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The owner of the mixed-used property at 300 Poplar Ave. Downtown has filed a $1.4 million loan through Clayton Bank and Trust.
K & A Poplar, a general partnership whose address is in Collierville, acquired the 19,074-square-foot property in a quitclaim deed from K & A Investments on Nov. 1; the deed of trust was filed Nov. 5.
Built in 1964, the Class C property includes two buildings – a BP gas station and an office strip center – that sit on 1 acre on the north side of Poplar Avenue, between North Lauderdale Street and North Danny Thomas Boulevard.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 appraisal is $501,400.
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Ubiquiti Networks CEO Robert Pera, who's also the new controlling owner of the Memphis Grizzlies, briefly addressed his purchase of the team and touched on the deal's financing while talking to analysts during Ubiquiti's latest quarterly earnings presentation last week.
In short, Pera said he didn't sell any of the stock he owns in Ubiquiti to finance the Grizzlies deal.
However, the NBA required him to take steps that resulted in Pera obtaining financing for $26 million, collateralizing 15 million shares of his Ubiquiti stock holdings.
"I was required by the NBA league to improve the liquidity of my personal balance sheet," is how Pera put it to analysts.
He added: "I will remain, as always, 100 percent devoted to Ubiquiti and its future success."
The deal closed Oct. 29. Pera will be the new Grizzlies chairman, and he's tapped Jason Levien to be the Grizzlies CEO, running things on a day-to-day basis. Pera and his team assembled two dozen individuals and partner entities to serve as limited partners with him.
Meanwhile, Pera emphasized Ubiquiti's "strong fundamentals" in his comments to analysts Thursday, Nov. 8. At the end of the most recent quarter, Ubiquiti – which provides high-end wireless networking products – had a 27 percent operating margin and notched $14 million in profit for the quarter. The new product category alone contributed about $15 million of revenue during the most recent quarter.
Ubiquiti reported revenue of $61.5 million for the quarter, down 22 percent compared to revenue of $79.2 million during the same period last year.
However, a drop was expected. The company warned during its previous earnings presentation that counterfeit goods spreading through its sales channel would hurt the company for the next few quarters as Ubiquiti brought the problem under control.
That response appears to already be under way. Pera said the company has expanded the infrastructure of its legal team. And going forward, Ubiquiti is giving stronger guidance for future quarters.
– Andy Meek
City and county code enforcement offices throughout Tennessee are required by state law to adopt and enforce construction-related codes that have been published within the past seven years.
Memphis and Shelby County are currently operating under the 2003 codes and have made a decision to adopt the 2012 codes.
The Memphis Area Home Builders Association has had an integral role in the adoption of codes with local amendments. After considerable discussion with code officials and elected leaders, MAHBA recommended to the County Commission that they adopt the 2012 codes with some special provisos.
On Nov. 13, the MAHBA Remodelers Council will host a meeting of interested industry professionals to discuss those provisos, its position and the implications of them on the industry.
The meeting will be held at the Memphis Area Association of Realtors Education Center, 6939 Poplar Ave., at 9 a.m. Refreshments will be provided.
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City leaders will formally break ground Thursday, Nov. 15, for improvements to the streetscape of Elvis Presley Boulevard between Brooks Road and Shelby Drive in Whitehaven.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. and Memphis City Council member Harold Collins will lead the ceremony at the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau Center at Elvis Presley and Brooks Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
Collins has campaigned and lobbied for years for the combination of local, state and federal funding for changes to a streetscape that has changed little since the stretch of road was a country highway outside the city limits.
The improvements include sidewalks, synchronized traffic signals, better street lighting and relocation of some utilities.
The changes begin this month with a first phase of construction from Brooks to Commercial Parkway to be followed by two other phases that take the improvements to Shelby Drive.
– Bill Dries
U.S. wholesale businesses increased their stockpiles in September at the fastest pace in nine months and their sales jumped by the largest amount in 18 months. The increases suggest the U.S. economy grew faster over the summer than first estimated.
Wholesale stockpiles grew 1.1 percent in September, the Commerce Department said Friday. That's up from a 0.8 percent increase in August, which was revised higher.
Sales at the wholesale level rose 2 percent in September. That was double the August gain and the largest increase since March 2011.
Economists said the faster inventory growth will prompt the government to raise its July-September economic growth estimate from the 2 percent annual rate reported last month. When businesses order more goods, it generally leads to more factory production and that boosts economic growth.
The government issued its first estimate for third quarter growth before knowing the September wholesale inventories figures. The growth estimate also did not include the September trade figures. On Thursday, the government said the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to its lowest level in nearly two years because exports rose to a record high.
Both reports suggest economic growth was stronger over the summer than first thought. The government issues its second estimate for third-quarter growth on Nov. 29.
Economists at Barclays said a string of better-than-expected numbers including Friday's wholesale inventories report had prompted them to boost their estimate for third-quarter growth to 3.2 percent.
Economic growth slowed in the spring, in part because high unemployment and low pay increases kept U.S. consumers from spending more freely. Consumer confidence has increased sharply since then and that has translated into a rise in consumer spending, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of economic activity.
A stronger job market could also help boost growth in the final three months of the year. When more people find jobs, consumer spending typically increases.
– The Associated Press
The price of oil rose Friday on a report that shows Americans' perception of the economy is improving.
Benchmark crude was up 48 cents to $85.57 midday Friday.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index reveals that Americans feel better about the state of the world's largest economy than any point in the last five years.
Elected officials were also speaking Friday about ways to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, a slew of tax increases and spending cuts that would take effect in January.
It's believed that a lack of compromise in Washington on reducing the budget deficit would send the fragile economy back into recession.
Meanwhile, AAA says the nationwide average for gasoline fell to $3.456 a gallon, the lowest since July 21.
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Happy National Scrapbook Day! Today, I am not playing with paper (!), but instead we are going to a quilt show and then out to celebrate my husband Todd's birthday. I will have to catch up another time!
Here's a cute idea to fix up a tablet with a broken frame and washi tape, by My Poppet.
Mother's Day is coming up and here are some printables from Yesterday on Tuesday (through Pinterest.). One photo at left.
Free printable Mother's Day bookmarks here by Clementine Creative.
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Vintage Baseball Card Forum poster Joseph recently went on a special tour at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and discovered a hidden treasure trove of Baseball history sitting on shelves in the basement.
The rumors are that they have over 35,000 three dimensional artifacts in storage, as well as, a couple of million items within their library. Unfortunately, due to the lack of space and funding for a new building they can never show everything.
Above is a pic of the basement. You can readily see a Joe Cronin autographed ball and various trophies.
It would be a wonderful thing if the Hall of Fame could find a way to display most of what they have. Why not partner up with some Major League teams to sponsor Baseball museums at their ballparks. In fact, since Dodger Stadium is planning their own museum in their upcoming makeover maybe they can strike a deal with the Hall to bring over some items. It could potentially be a mutually beneficial relationship. Consider the cross promotional benefits. The Dodgers would be able to show their fans some great rare items and the Hall could promote their facility and sell souvenirs. It's a win-win.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Kona Winner and the selvage Queen
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Congratulations Christine...and Terri, oh my how Sophie is growing up.....before it gets too hot over there, I'll have to send hubby some more Fruchocs! Hugs NaomiReplyDelete
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Uh, I think Sophie might be related to me. Selvages....my obsession. I'm even starting a new etsy shop involving....wait for it....selvages!ReplyDelete
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Just got my pillow swap pillow from you - and I LOVE it so much! Its perfect for my couch, the colors couldn't be better, and so beautifully sewn! Thank you so much!ReplyDelete
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BODHI: Contuining medical education for healthcare workers
For 20 years, Dr PK Sarkar has been publishing bulletins and magazines to provide doctors and patients unbiased and objective information on drugs and rational therapy. His journals are fiercely independent, even if that means a hand-to-mouth existence
What to do with our waste: the Sulabh solution
Dr Bindeshwar Pathak is founder of the Sulabh Sanitation Movement, which has constructed over 650,000 toilet-cum-bath complexes and 62 excreta-based biogas plants in India. In this interview he explains how he brought the 'untouchable' subject of toilets and sanitation to the national agenda
Drs Nandakumar and Shylaja Menon: Coming home
From top-of-the-line healthcare centres in New York to the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital in Tamil Nadu was one hell of a jump for Drs Nandakumar and Shylaja Menon. But it's been 12 years, and they're still working in their dream village
Bimla Devi: Health messages and hymns
Bimla Devi, a young dalit woman from Nagal Teju village in Haryana, has managed to ensure safe motherhood and deliveries in her village. She has got the upper and lower castes drinking water from the same tap. She has prevented a child marriage. And she has spread awareness about gender equality and panchayati raj.
Drs Roopa and Narayanan Devadasan: Incredible odds, fighting the gods
Until the '90s the tribal people of Gudalur Valley summoned the Bettakurumba gods for all their health problems. It was years before Drs Roopa and Narayanan Devadasan could begin to change the tribal health scenario. But slowly and painfully their determination paid off. Now the Bettakurumba gods have started sending patients to the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital!


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IoT Hub Raspberry Pi 3 Client application
This repo contains the source code to help you get familiar with Azure IoT using the Microsoft IoT Pack for Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit. You will find the lesson-based tutorials on Azure.com.
This repo contains an arduino application that runs on Raspberry Pi 3 with a BME280 temperature&humidity sensor, and then sends these data to your IoT hub. At the same time, this application receives Cloud-to-Device message from your IoT hub, and takes actions according to the C2D command.
Set up your Pi
Enable SSH on your Pi
Follow this page to enable SSH on your Pi.
Enable I2C on your Pi
Follow this page to enable I2C on your Pi
Install new nodejs new version
Check your nodejs version on your Pi:
node -v
If your nodejs' version is below v4.x, please follow the instruction to install a new version of nodejs
curl -sL http://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash
sudo apt-get -y install nodejs
Connect your sensor with your Pi
Connect with a physical BEM280 sensor and LED
You can follow the image to connect your BME280 and a LED with your Raspberry Pi 3.
You can use the application to simulate temperature&humidity data and send to your IoT hub.
1. Open the
config.json file.
2. Change the
simulatedData value from
false to
Running this sample
Install package
Install all packages by the following command:
npm install
Run your client application
Run the client application with root priviledge, and you also need provide your Azure IoT hub device connection string, note your connection should be quoted in the command.
sudo node index.js '<your Azure IoT hub device connection string>'
Send Cloud-to-Device command
You can send a C2D message to your device. You can see the device prints out the message and blinks once receiving the message.
Send Device Method command
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Lea Michele Tattoos
Lea Michele wants to get more tattoos.
The 'Glee' star already has 10 inkings on her body which all have special meanings to her.
And the actress thinks she will get more body art as she experiences more significant moments in her life.
She said: "I've got 10 little ones now! I have 'I believe' on my wrist, which I was inspired to do after I was in the Broadway show 'Spring Awakening'. I have some musical notes on my back from Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and I talked Jenna (Ushkowitz) and Kevin (McHale) into getting 'imagine' on our left feet. My mom and I also have matching butterflies on our backs. I don't think I'm stopping at 10 though!"
Just as Lea showed how much Queen - fronted by Freddie Mercury -mean to her by getting a tattoo of their lyrics she also says her favorite 'Glee' performance was a cover of the band's track 'Somebody To Love' which she sang with her co-star Cory Monteith.
She said: "It's really hard to pick a favorite song to sing, but I think it has to be 'Somebody To Love' by Queen I sang this with Cory and the rest of the cast and I was in 'Glee' heaven."
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A coach recently alerted me to a couple non-canonical things I'm doing with my freestyle technique. Of course, I had no clue I was doing these things. It occurred to me that it's been years since I'd seen my stroke on video. Actually, probably about 15 years - at least as far back as high school. What else am I doing that I'm unaware of?
Having multiple underwater cameras positioned at different angles is ideal, but can be expensive to set up. On the theory that something is better than nothing, I bought a Canon PowerShot, which shoots HD video. Then, it was just a matter of propping it up at the end of my lane and pressing the shutter button.
I was mostly interested in looking at my freestyle (unlike some, I have no plans to swim around Manhattan doing butterfly). As long as I had the camera set up, though, I figured I'd check out my other strokes. Accordingly, I did a set of {100 free, 200 IM, 100 free, 200 IM, 100 free}. The 100's free I descended to threshold effort (not all-out), and for the 200's IM I tried to swim the 2nd faster than the 1st. I took about a minute rest between each swim.
For now, here are the videos of the three descended 100's freestyle:
On the first, I hit about 1:11 with a stroke rate of 55-60 per minute.
Two notes:
I calculated my stroke rate using this site.
These videos default to 360p, which is so-so quality. To watch them in HD, start the video, then click the "360p" text near the bottom and switch it to 720p.
On the next swim, I hit 1:05 with a stroke rate of 65-70.
On the last (threshold effort, but still controlled), I hit 1:01 with a stroke rate of 75-80.
The two issues my coach raised re: my technique were: (1) a tendency to "swing" my left arm around (rather than high-elbow recovery), especially at higher levels of effort; and (2) a thumb-first entry with my right hand. Issue #1 is definitely noticeable on the third video.
Issue #2 (thumb-first entry) is a bit more subtle. Just for kicks, I decided to do one more 100 - this time with paddles & buoy. I aimed to hit the same time as #3, but with the effort of #2. I came pretty close: 1:00 with a stroke rate of 67-70.
Watch my right arm - with paddles, it's much easier to see the thumb-first entry!
Overall, though, I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. I've put a lot of effort recently into making myself as efficient as possible in the water, and I think it's paying off.
Hey Sully - how does this compare to what you remember from my time with the Sharks?


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Historical Sketch
Prior to World War II, Eugene McDermott, Cecil Green and J. Erik Jonsson, the founders of Geophysical Services, Inc., were in the business of searching for natural resources. The war changed the focus of the company from searching for natural resources to creating instruments that aided in finding enemy planes and submarines. GSI spawned Texas Instruments and in 1958, TI employee Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit that launched a new era for the company, for North Texas and for the world.
During the expansion of Texas Instruments, the Founders were forced to import engineering talent from outside the state, while the region's bright young people pursued education elsewhere. McDermott, Green and Jonsson saw that Texas needed highly educated minds if the state was to remain competitive in the decades to come. They noted that in 1959 alone, Columbia University conferred 560 doctoral degrees - more than the entire Southwest region. They wrote at the time, "To grow industrially, the region must grow academically; it must provide the intellectual atmosphere, which will allow it to compete in the new industries dependent on highly trained and creative minds."
Therefore, they established the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (later renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies) in 1961. The center recruited some of the best scientific talent in the nation. The Texas Legislature concurred with the vision of the Founders and mandated in 1967 that science and technology educational opportunities needed to exist in North Texas. McDermott, Green and Jonsson decided to donate SCAS and its lands to The University of Texas System, and on June 13, 1969, Governor Preston Smith signed the bill creating The University of Texas at Dallas. The SCAS scientists formed the core of U.T. Dallas' educational infrastructure.
By terms of its enabling legislation, U.T. Dallas offered only graduate degrees until 1975 when the addition of juniors and seniors increased enrollment from 408 in 1974 to more than 3,300 students. By the fall of 1977, the enrollment reached over 5,300. In 1986, U.T. Dallas established the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. Today, with the largest undergraduate enrollment in the university, the Jonsson School plays a critical role in providing a highly educated work force for the advanced technology industry.
In 1990, the Texas Legislature authorized U.T. Dallas to admit lower division students. U.T. Dallas' first freshman class consisted of only 100 students. Despite its small size, this cohort's achievements have set the standard for future classes. Since then, freshman classes have grown in size while the university has maintained high enrollment standards. Nationally published data indicate that U.T. Dallas' freshman class compares extremely well with those from many prominent national universities.
The Rise to National Prominence
The university's ability to attract and retain these students has propelled U.T. Dallas into national prominence within a few short years. US News and World Report ranks U.T. Dallas as one of the three best public universities in the state along with U.T. Austin and Texas A&M. Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, in its October 2000 article "100 Best Values in Public Colleges", ranked U.T. Dallas 60th among all public universities nationally. The quality of the students who attend U.T. Dallas has remained consistently high. Over forty percent of the incoming freshmen are in the top 10% of their high school graduating class and their average SAT scores place them in the top twenty percent of all college-bound students.
The addition of freshmen has accelerated the rise in the percentage of full-time undergraduates from 31% in 1986 to nearly 70% in 2002. Masters, doctoral and post-baccalaureate students currently comprise 40% of the student body. Given its location and mission, U.T. Dallas will continue to have significant numbers of professionals attending undergraduate or master's courses part time.
The transition of the university from a part-time upper division school to a four-year university with an emphasis on engineering, mathematics, the sciences and the management of new technologies has been greatly facilitated by the university's faculty. By retaining key faculty members and attracting more nationally and internationally prominent researchers and instructors, U.T. Dallas has enabled its faculty to provide quality instruction to an increasingly diverse student population while sustaining the university's longstanding research tradition. In the past decade, the faculty has increased the level of external research funds substantially. During this same period, the university expanded its teaching mission, became a full-fledged institution, improved its external research funding, enhanced its areas of focused excellence and became independently recognized as one of the top public universities in the nation.
The mission of The University of Texas at Dallas is to provide Texas and the nation with the benefits of educational and research programs of the highest quality. These programs address the multidimensional needs of a dynamic, modern society driven by the development, diffusion, understanding and management of advanced technology.
Within the context of this mission, the goals of the university are:
The University of Texas at Dallas consists of seven Schools, each headed by a dean: Arts and Humanities, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Engineering and Computer Science, General Studies, Management, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences. The schools, in turn, consist of teaching and research programs that provide the disciplinary foundations of the university. In addition to the usual disciplinary approaches, the university has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary study at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Most faculty members teach in both graduate and undergraduate areas so that the character of their instruction is informed by critical examination of the most recent developments in their fields.
Each of the university's schools contains an undergraduate college, headed by an Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education (ADU) who coordinates the undergraduate programs and academic advising within the college. These colleges of The University of Texas at Dallas provide undergraduate students with a personalized setting in which they may pursue their academic careers. Each college offers an intellectual and social home for undergraduates within the larger university.
The Office of Undergraduate Education coordinates undergraduate education across the seven schools. The Council for Undergraduate Education (CUE), chaired by the Dean of Undergraduate Education, oversees lower-division admissions, academic advising and degree requirements, and develops and implements educational policy. The staff of the Office of Undergraduate Education manages the freshman admission review process and Academic Excellence Scholarship programs. They coordinate academic advising, administer the teaching evaluation system, monitor academic compliance for NCAA athletes, manage pre-professional training programs, and supervise the Collegium V honors program, as well as all Intellectual Competition teams. In addition, all freshman and sophomore students without declared majors are advised in the Office of Undergraduate Education.
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The university is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status in its provision of services, activities, and programs, and in its treatment of students. Students seeking further information about this policy, or related complaint procedures for alleged discrimination or sexual harassment should contact the Dean of Students.
The University of Texas at Dallas is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097: Telephone number 404-679-4501) to award baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees.
This catalog is a general information publication only. It is not intended to nor does it contain all regulations that relate to students. The provisions of this catalog do not constitute a contract, express or implied, between any applicant, student or faculty member and The University of Texas at Dallas or The University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Dallas reserves the right to withdraw courses at any time, to change fees or tuition, calendar, curriculum, degree requirements, graduation procedures, and any other requirements affecting students. Changes will become effective whenever the proper authorities so determine and will apply to both prospective students and those already enrolled.
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Recently I visited the #1 ranked bbq site for "beef rib mop sauce" (http://bbq.about.com/od/moprecipes/r/bl90710a.htm) to look at different mop sauces specifically for beef. This practice is not uncommon amongst professionals as we take a recipe to play with it and modify to our liking.
As I was saying, I found this recipe on the #1 ranked bbq site for "beef rib mop sauce" and decided to give it a try. Now typically, I will take a look at a recipe and instantly know what's wrong with it. This recipe was no exception, I looked through all the ingredients and came to the conclusion that something's going to go wrong.
What happened next was really stupid, against my better judgment, I made the following recipe as written solely on the credibility and reputation of this particular blogger. Big mistake!
You see, cooking is a science and it's important not only to know the ingredients you're going to be using, but equally as important is to know what's in them and how they will affect the outcome of your finished product.
The recipe I used (listed at end of this post) is identical in description, ingredients and directions as it was posted by the blogger.
When we analyze this recipe we want take a look at every ingredient, so lets start with the wet ingredients.
The two recipe killers in this ingredient list are the soy sauce (7360mg sodium) and the worcestershire sauce (416mg sodium). The lonely dry ingredient killer is a whopper the salt (2880mg sodium). The total sodium in this recipe is 11,156mg! Just as a note, The American Heart Association recommends no more than 1500mg daily consumption! This one recipe calls for almost 7.5 times the daily recommended use.
If you take the 11,156mg of sodium from these ingredients alone and compare them against the rest of the ingredients, there isn't enough of these other ingredients to off-set the amount of sodium, thus resulting in a finished product that rivals the Dead Sea.
Also, there isn't enough brown and white sugar to make it lightly sweet as the blogger described. The rest of the ingredients are just enough to make this recipe a gross and disgusting train wreck. Adding 1 tablespoon of oregano only adds to the confusion as it doesn't belong in this recipe.
When pulling recipes off the web, having a basic knowledge of ingredients and how they work, is essential in understanding whether the recipe makes sense or not. A lot of the web recipes have not been tested, just hijacked and posted elsewhere.
Otherwise, purchase a cookbook where all the recipes have been tested, and you can be confident in following the recipes as printed, then tweak it to make it your own if you choose to do so.
Due to how bad the recipes turned out, I ended up throwing away a beautiful slab of center cut beef ribs by following the blogger's recipe.
Beef Rib Basting Sauce Recipe
This beef rib mop has the right amount of vinegar to keep the ribs tender and moist. It also has a slightly sweet, but mildly spicy flavor which will produce a tasty rack of beef ribs.
Prep Time:
15 minutes
• 1/2 cup cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 4 tablespoons paprika
• 2 tablespoons chili powder
• 2 tablespoons ground cumin
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 2 tablespoon ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon ground oregano
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon cayenne
Mix spices, sugars and salt in a nonreactive bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
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Recently I visited the #1 ranked bbq site for "beef rib mop sauce" (http://bbq.about.com/od/moprecipes/r/bl90710a.htm) to look at different mop sauces specifically for beef. This practice is not uncommon amongst professionals as we take a recipe to play with it and modify to our liking.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Ina Garten's Lemon Yogurt Cake
I picked up a copy of Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa At Home from the library a few months back. One of the first recipes I promptly tried out from the book was the lemon yogurt cake. I watch Ina's show on television and have made a few of her recipes before with excellent results. This one too turned out to be fantastic.
Ina uses vegetable oil and yogurt instead of butter in this cake. I followed her recipe totally but used low-fat yogurt instead of whole-milk yogurt. I skipped the lemon glaze altogether and used just the lemon syrup, and the cake still had a nice lemony flavor.
· 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
· 1½ tsp baking powder
· ½ tsp salt
· 1 cup plain yogurt (I used low-fat)
· 1 cup sugar
· 3 eggs
· 2 tsp grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
· 1 tsp vanilla extract
· ½ cup vegetable oil
· 1 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
For the lemon-sugar solution:
· 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
· 2 Tbsp sugar
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9x5- inch loaf pan and set aside.
In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and salt.
In another bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, oil, yogurt, lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla extract.
Combine the dry and wet ingredients and mix well.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Stir together the lemon juice and sugar in a small saucepan and heat until the sugar dissolves.
While the cake is still warm, pour the lemon-sugar solution all over the cake and allow it to soak in. Cool, slice and serve.
This cake is flavorful, light, moist and absolutely delicious, and it has now become one of my favorites. The recipe is a keeper for sure!
Cooked by TBC on Sunday, February 27, 2011
Labels: Baked, cake, desserts, Lemons, Sweet Treats
7 Burps:
- Nags said...
tangy yum :)
- February 27, 2011 at 3:24 AM
- Sharmilee! :) said...
Nice texture n yummy looking cake
- February 27, 2011 at 11:42 AM
- Jennifurla said...
You cant go wrong with her, looks nice and refreshing.
- February 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- Laavanya said...
Oh that looks moist and perfect. Arun loves lemon everything - will try it for him. Ina's recipes are really good.
- February 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Kitchen Flavours said...
That's an simple and yum cake...love that soft texture.....
- March 1, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Raaga said...
Will try it soon!
- March 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- TBC said...
Thanks for your comments, everyone!
- March 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM
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Travelport Tackles Debt, Again
Travelport Holdings Ltd., whose technology allows travel agents to search for and compare travel fares, announced a plan Tuesday to refinance and restructure financial obligations to address debt maturities looming next year, about two years after it underwent a debt restructuring.
Atlanta-based Travelport, which owns nearly half of the online reservations business Orbitz Worldwide Inc., will extend senior notes to 2016 from 2014, boost the interest rate about four percentage points and also return cash back to bondholders, it said Tuesday.
"The successful execution of the refinancing will allow Travelport's management team to continue to focus on growing the business," according to a statement from Gordon Wilson, Travelport's president and chief executive.
Some investment firms, including Apollo Global Management LLC, own Travelport's debt, people familiar with the matter said.


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OAKLAND, Calif. — Gregg Popovich manages Tim Duncan's minutes all season long as if he were a pastry chef baking a souffle. Too long in the oven and everything can fall flat.
"It's what we do," says the Spurs coach.
Except how many coaches would do it with a two-point lead in the final 4 1/2 minutes of a close-out game in a playoff series that always seemed on edge?
But there were a couple of weak jumpers that seemed to come off tired legs and then an absent-minded crosscourt pass that nearly took the bald head right off the shoulders of referee Joey Crawford and wound up in the stands.
So that's how Duncan came to watch the final scenes of his 200th career playoff game, a 94-82 win over the Warriors that put his Spurs back into the Western Conference finals.
"I don't think he was giving me a break," Duncan said, ruefully smiling and shaking his head. "I think I had played three or four pretty bad minutes in a row and he decided to go with something else.
"It is what it is and we were able to finish the series. I wish I could be out there, but honestly the way we playing and the way we finished it was the right move. So I'm happy for it."
It is what it is and the Spurs are what they are, which is a more experienced, more mature, just plain better team than the one that bolted to a 2-0 lead over Oklahoma City in the conference finals in 2012 and then was steamrolled out in four straight defeats.
They're a team that could have Tony Parker make only 1 of his first 13 shots and survive. They're a team that could have Manu Ginobili go 1-for-6 and still advance. They're a team that could have their 14-time NBA All-Star Duncan get the hook in the clutch and still go into the next round against the rugged Grizzlies as the team to beat.
"Oh, it won't be pretty," Duncan said looking ahead to the mud-wrestling match with Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol. But then again, neither was this and yet the Spurs somehow made it look like a work of art.
Maybe nobody but Popovich could have gotten away with sitting Duncan down at that critical point in the game. After Stephen Curry hit a jumper from the key to cut the Spurs' lead to 77-75, Duncan made his wildly inaccurate pass and the Oracle crowd rose for one last deafening roar.
"I just made that choice," Popovich said.
Probably no superstar of his stature would have accepted the seat on the bench with Duncan's aplomb.
"Of course, as a player you want to be in there competing," he said. "But you had other guys in there getting the job done, so it was obviously the thing to do."
It is that union of coach and star, that steadiness that has enabled the Spurs to advance to the Conference finals for the eighth time — with four championships already — in Duncan's career.
There was a time — just two years ago — when the Spurs were the No. 1 seed in the West and were unceremoniously run out of the playoffs by the No. 8-seeded Grizzlies. It was a series when Duncan limped in on a bad ankle, Ginobili played with what was later found to be a fractured elbow and the Spurs' bench faltered. So Popovich chose to roll the dice with last-gasp veteran Antonio McDyess over a rookie named Tiago Splitter.
Two seasons later, Splitter was hitting 6 of 8 shots, scoring 14 points, grabbing four rebounds and holding his own on the inside of the defense while Duncan became a spectator.
Duncan and Ginobili are older now, but the Spurs are deeper with Splitter, Danny Green and the quietly deadly force of Kawhi Leonard stepping up. They're a team that can see the in-full-bloom Parker miss 12 of his first 13 shots in the game and be confident that he'll make the right choices and hit the big shots when needed.
Ginobili won the incredible double-overtime Game 1 of the series by hitting the game-winning shot on a night when he was 5-for-20 from the field. And even though he could hardly find the basket in Game 6, twice in the last three minutes, he drove toward the hoop, drew the defense to him and delivered perfect passes into the left corner that produced treys from Parker and Leonard.
The Spurs' core that looked old and tired the last time they faced Memphis in the playoffs is older now, yet playing spryer because Popovich is so diligent about managing those minutes. However, there is also fresh blood running through those veins in Leonard, Green and Splitter that makes much of what's happening this season possible.
Even stunning things like Duncan watching from the bench in the close-out stretch of a close-out game and nobody thinking twice.
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A survey text on modern Western ideologies published in the Soviet Union during the Cold War identified conservatism as the oldest—indeed the original—ideology. In that work of Soviet social science, conservatism was described as the belief common among ancient Greeks and Romans, perhaps common in all traditional societies, that a "golden age" lay in the past, that our ancestors were heroes and demigods and that we are but mortal men. This interpretation, which reduces conservatism to mere pious veneration of the ancestral, marks the remotest extreme into the past that scholars have gone in the effort to discern the "roots" of conservatism. Among Western academics, less remote yet still distant origins have been suggested. At least one American political theorist has tried to tie the conservative tradition back to Plato's "philosophy of harmony"—in contrast to those political philosophies descending from Hobbes that consider a state of conflict to be fundamental for man. Others have suggested medieval progenitors, such as Thomas Aquinas, with his doctrine of natural law. Still others have considered David Hume, with his decidedly pragmatic and antifoundational approach to politics, as the source of a conservatism identified with "historical utilitarianism." For the most part, however, conservatism as we know it is understood to have made its first appearance in the world with Edmund Burke's 1790 polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
This fact is significant, for it means that conservatism is really the second "ideology" to make its appearance in the modern world. Conservatism comes not before but rather after the revolutionary imposition of a species of ideological liberalism in the French Revolution: it is newer than liberalism, a reaction to an ideological fait accompli. This origin has stamped a consistent character on succeeding conservatisms in at least four ways:
In the end, as Russell Kirk always maintained, conservatism is not really one ideology among many, with its own set of pat reductionisms and abstractions; rather, it is the "negation of ideology," with a corresponding openness to reality in all its multitudinous complexity. In an ideological age, conservatism opposes ideology.
Turning to American history, it is difficult at first to give a satisfactory account of conservatism through the years. The most notable attempt has been that of Russell Kirk, whose Conservative Mind is widely recognized as one of the founding texts of the American conservative revival after 1945. But Kirk's genealogy, which weaves together British and American thinkers into a seamless garment, has never lacked for critics.
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B6601-005: Marketing
MW - B Term, 09:00AM to 10:30AM
Credit hours: 1.5
Location: WJW 208
Previous Terms Offered: First-term course; terms offered: fall, spring
Instructor: Ran Kivetz
Required for all students, unless waived by passing an exemption examination. The format of the examination is a series of questions based on the content of the course. The course content is described in the syllabus for the course, which can be found on the link above. Students should not attempt the exemption examination unless they are thoroughly versed in the course content.
Marketing activity is the engine that creates value in a business. It provides the focus for interfacing with customers and the source of intelligence about customers, competitors and the general environment. Further, marketing focuses on the long-run relationship of a company to its customers as well as on short-run sales. Thus marketing is critical to the revenue and profit streams for a company. This course emphasizes the role of marketing in creating value for customers, which in turn creates value for owners, shareholders and employees.
Tools and Concepts Taught in the Course
- Basic quantitative analysis in marketing
- Analyzing cases
- Analyzing market opportunities
- Competitive analysis
- Customer decision making
- Customer value
- Value of brand
- Segmentation and target selection
- Product positioning
- Customer acquisition and retention
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Philip H. Geier Jr., Professor of Marketing
Professor Ran Kivetz is a tenured professor at Columbia University Business School, where he holds the Philip H. Geier endowed chair. Professor Kivetz is a leading expert in the areas of behavioral economics, decision-making, marketing, customer behavior, incentives, and innovation. His experience in these fields includes over twenty years of research, management, consulting, and teaching. His latest research explores political science...


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Carbon has been the material of choice over the last few years when it comes to exploratory nano-devices and applications. Carbon nanotubes and graphene, both have proven to exhibit outstanding electrical properties that are worth harvesting. My presentation will elucidate why carbon based materials are an excellent choice for a wide variety of electronic applications.
In particular, I will discuss two distinct topics: In the first part of my talk I will present results on carbon nanotubes focusing on high performance computing with the aim to replace silicon in logic device applications. Specifically, the ballistic transport regime that has been reached with the shortest nanotube devices fabricated to date will be discussed in details. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss important aspects of electronic transport in graphene devices. The first direct measurement of quantum capacitance of graphene will be shown followed by a brief discussion of its indication to device scaling and a potential application as a varactor. Making a good contact to graphene remains a big challenge in the field. I will present our understanding of the contact interface based on measurements of a unique dual gate device structure which allows us to extract both contact coupling strength and contact doping level. Dirac point is often used as a measure of doping level in graphene devices. I will show that it is not a valid indicator for graphene devices with short channel effects.
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I have a hotkey for walls and for solidify, why not one for dynamite?
Also I use F1 a lot to get back to base quickly, I think it would be useful with more hotkeys, such as F2 and so on for each additional outpost.
Scrolling with arrow keys also would be nice instead of having to right click spam.
I'll be back with more ideas.
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CROI 2014 Preview: Hot Topics in HIV and Hepatitis Research
February 27, 2014
It's that time of the year again. Like a circadian rhythm, cold, gray skies remind me of winter days working in a Russian HIV hospital, but my internal clock also says that it's time for the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Like most years, it seems, this year's meeting takes place in Boston, where the polar vortex meets university learning.
But while it might be cold outside, CROI is the meeting for presentation of the hottest scientific findings on HIV topics.
What are the topics that I expect will heat things up this year?
New Hepatitis C (HCV) Treatments
A new era in the treatment and cure of hepatitis C is upon us. With last year's U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), a time in which short-course, interferon-free, curative treatment for most people living with HCV (and HCV/HIV coinfection) has become possible. Indeed, if we successfully diagnose and link to care people living with HCV, we can begin to imagine control of the HCV epidemic.
CROI will start off with an HCV bang, with several presentations highlighting data on recently approved and investigational medications in studies with names even catchier than most HIV studies, including PEARL (a study of combination therapy with Abbvie's investigational HCV medications), SYNERGY and PHOTON (a study of sofosbuvir in an all-oral regimen with ribavirin in coinfected persons). Other studies will also point to the potential of all-oral, interferon-free treatments.
Antiretroviral Therapy: Important Strategy Studies
So, we've got good drugs to treat HIV. But which drugs should we use? And can we break free of the mantra that we must always prescribe two nukes plus a third drug? How about very long-acting, injectable regimens -- can they be viable?
Just last year, we learned that in two large clinical studies, the integrase inhibitor dolutegravir (Tivicay) was superior to officially recommended regimens using either the industry behemoth efavirenz (Sustiva, Stocrin) or boosted darunavir (Prezista). Those official recommendations -- the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) expert panel guidelines regarding antiretroviral therapy in adults and adolescents -- ultimately went on to add regimens containing dolutegravir and elvitegravir (another integrase inhibitor, part of the four-in-one drug Stribild) to its elite "preferred" status for first-line treatment, alongside raltegravir-containing regimens. Together, these developments suggest that the standard of care and side effect burden of current treatments may be evolving for the better.
At this year's CROI, we'll learn from AIDS Clinical Trials Group researchers the results of ACTG 5257, a massive NNRTI-sparing study involving first-line treatment with tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada), in which patients were randomly assigned to receive that drug along with boosted atazanavir (Reyataz), boosted darunavir or raltegravir. I'm told the results are going to have blockbuster importance.
Similarly, I'm looking forward to seeing results of the NEAT001 study -- a huge, non-industry sponsored study comparing the nuke-sparing regimen of raltegravir and boosted darunavir to the conventional (and DHHS-preferred) regimen of tenofovir/emtricitabine and boosted darunavir. The authors are expected to report that the nuke-sparing regimen is non-inferior.
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Comedy/murder mystery begins at 7:30 p.m. each day.
It will be "Smoke and Mirrors" at the University of Minnesota, Crookston when the comedy/murder mystery is performed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 1 in Kiehle Auditorium.
The theatrical production by Will Osborne and Anthony Herrera will begin each evening at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children and $1 for U of M, Crookston students with their ID. Refreshments will be provided at the intermission.
The cast includes Alan Frank, a sophomore majoring in hotel, restaurant, and tourism management from St. Michael, Minn.; John Habeck, a senior majoring in marketing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Tyler Lowthian, a freshman majoring in business management from Richfield, Minn.; Ross Sigler, a sophomore majoring in accounting from Graceville, Minn.; and Anthonette Sims, a junior majoring in communication from Robbinsdale, Minn. Liz Massie, a sophomore majoring in communication from Eagan, Minn., is the student director and is assisted by Travis Jones, a junior majoring in applied studies from Milwaukee, Wis.The production is under the direction of George French, associate professor in the Liberal Arts and Education Department.


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UVES sky emission atlas:
The ordinate scale is physical flux in 1E-16 erg/[s A cm**2 arcs**2] and includes the continuum sky emission.
The spectrum is plotted in 30 A panels, with begin and end wavelength denoted at the borders.
The vertical blue bars mark those lines which have been measured.
The red line marks the sky spectrum divided by 10.
Red dots mark the line identifications from the Keck atlas (Osterbrock et al. 1996 PASP 108, 277 and Osterbrock et al. 1997 PASP 109, 614).
Crosses mark the positions of identified OH lines (Lidman et al. 2000). Positions beyond 9975 A are taken from the Rousselot et al. 2000 (A&A 354, 1134) list. All positions have been transformed from vacuum to air using the Edlen formula.
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Where to start in all honesty is the big question. I cannot remember a time when I didn't make "things".
It all started as a small child with Lego, dolls clothes, dressing up games, painting by numbers and spirographs. Life was very genteel as a little girl despite occasional tomboy moments. Then the revolution came - Blue Peter. The television programme that could strike terror into the heart of a parent as each week the presenters made something, usually from items found in the household
My home was no exception to this. My Mother actively saved boxes, empty washing up bottles, worn out clothing, paper etc and with the addition of a pair of scissors and PVA glue I was off. My early days of crafting. Then with the support of being shown how to sew, very simply at the beginning, plus a grandmother who could crochet, we're off again
Many think recycling belongs to this generation but some of us were doing this a long time ago. I'd happily take my saved up pocket money to a jumble sale (where have they gone?) buy up a bag of items and perhaps unravel hand knitted items for wool supplies, make clothes from the fabric I carefully dissembled and occasionally join items to create unique items. Nothing was wasted.
My first sewing machine was a much loved and well earned item. My parents offered to pay half if I earned the other half through my Saturday job earnings. Well that didn't take long, nothing like youthful determination. Clothes of all sorts were made on that machine, some terrifying my parents as I went out, in their words "oddly dressed".
My life has and continues to be greatly enhanced in being able to express creative ideas and where possible I've attended numerous classes to further skills, capabilities. My interest in Patchwork and Quilting has blossomed greatly and I've completed City & Guilds Level 2 which helped me to develop appropriate skills and techniques.
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While Heatherly is still interested in getting soybean plants up and growing before the hot summer sun begins baking the Delta landscape, he's now taking his drought avoidance system one step further by testing a new "ultra early" soybean production system.
In this his first year of his ultra early study, Heatherly planted maturity group zero (MG0) soybean varieties alongside his maturity group 4 plots, using March 23 and April 20 as planting dates.
"Ultra early planting of ultra early soybean varieties may offer additional opportunity to shorten the growing season and avoid drought," says Heatherly, a soybean agronomist with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service here.
According to Heatherly, his early soybean production system involves planting early-maturing varieties in late March and early April, avoiding much of the drought stress that normally occurs during critical developmental stages. By planting the shorter maturity soybean varieties earlier, the varieties should reach bloom to pod-fill when soil moisture is relatively more plentiful and showers are common, permitting good yields without irrigation.
The March planted MG 0 soybeans in his 2001 field plots reached bloom in late April and began pod set May 21, while his April planted varieties reached bloom in mid-May and began pod set June 6. In comparison, the MG 4 varieties, planted on the same dates, reached bloom more than one week later and began pod set a full three to four weeks after the MG O soybean varieties reached the same developmental milestone.
Both the MG 4 and the MG O varieties were planted on 20-inch rows using a seeding rate of 45- to 50-pounds of treated seed per acre. The MG O varieties took between 91 and 98 days to reach maturity and were harvested beginning June 29. Yields for the ultra-early varieties ranged from 28 bushels per acre dryland to 56 bushels per acre on irrigated ground.
Heatherly reports excellent seed quality with the MG O soybeans he tested and says the lack of canopy associated with these ultra early soybeans doesn't appear to result in a weed infestation problem due to the very short season and early harvest.
"The MG 0 soybeans are definitely too short season, but what we need to do is gravitate up from there. We need a 110- to 120-day maturity soybean that's somewhere between a MG 0 and a MG 4," Heatherly says. "We're still focusing on drought avoidance. We're going to do that by continuing to plant early and by planting earlier maturing varieties."
"If you take all costs into account at today's soybean prices, or at the $5.35 per bushel loan rate, it will take 37 non-irrigated bushels and 51 irrigated bushels to break even," he says. "That seems hopeless, but our production costs using the ultra early planted MG 0 system were the lowest I've seen in all of the years I've been in the research business. Costs were well below $100 per acre from planting to harvest.
Heatherly adds, "In an ultra-early production system planting ultra-early soybeans, a 28-bushel yield coupled with the lower cost per acre is probably close to break even. This lets us know that we can produce a respectable dryland yield with very short-season varieties."
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Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.9% as US Adds Fewer Than Expected Jobs
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Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.9% as US Adds Fewer Than Expected Jobs
Friday, February 1, 2013 08:34 AM
By: REUTERS
U.S. job growth grew modestly in January and gains in the prior two months were bigger than initially reported, supporting views the economy's sluggish recovery was on track despite a surprise contraction in output in the final three months of 2012.
Employers added 157,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. There were 127,000 more jobs created in November and December than previously reported.
The unemployment rate, however, edged up 0.1 percentage point to 7.9 percent.
The closely watched report also showed an increase in hourly earnings and solid gains in construction and retail employment.
Coming on the heels of data on Wednesday showing a surprise contraction in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter, that should ease any worries the economy was at risk of recession, even though the unemployment rate ticked up.
GDP contracted at a 0.1 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, largely because of a sharp slowdown in the pace of inventory accumulation and a plunge in defense spending.
A monster storm that hit the East Coast in late October also weighed on output, a drag that should lift this quarter.
Federal Reserve officials said on Wednesday that economic activity had "paused," but they signaled optimism the recovery would regain speed with continued monetary policy support. The Fed left in place a monthly $85 billion bond-buying stimulus plan.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected employers to add 160,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 7.8 percent last month.
The Labor Department also published benchmark revisions to payrolls data going back to 2008. It said the employment level in March 2012 was 422,000 higher on a seasonally adjusted basis than previously reported.
It also introduced new population factors for its survey of households from which the unemployment rate is calculated. This had a negligible effect on the major household survey measures.
Job growth in 2012 averaged 181,000 a month, but not enough to significantly reduce unemployment. Economists say employment gains in excess of 250,000 a month over a sustained period are needed.
Though the unemployment rate dropped from a peak of 10 percent in October 2009, that was mostly because some unemployed Americans gave up the search for work because of weak job prospects.
The share of the working age population with a job has been below 60 percent for almost four years.
All the job gains in January were in the private sector, where hiring was as broad-based as it was in December and declines in public sector employment remained moderate.
Steady job gains could help the economy weather the headwinds of higher taxes and government spending cuts. A payroll tax cut expired on Jan. 1 and big automatic spending cuts are set to take hold in March unless Congress acts.
The goods-producing sector showed a third month of solid gains, with manufacturing employment advancing for a fourth straight month. Construction payrolls increased 28,000, adding to December's healthy 30,000 gain.
Construction jobs are expected to rise further as the housing market recovery gains momentum. Housing is expected to support the economy this year, taking over the baton from manufacturing.
Within the vast private services sector, retail jobs increased by a solid 32,600 jobs after rising 11,200 in December. Retail employment has now risen for seven straight months. Education and health payrolls added 25,000 jobs in January after employment grew by the most in 10 months in December.
Government payrolls dropped by 9,000 last month after falling 6,000 in December. The pace is moderating as local government layoffs, outside education, subside.
Average hourly earnings rose four cents last month. Hourly earnings have been rising steadily. They were up 2.1 percent in the 12 months through January.
"It may be that we are now getting to a point in the labor market where we are going to see an upward creep in average hourly earnings," said RDQ Economics' Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.
"That's going to be good for the consumer and they need help because they are being whacked by the payrolls tax increase," he said before the release of the report.
The length of the workweek for the average worker was steady at 34.4 hours for a third straight month.
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Shoppers may want to check twice in the frozen food aisle, after more than 500 pounds of a popular Perdue chicken product was been recalled due to misbranding and undeclared allergens.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced this week that 530 pounds of chicken products have been recalled because they contain eggs, a known allergen that is not declared clearly on the product's label.
According to health officials, "the ready-to-cook chicken breast tenderloin fritters were inadvertently labeled with the Homestyle Chicken Tender Fritter label. The chicken breast tenderloin fritters contain egg whites and the Homestyle Chicken Tender Fritters do not. The ready-to-cook chicken tenderloin fritter items were produced on December 6, 2017."
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There have been no confirmed reports of any adverse reactions due to consumption of the product. Shoppers that may have purchased the products are "urged not to consume them."
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University of Iowa is first public university to add optional LGBT question to application
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa has become the nation's first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its admissions application.
The university announced Wednesday that its new application asks students whether they identify with the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer community. The application also offers transgender as a gender option.
Campus Pride is an advocacy group that works to improve the college environment for gay and lesbian students. It says Iowa's move is the first by a "major, public, and national research university."
Elmhurst College became the first U.S. college to include similar questions on its application last year. Elmhurst is a private college in Illinois.


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