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Newest member of Water Commission opposes any rate increases
BROCKTON – The Water Commission will hold a hearing to set the city's water rates on Wednesday night, but at least one member will be opposed to any increase when the commission makes its recommendation.
"I will not go up on the rates until there have been efforts made other than just putting liens on residents," said Kate Archard, the commission's newest member.
Archard was appointed to a three-year term on the commission by City Council President Robert Sullivan on Feb. 6.
For the past two years, the commission has voted to increase the water rates.
In 2012, the commission approved a 10 percent increase, and in 2013, the commissioned approved a 6.5 percent increase.
Both recommendations were voted down by the City Council, however, which has final approval over any water rate increases.
Archard is not alone in her opposition to an increase in water rates.
Mayor Bill Carpenter said Friday that he would also prefer the rates not be raised.
"The water and sewer bills are a real burden on some of our residents," Carpenter said, adding that rate increases can hit the elderly and residents on a fixed income especially hard.
Carpenter also said that water and sewer will be a focus of his administration, and that he plans to look into marketing sewer service at the city's renovated waste treatment plan to surrounding communities as a way to alleviate the financial burden on residents.
Archard also expressed her intention to look into the commission's master plan for addressing the city's water needs in the future, as well as, looking into how the city has changed its water operations in recent years.
"I'm very concerned about the $100,000 audit they did in 2012 after the water meter debacle," Archard said.
After a years-long dispute in which the city was found to have improperly billed residents, an audit ordered by the City Council recommended the installation of new meters and a training system for employees who use computerized billing.
The Water Commission hearing to set the water rates is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the G.A.R. Room in City Hall on Wednesday.
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http://www.appliancepartspros.com/ge-defrost-limiter-thermostat-wr50x10068-ap3884317.htmlThis is the probably the part # that you should have if you have that board part #WR55x10942 in there.It has a high rating of 140 degree F.If you have a lower one you have the wrong defrost thermostat in there.
That type of defrost thermostat rated like your taking about is used in older refrigerators with no boards.
J1 pin 4 and 5 you should get a reading if open bad evaporator thermistor.Thats the thermistor on top of the evaporator.You can cut it out and test it in a cup of ice and a little water with your ohm meter on the right scale and you should get about 16k ohms.If your meter is on wrong scale you will get wrong reading .I guess you got some reading from the other thermistors and the evaporator thermistor is not showing a reading.How about that heating element does it show some ohms.


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"People who have the latest Symbian Nokia smartphones can now update them to Nokia Belle - bringing a fresh look to their screens thanks to the latest user interface. Once you have installed Nokia Belle you will still have the same phone, but it will feel like new, with improved performance." Love the version name.


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Animal Species:Whitespot Parrotfish, Scarus forsteni (Bleeker, 1861)
The Whitespot Parrotfish can be recognised by its colouration, which varies as the fish grows. It is a solitary species that feeds by scraping algae from rocks and coral.
Standard Common Name
Whitespot Parrotfish
Alternative Name/s
Forsten's Parrotfish, Tricolor Parrotfish
Initial phase Whitespot Parrotfish have a reddish-brown body. There is a blue-green zone that extends from the eye to the middle of the body. A white spot near the tip of the pectoral fin gives this fish its name. The emarginate caudal fin is reddish-brown.
Terminal phase Whitespot Parrotfish have a green body with scales edged in pink. The head is purple and the lips are blueish, with a blue stripe extending from the mouth to below the eye. The dental plates (teeth) are blue-green. The pectoral fin is green and purple. The blue-green caudal fin is lunate.
Size range
The species grows to 55 cm in length.
The Whitespot Parrotfish occurs in tropical marine waters of the Western and Central Pacific, from the Philippines, north to Japan, throughout Micronesia, south to Australia and east to the Ducie Islands. In Australia the Whitespot Parrotfish is known from the north-western coast of Western Australia around the tropical north of the country and south to the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.
The map below shows the Australian distribution of the species based on public sightings and specimens in Australian Museums. Click on the map for detailed information. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Distribution by collection data
Biomaps map of Whitespot Parrotfish specimens in the Australian Museum collection.
The species inhabits outer reefs, lagoons and coral-rich reef slopes, usually between depths of 3 m and 30 m.
Feeding and Diet
The Whitespot Parrotfish is a solitary species that feeds by scraping algae from rocks and coral.
- Species:
- forsteni
- Genus:
- Scarus
- Family:
- Scaridae
- Order:
- Perciformes
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Subphylum:
- Vertebrata
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Western Australian Museum. Pp. 220.
- Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & G.R. Allen. 2006. Fishes. In Beesley, P.L. & A. Wells. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing: Australia. parts 1-3, pages 1-2178.
- Kuiter, R.H. 2002. Fairy and Rainbow Wrasses and their Relatives. A Comprehensive Guide to Selected Labroids. TMC Publishing. Pp. 208.
- Myers, R.F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. Coral Graphics. Pp. 222.
- Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & R.C. Steene. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Crawford House Press. Pp. 415.
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More than eight out of 10 homes sold in San Joaquin County during the fourth quarter of 2012 were affordable to families earning the county's median income of $66,300.
More than eight out of 10 homes sold in San Joaquin County during the fourth quarter of 2012 were affordable to families earning the county's median income of $66,300.
That according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.
"The most recent housing affordability data should be encouraging to many prospective home buyers, because it shows that homeownership remains within reach of median-income consumers even as most local markets appear to be on a recovery path," said NAHB Chairman Rick Judson, a home builder from Charlotte, N.C.
The county's fourth-quarter affordability reading of 83.5 percent was virtually flat compared with a quarter earlier and down from 86.4 percent recording in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Nationwide, the most recent reading of the NAHB/First American Improving Markets Index found that 259 out of 361 metros qualify as improving, including representatives from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
"The median price of all new and existing homes sold in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $188,000, essentially unchanged from the previous quarter's $189,000 that marked a nearly three-year high," NAHB chief economist David Crowe said. "It is noteworthy that affordability remains historically high thanks to favorable mortgage rates even as national home price indexes show some rise in values."
Affordability has increased in recent years in San Joaquin County, certainly compared with the go-go years of the real estate boom when affordability here dipped as low as 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005.
But since the collapse of the real estate market and the surge in foreclosures, prices have dropped dramatically. In the mid-2000s, median home prices in the county jumped above $400,000. Now the median price is about $182,000, according to figures released last week by the California Association of Realtors.
CAR reported Monday that statewide the percentage of home buyers who could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family home in California decreased to 48 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, down from 49 percent in third quarter 2012 and from 55 percent in fourth quarter 2011, according to CAR's Traditional Housing Affordability Index. San Joaquin County isn't included in CAR's survey.
Home buyers needed to earn a minimum annual income of $66,940 to qualify for the purchase of a $353,190 statewide median-priced home in the fourth quarter of 2012, CAR said.
The home builders group said low interest rates and relatively stable home prices were behind the slight gain in nationwide housing affordability in the fourth quarter.
In California, the deterioration of affordability was blamed on rising home prices amid stagnate family incomes, even though interest rates were low. Statewide, median home prices in January were up 24 percent from a year earlier.


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The Board of Elections will have local registration for those voters who have either moved, or never registered to vote on Thursday, Oct. 11, until 7 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 13, from 2 to 9 p.m.
Voting registration forms are available at all post offices, banks, public libraries, town and city halls and the Board of Elections, 111 Main St., Suite 100, Lockport. Forms are also available on the BOE website, www.elections.niagara.ny.us.
Any voters who wish to change their party enrollment will need to have a registration form in the BOE office by Oct. 12. Those who have moved since voting last must reregister to be eligible.
Those who are going to be out of the county on Election Day will need to apply for an absentee ballot by calling 716-438-4045 or 716-438-4043.


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Running Time: 101 minutes
Released: 04/2009
Studio Name: Jules Jordan Video
Series: Breast Worship
Director: Jules Jordan
Description: Shyla attacks Jerry with her MEGA-TITS! In the Main Event... Tory Lane Vs. Lexington Steele, the bout you've been waiting for! Nikki Benz in CONTROL... and make her followers worship her HUMONGOUS KNOCKERS! Gianna, Carmella, and Marco, from the bank, come to evict Jules. He wants a "bailout," but instead they Ball Out his house! Cassandra knows how to smother guys... with her tits! Ami Jordan is the new "DD" Knockout!
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SVG symbols
- Configuration | Locomotives Tab | Accelerators | Status Lights | Use multiple Gui's for viewing | Reports
- Language | General | Path | Programming | SVG Symbols | Clock | Gamepad support | MIC | Accelerators
- Theme properties | DB | SpDrS60 | NMBS/SNCB | NS | Road | Accessories | Slovenian | User | SLIM(-COLOR)
The Official SpDrS60 Theme
The official theme is SpDrS60.
For testing and problem reporting this theme should be used.
All other themes should follow the naming convention of the SpDrS60 theme.
The SpDrS60-extra is a user theme and must be set as first in the list to be activated and will show switch objects with two extra indicators for locking and holding.
Theme 1 - 5
Select the desired themes and restart Rocview to activate them.
If you have defined your own SVG symbol for a certain item, place it in the "Setup" list before the Theme that has the default symbol.
That means the first Theme determines how a SVG is portrayed
Item ID Pointsize
Adjust the pointsize for item IDs to fit the ID length choosen. Default is 7.
The Rocview has to be restarted for changes to take affect.
The item ID color. Default is black.
Text Pointsize
Adjust the pointsize for Block ID and for Text objects with zero pointsize.
Best results for: 1)
- Linux = 13
- Windows = 10
- Default = 10
The Rocview has to be restarted for changes to take affect.
Process route/block events
To reduce processor resources these options can be disabled.
Show routes on switches
By activating this option the normal switch positions will be shown in Cyan.2)
For reserved routes this color will change in Yellow.
Raster switch types are not supported by this option.
Only the SpDrS60 theme has the needed SVGs.
To get the route IDs automatically set in the switch objects the analyzer must be started again if the routes were generated with a revision older then 7884.
In case of manual routes use the Select dialog.
Route prio
Overwrites block occupancy in case a route is reserved.
NL and DB
The following screenshot shows the usage of customized symbols comming from two themes: NL and DB:
Theme 2 can only show the unused places from theme 1, and theme 3 the unsused places from theme 1 and 2.
Track/Road Layout
Track and road symbols can be mixed in one layout:
The road symbols have the same naming as the track symbols but are prefixed with road-.
Create SVG symbols
Text editor
If you wish to use your own symbols in a track plan you have to create these symbols SVG format.
The symbol size is set in the svg file, but make sure those values are a multiple of 32.
Turntables are not supported in SVG because of its very complex nature.
The file names are predetermined for each state of a symbol as listed here: Symbol Names
The path must be conform:
But only M, L, C and z are evaluated. All coordinates are rounded to integers.
The Curve is only supported as the one and only in a path. 3)
The following example (track with blue outline filled yellow ) shows which information is basically evaluated by Rocview:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32"> <g> <path stroke="blue" stroke-width="1" fill="yellow" d="M 0,16 L 2,13 L 29,13 L 31,15 L 31,16 L 29,18 L 2,18 L 0,16 z " /> </g> </svg>
The path node maybe multiple listed.
Rotation is done in the Rocview.
Curves and circles:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32"> <g> <path stroke="blue" stroke-width="1" fill="yellow" d="C 10,10 25,10 25,20" /> <circle cx="16" cy="12" r="5" fill="red" stroke="blue"/> </g> </svg>
You can use Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ and start to create a new 32×32 icon. Rocrail supports just integers for coordinated and therefore the following settings are quite useful:
These settings , especially 'Always snap', apply only during the creation of a path (Shift+F6) . As soon as you try to move path nodes with the mouse Inkscape will create decimal coordinates again.
Another useful setting is to switch on the the outline display:
At the moment the only thing evaluated in Rocrail are <path../>.
With Shift+F6 you can start this sequence; try to generate Lines only, no Curves.
As soon as you're done with the graphics save the file in Inkscape and open it with a text editor to copy the path information into another new file.
Default Symbols
Default symbols are SVG like vector graphics, and are hardcoded in the Rocgui sources.
They only are needed when the Rocrail installation is broken, and there are only some basic symbols available! Report it if you are having trouble with symbols.
Blinking Aspects
Starting with revision 5315 a second Graphics Container4) can be added in the SVG definition which will be alternated every second.
Only signal objects are enabled for this feature.
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32"> <g> <path stroke="blue" fill="yellow" d="M 0,16 L 2,13 L 29,13 L 31,15 L 31,16 L 29,18 L 2,18 L 0,16 z " /> </g> <g> <path stroke="blue" fill="grey" d="M 0,16 L 2,13 L 29,13 L 31,15 L 31,16 L 29,18 L 2,18 L 0,16 z " /> </g> </svg>
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Celebration of Student Writing
Worcester Public Schools students published in It's Lit! were honored on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at the Durkin Administration Building. It's Lit! is an annual celebration of student writing and all students in preschool through Grade 12 were encouraged to submit original, not previously published creative works such as poems, memoirs, and short stories. The theme for this year's publication is "Knowledge is Power," though all submissions were considered regardless of the theme.
Hundreds of students, families, teachers, and administrators gathered to celebrate 65 authors and 36 artists, who were selected from a pool of several hundred pieces. Congratulations to all students who were selected for publication and to all those who put for the effort to submit to this year's journal. Eleven students received special awards for their writing.
Four student editors from Doherty Memorial High School assisted in the reading, selection, and compilation of the publication, as well as selecting award winners and organizing the celebratory event: Dorean Asuako, Emanuel Sekyi, Emily Stukowski, and Patrick Wallace.


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A big thank-you to our supporters
We're growing! Congrats to the many readers who recently stepped up to nourish the HCN community. You helped us blow the doors off our holiday gift-giving goal of 500 new subscribers. As we go to press, you've given at least 750 new gift subscriptions to family members, friends and colleagues, who, like you, care about this unique and wondrous region. (That's almost twice as many gift subscriptions as were given this time last year!) This is an enormous boon to everyone who values our reporting and supports our mission. Thank you for standing with us.
Editors and interns on the move
HCN is proud to announce our latest contributing editor, journalist Jeremy Miller. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Jeremy writes for several publications including Harper's, Orion, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The New York Times' Green Inc. blog and 5280. Much of his recent work has focused on the oil industry's transition to "unconventional" sources, but he's written for us on topics including urban waterway restoration, mercury emissions from cement production, and the controversial guidebook author Michael Kelsey. From 2009-2010, he was a Middlebury College fellow in environmental journalism, and in 2011, he received a media fellowship at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. Jeremy also holds a master's in science and medical journalism from Boston University and teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Denver.
Former HCN intern Emily Underwood (winter 2009) has just been hired as a contract staff writer for Science magazine in Washington, D.C. She had been an intern at Science since last July and will now be writing breaking news for the online and print magazine. After leaving our Paonia, Colo., office, Emily completed her master's in science writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her stint at High Country News "not only gave me excellent training, clips, mentors and friends," she says, but is "the reason I decided to become a science writer."
After interning here in summer 2009, Ariana Brocious got a job reporting local news at KVNF, the public radio station in HCN's hometown; she was promoted to news director in spring of 2010. Now she's headed east to Nebraska to work at NET, the statewide public radio station. Ariana will be the local host for NPR's Morning Edition (delivering the local news, weather, traffic and other tidbits); she'll also be reporting stories. The hours are early, she says: "I'll be on-air from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., yikes!" Thank God for coffee, and good luck to both Emily and Ariana in their new positions.


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Currently in GSIM:
Definition: A tool conceived to record the information that will be obtained from the Observation Units (p. 151).
Explanatory Text: The Instrument descirbes the tool used to collect data. It could be a traditional survey, a set of requirements for a software collection program, a clinical procedure, etc.
Instrument Implementation
Definition: A concrete and usable tool for gathering information based on the rendering of the description made by an Instrument (p. 153).
Explanatory Text: This represents an implementation of an Instrument. It describes the way in which an Instrument has been translated from a design to a concrete tool. It could represent a printed form, a software program made following a specific technological paradigm (web service, web scraping robot, etc), the software used by a specialised device to collect data, etc. When it describes a Survey Instrument, it can contain descriptions of how each construct (e.g. Questions, Value Domains, validation Rules contained in the Instrument) is implemented.
At first glance, the definitions of Instrument and Instrument Implementation are confusing because they both refer to tools - one for recording information and another for gathering information. It is difficult to understand the difference between the two objects as the exxamples in the Explanatory text are similar.
Suggested Solution:
An alternate defintion and explanatory text for Instrument:
Definition: A means conceived to gather the information that will be obtained from the observation units.
Explanatory Text: The Instrument describes the means used to collect data. It could be a traditional survey, a set of requirements to be met by a software collection program, or a clinical procedure, etc.
The specification of an Instrument is "implementation independent". In other words, it does not depend on the way(s) in which the Instrument will be rendered (eg on paper or via software) to become a usable tool for gathering information.
The definition of Instrument and Instrument Implementation could be amended (see suggested solution) to include the fact that an Instrument is format and platform independent, whereas Instrument Implementation is when an Instrument is put into a particular format.
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Instrument and instrument implementation are at different levels - conceptual/logical and implementation.
Instrument control is at the logical level....but the instrument controls are effected by the mode? The table in the document tried to explain that it is not possible to have both an instrument and instrument implementation. It is building in flexibility that may not be possible. Action: fix the table....
The experience of filling in a paper vs web may be very different but the logical basis may be the same. There is quite a debate about whether this is possible is one that is going on in stats agencies.
Action: Change definition. Better explanatory text around this.
Action: Rename instrument implementation to represented instrument. It has the advantage of linguistic consistency.
The problem with Instrument and InstrumentImplementation is that an instrument is something that is either hidden in a Channel (a questionnaire on a computer used by the CAPI or CATI interviewer but never seen by the respondent) or part of the Mode (in the CAWI and self-administered PAPI). It is very implementation dependent and therefore we are argueing that perhaps Instrument should not be part of GSIM at all.


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The first returns of the 2012 presidential election are in... sort of*.
Guam returned its presidential tally Tuesday afternoon, its citizens participating in a non-binding straw poll for president.
The tally?
Barack Obama--23,067 (72.39 percent) Mitt Romney--8,443 (26.49 percent) Gary Johnson--357 (1.12 percent)
Obama's tally, according to Ballot Access News, is an increase over his 62 percent of Guam's vote four years ago against John McCain.
Guam, the tiny island, more than 6,000 miles west from California in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is a territory of the United States. Its residents are U.S. citizens, but do not have congressional representatives, nor do their votes count in the presidential election.
R. Todd Thompson, of the NPR member station KPRG in Guam, told Miami TV station WLRN that Guam has a history of picking election winners.
Since 1984, Guam has been conducting a non-binding presidential 'straw poll' on the same date as the presidential election. And each time since 1984, the Guam Straw Poll has correctly predicted who will be the next president.
Because Guam votes so early and has a perfect track record in picking the winner, Guam is the new bellwether in presidential politics. Traditionally, those seeking an early indication of things to come on Election Day have looked to Dixville Notch, and a couple other tiny New Hampshire towns which vote just past midnight on Election Day and then proceed to count a handful of ballots. However, these early returns have had little predictive value historically.
Guam, on the other hand, has predicted the presidential winner every time. In fact, the only time Guam arguably got it wrong it still predicted the ultimate winner. In 2000, Guam narrowly favored Bush over Gore. Of course, Bush lost the popular vote nationwide in 2000, but he still managed to become president.
*While residents of Dixville-Notch, New Hampshire are the first to cast votes, traditionally, opening their polls at midnight on election day, Guam is the first full territory to complete all voting and return results.


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The Bush administration will announce today a proposal for the largest increase in spending on the National Endowment for the Arts in twenty years. An administration spokesman says the proposal is "intended to show the administration's commitment to the arts."
Glenn Reynolds calls this move "incomprehensibly stupid." I don't think he's referring to the funding level of the NEA as much as to the President's blatant election-year pandering. As fast as the Democrats are scrambling to the left, the President is scurrying toward the center. I can predict the number of votes that will swing to President Bush on account of this latest pander: zero. If he thinks that Hollywood or the New York literati are going to moderate their hatred of him on account of this kind of initiative, he is a fool.
Given the President's fiscal recklessness–his unwillingness to restrain a single category of federal spending–I'm afraid that the effort to make the tax cuts permanent is doomed. Why, then, should conservatives be enthusiastic about supporting Bush? The obvious answer is strength in the war on terror. Maybe. But would a President Kerry be any less vigilant than President Bush? No matter what he says on the campaign trail, Kerry would know that a resumption of terrorist attacks in the U.S. would doom his chances for re-election, and he would do everything in his power to prevent them. And with a Democrat in the White House, there would be no more whining about the Patriot Act.
Would Kerry be less likely to initiate future military action than Bush? No. After what's happened in Iraq, another invasion is off the table. It won't happen, no matter who is president.
Would federal spending balloon even faster under a Democratic president? He would want it to, of course, but that doesn't mean it would happen. Spending has grown faster under Bush than Clinton. A Republican congress would likely check spending under a Democratic president more effectively than they are doing now.
Public opinion surveys over the last twenty years have consistently shown that people who call themselves "conservatives" outnumber those who call themselves "liberals" by roughly two to one. Ideology favors the Republicans more than party affiliation; there are still a few more Democrats than Republicans. So a straight-up conservative vs. liberal race would have been favorable, I think, for President Bush. What we are getting instead is a demoralization of the President's base and a blurring of the ideological lines–almost always bad for Republicans. How badly has Bush alienated his base? Well, he's de-motivated me, and that wasn't easy.
DEACON responds: I feel your pain, Rocket Man. Increasing funding for the NEA seems intended more to show the administration's contempt for conservatives than its "commitment to the arts." In general, I think that President Bush confers goodies on interests that will never support him not to win the votes of members of the groups concerned, but to convince swing voters that he's a centrist. However, this latest move doesn't make sense even in these terms and, in fact, swing voters seem increasingly concerned (as we all should be) about the president's lack of fiscal restraint.
Nonetheless, I believe that conservatives should continue to support Bush, for reasons I'll try to articulate later.
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On TV for three seasons, the British high-school buddy comedy "The Inbetweeners" was mere genius — each episode sharper, funnier and more dead-on than practically any teen comedy film I've ever seen. Also, it introduced a new catchphrase to the language, and we can all agree that English has been improved by the addition of the sobriquet (said of a nerd who dresses for school as though attending a board meeting) "briefcase wanker."
Now there is an American, MTV version of the sitcom with the same title, and though anyone who doesn't speak fluent Brit is going to be lost, the big-screen version of the British show is also here. ("The Inbetweeners" movie was the third biggest moneymaker in UK cinemas last year.)
Few are the movies I looked forward to as much as this one. Sadly, though, breaking free of the constraints of the small screen (even though the Brit TV show featured heavy profanity) has yielded a movie that's slightly off. It turns out that constraint is really what the show is all about, or to put it another way, I'm disappointed that they turned my horny-teen comedy into a gross-out comedy.
Teen buddies Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Simon (Joe Thomas) and Neil (Blake Harrison) have graduated high school and set off for a vacation on Crete. As is ever the case, the pals seek to get as drunk as possible while chasing young lovelies. "We go straight out and get spasticated. Simples!" declares Jay, whose always-unwarranted optimism about his chances with girls makes him my favorite of the lot.
Will, a bespectacled dork, never has much of a chance to hook up ("You're not normal, are you?" a girl asks him); while Simon, the most presentable of the four, has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Carly, and can't stop talking about her. Jay continues to lie nonstop about his nonexistent conquests, while the large, kind-hearted, but dull-witted Neil vows to be chaste for his girlfriend back home.
As the four pursue some British girls they meet in a bar, the movie delivers lots of laughs, but the writers, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris (who did every episode of the TV show), employ a different tone than they did on TV. They abuse the R rating as though it were tequila shots. Instead of being pathetic, the boys are at times actually cruel. Instead of just lovingly flinging insults at one another, they get genuinely humiliated. Two people almost drown, three boys get publicly stripped naked and there are way too many scenes of Neil making out with 50-year-old slags. Also there is entirely too much vomit.
The movie is still painfully true in places, and warm-hearted in others. But in large part the TV show was funny because of its limits, the way the guys kept butting their heads against the dim parameters (parents, lack of adequate transportation, school) of middle-class suburban youth. The only real liberty they enjoyed was language, and their dialogue was a free-for-all of comic put-downs. Beesley and Morris know the true meaning of boyhood: having a group of cherished friends whom you can mock, scorn and belittle.


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Thursday, August 4, 2016
Mouth Diseases
Burning Mouth Syndrome
I have a recurring problem with burning mouth pain. I had this problem about 6 to 7 years ago and the Clonazepam finally made the pain dormant. After a recent injection for pain during a tooth filling the problem returned. I have been on the Clonazepam, .5mg, twice daily for two weeks with some relief.
When I stop the medication the pain and metallic taste come back. Is there any new treatment for my problem? I am a 73 year old male and in very good health.
Unfortunately, clonazepam may be the best medication we have to manage this problem, and for many people, the treatment only allows them to tolerate the burning mouth syndrome, but it doesn't "cure" it.
Burning mouth syndrome is a very annoying, common, oral sensory neuropathy, and if the clonazepam helps you tolerate the problem without significant side-effects, I see no reason to stop using it.
Carl M Allen, DDS, MSD
Professor Emeritus of Oral Pathology
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University


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TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey landlord has filed a lawsuit against a couple who claim their rented house was haunted.
Landlord Richard Lopez is seeking damages in state court from Michelle Callan and her fianc. Lopez says their claim will scare away potential new tenants or buyers of the house in Toms River.
The Asbury Park Press reports the couple fled the house in March. The couple says they found clothes mysteriously ejected from closets and heard all kinds of strange noises, including the sound of something being dragged through the basement.
The couple and the landlord also are in litigation over the security deposit.
Lopez has said the couple bolted because they apparently couldn't afford the rent. The couple denies that.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday if she decides to run for the White House in 2016 she will have "a very specific agenda" but acknowledged in an interview that the modern role of U.S. president has "gotten even bigger and more difficult."
Clinton said in an interview with PBS's Charlie Rose that her final decision will be "wholly personal" and does not want to decide until after she becomes a grandmother later this year.
"If I decide to run, I will have a very specific agenda about what I think we should be doing. But right now, we have a big election, midterms 2014, that could determine the control of the Senate," Clinton said. "And I'm not going to, you know, jump the line and start talking about 2016 right now."
Clinton leads Democratic presidential primary polls by wide margins but has not yet decided whether to run for president again. Her comments came as some Democrats have expressed hope that she will begin laying out a more specific vision for how she might lead the country if elected.
The former secretary of state spoke in a wide-ranging interview with Rose airing Thursday and Friday to promote her book, "Hard Choices," about her time at the State Department.
Hours after a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down, Clinton said European leaders should put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin if Russia was involved in the incident. She said there should be "outrage in European capitals" over Russian aggression in the region but ultimately it was up to Europe to take the lead.
Clinton endorsed stepped-up U.S. sanctions against Russia but said they would not "necessarily restrain" Putin or change his calculations.
Turning to domestic issues, Clinton said economic inequality remained a major problem for the nation, and the country faced an "economic crisis and we have a political crisis of our democracy. And I think they are related." She noted the economic strength during the administration of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, which she said pulled millions out of poverty.
But Clinton said that experience helps her understand the demands of the job.
"I have no illusions about how hard a campaign is. But the campaigning, as hard as it is, is the easy part," Clinton said. "Once you get there and you face this full array of problems."
She noted that "operating the United States of America is all in one person. We don't have a monarch, we don't have a president and a prime minister," she said. "So the job has gotten even bigger and more difficult."
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MONTEVALLO, Ala. - Saturday was a history-making day for Jessi Young and her Georgia Southwestern women's cross country teammates at the Peach Belt Conference Championships. Young was named PBC Freshman of the Year and earned All-PBC Second Team honors in leading the Lady Hurricanes to a 10th place finish at the 12-team event. It was the first time in the history of the program that GSW topped two PBC schools in the regular-season finale.
Young crossed the finish line eighth out of 91 participants in a time of 23:11 on the 6k course. Young saved her fastest time for the most important race of the regular season, shaving 43 seconds off of her previous best and she toppled the best finish in program history by 40 places in the standings. Kelsey Baker finished the 2010 PBC meet in 48th place for GSW with a time of 28:30.
"Jessi had an outstanding race today," said GSW head coach Brittney Skiles. "I knew she would have a great meet; she has been improving every race this season."
For her efforts, Young earned the first PBC individual awards in program history and will be participating in the NCAA regionals on Nov. 3.
"Jessi will be competing at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet in Charlotte," said Coach Skiles. "I am excited to see how she does."
Lisa Espino was second across the line for the Lady Hurricanes on Saturday finishing in 26:18 (56th).
Mollie McGowan eclipsed her personal-best 6k mark by 44 seconds with a 27:13. The three-year member of the Lady 'Canes finished 68th.
Linda Esparza was almost a minute faster (0:54) than her previous best with a time of 27:24 which was good for 72nd.
Nakora Mackey grabbed the fifth slot for GSW, crossing the finish line 82nd overall with a 29:10.
More honors came for GSW as Kaitlin Wilkinson was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team.
"All together, I was happy for this season and I am excited for the future of GSW cross country," said Coach Skiles.
Clayton State (63 points) edged Columbus State (70) for the team title.
Liva Mahaffie from UNC Pembroke crossed the finish line first with a time of 22:36.
Peach Belt Conference Championships
Montevallo, Ala.
Oct. 20, 2012
GSW Individual
8. Jessi Young, 23:11
56. Lisa Espino, 26:18
68. Mollie McGowan, 27:13
72. Linda Esparza, 27:24
82. Nakora Mackey, 29:10
1. Clayton State (63 pts)
2. Columbus State (70)
3. UNC Pembroke (103)
4. Montevallo (113)
5. Georgia College (148)
6. Young Harris College (153)
7. Flagler College (164)
8. North Georgia (207)
9. Augusta State (236)
11. USC Aiken (278)
12. Francis Marion (314)


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Renaissance Leather
Our Show Schedule
Terence Plunkett, principle artisan of Renaissance Leather, has been in the trade since 1968, with retail stores and wholesale operations in Connecticut and Bar Harbor, Maine before joining the Colorado Renaissance Festival in 1995. Starting out with a line of leather goods geared toward the every day crowd, he quickly developed a line of belts, bags and accessories for the costumed patrons of the fairs. Adding the Texas, Michigan and Minnesota Renaissance Festivals over the next few years, and with the addition of assistant artisans, Ian Hawkins and Travis Butterworth, we have established ourselves as a distinctive presence on the Renaissance Festival circuit and on the web, reinterpreting traditional craft techniques to produce leather goods of the highest quality of design, materials and workmanship.
Please peruse our site or come visit one of our shows, we welcome all comments and questions.
Scarborough Renaissance Festival
Holly Field, Shoppe #16 Center Esplanade
April 7th - May 28th, 2018
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- Farming is almost universally looked down upon on this site. Multiple suggestions have been made to alter the scoring system to discourage farming to no avail. Limiting the privileges of new recruits has also been suggested. I say instead on focusing on the large population of new recruits we focus on the small (and known) population of farmers. Known farmers should not be allowed to join games that have a new recruit in them nor should new recruits be allowed to join games started by known farmers.
- Identify known farmers (Maxatstuy, King Herpes, Rabbiton, anyone in the Farmer's Guild, etc.)
- Automagically prevent them from joining games with at least 1 new recruit
- Automagically prevent new recruits from joining games started by known farmers
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
- Known farmer's can no longer profit from new recruit deadbeats
- New recruits are more likely to get a positive experience instead of feeling used by some player that has been with so many other new recruits
- Farmers are correctly identified as the cancerous entities they are
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If everyone feels that farmers do more damage than good to the site then they should be addressed directly. Why beat around the bush and turn things upside down for everyone? Just limit what farmers can do, discriminate against them, everyone already thinks they're second class, so treat them like it. If the damage that admins/mods claim that farmers do is accurate then the cost of driving them away will be offset by many happy returning new recruits.


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Wanted: Your Views on Education
In a recent interview [1], Robert Hawkins, executive producer of the EVOKE [2] game, said that one of the issues which inspired the game's creation was "the need to reform education to create 21st century skills and move away from rote."
This really struck me because rote, or memorization, was something that plagued a large part of my schooling. Rather than being encouraged to think critically and form our own ideas and opinions, we were told to simply memorize everything in the textbooks. We were tested not on our analytical or creative skills, but on how sharp our memories were. Legend had it that one girl in my school had opened and concluded a homework assignment with a word-for-word answer from the book, but filled the middle part with the lyrics of Michael Jackson's Bad. She got an A.
I have since discovered that many people from around the world -- both developed and developing countries -- have faced similar scenarios in school. What about you? Was memorizing a big part of your schooling? Was critical thinking encouraged? If not, do you wish things had been different?
If you're interested in the role of education in development, then now is a good time to speak up. The World Bank is shaping its new Education Strategy, which will form its plan of action for helping improve education in developing countries over the next 20 years. The Bank specifically wants input from youth around the world [3]: how do you see education in your country? How can it be improved? What role can the Bank play?
This is your chance to make a difference, so don't waste it! Fill out the form with your answers [3], and be part of the change.


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UPDATED: Top Boy Scouts executive leaving NH for PhiladelphiaBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 31. 2013 6:23PM
MANCHESTER — The top official for Boy Scouts of America in New Hampshire is leaving the Granite State to oversee one of the largest councils in the country.
Mike Kaufman, executive director and chief executive officer of the Daniel Webster Council since 2005, has been promoted to the top post of Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council.
"It's got one of the longest and most rich traditions of high caliber, high quality programs in the country," Kaufman said Wednesday. "I was honored just to be asked by the committee to interview."
Kaufman learned Monday he got the job and is scheduled to begin Sept. 1.
The Cradle of Liberty Council includes Philadelphia itself and communities outside the city in Montgomery and Delaware counties. The council serves more than 17,000 youth. The Daniel Webster Council served 12,771 in 2012.
"There are a lot of things I'll miss from here in New Hampshire," Kaufman said. "There's a tremendous belief that the state has in our scouting programs and what good they do for our youth and society."
Kaufman thanked all the volunteers and dads who over the last eight years have taken time away from home for meetings, campouts and numerous other Scouting events, including the Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show.
The Daniel Webster Council was co-sponsor for the event the last three summers and featured the Navy Blue Angels twice and the Air Force Thunderbirds once. The council agreed to take a break from the endeavor this year, before sequestration cuts grounded the military air show fleets for the remainder of 2013.
Kaufman said the success of the shows is an example of the strength and participation of Scouting in the Granite State.
Kaufman's 25-year career in Scouting leadership has also included posts in Nashville, the Cincinnati area and Atlanta.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for Mike and I wish him the very best," Daniel Webster Council President Mark Primeau said in a release Wednesday. "His vision has enabled the Daniel Webster Council to do some very extraordinary things for the youth of New Hampshire. His work will leave an indelible mark on New Hampshire Scouting for years to come."
The New Hampshire council's executive board will form a committee in the next several weeks to start the search for Kaufman's successor.


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Few things will grab a homeowner's attention quicker than an earthquake.
Sunday's 6.0-magnitude shaker in Napa has garnered plenty of attention — not just there, but all over the nation. And it has likely fueled lots of questions from homeowners and business owners regarding earthquake insurance coverage. The quake was centered about six miles south of Napa. It caused an estimated 200 injuries as well as damage to around 100 buildings and power outages that affected tens of thousands of people.
Coverage for earthquake is not included in a typical homeowners insurance policy, although it's available through a separate policy. Homeowner insurance companies work to inform consumers regarding their coverage options and are required bi-annually to offer earthquake coverage to homeowners insurance policyholders in California.
"Most earthquake insurance policies come with a percentage deductible that's based on the value of your home," said Chris Hackett, director of personal lines policy at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. "It's not uncommon to have a 15 percent deductible. So hypothetically, if your home is worth $100,000 and suffered damage your deductible would be the first $15,000."
Fifteen thousand dollars is no small amount. But with California home prices being what they are, most Southern California deductibles would be significantly higher. In July, the median price for an existing single-family home in California rose 1.6 percent to $464,750, according to the California Association of Realtors.
That would put the earthquake deductible at nearly $70,000.
Premiums tend to be higher in regions that are more prone to earthquakes, like California, Nevada, Washington or Alaska.
"Nationwide, about 7 percent of homeowners carry coverage for earthquake," Hackett said. "In California it's about 11 to 12 percent. That's an alarmingly low number."
Hackett said businesses and homeowners should create an earthquake disaster plan ahead of time.
"You should have a temporary site identified where you could set up operations in a different area or office in case you are unable to get to your place," he said. "And you need a communications plan. You should have all of your critical phone numbers in a safe place outside your office in case you can't get to the office."
Nick Boyias, who owns an Allstate Insurance business in West Hills, knows what it's like to weather an earthquake without earthquake insurance.
"I bought a home in Northridge prior to 1993 and I wasn't in it a year before the earthquake hit," he said. "It was a two-story house that had a brick chimney. That came away from the wall, causing cracks on the walls. The house was yellow-tagged, which meant I could go into it, but I couldn't live in it."
Boyias was lucky because he had good credit and earned enough money to secure a Small Business Administration loan for $412,500 at 3 percent interest. But scores of other Californians who don't have earthquake insurance wouldn't fare nearly as well.
His advice is simple.
"If you spent $500,000 on your home do you have another $500,000 to rebuild it?" he asked. "Earthquake insurance is not mandatory but it is advisable in California. A lot of people don't have the money for it and others are too cheap. But it's a lot like auto insurance. We almost never have a claim, but every time you get in your car you are at risk that someone could run into you. You just never know."
Boyias said earthquakes like Sunday's Napa shaker always prompt some homeowners to go out and buy earthquake insurance.
"That always happens," he said.
One thing is certain — Sunday's earthquake got everyone's attention in the Napa area. Carl and Kristine Friedlander were staying at an Embassy Suites hotel just south of Napa when the temblor hit.
"I felt this very strong jolt to begin with and then there was violent shaking for the entire time," the Manhattan Beach resident said. "It was so loud that at first we were not aware that the flat-screen TV fell over. Every lamp fell over and the bathroom was sort of flooded because the water flew out of the toilet and onto the floor."


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The Airport for No One
The Senate votes to keep funding Jack Murtha's weekend landing strip.
Republicans had their Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska, and now Democrats seem intent on wrapping themselves firmly around Congressman Jack Murtha's Airport for No One in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. So much for changing the culture of spending in Washington.
Last week 53 Senators—including 51 Democrats—voted down an amendment by Republican Jim DeMint of South Carolina to stop spending federal funds on the airport that Mr. Murtha built with more than $150 million in federal subsidies and earmarks over the last two decades. (The Republicans voting against Mr. DeMint were Kit Bond and George Voinovich, neither of whom is running for re-election.) The airport has three daily commercial flights, and those are to Washington, D.C. The federal subsidies average $100 for each of the fewer than 30 passengers who use the airport each day, which means it would be cheaper for taxpayers to buy a train ticket for Mr. Murtha and other Washington D.C.-bound travelers than to keep the airport open.
Pennsylvania's two Senators, Democrats Arlen Specter and Robert P. Casey, Jr., denounced the DeMint amendment because it singled out one airport. Of course, so do Mr. Murtha's earmarks. The Senators also argued that airport funding decisions should be left to the Federal Aviation Administration. But everyone knows that Mr. Murtha's clout at the House Appropriations Committee trumps the FAA. Earlier this year the airport received $800,000 in federal stimulus money, which has been spent in part to pave a second runway, even though the first one is barely in use. Mr. Murtha also secured $8.5 million for a new radar system that's never been used.
Mr. DeMint pleaded with his colleagues that "if we can't cut funding for this project, we can't cut anything in Washington" and that the Senate will have declared "there's no such thing as waste, there's no such thing as fraud and corruption." He lost, but voters keeping score can add it to their mental tally of why we have a $1.6 trillion deficit.


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Reuebn gives us his run down of the latest Nintendo Direct. What games are you looking to playing on the Wii U?
best announce was games...knowing that behind the scenes nintendo are working on all the top guns.....also knowing that nintendo is collaborating to do alot of cross titles with third party publishers
Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem
(Fire Emblem is up their w/ Zelda and Samus to me).
And news that Atlus and Nintendo are working together AGAIN like the old days.


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Bills swap LBs with Colts for versatility
The Buffalo Bills continued the overhaul of their weakest positional unit from last season by trading linebacker Kelvin Sheppard on Monday.
Sheppard was shipped to Indianapolis in return for Jerry Hughes – a former No. 1 draft choice who the Bills think offers more versatility.
Hughes is a 6-foot-2, 253-pounder who entered the NFL as a speedy, undersized edge-rushing prospect. In his last two seasons at Texas Christian University, he had 26.5 sacks, 36 tackles for loss and eight forced fumbles.
All that havoc has not translated to the NFL. Playing behind standout defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis, Hughes started just seven games in three seasons and managed only five sacks.
Bills General Manager Buddy Nix thinks Hughes can fit a couple of roles on the defense of coordinator Mike Pettine.
"We think this defense and the way they're going to play him will fit what he does best," Nix said. "He was a defensive end at TCU. Played with his hand on the ground. Did that at first with the Colts and then when they went to the 3-4, he played a little bit of both. But he played behind Robert and Dwight Freeney, so playing time wasn't a lot. We think this will give him an opportunity to do what he does best."
Nix also sees Hughes as potential insurance behind starting strongside – or Sam – linebacker Manny Lawson.
"For sure, we think he can fit at the rush and at Sam linebacker," Nix said. "We think he can swing two positions there and then be a rusher in sub packages. Again, versatility is something we're looking for. We want our linebackers to at least be able to play both outside spots. We'd like our middle backers to have the ability to play Will or Mike. So that really was enticing about Jerry."
That was the rub for Sheppard, strictly a middle (or Mike) linebacker. Sheppard does not fit the weakside (or Will) spot.
Hughes was drafted 26th overall in 2010, and Nix said Bills' scouts liked him.
"We had high grades on him," Nix said. "We had him right where he was taken, really."
Hughes played very little his first two seasons – about 10 percent of the Colts' defensive snaps. Last year he played about 55 percent of the snaps and started six games due to alternating injuries to Mathis and Freeney. He made four sacks. But he has no forced fumbles or fumble recoveries in his career, and the Colts were not satisfied with the production.
Nevertheless, another reserve edge-rushing prospect, especially one with Hughes' speed, is a welcome addition. The Bills can use somebody to contribute a little off the edge behind Mario Williams, Mark Anderson and Lawson.
Sheppard was a third-round pick in 2011 and started the past season and a half. He has a stout frame, and he ranked third on the team last season with 77 tackles. However, Sheppard didn't make a lot of big hits or difference-making plays. Sheppard has no forced fumbles, fumble recoveries or interceptions in two seasons.
The Bills ranked 31st in the NFL against the run last season, although Sheppard was only one small part of that failure. The run defense was ill-prepared to start the season and had to go back into training-camp mode after the fifth week of the season to try to shore up the defensive run fits.
Also gone from last year's starting linebacking corps is Nick Barnett, who was released.
The Colts can use some security at inside linebacker, because starter Pat Angerer had a second surgery in January to repair a broken foot.
Asked if a change of scenery might benefit both players, Nix said: "It could work out like that and I hope it does. Kelvin did a good job for us and hopefully it will work out good for him and I think it will."
Tennessee Tech receiver Da'Rick Rogers and Washington State quarterback Jeff Tuel headlined the list of undrafted rookie free agents signed by the Bills. The team released the names of 16 rookie signees.
They also include: guard Zack Chibane of Syracuse, center Ryan Turnley of Pittsburgh, running back Kendall Gaskins of Richmond, fullback Drew Smith of Albany, receivers Brandon Kaufman of Eastern Washington and Kevin Norrell of Stony Brook, linebacker Keith Pough of Howard, defensive end Izaan Cross of Georgia Tech, defensive tackle Aaron Tipoti of California, defensive back Jordan Dangerfield of Towson, cornerbacks Nickell Robey of Southern Cal, Kip Edwards of Missouri, Jumal Rolle of Catawba and Vernon Kearney of Lane.
The Bills released quarterback Aaron Corp, tackle Adam Grant, tight end Joe Sawyer and kicker Chris Koepplin.
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September milk production in the top 23 states totaled 14.8 billion pounds, up 1.1 percent from September 2012, according to preliminary data in USDA's latest Milk Production report.
This is the first report to again include milk cow numbers and output per cow since the federal budget sequester. Output in the 50 states totaled 15.8 billion pounds, up 1 percent from a year ago. Revisions lowered the original August estimate to 15.7 billion pounds, up 2.5 percent from August 2012.
The July to September quarter output amounted to 49.4 billion pounds, up 1.5 percent from a year ago. The average number of milk cows during the quarter was 9.23 million head, up 16,000 from the same period last year.
September cow numbers totaled 8.51 million head, down 19,000 from August but 33,000 more than a year ago. Output per cow averaged 1,741 pounds, up 12 pounds from a year ago.
California output was up just 0.4 percent though cow numbers were up 1,000 head and output per cow was up 5 pounds. Wisconsin saw a 1 percent increase thanks to a 15-pound-per-cow gain and 1,000 more cows being milked. Idaho was down 1.5 percent on 9,000 fewer cows. New York saw a 1.8 percent gain, thanks to a 30-pound increase per cow. Pennsylvania was up 1.5 percent on a 25-pound gain per cow, though cow numbers were down 1,000 head. Minnesota was unchanged in milk output, cow numbers, and output per cow.
The biggest increase was in Florida, up 7.1 percent, followed by Kansas at 5.9 percent, and Iowa at 5.5 percent. Idaho recorded the biggest loss, followed by New Mexico, off 1.4 percent, and Missouri, off 1 percent.
Michigan was up 3.4 percent on a 30-pound gain per cow and 7,000 more cows. Texas was up 1.4 percent despite a 5-pound loss per cow but cow numbers were up 7,000 head. Washington State was up 1.6 percent on 4,000 more cows. Output per cow was unchanged from a year ago.
High Ground Dairy's Eric Meyer says the report "delivered a rather bullish surprise," adding that "The country's milking herd has not yet turned sharply to the upside and challenges to profitability in certain regions of the country were still present as monthly cow numbers shrank throughout the third quarter."
The outlook for dairy farmers is positive for Fourth Quarter into 2014, according to Meyer, "was bullish versus expectations and may continue to provide support to dairy commodity prices during the seasonal holiday rally." He warned, however, that "We still had 1 percent growth in September and expect production to continue accelerating for the coming months and as such, we anticipate lower dairy commodity prices once holiday demand subsides towards the end of November into early December."
September milk production was up just 1.1 percent from a year ago and that translated into small increases in cheese but lower butter and powder production, according to this week's September Dairy Products report.
Butter production down
Butter output hit 134 million pounds, down 1.6 percent from August and 1.9 percent below September 2012. Nonfat dry milk, at 76.4 million pounds, was down a whopping 28.6 percent from August and 9.6 percent below a year ago.
American cheese totaled 347 million pounds, down 8.9 percent from August and 0.3 percent below a year ago. Italian type, at 385 million pounds, was 0.1 percent below August but a healthy 4.5 percent above a year ago. Total cheese production amounted to 892 million pounds, down 4.7 percent from August but 2.3 percent above a year ago.
Cheese prices plunged the first week of November. It started with the barrels on Wednesday and kept slipping, which pulled the blocks down Friday morning, reversing five consecutive weeks of gain. The blocks closed at $1.8225 per pound, down 8 cents on the day and the week and 9 3/4-cents below this week a year ago when they were as depressed as supporters of Mitt Romney's bid for the presidency, down 19 cents on the week. Barrel closed Friday at $1.7825, down 8 3/4-cents on the week and 5 1/4-cents below a year ago when they plummeted 24 1/2 cents lower. Three cars of block traded hands on the week and none of barrel. The AMS-surveyed U.S. average block price hit $1.8248, up 2.7 cents, while the barrels averaged $1.8203, up 2 cents.
Cheese production schedules are often below desired levels due to tight milk supplies and competition from other Class II and IV products, according to USDA's Dairy Market News (DMN). Good holiday orders are pushing prices higher as buyers look to secure supplies for the holiday buying season.
The Nov. 6 Daily Dairy Report points out that September cheese production was up 2.3 percent from a year ago but Cheddar production was down 1.2 percent "as cheese makers favored mozzarella." Daily average Cheddar output in September fell to nearly two year lows, according to the DDR, and "This shift away from Cheddar is particularly significant because milk prices are based on Cheddar prices."
Holiday demand from retailers for blocks is firm, and the decline in Cheddar production could tighten fresh supplies and sustain the spot price, the DDR said. "Given prices overseas, it is unlikely that domestic cheese supplies will be augmented by imports, as they were at this time last year."
Cash butter continued its movement higher this week, closing the first Friday of November at $1.56, up 2 3/4-cents on the week but still 33 cents below a year ago. Twelve cars sold this week. AMS butter averaged $1.4949, down 2.9 cents.
Holiday demand has kept manufacturers busy filling retail orders. Demand for 82 percent butter remains good, according to DMN, but butter makers are focusing on finishing 80 percent domestic orders but export interest remains good.
Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at a record high $1.9325, up 2 1/4-cents on the week. Extra Grade closed at a record $1.87, up 2 cents. AMS powder averaged $1.8616, up 1.6 cents, and dry whey averaged 57.96 cents, up 1.9 cents.
Global index down
This week's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) price index fell 1.8 percent from Oct. 15, due to drops in butter and whole milk powder. Most other prices were up. The butter price, converted to 80 percent butterfat, averaged $1.60 per pound, down 7 percent. Cheddar cheese averaged $1.99 per pound, up 1.2 percent.
High Ground Dairy's Eric Meyer notes that "Increased milk supplies in New Zealand coming to the auction by way of whole milk powder provided additional resistance to overall dairy commodity prices," down for the second auction in a row. Meyer views the event as slightly bearish for whole milk powder and U.S. skim milk powder, bearish for butter, but bullish for anhydrous milkfat and New Zealand skim milk powder.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 32 requests for export assistance this week to sell 3.344 million pounds of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese and 3.463 million pounds of butter to customers in Asia, Central America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. CWT's 2013 cheese exports now total 114.98 million pounds plus 84.47 million pounds of butter, 44,092 pounds of anhydrous milk fat and 218,258 pounds of whole milk powder to 37 countries.
DMN reports that 4.4 billion pounds of packaged fluid milk products is estimated to have been sold in the U.S. in August, down 2.7 percent from August 2012. Estimated sales of total conventional fluid milk products decreased 3.1 percent while estimated organic fluid sales increased 4.8 percent from a year earlier.
Commercial disappearance of dairy products in the first seven months of 2013 totaled 116.4 billion pounds, up 0.2 percent from the same period in 2012. Butter was up 0.5 percent; American cheese, up 2.6 percent; other cheese, up 2.2 percent; nonfat dry milk, down 22 percent; and fluid sales were off 2.2 percent.
Looking "back to the futures," the First Quarter 2014 pack average was at $16.99 per cwt. Nov. 1 and was hovering around $17.01 late morning Nov. 8.
CDFA releases cost report
California's Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) released its annual report on dairy product manufacturing costs.
The 2012 weighted average cost to produce butter was down from a year earlier, but the costs to produce nonfat dry milk and cheese were up.
The 2012 average cost to produce cheddar cheese was 21.71 cents per pound, up from 20.29 cents in 2011 and the highest cost per pound in the past 10 years. It compared to 19.21 cents in 2010; 19.66 cents in 2009; 20.99 cents in 2008; 20.03 cents in 2007; 19.88 cents in 2006; and 19.14 cents in 2005. The average all cheese yield decreased to 12.17 pounds per cwt. of milk in 2012, compared to 12.21 pounds in 2011; 13.7 pounds in 2010; 13.28 pounds in 2009; 13.58 pounds in 2008; 13.71 pounds in 2007; and 12.24 pounds in 2006.
The 2012 average cost of manufacturing butter was 16.88 cents per pound, down from 17.75 in 2011 and the lowest since 2008. Among seven plants, 2012 costs ranged from 16.01cents per pound for the low-cost group to 17.82 cents for the high-cost group.
The cost to produce nonfat dry milk was 19.99 cents per pound, up from 19.42 cents in 2011. Among nine plants, the 2012 range was 17.82 cents per pound for the low-cost group; 21.16 cents for the medium-cost group; and 25.38 cents for the high-cost group (three plants in each group).The full report is available at: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/dairy/uploader/postings/manufacturingcost/.
Indiana producers see green
Indiana dairy producers may be "taking the train" to expand their market outreach. A yet to be launched nonstop rail service called the "Green Express," operated by the CSX Rail Co., will link Tampa, Fla., to LaPorte, Ind., and bring fresh fruits and vegetables from the Southeast and the Caribbean to Chicago, the second largest market area in the U.S. The train may also bring some "green" to Indiana dairy producers.
The Indiana Dairy Producers Organization (IDP) recently heard details from the Green Express' Chris McGrath and IDP's Dave Forgey said they've been looking at this since 2011 and believe the first run will take place in March.
"Those cars that come up, have to go back," Forgey said, so IDP is looking for cooperatives or independent processors who will take advantage of this opportunity to reach consumers in the southeastern states, Caribbean, or beyond. He said the improvements made in the Panama Canal could mean product going to China and the Asian markets, South Korea and Japan and possibly compete with Western ports.
Plants exist within a five- or six-hour drive of the LaPorte location, according to Forgey, who sees "tremendous opportunity if we can get them (processors) interested and step out of the norm into some new ideas."


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ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security
The Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC)The ACC was established in 1946 by the Economic and Social Council as a standing committee to supervise implementation of agreements between the United Nations and the specialized agencies, to ensure the coordination of approved programmes and, more generally, to promote cooperation within the UN system in the pursuit of the common goals of Member States. Participation in the ACC includes the executive heads of the specialized agencies (ILO, FAO, UNESCO, WHO, World Bank, IMF, ICAO, UPU, ITU, WMO, IMO, WIPO, IFAD, UNIDO, WTO); the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); and nine United Nations programmes (UNCTAD, UNEP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP, UNDCP, UNHCR and UNRWA). For further information on ACC see: http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/acc.htm
Network focal point:
Mr. Santiago Funes
Director, Rural Development Division (SDA)
Network Secretariat:
Ms. Jennie Dey Abbas
Chief, Rural Institutions and Participation Service (SDAR)
Mr. John Rouse
Senior Officer, Cooperatives & Rural Organizations, SDAR
Ms. Robin Marsh
Sustainable Development Officer, SDAR
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Vienna International Centre
Wagramerstrasse, 5
A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Web site: http://www.iaea.or.at/
Network focal points:
Mr. James D. Dargie
Director, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture
Mr. M.P. Salema
Deputy Director, Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Via del Serafico, 107
00142 Rome, Italy
Web site: http://www.unicc.org/ifad/home.html
Network focal points:
Mr. Pierre Spitz
Director, Office of Evaluation and Studies
Mr. Bahman Mansuri
Programme Director, Resource Strategy Department
International Labour Office (ILO)
4, route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Web site: http://www.ilo.org/
Network focal point:
Mr. Samir Radwan
Director, Development Policies Department
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
700 19th Street, NW
Washington DC, USA
Web site: http://www.imf.org
Network focal points:
Ms. Nancy L. Happe
Chief, Development Issues Division
Policy Development and Review Department
Mr. Blair E. Rourke
Senior Economist, Commodities and Special Issues Division
Research Department
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
20, avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Web site: http://www.unaids.org/
Network focal point:
Ms. Sally Cowal
Director, Department of External Relations
United Nations
One, United Nations Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10017, USA
Web site: http://www.un.org/
Network focal point:
Mr. Patrizio Civili
Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs
Secretary of the Administrative Committee on Coordination
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Centre For Human Settlements (Habitat)
P.O. Box 30030
Nairobi, Kenya
Web site: http://www.unhabitat.org/
Network focal point:
Mr. Naison Mutizwa-Mangiza
Human Settlements Officer, Research and Development Division
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
One, United Nations Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10017, USA
Web site: http://www.undp.org
Network focal point:
Mr. Peter Matlon
Chief, Food Security and Agriculture Programme
Sustainable Energy and Environment Division
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya
Web site: http://www.unep.org/
Network focal point:
Mr. Uttam Dabholkar
Director, Policy
United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07-SP, France
Web site: http://www.unesco.org
Network focal points:
Mr. G. Glaser
Director, Bureau for Coordination of Environmental Programmes
Mr. P. Lasserre
Director, Division of Ecological Sciences
Mr. A. Youssif
Director, Literacy and Adult Education Section, Division of Basic Education
Mr. E. DaSilva
Chief, Life Sciences Section, Basic Sciences Division
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
CH-1211 Genève Dépot, Switzerland
Web site: http://www.unhcr.ch/
Network focal point:
Mr. Larbi Mebtouche
Senior Economist/Planner, Programme and Technical Support Section
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF House
1, United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017, USA
Web site: http://www.unicef.org
Network focal point:
Mr. Sadiq Rasheed
Director, Programme Division
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Vienna International Centre
Wagramerstrasse, 5
A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Web site: http://www.unido.org/
Network focal point:
Mr. Robert M. Hallett
Senior Industrial Development Officer, Industrial Sectors and Environment Division
United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP)
Vienna International Centre
Wagramerstrasse 5
A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Web site: http://undcp.org/index.html
Network focal point:
Ms. Doris Buddenberg
Supply Reduction and Law Enforcement Section, Division for Treaty Implementation and Policy Development
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
220 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017, USA
Web site: http://www.unfpa.org
Network focal point:
Ms. Mitra Vasisht
Chief, External Relations and Liaison Branch, Information and External Relations Division
World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20433, USA
Web site: http://www.worldbank.org
Network focal points:
Mr. Alex F. McCalla
Director, Rural Development
Mr. David Steeds
Portfolio Advisor, Rural Development
World Food Programme (WFP)
Via Cristoforo Colombo 426
00145 Rome, Italy
Web site: http://www.wfp.org/
Network focal points:
Ms. D. Spearman
Chief, Policy Service (SPP)
Mr. M.A. Da Silva
Chief, Technical Support Service
World Health Organization (WHO)
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Web site: http://www.who.ch
Network focal point:
Mrs. Chizuru Nishida
Programme of Nutrition
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
41 avenue Giuseppe Motta
Case Postale No. 2300
1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Web site: http://www.wmo.ch
Network focal point:
Dr. M.V.K. Sivakumar
Acting Chief, Agricultural Meteorology Division


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Anna's BBQ
Anna Phelp and her family have been part of the Kirkwood community for generations. Their signature BBQ sauce? It's whipped up weekly by Anna's Uncle, Brady Floyd. And Lola's Poundcake gets its name from Anna's Mom, Lola.In this day and age of the chain restaurant and impersonal, swift to-go service, often we find ourselves pining for places with more of a personal touch – restaurants whose recipes are generations deep, where the people behind the counter are like family (not just to us, but to one another, too). Which is why when we got wind of Anna's BBQ opening up in Kirkwood less than a year ago, we were smitten from the get-go. You see, Anna's BBQ is the pinnacle of a neighborhood joint, one that Kirkwood has readily embraced. It's no wonder either – Anna Phelp and her family have been here for generations. Their signature BBQ sauce? It's whipped up weekly by Anna's Uncle, Brady Floyd. And Lola's Poundcake gets its name from Anna's Mom, Lola (who also happens to be making the bulk of their eats in the kitchen). And don't think that Anna named the restaurant for herself, either. The restaurant is actually named for Ms. Phelp's niece, with whom she shares a name.
Needless to say, the recipes here are steeped in tradition – these are bona fide BBQ staples, y'all. Looking for a taste of the neighborhood? That's quite literally easy to find here, just take a bite of the Kirkwood – a pulled chicken salad with ranch dressing and topped with freshly fried pickles. And of course there's Anna's favorite, a pulled pork sandwich (slathered in Uncle Brady's signature BBQ) and topped with cheese and pickles. That's actually Anna (the owner's) favorite, her niece is quite partial to their Keylime Cake. (We don't blame you, Anna.)
Menu Highlights
1/2 Chicken Lunch, $8.49
Rib Lunch, $9.49
Pulled Pork Lunch, $8.49
Rib Dinner, $12.49
Turkey Leg Dinner, $12.49
Closed Mondays
Tuesday – Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.


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The media got its wish.
Marshawn Lynch will not skip Super Bowl XLVIII Media Day.
NFL Network cameras caught the Seattle Seahawks' powerful, soft-spoken running back walking into the media frenzy on Tuesday.
Lynch has shunned the media most of the season and faced a six-figure fine if he didn't appear. On Monday, NFL Media columnist Michael Silver wrote the quintessential Lynch story on his desire to avoid the spotlight.
Lynch will not be at a podium, which will make his time with the media even more unusual than the normal Super Bowl routine.
Get your Skittles ready.
UPDATE: Lynch's session with the media was short-lived. Lynch talked to reporters Tuesday for about six minutes, per multiple reports. He then spoke to NFL Media's Deion Sanders for a memorable on-camera interview.
We handed out awards for the 2014 coaching class and talked all the latest headlines in the latest "Around The League Podcast."


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Explosions Rock Nigeria's Volatile Borno StatePublished on Tuesday 7th June 2011
Residents in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state say three separate blasts shook the town of Maiduguru on Tuesday.Witnesses say the blasts struck two police stations and a government building in the state capital. They also reported hearing gunfire after the explosions.Authorities did not immediately name suspects in the attack.The radical Muslim sect Boko Haram has been blamed for similar violence targeting police and religious and political leaders in recent months.Earlier on Tuesday, police blamed Boko Haram for the shooting death of a rival cleric in the town of Biu, north of Maiduguru.Authorities said gunmen riding motorcycles killed Sheik Ibrahim Birkuti outside his home.Birkuti had been critical of Boko Haram's use of violence, which has largely taken place in Borno state.The group is fighting to establish Islamic law across Nigeria. Its name means "Western education is sinful."
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.