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The great tax evasion
The fiscal cliff deal slightly increases taxes on the super-rich--but asexplains, that's nothing compared to what they've gotten away with in the past 30 years.
TAXING THE rich. That's what Barack Obama and the Democrats promised at stop after stop on the campaign trail last year, and then again starting out the weeks of negotiations over how to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases and automatic spending cuts on January 1.
But in the end, the Obama administration didn't even stick to the income threshold it set for increasing taxes--$200,000 for individuals--and gave in to twice that amount. The tax rate will go up only for income over $400,000 for individuals and over $450,000 for joint filers.
Maybe Obama was convinced by Mitt Romney when Romney told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos back in September that "middle income is $200,000 to $250,000." Or maybe Obama and the rest of the Democrats are hiding behind the threat of "hostage-taking Republicans" to explain away why they caved in yet again.
All the hue and cry amounted to very little. In addition to the tax increase for those making more than $400,000, there will be a modest increase in estate taxes--though only for people inheriting estates worth more than $5 million--and tax rates on capital gains and dividends.
In the end, the fiscal cliff negotiations ended up doing something both Democrats and Republicans can be comfortable with--protecting Corporate America from ever having to make a real sacrifice.
On the other hand, working-class families will endure a significant tax increase--because Democrats didn't lift a finger to fight for an extension of the cut in payroll taxes, passed in 2010. The portion of the payroll tax that funds Social Security will rise from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent. A worker who earns $50,000 will pay an extra $1,000 in federal taxes in 2013. That's losing about a week's pay.
This spells particularly bad news for low-wage workers, some of whom thought they could look forward to bigger paychecks as the minimum wages in 10 states were set to increase.
A worker making $15,000 a year--which is what many full-time, minimum-wage workers make--will now pay $300 more in payroll taxes. According to the National Employment Law Project, $300 is about the amount of additional earnings that minimum-wage workers would have gained in most of the 10 states that increased their minimums.
In other words, Washington's refusal to extend the payroll tax cut will cancel out the benefits from the increases in minimum wages.
This is obviously not what millions voted for when they overwhelmingly re-elected Barack Obama in November. Extending the payroll tax holiday was a popular demand for many workers. According to a HuffPost/YouGov poll, 52 percent of respondents said the payroll tax cut should be extended, while just 22 percent said that it should be allowed to expire to help reduce the deficit.
Support for extending the payroll tax cut actually crossed partisan lines--64 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of Republicans supported it.
Democrats claimed they had to let the payroll tax holiday expire and accept the compromise on a higher threshold for taxing the rich--greater taxes for the rich in order to keep Republicans from axing important provisions that working-class people need, such as supplemental unemployment insurance for 3 million people and tax credits for low-income working families.
But the fact that Republicans could cynically wheel and deal with the workers' living standards during the fiscal cliff debate speaks volumes about the other party of big business--the Democrats, who also bargained away workers' futures.
THE DEMOCRATS were never committed to any meaningful increase in taxes on the rich--and Corporate America knows it. That's because both the wealthy and the politicians who serve them know the tax laws are written with just their needs in mind.
Everyone knows that even if a tax exists on paper that could threaten to cut into corporate profits, there's a loophole designed so businesses can safely maneuver around it.
In the early part of the 20th century, socialist Eugene Debs described the American justice system as a strange and backward system whose "nets are so adjusted as to catch the minnows and let the whales slip through." The same could be easily said of the American tax system--and the whales are getting fatter with every passing year.
During the last 30 years, vast wealth has flooded up to the top echelons of society. Yet even as the rich have become richer, they have also gotten away with paying disproportionately less in taxes.
In 1961, families with annual incomes of at least $1 million paid on average 43.1 percent of their income in federal income taxes. By 2011, that percentage had fallen to 23.1 percent. As for Corporate America, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, corporations paid on average 47.4 percent of their profits in federal taxes in 1961. In 2011, that fell to 11.1 percent.
When it comes to Washington's obsession with reducing the deficit, every social program--from "entitlements" such as Medicare and Social Security to "discretionary spending" like Head Start and environmental enforcement--is on the table for cuts. But the real cash cows never enter the conversation.
Take, for instance, tax breaks for the profits U.S. companies earn overseas. According to the actual tax code, corporations can defer taxes on foreign income, so they do--some of it indefinitely.
According to a Senate subcommittee investigation released in September, Microsoft saved $6.5 billion over the last three years by booking profits with offshore subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, Ireland, Singapore and Bermuda.
Likewise, between 2007 to 2009, Google avoided paying $3.1 billion in taxes by moving its profits through countries like Ireland and the Netherlands. Lawyers who specialize in this international shell game have given their techniques nicknames such as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich."
In fact, Google works to escape even Ireland's 12.5 percent income tax rate--which is much lower than the official U.S. corporate rate of 35 percent. Google's earnings go to island tax havens where there are no corporate income taxes. This is how Google maintains an effective tax rate of just 2.4 percent.
Companies like Google also rely on transactions called "transfer pricing"--paper transactions among corporate subsidiaries that allow companies to allocate income to tax havens while they attribute expenses to higher-tax countries.
It's estimated that if transfer pricing didn't exist, the U.S. would collect as much as $60 billion more a year in corporate taxes. That's the total amount allocated to relief for the effects of Hurricane Sandy in a bill that was expected to pass last month, until John Boehner decided to postpone it to 2013.
IF CONGRESS is looking for places to save, closing corporate loopholes is the obvious place to start. While the U.S. corporate tax rate of 35 percent may be high, few if any corporations ever pay at this level thanks to the many advantages for business written into the tax code.
According to Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), "Congress could raise $583 billion over 10 years by closing the huge loophole in the corporate income tax allowing U.S. corporations to indefinitely 'defer' paying U.S. taxes on profits that they generate offshore or that appear to be generated offshore because of dodgy accounting methods."
As Reuven Avi-Yonah, director of the international tax program at the University of Michigan Law School, told Bloomberg News, "The system is broken, and I think it needs to be scrapped. Companies are getting away with murder."
But instead of thinking of ways to stop the corporate tax evaders from running wild, the discussion in Washington is about how to lure back corporate profits that have gone overseas--with, you guessed it, more tax breaks. Republican lawmakers propose "tax holidays" and lowering corporate tax rates to entice corporate profits back to the U.S.
During the campaign, Republican Paul Ryan--Mitt Romney's running mate--suggested decreasing the corporate rate to 25 percent and installing a "territorial tax system," in which corporations wouldn't be taxed at all for foreign earnings when they return to the U.S.
For its part, the Obama administration, which has in the past opposed such schemes, has recently shown his willingness to reconsider--thanks to support for the idea among some of the administration's big backers in Silicon Valley, like Google and Microsoft.
During a similar tax holiday in 2004-05, some corporations did take up the U.S. government on a 5.25 percent rate, bringing back some $300 billion in profits that were returned from offshore subsidiaries.
And what did the corporations do with the money? Create new jobs? Build new factories? Certainly not. They used the extra money to feather their own nests, pay out dividends and make stock repurchases, among other things. "The repatriations did not increase domestic investment or employment," according to a 2009 congressional report. Instead, "much of the repatriations were returned to shareholders through stock repurchases."
So the problem isn't that taxes are too high for corporations to invest in the U.S. The problem is that the government lets companies off with grand theft tax evasion.
THERE ARE few other countries where the rich are as skilled at avoiding taxes as the United States. According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. ranks lower than almost every other industrialized country (except Chile and Mexico) in the amount it collects in taxes as a percentage of its gross domestic product.
Of the 25 OECD nations with tax revenues higher than those of the U.S., 22 have revenues that are at least 25 percent higher, and 15 are at least 50 percent higher.
And rather than acting to redistribute wealth, the numbers show that the U.S. tax system simply mirrors the gross inequality in U.S. society as a whole. In stark contradiction to the conservative myth that the wealthy pay more than their share of taxes, according to CTJ, "the share of total taxes paid by each income group is very similar to the share of total income received by each group."
So, for instance, the share of total taxes (including federal, state and local taxes) paid by the top 1 percent of the population in 2010 was 21.5 percent--about the same share of total income received by this group, which was 20.3 percent.
According to the CTJ, the total effective tax rate for the richest 1 percent (30 percent) is only about 5 percentage points higher than the total effective tax rate for the middle one-fifth of earners (25.1 percent).
And when you're a wealthy corporation, you can avoid paying taxes altogether.
A 2011 study of 280 of America's most profitable companies found that 30 paid absolutely no federal corporate income taxes from 2008 through 2010. According to the report, 78 companies paid no federal income tax in at least one of the last three years.
Most of these lucky and well-connected corporations--many of them on the Fortune 500 list--continued to make profits over these three years, even while they dodged taxes. The distinguished list included Boeing, Wells Fargo, General Electric and Verizon.
The report also showed that the average effective tax rate over the three-year period for those 280 companies was around half--18.5 percent--the official U.S. corporate income tax rate of 35 percent.
The money is there--all the Obama administration has to do is collect it. Eliminating corporate tax loopholes and making corporations pay the money they owe would go a long way toward paying for the social programs that working-class people need and deserve.
Programs like Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits don't need to be on the chopping block--as Congress has guaranteed they will soon be once again--when rich corporations and individuals are hoarding away what is rightfully the people's money. The money should go to creating the services and infrastructure that people need. It's time to start making Corporate America pay for a change.


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The Primitive EQuation Model is a simple mechanistic 3--D primitive atmospheric circulation equation model which uses pressure coordinates. This model assumes that the planetary surface is essentially smooth and that there is sufficient drag acting near the lower boundary to make the details of the lower boundary conditions (which are very difficult to apply in pressure coordinates) unimportant. The pressure levels, level thicknesses, and zonal and meridional resolution are easily modified. Almost no physical parameterizations are included except for simple forms of scale selective damping and Newtonian/Rayleigh friction. A manual is included in TeX format.
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Results From Day One Of Cox Scholarship Swim Meet
January 26, 2001
By ODU Athletics
By ODU Athletics
NORFOLK, Va. (Jan. 26) - The Old Dominion swimming & diving teams are currently trailing American, William & Mary, and UNC-Wilmington in the 2001 Cox Communications Scholarship Swim Meet.
For the men, Mark Giusto, John Wall, and Mike Coley have all logged victories in separate events. The women's side is led by Jamie D'Agostino, Sarah Mooney, and Kara Fichthorn, who have all notched first place finishes so far. The quad meet will resume tomorrow at 10 a.m. with the second round of diving. Swimming begins at 1:30.
Day One Results - Cox Communications Scholarship Swim Meet
ODU vs. American
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When it comes to ornaments, I like ...
... rabbits. Especially this very special rabbit, Mosby. He belonged to our daughters' second grade teacher, and this ornament was her Christmas gift to the students when our younger daughter was in second grade. Mosby was loved by all; the janitorial staff even built and painted the neatest rabbit house ever for him, with beautiful painted vines and windows on it.
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An Ornament a Day - Day 7
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**If you missed Part 1, go HERE (Part I)
Now, we're ready to assemble the pillow front.
Make sure you have the following supplies ready:
-16 (5") fabric squares
-16 (4") batting squares
-your 4 previously created rows of denim circles
-thread to match the denim
1. Work on one row at a time. Center each batting square in a denim circle.
There is no need to measure, just approximate the center of the circle.
2. Next, center the fabric squares over the batting squares. Again, approximate the
center and in this case, the fabric WILL be too big for the circle but the excess will
not matter. Just smooth the excess fabric up the sides of the flaps.
3. Pin each flap down in preparation for sewing.
Notice that you cannot see the excess fabric because it has been tucked up
underneath the flaps.
4. Start sewing!
Begin with the first pair of pinned flaps.
Sew down one side, pivot (this is easier if you keep the needle in the down
position) and sew around the other side. Backstitch at both ends.
I like to use about a 3/8" seam allowance. The seam allowance
should be big enough to clip later.
Do this for all four rows.
5. NOW…let's put all of the rows together!
Use a ruler that is at least as long as your row of circles (I used a 24" ruler).
Measure 1" from the edge of the circles and draw a line.
(Again, no one will see this line so use any kind of marking device you
would like.)
6. With WRONG sides together, pin this row to the next one.
Make sure that in both rows, the fabric squares are facing the OUTSIDE, wrong sides
Sew along this line. Backstitch at both ends of the row and reinforce each curve by
sewing back and forth over the line.
Reinforce at corners.
8. Press open the seam and then sew the other two rows together just as you did above.
You should now have two identical sections composed of two rows each.
9. Sew down the flaps in both sections. Use an approximate 3/8" seam
I have found that the easiest way to do this is to sew in a figure eight pattern,
down one side and up the other.
When you get to one end, leave the needle in the fabric, turn and sew back down the
other side.
You are basically following a figure eight pattern. (*see picture below)
10. Join the two sections together in exactly the same fashion as above.
Measure 1" from the edge and draw a line. Pin the two sections together and sew on the
line. REMEMBER, wrong sides together (fabric facing outward).
**Backstitch at both ends and reinforce at the circle corners.
11. Press the flaps open and flat. Sew the flaps down. Again, use a figure eight pattern
and a 3/8" seam allowance.
12. Trimming the Pillow Top.
Measure 1" from all four edges of the pillow top, in this case it is not necessary to
draw a line. Cut away and discard the 1" circle edges.
14. Check the size of your finished square. You will probably need to square it up so
that it is the same width in both directions.
You will want your pillow top to be somewhere between 17 1/2" - 17 3/4". Any smaller
and you may have problems getting your pillow form to fit.
On to finishing the pillow! You will not do the actual clipping of the seams until the back is attached.
For the last step you will need:
-1/2 yard of backing fabric
-18" pillow form
-spring loading scissors (or regular sharp fabric scissors will also work)
-stiff cleaning brush (optional)


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April 20, 2005
Biography Of A Legend - C.E. "Bighouse" Gaines
Clarence E. "Big House" Gaines, Sr. was born in Paducah, Kentucky, May 21, 1923, to Lester and Olivia Bolen Gaines. He attended the public schools of Paducah and graduated in 1941, as class salutatorian, from Paducah's Lincoln High School. He excelled academically, played basketball, was an All State football player, and played trumpet in the school band.
Although he qualified academically to attend numerous colleges and universities "Jim Crow" segregation and a suggestion by the family physician (a schoolmate of legendary Morgan State University football coach, Eddie Hurt) caused young Gaines to enroll at Morgan State University in 1941. It was upon his arrival at the Baltimore, Maryland campus that Gaines received the nickname he is widely known by -- "Big House." According to oral accounts the school's business manager took one look at the 6 ft. 3in., 265lb Gaines and declared: "Boy, I never seen anything bigger than you but a house."
While at Morgan State Gaines received recognition as an All-American football player and participated on the basketball and track teams. Gaines graduated from Morgan State in 1945 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry intent on furthering his education and attending dental school. His college coach, Eddie Hurt, recommended he temporarily go to Winston-Salem Teachers College in Winston-Salem, NC, to become the assistant coach to Brutus Wilson (a Morgan State graduate) who coached all sports at the small southern college.
Upon Wilson's departure to Shaw University in 1946, Gaines became the head football and basketball coach, athletic director, trainer, and ticket manager. Gaines coached football from 1946-1949. In 1948 Gaines was named CIAA (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) "Football Coach of the Year" after leading the RAMS to an 8-1 season. Beginning in 1949 Gaines only coached basketball, and served as athletic director. In 1950 Gaines received his masters degree in education from Columbia University.
In 1950 Gaines married the former Clara Berry, a Latin language teacher in the (Winston-Salem) Forsyth county public school system. They are the parents of two children, Lisa Gaines McDonald, a private business consultant and Clarence Edward Gaines, Jr., a scout for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls.
Due to his proficiency as an athletic coach, teacher and humanitarian, Gaines has received numerous awards: CIAA Basketball Tournament Outstanding Coach Award; 1953, 57, 60, 61, 63, 66, 70, 77; CIAA Hall of Fame Inductee, 1975; NAIA Helms Hall of Fame Inductee, 1968; N.C. Sports Hall of Fame, 1978; CIAA Basketball Coach of the Year, 1957, 61, 63, 70, 75, 80; NAIA District 26 Outstanding Coach Award, 1975-78; Paul Robeson Award, 1980; Winston-Salem Urban League Family of the Year Award, 1973; Order of the Long Leaf Pine (N.C.); and the Silver Buffalo Award (Boy Scouts of America) etc.
During Coach Gaines¹ 47-year tenure as coach and athletic director at Winston-Salem State University he coached former WSSU and professional basketball greats Cleo Hill (first African-American from an historically Black college and university to be drafted #1 by the National Basketball Association -- St. Louis Hawks, 1961) and Earl "The Pearl" Monroe Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and all star performer) of the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks.
In 1967, as a result of his guidance and the all around play of future National Basketball Association All-Star Vernon Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, the Winston-Salem State College, men's basketball team won the 1967 National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division II Basketball Championship -- the first historically Black college to win a national championship. Subsequently, Gaines was named the NCAA Division II (1967) College Coach of the Year. In 1982 Gaines was recognized for his contribution to basketball by being inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (named in honor of the inventor of basketball James Naismith).
Involved in numerous professional and civic activities, in addition to his duties as athletic director, coach and instructor, Gaines was President of CIAA Basketball Coaches Association, 1972-76; NAIA District Chairman, 1966-72; President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, 1989; Co-founder of the Winston-Salem Youth Baseball League, Inc.,1960; Patterson Avenue YMCA Board of Management, 1969-1971; Experiment in Self Reliance Board of Directors, 1987; Winston-Salem Automobile Club (AAA) Board of Directors, 1986; founder and former administrator of the Winston-Salem State University National Youth Sports Program and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Trustees and President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, 1989. Other activities include membership in Sigma Pi Phi Boule and Omega Psi Phi fraternities, Boy Scouts of America, Forsyth County Heart Association, United States Olympic Committee, Model Cities Recreation Committee, Rotary Club of Winston-Salem and basketball consultant for the United States Air Force (Germany, England, Mexico).
Upon his retirement as basketball coach at Winston-Salem State University in 1993, Gaines had amassed a win/loss record of 828-446, making him the winningest active basketball coach in NCAA history, and the second winningest collegiate basketball coach behind the University of Kentucky's late Adolph Rupp. However, following University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith's 877th career win in March 1997, coach Gaines became the third winningest basketball coach in NCAA history behind only Adolph Rupp (2nd), and Dean Smith (1st). The past two seasons, Gaines was again surpassed by longtime friend Jim Phelan of Mt. St. Mary¹s University (formerly Mt. St. Mary¹s College the name change took place on June 8th, 2004), placing him fourth all-time in wins in NCAA Basketball history before Bobby Knight passed both Phelan and Gaines in 2005, moving "Big House" to fifth-place all-time.
Clarence Gaines passed away on April 18th, 2005 due to complications from a stroke. He is survived by his lovely wife Clara and two children, Lisa and Clarence, Jr. Gaines' legacy at Winston-Salem State University and in the college basketball world are surely to never be forgotten.


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I refer to these quickbreads as muffins, but these savory dill and ricotta delights satisfyingly serve as dinner rolls just as well as they do for a snack or a breakfast treat. The recipe comes from Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café, a meatless cookbook containing over 350 straightforward yet inspired ideas for a satisfying and healthy breakfast or brunch. In addition to the irresistible recipes for beverages, quickbreads, fruits and vegetables, grains and cereals, pancakes and waffles, eggs and cheese, Mollie Katzen provides many helpful cooking tips throughout the book.
Ms. Katzen suggests serving these muffins topped with cream cheese, or sliced tomatoes. I prepared and enjoyed them alongside Hungarian Mushroom Soup.
Speaking of things that give me great joy, be sure to check out 365 days of glorious cheese. I do relish a few consecutive days of vegan friendly foods at a time, but it wouldn't be as enjoyable if it weren't in response to a few days of dairy indulgence!
|Savory Dill Ricotta Muffins
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café
Published on February 11, 2008
Creamy savory dill and ricotta cheese buttermilk muffins — easy to make, and a great addition to the dinner table
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By Kate Snow, Deirdre Cohen, Sarah Koch, Nina Tyler
Rock Center
For Stephan Perez, attending the prestigious Columbia University was more than just a dream; it was a goal he set his sights on when he was only 13 years old and a goal he willed himself to achieve.
"I enrolled into all A.P. and honors classes. And that was my vision. I had only one goal. I woke up in the morning, it was Columbia. I went to sleep at night and it was Columbia," said Perez in an interview set to air Thursday at 10pm/9c on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.
The Georgia-bred teenager worked tirelessly over the next few years and even stopped playing sports in order to focus all of his attention on his academics. His hard work finally paid off when he learned not only had he been accepted to his dream school, he received a Gates Millennium Scholarship that would pay for his tuition expenses.
But his inspirational rise to the top would end in a disastrous fall. It's a cautionary tale for driven students and their parents.
Perez entered Columbia and before long began to feel overwhelmed by the pace and workload. But just as he started to adjust, Perez suffered a big emotional blow. His grandmother died. One night after his grandmother's funeral he was in the library with a friend, studying for midterms and struggling to concentrate.
"I tell him, you know, 'I can't concentrate. Like, I just can't do it.' He said, 'This is what you need' and pulls out this pill," Perez said.
It was an Adderall pill. Adderall is the prescription medication commonly prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but the stimulant has become increasingly popular among ambitious high school and college students looking to focus for extended periods of time and perform better academically. ADHD drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin boost levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, chemicals associated with attention and behavior, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. For someone with ADHD, characterized by impulse control difficulties and inattention, the medications are calming. For people without the disorder, the drugs can be dangerous, especially if not monitored by a doctor.
WATCH ROCK CENTER VIDEO: Student says Adderall like an 'academic steroid'
His decision to take Adderall ended up changing his life. That night Perez says he powered through his work and was capable of reading for eight hours nonstop—absorbing all of the information. Before long, he said he asked his friend how he could get his own Adderall prescription.
"He said, "Go to Health Services. Tell them that you're having trouble studying, focusing. You're going to meet with a psychologist. They'll ask you a couple questions. And you'll get a prescription like that. They give it out like it's candy."
Perez says he met with a psychologist on campus and filled out a short questionnaire with questions like 'were you fidgety as a child?' Then, he met with a psychiatrist for what he said was no more than 10 minutes. He walked out with a prescription.
In a statement to NBC News, Columbia University said that its student health service uses "…a detailed clinical protocol for evaluation of ADHD and related conditions…" and takes a "…holistic approach toward treatment for ADHD, including short-term counseling…"
But Perez soon experienced negative side-effects from taking Adderall. The drug caused him to have bad mood swings, so when he didn't need to study he didn't always take the pills, leaving him with extra pills that he would give away. After a while, Perez began selling his extra pills to students on campus for anywhere from $10 to $30 per pill.
Perez had no idea at the time that some of those sales had been to an undercover police officer, nor did he know that his life would completely unravel; using Adderall as a study drug would destroy his Ivy League career.
In 2010, Perez, along with four other students, were arrested in a drug bust on Columbia's campus dubbed Operation Ivy League. Perez pleaded guilty to selling Adderall and did 300 hours of community service. He was permitted to take his final exams to complete the first semester of his junior year.
Editor's Note: Click here to watch Kate Snow's full report, 'The Study Drug' from NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.


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Two feed-related issues are addressed in the following case studies: the challenge of diagnosing and treating mycotoxins, and dealing with vitamin E/selenium deficiency causing sudden death in nursery pigs.
Mycotoxins are released from molds in grains when appropriate conditions (moisture, temperature and oxygen) are present. Conditions that allow mycotoxin formation are unique to the specific fungi. Some mycotoxins are formed in the field and some are storage related. Geography plays a role for development of mycotoxins.
Growing conditions such as early frost, drought and/or insect damage can significantly influence the formation of toxins.
Common mycotoxins that affect swine include aflatoxin, ochratoxin, T-2 toxin, vomitoxin (DON), zearalenone (F-2), ergot and the fumonisins.
Case Study No. 1
Over several years, a farrow-to-finish producer expressed concern about the quality of his farm-raised corn relative to mycotoxins. He asked if it was necessary to add products to counteract molds and mycotoxins. He was told mycotoxin screening of feed samples was available from the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (ADDL), Purdue University.
During routine herd visits, a sample of corn or feed was routinely collected and assayed for aflatoxin, ochratoxin, vomitoxin, zearalenone and occasionally, fumonisins. In 11 years, 34 samples were screened. The only mycotoxin identified was vomitoxin at 2 parts per million (ppm) and 0.5 ppm. Since most of these were corn samples, the level of vomitoxin in the finished feed would have been 20-25% below these levels.
During the collection period, samples were pulled every month except December. Bins were at various fill levels when sampled. Clinical problems could not be attributed to vomitoxin during this period.
When levels reached 2 ppm, binding agents/absorbants were often added until samples turned negative.
This case report depicts a systematic plan of managing mycotoxins. The total cost of the diagnostics was $1,400. If products had been routinely added to feed to treat mycotoxins ($2/ton), the producer would have spent over $20,000 during this period!
Consider devising your plan to monitor feed and/or ingredients and address positive results.
The ADDL at Purdue University tested 108 samples for mycotoxins in the last 12 months. There were 28 positive results for mycotoxins, with 16 due to vomitoxin. Levels ranged from 0.5 ppm to 4 ppm.
It is important to note that toxigenic strains of molds can occur without the production of mycotoxins, and there is little correlation between spore counts and presence of mycotoxins.
In addition, the absence of mold does not guarantee freedom from toxins. Studies reported at the International Pig Veterinary Society meetings in 2000 (Melbourne, Australia) and in 2004 (Hamburg, Germany) showed some promise for control of mycotoxins using a rumen bacterium BBSH 797, a yeast culture Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans or organoaluminosilicates.
Case Study No. 2
Sudden death of good pigs was occurring in a nursery site 7-14 days postweaning. Pigs are purchased out of state and transported weekly to the contract nursery. Acute death of 0.5% of a group occurred over a two-day period. Postmortem of pigs showed significant hemorrhage in the heart muscle (mulberry heart), fluid accumulation in the heart sac and excess fluid in the chest cavity.
Gross diagnosis was vitamin E/selenium deficiency. No bacterial growth occurred on cultures, and microscopic lesions were consistent with vitamin E/selenium deficiency.
Rations were supplemented with maximum allowable levels of selenium and vitamin E.
The producer farrowing the pigs agreed to add an injectable selenium/ vitamin E product to the iron when pigs were processed. The sudden death of good pigs subsided once the treated pigs came through the nursery.
Recently, another episode of sudden death occurred in the same nursery. Five pigs out of two different rooms (1,000 pigs total) died over a two-day period. All five pigs were posted and all showed classic mulberry heart lesions; the microscopic changes were again consistent with vitamin E/selenium deficiency.
Staff at the nursery site had observed a relatively high number of pale pigs on arrival at the nursery, prior to the most recent episode of acute death loss. It was speculated that the pigs had missed iron injections.
Since the level of selenium can't exceed 0.3 ppm, vitamin E levels can be reviewed, water-soluble products added or injectable products strategically used to address this issue.


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Rylan wrote:The Ravens were idiots for letting that information getting out. Flacco sounding like a moron by standing up for him. It was a bad situation, glad to see Boldin in San Fran though.
Froggy wrote:i dont recall a team losing their #1 receiver, half their starting LB's, and the 2 best players in their secondary all at once before.
this is abnormally bad for them. but at least they locked that ridiculous flacco contract down
Froggy wrote:pure speculation, but wouldn't at all be surprised if there was an element of truth to this...
they see flacco get more money than peyton manning, and then the ravens ask those guys to take pay cuts. they see that is a big FU. From what i heard, they wanted to ask boldin to take a $1.5 mil cut, and also that they were pretty much counting on resigning ellerbe.
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US military chief visits Vietnam, 1st since 1971U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey on Thursday became the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to visit Vietnam since 1971, seeking to boost military ties between the former foes.
The trip comes amid anger in Vietnam over China's recent decision to deploy an oil rig in a disputed section of the South China Sea.
The United States shares Hanoi's concerns over Beijing's assertiveness, and has indicated it may partially lift a ban on weapons sales to its former enemy, possible as early as next month.
Speaking to his Vietnamese counterpart Lt. Gen. Do Ba Ty before the closed-door talks, Dempsey described his four-day visit as "one of the highlights" of his military career.
The two sides will work to boost military cooperation, with a focus on maritime security, training, and overcoming the legacy of the war, a Vietnamese Ministry of Defense statement said. Ty also told Dempsey that their defense cooperation has recently become more practical, according to the People's Army newspaper.
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said the visits by Dempsey and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel later this year were "concrete steps to promote and implement the comprehensive partnership" established in July last year during Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang's trip to the United States.
Bilateral trade and investments have grown quickly since the normalization of relations in 1995, making the U.S. one of Vietnam's top trading partners and investors, but military cooperation has been limited because of a U.S. ban on lethal arms sales that has been in place since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
China's withdrawal of the rig in mid-July removed an irritant but left strained relations and questions among China's other neighbors about its long-term strategy in laying claim to most of the South China Sea.
Russia has been Vietnam's main source of armaments, and Hanoi has earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars to build more vessels to improve its maritime capability.
During his stay, Dempsey will have talks with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh. He is expected to visit a former U.S. air base in Danang in central Vietnam, where the U.S. two years ago began a landmark project to clean up Agent Orange from the site.
Part of the former base consists of a dry field where U.S. troops once stored and mixed the defoliant before it was loaded onto planes to be sprayed to deny forest cover for the Communist fighters during the war.
The last chairman of the Joint Chiefs to visit U.S.-backed South Vietnam was Adm. Thomas Moorer in 1971.


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UT affirmative action case divides Asian-Americans
On its surface, the case of Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas revolves around whether the school's consideration of race in admissions led to the rejection of a white student.
But as the case nears the Supreme Court's fall docket, it is also stirring a debate about the impact of affirmative action policies on Asian-American students and casting a spotlight on the stereotype of Asian-Americans as "the model minority."
On one side, Fisher and her supporters, including the 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation, argue that the race-conscious admissions policies discriminate against qualified Asian-American students in favor of less-qualified African-American and Latino students.
On the other side, a coalition of more than 100 Asian-American groups has filed briefs backing the UT-Austin policy, saying it benefits Asian-American students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
"UT's process of individualized review advances its compelling interest in achieving the educational benefits of student diversity, increases the likelihood of admission for those who do not have the same social mobility and capital as others, and has the potential to benefit all Asian-American and Pacific Islander applicants," a brief filed by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) states.
In its brief, AALDEF says the arguments by Fisher and her supporters propagate the "model minority myth" that portrays Asian-Americans as a monolith of affluent overachievers and "fails to capture the complex reality of their experience."
The Supreme Court case stems from a 2008 lawsuit in which Fisher, then a Sugar Land high school senior in the top 12 percent of her class, claimed she was rejected under a UT policy that includes race as a factor in choosing students who fall short of the top 10 percent.
'Holistic' criteria
Fisher's lawsuit argues that the UT policy is unconstitutional and violates the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger ruling, which allows colleges and universities to use race-based admissions criteria only after race-neutral alternatives have failed to achieve a diverse student body.
After Grutter v. Bollinger, UT-Austin created a "holistic" criteria, which includes factors such as community service, leadership, personal hardship, family background and race, to consider students not in the top 10 percent.
A brief filed by Fisher maintains that Asian-Americans and whites are harmed by the race-conscious admissions policy, while a brief filed by 80-20 and three Indian-American organizations goes further - likening the UT policy to past attempts to bar Jews from attending elite colleges.
"Just as schools today devise various mechanisms to increase some racial group representation at the expense of Asian-American students, schools in the last century were not above manipulating their methods to achieve a desired demographic result reflecting fewer Jews," argues the brief.
S.B. Woo, 80-20 president and former lieutenant governor of Delaware, brushes aside the contention that race-conscious admissions policies could help some Asian-American students.
"If the policy is upheld, the United States of America will have legalized discrimination of Asian-American students," he said.
'System works'
However, Asian-American supporters of the UT policy point out that the bulk of students admitted under the holistic criteria are Asian-Americans and whites.
In 2011, 60 percent of incoming freshmen admitted based on the holistic criteria rather than the top 10 percent rule were white and 16 percent were Asian-American.
By comparison, 10 percent were Hispanic and 3 percent were African American, according to UT enrollment statistics.
"It seems to me that the system works," said Madeline Y. Hsu, director of the Center for Asian American Studies at UT-Austin.
Debate shows diversity
By considering factors such as personal experience and family background as well as race, UT's holistic criteria can help Asian-American students who come from hardscrabble communities, such as the large Vietnamese refugee enclaves in Texas, Hsu said.
"People forget that there is tremendous diversity within the community," said Hsu. "They forget that there is a large population group that is still struggling and where kids don't have a great trajectory.
"Holistic admissions helps because it looks at a broad range of data," Hsu said.
Debate shows diversity
The debate reflects the diversity of the country's Asian-American and Pacific Islander population, which encompasses 48 ethnic groups and includes highly educated, upwardly mobile communities as well as struggling immigrant enclaves, said Robert Teranishi, a New York University professor and principal investigator with the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education.
"We have some groups that are doing well, whose interests may be doing well and whose views may be consistent with 80-20," said Teranishi. "But there are other groups that are concerned about what will happen, and who may be benefitting from the policy."
According to Teranishi, about 70 percent of Asian-Americans were born outside the United States. The poverty rates among some subgroups, such as the Hmong, Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese, range from 17 percent to nearly 38 percent.
About 40 percent of Southeast Asians in the U.S. do not finish high school, while about 55 to 65 percent of Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander adults have no postsecondary education.
Despite the notion that most Asian-Americans attend Ivy League schools, about 47 percent are enrolled in community college, Teranishi said.
"The UT policy could be utilized to better serve those communities," said Teranishi. "It is a mechanism for being able to provide them with the opportunity to attend UT-Austin."


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Hillsboro police
John Franklin Wiebe, 79, 115 S. Date St., Hillsboro; backed his 2010 Ford F150 into a parked 2002 Pontiac Grand Am owned by Caitlin Elaine Kopf at 4:55 p.m. Aug. 4 in the parking lot of Casey's General Store. Kopf was not in her vehicle. No injuries were reported.
Marion police
300 block of East Williams Street
An unknown vehicle struck the passenger side front door of a parked 2000 Ford van owned by Patricia S. Kline of Marion at 12:30 p.m. July 29. No injuries were reported.
Intersection of Third and Main streets
While Debra Kay Coe, 23, 214 N. Second St., Marion, was stopped at a stop sign at 11:55 a.m. Aug. 2, Rebecca A. Makovec, 37, 1969 Yarrow Road, Marion, struck the rear of Coe's 1989 Pontiac sedan with her 1996 Ford pickup. No injuries were reported.
Sheriff's department
Sunflower Road north of 170th Road
Cheryl Brewer, 40, of 759 Pawnee Road, Peabody, struck a turkey with her 2004 GMC sedan at 8:55 a.m. July 26. No injuries were reported.
240th Road east of Upland Road
Scott A. Kelsey, 47, of 221 Floral Drive, Hillsboro, backed a 2013 Dodge owned by Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative into a 2005 Chevrolet pickup owned and driven by Alan Randal Vogel, 28, of 2349 Upland Road, Marion, at 2 p.m. Aug. 3. No injuries were reported.
Main Street west of Cedar Street, Goessel
Amy Lynn Flaming, 33, of 1265 Eagle Road, Hillsboro, backed up in a 2007 Toyota owned by Patrick A. Flaming, same address, and collided with a 2004 Ford pickup driven by Amy D. Rosefeld, 34, 504 E. Centennial St., Goessel, at 2:20 p.m. Aug. 3. No injuries were reported.
U.S. 56 west of Nighthawk Road
Merle Howard Rothwell, 68, of 410 North St., Wilsey, struck a deer with his 2004 Buick sedan at 10 p.m. Aug. 6. No injuries were reported.


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Check out the results of our Spring 2008 Survey
Return to ALSC ChildTech Wiki main page.
1. Our committee's purpose is to educate and encourage youth librarians to be leaders on technology issues in their institutions; to identify technology issues impacting youth librarians; and to disseminate information to the membership on these issues through programs, training opportunities, and publications both traditional and electronic. Based on that description, do you think our committee is valuable and relevant to you?
Yes: 347
No: 7
2. Which describes you?
I am not an ALA member: 77
I am a member of ALA but not ALSC: 65
I am a member of ALA and ALSC: 191
Other: 15
"Other" text responses:
Member of ALA, ALSC, YALSA, and PLA
Member of ALA, ALSC, PLA, and state organization
Member of ALA, ALSC, AASL
Library is a member of ALA
Member of NLA
Former member of ALA and ALSC
My membership to ALA recently expired
Lapsed member of both ALA and ALSC
Member of SLA
3. Are you currently a member of an ALSC Committee?
Yes: 60
No: 287
4. Do you keep informed about the work of ALSC and its committees?
Yes: 212
No: 135
5. How do you keep informed?
(Question asked to rank items 1-9 in order of preference. The results are given for number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd votes.)
Subscribing to ALSC-L (the ALSC electronic discussion list)/Reading ALSConnect: 95/8/18
Visiting the ALSC web page: 23/44/26
Visiting the ALSC Wiki: 1/7/17
Visiting the ALSC Blog: 18/10/9
Attending ALA Annual Conference: 14/24/21
Attending ALA Midwinter: 6/11/17
Reading "Children and Libraries": 18/39/34
Reading "American Libraries": 22/41/32
Other: 8/11/7
"Other" text responses:
Other staff forwarding material to me from websites
AASL materials
Through e-mails forwarded from supervisor
Committee members
ALA news briefs via email
Council member
Serving on ALSC committees
Talking with colleagues on committees
Ala online newsletter
Reading American Libraries Direct
Through my youth librarians
Friend who is on an ALSC committee
Division leadership meeting
Updates and emails from boss (who is a member)
Other groups' journals
Networking in state
Reading public libraries, attending other conferences
Reading other professional journals
Ala news from Laura Shulte-Cooper
Exchanging info with peers & coworkers
Communicate with people involved in ALSC
Networking with other ALSC members
ALA online community
Talking with other committee members & coworkers
6. How often do you attend an ALA Conference (Annual or Midwinter)?
At least one each year: 86
At least one every five years: 67
Rarely: 56
Never / Have not yet attended: 137
7. Have you attended an ALSC Institute?
Yes: 65
No: 281
8. When attending conferences or looking for other training opportunities, do you search for sessions about children and their technology use?
Yes: 281
No: 62
9. How would you describe your level of comfort with aspects of technology in your library?
I am totally comfortable: 85
I can handle most things: 200
I get by: 57
I avoid technology whenever possible: 1
10. When you have a technology-related question, where do you go to find the answer?
Coworker: 306
Friend/Family: 147
Students/Patrons: 46
Internet search engine (like ASK, Google, or Yahoo): 228
Online database (like EBSCO or InfoTrac): 122
Print magazines & journals: 88
Other: 41
"Other" text responses:
Play around until I figure it out myself
Blogs or wikis, listen to podcasts or view webinars
IT specialists/IT department
Tech person on staff (last place only)
Technologically savvy staff
Technology sites on the Internet
Manual/help area of the technology that I question
Library's tech department
Tech support
Colleague not at my library - often via email
Online journal
Vendor web site
Participate in training
Store such as Best Buy / Circuit City
Tech support websites
Manuals/help button
Online PLN
Technology department at consortium off-site
Microsoft website
Professional email lists
11. How important are the following technology issues to your work with children in your library?
(Question asked to rank items 1-9 in order of preference. The results are given for number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd votes.)
Internet safety: 126/116/56
Copyright and fair use: 12/67/128
Information literacy instruction: 156/88/68
Social networking: 28/61/72
Other: 17/7/9
"Other" text responses:
Media/multiple literacies
Programming - virtual field trips (ex: NASA, Smithsonian, etc.)
Useful, fun websites and computer related activities
Intro to computers preschool-kindergarten
Internet searching skills
General literacy and technology for non-readers
Training in various computer applications
Troubleshooting our game computers
Web 2.0
Technology integration in instruction
Equitable/easy access
Access/time management related to game playing
Citing source
Social networking safety
Database training
Integrating technology into other children's programs
General technology literacy
Making new technology available
Virtual life
Use of various software packages for school
Accuracy, authority
Open source issues
Games for kids
12. Do you feel you and/or your peers need training on using databases and/or online search techniques?
Yes: 235
No: 110
13. Do you feel you and/or your peers need training on teaching database and/or online search techniques?
Yes: 270
14. Does your library currently offer regularly scheduled Information Literacy Instruction (computer classes) for children?
Yes: 61
No: 286
15. Do you currently offer other programming for children under 12 using technology?
Yes: 104
No: 242
16. How great is your need for current research involving children and technology on a scale from 1 to 5?
Rated 1 – 8
Rated 2 – 30
Rated 3 – 123
Rated 4 – 107
Rated 5 – 77
17. If taking a training course, do you prefer in-person or online training classes?
In-person: 166
Online: 45
No preference: 136
18. Do you regularly share your knowledge through professional publications or would you be willing to?
Yes: 50
No: 135
No, but I am willing to publish and share: 157
19. Are you familiar with Social Networking websites (including but not limited to: blogs, wikis, MySpace, Facebook)?
Yes: 207
No: 11
Somewhat: 124
20. Do you use or maintain a Social Networking site personally and/or professionally?
Yes, professionally: 32
Yes, personally: 69
Both: 66
Neither: 178
21. Have you ever contributed to a wiki?
Yes: 166
No: 179
22. Have you ever visited the ALSC wiki?
Yes: 154
No: 194
23. Did you find the content of the ALSC wiki helpful?
Yes: 117
No: 34
24. Have you ever visited the ALSC Children & Technology Committee's ChildTech wiki?
Yes: 36
No: 311
25. Did you find the content of the ALSC Children & Technology Committee's ChildTech wiki helpful?
Yes: 29
No: 7
26. What kind of technology-related information would be most helpful to you?
(Question asked to rank items 1-9 in order of preference. The results are given for number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd votes.)
Programming ideas: 135/64/51
Budgeting: 9/28/21
Best practices: 110/77/54
Software tutorials: 9/44/56
Gaming tutorials: 17/34/53
Technology reviews & recommendations: 34/59/54
Article & book reviews: 11/28/39
"Other" text responses:
Relevant research regarding children and use of technology
Appropriate technology for very young
Stats on usage
Impact on library rules and policies
A means to help others see the value of tech for kids
Recommended gaming sites
27. What type of research questions do you have?
28. With regard to technology, in what area(s) do you want to increase your knowledge and/or skills?
Return to ALSC ChildTech Wiki main page.


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Justin Meram's goal from just inside the penalty area handed the Crew a 2-1 win last night at the Seattle Sounders.
Justin Meram�s goal from just inside the penalty area handed the Crew a 2-1 win last night at the Seattle Sounders.
After playing with the score tied and a man advantage from the 60th minute on, the Crew finally found the winning goal four minutes into stoppage time at CenturyLink Field. After Federico Higuain quickly played a final corner kick into the Seattle penalty area, an unmarked Meram took a touch and got off a right-footed bender that sliced through the box and past goalkeeper Stefan Frei.
In a game coach Gregg Berhalter described as a measuring stick for his young club, the Crew (3-0-0) moved into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference against a Seattle team viewed as an early favorite to win the MLS Cup.
Meram entered the game in the 89th minute and did not touch the ball until he scored the winner, his first goal of the season. It capped a dramatic comeback after the Crew had fallen behind for the first time this season.
With the Sounders (2-2-0) leading 1-0 on a Kenny Cooper goal in the 22nd minute, forward Dominic Oduro got in behind the defense, but his right-footed attempt ricocheted off Frei�s head. As Oduro went down during the attempt, Seattle defender Djimi Traore was issued a red card for the contact, awarding the Crew a penalty kick.
Forward/midfielder Federico Higuain converted the penalty kick in the 59th minute to tie the score. It was his third goal and second of the season on a penalty kick, moving him into sole possession of third place in Crew history with nine.
Two minutes later, Oduro was replaced by Jairo Arrieta after he was unable to continue with what appeared to be a lower leg injury. Arrieta had started the first two games of the season before Berhalter made the only lineup change so far in his first season.
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Cr Laugesen: the Sea Eagles couldn't afford to pay Warringah Council the market rent for Brookvale Oval
Cr Laugesen said the council was being constantly told how passionate and supportive the local community was towards the NRL team and so it should be asked if it would support the additional levy.
The idea has caused yet another schism in the council, as it is understood the majority of councillors oppose it and will vote against it at the next council meeting.
Cr Laugesen said as a ratepayer she would not support an additional levy but the community should have the chance to respond.
``I want to make it clear, all I am asking for is for a question to be included in the council's 2010 budget draft survey asking the community what it thinks,'' Cr Laugesen said. ``As a resident I would not vote for it but we are frequently told that there is a huge base of local support and if the majority decide that that's what they want, then that's what should happen.''
But in a letter to The Manly Daily today, Cr Laugesen said the Sea Eagles couldn't afford to pay Warringah Council the market rent for Brookvale Oval because of declining ticket sales and the NRL ``which siphons the TV rights money from Brookvale games and away from Warringah Council''.
She added: ``In the face of the challenges above, a levy is the only practical option left to consider if fans and residents want to keep the Sea Eagles at Brookvale without other council-funded projects facing cutbacks or cancellations.''
Cr Vincent De Luca echoed Cr Laugesen and said he would personally not support a levy but the community should be asked.
Mayor Michael Regan said he did not support a forced levy or a poll question and was opposed to ``any further increases in rates''.
``I don't support a poll question because it sends a mixed message about what we are trying to achieve in our budget process,'' Cr Regan said.
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Just a few days ago, I returned from my trip to the fabulous Living Kitchen international kitchen show at IMM Cologne in Germany. This was my second trip to the Living Kitchen show at the invitation of BLANCO. This time around I paid my own way (except for a few fabulous dinners with the BLANCO team) because I wanted additional flexibility in my schedule while there...not that there wasn't an ample amount of free time-I just wanted complete freedom...so of course, I ended up attending nearly every event!
I am a member of the BLANCO Design Council, which is truly an honor, as I have the opportunity to contribute to shaping product design and strategy from time to time. BLANCO, while a global brand, has a corporate culture that in my experience with the company over a number of years, feels like a small, local, company (a good one!) The CEO, Achim Schreiber, greets, chats with and listens to anyone and everyone in a casual, friendly, way. I didn't realize who he was when I was chatting with him last week. I thought he might be a local BLANCO distributor or a regular, friendly, guy who had something to do with BLANCO till I found out later. He's relaxed, easy going, friendly and a great listener-a lovely man.
All others connected to BLANCO-in Europe, Canada, US and elsewhere whom I've met over time, are also every bit as friendly and positive from my experience. I have to say, having an interest in "corporate culture", I often observe and try to figure out a company's vibe over time, by connecting the dots from different types of communications and other experiences. I'm convinced that the values of a corporate culture, as has been said before by others, travel from the top down on roads that are either positive, negative, fearful, confused, apathetic, passionate, good enough and so on. BLANCO's U.S. team, a truly great group of people, has a genuine dedication to, and belief in the brand that is remarkable, but let me also say, very well placed.
From my point of view, BLANCO, the corporation, takes the positive, socially intelligent, and passionate paths - from the top down - to create an absolutely superb range of products that has that desirable mix of precision engineering and beauty. BLANCO's products are at once on trend and reflective of a classic modern design which renders them timeless. BLANCO does a whole lot of things right. They know their customer...very well.
Ok, time to see some of the gorgeous products that I shot from the show floor. Some products are not available in the US, many are, but the point here is to help you experience that special mix of design and engineering. Take a look at swoon-worthy kitchen sinks and faucets!
Above: The new BLANCOLIAN kitchen faucet
Above: Note the understated, elegant color, Truffle, the continuity of the flowing lines of the drainboard and the stainless steel rack, the simplicity of the drain cover, and the overall form of this top mount sink.
Above: BLANCO's new faucet, BLANCOHOT, that supplies both near boiling water as well as normal hot and cold water from a single spout
Above: Simply, precision stainless steel sink and faucet
Above: A sink with a beautiful form featuring an edge with an interesting, modern dimension
Above: A beautiful island in BLANCO's booth - note the faucet that can be lowered to the sink surface and covered with the cutting board - flexible design
Above: Seamless, stunning, stainless steel
Above: Another shot of this fully integrated, elegant stainless steel BLANCO SteelArt sink and countertop
Above: A new faucet by BLANCO which is easy to operate-ideal for universal design purposes by twisting the soft black section back and forth and side to side to operate flow and temperature
Above: A new take on mixing materials - note the stainless steel trim, the indestructible Silgranite material in the sink and coordinating finishes in the faucet - elegant
Above: BLANCO's new color, Cinder, with matching color on the faucet as well as a useful sink, sectioned off by a lower separation for design flexibility, once again
Above: BLANCO SteelArt, useful and beautiful - I could see this paired with a wood countertop for those who are fearful of mixing sinks with wood tops
Above: Simply, a close up of that precision engineering - I happen to really love BLANCO's use of stainless and matte colors on their faucets
I hope you have enjoyed these shots and that they communicate BLANCO's dedication to quality and design!


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Vicky Lynn Lewis Shouse, 50, of Monticello, formerly of Anderson County, died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon.
She is the daughter of Betty Barnett Rakes of Willisburg, and the late Clayton Lewis.
She is survived by two sons, Joshua Lee Shouse of Willisburg and Justin Lynn Shouse of Springfield.
Services were held at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31 at Ritchie & Peach Funeral Home with Bro. Al Peach officiating. Cremation was chosen following services.
Ritchie & Peach Funeral Home in Lawrenceburg was in charge of arrangements.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker says he will not challenge New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year's gubernatorial race and will instead explore a run for U.S. Senate in 2014.
Booker, in a video posted to his YouTube page Thursday, said he would finish his term as mayor and "explore the possibility of running for the United States Senate in 2014."
NBC 4 New York was first to report the decision Thursday.
Booker says he will consult with Democrat Frank Lautenberg, the 88-year-old senator whose term is up in 2014 and is the oldest serving senator.
"It would be a privilege, an honor, to continue his legacy of service," Booker said.
Lautenberg spokesman Caley Gray said in a statement that the senator was focused on disaster relief and gun control and did not have time to talk about "political distractions."
Booker's decision not to challenge Christie comes as the Republican incumbent enjoys record-high approval ratings in polls taken since Sandy hit the Garden State.
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Legionnaires disease is a lung infection. It is a form of pneumonia . It got its name from an outbreak at the American Legionnaires Convention in 1976.
This disease is caused by specific bacteria. The bacteria are most often found in sources of standing water. It may be found in cooling towers, HVAC systems, and air conditioners.
Legionnaires disease can be contracted by breathing water vapor from a standing water source that contains the bacteria.
The infection is not spread from one person to another.
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Factors that may increase the chances of Legionnaires disease:
- Advanced age
- Smoking
- Chronic lung disease
- Weakened immune system
- Kidney failure
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- History of organ transplant
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
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Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark today issued the following statement regarding the passing of Tony Gwynn:
"I am deeply saddened to learn that Tony Gwynn has lost his courageous battle against cancer. Since his diagnosis, Tony displayed the same tenacity and drive in his fight against this horrible disease that he brought to the plate in every at-bat of his Hall of Fame career. Growing up in San Diego, I was inspired by Tony's passion for excellence, and I was honored to have played against him as a Major Leaguer. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, Alicia, his daughter, Anisha, his son and fellow Major Leaguer, Tony, Jr., and his many friends and fans. Tony will be missed..."


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A world containing creatures who are significantly free (and freely perform more good than evil actions) is more valuable, all else being equal, than a world containing no free creatures at all. Now God can create free creatures, but He can't cause or determine them to do only what is right. For if He does so, then they aren't significantly free after all; they do not do what is right freely. To create creatures capable of moral good, therefore, He must create creatures capable of moral evil; and He can't give these creatures the freedom to perform evil and at the same time prevent them from doing so. As it turned out, sadly enough, some of the free creatures God created went wrong in the exercise of their freedom; this is the source of moral evil. The fact that free creatures sometimes go wrong, however, counts neither against God's omnipotence nor against His goodness; for He could have forestalled the occurrence of moral evil only by removing the possibility of moral good.
I need help from you guys to refute this....and when asked for why god gives importance to free will... he says
Free will, as such, is NOT fundamental. Its Quantum Mechanics roots is that which is fundamental. So, to say that god values Free will, itself, is flawed.
I don't why people come with Quantum Mechanics as if people understood it completely...
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I think you should attack the very core of this discussion - does god even exist? And if he does, who created him/her & gave him/her the free will to create a world full of creatures with free will.
And if he goes the "god is omnipotent, and ever lasting, without a beginning or end, yada yada yada" route, ask him how can he think that way if he can't think of this universe without a creator? Why does he want to add another layer of complexity to the already very complex universe.
Platingia, himself, dismissed the compatibilist view as self-contradictory and implausible. Even if we subscribe to the compatibilist determinism, the problem of evil does not exists, for the reason that evil is seen as something to be "avoided", and if the "suffering" is deterministic, then there is nothing "real" about it. The pain type response is also deterministic, and need not be, then, causally related to "suffering".
Tell him to stop blurting out memorized arguments & start using some original thoughts.
I didn't mean we should just ask for evidence of god & end the argument at that. What I meant was to debate the existence of god and try to win the argument there. If you go deeper, its gonna be a crap-shoot.
And yeah, my way is better for use on uninformed, stubborn theists.
Plantinga's "God" fronts for murderers
The god of philosophers (since Parmenides) bears scant resemblance to the ill-tempered, immoral, death dealing misogynist splashed over the canons of the Big-3 Monster Theisms. There are no experts "on gods" or "on morality". No philosopher can save "God" from "him"self. No need to waste time on pointless theological gamesmanship. Theology is fifth-rate fan fiction.
Without formal systems of rule-governed empirical method and rule-governed review, Science and Law would disappear. Only religion and mores easily survive in cultures without well-grounded methods for establishing knowledge claims. Science and Law operate successfully using Freud's 'reality principle.' Mores and religion are cultural atavisms given over to paternalist social control and the principle of 'wish fulfillment'.
There are no religions; only religious institutions manned by self-anointed god proxies -- priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, televangelists, xian thugs and murderers, "C" Street Family, Palin, Huckabee, Romney. They have no rational methods for discerning false from true. They offer only illogic (apologetics) and authoritarian demands (theo-fascism). They counsel intolerance and hatred, violence and murder as legal and godly.
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Roxana Jullapat, the pastry chef at Cooks County restaurant in West Hollywood, drizzles a spoonful of amber honey over a piece of honey-fig-walnut cake with roasted figs and burnt-honey ice cream. The honey she uses for the dessert, according to her menu, is Silver Lake honey, which, she says, often prompts the question from customers: "Are the bees hipsters who hang out at Intelligentsia drinking coffee and wearing skinny jeans?"
Actually, they're honey bees who reside on an east Silver Lake hill in the backyard of Amy Seidenwurm and Russell Bates, drinking the nectar of the flowers of lavender, California buckwheat, sage, jasmine and eucalyptus, fig and citrus trees. (A nod to hipsterdom: Their wooden stacked-box hives are decorated with the names of bands such as Hüsker Dü, the Jam and Idaho.)
This season the couple's bees — about 120,000 of them in three hives — have produced more than 60 pounds of honey, twice as much honey as in past years. "We've never had this much of it," says Seidenwurm, whose honey and honeycomb go to Bar Covell wine bar in Los Feliz for its charcuterie plates and Village Bakery in Atwater, where it garnishes fruit crostatas and is sold in jars under the label Feral Honey & Bee. Cooks County puts the honeycomb on its cheese plates, and Jullapat pours honey on her melon sorbets or chocolate-filled beignets. "I love the combination of chocolate and honey," she says.
Other urban beekeepers have been flush with honey too. Kirk Anderson, who along with Seidenwurm and Bates founded the progressive apiculture group Backwards Beekeepers, recently dropped off nearly 100 jars of his honey at Lindy & Grundy, the organic butcher shop on Fairfax Avenue. Anderson tends bees all over Los Angeles, and this is the latest haul of Kirk's Local Honey from hives in Studio City.
"I can taste the difference between Bel-Air, Altadena and Los Feliz," says Lindy & Grundy co-owner Amelia Posada. "This is the first time we've had Studio City honey."
Overall, it's been a bumper season for urban honey in L.A., and summer is when worker bees are at their busiest. Corey Brill has three hives on a rooftop downtown and sells his Old Bank Honey to stores including Coffee Commissary on Fairfax. He says he harvested at least 50% more honey this year than last year.
"We'd like to take the credit" for the bonanza of honey, says Seidenwurm of Feral Honey & Bee, standing in a three-layer protective suit and pulling a frame bulging with honeycomb from one of the quintuple-level hives as hundreds of bees buzz around her. "But they do all the work. We just steal from them."
"Silver Lake treats bees really well," says Bates. "There's a huge variety [of plants] that blooms everywhere," and bees travel as far as five miles to collect nectar that they convert into honey.
The key to all that nectar was spring rain, says Anderson, considered a guru who promotes organic, treatment-free beekeeping. "Just the right amount of rain and the right amount of sun," he says. "It's been a good year, maybe one in every eight or nine years there's a bumper crop."
The growing amount of neighborhood honey is also helped by an increasing interest in beekeeping. The Backwards Beekeepers started with a handful of members three years ago; now each of its monthly meetings draws more than 100 people.
"We started [beekeeping] because we wanted to do something that allowed us to create our own food, to be closer to the process," says Seidenwurm, who also raises chickens in her and Bates' quarter-acre yard.
Though the city of Los Angeles doesn't allow hives in residential zones, many keep bees under the radar, and a grass-roots movement to change the law has drawn the support of nearly a dozen neighborhood councils. That's at least partly because of the growing concern about colony collapse disorder. Cities such as New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Santa Monica allow residential beekeeping.
Meanwhile, the demand for neighborhood honey is high. "We're always asking Kirk for more," says Lindy & Grundy's Posada. "We usually get about 20 jars at a time and sell out of it in a matter of days." (And though the honey season has been swell, it's still highly allocated stuff.)
The big draw, besides eating über-locally? It's like wine, says Old Bank Honey's Brill. "That's the neat thing. Every time you harvest the honey, it's different, a different taste, a different color, depending on what the bees have been eating."
Seidenwurm of Feral Honey & Bee says her honey is "sometimes floral, or caramely and funky, sometimes it's darker, or sometimes it's thicker. Lately it tastes a lot to me like the jasmine that was blooming for a long time."
Where to buy local honey
Feral Bees & Honey
Village Bakery, 3119 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 662-8600, http://www.thevillagebakeryandcafe.com. Also served at: Bar Covell, 4628 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 660-4400, and Cooks County, 8009 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 653-8009, http://www.cookscountyrestaurant.com.
Kirk's Local Honey
Lindy & Grundy, 801 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 951-0804, http://www.lindyandgrundy.com; Cheese Store of Silver Lake, 3926 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 644-7511, http://www.cheesestoresl.com. Also online at http://www.kirkslocalhoney.com.
Old Bank Honey
Coffee Commissary, 801 N. Fairfax Ave., #106, Los Angeles, (323) 782-1465, http://www.coffeecommissary.com; Old Bank District Market, 409 S. Main St., Los Angeles, (213) 680-9000.
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12 comments:
- Sarah Lynne said...
I just read a whole book today. I am a book reviewer!! I read a lot and am really quick at it!!
- April 9, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Sue Sattler said...
I use to read a book a day, but last year was a really bad year for me. With my son passing away, my heart attack and my three grandkids (5, 4 & 2) moving in with me, I'm lucky to read a book a week. Unless you count Dr Seuss! :)
- April 9, 2012 at 10:54 PM
Months ago, unfortunately!
- April 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM
- Ollie said...
Yesterday, I am looking for a new book to start.
Ollie Moss
- April 10, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- Ramona said...
Just a few days ago. Gotta love a good roadtrip read!
- April 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM
- lilahshea said...
About a month or so ago =)
- April 10, 2012 at 3:03 PM
- Blondie said...
It's been about a month
- April 10, 2012 at 10:45 PM
About 3 kids ago. I have 4 that I have started and just can't seem to finish. So I refuse to start anymore untl I do.
- April 11, 2012 at 4:36 AM
We spend our summers in Italy on the Adriatic. Every day after lunch, we relax for a couple of hours and that is my time to read, so last summer is the last time I was able to read a book cover to cover.
- April 11, 2012 at 10:45 PM
when I can stay awake! if I find a good one to read I try to finish it. looking for smething new now.
- April 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM
- TheMiddleClassMom said...
I get to read when I have tim eto soak in a hot bubble bath when the kids go to bed. I only wish it was more often!!
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- April 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM
About 3 months ago during a trip otherwise with my toddler it is impossible during the day or at night I fall asleep. Anyway I love to read!
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Arrowtown, founded on gold mining in 1862, is stunning in all seasons and offers a warm welcome for families wishing to explore this living historic town.
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Arrowtown is known for its trees and the spectacular Autumn colours and activities. Visit during the Arrowtown Autumn Festival when thousands of people flock to the town. But Arrowtown stuns visitors in all seasons, not just in Autumn. Whether dropping in for a couple of hours, or taking a few days, there are options for all lengths of stay and Arrowtown is only 20 minutes from Queenstown.
The heritage of the gold rush is seen today in quaint stone and wooden buildings or by exploring the many walking and biking trails starting from the town.
Lakes District Museum
Start your visit by exploring the district's only museum, a treasure trove of stories and exhibits from the early Maori, through the early pioneering days, to the exciting mining era of the late 1800s.
Arrowtown's Chinese Village, just 5 minutes walk from the town, tells the story of the early Chinese miners who lived and worked here in the 19th century. The village is partially restored and well interpreted, making it a popular attraction.
Gold Panning
For the cost of gold pan hire, children can sense the thrill of gold mining by fossicking for gold in the Arrow River, once one of the world's richest sources of gold.
Culinary and Shopping Delights
Arrowtown is renowned for its café and restaurant culture with relaxed, child friendly dining. Whether fine dining, or enjoying a casual pizza or pie, there are delicious options for every budget and time span. Boutique beers and local wines are just some of the beverages on offer.
A tasting at the local sweet shop or chocolate shop is a must for all ages, while a casual stroll through lanes reveals specialised shops. Many are owner operated, and feature a wide range of products. All shops are within a few minutes walk of each other and free parking ensures you can take your time to explore the lanes and arcades. Arrowtown's boutique cinema, Dorothy Brown's features art house and general release movies in a beautiful atmosphere.
Stay and Play
Numerous Arrowtown accommodation options allow you to explore Arrowtown longer, with several accommodation choices just minutes walk from the outstanding delights the town has to offer.
With in close proximity to Arrowtown there is more to discover with wineries, the Kawarau Bungy site and the region's finest walking and cycling trails on your doorstep. Three golf courses border the town with the Arrowtown Golf Club one of New Zealand's finest country courses and the internationally rated Millbrook and The Hills courses are just a stone's throw away. For snow enthusiasts Arrowtown is easily central to five nearby skifields.
Walking and Cycling
The popular walking trails and cycling tracks include the newest, the Queenstown Trail, and feature spectacular mountain and river scenery. The Queenstown Trail's most popular and scenic section leads across the spectacular Edgar Bridge to the Kawarau Bungy site. There are trails for all fitness levels and maps are available at the Lakes District Museum. For more information visit www.arrowtown.com.


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