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Everyone says small businesses are dynamic, market-shaking, job creators. But new evidence suggests that's not true.
A year ago, President Barack Obama approved the Small Business Jobs Act, which cut taxes and expanded loan programs for tens of thousands of small companies. Signing the bill into law, he gave a speech that could have come out of the mouth of any Washington politician: lauding the country's "entrepreneurs," the "basement inventor[s]" designing revolutionary new products and creating most of the country's new jobs.
The stereotype of the small-businessperson as a start-up innovator is pervasive. But it's not true, according to a new study. Scupper the image of Mark Zuckerberg handcrafting a new service to revolutionize how we socialize and adding thousands of jobs to the economy. Replace it with the image of a gas-station owner, servicing a crowded market, happy to be able to make his kid's soccer games without a boss breathing down his neck, and more wary of innovation than eager for it.
In a new paper, "What Do Small Businesses Do?," Erik Hurst and Benjamin Wild Pugsley of the University of Chicago says innovative whizzes and small-business owners are very different breeds. For politicians and policymakers eager to bolster job creation and foster American competitiveness, Hurst and Pugsley's analysis could have important ramifications.
The study notes that small-business owners, innovators, and entrepreneurs get lumped together not just in Washington's rhetoric, but also in the academic literature. Decades of economic theory "usually considers entrepreneurs" as people who "innovate and render aging technologies obsolete" and "take economic risks," they note. But it does not always do a good job sussing out who is really innovating, who is taking risks, and whose businesses are really growing, they say.
The researchers attempt to figure that out by surveying entrepreneurs, asking why they decided to start their own companies and what they hope to achieve. The bottom line? "Few small businesses intend to bring a new idea to market," they write. "Instead, most intend to provide an existing service to an existing customer base." And a relatively small proportion of small businesses have aspirations to get any bigger, either.
Indeed, the new business owners responding to the survey were lawyers, plumbers, doctors, shopkeepers, real estate agents, and the like—common village professionals. Fewer than half started a business because they "had a good business idea." Many chose to start a business for "non-pecuniary" benefits, like being your own boss and keeping flexible hours.
The bulk of small businesses being created, in short, are not particularly innovative ones. Few spend any money on research or development, getting a patent, or otherwise trademarking a new idea. Most simply help provide already-crowded markets with familiar goods such as legal work or gas or nearby groceries. Nor are they growing businesses either. "[M]ost surviving small businesses do not grow by any significant margin," the economists write. "Most firms start small and stay small throughout their entire lifecycle."
This is not to pooh-pooh new small-business owners, of course. People need their teeth cleaned, their taxes filed, and their gas tank filled. But it does offer valuable perspective on how and why government should aid small business. Programs aimed at helping small businesses are not generally going to reach growing businesses, or innovating businesses, or new businesses. And with Washington spending billions to help small businesses and desperately seeking job creation, that matters.
The paper's authors argue that Washington policymakers and academic economists need to focus on the minority of entrepreneurial and growing small firms, as opposed to small firms, full stop. So how to separate the Zuckerbergs from the gas-station owners? Often they separate themselves. Companies that seek venture capital funding, for instance, tend to innovate and create jobs. Thus, a tax break for a company in receipt of VC funding might get more bang for its buck than a tax break for all firms with fewer than 20 employees.
Even easier, Washington could ensure that it subsidizes growing firms, not just small firms. "Often subsidies targeted at increasing innovative risk taking and overcoming financing constraints are focused on small businesses," the academics write. "We believe that these targets are better reached through lowering the costs of expansion, so they are taken up by the much smaller share of small businesses aspiring to grow and innovate." The (admittedly obvious) takeaway? Give tax breaks or other incentives to firms hiring new employees if you want to juice employment at small companies.
One thing is not in dispute: Young companies—which tend to be small—create the bulk of new jobs. Of late, they have been starting with smaller staffs and adding fewer employees, which helps explain the current economic malaise. Washington is desperate to support small businesses and to help them add jobs, to help the overall economic picture. But first Washington should take the time to understand which small businesses really do innovate and grow.


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Skip to comments.The 'Angry Arab' Goes Mad
Posted on 12/08/2011 1:04:30 PM PST by SmithL
As'ad AbuKahlila political science professor at California State University, Stanislausspoke last month at a day-long "teach-in" at the University of California, Berkeley titled, "Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring." It consisted of a number of "workshop sessions" at the Valley Life Sciences Building, followed by a "plenary session" at the Multicultural Center, and was co-sponsored by the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Berkeley Muslim Students Association PAC, the International Socialist Organization, and the Syrian American Council.
AbuKhalil's workshop on "The U.S. and the Arab Uprising" was held in a tiny, hot, windowless room filled with students wearing hijabs and keffiyehs. Immediately visible to all who entered was a sign leaning against the black board that set the anti-American atmosphere:
Victory to the Arab Revolutions!
U.S. Out of the Middle East!
AbuKhalil, author of the "Angry Arab" blog, was introduced as "the most influential Arab blogger in English and Arabic." Wasting no time living up to his self-caricature, he presented the demise of Israel as his life's work, referred repeatedly to the "usurping Zionist entity," and characterized the U.S. as the source of all that ails the Arab world. For instance:
Obama and Hillary always pat themselves on the back and say they are on the side of the Arab people. . . . They are on the side of counter-revolution. . . . There is a tyrannical order in the Arab world . . . in place since 1979 . . . the year Egypt was forced by the United States to sign a peace treaty with Israel. A dictator Anwar Sadat was conveniently armed, an unrepentant anti-Semite and Nazi.
He did not explain the origin of these descriptions of Sadat, but no one questioned him or objected.
(Excerpt) Read more at campus-watch.org ...
The United States wants to take our agency from us, they want to convince us, as Israel has tried to do all these decades, that we are incapable of changing the situation, the enemy is too strong . . . invincible.
Displaying a lust for violence, AbuKhalil boasted:
I am in favor of chaos because I'm really enjoying what's happening in Egypt, especially what's happening against Israel [the attack on the Israeli embassy]. I've played these scenes on YouTube more times than I've played songs.
The audience laughed in agreement as he spoke.
AbuKhalil made his hatred of Israel clear in his description of hearing Israeli soldiers screamingso he claimedas they retreated from Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon in 2006. "It shows you if Arabs are allowed freedom to fight Israel, this is the kind of Palestine you will see," he bragged.
More shocking was his blithe dismissal of Hamas's constant barrage of rockets into southern Israel, which he called, "those firecrackers from Hamas [fired] at a town in occupied Palestine." He then belittled the suffering the bombardment has caused:
You will notice there were like ten injured and sometimes they had shocks . . . they actually list the injured; they [listed] those whose feelings were hurt; those who were startled. This war crimes thing is for victimhood reputation.
Again, the audience laughed heartily.
Later, a member of the audience challenged him by asking about the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) report showing that Iran's nuclear program has military dimensions. AbuKhalil dodged the question by raising Israel's alleged nuclear program and what he called the "racist content of the notion that nuclear weapons are dangerous in the hands of Muslims, but safe in the hands of Christians and Jews." He apparently has no worries about the Iranian regime's threat to wipe Israel off the map, its constant threat to its neighbors, or the apocalyptic nature of the mullah's theology; only Israel can threaten peace in the region.
During the plenary session that followed, AbuKhalil said he was angered that the work of the Canadian-Muslim feminist and author Irshad Manji, and "other Islam-haters" has been translated into Arabic. Yet he describes himself as "secular" and a "feminist"under the right circumstances, one supposes, meaning that Western liberal concepts don't apply to those who criticize Islam.
He also condemned the translation into Arabic of a tract on non-violence aimed at the Arab uprisings. "Very boring," he declared:
The United States wanted the revolution to be non-violent. They started the myth in the New York Times. It's not. It's a violent struggle by Arabs. And please, I am not making an apology. It's justifiable. They want to bring down these regimes in any way possible.
Whether glorifying violence, exalting in the death and misery of Israelis, or blaming the U.S. for the ills of the Arab world, AbuKhalil lived up to his moniker as an "angry Arab." Presumably, he brings the same radicalism to the classroom, which is a frightening prospect for his students. When anger replaces reason, there's little hope for an education, no matter how many "teach-ins" universities offer.Please email your concerns and comments to California State University, Stanislaus, Political Science and Public Administration (email@example.com).
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So, Islamic Rage Boy has moved from Pakistan to Berkeley.
He preaches his hate from the safety of a Leftist pulpit, and not from the front lines in Israel.
Typical Muslim coward.
Or was it, "The Mad Arab Goes Awry." Don't know for sure.
Hey Cal State, let's get some folks who believe in a four thousand year old earth for the geology dept, and get some physicists who insist that relativity and quantum physics don't work, and some mathematicians that still think that pi is equal to 3.0.
That way, the STEM departments will contain as much blithering idiocy as does your liberal arts departments.
Take that arab and dip him in pig...er..democrat fat.
If something happens to Israel, who will Arabs blame for their backward, poor, ignorant cultures?
Israel's the best friend they have - without Israel the world will see them for what they really are...
Islam has been an insane murder cult since Mad Mo crawled out of the bat cave and barked at the moon.
No wonder his most ardent followers are also barking mad.
Oops, lest some English major (working at McDs) objects...let's make that "...as do..." instead of "...as does..."
How long did it take to get the smell out after the meeting ended? Or maybe they just decided to demolish and rebuild the entire building?
In regards to Egypt I have three words:
Aswan High Dam
How long did it take to get the smell out after the meeting ended?
AbuKhalil put out a press release saying a joo had been seen going into the room after everyone left - and the "joo was sweating"...
Mohamed goes mohamecidal? Whoda thunk it?
This guy is teaching in our schools...
Most Muslims are lazy about this but the Koran ordains that Muslims emulate Muhammad. Emulate his life. Mo was a mass murderer and the Jihadists try to emulate this
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
Goes mad, implies they weren't mad before they went "there". I'm not so sure.
Thread bump.
I had never thought of that.......
Operation 11th Plague?
Nice post.
As'ad AbuKahlil -- a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus -- spoke last month at a day-long "teach-in" at the University of California, Berkeley titled, "Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring." It consisted of a number of "workshop sessions" at the Valley Life Sciences Building, followed by a "plenary session" at the Multicultural Center, and was co-sponsored by the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Berkeley Muslim Students Association PAC, the International Socialist Organization, and the Syrian American Council.
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Imagine an 11-year-old student testifying in front of the county commission while cameras roll and the audience listens.
Then imagine the commission voting to construct a safe path to school at the youngster's request.
"Who can measure the empowerment a student feels when he or she has made permanent changes in the community?" asks teacher Sally Broughton.
"In order for our democracy to work, we have to have engaged and informed citizens. That is my goal, my passion, and my mission as a teacher."
Broughton, who teaches grades 6-8 social studies and language arts at Monforton School, a small rural school near Bozeman, has earned numerous awards for her innovative teaching and her leadership in civics education.
This September, she won the highest honor a Montana teacher can receive when she was named Montana Teacher of the Year for 2009.
The Montana Teacher of the Year program annually honors a teacher who exemplifies the best in the teaching profession. The program is sponsored and administered by the Montana Professional Teaching Foundation.
An interview committee composed of the 2008 Montana Teacher of the Year, Steve Gardiner; other educators; a parent; and a high school student chose Broughton as Montana Teacher of the Year from among three finalists.
Broughton likes to quote Margaret Mead, who said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
Through Broughton's innovative Project Citizen curriculum, her students have changed their local world in many positive ways.
At the start of every school year, Broughton asks her students to think about community problems that need to be solved. She helps them whittle the lists down to a single issue. Then the work begins. Students gather information, examine solutions, develop an action plan, and present their plan to the appropriate decision-makers.
In 2000, for example, her students decided the community's biggest problem was the lack of a safe path to school. The road they traveled had no shoulder. As a result, trucks, buses, cars, pedestrians, bicycles, and skateboards shared the space, creating a dangerous situation.
Through Project Citizen, the students counted traffic, surveyed vehicle drivers and students, developed alternatives, then decided on the best policy to fix the situation. They testified before local county commissioners, who passed a policy directing the road department to construct a path.
The students and community members raised funds for the project, and the students secured the donation of asphalt to cover the path.
"Along the way, they learn skills in math, public speaking, research, writing, interviewing, technology, working together, and art," Broughton said. "This is authentic learning."
The variety of her students' accomplishments is impressive: a bike helmet policy, a community playground (which the students helped build), restrooms in the downtown area, early warning and safety measures at the nearby dam, a competitive track program, and mandatory community service as part of the k-8 curriculum.
"Each of these ideas was selected, researched, and presented by the students," Broughton said.
"They learn how to take action on an issue that is bothering them – to participate, not just sit and complain. My role is that of facilitator."
Most American students don't get nearly enough of this kind of education, Broughton believes. She points to a 2006 national study that reports 75 percent of American students complete their k-12 education without sufficient knowledge of civics and democracy.
Broughton is spearheading an effort to correct this problem in Montana and nationally. She has served as facilitator of the Montana Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools and has trained over a thousand teachers from across the U.S. and many foreign countries.
"It gives me great pleasure to equip teachers with the skills and techniques needed to encourage students to become good citizens in their own communities and in the nation and the world," she said. "However, I am most excited about being the director and developer of the Montana Institute on Civic Education that will be held in Billings in June 2009." The institute will be free for Montana teachers.
Broughton also practices what she preaches by volunteering in many aspects of community life, including her church, the community mediation center, food bank, animal shelter, the Bozeman Symphony, and other projects.
Awards and honors: Among many other awards and honors, Broughton received the American Civic Education Teacher Award this year from the National Education Association, the Center for Civic Education, and the Center for Congress at Indiana University.
Her language arts students have had essays and poems published in national and regional publications.
In April 2008, the National Learn and Serve Corporation selected her class to receive the Spirit of Service Award in April 2008 for "Operation Save The Playground," a service learning project aimed at bringing fitness and recreation to the community.
"Mrs. Broughton and these students were selected from over 1,000 Learn and Service programs in the U.S.," said Monforton Superintendent Lynne Scalia. "Mrs. Broughton shows us all that being an active citizen is more than merely being vocal. It means understanding all sides of an issue, working for change at the policy level, creating solutions, and then garnering support for that change. This is real and powerful work."
Finalists: Finalists in the 2009 Montana Teacher of the Year event include Karen Spencer, a high school chemistry teacher in Great Falls, and Frank LaLiberty, a science and agriculture mechanics teacher in Cascade.
As Montana Teacher of the Year, Sally Broughton will serve as a spokesperson and advocate for the teaching profession and represents the state in the 2009 National Teacher of the Year event. ###
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Michael Vick proclaimed himself the "Wildcat originator" from his time with the Falcons in 2006 and said he was ready for whatever way the Eagles decided to use him on Sunday.
The Eagles quarterback also said he has been embraced by the fan base, added that he still braces himself for dealing with fans who are unable to forgive him for his involvement in a dogfighting ring that led to 18 months in prison.
"Philadelphia is a great city," Vick said in a live interview with the team Web site this morning. "I've been embraced everywhere I've been. People have been accepting me with open arms. It's a remarkable feeling after going through what I've gone through the last two years and the type of publicity I've received and all the things that have happened."
Vick said he tries to be prepared to deal with fans unwilling to give him a second chance.
"You never know how people are going to react," he said. "I understand people out there that are upset and I understand why. My thing is to try to reconcile. I have said I'm sorry for what I did and I continue to feel that way from the heart. I just have to do the right things and stay on course."
"Deep down inside, I know am truly remorseful for what I did. I'm the only one who has to deal with that. I'm the only one who has to lay down at night and beat myself up over it."
Vick lauded the help he has received from the Eagles' offensive staff to get to this point in terms of football. He said he was at about 85 to 90 percent, up from 70 percent in his preseason debut. He said the coaches have not told him his role.
"We'll come up with something. It's to be determined," he said. "I'm excited about that. I'm going to be ready. I'm going to be dressed out. Whenever my number is called, I want to go out and do what I can to the best of my abilities."
Vick's role in the Wildcat adds another dimension because he can both run and pass from the formation, as he did with the Falcons. Vick ran for more than 1,000 yards -- a record for a quarterback -- with the Falcons in the 2006 season.
"You can't just be one-dimensional in the Wildcat," he said. "You have to create that balance so the opposition does noot know exactly what you're going to do. It's going to be critical. It has to be 50-50, 60-40, 70-30. You have to mix it up. That's been key."
Later, in an interview with reporters in front of his locker, Vick noted that the Falcons' Wildcatesque option offense lost steam as the season progressed; teams adjusted their defenses to stop it.
"I thought it was the best thing smokin', and it really helped our football team reach a certain plateau," he said. "Down the stretch, it kind of wore itself out and wasn't as productive as it was the first half of the season. It can be a part of your offense, but not a major part of your offense. I think you've just got to throw it in every now and then, but this league is too complex and too fast, and coaches are too smart, to line up and run it all the time."
Vick said he was so unhappy, on and off the field, that last year in Atlanta, he felt he was headed toward early retirement -- he said he didn't have a tangible plan to retire, but it was in the back of his mind.
"At the end of the day, I was just drained, mentally, physically and emotionally," he said. He said his time in prison and away from football renewed his appreciation for the game.
Vick said this is "as settled down as I have been in my life."
"Having my family here, having my fiancé here and her family and the kids. This was a point I wanted to reach before I got incarcerated. I was trying to turn the corner a long time ago. Maybe it wasn't time. I feel like things happen for a reason. I feel like I'm in this position for a reason. I'm at peace. I'm settled emotionally 100 percent."
"Every day I wake up at marvel that I have this chance. The hard part is over with. Now it's time to play football."
However, Vick emphasized he will continue his work in the community and it will continue beyond his football career.
"This situation has humbled and grounded me in so many different ways" he said. "I'm excited about what I'm doing in the community. I'm passionate about it. I'm excited to reach out to so many people and that they are gravitating to what I'm doing."
In addition to making another school appearance Tuesday, Vick appeared at a community center in North Philadelphia, speaking to a group of people that included men who had previously gambled on dogfighting.
"It was very important, just to have open dialogue and to see where their minds were at, why they're into what they're into, why they were doing it ... We talked about the reasons behind why it goes on in our culture, how we can put a stop to that, and try to help out in the communities ... I think a lot of people are starting to understand that it's pointless activity, there's no need for it., it's a dead-end street."
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To determine whether a multicomponent individualised intervention programme designed to modify suboptimal safety practices prevents falls and associated injuries in high risk patients in nursing homes.
1 year, randomised controlled trial.
14 nursing homes (7 pairs) in Tennessee, USA, matched for number of beds. Nursing homes had 80–250 beds, had no specialised psychiatric or short stay skilled nursing care, used moderate to high levels of psychotropic drugs, and had administrative stability (no current vacancy and ≤3 turnovers in administrative positions during the previous 18 mo).
1933 patients lived in the 14 nursing homes. 499 patients (232 in study homes and 267 in control homes) were assessed by the study team to be at high risk for falls and were included in the study. Exclusion criteria were age <65 years, anticipated residence <6 months, being bed bound, having no falls in the previous year, and no individual safety problem.
The intervention team (nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists) assessed each patient on 4 areas: environmental and personal safety, wheelchair maintenance and safety, psychotropic drug use, and transfer and ambulation. Recommendations were made for each patient. At each home, a falls coordinator was appointed who worked with the intervention team, and, when appropriate, with the resident, the resident's family, facility administration, and staff to develop and institute specific plans to implement the recommendations. Follow up visits and telephone calls were made to the falls coordinator. Institution wide changes were recommended. Three 45 minute inservice education sessions were held for all patient care staff at each home.
Main outcome measures
Number of patients who had ≥2 falls during follow up, number of injurious falls that required medical attention, decline in function, and death.
Main results
2013 recommendations were made for 211 patients; 1263 (63%) were implemented at 3 months. The mean proportion of patients who fell repeatedly was lower in the study homes (44% v 54%, p=0.03). The groups did not differ for mean rate of injurious falls (13.7 in the study group v 19.9/100 person-years in the control group, p=0.22), mean change from baseline in resident functional status (p≥0.09 for each of 11 measures), and all cause mortality (23 v 17 deaths/100 person-years, p=0.28).
A structured individualised intervention in nursing homes reduced the proportion of high risk patients who had recurrent falls.
The study by Ray et al is one of the first trials showing the effectiveness of a fall prevention programme for nursing home residents. Reduction of hazards in their environment was a major target for programme activities. An intervention component that was absent from this study was exercise. Previous research has shown that exercise programmes can be effective in reducing falls among seniors,1 and high resistance strength training leads to gains in muscle strength and functional mobility among frail, institutionalised seniors.2
Only 26 of 79 potentially eligible nursing homes were approached. It is not possible to establish the comparability of nursing homes included and excluded from the study. Study results are generalisable to ambulatory nursing home clients at highest risk of falls. It would be useful to know whether programme implementation had any positive spin offs for nursing home residents who were not eligible to receive the intervention.
Study results are relevant to nurse managers and staff nurses in long term care settings. Although the relative contributions of individual intervention components cannot be assessed, findings indicate that a multidisciplinary and multicomponent approach to lowering risk can decrease the rate of recurrent falls among high risk residents. However, 2 precautions are warranted. Firstly, only 63% of recommended safety measures were in place at 3 months, highlighting the challenge of compliance by the health provider when a large array of interventions are recommended. Selecting the most cost effective interventions among those implemented would be a useful step for others planning similar programmes. Secondly, use of physical restraint in the intervention homes substantially increased. Careful monitoring of restraint use in institutions adopting this programme should be part of quality control measures.
Finally, the positive results might be further strengthened by augmenting the intervention with other environmental structural changes such as contrast markings on stair edges,3 an efficacious exercise programme, and hip joint padding to attenuate the effect of serious falls.4
Sources of funding: in part, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; with equipment donations from North Coast Medical Inc, DeRoyal Industries Ottobock, and Orthopaedic Industry.
For article reprint: Dr W A Ray, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Fax +1 615 343 8722.
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Budget-Friendly Advice For This Kitchen?
Q: My partner and I just bought our first home and we have no idea what to do with the kitchen. We are on a tight budget but also have conflicting ideas. My partner would like to paint the oak cabinets white, but since we aren't planning on staying more than 5 years, I don't want to change something that future buyers might want. We don't really like the floor either, as the rest of the home has original hardwood, but not sure if replacing it is within our budget. The appliances and table in this photo are leaving with the sellers so we are essentially a blank slate. Your input would be greatly appreciated.
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Editor: First, you need to lose the ivy, the valence on the window and replace the light fixture. After that, you can really control the aesthetic by adding some color into this kitchen! Think about a paint color for the walls that would tone down the yellow oakiness of the cabinets, perhaps a long colorful runner in front of the cabinets would be enough change without replacing the floors?
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Nottingham man injured in wagon accident suing Hampton Falls orchardBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
May 21. 2013 7:41PM
BRENTWOOD — A Nottingham man seriously injured after he was thrown to the ground while driving a horse-drawn wagon is suing Applecrest Farm Orchards, claiming it failed to properly maintain the wagon that broke and spooked the Belgian draft horses.
Gregory Dow filed suit against the popular Hampton Falls apple orchard last week following the wagon accident on Sept. 25, 2011, that injured Dow and Epping horse owner Joan Perkins, who stepped in and tried to stop the runaway horses.
The accident happened at the orchard at 133 Exeter Road while Dow was helping with wagon rides for customers during the orchard's busy fall season.
Perkins and her husband, Lloyd, who own Ledgewood Belgian Farms in Epping, were hired by Applecrest to provide the horses and operate the wagon rides. However, the suit said the wagons, poles and other equipment used during the rides were owned and provided by Applecrest.
Lloyd and Joan Perkins were driving two horse-drawn wagons when, at some point, Dow was asked to take over one of the wagons for Joan Perkins so she could use the restroom, they told the New Hampshire Union Leader in an interview after the accident.
According to the suit filed in Rockingham County Superior Court, Dow was driving the wagon downhill at a "slow, plodding and cautious pace with approximately 15 to 20 people riding in the back and two horses side by side pulling it when a wooden pole, which had been provided by (Applecrest), between the horses snapped without warning and bit into the ground."
The suit, filed on Dow's behalf by Dover attorney Alfred Catalfo III, alleges the wagon, which didn't have a brake system, rolled forward and collided with the horses. The horses became startled and then bolted, the suit said.
Dow's team and wagon then "shot down" an incline and crashed into a stone wall, the suit said. Dow was thrown off and suffered serious injuries, including four broken ribs, a punctured lung, severe knee damage, a scalp laceration, contusions and "severe emotional trauma," the suit said.
The suit accuses Applecrest of failing to maintain the wagons, poles and other equipment in a "safe and reasonable condition."
The Perkinses attempted to stop the horses and prevent serious injuries.
Lloyd Perkins said in an interview that he jumped off his wagon and onto one of his wife's horses, but fell off.
After discovering the problem, Joan Perkins ran over and jumped in front of the horses and hollered for them to stop, but one of the horses stepped on her foot and she fell to the ground. The wagon then ran over her. She suffered multiple serious injuries, but survived the accident.
The suit asks the court to award monetary damages "in an amount sufficient to compensate him for his injuries and losses ..."
Representatives from Applecrest could not be reached for comment Tuesday.


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More than 48 million Americans suffer a bout of food poisoning every year. A foodborne illness can occur when you eat food that contains harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemicals. These contaminants can cause symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Some of the most well-known disease-causing contaminants, or pathogens, include Salmonella, norovirus, and Escherichia coli, or E. coli.
Along with leafy green vegetables, food items that are more likely to be contaminated include dairy products, fruits, nuts, and poultry. Food can become tainted at any point from the farm to your kitchen table. For instance, a virus may infect your store-bought tuna sandwich because the person who prepared it was sick and didn't properly wash his or her hands. Or bacteria such as Salmonella may flourish on a chicken breast because you didn't cook the meat thoroughly.
Most people recover from a foodborne illness without any lasting problems. But eating tainted food can be deadly. The most lethal: contaminated meat, particularly poultry. It accounted for the most food-illness-related deaths in the U.S. from 1998 to 2008.
Food poisoning can affect anyone. But children, older adults, and pregnant women are most at risk. To keep everyone at your kitchen table healthy, follow these simple preparation steps every time you cook:
Always wash your hands properly before handling any food. Learn how here.
After preparing each food item, be sure to wash all utensils, cutting boards, and counters with hot, soapy water. Wipe surfaces dry with a paper towel. If you use a fabric towel, wash it often in hot water.
Wash produce before cutting or peeling. Simply rinse it under running water and then dry with a clean towel. You can use a produce brush on firmer-skinned fruits or veggies. Don't leave cut-up produce at room temperature for long.
Avoid rinsing raw meats such as poultry or pork. You can easily spread bacteria or other contaminants through splashed water.
Don't thaw food on a counter top. Once food reaches room temperature, pathogens can quickly grow. Instead, use the refrigerator or microwave.
Designate a different cutting board for raw meats and fresh produce. And never place cooked meat on an unwashed board or plate that previously held raw meat.
Cook food until it is completely done: 145⁰ F (63⁰ C) for meats such as roasts, steaks, and pork chops; 160⁰ F (71⁰ C) for ground meats; and 165⁰ F (74⁰ C) for poultry. Use a thermometer to confirm the temperature.
When eating out, check if the restaurant has passed safety inspections. And order foods like hamburgers well done.
Always talk with your health care provider to find out more information.
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Vendors, sales, and service personnel are required to comply with all university parking rules and regulations as well as with city ordinances and state laws. Sales and Service parking is enforced 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A sales and service permit is required.
The cost of a sales and service permit is $30 per semester or $60 for the year (August to August).
To purchase a sales and service permit, the following information must be submitted at the Office of Parking Services:
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ANCHORAGE - Thirty-eight Alaska Anchorage student-athletes participated in the 13th annual "Reading with the Seawolves" program on Friday afternoon at Turnagain Elementary School.
Coordinated by UAA associate director Dede Allen, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and staff, the program helps Seawolf student-athletes connect with local youth while encouraging reading and healthy attitudes towards exercise and school. All 11 of UAA's NCAA teams were represented at the event, either reading to kindergarten through 4th grades, or participating in recess activities with 5th and 6th graders.
"'Reading With the Seawolves' is an event that our student-athletes really look forward to every spring," Allen said. "I think it's fun for them to connect with the children and realize that they can make a direct, positive influence in their lives. We'd like to thank Turnagain for welcoming us this year and we look forward to continuing this tradition in the future."
Turnagain Elementary, located in West Anchorage, also features a Seawolf connection as first-year principal Carissa Cote' played volleyball at UAA from 1998-99.


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|ISS004-E-11121 (2 May 2002) --- The Expedition Four and Soyuz 4 Taxi crews pose for a group photo in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz 4 Taxi crew (front row), from the left, are flight engineer Roberto Vittori, commander Yuri Gidzenko, and South African space flight participant Mark Shuttleworth. The Expedition Four crew (back row), from the left, are astronaut Carl E. Walz, flight engineer; cosmonaut Yury I. Onufrienko, mission commander; and astronaut Daniel W. Bursch, flight engineer. Onufrienko and Gidzenko represent Rosaviakosmos and Vittori represents the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Reflections on Transforming the Food System
In our Summer issue, we printed the correspondence between contributing editor Madhu Suri Prakash and her friend, author and poet Wendell Berry. (Click here to read their letters). Below are responses from readers who joined in the conversation:
A Quieter Life Now
In an exchange of letters with a dear friend, Wendell Berry explains why his writing is only a small part of the movement against greed and waste.
Dear Madhu:
I read with appreciation and amusement your exchange with Wendell Berry in the most recent issue of Yes! magazine. Your proposal, Berry's response, and the parting tweaks you delivered one another in that exchange were at once thought-provoking and engaging. I wanted to engage a bit on the issues that both of you raised.
Your proposal, that Wendell put his moral weight behind a request to the president to put $5 billion toward rebuilding small farm agriculture, could hardly be more attractive. Yet Berry demurs, and not just because he rejects such a leadership role. He makes three points, one somewhat obscure, the others fairly clear. Of the latter, he notes that the movement both you and he desire is already "at work without grants, without official instruction or permission, and mostly unnoticed by the politicians and the news media." And he goes on to say that, regardless of anything he has contributed, this movement "would be happening because the justifications of individual and corporate greed are now exhausted, and better ways are available." Those ways, indeed, "will be helped along, as we know, by large historical forces such as rising energy costs, rising ecological and social costs, and the inability of governments, large institutions, and corporations to respond effectively."
This point sets the context for the more obscure objection to your proposal, it seems to me, namely that the movement you both endorse will eventually have political power of its own, power vulnerable to the "simplification and corruption that will come with power," but which he hopes the movement can avoid. He says this in passing, but I think it is the heart of the dilemma that faces us, and it occupies almost all of his final note: "I don't think there is much to be gained from answering the oversimplifications of the politicians with our own oversimplifications. The World, the given World, is complex and finally mysterious. The truth of it cannot be reduced to campaign slogans or bumper stickers."
If I read him right, Berry is insisting that no simple demand, such as bestowing $5 billion on rescuing small farms, can meet the need we currently face. For one thing, governments and large institutions are simply unable to respond effectively to what we really mean by this. In the legislative and bureaucratic processes that would accompany such a turn in policy, its good intentions would be twisted and tied up in so many trammels that those of us in the trenches could scarcely recognize it. Or we would be required to expend so much time, energy, and money attempting to conform with Congressional and bureaucratic requirements that we would have little time to do what we do best.
This, in essence, is how the current system works. The USDA is an octopus, like the World Bank. Among its many arms are some that favor small-scale agriculture, farmers markets, real food for the poor, soil conservation, and all the rest. There are armies of intermediaries, mostly NGOs, skilled at gaining access to the small monies available through these programs and passing them on to good people on the ground. In the process, local purposes are honed to fit bureaucratic requirements, money is spent on administration, promotion, paperwork, and what have you that never reaches the supposed beneficiaries, and changes are made, but on such a small scale that the overall wasteful system of subsidized, industrial agriculture and food provision is scarcely touched. Even so, Republicans in Congress today are bent on eliminating much of the meager funding currently provided for such programs.
It can get worse. The Food Safety Bill is an example. People rallied in the small farm/local food movement to protect small farmers from the expensive record-keeping and one-size-fits-all requirements of the original bill. We drove through the Tester-Hagen amendment to S.B. 510, only to find that it puts small farmers in essentially the same position that the original bill did, under the guise of an exception for small farmers.
This isn't how movements are built or nurtured. Simplifications are necessary—in this I disagree with Berry. But they have to be simplifications that really strike at the root of the problem. In the case of the Farm Bill, the most effective simplification says, the problem is a system of subsidies that essentially freeze in place the current system of agricultural production. This is Wes Jackson's version. I think it's right, oversimplified though it is. The next question is how we overturn this system.
Here answers may differ. Jackson, supported by Wendell Berry, proposes a radical rethinking of our agricultural system, issuing in a 50-year plan to move to perennial crops. It would be hard to build a movement around Jackson's science-based proposal. Others propose to do what we are doing, building local food systems in the face of the industrial system that dominates our economy, even at the most local level. We're talking here not so much about a social movement as about movement in a certain direction, with lots of connections among players. And most of these folks ignore the Farm Bill.
This is where Berry's heart is, and Berry's answer seems to me clear. The Farm Bill and all it represents are dinosaurs. Whether they will perish by a comet collision on Wall Street or fade away as fossil fuels disappear from our menu of energy choices may not be clear. But they are doomed. Our job is to build for the future. We can let the bankers continue to petition the president, because we can safely assume that the bankers are the people the president is most likely to attend.
But this doesn't end the discussion or the dilemma we face. The Farm Bill and the enormous web of regulations that the current system has spun around our food system, for good as well as bad purposes, impinge upon all of us. How do we confront these, particularly as they stand in the way of our achieving economic viability, launching our farmers markets or local food processing facilities, or raising animals for meat in a healthy and humane way? We can practice "guerrilla canning," as one successful local foods entrepreneur put it, finding ways to conform with regulations county-by-county as health inspectors imposed new restrictions at each farmers market he attended. We can go "gray market," as most of the raw milk producers have done, skirting the law, barely, sometimes not at all, with workarounds like "dairy shares." Or we can fight for regulations that make sense for small producers and consumers who want real, fresh food.
And those routes don't even address the enormous economic advantage the farm subsidy programs give to mammoth, soil consuming, water polluting, monoculture-based farming operations. Grow your own grain here in the Little Lake Valley? Who will cover your costs but the most affluent of local consumers? Replace Safeway with daily farmers markets? How do local producers compete in price for anything but organic products? So we do have political work to do. But it is not at all clear how to do it without the "simplification and corruption" that the incremental change strategy entails, without the sacrifice of the interests of many intended beneficiaries along the way. How many mini-farmers can afford organic certification? Yet we need lots and lots of mini-farmers if we are to have a viable local food system.
In both those battles—over the little, niggling regulations that make local food difficult to come by and expensive, over the massive misallocation of funds and priorities represented by the Farm Bill—we face enormous obstacles. From the corporate food sector with its special access to legislators, to the one-step-at-a-time mentality of advocacy organizations, to the vested interests of the food, health and environmental bureaucracies, to prevailing attitudes about food safety and convenience, much of the population, ourselves included, stands in the way of real change.
In the end, I share Berry's hope that "larger forces"—the depletion of oil and natural gas, the continuing financial crisis, outright rebellion of a population tossed aside by Wall Street—will make the triumph of the "little way" inevitable. And I also fear the enormous disruption that must needs come along that road. The World, Berry writes, "is complex and finally mysterious." And tragic, he often adds. Those who live close to the land learn pretty quickly to appreciate that mystery and the frequent tragedy and become humble in its presence, as Berry clearly is. But we have to continue to fight, humbly and patiently like Berry, because we know that "a better world is possible."
So I find your exchange immensely stimulating, frustrating as it may be to find a hero of the proportions of Wendell Berry put aside the temptations of power and call for our patient persistence. But the refusal of power and the patient persistence of the "little traditions" of the world's indigenous and peasant peoples, which you've done so much to bring to our attention, may be the best way forward in our time.
Best wishes,
Michael Foley
Green Uprising Farm
Willits, California
To my dear friend (camerado) Madhu, to my mentor (in the same sense that Walt Whitman is my mentor) Wendell Berry, and to readers of YES!,
I write in response to sweet and powerful letters shared between Madhu Prakash and Wendell Berry, which remind me that we should write to each other of our dreams and resolutions.
Mr. Berry, I wrote this first in pencil from my bed while the forest wind poured through the windows into my bare feet.
Madhu Suri Prakash:
Soil, Seeds, Salt: Education
Brought Down to Earth
I admire both the boldness of Madhu's invitation and Wendell Berry's humble refusal. Above all, we must do what we know we must do. I wonder, though, if Madhu's prophetic dream should live on and find a creative political mouthpiece for mainstream public expression. Maybe we don't need a superhero, but as Gandhi knew, we need a dramatic politics. I think of David Brower and the full page ads this movement leader (the most effective conservationist in history) placed in the New York Times and Washington Post asking: "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so tourists can get nearer the ceiling?" So today we have the Grand Canyon instead of another Lake Powell. So what if the IRS took away the Sierra Club's tax exempt privileges; so what if Browers' ads were oversimplifications. They caused a mainstream stir, helped expand the counter movement.
Where is this kind of bold activism today? With the Tea Party, I fear, while cultural creatives camp in the cracks of the system opting out of mainstream everything, including politics, the mainstream politics that still and will continue to dictate policies and actions that scale up the very kinds of practices that make dropping out seem so necessary. Of course this in not a critique of Wendell Berry opting out of another's dream, but only a reflection on the need for Madhu's bold vision—the dream of the open letter as movement-building politics.
Mr. Berry, Madhu and YES! say the counter movement is already happening, and of course I agree. Yet the movement that needs to be countered continues to grow precipitously, like all the graphs measuring atmospheric CO2 since 1950. I believe we need to hold not just hope, but hold too the paradoxical tension between hope and a realistic assessment that on many indicators, things continue to get worse. That is, we need to shape the trajectory of our hope with an honest assessment of how opposing trends continue to grow and spread in ways that will frustrate the counter movement and make life hard or impossible for people and places worldwide.
I too am amazed by the mostly unnoticed good work of what Paul Hawken calls "Blessed Unrest." But the paradox that I think needs more holding is that we need to continue to get noticed—to opt into the mainstream with inspired proposals for radical common sense ideas—like Madhu's $5 billion for local food. I'm certain that the Farm Bill Berry and Jackson are advocating speaks of this common radical sense. But Madhu's vision—your dream—I read as something more: it is for prophesy, the prophetic voice, creative political strategy. It inspires me to boldly propose what might otherwise remain unthought and unheard of, no matter how small.
Love, your camerado,
David Greenwood
An interview with Wendell Berry midway through his four-day sit-in in the Kentucky governor's office in protest of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Václav Havel called it "the power of the powerless." How regular people, from Denmark to Liberia, have stood up to power—and won.
- Michael Pollan on how we could have a "Food Bill" instead of a Farm Bill.


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GLEN HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A 12-hour search for a man wanted on a domestic violence charge and his three young children ended when rescuers found them clambering down a hillside in a national park in Michigan, leaving baffled authorities searching for answers.
"I feared for the worst," Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Borkovich said Monday night. "It all turned out well, but something was wrong with this picture."
The children — the man's 14- and 10-year-old daughters and his 9-year-old son — were exhausted, famished and covered with mosquito bites but otherwise unharmed when they were discovered at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the sheriff said.
The children said they knew there was a helicopter looking for them and that they had been hiding all day, Borkovich's office said on a blog posting Tuesday.
The 50-year-old father faces a domestic violence complaint that his wife filed in Emmet County, where the family had been visiting friends and relatives, the sheriff said. The Associated Press is not naming him because he has not been formally charged. The family lives in Orchard Lake, a Detroit suburb.
He was jailed overnight. Petoskey District Court said a magistrate will set the father's bond on Tuesday, but no court hearing will be scheduled until Wednesday at the earliest.
No other charges were expected, Borkovich said.
The children had been given nothing to eat or drink since breakfast Sunday morning, he said. They arrived that afternoon at the lakeshore in the northwest corner of Lower Michigan, about 280 miles northwest of Detroit, and spent the night in the woods with no tent. A heavy rainstorm drenched the area Monday morning, and the remainder of the day was hot and muggy.
The man got into a conflict with his wife Sunday, Borkovich said. She filed a complaint against him with the Emmet County sheriff's department, which issued a misdemeanor warrant the next day.
The man's wife told Emmet County authorities that her husband had forced her out of the car Sunday morning, then drove away with the children, according to the Leelanau County sheriff's office blog.
"She said she was concerned for the welfare of her children because of her husband's mental state but did not believe he would harm them," the posting said. She filed a missing person's report.
The children told their rescuers they'd been on a camping trip, said Phil Akers, chief ranger at the national lakeshore.
"They didn't appear to have a lot of supplies or equipment with them," Akers said. The park's terrain is a mixture of towering dunes and swampy woodlands thick with trees and undergrowth.
A park ranger spotted a car with a dented door parked near the Coast Guard Maritime Heritage Museum Monday morning. Borkovich said the ranger ran a check on the license plate and learned there was an alert for the vehicle, touching off a manhunt.
Parts of the lakeshore were closed to the public as crews walked the Lake Michigan shoreline and combed wetlands and inland ridges. The search involved dozens of personnel from the Michigan State Police, the national park, the state Department of Natural Resources and the Leelanau County and Grand Traverse County sheriff's departments. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter team searched by air.
Reinforcements from volunteer fire departments and other agencies arrived Monday night and began combing the area more systematically. The family was found about an hour later, walking down a sandy hillside.
Borkovich told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the man and his children knew the helicopter was searching for them and that they were "flushed out" as the ground searchers came close.
"We saw no criminal intent," Borkovich said afterward. "It didn't look like the subject was going to flee to Chicago with the kids or out west or to Mexico. It didn't look like he planned to harm them in any way. The spouse said he loves his kids and they love him. We got good word from his side of the family that he's a very gentle person and no problems."
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Diagnostic Tools Drive Service Improvements
The U.S. Postal Service recently reported that its third quarter delivery service performance results marked "all-time record service performance" across all mail categories. In particular, the Postal Service had significant improvement in delivery performance for its commercial mail products in First Class and Standard Mail. Periodicals' on-time performance topped 80 percent for the first time since 2010, a major improvement over the 46 percent score from earlier this year.


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HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Gulfstream Park's alumni historically have gone on to achieve great things on the Triple Crown trail, and the Class of 2013 is widely regarded as the most likely to succeed in the spring classics, most notably in the Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs on May 4.
Five of the top six point getters in Churchill Downs' Road to the Kentucky Derby, the newly instituted qualifying system for the 20-horse field, raced at Gulfstream and/or trained at Palm Meadows. Five of the six top-ranked 3-year-olds listed in Daily Racing Form's Derby Watch are also Gulfstream/Palm Meadows alumni, as are the top four horses in Kentuckyderby.com's Power Rankings.
Seven of the top eight vote getters in the NTRA's 3-year-old Poll, topped by $1 million Besilu Stables Florida Derby (G1) winner Orb and undefeated Verrazano, raced at Gulfstream or trained at the Hallandale Beach track or Palm Meadows.
The Florida Derby has produced 21 Kentucky Derby champions, as well as the winners of 56 Triple Crown races. Orb, whom trainer Shug McGaughey also saddled for victories in an allowance race and the $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) during the Gulfstream meeting, is one of three participants from the Florida Derby that have qualified for the Run for the Roses. Orb is expected to be joined at Churchill by Itsmyluckyday, the Eddie Plesa Jr.-trained winner of the $100,000 Gulfstream Derby and the $400,000 Holy Bull who finished second in the Florida Derby, and Frac Daddy, an off-the-board Florida Derby finisher who came back to finish second in the Arkansas Derby (G1).
Verrazano, who is ranked just ahead of Orb in most polls, launched his most promising career at Gulfstream on Jan. 1 with a stunning 7 ¾-length victory, followed by a 16 ¼-length allowance triumph. The Todd Pletcher-trained colt went on to win the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) and the Wood Memorial (G1) to tie Orb at the top of Churchill's points standings with 150 points.
Verrazano is one of five Pletcher-trained horses expected to make it into the Kentucky Derby field, all of whom had been stabled at Palm Meadows. The son of More than Ready is expected to be joined by Revolutionary, the Withers (G3) and Louisiana Derby (G2) winner; Overanalyze, the Arkansas Derby (G1) victor; Palace Malice, the Blue Grass (G1) runner-up: and Charming Kitten, who all but clinched a Derby berth with his third-place finish in the Blue Grass.
The Blue Grass winner, Java's War, had previously finished a fast closing second behind Verrazano in the Tampa Bay Derby. The son of War Pass was based at Gulfstream all winter along with Frac Daddy in trainer Ken McPeek's stable.
Black Onyx also trained at Gulfstream before being moved to Palm Meadows and trainer Kelly Breen, who saddled the son of Rock Hard Ten for a turf allowance victory at Gulfstream before an upset win in the Spiral (G3) that gave him the points to run in the Derby.
Normandy Invasion and Falling Sky, who were both stabled at Palm Meadows, also traveled out of town to win sufficient points to make the Derby field. The Chad Brown-trained Normandy's Invasion, who concluded a promising 2-year-old campaign with a second-place finish in the Remsen (G2), made a strong late run to finish a close second behind Verrazano in the Wood Memorial. John Terranova-trained Falling Sky won the Sam Davis (G3), finished third in the Tampa Bay Derby and fourth in the Arkansas Derby to virtually clinch a spot in the Derby field.
With so many Gulfstream/Palm Meadows alumni heading to Churchill Downs, Gulfstream's leading jockeys will also make the Derby scene, including two-time champ Javier Castellano (Normandy Invasion), John Velazquez (Verrazano), Joel Rosario (Orb) and Elvis Trujillo (Itsmyluckyday).


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The Symphony of Southeast Texas' (SOST) Music DirectorChelsea Tipton II has been named the first recipient of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's new Aspire Award in recognition of his extraordinary commitment to music education.
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Zend Framework URL View Helper
Posted in Code, Programming on April 09th, 2010 by Eric Lamb – 18 Comments
I've been working with Zend Framework a lot lately, which is one reason for the drought in posting, and have kept running into a recurring uncertainty using the URL view helper. The URL view helper included with the Zend Framework is a little confusing at random times for me so in the hopes of making sense out of everything long term the below is a brief outline of how the Zend Framework URL view helper works and what not.
The Zend Framework URL view helper is used to render a URL that follows the rules setup using the Zend Route module. This is nice because you can change the routes defined for your application and not have to worry about how your URLs are structured.
The basic syntax is below:
<?php $this->url(array $urlOptions = array(), $name = null, $reset = false, $encode = true); ?>
Using the above for a template below is an example of the usage and output:
<?php //outputs /a/b/c/ echo $this->url(array('module' => 'a','controller'=>'b','action'=>'c'), null, FALSE); ?>
As you can see the URL view helper outputs a simple URL to the module "a", controller "b" and the action "c".
Things get a little trickier when you want to pass along some variables though. By default the above example will append any existing variables, that are outside of the MVC paradigm, onto any new URLs created. For example, if the page url is the below:
And you call the below call to the URL view helper:
<?php echo $this->url(array('module' => 'a2','controller'=>'b2','action'=>'c2'), null, FALSE); ?>
You'll get the below:
When I first ran into this issue I was flummoxed. It was kind of a problem (to put it mildly). To get around this you have to set the "reset" value to TRUE. Doing so will keep any existing query variables out of your URL.
To add fresh variables to the URL view helper you use the below syntax:
<?php //outputs /a2/b2/c2/bar/yes echo $this->url(array('module' => 'a2','controller'=>'b2','action'=>'c2','bar'=>'yes'), null, TRUE); ?>
That will, hopefully, keep you from making the same mistake and the subsequent head bashing that would be sure to ensue.


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That footage on Vimeo looks pretty crappy. It's good that the Canon firmware is more open and thus allows work like this to be done, but I'm not as chuffed about these kinds of high level experiments as some others. I won't be running out and replacing my D800 with a 5D3 anytime soon.
lookin pretty good - my 5d2 is unusable for wides of trees!This progress is enough to make me not sell the 5d2 yet..S
There's certainly more dynamic range in the second clip. But is is solely a product of shooting raw? Or is is possible to get similar results by shooting uncompressed (or with very low compression like ProRes) and using a different picture style, perhaps a custom style that is built to be flat out of the camera? The second clip, to my eyes, is too flat and has an almost HDR-surreal look.
The look is likely the result of the tone curve (or lack thereof) being applied to the RAW data.And that's what gets me about this: what software exists to process RAW video from a Canon DSLR? AFAIK, none.


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Root beer—A&W;, Barq's, Mug, etc.—is really a misnomer. It's soda, made with carbonated water and sweeteners, and, as everyone knows, is totally appropriate to serve at a kid's birthday party.
Not so with two new local brews.
Milwaukee's Sprecher Brewing Company and Wauconda, Ill.'s Small Town Brewery both have developed alcoholic root beers that, at anywhere from 5 to 20 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), are hefty even by traditional beer standards.
"It's a fermented malt beverage, whereas root beer doesn't go through fermentation so it doesn't have yeast or alcohol," said Kyle Fornek, assistant beer buyer for Binny's.
Sprecher's Bootlegger's Bourbon Barrel root beer is a hard version of the company's popular root beer soda, and should be available in April in bottles for about $5 per six-pack at Binny's. Fornek says the ABV is around 5 percent, which is comparable to a Budweiser or Goose Island Summertime.
Small Town Brewing's two hard root beers are real heavyweights. At 10 percent and 19.5 percent, the two versions of Not Your Father's Root Beer are best sipped in small doses.
Neither currently are bottled—Small Town Brewing is in talks with a gypsy bottler (a contract bottling line on a truck) to package them. But both versions are available on tap at bars in Chicago, including Little Italy's Three Aces, Ukrainian Village's Lockdown Bar & Grill and Lakeview's Cheesie's Pub & Grub, as well as in kegs from Binny's.
"We've been getting tons of emails about Small Town Brewery," Fornek said. "We're getting as many emails about that as about [New Glarus's] Spotted Cow or Yuengling."
Customers' curiosity is piqued, but do these hard root beers really taste like the soda?
I pulled up a barstool at Lockdown Bar & Grill to find out. Unfazed by the menu's words of caution—"EXTREMELY POTENT: please enjoy in moderation"—I ordered a snifter of Small Town Brewing's 19.5 percent ABV root beer ($8).
Obsidian black and not very carbonated, the brew looked intimidating, but tasted just like soda. It's sweet and spiced, with a slightly syrupy taste and virtually no beer flavor at all. Yes, this could be very dangerous.
While I haven't yet tried Sprecher's version, Fornek reports a similarly soda-like taste.
"It's super drinkable, with a little bit of malt on the finish," he said. "It definitely tastes more like root beer than beer."
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Forum Post: Brave action against fascism - Dream Defenders occupy Florida's Capitol since tue 7-16-2013.
Posted 5 years ago on July 18, 2013, 9:56 p.m. EST by BearDickinson
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They demand a meeting with the governor regarding Florida's "stand your ground" law. Meanwhile, student activists in Florida are camped outside Scott's office and say they don't plan to leave until he meets with them to discuss the law. The students are members of Dream Defenders, an activist group that participates in civic engagement and promoting nonviolent social change. They walked into the office Wednesday, led by Amon Gabriel, 9, and asked to speak to the governor. He wasn't in the office, the receptionist replied, apologizing. "Thank you. We'll wait," said one of the protesters. The Dream Defenders, like many groups and individuals appalled by "stand your ground" laws across the nation, aren't seeking a casual sit-down with their elected official; rather, they want to take him to task for defending the self-defense provision. About 30 of them came early Wednesday, and more were expected.
"stand your ground" and castle laws (edit - castle laws = i am wrong about this) have originated from ALEC. http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
today, in Washington, DC - a group gathered at ALEC's new building dedication to awaken people as to the damage that ALEC's lobbyists have done. pages 1 &2 plus many photos here.
and it gets worse - Stand Your Ground' group pushes privatization of public education. The group behind "Stand Your Ground" laws in a number of states has been mighty busy working to get laws passed in the area of school reform — and the aim has been the privatization of public education. That group is the American Legislative Exchange Council, better known as ALEC, which likes to call itself a "nonpartisan public-private partnership" but is actually a corporate-backed enterprise that writes "model legislation" that its membership of nearly 2,000 conservative legislators use in states to pass laws that promote privatization in every part of American life: education, health care, the environment, the economy, etc. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/07/17/stand-your-ground-group-pushes-privatization-of-public-education/ Can we call this what it is ? fascism


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Casey's Law
- If Something Can Go Right, It Should
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Al Casey has reasons for a positive outlook. Casey was highly successful and respected as the US Postmaster General and CEO of American Airlines among other prominent business endeavors. As opposed to Murphy's law which states that if anything can go wrong it will, Casey takes a glass-half-full attitude. He believes in working hard with a smile on your face, taking risks, and learning from your errors.
In this audiobook Fleet Cooper relates Casey's strong opinions as well as his quirky anecdotes with conviction. Cooper commands your attention, as Casey's narrative should. If you're intent on seeing positive results in any field be prepared to take notes from this leader's wisdom.
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Murphy's Law tells us that if something can go wrong, it will. Nonsense! says Al Casey, who maintains: If things can go right, they should. But you've got to make them go right, he adds, by hard work, focusing on key problems, and believing in the people around you. One of the most successful - and original - American businessmen of our time, Al Casey is a no-nonsense turnaround specialist who loves nothing more than the big challenges, whether in the private or the public sector. As president of the Times Mirror Corporation, he was instrumental in taking that West Coast company, whose main "product" was the Los Angeles Times, and turning it into a multifaceted media giant, with interests in magazines, newspapers, book publishing, forest products, radio, and television.
As chairman of American Airlines for 11 years, he took that ailing giant - heavily in debt and losing money when he became CEO early in 1974 - and made it into the highly profitable, preeminent company it still is today. As postmaster general he attacked the problems of the country's largest government agency - with almost a million employees - and left it leaner, more motivated, for the first time truly competitive, and - to the great surprise of Washington insiders - both efficient and profitable.
When the savings and loan debacle unfolded in the late 1980s, with hundreds of thrifts having failed and hundreds more under siege, Al Casey was named chairman of the Resolution Trust Corporation, with the impossible job of bailing out a situation that was threatening the entire banking system of the United States.
In this book Al Casey tells his fascinating latter-day Horatio Alger story, from boyhood days in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he grew up during the Great Depression, through his 50-year business career, to his current role as Distinguished Professor at SMU's Cox School of Business, where he is helping form a new generation of business leaders and managers. In this audiobook he relates, with great charm and wit, the saga of his long and varied business career and offers practical advice on where and how American business needs to simplify and focus if it is to maintain its position as global leader in the 21st century.
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A new facility in Salina that will research the best ways to move bulk solids could someday benefit industries that ship such materials as sugar, minerals, chemicals and starch, supporters said.
Construction is scheduled to begin next summer on the $3.5 million, 17,000-square-foot research facility, which will be called The Salina Bulk Solids Innovation Center. The project is expected to provide 31 jobs.
The facility, which has been in the planning stages for about four years, is a collaboration among Kansas State University, the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, the city of Salina, a number of private companies and K-Tron Salina.
It will be the only facility of its kind in the United States, although similar research centers exist in the United Kingdom and in Australia, said Todd Smith, general manager of K-Tron Salin. Those centers are operated by universities, while the Salina facility will have a commercial component, he said.
"What will make the difference is the people who are doing the research. The university is the primary partner but there are industrial companies along with it," Smith said.
The city of Salina has been awarded a $1 million federal grant for the project, which is pending a few requirements, including an environmental assessment of the site. The first two tenants, K-Tron and Salina Vortex, will provide the equipment.
Smith said the research is needed because the science behind moving bulk material isn't fully understood. While systems for liquids and gases require standard equations, bulk solids behave differently, he said.
"There are not defined equations for those, so we have to rely on trial and error and things we've learned over a lot of years, and we realized if we could combine a lot of knowledge of many different industrial companies along with their application knowledge over the years with Kansas State University's rigorous research methods and their detail for understanding basic research, then we can figure out how a lot of the bulk solids science works together," he said.
Verna Fitzsimmons, dean and chief executive officer of Kansas State University at Salina, said the research could someday be applied to grain science.
"We can take the knowledge we'll be developing here and use it in the grain sciences, and some of that we'll be able to bring here, so we see it as a true collaboration between the Manhattan campus and the Salina campus," she said.


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Shaun Rogers (born March 12, 1979 in Houston, Texas), nicknamed Big Baby, is an American football defensive lineman who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 2nd round (61st overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas.
At La Porte High School in La Porte, Texas, Shaun Rogers was a two-way tackle, and also lettered in basketball. He is known for his athleticism, ability to rush the quarterback, and also his ability to stop the run. He was also known to play running back near the goal line. He had 17 attempts for 135 yards. His nickname in the locker room was Chunks.
Shaun Rogers played for the University of Texas, pairing with nose tackle Casey Hampton, and ranked third on the school's career-record list with 53 stops behind the line of scrimmage. He collected 199 tackles (108 solo) with 14 sacks and 54 pressures during his career. In 2000 he was named to the second-team all Big-12. That year he played in nine games, starting six contests at right defensive tackle. He helped the Longhorns lead the nation in pass efficiency defense and rank seventh in total defense. He recorded 44 tackles (24 solos) with 3.5 sacks for minus 31 yards and 14 stops for losses of 56 yards.


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On October 1, 2013, many Americans will begin purchasing insurance from health insurance marketplaces. As they begin to research and purchase insurance, millions for the first time, the cost in premiums for their choice of coverage will be a major consideration. Affordability will determine the success of the primary goal of the Affordable Care Act - enrollment in health insurance exchanges to increase insurance coverage and reduce the nation's uninsured.
The new healthcare law provides tax credits and subsidies to make health insurance more affordable for many. A new Center for Rural Affairs report summarizes these provisions, how they will work, and their importance to rural Americans.
Rural residents are responsible for nearly 22% more of their total health care costs (premiums and out-of-pocket costs) than are urban or suburban residents. Rural areas also have generally lower incomes. Combined with higher uninsured and underinsured rates, more rural residents are likely to be eligible for cost-sharing assistance and receive more valuable health insurance through the new health insurance marketplaces.
Cost-sharing and limiting out-of-pocket medical expenses will be crucial for many rural families. The proportion of rural residents with nearly every chronic disease or condition is higher than in urban centers. And rural residents receive fewer regular medical check-ups and routine diagnostic tests than they medically and statistically should. Cost-sharing will allow many rural Americans to obtain the tests and check-ups they should at lower cost, thus potentially enhancing their long-term health.
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She may be a married woman now, but don't expect Kim Kardashian to sit back, relax and play housewife anytime soon.
The reality starlet, who just returned to the states after a brief honeymoon on Italy's Amalfi coast, is still going full speed ahead with her career, showing off her sultry side in a new ad for Kim Kardashian Gold fragrance. In the photo, Kardashian flaunts her curves in a sexy, cleavage-bearing gold dress, with glowing makeup and a sleek ponytail.
The fragrance, which she says makes her "feel sexy," combines top notes of Italian bergamot and grapefruit with spicy pink peppercorn, plus a floral heart of jasmine, delicate rose and resins of amber and creamy benzoin. A hint of musk finishes the scent, which is displayed inside a rounded golden bottle.
The entrepreneur released a limited-edition fragrance, Love by Kim Kardashian, in the days before her wedding; all 1,000 bottles were quickly sold.
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Phase 2a for Durbin Project Completed; first passive home to be constructed ...
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Phase 2a for Durbin Project Completed; first passive home to be constructed in Summer 2014
Phase 2a for the initial road and utility infrastructure, including permeable parking and a road-length bioswale designed to help with stormwater management, was completed in fall, 2013, using EPA 319(h) funds from the KY Division of Water. The site is now ready for three homes to be constructed. In spring, 2014, the road and utility infrastructure will be extended to permit an additional 8-10 homes to be built. Community Development Block Grant funds awarded to Habitat for Humanity of Bowling Green Warren County (HFHBGWC), a principle partner on the grant, by the City of Bowling Green will be used to construct road and utility infrastructure for an additional 8-10 homes. In summer 2014, the first passive (ultra energy efficiency) home will be constructed on the site with donated funds from PNC Bank.
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She's back again and funnier than ever! Vickie Winans entered the world of comedy, along with her singing as "The Comedianna" - the hilarious story-telling Queen in Volume One! Then Winans stood once again for another full show telling more UNBELIEVABLY HILARIOUS side-splitting stories THAT HAD EVERYBODY ROARING IN LAUGHTER AND TEARS! In both Volumes One and Two, Winans had standing-room-only crowds, which boasted everyone from respected Bishop and Pastors to the city's Chief Fire Marshal, rolling in the aisles and doubled over with laughter!
New "Release It" music video
Check out Vickie Winans' incredible, uplifting and powerful video to her inspiring hit single "Release It," which has been remixed and remastered.
Vickie Winans as Grace Avery
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Thank you so much for visiting my website! This is just a holding page to "hold you over" until my new website is complete! You can watch videos, view photos, shop around and more! Want a good laugh or want to know what I'm up to? Then follow me on Twitter and be my friend on Facebook! I'd love to hear from you! ♥ Vickie
About Vickie Winans
Born October 18, 1953 and the 7th of 12 children, who knew that a Billboard-charting gospel icon would be found in Vickie Bowman. While singing her first solo in church at the age of 8, it's certain that Aaron and Mattie Bowman saw something special in their daughter. Growing up in church in Detroit, MI, she honed her skills and belted out songs stunning audiences time and time again. Eventually, she connected with the Winans family who helped her get her start.
On the path to gospel superstardom, Winans released one hit after another. Decades later, Vickie Winans is not only known as an award-winning gospel recording artist, but she's revered as a consummate business woman that heads up Viviane, Inc. where she manages herself and books hundreds of shows per year. She is also the President of her own record label, Destiny Joy Records. A producer, director, songwriter, actress and comedienne as well, Winans does everything in excellence.
Among all of her many accolades, Winans feels that her most rewarding accomplishments are the significant roles she plays in her family. She is a loving sibling to her 11 brothers and sisters, (the Bowman family). In 2003, Winans married her love, Joe McLemore in a lavish wedding in Las Vegas. Another one of her most satisfying jobs is her role as mother and grandmother. She's the mother of two hit producers and singers, Mario Winans and Marvin Winans, Jr., and grandmother to five beautiful grandchildren.
Vickie Winans knows she's a blessed woman and she's eager to share her life's experiences with everyone she comes in contact with. Her infectious and humorous personality and her thousand-watt smile will disarm the coldest stranger. "Although I've had my share of heartaches, pain, and sickness over the years, I know that God has blessed me and given me great favor! It's because of Him that I have a fantastic family, great friends, and a rewarding career!"
Winans is one of the best-known artists in gospel music with signature songs such as "How I Got Over," "Shake Yourself Loose," "As Long As I Got King Jesus" and "We Shall Behold Him" to her credit. Winans has been profiled in Ebony magazine, USA Today and the Associated Press. Her profile on BET's Sunday morning TV series "Lift Every Voice" remains the most watched episode in that program's history with over 800,000 viewers.


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Again, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the next-generation iPad 5 may be adopting the design cues of the iPad mini. With that in mind, 9to5Mac has scored some pictures of what just might be the back casing for the black Wi-Fi + 3G model.
Today, we received an unverified image from a purported China-based iPad accessories maker, an industry that seems to frequently tip off Apple's future product designs, of the back plate for the next iPad.
I've already gone over the background for why this design makes sense, but also what technological hurdles still need to be overcome to make it a reality.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight suffered a landing gear failure and was forced to make an emergency landing in the city of Medina early Sunday that injured 29 onboard, aviation officials in the kingdom said.
The accident happened after a technical failure prevented the crew from lowering the rear wheels on the right side of the Boeing 767-300, General Authority for Civil Aviation spokesman Khaled bin Abdullah Khaybari said in a statement to the official Saudi Press Agency.
The airline confirmed the account in a separate statement, saying that one of its leased aircraft had "a minor accident." Saudi Arabian Airlines, also known as Saudia, is the desert kingdom's national carrier and operates a fleet of more than 100 aircraft.
"Saudia expresses its deep sorrow to all the injured passengers as a result of the accident and prays to Allah the Almighty that He may provide them with a speedy recovery," the airline said.
The flight was carrying 315 people from the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, including 16 crew members.
Fire and rescue teams were deployed at Medina's Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz International Airport after the crew reported the landing gear problem and preparations were made for an emergency landing, Khaybari said.
The injuries happened during a stampede as passengers scrambled to evacuate the plane, Khaybari said. Most of those hurt suffered only minor injuries, though 11 were taken to the hospital for treatment, he said.
The airline reported that 12 passengers were taken to hospital, and that three remain in unstable condition. It did not elaborate.
Versions of the Boeing 767, a twin-engine, wide-body jet, have been in use for more than three decades.
Boeing expressed its concern for those who were on board the flight.
"Boeing is prepared to provide technical assistance at the request of Saudi Arabian civil aviation authorities or the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board," the plane maker said in an emailed statement.
The western city of Medina is the burial site of the Prophet Muhammad and is Islam's second holiest city after Mecca.
All flights to the city have been halted for 24 hours, according to the airline. It has formed a committee to track the condition of affected passengers.
The accident happened just hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to arrive in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah.