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This "Hated" Retail Stock Could be on the Verge of a Huge Comeback
Over time, the nation's major department stores have always sought to provide consumers with a unique shopping experience. Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) was known for a healthy mix of hardware and appliances along with the usual assortment of clothes, jewelry and shoes. Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) was known for a solid merchandising touch in its clothing lines — at reasonable prices. Target (NYSE: TGT), for its part, sought to be the home of trendy designers, such as Isaac Mizrahi and others.
#-ad_banner-#Yet in the past half-decade, it's become increasingly hard to tell these chains apart, as they've started to replicate each other's look and feel inside stores. As a result, same-store sales and profit growth have cooled off, and only Macy's (NYSE: M) can truly say that it has picked up market share with consumers. Investors have surely taken note: Shares of Macy's are up roughly 20% during the past five years. That may not seem like much until you realize that Macy's rivals have all seen their stocks move lower in that time frame.
Perhaps no retailer has suffered from the industry's glut of me-too stores more than JC Penney (NYSE: JCP). The company's board realized that this once-thriving retailer had lost its edge and needed a change. It did so this past autumn and hired former Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) executive Ron Johnson to turn things around. His efforts thus far have been quite uninspiring, so investors are still saddled with a losing play: Shares of JC Penney are off a whopping 60% during the past five years, the worst performance of any major department store retailer.
Breaking the discount habit
JC Penney's Johnson quickly tried to show that he was unlike most retail executives. He made a bold move that clearly hurt the company's results in the near-term, yet it will likely end up helping in the long-term. He decided that the never-ending process of discounts and promotions had conditioned consumers to avoid paying full price. For this retailer, this means that earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margins had begun to steadily fall from around 11% in the middle of the past decade, to the 6% to 7% range in fiscal (January) 2010 and 2011 to just 3% in fiscal 2012. Johnson realized that the only way to rebuild margins was to get consumers to pay full price.
Of course, if the company's stores are virtually identical to rival's stores, then why would consumers want to shop at JC Penney's? Here's where the Apple angle comes into play. Johnson has been hinting for quite some time that JC Penney would emerge as a very different kind of retailer. And now we have a glimpse of what he's been planning.
The Texas prototype
On Sept. 19, JC Penney walked analysts and the financial media through a heavily revamped store in Dallas, and it quickly became clear how JC Penney aims to be different. Note that Apple has had remarkable success in its retail efforts by creating a compelling environment for consumers to simply come in and hang out. Many consumers go to Apple's stores with the mere intention of browsing and seeing the latest offerings. Yet many end up making a purchase anyway. The conversion rate — or Apple's ability to turn foot traffic into retail sales — is among the highest in the business.
In a similar vein, Penney's Dallas prototype aims to draw in more foot traffic, but without aggressive sales tactics. Instead, consumers are encouraged to browse and meander, and not explicitly seek out a purchase. It's a counter-intuitive logic that just may work. To attract consumers, JC Penney employs a three-part retailing concept:
• Shops: Where consumers enter into unique store-within-a-store units that feel very different from the traditional big box department store experience.
• Streets: Which are lined with coffee bars, juice bars and other places to stop along the way.
• Squares: Where family members that don't plan to shop (such as dads and kids) can hang out and engage in activities, such as games.
Tying these together is a heavy use of technology — from what customers can feel and use, to back-office administration efforts. That's another page from the Apple playbook. Analysts at Citigroup say that a heavy use of technology "…will create a faster, more enjoyable shopping experience for the customer and will lower the overall operating costs of the store."
Risks to Consider: JC Penney is launching this turnaround while consumers remain under duress. Major sales gains may be hard to achieve until the economy is on firmer footing. In addition, rival department store operators are paying attention and may look to mimic JC Penney's moves if they are successful. Lastly, management has recently noted that same-store sales at most of its (yet-to-be-revamped) stores remains tepid, so near-term quarterly results are likely to be mediocre at best.
Action to Take –> Despite a well-received presentation of the new Dallas prototype, shares remain stuck in the mud. That's because analysts have no reason yet to change their earnings models, and they see a stock that is fairly valued based on near-term operating metrics. Yet that's precisely the backdrop you should look for when seeking out turnaround stocks.
Once a few of the new JC Penney stores have rolled out, the company has the potential to deliver improving same-store sales results. If that happens, then analysts start to extrapolate newfound momentum across the store base. So analysts may start to boost their outlook for Penney's profits into mid-decade as the store upgrades really build a head of steam. That's why you need to track this turnaround now, and not wait until sales trends are noticeably better.


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This is another photograph from my collection of unknown people.
The photograph is printed on a post card. The imprint on the reverse of the photograph is Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool.
Whoever these two fine looking gentleman are they are presumably enjoying a holiday or day trip to Blackpool. I don't know when the photograph was taken however. I do know that some of Howell's photographs had a very helpful date stamp on the reverse – sadly that is not the case with this one.
There is quite a bit of information on the Internet about Charles Howell including this interesting blog post by Photo-Sleuth on his blog here.
It appears that Charles Howell opened a studio in 1913 at Bank Hey Street, Blackpool – just behind the promenade close to the Tower. He specialised in producing novelty caricature portraits. You could be photographed wearing a top hat, playing a banjo or holding a giant bottle of beer. You could also be "snapped" on a paper mache horse or a real live donkey.
However his trademark was a motorcycle (like the one above). If you follow the link to Photo-Sleuth you will see a photograph of the outside of Howell's studio with the headline "Be Photographed on the Motor Cycle".
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Montana Man Catches Record Setting Saugeye in North Dakota
Wildlife officials have used genetic testing to determine the species of a record fish caught in the Yellowstone River in northwestern North Dakota.
Dan Faiman, of Fairview, Mont., caught the 12-pound fish early this year. It had identifying characteristics of both a walleye and a sauger, so genetic material was sent to a lab. The state Game and Fish Department says the testing determined the fish is a saugeye - a cross between the two.
Faiman's catch broke the previous saugeye record, set in 1984, by 4 ounces.


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A Pint With: Flying Dog Brewmaster Matt Brophy
Chatting about beer with the folks who make it.
I was first introduced to Flying Dog Brewery when they rolled out Gonzo Imperial Porter, their tribute to the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. The attitude and their beer—especially their Raging Bitch Belgian IPA, and Dog Schwarz, their Schwarzbier/Rauchbier hybrid—has kept me a fan ever since. I'm excited to have Brewmaster Matt Brophy take some time to tell us about what Flying Dog has been working on lately, the brewery's history with the Good Doctor and artist Ralph Steadman, and their recent fight for freedom of expression.
Who: Matt Brophy
What: Brewmaster and COO, Flying Dog Brewery
Where: Frederick, Maryland
How did you get into brewing? How did you learn?
I discovered homebrewing as a teenager and was captivated by the combination of art, science, and agriculture that is the craft of brewing.
What was your brewing experience before you started at Flying Dog?
I had worked at a small New Jersey brewery before moving to Colorado, working at Great Divide for five years.
Was there one beer that turned you on to craft beer? Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
What's in your glass if you're not drinking Flying Dog?
Something hoppy or something Belgian. Maybe Avery IPA or Westmalle Tripel.
How would you describe your brewing style?
Adventurous but not ridiculous.
Where do you look for inspiration when you're creating a new recipe?
Sampling other brewers' beers is a great source of inspiration when crafting a new recipe. In some cases the beer I intend to create is unlike any other. In such a case I will create a mental picture of the beer's profile and work backwards, putting the raw materials and process together to achieve the intended goal.
Ralph Steadman's art has made Flying Dog's labels some of the most recognizable packaging in American beer. What's the brewery's relationship with Ralph?
Ralph Steadman is a dear friend of Flying Dog brewery. George Stranahan, our founder and owner, lived in Woody Creek, Colo., for years on the Flying Dog Ranch. Adjacent to the ranch he owned a separate farm, the Owl Farm. The Owl Farm would become Hunter S. Thompson's home and "Gonzo Ground-Zero" after George invited Hunter to live on the farm. Over the years, Ralph would visit Woody Creek, and shortly after Flying Dog Brewery was founded it became the natural order of things for Ralph to draw our labels.
Tell us a bit about Backyard Ale, the smoked amber ale Flying Dog created in collaboration with Chef Bryan Voltaggio and his restaurant, Volt. How did you come to work with Bryan?
We thought the idea of working with a chef to come up with a beer recipe would be interesting on so many levels. Bryan is a good friend of the brewery, and of course we love his restaurant. It came up in conversation as something we both thought would be cool, so we went for it. The purpose of a collaboration is to learn new insights or ideas from whoever you are working with, and I think Bryan and I both learned a lot throughout the process.
What's your favorite food to pair with Flying Dog beer?
Ridiculously hard question. Gonzo and chocolate? Snake Dog and spicy Indian food? Road Dog and a portobello sandwich? This question truly depends on the time of year, what you're up to, and what you feel like getting into.
Any new releases coming up in The Wild Dog series?
The Wild Dog series serves as a developmental portfolio...Wild Dog represents to us the ability to have fun crafting new beer as well as offer our kick ass fans something new and different to taste. Some of the small batch beers that you will see rolling out of our brewery in the near future include the Backyard Ale collaboration with Bryan Voltaggio we discussed earlier, the continuation of our Imperial IPA series that has thus far been a single-hop beer using El Dorado, as well as our newest batch of Simcoe.
Beyond that we'll keep rocking things like Barrel Aged Gonzo, locally roasted Coffee Stout, Farmhouse IPA, and Dog Schwarz to name a quick few of the recent releases. It is worth noting that both Double Dog and Raging Bitch came up through the Wild Dog Series "circuit."
Flying Dog sued the Michigan Liquor Control Commission after the commission banned the sale of "Raging Bitch" in the state. What's the response been from the craft beer community?
The craft beer community, as well as the wider community of journalists worldwide have been incredibly supportive of Flying Dog challenging a system that is wrongly set in place to control the free expression of ideas. We find that it's a simple and basic constitutional and freedom of expression issue and it seems the community as a whole agrees.
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Arguments for:
- Will is a major, major power player. He is always up for consideration. And he has NEVER been the Sexiest Man Alive, despite having the most impressive box office records of anyone in the business. This is a major oversight.
- The Karate Kid was one of the biggest surprise hits of the year. It had everything to do with Will. He is almost always gold. Even when it comes to his children.
- Jaden Smith is a movie star now. Willow Smith and her whipping hair became a pop culture moment. Will's family is now Hollywood royalty.
- Will never ages. He is still the Fresh Prince we knew so long ago. He has not bloated, crusted, withered, or wrinkled. He looks great and everybody loves him.
- The Sexiest Man Alive has not been black in a long, long time. And even then it's only happened once, in 1996, when the magazine put Denzel Washington on the cover. In its 25th year, People would do well to make it non-white for a change.
Arguments against:
- Will hasn't been at the movies in a while, and won't be for another two years. So while he's been around in the form of his children, he himself has been out of the spotlight.
- Will is, above all things, a very, very astute business man. He knows that eventually the title will be his. But he'd want to leverage it for something. And until he has another project to sell, being the SMA this year could be seen as a wasted opportunity, one that would be better banked for the future.
- Um, the Xenu associations, especially with the school that he and wife Jada founded – it creeps people out.
-On their 25th anniversary, catering to the MiniVan Majority, will People commemorate the occasion with a black man? Will their demographic respond well to this?
Odds: 20 to 1
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New products introduced over the last week include the selection of MassMutual as provider of a Taft-Hartley retirement plan and a new TV app for stock, finance and market news in a joint Fidelity/Verizon venture.
In addition, a new report shows that updates in the VA market in Q3 increase benefits, but make few other changes.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) MassMutual Adds $23+ Million Taft-Hartley Retirement Plan
MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has been selected as the new provider for the Labor Unions 401(k) Plan based in Southern California, it was announced November 17. The Taft-Hartley plan has more than $23 million in assets under management and serves over 3,500 union members employed in the hotel, food service, gaming, textile, laundry, manufacturing, and distribution industries.
MassMutual has been serving the Taft-Hartley retirement plan market for more than 50 years.
2) Fidelity and Verizon Deliver First Stock, Finance and Market News Application on FiOS TV
Fidelity Investments and Verizon (VZ) announced Tuesday a joint project to provide Verizon's FiOS TV subscribers instant access to the Fidelity Market Monitor Application. Now available to Verizon's 4 million FiOS TV customers, the new app gives them instant access, directly on their televisions, to rich market data including quotes, charts, watch lists and financial news.
Verizon is the first cable or satellite provider to offer the Fidelity Market Monitor Application, and at no addition charge for FiOS TV customers. FiOS TV subscribers can access the Fidelity Market Monitor Application with their TV remote control, search for quotes and information about stocks and mutual funds, and view the information on the right side of their TV screen, while watching TV programming.
Once they select their desired stock or mutual fund symbol, subscribers can use their remote to scroll through a full-price quote, a historical pricing chart, and related news stories. Equity quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes. Subscribers can add up to 25 stock or fund symbols to their personal watch list, which is color-sorted based on the daily movement of each stock or fund (red for negative, green for positive, and black for no change).
3) Third Quarter VA Product Changes Slow, But Benefits Trend Toward More Generous
The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) released a report Tuesday on product trend updates within the U.S. variable annuity market. Compiled by Morningstar, the report found that VA benefit activity for Q3 slowed significantly from the robust filings made during Q2.
In Q3, carriers made 40 material changes, down from 162 changes in Q2, and down from 106 changes in the same quarter last year. New filings focus heavily on new share classes and the Lifetime Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB) benefit, which traditionally garner about 64% of new sales flows.
Despite the slowing of Q3 changes, more than a third of filings represented either a new VA contract or a new benefit. Carriers continue to experiment with new benefit design, with the trend toward more generous offerings.
Benefit structures continued to be shaped to allow for risk control and segmentation of the target investor base.
Contrary to the continued move to more robust benefits, VA contract costs have remained steady. Total average expenses remain unchanged from 2010 levels, coming in at 2.49%, consistent with the five-year average of 2.49%.
The entire report and analysis can be found here.
Read last week's Portfolio Products Roundup at AdvisorOne.com.


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Combining letter writing, potential publication, and the power of perspective, this lesson challenges students to think about how opinions develop and change based on such things as age, experience, time, and place. Students first freewrite about the potentially controversial topic of feminism, and share their thoughts in a class discussion. They read and discuss the short story "We" and Betty Friedan's "The Problem That Has No Name" and review the history of feminism and the goals of the feminist movement. After examining their own feelings about those goals, each student writes a letter expressing his/her views on the topic. Sealed in a stamped envelope, each letter is mailed to its writer by the teacher six years later.
This lesson focuses on feminism as a controversial topic, but the lesson plan can be used effectively with a variety of issues.
Letter Generator: Students can use this online tool to publish letters.
Putting It In PerspectiveA Letter to Myself: This handout explains the letter writing and publishing assignment.
By focusing students' attention on meaningful audiences, teachers can more effectively explore writing and publishing with students. This lesson plan concentrates on what Rubenstein describes as "writing that matters":
Only when adolescents are involved in writing that matters-and matters beyond the quest for the almighty A-can they produce work that speaks from their hearts and speaks to an audience beyond that of the teacher. Unfortunately, most students are all too comfortable with "school writing." Tell them to write a five-hundred-word essay on "My Most Important Decision" and they'll spew it out with ease, the bright ones even remembering to use that sacred five-paragraph format! And when the teacher reads these essays, some will be "good" and some will be "poor," but rarely will there be one that takes her breath away. Even if there is one essay that does, where will it go from there?. . . Certainly there is nothing wrong with teaching students to write personal essays. . . But as a form it is perhaps overused in middle and high school classrooms, and when students begin to see it as "the way one writes in school," they adopt a writing voice that is academic and artificial and calculated to please the teacher alone.
The teacher's task, then, is to design assignments that will have a natural audience-and one that extends beyond the classroom. When the audience is real-and red penless-so too does the writing become real, free of the classroom clichés and studentspeak that spoils good writing. (15-16)
Further Reading
Rubenstein, Susanne. 1988. Go Public! Encouraging Student Writers to Publish. Urbana, IL: NCTE.


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Sawsan and Nasim Shaheen are two sisters that began their hunger strike together on February 20 in a tent in front of the United Nations building in Ramallah. They have joined the Palestinian hunger striking prisoners in order to demand the liberation of political prisoners incarcerated by Israel.
The youngest one, Sawsan, is thirty four and subsists to this day only on water and salts.
"I came to knock on the [UN] door to say 'Wake up, we have prisoners," she said. "Many of them have been in prison for 22 to 25 years. I know that all the hunger strikes are important but for me, on the personal side, the pre-Oslo prisoners are more important because they have lost their lives inside the Israeli jails. Imagine yourself into a prison, any prison, when you are a child or a teenager. After that, you are forty, fifty, sixty…Where is your life?"
As the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Addameer exposes, there are 66 political prisoners that have spent more than 20 consecutive years inside jails, with the total number of pre-Oslo prisoners being 111. The Israeli government considers them to be political prisoners under the control of the state of Israel, and not of the occupation because they were arrested under alleged offenses caused before 13 September 1993 -the cutoff date for prisoners who were supposed to be included in subsequent releases.
Before the Oslo Agreement in 1994, Israel held more than 12,000 Palestinian political prisoners in its detention centers. During the singing of the Accords, Israel assumed the release of 5.000 Palestinian prisoners.
"I put my body to fast in my struggle in the same conditions as the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike," said Sawsan.
A number of diplomatic delegations have visited the tent during recent days, such as the International Humanitarian Aid, the Official Coordinator for the Peace Process in Middle East, and even the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Salam Fayyad.
"I hope they take my message," Sawsan said. "I think that this is a peaceful struggle. Around the entire world everybody is talking about the peaceful struggle and I am here as a Palestinian lady to say I am going to use my body for my country, for our dreams, for our lives."
She wants to make clear where her struggle is directed and wishes for the unity and more support from the Palestinian people.
"I am not challenging my government, I am challenging the occupation. Come support me, come take my hand and stand up with me, not just for me, but for the pre-Oslo prisoners."
Her sister Nasim shares with Sawsan the same struggle, including and a brother in jail.
"Why have I joined her in this initiative?" Nasim asks. "We both have been active for several years for the Palestinians prisoners. We followed all the political demonstrations on the Palestinian and in the Israeli side. But the Israeli side played us like a game, moving the prisoners around without taking into account what they want or what they need. We want to enforce the international community to look to the Palestinian prisoners' situation because [Israel has violated the] International Conventions, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law."
Palestinian prisoners' ongoing illegal situation
The current situation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons violates Articles 49, 76 and 77 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions that prohibit forcible transfers of protected persons out of occupied territory and require any imprisonment of protected persons to take place inside occupied territory. Additionally Article 77 states, "Protected persons who have been accused of offences or convicted by the courts in occupied territory, shall be handed over at the close of occupation, with the relevant records, to the authorities of the liberated territory."
Furthermore, the isolation and abandonment that prisoners suffer infringe upon Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil on Civil and Political Rights: Any discrimination on any ground such as race, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status is illegal. All persons are equal before the law.
In this case, there is preferential treatment for Israelis prisoners, whereas Palestinians captured inside the Occupied Territories are always tried under Israeli military Law.
Nasim cites another reason to join the cause. "We do not have to handle our ongoing situation just against the Israeli side but also against the extended idea that Palestinians are terrorists. Therefore we have to prove our rights through nonviolent actions."
The Peace Process marked the beginning of the use of prisoners as "confidence-building measures" and they have been considered since then as a key element of the further development of negotiations between Israel and the PA.
Meanwhile, the administrative detention policies and violent arrests go on. The recent death of the prisoner Arafat Jaradat set on fire the population and triggered protest around all West Bank that even brought out the idea of the starting of the Third Intifada in some minds. Jaradat died due to sustained injuries caused by torture under interrogation, after being arrested a few days earlier.
This is a chance for Obama and the world that he is representing to define one's position about our situation
This is a chance for Obama and the world that he is representing to define one's position about our situation
Hoping for change from Obama
Both women have lost their faith in the Palestinian Authority government and its options to deal with the situation, and so they appealed for the international community to intercede. The main goal of this hunger strike is to reach US President Barack Obama to become aware about the Palestinian prisoner cause.
"He is talking all the time about his family, about his humble presidency," Nasim said. "We need him to pressure Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. If he leaves without accomplishing anything, we won't care anymore about what it means to be Obama. Almost all of us have a special story. I have mine. My brother is in prison. He is a political leader and was sentenced to twenty seven years. Until now, he has already spent ten. The first time that the Israeli system allowed us to visit him was five years after his arrest. And now, we just can come to visit him once per year."
"The international community is talking about the Arab revolutions, as they are pointing out the importance of Democracy and Freedom. And what about us?" Nasim argues. "This is the last chance for the international community to take care for the Palestinians' rights. We do not know what would happen in the future or tomorrow. This is a chance for Obama and the world that he is representing to define one's position about our situation."
The sisters have sent a formal letter to the U.S. President for his upcoming visit this week, as well as to different embassies via the United Nations. The sisters concur that more lip service from the governments to satisfy the mainstream media is not acceptable, and stress that they want one decision to be made on the ground: The liberation of the Palestinian prisoners.
Sawsan Shaheen's message to US President Barack Obama
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Katie Holmes was in Batman with Michael Caine who was in Bewtiched with Will Ferrel who was in Anchorman with Ben Stiller who was in the Cable Guy with Jim Carrey.
Next: Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon was in "Sweet Home Alabama" with Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas was in "You Can Count on Me" with Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo was in ESOTSM with Jim Carrey
next: Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton was in The Cat in the Hat with Mike Meyers who was in Goldmember with Danny Devito who was in Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey.
Next: Micheal Keaton
michael keaton was in night shift with henry winkler who was in holes with signoury weaver who was in the village with adrien brody who was in the boy who cried bitch with jason biggs who was in american pie with tara reid who was in my boss's daughter with andy richter who was in elf with will ferrell who was in bewitched with nicole kidman who was in practical magic with sandra bullock who was in the prince of egypt with val kilmer who was in Batman Forever with Jim Carrey
Very impressive, ACD! I was actually thinking...
Michael Keatom was in Multiplicity with Andie McDowell who was in Groundhog Day with Bill Murray who was in Charlie's Angels with Cameron Diaz who was in The Mask with Jim Carrey.
But I think I like your way a lot better. More adventu rous.
ok ill do one more.
errol flynn was in too much too soon with efrem zimbalist jr. who was in batman mask of the phantasm with stacy keach who was in murder takes all with Jim Carrey.
dang it i wanted it to be longer.
i choose for the next person to do .....ashton kutcher
Ashton Kutcher was in Dude Where's My Car? with Jennifer Garner Catch Me If You Can with Leo DiCaprio who was in Titanic with Kate Winslet who was in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Jim Carrey.
Next: Collin Firth
Ah-nold was in "Batman & Robin" with George Clooney
George Clooney was in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" with Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter was in "Raising Arizona" with Nicholas Cage
Nicholas Cage was in "Peggy Sue Got Married" with Jim
next: Heather Graham
Sharon Stone was in Casino with Robert DeNiro who was in Meet the Fockers with Ben Stiller who was in the Cable Guy with Jim Carrey.
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SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's sole non-voting representative to Congress proposed legislation Wednesday that would offer U.S. statehood to the island if its voters wanted it.
The Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act, which has 30 bipartisan co-sponsors, marks the first time that legislation has been offered that would admit Puerto Rico as the 51st state in the more than century-long relationship between the United States and the Caribbean island.
The measure proposed in the House of Representatives would ask Puerto Rican voters, "Do you want Puerto Rico to be admitted as a state of the United States?" If they support statehood the bill directs the president to introduce legislation within 180 days to admit Puerto Rico as a state of the union "on an equal footing" with other states.
"The government of the United States is a champion of democracy and self-determination, and it has to adhere to these principles with respect to its own citizens," Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi said after introducing the bill. "Puerto Rico has been called the shiny star of the Caribbean, and it's time that our state shines, together with the other states, on the flag of the United States of America."
The measure must first be approved by the Natural Resources committee before it could go to a full vote. No committee hearings were scheduled yet, and the timing of any action was unclear.
The push for statehood follows a two-question status plebiscite held in Puerto Rico in November, in which 54 percent of voters said they were against continuing the commonwealth's territory status. A second question had voters choose among alternatives to the current status, with 61 percent voting for statehood, 33 percent voting for Puerto Rico becoming a nation in a free association with the United States and 5.5 percent voting for outright independence.
Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, who supports the current commonwealth status, said that his administration is in favor of efforts to seek a status solution, but currently places a higher priority on fighting crime and fixing the island's struggling economy.
The governor's pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party also downplays the performance of statehood in November's vote, noting that 26 percent of ballots cast in the second question were left blank as a protest that the status quo was left off the second ballot.
In March, the White House included as part of its budget proposal a plan to spend $2.5 million to hold a U.S. government-sanctioned vote that would allow Puerto Ricans to choose their political future.
Pierluisi said his bill is "distinct" but "consistent" with the president's proposal and serves as a model of how the vote called for by the president can be structured.
Much of Puerto Rico's status debate centers on how commonwealth is defined. Supporters describe Puerto Rico's relationship with the United States as a bilateral pact that allows the island some autonomy while enjoying being a part of the nation, but critics say it is a colony under the complete authority of the U.S. Congress that can be changed at any time.
In a March 2011 report, the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status found that Puerto Rico economic and social development was being hindered by the lack of a status resolution.
Debate over the island's status has long dominated politics in Puerto Rico, where political parties are formed around the status preferences of statehood, independence and the current commonwealth status. Puerto Ricans have voted to remain a U.S. commonwealth in four previous votes held since 1967, but the margin of victory has decreased over the years.
The United States seized Puerto Rico as war booty from Spain following the Spanish-American war in 1898. Island residents became U.S. citizens in 1917, and Puerto Rico was granted a larger degree of autonomous rule under commonwealth status in 1952.
Under commonwealth status, Puerto Ricans living on the island are U.S. citizens who can't vote for president and whose Congressional representation is limited to a nonvoting representative in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Most Puerto Ricans pay no federal income tax, but contribute to Social Security, are eligible to receive federal welfare benefits and have long served in the armed forces.
(Reporting by Reuters in San Juan; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)


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I had my doubts about candied peels. Store bought varieties are bitter and unpleasant and all in all they have always seemed like something that would always be too 'old' for me.
However I was very very wrong. Like most things, the store bought version does not represent how these taste when they are homemade. The candied peels are not bitter, instead they are intensely orange flavored and pleasantly sweet. When dipped in dark chocolate they taste like a gourmet chocolate orange and were snatched up quickly at the party I took them to.
The peels don't require any fancy ingredients or difficult steps, but they do take a bit of time because they need to cook in the sugar-water syrup. All you need is some oranges (or orange peels that you have saved) and some sugar.
Having an orange cat helps too, but this is optional.
First you cut the oranges in half and juice them. mmmm freshly squeezed orange juice.
Then, using your thumb or a spoon scoop out the flesh inside.....
.... so that you're left with just the peel.
Chop up the peel into strips, I made mine long so that I could dip them in chocolate.
Next the peels get blanched in boiling water three times and then simmered in syrup until translucent. Mine took almost an hour before the white changed completely.
I stirred mine a little bit too much towards the end which made the syrup crystallize. It didn't affect the taste or the end product but it did mean that I missed out on having left over orange syrup to add to drinks.
Dipping the peels in chocolate makes them delicious enough to wrap up and give away as gifts or bring to parties. I melted dark chocolate chips in one bowl and milk chocolate in another because I'm not really a dark chocolate person.
But I have to say, forget about the milk chocolate. It pales in comparison to the dark chocolate/ orange combo.
I'll be saving my orange peels in a ziplock bag in the fridge to make these again!
Candied Orange Peels
From Use Real Butter
4 oranges (or the peel from 4 oranges)
3 cups sugar
1 cup water
Chocolate of choice (choose dark!) for dipping
1. Juice the oranges
2. Scoop out insides, chop peel into strips
3. Place the peels in a pot and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil and drain. Repeat three to four times. This blanching gets rid of the bitterness in the peels so don't skip this step
4. Once you are done blanching the peels mix the cup of water and 3 cups of sugar together in a pot and bring to a boil. Do not stir too much, once the sugar has dissolved try to avoid stirring altogether. Boil until the sugar reaches 230F or just before soft ball stage.
5. Add peels, reduce heat and simmer until the whites turn translucent. This will take 30+ minutes, mine took almost an hour.
6. Remove peels from syrup (save syrup! It is delicious and orange flavored and can be added to drinks and baking) and dry on racks with cookie sheets under them to catch any drips.
7. If using chocolate, wait till orange peels are dry (4-5 hours). Melt chocolate, dip in peels, and let set on a rack or a cookie sheet.


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On March 14, the Securities and Exchange Commission's "pay-to-play" rule, officially known as the Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-5, went into effect. The rule restricts advisors' and their employees' ability to make political contributions to government officials to influence the selection of advisors to public pension funds and other government entities. Advisors are crying foul, however, stating that the SEC rule encroaches on their First Amendment rights to free speech, and some securities attorneys maintain that lawsuits could indeed be filed against the SEC arguing this constitutionality issue—and possibly others.
Advisors and industry professionals have other issues with the SEC's rule. Applying the pay-to-play rule "is extremely difficult because you have these very broad definitions that are sweeping and vague in their application," says Michael Koffler, a partner in the financial services practice at the law firm Sutherland. "Obviously, the SEC could not have envisioned every scenario that exists; there are a lot of questions [like] 'Does this [rule] apply to this situation?'" There are, he concludes, many "gray areas" in the rule.
Another irritant is that the Dodd-Frank Act required municipal advisors to register with the SEC by October 2010. To enable these advisors to temporarily register, the SEC adopted an interim final temporary rule, and the agency is now proposing new rules that would establish a permanent registration for municipal advisors and impose certain record-keeping requirements on them, including the agency's pay-to-play rule. The comment period on that permanent rule expired on Feb. 22. The SEC received nearly 800 comment letters stating that the rule was "too broad" in defining who is a municipal advisor, says Lynette Kelly Hotchkiss, executive director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). "The SEC has until the end of the year to give clarity on who is a municipal advisor," Hotchkiss says. "There are people who are clearly municipal advisors—about 700 advisors have been registered with MSRB already since Dodd-Frank. There's a lot of gray area—some are clearly municipal advisors and some are clearly not."
A 16-Year Lineage
The MSRB's rule G-37 was the first federal pay-to-play rule to take effect in 1994, and all subsequent pay-to-play rules, including the SEC's, have been modeled on G-37. MSRB's Hotchkiss calls G-37 "the lynchpin on which all other [pay-to-play] rules are based." It's important to note that G-37 was challenged in court for infringing on free-speech rights, but the courts declined to rule against it. After G-37, state and local governments started issuing their own pay-to-play rules, which are "broader, have different limits and cover more people," Hotchkiss says.
While the SEC's pay-to-play rule became effective on March 14, the SEC is allowing a six month transition period to provide time to identify "covered associates" and current government clients, and to modify compliance programs to address obligations under the rule. Therefore, contributions made before March 14, 2011 will not trigger the "two-year timeout" period.
Under the rule, a "covered associate" includes any general partner, managing member, executive officer and any other individual having a similar status or function; any employee who solicits a government entity on behalf of the advisor, and any direct or indirect supervisor of such person; and any political action committee (PAC) controlled by the investment advisor or any individuals identified above.
As the law firm Venable explains in a recent alert on the rule to clients, the "cornerstone" of the new regulatory framework under the SEC's pay-to-play rule is a "two-year ban on investment advisors receiving any compensation for providing advisory services to a government entity if the advisor or one of its 'covered associates' makes a non-exempt political contribution to a public official or candidate who can influence the award of advisory business." The two-year compensation ban "includes both management fees and carried interest, meaning an advisor could forfeit millions of dollars in fees for even a minor violation."
Pay-to-play practices can occur in a variety of ways, including through direct contributions to government officials, solicitation of third parties to make contributions or payments to government officials or political parties, or payments to third parties to solicit government business. Rule 206(4)-5 prohibits political contributions by certain employees of investment advisors. "The failure to comply, even if inadvertent, may subject an advisor to significant forfeitures, potential penalties and other sanctions," the law firm Venable notes.
Venable's alert warns its advisor clients as well that investment advisors subject to the SEC's pay-to-play rules "will need to educate employees and implement policies and procedures in order to prevent an inadvertent violation." Advisors will also need to "carefully monitor all new hires, promotions and other staffing changes in order to not run afoul of the rules," as well as comply with the rule's recordkeeping requirements.
The Genesis of the Rule
When the SEC proposed its pay-to-play rule in July 2009, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said that "pay-to-play practices can result in public plans and their beneficiaries receiving sub-par advisory services at inflated prices." The SEC's proposal "would significantly curtail the corrupting and distortive influence of pay-to-play practices."
Andrew "Buddy" Donohue, who was then head of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, said that these pay-to-play "practices are almost always harmful." He said that there's "been a troubling increase in the number of advisors who are involved in pay-to-play practices," adding that advisors who are involved in such practices "violate their fiduciary duties and fraud provisions."
The SEC's Rule 206(4)-5 was approved last year in the wake of "pay-to-play" scandals involving public pension funds in California, New York, New Mexico and other states, according to the law firm Venable.
Confounding the pay-to-play issue even more is a new proposed MSRB pay-to-play rule, G-42. Under Dodd-Frank, the MSRB was given "an expanded mandate to increase jurisdiction," the MSRB's Hotchkiss explains. "So we now have the ability to write rules that regulate broker-dealer behavior, but also the behavior of municipal advisors." The proposed rule G-42, which is out for public comment, "governs political campaign contributions for municipal advisors." The MSRB's board was meeting to review the rule in mid-April.
Causes of Confusion
It is this "proliferation" of pay-to-play rules, says Peter LaVigne, a partner in the financial services practice at the law firm Goodwin Procter, which is causing lots of confusion among advisors. "The SEC rule is only one of many. There are various state and local rules that cover a similar area, and it's this explosion of pay-to-play rules that is making it extremely hard [for advisors] to do business, especially when you are trying to solicit retirement funds and pension plans."
Advisors are "unclear" about all of the state and local pay-to-play restrictions, LaVigne says, "because it's not always easy to find out what they are." Ki Hong, a partner in the law firm Skadden Arps' Washington office, says there are 16 states that have pay-to-play laws, with New Jersey being the first state to adopt not one, but three pay-to-play laws in 2004.
The SEC's pay-to-play restriction has "lack of clarity as well," LaVigne argues, because one class that's covered in the SEC's proposed rule for municipal advisors are "persons who solicit municipal entities on behalf of an investment advisor." There is a "disagreement between the SEC and the practitioners, myself included, about whether that covers people who solicit municipal entities to invest in funds or whether it only solicits municipal entities to become clients of the advisor." Why is that significant? Because in Rule 206(4)-5, notes LaVigne, the SEC said that "you couldn't use a solicitor to solicit municipal entities unless the solicitor was either an investment advisor or a broker-dealer subject to similar pay-to-play rules." But because BDs are not subject to pay-to-play rules, the SEC, LaVigne says, told FINRA to start drafting [pay-to-play] rules, and meanwhile the [SEC] gave an extension of that part of the rule until September of this year. The SEC said to FINRA: Start [crafting] these rules and we'll give investment advisors until September before they have to stop using a broker" to solicit funds. However, when the MSRB rolled out its proposed pay-to-play rule, G-42, "the SEC came out and said 'anyone soliciting on behalf of these funds for an investment advisor is going to have to register as a municipal advisor anyway and they will be subject to the MSRB rule and therefore we don't need the FINRA rule.' So the SEC reportedly told FINRA [to] just stand down and stop drafting [its pay-to-play] rule now."
Misinterpretation and Compliance
Practitioners argue that the "SEC is misinterpreting the MSRB rule to say it covers people who solicit on behalf of funds," LaVigne continues. "So we're running into a problem where in September there will be a gap because BDs aren't going to be able to solicit on behalf of investment advisors." Regarding the SEC's municipal advisor rule, he says, "if the SEC doesn't alter its view on what it means to solicit on behalf of an investment advisor, there will probably be a lawsuit."
Various law firms have been warning their advisory clients in special alerts about how to comply with the pay-to-play rules, and the consequences for non-compliance. As the Venable firm warned its clients: "The penalties for non-compliance are significant, and a single impermissible political contribution could result in an investment adviser forfeiting millions of dollars in fees."
Attorney Hong of Skadden Arps says the SEC's pay-to-play rule is troubling because it's based on the MSRB's rule G-37, "which is meant to deal with the municipal bond underwriting business—a very transaction-oriented business—not an ongoing service" that investment advisors provide. Plus, he says, advisors have a fiduciary duty.
The SEC's rule states that a "two-year ban" would be placed on investment advisors receiving any compensation for providing advisory services to a government entity if the advisor or one of its "covered associates" makes a non-exempt political contribution to a public official or candidate who can influence the award of advisory business. So the way that the SEC's pay-to-play rule tries to accommodate that difference between its rule and G-37 is "that instead of not being able to do the business for two years, it says [advisors] can't be compensated for the business for two years," Hong says. "And because of [an advisor's] fiduciary duty, you can't dump a client immediately. The SEC recognizes that [the advisor] may have to provide services while the client looks for another advisor. So, in some extreme cases, the advisor could have to provide free services for two years."
Koffler of the law firm Sutherland also wonders how the SEC's pay-to-play rule applies to "two-tier structure issues" in products like variable insurance contracts with subaccounts. "There is not much guidance as to how the [pay-to-play] rule applies" to variable contracts of this sort, he says. If you have a variable contract with "subaccounts that invest in underlying funds and the underlying funds are managed by an unaffiliated investment advisor, how does the rule apply to that underlying advisor?"


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"A year-and-a-half ago, we introduced you to Legacy-the future of Star Wars. The series' original issue #0 has long been sold-out, and the information contained therein unavailable . . . until now. This greatly expanded and updated edition contains all of the information new readers need and that longtime readers are craving.
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This is pretty exciting… Today we moved the blog over from the test site (where I added all of the other entries) to SQLskills… I guess I better start blogging. In fact, I think I'll try and blog most of the questions I get in email. In fact, I got two today. Stay tuned….
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You are encouraged to raise funds for the Charity or needy cause of YOUR Choice, but please let us know how much you have raised for your cause.
To raise funds 'online' we suggest you go to either:- www.justgiving.com or www.virginmoneygiving.com, where you can also obtain Gift Aid to boost your monies collected.
Let us have your Sponsor forms/or details of your fundraising,by Prize Giving 2020 is on Sunday 26th April 2019, so that we have some idea of what has been raised,and who will win the Dyer Trophy for raising the most monies.
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Prize Giving Evening for 2019 is Sunday 14th April, 7.p.m. at AZUR, St Leonards-on-Sea
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This was Won by the Hundred Hulks Team by raising the massive total of £20,461 for the A.T Society.
It is estimated that over £100,000 has been raised for needy causes from this year's event so far, with more to come!
It also great to see the cardiac arrest runner, Jake Coleman, receive a memento from Tim Hodgson the Medic who shocked him with a defibrillator to bring back to life.
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Yale Peabody Museum hosts hands-on exhibition on 'Big Food'
Visitors to the newest exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will have an opportunity to investigate our origins as hunter-gatherers, explore an interactive timeline on the history of food, and identify popular processed foods by only their ingredients.
"Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating" opens on Feb. 11 and runs through Dec. 2. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Peabody, the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) at the Yale School of Public Health, and the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
"Museum exhibitions provide powerful experiences, especially when interactive components and stunning visuals involve visitors actively in their own learning," said Derek Briggs, director of the Yale Peabody Museum. "With the 'Big Food' show we want to use the museum experience to enable visitors to understand the complex factors, risks, and consequences involved in our food choices."
The opening celebration, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb 11, will feature family-oriented activities and displays by local food- and health-related organizations to promote healthy life choices, physical fitness, and food system sustainability. Families can enjoy a puppet show and crafts; children can challenge themselves in a physical activity scavenger hunt; and adults can try out a Zumba class.
"We want 'Big Food' to be a catalyst for change. At the end of the exhibition, we ask all visitors to make a commitment for themselves, their families, and their community," said Yale Professor Jeannette Ickovics, curator of the exhibition and director of CARE. "We want visitors to leave the exhibition feeling educated, energized, and empowered to bring evidence to action."
"Big Food" explores the neuroscience of appetite, genetics of obesity, and how food and energy are stored in the body. The exhibition will examine behavioral choice in nutrition and exercise, as well as the influence of social, environmental, and cultural settings.
The exhibition examines societal pressures such as the progressive growth of portion sizes, tackles media influences on food preferences, and considers serious health consequences that have increased the burden of chronic diseases.
"Obesity rates are increasingly high due in part to the fact that our environment promotes excess food consumption and too little physical activity," said Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of the Rudd Center. "'Big Food' takes scientific research on how human biology interacts with the current food environment and translates it into an enlightening, tangible, and fun experience for visitors of all ages."
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation is the presenting sponsor of the exhibition. "The overall aim of Big Food is in perfect alignment with Anthem's mission, to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve," said Eina G. Fishman, MD, MS, CPE, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Chief Medical Officer. "This exhibition gives the public information about obesity and empowers them with the tools to make healthy lifestyle changes.
In addition to support from Anthem, the exhibition is funded by The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation; General Electric healthymagination; Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; Yale-New Haven Hospital; Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine; The Anna Fitch Ardenghi Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee; IKEA New Haven; Blue State Coffee; and Chamard Vineyards.
More information is available at the museum's website.


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Stephen E. Nauss to Alexander Stewart Bowers Jr., 235 Willow Brook Road, Ardwood, $475,000.
Redfields Development Corp. to R. D. Wade Builder Inc., two lots in Redfields, $127,000.
Crescent Development Group LLC to R.D. Wade Builder Inc., lot in Still Meadow, $90,000.
Carol A. Wilson to Jill A. Cowan, 4727 Wren Court, Briarwood, $140,000.
Peter F. Burns, Trustee, to Christine Crawford, 3152 Summerfield Court, $249,000.
Ellen Lawton and William P. Irvin Jr. to Rodney N. and Pamela S. Sullivan, 1183 River Chase Ridge, Dunlora, $439,900.
Lois B. Rochester to Peter and Cora Cefaratti, 103 Shawnee Court, Carrsbrook, $327,000.
Peter F. Burns, Trustee, to Madeline M. Horton, Trustee, lot in Aspenwood, Forest Lakes, $92,500, and lot in English Oaks, Forest Lakes, $130,0900.
Marc J. and Julia L. Mastropaolo to John W. and Jennifer J. McCune, unit in Hollymead Townhouses, $227,000.
Eleanor S. and Winston W. Porter to Peter Burns, 2200 Wisteria Drive, North Pines, $252,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to J. Todd and Leah U. Daniel, 352 Grayrock Drive, Grayrock, Crozet, $292,928.
Fairfield Classic Homes Inc. to Karen D. and Vernon E. Morris Jr., 12 acres at 4406 Woods Edge Road, Troy, $240,000.
C. Michael McJunkins and Deborah J. Dillon to William R. Whitney, 2725 Hunt Country Lane, Wingate Farm subdivision, $1,150,000.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to Harold E. Neely Jr., 3182 Darby Road, Glenmore, Keswick, $730,000.
Barry T. and Sandra P. Donahoe to Maria D. Kelly, 1230 Grove Park Court, Walnut Hills, Earlysville, $617,500.
Bruce R. Barkley to Bonnie M. Clarke, 3078 Turner Mountain Wood Road, $775,000.
Glenda S. and Eddie N. Tate to Ruth M. Shaver, 2.01 acres on State Highway 635, 129 Miller School Road, $9,000.
Kenneth and Linda Eades to Susan S. Ferguson, 330 Barracks Hill Road, Ivy Farms, $655,000.
Canterbury Building Co. to Stephen J. and Adrienne L. Canterbury, 4.77 acres at 947 Cismont Ridge Road, Keswick, $273,028.
Kavanaugh Homes Inc. to Charles K. and Sheri G. Waddell, 3667 Perthshire Court, Glenmore, Keswick, $536,300.
Joy L. and Bobby R. McCauley to Denise Sprouse, 2107 Commonwealth Avenue, Westfield, $120,600.
Christine L. Stange to Bruce I. Phillips, 7.25 acres on State Route 827, 6372 Beagle Gap Road, Crozet, $72,000.
Joyce Finotti to Donald W. and Virginia M. Banton, 1182 River Oaks Lane, Dunlora, $319,900.
Karla K. Berger to Charles F. Morse 59.92 acres at 3828 Keelona Farm, $444,334.
Virginia Ann Klumpp, Trustee, to Lucia Lee Evans-Morse and Charles F. Morse, 30.49 acres at 3828 Keelona Farm, gift.
Grayrock LLC to R. D. Wade Builder Inc., lot in Grayrock, $59,400.
Jay E. Sirois and Catherine J. Wiernasz to Miles B. and Wendy C. Weiss, 1279 Gristmill Drive, Mill Creek, $203,500.
Gretchen V. Dean to Susan Burke, 734 Exton Court, RiverRun, $138,000.
Southland Homes Inc. to Gregory T. and Joyce B. McKenney, 1515 Running Cedar Court, Bentivar, $475,788.
Charles W. Hurt, Trustee of Advance Mills Land Trust, to Courtney P. Mudd, lot in Tanager Woods, $115,000.
Bruce B. Whitney to David J. and Betty Jo Braze, 2500 Milton Hills Drive, Milton Hills, $362,500.
John W. and Shirley B. Gribble to William W. and Ann Octavia Sacre, 5.849 acres off State Route 618, 5059 Tall Oaks Lane, $15,895.
Michael G. and Linda L. Frazier-Snelling to Elizabeth A. Edwards, 431 Maple View Court, Willow Lake, $187,900.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Boris P. Kovatchev and Rayna S. Robeva, 1111 Pike Place, Rivercreek of Dunlora, $333,725.
Jen Shih and Lian-Pin Lee to William L. and Linda W. Rudd, condo on Incarnation Drive, Branchlands, $182,000.
Blanche Q. Guess to Laura A. Martof and Richard J. Miller, 348 Westfield Road, $150,000.
Anne C. Coburn to Suzanne C. Pace, 1223 Chatham Ridge, RiverRun, $142,000.
Jane P. and Ebben C. Deaton Jr. to Lawrence and Darrah Seawell, 66 Oak Forest Circle, $160,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Michael G. and Linda Frazier-Snelling, 1130 Rustic Willow Lane, Willow Bend, $239,600.
Marc D. Goldbert to Jannette L. Boyes, 1.311 acres at 4581 Loving Road, North Garden, $116,000.
Thomas M. and Rebecca L. Phelan to Allison B. Linney, 726 Reas Ford Road, $205,500.
Robert P. and Rosemary C. Atkinson to Michelle and Gilbert M. Thompson Jr., 2548 Fallen Leaf Lane, $509,000.
Linda G. Crosby to Scott and Donna VandePol, 1717 Lambs Road, Ivy Farm, $500,000.
A.M. Nichols, Trustee, to MGR Development Corp., lot in Fontana, $73,500.
Susan Callaway and Frontis W. Evins III to Kenneth M. Eades, 955 Charter Oaks Drive, Charter Oaks, Dunlora, $409,000.
Tri-County Development Corp. to Ramona Little and David A. Davidson Jr., 4.38 acres at 3141 Priddy Court, Barboursville, $325,000.
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John S. DeCarlo, Trustee, to Dudley Wood MacFarlane, 3.0 acres, $1,675,000.


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State delays plan to move inmates out of old prison
The Iowa Department of Corrections is delaying plans to close the 175-year-old Iowa State Penitentiary after discovering problems in the heating and cooling system in its $132 million replacement.
The department said Tuesday that recent testing of the geothermal system at the newly-built prison in Fort Madison has found that it cannot provide the heating and cooling necessary for Iowa's summer heat and winter chill.
Department spokesman Fred Scaletta said authorities once planned to transfer 550 maximum-security inmates in March, but earlier delays caused the date to be pushed back to early summer.
Now he says the plans are up in the air because it's not clear how long it'll take to fix the geothermal system.
The Iowa State Penitentiary is the oldest operating prison west of the Mississippi River.


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This is colored copper bracelet, 8 inches, box weave, $15.00
Silver & gold plated Byzantine weave bracelet, 8 inches, $20.00
Gold & silver plated Byzantine weave bracelet, 8 inches, $20.00
Stainless steel, box & Byzantine weave necklace, 22 inches not counting the 1 inch drop. The stone is agate with a silver wire wrap design on it. Stone measures about 1-3/4 inches by 7/8 inch. $35.00
Stainless steel Dragonback weave bracelet, 8 inches, $25.00. There are a lot of rings in this piece, and it's a very time-consuming weave.
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