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Grains had a mixed trade today but beans remain strong into the close.
Corn traded both sides of the market today before rallying along with soybeans in the last few minutes. Soybean strength remained consistent for most of the day and had a strong push higher just before the close.
Another 226,000 MT'S of US soybeans were announced today for 2010-2011 delivery to China. One thing to keep in mind is that Chinese demand has been pegged by the USDA at 55 Million MT's this year. This means on average they have to import 1.06 Million MT's from either the U.S. or S. America every week to keep up with expected demand.
Open interest continues to climb. Soybean's open interest is about 550,000 contracts which is only 67,000 contracts away from its all-time high in February 2008. Corn's open interest is about 1.42 million contracts which compares to the all-time high of 1.546 million contracts in February 2007. With such high open interest and a market largely supported by speculative investment we are likely to see volatility kept high. The trend remains bullish for corn/soybeans.
Other commodities have been rallying right along with grains such as the metals and softs. Gold posted a new all-time high today at 1298 per ounce (December).
Tomorrow morning we will have Weekly Exports and Census Crush. The crush is expected to be at 127 mill bushels with a range of 126.5-127.2. Soyoil Stocks are expected to be 3.306 and meal stocks expected at 373.4. Corn exports are expected between 550-800, beans between 450-650, and wheat between 400-700. We will have results for both reports in tomorrow morning's grain letter.
This Friday is the October option expiration for grains. Much of the corn option open interest is at the $5 level which many times the market leans towards heading into expiration. Next week we will be at the end of the month/end of the quarter. Many technical support levels still remain well below current prices so we recommend staying adequately hedged. If you would like to get more protected please call your broker to discuss current strategies.
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Aged time bakers made use of to make a "dessert" for chocolate pies. This dessert is new compared to the dessert in the mix chocolate cakes we are made use of to today. Aged time chocolate dessert was a means for bakers to bring about the complete chocolate taste from the chocolate powder as well as unsweetened chocolate which offered them abundant complete flavorful chocolate cake.
When pies are made purely with chocolate powder which consists of primarily chocolate solids the chocolate cake taste is rather suppressed. The chocolate taste can be stricken a lot more by combining the chocolate powder with flour. Yet by including unsweetened chocolate which consists of chocolate butter along with chocolate solids right into the chocolate powder the chocolate cake is offered an added increase of chocolate taste.
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Lunch time means a chance for me to catch up on Facebook friends and play a mindless game of Bejeweled 2 or Globs (which is especially relaxing these days since my focus in on Polaris and coordinating the training involved). Today I happened upon a post by the Central Library Manager, Nina Krzysko that included a link to a YouTube video. What an enlightening video. It really struck a chord in me and I just had to share it.
But before you watch this – what would be your first reaction if you saw a man in his early forties, biking around your neighborhood or area where you work every day. He sometimes wears funny hats or saying on his shirt and he sometimes stops, gets off his bike and waves to the cars that go by. Bum! Lunatic. Or just a harmless guy with nothing but time on his hands? I've heard all of these and more to describe the man in the video. Now watch the video and tell me what label you would use. But be careful because those labels stick and are hard to remove.


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Vol. 26, No. 8: Bated Breath
Spelling bait
"We're all waiting with baited breath," we quoted a man as saying, "doing our rain dances."
Aah, a common error bit us again, like a shark. The phrase is bated breath.
Goofs on Google
Although we may correct our errors quickly on the Web, our mistakes have longer lives on Google Search and Google News – and readers notice.
Massive overuse
We still overuse the word "massive," to the point of ruining what should be a powerful word, used sparingly.
(Funny story: In our past life as obituary writer/intern during high school, the first thing we were warned to avoid is the phrase "a massive Christian burial" in obits. Novice reporters would put it in their copy, mishearing the funeral-home contact saying "a Mass of Christian Burial" on the phone.)


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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. – The Washington Redskins are embarking on several initiatives to give back to the community throughout the holiday season. From donating new and used toys to keeping area youth warm with new winter coats, the Redskins are doing their part to positively impact the D.C. Metro Area.
* Skins Santa Shoppe
Tuesday, Dec. 18 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
FedExField (Redskins Locker Room)
1600 FedEx Way
Landover, MD 20785
The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation and the U.S Marine Corps will transform the Redskins' locker room into Santa's toy shop. Redskins players, along with Santa Claus and the Hogettes, will greet and give a toy to more than 1,000 youth in need from over 20 area schools and community groups.
ABOUT THE REDSKINS: Headquartered at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia, and owned by Daniel Snyder, the historic Washington Redskins Football Club has won five World Championship titles including the 1937 and 1942 National Football League Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII and XXVI. Founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves in Massachusetts, the team changed its name to the Redskins in 1933 and relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1937. Since then, the team has become one of the most recognizable professional sports franchises in history, featuring three Hall of Fame coaches, 19 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (with seven others who also were Redskins) and becoming the first team in the NFL with an official marching band and fight song, "Hail to the Redskins." The Redskins have been owned by Dan Snyder since 1999, and beginning in 1997, began playing their home games at FedExField in Landover, Md.


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Tonight, Tight Six returns to Chris' Jazz Cafe for the third edition of Not Jazz, the monthly showcase supplement to their weekly Sunday open mics at Fergie's pub. Not Jazz 3 will feature John McKeever, Alex Pearlman, Omar Scruggs, Jon Delcollo, Caitlin Feeney, Chris O'Connor and a super secret special guest, plus house band Starwood and the members of Tight Six (Aaron Nevins, Joe Bell, Mikey Garcia, Elise Thomson-Hohl, Dan Vetrano and Becca Trabin). Here's Aaron with more info on the show, and Joe, Mikey, Elise and Dan agreeing with everything he says:
WitOut: Tight Six started as a weekly open mic, but shortly thereafter you guys started putting on your own shows. What made you want to expand?
Aaron Nevins: The mic was going really well and we got an opportunity to do a monthly show, which had a lot of potential benefits. It allowed us to rebook our favorite bands from the open mic and pay them a little more money, and to let our favorite comedians do longer sets to new audiences, and it gave us a chance to branch out into writing short sketches and more interactive bits. Also, we wanted to expand.
Joe Bell: Yep.
Mikey Garcia: Uh-huh.
Elise Thomson-Hohl: Yeah.
Dan Vetrano: That's right.
WO: It seems like your relationship with Chris' Jazz Cafe is going well–this is the third edition of Not Jazz. How did that partnership get off the ground? Were they actively looking to expand beyond jazz shows, or did you seek them out?
AN: We were hooked up with the venue by our PR guy—our Puerto Rican guy (Mikey Garcia). When we first met the owner of Chris' Jazz Cafe, Chris S. Jazzcafe, we sort of convinced him it would be a jazz show. When he found it was a comedy show that featured no jazz, he was not pleased. However, once he saw how good the turnout was, he came around and is slowly starting to try to understand what comedy is.
JB: Yes.
MG: Mmm-hmm.
ETH: Right.
DV: That's all accurate.
WO: I've been hearing a lot of great things about Starwood's performances as house band at the mic. How did you first book them, and what is it about them that you think makes them such a good pairing with comedy in general and/or Tight Six in particular?
AN: We book a different band every week for the open mic, so we scour a ton of different resources to find them. I think in the case of Starwood, Joe Bell just happened upon them, and after we booked them, we were all unsure if they were going to be a good fit. As it turned out, they were phenomenal beyond words and blew everybody's minds all over the walls of Fergie's. So we booked them immediately for Not Jazz, and they'll be doing a full set at the show. Trust me: they are an experience you need to have in person.
JB: Definitely.
MG: I agree.
ETH: Absolutely.
DV: For sure.
WO: The Facebook event says there's one special guest on the show you can't name, but you've given the hint that he'll be in town from LA. Is there anything else you're willing to disclose?
AN: No.
JB: Nope.
MG: No, sorry.
ETH: [shakes head to indicate "no"]
DV: You'll have to come to the show to find out.
'Not Jazz 3' is TONIGHT at Chris' Jazz Cafe (1421 Sansom Street) at 8pm. Admission is $10; $5 with student ID.


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The Iraq war, for $100 month
The cost of the Iraq war has often been expressed in billions or trillions, numbers so big and abstract they remind us of Carl Sagan's description of the universe ("billions and billions of stars…").
The candidates have cited alternative uses for the war money, saying it would have been better spent on health coverage for the uninsured (Sen. Hillary Clinton) or on more school teachers (Sen. Barack Obama).
In a speech on March 20, 2008, Obama took a different approach and emphasized the personal cost of the war.
"When Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month, you're paying a price for this war," he said in the speech in Charleston, W.Va.
At $100 per month, the war cost to each U.S. household would be more than cable TV (average bill: $58), but less than a car payment (average bill: $400-500).
We asked the Obama campaign about the source of the $100 figure and were told it came from The Three Trillion Dollar War, a new book by Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Linda J. Bilmes, a former Commerce Department official from the Clinton administration who is now a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
The book says the monthly operating cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is about $16-billion.
"To think of it another way," the book says, "roughly every American household is spending $138 per month on the current operating costs of the wars, with a little more than $100 per month going to Iraq alone."
(Of course, Obama's simplified analysis does not reflect the variations in income tax levels. And you don't have to write a check for the war each month. The war costs are included in government spending that is paid for by taxes.)
There was no footnote for the $100 estimate, so we called Bilmes to ask how she had calculated it. She said they took the Bush administration's 2008 request for war funding – $196-billion – and divided it by 12 to get a monthly cost. That works out to $16-billlion for both wars and about $12-billion just for the Iraq portion.
Then, she and Stiglitz divided those figures by the number of U.S. households and came up with $138 for both wars and slightly more than $100 for Iraq alone, she said.
We double-checked the authors' sources and math, and found they were right.
Indeed, the Bush administration request for 2008 was $196-billion for both wars, with $159-billion going to Iraq, according to a summary by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. A recent Census Bureau report said there were 116-million households. So that works out to about $140 per month for both wars and about $114 for Iraq alone. (Our numbers are slightly higher than Bilmes and Stiglitz because we used the latest estimates from CRS and a newer and slighter higher count for households.)
To verify the Bilmes and Stiglitz calculation, we checked with Steven Kosiak, vice president for budget studies with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on defense issues. He said their methodology was correct and that the number "sounds about right."
Bilmes, a Democrat who is neutral in the presidental race, said Obama could have used an even higher figure if he had included other war costs that aren't in the Pentagon's $196-billion tab. These include disability payments, the cost of replacing war-fighting equipment and interest on the borrowed money.
By using the figure he did, Obama "really was being conservative on this," Bilmes said. "He's not overstating it in any way."
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Sneak Peek: Anselmo's Coal Oven Pizzeria, Red Hook
Anselmo's Coal Oven Pizzeria
354 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn NY 11231 (at Sullivan Street, Red Hook; map); 718-775-5386; anselmosbakery.com
Getting There: The B61 and B77 buses are your closest public transit options
Pizza Style: New York–Neapolitan Oven Type: Coal-fired
The Skinny: Too soon to really say
Price: TK
Another day, another sneak peek at a soon-to-open pizzeria. This time, Anselmo's Coal Oven Pizzeria.
We've been following the progress of this place since June of last year, when it announced a July 4 open date. These things don't always go according to schedule (see Co./Company, Ignazio's, etc.), but it looks like coal-fired pies will finally be a reality in Red Hook. The official target date was to have been today, March 28, but partner Jack Stella said it would be more like Monday or Tuesday now.
The folks behind Anselmo's were having an oven test-fire last night that was open to friends, family, the neighborhood, and whomever was walking by and his uncle. I stopped in on the way home from work and managed to get some shots and talk briefly with the partners. [More photos and intel after the jump.]
There's an interesting story behind this place. Stella, one of the joint's three partners, runs a chemical business down the street. He and his colleagues in that business originally bought the building that would house Anselmo's as a sort of clubhouse where they could take smoke breaks. While gutting it, he discovered the coal oven, and realizing he had the proverbial diamond in the rough, made plans to turn it into a pizzeria. Their loss of a smokers' lounge is our gain as coal-oven aficionados.
The partners (Anselmo Garcia and his brother-in-law Roger Fischer round out the trio) made some minor changes to the old coalie, moving its mouth to the opposite side for better accessibility and putting in a new flue. Apart from that, it looks as if it's been there, for ages, hulking no-nonsense box of bricks that looks like it means business.
It's too early to really review this pizza, of course, but the test-fire pie I tasted shows real promise. Partner, pizzaiolo, and namesake Garcia is at the helm when it comes to pies. He tells me that he'll be the sole pizza-maker at the place. If there's no Anselmo, there's no pizza. Not to worry, though, as he says he'll be there seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
"No day off, Anselmo?" I asked.
"That's my daughter over there," he said, pointing to the friendly young woman who was helping out behind the counter. "I ask her for vacation days—I'm putting her through college on this."
Garcia has been baking for 25 years, and has worked in several restaurants and bakeries in the city (listed here) and was most recently at the SoNo Baking Company in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
For now, he'll be making pies and calzones (although no calzones were made during this trial run). All pies last night were plain, though assorted toppings will be available. (I'll follow up and find out what they're planning to offer.) Stella said they're going all-DOP on the pies, importing the tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella from Italy. Like Kesté Pizza & Vino, which I visited on Thursday, Anselmo's receives shipments of flash-frozen buffalo mozzarella that they defrost overnight in a cold-water bath. The melted cheese seems to suffer little from the process, remaining creamy and stringy on the hot pies.
The sauce was well seasoned, with a hint of roasted garlic as well as oregano, black pepper, and a nice amount of salt. The crust was crisp-chewy and just tender enough—it wasn't the lightest, most airy crust I've had, but it wasn't that tough-chewy kind that wears your jaw out after a couple slices. (And, again, this was a test night, so this may all change. As Stella noted, "We're not there yet, but we're working on it.")
No word yet on prices. I'll follow up and relay that intel to you as soon as I get it.
This seems like a friendly little place, and with relatively few pizza options in Red Hook, it's nice to see the neighborhood get its due with a promising coaler.
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text: Friday, March 11, 2011 Physicians and NPs Stake Claims on Medical Home Lead Four primary care medical societies recently released guidelines for accrediting patient-centered medical homes that would prohibit nurse practitioners (NPs) from taking the lead in this new model for delivering care, says a Medscape Medical News article. Groups that currently accredit or recognize practices as medical homes are the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, and URAC, formerly known as the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission. The Joint Commission plans to unveil a similar program later this year. The physicians' societies are urging these groups to incorporate a set of medical home principles adopted by the 4 primary care societies in 2007. A principle in the guidelines that physicians should lead the medical home team of clinicians is a point of controversy because NPs also aspire to direct such teams, the article says. The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care agrees with the primary care medical societies. It specifies that an accredited medical home is physician-directed. In contrast, the National Committee for Quality Assurance announced last fall that it would recognize nurse-led practices as medical homes in states that license NPs as independent practitioners. By defining medical homes as "clinician-led," URAC also leaves the door open to nurses being in charge, according to Jan Towers, NP, PhD, director of health policy for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, who adds that the medical home's emphasis on continuous, coordinated, and comprehensive care is "what nurses do routinely." Responding to Towers, the American Academy of Family Physicians' says that physicians "are uniquely trained, comprehensively oriented, and prepared best to be the leader and coordinator of the patient-centered medical home."


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Officials Extend Spouse Career Advancement Initiative
By Barbara A. Goodno
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2008 - Career and training opportunities for military spouses just got better, as the Defense and Labor departments' career advancement demonstration project has been expanded to include all active-duty military spouses, along with four additional career fields.
"In the first days of the demonstration project, we began hearing from spouses who -- based on the ranks of their spouses -- were ineligible," said Leslye A. Arsht, deputy undersecretary of defense for military community and family policy. "They explained quite articulately that all spouses have an overwhelming need for the program."
The career advancement demonstration project, announced in November, helps military spouses at 18 installations in eight states get the education and other credentials needed to pursue careers in high-demand, high-growth occupations.
The expansion, made in late April, came at the right time for Sonya Martinez, 36. When she and her husband, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Donovan Martinez, were married 16 and a half years ago, she was a student with an interest in a career in bio-chemical research. She knew she needed a transportable career and focused on clinical lab work. It's been a career path she said she's enjoyed.
Today, she's enrolled in the rigorous clinical lab scientist training program, and she's within one year of receiving her license as a clinical lab scientist. While pursuing this credential, she also works full time as a clinical lab specialist, where she performs laboratory work to identify, diagnose and treat diseases.
Last month, she said, a Navy wife told her about the career advancement opportunity; she checked into the program and was accepted right away.
Participating in the program will be a tremendous step toward her career goal, she noted, as the licensure will allow her to specialize in blood banking for critically ill children and supervise the lab.
Because education always has been a priority for the then, she and her husband put many other desires on hold, she said. The career advancement account and the financial assistance it offers has given them valuable stability and will enable them to fulfill another long-standing wish. "They made it possible for us to buy a house and go to school at the same time," she said.
Arsht said most military spouses -- 87 percent according to recent surveys -- would like to further their education and develop a portable career, but see the cost of education as a roadblock to further education or training. This was true for Tangeray Mayhorn, 27, of Fort Carson, Colo. She has one year left in social work studies and is preparing for a career in hospital social work. Her husband, Glenn, is an Army staff sergeant.
"I've always wanted to be a hospital social worker, but didn't know how I was going to make this last year money-wise," Mayhorn said. "I heard about the program from a friend and applied right away. I was approved on the spot."
Mayhorn will attend courses this summer and in the fall. She said the financial support for books and tuition will go a long way. She encourages other military spouses to look into career development options.
"Your career can travel with you and will relieve the stress that comes with a move," she said. "You won't have to worry about what your next job will be."
Micaela Ayala, 33, at Fort Lewis, Wash., agrees. Her husband, Army Spc. Edgar Ayala, enlisted in the last year. At the time, she said, she didn't realize it would mean a positive career move for her, too. She said she's always wanted to work in the field of medicine, but for financial reasons it was never an option before.
"We just couldn't afford it," Ayala said. "There's just no way I'd be able to go to school. I'm really grateful for this opportunity."
Now, she's enrolled in a certified nursing program and is excited about the upcoming coursework. She started a phlebotomy course last week.
All three spouses say enrolling in the program was much easier than they expected.
"I heard about the program on the news and went to the joint briefing to get more information," Ayala said. "I talked to a counselor, set an appointment and then completed the paperwork. The whole process was really quite smooth."
The career advancement demonstration project is available to spouses at military installations in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, North Carolina and Washington. Military spouses can receive grants of up to $6,000 for education, training and licenses or credentials costs over a two-year period. The grants cover the costs for tuition, fees, books, equipment, and credentialing and licensing fees.
In addition to careers in education, health care, information technology, construction trades, financial services, the demonstration project now includes specific in-demand occupations within human resources, business and management, hospitality management and homeland security.
Since the program began in January, more than 1,000 military spouses have enrolled in career development programs. Arsht said she wants to be sure that other military spouses are aware of -- and are able to use -- this new resource.
"Military spouses are a large, untapped talent pool. They are motivated, dedicated and high-energy -- just what the work force needs," she said. "Their career aspirations, too often, are put on hold because the military lifestyle simply gets in the way. We want to change that. These education and training opportunities are a strong step in the right direction."
To be eligible for the program, The military spouse's sponsor must be on active duty and have at least one year remaining at his or her current duty station. The spouse must have a high school diploma, GED or some post-secondary education. Training must be completed within two years and lead to a license, certificate or degree. Prerequisites and remedial coursework can also be included.
The career advancement demonstration project is available at the following installations:
-- In California: San Diego Metro and Camp Pendleton;
-- In Colorado: Fort Carson and Peterson Air Force Base;
-- In Florida: Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Eglin Air Force Base, and Hurlburt Field;
-- In Georgia: Fort Benning;
-- In Hawaii: Hickam Air Force Base, Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks, and U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii;
-- In Maine: Naval Air Station Brunswick;
-- In North Carolina: Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base; and
-- In Washington: Fort Lewis, McChord Air Force Base, and Naval Station Kitsap
Information is available in person at installation education centers, by telephone and online. Career counseling for military spouses is available through Military OneSource at 800-342-9647, or online at militaryonesource.com and www.caa.milspouse.org.
(Barbara A. Goodno is a senior program analyst in the Defense Department's Office of Family Policy and Office of Children and Youth.)
Officials Extend Spouse Career Advancement Initiative [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49883 ]


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Seek Learning
Latter-day Saints are fond of quoting a phrase from modern revelation, "Seek learning, even by study and also by faith" (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118). From the beginning of the Restoration in the 1820s, a common theme of the Prophet Joseph Smith's religious quest was to seek knowledge, light, and understanding. When he went into a


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As summer draws to a close and many of us think about quickly approaching semesters, we bring you another round of updates from around the world. Poupeh Missaghi reports from Iran, looking at how sanctions imposed on Iran have affected the publishing industry, and paying homage to a much-loved bookseller in Tehran. Bringing us the latest from Singapore, Theophilus Kwek discusses the recently announced Singapore Literature Prize as well as recent poetry publications. Happy traveling-via-laptop!
Poupeh Missaghi, Editor-at-Large, reporting from Iran:
The recent U.S. breach of the Iran nuclear deal and its new round of sanctions imposed on the country have not spared the Iranian publishing industry and its print media. Rising economic instability and a sudden drop in the value of the Iranian currency, along with other issues such as hoarding of paper supplies have led to many problems in the industry. The Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Abbas Salehi, recently spoke about the matter and the attempts to stabilize the price of paper. Head of the Iranian paper syndicate, Abolfazl Roghani Golpaygani, also recently discussed a 100% increase in the price of paper in the past year which has caused newspapers and thus journalists concerns about the future of the trade. Consequently, the Iranian Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Trade just agreed with the urgent import of several tons of paper under special tariffs, but it is uncertain that this will provide a long-term solution for the problems of the industry.


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The breakup with insurers
President Barack Obama is breaking up with the health insurance industry again.
He's had a love-hate relationship with the insurers ever since the early days of the health care reform debate. He yelled at them in public for giving people skimpy coverage, then slipped them a gift-wrapped box of chocolates — the individual mandate they wanted to gain millions of new customers.
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Even during the implementation of Obamacare, he has stuck with the industry, staying in the rocky relationship despite all the petty bickering. He has to use them as a foil to advertise the law's benefits, like all the rebates from greedy insurance companies. But he also needs them to make the law work — which is why he has been careful not to raise his voice at them even as they sent cancellation notices to individual insurance customers throughout the country.
Now, Obama is putting them on the spot. The message of his proposed one-year fix to the cancelled policies is this: I'm giving you a chance to clean up the mess. If you don't clean it up, don't blame it on me.
"The bottom line is insurers can extend current plans that would otherwise be cancelled into 2014," Obama said at his Thursday press conference.
( PHOTOS: Obamacare online glitches: 25 great quotes)
Industry CEOs have been summoned to a White House meeting Friday that's sure to be full of those awkward conversations about who did what to whom, and who's being unreasonable this time.
It's enough to stress a relationship to the breaking point. And breaking up, as the song goes, can indeed be hard to do - and in the case may have implications for innocent bystanders, such as health care customers.
"The president was clear as a bell: 'We've done our part. If rates go up or anything, that's not our fault.' And that's not the case," said Bill Pierce, a former Department of Health and Human Services official who has also worked in the health insurance industry.
Democrats badly needed a fix to point to on Friday, when they'll have to vote on a Republican bill to let all Americans keep their health plans. But the need to give Democrats political cover can't justify a change that could backfire in other ways, Pierce said.
(IN 90 SECONDS: Obamacare puts Democrats' credibility on the line)
"It is a political solution to a policy problem … You cannot solve a policy problem with a political solution," said Pierce, now a senior director at APCO Worldwide.
Sure, there was a bit of "it's not you, it's me" in Obama's press conference Thursday. "That's on me. I mean, we fumbled the rollout on this health care law," Obama said.
But really, insurers, it's you.
"What we want to do is to be able to say to these folks, you know what, the Affordable Care Act is not going to be the reason why insurers have to cancel your plan," Obama said.
There's just one problem: Health insurers say the fix won't work. And state insurance commissioners and leading actuaries aren't sure, either.
( WATCH: 6 major players in HealthCare.gov debacle)
For one thing, health insurance plans already set their prices for the Obamacare plans assuming that they'd get a certain number of customers, and the right mix of healthy and sick people. If they don't get those people, they're warning that the mix will be thrown off, and prices will have to go up — creating a new nightmare for the administration.
"Changing the rules after health plans have already met the requirements of the law could destabilize the market and result in higher premiums for consumers," Karen Ignagni of America's Health Insurance Plans, the leading health insurance trade group, said in a statement.
Health insurance actuaries echoed the alarm.
"Changing the [Affordable Care Act] provisions could alter the dynamics of the insurance market, creating two parallel markets operating under different rules, thereby threatening the viability of insurance markets operating under the new rules," said Cori Uccello, the senior health fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries.


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Finally, some fruit tree success! I picked these lovelies from the Desert Gold peach tree in the backyard a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I've picked and eaten three more peaches, which were all the tree produced this year. That's actually a pretty good crop from my sad little backyard orchard, so I'm happy about it.
Unfortunately, the first two peaches were not very tasty. They had a watery, mushy consistancy that I didn't really enjoy. I think it may have been because I was watering the tree too much as the fruit was ripening. I picked the rest of the peaches after taking a break from watering and they were delicious. So, another lesson learned.
I should probably get a book on fruit trees so I stop making these rookie errors. I've had a book called The Home Orchard on my wish list for a little while. Do any of you have that book or another that you'd recommend? I don't have a lot of reading time these days, so I need more of a reference I can turn to for tips rather than a book I'd need to read cover-to-cover.
Anyway, I am happy about the small peach crop, and I hope next year brings even more fruit on that tree. There's really nothing like a freshly-picked summer peach.
Next up: the fig tree. I spotted some baby fruit this weekend. I don't expect a bumper crop, but I'm hoping to get a handful of figs before the bugs and squirrels get to them. Wish me luck!


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Welcome to the Manager's Toolkit! This resource is provided for faculty and staff who supervise and manage employees or process human resources paperwork as part of their job. In this section, you will find valuable information, forms, and online tools to assist you in fulfilling your job responsibilities.
We are continuously working to improve information for Supervisors and Managers and your feedback is essential. Please contact Alissa Vandeven with comments and/or suggestions about this website.


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The No. 13 Crimson will host 10 home games in 2012 including a matchup with No. 14 Syracuse at Gillette Stadium (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Harvard women's lacrosse team has been ranked No. 13 in the 2012 Inside Lacrosse preseason poll and has released its 2012 schedule, which features nine teams included in the poll and seven that competed in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. The Crimson will also play on one of the sport's biggest stages when it hosts Syracuse at Gillette Stadium.
"We are fortunate to play in one of the most competitive lacrosse conferences in the country," Head Coach Lisa Miller commented. "Our staff has tried to build a non-conference schedule that prepares us to compete for an Ivy title, puts the program in a position to receive an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament, and gives our student-athletes the ability to test themselves against the best."
Harvard finished the 2011 season ranked 20th in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) poll, marking the team's first appearance in the poll since 1997. The Crimson posted a 10-6 overall record and went 5-2 in Ivy League play, recording the team's highest overall and conference win totals since 1994. Harvard finished tied for third place in the Ivy League regular season standings and advanced to the tournament championship, where it fell to 14th-ranked Princeton, 12-10.
The Crimson led the Ancient Eight and ranked 29th nationally with 12.19 goals per game, while its 10.25 goals against average was 32nd in the NCAA. Harvard also ranked 22nd in the NCAA in win percentage (62.5) and 27th in scoring margin (+1.94).
The Crimson return 23 student-athletes from last year's squad including one All-America honoree, three all-region selections and five all-Ivy picks. Junior Jennifer VanderMeulen headlines the group after being named to the Synapse Sports All-America second team, IWLCA All-Region first team and All-Ivy League first team. VanderMeulen ranked 18th in the NCAA with 3.0 goals per game in 2011 and was 30th in the country with 48 goals.
Junior Danielle Tetreault was a first team all-region and second team all-Ivy selection while senior Melanie Baskind was named to the all-region second team and all-Ivy first team. Tetreault ranked 31st in the nation with 2.63 goals per game a year ago as Baskind finished her campaign with 34 points on 28 goals and six assists. Senior Ellen Gleason was also named to the All-Ivy League second team and classmate Jess Halpern was an honorable mention selection.
The Crimson will start its 2012 campaign with three-straight home games, beginning Feb. 25 against local rival Boston University. Harvard is slated to see its first Ivy League action against Cornell on March 3, before welcoming James Madison, ranked 18th by Inside Lacrosse, to Cambridge March 6.
Harvard will take to the road for the first time March 10 at Penn, facing a Quakers team ranked sixth in the preseason poll. The road trip continues March 17 at No. 20 Johns Hopkins.
The Crimson returns home against 10th-ranked Boston College March 21. A trip to Yale awaits Harvard on March 24, and on March 28 19th-ranked Stanford will visit Cambridge.
Harvard will face No. 14 Syracuse at Gillette Stadium on March 31. The game will be part of a double header, with No. 1 Northwestern and No. 16 Ohio State squaring off in the second game. Gillette Stadium, located in Foxborough, Mass., is the home of the three-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and has hosted two NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships.
The Crimson will head back out on the road April 2 for a meeting at No. 8 Virginia, with Brown coming to town April 7 to kick off a three-game stretch at home. Harvard will also face the Crusaders of Holy Cross (April 11) and No. 7 Princeton (April 14) during the home stand.
Harvard will head out on the road once more with a trip to Columbia (April 21) before hosting its regular-season finale April 27 against No. 9 Dartmouth
The Ivy League Tournament will take place May 4-6 at the home site of the Ivy League regular season champion. Three of the four teams which competed in last year's tournament advanced to the NCAA Tournament, including Penn, Dartmouth and Princeton, while the Crimson fell just short with a 12-10 loss to Princeton in the championship game.


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Gladstone Grow Op / Lynnette Postuma / Water Wuz Here
Lynnette Postuma is a landscape architect living and working in Toronto who is interested in urban water issues and is constantly curious about how people interact with public space.
Water Wuz Here is a process-based installation that visualizes the momentary presence water in the urban landscape. Each morning, the plaza surface at the Dufferin amphitheatre will be soaked with water and, as the moisture evaporates, hand-drawn chalk outlines will trace the edges between wet and dry. These contours of moisture will reveal and memorialize the process of evaporation and allow the viewer to consider a product of this perpetual but nearly imperceptible process.
GROW OP will be on public display at the Gladstone April 24 – 27, 2014
Curated by Victoria Taylor, and featuring 26 new projects, Grow Op 2014 is the Gladstone Hotel's annual alternative landscape and urban design event, celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to sustainable placemaking across a broad range of creative practices.
For press and media inquiries please contact the Gladstone Hotel's Managing Director – Artistic Projects, Britt Welter-Nolan


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Winery and
Vineyard Tour Information
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Wine in the Yakima Valley Winery
No tasting fee with wine purchase. $5.00 otherwise.
A short video tour of Bonair Winery
Fall has arrived and it is beautiful. The grapes are ripe and the weather is nice. Fall is the time to stock up for the winter. We have some great specials on wines by the case. Check out the Tote and Taste program from Alaska Airlines. (Yes, Yakima does have an airport!) If you check your wine in Yakima (YKM), it flies for free on any airline. We have some great case specials. Sign up for our newsletter to get unadvertised specials. Come visit us. Real wine country is just 2 hours east of Issaquah via freeway or 25 minutes from SeaTac on Alaska Air.
If you are planning a trip to visit Washington wine country, you will find it very different from California wine country. Most of the Washington wineries are located in industrial parks, strip malls, downtown store fronts, and old airports. Even if a winery is an estate winery, the tasting room may be located miles from the vineyards. If you are planning a trip from Seattle to visit Red Mountain, Tri-Cities, or Walla Walla wineries, you drive right past our winery on I-82, only 2 1/2 hours out of Seattle. Stop in and see us. You walk through our vineyards to get to our tasting room. The grapes you see make the wines you drink.
Bonair Winery is situated in the Rattlesnake Hills of the Yakima Valley, Washington State's foremost wine growing region region. No, we don't have rattlesnakes in our vineyards. Every March 17, St. Patrick's Day, we drive the snakes out of the vineyards. This is Washington States most scenic wine country. In the Rattlesnake hills you drive through orchards and vineyards, just like wine country is supposed to be. Like Bonair, our neighbors are Estate Wineries, also. We have a close connection to the soil.
In the desert, there is a great differential between daytime and nighttime temperatures, sometimes over 40o. These cool evenings preserve the natural acid in the grapes while daytime temperatures develop sugars. This results in a perfect sugar/acid balance.
Without untimely and damaging natural rainfall in the Yakima Valley, we can precisely regulate the amount of water the plants receive to ripen grapes to perfection with the use of drip irrigation. Drip irrigation preserves water, a precious commodity in the desert West.
Does it bother you that your wine had a better vacation than you? Did you get to Summer in Australia? Live in a bodega in Chile? or spend time in Bordeaux? We support the locavore movement. Your food shouldn't travel any more than you. Travel globally, but eat locally. Did you know that only one bottle in four consumed in Washington was produced here. Save the planet. Drink Washington wine.
Most people think Seattle is Washington. Well, politically speaking, it is, but east of the Cascade Range is a vast desert that receives as little as 5 inches annual rainfall. That's less than Phoenix, Arizona. It is a perfect climate for Vitis Vinifera, the European Wine Grape. We get 17.4 hours of sunshine in the summer, 2 hours more than the fellows down in California. Washington is on the same latitude as the famous wine regions of France. As you can see by the map, California is on a different latitude.
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Lakhnau Mirchi Ka Salan Recipes
Mirchi Ka Salan Recipe
I just learned how to make a variant of mirchi ka salan by Sheerin Auntie, who came to visit us during winter break week. This version is made with only white sesame seeds and originated from the region of Lucknow (Lakhnau) where Abbi, my husband Lulu's late grandfather was born. The previous version was taught by Baji (Lulu's late grandmother); they lived in Hyderabad where mirchi ka salan is made with peanut, fresh coconut and sesame.
The sesame seed variant is quite a bit milder. The sesame seeds are blended into a thick paste (tahini), then added to cumin-flavored oil (baghar). Whole chile peppers are cooked in the sesame mixture until softened. A drizzle of lemon juice finishes the dish. It's as simple as that. Prior to cooking the mirchi ("chiles" in Urdu), I had to be brave and estimate the level of spiciness of the peppers. If the heat is too fiery, you could cut a longitudinal slit and remove the seeds and more of the sesame sauce will enter in the cavity of the chiles for a milder taste.
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Statement of Strategic Intent
**The below information is from the 2006-2016 UIS Strategic Plan. For information on the current 2018-2028 Strategic Compass, visit https://www.uis.edu/strategiccompass/ **
UIS will be recognized as one of the top five small public liberal arts universities in the United States.
We will achieve this by creating a world-class liberal arts oriented undergraduate educational experience reflecting many of the characteristics and best practices of small private liberal arts colleges while building on our many strengths. Among those strengths are professional academic programs, graduate education, and public affairs activities.
About our Statement of Strategic Intent
In the field of management and organizational development, strategic intent is defined as a compelling statement about where an organization is going that succinctly conveys a sense of what that organization wants to achieve in the long term. Strategic intent answers the question: "What exactly are we trying to accomplish?"
- Strategic intent can provide a sense of direction, a particular point of view about the long-term market or competitive position the organization hopes to develop and occupy.
- Strategic intent can provide a sense of discovery in that it holds out to the organization's members the promise of learning about other organizations that operate in the same market, adopting their best practices and avoiding pitfalls.
- Strategic intent can provide a sense of destiny, a worthwhile goal around which energies can be focused across the organization.
Based on this approach to the meaning of strategic intent, UIS puts forward the following statement of its strategic intent for the next decade:
"UIS will be recognized as one of the top five small public liberal arts universities in the United States."
What it means to be a small public liberal arts university
Understanding this statement – what it means and what it does not mean – involves the clarification of the idea of the small public liberal arts university.
Most fundamentally, in using the term "liberal arts" we endorse the values associated with that term – such as freedom of inquiry and acceptance and tolerance of differences of opinion and points of view. A liberal arts education environment has always been conducive to the success at UIS of liberal arts and professional programs, graduate education, public affairs activities, and traditional and non-traditional students.
Equally important, the small public liberal arts college or university designates an emerging sector of higher education consisting of public institutions of moderate size (fewer than 10,000 students, often in the range of 5,000) that have many of the characteristics of small private universities, but are distinguished by their uniquely public heritage, values, and governance.
The best among the small public liberal arts colleges and universities differ from the larger public research and doctorate-granting universities in size, scope, and mission. They look and feel like private liberal arts colleges; more important, they offer an intimacy in the intellectual experience that is difficult to replicate in large institutions.
Small public liberal arts colleges and universities typically emphasize civic engagement and service. They work to revitalize their curricula to better respond to growing societal needs, and they orient themselves to their communities, regions, and states.
There is no reason to think that a leading small public liberal arts university would not offer online degree programs. More fundamental than the mode of instruction is the approach to online instruction and characteristics of the students served. Key variables would be admissions selectivity, consistency with on-campus offerings, and learning outcomes. UIS' approach to and experience with online undergraduate degree completion programs is an extension of our commitment to serving non-traditional students and is consistent with what would be expected at leading small public liberal arts universities.
In aspiring to be one of the top five small public liberal arts universities, UIS refers to the nature of the institutions in the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC). COPLAC is an organization of leading small public liberal arts colleges and universities. COPLAC membership is limited to one institution per state. Presently, 21 institutions are COPLAC members, with no institution in Illinois represented. Of the 21 COPLAC institutions, six are classified as comprehensive universities.
Although COPLAC members emphasize liberal learning and superior liberal arts education, they also offer professional programs. All but one of these institutions offer professionally-oriented majors in fields such as education, business, legal studies, criminal justice, and computer science. Many offer graduate programs.
Not all small public liberal arts institutions are members of COPLAC. For example, U.S. News and World Report recognizes and ranks this category of institution and does not limit the listings to COPLAC members. The state of New Jersey has two notable small public liberal arts institutions – one is a COPLAC member; the second is rated as one of the top five small public liberal arts institutions by U.S. News and World Report, but is not a COPLAC member. Nonetheless, COPLAC does serve as a strong voice for the values of all small public liberal arts institutions and as an incubator for practices relevant to all institutions of this type.
Given these considerations, the idea that UIS could be recognized as one of the top small public liberal arts institutions in the country is a worthy goal that holds the promise of giving UIS a sense of direction, a sense of discovery, and a sense of destiny for the next decade.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The UMBC men's swimming and diving program, winners of 15 total conference championships, will compete at the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Championships starting in February 2014, the conference announced on Monday afternoon.
In addition to UMBC joining the CCSA, the University of the Incarnate Word and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will also be joining the league for the 2013-14 season.
"We're very excited to be joining the CCSA as it is a conference championship that is supported by several competitive conferences including the America East," said head swimming and diving coach Chad Cradock. "Our program would like to thank UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski, Vice President for Student Affairs Nancy Young, and Director of Athletics Tim Hall for their support in us making the change.
"The CCSA Championships will allow our men to continue to compete in a championship environment against quality swimmers in some of the best pools in the nation."
Last season, the Retrievers completed their second-ever undefeated dual meet season and then returned to the top of the America East by claiming their ninth conference title in ten years. As a team UMBC broke ten pool records, five school records, four meet records, and three conference records while scoring a championship meet record 1,075 points.
"We appreciate the opportunity that the CSSA is extending to our men's program," UMBC Director of Athletics Tim Hall said. "This move allows our swimmers the chance to compete and contend for a championship at the highest level."
The CCSA is a Division I men's and women's swimming conference comprised of 15 members from seven states and Washington, D.C. Davidson College won the 2013 men's title, edging the College of Charleston and Gardner-Webb, while Florida Gulf Coast earned the women's championship.
"I want to thank the administration of the CCSA for including UMBC in an already successful championship and to the America East for supporting us throughout the process," Cradock added.
The 2014 CCSA Championships will be held Feb. 20-22 at Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Tennessee.
CCSA Members – Men's Programs Only
University of the Incarnate Word
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Virginia Military Institute (VMI)


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Kevin Durant set a season high with 41 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder held off the Atlanta Hawks 100-92 on Wednesday night for their 12th straight win.
Russell Westbrook had 27 points - 21 in the first half - and 11 assists. Durant, who had 18 points in the fourth period, had 13 rebounds.
No other Oklahoma City player scored in double figures.
Oklahoma City (21-4) improved the NBA's best record and atoned for a 104-95 home loss to the Hawks on Nov. 4. That loss left Oklahoma City 1-2; it is 20-2 since then and hasn't lost since Nov. 23 at Boston.
The 12 straight wins matches the longest streak for the franchise since 1996, when it had a 14-game winning streak as the Seattle SuperSonics.


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Hunter's hair softens, adds depth
Different 'dos enable eclectic charactersHolly Hunter's formidably feminine locks deserve mention as supporting actors in their own right, as they regularly serve to soften and add depth to her typically feisty characters.
But examine her repertoire and you'll discover there's much more to the 5-foot-nothing Hunter than long hair and cojones. Masterfully malleable, Hunter is the ideal blank canvas, slipping easily from a period bonnet, fingerless gloves and looped braids (in "The Piano") to talonlike nails and a suburban perm (in "The Firm") and a fetishy square bob and pantyhose (in David Cronenberg's "Crash"). Quirky, intense and physical, Hunter is a covert chameleon whose myriad physical guises are as eclectic as the roles she plays.
"When Billie Beat Bobby" (2001)
Foot-Forward Feminist Mullet
Holly Hunter is virtually unrecognizable in this 2001 TV biopic about the 1973 tennis match between court star Billie Jean King and middle-aged champ Bobby Riggs. To authentically portray BJK, the actress ditched her regular mane in favor of a mullet wig and Palm Springs-style visor teamed with pastel tennis tunics, enormous vintage glasses and lapels. Her naturally toned and wiry frame added to the believability of this period look, an authentic slice of 1970s feminist history.
"Crash" (1996)
Square-Cut Subversion
Was it the conservative business suit teamed with black-leather driving gloves? Or maybe the way she caressed her sheer black pantyhose or clutched Rosanna Arquette's prosthetic leg in the back seat of a convertible? In David Cronenberg's "Crash," Holly Hunter's uneasy blend of propriety and deviance revealed another facet to her sex appeal, one in which a dowdy helmet bob (reminiscent of Vogue editor Anna Wintour's iconic 'do) masks her self-destructive urges.
"Saving Grace" (2007)
Blond Flower-Child Braids
For her TV role as Grace, a tough-as-nails Oklahoma City police detective subject to the occasional angelic visitation, Hunter uses her flowing locks to full effect, contrasting her character's forceful demeanor with blond flower-child braids that hint at vulnerability and softness within. Hunter has said she specifically requested the braided style because of its association with tradition and classic femininity.
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000)
Sunday-Best Southern Matriarch
Here Hunter plays Penny, a pursed-lipped, Depression-era mother of seven who sports sensible calf-length frocks and tucks her tresses beneath a series of rather prim straw cloche hats. Her mouselike appearance serves to contast the obvious truth -- that she's the one wearing the pants in the relationship with her caddish hubby.
"A Life Less Ordinary" (1997)
Locked-and-Loaded Bounty Hunter
In Danny Boyle's gonzo romance, Hunter plays a glamorous angel-slash-bounty hunter in danger of being banished to Earth unless she can bring together the most hapless couple imaginable. Her comically clipped, deadpan delivery is accentuated by high-fashion-meets-Wall-Street costumes -- pointed shoulder pads and power suits accented with an enormous beret perched atop her flowing hair -- all of which add extra stiffness to a character who clearly has no inkling of what love is.
"The Incredibles" (2004)
Soccer Mom Bob
Pixar's "The Incredibles" was animated, but one could easily have imagined Hunter, who voiced Elastigirl, playing the role onscreen. A superhero turned average American, Elastigirl's purposely "normal" soccer mom bob is so suburban, so cliched, it of course hints at the frustration and chaos that seethe within -- themes Hunter relishes.