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West Hartford, Conn.- UMBC senior midfielder Kadeem Dacres (Rosedale, N.Y.) broke a 1-1 tie with an early second half score and the visiting, seventh-ranked Retrievers (10-1-0, 1-0-0 America East) held on for a 2-1 victory over Hartford (7-2-2, 0-1-0) in the America East opener for both squads.
UMBC had to rally, as Hartford opened the scoring on a goal by Javoni Simms in the 16th minute. But Retriever senior forward Pete Caringi III (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall) tallied his nation-leading 10th goal of the season in the 30th minute and the game was deadlocked at 1-1 at the break.
The visitors picked up the attack in the second half and got the game-winning goal in the 50 th minute. Junior midfielder Mamadou Kansaye (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh) took a free kick from the right side and swung a serve deep into the Hawk box. UMBC caused traffic in front of Hawk netminder David Mackinnon and Dacres took advantage, booting home his fifth goal of the season from six yards out.
UMBC goalkeeper Phil Saunders (Perry Hall ,Md./Perry Hall) was credited with four saves in the victory and made a brilliant stop on Simms in the 58th minute when the UH goal-scorer was unattended and fired from seven yards out.
"It was great to open on the road with a victory over a team we have a great deal of respect for," head coach Pete Caringi, Jr. said. "It is very difficult to get behind on the road, but we didn't panic and had great chances to even build on the lead in the second half."
After the Dacres goal, UMBC continued to press and Dacres and junior midfielder Stephen Ho (North Potomac, Md./Wootton) both misfired on semi-breakaways in a two-minute span. Sophomore midfielder Malcolm Harris (Damascus, Md./McDonogh), who drew an assist on Caringi's first half goal, also had a golden opportunity to extend the lead to 3-1,but shot wide right from close range with 15 minutes remaining.
Hartford held a slight edge in shots, 16-15, and Mackinnon made three saves for the hosts.
UMBC faces another tough road test when they play William & Mary in a non-conference contest on Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Notes: UMBC has won twice this season (2-1-0) when falling behind, 1-0… UMBC improved to 4-4-3 in America East openers and to 7-5-2 vs. Hartford… Caringi scored for the first time since a goal at Loyola on Sept. 21… The goal was the 34th of his career and ties him with former teammate Levi Houapeu for fifth place in school history.


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Ex-NBA Star Baron Davis is Getting His Own TV Show
Two-time NBA All-Star Baron Davis was last seen writhing in pain after suffering a knee injury while playing for the New York Knicks last May. A stylish dresser throughout his pro career, Davis, 33, never officially retired, but now he's headed to the Esquire Network (formerly G4) to host a TV show about athletes and other cultural professionals who are setting trends for today's men.
Davis will host 'How I Rock It,' the working title for the Esquire Network show developed by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Citizen Jones. The half-hour show will be part of the re-branded network's effort to reach the upscale male demographic.
With Baron Davis and Ryan Seacrest screaming upscale male, perhaps it's just a matter of time before we have Russell Westbrook and Jeff Probst playing 'Celebrity Hide-And-Seek' on Fifth Avenue for Esquire Network.
Let's hope Davis can fulfill his on-camera promise better than he did his NBA potential. As the third-overall pick in the 1999 NBA Draft, Davis never quite ascended to the elite point guard status expected of him coming out of UCLA.


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Help! Why Can't I Lose Weight With Exercise?
Dozens ask this question: "I go to the gym six days a week, why am I'm not losing?" It may sound odd, but being active doesn't guarantee weight loss. I know, it doesn't seem fair.
One of my clients sought me out after she trained for her first marathon and gained weight.
She thought the pounds would fall off, and couldnât understand what she was doing wrong. Dozens of others have asked, âI go to the gym six days a week, why am Iâm not losing?â
It may sound odd, but being active doesnât guarantee weight loss.
I know, it doesn't seem fair. But if youâre in this rut, donât give up!
Keep on exercising, you will see results. But put these five Dos and Donâts into action first.
Donât overestimate the impact of your workout
After a good run, or a class that kicked your derriere, you may feel like youâve earned the right to splurge. The hard truth is, itâs incredibly easy to âeat backâ much of what youâve burned. For example, in a one hour circuit training class, an average woman burns about 550 calories. Not too shabby. But even if 100% of that was body fat, which it isn't (itâs impossible to burn pure body fat, even in the âfat burning zoneâ), thatâs only enough to shed one seventh of a pound. Treating yourself to a 16-ounce smoothie, a large oatmeal cookie, or a large red velvet froyo cancels out more than half of your hard work, whittling your calorie deficit down to less than 300.
Tip: On workout days, stick to your usual healthy eating routine, or if you have the urge to splurge, create some balance â instead of tacking a cookie onto your sandwich order, ditch the bread and opt for a salad topped with lean protein, to make room for those cookie carbs.
Do focus on the benefits that indirectly affect your weight
Even if exercising didnât burn a single calorie, itâs still essential for good health, and a smart weight loss strategy. In addition to building muscle, numerous studies have shown that being active reduces stress, and improves sleep quality, two factors that strongly influence your metabolism. One study, which tracked over 60,000 non-obese women for 16 years, found that those who slept five hours or less per night had a 30% greater risk of packing on 30 pounds, compared to those who slept a solid seven hours each night. Another Yale study found that non-overweight women who are vulnerable to stress are more likely to carry excess belly fat.
Tip: Rather than obsessing over the calorie reading while on the elliptical, visual yourself happily relaxed and sleeping soundly, two states that translate into a healthier (and thinner) you.
Donât overcompensate with food
In addition to âI earned thisâ splurges, some research shows that exercise may trigger subconscious additional eating. In one study, moderately active women were divided into one of three groups. The first didnât exercise, while the other two burned 350 calories, working out at different intensities. Those who performed the high-intensity training ate more in the meal that followed the workout than both the low-intensity exercisers and the non-active group.
Tip: if you think you may be unknowingly sneaking extra nibbles, especially after a workout that really got your heart rate up, track yourself. A recent Kaiser Permanente study involving over 1,600 people found that those who kept a food journal seven days a week lost twice as much weight over six months, compared to those who werenât regular recorders. Rather than self-policing, think of tracking your intake as simply a way of raising your awareness. Nearly every client Iâve ever asked to keep a food diary has found that it resulted in some big light bulb moments, such as suddenly realizing how many free samples or bites from their kidsâ plates they take, or how few veggies they actually eat.
Do make it recreational
You may not think of lawn badminton as âexercise,â but an hour of this activity burns 300 calories, four and a half times more than sitting. One of my clients was surprised that after a day of antiquing, her jeans fit looser, something she doesnât typically experience the day after her usual workout. Turns out, she had stood or walked for five hours straight, which resulted in burning more calories than her usual eight hours at a desk and one at the gym.
Tip: whether itâs organizing a game of softball, playing catch with your kids, or going for a family bike ride, find ways to build more movement into each day. Researcher shows that people with dogs walk them a total of five and a half hours a week. By comparison, those without canine companions spend an average of one hour and 20 minutes exercising each week, and nearly half arenât active at all.
Donât decrease your activity the rest of the day
French researchers recently found that after high intensity exercise sessions, obese teens compensated by decreasing their activity levels later in the day. Another in older adults found that while exercise improved heart health, it didnât result in burning more daily calories, due to a decrease in activity for the remainder of the day.
Tip: if youâre not sure if you may be offsetting your workouts with more rest, start a daily activity log. Much like a food diary, it will help you get to know your patterns. If you find that youâre more likely to go to bed early, or get sucked into a TV trance on the days you work out, try to notice any patterns. Some workouts may leave you more energized than others, or maybe breaking up your routine into two shorter sessions is a better match for your body chemistry.
Whatâs your take on this topic? Have you felt frustrated by a lack of workout results? Please tweet your thoughts to @CynthiaSass and @goodhealth
Cynthia Sass is a registered dietitian with masterâs degrees in both nutrition science and public health. Frequently seen on national TV, sheâs Healthâs contributing nutrition editor, and privately counsels clients in New York, Los Angeles, and long distance. Her latest New York Times best seller is S.A.S.S! Yourself Slim: Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds and Lose Inches. Connect with Cynthia on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.Â
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Authorized User May Have Cause for Concern
Dear Mary: When my brother-in-law was a pastor, he was authorized to use the church credit card to purchase things for the church.
He has not been at that church for over a year and the church has never paid the final bill of $7,000.
Because he was named an "Authorized User" on the account, should he be concerned that this is impacting his credit report negatively? What should he do? Cindy S.
Dear Cindy: Your fears may be well-founded because while your brother-in-law as an "Authorized User" carries no financial obligation to repay the balance, every month the status of that account is being reported to his credit file.
If the church is making the required payments on time and not charging over the limit on the account, what is being reported will be positive. No worries there. But if the church falls behind in making the required payments each month, late payments showing on his report could quickly become negative for him, sending his credit score plummeting.
No matter the status of the account, as an Authorized User he can simply call the creditor to request to be removed from the account. He should do that immediately.
Dear Mary: In 2008 I had zero credit-card debt, now I have two credit cards with balances of $27,000 and $47,000. The issues that created the debt load have all been addressed and eliminated.
Is there a way to negotiate with the credit card companies to reduce the payoff amount? When I've looked into this, most of the debt-settlement people suggest that if I miss a minimum of three payments, then the companies will negotiate. I would rather not go through that kind of pain. Gene G.
Dear Gene: I believe you are referring to third-party debt settlement companies that promise to get your debt reduced.
You are right. Most will advise you that they can negotiate to reduce what you owe to just pennies on the dollar, but first, you will need to stop making payments in order to send a signal to these creditor(s) that you may be getting ready to file for bankruptcy. And that's where things can get dicey.
Honestly, those are the worst scam artists and I would recommend that you run, not walk, from anyone making those claims and giving that kind of advice. Did they mention their fees? They're enormous and horror stories abound for how these clowns run off with all the money you are not sending to your creditors each month, but paying to them instead for "safe keeping."
Even if the banks were to negotiate your balances directly with you (don't count on it), you would have to come up with the negotiated amount in full. And don't forget that the amount forgiven would be reported as 1099 income on which you would owe taxes.
Look, you borrowed the money willingly and you spent it. The right thing would be for you to pay what you owe.
I am happy to know that you have addressed the underlying issues that landed you in so much debt. You've learned some tough lessons—ones you are not likely to have to repeat. That's a good thing.


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Brian Thomas Redefines Retro Rod With A Supercharged Flathead Packard Straight-Eight Roadster.
What makes this retro rod so memorable? Everything! It's the handmade body fabricated from a rusty cowl, two doors, and an F-100 hood. It's the pattern created by the 1,300 stainless screws holding everything in place, from the chopped Lexan windshield to the hand-punched side vents. And it's the engine: your basic everyday McCulloch-supercharged flathead Packard straight-eight. Oh, and did we mention it was built by one guy in a small garage in central Utah in less than 11 months?
Luckily for Brian Thomas, he grew up in a car family that liked to trade parts more than buy 'em-the parts that spawned this car were picked up by trading away a scooter. Take any piece of this hot rod and break it down, from the suspension to the body to the motor-that's where you see the innovation. The extended wheelbase is 124 inches, the bomber-inspired stainless interior is flawless, and the aggressive stance is provided by the frame that Brian hand-fabricated.
When confronted with the question why, Brian says it was fate that brought him to building a Packard-powered roadster. His father, Richard, had started a 268ci inline-eight Pontiac project, telling him how good it was going to be when completed. All the while, Brian was politely nodding his head, thinking in the back of his mind, Yeah right. What Brian discovered is that big inline-eights have a presence, a brutish quality that can only be acquired after winning a World War or two. So it wasn't long before he was horse-trading some truck parts for his 327ci Packard straight-eight-if he was going to build an inline, it was going to be bigger and faster than his father's.
Known for producing hefty American luxury automobiles, Packard made its flathead straight-eight engine for three decades from 1924 through 1954, with the largest displacement being 359 ci. On Brian's engine, bystanders first notice the aluminum head by flathead guru Norman Frick. Milled from two blocks of billet for another Utah customer a decade ago, this was a spare head that was never used. A little less evident is the Isky cam. Brian met Ed Iskenderian on the Salt Flats, and Ed agreed to personally grind a long and lumpy stick for the Packard. Opening the valves for the 3.5-inch x 4.25- inch flathead are modified Dodge truck lifters, because as you might guess, some Packard parts are nearly impossible to find. The induction is dominated by a vintage McCulloch supercharger blowing into four Stromberg 97 carburetors through Brian-fabbed tubing and carb hats.
About the only new parts are the reproduction grille shell (purchased for $99), the heavy-duty radiator from Speedway Motors, the Sprint Car-style steering wheel, and a front axle from So-Cal Speed Shop. Explaining his catalog purchases Brian tells us, "At one point you just run out of time searching for old parts and the car has to go together." It was also about midway though the build that his wife Camie's assistance became invaluable. By this time she had developed a keen eye for vintage parts and worked eBay to get the best deals. Then when funds ran low, as they usually do, Camie was the first to contribute to get the car on the road.
Checking out the stages of the build process on YouTube, you'll see an early version of the roadster with whitewalls. Now it is wearing big wire wheels and dirt track tires to set the tone. Up front Brian is running 18-inch, 32-spoke '32 Ford wheels with Coker tires, and out back are some bitchin' 40-spoke specialty rims made by Gary McLean at Rally America. But it's the little details that push this roadster over the edge, like all but the Firestone markings having been scrubbed off the tires.
You can't help but notice the craftsmanship of the stainless interior. Using an electrician's Greenlee hydraulic punch, Brian created the dimpled aircraft style by punching 4-inch holes with a beveled edge. Building his own bomber seats from 18-gauge steel, he just sat on the garage floor and made a cardboard template with a Sharpie. The seats were fabricated to fit the space and enhance the aircraft look and are comfortable for only a few hundred miles. To push the aircraft theme further, Brian purposefully selected green paint with a similar hue to zinc chromate primer for the interior accents.
Enhancing the retro styling, Brian used model paint to letter the doors in old-school style. When asked about the number, he calmly replies, "I just liked the forms." But one can't overlook the fact that the Packard engine is from a '48 model year.
When it was all said and done, Brian's roadster didn't really fit into a category or niche. But that's what we like about it. He had the guts to strap on his own vision goggles and build something new. He didn't follow trends, but rather established new ones. And more important, when he didn't know how to do something, he didn't pay someone else to do it. Instead, he figured it out or picked up the phone to ask advice from his dad or one of the local rodders in his area. That's the genius of this Packard-powered roadster.


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If you machine components for medical implant devices, then you're either 1) already machining PEEK polymer or 2) soon will be. That's because the medical industry has found medical-grade PEEK offers excellent strength, wear resistance and biocompatibility for components such as the dental healing caps, spiked washers and spinal implants shown to the left. PEEK is showing up in an increasing number of medical shops all over the country.
Craig Valentine is the technical manager for Invibio, a UK-based supplier of biocompatible PEEK polymers. Mr. Valentine provides the following material and machining information for medical shops that may have vast experience machining titanium and stainless, but are just setting their sights on machining polyetheretherketone (aka PEEK).
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PEEK polymer is available in two basic grades: industrial and medical. Industrial-grade PEEK is a strong thermoplastic that retains its mechanical properties even at elevated temperatures. The flame-retardant material is abrasion resistant, has high impact strength and a low coefficient of friction. Industrial-grade PEEK components are used in the aerospace, automotive, chemical, electronics, petroleum, and food and beverage industries.
Medical-grade PEEK possesses those same physical properties in addition to biocompatibility, high chemical resistance and compatibility with several different sterilization methods. It is also naturally radiotranslucent when viewed using X-ray, MRI or computer tomography (CT). This provides doctors with an unobstructed view of tissue and bone growth around the PEEK implant during the healing process. Some medical-grade PEEK polymers, such as Invibio's PEEK Classix, are suitable for applications requiring blood or tissue contact of less than 30 days. Other implantable-grade PEEK polymers, including Invibio's PEEK Optima, have a bone-like stiffness and can remain in contact with blood or tissue indefinitely. Invibio has recently introduced a carbon-fiber-reinforced PEEK, which offers high wear resistance for components such as articulating joints.
Machining PEEK
Shops typically receive PEEK in the form of rods that can range from 6 mm to 150 mm in diameter. Before machining, the material must be stress-relieved through an annealing process. This decreases the likelihood that heat generated during the cuts will form surface cracks and internal stresses. PEEK components that will undergo long stretches of machining time may require additional intermediate annealing steps. For example, after initial annealing and rough machining, some shops will anneal the workpiece once more before taking finishing passes to prevent crack formation.
Industrial and most medical-grade PEEK polymers are machined similarly. However, medical-grade PEEK reinforced with carbon fiber must be approached differently. For instance, carbon-fiber-reinforced PEEK should be heated just prior to machining in order to soften the material and reduce tool wear. Table I on the following page lists cutting data Invibio offers to help shops dial in their machining processes for conventional medical-grade PEEK and carbon-fiber-reinforced PEEK polymers.
Invibio suggests shops use silicon carbide cutting tools for natural PEEK and diamond tools for carbon-fiber-reinforced PEEK. The best way to avoid adverse affects on the material's biocompatibility is to machine dry. However, in many cases coolant is necessary to remove cutting heat that builds in the workpiece (PEEK doesn't dissipate heat the way metals do.) Pure water serves as the best coolant because it is least likely to affect material biocompatibility. The chips produced from machining most medical-grade PEEK polymers can be collected and recycled for industrial applications.
As with all medical components, precautions must be taken to prevent surface contamination of PEEK workpieces. One precautionary measure is to dedicate the machine tool, fixturing and tools to machining only that material. Some shops also insist their employees use gloves when handling PEEK to keep oils off the part surface.
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This medical shop has adopted five-axis, bar-fed machining technology to adapt to compressed delivery schedules and increasingly complex part geometries.
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Matrix Tooling makes injection molds for components that have features you cannot see.
Hard Milling Isn't Just High Speed Machining
Milling complex forms in hardened tool steel involves more than just fast, light cuts, says this maker of medical-related injection molds. Here are some of the ingredients of an effective hard milling process.


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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) – Facebook Inc., Rosetta Genomics Ltd. and Sanderson Farms Inc. could be among the stocks that will see active trading on Tuesday. U.S. markets are closed Monday for the Memorial Day holiday.
Facebook Inc. FB, -0.44% will again be a closely-watched stock, just over a week after its debut. The social network has declined from its IPO price of $38, closing at $31.91 on Friday.
Rosetta Genomics Ltd. ROSG could be active again after a 19% decline on Friday. The company said it is selling 570,755 shares to investors at a 29% discount to raise cash to help fund operations.
Mentor Graphics MENT could be on the move after shares shed 13% on Friday. Late Thursday, the company said its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 43% and it expected earnings to fall shy of Wall Street analysts' expectations.
Sanderson Farms Inc. SAFM, +0.98% is seen posting a fiscal second-quarter profit of 86 cents a share on revenue of $586.1 million.
DryShips Inc. DRYS is expected to report a first-quarter loss of 2 cents a share on sales of $258.7 million.


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And, why I'm sorry I'm not there. (I should have listened to Amy.)
When I looked at the topics, and listened to others talk, I felt that I didn't even have the vocabulary to understand the presentations at RootsTech. I didn't even understand some of the titles of the presentations. After all, I don't know the difference between a tablet, an Ipod, an Ipad, a notebook or a droid and Android, a smart phone and IPhone and a blackberry, or apps. After all, I just learned how to use a digital camera 1 1/2 years ago, right before FGS in Knoxville in 2010. My phone doesn't take photos. I don't know how to send text messages. And I keep forgetting how to even get messages for the few times someone calls me while my phone is off. I do have a facebook account, but it is basically so that I can see photos of my grandchildren; find out what activities my nieces and nephews are doing; and finding out where my sister is traveling on business. I don't tweet. I tried google+ but haven't figured out how to actually get factual stuff rather than just someone's personal info.
And while this blog is 7 months old, I don't know how to even make some changes in the template (like background color and title colors) and I'm afraid to start over. I also haven't been able to figure out how to sort the blogs that I follow, since my list is really getting too long for a 3 to 4 times a week look. (It's overwhelming and I regularly consider just taking almost all of them out of reader.)
So, with this lack of knowledge, how could I possible understand the stuff being presented at RootsTech? Why should I spend the money to attend a conference and be overwhelmed by all of you who are familiar with this stuff?
So, why am I sorry I'm not there?
Well, I was able to download the syllabus. Of course, I don't know what to do know because it seems like each one is in pdf and word. So, which do I keep? One or both?
BUT, the biggest positive is that I actually understand most of the words in the syllabus. (At least for those sessions I've looked at so far.) Some of them are actually very similar to sessions that I've attended before at other conferences. Could I have benefited from attending? Yes. Will I consider going in 2013? Yes. (Except that NGS is in Las Vegas and that's close and I want to attend and encourage Arizona researchers to try a large conference. Then there is FGS in Fort Wayne. Who can resist researching there especially when flying that distance?) With those two and Jamboree, can I really manage FOUR conferences in one year?
So, I'm going to try to listen to the RootsTech sessions that are going to be streamed by RootsTech. (Those in Room 155, I believe.) I need to figure out if I can listened to them at some other time, because, unfortunately, sometimes life interferes with genealogy. (Too often, sometimes!) And, then I have a list of other sessions that I understand are also going to be streamed. I still need to get all of the info about those and how to access them.
Therefore, I'm going to be busy the next 2 days. Perhaps not as busy as those of you who are traveling to Salt Lake City. But I do know that I won't be waiting in airports trying to remember if all of my liquids and gels are in small enough containers. I won't be walking in the rain or snow; after all I'm in the Phoenix area. And, while I won't learn as much as I probably would if I were there, perhaps I'll be able to understand enough to gain the knowledge to attend next year, or the year after.
Have a great time!! To all of you who are there. I hope you share thoughts with all of us who are not there.


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Environmentally Sound Startup
This story appears in the October 2002 issue of . Subscribe »
Did you ever dream about saving the environment-but still making a bit of money on the side? Then you might consider starting an environmentally friendly business. This will not only give you the chance to support a cause you believe in, but also appease your desire to build a successful enterprise. And while you'll face certain challenges in going green, you'll also reap some great rewards.
The time could not be better, according to Eric Brown, communications director of the Center for a New American Dream, a Takoma Park, Maryland, nonprofit organization that encourages sustainable lifestyles and businesses. "The need [to produce] things without using as many natural resources and the need [to produce] materials and products without contributing to global climate change will dictate that we buy things differently," he predicts. "And people [will] manufacture and sell things differently." Brown notes that green businesses can be anything from a flooring services company that re-mills old floors to a pest control service that uses nontoxic chemicals to a business that sells all-natural pet care products.
That's where entrepreneurs can enter the fray-by hopping into growth areas for environmentally safe products and services. Brown cites the organic food sector as one example of a prime opportunity. According to the Organic Trade Association, the organic food industry is growing between 20 and 25 percent per year, with sales expected to exceed $20 billion by 2005. Zoe Foods is just one entrepreneurial natural foods company that has done well in the organic food market. The Newton, Massachusetts, company manufactures Zoe Flax & Soy Granola, a natural remedy for the symptoms of menopause.
Green businesses have exploded over the past decade, says Rona Fried, president of SustainableBusiness.com, a consulting firm that helps green businesses grow. But, she notes, there's still room for growth. "I got into the field 10 years ago-right after the Exxon Valdez crashed," she recalls. "Before that, there was no such thing as a green business-now [almost] everybody is producing environmental reports. So it's gone from nonexistent to being a really big field."
Another burgeoning green industry is renewable energy, says Fried. People are looking for planet-friendly sources of energy-and investors are looking for companies with the inside track. "[Many] VC groups are focused on clean energy [companies]," she says. "It's a very good place to be right now." She notes that the first fuel cell cars will be on the road this year and that states are creating incentives to promote renewable energy.
Local and state governments are also excellent places to procure work once you get your business up and running. "State and local governments buy $385 billion dollars worth of goods and services every year," says Brown. "These governments are increasingly looking for green products. [In fact,] many of them have mandates to purchase green products." This can mean anything from nontoxic cleaning supplies to recycled paper products. Even start-ups in the early stages of business can log on to the Center for a New American Dream to view a listing of current procurement opportunities.
Now's probably a good time to start thinking about the marketing challenges you'll likely face when promoting your new green business. It's quite possible that some of your target customers will already hold preconceived ideas, such as that green products are of a lower quality than traditional products. "There can be [a stigma] for sure, and it's certainly smart business and smart marketing for a company to debunk those myths-because most of them are really myths," says Brown. "There are many green products that are cheaper and work better than their less environmentally friendly counterparts." Some business owners get around this by promoting their product or service's high quality alone, without even mentioning its environmental benefits. On the flip side, though, Brown notes that promoting both quality and eco-friendliness can be a great way to set your company apart from the competition. Before you decide, see how others are marketing in your segment.
Thinking Green
Even if you don't want to start an entirely green business, you can still incorporate eco-sound practices on a smaller level. For instance, you can use both sides of office paper (just set the printer to duplex); purchase nontoxic cleaning supplies; recycle paper, aluminum and cardboard; and use energy-efficient appliances. You'll find that small changes will not only benefit the environment, but also your budget-by cutting costs on energy and paper, for example. You might even consider a paperless office, suggests Fried. If you're building or renovating an office, think efficient windows and nontoxic insulation.
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Brown touts the four-day workweek as an inexpensive, though environmentally friendly, step. "You may think: What does that have to do with anything?" he says. "But the fact is, [these] workers spend more time at home, eat less processed food, travel less, use [fewer] fossil fuels-their actions are better for the planet." Though it may not always be possible, it is one action to consider. A reduced workweek will also enable you and your employees to donate some time to volunteering for environmental causes.
Though going green requires commitment, don't think that you'll have to live in a commune, knitting baskets from grass, to make it work. It's really about balance-balancing your business needs with the needs of the environment. "And acknowledging that we all have to consume in order to live, and there's really no shame in that," says Brown. "We're not telling people they should shiver in the dark and make sweaters of old mop heads." What experts suggest is for entrepreneurs to put profits and planet side-by-side on their list of priorities.
As the population continues to grow and environmental resources become more and more valuable, eco-sound practices will become the norm, predicts Brown. Fried agrees: "In 100 years, a green business will just be referred to as a business-because every business will be green."
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October 29, 2016 at 8pm to May 6, 2017 at 8pm – Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts announces its 2016-17 season Featured performances include Argentinian tango company Estampas Porteñas, Emmy nominee Tony Danza, Grammy winner Patti Austin,… Organized by Michelle Tabnick PR | Type: performance
November 12, 2016 at 8pm to April 1, 2017 at 8pm – Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2016-17 World of Dance Series Celebrating Brooklyn's multicultural communities with international artists from Argentina, Jamaica, and the United States. … Organized by Michelle Tabnick PR | Type: dance
January 3, 2017 at 10am to June 18, 2017 at 5pm – The Met Fifth Avenue The first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Indian artist Y. G. Srimati (1926–2007) is currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring some 25 meticulously executed watercolor pa… Organized by The Met Fifth Avenue & The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund | Type: visual
January 3, 2017 at 11am to June 5, 2017 at 5pm – The Rubin Museum of Art "Sacred Spaces" at the Rubin Museum of Art invites visitors to reflect on devotional activities in awe-inspiring places. For the second iteration of the exhibition, the Museum commissioned an install… Organized by | Type: other
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National Opinions
Amtrak should get on board with pets as passengers
You might say I have a dog in this fight.
He's tiny. He's blind. His bark is decidedly unmanly and his bites, usually in defense against things that can't be seen, are forgivably innocuous.
I am his seeing-eye human.
I adopted Ollie from a kill shelter four years ago via friends who visit the shelter weekly and grab whatever is adoptable. Steve and Squeaky Wangensteen are shrewd and devilish people. Their strategy- They invite you to dinner, wine and dine you, and then, while your defenses are down, say, "Oh, look, he loves you so much. Don't you want to take him home?"
Which is to say, I was overserved -- and went home with a blind poodle.
The Very Fortunate Ollie -- named for Olive Street -- thus came to join a neighborly menagerie that then included a three-legged cat, Zoe, a gentle mutt named Jake, the pedigreed Miss Maggie next door and yet another Ollie further down, who is often mistaken for Bo Obama.
My Ollie had not been mistreated, but his care had been minimal. He was already 7 and was, as his vet puts it, "genetically challenged." (We don't tell Ollie.) His previous family, who dropped him off at the shelter saying they were tired of him, had bought him from a pet shop knowing he was blind. They did teach him the word "no," which stops him in his tracks and for which I am grateful.
Ollie is higher-than-usual maintenance, true enough, but his blindness is part of his charm. He is fearless precisely because he knows I won't let him hurt himself. Like a child confident of his mother's proximity, he knows I'm right there.
Except, alas, those times when work takes me away, usually from D.C. to New York via the train, which doesn't allow canine travelers. Not even a 6.5-pound blind toy poodle. Instead, I hire a sitter, which is expensive and an absurdly unnecessary burden.
For reasons that remain mysterious, Amtrak allows only service dogs. This, despite the fact that domestic pets are more than welcome on airplanes for a fee. If small enough, they can be tucked under a seat. Yet Amtrak, with trains naturally noisy and not exactly luxurious, is utterly snooty when it comes to pets. I once spotted a woman with a cuddly canine next to her in the Amtrak "Quiet Car" and asked her secret. Proudly, she whipped out a letter from her psychiatrist. Well, that's one way.
The rest of us are out of luck, but perhaps not for long. With gentleness of heart -- and more sanity than we've come to expect from Washington -- a bipartisan measure could open the way for pet lovers to travel by rail with their canine and feline companions.
Four House members have proposed the Pets on Trains Act of 2013 to allow people to travel with their domestic pets. The act would require that Amtrak devote at least one car for kenneled pets for passengers traveling less than 750 miles.
The bill's sponsors have focused primarily on the family and humane concerns, earning the support of the Humane Society of the United States.
"My dog, Lily, is part of our family and travels with us to and from California all the time," says Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., a co-sponsor. "If I can take her on a plane, why can't I travel with her on Amtrak, too?"
But there's also an economic benefit. Dogs and cats wouldn't get a free ride. They'd need tickets, too. Who knows? Perhaps Amtrak could use the extra cash to hire restroom custodians. No self-respecting dog or cat would enter these foul places as they are customarily maintained.
But more to the point, disallowing well-behaved pets in carriers to travel by train makes little sense. We're not talking about boarding goats and chickens, though I'd take a goat to some of the cellphone yackers who seem to find themselves so fascinating. Compared to many travelers whose company is far less appealing than a dog's, Ollie is hardly visible and rarely makes a peep. Any dog or cat causing a ruckus can be forbidden from future travel.
This important measure is long overdue. It's sensible, pro-family, humane, smart business and no one's bother. Finally, a bipartisan measure that offers an opportunity for humans to be the kind of people our dogs think we are.


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Whenever I take the freeway west from Toronto to my parents' house, I pass a park where I ran a cross-country race many years ago. It was the county championships. I had just turned thirteen, and had been a "serious" runner for no more than six weeks, which meant that I knew almost nothing at all about running, except that you were supposed to run as hard as you could for as long as you could. My coach told me to stay close to the front, and I took the instruction literally, the way that dutiful thirteen-year-olds do. So I attached myself to the best runner in the field—a fifteen-year-old named Lloyd Schmidt—and did not let go.
The race began by winding along a series of trails and roads on the fringes of the park. It was a warm autumn afternoon. I remember the illicit thrill of running with the leaders, where I knew I did not belong. My lungs and my legs gradually slipped out of synch. I fell first half a breath short, then a full breath short. The world around me grew hazy. We came to a steep hill. My coach was standing there. "Now," he said. I willed myself to pass Schmidt, accelerating off the top of the hill. That's the part of the course that I see from the highway every time I drive by, and it never fails to send my stomach sideways. The next thing I remember was Lloyd Schmidt holding me up at the finish. I remember lying on the ground, slowly bringing my knees up to my chest. I remember the panic of not being able to get enough air into my lungs. I had done what everyone always says you are supposed to do as a human being. I had given it my all. And I realized that what everyone says you should always do was so painful that I never wanted to do it again.
For the first half of the nineteen-eighties, the greatest distance runner in the world was Alberto Salazar. He grew up in a Boston suburb and ran for the University of Oregon. Distance runners tend to be elfin. Salazar was tall. Great distance runners are graceful: they float, landing lightly on their toes and snapping their calves back so that their heels almost touch the tops of their hamstrings. Salazar shuffled like an old man. His college coach said that he looked as if he were sitting down and running at the same time. His college teammate Rudy Chapa was biomechanically perfect: if you saw the two of them running side by side on the track, you would assume that Chapa was the champion and Salazar the journeyman. But it was Salazar who won the New York City Marathon three consecutive times, and who in 1982 had one of the finest seasons of any distance runner before or since.
Salazar's greatness lay in his desire. In his absorbing memoir, "14 Minutes" (written with John Brant), Salazar writes of lying in bed as a teen-ager with strep throat, on a bitterly cold winter day. When it was time for his daily run, he crawled out a second-floor window, knowing that his mother would never let him out of the house:
I turned and started running down the snowy streets, into the bitter wind, ignoring my pain and fever and weakness, stuffing them down into the hole in my psyche where I deposited all negative thoughts—along with all negative facts—detracting from my running. During my workout, it started to snow, and when I arrived back home an hour later, my cap and sweat suit were caked. Icicles hung from my nose, and I shivered uncontrollably. Any further subterfuge was inconceivable; in my condition, there was no way I could climb back on the roof.
So I rang the doorbell. . . . My mother screamed and pulled me inside.
In 1978, Salazar, then nineteen, ran the seven-mile Falmouth Road Race, on Cape Cod, one of the premier road races in the world. It was a warm, muggy summer day. At the four-mile mark, Salazar suggested to Bill Rodgers—at the time the best marathoner in the world—that he, Salazar, "take over for a while," meaning do the work of fighting the wind coming off the Atlantic.
"That's the last thing I remember about that race," Salazar writes. He was "drifting, confused." The world "was fuzzy and had dim patches." But he kept at it. Someone later told him that he "came to a dead stop, turned slowly around in a circle, and then resumed running." And then resumed running. He goes on:
The next thing I remember is hearing a voice calling out numbers "104 . . . 106 . . . 107. . . it's not going down! I think we're going to lose him!" I realized that I was no longer running. For some reason, I was lying down in the medical tent. . . . The doctors had stopped calling out my temperature readings. I heard scraps of conversations: "brain damage." . . . "He may die." Four years of spectacular athletic achievement followed. Then, in 1994, after an absence of almost a decade, Salazar returned to competitive running, to compete in the Comrades ultramarathon, in South Africa. Comrades is absurdly difficult—a race that winds fifty-six miles between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, through searing heat and a series of brutal hills. Salazar had never run an ultramarathon. He trained in the cool of Portland, not the swelter of southern Africa. He decided that he wanted to average a six-minute-and-fifteen-second mile. To put that number in perspective, Salazar intended to run at a pace that would put him in the top one per cent of male finishers in this year's Boston Marathon, then maintain that pace for thirty more miles—and do so over unfamiliar terrain, in temperatures that climbed into the eighties, and with limited access to food and water. He won, of course. His only concern came at the very end of the race, when the course rounded a series of sharp corners on its way toward the Pietermaritzburg rugby stadium:
Negotiating these turns required every ounce of my attention, because my balance was precarious. I could not allow myself to fall; I was quite sure I wouldn't be able to stand back up. I feared falling down more than losing.
I did not fall. Somehow, I stayed upright, keeping the pace I had established a lifetime ago during the dark, cool miles leaving Durban. I crossed the line and did not so much collapse as disintegrate.
It doesn't take a runner to appreciate how strange and remarkable this is. For most of us, slack—the gap between what is possible, under conditions of absolute effort, and actual performance—is unavoidable. We all want to try our hardest, every time. But we can't. Tyler Cowen, the author of "An Economist Gets Lunch," argued recently that, out of the dozens of restaurants in Washington, D.C., that aspire to be first class, only five to ten really are at any given time. A restaurant can be great for its first three to six months—as the chefs and the owners strive to make the best possible impression on diners and reviewers. But, "once these places become popular, their obsession with quality slacks off," Cowen writes. "They become socializing scenes. . . . Their audiences become automatic."
The political economist Albert O. Hirschman's "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" begins with the same premise. Hirschman was interested in the way consumers cope with the decline of institutions—comparing the strategy of "exit" (if your local public school is lousy, you send your child to a private school) with that of "voice" (if your local public school is lousy, you show up at school-board meetings and complain). Classical economists and libertarians, he observes, understand exit but are contemptuous of voice. Politics, by contrast, is overwhelmingly (sometimes to its detriment) focussed on voice, and regards exit as akin to "desertion, defection and treason." The book is one of the masterpieces of contemporary political thought. But Hirschman, like Cowen, spends little time saying why there's a gap between how good institutions are and how good they could be. The book, as he writes in the opening chapter,
assumes not only that slack has somehow come into the world and exists in given amounts, but that it is continuously being generated as a result of some sort of entropy characteristic of human, surplus-producing societies. "There's a slacker born every minute" could be its motto. Firms and other organizations are conceived to be permanently and randomly subject to decline and decay, that is, to a gradual loss of rationality, efficiency, and surplus-producing energy, no matter how well the institutional framework within which they function is designed.
This notion of slack is part of what we take as normal and natural about the world. Of the last generation of great Washington restaurants, Cowen writes, "The Source, Zengo, Sei, Palena, Oyamel, Hook, Equinox and Central Michel Richard . . . all had their moments of glory." Peaking at the moment, he says, are Little Serow, Rasika West, and Mintwood Place. A dedicated foodie like him, who thrives on the innovation and novelty of the restaurant scene, needs the Source, Zengo, and Sei to stop trying so hard, in order to give Little Serow, Rasika West, and Mintwood Place a chance to shine. Social and economic mobility, in any system, is essentially slack arbitrage: hard work is a successful strategy for those at the bottom because those at the top no longer work so hard. By custom, we disparage the idleness of the idle rich. We should encourage it. It is our best chance of taking their place.
I slacked off after that traumatic race in the county championships. How could I not? The memory of what absolute effort meant loomed over every subsequent performance. In my second year of running, I was in the lead group at the provincial cross-country championships with a mile to go, and faded to forty-fifth—not because I was tired but because I knew precisely what trying to win would take. The next year, in the same championships, I was running third and faded to thirty-fifth, because there was a hill near the end and I remembered how a hill near the end would feel, and I could come up with no reason that I—a healthy and normal teen-ager from a well-adjusted family—should have to go through that kind of pain again. By the end of high school, I was finished as a competitive runner: my fear of the experience grew too overwhelming. Salazar faced the same fear and drew the opposite conclusion.
At Falmouth, Salazar rose, like Lazarus, and decided that the race had been a miracle. "I felt exhilarated, and not merely by the fact that I'd narrowly escaped a brush with death," he writes, and goes on:
My thrill ran deeper; I had learned something from death. I had learned, through the agency of my lifelong prayer, that I wasn't afraid of death. I realized that this made me different from the people walking by me in the street. More important—at least to me in the midst of my obsession—it made me different from other runners. I no longer doubted my toughness.
Alberto Salazar's father, Jose, was a member of Cuba's pre-revolutionary middle class. He met Fidel Castro when Castro was in law school and he was an engineering student at the University of Havana. Once, when government agents came looking for Castro, Jose hid him in his office in the student-union building. "I don't care about Castro," the guard at the building's entrance reportedly told the government agents. "But Jose Salazar is President of the Engineering Students' Department, and I cannot let you pass."
After the revolution, Jose designed dozens of projects for the fledgling regime, and was stunned when his plans for a church were rejected. "There is no room for God in the revolution," Che Guevara wrote, in response to the plans. Jose appealed to Castro. Castro backed Che. In October of 1960, when Alberto was a toddler, Jose denounced Castro in an open letter and then, as Castro's agents came to arrest him, escaped to Miami. Shortly thereafter, Jose left for six months to train in the Florida Everglades for the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. Salazar describes his father as a man of absolutes: loyalty was paramount, betrayal unforgivable, and the Catholic Church inviolate. He would come to Salazar's races, when Alberto was a boy, and scream from the sidelines, "A Salazar never quits."
"14 Minutes" is reminiscent, at times, of Andre Agassi's brilliant memoir, "Open" (2009), in which he, too, locates the source of his development in a driven and angry immigrant father. But "Open" is a story of rebellion: Agassi wrestles throughout with his discomfort and shame over who he is and where he came from. Salazar, on the contrary, accepts that athletic prowess may have its roots in the psychological extremity of his family life, and dedicates his book to his father. He shares his father's commitment to Catholicism. He understands that there are heroic possibilities to sanctifying grace. At the midpoint of the Comrades ultramarathon, as his body moved into crisis, Salazar began to recite the mysteries of the Rosary: the Annunciation, the glorification, the sorrow. "Lord, there is no way for me to do this unless you want me to," he prayed. "It's in your hands." At Falmouth, as he lay near death in a bath of ice water, his father stood over him. "He had found two wooden sticks, tongue depressors," Salazar writes. "He crossed the sticks over me in the shape of a crucifix. 'Concentrate on this, Alberto,' my father said. 'Just focus on this, and you'll be okay.' "
I went to see Salazar this summer, in Utah, where he was leading the group of Nike Team runners he coaches through several weeks of high-altitude training. He is slightly stooped, with close-cropped hair, an unlined face, and a gracious and gentle manner. He had visited his father a few weeks earlier. They had argued, as they often did. Salazar had gone to his niece's and his nephew's weddings, and his father reprimanded him, because neither married within the Church. "In the end, he didn't let me stay at his house," Salazar said, with a mixture of resignation and affection. "I just went and visited my sister."
Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four, he said, he ran an average of a hundred and five miles a week—through snowstorms and heat waves, illnesses and injuries. In those seven years, he missed just eleven days of running. He was frank about the toll it took. "I pushed," he said. "I never thought you could ruin your career by doing this. I remember thinking, Well, I've been doing this for years. Now I have a world record, so I'm just going to keep going. In hindsight, it was foolishness." Élite distance runners typically maintain their form into their early thirties. Salazar was all but finished by his mid-twenties. He struggled with asthma. His body broke down.
Salazar could have had a longer career had he pushed himself less. But what kind of career would that have been? It was obviously a question that he had thought about a lot in the intervening years. A moderate Salazar never would have come so close to death at Falmouth. But it was the miracle of Falmouth that freed Salazar to run with such abandon. ("I no longer doubted my toughness.") A moderate Salazar might have run happily and successfully into his thirties. But a moderate Salazar might never have won the New York City Marathon three times. "The pain of running is like the pain of drowning," he went on. "A kind of weariness sets in and you lose the will to fight. What I could do is simply push myself through that exhaustion."
The "could" in that sentence, though, is not quite right. Salazar should have said that he had to push himself through that exhaustion. He had no other option. That's also what he would have told me on that day, long ago, when I lay in agony on the ground. He would have said that the pain was necessary. There was no other way for someone like me to beat Lloyd Schmidt. We pretend that meritocracies—our favored word for modern competitions—are contests of equals. They aren't. Some people can stay close only by making painful choices, and, as the standards of competition rise, those choices grow more painful still. There was a candle on the table where Salazar was sitting, and he held his hand over the flame for a moment. "I feel that as much as anyone else," he said.
Salazar now coaches some of America's top distance runners, and he had spent that day in Utah working with Matt Centrowitz, who, at the age of twenty-one, astonished the track world last year by finishing third in the fifteen hundred metres in the world championships. Centrowitz was recovering from a minor knee injury. It hurt only when he ran slowly, so he was doing alternating repetitions of two-hundred-metre and one-hundred-metre sprints. Centrowitz is sleek and olive-skinned, and as playful and uninhibited as a teen-ager. When he ran, his face was utterly composed, his back straight, his hips forward, his upper body so relaxed that it looked as if he would fall over if you gave him a push. As he ran by, he barely made any noise: if you closed your eyes, all you would hear was the light, rhythmic tapping of the balls of his feet.
Centrowitz had done a rigorous workout that morning, and spent several hard hours in the gym that afternoon. Now he was gliding around the track, effortlessly peeling off one sprint after another. "How does your knee feel?" Salazar asked him, after each repetition. The answer was always "Fine." Centrowitz was the anti-Salazar—graceful where Salazar was labored, restrained where Salazar pressed, attentive to his coach where Salazar went his own way. That is the luxury of talent. We should all be so blessed. We aren't. Deep into the workout, Centrowitz turned it up just a little, so that if you looked very closely at his face you could see the slightest hint of strain. Salazar looked down at his stopwatch. "Don't run any faster," he said.
Early in the summer of 2007, Salazar began feeling a pain in his neck. At home one afternoon, he came close to blacking out on his way to the bathroom. He thought that he had the flu. He went to the doctor, who could find nothing wrong. The next day was a Saturday. Usually, he would have gone for a run that morning, in the hills around his house. But he woke up too late. He went to the Nike campus. As he walked across one of the playing fields, the pain in his neck came back, sharper than before. "I sank to one knee," Salazar writes. "There was time neither to feel fear nor to know peace. The world went black." He was having a heart attack.
Three of his young runners were walking with him. They sprinted for help and called 911. Salazar's face turned purple. He had no pulse. Blood trickled out of his mouth. An emergency-room physician, Doug Douglass, and a National Guard medic, Louis Barahona, happened to be standing by the sidelines. The two began CPR. Salazar had now been down for six minutes. They kept going. Nothing happened. At ten minutes, the ambulance arrived. The medics gave him a shock with a defibrillator. Nothing. The shocks were timed at one-minute intervals. At eleven minutes, they tried again. Nothing. Twelve minutes. Nothing. Finally, his heart fluttered back to life. His brain had been without oxygen, he says, for fourteen minutes. "None of the doctors who treated me, and none of the experts I've consulted since the day I collapsed, have ever heard of anybody being gone for that long and coming back to full health," he writes. He was back on the track, coaching again, nine days later. ♦


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Head Qu QM Dept., Strahl's Brig
June 15th 1864"
My own darling wife,
Your letter of June 1st I received night before
last. It came from the front, with some orders from the General and
having to get up (for it was about 1 o'clock in the morning) to read
the orders, I could not go to sleep again without reading your welcome
epistle and the pretty little letter from my darling daughter. Tell
Ada papa is much pleased with her letter and will answer it
You complain of dry weather, dear; I wish I could transfer
some of the wet weather we are having to North Mississippi. It has
rained every day for the past two weeks, excepting yesterday and
judging from the appearance of the clouds this morning, it may
continue for two weeks to come. I intended going to church on Sunday
bit it rained so inveterately all day, I had to forego that
I heard from the Battery a few days ago – all well – Mr Doyle
I believe is displeased that I have not been to see him, but the fact
is, I have not been able to go to the front on pleasure, for my
services are required all the time in camp – Maj Baylor's family are
in Atlanta and he spends most of his time there, consequently the
charge of the [train] devolves on me and whilst there is not a great
amount to do, there is no knowing when you may be required and
when orders come they have to be executed promptly or otherwise there
is a "fuss in the family". I shall go out to the Battery the first opportunity


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Qantas Airways has welcomed the planned construction of a second Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek, with chief executive Alan Joyce deeming it a vital piece of economic infrastructure for Australia.
Mr Joyce has previously indicated his airline would be willing to use Badgerys Creek, located 50 kilometres west of the city centre.
"The role of second airports has been well-established in several of the world's major capitals," Mr Joyce said on Tuesday. "Sydney is the key gateway for air traffic in-and-out of Australia and the benefits of having two major airports will be felt nationwide."
He said Qantas looked forward to being part of the process of planning and building the airport.
Virgin Australia Holdings has advocated for a second airport to be built. It has pushed for good access via public transport and motorway, low-cost infrastructure and proximity to a labour pool and relevant suppliers.
The Virgin Independent Pilots Association (VIPA) on Tuesday described the decision on Badgerys Creek as a "historic day for Australian aviation".
"VIPA has been calling for more funding for airport infrastructure, including a second Sydney airport facility, to meet the increased passenger numbers, apron congestion and delays and the lack of vacant gates for aircraft arrivals into Kingsford Smith," VIPA executive director Simon O'Hara said, referring to the main airport 10 kilometres south of the CBD.
Analysts believe budget carriers Jetstar and Tigerair Australia would likely be among the first users of Badgerys Creek.
Board of Airline Representatives of Australia executive director Barry Abrams said it was still unclear whether the airport would initially be a domestic-only offering or if international services would be launched as soon as it opens.
Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Warren Truss on Tuesday said the airport would be constructed in a "modest" fashion initially with a single runway and would grow with time.
The lack of a curfew at Sydney Airport could encourage more international airlines to operate from the facility. Qatar Airways to date has avoided flying to Sydney partly because of the curfew, which has made Melbourne, with no curfew, a more attractive destination for the carrier.
Australian-born Etihad Airways chief executive James Hogan last year called on the government to ensure a second airport was built in Sydney. He said the use of larger aircraft would help alleviate some of the constraints of operating at Sydney but ultimately the city needed a second airport to remain competitive as a gateway to Australia.
"For strained airports such as Sydney or London [Heathrow], for them to be competitive, for the city to be competitive, the airport has to have the capacity to meet demand," Mr Hogan said. "Sydney obviously doesn't."
Sydney Airport chief executive Kerrie Mather in February said only 65 per cent of the slots at Kingsford-Smith were being used at present and there is only one day a week where all slots are scheduled to be taken during the peak hour of 8am. But over time, there will come a point where all of the peak hour slots are full.
Mr Truss approved Sydney Airport's latest 20-year master plan in February, but he said the estimates of Kingsford-Smith's capacity over that period were too optimistic and would not negate the need for a second airport by 2033.
"I think it will have to be operational before then," he said at the time.


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Lawrence Livermore National Lab is making its Catalyst supercomputing cluster available to industry, universities and other collaborators to test big data technologies, architectures and applications, the lab announced.
Developed by a partnership of Cray, Intel and Lawrence Livermore, the Cray CS300 high performance cluster is available through Livermore's High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC).
Catalyst, built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing program, features 128 GB of dynamic random access memory per node, 800 GB of non-volatile memory (NVRAM) per compute node, 3.2 terabytes of NVRAM per Lustre router node and improved cluster networking with dual-rail Quad Data Rate Intel TrueScale fabrics.
NVRAM is familiar to anyone who uses USB sticks or an MP3 player; it is simply memory that is persistent and that remains on files even when the power is off, hence "non-volatile," the lab explained.
The increased storage capacity of the system represents a major departure from classic simulation-based computing architectures common at DOE laboratories and opens up new opportunities for exploring the potential of combining floating point focused capability with data analysis in one environment.
Deployed in October 2013, the Catalyst architecture already has begun to provide insights into the kind of technologies the NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program will require over the next decade to meet high performance simulation and big data computing mission needs.
Current research using Catalyst include developing scalable analysis tools for next generation of genomic sequencing and exploring new deep learning architectures that could have a huge impact on big data analytics.
"Our purpose is to use Catalyst as a test bed to develop optimization strategies for data-intensive computing," said Fred Streitz, director of the HPCIC. "We believe that advancing big data technology is a key to accelerating the innovation that underpins our economic vitality and global competiveness."
Companies interested in access to Catalyst are invited to respond to the posted Notice of Opportunity through the Federal Business Opportunities website and visit the HPC Innovation Center website.
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup minced onion
- 1 cup minced celery
- 1 cup grated carrots
- 1/2 cup flour
- 4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups cooked wild rice*
- 1/3 cup ham, chopped
- 3 tablespoons chopped slivered almonds
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 cup evaporated skim milk
- 2 tablespoons dry white table wine
Heat the olive oil in a large pan over medium heat. Sauté the onion, celery, and carrots until tender. Whisk the flour into the broth until there are no lumps. Add the broth to the sautéed vegetables and cook over medium to high heat, stirring constantly. Boil for one minute or until the mixture has thickened. Reduce heat and stir in rice, ham, almonds, and turmeric. Simmer for about 5 minutes. Add the evaporated skim milk and wine, then heat to desired serving temperature.
* To make 2 cups of cooked wild rice, combine 1/2 cup wild rice with 1 1/2 cups water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, stir once, then cover and simmer over low heat until the water is absorbed and the rice is fluffy, about 45 minutes.
Yield: 5 servings.
Serving size: about 1 1/2 cups.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 240 calories, Carbohydrates: 36 g, Protein: 12 g, Fat: 6 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Cholesterol: 5 mg, Sodium: 640 mg, Fiber: 4 g
Exchanges per serving: 2 1/2 starch, 1 fat. Carbohydrate choices: 2 1/2.
This recipe was developed by Sandy Bjerkness, RD, LD, a research dietitian and freelance writer from Rochester, Minnesota.


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