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The state of Alaska may soon begin drafting universal safety standards for the state's ziplines, which have become popular attractions for summer tourists.
In July, the department will begin a public process to determine whether the state should inspect and determine the safety of the handful of companies that operate in the 49th state. Ziplines, which in Juneau involve gliding along a rope through the forest canopy, grew out of techniques designed by biologists to study tropical rainforests close up.
Larry Gaffaney is president of Venture Travel, the parent company of the zipline operation in Juneau. He said by phone that without knowing details of what the state will do, his company is "philosophically and in concept" supportive of the state effort, since they likely share a goal.
"First and foremost to us is safety and making sure everybody has a good experience," he said.
Since 2000, ziplines have proliferated in Alaska, particularly in tourist-friendly Southeast and Southcentral. That growth has taken place largely without state oversight.
The Alaska Department of Labor, in response to a public records request to the Juneau Empire, said it has no data on injuries or deaths caused by ziplines in Alaska. Neither the department nor any other state agency has a full listing of the number of ziplines operating commercially in Alaska, though a spokeswoman for the department offered a list of eight corporations it knows are operating here.
Deborah Kelly, director of the department's labor standards and safety division, said "inquiries from various members of the public" brought the issue of zipline regulation to the department's attention.
"Relatively recently, it kind of came to our attention that ziplines are out there, they are recreational devices subject to regulation," she said.
Laws passed by the Alaska Legislature in 1960 and 1967 require "recreational devices" to be inspected by the Department of Labor for safety. Those inspections are supposed to cover all "conveyance(s) … used as a source of or aids in the promoting entertainment, pleasure, play, relaxation, or instruction."
The state has regulations for amusement park rides, but it doesn't have any that specifically cover ziplines.
Kelly said she is "not aware of any specific issues with them."
"So far, we've talked to a few operators, and we've found that they're mostly doing the right thing. They're very proactive and safety conscious," she said.
That doesn't mean they're without incident. In 2016, an Anchorage man named Charles Mobley filed a lawsuit against Stoney Creek LLC, which operates ziplines near Seward and in Talkeetna. Neither Stoney Creek nor its attorney, Tracey Knutson, returned messages for comment Tuesday.
Jill Wittenbrader, Mobley's attorney, said he broke his ankle when the zipline's brake failed.
"That's essentially what happened. Our belief is that it should have been safer. There shouldn't be a chance for a brake system to fail and injure someone," she said.
"I think it's smart that the state is looking at it," she said of the regulatory effort.
Kelly said the lawsuit was unrelated to the start of the state's work, but Gaffaney said high-profile incidents elsewhere are likely driving public interest.
"What I understand is there have been some issues at ziplines throughout the world, and as a consequence, people are taking a harder look at this," he said. "That's kind of put this on the radar."
Alaska court records list no lawsuits against any of the other zipline operators listed by the Alaska Department of Labor, and the Empire asked Gaffaney whether he knows of any injuries from ziplines in the capital city.
"We run lots of people through our three courses every season, and those people go through and have a good time and get back on their ship and carry onto their next step. I don't see injuries on our courses as being an issue," he said. "In part, that's because we take safety seriously."
Juneau has two zipline courses, one at Eaglecrest and the other at the Treadwell Mine ruins. Only the Eaglecrest course is operating this year, he said.
The course was designed and inspected by the Association for Challenge Course Technology, Gaffaney said.
That trade organization offers inspections and certification nationwide for the "global challenge course, aerial adventure park, canopy tour and zip line industry," according to its website. Several states, including Colorado and West Virginia, use ACCT's standards for their state regulations, and the Department of Labor has been talking with the organization as well.
Other states use standards promulgated by ASTM International.
The state will hold a public meeting July 12 in Anchorage to take public comment on whether it should draft standards and if so, what standards it should use. After the meeting, the Department of Labor may begin the formal process of drafting regulations.
The route taken will determine how much it affects the industry, Gaffaney said.
"It could be no impact on our business to significant impact on our business," he said.


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ACRATH - Australian Religious Against the Trafficking of Humans
August 2011 and 5th October 2011
An Australian FCJ, Sr. Denise Mulcahy, works for an organization called 'ACRATH' (Australian Catholic Religious Against the Trafficking of Humans ... website http://acrath.org.au/).
On Sunday 21 August 2011, twelve members of ACRATH went to Canberra (the Australian Capital) for their fifth annual prigrimage. For four days they spoke with over 100 Members of Parliament and their advisors about ACRATH's major concerns for people who are trafficked. During their time in Canberra they raised the following issues: the well-being of people trafficked into Australia and trafficking prevention strategies.
They also took the opportunity to meet with diplomatic staff representing Timor Leste, the Philippines, the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, thus initiating 'important new relationships which will assist our emerging work in partnerships with the Pacific ...'.
Sr Denise writes: 'It was a most successful visit and I enjoyed the experience thoroughly. It was a busy and pressured time. My main task was to co-ordinate the interview schedule .... The Parliament is surrounded by the Australian landscape and the views of nature from each window are just beautiful.
You can access the full report here.
Later, on 5th October 2011, ACRATH had a visit from the Minister for Justice and Home Affairs.
You can access the media release about this event here.
ACRATH is funded in part by the Australian Government, so this visit wa a formal acknowledgement that the Government has committed $350,000 over the next three years to ACRATH to support its work in anti-trafficking.
'Slavery and human trafficking are a fundamental debasement of humanity. The Government is committed to working in partnership with community organisations to address the full cycle of these crimes,' Mr O'Connor said.


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ARQUES-LA-BATAILLE, a village of France, in the department of Seine-Inférieure, 4 m. S.E. of Dieppe by the Western railway. Pop. (1906) 1250. Arques is situated near the confluence of the rivers Varenne and Bethune; the forest of Arques stretches to the north-east. The interest of the place centres in the castle dominating the town, which was built in the 11th century by William of Arques; his nephew, William the Conqueror, regarding it as a menace to his own power, besieged and occupied it. After frequently changing hands, it came into the possession of the English, who were expelled in 1449 after an occupation of thirty years. In 1589 its cannon decided the battle of Arques in favour of Henry IV. Since 1869 the castle has been state property. The first line of fortification was the work of Francis I.; the second line and the donjon date back to the 11th century. The church of Arques, a building of the 16th century, preserves a fine stone rood screen, statuary, stained glass and other relics of the Renaissance period.
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The JHI Blog is pleased to announce a new occasional feature, a forum bringing together faculty across disciplines to discuss recent works in intellectual history over consecutive Fridays.
Book forum: Jeffrey A. Barash, Collective Memory and the Historical Past (Univ. of Chicago, 2017)
— Michael Meng, "History as Critique" (7 April 2017)
— Sophie Marcotte Chénard, "A Practical Past Beyond the Historical Past?" (14 April 2017)
— Andrew Dunstall, "Symbols, Collective Memory, and Political Principles" (21 April 2017)
— Asaf Angermann, "Working Through Collective Memory" (28 April 2017)
— Nitzan Lebovic, "Time to Remember—Is There a Future to Collective Memory?" (5 May 2017)
— Jeffrey A. Barash, "Collective Memory, the Public Sphere, and the Remote Past" (12 May 2017)
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The following article appeared on the American Thinker on October 7th
Is there anything that more elegantly epitomizes the obscene hypocrisy of the Democrat elites -- and their slavish servility to the Hollywood left and its money -- than their unconditional worship of sexual predator Harvey Weinstein? If all reports are true, his depravity has been a known fact for decades. Still, Democrats like the Clintons, Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and a host of others gladly took hundreds of thousands of dollars of his money and kept their mouths shut. These supposed champions of women are nothing but sanctimonious frauds.
If there were ever anything that proved their self-serving vacuity, this is it. This, along with their post-Vegas massacre hysteria demanding gun control be imposed on us but not them, tells the tale.
Whatever led the New York Times to finally report on the man and a scandal they have surely known about for years is a mystery. The NYT expose covers three decades of Weinstein's predatory behavior -- but the truth is revealed only now? What's up? Surely the paper of record is not suddenly concerned about the hypocrisy of the Hollywood left. There must be something else at work. Time will tell. Weinstein is convinced his newly stated war against the NRA will appease his critics. It will mollify only the most clueless among them.
|Weinstein and friends
Adding further to the gross hypocrisy is the fact that Gloria Allred's daughter, Lisa Bloom, is defending Weinstein, "tutoring" him in acceptable behavior in 2017. Weinstein somehow missed the feminist movement, the tyranny of political correctness and every other constraint imposed on Americans, for good or ill, since the 1960s. Lisa and her mother have made their very public careers as camera hogs who defend women that have allegedly been sexually harassed or abused by sports or entertainment celebrities.
Now Lisa is defending the biggest celebrity abuser of all. Surprise? Not one bit. She is quoted as saying he is "an old dinosaur learning new ways." Ha! Even Bill Clinton didn't come up with that excuse. But Allred and Bloom are publicity hounds and such people are nothing more than self-serving money-grubbers. Like Obama's Mao-admiring Anita Dunn, who is also "consulting" with Weinstein. These women, Allred, Bloom, and Dunn, evidently have no character, no moral code. They will say or do anything to advance themselves. Weinstein is producing a series for Bloom about the Trayvon Martin case. She will kiss his feet, give him a massage and watch him in the shower to see that her project goes forward.
These people live by a different code of ethics than the rest of us. They believe they are entitled to an alternate set of values. They can lie, cheat, steal, sexually harass and be proud of what they got away with, of what they have achieved, because they sacrificed the values with which they may have been raised. They can hire equally morally compromised lawyers to settle the consequences of their bad behavior. They can have armed guards, full-time security around their homes and safe rooms. While the rest of us must be horrified by the sexual predators they embrace, we must be denied access to our last resort of self-defense, guns. They are special; the rest of us are expendable. The ignorant arrogance of the late night "comics" is beyond the pale. Not one of them has a clue about the meaning of the Second Amendment or why the rest of us revere it. They all have full-time armed security and their homes have the best protection available. They have ranted every night this week about the horrors of private gun ownership but have yet to mention Harvey Weinstein's thirty-year history of predation. They won't; he is one of them.Weinstein ran his company like any tyrant runs a country, like Stalin ran the USSR, like Castro ran Cuba, by instilling fear in his willing, ambitious underlings. Weinstein's employees, all of whom wanted to work in the film business, were held to an enforced code of silence and were mandated to never criticize the company or "its leaders." The women who settled for payouts had to sign confidentiality agreements. They essentially agreed to let the man loose on other women for the equivalent of thirty pieces of silver. Each of them sold their souls and put succeeding women at risk. This is of a piece with the fact that these lefty anti-gun folks have armed guards, the highest-tech security systems at their homes, demanding the rest of us disarm and be perpetually vulnerable. Their hypocrisy is stunning.
Trump won because a majority of people in between the coasts are sick to death of these self-appointed betters assuming for themselves a different set of rules, a different, more permissive lifestyle, than they decree the rest of us must live by. The NYT story about Harvey Weinstein and the post-Las Vegas massacre anti-gun hysteria by the left is the perfect intersection of their truly venal lack of character and their ignorance of true American history. This bunch is a blight upon American culture, academia and politics. They must be defeated.


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There's a new pattern in my life and I hate it. Yesterday morning started off early; I was awake at 0419. Yes, to the minute I know when I looked at the clock because I was flabbergasted by my body betraying me into consciousness.
I guess it wasn't really my body, so much as my brain. My body knew it needed another 29 hours of sleep before it could function but my brain was being a total asshole.
Today, apparently, my brain decided to get a little payback for the asshole comment. My brain decided to punch me into alertness at the wonderful time of 0248.
And what was I thinking about?! Surely it must have been of the utmost importance to require my thinking about it at such an early hour.
Yeah, that would be a no. My brain needed to think about selling my shit online and packing up the house…
As if anyone in my area is awake at 0248, let alone wanting to buy my crap that I don't need in the new home!
As I sit here and write this, the coffee maker is turning on automatically so the Hubster can enjoy some delicious caffeine before work. I am now traumatized on a whole new level. My normal wake up time is hours after that coffee machine turns itself back off.
I'm going to go lie down on the couch and hope the sweet, sweet jokes of Seinfeld will put me back to sleep. Or at least keep me entertained enough that I don't lose it like George Costanza by lunch time.
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When I recently travelled to Little Rock to present at the annual JP Fitness Summitt, I, like many others who were in attendance, was amazed by the energy and passion of Dave Schmitz, who gave an utterly dynamic presentation on the creative use of elastic resistance.
After his talk, I (like many others) came to the unavoidable conclusion that I had been overlooking one of the most potent training technologies available- heavy elastic resistance bands.
Elastic Resistance is multi-planar, and non- gravity dependant.
Later that day, I asked Dave if I could interview him for our weekly Coaching Group call, and I'm happy to tell you that we'll be chatting with Dave tomorrow at 4:00pm pacific time.
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From: Tim Brooks Subject: Pretentiousness So Francis Harvey (Press
Gazette, 21 October) thinks we should have gone with the "pretentious
allusions to Proust" which NME deputy editor Alex Needham kicked out in
your feature on Press Cadets. Apparently we "don't understand our
I really, really thought journalists who thought this way had all retired when hot metal went out.
get to listen to our audience quite a lot. 50,000 of them visit our
website every day. 10,000 of them are trying to get into our Rock 'n'
Roll Riot Tour in Leeds tonight as I write this. Thousands of them turn
up at our Club NME nights every week across the UK.
And the thing they tell us, Francis, is: "Oi! NME! Remember, we f***ing hate that fin-de-siecle French lit-shit."
Hence the aversion to Proust.
Alex did helpfully explain for Pete fans last week – not all of whom
completed their literary education – that the Babyshambles song A
Rebours derives from the controversial 19th century novel by JK
Gratuitous displays of ill-worn erudition are exactly the sort of exclusive frottage that alienate readers.
NME is not the London Review of Books. Thankfully, unlike Francis, most
of our peers seem to understand this: hence Conor McNicholas is the PPA
Editor of the Year, and shortlisted for the BSME's Editors' Editor of
the Year. (Don't tell anyone, but he also has a degree in philosophy).
Gabba gabba hey – as Wittgenstein would say.
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Nani impresses on Far East tour
Nani offered the first evidence of the talent which persuaded Manchester United to pay £17 million for his services as Sir Alex Ferguson's men ended their Far East tour with an easy win.
The 19-year-old's magnificent chip capped another memorable evening on a largely successful trip and suggested comparisons between Nani and compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo may not be too far wide of the mark.
Meanwhile Alex Ferguson has called Liverpool `opportunists` in the ongoing dispute over Heinze`s potential move to Anfield.


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Book Notes - Kathleen Founds "When Mystical Creatures Attack!"
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.
Deeply poignant and incredibly funny, When Mystical Creatures Attack! proves Kathleen Founds a talented and inventive writer.
Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:
"Founds's stories are punctuated with marvelous moments of humor and pathos, and no matter the narrative form they take, they uniformly reveal vividly realized characters with complex inner lives."
Stream a playlist of these songs at Spotify.
In her own words, here is Kathleen Founds's Book Notes music playlist for her short story collection When Mystical Creatures Attack!:
The When Mystical Creatures Attack! Playlist: Dance Party Meets Dark Night of the Soul
Ms. Freedman: "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out," by Cat Stevens
Like Ms. Freedman, this song is sweet, well intentioned, and painfully naïve. Ms. Freedman shows up in a dusty border town with a summer's worth of training, thinking she will set her hand on students' heads and watch them blossom like flowers. She writes, "I am ready to obliterate the achievement gap, to dismantle the systems of structural oppression and racism that plague our society, to equip the leaders of the future with the academic tools to live out their full personhood" (29).
As her student Janice Gibbs might say: "Ha ha."
After failing to heal her students through the transformative power of journaling, Ms. Freedman has a nervous breakdown and spends the second half of the school year in an insane asylum.
Part of Ms. Freedman's failure as a teacher is that she doesn't bring her full self to the teaching. She projects a sweet upbeat persona that does not reflect her (dark, chaotic) inner life. Students see the hollowness of her façade and prey upon that weakness. If Ms. Freedman had been a little more real—a little less like this song—she might have lasted more than three months as a teacher.
Janice Gibbs: "Heretic Pride," by The Mountain Goats
The speaker in "Heretic Pride" narrates the experience of being martyred in the town square:
well they come and pull me from my house
and they drag my body through the streets
and the sun's so hot I think i'll catch fire and burn up
in the summer air so moist and sweet
Like the heretic, Janice Gibbs (one of Ms. Freedman's high school students) takes fierce pride in her rejection of all that is hollow, sad, and hypocritical. Janice's condemnation of the stupidness and sadness of school and PE and nursing home employment is apt. But Janice struggles to find a satisfying outlet for her rebellion. Speaking in the second person, Janice recalls being the troublemaker of her Catholic youth group:
"Sister Gloria . . . thought she'd get you out of your mess of a family with beatitudes and liturgical dance, but instead you brought the mess with you. You pierced your belly button with a safety pin in the girls' bathroom, rolled a joint with a page from Deuteronomy, and drank sacramental wine until you threw up in the community garden. You dumped dish soap in the courtyard fountain of the Virgin Mary, and on Halloween you put fake blood running down in tears from her cheeks, so that for two days everyone thought there was a miracle" (72).
Janice rejects an unsatisfying present in order to embrace a brilliant future. The final lines in "Heretic Pride" reflect Janice's sense of being bound for glory and destruction:
and I start laughing like a child
and I mark their faces one by one
transfigurations gonna come for me at last
and I will burn hotter than the sun
Cody Splunk: "I Would Do Anything for Love," by Meatloaf
In "In the Hall of Old Testament Miracles," Cody writes: "Everyone knows the first second you're alone with a wax sculpture, it's going to try to kill you. So why bring the Bible to life with 300 wax figures just waiting to hunt us down with shepherd's crooks and slay us in a manger?" (123). An aspiring pulp author with delusions of grandeur, Cody proves his passionate, unrequited, love for Janice Gibbs by building her a time machine. Cody believes in chivalry and dragons. He is the opposite of cool and a little out of touch with consensus reality. But his sincerity, large-scale passion, and bombastic artistic vision make him a sort of chubby Don Quixote. So . . . Meatloaf. A natural choice for his soundtrack.
"Wagon Wheel," by Old Crow Medicine Show
I was sent to South Texas by The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (a Catholic post-collegiate year of service program) to serve as a drop-out prevention counselor at a middle school. My South Texas friends John (an Americorps Volunteer with a penchant for sustainable agriculture) and Abby (an art and literature loving Teach for America Volunteer) were ardent community builders. They hosted weekly potluck sing-alongs (John played the banjo, Abby, the violin). Drained teachers and social workers would show up on John and Abby's porch and be revived through the power of chard scramble, bourbon, and song. I can't carry a tune in a bucket, so while people sang, I drew. The giant squid on the cover of "When Mystical Creatures Attack," was designed in John & Abby's living room, to the tune of "Wagon Wheel."
"Gasolina," by Daddy Yankee
In my capacity as a drop-out prevention counselor, I was asked to MC a kids' dance competition at a community festival. I called two volunteer competitors onstage. The DJ played "Gasolina," by Daddy Yankee, and the girls began a dance off, gyrating to the Reggaeton beat. The crowd cheered wildly as the tweens executed sensual, rhythmic moves. But in my (prudish?) eyes, the situation was exploitative. The more stripper-like the moves, the more the audience catcalled and applauded. "Alright!" I said brightly. "I think we have a winner! Thank you girls! Lovely work! Dance competition OVER!"
My awkward navigation of this moment—and many others like it—contributed to the genesis of the Ms. Freedman character.
"Quiet," by Sam Tyx
While I was writing short stories in Texas, my friend Sam (a Mennonite Service Volunteer advocating for refugees) was writing songs. We compared notes on craft. My artistic style was to check off a box each time I put in an hour at the desk. I'd push through the time, creative well as dry as a bone, just so I could check my box. Sam had some kind of direct pipeline to the creative unconscious. Songs poured from his guitar. "I wrote a sentence," I'd say. "I wrote a song," he's say. "Well, seven. But I'm only keeping one." Sometimes Sam would accesses something so mysterious and holy in his music that I wanted to burn my brittle notebooks and abandon my charade of being an artist. But his songwriting also gave me hope for what I might do if I kept digging at the creative well.
THEME: Nervous Breakdown
"We're on Our Way," by Radical Face
In, "The Un-Game," Ms. Freedman writes a letter explaining her breakdown: "In short: there are some pills I take to balance my brain chemistry. In November, I flushed them down the toilet. I had an initial rush of energy—I imagine you recall the lit-term Jeopardy board coated with industrial-grade glitter glue. Soon, though, I felt a strong need to curl in the fetal position in a dark, enclosed space. Toward the end, I hallucinated that a great bird appeared at my window and wrapped me in its downy wings" (13).
"We're on Our Way," by Radical Face, expresses the existential swamp a person might find herself in after burning through a manic episode:
Show your hands
If you need a new coat of paint
If your bones are now heavy things
Like anchors hidden somewhere 'neath your skin
Or if your head's just an empty box
If your heart has become spare parts
If your days are now just something you must bear
THEME: Self Destruction
"Come Pick Me Up," by Ryan Adams
Accompanied by plaintive harmonica, Adams implores a reckless heartbreaker to: Come pick me up / take me out / fuck me up / steal my records /screw all my friends / behind my back / with a smile on your face." To me, this song is about being so worn down and exhausted and broken that you seek out anything to distract yourself—even if you know the fleeting balm will engender chaos in its wake. The speaker in this song knows his lover is bad news, but he still yearns for her to come relieve him from the asphyxiating boredom of life without her.
Time and time again, Cody, Janice, and Ms. Freedman, get sucked into "Come Pick Me Up"-style self-destruction.
THEME: Valley of the Shadow of Death by Chocolate Cake
"Cold Water," by Damien Rice
In "Cold Water," Damien Rice evokes the quiet desperation of a dark night of the soul: "Cold/ cold water / surrounds me now / and all that I've got / is your hand."
Next time you're plastered to the floor, so depressed you can't even muster the energy for self-destructive behavior, reach for this song.
THEME: Change
"Change," by Tracy Chapman
"If you knew that you would die today / if you saw the face of God and love / would you change?" Chapman asks. A question at the heart of my book is this: what enables a person to transcend her tendencies towards inertia, depression, and self-destructive behavior? What enables a person to change?
THEME: How the Light Gets In
"Anthem," by Leonard Cohen
The epigraph for When Mystical Creatures Attack! comes from the chorus of Cohen's "Anthem":
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
I think this means: our wounds become our wings. Our brokenness becomes our gift to the world.
THEME: The Mountaintop
"And We Danced," by Macklemore
This song is gleeful, exuberant, cathartic, profane, and fun to dance to. Kind of like my book.
Wait. How can you dance to a book? That doesn't even make sense.
Neither do these lyrics: "I will not be a manikin / The ego, banish it / The roof's on fire / Let's burn down the Vatican."
And yet, they contain a self-forgetful joy and radiance. The theme of this playlist is, "Dance Party Meets Dark Night of the Soul." This is the dance party part. In Macklemore's words, "Take my hand/ Let's have a blast / and remember this moment for the rest of our lives."
Kathleen Founds and When Mystical Creatures Attack! links:
Kirkus review
Publishers Weekly review
American Short Fiction interview with the author
also at Largehearted Boy:
Book Notes (2012 - ) (authors create music playlists for their book)
Book Notes (2005 - 2011) (authors create music playlists for their book)
my 11 favorite Book Notes playlist essays
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
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Doctor Romantic's steamy kiss: Yoo Yun Suk finally reveals tips on kissing Seo Hyun Jin
You may just want to pick up some tips on kissing from the hot Korean leading man nicknamed the "Kiss Master." Popular romantic medical drama, Doctor Romantic, has a steamy kiss between stars Seo Hyun Jin and Yoo Yun Suk that still lingers as one of the most memorable kisses on screen. And now, Yoo Yun Suk has finally revealed how they did it.
Although romantic drama fans may prefer to keep the mystery of a romantic scene shrouded under a veil, Yoo Yun Suk is sharing some really interesting tips.
First of all, he explains his techniques:
"It looks better on camera if you plan it out exactly, just as you would an action scene. If you make the general frame, like tilting your head to one side and then the other, you don't stutter and you can actually focus more on the emotions."
He adds that "when actors get too absorbed in their own emotions while they're filming kiss scenes, it actually doesn't look as great on screen." In other words, actors have to remain conscious of what their job is and not get lost in the heat of the moment.
Now comes the delicious tip on how he and leading lady Seo Hyun Jin created their steamy kiss scene.
Yoo Yun Suk brought wine for Seo Hyun Jin for their kiss. He recalls, "At first, Seo Hyun Jin thought it was ridiculous and laughed, but the atmosphere became sweeter as we talked while drinking wine."
Wait, that doesn't sound like acting, does it? (Inquiring minds now want to know which wine he recommends.)
It's time to revisit Doctor Romantic for their steamy kiss and more!
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Cracked and chipped teeth are two major problems anyone can have. If you've suffered blows to the mouth or have taken a bad fall, you'll most likely have broken teeth as a result. But even doing something as simple as chewing a pencil or biting on some ice can expose you to these risks. Additionally, you might also be consuming too much sugary or starchy foods. Alcoholic drinks, sports drinks, and sodas, for instance, are among the beverages that can increase the risk of tooth fractures.
Depending on the injury, you can have fractured cusps or splitting cracks. In some cases, the damaged tooth might even need extraction. But there are ways to save damaged teeth. Let's take a look at three ways to treat these conditions.
- Crown applications
Crowns are caps that protect fractured teeth. It works by covering the affected areas, embracing the tooth structure, and stopping the cracks from worsening. These can either be made with an all-metal material or porcelain if you want it to look identical to teeth. By having these applied, you get the needed protection when chewing.
The procedure begins with the dentist injecting anaesthetic to help numb the tooth and the gums. Then, a small drill-like dental file is used to shave off a thin layer of the enamel, making space for the crown. In some cases, dentists may need to remove decayed or affected parts of your tooth during the filing process. This is needed to prevent infections from spreading to your gums.
After this is done, a dental impression of your teeth is made. This is a special putty that the patient can bite into in order to form a mould. Doing so ensures that that the replacement will be an accurate fit for your tooth. If you've visited your dentist in the past and have existing impressions, these can also be used as a basis for the crown. Temporary ones can be attached in order to protect the tooth while the final cap is being made.
Depending on the patient's preferences and the dentist's recommendation, different materials can be used to make the crown. The strongest ones are made of gold, while some use porcelain to match your tooth colour. Once it's made, the dentist will attach it to the filed-down tooth using dental cement.
- Dental bridges
If there are cracks on multiple teeth, these may prove to be untreatable with a conventional crown. In this case, bridges can help replace the affected area, especially if there are missing teeth in between. Depending on your needs, different materials can be used. These include ceramics, plastics or even metal alloys to form it.
Bridges are normally made of crowns at the ends and an artificial tooth in between. But for other cases, there are other variants like the Cantilever and Maryland bridges. The former is for those with adjacent teeth on only one side of the missing tooth, while the latter uses metal or porcelain wings attached to a false tooth.
Much like crowns, anaesthetic is administered to the patient. After this, the abutment teeth are shaped using a dental file to prepare them for the implant. Dental impressions are then used to create the mould and serve as a base for fabricating the bridge. Temporary bridges may also be used to protect the exposed teeth and gums while the actual one is being made. Once completed, the bridge is cemented on.
- Veneers
Also known as dental laminates, veneers are thin tooth shells made of ceramic or resins. Unlike crowns which completely cover molars, these are made for covering the front sides of the teeth. If there are also minor blemishes and discolouration on the teeth, veneers can also work.
Since this covers the front, an even thinner portion of the tooth's enamel is filed off. Though the usual thickness is 0.5mm, the dentist may need to go further if the tooth has signs of decay. Once the filing is done, a dental impression is made to form the veneer.
After completing the shell, the dentist will make adjustments to fit the shell over your tooth. When you and the dentist are both satisfied, the veneer is bonded to the filed-off surface using cement. A curing light can also be used to dry it off.
Porcelain is the usual material for this type of attachment. If you need something sturdier, then the ceramic variants can also work. Unlike the resin types, these may require two or three visits for tooth preparation and fitting.
- Root Canal Treatments
There are instances when cracked teeth can extend to the roots. Some cracks might even occur at that area as well. This might also lead to the pulp being infected or inflamed. In these cases, the dentist can root canal therapy to correct this. While severe cases may need tooth extraction, patients may prefer the therapy to restore their teeth instead. After all, natural teeth work better than artificial ones.
This procedure involves cleaning the tooth and sealing it to prevent further infections. To begin, the dentist first injects the anaesthetic into the surrounding tissues to numb the tooth and the gums. A plastic dental dam is then used to isolate the tooth before small drill can open the affected area.
Once a hole is opened, the dentist will then use special tools to extract the infected or inflamed pulp. This is not as painful as it seems thanks to the area being numbed. Thermoplastic materials are then used to seal the hollowed out canal and access hole, preventing further infections. But if the tooth lacks the structure to support the filling, a small post may be installed as a brace. This may either be made of metals or plastics.
Depending on the severity of the case, this procedure could take two to three visits to complete. But doing this prevents further deterioration to the tissues and gums. It also spares patients from having to replace teeth. In some cases, a crown might also be needed to replace the lost structure of the tooth.
These are some of the available procedures that you can take for damaged teeth. This is why it's important to look for qualified professionals to handle cases like these. At Be Well Dental, we provide a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for your oral health. Our friendly specialists are more than ready to assist you in finding the right treatments for you. Get in touch with us today to get started with taking care of your oral hygiene.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
For your house hunt you need some datails before you start serching on the internet
In American homes, you will rarely find closets that are standing at the wall as it is common in many countries. The cupboards for clothes and linens are built into the interior walls when the house is constructed. These closets are closed with wood or metal folding doors. Mirrored doors are also available, and you can easily change them to whatever you like best. Such a solution is space-saving and comfortable.
If there is enough space in the house, these cabinets are accessible as a separate room and offer plenty of space for individual design ideas on the inside, such as shelving, hanging rails, and drawers.
Furthermore, properties are often sold with functional kitchen and laundry appliances. A basically equipped kitchen has a refrigerator and a stove. An upgraded kitchen includes a dishwasher, microwave, and garbage disposal. If you are lucky, your new dream home will include a washer and dryer too, because drying of laundry outside is not common.
In addition to the above-mentioned appliances, each property in Florida has a hot water heater and an airconditioning system as a standard feature.
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A hat is a wondrous thing. As inimitable Melbourne milliner Richard Nylon said in his brief speech at the launch of The Eternal Headonist, it takes courage to wear a hat. You will be looked at, you will be admired, you will be a curiosity. More a signifier of style, of humour (jovial or morose) and of attitude to the world surrounding the wearer than an outfit, hats indicate that a person of some wit and occasion has arrived. Wearing: Serena Lindeman at The Eternal Headonist.
The Eternal Headonist is a space for enthusiasts of the fine art of millinery, a collective presenting a diversity of millinery from an array of artisans. An online portal, it promotes millinery as a year-round addition to your ensemble, not merely an addendum to your spring racing outfit. The Eternal Headonist online store was launched last week at Anna Pappas Gallery in Prahran, where a flock well head-dressed Melbournites came to celebrate all things chapeaux.
Guests were encouraged to try on the wide array of millinery presented as installation, and eventually enjoyed as delicately-handled, shareable playthings. Sevan of Sevan Autumn Leaves looks regal in her towering Richard Nylon headpiece – light as air, yet powerful and bewitching.
Sweet-tooths were sated with the delicious roving desserts from Helados Jauja – Argentinean icecream deluxe.
Are you a hat-fancier? Myself, I have a couple which I always feel very special in when I wear. After being introduced to new milliners, I feel sure that one dashing, structural hat will soon appear in my collection. There are some individuals one always associates with wickedly defining headwear – whenever I think of Christine, I see her in a spiky-teardrop black hat by Philip Treacy. I hope that as I mature, I become a lady synonymous with intelligent writing and witty headwear – after all, the precious head that a thoughtful brain resides in should be celebrated, n'est-ce pas?


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KemperSports Selected to Manage Lincolnshire Fields Country ClubPosted on Wednesday Aug 23, 2017
KemperSports Selected to Manage Lincolnshire Fields Country Club
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Aug. 23, 2017 – KemperSports announced today it has been selected to manage Lincolnshire Fields Country Club in Champaign, Ill. Located on the southwest side of Champaign, Lincolnshire Fields Country Club has enjoyed a strong reputation as one of the finest family-friendly clubs in the region for more than 40 years.
"Lincolnshire Fields Country Club prides itself on delivering an exceptional club experience for families in the Champaign-Urbana Community," said Joy Martin, President. "We look forward to leaning on KemperSports' club management best practices to ensure the best possible experience for our members and their guests."
Built in 1976, Lincolnshire Fields Country Club is highlighted by a 6,900-yard, par-72 golf course designed by E. Lawrence Packard that routs through the natural Central Illinois wooded terrain. With tree-lined fairways and spacious landing areas and greens, the club hosts a robust schedule of golf programming, including men's and ladies' leagues and events, couples golf, junior golf and golf instruction for beginners and advanced players.
In addition to golf, Lincolnshire Fields Country Club includes a recently-renovated heated pool and aquatic center set alongside Stingray's Pool Side Bar & Grill. The club also has three acrylic-surfaced tennis courts with private and group instruction.
"Lincolnshire Fields Country Club is a great family club in a great community," said KemperSports CEO Steve Skinner. "We look forward to working with the members to enhance the golf, tennis, aquatic and social programming to ensure that Lincolnshire Fields remains the central hub of the communities' social calendar."
KemperSports began operations on August 23, 2017, and will immediately implement its proven operational best practices and service programs, including True Service – the company's proprietary customer service training program, the goal of which is to deliver genuine, helpful and friendly service to members and their guests.
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When HuffPost Entertainment caught up with Sarah Silverman on the set of an Orbit gum commercial she was shooting in New York last month, the comedian was past due for her lunch break and taking it out on a room full of journalists and publicists by singing "Party in the U.S.A."
By the time she planted herself on a couch in the hotel room in which she filmed an "Entertainment Tonight" interview, Silverman had already discussed Miley Cyrus, Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" and who she wanted to win the Super Bowl (she didn't care). Little did we know it was just days before the premiere of the trailer for "A Million Ways to Die in the West," the Seth MacFarlane-directed comedy that opens in May and co-stars MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried and Neil Patrick Harris.
"I play a prostitute in the Old West who won't sleep with my boyfriend because we're Catholic and we're not married," she said of the film.
The role is everything Silverman isn't. She and her boyfriend, comedian Kyle Dunnigan, split in December. (Since our interview, she's reportedly begun dating Michael Sheen.) Silverman labeled herself "very Jewish." And she's obviously several decades removed from the Old West. In fact, "A Million Ways" didn't even require her to adopt a period-appropriate accent.
"That's the one kind of anachronistic thing, I guess," she said. "I don't know how they spoke in the Old West, other than Westerns in the '70s. I just sound like this. I probably say 'like' less."
The rest of our conversation, beyond her praise for MacFarlane as a director, writer and "goofball," had Silverman applauding Beyonce and discussing her infatuation with basketball. When asked about her newly announced role in PBS and HuffPost parent company AOL's "Makers: Women Who Make America" series, Silverman launched into a nearly six-minute soliloquy about the qualities that constitute a "woman who makes America."
"All that comes to my head when you say that is Beyonce," Silverman said. "I feel like if there was a royalty system here, she's obviously royal. I love the vision of her as woman. She wears the high heels -- I can't get my head around that. I'm not into jewelry or designer bags. I don't get it. It holds stuff, get a backpack. You're being ridiculous. But I don't care because I love her. I mean, her songs and watching her dance and sweat her balls off and just be beautiful and so strong."
But what really makes a woman in America, beyond Queen Bey of course, can be seen on the basketball court. Silverman regularly plays at the Y and claims to know "all the pickup games in Los Angeles." It's the gender politics of a co-ed hoops competition that taught her what it means to be a woman struggling to find her comfort level. Her younger female teammates feel added pressure to make baskets so they won't face vitriol about women allegedly being subpar -- something she's only recently eschewed.
"I just let go of that because I see men shoot and shoot and shoot and miss, and they have the luxury of doing that," she said. "As long as I'm not a detriment to the team and I know the mental game of it and everything, I just say, 'Fuck it,' and have fun and fuck around and talk shit, and it's just so freeing because I spent so many years proving that I was worthy to play with these schmucks."
Now that she's no longer out to prove anything, Silverman can rest assured she's earned her spot on "Makers." When the six new one-hour installments arrive this summer, she'll appear alongside Jane Lynch, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett and a handful of other beloved comics.
"Listen, sexism is real, and preconceived notions are real, but 90 percent of it we put on ourselves," Silverman said after her basketball anecdote. "If we lift it off of ourselves, the possibilities are limitless. … Nobody could break the four-minute mile because they knew nobody had ever broken the four-minute mile, so people in their minds said, 'That's not possible.' It took the one person to not know better and then everybody could do it."
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Marketo released the new Calendar functionlity for their platform. I'm very enthusiastic about this. Marketo even included a quote from me on their blog.
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- Find out the source of your school's water.
- Learn how your utility measures water use.
- Read meters monthly. Analyze water use over a school year, over a calendar year, and from season to season.
- Discuss how your school can conserve water and how to set realistic goals.
- Obtain posters, leaflets and possible speakers or activities.
2. Establish water-efficient irrigation practices (typically the #1 use of water for schools).
- Install an automatic rain shut-off device on sprinkler systems.
- Adjust the irrigation schedule for seasonal changes.
- Be sure all hoses have shut-off nozzles.
- Use drip irrigation systems instead of sprinklers.
- Shut off the water supply to equipment or areas that are not used.
3. Harvest and recycle rainwater.
- Set up a water collection system to gather rain for watering plants and other non-potable uses.
- Examine the benefits of artificial turf versus grass on athletic fields to save water and maintenance costs.
4. Reduce air conditioning and water cooling.
- Shut off water cooling systems when not in use.
- Reduce cooling needs by setting the air conditioner's thermostat 2-3 degrees higher.
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- Install low-flow water aerators in washrooms.
- Add water displacement devices such as bags or weighted bottles in toilet tanks.
- Retrofit flushometer or tankless toilets with water-saving diaphragms to save one gallon per flush.
- Replace old toilets with new low-volume models. Old toilets use as much as 4.5 gallons per flush, while low-volume toilets use only 1.6
- Replace old shower heads and faucets with low-volume models, which use only 2 gallons per minute versus 3 gallons for old models.
6. Repair leaks.
- One leaking toilet can waste more than 50 gallons of water each day.
- A dripping faucet or shower head can waste up to 1,000 gallons per week!
- Monitor the toilets and faucets inside and outside the school regularly.
- Check for leaks and set dates for reporting and repair.
7. Reduce water used in food preparation.
- Replace standard pre-rinse sprayers with low-flow models.
- Sweep floors and walkways instead of using water when possible.
- Turn down hot water temperatures for dishwashing or cleaning.
- Promote full dishwasher use; dishwashers use 6 gallons a load while hand washing uses 3 gallons a minute.
8. Landscape school grounds for water efficiency.
- Mulch around plants and trees to reduce evaporation and weeds.
- Preserve existing plants for shade, moisture retention and wildlife habitat.
- Plant trees, drought-resistant plants and shrubs, especially on hillsides or banks.
9. Manage water runoff.
- Look for areas around the school that have eroded due to storm water runoff.
- Add vegetation or water retention areas to prevent further erosion.
- Use permeable surfaces for parking lots and other areas.
10. Create a culture of water conservation among staff, students and parents.
- Post colorful stickers and signs to promote water conservation.
- Compare water use over time, starting before the water conservation program begins.
- Display your progress on bulletin boards and displays around the school.
- Hold school or community events that focus on water conservation actions and wastewater issues.
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Whenever something outrageous happens, we all have a tendency to shout, "Am I being Punk'd? Where's Ashton hiding?" However, the new season of the completely candid show seats Ashton Kutcher behind the scenes for good, as a ton of other celebrities take their turn to pull pranks on fellow famous faces.
Earlier today, MTV announced the full cast for the upcoming season of Punk'd -- and by cast, we mean the celebrities who will be pranked and the rotating guest hosts who will be doing the pranking!
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Punk'd returns to MTV on Thursday, March 29. And don't worry: Kutcher, who hosted the show from 2003 to 2007, will still be returning as the show's executive producer. After all, he is the master!
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The bubble era when Japan, with its brisk exports and automobile dominance seemed poised to conquer the world economy, is a distant memory, and now the operative symbols for pulling Japan out of two decades of stagnation are three arrows.
Those arrows represent the three main goals of Abenomics — the policies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe designed to revive growth and conquer deflation in a country that has been in the economic doldrums since the bubble burst in the late 1980s.
While a period of deflation might not give another country much pause, Japan has endured 15 years of declining prices — playing havoc with the balance sheets of companies that have taken out loans and putting the brakes on investment.
Not only is the world's third-largest economy still suffering the after-effects of the devastating 2011 tsunami and the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant, but it is carrying massive debt, the yen is weak, exports are still sluggish, there are labor shortages in some areas, and an April increase in the consumption tax has depressed consumer spending far longer than the government had expected.
"We recognize that this year is critical for Abenomics," Vice Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told the Miami Herald.
The International Monetary Fund recently lowered its estimate of Japan's economic growth this year to 0.9 percent, citing the stronger-than-anticipated contraction after the consumption tax hike.
Next year, the Japanese government is targeting economic growth at 1.2 percent, but the IMF projects the economy will grow just 0.8 percent.
During the go-go years of the 1980s, Japanese investors were snapping up properties in the United States, including residential real estate in Florida, and Japan ran huge trade surpluses with the United States. Protectionist sentiment grew in the United States, and then faded in step with the Japanese economy.
Now, Nishimura said, such trade frictions "seem to be a distant memory." Japanese companies are still among the top foreign investors in Florida, and last year Enterprise Florida opened an office in Tokyo to encourage further investment.
The consumption tax hike remains the center of attention in Japan. Before the government increased it to 8 percent from 5 percent, consumers went on a spending binge. But after it took effect, there was a sharp drop in consumer spending that stretched through the summer, resulting in a 1.7 percent decline in Japan's gross domestic product during the second quarter — 7.1 percent on an annualized basis.
"The dip in consumption was deeper and longer than the government expected," said Kyohei Morita, chief economist at Barclays Securities Japan. Still, he thinks third-quarter growth will be sufficiently strong that the government will go for another tax hike next year.
Nishimura said first-quarter growth was enough to offset the disastrous second quarter and that the economy still performed better during the first six months of 2014 than it did during the same period last year.
The government will analyze third-quarter figures, which are due out Nov. 17, and decide in December whether to increase the consumption tax to 10 percent in October 2015, he said.
Bad weather in June and July depressed consumer spending and exaggerated the negative impact of the tax hike, Nishimura said. Another reason for lower consumer spending, he said, is that wages haven't caught up with consumption.
"Those who are paid less are mainly the ones who are suffering," said Morita.
Political maneuvering on the tax hike has already begun, with foes saying the fragile economy cannot handle another increase now and proponents arguing it is necessary to help offset ballooning debt and the social security needs of Japan's graying population — the oldest in the world.
The three arrows of Abenomics are monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms aimed at shoring up Japan's finances. Hitting a bull's-eye with that third arrow, which includes deregulation of services, agriculture and the labor market, is expected to be the most difficult goal of all.
"Delay in implementing the 'third arrow' of Abenomics could lead to lower growth and an over-reliance on monetary policy, thereby hurting regional trade and growth prospects," the IMF warned in its latest Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook Update.
The IMF has urged Japan to undertake "more forceful" structural reforms to uncork growth. That is key to reducing Japan's heavy national debt, which is more than 200 percent of its gross domestic product — the highest level in the world. The U.S. Treasury Department also warned this week that Japanese monetary policy alone cannot substitute for "necessary structural reforms."
"We need to deregulate the labor market and change the labor-contract law," said Morita. "Large companies are quite reluctant to fire people and, therefore, to hire people because of concerns they'll be charged with unfair firing. There's a real lack of mobility in the labor force."
But Japanese officials say the country is now on a moderate recovery path.
While Nishimura said progress has been made in slowing deflation, he conceded the Bank of Japan would not meet its inflation target of 2 percent by 2015.
Nevertheless, he said, "We have started to see results. We've started a good cycle ... companies are increasing wages and there is more spending and investment by companies."
Another new measure that Japan hopes will boost spending is granting visitors from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines five-year unlimited visas. Last year, Japan received more than 10 million foreign visitors, and the 2014 tally is running 25 percent over 2013's.
Nishimura said the consumption of every 10 foreigners equals the consumption of one Japanese citizen.
While big companies may be reaping some benefits from Abenomics, that is not necessarily the case for small businesses.
"I don't think any of the small companies think deflation is over," said Hideko Tanaka, president of Hakusui-Sha, a Tokyo manufacturer of cocktail mixes that employs 20 workers. "The prime minister is at the forefront of Abenomics, and he can't really go back, but sometimes we wonder if this economy will make it to the Olympics."
Japan is scheduled to host the 2020 Summer Games.
Adding to Japan's woes is the slumping yen, which has been at six-year lows against the dollar. That should have pumped up exports, but Nishimura said, "Exports haven't increased as much as we expected." Among the reasons, he said, are that many large Japanese companies have moved their production facilities overseas and that Japan has lost its competitiveness in small electric appliances.
Meanwhile, not one of the more than 50 nuclear reactors in the country has been operating since the Fukushima disaster. The process of restarting 48 reactors is underway, but none will resume operations until they have received regulatory clearance.
Companies such as Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which has held a regional monopoly on the generation, distribution and sale of electricity for more than six decades, have had to import natural gas for thermal power plants, resulting in significant cost increases and rate hikes.
"We are now more dependent on energy imports and, in that way, the disaster is still a negative for the economy," Morita said.
But the government is trying to encourage competition among Japanese power companies in an effort to reduce electricity prices.
At the same time Japan is taking on short-term challenges, it also must deal with longer-term problems, such as its declining population and a dwindling workforce of younger workers who must support Japan's huge aging population.
Florida and Japan
Florida is not a major Japanese trading partner, but it has a steady and stable relationship with the Sunshine State. Japan in the United States' fourth-most-important trading partner after Canada, China and Mexico.
Last year Japan ranked 31st among South Florida's trading partners, with $1.1 billion in commerce. The Miami Customs District's exports to Japan rose 14.22 percent to $320.4 million last year while imports were down 8.14 percent to $775.1 million, according to an analysis by WorldCity, a media and data research company. During the first eight months of this year, Miami District trade with Japan is up 16 percent.
Japanese companies also created 21,900 Florida jobs in 2011, ranking Japan fourth among direct foreign investors, according to Enterprise Florida.