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Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series rocks Litquake and more!
October is Roctober with Litquake! We have readings galore for you this month!
FIRST UP, join us for our regularly scheduled event at Studio 333 in Sausalito, October 11. 7pm. This very special show features writers from the audience who entered their names in the drawings over the months. Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5.
Rosaleen Bertolino's fiction has appeared in The MacGuffin, Pure Francis, Prick of the Spindle, and Southern California Review, among others. Her awards include a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
April Eberhardt joined the literary world as head reader for Zoetrope: All-Story, a literary magazine, followed by five years as an agent with two San Francisco-based literary agencies. She holds an MBA from Boston University in Marketing and Finance, a BA from Hamilton (Kirkland) College in Anthropology and French, and a CPLF degree from the University of Paris. She divides her time between SF, New York and Paris.
Audrey Ferber received an MFA in Writing from Mills College. Her short stories have been anthologized in Virtually Now, Eating Our Hearts Out, and An Intricate Weave. Her essays have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travelers' Tales for Women, and most recently in FRONTIERS: A Journal of Women Studies. She has written book reviews for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is at work on a memoir about aging, marriage, and dance classes.
Charles Kruger is "The Storming Bohemian" and creator of the website "Storming Bohemia," which has been mentioned in the New York Times for its coverage of the San Francisco literary scene. He is also the editor and lead reviewer for TheatreStorm, a regular contributor to LitSeen, and an occasional book reviewer for The Rumpus. He is also a painter, whose work can be seen online.
Alexandria Melton has spent over a decade writing for other folks in the advertising industry. A recent transplant to Sausalito, she has published absolutely nothing and red-lined just about everything. She has a penchant for the flagrant use of em dashes — really, and possesses truly brilliant Sharpie skills. She is tragically poor, looking for the next great hardcover.
Beverly Morrison has a B.A. in Creative Writing from SF State. She is a truck driver living in Petaluma with her partner of 16 years, two birds, a gecko, and a cat. She is building a collection of flash fiction stories and specializing in haiku.
Robert Ofsevit saves energy for a living, and expends energy improving his writing, sailing and drawing skills. His BA thesis was published in the Undergraduate Journal of Asian Studies, Vol V, 1991, a highpoint in his literary career.
Alison Owings is author of the Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans (Rutgers 2011), a nearly decade-long labor. It appears in paperback in November. Her previous serious books are Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray and Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. Her previous not-so-serious book is The Wander Woman's Phrasebook: How to Meet or Avoid People in Three Romance Languages. She lectures and teaches about the subjects of her serious books.
Barbara Solomon is a retired attorney, painter, and community volunteer in Marin. Her current project, a short story collection, may turn into a novel.
Townsend Walker is a writer living in San Francisco. His stories have been published in over fifty literary journals and included in six anthologies. One story won the SLO NightWriters story contest, and two were nominated for the PEN/O.Henry Award. Four were performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood.
NEXT, join us for everyone's favorite Litquake's Litcrawl! Litcrawl: Why There Are Words Presents. October 13. 7:15. (Phase 2) Aldea Home, 890 Valencia Street, SF.
Pam Houston is the award-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Waltzing the Cat, A Little More About Me, andSight Hound. Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She teaches in the graduate writing program at University of California, Davis.
Joshua Mohr is the author of the novelsTermite Parade, which was an Editors' Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List; Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a SF Chronicle bestseller; and the brand new Damascus (October 2011). He has published numerous short stories and essays in publications such asThe New York Times Book Review, 7×7, the Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA, andThe Rumpus, among many others. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at USF.
Michelle Richmond is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Year of Fog, currently under option with Battleplan Productions; the novels No One You Know and Dream of the Blue Room; and the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. In Fall 2012, she held the Catherine Julie Cunningham Chair at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is the founder and publisher of Fiction Attic Press.
Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Hydroplane and The End of Free Love, and her third collection, Spectacle, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, and The Massachusetts Review, and she has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award. She was the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. She has a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in English from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is Professor of English at the University of San Francisco.
Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011). His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he has also been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
BUT WAIT, that's not all! Come out early (you know what they say about early birds) to the Litcrawl (October 13) at 6pm to Four Barrel Coffee, 375 Valencia Street, SF for Tzara's Hat: Five Writers, Five New Works.
Tristan Tzara knew something about the creative power of community and constraint. During a Dadaist rally in the 1920s, Tzara offered to create a work on the spot by pulling words at random from a hat. The exercise became a well-known surrealism technique, and when applied to flash fiction it works quite effectively by pulling the words from a hat at timed intervals, which must be immediately incorporated into the story being drafted. Come hear the results, at Tzara's Hat, where five writers will read five new flash fiction works of no more than 750 words.
Peg Alford Pursell's fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Staccato Fiction, Annalemma, Emprise Review & others. She's an editor & lit reading series curator.
Daniel Levin Becker is reviews editor of The Believer and the youngest member of the Paris-based Oulipo collective.
Ethel Rohan is the author of Hard to Say and Cut Through the Bone. She has published in World Literature Today, Tin House Online, The Rumpus, & elsewhere.
Janey Smith is the writer of The Snow Poems (forthcoming, NAP) and Animals (Plain Wrap Press). Her writing may be found all over the internet.
Olga Zilberbourg writes fiction set in San Francisco, St. Petersburg, Russia, and places between. Her work's appeared in Narrative Magazine, Santa Monica Review, HTMLGiant, and others.
~LAST, Bonus! Join us for Litquake's Barely Published Authors: October 6 at 7pm $5 at the door, when Nancy Au reads, as selected by Why There Are Words & North Bay Writers.
Why There Are Words March 8: "Unspeakable"
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents the following authors March 8 at Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. Can the unspeakable be put into words? Come find out when these six writers take on that theme.
Chris Cole's first novel, The Speed at Which I Travel, is about an existentialist, time-traveling teenager from the Midwest. Chris Cole sits on the board of the SF literary organization Quiet Lightning, and is a co-founder of the Pints and Prose reading series. Under the name "Disembodied Poetics," he writes a daily blog of verse and occasional prose to thousands of dedicated followers.
Timothy Crandle's fiction has been honored with the Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review, the Waasmode Prize from Passages North,and second prize in the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Contest where it was selected from over 2500 entries by Joyce Carol Oates. In autumn 2010 he was writer in residence at Ox-Bow School of the Arts. He has worked as a roofer, painter (walls only, never canvases), pizza delivery man, casting director, and electrical engineer. He holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco, and lives and writes in Oakland.
Krys Lee is the author of the debut novel Drifting House. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she was raised in California, and studied in the U.S. and England. A finalist for Best New American Voices in 2006, her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Narrative magazine, California Quarterly, Pacific Ties, the Korea Times, and Asia Weekly. She lives in Seoul.
Kate Moses is the author of Cakewalk, A Memoir,nominated for a Northern California Book Award, and the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novel Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, published in fifteen languages. As a founding editor and staff writer for Salon, Kate Moses co-edited Salon's groundbreaking daily feature Mothers Who Think and two bestselling anthologies of essays on motherhood inspired by the site, Mothers Who Think and Because I Said So. A native of San Francisco, she teaches in the creative writing programs at San Francisco State and the University of San Francisco.
Meghan Thornton won the poetry prize at the 2010 San Francisco Writer's Conference and was published in the Poets 11 Anthology. She is a board member of Quiet Lightning, and her poetry and short stories can be found in Sparkle & Blink. She wrote her first novel, a vampire romance, in high school. Knowing that it would never sell, she moved on to poetry. She is currently editing her novel, "The Sword in the Cellar," the first in a middle grade fantasy series that, unfortunately, has nothing to do with vampires.
Barry Willdorf is author of the novel, The Flight of the Sorceress. In 2001, he published a semi-autobiographical novel, Bring the War Home. His legal publishing credits include co-authoring How To Pass the LSATs,/em>, and part of the Matthew Bender series, California Forms of Jury Instructions. He was a contributing editor for Matthew Bender's Trial Master series. Born in New York City, he grew up in Massachusetts, and claims to be the first person to have surfed on Cape Ann.
Why There Are Words February 9: "Vision"
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents the following readers on the theme: Vision February 9 at Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. Come see for yourself what all the rave reviews for the reading series have been about.
Marcus Banks finds himself at many literary gatherings. A blogger and critic, his book reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Prick of the Spindle, and Rain Taxi. He has also published personal essays in Superstition Review, and from 2005-2007 was the technology columnist for the Gotham Gazette. You can follow his jottings at http://mbanks.typepad.com/.
Kirstin Chen is a 2011-2012 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose
State University. She has won awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Emerson College. Her stories have appeared in Hobart, Pank, Juked, The Good Men Project, and others, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best New American Voices anthology. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Emerson College. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is completing her first novel, Soy Sauce for Beginners, set in her homeland of Singapore.
Nicole McFeely is the author of hundreds of bar napkin scribblings and countless other incoherent jottings. She has not written a book, won a grant, or enrolled in a graduate program but has plans to do perhaps two of these things in the next ten years. Destroyer of free time, she currently works as a bartender and freelance editor and serves as the Director of Outreach for Quiet Lightning and the Assistant Editor of Litseen.com. http://nicmcfeely.wordpress.com/
Chicken John is a Showman living in San Francisco. A contributor and instigator
with a long history of arranging Serendipity to accommodate Chaos when she comes to Destiny's house for dinner. He is a documented confusionist. He is a qualified insultant. He also a mechanic and a writer. He owns a gigantic bus and an odd warehouse in San Francisco. In his spare time he enjoys longs walks off a short pier, underwater basket weaving, and writing dumb bios about himself. He would like you to buy his new book, The Book of the Is. http://chickenjohn.com/
Jacqueline Luckett is the author of the new novel, Passing Love. After wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and planning.' Prayin' and dreamin' . . . just like that old Dusty Springfield song urges, Jacqueline Luckett finally put pen to paper and wrote, not one, but two novels. Jacqueline considers her novels great way to get a lot off her mind and to visit her favorite city, Paris. She travels frequently in search of another city that mesmerizes her as much as Paris, and is sure that when she finds it more story ideas will come her way.
Carol Sheldon's first novel, Mother Lode placed in the top five percent of Amazon's International Breakthrough Novel Contest of 2011. She's published two books of poetry. Her poetry can also be found in Robert Bly's Great Mother Conference Anthology, Hot Flashes and Marin Poetry Anthology. Two of her plays, Sandcastles, and Lifelines were chosen for professional productions. Several other works have won awards. She holds an MA from University of Michigan, and teaches poetry, novel, and memoir writing classes. She also enjoys directing and acting, believing her experience on stage has informed her writing. http://carolsheldon.wordpress.com/
Susanna Solomon's fiction has appeared in the online magazine Harlot's Sauce
Radio, in print in Vintage Voices, West Winds Centennial, and the Point Reyes Light. Her fiction lately has been inspired by entries in the Sheriff's Calls Section of the Point Reyes Light. She is at work on a short story collection and is polishing her first novel. In cafes all over Marin, in quiet corners, she is often visited by her characters Mildred and Fred, who not only have a lot to say about what they read in the paper, but about getting older, burglars in their backyard, and uncooperative lawn chairs.
Jon Wells is a designer, writer, and filmmaker living in Mill Valley. He Died All Day Long is his first novel. His design work has been recognized in venues such as the San Francisco Show, Addy Awards, Print Magazine books, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His first film, At the Epicenter of the Epidemic, documenting the HIV/AIDS crisis in Honduras, was shown at the Tiburon International Film Festival. He is a member of the Tuesday Night Writers and is a Squaw Valley Community of Writers alum.
July 14: Culpable
Last month's reading was stunning! But summer at Why There Are Words is just warming up, and July promises to be intriguing, as the following authors read from their work on the theme of "Culpable." We'll be in Sausalito's Studio 333 at 7 PM, with books, beer, wine, and blame! $5 is all you need to come join us.
Graham Gremore is a reclusive misanthrope from St. Paul. He co-produces the humor reading series LitUp Writers in San Francisco. Graham has written two stage musicals, both of which were commissioned and produced by SteppingStone Theater in St. Paul. In 2009, his play "As in Autumn" was a semi-finalist in The Source: 10 Minute Play Festival in Washington D.C. His solo show, "Private Parts," had its world premiere at SF Playhouse in May 2011. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Playwriting at San Francisco State University.
A child of World War II, Agatha Hoff describes the violent destruction of a city, a country and the culture of her native Hungary in her book, Burning Horses. She came to America in 1949 as a refugee, attended high school in Menlo Park, and college at Seattle University. When her youngest child started kindergarten, Agatha went to San Francisco Law School and earned her J.D. degree at night. She worked in poverty law where clients often abandoned her for a "real lawyer," meaning someone they paid. When she became a real lawyer in private practice, her clients termed her personal injury practice "the armpit of the law." When she was appointed a court commissioner at San Francisco Superior Court, her favorite moniker written by a disgruntled litigant pronounced her to be a "fascist terrorist cross-dressed in the cloak of justice." When at last a British tourist who came to traffic court called her "Your Worship," she thought she'd retire before it went to her head. Agatha is spending her retirement writing and long distance cycling. Her column, "Tales From The Bench", has appeared regularly in San Francisco Attorney Magazine.
Evan Karp covers literary culture as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and is a regular contributor to SF Weekly's Exhibitionist blog. He is the founder and editor of Litseen and creator and host of Quiet Lightning, a monthly submission-based reading series that publishes each show as a book called sparkle & blink, which he also edits. He is a contributing editor of Instant City and the official blogger of Litquake.
K.M. Soehnlein is the author of three novels: Robin and Ruby, The World of Normal Boys, and You Can Say You Knew Me When, plus essays and reviews in many publications. He was born in New York, grew up in New Jersey, and has lived in San Francisco since the early '90s. He teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. His wish list includes learning to play the piano, becoming fluent in Italian, and finishing the New York Times Sunday Crossword puzzle in under 45 minutes.
Kristen Tracy is a poet who has also written several teen and middle-grade novels, including Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus, Lost It, Sharks & Boys, and A Field Guide for Heartbreakers. She lives in San Francisco where she volunteers as a gardener on Alcatraz. Along with Nina LaCour she teaches Bay Area writing classes.
James Warner is the author of All Her Father's Guns, a novel published in 2011 by Numina Press. His short fiction has appeared most recently on KGB Bar Lit Magazine, Narrative, and Night Train. He writes an almost-monthly literary column, "Standing Perpendicular," for opendemocracy.net, and is also a fiction editor for Identity Theory.


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To make sure it ends the year in the black, the taxpayer-subsidized hospital, which serves as the region's safety net for the poor, instituted a hiring freeze this week and took other steps, including cutting discretionary spending that is not related to patient care, such as travel and consulting.
"I'm not happy about where we are in the performance this year," MetroHealth Chief Executive Mark Moran said, adding, "I feel confident that we're going to turn it around because we've done it before a couple of times."
Since taking over in March 2008, Moran has been credited by the hospital board with bringing MetroHealth back from the financial brink. He has replaced much of the top management, overseen several rounds of layoffs and reorganized the health system's operations, including expanding hours at some clinics and updating coding and billing procedures.
After projecting steep losses in early 2008, MetroHealth broke even at the end of the year. It reported audited net income of $58.5 million in 2009 and $27.1 million in 2010. By the end of last year, MetroHealth's management projected a $40 million net income for 2011, according to a financial spreadsheet given to the health system's board of trustees last week.
But 2011 hasn't been an easy year. MetroHealth, like all of Northeast Ohio's hospitals, faced a slew of industry pressures and a "very challenging" economic environment, said Bill Ryan, the president and chief executive of the regional hospital group Center for Health Affairs.
"I think everybody is in a pretty tight situation," Ryan said, adding that all area hospitals and health systems are operating "very lean."
The region's high rate of unemployment means more people "showing up at all the hospitals either underinsured or uninsured," Ryan said. In addition, state funding cuts in Medicaid and federal cuts in Medicare as well as lower payments from big insurance companies have affected bottom lines.
But MetroHealth faces additional pressures. Because it is a public hospital, with buildings owned by the county and an annual $36 million subsidy from taxpayers, MetroHealth has undergone scrutiny from the new county leaders about how it spends its money. Cuyahoga County Councilman Dave Greenspan has raised questions about the amount the health system pays in consulting contracts both for those individuals and companies that currently do work at the system and for employees who have left the system.
Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, who appointed a task force to review the health system, said he was aware MetroHealth was "in choppy waters financially."
"As these numbers are released, we will take a very hard look at them and if it's something that would impact the financial viability of the institution, that's something we're always concerned about," FitzGerald said.
MetroHealth board Chairman Ron Fountain, a longtime board member, said the health system is in a much stronger position than it was several years ago. Cash reserves are strong, and a couple of solid budget years have helped the institution.
MetroHealth's changing fortunes
The health system entered the year projecting $40 million more in revenue than spending but is on track for a $1.1 million loss, with inpatient revenue being a key problem. Here's a glance at some of the areas where MetroHealth has not met projections.
Inpatient revenue: The health system has collected $473.4 million in the first seven months of the year -- about $13.6 million more than it did during the same period last year. But management had expected to collect $487.8 million by now, or about $28 million more than in 2010.
Charity care: The region's safety net hospital had anticipated an increase in free care for the poor, but the need has been greater than projected. So far, MetroHealth has provided $166.3 million in free care, up nearly 11 percent from $148.6 million in the same period last year. The system budgeted to spend $160.2 million to date.
Salaries and wages: Projecting a rise in inpatient revenue, MetroHealth hired workers to meet the expected demand, with 166 new full-time-equivalent positions added in the past year. The health system has spent $237.9 million in this category, which is about 8.5 percent more than it spent for the same period last year. Because the hiring was planned, MetroHealth is nearly within budget in this category, with spending $374,000 higher than projected.
Medical supplies: This is a perplexing category for many U.S. hospitals, with supply costs rising more than expected in many areas. The health system has spent $26.8 million so far this year, which is 17.5 percent more than it did last year. The budget for the first seven months of the year was $22.8 million.
SOURCE: MetroHealth "Finance Report to the Board of Trustees -- Finance Committee," Aug. 23, 2011
Previous Plain Dealer coverage
- MetroHealth confirms former employees did little consulting work (Aug. 20, 2011)
- MetroHealth chief executive fears taxpayers might overlook hospital's community role (Aug. 11)
- MetroHealth System's executive pay and bonuses spark concern (Aug. 10)
- MetroHealth agreed to pay more than $4 million to exiting employees (Aug. 4)
- MetroHealth hires consultant as interim CFO, continues to pay former CFO (July 28)
- MetroHealth former CFO still receiving salary despite resigning in June (July 21)
- MetroHealth hires crisis communications firm to help improve hospital's image (June 24)
- MetroHealth CFO Sharon Kelley resigns (June 16)
- County Council fires questions at MetroHealth chief Mike Moran (May 19)
- County Executive Ed FitzGerald creates task force to scrutinize MetroHealth (May 13)
- Consultant at MetroHealth pulls in $7 million in no-bid jobs (April 27)
- Republican County Council members question bonuses, salaries at MetroHealth (April 16)
Still, Fountain said, "we have to stop it [the losses], and we have to stop it now."
The problem is as simple as it would be in many household budgets: MetroHealth is spending more money than it is bringing in.
According to another spreadsheet given to board members this week, MetroHealth management predicted a nearly 6 percent increase in inpatient revenue over last year, or $487.8 million by the end of July. It is off that mark by $14.3 million.
Moran called the projection of $40 million in 2011 net income "optimistic." The chief executive said that he never agreed with that amount and instead was targeting to earn $25 million.
Moran said MetroHealth has not prepared an updated budget projection that would show where, line item by line item, the $25 million disappeared.
"We are carefully reviewing every clinical and administrative area to understand where and why the shortfall occurred. We have to go through a careful and rather tedious process to better understand the causes and what we need to do in response," he said in an email Friday to The Plain Dealer.
Although Moran did not have detailed records about how projections for the year have changed, the spreadsheet handed out to board members earlier this week -- showing actual spending and revenues through July -- does make clear where the system had its difficulties.
MetroHealth management projected that in the first seven months of the year the health system would report $20 million in excess revenue over expenses. The health system has actually netted a little more than $1 million for the year to date.
Lower-than-expected revenue from people admitted to the hospital and more visits than expected by the poor provided the biggest hits to the bottom line.
Tom McDonald, a MetroHealth trustee for the past three years and chairman of the finance committee, said, "We budgeted for volumes that we haven't achieved."
Moran has not publicly assessed blame for the incorrect projections. In June, MetroHealth's Chief Financial Officer Sharon Kelley left her job two years after being hired. She was awarded a consulting contract in lieu of severance that would pay her base salary of $439,998 plus benefits for up to 12 months.
MetroHealth board Chairman Fountain said most of the increased expenses involved employment costs.
The health system had about 5,565 full-time-equivalent positions at the end of July, up 166 from the 5,399 full-time-equivalent positions in the same month last year. Salaries and wages were up $20.2 million year-over-year at the end of July to $237.9 million.
The increased employment costs, however, were mostly planned for in the budget and do not account for the shortfall in the projected surplus. MetroHealth expected an increase in demand for paid services this year and included extra positions in the budget to meet that demand. That demand did not come, explaining the lower-than-expected revenue for inpatient services.
Moran declined to say whether there would be a round of layoffs this year but Fountain said, "I can't imagine that you can get to where we need to go without some sort of reduction in personnel."
Fountain also said he hoped much of the savings for the rest of the year could be found not through layoffs but by not filling positions as they become vacant.
Jeff Rooney, a Chicago-based consultant, has taken over as interim chief financial officer. He presented a plan to the board this week with the hopes of helping MetroHealth break even by the end of the year.
Aside from implementing the hiring freeze and the cut in discretionary spending, MetroHealth told staff this week that it is reviewing admissions criteria and challenging insurance companies on payments as well as state and federal payers for more reimbursement. Moran also told board members that construction projects would be deferred.
Vanessa Whiting, who joined the board in May, said ensuring MetroHealth's financial health is "critically important to this entire community."
"Our mission is to serve those who cannot pay, and if we don't get this right, it would be devastating," she said.
Plain Dealer reporter Dave Davis contributed to this story.
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He's gone off his.
The Connecticut senator is calling for criminal prosecution of the New York Times for covering the Wikileaks scandal.
Jefffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has this to say:
"It's a terrible idea because -- well, here's the thing with Lieberman that I don't understand: Jim DeMint might want to investigate The New York Times because that's what they always want to do in South Carolina. But Joe Lieberman, erstwhile liberal, who came of age in Watergate, should understand the role of newspapers in a free America."
I agree it's a terrible idea, but disagree on two other points. For one thing, trying to shut down the press has always been a trait of left-wingers. I was in Nicaragua during the time the Sandinistas shut down La Prensa, the right-wing newspaper. Every American liberal I met came up with excuses for that act of censorship. People wouldn't become left-wingers if they didn't like telling other people what to do and think.
The other point is that Lieberman is hardly an "erstwhile" liberal. He's a lifelong liberal. He was the running mate of the wackiest liberal of the modern era, Al Gore.
And Lieberman has a lifetime 16.5 rating on the American Conservative Union's 100-point scale, which puts him way, way to the left of center.
The only reason anyone thinks he is conservative is that he supports the nation-building efforts in the Mideast that followed 9/11. But those efforts are intrinsically liberal, either Wilsonian or Trotskyite in nature.
In any event, his attempt to go after the Times is a classic case of biting the hand that feeds you. And then there was the heavyhanded way in which one of his staffers tried to bully Amazon into cutting off Wikileaks.
I suspect the senator will soon find that he has overplayed his hand with his fellow liberals. Recall that he is not an incumbent Democrat. He lost the Democratic primary in 2006 to Ned Lamont. Lieberman then won re-election only because George W. Bush refused to campaign for the Republican, clearly preferring a liberal Democrat as long as that Democrats supported his nutty neoconservative foreign policy. (See video of the infamous Bush-Lieberman kiss here.)
When Lieberman comes up for re-election in 2012 he will have to run in a Democratic primary if he wants the nomination. He's likely to lose again after pulling stunts like this. That would mean another run as an independent, this time after having alienated his liberal base.
So it is my considered opinion that Joe's gone off his rocker. Not that he had far to go.


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Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceuticals group, on Tuesday confirmed it would cut 6,000 jobs, or 18% of its production staff, as part of a global restructuring triggered by last year's takeover of Wyeth, the FT reported. The cuts come as large drugs companies move to slash costs amid growing price pressures, aggressive competition by manufacturers of generics and a dearth of new drugs to replace those with expiring patents.
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Finding apps for your phone or tablet is easy. Finding the right apps is hard.
Let's keep this geek-free. iPhone and iPad users have the Apple App Store, which opens when you tap the App Store icon. Android users have the Google Play store. It's got an icon, too. Kindle Fire users have the smaller Amazon app store, and it's got -- you get the point by now.
Each of the big app stores has a zillion free apps. Most of the free apps are worthless, but, hey, free and worthless is better than expensive and worthless.
Free games are another matter. The most important thing to know about free games is that many of them try to sucker you into buying add-ons through in-game purchases, an evil invention that steals money from innocent users. My advice: Give 'em the boot.
Speaking of evil, here's another for the Hall of Shame. If you find customer comments, treat them like the plague. A third are written by people who haven't even tried the app yet, another third by kids who can't spell and the rest by misanthropes who haven't seen the sun in 13 years. Keep your antenna raised when you check such remarks.
(When every app is "great," no apps are great. See what I mean?)
I'm much happier browsing the Google Play store than I am the other two, for one humongous reason: Google gives you refunds. The other two might, or might not; get your blow torch ready. The Play Store gives you just enough time to try out any app and will cancel your purchase (and refund your money) if you don't like the app for any reason.
This means trying out apps from Apple and Amazon can be costly. Look for free versions with fewer features so you can try out apps you're interested in. Check reliable reviews of apps, too. I've written many, and you can also sign up for the app-survey classes I give for OASIS, the non-profite learning center for adults 50 and older.
Finally, remember that all three app stores will let you recover any app you bought and then deleted, intentionally or not. Just go back to the app store and get it again. There's no charge.
(Note: There's an app store for Microsoft's Windows RT tablets. So few have been sold that I'm ignoring them.)


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September 19, 2013
Lobstermen race for more than prizes; Whistlin' Dixie is fastest lobster boat
Portland's MS Harborfest Lobster Boat Races on Aug. 18 closed out Maine's lobster boat racing season, which had 12 races, starting with Boothbay Harbor on June 16.
Sixty-five boats showed up in Portland to race with nearly 150 spectator boats lining the course. This race is different from all the others in that more is at stake than just bragging rights and prizes. The Portland race is part of a weekend-long affair that raises money for the Greater New England Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The festivities also include races for sailboats and tugboats — 13 knots top speed but a big rolling wake — and an auction. The weekend's celebration raised more than $100,000, with the auction contributing the biggest slice at $46,000.
The lobster-boat races generated just over $6,000. Many of the race winners donated the money they won for a first-, second- or third-place finish to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Additional money was generated from the sales of T-shirts, as well as the racing association's donation of each boat's $20 entry fee. One fisherman just walked up to the race organizers and handed over a $100 bill. "A lot of these people have been affected by MS, so they give," says Jon Johansen, president of the Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association.
An incentive for fishermen to race at Portland is the chance to win 100 gallons of diesel fuel. Global Partners in South Portland donated 1,600 gallons of diesel fuel that is divided among 16 races. "Everyone in a race in the diesel class has a chance to win that," says Johansen. "You don't have to win the race, but you can't just sign up. You have to run."
At the earlier races, a number of boats suffered engine problems, but at Portland the engines and boats held together. Though the Lorna R, a wooden 30-footer with a 496-cubic-inch Chevy, did what it has done for most of this year's races and that's pour white smoke out of the wheelhouse as it ran down the course. As it turns out, engine pressure was pushing drops of oil past the dipstick and onto the manifold. Skipper Jeremy Chandler acted fast to put out a brief burst of flame.
One of the casualties of an earlier race, Ed Shirley's Miss Karlee, a 32-foot Mitchell Cove with a 410-hp Sisu, showed up in Portland. At the Searsport races the Miss Karlee had engine problems and had to be hauled out and trucked about a mile away to Otis Enterprises Marine Corp. to have the engine repaired. "The problem in Searsport," says Johansen, "is he was running the engine on propane."
A perennial crowd pleaser over the last few years has been Galen Alley's Foolish Pleasure, with an alcohol-fueled engine that puts out more than 2,000 horsepower. At Portland Foolish Pleasure won all her races but only got up to 42.5 mph in the fastest lobster boat race. That's much slower than the 72.8 mph record or an unofficial time of 80 mph at the Pemaquid races.
The fastest working lobster boat was Andy Johnson's Whistlin' Dixie, a Holland 40 with a 1,000-hp Cat. She beat out Gary Genthner's Lisa Marie, a Libby 34 with a 690-hp Iveco, by 2 feet in the diesel free-for-all. The timed speed was only 39.2 mph, which is five to six miles-per-hour slower than Whistling Dixie is capable of hitting. There might have been a problem at the start or the radar gun was off, says Johansen.
A boat that didn't make it to Portland and one that a lot of people would have liked to have seen — and might have beat Whistlin' Dixie — was Andy Gove's Uncle's UFO. That's a Northern Bay 36 with a 900-hp Mack that the 83-year-old Gove took to victory in the four races he entered this year.
Looking ahead to next year's races, there's talk of putting some of the high-powered non-working boats, such as the Lorna R, in another class. "They are not real working boats," says Johansen. "To protect the working boats we'll make class D for the non-working boats." — Michael Crowley
Gillnetter built for work and comfort; Seattle yard getting back to fish boats
In early August, Tom Love was completing sea trials on his new aluminum gillnetter and looking forward to two or three weeks of fishing for silvers in Alaska's Prince William Sound and then possibly fishing Cordova in the fall.
The building of Liberty Rising combined the efforts of two boatshops. The gillnetter was built at Delbert Henry's Hylite Fabrication in Palmer, Alaska, but carries the name Peregrine Boats, a shop in Peters Creek, on its side. That's because Peregrine Boats' Jeff Johnson designed the hull and supervised the building of Liberty Rising.
The two boatbuilders go back a few years, as Henry and some of his crew used to work for Johnson at Peregrine Boats in Peters Creek or Sea State One Marine in Anchorage.
At 34' x 12', Liberty Rising is a bit larger than most gillnetters, which, Love says, usually measure 32' x 10'. The extra length went into the cabin, allowing it to be more comfortably outfitted than the standard gillnetter. When Love isn't fishing, he'll be using the boat "pretty much as a summer live-aboard, so we can get out and enjoy Prince William Sound."
Thus the cabin has two nice bunks, a refrigerator, a freezer, a double settee, and, says Love, "a very nice stove and a small but fully functional head with a shower and a sink. The cabin is almost yacht quality." For a commercial fishing boat, the cabin has a fair amount of wood, and Henry says, "Love did the woodworking himself."
There's also vacuum bagging equipment. Love catches lingcod and halibut for himself and friends, and says he's "very particular about how it is processed." After the fish is vacuumed bagged it goes into the freezer.
Gillnetters used for commercial and sport fishing are becoming more common. "A lot of guys have slowly been doing that," Henry says. When Love is commercial fishing, he'll be using a net reel and bow roller built by Petrzelka Bros. in Mount Vernon, Wash.
Access to the engine room is an uncommon feature, says Henry. Just inside the door to the cabin is a hatch. Open the hatch and you step down into the engine room.
There you'll find stainless steel hydraulic lines and a pair of 370-hp Yanmar engines hooked up to Hamilton 274 water jets.
On the initial sea trials, Liberty Rising wasn't being pushed too hard, but she ran at 35 knots and at one point got up to 41 knots, "but we didn't leave it there, because the engines didn't have many hours," Love says.
At night the crew won't have any problem finding their way around the boat, what with LED lights under the gunwales to provide indirect lighting for the deck, as well as two remote controlled LED floodlights. LED lights are also found in the engine room and cabin and even underwater across the transom.
Though Liberty Rising is a working boat, at night she might be mistaken for a yacht with those underwater lights.
Seattle's Delta Marine Industries is a boatyard that built as many as 250 fiberglass seiners and crabbers from the 1970s until 1992, when it switched its focus to yachts and megayachts. It wasn't until June 2012 with the 58-foot fiberglass Sequel that it returned to building commercial fishing boats.
In this past year a second 58' x 23' seiner was delivered, and by October 2013 a 58' x 27' seiner and crabber will go into the water. She will have a 600-hp Caterpillar C18 for power, as well as Northern Lights 55-kW and 30-kW gensets.
Delta Marine Industries is also building a 58-footer on spec, only this is a steel boat. The Hockema & Whalen design was started over a year ago, "but we became so busy with other boats that we kind of mothballed it," says the boatyard's Chris Jones.
At the end of August, Jones says the tanks were being welded up and the boat was nearly ready for sandblasting and painting. He says it will be featured for sale at Seattle's Pacific Marine Expo in November, though the boat won't be ready for delivery until the spring or summer of 2014. — Michael Crowley
1977-built boat is redone for oystering; Fat Spat survives sinking and hogging
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced in August that preliminary figures for the state's 2012-13 oyster harvest show commercial oystermen catching 320,000 bushels with a dockside value of $11.2 million. That's a substantial increase over the 20,000 bushels landed a decade ago.
It takes boats to work Virginia's oyster fishery, and when the industry expands, so does the demand for boats to plant, grow and harvest oysters. Two Virginia oyster companies, Kellum Brothers in Weems and Cowart Seafood in Lottsburg, are upgrading their fleets to keep up with the growth.
Kellum Brothers President Jeff Kellum, his brother Tommy, uncle Joe and cousin Brandon Kellum recently bought and rebuilt a used 42-foot Hulls Unlimited East fiberglass workboat built in 1977. Hulls Unlimited East in Deltaville, Va., built fiberglass deadrise workboats from 1972 until the late 1990s when the boatshop closed.
The High Hopes, named after Jeff and Tommy's mother, was hauled at Ampro Shipyard in Weems. The yard fabricated a hydraulic oyster dredge winder, mast and a boom. Portions of the cabin and the washboards were replaced. A new engine box was built, and the sides and bottom were gel coated and painted. Wave Rider Manufacturing of Topping, Va., did the fiberglass work.
"Hulls Unlimited East built a heavy boat, one that's just right for oystering," says Jeff. "We bought the boat from Ryland Gaskins a longtime waterman who had it built in 1977. Ryland was the only owner, and we knew he took care of it."
Tommy says, "Virginia's oyster industry is growing, and we think there is a bright future here for us. We are so convinced of that that we've expanded our operations, and part of the expansion was the purchase and repair of the High Hopes to help accommodate that growth."
In April, Cowart Seafood of Lottsburg had Ampro Shipyard remove a pair of 8.2-liter Detroit Diesels from the 33' x 13' 6" Fat Spat, a fiberglass-over wood barge, and replaced them with a pair of new 210-hp Cummins 6BTA engines.
That finished up a five-year project that started back in 2009 when the Fat Spat sank while lifting oyster cages.
Lake Cowart, president of Cowart Seafood, says when the boat sank she was hogged 14 inches at the bow and stern, caused by the weight of a crane used to lift oyster cages. After she sank, Cowart decided on an extended repair plan.
Larry Jennings of Jennings Boatyard in Reedville, Va., used a 2,000-pound weight and cables to remove all but 2 inches of hog. He also fastened new planks in the sides and rebuilt the stern. That was enough to get the Fat Spat back working. Then in 2011, Jennings rebuilt the cabin.
This year, besides the new engines, the Fat Spat got a new marine plywood bottom. "We've just about got ourselves a new boat," says Cowart. "She's so tough now, we could run her over land mines and she'd keep on going."
The Fat Spat carries oyster cages to and from oyster grounds on the Coan River, a tributary of the Potomac River. Cowart says he needs a boat the size and strength of Fat Spat to lift his cages because they are built heavier than what most growers are using. The heavier cages make them harder to steal, which is a growing problem in the oyster aquaculture business, says Cowart. "If cages are light enough, poachers will take the cage and oysters away."
The Fat Spat was built in 1976 by Northumberland County, Va., boatbuilder Francis Haynie. Cowart asked Haynie to build a 38-foot barge-style boat to haul seed oyster to and from his oyster grounds. At that point, Cowart Seafood was not using cages to grow oysters.
"Mr. Haynie built boats in his garage there at his house on Cod Creek [a tributary of the Little Wicomico River, at the mouth of the Potomac River] and the garage was 33 feet long," says Cowart. "Well guess what? We got a boat 33 feet long, and it's been a good one." — Larry Chowning
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The neighborhood context of relative position, trust, and self-rated health
The relative position hypothesis proposes that an individual's relative position in a community or population influences their health because (1) unfavorable comparisons lead those with a lower position to experience negative emotions that cause stress and detrimentally impact health and well-being, and (2) individuals with different statuses are less likely to develop trust and cohesion with one another. These processes are important for individual health and also because their results may detract from community level social resources. Surprisingly little work has investigated this hypothesis within small units of analysis such as neighborhoods. In this research, logistic regression analyses were conducted on data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey to test the relative position hypothesis as it applies to distrust of neighbors and fair or poor self-rated health, and whether the relationship varies across neighborhood income inequality. Results indicate that relative position significantly predicts distrust, such that those with higher local position are more likely to distrust their comparatively lower income neighbors. Relative position was not significantly associated with self-rated health, but lack of trust of neighbors was significantly and positively associated with below average self-rated health. The effect of relative position did not vary across neighborhood income inequality for either outcome. Implications for theories of income inequality and health are discussed.
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Taking in spring's many splendors
At some point soon, the weather will be nice enough for spring wildflowers to start popping their blooms in the wooded areas of Seneca County.
Among the first to appear is great white trillium, Ohio's state flower. The white flower features three petals and three leaves and is fairly common in all 88 counties.
Wildflowers that bloom in wooded area are known for their short lifespan. They must grow, bloom and set seeds all within the time when the forest floor gets warm enough for seeds to sprout and when the green canopy of new leaves begins to shade them too much.
Anyone who would like to see trillium, Dutchmen's britches, marsh marigold or any number of other spring wildflowers has some great choices of parks and nature preserves to visit.
One of the best-known preserves to hike in spring is Howard Collier State Nature Preserve, a 115-acre state preserve on TR 38 not from far McCutchenville.
The natural area is a woods with large oak, sycamore, ash, tulip and cottonwood trees along the Sandusky River. Part of the 1 1/2-mile trail is a wooden boardwalk.
At this time of year, visitors can see spring wildflowers, including sharp-lobed hepatica, Dutchman's breeches, squirrel-corn, three trillium species, twinleaf, white and yellow trout-lily and marsh marigold.
Marsh marigolds and skunk cabbage on the floodplain usually is best to see in early May.
The preserve is three miles northeast of McCutchenville at the southwest edge of the county.
Seneca County
In addition to the state park, Seneca County parks offer a beautiful array of hiking trails where spring wildflowers can be found this time of year.
Steyer Nature Preserve at Abbott's Bridge east of Fort Seneca offers several miles of hiking trails, which can be moderately challenging but offer some beautiful views of the Sandusky River, large trees and lots of wildflowers.
Garlo Heritage Nature Preserve, south of Bloomville on SR 19, offers trails around Olgierd Lake and some three smaller ponds. At this time of year, visitors can hear a cacaphony of birds, frogs and other wildlife as well as enjoy some beautiful wildflowers.
During a hike along Honey Creek at Forrest Nature Preserve, visitors also can find wildflowers and wildlife amid the serenity.
Although less numerous, hikers also can find spring flowers at Bowen Nature Preserve, West Lodi; Tiffin University Nature Preserve, Miami Street, just outside Tiffin's city limits; and along the river at Clinton Nature Preserve, TR 132 off SR 53 North.
For a different kind of spring experience, take a walk on the boardwalk at Springville Marsh State Nature Preserve on TR 24 off US 23, north of Carey.
The 161-acre marsh provides views of a different type of environment coming alive in spring. About a milelong boardwalk runs through a section of the marsh.
As the largest inland wetland in the area, it is home to water-loving plants and wildlife. Some of them are threatened and endangered species in Ohio. Fen orchids, bottle gentian, Kalm's lobelia and little yellow sedge can be seen along the boardwalk. One of Ohio's largest populations of twig-rush, a typical Atlantic coastal plain species, is located throughout the preserve. There also are smaller areas of more northern plants.
An observation tower that used to be there is no longer usable.
Crawford County
In neighboring Crawford County, Sears Woods is another wooded area with excellent views of wildflowers along its boardwalk.
The 99 acres adjacent to the Sandusky River is an example of an old-growth forest that formerly covered much of the region. May is the best time to view wildflowers.
The preserve, operated by Crawford Park District, is a mile southwest of Bucyrus on SR 4, and then two miles west on Mt. Zion Road.
Allen County
A little farther south is Kendrick Woods State Nature Preserve, operated by Allen County's Johnny Appleseed Park District.
The 159-acre area contains hiking trails and is a great place for bird watching as well as seeing wildflower such as swamp saxifrage, Virginia bluebells, green dragon, fire pink and blue cohosh.
Near the southern end of area, a flowing artesian sulphur spring can be seen along the south tail, adjacent to Six Mile Creek.
Located about 10 miles west of Lima, take SR 81 west to Defiance Trail. The preserve is a half-mile north.
Richland County
To the east in Richland County, Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve provides 187 acres of old-growth woods, a swamp forest and spring wildflowers.
In April, the area has a colorful display of marsh marigolds, and in May a diverse group of wildflower bloom including trilliums, violets, Dutchman's breeches, jack-in-the-pulpit, spring beauty and phlox.
The preserve has a 1 1/4-mile loop boardwalk trail and an observation tower.
It is 13 miles north of Mansfield on Olivesburg-Fitchville Road off SR 13.
Fulton County
To the northwest in Fulton County, Goll Woods State Nature Preserve provides 321 acres of old-growth woods that show how the area looked during the time of the Great Black Swamp. It is the least disturbed woodland known to remain in extreme northwest Ohio and features some of the largest trees remaining in the state.
In addition to the more common wildflowers, visitors along the trails in Goll Woods can find spotted coral-root and three-birds-orchid.
The preserve is 1 1/2 miles north of Archbold. Take SR 66 north, then three miles west on TR F and a quarter mile south on TR 26.


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One Quik Mart employee was working during the robbery, but was not injured, a manager, who would not reveal his name, told NJ.com.
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The Quik Mart is in the same shopping plaza as the Pizza Brothers and Aoyama restaurants.
Bridgewater Police received a call at about 11:47 p.m. Monday night about an armed robbery at 1982 Washington Valley Road, where a man, wearing mostly black, stole $300 from the store, police confirmed Tuesday.
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Steven Andrews Guilty of Repeated Molest-y Acts with 13 y.o. Girl He Taught at Middle School
An Anaheim man who formerly taught history at a Diamond Bar middle school was convicted Wednesday of unlawful sex, lewd acts and other sex-related charges involving a 13-year-old girl he had taught.
Steven Andrews, 43, was found guilty by a jury in Pomona of six counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, five counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object, three counts of lewd act upon a child, two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16 and one count of possession or control of child pornography.
He now faces up to 15 years and eight months in state prison and the likelihood of having to register as a sex offender for life, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
The girl was a student of Andrews' for about a year at Lorbeer Middle School before the sexual misconduct began, according to prosecutors, who added they had trysts on and off campus.
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A Mandeville woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing nearly $7,000 in jewelry from a friend's mother.
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Detectives have recovered $700 worth of the stolen jewelry and continue to work the case in an attempt to locate the remaining property, Mandeville police said in a news release issued Monday.
Quick was arrested Thursday after an investigation Detective Cpl. Leonard Pfleider.
The theft, which occurred at a home in the 1200 block of
Quick, who is a friend of the victim's daughter, stayed at the residence from Sept. 27 through Oct. 1, 2010, according to the release. On Oct. 4, the victim noticed approximately $6,800 worth of jewelry was missing from her bedroom, police said.
Detective Pfleider obtained a warrant for the arrest of Quick, who was located at her place of employment and taken into custody without incident. Upon her arrest, Quick confessed to stealing the jewelry, police said.


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Couple to mark anniversary of terror attacks and their wedding
Reflections of a north Idaho couple who had scheduled their wedding for September 15, 2001:
Dave: "My name's David Boyer."
Heather: "I am Dave's wife, Heather Boyer. Oh, you always hope on your wedding day that people are going to be happy and joyous."
Dave: "It was just going to be perfect."
Heather: "We wanted to have as many people there as possible."
Dave: "Well, the Tuesday before our wedding, I was leaving for work and one of the neighbors came out of her apartment, yelling and screaming, 'The terrorists have attacked! The terrorists have attacked!'"
Heather: "And while we were watching it on the news, the plane hit the second tower and just really didn't seem real."
Dave: "I didn't, I couldn't even think about anything else at that particular time. And then the next day it kind of sunk in: All the airports are closed. There's nobody going to be flying in or out. And we're like, 'Oh no, what are we going to do now?"'
Heather: "That's when I thought, 'We should postpone this wedding.'"
Dave: "And our family members just said, 'You kids need to have this wedding. Something good needs to come out of this.'"
Heather: "When we think about our wedding day, the first thing that comes to our mind is 9/11 and what was happening. So this year, our 10th anniversary, we decided to have a 9/11 memorial at the same time. It's made us who we are. We have a beautiful life. We have our lives."


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If ever the timing was right for the Hornets to make a move establishing themselves as one of the upper echelon teams in the Western Conference, it's the next four weeks leading up to the All-Star break in mid-February.
Beginning with today's holiday matinee against the Indiana Pacers at the New Orleans Arena, the Hornets play 10 of their next 13 games at home, nine of those coming against teams with records of .500 or worse.
But for a team that often has struggled this season against NBA lesser-lights, that's a double-edged sword.
This week, the Hornets face three teams, the Pacers, the New Jersey Nets and the Minnesota Timberwolves (at Minneapolis on Friday night) with a combined record of 46-73.
Yet the Hornets have lost three games to teams with losing records this season: Charlotte, Sacramento and, most recently, the New York Knicks.
Currently in fourth place in the Western Conference standings and second in the Southwest Division behind San Antonio, the Hornets could make some serious headway if the inclination to give maximum effort is there.
And it starts today with the 15-25 Pacers, who pushed the Hornets to the brink of defeat on Dec. 28. New Orleans needed a basket from David West in the final 2.5 seconds to win 105-103 at Conseco Fieldhouse.
"I feel like it's going to be a tough game," said Hornets center Tyson Chandler of today's matchup. "They're a good team. In the game we played in Indiana, it came down to the last shot. They're very physical and hit the glass. It's one we're going to have to battle for."
In that first game against the Pacers, the Hornets had no answer for Indiana reserve center Roy Hibbert, who had 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting. The Hornets also failed to slow down New Orleans native Danny Granger, who had a game-high 34 points.
The Pacers also outrebounded the Hornets 46-37. Indiana had 13 second-chance points to the Hornets' nine.
New Orleans struggled in a Friday night matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers, another game, as in the Knicks loss, where its intensity was questioned.
But the Hornets bounced back Saturday night against the Pistons and handed Detroit its fifth consecutive loss.
"Hopefully, the lesson we learned is that we've got to play extremely hard every single night," Hornets Coach Byron Scott said. "That's the bottom line. I thought we gave ourselves the opportunity (against Detroit). We got some fast-break points and got into our game, an up and down game, and got some easy buckets.
"We also did a real good job of spacing the floor. But on the defensive end, I thought we did a really good job of slowing them down. One of our weaknesses we keep saying is our communication on the defensive end. I thought (against Detroit) was one of our better efforts as far as talking to each other and trying to help each other as much as possible. (Against Cleveland) we gave up so many wide-open looks."
That turnabout, guard Rasual Butler said, came as a result of a re-dedication as a team to the Hornets' defensive concepts, something that has been lacking in certain games -- the last one against Indiana, especially when the Pacers shot 50 percent from the field, including 9-of-12 from 3-point range.
"We committed to one another saying that whether our defensive rotation was right or wrong, that somebody was going to have the other guys' back," Butler said of Saturday's win. "That was going to take some more effort, but we came out and did exactly what we talked about in pregame. We made up for our mistakes with extra effort."
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21Alive) -- Monday morning, area veterans participated in a rededication ceremony for the Vietnam-era tank that once stood in Johnny Appleseed Park.
The tank's official new home is in River-View Cemetery in the 11000 block of Carroll Rd. Cemetery leaders acquired the tank so it would become the focal point of the newly-designed veteran's section.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A two-vehicle crash involving an unlicensed minor left one dead and two injured Saturday night in Huntsville, according to the Alabama State Troopers office.
David Carl Hoos, 77, was killed when his 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee collided head-on with a 2001 Buick LeSabre, according to Trooper Curtis Summerville.
The Buick was driven by an unlicensed minor from Madison, Summerville said.
Hoos died while being transported to the hospital, Summerville said. The driver of the Buick and a passenger were treated for minor injuries at Huntsville Hospital, he said.
The crash temporarily shut down Nance Road Saturday night around 8:30 p.m., Summerville said.
The investigation is ongoing, Summerville said.
Updated at 12:24 p.m. to include the location of the accident as provided by the state troopers.


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FORT WAYNE (www.incnow.tv) - Defending men's soccer national champ Indiana rallied for three goals in the second half to gain a 3-2 win over Notre Dame Saturday night at their spring exhibition match at the National Soccer Festival at Fort Wayne Sport Club.
Notre Dame's Patrick Hodan had the lone goal of the first half, but then Tanner Thompson, A.J. Corrado, and Nikita Kotlov came on with second half scores to lift the Hoosiers to the win.
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EAST LANSING -- For the second year in a row, the Beal City baseball team fell just short of its goal, losing to New Lothrop 5-0 in the Division 4 state championship on Saturday at Michigan State University's McLane Stadium.
The Aggies went into today's title game poised to avenge their loss in last year's championship. However, New Lothrop also had a victory on its mind.
It was a tough day for Beal City as the Aggies couldn't muster a comeback after falling behind 4-0 in the fourth inning.
Beal City had only given up three runs the entire playoffs, but committed three errors which New Lothrop took advantage of.
"It was like the baseball gods were not with us today," Beal City coach Brad Antcliff said. ""Baseball is a funny game, and you have to play great. We didn't play our best game today, and it was a reflection -- we got beat 5-0."
The miscues made by Beal City were uncharacteristic of a team that was ranked in the top 10 all season.
"We played uptight," Antcliff said. "We talked about playing relaxed, but we didn't play great. When you make it here you have to play great, you can't hit batters, you can't walk people and when you get a chance to score you have to score. New Lothrop did, and we didn't."
"New Lothrop deserved it, and Keith Villano has that program going in the right direction."
The Aggies left nine runners on base and couldn't get the timely hit to start a rally.
"The kids put a lot of pressure on themselves," Antcliff said. "I just think we wanted to score so bad."
For Beal City, it was yet another difficult end to a successful season. The Aggies finished the season 36-4 overall and 14-0 in the Highland Conference.
Even with such a good season, Antcliff felt like it wasn't complete without a state title and put a lot of the blame on himself.
"I feel bad for our seniors," he said. "I didn't get them a state championship, and that was my job. I have to do what I can to get them a state title, and I couldn't. I feel bad for those guys.
"Making it again is such a great accomplishment, but I still wanted them to have a state championship, so they could leave with one."
Even without a state title, Beal City's senior class leaves a strong legacy. From conference titles, district titles and back-to-back trips to the state finals in both football and baseball, the senior class of Beal City certainly left it's mark.
Beal City loses eight seniors, including shortstop and pitcher Ty Rollins, who had two hits at the plate and struck out five New Lothrop batters.
"It stinks not being able to come out on top," Rollins said. "Overall it has been a great season -- I couldn't ask for a better group of guys. It's been a blast."
Some would think failing to win the state title in consecutive years would be a disappointment, but not to Rollins.
"Making it is still a great accomplishment," he said. "You know, a lot of schools don't even win a district, I mean we can't complain about making it here and competing -- not many people can say that."
"I'm going to miss the guys and the coaching more than anything. This program has made me the person I am today, and it has just been an amazing experience."
With another season done, and another group of seniors graduating, all Antcliff wants is for his team to be remembered for its accomplishments.
"I wish we could have got one, but we didn't," he said. "These kids deserved to be here, they wanted to get back here, and they wanted to win a state championship, it just didn't happen.
"I am still proud of my team. I want them to be remembered as back-to-back state final team."
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A year ago, the South Hunterdon High girls bowling team finished third in the Central Jersey Group 1 tournament, just one spot from qualifying for the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions.
The Eagles graduated three top players from that squad but still have the potential for a strong season.
"We're down three girls from last year, but there are two returners who are still strong," said SHHS coach Dan Vorgity.
Roxy Kreider returns for her senior year. Last season she averaged 165, rolled a high game of 200, a high series of 551 and earned second-team All-Skyland Conference honors.
Joining her will be sophomore Amanda Wengryn, whose older sisters, Kristina and Jen, earned All-Skyland recognition in 2009. Jen is currently bowling for the University of Delaware.
"Their father is a big bowler and taught all the girls to bowl," Vorgity said.
Amanda Wengryn, who carries an average of 140, had a high game of 153 and a high series of 396 as a freshman for South Hunterdon.
The South Hunterdon boys, meanwhile, go into this season with a goal to win meets. Last winter the Eagles had little success. But this team is bigger and better, according to Vorgity.
"They hope to play better than in former years," he said.
The core lineup consists of juniors Jimmy Eick, Dakotah Polenz, Ryan Gocown and Justin Damberto, who comes from a family of bowlers. Damberto worked hard over the summer to improve his average from 170 last season and is currently rolling around 205 during practices.
Another high scorer for the Eagles could be freshman Zach Roy, whose average is around 190. Roy, who also plays in club leagues, will double this winter as a basketball player, filling in on the bowling team when his schedule allows.
Hunterdon Central's boys squad lost half its team to graduation but the Red Devils have two strong returning starters to help lead the team and help with the younger bowlers.
Senior captain Chris Koval averaged 206 last winter and rolled the high game at the Skyland Conference Meet with a 257. Joining him is junior Ryan Emery, who rolled a 203 average as a freshman. Emery's older brother, Tim, graduated last year after leading the team with a 216 average.
Also starting for Hunterdon Central will be junior Bill Bartus and senior Kyle Phegley. Bartus rolled a 193-189 and Phegley a 198-185 at the Skyland Conference Meet last winter. They will be joined by several new players.
"Hopefully our youth and inexperience will develop in the months to come," coach Eric Wasserman said.
The Hunterdon Central girls return to the lanes this season with seven members. Last winter, the Red Devils didn't earn any medals at the state tournament but finished third in the Skyland Conference.
Returning are senior Sarah Piell, who won the Varsity Club award last year, and sophomore Theresa Nitti, whose older sister, 2012 graduate Christina, scored the high series and high game for the team last winter.
"The other five are bowling for either their first or second year," Wasserman said.


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Have you seen the movie or read the book, My Secret Garden? That was one of my favorite books as a child. In fact, I still love it.
But now, even better . . . I have my own secret garden! And I love it even more! In fact, every year at this time, I fall deeper and deeper in love with it.
But my secret garden isn't hidden behind walls. It's right out in the open where anyone can see it. So why is it a secret garden?
Well, my secret garden has many secrets. She shares a few with me each year, and I think if I lived to be 200, I would never learn all her secrets. She only shares her secrets when I'm ready to hear them, and I'm kind of a slow learner. I have to learn a whole new language to really understand her secrets, and her language is full of subtle and beautiful nuances, so it's not something I can learn all at once.
One of her secrets is that she loves me like I love her. She loves the attention I give her . . . how I walk through her each day, admiring her beauty, singing to her, talking to individual plants, and expressing my appreciation to them. I can feel the energy of reciprocity as she returns the love and gratitude for my care.
She appreciates that I consider it a joy, rather than a chore, to take care of her. No one likes to feel they are just another obligation. And my garden is no different. So every time I go out to my garden, we greet each other like friends who love to spend time together.
Another secret is that my garden is all about relationships — and not just with me! And these relationships go far beyond the bees and butterflies pollinating the flowers.
She has a very complex web of relationships that I never see that allow the miracle of the garden to unfold. Although I'm somewhat aware of some of these relationships, they remain quite mysterious and magical to me.
The soil in the garden is literally alive with billions of tiny beings. Some are visible, but most are too small to see with the naked eye. In addition to the tiny microbes, there are also worms and some other little critters that live in the soil. All these little beings are working together and providing the nutrients needed by the plants in the garden. So I don't actually fertilize the plants in my garden . . . I feed the microbes, instead, and they provide the food for the plants. I couldn't garden without them!
Fortunately, I don't need to understand all the complexity of this web of life in the soil. I just need to feed these little guys some organic matter, such as leaves and compost, and they do all the rest. I call these microbes my "compost buddies."
Although I can't see most of these tiny critters, I feel their presence. It wouldn't be a garden without them. So one of the big secrets I learned was that what is happening above ground — where we can see it — is only the tip of the iceberg.
I just learned a new secret last night, and I'm really excited about it!
We all know that sound is vibration, right? Well, vibrations affect everything about life — including plants. Scientists have played music for plants and discovered that they grow better with classical music than with rock music. (Makes sense to me!)
But think about what other sounds you hear in your garden. Early in the morning, and again in the evening, the birds are chirping and singing enthusiastically. I've always loved hearing them, but I never thought about the effect their songs have on the plants in the garden! It turns out that plants take in more nutrients early in the morning and late in the afternoon, coinciding with the times the birds are the most vocal.
So my secret garden has a much broader range of relationships than I ever dreamed of. The microbes in the soil . . . the butterflies and bees pollinating the flowers . . . and now even the birdsongs creating the vibrational frequencies that help the plants take in nutrients. The healthier these relationships are, the healthier the garden is. Anything that affects one part affects the whole.
I'm so grateful to be part of the web of relationships in my garden. The more I learn the secrets of my garden, the more I learn how to be a human being. If I live long enough, and spend enough time there, I just might become the person I'm meant to be!
I've also learned that the entire earth is a garden. And like my little garden, the earth is a huge, beautiful, complex set of relationships. And when something affects one part, it affects the whole. In this case, the whole Earth.
So let's appreciate her. Let's sing to her. Let's take care of her, as she is taking care of us. And lets do this joyfully and with gratitude, rather than out of a sense of obligation. There's magic in the garden, from the smallest patch of flowers to the immensity of the Earth. As we learn to listen, we discover her secrets, and we learn to become better human beings living in our Secret Garden.


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1 - SO LONESOME is shipped up from Laurel for debut by sharp barn that excels first-time out. BLUE COLLAR CAT was hemmed in and back on heels in third start, the most races of anyone in this green field.
THUG DADDY will get heavy play after going six wide and placing third.
2 - FLORES ISLAND, 5-2 or less and in the money in past five races, fired a best-of-128 workout for this. after beating LUNAR SURGE in last. SHEER DRAMA tries to steal this.
3 - HOT STONES exploded by 4 1/4 at 4-5 in first outing at the Spa. MAXANA, with 12-1 morning line, lures Castellano off another contender after grass experiment failed. ABSOLUTE BEAUTY also goes from turf-to-dirt.
4 - HOT TEMPO sinks to career low after chasing repeat winners in 5 of 6 career races. CHLOE BEAR also dips to career low; toss out last from Post 12. CORINTHIANNA goes from one strong barn to another.
5 - WILLET turns photo finish loss around with CLEAR PASAJ and beats MISS VALENTINE again as well.
6 - LOGAN STREET needed last and almost won anyway. COACH A.J.. takes huge drop with early speed that could steal this at a price. Post hurts HARDROCKER.
7 - JOY SEEKER cruised by 4 3/4 when introduced to turf at Saratoga. JUNOON moves into barn that has few starters, but spots them well. Castellano rides. MELA DRAMATICALLY was rank in last or would have been picked higher.
8 - JUDY G (BEST BET) looks like she will appreciate marathon-like distance. NEOLEXIA and INDUSTRIAL POLICY join late charge down the stretch.
9 - Twice-beaten favorite SUSTAINED, the only past winner at the Spa in this field, gets needed more distance. Nails pace-pushers LADY OF GOLD and BROKEN TRUST FUND.
10 - STOCK FUND balked, was steadied and still closed for second in race like this. CURLIN N TWIRLIN adds blinkers for Terranova (31% winners), but loses Rosario to UMAN CANDY.


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SAYREVILLE — As if Sandy wasn't bad enough, a badly hit section of Sayreville endured sewage backups early today as a result of the overnight storm.
In the area of MacArthur and Weber avenues, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit during Sandy, sewage backed up this morning.
However, the backup receded by late morning more and the sewer lines are again handling all wastewater, said Richard Fitamant, executive director of the Middlesex County Utilities Authority.
Sayreville police issued an alert today that backups were expected in the area.
Fitamant, however, denied the police advisory that any pumping facility was down. The utility authority handles all sewage for the county.
The utilities authority pump stations were damaged in the storm and temporary by-pass system were put in place. In the first two weeks after the storm, untreated sewage had washed into the Raritan River.
However, by late November, authority officials said the agency was operating at more than 90 percent of its pre-storm capacity.
Fitamant today said water levels in the sewer have fluctuated, and there were some backups today, but that ended by late morning. He said all the bypass systems are operating.
More than 40 Sayreville homes were left uninhabitable after the storm, nearly all of them in the MacArthur and Weber avenues neighborhood. Many homes suffered extensive foundation damage.


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The American Red Cross Central New York Chapter will hold special volunteer training Saturday for residents who want to help the people who have been displaced from their homes by Sandy.
The class will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Red Cross Central New York Chapter, 220 Herald Place, Syracuse. Volunteers who want to help with the Sandy relief efforts will need to:
• Be able to leave immediately after Saturday training.
• Commit to a two-week minimum stay.
• Be prepared for hardship conditions.
• Clear a basic background check.
To reserve space, follow these directions:
1. Go to www.mybackgroundcheck.com
2. Click on American Red Cross Volunteer.
3. Click on Disaster Response.
4. Click on Hurricane Sandy 145.
5. Complete process and submit.
6. Call Chapter at 234-2200 to reserve your space in the class.
7. Go to
www.redcrosscny.org to fill out the volunteer application, and follow directions for a background check.
For more information, call the Central New York Chapter at 315-234-2200.
Other ways to help:
People can make a financial donation in support of Red Cross Disaster Relief by visiting www.redcross.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or texting the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Contributions may also be sent to someone's local Red Cross chapter or to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013.
Nearly 360 Red Cross blood drives have been cancelled due to the storm, representing a loss of as many as 12,000 blood and platelet products. The Red Cross is asking people who are eligible, especially in places not affected by the storm, to schedule a blood donation now.
To schedule a donation time or get more information about giving blood, people can visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). To give blood, someone must be at least 17 years of age, meet weight and height requirements and be in general good health. Donors should bring their Red Cross blood donor card or other form of positive ID with them.


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20 October 2005, 12 noon, Duke University, Perkins Library, Rare Book Room
Doris Iarovici will read from and discuss American Dreaming and Other Stories, her recently published collection, winner of the 2005 Novello Literary Award. Dr. Iarovici studied writing with Frank McCourt and studied medicine at Yale. She is a psychiatrist at Duke on the staff of Counseling and Psychological Services. Bring a lunch; beverages and dessert will be provided. For more information about the event, call 660-5816 or send a message to email@example.com. To learn more about Doris Iarovici and read an excerpt from "American Dreaming," go to http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/09.character.html


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Mayor Ellen Dickson, Vivian Furman, Johnathan Kanter and members of Summit Public Art officially unveiled Summit's Silver Sentinel tree on Nov. 22.
The sculpture serves as a unique entrance sign welcoming residents and visitors to Summit. The ribbon cutting ceremony took place at the corner of Broad Street and Dayton Street, by the Summit city sign.
This sculpture is a permanent installation, created by artist Douwe Blumberg and Summit Public Art to bring cultural vitality to Summit through public art.


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New Open App brings action closer
Golf Australia has released the new Emirates Australian Open Official iPhone App for this year's championship.
No matter where you are in the build-up or during the event, you can stay up to date with live scores, breaking news, photo galleries and plenty more of the action.
While Justin Rose, Adam Scott, Tom Watson, Geoff Ogilvy, Greg Chalmers, John Senden and many more are in action, you can follow every eagle, birdie and bogey as the battle for the Open intensifies.
Designed by Golf Australia to provide users with a comprehensive championship experience, the App carries live scoring, draws, event information, tee times, photo galleries, course guides, player profiles and latest news - a complete tournament guide in your pocket.
Golf Australia's Digital Director John Sutherland said access to high quality information on mobile devices was now fundamental in golf and international sport.
"This is a key part of our overall fan experience at the championship and allows us to provide instant information to anyone who's following the Emirates Australian Open. More than that, golf as a sport lends itself to this digital technology. It's a lot easier when you're out at The Lakes and you want to watch Adam Scott, knowing you're only a couple of clicks on your phone from finding out what hole he's just played so you can catch up to that group," Sutherland said.
"The Emirates Australian Open is Australia's most prestigious golf tournament and a significant sporting event in the Asia Pacific region over the summer. Golf Australia will continue to enhance the website and mobile experience of our National Opens and more broadly for general golf enthusiasts throughout 2013" Sutherland said.
The App ensures you'll always know who's leading the championship – no matter where you are.
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Pork Crown Roast Silver Oak Winery Chef Dominic Orsini Learn how to make Pork Crown Roast with Panettone Stuffing with this special holiday recipe from the Silver Oak Winery Chef. Great with Cabernet Sauvignon.
Pork Crown Roast
Panettone Stuffing
This dish makes a wonderful center piece to any holiday table. Ask your butcher to tie the crown roast for you. In this recipe I make a stuffing from panettone bread, however any stuffing will do.
Serves 8-10 / Total Time:
Brine the Port
- In a large soup or sauce pot, bring water, salt, molasses, cinnamon, bay leaves, cloves and star anise to a boil. Pour mixture into a large container (big enough to hold the roast and all of the brine) and add the ice to chill the brine quickly. Add the crown roast and place in refrigerator. Soak the roast in the brine for 12-14 hours.
Make the Stuffing
- Preheat oven to 300°F. Dice the panettone bread into large 1 inch cubes and place on a baking tray in oven for 45 minutes.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil and sauté the onions until translucent; add the celery and bay leaf and cook for an additional 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the onion mixture with the orange juice, zest, heavy cream, salt and raisins. Add the panettone cubes, pushing down into the liquid so that the bread fully absorbs the liquid.
Stuff and Roast the Pork
- Preheat oven to 300°F.
- Remove pork from the brine and thoroughly pat dry with paper towels. Place onto a steel rack inside a roasting pan, bone side up. Arrange the roast so that the loins are symmetrically round, creating a bowl.
- Place the panettone stuffing into the top of the crown roast, filling to an even dome top. Brush with melted butter and place a sheet of wax paper over the top, then wrap with a sheet of aluminum foil. Wrap the entire top of the crown so that the bones are completely covered.
- Roast the pork for 1½ hours, until an internal temperature of 140°F is achieved. Remove the foil and wax paper and roast an additional 15 minutes to crisp up the top of the stuffing. Remove from the oven and let rest for 30 minutes.
- Before carving the roast, scoop out the stuffing and transfer to a serving bowl. Cut the roast between each bone to create pork-chop slices. Serve immediately with chicken jus.
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If you have trouble finding a container large enough to fit the crown roast and the brine, see our Citrus Lacquered Turkey recipe for techniques using a cooler.


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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (April 30, 2012) — According to one of the nation's leading moving companies, Atlas Van Lines, firms across the U.S. saw improvements in relocation volumes, budgets and overall performances last year, and expect much of the same for 2012. Responding to its 45th annual corporate relocation survey, 67 percent of the relocation managers polled say they believe their respective companies will fare better in 2012.
"For more than four decades, our relocation research has shed light on corporate America and the economy's effect on relocation," said Jack Griffin, president and COO of Atlas World Group. "The majority of companies answering the 2012 survey expect volumes and budgets to remain static, with most remaining respondents expecting increases. Results are encouraging for Atlas Van Lines and our agent moving companies throughout the nation."
The Northeast is now the top destination of transfers (42 percent) followed by 2011's top destination, the Midwest (37 percent) and the South (31 percent). The West remains fourth in relocation numbers (26 percent). More than one-fourth of firms responding expect international relocation volumes to increase this year and more than half (55 percent) expect levels to remain similar to 2011. Internationally, Asia ranks as the most frequent relocation destination (41 percent). Western Europe is not far behind with 35 percent of firms listing it as the international destination of choice.
The impact of economic and market pressures on relocations appear to be lessening further. In 2011, less than one-fifth of firms decreased relocations among entry level/new hires and middle management employees in response to these pressures, compared to roughly four out of 10 in 2008 and 2009. However, 57 percent of companies indicate that employees declined relocation in 2011. Firms citing increased employee reluctance to relocate remained at the lower levels reported for 2010 (18 percent), far below 2008 and 2009 (more than 28 percent), but markedly higher than earlier this decade (more than 7 percent).
Twenty-four percent of companies surveyed say that declining a relocation request usually hinders an employee's career.
More than 360 corporate relocation professionals completed the online survey between January 10 and March 2. The respondent demographic of the annual corporate relocation survey includes human resources personnel and relocation/mobility services departments for service, manufacturing, wholesale/retail, financial and government organizations. More than half of the companies have an international presence and relocate employees between countries. Respondents must have relocation responsibility and work for a company that has either relocated employees within the past two years or plans to relocate employees this year.
For complete survey results, visit www.atlasvanlines.com/relocation-surveys/. To view the infographic, visit www.atlasvanlines.com/infographics/economy-real-estate-relocation/.
About Atlas Van Lines
Atlas Van Lines, a national moving company, is the largest subsidiary of Atlas World Group, an Evansville, Ind.-based company. Atlas World Group companies employ nearly 700 people throughout North America. Nearly 500 Atlas interstate moving agents in the United States and Canada specialize in corporate relocation, household moving services and in the specialized transportation of high-value items such as electronics, fine art, store fixtures and furniture. For more information, visit www.atlasvanlines.com.