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Milwaukee enacts snow emergency parking ban
Drivers race to move cars before plow drivers, tow trucks arrive
A snow emergency is in effect for Milwaukee.
Motorists were racing to get a spot at Cass Street Public School, one of the busiest makeshift parking lots on the east side, before the plow drivers came down the side streets and the tow trucks hauled off their cars.
Sal Maniscalco said he got home late from work and parked on the street overnight, but because of Milwaukee's snow emergency, he needs to move it or risk getting towed.
A spokeswoman with the city's Department of Public Works said it is the first time in the year that the city enacted its snow emergency.
Officials said anytime there are four or more inches of snow, drivers cannot park on side streets where there is a snow emergency route sign from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. City officials said there are designated areas in every part of the city that become makeshift parking lots, such as the one at Cass Street School and at the Maryland Montessori School.
"We are trying to plow curb to curb. We're trying to get rid of those big mounds of snow and ice that are in the parking lanes and make it really difficult for people to park over the course of several days," said Sandy Rusch-Walton, spokeswoman with the city's Department of Public Works.
Jose Morales was on his way to his gym class and tried to park in front of the workout studio, but he was told by the owner to come to the Cass Street School lot because of the parking ban.
"My instructor said, 'Hey, listen. People are getting stuck trying to park on the side of the road because of all the build-up, but I guess you can park here,' and I thought it would be all full of snow, and they said, 'No, they plow it just for that reason,'" said Morales.
The ban is in effect until 5 a.m. Thursday.

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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Meet Blaise
This handsome beauty is my friend, Blaise. He lives in Hanover County, Virginia on a beautiful lake at the end of a gravel road. He has lots of trails to walk on with his humans. Blaise is obedient and respectful earning him the privilege of walking without a leash. He is a really cool dude! Mom couldn't resist taking a picture of Blaise when she visited with he and his human Mom this week. Isn't it great to have wonderful friends, human and furry. Mom and I are thankful GOD has given us wonderful friends!
Woofs and Wags,
11 comments:
- Just Be Real said...
Blaise is certainly awesome.
- January 29, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- Parsley said...
He reminds me of my Rosie.
- January 29, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Tracy said...
Blaise is beautiful! I'm glad I sotpped over..I think I'll just camp out here for awhile if that's okay with you!
- January 29, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- Two French Bulldogs said...
Blaise are you as big as you look? You sure are purrty
Benny & Lily
- January 29, 2011 at 5:41 PM
- Denise said...
Blaise is wonderful.
- January 29, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Unknown said...
Your friend, Blaise is awesome! I hope my dogs can walk like him off leash too.
- January 30, 2011 at 1:23 AM
- Connie Arnold said...
Lovely dog and obviously well behaved!
- January 30, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- Surprised By Joy! said...
Blaise is a beautiful dog.
- January 31, 2011 at 7:03 AM
- sunshine said...
Friends are great, Blaise it pretty awesome, I love Golden Retrievers, they are great dogs!
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- February 1, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- Jane In The Jungle said...
- February 2, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- MaryGrace said...
Blaise sends his love and appreciation to each of you. He really is a sweet and loving boy, anxious to make all humans feel better. Where would we be without our furry pals -- and dear friends?!
- February 2, 2011 at 7:47 PM


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A Hoosier from nearby Brookston, a Chicago native, and young man from northwestern Pennsylvania are this year's Lilly Scholars.
Spencer Peters, Brookston, Francisco Huerta, Chicago, and Adam Barnes, Bradford, Pa., have received Lilly Scholar honors from Wabash College. The three members of the Class of 2014 will receive full tuition and room/board support during their four years at the College. The four-year scholarship is valued at $170,000.
Peters is a senior at Frontier High School. He is a three-year member of the National Honor society and attended Boys State. He served as senior class vice president and was a football team captain.
Huerta, a senior at Rauner College Prep School in Chicago, is a National Honor Society member, senior class student council representative, and a captain of the school's robotics team. Huerta was a founding member of the soccer team and a four year member.
Barnes will be the Bradford Area High School Valedictorian. He has served as president of the school's National Honor Society Chapter, captain of the Cross Country team, and captain of his YMCA swim team.
To be eligible for a Lilly award, applicants must meet the minimum standards of:
- a GPA of 3.5 (4.0 scale)
- Rank in the top 20 percent of their senior class
- an SAT score of at least 1720 (reading, math, writing), or an ACT composite of at least 25
The three winners joined 27 other high school seniors, from 11 states, on campus April 16 and 17 for Lilly Weekend. The students participated in small group interviews and a larger classroom type of discussion during the weekend.
Besides academic achievement, the College seeks young men with individual accomplishments, abilities, extracurricular activities, and a demonstrated level of leadership.
In photos: Top to bottom, Peters, Huerta, Barnes.


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New York vs. New England rivalry can be traced back to Colonial times
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Think this New York vs. New England thing is a product of the modern sports era? Prithee, fuggedaboudit.
"It doesn't quite go back to the glaciers, but it's close," said William Fowler, author and history professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
The regional rivalry long predates the Super Bowl matchup, Giants vs. Patriots, or baseball's Yankees vs. Red Sox. New York and its neighbors to the east have bad blood stretching all the way back to Colonial America, when New England militiamen viewed "Yorkers" as blasphemous, profane drunks, while their counterparts next door considered the men of the Massachusetts Bay colony to be Puritan-raised prudes who didn't know how to have a good time, even going so far as to ban Christmas in Boston during a 22-year period in in the 1600s.
"New Englanders, even by middle of the 18th century, are so strictly religious that you find them picking fights for cursing in military camps and ganging up on people and beating them up for not following the Sabbath. That certainly didn't help relations," said Stuart Lilie, director of interpretation at upstate New York's Fort Ticonderoga, near the Vermont state line.
The disdain the colonies held for each other actually had its roots in the 1600s, Fowler said. That's when the Dutch established their neighboring New Netherlands colony, and from there the profit-driven, liberal-minded Dutch competed with strait-laced New Englanders for dominance of the fur trade with Native Americans, with the two sides backing rival tribes.
Even after the English took over the Dutch colony for good and renamed it New York in the 1670s, the Dutch influence remained strong for generations, especially in the provincial trading outpost the English renamed Albany. Dutch traders sold guns and tomahawks to France's Indian allies, who used those weapons in raids against New England settlements.
The New England troops carried those bitter memories with them when they mustered by the thousands in Albany during the French and Indian War (1755-63). With its numerous taverns and "camp followers," the old Dutch settlement along the Hudson River was viewed as a veritable Sin City by pious New Englanders, especially those in Massachusetts, which assigned chaplains to each militia regiment.
"These chaplains were descendants of Puritans, and they were not loathe to condemn sin when they saw it, and they saw it in Albany," Fowler said.
The regional rivalry even played a role in inspiring the song, "Yankee Doodle." Historians credit a British physician with writing the lyrics in the late 1750s after he witnessed the comic efforts of some of the ragged New England recruits to perform military drills while mustering outside Albany.
After marching north to British forts, tensions between provincial soldiers stuck in the isolated, squalid conditions of the frontier encampments sometimes boiled over into outright violence, with brawls breaking out between New York and New England regiments.
One such episode rivaled some of the dust-ups known to erupt in the stands at Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium whenever the rival teams are visiting. According to the account of a New England officer serving at Fort William Henry, New York and Massachusetts troops clashed over who would pay for a glass of beer. The Massachusetts officer described the Yorkers swarming from their tents armed with swords and clubs "like hornets out of their nests, swearing and cursing!"
"If the devil and all he could raise had been let loose, it wouldn't look more dreadful," the officer wrote.
Two decades later, New Yorkers and New Englanders were able to set aside their differences -- most of them, anyway -- and go to war again, this time against the British. In the winter of 1775-76, New York aided American Col. Henry Knox's effort to haul dozens of artillery pieces seized at British-held Fort Ticonderoga to Boston's Dorchester Heights, a feat that forced the redcoats to evacuate the city on March 17, 1776.
New Englanders returned the favor the following year, when thousands of militiamen from Massachusetts and Connecticut rushed to northern New York to block a force of redcoats and German mercenaries advancing on Albany. The reinforcements played a major role in the American defeat of the British at Saratoga in October 1777.
"There are times when regional rivalries are put aside in favor of survival," said Joe Craig, a ranger at Saratoga National Historical Park. "They realized it was in their best interest to do it."
Good luck finding a Giants or Patriots fan willing to forget about the rivalry this Sunday.


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My, how the conversations have changed. It seems that 10 years ago many of the conversations I had with clients and prospects revolved around accomplishing their retirement dreams: playing plenty of golf, having time with the grandkids, travelling all over the world. The markets were cooperating, clients were still a number of years from seriously considering retirement and they were filled with great expectations of being able to reap the rewards of moving onto the next stage of life.
Now these same individuals are closing in on a retirement date, and those lofty retirement dreams, for many, seem unattainable. Many are now looking to work longer, take fewer trips and hope to just not run out of money. The tenor of the conversation has changed dramatically.
The question is, as professionals, what do we say to our clients who feel like they will never be able to retire in the fashion they once dreamed of?
Clearly, not all of our clients fit this description. Each of us has the "AA" client with several million dollars for whom pursuing their retirement dreams may not be an issue. But even for some of them, thoughts creep in that indicate they have concerns.
I have the privilege of sitting on the Curian Executive Advisory Council. We meet semi-annually to hash out topics that are of interest to the dozen or so top advisors who attend. At a recent meeting, one of those topics revolved around what to tell clients whose retirement plans indicate they will not be able to reach their goals. The topic was hotly debated, and the underlying message was that this was happening in all of our offices, often, and that the discussions were not always happy ones.
So from my perspective, I offer some practice management ideas on how to deal with this difficult issue.
First, the focus of the retirement discussion has to be broader than just the money. Yes, the engine that fuels the retirement plan is cash flow, and investment returns are needed generally in order to accomplish this. We have those fortunate clients who need little income from their nest egg, but the majority of my clients still need to complement their fixed income sources. However, we have no control over returns, particularly the timing of those returns. Those who retired in the '80s and early '90s had a different experience from those who retired in the past 10 years. Timing is everything. We have no control over this in the planning process.
Instead, focus on what you and your clients can control. I spend a significant amount of time with my clients in their reviews talking about all of the areas they can control. Financially, we make sure they have completed all estate planning and beneficiary forms. We help them visualize success by working with them on bucket lists. Physically, we have created forums to help them get better informed as to how to stay healthy. Emotionally, we have brought resources to them to help them understand the journey they are on and to try to give them tools to be the best they can be.
One of the "deliverables" we provide our clients is a Financial Organizer System. Studies indicate that our clients, no matter how much money they have, feel disorganized and out of control when it comes to knowing what they own and where it is. The feedback we receive from our clients is that the organizer system is one of the best things we do for them. It helps them feel much more in control. Create your own or buy one already built. It's a big piece of what we can do to make our clients feel better about their journey.
Second, we have clients who just have not accumulated enough to retire. What do you tell them?
I have a dear client who is now 65. Her husband had passed away 12 years ago. At the age of 60, she was being let go from her job of 30 years, and she was beginning to lose her sight. Her world had come undone. She had $500,000 of assets, which was not enough to support the life she was hoping to create. How do I do my job of providing honest advice to her and still help her transition into the next stage of life?
I spent several hours with her to get an understanding of what she needed in order to get some sense of emotional and physical stability back in her life. Her big goal was not to rent any more. To her, owning something would help her set some new roots, but the numbers did not support this goal. We worked on developing a plan that was to evolve in stages. We agreed that she could buy a condo now, but would probably have to sell it in seven to 10 years. We came up with a plan that was not the one of her dreams, but was a nice compromise and allowed her to move forward.
Work with your clients to help them understand their different choices and come up with a plan that will get them somewhere, one step at a time. We really don't know what lies ahead, how long we have or how healthy we will be, so be creative and help your clients get as much joy out of the journey as they can.
Finally, a little twist: How do you deal with clients who can achieve their retirement dreams but don't believe the numbers? Their retirement plan indicates they are all set, yet they still have more than the normal amount of trepidation about their financial future.
I tell my clients all the time that I am 50% psychiatrist and 50% financial planner because we do have to deal with the emotions as much as, if not more than, the pure numbers.
One approach is to get to the root of the problem. This is not easy, but it can be very rewarding for you and your clients. Prompt them to tell you what it was like growing up and how they truly feel about money. For some, no matter how much money they have, their core values tell them they really are not worth that much. This is the psychiatrist angle, and it often does pay dividends if you listen well. It could be that no matter what the numbers indicate, they will never feel comfortable. That is fine if you mutually recognize this. It will help to frame many of the conversations you have with them and how you deal with them in the future.
Another approach is to deal head on with the experience we all have had with the market's total return over the past 14 years. I faced this with a client of mine in a recent review. He has accumulated $3.7 million in investable assets, and his retirement roadmap indicated his retirement would be successful even if we assumed only a 5% return on his assets for the next 30 years. I have no control over returns, but I am comfortable that there is a good probability we could achieve that over the very long term. However, all he sees is the flat performance and does not believe that will ever change.
Here it is instructive to bring perspective to the clients. First, share with them your knowledge of how markets perform and the cycles we go through. Second, remind them this is why they hired you. We meet with our clients regularly to change assumptions and goals; if updating is necessary, it will be done. Prompted either by them when their objectives change or by us if we need to make an adjustment, we are there to guide them with the construction of the plan. By telling them we are along for the ride and that the plan is a living document, it can bring a sense of proper perspective and comfort to the client.
My role with my client is to make sure I can come up with solutions that are appropriate for them. Sometimes that will mean we have heart-to-heart talks so that we can better understand them. If we do that and actively listen to our clients, then we can deliver genuine planning advice that we are proud of.


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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Chinese President Xi Jinping presided Wednesday over the signing of accords between their governments to facilitate $1.1 billion in low-interest loans for much-needed infrastructure in Nigeria.
China, which is increasingly looking to Africa for oil and other natural resources, is offering Nigeria loans to help fund airport terminals in four cities, roads, a light-rail line for its capital, a hydropower plant and oil and gas infrastructure.
Xi said both countries had been brought together by a common task of pursuing national development. "As a proverb of Nigeria reads, 'A man cannot sit down alone to plan for prosperity,'" he said. Jonathan, on a four-day trip to China, has brought along about a dozen of his Cabinet ministers including those for petroleum resources, trade and transport, as well as several state governors, senior government officials and businesspeople.
Following a meeting between Xi and Jonathan, representatives from both countries signed five deals, including a lending agreement between China's Import-Export Bank and the Nigerian finance ministry for the expansion of the airport terminals and an economic and technical cooperation pact. Details of the agreements were not immediately available.
Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the loans being finalized during this trip are part of $3 billion approved by China at interest rates of less than 3 percent. Chinese companies are already building roads across Nigeria in contracts worth $1.7 billion.
China's demand for crude oil produced in Nigeria is expected to rise tenfold to 200,000 barrels a day by 2015, according to information provided by a team accompanying the Nigerian president. Zhang Chun, an expert on Africa at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Studies, said Nigeria is important to China because it has the largest economy in west Africa and because it has oil. "There is great potential for developing cooperation in this field," he said.
On Thursday, Jonathan will meet Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and representatives of companies including state oil company Sinopec and telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE.
Information and photo from Mail and The Associated Press was used in this report.


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France's data protection watchdog moved closer to fining Google for the way it stores and tracks user information after the search engine ignored a three-month ultimatum to bring its practices in line with local law.
The privacy watchdog, known as CNIL, said on Friday it was opening a procedure to impose formal sanctions. Under French law, Google can be fined up to 150,000 euros.
Spain, Britain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands have also opened similar cases against Google because the US-based web giant's privacy policy introduced in 2012 does not conform with local rules protecting consumers on how their personal data is processed and stored.
The coordinated move by European data protection regulators is seen by legal experts and policymakers as a test of the region's ability to influence the behaviour of international internet companies.
But the penalties most countries can impose remain small compared with the US$10.7 billion net profit that Google earned in 2012. Spain can impose fines of up to 1 million euros, while the German Data Protection Act caps penalties at 300,000 euros.
There is no legal framework to levy European-wide fines.
At issue was the new approach to user data that Google began in March 2012 in which it consolidated its 60 privacy policies into one and started combining data collected on individual users across its services, including YouTube, Gmail and social network Google+. It gave users no means to opt out.
In June, CNIL found Google to be in breach of privacy law on six counts, notably that it posted "insufficient" information for French users about how their private browsing data was collected and used.
Google said in a statement on Friday its privacy policy "respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services."
CNIL said that Google contested the reasoning followed by the French regulators, and the applicability of the French data protection law to the services used by residents in France.
Data protection watchdogs in Germany, Spain, Italy the Netherlands are continuing to review the Google case to determine any sanctions.
Privacy issues are not Google's only legal headache in Europe. It is seeking to settle a three-year probe with antitrust regulators into whether it squeezes out online rivals in search results. Brussels has also started looking into Google's Android software that runs mobile phones, to see if it crimps competition in the handset market.


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Hey! Did ya just hear that kaboom? That was, like, the explosion of the fashion and beauty market for teens. All these geezer designers--they're, like, 25 or 30!--are coming out with these way-cool products just for us: hair stuff, makeup, handbags, accessories, clothes . . . and, hey, we've got mucho dinero from our part-time jobs-and, like, maybe a little help from the parental plastic. Let's go shopping!
Thankfully, you don't have to talk like teens to sell to them. Nevertheless, a growing number of Gen X entrepreneurs are getting in touch with their inner teen and communicating with the junior market using the sweet language of commerce. And there are a whole lot of kids listening: By 2010, the number of teens in the United States alone will swell to 35 million, more than at any other time in history, according to Teen.com, a Web site catering to the interests of 42,000 young surfers each day. A Rand Youth poll estimated that teen girls spend $21.8 billion a year on clothes and beauty accessories. The children of the boomers are growing up, and they have been well-schooled in the joys of consumerism.
"The teen market is growing immensely; they're surpassing the baby boomers as the prime target for companies because they have so much disposable income," says Keri Singer, Teen.com's fashion and beauty editor. Kids between 13 and 19, especially girls trying to define themselves, have an endless appetite for new fashion and beauty products--and testing out new looks helps them satisfy it.
Enter entrepreneurial opportunity. Designers with vivid memories of adolescence-albeit with limited bank accounts--have jumped into the teen market, sneakers-first. Among them:
- Greg Herman, 27-year-old president of Greg Herman Los Angeles Inc., designer of funky, retro-looking handbags. Although he has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, Herman was virtually homeless, carting around two suitcases filled with his worldly goods and crashing on friends' sofas, when he started the company in 1997. He maxed out his credit cards and got $4,000 from an angel investor to make samples, which he then took to New York.
"I put 40 handbags in a rolling suitcase and literally walked up and down the streets, stopping at showrooms," recalls Herman, who expects sales of $3 million this year and has recently added shoe, shirt and scented-soap lines to his collection. Despite the company's unconventional beginnings, Herman, a benefactor of homeless causes, sells his bags to catalogers and major retail stores like Barney's and Anthropologie. Celebrities such as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Courtney Cox, Calista Flockhart and Christina Applegate buy his bags, which retail for up to $50.
- Matt Diamond, 31-year-old president of New York City-based Alloy Online, a site that sells the beauty products of other companies as well as its own line of clothing products under the Station Wagon brand name. He and two partners, Jim Johnson. 33, and Sam Gradess, 34, maxed out their credit cards and emptied their savings accounts to scrape together the $250,000 in capital for their 1996 launch. They lived out of a basement apartment, using the kitchen as a warehouse, and personally delivered customers' orders to the post office each evening.
They also created a small, inexpensive catalog and sent it to kids who visited the site. Today, more than 4 million people receive the catalog, and 3 million receive Alloy's weekly e-zine. In May 1999, the company, which employs 150 people, raised about $50 million on its IPO.
- Desiree Langager, 34-year-old president of Girls Rule Inc. in Los Angeles, designer of apparel items promoting "girl power." The former designer of private-label items launched the business as a result of her commitment to the achievements and development of young women.
Langager started the business with $10,000 in personal savings in 1995, distributing samples of her T-shirts to stylists, wardrobe professionals and fashion magazine editors. Pamela Anderson even wore one of her shirts on Bay Watch. But a trademark dispute with a partner put Langager out of business for three years, setting her back $200,000 in court fees. Eventually, she re-emerged victorious and relaunched her label this past spring, essentially starting all over again, sending out product samples and going back to all the surf, skate and snow shops that had previously sold Girls Rule products.
Now working with up to 10 freelance designers and pattern-makers, Langager predicts between $1.3 million and $2.5 million in sales this year. Asked where she found the emotional fortitude to begin again from scratch, she replies, "I want to make a difference."
Challenges Of The Teen Market
It's tough enough to make it in the fashion and beauty industry, insiders say, but selling to an audience as fickle as teens gives a whole new meaning to the word "challenge." "It's easy to get into this business and grow the first year," says Shawn Haynes, the 29-year-old president of Girl Cosmetics Inc. in Los Angeles and a former cosmetic company sales representative. Launched in 1997 with $10,000 in personal savings, the company earned $1 million last year and expects to double that this year. "But there's pressure, a constant cycle of bringing out new products," says Haynes.
That explains the myriad of options available to entrepreneurs looking to get into this industry, from cosmetics lines and teen-focused fashion to fashion and beauty Web sites. There's a piece of wisdom that will well serve anyone venturing into this market, say the somewhat battle-scarred veterans: Know your customers. Not just intellectually by reading trend reports, although that is important. You need to put yourself inside the head of a teenage girl and live there. Watch Dawson's Creek and MTV, read teen magazines, hit the most popular teen Web sites.
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The three principals and owners of Mighty Fine Inc., a Los Angeles company with a line of clothes featuring silly slogans and characters, have resolutely resisted growing up and declare that they would want to wear the products themselves, although their ages range from 26 to 31. "This is a company created by kids for kids," says 31-year-old Guy Brand, who started the company at home in 1994 for less than $200, selling T-shirts with logos with the help of Stacy Kitchin, 29, and Pearl Shiung, 26. He initially marketed the products at raves, nightclubs and stores frequented by teens. Today, the products are sold worldwide, and the company expects to bring in $9 million this year-triple last year's sales.
Entrepreneurs cannot be successful in the teen market without constantly soliciting feedback from their customers, insiders say. Many entrepreneurs have Web sites featuring questionnaires that ask teens what they want; others get the word from teens on the street with informal focus groups. Says Diamond, "Teens determine what is popular and cool, not us."
What Makes Them Different
Teens are looking for higher-quality products than their predecessors, and they've got the dollars to pay for them. Philippe Tordjman, the 32-year-old owner of Philou, a San Francisco hair salon that he launched in 1997 with his tools and one assistant, has developed a line of hair-care products by the same name. They're designed to attract teens with their fun scents and packaging. "Nowadays, teens go crazy with their hair," says the French native.
Remember that teens want options, Singer adds. Most of the successful designers have several lines for buyers to choose from. "On our site, we give girls alternatives," Singer says. "We don't say 'If you don't buy this product, you won't be beautiful.' "
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Although most of the fashion and beauty companies are located on the coasts, technology today allows you to reach other markets, Haynes points out. "I've been selling online to people in towns with populations of 100,000 or less," he says. "They don't have a Bloomingdale's or a hip shop where they can buy these kinds of products, so they seek us out on the Web. We also look to sell our products in small neighborhood stores, places where girls shop on their way home from school."
Entrepreneurs who are reluctant to enter the teen market because of its supposed age limitations aren't seeing the big picture, according to Singer. "All the high-end designers are showing an influence from the juniors market," she says. "Older women are trying out fun clothing decorated with rhinestones and embroideries, especially if they have teenage daughters." Adds Haynes: "There's a girl in every woman."
Past adolescence yourself? Check out these sites to find out what teens today are thinking and buying.
Pamela Rohland, a writer from Bernville, Pennsylvania, and the owner of four felines, finds cat hair an indispensable wardrobe accessory.


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"Data Tools" is a vast domain, yet there are a fairly small number of foundational requirements when developing with or managing data-centric systems. A developer is interested in an environment that is easy to configure, one in which the challenges of application development are due to the problem domain, not the complexity of the tools employed. Data management, whether by a developer working on an application, or an administrator maintaining or monitoring a production system, should also provide a consistent, highly usable environment that works well with associated technologies.
Such an environment starts with key frameworks designed both for use and extensibility. Examples include location and management of data source drivers, and configurations for access to particular data source instances. Once a connection is successfully made, the next task often is to explore the data source, making changes as required. Some of these operations might be carried out by GUI actions, others directly through commands. For example, users - both developers and administrators - typically will create, edit, and test SQL for these commands. Assistance in editing SQL through code completion, formatting, and dialect specialization, greatly enhances productivity. Further, the ability to execute or debug commands, both SQL and stored procedures, rounds out the rapid development process that Eclipse supports so well. Finally, bridging chasms, whether between relational, object, or other structures, presents challenges that data management tooling should address.
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The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics and the Briscoe Library have chosen Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, MD, JD as the basis for a Community Discussions in Social Justice Project. Dr. Tweedy will present the Frank Bryant Jr, MD Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics on April 19, 2016 at 12 noon in the Holly Auditorium at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, followed by a reception and book-signing at 1:00 pm.
The Library will support book discussion groups and community dialogue leading up to Dr. Tweedy's visit to campus. For more information, visit the Community Discussions in Social Justice website.
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A federal judge struck down an important surveillance provision of the antiterrorism legislation known as the USA Patriot Act yesterday, ruling that it broadly violated the Constitution by giving the federal authorities unchecked powers to obtain private information.
The ruling, by Judge Victor Marrero of Federal District Court in Manhattan, was the first to uphold a challenge to the surveillance sections of the act, which was adopted in October 2001 to expand the powers of the federal government in national security investigations.
The ruling invalidated one piece of the law, finding that it violated both free speech guarantees and protection against unreasonable searches. It is thought likely to provide fuel for other court challenges.
The ruling came in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against a kind of subpoena created under the act, known as a national security letter. Such letters could be used in terrorism investigations to require Internet service companies to provide personal information about subscribers and would bar them from disclosing to anyone that they had received a subpoena.
Such a subpoena could be issued without court review, under provisions that seemed to bar the recipient from discussing it with a lawyer.
Judge Marrero vehemently rejected that provision, saying that it was unique in American law in its "all-inclusive sweep" and had "no place in our open society."
He ordered that his ruling would not take effect for 90 days, to give the Bush administration time to appeal.
Anthony Romero, executive director of the A.C.L.U., called the ruling a "stunning victory against John Ashcroft's Justice Department." He said it would reinforce arguments the group had made in a separate challenge in Michigan to another surveillance section of the act.
The ruling does not affect many sections of the act, which is more than 350 pages long, that give the government enhanced powers to control immigration, conduct searches and investigate financial support for terrorism. It comes as Congress is debating additions to the Patriot Act.
Bush administration officials have said the Patriot Act is a foundation of their efforts to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans.
The civil liberties group's suit was brought on behalf of John Doe, an Internet provider company that received a national security letter from the F.B.I., but was barred under its terms from revealing its name. Until the judge revealed the facts of the case in his ruling, the civil liberties group had been reluctant to state publicly that it was representing a company that had received a national security letter.
Such subpoenas would prevent Internet companies from telling customers that the F.B.I. had collected their information.
The companies were required to provide customers' names, addresses, credit card data and details of their Internet use. It is not clear how many of the subpoenas have been issued in the last three years. But a list obtained by the A.C.L.U. covering the 14 months after the act was passed was six pages long, although the companies' names were blacked out.
Judge Marrero said he hoped to strike "the most sensitive judicial balance" between national security and basic freedoms. He was aware, he wrote, that the Sept. 11 attacks had created "an atmospheric pressure, a heavy weight that, foglike, has loomed densely" over the case.
He said the subpoena violated the Fourth Amendment because it did not allow for review by a court. He called it "an ominous writ" that the F.B.I. issued "in tones sounding virtually as a biblical commandment." He said he worried that anyone who received a national security letter, except "the most mettlesome and undaunted" targets, would feel barred from consulting a lawyer.
In January, Judge Audrey B. Collins of Federal District Court in Los Angeles struck down a clause of the act that barred providing material support for terrorist groups, saying it was too vague and broad.
In its case in Michigan, the A.C.L.U. is challenging a section of the act that allows the F.B.I. to obtain a court order to force any organization to turn over tangible evidence. Before the act, investigators seeking to obtain concrete evidence had to convince the court that the organizations or people were spies or terrorists for a foreign government.
Correction: October 1, 2004, Friday An article yesterday about a judge's ruling to invalidate some federal surveillance powers referred incorrectly to a subpoena statute that was struck down. While the statute -- authorizing the use of subpoenas known as national security letters -- was amended by the antiterrorism legislation called the USA Patriot Act, it was not created under that act. It was enacted in 1986 and amended several times, including once in October 2001 under the Patriot Act, to expand its application. The judge's ruling analyzed and struck down the statute as a whole, including provisions that predated the Patriot Act.


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KREATOR: 'Phantom Antichrist' Album Artwork Unveiled
German thrash metal veterans KREATOR will release their new album, "Phantom Antichrist" on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD is currently being recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with renowned producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH).
The cover artwork for "Phantom Antichrist" was created by Wes Benscoter (SLAYER, DIO, BLACK SABBATH) and can be seen below.
KREATOR will release a seven-inch single containing the "Phantom Antichrist" title track on April 20. The collector's item will be available in colored red vinyl (limited to 250 pieces) as well as in clear vinyl (limited to 250 pieces, exclusively available at the Nuclear Blast mailorder).
A brand new promotional photo of KREATOR can be seen below (photo by Stefan Heilemann of Stuttgart, Germany's Heilemania).
When asked about the musical direction of KREATOR's new material, the band's guitarist/vocalist Miland "Mille" Petrozza stated in a recent interview, "The songs are coming along great and I think it's OK to say that this will be our most epic album so far. There's some classical, a lot of traditional metal, and, of course, a huge dose of thrash metal influences in the new stuff. Everyone in the band is very excited at this point. The demos sound killer so far. We have about 10 songs we're working on so far.
Regarding the lyrical and visual concept for the forthcoming CD, Petrozza said, "It's too early to talk about the lyrics yet; many are written, but they keep changing all the time. Visually, we have tapped Wes Benscoter [BLACK SABBATH, DIO, SLAYER, CATTLE DECAPITATION, BLOODBATH] for the cover art. I can tell you this much: The artwork will be insane!"
In an interview with Aftonbladet journalist Mattias Kling, Petrozza stated about KREATOR's collaboration with Jens Bogren, "He's really good; I like him. I like the sounds that he gets. And I think the combination — Jens Bogren and KREATOR — it will be pretty heavy."
On the topic of how the new material is different from KREATOR's previous output, Mille said, "It's always a little hard for me to talk about music has been written but is not released yet. It will definitely have all the KREATOR trademarks. The lyrics will talk about nowadays stuff, as usual, so it will be like a photography of the year 2012. Also the lyrics will deal a lot of things that are actually happening at this point in time. It will be like reading a newspaper or something [laughs], with all the stuff happening. And, of course, the music will be typical KREATOR, and we also wanna expand the sound and progress as musicians. I mean, this lineup has been the strongest lineup KREATOR ever had since ten years, and now I think we're ready to come out with an album that blows everyone away."
KREATOR is:
Miland "Mille" Petrozza – Vocals, Guitrar
Sami Yli-Sirniö – Guitar
Christian "Speesy" Giesler – Bass
Jürgen "Ventor" Reil – Drums
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A music producer or the producer's agent might choose to sign a deal with an individual artist, a band, a production company, or a record company. The agreement could be for just a master or an entire album. Some of the following key terms might be addressed in a producer agreement: Responsibilities Specific producer points Record one royalties—whether producers are paid on all records sold without recoupment of recording costs Other royalty deductions Advances Rights and ownership of masters First right of refusal clause. Music producer contracts and agreements can protect everyone involved in the recording by explicitly detailing duties and compensation.
Points Of Survival: Producers find new revenue sources though publishing. Basketball players aren't the only professionals happy when they score points. In the business of music production, points refer to the royalty percentage that is generally part of a producer's compensation. Typically, a producer negotiates between 2 and 4 percent of the retail sales of an album he or she produced, as well as a cash advance on those royalties. While 4 percent out of 100 percent might seem insignificant, tie that to a few million records over the course of a multi-year career and the "mailbox money," which in the music industry's heyday constituted almost an annuity, and it begins to look quite substantial. But in the face of declining CD sales and increasing single-song downloads, the point model for producers has gotten a lot hazier. The revenue stream for the music industry as a whole has shifted over the last few years, with more emphasis on live performance, which leaves producers in the wings unless they're hired to produce a live album.
(And that sub-category of recordings has become less robust since the heady days of Jackson Browne's Running On Empty and Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive .) How are record producers adapting to a changing economic landscape? Perhaps the most widely employed has been to garner more royalty participation through co-writing songs with the artist. Tony Drootin, a partner in New York-based SevenSeas Media Management, which represents producer/mixer writers such as the Copenhaniacs and Marshall Leathers, says that writing with artists has become even more critical as producer fees decline. Royalty participation via publishing is becoming so important that some composers have become producers themselves in order to gain better access to artists. To underline the importance of participating in royalties via publishing, Drootin notes that producer royalties are limited to unit sales and some uses of the master recording such as DVD sales. Publishing royalties, on the other hand, can come from unit sales, airplay, synchronization use in films and television, commercial adaptations, and other sources. "Some producer/songwriters are taking less on the producer advance side in an effort to make sure their composition makes the album," Drootin says. "Publishing is where it is at right now." In addition to securing publishing splits on albums as a means of compensation for her producers, Alia Fahlborg, head of Nettwerk Producer Management, who represents GRAMMY-nominated producer Howard Benson, GRAMMY-winning producer Matt Serletic and GRAMMY-winning mixers Bob Clearmountain, Chris Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge, among others, has also started to negotiate 360 deals for producer clients. "I see the 360 deal as one of the future models for producer deals," says Fahlborg. "Record sales have become less important over the past several years and there is more emphasis on the combined income streams. Record companies now have an interest in the whole pie, and for most artists and bands, the driving component of all of the other income streams is still the recording. Producers are in the trenches with the artist creating that main product from which all of those other income streams are generated. It makes perfect sense for them to participate accordingly. I'm finding that artists and labels are opening up to sharing the revenue in order to secure a producer who can really make a difference for them." Aside from downloads and streaming music, another economic issue is the widely fluctuating price of CDs. With artists selling albums through websites, at gigs and through myriad distribution channels such as Amazon and the Orchard, the same CD can range in cost from $5 to $15, creating an accounting nightmare. Producer manager Bennett Kaufman, who heads up the BK Entertainment Group in Los Angeles and a roster including GRAMMY nominee Johnny K, Neal Avron, Don Gilmore, and Brian Malouf, says he'd prefer to go to a flat-rate proposition — an advance for production work and then a "penny" rate — for instance, 40 cents per LP sold, which presumably would be adjusted pro rata for single-song downloads. "Then you can sell [CDs] for $1 or $18, it doesn't matter," says Kaufman. More revenue could potentially accrue for producers pending the passage of the Performance Rights Act, H.R. The bill, which is strongly supported by The Recording Academy and the musicFIRST Coalition , would close a loophole that now exists and create parity with Internet and satellite radio, which have been required to pay performance royalties since the passage of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in 1995, by securing a royalty for terrestrial radio airplay for both featured and non-featured artists. In addition to artists, producers also have participation in Internet and satellite performance royalties via a letter of direction in which featured artists authorize SoundExchange, the nonprofit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite and Internet radio, cable TV music channels and other digital platforms, to pay royalties to the producer. Passage of the Performance Rights Act would extend this participation to terrestrial radio. "From a financial perspective I strongly believe that producers should participate in performance income, both from streaming as well as from broadcast," says Kaufman, who was part of a Recording Academy contingent that lobbied Congress last March in Washington, D.C.
"This is a very important issue for us right now." Three-time GRAMMY winner Michael H. Brauer mixed the top-selling global album in 2008, Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends . Brauer estimates the 6.8 million copies sold worldwide were probably 40 percent to 50 percent less than the top seller would have been five years ago, adding that he's seen his royalty revenue drop commensurately. He believes the fact that mixers now participate in royalties suggests that if artists and management truly believe a particular producer, mixer or engineer is vital to making their record a hit, they'd be willing to include that person in the airplay royalty stream. "Fifteen or so years ago, no one wanted to give the mixer a point," says Brauer, who has mixed for artists including the Fray and John Mayer. "Now, certain mixers can command it because they refused the work without it. And once artists saw that the top 10 mixers were making all the hits, they went along with the idea." The rules that once shaped producer royalties have changed dramatically. Until the music industry once again finds some consistency, each deal could be a different proposition. "As CD sales keep declining, the producers who are willing to be flexible in how their deals are structured are the ones who are surviving," says AaronWilhelm, a manager at Nettwerk Producer Management and colleague of Fahlborg. "If you can't roll with how things are changing you're going to get left behind." (Dan Daley is a freelance journalist covering the entertainment business industry.
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A nebulizer is a device used to deliver liquid medicine in the form of a fine mist (aerosol). It is sometimes used for asthma because:
- The medicine can be given over a longer period of time.
- It may be easier to use for small children or for people who have serious difficulty breathing or have trouble using an inhaler.
A nebulizer uses a face mask or mouthpiece to deliver medicine. You breathe in the medicine through the mouthpiece or face mask. The mouthpiece or face mask needs to be cleaned after each use.
If your child seems afraid to use a nebulizer, you may be able to help him or her by:
- Putting the mask on your own face first to show your child there's nothing to be afraid of.
- Have your child put the mask on a favorite stuffed animal to show that it isn't dangerous.
- Distract your child during treatment, such as by watching a favorite TV show together or reading a book to your child.
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trace of history
Traveling the Boone's Lick Trail offers a lesson
in Missouri's forgotten 19th-century past
trace of history
Traveling the Boone's Lick Trail offers a lesson
in Missouri's forgotten 19th-century past
trace of history
Traveling the Boone's Lick Trail offers a lesson
in Missouri's forgotten 19th-century past
by Bob McEowen
A granite marker
stands on the lawn of a modern ranch home in suburban St. Charles
County. The stone block, placed by the Daughters of the American
Revolution in 1913, is one of 30 similar stones along a path stretching
120 miles from St. Charles to New Franklin. Each stone recalls a
stagecoach stop, tavern, fort or some other outpost along the Boone's
Lick Trail, an early road traveled by pioneers who settled Missouri.
Today, sprawling subdivisions, shopping malls and four-lane highways
surround the marker. Recently, a traveler visiting the site would have
seen a flatbed trailer bearing a "For Sale" sign securely
chained to the granite block.
This irreverent use of a historical marker may be symbolic of how Missourians
value their past. The Boone's Lick Trail was essential to the
development of Missouri but it's largely overlooked or forgotten
by most residents of the state today.
"This history is the most important and most valuable history
west of the Mississippi River and Missouri just hasn't done a
thing with it. It's not in our books," says Ken Kamper,
a historian who specializes in the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone
and his offspring.
What the history
books lack, a dedicated traveler can discover by visiting just a
few historic sites along the Boone's Lick Trail. These
sites — historic St. Charles, the Boone home near Defiance, the
historic town of Arrow Rock and the Boone's Lick State Historic
Site — provide a sense of early Missouri history and an appreciation
for the trail that once linked these locations.
The importance of the Boone's Lick Trail and its predecessor,
the Boone Trace, cannot be overstated, says Kamper, resident historian
at the Daniel
Boone Home and Boonesfield Village in southern St.
Charles County.
"The Boone's Lick Trail was the only trail people were
using going west until you got to the Oregon Trail and the Sante
Fe Trail," he says. "It was a major corridor for 40 years."
The Boone's Lick Trail carried travelers as far west as Franklin,
where the Sante Fe Trail began. In New Franklin, back-to-back markers
recognize the end and beginning of the two trails. Ironically, the
Boone's Lick Trail marker is scarcely noticed as flowers
surrounding the much larger Sante Fe Trail marker cover it.
Often what brought settlers along these trails was Daniel Boone himself.
Throughout his life Boone opened an ever-westward-reaching frontier,
first leading settlers across the Blue Ridge Mountains into Kentucky
and later into Missouri.
"This is the guy who is moving America westward," Kamper
Boone came to Missouri, then a Spanish territory, in 1799. Lured by
an offer of a generous land grant for himself and every family that
followed, the Boones settled in the Femme Osage Creek Valley, not far
from the Missouri River at present-day Matson. The settlement, arguably
the westernmost American village at the time, was noted in the journals
of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
Little remains of the Boone settlement. A roadside display describes
the holdings of various Boone relatives. A tree, planted in 1999,
recalls Boone's "Judgment Tree" where he held court
as territorial commandant. A monument near Marthasville marks the
burial site of Daniel and Rebecca Boone.
Most notable, the
incorrectly named Daniel
Boone Home (it was actually Nathan Boone's
home) located north of Defiance on Highway F, preserves the history
of the family and a few original artifacts. Now a campus of Lindenwood
University, the site also includes Boonesfield Village, a cluster
of historic structures all carefully moved from their original locations
and rebuilt on the Boone grounds.
"I think it's a little bit of a secret treasure," says
Pam Jensen, site manager. "People have not realized, lately,
the importance of the Boone family.
"Here you are able to tour the home and find out all about the
Boone family, both in their time prior to Missouri, what they
did in Missouri and also about the sons, Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, who
are also very important to Missouri settlement."
In 1805 the Boone brothers located a salt lick in Howard County, in
present-day central Missouri. Salt was essential for settlers, who
used it to cure meat. The Boones established a business, boiling water
from the saline spring and shipping the precious salt 160 miles down
the Missouri River to the Boone settlement.
Initially, settlers
traveled to this new outpost along the Boone Trace, a barely marked
footpath that followed the river to the lick. In 1808 Nathan Boone
led a group of militiamen under the command of William Clark — then returned from his historic voyage — from St.
Charles to Franklin, near the salt works. Their path, a few miles north
of the Boone Trace, eventually became the Boone's Lick
There are no public remnants of the original trail today. Instead,
its course became "the state road" prior to the 20th century.
The route closely paralleled today's Highway N through
St. Charles and Warren counties and Interstate 70 from Warrenton
to Boonville.
In fact, it could be said that the Boone's Lick Trail
gave birth to the interstate. In 1911, the Daughters of the
American Revolution led a crusade for a national highway built
along the old frontier roads. Missourians, especially the Missouri
Good Roads Committee, led that fight. Their determination that
the pioneer paths form the basis of the national road system
won the day.
Much of the Boone's Lick Trail became U.S. Highway 40 and later
I-70. In fact, the first section of the interstate completed was just
a few blocks from the beginning of the Boone's Lick Trail.
The intersection of South Main Street and Boone's Lick Road in
St. Charles' historic district is considered the start
of the trail. This area is alive with an eclectic mix of shops,
restaurants and historic sites. Visitors can tour museums dedicated
to Lewis and Clark, learn about Missouri's first
state Capitol and generally revel in the state's history.
It took days for
a 19th-century sojourner to reach the Boone's
Lick from St. Charles. Today, travelers can make the trip in just two
hours, traveling I-70, or a half-day's drive if stopping at historic
markers. To find the markers, purchase a copy of Dan Rothwell's "Along
the Boone's Lick Trail" at one of the many museums
or historic sites in St. Charles, or at the Arrow Rock State
Historic Site at the other end of the trail.
Travelers to "the Boone's Lick Country" soon
found not just the salt works but also the settlements of
Boonville, Rocheport and Arrow Rock, among others. As happened
in Kentucky and elsewhere, where the Boones went, others
This is especially true after the War of 1812. While America
fought the British in the East, in Missouri it was largely an
Indian war. The end of hostilities brought relative safety for
settlers and a flood of migration ensued. In 1812 the non-Indian
population of the Boone's
Lick region was just 500. By 1821 it was 15,000.
Michael Dickey, site administrator at the Arrow
Rock State Historic Site, says the Boone's Lick Country was the
primary destination of settlers in the early 19th century.
"There were several famous quotations," Dickey says. "John
Mason Peck, Baptist missionary, talked about the number of
settlers coming west in 1816 and '17. He said they came like
an avalanche.
"He said it seemed like all of Kentucky and Tennessee were breaking
up and moving to the far West. Stop a traveler and ask him
where he was going and he'd say, 'To the Boone's Lick, to
be sure.'"
The history of
this migration is told at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site visitor's center. Across the river, near tiny Boonesboro,
the Boone's Lick State Historic Site preserves the
location of the original salt works.
Arrow Rock itself is ripe with history. The Friends of Arrow Rock offers
tours of the historic village which take visitors to the 1834 Arrow
Rock Tavern, a pioneer gun shop and the homes of artist George Caleb
Bingham and Dr. John Sappington, who developed a cure for malaria and
led a political dynasty that included four governors.
Beyond Arrow Rock, related history can be found at Fort Osage near
Sibley and at the National Frontier Trails Center in Independence.
of the history of the Boone family and the Boone's Lick
Trail is overlooked because of the way the state designates
tourism regions, says Kathy Borgman, executive director of Friends
of Arrow Rock.
"In the tourism book, we're in three
different regions here and yet we don't fit in any of them," she
says. "We get
put in with the Lake of the Ozarks. We have much more in common with
St. Charles than we do the Lake of the Ozarks."
Instead, Bergman, Kamper and others say tourists who recognize
the significance of the Boone's Lick Trail will discover an entire
region shaped by Daniel Boone and his family. Doing so, she says,
Missourians can begin to experience and appreciate a part of their
own past often overlooked.
"It's a chance to learn a piece of Missouri history that people know
very little about."
For information
about Arrow Rock and Boone's Lick state historic
sites call (660) 837-3330. The Department of Natural Resources' Web
site, www.mostateparks.com,
also offers information about these sites, as well as the First Missouri
State Capitol in St. Charles. For information about The Daniel Boone
Home and Boonesfield Village call (636) 798-2005.
The Friends of Arrow Rock also
maintains a Web site. Log onto www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/trails.htm for
a history of the National Old Trails Road.