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Shrine bowl more of the same; NH rolls, 43-0By ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 03. 2013 10:13PM
HANOVER - It was more of the same Saturday at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, where the New Hampshire all-stars did what they seem to do every summer: whip Vermont in the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl.
Trinity of Manchester running back Romeo Masuku rushed for two touchdowns to help New Hampshire extend its winning streak to 13 games with a 43-0 victory.
New Hampshire led 6-0 after one quarter, 15-0 at halftime and 29-0 entering the fourth.
Masuku's second TD appeared to break Vermont's spirit. It came on a 40-yard run that capped the second half's opening possession. Souhegan of Amherst's Tyler Ford then made the first of his four point-after kicks to give New Hampshire a 22-0 lead.
The drive covered 76 yards in eight plays, and was extended when Ford gained 18 yards on a fake punt.
Tight end Graham Nyhan (Laconia), quarterback Connor Benjamin (Goffstown), running back Tolbert Nemo (Concord) and running back Tyler Grant (Exeter) scored New Hampshire's other touchdowns.
Benjamin, Nemo and Grant all scored in the second half. Benjamin found the end zone on a 36-yard run that helped increase New Hampshire's advantage to 29-0 with 2:13 left in the third, and Nemo added to the lead on a 9-yard run with 1:59 to play. Grant scored New Hampshire's final TD on a 1-yard run with 1:04 to play.
Vermont turned the ball over six times. New Hampshire intercepted five passes, two of which came inside the New Hampshire 10-yard line. Logan Batchelder (Stevens of Claremont) had two of the five interceptions.
New Hampshire has won 23 of the last 25 games, and leads the series 45-13-2.
It was the first time Vermont failed to score in the game since 2008, when New Hampshire posted a 29-0 victory.
The first half ended on a positive note for New Hampshire, which received a 42-yard field goal from Ford as time expired. It was the longest field goal in the game's history, and handed New Hampshire a 15-0 halftime lead.
Spaulding of Rochester's Scott Sanborn held the previous record for longest field goal. Sanborn made a 41-yard kick in 1982.
New Hampshire grabbed a 6-0 lead on its opening possession when Masuku scored on a 5-yard run around right end with 7:12 left in the first quarter. The lead grew to 12-0 after Benjamin hooked up with Nyhan for a 55-yard TD pass with 7:02 to play in the half.


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White powder in Salem shipping container posed no serious risksBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
May 23. 2013 1:48PM
SALEM — A white powder found in a shipping container delivered to a local flooring company Thursday was a leftover substance known as adipic acid that posed no serious health risk, fire officials said.
Fire crews were called to Nora Systems Inc. at 9 Northeastern Blvd. just after 8:30 a.m. to investigate after workers discovered the powder when they opened the container.
Nora Systems sells industrial rubber flooring and was expecting an overseas shipment of flooring to arrive from its home base in Germany, said Salem Fire Capt. Stephane Cattin.
"They opened the container and there was a white powder toward the rear of the container. There was no more than a cup. It was sprinkled around," Cattin said.
The container was sealed before it was shipped and had not been tampered with, Cattin said.
Cattin said fire crews responded and could not immediately identify the substance.
A team from the Southeastern New Hampshire Hazardous Materials Mutual Aid was then called in to assist at the scene while those in the area of the container were evacuated as a precaution.
The hazmat team has monitoring equipment that can sample and identify substances in the field.
Cattin said the substance was determined to be adipic acid in a white powder form.
After contacting the company in Germany, officials learned that the container had been used previously to transport the substance and that a small amount was left over, Cattin said.
"It's not an incredibly dangerous substance, but it's labeled as an environmental toxin and has to be disposed of properly," he said.
Cattin said there was no criminal intent behind the incident.
"There's no suspicion of any malicious activity," he said.
Workers at Nora Systems responded appropriately by calling the fire department to investigate, Cattin said.
Crews cleared the scene around 11:30 a.m.


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Father kills son, himself at YWCA offices in US
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) — An Israeli-born software engineer shot his 9-year-old son to death before taking his own life during supervised visitation at a YWCA office, officials said Sunday.
An adult supervisor was present when Muni Savyon, 54, of Manchester, took out a handgun and shot 9-year-old Joshua Savyon of Amherst before shooting himself around 10 a.m., the attorney general's office said.
The father sent an email to a friend suggesting he was suicidal before the shootings, said Rabbi Levi Krinsky of Chabad Lubavitch in Manchester. Krinsky said Savyon had been depressed after recently returning from his brother's funeral in Israel but he had seen him last week and had no concerns he would harm himself or someone else.
"What would provoke him to take his life and his son's life? I don't think anyone can figure that out," said Krinsky, who said Savyon attended synagogue occasionally. "My heart goes out to the family."
On Sundays, the Young Women's Christian Association center is open for supervised child visitation and custody exchanges. Krinsky said the man and the boy's mother shared custody of the boy after parting ways years ago. The couple's marital status wasn't clear; Krinsky said the couple was divorced, but law enforcement officials said the two were separated.
Law enforcement officials said the relationship had been contentious at times and Muni Savyon had previously threatened to kill himself, his son's mother and their son.
But Ellen Savyon Vig, who was once married to Muni Savyon and had remained friends with him after their 1997 divorce, described him as a kind-hearted person. She said he was especially close to his brother and he loved his son, trying to give him varied experiences.
"He was nonviolent. He would try to help anyone he could. He was a really nice guy," she said from her home in Massachusetts.
Savyon was active in Libertarian causes, Vig said, and was a twice-defeated candidate for the New Hampshire Legislature, most recently in February.
"Please keep the Savyon family in your thoughts and prayers as they cope with the unimaginable," Rep. Peter King, who easily beat Savyon in a special election for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, said from his Twitter account.
Born in Israel, Savyon was a naturalized citizen who lived in several Western states before coming to New England, where he worked as a software engineer, Vig said.
Others were inside the YWCA building when the shots were fired partway through the one-hour visitation. The counselor who was present at the time managed to escape unarmed, officials said.
Autopsies were scheduled for Monday.
Rabbi Krinsky said he had no idea that Savyon was capable of violence, much less harming his own son. "We have to be more and more alert to mental illness and people who're depressed," he said.


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Typically if ADO.NET EF is designed using Database Table schemas, then you get all entity classes inherited from EntityObject class along with methods for performing DML operations on the database. This design approach can be useful if the Database design of your application is complete and is not likely to change. However if there are new columns to be added later, the EDM needs to be redesigned (using VS2010 EDM designer.) This sometimes increases maintenance cost.
As mentioned earlier, in ADO.NET EF on .NET 4.0, we have been provided with POCO support, which are traditional classes designed using C#/VB.NET with public properties (DTO in short). A POCO class is not inherited from EntityObject class. In this basic implementation, I am going to explain a simple way of working with POCO.
In this project, I am using the following two tables from a Company database created in Sql Server 2008:
Department : DeptNo (PK), Dname, Location.
Employee: EmpNo (PK), EmpName, Salary, DeptNo (FK).
Step 1: Open VS2010 and create a new Windows Application (or WPF or ASP.NET). Name it as 'WinForm_Using_POCO'. In this project, right click and add a new ItemTemplate for ADO.NET Entity Data Model, name it as 'CompanyEntities'. Complete the Wizard and from the Company Database, drag-drop Department and Employees tables. The EDM designer will display the following output:
Now here we are going to create own POCO classes having properties with the same name as the table column. We also do not want any code to be generated automatically. To do this right-click on the designer, select properties and change the 'Code Generation Strategy' property from 'Default' to 'None' as below:
This will put only comments in 'CompanyEntities.Designer.cs' file.
Step 2: In the project, add a new class file and name it as 'POCOClasses.cs' and write the following classes in it:
The above code shows that the Department and Employee classes are having the same properties as that of Table columns. Since one Department can have multiple Employees, in the Department class, Employees navigation property of the type ICollection<> is declared. Since Employee class refers the Department, it contains a property of the type Department. The class 'CompanyEntities' is inherited from ObjectContext. This class provides facility to query and work with entity data objects. This class also contains public read-only properties for Departments and Employees of the type ObjectSet<T> which represents Typed entity set used for performing create, update, read and delete operations. The class constructor implements the base class constructor which reads the connection string from the App.Config file, generated using the EDM Designer wizard in Step 1.
Step 3: Design a Form as shown below:
Step 4: Write the following code in the Form1.cs (code behind):
The above code helps to perform CRUD operations on the Database using ADO.NET EF POCO approach. Run the application and test the results.
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Friday, January 31, 2014
Candy School - Le Bonbon au Palais
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So cute that store..the bags..the way of wrapping..the little white dog..I would definitely visit that store..Dosettes..how charming..ReplyDelete
David's Teas here have cold fighting teas..imagine w/ a few dosettes:) All cured.
he looks so nice too..You get to mee very pleasnat shopkeepers/owners~
The pleasure is so much more.
Bon bon weekend!
Happy Weekend ... love the Paris candy stores. I may have missed it, but keeping an eye out for an update on your move. I'm wonder what neighborhood you now call home ... I picked up that it was small, but other than that, know nothing.ReplyDelete
Hope you are happy .... best,
Karen in VA
I think it would be best to take your daily dose of all the candies from Hautes-Vosges....strictly as a preventive of course. After all you have a lot of posting to do. We wouldn't want to miss a day!ReplyDelete
Love the lesson learning,... your friend Georges certainly has a fantastic boutique, couldn't call it a shop it's too classy. I'm sure your guardienne was thrilled when you gave her that super bag of bon-bons.ReplyDelete
Couldn't restist this ...bon-bon w/end !
I am thinking you have the luckiest guardienne in the world. One of the things I always loved in Paris was the detail to packaging, whether it was getting candy here or buying a floral bouquet. Honestly, it's perfection! Our sweet little candy store is lovely (albeit small) but nothing like this!ReplyDelete


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There are some significant differences between the Senate and House versions of the farm bill working their way through Congress this summer. A look at the bills:
OVERALL COST: Both five-year bills would cost almost $100 billion annually, with almost $80 billion of that annual total going to domestic food aid. The Senate bill would save about $2.4 billion yearly from current spending, and the House bill would save $4 billion, including across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in earlier this year.
FOOD STAMPS: Food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, have for decades been part of the farm bill in an effort to garner urban lawmakers' votes for rural programs. The Senate farm bill would cut about $400 million from the $80 billion annual total by targeting states that give people who don't have heating bills very small amounts of heating assistance so they can automatically qualify for higher food stamp benefits. The House bill would cut $2 billion yearly by making similar changes and also eliminating what is called "broad-based categorical eligibility," or granting automatic food stamp benefits when people are signed up for certain other programs.
DIRECT PAYMENTS: Direct payments, which cost the government around $5 billion annually, would be phased out in both bills, with the savings split between other subsidy programs and deficit reduction. Those subsidies have been controversial because they are paid out every year regardless of crop prices or crop yield. The Senate bill would eliminate the program immediately while the House bill would phase it out over the next two years for cotton farmers who rely on the program.
CROP INSURANCE: Both bills would increase subsidies for federally subsidized crop insurance and create a new crop insurance program that covers smaller revenue losses on planted crops before crop insurance kicks in. This revenue protection program favors Midwestern corn and soybean farmers and would be more generous in the Senate bill.
PRICE PROTECTION: Both bills would raise what are called "target prices" for some crops. Certain subsidies kick in if prices drop to those targets, meaning farmers will only receive them if prices are low. While many of these programs haven't been used for the last several years because crop prices have been at unprecedented highs, these subsidies exist as a safety net. Both the House and Senate bills would raise these target prices for rice and peanuts, since farmers of those crops also often depend on direct payments that would be eliminated. The House bill would raise those target prices higher than the Senate bill would, meaning it would be easier for the subsidies to kick in.
FOOD AID: Neither bill includes an Obama administration food aid proposal to shift the way food aid is sent abroad. The United States now donates much of its food aid by shipping homegrown food overseas, but the Obama budget last month proposed shifting the aid money to more flexible accounts that allow for cash purchases of locally grown food abroad or from U.S. farmers, saying such a move would be more efficient. Both House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., have sided with farm groups against the proposal. An amendment adopted to the Senate bill would make some modest changes to the way the food aid is distributed, allocating a small increase in dollars to cash purchases of locally grown food abroad.


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|Washington Nationals released 1B Matt Stairs.
|July 27, 2011
|Washington Nationals designated 1B Matt Stairs for assignment.
|March 30, 2011
|Washington Nationals selected the contract of Matt Stairs from Syracuse Chiefs.
|March 30, 2011
|Washington Nationals activated LF Matt Stairs.
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|Syracuse Chiefs signed free agent Matt Stairs.
|December 14, 2010
|Washington Nationals signed free agent LF Matt Stairs to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
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|LF Matt Stairs elected free agency.
|July 1, 2010
|San Diego Padres activated LF Matt Stairs from the 15-day disabled list.
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|San Diego Padres placed LF Matt Stairs on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 7, 2010. Strained right knee
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|January 26, 2010
|San Diego Padres signed free agent RF Matt Stairs to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
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On Aug. 5 vs. TEX, became the 3rd Canadian in ML history to reach the 1,500 games plateau (Larry Walker & Terry Puhl)...On Sept. 18, passed Terry Puhl for 2nd among Canadian-born players with 1,532 games played in the Majors...Among active Canadian-born ML players, leads in games (1541), home runs (241), runs (691), walks (632), at bats (4600), hits (1228), RBI (815), doubles (271) and total bases (2246)...Is tied for 12th among active Major Leaguers with 10 grand slams.2006 His appearance on April 12 at New York marked his 1,300th career game...Hit his 1st home run of the season May 3 at Minnesota off Brad Radke...Started 16 of KC's 1st 17 games following the All-Star break (8 at DH, 8 at 1B)... Traded to the Texas Rangers on July 31 for RHP Jose Diaz... Acquired off waivers by the Detroit Tigers on Sept. 15. 2005 Had a solid 2nd season with the Royals, leading the team in walks (60) and on-base percentage (.373) and finishing 3rd in home runs (13) and RBI (66)...Hit his 200th career home run June 2 vs. New York (AL)... Became just the 2nd Canadian to reach the 200-home run plateau (also Larry Walker-383)...Notched the club's only pinch-hit home run of 2005 on June 26 at Colorado...Homered twice July 14 at Detroit, his 12th multi-homer game... Hit a 2-run home run in the 1st inning and his 9th-career grand slam in the 8th... Equalled a career-high with 6 RBI (4th time)... The grand slam was his 10th home run of the season, giving him 10 straight seasons with 10 or more home runs...Recorded his 700th career RBI on Oct. 1, 2005 at Toronto. 2004 Played in the most games since playing in 128 in 2001 for the Chicago Cubs...Teamed with Aaron Guiel to form the 1st Canadian-born duo to ever play for the Royals... Led the team in walks with 49...Hit a grand slam in the 6th inning at Cleveland on April20... it was the 8th grand slam of his career... Tied a career high with 6 RBI in that game (3rd time)...Recorded the 10th 2-home run game of his career on June 18 at Philadelphia... Reached double- digit home runs for the 9th consecutive season with his 10th on June 20 at Philadelphia...Went 2-for-4 with 2 HRs and 4 RBI vs. Chicago on Aug. 5... Marked his 11th multi-homer game of his career and 2nd of the season... Placed on the 15-Day D.L. with a strained left oblique on Aug. 7... Activated on Aug. 22 after missing 13 games. 2003 Spent the season with Pittsburgh after signing as a free agent on Dec. 18, 2002...Hit a 461-ft solo home run on April 5 at Houston, what was the longest home run in Minute Maid Park history at that time...Was placed on the 15-Day D.L. on May 22 (retro to May 19) with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his left middle finger... Was reinstated from the D.L. on June 9... Went deep twice on July 3 vs. Cincinnati, his 9th career multi-homer game... Bounced a home run into the Allegheny River on July 21 vs. Houston (also homered into the river while playing with the Cubs on 9/24/01)... Appeared in his 1,000th career game on July 28 at St. Louis, becoming the 11th Canadian-born player to amass 1,000 games played...Homered into the Allegheny River for the 2nd time in 2003 (3rd career) on Sept. 15 vs. Cincinnati. 2002 Was on 15-Day Disabled List from May 19 (retro to 5/16) through June 2 with a strained left hamstring... Homered twice on June 29 at Minnesota, his 8th career multi-homer game... Hit his 5th career pinch-hit home run and collected his 500th career RBI on Aug. 30 at Cincinnati. 2001 Was Chicago's Opening Day 1st baseman after entering the campaign with only 16 big-league appearances at that position... Became just the 4th player to open a season at 1st base for the Cubs since 1978, following Bill Buckner (1978-1983), Leon Durham (1984-1988) and Mark Grace (1989-2000)... Homered in 4 straight contests from June 2-6... Was his 7th career homer streak of at least 3 games... recorded 7th career 2-homer affair on June 24 vs. Milwaukee (took Ben Sheets deep twice)... Switched from uniform No. 24 to No. 30 on July 24 and went 3-for-5 that night against Pittsburgh...Left the game on Oct. 4 vs. Cincinnati with a left forearm contusion and missed the final weekend of the campaign. 2000 Homered in 3 consecutive contests from April 19-21... Hit a game-ending, 3-run homer on May 12 in Oakland's come-from-behind victory over Seattle (it was the 5th walk-off homer of his career)... Connected off San Diego's Rodrigo Lopez for his 7th career grand slam on June 6.
2000 POST-SEASON: Went 1-for-9 with a double in 3 games against the Yankees in the American League Division Series.1999 Led Oakland in home runs (38) and tied for 8th in the American League in that department...His 67 extra-base hits represented the 10th-highest mark in club history... Hit a pair of grand slams; on April 30 off Boston's Kip Gross and on Aug. 13 at Toronto off Paul Spoljaric... Recorded his 6th multi-homer game by hitting a pair on Aug. 13 at Toronto... Recorded 3 walk-off home runs (May 14 vs. Minnesota, May 31 vs. Tampa Bay and Aug. 8 vs. Chicago-A.L.)... Connected off Sidney Ponson at Baltimore on Sept. 23 (game 1) for his 100th career homer. 1998 Became the 1st Canadian-born player to hit 25 or more homers in consecutive seasons...Was limited to designated hitter duties for most of the season due to a left shoulder subluxation and left achilles tendinitis... Ranked 3rd among A.L. designated hitters in RBI and 4th in home runs (made a total of 119 starts as the DH)... Hit a pair of grand slams - on April 16 off Kansas City's Tim Belcher and on June 24 off Steve Reed at San Francisco (the June 24 shot was the 100th grand slam in Oakland's club history)... Homered in 5 consecutive games from July 30 through Aug. 3, tying the Athletics' franchise record for consecutive games with a home run... tied career high with 6 RBI on May 9 vs. Chicago (AL)... Batted .409 (18-for-44) during career-high 12-game hitting streak from May 4-21... went 5-for-11 (.455) as a pinch hitter and shared the league lead with 8 RBI. 1997 Spent his 1st full season in the Majors with Oakland... Had 1st Major League 2-homer game on May 14 vs. Milwaukee...Earned American League Player-of-the-Week honors for the week of July 14-20 after going 11-for-18 (.611) with 10 runs scored, 5 home runs and 11 RBI... Hit a grand slam off Norm Charlton on Sept. 28 at Seattle in his final at bat of the season. 1996 Tied a Major League record for outfielders with 2 assists in the 4th inning on April 16 at Texas... was designated for assignment on April 23... Returned to the Athletics on July 4 and spent the rest of season in the Majors... Matched a Major League record (12th time) with 6 RBI in an inning in a 16-8 win vs. California on July 5... Hit his 1st career grand slam and delivered a 2-run single in the 1st inning. 1995 Began season with Pawtucket (Red Sox AAA)... Hit .347 with 8 doubles, 7 homers and 22 RBI during the month of May to earn International League Player of the Month honors... Was recalled by Boston on June 23... Connected off Tom Gordon at Kansas City for his 1st Major League home run on July5...Was optioned back to Triple-A on Aug. 15, but returned to Boston on Aug. 30.
1995 POST-SEASON: Went hitless in 1 at bat during the Division Series against Cleveland.1994 Was named to the Eastern League mid-season All-Star team and won MVP honors in the game. 1993 Played in 3 different cities in 3 different countries... Began the season with Montreal, but was sent to Ottawa (AAA) on April 8 before appearing in a game with the Expos... Recalled by Montreal on May 30 and appeared in just 6 games, 5 as a pinch hitter...Had contract sold and was assigned to the Chunichi Dragons of the Japanese Central League on June 8. 1992 Was recalled by Montreal on May 28... Became the 7th Canadian player to play for the Expos when he appeared as a pinch hitter at Cincinnati on May 29 (ML Debut)... Recorded his 1st Major League hit on May 31, a 2-run single off Jose Rijo on May 31 at Cincinnati... Was optioned back to Indy on June 11, but returned to Montreal on June 19. 1991 Was selected the Eastern League's Most Valuable Player and also earned league mid-season and post-season all-star honors... led the league in batting, hits, slugging percentage (.509) and total bases (257)...Tied for the league lead in triples and intentional walks (8)... Hit for the cycle on Aug. 23 vs. New Britain, finishing the feat with a bunt single. 1990 Split season between West Palm Beach (Expos' A) and Jacksonville (Expos' AA) ... Hit .287 with six homers and 64 RBI in 134 contests ... Was named to Florida State League mid-season All-Star team ... Earned Player-of-the-Week honors in the Florida State League for the week of 4/6-15 and was named Montreal's organizational Player-of-the-Month for the month of April after hitting .417 with 15 RBI ... Made a total of 89 appearances at third base, 23 at shortstop, 18 in the outfield and four at second base. 1989 Signed with Montreal as a non-drafted free agent on 1/17 ... Played at three different levels in the Expos' farm system and combined to hit .244 in 94 games.


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MONCHENGLADBACH, GERMANY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/07/12 -- DS-Concept Factoring, Inc. (WWW.DS-CONCEPT.NET) has announced the official opening of its new Shanghai Rep office. DS-Concept is a twelve-year-old firm headquartered in Germany. DS-Concept is now financing transactions for small business and entrepreneurs as manufacturers, vendors, suppliers, distributors, and jobbers engaged in import/export.
Chris Chang, CEO/Managing Director of DS-Concept Factoring, Inc., (North America, New York City) for the last four years, has now been appointed in a dual capacity, put in charge of DS-Concept-Shanghai.
According to Mr Chang, an underlying weakness in many economies including financial "meltdowns" in nations like Greece, Spain, and Portugal have led to even more restrictive, tightened credit standards (post 2008) by banks and conventional lenders-especially when enterprises are engaged in global importing or exporting. "Banks, along with factors and asset-based lenders are very reluctant in this climate to entertain transactions where they must collect their funds from an overseas source." Mr Chang continued to say that "import/export trade credit has been an emerging financing trend for the past several years. It has become a stand alone commercial finance paradigm."
Mr Chang described: "I acknowledge that there may have been a recent slowdown in China. But overall, China is very capable of supporting more import/export trade at this juncture. The financial infrastructure in China is now being revamped to accommodate the global financial community. China is making its banking laws more compatible. Whereby China's big financial institutions have only been lending to mega-companies thus, ignoring the little enterprises; now, financial tools like import-export trade credit are being prioritized. DS-Concept has already established expertise, operations, and experience quotients. So it is ramped up to finance this expected new wave of China's import-export growth."
Mr Chang elaborated that: "China's economy may have suffered some dips. However, SME historically are responsible for the economic growth and job creations. Thus the financial service DS provides is integral for the Chinese and global economic recovery.
Mr Chang went onto describe that: "The nature of inventory management today is to minimize holding onto it, and keep it moving through the process. The longer a business owner holds onto inventory it becomes more expensive to finance. So all parties in the supply chain want to fulfil their role and move supply of goods, products, or merchandise forward including the end buyer which will then make use of it or sell it. Import/export trade credit finance is the most efficient and cost effective way of accomplishing this goal versus banks, factors, asset-based lenders, and purchase order financiers which are restricted to financing what is in their immediate 'box'."
Mr Chang explained that import/export trade credit financing is generally competitively priced when all costs and time involved gets taken into account, because conventional financing is often unavailable to the smaller enterprises by banks. He cited several examples of recent transactions:
-An exporter of fabric from China to Bangladesh where DS will fund at time of shipment and collect from Bangladeshi client
-An exporter of sports equipment from China to North America and Europe signs Trade Finance where DS will fund at time of shipment and collect from international buyers
-An exporter of HK commodities trader using DS to fund their purchase of commodities and sell to Fortune 500 Clients.
Mr Chang has announced the appointment of Helen Fan as Vice President of Operations for the DS-Shanghai office. Ms Fan has 20 years of broad work experience from various industries and functions in International Trade Operations, Trade Finance, HR, Administration, Business Development, Marketing & Sales, Logistic, Production and Total Quality Management. She has an in-depth understanding and experience in the factoring sector. Ms Fan majored in English and International Trade in Nanjing Normal University and Suzhou University. She was also awarded a registered Customhouse Declaration Certificate by Customs of China already in 1992. Moreover, she is a registered International Lead Assessor by British Standards Institute (BSI) in 1996.
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Monday, December 5, 2016
Many different aspects of your health affect whether or not you develop diabetes. Some of these factors are outside of your control, including:
Age. If you are over 45, you are at a heightened risk. And up to 20 percent of Americans over age 65 have diabetes.
Heredity. If a parent had diabetes, you are more likely to also develop the disease.
Ethnicity. Various minority groups in the United States are more likely than white Americans to develop diabetes. We do not yet fully understand the reasons why.These groups include:
If you fall into one or more of these high-risk groups and have not yet developed diabetes, you should be especially concerned about reducing your risks as much as possible.
If you do already have Type 2 diabetes, you can control the course of your disease and how well you live with it by working to lower your risk factors.
Although you cannot change your age, heredity or ethnicity, you can control a number of risk factors for developing diabetes, such as:
Various treatments to lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol will help reduce the risk of getting Type 2 diabetes. However, the single most important way to reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes is to eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly.
Some people have an increased chance – also called a "predisposition" - of getting diabetes due to heredity. Studies have shown that these individuals can lower their risk dramatically by making some sensible lifestyle changes:
Learn more about healthy living below!
If you are overweight, you are at greater risk of becoming insulin resistant. Insulin helps glucose enter your cells where your body uses it for energy. When you have insulin resistance, your cells do not respond to insulin. The glucose stays in your blood, and sooner or later, you will develop diabetes.
Recent studies have shown that nutrition and exercise programs can decrease the development of diabetes in high-risk groups by as much as 71 percent.
When you eat well, lose weight, and begin a regular exercise program, there are bonus benefits. In addition to cutting your risk of developing diabetes, these good lifestyle choices also protect you against a whole host of other diseases and medical conditions, including:
And exercise increases your energy and helps you feel great!
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Agreed, but with rumors of a GC price drop, I might have to pick one up.
Is a GameCube worth it so just so I can play Rogue Squadon? I mean I assume they have the EA Sports games too right? I really don't know the difference in the 3 major consoles, but know that with RS III and a price drop coming, I could easily be swayed.
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Kids love rainbows! What's not to like, they're so bright and colourful! Did you know you can take their love of rainbows and put it on a plate filled with fruits and vegetables?! Using a rainbow as a guide you can ensure your children benefit from a wide range of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients in their diet.
Phytonutrients are natural chemical compounds found in all plants; they protect against disease and promote health in plants and humans. They also give fruits and vegetables their colour. No single fruit or vegetable provides all of the nutrients kids need to be healthy. Eating a variety of colourful fruits and vegetables everyday is the key!
By breaking produce down into colour groups of fire-engine red, vibrant orange, sunny yellow, rich green, and deep purples you can make eating fruits and vegetables fun for your kids! Even at a very young age kids can easily grasp the concept of eating a rainbow.
Here are some examples from each colour group:
- Red Apples, cherries, peppers, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes
- Orange Apricots, cantaloupe, carrots, mangoes, oranges, sweet potatoes
- Yellow Bananas, peppers, pineapple, corn, grapefruit, squash
- Green Broccoli, cucumbers, grapes, peas, spinach, kiwi
- Purple Beets, blackberries, blueberries, red cabbage, eggplants, plums
As parents we "know" our children should be eating a minimum of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, but this knowledge doesn't seem to be making its way into their diets!
Here are 5 tips to encourage your kids to eat more fruits and vegetables:
1. Keep Fruits and Vegetables in Sight: Stock your fridge full of washed and ready to eat fruits and veggies.
2. Remove the Competition: If you have unhealthy food options like sweets, chips and other junk food around they will usually be chosen over fruits and veggies! Stick with healthy foods in your kitchen.
3. Prepare Meals Together: Start bringing kids into the kitchen at a young age. Toddlers can wash and rip lettuce, preschoolers can measure and stir, and older kids can find recipes and help create meals. Children are far more likely to dig into a new dish if they helped prepare it!
4. Keep it Simple: Veggies taste best when you don't do too much to them. Eating them raw seems to be a favorite with kids. Add some yummy dip and you're done!
5. Keep trying: Kids need to be exposed to, and ideally taste, a new food as many as 10 to 15 times before they'll accept it. Just getting them to take one bite is a victory!
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The Wilderness Society applauded President Obama for the pending designation of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico, in a
The budget proposals released this week by the House and Senate offer two very different paths for the future of the environment, according to The Wilderness Society.
Wilderness Society report takes a candid look at potential impacts and possible solutions
Rather than allowing devastating across-the-board cuts to conservation, preservation and environmental programs, the federal government should cancel more than $760 billion of outdated tax breaks, according to a report released today by a coalition of environmental groups.
Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, along with residents of King Cove, Alaska, are continuing their fight today to put a road through the wilderness of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, but they aren't telling Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar all the facts.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (Feb. 27, 2013) – After a year of serious missteps, and with its troubled drill rigs headed for Asia to undergo extensive repairs, Royal Dutch Shell announced today that it has suspended plans for oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean in 2013.
Today, President Obama called on Congress to pass legislation to avoid across-the-board budget cuts from the so-called "sequester." The Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams said this in response:
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LONDON Some rare good economic news from Europe pushed stock markets higher on Friday as investors awaited a key U.S. employment report that is expected to show steady, if unremarkable, job growth.
The unemployment rate in the 17-country eurozone was at a lower-than-expected 11.7 percent in December, unchanged from the previous month's rate, which was revised down from 11.8 percent, a record high. Inflation was also steady, suggesting the recession ravaging the currency union is it abating.
"With eurozone economic activity seemingly bottoming out last October and business confidence picking up, the pressure on labour markets has eased," said Howard Archer, chief European economist at HIS Global Insight.
"Nevertheless, business confidence is still relatively low in most countries and eurozone economic activity is unlikely to be strong enough to prevent further rises in unemployment over the coming months."
Germany's DAX advanced 0.6 percent to 7,823.62 in early trading while France's CAC-40 added 0.9 percent to 3,765.58. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.6 percent to 6,314.44.
Wall Street was expected to rise on the open, with Dow Jones industrial futures up 0.5 percent to 13,860 and the broader S&P 500 futures adding 0.4 percent to 1,498.70. Although the Dow Jones industrial average finished lower on Thursday, the index logged its best January since 1994 by finishing 5.8 percent higher for the month. The Standard & Poor's 500 finished the month 5 percent higher, its best start to the year since 1997.
Looking ahead, investors will focus on the U.S. jobs report, which often sets the tone in stock markets for days. Economists forecast the world's largest economy added 155,000 jobs in January and that the unemployment rate stayed at 7.8 percent for a third straight month. That would help the economy grow after it shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the final quarter of 2012.
The figure will be particularly important in forming expectations of the recovery after GDP figures earlier this week showed a surprise 0.1 percent annualized contraction in the U.S. economy. A weak jobs report on Friday would provide a big blow to investor sentiment.
The U.S. will also issue reports on the manufacturing sector and consumer sentiment.
Earlier in Asia, stocks were mixed after manufacturing data from China fell short of expectations. Industrial production is still growing, but at a slower pace, according to the government-sanctioned China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. Its manufacturing index for January fell to 50.4 from 50.6 in December on a 100-point scale in which numbers above 50 indicate expansion.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell marginally to 23,721.84. South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.2 percent to 1,957.79. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.9 percent to 4,921.10. The ASX closed at 4,879 on Thursday, capping its best January since 1995, Lucas said.
Japan's Nikkei 225, meanwhile, was once again energized by the yen's continued descent against the dollar. The index rose 0.5 percent to 11,191.34.
Benchmark oil for March delivery was down 13 cents to $97.39 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 45 cents to close at $97.49 a barrel on the Nymex on Thursday.
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DBIA passenger traffic rises 5 percent
DAYTONA BEACH — Passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport rose 5 percent in November, compared with the same month a year ago, Volusia County reported Friday.
A total of 43,666 passengers arrived and departed from the county-operated airport last month, up from 41,620 in November of last year.
Airline passenger traffic at the airport has increased year-over-year 33 of the past 36 months.
'We are extremely pleased with the traffic increase in November especially considering the adverse weather conditions in the Northeast during late October and early November," airport director Rick Karl said.
For the 12 months ending Nov. 30, there have been 583,142 passengers traveling through the airport. That's up 7 percent from the 547,102 passengers recorded for the same 12-month span ending Nov. 30, 2011.
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PALM COAST — The Palm Coast Business Assistance Center kicks off a new Lunch 'n Learn series entitled "Fearless and Focused: Women in Business."
The first lecture, "Truths and Myths of Being a Woman in Business," is 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. Tickets, which include lunch, are $15 and reservations are due by Jan. 4. Register online at palmcoastgov.com/BACTraining.
The guest speakers are Cheryl Tanenbaum, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Intracoastal Bank, and Heather Beavan, a Navy veteran, Army wife, entrepreneur, Flagler Beach resident and a 2012 congressional candidate.
The program is co-sponsored by Flagler Business Women, the D.I.V.A.S. Club Volunteer Outreach and the Flagler Chapter of the Women's Initiative of United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties.
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DAYTONA BEACH — Kevin Kilian, a longtime staffer at the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce, is joining the Volusia Flagler YMCA on Feb. 1 as chief organizational development officer.
He currently is the chamber's chief operating officer.
"His knowledge of the local business and connections to the community will be invaluable tools as we work to advance our cause and expand our reach," said Teresa Rogers, CEO of the Volusia Flagler YMCA.
Kilian joined the chamber of commerce in 1996 as vice president of events and handled a variety of duties including staffing and managing the Bike Week Festival Task Force.
Kilian's duties at the YMCA include assessment of current YMCA programs and initiatives as well as the creation of new ones to engage the local business community in partnerships for greater impact and growth.
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Champions Centre in the Pacific Northwest along with his wife, Sheila. Yes, you read that correctly. The Geralds are co-pastors, so already we have a significant problem.
The very name of Gerald's church offers another challenge: Champions Centre. Really? The motto of this "church" is "Equipping people to live successful Christian lives." Hm. I would love to know Kevin Gerald's definition of "success," because I have a sneaking suspicion that someone like, oh, the Apostle Paul, would never measure up to such a definition.
Let us take a moment, then, and glance at the titles of Kevin Gerald's books:
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One of the most impressive characteristics of Jesus' ministry was that it attracted crowds - large crowds - crowds that the Bible calls multitudes. They were drawn to Him. The Bible says in Luke 2:52 (KJV) that Jesus "increased...in favour with God and man." This implies that the more people knew about Him, the more they were attracted to Him.
Individuals and churches that recognize the characteristics that made Jesus attractive to the multitudes and incorporate those ingredients into their church culture also will attract people. This contradicts what some Christians assume because they were taught that being Christlike will cause people to not like them. This mistaken thought comes from the belief that everyone hated Jesus and this led to His death. In their efforts to be Christlike, they assume that being unattractive to people in the world is a good thing.
The truth is, the only people who didn't like Jesus were a few religious leaders who were threatened by His popularity, but thousands of people followed Him just to hear what He had to say.
Although there are plenty of other things about us all that could make us unlikable, an authentic Christlike attitude in our approach to ministry will appeal to people, not repel them. Christlike attitudes will always have an irresistible magnetism on human nature. (pages 33-34, emphasis in the original).Okay, grab your Bible and let us challenge from the Word of God some of the claims made here by Kevin Gerald. First, let's look in context at the half-verse that Gerald provides from Luke 2:52:
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress." And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. (Luke 2:41-52)What Kevin Gerald has done is taken a verse that summarizes the normal human growth process experienced by Jesus, has selected only the words that serve his own purpose (namely the word "favor") and has used it to misrepresent the true meaning of the text.
Moving on, it is certainly true that Jesus drew large crowds when He spoke. Yet, Scripture tells us exactly why the majority of the people were present. Scripture also tells us that the majority of people turned away when they heard the difficult truth of Jesus' message. In John 6, Jesus feeds the 5,000. The next day, the crowds are seeking Him again, but not because they were enamored of His message. Rather, they sought to fill their bellies:
When the people pressed Jesus further regarding His message, He told them the shocking truth. For the sake of space, I will let you read verses 28-51 on your own, and will pick up in John 6:52:On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal." (John 6:22-27)
These early followers were not only "a few religious leaders who were threatened." These were the multitudes. These were the crowds who were following Jesus merely for the temporal comfort they thought He could offer them through miracle healing and feedings. And these crowds turned away, decisively and finally, when they came to know the truth, that Jesus Christ alone was the Bread of Life. There are many other passages to which we could turn to dispute Gerald's claims that everybody simply adored Jesus and His message. Luke 9:57-62 comes to mind, as does its parallel passage in Matthew 8:18-22. Passages such as Luke 14:25-35 are also familiar, and were most definitely quite unpopular with the crowds. After all, who wants to be told that they must take up their cross to follow Jesus? Who wants to be told that true discipleship requires a willingness to give up family, earthly comfort, and possibly even one's own life? And do we need to be reminded of the day of Christ's crucifixion, when the crowds, incited by the chief priests and Pharisees, shouted aloud to Pilate, "CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM!"The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. (John 6:52-66)
Contrary to the teaching of Kevin Gerald, those who have been saved by Christ, and who live according to His Word, will indeed be rejected by the world. How do I know this? Because Jesus Christ said so:
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. (John 15:18-23)One must wonder, then, how it is that Pastor Gerald can have a true Gospel message to share? For if he desires to be likable to the world, then he cannot possibly be preaching about sin, repentance, and salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)With that, let's look at the titles of just four of Gerald's popular sermon series:
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This seems like the perfect place to pause and listen to exactly how Kevin Gerald "invites" a person to come to Christ. Here is Kevin Gerald presenting his version of the unbiblical "sinner's prayer":
Here is the transcript of the above prayer, as printed on the Champions Centre website:
If you want a new beginning in your life and in your relationship with God, just pray this prayer right now, wherever you are.
Lord Jesus, I welcome you now into my heart. Forgive me of all my sins and make me a new person. I receive you now as the leader and the Lord of my life. I boldly declare that I'll never be the same again. In Jesus' name, amen. (Online Source)Honestly, what does any of that even mean? Where in Scripture do we see a prayer like that? Where is the explanation of sin and why we need a Savior? Where is the explanation of Christ's finished work on the cross? Where is the call to repent and trust in Jesus alone for salvation? None of those elements are present and why? Because Kevin Gerald is more interested in making false converts who dutifully fill the offering plate than he is with calling people to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. How can I say this with such certainty? Because a true minister of the Gospel, a true under-shepherd of Christ, a true preacher of the Word of God, would never feature something like this at his church:
There it is, the now-infamous "your money is cursed unless you tithe" message, and it has obviously been ingrained into the attendees of Champions Centre. In the end, "Pastor" Kevin Gerald is nothing more than another money-focused, "favor" seeking, Word of Faith prosperity preacher. He may not be as well-known or popular as so many others, but he is most assuredly just as dangerous. Yet he has been embraced by Steven Furtick, and Steven Furtick has been embraced by trusted, so-called "conservative Bible teachers." May we pray that God would open the eyes of those who have been deceived.
The advertised purpose of Code Orange Revival may be to bring about an "eruption of God's power and movement," but there is another dangerous theme that has emerged. That theme is the propagation of the heretical Word-Faith doctrine, and it ought to cause one to begin to question seriously just what kind of "eruption" is going to occur next month. Reader, it is time that we acknowledge that this deviant teaching has effectively infiltrated America's "evangelical" church.
The reader would do well to remember that among Furtick's list of scheduled speakers are the "young, restless and reformed" Acts 29 pastor and Gospel Coalition council member Matt Chandler as well as fellow Gospel Coalition council member James MacDonald of Walk in the Word and Harvest Bible Chapel fame. Both of these men will also be speaking at Perry Noble's Newspring Leadership Conference in 2012. As we have asked before, we ask again, especially of MacDonald and Chandler, two supposedly conservative and reformed pastors: Why? Why would you agree time and again to share a stage and a platform with men and women who preach not just a weak gospel, but a false one? One must begin to wonder about the motivation behind your consistent appearance with the same group of dangerous, even shameful, teachers. The members of your local and extended flocks deserve an explanation from the men they no doubt trust and respect.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8-9)
Steven Furtick's 12 Days of Revival
"Code Orange" Speaker Craig Groeschel
"Code Orange" Speaker Christine Caine
"Code Orange" Speaker Jentezen Franklin
"Code Orange" Speaker Israel Houghton
"Code Orange" Speaker Stovall Weems
"Code Orange" Speaker Ed Young, Jr.
"Code Orange" Speaker "Bishop" T.D. Jakes
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Their loveliness adds life and energy to a room while taking center stage
Two thousand years of lore and legends from the Chinese to the Greek and the Romans abound.
My favorite is this;
"peonies were considered to be filled with demons, you see as the plant was pulled it was said to scream. however the root was a natural teething ring and quite necessary. so dogs were tied to the plant with food just out of reach, ultimately to success"
A favorite in my garden the 'Sarah Bernhardt'
Hung in my barns upper level which is stifling hot. Drying quickly in a hot dark spot preserves the blooms
A, tip that escaped me this year as they dried so fast;
When the peony or a rose is half dry take a blow dryer and pop it under the bloom giving it a blast. Immediately it "blows up" to it's full cabbage appearance. A great way to preserve peonies from your wedding bouquet
Dried peony petals are beautiful to throw at a wedding
Now for the giveaway.......A generous and historically significant local family, the Klehm's are the founders of 'KLEHM'S SONG SPARROW, a nationally recognized mail order nursery. Part of the history of this family is that they are great hybridizers of peonies. By that it means that they take the best attribute of two different peonies and create a new variety. A very labor intensive and trial by error endeavor with no guarantee of success. For this giveaway I wanted to only include varieties that they created.
For your chance to win, take a look at their catalogue and be amazed at the varieties of all species. So the nursery has generously offered one of the two peonies below as a gift to a reader. And all you need to do is comment and tell me your favorite plant found in their on-line catalogue
-a bomb (full and multi petaled)
-late bloomer; would be starting about now
-zones 2-8
-short in stature; 18" equals strong upright stems
-Semi-double with a gorgeous 'eye of pollen' reminiscent of a tree peony
-very hard to find
-ruffled soft salmon and pink
-mid-season bloomer
-zones 2-8
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ELMHURST – In order to get to the gymnastics complex at York High School, spectators and participants alike have to climb a set of stairs before reaching their destination.
A week after taking the Upstate Eight Conference gymnastics crown, the St. Charles co-op team will be climbing the proverbial stairs a little more after winning the IHSA York Girls Regional Championship.
St Charles – which is a mix of girls from East and North – won the five-team regional with a score of 145.2 to advance to the Glenbard West Sectional taking place Tuesday after having a strong all-around meet despite the loss of junior Sidney Copeland.
Copeland, who is out for the rest of the year with a partial ACL tear, was on the mind of all of her teammates. But St. Charles coach Amy Lill said the team needed to focus its attention on advancing to sectionals.
"I think we made a huge statement that we're still a huge force to be reckoned with," Lill said. "Just because we lost Sidney doesn't mean we don't have to depth to step up and still get a 145. Obviously one person doesn't make up a whole team. We talked all season about how we have depth and this is an example of that."
Minus Copeland, who was scheduled to compete in all of the meets' events including the floor exercise, St. Charles still managed to advance with relative ease, besting its UEC meet score of 144. Junior Kelly Gorniak won the all-around competiion with a 36.8.
Right in the middle of the points was senior Jesi Ortiz, who came through with big performances in the vault and floor exercise. Ortiz was especially impressive in the vault, placing third with a 9.375.
"It feels so awesome to know that my team is going to be advancing to sectionals," Ortiz said. "Losing Sidney last minute really stinks because it happened to her last year too. We are just going to keep chucking through and keeping a positive mental attitude about it."
Also impressive was Gorniak, who managed to finish one spot ahead of Ortiz in the vault with a 9.450 while placing fourth in the uneven parallel bars with 8.750. Gorniak said the team worked on preparing for pressure situations at the regional.
"We've done a lot of pressure sets all week and we had a lot of girls step up this week," Gorniak said. "We really worked on our landings lately and that's the thing that can win a meet for you or lose a meet for you. I talked myself through the vault and just stuck it."
Senior Andrea Schwartz was the overall winner of the uneven parallel bars coming in at 9.050, the only competitor to break the nine-point mark.
Host York was the regional runners-up with a score of 139.15.
On Tuesday, Batavia vaulters Megan McGee (fourth) and Courtney Glassman (fifth) moved on from the Glenbard West Regional to the Feb. 5 sectional that also will be held at West. Senior Sarah Ganster advanced in the all-around.
Geneva is set to host its own regional Friday.
St. Charles and Geneva qualifiers will join the Batavia group at the Glenbard West Sectional.


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OHSU receives $1 million for M.D. Curriculum Transformation
June 14, 2013
Eleven medical school awardees become part of AMA learning consortium to rapidly disseminate best practices
The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced the 11 medical schools that will receive funding as part of its Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. This initiative is aimed at transforming the way future physicians are trained. Each school receives $1 million over five years.
"We are proud – and grateful – to be selected. This was a competitive process, with 119 medical schools from across the nation applying to participate in the AMA initiative," said George Mejicano, M.D., senior associate dean for education. "The grant will allow us to amplify and accelerate our ongoing M.D. Curriculum Transformation initiative, and will support critical investments in faculty development."
"This AMA funding and accompanying national recognition is due to the expertise, innovative thinking and experience of our faculty, students and other educational leaders," said Mark Richardson, M.D., MBA, dean, OHSU School of Medicine. "It also validates our approach to curriculum transformation thus far."
The OHSU M.D. Curriculum Transformation initiative, launched in 2012, is answering this question: What will society need from physicians and health care professionals over the next 20 to 30 years? Building on what is successful in our current curriculum, the transformation initiative will make OHSU an even better medical school and will provide innovative and knowledgeable physician-leaders aligned with Oregon's – and the nation's – health care future.
"Transforming medical education is essential to maintaining and enhancing educational excellence at OHSU, and to contributing to the evolution of Oregon and the nation's health care landscape," said Dean Richardson. "The physician of the future will require different skills as we move into a new era in which genetics, health care reform and technology will exert strong influences on the future health care landscape."
Additional reading:
– AMA media release describing the award
– Read the grant application narrative on Inside the SoM (OHSU login required)
Many people participated in developing a successful grant proposal. In addition to the foundational work of the members of M.D. Curriculum Transformation Steering Committee, the work groups and others involved in curriculum transformation over the past year, several faculty and staff contributed their specific insight, expertise and time to the AMA grant application. Many thanks to Jennifer Boyd, Tom Boudrot, Pat Brunett, Tracy Bumsted, Patty Carney, Nicole Deiorio, Tomo Ito, Bill Hersh, Leslie Kahl, George Mejicano and Elaine Rowzee.
On their website, the AMA states the broad goal of their educational initiative in this way: "Across the continuum of physician education, the gap between how physicians are being trained and the future needs of our health care system continues to widen. The American Medical Association will work to bridge this gap by accelerating change in medical education in the United States."
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The Redskins have finally confirmed the trade, issuing a statement from coach Mike Shanahan: "Donovan is an accomplished quarterback who has been a proven winner in the National Football League. I have long admired his competitiveness and feel he will be an outstanding addition to the Redskins and our community. He knows our division and the roadmap to success in the NFC East. He will set a high standard of excellence and we are very excited to welcome Donovan to the Washington Redskins."
UPDATED, 10:25 p.m.
Donovan McNabb had issued the following statement: "I'm really excited about my future with the Washington Redskins. I'm eager to work with Coach Shanahan. He's been a very successful coach with a couple of Super Bowl victories on his resume. While it's been my goal to win a Super Bowl in Philadelphia, we came up short. I enjoyed my 11 years here and we shared a lot more good times than bad."
UPDATED, 9:40 p.m.
Jeff Nalley, the agent for Kevin Kolb, told the Daily News that Kolb is excited about the team and its talent.
Andy Reid had this to say about Kolb during his news conference: "You see somebody that, No. 1 has been taught by good coaches and had an opportunity to play under Donovan and learn how to do it the right way. He's followed that direction. He's prepared himself for this opportunity. We see leadership and athletic ability and he does a nice job reading defenses."
"He needs to be Kevin Kolb and not be Donovan McNabb. He needs to make his own mark and do his own thing. He has not done that yet. Everything else is subjective that I have the confidence in him to do that."
More from Reid: "This was a tough decision for many people in trading Donovan. He was a great player here for 11 years, set every record with this organization. I have nothing but good things to say about donovna. Unfortunately things like this happen in the National Football League. If you're lucky enough to stay around long enough, as I have, you have to go thorugh situations like this where you have to go in a different direction. We have to have a lot of confidence in Kevin Kolb to make this decision. He will be the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles."
Reid said he had spoken with McNabb and that "he understands the business."
"You can't erase the last 11 years. We had a lot of great years together," Reid said.
Reid clearly had McNabb's future in mind, as he mentioned several times about making a deal that "was best for us and best for Donovan."
"We wanted to do things that were good for us and good for Donovan and we felt if there was the right mix there that is what we would do."
"Donovan would have played anywhere. That's just because of the kind of person that he is."
"He was fine with going to the Redskins and he'll do a good job for them."
"Are they a better football team with Donovan? Absolutely."
Added Reid, "We sat back. We listened to offers on all three quarterbacks. It became evident this was the right time and the right way to go and the compensation was right."
Asked about McNabb's legacy, Reid said: "I think it should be he was the greatest quarterback to ever play for the Philadelphia Eagles to this point."
On what the Eagles acquired: "The fifth pick in the second round is not a bad pick, particularly with the way the draft is set up now, where you can take a deep breath after the first round and have a day. That's a nice pick."
On Michael Vick, Reid said: "He's with us right now."
As for the issue of rebuilding, "I don't know if we're rebuilding. I don't see it that way. When it's time to play we'll have a good football team. We're going to do everyting that's best for the team. We feel these moves will help us down the road here."
The Eagles have confirmed the trade of Donovan McNabb to the Redskins for a second-round pick this year, No. 37 overall, and a conditional third- or fourth-round pick next year.
The first thing that jumps out is that the Eagles have traded McNabb within the division to a team they must face twice each season.
McNabb will leave as the Eagles' all-time leader in most passing categories, including yards (32,873), completions (2,801), attempts (4,746), completion percentage (59.0%) and touchdown passes (216).
He also rushed for 3,249 yards and 28 touchdowns.
The Eagles were 92-49-1 in regular season games he started, 9-7 in the playoffs.
After the Eagles acknowledged they were entertaining offers for all three quarterbacks and the speculation centerted on McNabb, McNabb said he was hoping for a quick resolution. After days of rumors and then reports that a deal might not get done until the draft, the deal was announced tonight.
"Donovan McNabb was more than a franchise quarterback for this team," Eagles chairman Jeffrey Lurie said. "He truly embodied all of the attributes of a great quarterback and of a great person. He has been an excellent epresentative of this organization and the entire National Football League both on and off the field. I look forward to honoring him as one of the greatest Eagles of all-time and hopefully see him enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton one day."
"This was a very tough decision," said head coach Andy Reid. "Donovan McNabb represented everything a football player could be during his 11 seasons in Philadelphia. He carried this organization to new heights and set a high standard of excellence both on and off the field. We thank him for everything he did for this football team and for this city."
"Donovan is the ultimate professional," said Eagles president Joe Banner. "He has an incredible work ethic and has been an integral part of our success. Over the years, Donovan has always carried himself with a great deal of dignity. He's an excellent role model for young men and women from across the region. In my mind, he'll always be remembered as one of the greatest Eagles of all time."
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said: "Donovan is clearly one of the all-time greatest Eagles and he represented this team and this city with class over the last 11 years. Certainly a deal of his magnitude took a lot of time and effort to accomplish and it was certainly a tough decision to make in the end. We wish he and his family all the best."
Fox Sports' Jay Glazer first mentioned interest by the Redskins yesterday via Twitter. A Redskins source told the Washington Post yesterday that conversations between the two teams likely took place earlier in the process. Obviously, talks heated up in the last few days, leading to the trade.
New Redskins coach Mike Shanahan is looking to put his stamp on the Redskins in his first season, and that starts with the quarterback. The Redskins are expected to implement a new offense, so a new quarterback is not a surprise.
ESPN's Adam Schefter was the first to report the trade.


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One of the more primitive aspects of classic Mustang and Ford cars is the leaf-spring rear suspension found on most models-dating to the horse and buggy days and usually reminiscent of riding a buckboard. Besides offering varying levels of ride quality, the rear leaf springs do a poor job of preventing axle windup during a hard start. The spring actually winds up with the torque from the axle, and when it lets go, all traction is lost.
It's not the best recipe for a street-performance Mustang or racer. With soft rubber bushings front and rear, the leaf-spring suspension also does a fairly poor job of keeping the axle centered inside the car's body. The axle travels side to side during a hard turn, spoiling steering accuracy and feel while encouraging the rearend of the car to wander. Even with a great front suspension, these rear-suspension hurdles should be addressed for a serious high-performance Mustang.
Revelation Racing Supply of Australia now offers a state-of-the-art 3-Link rear suspension ($3,500 through RRS) to fit classic Mustangs and select classic Fords. It's a far better arrangement than the stock leaf-spring suspension from both an acceleration and handling standpoint, as it precisely controls axle movement in all three planes of motion. An equal-length Watts linkage assembly locates the axle in the center of the car while firmly controlling any sideways movement. A center torque arm or traction bar attaches to the front of the differential case and prevents axle windup with its long moment of leverage. Dual trailing arms locate the axle in the front-to-rear plane, while coil springs installed over Koni shocks support the weight of the car. The OE leaf springs are eliminated entirely.
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Justin Brookman from the Center for Democracy and Technology says, "They're smart TVs, that means they're connected to the internet so you can do cool things like Skype or Netflix but companies now are finding ways to take advantage of it for their own benefit."
One manufacturer claims they have never gathered information without the user's consent. However in this case, the user's consent simply means agreeing to the terms and conditions of purchasing the TV.
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ALGONQUIN – Businesses that have asked the village to allow video gambling are frustrated about a six-month trial period the village is undertaking to see how other communities handle video gaming.
Nero's Pizza & Pub owner Ken Fishleigh, who spoke for a handful of businesses present at last week's Village Board meeting, said bars and restaurants want trustees to establish rules for video gambling sooner rather than later.
"Many of these places have applied for permits to have the gaming machines. Now it's up and running with the state," Fishleigh said. "We're concerned we're going to get left out. We haven't heard anything from the village in regards to what are we doing as far as setting up the conditions."
Village President John Schmitt said the Village Board has agreed to a six-month waiting period so staff can consult with other communities.
"Six months from now, we'll have a pretty good idea of what we need to put together with the way of rules and regulations to allow you to get those licenses or not," Schmitt said. "This board has to make a decision whether we want them in our village, and we're going to do what we think is due diligence, and make sure the other communities don't have any problems. I laud them for having the guts to do it without any knowledge of what the feedback might be."
In August, the Village Board directed staff to put together an ordinance that, if passed, would allow gambling in restaurants and bars, which is allowed in Marengo, Huntley, Johnsburg, Lake in the Hills and McHenry. Video gambling went live this month.
At a subsequent meeting, the Village Board agreed to a six-month waiting period.
"All these programs that are rolling out right now, we're going to be the last one," Fishleigh said. "Everybody around us is going to have their games, and they're going to have people going to their places."
Local governments have the option of allowing video gambling within their municipalities as part of the state's $31 billion capital plan. People would be able to gamble only $2 at a time and could win up to $500.
Schmitt said the Village Board would love the extra revenue that could come in, "however it's incumbent on us to make sure we're doing the right thing for our village."
"Bringing gambling into our community is something that is not just an everyday thing for us," he said.
Fishleigh maintained that not allowing video gambling will hurt businesses and could mean less revenue in the long run for the village government.
"We're going to give older people an opportunity to sit at a bar and sit at a restaurant with liquor, and enjoy themselves for the afternoon," Fishleigh said. "We're still only going to be entertaining the people in the village of Algonquin. If you want them to go some place else, it's on your shoulders."