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Fat furs
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Lipophilia refers to the interest/sexual fetish in which a person fantasizes about gaining weight, or causing others to gain weight; or about being fat or being around others who are fat. In practice, the term fat fur is used, and such fat furs are either anthropomorphic furry characters who are fat, and/or may be members of the furry fandom who are fat in real-life.
Unlike other related paraphilias such as inflatophilia or vorarephilia, lipophilia can be and is sometimes played with outside of the furry community, but most fat furs prefer to take advantage of online roleplaying rather than rely on actual weight gain to fulfill their fantasies.
While most roleplays revolve around giving tummy-scritches to feel how soft a friend's tummy is getting, or one fur snuggling into the bulk of another heavier fur, some roleplayers prefer a more proactive stance on fatness.
These roleplays can include, but certainly aren't limited to, consensual or non-consenual (forced) stuffing/feeding (where one character cooks for and feeds another character), snug or ripped clothing (due to weight gain), gluttony and unintentional weightgain (characters eating more than they should without seeming to notice or realize), loss of muscularity and fitness (due to excessive lazing around during an off season), or teasing (one character making fun of another character's weight gain or the limitations imposed upon them by gaining weight).
Zaftig comes from a Yiddish term meaning "pleasantly plump."
In the furry fandom, it describes a character who is fat. "Zaftig" is occasionally used interchangably with "fat fur". Some feel that the terms are different, with zaftig meaning someone who is a small percentage above average weight, while "fat fur" means someone who is significantly above average weight.
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Iowa's state LEGO tournament will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 21 at Iowa State University's College of Engineering. Young students will demonstrate their engineering, research and teamwork skills and try to win a spot at the world LEGO tournament.
ISU a partner in swine genome effort
Iowa State University is collaborating on a new $10 million international effort to sequence the swine genome.
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Faculty experts from Iowa's public universities on Thursday, Jan. 12, presented a seminar on renewable fuels to the Iowa General Assembly in the House Chamber of the Iowa State Capitol. Lawmakers requested science-based information on ethanol, biodiesel and other bio-based alternative fuels. Issues addressed by the faculty from Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa included energy balance, performance, tax incentives, mandates and sustainability. Participating Iowa State faculty included Joe Colletti, interim senior associate dean of the College of Agriculture; Robert Brown, director of the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies; Larry Johnson, director of the Center for Crops Utilization Research; and John Miranowski, a professor of economics.
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Iowa State wrestler Cael Sanderson's final collegiate victory, a win that completed his four-year undefeated NCAA career, has been recognized as one of the "25 Defining Moments in NCAA History" and will be a featured vignette aired on ESPN Classic and ESPNU from January to March.
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A lecture by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, a panel discussion and two celebrations are part of observances surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Advancing One Community Award winners named
Carlie Tartakov and the YWCA Ames-ISU are recipients of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Advancing One Community Award
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Alton voters defeat article to renovate school for $18.6 millionBy LARISSA MULKERN
Special to the Union Leader
March 14. 2013 5:15PM
ALTON - Voters defeated the most costly item on this year's school district warrant - a request for $18.6 million to renovate the Alton Central School.
Special Warrant Article II asked voters to raise and appropriate $18,665,536 for "renovation, reconstruction, repairs and construction of an addition to the Alton Central School and for furnishing and equipment. Of that amount, the school board would bond $17,705,536 and pull the rest from an assortment of capital reserve funds. The article was defeated by a vote of 734-685, garnering only 48 percent of the vote (60 percent was needed for a bond article).The Alton School Board recommended the article by a 4-1 vote; the Alton Budget Committee split on a 3-3 vote to recommend the article.
The district had sought to address health, safety and space problems at the school. Voters did pass the district's $12,711,699 operating budget by a vote of 773-607.
On the town ballot for elected offices, voters reelected Loring Carr with 600 votes and voted in Robert Daniels with 690 votes to two open positions in the four-way race on the board of selectmen. Runners-up Stephen Miller received 480 votes and Lawrence Tilly received 468 votes.
In the only other contested race, Dick Glidden earned the one, three-year seat on the water commission. Challengers Charles Adams Jr. received 230 votes and Edward "Buddy" Peterson received 155 votes.
Voters rejected only one funding request on the town ballot: Article 11 requested $40,000 to be placed in the Police Vehicle Capital Reserve Account. The sum was to come from fund balance surplus, with no amount raised from new taxation. The vote was 614 for and 706 against.
Article 19, the town's $6,457,356 operating budget, was approved by a vote of 707-627.
Other approved funded articles included $45,000 for town hall improvements; an authorization to withdraw $139,000 from the Ambulance Operation Fund to cover ambulance operations and staffing; $100,000 for the Fire Equipment Capital Reserve; and $750,000 for the Highway Reconstruction Capital Reserve Fund.


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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Thousands of spectators turned out Monday for the town's Labor Day Parade, capping months of organizing in the aftermath of a shooting rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators last December.
The Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co. and Sandy Hook Elementary School students received the loudest applause from spectators along the parade route.
"This is a great example of how the town comes together," parade organizer Beth Caldwell told WFSB-TV (http://bit.ly/14e8fO8 ). "The strength of the community really has shown today."
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Christopher Murphy, Newtown First Selectwoman Pat Llodra and other officials participated in the 52nd annual parade.
Sandy Hook mother Courtney Schroeder said: "We just moved here a little over a year ago, and then everything happened. The way the community came together is just amazing."
Organizers were wary about a parade, a fixture in Newtown since the early 1960s, so soon after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A gunman who had shot his mother to death at their home went to the school and killed 26 people before killing himself as police arrived.
Early in the planning for the parade last winter, organizers settled on the slogan "We are Newtown, marching strong."
"It was a delicate balance, a delicate balance between an avenue of celebration and respect for the tragedy that happened in our town," Caldwell said.
The parade even drew out-of-towners.
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I have a Patagonia Duffel bag with a stuck zipper. It isn't stuck with material in the teeth. The zipper is plastic but looks as if it has corroded a bit and has seized. What is the best way to unstick this zipper?0
I had great success with badly stuck zippers (showing a apparent corrosion) soaking the zipper in Coca Cola.
If you can get it moving, try working in candle wax (rub a candle along the zipper) and move the tag back and forth. Good luck!
If the zipper is jammed closed to an end, try using a pair of pliers to remove the zipper stops on one side. With some luck and patience, you can pull that side completely off through the slider, reset the zipper, and then replace the zipper stops.
A bar of soap would do a similar job to candle wax. Rub the bar along the zipper for lubrication.
Also try visiting a shoemaker. They can stitch a new zipper replacing your old one. They usually have these brutal stitching machines that handle most materials quite easily.
WD40 works on zippers too, but if stuck near the bottom it could be worthwhile cutting away the zipper stops to free it, then oversewing (with button thread) from the end to the newly-made stop.
Amazon lists a bunch of zipper repair kits for around $10 here:
Amazon lists a bunch of zipper repair kits for around $10 here:
u can try not gettin it stuck
Rubbing beeswax on the zipper will help lubricate it.
You can find beeswax at any sewing supply shop (and probably the sewing aisle at Walmart/Target/Kmart/etc). It's also useful to strengthen and stiffen thread when sewing (draw the thread through the wax) and to lubricate sticky drawers.
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dick & Jane on the top in italy!!!!!!!!!!
Dick & Jane Operazione furto in italy is on the top of the movie chart!!!
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"It's down to the negotiators to break the deadlock. Or, your men will have to storm the embassy." An official full-length trailer has debuted for the true story action thriller film 6 Days, about the attack on the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980. The standoff lasted for six days, with a group of SAS soldiers eventually breaching the embassy to put an end to the horror. Jamie Bell stars as one of the special forces soldiers tasked with leading the raid. This also stars Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Emun Elliott, Nicholas Boulton, Martin Shaw, and Tim Downie. 6 Days is the latest film from the director of the Maori action film The Dead Lands. This actually looks damn good, with an impressive cast that makes it worth watching. ›››
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyonce will sing the national anthem at President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
The committee planning the Jan. 21 event also announced Wednesday that Kelly Clarkson will perform "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and James Taylor will sing "America the Beautiful" at the swearing-in ceremony on the Capitol's west front.
Richard Blanco, the son of Cuban exiles, is the 2013 inaugural poet, joining the ranks of Maya Angelou and Robert Frost to have served in that capacity. Blanco's works explore his family's exile from their native country and "the intersection of his cultural identities as a Cuban-American gay man," the inaugural planners announced.


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Veterans Day weekend activities around southeastern Wisconsin
Veterans Day weekend activities around southeastern Wisconsin
There are memorials and Veterans Day programs all around southeastern Wisconsin this weekend.
Friday, Nov. 9
- Milwaukee VA Medical Center Veterans Day ceremony - 10:30 a.m. in the main chapel, 5000 W. National Ave.
- St. John's Northwestern Military Academy Salute to Veterans and Flag Pageant
1 p.m. - Farrand Hall Gymnasium - 1101 Genesee Street, Delafield
Cadets will honor the Academy's alumni veterans as well as all Wisconsin veterans. Guidon Bearers will dress in uniform to represent each military conflict beginning with WWI. Rifle salute and taps will honor fallen veterans. Cub Scout Den 20 from Cushing Elementary School will present the nation's colors, with cadets presenting flags of each military branch of the armed services.
- There is a Veterans Day ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda at 11 a.m. The event will honor a Purple Heart recipient and all those who have served in the Armed Forces.
- The Milwaukee Admirals will honor World War II veteran George Michel before their game. All veterans and active military personnel will receive a free ticket to the game. Interested vets just need to bring their military ID, VFW Card, or a copy of their DD214 papers to the BMO Harris Bradley Box Office Window.
Saturday, Nov. 10:
- 49th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Day of Honor. The parade starts at 11 a.m. at 4th Street and Kilbourn Avenue and heads east to the War Memorial via Wells Street.
- WWII Veteran Ralph Windler of South Milwaukee will receive the Knight of the Legion of Honor medal, the highest honor that France bestows. Windler participated in the Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe Campaigns. Windler is being recognized by the French Government for his service and heroics during the war.
- He will receive the award at the end of the Veterans Day Parade, about 1:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Center – Fitch Plaza
- The village of Pleasant Prairie will hold a ceremony to honor America's veterans and to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the dedication of Pleasant Prairies memorial. It will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial inside Prairie Springs Park. Donations will also be accepted for the Stars & Stripes Honor flight program.
- "Operation Honor, a Salute to Veterans," will take place at the Waukesha North High School Field House and Lowell Park in Waukesha. The program begins at the field house at 4:30 p.m. with a formal recognition of military men and women. Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch is the keynote speaker. The evening will end with a fireworks tribute at Lowell Park at 6:30 p.m.
- Veterans can get in free Saturday and Sunday at the Milwaukee Art Museum and at the Harley-Davidson Museum. The Harley Museum will hold a special ceremony Saturday with cadets from St. John's Northwestern Military Academy, which will include a 21-gun salute.
Sunday, Nov. 11
- A Veteran's Day Program will take place at 11 a.m. at the Veteran's Memorial adjacent to the Franklin Public Library. The library is at 9151 W. Loomis Road. A number of Quilts of Valor will be presented to some combat veterans representing various conflicts they were deployed in as defenders of freedom.
- The North Fond du Lac Veteran's Memorial Committee will dedicate a new Veterans Memorial. The ceremony is open to the public and will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the NFDL Community Center at 280 Garfield Street
- Milwaukee Police Post 415 and Milwaukee Fire Fighters Post 426 will host the annual "Armistice Day-Veterans Day Memorial program at 10:30 a.m. on MacArthur Square, just south of the Safety Building. The program will end with a rifle salute and the playing of Taps.
- The public is invited to the annual Veteran's Day Observance at 10:30 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church on Stafford Street in Plymouth. The Hometown Harmony Tradition Barbershop Chorus will sing and the VFW Post 5612 will serve as the Honor Guard and will conduct a memorial rite for fallen veterans.
- At 3 p.m., the Wisconsin Philharmonic returns to its Waukesha home of Shattuck Auditorium at Carroll University to present its 4th annual Veterans Day celebration concert, Salute to Our Veterans: Battle of Britain. Tickets are available at http://wisconsinphilharmonic.org/ or by calling 262-547-1858. Tickets cost between $27 and $37 for adults and $17 and $27 for students.
- In Wauwatosa, a memorial service will be held for Herman Borghardt, a Civil War veteran, who is believed to be in the cemetery on the County Grounds. It will be at 1:30 p.m. The cemetery is being disturbed because of Froedtert Hospital Expansion.
- The Milwaukee Wave are honoring veterans at Sunday's 3 p.m. game. Veterans will receive a free ticket.
- Veterans can get in free Sunday at the Milwaukee Art Museum and at the Harley-Davidson Museum.
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Worldenterer1 wrote:I now understand what it is you mean. I was mistaken before. But even if all life did not exist, why would rocks floating in space and time cease to exist?
Let me ask you an equally unanswerable question...
What happens to the environment of your dream when you wake up?
See? There are more possibilities out there than some would have you think. It's about stepping outside the two boxes which we've conveniently and neatly labeled "physical" and "non-physical".


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This Apex Ultra Lite bunkhouse travel trailer is the perfect camper for a large family. The 300BHS features a rear private bunkhouse, double slides, and an outside kitchen, plus much more!
Before you step inside check out the exterior camp kitchen. It is the perfect feature for cooking outdoors.
Now, step inside and see how spacious it becomes with the main room slide extended. There is a booth dinette to the left just inside the entry door and a sofa straight ahead. Both can easily view the entertainment center nearby. The large sofa slide also features a three burner range, microwave, and double kitchen sink for easy cleanup. There are also overhead cabinets to store your dishes and things. The refrigerator is next to the slide out.
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Kelly Clarkson: Super Bowl National Anthem!
Kelly Clarkson belts out the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XLVI held at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday (February 5) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
"Just finished rehearsing the anthem in Indy ….wow, I'm actually really nervous about singing at the Super Bowl ha! Here's hoping I nail it and don't screw it up!" the 29-year-old singer tweeted earlier in the weekend after practice.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Kelly Clarkson
Super Bowl XLVI is a big match-up with the New York Giants taking on the New England Patriots – a repeat of the 2008 Super Bowl where the Giants took the title. Tune into the Super Bowl on NBC Live!
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Homemade in a Hurry: 15 Time-Saving Tips
We are always looking for smart tips that help us save time and be a little more efficient in the kitchen. This year we shared some great ideas for choosing the fastest lane at the supermarket, prepping and cooking a week's worth of vegetables in one afternoon, and freezing smoothies in muffin tins for healthy sipping in minutes — plus 12 more tips to make cooking healthy, tasty meals a little more convenient.
• 1 Time-Saving Tip: Freeze Smoothie Ingredients in Muffin Tins
• 2 Smart Tip: How To Core a Head of Iceberg Lettuce in 3 Seconds
• 3 Time-Saving Tip: Prep Juicer Ingredients
• 4 Cook a Week of Vegetables in One Afternoon
• 5 Cheap, Convenient & Better Than Canned: Freezer Beans
• 6 Smart Tip: Skip the Express Lane & Go For the Shortest Line at the Supermarket
• 7 Oops! 6 Time-Wasting Mistakes You're Making in the Kitchen
• 8 Quick & Easy Tip: Cut 15 Cherry Tomatoes in Half at Once!
• 9 Make a Quick, Flavorful Vegetable Stock in Just 10 Minutes
• 10 Smart Tip: Peel Fava Beans in Half the Time Using One Common Ingredient
• 11 4 Tips for Softening Butter, Fast!
• 12 Time-Saving, Money-Saving Tip: Create a Default Grocery List
• 13 Use a Heating Pad for a Quicker Bread Dough Rise
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BATH, UK AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Sept. 20, 2005 - picoChip and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced that picoChip's next generation picoArrayTM flexible products for WiMAX and WCDMA infrastructure will incorporate the ARM926EJ-S™ processor, to create the first single-chip, software-defined solution for advanced wireless systems. Combining ARM® processor technology and picoChip's fully-programmable signal processing array in an advanced 90nm device significantly reduces the cost of WiMAX deployment without compromising the flexibility essential for standards compliance and system performance enhancement.
The new, cost-effective solution will enable carriers to build-out their infrastructure based on the current 802.16d WiMAX standard, and quickly upgrade their equipment to support mobility once the new 802.16e standard is complete. WiMAX implementations are power intensive and currently require increasing numbers of DSP or FPGA devices, with a consequent escalation of costs. With the ARM Powered® picoChip offering, carriers will be able to bring mobile WiMAX services online in the shortest time frame possible. This will enable customers to maximize the benefit from the WiMAX standard with ubiquitous broadband internet access and enhanced mobile multimedia services.
"The picoChip architecture delivers the most cost-effective way of implementing a flexible solution for any wireless system, with significantly better cost and power than legacy multiple combined DSP and FPGA offerings. As we broaden the portfolio of picoArray products, we required a single-chip, cost-optimized 90nm offering for our high-volume customers," said Guillaume d'Eyssautier, CEO and president, picoChip. "To integrate the control and media access controller (MAC) functions, we chose the 90nm synthesizable ARM processor because its area and power efficiency will enable us to continue our price and power leadership."
"The ARM architecture is widely used and respected throughout the WiMAX value chain," said Mike Inglis, EVP, Marketing, ARM. "By incorporating the ARM926EJ-S processor in their next-generation solutions, picoChip is not only providing their customers with a lower cost, Bill of Materials (BOM) solution, but also a standardized software development platform for a fast path to WiMAX certification and productization."
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Corn: Most fundamental talk Monday circulated around too much Argentina rainfall as they look to pick up 2-4 inches of rain through Wednesday. This should start trade talking about switching a few acres from corn to beans. Other talk was about the Mississippi River level continuing to drop. At this time, it is tough to tell just what influence this should have on the corn market. So far, corn has gone both up and down while that talk has been kicked around this market. As for now we will continue to see that as bearish as not being able to export the corn could result in a further slowdown in sales. More light volume selling is expected this week…Ryan Ettner
Soybeans: Monday's export inspections came in at a positive 51.082 million bushels. Last week's shipment's totaled 48.588 million bushels. It looks like shippers are doing everything possible to ship grain out of the country before the potential shutting of the Mississippi River shipments. Allendale recommends that end-users and producers that want to be long beans use breaks to establish long positions. We would recommend using options to reduce risk on the trade as the market will be volatile as we wrap up the trading year…Jim McCormick
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Employment in the Greek commerce sector shrank by over 12 percent in the past year and there is going to be no improvement in 2013, a report by the sector's main association claims.
In a preview of its annual report, set to be released Monday, the National Confederation of Greek Commerce (ESEE) says the sector lost 93,500 jobs in the past year, or 12.2 percent, with the total number of employees in the sector, at 673,400, the lowest since 1999.
The report says that most jobs were lost at bigger commercial firms; 8 in 10 small firms chose not to lay off personnel.
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McCain was vague and contradicted himself during the debate.
Foreign policy didn't come up much in tonight's presidential debate; but when it did, Sen. John McCain—whose strengths lie in this realm—seemed surprisingly unsteady while Sen. Barack Obama came off as more sure-footed than he did in the first contest.
Several times, McCain opened himself up to easy counterpunches. At least once, he was vague to a baffling degree. And he contradicted himself on a key issue (though Obama didn't say so).
McCain left the biggest opening when he touted his judgment and experience in answer to a question about when to use military force, capping his response by noting, as he did several times two weeks ago, that Obama doesn't understand these issues.
This allowed Obama to reply that, yes, he didn't understand a lot of things—for instance, he didn't understand why George W. Bush invaded Iraq, which had nothing to do with Sept. 11, yet let Osama Bin Laden thrive in the mountains of Pakistan. McCain, he noted, said that the invasion would be swift and we'd be welcome as liberators—judgments that were wrong and fatal.
The other opening for Obama came when McCain chided the Democrat for saying that he'd "attack Pakistan." McCain quoted Teddy Roosevelt's chestnut "Talk softly, carry a big stick," yet here was Obama, doing the exact opposite.
Obama had two replies. First, he wasn't calling for an invasion of Pakistan—just for "taking out" Osama Bin Laden if we had him in our sights and the Pakistanis couldn't or wouldn't do it. Then he won the round decisively by remarking, "This is the guy who said 'Bomb, bomb Iran,' " who called for "the annihilation of North Korea," and who, after we ousted the Taliban from Kabul, said, "Next up, Baghdad." That's not talking softly. (McCain's response, that he was just joking with an old veteran friend, was, first, not true—he said it in a public forum—and, second, quite lame.)
McCain's contradiction came early in the debate, when he said that he knew how to cut defense spending, citing his savings of $6.8 billion in an aircraft contract—but then, not one minute later, he advocated a freeze in all federal spending except for defense and veterans. If he knows how to squeeze defense contracts, it's unclear why he would exempt the Defense Department, which spends more than $500 billion a year on items that, by the Pentagon's own accounting, have nothing to do with the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan or the wider war on terror.
Finally, McCain's baffling statement: "I'll get Osama Bin Laden, my friends. I know how to get him. I know how to do it." This is reminiscent of Richard Nixon's secret plan to win the war in Vietnam—except that McCain belongs to the same party as the current president. If McCain knows how to do this, shouldn't he have told George W. Bush?
Otherwise, the foreign-policy segment of the debate was a rehash of the previous debate. There were the same disagreements over the merits of talking with Iran "without precondition" and the wisdom of a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. There were the same agreements, more or less, over wagging a finger at the Russians over their aggression against Georgia.
The one new question—under what criteria each of them would go to war for strictly humanitarian reasons—went unanswered by both. (Obama said allies were important in such circumstances—true but an evasion. McCain said, "I know these situations. I've been in there all my life"—his customary mantra when he doesn't have an answer to a question about national-security matters.)
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3D Printing is beginning to take off and Nokia wants in. Whether or not you have a professional 3D printer, or a $1,500 do-it-yourself hackjob made of spare printer parts, Nokia is jumping onto the fabrication bandwagon and has offered up special 3D schematics that allow you to make cases for your Nokia Lumia 820.
In an online blog post, Nokia has says "[we] have become the first major phone company to begin embracing the 3D printing community and its incredible potential, and continue to be the leading phone company in this exciting field," and gives hints that this is just the beginning for the merging between the Finnish phone manufacturer and the community of printers. This is great news for those who wish more companies would interact with their communities. While offering a 3D schematic for a case is nothing compared to more in-depth developer relations, it certainly is a good start for Nokia.
In reality, anyone can already make a case for their phone if they really wanted, but the process would be extremely difficult as you'd need to (probably through trial and error) make a case based on your own measurements, and not those from the manufacturer. While Nokia has only released a schematic for a basic (and perhaps not even cost efficient) phone case, it won't be long until communities play with the design to make their very own cases with crazy things like E Ink displays built into them, crazy new colors and designs, or something even more amazing. Though we don't yet have our own 3D printer, we hope this becomes a trend.


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2014 and Earlier Ford Taurus Lease Questions
huskie13 Posts: 10Could you update the lease information for April, my car just arrived at the dealer. 2013, SHO Black on Black... with 402a, Nav, Roof
I am going to try to get the below worked out
Sticker $44,785
invoice $41,233
what rebates are out there that i should be getting
36 / 39 month 10,500 lease on the 2013 SHO0
cwa318 Posts: 71Huskie.......
I just received the following information from a central Florida Ford dealer on the 2013 SHO
Selling price 42969
Less rebate of 1000
24 - 58%. Money Factor - .25
36 - 49%. - .50
39 - 47%. - .75
I found most Ford dealers mark up those rates by at least a point however this is a great price on this car. Hope this helps! By the way those residuals were for 15k a year.0
chad75 Posts: 36Are there any recent updates on 2012 SHO lease values (found some nearby dealerships that still have 2012 SHOs they're trying to offload)? Also, any additional incentives besides the $2,500 shown on the Ford website?
Ideally, 10k, 12k, or 15k lease for 36 months.
P.S. This is for Florida (southwest)0
Hey chad75. Ford Credit's June base lease rate and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Taurus SHO with 15,000 miles per year are 0.5% and 49%, respectively.
The residual values for a lease with only 12,000 miles per year would be 2% higher. The 10k residuals would be 3% higher.
I believe that Ford is currently providing a $1,000 cash incentive on leases of the '13 Taurus SHO through Ford Credit.
The numbers for a 2012 model are 0.25% and 46% with a $3,250 cash incentive.
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kbill07 Posts: 30Hi Carman,
Are there any lease rebates on the 2013 Ford Taurus Limited models. Can you also list the money factors and lease rates for 24 mo and 36 month lease and 10.5k miles. Also, I went on Ford's website and the lease payments they were spitting out seem pretty low. A lease for a fully loaded Limited Taurus ($38k msrp) less $4k down payment (assuming I can get $4k off selling price with a combination of rebates/discounts) was $409/month. Do you think those are fairly accurate and that is something you can go to a dealer with?
Yes there is kbill07. Ford Credit's July base lease rate and residual value for a 24-month lease of a 2012 Ford Taurus Limited 2WD with 10,500 miles per year are 0.25% and 62%, respectively.
The numbers for an otherwise identical 36-month lease are 1.5% and 53%.
Unfortunately, the lease calculators that appear on manufacturers' websites are often not very accurate. I don't know that this is the case specifically with Ford's site, but it often is.
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sps9 Posts: 1Carman,
Can you please provide the 2012 Lease rates and residuals for a 15k per year lease on a 2012 Sho for 24 months and 36 months
Also does ford offer a higher mile lease 20K per year?
Upfront mileage penalty vs at end of lease as well.
Thanks a lot Carman0
Here you go sps9. Ford Credit's August base lease rate and residual value for a 24-month lease of a 2012 Taurus SHO with 19,500 miles per year are 0.5% and 53%, respectively.
The numbers for an otherwise identical 36-month lease are 0.25% and 43%.
When negotiating your deal on this car, make sure to take the massive $3,250 cash incentive that is currently available on leases of the '12 Taurus SHO into account.
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pb83 Posts: 1New to the lease world and wondering if the lease prices will be the same amongst local dealers. I have a deal in the works for a 2013 SHO with Z plan. MSRP is 44500 and with z plan it drops to 40300. There is also around 2k in incentives. They said with 4k down, it would be $448 a month for 24 months and 15k miles. Not sure how they got that number but does that sound correct? Thanks. This is in upstate NY.0
I was wondering what the current rates and residual from Ford were for the 2013 Taurus SHO. 36 month term with 12000 and 13500 miles are the 2 scenarios I am considering.
Thank you.0
Hello 83racecrew. Ford Credit's January base lease rate and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Taurus SHO with 12,000 miles per year are 0.25% to 0.5% (varies by region) and 52%.
The residual value for a lease with 13,500 miles per year would be 1% lower.
There's a lot of lease cash on this car as well that you need to make sure to take into account during your negotiations.
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Thank you. I ended up leasing the Taurus. The dealer really put a good package together, though I was skeptical as the car had 1700 miles accrued by the sales manager.0
theericharris1 Posts: 13What kind of real numbers are you guys getting?
I'd like to see lease numbers (excluding tax) for 36 months and 15k miles a year with $0 down.
I can't believe the residual is only 52%, needs a lot of incentives to make this compete with other $40k+ sedans.0
jlinfl Posts: 1Hi Car_Man,
I'm looking to lease either a 2013 Taurus Limited or SEL (2WD) and was wondering what the current rates and residual were for a 24 month term with 12000/yr. I currently have a Ford Red Carpet lease (now my 8th Ford vehicle with one) and was also wondering if the Ford Lease Loyalty program incentives might provide something as well. I may also have a friend write me in under their Ford AXZ plan as an option if better.
Quite a bit here but wanted to frame out all my options prior to going on site.
Currently the limited's MSRP is $37,290. For the SELs it's $32,960.
Appreciate anything you can share.0
Wow, your eighth Ford, jlinfl. That's one loyal customer . Ford Credit's current base lease rate and residual value for a 24-month lease of a 2013 Taurus Limited 2WD with 12,000 miles per year are 1.25% to 1.5% (there's not much of a difference, but the exact rte varies by region) and 51%.
There is a $500 to $1,000 cash incentive on leases of this car, which again varies by region.
Current Red Carpet Lessees are eligible for another $1,000 on top of that, which is a nice perk.
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2013 Ford Taurus SHO w/ Performance Package
Money Factor and lease rate for 3 year lease with 12,000 mi year?0
Hi GBrianK. Ford Credit publishes lease rates, not money money factors for the vehicles that it leases. You can convert its published lease rates into approximate money factor equivalents by dividing them by 2400.
Ford Credit's base lease rate and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Taurus SHO with 12,000 miles per year are 0.25% to 0.5% (they vary by region) and 52%.
There's lease cash on this car that varies by region as well.
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Thank you, CarMan. Your numbers saved me in F&I. He tried to sneak by a rate of 1.5% (pad his pocket). I nixed that but good. With all of the incentives, I got 10.7% off MSRP and the current lease offer was fantastic (bested the finance handily).
Thank you for all of your hard work!!!!
Can you please post your deal break down.
thank you0
Hi Car-man
can you please provide the lease rate and residual for the SHO for April and also all the incentives that are Available In Michigan that you are aware of.
thank you0
Sure newbee007. Ford Credit's April base lease rate and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Taurus SHO in Michigan with 15,000 miles per year are 0.25% and 49%.
Ford is currently providing a $3,500 cash incentive on leases of this car in your area.
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Sure, here's the breakdown:
Ford Cash -3000
Conquest Cash -1000
Dealer Contribution -4870
Total 39000 (not including TT&L, $125 doc fee and $645 Ford Lease Fee)
I could have pushed for another couple of hundred, as a dealer in South Dallas is using all of the Holdback to get rid of their stock of SHO's. Ford was SORELY mistaken to produce so many of them fully loaded (minus the radar cruise control)...but their mistake was to my benefit!
PM me if you need any other specific information.0
Car man:
Are there limitations to placing web addresses for dealer websites showing sale prices???
dreems Posts: 1Looking for some info and current incentives on a 14 SHO lease for this month. Looking for a 39 or 36 with 10.5 miles a year. Ford is offering to take back my 12 Fusion early. Looking to put 0 down, excellent credit. Thanx in advance0
Can anyone please tell me the Top Tier lease interest rate, and residuals for the 2014 Taurus Limited and SHO, 24 and 27 month, 10k and 12K miles per year, as well as any Lease Cash offers?
West LA, Calif. area.
I'm sorry, but we don't have Ford money factors for this month.. I only have residuals. Also, no info on 27 month plans
2014 Taurus Limited FWD 24mo, 12K/yr
60% residual Add 1% for 10.5K/yr
2014 Taurus SHO 24mo, 12K/yr
61% residual Add 1% for 10.5K/yr
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Thanks! That helps a great deal.
Best wishes; fawltytowers0
only1jv Posts: 6
Could I someone please provide the residual values for a 2014 Taurus SHO 36month lease? I'm in NJ if that matters any. Money factor too if you have them.0
@only1jva said:
Could I someone please provide the residual values for a 2014 Taurus SHO 36month lease? I'm in NJ if that matters any. Money factor too if you have them.
2014 Taurus SHO 36mo, 15K/yr lease
.0025% MF and 50% residual
Looks like $3000 lease cash on this model
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naimy1992 Posts: 25
residual and money factor for a 2014 ford taurus sho with 10k a year! and is there also any lease cash as well? I drive a 2013 Volvo s60 t6 and was there any foreign car incentive cash as well? thank you!!!!0


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The Panthers are pleased to announce promising young centre George Jennings has re-signed with the club for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.
The 20 year old was part of Penrith's NYC Premiership winning team in 2013 and he spent the pre-season training with the first grade squad. He was also one of our outstanding performers at the Auckland Nines tournament.
General Manager Rugby League Phil Moss says George has a promising future at Panthers.
"George is a rare talent and he continues to improve and impress. He is an exciting young star with the potential to play first grade in the next few years, and I'm looking forward to watching him grow".
George says he's looking forward to continuing his career at the foot of the mountains.
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INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — At least three people are dead after a car collided head-on with a school bus in Minnesota.
Police say no children were on the bus during the fiery crash late Friday afternoon in Inver Grove Heights, just a few miles south of St. Paul.
Officers found both vehicles on fire when they arrived
Police say officers found at least three people dead in the car. The bus driver, who was the only person on the bus, was not hurt.
Inver Grove Heights police Lt. Sean Folmar says there were no survivors in the car. Names of the victims were not immediately released.
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The European Commission has agreed today on three contributions to the next European Council, scheduled for 27-28 June 2013.
One of these contributions, which all aim at getting the EU economy to grow again, focuses specifically on youth unemployment.
The communication "Working together for Europe's young people – A call to action on youth unemployment" stresses once more that combatting youth unemployment is a top priority.
While most of the means are in Member States' hands, the EU level can help make a difference. The Commission has proposed a number of practical and achievable measures that have the potential for immediate impact, but some measures are yet to be agreed at EU level, in particular those linked to the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2014-2020.
The priority is to accelerate the implementation of the Youth Guarantee. The Commission is proposing that EUR 6 billion of the Youth Employment Initiative should be "frontloaded" so that this money is committed in 2014 and 2015 rather than over the seven year period of the MFF. Member States need to bring forward their youth employment programmes in the autumn.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Each year, regardless of the sport, optimism courses through preseason camp. Presented with a clean slate, players and fans alike let themselves hope that perhaps this will be the year that their side produces a deep playoff run. Maybe even a championship.
In the case of the New England Revolution, that optimism is justified.
Following last year's third-place finish in the Eastern Conference and subsequent playoff meeting with eventual MLS Cup champion Sporting Kansas City, the Revs are a confident and expectant bunch as preseason camp gets underway. Not only is there an expectation that they'll return to the playoffs in 2014, but they believe they can take the next step and make the leap from playoff contender to title contender.
"It's every team's goal to make the playoffs and it's ours every year," said Kelyn Rowe, who returns after career-best marks in both goals (7) and assists (8) last season. "It's obviously a reachable goal, because we've done it. We did it last year and we're going to do it again this year.
"Then it's that next step. Can you win that first (playoff) series? Then can you win the next series, get to MLS Cup and win that? It's a progressive goal, but after each game, you have to set your standards, and our standards are high."
New England's increasing aspirations are bolstered by the club's returning core of contributors; nine players who started both of the Revolution's playoff games last season return in 2014. And as a younger squad with a current average age of 25.3 years old, improvement is expected with experience.
There's no question the basic elements are in place for another strong season, while the technical staff continues its quest for additional attacking reinforcements. But simply having a capable squad isn't enough; the Revs know they'll need to put in the work in order to keep climbing the ladder.
"We know that it's a long road ahead of us," said Chris Tierney, now the Revolution's longest-tenured player having joined the team in June 2008. "Other teams get better and we're going to have to get better, too. But we're optimistic. We know we have a great group and good chemistry, good players, so we're excited about our chances.
"We know that we're moving towards something good with our squad and our group of players. We know that there's more out there for us to claim and it's just about making sure we've put in the work to go and do that."
That work began in earnest on Saturday morning when the Revs trained at the Dana-Farber Field House in Foxborough, where the club will train once more on Sunday before departing Monday morning for a 12-day preseason trip to Bradenton, Fla.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 23, 1909
Two miles of state road will be built here this fall. This will complete the macadamizing of the shore road from the ferry to Conanicut Park. Mr. Alton Head has the contract and will commence work as soon as the surveyors mark the grader, which will be in a few days.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 24, 1909
The blocking to move the Brown cottage from Friendship street to Walcott avenue has been brought from Newport and is being placed under the building.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 25, 1934
The 25-foot sloop which went ashore off Lion's head, Beavertail, Sunday night, was named the Murmur, according to Manuel Silvia of Jamestown, who salvaged pieces of the craft, which was entirely broken up. He salvaged the keel and part of the hull and on one of the pieces of the hull the name could be plainly seen. Nothing was found that could identify the owner.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 27, 1934
(At the School Committee meeting) Mr. Boone reported that several projects suggested at the last meeting had been accepted as a federal project and would be worked on this fall. Included in the list were the following: Sidewalk into north door of Carr school; reconditioning of tennis courts at Thomas H. Clarke school; building of retaining wall in front of Clarke school; bordering on the North Main Road; leveling and improving Thomas H. Clarke playground, with the possibility of a winter skating rink; laying of concrete floor in Carr school playground.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 24, 1959
Seventy-five boys and girls were placed on 14 teams when the Jamestown Junior Bowling League was formed yesterday at the Jamestown Bowling Lanes.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 29, 1959
The Jamestown Town Council last night upheld its earlier objections to revision of the Navy's torpedo target area on the east side of Conanicut Island. … A check for $15 was turned over to the treasurer from Anthony DiNapoli who had agreed to turn over to the town 20 per cent of the gross from viewers he had placed about town. The Council early in the summer granted him permission to place binocular stands on the streets for tourists to use.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 20, 1984
(caption for map) The Jamestown Bridge Design Study Committee has reached a final conclusion on the concept for a new connector road.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 21, 1984
The Planning Board Wednesday night unanimously urged upgrading the town's building inspector post to a full-time job because of the amount of building on the island.
From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 25, 1984
The Town Council Monday night endorsed the concept of Jamestown joining the North Kingstown cable television system, operated by Rollins Cablevision.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Sept. 22, 1994
(photo caption) The weather was beautiful Saturday for the Conanicut Island Land Trust's Heydey at Fox Hill Farm.
The Town Council Monday granted the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority permission to tie into the municipal water system. Sitting as the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners, the council voted 4-1 … to grant the hookup and not use the authority's need for water as a bargaining chip. Town officials want the authority to pay a $44,000 annual service fee in lieu of taxes for 34 acres of land it owns around the Newport Bridge toll plaza.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Sept. 23, 1999
In the click of the shutter it was over. The once-ina lifetime whole island portrait was taken Saturday. … About 2,000 people turned out for the event.
To be, or not to be? That was the question at a joint community meeting held by the state Department of Transportation in North Kingstown Tuesday evening on the future of the old Jamestown Bridge. It was called a "trash-ridden behemoth," and then its beauty was compared to the historic Brooklyn Bridge. During a 90-minute discussion … comments from over 100 residents swung from one extreme to the other over whether the old bridge should be maintained as a bicycle-pedestrian path or demolished.


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First Birthday Paina celebrates Native Hawaiian programs
Community partners share the successLeeward Community College
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Posted: Feb 2, 2011
Community partners, students and the Leeward Community College 'ohana celebrated Halau ʻIke o Puʻuloa's "First Birthday" with a rousing paina on Friday, January 28.
Originally funded through a Title III grant, Halau ʻIke o Puʻuloa is now the College's Native Hawaiian Student Support Center, providing a variety of programs and support services to Leeward's Native Hawaiian students.
One of the many highlights of the event included Kamuela J. N. Enos, community resource development director, MAʻO Organic Farms and Obama-appointed member of the White House Commission on Asian & Pacific Islanders, gifting the Halau with an original gouache artwork created by his brother, Solomon.
Event sponsors included the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center and Leeward Community College.
Community partners ALU LIKE, Inc., Hawai'i Step Up Program, Ke Ola Mamo: Native Hawaiian Health Care System, the Malama Learning Center, and Na Pua No'eau: Center for Gifted & Talented Native Hawaiian Children, were joined by UH Hilo and Leeward CC representatives to provide information on the opportunities for Native Hawaiians.
Under the guidance of Coordinator Auliʻi Silva, the Halau staff's outreach efforts and continued program development produced a 48 percent growth in student enrollment between fall 2009 and fall 2010 and a 916 percent increase in participation in Halau student engagement activities since 2008 (from 163 to 1657).
An image gallery of the paina is viewable at http://www.flickr.com/photos/leewardcc/sets/72157625833821157/.


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SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2013 –Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced 64 nonprofit recipients of its 2013 Environmental Solutions for Communities grant program. Philanthropic grants totaling more than $3 million will be distributed to community-based nonprofits to support land and water conservation, energy efficiency, infrastructure, and educational outreach in communities where customers and team members live and work.
"We're pleased to announce the environmental grant recipients of this highly competitive program," said Ashley Grosh, head of Wells Fargo Environmental Philanthropy. "We're proud to support these nonprofits who are working hard to provide long-term solutions to environmental challenges. It is our belief that there is a strong link between economic development, community well-being, and the stewardship and health of the environment."
The Wells Fargo Environmental Solutions for Communities grant program began in 2012 as part of Wells Fargo's commitment to provide $100 million to environmentally-focused nonprofits and universities by 2020. It is funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) through a $15 million, five-year relationship to promote environmental stewardship across the country.
"We sought out the best ideas and programs to protect and conserve the environment for local communities," said Jeff Trandahl, executive director and CEO of NFWF. "ThroughWells Fargo's generous contributions, these community-based projects will provide immediate benefits to local ecosystems and will help build and strengthen environmental stewardship ethics."
The program funded proposals in select cities/regions (see full list) in the following focus areas:
The community and environmental impacts of all grants will be measured and reported. For example, in 2012, the Wells Fargo Environmental Solutions for Communities grant program collectively funded 8,621 acres of habitat restoration and 165,970 newly planted trees. The grants also helped reduce more than 2 million gallons of runoff water and an estimated 331,840 pounds in CO21. Projects that benefited underserved communities and encourage volunteerism were given priority consideration.
The full list of 2013 winners can be found at here. Details of the program and a link to the 2014 application can be found at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation application website: www.nfwf.org/environmentalsolutions.
Environmental impact estimates were made using the National Arbor Day Tree Benefit Calculator. For more information visit: https://www.arborday.org/calculator/
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.4 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, and the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank's customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 26 on Fortune's 2012 rankings of America's largest corporations. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy all our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially.
A leader in reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions and building sustainably, Wells Fargo has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Center for Corporate Climate Leadership, the Carbon Disclosure Project and the U.S. Green Building Council. Since 2005, Wells Fargo has provided more than $21 billion in environmental finance, supporting sustainable buildings and renewable energy projects nationwide. This includes investments in more than 260 solar projects and 34 wind projects that generate enough clean renewable energy to power hundreds of thousands of American homes each year. For more information, please visit. www.wellsfargo.com/environment.
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Joseph Ciminese, longtime M. Wile store manager
Oct. 24, 1956 – April 1, 2013
Joseph R. Ciminese, longtime manager of the M. Wile & Co. Factory Direct Fashion men's clothing store on Elmwood Avenue, died unexpectedly Monday in his Town of Tonawanda home. He was 56.
Born in Buffalo, he grew up in North Buffalo and attended St. Mark Elementary School. A graduate of Cardinal Dougherty High School, he attended Buffalo State College.
Mr. Ciminese began in the men's clothing business with Jacobi Bros. He managed the M. Wile store for more than 25 years until its closing in 2009 and was its public face, appearing in its television commercials. He also worked in sales in the carpet, office furniture and jewelry businesses.
Mr. Ciminese and M. Wile received the Media Award from the Shea's Performing Arts Center Spotlight Committee in 2006.
Survivors include his wife of 26 years, the former Lynda K. Nyman; and a sister, Mary Bieber.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Monday in St. Mark Catholic Church, 401 Woodward Ave.


text: In this draft of his 1967 speech, "A Journey of Conscience," Dr. King provides the many reasons he so strongly opposes the war in Vietnam. He writes of how he first felt it was important to remain silent, but gradually felt compelled to speak out, as the US made no initiatives toward peace. He points at that the war abroad takes away our focus on our problems at home, and we must "combine the fervor of the civil rights movement with the peace movement."


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Last year, a new drug called Zaltrap was approved as a kind of last-chance therapy for patients with colorectal cancer. Studies suggested Zaltrap worked almost exactly as well as an existing drug called Avastin. In fact, the main difference between the two drugs seemed to be the price.
"I was rather stunned," Dr. Leonard Saltz, who specializes in colorectal cancer, told me.
Zaltrap costs about $11,000 per month — about twice as much as Avastin, Saltz said.
Saltz and his colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York made what seemed like a very reasonable decision: The hospital would not stock the more expensive drug. But taking cost into account for a new cancer drug was a very unusual decision for the hospital
"There was a lot of angst over it, simply because it had never been done before" at Sloan-Kettering, Saltz says.
It was such a big deal that he and a few of his colleagues decided to write an op-ed about their decision in the New York Times. The op-ed ran under the headline "In Cancer Care, Cost Matters." Peter Bach, one of the doctors who co-authored the op-ed, braced for the reaction.
"I admit to clutching my chair as it went up," he says. "But, you know, [the response] was really uniformly positive."
After the op-ed ran, Sanofi, the company that co-markets the drug, started offering hospitals a discount of 50 percent on Zaltrap. (The company wouldn't comment for this story. Bach has taken speaking fees from the company that makes Avastin. Saltz has been paid consulting fees from both drug companies.)
So why doesn't this sort of thing happen more often? Why is a high-profile hospital choosing not to buy an expensive new drug so rare that it merits an op-ed in the New York Times?
It's partly because we don't know how a lot of drugs compare to other drugs. The head-to-head studies just haven't been done. That is starting to change, though, as federal funding for comparative studies increases.
More head-to-head studies will raise a new question: What do you do with comparative information when you have it?
The Zaltrap case was a bit of a fluke. Two drugs seemed to worked equally well. Both extended life by 1.4 months. But what if Zaltrap had worked slightly better than Avastin? What if it had extended life by, say, an extra week? Would Sloan-Kettering have stocked the drug then, in spite of the price?
"Absolutely," Bach says. "We are a premier cancer center in the country — maybe the world — and drugs that provide additional benefit are ones we want to understand and want to be able to use."
Now, one of the many reasons medical care is expensive is that medicine itself can be expensive. David Kestenbaum, with our Planet Money Team, has this story about one hospital that tried to do something about a drug that seemed particularly over-priced; something that wouldn't seem controversial except in the world of healthcare.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: As a doctor, Leonard Saltz says he's always hopeful when a new drug comes out, because his patients are often very, very sick with colon cancer or rectal cancer. And last year, a drug called Zaltrap came on the market. It's meant to be used as a kind of last chance therapy. Sadly, Saltz says, it was not the breakthrough that had been hoped for. Studies indicated it was not better than an existing drug, called Avastin. In fact, the only difference, and it was a big one, seemed to be the price.
LEONARD SALTZ: I was rather stunned that it was more than double. The wholesale cost would be in the range of $11,000. That would be for a month of therapy.
KESTENBAUM: So here were two drugs, seemed to work about the same, but one was twice the price. What to do? Leonard Saltz and colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York made what seemed like a very reasonable decision. The hospital would not stock the more expensive drug. But that simple act of taking cost into account for a new cancer drug, it was a very unusual thing for his hospital to do.
SALTZ: There was a lot of angst over it, simply because it had never been done before. We simply had no precedent as a leading cancer hospital for saying, there's a new anti-cancer drug that's been determined by the FDA to be safe and effective and we're not going to put it on our shelf and we're not going to use it.
PETER BACH: And that's when the idea came to write the op-ed.
KESTENBAUM: That's Peter Bach, another doctor at the hospital. He says this decision was so unprecedented, they decided it merited an op-ed in the New York Times. The New York Times agreed, Bach, Saltz and a colleague wrote up what they'd done, disclosed their conflicts of interest, which I'll mention here. Bach has taken speaking fees from the company that makes the cheaper drug, Avastin.
Saltz has been taking consulting fees from both drug companies. And the op-ed ran. Title, "In Cancer Care, Cost Matters." Bach braced for the reaction.
BACH: I mean, I admit to, sort of, clutching my chair as it went up, but, you know, it was really uniformly positive.
KESTENBAUM: At least, from his colleagues. A little while later, Leonard Saltz says, representatives from the company that makes the drug, they came by for a little talk.
SALTZ: They came here to this office and told us that they were offering a 50 percent discount.
KESTENBAUM: Across the board for all hospitals. The drug company, Sanofi, wouldn't comment for this story, but Saltz said what he thinks happened is that the company had initially set its price with the idea that it would be comparable to Avastin. But Saltz says its common to use half doses of Avastin and so, by that standard, Zaltrap was coming out twice as expensive.
In any case, just pointing out that the price seemed high prompted the drug company to cut the price in half. So why doesn't this happen more often? One reason is that we don't always know how a lot of drugs compare. The studies just have not been done. That is changing, though. The stimulus bill and the recently passed Affordable Care Act provided funding for comparative effectiveness studies to compare various treatments.
But even then, there's a bigger, tougher question here. What do you do with that information? This case was a bit of a fluke. Two drugs seemed to work equally well, exactly equally well. They extended life by 1.4 months. But what if the expensive drug had worked slightly better? Extended life by, say, six days more than the other drug or had slightly fewer side effects? What then?
Do you stop drugs like that when they're massively more expensive? Here's Peter Bach.
BACH: We will, sure. Absolutely. We are premier cancer center, in the country or maybe in the world, and drugs that provide additional benefit are ones that, you know, we want to understand and want to be able to use no matter what the cost. It's very unappealing when put that way.
KESTENBAUM: The alternatives are also unappealing. Do doctors not give someone the best treatment because they're trying to contain costs? That tension, in a nutshell, is one reason healthcare costs keep going up. David Kestenbaum, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It has taken 111 years, but the cotton industry is finally beginning to believe it can rid agriculture of the boll weevil.
In the century since the small pests entered the United States by traveling over the Rio Grande from Mexico, boll weevils have cost cotton producers more than $45 billion. Moving about 60 miles per year, the boll weevil made it all the way from its introduction in Texas in 1893 to Virginia by 1922.
The boll weevil's migration into the United States set into motion a great deal of activity that changed the face of history, says entomologist Jim Smith, who serves as director of the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss. "The weevil spread quickly, and researchers violently disagreed about what to do about it during the first few years after it was identified," he says.
Smith says, "The boll weevil decimated the cotton industry throughout much of the Mid-South and Texas, and many cotton producers moved to the Mississippi Delta. Cotton growers believed the Delta could produce cotton yields high enough to share their crop with the boll weevil, and because the Mississippi Delta was a less desirable overwintering site for weevils."
During those first years of battling the cotton-devouring pest, Texans were paid to capture boll weevils in cotton fields, and rewards were offered to anyone who could invent a new technology able to insure eradication of the boll weevil. In addition to triggering the birth of the science of entomology in the South, the boll weevil became famous with cigars and songs named after it, and it played a role in the birth of the Delta blues.
At the same time, land was donated for a research complex in Stoneville, Miss., which then began developing pesticides and application machines to fight the pest. "The entomology complex we have in Mississippi really wouldn't exist without the boll weevil," Smith says.
In 1925, an air war against the boll weevil was initiated by the Delta Dusters, which Smith says eventually became the Delta Airlines of today. It wasn't until 1955, however, that researchers first reported boll weevil resistance to pesticides.
Entomologists continued their research into what it takes to banish boll weevils from cotton fields. In 1964, researchers first observed the attraction of males to females in the field, which led to interest in live traps. Five years later in 1969, scientists chemically identified the boll weevil pheromone. "Much of the technology for the Cotton Belt's boll weevil eradication effort was developed in Mississippi," Smith says.
Then in 1971, a pilot boll weevil eradication experiment started in south Mississippi. "It was very controversial, but it lowered boll weevils to very low numbers in that region," Smith says. "It wasn't until 1977 that a similar program began in North Carolina and Virginia on 32,500 cotton acres. This time, the eradication program was highly successful, moving gradually from there across the Cotton Belt. The Southeast boll weevil eradication program expanded first to Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, using boll weevil traps baited with pheromones. Due to this boll weevil eradication effort, Georgia passed Mississippi in cotton acreage in 2000."
All that has changed in recent years, according to Smith. During the last five years, Mississippi has successfully carried out an eradication program that has virtually eliminated the boll weevil as a factor in cotton production. That has enabled Mississippi's acreage and yield to increase, erasing the advantages the Southeast had gained over the Mid-South.
Mississippi cotton growers produced record yields and benefited from higher prices in 2003, bringing the value of the state's cotton crop to $780 million and placing cotton behind only forestry and poultry in income to the state.
Meanwhile in Texas where it all began, three-fourths of the state's active eradication zones are close to driving boll weevils out of Texas cotton fields. Seven Texas boll weevil eradication zones, representing 4.2 million acres of cotton, have seen weevil populations reduced below levels that would qualify for suppressed status this year. Added to two zones already declared functionally eradicated, more than 5 million acres of Texas cotton are on the verge of eliminating the costly pest.
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