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|A tour through the Hollywood Star Cars Museum is a trip through
some of the most famous movies and TV shows of the last 50
years. We feature the best Hollywood movie & TV cars in
recreated settings displayed with sound, lights, and action! Many
of the cars are the creations of George Barris, who has created
more famous Hollywood movie & TV cars than anyone.
The most Famous being the 1966 TV Show Batmobile
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for new cars to improve the collection.
Popular cars are from such blockbuster
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Thunder Mello Yello race car, the
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Whole Foods Market opens in Frisco to shoulder-to-shoulder crowds
The store didn't plan for 25 degrees and snow on opening day.
But that didn't stop the crowds in Frisco as excited Whole Foods Market customers filled their carts and sampled juice, cheese, meat, soup, chocolate and other foods Tuesday, April 29.
"If this is any indicator of how busy we're going to be," said Justin Jeffries, 29, while he stretched pizza dough, "this store's going to be a wild success."
Jeffries, a specialist from Denver, said he was one of many coordinators brought in from around the country and housed at the Frisco Holiday Inn to help the store in its first few weeks.
"It was shoulder-to-shoulder throughout the entire store," said Tawnya Diefenbach, a massage therapist. "Now it seems to be shoppable a little bit."
Diefenbach, offered massages for $1 a minute next to the store's gondola, which she said was a refuge for those experiencing sensory overload.
"Some employees had it on lock down," she said. "It was like their quiet space."
Vendor Kate Schade traveled from Idaho for her second Whole Foods Market opening day.
"The opening's are so much fun," she said, as she offered samples of her Kate's snack bars.
Another vendor, Kirsten Christ, regional sales manager for Chocolove in Boulder, said she sold four cases of chocolate in two hours.
The meat and seafood section was especially lively, with employees and distributors calling out to customers as if at an outdoor market.
"We're bringing the heat," said one employee from behind the counter. "We're changing lives."
Others were hooting, hollering and ringing a bell, normally used to celebrate when an employee cuts a portion at exactly the weight the customer ordered. Tuesday they rang the bell whenever they felt like it, every few minutes.
"It's nice to have a Whole Foods here," said customer Kate Neuschaefer, of Frisco. "This has been a long time in coming."
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Since thousands of years, food has carried a meaning beyond mere consumption for over hundred million people residing in India. It is an integral part of their lives in which they desire perfection and into which they are deeply involved. A major portion of the day revolves around food preparation, be it for the breakfast, lunch, the afternoon snack or dinner. Walk through a residential area and you may smell aroma of a spicy, sumptuous meal being prepared tirelessly by housewives. After an exhausting day, fresh and delicious homemade food is the only option for recreation within reach of a common Indian. Indian people passionately prepare, serve and eat food. They are shrewd food lovers and like to pamper themselves with assorted dishes.
Food in India has been largely contoured by its geographical make up. The north boasts of huge wheat cultivation and milk production. Milk products, wheat preparations, poultry and lambs dominate the diet of the North. South zone is immensely fertile land and yields almost three seasons of rice; coconut and sea food being the other food items found in abundance. Food in South is rice centered and has a strong coconut base to its main dishes. There is a decent coastline towards the East which makes it rich in seafood coupled with rice. West and Central India see a hot and spicy attribute due to the appalling production of chilly.
The trend of fast-food is popular in India also, mostly originating from some of the South Indian states. South Indian dishes like Idli Sambar and Dosa are not only tasty but also nutritious and are quickly served everywhere in India, without a big variation in taste.
Famous for the food stuffed with spices, India has a relatively old record of them being used to add flavor to the raw meat. Spices have been cultivated here from the times of Harappa Civilization, which blossomed nearly 5000 years ago. The people of those times used spices to enhance or vary the tastes of their foods. They also disguised the real flavor of tasteless nutritious food, which when not spiced had to be thrown away. Clove, mustard and ground mustard were used to preserve food without refrigeration. People went hungry without spices because they could not preserve food for a longer time.
Today when spices cost so little, it feels strange to know that long before the Christian era, when the Greek merchants came to India, spices were exchanged for gold, silver, antimony and wine. They cost a fortune to the then countries and were the soul of international trade. Vicious battles were fought by Western European countries like Rome, Portugal, Greece, Spain, France and Great Britain over ruling the spice producing colonies. Such was their importance in the days of the past.
It is believed that Arabs brought with them coriander and cumin when they invaded the Indus valley. Pepper, coriander and turmeric today form the base of most of the South Asian dishes. The history of Indian spices is thus a fascinating account of fierce naval rivalry, conquest, adventure and exploration.
A plate full of Indian food is like a palette full of colors. Anything and everything in the plate can be eaten either with rice or chapatti – a flat and circular, bread-like preparation made mostly out of wheat flour. Generally, housewives buy fresh vegetables, wash them clean and cut and cook them into pure groundnut or soybean oil. The vegetables are spiced up with strong flavors of ginger, pepper, turmeric and asafoetida. They are then garnished with coriander leaves or finely grated, wet coconut and served hot.
Fruits are also an inseparable part of the Indian diet. Apple, grapes, bananas and papaya are the most notable fruits found in this fruit basket of the world. Mango is the national fruit of India and has hundreds of varieties. It is exported to European countries following its taste and rich quality. Hindus consume only fruits during their fasts and fruits have a great importance in festivals like Ganesh Puja celebrated all over the country.
Sipping tea is the favorite pastime of Indians. They drink at least two cups of tea a day and love coupling their afternoon tea with snacks. Indians love their tea with high proportions of milk and sugar. The northeastern part of India is a perfect region for tea plantations due to widespread hilly areas and favorable climatic condition. This ideal but rare combination makes India one of the largest exporters of premium quality tea, Darjeeling being the most notable tea producing region.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Starting Political Group
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is co-organizing a political advocacy group that aims to raise around $50 million and push federal legislative reform on issues ranging from immigration to education. WSJ's Evelyn Rusli reports. (Photo: AP)
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Maraviroc Immune Recovery Study (MIRS)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00875368
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 3, 2009
Last Update Posted : September 10, 2013
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Rationale: Improving cellular immunity by means of increasing CD4 cells is one of the goals of antiretroviral therapy in HIV, which is achieved by means of virological suppression. A certain group of patients, the so called "immunologic non responders", fail to reach an acceptable CD4 cell increase despite an adequate virologic response on antiretroviral treatment. Recently a new antiretroviral agent, maraviroc (Celsentry®), is registered for the treatment of patients infected with CCR5 tropic HIV-1 virus. However, data is available suggesting that treatment with maraviroc leads to immune recovery (increase in CD4 cells) in patients who are infected with dual/mixed tropic HIV-1 virus, in the absence of a virologic response. This suggests an alternative mechanism for immune recovery, which could be especially beneficial for this group of patients.
Hypothesis: Maraviroc, by a yet unknown mechanism, stimulates immune recovery by increasing CD4+ cell count.
Objective: The primary objective is to confirm the hypothesis that maraviroc stimulates immune recovery; the secondary objective is to explore, by virologic and immunologic investigations, the underlying mechanisms of this hypothesis.
Study design: multicentre, randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind, exploratory mechanistic study.
Study population: HIV-1 infected patients 18 years or older, who meet the inclusion criteria.
Intervention: One group receives maraviroc (dose dependent on co-medication), the other group placebo.
Main study parameters/endpoints: A 30% increase in CD4 cell rise in the treatment group (compared with placebo).
Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness:
- In the treatment group subjects will start with a registered antiretroviral agent (maraviroc).
- During the treatment year patients will perform several study visits, probably three more compared with regular visits on the outpatient clinic.
- Each visit, blood will be drawn by venepuncture for immunologic and virologic investigations (see flow chart).
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: maraviroc Drug: Placebo
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|85 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Maraviroc Immune Recovery Study, A Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Exploratory Mechanistic Study Into the Role of Maraviroc on Immune Recovery
|Study Start Date :
|February 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2012
|Active Comparator: Maraviroc
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo
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- 30% increase in CD4+ cell count after 48 weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years or older
- HAART with a maximal treatment interruption of two weeks
- viral suppression (< 50 copies/ml) for 6 months
And either:
- CD4+ count < 200 cells/microliter after minimal one year of treatment with HAART (study group one) OR
- a CD4+ cell count between 200 and 350 cells/microliter after minimal two years of treatment with HAART (study group two)
Exclusion Criteria:
- HAART consisting of a combination of tenofovir and didanosine
- Active infection for which antimicrobial treatment
- Acute hepatitis B or C
- Chronic hepatitis B or C for which treatment with (peg)interferon and/or ribavirin (Note: patients with untreated chronic hepatitis B or C can be included)
- Immunosuppressive medication
- Radiotherapy or chemotherapy in the past 2 years
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding an infant
Subjects with known hypersensitivity to maraviroc or to peanuts, or any of its excipients or dyes as follows:
- Excipients from tablet: microcrystalline cellulose, dibasic calcium phosphate (anhydrous), sodium starch glycolate, magnesium stearate.
- Film-coat: [Opadry II Blue (85G20583) contains FD&C blue #2 aluminium lake, soya lecithin, polyethylene glycol (macrogol 3350), polyvinyl alcohol, talc and titanium dioxide.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00875368
|Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis
|Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1091 AC
|Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC)
|Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1105AZ
|Amsterdam, Netherlands
|Rijnstate Hospital
|Arnhem, Netherlands
|Kennemer Gasthuis
|Haarlem, Netherlands
|Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC)
|Leiden, Netherlands
|Erasmus MC
|Rotterdam, Netherlands, 3015GJ
|Maasstad Ziekenhuis
|Rotterdam, Netherlands
|Sint Elisabeth Ziekenhuis
|Tilburg, Netherlands
|Ùniversity Medical Center Utrecht
|Utrecht, Netherlands, 3584CX
|Principal Investigator:
|Andy IM Hoepelman, MD, PhD
|UMC Utrecht
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|April 3, 2009 Key Record Dates
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|September 10, 2013
|Last Verified:
|September 2013
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FARMINGTON — President's Day is coming up. Farmington may not have launched a president, but we do have a very celebrated VP. Maybe it's time to add Henry Wilson Day to the calendar? I think I know someone who could help make that happen… including a theme song.
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Cats 1st and Farmington Police Department are excited to offer a free Spay/Neuter for owned cats! Be sure to call or contact the Animal Control Officer below to see if space is still available.
The limit is 20 cats for the whole program (not per household) and is free to Farmington residents only. They must provide proof of residency. A $10 refundable deposit is required to make your reservation. The program includes spay or neuter, rabies vaccine, distemper vaccine, Revolution application.
Cats must be dropped off in a secure carrier on Monday, Feb. 4 between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. You must reserve your spot by Feb. 1 by calling ACO Koval. Any questions contact ACO Kate Koval at 755-2731 or email@example.com. If she's not in at the time of the call, she will get back to you.
Public notices
Supervisors of the Checklist are in session on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the Municipal Building, 356 Main St., Town Clerk's Office. This session is to register new voters and accept corrections to the checklist in name, address and party affiliation. Proof of age (18 years and over) and residency required. Questions? Call 755-3657.
The Supervisors of the Checklist are Elaine Aylard, Gail Pitman and Esther Parshley.
The SAU 61 Deliberative Session is on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 9 a.m. in Farmington High School. You must be a pre-registered voter to vote at SAU Deliberative Session.
Sign up for Town/School Office is at the Town Clerk Tax Collector's Office, 356 Main St. until Friday, Feb. 1 which will be open normal Friday hours, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and then re-open 2 to 5 p.m.
The office openings are Selectmen: 2 for 3 years; Budget Committee: 3 for 3 years; Supervisor of the Checklist: 1 for 1 year; Town Clerk/Tax Collector: 1 for 3 years; Treasurer: 1 for 1 year; Trustee of the Trust Funds: 1 for 3 years; Trustee of the Trust Funds: 1 for 1 year; School Board: 1 for 3 years; School Clerk: 1 for 1 year; School Treasurer: 1 for 1 year; School Moderator: 1 for 1 year.
Important dates
Last day for petition warrant articles for Town: Feb. 5; Election day for Town and School: March 12; Town Meeting: March 13; Last day to pre-register to vote for the March 12 election is March 2.
For more information, please contact the Town Clerk/Tax collectors Office at (603) 755-3657.
Transfer Station
The 2013 Transfer Station Permits have been available from Tuesday, Jan. 22.
They will be available at the transfer station and at the Municipal Office Building. You must show your current Farmington vehicle registration to receive a permit. Farmington residents with vehicles not registered in Farmington can get a pass at the Municipal Building front desk to access the Transfer Station. You must show proof of residency and your current vehicle registration. Call (603) 755-4884 for more info.
Rec. Dept.
The 10th annual Daddy/Daughter dance will feature music, dancing and special contests. A fine dinner of macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets will be served. This is a special evening so please wear your "Sunday Best." Only 200 tickets are available! Check with the Rec Dept. for availability.
The event is for girls, 4-12 years old, who live in Farmington or Middleton and their chaperone. It is set for Friday, Feb. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Town Hall The fee is $25 per couple ($10 per additional child).
Fuel Assistance Program
Contact your local Community Action Agency to set up an appointment or learn if you qualify for the Fuel Assistance and Weatherization Program. The CAA staff will tell you what information is required to fill in an application. Telephone the local Fuel Assistance Program Office of your local Community Action Agency Office to schedule an appointment or learn more about the application process. In Milton/Farmington call 516-8191.
Chances is seeking family mediation volunteers. Call 755-3395
The Budget Committee will meet on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 9 a.m. in the Selectmen's Chambers at 356 Main St.
The Planning Board will meet on Monday, Feb. 4, at 6 p.m. in the Selectmen's Chambers.
The ZBA will meet Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Selectmen's Chambers.
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Rumors are swirling about casting the lead in Paramount's upcoming "The First Avenger: Captain America," and director Joe Johnston has said that an announcement is expected in the upcoming weeks.
But on Friday, one candidate, Mike Vogel, confirmed that he was in the running.
Although he didn't say much, Vogel told HitFix that he was "trying not to jinx" the possibility of stepping into the role of Steve Rogers.
He also stated briefly that it was a "great opportunity."
The entertainment news site caught up with the "She's Out of My League" actor along with his cast mates.
His "League" co-star, Lindsay Sloane, told the site that, "We're going all be walking around this week like this," as she faced Vogel while crossing both fingers.
The casting of Captain America is one of the most anticipated in the Marvel comic book world right now. The film, already well into pre-production, is slated for a July 22, 2011 release date.
Online reports have speculated that whoever is cast in the role must sign up for up to a possible nine future film options, including most likely "The Avengers" movie, which is due in 2010 from director Jon Favreau ("Iron Man," "Iron Man 2").
Deadline Hollywood was the first to report that the casting was down to five main finalists. Those frontrunners include John Krasinski from "The Office," Chace Crawford from "Gossip Girl," Scott Porter from "Friday Night Lights," Michael Cassidy of "Smallville" and Vogel.
Garrett Hedlund from the upcoming "Tron Legacy" and Patrick Flueger ("The 4400") have also had their names in the mix.
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Survivors of Cyclone Pam on the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu are bracing for a lack of food over the coming months because crops were destroyed in the recent storm.
Much of the archipelago's population relies on subsistence farming and when the monster cyclone ripped through the country last week it wiped out livelihoods as well as homes.
"There's always a lot of attention in the beginning, the first few weeks of a big disaster. But now, we're looking at a hunger gap over the next three to six months," said World Vision's Emergency Operations Manager in Vanuatu, Alex Snary.
Aid agencies are rushing to deliver desperately needed supplies, especially to communities on the remote outer islands, which are still out of contact.
At least 11 people were killed in the disaster and 3,3000 displaced.
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Puss In Boots could have just been a 'one-off' picture from the prolific Dreamworks Animation department. As a spin-off for a popular supporting character from the Shrek series, it has arguably more built-in appeal than something along the lines of How to Train Your Dragon or Megamind. The film is already likely to be a big hit no matter how good or bad it is. But the gang at the current House of Katzenberg refuse to take such easy roads to profitability.
What could have been a cheap and easy spin-off is instead a surprisingly engaging and richly constructed adventure film. It is yet another sign that Dreamworks is every bit the equal of the Mouse House and they plan on staying there not by 'having their finger on the pulse of popular culture', but by merely making really good cartoons that respect their audience. And that's what Puss In Boots is. It's not as breathlessly exciting as How to Train Your Dragon nor is it as epic and emotionally profound as Kung Fu Panda 2. With strong vocals, a simple-but-satisfying story, occasionally eye-popping visuals, and another master-class in 3D, Puss In Boots is simply a darn good cartoon.
A token amount of plot: Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas, obviously having a blast being back in this sand… err… litter box) is an outlaw of sorts, a mercenary for-hire who attempts to maintain a token amount of morality as he goes about his business. But a chance run-in with fellow 'cat-burglar' Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) leads to a reunion with Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis, in a surprisingly compelling emotional turn), his former best who betrayed him into a life of crime seven years ago. Mr. Dumpty offers a chance at a big score, with a chance for Puss to redeem himself by atoning for the original sin that turned him into an outlaw. But as the trio attempt to steal magic beans from the murderous outlaws Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris), Mr. Boots finds that redemption is not as easy as he thought, and survival may be the biggest challenge of all.
While technically a prequel to Shrek 2, this picture stands completely alone from the world of Fiona and Donkey. It is merely a fantastical adventure that happens to star a character whom we've met before. The story is relatively simple, while the complexity lies in the character arcs. Despite ads that highlighted the comedic material (and there are several hearty laughs to be had), the film is a generally straight-ahead action picture, with the requisite fights, escapes, and stand-offs.
While the film doesn't approach the tragic pathos of Kung Fu Panda 2, the action sequences are shot and edited for maximum intensity even while the bloodshed and hard violence is kept to a minimum. There are a few frightening moments and scenes of apparent danger, but Chris Miller deftly creates vicious villains that are none-the-less amusing in nature, which should limit the amount of frightened youngsters (my four-year old hid her eyes a couple times, but there was no lasting trauma). The film's morality is a little complex, as our titular hero is clearly doing bad things for clearly good reasons, which is nothing unusual in adult fiction but may need some explaining to the youngest of audiences.
While the film is not a non-stop joke fest, nor (thankfully) is it riddled with pop-culture references, it does earn the laughs it goes for. The comedy is generally either character-based or, um… 'cat-based'. Cat people will frankly adore this picture, as there are any number of clever visual jokes and off-hand bits of dialogue that pay ode to the superior domestic animal (all due respect to my readers, but suck it, dog people!). Kitty Softpaws's explanation for why she has no claws will resonate with cat owners, as will Puss's casual reaction.
After decades of cats being treated as one-dimensional villains (Cats and Dogs, Babe, etc) or being horribly murdered as a means of building suspense in horror films (let's just say there is no way that the makers of The Roommate would have thrown a dog into a dryer), it's a little refreshing to see a movie where the feline is both the star and the hero, and where the makers have a clear understanding of what it's like to be a cat and/or love a cat. Again, I say this with utmost respect for the feelings and intelligence of my readers, but go lick your own balls, ye dog lovers (yes, I'm trying to impress my wife)!
It has become a cliche over the last decade to talk about how visually impressive and/or well-animated the latest big-budget animated feature happens to be. So I'll keep this short. The film is a glorious visual delight. It is richly detailed (quite a bit of it is 'shot' in close-up for extra emphasis on facial features) and splendidly colorful.
If I may pay notice to one specific moment; there is a scene about halfway through the picture where our trio end up climbing 'the beanstalk' up to the giant's tower. Without going into details, this moment is truly awe-inspiring and a wonder to behold. It is for this sequence alone that the film merits viewing in 3D and on an IMAX screen unless you have financial or health-related objections to 3D. Dreamworks has been playing around with 3D long-before Avatar. They are at-this point unmatched when it comes to combining a genuinely immersive environment while providing eye-popping 3D moments that don't feel out of context. Point being, Puss In Boots is a technical marvel in every plausible way.
It is a testament to how committed Dreamworks is to delivering the goods each time out that this seemingly financially-mandated cash-in is as good as it is. While it may not be fair to compare Puss In Boots to Cars 2 (which was part merchandise-bonanza, part Lasseter passion project), the truth is that Dreamworks created a solidly entertaining, visceral exciting, and visually dynamic adventure from their 'one for them' project, while Pixar's latest film, um… did not (it's no war crime, but Cars 2 is indeed pretty bad).
As it stands, the artistic failure of Cars 2 and artistic triumph of Puss In Boots can only be a good thing for lovers of animation. The rare Pixar whiff, combined with Dreamworks being on a two-year hot streak, will only motivate Pixar not to get complacent about their place at the top. And Dreamworks' continual desire for the respect and acclamation that Pixar receives, as well as the automatic cultural acceptance that comes with being a Walt Disney cartoon, will keep Dreamworks pushing ever harder. Puss In Boots is no great artistic achievement, but it's a pretty terrific animated film that shows how far the studio has come in regards to raising their own personal bar. They are a long way from A Shark Tale. — courtesy of gnarled497negligible.


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Owners of Pre-1978 Homes May Soon Have a Better Pool of Contractors to Choose From
Own an older home? Beginning April 22, only contractors who have been trained in safe handling of lead-contaminated paint dust can legally work on your home. And that's a good thing for you.
If you've been keeping up with contractor-type news, you know that contractors are not happy at all with a soon-to-be enforced EPA law that requires extra precautions when dealing with lead contamination in homes.
Lead was routinely added to paint prior to 1978. When that lead-infused paint is sanded or cut into, dust is created that can be ingested. Lead poisoning has been proved conclusively to cause brain and neurological damage to children. That's what this law is all about, to protect the health of children. And I can tell you from personal experience, life is hard enough without the added burden of brain damage. Congress directed the EPA to enact these safety requirements nearly 20 years ago, and it's only now being done.
Some contractors say the financial burden of these safety precautions is too great. Some have turned it into a political issue and another reason to dislike President Obama and his administration.
The law requires that in order to work on houses built prior to 1978 (the year paint with lead in it was banned for residential construction), each contractor must take an 8-hour class that costs about $250 and pass a 25-question multiple-choice test. Then, the workers in the company must be trained on how to protect themselves from lead-contaminated paint dust, and how to protect the jobsite. This often requires plastic gloves, masks, plastic bags to collect the contaminated material, a HEPA vacuum, etc.
Times are tough right now for businesses and so many contractors are rebelling by saying they won't get certified and they simply won't take any remodeling jobs on houses built prior to 1978. Some companies report they will go out of business because of this new requirement.
What this means is more work for the companies who are certified to work with lead-contaminated paint dust. The EPA estimates some 125,000 certified contractors by the April 22 deadline, with companies continuing to be certified after that.
If you own a home built prior to 1978, the pool of contractors that you can choose from to do remodeling will not be bigger, but it will be better.
Certain companies have a special affinity for older homes and you will be more likely to choose such a company when others with less of a commitment to older homes drop out of the business. Plus, the companies who have taken the time and effort to become certified in the handling of lead-contaminated dust are the companies who have a demonstrated affinity for safety, both for their own workers and for the home's occupants.
There have always been people who resent the government stepping in to protect the safety of consumers. Drug companies really hate it. So do polluting industries. Yes, protecting consumers and workers does cost money. However, if a company is so close to financial ruin that a commitment of $1,000 for new safety training and equipment puts them over the edge, you have to assume that if it wasn't this new safety requirement then it would be something else that caused them to shut their doors, like a late-paying client or being turned down for a business loan from the bank.
I'm certainly sad when good contracting companies go out of business. These are really tough times for everyone. I'm even more sad about contaminants we expose young children to in this modern world.
Bottom line: When you as a homeowner of a house built prior to 1978 seek remodeling services in the future, the contractors who can legally work on your house, meaning they are certified to handle lead-polluted paint dust, will have demonstrated a level of solvency and commitment to safety that should give you some comfort.


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The holidays arrived about four months early for Boulder boys basketball coach Eric Eisenhard.
In August, as school began and the Panthers began informal workouts for the upcoming season — their second under Eisenhard — a pair of unlikely and completely unexpected gifts walked into the Boulder gymnasium, sheepishly asking for an opportunity to try out for the team.
Talk about a surprise present. The two athletes turned out to be exchange students well-versed in the art of basketball. One, Diego Riverol, is a 6-foot-4 forward from Venezuela who boasts soft hands and a knack for rebounding. The other, 6-0 guard Alejandro Rodriguez from Mexico, quickly asserted himself as a savvy floor general with a keen sense of the game.
Together, they have helped propel the Panthers to a promising start despite an eight-win season a year ago and a potentially devastating preseason injury that would have waylaid many teams.
"Alejandro, he's a playmaker. And Diego, he's a big body underneath who rebounds the ball really well," Eisenhard said. "Both of them have learned a tremendous amount since they got here. They've been in the gym since Day 1.
"They came in maybe six, seven days before school started. They heard about us and came into the gym and said, 'Can we play?' It's been a huge learning experience for them. And it's been great for the team too to have a couple new guys around. The whole school loves them. They're really nice, personable kids."
For Riverol, his Boulder High experience is a return to his roots of sorts. His mother actually graduated from the University of Colorado, and Riverol spent several years in Boulder until he was 4-years old, when his family returned to Venezuela.
Earlier this year, Riverol satisfied an urge to study abroad by returning to Boulder. His family joined him for his arrival, and the Riverol group reconnected with many of the friends they had made in the area roughly 15 years ago. On the court, Riverol has emerged as one of the Panthers' leading rebounders, and he has teamed with sweet-shooting forward Jonah Charnick and fellow senior Austin Blessing to give Boulder a formidable rotation in the paint.
"I wanted to get a year of experience as an exchange student," said Riverol, who is staying with the family of teammate RJ Lampert. "My family really loved Boulder and my mother really loved CU. We decided to come here. The first month I was here my parents were with me and we visited all the old friends. They might come again in February."
Rodriguez's presence has perhaps been even more crucial to the Panthers, even if it largely is due to circumstance. In early December, senior guard Marc Krimstock was in a serious bicycle accident that left him with multiple fractures in his skull and face. That misfortune was in addition to the knee injury suffered by point guard Tommy Baumgartner near the end of football season. Rodriguez has more than filled the void at guard, playing a brand of basketball in which his contributions are both myriad and timely.
During a recent blowout win against Littleton, Rodriguez showcased all the elements that could make him a force when Front Range League play begins in January. After Littleton had trimmed a 22-point Boulder lead to 13 at halftime, Rodriguez set about regaining the Panthers' spark.
Rodriguez quickly handed out assists on baskets by Lampert and Charnick before turning a steal into a basket of his own. A Littleton 3-pointer briefly stemmed the tide before Rodriguez drove the base line, missing the shot but converting his own offensive rebound.
Both Rodriguez and Riverol are open to the idea of continuing their academic and athletic careers at American colleges.
"My father was here for business many years ago in Colorado, and he played basketball and loved to play," Rodriguez said. "The thing that's challenging is the language, but that's coming. The basketball here is more physical. So it's a little different. But I'm practicing and working hard and enjoying the experience."
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Congress can override the president's decision to hand over control of Web addresses and domains to an international body.
It's been a good month for Vladimir Putin: He got Crimea and the Internet.
Gallows humor is not the only possible response to the Obama administration plan to give up U.S. control of the Internet to a still-to-be-determined collection of governments and international groups. Congress should instruct President Obama that if the Internet ain't broke, don't fix it.


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BERWICK, Maine — Beth O'Connor, a waitress and freshman lawmaker who was defeated in this month's election, is campaigning diligently to become the next leader of the Maine GOP.
Members of the state Republican party are hoping to put a period of internal turmoil behind them when they elect a new state party leader this weekend.
Committee members will meet Saturday in Augusta to choose between two candidates for the party chairmanship: O'Connor, of Berwick, who lost her bid for a second House term this November; and Rich Cebra, who's completed four years as state representative from Naples.
Campaigning has been intense in the days leading up to Saturday's chairmanship, said state committee member Vic Berardelli of Newburgh, a Cebra supporter who's been getting an average of four or five calls per day on behalf of the candidates.
The election features a party mainstreamer in Cebra and longtime Ron Paul supporter in O'Connor. But party activists say the race is more complicated than a runoff to decide whether the party is controlled by Ron Paul followers or more traditional GOP forces.
"We're looking for a leader who's going to bring the various factions together," said Berardelli.
After building personal relationships with a host of party members during her two years in office, O'Connor sees herself as someone capable of fostering that unity within the party.
The 54-year-old, who is married with four children, has lived in Berwick for 12 years. She is the state representative for House District 145, which includes Berwick and part of Lebanon. She served on the Health and Human Services Committee.
The winner of Saturday's party contest will replace outgoing GOP Chairman Charlie Webster. Now a controversial figure, Webster is credited with engineering sweeping Republican gains in 2010. But he later led a party tarnished by unproven voter fraud charges, and weakened by a gaping rift between party factions. It was set back by big losses in State House, U.S. Senate and congressional races in this fall's elections.
"I thought, 'Maybe I can be a peacemaker,' and unite us so we can work together to push forward our fiscally conservative values,'" O'Connor said Thursday.
O'Connor's past political experience includes eight years serving on the SAD 60 board of directors, the group that oversees local schools. She also has experience in banking and real estate, and currently works as a waitress at Fogarty's, a restaurant in South Berwick.
"It keeps me in touch with the people," she said during an interview Thursday. "It keeps me grounded."
Although she draws support from the tea party camp and Ron Paul backers, O'Connor describes herself as a strict constitutionalist. She is pro-life and favors "traditional marriage," but said her legislative priorities center around fiscal conservatism.
"I think that we need to have more fiscally responsible leaders, and I think we need to show fiscal responsibility as a better way forward to a better quality of life," she said.
Matt McDonald of Belfast, a "liberty activist" who went to the GOP national convention as a Paul delegate but lost his seat when the party awarded half of Maine's delegates to Mitt Romney, is urging committee members to support O'Connor, although he will not be on the state committee soon enough to vote.
But McDonald said that all liberty activists won't necessarily flock to O'Connor's side, just as all establishment Republicans aren't a slam dunk for Cebra. If there's one unifying factor among the committee members, it's the belief that "it's time for Charlie Webster to move on," said McDonald.
O'Connor previously chaired the group Maine Taxpayers United, which has pushed for lower taxes. Fellow member Jack Wibby described O'Connor as a hard worker and terrific legislator who has a knack for fostering personal relationships.
"She's very good at working with people ..." he said. "She listens very well, and she takes into consideration what is going on."
If she prevails, O'Connor said she hopes to unify the party's factions and use new technology to broadcast the party's message.
"I want to be able to embrace that technology, and to be able to understand wins, losses demographics — and I want to be able to understand every bit of that to be able to put it into to focus to be able to better deliver the Republican message in the future."
Cebra did not return a call from Foster's seeking comment. In an email to The Associated Press, Cebra wrote, "Out of respect for the state committee, the intraparty nature of the issue, and the overall party process, I don't believe it would be appropriate for me to comment at this time." Cebra said he would comment after Saturday's vote.
His website says Cebra was a member of the 2008 Maine Republican Platform Committee, is a former member of the Maine Republican State Committee and was elected in 2008 as the Cumberland County Republican Committee chairman.
He has also picked up an endorsement from one of Maine's most prominent Republicans, Gov. Paul LePage.
Candidates mentioned for vice chair include Stavros Mendros of Lewiston, a Ron Paul supporter, and Traci Gauthier, who's been executive director of the Lincoln Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce in Penobscot County.
Foster's staff writer Jim Haddadin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BERWICK, Maine — Beth O'Connor, a waitress and freshman lawmaker who was defeated in this month's election, is campaigning diligently to become the next leader of the Maine GOP.


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Everyone wants to be innovative; most fail!
In fact, I can't remember when any organization last came to IMD and pronounced themselves as being innovation indifferent; yet, the sad truth is that while everyone dreams of becoming Apple, most linger in the same innovation-lite purgatories that we associate with today's RIM, Kodak, even Sony, and countless other organizations who despite their best efforts and historical legacy are no longer distinguished by the successful commercialization of great ideas. Clearly, such organizations are not the victims of aspirational failure; they all aspire to be innovative! The problem must be somewhere else; perhaps their organizational culture?
A new report on innovation produced by Booz & Company -- Global Innovation 1000 -- which is forthcoming in the Winter 2011 edition of Strategy + Culture argues that organizational culture is, indeed, the culprit. The report observes that "only about half of all companies say that their corporate culture ["the organization's self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking and believing"] robustly supports their innovation strategy. Moreover, about the same proportion say their innovation strategy is inadequately aligned with their overall corporate strategy."
In fact, the report's observation on the lack of a statistically significant relationship between financial performance and innovation spending serves to further emphasize that innovative success is not a function of spending-might, but rather of the environment in which any such investment takes place.
What we are told by the new Global Innovation 1000 study is that "intangibles, such as risk, creativity, openness, and collaboration -- are critical for [innovation] success." I think that we would all agree, but, here's the rub: these are all outcomes, they are all aspirations in their own right: "we want to be less risk-adverse, we want to be customer-centric, we want to move to market faster, etc., etc.", I hear these nearly every day, and yet nothing changes. Wishing about changes in corporate culture is not enough! In fact, a friend of mine, who is quite well-known in innovation circles, has often remarked that "the word culture is an excuse for not thinking!" What we really want to focus-in-on are the leadership acts and managerial choices that will raise the probability of us actually achieving one or more of these aspirations!
Every organizational manager, no matter how modest the organization, can make a difference in how innovative their organization can be. It all starts, as Global Innovation 1000 rightly points out, with a precise and inspiring vision of the role that innovation will play in the organization's vision of strategic success. Global Innovation 1000 cites HP's Prith Banerjee, SVP of Research and Director of HP Labs, who provides a good example of this. He reveals a fourfold mission for the HP Labs business unit:
These provide a crisp, and relatively unambiguous vision of what this particular business unit aspires to achieve. However, the conversation must not stop here! What must come next is a recognition of discrete and concrete managerial choices that will raise the probability of HP Labs (in this example) achieving these aspirations. Without such choices, we have only dreams!
At IMD, we have come to rely upon a simple, but exceedingly useful framework for thinking about the managerial choices necessary to really build an aspirational culture, that was developed by a former IMD colleague, Jay Galbraith. Galbraith's "star model" (which is portrayed above for IDEO's highly innovative culture (my interpretation)) identifies the five "levers" by which managers can move an organization:
If you read carefully through the Global Innovation 1000 report, what you will see are signs that the most successful innovators mentioned are [as HP Labs, in fact, appears to be doing] making such specific managerial choices, that they are doing it in such a fashion that each choice directly supports the aspirational vision that has been announced, and that each choice reinforces every other choice. There are no disconnects allowed! Conflicting choices will only slow you down and create confusion. Finally, successful innovators synchronize the timing of their choices to the extent possible in order not to entertain disconnects caused by the sequential timing of the managerial choices, which can be as disconcerting as not making reinforcing choices.
Wishing for a more innovative culture is not the answer. To begin with, the terms "innovation" and "culture" mean so many things, to so many people, that if we stop there we have no idea what anyone understands. Instead, an innovative culture should be recognized as being painstakingly crafted from the aggregation of many different discrete managerial choices, all of which are aimed at the overall strategic vision, and all of which are reinforcing. Successful innovation leaders cannot allow strategic conversations to stop at the aspirational level. They must insist on drilling down to the next level of managerial choices that are necessary to gain the desired outcome. In fact, I would personally ban the use of the word culture as being too mysterious for effective conversation. Let's, instead, begin with the outcomes we wish to achieve, understand the business-model reasons why we wish for these outcomes, and then focus on the choices that will get us there.
Bill Fischer's latest book is The Idea Hunter (co-authored with Andy Boynton) (Jossey-Bass, 2011).
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