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NEW YORK – At the request of the State of New York, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved a 15-day extension for Hurricane Sandy survivors to apply for disaster assistance.
Survivors now have until April 13 to register with FEMA and to return their disaster loan applications to the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Individuals can register online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov or via smartphone or tablet at m.fema.gov. They may also call the FEMA helpline 800-621-3362 (Voice, 7-1-1/Relay) or (TTY) 800-462-7585. The helpline is available 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. EDT, seven days a week.
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New York City and the State of New York have developed plans for using federal funds to help homeowners, small businesses and communities impacted by three storms: Sandy, Irene and Lee. Those plans are being reviewed by HUD. Registration with FEMA might lead to eligibility for future grants or assistance, regardless of funding administered by New York City or the State of New York.
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Macy's has announced closing dates for several of its New York stores, according to syracuse.com, which reported that the closures will leave more than 400 people out of work.
The department store chain, which is set to close about 65 stores nationally in 2017, said it will shutter stores in the upstate city of Rochester, town of Clay and village of Johnson City, and in the Douglaston section of Queens on April 18, according to syracuse.com.
In total, the store plans to close about 100 of its stores across the country in the coming years . Its stores in Yonkers, Yorktown, West Nyack, Nanuet, Poughkeepsie and Middletown will remain open.
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Gabriel Josipovici's new book, What Ever Happened to Modernism, offers a harsh critique of realism in contemporary fiction, arguing that to produce a realist work in the modern world is produce a work that obscures the, for lack of a better word, reality of that world. The job of the modernist novel (or painting, or musical piece, etc.), according to Josipovici, is to recognize and reflect the fact that traditional artistic conventions, ones based on a hierarchical and religious society, simply no longer work in a secularized, decentralized and overwhelmingly fragmented industrialized world.
Nothing new here. Any English major will have studied the transition from realism to modernism in literature and the resulting disruption and fragmentation of the traditional linear narrative. But Josipovici's main concern is how well this form of pure modernism has survived in literature. For Josipovici, Morrison, Roth, and Rushdie, among others, fail to carry on this morally necessary movement, falling instead backward into unreality and sheer fantasy. In doing so, he believes they do a disservice to their craft, and one not merely of artistic but of ethical proportions.
I've yet to read the book myself, but some insightful reviews in The Millions and The Wall Street Journal brought to mind longheld anxieties about the ways in which modernism and its demands constrict the ways in which an artist is allowed to produce. Ben Hamilton at The Millions articulates my concern excellently when he summarizes Josipovici: "Contrary to the more comfortable notion of progress through the ages, Josipovici's argument states that since the sixteenth century, secularism and revolution have eroded authority and undermined tradition, so that the artist is left only with his or her imagination and individuality to fall back on."
Josipovici laments the shattering of order and belief that accompanied modernity, arguing, as Eric Ormsby of The Wall Street Journal puts it, that "[f]or the Modernist sensibility… serenity is no longer possible; truth, if it can be glimpsed at all, is invariably agitated." As such, he believes attempts at producing this serenity through fiction must be abandoned altogether.
I don't disagree that the development of modernism was an important and necessary one, that our society and ourselves needed more complex artistic structures through which to accurately express itself. But I am uneasy about the assertion that any instance whatsoever of what Josipovici terms "realism," or "tradition," or, I suppose one could say, attempting to recreate a truthful and realistic world through art, is somehow ethically abhorrent.
In a world as atomized and banal as ours, we have little fodder or material from which to draw. Modernism, in a way, is almost solipsism. When we each exist in our own little individualized worlds, detached from notions of patriotism, nationalism, religion, or even ancestry, what's left? If we can't draw upon the past at all, our only option is to continue to deconstruct ourselves into oblivion. Modernism's old hat now; postmodernism is heading in that direction fast. We're only continuing down the road paved with the arrival of modernity. If we continue this practice of deeming all past practices as entirely unacceptable, we will ultimately be left with nothing at all.
I often feel my desire to write fiction extinguished by a poverty of material, and approaches, from which to work. Everything I can manage to come up feels used, cliche, or contrived. And that includes modernist approaches to modernist content. I don't need Josipovici to tell me it's an artistic sin to sometimes move "backward" in my craft — this attitude is one deeply woven into contemporary literary culture. But I'm starting to question that attitude more than ever.
What if, sometimes, the most aesthetically pleasing presentation of material is a realist one? What if, in a given instance, a linear narrative serves a plot best? Of course, this opens up a whole other Keatsian argument about whether the purpose of art is to produce beauty or truth and if and whether those two things are in fact each other or related to each other etc. etc. etc. I don't know want to go there right now, but I do want to quote Ormsby again: "Mr. Josipovici is harsh on realism in fiction—he thinks it a dangerous illusion—and yet we still respond to fictional replications of the world, not only in its inmost contradictions but in the sheer sensual beauty of its surfaces. We still take pleasure in make-believe and in the telling of tales, even tall ones, if only because they tell us something true about ourselves, a truth that perhaps we can grasp through no other medium."
And hey, why not drop into the past to produce artistically here and then? After all, isn't modernism supposed to be all about the breaking down of linear time to begin with?


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The Loews 84th Street sixplex opened on March 15, 1985. Designed by architectural firm of Held & Rubin, it was built as the replacement of Thomas Lamb's 83rd Street Theatre which occupied the southern half of the same block-front next door. It was the first phase of a condominium development on the block. Loews did not want to lose the location, so the developer built it in complicated exchange for the 83rd Street theatre site. The developer also retained the air-rights over the new theatre.
Upon completion of the new theatre, the new sixplex and old quad operated simultaneously for a brief time, then the quad closed and the developer took possession. After the quad was demolished, the condominium building was built on its site and on top of the new 84th Street sixplex, since he had retained the air-rights. Looking at it today it appears to be one building, but it is actually two separate buildings, and Loews owns its building.
The original interior was a hideous gold-and-brown color-scheme with foil ceiling panels and fluorescent lighting in the lobby areas, with a gold-with-brown-spots carpet that always reminded me of leopard-skins. The auditoriums were unremarkable. It was redecorated in about 1991 with gray wall covering, blue and red carpet and pearl-gray ceiling panels. The auditoriums had blue and red soundfold draperies on the upper walls with a gray carpet "wainscoting" on the lower walls. Odd prism type wall sconces were also added, and the ceilings were painted black.
In 1995 the original Griggs push-back seats were replaced with new Irwin rocking chair seats.
In 1996, the lobby areas were redecorated again, this time as an "audition" for the Rockwell Group, an architectural firm that has since done the 'theme' designs for many of newly-built Loews plexes. The two and a half story entrance main lobby was the focus of the design, with the fluorescent lighting thrown out and replaced with a lot of cove lighting and stage-type lighting in many colors. Stylized cutouts of various New York City landmarks, the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, the Guggenheim Museum, the (late) World Trade Center, Grand Central Terminal and even the marquee of Radio City Music Hall were installed on the side walls. The lighting was on computerized dimmers and simulated dawn-day-dusk-night scenes. The carpet was predominately red, with a deco style cartoon. The ceiling was painted dark-blue. The focal point of the room, however, was a giant popcorn bucket and soda cups standing on a pylon on the center of the room above the concession stand. The basketball-size popcorn kernels jumped up and down on hydraulic stems with strobe lights flashing underneath them to simulate popping.
In 1997, the marquee was re-done. The plain anodized aluminum was covered with stainless steel, and the fluorescent zip-change letter panels replaced with a red LED digital attraction panel. Red outlining neon and large red "Loews" letters and spotlight logo were also added.
Recently, the carpet has been changed to a blue carpet with a black deco-style cartoon. The red LED digital attraction panel has also been replaced with a 256 color 24 x 216 pixel display that does all kinds of tricks.
At one time, the Loews 84th Street was the highest grossing movie theatre in the country. It was the highest grossing theatre in NYC until the Loews Lincoln Square opened in late-1994.
Theatres 1, 2 and 3 on the upper level have capacities of 314, 436 and 439 respectively, and theatres 4, 5, and 6 on the lower level have capacities of 292, 475 and 429, giving a total of 2,385 seats. It was renovated in 2013 when recliner seating was installed, halving the seating capacity to 1,192.
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The Michael Kay Show on the YES Network and ESPN Radio 98.7 FM mentioned this theater alongside other New York City theaters that the radio hosts have went to recently. Last year marked 30 years since this theater opened, during which for a time the parent company of the theater sold the theater business to TriStar which in turn had some of its movies being shown there alongside Columbia movies well into the late 1980s when Tristar was bought by its sister company and Coke sold CPE to Sony, which in turn put in one of the first SDDS units in the theater for the launch of Last Action Hero which was a fluke.
Great article!!!
Thanks moviebuff82!!!
Opening Announcement-Boxoffice Magazine Theatre Construction Roundup July 1985
Loew's Circuit recently opened their Loews 84th Street Six in New York.
The state-of-the-art theatre has a computer controlled air-conditioning system and a message center which hangs under the marquee.
Two electronic mini marquees in the lobby direct patrons to the proper auditioriums.
The theatre is equipped with 70mm and all of the auditoriums have Dolby stereo and JBL speaker systems. A huge 25 X 80 mural is the focal point of the lobby, along with a giant circular refreshment center with eight serving stations.
As in all the Loews theatres, each auditorium has a different color theme.
I remember on 8/18/85, I got home from sleep away camp from being away for 7 weeks and couldn't wait to get back to see a movie at the theater. I had my parents take me straight to the theater from the camp pick up site. The movie I saw in this night was Summer Rental with John Candy!
It was Thanksgiving Day weekend 1992 that I was home from Florida from college for the weekend. The movie I saw that weekend was Disney's Aladdin!
I remember when Back to the Future played there for almost 5 months in 1985. Not often now in 2017 that a movie plays at a theater for that length of time.
Last night a man's leg got swallowed by the escalator. Thankfully New York's finest helped the man get out of the jam.
The theater is called AMC, not AMC Loews.
On this date 30 years ago coming to America debuted. It became one of Eddie Murphy's biggest hits.
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A father walked me down the aisle
But he wasn't you.
A father supported me on my graduation day
But he wasn't you.
A father proposed a toast on my wedding day
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A father comforted me through my time of sorrow
But he wasn't you.
A father gave me marital counselling
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I have a father who prays with, and for me
But it should've been you.
I have a father who I can turn to for guidance
But it should've been you.
I have a father who calls to see how I'm doing
But it should've been you.
I have a father who embraces me as a daughter
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Today I resent no more,
For my heavenly Father's love is true.
He has erased resentment.
He's given me a heart that's renewed.
© J. S. Ramkissoon, 2009
Dear Dad,
My renewed heart, filled with God's unconditional love, enabled me to search for you. Now I'm thankful that I've found you. And I just want you to know that I love you. I have such peace inside that ignites the joy I so longed for. His love is contagious I know you'll catch it too. May you find that peace within, that true love brings. You still have a place in my heart and I will always love you. Though I've never seen your face, from my heart you will never depart.
I love you dad.
Happy Father's Day!
© J. S. Ramkissoon, 2009
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My heart hurts for you. No child should grow up without the love and support (emotional) of her/his father. Yes, we have a Heavenly Father, and the Scriptures say,(ad-lib) When your father and mother forsake you, then He (the Lord) will 'pick' you up...I think you are referring to your Heavenly Father in this article. Right?...Helen
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A foursome of talented athletes from the Pella Christian girls track and field team recently signed their official letters of intent to continue their running careers at Dordt College.
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In celebration of NAIDOC week, we look at some of Australia's best Aboriginal festivals.
By Lee Atkinson
Australia's Aboriginal culture is one of the oldest on the planet, and the best way to experience it – expressed through song and dance, sport, film, art, fashion and food – is at one of the many festivals held around the country each year. More than just a celebration, they are important community events where ancient stories and traditions are handed down to youngsters, as well as a time to come together and have fun. Everyone's welcome to join in.
Experience Australia's beautiful Aboriginal culture
Laura Dance Festival, Cape York
Every two years the tiny town of Laura (four hours drive north of Cairns) turns into an enormous festival, reverberating to the beat of a thousand dancing feet. The Laura Dance festival is one of the largest and oldest Aboriginal cultural festivals in Australia, where people from more than 20 communities gather to dance up a storm, perform cultural ceremonies and sing ancient rhythms and songs that have been sung for millennia. People who visit this festival often leave feeling very grateful for the experience. You can also visit the Quinkan rock art sites, where ancient paintings don't just document historical Aboriginal life but show their startling first encounters with arriving Europeans.
Garma, Arnhem Land
The Garma festival is the country's most important meeting of Aboriginal elders, politicians, business leaders and policy makers, held every August near Nhulunbuy, in north-east Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. But it's not all business. There are four nights of traditional and contemporary music, cultural workshops where you can learn how to make spears, paint, weave and learn the Yolngu language, as well as an indigenous film festival and outdoor art shows. The nightly Bunggul Dance is a breathtaking expression of culture.
Grand Final Day, Tiwi Islands
Football is serious business in the Tiwi Islands, birthplace of some of Australia's most famous AFL (Australian Football League, or Aussie rules) players. These two tiny islands, a 20 minute flight or two hour ferry trip from Darwin in the Northern Territory, are home to just 2700 people but eight Aussie rules teams, and Grand Final Day (usually the second-last Sunday in March) is the biggest day of the year. Much more than just a rollicking good sports match, it's an enormous gathering that has family members returning from all over Australia to cheer on their teams. The event coincides with the annual Tiwi Art Sale, a great chance to buy globally sought after art and crafts, including distinctive wooden sculptures, made by the local Aboriginal community.
Tjungu Festival, Uluru
Uluru is one of the most spiritual places in Australia, and arguably the perfect place to celebrate Australia's Aboriginal culture. Tjungu is a four day festival held in April at Ayers Rock Resort that kicks off with the Inma dance, a "welcome to country" ceremony performed by the local Anangu people. Taste traditional bush foods, pick up a handmade souvenir at the markets, enjoy an Aboriginal fashion parade and short film festival and dance to traditional and contemporary Aboriginal bands. You can cheer on the boys playing Aussie rules football at the Tjungu Cup and dine in the desert at Tastes of Tjungu, with a modern bush food inspired menu and cooking masterclass hosted by a celebrity chef.
Barunga Festival, Katherine
One of the biggest community events in the Top End (the tropical northern reaches of the Northern Territory), the Barunga Festival, held about an hour's drive south-east of Katherine, is a fabulous chance to party and play with the locals. Over three days on the long weekend in June it's a mix of dancing, live music (traditional and modern), art shows, cultural workshops, a circus, and lots of sport, including Aussie rules football. It's glitz and glamour-free – you'll need to bring your own camping gear – but offers an opportunity to immerse yourself in an authentic cultural celebration found nowhere else on Earth.
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"My soul," the psalmist announces, "is consumed in its longing for Your mishpatim/commandments" (119:20). Actually, the word "consumed" means "crushed" (garas). My soul, he says, is broken into pieces because it so longs to commune with God through hearing from God.
To be honest, most of us part ways from the psalmist. How often do I so long to hear from God, how often do I so long to commune with God, that I sense that my being is falling into pieces because of that desire?


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The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) last month suddenly revised a mostly optimistic report on the fiscal condition of all 50 states after it recognized that tax receipts for November and December showed fewer states were on track to meet budget expectations.
The economies of several states have taken a turn for the worse, according to a revised report showing fewer budgets are on track to meet expectations.
Two months after it issued a mostly optimistic survey of the fiscal condition of all 50 states, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) went back to the drawing board, re-surveying state budget officers and incorporating uncounted November and December tax receipts.
In the March 8 revised report , fiscal officers for 31 states reported tax revenue collections were on target or above forecasted levels -- 11 fewer than had indicated in NCSL's Jan. 4 end-of-the-year publication that they were in good shape.
This rapid deceleration of state budget growth illustrates the rising concern among many that states are fiscally more vulnerable than previously thought, NCSL officials said.
Though reasons for the economic decline vary from state-to-state, health care, education and prison system costs are primarily to blame, NCSL President Jim Costa , a California senator, told reporters last week."We in the 50 states are reacting to obvious changes occurring in the economy," Costa said. " Revenue growth has slowed in the last two months and it's very clear to us that Medicaid expenses are taking a bite out of state expenditures."
In all, 23 states reported Medicaid cost overruns. NCSL Executive Director William T. Pound said while state legislatures as a group saw modest 4 percent increases in Medicaid over the last four years, many will be forced to accommodate an estimated 9 percent growth in the next several years.
"We're headed for a major problem on that," Pound said.
In examining the state-by-state fiscal trends, a regional pattern emerges. States showing strong revenue growth tend to be in the West (Arizona, California and Utah) and mid-Atlantic (Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania), while revenue shortfalls are cropping up mainly in the South (Alabama, Arkansas and Kentucky) and Great Lakes region (Indiana, Michigan and Ohio). Additionally, there is a regional divide in attitudes about how states will fare through the remaining months of the fiscal year. Western state officials tend to be optimistic, the report states, but their counterparts in the South are more apprehensive.
Corina Eckl, director of NCSL's Fiscal Affairs Program, said there is "a mixed bag" of reasons why southern states experienced slower collections. Since Tennessee does not tax personal income and collects 57 percent of its revenues through sales tax, its collection base is too narrow. Gov. Don Sundquist (R), however, recently proposed lowering the state sales tax rate but broadening the tax base at the same time to include services that now go untaxed. And in South Carolina, flood expenses, lawsuits and rising education costs have contributed to the state's fiscal deterioration.
In Alabama, Gov. Don Siegelman (D) ordered a 6.2 percent across-the-board cut in this year's $4.3 billion education budget because of revenue shortfalls. Known as the state's Education Trust Fund, it relies on a portion of sales and income tax collections. That order is being challenged, however, as a Supreme Court stay has temporarily blocked an Alabama judge's ruling to restore state funding for some areas of K-12. North Carolina also is facing broad cuts to create a $1 billion escrow account to deal with its $791 million shortfall. And in Mississippi, state budget officers are considering $137 million in cuts.
Eckls said in many of the Great Lakes states, problems arose because of states' reliance on the manufacturing industry -- primarily the slowing auto industry.
Overall, the growing number of states facing fiscal problems is causing alarm among many state budget officers. While 31 states reported that budget cuts would not be necessary to balance the fiscal 2001 budget, 11 states are likely to cut their current budgets. In some cases, states have been forced to deal with extreme measures to win their budget battles.
The NCSL survey further indicates that 10 states may resort to tax increases -- especially excise taxes -- though most will be minor. Louisiana is reviewing whether to impose higher levies on riverboat casinos to compensate teacher raises, and Maine Gov. Angus S. King (I) has proposed increases in the cigarette tax and the meals and lodging tax. Still, 18 states reported tax relief to be a possibility, while 22 states plan no changes in taxation.
But despite signs of a worsening economy, NCSL officials remain optimistic that many states will weather the downturn. Costa pointed out that because of years of a vibrant economy, states were able to boost their budget reserves. As a result, he said, 38 states will not have to tap their savings accounts, known as "Rainy Day Funds," compared to 11 states that indicated that some type of reserve would have to be used in the current fiscal year.
"That's good news," Costa said.


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Television History Timeline 1831-2009
Television offers us the unique possibility of discovering worlds we would not even know they exist. The TV was the result of a series of discoveries. The pantelegraph was in 1862 invented by Abbe Giovanna Casell. Thanks to it an image could be transferred through wires. This may be considered the first major event in the television history timeline.


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Program Director, Capital Projects, University of Texas Medical Branch
Having been involved in over $1 billion in healthcare/ academic and research projects, Tarek has gleaned valuable lessons in developing programs, projects and campuses for the past 20 years in the Houston Texas Medical Center and now in Galveston County for the University of Texas Medical Branch. Tarek is a Program Director of Capital Projects and has recently taken over the Program for the development and expansion of the UTMB League City Campus while completing a 500 Million dollar Infrastructure Program on Galveston Island that was part of Hurricane Ike recovery. Tarek is a member of American Society of Healthcare Engineers and certified in Healthcare Construction by ASHE.


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One of America's most powerful judges is under investigation at his own request, due to a flap over what might be called dirty pictures on a website maintained with his family. Were the pictures obscene? Was the website public?
The Federal Judge, the Internet and the LA Times
One of America's most powerful judges is under investigation at his own request, due to a flap over what might be called dirty pictures on a website maintained with his family. Were the pictures obscene? Was the website public?
Alex Kozinski is presiding judge of the 9th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals which covers the western states. Last week he was hearing a high-profile obscenity trial in Los Angeles. Just as jury selection ended, the LA Times ran an article about pictures on a website Kozinski maintained. There is still heated dispute about whether the pictures were "obscene," but Kozinski shut down the website and declared a mistrial. At his request, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has empanelled five other judges to conduct an investigation.
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Then and Now: Is LA Still the Car Capital of the World? Urban planners got some bad news today. Ridership on public transit in Southern California is on the decline, despite the billions being spent in recent years to build light rail and subway lines. Why aren't more drivers leaving their cars at home, as traffic gets more congested than ever? Meantime, there's a shortage of money to repair aging roads, bridges and other parts of the infrastructure. We look at the impact on the state's economy.
Does California Have a Double Standard for the Public's Protection? Porter Ranch and Vernon are mirror images of each other. In one, schools have been closed and thousands of residents are being moved away by the polluter—just months after a natural gas leak was discovered. In the other, residents complained for years about health risks to school children from exposure to lead and arsenic from a battery recycling plant— until the federal government finally stepped in.
Is 'Warfare' a Thing of the Past at the LAPD? Video of police misconduct wasn't as common 25 years ago as it is today. The spectacle of LAPD officers beating Rodney King was a wake-up call, but didn't persuade a jury in Simi Valley. When the cops received not-guilty verdicts, the city exploded. We hear from veteran officers who say they've changed. What about their tactics? Have they gained the trust of marginalized communities and people of color?
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Boffin says astronauts could hitch to Jupiter on passing asteroids
Are you going my way, you big gorgeous big hunk of rock?
A Russian space boffin has claimed that astronauts could use asteroids to travel to the furthest corners of the solar system.
Sergei Antonenko, head of the Design and Research Bureau in the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, was speaking at the Technoprom-2013 conference in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk.
He claimed space explorers could set up permanent underground bases on certain asteroids to travel to planets like Mars and Jupiter, according to Xinhua.
Apparently citing the fact that many of these space rocks fly closer to Earth than the Moon, Antonenko said hopping aboard would not be a problem. Finding an asteroid going somewhere useful is the hard part, but according to Antonenko there are around 10,000 orbiting close to Earth and two million known asteroids in total.
A more practical solution to speedier space travel may be the use of nuclear-powered rockets in spacecraft.
NASA is corralling the scientific community to research and develop alternatives to traditional rocket technologies which would take around 500 days to get a craft to Mars, according to Space.com.
A University of Washington team funded by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program is hoping to harness nuclear fusion in a system which could get astronauts to the Red Planet in just 90 days.
Other mooted plans involve nuclear fission-powered rockets and a system using electromagnetic radiation.
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is currently being developed by the Texas-based Ad Astra Rocket Company and would require an onboard nuclear reactor to get a spaceship to Mars, the report claimed.
Faster forms of space travel are apparently necessary due to concerns over the long-term effects of living in zero gravity conditions and exposure to potentially dangerous levels of radiation. ®


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First off, a caveat to say that this is my opinion, not necessary The End All and Be All, though I've heard other agents who share my thoughts.
I am not impressed by queries that come to me with too much voice. Of course you want your query to have some voice, in the same way that good advertising copy has a personality. But one type of query I often see and that tries way too hard is the query written "by" the protagonist that "introduces" me to the protagonist's author. It goes something like this:
Hiya! I'm 12 and my name's Mackenzie. I'm in a story about all these crazy adventures that my friends and I go on. Even though everyone says I run the show, the gal taking it all down on paper is Jane Doe, a schoolteacher from Philadelphia who has a B.A. in Child Psychology. Whatever that means, teehee! If you want to read my story…
Point is, a query is a cover letter for your writing. It's your foot forward and your first contact with an agent. It's also a business letter. I know I'd never apply for a job by submitting an overly playful resume that's covered in hologram stickers unless I wanted to work at a clown college (and I'm sure that even clown colleges respect a degree of professionalism). That's gimmicky. While gimmicks sometimes pay off, more often than not, they become the stories agents tell when they're hanging out after hours at conferences: "Did you hear the one about the guy who showed up to the pitch slam dressed as a giant baby?" (That's a fictional example I pulled off the top of my head but, actually, I'm sure it has really happened.)
This reminds me of that episode of Arrested Development in the third season where Tobias, a struggling actor, enlists Maeby, his daughter, who has been cutting school because she's secretly a prominent film executive, to help him make goodie bag packages for casting directors. He stuffs them full of headshots, candy, vaguely threatening notes, and packets of glitter…all in the hope of catching their attention.
Maeby, by this point way jaded by the film biz, says, "Casting directors hate this!" Then the scene cuts to a casting director opening one of the packets, getting a shot of glitter to the face, and yelling into the phone, "The glitter queen struck again. Never hire Tobias Fünke!"
Just as I discussed in my post about social networking abuse last week, there are good ways to get attention, and there are bad ways. Glitter-filled packets? Bad. Queries that bend themselves into pretzels trying to be clever and "voicey"? Not my cuppa.
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After what could have only been a tumultuous period of tech and previews, the broadway version of Xanadu opens tonight with bona fide hunk (and sweetheart) Cheyenne Jackson taking on the role of Sonny. While Cheyenne played the role opposite Jane Krakowski during the workshop process of the show, he's returned to the production since James Carpinello was injured and unable to perform.
Break a leg tonight, Cheyenne... just not literally.
UPDATE: I meant to provide some links to the other coverage and interviews Cheyenne has done regarding Xanadu and being an actor and such... check these out!
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Ooh, Katie, pick me, pick me! I know the answer: The most relentless, extended, overwhelming, inescapable marketing assault ever unleashed anywhere on the globe in support of an entertainment product.
I suspect Katie knew the answer as well. Especially since she had flown to England the week before and walked around London's Kings Cross Station asking commuters where she could catch the Hogwarts Express, the fictional train that carries Harry Potter and his friends to wizard school. This was for an NBC News special, "Harry Potter: Behind the Magic."
Forget magic. To borrow a tagline once used to promote this publication: It's all about marketing.
Now before someone sends me a bag of Bertie Botts' ear wax-flavored jellybeans, I want to point out that I've got nothing against Harry Potter. At my daughter Molly's prodding, I read the first J.K. Rowling book days before the movie premiere-and kind of enjoyed it. I also took my kids to see the film the day after it opened. It was a screening, but we would have gone the first weekend regardless, assuming we had been able to find tickets. The movie was also thoroughly entertaining, if long-the result of Ms. Rowling's insistence that the screenplay adhere painstakingly close to the book. (There's an artistic debate here I'm neither qualified nor inclined to engage in.)
I am a harsh critic of marketing that masquerades as entertainment, such as when the plot of a network sitcom is written primarily to meet a marketing goal and only secondarily to entertain its audience. But there's a new phenomenon emerging as ad and entertainment types plot the convergence of their disciplines: Marketing that doesn't mask its intentions, but proudly presents itself-to a complicit audience-as entertainment.
When "Today" interviews the stars of a new film on consecutive mornings for a full week, as a professional skeptic I often wonder if the appearances are related to an undisclosed promotional tie-in. Or maybe the "Today" producers simply recognized the commercial appeal of the film and rode its coattails.
In either case, the practice nauseates me. But lately I'm beginning to think that maybe it doesn't matter. It's not because my anger is useless against the awesome weight and ubiquity of such marketing efforts. Instead, maybe it really doesn't matter so long as the audience sees the marketing orgy for what it clearly is-and either willingly participates in the manipulation or rejects it.
There's not a single person who tuned in to the Victoria's Secret lingerie show on ABC who wasn't aware it was nothing more than an hour-long commercial for the intimate-apparel chain, timed to the holiday shopping season. Yet 13 million people tuned in. Those who didn't want to watch didn't. Similarly, when I think "Today" has gone over the top, I change the channel.
In Jonathan Franzen's novel "The Corrections," a college student refuses to accept her professor's criticism of consumerist society. He hates an ad campaign for an office-equipment manufacturer that consists of vignettes that follow the lives of a group of co-workers, one of whom dies of cancer. "The evil consists in the detachment of the signifier from the signified," the professor rails. "A woman crying no longer just signifies sadness. It signifies: Desire office equipment."
"Bullshit," the student responds, and notes that the campaign empowered women. "Why is it inherently evil to make money?" she asks.
Franzen is no stranger to marketing in the guise of entertainment. His ambivalence to Oprah Winfrey's endorsement of his novel exposed the book to a broader audience than an appearance on her daytime talk show would have. The pseudo-flap also increased the value of his National Book Award win. As Steve Martin, who hosted the awards, noted from the podium: "The National Book Awards are the highest honor a book can receive and still remain obscure." Not true for Franzen. He gets the award. And he gets to keep the Oprah sticker on the cover.


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Who doesn't love the smell of fresh bread baking? Yum! It has to be one of my favorite smells. I have tried several times to make a really good loaf of low carb bread, but wasn't thrilled with the final outcome. After several failed attempts I finally got it right! This recipe makes a very tender bread with a light wheat taste. I used my bread machine to do the mixing and kneading, but you can do it the old fashioned way, by hand. If you use your bread machine, remove the dough after the kneading cycle. Don't let it rise in your machine, it will not rise well a second time.
This recipe makes about 16 slices of bread, about 5.5 carbs per slice. I multiplied this recipe by 1.5 and got two large 10" loaves, 32 slices with 4 carbs per slice.
- 1-1/2 cups my Low Carb Flour Mix
- 1 cup flax meal
- 1/2 cup vital wheat gluten
- 3/4 cup wheat germ (finely ground)
- 1/2 tsp each guar and xanthan gums (optional)
- 2 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbls active dry or bread machine yeast
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar or 1/4 tsp ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C)
- 1/2 cup half & half
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs beaten
- 3 tbls oil
If your oven has a proof setting turn it on to heat the oven. If not, you can proof the dough in your microwave, I'll tell you how in a minute. In a microwave safe bowl, heat water and half & half until warm but not too hot. Stir in the yeast until completely dissolved. Add the oil, sugar and beaten eggs. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the remaining dry ingredients and stir well. Pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well, adding more Low Carb Flour Mix if necessary. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, but be careful not to add too much flour. The more flour you add the heavier the bread will be. The dough should be a little tacky. Cover the dough and let rest for 15 minutes. Prepare a large l0" bread pan with non-stick spray. Oil the surface of the dough and add it to the pan, cover with a clean towel and place in your oven to rise. If you need to do the microwave proof method, take a coffee mug filled with water and bring it to a boil in the microwave, leave the mug inside and add the bread pan. Let the dough rise ONLY until it has doubled in volume, DO NOT let the bread rise too long, it will fall during baking. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, carefully place the bread pan inside and cook for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. To test for doneness, tap on the top of the crust, it should have a hollow sound. Take the bread out of the pan, place on a cooling rack and allow to cool until no longer hot before slicing. When completely cool, store in a bread box or cake keeper. Once you cut the bread, place it cut side down to retain freshness. Don't put you bread in a plastic bag, the will soften the crust and make it stale faster. I hope you enjoy this delicious bread! I am going to modify my pizza crust with this recipe in mind, so check back later for the revised recipe.
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The ICC World Cup gets underway in the Caribbean on March 11 and with matches taking place over a suitably laid-back six weeks, there are still ample opportunities to combine the thwack of leather on willow with the squelch of sun cream on back.
England fans have probably had enough of seeing their team thrashed in glorious weather conditions this winter, but the unlikely CB Series triumph has raised the prospect of atoning for the Ashes debacle.
The tournament's length and the fact that the matches are played over a large area means staying out there for long will prove expensive - plenty of the all-inclusive packages including match tickets weigh in at several thousand pounds. So with some group game tickets costing between $15 and $30 (£7.70 to £15.40) and Super 8 (quarter-final) matches priced between $25 and $100, some fans might decide to arrange their own trips by snapping up cheap flights. A third option is to secure a flight and accommodation package and arrange match tickets on arrival. Even with the tournament just weeks away, there are plenty of deals still available in all three categories.
Flight-only deals
Fans planning their own trips might want to consider charter flights, which are frequently cheaper than scheduled flights. For departures on March 11, the Charter Flight Centre has departures to Montego Bay in Jamaica for £249rtn to get you there just in time for the start of Group D's games on March 13. Super 8 games get underway in Barbados on April 11 and Charter Flight Centre has a flight departing Manchester on April 13 for £459rtn for seven nights.
Prices for return flights with bmi from Heathrow to Barbados start from £493 with lastminute.com (valid until April 29 for travel until April 29). BMI will also be flying to Antigua once a week during the tournament with economy fares starting at £551.
The Irish will need all of their famous luck when they line up for their Group D match against Pakistan in Kingston on March 17 but, as the match is taking place on St Patrick's day, a good party is guaranteed even if an upset isn't. Air Jamaica (0208 570 7999) will fly you from London Heathrow to Kingston or Montego Bay on March 15 with prices starting from £707 including all taxes, fees and charges. You can also fly to Kingston from Gatwick with Delta Airlines with fares starting from £512 via Lastminute.com (0870 443 9902).
Book flights and accommodation
When the Super 8 stage arrives, the four-star Tamarind Cove resort in Barbados has a seven-night, full-board deal including BA Gatwick flights with prices from £1964pp for departures between April 11-30 based on two people sharing. British Airways; 0870 243 3406.
Virgin Holidays has an all-inclusive seven-night break in St Lucia to coincide with England playing their group games on the island. Prices start from £1169pp and include Virgin Atlantic flights from London Gatwick or Manchester to St Lucia on March 16. Virgin Holidays; 0871 222 0304.
Catch two Super 8 games at the Recreation Ground in Antigua by booking a week's stay at Hawksbill, a palm-fringed resort with four white sand beaches. Prices start from £1300pp based on two sharing for a week in March, including return BA flights from Gatwick. Expedia; 0871 226 0808.
Deals including match tickets
See England's Group C games against New Zealand, Canada and Kenya in St Lucia while staying at the Coconut Bay Resort & Spa on an all-inclusive basis from March 13-27. Prices start from £2,278pp and include a deluxe ocean-view room, match tickets and all transfers. Kuoni; 01306 744153.
Barbados is hosting six matches at the Super 8 stage and you can see all of them while enjoying 14 nights' all-inclusive accommodation at the Almond Beach Club & Spa from £5,505pp. The price also includes return economy flights with Virgin Atlantic. Kuoni; 01306 744153.
Antigua is also staging six Super 8 matches and fans with time to burn can settle into the Grand Pineapple Resort for a mammoth 18-day stay, including tickets for all matches. Prices start from a similarly epic £3,999pp and include Category 1 match tickets, economy return Virgin Atlantic flights with from London Gatwick, airport transfers, all-inclusive accommodation in a standard room and taxes based on a March 24 departures. Available from Sporting Journeys on 0870 708 2001.
Slightly less damaging to your annual leave entitlement - if not your wallet - is an all-inclusive package for a 14-night stay in a holiday cottage at Galley Bay, Antigua. Prices start from £4,770pp and include Virgin Atlantic economy flights from London Gatwick on March 28, airport transfers, all-inclusive accommodation, and Category 1 tickets for the five Super 8 matches during your stay. Call Sporting Journeys on 0870 708 2001.
If watching two Super 8 matches, seeing the best of the Caribbean region and swapping bar stories with retired England cricketers sounds like your idea of a good time, then ITC Sports' Cricket Cruise should appeal. Prices start from £4,995pp and the package includes eight nights aboard a luxury yacht (embark Antigua April 4, disembark Barbados April 12) plus tickets to watch one match in Antigua and one in Barbados. All meals and drinks are included and, between matches, the yacht will explore the islands of St Lucia, Isla Des Saintes, St Martin and St Barths. To top it all off, the onboard hosts are England veterans Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb and Robin Smith. Flights are not included but can be arranged through ITC Sports; 01244 355304.
Fans looking to experience the excitement of the tournament's climax can chose between two packages offering tickets to one semi-final and the all-important final, with plenty of time for relaxation in between. A 14-night all-inclusive break in St Lucia and Barbados, with tickets to the St Lucia semi-final on April 25 and the final in Barbados on April 28, costs from £5,279pp with return Virgin Atlantic economy flights departing April 20 and inter-island flights. One cheaper option is to see the Jamaica semi-final on April 24 and the final four days later while staying at the Hilton Kingston in Jamaica and the Barbados Beach Club. A 14-night all-inclusive deal, including economy return Virgin Atlantic flights departing April 23 and inter-island flights, costs from £3,989pp from Kuoni (01306 744153).
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TELUS Implements, invests and resells Taulia's Dynamic Discounting solution
Taulia, market-leading SaaS platform for dynamic discounting, announced today it has entered into a strategic relationship with TELUS, a telecommunications leader headquartered in Canada. Through this alliance, TELUS will implement Taulia internally, as well as invest in and resell the solution in the Canadian market.
"Taulia has experienced phenomenal success over the past year, building a global customer base and becoming the industry's fastest growing buyer network," said Bertram Meyer, Taulia CEO. "This strategic investment from TELUS will allow Taulia to further capitalize on this rapid growth and significantly expand our business to the Canadian market through a market-leading organization. TELUS' commitment to use Taulia for their own invoicing and payment processes, as well as their desire to resell the product into the Canadian market, speaks to the confidence they have in this partnership."
Established in 2009, Taulia has developed a web-based Dynamic Discounting solution that is easy to install and maintain and streamlines the payable process, while saving organizations millions of dollars annually.
"TELUS is pleased to enter this new partnership with Taulia and with the power of the go-to-market alliance we are creating," said Mathew George, vice-president of TELUS Ventures. "We are always seeking investment opportunities with companies that have both a strong earning potential and a focus within our areas of growth. The Taulia platform solution allows for simplified invoicing, discount capture and is highly scalable to TELUS and to our partners."
Later this year, TELUS team will begin using the solution to manage their supplier payment process and the TELUS sales team will offer it to TELUS customers through TELUS Financial Services.
"The marketplace demand for a dynamic discounting solution, combined with its successful track record, make Taulia a high-value offer to our client base in Financial Services, Health and other verticals," said Keith Nugara, vice-president of TELUS Financial Services Market. "This platform is a natural extension of our suite of payment products and services, allowing us to extend our relationship into the client's accounts payable and receivable services."
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T; NYSE: TU) is a leading telecommunications company in Canada, thanks to $11 billion in annual revenue and 13.2 million customer connections, including 7.7 million wireless subscribers, 3.4 million wireline network access lines, 1.4 million Internet subscribers and 712,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet Protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video.
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The top quality technical conference programme serves as a major highlight at Petrotech 2016, typically featuring 90+ high level technical papers. The conference also features keynote and plenary sessions which assemble high profile executives and technical experts from refining and marketing organisations worldwide, as well as representatives from associated industries, who address current issues of widespread importance to the downstream oil and gas industry.
The conference content is managed by a committee of industry experts representing NOCs, IOCs, service providers and academia active in the region who ensure that the programme content is topical and has special relevance to the Middle East. Presenting a paper at Petrotech 2016 or attending the conference provides delegates with unique networking and educational opportunities.
Highlights include:
- Executive Plenary Session
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Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
The Great Horned Owls is a very large, powerful owl with prominent ear-tufts. It was first seen in the Virginia colonies, so its species name "virginianus" was created from the Latinised form of this name. Great Horned Owls are sometimes known as Hoot Owls, Cat Owls or Winged Tigers. This powerful predator can take down birds and mammals even larger than itself, but it also dines on daintier fare such as tiny scorpions, mice, and frogs. It's one of the most common owls in North America.
The facial disc is rusty-brown to ochre-buff, paler around the eyes, with a prominent blackish rim on each side. Eyes are yellow, with blackish edged eyelids. The bill is greyish. Eyebrows are prominent and whitish. Ear-tufts are long and tousled. The Ear-Tufts are not actually their ears but are just a feathers. It may have developed as a mood indicator to other Great Horned Owls. Depending on their mood the tufts can be upright or laid back along the head. From a photographic stand it is always exciting to have your Great Horned Owl pictures with the tufts in the upright position.
There is considerable variation in the colouration depending on where they are found but the body shape is consistent. The Great Horned Owl is heavily built with a barrel shape, large round head and large broad wings. The chest and belly area is usually light in colour with dark barring, however the bars can be reddish or darker brown. The back is generally a darker mottled brown.
They have a body length of 18-24 inches, wingspan of 39-57 inches and a body weight of 36-88 ounces.
Found all across North America up to the northern tree line, Great Horned Owls usually gravitate toward secondary-growth woodlands, swamps, orchards, and agricultural areas, but they are found in a wide variety of deciduous, coniferous or mixed forests. In some areas, such as the southern Appalachians, they prefer old-growth stands. Their home range usually includes some open habitat—such as fields, wetlands, pastures, or croplands—as well as forest. In deserts, they may use cliffs or juniper for nesting. Great Horned Owls are also fairly common in wooded parks, suburban area, and even cities.
Great Horned Owls have the most diverse diet of all North American raptors. Their prey range in size from tiny rodents and scorpions to hares, skunks, geese, and raptors. They eat mostly mammals and birds—especially rabbits, hares, mice, and American Coots, but also many other species including voles, moles, shrews, rats, gophers, chipmunks, squirrels, woodchucks, marmots, prairie dogs, bats, skunks, house cats, porcupines, ducks, loons, mergansers, grebes, rails, owls, hawks, crows, ravens, doves, and starlings. They supplement their diet with reptiles, insects, fish, invertebrates, and sometimes carrion. Although they are usually nocturnal hunters, Great Horned Owls sometimes hunt in broad daylight. After spotting their prey from a perch, they pursue it on the wing over woodland edges, meadows, wetlands, open water, or other habitats. They may walk along the ground to stalk small prey around bushes or other obstacles.
Nesting begins in January to February. If they find each other interesting they go through a courting ritual which include bowing to each other and beak rubbing. Like other owls they do not make their own nests but will reuse nest from larger birds like herons, hawks, crows and ravens. They will also use large tree cavities or the hollowed out tree tops, abandoned buildings and artificial platforms. They are extremely aggressive when defending the nest and will continue to attack until the intruder is killed or driven off. Normally, two to four eggs are laid and incubated by the female only for 26-35 days. Young start roaming from the nest onto nearby branches at 6 to 7 weeks, when they are called "branchers", but cannot fly well until 9 to 10 weeks old. They are fed for another few weeks as they are slowly weaned.
The young will remain in their parent territory over the summer until the fall when they move out and find their own territories and mates. A pair will maintain their breeding grounds for a number of years if there is sufficient food supply. However, while they remain a pair they often separate in their territory and only come together during their breeding period.
There are a number of similar owls in other parts of the world that fill in the environmental niche as the Great Horned Owl but these are found only in the new world of North and South America.
Subspecies: B. v. virginianus, B. v. elachistus, B. v. heterocnemis, B. v. lagophonus, B. v. mayensis, B. v. mesembrinus, B. v. nacurutu, B. v. nigrescens, B. v. pacificus, B. v. pallescens, B. v. saturatus, B. v. subarcticus, B. v. wapacuthu, B. v. deserti
References: Cornell Labs of Ornithology, The Owl Pages, Wikipedia


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Clearly. They don't let you know about autoplay adding charges if you don't turn it off. That's only the tip of the iceberg. In using word documents, in navigating the internet, in using various websites I notice a common trend. These companies don't care about the customer at all. There is little drive to maximize convenience in the computer industry.
Why hasn't the market corrected this? Why hasn't a competitor come forward to tout how they do things differently from Facebook? If a company came forward and said they were a social networking site that would also let you know about new features if they were going to charge you for it on your phone then that would be a selling point.
Yes They should have warned users about the auto play feature. While I do think that sometimes people need to be aware and responsible of the features that they are using sometimes people have no idea about these kinds of things. If they are going to charge you for it their needs to be a notification.
I strongly support every new Facebook feature to be well in advance explained to users. Also, to be reversible, if it is not welcomed by a user. I only use Facebook on my PC, which is also work PC, and I find it quite annoying. I often talk over the phone with a client and suddenly some strange sounds, from another autoplay on my Facebook wall, start. I often have to mute my PC to prevent such awkward situations.
Yes, Facebook should have warned users about its autoplay feature.The autoplay feature launches content that users have not selected to play, exposing the user and often whoever is in the immediate vicinity to content they would not otherwise play. The content may be merely distracting, or it could be offensive.
Facebook should have indeed had some kind of update page for their autoplay feature. I looked over the terms of use and didn't find it, maybe someone else did, but I didn't. At the very least, they should have some explanation on how to turn it off. The above article was very helpful in telling me how to turn that feature off. Thanks guys.
I don't believe that Facebook failed the users in any way or harmed anyone by not warning them about the Autoplay feature. It seems to me that the feature is helpful and was easily mastered once people were aware of it. I don't see many negative impacts on the users, which would be the only reason to prompt Facebook to give a warning over something so trivial.


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Retailers, represented by the National Retail Foundation, promised that consumers would benefit when retailers, particularly small businesses, were to benefit from regulated interchange (swipe) fees charged by Visa and MasterCard. The regulation, commonly called the "Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act," would lower the cost for businesses who were subject to an effective duopoly between Visa and MasterCard, paying a percentage of every debit card transaction to the processor.
These fees are higher for transactions with any card that is more than just vanilla, and retailers have dealt with this high cost of doing business in an age where an increasing number of transactions are handled electronically mainly by increasing the costs of products overall.
The National Retail Federation claimed last year that consumers would see the benefit of reduced interchange fees. Regulated cards — and not every issuer is subject to this regulation — carry interchange fees with a maximum of 0.05% of the transaction plus $0.21. The standard fee for a non-regulated card (reviewing Visa's schedule of interchange reimbursement fees as of October 2011 [pdf]) is 1.90% of the transaction plus $0.25 for every swipe of the card.
If retailers intended for the consumer to benefit, the only way for that to happen would be in the form of lower prices. Here are a few comments from representatives of the retail industry, as compiled by the Electronic Payments Coalition:
- "The reform will save each franchisee in the country almost 50% of the cost of a debit transaction, which ultimately will be passed on to the customer… It is simply a fact that lower merchant costs will lead to lower consumer prices." (Bruce Maples, Chairman, National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees)
- "Merchants are ready to pass lower swipe fees along to consumers in the form of discounts and other benefits as soon as reform goes into effect…" (Mallory Duncan of the National Retail Federation)
- "Merchants are making a wide variety of plans to pass the savings along to customers who use debit cards, ranging from discounted prices to benefits and increased services such as free delivery at an appliance store…" (National Retail Federation press release)
- "Secondly, to the extent that a merchant receives a benefit, I do believe that from a competitive standpoint, they will bring that through to the consumer." (Robert Donovan, Corporate VP & U.S. Assistant Treasurer, McDonald's
If you've been shopping throughout the past year, particularly since October 1, 2011 when the regulation went into effect, you probably haven't noticed prices decreasing. In fact, I would say prices overall, from my anecdotal experience, have continued to rise. Recent research confirms this suspicion, to the tune of a 1.7% increase across a list of common items.
According to a consumer survey conducted by Ipsos Research, only 7% of consumers believe that retailers are passing these savings onto customers. 76% of retailers have increased their prices or kept them constant since October 1, 2011.
At the same time of these increases for customers, retailers have saved $2.28 billion as a result of the regulation. When we discussed this on shizennougyou, most readers didn't expect retailers to lower prices. Why should they? Small retailers have the opportunity to reduce their costs while not affecting revenue by keeping prices steady. That's how businesses can survive in difficult times. Large retailers may have healthier profits due to volume, but the ability for large retailers to offer low prices is their strength, and don't have the margins to reduce prices much.
Could it be possible that these promises of savings for the consumer were promoted by the industry to garner more public support for regulations?
Photo: Walmart Stores
Electronic Payments Coalition
Published or updated February 22, 2012.


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Transportation Funding
Across Pennsylvania, bridges are buckling, roads are crumbling, and working people are burning more fuel to go fewer miles. Delays in necessary repair and maintenance work, coupled with rising prices in materials and reduced revenues yielded the perfect storm we currently face. In 2011Governor Corbett's Transportation Funding Advisory Commission developed a strategic proposal for addressing the transportation funding needs of Pennsylvania. In August 2011, the Commission issued its final report identifying the substantial challenges we face as well as their recommendations for meeting them.
In their report, the Commission projects that the future gap to fund transportation infrastructure in Pennsylvania will more than double to $7.2 billion by 2020 if no action is taken. Currently, we face more than $3.5 billion in unmet transportation needs, due in large part to the inadequate funding methods of the past. Our Commonwealth has the most structurally deficient bridges in the nation, both in terms of number (5,906) and percentage (26.5% of 22,271). The temperature and weather changes of freeze/thaw cycles subject our pavements to cracking and expanding, while chemicals used to clear roads of ice and snow decrease the life of a pavement when compared to more temperate states.
Make no mistake, the situation is dire. We cannot improve Pennsylvania's economy unless we have comprehensive, safe, convenient, affordable transportation and transit, so people can get to work and goods can move from business to business and from business to the consumer. I include in the term "business," agriculture, the state's biggest industry. In April of 2012, the legislature passed a privatization bill that takes care of some tiny amount of the billions we must invest in mobility infrastructure. We need a solution that does not fear imposing a tax (on Marcellus shale would be the best strategy), so we can meet our obligations without penalizing commuters or drivers.
I will work especially with elected officials who represent farmers to achieve some of these goals.


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Website owner
Medical Student Missions
William W. Forgey M.D.
James D. Ross
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November 27, 2011
We also provide manpower
to the local hospital
and the cholera clinic.
The Haitian
inland landscape.
Haiti volunteer lodging.
Lodging's perimeter
Dr. Forgey attending
to a young patient.
Volunteers attending to a woman's leg laceration.
Dr. Forgey talks with children.
Medical Student Mission's main goal is to provide the people of Verrettes
(a small town in Haiti three hours away from Port-au-Prince),
with quality medical care as an adjunct to the local hospital.
Medical Student Missions volunteers.
Currently, our organization makes monthly trips to Verrettes,
in order to hold mobile clinics that give the Haitian people
an opportunity to receive healthcare.
Protecting volunteers, responding to natural disasters,
promoting global health.
Learning Through Service
Our project provides an opportunity for service.
We do not believe in using religion or political motives
as a premise for providing care.
We are secular.
We take persons from all religious and political backgrounds.
We need volunteers to assist us with our medical mission.
We need non-medical people to make our work successful.
Non medical volunteers help with fitting eyeglasses,
providing water to long lines of patients,
and helping run our mobile field clinics in many ways.
We also need medical volunteers.
We can use nurses, doctors, medical and dental students,
as well as pre-dental and pre-medical students.
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volunteers providing medical treatment.
Long lines of Haitians form where water is handed out.
We are www.medicalstudentmissions.org a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our rural mobile clinics are held under the auspices of the department of health of Haiti (Department of Population and Sanitation). We have Haitian public health department nurses work with us in all of our clinics.
Our Medical Director is William W. Forgey, MD.
Dr. Forgey is currently on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Medical Assistance for Travelers (IAMAT), Toronto.
He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He serves as the Medical Director of the Community Health Department of St. Mary Medical Center, Hobart, Indiana, and he practices Family and Travel Medicine in Merrillville, Indiana.
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Click here for his complete biography
Young Haitian boy walks his goat.
Woman and child waiting to see a medical volunteer.
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From mid-November 2009 the new smart fortwo electric drive will roll off the production line at the smart factory in Hambach, France. Unlike its predecessor, the electrically driven smart fortwo of the second generation is fitted with an innovative and highly efficient lithium-ion battery. It is housed in a space-saving position between the axles, which means that space is not compromised in any way in the intelligent two-seater vehicle.Read more 2009 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive Launched in Limited Numbers
Following successful trials in the UK, the iconic, zero-emission, smart fortwo electric drive is ready for small series production. Reaction from customers taking part in the UK trial, including the Metropolitan Police, universities, local councils, architects and energy companies, has proved so encouraging that smart's parent company, Daimler AG, can confirm that the smart electric drive will go into small series production, with cars coming to the UK in early 2010. The second generation...Read more 2009 smart fortwo edition limited three
A special edition of the smart fortwo will be celebrating its world premiere at the 79th Geneva Motor Show. The "edition limited three" boasts exclusive, elegant paintwork and a spring-like fresh interior design concept. Thanks to mhd technology as standard, the cult two-seater car combines a chic appearance with outstanding environmental friendliness. The smart fortwo "edition limited three" will be produced as a limited series. smart is welcoming the spring with a...Read more 2009 smart fortwo all-electric
smart widens its appeal going into 2009 by launching a new model which gives customers even more value for money and continuing its drive towards a greener future. On the back of the recently launched smart mhd (micro hybrid drive), which offers fuel savings of up to 24% in stop-start situations, the eagerly anticipated smart cdi, goes on sale in March 2009. The smart cdi returns a staggering 83.1 miles per gallon on the combined cycle and boasts the lowest CO2 emissions of any current...Read more Driven – Smart ForTwo dci - The world's most economical production car
The Smart Fortwo dci will go on sale in the UK early in 2009 and has already been driven by a select number of journalists. Claimed as the most economical production car on sale anywhere in the world today the fuel miser is generating much interest. Most people want to know how much fuel does it consume, how fast is it, and how does it cope outside the heavy traffic of a busy city?Read more Review: 2008 smart Fortwo, How smart is it?
So what are smart cars all about? The marque smart is the acronym for, "Swatch Mercedes ART", which was a project by both Mercedes-Benz and Swiss manufacturer Swatch; to develop a new breed of production vehicles. First known as the Swatchmobile, the new designs were set to use new innovative hybrid technologies to achieve the objective of economical cars that are simple to park. Keeping this in mind and taking a glance over the production model smart Fortwo, you can actually see they...Read more 2009 Smart Fortwo MHD, Confirmed to Arrive - (Australia)
One of the world's most fuel-efficient cars, the smart fortwo mhd (micro hybrid drive), will be in Australia showrooms this December, just in time for Christmas. This new and ultra-efficient version of the iconic two-seater city car brings with it the same levels of safety, engineering and driving fun as the current model except it will now be offered with further savings in fuel consumption, fewer carbon dioxide emissions as well as reduced levels of urban noise. Studies have shown that,...Read more 2009 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive - (Global)
At the recent Paris Motor Show 2008 smart presented the latest generation smart fortwo with electric drive to an international audience for the first time. In future, the advantages of the smart fortwo electric drive, which produces no local emissions, will be demonstrated in everyday service in the project "e-mobility Berlin" which Daimler AG presented together with the energy provider RWE at the beginning of September 2008. This project underlines the pioneering role of the young...Read more Daimler Starts Mobility Concept for the City
With car2go, Daimler is launching a completely new mobility concept and is providing a future-oriented answer to increasing traffic volume in urban areas. "car2go is an intelligent and creative solution that provides a simple, flexible and value-for-money approach to mobility with environmentally-friendly vehicles" is how Dr Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, describes the objective of the project. On 24 October 2008 the first pilot phase will start in the...Read more New 2008 Smart fortwo Special Edition - (UK)
smart enthusiasts searching for that certain something extra need look no further than the exclusive smart fortwo special edition - limited two.Read more Smart Model Range Update - (Global)
From October 2008 the standard equipment of the 45 kW/61 bhp and 52 kW/71 bhp petrol-engined smart fortwo models will include micro hybrid drive (mhd) technology with a user-friendly automatic start-stop system. This reduces the NEDC consumption of the two naturally aspirated engines by an average of 8 percent. In city traffic fuel savings of almost 20 percent are even possible.Read more Greenest Smart Bound for Britain - (UK)
The world's CO2 champion, the smart fortwo cdi, is coming to Britain. Sales of the new smart diesel model, which boasts the lowest CO2 emissions of any current production car worldwide, just 88g/km, will start next year with manufacturing of right-hand drive models commencing in February.Read more Auto China 2008: smart fortwo to be Launched in China in Mid 2009
Dr. Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, announced at the Auto China Beijing 2008 that the smart fortwo will be available to Chinese customers from mid 2009.Read more The All New smart fortwo is Now Here
The new smart fortwo is the consistent evolution of a car that is unrivalled in terms of shape, use and nature. Released to an eager European market in 1998, the first generation of the smart achieved cult status in a very short space of time. The smart fortwo sets standards in its class in terms of comfort, agility, safety and environmental friendliness.Read more smart fortwo cdi Awarded Yet Again
Following its successful US market introduction and just ahead of its Australian debut, Italian motoring magazine Quattroruote has awarded the all-new smart fortwo a special accolade. The award was given to the turbo-diesel-powered variant on account of its exemplary fuel consumption and environmental friendliness.Read more


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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- The Mount Kisco Chamber of Commerce kicked off its 44th annual Sidewalk Sales Days on Saturday, as area residents flocked to Moger Avenue to find a festival-like atmosphere, along with great deals from local merchants up and down the avenue.
Tents with merchants lined Moger Avenue, Shopper's Park, and the area behind Village Hall, as visitors found live music from a number of area bands, food and drink, and rides and activities for the kids.
Sidewalk Sales Days, which was to continue through Sunday, featured as many as 140 local exhibitors offering clothing, jewelry, artwork, hand bags and much more.
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MOL and China Shipping (Group) Company confirmed today an order for three icebreaking-capable LNG carriers from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) destined for use to ship LNG from the Yamal peninsula in Russia.
Beginning in 2018, the new tankers will be used deliver LNG to Europe and Asia via the Arctic Ocean from the Yamal Peninsula in northern Russia by Russia's second-largest gas producer Novatek, France's Total and China National Petroleum Corporation, according to Reuters. The icebreaker tankers are expected to deliver LNG to Europe via the route all year while they will likely transport the gas to Asia only between July and November, an MOL spokesman said.
MOL notes these 299 meter, 172,000 cbm capacity ships will have independent ice-breaking capabilities that will enable them to sail through ice 2.1 meters thick. While in icebreaking mode, the ship will operate in reverse while being pulled along via three pod-type propulsors.
Six additional newbuilds will also been ordered according to a report by Bloomberg, however the owners have not been identified.