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Castleblayney or Castleblaney (/ˌkæsəlˈbleɪni/; Irish: Baile na Lorgan) is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town has a population of 3,634 according to the 2011 census. Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny.
Irish: Baile na Lorgan
Muckno Street in Castleblayney town centre
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The town lies above the western shore of Lough Muckno, the largest lake in County Monaghan. The River Fane flows eastwards from the lake to the Irish Sea at Dundalk in County Louth. As the Irish name of the lake ('the place where pigs swim') suggests, the area is associated with the Black Pig's Dyke, also known locally in parts of Counties Cavan and Monaghan as the Worm Ditch, an ancient Iron Age boundary of Ulster.
A few miles to the north-east is the highest elevation in County Monaghan, 'Mullyash', at altitude 317 m (1,034 ft). Markets and fair days were held in the town since the 17th century, but these have faded away in recent decades. Beyond the town there are a variety of proposed natural heritage sites.[citation needed]
The area was originally known as Baile na Lorgan ("town of the long low ridge"), anglicised as 'Ballynalurgan'.[7] It was also sometimes called Caisleán Mathghamhna.
17th and 18th centuriesEdit
The town of Castleblayney originated in the Tudor conquest of Gaelic Ulster in the Nine Years' War of 1594–1603. In 1611, the Crown granted forfeited lands in the area previously owned by the MacMahon chieftains to Sir Edward Blayney of Montgomeryshire in Wales for his service to Queen Elizabeth I. Sir Edward was later created The 1st Baron Blayney, in July 1621. King James I had already granted him appropriated Augustinian church land (or 'termon') at Muckno Friary on the northeastern side of the lake in the Churchill area (Mullandoy) in 1606/7. The small town 'founded' by Sir Edward Blayney in 1611 or 1612 is recorded as being called Castleblayney at least as early as 1663.[7][8]
Muckno is also the name given to the Catholic parish (St. Mary's, Castleblayney, and St Patrick's, Oram, just three miles north-east of the town), which is part of the Diocese of Clogher. The Church of Ireland parish is also called Muckno (St Maeldoid's), and is part of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher. The Parish of Muckno covers most of the areas around the lough and town. Originally the Parish of Muckno was restricted to the area to the east and north of the lake and the Derrycreevey River, i.e. the Oram area. With the establishment of the Church of Ireland church and the Blayney seat on the southern side of the lake, the area of the new town became part of Muckno. The Catholic parish followed a similar pattern at the end of the Penal Laws period. Prior to this, the area now covered by the town was part of Clontibret parish.
Following the arrival of the Blayney family, the nucleus of the town developed around the original Blayney Castle, above the western shore overlooking the lough. The old monastic and parish church site fell into disrepair and largely disappeared, though it was used as a graveyard that has recently seen some restoration. For the first hundred years the 'town' was little more than a vulnerable, besieged fortification due to the widespread instability, insurgency and wars throughout Britain and Ireland for much of the 17th century.
The piecemeal settlement of English and even some French Huguenot incomers, all of the Protestant faith in contrast to the continuing Catholicism of most of the native population, was followed by a significant influx of largely Ulster-Scots settlers after 1690 when greater security prevailed.[citation needed]
Population displacement and settlement, along with gradual urban and commercial development, the crossroads location, the National Schools system and the Famine – as well as the incorporation of the town into the rail network (1849) – all helped hasten the decline of the vernacular Irish spoken in the area. However, in rural districts to the south and south-east of the town – particularly Lisdoonan and the barony of Farney as well as parts of neighbouring South Armagh – the language was quite widely spoken among country people and written by local scribes until the mid-19th century. Some native speakers of Irish remained into the 20th century. Old Irish music and songs have been recovered in recent times.
In 1762 a demonstration occurred in the town accompanied by a threatening military presence. This was connected with the 'Oakboys' movement that was active in the county. The protest was about compulsory work – to repair public roads as well as private roads and avenues in demesnes owned by the gentry – that was exacted from agricultural labourers for no wages.
The 11th Baron BlayneyEdit
The modern planned town – reminiscent of Plantation towns with its characteristic wide main street and with long, narrow individual gardens to the rear and out of sight – dates from c. 1830. The modern town was largely laid out under the direction of Lieutenant-General The Rt Hon. The 11th Baron Blayney (1770–1834), who inherited the family peerage and the large Blayney Estate as an adolescent in 1784.[8] By about 1800 the then young Lord Blayney had ordered and implemented major reforms in Castleblayney, greatly improving the prosperity and appearance of the town.[9] Educated in France and Germany, the 11th Lord Blayney is famous for his distinguished military career, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General, having served in the West Indies, South America, southern Africa and the Napoleonic Wars as commander of the 89th Foot, popularly known as 'Blayney's Bloodhounds'. As a peer, he was very active in the suppression of the revolt of the United Irishmen in 1798.
It was the 11th Lord Blayney who had the modern Blayney Castle (also known as Castle Blayney) constructed around the year 1800.[10] In 1799 Lord Blayney commissioned Robert Woodgate, a former student of Sir John Soane, to design the new Blayney Castle.[11] Woodgate, a distinguished young architect, had first come over to Ireland in 1791 to supervise Soane's plans for Baronscourt, the new country house of The 1st Marquess of Abercorn, near Newtownstewart in County Tyrone.[11] The new Blayney Castle was built in a restrained late Georgian style.[10] It is thought that this new 'castle' (in reality a country house), located in the townland of Onomy, was built close to the site of the original Blayney Castle, of which nothing now survives above ground.[7][11] The house built for the 11th Lord Blayney was later, in the 1850s and early 1860s, substantially altered and enlarged for Henry Thomas Hope and his wife.[12]
Blayney Castle, renamed Hope Castle in the early 1850s, stands in a demesne or park on the eastern edge of Castleblayney town itself. It is thought that this demesne pre-dates the current 'castle'; that large parts of it had already been laid out by the early 1770s.[13] The demesne was substantially improved for the 11th Lord Blayney by William Sawrey Gilpin in the early 1830s.[14] Alas, this once fine demesne has greatly deteriorated since it came into public ownership in the 1980s.[14] Almost all of the large Italianate Victorian extension to Hope Castle was demolished by Monaghan County Council in the 1980s.[15]
Relatively enlightened,[citation needed] socially progressive, and professedly committed to the welfare and improvement of the people and county of Monaghan, the 11th Lord Blayney also provided for the erection in Castleblayney of the current church buildings of the Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches, being tolerant in religion if traditionalist in politics and strongly supportive of Empire and the Anglo-Irish 'Ascendancy'. He also had a Market House built, on to which the Courthouse was later superimposed in the quasi-centre of the town. It and the former Alms Houses (1876), which were interdenominationally managed, are the only civic buildings of any architectural merit in the town. As for older dwellings, a row of formerly Muckno Estate workers' cottages in Church St, possibly of Continental style, is of fine design and quality (apart from modern PVC windows). Some more substantial bourgeois houses in the square close to the Castle gates have Georgian echoes. The courthouse will soon undergo major refurbishment and restoration. About 40 structures and buildings are designated as being of 'regional or local importance'.
In the early 1840s, what is now St Mary's Hospital was erected as a Workhouse for the very poor. In the course of the year 1849, following the dire effects of the Famine, it catered for up to 2000 inmates in an extreme state of destitution and misery. Its own graveyard is nearby. In later times, the Workhouse became a 'County Home' for the infirm.[citation needed]
Hope family and afterEdit
In 1853 The Rt Hon. Cadwallader, 12th Baron Blayney, sometime M.P. for Monaghan, sold Blayney Castle and what remained of the Blayney Estate to Henry Thomas Hope from Deepdene in Surrey, an extremely wealthy businessman who had also formerly served as an M.P. at Westminster. The 12th Baron was the last Baron Blayney. The Castle was renamed 'Hope Castle', as it is still called. Hope gave the Georgian castle with its splendid prospect a Victorian makeover that the present prettified building retains, externally at least. 'Castle' has always been a misnomer, since it was more of a 'Big House', mansion or manor house than a castle.
After his death in 1862, Hope's wife Anne inherited the estate. Soon after 1887 the Castle and demesne fell to the next heir, Hope's grandson Lord Francis Hope (1866–1941), who was famous for having sold the renowned family heirloom, the 'Hope Diamond'. Rather like his father The 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, Lord Francis lived very extravagantly and, despite his once vast family fortune, was declared bankrupt in 1896. From 1894 to 1902, he was married to May Yohé, the American actress. After 1916 Lord Francis no longer resided in the Castle or in Ireland. He succeeded his elder brother to become His Grace The 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne in late May 1928.
Hope Castle was leased between 1900 and 1904 to H.R.H. Field Marshal The 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, a son of Queen Victoria.[15] The Duke served during those years as the commander of British military forces in Ireland, whose official residence was the Master's House at the Royal Hospital, in Kilmainham, Dublin. The Duke leased Hope Castle from the Pelham-Clinton-Hope family as his private country residence during these years.
The 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1866-1941; previously known as Lord Francis Hope) sold his life interest in the castle and the estate in 1928,[15] the same year he succeeding to the dukedom, short of cash and unable to access the capital endowed into his grandmother's monetary trusts. What remained of the estate was subsequently broken up and used, in part, for local political patronage. During 'The Emergency' (World War II), the old woods on the Black Island in Lough Muckno were comprehensively despoiled by the government, so that for several decades the island was a wilderness and environmental eyesore. The woods were only reinstated in recent times as a valuable amenity.
Between 1919 and 1921, during the Anglo-Irish military hostilities over independence, the Castle was used as a barracks by the British Army. For some time afterwards it functioned as a hospital, and from 1943 to 1974 it was occupied by Franciscan nuns who also managed an adjacent guesthouse. In the 1980s Monaghan County Council purchased both Hope Castle and its surrounding demesne or park. It then proceeded in the 1980s to demolish the large Italianate Victorian extension to the castle.[15] The council also allowed the remaining Woodgate interiors to be ripped out at this time.[15]
After some years of neglect, the castle has been used for catering and hotel purposes set in what is now a Leisure Park with golf course, though the location and lough suffer from being in management and conservation limbo. The current Castleblayney Golf Club adopted the Blayney family coat of arms, with its three nags' heads. In October 2010 the Castle was burnt down in an arson attack.
Rail services in the town ceased on New Year's Day 1960.
The modern town of Castleblayney is administered by Monaghan County Council. It forms part of the Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District which elects six of the eighteen members of the Council.
For over one hundred and sixty years the town had its own local or Town council until May 2014. Town government began in Castleblayney on 17 May 1853 when 21 Town Commissioners were elected on foot of a proclamation by His Excellency The 3rd Earl of St Germans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, dated 10 April 1853. In 1865 the Town Commissioners voted to bring the town under the Town Improvement (Ireland) Act 1847 and in 1899 the nine Town Commissioners were replaced by an Urban District Council, re-designated as a Town Council under the Local Government Act 2001. The Local Government Reform Act 2014 brought town government to an end replaced it with the integrated municipal district (town and rural areas) and county system.
- Castleblayney opened a Community Enterprise Centre in 1987.
- One shopping centre is located in the town; SuperValu is the anchor tenant.
- A new €120m by-pass from Castleblayney to Clontibret opened on 5 November 2007, linking Castleblayney directly to the M1 Motorway and to Dublin. The bypass consists of 16 kilometres of 2+1 carriageway.
- The town is served by Bus Éireann, Ulsterbus and several private coach companies.
- Castleblayney is no longer served by railway. Castleblayney railway station opened on 15 February 1849, closed to passengers on 14 October 1957, and finally closed altogether on 1 January 1960.[16]
- The 11th Baron Blayney (see above)
- General Eoin O'Duffy (1892–1944) was born at Caraghdoo, Laragh, near Lough Egish, south of Castleblayney.
- Clare Sheridan, sculptress.
- Thomas Hughes, awarded the Victoria Cross.
- Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. A son of Queen Victoria, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in Ireland from 1900 to 1904, when he also rented Hope Castle in Castleblayney as a residence outside Dublin.
- James McMahon Graham, who after emigrating to the United States became an attorney in Illinois.
- Hugh Keenan was born in Castleblayney; after emigrating to Pittsburgh he became a lawyer, and served as US Consul in Dublin from 1847 to 1850, and in Cork from 1854 to 1859. He is buried in the town.
- Eamonn Toal, Irish Representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
- Big Tom McBride, musician
- Robert Ross McBurney, born in Castleblayney in 1836. In the 1850s, he emigrated to America where he became a prominent leader of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in New York City in the latter 19th century. He died in 1898. The McBurney YMCA in New York City is named in his honor as was the McBurney School, a private school established by the YMCA in New York in 1916 which closed in 1988.
International relationsEdit
Castleblayney is twinned with two towns in France: Nogent-sur-Vernisson (Loiret department) and Marseillan (Hérault department).
The local Gaelic Athletic Association club, Castleblayney Faugh's GAC, was founded in November 1905. There are also two soccer clubs located in Castleblayney, Blayney Academy FC formed in 2010 and Blayney Rovers FC.
The town has two second-level schools, Our Lady's Castleblayney and Castleblayney College. The latter is a co-educational school which had a €5 million extension built recently.
There are five national schools in Castleblayney: Scoil na gCailíní, Scoil Mhuire na mBuachaillí, Convent Junior School, The Central School and Gaelscoil Lorgan.
See alsoEdit
- ^ "Census 2011 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area" (PDF). Central Statistics Office Census 2011 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ Census for post 1821 figures.
- ^ http://www.histpop.org Archived 7 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 2014-02-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Lee, JJ (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.). Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x.[dead link]
- ^ a b c Patrick McKay, A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names, p. 37. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, 1999.
- ^ a b Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (popularly known as the Pevsner Guide to South Ulster), p. 229. Yale, London, 2013.
- ^ Mulligan (2013), pp. 229-230.
- ^ a b Mulligan(2013), pp. 236–237.
- ^ a b c Mulligan (2013), p. 236.
- ^ Mulligan (2013), pp. 237-239.
- ^ Mulligan (2013), pp. 239-240.
- ^ a b Mulligan (2013), p. 240.
- ^ a b c d e Mulligan (2013), p. 239.
- ^ "Castleblayney station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 16 September 2007.
Reference worksEdit
- Borderlands: Essays on the History of the Ulster-Leinster Border, ed. by Raymond Gillespie and Harold O'Sullivan (Belfast, 1989).
- Gary Carville, 'On the Way: The Journey of the People of Muckno', with 'A Survey of the Placenames of Muckno' by Bishop Joseph Duffy, (Castleblayney: 2011).
- Peter Collins & A.P.W. Malcomson, The Blayney of Castleblayney Papers in The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. For outline of holdings with survey of family and estate history, see Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20070608125101/http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/blayney.htm#top(1998).
- Patrick J. Duffy, Landscapes of South Ulster—A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher (Belfast, 1993).
- Charles Laverty, 'The old name of Castleblayney', in: County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, vol. I/4 (1907), 29-33.
- Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London, 1837. 1842).
- Peadar Livingstone, The Monaghan Story, Clogher Historical Society (Enniskillen, 1980)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (on Andrew Blayney, Clare Sheridan, Eoin O'Duffy, and Samuel Hemphill).
- Photographic Memories: a pictorial history of Castleblayney, Castleblayney Heritage Group Millennium Publication (Castleblayney, 1999).
- Evelyn P. Shirley, The History of the County of Monaghan (London 1869). Reprint 1988.
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life without sadie
February 22, 2011 at 9:21 pm 2 comments
on sunday, february 20, 2011, my husband and i put our sweet old beagle to sleep. we were blessed to be able to have our vet come to our house, so sadie passed away in the comfort of her own living room, surrounded by her family: myself, jason, and our other dog, molly.
poor sadie was 14 (give or take a few years; we never knew because she was a rescue) and had lived through a lot of crappy medical issues. in chronological order: chronic urinary tract infections–that had to be managed over the course of her life with expensive prescription food and antibiotics when she got stressed out—she must've had at least 40 over her little lifetime; she had a malignant mammary tumor that required two surgeries; she had cataracts; rocky mountain spotted fever; she was basically deaf and blind; she had a stroke that preceded a year of canine dementia, aka pacing all night long and getting stuck under chairs and in cabinets; a malignant melanoma on her eyelid; and old lady bumps that weren't healing. and—oh yeah—she had been incontinent for about 5 years. most recently, she was going to the bathroom inside right in front of us, meaning we couldn't walk safely through our house without checking for bombs and puddles. she was taking a very strong opiate paint killer twice a day and she was maxed out on prednisone. in other words, we were out of reasonable interventions.
when she started having trouble lying down, sometimes whimpering in pain or confusion, we decided it was time. as anyone who's ever contemplated euthanasia will know, this was not a decision we came to easily. for anyone who's struggling with an older dog, i highly recommend the book good old dog: expert advice for keeping your aging dog happy, healthy, and comfortable, edited by nicholas dodman with lawrence lindner, written with input from faculty of the vet school at tufts university. the advice we got from the book helped us eke out three more months with our little lady.
you don't always get to choose when, where, and how your dog will go, but we knew things were headed downhill, so we were able to give sadie a great last weekend. lots of chicken–something she normally couldn't have–pancakes for breakfast, and lots and lots of treats.
the letters that follow are my way of dealing with what has surprised me as a heartbreaking loss. i really thought i was more psychologically prepared, as we had already started to grieve her loss before we made our end of life decision. but as it turns out, all the crying in the world couldn't save me from even more crying. my eyes have never been so puffy and raw.
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Sorry to hear this. Condolences. Good old Sadie.
amy, am so sorry for your loss. my mom was the one who had to make the call this summer for our dog greta. she was also 14. i had her from two weeks old when someone abandoned her on the side of the road. she was too young to be away from her mother so our neighbor/vet was the one who told us we should keep her. she never knew she was a dog.
he was also the one who came over on the day my mom made the call she and i had been talking about for a year. we kept tossing around the idea of quality of life and what that means for pets. pet owners are quick to say their pets are like their children, which is what makes the logical decision for some the heart-wrenching one for us.
i cried for days. if i think about it too long even still it is overwhelming [like now].
i made my mom and i a photobook of greta as a christmas present. we cried a lot. we laughed a lot. and hopefully as years go by it won't hurt as much, but the memories will still be strong.
my heart goes out to you and jason. i'm glad you still have a dog to keep you company. the house gets too quiet with no pups around.
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I can't believe it's already time to depart dear old London and head across the Atlantic to participate in another UDS. Although "participate in" doesn't feel like the right verb, does it? UDS is a frantic, electric whirligig of meetings and conversations and decisions and on-the-spot calls, cool ideas and grand hopes, energy and exhaustion. "Almost drown in" would be closer. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm a little bit daunted. The last one took more out of me than I thought I had.
To make my own life easier and satisfy whatever stalkers I may have been fortunate enough to accumulate, I thought I'd post now about what sessions I'm planning on going to at UDS:
- 11: Linaro Roundtable / catch up with other Launchpadders
- 12: Review and planning for Ubuntu Distributed Development
- 15: Natty Harvest Plans
- 16: Ubuntu Development Advocacy
- 9: [BOF for metrics for release and project management](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-launchpad-n-metrichooks) - 10: Either [Enhancements to the Software Center UI](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/appdevs-desktop-n-software-center-ui-enhancements) or [Patch tracking for Linaro](https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/Specs/PatchTracking)
- 10: [Launchpad and Upstreams](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-launchpad-for-upstreams) - 11: [Replace the Partner repository with PPAs](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/software-center/+spec/other-foundations-n-partner-repository)
- 10: [Git for Bazaar users](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-general-n-git-for-bzr-users) - 11: [Discussion of topics related to Canonical-wide QA](https://wiki.canonical.com/CoP/QA/UDS-NAgenda) - 12: [Improve the workflow for "fixing a bug"](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-improve-fixing-a-bug-workflow) or [Define the end-to-end process for commercial apps in the software center](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/appdevs-n-commercial-apps)
- 9: [Discuss Soyuz work to be done in preparation for Archive Reorganization](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveReorganisation/Components/Preparation) - 10: Either [Improve the image-building service for Linaro](https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/Specs/ImageBuildPolish) or [Handling non-English bugs](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-qa-n-handling-nonenglish-bugs) - 11: [Launchpad/Bazaar introduction](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-launchpad-n-launchpad-bazaar-introduction) - 12: [Linaro infrastructure stakeholder process](https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/StakeholderProcess) - 15: [High-level development overview](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-high-level-dev-overview)
Of course, I'll probably be going to sessions other than the ones I've mentioned above. Sessions about how to design applications well or how to write code for Ubuntu One always catch my eye.
However, my job is about improving developer collaboration – that's pretty much the whole point of Launchpad. So any session about development tools, development process or interactions between different groups of people always take precedence. I'm at UDS to listen and to learn, and to contribute what little I can.


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Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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RTI Biologics Announces Positive Clinical Results for BioCleanse®-Processed BTB Allografts Used in A
RTI Biologics Announces Positive Clinical Results for BioCleanse®-Processed BTB Allografts Used in ACL Reconstruction
Company to highlight implant at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Ill.
ALACHUA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RTI Biologics Inc. (RTI) (NAS: RTIX) , a leading provider of orthopedic and other biologic implants, is pleased to announce the results of a recent randomized prospective clinical study of BioCleanse®-processed bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) allografts used in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. The study was published in the peer reviewed journal, Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, in December 2012.
The article compares the clinical outcomes of BTB allografts processed using RTI's patented BioCleanse Tissue Sterilization Process with a control group consisting of aseptically-processed allografts from the three U.S. tissue banks that provide this type of allograft. According to the American Association of Tissue Banks' 13th edition of Standards for Tissue Banking, aseptic processing refers to the processing of tissue using methods to prevent, restrict or minimize contamination with microorganisms from the environment, processing personnel, and/or equipment. A total of 67 patients undergoing ACL reconstruction at six independent investigation sites were evaluated at six, 12 and 24 months. After randomization, 24 patients received aseptic BTB allografts and 43 patients received BioCleanse-sterilized allografts.
"These results indicate that the sterilization process, BioCleanse, did not demonstrate a statistical difference in clinical outcomes for the BTB allograft at two years," authors find. "The BioCleanse process may provide surgeons with allografts clinically similar to aseptically-processed allograft tissue with the benefit of addressing donor-to-recipient disease."
According to Millennium Research Group's "U.S. Markets for Orthopedic Soft Tissue Solutions 2011" report, more than 457,400 ACL reconstructions are performed annually in the U.S., with 21 percent of those using allograft implants. According to the authors, the use of allograft tissue in ACL reconstruction has been noted to decrease operating time, eliminate donor site morbidity and increase the tissue available for multi-ligament cases. The one disadvantage compared with autografts (the use of one's own tissue) or metal and synthetic implants, is that disease can be transmitted as a result of an aseptically-processed allograft.
However, RTI's BioCleanse Tissue Sterilization Process, a patented, validated, automated process provides surgeons with a safe option for allografts. The system sterilizes tissue to SAL 10-6 using a complex, proprietary combination of mechanical and chemical processes, working in conjunction with each other. The mechanical component applies oscillating positive and negative pressure in the presence of the chemical agents (including detergents and sterilants), which gently perfuse the tissue. This combination removes blood and lipids, and inactivates or removes pathogenic microorganisms. Repeated water rinses throughout the process remove debris, and final water rinses remove residual chemicals, leaving the tissue biocompatible. The BioCleanse process does not use excessive heat or irradiation to sterilize tissue.
"This study provides further evidence that BioCleanse-processed implants are a safe alternative to autografts," said Roger Rose, RTI's executive vice president and chief commercial officer. "BioCleanse sterilizes tissue without the potentially harmful side effects of other methods."
The safety of allograft tissue is contingent on three stages: donor screening, laboratory testing and tissue preparation validated to address potential disease transmission. Some companies rely only on donor screening, laboratory testing and aseptic processing for the safety of their implants.
"When we launched BioCleanse in March 2000 it was the first of its kind in terms of allograft tissue sterilization for our industry," said Brian K. Hutchison, president and CEO. "The low-temperature chemical sterilization process inactivates or removes bacteria, fungi, spores and viruses from tissue without compromising the biocompatibility or structural integrity of the tissue. The positive results of this clinical study prove just that. Surgeons and patients can rest assured knowing that RTI provides allografts that will maintain their biomechanical integrity the same as aseptically-processed implants, while addressing the risk of donor-to-recipient infection."
Where possible, RTI has advanced beyond the use of aseptic processing, which does not ensure the removal or inactivation of microorganisms inherent to the donor or tissue, to better protect recipients from the risk of donor-to-recipient disease transmission. RTI's proprietary, validated sterilization processes have a proven track record of more than four million implants distributed with zero incidence of implant-associated infection. To learn more, visit www.rtibiologics.com/safety/sterilization-processes.
The article entitled, "Aseptically processed and chemically sterilized BTB allografts for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a prospective randomized study," can be downloaded for free at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00167-012-2309-7. Authors are: Peter A. Indelicato, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.; Michael G. Ciccotti, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa.; Joel Boyd, TRIA Orthopaedic Center, Minneapolis, Minn.; Laurence D. Higgins, Brigham and Women's Hospital-Ortho, Boston, Mass.; Benjamin S. Shaffer, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and C. Thomas Vangsness Jr., University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
To learn more about RTI's BioCleanse-processed BTB allografts, as well as the company's full biologic portfolio, visit the RTI Biologics booth, #3823, at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Ill., March 19-23.
About RTI Biologics Inc.
RTI Biologics Inc. is a leading provider of sterile biologic implants for surgeries around the world with a commitment to advancing science, safety and innovation. RTI prepares human donated tissue and xenograft tissue for transplantation through extensive testing and screening, precision shaping and using proprietary, validated processes. These allograft and xenograft implants are used in orthopedic, dental and other specialty surgeries.
RTI's innovations continuously raise the bar of science and safety for biologics - from being the first company to offer precision-tooled bone implants and assembled technology to maximize each gift of donation, to inventing validated sterilization processes that include viral inactivation steps. These processes — BioCleanse®, Tutoplast® and Cancelle® SP DBM — have a combined record of more than four million implants distributed with zero incidence of implant-associated infection. These processes have been validated by tissue type to inactivate or remove viruses, bacteria, fungi and spores from the tissue while maintaining biocompatibility and functionality.
RTI's worldwide corporate headquarters are located in Alachua, Fla., with international locations in Germany and France. The company is accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks in the United States and is a member of AdvaMed.
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Using Named ranges to do 3d validation
Let's say that you want to collect data like this on a data entry sheet.
And you want to validate that a valid color is entered for the combination of make/type in addition to validating the entries for Make and Model.
Firstly, create a table for validation that looks like this
Validating the model
This is pretty straightforward. Our dynamic named range - Models - looks like this
and can be applied as a data Validation list to the Make Column (A) of the data entry sheet.
Validating the Make
Our dynamic named range -Makes- looks like this.
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This past Sunday, I had an interesting debate with a friend of my mine whom I'll refer to as "Peter" in this article. Mainly because that is his real name.
Peter is the VP of R&D for a cloud-software company in southern California.
He told me (and I'm paraphrasing):
"Product Managers and Business Analysts are dying roles, because with Agile/Scrum there is no need for these roles any more. Soon these roles will be eliminated from most of the software companies."
This statement annoyed the heck out of me. Hence the sigh at the beginning of this post.
Peter and I had a lively (but short) debate, we had to cut it short because we both have day jobs – which seep into weekends! I told him I will make a couple of blog posts to explain my take on this.
So, here is the first one for you, Peter! As I explained in this post, Agile is a "development" process – i.e. a process used by developers, to develop software.
As you know, Product Managers are *NOT* developers! Neither are Business Analysts! PMs and BAs play a different role – mainly focused on understanding customer needs, and translating those needs into clear requirements. These requirements are then used by developers to build the product – using agile, waterfall, spiral, or whatever software development process suits their
fancy needs!
When I asked you who will define the details of what needs to be built, once PMs and BAs are history – you said something along the lines of:
"Product Owner or whoever. If no one is available, my developers can do it themselves as they are well-trained in Scrum."
Please see this post for my take on how PMs are different from Product Owners.
And, I'd say about 80-90% of the developers I've worked with (whether Scrum-trained or not) have neither the interest nor the skill set to play PM and BA roles. If you ask developers to do it, I think:
- Most of them will do a bad job – due to lack of interest and skill set, not lack of IQ.
- And, they will be unhappy about having to do something completely unrelated to programming.
Anyways, I will stop here for now – as I'm running late on a bunch of tasks related to my day job, which includes building software for the "dying" roles of product managers and business analysts! Until next time…
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As a part of our partnership, Tennessee Valley Pediatrics led a mission trip to Haiti last march. In order to buy mediations for the trip, we sold t-shirts with a Bible verse and our logo on them along with healthy snacks in our lobby. We were so blessed, and honestly amazed by the support we received. Hundreds of patients bought shirts and snacks and prayed for us. People gave money at the check-out window. We raised enough to pay for almost all of our medications. It was incredible to see so many people in our community praying for us and the people in Haiti. And it is exciting to see people in town wearing shirts that advertise for our business and for Jesus. This partnership has become a way for us to be a light in our community as well as in Haiti.
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Well, I don't know if MINI reads this ol' blog but yesterday I got a letter in the mail on the subject of the air bag warning light:
We have found and repaired cases in which a wiring harness connector for the side air bag and safety-belt pretensioner has partially loosened. When this occurred the increase in electrical resistance caused the red airbag warning to light up.
The letter suggests having the vehicle looked at as soon as possible if the light comes on to make sure that it is only this problem rather than a serious one. The letter says that in all cases so far, this wiring defect would not have caused a problem with the airbags should an accident have occurred.
Finally, the letter extends the warranty coverage of the vehicle for defects that may occur, for this specific issue, to 10 years/150,000 miles. And there is a sticker for the warranty book to prove it.
Very interesting, I am still going to wait until the oil service in 1200 miles to have it checked but now I am hopeful this isn't a seat cover issue at all.


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Siomai is one of my favorite dumplings, therefore it is a must that I should learn to make it :) Actually it is easy and simple to do, so why don't you try it? Do not be afraid to try cooking new recipes that is one way to learn in cooking. Enjoy cooking my friends.
250 grams ground pork
30 siomai wrapper
1 onion ( minced)
5 cloves garlic ( minced)
1 carrot ( minced)
1 egg beaten
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
salt to taste
1. Set aside the wrapper then mix all the ingredients very well.
2. Spoon a small amount then wrap with the siomai wrapper
3. After wrapping, put in the steamer and steam for 30 minutes or until done.
4. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce.


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For children who had a bonus day off school, winter sports enthusiasts and lovers of snowy scenes it was a joyful day. For the parents who had to take time out to look after those excited children and anyone who had to get anywhere fast it was much more challenging, as up to 30cm of snow brought parts of the UK grinding to a halt.
The fun – or misery depending on the point of view – is likely to carry on into next week with fresh snow predicted and icy weather expected to continue to grip Britain. The thaw is not expected to set in until the week after next. On Friday around 3,000 schools in England, Wales and Scotland were shut. Stretches of motorways were blocked, dozens of rail and bus services disrupted and airport runways, including Heathrow, shut for periods.
Thousands of householders, from Pembrokeshire in the far south-west of Wales to Kensington in west London, had to cope with power cuts while some hospitals cancelled routine operations and emergency services asked people only to dial 999 if they were in real trouble.
A 16-year-old girl was airlifted to hospital after suffering head and back injuries in a snowboarding accident at Wrightington in Lancashire and police in Somerset launched an appeal over an 89-year-old man, Peter Carver, who went missing from Taunton in the early hours of Friday.
The snow began falling in the early hours of Friday morning with parts of south Wales and south-west England the worst hit. The Met Office, which issued a rare "red" warning for the Brecon Beacons and the Welsh valleys, said the deepest snow was at Sennybridge, near Brecon, where 25cm was measured. Higher up there were even more severe drifts, whipped up by winds as strong as 40mph.
Across the Severn, 16cm of snow fell at Filton, near Bristol, while 15cm was measured in the Blackdown Hills on the border of Devon and Somerset. There were also significant falls in the east of England, including Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. During the day the band of snow caused problems in the Midlands, the home counties and London.
Over the weekend, significant snowfalls are predicted in the Scottish Highlands and there is expected to be flurries of snow in central England, East Anglia and north-west England on Saturday and during Sunday. On Sunday evening another band of snow is expected to sweep across south-east England and there could be one or two further falls next week.
Temperatures are expected to remain around freezing until the week after next when the thaw should finally set in.
Among the problem spots on the motorways was the M4 in south Wales and the M50 in Herefordshire. On Friday evening the M48 Severn Crossing was closed to traffic.
Anticipating the snow, some train companies reduced services and as the day wore on there were severe delays on some London tube lines. Airports including Cardiff, Southampton, Norwich, Birmingham and Belfast were hit. Heathrow had to close both its runways for a time so that snow could be cleared and almost 400 flights were cancelled.
The Highways Agency said gritters were out in force. However there were disputes over whether roads had been treated properly. In Newport on the Isle of Wight residents of one street were so upset that their road had not been gritted that they built a barricade – out of snow – and hurled snowballs at police officers when they arrived on the scene.
There was a spat between the mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, and the leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the city council, Tim Kent, after the decision was made not to make extra deliveries of grit. Ferguson said it would cost an extra £20,000. Kent argued that not providing the grit cost millions of pounds in lost business as people could not get to work.
In Scotland a search and rescue operation was launched to find a woman separated from a group of hikers in the Cairngorms. She was later discovered safe and well.
The snow led to the closure of more than 3,000 schools in England and Wales and resulted in the postponement of some A-level exams.
Shops were selling out of sledges as youngsters headed to the slopes to take advantage of an extra day off. Skiers were spotted on hills in Wiltshire and on the downs in Bristol. Stores were running short of bread and milk after some householders decided to stock up for the cold snap. In Bath one group of neighbours who found themselves short of food got together and held a snow barbecue.
In the West Midlands the snow proved useful to police officers investigating the theft of metal pipe. Witnesses said they saw two men with a dog at the scene of the crime in Coseley. The police duly followed the tracks of two people walking with a dog and made two arrests.
At the Tropiquaria Zoo in Watchet, Somerset, ring-tailed lemurs have found a crafty way to keep warm, reaching into a heater cage and turning up a thermostat themselves. They have also been taking it in turns to climb into the cage to drape themselves around the heater.
There was good and bad news for bookmakers. William Hill found itself paying out when Heathrow closed its runways. But Ladbrokes said some punters had already laid money on a seasonal favourite – whether there is going to be a white Christmas.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline has invited Robert Billington, president of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, to be his guest for President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday.
"After advocating for decades to establish a national park in Rhode Island, Bob's hard work paid off when Congress approved a bill last month to establish a national park in the Blackstone River Valley," Cicilline said in a news release. "Without Bob and the many dedicated and passionate individuals and organizations he represents, there is no doubt in my mind that we would not have been able to create a new national park in Rhode Island. "
Billington said he was grateful for the opportunity "to represent the hundreds of people of the Blackstone Valley that worked so hard over the years to make the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park a reality.
President Obama signed legislation in to law on Dec. 19 to establish the park.
Cicilline is the last of the all-Democratic, four-member Rhode Island Congressional delegation to announce his State of the Union Guest.
Sen. Jack Reed's guest will be Neil Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse invited former lieutenant governor Elizabeth Roberts, now secretary of the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
U.S. Rep. James Langevin's guest will be Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza.
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In friendship, I believe in this philosophy which states; a friend is someone capable of perfecting my imperfections, fulfilling me, revealing to me who I am because you are my friend, because you love me, because you are my personal good and I am also your personal good, and because you make me conscious of loving and arouses within me a sense of wonder and admiration. Hence, you are so important to me because you make my joy and my being complete. This is how I consider you not just as a friend but a person who has capacities and uniqueness. I trust you, I believe in you, and I respect you because you also did these to me. Because of you everything has changed into my life. You free me from my sorrows and sadness. You help me to appreciate my uniqueness and also my weaknesses.
Suddenly, as time goes by, I cannot but be amazed and surprised that these things will be just a part of happy memories inside my mind. What happened? Why things have changed in our friendship? I thought everything will be okay and fine, but why there's an abrupt amendment on our friendship? Why you suddenly left me behind without any reason at all? Have I hurt you that's why you left me alone in my loneliness? I cannot feel you anymore.
In this experience I realized that the most painful and hurting experience in the life of the person is to be left behind by a friend without any reason at all. It's more horrible than a break-up, and more horrifying and despairing than a simple rejection. It's like a slap on my innocence when you reject me and you left me suffering on my own grief and anxieties. Why? This is the only question that my mind and my heart cried out when you now avoid me and consider me as nobody.
Even if you treat me as nobody or as an insignificant person I will still consider you and love you as a friend. You're still significant into my life. Yes, I am in pain now, but I will never regret that you became an important part in my growth and in my existence. You'll always be in my heart no matter how excruciating the loneliness and sadness that you have given me. You'll always be a friend to me; capable of perfecting my imperfections, fulfilling me, revealing to me who I am, my personal good, and a person who makes me conscious of loving and rouses within me a sense of wonder and admiration. Though how many times you forget me and reject me as you friend, in my heart, I will always consider you as my friend; a special and unique friend to me.


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Shenzhen CREP Optoelectronics Co. Ltd is a listed company (stock code 832408) and we are known as a National Certificated High-tech Enterprise and the Executive Vice President Unit of Shenzhen Semiconductor Lighting Association. We have 2 production bases:one locates in ShenZhen and the other one locates in NanChang, covering a production area for more than 100,000 square meters. Owning to the continuous independent innovations and breakthroughs in the field of LED industry, we are holding more than 30 NEW STRUCTURE PATENTS and 2 CHINA INVENTION PATENTS.
The main products of CREP include LED Commercial Lighting, LED Residential lighting and LED Industrial Lighting.
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Delicious oven fried chicken with all the right spices that make that crispy skin so perfectly seasoned. This is one of those quick and easy recipes that we make often because after you eat it this way the family will ask for it again and again! It's healthier version and I promise it really taste fried!
Simple oven roasted chicken with bread crumbs that taste fried!
How things change as the years go by!
As I was growing up, we are everything fried back in the 1960's. My mom fried cutlets, deer meat, lamb, deep fried all kinds of vegetables and now, in my generation it's all about eating healthier. Sure everything taste great fried, but with heart disease being still the number one killer.
We should be trying to eat better. Heart disease runs in my family. Mom. dad had it, now gone. Today both my brothers have it.
I try to recreate everything a little healthier with less sugar, fats and do the best I can to keep that great taste. This chicken really fools everyone.
It really does taste fried and is baked. I know it's still not 100% the healthiest way to eat but it's better than any of the saturated fats used out there. I really like the fact that it keeps the juices in and never dry. Take the skin off for less fat. I like boneless chicken breast.
Watch this easy Video clip of Italian Baked Chicken
If you love crispy chicken then I really would also broil the top in the end after baking if you like that dark crispy color that comes from frying. I love to broil the chicken at the end. It really makes crunchier.
It really does crisp up nicely just baked, I just happened to like mine very dark on the outside. Broiling it will help it crisp up very dark and the perfect way I like it. That's just my opinion.
I am sure you will decide on how you prefer yours but that is the tip I give for crispy baked chicken! Either way Italian flavored baked chicken is fabulous, flavorful and one of my favorite easy ways to bake chicken!
Italian Baked Chicken Recipe
4 to 5 pieces bone in thighs, breast or legs and even a combination (for less fat, remove skin and use just boneless chicken)
combination of canola, or vegetable and olive oil 1/4 cup mixed (or use canola oil is preferred)
minced garlic around 2 tablespoons
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley or 1 tablespoon dried
salt, pepper to taste
Italian flavored bread crumbs (panko works the best but whatever you have is fine)
grating cheese Reggiano Romano or use any Italian style grating cheese
granulated garlic
dried oregano
In a large bowl add the chicken, 1/4 cup olive oil and toss to evenly coat. Add salt, pepper, minced garlic, parsley and stir to coat evenly.
Place the chicken in a greased disposable aluminum pan or deep baking dish lined with parchment paper.
Since I love garlic so much I like to add more of the granulated on top of the chicken.
Sprinkle the tops of the chicken pieces with bread crumbs, grating cheese, granulated garlic and oregano evenly all over.
Bake in a 400 degree hot oven until chicken is nicely browned and crispy skin around 45 minutes.
Note: I do not turn the chicken over during baking
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A big trend this summer is match set outfits. Confused on what that means? Well typically we see it in a matching cropped top and shorts or maybe a cropped top and high waist skirt.
I do think this look is cute but I am not completely sold on it for myself. These styles barely show any skin but let's face it, most women will tell you their stomach is their number one trouble area and aren't quick to want to show it off. Although, I love the skirt version of this trend. Still haven't bought it for myself or even tried it on but I do love the idea of it because of how feminine it is.
I flip between wearing black with my converse and a leather jacket to floral and ultra feminine. I guess I have two sides to my style personality. This look appeals to my more girly side.
In my opinion, there is also an age limit to this style. I don't mean only teenagers and college girls should be wearing it. The style can be done age appropriately for a wide variety of ages but I do think there is a point that it becomes too "young" of a look. To save myself, I am going to avoid saying when I think that is. 🙂
Happy Friday fashion divas!!


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I have a novel that is almost complete and there are three editors who have requested it. One has gone as far as to request it while it's still a WIP. She's read two installments. I know this doesn't mean a sale, far from it, but I'd like to know if it's too soon to query an agent? It's children's lit. Thanks.
Now is good. Include the names of the editors who are looking at it in your query letter so an agent knows you aren't just whistling Dixie about people being interested.
If it's a kids book I assume it involves snot, underpants and fart jokes? Why do those still amuse me? Only in books of course; I ride the subway too often to be amused by those things "en flagrant delecto".


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The Blinding Truth About Cattle Futures
Sometimes there's nothing like a blinding blizzard to help you see clearly. Though I'm trapped in a major snowstorm Tuesday afternoon with gale-force winds and half-block visibility, a painful market truth is beaming like the summer sun at high noon.
Cattle futures are seriously broken, at least as a meaningful risk-management tool for cow-calf producers, feedlot managers and beef processors.
I'm not entirely sure why, but the board's behavior has become largely divorced from day-to-day fundamentals of supply and demand. Technically speaking, contract specs have not changed. Now and then, price direction of futures will even momentarily cohere with actual cash and produce developments.
But anyone who has closely monitored the situation over the last several years can hardly deny the devolution of a serious disconnect between the realities of futures and cash, two markets that must work in some sort of consistent tandem if the theory of hedging is to own critical integrity.
The extreme winter weather of early February is causing me to voice misgivings long festering in the wings. For months and months, risk managers have been struggling to harness the board's chaotic power, agonizing over wild price swings and completely unpredictable basis levels. Such pretending that hedging and marketing prudence go hand in hand has proven to be extremely expensive. Indeed, commercials "playing it safe" on this strange game board may be simply taking a longer road to financial ruin.
Adverse production weather, whether in the form of drought, flooding or blizzard, should be typically viewed as bullish in terms of ag commodity prices. Of course, no market is simple enough to always react to single factors in a uniform fashion. No reasonable farmer or rancher expects a market attempting to mirror the uncertain world of price to be completely logical on a day-to-day basis. Yet they necessarily expect a predictive market to at least weigh speculation in a consistent way, sharing with them some general assumptions about the inherent nature of specific commodities and their value.
So when live and feeder futures opened no livelier than mixed Tuesday morning with livestock health and safety seriously threatened by Mother Nature across a wide stretch of beef production territory, I saw it as the latest sad example of how a once-vital form of risk management has become hopeless corrupt and useless. Yes, I'm aware that sinking oil prices caused outside markets to once again haunt the CME. But I'm also aware that spot Feb live remains nearly $3 below recent feedlot. I'm also aware that nearby live contracts have long ignored the need for weather premiums, regardless of such a structure's common sense in the face of how a savage winter can shred first-quarter meat production.
Perhaps there are wild and wooly speculators out there, born and bred riverboat gamblers who are absolutely addicted to the unknown, that don't think cattle futures are broken in the least. But if commercials need speculators for purposes of liquidity and price discovery, I think it's also true that speculators need commercials for many of the same reasons. Somehow, this delicate balance has gone completely out of whack and CME officials need to find a way to fix it.
That might require a major redefinition of contract specs or a reintroduction of delivery requirements or greater restriction on position limits. Frankly, I'm not smart enough to suggest a sure cure. But I think I'm at least savvy enough to know when a serious plague is spreading. They say the first step toward real health is admitting that you're sick. Until cattle futures find effective medicine, risk managers will be engaging in just another luck-based form of gambling.
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Public Notice – FEMA Extends Sandy Flood Insurance Claim Review Deadline to October 15, 2015
Release from FEMA found at the FEMA Website.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended the deadline for flood insurance policyholders to submit their Hurricane Sandy Claims for review. The last day to submit claims is now Oct. 15, 2015.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that any additional flood insurance proceeds up to $20,000 will not be treated as duplicative. Federal agencies cannot provide disaster assistance for losses covered by insurance. HUD's announcement stated that "this will eliminate the need for HUD grantees to reclaim assistance from these households or to repay those funds through non-federal sources. To date, three out of four National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claimants have received less than $20,000 in additional compensation from FEMA and will not face any possible repayment."
Roy Wright, FEMA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation, encouraged policyholders to call FEMA and request a review if they believe their claims were underpaid for any reason. As of Sept.14, nearly 14,000 policyholders have requested reviews of their Sandy flood insurance claims.
"FEMA remains committed to making sure that every policyholder gets every dollar they are owed under their flood insurance policy. Already, thousands of policyholders have contacted us to have their claims reviewed and we have begun providing funds to those who were due additional payments on their claim," Wright said.
"We are hopeful that HUD's action to provide relief to the vast majority of those who are concerned about potential duplicative benefits will encourage even more policyholders who may have been initially reluctant to enter the process to do so," Wright said. "In light of HUD's decision to simplify this review and provide relief, we are extending the claims review deadline until October 15th. We hope by extending the deadline we are addressing any remaining concerns some may have about entering the claims review process. The review process we have established is designed to be simple, fair, and accessible without paid legal assistance. FEMA is dead set on restoring trust in this important program and no one should be discouraged from having their claim reviewed."
Policyholders can call the NFIP's Hurricane Sandy claims center at 866-337-4262 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), Monday through Friday to request a review. It is important to have your policy number and insurance company name when you call.
Policyholders also can go online to www.fema.gov/hurricane-sandy-nfip-claims to download a form requesting a review. The downloaded form can be filled out and emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or faxed to 202-646-7970 to begin the review process. For individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and use 711 or VRS, please call 866-337-4262. For individuals using a TTY, please call 800-462-


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Crisis Averted: How to Deter North Korea's Nuclear Objectives
The latest North Korean missile test has added new urgency to the problem of North Korea. And the allies have no answer and the tensions between them are likely to grow.
Newly elected South Korean president Moon Jae‐in made his first visit to Washington last week. Both sides downplayed the potential tension from the meeting with President Donald Trump. Moon hails from the left and mixes skepticism of the THAAD antimissile system with support for dialogue with the North.
Since taking office the South Korean leader has tried to minimize perceived differences with America, claiming that his views are consistent with President Trump's policy of "maximum pressure and maximum engagement." They are, in a "depends upon what your definition of 'is' is" sense. Moon opposed U.S.-backed military rule and served as chief of staff to President Roh Moo‐hyun, a critic of the alliance and avid supporter of the so‐called Sunshine Policy toward North Korea. Although Moon pragmatically tempered his views during the recent election campaign, in philosophy and temperament he could not be further from America's chief executive.
Indeed, President Trump reportedly was angered by Moon's criticism of THAAD, which the former declared warranted a billion‐dollar payment to America. Worse, administration officials repeatedly suggested the possibility of military strikes on North Korea, anathema to many South Koreans, who would do most of the dying in any new war. Yet the day before President Moon's arrival National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster confirmed that military options were being prepared for the president.
The central challenge for the alliance is North Korea, which has continued to pursue ever longer‐range missiles and more sophisticated nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, Washington and Seoul are bereft of useful ideas on how to halt Pyongyang's activities, let alone convince the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to disarm. None of the usual approaches have much chance of success.
Certainly not negotiation. I visited Pyongyang last month. Officials reaffirmed what long has been obvious: the DPRK does not intend to yield its nuclear weapons. North Koreans blamed America's "hostile policy," including "military threats and nuclear threats." They said the North had "become a military power" and promised to match "nuke with nuke." There was not the slightest hint that the North might be willing to bargain away the weapons assembled at great cost and risk.
No doubt North Korea has multiple reasons for acquiring nukes. They provide the regime with international status, create a useful tool for extortion and cement military loyalty to the Kim dynasty. Still, the impassioned claim of self‐defense that I heard resonated. North Koreans complained that they had faced American nuclear threats going back to the 1950s, noted Washington's penchant for regime change and cited ongoing threats, which included bomber overflights and annual military exercises.
Of course, this account ignores Pyongyang's behavior. Nevertheless, given the fate of Muammar el‐Qaddafi, Kim Jong‐un would be foolish to rely on Secretary Rex Tillerson's assurances that the Trump administration does not seek regime change. Certainly some Americans do, and even the secretary's opinion could conveniently change once the DPRK had disarmed.
What if America's "hostile policy" ended, I asked? The North would consider joining the other nuclear powers if they yielded their nukes as well, I was told. Alas, the lion is not yet prepared to lie down with the lamb in Northeast Asia or anywhere else in the world, so the mass renunciation of nuclear weapons seems a remote possibility at best. If there are going to be talks involving Pyongyang, they aren't going to be over denuclearization. They certainly won't begin with a North Korean commitment to disarm.
Military action isn't a viable option either. Sen. Lindsey Graham felt reassured since, as he told NBC: "It would be terrible but the war would be over [there], wouldn't be here." The conflict would not "hit America." In fact, the United States would be involved, and the casualties almost certainly would be high. Moreover, the war would "hit" South Korea very hard — likely leaving the capital of Seoul in ruins. Washington has spent sixty‐four years keeping the peace on the Korean Peninsula. Military strikes would be a wild gamble with almost certain catastrophic results.
Nor are sanctions likely to do the trick. China isn't prepared to join in, since the United States has yet to give Beijing a convincing reason to effectively hand over its one ally in East Asia. Anyway, the North Koreans told me they would stand firm whatever the cost, which seems likely given past behavior.
A North Korean collapse would create its own set of international dangers. And the regime might resist and survive. A half million or more dead from starvation in the late 1990s didn't cause the current ruler's father to change course.
Which leaves the United States and South Korea without options, other than to confront a growing North Korean nuclear threat. Once the DPRK develops a reasonably accurate intercontinental ballistic missile, the United States will have to recognize that it is risking Los Angeles, Seattle and perhaps much more to protect Seoul. America's defense of the prosperous and populous South, which is well able to protect itself, will then endanger vital U.S. interests, e.g. national survival. At that point the alliance could dissolve.
Washington and Seoul must consider acknowledging the reality of the North's nuclear status and seek a deal freezing the DPRK's missile and nuclear programs. Accepting Pyongyang's existing weapons would be far from ideal, but worse would be allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good. The United States and allied states can manage a world in which North Korea has twenty nuclear weapons and limited delivery options. If the latter's arsenal expands to, say, one hundred, along with the range of its missiles, and the North's potential for harm will have grown exponentially.
Offering to freeze annual military exercises, previously suggested by the DPRK, is one option. Proposing negotiations over a peace treaty and phased withdrawal of U.S. military forces from the South is another. Halting North Korean missile and nuclear development is worth paying a significant price.
Along the way the allies should explore what Beijing would require to take a more active role, risking its relationship with the North by threatening tough sanctions to achieve denuclearization. Winning China's support would intensify pressure on Pyongyang to negotiate. But the PRC's backing won't come free and will require serious negotiation, not endless complaining.
There are no good options in dealing with DPRK. War should be off the table. More sanctions are worth a try only if China is all in. If not, negotiations based on nuclear disarmament are a nonstarter. This suggests that the United States must set more modest objectives while looking toward a longer‐term transformation of the North Korean state. Such an agenda might not make for pleasant conversation at the summit. But the sooner the allies face nuclear reality in Northeast Asia, the better.


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Coke Zero is back with a new campaign that showcases its 'Taste The Possibilities' ethos but with an entertaining twist. A Coke Zero taste test experiment for consumers is the theme for a bold new TVC, which is released today and viewable on YouTube and the Coke Zero website.
The latest Coke Zero advert illustrates how our experience of taste can be affected by our senses. Cinema-goers who ordered a
Before the start of the film, the experiment was revealed as a barman appeared on the cinema screen and asked the drinkers to look inside their cups. Responses varied and this was not a scientific test, but most of the audience were taken aback when they pulled out the black cups to find they had been drinking Coke Zero, indicating the taste of the two drinks is as close as possible.
Previous versions of the TVC have been aired in Spain and Italy with great success, where again, most of the
The new TVC for North West Europe and the Nordics was filmed at Kinepolis cinema in Brussels in November 2012. It was created by Publicis advertising agency and directed by Francois Nemeta. The only actor involved was the barman, who was aware of the experiment.
" The new Coke Zero campaign encourages continued dialogue with our target audience, portraying a new and engaging side to the brand whilst still communicating the Coke Zero ethos. The more we understand taste and how it can be affected by our different senses, the more we can ensure that Coke Zero and our other brands are providing the perfect taste experience for our customers. By focusing on the intrinsic message of 'Taste is Believing', the campaign demonstrates the unique appeal of Coke Zero – that 'Great Coke Taste' and 'Zero Sugar' is possible." Zoe Howorth, Marketing Director for
Launching this month, this refreshing ad guarantees a dose of "intelligent humour", set to engage and entertain audiences by showing how people can enjoy the great taste and zero sugar combination of Coke Zero.
The TVC is part of a wider campaign that will see both traditional and digital media being used with outdoor and print advertising as well as activity across social networking platforms. There will also be an in-store driver promotion, updated packaging and sampling.
For further information, please contact:
Katherine Dempsey – email@example.com / 0207 908 6402
Olivia McMonagle – email@example.com / 0207 908 6466
Notes to Editors:
Coca-Cola Great Britain is responsible for marketing 21 brands and over 100 products to consumers across Great Britain, focusing upon developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting trademarks including
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