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The Progressive Corporation (PGR) is an American auto insurance company that operates in every state and the District of Columbia. Most auto insurance companies offer different kinds of insurance such as home and life, but Progressive concentrates on only auto, allowing the company to more accurately assess the riskiness of their clients and pass on low prices to its clients.
Progressive's primary business strategy is to attract and maintain customers through low premiums and rapid and innovative claims processing. As a result of their focus on autos only, Progressive leads its competitors with some of the highest returns on premiums. However, client credit scores are an essential part of Progressive's scoring formula, and consumer advocacy groups have been lobbying for regulation to disallow their use.
In addition to revenue from premiums, Progressive, like all auto insurance companies, also makes money by investing the premiums it has collected before they get paid out (called the float). The auto insurance industry typically sees lower income from float because auto claims are filed much more frequently compared to home or life claims and thus have less time to generate investment returns. Since Progressive deals with only auto insurance, its float income is considerably less than its competition.
As of December 31, 2009, Progressive had 53 subsidiaries and one mutual insurance company affiliate.[1] These insurance subsidiaries and affiliate provide personal and commercial automobile insurance and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services. Its property-casualty insurance products protect its customers against losses due to collision and physical damage to their motor vehicles and uninsured and underinsured bodily injury, and liability to others for personal injury or property damage arising out of the use of those vehicles. Its non-insurance subsidiaries support its insurance and investment operations. The Company operates its businesses throughout the United States. In December 2009, it began selling personal auto insurance in Australia.[1]
The Company offers a range of personal and commercial property-casualty insurance products primarily related to motor vehicles. Its Personal Lines products consist of insurance for personal autos and special lines products, which includes motorcycles, all terrain vehicles (ATVs), recreational vehicles (RVs), mobile homes, watercraft, snowmobiles and similar items. It writes personal auto insurance in all 50 of the United States and in the District of Columbia. The Company's Commercial Auto products are offered in 49 states. It does not write Commercial Auto in Hawaii or the District of Columbia. Its Claims business area supports both the Personal Lines and Commercial Auto businesses.[1]
Auto insurance companies make revenue primarily in two ways: premiums and float.
The key profit indicator for an insurance company is the "combined ratio," which measures the ratio of claims and expense costs to income. A combined ratio under 100% indicates profitability and the lower the rate, the higher margin a company generates. In 2009, Progressive's combined ratio was 94.6%, one of the lowest in the auto insurance industry.[2]
Progressive has three channels for generating sales: phone, Internet, and independent agents, who make up the largest share--about two-thirds--of all premiums sold. Progressive pays a relatively low commission of 10% to agents and maintains high agent activity volume because it has advanced, easy to use underwriting technology. This allows Progressive and its agents to assess risk more accurately than its competitors, and therefore offer a lower price to consumers. Recently, Progressive has been trying to move towards direct sales by aggressively marketing its online insurance service. Direct channels constitute a larger source of customers for Progressive than for other insurers.
As a company, progressive has a distinct corporate mentality that manifests itself in the way it does business and treats its customers, employees, and shareholders.
Progressive's business goal is to grow as fast as possible at a 96% combined ratio. Progressive uses sophisticated computer pricing models to determine the risk that any driver gets in an accident. Using this technology, their goal is to offer the "right price," which means the premium is equal to Progressive's expected cost of the policy, plus a profit mark-up. This approach promises steady growth but not dramatic profits, since it does not allow Progressive to take advantage of conditions that would lead to high profits, such as significant market power. Moreover the underwriting advances allowed Progressive to target high-risk, high-value drivers who bring with them a high profit margin. In 2009, Progessive has a net margin of 7.6%.[2]
In the long run, maintaining customers through this pricing strategy may prove a successful strategy. Progressive's technology enables its website design, which shows customers the price Progressive charges and the price of competitors. This transparency enhances Progressive's image as a fair company and improves customer retention.
Progressive uses customer credit history as a central part of their pricing formula and consistently ranks first or second in the industry by loss ratio, indicating the effectiveness of its underwriting. Like other insurance companies that use credit as part of their formula, Progressive is vulnerable to regulatory changes regarding the use of credit scores in its underwriting. Recently, consumer advocacy groups have begun pressuring state governments to disallow credit scores in underwriting.
Because of its commitment to underwriting advantage, Progressive maintains an "autos-only" policy--they do not provide any other form of insurance. Many other insurance companies underwrite housing, medical and other insurance in addition to auto. Although Progressive may not be leveraging "bundling" opportunities by selling multiple products to the same customer, the autos-only policy is essential to other aspects of the business strategy, especially concentration.
Progressive aims to achieve high concentrations of customers in the same areas. This approach has three main effects. Concentration helps underwriting accuracy by letting Progressive better assess driving habits and risks for a particular area. It also maximizes the impact of advertising because billboards and TV campaigns can be concentrated in a handful of cities. Finally, concentration facilitates rapid claims processing because claims agents can be concentrated in small areas and more rapidly respond to calls.
Progressive tries to distinguish itself from the competition by rapid claims processing. After a client files claims online or over the phone, Progressive sends a claim adjustor to make a home call. Progressive also hopes to build on its claims processing with its new Concierge Service program. Rather than having an agent drive out to handle every claim, clients bring their cars to a processing center, where Progressive inspects the car, ships it out to be repaired if necessary, and provides the client with a rental car. The program aims to reduce employee and claims cost while improving client satisfaction. Concierge service has yet to become popular, however.
The Personal Lines business is either generated by independent agents and brokers or written directly online or by phone. The Agency business includes business written by its network of more than 30,000 independent insurance agencies located throughout the United States, as well as brokerages in New York and California.[1]
The Agency business also writes through alliance business relationships with other insurance companies, financial institutions and national agencies. In 2009, the total net premiums written through the Agency business represented 59% of its Personal Lines volume. The Direct business includes business written directly by the Company online and over the phone.[1] Net premiums written in the Direct business were 41% of its Personal Lines. The Company's Progressive Home Advantage combines a Progressive auto policy with a homeowner's or renter's policy, underwritten by one of three unaffiliated insurance carriers, is available to Agency customers in 41 states and to Direct customers in 48 states and the District of Columbia; this program is not available to Direct customers in Florida and Alaska. It also offers a personal umbrella insurance product in 30 states through certain independent agents and to Direct business customers via telephone.[1]
The Commercial Auto business writes primary liability and physical damage insurance for automobiles and trucks owned by small businesses and represented approximately 11% of its total net premiums written for 2009.[1] The majority of its Commercial Auto customers insure three or fewer vehicles. The Commercial Auto business, which is primarily distributed through the independent agency channel, operates in the business auto and specialty truck markets.[1]
The Company's other indemnity businesses include writing professional liability insurance for community banks, principally directors and officers liability insurance. In addition, its other indemnity businesses include managing its run-off businesses.[1]
The Company's service businesses provide insurance-related services. It also provides policy issuance and claims adjusting services for the Commercial Auto Insurance Procedures/Plans (CAIP).[1] Through Progressive Home Advantage, it acts as an agent to offer new and existing Progressive customers home, condo and renters insurance underwritten by these homeowner's insurance companies.[1]
Progressive's main competitors are the other industry leaders, GEICO, State Farm, and Allstate (ALL). All of these competitors also sell non-auto forms of insurance putting them at greater risk to catastrophes. For example, Hurricane Katrina devastated them because they insured Gulf Coast homes. But because of Progressive's unique autos-only policy, neither of these risks poses as significant a threat (people can drive their cars away from a hurricane). Progressive (and GEICO) have been attempting to cut into Allstate and State Farm's combined market share of 29% by competing on price.
As Progressive continues to grow, it may face pressure to offer low premiums. If Progressive begins to charge below its targeted price levels, it will lose its actuarial advantage, and its loss ratio could rise. In general, insurance industries follow cycles where high premiums and tight actuarial standards cause high profits, which insurers invest in growing their customer base; this causes an erosion of discipline, and falling profits. Insurers then raise their prices, and the process begins again. This is known as the underwriting cycle.
The underwriting cycle affects all insurers. Likewise, auto insurers have benefited from another trend: low accident rates. In 2003, Progressive's return on premiums more than doubled from 7.6% to 12.7%, and it has remained high since. These high profits arose because its formula over-predicted the rate of accidents. This could be due to a number of factors such as the introduction of safer cars or roads, factors which are difficult to predict. It could also be that auto insurers have been lucky of late, and by chance there have been fewer accidents than expected. If luck is the explanation, then the industry's high profits may fall as more accidents occur. In any event, the high profits are likely to attract increased competition in the auto insurance industry, further compounding the effects of the underwriting cycle.
Since the ratios and investment returns figures are not disaggregated, the following table compares Progressive to other leading insurers on these key statistics. Note that premiums sold refers to total premiums sold, not just auto premiums. Figures in billions of dollars unless noted.
|State Farm**
|Progressive (PGR)
|Liberty Mutual**
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|Claims Paid
|Combined Ratio
|Investment Income
|Net Income
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Progessive's low combined ratio indicates a high degree of profitability, but closer examination reveals a low investment return, even allowing for the fact that it sells fewer premiums. The low return is due to Progressive's autos-only stance: since auto claims are filed more frequently than home insurance claims, investments have less time to generate float returns. Progressive aimed for a combined ratio of 96% but ended up exceeding expectations by 8 percentage points due in large part to the trend in lower accident rates.

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Pet Snakes provides easy to understand, practical information and facts to help the new snake owner take care of their animals. At Pet Snakes we want to provide information that will help you enjoy your reptile more than ever.Pet Snakes
One of the most unappreciated conditions for a novice owner that can affect a snake is regurgitation. When a snake regurgitates a meal many people will treat it as if it were nothing to become overly concerned about. Unfortunately it is a condition which can lead to the death of your snake in very short order if steps are not taken to address the issue. In this article we will attempt to answer the following questions regarding regurgitation in snakes.What is regurgitation?
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Notice how it just comes back out and is clearly not digested whatsoever, and aside from being very dead it looks (almost) fine. That animal has been regurgitated. It hasn't reached the stomach and the major parts of digestion haven't begun. In researching this article I was unable to locate a video of a snake "vomiting" a partially digested meal. Which is actually just fine by me.Differences between vomiting and regurgitation
Regurgitation on the other hand is when the snake willfully reverses the process of ingestion before the prey reaches the stomach and expels it from its mouth. In this situation the snake will lose very little in the way of amino acids abefore What causes regurgitation?
Another cause of regurgitation in snakes is improper husbandry. This is part of the reason it is so important to find some reliable
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Stress is also a primary cause of regurgitation in snakes. In this case not stress from handling, but just stress from co-existing with humans and other household pets. For the most part snakes aren't social animals, at least not compared to dogs and cats and even some lizards. Which means that too much activity can cause them stress, which can cause them fear, which can cause them to decide to regurgitate their meal "just in case" they decide to flee.
Another cause of regurgitation is over-eating. Snakes are eating machines. Once that "switch" is thrown and they are in feeding mode they will try to eat anything thrown in front of them. In fact a method of getting snake to change to another prey item is to offer the normal item and as soon as it has eaten that offer the new item. The snake will almost always make a go of the second prey that is offered.
Since our inception in 2009, COR has embraced the philosophy of Gentle Teaching and has asked its caregivers to utilize this alternative approach to supporting people. COR has put aside traditional practices of support such as physical management, restraint and consequences. It does not accept interventions based on the use of reward and punishment designed to modify personally and socially destructive actions.
A culture of gentleness is woven into all aspects of the organization – in the people it hires, how each person is mentored, and in the selection and support of individuals and families.This culture is about us as caregivers coming to the people we support in a non-violent way; non-violence is the understanding of what the other person perceives as violent – not what we perceive as violence.In a culture of gentleness, interactions are warm, welcoming and aimed at nurturing relationships based on equality and interdependence. Our focus is on building a sense of companionship and community with those we serve.
A critical part of this culture of gentleness involves shedding some common attitudes that lead to intolerance toward 'troublesome' people, such as seeing individuals solely as behavior problems, and being unwilling to express love toward them. A person's value is not based on their behaviour – what they do, or do not do with us, or for us; it is inherent and unchanging. Once people learn that we value them, they can then learn to value others – that it is good to be with others and do things with others.
The first duty of a caregiver is to assure each person protection from any harm, primarily through a sharp eye on prevention, constant nurturing and loving interactions. The Gentle Teaching approach encompasses a transformation of both the marginalized person and the caregiver. It is not an approach that presents fixed and immutable answers that caregivers follow in a lock step manner. It is one that asks caregivers to interact within a broad framework based on the prevention of harm and the expression of unconditional love. Harm's prevention often initially involves giving the person what he/she wants, as long as it is not harmful, so that the caregiver can enter the person's space and begin to teach, "When you are with me, you are safe and loved." Individuals learn to see their caregivers as authentic companions and to slowly learn to trust others in the broader community. It is not an approach that centers itself on behavioral change. It is an approach that beckons spiritual or internal change.
The use of traditional approaches and practices based on control and compliance emphasize the changing of the other person; Gentle Teaching challenges caregivers to change themselves and base their interventions and relationships on unconditional love. COR asks its caregivers to see themselves as companions to marginalized persons; for it is the responsibility of the caregiver to initiate and initially present and sustain this mutual transformation process.
The central and guiding focus is for all caregivers to help the person learn to feel safe and loved. Feeling safe is vital in Gentle Teaching; it means that the person starts to feel unafraid of our presence. This can be observed in the warmth and peacefulness of the person's face, further expanding to deeper feelings such as wanting to be with us, spending longer periods of time with us, awaiting our coming back when we leave, and eventually doing activities with us. Feeling loved embodies the characteristics of feeling safe, but with a deeper sense of feeling safe. It creates an urge for the person to be with us, to come to us, and to want to stay with us. It can involve a reaching out to us or seeking a hug from us. It is seen in a smile, a warm gaze, walking happily toward us, accepting and giving an embrace, and a host of other indicators. Love is impossible if the person does not feel safe.
It is important to recognize that old memories cannot be immediately eradicated; it is our hope to help the person evolve new memories starting with the feeling of being safe and loved. It is only when one feels both safe and loved that the individual may begin to express love toward the broader caregiving community and become engaged more fully in the outside community. These purposes are essential in all moral development and are the core of our human interdependence and connectedness with others. One's focus must center on who the person is becoming, not what we might want to get rid of.
As part of a culture of gentleness, COR has developed a flexible, person-centered approach and a-quick-to-respond management model that recognizes the depth of each person's past experiences and the wounds and scars that these have left on the hearts and souls of those served. COR places a significant emphasis on the education and mentoring of its caregivers, as well celebrating and sharing each person's talents and gifts.
Answering some of the tough questions about Gentle Teaching.
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An arctic tern in Iceland. (Photo courtesy of Flickr user Didier Baertschiger. Licensed under creative commons.)
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. The following is an excerpt from Rebecca Solnit's new book The Faraway Nearby, published today by Viking.
One summer some years ago, on a peninsula jutting off another peninsula off the west coast of Iceland, I lived among strangers and birds. The birds were mostly new species I got to know a little, the golden plovers plaintively dissembling in the grass to lead intruders away from their nests, the oystercatchers who flew overhead uttering unearthly oscillating cries, the coastal fulmars, skuas and guillemots, and most particularly the arctic terns. The impeccable whiteness of their feathers, the sharpness of their scimitar wings, the fierceness of their cries and the steepness of their dives were all enchanting.
Terns were once called sea swallows for their deeply forked tails and grace in the air, and in Latin, arctic terns were named sterna paradisaea by a pietist Danish cleric named Erik Pontoppidan, at the end of a turbulent career. It's not clear why in 1763 he called the black-capped, white-feathered arctic terns sterna paradisaea: birds—or terns—of paradise. He could not have known about their extraordinary migration, back in the day when naturalists—and Pontoppidan himself in his book on Norway—thought swallows buried themselves in the mud in winter and hibernated, rather than imagining they and other birds flew far south to other climes.
Of all living things, arctic terns migrate farthest and live in the most light and least darkness. They fly tens of thousands of miles a year as they relocate from farthest north to farthest south. When they are not nesting, they rarely touch ground and live almost constantly in flight, like albatrosses, like their cousins the sooty terns who roam above the equatorial seas for years at a time without touching down. Theirs is a paradise of endless light and endless effort. The lives of angels must be like this.
The far north is an unearthly earth, where much of what those of us in temperate zones were told is universal is not true. Everyone walks on water, which is a solid. In winter, you can build palaces out of it, or houses out of snow. Ice is blue. Snow insulates. Water crystallizes into floating mountains that destroy whatever collides with them. Many other things turn hard as rock in the cold. Nothing decays, and so time stops for the dead, if not the living. Cold is stability and warmth can be treacherous.
Trees dwindle; shrubs cling to the ground; and further north nothing remains of the plant kingdom but low grasses, diminutive flowers, mosses and lichens hidden beneath the snow part of the year; and nearly every species but the reindeer and some of the summer birds is carnivorous. In winter, light can seem to shine upward from the white ground more than from the dark sky where the sun doesn't rise or rises for an hour or two a day. And at the poles themselves, there are not 365 days per year but one long night and one long stretch of light, and the sun rises once in the spring and sets once in the fall.
Their opposite is the equator, where every day and every night of the year is exactly twelve hours long. The further north or south you go, the longer summer days and winter nights get. In Iceland, each day of spring was several minutes longer than the one before, so that in May the days went from nearly 17 to 20 hours long, and by June there is no true darkness, no night. The sun dipped low around midnight or after and there were spectacular sunsets that melted into sunrises, because the sun never went entirely away.


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The Library's first smartphone app
Bringing treasures to mobile users
"It was UK iPad app of the week and at one point it was the 12th most downloaded iPad app in the UK store."
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Learning and Digital Programmes Manager
With the launch of its first smartphone app, the Library showed its commitment to innovative ideas that increase access and reach of services. The launch, in partnership with Toura, a leading mobile technology provider for mobile guides, makes more than 100 of the greatest items in the Library's collections available on mobile platforms including iPhone, Android and iPad.
"We wanted mobile users to enjoy an up-close and personal experience with some of the Library's unique treasures," said David Avery, Web Content Developer. "We have provided a truly multimedia experience, including 250 high definition images and over 40 videos with expert commentary and textual interpretation."
The app is available worldwide, helping to increase the Library's global profile and generating shared revenue.
Among the treasures selected from the Library's Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery are the Codex Sinaiticus (the world's oldest bible), an original Magna Carta of 1215, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Sultan Baybars' Qur'an and Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.


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August 15, 2013
How To Quickly and Easily Dry Your Own Herbs
The product of way too much time on my hands one Sunday afternoon left me pondering the various spices and oils populating my mother's cupboard. I saw rows and rows of dried herbs and spices. I was reminded of a family friend's herb garden and wondered how I would go about drying my own herbs. Here's how I did it. Read the rest of this entry »


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Hopes dashed in 10th, O's drop opener in 11
BALTIMORE -- Nelson Cruz thought he could make it. Moments earlier, third-base coach Bobby Dickerson thought the same of Nick Markakis.
Instead, both runners, one attempting to steal home and the other running hard around third base to get there, were thrown out at the plate trying to score the game-winning run in the 10th inning. Instead, the Oakland A's ended up scoring the winning run in the next inning.View Full Game Coverage
BALTIMORE -- Nelson Cruz thought he could make it. Moments earlier, third-base coach Bobby Dickerson thought the same of Nick Markakis.
Instead, both runners, one attempting to steal home and the other running hard around third base to get there, were thrown out at the plate trying to score the game-winning run in the 10th inning. Instead, the Oakland A's ended up scoring the winning run in the next inning.View Full Game Coverage
Manny Machado homered after being at the center of a benches-clearing incident, but the Orioles missed late chances and eventually let the A's off the ropes in a 4-3 loss in 11 innings on Friday night.
Cruz was caught attempting to steal home moments after A's right fielder Brandon Moss threw Markakis out at the plate with the game tied in the 10th.
Asked if Cruz's attempted was a straight steal, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said, "I think so. Saw it, felt it, went for it, didn't work out. We'd be talking the other way. A lot of good things went on. We just couldn't get over the hump."
Chris Davis homered for the Orioles (30-29), who have lost two straight after winning four in a row. This setback came in their first meeting this season with the American League West-leading A's (38-23) and as Baltimore returned to Oriole Park at Camden Yards after a splitting a 10-game road trip.
It also occurred despite Baltimore leading 3-2 with two outs in the eighth. Yoenis Cespedes' two-out double off Darren O'Day tied the game.
Markakis opened the 10th with a single off Fernando Abad (1-3) and moved to second on Machado's sacrifice bunt. After Abad intentionally walked Cruz, Adam Jones singled to right, but Moss threw Markakis out. Replay confirmed the putout.
"Bobby does a great job over there," Showalter said of his third-base coach. "Bang-bang play at the plate."
Cruz went to third base on the throw home and Jones later moved to second on catcher's indifference with Davis at the plate. With a 2-2 count on the left-handed hitting Davis, Cruz attempted to steal home.
"They had one of their best hitters at the plate. I'm glad he [ran]," A's third baseman Josh Donaldson said.
Abad quickly threw to Derek Norris, who once again tagged a runner out at the plate.
"Obviously, I wanted to let Davis hit with two strikes. I thought I had a shot, so I went for it," said Cruz, now 1 for 5 on stolen-base attempts this season.
John Jaso doubled off Evan Meek (0-2) to open the 11th. He went to third on J.J. Hardy's fielding error and scored on pinch-hitter Stephen Vogt's base hit. Hardy has committed four errors in two games.
"I tried to be too quick and was thinking about going to third," said the Gold Glove shortstop, who was at a loss for words over recent struggles in the field. "I can't explain it. It's really frustrating."
Machado's solo blast in the fifth off Tommy Millone came after a brief, but heated confrontation with fellow third baseman Donaldson in Baltimore's half of the third.
With Machado on second base and two outs, Donaldson fielded a Jones grounder and aggressively tagged out Machado running to third.
Well outside the base path when the tag occurred, Machado appeared to throw down his helmet and then walked in Donaldson's direction. That led to players from both sides running onto the field from the dugouts and bullpens. No physical altercation took place during the fleeting incident.
"[Donaldson] made the right play, but just didn't agree on the tag that he made on me and I just had to get up and confront him," Machado said. "You get in the heat of the moment and things start flying. It's part of the game and you're going to have to continue."
With one out in the fifth, Machado turned on a 0-1 fastball and sent the ball over the center-field wall for a 3-2 lead, which Baltimore kept until the eighth.
Sean Doolittle pitched the 11th for his eighth save. The Orioles fell to 5-3 in extra-inning games.
Wei-Yin Chen was solid one game after Chris Tillman's brutal one-inning start.
The lefty allowed two runs on five hits including solo homers to Donaldson and Norris in the first and second inning respectively. Chen settled down from there, retiring 10 straight batters during the middle innings and left with a 3-2 lead.
Jonathan Schoop's RBI single in the second and Davis' homer tied the game at 2 in the fourth. Hardy had three of Baltimore's 13 hits.
There was plenty to like from the Orioles' perspective, until there wasn't.
"I mean, it was all there," Machado said. "It was all there. We had it from the get-go. Tough loss, tough loss."
Jeff Seidel is a contributor to MLB.com.


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With a warm climate, adequate water supply and cropping expertise of a large labor force, the Southeast seems ideally poised to become a major fruit and vegetable growing center in the U.S.
But labor shortages, unstable weather patterns and the introduction of new insect pests are major roadblocks to overcome.
Veteran Clemson University Extension AssociatePowell Smith says South Carolina is a microcosm of vegetable and fruit potential in the Southeast that is being held back by these three factors.
Among producing states, California produces more than 40 percent of all the vegetables grown in the U.S.
Florida and Georgia are both in the top five and North Carolina is the next largest vegetable producing state in the Southeast.
Perhaps the most telling factor in growth of the industry in the Southeast is a look at planted acres versus harvested area over the past three years.
In Florida in 2010, 190,100 acres were planted and 176,500 harvested. In 2012, 201,000 acres were planted and 186,700 acres were harvested.
Regardless of the size of the planted crop, each state reports annually a loss of 10-15 percent of acres from planting time to harvest. Losing that percentage of a crop annually from the time vegetables are planted until they are harvested, processed and sold makes expansion challenging at best.
Labor is absolutely critical to vegetable production and can be just as critical during fruit harvest seasons. Currently, labor, across all agricultural production, is uncertain at best.
Smith says it is understandably difficult for a grower to invest the money necessary to plant a high value vegetable crop without the certainty that he or she will have the labor needed to grow it, and more importantly harvest it.
"The biggest cost in most vegetable production comes at harvest time. If you need 175 laborers to pick your crop in a relatively short time period, and you can only come up with 100, you've got yourself a big economic problem," he says.
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He also points out that most people outside of agriculture consider foreign labor, whether they be from Mexico or Guatemala or even farther away places, like Haiti, to be unskilled. Yet, if you look at time and motion studies done with migrant labor, you will find these people are highly skilled at what they do, he adds.
"Another misconception is that we can just take people out of prison or off welfare rolls and put them to work doing this on-farm, unskilled labor. That just won't work, because the forced labor doesn't want to work, and they don't have the skills necessary to be efficient in on-farm labor.
"For most South Carolina vegetable and fruit growers the Federal H-2A program isn't feasible. Smaller acreage operations, growing seasonal crops are just not set up to handle all the guidelines set forth in H-2A programs. Plus, the cost isn't feasible in most small operations," Smith says.
"When you add to the mix a series of truly unpredictable weather patterns over the past few years, it just heightens the other production problems we see in fruit and vegetable production.
"And, weather plays a significant role in limiting the expansion we would like to see in fruit and vegetable production in South Carolina and throughout the Southeast," he adds.
For example, last year March was warmer than May. Though the drought situation as a whole has not been as severe as the past two years in the Midwest and Southwest, drought periods at the wrong time in vegetable production is a real limiting factor in production, as it is in all agricultural crops.
"This year we had collardsbolting in late February —t hat's earlier than anyone that I know has ever seen that.
"Typically, we see collards in South Carolina bolt in March. When you have a crop that matures early you tend to have more production problems and often there is no market for these early maturing vegetables," the Clemson Specialist says.
Labor problems in agriculture are not new and weather has plagued farming since the first crop was planted centuries ago.
The third limiting factor in the growth of the fruit and vegetable industry in the Southeast in general and South Carolina in particular is not old, but may be even more challenging to manage.
The introduction into the Southeast over the past few years of new insect pests from countries thousands of miles away are playing havoc with production and are clearly a consideration when a grower thinks about expanding production, much less when a new grower tries to determine whether he or she should get into the fruit and vegetable business.
The kudzu bug and the brown marmorated stink bug have gotten a lot of attention in the farm and public media in recent years.
Major problems
These pests may prove to be major problems in vegetable production in the years to come, but today the spotted wing drosophila, a recent import to the Southeast, has gotten the attention of fruit growers up and down the East Coast.
The spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) is native to Southeast Asia. It was detected in Japan in 1916, in Hawaii in the 1980s, and in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. by the mid 2000s.
In 2010, it was first documented in the Southeast and has been on the increase in terms of numbers and in the damage it causes to fruit in the region for the past two years.
Hannah Burrack, a small fruit entomologist at North Carolina State University says, "Spotted wing drosophila is an invasive pest of soft skinned fruit, which in the southeastern United States includes blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries. Wholesalers and marketers have zero tolerance for SWD in fresh market fruit."
The African fig fly is another threat that so far has only been a potential concern for Southeast fruit growers, but one that could become a major insect pest in coming years. It is, as the name implies, native to Africa.
"This is a very distinctive, almost beautiful insect in the adult form, that's probably why we began to notice it when it showed up sporadically in our traps," Smith says.
"So far it's been found mostly on damaged fruit and unlike the spotted wing Drosophila, it has not been a problem on fruit that is actively growing," he adds.
In the Southeast this pest was first detected in Florida in 2005. It has now been reported in most Southeast states and as far north as Michigan and Pennsylvania and as far west as Texas.
It has the potential to damage blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and other soft fruit grown in the Southeast.
"All these new insect pests have the potential to damage fruit and vegetable crops in the Southeast, and along with other challenges faced by commercial growers, add to the uncertainty of expanding production," Smith says.
He adds that despite these challenges growers continue to add acreage and plant new crops. "They have certainly not been held back by the challenge, but more so by the uncertainty that labor, weather, and new pests bring to the table," Smith adds.


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The event will showcase 28 artists, all of whom are under 18, giving them the opportunity to perform live in front of an audience — many for the first time.
The event emcee will be Tim Pyles, host of the all-local music program "The Local 94/9" on San Diego radio station FM94/9.
Point Loma performers include the following:
• Crystal Rose
Rose, 15, sings with a few of her friends in a cover band, playing bluesy songs like "Dr. Feelgood." Rose said she loves singing in the Nazarene College Gospel Choir, as well. Writing serves as a way of expression and she said she is thrilled to continue writing and improving her guitar skills. She looks up to artists like Patsy Cline, Aretha Franklin and Adele. Rose describes her genre as bluesy and country-like. She said she believes inspiration is everywhere and that songs should unravel a story with messages to comfort the listener's heart.
• Alison Bell
Bell seems like a typical 14-year-old girl who loves school and hanging around Point Loma with her friends. But ever since she was very little, she has had a strong connection to music. Whether singing karaoke at age 2, playing solo with her acoustic guitar or rocking a full set at the House of Blues with her band, Fate by Friday, Bell said she loves all styles of music. Her influences range from the sweet style of Taylor Swift and Amy Winehouse to the gritty hard rock of Taylor Momsen from The Pretty Reckless. She plays many instruments, including guitar, keys and some drums but mostly loves to sing, play acoustic guitar and is almost always on the electric bass in her band.
• James Cesena
Cesena is a 14-year-old lead singer from the Point Loma based band Fate by Friday. He was first a singer, then a musician, and now a performer — a process that his taken him three years to achieve. Cesena enjoys playing so much that would like for this to become his full-time profession. His favorite inspirational quote is, "Being a musician is like being an artist except their canvas is silence."
Other event supporters include Jeff McCullough, founder of Tree Hill Media and Song For Food® album music producer, arranger, composer and songwriter; Peninsula music staple Glen Fisher, bassist, composer, arts education consultant and founder of First Friday Music Club; and Johnny Bell, founder of the San Diego Kids Expo & Fair.
"Rhythm & Youth" takes place June 1 and 2 from noon to 5 p.m.
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To her biographer, Simone de Beauvoir confided a less than rhapsodic one-night stand, in 1946, with the Hungarian malcontent Arthur Koestler: "One night I got so drunk I let him come home with me. We slept together. It wasn't any good. It didn't mean anything. He was too drunk, so was I. It never happened again. Only that night was real, the rest is how I loathed him." Beauvoir was rather kinder in Force of Circumstance, the third volume of her memoirs, recalling K.'s curiosity and generosity as well as his self-importance: "Touchy, tormented, greedy for human warmth, but cut off from others by his personal obsessions." And rather more ambivalent in that plum-pudding roman à clef, The Mandarins, where her alter ego, Anne, will notice, almost immediately after succumbing to the "Slavic charm" of the Koestler-like Scriassine, "a lot of hate" in those "fiery eyes," and the delusion that "loneliness can be cured by force."
They got around like a virus or the clap, those European intellectuals. Nor did they fail to ideologize their sadness in the sack (Kronstadt! Slansky!). So delirious, in fact, were the bistro behaviors of The Second Sex and Darkness at Noon, not to mention The Myth of Sisyphus, Nausea and Man's Fate, that we are tempted to linger and to wallow. Imagine Jean-Paul Words so drunk over onion soup at Les Halles that he fills up paper napkins with pepper and salt and hides them in his pockets. Or Darkness and Sisyphus getting into a fistfight, not because Camus was having it off with K.'s main squeeze, Mamaine "The Mermaid" Paget, but because Caligula accused Scum of the Earth of cheating to win their wager on who could scuttle the fastest across the Place St. Michel on all fours. Or Being and Nothingness calling off their friendship because Invisible Writing insisted on remaining buddies with Voices of Silence, which oracular Silence, André Malraux, had been pressuring Gallimard to cease publication of No Exit's favorite magazine, Les Temps modernes. And maybe "Mermaid" Paget needs a biography of her own. While The God That Failed was knocking her about–before and after The Stranger ran away with her–Jean-Paul Saint Genet also made a clumsy pass, and so did that Dead Sea Scroll at the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson, while he was still married to The Group.
But if we are to believe David Cesarani's weird book, Beauvoir was luckier than many of K.'s bedmates. What might just as easily have happened is Koestler's inviting himself into her flat, bullying her into batching up an omelet, helping her to towel the plates, grabbing her by her hair or throat, pulling her down to the linoleum, banging her head a couple of times and then raping her, after which explaining: "I thought you had a bit of a yen for me." This is what he did to Jill Craigie, the filmmaker wife of Labor MP Michael Foot. (Craigie died late last year, but not before the details of her interview with Cesarani made headlines in the British tabloids.) And probably what he did to a fair number of other young women in his long career of sexual conquest. It certainly bears a striking resemblance to the "seduction" of Odette by Slavek in his Lisbon novel, Arrival and Departure. More than a user, Koestler was an abuser–of women, alcohol, automobiles and ideas.
This abusiveness–and the evidence is overwhelming that he was an "intemperate, obsessive, egomaniacal, bullying, petty, selfish, arrogant, lecherous, duplicitous and self-deluding" "serial rapist" addicted late in life to "happy pills" (Dexedrine)–is one of two main accusations in a relentless bill of indictment. The other is "the negativity of his Jewishness," by which Cesarani, a professor of modern Jewish history at Southampton University, means more than ambivalence but a denial verging on self-hatred: "At odds with his origins, uneasy with himself and unable to settle because with no clear identity it was not clear where he belonged, he was condemned to a nomadic life-style. Homelessness became his domicile, and his politics were the politics of location and dislocation."


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Food is a go-to holiday gift for many people. But the wrong choices can come off as tasteless.
Elisabeth Holder, managing director of Ladurée USA, the French bakery known for its macarons, often gives food as presents to in-laws, grandparents and business associates. But she first does some research on the likes, dislikes, allergies and religious dietary restrictions of the recipient to avoid committing a faux pas.


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Paul Rieckhoff reminds us about another King who marched in America: This time to honor our military veterans:
As vets, we need every American to have our backs. You don't have to be a veteran to support the new veterans movement. Alvin King knew that. He wasn't a veteran and he didn't do it alone. It took an entire groundswell of civilians and veterans alike. It's on each of us to build the movement he started back in Emporia, Kan. and take it all the way around the world. And unlike Alvin, we have social media tools and virtual communities to make our movement that much greater. And this year, it won't take more than a minute of your time to show your support and gratitude to these brave men and women. In just a few clicks you can march with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of American (IAVA) on Facebook or Twitter to show them that we've got their backs this Veterans Day.
It doesn't matter if you voted for the Green Party or the Tea Party, live in Boston or the Bayou; Veterans Day is about uniting as a country and supporting our nation's troops and veterans. We can turn the page on a divided America and unite the country on this important day.
I know Alvin King would be proud.
Say what you will about the Internet/blogosphere, but there are a lot of great and sometimes provocative pieces out there about the true meaning of Veterans Day. I would encourage you to read some of these and reflect:
Aaron Sorkin says bumper-sticker patriotism is no way to honor veterans.
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Rokita Releases "Unlucky 13" List of Investor Traps for 2006
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Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita today outlined a forecast of the 13 most common ways investors are likely to be trapped in 2006.
"This list is anything but lucky," Rokita said. "Investment scams can be devastating for the investor who falls victim, both financially and emotionally. Scams come in many disguises, but they all share a common goal of separating victims from their money. We are especially concerned that as the first of the Baby Boomers turn 60 this year, they not become trapped in bad investments as their retirement nears."
A major statewide survey of more than 1000 Hoosier families conducted for Rokita's office showed that nearly two-thirds of Indiana adults who own financial investments have little or no knowledge about potential fraud schemes or the security of such investments. In an effort to combat this lack of investment education among all Hoosiers, Rokita has assembled an industrious plan, including a $1.8 million awareness campaign, to raise understanding and thwart scam artists and perpetrators of fraudulent sales pitches to investors.
Before making any investment, Rokita urges investors to ask the following questions: Are the seller and the investment licensed and registered in your state? Has the seller given you written information that fully explains the investment? Are claims made for the investment realistic? Does the investment meet your personal investment goals? Rokita also urges investors to contact their state or provincial securities regulator with any questions about an investment product, broker or adviser, before making an investment. "One phone call can save you a lot of money and misery," Rokita said. While the traps below are listed alphabetically, Rokita identified personal information scams, oil and gas investment fraud, and prime bank schemes as the greatest potential threats to investors this year.
Affinity Fraud. Con artists frequently target members of closely knit religious, political, or ethnic groups. Their pitch is essentially, "since I am like you and believe like you, you can believe in me and in what I say." When an investment is presented in this context, the potential investor should be extremely wary. This pitch seeks to substitute an emotional appeal for careful analysis and critical thought.
Churning. An abusive sales practice in which unethical securities professionals make unnecessary and/or excessive trades in order to generate commissions. Most churning occurs where a broker has discretion to trade the account. In such cases, it is not necessary that the broker receive prior approval from the client to complete a transaction. Equity Indexed Certificates of Deposit. Remember the days of FDIC-insured, bank-issued certificates of deposit with guaranteed principal and interest? Equity Indexed CDs are not the same product. These hybrid securities products offer an interest coupon payment or return that is based on a stock market index, usually the S&P 500. Returns are not FDIC insured. They are dependent on the performance of the stock market. These are complex securities that promise a rate of return calculated over a defined period of time based upon some form of securities market index. A declining stock market means the possibility of no return on your investment. As a result, these products pose liquidity problems and are therefore, not suitable for seniors who may need the money for retirement living.
Oil and Gas Investment Fraud. High oil prices mean oil and gas scams will continue to attract victims. Oil and gas deals are complicated investments that generally require a significant investment, often requiring a minimum deposit of thousands of dollars. Increasingly, these deals are being promoted via the Internet with claims of attractive tax advantages. Sales materials with "official-looking" surveyor maps and "geologist" opinion letters touting the likelihood that the "managers" of the drilling enterprise will hit pay dirt are sent regularly to prospective investors more than 1,000 miles from the region being "prospected." Overall, these deals are highly risky, but the lure of high profits often proves irresistible to investors.
Personal Information Scams. The first step in separating a victim from his or her money is convincing the victim to divulge personal financial information. When the sales agent is a local tax preparer or unaffiliated insurance agent, he or she enjoys a position of trust in the community. Con artists not enjoying such a position of trust frequently style themselves as "senior specialists" or adopt a pretext of preparing "living will" or a "living trust." A pretext that is of current concern to insurance and securities regulators is the offer to help senior citizens qualify for prescription benefits by preparing forms. In the guise of filling out forms, the scamster may ask unnecessary questions about personal financial assets. To the con artist, this information provides a comprehensive laundry list of what is available for the taking.
Prime Bank Schemes. These schemes often promise high-yield, tax-free returns that are said to result from "off-shore trades of bank debentures." Investors are told that only very wealthy people can get the benefit of these programs but the promoter is able to make it available to the victim. Sometimes the victim is required to execute a "confidentiality agreement" in order to invest and is told not to consult an attorney, accountant or financial planner because they keep these programs for the "big boys" and will deny that they exist. There are no such programs, no such debentures and no such high-yield trades. These prime bank schemes are the securities equivalent of a purse snatch. Once the seller has your money, it's gone "off shore" forever.
Pump and Dump Schemes. Unethical broker-dealers frequently "pump" up the value of low-priced securities traded on the NASDAQ "pink sheets" and then "dump" the stock after naïve investors have purchased the stock at inflated prices. The balloon breaks when the promoters no longer maintain the myth that there is value in the shares and investors are left holding worthless shares. These schemes frequently appear through unsolicited e-mail messages.
Recovery Rooms. Scam artists buy and sell the names and financial information of victims who have lost money to "recovery room" operators who promise, in return for a fee that the victim must pay in advance, to recover the money lost in a worthless investment. These "sucker lists" are bought by crooks who know that people who have been deceived once are vulnerable to additional scams; especially scams that give hope of recovering lost money. If you have been the victim of a fraud, never give out your credit card or other personal information to someone who contacts you with a promise to recover your money. Remember, in the scam world this caller is known as a "reloader" and he is setting you up for a second bite at the apple.
Registered High-Interest Promissory Notes Publicly Advertised. Generally, the higher the return promised, the greater the risk to your money. A track record of paying high interest and repaying principal is not an assurance that you will get your money back if the company fails. These notes are not suitable for retirement funds.
Sale and Leaseback Contracts. In an attempt to avoid the investor protections of securities laws, some investments are structured to resemble the sale of a piece of equipment such as a payphone, ATM machine or Internet booth located at a remote venue where the investor cannot service and maintain the equipment and must enter into a servicing agreement. In order to make the deal more attractive, investors are told that after a given period the equipment can be sold back to the seller at the investor's original purchase price. The investor is also promised a specific rate of return. In a variant of this scheme, a real estate interest such as a long-term lease in a resort community is sold instead of physical equipment. Frequently the equipment or property does not exist and the seller lacks the financial capacity to keep the promise of repurchase.
Self-Directed Pension Plans. Many types of securities fraud require the victim to remove funds from legitimate investments such as stock brokerage accounts, mutual funds, insurance policies, deferred compensation plans and mutual funds so that they can be invested in a worthless scam. This scam may begin with advice to convert an employer-sponsored pension into a self-directed pension plan. While these plans may serve legitimate investment purposes, all too often they only serve to benefit the scam artist.
Unsuitable Recommendations. Just as every investor is different, so too are investments. What may be a suitable investment for one investor may not be right for another. Securities professionals must know their customers' financial situation and only make recommendations of financial products that they have reason to believe are suitable for the customer. When financial professionals fail to live up to applicable ethical standards, great harm can be done to individual investors. Variable annuities are tax-deferred investments that include insurance features and services. These products typically place mutual funds inside of an insurance wrapper for tax deferred potential investment growth. While these products are legitimate, regulators are concerned about their popularity in the sales community. Commissions to those who sell variable annuities are high, which could provide an incentive for sellers to engage in inappropriate sales. Variable annuities should only be considered by investors that understand the purpose and features of the product including penalties for early withdrawals that may make them unsuitable for short-term investors.
The Indiana Secretary of State's investor education program, known as "Indiana Investment Watch," operates within the Secretary of State's Securities Division. The main goals of the program are to prevent fraud and encourage reports of fraudulent activity by raising awareness throughout the state; to assist Hoosiers in finding a basic approach to gaining wealth through saving and investing; to encourage children to learn about money early in life through both family and school activities; and to raise awareness on the resources that the Secretary of State's office offers to the people of Indiana.
Recognizing that financial education is a powerful weapon in the fight against investment fraud, the Secretary of State's office provides tips on how to detect con artists and avoid becoming a victim on its website at www.sos.IN.gov.


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Dell Deal Takes Chunk Out of Nasdaq
By Jacob Bunge and George Stahl
The plan to take Dell Inc. private, announced Tuesday, would mean the exit of one of the Nasdaq Stock Market's marquee tech names and trim some $23 billion from the tech-centric exchange operator's combined market cap of listed companies.
Exchanges tout such valuations as they jockey for global prominence in capital-raising, and Nasdaq OMX's U.S. markets' combined market capitalization of $4.6 trillion ranks number two worldwide — about $9.5 trillion behind arch rival NYSE Euronext, according to figures tabulated by the World Federation of Exchanges.
Dell shares are up 0.7% at $13.37, suggesting shareholders may not be expecting a higher bid than the $13.65 being offered by Michael Dell et al, despite the go-shop period.


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You probably recognize Rich Sommer as Harry Crane, Sterling Cooper Draper's Pryce's head of media on the AMC drama series "Mad Men." But did you know that the actor is also a Back Stage subscriber with a guilty conscience?
Sommer is happy to report that he got auditions from reading Back Stage, yet admits that at one time his subscription was shared with friends from grad school. "Because we were all flat broke, you'll have to forgive me," he says. "But now I'm a full solo subscriber, so I'm trying to make up for it."
After graduating in 2004 with an MFA in acting from the Case Western/Cleveland Play House graduate program in Ohio, Sommer moved to New York City and studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre before eventually moving to Los Angeles for "Mad Men." Sommer is now in New York again rehearsing for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Harvey" with Jim Parsons ("Big Bang Theory"), while also making time to attend the Tribeca Film Festival, where he is in two world premiere films—"Fairhaven," in which he co-stars with writer-director Tom O'Brien and Chris Messina, and "The Giant Mechanical Man," starring Messina and Jenna Fischer.
At the Tribeca premiere party for "Fairhaven" on April 20, Back Stage asked his co-star Sarah Paulson, herself a Broadway vet, if she had any tips for Sommer before his Broadway debut. "That man needs no advice from me," Paulson said. "He is such a brilliant actor, and I think the world has yet to really see what he can do. It's so exciting."
Back Stage spoke with Sommer while he was traveling from L.A. to New York, just before rehearsals for "Harvey" began on April 18. Read part two of our three-part Q&A with Sommer, in which the actor discusses the importance of improv and shares his excitement about being on Broadway for the first time.
Back Stage: Would you say that your improv training helps you be a "team player" in an ensemble cast like "Mad Men?"
Rich Sommer: I think that any good improviser, obviously, is working for the good of the scene. And that should go for any actor, as well. I would much rather provide one line in an episode of "Mad Men" that's funny or moving, like when [elderly secretary] Miss Blankenship died and Harry got to say "My mother made that!" when they covered her in the afghan from his couch. That's one of my favorite lines I've ever gotten to say in the show, and that was my only line in that episode. It was a very small piece of a much larger whole, and I definitely think that my excitement about setting the ball for someone else to spike comes from improv.
I would not have gotten almost any of the jobs I've gotten without having what improv gave me, as far as a sort of ease and an ability to make fast, hard choices. The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got "The Devil Wears Prada," and it's why I even got in the door for "Mad Men." Matt Weiner likes comedy people. You look at the people on our show, and all of us have had some sort of comedy experience. Definitely a very large part of why I have a career at all is improv.
Back Stage: Are you saying that improv training had a bigger impact than acting school?
Sommer: It's a different language. In improv, it's about doing all of that stuff instantly, and making assumptions that your partner is on board with you. Whereas if you're rehearsing a play or creating a character over time, that's a whole different toolbox. I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.
But improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before you were very lucky. Often it was like, "Hey, you have an audition for a commercial tomorrow." "Okay, what's the role?" "I don't know. You'll find out when you get there." That's where improv really helps.
The audition is as much for me as it is for them. I want to meet them. I want to know who I'm going to be interacting with. I love auditioning. We only shoot "Mad Men" for about five months out of the year, so the other seven months, I'm free to audition and do things like "Harvey" this summer, or "Mechanical Man" and "Fairhaven" last year.
Back Stage: What are you doing to prepare for "Harvey" on Broadway?
Sommer: A lot of freaking out. Mostly freaking out. This is my first play since grad school, so it's been eight years. I gave in to the fact that the prep I really need to do is just to get to know the play. I've read it through several times—a couple of times with particular focus, finding and highlighting everything that everyone ever says about my character. I haven't been to a play rehearsal in eight years, and I've never been to a Broadway play rehearsal. I'm excited, I'm terrified I'm going to screw up something somewhere along the line, and I just hope I can pull it off.
Back Stage: Many of your "Fairhaven" and "Mad Men" cast members have a lot of theater experience, so have they offered any advice?
Sommer: The first two people I contacted [after being cast in "Harvey"], other than my family, were John Slattery and Chris Messina, because those guys have obviously done a ton of work in New York plays. I went over to Slattery's apartment and we sat and had some wine, and I really just quizzed him on being on Broadway. "What am I in for? What's it like?" He calmed me down a little bit and said that I would be fine, which I appreciated.
I just passed the mile marker and we're 73 miles away from Cleveland right now, where we're going to dinner with the chair of our acting program from grad school and our acting professor. I'm excited because these are people who have given me the language for being in a play. I definitely am going to be asking for some tips from them.
Q&A Part 1: How 'Mad Men' Actor Rich Sommer Creates His Characters
Q&A Part 3: Only Rich Sommer Holds the Keys to Unlock His Golden Handcuffs
For the full 2012 Tribeca Film Festival schedule and to purchase tickets, visit TribecaFilm.com.
Rich Sommer on Improv, Auditions, and 'Harvey'
You probably recognize Rich Sommer as Harry Crane, Sterling Cooper Draper's Pryce's head of media on the AMC drama series "Mad Men." But did you know that the actor is also a Back Stage subscriber with a guilty conscience?


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Lou Willette died October 13, 2012 at McKinley Manor with her family at her side after being recently diagnosed with cancer.
She was born May 8, 1922 in Mayo, Quebec to Thomas and Ethel Burke and was raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She graduated from Soo Collegiate in Soo, Ontario.
Mary Lou was married to Russel James Willette October 11, 1943. She first met her husband at a dance in Soo, Ontario but they didn't meet up again until a year later when she was helping with a play at Soo High. There was a mixer afterward and Russ approached her and asked if she would be kind enough to give him the first dance. They knew they were meant for each other and the rest is history. They were happily married for 49 years until Russ' death in 1992. Lou has missed him every day since.
Lou worked at Jean's Jewelry store for 17 years and often gave presentations at area high schools on china and silver. Lou was an active member in St. Mary's and Loretto Home and School. She was member of the Alter Society at St. Mary's Catholic Church where she was a past president and served as Eucharistic minister, helping out at area nursing homes. She also made her rounds picking up people for mass. She was a member of the War Memorial Hospital auxiliary and volunteered regularly at the gift shop.
Lou is survived by her son Thomas (deceased) wife Kathleen of Brownstown, Mi., her daughter Suzanne of Portland, Or. and her son, Timothy (Deborah) of Green Bay, Wi.
She is also survived by her grandchildren: Shauna, Jack, Christopher and Ted and by her great-grandchildren: Amanda, Drake, Logan, Gage, and William.
Funeral Mass will be held at St. Marys Catholic Church at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Burial will be at Oaklawn Chapel Gardens.
A luncheon sponsored by St. Marys Alter Society will be held 1:30 p.m. at McKinley Manor, 2023 W. 4th. Parking is limited, so please car pool if at all possible.
Donations in her name can be made to Chippewa County Hospice.
The family wishes to thank the staff of McKinley Manor who provided not only care and support but became her extended family.
Clark-Bailey-Newhouse Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.


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World Refugee Day
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Placing refugees at the centre
After nearly 12 months of planning and work, JRS International announces the launch of its new website.
The new website presents the work of JRS worldwide and for the first time comprehensively highlights the plight of urban refugees with videos, photos, stories and news articles. Initially, it will be available in English, but over the next few months, the French, Italian and Spanish versions will come online. Moreover, the work of the 10 JRS regions will be presented in more detail, as will specific campaigns; for example, on Haiti, education and detention.
"We have chosen Refugee Day as symbolically the right time to launch the website. It is the one day when the eyes of the world are focused on the plight of forcibly displaced persons. The work of JRS puts the person first: doing with, rather doing for, is the heart of our mission. This website is designed to put refugees and their concerns at the centre of our public communications", said JRS International Director, Fr Peter Balleis SJ, speaking from South Africa, where he is visiting the JRS projects for urban refugees in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Within the new website, a special place will be given to the voices of refugees and a new multimedia library. Core to the mission and values of JRS is to empower refugees and bring their voices to the forefront.
"It is often almost impossible to imagine the suffering of refugees in the most distant corners of the world. Millions of refugees and asylum seekers live this invisible and insecure existence. So-called survival migrants are forced to eke out an existence in difficult circumstances and to send money back home. This website seeks to bring their voices, joys and concerns, closer to you" added Fr Balleis SJ
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Please follow the green signs to "Koelnmesse". Once in the area surrounding the exhibition center, you will be guided to the appropriate parking spaces by our modern traffic guidance system. There is a total of approx. 14,500 parking places available for our guests. The parking spaces are optimally linked to our entrances. You can reach them on foot or, if applicable, using our complimentary shuttle buses.
Most of Cologne's metrolpolitan area is a low emission zone, into which only vehicles sporting one of the stickers for emission group 4 (green sticker) are allowed to enter since July 2014.
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On Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:42 pm, cheekymunkee wrote:Ok, the nose threw me off! Now where is that other girl? She makes me sad. I'm having to keep an eye on Amanda, she is 4'10" & has always been very thin and was always asked if she had an eating disorder, she ate like a horse but never gained. I told her to watch her eating because one day ( and it happened to me so I speak from experience ) it was going to sneak up on her. It did & she shot up to 122. We went on WW ( she more than me) and she has lost most of it but she s wanting to get back down to 95 & I do not want her to. She wants to look aneroxic without actually being anorexic she tells me. I have been keeping chocolate around the house to keep that from happening.
The other girl is my best friend, Amy. Her parents & my parents were friends before we were even born & we use to share a playpen together. To be honest, we weighed about the same in that pic, it's just she's about 6 inches taller than me (I hate being short ). Her mom is a stick figure & Amy & her sister are both that way genetically. However, she has put on the pounds as well & we are both in a size 8 now. We were both size 0-2s then (I still have those jeans, they are a 2......how depressing, huh).


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Love is in the air as we approach St. Valentine's Day.
And, what greater love than that between a 3-year-old and her new feline, a young cat with a very unusual name that up until a month or so ago was living under unusual conditions in South Carolina.
Newport resident JennyLyn Redner was at a rest stop on 95 in that southern state when she spotted the young cat. Pat Heller, director of development at the Potter League for Animals, said that Jenny- Lyn "couldn't resist this sweet little kitten's personality and decided she just couldn't leave her there." The janitor at the rest stop said that the cat had been hanging around the place for several days. JennyLyn named the vagrant "95" and when she returned to Newport brought her to the Potter League.
Meanwhile, across the East Passage in Jamestown, Antonia Bunaes had been searching for a cat for her 3-year-old daughter, Mia. She had hoped to have one by Christmas, but no luck.
The cat had to be the "right one." One that would give Mia company but also one that could get along with and keep Bacchi (little kisses) under control. Bacchi is an 85 pound, 6- year-old female German shepherd that Antonia and her husband H.P. adopted from Barbara Szepatowski's Paws and Claws last May.
When Antonia and Mia met 95 at the Potter League, they thought she might be the right one. And, as it turned out, Mia and the small black cat with white markings were made for each other. First thought to be a kitten because of her size, the veterinarian, upon examining her teeth determined that 95 was closer to a year old. That put her in the category of "cat."
Then there was the name. All thoughts of a new name were abandoned when Mia reminded her mom, "But her name is 95."
Antonia said that 95 has adapted easily and is "funny and sweet." "She is super with my daughter; they play amazing games. And, 95 will swat the dog if she thinks Bacchi isn't playing right and let's her know when she's had enough."
Sounds like a perfect relationship. Welcome to the island, 95.
The Potter League for Animals is having its largest fund-raiser of the year next Monday at the Hotel Viking in Newport.
The 35th annual Have A Heart Cocktail Party and Silent Auction kicks off at 5 p.m. with a wine tasting and hors d'oeuvres and a chance to check out the auction items. The main event is from 6 to 8 p.m. with the auctioning off of hundreds of items plus more hors d'oeuvres and desserts. There will also be a 50/50 raffle.
The auction includes a six-night stay in exotic Thailand; a one-week visit at Bonefish Barbie's in Eleuthera, the Bahamas; local golf outings; yacht charters; spa days; works of art; jewelry; and gift certificates; plus much more.
You don't have to leave empty handed. You can always take a lonely pet home with you.
To purchase tickets online visit www.potterleague.org.
In the spirit of the season, Mc- Quade's has "with love from Mc- Quade's" on its paper bags.
Right back at cha!
In the Super Bowl buildup last week, BankNewport was giving away cake to its customers and Jametown Wine and Spirits was raffling off a Tom Brady jersey.
Speaking of BankNewport, an islander and a former islander have been presented 2007 BankNewport Employee Citizenship Awards.
Matt Clarke has volunteered for over six years with the Jamestown Community Farm. His award of $250 will be used for seed, fertilizer and fuel for the farm's tractors.
Mary Leach Murphy was recognized for her volunteer work with the Davisville Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization. Her award will be used to upgrade playground equipment for the school.
Great job, guys!
Matt Winton asks, "Who sang the National Anthem at the opening of the Newport Bridge on June 28, 1969?"
Rose Fraley, Ed Silvia, Bob Kinder and Helen Richardson were all in with the answer to the poser, Hey, good looking, whatcha got cooking? How about cooking something up with me.
Ed and I sang a duet on the phone, and Helen commented that at the time of the song's popularity she was a food editor at a newspaper and "so that was a theme song for us gals."
Kudos to B.J. Whitehouse, Sally Schott and Larry Lewis who came to the column's rescue with the correct answer to John Murphy's poser.
Larry wrote, "I must rise to defend my fellow readers' honor! My response to the gauntlet thrown down by the honorable Mr. Murphy is: 'Blowing In The Wind,' by Bob Dylan.
"On certain occasions over these past decades, those Jamestown residents with good ears and a favorable breeze might well have heard Mr. Zimmerman himself singing his 'Yes'n's in this tune from across East Passage during some editions of the Newport Folk Festival."
John added that the song was perhaps made most famous by Peter, Paul & Mary. He opined that the greatest poetry in song lyrics were those written for The Ink Spots and gave "Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat" as an example. "Just a beautiful song, and very poetic lyrics."
Thanks again, everyone, I had no idea what the answer was.
Help your pup through his teething woes says Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic.
"Just like kids, puppies have a teething phase as their baby teeth fall out at about 3 to 6 months. Many pets lose their teeth while eating and owners may not notice the loss of the teeth. Other times you may see a loose tooth or even some blood along the pet's gums or on toys. If your pet seems uncomfortable or is chewing items like shoes and furniture then you should find them more appropriate chew toys. Something soft or rubbery that you can put in the freezer or coat in a small amount of peanut butter will help divert their attention to the toy and not to your shoes.
"Another option is to freeze a wet hand cloth and let your pet chew on this frozen treat to help soothe sore gums. Just be sure to take it away when it starts melting and make sure it is big enough that your pet can't rip off and swallow small pieces."
Trips to my Funk & Wagnalls:
Soughed - To make a rushing, rustling or murmuring sound.
Ineluctably - Incapable of being evaded.
Persiflage - Light, bantering talk or writing.
Adumbrated - To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
*** ...................has me in its spell,
Tomorrow, the day after the start of the Chinese lunar New Year, the Year of the Rat, island children ages 5 and over are invited to the Jamestown Philomenian Library from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. for a dragon paper bag puppet workshop.
Materials will be supplied and registration is not required for this free program.
Tomorrow marks the day in 1910 that the Boy Scouts of America was founded.
Tuesday is President Lincoln's birthday.
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WEST POINT - Neighbors in the tranquil forests northeast of West Point know what to do when they hear the sound of a $500,000 log skidder smashing through steel gates after hours.
WEST POINT - Neighbors in the tranquil forests northeast of West Point know what to do when they hear the sound of a $500,000 log skidder smashing through steel gates after hours.
The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office reports several people living near the 3800 block of Lily Gap Road the night of July 19 heard the noise around 9 p.m. and went out to investigate what they suspected was an attempt to steal a "skidgine," a machine belonging to Sierra Pacific Industries used to pull logs from where they fall and move them to where they can be loaded onto trucks.
At least one of the neighbors had a firearm and used it to detain Roger Gibbings, 42, of West Point. When deputies arrived, they arrested Gibbings on suspicion of various felonies including vehicle theft, burglary and receiving stolen property.
A woman who had been with Gibbings reportedly fled on foot after the skidgine got stuck on a hillside. Deputies identified her as Cena Fillmore, 22, of West Point and arrested her nearby after phone calls from neighbors alerted them to her whereabouts. Fillmore was arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft and receiving stolen property.
Both Fillmore and Gibbings were booked into Calaveras County Jail, although Fillmore was released quickly due to lack of space in the jail.
Investigators reported that before Gibbings was suspected of stealing the logging vehicle and using it to crash through the closed gates, he was also in possession of a stolen truck.
In addition to the charges connected to Friday's events, Gibbings was also arrested on a warrant alleging he violated his parole from state prison.
According to booking records, Fillmore and Gibbings share a residence in the 900 block of Stanley Road, not far from where the body of Norman Gresham III was found in his home in the 200 block of Stanley Road with a fatal gunshot wound on July 9.
According to Calaveras Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Chris Hewitt, Gibbings and Fillmore have been questioned in the Stanley Road slaying because "they may have known the decedent and the female victim."
That 37-year-old female victim also had a gunshot wound to her head but survived and was hospitalized. She was released from a Modesto hospital on July 17.


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