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The All Clear bulb is engineered to last 10,000 cycles which is approximately the equivalent of 3 bottles a day everyday for 9 years. The All Clear is programmed to automatically cease operation after that point.
The All Clear cap construction separates and insulates the bulb from direct water contact thereby minimizing the impact of colder temperature water which can impact bulb performance. The All Clear has been tested and proven effective for treating water down to 39°F (4°C). The product has been tested in conditions with the ambient air temperature down to 32°F (0°C). Battery performance may be impacted and less efficient in very cold temperature conditions. In the event that you are in sub-freezing conditions, the All Clear unit should be warmed to 32°F (0°C) prior to use.
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Technically speaking, we have not specifically tested All Clear against Cholera or E coli bacteria organisms because they are not part of the EPA guidelines. However, one of the reasons R. Terrigena is the bacteria selected per the EPA guideline is because it comes from the Enterobacteriaciae family. This family of bacteria is more resistant than those of the Cholera or E coli families, so logically if you can neutralize R. Terrigena then you can effectively neutralize lesser resistant bacteria such as Cholera or E coli as well, which is why the EPA guide standard has been established.
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The recharge time depends on the power source. Full recharge time from drained to 100% battery capacity on a standard AC Wall Charger is < 5 hours whereas solar would be longer approx. 15 - 20 hours of direct sunlight depending on the size of the panel.
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Maybe you've recently learned how animals are treated in laboratories or realized that because you wouldn't eat your dog, it doesn't make sense for you to eat a cow or chicken. Or maybe you've been working in an animal shelter for years and have decided that it's time to take another step to help change society's attitude toward animals.
If you're shy, uncomfortable with public speaking, or new at activism, you may feel like you are all alone. But it only takes one individual to reach hundreds of people and influence their often-unwittingly exploitative attitudes and lifestyles. Perhaps there are no animal rights groups in your area, but there is at least one animal rights activist … you.
Anyone can be an activist. It doesn't take special skills or superhuman abilities. You just need to care enough about animals to want to help them.
What Is PETA?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an animal rights organization founded on the premise that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, experimentation, or entertainment. Since 1980, PETA has grown from a handful of volunteers to an international organization with more than 5 million members and supporters.
Grassroots work is essential to the success of the animal rights movement, and PETA is committed to helping activists around the world organize to protect animal rights.
What Can This Online Guide Do for You?
Every day, PETA is flooded with telephone calls, letters, and e-mails from people all over the world who want to help animals but don't know where to start. PETA's Guide to Effective Advocacy provides step-by-step instructions to help you channel your concern into activism.

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Larvell Blanks wrote:aoxo1 wrote:Prosecutor wrote:They pretty much got their pick of role players to choose from, starting with Z.
I'm glad someone picked up on this quote!
Only guy currently on my ignore list. I'd appreciate no one quoting it as the purpose of the ignore list is to eliminate such posts.


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FHWA, in partnership with Caltrans, the National Center for Pavement Preservation, and the Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council (TCCC) created the Pavement Preservation Treatment Construction Guide (PPTCG) as a resource for agency and industry pavement preservation practitioners. The guide covers basic pavement preservation concepts, as well as information on specific treatments to extend the life of asphalt pavements.
This course includes a series of modules designed to provide participants with an introduction to the PPTCG, so that they can better use it to familiarize themselves with general information on pavement preservation concepts and techniques. The module topics include:
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Should it be postponed?
I'm not a marathon guy so I will not pretend to know the details of the support for this event, and I understand this will bring in some money and the money is needed.
I just get past all the reasons not to run this now, tons of people displaced, in serious trouble, in need of everything, safety forces are significantly stressed, and victims are being removed from hotels etc so marathon participants and support can have a place to stay. Not to mention dispensing supplies to runners, particularly water simply to be dumped on their heads.
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Café Deluxe in Gaithersburg, Maryland's Washingtonian Center opened last November to an eager clientele. The new Gaithersburg location features a large indoor/outdoor bar, a lakefront patio for 100 diners, and more doors and windows than any of the other properties. Kolbe provided Café Deluxe's numerous swinging doors, inswing casements and a 15-foot-wide folding window.
"Café Deluxe is a well-established D.C. area restaurant brand. The restaurant design conveys the signature mahogany wood and warm bistro style interior," explains Clare Marino, an associate at GTM Architects Inc.
Owned by Clover Investment Group, Café Deluxe in Gaithersburg is the fourth addition to the family of European-inspired bistro concept restaurants. Total construction costs for this location are estimated at $2.4 million. The restaurant encompasses approximately 6,800 square feet.
"The new Gaithersburg location features light-filled interior spaces with views of the Washingtonian Center boardwalk," Marino elaborates. "Folding windows open up the interior bar to the patio and several French doors connect the main dining room to the outdoor dining. In the interior, dining rooms are divided by a series of operable windows and doors, which offer open areas, private and semi-private dining."
Before Café Deluxe opened in Gaithersburg, the existing space was remodeled completely. Involved throughout the project's design and construction, Marino worked closely with Tony DePaul, vice president of construction for Building Resources, Inc. For their window and door partner, Marino says, "We were looking for a quality solid wood product and really good customer service. Kolbe was recommended as we have worked with them on other projects in the region."
Tom Lorber, Shenandoah Sash and Door's architectural representative met with the project team and presented Kolbe's breadth of products. Together, they selected Kolbe's windows and doors in Douglas Fir with a dark stained mahogany finish and traditional styling in a variety of sizes, configurations and glass types.
"Kolbe's windows and doors provided a beautiful custom appearance with many standard products. We received excellent customer service and design assistance from Tom Lorber," praises Marino. "The design team and owners were an integral part of the design process with Kolbe's architectural sales and design team to ensure that the details and product functions met the owner's budget and design goals."
These product specifications were decided early in the project's design as the construction timeline allowed just three months for substantial completion. "We were awarded the project in July and the space needed to be weathertight by October to finish the interior construction by November," notes DePaul. "We couldn't wait for the openings to be made on site before ordering the windows and doors. We carefully reviewed the documents and confirmed the measurements."
DePaul continues, "Kolbe and Shenandoah handled everything very well – from engineering to fabricating to delivery. It was a painless operation for such a tight schedule. The quality of Kolbe's windows and doors is excellent. It looks exceptional."
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We've been helping a long-term client who runs some fairly complex queries (covering lots of tables and logic on a respectably big but mainly volatile dataset). We tend to look first at query structure and table design, as fixing problems there tends to have the most impact. This contrary to just tossing more hardware at the problem, which is just expensive.
As subqueries are used (and necessary in this case), MariaDB 5.3 was already a great help with its subquery optimisations. Once again thanks, Monty and the Monty Program optimiser team (Igor, Sergey, Timour, and possibly others) – all former colleagues and they're absolutely awesome. Together, they know the MySQL optimiser like no other.
Because the queries are generated indirectly from an exposed API (just for paying clients, but still), the load is more unpredictable than having merely a local front-end. Maintaining spare capacity with slaves addresses this, but naturally it's still important to ensure that each query takes as little time as possible. Queries use appropriate indexes and each bit is fairly optimal by now.
Then the client reported that while overall things were going really well, there was this one (type of) query that was really misbehaving. The report was that it appeared to be "locking up the server". Now I generally don't believe in that, because I know how the server works: it doesn't just hang, but it might just take a long time to do exactly what it was told to do. Computers are like that.
Typically that kind of thing would happen with for instance a really bad join, but in this case there was nothing like that. Rather than running the query which was sure to not go well (or quick) regardless of what it was doing, the proper thing to try was an EXPLAIN (on a slave) – after 10 minutes I got fed up and killed the query. So, the server was spending all that time in the query analysis/optimisation phase to figure out the optimal order of the tables and which access method for each table it should use.
I know that pattern too, we used to see MySQL 4 do this. Obviously, spending ages on finding the optimal execution plan for a tiny query makes no sense – so back then the optimiser team (same people as noted above!) implemented a limitation and pruning algorithm, with configurable settings: optimizer_search_depth (default: 62) and optimizer_prune_level (default: 1). After this algorithm was implemented, we didn't see the problem with clients so adjusting the search depth was not even required.
There are exceptions. Another former colleague, Max Mether (now at SkySQL) wrote about this a year ago: Setting optimizer search depth in MySQL, based on an experience with one of their clients. While staying with EXPLAIN rather than actually trying to run the query, I did SET SESSION optimizer_search_depth=1 and validated the hypothesis that indeed this had been where the server was spending its time. Then I played with the setting a bit, and found that for my 28-table query the curve was much steeper than what Max had found. At depth=15 I already had to wait 15 seconds just for the analysis (Max had 5 seconds at that point). While any of us old hands can look at a query and figure out reasonably well what the optimiser would do with it, that exercise becomes a bit tedious when dealing with 28 tables and subqueries involved.
As a side-note, running the actual query (with a low depth setting) takes hardly any extra time, which is typical – it's the analysis/optimisation phase that's eating all the time.
For now, we have a workaround… the application can set the option before running queries like this.
SET @save_optimizer_search_depth = @@optimizer_search_depth; SET SESSION optimizer_search_depth=1; ...query... SET SESSION optimizer_search_depth=@save_optimizer_search_depth;
But I'm not satisfied: I don't believe the server should be acting in this way. The issue appears similar to the MySQL 4 scenario, and just like then we should come up with a way for the optimiser to decide when to call it quits and just execute. Perhaps we need to set a cap on the total amount of time allowed (configurable), but that seems rather crude. Other things have changed in the optimiser since that time, so it could even be some kind of regression – hopefully the optimiser team will figure this out when they look at it.
I'm working with the client to isolate a dataset sufficient for reproducing this issue, so that we can give it to the team at Monty Program. I'll file a bug report when I have that set. If you happen to have something similar, please contribute your insights (and data/query) also! For now, if you can, please comment to this post. I'm interested to learn if it's a more common occurrence now. thanks!


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Intel Corp.'s long-awaited dual-core Itanium processor will finally see the light of the day in July, if the information that has been published by a web-site is correct. The chip giant reportedly has started revenue shipments of the processor, which launch had been delayed several times.
"This is the summer of servers. We have Woodcrest. We'll have
According to a report at EETimes web-site, Intel will formally introduce its dual-core IA64 Itanium processor code-named Montecito in July, 2006. Meanwhile, Intel itself confirmed that it plans to release its IA32 chip oriented on multiprocessor servers – code-named
Intel Itanium 2 processors are designed for very high-end mission-critical servers and supercomputers, which deliver performance and reliability, which greatly exceed those offered by systems powered by chips like AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon. While such chips and their platforms are sold in not very large quantities, their average selling prices (ASPs) are much higher than ASPs of server products sold in volume.
Intel's dual-core Itanium product is projected to bring twice the performance of the current Itanium products, which is pretty natural, as the next-generation flavour of the Itanium sports two processing engines instead of one as well as larger caches.
The first three Itanium 2 processors based on the Montecito core were projected to be single-core 1.60GHz (model 9010), dual-core 1.40GHz (model 9020) as well as dual-core 1.60GHz (model 9040). Dual-core Itanium 2 processors were expected to have 18MB of L2 cache as well as 533MHz processor system bus (PSB), whereas the single-core flavour was claimed to sport 6MB of cache and will use 400MHz PSB. In the second quarter of 2006, Intel was expected to release its Itanium processor with two processing engines and 24MB of cache at 1.80GHz clock-speed. In the same quarter the manufacturer planned to refresh the 9010, 9020 and 9040 lineup with a faster 667MHz Quad Pumped Bus. Intel's current plans remain unknown.
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This week I got a comment on my blog post [IBM Announces another SSD Disk offering!]. The exchange involved Solid State Disk storage inside the BladeCenter and System x server line. Sandeep offered his amazing performance results, but we have no way to get in contact with him. So, for those interested, I have posted on SlideShare.net a quick five-chart presentation on recent tests with various SSD offerings on the eX5 product line here:
Sandeep, if you see this, we would also be interested in seeing your results as well.
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Caffeine Dosage
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I don't drink coffee in the morning, but like my caffeine. I take a 200-milligram caffeine supplement prior to my runs and was wondering how long it is effective. On a 25- to 30-mile run, when should I take more supplement?
—Scott Hamilton, Corona, CA
For many runners, enjoying their pre-run coffee is a ritual, and we have all felt the ergogenic benefits of caffeine. It goes to work on the central nervous system and can decrease tiredness, improve mood, sharpen alertness and increase reaction time. The effects of caffeine peak about an hour after ingestion, whether it's from coffee, tea or a pill.
The half life, or the time it takes for the body to eliminate one half of the caffeine consumed, varies widely between individuals. Says Registered Dietician Adrienne Aldous, "Most studies report the half life is between three and six hours."
For a four- to six-hour run, you could get by on one dose. This should be enough to boost your performance, and avoid the side effects of over-caffeinating. Aldous continues, "Due to the body's rapid tolerance to caffeine, it best aids the performance of athletes who do not habitually use it. "
Your goal should be to ingest caffeine as an infrequent performance booster, and not to rely on it daily to achieve your weekly mileage. Relying on any stimulant for your runs is not prudent. Eventually you have to pay that energy back.


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Anybody have any new news on the release of Let it be???????????
We're all still waiting I believe.
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On my version there´s also different outtakes and the roof concert include some extra videoes of Let it Be and Don´t let me down. What about your?Helter Skelter wrote:Bluebird wrote:I have the dvd
That´s only a bootlegversion
Re: Yoko and Linda...Linda only appears briefly and surely was not a distraction. Bin Ono is EVERYWHERE, unfortunately. It is a great doc on the ultimate unraveling of the greatest band ever. Making music in the AM in a film studio was one of the biggest challenges for them. AR was one last go at making a proper GM produced record. What a fine swan song it was!EddieV wrote:Let it be is for me kind of mysterious with the tensions in the group and Yoko and Linda in the studio while they were recording. Surprised that they did Abbey Road after Let It be. Looking Forward to see something "new", something I haven´t seen before.
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LemGemapple wrote:I am so after a dance mat, i always wanna get better at DDR. But it is so hard, in where i live too even get a chance to get one. I mean we would be lucky enough, to get one at the bootsale near mine. But i mean, it would more likely not work properly or something like that.
I would love to get my hands on a metal one, i know a few people who have them, for step mania and they say their really awesome. But i just need to get my hands, on a cheap one which is in really good nick!
LemGemapple wrote:Yeah same and i mean, the computer i use down stairs and i am sure my mum won't mind me using it. It is either that, or i wait until i have a bigger room or something like that. But i would still love to have a metal mat, because it would be just there if you know what i mean. But i just want some kind of awesome mat, which can be used and won't break...
LemGemapple wrote:Yeah, but you gotta guess that it is somewhere to start? Until one can get a proper metal one, which do cost quite abit...
Adziu wrote:folding mats are definitely a good place to start. Did me no harm.
Youtube is also full of people doing extremely hard songs on them.
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Peter,In your final cracker dough receipe - instead of grams, oz. or lbs, what are the measurements in cups for flour and water.
I will mess with it some and try the beer thing to replace the water to see the difference between the two.
Here is my prediction,...after all is said and done, the mixing of this dough is the least critical part of the process...whether you use your hands or a mixer or processor, as long as it is undermixed the dough will work....and I would bet that if you choose to develop the dough longer than recommended you could still come up with a fabulous crust.
As soon as I opened the container, I was immediately greeted with a good whiff of fermentation odors. The finished pizza looked like the other pizzas I made in the course of this thread (hence, no photos), but the crust had a distinctive and powerful tastetoo powerful, in fact. It is not one that I would want to intentionally reproduce. Peter


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MSU baseball doubleheader rescheduled
The Minot State University baseball team's doubleheader against No. 8 St. Cloud State scheduled for today has been canceled due to weather conditions.
The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference games have been rescheduled to Monday, with the first game beginning at 9 a.m.
Prior to Monday's doubleheader, the teams will play Sunday beginning at 4:30 p.m. All four games will count in the NSIC standings.
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Surrey-ORCS season opener canceled
The Surrey-ORCS baseball team will have to wait to open its season as Friday's game against Thompson was canceled due to unplayable field conditions. It will not be rescheduled.
The Mustangs are scheduled to play home games on Monday and Friday next week, but coach Bruce Mack said he doesn't see the field being ready for use until the end of the month.
-Daily News Staff
Majettes open season with split
DICKINSON – The Minot High School softball team split its season-opening doubleheader with Dickinson on Friday, dropping a 9-0 decision to the Midgets before winning the nighcap 5-4.
Additional information was not provided at press time.
The Majettes travel to Bismarck on Thursday to face Century in a West Region doubleheader at 4:30 p.m.
-Daily News Staff
Forbort signs with Kings
Junior defenseman Derek Forbort became the third University of North Dakota men's ice hockey player to sign an NHL contract this offseason, agreeing to a three-year entry-level deal with the Los Angeles Kings on Friday.
Forbort played in all 42 games this season, totaling career highs in points (17) and goals (4). The Duluth, Minn., native finished his career at UND with six goals and 39 assists in 115 games.
Forbort was named the team's rookie of the year as a freshman, recording 15 assists in 38 games as UND advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four. As a sophomore, Forbort earned Western Collegiate Hockey Association Final Five all-tournament team and all-WCHA academic team honors.
The 6-foot-4 defenseman represented the United States at the 2011 and 2012 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Hockey Championships. He helped the United States win the bronze medal in 2011.
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Dahlen Krause
SHERWOOD Dahlen George Krause, 80, Sherwood, died Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at a Minot hospital due to complications from a heart attack.
He was born July 6, 1932, near Sherwood, to Daniel and Nellie (Neubauer) Krause. He was raised in the Sherwood area and attended the Eden Valley School.
He was drafted into the Army in 1953 and served as a PFC with the B Company 35th Engineer Construction Battalion. He received the Army of Occupation Medal (Germany) and the National Defense Service Medal. He was honorably discharged in March of 1955 and returned to the Sherwood area to farm.
Dahlen met the love of his life, Inge Essl, while serving in Germany. They were married Jan. 3, 1957, at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Mohall.
Dahlen was a member of St. James Catholic Church, Sherwood.
Family: wife of 56 years, Inge Krause, Sherwood; children, Sinderella "Sindy" (Gene Susa) Meadows, Bismarck, Pierre (Tammie) Krause, Sherwood, Jenifer Krause (Richard Miller), Grand Rapids, Mich., and Gwen (Russell) Stoltman, Argusville; grandchildren, Alisha (Ian) Dimit, Danielle (Nathan) Allen, Ashleigh (Alan) Walker, Jon-Erik Kinzley, Quentin Kinzley, Dylan Meadows, Alexis (Andrew) Beck, Cassandra (Aaron) Schneider, Sasha Krause, Ashley and Victoria Lesmann, Oliver, Greta, Jack Dahlen and Rex Stoltman; 12 great-grandchildren; sisters, Darlene Bernsdorf, Della Bechtold and Lila Marsden, all of Minot, Nancy (John) Wherley, Mohall; brother-in-law, Wayne McLain, Minot; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Dahlen was preceded in death by his parents; infant son, Marcus; sister, Delia McLain; and grandson, Edison Meadows.
Funeral: Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at 11:30 a.m., at St. James Catholic Church, Sherwood.
Spring Burial: Sherwood Union Cemetery, Sherwood.
Rosary: Today, Jan. 10, 2013, at 7 p.m., at the church.
Visitation: Today, 5 to 7 p.m., at the church.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Wordless Wednesday
14 comments:
- Dragonheart said...
Aww, so sweet! :) That's a wonderful photo. :)
- August 8, 2007 at 8:55 AM
- Caesar and Princess said...
Titus you are soooo loved!
Have you been picked yet for the challenge of not my species friend. We would soooo pick you. I think we would not be afraid of you.
- August 8, 2007 at 9:03 AM
- Yoggie said...
She must really love Titus!
- August 8, 2007 at 9:11 AM
- Name: Mr. Hendrix said...
aaaaaawwwwww that is so sweet. i thought of you for the challenge, but caesar & princess beat me to it. no worries, i can still be your friend right?
i'm off to find another not my species friend!
- August 8, 2007 at 10:23 AM
- Jeter and Mickey said...
Dear Titus,
We love you in this house ... and I, too, was thinking of picking you for the NMSS Friend challenge.
I wonder if you can be on multiple pages. Hmmmm.
Your friend--Mickey Mantle
- August 8, 2007 at 10:25 AM
- Daisy said...
Titus, I can tell you love getting kisses from your mom because you are grinning!
- August 8, 2007 at 1:33 PM
- Karen Jo said...
I can see that Titus loves being loved. Great photo.
- August 8, 2007 at 1:45 PM
- Dragonheart said...
Titus, I see some other cats are asking you to be their "Not of the same species" friend. I wonder if we can all have you as our friend! You are one of the nicest woofies I've ever met. :)
- August 8, 2007 at 1:49 PM
- Henry Helton said...
Titus really does look like a nice woofie. Do you really think that he would let Clyde and I interview him??? That would be great if he would agree.
- August 8, 2007 at 4:46 PM
- Kelly Cat said...
No words necessary, either. Titus is one well-loved woofie.
- August 8, 2007 at 6:54 PM
- Skeezix the Cat said...
Wow, yoo look vary kissable!!!
- August 8, 2007 at 9:20 PM
- Cyclone Cats said...
Moms give the best loves ever!
- August 8, 2007 at 10:12 PM
- Kaze, Latte, or Chase said...
I think your mom loves you a lot. Its nice that you can give her a nice big hug back. I like her fur, it looks nice to munch on.
- August 8, 2007 at 10:14 PM
- michico 小芥 said...
Oah.... that is so sweet~!!!!!
That is so so so SWEET~!!!!!!!
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My most recent review, Delaware Theatre Company's Master Harold... And the Boys, got me thinking. It seems like there's a burst of African-American issues-related shows in Philly this season--Driving Miss Daisy, Gee's Bend (which, if anyone cares, I thought had a really clunky script but some excellent acting by Kala Moses Baxter and one of my new favorites on the scene, Kes Khemnu), Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, Resurrection, Day of the Picnic--just about every major theater has one show in its season with this theme.*
I suppose part of the reason for the change is that everyone's capitalizing on the election, but really, it started with a recent thrust of nontraditional casting before Obama became the clear presidential candidate and has just sort of snowballed. And while this mass shift in programming focus is certainly long overdue and welcome, well, it begs the real question: why can't Philadelphia, a city whose population is 45% African American, support a dedicated professional African American theater? Since Walter Dallas' departure and Freedom Repertory Theatre's demise (and that's a whole 'nother long story) no one has stepped in to fill the void, and I'm going to guess it's not because Philadelphians are okay with leaving the issue of inclusion to the whims of the city's various white artistic directors, or catching the random touring urban theater production.
Mind you, I'm not knocking the efforts at diversity being made by any of these other companies. I think it's great for the city and even better for expanding everyone's audience base. But honestly, what is going on here, and why?
*By the way Philly folks, I'm omitting InterAct from inclusion and discussion on this post, as their commitment to programming diversity has been part of their mission since the company's inception.
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Latest agricultural census shows a small-farm revolution
They're growing houses in the fields between the towns
And the Starlight drive-in movie's closing down
The road is gone to the way it was before
And the spaces won't be spaces anymore
Thus sang John Gorka in his heartbreaking 1991 ballad, Houses in the Field, about families selling their farms to developers, who "paid better than the corn / But this was not the place where they were born." By that time, the sad plight of the American small farmer was deeply embedded in the collective psyche: Farms and ranches were being gobbled up at an alarming rate by suburbs and sprawl, ranchettes and McMansions. What the developers didn't want, the banks or the corporate farms took, consolidating diverse fields into giant, laser-leveled monocultural swaths or industrial feedlots, bursting to the seams with thousands of future Big Macs, wallowing in their own feces.
It was only a matter of time before the very notion of the small, family farm would be bulldozed into parking lots.
But before you start sobbing into your oats, take a look at some numbers buried in the quinquennial agricultural census, the US Department of Agriculture's clearinghouse of farm-related data. Over the last few weeks, the USDA has released a bunch of its numbers from the 2012 census — the most recent available. And while they do show many big shifts in agriculture nationwide, they also indicate that the small farm dream hasn't died, after all.
That's not to say that Gorka or any of those writing the epitaphs for American farmers were wrong. Between 1982 and 2012, the eleven Western states in HCN's coverage area have collectively lost 66.6 million acres of farmland — equivalent to all the land in the state of Colorado. The biggest losses came in places where residential construction was most robust. Forty percent of Nevada's 10 million acres of former farmland has gone to other use. Arizona saw 31 percent of its cotton farms and citrus orchards go away, presumably replaced by homes, cul de sacs and strip malls.
In some realms, most notably dairy, the conversion of smaller farms into huge agri-factories is also apparent in the data. While the number of dairy farms has decreased significantly in nearly every state, the number of cows has skyrocketed. In 1982, Idaho had 4,200 dairy farms and 180,000 milk machines, er, cows; now a whopping 580,000 milk cows churn out the butter on just 900 farms. Similarly, that state's potato farmers have dropped in number even as the amount of acreage dedicated to spuds has increased.
But with a closer look, farmophiles can find glimmers of good news in the new numbers. For instance, the Recession apparently went easier on farmers than it did on developers. In almost every Western state, the acreage in farmland either increased or held steady between 2007 and 2012. Arizona farms took back more than 100,000 acres, Colorado gained 282,000. Farmers in Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and California also took back land.
But most significant is the explosion in the number of farms out there — mostly really small ones — in the Western states. There are now 44,000 more farms in the West than in 1982. The biggest gains were in the Four Corners states, which together added about 38,000 farms over three decades. Surely a few of these are shams — landowners putting a few cows or a "Christmas tree farm" on their land to get agricultural exemptions on their property taxes. But as is evidenced by the ballooning number of farmers markets across the nation, far more are real, income-producing farms. True, they're not raking in the cash. Many of the new small farmers have other jobs or are retirees (the average age of Western farm operators has gone from about 50 in 1982 to 60 now) and bring in less than $2,500 per year from their crops. Still, it's a much brighter picture than that portrayed by rock star John Mellencamp in his 1985 anthem, Rain on the Scarecrow.
My grandparents were among the small farmers who ultimately gave it up, though without the drama or violence implicit in Mellencamp's song. They had a small farm in the Animas Valley above Durango, where they raised sheep, dairy cows, corn, raspberries. They made a pittance by today's standards, but it was enough to bring up and feed and house seven farmhands, er, kids. When they got too old to keep farming, they sold off most of the land to get them through old age. Though the land hasn't been developed, and some is still owned by my cousins, it's no longer a working farm. There was no future in farming for all those kids.
Or at least they didn't think there was. Some thirty years after my grandparents stopped farming, my mom and stepdad plowed up a hayfield next to the old farmhouse they bought near Hotchkiss, Colo. Now, well into retirement, they are full-time farmers, and their little piece of land is part of the quiet but real small-farm revolution: The tens of thousands of folks who are putting their hands in the dirt, standing up to industrial agriculture, and reclaiming a bit of land for garlic, tomatoes and sunflowers.
At around the same time that Gorka released Houses in the Field, Nanci Griffith penned her own song about the farmers' plight, Trouble in the Fields. Yet hidden within the maudlin verses is an optimism that seems respond to Gorka, and presage today's small farm rebirth:
And all this trouble in our fields
If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal
They'll never take our native soil
But if we sell that new John Deere
And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tears
You'll be the mule I'll be the plow
Come harvest time we'll work it out
There's still a lotta love, here in these troubled fields.
Jonathan Thompson is a senior editor at High Country News. He tweets @jonnypeace.
Later in the rain he stopped by our tent and sat around the wood stove answering questions about where to access the BLM land and when the elk move and where, how the bridge (since washed out) changed things, how much the guests of the resort pay to fish per day (more than $1,000)
Looking at where the homestead had been sited I could see how the two hills either side would protect from the wind and the spring provide year round fresh water, I thought how long it must have been to a town without a bridge when the water was high from the snow melt.
When that old man goes so will his knowledge of the land. His kids went to university and live elsewhere. What will become of his expensive land and his allotment I just don't know, but I for one will miss having him there. Farms to provide for niche markets might be increasing but small ranches I would think are going.
I think of another song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" In the 70's I lived in Concord, California and there was much farmland. Over the years that farmland, like many other areas in the West, was turned into subdivisions. Now, with the recession, high gas prices, and commute times those subdivisions are starting to be vacated as people are moving back into or closer to the cities. Those outlying areas with stretching room are not as pleasant when considering the distance to work, shop, and medical care.
I believe the subdivisions will return to farmland like the song cycle sings.
Where have all the farms gone
gone to subdivisions
Where have all the subdivisions gone
gone to foreclosure
Where have all the foreclosures gone
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Vice President Biden says he hasn't decided whether to seek the presidency in 2016 -- and when he does he'll tell the incumbent about it first.
"If I decide to run, believe me, this'll be the first guy I talk to," Biden said during a joint interview with President Obama on CBS News. "But that decision hasn't been made for real, and there's plenty of time."
Biden noted that "we have a lot of work to do" before the congressional elections in November, and his actions these days have nothing to do with 2016.
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JAMESTOWN – Five males, including a Brocton resident, were taken into custody following a search warrant at a Jamestown residence Monday afternoon.
According to Jamestown Police, shortly after 1 p.m. officers and the police SWAT team executed a search warrant at 442 Buffalo St. where the five men were located. Investigators seized a large quantity of heroin crack cocaine, U.S. currency and various drug paraphernalia.
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All males were charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession a hypodermic instrument and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia. Bales was charged additionally with criminal nuisance.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(November 30, 2010)"Hollywood on the Shore," the theme for the 2011 Gala at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, promises to provide another star-studded soiree to be remembered.
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The Gala is the university's signature fundraising event. It is in its 12th year and getting better all the time. Some 450 guests and 175 community, university and student volunteers made the 2010 event an unprecedented success.
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IRON MOUNTAIN – Iron Mountain City Council is looking to put a ballot proposal before voters during the November general election.
This would allow an amendment to be made to the city charter that deals with the amount of compensation council members receive for each meeting they attend. There has been no change in the amount of this compensation during the past 27 years.
When the charter was approved by voters in 1985, the compensation for meetings was set at $10. This section, as well as the entire charter, went into effect on March 3, 1986.
City Manager Jordan Stanchina said that this amount is probably one of the lowest compensation rates for any city council in Michigan.
After looking at the compensation received by council members in Kingsford and Norway and trustees in Breitung Township, the ballot proposal will ask voters to approve compensation for council members at $40 per meeting up to a maximum of $2,000 and an additional $125 a year for the mayor.
If approved in November, the new compensation would be in effect starting Jan. 1, 2014.
The ballot proposal also states that, "the fee shall be adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or to a maximum of two percent per year."
Section 4.10 of the city charter currently provides city council members receive $10 a meeting up to a maximum of $500 in a year.
The next step is to have the state Attorney General receive the ballot proposal language by Aug. 27, Stanchina said, so it can be placed on the ballot. He added that the compensation of $40 a meeting is "in the middle to the pack" when it came to comparing what other city council members are receiving for meetings.
Councilman Dave Farragh was opposed to the motion. He noted that the city has just negotiated with employees making cuts and now is going to increase the compensation they receive for attending meetings.
During the city manager's report, the council also heard of the progress on the projects at City Park. The city received a $500,000 Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund Grant to make improvements to the park, and this is the second year of the grant projects.
Stanchina told the council that Morin Inc. of Niagara, Wis. has completed the installation of the septic system for the bathrooms and Lefebvre Holdings LLC of Iron Mountain began digging for the bathroom footings Monday.
"I am in the process of getting a schedule from Bacco on when they will start their work at the park," he said.
This work, which began today, will include the trail around the park, two-way road going to the athletic fields and work on the pond in the deer enclosure.
"These are the big ticket items this year. Next year – during the final year – we have a few items to wrap up with the grant projects. A nine hole disc golf course and skateboard area are what's basically left to do," Stanchina said.
Council member Kay Villa, who is also involved in the Friends of City Park, said that despite the poor weather that day, the Saturday in the Park fund-raiser netted $13,000 this year. This money goes toward the city match required by the MDNR grant.
In his report to the council, Stanchina also talked about the preconstruction meeting for Lake Antoine Road that he attended recently. He noted that Payne & Dolan of Gladstone will be the contractor for the project once approval is given by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
"The good news is that this bid came in 18.8 percent under budget and they are hoping to get the project completed this year."
He added that project starts on Sept. 3 with underground work, and the crush and shape work for the entire road starts on Sept. 30. Beginning on Oct. 3, they will start paving the base coarse for the entire length of Lake Antoine Road.
This means that they will put down a 2 1/2 inch base in a week. A detour would only be for 1-2 weeks and then they plan is to use flag control and have one lane open for traffic.
"Weather permitting, it is their intent to complete the entire project this year. A project completed this year would be the desire of the city and road commission," Stanchina said.
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Police: Irate would-be seller attacks pawn shop employee
Police arrest suspect in battery follow foot chase
MADISON, Wis. - Madison police said a pawn shop employee was punched, knocked to the ground and kicked after he refused to buy a flat-screen TV from a 19-year-old Fitchburg man who did not have the proper paperwork.
Police said the would-be seller became irate and boisterous at the failed business transaction at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pawn America at 2301 East Springs Drive.
The employee, a 58-year-old man, told him to leave the store because of the disturbance being caused by the raucous outbursts, and that was when the employee was attacked, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Police said the initial blow sent the employee's glasses flying across Pawn America's lobby.
Police were called, and an officer happened to be nearby. A 911 communicator told the officer that a store employee was tailing the attacker, and that both were jogging across another store's parking lot.
Police said the officer spotted the suspect, and the 19-year-old took off in a sprint but lost the foot chase.
The suspect, identified as Alfonzo L. Money, was arrested at gunpoint on tentative charges of battery, disorderly conduct, resisting/obstructing an officer and two counts of bail jumping, according to the incident report.
Police said colleagues of the suspect departed with the TV before the arrival of officers.
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Former lightweight champion Edwin Valero was detained Sunday on suspicion of killing his wife, the gravest in a string of problems that have threatened to derail his career.
Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores said Valero was arrested after police found the body of his 20-year-old wife in a hotel in Valencia. Valero left the hotel room around dawn on Sunday and allegedly told security that he had killed Jennifer Viera, Flores said.
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I was there the other night. Even though the event was
I was there the other night. Even though the event was sold out I was able to squeeze in on the stand-by list. Whew! Aside from already being a fan of Krista and Dr. Brown I thought Paul did a great job of keeping the conversation fluid. He especially kept a balance of addressing personal (sometimes complex) questions while leaving room for.... well, play. Plus how could you be too serious after looking at images of bears, monkeys and children playing?
One aspect of the event that was a bit frustrating was that I wanted to participate more. I'm used to listening to speaking of faith on the radio, on Saturdays in my studio. I usually comment and question right along with the radio. It's always interesting to see a radio personality live. It changes the whole context in which one is used to identifying with them.

Oh I'm glad you came, Aaron. It's true that when we do
Oh I'm glad you came, Aaron. It's true that when we do public events, I always sense the audience would like to spend more time actually asking Krista qiestions. In this case, the program was really in the hands of the library. But it makes me think we should try someday to just sort of convene folks in a public space to, well, sit and talk. Not sure when we'll have time for that but it's really what the show itself is about: people talking and really listening to each other.


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An investment of $500 billion in efficiency would end up saving $1.2 trillion in energy costs.light bulbs, adding insulation, or installing smart electric meters.
'It's a myth that the wealth of a country is proportional to its energy use,' says U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.particular, has figured out that using energy more efficiently makes financial sense. According to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a Washington D.C. based advocacy group, the U.S. would be consuming 80 percent more energy than it does now if it was using as much energy per dollar of GDP generated in 1975.
'People do not always make decisions based on what makes economic sense,' says one expert.to miss what should be clear opportunities, even when they could nicely fatten corporate or personal wallets. Consider, for example, that home and business owners continue to resist taking actions as cheap and simple as caulking leaks, switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs, or making wise appliance choices, despite the fact that government programs like "Energy Star" labeling help take some of the guesswork out of decisions.
Since the energy crisis, California's use of electricity has remained flat, even while its economy doubled.have plenty of information about costs and benefits. They suggested that these sorts of anomalies have implications for energy policy, including whether carbon taxes or carbon trading programs will have has much effect on behavior as advocates hope. It turns out that much of the problem is simple procrastination — of busy people intending to take action, but putting off until endless tomorrows what isn't an urgent need that day, or the next, or next. Another is a persistent "endowment effect," an apparently deeply embedded human urge to simply stick with the current status quo.
Recent data suggests European Union nations are on track to reach only half their energy efficiency goal.of decoupling is now in place, although sometimes only on a limited pilot basis, in at least 18 other states.
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Clouds Gather as China Bulls Celebrate
The latest GDP growth number increased to 7.9% from 7.4% the prior quarter. We don't believe China's governmentally produced economic numbers any more than we trust those from Washington. Our expectation was based on the national congress and appointment of a new China leadership.
Engineering a period of optimism makes it easier for a new government. And under communism, what the government wants is what the government gets, even if it is a Potemkin village.
However, foreign direct investment flows in December continued the one-year declining trend, down a hefty 4.5% for the month. That means foreign capital is flowing out. In emerging markets, that's usually a very big warning signal. It's much more important than the GDP number.
Late last year, China relaxed rules on foreign investments in Chinese stock exchanges. To us, this was a confirmation of the urge to raise foreign exchange and reverse the outflows.
China needs foreign exchange to pay for its global shopping spree. They are buying up natural resources around the globe at an accelerating pace. The big deals get publicity. But there are many smaller deals you never hear about. China knows that the only real assets are what is in the ground, not what the central banks create with their computers.
They also need foreign exchange to support the huge gold purchase program. Currently China is the second-largest gold producer. We suspect that China also wants to be the largest gold owner in the world.
China's big problem is that it is so dependent on exports. It's about 70% of the economy. And it can't do much about the decline in export growth. To see what's happening to exports, let's look at shipping, as obviously the goods have to be shipped.
The chart of the Baltic Dry Freight index shows the shipping rates. If there were a meaningful pickup in shipments, we would expect freight rates to rise. Obviously, that's happening. Here is a chart of the Baltic Dry Freight index going back to 2002 (courtesy of www.investmentTools.com).
Note that the current freight rates are virtually at the crash lows of 2008, the depth of the global crisis. At that time, world trade came to a virtual standstill. The current lows mean either that ocean shipping firms have found the secret of transporting goods at very low cost, such as solar-energy or perpetual motion, or there is a huge oversupply of ships, or not as many goods are being shipped.


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I'd like to offer wholehearted apologies to Hotsawce and all the other fine members of this forum for my previous unacceptable behaviour and posting on the 'Nearlypolitan thread' (and other related threads). My irrational and immature emotional reactions to commentary which had nothing to do with me in the first place were completely uncalled for. It was absurd and stupid of me to react in such a way. In doing so I have created unnecessary drama and a negative atmosphere where none should exist. For this, I also apologise.I harbour no animosity towards any member of these forums and hope you can accept this as a sincere apology for any action or post of mine that caused distress, upset or appeared as malicious sarcasm. ThanksFP
Beautiful work David. That crumb looks perfect.Chau
great work, David.
Look like it is straight from Naples.
Very nice pie. How long did it ferment?
Nice looking first pie. I especially like the look of the cheese. Here are my initial thoughts.66% hydration is high. Im not surprised your dough was wet and sticky. You need specialized kneading technique when you go that high. I dont know if you need to drop all the way down to 56%. Next time, you might try 300g water for 60% hydration. It should be a lot more manageable. 60% should also help get the open crumb structure you are looking for vs. 56%.You dont need 00 flour, and it will be harder for you to brown your pies if you use it. Are you sure your broiler was actually on? Was it glowing red? Just because you have it turned on doesnt mean it is on. If your oven is at its maximum temp, the broiler might not come on. You might need to preheat below the maximum temp to get the broiler to come on. Id experiment to make sure the oven is doing what you think it is doing before your next bake.Id suggest you get your basic dough and oven technique down before incorporating a natural (sourdough) starter (Im guessing this is what you meant by live yeast? Your dry yeast is alive; its just a different type).Using a natural starter adds another level of complexity that will make figuring out the basics that much harder. When writing a long post, type it into something like MS Word or some other editor then copy it over to pizzamaking.com. This website is notorious for eating posts. That way, when it does, you just copy it over again. Best of luck.Craig
Thanks Craig! Of course I need to "refine" my technique and understanding of how everything works. Someone pointed out that I used a low protein flour, not really good for pizza, and that's why I got this kind of result - so I'll try to find the perfect flour.My aim is not to get the browning actually, but a white pizza with leoparding and black bubbles (the way I like it!).The broiler was glowing red but not always - so what do you suggest as oven test? preheat the stone as MAX TEMP (500F) and then leave it under 400F to make the broiler kick in?thanks again, I will make other tests and post the results here!ciao,Dario
Was this your first try? That looks great Johnny... I wish I had your oven. I tried about 5-6 times a few months ago and realized my broiler is just not cut out for the job.


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Don't do the crime blah blah blah! I'm sure he knows about that. That'll teach him. I'm telling you, if he does come over to paint my house, there's no beer for him until he's completely done. And NO chatting to his little friends either!
LOL, Len.
PS: Since our bedroom is otherwise occupied with drop cloths and fumes (not the RRS type, mind you), we both will be hitting the couch this evening.[:D]


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Hey folks. I recently stopped in to Ito En on Madison Ave. on a whim and bought their Sweet Green Pu-ehr which I loved. I never heard of Pu-erh before that, so I've been looking for info on the internet. Very confusing. I'm getting all kinds of seemingly contradictory information regarding brewing methods, but that may be because different types require different methods. So I have a few questions.
Are all Pu-ehr varieties suitable for multiple steeps? After you've brewed tea with leaves for the first time, what do you do to those wet leaves so they can be brewed next time?
Are these brewing instructions from PuerhShop suitable for all types of Pu-erh? Thanks.


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BODEN – A daughter, Sophie Mae, is the first child for Escanaba residents, Ben and Rocquel Boden. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 19 inches long when she was delivered at OSF St. Francis Hospital at 8:16 p.m. on Sept. 31.
Bill and Roxanne Lawrence of Escanaba are the infant's maternal grandparents. Paternal grandparents are Jeff and Carol Boden of Gladstone.
Duane and Kay Lawrence of Manistique are the great-grandparents.
BRIGGS – Chuck and Wendy Briggs of Gladstone welcomed a baby girl, Bailey Mae, on Sept. 11 at 8:04 a.m. Bailey weighed in at 8 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 19.5 inches long.
She joins one sister, Brielle at home.
Dave and Sally Briggs of Ford River, and Jerry and Judy Derouin of Escanaba are Bailey's grandparents.
JOHNSON – Randall and Milinda Johnson of Rapid River welcomed a baby girl, there first daughter, born at OSF St. Francis Hospital on Sept. 26 at 8:24 A.M. Melissa AnnMarie weighed in at 6 pounds and 10 ounces, and was 18.75 inches long.
The mother is the former Milinda McNally.
The baby's grandparents are Earl and Millie McNally Sr., and Brian and Alison Johnson, all of Rapid River.
Janet Johnson of Rapid River, Claude and Theresa Alexander of Gladstone,and Earl and Sally McNally Sr., of Brampton are the great-grandparents.
VALIQUETTE – Jason and Tricia (Kobasic) Valiquette of Negaunee Township welcomed a baby boy, Caleb Joseph, on Aug. 23, at 2:53 a.m. Caleb Joseph weighed in at 9 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 21.5 inches long.
He is the couple's first child.
Claude and Beverly Kobasic, and Joe and Patty Valiquette, all of Escanaba, are Caleb's grandparents. Evelyn Creten, also of Escanaba, is his great-grandmother.
STELMACH – Michael and Tracy (Smith) Stelmach of Pearland, Texas, are the parents of twin sons, born at Texas Women's Hospital in Houston on July 18. Luke Thomas weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce when he was delivered at 12:59 p.m. He was 20 1/4 inches long. His brother, Hayden Michael, arrived one minute later at 1 p.m. Hayden weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 18 inches long at birth.
The babies join two sisters, Victoria and Cathrine, in the family.
Luke and Hayden's maternal grandparents are Clara Dena Clay of Wimberly, Texas, and Bill Smith of Houston. DeAnna Morgan Tatrow of Garden and Larry and Linda Stelmach of Henderson, Texas, are the paternal grandparents.
Great-grandparents are Leona Stelmach of Clarkston, Mich., and Clara and Odin Clay of Houston.
NORKOLI – A baby boy is the second child for Derek and Amanda (Kivioja) Norkoli of Escanaba. The infant, named Andon Lee, was delivered at OSF St. Francis Hospital on Oct. 7 at 4:10 p.m. He weighed in at 9 pounds, 4.5 ounces, and was 20 inches long.
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What 2014 Could Mean for Your Portfolio
By Hal M. Bundrick
NEW YORK ( MainStreet) Since 2005, the American economy has been harnessed by slow growth, a deep recession and a glacial recovery. The 45-year average growth rate of 3.4% for inflation-adjusted GDP has become a distant memory, with U.S. annual economic expansion falling well short of that rate over the past eight years.
But that may be about to change. Dr. David Kelly, chief global strategist with J.P. Morgan Funds, sees "a good chance" that the economy will grow by more than 3.0% in 2014.
"While there are plenty of potential obstacles to even this modest achievement, growth at this pace should, to some extent, validate much of the stock market advance seen in recent years and set the stage for a further rise in interest rates," Kelly writes in a recent analysis. "The foundation for stronger growth lies in stronger consumer fundamentals. The last few years have seen a very significant rebuilding of consumer finances, with households now devoting less than 10% of their disposable income to servicing debt for the first time in at least 34 years."
Rising home and stock prices have bolstered household wealth to record highs, according to Kelly. "Barring some shock, consumers should be able to lead the economy to stronger growth in 2014," he says.
Kelly believes business spending will also increase and the housing market will continue its recovery. U.S. exports should also post "decent gains" on a somewhat stronger global economy.
With a projected 2 million new payroll jobs in 2014, Kelly expects the unemployment rate to dip to 6.5% by the end of the year.
Inflation will be held in check by subdued global energy prices. And as the American economy begins to hit its stride, the Federal Reserve will likely phase out bond purchases over the course of 2014, boosting interest rates further.
"This suggests that relative to their normal strategic allocation, investors may want to be a little underweight fixed income and keep the duration of their bond holdings relatively short," Kelly notes. "Second, a 3% [growth] economy is one that should allow earnings to continue to grow, providing further support for the stock market. However, it needs to be recognized that, after a 160% gain in the S&P 500 from its low in March of 2009, U.S. stocks no longer look cheap in absolute terms, but still look attractive relative to an environment of low inflation and low interest rates."
Kelly suggests investors may also want to consider adding to their overseas stock holdings to take advantage of attractive valuations. Potential risks to the upbeat 2014 outlook are possible setbacks in the Chinese economy, political instability in Europe and the Middle East and continued discord in Washington, D.C.


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Huskies to WyomingJuly 31, 2012 by Craig Fuller
On Monday, Dave Hirschman, flying the Tougher Than a Tornado Sweepstakes Husky, and I headed west en route to Wyoming. The scenery was spectacular. We flew along the Missouri River near Pierre, South Dakota, before stopping in Alpine, Wyoming.
This morning, we took the Sweeps Husky to the Afton, Wyoming, Aviat factory for its annual. Dave and I received a warm welcome as we brought the plane home one last time. The next stop for that beautiful aircraft will be AOPA's Aviation Summit in Palm Springs, California, where we will give it away to one very lucky winner. I know it will be hard to part with, as every sweepstakes plane is. But this time the blow will be softened by knowing I have a Husky of my own waiting in the hangar.
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This week, I was privileged to join our Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, David Donahue, in representing the State Department at the International Pow Wow in Los Angeles. Hosted each year by the U.S. Travel Association, the Pow Wow is the industry's premier marketplace for international travel. Exhibitors from America's top vacation spots meet with tour organizers and travel agents from around the world who are eager to bring international visitors to the United States.
You might wonder what the State Department is doing at a show like the Pow Wow. While a significant number of international visitors (65 percent) don't need a visa to visit the United States, we are streamlining the visa process for those who do.
The State Department plays an important role in facilitating inbound travel, and judging by my hoarse voice today, many journalists agree! Yesterday, I spoke to journalists from China, Russia, Ireland, Mexico, and Brazil for three hours non-stop. For me, the most rewarding part of the day was when several Brazilian reporters told me that we were doing a great job with the reduced wait times there.
Visas are an important tool in America's Jobs Diplomacy goals. After all, every additional 65 international visitors to the United States generate enough revenue to support an additional tourism-related job. That's why we are proud to support Brand USA, a public-private partnership with the mission of promoting increased international travel to the United States.
On Monday, Brand USA unveiled their marketing campaign in front of a packed room. The centerpiece of the campaign is an original song from Roseanne Cash. The crowd loved "Land of Dreams," and it was inspiring to see the diversity in people and places in the accompanying video. President Barack Obama also sent along a video message of support. It was great to see such high-level interest in the Pow Wow and Brand USA, which further demonstrates the U.S. government's commitment to secure and efficient travel to the United States.
Although I am exhausted -- and voiceless -- after my three days at the Pow Wow, I couldn't be happier to have witnessed the excitement about the extraordinary demand for travel to the United States and to get the word out on the State Department's efforts to encourage even more visitors to Discover America.
Related Content: The White House Blog -- President Obama Promotes Tourism | Behind the Scenes -- The Making of 'Land of Dreams'
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It's nice to take a vacation once in a while because this gives you physical and mental refreshment. I can still remember my unforgettable experience when I was in Bantayan Island. The place was indescribable. The surroundings were rare, pleasant to your soul.
Anna in Washington, D.C. writes:
I love the song!
Susan C. in Florida writes:
It is good to represent our country in such a positive way. I recognized much of the southern beauty of Florida and the Gulf coast! Great places to visit...good people, beautiful beaches and great food. Love the song!! Nicely done.
Bob in Canada writes:
I am a Canadian , and Im sure you realize that to say that the united states of America is NOT the land of dreams. and in fact there is nothing safe about visiting your country.
I love the people I know from their , But I am worried , your government came and took an Innocent man to prove a point, from Canada , and have held him unlawfully. and HE WASN'T even in your country. so could you tell me why, you seem to think your country is so great when it would make all Cannabis patients criminal and arrest organic farmers for profit from corporate interests that pay for elections.
If your campaign song and theme are not changed I will be litigating along with others for false advertizing. Please contact me with your intentions thank you in advance.
you may contact me via email. as I cannot trust that your organized criminal element may want to abduct me, as they are so well known for internationally.
thank you for your time.


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This dark, sultry hair has movement from roots to ends. Setting lotion or mousse is applied to long, straight, damp hair before it is set in curlers. After they are taken out, hair can be styled with the fingers so the gloss in each lock is retained, and parted down the front. Curling spray can help the curls set and last longer. If hair is fine or thin, curlers are best, but a curling iron will work as well for thicker hair.