and swung the bat like he did for the first five or six weeks of the season. When he's in those stretches, we're a completely different offensive team. With Jacoby at the top and Mike in the middle of it, it creates a more powerful lineup, there's no doubt."


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Conference Proceedings
The SP-xxx series of Conference Proceedings, now typically published as CDs, contain the papers from ESA-sponsored scientific and technical conferences within about 3 months of the meetings.
CD/DVD versions are fully indexed. Browse the database for a full listing (right menu). Linked files are for the table of contents only (not the proceedings themselves).


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I hope that when you can't sleep at night,
You connect the dots to the coffee you had,
Late in the afternoon today,
And make a mental note,
To NEVER NEVER touch coffee,
Post lunch, no matter
How tempting it may seem.
I know, your desk was freezing,
With the AC at 18-degree temperature,
A warm cup of coffee looked so innocent,
Perfectly warm to hold,
A comfort to the,
Just-about-to-freeze palms.
The boring 200 pages presentations
You gotta read,
While taking careful notes,
Trying to interpret the chain,
Of debits and credits that flow,
When your brain wants to shut down,
And WhatsApp distracts you every 10 seconds,
A warm cup of coffee,
Never looked so innocent,
Like a spoilt best friend,
You CAN NOT say no to!
Alas, here we are,
Sleepless nights,
Entries in my diary,
Poems dedicated to the culprit,
Someone, someone – PLEASE fix that damn AC.
I do hope to find,
Good friends to keep me company,
Who live in timezones sweet,
Till the caffeine fades from my veins.
To share my agony,
With talks insane.
I apologize in advance,
To all the early morning plans,
I made for the weekend.
Someone just asked me,
What time will you wake up,
Let's catch up on a call?
Well, it depends on what time,
I get to zzZzzz land.
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Educators support stronger laws to prevent gun violence says NEA poll
NEA President: common sense gun safety laws to keep children safe are paramount
WASHINGTON - January 15, 2013 -Results of a new poll by the National Education Association (NEA) show educators support stronger gun laws to prevent gun violence and keep children safe. The poll comes as the White House is scheduled today to make public the recommendations of a task force led by Vice President Biden.
The poll of the nation's teachers, faculty and education support professionals comes one month after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 adults, including educators. NEA polled 800 of its members nationwide during the period of January 9-10, 2013.
"The senseless tragedy in Newtown was a tipping point and galvanization for action," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "As educators, we have grieved too long and too often—for the children killed, their families and heroic educators. Now more than ever we need to do what is necessary, including enacting stronger laws to prevent gun violence, to make sure every child in our nation's public schools has a safe and secure learning environment."
Key Findings:
- Educators overwhelmingly support stronger laws to prevent gun violence. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of NEA members polled feel gun laws in the U.S. should be made stricter, compared to 7 percent who believe they should be less strict.
- NEA members polled support background checks and bans on assault weapons and high capacity magazine clips.
- 90 percent of NEA members favor a proposal to require background checks before people can buy guns at gun shows or from other private sellers, including 85 percent who strongly back this proposal.
- 76 percent of NEA members support a proposal to ban the sale and possession of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons to everyone except the police and military, including 70 percent who strongly favor this proposal.
- 69 percent of NEA members back a proposal to ban the sale and possession of high capacity magazine clips, which allow some guns to shoot more than 10 bullets before they need to be reloaded, including 64 percent who strongly support this proposal.
- America's educators resoundingly reject the notion of arming school employees. Only 22 percent of NEA members polled favor a proposal to allow teachers and other school employees to receive firearms training and allow them to carry firearms in schools, while 68 percent oppose this proposal (including 61 percent who strongly oppose it.)
Click here to view NEA's recommendations to Vice President Biden's task force on preventing gun violence.
The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.


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Challenging and hypnotic
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Get all the blocks in place and complete successive challenges to rebuild a selection of charming little worlds. Twelve puzzles await you on each of the four islands; complete all of them to unlock a fifth "Zen" island.


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i(ce)-Tunes: Sweden's incredible ice orchestra
By Simon Busch, CNN • Published 22nd January 2014
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They're among the rarest instruments in the world, but they'll be discarded come spring.
They're so fragile even the players' breath risks nudging them out of tune.
Turn up the temperature in the concert hall and you'd have, not a finely chiseled viola, flute or conga, but a glass of water.
"And you'd be healthier for drinking it!" says Tim Linhart, ice-instrument maker extraordinaire to an orchestra playing a series of concerts throughout the winter in the remote Swedish town of Luleå, just beneath the Arctic Circle.
Hearing is believing
Hearing really is believing when it comes to these evanescent instruments made -- bar the strings and other odd parts of metal or wood -- entirely from frozen water.
Linhart has held ice concerts not only in
over the past 15 years but also in far-flung locations from Beaver Creek, Colorado, to the Italian alps.
His main problem, he says, in attracting a greater audience to the genre is people's incredulity that an ice instrument could make more than the most rudimentary sound.
A recording of an ice violinist busking a solo classical piece outside Luleå's House of Culture in around -10 C is evidence to the contrary.
The sound is sharp and ethereal, with a wide tonal range.
Not only classical
But the ice repertoire doesn't include only refined, classical pieces.
Along with the violins and a viola, cellos and a bass, there's an ice banjo in this year's lineup to accent country and bluegrass numbers.
Six- and 12-string guitars suit rock 'n' roll, and an ice xylophone resting on bicycle inner tubes -- to aid its resonance -- works across the genres.
Beautiful but fragile.
ice music
As for the orchestra's gigantic spherical "bubble drums," Linhart tells CNN, "they really shake your skeleton."
Doubtless they'll be deployed to funky effect in the -- inevitably, this being Sweden -- series of Abba-themed concerts among the 40 or so on the program this year.
Winter pursuit
A stone sculptor in warmer months, the bearded Linhart, 53, makes all the instruments for the winter concerts in a six-week burst in his back garden.
They're transported to a specially built igloo auditorium seating 170 people in a nature park outside Luleå, where the orchestra plays.
Originally from New Mexico, Linhart was invited to this town of 80,000 residents in Swedish Lapland 10 years ago to take part in the building of one of the world's first ice hotels.
MORE: 10 things to know before visiting Sweden
He met his wife here. That's one reason he's stuck around, but no doubt it also helped that Luleå is one of the coldest towns in Sweden.
Saving on its air con bills, Facebook is building its first server farm outside the United States in the town.
Lovers of a cold climate
"Ice makes a sharper sound than wood," says creator.
ice music
So, apart from loving a sub-zero climate, how else do ice instruments differ from the conventional kind?
They're quicker to make, for a start, Linhart says.
"I can do the carving on the front and back plate of a standup bass in two hours.
"The chisel just glides through the ice.
"My tools are similar to those of a regular instrument maker," he says. But when it comes to sealing one of his creations together, "the only glue I use is water."
"If you want to glue a crack in an ice instrument, you just take a little straw, blow through it until the ice melts and then let it freeze again.
"With wood, you can only carve.
"With ice, you can also grow."
Just add water!
Another difference from conventional instrument making?
Linhart wears dishwashing gloves while he's carving, something you wouldn't see many master violin makers doing.
cy materials
"Like a nightclub in heaven."
ice music
The sculptor works mainly with "white ice," a pearl-colored blend of water and snow that's especially flexible when frozen.
Then there's clear ice: "Pure frozen water with no flaws, just molecule against molecule all the way through."
But it's harder to find. Northern Sweden is a good place to look, but you have to dig 20 centimeters beneath a lake surface to find the bubble-free stuff.
READ: Paddling wild in Sweden's kayaking paradise
Instruments wrought from either material are both more beautiful and more fragile than traditional instruments, Linhard says.
What other instrument, he asks, lets the light shine through?
Their unique visual qualities are exploited in the performances, when non-warming LEDs, constantly shifting in color, are placed inside the instruments.
"It's like a nightclub in heaven," Linhart says.
Spring thaw
The instruments are exceedingly delicate.
What other instrument transmits light?
ice music
They melt in springtime and require constant maintenance before then.
When played, the violins are suspended by strings from the ceiling to keep them from the musician's warm body.
Just the breath from players and audience means every instrument has to be re-tuned slightly between each song.
Such attention is worth it, says Linhart, for the exquisite sound these magical objects produce.
"Ice instruments have a more detailed sound than wood, say, which absorbs the vibrations from the strings and dampens the sound," he says.
"Ice is stiffer. It picks up all the vibrations.
"That's why it makes your hair stand on end.
"You might think the sound on a normal instrument is perfectly clear -- until you hear an ice instrument and go, 'Ah ha!'
"The clarity is crystal."
Flight plans
Up next on Linhard's icy agenda is an instrument dreamed up specifically for ice called the orgasmatron, after the machine in the Woody Allen film "Sleeper."
It's like a cello, but one a player bows from inside, making his or her body part of the sound.
Linhart doesn't intend his ice-crafting career to end with instruments.
His dream project is an ultralight airplane made from ice.
Luckily, temperatures tends to get colder the higher you fly.
Ice Music continues in Luleå until April 6
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NHL talks to resume with unusual session
NHL owners and players have met in big groups. They've held smaller sessions. They're tried federal mediators.
Nothing has worked, so they're going to try something different.
With the lockout lingering into another week, the NHL labor talks are set to resume Tuesday with six owners and six players scheduled to meet while a couple of key figures remain on the sidelines of the negotiations.
Seeking a breakthrough on the financial issues and player contracting disputes that have stymied the talks at every turn, the league and union completed the details for the unusual bargaining session over the weekend. The meeting will include the small group of owners and players, staff members and counsel on each side, but Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr will not be present.
The NHL announced Sunday that owners Ron Burkle (Pittsburgh Penguins), Mark Chipman (Winnipeg Jets), Murray Edwards (Calgary Flames), Jeremy Jacobs (Boston Bruins), Larry Tanenbaum (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Jeff Vinik (Tampa Bay Lightning) will take part in the talks for the league.
The union will announce its representatives on Tuesday. The Canadian Press News Agency reported Monday that Penguins star Sidney Crosby, Sabres goalie Ryan Miller and Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews are among the players expected to be in New York and could be selected for the meeting.
After a few days of wrangling, following the conclusion of talks between the sides and a pair of federal mediators, the NHL and the union agreed on parameters for talks that will keep the respective leaders on the outside.
Bettman proposed such a meeting on Wednesday when talks broke down and the mediators left the process. Originally, the thought was that only owners and players would get together for the next round of discussions, but the roster was expanded Sunday to include staff members and counsel on each side.
"Ultimately, we are just trying to find some meeting format that can gain some traction," deputy commissioner Bill Daly said.
All games through Dec. 14 have already been wiped off the schedule, along with the outdoor Winter Classic on New Year's Day and All-Star Weekend that was slated for January in Columbus, Ohio.
The lockout reached its 79th day on Monday, and at best, there will only be a shortened season if there is any hockey at all.
The union has allowed any players who wanted to attend previous bargaining sessions to come, but the NHL has limited the owners who could take part.
"The NHLPA has agreed to a meeting on Tuesday in New York that should facilitate dialogue between players and owners," Fehr said Sunday in a statement. "There will be owners attending this meeting who have not previously done so, which is encouraging and which we welcome. We hope that this meeting will be constructive and lead to a dialogue that will help us find a way to reach an agreement."
Jacobs, considered one of the hardline owners, and Edwards are the only members of the NHL's group of six to have taken part in previous negotiations.


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Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a house in downtown Toronto for less than $500K, and savvy investor Cindy Wennerstrom walks CREW through just such a property and her renovation plans for increasing ROI. Jemima Codrington reports.
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Jemima Codrington: Today we are in the [coctional ] El Dorado here to check out another one of your investment property. We caught up with Investor and Renovation Expert, Cindy Wennerstrom on this week's Show us your Investment Property.
Wennerstrom bought a house estimated over a 100 years old in October of last year. Located in a little interior area of Toronto, the property cost $488,000. The house will be renovated into 3 separate one bedroom, one bathroom units, each with self contained laundry and state of the art appliances.
Cindy Wennerstrom, President, Oro Properties Inc.
Cindy Wennerstrom: I chose this property because it had charm. It's a older home, it's probably a 100 years old. It has all the original base boards, trims, mouldings, doors. It needs a little bit of work, which I like because we like to add a little bit of lipstick. But there are some great features in old homes, like this brick wall behind us, which is actually the old chimney.
But all we did was expose the [latent] plaster and have this great feature that it's added to both the bedroom in the main floor and this living room on the second floor. Also we will be exposing a wall in the basement that's all brick and so we just had a lot of features that are going to be appealing to renters.
Not only that, but the way that it was set up was a non-legal triplex. So immediately I saw the opportunity to convert something that was not legal into legal triplex. There is a demand for investment properties, believe it or not lots of people are leaving the condo market and are trying to get into neighbourhoods like this one, that's close to all the amenities, but not as concrete jungle as living downtown because they are starting families, but they need help with their mortgage.
So they can live in one unit, rent out the other two and live for free. So actually the strategy was it's a great investment from an investment perspective. Never wanting to sell it's a great investment because you are going to get huge cash flow with 3 units versus 2 units or one unit. So it just, it has a lot of potential.
Jemima Codrington: Wennerstrom's thrifty approach to renovation has helped her to improve the property's appeal to tenants without breaking the bank.
Cindy Wennerstrom: This top unit was pretty easy to actually make it look pretty. All we did was paint, it had just a really stark white paint,
Jemima Codrington: On the wall effect
Cindy Wennerstrom: It's attractive. You know, it doesn't look good at all when it's white and stark. It looks like a hospital execution. The back room was relatively newly renovated. So what we did was swap up the old style sink and faucet with a new top mounted wall sink with a high faucet, put a really big mirror right across the wall, just to let that bathroom feel even bigger than it is and new light fixture and we are going to take away some of the older you know towel rods and stuff like that, put more modern fixtures in, you know $20, $50, $100 fixtures but not tens of thousands of dollars.
To renovate an entire bathroom, we are looking at somewhere between $5 -10,000 depending on how crazy you want to get. But I think I spent all of $500 on the bathroom and it's going to look pristine when it's done.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah.
Cindy Wennerstrom: The kitchen, that kitchen was actually just recently renovated, so it looked pretty good, but it had older faucets, so I put in new faucets, we are putting a micro oven above this stove, we swapped out the ancient appliances for new stainless steel
Jemima Codrington: Okay, so it's a huge difference.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Oh, it was awful before I and we've added laundry. So now this unit will have its own self contained laundry in the unit. So it's a really, you know it's a great one bedroom unit for a professional couple or individual that just wants a beautiful space close to town. We also swapped out light fixtures, fitted beautiful [ lamps __ ] and really modernises the place but not very much money.
Jemima Codrington: And in terms of rent for this unit, what do you think you may yield, that you will get for this?
Cindy Wennerstrom: We have this unit advertised for $1550 a month. I am happy with anything you know $1450 around. So I mean the cash flow when you look at the entire building you can get those kind of rents from 3 units, the building is very comfortable.
Jemima Codrington: Okay so this floor is still under construction a little bit more. So what are we doing with this one here?
Cindy Wennerstrom: Right now, we are, we just finished fire rating, because when you are legalising property, you have to fire rate between your entrances and exits between units and between floors. So the whole new [drive] all over here, the floors will be sanded and stained, next I have to top it with colour to hide all the imperfections of these original floors. This wall we expose, so again we have
Jemima Codrington: This is the same as
Cindy Wennerstrom: Yeah, the same two panels.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah, that panel. Okay, cool.
Cindy Wennerstrom: So we have exposed chimney brick wall here and we kept the original mantle that was here, we thought it was an interesting piece.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah.
Cindy Wennerstrom: You can put some closets on either side of this mantle, because this is going to be in the bedroom and then in the living room, we are putting in new light fixtures of course. We have really nice high ceilings here which is nice. In the kitchen, new appliances, we are changing the doors to the bathroom, because right now the bathroom door opens to your kitchen sink.
If you see a rental where the kitchen and the bathroom are in the same room, most people aren't going to rent it.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah.
Cindy Wennerstrom: So we are flopping the doors to the other side, so you enter from the living room.
Jemima Codrington: Okay.
Cindy Wennerstrom: And [number one here] is again minor renovations here, aside from all the dry wall dust because of the new wall and we should be able to rent it out for at least $1550 [or above].
Jemima Codrington: And so this is the basement unit and this is going to be pretty much a complete renovation.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Yes.
Jemima Codrington: Right, okay.
Cindy Wennerstrom: So the basement, you can see from the kitchen and the bathroom room that we are here. We are not keeping any of it. And not only that it's a low ceiling, if I can touch the ceiling.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah I know, I am little close up here.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Claustrophobia. So what we found, when we did an exploratory test dig in the furnace room is, we have double [padding] here, double brick [padding] which means we can down about 8 more inches and not to have to not to underpin or [betch] and so it will be within code requirements. So we are going to be able to steal quite a bit of height
Jemima Codrington: Yeah.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Probably 6 or so inches. So you can imagine, if we were down here
Jemima Codrington: Yeah
Cindy Wennerstrom: it would be a lot better, so
Jemima Codrington: and I guess downfilling is quite expensive though.
Cindy Wennerstrom: It's really expensive. Not that digging and pouring new concrete in it.
Jemima Codrington: ¬¬Uh-huh
Cindy Wennerstrom: But it is still substantially expensive, but the trade off the value it adds the house will be substantial.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah.
Cindy Wennerstrom: So and it makes for a much more rentable space. I mean you know you can only give a small market that can fit in an apartment like this.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah and fitting. And this is the wall as well, you said it's going to be exposed brick too
Cindy Wennerstrom: Yeah. And this whole wall because it's a semi detached home, they have bricks separating the two units. Most likely where fingers were crossed that seems to be that, seems to be what's here, so we are going to expose the entire wall and makes bricks separate out of it as this does
Jemima Codrington: Going to look really nice.
Cindy Wennerstrom: No like a funky buy, you have to do different things to basements to make them a little bit more appealing because no one really wants to live in a basement. But as long as you can make it you know dry.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah, natural light.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Natural light, have some windows, we will have a glass door back there will, you know better expose this window and try to get more lighting to the unit and you know lower it so it's got more height and so a really sexy fun kitchen, bathroom. It's going to be very very very rentable. And not just for a basement rent because basement rent is anywhere between 650 and 950 let's call it. Ours rent will be between a $1000 for a really short one
Jemima Codrington: Short one
Cindy Wennerstrom: Oh this high, upto but if it wasn't you could get $1250 to $1300. So this unit here will be marketed for around that $1500 price point, well 15, 13, 15.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Plus utilities. So you get
Jemima Codrington: Are you getting yard space out in front as well.
Cindy Wennerstrom: Yeah, just a little bit of yard space out here and looking to reconfigure the entire back entrance way so it's appealing. Right now again it's short and to duck to come in and give them a little bit of a you know feeling that they have a little bit of a yard.
Jemima Codrington: Yeah. No, it's nice. And so what when you are
Cindy Wennerstrom: Yeah.
Jemima Codrington: Will they, they will be, good planning, good planning. But when you are thinking about a renovation and thinking about which [level] of standard you want to do it towards, what is your kind of, do you have a benchmark, do you have rule that you follow?
Cindy Wennerstrom: Yeah, I do. If I wouldn't I will live in it myself, I won't rent it. So I bring all my units up to a standard where I will be comfortable living in it and you know I have high standards so what I would live in and what I would want it to look like. So as long as it meets those criteria I am done and I don't want to leave, I kind of feel very comfortable in it.
Jemima Codrington: So the job is done.
Cindy Wennerstrom: It's a job well done, yeah.
Any tips for renting out a unit?
Cindy Wennerstrom: Some people think staging is just to sell a home. But when you are renting your properties, you are really selling them to the renter. So I think that staging is a essential in the renting game and what I like to do is take something as simple as this bed, it looks brand new like a nice beautiful headboard and bed.
But what this is, this is material on cardboard and this is a [blurb up] the head. So we just put some really nice bedding with some Accent cushions on it. Night tables are just you know $20 night tables and $10 lamp. So it doesn't cost a fortune to stage your unit and so it's amazing and the renters can emotionally connect to this space and see how their furniture will fit. So is it selling your place to the renter a lot faster?
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Kourtney Kardashian Receives Praise After Showing Stretch Marks In New Post
By Hayden Brooks
August 14, 2019
Kourtney Kardashian has garnered some social media love for not editing out her stretch marks in a new Instagram post dedicated to her lifestyle brand, Poosh.
Earlier this week, the E! reality star took to the platform to push the venture with a photo of her kneeling on a boat. Poosh might have been the focus of the post, but followers were happy to set their eyes on an untouched shot of the 40-year-old star. "Thank you so much for not editing out your stretch marks!!" one fan wrote, to which Kourtney responded, "I love my little stripes," alongside a blushing emoji.
Additional users were quick to spot the imperfection and applaud Kardashian for not recruiting someone to cover them up. "Oh wow, not air brushed. You can actually see her stretch marks and this is what a real body looks like!" another user wrote, adding, "I love it!"
Kardashian hasn't had the best of luck in promoting her brand with promotional shots. Earlier this year, the star was criticized for an overly-edited photo of her in a bathtub. While it was a steamy shot, the real draw to the photo was the extra leg that appeared in the tub.
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We Welcome The Deadly
Victory or death. There is no possible middle-ground in Screwfly Studios' daring title Deadnaut, "a challenging, character-driven game of complex strategy, cunning tactics, dynamic missions and customisation".
Defying Depth
How can it be? How can it so deceptively remain hidden behind such a plainly pretty facade, the immense layering of a title the likes of Shallow Space and all it proposes to embrace.
By The Book
This has got to be done right. That's all I'm saying. If you're going to write a book on the making of a classic the likes of Sir-Tech Software's Jagged Alliance 2, then that's your mission. Mr. Darius Kazemi took the contract.
Across The Board
The extent of the invasion impresses. No matter where you are in the world, know this - the aliens are mercilessly coming to assail you anew by means of Fantasy Flight Games' XCOM: The Board Game.
To Cruise Victorious
You're shipping out, Captain. In Evil Twin Artworks' Victory at Sea you will steer your forces and keep them on course for ultimate triumph in this upcoming PC adaptation of the well-known WWII table top naval miniatures combat game.
Of Piercing Discharge
You shall be in the thick of it. Taking command in multiple instances throughout that great conflict that became known as The Thirty Years War, which is to be the central subject of Slitherine's upcoming Pike & Shot.
Mad, You Say?
The monster will be unleashed. And then nothing and nobody will stand in the way or dispute your conquests and glory. Others may dare attempt equal feat, only to be crushed by the ultimate superiority afforded you by Kerberos Productions' upcoming potential smash hit Kaiju-a-Gogo.
Anti-Termination Simulation
This might not end well. An aggressive, superiorly equipped alien enemy will unfailingly seek confrontation to expedite our complete obliteration, so if we are to stand a chance the way to go is reportedly by resorting to the Human Extinction Simulator.
Darkly On Approach
There's always the other side. Two sides to every story, the other face of the coin, a shadow for every light, and so it is that we are called upon to fully embrace a different perspective in 1C Company's upcoming King's Bounty: Dark Side.
To Boldly Go Further
We're destined to go beyond. Past our home system and out into the stars in the now revealed new AAA offering coming from the Firaxis constellation, named Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth.
Of Terrors Roman
Empires will tremble. The great forces under your supervision will collide with the enemy and only the greatest of commanders shall emerge victorious in the just revealed Alea Jacta Est – Hannibal: Terror of Rome.
To The West
It's time to go back. SEGA has heard many fans and their wishes to return to the place where it all began, and the response comes with the unveiling of a new stand-alone multiplayer title - Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies.
Gloriously Averting Damnation
Gather your warband. You are to seize control of fulcral areas and gain access to precious resources in Rogue Factor's now disclosed Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Closely To Follow
Deploy and seek passage. That was the mission then and so it is now as the folks at Slitherine look to deliver one more title in a very well known series with their upcoming Close Combat: Gateway to Caen.
Oozing Evolution
Reinvention is on the way. Courtesy of Petroglyph Games and Grey Box a potentially new evolutionary step is about to be taken with the just revealed Grey Goo, an upcoming game with a definite progressive bent but also strong foundations on solid RTS gameplay.


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Kampala: Kenyan security forces walked out of a store in Nairobi`s Westgate Mall, holding plastic bags heavy with unknown items after Islamic extremists staged an attack. Others looked behind counters and lifted items.
In security camera video seen by The Associated Press yesterday, some members of Kenya`s armed forces appeared to loot a store during the four-day siege of Nairobi`s most upscale mall.
At least 67 people were killed in the attack by Islamic extremists.
Kenya`s security forces have previously denied any wrongdoing.
Soon after the attack began on Sept 21, Kenyan officials put a security cordon around the mall, allowing only security forces and a few government personnel to pass through.
When the attack was over, some who owned shops inside the mall complained of looting.
Mobile phones were ripped from displays, cash registers emptied, and even alcohol stocks plundered, according to AP reporters at the scene after the siege ended.
Public servants in Kenya, including police, firefighters and soldiers, are poorly paid and frequently accused of corruption.
An investigation into a huge fire at Nairobi`s airport in August revealed that first responders had looted electronics, a bank and an ATM during and after the blaze.
In the case of the Westgate attack, a team of Kenyan lawmakers that investigated the looting allegations cleared soldiers of any wrongdoing.
The Somali Islamic extremist group al Shabaab claimed responsibly for the mall attack, saying it was in retribution for Kenya`s military involvement in Somalia.
Local and foreign investigators have since been digging through the rubble for evidence, and yesterday another body believed to be that of one of the mall attackers was retrieved.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said in a statement that it was the fourth body that "we know from CCTV footage to be that of a terrorist. DNA and other investigations will confirm their identities."
Four AK-47 assault rifles believed to have been used by the attackers were also recovered, the statement said.
"We continue to dig through the rubble at Westgate," it said. "We are determined to bring this chapter to a close by identifying the terrorists responsible for the attack, including those who planned it."
Many questions, including what caused a part of the mall to collapse, remain unanswered nearly a month after the attack.
Kenyan officials have urged patience, saying they need more time to investigate the scene.


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PARIS (AP) - They're a couple rarely seen in public, together only since February.
PARIS (AP) � They're a couple rarely seen in public, together only since February.
So when Academy Award-winning power-couple Charlize Theron and Sean Penn walked in to Dior's Monday show, holding hands and sat prominently on the front row, it's not only the couture gowns that dazzled guests.
France's former First Lady Valerie Trierweiler, meanwhile, took politics to the catwalk, using couture week as a platform to raise awareness for the missing Nigerian schoolgirls in the latest example of red-carpet activism.
Here are highlights of Day Two of the Paris haute couture fall-winter 2014 collections, including show reports from Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli and Schiaparelli.
Theron and Penn triggered a frenzy as they arrived together the Paris' Rodin Museum show hand in hand.
Thirty-eight-year-old Theron � a brand ambassador for Dior � wore a gold shimmering fringed cocktail dress similar to the one she appears in for Dior's now-iconic "J'Adore" perfume advert.
She and 53-year-old Penn, who wore a black Dior suit with open shirt, chatted with LVMH boss Bernard Arnault.
That held up the show, but that didn't seem to help another Oscar-winning guest who was running late.
"Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence ended up having to catch a repeat of the show later in the day because her flight was delayed.
"Encyclopedic" sums up Raf Simons' latest adventure for Dior � his most masterful yet.
Set in a circular ballroom catwalk, the Belgian designer ambitiously channeled some four centuries of style � with a fashion-forward twist he called "forward and back."
Simons' journey started with 18th-century dresses fit for an avant-garde Marie Antoinette.
Voluminous exaggerated French ball gowns in pale jacquard silk were made contemporary with trapeze structuring.
The couture novel continued in eight distinct chapters, with guests gasping in delight each time they were transported on to a different era.
There were the long-line coats of Edwardian England � one in dark gray cashmere that gently curved down the body stood out in its deceptive simplicity. Elsewhere, a beaded off-white flapper-style gown shook vibrantly as the model walked.
Then came the famed Bar Jacket of the 1949 "New Look" � represented in this exhaustive 62-piece show by exaggerated collars in black, and one great flappy coat in cobalt blue wool.
But the real stars of the show were the heels.
In deep red, vermilion, pink, black, yellow, orange and cerulean blue, the incredible pointed stilettos, with missing sections in the middle, gave these "forward-and-back" encyclopedic princesses the illusion of the longest legs known in any age.
Former French First Lady Trierweiler broke with tradition � instead of wearing Dior to the Dior show, she wore Paul and Joe.
But there was a good reason: red-carpet activism.
The 49-year-old journalist sported a white T-shirt that read #BringBackOurGirls, a reference to the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who have still not been returned after their April kidnapping. It's the latest example of the growing phenomenon of using celebrity events for a good cause, seen prominently at May's Cannes Film Festival.
"There are 220 missing. It's been two and a half months since these young girls were taken," she said.
In May, First Lady Michelle Obama made the girls an overnight cause celebre when she tweeted an image of herself holding a poster that read #BringBackOurGirls, demanding help for the girls captured by extremist group Boko Haram.
"Two and a half months ago the world spoke about these young girls, including Michelle Obama. But now no one is," she said.
"I'm using the media here to publicize this. Until they're freed I won't stop campaigning," she added.
The golden age of Elsa Schiaparelli � the '30s and '40s � were revisited in the second outing for the age-old house, which re-launched last year to mixed reviews.
This season, designer Marco Zanini tried hard to emulate the eccentricity of the house founder, whose business folded following World War II, by mixing up contrasting styles or deceptive material.
He found some success. In a striking look, exaggerated fur shoulders harking from the '40s were pieced on a leopard-print double-breasted coat with tubular sleeves. Glycerin-glazed black ostrich feathers elsewhere made a cool bolero resemble monkey fur.
But the abundant use of embroidery and decorations, like a try-hard clown's hat, made it feel like the talented Zanini was not always at complete ease and made the eccentricity look a tad controlled.
Still, the leopard-print catwalk was great fun.
It was a floral and optical ode to the fifties for Italian designer Valli.
Alongside big bow hair ribbons, retro monochrome stripes plastered vertically, horizontally and diagonally gave energy to loose-fitting sheaths and produced many beautiful plays on transparent tulle skirts.
Flashes of bright colors, like a vivid yellow waist band, gave the retro looks a trendy lift.
It was a strong collection, and the embellished floral embroideries in bright red, blue, pink and yellow across '50s full skirts were some of the best quality seen so far this year.
The Rome-born designer lost his way a little toward the middle of the show with a black-and-white look that evoked Cruella de Vil.
But the show finished on a well-deserved crescendo as the designer came out to receive his applause surrounded by a multicolored army of ethereal, voluminous tulle bridal dresses.
Didier Grumbach may not be a household name, but the outgoing president of Paris' fashion federation has held an incredible influence on global style over the years.
Grumbach, who has announced he is stepping down, has been credited with revitalizing dying haute couture from behind the scenes and bringing young designers to the fashion world.
Back in the day, as an executive he even helped launch Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.
Speaking to The Associated Press, bespectacled Grumbach reflected on the health of couture today.
"Even 15 years ago, couture could have filed for bankruptcy. Now there's new blood, new designers," he said.
"It's very much alive with brands as strong as Armani and Dior and Versace, a craft that's modern again," he said.
"I have supported younger couture designers because there was a real need. It's the fundamentals of our craft," he said.
After 16 years at the helm of the key trade group, Grumbach is bidding the fashion world goodbye � to be replaced by Ralph Toledano as president of the fashion federation.
Thomas Adamson can be followed at http://Twitter.com/ThomasAdamsonAP


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You know what I hate? The dull ache that sits deep in my stomach after I've been informed of the really sad, the really unfair. The situations that no one should have to live through.
I don't even know him, but I know the disease and I know what it does to a healthy body.
I witness it in my friend Nicki. From the numbness to the testing to The Diagnosis.
And the fear. There was so much fear.
It's so incredibly sad.
You know what I hate more than my stomach's symptoms of sympathy? Disease.
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The new Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act"), signed into law on April 5, 2012, contains a number of substantial revisions to U.S. securities laws that will affect the manner in which businesses may obtain private financing, including (among other things) removing the restriction on general solicitation and advertising when selling securities in a "private placement" (the sale of a company's securities in a transaction that is exempt from federal registration requirements). The use of any general solicitation or advertisement in connection with the sale of securities has been forbidden under U.S. securities laws since the 1930's. We expect that these changes will result in an explosion of securities offerings and, hopefully, easier and more efficient capital formation in the U.S.
The vast majority of private placements of securities in the U.S. are structured to comply with the provisions of Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 506 of Regulation D. Rule 506 contains no limit on the number of accredited investors who may purchase the securities, and no dollar limit on the amount of money received by the issuer from the sale of the securities. In addition, securities sold in compliance with Rule 506 are exempt from state law registration or qualification provisions. Also, Regulation D does not require any specific form of disclosure to investors in an offering made solely to accredited investors. As a result of these benefits, most Rule 506 private placements are sold only to accredited investors.1 However, Rule 506 currently provides that a company selling securities in a Rule 506 offering cannot engage in any general solicitation or advertising in connection with the offering.
Under this new (and we think, remarkable) legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has 90 days after enactment of the JOBS Act to revise its regulations to provide that the prohibition against general solicitation and general advertising contained in Regulation D will not apply to Rule 506 private offerings in which all purchasers of the securities are accredited investors. In addition, until now a broker acting on behalf of a company that was conducting a private placement was limited to contacting only those potential investors with whom the broker had a pre-existing relationship. Under the revised rules, no pre-existing relationship will be required. We believe that one effect of these rule changes will be to allow issuers, brokers and others to broadly solicit potential investors from the general public through all forms of advertising and all other forms of communication, including social media. The JOBS Act specifically anticipates that people may maintain platforms that permit offers, sales, or purchases of securities, that permit negotiation with respect to securities, or that permit general solicitations, general advertisements or similar related activities by issuers of such securities, whether online, in person, or through any other means, and that persons who establish such platforms will be exempt from the broker-dealer registration requirements of the federal securities laws.
Once the SEC revises Rule 506 in accordance with the JOBS Act, companies seeking capital will have unprecedented access to accredited investors. Accredited investors will have unprecedented access to investment opportunities in private offerings.
In addition, the benefits of the JOBS Act will not just apply to start-ups or privately-held companies. Public companies may determine that it is faster and easier to conduct a Rule 506 offering (which is not subject to SEC review) than to file a registration statement with the SEC and work through a more regulated and time-consuming process.
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The bar is well stocked at J.R.'s house, nestled quietly in a well-to-do neighborhood not far from downtown Fort Worth. Booze is in short supply — three dusty wine bottles sit forlornly on a shelf. This bar's bounty is green, red, and gold flowery buds sprinkled on trays and in baby-food-sized jars. It's a cornucopia of cannabis, enough to make any connoisseur's toes curl.
Mexican dirt weed?
Not here.
J.R. doesn't touch it. He's a trained budtender with a diploma earned at Oaksterdam University, the pot college in Oakland, Calif. With a second home in California (and a medicinal marijuana permit in that state), J.R. buys nothing but the best pot, hydroponically grown with precise formulas of water, light, temperature, and nutrition for maximum effect. (Like all the pot aficionados interviewed for this story, he asked that his full name not be used.)
This ain't your pappy's weed. "Hydro" is several times stoner, er, stronger.
Domestically produced marijuana has been transformed into a major, sophisticated industry in this country, including in states like Texas, where pot is still illegal. People in the business are perfecting product development and growing techniques, and all over the country there are entrepreneurs like J.R., already clandestinely in business but waiting for the day when pot is legal –– a day they see rapidly approaching.
Five years ago, about 90 percent of the pot sold in North Texas could be categorized as Mexican weed. Now hydro has taken over about half of that market.
American pot farmers produced about 22 million pounds in 2006, worth about $35 billion, according to a report published that year in the Bulletin of Cannabis Reform. Texas didn't rank among the top 10 states in outdoor marijuana production, but came in at No. 5 for indoor growing (115,000 pounds annually).
The same report listed pot as the country's No. 1 cash crop. Corn and other crops are grown in greater volume, but, according to the Bulletin, none match weed's production value — not corn ($23 billion), soybeans ($17 million), or hay ($12 million).
Of course, accurately determining how much pot is grown and smoked is kind of like trying to fence in a butterfly.
"It's just a wild-ass guess," said Terry Nelson, who spent three decades in law enforcement, including stints with the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs Service, and the Department of Homeland Security. Now retired, he's a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group of criminal justice professionals who disagree with current drug policies. They say legalization would cripple cartels and street dealers.
"If there is one [grower's crop] you are stumbling on, there are probably a thousand that you're not," he said. "Cops always use the 10 percent rule: You catch 10 percent of people doing something wrong and know about 10 percent of what's going on."
Mexican weed still dominates the Texas market, he said, but hydro is making a big impact.
"We need to legalize these drugs so we can regulate and control them," he said. "That will reduce about 80 percent of your crime and violence related to the drug trade."


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CFO Moves this week include:
|Centri Business Consulting, LLC
|Colgate-Palmolive Company
|Caterpillar Inc.
|MetLife, Inc.
|MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc.
|The Safariland Group
|Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC
|OraSure Technologies, Inc.
|Brightcove Inc.
|Columbia Banking System, Inc.
|SunPower Corporation
|CVR Energy, Inc.
|Palewater Global Management Inc.
|Enphase Energy Inc.
|Ultimate Software
|Colibri Group
|Crypto Asset Management, LP
|Conifer Health Solutions
|AMC Health
|Minnetronix, Inc
|Cedar Electronics
|Lazydays Holdings, Inc.
|Lonestar Resources US Inc.
|Truett-Hurst, Inc.
|Financial Institutions, Inc.
|Exalenz Bioscience Ltd.
|Aqua America Inc.
|CPI Card Group Inc.
|Upward Projects
|VirtualArmour International Inc.
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Centri Business Consulting, LLC [Philadelphia, PA ] announced the promotion of Kristen Wik to Chief Financial Officer. Kristen started at Centri in March 2015 as Controller and then later also took on the role of Director of Human Resources. Prior to her time with Centri, Kristen was a Senior Manager with Baker Tilley Virchow Krause, LLP for over 7 years as a member of their Healthcare Business Services group.
Colgate-Palmolive Company [NEW YORK] (NYSE: CL) announced the appointment of Henning Jakobsen, currently Vice President and Corporate Controller, to succeed Dennis Hickey, as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hickey will assume the role of Vice Chairman. Mr. Jakobsen, who has served as Colgate's Vice President and Corporate Controller since October 2017, first joined Colgate in 1989 and has held key financial positions for the Company's European and North American business units, as well as General Manager assignments in Africa and Europe. In 2006, he became Chief Financial Officer of Chr. Hansen, before rejoining Colgate in 2011.
Caterpillar Inc. [DEERFIELD, Ill.] (NYSE: CAT) announced its board of directors has appointed Andrew Bonfield as chief financial officer (CFO). Bonfield will succeed Brad Halverson, who recently retired. Bonfield most recently served as Group CFO and board member of National Grid plc. Prior to Bonfield's eight years at National Grid, he was CFO at British confectionary company Cadbury plc. From 2002 to 2008, he was executive vice president and CFO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Bonfield's other experience includes the role of finance director of BG Group plc and CFO of Smithkline Beecham plc. Since 2010, he has been a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of British retailer, Kingfisher plc. Bonfield also chairs the 100 Group.
Honeywell [MORRIS PLAINS, N.J.] (NYSE: HON) announced that Greg Lewis has been named Vice President, Corporate Finance in a transition role that will lead him to become Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on August 3. Lewis will succeed Tom Szlosek, who has decided to retire for personal reasons. Since October 2016, Lewis has served as Vice President, EIM. Prior to that, Lewis served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the former $16 billion Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) business group. Before that, Lewis served as CFO of Honeywell Process Solutions. Prior to that, Lewis served as Honeywell's Vice President, Business Analysis and Planning. Lewis joined the Company in 2006 as CFO of the former Performance Products business unit. Before joining Honeywell, Lewis spent three years in the plastics industry at Tyco International, where he was Vice President of Finance and CFO for the A&E Products division and co-led that business's divestiture. For five years prior to Tyco, Lewis held a number of finance leadership roles at The Stanley Works, including Finance Manager and Global FP&A Manager. Lewis began his career at Kraft Foods, where he held various operations finance roles, including Plant Controller.
MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. [IOWA CITY, Iowa] (NASDAQ: MOFG) announced the appointment of Barry S. Ray as Chief Financial Officer of MidWestOneFinancial Group and MidWestOne Bank. Mr. Ray replaces Katie Lorenson, who left the Company in December 2017. Jim Cantrell has served as interim Chief Financial Officer since Ms. Lorenson's departure. Mr. Ray joins MidWestOne after serving twelve years as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of Columbia State Bank.
MetLife, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: MET) announced that John C.R. Hele is retiring as Chief Financial Officer and will be succeeded by Executive Vice President John McCallion, currently the company's Treasurer. McCallion joined MetLife in July 2006. In addition to serving as CFO for Investments, he has been head of Investor Relations, CFO for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and EVP and Treasurer. Prior to joining MetLife, McCallion spent nearly 10 years at PwC in the firm's insurance audit practice.
The Safariland Group [ONTARIO, Calif.] announced it has appointed Blaine Browers as Chief Financial Officer. Browers joins Safariland from IDEX Corporation. He most recently served as the Group Vice President of Finance and IT for IDEX's Fire & Safety business. Prior to this role, he served in the same capacity for IDEX's BAND-IT, Micropump and Optical Technologies business. Earlier in his career, Mr. Browers worked in several finance roles at General Electric Company.
Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC [WILMINGTON, N.C.] announced the appointment of Christopher Scully as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Scully most recently served at Pfizer, Inc. as chief commercial officer for the business unit.
OraSure Technologies, Inc. [BETHLEHEM, Pa.] (NASDAQ: OSUR) announced that Roberto Cuca has been appointed as the Company's new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cuca will initially serve as Senior Advisor to the Company until his appointment is effective. Mr. Cuca will succeed Ronald H. Spair, who is retiring. Since September 2013, Mr. Cuca has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Trevena, Inc. Prior to his time at Trevena, Mr. Cuca held various leadership positions in the finance organization of Endo Health Solutions Inc. His most recent position at Endo was Treasurer and Senior Vice President, Finance. Before that, Mr. Cuca was Director, Corporate and Business Development at moksha8 Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and an equity analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Brightcove Inc. [BOSTON] (Nasdaq: BCOV) announced the appointment of Robert Noreck as EVP & Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Noreck will succeed Kevin Rhodes, who has served as Brightcove's EVP & Chief Financial Officer since 2014 and is leaving the company for a new opportunity. Mr. Noreck currently serves as Senior Vice President of Finance and Sales Operations and has more than six years of experience with the company. Mr. Noreck joined Brightcove in 2011 as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, followed by a promotion to Vice President of Finance in 2013. After spending a brief period of time away from the company in 2016 and early 2017, Mr. Noreck returned to Brightcove last July as Senior Vice President of Finance and Sales Operations. Prior to joining Brightcove, Mr. Noreck held positions at other companies such as Fidelity Investments, BostonCoach, and City Year.
Columbia Banking System, Inc. [TACOMA, Wash.] (NASDAQ: COLB) announced that Greg Sigrist has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the company and its subsidiary Columbia Bank. Mr. Sigrist fills the role previously held by Clint Stein, who was appointed Chief Operating Officer in July 2017. In his 12-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Sigrist achieved many career milestones culminating in his 2014 appointment as Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley Bank. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in 2006 as Global Head of Accounting Policy. Following that he was promoyed to Control Finance Director—Wealth and Investment Management in 2011. Previously, he served for five years as Vice President, Corporate Accounting Policy/M&A Finance with Citigroup.
SunPower Corporation [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: SPWR) announced that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Chuck Boynton will transition out of SunPower to spend time with his family, in advance of pursuing career opportunities later this year. Boynton agreed to continue as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 8point3 Energy Partners through the sale. The company has named Manavendra Sial, an experienced business, operations and financial leader, as its new CFO, effective following the filing of SunPower's first-quarter 10-Q. Sial most recently served as CFO for VECTRA. Prior to VECTRA, Sial was with SunEdison in various global finance and operations leadership roles from 2011 to 2015 including CFO of MEMC's solar energy and materials divisions. He spent 11 years with General Electric (GE) in a variety of roles, from FP&A leader for the Energy Services unit to CFO of Power Delivery for GE's Transmission and Distribution group.
CVR Energy, Inc. [SUGAR LAND, Texas] (NYSE: CVI) announced that Tracy Jackson has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer. Jackson also will serve as executive vice president and chief financial officer for the general partner of CVR Energy's petroleum subsidiary, CVR Refining, LP (NYSE: CVRR), and for the general partner of its nitrogen fertilizer subsidiary, CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN). Jackson most recently served as vice president and controller for Andeavor (formerly Tesoro) and the general partner of Andeavor Logistics (formerly Tesoro Logistics).
Palewater Global Management Inc. [NEW YORK] appointed Amanda Wester as the Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1, 2018. Most recently, Wester served as the Chief Financial Officer for Viamedia. Previously, she served as the Chief Financial Officer for Innovative Mattress Solutions (IMS).
Enphase Energy Inc. [PETALUMA, Calif.] (NASDAQ: ENPH) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Bert Garcia, is leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. Garcia will continue as CFO until June 30, 2018.
Ultimate Software [WESTON, Fla.] (Nasdaq: ULTI) announced their succession plan for chief financial officer (CFO). Mitchell K. Dauerman, who has served as Ultimate's CFO since September 1996 steps down as CFO, continuing his service at Ultimate, focusing on investor relations and strategic initiatives. Felicia Alvaro, vice president of finance and 20-year veteran in Ultimate's finance and accounting department, will succeed Dauerman in the role of CFO.
Colibri Group [ST. LOUIS] announced that Jim Fox has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fox's previous roles include Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer for TierPoint and Suddenlink Communications. Prior to joining Suddenlink Communications, Fox was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Operations for Mobile Armor Inc.
Crypto Asset Management, LP [LA JOLLA, Calif.] ("CAM") announced Kyle Chaykowski as Chief Financial Officer. Kyle joins the CAM team with 10+ years' of financial and investment management experience in hedge funds, private equity and venture capital strategies in sectors including cryptocurrencies, biotechnology, real estate, technology and lifestyle/hospitality. Kyle started his career as an auditor at Deloitte before transitioning into the investment management space as Vice President of Tang Capital Management.
Conifer Health Solutions [FRISCO, Texas] announced that Todd Wyatt has been named chief financial officer. Mr. Wyatt succeeds Daniel Karnuta who retired from Conifer Health after serving as chief financial officer for seven years. Wyatt joins Conifer Health from Acelity, Inc. (formally Kinetic Concepts, Inc.), where he has served as senior vice president of Business Transformation since June 2017. Over the course of his fourteen-year career with Acelity, Mr. Wyatt has held various senior leadership positions including chief financial officer, vice president of Global Corporate Finance and vice president of Strategy and Performance Management, among others.
SundaySky [NEW YORK] announced that Glen Sussman has joined the company as chief financial officer. Sussman was previously CFO and chief operating officer at Receptiv. Sussman previously held CFO and COO roles with Double Fusion and Game Trust, respectively. Additionally, he held buy-side and sell-side positions at funds and financial institutions.
AMC Health [NEW YORK] announced that John J. (Jack) McGovern will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining AMC Health, McGovern most notably founded and ran Bridgehead Partners for 14 years. McGovern began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Merrill Lynch Interfunding.
Minnetronix, Inc. [SAINT PAUL, Minn.] announced the appointment of Elissa Lindsoe as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Minnetronix, Lindsoe served as CFO of MOCON. Her experience also includes CFO roles for private and publicly traded companies including Galil Medical, Urologix and Identix.
Cedar Electronics [CHICAGO] named Gail Babitt as Chief Financial and Operating Officer. Gail most recently served as CFO of Heartland Automotive Services, Inc. (dba Jiffy Lube). Gail comes to Cedar having previously served as Chief Financial Officer of several other companies, including, Motus Integrated Technologies, Inuvo and Pamida Stores.
Lazydays Holdings, Inc. [TAMPA, Fla.] (NASDAQ: LAZY) announced that Nicholas Tomashot has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective May 11, 2018. Tomashot is the former Senior Vice President and General Manager of the National Service Center of US Foods. Tomashot succeeds Maura Berney, who has made the personal decision to step down as CFO. Prior to US Foods, he was Chief Financial Officer for five years at Pinnacle Data Systems, Inc. Prior to becoming CFO at Pinnacle, Tomashot held senior domestic and international finance positions at Innovex, Inc. Before joining Innovex, Tomashot worked at Pillsbury, Proctor & Gamble and NCR Corporation where he held various finance positions of increasing responsibility.
Lonestar Resources US Inc. [FORT WORTH, Texas] (NASDAQ: LONE) announced that Doug Banister has retired from his position as Chief Financial Officer and announced the appointment of Jason N. Werth as Chief Accounting Officer. Jason comes to Lonestar from Denbury Resources, where he served in positions of increasing responsibility. Jason first served as SEC Reporting Manager, then as Assistant Controller of Corporate Accounting and most recently as Director of Audit. Prior thereto, Jason held positions at Arthur Anderson, LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Truett-Hurst, Inc. [HEALDSBURG, Calif.] announced the appointment of Karen Weaver as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ms. Weaver has served as Vice President, Corporate Controller of the Company since December 18, 2017. She was previously employed by Amyris, Inc. as Vice President and Corporate Controller from 2012 until 2014 and Vice President, Finance from 2014 until 2017. In August 2013, she was appointed Principal Accounting Officer of Amyris. From 2009 until 2011, Ms. Weaver served as Vice President and Corporate Controller of Sonic Solutions.
Financial Institutions, Inc. [WARSAW, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: FISI), parent company of Five Star Bank, Scott Danahy Naylon, LLC and Courier Capital, LLC, announced that Kevin B. Klotzbach will retire as Chief Financial Officer effective March 31, 2019. Mr. Klotzbach will continue to serve as Treasurer through December 31, 2019.
Exalenz Bioscience Ltd. [MODI'IN, Israel and MANASQUAN, N.J.] (TASE: EXEN) announced the appointment of Roy Golan as President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Golan was Chief Financial Officer at NeuroDerm, Ltd. Prior to joining NeuroDerm, Mr. Golan served as Chief Financial Officer of KCS Ltd., and as Vice President of Finance of GI View Ltd.
Aqua America Inc. [BRYN MAWR, Pa.] (NYSE: WTR) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer David Smeltzer will retire in October after a 32-year career with Aqua. Daniel Schuller, who is currently serving as EVP, strategy and corporate development, will succeed Smeltzer as CFO, with an immediate appointment as deputy CFO until Smeltzer's formal retirement.
CPI Card Group Inc. [LITTLETON, Colo.] (NASDAQ: PMTS; TSX: PMTS) announced that Lillian Etzkorn has accepted an executive leadership position in Detroit, where she has lived for more than 40 years, in order to be closer to her home and family. Ms. Etzkorn will remain with the Company through July 24, 2018 to transition her responsibilities.
WilsonHCG [TAMPA, Fla.] announced the addition of Ken Bowles as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ken previously spent 15 years at General Electric (GE) and joins WilsonHCG from technology firm, Tribridge, where he served as CFO. WilsonHCG's Andy Zahn will transition from CFO to Executive Vice President of Corporate Development.
Upward Projects [PHOENIX] announced the hiring of Kristina Cashman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Cashman started her career at Ernst & Young before spending a decade as the Controller/CFO for P.F. Chang's China Bistro. Next, Cashman served as the CFO of Eddie V's Restaurants in Scottsdale. Most recently, Cashman served as the CFO of the fast-growing Hopdoddy Burger Bar in Austin, TX.
VirtualArmour International Inc. [CENTENNIAL, Colo.] (CSE: VAI, OTCQB: VTLR) appointed CEO Todd Kannegieter as chief financial officer, succeeding John Donaldson. Kannegieter was a co-founder of VirtualArmour and has been a director since its inception and has served as its CEO since 2015. Kannegieter's more than three decades of finance and accounting experience includes serving as vice president of finance for Circadence Corporation. Prior to Circadence, Kannegieter served as a finance executive for a number of successful businesses, including Rivien Communications. Earlier, he served at COMSAT International, a provider of satellite technology that was acquired by Lockheed Martin. Before COMSAT, he served as a finance executive for both Westel Cellular and US West MediaOne (now Comcast Cable). He also earlier served as executive director of finance, working the New Vector merger with Airtouch cellular.


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Commerce City, Colo. - After all the beauracracies and delays of moving from his former club in Argentina to Major League Soccer, Martin Rivero finally made his debut for the Colorado Rapids back on April 1 in a 2-0 home win over Chicago.
Brought in as a playmaker, Rivero naturally delivered by assisting on the first goal of the game (WATCH).
Fast forward to late October, and 22-year-old had registered a team-leading eight assists and added two goals while starting 30 regular season matches.
Rivero's teammates recognized his ability and potential by giving him nearly 65% of the first place votes for the 2012 Young Player of the Year award.
"I'm very honored," Rivero said of his winning the trophy. "It's an award for the effort, and the desire to improve and to become a better professional. It's nice gift that my teammates gave me and it makes me very happy."
After another successful year with Argentina's Rosario Central, the midfielder took a leap of faith by making the move to Major League Soccer last winter. Looking back, and ahead, he's very happy with his decision.
"It was my first experience outside my country and my first year here, and I'm a little bit surprised at how I was able to adapt to the country and to the soccer here - which was different for me," he said. "One always tries to find a balance and I'm happy because I think I adapted well and improved throughout the season. I'm very happy here. All year I've been treated very well."
While achieving personal successes on and off the field, Rivero's contributions to the squad can also be measured. The Rapids were 6-3-1 in games in which he either scored or registered an assist.
"We improved a lot" he said of team's season. "In not qualifying for the playoffs, we wanted to finish as strong as possible and I think we did by winning the last two games and playing very good. We showed there are good things ahead. Perhaps we didn't get the result we wanted all year, but we finished very well."
Rivero, who also finished third in the Fan Favorite Award behind Matt Pickens and Drew Moor, is already itching to return in 2013.
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Newspapers and magazines are disposable. Today's newspapers are tomorrow's fish and chips paper. However, they also record history. Let a few years pass by and these old newspapers and magazines can offer fascinating insights into important events and significant people from different eras. They also represent history in another regard - as digital and electronic media becomes more prevalent, newspapers and magazines themselves may well become artefacts of the past one day.
AbeBooks offers a vast number of vintage newspapers, magazines, periodicals and journals. Time and Life magazines, Playboy, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Vogue, the Illustrated London News (including the entire 120-year consecutive run of over 6,000 issues, for a cool 380 grand), the Paris Review and Popular Science are just a few of the famous names that can be found on the site, commemorating, celebrating and lamenting some of the most important discoveries, voyages and people the world has ever known. The scarcity of these items has made them a prize among collectors and history buffs.
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Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh and Pham Van Dong are on the cover.
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Liberty Fall Classic Draws The Liberty Lady Flames tennis team opens its fall tournament schedule this weekend by hosting the third installment of the Liberty Fall Classic. The two-day tournament gets under way tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. at the Hershey-Esbenshade Tennis Courts.
Joining the Lady Flames at the tournament will be players from Virginia Tech, James Madison, Radford, Longwood, Norfolk State, West Virginia State, Christopher Newport and Sweet Briar.
The tournament opens with doubles matches, beginning at 1 p.m. Liberty's Rebekah Jenkins and Maria Khval will go up against Sara Andrade and Gemma Valls of Big South rival Radford in Flight 1. The Lady Flames' Belen Rivera and Brittany Yang, also competing in Flight 1, square off against West Virginia State's Brittany Franco and Andreea Slusarciua.
Two Liberty doubles pairs are slated to compete in Flight 2. Mariely Hassey and Valerie Thong are pitted against Sarah Moomau and Bethany Law of Big South opponent, Longwood. Cameron Richard and Nicola Wellman face Norfolk State's Krystal Scott and Ana Popovic.
In Flight 3, Liberty's Annisha Domenech and Lauren Mabe challenge Longwood's Paloma Alatorre and Mason Thomas.
Singles action gets under way at 3:30 p.m. with 12 matches. In Flight 1, Khval squares off against Jodi Noland of Christopher Newport. Competing in Flight 2 will be Jenkins versus Christopher Newport's Jackie Gaine and Rivera against Anna Pelak of Longwood. Rounding out the 3:30 p.m. matches, will be Flight 3 contests between Wellman and Radford's Gisela Garcia and Hassey versus Diana Cotoros of West Virginia State.
In Flight 4, beginning at 5 p.m., Richard challenges Moomau and Thong goes up against West Virginia State's Cora Berna. Also starting at 5 p.m., will be Yang versus Grace Sarver of Radford in Flight 5 and Domenech against Virginia Tech's Laura Ramthun in Flight 6.
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The Cato Institute is expected to release this week a report that has been laid out to appear nearly identical to a 2009 scientific assessment report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, issued by the U.S. Global Change Research Program and published by Cambridge University Press. The editor of the Cato document says its intended role (beyond the election campaign) is to serve as a "users manual" for future attacks on EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Because of its misleading design and layout throughout, the Cato report can be characterized as a counterfeit, having nothing to do with the USGCRP or the authors of the original report. It was not subjected to the extensive review process that characterized the 2009 report, and its key findings are neither consistent with the original assessment nor with the anaysis developed by the great majority of qualified scientists.
Also see:
"Statement on the Cato Institute ADDENDUM Report" by co-authors of the 2009 assessment, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States"
Brief: Cato Institute's "Addendum: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States"
U.S. Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Cato Institute, Addendum: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, draft posted online at Cato website, summer 2012
The Cato Institute, based in Washington, DC, is an anti-regulatory 'libertarian' policy organization founded by Edward Crane and Charles G. Koch. Its new Center for the Study of Science is directed by climate science contrarian Patrick J. Michaels, who has been affiliated with Cato for at least two decades. The "Addendum" lists Michaels as Editor-in-Chief. Others named are Robert C. Balling, Mary J. Hutzler, Robert E. Davis, Paul C. Knappenberger, and Craig D. Idso.
This is not the first time climate change disinformation campaigners have mimicked official documents to confuse and mislead people. In 1998, Frederick Seitz et al circulated a petition accompanied by a paper that was intentionally formatted to look like a reprint from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition . The NAS denounced that paper, saying: "The NAS Council would like to make it clear that this petition has nothing to do with the National Academy of Sciences and that the manuscript was not published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or in any other peer-reviewed journal." See the full Statement of the NAS, By The Council Of The National Academy Of Sciences Regarding Global Change Petition response of the NAS (April 20, 1998).
If the report is released this week, the timing could certainly be seen as an attempt to influence climate policy debate in the last two weeks of the election campaign, as well as to provide talking points during the post-election congressional session to members of Congress who have aligned themselves with global warming denialism. But beyond the specific timing, the report appears designed to help lay the groundwork for another round of attacks on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 'Endangerment Finding' on greenhouse gases and on EPA's authority to regulate emissions. In a Cato Institute podcast on October 17, Would (Could) Mitt Romney Rein in the EPA?, Pat Michaels plugged the forthcoming bogus "Addendum," saying he took the 2009 USGCRP report…
"… and produced a report that is going to be coming out very soon that looks exactly like the report that the EPA relied upon. The new Cato document, which is simply called the Addendum to the USGCRP report looks like it, it flows like it, where there are key findings in the government report we have analogous key findings. And lo and behold, our report contains about 900 endnotes, footnotes, references, etc. And if you look at the report that EPA used [for the endangerment finding, i.e. the USGCRP assessment], that contained a little over 500. You could make the argument that they left out more than half of the science when they produced their report. Now we did this because we know that if anyone wants the EPA to back off, they have to turn around the endangerment finding. So this is the user's manual to reverse the Endangerment Finding."
Much more can and will be said about this, but for now, let's just note that the EPA Endangerment Finding on greenhouse gases was based on considerably more scientific evidence and climate science assessment than is contained in the single volume Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report. Pat is trying to frame the discourse here in multiple misleading ways.
Scott Mandia blogged this: Is Patrick Michaels Trying to Pass Us a Counterfeit $20 Bill?
Peter Sinclair blogged this at Climate Crocks: How Stupid Does Cato Institute think Congress Is? Oh, right….
The Daily Climate posted this: Cato's 'Addendum' Tries to Undo Federal Climate Report. Excerpt:
A new "addendum" to be released as soon as this week purports to update with the latest science a 2009 federal assessment on the impacts to the United States of climate change.
The addendum matches the layout and design of the original, published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program: Cover art, "key message" sections, table of contents are all virtually identical, down to the chapter heads, fonts and footnotes.
But the new report comes from the conservative Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute. And its findings —that science is questionable, the impacts negligible and the potential policy solutions ineffective — are more a rebuke than a revision of the original report and of accepted science both then and today.
"It's not an addendum. It's a counterfeit," said John Abraham, an associate professor at the University of Saint Thomas in Minnesota who studies clean power sources. "It's a continued effort to kick the can down the road: A steady drip, drip, drip of fake reports by false scientists to create a false sense of debate." …
The first example is on the cover: Both reports show a satellite image of the United States, with a bar-chart showing temperature changes running along the bottom. Yet the original 2009 report graphs the dramatic rise in global temperatures from 1900 through 2008, while the Cato report uses a much smaller subset – temperatures only from the United States, and just from 1991 through 2010 – to show a seemingly random pattern. …
The 2009 report warned that widespread climate effects are occurring now and are expected to increase. Climate change, it concluded, will "stress water resources" and challenge crop and livestock production. Cato's addendum counters that "observed impacts of climate change have little national significance." … The science and evidence since 2009 supports the National Climate Center's assessment, however: Military brass are retooling operations and policies for a changed world, while this summer's drought will cost the U.S. economy an estimated $70 billion to $100 billion. …
Michael MacCracken, chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute who helped review the 2009 report, [said].
"If you hadn't seen the original report, you wouldn't know. They made it look really similar. Why would they do that unless they're trying to mislead?"
Earlier posts:
GOP continues attacks on new EPA greenhouse gas rules
Video link and key quotes from White House briefing on Global Climate Change Impacts report
On willful misdirection from Pat Michaels
Waxman letter to Upton on Pat Michaels's statements about funding sources
Ben Santer debunks Pat Michaels
Popular Science reviews denialists' war on climate scientists


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