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SCHLADMING, Austria (Reuters) - Ted Ligety became the first male skier for 45 years and only the fifth overall to win three gold medals at the world skiing championships when he defended his title in the giant slalom on Friday.
Having already won the super-G and super combined events, a hat-trick was always on the cards for the American in his favorite event, although he had to survive a couple of slips on the second run before winning by 0.81 seconds.
Ligety, who has not failed to complete a giant slalom race for four years and totally dominates the event, led by one-and-a-half seconds after the first run, although his time on the second was only sixth best.
Austrian favorite Marcel Hirscher, who leads the season's overall standings on the World Cup circuit which he won last year, was second after overcoming a back injury to produce a storming second run which brought the home crowd to its feet.
Italy's Manfred Moelgg was third.
"It may have looked easy but I can say I had to fight hard in both runs," Ligety, combined gold medalist at the 2006 Olympics, told reporters at the finishing line.
"The course was incredibly bumpy... it was a struggle from top to bottom."
The 28-year-old said that his previous wins were bonuses but his priority had been to win another gold in his favorite event.
"The main goal was to come here to defend my title," said Ligety, whose 15 wins on the World Cup circuit have all come in the giant slalom.
Hirscher, who has never won an individual gold in the world championships, said he had a sleepless night after undergoing treatment on his back and suffering with a headache.
"I had only had five hours sleep and needed a lot of therapy on my back and neck, and it was still a bit painful," said Hirscher, who has Saturday's slalom still to look forward to.
"It's superb just to get this silver medal, the crowd was amazing. I heard the roar and this was the most exciting moment in my career."
Ligety joined the illustrious company of Austrian Toni Sailer, Frenchmen Jean-Claude Killy and Emile Allais and Norwegian Stein Eriksen, the only other men to have won three or more golds at the world championships.
There is some debate about whether the tallies can be fairly compared, however, as the super combined and super-G events have only existed since the 1980s, making it easier to obtain a three-medal haul.
Ligety has won four of the five giant slalom races on the World Cup circuit this season and finished on the podium in the other.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass.—For the first time in school history, UMass Boston Women's Track and Field claimed several major Little East Conference Awards, the Little East Conference announced Tuesday afternoon.
Sophomore sprinter Hulerie McGuffie (Lynn, Mass.) was named the Little East Conference 2013-14 Female Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and the conference's 2014 Female Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. McGuffie, who was a three-time American during the 2013-14 academic year, becomes the first Beacon to have won Track Athlete of the Year in either season, since the Little East began handing out postseason awards in 2008. She also was named the Little East Rookie Field Athlete of the Year as a freshman for both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
Senior teammate Renee O'Brien (Stoneham, Mass.) also took home some hardware, as the program-record setting high jumper was voted the 2014 Little East Conference Outdoor Female Field Athlete of the Year. O'Brien is the first UMass Boston female to have a Field Athlete of the Year award, joining 2013 male winner Carl Joseph (Brockton, Mass.).
McGuffie enjoyed the best year for a Beacon on the track in over thirty years, as she won a combined seven gold medals at the Indoor and Outdoor Track Field Little East Conference/New England Alliance Meets, in addition to earning All-American status in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
During the indoor season, McGuffie set UMass Boston program records in the 60-meter dash (7.89 seconds) and the 200-meter dash (25.18). Throughout the season, McGuffie competed in a variety of sprinting events and relays and took home a conference-best six Little East Conference Track Athlete of the Week awards, in addition to a pair of ECAC Division III New England Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors.
At the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Meet in February, she won gold in the 55-meter and 200-meter dashes and set a new meet record in the 200 with a time of 25.81 seconds. The Lynn, Mass. native also took home hardware with a pair of second-place finishes in the 4x200 meter relay and the long jump and a third place finish in the 4x400 meter relay.
After a strong postseason, McGuffie qualified for the NCAA Division III Indoor National Championship Meet in the 200 and 400-meter dashes. The sophomore sprinter took home the silver medal in the 400-meter as she ran a personal-best 55.28 to become a two-time All-American in the 400.
McGuffie built off of her successful indoor campaign to deliver an even more impressive and dominant outdoor season. She took home four more Little East Conference Track and Field Athlete of the Week awards and added an ECAC New England Division III Co-Track and Field Athlete of the Week during the short season.
Just two months removed from earning five medals at the LEC Indoor Championship Meet, McGuffie set a new Little East Conference record with five gold medals on April 27 at the 2014 Little East Conference/New England Alliance Outdoor Championship Meet. She set new meet records in the 100 meter (12.26) and 200 meter (25.21) dashes and added an individual gold in the long jump. She also earned a pair of gold medals in the 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter relays.
McGuffie built off her strong spring to set a new personal-best by qualifying for nationals in three separate events (200 meter, 400 meter and 4x100 meter relay).
Once again she saved her best for last, as she became the first athlete in over thirty years to earn multiple All-American awards on the same day. She ran her best time in the 400 by almost a full second in the finals, as she took home third place with a time of 54.24 seconds. McGuffie also teamed up with O'Brien, Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) and Anisha Trappier (Taunton, Mass.) to earn seventh place in the 4x100 meter relay finals.
O'Brien saved her best for last as well, as the senior worked all spring towards successfully qualifying for the 2014 Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet.
After reaching heights of up to five feet, five inches in the indoor season, she rewrote the UMass Boston program records books with a leap of five feet, six inches in early May to qualify for nationals.
En route to Delaware, Ohio and the National Meet, O'Brien was honored as the Little East Conference Female Field Athlete of the Week on May 5 and earned a gold medal at the LEC Championship Meet by tying the then program record of five feet, five inches.
O'Brien set the new UMass Boston program mark on May 3 as she finished second in the high jump at the 2014 NCAA Division III New England Regional Championship Meet with her leap of five feet, six inches. That jump enabled her to become the first field athlete to compete at the national meet for UMass Boston since the 1980's.
While she didn't earn All-American status in the high jump, O'Brien did earn her first All-American honors the next day, when she was a part of the seventh-place 4x100 meter relay team.


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text: Uncertainty Looms December 8, 2012 06:35 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email Know the danger areas for 2013 and reduce your risk Who could have predicted a year like 2012? One of the worst droughts in history parched nearly the entire country, yet farmers, in general, will be better off financially than they were in previous years. USDA estimates that net farm income, which includes total returns after expenses, will exceed $122 billion in 2012, up 3.7% from 2011. High grain prices and crop insurance indemnity payments are reported to be behind the dramatic increase in profit. But as easily as profits go up, they can come down. "Right now, the market is really nervous," says Bob Utterback, Farm Journal Economist. He adds that the drought has left the U.S. with short supplies, uncertain demand sources and volatile grain prices. Macro market elements such as the slow economic recovery and low consumer confidence are also at play. Some would say that black swans are on the horizon. But while many of the potential economic dangers are easy to identify, they are hard to prepare for. A number of the reasons farmers have been profitable in the past few years—high crop prices, low interest rates and a competitive farmland market—can easily be reversed. Danger #1: Economy stays tepid. Agriculture has been a bright spot, while the overall economy has been wavering. Kevin Kliesen, business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, says the economy has continued to improve, but the gains have been lackluster and uneven. He says unemployment is going down, but consumers have been cautious with their money. Additionally, higher oil prices, policy uncertainty and the legacy of the financial crisis are still contributing to the slow economic recovery. "It's going to take a while for things to unwind," he predicts. Overall, Kliesen says, the stagnant economy is killing confidence, but he expects it will eventually turn around. "The economy wants to return to its normal rate of growth. If European and U.S. policymakers get their act together and we lose some of the uncer tainty, the economy could take off." Danger #2: Crop prices fall. Prices peaked at all-time highs this summer, with corn surpassing $8 and soybeans topping $16. They have since settled lower but are still at impressive levels. What could make prices drop? A huge crop next year. Top Producer columnist Jerry Gulke says this year's high prices will likely attract a large number of acres, especially corn, next year. "Corn prices were extremely high at harvest time. Farmers made money even if they didn't have crop insurance. You can multiply $7 by just 100 bu. and you should still have made money," he says. Additionally, farmers were likely not totally shaken by this year's challenging growing year. Gulke, who farms himself, says he now knows his worst-case scenario for corn yields. "I can grow 80-bu. corn, come hell or no water," he says. "That tells me that my risk, if I watch my management practices, is pretty low." The hazard for farmers in 2013 is thinking that these high prices are the new norm. "We have fallen in love and think this is a whole new level of existence. Look at the last five years of prices; it wasn't too long ago that we had $5 corn," Utterback says. Corn prices made some impressive dips and peaks in the last decade. Top Producer columnist Jerry Gulke says supply concerns drive the corn market, as noted above. Danger #3: Hypothetical farmland bubble bursts. As farm income increased during the past few years, so did farmland values. Many farmers are using their wealth and reinvesting it in their operation through farmland, explains Doug Hensley, president of Gorsuch-Hensley Real Estate & Auction in Canton, Ill. "Farmers are definitely the ones driving land prices to where they are today," he says. "What alternatives do farmers have for cash right now? Farmland is one of the investment alternatives that farmers are both familiar and comfortable with." Hensley expects the farmland market to stay strong into next year because many farmers are buying land with cash and aren't building debt. "Farmers are as healthy today as they have ever been from a financial perspective." Yet, he says, if crop prices drop significantly, the farmland market could soften. Gulke says the current farmland market could share some characteristics of the 1980s. He says he will be watching the rate of increase in land prices, year over year. "A 3% to 4% rise in prices is still a rise, but a far cry from that seen recently. A slowdown in the rate of increase was a precursor of things to come in the 1980s," he adds. Danger #4: Interest rates go up. For those who were farming in the 1980s and saw interest rates reach double digits, today's rock-bottom rates are almost unbelievable. And they are set to stay low. Kliesen says the Federal Reserve Bank will keep interest rates down until mid-2015, but the policy can be changed at any point: "Another three years of virtually 0% short-term interest rates is something I never thought I would see in my Fed career." By keeping interest rates low, the Fed hopes to support housing and boost employment. Will it work? "This is not a silver bullet, but should produce positive effects," he says. Hensley says an increase in interest rates, in combination with falling crop prices, could spell trouble for farmland values. "Interest rates will go up at some point, and corn prices aren't always going to be $7.50," he explains. "That's when you're going to see things tighten up, but I don't think we'll see a crash." Danger #5: Another major weather event. In 2011, a wet spring and scorching July trimmed crop yields, and yields were dramatically hindered in 2012 by prolonged dry, hot conditions. It took both of these big, bad weather events for us to see extremely high prices, Utterback says. Another excessively dry or wet season in 2013 will either support or crash prices. "The biggest mover of the market for grain is weather," he says. "It's simple: If we get good weather, prices will go down. If we get bad weather, the markets will go up." Poised to Make Profits The farm economy goes through cycles, some of which are good for farmers and most of which are tough, says Moe Russell, Farm Journal columnist. "Generally, good times don't last, and I think we can learn something from that," he adds. Russell offers the following four tips: Secure your working capital. "Working capital is the first shock absorber for future financial bumps in the road," he explains. Build your working capital to the level of 50% of your expenses. Take a profit when it presents itself. If you do that, Russell notes, you'll never go broke. Refinance real estate or machinery to free up cash. "Take advantage of the 60-year-low interest rates," he says. "Don't reborrow operating debt." Learn from bad years. "Go back and model the worst year you've had in the past 15 years. See what you're going to have to do to survive, if that happens again," he advises. Back to news


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By Ernest Hopkins, Director of Legislative Affairs
When President Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to take his second oath of office, he said, "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall."
It was a significant and historic moment for the gay rights movement—and for the fight against HIV/AIDS among African-Americans. Only when we achieve full equality and inclusion of everyone, as the president so boldly envisioned in his inauguration address, will we truly end the AIDS epidemic as we've known it in the United States. On this National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, it is important to reflect on the tremendous progress we've made, and to rededicate ourselves to the hard work still ahead to stop the spread of HIV among people of color and expand access to life-saving care.
The most recent surveillance report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a 21% decrease in new infections among black women. This is tremendously good news, despite the fact that African-American women still make up the majority of HIV/AIDS cases among women nationwide. But we must continue the momentum, not only among women, but particularly among young black gay men who are still suffering greatly in this epidemic.
Between 2006 and 2009, new HIV infections increased 48% among young black gay men aged 13 to 29. It is imperative that the public health community now put its full attention toward making significant progress with this group. We owe it to these young men, not just as HIV advocates but as the broader LGBT community, not to let them fall through the cracks. Black gay men and their transgender sisters are at the intersection of multiple communities and civil rights struggles—the exact ones President Obama spoke of: Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall. They are key constituents of each and deserve targeted attention to address this persistent crisis. As the president said, our journey as a nation is not complete until we all achieve the promise of full equality. That means lifting up the most marginalized among us. That means lifting up young gay black men.
This work begins with reducing HIV stigma in the black community, so that testing becomes routine and access to care is a given for those who test positive. According to a recent survey of HIV testing practices among African-American primary care physicians, although 80% support routinizing HIV testing, only 55% report routine screening (rather than risk-based testing) as the primary reason for testing their patients. Furthermore, physicians report testing only one-third of their patients for HIV in the past year. HIV stigma and fear of offending their patients were top reasons for not recommending HIV testing. This must change; black physicians must begin to view routine HIV testing as a standard of medical care, not a judgmental statement about their patients.
Identifying undiagnosed HIV infections may be aided by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's policy shift toward routinizing HIV testing—and ensuring insurance companies pay for it. The task force's recent draft recommendation that clinicians screen all patients aged 15 to 65 for HIV infection would guarantee insurance plans will be required to cover not just diagnostic HIV testing but routine screening, as well. This change is especially critical for the African-American community, where so many cases remain undiagnosed and contribute to the high rate of new HIV infections among black gay men.
By increasing HIV status awareness among disproportionately impacted African-Americans, we can take full advantage of our new biomedical understanding of the value of treatment as prevention. This approach improves health outcomes for the individual, and for the greater community. The now-famous HPTN 052 study found that early treatment reduced transmission risk by 96% in heterosexual couples—a breakthrough that provides us with a roadmap to ending the epidemic nature of HIV. Although the current data come nearly exclusively from heterosexual couples, there is broad belief in the research community that maintaining an undetectable viral load with effective HIV treatment may render individuals, gay or straight, virtually non-infectious to their sexual partners.
To capitalize on this astounding breakthrough in HIV prevention, we need continued leadership from public health departments across the country. The San Francisco Department of Public Health, for example, has led this charge by backing its own "treatment and linkage to care" model with policy and resources. Biomedical breakthroughs are for naught if health departments at the state and local levels do not embrace and implement the science. The federal government, too, must continue to invest in ongoing research; budgetary crises are moments when priorities must be identified and protected. The historic advances we are seeing today in science, HIV treatment and prevention, and health outcomes must be prioritized, celebrated, and preserved.
From the federal government to the community health clinic to the kitchen table, there is a space for each of us to muster our strengths and tackle the structural and social barriers that impede access to HIV testing, treatment and care, and support services—barriers like stigma, discrimination, and economic hardship that continue to drive HIV infections among African-Americans, and among black gay men in particular. Our community has a long history of well-founded distrust of public health practices. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, we have an opportunity to break that cycle of distrust, to create a generation that embraces preventive health care, and to topple the barriers that contribute to stark health disparities in the black community.
In order to realize this opportunity, black people will have to actively seek health care knowledge. We must educate ourselves about the health care insurance "marketplaces" and pick plans that meet our individual health care needs. We must take advantage of the many financing plans available to make these plans affordable. And we must not delay. Delays in enrollment in these insurance plans will raise questions about the value of the Affordable Care Act and put one of this country's greatest achievements at risk for repeal.
We are living in a unique moment of change and discovery. We must take advantage of the promises these advances provide us. Let's move forward together and end the epidemic as we know it.
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MD247 Reviews Wholesale Telemedicine for Dallas TX.
Tampa Florida (PRWEB) November 20, 2012
MD247, the Tampa Florida based provider of a unique 24/7 program, announced on Tuesday that it would now be offering opportunities for wholesale purchase of its telemedicine program for large employers in the Dallas Texas area. The healthcare program provides all members 24/7 access to a nationwide network of licensed medical professionals for a consultation price far below that of Urgent Care Clinics.
The MD247 services provide telemedicine program members with the opportunity to conveniently remain either in the comfort of their own home, or otherwise engaged at work, while relaying their medical symptoms to a waiting staff of licensed medical professionals. 24/7 telemedicine is a fiscally sound, and culturally popular alternative which can either supplement or replace traditional bureaucracy burdened health insurance coverage. The MD247 telemedcine program is proving to be particularly attractive to families, who may have members that fall outside of typical health insurance policy coverage due to either age or a pre-existing condition.
Largo Florida based MD247.COM (MD247; MD/247; MD 247; M.D.247; MD-247) provides an affordable telemedicine supplement to existing healthcare services. MD247.COM telemedicine program members have unlimited telephone access to a nationwide medical support team, all with just a single phone call to the MD247.COM telemedicine Chat With a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse Hotline. MD247.COM has a virtual platoon of registered nurses; board certified physicians and a support staff available to members for all non-emergency situations. More information about MD247.COM is available online at http://www.md247.com.


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One of the many features on the Chase Mobile app for your Windows Phone 8 device is QuickDeposit. This is where you take a photo of your check to make the deposit.
Well... there was a bug in this feature that created a conflict and stored the check image in your Pictures Hub. Chase pulled the app and would eventually put the app back on the Windows Phone Store shelve with the QuickDeposit feature disabled.
Apparently, Chase has fixed whatever needed to be fixed on their end and the QuickDeposit feature is once again up and running. If you're a Chase bank customer and haven't tried their free mobile app out yet, you can find it here in the Windows Phone Store.
If you're already using the Chase Mobile app, let us know in the comments if you're having success using the QuickDeposit feature.
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Argentine Intellectual Circles and the European Crisis of the 1930s
Jorge Nállim
Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, Argentina became closely linked to the North Atlantic world, as the founding fathers of the modern state established a political order modeled on liberal principles, developed a dynamic export economy, and presided over a large immigration—mainly from Spain and Italy. These processes provided the historical framework for the impact of the European crisis of the interwar years in Argentine cultural groups and debates in the 1930s. The cosmopolitan features of Argentine society and intellectual groups, the country's political crisis in the 1930s, and the particularly heavy influence of the Spanish Civil War explain how the European situation and ideologies such as Fascism and anti-Fascism were processed in a variety of cultural publications and institutions.
Football and Sports Media in Chile, 1895–1962
Pedro Acuña
Football and media have become associated to such an extent that it would be difficult to discuss the history of sports in Chile without acknowledging its relationship with the media. Since the early 1900s, the media coverage of football—arguably the most significant mass spectacle in Chile—has become a unique place to evoke political sympathy and national pride. Before the gradual introduction of television in the 1960s, print journalism and radio were the technological tools that defined the ways in which Chileans experienced football. As narrative devices, sports media represented football for much larger audiences than those sitting in the stadium. In the 1940s, football chronicles may have been read aloud, and photographs of famous footballers were usually posted in public places for semiliterate workers too poor to buy sports magazines. Similarly, the pitch of a radio announcer's voice and the quick summations he gave to different plays generated their own visual spectacle and moral evaluations for listeners. Although sports magazines and radio broadcasts were mostly consumed in urban areas, they created new ways of experiencing football that enabled participation from larger parts of the nation.
The importance of these sources lies in their central role of making football a much more understandable sport to mass audiences, many of whom were illiterate. Most importantly, sports media became a public terrain for making claims about Chilean citizenship, including affirmations of appropriate masculinity, racial belonging, and class relations.
Uruguayan Cinema in the 20th Century
Daniel Alex Richter
Cinema began in Uruguay with the exhibition of foreign films by visiting representatives of the Lumière brothers in 1896 before the first Uruguayan film was produced and shown in 1898. From the early period of Uruguayan cinema to the end of the 20th century, Uruguayan national cinema struggled to exist in the estimation of critical observers. Considering these periods of growth and stagnation, this history of Uruguayan cinema seeks to shed light on the industry's evolution by focusing on exhibition, production, and spectatorship. This essay explores Uruguay's national film productions, transnational businesses in shaping local film exhibition, the growth of mass publics and critical spectatorship, and the significance of political filmmaking in understanding the evolution of Latin American cinema during the 1960s. The history of Uruguayan cinema during the 20th century also provides a lens for understanding the political, social, and cultural histories of a country that has struggled to live up to its reputation as South America's "most democratic" nation.
Wars of Spanish-American Independence
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
The wars of Spanish-American independence were a series of military campaigns that took place in the Americas between 1809 and 1825, which resulted in the creation of more than a dozen republics in the territories that had previously been part of the Hispanic monarchy. Triggered in the short term by the Napoleonic invasion of the Spanish peninsula in 1808, there were more deep-seated reasons, however, that led to the collapse of an empire that had existed for three hundred years. Classic historiography has stressed the importance of the Bourbon Reforms that brought to the fore the contradictions within the Hispanic monarchy and gave rise to a sense of proto-nationalism. These interpretations have given much importance to the role of the Enlightenment and the fear brought by possible social revolution. Some authors consider that these wars were the result of the Americans' long-held contempt for Europeans. These views consider that struggle for liberation had begun much earlier, possibly as far back as the 1780s, inspired by the American and French Revolutions. More recent historiography has highlighted the war that engulfed Spain itself between 1808 and 1814 as the crucial event that led to fighting in the Americas. This event is seen as not just the trigger for the events to unfold, unleashing conflicts that had been simmering for much longer, but what shook to the ground the archaic but surprisingly durable composite Hispanic monarchy.
This article will discuss the main events that caused the wars, the moments each national historiography has identified as the ones linked to the independence of their particular region, as well as the events themselves. It begins by looking at the historical antecedents, including the Bourbon Reforms, the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, and at the Napoleonic invasion of the Spanish peninsula. It then discusses the creation of juntas in the Americas and how the confrontation between different jurisdictions resulted in war. The article discusses who were the people involved in the wars and the main events that took place.


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by Joe Tressa
The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania will host a salsa concert for the summer solstice on Thursday, June 20. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. and pre-concert activities begin at 5:30 p.m.
The salsa dance band Café Con Pan Band, will perform for the crowd while Cheryl Ingram, owner of Lace It Up Dance Studio will give free salsa dance lessons to fans before the show.
Salsa and beer will be available from the Easton Salsa Company, giving fans the opportunity to taste the firm's all natural products. Chestnut Hill's Iron Hill Brewery will also be on-hand at the concert, with samples of its beers available.
Parking will be limited for this event. Advance purchase or carpooling is recommended. The cost per car for members is $20, while the cost per car for non-members is $25. Those who purchase a ticket on the day of the event will be charged $5 extra.
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Des Moines Parks and Recreation offers competitive and recreational leagues for various sports with registration for men, women and coed teams. Anyone can form a team from work, church, social group or neighborhood. Some families and other social groups have been active in multiple sports leagues for generations. All adult sports leagues are team registered with official rosters for up to twenty players; individuals who are not on teams are encouraged to call the Parks and Recreation Office at 515-237-1386 and place their name on our player-referral list which is made available to team managers needing extra players. Leagues are filled on a first-come first-served basis; early registration is encouraged, as some leagues fill up fast. Awards are presented to league champions in each sport with tournament play offered at the end of the season. All sports programs listed below use certified officials and have well established reputations for quality play.
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After being hit by a series of storms, poverty-stricken Haiti is suffering. Hundreds of Haitians have died and more than 1 million have been affected by Hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike.
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday! It's Christine here with your healthy dessert recipe of the week. With all the sugary Halloween candy going around, I thought it would be nice to explore an alternative sweetener like stevia!
Is stevia safe?
After a not-so-great first experience with stevia and pumpkin, I vowed to do some more research on stevia to get it right! I didn't just find out about cooking with stevia, I also learned about the crazy controversies surrounding the sweetener.
The sweet leaves of the stevia plant are originally from South America, and have been sweetening Yerba Mate in Paraguay for centuries. Japan has been using stevia as a sweetener since the 70's and now it makes up 40% of all sweeteners used. So how come it's 2009 and stevia is just showing up at my grocery store?
Stevia had quite the journey coming here: there were a handful of very dated and poorly executed studies on stevia that showed dangerous results, which scared the FDA and fueled sugar lobbyists. Two of these old studies found stevia to be a contraceptive. The data methods have been seriously questioned and the results have never been able to be reproduced (ha!) since. One study from 1985 made it seem that very high doses of stevia were mutagenic in rats. It has been shown now that the data was handled incorrectly- even water would appear mutagenic — but in 1991 the FDA decided that stevia was an unsafe food additive.
There was a lot of fuss about the FDA's ruling because it was made on the idea that stevia hadn't been proven safe. This contradicts the FDA policy to rule unfavorably only if a food has been proven unsafe. The ruling also conflicted with trade laws, and in 1995 the decision was reversed and stevia was allowed as a "dietary supplement" but not a "food additive."
What does this distinction mean? It says that stevia is safe to include into a food because of its health benefits, but cannot officially be listed as a "sweetener." Silly, right?
In 2006 the World Health Organization declared that stevia is safe. Just last year in 2008 the FDA finally decided that Rebiana, one extracted part of stevia, is generally regarded as safe. For some reason, they haven't ok'd the entire leaf yet. Rebiana is the main ingredient in Truvia, owned by Coca-Cola, and PureVia, owned by Pepsi. My impression is that when the two big sweetener-guzzling companies got interested in stevia, their influence overpowered the aspartame and sugar lobbyists' impact on the FDA.
So now that stevia is here, what good is it? Well for starters, our bodies don't metabolize the glycosides, so we can enjoy the sweetness calorie-free. I feel much better about eating a natural no-calorie sweetener than a synthetic one. Stevia also doesn't effect glucose levels, which makes it safe for diabetics. It doesn't cause cavities in teeth, either.
As for baking, stevia is heat stable so it won't break down like synthetic sweeteners under high heat, and it also can handle being frozen. Because of this, it doesn't caramelize so it is unsuitable for, well, making caramel, and also things like meringue where you would need the sugar to brown. Stevia can't ferment either- sometimes in bread recipes you'll see sugar being used to feed the yeast. With stevia the bread will not rise as much
Stevia as a substitute
When substituting with stevia, it's important to compensate not just for sweetness but also for bulk. You only need to use about 1/2 a teaspoon of stevia extract for 1 cup of sugar, so you need to make up for that loss. But remember that sugar melts in the oven, so for every cup of sugar you take out, you only need 1/3 to 1/2 a cup of filler. Refer back to my post on healthier baking to find some great replacements; pumpkin, mashed bananas and applesauce all work well.
Stevia extracts aren't standardized yet, so the strength of different brands will differ. Start with a very small amount like an 1/8 teaspoon and taste as you go. Stevia can very quickly have a bitter aftertaste. Try adding a tablespoon of maple syrup to "warm up" the taste.
Vegan Orange-Currant Brunch Cake
I modified this recipe from one posted on several different stevia websites, including steviashop.com. It's a small batch, so you may want to double it for a taller presentation.
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp stevia
- 1 tbs egg replacer
- 1 cup orange juice
- 3 tbs walnut oil
- zest of 1 orange
- 1/2 cup dried currants
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and stevia, then set aside. Mix together the egg replacer with 1/4 cup warm water and stir until thick. Add juice and oil. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry. Fold in zest and currants. Spread into a greased and floured tubed pan. Bake for about 25 minutes, turning around halfway through. A knife should come out clean when it's finished. Let cool for 20 minutes before unmolding.
I was nervous about the simplicity of this recipe, but the results were delicious! It is not too sweet at all- it reminded me of a good muffin. The currants add nice bursts of flavor too. I think the success here relied on using the stevia to play up the sweetness of the orange juice, instead of using the stevia as the main event.
Hope you learned something new about stevia and enjoy this yummy vegan cake! If you have a good dessert recipe that uses stevia, I'd be pleased as punch if you sent it my way.
Have a sweet and safe Halloween!
xoxo Christine


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In the Public Sphere.
Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America.CHAPTER XVI.
When Bessy succeeded at last in having Onny once more for a comrade she thought herself about as happy as she could be, away from home. She had a good place, a mistress whom she loved almost as well as Mrs. Walters, with the great advantage of being of her own religion, and Onny for her companion. She was happy, and her life flowed on tranquility and smoothly in the cheerful performance of every duty. She heard again from home --- all was well there, too, and it seemed to Bessy that she had hardly anything to wish for. Her funds in the Savings Bank were steadily increasing, and the world was going well with her --- so well, indeed, that a secret fear was knocking at her heart, for she said to herself that such peace and contentment are not the lot of Christians here below.
Herbert she had not seen since she went to Mrs. Delany's, and she began to hope that something else had attracted his attention, and he might possibly trouble her no more. Ever since she saw him at Ned Finigan's she had carefully avoided going there, and the Finigans, at a loss for the reason of her absence, were so offended that they never went to see what it meant, so that all intercourse between them had ceased.
Month rolled by after month, and finally glided into years --- three had already passed since Bessy came to America, and somewhat over two since the CASTLE INN first "caught the passing eye" in Prince street. And how had it fared ever since with the master and mistress of the Castle? We shall see.
It was a warm sultry evening in the middle of August, and Ned Finigan was sitting in an armed chair behind the bar looking so unlike himself that no one could have recognized him for the same man who helped to keep the steerage passcngers of the Garrick alive on his way out. Dull and heavy and stolid he sat there with that drunken gravity of countenance characteristic of the hardened, inveterate drunkard. If Ned was large and somewhat bulky before, he was now unwieldy and a burden to himself. The fine manly, athletic fellow, whose Herculean proportions excited the admiration of all who saw him had changed in those few short years into that cumbrous load of blubber --- the hale, fresh, good-humored face was no longer what it had been --- broad and coarse and covered with a sort of purple hue, its unsightliness was further increased by sundry blotches and carbuncles, and the eyes, once bright and twinkling with good humor, were now dull and unmeaning, protruding far beyond their sockets. An altered man was Ned Finigan, and an altered woman, too, was his wife. What Ned had gained in flesh, Ally had lost. All that hearty plumpness that poor Ally brought with her flom the healthful plains of Tipperary had gone, leaving nothing behind but skin and bone and a fretted-looking worn consternation over which fifteen years, instead of three or four, would seem to have passed. Her dress was still good as far as material went, but there was a neglected, untidy look about everything on her that contrasted painfully with the neat, tidy "round-about'' little woman that Ally used to be. The lines of care were deeply indented on her shrunken features, and her dapper little form was bent with trouble and anxiety, if not with years. Surely things were not going as well with the Finigans as they did in days gone by. Whether wealth had been flowing into their coffers or not, they were far from being either happy or prosperous. That was plain.
And who were the two snobbish-looking fellows that entered the bar-room, arm in arm, that dull summer evening,
just as the day was fading into night? Why, one of them, to be sure, was Dandy Dixon, and the other Henry Herbert. There was not much change in either of them as to outward appearance. Dixon was still the swaggering "swell," combed and moustached as carefully as ever, with his small hat resting on the top of his frizzled locks as jauntily as could be. Herbert was still the same handsome, reckless-looking fellow, as well dressed as usual, but dissipated-looking withal; his cheek habitually flushed, and his eye habitually restless and unsteady. His habits had not been improving --- that also was plain. He and his worthy companion had been laughing obstreperously as they entered, but seeing Mrs. Finigan behind the bar with Ned, Herbert winked at the other, and coughed significantly. Nods being duly exchanged, Herbert said in his frank way:
"Good evening, Ned; what's the matter that you look so grave? Thinking of the great Repeal demonstrations at home, eh?"
"Well, no --- I wasn't thinking of anything --- in particular" ---
" You wasn't, eh? Well, anyhow, send us in three stiff brandy-and-waters Ń two for us and one for you, and come along in to take it --- cigars, you know, in quantity."
"Deed and he'll not, then, Mr Herbert," put in Ally, sharply; "not a drop of it he'll taste this bout, anyhow."
Herbert laughed, and Dixon smiled superciliously.
"What! little Mrs. Finigan mounting guard! --- putting on the inexpressibles!" roared Herbert. "Well, if that isn't rich!"
"Laugh as much as you like," said Ally, "it'll not do me any harm."
Ned said nothing, but kept on mixing the liquor according to order. When the three glasses stood ready on the waiter, flanked with a bunch of cigars, he ordered Ally to let him pass.
"Not a foot you'll pass here, Ned; I tell you that now!"
said the little woman with a most warlike air, and placing her arms akimbo, so as to increase her breadth. "Sit down there, and I'll send in the two glasses for the gentlemen."
"Nonsense, woman!" grunted Ned; "get out of the way with your foolery!" and he tried to shove her aside, but did not succeed.
"You may just as well sit down," said Ally, with a most determined air; "you have taken enough for this day. Give me that salver till I send it in."
Roused from his torpor by the mocking laughter of Dixon and Herbert, and the good-natured raillery of one or two others who chanced to be present, Ned raised his foot and gave poor Ally a kick that sent her far enough out of his way, and in he marched with the air of a conqueror, followed by the two worthy associates.
"Well," said Ally, raising her tearful eyes, "it's good there's a God in Heaven to see all this; if there wasn't what 'id become of the likes of me?" And smothering her tears she went on with her work, she was helping her girl to wash glasses.
"I don't see for the life of me, Ned," said Herbert, "what's got into your wife's head of late; she seems to have lost all the manners she ever had. Isn't it so, Dixon?"
"Quite so Ń dem it, quite so!" chimed in the submissive echo," can't get to the bottom of Mrs. Finigan's --- hem --- ha --- shall I say --- impudence?"
"Don't say impudence, Mr. Dixon! don't, if you please!" said Ned stupidly, "my little woman isn't impudent --- never was, sir --- but you see, women haven't the same notions as we have about things, and Ally has taken it into her head that I take --- ahem! --- that I take a little more than I ought by times. That's the whole truth, now, and you needn't take it to yourself, at all, Mister Herbert! nor Mister Dixon, neither. Ally thinks a power of you both, gentlemen, but --- but --- "
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"Much obliged to her," said Herbert drily, " I'm bound to say, if she does, she takes a confounded queer way of showing it. No matter, we're your friends, Ned! and as long as the Castle keeps above ground or you on your legs we'll stand to both. Won't we, Dixon?"
"Undoubtedly we will," said Dixon absently.
"I'm entirely obliged to you, gentlemen, for your good wish," said Ned, "and especially Mister Herbert there in regard to the little grudge that was between us on account of that colleen, Bessy. "
"Oh! don't mention it, don't mention it!" said Herbert, magnanimously, but his color rose very high, "It's all passed now, you know, and r don't go in for ripping up old sores. Let us have another round, or rather a bottle of that same brandy! I want to hear the long.promised story of that plucky butcher, your illustrious ancestor, Ned, who kept Cromwell on the wrong side of Ardfinnan."
Ned desired nothing better, and he hurried away to get in the delectable beverage which was to season his narration of Jerry Fahey's valorous exploit. It might have been well for him if the significant nods and winks exchanged between the two he left had come under his observation, or if Ally's renewed expostulation had been attended to --- but neither was the case. Herbert and his associate took good care that their stupified host did not see what was passing between them, and Ned only gave Ally an ill.served answer for her pains, then took his way back to the inner room where his company awaited him and the bottle.
"Ned!" said Herbert, as mine host set the bottle on the table, "what has become of your lordly friend, Paul Brannigan? I haven't set eyes on him in an age."
"Well! he doesn't come here as often as he used," said Ned, "somebody told me he wasn't in the best of health these last days."
"Perhaps he has gone the way of all flesh --- eh, Ned?" This was by way of a joke, but it came harsh and bitter from the
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heart. "Likely his sable majesty thinks he has served him long enough here, and wants his company down below. Ha! ha! ha!"
"Ha! h! ha!" echoed Dixon; "he's rather a queer customer, that hunchback! --- he's got an eye like a rattlesnake! --- quite fascinating, by Jupiter!"
"Well! Mister Herbert," said Ned in his dull, stolid way, "there's many a man makes a great show in the world that doesn't do so much good as the same Paul. You don't know him, sir, or you wouldn't name himself and the Old Fellow in the same breath."
"I know him like a book!" said Herbert gloomily and musingly; suddenly starting, he struck the table with his fist: "I'll tell you what it is, Ned!" he said vehemently, "I think that misshapen, misbegotten imp has an eye on your pretty cousin, Bessy Conway!"
This was turning the tables with a vengeance, and Ned, fuddled as he was, laughed long and loud at the droll idea. "Well! Master Henry," said he, "sure enough you beat the world for fun!"
"If you take that for fun you're much mistaken," Herbert gravely returned, "I never was more in earnest, I give you my word!"
"If I thought as you do," said Dixon, reaching over to light his cigar at Herbert's, "I would certainly treat the fellow to a cold bath some of these warm days to bring him back to his senses."
Little thought any of the trio who were making so merry at Paul's expense that Paul was part of the time within earshot of their discourse. It so happened, that evening, that the little man had strolled up the Bowery after his supper, and finding himself, before he was aware, as far as Prince street, he thought he would just drop in to see the Finigans. He found Ally with her eyes red and swollen, and her face more flushed than he had ever seen it. There were several persons in the
bar-room, and yet Ally could not restrain herself, but the moment she saw Paul her tears burst out anew, and she reached him her hand with a gush of feeling that astonished him.
"Bless my soul! what's this at all, Mrs. Finigan? Has anything happened Ned?"
"Nothing new, Paul! nothing new," sobbed out Ally, lowering her voice to a whisper so as to reach only the ear for which it was meant; "he's at his old trade again worse than ever. He's ruining himself as fast as he can, and there's no earthly use talking to him God help me! I don't know what to do!"
"Does Herbert frequent the house still!"
"Oh! then, indeed, he does, to our sad misfortune He has him in now himself and that big fellow, Dixon. Whatever delight they take in his company, they can't want him when they're here, if it's true to themselves."
"Could you put me anywhere near without they seein' me, Mrs. Finigan? I'd like to hear what's goin' on among them, just for a reason I have." And he nodded significantly at Ally, who, after looking him steadily in the face for a moment, opened the door of the little room adjoining the larger one, and, pointing to a small window high in the partition.wall, she placed a chair under it and whispered: "It's an inch or so open, Paul. God bless you ! and keep a watch on them, for they're up to something that's not for our good! Ń my trust is in you next to God himself!"
It so happened that there were no others in the room (a thing rather unusual at that hour), so the three talked without much restraint, naturally supposing themselves free from observation.
The conversation was at first desultory and with little interest for Paul. It was the ordinary "table talk" of the tavern, nothing more, nothing less, and our friend breathed many a fretful ejaculation of disappointment, for such scenes were not to his liking, and he never willingly put himself in the way
of seeing them. All at once, however, his attention was excited. Herbert laid his arm on the table, and leaning over towards Ned asked, in the most confidential way possible:
"Now do tell me, Ned! like a good, honest fellow as you are, has this business answered your expectations!"
"Well! I'll just tell you how that is, Mister Herbert!" said Ned, with a desperate effort to make his words intelligible, "I think it has --- Ally thinks it hasn't. There's no doubt but we have made money," and he set his head a little to one side and closed one eye knowingly --- " we have made money, and, you know, Mr. Herbert, that's the main thing Ń Money makes the mare go, as my old uncle Terence used to say --- he had a nice penny of his own, too, for he was a pigjobber, sir, and used to go to Liverpool once a fortnight or so, and, sure enough, he could pick up money like slate stones. "
"But about yourself and the Castle, Nedq You say you have made moneyŃwhat more did you want?"
"It isn't me that's dissatisfied, sir! it's Ally --- she thinks --- she thinks . . . "
"Come, out with it, man! --- let us hear what she thinks! --- we're curious to know."
"Why, she thinks the business doesn't agree with me Ń ha! ha! ha! Ńs he's a mighty careful woman, you see, and thinks people ought to live by rule, and a man be as steady as a judge every day of his life. There's no come or go in Ally, Mister Herbert! --- she's a tight little screw, and nothing else. "
"Pooh! pooh! can't you screw her out a bit? Coax her a little, and oil her occasionally." He pointed significantly to his glass.
"It wouldn't do, sir, it wouldn't do," and Ned shook his head emphatically; "she doesn't touch it at all. She'd be afeard of gettin' fat like me --- ha! ha! ha! --- and, I protest she's tearin' the flesh off my bones on account of that same fat. She says I'm a burden to myself and every one else. By the
(322) laws! she's not far wrong in that!" he added, parenthetically. "What do you think's the cause of it, Mister Herbert?"
Herbert and Dixon exchanged looks, and the latter drew his hand over his face affectedly, in order to conceal the smile that would come. Herbert tried hard to preserve his gravity as he hastened to answer:
"Well! it's something new to hear a man complain of being in good condition. Isn't it a sign you live well, and haven't to work hard --- that you lead a gentleman's life, in fact?"
"Of course," subjoined Dixon, " of course. If our friend c ould only get up a good smart fit of the gout, he would pass for a born gentleman. Ha! ha ! ha!"
"He! he! he!" chuckled Ned, "I wish you could hear our Ally sometimes --- why, it was only yesterday she told me if I didn't leave off drinking, the devil would carry me off body end bones some day. Christ save us! what's that?" he cried suddenly, fixing his great staring eyes on the little window, opposite to which he was sitting.
Herbert and Dixon started up in alarm, and following the direction of Ned's eyes, glanced up at the window. Nothing was there but the white curtain.
" What the d --- I did you see?" cried Herbert angrily.
" It was just himself --- Ally was right --- oh Lord have mercy on me !"
His eyes were still fixed on the window and his words were to himself Ń he seemed to forget that others were present.
"The confounded fellow has lost his wits, I believe!" said Herbert to his companion; "let's see if we can't pound them into him again." So saying he struck Ned a smart thump over the shoulder. "Stir up, man! stir up! what did you see?"
" I saw the devil Ń he opened that window a little bit and, thrust in such a face Ń with a pair of eyes, Lord save us! blazing like two coals of fire!"
"Stuff!" said Herbert contemptuously. "It's the brandy getting to your head."
"I tell you," said Ned, doggedly," I save the face up there as plain as I see yours now."
"We'll soon see whether you did or not," said Herbert, and darting to the door between the rooms, he threw it open. The flood of light from the larger room pouring into the smaller, revealed every part of it with sufflcient distinctness, but no living thing was there. The window was closeds but the door was a little a.jar, which, of course, was nothing remarkable, so if Ned was quizzed unmercifully by Herbert and his friend about the visit he had had from " Old Harry," and the two laughed till their sides ached at his woe-begone expression of countenance.
Ned was quite sobered by the fright, and seeing the two worthies about to beat a retreat, he earnestly besought them not to tell Ally what had occurred.
"If you do," said he, "I'll never hear the last of it --- you see it would give her the whip.handle, and maybe she wouldn't make me smoke."
"Pooh, man ! what of her raillery!" said Herbert, with a strange gloomy look, " she wouldn't ride you on a rail, would she?"
Before Ned could ask what he meant by that, Herbert had left the room, followed closely by Dixon.
" You'd better see to that man of yours," said they to Ally, as they passed; "it isn't well to leave him alone; he has frightened us away ."
"The Lord between us and harm!" cried Ally, running in breathless, "what's the matter with you, Ned, honey?"
"What do you see wrong with me?" said Ned, gruffly, "I m just goin' out to the bar --- is there many there?"
The forced calmness of Ned's tone, and the ashy paleness of his face were both plain to Ally's eye, but seeing that he avoided her scrutiny, she deemed it unwise to press him. So they went back together to their business, and although each was occupied by painful thoughts, perhaps dark forebodings,
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there was no confidence subsisting between them, and neither gave the other a hint of what was passing in their minds.
That same evening, whilst Herbert was working his evil spell on Ned Finigan, Bessy Conway was sitting alone in the kitchen --- Onny having gone out to make some purchases --- when a knock came to the basement door, and on going to open it, she saw a tall, emaciated woman, with a wretched-looking infant in her arms, and one a couple of years older clinging to her skirt.
"I want a little help," said the woman, somewhat imperatively, and whether it was the voice or the manner of speaking Bessy started, it seemed so familiar. She tried to catch a glimpse of the features, but the woman drew back into the shade and in a lower tone, renewed her request for some assistance
"My husband broke his leg three weeks ago, and is gone to hospital, said she, "and I can't leave these young ones to go to work, so we ha'nt got a thing in the house."
"God help you, poor woman!" said Bessy compassionately, "I'll go and see if there's anything for you. "
She returned in a few moments with a large slice of bread and some cold meat. The moment the child saw it she clapped her tiny hands and laughed:
"Ha! ha! mother, I guess we shunt give father any --- shall we? he's so drunk, you know, he can't eat --- can he?"
"Shut up !" said the mother angrily, and the word was hardly out of her head when Bessy darted forward and looked up in her face.
"The Lord in heaven save us ! is it you, Sally?"
"I guess you're under a mistake," said the pauper.woman sharply, "my name a'nt Sally. Come along, you young 'un!" and seizing the child by the arm she shook it fiercely, then dragged it up the area steps crying piteously.
Bessy stood a moment looking after the miserable group, wondering could it be Sally she had seen, or was it but an
optical delusion. That moment's thought convinced her that her eyes had not deceived her. The figure, the face --- altered as it was --- the voice --- the manner --- all were the same, and doubt once dispelled, Bessy's next impulse was to go up the steps and see whether the woman was still in sight. The night was dark and cloudy, but the light of the lamp revealed her long, lank figure moving rapidly along, dragging the still squalling child by the hand. She had not reached the second lamp.post when a miserable tatterdemalion of a man approached her, and Bessy could hear distinctly the voice of the child as it clung in terror to its wretched parent, crying in piteous accents:
" Oh! daddy! don't beat mammy! She ha'nt got noting --- noting at all!"
It was easy to understand this heart.moving scene, and Bessy did understand it, and as the light of the lamp fell full on the man's face she was at no loss to recognize the knight of the black moustache, the veritable Jim, for whose sweet company and the matrimonial expectations following therefrom Sally had told so many lies, spent so much money, and finaliy, lost the best place she ever had.
Bessy had seen and heard enough. She could easily imagine the altercation between such a couple in such circumstances --- the wretched, profligate husband watching the squalid partner of his misery as she made her dreary rounds in quest of food for herself and her starving little ones --- watching her with the hope that some charitable hand would give her a few pence which he might possibly succeed in obtaining from her either by threats or persuasion, to supply his insatiable maw with the vile stuff for which alone he lived. Oh! it was horrible! horrible! and Bessy was only too glad to escape back into the comfortable kitchen where vice or depravity dared not enter.
"So that is the end, thought she, of all Sally's dancing and visiting and dressing up, and lying and scheming! --- how often
I have seen her mimicking others, even those she was bound to respect --- what a sight she is now herself ! --- she wouldn't bear a word, or let any one say she did wrong, but she'd fdy at them like a wasp --- now she has to put up with everything and ask her bit from door to door, in misery and dirt and rags, with her drunken brute of a husband watching to take what she begs for herself and her children! Well! sure enough, that s a warning to me and every one like me! And when I think of how comfortable and happy that girl might be, if it wasn't her own fault! Still, it's a pity of her, and I hope she'll come round this way again, for I'd like to do what I could to help her?'
But Sally never came that way again, and when weeks and months passed and she came no more, Bessy almost persuaded herself that the dismal scene of that night was, after all, but a dream It was not a dream, unfortunately, for Sally. She had married her favorite Jim, and found, when too late, that Jim had a decided aversion for anything in the shape of work. As for taking a drop, well! that was his weakness, and she didn't mind --- not she. She'd never grumble if Jim took a drop, and a good drop, too, if he'd only keep the pot boiling brown for her, and supply her with a certain portion of those edibles commonly called bread and butter. But that would involve the necessity of work, which being opposed to Jim's principles, was altogether out of the question. So, under one pretense or another, Jim managed to evade the common law of labor, and throw the burden on Sally's shoulders. One of them had to work, that was certain, and although Sally had no great taste for work any more than Jim, hunger soon drove her to it. Bard words and soft words, scolding and wheedling were alike thrown away on Jim, he never could be got to work more than one day at a time, and that at intervals lengthening as time rolled on. At first he would go on a spree once a week or so, lounging meanwhile about home --- i. e, a very, very small back room on the fourth story of a tenement.house. After
awhile the spree extended itself gradually from day to day till it swallowed up the week, and finally Jim's whole life was one continued spree, and he became the hardened, hopeless, incurable drunkard we have seen him.
It may well be supposed that Sally's natural acerbity of temper was not sweetened any by her miserable marriage. To say the truth, if she had to work for herself and Jim she made the shabby fellow pay as well for it. She kept scolding him from morning till night, and from night till morning, but as Jim used to say to his confidential friends, it was throwing water on a drowned rnouse, and "as good luck would have it, Sally's tongue didn't blister." Such being the case, he gave her a wide berth, and seldom made her an answer, for Jim was peaceably disposed, and his drunkenness was usually of the stupid kind, rather than the wild or stormy. It was only when a brace of squalling children took up a portion of Sally's time, and sickness came upon herself and them, so that she could no longer work as she had done, that Jim's aberrations assumed a savage form, and the demon of selfishness cleared his heart of human pity and natural affection.
The sight of Bessy that night was like a barbed arrow planted in Sally's wretched heart. It tore open again the bleeding wounds half healed by custom, and seared into callous indifference. It reminded her of what she once was, and what she might have been --- of the good example and the good advice by which she never profited --- of all she had lost, and of all she had sacrificed for the worthless wretch whose specious promises had lured her on to ruin. With her brain all on fire, she was tottering down the street, with the one confused aim of getting away from Bessy, when Jim, as we have seen, popped out unexpectedly from the shade of a projecting arch. To his harsh demand for money she gave a flat denial, accompanied by some epithet true enough in its application, but not very complimentary. That and his disappointment so exasperated Jim that he first applied his foot and gave her a kick
which almost threw her to the ground, then, before she recovered her balance, followed it up with a blow that would certainly have left its mark had it reached its destination. But the uplifted arm was caught by an M. P. passing at the moment, and the valorous Jim was hauled away to the lodging provided by the State for such contumacious lieges.
The elder child renewed its cries on seeing its father so roughly handled, but Sally, absorbed in her own misery, paid little attention to one or the other. Jim's brutal assault coming at such a moment, completely paralyzed her. She succeeded in reaching her dreary abode, and lay down on a bed of sickness from which she never rose. Some charitable neighbors representing her hard case to the proper authorities, obtained her admission to one of the hospitals, where a few days closed her earthly career. She died in a state of delirium, without priest or sacrament, and her two little children, deprived of their natural protectors, were of course adopted by those benevolent individuals who make merchandize of the souls of men.
It was not for years after that this sad denouement of Sally's fate came to the knowledge of Bessy Conway, and when it did, all that remained for her to do was to breathe a prayer for her her, and drop a tear to her unhonored memory.
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Gold hasn't reinvented itself as a currency yet. But it is getting closer.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said it will allow clients to use the metal as collateral in some transactions. For example, a hedge fund wanting to borrow money for a short period can put up gold as collateral and use the borrowings to invest elsewhere, betting on making a better return. Typically, banks accept only Treasury bonds and stocks in such agreements.
By making the announcement, J.P. Morgan is effectively saying gold is as rock solid an investment as triple-A rated Treasuries, adding to a movement that places gold at the top tier of asset classes. It also is trying to capitalize on all the gold now owned by hedge funds and private investors that is sitting idle in warehouses.O.K., so gold is not quite "money" (in the sense that it circulates widely as a medium of exchange). That is, if gold was money, one would not need to use it a collateral for a money loan, right? (You could use the gold to buy the stuff you wanted directly.)
But the use of gold as collateral in short-term lending arrangements nevertheless has the effect of increasing the liquidity of gold.
It is interesting too, to observe that the practice appears to be extending to other commodities, including copper and soybeans. Where is this happening? Apparently, in China; see China's copper collateral -- and covert credit and China and the magic financing (soy) beanstalk.
Evidently, the use of commodities as collateral constitutes an attempt by the private sector to get around China's highly regulated credit market. It is China's "shadow banking" system. Short term financing (at low rates) supported by "high-grade" collateral (like the private-label AAA MBS securities used as collateral in the U.S. repo market prior to 2008).
The problem, of course, is what happens to the shadow-banking sector when the value of the collateral plummets. (In case you haven't been paying attention, gold and copper prices have recently declined rather dramatically.) What happens is that creditors no longer want to roll over their short-term financing--they want their money back (and hey, you can keep the copper). Debtors, in a desperate attempt to acquire the cash to repay their loan, begin to dump copper on the market--the effect of which is to make matters worse.
And this is what is happening now; see: China Copper Prices Drop as More Bonded Copper Reaches Domestic Market.
I think that this experience gives us some hint as to why commodity money systems are not the panacea that some like to make them out to be. Sometimes, it even appears that the private sector prefers government money. Look, for example, at the way private-label MBS products were driven out of the U.S. repo market by U.S. treasuries in the recent financial crisis. It's a tricky business, trying to figure all this out. See also this discussion by Steve Williamson: Commodities and Money.


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March 26, 2006
PELHAM, N.Y. - In its first race of the 2006 season, the Yale women's crew team dominated the competition at the Connell Cup. The Bulldogs, racing against crews from Columbia and Penn, won every race they entered.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Yale's performance Sunday was the comfort with which all its boats rowed to victory. In the five different races the Bulldogs entered, they won all but one by a margin of 10 seconds or more.
Yale has now won the Connell Cup in six times in the last seven years. This year's win at Columbia's Orchard Bay Lagoon site follows a victory in home waters in 2005, when the Bulldogs defeated the Lions and the Quakers at Gilder Boathouse.
Next weekend, the Bulldogs will head to upstate New York to face Syracuse and Cornell in the Cayuga Cup. For the second consecutive week, Yale will defend one of its many titles from an illustrious 2005 season.
Complete Results
Varsity 8
1. Yale: 6:50.9
2. Columbia: 7:00.4
3. Penn: 7:08.3
2nd Varsity 8
1. Yale: 7:00.2
2. Columbia: 7:13.6
3. Penn: 7:14.5
Novice 8
1. Yale: 7:18.4
2. Columbia 7:29.5
Novice 4
1. Penn: 8:07
2. Columbia: 8:16.9
Varsity 4a
1. Yale: 7:57.2
2. Penn: 8:07.4
3. Columbia: 8:16.8
Varsity 4b
1. Yale: 8:09.9
2. Penn: 8:14.4
3. Columbia: 8:31.2
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Beauty enthusiasts came out to chop it up, shop pigments and be inspired by the color of Magnolia Makeup!
(Tia,me and Nala)
While there, I shopped and was able to chat it up with Tia, one of the Magnolia Makeup Sisters. You may be familiar with her as she's the face of Magnolia Makeup on Youtube.
On the vision for Magnolia Makeup:
Tia says she wants Magnolia Makeup to show women in Louisiana that makeup isn't just a teeny bopper activity, but an intelligent art and form of expression.
On what's new with Magnolia Makeup product:
A true deep gray and lilac lip colors are new for Spring. So new, they were unnamed! I got to peek at them and test them out. I didn't get pictures.... well
On what inspires her:
Surprisingly, she said she had never been asked that! With her varied and creative background (jewelry making and culinary arts to name a few), she draws inspiration from everywhere… food, places, memories and more!
My interest in the Bounce culture of New Orleans led me to ask Tia about Messy Mya (if she knew him) and a Bounce inspired collection:
She went to school with Messy Mya! The sisters actually have a bounce song that they play at events! I'm unclear if there will be a Bounce collection brewing any time soon, but I hope I garnered enough buzz for her to think about one!
My haul: (clockwise, starting at top left: Twinkle, Whimsical, Calliope and Shero)
Illuminaughty Highlighter
Why oh why didn't I get the exclusive lippies???


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TV Visjon Norge needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 45 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
TV Visjon Norge AS
We are a christian tv-channel in Norway.
20+ Everyone! Existing market...
- Check our old design (http://www.visjonnorge.com) and make it more modern, use news, slideshow and feel free to redesign all.
- Use our psd-files colours in the design.
- Use our logo, make it better and closer to the other psd-file.
- New programs in on-demand, can these be presented on the first page?
- We want to include our Facebook fan-page any place
- We publish news as you see, but we need it to be present better
- We also have a big webshop where we sell cd, dvd´s etc, can this be presented better than today
- Can present our program schedule in a good way on page 1 and better on page 2?
- space for commersials as today.
-search function in content
The page should be "light" and not "heavy" designed.
Think "new" :)
This will be a web-tv on demand page. We also have live web-tv.
Web-tv on demand-page
Social network Facebook included.
Program schedule...
Use ideas from example pages
http://visjonnorge.com/index.php?si…d=85D29BF1 (todays old page)


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June 6, 2013
Contact: Bill Grassano
(202) 649-6870
Community Banks in Western States Grow Stronger, Agricultural Banks Performing Well
DENVER — Community banks and thrifts in the western part of the United States are growing stronger as housing, commercial real estate, agriculture and other key business sectors in that region continue to improve, officials from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said today.
"The OCC is seeing positive changes in commercial real estate, the number of problem community banks is down and continues to fall compared with last year, and the housing market continues to improve," said Kay Kowitt, the OCC's Western District Deputy Comptroller.
The OCC conducts a quarterly analysis of community banks based on financial data from the Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income, also known as Call Reports. In addition, the OCC gathers information about market conditions and industry health from the 15 locally based Assistant Deputy Comptrollers in the Western District. The analysis identifies current and potential risks facing the district's national banks and federal savings associations and assists these institutions in proactively identifying and managing potential risks.
Significant themes and risks in the current economic environment are:
Agricultural banks supervised by OCC's Western District are performing well. Currently, one third of banks have agricultural loan concentrations exceeding 100 percent of capital. Examinations in these banks indicate that underwriting remain sounds. Commodity and farmland prices remain high in many areas. Crop insurance mitigated the effect of recent drought conditions, and farm profits remain healthy. At the same time, there are risks to take into account in the current economic environment. Primary threats to farm profits and land values include rising interest rates, decreasing commodity prices, increasing input costs, continuing drought conditions, and changing government support programs.
"If there is one message the OCC wants to deliver to the agriculture-focused banks, it's to prepare now during good times for potential downturns in the future," said Ms. Kowitt. "By preparing now, the banks will be better positioned to help their customers in times of stress."
The OCC explained further that strategic risk is a concern as community banks need to define and implement strategies that allow them to thrive in the face of lingering credit stress, historically low margins, competitive pressures, and uncertainty about regulatory changes. Additionally, while credit risk is stable to declining, earnings are under increased pressure at community banks because of modest loan demand and lack of risk appropriate higher-yield investment alternatives.
These factors have substantially increased strategic vulnerability as community banks seek to bolster income through new products and services, expansion of business lines and cost reductions, especially in critically important control functions such as audit and compliance.
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On the weekend of Saturday/Sunday, March 9/10, The Stagecrafters, 8130 Germantown Ave., will bring to Chestnut Hill two readings of David Mamet's iconic play, "Speed the Plow," presented "script in hand" on their auditorium stage. Directed by Yaga Brady and read by actors Paul McNair, Mike Gannon and Ana-Maria Arkan, this piece is a satirical look at movie industry executives in the pursuit of success.
It ran 280 performances on Broadway in 1988 and was revived in 2008 with extended runs in New York and London. Scheduled readings: March 9 at 8 p.m. and March 10 at 2 p.m. There will also be a "Talk-Back" Q & A session with actors and director following each performance. All are invited to stay and participate.
Admission is whatever one may wish to pay. No reservations are being taken. Just show up. The auditorium will be open 30 minutes before each performance. More information at www.thestagecrafters.org.


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usChawks wrote:I'm not the biggest fan of that teletubbies thing though. It needs to leave asap.
rigelian wrote:I think the all grey uniforms did not work against the very dull green color of the turf in Toronto. They blended into the background a bit too much. Maybe on a different field that was more green than grey.
Frankly the best road combination I've seen is the white jersey with the blue pants. They used that combo in the Denver preseason game.
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madbohem wrote:Wolf Gray is in Canton now... so that works for me
kidhawk wrote:I've been pretty consistent in saying this, I don't dislike any of the colors, it's the combinations that I don't like. By that, I mean the single color pant/jersey combos. I Like any of the mixed combos together, just not the monotones. They just don't work for me.
As for the green shoes, I don't think they make the grey or any other uniform look bad, but the green shoes themselves do look bad no matter what they are worn with.
Finally, I really don't care. As long as the players like what they are wearing, and have no issues with them, then I say let 'em wear whatever combo they can.
We are undefeated in the Wolf Gray, that's all I care about
baumer64 wrote:I liked the All Grey. I agree though that the belly sweat patch looks like crap. I've thought that of some of the college teams I've seen in that color.
Would love the see the grey pants become the standard put those with the blue shirt at home and the white shirt away. Throw in the blue pants with away jersey every once in a while.
The grey pant just reminds me of the original uni design and I like it!
Also, on that picture... Dang, I didn't realize how big Unger was! He looks bigger than Big Red!
12thMode wrote:I thought the gray on gray with the blue helm looked sweet!
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Having one baby shower is an amazing, soul-filling experience. There is almost nothing in the world like having every single one of your closest friends bid you a fond farewell into your new lives as parents. When a person is about to become a new parents, give them five baby showers! One at work! One from each mother! One from her best friend! The first pregnancy is the perfect time for such excitement. But that's the end of it. The new trend of moms having baby showers for their second (and even third!) pregnancies has got to stop.
It's not that I think every baby doesn't deserve a welcoming party, but baby showers were really meant to usher new parents into the crazy world of mommy and daddy-hood. They are not meant to be yearly windfalls that can be cashed in every time mommy gets pregnant again.
The first time, baby showers are emotional and beautiful. By the fourth time, it gets kind of old and starts to feel like the parents-to-be are greedy.
Of course, people will say there are exceptions. And there are. A mom of one who finds herself pregnant with twins the second time around might get a diaper shower (Lord knows she will need them!) or some other kind of similar event. Even a mom who had a boy the first time and then had a girl might be inclined to have a second baby "shower." But, in general, it is not proper etiquette.
The fact is, each baby is special, so of course each baby deserves a welcoming. But that is what christenings are for. If you are Jewish, that is what the bris or the naming ceremony is for. If you have no religion, you can have a little party to welcome the new baby and people may bring gifts. But they needn't feel obligated to do so.
A shower is almost entirely about the gifts. One is supposed to "shower" the new mom and dad with presents. That generosity is wonderful. Once. But the second and third time a person is being asked to shell out it gets annoying.
If you have a friend and she is pregnant with a second baby (of the same gender or she does not know), there are ways to make the shower less tacky. Specific "themes" can often eliminate the awkwardness. For instance a "book shower" or an "art shower" or a "diaper shower" are all ways to give a mom-to-be some love, but not feel as obligated as the first time.
It seems an odd rule, but is an etiquette rule nonetheless. A baby shower, in the strictest sense, is for baby number one. Baby number two (and three and four) need something different. Anything else just seems greedy.