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The clock is ticking on beach restorations up and down New Jersey's coast, but one noteworthy project is facing a deadline imposed by nature rather than tourism.
Horseshoe crabs begin breeding in late May, but many prime nesting sites on Delaware Bayshore beaches were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. The top layer of soft sand was swept away by wind and storm surge, exposing hard rubble and mucky salt marsh remnants not suitable for digging holes and burying eggs.
But a public-private partnership is coming to the rescue of the horseshoe crabs - and the migratory shorebirds that depend on their eggs for food.
In a race against the clock, the American Littoral Society and multiple conservation partners will restore horseshoe crab and shorebird beach habitat just in time for this spring's crab spawning and shorebird migration. The effort is being funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Nearly a mile of Delaware Bay beach in Lower Township, Cape May County, will be restored, including sections of southern Reeds Beach, Cooks Beach, Kimble Beach, and northern Pierces Point. Sand will be brought in and spread on the beaches.
Monitoring last spring by the state Department of Environmental Protection and L.J. Niles Associates showed that these particular beaches were used by more than half of migrating shorebirds in 2012.
"This project is critical in the ongoing efforts to protect and restore the horseshoe crabs and shorebirds of Delaware Bay," explains Tim Dillingham, Executive Director of the American Littoral Society.
Horseshoe crabs need sand at the high tide line on these narrow beaches in order to bury their egg masses. Without immediate action to restore the beaches, there will be no crab eggs deposited and no food for migrating shorebirds - especially the imperiled red knot sandpiper, officially listed as endangered in New Jersey.
Red knots make an amazing 10,000-mile migration each spring from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic. When the birds arrive in late May on the Delaware Bayshore, they depend on abundant, fat-rich horseshoe crab eggs to replenish their strength for the final leg of their long journey, and for nutrients needed to lay healthy eggs upon arrival in the Arctic.
The beach restoration project will be carried out by a partnership of the American Littoral Society, the Wetlands Institute, L.J. Niles Associates, Dianne Daly CEP, NJDEP, Middle Township and the New Jersey Natural Lands Trust. Landowners and volunteers will contribute their time and expertise.
"The expertise, cooperation and contributions of all the partners are making this project possible," said Dillingham. "We are racing against a firm deadline of the horseshoe crabs arriving on the beach, and everyone's efforts are vital to getting across the finish line in time."
Kudos to these conservation partners for taking swift action to restore critical crab nesting sites that are so essential to the survival of the red knot!
Unfortunately, damaged beaches are not the only threat to horseshoe crabs. Two months ago, the New Jersey Legislature introduced a bill to lift a moratorium on the commercial harvest of horseshoe crabs for bait. The bill, which has not yet been heard by Senate and Assembly committees, is strongly opposed by the conservation community.
Fixing beaches immediately is critical, but in the long term our coast needs comprehensive and thoughtful planning based on sound science. A new bill, introduced by Assemblyman Peter Barnes on March 7, would create a Coastal Commission to oversee rebuilding in New Jersey's five coastal counties. If it becomes law, the new commission would oversee planning activities, approvals for development, land use permitting and approvals, and beach erosion and shore protection projects.
Improved planning and coordination for building and rebuilding along the coast, as envisioned by the bill, is a very good idea. And natural resource restorations, like the rebuilding of crab nesting sites, are the type of projects the commission could encourage.
To learn more about the American Littoral Society's conservation work in the Delaware Bayshore, or to donate to the beach restoration project, go to www.littoralsociety.org. For more information on the relationship between horseshoe crabs and red knots, go to http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/species/fieldguide/view/Calidris%20canutus.
And for more information about preserving New Jersey's land and natural resources, visit the New Jersey Conservation Foundation website at www.njconservation.org or contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By James Smith
Title: Abby Lindsey Marlatt papers, 1874–1966
Predominant Dates:1930–1956
Primary Creator: Marlatt, Abby Lindsey (1916-2010)
Extent: 11.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement: This collection is arranged into four series: 1) Academic; 2) Personal; 3) Correspondence; 4) Publications and Art.
Date Acquired: 05/25/2012
Subjects: Kansas life and culture, Kansas State University history
Languages: English
The Abby Lindsey Marlatt papers include records from her academic career and personal life. They are divided into series covering her academic work, personal life, correspondence, and publications and art.
The academic series covers her undergraduate coursework at Kansas State College (KSC), graduate work at the University of California-Berkeley, and employment as associate professor at KSC. Types of material included are assigned work, study materials, notes, quizzes, and exams. Also, this series contains items from her academic year teaching at the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon.
The materials in the personal series include documentation of her life outside academia, including information about her church, travel documents, newspaper clippings, and programs, as well as a few personal effects such as a driver's license, budget book, and guest register.
The correspondence series represents much of Abby's adult life, although the bulk is from the late 1930s though the late 1950s. Exchanges with her parents and friends include letters, telegrams, and postcards covering topics that include her personal and professional activities, as well as social issues such as pacifism, race relations, rationing, and religion.
The publications and art series contains books and artwork from Abby's collection usually focused on Kansas and KSC.
Abby Lindsey Marlatt, daughter of Frederick and Annie Marlatt, was born on 5 December 1916 in Manhattan, Kansas. She was the granddaughter of Manhattan settler Washington Marlatt and the niece of Abby Lillian Marlatt. Abby Lindsey Marlatt graduated from Kansas State College (KSC) in 1938 with a degree in home economics and dietetics. In 1941, she earned a certificate in hospital dietetics from the University of California at Berkeley and continued her education there, eventually earning her Ph.D. in nutrition and food science in 1947.
In 1943, Abby Lindsey Marlatt donated a cookbook collection of 600 volumes to KSC that included titles owned by Abby Lillian Marlatt. This collection was the start of the Kansas State University Libraries' extensive cookery collection.
By 1945 Marlatt had accepted a position as associate professor in the Department of Food Economics and Nutrition at KSC. Her research focused on nutrition and dietary habits of school children. She was a visiting professor during the 1953–1954 academic year at the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon. In 1956, she became head of the Home Economics department at the University of Kentucky.
Abby was personally involved in civil rights issues. She helped form the Lexington chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and was involved in other organizations that included the Lexington Committee on Religion and Human Rights, Community Action Council, and Unitarian Universalist Church. Her activism influenced her demotion from the department head position in the 1960s. She retired from the University of Kentucky in 1985, the same year she received the Sullivan Medallion and the Brotherhood Award in recognition of her devotion to civil rights and social justice.
Marlatt was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame in July 2001. She died on 3 March 2010 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Repository: Morse Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: No Access restrictions: All materials are open for research.
Use Restrictions: The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Physical Access Note: Original materials available during open hours of repository and any digitized materials that are online are available with Internet access.
Acquisition Source: Abby Lindsey Marlatt Estate
Acquisition Method: Donation.
Appraisal Information: These documents represent the life of a member of a prominent Manhattan family as well as a Kansas State College graduate and faculty member.
Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], Abby Lindsey Marlatt papers, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
Processing Information: Project archivist James Smith processed and described materials and university archivist Cliff Hight reviewed the finding aid in late 2013.
Finding Aid Revision History: Basic editing and formatting revisions made in June 2015.

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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Two pills of Hydroxychloroquine - swallowed and digested.
Numerous side effects so far - totally avoided.
This happened with the sulfa too (I mean aside from my WBC melting away I felt fab).. Surely my luck can't hold out much longer. I'm expecting to grow a few tentacles or possibly a tail by the weekend. I'll keep you posted...
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I'll send Doctor Who to quarantine you should the need arise... :) LReplyDelete
Haha! Yes please. I'm just about to sit down and watch it.. Almost finished Series 1. How freaky is the gas mask child that keeps going 'Are you my mummy?'. That really freaked me out!!ReplyDelete
Scary, isn't it? I'm slowly working my way through the new ones. Just watched the Venice/vampire one! Am quite liking the new Doctor Who, although still miss David Tennant, and Donna, and Rose.... :) LReplyDelete
When I started mtx I remember just waiting and waiting for the horrible side effects. Mine were minimal, until the liver panel.ReplyDelete
I hope you do well...and do not grow tentacles.
Just... if you do develop tentacles, please post pictures?
Tentacles and tails? Oh no! Not another side effect to worry about. I can just hear the commericals now - May cause loss of hair, destruction of liver, stomach cramps, tentacles and tails.ReplyDelete
Seriously, I hope this is the one that makes your body happy and brings relief.
Thanks guys.. I'll definitely post pics of the tentacles if they sprout. I'll be an internet sensation.ReplyDelete
Me and my mate were sitting reading out lists of side effects of our medications (he's on an anti inflammatory, not for arthritis). My favourite one on his list was the 'may cause inflammation'. Surely that's the thing he's trying to suppress?? Hilarious reading. No point even thinking about it. They might as well just say 'anything could happen, so just take it and call your doctor if you feel weird.'


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Wild Blanked By Sens Tuesday
The Minnesota Wild were shut out by the Ottawa Senators 3-0 at Xcel Energy Center Tuesday night. Minnesota was outshot by the Sens 32-27.
Clarke MacArthur's power play goal at 13:06 of the opening period gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at the first intermission. Neither team scored in the second period.
Erik Condra scored an even strength goal at 5:55 of the third period to make the score 2-0 in favor of the Senators, and Kyle Turris capped the scoring with a power play tally at 17:38.
The Wild remain in eighth place in the Western Conference and will host Edmonton Thursday night in St. Paul.


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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN HOST, YOUR MONEY: And how high the price of oil has to go before you feel it off the road. ALI VELSHI, CNN HOST, YOUR MONEY: And why bad credit card habits can shake up the entire economy. ROMANS: Can't wait. All that and more after a quick check of the headlines. FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And here are those headlines. Success in space. After one of the most dangerous spacewalks in history, about an hour ago, an astronaut risked electric shock to repair a tear in a crucial solar panel. The panel had been ripped as it was being unfurled Tuesday. And a state of emergency in Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf has suspended the constitution, expelled the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and imposed a media blackout. A U.S. state department spokesman says the U.S. is deeply disturbed by these actions. Reiterated by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a conversation with our state department correspondent. And Noel may not be a hurricane any longer, but the powerful storm still poses a threat to the northeast. Residents along the New England coast are being warned that the storm could disrupt power. The worst of the storm could hit the northeast as early as a couple hours from now. We'll be watching the remnants of Noel. We'll update the top stories at the bottom of the hour. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. I'll see you again an hour from now. Much more of the newsroom. Meantime, YOUR MONEY. VELSHI: Welcome to YOUR MONEY, where we look at how the news of the week affects your wallet. I'm Ali Velshi. ROMANS: I'm Christine Romans. Coming up on today's program see if the types of oil are high enough to make the economy scream for mercy. VELSHI: Plus, why the force driving and the ex big load crises could be as plumped as your back pocket. ROMANS: And figuring out whether all the talk about recession adds up to trouble ahead for you and the economy. VELSHI: Now, it was a big week in business. Not just for the rich guys in suits. For anyone who shops or saves or invests or carries some kind of debt. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, and that meant your prime rate also got cut by a quarter of a percentage point. And that was designed to make credit cheaper for businesses and consumers. As expected, stocks went up on that news. ROMANS: But then to make it even more fun the markets dropped dramatically on Thursday. After investors decided what the Fed was really saying with that rate cut, was that its rate cut campaign was likely over. And then some disappointing corporate earnings didn't help the market that day either. VELSHI: But then there was good news on the jobs front on Friday, and stocks started going up and then down. I mean, I don't -- this is one of those days when it might have been -- one of those weeks it might have been better to be on vacation. We thought we'd take a look at what it all means to your wallet. ROMANS: We're joined now by two of our very good friends, friends of the program. Mark Zandi chief economist at Moody'seconomy.com. Andy Busch, Global Foreign and Exchange strategist at BMO Capital Markets. Gentlemen, welcome to the program. I want to start first, I guess, with you, Mark, and tell me what all of this means for my wallet and my budget this week. Every day was a little bit of whiplash and big headlines from the news. All of this matters. It's just hard to sort through. MARK ZANDI, CHIEF ECONOMIST, MOODY'S ECONOMY.COM: Yeah, it's difficult. I think the message, though, is the economy is struggling a bit, it has got its problems. When you look through all the problems, it's going to continue to grow and expand, and we're going to avoid recession. So the good news is, I think, when it's all said and done, the economy will be OK. VELSHI: Andy, you agree? We've had this recession talk a little bit, are we -- we're done with that? ANDY BUSCH, BMO CAPITAL MARKETS: I think it was overblown just as a lot of the credit crunch has been overblown. You can look at one item, I would guess, adjustable rate mortgage resets that are coming. I think they're estimated to be somewhere around 2.5 or 2.2 by the year 2008. If you really break down that, only 500,000 of those are from the most troubled sector, people not able to pay on those, 2 million are going to come from people who just made mistakes buying things, and I think will make their payments. Part of the market action this week was the disbelief that the numbers are as good as they were. The GDP number was fantastic. The employment numbers are very strong, a lot stronger than most people expected. It certainly means going into the fourth quarter as Mark said, we've got a lot of momentum, and it's very unlikely we're going to see a recession. ROMANS: Andy, I need you to explain something to me. We've got a dollar at the record low versus the euro. We've got gold at like $800 an hour. You've got -- what else we got going on here? We have $96 oil; we have stocks that are still up 8.5 percent this year. I mean, I take my sort of market textbook, and I got to kind of put to the side here. ZANDI: These rules don't seem to make sense. BUSCH: No, they don't. I can't recall a time where all the things you just mentioned and the Fed cut interest rates. To me, it's very inflationary. I think on the other hand the way that the market interpreted it Thursday was that maybe the Fed knows a little more than we do about this credit crunch. That's really the ying and the yang of it. I'm on the side this is a very inflationary tack that the Fed has done, and my belief is that we're going to see such strong growth going forward we'll get through the credit crises or housing crises. By the time we get into 2008, the Fed is going to be faced with a dilemma about raising rates about midway through that year. VELSHI: Mark, I want to show our viewers a map of something. We know the unemployment rate in the United States is 4.7 percent. What we did is came up with this map. The states that are in red have an unemployment rate that is somewhat higher than the 4.7 percent. And the states that are in green have an unemployment rate that are somewhat lower. One of the points that you have made to us in the past is that there are some states in the United States where people are feeling all the elements of a recession already. ZANDI: Yes that is right. I think it's the change in the unemployment rate, and it's rising quickly in places like California, Florida, and Nevada, parts of the northeast corridor. Those parts, if they're not in recession, they're very close. And the economy is struggling. I think its right to be optimistic we'll avoid recession, but we're going to have a few bumps in the next few months. This economy is still struggling. You can see it in those states. ROMANS: When I look at credit card debt, Mark, when I look at the number of resets and Andy has a good point. Some of those families are going to be able to figure it out and maybe even get some new terms for their mortgages, but the wages coming in are barely keeping up with inflation, but the costs that are coming in for families are not. Tuition, oil prices, heating your home, filling up your car. The list goes on and on. We can talk about averting a recession, but for families, there's no doubt there's a crunch here, right? ZANDI: Oh, absolutely. Christine I agree with you totally. If you look at all the things that support consumers, house prices are falling in at least half the country. Mortgage payments are rising for many of the folks that took on mortgages over the last couple, three years. The job market is clearly softer. It's OK. But it's clearly softer than it was. Unemployment is rising. Stock market is up, down, or all around. It's gone nowhere for six months. You add all these things together, and it does paint a picture of some significant stretch, particularly for the households you just mentioned. VELSHI: Andy, I want to talk to you about inflation for a little bit. You mentioned this might be inflationary. If you have inflation -- if you're the Federal Reserve and there's inflation, you want to increase interest rates. People borrow less money, they spend less money, demand goes down, and you control prices. If you have the potential of a recession, you want to lower interest rates like the Fed did, makes money cheaper, people borrow more, they spend more, prices go up. How can you be in an economy where there might be inflation and there might be recession? BUSCH: Well, that's why they get paid the big bucks at the Fed. I think this is the dilemma for them. They are basically taking on a very large and potentially expensive insurance policy to help the banking community get through the credit crunch. There were reports out this week about Merrill Lynch and some of the activities that they were doing. Citigroup got downgraded. There are still concerns that this credit crunch is going to be elongated through the third quarter and fourth quarter and maybe into next year. I think that's what the Fed is trying to do. So far to me, when the dollar is at all time lows, and we have food inflation running above 4 percent, the economy is growing at 3.9 percent. The employment has been -- I can't even get that out. I'm almost apoplectic because I think it's so inflationary that the Fed is cutting interest rates. I think it's very, very unsettling. I can't say enough about it. It cracks me up. ROMANS: Mark, we're going to let you have the last word. Do you think it's unsettling that the Fed cut rates again? Andy seems to be a little more optimistic than you are about what's going to happen next. ZANDI: No, not at all. Inflation is not an issue. This economy is weak. It's soft. Unemployment is rising. Job market is softer. I don't think inflation is an issue at all. In fact, Federal Reserve has a lot of latitude to use interest rates if the economy doesn't cooperate, and I think there's a significant risk that it won't. VELSHI: Guys, what a pleasure to have you both on the show. Two very smart friends of ours who have, you know, different outlooks on what's going on. I think the point here is that it's worth looking at all sides of this issue and deciding for yourself how you want to invest and protect yourself because we don't really know what's going to happen. ROMANS: Andy Busch and Mark Zandi, two of the best names out there. OK up next on YOUR MONEY, how high oil prices have to go before they take down the whole economy. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ROMANS: This is the week when $90 a barrel oil started looking less like a crisis and more like a bargain. Crude hit a record $96 per barrel. Inflation fears helping push the Dow into a tail spin on Thursday. VELSHI: Steven Leeb is going to help us understand how rising oil prices could end up affecting Wall Street, the economy, and you, if it's not already obvious. He's the president of Leeb Capital Financial Management a high net worth asset Management Company here in New York and an expert on oil. Good to see you my friend. STEVEN LEEB, LEEB CAPITAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Thanks Ali. ROMANS: High net worth means he doesn't manage people like us. LEEB: Not true. VELSHI: Most folks know, when they fill up gas, what the price of oil, what impact it has on them, if you have heating oil, but it's way beyond that. LEEB: It's so far beyond that, Ali. Recently, I couldn't believe that JAMA, which is the Journal of American Medical Association, had an article called "Peak Oil and Health Care," and the point of the article was that oil prices, high oil prices raise the cost of medicines. VELSHI: Wow. LEEB: It's all over. I mean, we're probably sitting on oil right now in some form or other. The Shah was once famously quoted and I'm not quoting him, but I'm paraphrasing him, as saying this stuff is too valuable to waste in automobiles. It's used everywhere from medicine to chairs to plastics. It's hard to find something that oil is not a part of. VELSHI: And it's used to make all those things. The interesting thing is, if you look at recessions in the past, you know, few decades, they've all been preceded by a spike in oil. Why is that different now? LEEB: It isn't really different. That's such a true point. That's exactly right. We have yet to have a recession or even a major market crash without a spike in oil. The question is what you mean by spike. The cutoff point in the past has been 80 percent. Once oil jumps 80 percent year over year, be careful. That's usually a recessionary trigger. It was true in 2000. I know we were in a tech bubble, but it took a catalyst, it took something to puncture that bubble, and I believe it was the price of oil, which jumped about 100 percent. It was true in '87. It was certainly true in 1990, and it's been true, as you said, in every recession that we've had. What's different this time? Oil's simply not up on a year over year basis 80 or 90 percent. It's up a lot, but, you know, if we do get to, let's say, $110, you've got to be extremely careful because that probably would trigger the kind of spike that we've seen in the past readily associated with recessions to major market downturns. We're getting there, but we're not quite there yet. ROMANS: There's some people who I would put in the category of market geeks, who get real concerned about the nominal price of oil and inflation adjusted oil, going back to '82 or going back to '79, if we get to $101 a barrel, we are at an inflation adjusted record, so we're right there in that territory. Why isn't that hurting the stock market more? LEEB: Right. Because it hasn't affected inflation yet. That's the key thing. The last time oil was at the equivalent of $100 a barrel back in 1980, overall inflation was 10, 12, and 13 percent. Paul Volker, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, was doing his macho stuff and bringing it down. Raising interest rates to 15, 18 percent. Today inflation is still under 3 percent, but, Christine, what I fear is now oil and energy, overall energy prices, energy itself is about 10 percent of GDP. When it reaches that point, it does become an inflationary factor. Until now, energy has not been that significant a component of GDP to affect overall inflation. I think we've passed that inflection point. So if oil does start to rise from here, even if it doesn't hit the 80 percent point, we can expect more inflation. VELSHI: Where do you think oil goes in the longer term? LEEB: Ali, I don't want to -- VELSHI: Come on. You wrote a book on it. LEEB: I don't want to be depressing. I think we're in a long-term uptrend. Three, four, five years from now, it could be double the price it is today. VELSHI: Wow. LEEB: I mean, I hope I'm so wrong on this. I really do. I want to be dead wrong. Have me back in three or four years and say, wow, you were wrong. And I'll say, you know what, I am so happy I was. VELSHI: That is the best pitch for getting invited back on the show. We will have you back. We've been talking to you for all these years. We will definitely have you back. Thank you so much. LEEB: Thanks Ali. VELSHI: Steven Leeb of Leeb Capital Management. If you have a lot of money, you might want to talk to him. Coming up after the break, what you could be doing to contribute to America's next big lending crises. Yes you, stay and find out. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROMANS: You know the average family. Everybody listen to this. I'd like to know where we are on this. The average family already owes, roughly $8,000 to the credit card companies. VELSHI: And that's all the debt out there divided by the people who have it. A lot of people could be in a lot more. And the holidays are right around the corner. Many shoppers are likely to pull out the plastic and plunge themselves even deeper into debt. ROMANS: Carmen Wong Ulrich is the author of "Generation Debt." She is here to tell us why the credit card issue might be the next sub prime. Are a lot of people out there holding on, I mean. We know that we're addicted to credit card debt. Are we in trouble now? CARMEN WONG ULRICH, AUTHOR, "GENERATION DEBT:" We've to see. I think the holidays are going to be a real litmus test. What is going to happen? What consumers feel? You know the consumer confidence index did go down quite a bit. What I'm interested in is the $915 billion number that's been going around. What I'm interested in is what is the revolving credit card debt rate? You know right now it's around half of Americans have revolving credit card debt. VELSHI: The kind where you pay off a little bit and then basically the credit is available to you again. ULRICH: Basically, you can't afford to pay off your credit cards in full every month. So I want to see where that is going to go. Because back in '91, that was up to 72 percent. I want to see where that's going to move because these are people that are not able to pay off their credit cards. VELSHI: Christine and I always talk about the solicitations that you get in the mail. I would have thought with the credit crunch that we've been seeing that would slow down. I think that they've actually accelerated to my house. ULRICH: They have accelerated, and there's been news they've not just accelerated with people with higher incomes, good borrowers, they call, but even the worst borrowers have accelerated. I don't understand why that's happening. VELSHI: In the sub prime crisis, everybody went for everybody and said, we'll lend you every last penny we can possibly lend you, and we'll worry about the whole credit thing later? ULRICH: They're worrying about it a lot now. It's going to hit. What consumers can do is not pay attention to those. And those opt out prescreen. That's the secret. If you need to shop for a car or a loan, go to bankrate.com and shop there. But the key is even good borrowers are having trouble borrowing, and a lot of them don't want to borrow because we're waiting to see what's going to happen the next couple of months. VELSHI: You know after the subprime crisis, we had this big conversation about whether the government should get involved and they should do this and they should do that. Christine always talks about -- ROMANS: Moral hazard. VELSHI: Moral hazard. If you go in and correct people's mistakes for them, they may not learn to make those mistakes. Now we're ahead of the credit card thing. You're telling us this could become a big problem. Should anybody be involved in this, or is this entirely your responsibility as a consumer? ULRICH: You know I think the Fed should get involved to a point in terms of tightening restrictions on credit card companies. There's a bill in Congress right now to add on to the Truth-In-Lending Act. When you get an offer for a fixed credit card, a fixed rate, it should be fixed. That's not what's happening right now. That sort of thing needs to be taken control of. And also too, there needs to be more education because we've got a community that doesn't understand what debt is and what borrowing is. I mentioned that I was in a high school, the kids -- I asked the kids, if you got a credit card offer for $2,000 in the mail and you got that card s that money yours? And they all said yes. They were thrilled. And I said no, this is not your money. You've got to understand that debt is borrowing someone else's money and paying for the privilege. ROMANS: So if someone is listening to us now and saying, wow, I have more than $8,000 on my credit cards, and I'm not in a position where I'm paying off half of them every month. What do they do right now? Should they be trying to pull themselves out of that? ULRICH: I think so. Right now is a really good time to get those debt levels down, not take on any more debt. Know why you're in debt in the first place and get a grip on that. Also, really own your debt. Know it inside and out. Know what your interest rates are, your due dates are. VELSHI: What's going to make those interest rates change? ULRICH: Exactly. Really know that inside and out. And also find the money. Visa released a study last month that found that Americans lose $2,300 in cash a year. VELSHI: I saw that. It's fascinating. ULRICH: They lose it. VELSHI: Nobody can tell you where it went. ULRICH: Exactly. They cannot tell you. It's lost cash. VELSHI: Bar money and cab money and things like that. ULRICH: Even just little things. ATM fees are tremendous. I looked at my statement, and I do this for a living, and I'm still paying $20 in ATM fees. It's got to stop. Track down that money, $2,300 is a lot of money to be losing every year. Track that down by pulling together your receipts, keeping receipts for everything, even if it's just for two weeks or for a month and get a sense of where that cash is going, it's going to help out a lot. ROMANS: You could take a major vacation on $2,300. VELSHI: I'm a total sucker. I never know where my money is. I actually went through my trousers this morning and found $200. How come I never have any money? Just because I leave it in my pants. ROMANS: And he's the guy that gets $40 a time at the ATM machine. VELSHI: And I pay the fees. I shouldn't be involved in this show. ROMANS: Tell us your official advice about somebody who takes $40 out of the ATM machine and spends $1.50. VELSHI: Because I would spend it all. That's why you like me because I'm a sucker like you. Good to see you. ULRICH: Good to see you too. Thanks. VELSHI: Still ahead on YOUR MONEY, checking in to see how safe your savings actually are. And later, we'll get to the bottom line of it. Recession or no recession? Stay here. We're going to tell you which one it is. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) WHITFIELD: Hello. I'm Fredricka Whitfield in Atlanta. Now in the news, another meat recall. If you have it, ditch it or return it for a refund. Cargill Meat Solutions is recalling a million pounds of its ground beef products. Here's a lit of the stores where it was sold. The beef could be contaminated with the deadly E. coli bacteria. And take a look at this picture right here. Do you recognize this little girl? It's a composite sketch of Baby Grace. Authorities are desperate to find out who she is. Why? Because her remains were found stuffed in a plastic box. The remains were found by a fisherman near the Galveston Texas Bay. And a new bomb shell. An O.J. Simpson memorabilia case. The FBI says it was tipped off about plans to retrieve his personal items from a Los Angeles dealer, but the FBI says they didn't know where or when or if a crime would be committed. In the 2:00 Eastern hour, we'll ask our legal guys about that and where it's going in the case against O.J. Simpson in Las Vegas. Overseas, a state of emergency in Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf addresses his nation in 30 minutes. Live coverage in the CNN Newsroom at 2:00 Eastern. Now back to more of YOUR MONEY. ROMANS: You know, you don't have to own a home to get hit by the housing crisis. VELSHI: You were telling us about this last week. It affects your tax base; it affects all sorts of other things. It even actually affects your investments. Some of the more conservative investments that you have might actually be at risk. ROMANS: That's right. VELSHI: That's kind of an interesting point. ROMANS: I was surprised by this. Greg Hunter is going to tell us what of our conservative investments we might not even know are exposed to subprime and could be in trouble. GREG HUNTER: Not just subprime. It's derivative too. The latest reports from home builders and retailers showing housing prices falling in most parts of the country. Everybody knows that's bad for home values, but what most people don't know is that declining housing prices can have a ripple effect on your other investments. How flush are your funds? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HUNTER (voice over): It's easy to find for sale and foreclosure signs across the country, signs of financial pain for many families. Yale economics professor Robert Shiller says we're witnessing the bursting of the biggest real estate bubble in U.S. history. DR. ROBERT SHILLER, YALE UNIVERSITY: A lot of people think, they say home prices can never fall, and you ask them why, and they'll say, well, because they've never fallen since the great depression. Well, it can happen again. HUNTER: Shiller correctly predicted the stock market sell off in 2000. He anticipated how what he called an over inflated bargain led to a rapid crash. Now Shiller says a similar phenomenon is happening in the housing market. If the housing market crisis is a nine-inning baseball game, what inning are we in? SHILLER: First inning. I think. That's a guess. HUNTER: Shiller says that downturn could cut home prices in half in some areas. SHILLER: If home prices go down 50 percent, we are going to see some big problems in banks, in mortgage insurers, in hedge funds, in a wide variety of institutions that either invested in mortgage securities or insured mortgages. I really find it difficult to think through all the ramifications of this. HUNTER: Industry estimates say nearly $3 trillion, that's trillion with a "t" could be exposed in non-FDIC insured money market funds. According to former Wall Street regulator Bill Singer, those funds could take a hit. BILL SINGER, FORMER WALL STREET REGULATOR: We do know this can happen and it has happened, and that's one of Wall Street's dirty little secrets. (END VIDEO CLIP) HUNTER: So the best way to protect yourself is know what's the in your funds. How do you check on your money market funds? Ask for a prospectus by mail or online and see what the money market fund is actually investing. You can also call the fund managers and say, hey, is there subprime, is there mortgage backed securities, and are there collateralized debt obligations? Things like that. You know assets from troubled companies. They should tell you straight up. Most people think money market funds are invested in more secure assets like U.S. treasuries. That's simply not true. If you want to fund and invest in treasuries only, you'll have to ask for it. It probably won't pay as high of an interest rate, but it will be more secure. ROMANS: So much for safety, safety, safety. That's what you think when you put something in a money market fund. VELSHI: Very important point. Most people will make the assumption. Even people who know about the stuff will say that's a safe investment. HUNTER: Even Fidelity Funds and money market funds say, this fund can't lose money. VELSHI: We don't know what that means. Everybody has to say, it could lose money. HUNTER: I've looked at these funds. They have cut paper from like 60 companies or something like that, and they're traditionally safe. It all gets back down to what they've been calling subprime because it's simple for people to grasp. Really what it is derivatives. They derivatives on everything, subprime, car loans, this is a big mountain paper out there, that was off record. VELSHI: How would you describe this? HUNTER: Debt money. It's debt money, $400 trillion. You try to get your hands around it. Going out to the Time Warner Building and trying to hug the Time Warner Building, $400 trillion. And people out there saying $20 trillion of this stuff is no good. ROMANS: Wall Street will trade anything. They'll package up and trade anything. Things have been traded and passed around and bought and parked someplace that might not have a lot of track record. VELSHI: This isn't about the house where the mortgage isn't getting paid. We're two steps removed from this. This is an investment that has its own existence. HUNTER: It's off books. It is no transparency. It is privately traded. It's like me saying, Ali, I want you to buy this mortgage- backed security. I'm not going to put it out there to the market. It's just between me and you. It's our little secret. And that's what's freaking out people with the financials as of yesterday, boom, the financials took a hit. All this is off the books. Wouldn't it be nice if you could take your bad investments and put them off the books? VELSHI: That's the issue with the way the markets have been going. There are these surprises from the biggest of the banks and the smartest of the smart in money. How come you didn't know, Merrill Lynch that you were going to write down close to $8 billion, or Citigroup. ROMANS: A lot of money. Greg Hunter. VELSHI: Thank you, my friend. HUNTER: You may not like what I say, but I'll never lie to you. ROMANS: An energetic conversation with our friend Greg Hunter. Thanks, Greg. VELSHI: Coming up next on YOUR MONEY, so Chicken Little, is the sky really falling? Our next guest tells us why all this recession talk is really just talk. Stay with us you will hear the other side of the story. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) VELSHI: I want to say a couple things about recession. First of all, every time I use the word on TV, I hear people say we are kind of responsible. When you talk about a recession, you get people worried about whether there is a recession. And the second thing is there really is a definition for recession, and there are people who spend time figuring out whether or not we're in one. ROMANS: That's absolutely right. There's an actual model for what makes a recession and the like. Nearly half of all U.S. consumers believe we're already in one. A recent CNN poll said 46 percent of respondents feel we're in a recession now. But Anirvan Banerji, this economist argues recession isn't inevitable even though some parts of the economy are having a rough time. VELSHI: He's with us now. Tell me the name, The Economic Cycle Research Institute, which I know how to say about every few years when we want to talk about whether or not there's a recession coming. ROMANS: All you do, you decide whether we are in a recession or heading into one. ANIRVAN BANERJI, ECONOMIC CYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Absolutely. This is what we study for the U.S. as well as abroad. ROMANS: What are you finding about this current scenario? VELSHI: Drum roll. BANERJI: Not yet. This is the energizer bunny economy. ROMANS: Wow. BANERJI: We kept going. We've taken all these hits -- higher oil prices, housing downturn, credit crisis, we keep going. VELSHI: And so you're saying that this holds out. We've certainly been talking to a lot of people about this, and most of them are skewing on the side of no. There's some bumps in this economy but not a recession. BANERJI: Look, people have been predicting recession for years. 2005 with Katrina and all that, 2006, 2007. They keep predicting a recession, doesn't happen. And there's a reason for that. And the reason is that as long as people have jobs OK, you have to sort of tighten your belt, pay more for gas, more for your mortgage, but you can still keep going, and that's what's going on right now. ROMANS: And we have a 4.7 percent unemployment rate. BANERJI: Exactly. ROMANS: We've been seeing layoff notices, particularly in financial services, they're about triple what they were last year yet other parts of the economy are holding in there. BANERJI: That's exactly the point. A recession is when this malaise spreads through the economy, and what we keep looking out for are those signs of diffusion, we call it. And that's not happening yet, and that's why we are not at the tipping point. ROMANS: Even though people like Ali and I keep saying the word recession over and over and over again on TV, that's why the polls say 46 percent, because we're talking about it? BANERJI: Exactly. And that's not very good news for retailers this holiday season. Look, I'm not here as a bearer of good news that everything is fine and dandy, no way. But we are not going into recession yet. And what that means is we are not going to see widespread job losses, net, net, going on for months on end, quarters on end, maybe a year or two. VELSHI: But we may see continued losses in the housing sector. We may see oil prices go higher. You're just saying and I think it's fascinating, you guys take all of those economic things we talk about every day and put it into your computer or whatever it is you do -- ROMANS: I think it's like a crystal ball. VELSHI: Exactly. And you don't think those things are going to bring the economy down. BANERJI: That's not what we're saying. We take the on the one hand, and on the other hand, and we sort through that. What's the bottom line here? The bottom line is no recession. Let's look at it this way. Look at the facts you mentioned. We have strong GDP growth, best in a year and a half. Best job growth since the spring. Now, if you're flying at 40,000 feet and you hit a couple of big air pockets, you can still be down to 10,000 feet and still keep flying. Now, if you're in a nose dive and you're at 3,000 feet, well, you better not hit that air pocket. And so what we are watching for is are we losing altitude? Where are we? And are those air pockets going to really make us crash? ROMANS: So I guess we are losing altitude, but we're not -- we're losing altitude from a relatively high level. BANERJI: Right. And that's why it's OK. That's why we need to keep watching our indicators to see whether we are at a point where those shocks that everyone keeps talk about, $100 oil, $150 oil, the big housing downturn, whether that's going to tip us in a recession. ROMANS: Mark Zandi said there's some parts of the country and there are some families, their own circumstances are clearly recessionary. You would agree with that. There are people who feel like they're in a recession, and they probably are having trouble. BANERJI: There's no denying that there are parts of the country that are in trouble. There are industries, as we all know, that are in trouble. The key is that it doesn't spread to other industries, to other regions. That's the issue. VELSHI: Anirvan, thank you for your very clear explanation of that. We'll keep in touch with you about those days that we wonder whether this is the thing that tip us over. BANERJI: I look forward to that. ROMANS: Give us a call when you think we're going in a recession. Coming up next on YOUR MONEY, a small but powerful group of business leaders is about to get even smaller. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) VELSHI: Stanley O'Neal stepped down as the CEO of Merrill Lynch less than one week after the firm posted an $8 billion loss on risky investments in subprime mortgages. ROMANS: O'Neal was one of only seven African American CEOs named to this year's Fortune 500, and the group might get even smaller. Richard Parsons, CEO of Time Warner, the parent company of this network, is expected to step down sometime soon. They said he will retire sometime next year. VELSHI: Special CNN contributor Roland Martin joins us now to tell us what all of this means for Corporate America. He's not a guest of CNN. He's just a first time on our show. ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Been on CNN a couple of times. VELSHI: More than a couple. Good to see you, my friend. MARTIN: Glad to be here. VELSHI: What are we supposed to think? Is there any implication to this, or is it just pure coincidence that two of the leading African American CEOs in America will not be CEOs inside of a few months? MARTIN: Well keep in mind that earlier this year, Anna Fudge stepped down and Franklin Raines he stepped down from Fannie Mae. The issue is you have so few. If you look at the process, many African Americans came into Corporate America, 1972, '73, '75, maybe mid to late '70s. And they spent 20-some-odd years operating in these companies, and it takes that long to rise up to the CEO level. The real issue is not that we have six or seven now, but we have coming up the next ten years. Are we going to see more over of the course of the next ten years? ROMANS: That's what I was wondering. If the talent with ten years' experience, 15 years' experience, 20 years' experience is stacked, and if we're going to see real leaders starting to come up. MARTIN: A lot of folks are concerned about that. You have individuals who feel as if they may not get the shot. It takes a lot of patience to get one of these CEO jobs. Some folks may say, really, what's the big deal having an African-American as a CEO? Well because the CEOs also decides so many different things in terms of philanthropy within the companies, in terms of also bringing things in. Even if you have a woman who's a CEO whose more sensitive to bringing a wide talent pool as opposed to seeing the same folks over and over and over again. Look at the tremendous job that Dick Parsons has done when it comes to raising funds for the Apollo, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and same thing with other CEOs. And they widen the pool available for people on corporate boards. Another place where you have few minorities and women. VELSHI: Let me talk about the other companies. If you look at the Fortune 500 list, take a look at some of these, you have Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch. They're the highest on the Fortune 500 list of CEOs that had African American leadership. Sears, Time Warner, American Express, Delphi, Aetna. Then it jumps down to 404, Darden Restaurants, which includes one of my favorite restaurants, the Olive Garden. MARTIN: And John Thompson was Symantec at 515. So he's just outside of it. VELSHI: And the Fortune 500 companies, do they recruit better? They have better reach? Is or is it something we're not seeing on this list, a lot of leaders further down you get. MARTIN: That's what I was getting at. Frank Clark, CEO of Comed. Desiree Rogers, president of a company there in Illinois as well, same sort of issue there. You have lots of CEOs out there, but then when you get to the Fortune 500 level; it's a whole different ball game. The important thing, though, this is what is critical. People say, again, how big is it? When you're an African-American and you see someone who looks like you sitting in that position, you actually understand you know what; I could be there one day. It's no different than anybody else. Far too many African-Americans have not been exposed to a CEO. They often don't come across a person in that position. It's important, when somebody is there to say, yes -- VELSHI: At the starting point, you don't have a lot of people saying, I can be the CEO of that because they're not identifying with that. MARTIN: Absolutely. You don't identify with that. You don't walk around thinking, you know what, and I want to run Merrill Lynch one day. ROMANS: But this guy walks away with $160 million. Advertised on the front page of every newspaper. So maybe kids say, oh, I do want to be a CEO. MARTIN: It's also a matter of wealth creation. When you look at the wealth gap that exists between African-Americans, whites, and Hispanics, so when you have fewer African-Americans in the corporate pool and as you go higher up, you have fewer people with the opportunity to make those kinds of dollars. When they do make those kinds of dollars, then that trickles back down to the sort of things they actually support. Who they leave their money to in wills. Again, in sort of skews in terms of how you look at people in positions of power. That 1 percent of America. When you have fewer folks in those kinds of positions, they're not able to make that kind of wealth. And I think it's difficult when a Stanley O'Neal steps down, but the bottom line is you're judged by your actions. And so whether you're white, black, Hispanic, female or whatever, Carla Fiorina she was booted out of HP. Bottom line is you have to perform. I would hope the next generation we're going to see more people rise up and, again, give folks their shot based upon executing the strategy. That's what's most important. VELSHI: Roland good to have you here my friend. MARTIN: Glad to be here anytime. VELSHI: Thank you so much. Roland Martin. Well in a week when we've been talking about the new employment numbers, here's a story about how jobs can turn lives around. It start with a retired cosmetics executive and a prison system where getting out doesn't always mean staying out. CNN's Mary Snow has this report in our "Life after Work" series. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Prison. For those who enter, the odds are there will be a return visit upon release. MARK GOLDSMITH, CO-FOUNDER, CEO, GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT: The recidivism at Reichers is 66 percent, 2 out of 3 guys end up going back, who have been here before. In our classes, we talk to them about that. SNOW: Mark Goldsmith is the cofounder and CEO of Getting Out and Staying Out. GOLDSMITH: And we tell them our statistics. Of the 250 guys who have taken this program seriously, no more than 25 have gone back. That's 10 percent. SNOW: His New York City nonprofit helps 18 to 25-year-old inmates with education and job training. GOLDSMITH: They go to jail, and eventually they'll go to prison upstate. Within those confines, I'm talking about what it's going to be like when they get out. It's very future oriented rather than past. SNOW: Goldsmith's past was as an executive in the cosmetics industry where he worked for 35 years prior to retirement. Volunteering as a principal for the day at the prison school opened his eyes to the revolving door problem. So Goldsmith designed a solution to work with prisoners while they're locked up and as they get out. GOLDSMITH: We're there with them as they go through the process of applying for school, how do you apply for a job? What does that application look like? How do you handle the fact that you've been incarcerated, you don't just tell them what's out there. We help guide them through the process. When I get back from those guys, once that process starts to happen, are rewards that I never ever got in the corporate world. SNOW: Mary Snow, CNN. (END VIDEO CLIP) VELSHI: All right. Coming up next on YOUR MONEY, lead in some products that you buy might be a bigger problem than you think. We'll tell you why when we come back on YOUR MONEY. Stay with us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) VELSHI: Christine is one of these do it yourself people. She's tired of hearing about how everything has lead in it. Several weeks ago, she introduced us to this whole idea, for those of us who didn't know about it, about the idea of the home lead testing kits so you can go around your own house and don't have to worry about the announcement as to whether something's got lead in it. ROMANS: Actually there are a lot of consumer groups who have been saying they're worried that there are so many things out there; you don't know what your kid is using, especially if it's a small child. And the Consumers Union this week actually released a big study, even if you take the recalled things out of your toy box; they found things that had lead in them right on store shelves right now. They went through and tested a bunch of those home lead kits. We told you a couple of weeks ago when we had them on, what their response was. They were testing them to find out is it even reasonable for a consumer to do something like this? They did find there are a few tests that work with some limitations if you're really concerned. The Homax Lead Check is about $8. There's another one called The Lead Check Household Lead Test Kit and Lead Inspector. You can look at "Consumer Reports" or Consumers Union Website, and they break this all down for you. There were some that didn't work so well and had some false positives and false negatives. And that's -- you know, one of the reasons why the Consumer Products Safety Commission did its own study. The federal government says they don't recommend that American consumers should be checking their own toys. It's really confusing -- VELSHI: But people feel like they'd light to do something. You feel helpless because you have to wait until some announcement comes on the news. ROMANS: I spoke with Kim Kleman, who is the editor and chief of "Consumer Reports." Here's what she said about the lead kit. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KIM KLEMAN, CONSUMER UNION: We have found several lead test kits that work, but we really don't think it should be the consumer's problem to have to test every toy in their home for lead. Something is wrong when people are fearing the products they're buying for lead. (END VIDEO CLIP) ROMANS: So essentially, we're back where we started, where we've got the government saying, no, don't test. We've got Consumers Unions saying, we're sorry you have to do this, but this is what we found about these lead tests, and we have recall after recall after recall. VELSHI: Well there is nothing like feeling helpless. If you don't know and you've got to wait for somebody to tell you, I don't know. Maybe I'd rather spend the time thinking that I'm testing. ROMANS: The industry has said the recall is behind them, and you can be sure everything is safe for the holiday season. But the Consumers Union found one-third of consumers are going to buy less this holiday season. VELSHI: Because of this fear. ROMANS: I was even over at a bank across the street getting a savings bond for my niece for her baptism, and the guy behind the counter said, you wouldn't believe it all the guys getting savings bonds instead of toys. Even the guy noticed it. Maybe it's just here or that block or that one branch, but their people starting to rethink some of their purchases. VELSHI: Well, do what you can with that information. We will keep telling you when the recalls come. Thanks for joining us for this edition of YOUR MONEY. You can catch Christine later today at 6:00 pm Eastern of "Lou Dobbs This Week." ROMANS: And you can see Ali every weekday morning on "American Morning." We will see you back here next week. VELSHI: Saturday at 1:00 and Sunday at 3:00. See you then. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com


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Our Living Well, On Location series explores cities and countries from around the world. How do other people pursue health and happiness? We're going coast to coast, country to country to find out.
When most people think of Minneapolis, they think of snow. Minneapolitans are not ones to brag, so those who haven't spent time in the area would be surprised to know that Minneaplis and twin city, St. Paul, are perennial winners on nationwide surveys of health, happiness, fitness and well-being.
How do they do it?
The twin cities are the most active metropolitan area in the country
Minneapolitans are an active bunch. Nearly 83 percent of residents were active every single day — and more than half of city residents got at least the government-recommended 30 minutes of moderate activity per day, according to a survey conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine. The organization anointed the Minneapolis-St Paul area as the fittest city in the U.S. in 2012, thanks to the sportiness and overall good health of its residents.
Minneapolis boasts the best parks in the country
In June 2013, the Trust for Public Land ranked Minneapolis' parks as the very best in the country, beating out New York, Chicago and San Francisco for acreage, access and, let's face it, sheer beauty.
"The city was built around the park system, not the other way around," Jayne Miller, superintendent for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, told the Star Tribune.
All those parks contribute to the public health, fostering relationships between citizens and nature and improving physical fitness by providing a free and pleasurable place to exercise. Parks can also help mitigate urban pollution, according to the American Planning Association, and help reenforce community ties — all important factors for citizen wellness.
12,000 Lakes
"Technically the slogan is 'land of 10,000 lakes,' but everyone from Minnesota knows it's closer to 12,000," says HuffPost editor and native Minnesotan, Jordan Turgeon. We're not just taking her word for it — an official government survey put the number of lakes at 11,842 statewide.
And while that staggering number refers to the entire state, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area boasts eight distinct lakes and the Chain of Lakes park that covers 13.3 miles of water. Minneapolis is actually referred to as the "city of lakes."
But why would lakes make you happier and healthier? While the health benefits of green space get more attention, there's evidence that blue space — lakes, rivers, streams and oceans — can also have a positive influence over health and wellbeing, reported The Guardian.
High wages, low rent
"A reader asked me the other day for a Rent Is Too Damn High perspective on what city he should live in," wrote Slate columnist Matthew Yglesias. "On one level, it's a complicated question. On another level, the answer is that you should move to Minneapolis."
Twin Cities residents earn about 23 percent above the average national household income, but their rent prices remain below the average of America's major metropolitan areas. In an index of housing affordability, Minneapolis-St. Paul ranked as cheaper than comparable cities like Dallas, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, both Portlands (Maine and Oregon) and Austin, according to the Center for Housing Policy and the National Housing Conference.
The organizations scored cities based on how many of 72 professions had an average salary that would support rent on a two-bedroom apartment. According to their calculations, 59 percent of the Twin Cities' jobs compensate at a level comfortable enough for a nice apartment.
And while money doesn't necessarily bring happiness, the extra cushion of a well-paying job and modest expenses could be the difference between financial well-being and the health-draining stress of struggling to make ends meet. We know that people who struggle with debt and expenses are more likely to report physical health problems than those who are managing, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
They've been smoke-free since way back
Minnesota enacted a state-wide ban of smoking in all workplaces in 2007, but the phase-out began several decades earlier when the state passed the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act in 1975, making it the first to ban smoking in most public places and require designated non-smoking sections in restaurants, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Unemployment is low — and that means better mental health
Minneapolis now has the lowest unemployment of any major metropolitan area, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. As if the stress of looking for a job weren't enough, unemployment is actually linked to a overall increased risk of mortality — from causes as disparate as accident, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Minneapolitans are bookworms
Minneapolis ranks in the top three most literate cities, thanks to a high density of bookstores, high newspaper circulation and a well-read populace. And, as we've recently explored, reading can contribute to better sleep, better cognitive function and improved stress release.
It doesn't hurt that Minneapolis is friendly to writers, according to a Ploughshares report, with great libraries, cafes and citywide WiFi plans that allow you to get connected from anywhere.
Do you live in the Twin Cities? Tell us what you love best
Minneapolis, Minn.
Total Score = 76.4
Rank = 1
Minneapolis excelled when it came to an active population — with high scores for physical fitness and active lifestyle. But even the winner had areas for improvement, including a low percentage of the population who ate enough fresh produce and a high percentage of the population who suffered from asthma.
Washington, D.C.
Total Score = 75.8
Rank = 2
Washingtonians tend not to smoke and are conscientious about maintaining good health care coverage, though the report reveals that they lack enough park space and also have a high asthma rate.
Boston, Mass.
Total Score = 70.0
Rank = 3
People from Boston are hardy stock, according to the report, which found that Bostonians report being in excellent health at exceptional rates. Unfortunately, and somewhat paradoxically, they also had above average rates of coronary heart disease and a lack of publicly accessible recreational space.
San Francisco, Calif.
Total Score = 69.0
Rank = 4
San Franciscans get active on their way to work — biking and walking in greater numbers. And thanks to high expenditures on parks and other public space, there is plenty of space to stay active outside of the commute. But the city's population stumbles when it comes to mental health, reporting an above average number of days during which psychological problems persisted.
Hartford, Conn.
Total Score = 68.5
Rank = 5
Citizens of the relatively small Hartford are active and exceptional at eating their veggies, but diabetes, heart disease and asthma remain high.
Sacramento, Calif.
Total Score = 68.4
Rank = 6
Sacramento also had an active and veggie-loving population, thanks to a high rate of farmer's markets and public recreation areas. But the city's population still suffers from mental health problems, asthma, diabetes and heart disease.
Portland, Ore.
Total Score = 67.9
Rank = 7
Despite a high obesity rate, along with diabetes, asthma and mental health problems, the city of Portland makes way for some seriously healthy behaviors like active commutes by bike and on foot, lots of recreative parks and town squares and a high percentage of farmer's markets offering fresh produce.
Seattle, Wash.
Total Score = 67.8
Rank = 8
The fit, veggie-loving people of Seattle helped their city score high marks for fitness, diet and environmental factors like good funding for parks, high quality physical education in schools and active commuting. But the city's residents also suffered high asthma rates and mental health problems.
Denver, Colo.
Total Score = 65.6
Rank = 9
Few Denver residents are obese, perhaps thanks to an extensive and well-funded parks system, and few suffer from associated conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
But the city's school children have a less-than-rigorous physical education department and there is an overall high rate of mental health problems.
Austin, Tex.
Total Score = 63.4
Rank = 10
Texas' artsiest city may be known for its bar scene, but its residents lifestyles aren't all rock and roll, with low smoking rates and a high rate of physical activity. Still, like the rest of the state, Austin's residents were more likely to be obese.
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This document is for system administrators. It describes the installation process of the Kusari Licence Management System.
This variable may contain a file name (path), a licence server specification, or a comma-separated list of file names and licence servers.
File names are for licence files containing keys for trial licences and machine-local (node) licences.
A licence server specification is a machine name or IP address followed by a colon, optionally followed by the port number (see below).
This is needed for machine-local licences (node licences and perpetual licences); it must be run on the machine for which the licence is intended.
It is also needed for site licences (both floating licences and uncounted site licences); it must be run on the machine which is to be the licence server.
The distributed Kusari licence server package contains the following subdirectories:
The recommended installation procedure for a site licence, where no Kusari licence server is currently being run, is as follows:
If the server machine is already running naglmd, the procedure is simpler:
Two programs are supplied for testing the local network, these are testserver and testclient.
[testserver started]
If the server cannot start, it will produce an error message. The most likely error messages are either
?Port number conflict: TCP port 7733 is already in useor
?Port number conflict: UDP port 7733 is already in useThese indicate that the default Kusari communication port number is already in use by another application on the server machine, and that another port number should be chosen. The procedure described below (``Choosing different port numbers'') should be followed.
Once the testserver program is running successfully, the testclient program should be used to test communications. An initial test should be to run the testclient on the server machine; if the default port numbers are being used, simply run testclient with no arguments.
The testserver program will produce informative messages when testclient is run, if communications can be established. A message is produced for each of the TCP and UDP tests; for a completely successful test it will display
TCP message test seems ok - reporting to testclient UDP test passed ok - reporting to testclientIf the TCP test passes but the UDP test fails, the second line will instead be
UDP test ****** FAILED ******
The testserver program will exit on receiving an interrupt signal (SIGINT), e.g. by typing Ctrl-C on its terminal or into its window.
testclient server-spec
The server-spec takes the same form as in the NAG_KUSARI_FILE variable, i.e. the server machine name followed by a colon, optionally followed by the port number. If no server-spec is present, it is treated as localhost:.
If the testclient program cannot connect to the testserver program, it will produce the message:
?Test FAILED - cannot connect to server (Perhaps it is not running, or on a different machine?)You should check that you have specified the right machine name, and that either you are using the default port numbers or have specified the same port number for testclient as you did for testserver.
If both the TCP and UDP tests pass, testclient will display
TCP message test passed ok. UDP message test passed ok.If the UDP test fails, the second line will be replaced by
UDP message test ****** FAILED ******
If your site has multiple sub-nets, the testclient program should be run on a machine in each sub-net to confirm that it will work.
If you cannot get the testserver and testclient programs to communicate successfully, you should contact NAG with the exact messages that were produced.
The procedure specified above for using testserver and testclient should be followed, but with the port number specified. For testserver, use the -port option; for example, to test port 7734, do
testserver -port 7734
For testclient program, specify the port number as part of the server name; for example, to communicate with the server on port 7734 on the local host do
testclient localhost:7734
The server control file contains all of the licences that will be controlled by the naglmd licence server, and may contain other control information as detailed below.
It is indicated by the SITE or SITEG keywords, and contains the expiry date and a licence key.
One licence is required for each combination of user id and machine for which concurrent use is required; for example, two different users on the same machine will require two licences, as will the same user on two different machines. However, only one licence is required for multiple uses by the same user on a single machine.
By default, products will queue for a licence if all the licences are currently checked out. An informative message may be produced (depending on the software product) when this happens.
A floating licence key line is indicated by the FLOATING or GFLOATING keywords, and contains the number of licences available, the expiry date, and a licence key.
If no LOG line is present, and the -log option is not used, naglmd will log any errors and information messages (such as licence requests) using the syslog facility. Errors will be logged with level LOG_ERR, warnings with LOG_WARNING, and information messages with LOG_INFO. Whether and how syslogd records these messages is governed by its own configuration: see the man pages on syslog, syslog.conf and syslogd for further information.
Any errors writing the log file will be reported to syslog, and execution will continue.
Licence keys issued for one pair of port numbers will not work on any other ports.
! This is where we want the log file to be written. ! LOG /var/log/naglmd.log ! We have a site licence for the NAG FL90 library (Mark 4) on Linux, ! using the NAGWare f95 compiler. ! FNLUX04DN SITEG 2006/12/31 "AidmYczVlY+hF9c1qhDydOja" ! We have 10 floating licences for the NAGWare f95 compiler on Linux: ! NPLUX50NA FLOATING=10 2006/12/31 "vKmOEjxwkeVjcjjkJgGuoW0k" ! And that's all folks.
Each naglmd licence server can only be run on its specified server machine, and the server machine can only run one naglmd server at a time. When run, it reads its server control file (by default this is located in /etc/NAG/naglmd.ctl).
If no errors are detected in the options or the control file, it will then detach from the controlling terminal and run in the background as a daemon; this will return you to the shell command prompt. No output is produced if the startup is successful; any errors encountered after startup will be written to the log file or reported to syslog.
The process id of the naglmd daemon is stored in /tmp/naglmd.pid.
naglmd normally logs all licence requests (whether granted or not), and any errors that might occur.
naglmd can be shut down by using the STOP command to kldctl. naglmd can also be shut down by sending it an interrupt signal (SIGINT) or terminate signal (SIGTERM), but this is not recommended.
LOG /var/log/naglmd.logthen the startup command can be as simple as
The klcheck program takes a single argument which is a NAG product code. It then attempts to check out that product and reports whether it was successful, and if successful the type of licence it obtained and from where.
The kldctl program is provided for controlling naglmd. It takes a command as its first argument. The PLIST command lists the product which are controlled by a particular naglmd. The PINFO command has a product code argument, and lists the details for that product on naglmd. The REREAD command causes naglmd to reread its control file. Finally, the STOP command shuts naglmd down.
The PLIST and PINFO commands can be used anywhere by anyone, but the STOP command can only be used on the machine running naglmd, and only by the same user.
The optional second argument is a licence server specification, as defined above, which only needs to be provided for a remote server or a non-default port number on a local server.
Further system-specific installation information may be available; see the appropriate document (e.g. for FreeBSD 5.x, see install-FreeBSD5.txt).


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Club Bouncer In MA Keeps Man In The Bathroom, Locks The Bathroom Door. Snuffs Him & Takes Money From His Wallet (Thought Dude Was Selling Drugs.. No Drugs Were Found)
"Police said the victim told them that the attack happened on May 25. The victim said he didn't report the incident because he was afraid the bouncers will come after him. Police said they found that the bouncer, 35-year-old Easton Byfield, of Oxford, filed a report on May 25 stating that the victim assaulted him. Detectives said they arrested Byfield last Friday and charged him with assault and battery, kidnapping, unarmed robbery and filing a false police report." - thebostonchannel.com
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It's nice to report news when an athlete does something admirable. Florida State safety Myron Rolle interviewed with the Rhodes Scholarship committee in Birmingham, Alabama before flying to meet his team in Maryland to help them beat the Terps. And he won a scholarship in the process.
"It was a very exciting day, and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to study at Oxford," Rolle said at halftime of the Seminoles' 37-3 victory. "I will remember today for a lifetime." He finished the interview in Birmingham around 6 p.m. EST. After learning of the honor, he boarded a private plane to catch up with his teammates for the game that started around 7:45. Rolle had started 32 consecutive games before Saturday. He arrived at the stadium at 8:34, dressed and emerged from the locker room with 6 minutes left in the first half. He waved at the fans in the FSU section of the crowd, then warmed up on the sideline before entering the game with 1:30 left in the second quarter.
Rolle is one of 32 US Rhodes scholar recipients this year and the first prominent athlete to receive one in almost 25 years.


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If you're an elephant-riding conservative, last week was a very bad one: Our Democrat president was reelected and Republican rape experts were defeated pretty much across the board. Suffice it to say, GOP peeps are not partying in the least
But you, no doubt, are the bigger person. And for whatever reason, perhaps you even have a Republican in your life! This season, why not console (or, taunt, you bad winner you) with a timely gift? We're taking suggestions for are upcoming gift guide, so let's swap some ideas.


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A farmer in China believes that training pigs to dive into a lake will make the bacon they produce taste better, China Daily reports.
Huang Demin of Ningxiang county in Hunan province said his pigs dive every day. He claims the activity helps them eat more food and grow stronger, improving the quality of the meat.
There's an added benefit to diving pigs – Huang sells the pigs for three times the normal price, and his diving spectacle has become a tourist attraction.


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2007-06-13 / Schools/Sports
Folktales come alive in Fairfield Elementary's performance
Students in the fourth grade Magnet program at Massapequa's Fairfield Elementary School performed fabulous folk tale puppet shows for their parents and Fairfield's first graders. Working in small groups, the students studied different countries and selected a folk tale from their country. They then designed their puppets and built them from scratch.
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The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan may formally submit a request to the Holy See to declare Shahbaz Bhatti a martyr at the conclusion of its general assembly in Multan, Punjab, on March 25. Bhatti, a Catholic, was the country's minister for religious minorities. Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan said: "Bhatti is a man who gave his life for his crystalline faith in Jesus Christ. It is up to us, the bishops, to tell his story and experience to the church in Rome, to call for official recognition of his martyrdom."
Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore said Bhatti's murder showed how extremist religious parties were gaining the upper hand over a "very weak" Pakistan government. The archbishop, who is president of Pakistan's Catholic Bishops' Conference, said the country's 2.5 million Christians were now increasingly exposed to violence and intimidation from people "whose mind-set is centered more and more on an extremist form of Islam."
Archbishop Saldanha said, "The murder of Shahbaz Bhatti means that we have lost a great leader of our community who stood up for us and articulated the concerns and fears of our people. We do not have a leader now." The archbishop said, "Our people are quite down. They are fearful of the future."
Bhatti was gunned down in a residential district of Islamabad on his way to a cabinet meeting on March 2. He had received numerous death threats because of his criticism of Pakistan's blasphemy laws. Virginia Farris, a policy adviser for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of International Justice and Peace, said the blasphemy laws Bhatti hoped to amend have been widely used to intimidate and abuse Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan. She said Americans, whose tax dollars are helping support Pakistan's resistance to Taliban and Al Qaeda power in the nation's tribal provinces, should be concerned by "this uptick in violence and religious intolerance that minister Bhatti had tried so hard in his life to overcome."
Farris had worked on a number of occasions with Bhatti. "He struck me as a man who was very principled," said Farris, "who was trying his darndest under very difficult circumstances to offer hope to [Pakistan's religious] minorities, to try to stand with them and give them the opportunity to have their voice heard."
She added, "He was a very courageous man, obviously, because he went back." She explained that during his last visit to the United States in February for the National Prayer Breakfast at the White House, threats against his life had accumulated and some urged Bhatti to seek refuge in the United States. Bhatti refused. "He said, 'I have to go back. I have to serve [my] people.'"
Whatever Pakistan's bishops decide, Bhatti's martyrdom may already be widely accepted by the community he represented. At Bhatti's funeral on March 4, thousands of Christians, as well as Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, joined together in prayer to remember Bhatti's life and sacrifice.


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Cloud computing -- and how solution providers can add these services to their offerings -- was a key topic during the Channel Chief Roundtable at the XChange Solution Provider event in Orlando, Fla., last month.
Channel executives had advice on everything from getting started in cloud computing, to deciding what cloud services to offer, to developing cloud expertise and credentials, to the best way to sell cloud services. Here are a dozen top takeaways from the discussion.


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Cohasset's Jack Murphy and a South Shore contingent lead the Fairfield University lacrosse team into the ECAC tournament.
Jack Murphy has some unfinished business before he hopes to turn his passion into a pro career. The Fairfield University senior goalie from Cohasset will lead his top-seeded lacrosse team into the first round of the ECAC Division 1 tournament championship Thursday against the No. 4 seed, the University of Michigan (5-10 overall, 1-3 ECAC).
Game time at Ohio State's Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium is 5 p.m. Following in the second semifinal is host and second seed Ohio State (6-7, 3-1) against No. 3 Air Force Academy (8-5, 3-1). The winners will play at 5 p.m. Saturday, also at Jesse Owens, for the ECAC crown and an automatic trip to the NCAA tournament that begins May 10 and 11 at various campus sites.
The ECAC games will be telecast on Fox Sports 2.
"As the No. 1-seeded team, we're expected to win (the ECACs)," said Murphy, one of the Stags' tri-captains. "Michigan is a very good team, a very fast team, but we're all expecting a lot from our team."
Fairfield earned the No. 1 seed via a tiebreaker after finishing the regular season with an overall record of 11-3 and a conference slate of 3-1.
The Stags took the top seed on the last day of the season, Senior Day, April 26, when they beat visiting Ohio State in a 7-5 defensive battle.
"That was low-scoring," Murphy said. "Our guys played pretty well and made my job a little easier."
For the second straight season, Murphy started all 14 games. The 6-1, 180-pounder carved out an 8.54 goals-against average in 822 minutes played and six times (last week included) was named ECAC defensive player of the week.
Murphy hopes to backbone Fairfield through the ECACs and into the NCAAs, but whenever the season – and with it his collegiate career – ends, he'll turn his eyes and quick reflexes toward the professional game.
In January he was selected in the eighth and final round, 59th overall, by the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse. He hopes to earn a spot on their roster and take it from there. The Cannons opened their 2014 season Sunday by beating the defending MLL champion Chesapeake Bayhawks, 15-9, and will close the schedule Aug. 9 against the Rochester Rattlers.
So there'll be plenty of MLL left whenever he gets the opportunity to show his wares. He'll also reunite with midfielder Brent Adams, a current Cannon who graduated from Fairfield in 2012.
"I think I'll get a shot," said Murphy, an All-America and Patriot Ledger All-Scholastic at 2010 Div. 3 state champion Cohasset High School. "I'll take the offer and see what I can do."
Murphy was watching the MLL draft on the Internet and, when he wasn't selected in the first seven rounds, he went to order pizza. At the time he was in South Carolina, visiting his girlfriend, Laura Murley of Scituate, a freshman at the College of Charleston. When he returned with pizza, a friend told him he was drafted in Round 8. His selection only enhanced the pizza experience.
"It was probably the best pizza I ever had," said Murphy, who transferred to Fairfield after his freshman year at Mass. Maritime Academy. "It went down pretty quick."
Sixth-year Fairfield head coach Andy Copelan was quick to praise Murphy on many levels.
"He's a special one," Copelan said. "He comes to work every day and shows that in overall athleticism on our team, one through 43, he's in our top three to five. He's really explosive in that he gets to most shots and he makes plays outside the box. He's a competitor in every sense of the word.
"He not only has the physical tools, he has the right stuff mentally. He's just a terrific young man, a great ambassador for Fairfield. He'll be one of a very few who can call himself a pro. That's pretty cool. It's the cherry on top of his career."
Murphy is not the only South Shore athlete playing lacrosse for Fairfield. His roommate is junior midfielder Bryan Barry of Duxbury. Freshman Jay Walsh is a defender from Duxbury and senior defender Geordie Carrick is from Hingham.
The South Shore contingent sticks together and as a group against Ohio State put telephone area code 617 on the chin portion of their helmets in tribute to Boston Marathon bombing victims.
"All the Massachusetts kids put 617 on their helmets," Murphy, an economics major, said. "It looked pretty good, felt pretty good and we beat Ohio State. We all wanted to go to the marathon, but we couldn't, so we wore 617 on our helmets."
Murphy said "we'll see this weekend" if any other, or all, Fairfield players apply the 617.
Fairfield beat Michigan, 9-8, in the regular season April 5, so both teams have great incentive – Michigan for revenge, Fairfield to prove it was no fluke.
"Both coaching staffs will be looking hard at the film and either correct what went wrong or do a little bit of tweaking, so we'll be prepared for the whole kitchen sink," said Copelan, eyeing his first NCAA appearance with the Stags.
"It's nice that we beat Ohio State in our last game and are going into the ECACs with a little bit of momentum. With that, we'd like to come back with a little bit of hardware. That's our focus."


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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said last week that the Department of Financial Services is initiating a review of practices by banks and mortgage servicers to determine whether homeowners hit hard by Superstorm Sandy and allowed to forgo mortgage payments are now being unfairly burdened by being required to make up all past payments in immediate lump sum repayments. The Department is asking banks to allow more time for homeowners to make back payments and checking if banks have delivered on their promise not to use late payments to start foreclosure proceedings or hurt homeowners' credit ratings.
The Department obtained agreements in November and December from major banks and servicers promising to offer forbearance on mortgage payments to certain homeowners struggling to make their payments as a result of Superstorm Sandy. The banks agreed to let these homeowners go without making payments for three to six months and without requiring lump sum balloon payments at the end of the forbearance period. The banks and servicers also agreed that homeowners' credit ratings would not be negatively impacted.
Now that the initial three-month forbearance periods are expiring, the Department is receiving reports from some homeowners saying they are being asked for full lump sum payments. In addition, some homeowners say they are receiving pre-foreclosure notices based on missed payments during the forbearance period and are being reported to credit agencies for missed payments.
"Many New Yorkers were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy and couldn't pay their bills due to lost income, home repair expenses, or relocation costs, so banks offered relief to homeowners in the form of forbearance on mortgage payments," Governor Cuomo said. "It would be illogical to offer that relief and now expect lump sum payments from financially-strapped homeowners. A homeowner who could come up with three months in mortgage payments all at once probably didn't need forbearance in the first place. Everyone else needs more time to repay."


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The Central Connecticut women's golf team wrapped up day one of the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational in a third place tie (326/323/649). Central is tied with Fairfield (327/322/649) and trails only second place Wagner (319/329/648) along with tournament leader Robert Morris (324/322/646).
The event is being hosted by Mount St. Mary's at Quail Valley Golf Club in Littlestown, PA. The par-72 course is playing 6,202 yards long.
Blue Devil junior Katie Reid had her two lowest round scores of the spring season shooting a 77 in round one and a 78 in round two (77/78/155). She is currently second on the individual leader board and leads all Blue Devils.
Junior Stephanie Bednar is tied for eighth place individually and carded a round two 78, her lowest score of the day (83/78/161). Freshman Albrianna Farnum shot a pair of 81's (81/81/162) and is in 11th place. Junior Anna Ausanio is tied for 17th (85/86/171) and sophomore Elisabeth Beloin is in 26th place (90/86/176).
The third and final round of the tournament will be played tomorrow, April 17th.


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Late last winter, Baltimore rapper Test (formerly known as TestMe) signed a deal with Future's FreeBandz Entertainment. Yesterday, he released his first project of original material as a FreeBandz member: "Green Light," which you can download for free here (contains explicit language). (Test released "Jackin 4 Beats" with DJ Big L late last year, but it was him rhyming over already-popular tracks.)
Test appeared on the popular FreeBandz compilation mixtape, "F.B.G.: The Movie," from January. Like that tape, "Green Light" includes "Gotta See It," which features Future and Baltimore's Sisqo on it. More similarities, such as collaborations with Rocko and Mexico Ran, also appear.
There's a strong argument to be made that aligning yourself with Future, the Atlanta rapper who has come to dominate charts and heavily influence many recent rap and R&B; trends, is the savviest move a rapper could make at this moment. In my opinion, only Drake could challenge Future in terms of overall influence on the game right now, and even that argument is flimsy (Future is prolific while Drake is not).
This is a major opportunity for Test, and it will be interesting to see where he goes from here (as signing with the hottest act in hip-hop has never guaranteed success for any aspiring artist).
Here are two relevant YouTube clips: A quick trailer — which has explicit language in it, FYI — for "Green Light," which has a memorable Future-referencing quote ("An astronaut to me don't never turn down"). And then there's this FreeBandz-produced clip that shows Future announcing Test's signing at Dubai late last year. (That video has some explicit language in it, too.)


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Well actually I have been dying to put up this interesting photo so forgive me for stretching this theme a little. Yes I did buy some bread there! The bakery is called Romania Country Bread and it only makes one kind of loaf, a whole-wheat rustic bread, a dense, chewy, flavourful, European style and it was truly delicious.
Nicolae, the owner and baker, has found a very loyal clientele for his product and he can even build you one of these ovens if you wish! Please click on the photo for a better view.


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A Neuse River fish kill that started about three weeks ago is still going strong.
A Neuse River fish kill that started about three weeks ago is still going strong � a few thousand fish were found floating in the water or washed up on the sidewalks along Council Bluff Green Riverwalk on East Front Street in New Bern Wednesday morning.
State Water Quality officer Bert Simons had earlier estimated that the kill, which is taking place along the Pamlico River as well, could easily last another two weeks or more.
Neuse Riverkeeper Lauren Wargo confirmed that the kill is still going strong.
�I�d say I�ve gotten 35 calls in this office� regarding fish washing up around New Bern, she said.
The fish are young menhaden. This species �have the thinnest skin and the least capability� to survive when conditions are right for fish kills, said John Jacobson, vice president of the Neuse Riverkeeper�s Foundation Board of Directors.
Born generally in the fall, menhaden hatch in the ocean, with their larvae being carried by currents into river estuaries where they feed and grow. Once a popular dish, they are primarily harvested today to be used as fish oil. The fish are an important source of diet for numerous kinds of wildlife.
The exact cause of the current kill is not certain, as the NOAA lab in Morehead City that usually tests the fish has been closed because of the partial federal shutdown. Local environmental agents suggest it was brought about by hypoxia � death because of a lack of oxygen � exacerbated by recent rains and the development of aphanomyces invadens, a fungul disease that affects fish.
While the disease does not harm humans, people are still advised to stay out of the water where there are dead fish because of the high buildup of bacteria from the rotting carcasses.
Bill Hand is a reporter for the Sun Journal.