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SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico had an impressive showing at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
The competition awarded 268 medals to many of the best breweries in the United States including six New Mexico breweries.
One of the most prestigious awards went to Albuquerque's Marble Brewery. It was named Small Brewery and Brewmaster of the Year.
"The Small Brewery and Brewmaster of the Year award is one of the most coveted awards in the craft beer industry," said Amberley Rice, Marble Brewery marketing director. "We couldn't be prouder."
The GABF, now in its 28th year, received more than 5,500 submissions from 1,309 breweries from 50 states in 90 style categories. The GABF beers were evaluated by 222 beer experts from 10 countries, according to a news release from The Brewers Association.
Marble Brewery also brought home the most gold. The brewery won gold for its Double White in the Other Strong Beer category and gold for its Imperial Red in the Imperial Red Ale category.
Canteen Brewhouse, formerly known as Il Vicino Brewing Co., also won gold for its Dougie Style Amber Ale in the American Style Amber/Red Ale category. It also won silver for its Saint Bob's Imperial Stout in the Aged Beer category.
Chama River Brewing Co. captured the gold for its Class VI Golden Lager in the Bohemian Style Pilsener category.
Bosque Brewing Co. honorably won bronze for its Acequia IPA in the Fresh or Wet Hop Ale category.
Another gold winner is Blue Corn Brewery out of Santa Fe. It took home the gold for its appropriately named Gold Medal Oatmeal Stout in the Oatmeal Stout category.
Also making Santa Fe proud is Santa Fe Brewing Co. It took bronze for its Los Innovadores Kriek in the American Style Sour Ale Category.
With eight medals on 84 entries, New Mexico had the fourth best ratio of medals to entries behind only New Jersey, Alaska and Washington D.C.
For the full list of winners, visit greatamericanbeerfestival.com.


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Today i would like to tell you something about Tom Petty. He's not a "guitar virtuoso" for me. He's not like Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani or Jimi Henrix. He's not playing fast and complicated, but he is a great guitarist. Tom is a master of strumming and minimalistic riffs in the background.
Maybe someone would like to say, that there is nothing difficult in 'just guitar strumming' and 'just playing few notes/chords'. I think, that there IS something difficult. Feeling, dynamic, smoothness, aggression – you can make it in many different ways. You can be boring, or you can have passion.
If you don't know too much about Tom Petty's music, here are some cool videos.
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers:
Refugee (live)
Don't Come Around Here No More
You Got Lucky
Runnin' Down A Dream


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Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Why I Can't Let Some Things Go
I can't let the writing books go because they are a glimpse into the minds of my children at a certain age. That person no longer exists. They have got older, changed, moved on to different interests. The kid who wrote endless stories about TV cartoons in year 1 has now written an alternative ending to Romeo and Juliet (one of the few pieces of writing I have been allowed to see recently and it was damned good!) Their stories make me smile and bring back memories. I am keeping them.
What does this have to do with education? Well this experience got me wondering whether we as teachers do enough to share our students' writing with their whanau. Blogs are useful but I guess I am old-fashioned enough to like something more tangible. Last year, I made a number of class books filled with the childrens' writing which were extremely popular (they were more usually found in desks than the bookshelf). I realise now that what I should have done at the end of the year was disassemble them and remake a book for each child to take home. They could have even designed a cover for it. Next time.
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More than five million Austrians use the internet regularly, most of them several times a week. Two million of them are active social media users. Every year they exchange more than six million opinions, recommendations and experiences about brands. Apart from that, there are over 100 million posts, without any brand being named, which are nonetheless just as relevant for businesses. This data derives from a recent market study by OGM about to use of social media amongst the Austrian population and businesses.
In cooperation with the well-known business magazine Format, web2watch publishes every week a social media ranking for a certain branch.
The Brand Monitor is not a representative survey, but it shows how much and with what kind of sentiment social media users are talking about brands and products.
Therefore, a comprehensive database with all relevant products and brands is created for every branch. Then all web posts for the last 12 months are screened and analysed. The main contents of the analysis: frequency of brand mentions, related topics, percentage of positive / negative statements and overview of the relevance of specific social media channels.
In the magazine, the top 10 brands with the highest traffic and those with the most positive and negative user comments are published.
Since October 2011, more than 50 branches with over 3,000 brands were monitored.
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Following a PD session on the use of SmartBoard interactive whiteboards at our school, I have added the presentation to the Simply Science site. The Teaching and Learning With A SMARTBoard subsite at http://home.bellaireps.vic.edu.au/students/
Simply_Science/SmartBoard_Online/Index.htm has movies of the board in action, (beware though the files at 55Mb need a good broadband connection. You will also find information on Getting Started, Using the Internet, Capturing and Creating IWB content as well as links to a range of other IWB related sites.


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This item is being offered as an ex-demo model. The pedal has never been pre-owned and is supplied in the original box with the full manufacturers warranty. It will have been demoed a couple of times and may have the odd very minor mark.
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enables one to access the depth and the power of our subconscious mind as well as conscious mind to gain insights and awareness of our challenges in day to day life situations at all levels.
Childhood experiences are foundation of one's personality, health and vitality including financial well being. This therapy helps to set free the "INNER (traumatised) CHILD" and brings in joy and vitality in every aspect of life.
HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIPS begets HAPPY LIFE.
Relationship Counselling for all age groups and conditions -
PAIN is Body's response to PAY ATTENTION IN NEED to bring POSITIVE ATTITUDE in NEGATIVE SITUATIONS. Wide range of Therapies using hypnosis & allied process enables to FREE the PAIN and PARADIGM SHIFT!
SELF LIMITING FEAR / PHOBIA & UNCONTROLLABLE ANGER / RAGE / VIOLENCE, Keeps ONE AWAY from PEACE, FREEDOM & EMOTIONAL WELL BEING.
1-2 SESSION can bring PARADIGM SHIFT IN THIS EMOTIONAL STATE.
More than 95% of prevalent diseases are PSYCHOSOMATIC. There is emotional & mental component to all physical body ailments. BODY SPEAKS what MIND CAN'T.
Hypnotherapy/Regression therapy heals MIND BODY
Homeopathy, Bach flowers, Hypnotherapy, Access Bars Treats depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, personality disorders, schizophrenia & many such disorders with mental & emotional disturbance.
Habit/addiction keeps you STUCK in YOUR COMFORT ZONE and makes you DEPENDENT.
All therapies Empower YOU to BREAK FREE & BRING SELF CONTROL, PEACE, WELL BEING and PROSPERITY!
It was no longer mere a clinic for me when I stepped down from the door, but a promised land where I gotta know how to rejuvenate oneselfAmit, Chartered Accountant
I was looking to learn hypnotherapy some years back. One of my friends who had learnt the same from her suggested that I take the class from Dr Ameeta Thacker. It was a great experience to learn it from Dr Ameeta as she made an extra effort to clarify all our doubts and taught us in great detail and depth. Following this I wanted to go through Hypnotherapy myself for I was facing a few problem myself: I used to have a severe pain in my right leg once again Dr Ameeta helped me a lot. She used her experience and skills which helped me heal this issue. I came to know the emotional cause for the same through the therapy which helped me overcome the same. I am truly grateful to her for being a teacher as well as a mentor and helping me in my journey. Thanks. Love and Light.Dr. B J, Homeopath
I, Mr. Trevor Pinheiro was being treated for Lower back pain by, a Homeopath. During my sessions with her, it surfaced that the root problem with me was an "anger control" problem. Homoeopathy Dr then suggested me to see Dr. Ameeta, who she felt would be able to solve my problem. After a lot of coaxing, I did agree to see Dr. Ameeta, but with a lot of apprehension.T.P. Entrepreneur
My first sitting with Dr. Ameeta was not very beneficial as per my expectations. But, she did put me in a comfort zone which made me look forward to my second sitting. I very clearly remember on the day of my second sitting, I landed up at her clinic with a very stiff and painful neck. As I entered the consulting room she noticed the problem of my neck and gave me a short briefing about self-hypnosis: how it works and how we should love ourselves for it to work. She made me repeat a sentence three times after her about me loving myself and my body. To my astonishment, not only had the pain vanished, but my neck was back to normal. I am not the one to believe in mantras, but believe me this worked just like one.
In the following sittings, which totaled upto 5 sittings in all she took me through a series of questions. I was then asked to put forward my questions which she made sure was answered by me and helped me out to answer my own questions with a series of questions from her. She also made me believe that the answer to every question lies within us.
From the first sitting to the fifth sitting (last sitting), there was a drastic change in my "anger control" to which I am thankful to Dr. Ameeta.
I am a self confessed tough client by all means. Hugely analytical and logical. I went to dr ameeta thakkar to take a chance at removing my fear of driving which i was living with for over 15 years. Not that I was confident that it would work for me but I wanted to give it a try. Dr Ameeta calmly understanding my personality chose a therapy that worked wonders and when I woke up from under hypnosis I was feeling so good about myself I cud not stop smiling.K.S (counselor soft skill trainer)
To test the therapy..I sat to drive after 15 years and viola !!!! NO FEAR !!!! I couldnt have been happier.. thank you Dr.Ameeta.. grateful for ever.
Hi Dr Ameeta :) your voice has magic. Just experienced something really wonderful and I'm compelled to share it with even though the timing is odd. I had a heartbreaking fight with Atul around 10.30 pm and started feeling absolutely hopeless and trapped. Couldn't even think what to do next (as the marriage date is coming nearer and nearer) so I just lay calm thinking about what ways have worked for me and what I can do to help myself , i suddenly remembered that I have my cord cuttin session recorded in my phone, and that therapy in class had worked wonders for me. So I decided to use it to do the same with Atul, prepared myself mentally to invite Atul even though the session was for FIL, went ahead with it. The therapy felt intense the mini hypnodrama you conducted in the tunnel was powerful. The cord connecting us was for some reason a dark greasy black cord running across the heart chakras , took a long time and divine help to get rid of it, but in the end it all felt good. After coming out of the session I was feeling good about the final energy exchange and decided to just dwell in the moment for sometime. And an hour later I received a call from him apologizing for his behavior and expressing thoughts n emotions that were discussed and experienced in the tunnel! Sheer magic thank youM.S., Corporate Executive- HR
FEAR &Phobia
I had suddenly developed severe claustrophobia and it was so bad that me who is a frequent traveler on flight couldn't get myself to board it without having attacks of claustrophobia as well as in elevators and closed giant wheel was also a problem . I approached Dr Ameeta Thacker for it was my first actual proper session and she dealt with my problem superbly . After 2 months I actually realized in Dubai – "Hey what happened about my Claustrophobia thing .I travelled here and going about all my activities without an attack.That is when I fully recognized that it was gone .Felt so happy that I feel my self free" . Thank you Dr. Ameeta ;it was a job well done in just 1 session and I didn't have to go back again for the same .Thank you once again.T.A., Homemaker
FEAR of FLYING
I had attended Level 2 class conducted by you in Andheri during the last year (May 2010) During the demo, I opted to be a client for "Fear". My fear was fear of travelling by Plane. Once in the year 1994, when I was travelling from Delhi to Mumbai, due to severe turbulence the flight was shaking and falling and even the food plates had fallen and the air hostesses had also lost their balance. Though I had undertaken several flights, from that date there was a fear in my mind and I was very uncomfortable with Plane Journeys and was avoiding such journeys. After you treated me for fear of flying by Planes, during the last year, I have now undertaken about 10 Plane journeys including two journeys abroad. I am using the three times deep breathing technique to calm my mind before entering the Plane as taught by you. Believe me, I am very comfortable in the journey now and there is absolutely no fear. I take this opportunity to thank you for the same. I have now completed all the five levels in July 2010 and got my final certificate also.M.S Ex VP at a renowned bank & Advocate
Hi Dr. Ameeta, I had come to you for hypnotherapy. I'm pretty sure you do not remember my case, during the regression I 'saw' that I was in the Mahabharat war and was stabbed in the back with a sphere. I just wanted to let you know that my pain in the chest that lasted 6 years prior to the regression never came back again. In fact when I feel "stabbed in the back" say by someone at work, I actually feel that my shirt is wet from blood. So I have tried sending light to the area and visualize healing light on that particular spot on my back and it's ok again.. I am now looking to get trained in this field. I was always a clairvoyant person, and now I see so many past lives. I am now led to believe, that all of this is not just a part of "our consciousness" but something we've experienced at different lifetimes prior to this one, a lot of times on a different dimension altogether.Dr Vani homoeopath and counselor


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New York: 12 food stops you need to check out on your next trip
- by Aditi Dugar
Foodies, take note
Image: Instagram.com/momolongplay
You need to have the luxury of time to enjoy some of the finest flavours in New York. Momofuku and Per Se offer completely different culinary experiences, but are united in their plea for your undistracted time. Both are fine dining at their best, and require a minimum of two hours of yours. While Momofuku celebrates the best flavours of the Orient that combine the charm of noodle bars with the elegance of traditional Japanese dining, Per Se is a nod to French finesse with a distinctly New American perspective.
Image: Instagram.com/joespizzanyc
Joes Pizza
You cannot be in a New York and not have pizza. The American derivative of the Italian classic is possibly just as popular, with its distinct identity. Joes Pizza epitomises that identity in its unassuming way, as all the A-list celebrities make a beeline for it.
Situated in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, Mamoun's Falafel has been serving high quality Middle Eastern Food since it first opened its doors to the public in 1971. It is the oldest falafel restaurant in New York and one of the first Middle Eastern establishments in the United States.
Bagels and cream cheese
New York is as much a place for high fashion as it is for decadent dining. While the luxurious restaurants are obviously famous, New York is driven by the flavours that exude from tiny snack shops to its local delis. Bagels are a typical New York snack that ranging from plain to sesame seed, cinnamon and raisin options. The cream cheese options too span the classic vegetable spread to shallots and chives, smoked salmon, jalepenos and more.
Image: Instagram.com/cookshopny
The inherently American eatery Cookshop focuses on seasonal availability, true to chef Marc Meyer's respect for the earth and its bounty. Prepared on the grill, split rotisserie or wood-burning oven, the expert chefs deftly coax the flavour from each ingredient, creating delicious dishes that also happen to be healthy. It's a great place for a sumptuous brunch that does not put you on a guilt-trip.
After this, if you still crave a real American meal that is both hearty and delicious, you may choose to head to either Sarabeths or Normas.
By Chloe
The restaurant is 100 per cent vegan, featuring chef Chloe's signature house-made burgers, fresh pastas, seasonal soups, salads, cold-pressed juices, vegan ice cream and baked sweets that are delicious enough to make even non-vegans forget the lack of butter and eggs.
Image: Instagram.com/vandalnewyork
Vandal celebrates the art, architecture, and food of global in its two-level space that includes a bar/lounge, restaurant, garden dining area, private dining room, and cellar bar/lounge.
Image: Instagram.com/esquinanyc
La Esquina
La Esquina, an authentic Mexican Restaurant, Taqueria and Tequila Bar, is an ode to the Mexican way of life. Fast service, hot food and copious amounts of beverages that pair well with the intense flavours of the cuisine.
Image: Instagram.com/danielhumm
Eleven Madison Park
Contemporary American restaurant Eleven Madison Park is a highly feted eatery placing third in the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2016, and winning the award for best restaurant in the world in the 2017 poll.
Image: Shakeshack.com
Shake Shack
There's a reason Shake Shack is renowned for the best burgers in New York. What started as a little hot dog cart in 2001, grew into a famous kiosk that has adults and children among its faithful patrons. Offering delicious burgers, hot dogs, frozen custard, shakes, beer, wine and more, Shake Shack is known for fresh, simple, high-quality versions of the classics in a majestic setting. The cheesy fries are a big hit with younger diners.
Dominique Ansel
French-born pastry chef Dominique Ansel is famous for his innovations like the Cronut, Cookie Shot and Frozen S'more. His eponymous bakery in New York spells love in every bite. Even those without a sweet tooth will return craving another bite of Dominique's delights.
Image: Instagram.com/magnoliabakery
Magnolia Bakery
Cherished for its classic American baked goods, vintage decor and warm, and inviting ambience, Magnolia Bakery's chain of outlets define the very idea of a dessert: comforting, delicious and mighty intimate.
Aditi Dugar is the founder of Masque, Mumbai, and loves exploring the culinary offerings of wherever she's travelling. In her weekly series, Dugar will introduce you to the best food that cities around the world have to offer, from luxurious by-reservation-only experiences to hearty street eats


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1. Hindu astrologers are in the habit of referring to what they think
are classics with infallible principles and they turn them into dogmas. They invite disaster.
2. Hindu astrologers are in the habit of turning these dogmas their
predictive base. They invite greater disaster.
3. Hindu astrologers are in the habit of using this predictive base
for a negative prediction. They create fright in the hearts of their clients.
4. Hindu astrologers are in the habit of creating gloom through their
readings and a gnawing feeling of fatalism. They have done no research of their own. What they mistake for
classics, provides them a protective cover through a Sanskrit quotation. It is sheer lack of commonsense and
sanity. They must know how to judge a horoscope, without being dependent on what they think is a
Let me give a case study here. A very well established American woman
insisted on having a reading by me after hearing me speak. My style of reading surprised her. Her problems which
could be seen in July 1995 when I did the reading for her were:
1. It was Venus-Mars period when she had been having land
2. She is a devoted wife and had made anxious inquiries about her
husband's health. I told her that with the best medical facilities available in her country, she should get him
checked properly.
– She had taken readings from some Vedic astrologers in India
and the USA and had felt that Hindu astrology stressed negativity. I talked of the pleasant events of her life and
counselled her to have proper medical check up for her husband. She came out, and waving her hands, remarked, "the
wall between me and Vedic astrology has vanished from today." This extreme reaction is explainable. In the western
astrology they have no ability to predict events. Those who have learnt Hindu astrology and practise it in the
west, particularly also do only psychological reading as they avoid predictive side, though they have picked up
some rudiments of it by 1996. It will take at least a decade for them to acquire some standard. In the meantime, to
'play their astrological trade', they will do more of astro-psychologizing than emphasise the predictive side.
There is also a good reason for it. In the USA you can be sued for anything. Though astrology is not recognised as
a profession, and treated as an 'entertainment' in USA.
The Hindu astrologers she referred to in the USA and India predicted
a disastrous marriage whereas I straightaway congratulated for a long and good marriage inspite of being an
American where the divorce rate is very high. I traced her career pattern from that of a dancer to an author. But I
had nothing good to predict for her husband. I toned it down considerably. She felt happy and relieved mainly
because her career pattern and happy married life is what many astrologers
cannot see because their attention will be riveted on negative factors in the horoscope
Her prejudice against Hindu (Vedic in the USA) was very strong. If
you do not evolve a scientific method of the analysis of a horoscope, you will either bluff or stress negative
factors as Hindu and now Vedic astrologers of the USA, can, and do. The art of synthesis and the greater art of
searching the light that can be seen even in a gloom is what Hindu astrologers cannot develop inspite of a great
predictive astrology. The reason is the dogmas filled in their minds by a cluttered reading of books of astrology,
without any intelligent assimilation.
I told her that Hindu astrology known as Vedic astrology in the USA
was in a very rudimentary form. In India, Hindu astrologers, who were good, would not overcome their habit of
negative readings for many more decades.
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Pecan growing in Australia
Whilst there are a number of specimen pecan trees in urban areas and parks in Australia that were planted in the early part of the twentieth century, pecans did not take off as a commercial crop until the 1960's. Orchards established in the mid 1960's include one near Bellingen on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales and the original Stahmann's farm near Gatton west of Brisbane, Queensland. Today Stahmann Farm Enterprises account for approximately 85% of Australian pecan production and have a large processing plant and marketing facilities for their history, products and commercial services at Toowoomba, Queensland. See the Stahmann Farm website at: http://www.stahmannfarms.com.au/
Current (2009) pecan production in Australian is about 3,260 tonnes in-shell or 1,746 tonnes of kernel.
There are approximately 1,300 hectares under pecan production in Australia.
Pecans are grown in New South Wales from the Hunter Valley through the Mid North Coast and North Coast to the border with Queensland. Australia's largest producer of pecans is Stahmann Farm Enterprises whose main orchard is at Moree.
In Queensland, pecan production is centred on Munduberra, Gatton, Bundaberg, the Atherton Tablelands and Beaudesert.
There are a few pecan orchards in West Australia and South Australia.
The bulk of Australian pecan production is sold as kernel for domestic consumption, however there are increasing export markets, for example to China which is estimated to account for 10-15% of global pecan consumption in 2009. Pecans constitute less than 5% of world nut trade and their consumption is highly concentrated in North America.
Expected Australian Nut Production & Value in 2011 Figures from ANIC
|Area Planted (ha)
|Production (tonnes)
|Value ($ million farmgate)
|Export Surplus Value ($m)
|Kernel 40,000
|In-shell 2000
|Kernel 7,800
|In-shell 3,274
|In-shell 1,626
|In-shell 3,455
|Kernel 79
World Pecan Production
The United States is the world's largest producer of pecans, where they are a native nut. Although exact numbers for world pecan production are not known, it is estimated that the United States produces 75 percent of total world production followed by Mexico with an estimated 20 percent. Pecan production also occurs in countries such as Australia, Israel, South America, including Peru, South Africa and Spain. Close to 90% of all traded pecan nuts originate in the USA and Mexico. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast pecan production to hit 309 million pounds in 2009, up nearly 60 percent from 193.9 million pounds in 2008. While cyclical, pecan production in the United States has averaged 252 million pounds per year. In 2003 the United States produced 262 million pounds of pecans with an estimated value of US$263 million. Improved varieties accounted for approximately 78 percent of total production and 86 percent of total value (US Department of Agriculture).
USA Pecan Prices for Nut-in-Shell 1980-2006 for improved varieties only.
Source: US Department of Agriculture, Fruit and Tree Nut Situation and Outlook Yearbook, October 2007.
Pecans: Production (in-shell), season-average grower price, and value, United States, 1980 to 2006
1/ Budded, grafted, or topworked varieties.
2/ Includes Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee in 1989-1992; Arizona, Missouri, and Tennessee in 1993 and 1995; and Arizona, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee in 1994.
3/ Estimates discontinued in 1996 for Missouri and Tennessee.
U.S. pecan production is dispersed throughout the South and Southwest. There are 14 states that produce pecans commercially: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. Georgia, Texas and New Mexico account for over 75% of production (USDA).
Mexico is the second largest world producer of pecans. Mexico's pecan production comes primarily from improved varieties. The main pecan varieties grown are Western and Wichita, which account for 80 percent of new variety production. A majority of Mexico's pecan production occurs in the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Durango and Nuevo Leon. Pecan production for the 2003-2004 production years is estimated at 141 million pounds (US Department of Agriculture). In 2008, the Mexican total crop area planted was estimated at 80,000 hectares, with pecan production up to 90,300 tons. Mexican production is increasing due to improved cultural practices, fertilizer applications, and drip water irrigation systems, and pruning.
Pecans and Health
Pecans nuts are good for you … and that's confirmed by scientific medical research. A handful of pecans everyday can help to reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes and help manage cholesterol and weight.
To find out more about pecans and their nutritional and health benefits visit the Nuts for Life website http://www.nutsforlife.com.au. There you will find recent reports, research, newsletters, fact sheets and nutrient composition tables and you can subscribe to the Nuts for Life newsletter for all the latest research on nutrition and health benefits of all the tree nuts.
The Nuts for Life program is owned and directed by the Australian Nut Industry Council http://www.nutindustry.org.au of which APA is a member.
Nuts for Life aims to provide useful, accurate and up-to-date information on the nutritional importance of tree nuts in the diet. Tree nuts include almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, chestnuts, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts.
The Nuts for Life website contains information for health professionals such as doctors, dieticians, fitness professionals, practice nurses and naturopaths who need the most up to date research, advice and news on the health benefits of nuts when advising clients. The website includes handy information for consumers of nuts – nut recipes, how to store nuts once they are brought home from the shop or market, dietary tips and handy factsheets on the role of nuts in reducing the risk of diabetes, maintaining heart health, managing weight, and general health benefits.
To view the latest scientific research on the nuts and health follow the links below.
Nuts & General Health
Nuts & Heart Health
Nuts & Weight
Nuts & Allergies
Nuts & Cancer


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Pendant #6 - '18
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The V-MAIL was first written on a form about the same size as a piece of typewriter paper. You then addressed it like a normal letter and affixed the normal postage, 3cents or 6cents if airmail was desired. A Serviceman could get his mail delivered free. Then you dropped it in the mail and let Uncle Sam take over.
Next if the VMAIL was sent to an area where Micro-Film equipment was available the letter was photographed and a miniature negative was made, and the original mail destroyed. It was then sent to the person over seas the fastest way possible. When the negative got to its final destination, a small print was made of the letter and then delivered to the addressee.
If Micro-Film equipment was not available the VMAIL was delivered in the normal way as quickly as possible.
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The weekend was boring as hell!I went to TAP on Saturday but the place was already invaded by little kids and I saw Dave there and took a video of him playing DDR.
Nick and Sarah dressed up as pirates for the birthday so...haha.I left early because it was raining...A LOT!Sunday was also boring BUT I bought Kamen Rider Camo!!w00t!
Saturday night,I went into KamenChat and talked with DK09.Somehow our chat has turned into a live fan fiction...kinda.Here's a bit of the fan fiction because the whole thing took up 17 pages!
Before you read it,I just wanna let you know that I finally met Blade2010,the Rider who saved me when I was ambushed by Kamen Rider Strike...but I don't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing after my recent trip to Ventara with DK09.
[Blade2010]What happened?
[DK09] You've been controlled by Xaviax. Me and Kamen Rider CHiCA came here to save you!
DK09 hears CHiCA's heavy breathing
[DK09] Please! You need to help her! She is unconscious. I need you to use your healing powers to help her.
[Blade2010] You two saved my life! Of course I will help her
Blade2010 walks over to CHiCA and uses his Heal Vent
[Blade2010]CHiCA is now cured and so is her shoulder!
CHiCA's eyes flutter open and sees DK09 and Blade2010
[DK09] Are you alright?
[CHiCA] I'm fine
[CHiCA] Blade2010?Is that you?
[Blade2010]Yes, I remember saving you from before
CHiCA stands up, walks over to Blade2010 and hugs him
[CHiCA] Thank you...Blade2010
[DK09] C'mon we need to leave! Strike, Knife and Xaviax could be anywhere!
Xaviax enters the lab
[CHiCA] Xaviax!Oh dear...
[Xaviax] Are you going somewhere? Kamen Riders?
Xaviax fires at Blade2010, CHiCA and DK09
[Blade2010] Stay down! This is my fight!
[CHiCA] Be careful!
While on the ground, Xaviax summons more minions
Blade2010 uses his Blade Vent and fights the Minions
Xaviax comes from behind and attacks CHiCA and DK09
Kamen Rider kc1000 enters and helps CHiCA and DK09 fight Xaviax
[CHiCA] Good timing,kc1000
[DK09] Let's do this Riders! Ready CHiCA?
[CHiCA] Let's do it!
DK09, CHiCA, kc1000 battle Xaviax. Blade2010 battles the Minions
DK09 combines Sword Vent and Strike Vent to create Lance Vent
CHiCA uses Clear vent
Xaviax strikes DK09, DK09 gets back up and slashes Xaviax in the chest
Xaviax suddenly is lifted off the ground by an invisible CHiCA
[CHiCA] "I believe I can fly!" :-P
[CHiCA] Finish him off!
[DK09] Hahaha.
DK09 summons his Attack Vent but Blade2010 jumps in
[Blade2010] I told you! This is MY fight! I will destroy Xaviax!
[CHiCA] But we wanna help!
[Blade2010]: You and DK09, and Kc1000 can help by staying outta my way!
Strike enters
[Strike] Don't worry, they will be too busy fighting my newest creation!
CHiCA hears a strange noise
[CHiCA] Uh,guys? This may be bad
Me and DK09 plan on making the next part of this soon.Can't wait.He wants to start it already!
~Love&kisses,CHiCA Kosaka
The Weekend / From KamenChat to KamenFanFiction
Posted by ~CHiCA Kosaka~ at 11:31 AM
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- AnonymousJune 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Nice fan fic you have here CHiCA. I just happen to stumble across this after going on KamenConnection. So we have 2 fan fiction stories going on right now...lol. Let me know if you want any input from me.ReplyDelete
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But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27 The man asked him, "What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome."
29 Jacob said, "Please tell me your name."
But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared." From my journal this morning....
"Are we done wrestling? I hope so. The battle has intensified these last few months, and it has been me, striving with all that is in me, to beg You to bless me…as I grasp for control and haphazardly reach for what I think will satisfy. You wait patiently, and walk behind me, cleaning up the messes I have made, coloring them with the gold of your glory. And isn't this the depth of grace? To be fully wrong, and yet fully loved and covered in Your all-surpassing goodness. This is the covering that I have inherited. The great grace of being your daughter. New names I will take on these coming weeks…a new surname, a new calling, both in marriage and ministry…and yet my deepest calling remains, as your child, called to rest in Your love that never fails. In this I am called to surrender, to drink deeply of Your perfection, letting go of the need for mine. I have faltered these months in letting go. The surrender has been hard, the change, the newness, and letting go of me, to accept the 'we'. I, like Jacob, have wrestled these months, these many years, with the angel...with my God, asking to be blessed, begging for this, that, or the other thing…in all this I have wanted my God…wanted Him in my inmost being, to be my Healer and Redeemer, and He is answering. He is opening up the scarred heart, and filling it with His joy, walking through past wounds with His grace, answering my 'whys' with His simple, 'I AM'. And truly isn't this the only and best answer? Isn't it enough to know that He is before and after and in between every step, every choice, every path we might take...making, molding, renewing, and saving. Oh, does He save. I praise Him for this. For the way He has saved me from myself. In this I rejoice more than in all things…that God will wrestle me down, touching the sinew of my thigh, as with Jacob, so I will see Him in all things, and not me. This will bring joy, more and more. As the weeks before the wedding turn to days, and days to hours, I delight in knowing that the Glory of God, the Filling of the Spirit, and the Seal of this Work, are all that remain. May it be so, Lord, may it be so. 30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, 'It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.' "


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Love Lesson 19
Lover's heart the abode forbidden for all eyes
, the pavilion encompassing the imperium of greatness and honor (Ezzat), the vast enclosure wherein waves the intermixture of two oceans: Qayb (Transcendental Unseen) and Shahaadat (Outer Manifest)
. And within this heart the ceaseless will-power:
Even if a thousand times cupbearer serves this ocean
Remains the desire to drink another cup insatiable
Beyond any doubts, the expanse of lover's heart a place of gathering larger far beyond the measure of the cosmos. Where worlds lost within the clench of his fist, where the theater of Uniqueness established upon the atrium of Oneness. Palatial court of monarchy is here (lover's heart)
, all affairs dramatized here, solutions problems deprivation opulence freedom and bondage all manifest here
Whilst the deprivation has hidden what was everlasting
And the enrichment returned what was concealed
Wow! That idol whose beauty fits not into this universe
How can it nest within my tiny heart ceaseless?
Abu Yazid spoke of the vastness of his own heart, "If the Lord's Throne and what is within passed by a corner of the Aref's (Divine Cognoscenti) heart, Aref is completely unaware". Jonaid said, "How could Aref sense anything since the Mohdath (Transient senses) when approached by the Qadim (Immemorially Preexistent and Ancient) leaves nothing of the transience remaining". Abu Yazid once glanced upon his heart found no sensation of transience and all within was Qadim (Immemorially Preexistent and Ancient).
Someone fashioned an ewer out of ice and filled it with water. Once sun shone upon it, he found the ewer and the water same:
The hunter, prey and the bait indeed are all It
The cupbearer, drunkard, wine and the cup are all It
Wow! What a bewildering drama! "
Expanded the heart of My Slave, and the heart is between the two fingers of the Most Beneficent (Ar-Rahman)
. It is within the heart and yet the heart clenched by It, behold how the translator adumbrates this:
Although entrapped I am within Your Zolf bound
Ceaseless You are within this broken heart of mine
Know that because of the Graces of Your own
At the same time You are within the tresses of my Zolf
Everyone is entrapped inescapably within Its (The Beloved's) bondage, fears no one, fits nowhere except within Itself, Oneness fits not except within the singularity of Oneness, (Its) incommensurable uniqueness finds no repose except in Oneness. These words elucidate the truth about the heart but very few understand. (Listen carefully) Following are the soliloquies of your heart:
I said: You are such beautiful a-bird wow!
It said: That is just yourself since I am myself Singular
I am both love and lover and the Beloved as well
Like both Mirror and beauty and the eye as well
What is the biggest lie? "I know what is inside my heart" there are no eyes including your own capable to see what is deep within you. Your actions as well as those around you constitute a mirror, gazing upon which you may see something within yourself.
Although we differ very little, genetically speaking, from flies and apes, our heart though build form the same components is vast and contains what even our own minds can not comprehend ever. Within this vastness expands two opposite and limitless entities a) The outer-manifest we interface through our senses or knowledge b) The unseen and hidden that somehow are within our heart and the clash of these two compose much of our spirituality.
Beloved chose mankind as the surrogate ruler on this earth:
Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." They said: "Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood?- whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He said: "I know what ye know not.
"" Koran [2:30]
But man chose to be a slave, indeed a slave to his Self.
Our hearts like a simulator simulates the drama of human affairs. This drama makes no sense to birds or fish or galaxies. It only makes sense within the human heart.
Our senses work for the present and immediate past. They are transient and temporal. However much of what is within our hearts is non-transient and come from the time immemorial. This immutable infinite past with no beginning or cause fits somehow within our heart.
Hadith (Narration) from Prophet Peace Be Upon Him.
Zolf, Zolafa in Arabic means to advance or go near or approach. However in Farsi means curls or braids of hair. Sufis used this Koranic term confused with Farsi meaning to make poetic terminology of drawing close proximity to Beloved.
Background: Photo by Jonathan Herbert.
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From Library of Congress Name Authority File
Endicott, Marina, 1958-
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Additional Information
Birth Date
- (edtf) 1958-09-14
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Address:
- Email: [email protected]
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Alberta. Augustana Campus
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Waterloo
Birth Place
Associated Locale
Associated Locale
Associated Language
Field of Activity
- (lcsh) Novels
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- found: Endicott, Marina. Open arms, 2001:t.p. (Marina Endicott) t.p. verso (CAN CIP: Endicott, Marina, 1958- ) cover (works in theatre as a dramaturge; lives in Alberto)
- found: University of Alberta Augustana web site, March 16, 2017:(Marina Endicott, Continuing Lecturer (English), BA (Hons) in Theatre, University of Waterloo ; [email protected]) - https://www.ualberta.ca/augustana/programs/degree/english/faculty
- found: Wikipedia web site, March 23, 2017:(Marina Endicott (born in 1958) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer ; Endicott was born in Golden, British Columbia in 1958 ; She worked as an actor before moving to London, England, where she began to write fiction. Returning to Canada in 1984, she went west to Saskatoon and worked in theatre as a director and dramaturge. She was for many years the dramaturge of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre. In 1992 she went farther west with husband Peter Ormshaw to Mayerthorpe, Alberta ; They presently (2016) live in Edmonton) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Endicott
- found: LAC internal file, March 11, 2019(heading: Endicott, Marina, 1958-; born September 14, 1958)
LC Classification
Change Notes
- 2001-06-22: new
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Dave Comstock Testifies to Planning Commission (video)
Here's a compilation of some excerpts from the testimony of local historian and publisher Dave Comstock at the April 22nd Planning Commission meeting.
Dave is arguing against the application of Blue Lead Mine ((Pronounced "blue leed … ")) for the "vested right to mine." (See background on this issue in my previous set of posts here).
When Dave refers to "sniping" in these excerpts, he is using a synonym for "prospecting."
Getting Ready to Eat Local this summer?
Press Release
The A.P.P.L.E. Center's final event of the Just Grow It! Everyday Food for Everyday People exhibit theme explores meal planning for localvores.
Just in time for the Farmers Market and home gardening seasons, the APPLE Center hosts an evening presentation: Seasonal Cooking, Meal Planning and More, next Thursday April 29th 7-9pm at 412 Commercial Street, Nevada City.
"One of the challenges to eating locally, be it from your own garden or from the farmers market, is learning to pair foods that are in season together. Most cookbooks don't support seasonal eating because their recipes assume all foods are available at once." explained Nevada City Farmers Market Manager, Mali Dyck. "Understanding seasonality is key to meal planning for the aspiring localvore."
This presentation with local chef and cooking instructor, Wendy Van Wagner, of In the Kitchen cooking school, located in on Zion Street in Nevada City, will cover how to think about cooking with the seasons; where to shop, how to pair foods, and what cookbooks are helpful. Sample dishes made at In the Kitchen will be served for mouthwatering inspiration of eating locally.
The A.P.P.L.E. Center's exhibit, Just Grow It!, is available for viewing through May 2nd at 412 Commercial Street. The exhibit pieces together the parts of every food garden: soil, water, pollinators, plants, the sun and the gardener, with real plants growing in a 3' by 10' raised bed. The exhibit is sponsored by Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply.
For more information, visit APPLECenter.org, call 478-1700 or stop by 412 Commercial Street. The A.P.P.L.E. Center is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday 11am to 5pm. Memberships are available, along with their resource library and unique green gift shop.
Public Speaks Loudly at Packed Planning Commission Meeting
The public made its voice heard loud and clear at yesterday's Nevada County Planning Commission meeting in the packed Board of Supervisor's Room at the Rood Center. The central agenda item — a consideration of the application of Blue Lead Mine for the "vested right to mine" — occupied the meeting from 2 PM until nearly 6 PM, with a final decision deferred until its next meeting on May 27th. (Note that this right, if it is determined by the Commission to exist for Blue Lead, attaches to the property itself and not to the succession of owners).
The Commission must determine (1) whether Blue Lead's right to mine was vested in 1954 when the county assumed oversight of mining, and if so, then it must also determine (2) whether Blue Lead has convincingly shown that it has maintained and preserved this right continuously until the present day without lapse or abandonment. In order to maintain this right, the applicant bears the burden of proof to provide objective evidence of continuous mining activity on that property throughout the decades since 1954.
Ultimately yesterday the Commission was unable to resolve the question of abandonment and directed its legal counsel to prepare statements of clarification before the next meeting on May 27th, with particular emphasis on that question.
Although the Commission remains divided and unclear on the issue of abandonment, a number citizens seemed entirely clear and emphatic, most significantly the first speaker, publisher and historian David Comstock, who is also a neighbor of Blue Lead.
In his written statement to the Planning Commission on April 8th, 2010, David Comstock said:
"I knew just about everybody who prospected (or sniped) for gold in this area from 1968 on, and all of them worked along the running streams with shovels and picks. No one worked in the Blue Lead section because there was no running water."
Nevada City Mayor Reinette Senum, speaking not as Mayor but as a personal acquaintance of Tom Brown, another of Blue Lead's neighbors, read a letter from Brown, who now resides on the east coast.
Brown's letter reads, in part:
"We have a special interest, perhaps a unique interest, in this matter because we are one of the neighbors most affected by the situation. Indeed, our land has already been damaged by the mining operation on the parcels in question. Our parcel is specifically mentioned on page 2 of the Staff report dated January 13, 2010: "…the applicant has taken access through the adjoining private property … and BLM property … to the east without the benefit of access easements from either owner" …
"I certainly would have known if any mining activity was occurring. The fact is that between 1986 and May 2006, the land was unused, and there certainly was no mining. My personal observations about the use of APN# -12 supports the Staff's belief that the parcel has been abandoned or idle and that the vested right is destroyed."
Many other members of the public also spoke in opposition to the vesting application. Only Braiden Chadwick, the attorney for Blue Lead, spoke in support.
While the Commissioners conscientiously struggled to parse the legal nuances of the abandonment issue, it was clear from the occasional applause and murmurs from the audience that most members of the public were convinced by the firsthand testimony of Comstock and Brown.
I spoke briefly to David Comstock after the meeting, and he said, "It doesn't matter how they decide, because it will be appealed either way. It will go to the Board of Supervisors."
A Beautiful Film About Permaculture
This is a beautiful film about permaculture and the future of farming by British farmer, film-maker, wildlife photographer and "bag lady" Rebecca Hosking.
What's beautiful about it?
For starters, the usual gorgeous British countryside.
Then there's the close and rich display of wildlife, flora and fauna.
But what's most beautiful here is Hosking's own transformation of consciousness.
She grew up on a traditional multi-generational small farm which, she now admits, wasn't sustainable even at its modest scale. At university she studied film and wildlife photography, a trade she plied with the BBC. Finally a few years ago she decided to come home and farm the land her father and grandfather had farmed before her. In the process she studied the problems with the old fossil-fuel-intensive agriculture, and decided to farm in a new way, using permaculture methods.
In this film, "Permaculture — Farms for the Future," she includes interviews with Peak Oil theorists Colin Campbell and Richard Heinberg, who (among others) have deeply analyzed the consequences of modern industrial agriculture's unsustainable use of ten calories of fossil fuel for every one calorie of food produced.
Permaculture and re-localization offer a sustainable path out of this dilemma. (Though, speaking for myself, I believe it will be a rough and uncertain path, because industrial agriculture is so entrenched in our economy and culture. We may have to experience various forms of collapse before change to a sustainable path becomes more widespread).
This film, produced in the spring of 2009, would be an excellent addition to SYRCL's Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival.
UPDATE (4/22/10 12:05 PM): I heard from Mali Dyk that this film was indeed shown at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival.
"More than 96 per cent of all the food grown in Britain is reliant on synthetic fertiliser. Without it there would be serious trouble.
But without artificial fertiliser there's not enough nutrients for the crops to grow, and without ploughing there is nothing to aerate the soil. So how can we manage without them?
The answers are in nature. As Charles Darwin pointed out, earthworms have been ploughing and aerating the soil for millions of years. And as for fertilisers, just look at how a forest flourishes: by using the natural fertility created by billions of living microbes, fungi, plants and animals.
The non-destructive, low-energy methods are elements of a wider system known as Permaculture, which challenges all the normal approaches to farming. One of its central principles is that you work with the land, rather than against it. "
More Deep Ideas from the Tea Party Patriot Movement
If you laugh at this video, you're probably an elitist.
Live with it.
See also an earlier entry in this category (Ignorance as a Point-of-View), "The Depth of Ideas Behind the Tea Party Movement."
Year's Most Important Public Meeting: Thursday 4/22 1:30 PM
The Nevada County Planning Commission on March 25th passed a resolution — against the written recommendation of its own staff — signaling its intent to grant a "vested right to mine" to the Blue Lead Mine, LLC, in response to an application for that right by Blue Lead owner, Robert White. Why is this important? Because if the Commission follows through with its intent in its next meeting (tomorrow at the Rood Center at 1:30 PM), hundreds of mines in Nevada County could be affected by that precedent and potentially become immune to County oversight if granted the same right!
The meeting on the 25th — the only official public hearing on the issue — nearly flew under the radar of the local media. Yubanet (here and here), The Union (here) and CLAIM (here) all reported on it. But many neighbors and interested members of the community missed the meeting because they were unaware of the extremely important agenda item dealing with Blue Lead.
Here's how the Yubanet article explains the "vested right to mine:"
A vested right to mine basically "grandfathers" an existing, operating mine into the county or state system. Any vested mine does not need to apply for a mining permit to the county and no California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) document for the mining operation itself is required. Another exemption concerns grading permits for roads, landing pads, staging areas, etc. Culverts and diversion ponds are also exempt from any oversight under the vested right to mine.The advantages granted under the vested right are numerous and exclusively profit the applicant.
Yubanet also quoted Don Drysdale, Public Affairs Officer for the Office of Mine Reclamation:
"Any mine that had a two-year break in production without a valid reclamation plan and Interim Management Plan is deemed to have been abandoned under SMARA and thus is ineligible for vested rights," Drysdale told YubaNet.
The owner of Blue Lead has altered his neighbor's property and BLM property without permission, and has been cited in Nevada County and elsewhere.
The public is now roused and should make a significant showing at the meeting tomorrow, where there will likely be many requests to reopen the hearing. Although County Planning Commission meetings are not routinely videotaped, special arrangements have been made for tomorrow's meeting to be taped by an NCTV videographer for later broadcast on NCTV.
In the meantime, more Planning Commission staff and public comments requesting a reopening of the hearing have now been posted in the County's Docushare folders, here. (See comments there by local historian Dave Comstock, Blue Lead neighbor Tom Brown, Tom Grundy and others).
Yubanet interviewed Dave Comstock and reported his comments as follows:
Author and historian Dave Comstock, a resident of the neighborhood since 1968, also sent comments to the planning staff after the March meeting. He was not aware of the meeting taking place, otherwise he would have appeared in person and shared his knowledge of the property with the commission, Comstock told YubaNet. He said he was quite appalled at the commission's decision …
Yubanet has a late update to its article this afternoon, quoting Blue Lead's attorney to the effect that public comment is "irrelevant."
Tomorrow's meeting should be very interesting.
UPDATE 1 (6:05 PM): I just received this email from Terri Hicklin:
Hi Don,
It looks like we will end up carrying this meeting LIVE, after all. So you
can tell any interested parties that we will carry the meeting on Comcast
Ch. 17 LIVE at 1:30 p.m., as well as on both our website at
www.nevadacountytv.org and the County's website at www. mynevadacounty.com
Terri Hicklin
NCTV Access Coordinator
UPDATE 2 (6:14 pm):
See this related article posted to Yubanet late this afternoon:
A new Docushare directory containing more public comment is here.
See comments from Gary Griffith, Ray Bryars, Rita Jennings, Shute Mihaly & Weinberger for CLAIM-GV, Robert Joehnck, Counsel for the Sierra Fund, etc.
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Big banks don't just undermine local economies—they're bad for your wallet, too.
by Stacy Mitchell
Bigger banks were supposed to lower costs for consumers. That was the promise made repeatedly in 1994 and again in 1999, when Congress dismantled laws that had long restricted the size and scope of banks, ushering in a wave of mergers that left the industry dominated by a few financial giants.
Testifying in support of the so-called Financial Services Modernization Act in 1999, Michael Patterson of J.P. Morgan used the word "consumer" no less than twenty-one times in his remarks. He told Congress that freeing up big banks to get even bigger would provide consumers with "greater convenience, more innovation, and lower costs."
Many regulators and lawmakers echoed his assertions. Robert Rubin, then Secretary of the Treasury and later a director at Citigroup, said that the "reforms" would "lead to better service and lower costs." Congress passed the bill by wide margins and President Bill Clinton enthusiastically signed it into law, promising that the changes would "save consumers billions of dollars a year through enhanced competition."
Just seven years later, the fees consumers were paying on their checking and savings accounts had skyrocketed, rising from $21 billion in 1999 to $36 billion in 2006. (And these amounts do not include credit card and ATM fees, which also shot up.)
That bigger banks would mean higher prices was plainly evident in 1999 to anyone who bothered to consult the data. For the previous five years, the Federal Reserve had issued yearly reports to Congress that showed that bigger banks charged significantly higher fees on checking and savings accounts.
The Fed's 1999 report, published five months before the Financial Services Modernization Act passed, found that overdraft fees were 41 percent higher at big banks compared to small. Big banks charged more for almost every fee imaginable, including 43 percent more for bounced checks, 57 percent more for stop-payment orders, and 18 percent more for ATM withdrawals.
But rather than allow the evidence in favor of smaller banks to guide policy, Congress decided to get rid of the evidence. At the urging of then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, Congress ordered the Federal Reserve to stop publishing its annual report on bank fees. "The Fed fought to get rid of it," said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the US Public Interest Research Group. "They said transparency was not a good use of their resources."
For most of the last decade, information on the average cost difference between big banks and small local financial institutions has not been publicly available. But, as it turns out, the firm that the Fed once employed to gather this data, Moebs Services, has continued to survey fees at more than 2,000 financial institutions. Moebs agreed to share its 2009 data with the New Rules Project. As our chart shows, the biggest banks still impose much higher costs on their customers than small financial institutions do.
Not only are fees lower, but several studies have found that smaller banks and credit unions pay higher interest on savings accounts. In a study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, researchers Kwangwoo Park and George Pennacchi examined data from 1998 to 2004 and found that rates on one-year CDs were an average of 14 percent higher at small banks (under $1 billion in assets) than at large ones (assets of $10 billion or more) and rates on interest-bearing savings accounts were 49 percent higher.
Why are small banks and credit unions a better deal? One reason is that they really want your deposits. Unlike big banks, which have access to wholesale funding, community banks rely much more on customer deposits to finance their lending and investments.
A second reason is that many small banks are more efficient than their big competitors. That may seem surprising at first. In many industries, more volume lowers costs, but in banking there's an upper limit—a point at which a bank's bloated bureaucracy makes the cost of doing everything more expensive, not less. Exactly where that threshold lies is a matter of debate, but some analysts suggest that the sweet-spot for efficiency starts as low as $500 million in assets and ends once a bank hits $4 or $5 billion. To put that in perspective, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase are about 300 times that size.
But perhaps a more instructive question to ask is not why are small banks a better deal, but how do big banks get away with charging so much more? After all, people have a choice about where to bank and free markets are suppose to drive down prices.
Christopher Peterson, an expert on consumer finance at the University of Utah School of Law, says there are two main theories. Those who believe the market is working contend that "bigger banks have more comprehensive branch locations, so people will pay a premium for convenience."
Another explanation is that banks are adept at obscuring their prices and make it hard to comparison shop. "I think our impulse in this country is to overestimate the ability of people to shop down fees that are not transparent," said Peterson.
Indeed, the Government Accounting Office recently sent secret shoppers into 185 bank branches. They were unable to obtain detailed information on account terms at one-third of those branches and unable to obtain a comprehensive schedule of fees at one-fifth, despite the fact that such disclosures are required by federal law—a law that apparently is not enforced. More than half of the banks did not provide this information on their websites, either.
Mierzwinski says big banks have the advantage of having recognizable names and branches everywhere. Many people simply go to the nearest big bank branch and don't shop around. "They particularly don't compare the bank's penalty fees, which are so hard to find," he said. "Everyone advertises free checking, but 'free' only defines monthly maintenance fees."
If you bank at a big bank, all of this should prompt you to give some serious thought to ditching it. Even if you are good at avoiding penalty fees, why do business with a bank that charges exorbitant prices and attempts at every turn to hit its depositors with sneaky fees? Shop around instead for an institution that treats its customers fairly. Consumer advocacy groups say the best place to start is with local credit unions and community banks. The smallest have the lowest costs on average. But keep in mind that averages are just that; institutions vary and each should be evaluated individually according to how well it meets your needs and how responsive it is to your community.
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Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the New Rules Project, a program of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance that challenges the wisdom of economic consolidation and works to advance policies that build strong local economies. She is the author of the monthly bulletin the Hometown Advantage and the book Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses, which was named one of the top ten business books of the year by Booklist.
This article is part of the New Rules Project's Community Banking Initiative and was originally published on Huffington Post as part of a partnership with their Move Your Money campaign.
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Among other wonders at the Monterey Bay Aquarium is the Climate Change Gallery, where the facts of global climate change are made vividly clear to children and adults alike.
It warmed our hearts to see the hordes of excited children — the ones to whom we are bequeathing this planet — pouring over these exhibits with uninhibited excitement and curiosity.
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By: Scoop Biggers
Most of us are used to the "Big Dog" getting what he wants. In this case the big dog is the United States Federal Reserve Bank, or as it is often called, "The Fed". My question these days is, "How much does the Big Dog want, and will there be any room left for the little dog under the house?"
The Federal Reserve Bank was created back in 1913 in response to several economic crisises which were at that time called "Panics". The big one of its day was the Panic of 1907. Today's sequel to the Panic of 1907 and the Great Depression of 1929, is "The Great Recession".
Many things are the same in today's crisis as were true in these two events of the past, but one aspect is very different. The Fed's actions over the last several years have controlled both inflation and deflation, but have also made it impossible for the average citizen to earn any money on his savings. At the same time the two big problems which are the results of this "panic" remain unchecked. One would be high unemployment with stagnant job growth, coupled with an anemic real estate market which helped start the recession to begin with. This makes it hard for that average "Joe" to do his part in helping stimulate the economy.
The present "Big Shot" at the offices of the "Big Dog" is Ben Shalom Bernanke author of the "Bernanke Doctrine" which details his view of how to run the country's finances. In his doctrine the Big Dog states that to combat deflation he would "#3 – lower interest rates – all the way down to 0″. Well folks, he has done that for about three years now and we still ain't out of the woods.
Unemployment figures are stagnant at a rate of between 7.5% and 8.4%, when it is acknowledged that a healthy economy requires an unemployment rate of below 6%. The housing market continues to flounder, and we are running an inflation rate of 1.5%, up to about 2%. Meanwhile I was down at my local Credit Union to roll over a Certificate of Deposit, and the best they could offer up was .035% for a year, which means that a year from now my money will be worth at least 1% less than it is today.
Now my problem with this is that I know that a lot of big dogs are eating pretty good these days, while us little dogs are just getting the scraps and the bones. As long as the "Big Dog" has his way, there is no end in sight to our share getting smaller and smaller.
I have heard just about all I can stand about corporations which are "too big to fail", and about folks who can't pay their mortgage because they bit off more than they could chew! I don't work for GM, and I don't have a loan from Fanny Mae, but I do pay my bills, and my taxes, and I try to put a little aside for when I am old. The guy that just got beat running for President did have one thing right. The rich and the poor both have safety nets, but us folks in the middle, carrying the country on our backs, got nobody looking out for us despite all the campaign rhetoric about being for the middle class. Oh, and don't talk to me about entitlements, that money is mine, since I put in 50 years of hard labor paying into the Social Security Savings Account, which I was required to do by law, not by choice.
What about it "Uncle Ben, the Big Dog", you think you could toss a bone our way? How about fixing it where I at least don't go backwards with the little dab of money I am trying to put aside for when I am too old to carry GM around on my back all day long!
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Each year The Free Church of Scotland organises 12 youth camps around the country to engage and inspire the next generation. With preparations well underway there are now very limited spaces left for people to attend.
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Companion bills in the House and Senate have been introduced that would strip areas of our public lands currently managed for their wilderness characteristics of their protected status. If the "Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011" were to pass, 43 million acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas on Forest Service lands and Wilderness Study Areas throughout our public lands would no longer be protected, including portions of the sky islands in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona. The bill would also forbid the land management agencies from providing new protections for these "released" areas in the future, effectively preventing them from being designated as permanently protected Wilderness by Congress and opening them up for development.
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