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The 2010 PBCC Annual Conference is history! But thank you notes and emails are still coming into the PBCC office. Many of these are from women and men all across the state who were given financial assistance to attend the conference in Harrisburg on October 13th. The PBCC offers various levels of grants and scholarships to applicants who otherwise would not be able to attend this inspirational and educational event.
This year, through the generosity of donors to the Cary Massa Memorial Scholarship Fund, the PBCC was able to provide assistance to 35 women and men all across the state and beyond – a record number!
One scholarship recipient wrote:
To all who donate to the Cary Massa Memorial Scholarship Fund,
The very thought of cancer leaves one in a state of fear. You get so lost in deep concerns and issues faster than you can take a breath to consume the news. You begin to lay your options out to try to cope. People like yourself come into your life. Caring, unknown strangers opening their hearts and offering the help we so desperately need…knowledge, hope, facts, and most of all choices. Thanks to you, I will have this helpful information offered to me. I am extremely grateful for that. Without your help I would not have been able to attend.
Erie, PA
Another said:
Please extend my sincere thank you to the friends and family of Cary for the gift. The scholarship represents a very fitting way to honor a dear friend and volunteer to the PBCC. What a lovely way for Cary to be a woman who continues to help other women breast cancer patients/survivors.
Cora Lee
State College, PA
And a nursing professor at Towson University, 9 of whose students received scholarships, wrote:
Please accept my heartfelt thanks for providing scholarships for my Towson University nursing students. They were totally impressed with the event, collegiality, networking and opportunities to learn more about breast cancer. It was indeed a class act of a professional conference, as I also gained much needed valuable information and knowledge as an educator.
Hagerstown, MD
Please consider contributing to the scholarship fund to help women and men attend future PBCC conferences. We cannot do this work without your support. The PBCC and all the recipients thank you!


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Harken Carbo Racing Foil Unit 1 Kit, 16m
The ultra-smooth twin headstay grooves, the strong yet lightweight resin head foil, the hardcoat-anodized Prefeeder, and the aluminum chafe guard all play a part in making hoists, douses and sail changes even faster with the Harken Carbo Foil Kits.
The impact resistance of this system is unmatched with far less foil damage from loaded spinnaker poles, especially in cold weather. Heat has little effect on stiffness. Foils are UV protected and sport a black color that makes it easier to see against a light sky, ensuring less strain on the eyes of your jib trimmer. An aluminum chafe guard keeps spinnaker sheets from damaging the foil during high-speed jibes.
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Managing your risk can help maximize your profit.
By: Andrew P. Griffith, University of Tennessee
Cattle producers face a number of risks. Many of the risks are related to production practices, financial situations, input and output prices, changes in technology, policy development, and legal issues. Cattle producers, in general, are extremely effective in managing some of these risks while some of the risks are either overlooked or considered to be "unmanageable". Additionally, some risks are difficult to manage due to the availability of effective risk management tools, while other risks go unmanaged because producers are not aware of the risk management tools at their disposal.
Cattle producers tend to be effective at managing production risks. Production risks include herd health, nutrition, forage production, supplemental feed, etc. Many producers use established vaccination programs to reduce the incidence of adverse health conditions which is risk management. Similarly, some producers utilize a number of forages including cool and warm season perennial grasses as well as winter and summer annuals to improve the likelihood of having forage available more days out of the year. Production risks tend to be the risks producers are most effective at managing, because producers are comfortable addressing these risk s and in general can see immediate results.
It can be difficult to manage some risks such as technological risks and policy risks. Many times there are technological advances or changes in farm policy that the producers' best risk management strategy is to adapt current resources to fit the advances and changes. Changes in technology and farm policy are prime examples of risk with few tools available to manage such risk. However, how one reacts to the change and adapts their resources is a part of risk management.
Thus far, the discussion has revolved around what producers do well and what they have limited control over. The hole in most producers' risk management plan is not what they have limited control over but rather not using tools for risk management that are available. There are multiple reasons one may provide for not using available risk management tools. Those reasons may include: 1) not being aware of the tool, 2) not knowing enough about how the tool works, or 3) the cost associated with using the tool.
Price risk management tools are underutilized by many folks in the cattle business. Most of the "big boys" in the cattle business use price risk management when making purchases and when marketing product, but most small producers do not utilize such tools. Before anyone says "the 'big boys' can afford to use price risk management because they are big," it would be appropriate to consider some of the price risk management alternatives.
Some price risk management alternatives are more appropriate for large producers while other alternatives are appropriate for small producers. Additionally, some cattle producers can utilize all price risk management alternatives effectively. The primary price risk management tools available to cattle producers are forward contracts, futures and options contracts, and livestock risk protection insurance.
Forward contracts may be one of the most familiar price risk management tools available to cattle producers when preparing to market cattle. Forward contracts can be structured in a number of ways, but the most common is a fixed price contract in which the price of a certain weight and quality of animal is determined today for future delivery of the cattle. One drawback to this strategy is that prices may improve before cattle are to be delivered, but the producer will not benefit from such price improvements.
Futures and options contracts are a fairly flexible way of managing price risks in cattle production. They provide ways of locking in a price similar to forward contracts as well as setting a price floor which allows a producer to capitalize on positive price movements in the marketplace. One drawback to futures and options contracts for most producers is that one contract is 50,000 pounds of feeder cattle or 40,000 pounds of fed cattle.
Since futures and options require such a large number of cattle, it is generally more appropriate for small producers to consider the use of livestock risk protection insurance (LRP). LRP insurance can be used to set a price floor for as few as one head of feeder cattle or fed cattle. Additionally, LRP is fairly easy to understand because it is insurance and most producers a re familiar with paying insurance premiums as well as being familiar with how and why payments are received. LRP is an underutilized tool in the cattle business. Producers should be considering its use with market volatility on the rise, even in a time of high cattle prices.


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Pentagon asking Congress to hold back on generous increases in troop pay
Saturday, May 8, 2010
The Pentagon, not usually known for its frugality, is pleading with Congress to stop spending so much money on the troops.
Through nine years of war, service members have seen a healthy rise in pay and benefits, with most of them now better compensated than workers in the private sector with similar experience and education levels.
Congress has been so determined to take care of troops and their families that for several years running it has overruled the Pentagon and mandated more-generous pay raises than requested by the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. It has also rejected attempts by the Pentagon to slow soaring health-care costs -- which Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has said are "eating us alive" -- by raising co-pays or premiums.
Now, Pentagon officials see fiscal calamity.
In the midst of two long-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, defense officials are increasingly worried that the government's generosity is unsustainable and that it will leave them with less money to buy weapons and take care of equipment.
With Washington confronting record deficits, the Pentagon is bracing for an end to the huge increases in defense spending of the past decade. On Saturday, Gates is scheduled to give a "hard-hitting" speech in Kansas on fiscal discipline, in which he will warn military leaders that "we'll have to take some dramatic measures ourselves to sustain the force we have," his press secretary, Geoff Morrell, told reporters.
Clifford L. Stanley, the undersecretary of defense for personnel, told a Senate committee in March that rising personnel costs could "dramatically affect the readiness of the department" by leaving less money to pay for operations and maintenance. Overall, personnel expenses constitute about one-quarter of defense spending.
Health care alone is projected to cost the military $51 billion next year, nearly one-tenth of the Pentagon's budget, excluding the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2002, wages have risen 42 percent, compared with about 32 percent for the private sector. Housing and subsistence allowances, which troops receive tax-free, have gone up even more.
But Congress -- including members opposed to the wars -- has made clear that it considers military pay and benefits sacrosanct, especially when service members and their families are struggling to cope with repeated deployments to faraway conflicts.
"Both sides of the aisle are trying to send a very clear message to our military that we appreciate their service," said Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and chairman of its military personnel subcommittee. She said the Pentagon needs to do a better job of setting priorities. "We end up with a false choice -- are we going to fund weapons or are we going to fund people? The reality is, we need both."
The Pentagon's attempts to rein in personnel costs have also run into opposition from powerful lobbying groups. "Any attempt to link rising military personnel costs with shrinking military readiness is total nonsense," Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., leader of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said in response to Stanley's comments in March.
Advocates for troops and retirees say the main reason for the increase in wages is that they were way too low to begin with. In the late 1990s, after the military had been whittled down in size from its Cold War peak, studies found that service members earned about 13 percent less than workers in the private sector with similar experience and education levels.


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It's big. It's "green." And, it isn't modern.
When Diane Christensen and her husband Jean Pierret began thinking of renovating their 1931 home five years ago, they wanted to modernize their house while achieving three goals: the renovation would be sustainable; the ground floor would be handicap accessible; and the house would still look like it had been in the neighborhood for 50 years.
"These are not goals we're used to hearing together," noted Heather Young, project architect for Fergus Garber Young Architects, Palo Alto.
But by the time they analyzed how the couple was using the home, how much the house was settling and cracking and how difficult it would be to retrofit for accessibility and energy efficiency, they decided to start all over again, architect Dan Garber added.
From the beginning the project was "thought of holistically," Young said, with a design team (including the contractor, interior and landscape designers, lighting expert and energy pros) "at the table from day one."
"We first thought we could hit LEED silver, then gold. Then we realized we were going to hit platinum. That really floored us," she said.
The homeowners remained very involved throughout the process, explaining that this wouldn't be the usual four-bedroom, single-family home with a full basement. The couple wanted adequate space to accommodate their extended family: grown children, a nephew, even family friends who stay during the week before commuting home.
That demanded "a different approach to how spaces were sized," Young said, pointing to the great room -- the core of the first floor -- designed to be enjoyed by many at the same time, or to serve multi-functions. The bedrooms are relatively small, she added.
That great room functions as living room, dining room, family room and kitchen and opens to a large courtyard patio with a fountain. Many a meal can be enjoyed outside, in the quiet, tree-shaded neighborhood.
The house is sited on a corner lot, with the second story set back. One can enter through the front door, a side "friend's" gate or from the driveway/carport over permeable pavement to either the mudroom or the laundry room.
All the landscaping is either drought-tolerant and/or native plants, with the exception of a few of Christensen's mother's roses, some of which were taken from Sunset Magazine's garden cuttings. The heirloom roses blend with the grasses, adding touches of color in the driveway.
Raised beds in the back "yard," which is more like a patio, hold herbs and veggies. Espaliered fruit trees adorn the fences at the edge of the property.
Sometimes going green was quite compatible with blending with the neighborhood. For example, rounded roof tiles -- the kind that were molded over workers' thighs -- were reused from the original house. Coincidentally, a house was being demolished nearby and the contractor was able to acquire additional tiles. (Later, they were able to pass on the dirt dug out for the basement to someone who needed more soil for their landscaping, said Michael Good, project manager at Pete Moffat Construction.)
The Old Palo Alto home ended up earning 112.5 points to achieve "platinum," the highest LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environment Design) rating. Good pointed to those things not seen: concrete made of 70 percent slag cement mix that took two to three times longer to cure for the foundation; 8-inch thick walls made of structural-insulated panels; low volatile-organic-compound stains; radiant hydroponic heating; even locally sourced stone walls from Lodi.
Adapting a Birge Clark-like sensibility to the California Spanish-style home meant incorporating dark ceiling beams, wrought-iron touches and dark wood floors. Only in this case the beams are hand-carved, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified cedar, the metal in the banisters, railings and cabinet hardware is hand-forged steel; and the floors are hand-scraped, FSC-certified quarter-sawn white oak, made in staggered widths and lengths.
A small room in front, what could be called a parlor, is now a music room that opens to the courtyard. On the other side of the courtyard is the master-bedroom suite.
As for the handicap accessibility -- or use of universal design -- all the doorways are wide, and many do not include doors. In the basement, they've located a bathroom that is easily wheelchair-accessible, with no threshold, two shower heads and a long bench, all decked out with Walker Zanger Alhambra Craftsman tiles.
A workout room, aquatherapy pool and a workshop where the husband builds guitars complete the basement. All can be reached either via stairs or elevator.
The basement also houses the control center for the home, which monitors greywater collection (which connects to sinks, showers and laundry areas) as well as two 5,500-gallon rainwater collection tanks. The family seldom needs to tap into Palo Alto's water system for irrigation.
For heating and cooling, the home is sited to take advantage of passive solar, with active panels on the roof. No air conditioning is required to keep the home cool.
Good noted that there would have been no additional construction costs to achieve LEED silver, about 1 percent for gold and about 5 percent for platinum -- plus about 20 to 30 percent of one person's time for managing the process.
The home was completed in summer 2010, two and a half years after construction began.


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This post offers readers a fully-fledged analytical model of the unfolding Eurozone Crisis. It begins with a macro-economic analysis of the Crisis' causes and then, importantly, models the feedback between Europe's institutional and policy responses and the contagion process that began with Greece. For the fully-fledged (wonkish) version of the paper,
click here ( http://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/from-contagion-to-incoherence-a-simple-macroeconomic-model-of-the-eurozone-crisis1.pdf ). What follows below is a maths-free summary of each of the paper's sections.
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Magpies maintain play-off push
Neal Bishop's header earned Notts County a 1-1 draw at Tranmere which kept their play-off dreams alive.
Last Updated: 26/02/13 11:10pm
Neal Bishop's header earned Notts County a 1-1 draw at Tranmere which kept their play-off dreams alive.
The midfielder's second-half effort cancelled out Abdulai Bell-Baggie's first career league goal just before the half-hour for Tranmere, who failed to win at home for a fourth consecutive game.
The home side started the brighter, Michael O'Halloran running onto Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro's flicked header before shooting straight at County 'keeper Bartosz Bialkowski.
Bell-Baggie then grabbed his first goal since notching against Chesterfield in the first round of the Capital One Cup, running on to O'Halloran's pass to shoot low past the onrushing Bialkowski.
But the Magpies - who saw a Julian Kelly shot saved by Owain Fon Williams in the first half - equalised after 74 minutes when Bishop rose highest to head in Alan Judge's free-kick.
Driven on by the goal, County substitute Jeff Hughes almost grabbed a winner shortly after but his shot from the right of the box bounced back of the left post.


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The new track is an original from forthcoming movie 'Alice Through The Looking Glass'
Pink has launched a new track entitled 'Just Like Fire', taken from the soundtrack to 'Alice Through The Looking Glass,' and revealed complete with a movie-themed video.
The new single – written specifically for the movie, which comes out on May 27 – is only the singer's second solo release since 2013, following on from non-album single 'Today's The Day', released in 2015.
Pink also recorded a second track for the film, a cover of 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane. It's been three and a half years since she released her last album, 2012's 'The Truth About Love', but Pink has since been recording with Dallas Green of City and Colour, under the name 'You And Me'.
The pair had a UK number ten (and US number four) album in 'Rose Ave' in 2014.
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Pink also ran a Cinderella-style countdown to the new track via her social media,
Meanwhile, a judge passed down his own 'verdict' on Pink's music last year, ruling that taking a child to one of her concerts isn't bad parenting.
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Lawrence R. Jones wrote that a mother "in no way, shape or form exceeded the boundaries of reasonable parental judgment" by attending the Pink concert at Newark's Prudential Centre, Yahoo reports. He also stated that: "[The mother's] decision did not subject the child to any unreasonable risk of harm, or compromise [her] health, safety or welfare."
"To the contrary, when all the smoke from the [related] custody litigation clears, it will be self-evident that all which happened here is that a young girl went to her first rock concert with her mother and had a really great time."