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Let us all stare, open-mouthed, at the picture to the right of CC (note the lack of periods as per his absurd request) in a Brewers' uni, collect ourselves because "The AppreCCiation" is forthcoming ... and release some tomahawks: Much has been thrown out there regarding when Matt LaPorta figures to arrive in Cleveland and what his position will be. Though Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said yesterday that LaPorta is "certainly ready for AAA", the Indians will start him in Akron to give him some sort of comfort level there, then will proceed with him accordingly. Given LaPorta's success, however, in AA and the fact that the Indians (whether they would come out and say this) want LaPorta to be a fixture in the Cleveland lineup by early 2009, at the latest, I can't see how he doesn't make a move up to Buffalo at some point this year with at least giving a thought to a September call-up, if waiting to give him a shot at breaking with the team out of Spring Training. Ideally, the latest that I would like to see LaPorta in a Tribe uniform would be mid-May of 2009 or so, which would follow what the Brewers did with Ryan Braun last year, allowing him to get into a rhythm in AAA, and easing the transition to MLB without the added pressure of breaking camp with the team. But, again, I'd have to think that the mid-May call-up scenario would be about as late as the Indians would like to stretch this thing out, given the dearth of power at the big league level for the team. As for his position, it looks as if the Indians will take a wait-and-see approach to evaluate for themselves how LaPorta looks in the field in Akron (or Buffalo) before making a decision. It does look as if LF and 1B would be the two likely destinations for him and the performance of the players in the organization already (Garko, Brown, and Aubrey at 1B; Chootierrez and The Ben Francisco Treat in OF) will play just as big of a role as to where he ends up. If Garko continues to regress and is unable to recapture any semblance of power or approach and Brown is unable to generate power at AAA, LaPorta could revert back to his college position of 1B, which most things that I've read report is his more "natural" position. If Garko or Brown push their way back into some future plans and Chootierrez continues to either flail away at the plate (Frank the Tank) or play inadequate defense (The BLC), LaPorta could be given the keys to LF, where his average arm is less of a liability, while RF becomes the land of Benny, Franky, and Shinny. I'm not sure why, but visions of Ben Broussard running around the LF pastures in Jacobs Field have me hoping that LaPorta ends up at 1B, which is only one of the reasons that I'd prefer to see LaPorta end up at 1B, in addition to the fact that I'd like to see him upgrade the popgun options that currently exist in Cleveland and Buffalo. Certainly he's going to fill one of the two holes that exist at both spots, but I'd rather see the Indians add a OF bat, independent of LaPorta, as opposed to sticking what could be a defensive liability in LF. Back to 1B, though, as a BIG fan of Jordan Brown, I can't help but be disappointed by the continued lack of power from him as he climbs the ladder and, on a team that figures to need power going forward, these extra-base hit totals are hard to ignore: LaPorta - 45 XBH in 296 AB in Huntsville at age 23 Brown - 49 XBH in 483 AB in Akron at age 23 (he has 25 XBH in 249 AB in Buffalo this year) Garko - 56 XBH in 430 AB in Kinston, Akron, and Buffalo at age 23 Garko's totals, by the way, after the 2004 season listed above are as follows: 2005 - 47 XBH in 452 AB in Buffalo at age 24 2006 - 52 XBH in 549 AB in Buffalo and Cleveland at age 25 2006 - 50 XBH in 484 AB in Cleveland at age 26 2007 - 15 XBH in 275 AB in Cleveland at age 27 If LaPorta does end up at 1B, where do Jordan Brown and Ryan Garko fit going forward? Add that to the list of questions that need to be answered as 2008 draws to a close with eyes fixed firmly on 2009. Getting into the other two known quantities of the deal, LHP Zach Jackson looks to be little more than roster filler in the hopes that he could develop into a feasible middle relief option and more than just the warm body that he looks like to help the Indians get through the 2008 season without dipping too far into the minors to eat innings. Though he is the player who has played at the highest level to date, if you were to rank the acquired players in order of significance to the deal, Jackson would round out the deal as the least important part, seen mainly as an arm that can perhaps play at some point this year in Cleveland, but without too much upside or hope that he will ever become a cog in the rotation or the bullpen. Much more interesting in Single A pitcher Rob Bryson, whose future is murky as to where he projects, be it the rotation or the bullpen. Most reports focus on the 20-year-old Bryson's 90+ MPH fastball and an effective slider that have translated into 73 K in 55 IP this year after netting him 70 K in 54 IP last year. If that is, in fact, the case, Bryson would likely project as a two-pitch reliever, though very far away from realistically contributing in Cleveland as he has pitched only as high as the South Atlantic League, which is the same league as the Lake County Captains. Though his K/9 rate ranks him in the top 3 of the Sally League, putting any kind of timeframe or projection on a 20-year-old pitcher who has yet to pitch in High-A ball is extremely premature. Bryson will likely join the promising bullpen arms in Lake County like Josh Judy and Mike Pontius, and if those are names that you've never seen before as an Indians fan, they give you an idea as to where Bryson fits in terms of readiness and talent. He's pretty far down the line and, regardless of how good his 2007 numbers look, the road from Classic Park to the corner of Carnegie and Ontario is a lot farther than the almost 18 miles that Mapquest tells you it is. By all accounts, more than the two pitchers, the PTBNL is the second most important piece of the deal after LaPorta and ahead of the two pitchers. Most reports have the Indians negotiating the option of choosing either AA OF Michael Brantley or Single-A 3B Taylor Green, and having until the end of the 2008 season to come to a decision.
Taylor Green is a name that has been connected to the trade talks since they hit the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel blog. Green was the 2007 Brewers' Minor League Player of the Year who doesn't project as a big bopper at 3B, as he has posted solid, if not spectacular, numbers at his three minor league stops leading up to his stay in Brevard County (same level as Kinston) this year as a 21-year-old. Interestingly, the Indians may be looking at Green as more of an option at 2B, as the internal options past Josh Barfield are essentially Akron SS Josh Rodriguez (who has posted a .738 OPS in Akron as a 23-year-old with 81 K in 87 games) and Kinston 3B Jared Goedert, who, like Rodriguez and Green, would have to make the transition to 2B at some point. Goedert, who had a tremendous 2007 season, has posted a .723 OPS in Kinston as a 23-year-old, while Green (who is 2 years younger) has posted a .813 OPS to date for Brevard County. That being said, Green would fill an organizational weakness if he does project to a solid bat (10th highest OPS at .833 in the Florida State League among players with more than 50 games played in the league...just below prized Phillies' 2B prospect Adrian Cardenas, whose name was connected to CC in trade talks, by the way) and may be waiting to see how he performs throughout the course of the year before making the decision whether to choose Green (who has been more widely reported to be the favored option) or Brantley. As for the other perceived option, you may ask why the Indians would be interested in Michael Brantley, an OF with good on-base skills and speed when a player like Trevor Crowe seemingly already exists in the system. The reason is that Brantley JUST turned 21 in May of this year and has posted a .324 BA / .405 OBP / .412 SLG / .817 OPS with 15 2B, 4 HR, and 25 SB in a half season in Huntsville after getting exposed to AA briefly (59 games last year as a 20-year-old) while Crowe, who turns 25 this November has posted a comparable line (albeit with a higher SLG) this year at Akron with a .325 BA / .415 OBP / .506 SLG / .921 OPS with 14 2B, 4 HR, and 9 SB. Same player, right? Not even close, as Crowe is putting these numbers up in Akron after having spent part of 2006 there (with 154 AB) and all of last year there (with 518 AB) posting OPS of .643 in 2006 and .694 in 2007. While hampered continually by injuries, Crowe is closing in fast on his 25th birthday and, not having moved past AA and really finding his first success this year after amassing 672 AB there prior to this year, the clock is ticking on Crowe's clock to even be considered a prospect anymore. Brantley, on the other hand, has experienced immediate success in AA and has continued to move up the organizational ladder quickly enough to position himself, at a young age, to make an impact above AA in the very near future. This is not to knock Trevor Crowe or his standing in the organization, as he COULD still emerge as a viable ML player (though I have trouble seeing him being much more than a 4th OF, given his advanced age and the fact that his first success in AA came after spending a year and a half there), but more to illustrate how important age is at particular levels of the minor leagues and how it is helpful in evaluating where a player is in their development and how high their ceiling could be. Brantley, as one of the youngest hitters in the Southern League, posting a .405 OBP with 25 steals by the end of June, looks to have a pretty high ceiling, which is why the Indians figure to have him on their radar. If the Indians feel that the power that they get from Grady in CF allows them to fill LF with a speedy, leadoff-type hitter who may not produce the power generally associated with corner OF, Brantley would seem to fit that profile. As for the decision between the two, the Indians have time to determine if Green has the ability to play 2B (while they have no control over where Green plays while in the Brewers' system) as well as determining if Brantley's bat projects as a leadoff hitter that their system seems to be lacking. Time will tell... In case you were wondering where the Dodgers were on this whole CC situation as they looked to be the best match in terms of young, MLB-ready talent, it looks like the Dodgers' owner may have nixed a deal that would have sent CC, Blake, and Carroll to Chavez Ravine for a healthy package of prospects including (perhaps, as the writer is simply conjecturing what the return would be) Matt Kemp. Alas... With all of the glum faces these days regarding the parent club and the small solace that having Sizemore and Lee representing the Tribe in the Midsummer Classic has provided, the Indians now have three players in the Futures Game that takes place over All-Star weekend. The US team boasts Matt LaPorta and Akron 3B Wes Hodges, while the World team features Kinston SP Hector Rondon, who has notched 89 K to 25 BB in 81 2/3 IP while compiling a 6-3 record with a 3.31 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP...and he just turned 20 years old in February. Anyone else setting their DVR's for that one? In case you missed Anthony Castrovince's piece on the CC trade, it puts a nice bow around how the whole thing happened as well as projecting why the Indians weren't interested in AAA outfielders saying "they did wish to stay away from Triple-A outfielders, because of their belief in the bats of Shin-Soo Choo and Ben Francisco, the glove of Franklin Gutierrez and the potential of Double-A prospect Trevor Crowe."
I find it interesting that they remain as optimistic as they do on that foursome (if they really do) given the advanced age of all four and that none has emerged as much more than a complementary part this year, although the quote does address essentially the one strength of each player. I think that their focus on LaPorta had more to do with him being one of the best power hitters in minor league baseball (currently ranked #4 prospect in MiLB and the 20th best prospect under 25, regardless of level, by Prospect Project, whatever that is), and the fact that he projects as better than most AAA OF/1B out there had more to do with it than confidence in what is already in-house. Much more to come on this as more thoughts, details, and news occurs. For now, it's back to baseball played on the field and to see if the Indians can stop this 8-game losing streak with CC Sabathia pitching tonight...for your Milwaukee Brewers. Oof.


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In 1405 Cheng Ho, the Chinese trader and soldier who seems to have succeeded at everything he set his adventurous hand to, sailed into the port of Semarang in Indonesia. Three centuries before, Islam had been brought here by his fellow-countrymen. This is an inconvenient fact for modern Indonesian politics which is still shaped by the twist given to ethnic Chinese identity by the Dutch who used the Chinese as a buffer between themselves and the Indonesians. Despite discrimination, the Chinese (the 'Jews of Asia') prospered, losing their language in the process. Not much can stop the industrious Chinese from prospering in their diaspora. But in Indonesia they became associated with the western colonisers and perhaps for this reason gravitated away from Islam towards Christianity.
This was told me by way of context to a visit to the large red-pillared temple and grounds dedicated to Cheng Ho. His swashbuckling story is told in a series of reliefs around the temple's outer wall. Arriving from Jiang Su in China he brought neither ideas nor religion but the irresistible arts of making wealth. Clearly his famed exploits are remembered because they created the political stability necessary for trade and investment. Sailing the Straits of Malacca he discovered that Malaysia and Siam were in conflict. He arbitrated a peace and was allowed to build storehouses for his merchandise. In Sumatra he hunted down Chen Zhu Yi, the terrible pirate and killed, it is claimed, 5000 others of the same profession. He resolved a civil war in Java, quelled a dynastic rebellion in Sumatra on behalf of the incumbent ruler and in a more light-hearted mood brought wondrous beasts – lions, leopards and giraffes – here as gifts from the King of Persia. One of the last reliefs refers to a kidnapping in Indonesia of a Chinese ambassador whom Chen Ho successfully ransomed after three years of negotiation. The commentary says: "This reflects that 600 years ago there was a good friendship between China and Indonesia." The Chinese point out the damage on the wall showing where the plaques telling this part of the tale have sometimes been removed and replaced as foreign policy changed.
Walking round the temple in such a heavy heat that it could only be a peaceful place, I wondered 'why a temple?' – what was the religious significance of the versatile Cheng Ho to whom people still come to pray today? The anchor of the boat he arrived in is preserved there as a relic. But had he performed miracles, raised the dead, died a holy man? No such claims. Eventually the penny dropped. The Chinese come here, as they come to all temples, to pray for health, prosperity, long life and related needs such as marriage and fertility. Cheng Ho is simply a saint of success and unabashedly he doesn't wrap it in any metaphysics or supernatural stories. It felt quite refreshing, if a little two-dimensional.
But religion is always more complex than it seems. Exploring the temple further I found a doorway into a dark cave-like space. As I stepped over the threshold I was intercepted by a temple attendant, all of whose colleagues had been fast asleep elsewhere in the temple precincts. I was told that only those intending to pray were allowed to enter this truly sacred space and I obviously didn't match the profile. My Indonesian friend did and was able to enter. He told me the room was in fact a cave. It predated the temple by many centuries and represents the interiority and mystical side of Javanese religion. I saw why I was being told so often by bishops 'yes, they will understand meditation here'.
Later, after this exposure to the natural syncretism of religion, I was speaking in a chapel to seminarians, using the image of the cave of the heart, when the neighbouring mosque started up. It startled me and my surprise amused them - who were long resigned to the regular intrusion. How could a call to prayer be so loud, such a mixture of rasping roughness and languorous lament - and so prolonged? When two other mosques joined in the cacophony I faced a decision that Christians here have long confronted. Retreat or stand your ground. Afterwards, I was told that the loudspeakers are intentionally directed towards churches. But, if so, it was competition of a clerical and perhaps nationalistic kind. I had not sensed any of this among the ordinary people who seemed happy to pray and let pray. Religion has so many strata, interior and eternal, that conflicts are inevitable. Maybe in time a trader from China, a new Cheng Ho, will sail in and resolve this one too.
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It seemed like a simple task: buy some patio furniture for our old house in Delhi. I had moved there to become TIME's bureau chief in the height of summer 2008, and the wide terrazzo veranda was the coolest spot on the property. After hours of searching Delhi's furniture bazaars and high-end malls, my husband and I came back empty-handed. I sat down on the dusty marble, exhausted, and fantasized that someone might just deliver a table and chairs to the gate. Then, as if by magic, the bell rang. It was the jhuri-wala, the cane-furniture maker, making his rounds in the neighborhood. We invited him in, leafed through his binder of faded sample pictures and within a few days had a glass-topped round table and four chairs made of lacquered bamboo, cut, shaped and bound by hand.
The jhuri-walas — and all the other craftsmen and tradespeople who populated the bylanes of our neighborhood — can make the housing colonies of India's megacities feel like its villages. They are the subject of Supranav Dash's photo essay Marginal Trades — among them are honey collectors and wood-cutters, blacksmiths and potters. Most inherited their professions, and the tools of their trades haven't changed in generations. But they, too, are part of India's economic transformation. Many families now prefer to buy plastic chairs rather than cane; some of these trades will soon die out. The wheat-grinder's son manages a fast-food stall; a son of one of the washer-men is a chauffeur. "They never changed, they never updated themselves, and then suddenly you had this juncture when globalization is going to hit so bad, everything is changing," Dash says.
Dash began this project as a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He turned to photography after years as a painter in Kolkata, his hometown, and as a photographer in Mumbai. Some of that early training is apparent; Dash used four different hand-painted backdrops. Under his thesis advisor, the painter Billy Sullivan, Dash studied the formal portraiture of the photographers Eugène Atget (Les Petits Métiers) and Irving Penn (Small Trades), who documented the trades and professions of London, Paris and New York in the 1950s. He researched Penn's original platinum and palladium prints at the archives of the Museum of Modern Art and looked for representations of India's trades and professions. The ethnographic work of John F. Watson and John W. Kaye (The People of India, 1868-75) informs Dash's work but he did not want to replicate Watson and Kaye's effort to render India's multidimensional caste structure in a fixed taxonomy. "I did not want to follow that," Dash says. "I wanted to inform people about what has happened and what is going to happen."
Dash found his subjects in and around Kolkata. "In my summer and winter breaks I would go back to India, find a busy street and set up on a corner, make a makeshift studio, put two people in charge of the lights. Then, I would go hunting. Out of every 100 people, maybe 20 would accept."
His biggest challenge was persuading them to leave their familiar surroundings. "They're used to the concept of tourists coming in and taking snapshots in the street. But the moment you want to extract them and bring them to your own confined space, shoot, put them under lighting scenarios, they are, like, afraid," Dash says. "They would say, like, Why don't you photograph me right here where I'm standing? Why do you need to bring me and all my stuff back to your place? What if you beat me up and take all my stuff? Because the system does that to them. The system has abused them so much... A corrupted police officer and myself could be the same thing to them."
Some of those who did agree to sit for portraits mentioned the Indian government's massive new national ID program, which had been collecting biometric data at the same time that Dash was taking his portraits. "They would just mention that their photographs were also being taken [by the program], that the government wants data." So far, more than 450 million people have been enrolled in India's national ID program; the program's chairman hopes to have 600 million Indians enrolled by 2014.
When my family and I left Delhi in 2012, we sold much of what we had acquired with the help of an auction agent, a freelance buyer and seller of household goods. The cane furniture went quickly; a few of the bindings had come loose, and the cracked glass top had been replaced, but it admirably withstood nearly four years of heat, dust storms and monsoons. I now live in Brooklyn, where artisanal trades and crafts are newly trendy. Every weekend, a bell rings; it's the neighborhood knife-grinder making his rounds.
But I still often think of the jhuri-wala.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Iran's election to the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women yesterday as feminists worldwide remain outraged by the country's appointment to the council. Iran's election to the council, was formally announced by the UN on April 23.
According to The Hindu, Ahmadinejad claims that women and girls in the West, particularly Europe, have "no dignity" and that women's rights are highly respected in his country. He reportedly said that a "Woman is a symbol of beauty of God on Earth," but stated Iran will never ratify the Committee to Eliminate All Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) because Iran "will never (follow a) basic criterion that leads to the destruction of women". CEDAW is a 1979 treaty that bans gender discrimination that is ratified by 185 countries. The US is the only industrialized western country that has not ratified the treaty.
Just last week, Tehran's police chief, Brig Hossien Sajedinia, announced a crackdown on women who appear to be suntanned in the country. He said, "The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehaviour by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values. In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins...We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them," according to the Telegraph UK.
A few weeks earlier, a senior Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, created a firestorm when he blamed earthquakes on women's attire. He said, "Women who do not dress modestly...lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes," reported the Washington Post.
Iran reportedly withdrew a bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council before announcing candidacy for membership in the commission. The Commission on the Status of Women meets annually and aims to "evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide."
Iranian women's rights activists and other feminists worldwide wrote an open letter to the UN opposing Iranian's candidacy for Commission membership. The letter references that Iranian women have been "arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for peacefully seeking change of [the discriminatory] laws" in place in Iran and also states that "the Iranian government will certainly use [Commission membership] to curtail the progress and advancement of women," reported Radio Free Europe.
In February, feminist group Gender Equality in Iran issued a petition that demands "an end to state-led violence and repression" in Iran. It said, "Over the past eight months, the grass-roots protest movement that emerged following the disputed presidential elections has been suppressed by mounting violence. Physical and psychological violence - through arrest, torture, rape, extended imprisonment, and even execution - has been exercised against civil and political activists in Iran. As of now, numerous women activists from various movements - women's, workers, students, civil, and political - are detained and/or have received heavy sentences. The list of detainees grows everyday."
In addition to the continued harassment of activists, during the fall of 2009 a documentary attacking Iran's women's rights movement was broadcast on state television. At about the same time, the head of Iran's state television, Ezatollah Zarghami, declared that state-sponsored television programs will henceforth prohibit women who appear on air from using make-up. Zarghami told the newspaper Eternad that "make-up by women during television programs is illegal and against Islamic Sharia law. There should not be a single case of a woman wearing make-up during a program."
Media Resources: The Hindu 5/5/10; Feminist Daily Newswire 4/14/09, 4/29/10; United Nations Press Release 4/23/10; Washington Post 4/21/10; Radio Free Europe 4/29/10
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Written for the student or professional interested in programming language design, this new book examines a wide range of programming language paradigms and issues. Author Raphael Finkel, University of Kentucky, intersperses the discussion of these models with in-depth coverage of the key languages to reinforce them. Finkel begins his presentation with control structures and types, and then introduces the reader to seven programming paradigms: imperative, functional, object-oriented, dataflow, concurrent, logic, and aggregate-based. He concludes the book with a discussion of formal syntax and semantics.
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Prognosis, treatment of canine mammary tumors
Q. What are the facts and figures for mammary tumors in dogs?
A. Dr. Antony S. Moore gave an excellent lecture on Diagnosis and Management of Dogs with Mammary Tumors at the 2007 American College of Veterinary Medical Forum in Seattle. Here are some relevant points from that lecture:
Mammary tumors are the most common neoplasm in intact female dogs and account for approximately half of all neoplasms in them. Mammary neoplasms are uncommon in male dogs, accounting for less than 1 percent of these types of tumors. The incidence of mammary tumors is higher in dogs than in any other domesticated animal and is three times the incidence in humans.Approximately half of the tumors are malignant, and half have metastasized by the time they are initially diagnosed.
Sex hormones certainly play a role in development of mammary tumors in the bitch. Intact females have a seven-fold increased risk of developing mammary cancer compared to neutered females. The age when ovario-hysterectomy takes place is directly proportional to the risk of developing mammary cancer. Data clearly indicate the preventive role of ovariectomy prior to the second estrus.
When only the dogs that had two or more estrus cycles before spaying are considered, there is still a benefit to earlier spaying. If they were spayed before 2.5 years of age, then the risk was 6 percent of those dogs not spayed at all; (that approximates to the 8 percent quoted for one estrus cycle). If they were older than 2.5 years, the risk was 40 percent of unspayed dogs, but that difference was not significant. Essentially the greatest reduction in risk comes if you spay before the first estrus, but then, as long as you spay before 2.5 years, the risk is very low.
Two studies showed that after a malignant mammary tumor develops, there is no effect of ovariectomy on tumor progression. In contrast, a recent study showed increases in survival time for dogs that were ovariectomized within two years before mammary-tumor surgery.
Obesity may be a factor in mammary neoplasia in dogs. In one case-controlled study, the risk of mammary carcinoma among ovariectomized dogs was significantly reduced (by 40 percent) in dogs that had been thin at 9 to 12 months of age. Among intact dogs that were thin at that age, however, risk of mammary cancer was not reduced. In contrast, another study showed obesity at 1 year of age almost trebled the incidence of mammary cancer in intact dogs. In that study, dogs with a higher intake of red meat in their diet were at higher risk for developing mammary cancer.
Obesity and feeding a high-fat diet the year before being diagnosed with a mammary cancer had no influence of tumor development. Caregivers should be counseled to ovariectomize their dogs before the first estrus, and to ensure weight control is practiced in at least the first year of life. Ovariectomies performed later in life, while not as protective, should not be discouraged.
Staging and diagnosis
The two most common sites of metastases are lungs and regional lymph nodes. Therefore, staging should include a minimum database of thoracic radiographs, complete blood count (CBC), biochemical profile, urinalysis and an evaluation of regional lymph nodes (axillary and inguinal) by palpation, fine-needle aspiration cytology and (if indicated) biopsy.
Prognostic factors
The prognosis for dogs with mammary cancer is not influenced either by tumor location or number of tumors. Other factors that are not prognostic are number of pregnancies, age at first pregnancy and occurrence of pseudopregnancies. The following are prognostic factors that have been shown in studies to predict survival or the disease-free interval.
Stage of tumors
Dogs with Stage 1 tumors were more likely to survive longer than those with any other stage tumor. This effect of tumor stage was similar in other studies and is detailed in the following tables.


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Australian businesses will be happy to see the back of another tough trading year even though the outlook for 2013 continues to be subdued, three separate surveys show.
The National Australia Bank's monthly survey found business confidence slumped in November to its lowest level since April 2009 when the nation was facing the depths of the global financial crisis.
Its business confidence index tumbled from minus one in October to minus nine in November, though trading conditions held steady in the month at minus five.
"The slump in confidence is likely to in part reflect businesses becoming depressed about the weak level of activity in the economy at present," NAB said, noting the forward demand indicators signal more weakness to come.
The NAB survey did not take into account the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision this month to cut the official cash interest rate to three per cent.
But JP Morgan economist Ben Jarman said firms "took a very dim view" of the central bank's decision to leave rates unchanged in November, when many had expected a rate cut.
Macquarie Research economist Gabby Hajj said the RBA now had more impetus to move rates lower in the new year.
"If not, a weakening business outlook will most definitely have negative implications for employment conditions," he said.
Financial markets are pricing a 50/50 chance of a cut to a record low of 2.75 per cent when the RBA board next meets in February.
A survey by accounting firm CPA Australia found small businesses were among the least optimistic in the Asia-Pacific region.
Its survey of six Asia-Pacific economies found only 60 per cent of Australian companies expected to grow their business in 2013, just ahead of Hong Kong at the bottom of the table on 59 per cent.
In contrast, Indonesia led the way with 94 per cent.
CPA Australia CEO Alex Malley said the results were worrying because small businesses were a barometer of the health of the broader economy.
It should also be "wake-up call" to decision makers of the need to focus on how Australia can best position itself to thrive in a highly competitive regional and global business environment.
The most optimistic of the three reports found most small businesses only saw revenues stabilising, rather than growing, in the medium term.
But software provider MYOB said its business monitor series from October 2010 to July 2012 showed an improvement after two years of revenue declines.
"Our research indicates the small and medium business sector has reached a turning point, with economic confidence and revenue expectations steady" over the first half of calendar 2012, MYOB chief Tim Reed said.


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The Greenville College men's cross country team took second place at the SLIAC championship meet, but it did not keep them from leaving their mark on the all-conference team. Following the event, five Panther runners were honored with all-conference awards. Of those honored, senior Rodney Oyler of Macon, Ill., was Greenville's top performer with a second place mark.
Pacing the Panther squad were the second and third place honors of Oyler and junior Cole Prins of Erie, Ill., respectively. Oyler posted a time of 21:08 in earning first team honors for the third straight season, and Prins finished the race three seconds later to tally his second consecutive first team honor.
Second team awards went to sophomores Xavier Ortiz (9th place, 21:36) and Leo Pathy (12th, 22:02) both of Palos Hills, Ill., and Coree Woltering (14th, 22:09) of Ottawa, Ill.
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Florida House Will Review "Stand Your Ground" Law
The Florida state House of Representatives will hold hearings in the fall to review the controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, according to House Speaker Will Weatherford.
Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel) revealed in an opinion column published in the Tampa Tribune that he asked the chair of the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach), to hold a hearing on the law when the House reconvenes in the fall. In the column, he wrote that "across Florida, representatives are receiving calls, letters, visits and emails from constituents with diverse opinions on 'Stand Your Ground.' Passions are high, but every person has the right to express their views on this matter of great importance." He continued, "Our evaluation of its effectiveness should be guided by objective information, not by political expediency. Does the law keep the innocent safer? Is it being applied fairly? Are there ways we can make this law clearer and more understandable?"
Gaetz made it clear he supported the law in its current state and didn't expect any changes to be made. "I don't intend to move one damn comma on the 'stand your ground' law," he said. "I'm fully supportive of the law as it's written. I think any aberrational circumstances that have resulted are due to errors at the trial court level." Nonetheless, many are citing this as a small victory.
A group of protesters, the Dream Defenders, have been outside the House non-stop for the past two weeks urging Governor Rick Scott (R) to call a special legislative session on the law. Phillip Agnew, executive director of the Dream Defenders, told reporters, "[The hearing is] a critical step. We're excited about having an open debate." But the decision to have a hearing is not going to satisfy the demands of the Dream Defenders, who also want broad re-evaluation of the racial profiling and discipline policies in schools.
Ciara Taylor, Political Director for the Dream Defenders, told reporters, "Ultimately you're still ignoring the root of the issue, at least in terms of the Zimmerman verdict, and that is the criminalization of our youth, the way that young people are looked at in Florida, black, white and brown, and that's due to the school-to-prison pipeline and racial profiling that's perpetuated throughout law enforcement."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's track and field team finished in first place with 180 points at the Engineer's Cup, which took place on the MIT campus on Saturday afternoon. RPI was second with 128.5 and WPI was third with 97.5. Nine different Engineers took first place in various events, as did the 4x100 relay and the 4x400 relay.
In the 10,000m, MIT took the top four spots. Sophomore Matthew Jordan (Matthews, N.C.) came first with a 32:05.39 and was followed by classmate Allen Leung (Arcadia, Calif.) in 32:25.75, junior Roy Wedge (Lawrence, Kan.) in 32:27.59 and freshman Matthew Deyo with a time of 32:37.66.
Junior Tyler Singer-Clark (Falmouth, Mass.) came first in the 100m with a 10.96 and went on to win the 200m later on in the meet with a 22.01. In the 400m, freshmen Derek Barnes (Coto De Caza, Calif.) and States Lee (Charlotte, N.C.) finished in first and second place with times of 49.36 and 49.38 respectively. Senior Patrick Marx (Grand Rapids, Minn.) and sophomore Harrison Hunter (Northampton, Mass.) led the pack in the 800m, finishing in first and second with times of 1:57.96 and 1:58.35.
MIT took first and second in the 1500m, with senior Kyle Hannon (Park Ridge, Ill.) taking first in 4:09.27 and sophomore Chadd Kiggins (Xenia, Ohio) coming in second with a 4:11.67. The Engineers took first through third in the next event, the 5000m; senior Logan Trimble (Clearwater, Fla.) was first in 15:21.51, and freshmen Ian Tolan (Binghamton, N.Y.) and Edgar Gridello (Douvainer, France) following in 15:22.51 and 15:23.63 respectively.
Freshman Michael Kaba (Jackson, N.J.) narrowly finished first in the 400m hurdles with a 54.61, with the second place finisher crossing the line in 54.85. In the 4x100 relay, MIT was first with a 42.70 and, in the 4x400m, the Engineers finished over five seconds ahead of the rest of the competition with a 3:21.66.
The Cardinal and Gray placed in first through fourth place in the pole vault, with senior Yida Gao (Marietta, Ga.) and classmate Cyrus Vafadari (Columbus, Ga.) tying for first with a vault of 4.30m. Sophomore Benjamin Schreck (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) was third with 4.00m and freshman Marshall Wentworth (Oakland, Calif.) tied for fourth with 3.85m. To wrap up the MIT wins, freshman Carrington Motley (Pittsburgh, Pa.) won both the long jump and the triple jump with jumps of 6.41m and 13.56m. In the long jump, classmates Arinze Okeke (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Angel Echevarria (Sacramento, Calif.) were second and third with jumps of 5.85m and 5.78m respectively.
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Hungry? You might not be after you witness seafood coming back to life at Taipei's Digital Art Center, a gallery that specializes in new media art. Aushin Chang (張顥馨) and Wang Ding-yeh (王鼎曄) use electrical currents to make dead fish "dance" to popular KTV numbers in the Live Live Seafood (生猛海產店). Complementing the "live" works are static displays, including shears, fillet knives, fish cutting tables, as well as diagrams that try to parse the difference between life and lifelike electrical activity. Also opening tomorrow is Loh Li-Chen's (駱麗真) Ubiquitous (幸無在中央), a digital installation about what makes people happy. Spoiler alert: There are no right answers. Using lighting, images, sound and video, Loh wants to start a conversation about what's gained and what's lost when values start becoming centralized.
■ Digital Art Center (台北數位藝術中心), 180 Fuhua Rd, Taipei City (台北市福華路180號), tel: (02) 7736-0708. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm
■ Opening reception tomorrow at 3pm. Until June 16
Kalos Gallery's (真善美畫廊) Dunhua location is showing Memory Garden (記憶花園), a themed exhibition of paintings and sculptures by two artists. The works are inspired by natural materials — Yu Wen-fu (游文富) draws on the feather while Chu Fang-yi (朱芳毅) uses mud — to create works that feel like polar opposites, respectively light and heavy.
■ Kalos Gallery (真善美畫廊), 269, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段269號), tel: (02) 2706-9610. Open Mondays to Saturdays 10am to 6:30pm
■ Opening reception tomorrow at 3pm. Until June 8
Home (家), by photographer Wang Wen-yi (王文毅), opens tomorrow at the Taiwan International Visual Arts Center (TIVAC, 台灣國際視覺藝術中心). Taken at an orphanage in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Home tries not to be just portraits of children, but also of the different relationships they have formed in the only home that they know. Perhaps inadvertently, the photos also show the psychological and material distance between the photographer and his subjects. "With these shots, it wasn't only about getting the best composition. It was also about working out camera positions that were mutually comfortable," Wang writes in his gallery notes.
■ Taiwan International Visual Arts Center (TIVAC, 台灣國際視覺藝術中心), 16, Alley 52, Ln 12, 16 Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市松山區八德路三段12巷52弄16號), tel: (02) 2577-1781. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11:30am to 7pm
■ Opens tomorrow. Until May 26
After a two-year hiatus, painter Fan Yang-tsung (范揚宗) is back at the Aki Gallery (也趣藝廊) with Under 38°C (38度西下的微熱肌膚), his take on the modern-day pool party. Fan presents the pool party as an exciting bundle of impulses that are public and private, forceful and genial, voyeuristic and exhibitionist. He also shows all the minutiae — the tan lines, the bubbles, the water flow where swimmers are cutting through — using his signature clown-bold colors.
■ Aki Gallery (也趣藝廊), 141 Minzu W Rd, Taipei City (台北市民族西路141號), tel: (02) 2599-1171. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from noon to 6:30pm
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Tomorrow Jason Chi (紀嘉華) debuts Rhythm of Light (光的節奏), a solo exhibition of oil paintings that render emotions in measured geometric shapes and recurring colors, particularly canary yellow.
■ Ever Harvest Art Gallery (日升月鴻畫廊), 2F, 107, Renai Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市仁愛路四段107號2樓), tel: (02) 2752-2353. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 6:30pm


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Montana Grizzlies will take on Montana State Bobcats Saturday
The University of Montana men's basketball team is closing in on another Big Sky regular-season title, but there is plenty of adversity yet to be overcome. Mathias Ward and Will Cherry are both ostensibly out with injuries, although the Missoulian's Bob Meseroll reports that Cherry is confident in returning by the end of the season. … Continue reading
Montana Grizzlies, Lady Griz have big week
It's a huge week for both the University of Montana men's and women's basketball teams. The women are in the midst of a week-long road trip to Idaho and Utah. The Lady Griz topped Southern Utah Monday in Cedar City and take on Idaho State Thursday in Pocatello. The Bengals were picked first, but suffered … Continue reading
Montana State Bobcats invade Dahlberg Arena Saturday
There are a pair of big games in Missoula Saturday as the Montana State men's and women's basketball teams visit Dahlberg Arena to take on their Montana counterparts. We'll have full coverage in tomorrow's Tribune, as well as game coverage on Twitter and in Sunday's print edition. The men's game comes second, of course, and … Continue reading
Brandon Kaufman and Kyle Padron leaving Eastern Washington early
So I guess this answers the question as to who will start at quarterback for Eastern Washington next year. Eagles' signal-caller Kyle Padron decided he will forgo his final year of eligibility to pursue professional options, various media outlets reported today. Padron transferred to EWU this year from Southern Methodist and split starting duties with … Continue reading
Montana Grizzlies football team optimistic; Griz men's basketball team wins Big Sky Conference opener
Last week, we brought you a look ahead to the 2013 Montana State season. Today, we bring you the look ahead for Montana. As you can read, head coach Mick Delaney is optimistic heading into the offseason and next season. Big question marks remain at quarterback and in the secondary, so it will be interesting … Continue reading
Eastern Washington marching on in FCS playoffs; Will Cherry set to return for Montana basketball
The football season has ended both Montana and Montana State, but conference rival Eastern Washington is still alive. The Eagles, who won the national title over Villanova in 2010, play host to Sam Houston State in this weekend's semifinals. It's tough to know what to make of the enigmatic Eagles, who have often played two … Continue reading
Montana State football: Bobcats need to do more than simply 'not lose a step' to get past the FCS quarterfinals
The MSU football team's season is over. We had plenty of coverage from Bozeman in our Saturday paper and we've got this follow-up column in Monday's paper. Esteemed colleague Greg Rachac over at the Billings Gazette had this column. You can also check out Colter Nuanez's work at Bobcat Nation and Kyle Sample and Paul … Continue reading
Sam Houston State's QB almost wasn't a Bearkat
When Willie Fritz took over as head coach at Sam Houston State, there were six quarterbacks on scholarship. Not a single one of them is now the starter. It almost wasn't to be. Fritz didn't plan on signing a high school quarterback, but a tall, rail-thin signal-caller from China Spring, Texas, caught his eye. The … Continue reading
Montana Sports Recap: Griz reeling, No. 2 Cats feeling good
Admittedly, it's been a few days since we've posted. And there is certainly plenty of fodder. The second-ranked MSU football team outlasted Southern Utah last weekend in Cedar City, Utah, to stay unbeaten, despite playing without go-to receiver and Electric City native Tanner Bleskin. The former CMR star is expected back this weekend, however. The … Continue reading
Montana Sports recap: Grizzlies play the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, while the Bobcats play Northern Colorado
It's another big home weekend for the Bobcats and Grizzlies as Northern Arizona visits Missoula and MSU plays host to Northern Colorado. We'll have more in our game previews Saturday, but the UM-NAU match-up is always full of interesting storylines. NAU head coach Jerome Souers is a former Grizzlies assistant, while assistant coaches David Reeves … Continue reading


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Christian Emergency Services Supervisory Officer Denied Religious Accommodation and Subjected to Harassment at Keystone Resort, Federal Agency Charged
DENVER – The Vail Corporation, which operates ski resorts in Vail and Keystone, Colo., will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a religious and gender discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, EEOC v. The Vail Corporation, 07-cv-02035-REB-KLM, Lisa Marie Cornwell, an emergency services supervisor at the Keystone Resort, was subjected to harassment based on her Christian religion and her sex, denied religious accommodation and treated less favorably than her male colleagues. The EEOC said that Cornwell's supervisor, Rick Garcia, forbade her and another Christian employee from even discussing their Christian beliefs with one another while at work, and would not allow them to listen to Christian music while on duty, because it might offend other employees, but had no similar restrictions on music with profanity or lyrics promoting violence against women, which were offensive to Cornwell.
Additionally, according to the EEOC, Garcia ridiculed Cornwell for asking for scheduling accommodation so that she could attend her preferred religious services, and denied her requests while scheduling lower ranking officers for the shifts she requested. Also, Garcia created and tolerated a sexually hostile work environment where he and other male employees made offensive sexual comments and jokes in the workplace, the EEOC alleged.
Cornwell complained to various Keystone managers and human resource staff about the harassment and being scheduled to miss her religious services on Sundays, but no action was taken to resolve the problems. EEOC alleged that Cornwell was fired in retaliation for her last complaint, made less than ten days before her termination.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires that employers provide reasonable accommodation for the religious practices and beliefs of employees. According to the EEOC, Cornwell could have been scheduled so that she could attend her religious services, without any cost or disruption to Vail's business operations, and the company was required by law to make some such accommodation. Also, Title VII prohibits workplace harassment based on religion or gender. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
Under the settlement, Vail will pay Cornwell $80,000 and provide training for all of its Keystone employees on religious accommodation and prohibited harassment and retaliation.
"Title VII imposes an affirmative obligation on employers to accommodate employees' religious practices and beliefs when possible. When Congress added this provision to the statute, they expected employers to cooperate with employees to work out some reasonable accommodation. The environment in this case, where the employee was not only flatly denied accommodation, but also ridiculed for even asking, is unacceptable," emphasized Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill of the EEOC's Phoenix District Office, whose jurisdiction includes Colorado.
EEOC Denver Field Director Nancy Sienko added, "Claims of religious discrimination have increased by more than 80 percent in the last ten years. We are seeing more and more of these cases, and have litigated several in the last few years. The EEOC will continue to vigorously enforce the statutes prohibiting this behavior."
Ms. Cornwell said, "I am particularly pleased about Vail's agreement to conduct training on religious accommodation to help ensure that future employees will not be discriminated against in the same manner."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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Chen Keeps Sox Bats In Check [VIDEO]
The Boston Red Sox dropped the finale of their series with the Orioles by a 6-0 score on a combination of early run production by Baltimore and a lack of Boston offense.It has been a recipe that has worked against the Sox all season and continued Wednesday as the Orioles jumped on Sox starter Rubby De La Rosa for three runs in the first inning thanks to a Chris Davis 2-run homer.De La Rosa struck out 7 but also allowed 7 hits and four runs to take the loss.
Boston's offense again failed to show up as they managed just four hits off Wei-Yin Chen who won for the seventh time this season. The Sox grounded into three double-plays and are now fourth in the majors in that department.
The Sox will play their next 7 games at Fenway starting with a four game series tonight against the Indians. Jon Lester will make the start for Boston.


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Oil Spill Spoils Gulf Coast Tourism Business
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The British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted several class action lawsuits involving hundreds of clients in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida as tourism business has floundered, according to WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Miss.
At the Cajun RV Park in Biloxi, business has been watered down by the threat of oil. Spaces that are normally full sit empty.
Jonathan Mikovich runs the park and said business is down 35% this month alone. When potential campers call, Mikovich said the spill is a topic of concern.
"I would say most of the people are mentioning it, but overall I think are just looking for another destination to go totally because they don't want to have it impact their only week off of vacation they get."
Texan Earl Miller is staying at the park with family members. He said he's enjoying the southern hospitality, and has plans to go golfing.
"We made the decision to come down here before the oil spill started. And once we thought about it, we wouldn't be actually using the beaches that much, and we didn't think it would affect our golf."
The manager of the RV park in Biloxi has not taken litigation against BP off the table. He doesn't want to go to court, but Mikovich said if he continues to lose revenue, he may have no choice.
"If revenue is being off as much as we are thinking it's going to be, we could absolutely do that," he said.
Meanwhile, officials with BP promise every legitimate claim of financial loss will be paid.


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POWNAL -- A local waste hauler wants to build a recycling plant that will reduce the amount of construction and demolition waste currently going into a landfill.
TAM Waste Management has already received town approval for the project at the former Northeast Wood Products, 171 Church St., but must still get an Act 250 permit and a solid waste permit from the state.
The facility will accept all forms of non-hazardous waste, said Trevor Mance, founder and owner of TAM, but what will set it apart is that it will take construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Mance said the facility will allow between 50 and 80 percent of the C&D it handles to be recycled.
"At this point, it gets put into a tractor trailer and sent up to the Plattsburgh, N.Y., area," to be put in a landfill, Mance said.
The facility will be able to separate C&D materials to be sold to different markets, such as shingles for asphalt and road material. Clean wood, he said, can be used as composting material, which would dovetail with TAM's composting facility in Bennington, which started operation this year.
He said the composting facility and recycling center should help local businesses and governments comply with the requirements of Act 148, which will be phased in over the next few years.
Mance plans to ask the state to permit the recycling facility to handle 60,000 tons of material per year, however that limit may not be reached or even come close for as long as 10 years. Mance said material collected by TAM will go there first, but he plans to open it up to other haulers.
How fast it grows depends on the economy, he said. TAM currently runs a facility in Shaftsbury, as well as the town's transfer station, and the amount of material has been largely flat since the economic recession bottomed out about five years ago.
The site is near a rail spur, which offers the potential for future growth and to move material in a more environmentally friendly way, said Mance. There were other reasons to choose Pownal as well.
"We found the town very easy to work with and it was a great opportunity to use an existing structure," Mance said.
He expects to employ about 15 people, which will include sorters, truck drivers, and managers.
The site is currently owned by Bill Drunsic, of Manchester, who in May 2011 looked poised to run a wood pellet packaging plant there. The site was formerly known as Northeast Wood Products, a sawmill, which Drunsic bought at a foreclosure auction the year before. Drunsic had all the necessary permits in place to run the pellet operation, but said Friday the project fell through.
"My potential partner decided it was not a good location from a wood supply perspective and transportation perspective," Drunsic said.
He has a tentative agreement to sell the property to TAM should all the permits for the recycling facility come through.
Mance said the Pownal Development Review Board placed some conditions on the project before approving it, namely requiring an earthen berm be built on the north side to reduce noise, restricting the hours of operation to 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and moving a proposed building farther from a property line.
He said the only new construction should be an addition to one of the larger buildings. Most of the center's activities will occur indoors, Mance said.
The project has an additional permitting hurdle it must clear. Because Pownal, along with Arlington, Dorset, Manchester, Peru, Sandgate, Sunderland, Glastenbury, and Shaftsbury are all members of a single Solid Waste Implementation Plan, all must give support when a new solid waste facility is built in one of those towns. Each town must provide a letter of support, and two public hearings must be held. One has been scheduled at the Pownal Town Office for Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m., while the other will be announced and held in another SWIP town.
Michael Batcher, regional solid waste program manager for the Bennington County Regional Commission, said the main challenge with this element of the SWIP is coordination between towns and their monthly board meetings. He said the last time support was needed on something from the SWIP towns was when Glastenbury, a disincorporated town with under a dozen residents, was added to the group.
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While members of Congress spent most of the month arguing in Washington, lawmakers in Trenton were getting the job done in a bipartisan manner, says New Jersey Business and Industry Association president Philip Kirschner.
That's evident, he says, by an announcement made last week by Gov. Chris Christie that his administration would be rendering the state's unemployment trust fund solvent by the end of this week.
"It would be easy to miss in the midst of a government shutdown and partisan bickering in Washington, but here in New Jersey, government got it right," Kirschner said Tuesday.
The Christie administration says the move will spare employers from "drastic tax increases" under the Federal Unemployment Insurance Tax Act, ultimately saving them $211 million.
"We have managed to get a very important safety net for our workers solvent well before anyone thought possible," Christie said in a release last week. "We've accomplished this without imposing disastrous annual tax increases on the very same businesses we are relying upon to improve the prosperity of our economy and continue delivering jobs to our state."
Kirschner agreed today that getting the fund straightened out was in the best interest of businesses in New Jersey.
"This is an issue we can all agree on," Kirschner said. "A fiscally sound (unemployment insurance) fund will lead to lower payroll taxes for business, uninterrupted benefits for those out of work and peace of mind for employees statewide."
Kirschner said the NJBIA worked closely with Christie, the Legislature and other state agencies on the issue.
"The business community is grateful for the hard work of the governor, the Legislature and the (state) Department of Labor, which implemented many of the reforms," Kirschner said.
For decades, governors in both parties had raided the fund for over $4.5 billion. That practice was only made worse by the 2008 recession, which forced the state to borrow federal funds to help it make its benefit payments to the then-growing number of out-of-work residents.
The Christie administration now expects the fund to come into a positive balance next month. By meeting federal obligations for its employers to be spared the FUTA tax increase, the administration has said that the FUTA tax rate will fall to "pre-deficit levels for employers."


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Authorities in West Virginia are investigating the death of a 28-year-old man who had been competing in an endurance course.
Berkeley County Sheriff's Sgt. Ted Snyder says Avishek Sengupta of Ellicott City, Md., was found Saturday in water at the "Walk the Plank" obstacle of a "Tough Mudder" endurance event near Glengary. He died Sunday at a northern Virginia hospital.
The Virginia medical examiner's office in Manassas said an autopsy has been completed but a cause of death wasn't immediately available.
Snyder said the death appears to have been accidental. It was first reported by the Herald-Mail ( http://bit.ly/12C1t0Z ).
About 750,000 people have participated in Tough Mudder courses since the first event was held in 2010, and Sengupta was the first person to die, company spokeswoman Ashley Pinakiewicz told the newspaper.


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mattcali22 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 28 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
What's up designers, my name is Matt and I am the founder of sngprotege. My website is designed to find online poker players who are ready to make the move to becoming pro. Me and the coaches on my site teach them how to crush "sngs" - a type of poker that stands for "sit and gos."
The people I want to appeal to are online poker players who play mainly on PokerStars and Full Tilt (the two mainstream websites in the world). The guys we want to pick up are motivated poker players, who are already winners, who are ready to learn what it takes to become pro and make big money. The players we are looking for, if it helps any, are small stakes players. Our target audience is not playing >$50 games. Mostly $2-20. Maybe a tad higher like $30.
1. A nice HD appealing logo
2. Color, no black and white only
3. I hope to have a logo that doesn't include any cheesy poker references like a heart, club, spade, or diamond, or a card from the deck. I am open to having a suit in the logo, but mostly I'm aiming for a non poker related logo. As long as it's not a cliche poker reference, I can be ok with it.
4. Something inspirational or motivating.
5. The name "sngprotege" in the logo.
6. Be as creative as you can, I'm open to lots of ideas.
7. I'm not sure if this matters, but I'd also like to be able to resize the logo to go on my site if I need to (maybe this doesn't matter cause I can just shrink/enlarge it). I just don't want it to lose any HD quality if I have to shrink/enlarge it.
New idea: I just had an idea. What about some type of design that includes a person's hands as they lift up their cards.
Like in this pic... http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/
But instead of them being actual cards like ace or king, etc, the cards have binary like this...
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