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TORONTO (Reuters) - The July version of Canada's market-moving jobs report contained an error and must be restated, the country's main statistics agency said on Tuesday, pointing to the latest in a series of mistakes that have damaged its reputation in recent years.
Statistics Canada said in a statement that the source of the error has been identified and that corrected estimates will be released on Aug. 15. It did not specify what the error was.
The report, released last Friday, showed the economy added just 200 jobs last month, far fewer than analysts had forecast.
The monthly Canadian employment report, which is similar to the influential U.S. nonfarm payrolls data, is one of the economic indicators that is most closely watched by investors and policymakers. It has showed some big swings between gains and losses in the past.
The mistake will inevitably raise questions about the reliability of StatsCan's data and whether it paints a true picture of Canada's economic growth.
There was a disconnect in the second quarter with the labor market underperforming relative to other measures of growth that have strengthened, said Mazen Issa, senior Canada macro strategist at TD Securities in Toronto.
While it is hard to gauge whether the revision will be positive or negative, the fact that StatsCan chose not to wait until next month's report to issue a revision suggests the change could be material, he said.
"It feels like there's potentially a larger revision."
The error happened during one of the agency's statistical processes, said Sylvie Michaud, director-general of education, labor and income surveys at Statistics Canada.
Michaud, who is directly responsible for the jobs data, said StatsCan was "in the process of rerunning everything", but that the error was only for July 2014.
It was not the first error for StatsCan. In August last year, the agency uncovered serious errors in a batch of data from its national household survey and pulled the plug before it was released. In 2005, trade figures were revised after a computer error.
StatsCan responded to questions on whether the jobs data was more volatile than usual in a blog post late last year, saying its experts found the survey showed the same degree of month-to-month fluctuation that has been recorded since the 1990s.
The error hurts StatsCan's reputation, said Benjamin Reitzes, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
"The labor force survey and employment numbers were already questionable as to their accuracy on a monthly basis given the volatility there," he said.
Still, whatever the revision is, it is unlikely to change the trend in the jobs market dramatically, Reitzes said.
"The underlying softness that's there in the Canadian labor market probably won't change much, if at all."
The Canadian dollar briefly weakened following the announcement before recovering to end the session little changed from Monday as investors were wary of betting on which direction the revision would go.
StatsCan said it was immediately launching a review of data verification processes in place and that other statistical programs are not affected.
A report on the results of the review will be published on the agency's website as soon as it is available. Industry Minister James Moore, to whom Statscan reports, declined to comment on the error.
Additional reporting by David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Editing by Amran Abocar, Meredith Mazzilli, Andre Grenon and Peter Galloway


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I have got a number of emails and comments from some of you recently wanting to know more about the future of Visual C++.
The Visual C++ team has been looking at what they should in VC++ to ensure that the direction of the product aligns closely with customer needs and market realities. The team has the following three things top of mind as they think about the direction forward.
- C++ customers mostly develop native code applications. As part of this, you would like to see renewed emphasis on tools for writing native code.
- While firmly rooted in native code, many of you want to extend your applications to take advantage of managed functionality (especially WPF, WCF and workflow).
- You are using C++/CLI to bridge between native and managed code.
This team will be significantly increasing support for native development tools. Central to this work is investigating ways to make C++ developers far more efficient in understanding, updating and validating the quality of large native code bases. In fact, the team is already working on a front-end rewrite that will allow for a vastly improved IntelliSense experience. This same work should pave the way for future enhancements such as refactoring and advanced source code analysis. In addition, the team intends to update the native libraries to simplify the development of rich-client user interfaces and access to underlying Windows platform innovation. The team will also work to provide "friction-free" interop between native & managed code through enhancements to C++/CLI and IJW.
The Orcas release will begin to reflect this new strategy but large changes – especially to the design time experience – will come with the version beyond that. The team is currently kicking around a number of native code & interop features planned for Orcas+1, and we are always interested in hearing from customers. If there are specific things you'd like to see in future versions of Visual C++ please let us know.
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In this online interactive, learners will explore how scientists learn about the composition of an asteroid by studying energy and neutrons that emanate from it. Includes audio (and transcription) explaining the diagram.
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This is an annotated children's story about the Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt. Learners will dissect the story for real and fictional objects and places in the solar system, and for those scientific concepts or processes that... (View More) may be true. Support materials include the story with space for kids to illustrate, an audio recording of the story by the author and an extension activity. (View Less)
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Vol 36(12 Issues in 2018 ) Print ISSN: 1066-5099 Online ISSN: 1549-4918 Impact Factor: 5.587
STEM CELLS, a peer reviewed journal published monthly, provides a forum for prompt publication of original investigative papers and concise reviews. STEM CELLS is read and written by clinical and basic scientists whose expertise encompasses the rapidly expanding fields of stem and progenitor cell biology. STEM CELLS welcomes original articles and concise reviews describing basic laboratory investigations of stem cells and the translation of their clinical aspects of characterization and manipulation from the bench to patient care. The journal covers all aspects of stem cells embryonic stem cells/induced pluripotent stem cells; tissue-specific stem cells; stem cell technology: epigenetics, genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics; cancer stem cells; translational and clinical research; and regenerative medicine.
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Kanye West's 'Black Skinhead' Featured In 'Wolf Of Wall Street' Trailer
By Andrew Christina
As if there isn't enough hype surrounding Yeezus already, Paramount has added a movie trailer to the mix. The new promo for "Wolf of Wall Street," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is set to the soundtrack of "Black Skinhead," a cut off Kanye West's new album which is out tomorrow (June 18).
"Black Skinhead" plays throughout the entire trailer for the new Scorsese film. The music stops only momentarily to highlight some of the more awkward scenes from the movie, like throwing a little person in a Velcro suit at a target board.
Kanye first premiered "Black Skinhead," along with "New Slaves," on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" back on May 18. The highly-publicized performance was our first real taste of Yeezus. The album has since generated an exceptional amount of buzz: Fans searched for the significance behind the surprisingly minimalist album cover, Twitter exploded following the rare and endlessly quotable New York Times interview, and of course, the leak of the album itself caused a fury of downloads that left some wondering if Kanye had actually broken the internet.
An impressive array of collaborators are said to appear on the album, including Rick Rubin, Daft Punk, Kid Cudi, Chief Keef, Justin Vernon, Frank Ocean, and the man himself: "God." The hard copy of the highly-anticipated Yeezus is available in stores tomorrow.


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I'm all for skepticism and disbelief without proper evidence. However, there is a an area of science know as paranormal science. I don't believe in god, the afterlife, demons, etc. but that doesn't mean i don't belief in other things, as some people have claimed. I believe in Extraterrestrials, and do not dismiss the possibility of ghosts or psychics, even some cryptids i don't deny the possibility of existence. These things actually have evidence supporting them, and evidence against. Granted a majority is first person experience and word of mouth, both terrible sources, but there is consistency with claims and research. Am i wrong to believe or be on the fence on paranormal topics? Some people have said yes, as an atheist it is my job to deny anything that is beyond the physical world, but I'm not sure i agree with that. So am i wrong for not denying these things until concrete evidence is found? are there any others that hold belief in a supernatural thing?
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A very sad story indeed, but interesting how the brain is bearing up to the emotional stress brought upon it by his sickness. As far as his folks go, sure its good that they are comforted by the thought that their son is emotionally at ease with his sickness. It is unfortunate that they believe what he is saying is the truth, that there really is a ghost holding his hand.
I think they still could find comfort within the more reasonable explanation, they could still see that their son is at ease within his delusions without partaking in them.
The truth can sooth just as well as manufactured explanations, it's not necessary to think that a ghost is holding his hand as long as they know that he is comforted by the thought, and with that, deriving comfort of their own.
Some people could argue that the sick young man should be told the truth, but I say, " To what end ". He will most likely die in the near future and is it truly necessary to debate this with him, using up his last few days struggling with the acceptance of " there is no ghost ". His parents, on the other hand, if they truly believe, are in direr need of some education.
Totally agree. This is not the time or place. Someone is dying, and support of the person is what matters in this. Listening, a hand to hold, a shoulder to cry on, a hug will speak more to them about your concern. They will remember this. Not a place for reason. I've always said people tend to act on an emotional level, that is mostly where we process the world. Just love them and support them. You will be rewarded.
Terms like belief and faith are loaded terms I try for terms like "I'm convinced"' "I think" or "The research supports"...etc
.If something thought to be paranormal is in fact shown to be real then it wasn't paranormal. If we don't have an answer for something the default position isn't- "it's paranormal or god did it". The default is rather, "we don't know yet but we're working on it."
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The Leading EDGE Seminars at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business give Duke graduate students an in-depth look at cutting-edge issues, trends, methodologies, and practices related to the topics of global energy and corporate sustainability.
Leading EDGE Seminars are more than a speaker series. The seminars bring together industry experts, academic thought leaders, and graduate students to engage in combination of lecture, facilitated working group discussion, and networking. The seminars complement Duke's Energy & Environment academic curriculum by engaging students in timely, contemporary energy and environmental management applications. Seminars cover topics ranging from global energy market economics and finance to value chain sustainability, carbon markets, and energy technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Venezuelans hunting for luxury homes around the world jumped by a greater degree than any country last year as political uncertainty escalated in the South American state, a report from property consultant Knight Frank shows.
The 123-percent increase of searches from Venezuela was ahead of Brazil in second place with an 81-percent increase, according to the company's Wealth Report, which for the first time tracked users of its website, where homes can cost up to 100 million pounds ($150.7 million).
Knight Frank has 1.2 million visits to its website each month and the share of traffic from South America grew by 178 percent between 2011 and 2012 though the region still represents less than 10 percent of the total, the company said.
Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez, died from cancer on Tuesday after a 14-year reign that polarized his nation. While he was adored by many of the poor for his humble roots, earthy rhetoric and oil-financed welfare policies, he was a hate-figure for opponents who viewed him as a dictatorial leader who stamped on opponents and ruined the economy, prompting thousands to leave the country.
"The statistics are no surprise at all," Diego Moya-Ocampos, a Venezuela political risk analyst at IHS Global-Insight, said before Chavez's death. "Venezuelans perceive there will be more of the same after Chavez as polls indicate vice president Nicolas Maduro will be his successor."
"The other reason is the country is now the single most murderous in South America and the kidnap rate is high," he said, naming Miami, the Dominican Republic and Spanish
"Our experience is that whenever we see a spike in web traffic, then actual sales follow with a three to six month lag," said Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight Frank.
"Venezuelans are showing strong interest in Madrid, and the Brazilians in the U.S. We'd expect a noticeable uptick in sales in 2013 from South America," he said.
Some 40.4 percent of Venezuelans were Internet users in 2011, up from 37.6 percent in 2010, according to World Bank data, a smaller percentage point jump than that in Argentina, Brazil, Britain or the United States.
South America saw the biggest jump in web traffic by region as fast-growing consumer markets and natural resource wealth has boosted fortunes throughout the area in recent years.
Forbes recently estimated that Brazil has minted 19 new millionaires per day since 2007 and the number of Brazilians on its 2013 billionaires list grew by more than 25 percent.
Concerns about inflation and local currencies have also encouraged elites in Brazil and Argentina to invest in foreign real estate.
"One of the biggest trends in the past 12 months has been the growth of Latin American wealth moving into global property assets," Bailey said. "Brazilian wealth leads with significant money being invested in Miami and New York."
In one of London's biggest property deals last year, Brazilian billionaire Moise Yacoub Safra paid about 500 million pounds ($756 million) for the Plantation Place office building in the British capital's financial district.
Elsewhere, political uncertainty in north Africa and the Middle East drove money into Dubai and pushed up prices for the best homes by 20 percent, helping the emirate recover from a property crash that struck at the end of 2008.
The jump placed it third on a list of global price rises for high-end homes headed by Jakarta (38 percent) and Bali (20 percent) in Indonesia, a country experiencing a commodities-driven wealth boom.
The list accounts for the top five percent of homes by value in most of the housing markets tracked, Knight Frank said.
"Arab Spring money led the way in Dubai," said Helen Tatham, a director or residential at Knight Frank in Dubai. "Money has flowed in from Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt and Bahrain."
Monaco retained its crown as the most expensive place per square foot to buy a home, followed by Hong Kong and London. Buyers would get more than five times as much floor space for the same money in Mumbai, India, as Monaco and more than 10 times more in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Two yobs smashed the wing mirrors off seven parked cars during an act of "mindless vandalism".
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Monday how Lewis Mawby, 18, of Hedley Drive, Brimington, Chesterfield, and a 17-year-old, from Chesterfield, who cannot be named for legal reasons, went on a wrecking spree.
Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: "Witnesses heard the sound of smashing glass and went out and saw two youths walking up the road and saw one taking a running kick at a wing mirror.
"Police were contacted and CCTV was observed and police saw the defendants close to a nearby petrol station. It was mindless vandalism to vehicles."
Mawby and the 17-year-old both pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the wing mirrors of seven vehicles in the cul-de-sac after the incident in November.
Defence solicitor Paul Metcalfe, representing Mawby, said Mawby is of previous good character and is well thought of by his family.
Mr Metcalfe told the court: "He had had a night-out with a pal. If you understand what was consumed it gives some explanation as to what happened because they both consumed far too much alcohol.
"It started off as a prank and it escalated. Mawby immediately accepts culpability and he has learned a harsh lesson and realises he cannot take that kind of alcohol."
Magistrates described what happened as "stupid" and adjourned both the 17-year-old and Mawby's cases for sentencing at Chesterfield magistrates' court.
The 17-year-old's case was adjourned until Tuesday, February 4, when he was sentenced to a six month referral order with assessments. He was also ordered to pay compensation. Mawby's case was adjourned until February 6 for sentencing.


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B. Jerome Nussbaum, 95, of Berne, died Monday in Swiss Village Retirement Community.
He was born in Adams County on March 10, 1916, to Wilbert and Lila Sprunger Nussbaum.
Among survivors are a son, Gregg A. Nussbaum of Goshen; a brother, Paul Nussbaum of Berne; and a sister, Ruth Schwartz of Berne.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the chapel at Swiss Village, with burial in MRE Cemetery, rural Berne. Visiting hours are 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday in the chapel.
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Mesopotamia Photographs of the Great War. Extensive picture collection taken in World War I in Iraq by Captain Charles Henry Weaver. Includes biography of the photographer.
This site is made up of 300 pictures taken by the photographer during his service in The Great War. This was the time of the creation of Iraq out of "Southern Turkey".
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The pictures and artefacts were kept by Mr Weaver's daughter Joyce Edna Huntly (1926-2002) to whom this site is dedicated.
Mesopotamia was the first foreign affray for the (British) Indian Military. By 1918 there were 304,000 Indian troops and 107,000 British troops stationed in Mesopotamia. The British Indian Command was different and the two armies did not always work well together. The Indian side was poorly invested in modern equipment, and medical facilities were pitiful. The war was called "MesPot" with good reason. Some order was established by 1920, from which the modern state of Iraq was established.
The pictures show a different Iraq in many ways, although many of the sites can be recongised when shown on television nowadays.
These pictures were taken on the British side, no doubt in during the times when things were slack.
Captain Weaver was a contemporary of Dr Maurice Nichols who was an RAMC doctor. Dr Nichols gave a copy his book "In Mesopotamia" to Captain Weaver. The book was written under the pen name Martin Swayne. Dr Nichols became a leading psychiatrist after the war, and was one of the first New Age thinkers, developing "The Fourth Way". Martin Swaine describes the heat in evocative detail, only hinted at in these pictures. "Through the double canvas of the tent the sun beats down like a giant with a leaden club" is just one line he uses. In one period from 7th-28th July 1917 temperatures did not fall below 116 Deg F in the shade and 423 British and 59 Indian troops died of heat stroke.
Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Mesopotamia Photographs of the Great War
Posted by M at 11:54 AM
Labels: Iraq, World War One
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- john said...
Try to get it right - or at least be consistent: it's "Martin Swayne"
And it's also "Maurice Nicoll", early pupil of C.G. Jung and subsequently pupil of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky. "The Fourth Way", as taught by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky is the general term for the teaching. Nicoll was one of, and probably THE most important teacher of the system in the UK. His school continues.
- Gerard Bulger said...
Just come across Johns comment and i will correct it
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Chris Redfern and the Ohio Democratic Party are scared. How else to explain Redfern's focus on the Republican primary for Auditor of State?
Are Republicans so desperate in looking for anyone to run for State Auditor that they have settled on someone whose home county soundly rejected him as a candidate for County Auditor? Rep. Morgan's one big accomplishment is slamming the Governor's office with a massive and frivolous public records request that was a waste of taxpayer dollars. And now, after wasting the state's money, he wants to be Ohio's next Auditor. Rep. Morgan says he wants to continue in Mary Taylor's CPA tradition, which, given his record, we assume will be her tradition of Conservative Partisan Attacks.
Dave Yost was strong-armed out of the Attorney General's race by the Ohio Republican Party, despite having endorsements from many county Republican parties throughout the state. Yost clearly wanted to be Attorney General, but was forced to play second fiddle to Kevin DeWine's second cousin and the second choice of the Republican base. Meanwhile, two self-proclaimed Tea Party candidates are now pitted against one another in the race for the Republican nomination for Auditor, which has infuriated the right-wing of the Republican Party.
Running for the Auditor's office should not be a consolation prize. David Pepper has been traveling across the state for eight months, talking to Ohioans about what they want out of a State Auditor and speaking about his passion for improving the Auditor's office. He will build on his record of protecting Ohio tax dollars by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse, while expanding transparency and accountability in local government.
Most recently, Redfern on March 3:
Does Congressman Kasich stand with Kevin DeWine, or does he stand with Mary Taylor's longtime mentor Alex Arshinkoff? Does Kasich stand with the Ohio Republican Party, or does he stand with county Republican parties throughout the state? Does he agree with his running mate that Ohio's Auditor should be a CPA, or does he agree with Kevin DeWine that Ohio must have a former county auditor in the position?
Redfern is scared, and he should be. No matter who wins the Republican primary for Auditor of State, our candidate will still be a stronger candidate with better qualifications to be Ohio's next Auditor than their candidate.
It is ironic that Redfern would ask whether John Kasich thinks that Ohio's Auditor of State should be a CPA like Mary Taylor and Seth Morgan or a former county auditor like Dave Yost. Their candidate, David Pepper, is neither. In fact, it seems that Pepper's chief qualification when Redfern thought he would be running against Mary Taylor was his ability to self-fund his own campaign (in other words, his well known status as the "spoiled little brat" candidate for Auditor). Pepper and Redfern seem to think that money is the only qualification a candidate needs to be our next Auditor of State.
And how desperate is Chris Redfern, that he doesn't even notice the hypocrisy of criticizing the way our party does business as the Ohio Democratic Party, under his leadership, has been working hard to limit Democrat voters' choices to the establishment's preferred candidates?
Take, for example, the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate. There can be no question that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is the more liberal candidate who would be more appealing to the Democrat nutroots, yet it's clear that the establishment is supporting Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher. What gives?
But the ODP's treatment of Brunner is nothing compared to their treatment of the woman who once sought to replace Brunner as Secretary of State, Jennifer Garrison. OhioDaily, a Democrat blog, reported at the end of January that "donors and party insiders" (read: the ODP and its minions) were seeking "to push their original hand-picked choice out as fast as they rushed her in." They succeeded, and their efforts to deny Democrat primary voters a choice between moderate Garrison versus an ultra-liberal candidate like Maryellen O'Shaughnessy left some wondering if Garrison would switch to the Republican Party.
And Redfern wants to talk about candidates being "strong-armed" out of primary races? Apparently he is so irrationally afraid of Seth Morgan and Dave Yost that it slipped his mind that his own party, under his own leadership, successfully "strong-armed" Jennifer Garrison out of the Secretary of State race and is trying to do the same thing to Jennifer Brunner and her flailing campaign for U.S. Senate.
But hey, Redfern can be forgiven for being a little scared. I have long maintained that, as a CPA, Seth Morgan is the most qualified candidate in the Auditor of State race. I believe he can and will win the primary and be our nominee for Auditor. But let's face it, even if Morgan loses the primary and Dave Yost is our nominee, our candidate will still be leaps and bounds more qualified than David Pepper. Whether our candidate is a CPA or a former county auditor, at least he will have better qualifications for the job than his family's money.


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Hello! I am so confused...I have a very simple loop that I would really like to be a while loop..however when I do use while, I get nothing...so I started working with a for loop and I do get a picture! But I am not getting the behavior I want.
Ideally I would like:
while (xPos != 0.0){
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//i am starting out the cube at (.75, .75)
and here is my code that will draw a cube--but something really strange is happening, as the cube gets closer to the origin, more and more cubes start appearing then they all kind of meet in the middle and then escape at opposite diagonal ends of the screen?
I have no idea what's going on
Code :int i = 0; //while (xPos != 0.0) { for (i; i < 200; i++) { glTranslated(xPos, yPos, 0.0); glutWireCube(.25); xPos-=0.00005; //move in a negative direction along the xaxis yPos = (startYPos*xPos/startXPos); glutSwapBuffers(); glutPostRedisplay(); }


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Mayor Don Wesely today presented the End Hunger Awards for 2001 to five area individuals
who have made significant contributions to alleviating hunger in the city, state, nation
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Wende Baker, who served as Executive Director of the Food Bank of Lincoln from 1984 until this past June, was presented with both the Statewide End Hunger Award and a special Mayor's End Hunger Award for lifetime achievement. She was nominated by the staff and board of the Food Bank.
"During Wende's tenure, the Food Bank has grown from distributing 400,000 pounds of food annually to almost two million pounds a year," wrote new Executive Director Scott Young in the nomination letter. "The Food Bank now serves 80 agencies and over 140 separate programs, all attempting to end hunger. We estimate that over 60,000 people a month benefit from the efforts of the Food Bank of Lincoln."
Other winners of the Mayor's End Hunger Awards are:
Assisting Mayor Wesely in the presentations was Joanne Komenda of Community Action of Nebraska, who is Chair of the Mayor's End Hunger Award Committee.
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For previously issued drought statements see the archived status reports.
The Drought Response Committee voted on Nov. 23 to maintain the first level of drought for 37 counties. Marlboro, Dillon, Marion, Florence, Horry, Williamsburg, Georgetown, Berkeley, and Charleston counties continue with no drought status. The incipient drought declaration is followed by increasing levels of severity to moderate, severe and extreme status. The committee was concerned over the strong likelihood of drought conditions worsening through the normal winter recharge season, although some temporary relief can be expected as water usage is typically lower in the winter months.
Hope Mizzell, S.C State Climatologist stated,"Most of South Carolina has experienced below normal rainfall since early September. The building deficit coupled with a forecast for a dry winter prompted S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to convene the committee to ensure that members and the public were prepared for potential worsening conditions." During incipient drought, DNR activates the Drought Information Center and increases monitoring and notification of the drought status.
Scott Willett with the Anderson Regional Joint Water System said the current lower water usage will begin to rise as spring approaches, "Right now outdoor water use is traditionally low, but once lawns are being watered and gardens planted we'll see usage begin to spike."
Northeast Drought Management Area committee member Mike Hancock from Lugoff- Elgin Water Authority stated, "We are dealing with a La Nina condition. Historically, La Nina means we can receive significantly lower rainfall. If conditions continue to follow the historical pattern then we will experience substantially lower rainfall through spring 2011."
Darryl Jones, S.C. Forestry Commission, reported that continuing dry conditions will result in an increase in wildfire activity across the state, "While fire occurrence has been close to normal so far this fall, we are concerned that dry conditions might continue through the winter. If it remains dry, we will probably see an extended wildfire season that lasts until spring. During the drought, wildfires start easier, burn more intensely and are harder to control because more fuel is available. With a drought and our ongoing resource shortages, we are concerned that we will see higher losses from wildfires." Please contact Darryl Jones for questions about wildfire activity at (803) 896-8800.
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The disappointingly low number of Americans who signed up for private insurance since online marketplaces were launched last month under the nation's new health care law had one big bright spot — California.
From Oct. 1 to Nov. 2, the state's new health care exchange enrolled 35,364 people, almost 10,000 more than the 36 states whose residents must use the U.S. government's troubled health care website, according to figures released Wednesday. Overall, Californians made up a third of the total number of people who signed up for a health plan on one of the nation's new insurance marketplaces.
For weeks, anticipation had been building before the release of the numbers — the first hard look at how many people had taken advantage of President Barack Obama's signature legislation. While critics seized on the low nationwide enrollment as evidence that it was an abject failure, supporters of the law said the nation's largest state offered proof that it can be successful when an exchange website actually works and is aggressively marketed.
"It's a very proud day," said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's exchange. "We're very pleased with the number and the momentum."
In the first 12 days of November, Lee noted, the sign-up pace doubled to more than 2,000 a day as the mid-December deadline looms for picking a plan to start Jan. 1. As of Tuesday, the total number had climbed to nearly 60,000.
The numbers still represent only a tiny percentage of the 1.4 million that the exchange hopes to sign up by the end of 2014, but California officials and consumer health care advocates point to the initially dismal numbers when a similar health care law was enacted in Massachusetts.
"Only a couple hundred people in Massachusetts were signed up in the first months of their health reform effort in 2006, but now they have less than 1 percent uninsured," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a California consumer group. "The experience in California and nationally is that enrollment starts slowly but then ramps up."
Another encouraging sign was how many people discovered they would receive free or low-cost insurance through Medicaid, the nation's health program for the poor that was expanded under the health care law. So far, 396,000 people across the U.S. have qualified for Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal in California. The expanded program is so popular that 120,000 people have tried to sign up in states that have refused to expand Medicaid. In California, 79,500 people had signed up for Medi-Cal by Nov. 2.
Republican politicians, however, put a much different spin on the numbers.
State Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, a member of the state Senate Health Committee, said "the paltry participation numbers for the California exchange, like the federal health care exchange … are clearly insufficient to build a sustainable government-run health care system."
Republicans also noted that the nationwide number of 106,185 sign-ups through Nov. 2 was barely a fifth of what Obama administration officials had projected — and a fraction of the 14 million people whose plans in the individual market have been canceled, largely because those plans don't comply with the new law.
"The pace of enrollment is a little slower than I expected," said Gerald Kominski, a professor of health care policy and management at UCLA. "But I think that is largely due to the fact that it is a long open enrollment season … so people feel there is still plenty of time."
Under the health care law, Americans with few exceptions must have medical insurance by March 31 or face a minimum $95 penalty. And if they enroll before Dec. 15, the insurance will start on New Year's Day.
Kominski was not surprised by the sluggish rate of enrollees nationwide, which he largely attributed to "endless reporting on the daily glitches with the website."
Covered California, Lee said, never expected October to be a big month for enrollment. It was simply a time for Californians to do "some shopping … making some comparisons and picking the plans that are right for them," he said.
Both Lee and Kominski noted that of the 30,830 Californians who enrolled by Oct. 31, only 4,852 were eligible for federal subsidies. Health care experts said that means the rates of the nonsubsidized policies are reasonable enough to attract buyers.
California, with roughly 6 million uninsured residents, has long been considered a bellwether in the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.
Lee said a demographic breakdown of the enrollment figures — including the age of the enrollees — is expected to be released at Covered California's next board meeting on Nov. 21. The age of the people buying plans on the exchange is critical to the law's success because to make the new online marketplaces work, the government must persuade millions of young and healthy people to sign up to subsidize the cost of insuring older and sicker people.
In recent days, the Obama administration has been touting the improved federal website and, for the first time, indicated a willingness to consider legislation to stave off the wave of cancellations in the individual marketplace, where people who don't get insurance at work buy their plans.
Administration officials and senior congressional Democrats, meanwhile, expressed confidence in the program's future.
"We expect enrollment will grow substantially throughout the next five months," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Republicans, meanwhile, are holding hearings to keep the health care overhaul's problems in the spotlight ahead of an election year.
"It's kind of interesting to see as Obamacare implodes how everybody's running for cover," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. And Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said, "Obviously, panic has set in on the other side."
Asked how it felt to have California beat so many other states in enrolling people, Lee demurred, saying, "We see this not as a race but a partnership."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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GOP: Let's debate health taxes, too
Just what Congress needs during its year-end tax fight: another tussle over President Barack Obama's health care law.
When lawmakers return to Washington after the November elections, some House and Senate Republicans want the party to fight to repeal billions of dollars worth of new taxes that will take effect next year to help pay for the 2010 health care overhaul.
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"I'd like to think that in theory in the lame duck, everything is on the table, including all of the health care taxes," Ohio Rep. Patrick Tiberi, a senior Republican on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, told POLITICO. "The reality is those taxes also have a big impact on Americans."
Tense negotiations between Republicans and Democrats are expected on Capitol Hill during the lame duck session as lawmakers returning from a bitter election must decide what to do with the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, the payroll tax break, emergency unemployment benefits and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts slated to begin in January. In Washington parlance, this unholy tax-and-spending stew is called the fiscal cliff.
Throwing the health care taxes into the mix stands to only increase the chances for gridlock.
Still, some Republicans say the party shouldn't ignore these tax hikes just because Congress already faces a daunting to-do list.
Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), another Ways and Means member, said the health care levies — particularly those on investment income claimed by high earners — should be part of the year-end debate.
"This tax increase on investment income, along with the dozens of other tax rates set to go up at the end of the year, underscores why Congress must act to stop this massive tax hike from slamming the U.S. economy," Black told POLITICO.
The effort is backed by the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group that was part of the losing bid earlier in the summer to have the Supreme Court overturn the health care law.
NFIB officials say they are already in communication with congressional leaders on the issue.
Amanda Austin, the group's director of federal public policy, acknowledged the "uphill" fight to repeal the taxes when so many other issues will be in play at the end of the year.
But "we feel frankly that the health bill is a fiscal cliff for small businesses," she said. "Everybody is trying to be calculating about how to approach the lame duck. Until there's not a bite at the apple, there's a bite at the apple."
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is under no illusion that his chamber, controlled by Democrats through at least January, will address health care taxes as part of a fiscal cliff deal. Still, the veteran Finance Committee member said he would support such an effort by his House counterparts.
"Congress should repeal the health care law and replace it with consensus fixes to increase insurance coverage and reduce costs," he told POLITICO. "That includes repealing the more than $500 billion in new taxes, fees and penalties. The current Senate majority is unlikely to allow votes on repeal provisions in the Senate, but I'll support efforts in the House as well as opportunities that might come up in the Senate."


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Since 2004, U.S. produce industry growth has gone downhill as consumption by women declined by 1 percent and men by 2 percent.
"That's stagnation and it has to change," said Tom Stenzel, United Fresh Produce Association. "We have to decide if the industry will grow or stagnate."
Stenzel, luncheon speaker at today's Texas Produce Convention in San Antonio, said despite those dismal numbers he remains positive about the industry. "I see more opportunity than ever."
Childhood obesity numbers are down and much of that, Stenzel said, is related to fruit and vegetable consumption. Other factors also provide hope. "We have more varieties, better technology and are delivering a better product to the consumer than we were 20 years ago.
"But we also have bigger threats."
Chief among these is the food safety issue, the primary factor in declining consumption, Stenzel said. The aftermath of the spinach recall of several years ago, "still lingers. Recalls have a huge effect. They scare consumers, who stop eating produce, and that, not the risk of foodborne illness, is a public health issue. We don't cook salads," he added, "so we can't be 100 percent risk free."
The produce industry supported the Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law in 2011. But Stenzel said the industry will watch closely as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration writes the regulations to enforce the law. "We need a level playing field," he said.
Currently, FDA is asking for public comment on regulations, a process that will continue until Nov. 15. The produce industry will offer comments, including suggestions that farm size not be a determinant in whether a facility is covered by the act or not. "Bacteria do not know what size a farm is," he said.
He also expects the industry to suggest that exemption for produce that is "rarely eaten raw," be re-examined since some of those products "find their way into the fresh market."
He said standards should be close to crop-specific. The same safety standards that make sense for citrus, for instance, will not be best for leafy greens.
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Other issues with facility regulations will also come under scrutiny.
The labor issue is the other crucial threat to the produce industry, and Stenzel said a sensible immigration reform law is necessary for agriculture. "All of agriculture is unanimous in supporting this issue," he said. "We have negotiated with unions and the Senate and helped pass a strong immigration reform bill."
The situation is different in the U.S. House of Representatives, which Stenzel called "a nasty bunch of people right now. They are on another planet."
He expects the House to pass an immigration bill "but it will be different from the Senate. Of all the crazy things going on in Washington, immigration reform is the most important."
He said the Senate bill is not perfect but provides much of what agriculture needs, including a way for the 11 million undocumented workers currently in the country to work their way to legal status. Also, a temporary worker program that allows for a three-year visa provides flexibility for workers and employers.
Worker cap numbers too low
"The program has a 337,000 worker cap," he said. "That's not enough but it's all we could get from the Senate and the unions. But, in a crisis, the Secretary of Agriculture can change that number."
Stenzel said another advantage with the worker program is that USDA, not the Department of Labor, will oversee it. "USDA is for us; Labor is not," he said.
He encouraged conference participants to "go home and tell your Republican representatives to pass an immigration bill and not just do nothing. If they pass a bill, we have a shot," he said.
"Some do not want to see a legalized immigrant workforce," Stenzel added. "But we have to create a legal way for workers to come to this country and do the work no one here wants to do."
Despite the challenges, which he concedes are huge, Stenzel remains optimistic about the produce industry. Schools are adding salad bars; fruits and vegetables are now included in the Women, Infants and Children Food and Nutrition Service (WIC) program; and the emphasis on childhood obesity encourages more fresh fruit and vegetable consumption.
The industry has work to do, some of it in education.
"We have to make food safety a positive instead of a negative. Be honest and tell consumers that produce cannot be 100 percent risk-free, but bring the risk into perspective. The chance of getting a food-borne illness is lower than the chance of being struck by lightning."
He said the grocery store produce manager "needs to become our new hero. Face-to-face marketing makes farmers markets popular," he said. The produce manager can be the face of the fruit and vegetable industry.
Also of interest:
Senate immigration bill offers commonsense reform
Senate immigration reform plan has agriculture backing


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2016 Olympics - Kitesurfing out?
I can't say I'm bummed. I know growth is inevitable but I am enjoying the small close knit feeling kiteboarding has right now.
No doubt the olympics would be huge for kiteboarding and a good thing in many ways. If the sport sticks around as I'm sure it will we will eventually see it in the Olympics.
Until then let's just enjoy the golden age of kiteboarding!!
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Golden age was 10 years ago.
Another trip around the sun ?
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I feel the Olympics are the wrong venue for Kiteboard racing, evidenced by this decision. It would be better suited to an X Games demographic. This is an extremely positive development for the sport.
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In terms of inducing excitement, watching kite course racing and windsurfing are about equal for me.
Close shore kite slalom - now that's an x-game / spectator sport
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Well, that's true, '02 through '09 were pretty epic years and '05-'08 particularly fun with the community (gear was getting much better too). It was still a new sport, and when you went kiting, especially at places like Sherman, it was a different era really... But kiting is still fun!
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This is very good news imo!!!
Hopefully this decision will have some kind of effect on reducing the amount of racerheads training out at SI. It was getting a LITTLE out of control this year. Note: This was edited from my true thoughts about some of the racerheads at SI. I know I'm not alone on this topic.
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I love so many things about this "revolutionary" sauce – from its sweet and tangy undertones to the fact that it provides the absolute perfect amount of heat – but the best part is that it was created by former Black Panther Party members and proceeds go to the Huey P. Newton Foundation. The Foundation's Executive Director, David Hilliard, says, "The hot sauce is another way to raise money and bring attention to the Huey Newton Foundation. We're trying to turn the tide of violence and educate young people through our work." All that, and it's organic, vegan (of course), and delicious as all get out.
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Falling squarely in the semi-blasphemous category is this ad for Venezuelan plastic surgery center Clinica Dempere which shows what happens to our favorite Disney characters undergo the knife.
In the ads, Evil Witch, the Frog Prince and Little Mermaid (Ariel) become transformed. Evil Witch gets major facial reconstruction and becomes a hottie, Frog Prince has a total body transformation and becomes a debonair hunk. And Little Mermaid has her tail removed, her boobs enlarged and her face transformed into, well, a train wreck as compared to Ariel's original beautilicious innocence.
We're all for bigger boobs in certain circumstances (especially in the case of this dancer whose boobs kept spilling out of both the top and the bottom of her much too small top) but not when it comes to the overblown efforts of some who feel turning a human into a freak is worth getting paid for.
The least they could have done was make Ariel look pretty.
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Come see the High Line in its stylish white coat! After the snow stopped falling early this morning, our Maintenance and Operations team spent several hours using snow blowers, shovels and an eco-friendly de-icer to clear the High Line's paths and stairways. The park is now open south of 16th Street, and we expect a complete opening very soon. UPDATE: The entire park is now open!
The snow on the High Line usually sticks around quite a bit longer than snow on the streets, where plowing and chemical de-icers quickly transform it into that delightful brown slush we all know so well. With temperatures projected to hover right around freezing for several days, the High Line's winter wonderland should be in place through the weekend.
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Michael Casey and Simon Constable discuss 3 issues traders and investors should be focused on Thursday. Photo: Getty Images.
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Richard Henry Bain appeared in a Montreal courtroom for what was supposed to have been a routine date-setting.
The appearance wound up being anything but routine.
Bain entered the courtroom wearing a white T-shirt and delivered a greeting, both upon his arrival and before exiting, reminiscent of a priestly message to a congregation: "May God bless you all," he said as he entered and left the room.
He began his monologue by telling the court that he wanted to recognize what he called a holy day of remembrance — the Dec. 7 anniversary of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
Bain ignored repeated requests from Quebec court Judge Robert Marchi to stop veering off-topic and just focus on the initial question from his lawyer: Do you understand why you are here?
"I am a Christian soldier and ... we will never surrender to fight the evil separatists," said the 62-year-old suspect, in a deep voice that carried across the courtroom.
"I fight for freedom, democracy, justice and to speak one's mother's tongue."
Bain referred several times to Jesus and described a messianic mission in which Christ had chosen him as his ambassador: "I am here today because my lord and saviour has given me his vision of peace and harmony for all Canadians," he said.
"This national separatist problem, that has been going on for 45 years, will be no more."
He was asked if he would answer additional questions. Bain replied: "Ask any questions you like. This is the court of Jesus Christ."
He was asked whether he understood that he was facing a charge of first-degree murder and Bain replied: "Yes.... (But) Christian soldiers don't murder."
The fishing-lodge owner faces 16 charges, including first-degree murder; three counts of attempted murder; arson; and a number of weapons charges stemming from the Sept. 4 incident where two people were shot and one was killed.
Bain answered, "Yes," twice when asked by his lawyer if he understood that he was being charged with the murder of Denis Blanchette, a 48-year-old stagehand at the PQ's victory rally, who was shot outside Montreal's Metropolis concert hall.
After the monologue, the judge hearing the case agreed that a psychiatric assessment was necessary. Bain will return to court on Dec. 17.
The question of whether the election-night shooting had been motivated by politics or madness — or both — has been a subject of intense speculation in Quebec.
On Friday, Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper carried an opinion piece arguing that English-language media were to blame for inspiring the killer's actions. It went on to suggest that the shooting revealed, "maybe more than we think about the Canadian political reality."
Prominent politicians have been more tight-lipped.
However, Premier Pauline Marois has made news by weighing in on the case. She told a television show that she believes she may have been the target of a political assassination attempt on election night.
Marois said she realized hours after the attack that she was likely the intended target. She added that mental-health issues alone couldn't explain the incident.
"I believe it was an assassination attempt," Marois said during an appearance on Radio-Canada's Tout le monde en parle on Sunday, using the French word, "attentat."
"The person could have had serious psychological problems, for sure. But the fact is that when he acted, he acted against a sovereigntist while expressing his concerns for anglophones...
"I believe there was a political component to that attack."
The premier had previously said little about the Sept. 4 events. During his arrest that night, Bain shouted that, "Anglophones are waking up!"
On Friday, in response to a question from a reporter, Marois repeated her opinion that it was probably an assassination attempt.
But she stressed that she did not blame English-speaking media for the tragedy.
Bain's legal-aid attorney explained Friday why she had requested an evaluation. She said it had been impossible to prepare a defence for him despite trying multiple times to discuss the case with him.
"He's not able to give us any rational information to work on his defence, he's unable to make sensible, wise decisions after being advised by counsel," said Elfriede Duclervil. "Because of that, the judge determined he had reasonable grounds to order an assessment to determine if he's unfit to stand trial."
Duclervil said Bain understands that he's before a judge and that he has a lawyer. She said he even knew Friday that it was the anniversary of the bombings at Pearl Harbor.
"(But) fitness (to stand trial) has to do more with knowing where you are in time and space," Duclervil said.
She said communication with Bain had been "difficult." Considering their discussions in recent days and weeks, Duclervil said, she felt it was time to raise the question of fitness.
The Crown's only request was that the evaluation be conducted by a doctor that hadn't already seen Bain. The assessment will be done by an independent psychiatrist at Montreal's Pinel Institute. By law, the assessment takes five days.
Duclervil also explained that an internal investigation had been conducted into Bain's allegation that he was attacked before a court appearance in October.
Bain arrived on that date with a pair of fresh scrapes atop his bald scalp — one the size of a loonie, the other as big as a nickel. He'd claimed a guard had pushed him.
The lawyer said Friday that there was nothing to prove Bain had been attacked and she said he didn't see his attacker.
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Peer resolved never to marry, or even to give or take a kiss, for that might seem the first step toward marriage. But he did receive a kiss, anyway, the same kiss we all get someday, the great kiss of Death. When we have lived long enough, Death is given the order, "kiss him away," and so away the human goes. A ray of sunshine comes straight from our Lord, so bright that it almost blinds one. Then the soul that came from heaven as a shooting star goes back like a shooting star, but this time not to sleep in a flower or dream beneath the leaf of the water lily; it has more important things than that to do. It enters the great land of eternity; but what that is like and what it looks like there, no one can say.


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I have been too busy to post to the blog for a while. We finished fieldwork in early July. As typically happens, we found all sorts of interesting (and time-consuming) things the final weeks of fieldwork. We excavated three burials the final couple of weeks, two with ceramic vessels as offerings, one without. We found a buried burned house with a collapsed burned daub wall covering 20 cm of charcoal—burned seeds, wood, and other plant material. In that excavation (unit 323), a trench just clipped the edge of the feature in the final days of fieldwork, so we were only able to excavate part of it. In a trench designed to document the stratigraphy of an agricultural terrace we found a nice stone pavement, with a dense midden deposit underneath.
All this activity, plus other issues of closing down fieldwork, have given me little time for the blog (but then how I find time to start a new blog for professionals and grad students called "Publishing Archaeology"? http://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com/ I will quote Walt Whitman: " Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.").
We have moved our entire lab to the Colegio Mexiquense in nearby Zinacantepec, where we will be analyzing artifacts for the next few summers. Just a few closing facts, things that came up in the final weeks of the season. Our total of burned daub is over 500 kilograms (half a metric ton). What are we going to do with all this? Stay tuned. I will keep this blog open to report various project results as they become available and as I have time to report. Also on the daub, we have found that many of the wood house supports were made of maguey stalks (the impressions on freshly-cut maguey stalks match rather precisely the impressions on the burned daub).
The last task given to our excellent crew of local lab workers was to catalog the sherd disks. They spent over a day at it, and had to stop when we came to move the tables and chairs to the new lab. The catalog now includes over 1,600 sherd disks, and they still have about 25% of the collection to catalog.
I won't be giving a paper on the excavations at the SAA meetings next year, because I was talked into giving a presentation on "Ancient cites: Do they hold lessons for the modern world." It seems less important to report new fieldwork at the archaeology meetings now, since things can be posted so easily on the internet. Between this blog and more formal project reports and data on the project web site, interested people can keep up with the project.
This has been an experiment for me. If you particularly like this blog, let me know. If you think it is stupid and pointless, then please keep your opinions to yourself! (I once got an email from a high school student telling me that "my so-called web site is a piece of sh—". I think she needed information quickly for a report due the next day and my site didn't have what she needed.)


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Chair Taylor will call the meeting to order.
The purpose of this item is to present proposed amendments to the schedule of tuition and fees regulation, which was approved by the Board of Trustees June 19. These proposed amendments are a result of the Board of Governors recent action regarding tuition differential proposals from the university.
This regulation will be promulgated as an emergency regulation. This action is necessary in order to timely implement rates and fees for the fall 2012 registration period. The regulation will be presented as a permanent regulation, identical to the revisions, at the October Board of Trustees meeting.
Proposed Action: Approval - Motion and Second Required
The purpose of this item is to seek approval for a change order, on behalf of UNF's new dining facility. Based on the Resolution on Presidential Authority (20)(d), the Board of Trustees granted the President the specific authority to approve change orders for amounts not exceeding $100,000. Change orders for an amount exceeding $100,000 may be approved by the President, after consultation and approval of the chair of the Finance and Audit Committee. Change orders exceeding $1 million require the prior approval of the Finance and Audit Committee.
We did not receive the PECO funds as requested for the third and fourth floor of the dining facility. We were able to provide some budget to shell out those floors. We have now identified additional dollars to budget to complete the project. The Amendment (Change Order) for this additional work is approximately $2.5 million and requires the Finance and Audit Committee to vote on this amendment.
Chair Taylor will adjourn the meeting.
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November 19, 2012 14:41 ET
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Nov 19, 2012) - Brookfield Office Properties Inc. (NYSE: BPO) (TSX: BPO) today announced that One New York Plaza, the company's 2.6-million-square-foot office building located at the southern tip of Manhattan, reopened for business on Saturday, November 17.
"Our property operations and maintenance personnel worked around the clock to remove all water, restore services and ready the building for our tenants' safe return," said Chief Executive Officer Dennis Friedrich. "Thanks to their hard work, One New York Plaza is back in business."
Brookfield carries comprehensive property, casualty and flood insurance and full coverage of losses is anticipated. The storm will have no material financial impact on the company.
Brookfield is the largest office owner in Lower Manhattan with seven properties totaling 13 million square feet. The eight-million-square-foot World Financial Center complex retained power throughout the storm and was open for business on Wednesday, October 31. One Liberty Plaza, Brookfield's other downtown asset, had its power restored and reopened on Friday, November 2.
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Brookfield Office Properties owns, develops and manages premier office properties in the United States, Canada and Australia. Its portfolio is comprised of interests in 114 properties totaling 80 million square feet in the downtown cores of New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa, London, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, making it the global leader in the ownership and management of office assets. Landmark properties include the World Financial Center in Manhattan, Brookfield Place in Toronto, Bank of America Plaza in Los Angeles, Bankers Hall in Calgary, Darling Park in Sydney and Brookfield Place in Perth. The company's common www.brookfieldofficeproperties.com.
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I am writing this post to address a couple of player concerns that were brought up last game session. It is my goal to make sure this game is enjoyable for everyone, but this is not something I can do entirely by myself. I rely on people letting me know when things are not going well, or if there are any problems that need addressing.
First off, I want to offer some advice for people who may be struggling with playing their character within the group. It is true that the beginning of good roleplaying is often coming up with a set of motivations for one's character that are separate and distinct from one's own. But that is not all there is to roleplaying, and it is easy to miss some of the pitfalls that focusing on a character's own motivations can create.
You can play your character's personality, that is a good thing, but remember that there are always multiple choices you can make that will still satisfy that character's personalty, motives, etc. You can invoke different aspects of your character at different times to help keep the story moving in interesting directions. To quote Rich Burlew:
...Druids have such a specific set of principles that players often mistake them for being a free pass to demand that each adventure revolve around their goals. Raiding a dungeon for gold doesn't appeal to the druid mindset, so what are you to do if you play one and are presented with that goal? You improvise. Maybe the gold will enable you to purchase magic items that will let you protect the wilderness. Maybe the ruins contain unnatural monsters that need to be killed regardless of the treasure. Maybe, just maybe, the other PCs are your friends and you are willing to help them just because. Too often that last part is forgotten; I don't think anyone reading this has never spent the night doing something they'd rather not because a friend asked.
This is a story about dangers and hardships in a cold and uncaring wasteland, and because of that, it will be dark and gritty at times. But this is also a story about the magic of friendship, and how a group of friends is -hopefully- going to make the world a better place, and continue the momentum started by LittlePip and company. No one is expecting anyone to be flawless. Characters can have issues, but I want people to give some thought to how their characters are working through those issues. And perhaps more importantly, if those issues are not something they can solve by themselves, how they are contributing in spite of their flaws.
This brings us to the second concern, which is knowing where the game and the group are going in general. I intend to address this at least partly in character next game session, but I want to reiterate something. Your characters are the heroes. They are the ones who need to be making the tough decisions. When the Wasteland demands sacrifice, and it will, it is up to the group as a whole to decide how to deal with that. I will be providing options and plot hooks for the group to follow, but there are some decisions that I cannot make for people's characters.
I understand that people have been feeling a little bit lost and confused, not knowing what is going on or who different NPCs are. Part of this is intentional, because the group is in a place that houses thousands of people that most of the group has never met. This includes the people who have been to Stable 34 before. Most of the NPCs that have been introduced in Stable 34 have been completely new. (I occasionally give Thunderbird a sentence or two about various NPCs, because she grew up in Stable 34, but that is far from comprehensive.) For the other part, I really need people to ask questions when there are things they don't understand. I am trying my very best to explain things, and I apologize if I am not doing a very good job, but the only way I can think of to improve is to have people let me know where I am falling short.
When it comes to deciding what the group is doing, I can only offer suggestions. And my main suggestion for the entire Stable 34 arc has been: "Try to find a way to resolve the conflict between the Stable and the occupying Enclave forces." The Enclave is a problem for Stable 34, even if it is not overt or direct. There is a lot of stuff going on with the Enclave and Stable 34 that nobody in the group has learned yet, but we have spent several sessions explaining what the Stable's situation is, and how bad it is. They'll start running out of food in a year or two, but they expect morale to begin plummeting long before that happens, and unrest and unhappiness will undoubtedly only compound their problems.
That being said, it is up to the group to decide how, and to what degree they intend to help. One option is to slap a bandaid on the problem and come back to it later if there is something else you all would rather be doing right now. There's still plenty of time before things get really bad. Another option is to deal with the Enclave directly, getting them to re-negotiate their deal, finding a way for them to recover their own food production, or driving them out with balefire and spite. These are just the ideas off the top of my head. I've heard other ideas voiced in game already, but they just need people to actively try to see them through.
There are a number of other plot hooks going on outside of Stable 34, most of which the new additions to the party would not know about, but I am hoping that if people are not interested in solving Stable 34's woes, that we can cover some of them. (If nothing else, the party was literally given a mission from Celestia, should they choose to accept it.)
As always, let me know if you have any concerns.


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