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Since I have an interest in both Social Media and the Financial Services industry, I wanted to create a blog post with various resources I have encountered recently. This is a win-win for me as it helps organize my resources while providing an easy way to share this content with others.
Social media in the financial services space is different than some other industries because regulations imposed on and overseen by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (also known as FINRA). Social media impacts financial disclosures, investor protection and marketing activities — and needs to be approached with more caution than most other industries. Because of these issues and the conservative nature of the industry, most financial services firms have been slow to adopt social media practices.
But most firms would admit that they cannot continue to ignore this important channel.
In a speech on June 28, 2011, Richard Ketchum, CEO of FINRA, said this about Social Media:
I wanted to talk about an ongoing challenge that I know you are all struggling with: social media, and how to keep pace with disclosure and investor protection issues. In 2009, FINRA organized a Social Networking Task Force composed of FINRA staff and industry representatives to discuss how firms and their registered representatives could use social media sites for legitimate business purposes in a manner that ensures investor protection. Based on input from the Task Force and others, FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 10-06 last year.
The task force continues to examine some of the more recent questions and concerns involving social media. For example, firms have had questions about the best way to supervise "business card" information that is posted on a social media site, particularly when there is the potential for employees to communicate about securities-related business through these sites. Firms have also questioned how they can most effectively supervise employees' use of personal devices, such as smart phones, BlackBerries and iPads, which are able to access firm systems. The Task Force has discussed some broader Internet issues that extend beyond social media sites, such as the use of hyperlinks from firm websites to third-party sites, and the use of third-party data on firm websites. Our goal is to provide further guidance on these issues in a Notice to be published later this year. In the meantime, we welcome your input, and look forward to working with the industry on social media issues going forward.
To start off, here is a wonderful presentation on how FINRA impacts social media in the financial services sector by marketing expert Glen Gilmore.
Social Media For Financial Services: FINRA's 10 Commandments
- Source — Glen Gilmore
- Date — June 2011
FINRA – Guidance on blogs and social networking media websites – Regulatory Notice 10-06
- Source — FINRA
- Date — January 2010
- Source — FINRA
- Date — April 2011
- Source — LinkedIn
- This is a group for anyone interested in this topic and there are about 900 members currently
Financial Services Firms Face Social Media Compliance Challenges
- Source — Search Financial Security/Tech Target
- Date — June 2010
- Source — Compliance Building
- Date — March 2010
- Source — MarketWatch
- Date — February 2011
- Source — Reuters.com
- Date — May 2011
- Tipping Point
- February 2011
- Forrester
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BOSTON — It's now up to a federal jury to decide a case that has focused attention on the patronage culture in state government.
Jury deliberations are scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in the trial of former probation commissioner John O'Brien of Quincy and two deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke. They're accused of rigging the agency's hiring process to favor politically-connected applicants over more qualified ones.
U.S. District Court Judge William Young reminded jurors prior to closing arguments that patronage — which he defined as getting a job because of who you know, rather than what you know — was not illegal.
"Patronage, standing alone, is not a crime. Whatever you may think of it, it is not a crime," nor was it a crime, he added, for an agency to keep records of job recommendations.
"You just can't go about it by illegal means," Young added, telling jurors that to find the defendants guilty they must find that O'Brien knowingly and willfully participated in a fraudulent scheme and that Tavares and Burke aided and abetted in the scheme.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin Bell said in closing arguments that the case was about fraud and bribery, not patronage.
O'Brien, Tavares and Burke "cheated people out of jobs," Bell told the jury, and cheated the state's court system and Massachusetts residents out of having the best employees.
"Instead of appointing the most qualified probation officers, they appointed the most politically connected," Bell said.
But defense attorneys said the government failed to prove illegal activities.
"It is time to stop the vilification of (John) O'Brien," said his attorney, Stellio Sinnis.
O'Brien is charged with conspiracy and racketeering by means of mail fraud, bribery or illegal gratuities. But Sinnis said O'Brien, who spent his career in the probation department, never took a penny or gained any personal benefits from his actions.
"There is no crime. There is no fraud. There is no racketeering," argued Sinnis, saying there was no evidence O'Brien ever deliberately hired an unqualified candidate.
The prosecution was a "political witch hunt," argued Burke's attorney, John Amabile. "This is a mudslinging operation," he said. "This is throw everything but the kitchen sink against these people and see if you can fool the jury into believing that this behavior ... amounts to a criminal offense."
Prosecutors describe O'Brien, who resigned in 2010, as the architect of the scheme that involved compiling so-called "sponsor lists" of candidates recommended for jobs by state legislators.
The defendants would then conduct a "sham" hiring process to assure that applicants pre-selected by O'Brien would get picked for jobs, even if they scored significantly lower in initial interviews than other candidates, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say O'Brien was seeking favorable treatment on the probation department's annual budget and other legislative issues.
"That's not patronage," Bell contended. That's fraud and bribery."
The government also alleges a separate bribery scheme in which O'Brien provided Robert DeLeo, now House speaker and then chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, jobs to fill at a new electronic monitoring facility in Clinton. Bell said DeLeo, in turn, offered several lawmakers the chance to recommend candidates for those jobs, some of whom were "hired sight unseen."
DeLeo, who was not charged or called to testify at the trial, has vigorously denied assertions that his actions were intended to influence House members to support his bid for speaker.


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Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his employers. He was 33.
The coroner and other authorities would not confirm the death of the freelance reporter, though police reported that a single-car accident on North Highland Avenue killed the driver about 4:25 a.m. The website BuzzFeed first reported Hastings' death, which was later announced in an obituary by Rolling Stone. The reporter wrote for both and had opened BuzzFeed's L.A. bureau last fall.
In reporting stints in Baghdad, Washington and Kabul, Hastings rejected the cozy access reporting favored by some of his colleagues in favor of bare-knuckle truth-telling that sometimes rubbed his peers and subjects the wrong way.
His 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, "The Runaway General," exposed the general and his staff's disdain for their superiors, ranging from National Security Advisor James L. Jones to Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama.
While other reporters had been charmed by McChrystal's locker-room-style banter, Hastings believed the chatter had a darker edge. The reporter had the good fortune of being hunkered down for more than a week with the commander and his staff in Europe as they waited out air traffic delays caused by a volcano eruption in Iceland.
During the delay, Hastings recorded the officers deriding Biden as "Bite Me," belittling America's French allies as "gay," and calling Jones, a retired four-star general, a "clown."
McChrystal had previously antagonized the Obama administration by using the media to promote a troop build-up in Afghanistan. The Rolling Stone article proved one breach too many for Obama. The president recalled the general to Washington, where McChrystal offered his resignation.
Hastings won the prestigious George Polk Award for magazine reporting and later wrote a book about McChrystal and his time in the war zone: "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan."
Hastings was born Jan. 28, 1980, in Burlington, Vt., and graduated from New York University in 2002. Newsweek had assigned him to cover the war in Iraq at 25. His reporting there was equally brash but most memorable because of his writing about a personal tragedy. His girlfriend, Andi Parhamovich, died in an ambush by Sunni extremists.
Back in his home state of Vermont and recuperating from the loss, Hastings needed just weeks to turn his Iraq experiences and Parhamovich's death into a draft of the book, "I Lost My Love in Baghdad."
If a few journalists thought his assessment of McChrystal overly harsh, others were unnerved by his willingness to so rapidly convert personal tragedy into reportage. "Because telling it takes the author to no depth of felt insight, this portrait of Andi is either unnecessary or unjust, or perhaps both," wrote George Packer in the New Yorker.
Hastings' stories, though, were not easily forgotten. Rolling Stone noted Tuesday the breadth of his coverage, despite his youth: an expose of American drone attacks, an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a look at the Army's use of "psychological operations" to influence sitting senators. He also reported on the presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012.
In a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Hastings said he admired "writers who live their lives with integrity and without compromise." He even identified McChrystal as a kindred spirit, someone who also liked to stick it to "The Man."
Will Dana, Rolling Stone's managing editor, expressed deep sadness Tuesday in a story on the magazine's website. "Great reporters exude a certain kind of electricity," Dana said, "the sense that there are stories burning inside them, and that there's no higher calling or greater way to live life than to be always relentlessly trying to find and tell those stories."
Hastings is survived by his wife, the writer Elise Jordan.
Times staff writers Richard Winton, Andrew Blankstein and Kate Mather contributed to this report.


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A 'FUNCTIONING' alcoholic who regularly drinks three bottles of wine a day headbutted his wife of 24 years in a drink-fuelled row, a court heard.
Paul Fletcher, 45, of Bradburys Lane, Pickmere, attacked wife Christine in one of several incidents of domestic violence during their marriage.
Halton Magistrates Court heard on Friday how Fletcher headbutted the victim twice to the face and punched her arm during the drunken confrontation.
The defendant was described in court as a 'functioning' alcoholic, as he works full time on a farm and caravan site, but drinks heavily when not working.
Richard Sealy, prosecuting, said the incident happened on March 2 at an address on Thelwall Lane, Latchford.
Mrs Fletcher had also been drinking beer, the court heard.
"The defendant disputed pushing her and causing her to stumble," said Mr Sealy.
"He accepts he has headbutted her face at least twice and punched her to the arm."
The court heard Mrs Fletcher suffered bruising to the eye and arm, and a cut to the head, during the attack, although she did not require hospital treatment.
A 'trivial' argument was said to have sparked the assault.
Her husband has now been banned from going within 100m of her Thelwall Lane home, or from contacting his wife, who says the marriage is over.
The court heard there has been other incidents of violence during the marriage, but Fletcher said he is 'contrite and remorseful'.
Police were informed two days after the latest attack, and the defendant had hoped to rekindle the relationship.
Those hopes were ended by the restraining order being imposed. It will last for two years.
Fletcher, who pleaded guilty to assault by beating on March 31, was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, suspended for two years.
Sue Dodd, chair of the bench, said: "You are not going to prison today.
"You did, however, come very close to it."
Fletcher will also be under supervision for two years and undergo a domestic violence programme.


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Confessions of an Oracle Database Junkie - Arup Nanda The opinions expressed here are mine and mine alone. They may not necessarily reflect that of my employers and customers - both past or present. The comments left by the reviewers are theirs alone and may not reflect my opinion whether implied or not. None of the advice is warranted to be free of errors and ommision. Please use at your own risk and after thorough testing in your environment.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Revived Boston Area DBA SIG Meeting
The DBA SIG of the Northeast Oracle User Group has been revived (thank you, Lyson and Jeane) and I was honored to be the speaker of the first session of what I hope will be a long list of very successful like the old days.
I started at 7 PM and finished at midnight - a solid 5 hours later! Thank you for your patience. It just made my day to have you in the audience that late. I hope you found it useful.
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- Academic Exchanges
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Participate in a study away program and give yourself an advantage as a global-ready graduate. The opportunity will enrich your college experience, offer you the advantage to succeed in this increasingly competitive world, and give you a lifelong perspective as worldly citizen.
The Academic Exchange Coordinator is located on the Juneau campus, but serves all UAS students regardless of their campus of study.
Exchanges & Study Abroad
Information: 1-907-796-6455
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Academic advising is an interactive partnership between you and professional staff and faculty that supports your educational experience. Advisors support student learning by teaching skills through which students develop knowledge and values that empower them to reach their academic and life goals. Academic Advising is offered in Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka.
Career Services has a wealth of resources to help you get the most out of your college experience and beyond. Career Advising is a regional service.
Career Services
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At the University of Alaska Southeast, providing equal opportunities for students who experience disabilities is a campus wide responsibility and commitment. We work together with faculty and students to identify individual needs and how to best accommodate those needs.
Disability Services
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Personal counseling provides a safe environment where people can share their thoughts and feelings, explore concerns, gain new awareness and find positive new ways of looking at a situation. The UAS Counselors are located on the Juneau campus, but can meet with all students regardless of their location. Skype and phone appointments available.
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Dining options are located only on the Juneau campus. The Cafeteria is located in the upper level Mourant Building. Spike's Café is located just outside the Library in the Egan Classroom Wing.
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You wouldn't know it from the tale of woe told by U.S. and European employment reports, but the post-crisis years have been kind to the world's large multinational companies.
Through a mix of super-low interest rates, corporate consolidation, productivity-enhancing technology and outsourcing efforts, they have delivered handy profit growth despite a weak level of base demand — rewarding shareholders in the process. This story of jury-rigged bottom-line improvement should once again emerge, more or less, from the coming weeks' kaleidoscope of year-end earnings reports.
But that's all ancient history. The real question, as we enter a potentially transitional year for the world economy, is whether global companies can shift their profit equation from one of cost savings to revenue growth.
There are reasons to believe companies have exhausted the cost-cutting route to profit. Though central banks are determined to keep interest rates anchored for a long time, rates are certainly not going any lower. If anything, borrowing costs will rise as the Federal Reserve unwinds its bond-buying program. Higher wages in emerging markets and a stronger Chinese yuan also make it harder to find locales for low-cost production.
Meanwhile, finding efficiencies and growth through equity-financed mergers and acquisitions won't be as cheap if the stock market can't maintain its rapid gains. Innovation trends — especially advances in robotics — do hold out some hope for productivity gains, but it's not clear these will immediately translate into wider profit margins. That will be especially true if annual U.S. productivity growth stays below 2% for the third straight year.
The numbers speak to this deterioration in profitability. According to data provider Factset, S&P 500 companies are forecast to have reduced their full-year earnings growth to 5.6% in 2013 from 6% in 2012, the third straight year-on-year decline.
All this makes the need for revenue expansion more urgent. And, ultimately, that comes down to consumers spending more.
The problem for corporate chiefs is that this is not something they can easily control. They can try to steal market share from each, but that's a zero-sum game. In this case, the levers are largely in the hands of governments.
On that score, failure by Congress to extend long-term U.S. unemployment benefits would run counter to corporate interests. While there are clearly some people within this forsaken group who will now be more motivated to get a job, those jobs won't be there if the hiring environment isn't conducive. Instead, all this does is remove $6.4 billion in funding from a group of mostly low-income earners who have a much higher propensity to spend than more privileged Americans. Overseas, the European Central Bank's reluctance to push the envelope on monetary stimulus isn't helping, either.
That said, there are supply-side factors that could boost spending by encouraging its most powerful driver: job creation. More clarity on the regulatory outlook — especially over the confusing rollout of the Affordable Care Act — could give business more confidence to invest in the future. So could an overhaul of the U.S. tax code
There are some hopeful economic signs. Notwithstanding last week's surprisingly weak December jobs report, retail sales and other indicators suggest the U.S. economy exited 2013 with its strongest growth since the crisis. Meanwhile, the euro zone is growing again, and China's slowdown isn't worsening. Higher stock and home prices have lifted the moods of consumers and businesses, the latest proof being a long overdue rise in the National Federation of Independent Business's optimism index for small businesses.
But there are real risks to the outlook. Rising mortgage rates could put the kibosh on the U.S. housing recovery, which along with a moderation in the stock market could curtail "wealth effects" in consumer spending.
All this is trumped in importance by the labor market, which is why any company looking to shift from efficiency-driven growth to revenue-led expansion is in a catch-22 bind. Collectively, their hiring will drive consumer spending into the economy by putting money into workers' pockets. But each firm is reluctant to move until they see signs of a generalized pickup. Only governments can pull business managers out of this self-fulfilling cautionary posture and into a self-fulfilling cycle of growth and spending.
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Marine Equipment For Your Boat
Revised by BoatUS editors in April 2012
In shopping for replacement parts for your boat's engine, you may discover an annoying price difference between "Marine" parts and common automotive parts. The difference is due to small but important modifications, which are not intended to keep you poor but rather to keep you healthy.
Starters, alternators, distributors, starter solenoids, and all the electrical motors should be ignition protected if they are intended for marine use. This means they are sealed to contain sparks, which are produced in normal use. Sparks under the hood of your car are not a hazard, since a constant draft prevents an accumulation of flammable vapors. In the confined spaces of your boat's bilge, however, one spark plus one small gasoline leak can mean disaster. Propane, CNG charging batteries, and even methane (holding tank) gas pose a potential for flammable gas leaks.
Some automotive carburetors and fuel pumps are designed to leak. They have vents, which emit small amounts of gasoline if a carburetor float chamber overflows or a fuel pump develops an internal leak. The gas drips harmlessly out of the car. On marine carburetors, these vents lead into the carburetor throat so that any overflow is consumed by the engine. Marine fuel pumps eliminate external leaks.
Shop the best price, but make sure the unit you buy is marked "Marine" or "Ignition Protected." Hazardous equipment is no bargain.
The following standards have made it a lot easier to buy safe marine equipment for your boat. By using any of these names, a manufacturer is stating that their products have either been produced following or been tested to meet these standards. Look for these in the descriptions of products in this catalog.
Underwriters Laboratory Listing
This is one of the most common Underwriter Laboratory's marks. If a product carries this mark, it means UL found that samples of this product met UL's safety requirements. These requirements are primarily based on UL's own published Standards for Safety. This type of mark is seen commonly on appliances and computer equipment, furnaces and heaters, fuses, electrical panelboards, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers and sprinkler systems, personal flotation devices like life jackets and life preservers, and thousands of other products.
The UL Marine mark appears on products which have been evaluated specifically for marine use. Products bearing this mark have been evaluated to UL's published Marine Safety Standards and other applicable standards and codes. These requirements address hazards that can occur as a result of exposure to harsh marine environments such as vibration, shock (impact), ignition protection, water ingress, and salt spray corrosion common on pleasure craft and boats. Examples of the type of equipment suitable for the UL Marine mark include alternators, battery chargers/power inverters, navigation lights, and fuel tanks, filters and pumps.
American Boat and Yacht Council
As a result of strong industry support, ABYC's voluntary standards program is a viable alternative to further development of mandatory government regulation of the marine industry. Companies use ABYC standards in all phases of development, production, and maintenance of boats and their accessories. ABYC standards and recommended practices are the basis for certification programs, marine surveys, inspections and military specifications (MILSPECS). Standards enable marine industry professionals to support decisions on design, construction, and installation of equipment. Uniform standards increase consumer confidence in product safety. In lawsuits involving product liability, ABYC standards are a reliable and authoritative reference for evaluation issues of design, construction, maintenance, and product performance. Standards and Recommended Practices for Small Craft is the product of a consensus of representatives of government, industry, and public sectors. The manual includes approximately 65 standards and technical information reports to the manufacturer, the consumer, and the general public in the design, construction, equipage, and maintenance of small craft.
National Fire Protection Association
For more than 100 years the NFPA has been developing and updating codes and standards concerning all areas of fire safety. An international, non-profit organization with more than 65,000 members from 70 nations, NFPA's mission is to reduce the burden of fire on the quality of life by advocating scientifically based consensus codes and standards, research, and education for fire and related safety issues. While the NFPA is involved with extensive fire research and produces numerous fire safety educational programs and materials, it's lifeblood is its codes and standards making system.
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"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." ~~Edward Everett Hale
Today's post is to highlight the 20 lucky dachshunds that found their forever homes during March, icluding 2 senior dogs. 100 years ago a tragic event took place. The Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic and sunk with many lives lost. Aboard the Titanic there were 12 dogs and of those only 3 survived. Please go visit Scout & Freyla's blog @ http://lovingforaliving.blogspot.com/ where Ms Mimi has posted the story of the "Dogs of the Titanic". Mommy cried and you will too, because it is so sad.(Painting of the Titanic done as she was leaving the harbour)
This post is dedicated to 2 victims of the Titanic. One was JAMES CLINCH SMITH, a lawyer, who helped save women and children and then gave his place up in a lifeboat to go below deck to try to save the dogs of the Titanic. His body was never recovered. Mommy says she thinks he must have been quite a man to willingly die for US. The word that came to Mommy's to mind was RESCUE.
Another passanger was Ann Elizabeth Isham. She died too trying to help one of US.
One passenger, 50-year-old Ann Elizabeth Isham, reportedly refused to leave the Titanic without her Great Dane, which was too large to put in a lifeboat. Isham's body with her arms around her frozen dog's body, was later found floating at sea by a recovery ship. This picture was taken of the dog that she couldn't live without.
TITANTIC DOGS: In a rare photo of the Titanic's interior, three dogs sit on the ship while it's still in Ireland, days before it departs on its tragic final voyage. (Photo: Widener University)
Now for the exciting part. 20 of ATDR's charges found their furever homes last month including 2 seniors. There is a speical poem sent to Mommy by Ms Mimi after Ginney's picture. Mommy agrees with Ms Mimi, her next dog is gonna be a senior.
One by one, they pass by my cage, Too old, too worn, too broken, no way. Way past his time, he can't run and play. Then they shake their heads slowly and go on their way. A little old man, arthritic and sore, It seems I am not wanted anymore. I once had a home, I once had a bed, A place that was warm, and where I was fed. Now my muzzle is grey, and my eyes slowly fail. Who wants a dog so old and so frail? My family decided I didn't belong, I got in their way, my attitude was wrong. Whatever excuse they made in their head, Can't justify how they left me for dead. Now I sit in this cage, where day after day, The younger dogs get adopted away. When I had almost come to the end of my rope, You saw my face, and I finally had hope. You saw thru the grey, and the legs bent with age, And felt I still had life beyond this cage. You took me home, gave me food and a bed, And shared your own pillow with my poor tired head. We snuggle and play, and you talk to me low, You love me so dearly, you want me to know. I may have lived most of my life with another, But you outshine them with a love so much stronger. And I promise to return all the love I can give, To you, my dear person, as long as I live. I may be with you for a week, or for years, We will share many smiles, you will no doubt shed tears. And when the time comes that God deems I must leave, I know you will cry and your heart, it will grieve. And when I arrive at the Bridge, all brand new, My thoughts and my heart will still be with you. And I will brag to all who will hear, Of the person who made my last days so dear.
Gotta go now. Mpmmy is crying now so we better go give her some kisses and hugs.......besidesm its way past a dinner time.


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ASHLAND, Va. – Washington and Lee drove 69 yards in just four plays and junior running back Luke Heinsohn (Charlottesville, Va./Covenant) scored on a 5-yard touchdown run with 2:09 remaining to give the Generals a 34-30 win over Randolph-Macon on Saturday afternoon at Day Field.
Randolph-Macon (5-2, 1-2) drove to the W&L 2-yardline with just over four minutes remaining, but senior linebacker Rob Look (Dallas, Texas/Highland Park) sacked R-MC first-year quarterback Zac Naccarato on 3rd-and-goal, forcing a 29-yard field goal by junior placekicker Josh Storm that made it a 30-27 game with 3:55 remaining.
Senior quarterback Charlie Westfal (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) hit sophomore tight end Alex Evans (Ashburn, Va./Broad Run) for a 62-yard catch and run to the Yellow Jacket 6-yardline on the second play of the ensuing series and Heinsohn capped the drive two plays later for a 34-30 W&L (6-1, 3-0) lead.
Randolph-Macon then drove to the 50-yardline on the next possession, but junior safety Jake Pelton (Charlottesville, Va./Monticello) intercepted Naccarato on a 2nd-and-10 with 1:16 to play and the Generals took a knee three times to run out the clock.
Heinsohn gave the Generals a 6-3 lead when he scored on a 77-yard touchdown run with 6:26 left in the first quarter (PAT pass failed), but the Yellow Jackets retaliated with a pair of scores for a 17-6 lead with 6:25 left in the first half. Westfal hit junior running back Brett Murray (Lookout Mountain, Tenn./Baylor) on a long pass play that Murray fumbled on the RMC 27-yardline and kicked to the Randolph-Macon 2-yardline where Evans wrestled the ball away to keep the drive alive. Heinsohn scored one play later and the two-point conversion failed with 2:46 left in the half and the Yellow Jackets carried a 17-12 lead into the break.
The Generals struck first in the third quarter as Westfal found junior running back Russell Stewart (Elkin, N.C./Elkin) with a 50-yard scoring pass for a 19-17 lead just 3:12 into the period. However, Macon wrestled the lead back (20-19) on a 49-yard field goal by Storm at the 6:59 mark, and added to its' advantage (27-19) with a 12-yard touchdown pass from Naccarato to sophomore wide receiver Christian Cook on the last play of the third period.
W&L tied it with 9:26 remaining in the game on a 6-yard touchdown run by Murray and a two-point conversion run by Westfal, setting up the final two drives that determined the outcome.
The Generals gained 462 yards of total offense (231 passing/231 rushing) led by Westfal, who completed 7-of-12 passes for 231 yards and one touchdown and rushed 17 times for 98 yards. Heinsohn gained 99 yards and scored three touchdowns on 11 carries, while Murray tallied 36 yards rushing and 86 receiving, to go along with one touchdown. Evans snared three passes for 99 yards and Stewart had one catch for 50 yards and a score.
On defense, Look posted a career-high 17 tackles and one sack, while Pelton notched 12 tackles and the game-preserving interception.
Randolph-Macon racked up 477 yards, with Naccarato completing 20-of-33 passes for 324 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions. Cook caught nine balls for 105 yards and one touchdown, while junior running back Vance Hedren caught four passes for 92 yards and a score. Senior running back Thaddeus Scruggs notched 84 yards on 18 carries and first-year cornerback Chris Pace led the defense with eight tackles.
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Second Planning Mission as Samoa and the United Nations Prepare for 2014 SIDS ConferenceJan 26, 2014
The Prime Minister and Government of Samoa will host in Apia the 2nd UN Planning Mission from Sunday 27 January to Saturday 1 February. Leading the delegation is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Mr. Wu Hongbo with 11 senior UN Secretariat members for discussions with the Government on preparations for the 2014 Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States to be held in Samoa this coming August/September. Mr. Wu is also Secretary-General of the Conference.
Countries agreed at theRio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 that greater efforts were needed to assist Small Island developing States and called for convening a conference in 2014.
Commencing discussions next week, Mr. Wu and his delegation will once again meet with Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sa'ilele Malielegaoi on 27 January and will tour the conference site to view the progress made since Mr Wu's first planning mission in April last year.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa heads the Samoa National Task Force. Ms Faalavaau Perina Sila is the CEO/ National Coordinator of the conference. "The Government and people of Samoa are committed to hosting a successful SIDS Conference and welcome this visit to review and finalize all our preparations for the Conference", says the Prime Minister. The venue of the Conference is the Faleata Sports Complex where major renovations and constructions are underway and planned for the next few months in order to provide suitable conferencing facilities for the delegates. "National preparations are country-wide so that delegates not only enjoy the Conference but also get to enjoy our country and experience the Samoan hospitality we are famously renowned for", further comments the Prime Minister.
The SIDS Conference will focus on issues that will help close the gaps that obstruct development in the small island nations.The conference is open to the 193 UN countries, observers, representatives of major groups, organizations and the media with the expected official participants numbers to be around 3000. The Conference will place SIDS issues front and center on the international stage, and Samoa will be ready to show the world first-hand the SIDS reality - both the challenges and the opportunities. At Rio+20, countries reconfirmed that small island developing States remain a special case for sustainable development because of their small size, their remoteness, small natural resource base and their vulnerability to exogenous events such as the impacts of climate change and financial crises.
The planning mission will have a week of bilateral working meetings with the Samoa National Task Force to discuss preparations and other arrangements for the Conference.
"Small island developing States are on the frontlines of sustainable development and despite their unique vulnerabilities, they never shy away from tackling head-on the social, economic and environmental challenges facing their communities", says Mr. Wu. "The world should take notice how these countries are dealing with a range of economic, social and environmental issues, including the impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels and extreme weather events. The Samoa Conference will help guide us all toward a sustainable future."
The UN Planning Mission returns to New York on Saturday 1 February 2014.


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(Denver, Colo. -- June 20, 2007) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today presented a Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) award to the Clay Rural Water System in Union County, S.D., for improvements to the water supply for its customers.
"The Clay Rural Water System project will increase service reliability and water quality and is an excellent example of sound asset management," said EPA Region 8 Administrator Robert E. Roberts. "This EPA award recognizes exceptional creativity in designing projects that promote sustainability and protect public health."
The Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1996, established the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program to make funds available to drinking water systems to finance infrastructure improvements. The program also emphasizes providing funds to small and disadvantaged communities and to programs that encourage pollution prevention as a tool for ensuring safe drinking water.
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It looks like your child had grown up!
I'm still around, but not as often as I used to be. I come now and then to see if someone posts something, but I don't realy have something to say to start new topics.
My ride is now over 175k, going good except for minor things that should be fixed this spring. Can't wait to get to the 200k mark, it'll prove I made the good choise 8 years ago when I bought it.
BTW, if you know someone that would like, I'm selling my 17" mags. 100$. they have 7 summers "under the hood", but still look great. I'll stay on my 16" steelies from now on, looking more for comfort than performance.
Don't know about yours, but my Magnaflow still sounds great!
My son Luka is going to be 5 years old in April mon Dieu!
My Vibe hit 116KM last week and is still going strong...looking at getting new summer tires and I might have found them (General UHP)
It would be great to round up the gang for one more meet at the Julep!
It's been really tempting to put the summer tires on, but I realized today that it's been a good thing that I didn't have enough time to do it as the snow was falling and the temperature will drop to zero on the end of the week!
Anyways, this gives me some more time on planning my mods and repairs. My Vibe is still going strong.
On devrait se planifier un meet cet été!
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|how about the orange julep??? that would be really cool!
Yup that is where we always had our meets
Par contre, je m'ennuie un peu de ma Vibe quand je fais le plein.
it's been a while.... try to find out who I am!!!!! Had to create a new account, can't remember my settings
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|Hey Sam... comment tu vas...
You have to give me some more hints LOL!
Ca va bien!
Le concessionnaire m'a offert 8000$ pour....ça déprécier pas mal vite!
Hey Sam, tu peux tremper des tortillas dans ce que j'étais avant....
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Figure Skater Johnny Weir Splits from Husband Victor Voronov
Former figure skater Johnny Weir and his husband Victor Voronov have called it quits after more than two years of marriage.
"It is with great sadness that I announce that my husband and I are no longer together," Johnny wrote on Twitter. "My heart hurts, and I wish him well."
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Johnny Weir
Earlier this month it was reported by Radar Online that the couple appeared in a New Jersey court for charges that Johnny faced for allegedly biting Victor during a domestic dispute, though the case was dismissed at their request.


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Try each delicious, creamy flavour!
Friday, May 9, 2014
Moms Looking for Healthy, High-Energy Snacks For Their Kids Will Love All New Danino Greek!
Try each delicious, creamy flavour!
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I think Yellow Fruit looks good.ReplyDelete
I have never tried it, but I think my kids would love the Banana Caramel flavor.ReplyDelete
Banana Caramel IS really good :)ReplyDelete
I think my kids would like the grape flavour.ReplyDelete
yellow fruit :)ReplyDelete
- DanielleMay 9, 2014 at 11:05 PM
Banana Caramel sounds delicious!ReplyDelete
The Banana Caramel would definitely be a hit with my grandkids!ReplyDelete
the Banana and caramel :)ReplyDelete
oooooo Banana caramel sounds tempting!ReplyDelete
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I think my daughters would like the yellow fruit.ReplyDelete
My Kids Would enjoy them all =)ReplyDelete
I love the taste. I think my daughter will enjoy the Yellow Fruit.ReplyDelete
the yellow fruit sounds the best.ReplyDelete
I think my kids would like the grape flavour the best.ReplyDelete
I like that it is high in protein and I think the kids would like the grape flavor.ReplyDelete
Im sure my kids would love banana caramel :)ReplyDelete
I think that my kids would most like Grape!ReplyDelete
Positive the banana caramel is my family and child's first pick!ReplyDelete
Yellow Fruit, yummy yummy~~ReplyDelete
What like most about Danino Greek is that Greek yogurt has higher protein content.ReplyDelete
- Jessica CMay 12, 2014 at 10:02 PM
My kids love the taste and they are such a healthy snack for themReplyDelete
My son will love the grape and I'll love the yellow fruit flavour. My kids love yogurt so something with a blue animal on it won't be a hard sell.ReplyDelete
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I am sorry, I have a couple entries, I am in America. So I can't win!ReplyDelete
I think my son would love the grape flavour the most.ReplyDelete
My kids would love the grapeReplyDelete
I like the amount of protein that you get in this yogurt.ReplyDelete
I enjoy that its so creamy and my kids would love to try Banana CaramelReplyDelete
- Jay TeeMay 13, 2014 at 7:13 PM
My kids would love the yellow fruit flavour and I'd love that it's good for them!ReplyDelete
- Natalie TMay 13, 2014 at 7:56 PM
I like that it's a healthy snack. My kids would love the grape flavour.ReplyDelete
- Rachelle TMay 14, 2014 at 12:04 AM
Love that they're high in protein. My daughter would love banana caramel.ReplyDelete
I will venture to guess grape would be the one they would most like.ReplyDelete
My kids will definitely love the grape flavor!ReplyDelete
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I am thinking my son would like the banana carmel.ReplyDelete
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Banana Caramel would be the favorite!ReplyDelete
I have yet to try this but the banana caramel looks good!ReplyDelete
I think they'd love banana caramel or grape. I love that there is a yogurt now that actually has flavours they can have!ReplyDelete
- Cassey CMay 19, 2014 at 3:35 AM
I think kids will like banana caramel.ReplyDelete
I know the kids will love the Banana Caramel.
Banana Caramel sounds yummy!ReplyDelete
My son loves Danino. Love the Banana CaramelReplyDelete
- Eldon LMay 22, 2014 at 12:02 AM
Banana Caramel is the yummiest one!ReplyDelete
I think the banana caramel will be a big hit in our home!ReplyDelete
We eat yogurt on a daily basis, the grandkids would like to try the grape flavourReplyDelete
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Harris Teeter
This might as well be a tattoo parlor
It has been nearly a month since my last review. This is largely due to the fact that there's simply not much to review. There's a place in the Landfall shopping center that's too expensive for me and there are two new pizzerias in Leland. Like I said, the one in Landfall is too expensive so I don't even want to eat there even though I know their pizza is alright. And one of the two new pizzerias (Pizzetta's) doesn't seem to be open yet. I want to knock Leland Pizzetta's and Falcone's out in one trip. I'm kind of ADHD about my driving strategery.
I happened upon this Harris Teeter the other day and noticed they had a weird pizza station. I guess this is in response to the Whole Foods across the street. Fuck if I know. I was too busy then to get a slice but I came back. Oh yes, I came back you motherfuckers. I don't even know who I'm talking to right now.
The pizza was straight up garbagetown. You see those lights in the above picture? I guess they are supposed to magically keep the pizza warm, even though they're over 9000 feet away. I assumed my slice would get tossed back in the oven (like at any pizzeria and like they do at Whole Foods) to get toasty, but no. Fuck me, right? I got a slice which was vaguely warm at best. The cheese was a solid mass of congealed idiocy and the rest of the slice followed suit into a sea of bland normality.
The crust was the best thing going on here but it was still unremarkable. It was kind of light and pillowy and stupid. It was alright though, fuck it. The cheese, as I mentioned, was a congealed mass. It also tasted fake and shitty. We are definitely not dealing with whole milk mozzarella. The sauce was bad. It made me angry enough to shake my fist at a small child, but she only seemed mildly entertained which made me even more angry.
The worst thing about Harris Teeter serving shit pizza is that they're a fucking food store. They could just blend a can of crushed tomatoes and shit out a better sauce than they serve on their pizza. The sauce they came up with (God knows how) is so overcooked and overspiced it's not even bordering on idiotic it's just plain offensive. And, in the Lord's name I pray, these people really ought to be able to buy a decent hunk of mozzarella. Even some of their shitty Sorrento cheese, which they always have in stock, would be worlds better than this obscene offering.
Somehow I was not shocked to be the only one patronizing the new pizza station during lunch rush on a weekday. The deli, sushi, bread and sandwich stations were all packed but I was the only one buying a slice of pizza.
Just don't buy this shit. Maybe they'll get a clue and hire me as a consultant.
7 recircs out of a possible 8 recircs (lower is better)Harris Teeter - $1.99 + tax 501 Oleander Drive Wilmington, NC 28403


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Xavi has insisted that Barcelona cannot afford to underestimate Real Madrid in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final this Wednesday.
Los Blancos will have to make do without the likes of Iker Casillas and Pepe due to injury, but the Spain midfielder has stressed that they are always difficult opponents.
"These games are always unpredictable. We are really in good shape to compete right now but anything can happen in football, and particularly against Real Madrid," Xavi told the Times of India.
"They will be missing a few important players, but they are Real Madrid after all and they will compete well, I'm sure. Despite their current situation, they are a dangerous opponent."
The Spain international also took the time to discuss Barca's Champions League round of 16 tie against AC Milan.
"Milan are a tough side. They've always made life very hard for us defensively. San Siro is not an easy place because the fans are very passionate."
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Volunteers for Freedom: Black Civil War Soldiers in Alexandria National Cemetery
Alexandria National Cemetery was established by the Union Army in 1862. Of the 3,500+ soldiers buried here, more than 250 are African-American. Many were first buried at Freedmen's Cemetery (1001 S. Washington Street) but later re-interred at the National Cemetery.*
This database was created after a careful review of Volunteers for Freedom: Black Civil War Soldiers in Alexandria National Cemetery by Edward A. Miller, Jr., located in Local History/Special Collections. Miller's sources included -- but were not limited to -- pension files, military service records, and hospital records. His research was published in Historic Alexandria Quarterly.
Name. -- In some cases there are variations of a name e.g. records for "Charles H. Manwell" also appear under the surnames "Matver" and "Manton."
Date of Birth and Birthplace/Likely Birthplace -- Some birthdates were reported by the soldier upon enlistment; others are estimates based on age reported at death.
Condition/Occupation -- If Miller indicates that the person was "probably a slave," the entry appears as "slave?"
Military Service/Post-Military Life -- Information about date/place of enlistment, regiment/company, rank achieved/military duty, date/place of discharge, and post-military life/whereabouts is included when available.
Date of Death and Cause of Death -- Dates and causes appear as they were reported by Miller.
Wife and Children -- Wedding dates, names of wives, and names of children are included when available.
Notes -- Additional details about many soldiers appear in the Miller monograph.
Photocopies of these biographical sketches are available.
NOTE: Researchers might also want to refer to Guide to African-American Resources. The guide presents an overview of relevant materials in the Alexandria Library Local History/Special Collections division.
*Additional information about the cemetery is available at the Freedmen's Cemetery web site.


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The idea came together in a flash. Someone mentioned quick breads, and everybody jumped on the bandwagon.
The idea came together in a flash. Someone mentioned quick breads, and everybody jumped on the bandwagon.
That's the beauty of quick breads: Mix, bake, take, share. They are sweet or savory, studded with fruits or nuts, and full of flavor and endless possibilities. Our gathering featured four sweet and two savory loaves.
Quick breads are in the same family as muffins and scones and rely on baking powder and baking soda for rising. The chemicals in the soda or powder react with acids to produce carbon dioxide, the gas that gives baked goods their lift. Baking powder and soda are not interchangeable, though, because baking powder is baking soda mixed with cornstarch and a dry acid.
If you find yourself without baking powder, "The America's Test Kitchen Quick Family Cookbook" offers this recipe for a "passable substitution": Replace each teaspoon of baking powder with � teaspoon cream of tartar and � teaspoon baking soda.
For best results with these recipes, use baking powder and baking soda before their "best by" dates. If baking powder is nearing expiration, check to see if it is still active by mixing 2 teaspoons of it in a cup of hot water. If the foaming reaction is weak, toss it.
Makes: 1 loaf
From: "Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone" (Clarkson Potter, $32.50)
12 ounces hardwood-smoked bacon, coarsely chopped
1 ear corn, husked
2� cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
� teaspoon salt
� teaspoon cayenne pepper
1� cups whole milk
3 large eggs
2 cups grated sharp white cheddar, divided use
1/3 cup coarsely chopped fresh chives
Salted butter, for serving
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cook the bacon in a large heavy saut� pan over medium heat for 8 minutes, or until browned and crisp. Transfer bacon to paper towels. Brush loaf with bacon drippings from the pan. Set aside � cup of bacon drippings to cool.
Slice the corn kernels off the cob. You should have 1 cup.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt and cayenne pepper in a large bowl to blend. Whisk the milk, the eggs and reserved bacon drippings in another large bowl. To this stir in the bacon, 1� cups cheese, corn and chives. Stir the milk mixture into the flour mixture just until blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle tops with remaining cheese. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Serve with butter.
If baking these as muffins, bake for 18 minutes.
Serves: 12
From: "Jaime Oliver's Great Britain: 130 of My Favorite British Recipes, From Comfort Food to New Classics" (Hyperion Books, $35)
6 Earl Grey tea bags
14 ounces dried fruit, such as raisins, golden raisins, cherries, cranberries
1 orange
1 large egg
1� cups sugar, divided use
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch salt
1 teaspoon quality pumpkin pie spice
1 whole nutmeg, for grating
1 lemon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Put 4 tea bags in a measuring cup and add 1� cups boiling water. Leave to brew for a few minutes, then remove tea bags. Put the dried fruit into a large mixing bowl, grate over the zest of the orange and pour over the hot tea. Cover and leave overnight.
Whisk the egg and add to the bowl of fruit along with 1 cup sugar. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, pumpkin pie spice and a few good gratings of nutmeg, and squeeze in the juice of the orange. Mix until a dough-like consistency (it might seem a bit dry). Spoon the mixture into a 4-cup loaf pan lined with parchment paper and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until cooked through, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
Put the 2 remaining tea bags into a pan with � cup water and the zest and juice of the lemon. Gently bring to a boil, removing the tea bags after a few minutes. Add the remaining � cup sugar and bring to a boil without stirring — keep it on a steady medium heat so that you have a steady boil for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the mixture has reduced by half and you have a golden syrup. Pour this into a measuring cup.
As soon as the loaf comes out of the oven, poke little holes in the top and pour the syrup over the loaf. Once the syrup has absorbed, turn loaf onto wire rack and cool.
Makes: 1 loaf
From: "The America's Test Kitchen Quick Family Cookbook," by editors at America's Test Kitchen ($34.95)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup (5-ounces) polenta*
1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary
1� teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
� teaspoon salt
3 ounces Parmesan cheese, grated course (1 cup), divided use
� cup sour cream
� cup whole milk
� cup sugar
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 large eggs
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Whisk flour, polenta, rosemary, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in � cup Parmesan, breaking up any clumps, until coated with flour.
In a separate bowl, whisk sour cream, milk, sugar, oil and eggs together until smooth. Gently fold sour cream mixture into flour mixture until just combined; do not over mix.
Pour into greased loaf pan or greased muffin tins. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan.
Bake until golden brown and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes for muffins, 40 to 50 minutes for loaf pan. Cool before inverting.
*Note: Cornmeal can be used in place of the polenta. It will result in a more cake-like texture.
Makes: 1 large loaf
From: "Piece of Cake: Home Baking Made Simple," by David Muniz and David Lesniak (Rizzoli, $29.95)
2 cups all-purpose flour
� cup yellow cornmeal
1� teaspoons baking powder
� teaspoon baking soda
� teaspoon kosher salt
1� teaspoons ground ginger
� teaspoon ground cardamom
� teaspoon nutmeg or mace
3 large eggs
1� cups dark brown sugar, packed
� cup granulated sugar
1� cups pumpkin pur�e
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 tablespoons canola oil
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan, and line bottom and long sides with parchment paper.
Mix together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices in a medium bowl.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs and both sugars on medium-high speed until creamy and thick, for about 3 minutes. Reduce the speed, then add the pumpkin, vanilla and oil and continue mixing until smooth.
On low speed, slowly add the dry ingredients a little at a time, mixing only until the flour just disappears. Remove the bowl from the mixer. Scrape the bowl up from the bottom and fold in the cranberries and walnuts. Transfer to prepared pans.
Bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until loaf is well browned and a knife inserted emerges clean from the center. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning out.
Makes: 1 loaf
From: "Southern Living Home Cooking Basics: Great Food Made Simple" (Oxmoor House, $29.95)
1� cups chopped pecans
1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
� teaspoon baking soda
� teaspoon salt
1� cups finely chopped, peeled Granny Smith apples (� pound)
� cup butter
� cup packed light brown sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake � cup pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan for 6 to 8 minutes, or until toasted and fragrant, stirring after 4 minutes.
Beat sour cream and the next three ingredients on low speed with an electric mixer for 2 minutes until blended. Stir together the flour and next three ingredients. Add to sour cream mixture, beating just until blended. Stir in apple and � cup toasted pecans. Spoon batter into a greased 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Sprinkle with remaining pecans.
Lightly press pecans into batter.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour to 1hour and 5 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, shielding with aluminum foil after 50 minutes to prevent excessive browning. Cool in pan for 10 minutes.
Remove from pan to wire rack.
Bring butter and brown sugar to a boil in a 1-quart heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly; boil 1 minute. Remove from heat, and spoon over top of bread.
Serves: 10
From: "Tate's Bake Shop Baking for Friends," by Kathleen King (Tate's Bake Shop, $24.95)
6 ounces white chocolate, finely chopped
2� cups all-purpose flour
� teaspoon salt
� teaspoon baking soda
� cup sugar
8 tablespoons (1 stick) salted butter, at room temperature
3 large eggs, at room temperature
� cup buttermilk
Grated zest of 1 orange
� cup fresh orange juice
2 teaspoons pure vanilla
1 cup fresh or frozen whole cranberries, not thawed
1 cup toasted, skinned, coarsely chopped hazelnuts
1 cup white chocolate chips
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Lightly butter and flour a 9-by-9-by-3-inch loaf pan and tap out excess flour. Melt and cool the chopped white chocolate.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and baking soda. In a large bowl, beat the sugar and butter with an electric mixer set on high speed until light and fluffy, about 3minutes. One at a time, beat in the eggs, beating well after each addition, and scraping down sides of the bowl as needed.
Beat in the buttermilk, followed by the tepid white chocolate, orange zest and juice, and vanilla. The mixture will look curdled. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture, and beat just until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Stir in the cranberries, hazelnuts and white chocolate chips. Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake until a bamboo skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1� hours. Let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before inverting and unmolding bread.


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UNDP Jordan two steps closer to integrating social media into the governance portfolioMay 8, 2011
Last week marked UNDP Jordan's first social media initiative with 66 participants representing five national partners attending the "Social Media Week". The initiative included daily sessions to introduce targeted national partners of the Governance Portfolio to social media concepts, platforms, strategic approaches and organizational and content policies each in their specific context. As the Country Office itself is planning to develop its social media plan, a learning session for UNDP Country Office and project staff on social media was delivered early in the Week.
National partners involved in the Social Media Week were the Jordanian House of Representatives, Ministry of Political Development (MOPD), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the National Center for Human Rights (NCHR).
In February of 2011, the Governance Portfolio at UNDP Jordan pledged to support MOPD in amplifying its impact through new media, particularly among youth on Facebook and twitter, to allow the Ministry to have an immediate impact on online discourse. The plan also included sustained outreach activities to youth and civil society; starting with a database of youth online groups to systematically solicit input from youth groups on how to spur youth participation in the country's political life. Staff members from MOPD, who are in direct contact with political parties, attended hands-on training on listening, "following" and contributing to online political debate. Staff members from the MOFA also attended the training, in liaison with MOPD. One MOPD staff member indicated that the two ministries have recently launched a campaign to reach out to Jordanians living abroad and that social media would be a great opportunity for the success of this initiative.
Another session was dedicated to the staff of NCHR on strategic approaches and policies for successful social media presence. This session is tightly linked to UNDP's support to the Center to increase awareness of the Center's mandate and improve capacities to campaign for priority human rights issues.
Two parliamentary committees from the Jordanian House of Representatives participated in a Skype talk on the political power, risks and benefits of social media platforms. This talk is an extension to UNDP's support to the Parliamentary Committees on Environment and Health, and the committee on Public Freedoms and Citizens' Rights with the aim of strengthening the two committees' oversight and outreach functions; by achieving knowledge of how to plan and prepare for media opportunities and how to deal with different media outlets in relation, including social media. Support to these committees comes as part of UNDP Jordan's vision to strengthen inter-programme and inter-portfolio linkages; particularly linkages with the Environment Portfolio and the programme of support to NCHR.
The social media session at the Anti-Corruption Commission came upon the ACC's interest to have a presence on social media, given the increased corruption reporting on Facebook in Jordan. The initiative is part of UNDP's support to the Commission to develop its first communication and outreach strategy. H.E. Ramzi Nuzha, ACC Board Member and a member of the Commission's Facebook page management team, who attended UNDP's learning session, opened the ACC session by saying: "…the expert has a very interesting and engaging approach….we at the ACC will be focusing on social media to reach out to people and promote our work…". Only after two days of the workshop, the ACC were able to increase their Facebook "fan" base by 10%.
The Social Media Week initiative was led by Dr. Constantinos Coursaris, Michigan State University Professor in Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, in collaboration with UNDP Democratic Governance team and Project Managers, in addition to Communication and IT Directorates in targeted institutions.
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As an immediate follow up action, UNDP Jordan will be piloting the integration of social media in two of the governance programmes. The integration will focus on MOPD's outreach to political parties and civil society, particularly for women and youth groups, and on Anti-Corruption in terms of the role social media plays in corruption investigation, corruption prevention and fostering public accountability.
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49 U.S. Code § 10901 - Authorizing construction and operation of railroad lines
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Authorizing construction and operation of railroad lines
(a) A person may—
construct an extension to any of its railroad lines;
construct an additional railroad line;
provide transportation over, or by means of, an extended or additional railroad line; or
in the case of a person other than a rail carrier, acquire a railroad line or acquire or operate an extended or additional railroad line,
only if the Board issues a certificate authorizing such activity under subsection (c).
A proceeding to grant authority under subsection (a) of this section begins when an application is filed. On receiving the application, the Board shall give reasonable public notice, including notice to the Governor of any affected State, of the beginning of such proceeding.
The Board shall issue a certificate authorizing activities for which such authority is requested in an application filed under subsection (b) unless the Board finds that such activities are inconsistent with the public convenience and necessity. Such certificate may approve the application as filed, or with modifications, and may require compliance with conditions (other than labor protection conditions) the Board finds necessary in the public interest.
(1) When a certificate has been issued by the Board under this section authorizing the construction or extension of a railroad line, no other rail carrier may block any construction or extension authorized by such certificate by refusing to permit the carrier to cross its property if—
If the parties are unable to agree on the terms of operation or the amount of payment for purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection, either party may submit the matters in dispute to the Board for determination. The Board shall make a determination under this paragraph within 120 days after the dispute is submitted for determination.
(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 822.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 10901, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1402; Pub. L. 96–448, title II, § 221, Oct. 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 1928, related to authorizing construction and operation of railroad lines, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).
Effective Date
Chapter effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.
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2010 is the 40th anniversary of the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade. To commemorate this historic event, San Francisco Public Library is hosting a number of pride-themed programs and films this June.
This year's Pride theme is 40 and Fabulous and on June 8, San Francisco Pride, Fabled ASP (Fabulous Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: A Storytelling Project), SFPL's Access Services and the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center will present Pride Extravaganza: 40 Years of San Francisco Pride and Four Decades of Lesbians with Disabilities Activism. Library Commission President Jewelle Gomez and community Grand Marshals of the past will host the celebration with speakers including Fabled ASP founder Laura Rifkin, community activist Diane Sabin, and SF Pride officials. The evening will culminate in musical sets by renowned jazz pianist Mary Watkins and singer Lisa Cohen.
The Library's Pride kickoff event, Out and Off the Margins: LGBT Authors Make History, a collaboration with Cleis Press, will be June 1. Bay Area Reporter writer Jim Provenzano will host writers Jon Ginoli, Anne Weldy, Felice Newman, Rob Rosen and Rachel Pepper for a discussion at the Main Library.
SFPL and the Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center will co-sponsor the National Queer Arts Festival, beginning with the annual RADAR Superstars Program on June 2. This year's RADAR Superstars include Lambda Literary Award Winning author and Pulitzer-winning team journalist Achy Obejas; Performance video artist and filmmaker Nao Bustamante; writers Tim Miller (1001 Beds) and Alistair McCartney (The End of the World Book). This will be followed by a three-part series on June 9, 16 and 23: Old School: Writers Unearth and Re-Imagine the Lives and Legacies of Queers Gone By. Some of the featured writers and performance artists include Ben McCoy, Max Wolf Valerio, Len Plass, Kirya Traber, Matilda Bernstein Sycamore, Justin Chin and Ali Liebegott. Closing out the month, on June 29, the library will host Shanghai Pride, featuring highlights from Shanghai's first gay pride celebration.
All events start at 6 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium at the Main Library.
Film Series: Heather Has Cool Mommies
In recognition of Pride month and in light of current events around same-sex marriage rights, SFPL presents: Heather has Cool Mommies, a weekly film series Thursdays at noon. Featured documentaries and films include:
June 3: Choosing Children (1985). An intimate look at the issues faced by women who become parents after coming out as lesbians.
In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents (2005). Five young people whose parents are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender discuss their own views on marriage, making change and what it means to be a family
June 10: Transparent (2005). Looks at 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few cases, gone on to raise their biological children.
June 17: Transamerica (2006). About a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual who holds down two jobs and saves every penny to pay for the one last operation that will make her a woman. Felicity Huffman gives an Oscar-nominated performance as a caring but overwhelmed parent trying to save herself and her wayward son
June 24: Daddy and Pappa (2002). A documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional and revolutionary: to raise children themselves.


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By 8 p.m. last night almost 100 volunteers from Andrews University were on their way to Lumberton, Mississippi, to assist in rebuilding Bass Memorial Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist secondary school, and the surrounding area which suffered devastating damage from Hurricane Katrina. The corps of volunteers left in two busses and were accompanied by a truck full of supplies.
Glenn Russell, professor in the religion department, is traveling with the group and will serve as the on-site coordinator of Andrews volunteers at Bass Academy. The volunteers included freshmen who had not quite completed their first week of classes at Andrews, a graduate student who just moved from New Orleans to Berrien Springs last week, skilled construction workers from Plant Services, retired professors, current faculty and staff. Frances Faehner, vice president for student services, is a former employee of Bass Academy and is also working as a volunteer.
The group is supported by voluntary donations and prayers from fellow students and employees, friends in the Berrien Springs community, and family members. The volunteer team is united by a desire to be of service and encouragement in the face of the worst natural disaster to hit the United States.
The trip is sponsored by the Campus Ministries Office and the Andrews University Student Association. "We're mobilizing to do what we can to meet the needs of Bass Academy and the surrounding area," said Patrick Murphy, chaplain for outreach and trip coordinator.
According to Pastor Ron Whitehead, assistant to the president for spiritual life, "Andrews' commitment to helping will continue in the coming months. Plans are already in place to make additional trips this school year during the holidays and spring break. As a Christian university, it's important that the student body have an opportunity to respond, and exercise faith in work clothes."
Information about how you can help student volunteers is available on the Campus Ministry website - www.andrews.edu/CM. Adventist Community Services (ACS) is also accepting donations for Hurricane Katrina relief. ACS can be reached by calling 1-800-467-6442. Calls to ACS are being fielded by Adventist Information Ministry (AIM) operators on the campus of Andrews University.


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Texas Dem congressional delegation calls for action
HOUSTON — Texas' Democrats elected the first Hispanic to the state chairman's position on Saturday, as the party aims to play a greater role in the Republican-dominated state.
Delegates overwhelming chose Gilberto Hinojosa to lead the party for the next two years on the final day of the state convention in Houston. Hinojosa is a former judge, country party leader and member of the Democratic National Committee. His is replacing Boyd Richie, who has led the party since 2006.
The native of Mission, in South Texas, takes over a party that has not won a statewide election since 1994, and in a state where Republicans control both chambers of the Texas Legislature. But the state's evolving demographics favor Democrats, with non-Hispanic whites now making up less than 50 percent of the population.
"We as a party need to realize that there are more of us than there are of them," Hinojosa said. "We believe that everyone in this great state deserves an equal chance ... and we can only do that if we win elections."
Hinojosa, 59, also said Democrats need to begin believing they can win elections and stop allowing Republicans to define them as unpatriotic. He said it was Republicans who carried out un-American policies by cutting funding for public education, women's health care and blocking civil rights for homosexuals.
Fort Worth state Rep. Marc Veasey, who is in a runoff for a Democratic nomination to Congress, welcomed Hinojosa as someone who had experience working at the national level and at organizing the grassroots of the party.
"His election is historic and besides that, Gilberto is a good guy," Veasey said. "He is a coalition builder; he gets along with a broad group of people."
Hinojosa has promised to change the math on Texas elections. In the May 29 primary vote, twice as many Republicans cast ballots as Democrats, but still less than 20 percent of registered voters showed up at all. Turnout among Texas Hispanics has never matched that in other states with significant Latino populations.
"There is no independent issue out there that has caused this to happen," Hinojosa said. "They are not going to go out and vote for anybody if they are not engaged, no matter how dynamic of a leader you've got running ... as a party we have to engage them and offer strong candidates."
Hinojosa was the first in his family to attend college at the University of Texas, Pan-American and graduated from Georgetown University Law School.
Texas Democrats also approved a party platform that for the first time explicitly called for equal marriage rights for homosexuals. Same-sex marriage is currently banned by a state constitutional amendment
Earlier in the convention, Democrats representing Texas in Congress spoke and tried to rally the party base ahead of the November elections. Rep. Al Green from Houston called for equal rights based on sexual orientation, a $10 an hour minimum wage and equal pay for women.
Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee honored two veterans, insisting that Democrats have served in the military as well as Republicans. Jackson also invoked the civil rights movement in calling for equal rights for homosexuals. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo praised the Affordable Care Act, the health care law designed to give everyone insurance.


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Whole Foods Market
2905 Pearl St., Boulder 303-545-6611
The expanded food court at the Pearl Street Whole Foods quite literally has everything from soup to nuts. Available items range from a crisp, anise-scented fennel salad to a surprisingly flavorful interpretation of Chinese barbecued pork. Made-to-order fare includes taqueria-style Mexican street food and Asian noodles, highlighted by the Vietnamese-influenced pho ga, a chicken and rice noodle soup.
Oak at Fourteenth
1400 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-3622
Oak at Fourteenth is back with a vengeance, serving up winning gourmet fare inspired in part by American regional cuisine. A sleek interior coupled with denim-clad waitstaff give it a subtle cowboy-meets-foodie feel, accented by attentive service. Dinners include a porterhouse steak for two and house-made pastas. At lunch, the shrimp grits are sublime, and the winning $11 burger lunch special includes two grass-fed patties, Old Bay seasoning-scented tater tots and house-made root beer.
Pearl Street Steak Room
1035 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-9604
steak is a pricey delicacy, and the Pearl Street Steak Room is a coolly
retro venue where people can indulge their taste for this artisan beef.
Richly marbled, sweet and tender, the Wagyu filet's a good way to go,
especially after one of their smooth martinis. The adventurous can start
their meal with chicken-fried sweetbreads, but more sedate choices like
duck confit also tempt.
The Bitter Bar
835 Walnut St., Boulder 303-442-3050
Big Red F Restaurant Group's foray into the world of artisan cocktails,
The Bitter Bar, has taken over the former Happy Noodle venue. Drinks
here range from original award-winning concoctions such as the Gone
Fishin', featuring naval-strength rum and ginger liqueur, to old
chestnuts like Irish Coffee. But the focus on libations doesn't detract
from the food, which includes such winning options as a fresh-tasting
lobster risotto and the unique gingerbread cake garnished with bacon
caramel popcorn.
2027 13th St., Boulder 303-449-0120
Shine is the newest venture from the Emich triplets, late of Trilogy
fame. Shine is a bar and restaurant as well as a performance and
gathering space showcasing everything from world music concerts to yoga
classes. The menu features healthful offerings ranging from locally
sourced, grass-fed beef burgers to meatless jackfruit tacos. There is
also a selection of housemade beer, and various elixirs and potions
flavored with herbs and touted for their restorative qualities.
95a Bistro and Sushi
1381 Forest Park Circle, Lafayette 303-665-3080
Bistro and Sushi is a worthwhile addition to the East County dining
scene. It provides an opportunity for a reasonably priced lunch prepared
with care, an intriguing small plate meal, or a dinner combining
comforting home cooking with gourmet flair. Winning small plate choices,
none of which cost more than $7, include clams and chorizo, braised
pork over potato, and chile pepper and avocado tempura.
1739 Pearl St., Boulder 303-442-7233
Radek Czerny's L'Atelier, deeply influenced by classic French cuisine,
builds upon a traditional foundation. At dinner, starters range from
Thai-spiced mussels to traditional escargot and shrimp Louis. Classicism
marks the entrée menu, which includes filet mignon and rack of lamb.
The lunch menu features lighter options like a tuna nicoise salad and a
salmon, lettuce and tomato panini, and both meals feature the can't-miss
lobster ravioli.
2731 Iris Ave., Boulder 303-449-4473
those desiring a lighter, reasonably priced meal combining bar
standards with a touch of gourmet, try the small plates menu at the
North Boulder location of Murphy's. Marked down for happy hour, this
menu includes south of the border specialties like Six Bite Nachos,
larger than the name suggests. Other winning options here include the
falling-off-the-bone Caribbean pork ribs with habanero mango sauce and
the smoked salmon with brie on crostini.
Aloy Thai Cuisine
2720 Canyon Blvd., Boulder 303-440-2903
Chy Thai, Aloy Thai Cuisine claims the same ownership and food as its
predecessor with an upgraded dining room. Indeed, the solid Thai
selections of the old venue live on, and the lunch menu provides an
opportunity to enjoy several classic choices for less than $9. Lunch
highlights include the red roast chicken curry and Pad Kra Pow, a
basil-scented stir-fry.
1606 Conestoga St. #3, Boulder 303-442-0585
Grateful Dead is the main influence on the ambience at Minglewood, a
new eatery primarily catering to a lunchtime worker crowd near 55th and
Arapahoe. Hot and cold sandwiches, entrée salads and a rotating
selection of soups and desserts make up the bulk of the menu. Rotating
special highlights include the lamb meatball panini and cream of red
pepper soup.
Korea House
2750 Glenwood Dr. #4, Boulder 303-449-1657
new management since last spring, Boulder's Korea House has a newly
upgraded ambience. It still serves up a menu of Japanese items such as
sushi and teriyaki, as well as classic Korean specialties such as
barbecue beef and short ribs. The gal bi, or short ribs, are a can'tmiss
selection featuring tender beef and a marinade balancing soy, garlic
and a hint of sweet.
Tossa Pizza
2400 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 720-214-3254
Folsom and Arapahoe in Boulder, Tossa Pizza functions as a typical
fast-casual, order-at-thecounter joint during lunch. Come late
afternoon, it switches to table service throughout dinner and until
closing. This affordable Italian-accented eatery dishes out pizza,
salads, pasta and panini of a quality that's pleasantly surprising for
the price. Highlights include the macaroni and five cheeses and the
arugula and mushroom pizza.
Brooklyn Deli
1515 Main St., Longmont 303-684-8400
Brooklyn Deli brings a taste of the Big Apple to the Front Range.
Classic selections include a can't-miss Reuben with a choice of turkey,
pastrami or corned beef on grilled rye, and a satisfyingly homespun
matzo ball soup. Other star attractions include Long Island A&S
bagels topped with cream cheese and lox from Brooklyn's Acme Smoked
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