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How much iodine is in a Yukon Gold potato?
Q. I found your general article on potatoes and wanted to know how much iodine is in a Yukon Gold potato (and other varieties of organic potatoes I can buy at Trader Joe's stores in Seattle. They sell organic russet, red, and Yukon Gold potatoes.). I'm concerned I'm not getting much iodine, as I eat a vegan/salt free diet. The oregonstate.edu website says baked potatoes contain 60 micrograms of iodine (citing Pennington JAT, Schoen SA, Salmon GD, Young B, Johnson RD, Marts RW. Composition of core foods of the U.S. food supply, 1982-1991. III. Copper, manganese, selenium, iodine. J Food Comp Anal. 1995;8:171-217). However, I cannot tell how accurate this nineteen year old paper is, nor can I determine what type of potatoes it is referencing.Have you done studies on the organic Yukon Gold (and other organic potatoes) to determine iodine content? Also, I imagine where a potato is grown makes a difference? Any information you could send me would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance for your help!
A. Yes, where a product is grown can make a difference in its iodine content. Foods from the ocean are higher in iodine than plant foods. Where land was under the sea many, many years ago, iodine can be found naturally in the soil. The soil around the Great Lakes region is lower than other areas of the country. This USDA searchable database would be the best place to look for any nutrient, but I don't see that iodine is included, possibly because the iodine content will vary depending on where the food is grown. I am not familiar with studies on iodine content of potatoes. You might want to try eating plants from the sea, seaweed or kelp, as another possible source of iodine. Finally, goitrogens in the diet can inhibit iodide metabolism. Goitrogens can be found in raw turnips, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, rutabagas, and cassava but can goitrogens can be reduced by cooking these vegetables. You might want to talk to your doctor and check your thyroid levels; we don't typically hear about a lot of goiter (iodide deficiency) in the US.


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In the late 1860s, before there was an official Mother's Day holiday in the U.S., a Methodist mom organized "Mothers' Friendship Day," at which mothers gathered with former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation. We asked Harriett Olson, the current head of United Methodist Women, and Donna Miller, archivist at Historic St. George's United Methodist Church, to tell us more about the women behind the holiday.
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Aftershock is a support group that offers a safe place for those who have lost someone to suicide to talk openly and honestly about their loved one's death. Families are thrown into a whirlpool of emotions. Many families are shunned by friends and co-workers when they hear that they have lost someone to suicide. We want them to know that there are others out there who will encourage them through their grief, teach them to lean on God, and help them turn to God's Word so they know that God never lets go of them. God can use their pain and loss to help others.
Aftershock meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday* of the month, 6:30-8:30pm in room 344. The cost for the group is $25 to cover class materials, book and journal.
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Sebastian Scherer's glass tables resemble cubistic objects and invite us to play with optical illusions. The tables are made from 10 mm strong coloured glass in blue, green, grey and bronze. The construction is as simple as ingenious. A hexagonal glass top lays on three vertical rectangles, that meet in the center. The dark reflecting cut surfaces build rhombuses, which evoke the illusion of an isometric cube. This effect increases by the overlaying transparent colours varying in their intensity depending on your perspective. The table with multiple colours and the set impress most. Isom "cube" is available in two sizes, 90 cm in diameter, 30 cm high, and 90 cm in diameter, 38 cm high. Both sizes also as long version Isom "square".
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Fan Vote Can Make C.J. Zimmerer a Champion
Nebraska fans relish the challenge of lifting up Husker football teams and players, and they have a great opportunity the rest of this month to help C.J. Zimmerer follow former teammate Rex Burkhead as the winner of the 2014 Rare Disease Champion Award, the same award that Burkhead won in 2012 for his friendship and support of Jack Hoffman and the overall cause of raising awareness for pediatric brain cancer.
Zimmerer was the thrust behind Jack's 69-yard Spring Game touchdown run that paved the way for Jack to win an ESPY Award for the "Best Moment" in sports in 2013. Now, for a variety of reasons, C.J. is one of five finalists for the 2014 Rare Disease Champion Award. The other finalists are Florida State Football Coach Jimbo Fisher, University of Texas Quarterback Case McCoy, Stony Brook University Football Coach Chuck Priore and University of Utah Linebacker/Defensive End Trevor Reilly. All five finalists have received a combined 6,600-plus votes through the first half of January, and The N-Sider urges Husker fans to band together and encourage each other to vote for C.J. en masse today and every day for the rest of the month. Voters will need to spend a few extra seconds to list your name and to include your email address each time you vote. After talking to Nebraska's academic and life skills leaders and C.J.'s first position coach who later became the Huskers' offensive coordinator, The N-Sider offers up 10 unshakeable reasons why Zimmerer is worthy of winning this prestigious, trailblazing national award:
1) He excelled athletically, playing in every game of a 9-4 Gator Bowl-winning season, making nine starts at fullback. Despite not having a carry, C.J. was the lead blocker for Ameer Abdullah, a running back who recorded NU's highest rushing total in 16 seasons.
2) C.J. excelled academically with a 3.815 grade-point-average in Criminology and Criminal Justice while earning his Bachelor's degree in 3½ years. A 2013 CoSIDA Second-Team Academic All-American, he was also a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection and an Academic All-District VII selection.
3) He's also excelling in life as a probation officer in Omaha, his hometown.
4) Following Burkhead's lead, C.J. is paving the way for others. He was the first President of Nebraska's Uplifting Athletes Chapter in 2011-12. Zimmerer and teammate Sam Burtch provided invaluable leadership that supported the inaugural Nebraska Football Uplifting Athletes Road Race held last July. The event drew 700 runners raising approximately $15,000 for Pediatric Brain Cancer research.
5) C.J. was the one who recommended to Jeff Jamrog that Nebraska run a special play for Jack Hoffman in the 2013 Spring Game.
6) Like Rex, C.J. is humble, genuine, caring and committed to serving others.
7) His accountability and follow-through are unmatched.
8) He's exceptional at empowering peers to get involved and contribute to the cause.
9) C.J. was a 4-year honoree of the Brook Berringer Citizenship Team and a winner of Nebraska's coveted Hero Award for community outreach.
10) He's one of 22 players named to the 2013 College Football Association Good Works Team, helping Nebraska become the co-national leader with Georgia with 14 recipients.
Zimmerer Team-Driven, Dedicated, Physical
Tim Beck, Nebraska's offensive coordinator the past two seasons, can't say enough great things about C.J. after being both his running back coach and then his offensive coordinator. "C.J. is a great young man," Beck said. "He's extremely unselfish and totally dedicated to helping others. You can see that in everything about him. He knew his role on the team. There's no doubt about it. He was a very physical blocker. He loved contact and would always stick his face wherever it would help the team. He relished every opportunity to go out there and throw his body to help us win.
"He was always encouraging and helping our younger players," Beck said. "What he gives back to the community is amazing. I mean he's an outstanding young man – a great football player, a great leader and a great person in the community. He's exactly what you want to have here to represent us as a student, an athlete and a role model.
"As a competitor and a person, C.J. is in that Rex Burkhead class, and he's always had it inside him. When he was a running back coming out of high school, I had the pleasure to coach that position. He had the temperment Rex has – all out, all the time. His personality and characteristics remind you of Rex. I think it all just blossomed in C.J. being around Rex. He really helped C.J. come to the realization that 'Hey, I can be like that.' C.J. has influenced so many people just by being who he is and showing what he believes in. If you could rush for 1,500 yards or 5 yards, it really didn't matter to C.J."
Beck: We Need More Players like C.J. Zimmerer
Beck said Zimmerer was "in a great state and a great position to go out and help people in the community, and I'm just so proud of him. I love the guy. He's so team-driven. He was never in it for himself. He's just that way. When you sacrifice your time and sacrifice your money, your effort and your energy for other people, you have something special in you that tells you to give, and that's what he's done since he's been here – give everything he has. It was great having him here and great coaching him. To be successful, we need to continue to go out there and get players on our team who are just like C.J. Zimmerer."
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text: Melbourne - John Isner has pulled out of the Australian Open because of the knee injury that forced him to quit last week's Hopman Cup and hampered him in his defeat to Ryan Harrison at the Sydney International warm-up. The big-serving 27-year-old American, top seed in Sydney, said after Wednesday's 6-4 6-4 loss to Harrison that he was contemplating pulling out of the year's first grand slam because the injury, a bone bruise, needed rest. "I am extremely disappointed to announce that I have to withdraw from the #AusOpen," the world number 13 was quoted as saying on the Australian Open Twitter feed (@AustralianOpen)."I have been feeling some discomfort in my knee and have recently learned that I have a bone bruise. "Doctors have told me that continuing to play on the knee could result in a more serious injury." Isner's withdrawal leaves the United States with Sam Querry as their only representative among the 32 seeds in the men's draw for the tournament, which starts on Monday.


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Have it a while on my phone, and while it's a pretty cool little app it's not exactly accurate. I was going to get the heart rate monitor that supposedly increases accuracy and (obviously) gives you your heart rate etc. has anyone got one and if so does it do exactly what it says on the tin?


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The question is not "should" New Hampshire legalize the medical use of marijuana. The question is "how" to do it in a way that doesn't add to the state's existing drug problem.
Attempts in 2009 and 2012 passed legislative muster, but were vetoed by Gov. John Lynch. In both cases, the legislature failed to override those vetoes. Gov. Lynch's vetoes did not come in opposition to the medical use of marijuana; they came from concerns the proposed laws did not sufficiently regulate use and distribution.
Now with Gov. Maggie Hassan at the helm, HB 573 is working its way through the legislative process with supporters hoping it will meet a better fate.
Unlike other attempts, the authors of HB 573 appear to have attacked the issue head on of better regulating distribution and use.
HB 573 would set up a registry of qualified patients, designated caregivers, and treatment center agents — all of which would need to go through an extensive vetting process.
The bill also requires an annual report to the legislature that would include the number of applications and renewals filed for registry identification cards, the number of qualifying patients and designated caregivers approved in the state, the number of alternative treatment centers registered in the state, the nature of the debilitating medical conditions of the qualifying patients, the number of registry identification cards revoked and the number of physicians providing written certifications for qualifying patients.
Such information would be critical to tracking any progress made under HB 573 and helping to red flag abuses.
But as thorough as backers of HB 573 have been, their bill appears to have some serious flaws.
The bill authorizes the interstate transportation/donation of "marijuana seeds or seedlings, without compensation, from individuals and entities from jurisdictions outside of New Hampshire who are authorized to cultivate medical marijuana in their home state.
Such a provision is an open invitation for federal enforcement agencies — which have as yet been willing to stand back — to get involved. We also see this as a potential green light for the illegal drug trade to challenge the ability of New Hampshire law enforcement agencies to inspect and regulate every such shipment.
HB 573 also prohibits schools and landlords from discriminating against a qualifying patient or a designated caregiver, "unless failing to do so would put the school or landlord in violation of federal law or regulations." But since federal law prohibits medical use, it could be argued that schools and landlords are being given a Hobson's choice.
Other areas of concern include legalizing drug paraphernalia and effectively monitoring efforts to divert marijuana to those not registered for legal use.
Our goal here is not to pick apart HB 573 to the extent it fails. We have supported and continue to support the responsible use of medical marijuana. We are convinced, as are the authors of HB 573, that there is enough science and real world experience to urge the bill's passage.
But before that happens, sponsors and the Legislature as a whole need to look at any and all unintended consequences of legalizing medicinal use.
Done incorrectly, the problems of proliferation and of law enforcement could rapidly outweigh any advantages the law could offer.
As a result we urge Gov. Hassan to use the same measured judgment as that of Gov. Lynch when HB 573 or a similar bill gets to her desk.
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Spanton Hall is a 10-floor co-ed building located on the North Quad and accommodates 210 students with a Resident Assistant on every floor for supervision and guidance. On each floor, there are four suite-style rooms with two bedrooms and a shared living room AND three double-occupancy rooms with secured community bathrooms on the corridor. There are two students in each bedroom. Two passenger elevators are available for residents' use.
Items in bedroom (per person)
- Bed (36x80" mattress)
- Wardrobes w/mirror
- 3-drawer dresser
- Desks w/chair, task lighting and hutch
- One wastebasket
- Overhead lighting
Items in Suite Living Room
- Overhead lighting
- Carpeting
Additional Information
- Laundry facilities located in basement
- Air conditioning
- Tile flooring
- Wireless internet and cable TV service
- Two secured community bathrooms on each floor
- One ADA bathroom located on each floor
- Lounge areas located in basement and first floor
- All areas within the building are ADA compliant
- Zip Card (student ID) access
- Meal Plan required
Room Dimensions
- Distance from floor to ceiling: 8'2"
- Standard room dimensions: 14'3" x 11'6"
- Window dimensions: 3'11" x 4'11"
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No. of Floors: 10
Location: North Quad
Gender: Coed by Floor
Bath: Corridor Bath
Smoke Free: yes,
Air Conditioning: yes
Cable: yes
Hardwire Internet: yes
Wireless Internet: yes
Computer Lab: no
Floor Study Areas: yes
Laundry Facilities: yes
Kitchen Facilities: no
Vending Machines: yes
Convenience Store: no
Disabled Access: yes
Elevator Access: yes
Meal Plan Required: yes
Living Learning Community: no
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Immensely intelligent and poignantly human, Frieda Klein has captivated book critics and crime readers everywhere with her debut outing as Blue Monday 's iconoclastic heroine. A psychotherapist and insomniac who spends her nights walking along the ancient rivers that lie beneath modern London, Frieda stars in a dazzling new crime series in which the terrors of the mind spill over into real life. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday is abducted, Frieda cannot ignore the fact that his photograph perfectly matches the boy one of her patients describes from his fantasies. Before long, Frieda finds herself serving as the reluctant sidekick of Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson at the center of a desperate race to find the kidnapper. Blue Monday is an atmospheric, stunning first novel in a crime series for fans of In Treatment and The Killing .
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Miranda Lambert Previews Carefree 'Easy Living' Song
Each day this week Miranda Lambert is giving fans a sampling of the music to be found on 'Four the Record' when it's released next Tuesday. Today, she's revealed the carefree, swinging love song 'Easy Living.'
By listening to each of the five songs this week and scanning the QR code on each of the five partner websites that are previewing the tracks, fans can win a flyaway to see Lambert at an upcoming concert. The Boot has today's exclusive premiere of 'Easy Living,' a song Lambert co-wrote with Scotty Wray.
"The weather man say rain today / We'll saddle up and be on our way / What's a little rain to a high ridin' rebel or two / 'Cause it's easy living, easy loving you," she sings during the first verse.
The song is an unexplored style for Lambert. It would be a stretch to say it's similar to anything from 'Revolution' or previous albums. Lambert tells Taste of Country that she was trying to push the boundaries on the new project. "If you don't take risks you'll never get ahead," she says. "You won't get anywhere past where you were."
"Tomorrow that ol' sun will rise / I'll be laying here by your side / Coffee cups and a good morning kiss or two / 'Cause it's easy living, easy loving you," she sings to close the song.
Previously this week, Lambert unveiled 'Over You' and 'Fastest Girl in Town.'


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PORTLAND, Ore., July 23, 2010 – Seth Aaron Henderson, the latest winning designer in hit reality TV fashion show "Project Runway," has agreed to develop the "Seth Aaron SolarWorld Collection Presented by Portland Fashion Week" to be unveiled Oct. 9 in the sustainable fashion showcase in Portland.
In designing the collection, Mr. Henderson will draw on his passion for a domestically manufactured solar solution to pressing energy, environmental and economic challenges facing the country and his interest in exploring the technology's aesthetic possibilities.
The theme of the three-way partnership is "Solar Is the New Black." Portland Fashion Week (PFW) and SolarWorld, the show's renewable-energy sponsor, previously announced they would assemble the show's fashion runway from the company's new, black solar panels. For inspiration, Mr. Henderson has extensively toured SolarWorld's manufacturing plant in nearby Hillsboro, Ore., the largest in the Americas, where about 1,000 people will work by Sept. 30.
"It's SolarWorld's commitment to being a leader in its industry by keeping innovation always in mind that interests me," says Mr. Henderson, who lives in the Portland area. "There was inspiration from the second I stepped foot in the SolarWorld factory. Innovation and sustainability were overwhelming impressions, and they give me limitless possibilities for a high-concept collection. They're doing a lot of good things in the world, and together with PFW, I love the statement we're making from right here in my back yard."
Organizers of PFW, the nation's leading independent forum spotlighting sustainable fashion-industry designs, practices and concepts, said the collaboration highlights a natural fit between two of the world's largest industries: energy and fashion.
"SolarWorld's partnership sparked an idea for a high-fashion, conceptual collection based upon the technology, materials and ethos of solar power, inspired by SolarWorld's new black monocrystalline solar panels," PFW Co-executive Producer Chris Cone said. Fellow Executive Producer Prasenjit Tito Chowdhury said, "It's a powerful and enticing way to call attention to green fashion and renewable energy, all within a showcase of what will be the world's first carbon-neutral fashion week production."
Leaders of SolarWorld are equally enthusiastic.
"As a company that is exclusively focused on all phases of manufacturing high-performance solar power technology, we are fascinated to watch a talent of Seth Aaron's magnitude interpret the design elements of our technology in a fashion context," said Kevin Kilkelly, SolarWorld's president of U.S. sales. "It's a clear sign that interest in our technology, which we have been producing for 35 years, is reaching beyond its energy performance alone."
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Fashion designer Seth Aaron Henderson peers July 9, 2010, into the crucible of a crystal growing furnace at SolarWorld's vertically integrated plant in Hillsboro, Ore., the largest in the Americas. In the furnace room, SolarWorld grows monocrystals, freezing and aligning a single atomic crystal structure from molten polysilicon to maximize energy-generation performance of resulting solar modules. Mr. Henderson explored the plant as part of his preparation to design a SolarWorld-inspired runway collection.
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Seth Aaron Henderson, fresh from winning the seventh season of the hit TV show "Project Runway," takes a look July 9, 2010, at the wire saws in the wafering room of SolarWorld's Hillsboro, Ore., factory. The saws slice silicon mono-crystals into thin quasi-squares of silicon, known as wafers, which become the foundations of photovoltaic cells later in the manufacturing process. Mr. Henderson is designing a SolarWorld-inspired runway collection to encourage widespread adoption of the technology and to explore its aesthetic possibilities.
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Clad in a hairnet, Seth Aaron Henderson watches nearly finished photovoltaic cells move down print lines in SolarWorld's manufacturing plant in Hillsboro, Ore., toward final completion. Using a silk-screen-like application of metal ink, the print lines provide the pin-striped circuitry and bus bars that collect electrons from the cells and move them into a circuit. Mr. Henderson, visiting the SolarWorld plant in Hillsboro, Ore., on July 9, 2010, was fascinated by the energy-generation power of the extremely thin, blue-purple cells.
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Rising fashion designer Seth Aaron Henderson poses July 9, 2010, with a SolarWorld photovoltaic cell that was manufactured at the company's U.S. headquarters operation in Hillsboro, Ore. Mr. Henderson, riding heightened celebrity after winning the seventh season of hit TV show "Project Runway," has agreed to take inspiration from SolarWorld's technology in designing and presenting the "Seth Aaron SolarWorld Collection Presented by Portland Fashion Week." The collection will debut Oct. 9 as part of the sustainable fashion showcase from Oct. 6 through 10.
Photos by Fred Joe, http://www.fredjoephoto.com.
On the runway since 2003, Portland Fashion Week is the second-longest running fashion week on the West Coast. In 2007, Portland Fashion Week became the first sustainable production of a fashion week in the world. It has been showcasing the collections of the upcoming season by the highest number of sustainable labels of any fashion week in the country, along with several independent and fair-trade high-fashion designers. Nationally and internationally known designers from North America, Europe and beyond present their exquisite collections in Portland Fashion Week. Portland Fashion Week is produced by PFW Productions LLC, a full-service events production and promotions company specializing in fashion. The Bonneville Environmental Foundation has provided BEF Water Restoration Certificates (TM) and Green-e Energy-certified BEF Renewable Energy Certificates generated from 100 percent clean, renewable energy for the energy and water used to produce Portland Fashion Week.
Prasenjit Tito Chowdhury
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PFW Productions LLC.
1255 N.W. Ninth Ave., No. 211
Portland OR 97209
Mobile: +1 503 756-1412
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
Devon Cichoski
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SolarWorld Industries America
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Camarillo, CA 93012
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Summit Up 9-22-12: Where it's Fourth of July in Fall
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is excited clear skies are in the forecast for tonight's fall Fourth of July fireworks in Frisco. Some of us in the newsroom wish it really were the Fourth of July, with half of summer still to come. Others are just pleased for another "f" word we can add to our alliterations involving the funk and fireworks in Frisco, such fabulous FALL fun for families and furry friends. If only the fireworks had been scheduled for Friday, fulfilling all our phrasing fantasies.
Speaking of "f" words, and not the one we use to curse the amount of work on our collective plate, there's been some talk of fantasy football in the newsroom, specifically, the forte of fantasy football's few female participants (not an "f" word to be found for that one). Departing from "f" for a moment more to alliterate with "f"'s neighbor "g," we Summit Uppers would just like to say, "Go girls!" We few females in mountain man-land have to stick together. Now can someone remind us what fantasy football is again?
Speaking of fantastic females, we in the Inside-Out Dishwasher Building would like to give out a big warm thanks and Angel Alert!! Angel Alert!! to Ashley Ryan, the smiling pie fairy who delivered unto us a tasty apple pie the other day while on a random pie-gifting run to area nonprofits. We continue to be amazed at the effect a free pie can have on group spirits. Looking to get some good juju from your persnickety co-workers? Try pie.
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By Maargaret Waage
The Southington High School cheerleading team finished its season on a positive note. On Saturday, March 8, the SHS team competed and placed third overall in the co-ed division during the Connecticut Association of Schools Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) State Cheer tournament held at Floyd Little Athletic Center, New Haven.
As the second runner up in division of 17 teams, SHS went on to represent both Southington and Connecticut at the Annual New England Regional Cheerleading Competition in Lawrence, Massachusetts On Saturday March 16.
"This is a proud moment for our team," said Heather M. Allenback, head cheerleading coach. "It's the first time in the entire history of the program that we've placed this far. The state championship has been held for 18 plus years."
The team is co-ed and made up of twenty-one girls and one boy. Everyone who signs onto a varsity team has commitment in their DNA. The team spends a lot of time together throughout the school year, stating with tryouts in spring followed by summer camp where practices get underway.
Once school is in session the cheerleading team is required to attend practice four times per week with each session lasting up to three hours. Cheerleaders accompany the SHS football and home basketball game schedule throughout the year. Overall they're together for ten months.
The students are expected to maintain academic passing grades as a requirement to team member status.
"We were happy to have the opportunity to compete. It's an experience we worked hard for," said Allenback. "We were in the running against a tough division. We placed 8th with a final score of 144 in the coed division. Pinkerton Academy of New Hampshire took the win with a final score of 199.2.
"Cheering has been an extension of gymnastics for me," said cheerleader Rylee Gothberb. "There's been a group of friends that shared a love of the sport. We have a great time cheering and wound up following it through high school," Gothberb said.
Kaycee Belanger is a flyer on the team. "At first it was hard to trust the people who were supposed to catch me. Practicing helps to build the trust and to get better at the technique and moves we do in sync together," Belanger said.
Cheerleading is a skill set each member works at individually and in conjunction with the team over time the coach explained. "The athletic component, combined with aerobic and dance moves make up the routine," Allenback emphasized.
Alicia Savaria said she learned early on to do homework in advance of practice, because keeping that schedule allowed her to manage her time, which is a necessity. Mikayla Mueller said cheerleading interested her because it incorporates a lot of dance, gymnastics and great cardio exercise.
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THE GRAND BAZAAR I'll never forget the first time I saw it. I was with a bunch of other tourists, at a dead run, trying to keep up with Mike.
We charge at breakneck pace through a big arched gate, down a promenade lined with cheap fezzes and fake harem stuff, past all the gaudy scarves and baubles and Vegas gold. We run up through a forest of painted columns on a steep stone incline lined with underwear and carpet shops, Mike's harem for the day of Americans, eager for exotica and bargains, all staying at Kybele, the hotel he runs with his family in Sultanahmet.
It's a rare Turk who loves old stuff. In a country full of antiquities, modernity is prized. But Mike wears antique silver and scarves and jeans. The other merchants stare at him from their suits. The beaded pillbox hat throws them. 'They don't know the difference between Fundamentalist and Hippie,' he snorts.
We land at tilting tables in the thick aroma of spiced meat and gaze up at the yellow arched ceilings. The Grand Bazaar was started by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1461 and has been evolving ever since. It was the first mall and is still going strong. It has over three thousand shops. As many as 400,000 people pour daily through the dozens of arched entrances, but only four of them can fit in some of these shops where there are things like I've only seen in museum cases. After lunch we trot past many merchants. There are 26,000 people working here and they all want us to buy something.
They stare with amazed chagrin at the short bearded Turkish man in his quasi-Fundamentalist gear and his train of great big gorgeous American cows. All that money and they can't get at it. Galvanized, they shriek, "Nize carpet! A sell you nize carpet! " "Leather, Lady? Good leather! " "Hey Lady! Dress! " "Lady! Lady!" –holding up a pair of panties, making them dance– as we pant up the steep slope and turn left through an archway into another world of carpets and electrical appliances and high heels–high heels? — up a long staircase, across lumpy tarpaper roofs and up a final, very old stone flight of stairs, worn in the middle and cracked on the edges, past a sort of gatehouse where a young man mends shoes.
Small boys run up and down with round tin trays loaded with tulip glasses, full and empty. The entire Turkish buying ritual is flavored for me with this strong Turkish chai—made in a samovar and served scalding in a small glass. The little tulip glass is presented in a saucer shaped like a flower, with two or three cubes of sugar and a tiny tin spoon. If you don't put the sugar into the tea, it melts and makes the bottom of the glass all sticky, so I've developed a taste for sweet tea.
At the top of the stairs is a maze of old hallways, some roofed and some catwalked through the open air. We're at the top of the bazaar. On a roof overlooking a grapevined courtyard is a tent full of textiles.
It's here that I buy Koran covers for my sketchbooks. Each cover was made by someone by hand, some caravan housewife or lonely goatherd, pieced together from remnants and embroidered and lined, to cover a precious book.
There's a shop up here full of brass: bowls and pots, old and new, and the scimitar-like crescents from the tops of mosques. There's a shop full of dangling jingling jewelry, where they sell old silver ornaments by weight and your knees are jammed against your companion's. I drink my chai and look out past hanging ceramic tent ornaments through a murky window at the cats slinking through sunbleached grass growing on the wall opposite. There's a place where I find a pair of soft backless shoes, the kind with toes that point up, in glowing red leather.
Then down a narrow dingy hall to the very last shop: a closet with two dusty glass cases and some shelves. First chai, then out come small battered newspaper bundles. They could be anything. Last time it was a blackened bronze bracelet, pitted with age, grooved, with an opening just big enough for my wrist. I slid it on and it was mine. I imagined it on a wrist that turned black along with it. "It will clean itself from your body," said the man through Mike. "I think maybe a toothbrush and some toothpaste," I said. Mike was horrified. "You'll ruin the patina!" he exclaimed, "No toothbrush! Just wash it when you wash your hands and it will turn to gold." I haven't taken it off much since I got it in Istanbul so long ago. It's been in salt water and sun and sleep, sickness, love, heartbreak, and mayhem with me, and like everything else clotted and dark in my life it is slowly but unmistakably beginning to show the glint of gold.
Grand Bazaar is, in Turkish: Kapalicarsi, literally Covered Bazaar. In oldtime Istanbul, according to classic Islamic tradition, anything or anyone beautiful and precious was covered. Delightful houses were humble on the outside. Gardens hid behind walls. Women were veiled. Those Koran covers I buy for my sketchbooks follow the same priciple. This had everything to do with how the Bazaar evolved.
Women shoppers could not be in an enclosed, Western-type shop with a merchant. So the whole bazaar was enclosed. What a concept! All the precious things covered at once! The stalls were built into the walls of the streets, with wooden covers– divans– flipped up to display the goodies for sale, which were heaped and hung there with no glass barrier: a feast of color and texture to dazzle and delight. The women could bargain out in the open, protected from weather and gossip.
Through pools of light from the high windows, horses, donkeys, carriages and the occasional camel were all ridden through the Bazaar. Down each avenue was a trough for water and waste. You can see traces of these still, under the modern floor tiles. Westernization brought imitation of Europe, so shops were built out into the streets, turning most of them into narrow labyrinths. Despite modern electrical wiring these have an undersea feel on dark winter days. I've been in the Bazaar in a blackout, though, and you can always find your way because of the windows. Here's Muhammed in front of his shop Ak Gumus on Yesil Direkli Street up by the Post Office, looking down Sari Haci Hasan Street.
Here is beloved tissue seller Gemici from the same spot looking up.
Many visitors today are intimidated by the loud aggressive persistance of the touts, the guys that stand in their doorways and exhort, charm, plead, annoy and wheedle you into looking. But they can't follow you. The Tout Police will Get Them, and I'm told it's a hefty fine. The Tout Police are the last vestige of the old ways. In Ottoman days of yore, pushing ones work or goods was anti-Islam, as was advertising. The Bazaar Greeks were the aggressive traders. Turks would sit silently and smoke nargile while you shopped, only showing what you asked to see.
Freedom from jealousy and indifference to profit were Islamic virtues. A French visitor to Istanbul in 1830 wrote with astonishment that. after he had selected a wallet, the Turkish shop owner advised him to buy a better one for the same price from his neighbor. It wasn't uncommon for a shopowner who had sold something that day to send business to someone who hadn't.
Democracy and Westernization brought the present exhortionate hullaballoo. I find that I have come to view it with affection. The touts can tell where you're from at a glance, and they have stock phrases. We retaliate. They say, "Excuse Me!" And we say, "Okay, you're excused." They say, "You dropped something: my heart!" We stomp on the floor and grind it to bits, grinning. They stagger and clutch at their chests, and nobody stops for a minute. On top of this cacophony, down in the bottom of the Bazaar they call out the exchange, fluctuating figures bawled out in Turkish, letting me know I'm not in Kansas anymore.
COMMISSION MAN Sultan Abdulhamid's reign, in the early 1900s, brought the Translator Guides. These would follow and buttonhole the visitor, advising him as to what he wanted. Then they'd translate from the shop owner and take a commission on the sale. They were multilingual with amazing memories, remembering the tourist from visit to visit: where they stayed, what they ate, etc, and they drove everyone crazy. People would buy things just to get rid of them. The modern-day equivalent is the Commission Man, the guy who dogs you on the street trying to steer you to a carpet shop. Most are obnoxious jerks, but some are sophisticated and charming.
Democracy also brought Advertising. Turkey's excessive signage is notorious, but it could be worse. This horrifying photo is what the Grand Bazaar looked like in 1979.
This abomination vanished with military coup of the early 1980s. Some general must have had good taste. Shortly afterwards the Bazaar interior was covered with cheerful yellow and painted with classic Ottoman tulip designs by art students. I have drawn this tulip painting many times. It's beautiful, but I think they must have all gone mad.
Istanbul's Old City is Greco-Roman geometry overlaid with Ottoman clusters. The Bazaar is a fine example of an Ottoman cluster. It was not planned or built all at once but evolved over time, built as needed in a meandering fashion by a nomadic culture.
It started from two giant brick enclosures: the Bedestens. This famous 16th Century miniature shows the Cevahir Bedesten, or Inner Bedesten, at upper center. The smaller Sandal Bedesten, just inside the Norosmaniye Gate, is harder to see. The streets between are not yet roofed. Notice the Hippodrome with obelisks and Snake Column at upper right, and the City Walls and Marmara at lower right.
The Sandal Bedesten was named for thread from Bursa the color of sandalwood. Here's the Sandal Bedesten now. The renovation is boring but the people are not.
The big one in the center, Inner Bedesten, is now the Old Bazaar. A Byzantine Eagle at the Southern entrance has given rise to a belief that it was originally a Byzantine structure, but the Eagle could as easily been lifted from somewhere else. These two Bedestens were built by Mehmet the Conqueror, and gradually the streets between were roofed over and the sprawling structure organized into trades. Here's the oldest photo ever found of the Bazaar's outside, from 1856. That's the Blue Mosque at the top. The Sandal Bedesten is below it at left, the Great Bedesten at center, and our old friend Buyuk Valide Han down front, outside the Bazaar.
The Inner Bedesten was built with stalls for animals, which are now very tony shops. Here's Nick in his famous Calligraphy Shop, which features a wall of photos of celebrity customers: movie stars, bestselling authors and world leaders, including the Clintons.
So the Bazaar continued to evolve. Each section was dedicated to a particular trade. Weapons, shoes, cloth, clothing, brass ornaments, jewelry, gold and silver, perfumes, foodstuffs, and slaves.
The trades were organized into guilds. Each kept to its own area of the Bazaar. Here's the Presentation of Artisans to the Sultan, back in the day.
The present Bazaar is zoned by what is sold where. A store in the silver zone can't sell you gold.
Many businesses are passed down from father to son for centuries. Here are several generations of the Sengor family, who have been selling carpets on Takkeciler Street for a very long time. I drew the mother and grandfather from photos.
Another old photo from the end of the 19th century:
This has got to be where Shark Cafe is now. Here it is from the other direction.
I went all over the Bazaar with my book of old photos, conferring with groups of fascinated salespeople and taking pictures. The engraving below is likely near the mosque up on Yaglikcilar Street.
That big dark center arch probably went in an earthquake. Here's the spot today:
There are 13 hans within in the Grand Bazaar. You go up or down a twisty little alley, your shoulders brushed by lame, beaded fringe, bunches of shoes and so forth, and come out into a courtyard surrounded by fascinating shops. Many pussycats live in these hans, fed and sheltered by generations of shopkeepers.
Each han has its own personality. This little one, Chukur Han, has a plaque stating it's 19th Century, but the wall and archway look to be much older. See the carved Roman chunk above the window and the little column shoved in sideways?
I found this when visiting my friends Emin and Nurettin at Nurem in Chukur Han, wholesale traders and manufacturers of suzanis (embroidered tribal hangings), ikat (woven fabric that resembles tie-die), and patchwork.
The present bazaar boasts its own post office– the PTT– a police department, and modern plumbing, as well as the mosque and fountains which have been there for centuries.
On Fridays, the Imam's sermon is broadcast, and half the bazaar gets out in the aisles to pray. Rather than prayer rugs the faithful use pieces of cardboard, rising and falling in salaams to Allah, while people step over them and business goes on as usual.
In 1894 Istanbul suffered a terrible earthquake. The Bazaar lost much of its architecture, which accounts for wonderful pictures like this:
I always wondered what happened here and now I know. Here's a photo from 1894:
SECURITY The Bazaar is not and never has been open at night for any reason. During the reign of Abdulhamid, police had to break in because of a fire. In 1913, poet Pierre Loti was locked inside and had to talk his way out. And in 2006, a friend left my birthday present in his shop and could not for love nor money get in any of the four entrances he tried.
Nowadays, you're safer in the Grand Bazaar than most places. Merchants eager for happy tourists brook no thieves. A few years ago, a mob of men, women and children flailed and stomped a purse snatcher before the guards could do anything. The battered thief was lucky to escape with his manhood intact.
The Aesthetic Police: a concept of a group with total power who would enforce charm and good taste on benighted areas worldwide.You could call them in, and the hideous shopping center that's replacing that fine old tree-hung neighborhood would be stopped in an instant. Hideous restoration would cease. Trees would be trimmed properly and not amputated into bad sculpture. Billboards would be obliterated. There would be a death penalty for littering. Aesthetic Police: I always thought that this was just an expression. But then I encountered Celik Gulersoy.
President of Turkey's Auto Club for many years, he was a force in the community. He stood down an Istanbul governor who was armed with bulldozers and a prime minister, saving those 17th-century houses behind Hagia Sophia, now Konuk Hotel. He created the chandelier-hung Istanbul Library there in Sogukçesme Street and found the Byzantine cistern that is now Sarniç Restaurant. He created Green House Hotel and its fountained garden. He longed for a generation of young people who would value and nurture trees, as the Ottomans did. He fought tree-butchers and asphalt-layers and excessive signage and all those who would uglify and kitsch up the Great Mysteries of this ancient place. I never got to meet Mr Gulersoy, but I wish he was King of the World.
Celik Gulersoy loved the Grand Bazaar so much he wrote a book about it: The Story of the Grand Bazaar. A battered, borrowed copy provided much of the material shown here. Thanks to Gazanfer Bey, manager of Konuk Hotel, and the Staff of Istanbul Library, I now own the last copy in Istanbul. Many thanks to them for their help in researching this post. All the time I was writing it, I was hearing that song from Kismet:
Baubles, bangles, hear how they jing jingalinga Baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads! Sparkles, spangles, my heart will sing singalinga Wearing baubles, bangles and beads!
I'll glitter and gleam so, make somebody dream so….
–Robert Wright and George Forrest, 1953
All Trici Venola's drawings are Plein Air, drafting pens in sketchbooks 7 X 20″ / 18 X 52 cm. All drawings are part of The Drawing On Istanbul Project by Trici Venola. All modern photographs ©2012 Trici Venola. Thanks for reading this post. We love your comments.


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Theatre Staff early 1930s
Athol Farrell, 2nd from right in the photograph, worked at the Katoomba Empire Theatre as a projectionist, while wife Marj worked at the Niagra Cafe. Marj and Athol lived in the cottage 'Glynfarg' located on the corner of Bowling Green Avenue and Dora Street, Katoomba.
The Empire Theatre, 73-75 Katoomba Street, Katoomba was designed by prominent cinema architects Guy Crick and Bruce Furse for A.H. Small and A. Seller. The doors opened 16th January 1915. In 1920 the property was sold to Katoomba Theatres, a Joynton Smith Management Trust enterprise who later acquired the King and Savoy Theatres in Katoomba. Described as prettily designed, the theatre drew large crowds most nights to view the latest picture. It would seem that Peter Dawson was manager of the Empire Theatre according to a testimonial given to Athol, dated 24.3.1937.
The theatre was refurbished in 1936, and as the photograph below illustrates, renamed the Embassy Theatre. Its seating capacity of 843 was somewhat large by modern day standards. The property was sold to G.J. Coles & Co. in 1954 for the sum of fifty thousand pounds and remodelled by McDonald Downie and associates. Since then it has been occupied by a number of discount stores and the milk bar by various food sellers.
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Photographs 2 & 3 by Shirley Evans.
Photographs 1 & 4 Blue Mountains City Council Image Collection
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It is with deep sorrow, the family of Alan Langston announces his passing at the age of 57 on December 28, 2012. He will be greatly missed by his family and many friends. He is survived by his mother, Beverly Langston, sister Catherine Langston Chamberlin, and nieces, Jillian and Perrin Chamberlin.
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Photo gallery: Prison Population at California Institution for Men
More than a year into the court-ordered realignment of the California prison system, the inmate population numbers have dipped to its lowest level in 17 years.
The numbers peaked in 2007, according to a recent study from the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
The California Institution for Men in Chino, which in December 2004 was at more than double its design capacity, is currently at 160 percent of capacity with 4,765 inmates held in a facility designed to hold 2,976, according to the most recent population reports from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
While that may sound like a high number, it's a more than 40 percent drop in the daily inmate population and it's most evident in CIM's gymnasium.
For many years, a total of 213 inmates going through the intake process could spend as many as 60 days living in the gymnasium, said Lt. Dirk Williams, spokesman for CIM.
"There would be double and triple-bunks lined up against the walls and rows and rows until you hit the other wall," Williams said as his voice echoed in the now empty space.
The image of men sitting atop bunks crammed into recreational spaces at several prisons became something many proponents of prison population control pointed to when arguing the overcrowded conditions constituted "cruel and unusual punishment" and was a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
On May 23, 2010, a federal three-judge panel agreed and ordered the state to reduce the prison population by about 30,000 inmates by Oct. 1, 2013.
"After years of litigation, it became apparent that a remedy for the constitutional violations would not be effective absent a reduction in the prison system population," the Supreme Court found.
In response to the court order, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 109 or the Prison Realignment Plan and implemented it on Oct. 1, 2011, which aimed to meet the goal by shifting the responsibilities of housing and monitoring some inmates who would've gone to state prison back to the individual counties.
Since then, the state's overall prison population has dropped more than 12 percent, according to a CDCR population report.
"We used to have about 200 to 250 people coming through here every week," CIM Sgt. Joseph Powers who's worked at the Chino prison for nearly two decades. "It's 30 to 50 a week now."
Those lower numbers also means less violent outbreaks.
"I used to come to work and the sirens would be going off all the time," said Williams.
"You'd also always see the inmates coming and going through the hallways. Now," he said making a long slow sweeping motion with his hand through the hallway of the receiving portion of the prison, "there really aren't that many any more."
Only two inmates walked the corridor as they performed some of their daily duties.
Many blame the CIM prison riot which took place on Aug. 8, 2009 directly on the overcrowded conditions at the Chino facility and all state prisons.
Former prisoner Manuel – he did not want his last name used — knows all too well the dangers of having to live in the common areas of a California prison. In 2006, he and more than 100 other men shared the gymnasium space at Ironwood State Prison near Blythe.
"(There was)a lot of tension. Stress. Not knowing if at any moment it's about to go down as far as a race war," he said.
The 33-year-old's last stint in prison was at CIM.
"Yeah it was crowded," he recalled. "Significantly more so than in 2002 when I first started visiting CDCR."
Manuel left CIM in 2009 and has not returned to the prison system. He graduated from a technical school last year and has worked in the computer field.
One of the most affected prison was Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, according to Jeffrey Callison, spokesman for CDCR in an email exchange.
Right before AB 109 went into effect, the population at DVI was more than double its design capacity of 1,681 inmates. On Sept. 28, 2011, nearly 4,000 men were being housed at DVI, he said. Today that number is down to 2,280 or at 136 percent of design capacity.
On March 2, authorities removed the last of 20,000 now-unneeded beds that had been jammed into common areas throughout the system. The last one was removed from DVI.
Sgt. Joseph Powers has seen the changes at CIM.
The Chino facility removed the last of its bunks from the gym last year, Williams said.
While nearly all the state prisons have seen a significant drop in the inmate population, one has seen its numbers begin to creep up again.
Last year in the beginning of December, the population at North Kern State Prison was 4,424 with a design capacity of 2,694. The latest count taken on Dec. 5, showed an increase of more than 200 inmates, but it's still a major decrease from its highest count in 2004 which had the facility holding 5,444 inmates, more than double its design capacity, officials noted.
State authorities hope to be able to reach the court's first benchmark set for March 24 of next year. The state prison population numbers must be at 137.5 percent of design capacity.
For Williams, Prison Realignment has helped make CIM a safer place to come to work.
"And it's also safer for the inmates."
Manuel agrees but hopes to never find out.
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After four years as a Gold's Gym franchisee, Titan Fitness, McLean, VA, is leaving the Gold's Gym International franchisee fold to develop clubs under the Fitness Connection brand. Fitness Connection is a Houston-based company of seven clubs that Titan Fitness recently acquired for an undisclosed sum. Titan Fitness said it plans to take the Fitness Connection brand national.
"We're extremely proud of what we were able to achieve as members of the Gold's Gym family," Jeff Skeen, CEO and president of Titan Fitness, said in a release from Gold's Gym, Irving, TX. "We will always have a strong passion for the Gold's Gym brand and great memories of our time as a franchisee. Leaving the Gold's Gym family was an extremely difficult decision for us; however, we're excited about our opportunity to work with a health club brand which we recently acquired as part of our seven gym expansion in the Houston market."
In January 2008, Skeen and his company secured $200 million in private equity funding to grow its Gold's Gym portfolio nationwide to 60 open locations in the next five years, the company said at the time. Three years later, Titan had grown to 16 locations, but the company recently sold its eight Minnesota clubs to Gold's Gym franchisee Jon Barton and then acquired the seven Fitness Connection clubs, giving the company 15 clubs today.
On July 8 (after the initial posting of this story), the company completed an equity offering of $4.6 million from three investors, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Titan Fitness will convert its six Raleigh, NC, clubs, which were purchased from former Gold's Gym franchisees Kirk and John Galiani, and its two Reno, NV, clubs to the Fitness Connection brand in July.
AJ Mushtaq, CFO for Titan Fitness, declined to give more details about the decision or future plans, but he said that more details would be forthcoming.
For its part, Gold's Gym will continue an aggressive growth strategy that features a strong commitment to franchise development and the expansion of its corporate-owned portfolio, according to the release from the company. Gold's has 700 locations and 3.5 million members in 42 states and 30 countries. The company is reportedly in talks to purchase Bally Total Fitness, Chicago.
"We're excited about the future of the franchise side of our business," Gold's Gym President Jim Snow said in the release. "Last year was one of our best years in terms of franchise development, and we have big plans in store for both our full-service and Gold's Gym Express concepts. We remain committed to being the best franchisor in the space."
Snow added that Skeen and his team have been outstanding operators and the company appreciated all of their contributions to the Gold's Gym brand.
"It has been exciting to watch them grow under the Gold's Gym umbrella, and we wish them well in their new endeavors," Snow said. "We have both evolved our business models, and this arrangement works out well for both sides."
Titan Fitness and Skeen have been star franchisees for Gold's Gym. In July 2008, Titan Fitness won the Visionary Award from the company for its creativity and leadership in obtaining the $200 million in private equity financing for the acquisition and construction of new Gold's Gyms and for converting existing independent clubs to the Gold's brand. That same year, Titan also won the Bravo Award, also known as the Franchisee of the Year Award, from the Gold's Gym Franchisee Association.


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A financial advisory unit of Deloitte LLP has agreed to pay $10 million and accept other New York state penalties to settle accusations of misconduct related to an investigation of money laundering at Standard Chartered Bank.
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services also agreed to a one-year ban on doing consulting work for financial institutions regulated by New York state, and to reforms designed to address conflicts of interest, the state Department of Financial Services said on Tuesday.
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The head of the state regulator said the case was just the start of a crackdown "investigating and reforming the consulting industry."
The agreement only applies to Deloitte's financial services advisory group, which is separate from its auditing arm.
In August, Standard Chartered agreed to pay New York $340 million for breaking U.S. sanctions against Iran and other countries. Last December, it agreed to another $327 million to resolve similar allegations by other U.S. agencies.
Deloitte, which was working as a consultant to Standard Chartered, omitted critical information in a report to regulators on its independent review of the bank, the Department of Financial Services said. The department oversees New York banks and New York branches of foreign banks.
The agency said Deloitte also violated New York banking law giving Standard Chartered confidential reports involving suspicious activity the firm had prepared for other client banks.
The settlement agreement said the regulator found no evidence the consultant intentionally helped or conspired with the bank to launder money. In August, it had said the unlawful conduct by Standard Chartered was "apparently aided" by Deloitte.
Deloitte said it was pleased the agency found no evidence it "knew of, or aided, abetted or concealed any alleged violation of law" by Standard Chartered.
Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the state banking regulator, said the action against Deloitte was the agency's opening salvo against monitors and consultants hired by banks at the behest of the agency.
He said the reforms could also serve as a template for other government agencies that retain independent consultants for regulatory work.
"Today we are taking an important step in helping ensure that consultants are independent voices - rather than beholden to the largest institutions that pay their fees," Lawsky said in a statement. "Our aggressive work investigating and reforming the consulting industry is far from over."
In the Standard Chartered case, Deloitte had been retained as part of a 2004 agreement between the bank's New York branch and banking regulators following other compliance failures involving anti-money laundering policies.
At one point, Standard Chartered asked Deloitte to delete from its draft report a recommendation that discussed how wire messages on transactions could be manipulated by banks to evade money-laundering controls, the agency found.
In an email about the draft report cited by Lawsky last summer, a Deloitte partner said "we agreed" to the request because "this is too much and too politically sensitive for both Standard Chartered Bank and Deloitte. That is why I drafted the watered-down version."
As part of its reforms, Deloitte agreed to certain safeguards when it is engaged by a financial institution as part of an agreement with the New York regulator.
The firm said it would disclose all work done for the institution for the past three years, sign an engagement letter requiring it to exercise independent judgment, hold monthly meetings between the monitor and the regulator, and provide a list of those who review its findings.
According to the agreement, the agency could agree to an early termination of the firm's suspension after six months.
Senate Democrats in April urged federal regulators to rethink the way they use outside consultants to help fix problems at banks, after consultants reaped $2 billion in fees for conducting botched reviews of home foreclosures.
An official at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also said in April the federal agency was evaluating its use of independent consultants and exploring ways to improve the process.
(Reporting By Karen Freifeld; additional reporting by Dena Aubin and Emily Stephenson; Editing by David Gregorio)


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For the last decade, at least, Paul Beck and colleagues have been studying how to best utilize byproduct feeds on cattle operations. Current economic conditions — with both expensive fertilizer and feed — mean it may be the right time to check the data again.
With growing cattle, "we must look at the value of what we're producing in relation to the cost of production," said Beck, a University of Arkansas Extension animal scientist, at the Livestock and Forestry Branch Station field day outside Batesville, Ark., on April 15. "Right now, it's anyone's guess what next year's production will be worth. That's why there must be a lot of risk management to go along with what I'm going to talk about.
In 1996, Beck — who normally works at the university's Hope, Ark., station — began looking at the fertilizer rate in conjunction with the stocking rate. How much can the stocking rate increase for every unit of nitrogen put out?
"When we looked at that — with cheap fertilizer and values of gain around 50 cents (meaning every extra pound of gain put on the stocker calves was worth about 50 cents) — the most economically efficient rates were right at 200 pounds of N (220 pounds per ton/ammonium nitrate) and a stocking rate of about 2.5 calves per acre."
Last fall, Beck redid those calculations. In the last two years, the value of gain "has gone up quite a bit for stocker cattle. In 2006, the value of gain was about 70 cents. In 2007, that number was around $1.07 per pound."
When he plugged in the increased cost of N — 60 cents per unit — plus the increased value of gain, the actual stocking rate and fertilizer rates increased to 3.5-calves-per-acre and 300 pounds of N per acre, respectively. "That's counterintuitive to what most expect with high priced N fertilizer."
Last year, Beck did a byproduct feed study at the Batesville station. Eighteen 2-acre bermudagrass pastures were used after receiving 100 pounds of N. Stocking rates of 1.5, 2 and 2.5 calves per acre were used.
"We fed no supplement, supplement equal to 0.3 percent of bodyweight, or 0.6 percent of bodyweight. The initial bodyweight on all pastures was 620 to 650 pounds."
Total gain ranged from about 70 pounds to 150 pounds per calf. As for gain per acre, "as we added supplements and stocking rates, we increased our total gain per acre.
"And whenever we look at the cost of an additional pound of gain at the lower stocking rate, the lower supplementation costs about 60 cents per pound of gain. The higher supplementation rate, because performance wasn't increased much, cost about 80 cents per pound of gain."
At the next higher stocking rate, when comparing the additional cost of gain from no supplement to 0.3 percent of bodyweight "still cost about 40 cents per pound of gain. Going up to 0.6 percent of bodyweight cost about 60 cents per pound of gain."
With 2.5 calves per acre, the cost per pound of gain was about 74 cents (0.3 percent bodyweight) and $1.13 (0.6 percent bodyweight) per pound. Compared to unsupplemented calves at the lower stocking rate, the cost of additional gain was only 31 cents (for 2.5 calves per acre fed 0.3 percent bodyweight supplemental feed) and 56 cents per pound for 0.6 percent bodyweight supplemental feed.
"So, as we increase stocking rates, we can replace the forage with supplements. It depends on what the value of gain is relative to how much the supplement is costing. Right now, the gain is closer to 70 to 80 cents. We're still doing a little better with a higher stocking rate being fed a little more supplemental feed."
A study from 2001 looked at fertilizer and stocking rates — 100 pounds of N per acre stocked with 2.5 calves per acre versus 167 pounds of N per acre stocked with 3.5 calves per acre. "Additionally, there was either no supplementation, 4 pounds per day of a blended wheat mid soybean hull supplement at the same stocking rate, or we increased the stocking rate by a third along with the supplemental feed."
At the 100-pound N rate, there were unsupplemented calves stocked at 2.5 per acre and supplemented calves at 2.5 or 3 per acre.
At 167 pounds of N, there was a stocking rate of 3.5 and 4 calves per acre. Calves began at about 530 pounds.
Over the two-year test, at both fertilizer rates, average daily gain increased as supplemental feed was increased. At the lower fertilizer rate, "when we increased stocking rate and continued to feed, the average daily gain remained very similar to the lower stocking rate with supplement — right at 1.75 pounds per day."
At the higher stocking rate with higher fertilizer level, there was a lower performance even though the supplement was provided. It was increased from the control "but we didn't make up the complete difference. As we added more calves, we increased the gain per acre. It went from 306 pounds of gain per acre up to about 550 pounds with the supplementation and higher stocking rate and 100 units of N.
"We went from about 417 with the higher fertilizer rate up to about 600 pounds with supplementation at the higher fertilizer rate."
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Yet another study looked at replacing fescue hay with cottonseed cake. The cake is higher in fat than the normal cottonseed meal available the last few years.
The cake was fed at three rates: 0.3 percent, 0.6 percent and 1.2 percent of body weight "which equals about 2, 4, and 8 pounds per day, respectively. The calves started out at about 575 pounds. The ending body ended up at 721 pounds, 739 pounds and 759 pounds. The average daily gain — with the cake and also good quality hay (14 percent crude protein/63 percent TDN) was 1.83, 2.07 and 2.31 pounds.
"As we look at growing calves on alternate feedstuff, we can replace quite a bit of hay. But we can also pro-rate the amount of feed the calves get based on how much weight gain we need. If the work is with stocker cattle, we can provide a higher rate of feed. However, if we've got replacement heifers, we can feed the lower rate to get weight gains of about 1.5 to 1.75 pounds per day."
What about glycerin — a byproduct in the production of biodiesel — as a supplemental feed? Glycerin is a three-carbon sugar the liver can convert for energy.
For cattle on forage-based diets, three studies have looked at such feed. The first is out of Wyoming looking at heifers fed an orchard grass hay. The supplement used was either 50 percent corn/50 percent soybean meal or replacing part of the corn with glycerin and a little corn gluten meal (to take the place of the protein from corn). That means there was about 15 percent crude glycerin in the supplement.
The supplement was fed at about 0.3 percent of bodyweight. So the percent glycerin of the total diet — "figuring the heifers were fed about 2.5 percent of their bodyweight as grass hay — was only at 1.5 percent. That's a very low percentage."
The average daily gain from the corn supplement was about 2.67 pounds per day. From the glycerin it was 2.57 pounds per day.
In another glycerin study, Ken Coffey, University of Arkansas professor of animal science, worked with steers on wheat pastures. The steers began the 60-day trial weighing about 615 pounds. They were fed either corn at .25 percent bodyweight or glycerin at the same bodyweight level.
"This was glycerin alone - it was mixed with corn only for the first week to get them started on it. After that, the steers readily consumed the crude glycerin."
The calves gained very well over the 60 days. "They went from around 615 pounds to around 840 pounds. The average daily gain was from about 3.7 pounds with the control and corn supplement to 3.4 pounds per day with the glycerin — not a big difference.
"Others say there could be a change in feedlot or dairy diets with (the inclusion) of glycerin. That's because they decrease intake — we're not sure why."
Another Wyoming study looked at digestion with glycerin in a grass hay-based diet. The feed went from zero to 30 percent glycerin.
As the amount of glycerin is increased, "for 48 hours there's really no difference in total digestibility. Of course, glycerin is more digestible than hay. One difference, though, is the digestion rate decreased as more glycerin was added."
On cows back in Hope, Ark., "we used some glycerin from Eastman (a biofuel plant in Batesville). We looked at corn, soybean hulls, wheat forage, and bermudagrass. In the dry matter digestibility, there wasn't much difference when we went from zero to 15 percent glycerin."
The fiber digestibility of the corn and soybean hulls increased slightly as glycerin was added. However, the digestibility of the wheat forage and bermudagrass decreased slightly before increasing as glycerin was added.
"We also looked at the volatile fatty acid (VFA) production (a byproduct of fermentation in the cow), which is where cattle get most of their energy. Acetate is primarily produced in high forage diets. Propionate increases as concentrated supplements are added — or in cattle on higher grain diets. As you'd expect, as corn is added in different digestibility studies, that normally results in an increase in propionate and a decrease in acetate."
A third important VFA is butyrate. "I've heard discussion that butyrate may be tied to the decrease in intake with feedlot and dairy diets as glycerol is added."
Glycerin research as feed is just beginning. "I don't know where it'll go, but it is a byproduct that'll be available. If there's a (biofuel) plant close to your operation" glycerin is more likely to be an option. Because of its high-moisture nature, "it'll be more expensive to haul long distances. We're trying to figure out how to use it well."


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Amazon.com and other online-only retailers would have to
start collecting Indiana's 7 percent sales tax this summer under legislation
overwhelmingly approved Monday by the Indiana House that would negate an
agreement between Amazon and former Gov. Mitch Daniels.
The House voted 79-18 in favor of requiring online retailers to start sales
tax collections in July - six months earlier than planned under the deal
Daniels reached with Amazon last year.
While supporters in the House argued that the state's current policy gives
online-only retailers an unfair advantage over traditional stores, the bill
faces uncertain prospects in the Senate, where some leaders are worried
about the consequences of breaking the deal with Amazon.
Rep. David Wolkins, R-Winona Lake, said during Monday's House debate that
Amazon had met its obligations to the state by opening five large warehouses
and that forcing the earlier tax collection would undermine Indiana's
reputation when it comes to business negotiations.
"If I were the CEO of a company looking at Indiana, I'd say 'Why should I
believe you?'" Wolkins said.
The state's current policy dates to a 2007 deal with Amazon, which agreed to
open its first warehouse in Indiana with the promise that lawmakers wouldn't
push for online sales tax collection.
The bill would require all online-only retailers with a physical presence in
Indiana to collect sales taxes, while exempting online retailers doing less
than $10,000 in business a year in the state. Retailers with Indiana stores
are already required to collect sales taxes for online transactions.
Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, told House members he didn't believe
Daniels ever had the authority to allow Amazon to ignore a state law
requiring sales tax collections without involving the Legislature in the
"I think that we need to send a message to all the governors going forward
... that you need to come here and ask us to change the law," Pierce said.
Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who succeeded Daniels last month, and Lt. Gov.
Sue Ellspermann on Friday visited a new Amazon distribution center in
Jeffersonville, where the company says it will eventually have some 1,000
Ellspermann said Monday that she didn't know of any discussions with Amazon
officials about the sales tax issue and that she didn't know whether Pence
had an opinion about the bill approved by the House. Pence spokeswoman Kara
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The Associated Press left messages seeking comment Monday from Amazon
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Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma, who frequently doesn't vote on bills,
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It isn't clear how much money the state might receive from additional sales
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A study completed last year by the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute and Ball
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Ah... Danica Patrick might join NASCAR. Lisa Leslie is having the best season of her career. Kwame Brown will not face sex assault charges. Quite a full boat of news there.
Plaschke! That dreaded sports editorial writer. He has a column about the Dodgers up. This should be good.
"Trade Wasn't Worth a Penny."
Yup... Another Plaschke special. This guy aggravates me to no end. So much so I will refuse to link to him.
He is a constant whiner. Not only that, he is mistaken about the facts. I believe we did just fine in that trade.
Gagne was not overused in 2004. As 6-4-2 states,
"he pitched the exact same number of innings in 2004 as he did in 2003."LoDuca would not be with the team today, leadership or not, if he was not traded then. Just remember, Russell Martin was heading up the prospect ladder and his progress would have meant Dukies departure. (BTW, Paul LoDuca still remains my favorite Dodger, post millennium. But lets face it. You just can't keep everyone if you want to win. Hard choices must be made.) Guillermo Mota has been absolutely terrible since that trade. Mota had a 4.81 ERA in 2004 after the trade, a 4.70 ERA for the Marlins in 2005 and has a ERA of 5.94 with the Indians this year. He would not have solidified the relief corps. Choi, on the other hand, has been terrible. There's one point Plaschke does win. The saving grace, though, is the emergence of Mr. Penny. Brad, the only other player still with the team they were traded to, has blossomed into our staff ace. Enough said!


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Government-endorsed usury is repugnant.
It is absolutely mind boggling that the regulator has the misguided need to raise a misguided usury ceiling during a historically low interest rate environment. During the Great Depression when the Federal Credit Union Act was signed, the ceiling was 12%. With cost of funds at truly all-time lows, it is questionable why a credit union would need a 35 point spread. If you are making loans for provident or productive purpose, it is difficult to imagine how extracting that interest rate out of an unfortunate member is on its face is not provident and questionable if it reaches productive standard.
Currently, the cap is 28% with a $20 allowed underwriting fee. Consider the impact of a million dollar portfolio of these PALs. If you have a 10% gross charge-off in this portfolio and you have a 2% cost of funds, your margin is $160,000, not including the impact of the $20 underwriting fee. This margin would have Ebenezer Scrooge and Old Man Potter dancing with glee. For what good purpose could the NCUA be actively considering granting additional income?
It can only be argued that the need for an increase in this type of usurious activity against the least able to afford it is again to subsidize imprudently priced secured auto loan lending and other amazingly low loan interest rates on signature credits to Alevel members. The margin is so low that the room for error is nonexistent. It is just plan fools folly to participate in interest offerings as low as 1.9% on a new auto when you cost of operations is 3%. You cannot be profitable making these low margin loans on volume.
Maybe the NCUA should add an S to CAMEL and task their examiners with the duty to attempt to fix stupid. How many bogus strategic plans will include amazingly dumb loan offerings under the guise of being competitive? The greatest failure in strategic planning is a failure to first attempt strategic thinking. How can you smile about the achievement of your statutory mission to make funds available for provident or productive purpose by ripping off the poor and rewarding the wealthy? Sounds like a banking strategy that is soon to be governmentally endorsed.
The root of the problem is that most credit unions have either forgotten how to underwrite a loan for a member in financial distress, or they recognize that it take so much human effort and concern which does not fit their easy to use computer models. It is extremely difficult to look a person eye to eye and determine a lending strategy to help the member out. I guess the modern credit union new lending strictures now suggest some computer model to determine if they can make enough usurious loans to cover the losses on the mistakes of the A member loans and forget helping a member in need.
Appropriate payday lending is difficult. Losses happen. We fail as credit unions with our misguided attempts to structure loan policies and procedures to cater to the wealthy credit members. Proper lending to people in financial difficulty takes time, compassion, courage and appropriate risk taking that is properly priced. Not all loans can be made. It would be a membership benefit for the rejected to receive advice about the appropriate charity, social service organization or legal aid society to assist them with their financial issues along with the governmentally required adverse action notice.
The appropriate interest rate charged to a member is credit union specific. Many credit unions could make a reasonable return with PALs earning the traditional 12%. This is not theory. It is presently being done. Employee-based credit unions in solid companies come to mind for a lower level of interest charge. Church-based limited income credit unions may need to charge a higher rate for PALs.
Let's face it the usurious payday lenders are returning the profit to investors, and it is greater than the current 1% on a five-year CD. One has to question the NCUA failure to strategically think about the implications of their proposed lending regulation. If a credit union could truly justify a 500% APR payday loan as provident and productive loan to a member, it should be supported. Any proposed increase in the APR ceiling just says you can only be just a little evil and that is O.K. Maybe be the NCUA should attempt strategic thinking as to the root problems with the current credit unions structures and what part they play in the problem?
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