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Optimism in the euro zone's economy improved sharply in August but stubbornly high unemployment, especially in the bloc's weaker countries, highlighted the fissure separating the recovering north from the struggling south.
Confidence among business managers polled by the European Commission rose for a fourth successive month in the euro zone, the EU executive said on Friday. The positive trend was particularly strong in Germany and the Netherlands but was also seen in Italy, France and Spain.
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The measure of sentiment across the currency bloc in August, based on business orders, industrial confidence and other factors such as companies' hiring plans, increased by 2.7 points to 95.2.
Rising confidence has inspired some to predict that the 17 countries using the euro have overcome the worst of a crisis that was triggered by banks' investment in risky mortgage debt and later drove some states to the brink of bankruptcy.
"The most acute phase of the crisis and the toughest period of belt-tightening is behind us," said Dirk Schumacher, an economist with Goldman Sachs.
In a separate release, Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, said annual consumer price inflation in August would be 1.3 percent, down from 1.6 percent in the previous month, due mainly to a drop in energy prices.
A lack of price pressures is a further potential boon to the economy, giving households a little more spending power, and would allow the European Central Bank to stick to its record lower interest rate policy to try to help the economy.
But while morale improved, unemployment in the euro zone in July remained at a record high of 12.1 percent, although there is a huge variation in jobless rates between countries such as Germany, where the job market is robust, and Greece or Spain where more than one in four workers have no job.
"It would be the most dim-witted thing you could do to declare ... that the crisis is over," Juergen Fitschen, the co-chief executive of Germany's flagship Deutsche Bank, told reporters earlier this week in Brussels.
While just over 5 percent of workers in Germany were unemployed, according to Eurostat, that figure reached almost 28 percent in Greece and topped 26 percent in Spain.
Although there were 15,000 fewer people in the euro zone without a job compared with the previous month, 3.5 million people under 25 remain unemployed.
"We haven't broken the negative dynamic in the south of Europe," said Guntram Wolff of think tank Bruegel. "Banking fragility, weak growth and high unemployment still present a threat."
A slowdown in euro zone inflation will give the ECB food for thought ahead of a September 5 policy meeting.
Its Governing Council discussed cutting interest rates in July but decided against and instead said it would keep them at record lows for an extended period.
Signs of economic recovery have since reduced pressure for a cut but the fall in inflation may prompt policymakers to have a rethink.
"All in all, while a recovery seems to be underway, there is every reason for the central bank to remain in strongly accommodative mode for the foreseeable future," Jennifer McKeown at Capital Economics wrote in a research note.
ECB policymakers have sent mixed signals in the run up to Thursday's meeting.
Cypriot central bank governor Panicos Demetriades said late last week that a rate cut was still "on the cards", adding that the most recent data was "more encouraging". But Austria's Ewald Nowotny saw no arguments to cut.
German Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said on Thursday that the longer interest rates stay low, the less effective monetary policy becomes and the more difficult it will be to withdraw support measures.
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"Gang activity revolves around the distribution of narcotics, and in this community we have a drug distribution problem," said Broome County Capt. Fred Akshar.
The Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and the Aryan Brotherhood gangs have all been sited in the Greater Binghamton area.
Akshar says local agencies are getting better at recognizing the signs.
"We recently instituted the field intelligence questionnaire, which even the deputies in this county have an opportunity now to ask certain questions of suspects or defendants and gleam some further information on further criminal activity," Akshar said.
Data is then sent to the jail to keep up on suspect information. Jails -- and even local schools -- are some of the top recruitment spots for gang members, Akshar said. Inside the correctional facility, it's up to officers to enforce the rules.
"If we see any type of identifiers that we think they might be involved in a group then we interview them. Inside the facility we don't separate one gang from another, so we explain to these guys that no matter what group you're with that you have to get along," said Broome County Correctional Facility Capt. Kevin Moore.
These rules prevents power in numbers, but it also helps to decrease recruitment within the jail walls and in Broome County, Moore said.
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Minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan will be pocketing more money this year.
The provincial government says the minimum wage is going up to $10.20 an hour from $10 starting in October.
Labour Relations Minister Don Morgan says increasing the minimum wage will give minimum wage earners more disposable income and improve their standard of living.
"We think in the range of 10,000 to 12,000 (people) will be at minimum wage and about another 10,000 will be close enough to minimum wage that they would have the effect of a bump-up," Morgan said Monday at the legislature in Regina.
The government also says it will introduce regulations in the next few weeks to provide for regular indexing of the minimum wage each year. The formula will be based on the equal weighting of the percentage changes in the Consumer Price Index and average hourly wage for the previous year.
Morgan says he expects that means the minimum wage increase will be slightly higher than inflation.
He also says indexing the minimum wage will provide security for minimum wage earners and predictability for business owners.
The increase puts Saskatchewan in about the middle of the pack for minimum wages in Canada.
Nunavut has the highest minimum wage in Canada at $11 an hour, followed closely by Yukon at $10.54, according to the Retail Council of Canada.
The Ontario government has said it will increase the minimum wage to $11 an hour from $10.25 on June 1. However, anti-poverty activists and labour groups in Ontario had been lobbying for an increase in the rate to $14 an hour.
The minimum wage is $10.45 per hour in most industries in Manitoba.
Nova Scotia is increasing its minimum wage by 10 cents an hour to $10.40 as of April 1.
British Columbia's current minimum wage is $10.25 an hour. Earlier this month, union leaders in B.C. called for an immediate increase in the minimum wage to $13 an hour, but Premier Christy Clark said she's concerned that could hurt job creation.
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SPOKANE — The Arlington Eagles and senior pitcher Ronnie Ladines were barely challenged at the State 4A softball tournament, but they didn't wither when the first challenge came.
Ladines struck out 15, including the last final batters of the game to strand the potential tying run at second base, and Arlington (22-3) claimed its first fastpitch state title Saturday night with a 2-1 win over Camas at Merkel Sports Complex.
Ladines also went 3-for-3 with two doubles and a run batted in to help the Eagles finish 4-0 and outscore opponents 24-1 at the two-day event.
"I've been looking for this for so long," said Ladines, a Kent State recruit. "Our five seniors started together when we were 10-year-old Little League all-stars and we figured, 'What the heck? Why not do it and finish it together?'."
Ladines struck out 17 and homered as Arlington began the day with a 6-0 win over Richland in the semifinals. She also pitched the Eagles to two shutout wins during Friday's opening day.
Camas (20-5) reached the title game with a 2-0 semifinal win over defending champion Woodinville.
Tahoma (25-5) defeated Woodinville (23-3) 7-4 in the game for third and fourth places when Bre West hit a one-out, three-run homer to left field in the eighth inning.
That extra-inning game pushed back the starting time for the championship by 1 hour, but Arlington and Camas made it worth the wait.
Camas coach Ken Nidick started pitcher Katie Schroeder, but the sophomore lasted three batters. Senior Hayley Fields led off the game with a double to right-center and scored on Ladines' one-out double to a similar spot.
Junior Harli Hubbard relieved Schroeder and allowed five hits and struck out nine in 61/3 innings.
Ladines struck out six in the first two innings before facing a big challenge.
Amee Aarhus led off Camas' third with an infield single and stole second base. Lena Richards tied the score at 1 with what appeared to be a triple, but the umpires called her out for missing second base. Erin Tauscher doubled to right with two outs, but Ladines struck out Hubbard to end the threat.
Eagles center fielder Marisa Rathert made the defensive gem of the game when she chased down Schroeder's long fly to open the fourth. Rathert knocked down the fence, tumbled over and held the ball.
Ladines' one-out double in the fifth moved Katelyn McDonald to third base. Lynsey Amundson's grounder to second base drove in what proved to be the winning run.
Camas pinch-hitter McKinley Johnson dropped a one-out double to right in the seventh, but Ladines struck out Aarhus and Richards to net the title.
"Our team came together," Ladines said. "We didn't have as many hits as we normally do, but we were on the ball, kept fighting and didn't give up."
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Arlington 100 010 0—2 8 0
Camas 001 000 0—1 5 0
Ronnie Ladines and Lynsey Amundson. Katie Schroeder, Harli Hubbard (1) and Farnham. WP—Ladines. LP—Hubbard. 2B—Ladines (A) 2, Erin Tauscher (C), Grindy (C), Hayley Fields (A), Amundson. Records—Arlington 23-3 overall. Camas 22-6.
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Richland 000 000 0—0 6 1
Arlington 230 010 0—6 11 0
Andrews and April Utechet. Ladines and Amundson. WP—Ladines. LP—Andrews. 2B—Hayden Fields (A). HR—Ladines (A). Records—Arlington 23-3 overall.
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One of the announcements out of the recently concluded Comic Con that I missed until after the show was over was NECA's acquisition of the Planet of the Apes license. As I understand it the license covers the classic movies as well as the recent reboot and it's upcoming sequel. I don't know if the Tim Burton movie is part of the deal. While the movie was pretty awful, the costumes and ape designs are pretty cool.
However, it's the classic stuff that has me excited. Really, really excited. I grew up with the original movies. I remember my first exposure was when Planet of the Apes first aired on television on (I think) ABC Friday Night at the Movies. I can still remember the promos before the aired featuring the blaring horn, the sickles thrashing their way through the corn field in pursuit of the fleeing humans and the big reveal of the gorilla soldier on horseback. My young mind was blown. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. And, I was hooked.
I got all the novelizations through the Scholastic book club in elementary school and read them to death. I had the MEGO figures and the treehouse playset. I built the Aurora model kits. I read the Marvel magazine b&w comic.
One of my fondest childhood memories is going to the Go Ape Festival in 1974 with my cousin Cherie. We spent 8 hours in the Century Almaden theater in San Jose taking in the spectacle of all five original movies. It was fantastic.
I love the Planet of the Apes.
So, flashforward to the present and here's NECA announcing new Planet of the Apes action figures. No other details have been given from what I've read. But, it's NECA so it's pretty safe to assume that we'll be seeing 7″ action figures. And, it's equally safe to assume that they'll look amazing. But, is that all we'll see?
I'm really hoping against hope that NECA also launches a 3-3/4″ Planet of the Apes line. I think that there is room for both, and really I think the license is better served by a 3-3/4″ line than a 7″ line. Now, granted, I've got a bit of a (well-deserved) reputation for being a 3-3/4″ junkie. So, I may be biased (ok, I am biased). But, there's so many characters and so many opportunities for army building and, thanks to NECA's upcoming 3-3/4″ Lone Ranger figures they've already got amazing, articulated horses it's a match made in ape heaven!
A 3-3/4″ Planet of the Apes line is probably my all-time dream toy line. We came close some years back when Palisades Toys (RIP) had just such a line planned, and then they went out of business. I was heart-broken.
And, so it is with anxious anticipation that I await more information on just exactly what NECA has planned for the Planet of the Apes. There's such amazing potential there. All I know is I can't wait to get my hands on some dang dirty apes!
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It would be great to line the Planet of the Apes out in 7 inches as predators, aliens, marines, dutch etc are more or less the same size.
Reconsider and if performed in 3 3/4 also carried out in 7 inches. Although Tylor commander.
Thanks my friends.
Jeff– We have similar experiences with "Apes." But, the movies appeared on TV on CBS, not ABC. And … guess what … here's the proof (and — wow– this'll really take you back…!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOnnGegq3vQ
Wow! I've been a POTA since the film first came out [and it was aired as a CBS Friday Night Movie]. Had/have all the comics, Marvel magazines, Megos, etc…
I was so pleased when Sideshow finally came out with 1:6 (12″) versions. While not the most screen accurate it was great to see so much attention being paid to the franchise. Then they stopped and it looked like it was all over. Not so. To the rescue came Hot Toys and with them the most exquisite 1:6 Planet of the Apes figures done to date. They released three and all three were gorillas, General Ursus, a gorilla soldier from the films and a gorilla soldier from the TV series. They had said at one point that they were not done with the license.and planned to revisit it bu that never happened.
Now, NECA has made the POTA announcement of all announcements.
NECA, I know that you generally deal in 7″ or 1:4 scale otems, but please, PLEASE, don't start a new area of apes. Make items to compliment the existing world of Planet of the Apes. Given your attention to detail 1:6 would probably be ideal for your POTA offerings and still maintain highly detailed figures and affordable pricing.
Love the Ape films. I remember recording all of them on VHS tapes of TV in the late 80's. My mind was blown away when Sci-Fi channel, in its infancy reran the TV series. The change in human behavior made me so damned angry!!! But hey, it was more apes! As much as I love toys, none of the POTP toys have appealed to me. A 3-3/4″ "vintage" style and I'm in! Jut don't over price them like ZIca and Super7 have…Considering parts sharing and army building, $5-$10 per figure is the max I would pay!
play sets would be awesome. I would love to see some stuff done with cardboard, vinyl and cloth for that cheep/retro vibe…A ruined statue of liberty would be all kinds of awesome/insane. Considering the upcoming film, and the iconic nature of that scene, I could see Toys R us supporting that as an exclusive.
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For those of you who might be tuning into this column for the first time in 2004, it's useful to know that each of the six marketing matters features this year will focus on "offbeat" marketing ideas. As a recap, an offbeat marketing idea refers to non-traditional approaches. An idea that you hear and might say, "That's kind of cool and different, I'd like to give that a try." It is also important to remember that offbeat marketing efforts never replace proven items on your annual marketing plan, but rather they are used as a supplement to drive more traffic through the clubs' doors and in the process, perhaps find a new, successful strategy to add to your annual marketing plan.
The first offbeat marketing idea is something a colleague of mine saw at an inline skating race in California. Hundreds of business card-sized magnets that advertised a particular product were stuck on a car. It was evident to anyone passing by that, if they were interested in the product and wanted the contact details of the seller, that it was allowable to take one of the magnets right off the car. What a great guerrilla marketing idea for a couple of reasons. First, it is impossible to walk through a parking lot and not notice a car that is plastered with small magnets — even if they weren't a flashy color. In fact, it instantly gets your attention to the point where you are compelled to go see what the heck the magnets say. Second, a magnetic business card is something that people will be more apt to keep — especially if they are the type of person who hangs things on their refrigerator.
I remember moving into a new home and receiving a Welcome Wagon basket on my doorstep. Most of the things I threw in the circular file, but one thing that caught my attention, was a magnet that looked exactly like the king of hearts playing card. At the bottom of the magnet was the name, "Royal Flush Plumbing" and a phone number. The magnet was placed inside a letter welcoming me to the neighborhood and offering a 10-percent discount off any plumbing services I might need. I threw the letter away but promptly put the magnet on my refrigerator. As fate would have it, when I ran my first load of laundry the pipes backed up and flooded my basement. Although I had trashed the letter, I quickly located the magnet and called the Royal Flush Plumbing man. The point being, magnetic business cards are more apt to stick around than a paper one. And, at an average of 13 cents to 18 cents per magnet, they are affordable.
One final and interesting note about placing magnets on a car. I later found out that in the state of California, if you have traditional car magnets on your automobile, you get assessed a commercial use tax of something like $1,500 per year. However, these tiny car magnets somehow made it through a legislative loophole and avoided the tax. Certainly, you should check with your local attorney before you make a purchase. Also, know that if you have a Saturn, which doesn't have a metal body, the magnets won't stick.
The next offbeat marketing idea also falls into the guerrilla-marketing category, and although it initially sounds like something old, it actually has a really cool twist. Certainly, at some point during your business, you have had pens printed with your company name and phone number on them. Some people do an inexpensive, Bic-style pen while others spend a considerable amount on a more upscale, engraved pen. (I've tried both.) Although these items seem to be a wonderful gesture to members or individuals passing by a table or health fair booth, I've personally never had any new member site "your free pen" as a source. And, even if it was argued that such a purchase was really meant as a top of mind awareness tool, not a marketing driver, I'm always looking for more ways to get a bang for every buck I spend.
One way to use the pen idea but get much more exposure and awareness from it is something fairly new; a pen that is attached to a carabiner. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, a carabiner is that metal spring clip that rock climbers use to secure themselves to lines and has recently been popularized on school back-packs and key rings from amusement parks in vibrant colors. The really nice thing about these pens is that women have a tendency to attach them to their purses, allowing them to quickly access a pen without having to rummage through all their stuff. And, because this is such a novel idea at the moment, people have a tendency to notice them. This means that in addition to getting the marketing exposure with the person who has the pen, other people might notice the pen as well. What a bonus. Surprisingly, these carabiner pens are fairly reasonably priced, ranging from $0.99 to $1.70 each, depending upon the quantities ordered. It is certainly pricier than something like a car magnet, but it is also something that will probably get used a lot more.
The next offbeat idea falls into the category of external marketing and came from Kelly Walker, a regional manager for a small group of HEALTHY INSPIRATIONS Centers in Virginia. Kelly had arranged with a local TV station to be part of a local reality show where residents of the town get an extreme makeover. As some of you may know, there is a popular program on television called Extreme Make-over, where people are taken through all kinds of procedures, which radically change the way they look. This nationally televised program includes extreme dental and plastic surgery, liposuction, face-lifts, hair extensions, as well as exercise and eating regimens.
With the popularity of the program, this local TV station had decided to create their own version. Participants will be enrolled, free of charge, into the HEALTHY INSPIRATIONS Program and receive one-on-one nutritional guidance as well as exercise at the center a minimum of three times per week. Of course, in exchange for providing the participants with the HEALTHY INSPIRATIONS program, the center will receive loads of free advertising and perhaps more important, free third-party endorsements from people who have made major changes in their life.
Another possible benefit, and one we have experienced when running free weight loss studies, is that often participants who received a couple of months of free membership want to stay on after the free period is over. Personally, I think this is one of the most creative, interesting and potentially lucrative offbeat marketing ideas I've heard in a while.
The final offbeat idea I'll discuss in this months' column falls into the category of internal marketing and is something that I was first exposed to about seven years ago and is rarely used but effective. Let me introduce it by way of example. One day I received a piece of mail that was in a letter-sized envelope and hand addressed to me with no return address. Of course, seeing that it had been hand addressed, I opened it. Inside was a photocopy of what appeared to be a newspaper article about a business seminar on tape series. Attached to the top of the letter was a standard-sized yellow Post-it note that said, "Casey, thought you might find this interesting." Below it was simply signed "J." As I glanced over the article trying to decipher the content of the audio program, my mind was whirring trying to think of whom I knew with a name that began with the letter "J," that was sending me such material.
I put it aside and went about my normal day's work and about two hours later it dawned on me. A friend didn't send this photocopied article to me — but rather it was a direct mail piece. Specifically, I had recently bought an audio program from a marketing guru named Jay Abraham. He was probably endorsing this other business program and taking a percentage of the sales. That didn't make me mad, it actually fueled my brain to think of ways that I could use the concept in the health club business.
Depending upon where you are in your business and your ability to write, there are a number of ways in which you can use this concept. One is to find a way to have the local paper come and do an article on your club. Once published, simply make photocopies, obtain a list of local prospects (or use your missed guest list), get employees with good handwriting to hand address the envelopes and fill out the Post-it notes and you will be good to go. If getting an article published proves too difficult, know that some papers run special inserts where you can actually buy space that is written up as an advertorial. These special segments typically feature 40 to 60 local businesses, with each getting either a half page or full-page story on them. I think many businesses write their own editorial copy to ensure they say what they want, but I know that even our small, local paper will do the writing if you are unsure about your literary skills.
Once the article is published, you now have the materials you need to send out to prospects or missed guests. One final way, of course, is to simply write your own article and print it out so it has the appearance of being a newspaper article. The downside to this is that you don't have the benefit of the paper's name, which does help establish more credibility, but I have to tell you I have tried this marketing idea all three ways and found out that they all work.
The reason this type of marketing tactic works has to do with a number of factors. First, an article is like a third-party endorsement. In fact, articles are worth much more per square inch than traditional advertising because consumers are more apt to believe something that has been written by the paper than they ever will believe of a paid advertisement.
Second, the fact that this is hand-addressed means the "open" rate is much greater.
Finally, the Post-it note with just the initial as a signature makes it really appear as though someone you knew sent the mailing. That said, I have met a few people who don't like this idea because they find it deceiving to the customer. Personally, I love it and have used it many, many times in the past seven or eight years. I think it is brilliant.
The fact of the matter is, I have an invaluable product and am sending it to a prospect that I either know or believe is in need of such a product. If I can get this individual to open the mail, read the article and perhaps be compelled to take action and join, I feel I have done a service, not a disservice. This, however, is only my opinion; use what you want and throw out the rest.
So, there you have it — four new marketing ideas to take you off the beaten track to potentially incorporate into your marketing plan in 2004. As the old adage goes, "You'll never know until you try." Most of this month's ideas are relatively inexpensive and fairly simple to establish. Who knows, perhaps you will find out that one of these offbeat ideas clicks for your employees and potential prospects and ultimately drives lots of new members through your doors.
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Three people were arrested last week for their suspected involvement in a residential burglary on Thanksgiving Day, the Ukiah Police Department reported.
According to the UPD, a caller in the 900 block of Waugh Lane reported at 2 p.m. Nov. 22 that someone had broken into the residence and taken numerous items, including electronics.
While investigating, the responding officer saw a man nearby that he recognized as being a suspect in other thefts and who had warrants out for his arrest.
After seeing the suspect, identified as Donavan R. Parrish, 30, reportedly walk into a motel on South State Street and attempt to hide a backpack, the officer arrested Parrish and allegedly found several of the stolen items in his backpack.
During his investigation, the officer determined that Austin Shealor, 19, of Ukiah, and Heather E. Schmidt, 24, of Fort Bragg may have been involved in the burglary as well. Shealor and Schmidt were located near Walmart on Airport Park Boulevard, reportedly with stolen items on their possession.
When a motel room rented by the suspects was searched, more stolen items were found.
Schmidt was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property and conspiracy and both Parrish and Shealor were arrested for burglary, possessing stolen property and criminal conspiracy. Shealor was also charged with committing a felony while on bail for a previous charge.
Neighbor arrested for forging check
A Ukiah woman was arrested last week after allegedly stealing a neighbor"s check and posing as her to cash it, the Ukiah Police Department reported.
According to the UPD, a woman reported at 2:10 p.m. Nov. 19 that a forged check had been cashed for $400. Officers learned that the check had been cashed at a local bank and obtained surveillance footage of the suspect.
When officers contacted the victim, they learned she had been the victim of a burglary in September and her identification had been stolen along with other items
When the victim watched the footage of the suspect, she identified her as a neighbor, Rachel M. Malicay, 37, of Ukiah, who bears a strong resemblance to the victim and reportedly used the victim"s identification to cash the check.
Malicay was arrested on suspicion of burglary, forgery, identity theft and later possession of stolen property when the victim"s credit cards, identification and other stolen items were reportedly located in the suspect"s home.


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I was in Home Depot looking at stuff and I saw that they had Fig Trees for sale in little pots. They were part of a series of specials, others included raspberry, blueberry etc. They were $8.95 and were about 4-5 inches tall. Then, in the tree section I saw this entire 5 foot tall tree for $14.98!!! I decided to buy the big one. Its worth noting that I had gone in there for an Apple Tree for this place but figured that a Fig Tree was maybe more interesting.
I have never had a fig so im curious. The thing that put me off the Apple Tree was that the tag said WATER EVERY DAY!!! The tag on the fig tree says water weekly during dry spells!!! Sounds like a winner to me. Its not as hardy though, only -1C whilst the Apple Tree was -50C or something riduculous!!!..
At least its a big leafier now.
Not exactly leafy, but its not too dead.
Seems to have lost its leaves over winter but it looks like it has spring buds on it.
Not mush to say really. I planted it yesterday, so thats April 2011. It does have a 1 year garantee on it from Home Depot, (I did actually take the remains of the Coconut Palm back WITH THE RECIEPT that I brought in August and they gave me a store credit!!! So im going to pay more attention to these guarantees in case it dies. I have just noted from the tag that it says drought Resistant, so thats good, but it also sayd DEER RESISTANT!!! Really? Do you get many wild deer roaming peoples backyards in Florida? Anywhere? Nice to know, obviously, in case my town becomes infested with deer or anything.
Seeing as I only planted it yesterday its going to be a while before I update progress on this thing.


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.comment: Brain-Munching Insects and SuSE 7.3
Two Headaches
I should say at the outset that I am crankier than usual this week. Every three or four years, I have a bout with something called "cluster headaches," a malady straight out of Hitchcock. These headaches work like this: I'm awakened in the middle of the night, same time every night, by a headache that is absolutely excruciating -- the literature warns that sufferers must be separated from firearms, lest they decide to end their headaches themselves. It feels as if particularly voracious insects are gnawing at my skull, behind my right eye, or perhaps a dental drill is doing the work. Both light and sound are intolerable. Then, usually after a couple of hours, the headache goes away and I'm free to go back to bed.
One gets cranky when sleep becomes one's enemy, as it has here in the last week. (I'm off, soon as I'm done with this, to the doctor; it is said that injections of something called Sumitriptan brings relief in 5 to 10 minutes, meaning that when awakened in agony I'll get to give myself a shot. Oh, joy.)
It was within this fatigued milieu that I received a review copy of SuSE 7.3 late last week. I have not had a chance to review it in full yet -- I want to put it through a clean install and an install onto a notebook machine first -- but I have used its "update" function on my production machine. I shall herein detail my experiences. For those of you who do not have time to read on, let me summarize: It damn near destroyed my machine, and I'm by no means certain that it won't complete the job even yet.
There's a good chance that when installed from scratch on a perfectly clear drive, SuSE 7.3 is as wonderful as SuSE's distributions tend to be. As I mentioned, I'll find out and pass the word along. But the "update" install, or at least one of the configurations therein, is not just unacceptable, it's very much to be avoided. Here, it actually corrupted data in my home directory.Out-of-Box Experience
SuSE Linux Professional 7.3 comprises a folder containing 7 CDs and a DVD, plus four manuals (Configuration, Network, Applications, and Reference Manual as well as a quick-start guide) and boot and kernel modules floppies.
Having installed SuSE both from CD and ftp perhaps a dozen times in earlier versions, I've come to learn that the "update" install is reliable, and that unless one doesn't mind going through and removing all sorts of things that one doesn't want, the choice is to upgrade only the packages currently installed on the system. It's a lot easier to add other things later than it is to pick through the installed package list uninstalling stuff that SuSE thought erroneously that you want.
I looked forward to this upgrade for a few reasons, XFree86-4.1 and the opportunity to drop the Ext3 journaling file system atop my existing partitions among them. Ext3's chief advantage, in my estimation, is that it does not require a reformat of the partition. Using the upgrade path, though, I found no place where Ext3 could be invoked. Indeed, the only place I did find it was in the menu for new installations, at the point where partitions are formatted. I don't think SuSE wants those of us who upgrade to use Ext3.
Even so, things went along pretty well until it got to the point where it proposed to reboot the machine. The screen went blank -- not text-mode console blank, but very dark, as if XFree86 were not quite letting go. I waited 45 minutes for something to happen. Nothing did. I tried a reboot from the keyboard, but the keyboard was apparently blocked. So I had to power down and then back up again, stopping at the BIOS to tell the machine to boot now from the hard drive instead of the CD reader. In due course, I was back in the install routine, and was asked to feed in CDs 2, 3, 4, and 5 in turn. After awhile I was told that the "update" had been successful.
Upon reboot, I saw that Linux-2.4.7 was booting instead of the 2.4.10 that ships with the new SuSE. I fired up Pico, edited /etc/lilo.conf to boot the new kernel (all the while wondering why the "update" routine hadn't) and ran /sbin/lilo, then rebooted again into the new kernel.
At "startx" (I have no truck with graphical logins, thanks), I saw that SuSE's KDE-2.2 had done little violence to my desktop configuration. But anti-aliased typefaces looked just awful -- much worse than they had when I was running 7.2 just a couple of hours before.
When one is happy with one's KDE, as I had been, one keeps a backup of both KDE and Qt, to use in replacing the ones foisted off by a distribution that thinks it know what you want better than you do. (The SuSE KDE is perfect for newbies.) Planning to switch back, I did an orderly shutdown of KDE, expecting a command prompt. My expectations, though, were dashed by that blank graphical screen once again, and the corresponding keyboard block. Time again for the Big Red Button.
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To say that it has been an interesting year for the peanut industry is a great understatement. But what's even more interesting is how things have turned out.
"The year probably turned out differently from what most people expected given the way it began with the salmonella outbreak," said Nathan Smith, University of Georgia Extension economist, speaking at the recent Southern Agricultural Outlook Conference held in Atlanta.
The overall message from the peanut industry concerning the salmonella outbreak was that it was something that should not have happened, says Smith. "It wasn't an indictment of the whole peanut industry — it was one bad apple in the barrel," he says.
U.S. planted peanut acres dropped by 28 percent this year to just over 1 million, the lowest since 1915, notes Smith.
"Basically, an oversupply brought about this drop. We had a record yield last year on top of large acreage increases. Then, we had the salmonella outbreak on top of that, and we had a situation where we were looking at loan rate prices of $355 in the spring. Eventually, some contracts came out at $375 per ton, but that was on a limited basis. Some farmers signed it because of the uncertainty in the market," he says.
The end result of all these factors, says Smith, was sharply reduced acreage for 2009. The U.S. peanut yield projection according to the Sept. 1 survey was 3,400 pounds per acre. "With 1.082 million harvested acres, that would give us a 1.8-million ton crop. It will be plenty of peanuts coming off a 2.5 million-ton crop in 2008. That'll still keep stocks fairly plentiful and the pipeline will still be full if we have this size crop," he says.
Going into this crop year, more than 1 million tons of peanuts were carried over, he says.
Looking at peanut acreage for each region of the United States, every state dropped its peanut acreage this year but Mississippi, says Smith. Georgia growers planted about 460,000 acres, according to the June 1 NASS survey, he adds, but more than 40 percent of the state's crop was planted after that initial survey was conducted. The latest estimate on Georgia's planted peanut acreage stands at 500,000.
Texas is the "wildcard" in planted acreage, says Smith. "Georgia's acreage was revised up and everybody else was revised down except Texas, and we're not sure where they stand," he says.
The sharp decrease in acreage this year was needed, he says, to help get supply and demand back in line. "Georgia will be a big driver on what the final U.S. yield will be. Almost 50 percent of U.S. production could be attributed to Georgia this year. Typically, we're around 45 percent of the total production," he says.
Georgia has a very late peanut crop this year, he says, with pegging running far behind normal averages.
"The September crop report had us with an average yield that's roughly equal to last year's record, and that's mainly because we've had favorable growing conditions for peanuts this year. In fact, we're looking at strong yields in each of the states this year. But the big difference between last year and this year is the timing of the crop, particularly in the Southeast. Yields might not be as high as the crop condition is telling us. We do have a lot of new varieties, and they have better yield potential."
Florida, he says, is actually running slightly ahead in its harvest progress, but Alabama and Georgia are behind.
A crop of about 1.8 million tons would help to bring the carryover down, but it probably won't bring it down to 600,000 tons, which would be a more comfortable level, says Smith. "If we have a 1.7 million-ton crop, we'd definitely see an improvement in the pipeline."
Looking at the consumption of peanut butter, candy and snacks during the market year that ended in July, peanut butter sales ended up with an increase of 9 percent, he says. "That's good, especially considering the hit we took from the salmonella outbreak. The recession had a lot to do with the increase. Candy sales went down and snack foods flattened out. We were actually ahead of that 9 percent pace when the salmonella outbreak hit."
The industry is still shelling the 2008 crop, and shellers will probably be working on it into December, says Smith. "It's probably good that we have a late crop this year. We'll probably be harvesting peanuts up until December, and that'll help with some of our storage issues."
Peanut exports have been strong for the past three years, he says, partly because of the value of the dollar and problems with the Argentine and Chinese crops.
"The United States has been able to capture back some of the market share we lost over time. Exports make up about 18 percent of total disappearance."
At the end of last year, all peanut prices were at about $500 per ton, says Smith. "Prices started out high last spring. Prices have dropped around 23 cents per pound. Farmers get paid per ton and shellers sell based on sheller prices.
"In 2009, they traded between 40 and 48 cents in the medium runners market. The market is looking to set a range in the long-run. They've been as high as above 80 cents and as low as below 30 cents since the farm bill changed.
"Before the farm bill changed, shelled prices were in the high 50s and 60s. I think we'll see them settle out to about 45 cents to 50 cents, and farmer stock prices will be $425 to $475 per ton. The market is starting to look for some stability there."
Based on conditions now, Smith says he is leaning towards a crop of approximately 1.7 million tons this year, with a carryover of 600,000 to 650,000 tons. "I think we'll see some price improvements in the $425 to $450 range. Some acres will increase next year just because a lot of acres went out this year. Peanuts are now competing with other row crops."
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USN-2048-2: curl regression
6 December 2013
curl regression
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
USN-2048-1 introduced a regression in curl.
Software Description
- curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries
USN-2048-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. The security fix uncovered a bug in the curl command line tool which resulted in the –insecure (-k) option not working as intended. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Scott Cantor discovered that libcurl incorrectly verified CN and SAN name fields when digital signature verification was disabled. When libcurl is being used in this uncommon way by specific applications, an attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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- libcurl3 - 7.19.7-1ubuntu1.5
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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It's nearly 7am and I'm sitting on the edge of one couch while Astrid fitfully sleeps next to me. Thank god. I hold my coffee like it's my only tie to the outside world as I delicately balance it in my cold hands as not to spill on her and to also find a place for it to rest on the small side table between the tissue box, the Motrin, my phone and the television remotes as I search around in the dark. Did I also mention that Eloise joined us on this couch a few hours ago because she is now throwing up? Details.
Astrid has been sick since Wednesday night. I haven't left the house since -well until yesterday when we had to get to CVS for more tissues and Motrin and maybe a dark chocolate bar for me. Okay, and Starbucks is right next store to CVS so I grabbed some lifesaving supplies(read Grande Non-Fat Latte No Foam) and the cute young single people in there without kids noticeably kept their distance from the kid in my arms.
You know, because of the dried yellow and green snot below, on, and above her nose from the 2000 times we wiped it and then it's like 400 below zero so it just kind of dries there and if you know kids – when you approach them with a wet washcloth they scream like it's death so you just leave the snot because you are typically at home.
Until you are not.
And then you are one of those people holding a snotty-nosed kid. You know, the mom in her yoga pants and no make-up. I've also decided that no matter how awesome 44 is – 44 is still slightly scary without make-up and lack of sleep. Just ask my barista at the corner of Grand and Lex.
I remember being 28 and not wanting(nor admittedly really liking) kids and staying at least 100 yards away from any snotty-nosed kid because ewww. So, I tried to give these cute young people that all knowing looking and kind of pointed at Astrid in my arms and said "Right, gross huh?" but somehow they didn't believe I was still in their club. I wanted to be their people.
I'm not sure what gave it away. This new club I belonged to? The non-fat? The no-foam? The sick kid in my arms that only I could think was still so beautiful at that moment? How I pulled out a medical card instead of my credit card and 2 tampons fell to the floor while doing that?
So I just took my coffee to go and put it into one of my 10 minivan cupholders and drove away for an afternoon of Doc McStuffins episodes, bleaching down furniture, but most importantly snotty-nosed kisses from my favorite three year old. Oh, and maybe some purse organization.
If you have a kid who is NOT sick this week – here's some fun things to do in the Twin Cities! I co-compiled an article with Galit Breen for Scary Mommy's travel guide about all of the awesome things to do with kids here. It kind of makes you want to move here, doesn't it.
Happy Weekend.


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The roots of INM can be traced to James and Charlene George. In 1979, Jim and Charlene began "Nail Fashions", selling nail charms and diamonds to cosmetologists. Eight years and two name changes later, Nail Fashions evolved to become International Nail Manufacturers (INM), to meet the needs of nail technicians worldwide. INM quickly became an industry leader by providing high-quality, reasonably priced products. INM made its first big statement to the cosmetic community with the creation of Out The Door Topcoat. Over 20 years later, Out the Door Topcoat still remains the #1 selling Topcoat in the industry.
Building on the strong Out The Door reputation, INM introduced Out The Door Acrylic Sculpting System, which is now used in salon's worldwide, and has even been the choice for NailPro Competition Champions. We have added several product lines since that time to fulfill the needs to Nail Tech's around the world, including a full one step Integrity Gel Line, 72 Amazing Colored Acrylics, and our newest product lines Nature's Pedicure and Gelavish Gel Polish which boasts 65 of the hottest colors in the industry!!
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ETOWAH — A group of parents gathered Thursday around an open garage that serves as the Fishes and Loaves Pantry at Etowah United Methodist Church. Inside was a sea of boxes full of food collected by 24 Girl Scouts.
Members of Girl Scout Troop 3060 in Etowah decided to organize a food drive to earn their "Lifesaver" badge. They did that and much more — the garage wasn't just filled with donations gathered locally, but also boxes from all over the country.
The goal of the drive was to raise enough food to feed local children in need through the "Backpack Lunch" program at Manna Food Bank every weekend for one month.
The troop sent handwritten letters to presidents of 35 companies around the country, along with a picture of the troop. They did it with no expectations, but the response was overwhelming.
A call came in to Cat Graham, one of the parents, at 9 p.m. one night. It was a senior vice president at Dole.
"They were the first company that responded, and it snowballed from there," Graham said. Dole's headquarters are in Westlake Village, Calif.
Of the 35 companies the troop sent letters to, 20 responded.
In some cases, companies sent crates of food, and in other cases, they sent coupons.
Dole sent 35 cases of fruit. National Fruit sent 75 cases. In the end, more than 180 cases of food came in from companies around the country.
On Thursday, the girls could only smile as they stared at the stacks of boxes.
"I feel really proud that we did this and that we got all this food for kids that can't eat on the weekend," said troop member Kylie Gilbert, 10.
They were gracious for the support from not only the local community, but also from the national donors.
"I just want to thank all the people that gave us all the money and food for these kids," said troop member Ashlee Brown, 9.
As excited as the girls were, their parents and troop leaders were even more proud of what the troop accomplished.
"We thank God for what he's done in this project," Troop Leader Brandy Wilson said.
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Food for hungry pours in from all over US after appeal by Girl Scouts
ETOWAH — A group of parents gathered Thursday around an open garage that serves as the Fishes and Loaves Pantry at Etowah United Methodist Church. Inside was a sea of boxes full of food collected by 24 Girl Scouts.


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BATON ROUGE, LA -- Recent research confirms what many in the industry already know: Members need accountability in order to lose weight and keep it off. In fact, people who were enrolled in a weight-loss maintenance trial and had a brief, monthly personal contact intervention—most often a 10- to 15-minute personal phone conversation—regained less weight than participants who were in a Web-based intervention or self-directed program.
"Given the difficulty of keeping lost weight off, there is a critical need for practical, affordable strategies that effectively maintain weight loss," says Phillip Brantley, chief of the Behavioral Medicine Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) and a principal investigator of the study. "Despite the potential for health benefits of maintaining a lower weight after loss, there is little evidence, particularly from clinical trials, on how to accomplish this objective."
Researchers compared three types of weight-maintenance interventions: monthly contact with a professional counselor, unlimited access to an Internet–based intervention or self-direction. Monthly personal contact consisted of a case-management approach with person-to-person guidance and support. Participants had telephone contact with an interventionist for five to 15 minutes each month, except for every fourth month when they had 45- to 60-minute individual face-to-face contact. The Internet–based intervention included unlimited access to a Web site designed to support weight loss maintenance, with interactive features allowing participants to set personal goals and action plans for the next week and to graph personal data over time. Self-directed participants received minimal intervention.
At the start of the study, participants, on average, weighed 213 lbs. The average weight loss in the first phase for all participants was 18.7 lbs. After the weight loss phase, all groups regained weight, but researchers saw a clear difference, according to a report from PBRC. The self-directed group gained an average of 12.1 lbs., the interactive technology–based group gained an average of 11.5 lbs., and the personal-contact group gained an average of 8.8 lbs.
The study appears in the March 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.


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Um, I'd suggest not installing both, that can lead to trouble. Personally, I much prefer DarkLoader, but either way, stick with one Loader.
You'll need to explain what your problem is in more detail, I can't really work it out from your two posts.
Is there any problem with simply installing T2Skies and The Enhancement Pack separately on top of Tafferpatcher or will that overwrite something important?
It shouldn't.
Any possibility of getting a Tafferpatcher T1/Gold version?
I then saved a game and restarted the PC. Then installed Darkloader, which wouldn't find T2.exe main game folder as it had been altered by Tafferpatcher. I then loaded Garretloader which would run the game except crashes once I get inside the house. So, now I'm really stuck. I can still run the special tafferpatcher executable from my Vista x32 bit desktop which the program created. Whenever launching the regular T2.exe, it locks up via teh house on a original mission. I want to get the fan missions going again. I downloaded several patches but haven't applied them. I can list them if you'd like. Any ways, thanks a bunch for your assistance.
What is "the widescreen freeze"?
Where is Thief 2 installed to?
Crashing after a certain amount of playing sounds like a dual-core issue. Which TafferPatch should have installed the fix for..
T2 ------ C:\Program Files (x86)\Thief2 due to OS x64 bit.
Tafferpatcher v0.6.2 is the version I installed. maybe it is an issue w/dual & quad core. When installing, the DDFix widescreen patch is available.
In any case, never install the game to Program Files or Program Files (x86) in Windows Vista or 7, those are special OS-protected folders. Install to C:\Games\Thief 2 or a similar folder instead.
However, when I installed Garrettloader using regular settings it froze in the middle of the first level of the original missions when I changed to the 1600x1200 resolution.
Any ideas......
I read teh entire post and I'm not seeing any type of fix for what I need, but thanks to Nameless Voice, about getting a game "multi-core (CPU)" fix for loading FM instead of just playing OMs would be beneficial since I have Windows 7 (64-bit) & Vista (64-bit OSs. The fix with in the Tafferpatcher will get the OMs working.
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, I would really appreciate it.
It's still the same porgram. Once it's fixed for OMs, it's also fixed for FMs. You still play all missions through Thief2.exe. Are you sure DarkLoader is using the correct installation of Thief? Maybe you have two copies installed?
You guys are the best...... I uninstalled Darkloader on Windwos 7 and pointed it to the Testfolder path and it launched OMs and an FM like a champ. this adds both fixes I needed to launch the game. This was a bit of my fault for not thinking through but a huge thanks to you guys for making it possible. I would really like to thank the author for the creation of this patch. I'm back and have many FMs to play again....... Another proof that thief will never fizzle out.....
Interesting.... Where is T2Skies? Thanks...... I may look into that patch but do research as I'm very happy at the moment.
It's here. t2skies only patches mis files, and should apply cleanly on top of changes made by Tafferpatcher without canceling any of those changes.
Thanks, downloading now.
Hi I just installed tafferpatcher even though thief 2 worked, because I couldn't get Dromed to work. It now works, but afterwards, I installed thief 2X and (although normal thief and Dromed still work) T2X gives a poput saying "Resolution in cam.cfg does not match that given in ddfix.ini". Why is this and how do I fix it. T2X will not run.
Pretty self-explanatory: the resolution DDFix is trying to use (specified in DDFix.ini) does not match the resolution the game is trying to use (specified in cam.cfg).
Presumably the T2X installer modified cam.cfg.
See the section on manually setting the screen resolution in the DDFix FAQ for more information on how to modify the files in question and fix the issue.


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Thanks to professionals like Chestnut Hill resident Rod Henkels, president of Henkels & McCoy, students at Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School, 5218 N. Broad St., are literally working their way through school.
Cristo Rey is a private, Catholic, college-preparatory high school for low-income students. The school, which opened in August 2012, is the first of its kind in Philadelphia. It is one of 25 in the nationwide Cristo Rey network. ("Cristo Rey" means "Long live Christ the king!")
As part of Cristo Rey's unique work-study program, students work in entry-level positions, five days a month, at various companies and organizations including Temple University, United Healthcare, CHOP and the Mayor's Office. Money earned from student jobs funds 60 percent of each student's tuition. The Company cost per student work-team is $30,000. (One job is shared by four students.)
Henkels, a board member of Cristo Rey, funds a work-study position in Mayor Michael Nutter's office.
"The whole idea is to put students in a professional work environment in preparation for going to college," Henkels said.
And the Cristo Rey model is working; Students, however, must go through an extensive screening process before being accepted into the school.
"Students' zip code should not determine what type of education they get," Chestnut Hill resident Flannery O'Connor, director of admissions at Cristo Rey, said. "Cristo Rey enables students from low-income families to get a private school education and the work-study experience they need to succeed in college without the financial burden."
O'Connor said students attend a three-week business boot camp from Aug. 13 to 31 to be prepared to work in a professional environment. Students learn software programs such as Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Word, as well as other useful technology tools.
Last month, Nutter joined more than 50 business leaders to discuss the importance of hard work, discipline and a good education with Cristo Rey's ninth-grade students during "Project: Career Day." Nutter told students their "studies were critical" and that to be successful students must be willing to "work hard every day."
"If there is something you want to do, follow your passion, follow your dream, put your heart and soul into to it," he said. "You must be willing to work harder than anyone else to achieve your goals because ultimately you really are in control of what your future is."
Telling students "to have fun but do your work," Nutter continued: "There is this concept in some parts of the city and in some communities, especially communities of color — African American and Latin communities — there is almost this rejection of being smart. It's OK to be smart; that's cool, too."
Paul Kallmeyer, deputy general counsel for United Healthcare, said students bring a fresh perspective to his company. "They give us an opportunity to interact broadly with our customers on a day-to-day basis," he said.
"The core mission of Cristo Rey is not only for our students to attend college but to be successful in college," said Robert Fabiszewski, director of the work-study program at Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School. "To achieve that goal, they have a rigorous academic curriculum as well as professional work-study program. The idea is that by the time they [students] are seniors, at Cristo Rey they will be doing college-level work and, depending on the capability of the individual student, performing work skills similar to college interns."
The school opens at 7:30 a.m. Classes begin at 7:55 a.m. and end at 4:15 p.m., and students depart for work at 7:55. Most of the school's students work in the Center City business district. "It's exciting to see the students excel at their job tasks," Fabiszewski said. "They are excited about the fact that not only are they expected to perform in an adult job but that they can. We expect a lot of our students, and they consistently rise to the occasion."
John McConnell, former board chair at St. Joseph's Preparatory School, president of Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School, said he was inspired by the Rev. John Foley, a Jesuit priest who founded the Cristo Rey High School in Chicago as a way to provide students with a high-quality education and prepare them for college.
"The average student in our school today comes from a family of four, and their income is $29,000 a year or less," McConnell said. "We are interested in the students who, if not for us, would have to go to a low-quality school."
McConnell said that according to recent research by the Philadelphia Schools Partnership, there are about 17,000 eighth graders in Philadelphia, about 12,000 of whom come from low-income families. There are about 19,000 seats available, but of those "only about 7,000 are good seats where the chances of your child going to college are pretty good."
Students don't have to be Catholic or Christian to attend Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School. "We call ourselves a Catholic school for students of all faiths,'" McConnell said. "We try to teach our students to act and exhibit the lesson of the Gospel to love your neighbor, and that includes our neighbors of all religions. While we teach Catholic faith and morals in school, we also expose our students to all religions and help them understand and respect all religions."


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Cailin Bullett was a 12-year-old seventh-grader when she made the girls' varsity basketball team at Millbury High.
"It's weird to think that was 10 years ago," Bullett said in between classes and before Tuesday's early-evening practice at Colby-Sawyer College, where she is having an outstanding senior season. "It doesn't feel like it's been that long, but I guess it has."
Bullett's passion and enthusiasm for the game are as strong as ever, and, over the last four years, she has developed into one of the most consistent players in the North Atlantic Conference.
This season, the 5-foot-7 point guard topped the NAC and ranked sixth in the nation in assists with 6.2 per game, and also was among the conference leaders in minutes, field goal percentage and free throw percentage. Her efforts helped lead the Chargers to the NAC championship and a berth in the NCAA Division 3 Tournament. Colby-Sawyer (23-5) will face Ithaca at Southern Maine in a first-round game on Friday.
"Our goal as seniors for the last four years was to win a conference championship and make it to the NCAAs," Bullett said, "so it's great to finally do that in our last possible chance."
Bullett was a 1,000-point scorer at Millbury, the program's all-time assists leader and part of three Central Mass. title teams. The Woolies advanced to the state final in her junior and senior seasons.
At Colby-Sawyer, where she has played in every game during her four years, she's continued to be a pass-first point guard — evidenced by her school-record 570 career assists — but has worked on other parts of her offense and has become a little bit more of a scorer as well. She's poured in 1,221 career points, sixth on Colby-Sawyer's all-time list. She also has 510 career rebounds.
Bullett was a first-team All-NAC selection this year.
Bullett's dad, Tom, was a high school star in Western Mass. and a 1,500-point scorer at Worcester State, and he started teaching her how to dribble and pass and shoot in the family driveway when she was 5.
Bullett and her dad talk every day — and she talks to him, her mom, Mary Jo, and her siblings, Tommy and Kristin, after every game — and he continues to give pointers and encouraging advice.
"He'll joke, 'You missed that free throw,' " Bullett said, "but it's all positive criticism. He's been coaching me since I was 5. Without my dad I wouldn't be what I am now."
Also a star in the classroom, Bullett is majoring in history, societies and culture, and has been a regular on the dean's list. She plans to attend law school after graduation.
The Chargers beat Castleton in the NAC final last Saturday and continued their celebration during Monday's NCAA selection show with a little ice cream sundae party before returning to work in preparation for Friday's game.
"These four years have been an absolute dream," Bullett said. "I was really lucky in high school to have played on such a great team with such a great coach (Steve Reno) and the same thing here. George Martin is an incredible coach. Not everybody gets that in high school and in college. All of my teammates are like my second family. It couldn't have turned out any better."
Zach Valliere's development into one of the MASCAC's top post players began last season, and it continued this year.
Fitchburg State's 6-foot-8 senior center from Douglas led the Falcons in scoring and rebounding for the second straight season and helped propel Fitchburg State to its first NCAA Division 3 Tournament appearance. The Falcons play at Rochester at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Valliere, who has earned consecutive All-MASCAC first-team honors, averaged 14.2 points and 10 rebounds this year. He was right around his season numbers in the Falcons' three MASCAC tourney games and had 15 points and nine rebounds in the championship win over MCLA.
"I'm so happy and proud of Zach," Fitchburg State coach Derek Shell said. "He's developed into a first-team all-conference player and it's really been his rebounding that led us down the stretch. Limiting teams to one shot with his effort and focus on cleaning up our defensive glass has been a huge part of our run here."
Valliere played one season at Quinsigamond Community College before transferring to Fitchburg State as a sophomore.
Junior guard Mike Ingram-Rubin was nursing a shoulder injury for much of the season, Shell said, but he seems to be feeling much better.
Ingram-Rubin averaged 18.7 points in the MASCAC Tournament and earned tourney MVP honors.
"He was on fire," Shell said.
Ingram-Rubin shot 43.7 percent from the field this year, though his 3-point percentage (32.2) was down from last year (38). In the tourney, he made 57 percent of his attempts, including 65 percent from long range.
WPI will be a busy place this weekend.
In addition to the men's basketball team's first-round NCAA Division 3 Tournament game at 7 p.m. Saturday at Harrington Auditorium, WPI will host the NCAA Division 3 Northeast Regional Wrestling Championships Saturday and Sunday at the Sports & Recreation Center.
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There was an heck of a basketball game Tuesday night in Shallotte. Ashley swept West Brunswick in girls and boys basketball. The Ashley girls won easily, but the boys needed needed triple overtime to do win, 89-79. Yup. Triple Overtime. The game did finish until late Tuesday night, too late to make it in our print edition. But we called the coaches to get some information, because how often do you have a triple OT game? So here's what happened:… Read More »


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Long-term care insurance, according to the March 21 New York Times, is back in the news as policyholders are hit with ever-increasing premiums — up 50 to 100 percent. Maybe it's time to finally put the stake in the heart of what most would agree is a failed financial product.
It has become apparent that there are too many moving parts in these policies for the insurance industry to accurately predict their costs. They obviously made money in the early days when they were collecting premiums and not having to pay much out in claims. Remember, long-term care collects money from younger adults and builds up a reserve that can pay for long-term care at what might be 10, 20 or 30 years downstream. In the early years, when most of the activity involved collecting premiums and banking them, the policies generated a lot of positive cash flow. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost.
The tragedy of rising premiums for those who have purchased long-term care policies lies at the feet of feckless state insurance commissioners who allow what is clearly a rip-off of our most vulnerable. Those policies were sold years ago with nothing in the marketing or promotional materials suggesting that premiums could more than double in the years before benefits might be paid. Further cynicism of the insurance industry is also expressed in a business model that deliberately predicted that 5 percent of buyers will give up and forfeit all their premium payments before any benefits need to be paid.
Meanwhile, receiving benefits is like pulling teeth. Advocacy companies have formed to help policyholders do battle with their LTC carriers. To collect $9,000 owed to my late mother, I finally had to write to, and repeatedly call, the chairman of the board of directors of a major national insurance company. If I hadn't been a financial columnist, I would still be trying to collect.
The answer is simple. States should allow no premium increases on existing policies. Period. If the new environment of lower interest rates and mortality requires higher premiums for new policies sold going forward, we'll let market forces operate to see if there is a market for new policies priced to reflect low interest rates and no forfeitures.
Meanwhile, why should people who bought contracts 10 or 20 years ago be called upon to subsidize future sales? What could possibly be a fair rationale for having past policyholders subsidizing a company's faulty business model. Insurance companies make plenty of money on the products that work well for them — like life insurance and mutual fund products. They should use what they make on profitable lines to pay for their error in judgment rather than gouging seniors who've been loyal customers for many years.
When asked for permission to raise premiums, state regulators have the power to "just say NO!" They should force the insurance industry to pay for its mistakes. AARP should use its muscle to protect the seniors who are still paying billions a year to insurance companies. What's even more galling is the fact that since 2004, American taxpayers effectively now guarantee the solvency of these insurance companies. They owe us a lot. Barring an insurance company from selling any business in a state unless they freeze long-term care premiums would not be unreasonable.
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As anti-Israel organizations from around the world prepare for the annual Israeli Apartheid Week in February, the Jerusalem Institute for Justice is fighting back. The Jerusalem-based institute is organizing the first annual "Palestinian Human Rights Week" in an attempt to draw international attention to the horrendous human rights record of the Palestinian Authority.
Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), an annual series of university lectures and hate-speech rallies, have been spreading harmful propaganda against the Jewish state since it began in Toronto, Canada in 2005. According to the organizers "the aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement." This year events are planned for 80 different cities around the world.
Calev Myers, a Messianic Jewish lawyer and founder of the Jerusalem Institute for Justice (JIJ), believes it is high time Israel fights back. "We are attacked with outrageous accusations in international journalism and academia, and our response to these assaults is too often unconvincing explanations," he explains. "We are taking the battle right back to the Palestinians. Israel needs to stop trying to defend itself and start taking the initiate," says Myers.
A Palestinian Human Rights Week may sound like an oxymoron, but for Myers and the team at JIJ it is just the right strategy against the growing onslaught of anti-Israel propaganda. According to Myers the image of the State of Israel is deteriorating in the eyes of the world, and anti-Semitism is on the rise.
"Students are demonstrating on campuses against us, people are marching in the streets of major cities in protest of Israel's treatment of Palestinians," he says. The idea of an annual Palestinian Human Rights Week is to redirect international attention away from the exaggerated accusations of a so-called Israeli apartheid state and focus on the far more extreme human rights violations in the Palestinian-controlled territories.
"The Palestinian Authority needs to be held accountable by the international community for more than 25 billion dollars that has been given to the Palestinian people since the Oslo Accords," writes Myers on a recent blog. "They should explain why the vast majority of Palestinian people still live in abject poverty. This aid money designated to build the socio-economic infrastructure necessary for an independent state has been squandered irresponsibly. Widespread corruption has ensured that the massive fiscal investment into the Palestinian economy and sustainable infrastructure has been embezzled into private bank accounts, financed terror networks, the purchasing weapons and has sponsored an educational system that teaches intolerance, hatred, violence and anti-Semitism," he says.
According to research done by the JIJ, the Palestinians have received an estimated 25 times more aid, per capita, than European citizens under the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction and economic recovery of Europe following WWII! This and other examples of corruption and human rights violations were presented to the European Parliament this past November in a paper entitled "Hidden Agenda: A review of PA and Hamas Human Rights Violations in the West Bank and Gaza."
Myers hopes to use the Palestinian Human Rights Week to raise international awareness of the many human rights violations across the Middle East.
"The Arab leadership in the Middle East should have to explain why after 65 years they are unwilling to grant citizenship to Palestinian refugees, their children or grandchildren, despite a common ethnic and religious heritage," writes Myers. "Let them explain to the world why a Palestinian apartheid exists in Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Why Palestinians in those nations cannot vote, hold public office, own property, learn in public schools, and in some places many need to receive special permission from the government to leave their respective refugee camps. The Palestinian leadership who is demanding statehood, should explain to the world why they violate Palestinian human rights on a daily basis. Let them explain arbitrary arrests, torture, and executions without trial, the routine discrimination of minorities, silencing of journalists and the non-prosecution of honor killings to name a few."
Myers believes that he has every right to focus on Palestinian and Arab human rights violations. "I am not a foreign politician or journalist," he says. "I an Israeli citizen. Our team at the Jerusalem Institute for Justice have been actively engaged in fighting against human rights violations right here in Israel amongst our own people. Why should we not also publically expose the vast corruption, torture and denial of basic human rights that harm the Palestinian people themselves, and are conveniently used as an excuse to blame Israel," says Myers.
Myers and the team at the Jerusalem Institute for Justice are organizing Palestinian Human Rights Week in major cities in a face-to-face rebuttal to the Israel Apartheid Week. "The first event will be in Toronto in February," says Myers. "We wanted to make a statement by starting our event at the same place these anti-Israel campaigns began. There will also be events at Oxford University in England (another stronghold for the Israel Apartheid libel) as well as right here in Israel at Ben Gurion University," he says.
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