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By converting our homes to be reliant on the power of the sun we can contribute to the national effort to reduce energy demand and start shifting towards efficient and renewable energy use. Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP).
A very helpful and easy to understand website, www.solarpanel.co.za is worth visiting to understand the complexities of running your home entirely on solar power and to be independent from grid electricity (ESKOM).
"Probably the main concern to any homeowner is the high cost of the initial outlay for such a system, which can cost as much as R 300 000. But in the current climate of load shedding, we probably do not have a choice in South Africa. Also keep in mind that the immediate financial implications could be offset when the property is sold, as future buyers might be swayed by the advantages of purchasing solar powered homes. Your monthly electricity bill will be reduced by at least 50% so the system eventually pays for itself. The sooner we convert to a solar powered home, probably the better" shared Craig Hutchison, CEO of Engel & Völkers Southern Africa.
There are many choices of which appliances to convert in your home, and your decision would be based on your needs and financial circumstances. But the most essential changes are probably:
- All incandescent globes must be replaced with CFL – low watt fluorescent and even LED lighting, which has become more affordable
- Solar geysers make use of the sun to heat the water by circulating through specially designed heating panels (the geyser is one of the largest consumers of power)
- Many household appliances are becoming more and more energy efficient – examples of these are:
- LCD TVs
- Laptop computers
- Solar fridges and freezers
- Evaporative air conditioners
- Electric blankets instead of heaters
- Gas stoves
Starting/planning a solar system for your home can be done in stages. For example, to start with the basic solar system that will provide power for a TV, DVD, DSTV, a radio and cellphone chargers and say 10 x 15W lights one would require:
- 4 x 80W solar panels
- 2 x 20A regulators
- 4 x 102A Deep Cycle batteries
- 1 x 2000W 24V True Sinewave Inverter (so that future increased needs can be accommodated)
- 4 x panel roof mounts
- Cables, connectors and flex
- Installation
It is important to invest in the right equipment from the beginning. Of course, thereafter as you add more appliances to your solar system, you would need to increase the size of all the above components, so it is absolutely essential to consult a professional company for assistance. The most important is to invest in a system which you can add onto, without making what you already have, redundant. Batteries can be always be added, but your biggest single item cash layout are the Inverter and Solar regulators. Then you will be able to start off with a system costing less than R 20 000 and expand that to a system worth R 300 000 over a period of time, without problems.
Solar Panels remain the most popular type of renewable energy producer at present because of their reliability and consistency and in South Africa due to the amount of sun we have available. They produce electricity from photons, found in light radiation, which means even on overcast days they will produce something, though they obviously produce more electricity with direct sunlight.
Solar Water Heating Systems are the most popular solar technology around, and many homeowners have at least heard of a solar geyser and/or pool heating system. The principle is exactly the same for solar geysers and solar pool heating:
Solar Geysers can either be gravity fed, or pressurised. With gravity fed systems, the tank needs to be relatively high up, whereas pressurised don't need to be. All solar geyser storage tanks are insulated, allowing the water to stay hot overnight, and for an extra day or so, in case of bad weather.
Solar Pool Heating Systems – the water is pumped out of the pool, up through copper tubes inside the panels on the roof, and back down into the pool. Temperatures can be regulated by altering the speed of the pump.
There are many adaptations found in the solar industry where cells have been integrated into building materials, for example Solar Roof Tiles. These integrated technologies are relatively new, but will definitely become more imminent in the future.
As the costs of the various solar components are dependent on what you buy and for what use you want it, it therefore is worth exploring the many suppliers and, as always, ask for references. Lastly, keep in mind that the installations must be done by an accredited solar installer.


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The Speed Traders: An Insiders Look at the New High-Frequency Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World
Written by Edger Perez
Published by McGraw-Hill, 2011
$28, 256 pages
An insider's look is right. Perez does a fine job of laying out the argument FOR high frequency trading, but not so much the against part. He first attempts to define "high-frequency" trading and immediately runs into issues. The various definitions of high-frequency trading given by the interviewees, supports the deep level of misconception the public has. If those in the know can't even come up with a solid definition then how is the general public going to grasp the pros and cons.
Reading the book, I thought a glossary of terms would have been incredibly helpful. Flash trades, dark pools, SMX, SQL, ETN, microstructure, temporal arbitrage, etc. Even a broker with years of experience needed frequent trips to Google to grasp the contextual meanings of various terms.
The fact that active players in this high-speed shuffle have different ideas of what constitutes high-frequency trading is logical when a new strategy evolves out of breathtakingly fast technological changes. High-frequency trading developers and entrepreneurs have chosen to remain, from inception through the recent flurry of regulation, litigation and bad press, in the shadows as any extremely profitable format of trading logically would.
Many rumors and preconceived ideas have sprung up among the general public as well as the animosity of more traditional investors. As a natural result a continuation of secrecy remains, as you would expect in any number of highly successfully systems.
When a successful money making machine enters the picture, the expansion from the few to the many will occur naturally. The book is very clear on the evolutionary line. Perez has cornered a few of the success stories and had the luck/gumption to interrogate (er, interview) the few who would sit for it. It's seems to be a cross technique he follows, while not exactly exposing the traders, and not exactly a promotional piece. I am sure their publicist, if they have one, couldn't have been happier.
The book is interspersed with chapters that lay out in historical timeliness the technological advancements as well as the regulatory and litigation in a way that could leave a reader in a monotonous daze.
That being said, it remains an enlightening read. Case in point, the May 6, 2010 "flash crash" description was a strong argument to pay attention. I was able to gain insight into the shadow world of microsecond to millisecond trading that evolved as systems got better and programmers got smarter.
A brief snug history of the emergence of electronic trading from its inception in 1969 to the mergers of the giant exchanges and the transformation from member owned clubs to giant public run companies. Having witnessed firsthand the trading floors of the Chicago exchanges as they were bled dry of the human element, I may have gone into this exercise with a chip on my shoulder. The author of this book does not seem to acknowledge that side of the game nor the fact that pit-trading local scalpers were the first high-speed traders, though lumbering dinosaur by today standards, being replaced by algorithmic flashes of light, may or may not prove advantageous to the world. The sheer volume of worldwide information obtained and analyzed in mere milliseconds and then acted upon by implementing multi-level algorithmic trading strategies astounds and amazes me as I am sure it will you.
John Siewers III has been a commodity broker for more than 20 years with 15 years experience on the Chicago trading floors.

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POLI 384 Transnational Feminist Politics (1)
Many feminists try to think, dialogue, and organize transnationally. This raises challenging questions: Is there a global sisterhood of women? Can feminists promote solidarity across divides of class, race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and language? And should feminists question these categories of analysis? This course asks students to critically examine these questions through case studies on topics related to imperialism and colonialism; war and genocide; the international human rights movement; campaigns against violence; and the global economy. The course will examine the emergence of transnational feminism as interdisciplinary field of study, introduce students to key concepts such as identity difference, solidarity, and intersectionality, and explore major debates surrounding transnational feminist activism, theory and praxis.


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Although we had hoped to give the fiscal cliff a wide birth, it appears more and more likely our political leaders will take us right to its edge (if not over it). There have been a lot of numbers thrown around as to what this would mean for most families, but it's been particularly difficult to find any hard estimates as to what a family actually has at stake.
To highlight exactly what the consequences of going over the fiscal cliff and allowing tax cuts to expire on all taxpayers would be, CreditCards.com recently released its Fiscal Cliff Calculator. This tool allows you to enter your income and exemptions, and it will show you your current estimated taxes and your projected taxes if the tax rates are raised.
According to CreditCards.com, those at the highest income brackets will face the largest tax hike in terms of dollars, but many lower income taxpayers would face the higher tax hike in percentage terms.
For example, a single person making $20,000 and having only himself as an exemption could see a $845 increase in his tax bill or nearly 45 percent more than the bill under current rates. Conversely, a family making $150,000 with four exemptions could see an increase of $6,769, which is about 25% more than current rates.
Whether we consider the impact in dollar terms or percentage terms, one thing for sure is that everyone has something at stake in the fiscal cliff.


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FAYETTEVILLE, AR (U of A) – Brian Anderson went a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with a homer and three RBI, while Ryne Stanek worked seven shutout innings as No. 14 Arkansas evened its series against Tennessee with an 11-1 win on Saturday night at Baum Stadium.
Arkansas improves its record to 33-17 and 16-9 in Southeastern Conference play with the win, while Tennessee drops to 20-27 overall and 7-17 in league play.
The series wraps up on Sunday with first pitch scheduled for 1:05 p.m. Arkansas will start senior left hander Randall Fant (4-1, 2.27), while Tennessee will start freshman righty Aaron Quillen (2-3, 6.04). The series finale will be televised by CST. Only general admission tickets remain for Sunday's game. General admission tickets are $8 and can be purchased on gameday at Baum Stadium, while supplies last.
Arkansas recorded 11 runs on 12 hits against the Tennessee pitching staff. Anderson paced the Razorbacks at the plate with his second four-hit game of the season, finishing a double shy of the cycle. Anderson was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with his fourth homer of the season, three RBI and four runs scored. Dominic Ficociello had a pair of hits and drove in two runs, while Jordan Farris went 1-for-4 with two RBI. Brett McAfee and Tyler Spoon each had a hit and a RBI.
Arkansas scored in every at bat during the game, marking the first time the Razorbacks had scored in every plate appearance since April 7, 2010, in a 32-8 win over Saint Louis in seven innings.
Stanek (7-2) picked up his seventh win of the season, striking out nine and giving up five hits in seven scoreless frames. The junior right hander lowered his overall ERA to 1.70 and to 1.10 in nine conference starts.
Colin Poché finished the contest, striking out three and giving up one hit in 1.1 innings.
Tennessee starter Nick Williams (2-4) took the loss after giving up three runs, two earned, on five hits and striking out three in 2.2 innings.
Arkansas scored single runs in each of the first three innings. Ficociello brought home the first run of the game with a one-out RBI single in the first inning. In the second, McAfee tripled with one out and came in to score on a wild pitch. A sacrifice fly by Spoon in the third inning scored Anderson to put the Razorbacks in front 3-0.
The Razorbacks tacked on a pair of runs in the fourth on a two-out, two-run homer to straightaway center field by Anderson, his fourth of the season.
Arkansas plated another run in the fifth on a sacrifice fly to center by Farris. Two more Razorbacks crossed the plate in the sixth as Anderson had a RBI triple to right-center and Ficociello hit a sacrifice fly to the wall in left field.
The Razorbacks stretched the lead to 9-0 in the seventh on a sacrifice fly to center field by McAfee.
Tennessee broke up the shutout with a run in the top of the eighth as Vincent Jackson doubled to the gap in left-center field, scoring Jeff Moberg.
Arkansas closed the scoring with two runs in the eighth, both coming on a bases loaded infield single by Farris. The first run scored on the single, while the second run came in after a throwing error by the Tennessee third baseman.
Tennessee finished the game with seven hits, led by Scott Price and Christin Stewart, who each contributed two hits. Jackson went 1-for-4 with a RBI for the Volunteers.
Razorbacks even series with 11-1 win
FAYETTEVILLE, AR (U of A) – Brian Anderson went a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with a homer and three RBI, while Ryne Stanek worked seven shutout innings as No. 14 Arkansas evened its series against Tennessee with an 11-1 win on Saturday night at Baum Stadium.


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Institutional buyers are snapping up houses at a feverish pace and keeping some potential homeowners out of the market. Rising mortgage rates could be to blame.
JPMorgan has paid more than $8.5 billion in legal settlements stemming from a slew of major investment mistakes – yet the banking giant keeps rolling on. How?
Forget Syria, the debt ceiling, oil prices, and the rest. The biggest threat to the stock market for September is the effect of higher interest rates on the US housing market.
In many other endeavors outside of investing, getting a forecast half-right isn't quite the end of the world. In asset allocation, however, half-right can be a killer.
Your investing style should align with your own 'emotions, prejudices, and twitches' according to the father of modern financial writing.
In 1965, CEOs of large American corporations earned 20 times as much as their typical employee. Today, it's 270 times. Brown argues this income inequality to be the economy's greatest obstacle to recovery.
President Obama is expected to nominate Janet Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve this Wednesday. Should Yellen be approved by Senate and accept the position, she will come to the post amidst a huge fiscal debate and unemployment disappointments. It's her show now.
George Soros and Warren Buffett are two of the richest men in the world, but certain circumstances have helped Buffett come out on top.
Stock markets are closing lower and lower as the government remains shutdown. Brown argues that a greater fall in stock prices may be the wake-up call Washington needs. The market needs to scare congress straight before Washington will get serious about finalizing a budget plan and re-open the government.
Spectactors attend the opening of the Lumiere 2018 Grand Lyon Film Festival, in Lyon, France, Oct. 13.
In a recent interview, one expert worries that investors in one market sector – hedge funds – are increasingly moving into similar positions, which could lead to crowded trading. That could be a problem.
A surprisingly high number of Americans don't understand the impact of interest rates on their retirement accounts and investment portfolios, according to a recent survey. But the level of comprehension increased with age, to a point.
Although the beleaguered Bill Ackman received negative publicity after he took a spat between him and J.C. Penney's directors public, Brown says his bets are on Ackman. Leaving J.C. Penney was the smartest thing Ackman has done in a while, Brown says.
The proportion of 18 to 34-year-olds living with their parents has steadily risen since the recession hit in 2007, according to Fortune magazine. Is the trend about to change?
President Barack Obama is making a push to bolster spending on infrastructure and R&D, but is it too late for him to combat austerity? Brown says it may be.
Facebook has been growing since its IPO last year, and advertising revenue for the company increased 61 percent from last year. Facebook is making a lot of money now and starting to deliver on the promise of its IPO.
Investors should not race to dump their stocks every time Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks, Brown says.
Asset reflation has allowed the US to slowly pull out from the recession, while spending cuts across Europe have crushed recovery, Brown says. Depending on the outcomes of elections in Germany, Europe may begin pursuing much looser monetary policies.
What distinguishes one investor from another is his or her ability to predict what the crowd is about to do next, Brown says.
Tumbling down in its worst weekly drop of 2013 so far, the S&P 500 fell by 2.1 percent last week. Retail investors, however, bought on a net basis.


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People need luck to win the lottery; at least that is the conventional wisdom.
But a Florida man says that is just utter nonsense.
Jackpot junkie Richard Lustig has won seven grand prizes over the years. His biggest jackpot ever was his fifth grand prize of more than $840,000, and he says there is a method to his money making.
Lustig says he was good in math, but he didn't study any specific math courses.
"My method does not have anything to do with any kind of math solution. First, the important thing is set a budget," said Lustig. "It is very easy to get lottery fever. Do not spend grocery money. Do not spend rent money. Figure out what you can afford, what your budget is and stay within your budget.
For example, Lustig says, if one's budget is $100, they would want to divide the budget by 10. Then buy 10 tickets in a row of the same game.
"Do not split it out over three or four different games," said Lustig.
"If you buy 10 tickets in a row of the same game, almost every single time you do that, you are going to find a winning ticket in there," he said.
Lustig says most of the time one might even find two, and sometimes even three to four winning tickets in that stretch of ten tickets in row.
Another tip Lustig says is do not buy quick picks because it never increase the chances of winning by purchasing tickets with a random selection of numbers generated by a computer.
A final tip Lustig says is for people buying scratch-off tickets to never buy random selection of tickets behind the counter because you enjoy the game or the color of the tickets.
"It is the worst thing you can do ... you might as well put on a blindfold, take a loaded gun and try and hit the target. It is not going to happen," said Lustig. "One of the biggest things I stress is that luck has nothing do with this. I believe most of the good things that have happened to me have been because I was methodical, I thought it through and approached it in a manner that I felt gave me the best chance."
Of course, no one, including Lustig, can guarantee striking it rich in the lottery. That is why they call it a game of chance.
Copyright 2012 KCTV (Meredith Corp.) All rights reserved.


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About the Physicians Committee's Clinical Research Department
The Physicians Committee designs and conducts clinical research studies on nutrition and health. Dietary interventions have appeared promising in investigations carried out by numerous research teams, including our own. We have conducted studies that examine the effects of diet on weight, cardiovascular risk, cancer prevention and survival, and other health issues. The Physicians Committee's research aims to develop and test practical interventions that can be used by doctors and patients.
The Physicians Committee also conducts detailed reviews of the scientific literature, including meta-analyses. Current studies are reviewing the evidence on nutrition's role in weight disorders, Alzheimer's disease, migraine, and diabetes.
In conducting its studies, the Physicians Committee has often partnered with other institutions, notably the George Washington University School of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the University of Toronto, and works with scientific consultants from a variety of research centers.
Clinical research is complex and requires a team effort. The Physicians Committee's research programs are headed by Neal Barnard, M.D., president. Melissa Busta, R.N., Rosendo Flores, Hana Kahleova, M.D., Ph.D , Jill Eckart, C.H.H.C., and Susan Levin, M.S., R.D., coordinate the studies, teach classes, and keep participants on track, and many other Physicians Committee staffers keep the gears of research turning.


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Join Smart Love Preschool as they offer a music & movement play time in their toddler classroom! Families are encouraged to explore all that Smart Love's toddler classroom has to offer and to enjoy time with their child and others.This play date is geared for children between the ages of 12 and 36 months and is an unstructured and casual event, so share the fun and bring your neighbors and friends!
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Family Fall Fest at Liberty Bank
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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Overview
Tuesday, October 30th 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Informational workshop, designed specifically to discuss how the tax law changes may allow individuals and business owners to save income taxes and how the estate and gift tax changes may provide you with a window of opportunity for additional planning to maximize the assets you pass to your heirs. You will learn: how the new income tax brackets and changes to deductions could impact individuals, how the tax law changes are likely to impact business owners, how to have a conversation with your tax adviser about these changes, how the estate and gift tax changes create an opportunity for some to transfer additional wealth to the next generation
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Quentin Tarantino Halloween Week at Merchant
Wednesday, October 24th - Wednesday October 31st 11:00 am - 2:00 am
We're celebrating Halloween with a Quentin Tarantino-themed week beginning on Wednesday, October 24 and extending through Wednesday, October 31! Guests can experience a different movie setting each night leading up to Halloween, all to celebrate the icon himself!
"Merry Meows" Holiday Bazaar & Fundraiser for Harmony House
November 10th 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Holiday Bazaar, Winter craft beer, gourmet bake sale, bag raffle, 2019 Harmony House calendars, handmade cat toys and catnip pads, Music by Steffy Sue on the Uke.
Visit with all the cats!
All proceeds benefit the cats of Harmony House a 501(c)3 organization.
Smart Love Preschool Open House
Saturday, November 10th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Come and tour our beautiful new building in Logan Square, meet staff, and learn more about Smart Love!
Smart Love Preschool provides a play-based curriculum for children 6 weeks to 6 years founded on the Smart Love philosophy of child development. We offer baby classes, "Let's. Play. School." for toddlers, Playschool for 2s & 3s, Preschool, and Kindergarten.
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Logan Square Pilates September Specials
Logan Square Pilates
Logan Square Pilates + Core is celebrating back to school season, students and educators receive a special 15% discount on new packages all month, stop by their front desk for more information. And did you know that taking class at LSQP comes with perks at some favorite neighborhood spots? This month's #lsqplocalperk is with their stylish neighbor, Good Beauty! LSQP students save 20% on cut and color services all month long. Ask for the promo codes when you're in the studio, then head a few doors down to the amazing team at Good Beauty for some well deserved self-care!
Men's Winter Coat Drive
North Side Latin Progress, a non-profit organization for the advancement of Latino men, is holding an annual coat drive. Small/medium sized men's coats are currently needed. Please reach out to Ms. Gretchen E. Moore at 312-343-0804 for more information. Items can be delivered to the Resurrection Church office, 3043 N Francisco, weekdays, 10:00 am - 7:00 pm (please do not leave donations in the blue box in the lot) or after hours to the porch at 1917 N. Kedzie.
Look Up at the 606 and See What You Have Been Missing
Every day is a great day on The 606, but we hope you'll join us this season for a few special activities—some on the trail, some off, some large, some small—but all designed to connect you to the trail, the parks, and your neighbors.
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Champagne Dim Sum Brunch at Friendship Chinese Restaurant
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Some gourmands believe that dim sum inspired the whole idea of "brunch" - the combining of breakfast and lunch into one perfect, mid-morning meal. Now you can enjoy dim sum in Logan Square all weekend. Friendship Restaurant is serving up a Champagne Dim Sum brunch every Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Rosa's Blues Lounge
We are presently celebrating our 34th Anniversary, and we invite you to share in the festivities.
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Paint & Sip at Pinot's Palette
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Help Local Men By Donating
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City Lit Books "Story Time"
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Racial Equity Impact Assessment on Logan Square Redesign
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The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has proposed redesigning Milwaukee Avenue and the plaza around the Logan Square monument. We want to make sure these investments will benefit all residents without burdening any. A Racial Equity Impact Assessment in Logan Square can help with this analysis to avoid potential unintended consequences of improvements.
Chicago United for Equity and the Logan Square Neighborhood Association are partnering to conduct an REIA in Logan Square.
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In the opinion of the Logan Square Chamber this is the most effective investment in time any small business or entrepreneur can make.
The Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection (BACP) offers workshops every Wednesday and Friday. Workshops will vary each month and are conducted by City Officials, experts and partner business organizations. All workshops are free, and open to the public. Workshops are held at BACP's offices located at 121 N. LaSalle St., City Hall Room 805, Chicago, IL 60602. Facebook facebook.com/ChicagoBACP?fref=nf
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Your favorite Chicago festivals & events are on the horizon. Save the dates for these and more.
September 5-November 21: Dame Myra Hess Concerts
September 7-December 22nd Juicebox
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October 20: Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade
October 21: Elevate Chicago Dance
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Corporate Scam Alert— A firm called Corporate Records Service is contacting Illinois businesses in an attempt to collect a $125 fee to fill out a corporation's "Annual Minutes Records Form." The Illinois Business Corporation Act does not require corporations to file a "Minutes Records Form" or pay such a fee with the state or any private entity. Please contact the Illinois Attorney General's Office Consumer Fraud Division at 800-243-0618 to file a complaint regarding this scam solicitation.
From the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service today issued an alert to payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees. The IRS has learned this scheme already has claimed several victims as payroll and human resources offices mistakenly email payroll data including Forms W-2 that contain Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information to cybercriminals posing as company executives. If your CEO appears to be emailing you for a list of company employees, check it out before you respond. Everyone has a responsibility to remain diligent about confirming the identity of people requesting personal information about employees.
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From the BACP
Know Before You Hire a Tax Preparer
Every tax season unsuspecting Chicagoans fall victim to tax preparation firms that use hidden charges and recommend unnecessary and expensive tax refund products like Refund Anticipation Loans (RALS) or Refund Anticipation Checks (RACS) to make a profit at the expense of citizens' deserved tax refunds. For more information click here
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Transparent Element
Transparent Elements (so named for their see-through quality) come in a wide variety of forms, usually defined by their color. Each is ABS of some kind but has a unique universal resonance signature, resulting in spectacular and often variable properties (depending on Koincidence, circumstance, and proximity to any given particulate matter). Transparent Elements, then, remain as one of the most potent resources in the entire BrikVerse and minifigs will do much to acquire even the smallest amounts. The Elements are almost always formed in some truly epic fashion and are not naturally occurring so far as anyone knows. Contrary to logik, however, their elemental nature cannot be denied.
Orange Transparent
Orange Transparent ABS (OT) is the most powerful substance known to minifigs. The only source of this material is the frigid planet of Iceworld, where ancient crusades against Robotic Ice Daemons dropped the temperatures to far below absolute zero.
Under these impossible and supernaturally cold conditions, even lasers froze, rendering all of the crusaders' weapons useless, save one: the planet-destroying Orange Laser. Thanks to its massive scale, a central core of destructive energy was able to punch through the cold, even as the outer layers of the beam froze solid and peeled away.
Bazillions of years later, the frozen shards of petrified laser remain preserved under continents of shifting ice, retaining all of their ancient world-destroying power for anyone with the secret knowledge and will to forge them into weapons.
Orange Transparent Variants
There are several alternate versions of OT in the BrikVerse.
Orange Transparent Clone
Original OT is very hard to come by. So some enterprising souls with more brains than brawn set out to make their own. It was theoretically possible to manufacture OT since the original supply was man made. They devised a plan to scour ancient legendary battlefields for microscopic bits of OT that may have been knocked loose in the OTC vs OTC battles. After thousands of years of searching, they found it, a single atom of OT.
Now with an original OT sample they could begin the scientific process of cloning it into a larger usable supply. It took over 100 million years to discover the best mixture of chemicals, power levels and environments that would grow more OT. They eventually got the process down to 1 million years to make enough clone OT to make 1 chainsaw. The trick was that each mass of clone OT needed 1 atom of original OT at its core. The self repair properties of OT took care of the rest. The atom of OT would scavenge the adjacent materials to clone itself, this is a slow process. The resulting clone OT is inferior to the original, but anyone who actually knows the difference first hand isn't talking.
Ancient Battlefields are now a source of conflict among those factions who wish to clone OT. Each atom of OT an explorer finds and sells at auction or to a private buyer could buy him a planet. Although a minifig could spend his entire life searching and still find nothing.
Of course there are still mad scientists on isolated moonbases that are running experiments to recreate the conditions that produced the original OT. None have been successful. We suppose that's what makes them so mad.
False Orange Transparent
Discovered in R. 2,010, False OT ABS or Artificial OT ABS (not to be confused with Orange Transparent Clone) is very similar to real OT ABS in color and ability but there is one major difference. This false OT ABS will not withstand the same strain normal OT will. False OT ABS, under particularly strenuous conditions, will potentially explode with astronomical force. Due to this explosive quality, it has been adapted for other teknology, such as high explosive grenades. The only way to tell the OTs apart is in their coloring. Regular OT ABS is a dark orange while the artificial stuff is much lighter in color. Professor Sharkhead is credited with the creation of FOT but his motives for doing so remain a mystery. Speculation runs rampant but, truly, folks are more interested in whether anyone can develop or has developed a FOT Chainsword.
Blue Transparent
Blue Transparent Variants
There are several alternate versions of BT in the BrikVerse.
Prussian Blue
Prussian Blue is an enhanced BT with a higher cyclical energy regeneration rate and compressed storage matrices, resulting in longer lasting, higher output power sources. It is used primarily by the Neo-Prussian Empire.
Clear Transparent
Titanic energies are required to tear open paths between universes and alternate dimensions and the process is not without lasting aftereffects. More than a mere rip in space and time, these passageways are rents in existence. Frayed beige fibers fall away to reveal the emptiness beyond existence. Even the space between the Astral Plate, which is itself the space between universes, and another dimension is possessed of a terrifying emptiness.
As reality struggles to make sense out of literally nothing, a residue forms around the tattered opening between realities. This Clear Transparent (CT), formed as it is of almost nothing, is virtually weightless. This base level Legitimitium is not exactly rare but is highly uncommon and sought out by creators wishing to provide both visibility and a small measure of protection in the viewports, windows, and cockpits of their buildings and vehicles. It is also sought out by individuals wishing to augment their physical abilities as it allows them to jump higher, levitate, and sometimes even fly freely about.
Green Transparent
Green Transparent Variants
There are several alternate versions of GT in the BrikVerse.
Zupponn Mining Co. Brand
Not precisely a true variant of GT, ZMC maintains a tight grip on the resource throughout virtually the entire civilized BrikVerse. In some galaxies, namely Galaxia Nehellenium, the group controls a monopoly. ZMC refines the ore with a proprietary process and nearly every refined chunk of the stuff floating around the BrikVerse is stamped with their mark.
Pink Transparent
The act of True Friendship is so exceedingly rare and disturbing to the BrikVerse that it actually warps the very fabric of reality whenever it occurs. Every particle in realspace buckles under the onslaught of good feelings and agonizingly transforms the color and function of everything within its radius.
Opaque colors are common, transforming the landscape with hues of pinks, purples, and lime greens. These places become sanctuaries for known users of this alarming power, such as the Fiends or the Pwnies, and wellsprings of Pink Transparent (PiT) flow there. The element serves as a power source for the creatures, fueling their desire to spread icky ideas about love and friendship throughout the universe.
Pink Transparent Variants
There are several alternate versions of PiT in the BrikVerse.
Feminine Product
Feminine Product is PiT that is especially charged with gender bias and iffy market research. In it's basic form, it's mostly harmless, just another color for characters to enjoy. Being feminine isn't necessarily a requirement for harnessing its power, equal to any other Transparent aside from Orange, regardless of what society has to say about it. However, in the hands of the biased, it becomes a powerful tool of separation...between genders and of life from limb.


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Ideally, daily nutritional needs should be met through healthy eating—but the typical diet does not always supply all the vitamins and minerals a body needs. So even in healthy people, multivitamins and other supplements may help prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies and they can also provide more nutrients than diet alone, which may help to protect against or manage certain diseases. The following list gives the daily optimum amounts of nutrients that might benefit healthy people.
Calcium (800–1,000 mg)
• A common deficiency in the US, especially among women, good calcium nutrition throughout life is essential for achieving peak bone mass and preventing bone loss and risk of bone fractures.
• Calcium's protective effect on bone is one of the few FDA-approved health claims.
Chromium (120–200 mcg)
• Because of challenges in measuring the amount of chromium in foods and the human body, there is disagreement about the extent of deficiency in Western societies. Deficiency has been associated with blood sugar and cholesterol abnormalities, especially as people age.
• Although a causal relationship is doubtful, a few single case reports have described possible serious side effects in people taking large amounts, so people should stick to recommended amounts unless supervised by a doctor.
Copper (1–3 mg)
• While there is some indication that deficiency might be common in the US, the significance of this is unclear. It doesn't usually cause obvious symptoms, though supplementing with copper may help prevent bone loss.
• Since zinc can interfere with copper absorption, copper should be taken whenever zinc supplements are taken for more than a few weeks.
Iron (Recommendations should be determined by a doctor)
• Due to a rare condition that causes iron to accumulate to toxic levels in the body and also due to the association of high iron levels with some serious diseases, people should avoid iron supplements unless they have been diagnosed with iron deficiency.
• Groups at risk of iron deficiency include some vegetarians, menstruating girls and women, pregnant women, and female and adolescent athletes.
Magnesium (250–400 mg): Dietary deficiency may occur in up to 25% of adult women in the US and in even higher numbers of elderly people of both sexes, affecting bone health, among other effects.
Manganese (2–5 mg)
• While a typical diet provides enough for most people, those who eat a lot of refined and processed foods may be deficient as manganese and other trace minerals are often low in these foods. Deficiency has been associated with bone loss.
• Manganese may be especially important to include when supplementing iron, since iron can reduce its absorption and deplete it from the body.
Molybdenum (75 mcg): With a low potential for toxicity, little is known about human needs for this essential trace element. Deficiencies are rare and estimated requirements are based on what people typically receive in their diets.
Selenium (50–200 mcg): Though most people get enough in their diets, supplementing with higher amounts of yeast-based selenium is associated with decreased risk of cancer death. The upper end of safe long-term intake is estimated to be 400 mcg per day for adults.
Zinc (10–25 mg)
• Deficiency is relatively uncommon in Western countries, though supplements have prevented growth impairment in deficient children and have been shown to increase immune function in healthy people. (It isn't known whether these changes prevent infection or disease).
• Too much zinc has been reported to impair immune function and some healthcare practitioners recommend no more than 30 to 50 mg per day.
• Regular supplementation should be accompanied by copper supplements to prevent copper deficiency.
Other noteworthy nutrients
Phosphorus: Not included in most multivitamins because of its abundance in the diet. Elderly people, whose diets tend to be lower, may need supplementation. Calcium interferes with absorption, so older people taking calcium supplements might benefit from additional phosphorus.
Potassium: Though severe deficiencies are uncommon in healthy people, some research suggests increased intake may help prevent high blood pressure and stroke. However, the maximum amount of potassium allowed in one pill (99 mg) is far below the recommended amounts (2,400 mg per day). Multiple pills should not be taken in an attempt to get a higher amount, since they can irritate the stomach; instead, eat several daily servings of fruits and vegetables.
Flavonoids: A class of nonessential nutrients, flavonoids have antioxidant and other properties and have been reported by some, though not all, researchers to be linked with a reduced risk of heart disease.
Multivitamin supplements also frequently include other nutrients of uncertain benefit in the small amounts supplied, such as choline, inositol, and various amino acids.
Who is more at risk for deficiencies?
• People who have lost weight may be deficient in a wide range of vitamins and minerals.
• Vegetarians are at risk to become low in protein, vitamin B12, iron, vitamin D, zinc, iodine, riboflavin, calcium, and selenium.
• Vegans need the same nutrients as vegetarians, but vegans are more likely than lacto-ovo vegetarians to be low in protein, selenium, and B12.
• People eating macrobiotic diet: Deficiencies of vitamin B12, iron, vitamin D and other nutrients have occurred. This diet should be supervised by a dietitian or doctor.
• Elderly people living in their own homes are often deficient in vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin E, calcium, and zinc, and occasionally of vitamin B1 and vitamin B2.
Premenopausal women have been found often to consume low amounts of calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C.
As natural substances, are supplements safer than drugs?
Nutritional (and also herbal) supplements are not necessarily safer just because they are natural: Some might produce unwanted side effects when a person takes too much, and if you are taking medications, you should always check with your doctor or pharmacist before adding nutritional supplements or herbs to your self-care.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Two new additions have joined the first team as trialists in the final stage of 2013 preseason in Charleston, S.C.
One name that will be familiar to a lot of fans is French defender Pascal Chimbonda. Best known for his English Premier League stints with Wigan, Tottenham and Blackburn Rovers, the 33-year-old veteran's presence adds an interesting wrinkle to the Fire's situation at right back.
READ: Breaking Down the Goalkeeping Situation
While Logan Pause has gained most of the first team minutes there this preseason, the team also has the likes of Jalil Anibaba and Steven Kinney available there.
Though he has only one cap for the French national team, Chimbonda was a part of the 2006 World Cup finalist squad in Germany. His last club appearance came for English Championship side Doncaster Rovers in April and he's since played for his native Guadaloupe at the 2012 Caribbean Cup.
The other addition you're probably less likely to have heard of is Brazilian center back Leo Lelis, a 19-year-old Brazilian center back that is a product of the Fluminense youth setup.
Lelis spent time in camp with the Seattle Sounders earlier this preseason
After sitting out the California-leg of preseason, former Houston Dynamo forward Colin Rolfe re-joins the team as a trialist here in Charleston.
The Fire have released the following players that took part in training camp in Ventura, Calif.:
Defenders: John Gallagher, Rauwshan McKenzie
Midfielders: Borfor Carr, Jose Alexander Pabon,
Forwards: Blake Brettschneider, Maxwell Griffin, Kevin Mercado
Full Charleston Training Camp Roster
Goalkeepers (4): James Belshaw**, Sean Johnson, Alec Kann^, Paolo Tornaghi
Defenders (9): Jalil Anibaba, Austin Berry, Pascal Chimbonda^, Arne Friedrich, Hunter Jumper, Steven Kinney, Leo Lelis^, Logan Pause, Gonzalo Segares
Midfielders (11): Alex, Yazid Atouba* Corben Bone, Dilly Duka, Brendan King, Jeff Larentowicz, Joel Lindpere, Patrick Nyarko Daniel Paladini, Wells Thompson, Michael Videira
Forwards (5): Kellen Gulley, Sherjill MacDonald, Chris Rolfe, Colin Rolfe^, Maicon Santos
*-SuperDraft Pick, **-Supplemental Draft Pick, ^-Trialist
Other notes from the start of Charleston camp:
* Unable to participate in full training out in California both forward Maicon Santos (ab strain) and defender Hunter Jumper (quad strain) have been cleared to take part beginning today in Charleston.
* Newlywed Alex has re-joined the team after his weekend nuptials.
* The one signed Fire player that remains away from Charleston is midfielder Victor Pineda who continues to recover from a meniscus repair. The original Fire Homegrown is said to have been doing well in recovery but it was deemed more beneficial for him to rehab with the Athletico staff back home rather than come to Charleston.


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2005 Track & Field Recap: Improving drastically from his 7th and 8th place finishes at the Big West Championships in '04, Bradley came away with bigger personal bests and a 2nd place in the Hammer and a 5th in the Shot. He traveled to the West Regional Championship in the Hammer where he finished 6th, just missing an NCAA berth, but nonetheless setting a PR at 201 feet. Bradley won three Hammer Titles in '05 and moved up to #3 All-Time in the Hammer at UCSB..
2004 Track & Field Recap: Eugene qualified for the NCAA Regional Meet in the shot put and hammer...finished 7th in the hammer and 8th in the shot at the Big West Championship...set PR in the shot at the Regional Meet to finish 15th...is the 3rd best shot putter in Gaucho history, also moved to 8th all-time at UCSB in the hammer.
2003 Track & Field Recap: Bradley posted impressive marks in his first collegiate season, qualifying for the Big West in the shot, disc, and hammer...a personal best effort of 164' 6" was good for 10th in the hammer at the Conference Championship Meet.
High School: Qualified for the 2002 California State Meet in the shot put after placing fourth at NCS Finals with a personal best 51-0 3/4.
Personal Bests
Shot Put: 55'02" - 5/28/04
Discus: 146'05" - 3/1/03
Hammer: 201'00"


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Last updated Feb 9, 2008
its the love child between mazda and ford, what else can you say to that?
Engine Code- 99L
Displacement (Liters)- 2.2 liter
Displacement (CID)- 133 CID
Displacement (CC)- 2189cc
Manufacturer- Mazda
Engine Type- OHC
Valves/Per Cylinder- 12/3
Aspiration- Turbocharged
Turbocharger Manufacturer- IHI
Turbocharger Pressure- 7.3psi
Compression Ratio- 7.8:1
Bore X Stroke- 3.39 x 3.70
Engine Control- MECS
Engine Block Material- Cast Iron
PL lighted
premium audio package
all wheel discs(GT only)
thicker suspension components
block heater
white "halo" gauges
dual a-pillar pod
GReddy Profec B spec 2 EBC
LED courtesy lights
pilot steering wheel
aftermarket black leather shift boot
annodized red radio trim "reflective"
autometer phantom vac/boost gauge with white LED light
autometer phantom A/F gauge
CF ebrake cover
red ebrake boot
blue audio sensitive neon in center vents
red LED center LCD display
"custom""reflective" black interior conversion
"custom" red fabric within the panels along the doors and rear hatch area
polyfilled rear speaker areas(between the exterior skin and the interior framing)
soundproofed hatch area and filled spare tire well
tinted sidemarker lenses
white ford emblem in front
white ford emblem in back
fog light mod
red LED tails
white LED rear plate lights
white LED reverse lights
white LED front turnsignals
yellow LED rear tursignals
TINTED tail lenses
hydraulic hood lifts
reflective thin black stripe across OEM spoiler
red bulbs in the rear sidemarkers for that darker effect
SILVERSTAR headlights
HyperWhite foglights
amber bulbs in the front sidemarkers for that darker effect
custom made center caps for the wheels "reflecive"
removed steel plate in the bumper (front)
removed plastic plate mounting area (front)
smaller re-mounted foglight housings
"reflective" side stripe around car
BLUE LED lighted key locks/windows
breather relocate
cone filter
custom intake heatshield
gunmetal VC and IM and other things here and there
2.5" catback exhaust
CherryBomb glasspack
NGK iridium IX's gapped @ .032mm
ACCELL SS wires with MSD Pro-Race boots
MSD blaster II coil with OFC 12 gauge twist wiring
engine ground kit
TB butterfly mod
injecttech chip
red silicone hosing here and there
ram air induction
full 2" IC hardpipe with 2 1/8" intake
"custom" silicone TB and VAF elbows
Platinum battery terminals
Mr.Speed testpipe
polyurethane trans mounts
polyurethane motor mounts
custom red resevoir covers (fabric)
custom made intercooler sprayer
A/C delete
ported and polished VAF
trooper fuel filter
K&N oil filter
20w50 synth
front and rear strut bars
2nd GEN probe GT springs
EAS (electronically adjustable suspension)
gloss BLACK 16" FD3S wheels (YES the 13.8lbers)
slotted rotors
kumho ecsta supra 225-50-16 tires
custom made Lower Tie Bar
longer ARP hardened wheel studs
7/16ths front spacers
7/8ths rear spacers
Kenwood head unit
6.5" Pioneer 2 way door speakers
(1) Memphis Audio 12" DVC sub
"custom" ported enclosure (3cu. ft.)
1.5 farad digital capacitor
"custom" mono class d amplifier(polished)
custom made silver braided RCA's
silverbraid 4gauge power and ground wiring
silverbraid remote turn on lead
Monster Cable OFC "twist" 12 gauge speaker wire
SummitRacing digital voltmeter mounted underneath glove box
custom gauge pod for the voltmeter
Escort Passport X50 (red lighting)
MTX component tweets in the seat belt pillars
Kenwood 3way 6x9's in the rear passenger panels
24VDC fan wired on a toggle (for the amplifier)
***old single sub setup produced a 134db @13.4 VDC, this one is much more involved and "moving"***
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Snow White has been busy improving the lives of her housemates. With the help of the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturer's Association (PhRMA), Snow White has all the dwarves on human growth hormone, and has carefully selected prescriptions for each of their "quirks." Snow White has joined us today as a special guest:
Allergic Dwarf, formerly known as Sneezy, was very pleasant and meant well. But just try to eat your bowl of porridge when the dwarf across the table from you is schnuffling, and dripping, and wiping his little snot covered fingers all over the tablecloth. And when he sneezed! Sure we used it for a couple of cheap laughs when we made the movie but I literally had to get out the mop and the bucket and scrub half the cottage everytime he let one loose. Thanks to Claritin and the good folks at the Schering-Plough Corporation, Ally is a happier, less disgusting dwarf that is a pleasure to live with!
Manic, as we call him now, was Happy to the viewing public, but he had a much darker side at home. We could only film during his "highs," and when the bottom dropped out, he'd hide in the mine for days, sobbing uncontrollably. Only Sleepy could get any sleep for weeks on end. Once the electroschock treatments failed and the lobotomy scar healed, we started him on Depakote. The drug worked wonders leveling out his moods. It's enabled Manic to sign a long-term deal, reunite with his long-time lover Dale, and become a productive, if highly unimaginative member of our group.
Dopey no more, thanks to the good people at Shire Pharmaceuticals and Adderall. I was sure I'd spend the rest of my life embroidering his name on every shirt, but now he's working toward his GED and actually helps the others count their morning pills! We've renamed him Addy, after the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that prevented him from focusing on diamonds, learning scripts, and protecting his ass in the shower. Sure, Adderall is just a mixture of amphetamines, but he and Narcky are up all night working on new projects for our production company.
And what about me? Prince Charming and I tried to make it work but I realized that I was happier with the dwarves. Thanks to the wonderful world of today's magical pharmaceuticals, my life is like a Disney movie!
A short note about cartoon character bits. Everytime I do a bit about cartoon characters, I start getting lots of visitors from search engines looking for "cartoon porn, Judy Jetson naked, or Charlie Brown and Linus teabagging." Its a great source of traffic. Of course when they get here, everyone is pretty disappointed. As a prophylatic measure (prophylatic will be good for a few hits), here's an image that may qualify as Snow White porn.


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CLAREMONT – A resident and neighborhood community group were thanked during a Feb. 26 Claremont City Council meeting for their help in catching a prowler.
Betty Crocker and the group Keeping the Good in the Neighborhood were thanked at the meeting and city manager Tony Ramos gave more information in his Feb. 28 weekly update.
Police responded to a prowler call from a resident Feb. 26 and an on-duty Claremont officer was able to find a possible stolen vehicle believed to be associated with the call.
The Riverside Police Department was asked to contact the owner to see if the vehicle was stolen, according to City Manager Tony Ramos' Feb. 28 weekly update.
During the wait for the response, a perimeter area was created with the La Verne Police Department and a yard-to-yard search was held north of the school district's yard on Base Line Road.
While searching the yard, a resident told police about two suspicious persons which officers detained. Both were from Riverside.
Riverside police to Claremont the vehicle was stolen overnight.
A third suspect was found hiding in bushes, and all three admitted to stealing the vehicle, according to the update.
The area is the core of the Keeping the Good in the Neighborhood group.
Crocker worked closely with police using the group's phone tree, e-mail and website to alert and keep residents updated.
The notifications and residents reporting the suspicious activity, according to the update, were key to arresting the suspects.
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The USA Rice Outlook Conference, Dec. 4-6, at the Hilton Austin Hotel, in Austin, Texas, will focus on the three of the most important issues facing U.S. rice producers these days — the WTO, the farm bill and emerging markets.
Today, more than ever before, world trade issues affect all segments of the U.S. rice industry. Rice conference speakers will discuss those issues and offer insight into how the sixth WTO ministerial conference in Hong Kong will play out — including possible outcomes and implications for rice producers.
Speakers include Paul Drazek, DTB Associates, who has served as a U.S. trade negotiator in Geneva and as agricultural attaché in Mexico, Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M University, who is a co-director of the Agricultural Food and Policy Center, and Eric J. Wailes, who conducts research on agricultural policy, trade and marketing.
They'll also hear the latest on the 2007 farm bill from Jim Wiesemeyer, Informa Economics, who will share his views on what is happening behind the scenes on the Hill.
USDA market analyst Nathan Childs will provide an overview of the domestic and global markets and the outlook for rice. Representatives of each U.S. rice-producing state will recap the 2005 growing season and provide outlooks for the coming year in rice.
There'll be a counter-cyclical payment update from Dennis Koong of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, who will discuss recent price-reporting policy revisions and the relationship to the CCP calculation.
There will also be an update on the Conservation Security Program, the voluntary conservation program authorized by the 2002 farm bill. The update will feature the debut of a new public service campaign partnership between NRCS and the USA Rice Federation.
Speakers will also discuss domestic and international markets for rice. In the latter, a panel of leading authorities and specialists will focus on issues influencing sales of U.S.-grown rice in all sectors of the domestic market.
To register on-line or for more information, visit www.usarice.com and click on industry affairs. Or for more information, call 703-236-1447.
Last year's rice conference was the second largest in the history of the conference.
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About Catherine Wagner
Catherine Wagner's photographs investigate the relationship between various systems of knowledge and the institutional environments that house them. She has explored the art museum, the laboratory, retail spaces, the home, and the amusement park—each as spaces with a series of instruments and encoded practices that structure identity. Wagner revels in visually mapping typologies onto one another and arranging inanimate objects to suggest the human form. "Throughout my practice I've been interested in ways of seeing, feeling, and learning about larger issues that are made possible through more abstract or oblique methods," she says. "The images in this series are at once very literal, but open up a conversation well beyond their specificity." Wagner has also created public site-specific installations out of her photographs, projecting her interrogation of structure onto a larger scale.
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It is very important to exfoliate your skin regularly to reveal your fresh skin cells and keep your skin looking fresh. You can find many body scrub products at your local drugstore which smell nice but contain lots of unwanted chemicals and dyes. Here are suggestions for some easy exfoliants you can make yourself that also smell nice but don't come with the harsh chemicals. Plus – these ingredients are a lot cheaper! This is so easy to do – you can really use anything you want! Find out what you have around the house and what you think smells good and start from there.
A great scrub to try at this time of year which is gentle, effective, and super moisturizing is a mixture of honey and oatmeal. Dry skin can also benefit from avocado, olive oil, and yogurt mixtures. Coarse salt or bran can be used as the exfoliant ingredient if your skin is not sensitive and you can even add apple or orange juice to your mixture to give your scrub a dose of vitamin C.
You can add a few drops of essential oils to your mix to get a great smell and add an invigorating or relaxing quality to the scrub.
After you brew your morning coffee – a great way to get rid of the leftover grinds is to take them in the shower or bath with you and use them to exfoliate. This is a great way to wake up as the smell and exfoliatant is extremely exhilarating!
Play around with ingredients you have to find a consistency and formula you like and use these mixtures several times a week for the best benefit to your skin. Use gentle circular motions and rinse off completely. If you have any cuts, burns, or sensitive skin avoid those areas and if you have body acne – it's best to use a treatment that is a little more acne oriented such as the ZENMED Body Acne Combo on these areas.
You will smell great, your skin will look great and glowing, and best of all – you're not applying any chemicals to your body!


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CM108, Reviewed October 1993
First, they have identified groups of people who are inclined to adopt new ideas at different rates. Sociologists maintain a classification somewhat like that in Chart 1.
Those earliest to adopt make heavy use of research and expert sources of information. Late adopters rely heavily on other farmers as sources. The majority use mass media channels heavily for information but turn to peers (mostly fellow farmers) for evaluation and advice.
The time span from discovering an innovation until it is adopted by most farmers varies greatly. A totally new concept may take many years. Adoption of hybrid corn, for example, took about 14 years. Hybrid milo, on the other hand, was adopted almost immediately because farmers were familiar with hybrid corn production.
Second, the sociologists found that most people go through different stages in adopting a new practice. For example, for new farm practices coming from agricultural research in colleges and industry. The steps are often like those in Chart 2A.
When local planners or others start with a problem and begin searching for alternatives, the pattern is different from the research center-to-farmer flow depicted in Chart 2A. It looks more like Chart 2B.
The selected alternatives usually are products of research. Frequently, they are ones suggested by the extension workers. Thus, irrespective of whether the process starts with awareness or a problem, the pathways to knowledge are similar (Charts 2A and 2B).
Third, the sociologists found that at each stage in the adoption process people have different information needs that extension workers (sometimes called change agents) can help to meet. The summary chart below shows:
Fourth, the researchers have learned that adoptions start slowly, pick up momentum and then decrease in rate after half or more of the potential adopters have adopted.
Table 1Information needs of farmers at different stages of adoption
Adoption starts slowly because most people want to see successful local trial results before they adopt. That takes time. The rate of adoption increases as people begin to talk to and persuade each other. It picks up until the adopters outnumber the non-adopters. That's what puts the hump in the adoption curve. If people did not talk to and influence each other, the curve would look like a straight line.
To better understand the adoption process, let's trace the steps a new discovery might take in reaching farmers and becoming adopted. Assume the MU Agricultural Experiment Station has developed a solar heating unit for confinement farrowing houses. The researchers have tested the heating unit and found that installation costs can be recovered in two or three years — at a saving of XXX cents per pig — under Experiment Station conditions.
A committee appointed by a County Extension Council to find ways to reduce the use of petroleum products (and costs) on farms hears about this new solar technology through their livestock specialist. The committee decides to set a goal of getting one third of the county's 75 confinement hog raisers to convert to the solar units in the next three years if they can prove practical on local farms. As far as the committee knows, no local farmer has tried one of the solar units.
It can occur without MU Extension's help, but presumably at a slower rate.
The problem for you as a change agent is to facilitate those normal decisional-diffusion processes, not to circumvent or short-circuit them in hope of speeding up adoptions. Multiplying effects will come mostly from people talking to people and influencing each other — not directly from your newspaper item, radio talk or personal conversation with farmers, or in fact anything else you do. But you can help facilitate the people-to-people flow by well planned use of meetings, demonstrations, tours and the news media.
Assist innovatorsA few innovators possibly will have learned about solar hog houses before you and already may have decided to try one. Your educational problem for them becomes one of helping them be successful. That is the normal thing to do anyway, but it is especially important with them because they will serve as demonstrators for others. Another educational opportunity for you is to learn the problems the innovators encounter and how they overcome them. Other farmers would like to know so they can adapt the innovations to their situations.
When one or more innovators has achieved success, enlist them in your educational effort, if possible, particularly the more influential ones This may include their involvement in tours, demonstrations, meetings and media releases or interviews featuring results. Here, as always, getting the innovation on the farm talk agenda is a prime objective.
Make others awareWhile still working with innovators, start using radio, newspapers, television and any other means available to create awareness of the innovation among other farmers. In the case of the solar hog house, you can communicate details about the Experiment Station's results at first. Remember, getting additional information, thinking matters through and deciding normally takes farmers time. For example, it took five years in most cases between a farmer's first knowledge and first use of the idea of adopting hybrid corn in Iowa.
Supply details to expand discussion and interestIn the interest stage, farmers need to get more detailed information about what the innovation is, its likely consequences, what it will and will not do, how it will fit into their own plans, its cost, whether it is more useful than what they are already doing, its economic and social consequences — or in general those things that farmers want to know before accepting the innovation. When possible, they usually prefer to try a little first and more later, when that approach works.
Radio broadcasts, personal conversation and newspaper articles can be used to provide additional information. Potential adopters should be pointed in the direction of their local MU Extension center and Extension publications (which can be read and reread, as needed). Tell the farmers where they can get this additional information.
The farm talk processes should be facilitated. The mass media may be used to keep solar hog houses on the talk agenda. Talks can be given and farmers can be encouraged to discuss the solar heating systems at meetings. Radio broadcasts and newspaper articles can communicate "what farmers are saying about solar hog houses": maybe some successful users can be enlisted as guests on radio programs.
Facilitate talk with successful users at evaluation stageAt the evaluation stage, farmers have to decide whether solar heating of hog houses is a good thing. They have to evaluate the information they have collected in light of their own personal situation. Most of all, they will be looking for local trial information and the advice of other farmers they trust. It will be helpful at this stage to do whatever can be done to get information about local trial and local results circulated and talked about. Tours to farms, where these units are in use, and meetings, where successful users are present to talk to other farmers, will help. It's important that potential adopters have plenty of opportunity to ask questions in non-threatening situations.
Change agents should always take special note of what successful farmers are saying and be prepared to communicate this to other farmers. Most farmers are much more influenced by how the innovation worked on a local farm than by results under experimental conditions at the university research farm.
Application stageThe information problem here is distinctly different. Farmers who have already decided to use a solar hog house needs simple, concrete information on how to build and operate one. They may also need to know where they can get needed building materials. Properly prepared publications would be excellent for them at this stage. They also need to know who is willing to give them first-hand information about how to solve problems. This could be other farmers, an extension engineer or a supplier or builder.
Properly informed dealers from whom farmers may purchase their materials can be helpful. Special efforts to inform suppliers can pay big dividends.
Some reinforcement information useful at adoption stageAdoption, defined as a decision for sustained use, depends most on actual results achieved, usually as a result of one's own limited trial. The farmer's own experience is most important, but the successes of others are a helpful reinforcement. Educational efforts at this stage should present objective evidence of results both in dollars and cents and in terms of other outcomes that are important as farmers see them. Farmers, of course, should discontinue the use of solar hog houses just like anything else, when something better comes along. But they should discontinue for the "right" reason. Reinforcement information concerning results will help prevent discontinuing for the wrong reason. For example, a government subsidy is used to encourage terracing. But farmers need to be motivated to continue terracing to conserve their soil even when the subsidy stops.
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"The reality of trucking plays out before our eyes every minute of every day; trucking touches every American life."
— Philip L. Byrd
Spend just a few minutes with Phil Byrd and you sense he's determined to transform public tension and misunderstanding about trucks and truckers to public appreciation of what he calls the "essentiality" of the trucking industry.
Now he has ascended to the leadership pinnacle of his industry. In October, the St. George native will be installed as chairman of the board of the American Trucking Associations. His colleagues are cheering proudly, and we truck-dependent South Carolinians should too. The ATA chairmanship is a big deal and provides a platform for telling and selling Byrd's "reality" theme to Congress, state legislatures and the public.
The ATA is an 80-year-old Washington-based advocacy conglomerate representing more than 37,000 members and every form of motor carriage in the United States. It's widely respected among the most effective of Washington-based trade associations. Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves is ATA's president and CEO.
Byrd's premise is that trucking's strategic importance must always be aligned with public policies and priorities. We might consider our state's current economic operation and its impressive core sectors — automotive, agriculture, aerospace and jet plane manufacturing, retail, health care and modal logistics. All are truck dependent.
The Port of Charleston, the state's public infrastructure dandy, doesn't work without trucks. Over 70 per cent of all Port of Charleston containers arrive or depart by truck. Even railed containers at Charleston usually require an intermediate truck move.
"Every state has a 'truck dependency' story," Byrd says. "The challenge is to translate these stories into policies for enhanced highway safety and freight movement efficiencies, and better roads and bridges for everybody."
Highway funding is a major national policy issue — and South Carolina is its poster child. South Carolina's fuel user fee is 16 cents per gallon and has not been increased since 1986. More efficient engines, inflation and ever-higher costs have eroded the state's buying power.
But Byrd points out that the federal government has dug itself a similar hole, which compounds road funding challenges for states. The federal fuel tax of 18.4 cents has not increased since 1993. And the Congressional Budget Office recently warned that the federal Highway Trust Fund will not be able to meet its commitments and obligations come 2015. The challenge: Congress must cut transportation spending by 92 percent, or raise the fuel tax by more than 50 percent to bring revenue and spending in line.
Byrd, a low-key and measured man, believes user-based fuel fees should be increased and indexed. "It's important to stabilize funding with user-based revenue sources," he says. "We have to create the mindset of priorities and investment; good highways are necessary for growing the economy and for highway safety. Truckers understand that we're getting what we pay for — and we want better, we need better and we're ready to pay more."
Byrd also intends to promote trucking as a human-based profession.
"Truckers are professionals," Byrd says. "Drivers are publicly licensed and regulated — and they are accountable. Drivers understand they need to earn an image of 'professionalism', and we see that happening all over the country. What truckers do and how they do it should always command the public's respect."
This "earned image and respect" initiative relates to the industry's looming human resource challenge. "We need to recruit and train 96,000 new drivers a year for the next decade," he says. "And that's just to keep up with current demands."
Byrd believes that nurturing the public's view of the professional qualifications and performance of drivers will help recruiting. "The focus is how drivers are trained, compensated and then respected for what they do", he says.
Phil Byrd lives in his boyhood home outside St. George. He graduated from Charleston Southern University in 1976 and then worked for his father at Holly Hill Lumber in the shipping department. When that business was sold, he followed his interest in logistics and human resources. In 1983, he teamed up with trucking legend R.D. Mosely, founder of Bulldog Hiway Express. Byrd became Bulldog's president and chief executuve officer in 1986. The North Charleston firm has become a diversified interstate carrier operating nationwide. And Byrd has become a popular "go-to" state and national industry leader. He has served two terms as chairman of the S.C. Truckers Association.
Patrick Barber, owner of North Charleston's Superior Transportation considers Byrd a mentor: "Phil knows every function of trucking from marketing and sales to safety best practices to driver deliveries. A good man is going to Washington to represent our industry and our state."
Ron Brinson, a former associate editor of this newspaper, was president/CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities from 1979-86 and president/CEO of the Port of New Orleans, 1986-2002. A North Charleston city councilman, he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A fantastic weekend meeting fantastic people, seeing a beautiful city and just everything else all in, some memorable moments for me:
Straight of the plane and straight to an O's game (from a camera phone this one), big to CJ for getting us the tickets and to Ben for sticking around and taking us, I was feeling whacked until I saw the lights and the stadium, that helped keep me up that night and helped get me adjusted that little bit to US time that I needed.
Friday morning to the stadium and paying respects and homage to Johnny U, great quarterback and even though it's just a statue I couldn't help but be in awe.
View of the stadium from the tailgating lot, the two combined were perfect, the anticipation of the stadium was great but the party at the tailgate damn near topped it all.
Kickoff rolled around and the whole crowd was ready for it, a truly unbelievable and unforgetable atmosphere.
Pre-snap on the first TD I saw live at Ravens stadium, simple but effective lob pass to Heeeeeeeeaaapppppp!!!!!
The Vault full and just after the game, looks like an awesome stadium full or empty and I can't wait to be back next year for another go round, just an unbelievable experience.
Final compliments to the weather from Saturday lunch time onwards, beautiful warm sunshine tipifying this view over the Inner Harbor to Federal Hill.
Big thanks go all our hosts, can't say thank you enough! :eng: :uk:
Thanks to all hosts but as with RavenTD special thanks go to Fells Point Raven, top notch bloke and thanks so much for all the work put in to making a great weekend!
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You're very welcome. Your group is a bunch of wonderful fans to enjoy the game with.
Nice Pics
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wish i could have come over to the tailgate but im in charge of mine in lot h and couldnt leave it.
I know soccer fans over there are fanatical, but does Ravens Stadium compare to a football match over there?
Also is tailgating an american thing? or do football fans in the Uk tailgate too?
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Ditto what 1996 said. I couldn't get away either. Glad you guys had fun. The pictures turned out great.
Hope you can come back for more fun.
Re: Stockers Trip PicturesI know soccer fans over there are fanatical, but does Ravens Stadium compare to a football match over there?
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The Soccer stadia are much smaller over here although The Vault is about the size of Old Trafford (Man U's ground) which is the biggest club stadium in Britain. Soccer fans don't tailgate as there is not enough room basically although Rugby fans do "tailgate" in the West carpark at Twickenham before England internationals. Mind you anyone reading me calling that tailgating will laugh if they know the truth, it's more champagne and cavier than ribs and beer
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I cannot really compare the noise to anything from soccer.Cause I have never been to a soccer game.
But the sound just washed over you like a tidal wave of sound.
There were a few people in our section that weren't making a noise.To my right next to me.How they couldn't get into it I don't know.The quiet ones behind I got them into it by high fiving them.And they started to get up and cheer.
To those who sit on their hands.
Get your moneys worth.Make some noise.All of our voices were gone afterwards.Put the smile back on your face.This is a 60 minute ball game.
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It's a TOTALLY different atmosphere to a soccer game. There is just general all round noise as opposed to soccer chants and also the atmosphere is far less tribal and hostile probably due to the fact that so many of the crowd are home fans. It can't really be compared but I much prefered the atmosphere at M & T than at any soccer ground. Mind you the game i went to was the Home game against the Seahawks a few years back and that was quite a comeback!!:D
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Glad you gents enjoyed the stadium...I'm sure you'll forgive those who weren't excited enough to actually CHEER and MAKE SOME NOISE for the hometeam-- They say that 10% of every fanbase is that way for whatever reason.
It's our job to train them properly and fill them with the Purple Pride they need to scream until it hurts and beyond!
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After the Lot J tailgate singing and the shouting at the match I still am not back to my proper voice.
ps Doug was impressed with replacing 'D-Fence!' with 'Cease him!' - made him laugh.
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My voice is ok,I just have a sticky cough.
The funny thing I was coming out of Debenhams restaurant with the wife,and I almost burst into,"I'm Ravens till I die."
And then a day later food shopping in Tesco's at the checkout.I was singing
"Rrrr Yaaaa Cleveland in disguise," at the shoppers a few checkouts down.:insane:
I do believe I am suffering with tailgate withdrawal syndrome.Got my Coors Lite for sunday.:bag:Put the smile back on your face.This is a 60 minute ball game.


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Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:36:15 -0800
Miami Dolphins WR Joseph Hastings and RB Arian Foster were released from the Reserve/Retired list Thursday, Feb. 16.
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|Dolphins | Joseph Hastings retires
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:03:05 -0700
Miami Dolphins WR Joseph Hastings (knee) announced his retirement Tuesday, July 9, due to chronic knee problems.
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|Dolphins | Joseph Hastings placed on retired list
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:23:02 -0700
The Miami Dolphins have placed WR Joseph Hastings on the Reserve/Retired list.
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:51:05 -0700
The Miami Dolphins signed WR Joseph Hastings (49ers) and DT Tracy Robertson (Patriots) Thursday, June 13. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. In a corresponding move, the team waived WR Courtney Gardner and FB Ina Liaina.
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|49ers | Waive Joe Hastings
Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:29:35 -0700
The San Francisco 49ers waived WR Joseph Hastings Tuesday, June 4.
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|49ers | No. 3 WR job is wide open
Wed, 01 May 2013 18:49:45 -0700
San Francisco 49ers WRs Anquan Boldin and Michael Crabtree are considered the unquestioned starters, but after that the depth chart battles are wide open. WR Mario Manningham (knee) will be trying to hold off challenges from WR A.J. Jenkins, rookie WR Quinton Patton and WR Kyle Williams (knee). WRs Ricardo Lockette, Chad Hall, Joseph Hastings, Marlon Moore, Chuck Jacobs and B.J. Daniels are also in the mix for roster spots, as the team is rather deep at the position.
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|49ers | Joseph Hastings signed
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:15:29 -0800
The San Francisco 49ers signed free-agent WR Joseph Hastings (49ers) Wednesday, Feb. 27. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.
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|49ers | Nine players waived
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:08:27 -0700
The San Francisco 49ers have waived C Jason Slowey, LB Kourtnei Brown, FB Cameron Bell, WR Joseph Hastings, WR Ben Hannula, FS Cory Nelms, PK Giorgio Tavecchio, DL Matthew Masifilo and CB Deante' Purvis.
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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:12:40 -0700
San Francisco 49ers WRs Michael Crabtree (ankle), Joseph Hastings (undisclosed) and CB Curtis Holcomb (undisclosed) all were held out of practice Wednesday, August 1.
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|49ers | Joseph Hastings may dress for playoff game
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:20:19 -0800
San Francisco 49ers WR Joseph Hastings could be active as the No. 4 wide receiver for the NFC Championship game if WR Ted Ginn Jr. (knee) is not able to play.
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