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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern tennis teams split a non-conference matchup with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) on Tuesday afternoon at the Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex. The GSW women were victorious over ABAC, 6-3. The men lost, 7-2.
GSW Women 6, ABAC 3
Mollie McGowan, Victoria Ondo and Melinda Vansant were victorious in both doubles and singles action for the Lady Hurricanes.
McGowan and Ondo teamed at No. 2 doubles to pick up an 8-5 win. McGowan proceeded to win her match at No. 3 singles and Ondo followed with a win at No. 4
Vansant won at No. 6 singles after partnering with Kalie Douberly for a win at No. 3 doubles.
McGowan and Vansant both won their singles matches by the score of 6-1, 6-1.
Southwestern travels to Montevallo on Friday for its final road match of the spring, a 3 p.m. contest against the Falcons.
|Singles competition
|1. Chanel Cunningham (ABAC) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-2, 6-0
|2. Karen Ching (ABAC) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-1
|3. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) def. Jordan Carter (ABAC) 6-1, 6-1
|4. Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) def. Carli Hester (ABAC) 6-4, 6-1
|5. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) def. Nikki Hall (ABAC) 6-4, 2-6, 1-0 (10-3)
|6. Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) def. Julia Saunders (ABAC) 6-1, 6-1
|Doubles competition
|1. Chanel Cunningham/Jordan Carter (ABAC) def. Carly Cangelosi/Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 8-3
|2. Victoria Ondo/Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) def. Karen Ching/Carli Hester (ABAC) 8-5
|3. Kalie Douberly/Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) def. Nikki Hall/Olivia Robbins (ABAC) 8-1
GSW Men 2, ABAC 7
The GSW men fell behind 3-0 after doubles play and could never recover in the loss to the Stallions.
Southwestern picked up its wins from Ryan Bartz and Jake Koonce at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, respectively. Bartz defeated Tim Kueckelhaus, 6-3, 6-2, and Koonce knocked off Matthew Anglin, 6-1, 6-4.
Yvan Ruelle played a marathon match at No. 3 against Taylor Hardy where he won the opening set 7-5, lost the second set 7-5 and dropped the third set, 7-6, with a 7-2 tiebreak score.
The Hurricane's final match of the year comes on Sunday at 2 p.m. against USC Aiken.
|Singles competition
|1. Kamil Oliver Snaider (ABAC) def. Stephen Moore (GSW-M) 6-4, 6-2
|2. Hernan Hatem (ABAC) def. Joseph Bjerregaard (GSW-M) 6-1, 6-4
|3. Taylor Hardy (ABAC) def. Yvan Ruelle (GSW-M) 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7-2)
|4. Danilo Faria (ABAC) def. Chris Eastwood (GSW-M) 6-1, 7-6 (7-3)
|5. Ryan Bartz (GSW-M) def. Tim Kueckelhaus (ABAC) 6-3, 6-2
|6. Jake Koonce (GSW-M) def. Matthew Anglin (ABAC) 6-1, 6-4
|Doubles competition
|1. Kamil Oliver Snaider/Danilo Faria (ABAC) def. Stephen Moore/Ryan Bartz (GSW-M) 8-5
|2. Taylor Hardy/Hernan Hatem (ABAC) def. Joseph Bjerregaard/Matt Vansant (GSW-M) 8-2
|3. Tim Kueckelhaus/Richard Symanski (ABAC) def. Yvan Ruelle/Valentin Demande (GSW-M) 8-2


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Carroll County Youth Services would like to say "thank you" to everyone who volunteered to make Safe Night possible and successful.
There were 150 Carroll County Middle School students who participated in a variety of activities to promote a safe and drug-free evening.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the area businesses and volunteers that made the Trimble County Youth Explosion a success. To all those that donated money, food, prizes and time, I thank you.
A special thanks goes to Rita Davis for her help and hard work and for putting up with me. To the Name Sake Band for playing for us, thank you; you were awesome!
To the people of the community who came and enriched their lives through this program, I thank you.
God Bless you.
I want to express my deep appreciation to all who helped with the cleanup of the debris left by the [Sept. 14] storm.
The City of Carrollton has never had such a windstorm before. Trees and limbs were everywhere: in the streets, in yards, on homes and on other buildings. The most amazing thing to me was that as bad as the storm was, all the streets in Carrollton were open (except the corner of Seventh and Sycamore) by six o'clock Sunday evening. People seemed to appear from everywhere with chainsaws to help clear the streets.
Recently, the Carrollton Police Department and Carroll County Detention Center have been conducting our fund-raisers in an effort to raise money for our annual Shop With A Cop Program.
This upcoming Christmas will be our eighth straight year for holding the event. Over the past seven years. we have assisted 432 children in the community and have spent $85,605 to ensure that they have an enjoyable Christmas.
If you were looking for a quality new or used car last week, I was just the person to call.
Or at least that is what prospective buyers must have thought, as my cell phone number appeared in 23 Louisville newspaper used car classified ads for three consecutive days.
And by the end of those three days, the sales manager at a local car dealership almost went into the business of selling goats.
Monday morning, the first call came shortly after 7 a.m. A polite young woman inquired about the Ford Mustang I had advertised for sale. I assumed it was a wrong number.
I would like to compliment Chief Ronnie McCane, George Griffith and the entire Trimble County disaster management team.
During the recent wind storm, they provided traffic control due to power outages to the traffic signals, risking personal injury when they needed to be at home taking care of their own properties.
Trimble County should be proud of this fine group of men and women.
Terry W. Olivigni
Bedford, Ky.
To the editor,
On Wednesday, August 27, 2008, Director of National Drug Control Policy John Walters announced the new grant recipients for Drug-Free Communities Mentoring Support Program. Our neighbor, the Henry Co. CARE Team, was one of only 14 coalitions from across the country to receive the grant award. So how does Trimble County benefit? With this grant, the CARE Team will work with community leaders to revitalize and strengthen the Trimble Co. Drug-Free Task Force as they strive to make an impact on the reduction of substance use and abuse in Trimble County.
They claim to be live, local and late breaking. They say they are reporting the news that affects you. But as far as I could tell last Sunday, Jefferson County television news programs consider local to mean only Louisville and parts of Bullitt and Oldham counties in Kentucky.
It appears that if you live in Trimble County, you are not the "you" they were talking about in all those news promos.
On Sept. 18, the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce and the Carroll County Community Development Corporation partnered in hosting the first Business Celebration Day on Courthouse Square in Carrollton.
The event was free to the public and showcased 51Chamber members. Mini-business seminars were held from 4-6:30 p.m. Food bought with donations from Arkema and the City of Carrollton was handed out for free to more than 400 people who attended.
Without a doubt, I think it's safe to say that "neighborliness" is alive and well in Carroll County.
After Hurricane Ike blew through the area on Sunday, Sept. 14 – actually, before Ike was even finished with us – people were out and about, moving trees out of roadways and checking in on their neighbors to make sure everything was OK.
The Housing Authority of Carrollton recently hosted it's ninth annual Neighborhood Watch Picnic. It was an evening of good food, wholesome fun and fellowship among neighbors. The steady growth in attendance each year shows that Neighborhood Watch really is a program without bounds.
Thank you to everyone in the community who gave time, energy and resources to help clean up the aftermath of last Sunday's wind storm.
From the time the storm began in the early afternoon until well into the night and the following morning, county residents were there, clearing trees and debris from roadways and participating in impromptu traffic control while the removal took place. Throughout the day, it was common to see the residents of our county exiting vehicles to saw a path through fallen limbs, making travel safer for everyone.
After the winds subsided on that Sunday [Sept. 14], Linda Davis, a neighbor down the street, was making her way through limbs, brush and downed trees, knocking on her neighbors' doors to see if they were all right.
This is a true example of a community. By dividing the word community, we have "commun" – living in an area together, and "unity" – working together.
We would like to publicly thank Kirby Melvin for his assistance removing fallen trees on our street during this last windstorm.
This is the second time that the weather has caused trees to fall on our street and Kirby's response was quick. We realize that during these times a lot of people call on Kirby for help, and he tries very hard to assist everyone. Thanks again to Kirby and his family for meeting the needs of the people.
Doyle and Faye Miller
There is a family in Ghent, Ky. that needs our help. The storm did a great deal of damage to their home. Wayne Lewellyn, his wife and two children need our help.
I'm having a yard sale Oct. 1-3, starting at 8 a.m. each day. If any one could donate something for this, the drop off is behind Ghent Baptist Church. This is also where I will have the yard sale.
She downed the whiskey quickly, slammed the shot glass to the table and raised a rebel yell.
Okay, not really, but that was what my friend teased she might do when we recently attended our first bourbon-scotch debate in honor of National Bourbon Heritage Month, which was created by the U.S. Senate in 2007.
We want to take this time to say thank you to Marilyn and Randy Webb for all the wonderful care and thoughtfulness shown to residents at Fairground Place Apartments during the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Ms. Marilyn has cooked all of our meals outside on a grill and Mr. Randy has brought hot coffee to us.
We have elderly residents living here that are on walkers and in wheelchairs and the Webb's have gone far and beyond their calling to see that everyone here is safe and well taken care of.
By SHARON GRAVES
The News-Democrat
A few weeks ago, I sat in the cold, darkened training room in Carrollton's City Hall, watching city and county employees train on the Firearms Training Simulator program. The digital program – known as FATS – projects onto a large screen, life-like situations in which trainees must determine how to subdue a suspect.
I didn't think that I could measure up to their training in such situations – even with "virtual" suspects.
Milton Elementary School will host its annual fish fry Oct. 18. We'd like to invite everyone to visit us on this special day.
This year will be the final fish fry at the current Milton Elementary School before our greatly anticipated mid-year move to the new facility. We are excited and nostalgic about the 'good ole days'! We want to make this year's fall festival a true "walk down memory lane".
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Fresh Apricot Compote with Vanilla/
The apricots available at my local farmer's market are of the rosy cheeked variety, and this time of year it is impossible to ignore them. Their blushing faces stare up at me from their baskets every time I walk by, making them completely irresistible to my produce loving heart and I pick up a handful or two every chance I get.
Like most fruit this time of year, fresh apricots require very little to make them sing. Prepared this way, they are not as sweet or smooth as jam, but a bit of sugar (or honey), vanilla, and gentle heat coaxes out all of their wonderful rich, buttery flavor without losing their distinct tartness. They slump over in the pan and release their juices making them the perfect topping for all sorts of dishes.
The day I made this compote, we piled big spoonfuls on top of a batch of "Waffles of Insane Greatness" which were so tasty and easy to put together on the fly, but if you can anticipate your desire for waffles the night before, give Marion Cunningham's Yeasted Waffles a try. You have to let part of the batter rest overnight, but the reward of crisp, full flavored breakfast treats will far outweigh the little bit of effort required to put the batter together. Both recipes can be found in this post (with far more poetic descriptions) by Molly from Orangette if you're curious.
I can also say with authority that the compote is great eaten by the spoonful, straight from the fridge or with yogurt for breakfast or an afternoon snack. I imagine it would also be delicious spooned over some crispy baked puff pastry and garnished with a dollop of creme fraiche for dessert.
See how I used apricots last summer in this Apricot Jam with Saffron and Rose.
Fresh Apricot Compote with Vanilla
yield about 1 1/2 cups
1 pound/453g rosy cheeked apricots
1.5-3 ounces/36-72g sugar or honey depending on the sweetness of the fruit
1/2 vanilla bean, scraped
1, 1/2'' wide strip of lemon zest
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons water
1. Remove the pits from the apricots by gently tearing the fruit in half. Add the pitted apricot halves, sugar, vanilla bean seeds and pod, lemon zest, lemon juice and water to a medium saucepan and stir gently to combine.
2. Cook the mixture on medium low heat until the sugar dissolves and the apricots begin to release their juices. Turn the heat up to medium and gently simmer the apricots, stirring occasionally, until they are very soft and beginning to fall apart, but not completely mushy. About 10-15 minutes. Taste the apricots and add a bit more sweetener if desired.
3. Remove the vanilla bean pod and reserve it for another use, remove the strip of lemon zest and serve the apricots warm or cold. If there are any leftovers, store them in the fridge.


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Resolution requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer.
It being a duty peculiarly incumbent in a time of public calamity and war, humbly and devoutly to acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God, and to implore his aid and protection:
Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a joint committee of both Houses wait on the President of the United States, and request that he recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer to be observed by the people of the United States, with religious solemnity, and the offering of fervent supplications to the Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessing on their arms, and the speedy restoration of peace.
[Source: The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845), Vol. II, p. 786]


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HOUSTON - Moving can be one of the most stressful times in your life. Some Houston families turned to Local 2 Investigates after they had to call the police on their movers.
KPRC Local 2 discovered rogue companies hiring criminals to move families and getting around state laws meant to protect you.
When Nikki Howard hired a mover, S & S Starving Student Movers sent two ex-convicts to her home. Michael Reyes, 35, is a convicted drug dealer who also served time for assault. Nicolas Segura, 21, was convicted of theft.
Howard said both Segura and Reyes were in plain clothes and in an unmarked moving truck. But her first clue something was wrong was when she noticed the iPod that had been on her kitchen table was gone. When Howard asked the men if they had seen the iPod, they told her they had not. But when the movers were occupied, she went outside.
"I did peek in the van and I saw the iPod and a pair of my diamond earrings in the console," Howard said.
Howard discreetly called police who arrived just in time to find jewelry, electronics, prescription drugs and Howard's handgun all tucked away in the front seat.
"So he had found the gun quickly, loaded it himself and placed it in his truck underneath the front seat," Howard explained. "That is probably the scariest part of the story."
Her story ended when both men were arrested, charged and pleaded guilty to theft.
KPRC Local 2 discovered S & S Starving Student Movers' state license expired in June, but the company is still in business. We stopped by the business address for the company, which is a home on the west side of Houston.
"I want to know why you're hiring criminals to go into your customers' homes to move them," investigative reporter Amy Davis said to the man who identified himself as Shawn with the company. Shawn said he wasn't the hiring manager and then mumbled something else as he closed the door.
Local 2 met Robert Lawler of A-1 All Around Movers on the job. Customer Ashley Aranda called Local 2 Investigates two days after her move began, when she said movers refused to unload her belongings unless she paid nearly three times the price quoted on the phone.
"He's like, 'Well, we're going to tack on $350 a day and I can charge you every 15 minutes for another hour that you don't pay,'" Aranda recounted her exchange with Lawler and his movers to Davis. "I mean, just threat after threat after threat."
"Is this an honest way to make a living?" Davis asked Lawler.
"It's completely honest," he answered.
Lawler said Aranda didn't read her contract, but she's not the only one complaining. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles revoked Lawler's moving license in 2010 after similar complaints. The following year, his wife opened another moving business under her name.
"Robert, do you think the state realizes that you're still in the moving business seeing as how the business isn't in your name anymore?" Davis asked him.
"I'm not handling that. I'm talking about this individual," replied Lawler, referencing Aranda's case.
Even with the new business under his wife's name, the problems have persisted with A-1 All Around.
"They are all around bad people," said Dan Parsons, president of the Houston Better Business Bureau. "I say that with great confidence."
The BBB has received 56 complaints in the last three years on the Lawler's moving businesses. The state fined the company $30,000 and has already started the process to revoke its current license, but Parsons said consumers also have a responsibility to do their homework.
"I hate to say it, consumers, that big fat "F" has been sitting there a long time and that "F" does not mean fabulous," Parsons said.
Lawler told Local 2 he is trying to refund customers and settle claims, but he is closing his doors and not taking any new business.
How to Protect Yourself From a Bad Mover
These days most people who need to hire a mover go online to start their search. We discovered you can get off on the wrong track with that very first click.
S & S Starving Student Movers is the company that showed up at Howard's home, but that's not who she thought she had hired. She says she had googled a company called 3 Men Movers, and she dialed the number on the website that popped up.
"Clearly, the next day when they got there, it was not 3 Men Movers," Howard told Davis.
"Anybody can pay to have their brand show up on the page search results of some of these search engines," said Mitch Gonzalez of the real 3 Men Movers.
Gonzalez says some companies go as far as creating a bogus website with a real number to mislead customers into calling.
"Very slick, very slick... very scary to know that they can manipulate people at a time when they are the most vulnerable," Gonzalez said.
But Dan Parsons with the Houston Better Business Bureau says even if you have checked out a company before you hire them doesn't mean you should let your guard down.
"You hired XYZ," explains Parsons. "We're due at 9 o'clock tomorrow and truck ABC shows up. Hold it. There's nothing that says you can't say, 'No, I want to find out what's going on.'"
New rules require every mover to have state and federal licensing numbers printed on their truck and their contracts. Howard's movers did, but if she would have checked the licensing numbers online, she would have discovered the license had expired two months earlier. Check licensing numbers online at http://apps.dot.state.tx.us/apps/mccs/mccs_frame_search_collector.htm.
If a mover is trying to hold your items hostage for additional payment, you should call police. A new law that took effect this year allows police to request certain information from movers. If the movers can't or won't provide it, they can get a ticket with a hefty fine.
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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"The UK's most prestigious award for first-time novelists" — Telegraph
Launched in 2007, The Desmond Elliott Prize has quickly become established as the premier prize for new fiction.
Read about the impact of the Desmond Elliott Prize
Every year, a panel of three judges are asked to look for a novel which has a compelling narrative, arresting characters and which is both vividly written and confidently realised. Books from all fiction genres are considered.
Worth £10,000 to the winner, the Prize is intended to support new writers and to celebrate their fiction. It was created in memory of the charismatic publisher and literary agent Desmond Elliott, who died in August 2003. He stipulated that his estate should be invested in a charitable trust that would fund a literary award "to enrich the careers of new writers".


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STAND BACK! I'm About To Make Some Cutting Remarks
I'm sure many of you heard the news yesterday about a Dad finding a paring knife in his young son's birthday cake from Wal-Mart.
Fortunately no one was hurt or anything; the family just found the small knife sandwiched between the cake and cakeboard after cutting in a few slices.
Still, this story caught my attention for a few reasons:
1) It involves cake
2) It happened in John's home town of Lewiston, Maine, AKA the place no one has ever heard of 'til now, and I bet the Lewistonians are SO happy that THIS is what's finally put them on the map.
3) Back in 2010 I featured Amy L's cake which had a pair of scissors embedded in it, and THAT never captured national attention:
Maybe it's because Amy didn't think to take a picture before pulling the scissors out of the cake. Or maybe it's because she didn't think to call in the local news crews and start giving interviews on how traumatizing the discovery was.
"People started leaving and the family was pretty upset," the father, Nathan Bibeau, said. "We're not ever going to get that second birthday back ever, you know?" (That is an actual quote. I am not making this up.)
Then the father bit his lip and stared despairingly off into the distance while a single tear tracked its way down his excessively traumatized cheek. (Ok, maybe I made that part up.) (OR DID I?)
Anyway, as is the American way, Mr. Bibeau graciously accepted both Wal-Mart's apology and refund and said he was just glad that no one was hurt hired a lawyer.
But that's not the funny part. The FUNNY part is how Wal-Mart has decided to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future:
They've banned the use of that particular paring knife in all of their bakeries.
Yes, really.
Gosh, next they'll be banning customers from taking pictures of their cakes in order to avoid ending up here on Cake Wrecks! Hah!
Anyway, on the very real chance that Mr. Bibeau ends up a millionaire because of this, well first, KILL ME NOW, but second, I'll soon be representing Kaitlin A. in her legal case, because, look! TRAUMATIC SCISSORS!!
These were sealed inside the box with the birthday girl's cake, and though she hasn't admitted it yet, I think the shock and trauma have ensured that Kaitlin will never work again. Someone has to pay for that, you guys. And someone has to pay my reasonable 15% representation fee.
I'm also in talks with Stephanie J., because...TRAUMATIC SPOON!!
And Xela G. will never get that work anniversary back after finding this life-threateningly stabby TRAUMATIC FORK!!
And finally, I'd ask you all to respect Laura C. in her time of healing, because... TRAUMATIC BIEBER!!
I'm negotiating the exclusive interview on this myself, TV peeps. And I like whoopie pies. Just sayin'.
Thanks to Caitlin C., Rachel S., & Jessica B. for today's traumas, and to Sam's Pizza in Lewiston, Maine, for being the first place to introduce me to whoopie pies. AWWW YEEEAH. (And your pizza's pretty rockin', too.)


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These Valentine's Day cupcakes happened somewhat by accident.
When Kristen of Bakesweet contacted me about a recipe for cupcakes with grenadine, the first thing that came to mind was making a Shirley Temple cupcake. Since Valentine's Day is almost here and grenadine is red, this also makes for a perfect Valentine's Day cupcake!
This post has three main sections: About Shirley Temple, a Shirley Temple Drink Recipe, and a Shirley Temple Cupcake Recipe.
About Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple was America's sweetheart. She was particularly well-known for two of her trademark songs, "On the Good Ship Lollipop," and "Animal Crackers in My Soup." According to the Wikipedia article on Shirley Temple:
"In 1936, Temple was paid an unprecedented amount of money for her work on Poor Little Rich Girl: $15,000 per week. It was during this period, in the depth of the Depression, when her films were seen as bringing hope and optimism, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is reported to have proclaimed that 'as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.'"
A little known fact about me is that as a child, random strangers and my grandparents would call me Shirley Temple.
Shirley's the first picture. I'm the second one. Do you see a resemblance?
The way I see it:
Our Differences
- Her eyes are bigger.
- My cheeks are bigger.
Our Similarities
- We both have curls.
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is reported to have proclaimed that, "as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right," and my mama is reported to have proclaimed that, "as long as our family has Stef, we will be all right."
Shirley Temple Drink Recipe
Shirley Temple is a drink known as a kiddie cocktail. Shirley Temples are drinks that kids can order at a bar and feel all grown up. They make me think about the many Bar and Bat Mitzvahs I attended in the 80's. They were definitely the young teen drink of choice.
To make a Shirley Temple:
1. Put some ice in a glass.
2. Fill the glass 3/4 full with lemon-lime soda or ginger ale.
3. Top it off with grenadine. (I strongly recommend using homemade grenadine.)
4. Garnish with a cherry and/or some orange.
Little Known Fact About Shirley Temple the Drink
According to Wikipedia, "When Temple herself is asked for her opinion of these drinks named for her, she invariably replies that she dislikes them because they are too sweet, and that she does not gain earnings for the use of her name."
Shirley Temple Cupcakes
Shirley Temple cupcakes are perfect Valentine's Day cupcakes for your child sweetheart or really for anyone.
They taste so much like the drink that when offered a Shirley Temple drink with his cupcake, Groom 2.0 couldn't finish the drink: "I feel like I've already had one."
The cupcakes were a big hit with all tasters. They were drenched in grenadine, which made them a bit messy, but also moist and satisfying.
Shirley Temple Cupcake Recipe
These were a Cupcake Project original recipe. However, some credit is due to Bittersweet Blog. I used the Rootbeer Float Cupcake recipe from there as a starting point for this one.
Shirley Temple Cupcakes
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 C Lemon-Lime Soda I used Izze Sparkling Limon, but 7-Up or Sprite would be fine.
- 1 C Grenadine I used homemade grenadine.
- 2 t Honey Vinegar I happened to have this on hand. Apple cider vinegar would also work.
- 1.5 C Sugar
- 2/3 C Canola Oil
- 2 2/3 C Flour
- 1.5 t Baking Soda
- 1 t Baking Powder
Lemon-lime cream cheese frosting Ingredients (the heart on the cupcake)
- 1/4 C butter
- 1 8 oz package of cream cheese I used Neufchâtel - a lighter cream cheese - and was very happy with the results.
- 4 C powdered sugar
- 1/8 t lemon extract
- 1/8 t lime extract
Concentrated Grenadine Ingredients (the inside of the heart)
- Grenadine
- Powdered sugar
- Red food coloring optional
Cupcake Instructions
- Combine soda, grenadine, and vinegar and let stand for a few minutes. Add sugar and oil and whisk vigorously until slightly frothy. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Add flour mixture to the first bowl. Be careful not to over-mix.
- Fill cupcake liners about 1/2 way. They will rise a lot! Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Lemon-lime cream cheese frosting Instructions
- Make sure butter and cream cheese are at room temperature. Cream the butter and cream cheese. Sift in 4 C of powdered sugar. Add extracts.
Concentrated Grenadine Instructions
- Mix equal parts of grenadine and powdered sugar to make the grenadine more of a syrup, less runny. If the sugar isn't dissolving in the grenadine, you may need to heat it on the stove on low heat until it dissolves. Add a few drops of red food coloring to the homemade grenadine if you want the hearts to be a deeper red.
- Pour the grenadine syrup into the heart. The frosting will act as a wall keeping the syrup within the boundary of the heart. Because the cupcake is porous, the syrup will seep through into the cupcake. This is what makes the cupcake so yummy! As the syrup seeps in, add more. I added 3 or 4 layers of grenadine to mine. Eventually, you should be left with the center of your heart dyed red.
Where to Buy Heart Sprinkles
I bought the heart sprinkles at Shop Bakers Nook.
Lessons Learned
1. On my first attempt at creating this recipe, I used lemon and lime extracts in the cake. The entire cake tasted like lemon and lime and the grenadine flavor couldn't be tasted at all. In the future when I make my own recipes, I am going to add the extracts at the end, once I know what the flavor is without the extract and I can taste what is needed.
2. I learned this lesson a long time ago, but I was reminded yet again that I should follow this rule. On a new cupcake, always bake one test cupcake to see how much the cupcake will rise before filling all the liners.
Suggestions for Variations
1. The drink has a cherry on top. Cupcakes often have a cherry on top. If you make this and cherries are in season by you, go for it!
2. There is a lesser known kiddie cocktail known as the Roy Rogers which is made from Coke and Grenadine. A Roy Rogers cupcake would also be tasty. Simply replace the lemon-lime soda in the cake with Coke and use cola extract in the frosting instead of the lemon and lime extracts.
3. Be sure to check out Kristen's take on this at Bakesweet.
Final Note
This post is part of the Heart for Your Valentine blog event.


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Posted by Olivia on Sunday, February 10th, 2013
We decided to invite sweet potatoes to the dining table for Valentine's Day this year, and couldn't be happier that we did.
This is a twist on the typical savory twice-baked potato recipe. We started with twice-baked sweet potatoes—which in their own right have a marvelously sweet and rich flavor. But to top off these gorgeous boats, we made a warm compote of berries and our lusciously indulgent Black Cherry Balsamic Vinegar. The result is perfect as a side dish to your Valentine's Day entrée, or even as the dessert if you don't want to go too sweet with it.
For the berries, we used a bag of mixed frozen berries, but you can really use any fresh or frozen berries you've got on hand—try using just cherries to complement the Black Cherry Balsamic Vinegar!
Let us know how this recipe comes out for you at home. We love to see photos!


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What if there were a vaccine against the harmful effects of hunger? According to researchers at Children's HealthWatch, there is. But these vaccines aren't shots or sprays. They're food stamps.
Unlike other vaccines, these certainly aren't a high priority for many lawmakers. In September, the House of Representatives voted for $40 billion in cuts over ten years to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Regardless, on November 1, the 13 percent increase to SNAP benefits from the 2009 stimulus expires. This means a family of three will have $29 less per month -- and live on only $1.40 per person per meal.
This is dangerous. Like a vaccine, food stamps protect young children against immediate and future disease. "The right immunizations in the right doses at the right time save untold health and education dollars, not to mention personal anguish and pain," Children's HealthWatch wrote in their 2012 report, The SNAP Vaccine. "Hunger and food insecurity in the U.S. also endanger the bodies and brains of millions of children."
Hunger cracks open a fault line in a child's life. Like a vaccine, food stamps are especially critical in a child's first years. Without enough food, kids are at an increased risk for delays in motor skills and cognitive deficits.
When kids don't get this vaccine, they don't only suffer damage to their bodies. They also suffer damage to their life chances. By third grade, kids who went hungry in kindergarten pay, on average, a 13 percent penalty in reading and math scores. By age 11, food-insufficient children are more likely to have lower test scores, have repeated a grade, been suspended, and had trouble making friends.
There's little mystery why. But researchers at Cornell and the National Center for Health Statistics wanted to dig deeper. They analyzed data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Kids from food-insufficient families had more stomachaches, headaches, and colds. They were generally in poorer health. And they didn't deal with food-insufficiency in a vacuum. They also dealt with the environmental risks of poverty.
Children's HealthWatch piles on additional evidence -- and provides a stark forecast for what may happen because of the cuts to SNAP. They analyzed the health records of 17,000 young children. These children were admitted to an emergency room or a hospital between 2004 and 2010. The researchers compared the health of children who received food stamps with children who did not. Kids who did not receive food stamps were more likely to be underweight and suffer from developmental delays. It gets worse. The kids who did not receive food stamps, according to Children's HealthWatch, were likely eligible for them. Their malnutrition and developmental issues were preventable.
Like most vaccines, food stamps are especially important for our most vulnerable citizens: children and the elderly. But the new House bill seeks to slash the funding for food stamps in half. These cuts don't only threaten their health. They also strangely take shots at their character.
The House bill tries to criminalize populations who need food stamps, stacking drug testing onto the requirements for food. Of course, we know that drug testing of welfare recipients is an absurd exercise. Arizona, for example, tested nearly 87,000 people over three years. They caught one person and saved $560. Virginia, more wisely, abandoned their welfare drug testing program, once they realized it would cost them more than six times what they'd save. Still, it presents us with a thought experiment: would we refuse a MMR shot for the child of a drug user? If food stamps provide vaccine-like protection against disease, don't we have a moral obligation to provide it, regardless of a parent's recreational drug habit?
Budgets are not only fiscal plans. They are moral ones. They document what -- and who -- is valuable. Food stamps prevent health problems and promote healthy lives for poor children. Why should their lives be any less nurtured?
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Joe Nathan won't forget his 300th save anytime soon. Not because he became just the 24th pitcher to reach that plateau, but because of the dubious call that enabled it to happen.
With the tying run on third and Nathan's Texas Rangers nursing a 5-4 lead against the Tampa Bay Rays, Nathan unleashed a full-count changeup on Ben Zobrist that was, indeed, a rather nasty pitch.
Only problem was, it was several inches off the plate.
Also, in the dirt.
No matter. Home-plate umpire Marty Foster punched out Zobrist, who understandably had begun ambling toward first base.
Observe the call for yourself:
The next shot of Nathan was priceless; he could clearly be seen saying, "Wow!" as he approached catcher A.J. Pierzynski for the perfunctory postgame handshake.
The blown call prompted Rays manager Joe Maddon to storm from the dugout for a rare postgame arguing of balls and strikes.
Later, he tweeted - and then told reporters, "That can't happen in a major league game."
And Foster himself later admitted he blew the call.
"I saw the pitch and of course don't have the chance to do it again," Foster told a pool reporter after the game. "But had I had a chance to do it again, I wouldn't call that pitch a strike."
Said Nathan: "I might have been the last guy on the field to realize the game was over."
With that said, fire up the cigar, Joe, you're Mr. 300. But send a stogie over to the umpire's room, too.
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Do you Weigh More in Denver or New York? (Feb, 1932)
A quirky article that tries to explain gravity and relativity.
Do you Weigh More in Denver or New York?
by JAY EARLE MILLER
Maybe you think you weigh the same in Denver as you do in New York, but that's because you don't know your Einstein or your relativity. You really weigh more in New York, Why? Read this article and find out—we defy you to begin Mr. Miller's story and lay it down without finishing it.
A FEW weeks ago a British Air Force cup racing plane, piloted by Lieut. G. H. Stainforth, took off from the waters of the Solent, that protected arm of the sea lying inside the Isle of Wight, and flashed eastward over a measured course at more than 415 miles an hour—just under 7 miles a minute.
The trim little racer weighed something more than two tons just before the start. Roaring down the eastward course all out, she weighed something less than that. Coming back, westbound, she weighed a bit more than before she took off.
Want to Reduce? Go to Denver
Stainforth, on the ground, tipped the scales around 145 pounds. Eastbound he didn't weigh so much; westbound, like his ship, he weighed more.
Does that sound complicated? Then listen to this:
A pound of butter, measured out in Denver, weighs more than a pound when delivered in New York, and you weigh more in New York than you will in Denver. You weigh more on the ground than you do up in an airplane, you weigh more in an airplane flying west than in one flying east, and you weigh more in the daytime, on the ground or in the air, than you do at night with the moon overhead.
All of which goes to prove that many of the accepted facts of life aren't facts at all, but only relatively true. Besides weight, time, space, speed, motion and matter all have definitions which are based on our own limited experience, or lack of experience, in one small and quite insignificant portion of the universe.
No Weight on a Rocket Ship
We say that a year on Jupiter, the most distant of the planets until Pluto was discovered last year, is twelve years long, and that a year on Mercury, the planet nearest the sun, is only three months long—and we are wrong both times. A year is a year no matter where it is, for a year is the time it takes a planet to make one trip around its orbit. If we want to be correct we must say that Jupiter's year is twelve times as long as ours, and Mercury's only one-fourth as long as an earth year.
But getting back to weight, the world is getting inter-planetary conscious, with experimenters in this country, France and Germany trying to build space flying rockets. Suppose you were to make a trip to the moon, or Mars or Venus in a rocket ship. What would you weigh en route?
If your rocket ship got up a speed of seven miles a second—which is just about 60 times as fast as Lieut. Stainforth flew his Schneider Cup racer—you would not, at that point weigh anything. In other words, your weight isn't a property of your body— has nothing in particular, in fact, to do with you—but is merely the attraction which the earth's force of gravity has for your mass. So, at a speed of seven miles a second, which is sufficient to overcome gravity, that attraction would cease, and so would your weight.
No Up or Down in a Rocket Ship
If your rocket attained that speed and broke free from the earth it would not need any more speed, or any more fuel, to keep on flying, any more than the moon, or planets or stars or meteors need fuel to keep on flying. Only, if your rocket didn't have fuel to keep on increasing its speed you would be one space sick passenger, for, when your weight ceased to be, all the balances of your inwards also would cease, and the sensation would be like that of a rapidly falling elevator, multiplied indefinitely.
That's one trouble about space flying. Theoretically it is fairly easy to overcome gravity and go shooting out into space, but to be comfortable, and, perhaps, to live through the experience, you would have to go on and on, constantly accelerating, at least for one-half your journey. Past that point you could start your forward rockets going to decelerate, which would merely feel like acceleration in the reverse direction.
Problems of Space Flying
At the moment of the change you would fly up to the ceiling, which then would become the floor, but otherwise you would experience no bad effects. Scientists have calculated that a successful passenger carrying rocket ship should accelerate constantly at the rate of 22 miles per hour per second through the first half of the journey, and decelerate at the same speed through the latter half.
In other words, if your speed at any given second was at the rate of 7,000 miles an hour, it should be at the rate of 7,022 miles per hour during the next second, 7,044 miles per hour the next, and so on. That 22 miles per hour per second acceleration corresponds to the acceleration of falling bodies near the earth, in other words it is the gravitational pull to which we are accustomed.
The probable destination of your rocket would be the moon, or Mars or Venus— the moon because it is closest, the planets because there is a possibility you might be able to climb out and move around on them in an atmosphere containing enough oxygen to sustain life and under a temperature somewhere within the reasonable limits of what you could stand.
You couldn't get out on the moon except in an airtight suit provided with oxygen flasks, but that need be no burden, for your weight, again relatively speaking, would only be about one-sixth what it was on earth. Eighteen-foot steps or forty-foot jumps would come easy there.
Fire a Gun—Hit Yourself in the Back!
And if you could reconstruct one of the German long range guns you could have a peck of fun on the moon. Instead of a seventy-five mile range it would shoot 2250 miles, according to calculations of Dr. F. E. Wright, of the Carnegie Institute, and with only four more degrees of elevation you could shoot a shell entirely around the moon and, if your aim was good, hit yourself in the back!
Even a 75 millimeter field gun would have, instead of a 5 to 8-mile range, one of 230 to 280 miles! Dr. Wright suggests that, if the craters on the moon are really of volcanic origin, their clear cut lines are due not only to the lack of air and water to provide erosion, as on earth, but to the fact that the extruded matter, weighing but one-sixth what it would on earth, was shot so far that none fell back into the hole.
Weight Varies With Motion
It is a long jump from a definition of time or weight to Einstein's theory of relativity, yet an understanding of how the accepted facts of life can be changed with time and place paves the way for an understanding
of just what he is aiming at. In fact, with seven-mile-a-minute airplanes already a fact, and rocket ships in the offing, relativity, in some of its simpler manifestations, is beginning to play a practical part in our lives.
Consider the old catch problem of whether a train eastbound from Chicago to New York weighs the same, or more or less than the same identical train westbound from New York to Chicago. The answer is less.
If you want to know why consider some simple manifestations of centrifugal force. When vou whirl a bucket of water over your head the contents are not spilled. When a fly wheel bursts the pieces go flying off into space with terrific velocity. If they could maintain their initial speed they would never fall to earth. That's what a rocket ship will have to do to break away from gravity.
Here's the Reason For It All
Now, the earth is turning on its axis in space at, roughly, 1,000 miles per hour at the equator, or about 800 miles per hour in the latitude of Chicago and New York. The train standing still in the Chicago station is moving through space at that speed. When it starts eastward at 00 miles an hour its speed in space is 60 plus 800, or 860 miles per hour. If it kept on going faster and faster until eventually it flew off into space it would weigh nothing at the moment of departure. But it would not lose its weight all in that one instant. It would be losing it gradually and steadily from the moment it began to move.
The same train westbound would be traveling in space at 800 miles less 60 miles, or only 740 miles. Obviously it must weigh more than the eastbound train, when the space-speed difference between the two is 120 miles an hour.
Another old catch question is which rail of a north-south railroad wears out the first. The answer is the west one, because it carries more than its share of the load. If you stand sideways in a moving street car you put weight on your foot nearest the rear when the car is moving forward, and shift weight suddenly when it slows down to stop. In the same way the world under the north-south railway is turning toward the east on its axis, and therefore more weight is thrown on the rear, or west rail.
Clock Fast as Light Could Not Tell Time
Time seems a hard and fast thing, but is one of the most relative things we have, for it is based on the accident of our earth's distance from the sun, its speed of rotation on its axis, and its period around its orbit. All three of those factors probably are changing, slowly, it is true, but nevertheless the length of the day and of the year, which is the basis of what we call time, is gradually changing.
One interpretation of a mathematical formula is that time varies with speed. Carried to its logical conclusion that means, for example, that a perfectly accurate clock, if moving through space with the speed of light, would show no time elapsed. The argument by which science arrives at that conclusion seems, to the lay mind, quite fantastic, but some of its logical conclusions are not so hard to fit into other facts we accept without difficulty.
Live Longer by Moving West
Take the age of a man born in San Francisco who moves to New York and eventually dies there. If he dies at 11 a. m. in New York it is only 8 a. m. in San Francisco, and obviously he is three hours younger than his apparent age, in New York.
Or consider the traveler who circumnavigates the globe traveling westward. In mid-Pacific he loses a day, so that year, if it is a normal year of 365 days, he has lived but 364 days. Or if he went in the opposite direction he gained a day. The loss seems apparent, even if not real. And if a traveler during his life-time could make 365 trips around the world he apparently would have gained or lost a year, depending on the direction in which he traveled.
Time Varies With Speed
You don't have to go around the world to experience the unreality of time. Take a trip across a time zone in your auto. Westbound you crowd 25 hours into one 24-hour day, or eastbound you come out an hour short. You can live your life faster or slower, at will..
And—get this—while that seems easy, as you move along the path toward Einstein's relativity, things become more complex, for, says he, time moves faster in a parked automobile than in one in motion, for time varies with speed. The best way to get by that one is to admit we have no conception of what time is and cannot describe it. The trouble, of course, is that our definitions of time, space, matter and motion all apply to observations on our own planet and make no provisions for the rest of the universe. And, finally, they all may be the same thing, just a different manifestation of electrical energy, or something akin to it. Matter is nothing but a force, and the others may be the same.
The connection between time and speed is easy to illustrate in another way. An aviator attempting to fly around the world, at the equator, in one day would have to travel 1,000 miles an hour. A man a little more than seven miles from either pole could walk around the world in 24 hours by traveling at a speed of one mile an hour. But suppose the aviator spends his day in camp instead of flying and the polar traveler rests in his snow hut. The aviator has been traveling through space at 1,000 miles an hour while sitting still and the polar explorer has been moving a mile an hour while resting.
One thing few people have clearly understood about Einstein's theory is that the word "relativity" describes not the new theory but the fact that the old laws of physics were not universally true; that they were true only in the limited sphere of our own inaccurate observations on this earth, in other words only relatively true.
Einstein's latest effort is to create a system of fifth dimensional mathematics to reconcile the facts of gravitation and magnetism, both things of which we know nothing beyond some of their effects.
The great German mathematician once used as an illustration the story of a man suspended in outer space in a perfectly dark cage. He would weigh nothing, and could move freely in any direction. Then suppose a cable were attached to the top of the cage, and used to draw it swiftly in the direction of a line from the bottom to the top of the cage—you can't say upward because there could be no upward out in space.
The man in the cage would not know what was happening, but would suddenly acquire weight, and discover he was being drawn against the bottom of the cage. From the outside the observer could see that the bottom was being drawn toward the man and not the man toward the bottom, as he would believe. And the greatest scientist, equipped with all available apparatus, could never determine, if he was in the cage, which of the two things was actually happening.
And that, concluded Einstein, may be what gravitation is, just a new form of motion which we have not discovered.
As for Einstein's theories about the curvature of space, or its warping in the presence of concentrated matter, consider this statement by Eddington:
"A globe of water of five hundred and seventy million kilometers radius would have extraordinary properties … It would have no center, and no boundaries . . . Nothing could enter or leave the mass, because there is no boundary to enter or leave by . . . There could not be any other world anywhere else, because there isn't any 'anywhere else'."
Under the influence of so much gravitational mass assembled in one place, time and space both should be warped. So don't be surprised to discover you only weigh 160 pounds, in a relative way, at sea level, in the daytime, and while standing still!


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If every state adopted all five components of the toughest young driver laws in the nation, it is estimated that more than 500 lives could be saved and more than 9,500 collisions could be prevented each year.
Some states could halve or more than halve their rate of fatal crashes among 15-17 year-olds if they adopted the recommended graduated driver licensing (GDL) provisions. These are the main findings of a new analysis by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) meant to encourage states to improve GDL laws.
A new online calculator developed by the Institute and HLDI shows individual states the safety gains they could achieve by adopting some or all of the most beneficial GDL provisions in effect today. The five key components:
1.Permit age;
2. Practice driving hours
3. License age;
4. Night driving restrictions; and
5. Teen passenger restrictions.
The current best practices are a minimum intermediate license age of 17 (New Jersey), a minimum permit age of 16 (Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island), at least 65 supervised practice hours (Pennsylvania) and, during the intermediate stage, a night driving restriction starting at 8 p.m. (Idaho and in South Carolina during daylight saving time) and a ban on all teen passengers (15 states and D.C.).
Prior Institute and HLDI research has shown that states with the strongest laws enjoy the biggest reductions in fatal crashes among 15-17-year-old drivers and the biggest reductions in collisions reported to insurers among 16-17-year-old drivers, compared with states with weak laws. "Even the best states can do better," says Anne McCartt, Institute senior vice president for research. "There's room for improvement across the board, and states could see immediate reductions in fatal crashes and collision claims as soon as the beefed-up provisions are in force."
Graduated licensing enables new teen drivers to gradually build up driving experience as they mature and develop on-the-road skills. The system has three stages: a supervised learner's period, an intermediate license (after passing a road test) that limits driving in high-risk situations except under supervision, and a license with full privileges. Teens with learner permits should get lots of supervised driving practice, and once they have intermediate licenses they should be subject to limits on night driving and teen passengers. The longer the restrictions last the better.
In the mid-1990s, states began adopting elements of graduated licensing. By December 2000, all but nine states had GDL laws. Since there is no nationwide GDL system, the laws vary. To recognize states with the best laws, the Institute began rating them in 2000 from good to poor. Initially, only six states and D.C. earned good ratings, and nine were poor. By May of 2011, 36 states and D.C. rated good, seven rated fair and seven were marginal. No states earned poor ratings. In recent years, legislators have been slow to toughen GDL laws, particularly when it comes to raising the age for a permit or license. During the 2010-12 legislative sessions, for example, nine states strengthened elements of their young driver laws, compared with 20 states during 2007-09 sessions.
The ratings initially encouraged states to adopt three-phase graduated licensing systems. The ratings, however, didn't show legislators how any state — even ones with already-strong laws — could boost the benefits of graduated licensing by targeting specific components, such as night driving restrictions, for improvement. The Institute now knows more about what works and what doesn't when it comes to keeping young drivers safe. Based on more than a decade of data, researchers are able to estimate the effects of changing individual provisions of GDL.
As a result, the Institute has decided to stop grading state GDL laws and switch to a calculator system designed to outline opportunities for improvement in every state. In addition to the best-practice scenario, the online calculator shows the estimated fatal crash and collision claim reductions that a given state can achieve with any combination of specific law changes. Users can easily navigate among states using a drop-down menu.
"States don't have to adopt the toughest laws in the nation to realize safety gains. Strengthening one or two components pays off. To maximize all of the benefits of graduated licensing, however, we would encourage lawmakers to consider the strongest provisions," McCartt says.
Stronger laws yield benefits
Iowa and South Dakota are examples of states that could sharply lower fatal crash and collision claim rates among teen drivers. Both states allow 14 year-olds to obtain learner permits. Iowa makes drivers wait until they're 16 to get a license, but South Dakota allows teens to get a license three months after their 14th birthday. The state has the youngest licensing age in the nation. "That's too risky," McCartt says. "The younger teens are when they get their licenses, the higher their crash rate." If South Dakota raised its license age to 17, the benefit would be an estimated 32 percent reduction in fatal crash rates among 15-17-year-old drivers and a 13 percent reduction in collision claims among 16-17-year-old drivers. Raising the license age to 15 1/2 could reduce fatal crashes by an estimated 16 percent and collision claims by 6 percent among teen drivers.
A crucial provision of any GDL system is a night driving restriction. South Dakota's starts at 10 p.m., but Iowa's doesn't begin until 12:30 a.m. Moving Iowa's restriction to 8 p.m. would reduce teens' fatal crashes 10 percent. Neither state bars beginners from transporting other teens, a practice that increases crash risk. If both states adopted such a policy, they each could realize a 21 percent drop in fatal crashes among 15-17-year-old drivers and a 5 percent decline in collision claim rates among 16-17-year-old drivers. A one-teen-passenger limit would reduce teens' fatal crash rates 7 percent in either state.
If Iowa adopted the strongest provisions across the board, the state could see a 55 percent reduction in teens' fatal crash rates. South Dakota's estimated safety gains are even bigger — a 63 percent reduction in fatal crashes and a 37 percent drop in collision claims.
Even best states can improve
Connecticut's young driver law comes the closest to representing the current best-practices system. The state makes teens wait until age 16 for a permit and restricts all teen passengers during the intermediate stage of licensure. If Connecticut also adopted the best provisions for practice hours, license age and night driving, it could realize a 17 percent reduction in fatal crashes and a 13 percent reduction in collision claims among teen drivers.
New York is another state with a strong GDL program. It has a permit age of 16, a license age of 16 1/2, a night driving restriction beginning at 9 p.m., a one-teen-passenger limit and a 50-hour supervised-practice-driving requirement. Adopting the toughest provisions would reduce fatal crashes among 15-17-year-old drivers by 24 percent and collision claims among 16-17-year-old drivers by 7 percent.
"We encourage states to sharpen the core elements of their teen driver laws, particularly restrictions on night driving and young passengers," McCartt says. "Raising the licensing age would help in many states, but we realize that this isn't always a politically popular option."


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Group paves the way for growth
With more than 1.1 million small businesses across Canada – and close to 100,000 new operations starting up each year – small businesses represent over 95% of businesses in Canada, and that number continues to grow.1 More than 500,000 of those small businesses – representing more than 4 million Canadians – do not offer a workplace savings plan.2 Group benefits is not far behind – while some small businesses have adopted a group health and dental plan, the majority operate without a workplace benefits plan.3 This represents an unprecedented opportunity for you and your business.
We have established a partnership with Manulife that gives you access to their suite of small business Group products, tailored specifically for the small business market. We've worked together to create tools and resources to help you capture the opportunity of this largely untapped and rapidly growing market segment.
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Understanding the small business client is key to positioning solutions that will have the greatest impact on their business. Small business owners are faced with many challenges that are both personal and professional in nature.
As an advisor, you can leverage this understanding to position the specific Group solution that will meet your client's needs.
The small business lifecycle
Every year, Manulife conducts an annual survey of over 1,000 small business owners. In 2016, Manulife's Small Business Research Report uncovered that there is a connection between the lifecycle of the small business and the time at which they choose to purchase workplace health and savings plans.4
The survey asked respondents to choose from three stages:
- Start-up: Owners are concentrating on setting up their company, hiring staff and investing all of the revenue back into the business.
- Growth: The business is set up and owners are now concentrating on expanding the client base and hiring additional staff.
- Established: The business is now stable and owners are equally concerned with client retention and finding new business. Hiring is about replacing staff.
Segmenting businesses by lifecycle stage provides a unique way to think about your small business clients and the challenges they face. It also demonstrates the way in which you can better approach clients and anticipate their existing needs.
- Start-up businesses
Starting a new business is exciting, but it requires an enormous amount of energy and perseverance. Owners of "Start-up" businesses are more likely to behave as consumers rather than business owners, as they are typically focused on survival and getting through their first critical years. Typically, new business owners give little thought to their personal financial plan – all of their energy goes into the business. Many Start-up operations do not have the budget to maintain a workplace health or savings plan. However, this does not disqualify them from being a potential client in the future. Taking the time to develop a relationship with this type of prospect can pay dividends later when the business is in a position to look at a group solution.
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Once a small business moves into the Growth phase, there are often more opportunities than there is time, people, and resources. Growing companies face a number of challenges:
- Attracting and retaining employees
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The small business owner that you built a relationship with during the Start-up phase will be better positioned to implement a group solution during these Growth years. Group Benefits are a common product for these types of businesses as they address the real risk of a business losing the key employees that keep their company running.
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This is the time when the business is likely generating the most cash. It is also the time when business owners realize they have outgrown the strategies that worked for them in the earlier stages of their business.
At this stage, business owners look for strategies to:
- Minimize the tax implications of withdrawing retained earnings from the company
- Build personal wealth and plan for a rewarding retirement
Owners of established businesses are looking at more options for their employees, including workplace savings plans. Implementation of a workplace savings plan is highest during this phase of the business, as employers are looking to reward the people who have helped them achieve their success.
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USA TODAY Sports wakes you up with a full plate of hoops.
For all the preseason rankings and recruiting leaderboards this year's freshman class headlined, almost all of the accolades were based on potential instead of merit.
A two-time All-American returned for his senior season and it was backpage news. A projected top-2 NBA draft pick chose to return for another year and it was still overshadowed.
HIGHLIGHTS: How the top 25 teams fared
The element of surprise lured us in for months as we geared up for what figures to be one of the most exciting college basketball seasons in years.
And it was all based on the projected ability of a bunch of teenagers.
The college basketball season finally opened Friday on a night with zero games between two ranked teams, but it was must-watch material for the simple fact that we finally got some answers.
ONE-STOP SHOP: 2013-14 season index
As it turns out, these freshmen were pretty good. Three names in particular stood out and it's the same group that was ranked first, second and third in the 2013 class and could very well go 1-2-3 in June's NBA draft. Kansas' Andrew Wiggins, Duke's Jabari Parker and Kentucky's Julius Randle provided a dose of star power that only leaves us wanting more.
Ranking the freshman performances
1. Julius Randle, Kentucky: Ahem, dominance alert. The 6-9 Randle blended in on a Kentucky roster boasting six McDonald's All-Americans but her emerged as the Justin Timberlake (yes I just made an N'SYNC reference) of the band after a 23-point, 15-rebound performance that helped Kentucky run over UNC-Asheville and coach Nick McDevitt calling him a "specimen."
2. Jabari Parker, Duke: The silky-smooth 6-8 forward only took eight shots in Duke's 111-77 rout of Davidson and made eight of them to finish with a team-high 22 points, while adding six rebounds. Parker's versatile teammate, Mississippi State transfer Rodney Hood, also had 22 points.
FOR THE WIN: 12 must-see players in 2013-14
3. Andrew Wiggins, Kansas: Perhaps the hype was so high for Wiggins based off LeBron James comparisons that we'd be let down with anything less than a 40-point, dunk-all-over-the-team-and-its-water-boy-and-bus-driver performance. "He could go for 20 and 10 and disappoint everybody," Bill Self said. Wiggins wasn't dominant by any stretch. He finished with a team-best 16 points to go along with three rebounds and three steals in KU's 80-63 win over Louisiana-Monroe. The argument can be made that Wiggins was too passive, but the 6-8 forward showed maturity and comfortableness in his first college game and it'd be unfair to suggest he lacked aggressiveness because he led the team in shot attempts —shooting 9-for-5 from the field.
4. Aaron Gordon, Arizona: Gordon scored 13 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked four shots in his collegiate debut for No. 5 Arizona and the Wildcats opened their season with a 73-62 victory over pesky Cal Poly on Friday night.
Tweet that speaks volume: Michigan State cruised Friday night in its season opener vs. McNeese State and coach Tom Izzo had a gem response to John Calipari's argument that it's "unfair" for his young UK squad to have to face an experienced team like the Spartans so early in the season.
- Oregon: Freshly-eligible transfer Joseph Young had 24 points and five rebounds to lead the Ducks to an 82-75 season-opening victory over Georgetown at a U.S. army base gym in South Korea packed with hundreds of soldiers. No. 18 Oregon won despite the loss of two players to suspension, including starting point guard Dominic Artis.
- Syracuse: The seventh-ranked Orange were trailing by four points but thanks to sharpshooting guard Trevor Cooney (27 points off seven three-pointers), Jim Boeheim's squad was able to coast for an 82-60 victory.
- UConn: Up by 17 midway through the second half, No. 19 UConn watched the comfortable lead it had built on Maryland slip away but UConn fended off a furious Terps rally to win 78-77 before exhaling.
- Miami: A year after winning the ACC Championship, the Hurricanes lost their opening game to St. Francis (NY). Yikes.
- Kansas State:A projected Big 12 middle-of-the-pack finisher, Bruce Weber's KSU group lost 60-58 to Northern Colorado.
- Florida: This injury-plagued squad looked sluggish but hung on for a 77-69 win over North Florida.
Star watch: Bryce Cotton scored 28 points in Providence's 82-78 victory over Boston College in overtime.
Win that matters most: In a clash between two teams that should have been in the preseason top 25, Baylor beat Colorado 72-60. It's a win that could push the Bears into the top 25 of the Coaches Poll should another late top 25 team lose. A close runner-up came with Wisconsin's narrow win over St. John's, 86-75.
Highlight reel: Fresno State sunk UC-Irvine with this halfcourt buzzer-beater.
NCAA Jam Session: The night started off with a monster slam from VMI's Jordan Weethee, who posterized a Citadel defender and followed up with a perfect post-dunk camera face. Then later in the night, Arkansas' Michael Qualls later decided to make a poster of defender Keaton Jackson with this monster slam.
Here's Weethee one more time.
Photo of the night: The Steve Alford era started with a UCLA win, but there was no attendance wins Friday.
Best moment: Utah State's 78-65 win against USC on Friday night in Logan, Utah was notable for a few reasons. The Aggies beat the Trojans for the third time in their past four meetings. They handed coach Andy Enfield a loss in his first game as USC's coach. And it featured the return to the court of Danny Berger, who had not appeared in a game for Utah State since Dec. 4, 2012, when he suffered a heart attack during a practice. He was released from a nearby hospital four days later and watched his teammates from the bench that night, but he spent the rest of the season recuperating instead of playing. On Friday night, he finally did play – clocking 21 minutes of action (roughly his season average prior to his heart attack last season) and scoring five points with four assists and a career-high eight rebounds. "I had a lot of adrenaline out there and my heart was pumping a little bit," Berger said afterward. "It was good to feel and it was good to be out there."
On deck Saturday: Top 25 games, all times Eastern.
— Morgan State at No. 10 Ohio State, noon
— College of Charleston at No. 3 Louisville, 1 p.m.
— Emporia (Kan.) State at No. 16 Wichita State, 2 p.m.
— Bryant at No. 14 Gonzaga, 7 p.m.
— Alabama A&M at No. 20 New Mexico, 8 p.m.
Scott Gleeson, a national college basketball writer/producer for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @ScottMGleeson.


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Explainer: Ten fossils that tell the human tale
Where did we come from? Many truth seekers turn to faith and religion and find their answers therein. Others approach the question through a scientific lens and the theory of evolution. They have pieced together a tale of human origins from the fossils of our ancestors. The tale is incomplete and its telling reshaped with fresh interpretation of the growing fossil record.
Click on the "Next" label to learn about ten fossil discoveries that have evolved the scientific rendering of human origins. In this image, a reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton is compared to a modern human.
— John Roach, msnbc.com contributor
Toumai: Earliest-known ancestor of modern humans?
Jaw fragments, isolated teeth and a skull excavated from the Sahel desert of Chad dated to between 6 million and 7 million years old may re-cast the opening chapter in the story of human origins. The fossils, revealed in 2001 and shown in this reconstruction, put the split in the evolutionary tree that eventually led to chimps on one branch and humans on the other more than 1,500 miles northwest of east Africa's Rift Valley, the current epicenter of research into human ancestors. But some scientists are not yet convinced the creature, named Sahelanthropus tchadensis and nicknamed Toumai, walked upright, which many scientists consider a key characteristic that distinguishes hominids from non-human primates.
Thigh bone suggests earliest two-legged walker
Analysis of a thigh bone amongst a clutch of fossils discovered in Kenya in 2000 and dated to nearly 6 million years ago may provide the earliest definitive evidence of a human ancestor that walked on two legs. Several detailed analyses of the femur, or thigh bone, shown here, have revealed it was adapted for upright walking. The bone belongs to a species known as Orrorin tugenensis. Most recently, U.S. scientists concluded the strategy first exhibited by this species for walking upright persisted for 4 million years, the majority of evolutionary history.
Middle Awash discovery fills gap in evolution story
Teeth and bones of the hand, foot, and thigh, shown here, are among the fossils of a 4.2 million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis specimen found in Ethiopia's Middle Awash region that has allowed scientists to link together their most complete chain of human evolution to date. The discovery helped fill a gap in the story, showing a likely transition between an earlier human ancestor known as Ardipithecus ramidus to the more recent australopithecines. The Middle Awash has yielded eight species in the story spanning 6 million years.
Lucy, the world's most famous fossil
Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," is perhaps the world's most famous fossil. She was discovered in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974 and remains among the most complete skeletons of an erect-walking human ancestor ever found, with about 40 percent of her bones intact. Her discovery allowed scientists for the first time to determine that upright walking predated the big brains of modern humans. Lucy's brain case is about the size of a chimp. In this photo, visitors view the Lucy skeleton at a Houston museum.
Taung child hailed as 'missing link' in 1924
The diminutive fossil skull of 3.5-year-old early human ancestor, known as Taung child, was hailed as the "missing link" between apes and humans when it was discovered in 1924. Known scientifically as Australopithecus africanus, the discovery of the 2 million-year-old child also provided the first evidence that early humans evolved in Africa, rather than Europe, as many scientists believed at the time. In this photo, a researcher holds a replica of the skull as he makes the case that an eagle killed the Taung child.
Turkana boy, most complete skeleton found
Turkana boy, a nearly complete 1.6 million-year-old fossil of what some scientists call Homo ergaster, an early African population of Homo erectus, is considered the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found. The boy, who was discovered in 1984 in Kenya's Turkana region, stood 5-foot-3, indicating that hominids had gotten considerably taller and lankier since the days of Lucy, 3.2 million years ago. Plans to unveil Turkana boy at the National Museum of Kenya, shown here, in 2007 caused a stir between creationists and scientists.
Fossil discovery splinters human family tree
Many cartoons of evolution show a humpbacked ape slowly, linearly, progressing to a tall and erect modern human. Scientists long ago concluded that was too simple of a view, preferring instead to use a branching, thorny and knotted tree to depict the process. A discovery announced in 2007 threw yet another splinter in the picture. Many scientists had believed Homo habilis gave rise to Homo erectus who gave rise to modern humans. But the new finding shows habilis and erectus lived side by side for half a million years, raising doubt that habilis is a direct human ancestor. The scientists also found that erectus exhibited large size variation within the species, as shown in this image comparing two erectus skulls.
Neanderthals' relationship to modern humans fuzzy
The 1856 discovery of a skull cap and partial skeleton from a cave in Germany's Neander valley was the first recognized fossil human form. But exactly how the species, named in 1864 as Homo neanderthalensis, is related to modern humans remains the subject of fierce academic debate. Neanderthals occupied Europe and Asia from about 200,000 years to 30,000 years ago, overlapping in places with modern humans. Recent genetic analyses suggest little, if any, interbreeding between the species. Skeletal evidence, however, suggests Neanderthals were not very different than their modern human cousins. Even their brains were comparable to, if not bigger, than ours, as depicted in this Neanderthal reconstruction. Other studies have shown that like modern humans, Neanderthals used tools, wore jewelry, hunted, and buried their dead.
Hobbit discovery stuns the world, stirs debate
As modern humans spread around the world over the past 160,000 years or so, a hobbit-like ancestor was holed up on the Indonesian island of Flores until at least 12,000 years ago, scientists announced at a press briefing in 2004, shown here. The stunning find has been scrutinized ever since. Some scientists agree the fossils represent a new species, Homo floresiensis. Others suggest the fossils belong to a diminutive race of modern humans, perhaps afflicted by one of several diseases associated with dwarfing.
Oldest modern humans found in Ethiopia
The two partial skulls shown here of modern humans, Homo sapiens, were unearthed in Ethiopia in 1967. At the time, they were given a preliminary date of 130,000 years old. A 2005 revision using more modern dating techniques found them to be about 195,000 years old, making them the oldest known fossils of modern humans. Genetic evidence suggests modern humans arose in Africa about 200,000 years ago and then spread around the world, though other scientists hypothesize modern humans arose in parallel in Africa, Europe, and Asia.


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The Queen's Baton Relay is one of the great traditions of the Commonwealth Games, having started at the Games in Cardiff, Wales, in 1958. The Baton is now as much a part of the Commonwealth Games tradition as the torch is part of the Olympics.
Traditionally the baton leaves Buckingham Palace, London containing a message from her Majesty, it signifies the call for all athlete's to come together to celebrate the games. The relay concludes at the Opening Ceremony, as the final relay runner hands the baton back to Her Majesty, or her representative, and the message is read aloud. At that moment the Games begin.
In the last games in Melbourne 2006, the Queen's Baton travelled 16,936km from Buckingham Palace through the Commonwealth, before traveling around Australia on its journey to the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. This relay is the world's longest traveling more than 180,000 kilometres and visiting all 71 nations of the Commonwealth in one year and a day.
The last Commonwealth Games was in New Delhi, India. The next edition of Commonwealth Games will be held in 2014 Glasgow, Scotland.