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I've lived in the US and UK for around a year each and I didn't have any extreme cultural clashes. I made friends with other Egyptians but I also had a strong affinity with Arabs and Muslims and Africans. When in the US, I read a lot of novels about Indians and Pakistanis and Afghans who lived in America because they resonated so deeply with my experience.
But you know something. As a person, I think very much of my identity as a woman, as a mom, as an ALT-academic, as a semi-privileged person, marginal yet powerful in online and offline spaces. As a critical pedagogue. As a human who realizes every day that not all humans are treated the same and that while my own suffering is different from others, that I care about what we have in common and what we don't.
I'm an extreme extrovert who loves to write and speak and isn't afraid to show emotions and fall in love with people and their hearts and minds. And that sometimes is all that makes the difference in my interactions. Sometimes I'm nothing but a mom. Or nothing but a wife. Or nothing but a daughter. Or nothing but a friend.
So yeah. I mean, we can't generalize about Africa. I share some things w South Africa but not apartheid history. I share some things w Tunisians but I don't actually understand their Arabic dialect. I share a lot with Sudan but more with Jordan even though Egypt and Sudan used to be one country. I was born and raised in Kuwait but share more with third culture kids than I do with Kuwaitis…
And I'm thinking that vconnecting matters to people who are marginal in different ways: women, people from emerging economies, unaffiliated academics, graduate students, people with health problems, visa problems, ALT-academics… And those who just have dissenting views or care to listen to marginal voices.
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Observed ORs for processed meats were partly attenuated after additional adjustment for baseline BMI. Such attenuation may be due to the independent effects of obesity on processed meat intake and diabetes. However, obesity may be in the causal pathway between processed meat intake and diabetes risk—that is, consuming a diet high in processed meats may cause weight gain and obesity, a risk factor for diabetes. As such, the model that adjusts for BMI may underestimate the effect of processed meat intake on diabetes risk.
These findings are consistent with several other prospective studies in whites and health professionals that showed a positive association of processed meats and incident diabetes ( 1 – 4 , 26 – 29 ) and no association of unprocessed red meats and incident diabetes ( 1 , 2 , 4 ). In contrast, a large meta-analysis suggested that both processed meat and unprocessed red meat are associated with higher risk of diabetes; however, the association of processed meat and incident diabetes was considerably stronger than for unprocessed red meat ( 27 ). It is possible that our analysis was not adequately powered to detect a modest association of unprocessed red meat on diabetes risk.
Our results indicate that the magnitude of the relation of processed meat and diabetes is greatest for spam intake. Unlike spam, hot dogs, lunch meat, breakfast sausage, and the total processed meat categories comprise a heterogeneous mix of lean and nonlean meats (such as turkey or beef hot dogs, bologna or turkey breast lunch meat, and turkey or beef breakfast sausage). The lack of clear association (or dose-related trend) of non-spam processed meats on diabetes development may be due to the heterogeneity in the types of meats that comprise the non-spam processed meat categories or due to other measurement error/recall bias associated with the FFQ.
There are several possible biological mechanisms that might explain our findings. Processed meats are rich in additives and preservatives, including sodium nitrate, which could influence diabetes risk. Nitrosamines are present in processed meats at manufacturing or formed by interactions of amino acids and nitrates within the body. Nitrosamines have been shown to have a toxic effect on β cells and may promote the development of diabetes ( 30 – 34 ). Processed meats have higher amounts of nitrates than do unprocessed red meats ( 35 ), and this may, in part, explain the differences in diabetes risk for processed meats and unprocessed red meats. In addition, processed meats are also high in advanced glycation end products. Advanced glycation end products are formed in the heating and processing of meats and have been shown to influence inflammation and oxidative stress, both of which are risk factors for development of diabetes ( 30 , 31 , 36 , 37 ).
Alternatively, it is possible that other unmeasured factors that influence both intake of processed meats and diabetes may have accounted for our results. Because many AI communities are located in isolated rural areas or on reservations, many people have limited access to healthy foods and rely on food items available at local convenience stores, including spam. In addition, the USDA food assistance program provides commodity foods to low-income AIs who reside on reservations in an effort to address national food insecurity; spam is a staple commodity food. Because the most disadvantaged participants may also have other unmeasured lifestyle characteristics for diabetes (eg, limited access to health care, inability to comply with medical advice), residual confounding may account for the association of processed meat/spam with diabetes development if processed meat intake is a marker for unmeasured socioeconomic disadvantage. More studies are needed to better understand this relation.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - America's Health Rankings, United Health Foundation Tuesday ranked Hawaii as the second healthiest state in the nation behind Vermont. Hawaii moved ahead of two other states this year from last year's health ranking of fourth.
"This year's improved ranking is encouraging and reflects the efforts of Gov. Abercrombie and the work of the department to improve the health of our state," said Health Director Loretta Fuddy. "The state has taken many positive steps in the last year, but chronic disease and obesity are still major growing concerns, especially when it comes to our children. We must turn the tide on these issues for our next generation."
In its 23rd year, the annual America's Health Rankings is the longest running comparative health index of states. For overall health, Hawaii consistently ranks in the top five states each year.
The report noted that while Hawaii has one of the lowest obesity rates in the nation, there are still roughly 234,000 obese adults in the state.
Also noted were an improvement in infant mortality from 7.6 to 5.8 deaths per 1,000 live births, and a decrease in preventable hospitalizations from 32.2 to 25.0 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
While the prevalence of diabetes in Hawaii is below the national median at 8.4 percent, the state's climbing rate reflects the troubling nationwide trend of increasing chronic disease. According to the report, roughly 90,000 adults in Hawaii are living with diabetes.
Additional areas of high concern for the state include the rate of health disparities among ethnicities and rural areas. This includes higher rates of tobacco use and obesity among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
"Because the measures used in the rankings reflect the condition of the 'average' resident, the report can mask serious health disparities within our island state," said Director Fuddy. "In Hawaii there are often startling differences between ethnic groups and rural areas of the state that should not be ignored."
"Hawaii's positive ranking is encouraging, but there are areas that will require our continued attention as we work collaboratively with our partners in the healthcare industry and the federal government toward the implementation of the Affordable Healthcare Act," said Beth Giesting, who was appointed by the Governor as Hawaii's Healthcare Transformation Coordinator. "It is important that we identify what is working well, while zeroing in on where we can improve as a state. This will require Hawaii continuing to be a leader in shaping its healthcare future, as exhibited in October when the state proactively selected its healthcare benchmark benefits package."
America's Health Rankings include measures of behavior, community and environment, public and health policies, clinical care, and health outcomes to describe the health and wellness of each state compared to the other states. Updated each year since 1990, the rankings are sponsored by United Health Foundation and conducted in partnership with the American Public Health Association and the Partnership for Prevention.

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By Matt Styslinger
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is an innovative method of increasing the productivity of irrigated rice with very simple adjustments to traditional techniques. It involves transplanting younger seedlings into the field with wider spacing in a square pattern, irrigating to keep the roots moist and aerated instead of flooding fields, and increasing organic matter in the soil with compost and manure. The SRI method of crop management has been shown to increase yields in over 40 countries, while simultaneously reducing costs, labor, and the need for inputs of chemical fertilizers and water.
Lead SRI researchers, Norman Uphoff and Erika Styger, are spearheading new research on applying SRI methods to wheat cultivation. The methodology—dubbed System of Wheat Intensification (SWI)—is improving wheat yields for small-scale farmers in India and Mali, while reducing costs and labor. In Mali, wheat farmers can increase their yields by 15 to 20 percent, and Indian farmers have seen yields 2 and 3 times higher than those from conventional methods. SWI practices have spread quickly in India, and farmers have spontaneously begun applying the principles to other crops, such as millet, mustard seed, soybean, eggplant, and maize. Collectively, these practices are becoming known as System of Crop Intensification (SCI).
"Two years ago there were 400 farmers—most of them women, and most of them illiterate and landless—who used SWI," says Uphoff. "The next year it was 25,000, and this year it was 50,000. To go from 400 to 50,000 in two years is unprecedented." Uphoff believes that this is because the methodology is well-suited to the needs of small-scale farmers in India, and that it is making big improvements to the food security of farming families. "[The state of] Bihar is where we've seen the most excitement generated by farmers who say that between SRI in the summer and SWI in the winter, they've gone from producing three months' supply of food for their families to 6 or 7 months."
Uphoff says that the method is about managing the crop, soil, and nutrients to promote a vibrant soil system that, in turn, promotes larger root systems. With adequate spacing and loose soil, the roots of the crop can grow deeper than from conventional cropping methods. "The extra root activity keeps the soil from compacting," he says. "It's really a less is more strategy." By using fewer plants and reducing the amount of inputs, each plant is hardier and can grow to its natural potential.
"What's more is organic matter," he explains. "By adding plenty of organic matter to the soil, you get a lot more bacteria, fungi, mites, and earthworms. That makes the soil a well-aerated system, allowing more air and water to penetrate the roots."
Uphoff says that a big part of the success of SRI and SWI comes from the roots of the crops. More fully developed root systems make crops more resilient in times of drought, because the plant can access moisture deeper in the soil. This could be important for coping with climate change. "In terms of drought resistance, having deep roots that are tapping residual soil moisture are really critical for getting plants through the heat stress," says Uphoff.
Uphoff reports that in Bihar, India in 2010—a serious drought year—researchers compared the yields from adjacent plots of SRI and conventional methods from 74 farmers. SRI plots had an average of 100 percent higher yields than conventional plots from the same farmers. "They can get twice the yield with the same varieties, in the same soils, and in the same drought conditions," he says. "We've seen the same kind of yield increases in places as different as Bihar on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Himachal Pradesh in the foothills of the Himalayas, Tigray Province in the highlands of Ethiopia, and Timbuktu in Mali on the edge of the Sahara Desert."
Uphoff and Styger say that it was the farmers—in both India and Mali—who thought of testing SRI methods on wheat after seeing the positive results on rice yields. "They took the blueprint from SRI and did exactly the same thing with wheat," says Styger, who has been working on SRI with farmers near Timbuktu, Mali. "But because wheat does not grow as quickly or as thick as rice, the spacing they used was too wide, and the yields were about the same from the conventional way of doing it. So the next year we did some spacing trials and played around with how to establish the crop. The yields were then almost double. The same happened in Northern India. SRI projects were working with farmers who don't have much land. Wheat is a staple there, so farmers adapted the practice to the wheat crop."
Styger says that it was initially the endorsement of an elder farmer named Mahamoudou Abdou that made farmers open to her SRI methodology in Mali a few years ago. Abdou spoke up from the crowd of farmers during an SRI presentation saying that it reminded him of an experience he had many years before as a younger man farming with his father. One season, many of the rice seedlings had been eaten by grazing animals in the nursery just before transplanting. With fewer seedlings to plant, Abdou's father spread each one further apart to fill his field. At harvest time, his yields were much higher than usual. As he told the story, other farmers listened intently. Abdou has become a strong advocate of the method and encourages farmers to make all of the suggested adjustments.
"The interesting thing about [this method]," says Styger, "is that it reverses the way that agricultural technology is developed. Before, the researchers and the extension agents were the experts. But with SRI and SWI, we share the principles of how to adjust the management of the plant with the farmer. But then the farmer adjusts it to his field. By adjusting it to his own field and labor conditions, the farmer is the one who becomes the expert."
Decades of input-intensive farming and agricultural policy have caused many farmers to forget the complex knowledge and practices regarding their crop and soils that they otherwise would have used. "Farmers got weaned off their earlier fertility management practices by the convenience of fertilizer, and often with the help of heavy government subsidies," says Uphoff. "Farmers have been persuaded that chemical fertilizer is superior to their compost." He explains further that SRI and SWI go against conventional logic. "It's counterintuitive to think that by cutting your plant population by 80 or 90 percent, cutting water inputs by 70 percent, and reducing fertilizer inputs, you get higher yield."
The researchers do not discourage the use of improved seeds or some amount of chemical fertilizer—as long as it is coupled with organic fertilizer. The key, they say, is to pay closer attention to what is happening below the ground with roots and soils. "The principles are a more knowledge-based system, and the farmer has more control," says Styger. "We, the outsiders and technical people, need to learn from farmers. Maybe the farmer has already found the solution, but we don't know about it because the agricultural research system is not usually set up for us to learn from them."
Do you think SWI methodology has potential on large-scale farms and with other types of crops? Let us know in the comments!
Matt Styslinger is a research intern with Nourishing the Planet.
To read more about SRI methods see: Meet the Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group: Norman Uphoff, System of Rice Intensification: A viable solution to produce more rice, using less water, Madagascar's "Magic Rice" – Dista Rice, Gleanings from Des Moines: Farmer Testimonials of Sustainable Rice Intensification
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Mass. man charged after shots fired in standoff with police at Nashua hotelBy JULIE HANSON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 15. 2013 2:29PM
NASHUA- - A Billerica man was arrested Thursday evening after a standoff with police at the Radisson Hotel on Tara Boulevard in Nashua.
Gary McKeon, 47, of 23 Kenmar Drive, Billerica, Mass., was arraigned Friday on four counts of reckless conduct and one count of criminal threatening.
Family members asked police to check on McKeon reporting he'd made suicidal and threatening comments. Police also were told McKeon was intoxicated and carrying a firearm.
More than 10 officers arrived at the hotel around 3:10 p.m., according to Lt. Michael Moushegian of the Nashua Police Department.
"We took the precaution of establishing a perimeter and initiating contact with Mr. McKeon," Moushegian said.
The floor of the hotel was evacuated and officers remained outside the room for several hours until McKeon was arrested at 10:45 p.m.
"He came out, he was taken into custody, and nobody was hurt," Moushegian said.
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IHG Announces Larry Light as Chief Brands Officer
April 05, 2012 // Franchising.com // InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world's largest hotel companies has appointed former McDonald's Chief Marketing Officer, Larry Light, as Global Chief Brands Officer.
Reporting directly to CEO Richard Solomons, the hiring of Light builds on the company's strategy of developing and nurturing a powerful portfolio of preferred brands including; Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Indigo, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites.
Larry Light is one of the world's leading brand consultants and author of the book 'Six Rules for Brand Revitalisation'. He served as Global Chief Marketing Officer for McDonald's during 2002-2005, crucial years in the brand's marketing turnaround and as CEO of Arcature LLC, a brand management consultancy, Larry has also worked with other high profile organisations including Mars, Nissan, 3M and IBM.
Says Richard Solomons, IHG CEO, "I am delighted to welcome Larry to our senior leadership team and look forward to working with him. One of our strategic priorities is to develop our brands and Larry's wealth of experience and brand expertise will help us build a stronger platform for future growth."
The arrival of Larry Light to the senior management team at IHG coincides with two major milestones in brand development for the company. Both EVEN Hotels and HUALUXE Hotels and Resorts launched in the first quarter of 2012 – examples of IHG's strength in creating new brands based on unparalleled consumer insights and understanding.
Larry Light, Chief Brands Officer says, "It is an exciting time for IHG as the portfolio has already grown from seven to nine brands with the launch of EVEN and HUALUXE in the first quarter of 2012. I am very familiar with the franchise model that IHG operates and I look forward to working with the talented leadership team to deliver the best brand experience for our guests and better returns for our owners."
EVEN and HUALUXE build on over 50 years of innovation and a track record of industry 'firsts' for IHG. These include developing Hotel Indigo, the industry's first branded boutique hotel experience, Holiday Inn Express, the fastest growing hotel brand in the industry and Staybridge Suites, an all-suite hotel brand designed to meet the needs of extended-stay guests. As Holiday Inn looks forward to both hosting the Athletes Village at the 2012 Olympics and celebrating its 60th Anniversary later this year, brand growth also remains a strategic priority for IHG.
Formerly Executive Vice-President at BBDO; Chairman and CEO of the international division of Bates Worldwide; and a member of Bates' Board of Directors, Larry's career has seen him develop breakthrough principles, concepts and processes for nurturing, managing, and building brands for enduring profitable growth.
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IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global organisation with nine hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites®, as well as our two newest brands, EVEN™ Hotels and HUALUXE™ Hotels & Resorts. IHG also manages Priority Club® Rewards, the world's first and largest hotel loyalty programme with over 63 million members worldwide.
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IHG expects to recruit around 90,000 new people worldwide across its estate over the next few years and is committed to gender balance throughout its business. We aspire to continue retaining a minimum of 25% female representation on the Board.
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Proposed ASTM Standards address aerosol products, artist pastels.
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Proposed standard ASTM WK37409, Test Method for Measuring Aspiration Potential of Aerosol Products, is being developed to support evaluation of such products to determine whether they require special child-resistant packaging. Also, proposed standard ASTM WK37916, Specification for Artists Pastels, will provide benchmark standard to allow those in pastel industry to test colors so that pastels can withstand exposure to light without fading.
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ASTM International Paint Committee Developing Proposed Standards on Aerosol Products and Artists Pastels
W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.–Proposed ASTM standards for aerosol products and artists pastels are among the current activities of Subcommittee D01.57 on Artist Paints and Related Materials, part of ASTM International Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications.
Aspiration Potential of Aerosol Products
Self-pressurized aerosol containers that contain 10 percent or more petroleum distillates and come out as a stream can present an aspiration risk, since inhaling such fluids has been associated with chemical pneumonia. A proposed new ASTM standard, ASTM WK37409, Test Method for Measuring Aspiration Potential of Aerosol Products, is being developed to support the evaluation of such products to determine whether they require special child-resistant packaging.
"Under Canada's Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, aerosol canisters that contain 10 percent or more petroleum distillates and expel their contents as a mist would not be expected to present an aspiration risk and would not require special child-resistant packaging," says Woodhall Stopford, director of a toxicology laboratory at Duke University Medical Center that studies the safety of consumer products, and a D01.57 member. "Without using the test in this proposed standard, such products must be presumed to present a risk of aspiration and must have protective packaging. With testing using ASTM WK37409, manufacturers can be assured that such packaging is not necessary."
D01.57 is currently recruiting laboratories and manufacturers of self-pressurized aerosol containers to participate in interlaboratory testing for ASTM WK37409.
Artists Pastels
A proposed new standard, ASTM WK37916, Specification for Artists Pastels, will provide the pastel industry with a benchmark standard to allow them to test colors so that pastels can withstand exposure to light without fading.
"Being able to rely on a color to remain the same is important to an artist," says Michael Skalka, conservation administrator for the Conservation Division, National Gallery of Art, and chairman of D01.57. "Pastel paintings, like all other art forms where colors are blended or placed near other colors, maintain integrity and balance because the assumption is that the colors will remain the same over time. When colors fade, they upset the hue relationship in a painting, and the artwork loses the intent the artist wished to give it."
According to Skalka, manufacturers will be the primary users of ASTM WK37916, once it has been approved, because it will provide them with tests to determine color lightfastness that must be done with sophisticated equipment or special outdoor testing. Manufacturers are also being sought for the ongoing development of ASTM WK37916.
Skalka also notes that, in addition to ASTM WK37409 and ASTM WK37916, D01.57 is also planning to develop proposed standards on inkjet inks for artists, rigid support panels for paintings and historical paint manufacturing. All interested parties are invited to join in the work of D01.57.
ASTM International is one of the largest international standards development and delivery systems in the world. ASTM International meets the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles for the development of international standards: coherence, consensus, development dimension, effectiveness, impartiality, openness, relevance and transparency. ASTM standards are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions.
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ASTM Committee D01 Next Meeting: Jan. 27-29, 2013, January Committee Week, Jacksonville, Fla.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jonathan Pettibone pitched neatly into the seventh, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Domonic Brown hit solo homers and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 4-1 Friday night.
Pettibone (2-0) allowed one run and five hits in 6 1-3 innings in his third start filling in for injured lefty John Lannan.
Donovan Solano hit a solo homer for the Marlins, who've lost three in a row after winning three straight.
Ricky Nolasco (2-3) gave up four runs and eight hits in six innings.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A.J. Burnett allowed one run and struck out nine in seven shutout innings, and call-up Jordy Mercer hit a tiebreaker home run to lead Pittsburgh to is fourth win in six games.
Burnett (3-2) gave up five hits and one walk in winning his third straight after going 0-2 in his first three starts. He also raised his NL-leading strikeout total to 57.
Mercer's two-run home run off Ross Detwiler (1-3) in the fifth inning put the Pirates ahead 3-1. Mercer was recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis before the game when second baseman Neil Walker was placed on the disabled list with a right hand injury.
The Nationals lost for the fourth time in six games.
ATLANTA (AP) — David Wright hit the tying home run in the ninth inning off closer Craig Kimbrel and New York scored twice in the 10th to rally for the over Atlanta.
The Mets, who have won two in a row after dropping six straight, scored four of their first five runs on homers before taking a two-run lead off Jordan Walden (1-1) in the 10th. Walden gave up two runs while getting just two outs.
Jeurys Familia earned his first save by retiring facing the minimum in the bottom half of the 10th.
Closer Bobby Parnell (2-0) got two outs for the win.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Matt Holliday and Carlos Beltran homered and Shelby Miller pitched six strong innings to propel St. Louis to victory.
Miller (4-2) gave up seven hits and a walk in six innings while striking out five.
He held Milwaukee scoreless through the first five innings before allowing a sacrifice fly by Jonathan Lucroy. Carlos Martinez, Seth Maness and Fernando Salas held the Brewers without a run over the final three innings. Martinez and Maness made their major league debuts.
The Cardinals jumped in front in the third inning on a two-out, two-run home run by Holliday off Brewers starter Kyle Lohse (1-3). Allen Craig followed with a single but was thrown out at the plate attempting to score on a double by Yadier Molina, one of three Cardinals thrown out at the plate.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jay Bruce had two RBIs and scored and Shin-Soo Choo drove in a run and scored twice to help Cincinnati hold off Chicago.
The Cubs scored three runs in the ninth against Reds closer Aroldis Chapman before reliever J.J. Hoover came on and struck out Darwin Barney with the bases loaded to pick up his first save.
Mike Leake (2-1) gave up two runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings, earned his fourth straight decision over the Cubs with help from five relievers.
Devin Mesoraco, Todd Frazier and Zack Cozart also had run-scoring hits to help the Reds hand Carlos Villanueva (1-2) the loss.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Buster Posey hit a game-ending home run into the left-field seats leading off the bottom of the ninth, and the Giants beat the Dodgers.
Sergio Romo (2-2) struck out two in the top of the inning and survived Matt Kemp's nine-pitch single for the victory.
Posey connected for his first career game-winning RBI of any kind on a 3-2 pitch from Ronald Belisario (2-3), who hadn't allowed a run in his previous four appearances over six innings.
Clayton Kershaw came off the bereavement list to pitch seven impressive innings for the Dodgers only five days after the death of his father, Christopher, and 56 hours following the funeral in Texas. Kershaw allowed one run and three hits, struck out five and walked three in a 104-pitch outing.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Yonder Alonso hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Wade Miley in the fifth inning and the Padres held on to beat the Diamondbacks for their seventh win in nine games.
With the Padres trailing 3-2, Alonso drove a 2-2 pitch from Miley (2-1) into the Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 deck in right-center, his fourth. It would have been a home run even in Petco Park's old configuration. The fences were moved in 11 feet from the home run porch in the right-field corner to the gap in an attempt to make the downtown ballpark play fairer. Jesus Guzman was aboard on a grounder.
The homer made a winner of Jason Marquis (3-2). Marquis allowed three runs and four hits in six innings, struck out five and walked five.
DENVER (AP) — Evan Longoria hit a tiebreaking single in the 10th inning and Kelly Johnson later added a two-run homer in the interleague game, helping Tampa Bay improve to 3-4 on their road trip after having a game in Kansas City snowed out the day before.
Desmond Jennings also had a two-run homer for the Rays.
Ben Zobrist led off the 10th with a double to left off reliever Matt Belisle (1-2), setting the stage for Longoria. Johnson provided some insurance by lining his fourth homer of the season just over the wall in right-center.
Kyle Farnsworth (1-0) earned the win by pitching a perfect ninth and Fernando Rodney picked up his fourth save in five chances, striking out Eric Young Jr. with two on to end the game.


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Starting today, you won't have to pay a dime to prevent pregnancy, if you are covered by private insurance.
Part of President Obama's controversial Affordable Care Act that passed two years ago goes into effect today, requiring health insurance companies to cover birth control with no deductible or co-pay. Along with free contraception, services like gestational diabetes screenings, breastfeeding supplies and counseling, and HPV DNA testing for women 30 or older will also be required coverage by health insurance companies. ABC Action News reports that according to the Department of Health and Human Services, about 47 million women are now eligible for free access to these services.
Plus: Pfizer Recalls One Million Birth Control Pill Packets
However, keep in mind, the requirements don't actually go into effect until you renew your insurance plan, which for many is not until year-end.


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Retailers: 'Black Friday' sales mixedBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 23. 2012 10:54PM
MANCHESTER - Kim Lacroix of Manchester kept checking her list as she loaded toys into her cart at Toys-R-Us as the frenzy of Black Friday wore down Friday night.
"It's been easy," she said of the shopping.
Retailers gave mixed reactions to how well they fared on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally is the start of the Christmas shopping season and is so named because it is the day retailers hope will get them into black, or profitable, numbers.
Tasha Isabelle, a manager at Old Navy at the Mall of New Hamphsire, which had been open since midnight Thursday, said business this year seemed slower than last year.
"There's definitely less people in the store," she said. "It feels a little bit slower than past years because there aren't as many people in the store."
But Josh Heinzl, owner of Josh's Toys at the mall, called Black Friday 2012 his best year since he opened his first of four toy stores four years ago.
"It's going really well," he said Friday night. "This is our best (year)."
The mall anticipates a good holiday shopping season, said Rebecca Murphy, the mall's director of marketing, though she said Friday night that no sales figures were available.
"We are very optimistic the holiday season is going to go very well this year," she said.
The lines for Black Friday deals started as early as Wednesday night, when Chuck Handy of Derry camped outside of Best Buy to be the first in line for deals when the electronics store opened at midnight Thursday.
Best Buy sales manager Lou Hindle said Friday night that the store stayed packed with customers Friday.
"The whole store is still jamming," he said. "I would say it's been a successful day so far."
Not everyone decided to get up early to do some shopping, though. Tiesha Burton of Boston, who said she is visiting family in New Hampshire, said she was just starting her shopping at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Cafe de la Paix!
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Ahhhh--there you go! Have a great trip, Carol and Bear. Rest up tonight!ReplyDelete
Cafe de la Paix for his first breakfast in Paris: Bear likes the good life! Bon voyage, Carol and bear! Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
Yay! Welcome to Paris, Carolg and Bear!ReplyDelete
Wow.. That was a short stay in Paris.. You're onto London already? A good start to your trip tho I would say. Looking forward to more.ReplyDelete
I hope that you have some money left after that breakfast:) That place looks very posh.ReplyDelete
London so soon?
Have fun!Replies
Good point Nikon!Delete
Bear does like to play fast and loose with the euros beginning of the trip.
Later on he is counting every centime and yelling at me for pastry extravagances :(
c'est la vie toujours
Tomorrow in the very early a.m. I'll be havingReplyDelete
my breakfast at "Jim's Lunch,"in a little South Jersey town. Obviously way at the other end of the spectrum from your first "Paris Breakfast" of this trip.
You really hit the ground running... and Cafe de la Paix first thing? What a lovely way to start the trip. I cannot wait for the next post. For some reason I am living vicariously through you this trip. Have a fabulous time.ReplyDelete
M.Bear will be BACK IN PARIS on Saturday evening!ReplyDelete
Not to worry.
His apartment in the BOBO 11th isn't ready until Sunday so...he's going to eat some London cupcakes at Peggy Porschen's Parlour and meet Vicki Archer (French Essence) today bla bla bla
Please forgive!!
Isn't Carol lucky that Bear lets her tag along?ReplyDelete
I'm off to Paris in two weeks, im definately going to hunt out Cafe de la Paix. looks delightful! :)ReplyDelete
... how very exciting ... Carol and Vicki ... can't wait to get the updates and (I hope) some pics ... have fun ... Karen in CTReplyDelete
Une belle balade... merci pour le partage photographique...ReplyDelete
gros bisous
Enjoy le tunnel and London. Somebody looks remarkably like hubby in that breakfast shot. Hm. He works around the corner. Could it be?ReplyDelete
It's glorious here in London – enjoy!ReplyDelete
I LOVE Bear!!! I do hope he gets to be re-united with his long lost lost brother this time round. Wouldn't that be tres exciting!! Carol, adopting is ever sooo wonderful and double the fun for both you and our cherished BEAR!!! Love to you both. Take good care, have fun, get rest and see many doggies everywhere and do show them to us please :) xoReplyDelete
Loved it Carol...it looked like a very yummy breakfast. Should I put Cafe de la Paix on my list??? I think so. A bientot.ReplyDelete
Alas, right now I can only afford to travel to Paris via Google Earth and PB! But, in the spirit of throwing caution to the wind, I took myself down to an authentic French patisserie in town today, and had an exquisite little cake and cup of coffee ... in Bear's honour (as one does). Hope you're enjoying the trip as much as Bear is :)ReplyDelete
Wow a breakfast with steak. best café in LondonReplyDelete
It looked a pretty good plateful and a very sensible idea to stoke up with a good ..


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Mr Zip66's Easy Rider Map
Denis Hopper's Easy Rider is to many the seminal counter-culture movie of the 1960's. Some of us may never get the chance to ride a bike across the States but thanks to Mr Zip we can follow the route on Google Maps.
Mr Zip has pieced together the locations used in the film and managed to put together a rough approximation of the route. The map itself is simple enough, showing the route in blue, with a few map markers showing the locations of some of the main scenes.
However what makes this an essential destination for fans of the film is the accompanying photographs and Mr Zip's knowledgeable commentary of what you can see and do if you are lucky enough to be able to undertake the trip yourself.
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Hines said exactly what i've been saying for years, one day the defense was going to need the offense to carry us to the promise land and the time is now. We're set up perfectly to go back to the dance people. My reasons for saying that is.....
1. We have young ,hungry, fast, sure handed receivers.
3. The offense no longer has the security blanket of the great stingy defense that would man up when the time came.
I always felt the offense would come out slow and carefree for years because they figured the D would stop the other offense until they got fired up. With the D having issues and James Harrison being hurt ,which I thought would never happen the offense needs to turn the corner. We have to put points on the board to protect our defense. We have the offense to do it they just can't take those 3 downs for granted.
I think Redman will run like a mad man which in turn will fire up the o-line and make them play a little more angry like in the preseason. Those guys played about 5 seconds past the whistle every play in the preseason, especially Foster. Then you can hit them with Mendenhall for the shifty runs that's he's great for. That should open the door for our young bucks on the outside to have their way.
To go through this turmoil this early in the season will be a blessing for these guys. The Offense will play with more urgency and allow the D to get the kinks worked out.
James getting an eye injury was the best thing for us believe it or not because, it shouldn't hender him from working out but it will give him and his back a rest and allow some of his strength to return without him getting rusty. That means when we're in the thick of the season we get a dominate player back with fresh legs in time to make a run for the playoffs and the superbowl.
Bottomline just like in '05 when a lot of people on this site wrote them off i'm still riding with them. I can see it and I believe it.


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Production has begun on Season 8 of "Doctor Who" with Peter Capaldi at the helm of the TARDIS.
Capaldi plays the Twelfth Doctor after Matt Smith left the show in the recent Christmas episode, "The Time of the Doctor." Capaldi made his first appearance as the Doctor in the show's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" and appeared at the end of "The Time of the Doctor."
"New job, first day, slightly nervous," Capaldi was quoted as saying as he arrived on set in Cardiff. "Just like the Doctor, I'm emerging from the TARDIS into a whole other world."
BBC America has released this first image of shooting featuring Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, who plays the Doctor's companion Clara.
"In the same way as I was welcomed, I'm looking forward to doing that, to helping a new Doctor find his feet in what is going to be a really exciting adventure for him," Coleman told me during San Diego Comic Con last July. (Watch the video.)
Making reference to Capaldi's brief appearances in the earlier episodes, lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat said in the release: "First the eyebrows! Then, at Christmas, the face! Coming soon, the whole Doctor. In the Cardiff studios, the Capaldi era begins."
Moffat wrote the first episode of Season 8, while Phil Ford wrote the second. The episodes are directed by Ben Wheatley. Filming on Season 8 is taking place in Cardiff until August 2014 with a premiere date later in the year.
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Stupid taxpayers? Too dumb to notice gas tax trick?
February 26. 2013 5:59PM
It appears that state Rep. David Campbell of Nashua not only picked a lousy time to ask New Hampshire drivers to pay a whopping increase for their gasoline, he also made the politicians' classic mistake of promising, in writing no less, all things to all people. If his fellow House Democrats go along with him today, they will really be telling their constituents how little they think of them.
Union Leader senior political reporter John Distaso reported Monday that Campbell, while claiming publicly that the gas tax money is desperately needed to fix our roads, was also promising his fellow pols that the tax hike is a "gift that keeps on giving."
As his daddy used to say, Campbell told select Democrats in an ill-advised email, "don't spend it all in one place.'' (One can almost hear him guffaw and slap his knee.)
Campbell explained a little-known and little used provision in law that allows agencies other than the transportation department to gain millions of dollars from his gas tax hike. Consumers can seek a partial tax refund for gasoline purchased for things other than their cars. But they don't know about it, Campbell said, and therefore the state can count on raking in millions of dollars beyond his own high estimates of what highways need.
Of course, Campbell has been saying that every penny of a 15-cent per gallon tax increase must and will go to fix roads and bridges. It's in the state Constitution, he has been saying.
Caught red-handed, Campbell's lame response was to tell Distaso that his email boast is a good thing because now consumers will know to apply for the gas tax refund.
Even before his blunder, Campbell's timing was dreadful. In the event anyone in the Legislature hasn't noticed, gasoline prices are soaring. The increase in price has placed enormous strain on family budgets.
It is undermining economic growth and is putting inflationary pressure on an already stressed economy. It also comes at a time when the logic of giving government more money to spend is under serious challenge.
At the federal level, the debate, the fight, is over cutting government spending — not finding ways to increase it. No less can be said or done at the state level.
Roads and bridges are important. The need to maintain the infrastructure, built at significant taxpayer expense in the first place, goes without saying. But should it require steep new taxes to do that job? Should additional spending be the only solution?
The government — at all levels — needs to be held accountable for the money it already receives. It is time to demand that government live within its means, which is to say the people's means.
"Don't spend it all in one place" must give way to "don't spend what the people don't have."


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Idea Exchange: Shower curtain liners help keep it clean in a mixed-animal practice
Apr 01, 2012
In our mixed-animal practice, we handle births and prolapses under less than ideal conditions. To keep our work area clean and dry, we lay heavy-duty shower curtain liners on the ground. They are inexpensive (about $1.50) and sturdier than plastic bags are and can be laundered, although we choose to dispose of ours when we are done.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy swerved her Lexus into a truck, damaging the car and blowing a tire, but kept driving and later was slumped at her steering wheel and disoriented, motorists testified Monday at her drugged-driving trial.
Her lawyer said she was "sleep-driving" because she had accidentally taken a sleeping pill.
Kennedy, ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and niece of President John F. Kennedy, went on trial Monday in suburban New York.
Several Kennedy relatives, including her mother, Ethel Kennedy, sat in the gallery's front row.
In his opening statement, defense lawyer Gerald Lefcourt told the six jurors that Kennedy was not disputing that she drove erratically. But he said it happened because Kennedy accidentally took an Ambien sleeping pill that morning instead of her thyroid medication.
Kennedy's blood tests revealed a small amount of the sleeping drug zolpidem.
"The zolpidem kicks in. It shuts her down. She's in a state of sleep-driving," Lefcourt said.
Prosecutor Stefanie DeNise said even if the pill were taken accidentally, Kennedy violated the law "by failing to stop and pull over as she felt the onset of symptoms."
But Lefcourt said Kennedy never knew what the drug was doing to her. He said the medication "hijacks your ability to make decisions."
Kennedy was arrested in 2012 after her car hit a tractor-trailer on an interstate highway near her home outside New York City. She drove to the next exit, where she failed three of four sobriety tests, police said.
One fellow motorist, Henry Myers, of North Salem, said he saw Kennedy swerve her car into the tractor-trailer on Interstate 684 and keep driving despite damaging her tire.
"I saw smoke. I figured the car would stop," he said. When it didn't, he called 911.
Another driver, William Carlino, of Armonk, testified that a few minutes later he found Kennedy slumped over the wheel and disoriented, with the car running, in a left-turn lane on Route 22. Carlino said her car had one wheel without a tire.
He said he ran from his car to hers and knocked on her window, which seemed to startle her.
"I asked if she was OK and she nodded in the affirmative," he testified. He also called police. After police arrived and questioned her, she sat barely moving in the back seat of a cruiser, according to police video shown to the jurors Monday. Lawyers for both sides said she was sleeping.
Ethel Kennedy, 85, walked slowly with an escort as she entered the courthouse. After the session, in late afternoon, she left in a wheelchair. Two of Kerry Kennedy's brothers, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, also were in the courtroom.
The case was being heard in the trial-level state Supreme Court, a rarity for such a minor charge, but Kennedy's lawyers successfully argued that the Town Court in Armonk, which had jurisdiction, was too small and poorly equipped for the trial.
A town judge and a state judge both refused defense efforts to get the charge dismissed, despite warm letters from family and friends extolling Kennedy's work in human rights around the world.
Kennedy, 54, of Bedford, won permission from Justice Robert Neary to miss last week's jury selection because she was on a human rights trip to Western Sahara.
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LITTLE ROCK The Ouachita County judge facing fraud and bribery charges has been ordered released to home detention pending a trial scheduled for later this year.
Mike Hesterly took the stand Monday in U.S. District Court in Hot Springs, contesting allegations that he threatened his ex-wife, a federal agent investigating his case and the agent's family.
Prosecutors had asked that Hesterly be kept in custody pending his March trial because of the purported threats.
After more than two hours of testimony at the detention hearing Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant ultimately ruled that Hesterly can be released with a number of conditions. Among them, he will be under home incarceration with electronic monitoring at his parents' residence in Camden.
Hesterly is allowed to run the county from the home, though Bryant ordered him not to have any contact with several witnesses in the case including his secretary and the county road superintendent. Hesterly told the judge he would abide by the order but didn't know how he could work under those conditions.
"I don't either," Bryant told him. "And I don't pretend to know."
The ruling came after a hearing in which Hesterly's ex-wife offered emotional testimony that he had threatened to kill her and to seek out the FBI investigator and his family and harm them.
Leigh Adams described Hesterly as an abusive husband who said he would put a "bullet in [her] head." And she testified that he asked her about the agent investigating the bribery case.
"He said 'Well, I'm trying to find out where he lives and if he has a wife and kids because if he's going to f up my life, I'm going to f up his,'" she testified.
Hesterly and his attorney accused Adams of lying in a bid to get custody of their children.
But prosecutors also questioned an Arkansas State Police investigator who covertly recorded a phone conversation between Hesterly and Adams in which he said while talking about the case: "The motherf*s who caused this ain't going to be OK. One of these days."
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas Conner Eldridge said that was a blatant threat, but Hesterly disagreed during a contentious cross examination session.
"I do believe the people that started this unjustly will pay in the future," said Hesterly, who maintained he is innocent of the charges against him. "But that's not to say I'm going to make them pay because I want to go to heaven one of these days."
Earlier in his testimony, he called it absurd that he would ever threaten an FBI agent.
"I've got four years of college," he said. "I'm not a genius, but I'm not a fool. I would never threaten an FBI agent or any law enforcement agent."
Federal authorities allege that Hesterly awarded Harry Clemons Jr. a contract to clean up debris in Ouachita County left by a pair of 2009 tornadoes in exchange for the contribution, which is reported to have been more than $5,000.
Clemons, who is also charged in the case, is the owner of Clemons Construction in Bearden, and Hesterly has been a county judge for more than 10 years.
The trial for both men is currently set for March 13.
Read more in Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.


text: Hunting: Story Story Posted 06-13-2013 The Bear Whisperer Just for jokes 'Most Wanted's' Woodward feeds, trees bears Larry Woodward with one of the many black bears he's taken. (Courtesy Heartland Productions) By: Mike Suchan, OutdoorChannel.com Don't hand-feed the bears. Yeah, Larry Woodward probably needs a sign like that, but the veteran hunter might just do it anyway. He recently had a bear eat from his hand, but it wasn't the oddest encounter on his trip to remote Canada -- he also charged and treed a bear. That's right. Woodward, co-host of "Outdoors in the Heartland" and "ScentBlocker Most Wanted" on Outdoor Channel with Bob Richardson, chased a bear into a tree! With more than two dozen bear kills to his credit, Woodward was after a color phase bear in remote northeast Alberta, where outfitter Roby Reynolds reported a bunch. They had a number of bears come into their setup, but Woodward was picky. A smallish bear sheepishly walked in and out. He threw her some meat scraps. "I decided to try and see if she would take something out of my hand," Woodward said. "It took her about 20 minutes to get enough nerve to come do it. I never dreamed that she would. And she finally did." Click image for Heartland Productions photo gallery "Most people would have shot that bear. She was big enough and beautiful color. After all that time, she took that meat from me and left and never came back. One time was enough for her." Needless to say, it was certainly a don't-try-this-at-home moment. But Woodward has been around a lot of bears and knows how to read them. He says they're just like a mean dog. "I know that's crazy and it shouldn't be recommended for people to try," he said. "I just watched her and she wasn't aggressive and was timid. In some people's eyes, you shouldn't do it, but it's just one of those things that happens." The exchange was posted on the Facebook page of "Most Wanted" and received 50,000 views in two days. Woodward was wearing his new ScentBlocker suit with Trinity. The bear barely looked at him, followed the smell of the meat, grabbed it and took off. "The Bear Whisperer," Woodward crowned himself as he turned to face the camera. "That's a first for me." Might not be the last, too. "You take the good with the bad," he said. "I'm known to be crazy and fearless anyway, so it was a pretty cool experience for me. I hope it was as good for her." His next interaction was equally remarkable, but he said he'd done this before. Woodward was hunting with Dustin Whitaker of Mossy Oak and his brother, Ben, an Ohio attorney, and admits he might have been showing off a little when a black bear came in and ran off another bear. "I could tell he was ruling the roost around there because he laid down on the bait. The others would come in and grab a piece and run off," said Woodward, who wasn't going to shoot this bear and tried to scare it off. "I was woofing at him, and he would end up getting all bristled up and kind of walking our way, checking out to see if we was another bear, which was kind of neat. He got within 5 yards and looked and went back about his business. "Just for jokes, I bent over and I got all postured up like I was more dominant than him and kind of went out toward him. He got behind a tree and stood up and starting rubbing his back and popping his teeth." Bears pop their jaws when they're uncomfortable with the situation. That bear left and Woodward thought that was the end of it, but he soon came back. That's when Woodward went in for the mental coup de grace. "I told the guy who was filming 'I'm going to run in there and charge him and I'll run him up that tree,' which I had done before," he said. "So I went running at him and he shot right up that tree." Woodward said the bear wasn't so mean anymore, hanging 15 feet up the tree with his crew filming. The bear didn't have many branches to hang onto and began to get tired. "He was doing everything he could to hang on, biting branches, trying to hang on by his teeth," Woodward said. "It was kind of funny, because he's up that tree snapping and snarling like you ought to get away, but he's still a scaredy cat." It made for an action-packed week in Alberta as the three hunters, who could take two bear each, killed four, including one with a tag in its ear. Woodward said the tag warned them that the bear shouldn't be eaten as it had been tranquilized twice and relocated. He was waiting to hear from the Alberta Game and Fish to learn the rest of that problem bear's story. Anyway, Woodward likes to have fun, and he said the show with him feeding that bear will be, although he said he's sure to get some detractors. "I know it will come with criticism from some people -- make that bear associate humans with food," he said, "but it was way out in middle of nowhere. It wasn't a camp or a town dump. "I was just having fun with those bears. I guess one of these days you'll read my obituary that I got swatted and killed by a black bear. That would beat getting hit by lightning or getting T-boned by another driver … it would be a more noble way of going." 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cookie of the weekThursday, May 31, 2007
Andrew just couldn't wait another minute. He reached over right before the photo and grabbed a bite. Sometimes it is all about the blog! Libby's pick this week. I can't say they are that great, guys. My kids love them, but I don't think they have that much flavor. I do think they are pretty though.
Chocolate Swirls:
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 TBLS milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup chocolate chips, melted and slightly cooled.
Combine sugar, butter, egg, milk and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Beat until soft dough forms. Divide dough in half. Combine half of dough with the melted chips. Beat until well blended. On lightly floured wax paper, roll chocolate dough into 1/8 thick rectangle. On second sheet of lightly floured wax paper roll remaining dough the same way. Carefully place one on top of the other. Roll dough, jelly roll style, starting with long side. (peel off wax paper when rolling.) Chill 2-3 hours until firm. Cut roll into 1/4 inch slices. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
Only one more cookie of the week. Our countdown is on!
My sister #1 is driving with sister #2 to my house! Tomorrow we are leaving to meet our mother for a girls weekend. I cant wait!! Lots of fun to be had. (Shelly D explained a little of what we will be doing).
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!
25 comments
Just the picture brings me back - my mother would make refrigerator cookies (from Joy of Cooking by Rombauer) - choc and vanilla and red and green (for Christmas). One of my favorites as a kid. Buttery and sweet. I still really like them well done (slightly burnt and very crisp) just like Mom used to make. Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Have a good time - you guys sound like you create a good time no matter where you are or what you are doing! :)ReplyDelete
Pinwheels are pretty even if they are slightly tasteless...Have a great time with your sisters!ReplyDelete
Horay! Fun weekend and pretty cookies! I have made a similar icebox cookie that instead of swirls it was checkered, but I found it did not have enough flavor either...I wonder what that is about?ReplyDelete


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Pre-Market Primer: While Still Waiting for a Deal From Congress, Jobless Claims Slide
The days are running out for a fiscal cliff solution.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote a letter informing congressional leaders that the United States will hit its statutory debt limit on December 31. He said that his department is taking "extraordinary measures" to finance the country into the earlier part of next year. Geithner says that the Treasury can only come up with $200 billion, enough to meet the country's obligations for two months at most.
Raising the debt ceiling (mainly for the purpose of borrowing to pay off maturing debt) is opposed by many House Republicans, who feel that it is necessary to discipline the government into curtailing spending. President Barack Obama, after cutting his vacation in Hawaii short, is back in Washington to continue pushing for an interim agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff if a long-term solution isn't reached.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly slid to 350,000 last week from 361,000 in the prior week. Economists expected a rise of 4,000.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence survey is likely to show that consumers were less optimistic in December. In a report due out at 10:00 a.m. EST, the index is expected to fall to 70.0 from November's recovery high of 73.7. Also later this morning, new home sales, which are projected to have picked up to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 375,000 in November from 368,000 in October, will be announced.
After yesterday's declines, index futures contracts are rallying, signaling that stocks might rise this morning. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) rose 0.14% to 13,066 and S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) futures gained 0.21% to 1,416.50. Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) futures are up 0.25% to 2,635.25.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares rose 0.45% before the opening bell after the company announced that it will open more urban retail stores next year. The lack of brick-and-mortar retail availability has been blamed for the Surface tablet's less-than-stellar sales.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle a class action lawsuit over unintended acceleration in some of its vehicles. The Japanese company did not provide for the loss ahead of time, and it will take a pre-tax earnings hit this quarter. Toyota sales in the US are up nearly 30% this year.
Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) was ordered to pay $1.17 billion to Carnegie Mellon University for infringing on patents owned by the school. This judgment takes about one fourth of the company's market capitalization. Shares fell 3% in the pre-market after dropping over 10% yesterday.
Ford (NYSE:F) will invest more than $773 million in order to update and expand six manufacturing facilities in Michigan. The company has previously announced plans to invest $6.2 billion in the US through 2015.
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