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On a cliff: Bold Rock plans to build big
So we're getting ready to drive to Richmond for the UVA Board of Visitors meeting Wednesday morning when we get a call from John Washburn, the bossman out at Bold Rock Cider in Nelson County.
He's asking if we want to write about the 11,000 square foot cider barn that he's building on a mountainside over Nellyford. Well, sure, but can you send us a pretty picture showing how it'll look?
He's got blueprints, but no artistic rendering, so we start chatting instead about the 700 exposed beams including one that measures three feet by four feet and 50 feet long. And then we start discussing his vision of floor-to-ceiling glass and the fact that this new building will be up on a cliff.
"We're taking this big plunge due to the wonderful demand we've experienced," says Washburn.
It seems that although he just recently began bottling and selling the cider in June he has already inked a contract with Budweiser to distribute his ciders across the state. After all, his cider maker, Brian Shanks, came all the way from New Zealand on a visa that noted his "extraordinary ability."
Well, sorry, you gotta send us the pretty picture of the new building, we tell him. But then something happened shortly before the drive to Richmond.
We slip into a downtown apartment, open the fridge, and there's a bottle of the "Virginia Apple" variety. It's crisp, it's cool, and gently alcohol-laden.
And so we put the bottle next to a window for a pretty picture while we await a pretty picture– or the completion– of the big bottling barn on a cliff.Read more on: hard cider
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Cider seems to be making a "comeback" here in Virginia and it is very exciting! I do wonder though - what is the difference between something like Potter's Craft Cider or Foggy Ridge and Bold Rock. I've had all three and the Bold Rock cider is a different beast. I have a feeling that Bold Rock may be using concentrate and not actual apples - and tossing in a bunch of sugar. Some people might not care about the difference if it all tastes good but I do - especially if Budweiser has joined the party.
Distribution by Budweiser is a huge red flag. I'll taste it and I hope I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not holding my breath.
I've been there and they use nothing but fresh apples, mostly from Nelson County. If you haven't tried it it is very refreshing and tastey ! The differance in taste is like the differance in beer or wine, depends on the maker.
Swilling hard cider on a Wednesday morning before driving from Charlottesville to Richmond?
Journalism: still the good life.
Where can you get the Cider now? Is it in local grocery stores or only through the Brewer?
I bought a six pack of the cider at Foods of All Nations this past saturday. They had two different varieties of Bold Rock
Gotta love the photo - if I were Bud I'd sign for the rights pronto.
@Chris - I did ask around about this and it does seem they are using actual apples which makes sense given their location. I was just curious about the differences between mass produced cider (which this must be given the Budweiser interest) and "real cider".
When you get into this level of production, I think it would be impossible not to be using additional apple concentrate, sugar and additional sweeteners, and then fermenting with a controlled yeast strain. Traditional cider is made with whole pressed apples that are fermented by the wild yeasts present on the skin. There is no way they could be sourcing enough apples to make traditional cider. I think it is important for people to understand the difference.
@Moses Apple: I was ready to diss this cider...corporate distribution: Ahah!
I toured...tasted...bought a case. The apples are squished before your eyes. The juice is pumped to the vat room. Yeast and carefully controlled temps make the difference. Soo, it is the real deal. Delicious, not a hint of mold or additives. Another success for route 151.
This is indeed an industrially produced cider that uses co2 stored apples (the "fresh" apples they used in production this Spring). Fermented with the addition of sugar to a higher (than if fermented without the addition of glucose) alcohol content and then watered back to 4.7% ABV (alcohol by volume). Sure it is local but not that different than other mass produced corporate ciders on the market. @Momsy "Yeast and carefully controlled temps make the difference" sounds like some phrase lifted from an ad. If you want the real deal try locally based Castle Hill, Albemarle CiderWorks or Potter's Craft.
Dear Moses Apple,
Please visit Bold Rock Hard Cider before making such silly comments. Talk with Brian Shanks, a master hard cider maker who was asked by Bulmer's in Great Britain to head their cider industry years ago. He'd be happy to set you straight in your misguided beliefs about Bold Rock's cider (and their association with Budweiser). You'd perhaps be more than welcome to watch the process from beginning to end, thus becoming a bit more educated about the new addition to Nelson 151.
One of their employees
@john gault....I have tasted one of the other ciders you mentioned. I didn't care for what I would term a muddy taste with mold overtones. I do know what yeast is. Temperatures that are kept within certain limits are what I call 'carefully controlled.' No corporate talk here, just reporting what I saw.
@Momsy – I never said that you did not know what yeast was. I said that your phrase "Yeast and carefully controlled temps make the difference" sounds like some phrase lifted from an ad. (Do you work for Hill & Knowlton? I did not check the metatags!) And of course the temperature is controlled as is the case with any fermentation process. Each of the real local CRAFT cideries produce several varieties of cider. Try more than one before you make a general judgment about them. Traditional cider is dryer so if you like the "apple soda pop" flavor of an industrial cider stick with Bold Rock or Woodchuck.
@Moses Apple – I agree it is important for people to understand the difference.

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Being young and black in America is still dangerous
On New Year's Eve, 2009, Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan: Chronicle) decided to take the BART to San Francisco to see fireworks and party with friends. By 9:15am the next morning, the 22-year-old was dead.
Stopped by BART officers who suspected Oscar and his friends were fighting on the train, he was handcuffed, restrained and eventually shot by those sworn to keep the peace. The incident was captured, in graphic detail, by dozens of passengers.
The ending to Fruitvale Station isn't a secret. It's revealed in the first moments of the movie. You can see the real videos of the shooting on YouTube. The movie isn't about how Oscar's story ends but where it might have gone.
In the months before his death, Oscar is trying to turn over a new leaf. He's out of jail, but reform is harder than it might seem. He's just lost a job he needs to make ends meet, is in a precarious position with his girlfriend and is trying to prove to his mother that he's changed. Being an upstanding man takes money he doesn't have, so throughout his last day, he considers returning to drug dealing to support his daughter and girlfriend.
Despite his troubles, his spirit never breaks. Always ready with an easy, inviting smile, he travels around town brightening many days along his way. He helps a girl at the grocery store pick out fish, pets stray dogs and runs errands for his sister. Writer/director Ryan Coogler mars his feature film debut by over-emphasizing Oscar Grant's virtues. As a seatmate said after the movie, "They didn't need to make him so perfect. Even a jerk doesn't deserve to be shot like that."
Fruitvale Station loses more power to contrivance by having nearly every character warn Oscar not to go out that night.
Michael B. Jordan overcomes convoluted dialog and plotting. With a winning smile and troubled eyes, Jordan gives Oscar a charisma and humanity that leaves you dreading the last harrowing moments of the film. In the long scenes where he plays with his daughter, you get a sense of the loss the Grant family suffered that January morning.
With Trayvon Martin's death and its aftermath hot in the news, Fruitvale Station feels especially topical. Oscar and his friends were loud, dressed in baggy clothing — and black. That was enough to put them all at risk when faced with BART officers.
Fruitvale Station is far from a perfect movie, but it's worth a view, in part for Jordan's tour de force performance, in part to consider how fear and racial assumptions can lead to tragedy.


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Back to blogland . . . sort of! Tried to take a pic of some lovely fat wild geese this morning, but they took flight - I think I interrupted their breakfast, oops!
Back with some 'crafty' posts soon I hope, I've missed 'talking' to all my blogging buddies but will catch up with everyone soon!
Cheerio an Drasda :)
P.S. Will keep you posted as to whether I will be continuing with any 'commercial crafting activity' or not, when I figure it out myself, hehe!!


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I loooooove Rene Russo. I love her! I loved her in Lethal Weapon, I loved her in the Thomas Crown movie, and I love, love, love her hair. Can you believe this woman is 53? I am nearly 20 years younger, I have never ever looked this good. And if she's had work done, so be it. It's subtle, she doesn't frighten me, more power to her. Full Story


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By James Whitemore
The cloud. It seems like everyone from technology pundits to mothers in TV commercials are is talking about how computing is moving to the cloud—the delivery of applications to distributed users from a central location rather than putting software on individual PCs or local servers.
There's certainly an element of truth to that. Gartner estimates the cloud market will reach $150 billion by 2013. Among the reasons for this sudden interest in cloud-based computing and communications are:
But what does that really mean for credit unions? Do you now need to abandon your current technology investment and move it to the cloud?
If you don't perform a complete rip-and-replace right now, do you risk being left behind and losing market share to more cloud-savvy competitors?
That's certainly how some so-called experts make it sound. Yet many of those with their heads firmly entrenched in the cloud are ignoring the realities of business in general and financial institutions in particular.
To help you decide whether you're ready to move to the cloud, here are five important elements to consider.
1. Distributed vs. centralized enterprise
The first consideration should be whether your credit union operates out of a single location or has multiple branches (like most mid- to large-size credit unions).
If all of the staff work out of one facility, and that's all you plan to have, you may not need a cloud-based solution. But if you have multiple locations or a significant number of mobile employees who need full, instant access to your network, moving to the cloud simplifies management of communications and applications—which, in turn, improves collaboration between employees.
With cloud-based unified communications, for example, the technology is hosted in a single branch, and services are then delivered to the others. This method eliminates the need to have information technology (IT) staff in each location, or have them travel between locations to provide support.
It also makes it easier to keep software and services up-to-date since the central host is being updated rather than each individual user's equipment. Users can work together more efficiently through features such as Web conferencing and manage their individual communication needs in a way that fits the work they perform.
2. IT staff size and capabilities
The next consideration is the size of your IT staff. In the past few years, many financial institutions have pared their IT staffs, particularly in maintenance functions.
Additionally, while technology has continued to advance at an ever-accelerating pace, little has been spent on training or upgrading skill sets.
As a result, as we come out of the economic downturn, your IT staff may not be prepared to help you take advantage of new technologies internally—especially with the complexities and robust security requirements of today's communications technologies.
Cloud-based computing solves that issue because the burden of keeping up with technology advances shifts to the service provider. Your staff can continue to focus on clients and difference-making projects while outside specialists manage commodity services, such as voice and video.
You maintain overall control, but don't have to expend staff time (and budget) to keep commodity services at peak levels.
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Whatever your natural skin color, you may have strong views about tanning (for or against). Here's what turned things around for an undergraduate at the University of Memphis, Tennessee: "Everyone in the town I grew up in tanned. I'm naturally very pale, and I always felt out of place and under-appreciated because of it. A close friend was diagnosed with skin cancer at age 15. I was incredibly shocked. I thought only old people could get cancer. After he was diagnosed (he survived), I vowed always to take care of my skin."
Any tan is an unhealthy tan
Contrary to what you may have heard, there is no such thing as a "healthy" tan. Any tan is a sign of skin cell damage from ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can lead to prematurely-aged skin (hello, wrinkles) and skin cancer.
Tanning beds blast out UV radiation
Skin damage from UV radiation comes from both the sun's rays and artificial sunlight. In fact, sunlamps used in indoor tanning beds may be more harmful than the sun. That's because they give off the same high-intensity UV rays all the time, while the sun's intensity changes throughout the day and year. "There are no regulations to monitor the amount or intensity of UV light emitted by the [bulbs] used in most tanning facilities in most states," says Dr. Jonathan S. Weiss, a dermatologist who practices in Georgia. "So the amount of damaging rays that [you] receive may vary and be excessive."
Anyone can get skin cancer
More people get skin cancer from indoor tanning than develop lung cancer from smoking, according to a 2014 study in JAMA Dermatology. In this meta-analysis of 88 studies in 16 countries, university students appeared more likely than the general population to have used tanning beds. More than 419,000 cases of skin cancer in the US each year are linked to indoor tanning.
Lighter-skinned people are not the only ones who get skin cancer, although they are at higher risk. Anyone who uses indoor tanning beds or spends too much time in the sun without protection is at risk. For example, acral lentiginous melanoma is a rare type of skin cancer that is more common among darker-skinned people.
"I believe it's important for [people with darker skin] to protect themselves from the sun—not to avoid getting darker, but to avoid developing skin cancer," says a third-year undergraduate at Rollins College, Florida.
Here's what skin cancer can mean
People who were exposed to indoor tanning in early life (including young adulthood) have the highest risk of these forms of skin cancer, according to JAMA Dermatology (2014):
- Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer
- Basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of cancer in people aged 15–19; BCC is rarely fatal but can damage the appearance of the skin
- Squamous cell carcinoma, another common form of skin cancer, which is disfiguring and occasionally fatal
Tanning isn't worth the risk of skin damage, according to 92 percent of students who responded to a recent Student Health 101 survey. "In high school I tanned so much, I feel like I got addicted to tanning. I got a skin infection from a tanning bed and was scared to go to the dermatologist in case she told me I had skin cancer," says a graduate student at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. "I am forever done tanning. Team SPF 50." Check out these alternative ways to make the most of your color.
Opting for a spray tan means you can go to the tanning salon without damaging your skin. But look out: Spray tans can be pricey (anywhere from $25 to $70), so you may want to save them for special occasions. Spray tans tend to last about a week and, when done correctly, they can give you a natural-looking, sun-kissed bronze.
How to make a spray tan work for you
- Do your research. Find out what spray tan method the salon uses. Some people have sensitive skin, so you may want to test the product on a patch of skin (somewhere discreet) to see whether or not you have an allergic reaction to it.
- Exfoliate first. Use a loofah, gentle washcloth, or exfoliating mitt (it looks like an oven mitt). This will help slough off dead skin cells on the surface of your skin to give you an even glow.
- Shave or wax first (if you want to). If you plan to remove body hair, do so before heading to the salon. It will help exfoliate your skin.
- Avoid the orange glow. Skip a few weeks between sprays and gradually increase the shade of your tan instead of going dark all at once.
"If you take care of your skin properly, like using lotion every time you get out of the shower and pat yourself dry, [a spray tan] lasts for almost a week and takes a lot less time than tanning in a bed!"
—Fifth-year undergraduate, South Dakota State University
"Spray tans work well after the first [time you take a] shower, but they have a tendency to darken clothes. Don't wear light colors if you spray tan!"
—Recent graduate, University of North Dakota School of Law
"For prom I would get a spray tan, which worked really well. If you go to a professional who knows what they are doing you should be fine. [Some people used tanning beds] and it took a lot of time and money. In addition, it ruined their skin's health."
—First-year undergraduate, Simpson College, Iowa
Worried that your skin may look washed out? Every skin tone has a color palette that can flatter you year-round. This applies to any skin color, gender, and any type of clothing. There are three main types of skin undertones:
- Cool (pink, red, or bluish undertones)
- Warm (yellow, peachy, golden undertones)
- Neutral (this can have both pink and yellow undertones)
Step 1 Figure out your undertones
- The jewelry test: Do you look better in gold or silver?
- Gold = warm undertones
- Silver = cool undertones
- Both = neutral
- Think yellow: Picture yourself in a yellow shirt. If you look great in yellow, you probably have warm undertones. If yellow is not your best color, you probably have cool undertones.
Step 2 Dress your best
- Colors for warm undertones: You may look best in earth tones such as brown, yellow, orange, orangey-red, and moss green.
- Colors for cool undertones: Go for jewel tones like blue, purple, teal, deep red, and emerald green.
- Neutral undertones: Lucky you. You probably look good in colors for both cool and warm undertones.
"I tried to tan once but decided it was not worth the risk. People better like me for who I am and not how dark I am. I am pasty and proud of it."
—Recent graduate, Northern Illinois University
Bronzer can be your best friend. Makeup provides a short-term healthy glow in just a few easy steps. Guys can wear bronzer too, and there are some great men's products out there for natural-looking bronzed skin.
How to get your bronze on
- Know your options. Bronzers come in three forms: powder, cream, and gel. Each one has its own benefits. Powder is quick and almost error-proof, cream gives a dewy look, and gel provides a sheer look that is great for oily skin.
- Choose your shade wisely. The most natural-looking bronzers have brown tones with hints of red. Avoid anything with an orange tone. To keep it from looking fake, choose a bronzer that is only half a shade darker than your skin tone. Not sure of your shade? Ask a friend to help you pick the right match.
- Apply it. Use bronzer where the sun would naturally hit your face—forehead, cheeks, nose, and chin.
- Check yourself out. Want to turn up the natural glow even more? Sweep pink or rose blush on the apples of your cheeks after bronzing.
If hitting up a spray tan salon isn't your scene, try using a self-tanner in the comfort of your own home. Self-tanners can be found at your local drugstore, and can fit any budget (prices range from about $10 to over $100 for the fancy stuff). Most products last three to seven days when applied correctly.
How to self-tan without regrets
- Prep first. As with a spray tan, exfoliate before you begin, and if you want to shave or wax, do that now too.
- Rub it in. Apply the tanner in sections (such as arms, then legs, then torso). Massage it into your skin in a circular motion. Remember to wash your hands in between sections or wear gloves to avoid the dreaded orange palm.
- Patience is key. When you're done, wait at least 10 minutes before getting dressed, unless you want streaky clothes.
- Double up. Try a self-tanner that also has SPF 30 or higher to show off your new tan and prevent unsightly burns at the same time. If you can't find a self-tanner with SPF, wear sunscreen with at least SPF 30 in addition to your tanner.
"I have used a self-tanning product for certain occasions. It left no streaks and looked completely natural and subtle."
—Third-year undergraduate, East Tennessee State University
You don't need to avoid the sun completely. With a few stylish accessories that are probably already in your closet, you can still safely get outdoors. Hats and sunglasses are your best bet, and just about everyone can rock them.
Your slay-it guide to hats and sunglasses
- Cover up. Look for hats with a brim all the way around that shades your face, ears, and the back of your neck. Floppy beach hats and even cowboy hats are great options. Hats made out of canvas provide better sun protection than straw hats.
- Wear a baseball cap plus sunscreen. Your favorite baseball cap is great for sun protection, but it only protects your face. Use a sunscreen with at least SPF 30 to protect your ears and the back of your neck, too.
- Avoid squinting. Sunglasses shield your eyes from UV rays and protect the tender skin around your eyes from sun exposure. Shades that block both UVA and UVB rays offer the best protection. Most sunglasses sold in the US meet this standard.
- Complete your ensemble. Slather on sunscreen (SPF 30 or higher) to protect the rest of your skin, particularly your arms, legs, chest, and anywhere else that's likely to be exposed.
"The only sun damage I have experienced has been when I was too stubborn to listen to my mother while being outside, and received a sunburn that turned me red enough to make a tomato jealous."
—First-year undergraduate, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Studies have found that tanning can be addictive. But it's not always the tan itself that creates the addiction—it's also the warmth of the sunbed. If you're craving heat, especially in the colder months, trade tanning for a warm shower or bath at home. If you add in some candles and relaxing music, you can warm up and de-stress at the same time. When it's warm out, use a sun umbrella or spend most of your time in a covered area.
What's the easiest and most affordable option? Embrace your natural glow, no matter how tan it is (or isn't). Studies show that the fake-tan look is fading in popularity anyway. "Today, the trend is toward embracing your natural skin tone," Eleanor Langston, former beauty director at Fitness magazine, told the Skin Cancer Foundation. "It just looks fresher and so much more sophisticated."
Forgoing the tanning salon won't ruin your love life, either. In a recent Student Health 101 survey, 83 percent of students said they don't care at all whether or not their romantic interest is tan. If you feel confident and comfortable in your own skin, it will show. Put your worries of being too pale or too dark to rest and learn to love the skin tone you were born with.
"I am very, very fair skinned, and in high school I was always a little self-conscious of this. I decided to get a spray tan for prom to help me feel more confident. It all went very well, and I had no issues. Looking back on those pictures now as an adult, I can't believe I was so scared about what other people thought of my skin tone that I spent money on this. Admittedly, some days I still go to the beach and wonder if people are staring at my white thighs, but those days are fewer and farther between because I've accepted who I am. I have beautiful, porcelain skin. And I love it."
—Third-year undergraduate, University of Wisconsin-Stout
"I like to remain pale enough to resemble the virgin snow."
—Second-year undergraduate, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
"I'm naturally tan and can honestly say it's overrated… I'm not sure why people think it's so great."
—Second-year undergraduate, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
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Many people understand that high investment fees can undermine their retirement security. But a recent study shows just how devastating such expenses can be, and points the way to reining in costs.
The research by two law school professors – Ian Ayres at Yale University and Quinn Curtis at the University of Virginia – looked at investment options in more than 3,000 employer-sponsored 401(k) plans. The pair found that participants in an average plan paid almost a full percentage point more in annual fees than they would pay for low-cost retail index funds.
Worse, the fees in some plans were steep enough to all but wipe out one of the primary benefits of 401(k)s: the larger savings you build by making deposits in your account before taxes and deferring taxes on your investments until you withdraw funds.
What to do? As Walter Updegrave reported recently in The Wall Street Journal, investors can take several steps to help minimize fees and their long-term effects:
Run the numbers. Start with a retirement-withdrawal calculator – such as the one on the website of David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar (and a MarketWatch RetireMentor contributor).
There, you can plug in different combinations of stocks and bonds along with expense levels. The calculator then runs Monte Carlo-type simulations – which consider a vast number of scenarios – to estimate the odds that your particular nest egg will survive a 30-year retirement.
Read your statement. Department of Labor regulations that took effect in 2012 require your 401(k) plan to give you an annual statement that spells out how investments in the plan performed – and the fees associated with each investment. The Ayers-Curtis study found that many 401(k) plans that contained investments with excessive fees offered some lower-cost options on the menu, as well.
Look outside your savings plan at work. Yes, the investment options at work might be limited. But if you have savings outside your 401(k) – in traditional or Roth IRAs, or even in taxable accounts – you can take advantage of widely available ultra-low-cost investments, such as exchange-traded funds.
There's no guarantee, of course, that paying, say, one percentage point less in fees will result in a corresponding gain in the return on your portfolio. But Morningstar research has shown that mutual funds with low fees tend to outperform their high-cost counterparts.
The take-away advice: Over the course of a retirement that could quite easily last three decades, monitoring fees and working to keep them as low as possible can increase your chances of enjoying a more financially secure retirement.
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This document was rescinded as part of EEOC's effort to provide guidance and information that is current, accurate, and clear.
EEOC Office of Legal Counsel staff members wrote the following informal discussion letter in response to an inquiry from a member of the public. This letter is intended to provide an informal discussion of the noted issue and does not constitute an official opinion of the Commission.
ADEA: Benefits
June 22, 2001
The Honorable Ron Kind
U.S. House of Representatives
1713 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Kind:
Thank you for your letter of June 11 and your good wishes. As you know, I am very familiar with the issue that is the subject of your letter, and I share your concerns. For this reason, I have made the issue of retiree health, and the charges pending against school districts in your state and others, my highest priority.
Almost immediately upon my arrival here, I established an internal task force on retiree health. The purpose of this task force is to reexamine Commission policy concerning the application of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) to early retirement incentive plans that offer extended health care coverage (generally in the form of a Medicare bridge). My office is also in the process of reevaluating the status of all charges pending against school districts, including those in Wisconsin, that implicate retiree health. As you probably are aware, the vast majority of charges pending against Wisconsin school districts involve health care-based retirement incentives.
As for those remaining charges that fall within the area of the law that is clearly settled, the Commission will seek no monetary damages. Rather, the Commission only asks that the school districts bring their collective bargaining agreements into compliance with well-established legal principles. The Commission has offered to provide technical assistance to the school districts to help facilitate their efforts.
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IKEA will be permitted to sell non-furniture items and run cafes in India, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma was reported as saying, removing a sticking point on the Swedish retailer's plans to enter the country.
"IKEA's proposal based on its global model, which includes cafeterias, will be approved," Sharma was quoted as saying by the Financial Express newspaper on Thursday.
The finance ministry
had previously ruled that the world's largest furniture maker would not be allowed to sell items including textile products and office supplies, as it does in other markets, according to recent media reports.
The government has presented IKEA's long-mooted entry into India's retail market as a sign that foreign investors have kept faith with Asia's third-largest economy, at a time when GDP growth in the country has declined.
IKEA could not be immediately reached for comment by Reuters.


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text: Next week's Los Angeles auto show will see a flurry of fuel-efficient or "green" cars. And just to remind you that diesels are fuel sippers too, Germany's Audi will debut a slew of new, so-called TDI diesel versions of its A8 full-size sedan, A7 four-door coupe, A6 mid-size sedan, Q5 compact crossover and an updated Q7 TDI SUV at the West Coast event. All these new diesel Audis will be powered by a 3.0-litre six-cylinder with 240 hp and 406 lb-ft. Audi says each TDI vehicle delivers up to 30% better fuel economy and 30% lower carbon dioxide emissions than their gasoline engine counterparts. The 2013 Q7 TDI is available now, while the remaining new 2014 TDI models will be rolled out next year.


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Such Characters
Now we're going to crown this week's grand champion so let's bring back the winners from our previous quizzes. From Battle Hymn of the DCs, Kevin Balenger. From Whee! Jonathan Bettle. From the Ian MacKaye mini-game Andrew Howard. From National Treasure, Gautam Hans, and from Urge to Merge Arthur Adams.
EISENBERG: I'm going to ask our puzzle guru Art Chung to crown our winner.
ART CHUNG: This final round is called Such Characters. Contestants, I'm going to name two actors who have played the same role in different movies and you have to name the character. For example, if I said Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro, you would say Vito Corleone, "The Godfather." We're going to play this spelling bee style so one wrong answer and you're out.
You'll only have a few seconds to give me the answer and the last person standing will be our grand winner. Remember, you have to name the common role played by both actors. And here's a hint. Some of the roles are fictional characters but others are historical figures. Here we go. Kevin. Daniel Craig and Sean Connery.
KEVIN BELANGER: James Bond.
CHUNG: That's right. Jonathan, Christopher Reeve and Henry Cavil.
JONATHAN BETTLE: Superman/Clark Kent.
CHUNG: That is correct. Twice.
CHUNG: Andrew, Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto.
ANDREW HOWARD: Spock.
CHUNG: Spock. Logical and correct. Gautam, Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp.
GAUTAM HANS: Willy Wonka?
CHUNG: Willy Wonka is right. Arthur, Bella Lugosi and Gary Oldman.
ARTHUR ADAMS: Dracula.
CHUNG: Dracula. You got it.
CHUNG: We're back to Kevin. Toby McGuire and Andrew Garfield.
BELANGER: Spiderman.
CHUNG: Spiderman or Peter Parker. That's correct. Jonathan, Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger.
BETTLE: The Joker.
CHUNG: The Joker. You got it. Andrew, Cate Blanchett and Judy Dench.
HOWARD: The queen?
CHUNG: Be more specific.
HOWARD: Queen Elizabeth II.
CHUNG: I'm sorry; I can't accept that.
HOWARD: Oh, no. No?
CHUNG: Gautam, do you have an answer?
HANS: Elizabeth I?
CHUNG: Yes, Queen Elizabeth I. I'm sorry, Andrew. You're out.
CHUNG: Arthur, Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry.
ADAMS: Catwoman.
CHUNG: Catwoman is correct.
ADAMS: I tried to do the purr.
CHUNG: Points for style. Kevin, George Clooney and Frank Sinatra.
BELANGER: The character in "Ocean's 11."
CHUNG: Do you know the first name?
BELANGER: Absolutely not.
CHUNG: Oh, OK. Jonathan, do you know the first name?
BETTLE: I think it's Danny Oshi - Ocean.
CHUNG: That is correct. That is correct.
CHUNG: Gautam, Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner. I have to give you three seconds.
HANS: Robin Hood?
CHUNG: That's correct. That's right.
CHUNG: Gautam gave a fist pump for that. Well deserved. Arthur, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore.
ADAMS: Clarice Starling.
CHUNG: That is right. Nice.
CHUNG: Jonathan. Peter Sellers and Steve Martin.
BETTLE: The Pink Panther.
CHUNG: Well, yeah, do you want to correct that?
BETTLE: Inspector Clouseau.
CHUNG: That is correct.
CHUNG: Gautam, Margaret Hamilton and Mila Kunis. Three seconds. I'm sorry, your time is up. Let's go to Arthur. Do you know the answer?
ADAMS: The Wicked Witch of the West?
CHUNG: That is correct, Arthur. Thank you.
CHUNG: We are down to two players, Jonathan and Arthur. Jonathan, Robert Redford and Leonardo di Caprio.
BETTLE: Oh, the Great - the Great Gatsby.
CHUNG: We'll take that. Jay Gatsby is correct.
BETTLE: Jay Gatsby.
CHUNG: Arthur, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck.
ADAMS: Indiana Jones.
CHUNG: No, I'm sorry. That's not right. Jonathan, if you know the answer you'll win this game.
BETTLE: Jack Ryan.
CHUNG: That's right.
EISENBERG: Oh! Well done!
EISENBERG: That was a great competition but it came to you, Jonathan. You are our ASK ME ANOTHER big winner and you win an amazing prize. Ian MacKaye will have you over for a cup of tea.
EISENBERG: Not coffee, but a cup of tea and some conversation. So congratulations.
EISENBERG: Thank you, Washington, for showing us such a great time.
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Samantha's Birthday Party!
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Customize this cute unicorn design with your favorite colors and inspirational message (or even your name) to make most magical masterpiece!
The Perfect Night Out
Enjoy drinks, upbeat music and hanging out with your favorite people while you paint! It's as fun for first-time painters as it is for experienced artists.
Fun Atmosphere
From the moment you walk in, the mood is light, the music is fun and the conversation comes easy!
Easy to Do
You don't need to be a seasoned painter — we make it easy for everyone to find their inner artist!
Sit Together
You'll get seats with all your friends, even if you book separately. Just tell us your friends' names when you register.
Paint Your Way
There's no rule that says you have to follow the artist's steps. It's your art, so paint it however you like!
Frequently Asked Questions
Check out our FAQs to learn more about what to expect from your Pinot's Palette experience or feel free to call the studio to speak to a member of our staff.
Q) I don't have any artistic talent? Will I be able to complete the painting?
Absolutely! Our artist will guide you step-by-step through the featured painting and will ensure that you stay on track to completing your masterpiece by the end of class. Nearly everyone is surprised at their inner Picasso! There are no mistakes, but Acrylic paint does dry quickly so we love to help you to adjust and perfect your work.
Q) How do I sign up for a class?
Signing up is easy. Click the "Classes" link on the side of the page to view our calendar of paintings. Select which painting you would like to paint and click "Add Painting to Cart." Follow the on-screen directions to complete the order. Contact us if you have trouble completing your order and we will walk you through the process.
Q) When do I need to arrive for class?
We recommend you arrive 15 minutes before class starts to allow time for you to get settled in and mingle before the painting starts.
Q) Where the heck are you?
We are in the awesome new Waypointe District in Norwalk, near the Children's Museum and Norwalk Hospital. The complex's address is 515 West Ave in Norwalk. We are on the same side of the complex as Colony Pizza, just outside the parking garage. When you sign up for a class, you will receive a class reminder with detailed written instructions on where to park and how to get here. Come check us out! You'll be glad you did.
Q) Can I bring wine? May I bring food?
WE ARE NOW BYOB!! Bring unopened wine, beer or alcohol. Wine and alcohol bottles require a $6 corkage fee. We'll provide glasses, ice, buckets and orange juice/cranberry juice. Soda may be purchased onsite. No corkage fee for beer. Other beverages such as coffee or soda are available for purchase as well. Bottled water is always free. We do expect all painters to be responsible with alcohol on and off the premises. You are encouraged to bring food for you and your guests to eat. We will provide refrigerator and countertop space. With advance notice, we can also arrange for catered food to be made available to you through one of our local partners.


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Bessie Midaxi Dress
SALE | The Bessie Midaxi Dress in Champagne. This beautiful printed dress is inspired from a vintage Edwardian piece. Developed with a beautiful, pastel floral pansy motif print. This dress is loose fitting to wear, crafted from soft handfeel satin. Featuring statement sleeves inspired by victorianna ruffle detailing. Whatever the plan, be effortless in Bessie.
- Satin with multi-coloured all over floral print
- 100% Polyester
- Un-lined
- Keyhole with button fastening at back neck
- Detachable printed satin waist tie
- Delicate dry clean only
- Do not wash
- Do not bleach
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- Cool iron on reverse
- Relaxed fitting dress
- Ankle length
- Model is 175cm / 5ft 9in and is a UK size 8
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A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 1 freelance designers.
2Gays1Joystick.com, 2 Gays 1 Joystick
We're a pair of gay men who recently started a gaming podcast and blog. Our podcast is fun, irreverent and a little crazy. We're huge nerds.
Blog located here:
Podcast here:
Gay gamers, nerds and anyone who plays video games.
Since this logo will be primarily used to promote our podcast on iTunes, it needs to adhere to the Apple's specifications. There's information about that here:
From a stylistic standpoint, I'd like the logo to have the following elements:
-A cartoony, non-serious look
-An old-school joystick featured somewhere in the logo (see attached pic below)
-2 hands grabbing the joystick, or some other sort of semi-sexual action taking place with the joystick. This should be implied and not too explicit since it's for iTunes. In my head, it would be fun to have 2 hands grabbing the joystick with one on top of the other, but feel free to be creative if you can think of something more fun.
-The name of the podcast should be featured at the top or the bottom. It should read, "2 Gays 1 Joystick". This can be in all caps if you think that would look better. This should be the only text in the logo.
-Prominent colors of the logo should be black (or dark shades of gray) and red. It should fit in with the color scheme of our blog (2gays1joystick.com). Feel free to use other colors though if you think it would work.
-It should be fun. We're not super serious people.


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Favorite 4: March Madness 2013
Spring is (technically) here again, with the herald of college basketball's annual tournament, the aptly-titled March Madness (though the final game is in April). There's plenty of ways to enjoy the basketball mania from your iOS device. Here's our favorite four apps for March Madness 2013.
NCAA March Madness Live: There's an obvious choice for inclusion in this article, and that's the app that lets you experience the madness live from anywhere. All the tournament's games are available from this app. So watch a scrappy underdog from a tiny college try to beat a team with first-round draft picks working as towel boys. Or watch an additional game to the one on TV. Or get three iOS devices and watch all the games at once, even if it drives you...mad!
NCAA March Madness Live
ESPN Bracket Bound: The other half of the fun during March Madness is filling out and following your picks for the 64 teams in the bracket. If you use ESPN, their app lets you track your bracket and see how well you're doing. You can also compare your bracket with a variety of other sports analysts, celebrities, and even President Obama. You can also track scores, watch video from ESPN analysts about the games, and track the latest news from the tournament.
ESPN Tournament Challenge
SideBets: Of course, anyone can make a bracket full of their wildest picks with no repercussions if they fail, sure. But what about if there was a little something extra behind it? Not real-world gambling because that's illegal, right FBI? But you can legally bet something intangible: your pride. That's what SideBets does, it lets you wager virtual currency with your friends on game results to see who wins. The app features actual gambling lines, so you can get the thrill of gambling on sports without the massive crushing financial losses and broken kneecaps from bookies you owe money to.
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StarDunk: All the roundball action might get you thinking that you're gonna want to go out and pound the rock a bit, show those youngsters how it's done. This will probably not go well. Afterward, how about you instead play a game of virtual basketball? And since we're playing virtual basketball, let's go nuts and play a game of basketball...in space. Godzi Lab's classic basketball game features plenty of fast-paced basketball shooting, basketballs with special properties, and online competition to try and take down. Regain some pride if your team gets knocked out or if your bracket gets busted.


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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because of positive doping tests, while Lance Armstrong can hold onto his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games a little while longer.
The International Olympic Committee executive board disqualified four athletes whose 2004 Athens doping samples were retested this year and came back positive for steroids, including shot put gold medalist Yuriy Bilonog of Ukraine.
Also stripped of medals were hammer throw silver medalist Ivan Tskikhan of Belarus and two bronze medalists -- women's shot putter Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia and discus thrower Irina Yatchenko of Belarus.
The IOC held off stripping Armstrong of the bronze he won 12 years ago in the cycling road time trial in Sydney, citing procedural reasons for the delay.
"Athletes who cheat by using doping substances must understand that just because they get away with it one day, there is a very good chance that they will be caught in the future," WADA President John Fahey said in a statement. "The retesting and subsequent decisions of the IOC are proof of that."
IOC leaders want Armstrong's medal back after the damning U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that painted Armstrong as a systematic drug cheat. The International Cycling Union recently stripped Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles from 1999-2005.
But the IOC said it must wait for UCI, the cycling's governing body, to notify Armstrong formally of the loss of all his results since August 1998. The IOC wants to avoid any legal problems in connection with the eight-year statute of limitations in the Olympic rules.
"The IOC today will not move," IOC president Jacques Rogge said at a news conference following a two-day board meeting in Lausanne. "We need to have the situation whereby the UCI notifies officially Mr. Armstrong of the fact that he will be disqualified, declared ineligible and that he should hand over his medal.
"This is a legal obligation not for the IOC but for the International Cycling Union. When he will be notified, Mr. Armstrong will have 21 days to launch an appeal if he wishes. It is only after this period of 21 days that the IOC can legally take action."
The case of a fifth bronze medalist, weightlifter Oleg Perepechenov of Russia, is pending.
The IOC said it will ask the International Association of Athletics Federations to get the four medals back and readjust the results and rankings from the Athens Games.
Until then, no decision will be taken on reallocating the medals. Adam Nelson of the United States finished second in the shot put in Athens behind Bilonog and would stand to move up to gold.
The intention of the IOC to wipe Armstrong from the Olympic record books remains clear.
"Absolutely," IOC vice president Craig Reedie of Britain told The Associated Press. "If the UCI have the ability to remove all these titles, we should have the ability to remove a bronze medal. Once they go through their procedures, then we'll go through ours."
Armstrong finished behind winner and U.S. Postal Service teammate Vyacheslav Ekimov of Russia and Jan Ullrich of Germany in Sydney. The IOC has no plans to reallocate Armstrong's bronze medal, just as the UCI decided not to declare any winners for the Tour titles once held by the American.
In August, the IOC stripped Tyler Hamilton, a former Armstrong teammate, of his time-trial gold medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics after he admitted to doping.
The Athens Games were already considered the dirtiest on record, producing 26 doping cases and catching six medalists -- including two gold winners -- at the time. The retroactive tests bring the number of Athens cases to 31, including 11 medal winners and three gold medalists.
Since Athens, the IOC has been storing doping samples from each Olympics for eight years to allow for retesting when new detection methods become available. Last year, under prodding from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the IOC reanalyzed about 100 samples from Athens.
The IOC said Bilonog and Krivelyova tested positive for oxandrolone, while the samples from Tsikhan and Yatchenko were positive for methandienone.
Bilonog's disqualification means that both shot put winners in Athens have been disqualified for doping: Women's champion Irina Korzhanenko of Russia was stripped of gold at the games after testing positive for stanozolol.
The IAAF held the 2004 shot put competition in Ancient Olympia, in what had been intended as a symbolic and uplifting return to the birthplace of the Olympics.


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Stamper Blossoms from Captive to Contract Supplier
Why invest in new press capacity now, in light of the economy? Certainly not to manage increased orders from the parent company, which continues to face increased competition from offshore suppliers. Instead, the significant addition of press capacity (110-, 200- and 600-ton Aida presses) to the facility aims to set the shop up as a contract stamper, as it looks to grow outside from its parent. And, from the beginning of its journey back in 2006, plant management has had its sights aimed in the right direction.
"We focused our new press-line specifications to optimize run time and minimize downtime," says plant manager Allen Williams. "To get there, we knew we had to achieve maximum line speed, minimize material waste, speed coil-threading time and optimize coil size."
Also critical to its successful implementation of the new lines was a new 12-in. alligator-style peeler that feeds the 110-ton press, to allow for hands-free threading of particularly thick material. Supplied by Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI, which modeled the device after similar technology developed several years ago for its large-capacity machines, the new peeler-dekinker provides hands-free motorized threading capability for users of small and mid-sized straighteners. "It allows us to thread up a new coil of that heavy stock in less than 5 min.," says Williams.
Coe Press also supplied (along with its distributor partner Stafford Machinery Co., Little Rock, AR) identical, more conventional feed lines for the 200- and 600-ton lines that include servo feeds, straighteners, threading reels, and 10,000- and 20,000-lb.-capacity coil cars, respectively. The servo feeds mount to the press and pull material out of a free slack loop. A 42-in. line mounts to the 600-ton press, a 36-in. line to the 200-ton press. Stafford also installed Wintriss SmartPac 2 controls to each new line, with the Wintriss Lets Line Efficiency Tracking Software.
The Diversification Journey
Hickory Springs began in 1944 as a manufacturer of coiled springs for
"Beginning in 2006, we set out to diversify to where at least 20 percent of our work would be outside the furniture industry," says Williams, describing the goal of managers at the Ft. Smith plant, one of only two metalforming shops serving Hickory Springs, which operates 55 plants in all. "Immediately taking advantage of the customer base from our tube mill, we were able to quickly add some of those customers to our stamping-customer list and provide them with parts as well as value-added assemblies. Contract stamping now accounts for some 80 percent of our production—we're manufacturing components for the RV and automotive industries, as well as for retail stores," adds Williams.
"This facility had not purchased any new press equipment in a long time," Wells continues, noting that much of the metalforming equipment in the plant had been acquired on the used market. "Our press lines had been mixed and matched, and so did not als operate at their optimum efficiency level. When we committed to expanding and to becoming
The plant's new 200-ton press line runs some of the smaller dies needed for its automotive-assembly program, such as the stamped brackets shown exiting here from a two-out die that runs at 50 strokes/min.
"We're setting up stock levels with each customer," adds Williams, "to ensure we can meet just-in-time requirements. Deadlines are particularly tight with one of our retail-store customers, for whom the stock level might be 10,000 for one part and then they'll get a contract for 100,000 and need them in two weeks. We've got to be able to react quickly, and before we acquired the new presses that type of reaction time challenged us. But the new high-speed 110-ton press line and the 200-ton line have allowed us to more efficiently meet those larger orders on time."
Carefully Calculated Purchases
The three fully equipped press lines joined the 32,000-sq.-ft. pressroom in January 2009—overall, the plant offers 180,000 sq. ft. of floor space, including a 20,000-sq.ft. fabrication shop. The 600-ton model, a straightside press, was carefully specified by Wells after evaluating the larger dies—weighing as much as 26,000 lb.—used to stamp automotive parts.
"I evaluated the point in the stroke where the parts would start to draw," Wells says, and calculated the energy required, comparing the calculations to the press-energy curves from Aida.
"We needed a more engineered approach to setting up all of the lines," continues Wells, again thinking back to how the rest of the shop's equipment had been acquired. "We had some undersized equipment, including some cradle straighteners that performed fine for heavy-gauge work such as stamping 7- to 14-gauge steel brackets, but would show some deficiencies on lighter gauge material such as automotive parts of 0.030-in. stock. So we specified the 600-ton press line specifically for that thinner-gauge work, while wanting to run at a 36-in. progression at 25 strokes/min."
Stamping automotive parts, the 600-ton press processes five different dies on a regular basis, with typical part quantities of 10,000; it takes two weeks to complete the cycle. Smaller parts run on the new 200-ton press, a gap-frame model, at about 50 strokes/min.
Focus on Quick Change a Must for Contract Stampers
One of the critical success factors to operating high-volume high-speed press lines for contract stampers is quick changeover, and Wells and his team promptly attacked that operational area.
"For example, the biggest challenge we have on the 110-ton press line," Wells notes, "which runs as quickly as 100 strokes/min., is that we can run through a 6000-lb., 72-in. coil in less than an hour. We're changing coils as many as 10 times/shift. All of the standard features on the Coe servo-feed lines, as well as the new alligator-style peeler, have helped us fine-tune the coil-change procedure to just 8 to 9 min."
One of the most common jobs running on the 110-ton press is stamping small plates for retail-store customers, from ¼-in.-thick stock 2 in. wide. "We stretched the line out as much as we could," says Wells, describing efforts to dekink the material, "but we still fought coil set and struggled to get the material into the debend station. Here's where the alligator-style peeler saved us—it captures the coil and forces it straight into the straightener without having to worry about coil set."
The two-axis peeler table has a telescoping peeler blade to reach the leading edge of the coil; tapered ends facilitate threading of wide as well as narrow coils. Meanwhile, the upper dekinker table includes a motorized threading roll—during threading, the leading coil edge is pinched between this roll and the peeler table, and then the peeler table lowers to dekink the material.
"We like the unit so much that we expect to purchase one for the new 200-ton line as well," says Wells.
More Quick-Changeover Development to Come
With coil changes down to less than 10 min., Wells and his team aren't done fine tuning the process to yield additional press run time. He expects to be able to cut coil-change time in half, by enhancing some of the pressroom's practices and procedures.
"For example," Wells adds, "we stage a lot of coils lying on their sides on pallets; we'll look to stage them upright in racks so they're ready for loading as soon as possible. And, we've begun to use end-of-stock sensors so that operators can—with confidence—begin his coil-change process as soon as the end of the coil departs the mandrel, rather than wait for that last 20 ft. of material to run through the press." MF
See also: Aida-America Corporation, A Subsidiary of AIDA Engng LLC, Coe Press Equipment Corporation
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Shelley Niro
Canadian (born in U.S.A.), b. 1954
500 Year Itch, 1992
silver print on paper, 2/5
58 x 96 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada
Celebrated for her satricial photographs, Mohawk artist Shelley Niro frequently uses strategies of masquerade and parody in her work. 500 Year Itch is composed of three individual, full-length portraits. The image on the left is a hand-tinted photograph of the artist, dressed as pop icon Marilyn Monroe, complete with a fan, parodying Monroe's famous skirt-billowing scene in the film The Seven-Year Itch. Five hundred years refers to the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in 1492 on the shores of North America. The middle image, taken in the 1940s, shows one of Niro's family members smiling in a fashionable dress of the period. The final image is also of the artist, wearing nondescript clothing, and acts as a counterpoint to the other two photographs.
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Any expectant or new mother is certainly in need of some time out to indulge and pamper, and our Cowshed spas are the perfect place to do so.
During pregnancy your body is continually adjusting and sometimes needs a little help along the way. With every product in our Udderly Gorgeous range containing sea buckthorn oil, our treatments will help to nourish and protect the skin during this special time.
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In an ambitious gesture to their business allies, House Republicans passed legislation Friday to reduce what the GOP calls "an avalanche" of unneeded, costly regulations. Opponents call the bill an attempt to prevent the government from protecting Americans at their workplaces, in their homes and when they want a breath of fresh air.
The 253-167 vote sent the bill to the Democratic-run Senate, where it's likely to die. Just in case, the White House has issued a veto threat.
Republicans insist the mostly technical legislation would simply force federal agencies to follow presidential directives that have often been ignored — including seeking with the lowest cost. The objective, the GOP says, is to allow companies to use their money to hire workers.
But Democrats, the White House, and government watchdog groups insist the aim is to get rid of aggressive rules approved by the Obama administration — regulations that businesses complain about constantly.
"America faces an avalanche of unnecessary federal regulatory costs," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, said during House debate. "Yet the Obama administration seeks to add billions more to that cost."
Democratic Rep. George Miller of California denounced the bill, saying the U.S. has spent great time and effort "to ensure when workers go to work every day, they will return safely to their home."
"This legislation begins to bring that to an end because it would needlessly and recklessly expose our workers to injuries," said Miller, the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
At this point, the fight over this and other anti-regulation bills approved by the GOP-led House is mainly a 2012 campaign issue, since they have little chance in the Democratic-run Senate.
The GOP effort is not finished. Next week, the House is expected to pass a bill that would make it easier for Congress to kill proposed rules.
Republicans agree the bill passed Friday would have a major impact on regulators but argue that's because it's not difficult for agencies to ignore presidential directives that don't have the force of law. Supporters and opponents agree on the major impact, but not much else.
• The opponents insist the bill would require agencies to consider any suggestions by interested parties, allowing opponents to dial up their lobbyists to keep offering changes and delaying a proposed rule. Republicans disagree, saying there's no change in the 60-day comment period for minor regulations and 120 days for major rules projected to cost at least $100 million.
• The bill would require an earlier analysis of costs and benefits, a provision that opponents argue would lead to misinformation that could cause delays. Republicans counter that agencies now misuse the analysis to justify the decisions they already made.
• Opponents object to additional proceedings for rules with a projected cost of more than $1 billion. Republicans argue there are only seven such regulations pending, including a now-delayed rule on boiler emissions. They said the hearing could be scheduled quickly and would not have to delay the final action.
Until now, Republicans have focused on derailing specific rules and regulations from the Obama administration, many of them from the Environmental Protection Agency. The latest effort, and the next bill giving Congress greater control over regulations, would cover the entire federal government.
OMB Watch, an advocacy organization that tracks federal regulations, said that if the bill were already law, it would have stopped the government from issuing its finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health. The group said it also would have hindered the government's efforts to declare a popular weed killer dangerous, make statements about the effects of too much salt on people's health and issue a strong rule on lead in gasoline.
Republicans received support from Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., top Democrat on the Agriculture Committee.
"In agriculture we have been dealing with innumerable problems that have been brought by regulations that are not properly vetted and seem to be for people that have a lack of understanding of exactly what's going on in agriculture," he said.
"So this legislation gives us an overhaul ... to make sure that we have more openness, more transparency, more accountability in these regulations. More time, more analysis."
Nineteen Democrats voted for the bill.


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The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight and second varsity eight begin the 2012 spring season facing top crews from across the nation at the San Diego Crew Classic, which gets underway Saturday on Mission Bay. The third varsity eight and freshman eights, meanwhile, will race at Cornell.
About the Crew Classic
A total of more than 3,400 collegiate, junior and masters athletes will travel to Mission Bay for the 39th renewal of the Crew Classic and compete in more than 100 races over Saturday and Sunday.
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Harvard Boatings
Varsity Eight
Cox: David Fuller, 8: Patrick Lapage, 7: Michael DiSanto, 6: Sam O'Connor, 5: Parker Washburn, 4: Caspar Jopling, 3: Josh Hicks, 2: Andrew Holmes, 1: James O'Connor
Second Varsity Eight
Cox: Alex Sopko, 8: Peter Scholle, 7: Ben Lynton, 6: Matthew Edstein, 5: Nick Jordan, 4: Jake Sobstyl, 3: Elihu Reynolds, 2: Jack Morrissey, 1: Max Monfared
Third Varsity Eight
Cox: William Hakim, 8: Matt Vincent, 7: Justin Mundt, 6: Jamie Law-Smith, 5: Nolan Pollock, 4: Alex Macintosh, 1: David Paresky, 2: Andrew Stein, 1: Andrew Hamm
Freshman Eight
Cox: Jack Smith, 8: Charlie Risbey, 7: James Medway, 6: Ed Rippon, 5: Max Meyer-Bosse, 4: Josh Bernstein, 3: Andrew Emmett, 2: Alex Uruchurtu, 1: Lachlan Hanbury-Brown
Second Freshman Eight
Cox: Jessi Izhakoff, 8: Ryan Furey, 7: Owen Prunskis, 6: William Locke, 5: Daniel Hilhorst, 4: Andrew Crown, 3: Jan-Peter Bockstiegel, 2: Jack Freese, 1: Matt Weinstein
Harvard at the Crew Classic
The Crimson is racing in San Diego for the first time since 2009, when both the varsity and second varsity boats placed third. Harvard owns seven Crew Classic titles, the most of any school from the East Coast. Harvard has two titles from the Redwood Shores Invitational, giving the Crimson nine championships in West Coast regattas.
The Field
Harvard is coming off a runner-up finish in last season's Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships but will face other elite crews in San Diega. The 10-team varsity field racing for the Copley Cup features five teams that finished in the top 11 at last year's IRA regatta. The Crimson races in Lane 1 of the first heat at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time Saturday and will race against IRA petite final winner Cornell and petite final qualifier Navy. The second heat features IRA bronze medalist California and petite final qualifier Stanford. The Copley Cup grand final will be Sunday at 9:40 a.m.
The Crimson second varsity will race in Lane 1 of the second heat of the Sharp Cabrillo Cup event at 11:10 a.m. Saturday. Both Cornell, which will again race against Harvard in its heat, and Cal joined Harvard in the IRA second varsity grand final last year. The Sharp Cabrillo grand final is Sunday at 10 a.m.
Scouting the Crimson
Harvard begins 2012, its 50th season under renowned head coach Harry Parker, with lofty goals of repeating last season's 7-0 dual record, winning its third straight Eastern Sprints varsity title and competing for its first IRA national title since 2005. Led by senior captain Michael DiSanto, the Crimson returns six athletes who raced in last season's Eastern champion and IRA runner-up varsity. Those oarsmen are among 24 total athletes returning after contributing to Harvard's four IRA medals last season.
The Crimson translated that experience to success in the fall season. Harvard won the championship eight race at the Head of the Charles Regatta for the first time in 34 years and had varsity fours place first and second at the Foot of the Charles. The Crimson also won the Foot of the Charles freshman eight event.
Defending The Title
Click here to watch the Crimson's season preview video, part of the Defending The Title series.
Meanwhile, in Ithaca
The dual regatta pitting the Crimson third varsity, freshman and second freshman eights against the Big Red will begin at 9 a.m. on the Cayuga Lake Inlet. This is the third straight year Harvard has raced Cornell, with the Crimson sweeping the regatta to open each of the last two springs. Harvard's lineups for the racing at Cornell are available here.


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The brambles and underbrush are so thick it's hard to see anything, much less walk around.
The brambles and underbrush are so thick it's hard to see anything, much less walk around.
Munching through the thicket are four sturdy goats, doing their part to uncover the grave sites of up to 30 early residents of Henderson County.
The Ballard Family Cemetery in North Mills River is the subject of a new experiment: using goats to clear vegetation from historic cemeteries.
"It's hard to tell what's here until we clean it out," says Toby Linville, the county staff member for the Henderson County Cemetery Advisory Committee. "It was so bad, you couldn't move in here."
Credit for the idea goes to Jennie Jones Giles, who heard someone joke that "goats would eat everything here" and borrowed six of the animals to eat through the overgrown thicket.
Giles, director of the Henderson County Heritage Museum, is also a member of the Cemetery Advisory Committee, established by the County Board of Commissioners in 2005. The committee is responsible for identifying and coordinating the county's upkeep of abandoned cemeteries.
The free labor is supplied by Trouble, a brown and white Nubian Goat, two sets of Pygmy goats known as the Black Twins and the White Twins and a Nigerian dwarf goat named Oreo. All are on loan from Henderson County Magistrate Sandra Laughter.
"I thought the goats would be good for cleaning it up," says Laughter. She keeps 16 goats on her Hendersonville property.
Linville, who also serves as Henderson County's Code Enforcement Services director, contacted Laughter about borrowing the goats.
He initially offered to transport the animals himself, but forgot the goats might ram the car's windows with their horns. So Animal Services transported the animals to the 1.22-acre site on Nov. 20, after a perimeter fence was installed around the cemetery plots.
The goats have been happily chomping their way through the thicket of briars and weeds ever since.
Using the goats to clear the old cemetery is preferable to another option.
"We have sprayed a couple cemeteries but we avoid that," says Linville.
According to a book titled "Henderson County, North Carolina Cemeteries," the Ballard Family Cemetery contains 26 graves, some of them sunken, in four rows.
Smooth fieldstones mark the graves, most of them no larger than a loaf of bread. With all the vegetation, it's difficult to see what might resemble a row of graves.
Only two stones in the cemetery are marked -- one with "E.B. age 80," and a footstone marked "M.J.B." There are no dates.
On an initial visit to the site, committee members spotted a flatter stone marker that looked promising.
"We thought we'd found one, but flipped it over and there was nothing on it," Linville says. "What happens over time is they fall over and get covered with leaves. Once it's cleared, we can get a probe out here, dig it out and prop it up."
Linville makes a weekly visit to the site, located on a small lane off Fanning Bridge Road, to supplement the goats' feed and set out fresh water. A salt block and temporary shelter also have been set up.
Trouble has its breed's characteristic long ears as well as a fiercely curious temperament.
"Trouble's like a dog," Laughter says. "He's kind of tame -- I didn't think he'd cause too much trouble."
Large holly trees and smaller deciduous trees grow on the cemetery site, which is part of Phillip McElrath's residential property. The trees will be kept because their shade will discourage underbrush growth.
County officials and property owners have been cooperative in granting access to grave sites, Linville says. Under a statue governing cemeteries, with a court order granting permission to enter, county staff or families of the deceased have legal access rights.
Family cemeteries such as the Ballard plot are often named for the earliest deed or by the family whose presence was predominant, Linville says.
In a Times-News story dated May 8, 2005, Giles wrote about Reuben Ballard as "one of the first 15 justices to serve on the first Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions when it was formed. Ballard owned property in northern Henderson County, near the Buncombe County line."
During her tenure as a Times-News staff writer, Giles wrote an award-winning series of stories about the county's cemeteries from 2003 to 2005. The stories highlighted the need to protect cemeteries from neglect and development. Significantly, Giles' stories inspired state legislation to protect North Carolina's historic cemeteries.
"The series aided in changing state law, thanks to N.C. Rep. Carolyn Justus," Giles says.
Her stories have also assisted people searching for their Henderson County ancestors.
"People from throughout the United States who descend from people buried in these cemeteries still e-mail me after reading stories on the Web," Giles says.
Close to 200 cemeteries -- both family plots and churchyards -- exist in various conditions around the county, from Mills River and Bat Cave to Zirconia, to name just a few locations.
"Because so many people come into the Heritage Museum searching for these cemeteries, the museum and the Cemetery Advisory Committee are working together on a large county map, divided by traditional communities, with each cemetery noted," Giles says.
The map will be displayed in a case in the back lobby area of the Historic Courthouse.
During the harsh days of winter and on snowy days like Friday, Trouble and his friends will return to Laughter's home.


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PCI(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual PCI(9)
pci, pci_read_config, pci_write_config, pci_enable_busmaster, pci_disable_busmaster, pci_enable_io, pci_disable_io, pci_set_powerstate, pci_get_powerstate, pci_find_bsf, pci_find_dbsf, pci_find_device — PCI bus interface
#include <sys/bus.h>
#include <dev/pci/pcivar.h>
#include <dev/pci/pcireg.h>
#include <machine/pci_cfgreg.h>
pci_write_config(device_t dev, int reg, uint32_t val, int width);
pci_enable_busmaster(device_t dev);
pci_disable_busmaster(device_t dev);
pci_enable_io(device_t dev, int space);
pci_disable_io(device_t dev, int space);
pci_set_powerstate(device_t dev, int state);
pci_get_powerstate(device_t dev);
pci_read_config(device_t dev, int reg, int width);
pci_find_bsf(uint8_t bus, uint8_t slot, uint8_t func);
pci_find_dbsf(uint32_t domain, uint8_t bus, uint8_t slot, uint8_t func);
pci_find_device(uint16_t vendor, uint16_t device);
The pci set of functions are used for managing PCI devices.
The pci_read_config() function is used to read data from the PCI configuration space of the device dev, at offset reg, with width specifying the size of the access.
The pci_write_config() function is used to write the value val to the PCI configuration space of the device dev, at offset reg, with width specifying the size of the access.
The pci_enable_busmaster() function enables PCI bus mastering for the device dev, by setting the PCIM_CMD_BUSMASTEREN bit in the PCIR_COMMAND register. The pci_disable_busmaster() function clears this bit.
The pci_enable_io() function enables memory or I/O port address decoding for the device dev, by setting the PCIM_CMD_MEMEN or PCIM_CMD_PORTEN bit in the PCIR_COMMAND register appropriately. The pci_disable_io() function clears the appropriate bit. The space argument specifies which resource is affected; this can be either SYS_RES_MEMORY or SYS_RES_IOPORT as appropriate.
NOTE: These functions should be used in preference to manually manipulating the configuration space.
The pci_get_powerstate() function returns the current ACPI power state of the device dev. If the device does not support power management capabilities, then the default state of PCI_POWERSTATE_D0 is returned. The following power states are defined by ACPI:
State in which device is on and running. It is receiving full power from the system and delivering full functionality to the user.
Class-specific low-power state in which device context may or may not be lost. Busses in this state cannot do anything to the bus, to force devices to lose context.
Class-specific low-power state in which device context may or may not be lost. Attains greater power savings than PCI_POWERSTATE_D1. Busses in this state can cause devices to lose some context. Devices must be prepared for the bus to be in this state or higher.
State in which the device is off and not running. Device context is lost, and power from the device can be removed.
State of the device is unknown.
The pci_set_powerstate() function is used to transition the device dev to the ACPI power state state. It checks to see if the device is PCI 2.2 compliant. If so, it checks the capabilities pointer to determine which power states the device supports. If the device does not have power management capabilities, the default state of PCI_POWERSTATE_D0 is set.
The pci_find_bsf() function looks up the device_t of a PCI device, given its bus, slot, and func. The slot number actually refers to the number of the device on the bus, which does not necessarily indicate its geographic location in terms of a physical slot. Note that in case the system has multiple PCI domains, the pci_find_bsf() function only searches the first one. Actually, it is equivalent to:
pci_find_dbsf(0, bus, slot, func);
The pci_find_dbsf() function looks up the device_t of a PCI device, given its domain, bus, slot, and func. The slot number actually refers to the number of the device on the bus, which does not necessarily indicate its geographic location in terms of a physical slot.
The pci_find_device() function looks up the device_t of a PCI device, given its vendor and device IDs. Note that there can be multiple matches for this search; this function only returns the first matching device.
The pci_addr_t type varies according to the size of the PCI bus address space on the target architecture.
pci(4), pciconf(8), bus_alloc_resource(9), bus_dma(9), bus_release_resource(9), bus_setup_intr(9), bus_teardown_intr(9), devclass(9), device(9), driver(9), rman(9)
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This manual page was written by Bruce M Simpson 〈 bms AT FreeBSD DOT org〉 .
The kernel PCI code has a number of references to ''slot numbers''. These do not refer to the geographic location of PCI devices, but to the device number assigned by the combination of the PCI IDSEL mechanism and the platform firmware. This should be taken note of when working with the kernel PCI code.
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Our Academic Plan, developed over the course of several months of University-wide discussion, study, review, and refinement, articulates a strategic vision for Northeastern University.
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Award-winning author Lois Duncan is the daughter of photographer Joseph Janney Steinmetz. She is the author of 50 books, ranging from children's picture books to adult novels, but she is best known for her young adult suspense novels. Seven of Duncan's books have been adapted into films. Recently, Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, optioned Duncan's Down a Dark Hall.
In this series of blog posts, Duncan gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of some of her father's most famous photographs.
Florida Memory: Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town and Country.
His work has been referred to as "an American social history" that documented scenes of American life as diverse as affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. He often used friends and family as subjects in his photographs. Tell us about this one.
Duncan: There I am, standing in a field of daisies in Taos, New Mexico, getting eaten alive by chiggers while my father kept waiting for "the light to be just right."
The slant of light was one of the most important things I learned from him about photography. Whenever we took a photo trip on a magazine assignment, he would have the script of the photos he was to take, and before he ever started work, he and Mother would visit each location, determine the angle from which the shot should be taken, and the direction the light should be when the picture was taken.
Then they'd register the time of day when they should try for that shot. (Unfortunately for me, this daisy field shot was not planned beforehand–Joe just stumbled on a "pretty field of daisies" and I happened to be in the car–so the lighting was overhead and he had to wait for a cloud to come over so he could shoot without shadows.)


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