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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." —Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
Many of the most famous and successful businesses in the U.S. are family-owned. Wal-Mart, Ford Motor and News Corp. are about as big as they come, and despite recessions, fluctuating consumer tastes and bursting bubbles, these companies have always kept it in the family.
When things go well, working with family can be extremely rewarding. Selena S. Cuffe is president and CEO of Heritage Link Brands, a company she co-founded with her husband that transforms African products into global brands. She conceded that toiling alongside family brings challenges but had mostly positive things to say.
"You trust the people you're working with," Cuffe said in an email. "Everyone is more invested than if they were at just 'a job.' The staff's mindset is much more entrepreneurial, authentic and strategic … [and] you are surrounded by people you actually enjoy!"
Unfortunately, families also carry grudges and bad blood, some going back to childhood. For such reasons, serial entrepreneur and Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis of CNBC Prime's "The Profit" is by no means sold on the family business model.
"Trust is the upside," he said in an interview. "But the downside is having work leak over into life, and spilling over onto the dining room table."
Some families with a volatile personal mix have buckled under the strain of business, with explosive results. Read ahead to see 10 examples of family businesses gone bad.
By Daniel Bukszpan
Posted 3 Sept. 2013

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Mount Washington records 140 mph storm wind gust
SARGENT'S PURCHASE, N.H. (AP) � The Mount Washington Observatory says it recorded a peak wind gust of 140 mph as Superstorm Sandy hit New Hampshire.
That fell shy of the highest wind speed recorded at the 6,288-foot summit in 1934, which was 231 mph.
The summit held the world's record for fastest wind gust many years. It lost out to a 253 mph gust on Australia's Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in 1996.
The report from the observatory says Tuesday's weather will not be nearly as severe as Monday's. It said the White Mountains and other parts of the state are reporting flooding, adverse road and trail conditions, several fallen trees and possible mudslides.
The U.S. Forest Service is strongly advising against backcountry travel in the White Mountain National Forest until at least Wednesday morning.


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Models have long been in the spotlight for promoting unrealistic standards of beauty. But digital retouching tools now allow not just models, but also celebrities and everyday people to look impossibly flawless in photos. Viewing these images is tied to eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction, say the Dartmouth College scientists behind a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers decided to test just how much images are retouched. How? They created a photo analysis tool that highlights areas of photographs that have been retouched by comparing originals with published versions. They then tested the tool on over 400 before-and-after photos from magazines, advertisements, and various websites.
Keep clicking to see the images used in the study, provided by lead researcher Dr. Hany Farid, to see heatmap overlays showing how much photos have been altered. Then, take a look at some before-and-afters so you can judge for yourself...
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The detector tool developed by Dartmouth College scientists measures geometric changes to a person's face and body - such as larger breasts, smaller hips, slimmer necks - as well as color and texture changes - like blurring and sharpening. Researchers wanted to find out just how much a model or celebrity has "strayed from reality."
Judge for yourself: What was retouched?


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Las Arribes del Duero, along the river trail
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Landscape in Los Arribes del Duero. Zamora.
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Boat on Los Arribes del Duero. Zamora.
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Arribes del Duero. Puente Pino bridge, Zamora.
In the area bordering the provinces of Salamanca and Zamora you will find one of inland Spain's most spectacular landscapes: las Arribes del Duero. Follow the trail marked out by the river canyon and you will discover the area's spectacular beauty.
In inland Spain there are places that are simply unbelievable. The Arribes del Duero Nature Reserve is one of them. It is located in the west of the Castile-León Region, in the area where its two provinces meet: Salamanca and Zamora. The landscape of this area is dominated by the spectacular canyon carved out over time by the Duero River – the Iberian peninsula's longest and deepest water course. A stunning setting with rugged gorges and canyons, occasionally reaching a depth of 500 metres, running almost one hundred kilometres through the southwest of Zamora and the northwest of Salamanca provinces.
Mediterranean oasis
Las Arribes del Duero is unique for other reasons too. Its unusual relief and geographical conditions mean that it also has a special microclimate. Here you will find mild temperatures, shelter from the wind, sunshine and typical Mediterranean vegetation. Don't be surprised, then, when you come across olive and almond groves, vines and orange trees close to the river. This nature reserve is also home to many animal species, some of which are endangered. Outstanding amidst the regional fauna is the black stork, the golden eagle, the peregrine falcon and the Egyptian vulture.
Spring and autumn are good times to visit the Arribes Nature Reserve, when all the colours of the countryside are at their most vibrant. A car is ideal to explore the different villages of the region. Nevertheless, there is a network of regional trails (PR) that run around one long-distance hiking route, the GR-14, which passes through the reserve, perfect for excursions from one village to another, enjoying the stunning beauty of the region on foot or by bike. The best thing is to make for the tourist offices where they will give you all the information you need.
Boat trips
The Arribes area is packed with countryside and cultural attractions, in both parts – Salamanca and Zamora provinces. In the Salamanca part, for example, you can discover stunning settings such as Pozo de los Humos, a 50-metre waterfall close to the village of Pereña, or enjoy beautiful views of the Duero River from various viewpoints such as Mirador del Fraile and el Picón de Felipe, both just a few kilometres from the village of Aldeadávila de la Ribera. Here there is another point of particular interest: Playa del Rostro, a river beach ideal for swimming and kayaking or a 1.5 hour boat trip to the area's incredible canyons.
If you fancy more time on the water, make for Vilvestre, where you can go on catamaran trips, and where there is also a major Neolithic site. And in the Zamora area there are many things to do, like water activities in the Almendra reservoir, admiring the monuments in the town of Fermoselle (if you want, you can go on a boat tour between the Bemposta and Picote dams) or discovering the curious "chiviteras" of Torregamones, which are old traditional constructions that shepherds used to use. In the Zamora area you can also go on the popular environmental cruise of Arribes del Duero, another boat tour that takes you to spectacular cliffs (it starts at the International Biological Station of Miranda do Douro, on the Zamora-Miranda do Douro border). There is also an interactive fauna exhibition.
These are just a few of the options to be found in one of Spain's most unusual nature reserves, Los Arribes del Duero. Choose your route, prepare your holiday and don't worry if you don't get to see it all – you can come back whenever you like.
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ON THE BLOCK- Wanted: Happy trees seek warm owner
ADDRESS: 2920 Doctors Crossing Road
NEIGHBORHOOD: Stony Point
COUNTY ASSESSMENT: $687,600 ($463,200 under "land use" tax break)
SIZE: 4,400 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: 31 acres
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10
LISTED BY: Jim Bonner and Aaron Manis of Roy Wheeler Realty, 951-5155
On the PBS show The Joy of Painting, host Bob Ross always painted his landscapes working from background to foreground. He might begin with the contours of rolling hills in the background, then add a pond and a dirt path in the middle-ground, and finally put some "happy trees" into the foreground with his go-to color, Van Dyke brown, while saying something like, "It's your world and maybe, just maybe, a happy little tree lives right here."
That process basically describes the way the current owners have done much to improve the landscape around the house (background) while the house itself (foreground) remains a clean canvas waiting to come to life with the personal touches of a new owner.
In the short span of six years since the house was built, the surrounding 30-acre lot has been transformed in a number of ways that have increased the scenic appeal of the land. A three-acre pond was created out of a marshy lowland, and a small dock was built to moor a single rowboat. The dock has weathered to a mellow gray, and the faded white rowboat floats peacefully nearby. The pond has been stocked with a mixture of bluegill and bass.
The forest that closely encircled the homesite was mostly cut down to create an open lawn extending about 50 yards from all sides of the house and dotted with well-spaced trees that were selectively left uncut. This thinning of the forest has opened up and enhanced the views.
The owners have cleared walking paths around the pond, through the woods, and over three small creeks winding through the property. Across the creeks, they built several rustic wooden footbridges of logs and small trees.
Compared to the surrounding land, the house remains a blank canvas, with only a few details of charm, warmth, and homeyness. The design of the house is a prosaic mix of neo-colonial and modern elements typical of many houses built in the last 15 years. Slanted brick lintels with a stone wedge keystone, and black plastic faux shutters amid red brick walls coexist with modern features including an integrated garage with huge garage door, skylights, and several composite building materials including Hardiplank siding. One design detail that does add charm and character to the house is the Jeffersonian porch railing design of an X-within-concentric-squares.
The interior of the house is simple and functional, with a few touches of luxury. All the rooms– rectangular and average size– have oak hardwood floors and flat ceilings, which allow generous half-finished storage space in the attic under the pitched roof. High-end modern kitchen appliances complement plain cherry-stained frame-and-panel cabinets. In two rooms, freestanding wood stoves are a nice touch, but they nearly overpower the space.
A large bay window in the master bedroom suite offers wonderful westward views, and there's a bath with a large whirlpool tub, and a good sized closet with useful built-in shelves. But the bedroom itself is not particularly large.
The owners have added a few details in an attempt to make the house welcoming and cozy, including planter boxes under the front windows and two handmade birdhouses in the front yard, one of which is a model of a log cabin, complete with lean-to covered porch and Lincoln Log construction. Also endearing are the simple red and white facades of the small barn and workshop on the property.
A few more winsome touches from a new owner could make the house as charming as the exceptional setting.


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Stadium could benefit those hardest hit by poverty, unemployment
The Minnesota Vikings say a new stadium will save the football franchise, but the project's benefits are also being aimed squarely at some parts of Minneapolis hit hardest by poverty and unemployment.
Nowhere is the promise of more work more anticipated than in north Minneapolis, where a vocational training program is already gearing up to send workers to the stadium job site.
Shawn Wright is a man who knows the value of that program at Summit Academy OIC. You've likely seen his work.
"This is my pride and joy here. This is the bull's-eye at Target Field," Wright said pointing at a giant red and white logo at the Minnesota Twins' ballpark on the edge of downtown Minneapolis. "I had an opportunity before the stadium opened to put the bull's eye up."
Wright is a construction worker and lives in north Minneapolis. He doesn't have a job right now, but he was on the crew that installed many of the signs at the baseball stadium, including the iconic logo behind home plate.
He was only on the payroll for about five months of the two-and-a-half years it took to build Target Field. But the park was as big a deal to Wright as it was to the Twins. He had lost a job on an assembly line and then went into almost six months of vocational training.
"The only skills I had with construction was like building clubhouses, or middle school — did some wood shop," Wright said. "It was definitely something I didn't have any experience in."
Target Field was Wright's first construction job and it nearly doubled his pay. It led to more work, including roofing and structural repairs after last year's tornado. Now, Wright is training for a hazardous materials certification and even higher paying work. He expects to help build the Vikings new home downtown.
And he is not the only one.
Elected officials, business owners and civic leaders hope a new NFL stadium will be a one-way ticket for Minnesotans hit hardest by the recession, like the 22 percent of black workers who were counted as unemployed by the state as recently as last year. That was nearly three-times Minnesota's overall unemployment rate.
There may be nowhere that unemployment was as keenly felt as in north Minneapolis, where the city reported jobs disappeared during the recession at more than twice the rate as the rest of the city.
In response, the stadium legislation specifically incorporated the city's own 32 percent minority and women hiring goals for real estate development projects. The legislation also gives hiring priority for Minneapolis ZIP codes with the highest unemployment and poverty rates.
The city has not listed those ZIP codes yet. But north Minneapolis city councilmember Don Samuels said the employment prospect for his constituents is why he voted for the stadium, even if the primary beneficiary was a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer.
"We've got African-American young people who are not getting jobs with a high school education, because their industries are gone," Samuels said. "We're going to get them some jobs, and they're going to have careers. And they're going to move up with their families."
Of the stadium, Summit Academy OIC founder Louis King says, "It's the biggest thing to come along in our lifetime."
"It comes along at a time when we're recognizing how big the problem is in north Minneapolis. People like Mayor [R.T.] Rybak, [DFL Rep.] Bobby Joe Champion, took extreme political risks to bring this project home," King said.
"Now, everyone must get behind them to ensure that there's equity of opportunity, that there's investment, that the rules are followed and enforced. That the populace is ready."
King's school is expected to put more than 250 people through its training program this year, working on basic construction techniques, blueprint reading and heavy equipment operation, among other skills. Ties with construction firms and unions help funnel graduates into the workforce and projects like Target Field and Target Center.
"The average person coming in earned $3,000 in the previous period. Our construction workers get about $20, $30, $35 thousand," King said. "We have about a 75-percent placement rate."
However, previous goals like those set for the stadium have not always delivered. In the past, the state of Minnesota had set aside work for minorities and women, but would come under federal investigation for not measuring up on projects, such as the rebuild of Interstate 494 and the Hiawatha light rail line.
Even supporters say the jobs will not get filled and contracts won't be awarded if the workers and businesses can't meet the need. Even as the stadium was debated at the Capitol, critics charged that building the new field is a short-term and expensive jobs program.
But Michael McHugh believes the benefits could go beyond the stadium project itself. McHugh is a member of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission and a former director of the upper Midwest chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors.
Big vertical construction projects offer one-of-a-kind opportunity, because of their accessibility and the variety of skills and positions they require, McHugh said.
"The stadiums and larger projects really open a lot of doors for women and minority workforce," he said.
Even so, it will likely be next spring before workers start punching in to build a new Vikings stadium.


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One reason asset allocation strategies are so popular among investors is that they intuitively make sense. Most people think of the stock market as being the riskier place to put their money, but that they'll receive potentially greater rewards from investing in stocks. Conversely, the popular view of the bond market is that it's the place for conservative investors to park money they can't afford to lose, with bond buyers willingly sacrificing growth potential in exchange for the relative stability and steady income that bonds typically promise.
But recently, all the conventional wisdom about stocks, bonds, and asset allocation has gotten turned on its head. Even as the stock market has risen to all-time record highs, bonds have suffered big price declines that have awakened many bond-fund investors to the reality that their bond investments can actually lose money. With the specter of further rate increases in the future as the Federal Reserve contemplates an exit from its quantitative-easing bond purchases, one question arises: Do asset allocation strategies that advocate owning bonds still make sense?
The extent of the bond-market damage
Losses throughout the bond market in recent months have been substantial, and how much of that investors have suffered depends on exactly where they had their money. On the passive-index side, all-purpose bond ETF Vanguard Total Bond (NASDAQ:BND) has declined by almost 4% since the end of April, even after you take into account the income that the ETF has paid. Actively managed bond ETF investors haven't fared better, with the popular PIMCO Total Return ETF (NYSEMKT:BOND) having lost 4.5% over the same time frame.
But long-term bond investors have seen truly massive declines. The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) is off almost 14% since the beginning of May, as long-term rate movements have produced much larger capital losses in long-duration bonds. The sharp move has given bearish bond investors huge profit opportunities, as the leveraged inverse bond ETF ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NYSEMKT:TBT) has posted gains of more than 30% over the same period.
Even some bonds that many thought would be immune to interest rate movements have seen losses. iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (NYSEMKT:TIP), which buys inflation-adjusted bonds, has dropped almost 8% over the past few months. The reason has been that inflation isn't driving rates higher, but rather the expectation of tighter monetary policy and better economic conditions.
What bonds do
So far, strong returns from stocks have generally offset bond declines in balanced portfolios. But what's happened over the past few months should alert you to the potential for further capital losses from your bond holdings if the rising-rate trend continues, and further rate increases could come even if the stock market falters from its record-setting move.
But that doesn't mean eliminating fixed-income investments like bonds from your portfolio entirely. Instead, you can make some moves within the fixed-income arena to reduce your potential risk of loss while still giving you the benefits that bonds give you.
One thing to consider is to focus on shorter-term bonds. The interest rates they pay aren't as high, but they tend to produce smaller losses for a given increase in rates. In addition, using individual bonds rather than bond mutual funds and ETFs can help you avoid permanent losses, because if you hold the bonds to maturity, you'll receive the full principal amount back regardless of bond-market swings along the way.
An even better alternative for many is to use CDs rather than traditional bonds. In many cases, CDs pay better rates than high-quality bonds even though CDs are guaranteed by the federal government. If rates rise, your CD won't lose value, and you can even take money out early if you're willing to pay what is often a modest penalty. Similarly, savings bonds tied to the rate of inflation don't offer huge returns right now, but they do give you full principal protection and hold their purchasing power through automatic inflation adjustments over time.
Be smart about bonds
Discovering that bonds can lose value has been a painful experience for many investors, but they still belong in most people's investment portfolios. For money you need within the next few years, finding the right investment vehicle to avoid the volatility of the stock market is more important than ever. By being smart about which fixed-income investment to make, you can find the right balance between risk and return for your financial situation.
Tune in every Monday and Wednesday for Dan's columns on retirement, investing, and personal finance. You can follow him on Twitter @DanCaplinger.


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Identity Theft Crisis
Safeguarding your family's personal information is more crucial than ever. Key moves — like monitoring your credit report, shredding junk mail, and more — will ensure that you don't become a victim.
Identity Crisis
Zach Friesen was just 7 years old when his identity was stolen. He had no idea anything was wrong until 10 years later, when a standard background check for a stock clerk job revealed that someone had used Zach's personal information to buy a $40,000 houseboat but never paid for it, ruining the then-17-year-old's credit rating.
"At the time, I didn't even know what a credit rating was," says Zach — but learning that his had been compromised left him angry and frustrated. Both Zach and his mother spent weeks on the phone with banks, credit bureaus, and the police in an effort to clear his name. On average, victims of identity theft spend from 300 to 600 hours trying to clean up the mess, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (idtheftcenter.org).
Now a 21-year-old senior at the University of Colorado, Friesen travels to high schools around the country to teach students about identity theft. According to a 2005 survey by the Chubb Group, one in five Americans have had their identity stolen; and in 2006 another 15 million joined them, reports the research firm Gartner, Inc. Though kids represent a small percentage of victims overall, that number is climbing — from 3 percent of all identity fraud in 2003 to 5 percent in 2006, according to complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). And experts say that figure is likely low, because the number of people who take the step of filing an ID theft report with the FTC is believed to be much smaller than the actual number of victims.
Since then, Friesen says, he keeps a close watch on his bank statements and credit reports, and never carries more than his driver's license and a couple of credit cards. Like most people, he has never been able to pinpoint how the security breach occurred. The causes of most identity theft can't be conclusively traced, says Mari J. Frank, author of From Victim to Victor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft (Porpoise Press) and founder of the Web site identitytheft.org.
Whether it's someone reaching across the Internet or directly into your life by stealing your mail or discarded papers, you need protection. Arm yourself by learning how identity thieves operate.
Hooked by Phishers
It was Christmas Eve 2003 when Nancy Boyle, 52, decided to check her bank account online to make sure there was enough cash to cover a last-minute shopping trip. But instead of finding $1,800 as she expected, she had a zero balance.
Nancy and her husband, Dan, the parents of four grown kids, had been robbed by phisher scammers. Weeks earlier she'd received an e-mail that looked like it was from her bank, warning her about possible fraudulent activity on her account and urging her to log in and confirm her personal information. But the e-mail was actually from phishers, who linked her to a bogus Web site that looked just like her bank's. The scammers used that info to clean out her available funds.
Unfortunately, the Boyles are not alone — Gartner, Inc., estimates that 3.5 million Americans have fallen prey to phishers. Victims lost more than $2,800 on average in 2006, and have recovered only 54 percent of their money.
Nancy was lucky. She reported the fraud to her bank the next day and her money was refunded quickly. She had to file a police report, close all of her accounts, then open new ones. Her eBay user name had also been snatched by the thieves, who were trafficking in stolen goods on the strength of her reputation — she and Dan operate a home decorating business in Wisconsin — so she had to contact eBay's corporate office too. Once that was straightened out, the Boyles thought they had put their problems behind them. But exactly one year later, on Christmas Eve 2004, Nancy checked her new account. This time $2,400 had been taken. She'd been victimized by a keylogger — a piece of software that detects when you visit a banking site, captures your keystrokes, then sends the data to crooks who extract user names and passwords. The Boyles promptly installed security software to prevent future incidents.
Hacked @ Home
Sometimes your identity can be stolen while you're innocently paying bills. Just ask Lori Lee-Savage, 45.
A manager at a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., Lori was shopping for holiday decorations in December 2004 when — much to her surprise — her debit card was declined at two different stores. She decided to stop by her bank and within minutes the branch manager informed her that her identity had been stolen, along with the $3,100 in her account.
"I had tears rolling down my face," says Lori. But her troubles were only beginning. As her paychecks were automatically deposited, the thief would siphon off more money. Lori finally got the bank to freeze her account but had to wait 45 days to be reimbursed, during which time she incurred roughly $300 in penalties for insufficient funds (which were not refunded). Six months later she was still struggling to set everything right.
Lori believes the thief tapped into her home wireless network. "My ATM card had never been lost or unaccounted for, and I didn't carry a checkbook, but I had been paying my bills online," she says. "In the end it appeared my wireless network was the only likely source."
After the theft, Lori empowered herself by taking computer courses at a community college. She still pays her bills electronically, but now she runs the latest security software and relies on encryption programs to password-protect her WiFi network. She also subscribes to credit monitoring services that immediately alert her to any suspicious activity on her accounts.
The Paper Chase
Though phishing and hacking get the media attention, most cases of identity theft still happen offline. According to a 2006 survey by Javelin Research and the Better Business Bureau, more than half of victims had their credit cards or checkbooks stolen, their garbage ransacked, their personal files pilfered at work or at school, or their mailboxes raided.
San Francisco creative consultant Karen Lodrick learned this the hard way in November 2006, when a thief snagged two unsolicited credit/debit cards sent by her bank, plus documents containing PIN numbers and her Social Security Number from her apartment mailbox.
As Karen details on her Web site, fightingbacknow.com, this was the beginning of a six-month odyssey that would drain $22,000 from her accounts and cost the self-employed woman about $30,000 in lost income because she had to turn down work while she dealt with the theft. As Karen closed one false account, the thief would open a new one somewhere else. Throughout the ordeal, Karen says, her bank treated her like the criminal, not the victim.
What's unusual about this story is that Karen personally apprehended her identity thief, 31-year-old Maria Nelson. After obtaining photos of Nelson captured by her bank's security cameras, Karen spotted her virtual clone at a Starbucks and chased her through the streets into an underground parking garage, trapping her there until police arrived. Eventually, Nelson pleaded guilty to one count of fraudulently using someone else's identity and was sentenced to time already served in jail for other offenses, plus three years of probation.
"The whole thing has been surreal," Karen says. "I've had mothers come up to me and say, 'I've read your story to my daughter to teach her how to be strong.' I don't want to be known as an advocate for chasing down criminals, but I do think I'm a lesson in trusting your gut and realizing how powerful you truly are."
Your Identity Has Been Stolen — Now What?
- Contact your police precinct as soon as possible to file a report; you will need this as proof for creditors that your claim is legitimate.
- Get your credit reports and scour them for anything suspicious. By law, everyone is entitled to request a free report once a year; victims of ID theft are eligible for additional reports from the major credit bureaus. For detailed info, see annualcreditreport.com.
- Close any accounts that have been compromised. Ask specifically to speak to someone in the fraud department at the issuing credit agency, and keep a written log of whom you have spoken to and on what date. Follow up with a letter (to view samples, go to identitytheft.org) sent via certified mail, return receipt requested, so you have a paper trail. Documenting everything is your best defense against banks or creditors who don't believe you've been victimized.
- Place an official Fraud Alert on your file. This will warn banks and other creditors to exercise caution when new accounts are opened in your name. Most alerts last for 90 days, but victims of identity theft can request an extended alert that lasts for seven years.
- For information on additional steps to take, visit the FTC's identity theft site at ftc.gov/idtheft.
How to Thwart ID Thieves
- Never keep your Social Security Number in your wallet.
- Refuse to share your SSN, date of birth, or mother's maiden name with any entity other than your employer, bank, insurance company, or the IRS. When other parties ask for this information, insist they accept a substitute such as a different date or name, or only the last four digits of your SSN.
- If your mailbox doesn't have a lock, replace it with one that does or consider switching to a P.O. box.
- Destroy (preferably in a cross-cut shredder, available at office supply stores) all junk mail before discarding.
- Store papers containing sensitive information only in a locked cabinet or safe, not in a desk.
- Request your credit reports at least annually.
- Call 888-567-8688 to opt out of receiving preapproved credit or insurance offers.
- Type the address of your bank's sign-on page into your browser, then bookmark it to access your account as needed.
- Install security software like Norton 360 or Trend Micro PC-cillin and keep it up to date.
- If you use a wireless home network, enable all security functions and choose a password that doesn't contain any obvious or logical sequences like your first or last name or your birth date.
Myths About ID Theft
Myth #1: You should order credit reports on your kids, just to be safe.
Not necessarily, says Linda Foley, executive director of the Identity Theft Resource Center (idtheftcenter.org). Request a report only if you have reason to believe your child's identity has been stolen — ideally, you will be told it's unavailable, which means his or her ID is probably safe. Otherwise, asking for a report may prompt the bureaus to create one, making it harder to convince creditors your child is not an adult if his or her identity gets stolen later. If you send an e-mail to email@example.com, they can tell you whether a report exists without creating one, Foley says.
Myth #2: You need to pay for credit monitoring services. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion will gladly bill you $10 a month to monitor your account, but you can do the same thing for free with a little effort, says Beth Givens, founder and director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (privacyrights.org). You can request a free credit report from each agency within any 12-month span at annualcreditreport.com. Order one from a different bureau every three months and you'll be covered at no charge.
Myth #3: You can freeze your credit only after your identity has been stolen. A credit freeze will keep anyone — including you — from opening a new account in your name. It's the ultimate weapon against ID theft, but you don't have to be a victim to get one. At press time 39 states and Washington, D.C., allowed citizens to freeze their credit for a nominal fee (usually $10 to $20, or free for ID theft victims); in the remaining 11, you may request a freeze from one of the three credit bureaus. You may also have to pay fees to "thaw" or remove the freeze when you want to add new accounts. For more info, visit Consumers Union's site: consumersunion.org/securityfreeze.htm.
Copyright © 2008. Used with permission from the February 2008 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Greece next week for the first time since the debt crisis erupted to meet the country's prime minister _ who warned Friday that Athens will run out of money at the end of November if it doesn't receive the next part of its bailout loans.
Because Germany has been instrumental in pushing Greece to make austerity cuts in exchange for its bailout loans, Merkel has routinely been the object of anger at public protests in Athens. Her photograph has been manipulated by Greek newspapers to look like a Nazi officer and a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Merkel's visit on Tuesday was good news. "We will receive her as befits the leader of a great power and a friendly country," he told reporters in Athens.
But Greece's main labor unions were swift to call a protest rally outside Parliament on Tuesday against "the neoliberal policies of Mrs. Merkel and the European Union's core leadership," and a three-hour work stoppage in Athens to facilitate participation.
The unions said in a statement that "workers, pensioners and unemployed people can take no more of the European Union's punitive policies."
A populist conservative party that came fourth in Greece's June national elections said it would stage a protest outside the German Embassy in Athens on Tuesday evening.
Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, was at pains to portray the trip, her first since July 2007, as "a normal visit." It follows an invitation that Samaras made when he visited Berlin in August.
Seibert underlined Germany's message that it wants Greece to stay in the euro bloc _ but that the Greeks also must push ahead with their painful reforms. Since Greece received its first bailout in May 2010, it has repeatedly slashed incomes, hiked taxes and raised retirement ages.
"We want to help Greece to stabilize itself in the eurozone. We are doing that by contributing massively to the rescue programs that are supposed to help get Greece out of the crisis," Seibert said.
"This will only be possible with major efforts on the part of the Greeks _ we see that there is increased reforming zeal under the Samaras government and we want to support that."
Merkel has been noncommittal on Greece's hopes of getting more time to enact reforms and repay its loans, but has rejected talk from some in her center-right coalition about a possible Greek exit from the 17-nation euro.
Officials from the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank _ the so-called "troika" _ are currently in Greece assessing the country's progress in fulfilling the terms for receiving aid.
If their report doesn't clear the way for the payment of the next (EURO)31 billion ($40 billion) tranche of the country's bailout, Greece could be forced to default on its debts and perhaps leave the euro. It's unclear when a decision will come.
Asked in an interview with German business daily Handelsblatt how long Greece can hold out without that payment, Samaras was quoted as saying: "Until the end of November. Then the till will be empty."
Samaras said he's confident that the money will arrive on time, though he conceded that there are difficulties in negotiations with the troika.
"The troika is demanding above all further cuts to pensions and wages. That is very difficult, because we are already bleeding," he said. "The existing cuts already go to the bone. We are at the limit of what we can expect of our population."
Greece is caught in a deep recession, and has unemployment of nearly 25 percent. On Friday, the country's statistical authority said the economic contraction in 2010 and 2011 was even worse than earlier thought. It said the economy contracted by 4.9 percent in 2010, compared to a previous estimate of 3.5 percent, and 7.1 percent in 2011, instead of 6.9 percent.
The revision is expected to push up the country's debt as a proportion of annual economic output.
The conservative Samaras leads a three-party coalition government that was put together after two elections earlier this year.
"People know that this government means Greece's last chance," the prime minister was quoted as saying. "We will make it. If we fail, chaos awaits us."
Derek Gatopoulos and Nicholas Paphitis in Athens contributed to this report.


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Suspect charged after elderly men found in home
Charges have been filed against a 31-year-old sex offender following the discovery of three malnourished elderly men in a north Houston home Friday morning.
Walter Renard Jones, 31, is charged with two counts of injury to the elderly-serious bodily injury in the 263rd State District Court.
Houston police said officers responded to a call about 8:25 a.m. Friday regarding people being held against their will inside the house in the 8600 block of Whitecastle.
Officers got permission to enter the house and found three men living without any care, according to a news release Saturday. Earlier HPD reports had indicated at least four men in the house.
Houston Fire Department personnel transported the men to a hospital, where they were in stable condition Saturday, authorities said.
The three men claim that Jones misled them into living at the home and kept them there for monetary gain, police said.
Investigators at the scene describe the conditions as "deplorable." The men told police they slept on a linoleum floor in the garage, were fed scraps and had no access to a bathroom.
Investigators said the men told them their government benefit checks were being taken from them by those who controlled the home.
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Adam Dunn (2)
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Pkriner necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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I am a wildlife, landscape, and nature photographer. I am looking to market my images mostly in the area of fine art photography but some to be used as stock photography as well. I will use the logo on stationary, business cards as well as on my web site and blog. I am passionate about photography and have embraced any and all new technology which impacts my craft. New Dawn is an idea for a name that I came up with. Most of my fellow photogs just use their name. Patrick Kriner Photography is not as memorable or as easily remembered. Hence "New Dawn Photography." In my travels I have seen many new dawn opportunities and I think it fits with my passion for capturing the magic light that is the new dawn of a new day.
I also do a little web designing and would be interested in this service for future clients as well.
My target audience would be stock agencies or individuals who would purchase my prints for interior decorating, design, marketing brochures, calendars, corporate reports, etc. Landscapes are great for home interiors and can be printed in many forms these days. From canvass prints to metal wall murals. With digital photography, the sky is the limit. I am also finding that people like certain motifs when decorating and my Africa images and wolves seem to do well in these areas.
I am looking for a simple design that will work for many types of media. Stationary, business cards, Signage as well as Web page design and blogging. Since i do wildlife as well as landscape and nature, it must be generic enough to convey these concepts in one logo design. I am flexible on the design and leave it up to your creativity to challenge yourselves to design something with punch that stands out and can be as memorable as a new dawn itself.
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BEVERLY, Mass. – In the final game of the 2012 football season MIT fell behind big early and could not dig out of the hole as Endicott College scored 42 first half points on its way to a 49-14 victory over the Engineers. Three first half turnovers proved costly for the Engineers as the Gulls turned all three into touchdowns as they built a 42-7 halftime lead.
Things went quickly in the wrong direction for MIT (5-4, 4-3 NEFC) when sophomore Brad Goldsberry (Elizabeth, Colo.) fumbled the game's opening kickoff. Endicott's Nate Lewis recovered the miscue on the MIT 20 and seven plays later the Gulls cashed in when Jared DiBiase ran it in from seven yards out to give Endicott the lead less than three minutes in.
Late in the first quarter the Engineers drove into Endicott (8-2, 6-1 NEFC) territory when freshman Karson Ota (Katy, Texas) hauled in a 21-yard pass from sophomore Peter Williams (Portland, Ore.). MIT drove as far as the Endicott 20, but Williams was sacked and fumbled on the play, giving the ball back to the Gulls. Again Endicott turned it into points as it took just 1:26 to drive 77 yards, taking a 14-0 lead on DiBiase's five-yard run.
From there it was all Endicott in the second quarter, as the Gulls scored touchdowns on each of their five possessions to effectively put the game out of reach for MIT. The Engineers finally got on the board at the six minute mark of the second, using their ground game to grind out a 10-play, 75-yard drive. Sophomore Justin Wallace (Palatine, Ill.) picked up 17 yards and Williams 38, including a five-yard scoring run to cut the Endicott lead to 28-7. But the Gulls went on to add two more scores to build their halftime lead.
After forcing an Endicott punt on its first possession of the second half, MIT put together a nice drive and again took the ball into Gulls territory. Twice on the drive Williams hit on 14-yard passes on third down plays, one to Ota and the other to freshman Seve Esparrago (St. Louis, Mo.), to keep the drive alive. The Engineers picked up a first and goal on the nine, but Williams' pass to Goldsberry on fourth down from the five was broken up as the Gulls kept MIT out of the end zone.
Endicott then drove 95 yards to score its final points of the night, getting a one-yard run from Jimmy Nguyen that capped off the drive at the 10:51 mark. MIT answered with a scoring drive of its own as Wallace picked up a key first down with an 18-yard run and then scored from three yards out with 8:02 left.
Endicott then ran nearly seven minutes off the clock on its next possession as the Gulls ran it on 12 straight plays as they effectively ran out the clock.
Endicott put up 493 yards of total offense, with Mike Wheeler gaining 136 and DiBiase 107 on the ground. Quarterback Drew Frenette threw for 205 yards and two scores, completing 18 of his 20 attempts. MIT had 294 yards of offense, with Wallace running for 84 yards on 22 carries and Williams completing 13-of-22 for 129 yards. Goldsberry led the MIT receivers with five catches for 42 yards. Junior Jake Laux (Dousman, Wis.) completed his outstanding season at linebacker, leading all players with 16 tackles. His season total of 121 was just two short of the school record set in 1990 by Darcy Prather.


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Reports and photographic evidence indicate that numerous atrocities including mass executions have taken place even in recent weeks. Many black victims were found with their hands bound behind their backs and bullets through their skulls.
Horrific internment camps, systematic rape, torture, lynching, and looting of businesses owned by blacks have all been reported as well. And countless sub-Saharan Africans have been forced to flee their homes in Libya to avoid the same fate.
The al-Qaeda-linked rebels' campaign of racist terror began shortly after the Benghazi uprising in February. More than a few videos surfaced on the internet in the early months of the conflict showing brutal lynchings and beheadings while Western-backed rebels cheered.
But as insurgent forces solidify their grip over most of Libya, the race-based persecution is quickly intensifying. Entire cities and towns formerly occupied by blacks have been ethnically cleansed and destroyed.
"The Brigade for Purging Slaves, black Skin" — apparently a rebel slogan — was found months ago scrawled all along the road to Tawergha. And today, the coastal city of about 10,000 mostly black residents has essentially been wiped off the map.
Rebel forces rounded up remaining inhabitants and reportedly took them to camps, although reporters searching for the former residents have not been able to locate them. Homes, businesses, and schools were then looted before being burned to the ground.
Finally, graffiti reading "slaves," "negroes," and "abeed" — a derogatory term for blacks — was painted all over the ruins by NATO's revolutionaries. The former city is now a "closed military area," according to rebels guarding a checkpoint interviewed by the McClatchy news service.
"Tawarga no longer exists," a rebel commander told the Wall Street Journal. Another rebel fighter boasted more recently: "We are setting it on fire to prevent anyone from living here again."
The anti-black brutality could also be found in the capital, Tripoli, according to a correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and others. Earlier this month Ruth Pollard described a prison where she found, among other horrors, jail cells packed with more than 25 prisoners.
In another cell: two black men in desperate need of medical care. One of them, a 28-year-old Nigerian, was doused with gasoline and set ablaze in a racially motivated attack. He had been in the rebel-run prison — burnt skin peeling off his face — for nine days without so much as a visit from a doctor. And there was a hospital just a few hundred yards away.
"Anyone with dark skin — regardless of their loyalties — can find themselves a target," the Herald reported. Countless analysts have reached the same conclusion.
Late last month, the U.K. Independent reported that a makeshift hospital had become a ghastly crime scene. Dozens of men, almost all of them black, were murdered and left to rot — some of them still hooked up to medical equipment.
"The killings were pitiless," the paper noted. "Many of [the victims] had their hands tied behind their back, either with plastic handcuffs or ropes. One had a scarf stuffed into his mouth."
Much of the black population in Libya today is native, coming from the Southern regions of the Arab-dominated nation — and some of them did indeed fight as soldiers in Gaddafi's military. Other dark-skinned people in Libya are simply migrant workers trying to earn a living. But they have all become targets.
At least part of the violent campaign launched against them has been attributed to early reports that Gaddafi was using sub-Saharan mercenaries to suppress the Western-backed insurrection. International human-rights investigators in Libya later reported that the allegations were completely false. But the narrative had already taken on a life of its own after being widely disseminated in the press.
"In February, there was this rumor about Gadhafi using black people as mercenaries — that's wrong," Amnesty International's Nicolas Beger told the Associated Press. "But the [National Transitional Council] has not done a lot to curb that rumor and now there is a lot of retaliation against sub-Saharan Africans. Whether they were or they weren't involved with the Gadhafi forces, they are at real risk of being taken from their work or their homes or the street to be tortured or killed."
In a report released this week, Amnesty International said the Gaddafi regime had perpetrated widespread abuses. But rebel forces associated with the National Transitional Council (NTC) "have also committed human rights abuses, in some cases amounting to war crimes," it noted. The new regime has promised to investigate.
Other organizations and observers have also called for an end to the lawlessness — and particularly the targeting of blacks. "It's a dangerous time to be dark-skinned in Tripoli," noted Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch. "The NTC should stop arresting African migrants and black Libyans unless it has concrete evidence of criminal activity. It should also take immediate steps to protect them from violence and abuse."
As The New American reported last month, evidence of widespread war crimes committed by the rebels and their NATO partners continues to mount. Everything from bombing women and children to destroying essential civilian infrastructure has been well documented. But the attacks on blacks have been particularly vicious.
Repercussions over what observers have labeled ethnic cleansing are being felt all over Africa and beyond. Chairman Jean Ping of the African Union Commission told reporters last week that the anti-black attacks were one reason many African governments refuse to recognize the new regime as Libya's legitimate government.
"Blacks are being killed. Blacks are having their throats slit. Blacks are accused of being mercenaries," Ping explained. "Do you think it's normal in a country that's a third black that blacks are confused with mercenaries?"
In the United States, Americans of African ancestry have been fiercely critical of developments, too. "The Libya war proved to the world that the lives of Black people have no value for NATO, Western leaders, and editorial writers," wrote Black Star News in a piece blasting the New York Times' mild rebuke of the genocide.
And U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. joined a growing chorus of Congressmen calling for war-crimes investigations. "Racism in the form of ethnic cleansing, killing and genocide is wrong anytime, anyplace and against anybody in the world," he said on September 14.
While some analysts celebrate the apparent downfall of the brutal Gaddafi regime, fears are growing that the worst may be yet to come for Libya - especially for blacks. And as The New American has reported since March, the well-documented terrorist affiliations of rebel leaders have experts worried that the emerging Islamist regime could be even worse than the last.
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Scott Ericson: FCIAC-SCC challenge an overwhelming success
When the Darien football team visited North Haven two weeks ago, fireworks were detonated after the Star Spangled Banner and fire engine sirens rang out every time the Indians crossed the goal line.
The pyrotechnics and sirens were meant just for North Haven but were also, symbolically, marking the end of maybe the greatest experiment in Connecticut high school football history -- The FCIAC-SCC Challenge.
Fans had been clamoring for the two power conferences to face off for years and beginning on a humid night in New Canaan in Week 1 and culminating on a cold night at Vanacore Field in North Haven during Week 10 (a 48-28 win for Darien over North Haven), the two conferences gave local football fans their money's worth. The FCIAC emerged victorious in 13 of the 23 games.
A Darien player walking off the field told North Haven coach Anthony Sagnella that the game was the most fun he's had playing football.
That sentiment seems to be the prevailing thought not just about the final game of the challenge, but all those that came before it.
During the preseason, every coach and player I spoke with was brimming with anticipation for the cross-conference matchups, and their enthusiasm was just as high after the games were played, win or lose.
In league games, players get to put their school pride on display every time out, but the challenge allows players to take pride in their conference and counties and they seemed to take that seriously.
A Fairfield Prep player told me after the Jesuits beat Stamford that representing the SCC was important to him and he really wanted to be part of the state's best conference.
I genuinely feel bad for teams in both conferences that did not participate for one reason or another, missing out on the unique experience.
It seems that both winning and losing teams benefitted from the early season-matchups.
Teams that won like New Canaan (50-21 over Hand) and Darien (46-26 over Hillhouse) in Week One were buoyed by the success and have gone on to terrific seasons. But teams that fell in the challenge seemed to do all right as well, learning more about themselves than they would have in a normal opening week.
Trumbull and Hand both were blown out in Week 1, but each school used it as motivation, going on to stellar seasons with both in position to make the state playoffs if everything breaks right Thanksgiving morning.
Kicking off the schedule with the challenge had everyone buzzing and lent gravitas to the opening week of the season. But watching North Haven and Darien stage a late-season classic left me wondering if the challenge would be even better played after Halloween.
Imagine Hand vs. New Canaan, Staples vs. Xavier or Greenwich vs. West Haven on chilly nights in November with possible state playoff bids on the line.
After losing a bunch of players to graduation, Hand was still trying to figure out who it was in the opener by Week 10 the Tigers knew who they were. Either way, playing in September or November or anywhere in between, the FCIAC-SCC Challenge was great for football and here's hoping it continues past next season with every team getting a chance to ride the trolley next time around.


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Cancer Communication in the Digital Age
Susannah Fox will present the latest research on social media and health at a workshop hosted by the President's Cancer Panel at the National Cancer Institute: "Cancer Communication: In the Digital Era, Opportunities Amongst the Challenges."
Health Information Online
Susannah Fox will be on a panel entitled, "What Information Do Patients Want and Need?" at the annual meeting of the National Quality Forum.
Participatory Research
Susannah Fox will be a guest lecturer for a course on patient engagement design at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The Intersection of Health Care, Social Media, and Digital Strategy
Susannah Fox presented the Pew Research Center's latest findings on social media and health.
Sharing Data and Decisions for Health
Susannah Fox will speak at a meeting of the Evidence Communication Innovation Collaborative, an initiative of the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care, at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC.
Health and Technology in the U.S.
A round-up of our 2012-13 health and technology research.
Video: The Diagnosis Difference
Highlights from the report, "The Diagnosis Difference"
The Diagnosis Difference
A portrait of the 45% of U.S. adults living with chronic health conditions
Mobile Health in Context
Susannah Fox will deliver a keynote address to a symposium hosted by the University of Maryland Health Sciences & Human Services Library in Baltimore
How do we know that social media is important to health care?
I began a recent speech at a medical school with a question that many busy clinicians might be asking: How do we know that social media is important to health care?


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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) argued in a Houston Chronicle op-ed this morning that a partial government shutdown might be necessary to "restore fiscal sanity," slamming President Barack Obama for using fiscal deadlines as political brinkmanship.
In his op-ed, Cornyn highlighted three looming fights to come before the end of March — the debt ceiling, the sequester, and the continuing appropriations resolution that provides funding for the federal government.
Cornyn wrote that it is "unacceptable" that Obama has said he won't negotiate over the debt ceiling:
[Obama] has already signaled an unwillingness to negotiate over the debt ceiling. This is unacceptable. The president should immediately put forward a plan that addresses these deadlines, and he should launch serious, transparent budget negotiations.
The biggest fiscal problem in Washington is excessive spending, not insufficient taxation. Tax cuts didn't cause this problem, so tax increases won't solve it. If we don't reduce spending and reform our three biggest entitlement programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — then we will strangle economic growth, destroy jobs and reduce our standard of living. With the national debt above $16 trillion, and with more than $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities hanging over us, our toughest fiscal decisions cannot be postponed any longer.
Cornyn concluded his op-ed by writing that a partial shutdown might be necessary "to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our country, rather than plod along the path of Greece, Italy and Spain."
Obama and others have argued that using the debt ceiling as a negotiation tactic is unacceptable. He wanted an increase in the debt ceiling to be part of a fiscal cliff deal. But even though he didn't get that, he has said he would not negotiate over what he called a "weapon ... destroying our own credit rating."
"That is a bad strategy for America, it's a bad strategy for your businesses and it is not a game I will play," Obama said in remarks to business leaders in December. "We are not going to play that game again next year. We've got to break that habit before it starts."


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The circus is coming to town and you could be there for all the fun and excitement ... if you can trumpet like an elephant, growl like a tiger or call like a monkey.
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus' 'Built to Amaze' show is coming to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia Feb. 13-17 and you could win tickets. Just give call us at 484-679-5110 before 4 p.m. and leave a message with your best animal impression. Be sure to record your name, which newspaper you heard about the contest from and a phone number where we can contact you.
We will pick the top eight callers, who will be informed of their selection by phone, and post their impressions online for all to hear.
The winners will receive five tickets each to the Feb. 13 show, as well as dinner and a chance to meet a performer with the circus.
Don't miss your chance to win; contest ends at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11.


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Posted by Olivia on Monday, March 11th, 2013
A staple restaurant in the Sonoma region, the girl & the fig is a culinary celebration of all things abundant in these parts: produce, wine, cheese, olive oil. The woman behind the restaurant, Sondra Bernstein, reflects her appreciation of California's local food supply in her Provencal-inspired menu. Dishes are uncomplicated with clean flavors, and the menu changes seasonally—a feat that can only be accomplished when the ingredients are wholesome, fresh, and produced consciously.
In late 2011 Bernstein released her newest cookbook Plats du Jour: The girl & the fig's Journey Through the Seasons in Wine Country, a gorgeous book heralding seasonal foods. It contains over 100 recipes featuring ingredients from California's wine country, along with profiles of local food growers, producers, and artisans—including a profile of us over here at The Olive Press!
This week we're delighted to share with you a recipe from Bernstein's cookbook Plats du Jour: Spring Lamb Leg, Chickpea, Cucumber & Feta Salad. Fitting for early spring, this delectable dish reflects the delicate, grassy, and subtly sweet flavors of the season.
Spring Lamb Leg, Chickpea, Cucumber & Feta Salad


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Should be plenty of these around on Tuesday morning. Please browse and take your pick. Orders will be taken directly by Soldier Field staff members.
The one below is just for the Vikings fans. It's more their style:
All furs but the last one were a gift by Mr. Matthews. Apparently, he was bothered that the pets pissed on his floor, so he gave them a slap. Mr. Matthews isn't aware of his own strenght, however, and though, as you can all see, it's a reoccurrent thing, he can't control himself.
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A major artery that carries blood from the heart to the head. There is a carotid artery on each side of the neck, and each one splits into two branches. The interior branch carries blood to the brain and eyes, and the exterior branch carries blood to the face, tongue, and outside parts of the head.


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Stamping out big money in politics
"It's a petition on steroids." That's the way Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, describes the Stamp Stampede — his guerrilla marketing campaign that uses money to get money out of politics. Literally.
Almost three years after the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which opened the door to super PACs and unlimited corporate election spending on elections, advocacy groups like Public Campaign, Public Citizen and People for the American Way helped pass ballot referendums in two states and resolutions through nine state legislatures, calling for a constitutional amendment to nullify Citizens United. More than 400 municipalities have joined these states and about 150 members of Congress support at least one amendment proposal.
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But as Steven Spielberg's movie about Abraham Lincoln reminds us, it's not easy to amend the Constitution. Straightforward, advocacy organizing strategies are important, but they may not be enough to change the status quo. That is where Stampede comes in.
Ben Cohen is no Lincoln, but he is a gifted marketing entrepreneur and his open source Stampede marketing campaign may become the new model for how to fuse social media and grass-roots activism with the assets of existing organizations to engage and provoke the public in demanding change. Here is how it works: People buy inexpensive stamps at an online store with message like, "Not to be used for bribing politicians" and "The system isn't broken, it's fixed." They stamp these messages on the money they use everyday. Then, they go about their daily routine, spending money on groceries, gas, movies — you name it — and spreading the message about too much money in politics.
The Stampede has the advantage of viral marketing: It's easy, replicable, engaging and audience driven. The campaign goes one step beyond Marshall McLuhan's famous adage, "the medium is the message." In the Stampede, money is the message and the medium. As stamped currency circulates through the economy, the message spreads. More people stamp. More money circulates. A Stampede to get money out of politics ensues.


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