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April 24 (Bloomberg) -- "Too-big-to-fail" legislation unveiled in Washington today is needed to rein in the biggest U.S. banks because the Dodd-Frank Act has failed to guard taxpayers against future bailouts, the bill's sponsors said.
The four largest banks -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co -- "are nearly $2 trillion larger than they were" before getting U.S. aid to help them weather the 2008 credit crisis, Senator Sherrod Brown said in a news conference today.
"If big banks want to continue risky practices, they should do so with their own assets," said Brown, an Ohio Democrat. "Our bill will ensure a level playing field for all financial institutions by ending the subsidy for Wall Street megabanks and requiring banks to have adequate capital."
Brown and Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, whose plan is opposed by key lawmakers, are proposing a 15 percent capital requirement for so-called megabanks as a way to reduce risk and remove the perception that they would get bailouts in a crisis. Mid-size and regional banks, those between $500 billion and $50 billion in assets, would need to have 8 percent capital relative to assets.
"It is our intent to have much more protection against a crisis and against a taxpayer bailout in a crisis, and it is our intent to level the playing field and take away a government policy subsidy, if you will, that exists in the market now favoring size," Vitter said during a roundtable meeting at the National Press Club yesterday.
Mid-size 'Losers'
The $500 billion threshold effectively puts a cap on growth for regional banks such as PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and BB&T Corp., which would be "losers" under the bill, according to Joseph Engelhard, a former Treasury Department official who is now senior vice president at Capital Alpha Partners LLC., a Washington-based firm that "offers predictive insight for capital-markets professionals," according to its website.
"To the extent this bill gets close to passage it will make the Fed and other regulators work even harder to implement Dodd-Frank in a tougher way," Englehard said in an interview.
The Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law was enacted in 2010, two years after a credit crisis that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and taxpayer bailouts that helped sustain other leading financial firms. Implementation has been slowed amid disagreement within regulatory agencies and legal challenges to some rules.
Traditional Banking
At least six banks have assets exceeding the $500 billion threshold Vitter cited yesterday for the highest capital standard: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, all based in New York, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America and San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.
Brown, 60, and Vitter, 51, say their bill would limit the government safety net of deposit insurance and discount lending to traditional banking operations and require affiliates and subsidiaries of large banks to be separately capitalized. It would provide regulatory relief to community banks including changes to a qualified mortgage rule, creating an independent bank examiner ombudsman for those institutions and adopting privacy notice simplification.
For Brown, who was elected to the Senate in 2006 after serving in the House, the proposal recalls his failed effort during debate over what became the Dodd-Frank Act to include an amendment to limit banks' size. Vitter, who was elected in 2004 and joined Republicans in nearly unanimous opposition to Dodd- Frank, has criticized proposed Basel III capital standards as a "mess" and said they should be thrown out.
Chairman's Opposition
Their legislation faces obstacles to enactment, starting in the Senate Banking Committee, where Chairman Tim Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat, has said regulators should finish work on Dodd-Frank before determining whether it solves too big to fail. Senator Mike Crapo, the Idaho lawmaker who is the panel's top Republican, said in an interview yesterday that setting capital standards is a job for regulators, not legislators.
The Brown-Vitter bill is also opposed by Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who excoriated banks for their pre- crisis risk-taking in his role as chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
"I want to have tough regulation, which is what I think Dodd-Frank stood for and explicitly says," Levin said in an interview yesterday. "I'm fighting for that. I can't at the same time give up on that and say 'break up the banks.'"
Systemic Threat
Supporters of the Brown-Vitter plan say further measures to curb risk are needed because Dodd-Frank failed to address the systemic threat posed by the largest banks. Bankers have said those seeking additional steps aren't considering the regulations in the 2010 law including so-called living wills that will lay out how financial firms are to be unwound after a collapse and FDIC resolution authority for failed companies.
"Dodd-Frank allows the regulators to do what Brown-Vitter is doing because it gives them the ability to set capital requirements but the requirements they set are very low and rely on risk weights," Anat Admati, a Stanford University finance and economics professor, said today in an interview. "This a step in the right direction definitely."
Representative Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who leads the House Financial Services Committee, said at an Independent Community Bankers of America conference today that he opposes the idea of downsizing banks. The problem of too big to fail can be solved through changes in bankruptcy law, Hensarling said.
'Critical Mass'
"There isn't a critical mass in Congress to pass new too- big-to-fail legislation," said Brian Gardner, senior vice president for Washington research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. "However if some catalyst event comes along and changes the political calculus the odds could improve."
Ed Yingling, the former American Bankers Association president who is now a partner at law firm Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, is also dubious of the bill's chances.
"It will get a lot of discussion but ultimately it doesn't have any chance of moving forward," Yingling said today in an interview. "Those who understand the way Washington works will say it's hard to see how it moves."
--Editors: Gregory Mott, Anthony Gnoffo
To contact the reporter on this story: Cheyenne Hopkins in Washington at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Maura Reynolds at [email protected]
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Published October 25, 2016
NYS Governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced his intentions to authorize a $100 million collaboration between UB and the NYS Genome Center in NYC.
The initiative is modeled after the governor's successful blueprint for nanotechnology innovation in Albany, which has produced groundbreaking research, attracted significant private investment to the region and created thousands of new jobs.
The governor's investment in UB and NYGC is expected to spur the development of companies on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus that support genomic medicine, such as companies that will focus on diagnostics and information technology essential to breakthroughs in personalized medicine.
UB was selected as co-lead for the effort because of its expertise in high performance computing, combined with recognized national leadership in genomics and medical research and analysis of patient data using the vast capabilities within its Center for Computational Research, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and Institute for Healthcare Informatics. Each of these UB research centers reside on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC).
Thomas Furlani, the director of UB's Center for Computational Research, said the money will help upgrade existing facilities to increase the computing and storing capacity of data. Currently, Furlani said the UB facility crunches two to three terabytes of data per day – and one terabyte is roughly the equivalent of the information contained in 100,000 phone books. Furlani said it used to take 10 years to map a human genome. Now, it takes one day. But researchers want to get results even faster. "Patients can't wait that long," Furlani said. "We're going to be able to get answers to our scientific questions much quicker."
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Eminem, Pearl Jam and Outkast Among ACL Music Festival Headliners
Eminem, Pearl Jam, Outkast, Skrillex and Beck are among the headliners for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival, promoter C3 announced this morning. This year marks the 13th incarnation of the festival, and the second time that it will encompass two weekends at Zilker Park, Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12.
Other scheduled acts include the Replacements, Lana Del Rey, Calvin Harris, Foster the People, Zedd and Lorde, who will perform the second weekend only. ACL this year will also feature sets from St. Vincent, Major Lazer, the Avett Brothers, Spoon, Broken Bells, Childish Gambino, Phantogram, the Head and the Heart, Jimmy Cliff, Belle & Sebastian, Interpol, Chromeo and Chvrches.


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Their dreams of qualifying for a fifth consecutive postseason since moving to Texas may be long dead, but the Houston Dynamo are not willing to mail in the remainder of their 2010 schedule.
Houston defender Andrew Hainault scored with a diving header in the 23rd minute and Dynamo goalkeeper Tyler Deric posted a shutout in his MLS debut as the former San Jose Earthquakes beat the current Quakes 1-0 on Saturday at Buck Shaw Stadium.
It was a second win in the space of four matches for Houston (8-15-6), which had been on a 2-11-5 slide since May 22, and it allowed the Dynamo to leapfrog Chivas USA and out of last place in the Western Conference. A victory in the season finale at home against Seattle would provide Houston a nice bit of momentum to carry into 2011.
San Jose (12-9-7) lost for the second time in as many home games, and despite clinching a postseason berth with two weekends to spare, the Earthquakes' performance against Houston on Saturday night was hardly playoff-worthy.
Quakes coach Frank Yallop said earlier in the week that his foremost goal for his team's final three matches was to avoid having any starters get injured. That made things all the more frightening for San Jose in the first minute of the match when Houston's Corey Ashe fed a cross from the left wing to the edge of the Quakes' six-yard box, and keeper Jon Busch took an inadvertent boot to the head from Dynamo forward Cam Weaver.
Weaver's studs caused a laceration to Busch's left earlobe that bled quickly and profusely enough for Dynamo forward Dominic Oduro to call for a trainer. The game was delayed for seven minutes while Busch had his head swathed in bandages and changed to a fresh jersey, but he continued in net.
Busch could do nothing to keep out Hainault's diving header, which came off a corner kick by Brad Davis in the 23rd minute. The ball buzzed over the head of Quakes midfielder Bobby Convey, who was stationed at the near post, and rippled the roof of the net.
That was hardly the Dynamo's only bite at the apple. Davis, racing onto a loose pass from Sam Cronin, beat Busch from 35 yards but banged his shot off the left post in the 37th minute. Weaver followed up in a matter of seconds with a free header from 10 yards that Busch did well to parry over the crossbar.
Oduro had a free run at goal in the 66th minute after Ramiro Corrales – making his first appearance since Aug. 7 – and Geovanni conspired to turn the ball over in the Quakes' defensive third, but Busch charged out and body-blocked Oduro's attempt from 12 yards. It marked Busch's third stop of an Oduro shot on goal in the second half.
With Tally Hall slowed by a high ankle sprain and Pat Onstad nursing a hand injury, Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear tapped the home-grown Deric to man the nets on Saturday. The 22-year-old product of the Dynamo Academy became the youngest goalkeeper to start a game for Houston and the first home-grown player to start an MLS match.
The Quakes did not test Deric much, however, barely putting the ball on net and forcing Deric to make only three saves on the night. Deric briefly bobbled the first shot he faced, on a 30-yard rip from Chris Wondolowski in the 28th minute, but did well to cleanly hold a couple of second-half drives from Arturo Alvarez.
San Jose did penetrate Houston's defense periodically with long balls ahead and passes back to cutting teammates, but on multiple occasions, Houston defender Mike Chabala broke up the play with deft touches.
Convey's 15-yard shot in second-half injury time glanced off the outside of the near post. The final act of drama came when Wondolowski almost forced a tie with the final touch of the match, but his volley from 30 yards out parachuted over the crossbar as the whistle sounded.
Houston Dynamo (8-15-6) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (12-9-7)
October 16, 2010 -- Buck Shaw Stadium, Santa Clara CA
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Andrew Hainault 2 (Brad Davis 10) 23
Houston Dynamo -- Tyler Deric, Andrew Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Eddie Robinson, Mike Chabala, Danny Cruz (Richard Mulrooney 77), Lovel Palmer, Brad Davis, Corey Ashe, Cam Weaver, Dominic Oduro.
Substitutes Not Used: Pat Onstad, Brian Ching, Ryan Cochrane, Francisco Navas Cobo, Anthony Obodai, Adrian Serioux.
San Jose Earthquakes -- Jon Busch, Chris Leitch (Ramiro Corrales 61), Bobby Burling, Jason Hernandez, Tim Ward, Chris Wondolowski, Sam Cronin (Cornell Glen 73), Khari Stephenson (Arturo Alvarez 61), Bobby Convey, Ryan Johnson, Geovanni.
Substitutes Not Used: Brian Edwards, Eduardo, Brad Ring, Scott Sealy.
Misconduct Summary:
SJ -- Sam Cronin (caution; Reckless Tackle) 35
SJ -- Jon Busch (caution; Dissent) 87
Referee: Michael Kennedy
Referee's Assistants: Chris Strickland; Eric Boria
4th official: Ricardo Salazar
Attendance: 10,597
Weather: Partly Cloudy-and-65-degrees
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jay042 wrote:I don't know why, but I keep imagining Moses as this pompous windbag. Acting more holy and full of Fire and Brimestone than God ever bothers to be.
Metrobius wrote:Shakespeare's a joke, though, because people are so nutty about him. I haven't seen people dashing about praising Moses, just acknowledging that there was once this useful bloke called Moses that did stuff. But Shakespeare wasn't just a guy that did stuff, he was the Greatest Writer That Ever Lived.
Metrobius wrote:Except that Azazel's name I took from an apocryphal (I believe) book of the Bible where a bunch of angels got thrown out of Heaven for lusting after mortal women. So he's already a minor unimportant demon in my universe. Is he important elsewhere? I thought that was Azrael.
jay042 wrote:In that vein, maybe Elvis has acquired deity status. I'd say he doesn't have fans as much as he has a cult anyway:)
ripvanwormer wrote:Oh, here's something interesting. Maurice Bouisson says that Azazel was an ancient Semitic god of the flocks later degraded to the level of demon. So he might be inflamed with jealousy for Jesus and Apollo.
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Yes, it's a big pain in the bottom.
Basically what I do is decide as I go along who's separate and who's not, which probably isn't very scholarly, but it does make for a story that doesn't make people's heads hurt..
The idea originally was that gods were a certain way, and it was (sort-of) the way the general consensus of mortal belief thought it was. That's still the idea (and the "certain way" gets decided by me as I go along..), although gods may change under the force of 'believer imperative', probably because they'd go mad if they didn't.
Realistically, because myths are so influenced by others and mixed up and transient, you can't say *anything* is true about gods, because the blasted creatures quite manifestly don't exist. The only solution is to give the gods their own reality which is based as closely as possible on the myths. But when it comes down to it, you have to say "All right, *this* goddess is the real one, and she has a few different names," or "This god is not the same as that one, they're two separate people."
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I have been a loyal customer for years and years. I like the site because they offer Asian make up and skincare at great prices (unlike some sites that totally rip you off, especially when you see what the retail price).
Shipping is quick (average 5-7 days) and it's just $2 for recorded delivery (I know the cost of shipping is built into the product but I don't feel this inflates the price of the product at all). There is also an EMS shipping option (3-5 days fully tracked and delivered by Parcelforce).
I NEVER pick this because *touch wood* the recorded service is excellent. If you live in a country with dodgier post, you may want to choose EMS.
The only downside is that he can be a bit slower to get new ranges in (he is based in Hong Kong, not Japan after all) and he doesn't so far stock some of the my favourite brands, like Canmake, Melliesh Dollywink etc.
The site can also be difficult to use – hard to read if you don't understand Chinese and hard to navigate.
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Ok, here is the home page:
ARGH! Where to start!
There are a few ways to search the site for what you want.
How you search will obviously depend of if you know what you want, or if you are just browsing. Personally, I am always looking for new releases (just browsing!) or something specific (like a repurchase) in which case I will search by brand.
Or I will have a new product in mind but I don't know what it is I want yet (like I feel like a new cleanser) in which case I will use the drop down menus. Some of the options:
1. Search by Brand
2. Search by drop down menu (Categories, ie. Point Make Up*)
3. New Items, Promotional items, Clearance Items. Click on the words to see the relevant category.
4. Search Box for Key words
*Point Make Up means colour make up; blushers, lip stick, eye make up etc. In other words, NOT base make up!
When you click on the brand, you will get it's sub brands on the right hand side. So if you click on Kanebo, you will get Kanebo brands (it's like L'oreal owning a number of brands)…:
Click on the one you want.
If I wasn't sure what brand the product I wanted was (say I wanted my favourite eye make up remover, Softymo – I would use the drop down menu.)
I would go to SKINCARE (in Search) and MAKE UP OFF (in product). I know there isn't a specific category for Eye Make Up Remover so you just have to think laterally.
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2. Scroll down to see the items
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It will tell you how many things you have in there, the price in Hong Kong dollars and the US price which is the one I will use as a guide. RMB is the currency of China.
Sometimes if there are multiple options you need to scroll down to pick a colour like this:
Ok let's go to pay. Click on the cart, and you will get this view.
Click on your region to continue. I selected International and get to this page.
You must select ONE option. $2 is for recorded delivery or EMS. EMS prices vary and it's clearly displayed depending on where you line. For the UK it's $16. As I said earlier I have never chosen this, I've never needed to.
Remember to add your phone number if you want to use EMS.
Click on Cashier.
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Click on Paypal when ready:
You will then be led to Paypal to pay. Done!
About 12-24 hours payment Adam will send you an invoice with what you have bought attached as a PDF. Be aware that this could easily be diverted to your spam box! So check there. Check everything is ok (if not email him) and then you will have a tracking number.
HK tracking will tell you when it's left the country (it's a brilliant postal service over there) then it's up to our Royal Mail kids to deliver to us. On average it's exactly 1 week.
Out of interest! Adambeauty now sells gifts! Click here from the home page:
Here you can buy Bags, Accessories, Support Tights, Tea and Living Items:
I've ordered a make up bag and tea from these sections before, it was great!
So that's it – a very basic guide to using Adambeauty.com.
Any questions?
Guide up to date as of 11/10/2010


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I'm lost without Google Wi-Fi snoop
Don't touch that router
Andrew's Mailbag Is it the sudden outbreak of sunshine? Is it write something silly to Andrew week?
A reader we shall call John sends me this:
I just tried the new me.com Find my iPhone app. I live in a rural setting and own a 3GS which had WiFi turned off (to save the battery up the wirelessless pub last night). The app was out by approximately 3km when using GPS and the (very distant) telephone mast, and the confidence range (the big blue circle) was hopelessly optimistic.
But the app also offered to find my wifi-only iPad, which surprised me. I checked that and it was accurate to within 10 metres.
This seems to show that Google's mapping of the wifi world is crucially important and we stand to lose a lot if it's lost in the brouhaha about nicking payload as well as the publicly broadcast MAC address. Of course they shouldn't have hoovered up that stuff, but I haven't seen a convincing account of the practical use to which Google could have put it even if they wanted to be really evil...
The other thing that occurred to me was that my upgrading my Airport machine would make a small black hole in Google's map of the world...
One immediate wrinkle in John's argument occurs to me. In urban areas the cellular network already locates you to within a few hundred yards rural areas, so the Wi-Fi snoop can't be justified there. But in the countryside, there's a tiny Wi-Fi footprint amidst vast spaces where there's no signal at all*, so it's still useless as a location aid. Unless you happen to be within range, such as… at home.
So the only use case I see is if you happen to black out, and can't remember where you are, then you can just turn on your iPad and thanks to Google, it'll be able to tell you.
That's why you need Google's Wi-Fi snoop. It's saving us from ourselves.
Comments welcome. ®
*Yes, I know that with a directional antenna, you can snoop all the WiFi you want for miles around - but here I'm talking about regular equipment (laptops, phones).
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Unity Marketing's proprietary Luxury Consumption Index (LCI) shows ambivalence on the part of the affluent U.S. consumer, households with an average income of $274,900. Present trends from the LCI will likely translate into more ''cautious consumer spending'' into the Christmas 2012 season and the beginning of 2013, according to consulting company. Therefore, retailers and marketers are advised to be reserved in their expectations of consumer spending for the next two quarters. Customers with means will still indulge, but they are very particular about where they invest their spending. Quality over quantity is what they demand, according to luxury marketing expert and Unity Marketing's president, Pam Danziger.
''Unity Marketing continues to track uncertainty among affluent consumers when it comes to their feelings of confidence in their personal financial status and how that translates into spending on luxury or high-end purchases,'' Danziger said. ''Luxury consumers are more positive about the country overall and their personal financial prospects over the next 12 months. Yet they are reluctant to commit to significantly increased levels of spending on luxury over the next 12 months. Further, they are conflicted about their short term financial situation, with 55 percent of those surveyed saying they think their financial status over the next three months will remain the same, neither rising nor falling.''
Unity Marketing's economist, Tom Bodenberg, added that based upon the LCI, which taps the top 20 percent of earners who together account for more than 40 percent of all U.S. consumer spending, he anticipates a slight drop in the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
''We expect to see a decline of about 3/100ths of one percent. The latest LCI, though it posted a small rise, wasn't as strong as it should have been,'' Bodenberg said. ''It reflects a wariness in the economy. Were the economy stronger fundamentally, the rise in the LCI would have been greater. But since it wasn't, the LCI is indicative of an economy which is stationary at best.''


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A Baker's Secret Ingredients
I have a number of little secret tips and tricks in my arsenal that I'll use to kick a dish up another level or two. I mention them individually in recipes, but I figured a post with some of them listed out could be helpful. These are all small adjustments you can make to almost any recipe, I'd just recommend thinking through what you're adding, what result you're looking for, and not change TOO much at any given time.
Note – most of the product links go to King Arthur Flour's website because I am a huge fan, but I HIGHLY recommend price comparison shopping before deciding where to purchase.
- Dutch Processed Cocoa – "Dutched" cocoa powder is darker and has a deeper flavor than regular American cocoa powder, as well as a much higher acidity level (for the nerds among us, I believe it's around 7.5 for dutch to 3.5 for American, which is a big difference). If a recipe specifies a certain type of cocoa, it probably does so for a reason, due to the higher acidity of dutched powder, other ingredients have to be altered in order to make it work. I personally tend to only use dutch cocoa, I simply like the taste a lot better, and always question why a recipe would want to use anything else.
- Espresso Powder – You can buy actual espresso powder intended for baking, or use instant coffee granules or plain old brewed coffee. Coffee makes anything chocolate taste more chocolate-y. So, next time you're not happy with how chocolate your brownies are, instead of adding more cocoa powder, add some coffee! You won't taste the coffee, but you will get a nice, dark chocolate flavor.
- Extracts – Every baker has to own at least one bottle of real vanilla. I don't mean that you have to go buy madagascar hand scraped fancy schmancy "plucked by babies and cleaned by angels" vanilla (although I do think high end vanilla can be well worth it), but you do have to at least get McCormick's grocery store real vanilla (not this stuff!) vanilla. Yes, it's much more expensive. But think about it…imitation vanilla extract is a by-product of wood working and paper mills. Real vanilla comes from a plant. Even if taste wasn't an issue, that alone should help you decide to use the real stuff, but the taste really is the reason. Real vanilla blows imitation away, there is absolutely no comparison.
- Don't stop the extract journey with just vanilla! There are more flavors out there to play with. A teeny bit of almond extract in vanilla cakes and frostings will have people wondering why it tastes SO good. Peppermint (I prefer oil, but extract works too) makes your chocolate and vanilla desserts extra special. Orange, lemon, butterscotch…. I also have a couple "special" bakers emulsions I love to play with – Buttery Sweet Dough flavor is a nice way to make something taste a bit buttery without actually getting the calorie hit of butter, and Princess Flavoring adds that citrusy flavor you taste in bakeries but can't ever identify. Ya know, the one that just tastes GOOD. I also love it in white sugar glazes, I can't explain why.
- Buttermilk – Seriously. Nearly all of my cakes, doughnuts and muffins use buttermilk instead of milk, and always powder. I like the powder because I never have buttermilk around – who uses it for anything other than baking – and powdered milk has been proven (by America's Test Kitchen) to work just as well as scalded liquid in all baked goods. Buttermilk will give a thicker, fluffier, softer crumb from buttermilk, and gives doughnuts that back of the throat homey taste that nothing else seems to include.
- White Whole Wheat Flour - why is this a secret ingredient? Because even my white bread tends to include a little bit of whole wheat flour for flavor. Just a couple of tablespoons will give the bread a nice wheaty flavor that white flour alone cannot convey, and white whole wheat hides the fact that it's in there even better than the brown stuff.
These are all tiny changes you can make to established recipes you have that will make a big impact. Give them a try, see what you like, and always, have fun baking!!


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NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being slapped with a lawsuit that claims that the world's largest retailer and its staffing agencies broke federal minimum wage and overtime laws by requiring temporary workers to appear early for work, stay late to complete work and work through lunches and breaks without compensation.
According to the proposed class action suit that was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court of Illinois Eastern Division, Labor Ready and QPS, two of the staffing agencies that the discounter used in the Chicago area, failed to provide workers assigned to the Wal-Mart stores with required employment information.
The suit also claims that Wal-Mart itself failed to keep accurate records of workers' time. That has made it difficult for workers to make claims that they were not paid by the temporary agencies for all hours worked. The suit also claims that the discounter and its staffing agencies also failed to pay the plaintiffs and others in similar situations a minimum of four hours pay on days when they were contracted for work, but not used for a minimum of four hours as required by Illinois law. That prevented the workers from looking for other jobs.
"I only get paid minimum wage and yet Labor Ready and Wal-Mart still try to cheat me by not paying me for the time I actually work," said Twanda Burk, the primary plaintiff on the lawsuit. "I've proven that I'm a good worker, and they just want to take advantage of that."
According to information provided by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union in a press release promoting the legal action, the alleged violations occurred beginning in early 2009 and continue up until the present time.
The suit seeks all unpaid wages for the workers and calls for an injunction against Wal-Mart and its temporary agencies preventing them from future violations of state labor laws.
Dan Fogleman, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said that the company is still reviewing the complaint but that based on the release sent out Monday by the union group one thing is clear: "This litigation is being driven by the same union organizations that have been mischaracterizing several issues about Wal-Mart and are more concerned with creating publicity than with improving workers' rights."
He continued, "We are committed to ensuring that anyone working in our stores — whether they're employed by Wal-Mart or in this case, a temporary staffing agency — is treated appropriately and compensated fairly for every hour they work."
Diane Gadzalinski, QPS's director of human resources, said she is currently reviewing the matter. Labor Ready didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
The suit comes just after Wal-Mart faced a worker walk-out earlier this month ahead of its annual investor meeting that expanded to about dozen states. Still, the number of employees involved was less than 200, according to union officials. That's a tiny fraction of Wal-Mart's U.S. workforce of 1.3 million workers at its namesake division. A group called Organization United for Respect at Walmart, or OUR Walmart, organized the walk-outs. The organization, which is made up of current and former Wal-Mart workers, is backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
OUR Walmart, which is pressing for better working conditions, is organizing a group of Wal-Mart workers to walk out from their jobs on the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest day of the year.
Shares of Wal-Mart ended regular trading up 3 cents at $75.65 Monday, close to the top of its 52-week range of $55.68 and $77.60. Shares have risen 26 percent since the beginning of the year amid a rebounding business in its U.S. namesake division.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Here are four old beer bottles from Pennsylvania breweries. Curve was brewed by the Altoona Brewing Company, and it's label featured The Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve. Fink's was located in Harrisburg, PA. This elaborate bottle is a real beauty. Hazleton Pilsener was brewed in Hazleton, PA. And the Stegmaier bottle, from Wilkes-Barre can be dated from the mid 50s.
Of these brews, only Stegmaier survives.


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Trout takes birthday moment to reflect
ANAHEIM -- Mike Trout turned 23 on Thursday, which didn't make him feel old but did prompt a rare moment of reflection.
"I was talking to [Jered Weaver], looking at how much time I have up here," Trout said. "After this year, it'll be over 3 years. It's been quick. I'm having fun here. This is where I want to be; can't ask for anything else."
Nor can the Angels.
Trout has posted a .318/.409/.566 slash line since his first full season in 2012. He's joined Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Mel Ott and Ted Williams as the only players to have multiple seasons of at least 25 homers, 80 RBIs, 100 runs and a batting average over .320 before turning 23. And based on Wins Above Replacement, he's the best player in history through his age-22 season, with a 26.5 score that barely tops Ty Cobb (25.5).
As Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, "He's got a feeling of what he can do on the baseball field that 99 percent of us dream about."
It's been there since he was first called up, but it's ever-evolving. Scioscia has seen it show up in the way Trout plays center field, learning "not to overreact" with his positioning because "his speed is a difference-maker where he can shade and not have to overplay and still make the plays he needs to in the outfield."
Trout himself has noticed how experience has helped him improve in clutch situations.
"Being able to calm yourself, control your emotions," said Trout, whose first two walk-off homers have come this season. "It's tough when you have 40,000 people standing up, cheering for you. You want to get that big hit, but if you try to do too much, you get in trouble. You try to relax up there. It's tough, but when you get a feel for it, it's easier."
Trout -- batting .302 with 25 homers, 81 RBIs and 12 steals this season -- has never been considered a guy who doesn't come through in clutch situations, but he's producing a lot better under what Baseball-Reference calls "high leverage" situations.
Last year, Trout batted .257/.386/.327 in those circumstances.
This year, it's .363/.460/.725.
"First two years, it was all-out or nothing," Trout said. "But now, I try to relax up there, get my pitch and don't try to do too much."


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Why Lindsay Lohan Is Moving to London
The actress said she's leaving U.S.A. for good. Here's why.
-- Lindsay Lohan is becoming an expat.
The actress, who will appear in "Speed-the-Plow" in London later this year, said she is planning to move there full-time.
"You guys have such a different outlook [about entertainment]," Lohan told the BBC. "It feels really good to turn on the TV and not see everything be about gossip."
Lohan, 28, said that the timing of her West End debut is perfect, because she's ready to "experience something different." That also means she's committed to not missing any shows and to once and for all prove to the public that she's serious about her craft, she added.
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Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Blame Parents for Her Troubles
"People have certain perceptions of me and for a long time people looked at me as kind of a celebrity which is something -- that's not [why] I ever got into this industry," she said. Now, "people can focus on the fact that I'm in this industry because I'm an actress and an artist and not just someone you take photos of."
The actress also admitted to making mistakes in the past. However, she's "so numb" to the gossip that tabloids spread about her and is focused on the future.
"There are certain things that yes, I would change that I've put myself in bad situations but I don't regret anything that's happened," she said. "I wouldn't be who I am today. I wouldn't have learned the things that I know. I wouldn't be here doing this right now."


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A scrumptious made-from-scratch stuffing, yet is easy to make!
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 6 mins
Extra Time: 25 mins
if making single servings, or as directed if stuffing a turkey or chicken.
Yield: 20 x 1/2 cup servings
In non-stick skillet over medium heat, melt buttery spread. Add onions and celery; cook 5 minutes or until soft.
In large bowl, mix bread, onion mixture, apples, and walnuts. Add parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Mix in enough chicken stock to moisten bread. Season with salt and pepper.
Loosely fill turkey or chicken cavity and follow cooking instructions for the weight of the bird; or make single servings by baking at 375ºF in a small well buttered oven-proof ramekins for 25 minutes or until heated through and brown on top.
This stuffing is delicious served alone or when stuffed in a bird.


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Officials seeking progress on I-69 planning
AUSTIN — An ambitious multibillion-dollar effort to push forward a new interstate spanning Texas was highlighted at the Texas Capitol on Wednesday as lawmakers struggle with transportation funding needs.
The Texas leg of the Interstate 69 project would stretch from the Lower Rio Grande Valley to Texarkana, tracking U.S. 77 and U.S. 281 in South Texas and U.S. 59 in the Houston area north.
Officials called the project, estimated to cost $16 billion in some mix of primarily state and federal money, important to safety and economic development as goods move north to the Midwest and northeast.
Of the 1,000 miles of the proposed route in Texas, about 70 have been designated by the federal government as interstate quality so far. The goal is to complete half of the overall project in 20 years.
"We'll have to deal with our transportation needs if we want to keep our winning streak going," Gov. Rick Perry said at a combination of briefing and pep rally to open I-69 Day at the Texas Capitol. Among key points, Perry said that by giving the Valley interstate access for the first time, the project would "spur new growth in that very important region of our state."
When completed piecemeal across eight states, Interstate 69 will stretch 1,600 miles. Vitally, for Texas businesses, it will open up Houston and other South Texas ports to the Midwest.
Though some have dubbed it the "NAFTA Superhighway" because it connects Mexican trucks to many Midwestern spots, Texas officials see it differently.
"This is the Houston highway," said Marc Williams, planning director for the Texas Department of Transportation. "If you take your typical truck, it is much more likely to have come from Houston or the Houston region than to have crossed the border."
Though the interstate will be a boon for cities along the route, Williams said, the state benefits, ultimately, by having increased economic development and easier access to places along the proposed path.
The road could be a huge boost for business, especially in port cities that dot Southeast Texas. For Harris County, it is another major freight corridor and a critical piece of future development plans, County Judge Ed Emmett said.
But the benefits stretch beyond metro Houston, to cities currently cut off to major freeway traffic, officials said.
"The current interstate system connects our cities but it doesn't drive the traffic where it's trying to go," said Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville.
San Antonio isn't on the I-69 route, but the project will help the city by providing a more direct route to goods coming up through Laredo and destined for the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard, he said.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said there hasn't been much discussion of the I-69 project locally, but he was warm to the plan.
"Anything that would be good for South Texas is going to be good for us," Wolff said. "My initial reaction is, another highway is always a good thing to have."
Sid Martinez, director of the San Antonio Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization, said that looking at the big picture of state mobility, "we would think it's an important corridor." He said South Texas in general, including the Valley, "is probably missing some of that major interstate connection. In that regard, it would be a great project for Texas."
Richard Perez, president and CEO of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber has taken no formal position on the project but that he personally has a favorable view of the idea, given the needs of the state and South Texas in particular. "Given the congestion on I-35 ... a reliever like I-69, I think, is the right thing for the entire state," he said.
Teclo Garcia, director of government affairs for McAllen, said advocates aren't trying to get billions of dollars immediately but are doing a piece of the project at a time.
McAllen is a member of the Alliance for I-69, whose members were at the Capitol on Wednesday. Garcia said the project is important to the Valley and to trade with Mexico.
"It's all about economic development. Economic development equals jobs and prosperity and so forth," Garcia said. "The Valley is the largest metro area in the nation that doesn't have a connection to the interstate system... We are trying to rectify that."
Nichols said the "big question" and one that requires focus is "how are we going to fund all these infrastructure projects?"
Nichols has filed a proposal to constitutionally dedicate the current motor vehicle sales tax to the transportation fund. Perry, meanwhile, is touting a proposal to dip into the state rainy day fund for $3.7 billion for water and transportation needs, plus redirect to transportation $1.3 billion that's now spent elsewhere from the highway fund.
Rep. John Otto, a Dayton Republican who is House Ways and Means Committee vice chairman, cited the project's advantages in making an expected increase of traffic safer.
The majority of the freeway will follow existing federal highways, such as U.S. 59, U.S. 77 and U.S. 281. Williams said most of the work in building I-69 is taking those highways and bringing them to federal standards with divided lanes, separation from local streets and other safety upgrades.
Those efforts require engineering and construction, which TxDOT will do as funding allows. Essentially, the one interstate is dozens of widening, redesign and rebuilding jobs across Texas. About 200 miles of the highways are already up to freeway standards or close to them.
"But it is not as simple as going out there and changing the signs," Williams said. "There is an engineering study we have to do."
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in this post, we share official link to download stock firmware rom (stockrom). flash it in your device and enjoy the original Android experience again.
firmware Infomation:
- Author: HTC inc
- Model: HTC Desire 626s
- Region: Sprint/Boost/VirginMobile/ACG/C Spire
- Os : Android
- Gapps include: No Rooted
- Language support: Multilang
Download HTC Desire 626s Sprint/Boost/VirginMobile/ACG/C Spire Official Stock Firmware Rom | latest Flash File:
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Note : If the ROM update wizard fails to recognize the device, close the wizard and then follow the steps below:
· From a powered off state, hold VOLUME DOWN while powering on the device to access download mode.
· Connect the device to the PC while in this state and attempt the ROM update again.
To exit download mode manually, use the volume keys to navigate to reboot and press the POWER button to select it.


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The revolving door psych ward that is the Cincinnati Bengals admitted another high-maintenance case yesterday with Terrell Owens. It might turn into a headache in real life, but with the focus in Madden solely on talent, the Bengals are loaded.
Owens, at one time spectacularly talented, and a persistent clubhouse disruption over his entire career, joins Chad Ochocinco (rated 91 overall) and Antonio Bryant (an 84). Owens will have an 83 rating at launch, including 88 speed, making him the team's No 3 receiver. With Carson Palmer (87) and Cedric Benson (an 84-rated running back, (89 speed), Cincinnati has enough weapons to make them a popular option in multiplayer games, especially the new Online Team Play mode.
Today EA supplied six shots of Owens within Madden NFL 11, due for release on August 10. Though the EA Sports team has added pre-game broadcast touches, such as players getting off the bus and milling about the locker room, its postgame does not include tearful, sunglasses-wearing clubhouse interviews.


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Birgit's Vocal Technique
Clip: Season 46 Episode 20 | 1m 53s
Watch as German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann explains why Birgit Nilsson was "an unbelievable force of nature" while English-Italian conductor Antonio Pappano breaks down her 1969 performance of "Turandot."
Aired: 03/22/19Video has closed captioning.
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Hydraulic Presses Turn Green with Variable-Frequency Drives
|This small 10-ton hydraulic press, with a 7.5-hp
motor, went to a metalformer that was able to justify the addition of a
variable-frequency drive because the press runs at only 1 to 2
cycles/min. The VFD, an Allen-Bradley PowerFlex model seen in the
top-left corner of the electrical-cabinet photo, generates significant
energy savings for the stamper.
Developed decades ago to allow the use of AC drives rather than DC drives in large machines, VFDs allow accurate control of an AC motor—its acceleration and deceleration, startup times, boost torque and a host of other variables. In manufacturing plants, VFDs can be found anywhere that operating speed needs to be varied—conveyors or mixing operations, for example.
But when it comes to hydraulic presses, many metalformers need more education, which is why we spent some time discussing the topic with Rob Bisbee, senior automation engineer with press builder Greenerd Press, Nashua, NH.
"While our customers with applications less than 50 hp typically cannot justify the investment in a VFD, presses with larger motors and, in particular, with applications that cycle a part every few minutes rather than continuously more readily can see an ROI that makes sense," says Bisbee. "This is because they can shut the motor off during that idle time, and then program it for a slow startup, rather than the more typical inrush of current experienced without a VFD."
Bisbee offers this summary of VFD versus no VFD:
A hydraulic press without a VFD will typically:
• Turn its motor on when power is applied;
• Only turn the motor off when either the power is turned off or when detecting an emergency-stop condition. The motor will continue to run even when the press is idle (the platen not moving).
A hydraulic press with a VFD will typically:
• Start the motor when the press is ready to do some work;
Turn off the motor when movement of the platen is not required;
• Keep the motor off during press idle times; and
• Run the motor at slower speeds when the press is idle, to allow for accumulators to be charged or the oil to be cooled and filtered.
The Benefits are Numerous
With a VFD on a hydraulic press, energy-cost savings by only running the motor when it's needed can accumulate quickly (see the sidebar). More energy savings can be realized by programming the VFD to ramp the motor up to speed (more than 3 to 5 sec. typically), which eliminates the large electrical inrush of current. This can allow a metalformer to minimize its surge (or demand) amperage. Also, the ability to control the speed of the motor enables the motor to run at slower speeds while idle to filter and cool the oil, charge accumulators, or satisfy other small-hp demand requirements.
"With a VFD, the motor can communicate through Ethernet (or with discrete inputs/outputs) to a PLC," adds Bisbee, "allowing touchscreen (and potentially recipe) control of motor on/off timing, idle speeds and fault indications. Also, the VFD will generate its own AC voltage to drive the motor. This naturally isolates the motor from most voltage fluctuations or spikes, prolonging its life."
A Poor-Man's Transformer
Bisbee shared a recent customer success story where a VFD installed on a press destined for an offshore company acted as what he calls a "poor-man's transformer."
"The customer needed to run a press on 415 VAC at 50 Hz, and the motor was rated at 460 VAC, 60 Hz ," he notes. "A VFD installed on the motor allows the factory to run 415 V into the press and put out 460 V on the other side, avoiding the big investment needed for a transformer."
In another recent case, a military-equipment supplier purchased a large hydraulic press with a 150-hp motor and calculated its ROI for a VFD at 18 months. "Cycle rates were low, and the company operates in a high-energy-cost area of the country," says Bisbee.
Where won't a VFD make sense? "In applications where the runs are 15 cycles/min. or greater, it can be hard to justify the cost of a VFD, which can range from two to 10 percent of the overall price of the press (the larger the press, the lower the option cost as a percentage), because there is relatively little press idle time," Bisbee says. "Conversely, on presses running under 15 cycles/min., we begin to see opportunities to take advantage of the electricity savings."
Why Not Something Else?
"Some say, 'Why not use a contactor (or large relay) to turn the motor on and off?'" Bisbee notes. The reason: "While there can be some cost savings because the motor will be turned off while the press is idle, the contactor will not help reduce the inrush currents created by the motor switching on. This can be a very large part of overall energy costs.
"Others say, 'Why not use a motor soft-start device?'" he continues. Reason: "While a motor soft-start device can be less expensive then a VFD and it can help to eliminate inrush currents when the motor turns on and off, the device cannot control motor speed. During idle time, it's important to be able to keep the oil flowing through the chiller. If the oil gets too hot (above 150 F), the metalformer will begin to experience premature degradation of the hydraulic-system components. The first to go usually is the pump—the seals and gaskets won't last. Also, a soft-start device cannot communicate intelligently with a PLC to provide fault indications, etc." MF
See also: Greenerd Press & Machine Co., Inc.
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Andrew Sean Greer discusses "Less" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Andrew Sean Greer is the best-selling author of five works of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. His new novel is "Less" (Lee Boudreaux), winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.


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Dark Matter Clump Furrows Brows
Dark matter. It's hard to see, it's hard to study and it just won't behave. There's plenty dark matter around. It's just that no one knows what it is. It only makes its presence felt through its gravitational pull.
But astronomers have figured out ways to ID dark matter. One tactic is called gravitational lensing. Dark matter's gravitational pull bends light, so clumps of dark matter distort the appearance of galaxies in the background. Researchers measured those distortions with the Hubble Space Telescope. And they recently mapped out the dark matter in a galaxy cluster called A520. Which is actually several galaxy clusters, all smashing together.
The problem was, the dark matter in A520 wasn't where it ought to be. Past studies have shown that clouds of dark matter pass cleanly through one another when galaxy clusters merge. That's because dark matter doesn't collide much with itself or with ordinary matter. But in this case the dark matter seemed to bunch up in the middle, as if it was sticking together. The study appears in the Astrophysical Journal. [M. James Jee et al., "A study of the dark core in A520 with the Hubble Space Telescope: The mystery deepens"]
Why should dark matter behave so differently in different galaxy clusters? On that front, astronomers are still in the dark.
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[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]


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Erickcek, a senior regional analyst at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, said the "recipe" ingredients might be unpalatable to some — such as his suggestion that we ought not to rely solely on specific emerging industries such as the medical and life sciences industry or alternative energy.
Erickcek has spent the last year studying and analyzing the economy within the seven West Michigan counties that make up the West Michigan WIRED region. WIRED — Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development — is a federally funded local initiative backed by a $15 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. The West Michigan WIRED region includes Kent, Ottawa, Allegan, Barry, Ionia, Newaygo and Muskegon counties.
In laying the background of his report, Erickcek said West Michigan is facing a long-term forecast "that none of us wants to accept." The challenge to the region is not competitiveness but rather the structure of its industry, and the key question is: How can we change the industrial structure here?
The future here "is not as bright as we would like," he said, noting that total private non-farm employment in the WIRED West Michigan region is projected to increase at a 0.7 percent annual average rate over the next 10 years. That's better than the rate for Michigan as a whole, which is only 0.4 percent, but worse than the 1.4 percent rate predicted for the nation as a whole.
Industry in the WIRED region is competitive, but the industries are not expected to grow in terms of employment levels.
The challenge facing many firms, due to the global economy, is "automate, emigrate or evaporate," said Erickcek.
Some would argue that this is why we must look to emerging industries, said Erickcek — but he disagrees. He said most economic research indicates that "healthy industry clusters" are the incubators for new ideas and products. Silicon Valley in California is an example, he said, of "one big cluster where a lot of ideas are percolating."
He said office furniture is a cluster industry in West Michigan, and he predicted it will likely yield future innovations.
Erickcek said an example of an unhealthy industry cluster was the paper industry in Kalamazoo, which was still viable when he moved to the area in the 1980s. But the reality was that paper "was a commodity production," and it was controlled by companies that were not based in the area. Erickcek warned that business must focus on "not becoming a commodity producer, no matter how good."
He also said that within healthy clusters of industry, "there is greater potential for the creation of job chains which can reach the unemployed and underemployed."
Success depends on identifying the interaction of three key elements in regional economies, he said: global factors, technological change and regional structure.
Global factors include the aging population in developed countries (which impacts the markets there), growth areas outside of the U.S., growing environmental concerns and political unrest in developing countries.
Technological change is a variable because there can be rapid shifts in competing technologies. "The most promising technology can always be eclipsed by a better technology," he said.
The challenge to alternative energy, for example, is that opportunities for growth are still small, "and there are a lot of competitors."
The more powerful technologies cross traditional industrial lines, he said, which means "technological change in industry is likely to occur in cluster locations."
To grow, a region must expand its export base, which does not necessarily mean exports overseas, he said. It means exports out of the region "to exotic places like Indiana."
Competitiveness, such as lean manufacturing, is important "in the short-term," he said. Innovation, however, is important "in the long-term."
There are new opportunities in addition to the "usual suspects," he said. Existing companies can adapt new technology in their product development, and existing businesses may also be able to develop new markets in the global economy.
In his list of conclusions and recommendations, Erickcek put up a slide that stated, "Avoid jumping on the bandwagon in trying to attract the next best thing."
Thirty-two states are going after life sciences, he noted.
"If industry clusters matter at all, then it is risky to go after industries that are currently not in the region," he said. "Many of the 'usual suspects' are top heavy with highly educated professionals, meaning that 'job chains' that reach the underemployed and unemployed will not be created."
Work to develop an innovative culture, he said, which includes sharing ideas across industries — which he said he realizes requires an environment of trust.
Acquire an understanding of innovation, he urged. The three steps are idea generation, product development and marketing.
"The problem is that firms may not be equally good at all three," he said, which is why he recommends working with other firms to explore new opportunities.
"Work toward the creation of an attractive location for professional workers," he said.
"It is becoming clear that in the knowledge-based global economy, 'amenities' cities will outperform 'productive' cities, especially in developed countries."
Future success of the West Michigan WIRED region will likely depend on its human capital, physical capital and "network capital" — the ability to develop ideas and the partnerships necessary to bring the ideas to fruition.
"We also have to realize the bottom line is employment," said Erickcek.
In response to a question from the floor, Erickcek said the emerging life sciences and health industries here will create many jobs, but he added, "What I worry about is, we don't know what is happening in other places in the world, in terms of research in the life sciences. We could be blind-sided" by new technology that crops up somewhere else.
Rather than trying to figure out "which seed to plant," he said, we should be "creating fertile soil where any seed can grow."
Erickcek told the Business Journal after the program that he wants people to think about economic development as laying the groundwork for cultivation of new ideas, regardless of the industry.
"It's tempting, and we all want to do it, but we can't pick winners. But you can create an environment where winners can occur," he said.


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TYPICALLY, summer Olympic sports spend $1.2 billion between them every four years on untold thousands of drug tests, but less than 1 per cent of them return what is coyly described as a "meaningful result". In la-la land, this means that sport's drug squad is winning the war. In the real world, it means that drug cheats are.
This year, Lance Armstrong, the biggest cheat of all, was caught not by testing but after being confronted with a painstakingly gathered body of forensic and circumstantial evidence. Before Armstrong, Marion Jones, darling of Sydney 2000, was fingered the same way. Over and over, they had tested clean.
Subliminally, this raises a question: what was and is the World Anti-Doping Agency doing? Even before Armstrong, WADA had started to second-guess its own efficacy, admitting to "ineffectiveness". A group chaired by former outspoken WADA chairman Dick Pound currently is reviewing its workings.
Moreover, doctors around the world have questioned WADA's list of banned substances – which is the alpha list for all sports – saying it features many substances that are not demonstrably performance enhancing, or are falsely held to be performance enhancing, or are impossible to test reliably anyway.
Science is not perfect, nor immutable. One Australian doctor says the list includes items that should be recognised as valid treatments for injury, and so is self-defeating.
WADA's list is also under critical self-review. A new, modernised code is expected to be approved at a four-yearly conference on drugs in sport in Johannesburg in November.
But dissatisfaction with WADA among sportsfolk simmers. In the light of the Armstrong case, WADA and the International Cycling Union quarrelled bitterly. Other sports chimed in. In May, the IOC will convene a summit to try to ease some of these tensions. Presumably, there will be plenty of Stilnox on hand.
Meantime, UNIS Pro Sports, claiming to represent 100,000 athletes worldwide, has accused WADA of "mediocrity and lack of accountability", and of failing to protect clean athletes.
Post-Armstrong, an international groundswell is apparent, intent on outflanking drugs cheats from a new direction. Australia finds itself in the vanguard of the movement, perhaps as trailblazer, perhaps as guinea pig. This year will tell.
Following the Australian Crime Commission's damning report on the extent of corruption in Australian sport, the federal government moved swiftly to beef up the powers of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
Specifically, it proposed to give ASADA what are loosely and sinisterly termed "coercive powers", the better to build a cogent case against a drug cheat in the absence of a telltale test result, the way USADA pinned Armstrong.
But the legislation is controversial, to say the least. In submissions to a Senate hearing, athletes and law bodies vehemently oppose the new powers, saying they are too sweeping and draconian. They say they would invert the burden of proof and oblige athletes to self-incriminate, two legal no-nos.
They also say that WADA's new powers provide for even less accountability than those of the ACC and the Federal Police, infringe human rights and would infringe a Bill of Rights, if Australia had one. Athletes particularly object to the stringency of the new provisions, for instance, that each day an athlete failed to comply with an order issued by ASADA would constitute a new offence.
The AOC supports the fortified powers for ASADA, and goes further, urging the government to criminalise non-co-operation. It says the proposed penalty, essentially a $5000 fine, is a negligible punishment in this big-money era.
The ACC also is a supporter of the legislation, saying that it is a crime-fighting agency, that doping in sport, though reprehensible, is not a crime and that sport must be fully empowered to fight its own battles. Catherine Ordway, a lawyer who has worked in anti-doping all over the world, is even more adamant, saying ASADA should be given powers of "search and siezure", and that cheating should be criminalised.
All say that the possibility of self-recrimination is not germane because, as is the case for the ACC, none of what ASADA discovers via coercive powers would be admissible in a criminal or civil prosecution. It would be to help to form a picture.
In these pages on Sunday, Olympic rower and law student James Marburg lucidly described the extent to which even the humblest athletes forswear everyday liberties to oblige drug-testers. Acutely conscious of a greater cause, most submit to these indignities without demur.
Under a revamped WADA, they would have to bare themselves still further, until some must wonder which of disease and cure was worse.
As the war on performance-enhancing drugs moves from laboratory to interrogation room, this suggests a reworking of a recently infamous slogan, now a question: Is this the whatever that it takes?
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Yikes! Courtney Love Attacks Daughter Frances Bean & Begs Her To Come Home For Her 18th Birthday!
Now that Frances Bean is 18, she's taking the money and running! Does your heart go out to desperate mom Courtney?
Some moms say "happy birthday" with a card. Courtney Love, however, has chosen to celebrate daughter Frances Bean Cobain's 18th birthday (which was Aug. 18) with an incoherent rant on Twitter. "Youve done a dammed good job frances of destroying anything i could build that is positive," Courtney, 46, tweeted at her daughter Aug. 19. "why would you leave me and my life in tatters like this and get angrier and angrier to justify it, i feel you missing me and i miss you too."
The lead singer of Hole continued on, begging her daughter — who has inherited her late father Kurt Cobain's massive fortune now that she's turned 18 — to come home to her.
"just come home," Courtney tweeted. "it took a year but i got the sickest townhouse in the village, theres 4 floors, just come home, i pray to god snap out of it. i love you little bean, but please stop this madness over so much more money than your little self can comprehend."
For those of you unfamiliar with Courtney and Frances' situation, allow me to bring you up to speed:
- Frances is the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in April 1994.
- Courtney had custody of Frances, until she lost it in Dec. 2009.
- The court placed Frances in the care of Kurt's mom Wendy and sister Kimberly.
- Frances also got a restraining order against Courtney.
It's a sad situation, for sure, but also a cautionary tale for all young moms in Hollywood. All the money in the world can't make you a good parent. And once you've severed a relationship with your child, it'll take some time for them to forgive you and come back.
So tell us, HollywoodLifers, does your heart go out to Courtney, or is this exactly the wake-up call she needs to clean up her act?


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While we're on the steroid beat, DC Sports Bog has a pretty amazing snippet of a Paul LoDuca conversation from the day before the Mitchell Report came out. When in danger, or threatened, just make sure to almost be hit by a car.
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"You know, to be honest, I probably should stay away from it, so I'll have no comment, but to me I don't think it's really an issue. You know, all this stuff that's been going on for the last three years, the probing [of] guys, doing this and that, it's the kind of thing—Ooh, whoa, I'm driving, I almost got hit by a car!"
We have no better joke than Dan Steinberg's: "Upon receiving a follow-up question, Lo Duca did not change the topic by claiming he was in the middle of an asteroid attack."
Paul LoDuca Says Get Over It [DC Sports Bog]