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Montana: The love affair continues
John Steinbeck and I — in addition to traveling with our dogs, being about the same age when we set forth on our journeys, having the same first names, and a lot of the same letters in our last ones — share something else as well.
A mistress.
I have trysted with her three times — as a reporter in the early 1990's, as a visiting professor in 2007, and as whatever it is I am now. She's as beautiful and inviting as she was the first time we met — and, I'm sure, as she was 50 years ago, when she seduced John Steinbeck.
"I am in love with Montana," Steinbeck wrote in Travels with Charley. It was his first trip to the state. "For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it."
He babbled on, as people in love do: "…the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda … the calm of the mountains and the rolling grasslands had got into the inhabitants … the towns were places to live in rather than nervous hives. People had time to pause in their occupations to undertake the passing art of neighborliness."
"Of all the states it is my favorite and my love."
Steinbeck — apparently getting into being "out west" — stopped in Billings and bought a cowboy hat. In Butte, he bought a rifle. He dipped down into Yellowstone National Park, but after seeing Charley's reaction to bears that approached his car — "He became a primitive killer lusting for the blood of his enemy" — he turned around and spent night in Livingston.
Ace and I stopped in Billings, in Bozeman, in Butte, and have arrived in Missoula — with no new hats and no sidearms. I am considering investing in a pair of gloves though. Winter is clearly on the way. People are stacking their wood, squirrels are hoarding their nuts, and the sky is taking on that steelier glow it does here in winter.
Once again, the return to a place I briefly called home has triggered memories. The closer I got to Missoula — winding through the hills alongside the Clark Fork River — the more of them resurfaced, leading me to wonder how I could have temporarily misplaced them, especially those that were only three years old.
I guess, they go into deep storage, like the earliest nuts the squirrels gather — pushed to the back to make room for new ones. But I don't think I get a vote in the matter; it just happens. Returning to a place seems to make them accessible again; I can — with a little help from a familiar sight, sound, or smell — pull them out of the disorganized file cabinet that is my mind, open them up and say, "Oh, yeah, I remember that now."
It could be something as simple as the lay of the land — they way grassy golden hills climb up into the big blue sky, a sharp curve in crystal clear river, the golden outline of Tamaracks among evergreen. Just seeing the general scale and expanse of it all triggers Montana memories — even memories that have nothing to do with the scale and expanse of it all.
Nearing Missoula — and (after North Dakota turned bleak) getting to experience fall all over again — I was surprised how the yellows were popping on the trees, and by how many things were popping into my head.
Some of them were from nearly 20 years ago — visiting the Unabomber's former, still forlorn, shack in the woods; hanging out in radon mines, where people soak in radioactivity to heal what ails them; documenting the influx of celebrities to the state, which back then were becoming as common, and unloved, as deer.
Some of them — memories, I mean, not celebrities — were only three years old, and less dusty: long hikes in the mountains; the little house we rented, dubbed the "shack-teau," while I was a visiting journalism professor at the University of Montana; the peaceful (mostly) campus; my earnest (mostly) students; and how we chased the muck train — as it began transferring mining waste that had collected in the river outside Missoula 100 miles back east to a little town called Opportunity — for our class project.
Memories that had faded like ghost signs kept returning — of fellow professors; of time spent at the student newspaper, The Kaimin; of a party, or two, or three, or four; and how I didn't (really, really didn't) want to leave when the semester was over. Because I flat out loved it.
And therein — on top of returning to a place, seeing and smelling it — is one of the keys to recalling times past, at least for me. Your brain alone can't always take you back there; sometimes, it needs an assist from the heart.
Posted by John Woestendiek November 4th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
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Its says Derrick is the most compassionate of all the McReary children but wouldn't Kate be the most compassionate? This is sorta random and probably doesn't matter but didn't the IRA not only fight the British but also the Ulster Defense Association? (Stebner603 05:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC))
Article says, that Derrick moved out of city because of father's death in 2000, but Francis said, that he moved out because of stealing from the Mafia. According the bank heist dialogue, last time Derrick seen Packie, Packie was a little sweet boy. But Packie's age is 31 and 8 years ago he was adult. Where did information about 2000 came from and should I change it? Orto Dogge 13:25, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
Derrick is the canon kill choice in GTA IV
I'm doing the Paleto Bay heist in GTA V with Packie on my crew and when talking about the Bank of Liberty that he pulled with Niko and his brothers, he says "God rest his soul" when referring to Derrick. So it would seem Derrick is the one that Niko canonically kills in GTA IV. Ghost Leader (talk|edits) 21:26, 25 September 2013 (BST)
- What if Francis died in the meantime too? 5 years is a long time, a lot could have happened.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 21:30, 25 September 2013 (BST)
- Plus he did have that heroin problem so its not to hard to imagine him OD'ing sometime after IV.Gtajesus (talk|edits) 23:26, 25 September 2013 (BST)
- Maybe Francis built a red metal suit and is living the life of a billionaire playboy crime fighter. There's a lot of maybes in the world, some more ridiculous than others. But when determining canon, we have to go by what the game tells us (unless Rockstar says differently). Packie makes no mention of Francis at all, much less whether he's alive or dead, so his mention of Derrick dying is all we have and it implies he was the one Niko killed. Ghost Leader (talk|edits) 13:38, 27 September 2013 (BST)
- Plus he did have that heroin problem so its not to hard to imagine him OD'ing sometime after IV.Gtajesus (talk|edits) 23:26, 25 September 2013 (BST)
- It only implies Derrick is dead, not that Niko killed him (which he wouldn't know anyway). We can't just assume the latter. The way Packie says it, maybe Niko had killed Francis but Derrick died a few months or years later. We cannot know for sure, which was probably Rockstar's point, so that choice in GTA IV doesn't lose value.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 15:25, 27 September 2013 (BST)
- I'm with Loadingue on this one. Derrick was a drug-addict after all, so who's to say he didn't die of an overdose or something, between 2008 and 2013? I'm pretty sure Rockstar aren't like 4A Games (Metro 2033 and Last Light), where in the follow-up game they make the other choice made by players in the previous one non-canon, in order to fit the story they're telling.
- Mountnstream (talk|edits) 03:36, 30 September 2013 (BST)
- I never said Packie knew it was Niko who killed him, it's simply a statement of fact that Niko does kill him if the player chooses. Why is it not okay to assume Niko killed Derrick, but okay to assume he killed Francis? I'm simply going by what little the game is telling us, not making up plot spackle just because I don't like what Packie's story implies. When it comes down to it, player choices in GTA are largely just a novelty at this point and if it fits a story being told, I don't doubt that Rockstar would throw them to the wind. Ghost Leader (talk|edits) 12:48, 22 November 2013 (GMT)
- I didn't mean that Packie would know if Niko had killed Derrick, I'm saying that something else could have happened to him and killed Derrick. Considering the state he's in in GTA IV, it's not hard to believe. For all we know, Derrick and Francis could both be dead; Packie wouldn't say "God rest his soul" speaking of Francis, whom he hated. To be clear, Packie in GTA V only tells you that Derrick is dead, not that he died by Niko, and we don't know whether Francis is alive. If evidence was found that Francis really is alive, then that would confirm that Niko's canon choice was to kill Derrick. But since there isn't so far, we need to see all possibilities.--Loadingue (talk|edits) 18:38, 22 November 2013 (GMT)

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The Russian actor, Boris Pekter, first visited the United States in 1965 as a part of the month-long visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York City. He noted in his memoir that his encounters with Americans disrupted the stereotypical version of Americans, that he himself had perpetuated on the Moscow stage. Pekter's "Discovery of America," as he called it, came four decades after the last Moscow Art Theatre's so-called "Conquest of America," in 1923. After difficult negotiations with the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the theatre leadership, and the US Department of State, impresario Sol Hurok managed to bring the company to the United States (as his theatrical rival had done so many years earlier) for an entire month of performances. The long-delayed Moscow Art Theatre arrived with a repertoire that included two Chekhov plays, the Stanislavsky-directed Dead Souls, and the contemporary Soviet play, Kremlin Chimes, performances which romanticized both the nation's and the theatre's past(s). This lecture depicts the ways in which these Cold War performances were haunted by past Russian performances in the United States and how this ghosting made it possible to forge and reaffirm relationships that would (re)establish long-term transnational artistic, diplomatic, and political networks.
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About Robert Henri
Robert Henri was a major proponent of a gritty style of urban realism around the turn of the century. His style was shaped by early years in Europe in the 1890s, where he discovered the vigorous brushwork of William Gedney Bunce, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Édouard Manet, and Diego Velázquez. Upon his return, Henri worked against the grain of New York City's more conservative art establishment and, with a group of artists who came to be known as The Eight, helped organize an independent exhibition in 1908. This group (the core of what would come to be known as the Ashcan School) broke new ground by focusing on realistic, often gritty scenes of everyday urban life. Painting portraits of people from all classes, from street children to foreigners to high society women, Henri democratized a genre up until that point generally reserved for the wealthy. Henri's work is characterized by bold brushstrokes and thickly applied paint, and his palette gradually grew more vibrant as his interest in color theory developed.
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Mayor Ronald E. Jones is accepting nominations for the next Mayor's Good Neighbor Award.The award is given quarterly to residents or property owners in Garland that have demonstrated significant improvements or upgrades to their property that will provide a positive physical impact to their neighborhood. The award will be granted based on project innovation, potential for replication, mitigation of unsightly conditions, collaboration or partnership, volunteer contributions, and increased property value. Residents and property owners are encouraged to nominate their neighbors for this award. Nomination packets are available on the City's website, www.garlandtx.gov or at the Mayor's Office, City Hall, 200 N. Fifth Street in Downtown Garland. Call 972-205-2400 for more information. The deadline for 2nd Quarter 2012 nominations is June 29. The winner will be announced at the July 3, 2012 regular meeting of the Garland City Council. Pictured is James Ferrer, who received the Mayor's Good Neighbor Award in May 2010.
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In a quick decision Tuesday, the School Board of Levy County passed an addition to the contract between the district and the teachers union that made salary steps for teachers a negotiated item effective July 1, 2011.
Previously, the step increases in pay were automatic. Now they must be negotiated annually starting in 2011. During an Sept. 14 impasse hearing, the board voted unanimously to make the steps negotiable. The decision was officially added to the current contract Tuesday.
Following Tuesday's meeting, Cindy Roach, President of the Levy County Education Association teachers union, said she was disappointed in the addition, adding that the union had voted 294-75 to turn down the contract because of the negotiated salary steps.
The board passed the addition with little discussion Tuesday, something Roach said "sends a strong message."
"To me, that's really disrespectful to our employees, to not even have a discussion about this," Roach said following the meeting.
Superintendent Bob Hastings said that the addition was passed without discussion because both he and Roach signed off on the document, which only applies to the 2009-2010 contract. In addition to the negotiated steps, employees who teach virtual school will receive a $3,000 annual supplement, and teachers who were employed a full year will receive a one-time bonus of $500.
Other staff will receive a $250 one-time bonus.
Hastings added the vote to reject the contract represented about 40 percent of the district's employees, and that they were actually voting on the 2009-2010 contract, since it was held up due to the impasse.
The salary steps remained automatic for this fiscal year. Hastings said that the steps were given out to teachers.
Roach said that salary steps cost about $270,000 against the school budget, which she said was a "drop in the bucket" in a $60 million budget. She added that the school district's general fund has increased during the past few years, so the money to pay out steps is there.
Hastings said that the increase in the general fund was mostly due to federal stimulus money. About 70 to 80 teachers' salaries were paid with stimulus money, he said, and the funds are set to expire next year. Congress recently passed a teachers jobs bill, which is expected to bring in $1.13 million to Levy County. Those funds will ease the loss of the stimulus money, Hastings said.
"But if I give raises with that money, I don't have money to soften the blow of losing the (stimulus) funds next year," Hastings said.
Roach said that removing automatic pay steps is hurting teacher morale in the district. With additional administrative duties, an increased focus on standardized tests and less time to do all the work, she said she worries that retaining good teachers will become more difficult, and that students need a consistent, fairly paid professional staff of teachers.
"I've heard comments like 'what are they trying to do, work us to death?' " Roach said. "They just feel unappreciated."
Hastings said he was sympathetic to the teachers, but the Class Size Amendment and other state mandates have placed the district in a bind. He said since 2002, the district has hired 80 more teachers, 12 additional aides and four guidance counselors, and the district still hasn't fully met the amendment's requirements. Meanwhile, funding from the state has decreased and the district's full-time student enrollment has remained flat.
"Do they deserve raises, yes they deserve raises," Hastings said. "Insurance costs are going up, everything is going up. But if you don't have money, what can you do?"
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Supreme Court ruling deeply disturbing: RNAO
TORONTO, June 9, 2005 – Today's Supreme Court ruling striking down a Quebec law banning private health care is deeply disturbing and must kick start an unprecedented campaign to stop the spread of two-tier health care across the country, says the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO).
"All Canadians want better and quicker access to health-care services. But the answer is not to allow a select few to buy their way to the front of the queue while boosting private health-care profits and siphoning resources from the public system," says RNAO president Joan Lesmond.
"The answer is to strengthen public, not-for-profit health care and to improve access to health services for all Canadians. We must focus on healthy reforms such as improved primary health care, expanded home care, and strategic investments to reduce wait times and increase the number of health-care providers," says Lesmond.
RNAO executive director Doris Grinspun says while the implications of today's ruling for the rest of Canada may not yet be clear, the views and values of Canadians on the issue of health care always have been.
"Canadians have stated again and again that they do not want two-tier health care. Canadians do not want a fast-track lane to health-care services for a minority who can afford private health care, and a race to the bottom for everyone else. Research continues to show that two-tier health care and for-profit delivery is exclusionary, expensive, inefficient, and leads to poorer health outcomes," says Grinspun.
Grinspun says today's ruling will mobilize registered nurses in unprecedented ways to protect and strengthen the health-care system they fought to establish so that the individuals, families and communities they serve can get the care they need – regardless of income. RNAO urges all Canadians and nurses to mobilize, call their members of parliaments, and fight to defend Medicare, she says.
"Health care is a human right and access must be determined by the severity of your need, not by the size of your wallet," says Grinspun.
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses wherever they practise in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has lobbied for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses' contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.
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Chances are you've never heard of the budget gimmick known as "pension smoothing." We'll try to explain.
1. What is pension smoothing?
It's one of the tactics lawmakers are using as a temporary patch for the Highway Trust Fund. It allows employers that offer traditional pensions to set aside less money for future retirees. That makes the companies appear more profitable in the short run so they — or their employees — pay more money to the government in taxes. A bill approved by the House Tuesday would use $6.4 billion of this additional tax revenue to help fund transportation improvement projects between now and next May. A separate, Senate version uses pension smoothing to raise $2.7 billion.
2. Why do critics call this a budget gimmick?
Critics highlight several problems with this tactic. It uses a decade's worth of extra tax money from the pension adjustment to fund just nine months of transportation work — a good (or bad) example of spend-now-pay-later budgeting. While the government collects higher taxes up front, it could lose tax money in the future if companies' pension obligations rebound. This isn't fully reflected in the government's official scorecard, though, because the scorecard ignores budget effects more than 10 years out. Finally, by allowing companies to put less money into their pension funds, the tactic raises the risk that some funds may go broke, leaving both taxpayers and retirees on the hook.
3. Don't we already pay for road repairs every time we buy gas?
Gasoline taxes are the main source of revenue for the Highway Trust Fund, but the tax rate hasn't budged in more than 20 years. Meanwhile, the cost of building and repairing roads and bridges has continued to rise with inflation. The 18.4 cents per gallon that motorists pay today has lost 40 percent of its purchasing power since the rate was set in 1993. What's more, thanks to improvements in fuel efficiency, Americans can now drive more miles with every gallon of gas they buy, so the wear and tear on roads increases, even as pennies paid at the pump stay the same.
4. I thought you said "pension smoothie." How would you make one of those?
Take a tax-averse political culture, stir in nutty budget accounting, add a frozen legislative process, and throw them all in the Congressional blender. Serve immediately and drive away fast before the bill comes, taking care to steer around any potholes.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish. House lawmakers are considering a temporary patch for the Highway Trust Fund. The fund's been running low on cash, which could bring many road improvement projects to a standstill as early as next month. President Obama has endorsed the temporary fix, even though he says what's really needed is a long-term funding solution.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Congress shouldn't pat itself on the back for averting disaster for a few months, kicking the can down the road for a few months.
CORNISH: The house legislation provides a $11 billion to keep that road in a little better shape between now and next May. NPR's Scott Horsley reports much of that money would come from a budget maneuver called pension smoothing.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: If you've never heard of pension smoothing, don't feel bad, neither had any of the tourists we spoke with outside the Capitol, including Marie Suggs, Franklin Ellis and Lisa and Sam Verhovek.
LISA VERHOVEK: No, I've never heard of the term pension smoothing. Have you?
SAM VERHOVEK: I've heard of pension increasing.
MARIE SUGGS: Make it easier to get your pension? I don't know if that's it or not.
FRANKLIN ELLIS: Is that like rounding up to the next highest number - smoothing every thing out? I don't know.
HORSLEY: And again, it's pension smoothing, not a pension smoothie.
Actually, pension smoothie might be a more accurate name for this. Take the fruit of a tax-averse political culture, some nutty government accounting, a frozen legislative process, and throw them all in the congressional blender.
LEN BURMAN: A cynic would say it smoothes out the requirement for legislative decisions.
HORSLEY: Len Burman is a professor at Syracuse and director of the Tax Policy Center here in Washington.
BURMAN: There was a time when policymakers were basically willing to just say, OK, you want these services, you can pay for them. And now they're saying, you want these services. They're really popular, and we'll pretend to pay for them with smoke and mirrors.
HORSLEY: Here's how the smoke and mirrors work in this case. Congress tweaks its formula, so companies that offer traditional pensions don't have to put as much money aside for future retirees. That makes the companies look more profitable in the short run, so they pay higher taxes - nearly $6.5 billion or more over the next decade. Over the longer term, of course, those companies may have to make up those pension payments. So years from now, the government's tax revenues could shrink. That's far enough in the future, though, that it doesn't count in today's congressional scorekeeping. Burman says lawmakers are spending the extra tax money now without thinking about the future.
BURMAN: It's a terrible deal all around. Basically, what they're doing with this pension smoothing is they're borrowing the money from American companies. And they're basically making a really risky loan because by those companies making smaller payments to their pensions, they're more likely to have their pension plans go bust.
HORSLEY: If that happens, both tax payers and retirees could pay a price for the short-term highway fix. Experts say there's room for debate over how companies' pensions contributions should be calculated. James Klein, who represents big employers as president of the American Benefits Council, argues there's little danger in this smoothing formula for future retirees. But he admits Congress got there in a roundabout way.
JAMES KLEIN: I'd like to believe that the change is based upon an understanding of the need for stable pension funding. I suspect that, as much as anything else, that it's based upon the fact that it gets scored as a revenue raiser and therefore can be used to offset other expenses.
HORSLEY: The House bill also relies on extended customs fees and money set aside for LUST - that's Leaking Underground Storage Tanks - to fill the hole in the Highway Trust Fund, at least temporarily. Watchdog Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says lawmakers would be better off steering clear of such tricks.
MAYA MACGUINEAS: There are plenty of options, whether you want to raise taxes, cut some transportation spending, or do a little bit of both, to actually finance this highway spending in a reasonable and honest, straightforward way.
HORSLEY: So far, though, a Senate proposal that would fix the trust fund permanently with higher gasoline taxes has stalled. On the bright side, at least our Capitol tourists, Sam and Lisa Verhovek, have learned a new phrase - pension smoothing.
S. VERHOVEK: Sounds mellow and nice, but...
L. VERHOVEK: Pension smoothing...
S. VERHOVEK: It sounds like it's a budget gimmick.
L. VERHOVEK: Yeah, absolutely sounds like a budget gimmick.
HORSLEY: Just don't let this ice cold gimmick give you a brain freeze. Scott Horsley. NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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DETROIT (AP) — Auto sales slid 3 percent in January as bouts of snow, ice and frigid temperatures in much of the country kept buyers snug in their homes instead of venturing out to car dealers.
People bought just over 1 million vehicles last month in the U.S., about 32,000 fewer than a year ago. It was the first year-over-year monthly sales drop since August of 2010, according to Ward's Automotive — but one that analysts said should be short-lived.
General Motors, Toyota and Ford — the top-selling companies in the U.S. — all reported falling sales due in large part to the weather, as did Volkswagen. But Chrysler, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Hyundai dealers were happy. Sales ran counter to the thermometer and were up for all five brands.
The industry saw double-digit gains in the West, where the weather was good. But there were big declines in other regions hit by storms.
Dealers saw the impact firsthand.
"When you go three days when no one comes on the lot, it's a little tough to be up to average," said Timothy "Bruce" Detweiler, dealer principal of a Buick-GMC dealer in Masontown, Pa., about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. Temperatures there were near or below zero for several straight days.
GM said its sales dropped 12 percent compared with the same month a year earlier, while Ford dropped 7.5 percent and Toyota declined 7 percent. Volkswagen slumped 19 percent. But Chrysler's sales advanced 8 percent, while Nissan's rose nearly 12 percent. Subaru saw a 19 percent increase, Honda went up 2 percent and Hyundai was up 1 percent.
With wave after wave of storms hitting much of the country, consumers weren't in the mood to go car shopping, said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of auto sales forecasting for LMC Automotive, a consulting firm. "Right now we're looking at this as an anomaly and a temporary setback because of external factors," Schuster said. He said it could take a couple of months to recover the lost sales because of predictions for more harsh weather in February.
Sales for the month ran at an annual rate of 15.24 million, about flat with last year, according to Autodata Corp.
Still, Schuster is sticking with his forecast of sales rising to 16.2 million for the full year. He says the fundamentals remain in place for a return to pre-recession levels, including low interest rates, wide loan availability, aging cars and trucks on the roads and attractive new products from many automakers. Last year's sales hit 15.6 million, more than 4 million above the 2009 trough of 10.4 million.
Newly introduced vehicles helped Chrysler, Nissan and Subaru to their gains. Chrysler notched its best January in six years, with Jeep brand sales up 38 percent, led by the new Cherokee small SUV. Nissan sales gained 11.8 percent, led by the redesigned Rogue small crossover SUV with sales up 55 percent. And sales of Subaru's redesigned Forester SUV jumped 64 percent over last January.
Most automakers with sales declines blamed the weather.
At GM, sales of most high-volume models were down. Sales of the Chevy Silverado pickup, GM's top-selling vehicle, shrank more than 18 percent. At Ford, sales of the Focus small car plunged 26 percent from last January, while F-Series pickup sales were flat. Ford's Lincoln luxury brand was the bright spot, with a 43 percent increase.
Sales of Toyota's Camry, the top-selling car in the U.S., plunged almost 27 percent from a year ago. But Bill Fay, head of the Toyota Division in the U.S., said Camry sales in January 2013 were boosted by a high number of so-called fleet sales that had been delayed due to Superstorm Sandy.
Fay said an order to dealers to stop selling some models with heated seats had little impact in January, and shouldn't significantly affect February. On Thursday, Toyota told North American dealers to stop selling six models, including certain Camrys, with heated seats because the fabric doesn't comply with U.S. fire safety codes. The order affected 36,000 vehicles on dealer lots, about 13 percent of inventory. No fires or injuries have been reported.
Fay said he expects the cars to be fixed in about two weeks.
In Pennsylvania, Detweiler is hoping that those who didn't leave their homes during the streak of bad weather will venture out and buy in February.
"Historically, a lot of times when they're stuck in the house, they end up researching cars," he said. "Sometimes we have a good month the next month because of really bad weather."


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Simon McKeown now resides in Mexico, Mo., where he practices family medicine at Audrain Family Health Care and is proud that his "crazy idea" worked out.
Some people dream their whole lives of becoming a doctor. Others, such as Simon McKeown, discover the dream much later.
English-born McKeown was 29 years old and studying religious education at Cambridge University when "it dawned on him slowly" that he wanted to be a doctor. The idea was unexpected, and so was the reaction he got from British universities and advisers. McKeown had not taken math and science since age 15, and he had never even used a computer or pocket calculator. He was told that he was too old and unqualified to be accepted into medical school.
"I was literally laughed at and told I was wasting my time," he says. "I didn't even get one interview."
But with encouragement from his father and his Missouri-native wife, Julie, he decided to try his luck in America. He and Julie moved to Missouri, and he applied to Mizzou. He was accepted and began working his way through prerequisites and required courses, even getting overrides for higher-level courses. He passed the MCAT and worked his way through medical school. While in med school, he used his religious studies background and became a chaplain in the hospitals to gain experience in the environment.
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Nasdaq 100 Index futures rose after revenue from Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. topped estimates while investors watched economic data for signs on when the Federal Reserve may scale back monetary stimulus.
Amazon.com surged 7.5% as consumers flocked to the largest online retailer ahead of the holiday shopping season, helping to curtail losses. Microsoft jumped 6.3% as the company relied on corporate software demand to make up for weak consumer personal-computer purchases. United Parcel Service Inc. climbed 2.1% after net income more than doubled as the company carried more U.S. shipments at higher rates.
Futures on the Nasdaq 100 Index climbed 0.2% to 3,377.75 at 8:36 a.m. in New York. Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures expiring in December fell 0.1% to 1,746.90. The benchmark index is up 0.4% for the week. Contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 14 points, or 0.1%, to 15,440 today.
"Some profit taking might be overdue as we have had quite a run recently," Philippe Gijsels, chief strategist at BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels, said. "Longer-term, you should be looking at economic data, corporate data, but clearly what's driving markets right now is central-bank accommodation. What spooked the markets was the tapering fears and now it's postponed to early 2014. That will support equities."
The S&P 500 has advanced 4.2% this month, closing at a record of 1,754.67 on Oct. 22, as lawmakers agreed to raise the government's borrowing limit, avoiding a sovereign default. Equities are heading for their third weekly rally as signs of slower economic recovery fueled bets the Fed will wait until March before scaling back bond purchases.
Durable Goods
Data today showed orders for U.S. durable goods rose in September by the most in three months as stronger demand for commercial and military aircraft outweighed a drop in business equipment. Bookings for goods meant to last at least three years increased 3.7% after a revised 0.2% gain in August, the Commerce Department said. The median forecast of 67 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 2.3% increase.
A release at 9:55 a.m. Washington time may show the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 75 this month, the lowest since January, from 77.5 in September, according to the median economist estimate in a Bloomberg News survey before today's data. A preliminary reading for October came in at 75.2.
Sixteen S&P 500 report earnings today. Of the 243 members of the gauge that have released results so far, 76% exceeded analysts' predictions for profit, while 54% beat sales estimates, data compiled by Bloomberg showed.
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Biotech pioneer Robert Langer has over 800 patents to his name and has launched two dozen companies, which develop everything from tumor-fighting nanoparticles to anti-frizz hair products. Yet Langer says his proudest accomplishment is teaching some 500 students and post-docs, now professors and start-up leaders themselves.


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(Reuters) - Texas officials on Monday refused to return lethal drugs they plan to use for an execution this week, despite a demand from the provider which wanted to remain anonymous but has been thrust into a controversy over capital punishment.
"The drugs were purchased legally by the agency," the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) said on Monday. "TDCJ has no intention of returning the pentobarbital."
The statement from Texas, which executes more inmates than any other state, comes at a time when many states are turning to compounding pharmacies to secure lethal injection supplies after major pharmaceutical manufacturers have said they do not want their drugs used for executions.
The drugs mixed by compounding pharmacies are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and their use in providing execution drugs has come under fire from capital punishment opponents and others, who say the drugs these pharmacies provide may not be pure and potent and may cause needless suffering to the codemned.
Texas announced on October 2 that it had purchased pentobarbital from The Woodlands Compounding Pharmacy in The Woodlands, Texas, near Houston. Two days later, on October 4, Woodlands demanded the drugs be returned in a letter to state corrections officials and to the state attorney general's office. Company owner Jasper Lovoi said he had been promised secrecy by the state.
"It was my belief that this information would be kept on the 'down low' and that it was unlikely that it would be discovered that my pharmacy provided these drugs," Lovoi said in the letter. He demanded that the state "immediately return the vials of compounded pentobarbital."
A copy of Lovoi's letter was submitted as part of a lawsuit filed by three inmates on Texas' death row last week.
The inmates sued in part because of the state's efforts to rely on a compounding pharmacy for execution drugs. They said use of the drugs could be cruel and unusual punishment because they are produced by a compounding pharmacy and are not approved by the FDA, according to court documents.
Among the inmates suing the state is Michael Yowell, scheduled to be executed on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Lynn on Saturday ordered the execution of Yowell to proceed. Yowell's attorneys said Monday they are appealing that decision to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
"The letter (from the compounding pharmacy) is further evidence of the TDCJ's pattern of misconduct with respect to their efforts to obtain the drugs and how they intend to proceed with executions," said Maurie Levin, one of the attorneys representing the three inmates.
The Texas case is 4:13-cv-02901 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Division.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A Canadian joint venture operating one of the world's largest gold mines and the government of the Dominican Republic reached an agreement Friday to inspect the company's exports, ending a standoff that halted a shipment valued at nearly $12 million.
The agreement between Barrick Pueblo Viejo and Dominican customs officials comes as the government tries to pressure the joint venture to renegotiate its royalty agreement and turn over more of its profits.
Customs agents detained the shipment of 6,000 ounces of gold and 30,000 ounces of silver on Wednesday at an airport in Santo Domingo. Fernandez said the company would not allow the cargo to be inspected, telling agents that the seals could not be broken until the shipment reached its destination. He also said some of the information on their documents appeared to be incorrect.
Customs Director Fernando Fernandez announced after meeting with Barrick officials that an agreement had been reached and the shipment could be inspected as early as Monday.
Barrick Pueblo Viejo's director of government relations, Mexico Angeles, said the government was seeking additional information about the shipments and the company would provide it. "Everything was straightened out," he said.
In addition to information on this shipment, Fernandez said he had wanted more details about the approximately 14 previous ones that the company made between November and March.
The mine venture is 60 percent owned by the Barrick Gold Corp. of Toronto and 40 percent by Goldcorp Inc. of Vancouver. The companies last year reopened the Pueblo Viejo after investing nearly $4 billion, the largest direct foreign investment ever in the Dominican Republic.
In recent months, Dominican lawmakers and President Danilo Medina have called on the company to renegotiate the royalty contract signed in 2009. The company has said it is a legally binding contract but it is willing to discuss measures to help the Dominican Republic with its budget deficit.
Under the contract, Barrick Pueblo Viejo has estimated it will pay about $7 billion over the estimated 25-year life of the mine to the government. In addition, it has spent more than $4 million to clean up contamination left behind by the previous operators of the mine.


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I'm mostly wondering if it's even possible to do this or if i need additional hardware outside the Arduino and the Xbee Shield from SparkFun to be able to communicate with the Xbee directly so that I can set the baud rate.
2. However, the switch does not cross Rx,Tx, rather it connects over to pins 2,3, and only if you solder in jumpers yourself for the alternate-position. So, the switch has to be in the default [pin 0,1] position, and you need to cross-wire pins 0,1 using external jumpers.


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A new russian website Iframe dollars.biz is paying websites to infect web surfers with spyware/adware. I was wondering when this stuff was gonna happen.
Here is the article.
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what do you mean when? this has been going on for year. When it originally started they would pay by the hit count, but a few guys decided it would be fun to make pages that just did continous popups so they switched it to IP addresses. this is not something "new"
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The liquid'ish substance that forms between the cheeks of your buttox after sitting for an extended period of time after not fully wiping after a bowel movement. It is usualy light in color (resembling chicken gravy) and has a putrid stench
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CHUBBUCK, Idaho, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old girl in Idaho is dead after police say another 5-year-old accidentally shot her at the house she was visiting Wednesday afternoon.
Noelle Aston Shawver was playing with another child just prior to 3 p.m. on July 30, while her parents and other adults were in another room. The child she was playing with was somehow able access a gun and accidentally fired it, hitting Shawver.
Police and EMTs were called to the Chubbuck, Idaho, home and Shawver was transported to Portneuf Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries.
Local authorities say because the incident is part of an ongoing investigation, they cannot yet release any additional information including what type of firearm was used or how the other child was able to obtain the deadly weapon.
"We are not releasing any of that," Chubbuck Police Department Lt. Bill Guiberson told the Idaho State Journal. "Obviously that's part of the investigation."


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Do you have customers seeking support via social media?
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