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Lochinvar® ARMOR® Awarded For Outstanding Product Design
Lochinvar® ARMOR® Awarded For Outstanding Product Design
Lochinvar Corporation was recognized for excellence in product design in the sixth annual Dealer Design Awards Program, sponsored by
The Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News
magazine. An independent panel of 30 contractors acted as judges in the contest that had 114 entries from various industry brands. Lochinvar's ARMOR Commercial Water Heater was named the silver prize winner in the HVAC Commercial Equipment category. The
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Publisher John Conrad stated, "These awards give us a unique opportunity to recognize the outstanding research and development efforts that go into many of the products serving the HVACR industry, and the awards issue gives our readers an opportunity to read about innovative installation and service solutions."
Award-Winning Attributes
Since its introduction in 2007, ARMOR has been heating up the industry with thermal efficiencies up to 98 percent, a stainless steel heat exchanger, 5:1 modulating turndown and the SMART SYSTEM™ operating control. With the introduction of three new larger models in 2009, ARMOR is now available with inputs ranging from 150,000 to 800,000 Btu/hr, making it the ideal choice for commercial applications of any size.
"Lochinvar is considered an industry pioneer, and we remain committed to the ongoing development of superior products and technologies today," stated Bill Vallett, Lochinvar president. "We take great pride in offering unmatched innovation and efficiency with products such as the ARMOR Commercial Water Heater, and we're honored that
The ACHR News
has selected it as a winner in this year's Dealer Design Awards ".
Winning entries in the Dealer Design Awards were featured in the July 12, 2010 issue of
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, which is distributed nationally to more than 33,000 HVACR contractors, wholesalers and other industry professionals.
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Summer is winding down and what better soundtrack to the season but Americana/country music about margaritas, love and life.
Check out six of the more outstanding albums from the genre released this summer and see about going to a few live shows before the autumn equinox:
'Long in the Tooth'
This is the first studio album in six years from the original Honky Tonk Hero — and one of Texas' greatest songwriters — Billy Joe Shaver. Its opening cut, an infernal cry against passing time and the new generation of inauthentic country acts, features the instant classic chorus line: "It's hard to be an outlaw when you ain't wanted anymore" (dueted with Willie Nelson).
From there, Shaver runs through the (slightly) mellower, old-guys-rule title song and perfect examples of the country waltz, train song, drinking lament, Tex-Mex romanticism, social protest, cowboy love ballad and heartfelt spiritual. It's a lifetime growled and yodeled on one convenient disc.
Shaver performs at Don the Beachcomber's in Huntington Beach Friday, Aug. 15 and he'll spend his 75th birthday Saturday at The Satellite in Silver Lake.
'World of Strangers'
Zoe Muth is a younger, but equally gifted singer-songwriter previously referred to as Seattle's Emmylou Harris. She relocated to Shaver country — Austin, Texas — for her third album, the haunting and pinpoint observant "World of Strangers." It eschews some of the outright humor of her first two albums with the Lost High Rollers for more ethereal, melancholy concerns with a new set of musicians who include Dixie Chick Martie Maguire.
Even the funniest concept on the album, "Mama Needs a Margarita," is as precise a portrait of post-partum depression as a roadhouse two-step can get. Faded youth is the collection's great theme and it's presented with a stirring, melancholy maturity.
Muth appears at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica on Aug. 23.
'Trouble and Love'
Mary Gauthier faces tribulation with howling angst in "Trouble and Love," which goes into dark regions where affections lie strangled and the soul is at constant risk. But the composer/performer — whose background includes parental abandonment, drug addiction, college philosophy studies and professional Cajun cooking — also takes an uncharacteristic and highly persuasive turn toward redemption on the album's latter tracks. It's all great music that won't necessarily make you want to slit your wrists.
On a lighter note (it's summer, right?), take a listen to Old Crow Medicine Show's album aptly titled "Remedy." The bluegrass rock outfit can't help but sound like a party, even when it's going on about nasty people ("Mean Enough World"), prison sex ("Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer") and just plain death ("Sweet Home"). These boys are serious enough, however, to strike the right note of anger on the requiem for a lost soldier, "Dearly Departed Friend," and of drunken regret with "Firewater."
That noted, expect OCMS to rock the roof off the Wiltern when they play there on Sept. 18.
Miranda Lambert's "Platinum" album is 100 proof sass, though it sounds more like a product from the Jersey Shore than out of Nashville. Lambert's Texas twang is the only thing that keeps it anywhere near down-home through all the rocking arrangements, but at least there aren't any sappy, Music Row blemishes marring this record like there were on her last couple of albums.
What's really funny is that the more genuinely country-sounding a "Platinum" song is, the more foul-mouthed Lambert gets. Delightful.
'All or Nothin' '
Nikki Lane is Nashville's best Junior League Lambert. Her "All or Nothin' " can rock like Bruce Springsteen too, but she really does wonders putting a modern woman's spin on classic country domestic dramas and itchin' for — well, not love — prowling songs. Don't let her cowgirl outfits fool you; this lady is out for fun, but she's the last thing those sexist country boys could ever handle.


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Free-agent market offers plenty of cost-efficient bats
It's free-agent season, and the eyes of baseball are on Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury, Shin-Soo Choo, maybe Masahiro Tanaka, and a number of other big names who will set markets and possibly even alter the 2014 Major League standings.
But when it comes to those guys, you've got to pay to play.
It's free-agent season, and the eyes of baseball are on Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury, Shin-Soo Choo, maybe Masahiro Tanaka, and a number of other big names who will set markets and possibly even alter the 2014 Major League standings.
But when it comes to those guys, you've got to pay to play.
There's bound to be teams that will follow a different strategy when it comes to adding talent via the open market. A contender might look to fill out its roster with a quality bench player for an affordable contract. A small-market team might have a hunch that a player who everyone else believes might be done isn't done at all. Another club, one a few years from championship-caliber play but in possession of a clubhouse full of young players needing guidance, might go for a savvy old hand who can be had at a bargain price.
For those teams, there's quite a bit of bang for the buck available if you know where to look for it.
Here are some position players who could fit that bill:
Omar Infante, 2B: What's not to like? Infante hit .318/.345/.450 this year, has hit .300 or better in three of his past five seasons, plays good defense and is coming off a two-year, $8 million deal with Detroit. Infante turns 32 in December, so he won't break the bank. While he might fetch something in the area of two years and $20 million this time around, that wouldn't be too bad for the right team.
Stephen Drew, SS: Drew wasn't hitting at all in the postseason until he delivered a huge home run for the Red Sox in the final game of the World Series, but he played excellent defense throughout October, and his skill set at shortstop is still valuable. The concern with Drew has always been his ability to stay healthy, but he's only 30. Drew signed with the Red Sox last offseason for one year and $9.5 million. Odds are, with Scott Boras as his agent, he's going to want at least two years, maybe three, and the price will go up.
Rafael Furcal, SS: Remember this guy? He missed all of 2013 because of Tommy John elbow surgery, but he's expected to play somewhere next year, and he's still pretty effective when healthy. Furcal scored 69 runs and stole 12 bases in 121 games for St. Louis in 2012. Someone will be more than happy to take a chance on him at the age of 36, and they'll get him at a good price.
Juan Uribe, IF: Once again, Uribe delivered in the postseason, seemingly against all odds. He didn't do too badly in the regular season, either, hitting 12 homers and driving in 50 runs in 132 games for the first-place Dodgers. Uribe shouldn't be counted on to be a starter, but he can be a deadly bench option and a great guy to fill out a roster now that he's 34 and probably cheaper than the $8 million per year he was paid in Los Angeles.
Rajai Davis, OF: Davis isn't a star. He doesn't get on base enough to be an everyday player for a contender, but he can fly on the bases and play center field, and those two skills are valuable when combined. Davis has averaged 43 stolen bases per season the past five years and hits free agency for the first time after making $2.5 million this year in Toronto.
Chris Young, OF: Young's offense needs to rebound in a hurry, but here's another player with speed and the skills to play center field, not to mention a resume with some power on it -- Young has 144 big-league homers and has had seasons with 27 and 32 long balls. There are still some things to like about a guy who just turned 30, and he's probably going to have to take a pay cut from the $8.5 million he got in Oakland last season.
Kelly Johnson, 2B/OF: Johnson has his faults. He strikes out too much and has low on-base numbers. But he also can hit the ball out of the ballpark (16 homers in each of the past two seasons) and play the infield or outfield. That makes him a bench asset and a dangerous pinch-hitter.
David Murphy, OF: If Murphy can forget about his unfortunate 2013 season (.220/.282/.374) and instead round back to the form he displayed in '12 (.304/.380/.479), he might just turn into the steal of the winter. When at his best, Murphy is a versatile defender and a solid hitter with a bit of power, some patience and some wheels. A team might get lucky that Murphy, who just turned 32, had his least productive season in his walk year.
Tyler Colvin, OF: Colvin ended up getting the majority of his at-bats this year' in the Minor Leagues, and he had some back issues. That means there's still potential at the age of 28. He hit 20 homers in 2010 and he put up a .290/.327/.531 line while hitting 18 homers and 10 triples and driving in 72 runs for Colorado in 2012. Is he that far removed from that type of production? Tough call, but it won't cost very much to find out.
Raul Ibanez, OF: Ibanez doesn't have much time left in the Majors at the age of 41, although he did hit 29 homers this year for the Mariners and tied Ted Williams for the most homers in a single season by a player over 40. Seattle people will tell you that he was even more valuable in the locker room, teaching young players how to go about their business. It didn't show up in the standings and isn't measurable on stat sheets, but it wouldn't be a horrible decision for a young team to pick him up as a bench bat and clubhouse presence again.
Other possibilities: Wilson Betemit, IF; Jamey Carroll, IF; Eric Chavez, 3B-DH; Mark Ellis, 2B; Franklin Gutierrez, OF; Travis Hafner, DH; Jerry Hairston Jr., IF; Reed Johnson, OF; Jason Kubel, DH; James Loney, 1B; Nate McLouth, OF; Michael Morse, IF/OF; Dioner Navarro, C; Juan Pierre, OF; Brian Roberts, 2B; Brendan Ryan, SS; Skip Schumaker, IF/OF; Luke Scott, 1B/DH; Kurt Suzuki, C; Casper Wells, OF; Kevin Youkilis, IF; Delmon Young, OF; Michael Young, IF.
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB.


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It was time, Kenyans heard on the radio in the run-up to the 2007 elections, for the "people of the milk" to "take out the weeds in our midst." "Mongooses" who had come to "steal our chickens" must be "run out of the farm" so "our land, our birthright" could be reclaimed.
These obscure references, broadcast on local language stations, were interpreted – accurately – by impressionable rural populations as a call to arms against rival tribes. Unchecked until too late, the propaganda helped launch postelection violence that killed 1,300 people and left Kenya's reputation for stability in tatters.
Today, as the country prepares for an Aug. 4 vote on a divisive new constitution, there are fears that such inflammatory statements are creeping back. But June 15, three members of parliament were charged with hate speech and incitement to violence. A "national cohesion commission" warned others – including William Ruto, the higher education minister leading opposition to the constitution – that they, too, were being watched.
"Seeing arrests is very positive, when in the past there has been a lot of buck-passing," says Charley Williams at the British High Commission in Nairobi, which raised alarms on hate speech ahead of the 2007 election.
Ethnic undercurrents to politicking
So, what has changed? Part of the peace deal that ended the postelection violence was an agreement that hate speech would be outlawed. "Before that ... this kind of rhetoric was seen simply as the normal thrust of politics," said Mwalimu Mati, director of Mars Group Kenya, an anticorruption watchdog group.
Typically, the goal of politicians is to highlight contrasts between their policies and their rivals'. But in Kenya, the aim has been to show the electorate the spoils that will flow to them if they vote for a particular candidate, and the spoil-of-spoils in Kenya is land.
A strong undercurrent of antagonism runs between sections of the country's 42 tribes over feelings that lands that traditionally "belonged" to certain ethnic groups have been "stolen" by others. Politicians bent on staying in power ruthlessly exploit these feelings. They have done this with speeches that are now legally defined as incitement.
The 2008 National Accord and Reconciliation Act set up state bodies to hunt for hate speech and to present examples as evidence. "Let all know that the law now allows us to act on such people," Mathew Iteere, Kenya's top policeman, said when the MPs were arrested.
Strategic Research, contracted by the United Nations to monitor local language radio stations during the 2007 election, has reported no "mongoose" comments.
"But that doesn't mean that we're not seeing efforts to target people in different ways," warns general manager Dan Ahere. "There are plenty of reports referring to discussions of rallies, of press articles about the constitution, which seem aimed at dividing people, if not according to their community then according to emotive issues raised by the referendum."
Disturbing moves
L. Muthoni Wanyeki, executive director of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission, agrees. "There are disturbing moves to entrench stereotypes of different groups ... especially Kenyans who are Muslims, to sow divisiveness that way," she says. Key issues for constitution opponents are abortion and special Islamic courts, which church groups and the referendum No camp say are in the draft.
A Facebook page purportedly set up on behalf of Mr. Ruto, the higher education minister, has come under scrutiny for inflammatory posts that would easily break the hate speech law. Ruto has denied he controls the site's content. But he and his team have been accused of pandering to common prejudices, for example, claiming that the draft allows homosexuality.
Ruto was also quick to finger high-level supporters of the draft constitution – namely President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga – as being responsible for perpetrating twin bombings June 13 that killed six at an anti-constitution rally. The allegation was widely dismissed, and the attacks remain under investigation.
Simeon Chepseba, a councilor in Iten, in the Rift Valley, attended a No rally earlier this month. What he heard, he said, was "tantamount to calling on the Kalenjin [tribe] to evict other communities from the Rift Valley." John Kimosop, from nearby Eldoret – hit worse by the fighting – said he heard politicians advise young people to "be ready for a revolution."
There is no sense yet that the debate will spark the kind of violence seen after the 2007 election. "Yes, it's important that people have been arrested," says Mr. Mati, the anticorruption campaigner. But, he adds, "Until we truly get to the bottom of resolving those problems, real change is a ways off yet."


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U.S., Ukraine say Russians increase shipments of heavy war equipment to separatists
Three Ukrainian border guard brigades were said to be close to eating grass to survive, running out of ammunition and food, trapped on the eastern edge of their country between Russian separatists to their west and fire coming in from Russia to their east.
It's a siege that began July 11 as the troops tried to protect the Ukrainian border with Russia near Zelenopolye. The first night, 23 Ukrainian troops died, 93 were wounded badly, and while they've managed to evacuate 75 of the wounded and reinforcements arrived Thursday, the struggle on the border points out a single truth of this allegedly internal war in the so-called Donbas region:
If there is to be victory in Ukraine's months-old civil war in the southeast, it will begin along the Russian border.
Ukrainian and U.S. officials insist Russia has an established and continuing supply and resupply of weapons and experienced troops and advisers flowing in to help the pro-Russian separatists.
And the United States said Thursday that it had evidence that Russia is launching artillery fire across its border and providing heavier rocket launchers into Ukraine, in what Pentagon officials described as a "clear escalation" of the conflict.
"We have new evidence that the Russians intend to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers to the separatist forces in Ukraine, and have evidence that Russia is firing artillery from within Russia to attack Ukrainian military formations," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters at the department's daily briefing.
Ukrainians say the fight against that resupply will have to focus on villages such as Izvarino and Dolzhanskaya and Chervonopartyzansk, places that usually are barely considered but in this conflict are central to any chance of Ukrainian victory.
The network of paved and unpaved roads in and around these border villages forms the backbone of the supply lines from Russia to the pro-Russian separatists. Or, put in an American historical context, these spots are essential to the Ho Chi Minh Trail of the Ukrainian conflict.
Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, noted that in this area, "the attacks are almost continuous."
He also noted that the fire from Russia creates a dangerous dilemma for the Ukrainian military. The fire puts them in danger, but returning fire would legitimize Russian troops moving into the region openly and in large numbers.
Thus far, the Ukrainians had maintained a delicate balance, Lysenko said. The most noted piece of heavy equipment alleged to have rolled into this conflict from Russia is the Buk anti-aircraft system allegedly used by separatists to take down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which resulted in 298 deaths.
But Ukrainian military officials and experts note that the supply of weapons goes far beyond one anti-aircraft system.
Lysenko said the supply of light arms and ammunition being used by the separatists to fight against Ukrainian troops is "enormous."
The tanks, armored personnel carriers and anti-aircraft weapons, including Buk and MANPADS, were substantial, he said.
Ukrainian forces had increased shelling on several border crossings, Lysenko said, and had been able to slow the flow of arms, for a few days at least. He said the slowed flow of weapons had an almost immediate impact on the battlefield.
But other military officials disagreed with the notion that the Russian weapons resupply had decreased.
Anton Gerashchenko, when asked Wednesday if the supply lines had been disrupted, pulled out a cellphone showing a steady stream of updates, such as the one noting that around 10 a.m. Ukrainian witnesses saw five new tanks and other equipment crossing the border.
"We thought perhaps the tragedy of Flight MH17 would cause them to pause the weapons flow, but that has not been the case," he said.
Oleksiy Melnyk, co-director for security at the Ukrainian think tank Razumkov Centre, said the on-the-ground reality created by the flow of weapons from Russia is that "the Russian separatists are better armed than the Ukrainian military."
He added that Ukraine could not hope to stand toe to toe in a proxy war with Russia, and therefore would have to rely on the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin deciding to stop a policy of aggression in the region.
As if to highlight the gap between the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, in Ukraine's parliament, the Rada, on Thursday, legislators were talking about the need to increase military funding, as the $1 billion they'd added to the budget earlier this year to aid in the effort was already almost all gone.
Member of Parliament Sergiy Kunitsyn noted that "more money is needed or we will run out of ammunition, food, fuel, everything."
At the Pentagon, a U.S. defense official said that Russian artillery has been fired over the border for days, beginning roughly around the same time MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down, killing the 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Such artillery could not have shot down that plane, which was traveling at 33,000 feet when it was struck.
Why the State Department only announced the Russian escalation into the conflict Thursday was unclear. The announcement, however, was likely to increase international pressure on Russia to cut off its support for the separatists.
The Pentagon offered no specifics on which Russian forces were launching the artillery, their targets or what they have struck.
In the past few weeks, U.S. officials said they have seen various weapons traveling along the border, including lighter Soviet-era armored surface-to-surface rocket launchers. The United States believes Russia plans to deliver BM-30 Smerch, a powerful, heavier multiple-launch rocket system, consisting of 12 tubes for 300mm rockets, to separatists across the border.
U.S. officials estimate there are close to 12,000 Russian troops currently at the border.
There was no indication from Washington that the attacks were related the resignation Thursday of the government of Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, amid growing optimism among some parts of the government that its military can fend off the pro-Russian insurrection.
Rather, Pentagon officials believe the Russian strikes are designed to provide cover for separatists against an improving Ukrainian army. Ukraine, keen to not further involve Russia in the conflict, has little regress against such cross-border attacks.
The news of the strikes comes just a day after Ukraine said two of its Sukhoi SU-25 fighter jets were struck in the Donetsk region. But there was no indication that Russian artillery was involved in those shootdowns. Flying at 6,000 feet, it would be nearly impossible for artillery to strike down SU-25 fighters jets, but U.S. officials could not rule out the Russian artillery.
Separatists in Ukraine said they used MANPADs _ shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles _ to bring down those aircraft.
Schofield reported from Kiev, Youssef from Washington.


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240 pages
Of all fluctuations in economic activity, the long wave or Kondratieff cycle is easily the most puzzling and least understood one. Does it really exist, and if so, is it only a cycle in prices or a cycle in economic activity at large? What causes it, and has it been confined to Europe or does it affect the world economy as a whole?
These questions, which seemed of little relevance in the prosperous years of the postwar growth era, have gained new importance since 1973. With the downturn of the long wave, interest in it has enjoyed a revival, as it did in the 1930s. A great number of publications on the long wave have appeared since 1973, many of which have added to our insight of what causes the recurrent alternations of growth acceleration and retardation. This book is the first in the English language in which all important long wave theories, old as well as recent, are brought together. It focuses on the long wave as an international phenomenon, affecting all industrialised countries. It contains new theory as well as empirical evidence and in the final section suggests a number of policy recommendations to generate innovation.
This book offers an interpretation of long-term economic development different from those commonly found in the literature. It will be of interest to students and scholars of the economics of growth and change, as well as to economic historians and policy-makers. This book was first published in 1983.
Preface ix
PART I.{emsp}CYCLES AND TRENDS
I. Cyclical Fluctuations 3
Four Cycles 3
The Inventory Cycle 8
The Fixed Investment Cycle 11
The Kuznets Cycle 15
The Kondratieff Cycle 18
II. Growth as an S-Shaped Phenomenon 20
Representations of Growth 20
Growth as an S-Shaped Curve 21
Industry Growth Patterns 26
Asymptotic Growth Curves 32
Appendix A: Measuring the Rate of Economic Growth 37
Appendix B: Estimating the Parameters of Asymptotic Growth Curves 42
III. Secular Trends 45
Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth 45
Economic Growth in the Very Long Run 54
PART II.{emsp}LONG WAVE THEORIES
IV. The Discovery of the Long Wave 59
First Sketches of a Long Wave 59
Two Dutchmen 61
Kondratieff 63
A Brief Survey of Pre-war Literature 68
Appendix C: Kondratieff's Writings 71
V. The Kondratieff as a Price Cycle 73
Fluctuations in Prices 73
Rostow's Model of the Kondratieff Cycle 83
VI. Innovation Theories 93
Innovation 93
Schumpter's Theory of Economic Development 97
Mensch's Theory 10
VII. Fluctuations in Infrastructural Investment 112
Infrastructural Investment as a Cause of Long Waves 112
A Simple Long Wave Model 125
VIII. Innovation, Innovation Life Cycles, and Infrastructural Investment 129
PART III.{emsp}EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
IX. Long Waves in Production 147
Fluctuations in Industrial Production 147
Fluctuations in Capital Formation 158
A Long Wave Chronology 162
Appendix D: Testing the Long wave Hypothesis after Trend Elimination with a Log-Linear Trend 165
Appendix E: Testing the Long Wave Hypothesis by Means of Spectral Analysis 169
X. Fluctuations in Innovations 173
A Survey of Basic Innovations 173
Fluctuations in Innovations Over Time 180
Innovations by Sector 185
PART IV.{emsp}THE FOURTH KONDRATIEFF DOWNSWING
XI. The Stagnation of the 1970s 195
What Caused the 1973-Downturn? 195
The Current Depression and the Previous One 203
The Slow Response of Some Economic Agents to Stagnation 205
Appendix F: The Current and the Previous Depression: A Comparison of the United States and the United Kingdom 209
XII. Economic Policy During a Depression 211
What Will Happen During a Depression Phase 211
The Extra Complication: Rigidity 214
The Need to Offer a 'New Deal' 218
Bibliography 227
Index 235


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Pageant and reality TV star Honey Boo Boo has nothing on Isabella Barrett, the self-proclaimed millionaire beauty pageant contestant who runs her own business and owns over 60 pairs of shoes at the tender age of 6.
"I'm a superstar, I have my own jewellery line and I love being the boss. But what I love more than anything is shoes. I have over 60 pairs," Isabella told The Mirror.
According to the British newspaper, in most aspects of life Isabella is just a regular kid who loves dressing up, collecting dolls and Justin Bieber. But at the end of the day, she won't ask her mom to take her to McDonald's for dinner: She prefers to order lobster and filet Mignon steaks from the five-star hotels where she often stays.
Isabella got her seven-figure fortune from winning multiple beauty pageants which led to stardom on the hit reality TV show "Toddlers and Tiaras" and the earnings from her very own jewelery line.
The young beauty queen has been in the beauty pageant business since she was 4-years-old and according to her mother, Susanna Barrett, she was born to be a pageant queen.
"Before we knew it we were winning every competition and had been picked to appear on Toddlers and Tiaras. Bella fell in love with all the glitz and glamour and was a natural performer," Barrett said. "Now she owns her own business and already has enough money in the bank to secure her future."
According to U.S. laws Isabella's parents must save a percentage of the child's earnings where she won't be able to access it until she turns 18. Nevertheless, her mother is already having a hard time not spoiling her money-making bundle of joy.
"Antonio and I do not want her to grow up spoiled, so really try to keep her feet on the ground," said Barrett. "You see what happens to these child stars like Britney Spears and I certainly do not want that happening to my daughter. But she does like nice things, so we do treat her."
Barrett confessed she mainly spoils her daughter when it comes to shoes.
"She has designer ones and the sparklier the better for Bella. And she has a ton of Burberry headbands."
But when the 6-year-old millionaire is not competing in $10,000 custom-made dresses, ordering room service or running her jewelry line, Glitzy Girl, Isabella goes to school full time, studies Italian, German and French and takes gymnastics, dance classes and singing lessons.
"The next goal is to be a Disney star and knowing Isabella she will get what she wants," her mother said. She would love to be the next Selena Gomez."
And Isabella agrees.
"I love all of it and never want to stop," she says of her life under the spotlight. "I just love being a star."
For the entire interview with Isabella and her mother visit Mirror.co.uk.


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10 Undeniable Facts About the Woody Allen Sexual-Abuse Allegation — This week, a number of commentators have published articles containing incorrect and irresponsible claims regarding the allegation of Woody Allen's having sexually abused his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.
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The Economist Who Exposed ObamaCare — The Chicago professor examined the law's incentives for the poor not to get a job or work harder, and this week Beltway budgeteers agreed. — In September, two weeks before the Affordable Care Act was due to launch, President Obama declared that …
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NBC Edits Out IOC Anti-Discrimination Statement From Opening Ceremony — Russia's anti-gay laws have been a major focus in the lead-up to the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, and during his address at today's opening ceremony IOC president Thomas Bach made a strong statement against "any form of discrimination" and in favor of tolerance.
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Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: NBC Edited Out IOC Anti-Discrimination Remarks from Opening Ceremony Broadcast
Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press: Russian TV Uses Doctored Video To Hide Olympic Ring Malfunction
Rossmurray / GLAAD: First GLAAD Gold Medal Winners: Bob Costas and Vladimir Pozner explain anti-LGBT backdrop of Olympics
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed: Olympic Head Shares Diversity Message, But Asks Leaders To Keep Politics Out Of The Games
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: NBC Cuts Anti-Discrimination Comments From Olympics Opening Ceremony
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
In Praise Of Sochi Schadenfreude
In Praise Of Sochi Schadenfreude
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Chart of the Day #2: The Madness of Austerity — January's job numbers were fairly dismal, but the bad cheer wasn't equally spread. Private sector employment, as usual, increased—by 142,000 jobs last month. At the same time, public sector employment declined. Government employment at all levels was down 29,000 in January.
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MIAMI, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A Florida man on trial in the slaying of NFL player Sean Taylor testified he never entered Taylor's home during a botched burglary that led to Taylor's death.
Testifying in his own defense, Eric Rivera Jr. told a Miami court he did not know what was going to happen when he and several friends drove across the state to Taylor's Miami-area home, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
Taylor, 24, a free safety for the Washington Redskins, died after he was shot in the leg during the 2007 break-in.
Rivera, 23, of Fort Myers, had confessed to shooting Taylor, but rejected the statement in court, saying he admitted to the killing to protect his family.
"I thought they might be in danger or something," he said.
Under cross-examination, Rivera told prosecutor Reid Rubin the tools used in the burglary came from his yard. He then backed away from that statement, saying they belonged to Charles Wardlow, who also is charged in the crime, but that Wardlow had left them in his yard.
He also denied ever calling co-defendant Jason Mitchell, even though phone records introduced as evidence showed he and Mitchell talked several times the night of the burglary and shooting.
Rivera acknowledged asking a cousin to try to get a key witness to change testimony.
After Rivera's testimony, prosecutors and defense attorneys both rested their cases. Closing arguments were expected to begin Wednesday afternoon.


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I recently ran across a circular smiley icon with lambertian shading, specular shading, and cast shadows. The effect was a little like a ball on a table.
Here it is:
Clicking the icon toggled an on/off state, from the upper left gray version to the yellow version.
I wonder if the button image itself may be subtly discouraging clicks. In the physical world, a 3d spherical object casting a shadow on a 2d plane isn't something we often push to toggle a reversible state. A push would likely result in rolling it away.
My hypothesis is that a button that looks like sphere on a flat surface would get less interaction than a "floating" sphere in the same position, though I lack an appropriate site to test that hypothesis with.


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GROTON — To follow up on the March 31 walk, the Conservation Commission invites abutters and interested members of the public to a site walk on Dec. 1, at 9 a.m.
The walk will begin in the field across from 653 Martins Pond Road. The town's consulting forester, Bay State Forestry Service, will be present to outline the forestry management techniques planned for this land.
The beautiful 36-acre property has shore frontage on Baddacook Pond and was selectively logged in 2001. This is a very scenic conservation area with a wonderful mix of habitats and vistas – vernal pools, fields, woods, and the pond. The natural and cultural history of this area offers visitors a rich sense of Groton's past.
Please join the commission and Bay State Forestry Service to learn how this forest will be sustainably managed for future generations.


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At least 247 people have died since Ivory Coast's Nov. 28 election, which was supposed to end a 12 year conflict in the world's top cocoa producer. At least 49 people have disappeared, and those whisked away to secret prisons may number in the hundreds.
Those are the latest numbers from a United Nations mission that has been firebombed, shot at, and increasingly understood as an occupying army by defenders of Laurent Gbagbo, the renegade president who has escalated his refusal to concede electoral defeat into a once-in-a-generation-battle for the sovereignty of this former French colony.
And last week, the UN announced from Geneva that its agents have caught word of – but been blocked from visiting – a third mass grave, this one stuffed with 80 bodies buried less than 50 miles from the Liberian border; a line that 25,000 everyday Ivoirians have crossed since November, searching for a country where sporadically violent house searches, attacks on UN convoys, and tire-fire road blocks manned by gun-waving extortionists aren't the new norm.
"The question now being discussed within the UN is the urgency of military intervention, not only to protect UN peacekeepers," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who tried Rwandan war criminals in the 1990s.
Will foreign forces intervene?
Military intervention is the question now being discussed all over West Africa, actually.
In December, ECOWAS – the 15-country union of West African states – signed off on "the use of legitimate force" to remove Gbagbo if the former history professer can't pick a sunny spot in Nice or Nigeria to while away his retirement.
The bloc has 6,500 troops ready to snatch Gbagbo from his presidential bed, but you need not mingle in a pro-Gbagbo Abidjan rally or interview a pro-government militia leader in the country's west to imagine how even a well-executed kidnapping operation could ignite a second gruesome civil war in this, the region's third most populous country.
An ECOWAS attack would lead to a "Third World War," threatened Charles Blé Goudé, histrionic agitator-general of the government-backed Young Patriots militia, notorious for its Kristallnacht-esque attacks on foreigners and foreign-run institutions.
Which is perhaps why Ghanaian President John Atta Mills announced on Jan. 7 that his nation would not participate in any military invasion of its western neighbor. To his credit, he is probably securing the safety of more than one million Ghanaians who live and make their daily bread in neighborhoods like Abidjan's Ghana Town.
But such prudence pits Mr. Mills (whose party denies that he received campaign contributions from Gbagbo in 2008) against Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, the 84-year-old grandfather figure in the region lobbying hard to keep the military option open.
Mr. Wade is a close ally of Alassane Outtara, the former International Monetary Fund economist that nearly every world leader recognizes as the clear winner of the Nov. 28 election. The Senegalese president even financed and twice hosted Outtara during the candidate's run.
Now, his communications adviser says Wade "is looking for an ensemble of countries that can do something about this."
"This isn't Saddam Hussein we're talking about," Wade adviser Papa Dieng said. "Gbagbo is weak."
A crack in Outtara's strategy
Or at least Gbagbo is supposed to be weak: Outtara's masterplan was to fiscally starve Gbagbo out of power by blocking his access to the Dakar-based Central Bank where Ivory Coast's currency reserves are kept.
But that strategy seems to have sprung a leak.
"We have statistics showing daily withdrawals from Ivory Coast's account," Outtara's Development Minister Toikeusse Mabri told reporters in Dakar, Senegal on Friday.
Personal threats and attacks on Central Bank employees in Abidjan have led to unexplained activity on the country's account, Mr. Mabri said. His government – currently barricaded inside an Abidjan hotel that has to helicopter in everything from food to dry cleaning – is requesting a full bank statement, to be delivered today.
"What we have found is that not only has the account seen movement, but some commercial banks are implicated in measures that we could characterize as fraud," he added. "The system has been sidestepped. Checks from Ivoirian accounts have been deposited directly in a commercial bank. There's activity on a treasury bond that the system itself doesn't even recognize. There's been attempts to demand companies to pay their taxes in cash."
How long can it go on?
Under the circumstances, Gbagbo could last three months, Mabri said.
But beyond the ranks of Outtara's hotel government, observers are estimating that, between cocoa taxes, oil revenue, and plain-old extortion, Gbagbo's government might just be breaking even.
For 10 years, rebels and government soldiers alike profited from the cease-fire line, fringed with armed checkpoints that separated its Christian, wealthier south from the rural, poorer, Islamic north.
With ECOWAS's military option crumbling into non-committal statecraft – and Outtara's starve-'em-out strategy oozing money – it's plausible that Ivory Coast's cease-fire partition could continue to serve as another north-south groove in the geopolitical map; a limit, à la South Korea or South Sudan, where the international community's ability to impose democracy met its high watermark, and a stubborn, isolated autocracy found a way to hold on through the worst of times.


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Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet revealed she is enjoying being "nasty" after exploring her evil side in Divergent.
The 38-year-old, who is known for her good-girl roles in films including Titanic, Revolutionary Road and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, shows off her villainous streak as Jeanine Matthews in Neil Burger's big-screen adaptation of the first novel of Veronica Roth's dystopian trilogy.
The movie had its European premiere at London's Odeon Leicester Square cinema today.
"I am actually playing another nasty person this year (in The Dressmaker). I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people," she said. "It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day."
Winslet, who showed off her post-baby curves in a black Jenny Packham dress, revealed it was not difficult to let out her nasty side.
"It was really easy. It was very much playing a different role. It was something very new for me and a whole other challenge playing someone who is quite so cruel," said the actress. "Also, playing someone who has quite a scientific mind was new for me. I've never played anyone like that before."
She was joined by her husband Ned Rocknroll (Ned Abel Smith), the father of her new son Bear Blaze, as well as co-stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James and director Burger at the premiere.
Woodley, who plays Tris Prior, called Winslet "amazing" and "a strong, empowered individual". The Golden Globe-nominated actress also said she threw herself into the action scenes.
"I've never really done stunts before but I wanted to do as much as I could. I've never done an action movie before and learnt a lot of new techniques," said the 22-year-old.
British actor James, 29, played down his new-found heart-throb status despite receiving the most screams at the event.
"It's really fun. The exciting thing is, it's people who are excited about the movie and people who are interested in the story and are already invested in it," he said.
Divergent, which also stars Zoe Kravitz, Jai Courtney and Ray Stevenson, opens in cinemas on April 4.


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Q: I have about 800 slides I took during a post-college, pre-grad-school road trip to Alaska in 1979. I would like to put it all on DVD(s) with music from the '70s. I have both a Dell and a Mac. What is my best route? Thanks.
—Bryan Brown
A: The Mac wins for simplicity. All the software is already on your computer. Copy your '70s tunes to your iTunes Library, and scan your images into your iPhoto library. That way you can easily use iDVD to combine images from iPhoto with music from iTunes into a nice-looking DVD slideshow that has the look of a scrapbook, say, or an old map.
To start, you'll need to get your slides into your computer. Film scanners, such as the less-than-$200 Canon CanoScan 9000F and the $800 Epson Perfection V750-M Pro Scanner, are good choices but can scan only a handful of slides at a time. That means your 800 slides could take a week or more to go through.
If that's too onerous, there are shops that can scan your images for you to a DVD. Search online for "slide scanning service." They charge 25 cents to 30 cents a slide, so your job would come out to $200 to $240 plus shipping and the cost of a DVD. When you get the images back, you'll have to make your own DVD by copying the images to your computer, make a slideshow and add music, then burn to a DVD.
You can also use a slide copying adapter and a digital camera to take pictures of your slides, then download those pictures to your computer. This is a tricky method, though, best tried with a digital SLR, a 55 mm or 60 mm lens (which can run in the $200-to-$400 range), a tripod and the $60 Nikon ES-1 slide copying adapter. After a lot of trial and error and maybe some touchup work with computer software, you can get good images. Plus you'll have a new lens for your camera. But I recommend a scanner, preferably by Canon, Epson or Nikon.
Whatever method you use, scan to an external hard drive (you can find a drive that holds 1 terabyte — that's 1,000 gigabytes — for around $100). With all that space, you can save your slides at high resolution, then make lower-resolution copies for your DVD. It will take longer to make higher-resolution copies — at 2,400 dots per inch — but you'll want to save every detail of every image from that once-in-a-lifetime trip (How many times will you be between undergrad and grad schools?)
Before you begin, do yourself a favor and bump up the RAM to the most your computer can handle. Handling photos can tax a computer's memory, so you want to give it all the help you can. Otherwise, a job of your size will seem like one big endless wait, which might keep you from finishing your DVD, and that would be a shame.
Good luck, and let us know how it turned out!
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What, no Snacktaku review in this week's Kotaku Off-Kilter? Let's make it up with a Speak Up from commenter Cheese Addict, who is compiling a list of American snacks to have sent in a care package oveseas. What U.S. snacks could you not live without?
My friend's mom asked me to buy her something she could only find on an American website. So she paid me to set up a mail forwarding service and have it shipped to her. The mail forwarding account is still mine, so you know what this means? Care package time! Help me make a list of packaged foods you can only get in America that I miss so dearly living abroad. I mean we get the big name stuff like Oreos, Doritos, and Twix bars, but there's just so much stuff my American friends and I here in Hong Kong miss like hell. Here's a few things I can think of:
- Nerds candy
- White cheddar Cheezits
- Flipz chocolate covered pretzels
- Chex Mix
- Combos stuffed pretzel things
- Velveeta mac and cheese
- Still debating whether or not I want a Twinkie for old time's sake
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How to look like a Blackhawks fan -- without looking like a lunatic?
For some Chicago Blackhawks boosters, there is no such thing as too much. In case you doubt that statement, show up at any home game for a look at serious fanatics dressed to the max.
At the United Center, you'll gaze across a sea of red-clad fans, many of them sporting replica Blackhawks player jerseys that go for a cool $195 at the store there. Need the real thing, just like the players wear? That'll set you back $400.
And if it's full service you're looking for, new this season is a United Center touch-screen concession (near the ground-floor entrance to Sections 103-104). There, you can choose your jersey style and color, then type in the name you want personalized on the back and have it delivered to your seat before the game is over.
Need the real, real thing, a jersey worn in a game by a Blackhawks player? Find them starting at $400 at the Blackhawks Store, 333 N. Michigan Ave., the official shop for autographed and player-worn gear, including gloves (from $100), skates (from $200) and sticks (from $125).
Dressing in team clothing is definitely not just a guy thing.
"Women's items have been huge," says Linny Little, director of retail, citing burnout retro logo T-shirts ($28) as among the top-five best-sellers.
For deeply invested fans, there's the option of shopping at shop.nhl.com for the leather red-and-black recliner ($1,599.99, reduced to $999.99), Tiffany-style Blackhawks lamp ($499.99) and a huge (11-by-13-foot) Blackhawks rug ($799.99, reduced to $699.99) topped with a set of Blackhawks bar stools ($119.99 each).
EBay sellers have Blackhawk fingernail tattoos ($4.75), a Blackhawks hockey puck computer mouse ($6.95) and a construction headlight hard hat for $99.99, to name a few of the more obscure, covetable items found there.
But what if you want to support your team in subtle style, steering clear of the team logos and sports shops?
Totally doable, says Chicago stylist (and huge sports fan) April Francis (thehautecloset.com).
"It's all about using (team) color in a way that you don't go straight for the hockey jersey," Francis says. "Going more unexpected can be more versatile, and you're not going to look like everyone else." She suggests buying a shirt, blouse or dress in red-and-black plaid. Also, big blocks of team color -- a red down coat, scarves in red and black, red gloves, hat, tights -- have maximum impact. (And these would be two-fers that would also work for Chicago Bulls games.)
"Invest in pieces that will work for the Blackhawks game and in your regular wardrobe," she advises, but don't go crazy. "I wouldn't recommend red jeans."
Plenty of ways to show your Hawks pride
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