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China Exports To Face Tough 2014 as Yuan Climbs
China's export growth was disappointing in the final month of 2013due to lackluster demand from developed markets, data released Friday showed.
But there could be more problems in store for China's exporters in 2014 as the yuan currency's continued appreciation against the U.S. dollar makes the country's goods more expensive in world markets.
China's exporters have to contend with rising wages and other costs that have crept up in recent years. The appreciation of the yuan, or renminbi, is another headache, which makes China's goods more expensive overseas and reduces profits in local-currency terms.
"Rising wages and the yuan are a tremendous problem for us," said Uwe Hutzler, the general manager of a Chinese company that supplies leather to clothing manufacturers. "We have to pay our expenses and salaries in renminbi but our invoices are in dollars."
China still remains an export powerhouse for manufacturing goods like electronics. The nation's share of world trade remains above 10% despite cost pressures. Foreign companies say they need to invest in China because of its large scale of production and integrated supply networks.
Data released Friday showed China's total trade exceeded $4 trillion in 2013, overtaking the U.S. as the world's largest trading country.
But there are signs of potential problems ahead for the nation's export sector. Weak demand from the U.S. and Europe is a concern.
Exports in December grew 4.3% compared with a year earlier, the latest data showed, down from 12.7% year-over year growth in November. That is partly explained by distortions in the data, with an unusually strong month in December 2012 providing an unflattering comparison.
ANZ Bank pointed out export growth in 2013 as a whole was 7.6%, the second straight year exports have undershot an 8% target. The bank put this down to "diminishing trade competitiveness" as the yuan appreciates.
In real terms -- taking account of inflation -- the currency appreciated 18.5% against the dollar between June 2010 and November 2013, according to calculations by Karim Foda, a researcher at Brookings Institution. Against some Asian currencies -- notably the Indonesian rupiah and the Indian rupee, which fell sharply last year -- the declines have been even larger.
More than 500 Chinese companies surveyed by Global Sources, a China-based firm that runs an online marketplace for exporters, cited the strength of the yuan as the most pressing challenge of 2014. A year earlier the currency issue was only number four on the list, eclipsed by rising costs, price competition and slow orders from Europe and the U.S.
To deal with rising costs, many manufacturers based in coastal southern China are moving production to cheaper inland facilities or to cheaper countries like Cambodia, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Since the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis, shoemakers in Guangdong region have moved about one third of their production to the interior of China and another third to Southeast Asia, said Li Peng, secretary general of Asian Footwear Industry Association.
"A lot of shoemakers near the coastal areas barely make any profits," he said. "They are struggling to survive."
Chetan Ahya, an economist with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, says it's too early for manufacturers to have shifted orders from China based on currency movements, but this could become a bigger factor in 2014.
Chinese officials point out that a stronger yuan also means cheaper imports. China's government is attempting to move the country away from reliance on state-led industry and exports toward larger domestic consumption. Cheaper imports of foreign goods will help achieve this goal.
"Yuan appreciation will surely lift exports prices and undermine our exports competitiveness," said Zheng Yuesheng, a spokesman for the Customs Administration. "But... yuan appreciation also helps lower our imports costs."
Policy makers, though, are keen the shift away from exports and heavy industry doesn't lead to economic dislocations and rising unemployment.
There already are worrying signs that China's role as the world's factory floor is being undercut. Foreign investment into Chinese manufacturing dropped 5.7% year-over-year in the first 11 months of 2013 to $64.7 billion, the most recent data available, after a 7.1% decline in 2012. In contrast, Vietnam's FDI surged by more than 80% last year as manufacturers rushed to take advantage of lower costs.
The production of the low-end household goods that were long the mainstay of China's economic growth has stagnated. In the first eleven months of 2013, China sent 15% fewer electronic calculators abroad than in the same period a year earlier, 12% fewer umbrellas, and 21% fewer cigarette lighters.
Mr. Zheng, the customs spokesman, acknowledged that the currency issue is a serious one for companies, citing a government survey which found that yuan appreciation significantly impacted costs for 60% of exporters.
"To deal with the issue, I can only recommend that exporters actively upgrade their products and produce more value-added exports," he said.
--Liyan Qi and Yajun Zhang contributed to this story.


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Bethel government continues Sewergate
I say NO. Town Hall's vindictive culture of "deny, delay and defend" is as pervasive as ever.
They have repeatedly covered up the fact that during the 2003 Old Hawleyville Road Sewer Project, the PUC violated property owners' statutory rights by not sending notice of the right to appeal to Superior Court within 21 days. As a result, my family was virtually denied the right to appeal our excessive $76,998 sewer assessment.
So just ask Mr. Burke about the sworn affidavit obtained in May 2007 by the Town Counsel in response to my December 2006 Freedom of Information complaint.
The affidavit admitted that a search of the files produced "no record showing that notice was mailed to the property owners pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes Section 7-250 of the right to appeal the assessment within 21 days."
Instead of giving you a straight answer, he and the rest of the PUC will probably retreat into executive session.
In fact, the PUC's 2003 minutes for the meetings leading up to and including the Aug. 18 public hearing don't specifically acknowledge the property owners' right to appeal within 21 days.
Contrary to statute, no mention of this time limit appeared in the legal notice of approved assessments filed in the Town Clerk's office on Aug. 26, 2003, and subsequently published in the paper.
Recently, I appeared before the PUC on Sept. 10 to address this egregious error. You won't find a single reference to this 21 day issue in the minutes of that meeting either.
"Sewergate" is symptomatic of what continues to be wrong in Bethel Town Hall.
Patricia McNerney Coppola

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Uribe sends Dodgers to NLCS
Mon., Oct. 7, 2013
LOS ANGELES — Juan Uribe hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning after Clayton Kershaw started on short rest for the Dodgers in a 4-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Monday night, sending Los Angeles into the National League championship series for the first time since 2009.
Yasiel Puig doubled down the right-field line leading off the eighth against losing pitcher David Carpenter. The rookie charged into second base and pumped his right fist in the air in celebration. Fans were on their feet chanting "Let's go Dodgers!" when Uribe fouled off two bunt attempts, then sent a 2-2 pitch into the Dodgers' bullpen in left field to put them in front for the second time.
Brian Wilson pitched the eighth to get the victory. Kenley Jansen came on in the ninth to earn the save.
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Linfield new boy Louis Rooney had a debut to remember after scoring a quickfire hat-trick in the 6-0 hammering of Lisburn Distillery in the League Cup.
It was an easy night's work for Linfield as they top-scored by smashing the Whites for six.
Matthew Clarke, Andy Mitchell and Josh Robinson on target before Rooney stole the show with three strikes for the Premiership leaders.
The striker signed from Plymouth Argyle last week and he bagged an eight-minute treble to make the perfect start to his Windsor Park career.
"I'm absolutely delighted - to get on the pitch was great but to get three goals was perfect. opefully it is the first of many.
"It was good to get on the scoresheet and said Rooney.
Ards claimed their first win of the new season with a comfortable 5-0 victory over Queen's University.
Ards opened the scoring in the 17th minute when Kyle Cherry unleashed an unstoppable 20-yard volley that rocketed into the top corner.
Cherry added another goal in the 27th minute. David McAllister produced a fine cross from the left wing that the midfielder guided home with his head.
Michael McLellan opened his Ards account in the 54th minute. Cherry lobbed the ball towards the back post and the former Linfield striker was on hand to tap home from a yard.
McLellan scored his second in the 74th minute when he headed home a superb McAllister cross.
McLellan turned provider in the 79th minute. He whipped the ball in from the right and his former Harland & Wolff Welders team-mate was on hand to volley high into the net at the back post.
Cliftonville donned their shooting boots at Solitude last night as they defeated Banbridge Town 4-0.
It was Chris Curran who opened the scoring on 10 minutes before Donnelly's close-range header extended the hosts' advantage.
Donnelly then made it 3-0 with a strike early in the second period before Joe Gormley wrapped things up by applying the final touch.
Institute needed penalties to end Moyola Park's Challenge after a 1-1 draw after extra time.
Coleraine reached the third round of the BetMcLean.com League Cup after a convincing 4-1 victory over Larne at The Showgrounds.
After a subdued opening half hour, Oran Kearney's men scored three times in six minutes to put the tie beyond the Bluefin Sport Championship side.
The goal blitz started on 31 minutes when Joe McCready tapped home from close range after Eoin Bradley missed a spot kick, before David Abe could only deflect Ian Parkhill's shot into his own net.
McCready was to bag his second on 37 minutes when he ran onto Brad Lyons' through ball and finished into the bottom corner.
The Bannsiders added a fourth midway through the second-half as a strong run from Ian Parkhill teed up Darren McCauley who stroked home into the bottom corner.
Tiernan Lynch's side managed to grab a consolation goal on 75 minutes when striker Daniel Reynolds volleyed home past Chris Johns, but that was as good as it got for the visitors as Coleraine ran out worthy winners.
Dundela shocked Premiership boys Crusaders by taking the lead on 16 minutes at Seaview when Jordan Hughes drilled home a pass from big striker Mark McClelland.
Mark McAllister then drilled home a beauty for the Crues and only 60 seconds after the interval with Ryan Nimick sweeping home.
Darren Henderson produced the finishing touch to a frantic first half that served up five goals -securing Portadown safe passage past a spirited Harland and Wolff Welders side.
Ross Larkin marked his first start of the season by breaking the deadlock then the teenage centre-back suffered own goal misery to level the match.
Peter Duffin then scored for the Ports but the Welders hit back again to make it 2-2, but Portadown grabbed the final goal of the game through Henderson after good work by Lavery.
Ballinamallard United progressed to the last 16 of the Bet McLean Cup last night, but Premier Intermediate side Tobermore Unitd made them battle all the way.
Normal and extra-time failed to settle the stalemate as the game finish scoreless and it went into penalty kicks.
The sides were still level after 14 kicks before McLaughlin scored for the Fermanagh men and keeper Crawford save the visiting effort for an 8-7 victory.
Cup holders, Ballymena United, put their poor league form behind them to book a third round place winning 3-0 aginst Knockbreda.
The Sky Blues made a dream start at The Showgrounds with Caithar Friel scoring after just 32 seconds.
David Jeffrey's side made sure of victory - and their first win of the season - in the second half with goals from Joe McKinney and Willie Faulkner.
Glentoran suffered a shock exit at this stage last season and must have been fearing the same fate as their tie at Loughgall ended scoreless after 90 minutes.
However, John McGuigan grabbed the all important winner in extra-time.
Glenavon suffered an early blow before bouncing back to beat Donegal Celtic 5-1 at Mourneview Park.
Declan Monaghan stunned the home fans by giving Celtic the lead, but the Lurgan Blues came storming back thanks to a first half hat-trick from Mark Sykes and a Jack O'Mahony equaliser to lead 4-1 at the break.
Glenavon dominated the second half but added just one more to their tally through Bobby Burns.
Dungannon Swifts were on top to win 4-0 at Newry City, Ballyclare Comrades got the better of Newington 2-0 and PSNI had a narrow 1-0 win at Limavady United.
The other two ties to go the distance were decided with a penalty shoot-out as Institute beat Moyola Park and Ballinamallard United edged past Tobermore United.
Ards 5-0 Queen's University
B'mallard 0-0 Tobermore (AET, Ballinamallard won 8-7 on penalties)
Ballyclare 2-0 Newington
Ballymena 3-0 Knockbreda
Carrick 3-0 Dergview
Cliftonville 4-0 Banbridge Town
Coleraine 4-1 Larne
Crusaders 2-1 Dundela
Glenavon 5-1 Donegal Celtic
Limavady 0-1 PSNI
Linfield 6-0 Lisburn Distillery
Loughgall 0-1 Glentoran (AET)
Moyola Park 1-1 Institute (AET)
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Portadown 3-2 H&W Welders
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Children's author Dana Thomas has recurring nightmares about a man drowning. She doesn't know who he is, only that she sees a Greek god perfect body laying at the bottom of a body of water.
Elite class swimmer Jeff Dickson, who gave up a career in the Navy as a fighter pilot to return his first love, swimming, also has a recurring dream of death by drowning. His death.
Dana takes the dreams as a calling to find and save this swimmer from his death. Always a free spirit, her current, routine bound, practical, never do anything on a whim, boyfriend deep-sixes their relationship when Dana sets off to find, and save this man who's invaded her nighttime.
Jeff's last relationship self-destructed when the woman got fed up with being second place to his global travel and brutal training and competition schedule.
This is the setup for The Open Water Swimmer by Sabrina Devonshire.
What follows is a wonderful, at times funny, story of Dana hunting down, finding and becoming a hovering guardian of Jeff, all while trying not to look, or sound, like a stalking psycho.
This is also the story of their budding relationship. Jeff's finally met someone that "gets it". Dana understands that he needs to do what he needs to do, which is be a professional, competitive swimmer, and everything that comes with it.
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For those who are considering teaching in Vietnam it is compulsory for you to have gained a degree where a subject was studied for a minimum of four years - although the subject itself can be anything and doesn't have to be within an English topic, however if it is then this will greatly add to your desirability for prospective employers. Another credential non-waiver able is a fairly obvious one and is that you must be a fluent English speaker although you do not have to be a native English speaker. Native English speakers are sometimes more preferable for teaching in Vietnam but this tends to be within establishments who can be more selective such as those in inner cities or within the private side of teaching.
Teaching in Vietnam provides the highest pay bracket throughout Southeast Asia and those in more affluent institutions can expect to earn around $3,000 per month, with an average rent on an inner city apartment being around $500 per month, this leaves a lot of disposable income. Wages and living costs will be lower the further you venture out of the cities and more into rural regions, but at the same time a person's credentials and attributes considered desirable enough for hire will also reduce. If you have a lower experience, no teaching qualifications and are under the age of 21 then looking further away from the cities will prove more successful when finding employment for teaching in Vietnam but many positions will even be voluntary roles which although will benefit you in the long term being a fantastic thing to add to your resume, they're not going to pay off at the time so this may not always be an option.
The more you do to prepare for a role in teaching in Vietnam the better, this means things like thoroughly looking into the Visa required and how to obtain it - visas can take many weeks to arrive so always make this your first thing to tick off the list. You would be wise to also research the accommodation and culture of your desired area before you arrive, migrating to live and work abroad can be a daunting thing but one where doubts can be stopped with a little research. Knowledge is key, without fully understanding how life could be for you when teaching in Vietnam it could turn into a short lived and not an enjoyable experience.
The world is becoming increasingly global and many different nationalities mix, especially in the big cities throughout the Western world. It is important that these cities have communities that can able to understand and tolerate each other so harmonious relations can be maintained. Living in another country and being immersed in their culture whilst teaching in Vietnam not only helps us to appreciate the similarities which we share with other people but also celebrate and respect the differences too. Within any industry, there are opportunities to link with people from other countries and cultures. When you get to know another culture, you learn more about yourself and appreciate your own culture and those around you.
A Buddhist celebration that takes place in the north of the country is the Huong Pagoda festival and it plays an important role in the spiritual life of the Vietnamese people. This is divided into two parts, the ceremony and the entertainment. At the ceremony monks and Buddhists offer incense, flowers, candles, fruit and perform dances. Following on from the ceremony there is often a boat cruise along the Yen Stream or even climbing on top of Huong Tich Mountain which will bring fulfilment and great success in life. If you're teaching in Vietnam, this is a great thing to attend. When attending the festival it is essential to taste the bamboo shoot, Sang vegetables and grinding roots, which are all dishes, linked to this festival.
Living and working in a local community whilst teaching in Vietnam will help to become fully immerse in the language and customs of the area. You will learn to communicate with local people who perhaps are unable to speak English at all. The need to integrate with the community will naturally help you to pick up words and phrases to make your life easier. The local community will appreciate your efforts to learn their language and this will help make the whole experience even more special and valuable. As you experience learning a new language yourself, you will be able to empathise with your pupils and better appreciate the challenges they face when learning English.
There are plenty of places to visit whilst you're teaching in Vietnam and the surrounding countries of South East Asia, which will keep you occupied. You will find the people to be friendly and welcoming, just as many other South East Asian countries. The scenery is stunning and the food is tasty and affordable. Local restaurants offer meals at very low prices compared to other countries. Vietnam has a tropical climate, which means 'summer-like' conditions all year round. The pollution in Vietnam's city is much less than other cities in South East Asia and it is an incredibly safe country with very low crime rates.
There's a lot to consider, and looking at things without professional and knowledgeable help on your side can be extremely daunting. You're not alone though and there are many reputable sources of advice and assistance for all migrants, with more specialist agencies in place to help those specifically looking into teaching in Vietnam. These are places who will cover every avenue beneficial to living and working abroad such as how to get the correct medical care, how to interact accordingly with the locals and explain what is and what isn't illegal - as this is likely to differ greatly from the laws in your own land.
Vietnam is one of the world's most beautiful countries, and this is likely to have aided your decision when confirming your choice of teaching in Vietnam. It is a country with a wide and varied history and many traditional customs and cultures, you're looking at teaching in Vietnam but you will also be living here so it is extremely wise to have some background knowledge. This will help you with your transition to life teaching in Vietnam and also help you to be welcomed by the locals who will be your neighbours making the life experience a harmonious one instead of awkward.
To conclude, teaching in Vietnam is something that you should fully research, to be fully aware of how the life change is likely to be for you. You can find genuine assistance, advice and guidance from a reputable source such as immigration specialists or even searching the Internet to find advice from those who have been there and done it themselves.
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This is such a good guide of sorts without having to spend hours and hours researching it online. Thanks for compiling it all online. Was looking at researching a new country to teach in next year. You've just given me a potential. Cheers!
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HEBRON – With frustrations over high water bills already boiling over, the village is backed up on a $175,000 payment toward its wastewater treatment plant.
Now Hebron officials are looking to restructure the loan the village received to build the plant in 2005 through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency – a proposition that has proved challenging to another nearby municipality.
The village had so far been making interest-only payments.
"We're waiting to find out what we can do," Hebron Trustee Susan Ritzert said. "It's a rough situation and people are unhappy."
In 2005, Hebron officials elected to build a new plant for about $4.5 million rather than redo the village's 20-year-old system for about $2 million, a decision that was supposed to allow the village to grow. At the time, the 1,100-person village had developments lined up to at least double the population.
But the housing bust shifted the burden to existing residents and drove up water bills.
It's a scenario known all too well by nearby Richmond, which received a $7.5 million loan through the IEPA in 2007 for its plant to be paid back over 20 years. The village got an original five-year extension to pay interest only on its loan, Village President Peter Koenig said.
But about a year ago, with the economy still down and the village unable to afford the coming $450,000 payments, officials made a presentation to the IEPA in an attempt to rework the loan in order to get principal forgiveness or a term extension.
They received a counteroffer which would have reduced payments to $375,000 a year, "which is still out of our reach," Koenig said. Instead, the IEPA granted Richmond an extension to pay interest only for one more year. Officials have made other attempts to get the village ready to take on bigger payments this spring, but attempts to modify the loan continue.
"One of the things that I think is preventing the EPA from working with us is that they know we are not the only community in this situation," Koenig said.
With the $175,000 bill – a semiannual payment – now about two months past due to the IEPA, Hebron has been in touch with state Sen. Pam Althoff, R-McHenry, for help.
Althoff, who helped facilitate talks between the EPA and Richmond, has high hopes something can be reached with regards to Hebron. She is meeting with village officials soon.
"I am absolutely confident the state of Illinois can do all in its power to come to some kind of agreement that doesn't bankrupt the village," she said.
For his part, Village President John Jacobson has been in talks with the IEPA already and wants to work with Althoff to find a solution.
"I don't want to cause any more cost to our people, our village," he said.
It's unknown what it would mean if the loan isn't ultimately modified, but residents within Hebron continue to express disdain for high water costs. A Hebron resident wrote a letter to the editor to the Northwest Herald earlier this month complaining of a bill over $500 and saying she's moving in the spring.
Another resident, Tammy Lillie, pays about $310 every three months for her bill in a four-person household.
"Nothing makes sense to us," Lillie said. "The last water bill, it doesn't make sense that it was $66 for water and the rest was all sewage."
Residents have been strapped with high water bills related to the project for years. Some have said the bills were a defining factor in the spring election, during which longtime incumbent Frank Beatty was overtaken by Jacobson.
Jacobson had pending charges for felony possession of crack cocaine during the election. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Had he been convicted of a felony, Jacobson would have been removed from office.
"Everyone that was supporting him said, 'Just be quiet, he's going to lower our water bill,' " Lillie said.


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D-backs fall to Mets in Collmenter's first start
Righty allows three runs in four innings as Arizona drops to 1-9 at home
PHOENIX -- The D-backs shook up their rotation in hopes of sparking their sagging fortunes.
Those moves may pay dividends, but Monday it was more of the same as the D-backs fell, 7-3, to the Mets at Chase Field.
The loss was the fourth straight for the D-backs, who are now 1-9 at home this year and have the Majors' worst record at 4-12.
"We're not in sync at all," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "Defensively we made two errors tonight, didn't help the cause. Again, when you're in a streak the way we're in a streak, it does affect the way they play. It doesn't come as natural."
Josh Collmenter, who was moved to the rotation to take the place of Randall Delgado, could only go four innings before his pitch count reached 73, and the D-backs were not going to push him past that in his first start of the year.
Over the last three seasons, Collmenter had been a jack-of-all-trades for the D-backs and always seems to come up big when they need him.
And while he didn't pitch poorly, neither did he dazzle.
"Well, not good enough," Gibson said of Collmenter's performance. "He didn't get the ball exactly where he wanted it. Balls were up in the zone out over the plate, but they swung the bats well. We asked him to do a lot. I didn't think he was really in sync tonight, but he went out there and busted his tail."
Collmenter allowed three runs on five hits in his four innings.
"I felt good," Collmenter said. "Inefficient, which didn't allow me to go as deep in the game as I wanted to. I threw too many pitches the first handful of innings, but overall, I felt pretty good. I hit a lot of my spots. They fouled some pitches off. I just didn't get outs early. I made a lot of pitches. I was happy with my command for the most part. There were a couple pitches out over the plate that they hit, but other than that, I was pretty happy with it."
Mike Bolsinger, who is taking over for Trevor Cahill in the rotation beginning Saturday, was called up from Triple-A Reno on Monday, and he made his big league debut behind Collmenter and allowed a pair of runs while tossing three innings.
Bolsinger's nerves showed early in his outing.
After striking out the first batter he faced, the next four batters reached base as the Mets scored a pair of runs.
"I had a little bit of nerves. I mean, who wouldn't?" Bolsinger said. "But it was fun, I had a great time."
Catcher Miguel Montero went out and reminded the rookie to slow the game down, and that seemed to help as he held the Mets scoreless in the sixth and seventh innings before departing.
Bolsinger's next outing will come Saturday, when he starts against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, but he doesn't figure to be quite as nervous after making his debut.
"I think that's big to go out there and get the first one out of the way," Bolsinger said. "Get the nerves out and then go out there for the next one and get after it."
The D-backs didn't get much offense going against Zack Wheeler and Carlos Torres, and what little they did came thanks to Montero, who went 3-for-3 with all three of the team's RBIs.
"We just couldn't get the rest of the offense going," Gibson said. "They pitched us pretty decent. That Wheeler has a good arm. Torres came in and threw pretty good as well. They held us down."
Wheeler (1-2) allowed two runs on six hits in 6 1/3 innings.
"I would have liked to have finished the seventh," Wheeler said. "But my pitch count started getting up there and I walked that guy, so it's understandable."
What the D-backs are having trouble understanding is why they are struggling so much this early in the season. The answers have proven elusive, but they maintain the effort is still there.
"Everybody wants to be the guy that puts his foot in the ground and turns it around," Collmenter said. "There's no quit. Everybody's trying, you can tell. It's just frustrating not to get the results."


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Having his hips resurfaced helped keep firefighter Ken on the job.
Ken Knott, a firefighter for the city of Mercer Island, WA, is not the sit-down-and-rest type, especially when it comes to his job. But just shy of his 50th birthday, the devoted fireman suddenly had trouble keeping up with a schedule that included scaling tall buildings as a rope rescuer and diving for the SCUBA rescue team. "When I couldn't even walk on flat ground without pain or bend down to roll up a fire hose, I knew I had a big problem," says Ken.
"It just tore me up"
As his pain grew, the local hero was forced to face a harsh reality: He could no longer act on his passion for saving lives. "My co-workers were scared to ask me to assist with carrying patients down the stairs on stretchers, because of the fear that I would drop them," says Ken. "That was humiliating." Beyond the physical pain, there was the emotional anguish of being unable to confidently help others. "I got to the point where someone I was rescuing asked me, 'Are you okay?' It just tore me up."
During his struggles, Ken couldn't pinpoint what was causing his pain. Was it an old high school football knee injury? His feet? His legs? He was stunned when the orthopedist diagnosed him with osteoarthritis of the hip. But the biggest surprise of all was that Ken was told he should do nothing about it—for the next 10 years.
"The orthopedist said hip replacement surgery was my best option, but that I should wait until I was older to do it," says Ken. "But I didn't know if I could get around for another week!" That night, Ken went to work researching more immediate options.
"I'm back, and it feels awesome"
Ken's search for a second opinion led him to Paul Manner, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine clinic. Dr. Manner explained to Ken that an alternative to replacement surgery would be to resurface his hips. Hip resurfacing is much like crowning a tooth—as it serves as the initial step in preserving healthy bone to allow for a future hip replacement.
Ken didn't know this option even existed. "I realized that by resurfacing my hips, I'd buy time until I needed my hips to be totally replaced, and I'd have more flexibility and range of motion," he says. "Plus, I'd avoid outliving them." (Joint replacements typically last 10 to 20 years until revision surgery is necessary.)
In December 2010, Ken had resurfacing surgery on his left hip first, followed by his right hip two years later. After intense rehab, Ken, now 53, says he's regained a whopping 95% of his regular range of motion. The best part, he says: "Now, I can carry patients down stairs, pull hoses and move without pain. I'm back and it feels awesome."
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UPDATED 22/04/14: THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. The answer was 330 shoes (115 pairs) and the winner was Ioan Stefanovici.Thanks for all your entries!
With this year's Pointe Shoe Appeal open, we're offering a chance to win a pair of tickets to a Royal Ballet in Rehearsal event on 24 April 2014, part of our ROH Insights series.
To highlight the campaign, we've collected the pointe shoes that the Company get through in a week. These are on display in a box in the foyer by the ROH Box Office and are taller than each of the dancers who are fronting this year's appeal - Francesca Hayward, Marcelino Sambé and Yasmine Naghdi!
As well as winning tickets to the rehearsal event, the competition winner and their guest will receive a backstage tour and tea and cake.
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The deadline for entries will be 21 April 2014. The winner will be selected at random from all correct entries received.
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Internalizing the Externalized: The Case of Roads
In a previous blog post, my discussion of externalities, public goods and roads spurred an unexpectedly lengthy set of posts and repostes. In this article, I want to address a trickier topic: Whether road users have effectively shifted the burden for paying for roads to non-users and whether the reason we pay for roads out of general taxes is a result of that lobbying effort.
In a previous blog post, my discussion of externalities, public goods and roads spurred an unexpectedly lengthy set of posts and repostes. In this article, I want to address a trickier topic: Whether road users have effectively shifted the burden for paying for roads to non-users and whether the reason we pay for roads out of general taxes is a result of that lobbying effort.
Some planners have referred to this process (if I interpret their comments correctly) as "externalizing" the costs of providing services and goods. Essentially, the idea boils down to whether a private good is paid for by the general public when the general public doesn't benefit from its provision; it's a version of privatizing the benefit while socializing the cost. At its core, this is a question of subsidization.
I'll continue to use roads because that's the case in which the term emerged, and this topic seems to create the most controversy in the planning community. And, let me acknowledge from the outset the obvious: The vast majority of roads are subsidized in the sense they are funded by government. The question is the degree of subsidization by non-users and whether those subsidies should continue.
On the surface, the case for automobile users externalizing the cost for roads makes sense. Tolls, gas taxes, and other user fees made up just 52.5 percent of the revenues spent on highways nationwide in 2008 according to the Federal Highway Administration (Table HF-1). The share ranged from just 28 percent in Arizona to 82.3 percent in West Virginia. Moreover, the U.S. General Accountability Office recently found that federal general fund transfers to the Highway Trust Fund have been significant enough to make every state a "donor" state based on pure dollars flowing in and out of the account.
But, this breakdown is a little too facile. Not all roads serve the same purpose or lend themselves to user-fee applications. Moreover, the public benefit properties of roads have been recognized for centuries (and even discussed by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations). The U.S. Constitution explicitly enables the U.S. Congress to authorize funding for Post Roads. The economic returns to the investment in the Interstate Highway System ran into the double digits during its early decades (financed by the gas tax) as the efficiencies of improved mobility translated into stronger bottom lines for U.S. business. Road building dramatically curtailed urban traffic congestion to the point only Los Angeles faced severe regional traffic congestion in 1982. The returns to highway investments have declined in recent decades. While the causes are not well known, many analysts believe the increased politicization of road funding and diminishing marginal returns to investments as a national network play important roles.
As a practical matter, if a strict user fee approach to road finance had been in place prior to the mid-20th century, quite simply very few roads would have been built, let alone improved or adapted to changing economic circumstances. A fascinating short history of U.S. tollroads and their economic demise in the 19ths century can be found in Daniel B. Klein's extensive work and his summary at EH.net with John Majewski.) The economic and social implications of severely curtailed road building would have been decidedly negative.
But, as the saying goes: Then was then, and now is now.
Personally, I support privatizing the entire road system. I've been publicly supportive of a distance-based fee (probably based on vehicle miles traveled) that is set to ensure free-flow travel. I believe that a price at this level would be "market clearing," eliminate the need for public subsidies, rationalize modal choice, improve land-use efficiency base on more transparent transportation costs, and generally improve urban economic competitiveness. (By implication, our failure to price roads has led to a general oversupply of roads although the local circumstances vary.)
Nevertheless, the reality is that systemwide road pricing is not quite technically feasible, currently impractical, and economically infeasible for most of the road system in 2010. The technology is close (within 20 years), as the recent road-user fee pilot project in Oregon demonstrated, but we aren't quite there yet. Limited access highways? Yes. Collector roads? Maybe. Local roads? No.
Which gets us back to the original issue at hand: If mobility has general social and economic benefits, and roads are key elements of providing that mobility, than the idea that we fund roads largely because a narrowly defined group of users have manipulated the process to off-load those expenses to nonusers is pretty weak. We tend to forget that the basic skeleton (and design) of most urban road systems predated the widespread use of the automobile. Moreover, in the case of federal interstate highways at least, the gas tax covered virtually all the construction costs until recently. Indeed, a recent Reason Foundation analysis of a re-purposed Highway Trust Fund suggests that gas taxes could cover the needs of the federal Interstate Highway System if current gas tax revenues were rededicated to that function. So, in the broad sense, users paid (and could continue to pay) for federal interstates.
But, roads are more than federal interstates.Local and neighborhood roads provide different levels of service, and we don't yet have the technology to apply real user fees to these roads. Local roads are still largely public goods for practical purposes.
So, are road users externalizing their costs? Road investments have historically predated the widespread use of the automobile and modern-day urbanization in concept if not scale. The grid street pattern pre-dated the automobile as well as the system of roads knitting rural villages and towns to urban areas.
I don't believe road users externalized the costs of roads as much as governments recognized their social benefits (for commercial purposes as well as passengers) and the practical inability of the private sector to provide those facilities and services. As a consequence, governments dedicated funds to building what was considered social infrastructure that served rural and urban purposes.
Now, the rationale for non-user based public expenditures on roads and highways is weakening, and weaker by the decade with each new spurt in technology. While we can expect intense lobbying by current users to retain the subsidies they have, that's not the same as arguing that the reason we subsidize public infrastructure is because of special-interest lobbying for a redistribution of funds away from non-users to support their own narrow projects. The more productive discussion, I believe, is over whether the rationale for public funding of roads exists any longer and how to phase it out.


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One day after the big Park Street Auto Show, the All-Italian Car And Motorcycle Show takes place just across town. No way could I resist a middle-school playground packed with weird Fiats!
Speaking of weird Fiats, there's nothing wrong with an X1/9 that a supercharger can't fix!
And just to show that the 24 Hours Of LeMons is taking over the universe (or at least the portion of the universe comprised of Northern California car shows), here's a shot of the Italian Stallions X1/9 LeMons car. We'll be seeing this quad-carbed monster at the Arse Freeze-a-Palooza next month!
What could be better than a Maserati straight six engine? A Maserati straight six engine with Lucas fuel injection, of course! I can't see a single weak point in that plan! OK, here's a gallery for you. We'll be seeing more of that orange Fiat 128 Sport a little later; very interesting story there.


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Beckinsale, R.D.; Thorpe, R.S.; Pankhurst, R.J.; Evans, J.A.. 1981 Rb-Sr whole-rock isochron evidence for the age of the Malvern Hills complex. Journal of the Geological Society, 138 (1). 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.138.1.0069
Beer, K.E.; Bennett, M.J.; Ball, T.K.; Jones, R.C.; Turton, K.. 1981 Metalliferous mineralisation near Lutton, Ivybridge, Devon. Institute of Geological Sciences, 38pp. (WF/MR/81/041) (Unpublished)
Bennett, M.J.; Beer, K.J.; Jones, R.C.; Turton, K.; Rollin, K.E.; Tombs, J.M.C.; Patrick, D.J.. 1981 Mineral investigations near Bodmin, Cornwall. Part 3, the Mulberry and Wheal Prosper area. Institute of Geological Sciences, 48pp. (WF/MR/81/048) (Unpublished)
Buckley, D.K.. 1981 Report on a visit to assess groundwater potential of the Kenya coast south of Malindi. Institute of Geological Sciences, 139pp. (WD/OS/81/007) (Unpublished)
Carruthers, R.M.. 1981 Report on a visit to Malawi (October-December 1980) to advise on the use of geophysics in groundwater development. Institute of Geological Sciences, 81pp. (WK/AG/81/123) (Unpublished)
Coats, J.S.; Smith, C.G.; Gallagher, M.J.; May, F.; McCourt, W.J.; Parker, M.E.; Fortey, N.J.. 1981 Stratabound barium-zinc mineralisation in Dalradian schist near Aberfeldy, Scotland. Final report. Institute of Geological Sciences, 128pp. (WF/MR/81/040) (Unpublished)
Edmunds, W.M.. 1981 Proposals for SUDAN-IGS-ACSAD Water Resources project in the Butana area, Sudan : report of visit to Khartoum, 26/2/81-7/3/81. Institute of Geological Sciences, 25pp. (WD/OS/81/006) (Unpublished)
Evans, A.D.; Cornwell, J.D.. 1981 An airborne geophysical survey of the Whin Sill between Haltwhistle and Scots Gap, south Northumberland. Institute of Geological Sciences, 40pp. (WF/MR/81/047) (Unpublished)
Haslam, H.W.; Kimbell, G.S.. 1981 Disseminated copper-molybdenum mineralisation near Ballachulish, Highland Region. Institute of Geological Sciences, 50pp. (WF/MR/81/043) (Unpublished)
Hughes, I.G.. 1981 Report on advisory/inspection visits to Pakistan and Kenya. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey. (WC/OR/81/015) (Unpublished)
Hughes, I.G.. 1981 Report on advisory/liaison visit to Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 23pp. (WC/OR/81/001) (Unpublished)
James, A.N.; Cooper, A.H.; Holliday, D.W.. 1981 Solution of the gypsum cliff (Permian Middle Marl) by the River Ure at Ripon Parks, North Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 43. 433-450. https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs.43.4.433
Jones, R.C.. 1981 Reconnaissance geochemical maps of parts of south Devon and Cornwall. Institute of Geological Sciences, 14pp. (WF/MR/81/044) (Unpublished)
Leake, R.C.; Auld, H.A.; Stone, P.; Johnson, C.E.. 1981 Gold mineralisation at the southern margin of the Loch Doon granitoid complex, south-west Scotland. Institute of Geological Sciences, 46pp. (WF/MR/81/046) (Unpublished)
Parker, M.E.; Cooper, D.C.; Bide, P.J.; Allen, P.M.. 1981 Mineral exploration in the area around Culvennan Fell, Kirkcowan, south-western Scotland. Institute of Geological Sciences, 37pp. (WF/MR/81/042) (Unpublished)
Tandy, B.C.; Mountford, B.R.; Basham, I.R.; Jones, R.C.; Michie, U.M.. 1981 Mineral investigations near Bodmin, Cornwall. Part 2, new uranium, tin and copper occurrences in the Tremayne area of St Columb Major. Institute of Geological Sciences, 42pp. (WF/MR/81/045) (Unpublished)
Wright, E.P.; Benfield, A.C.; Edmunds, W.M.; Kitching, R.. 1981 Hydrogeology of the Kufra and Sirte Basins, Eastern Libya. Institute of Geological Sciences, 39pp. (WD/OS/81/000) (Unpublished)
Wyatt, R.J.. 1981 Geological notes and local details for 1:10, 000 sheets : TM 29 SW and SE Hempnall and Woodton : part of 1:50,000 Sheets 175 (Diss) and 176 (Lowestoft). Nottingham, UK, Institute of Geological Sciences, 22pp. (WA/DM/81/001) (Unpublished)


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Business fire expected to burn for 3-4 days
Firefighters will let building burn down and cool off before investigating what caused fire
A business burned to the ground earlier today.
First responders say the building was a complete loss when crews arrived.
"Right now, we don't know what happened," said first responder James Forbes. "We couldn't even get in to the building because of the fire. We contained it. That was the best thing the fire department could do."
Forbes says the building was a pine-shavings warehouse and bagging plant.
"The building contained about 75,000 bags of pine-shavings," said Forbes. "They had a bagging machine, one diesel-operated front loader and a bunch of plastic bags. That's where the black smoke is from -- about 30,000 plastic bags."
Forbes says crews will let the building cool down for about three to four days before beginning an investigation.
"They'll go in, investigate and see what caused it," said Forbes. "Of course, the insurance companies will be down doing their thing. We'll know then what caused it."
Forbes says about 25 people work for the company, but only 10 work at this building. He says no one was hurt in the fire.
"When it first started, they evacuated the building," said Forbes. "No one has been inside since."
Waldron Fire Chief Wayne Watkins says three other fire departments, as well as the Arkansas Forestry Commission, were called in to help battle the flames.
"We called three fire departments in to protect the flammable liquids that were beside the building," said Watkins. "Tyson had rail cars full of feed, which were flammable. We had to have those moved."
Watkins says the Tyson feed mill was also evacuated, for safety reasons.


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But his cartoon hero status will be inadmissible when he appears in court in Pretoria on Friday charged with murdering his 30-year-old girlfriend.
The death of Reeva Steenkamp from gunshot wounds at Pistorius's home in a gated community in South Africa was a tragedy with only one true victim: the law graduate, entrepreneur, television presenter and model who died at the hands of perhaps the most famous runner after Usain Bolt, whether accidentally or by design.
Either way, one of the most romantic sporting tales of modern times has been engulfed by darkness. Pistorius was emblematic of London 2012. He was an inspiration who had defeated those who tried to stop him running on the main Olympic stage. He was the man who bounced across the gap between the two London carnivals.
Now, the world convulses in shock and Pistorius enters the dock as South Africa's justice system pieces together the grim events of Wednesday night and Thursday morning: Valentine's morning.
Memories of Pistorius in London remain vivid. Few nights went by in the media zones of the Olympic Stadium without his excited chatter moving along the line of cameras and voice recorders. Often he would tell his uplifting tale for an hour before finally padding away on his carbon fibre blades. We stage-door-johnnies would marvel at his appetite for publicity, his willingness to answer the same question endless times. Some nights he would give 20 interviews. Whole races would go by and Pistorius would still be talking. The tone was always the same: buoyant, affable, proud.
Pistorius was his own PR department for the amazing story of how he broke down the barriers of Olympic sport. "I'm not disabled, I just don't have legs," he liked to say. This was a personal movie about one man's refusal to be held back by a physical calamity. But it was also a broadcast to the world: to amputees and people with other debilitating conditions. He was throwing open the doors of sport to all.
He was a symbol, a moment in history, a one-man parade of the human will. He reached the semi-finals of the Olympic 400m before moving on to win silver in the T44 200m, gold in the 4x100 relay and gold in the T44 400m at the Paralympics, where he was a combination of poster boy and elder statesman.
His voice box was always working, his smile never extinguished, except for the day he stirred up controversy by accusing fellow Paralympian runners of adjusting the length of their blades to gain an edge. Even then he managed to present himself as the guardian of the sport, a fierce advocate of fair play.
Born without a fibula in either leg, he lost both to amputations. A prodigy of Paralympic running, Pistorius won a major legal battle in 2008 when the governing body of athletics, the IAAF, allowed him to compete against able-bodied athletes. At London he became the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics.
With the filmic grandeur of his story came a celebrity profile, not only in South Africa but across the world. A large PR industry grew up around him and he became a billboard regular. Advertisers loved him because he conveyed a message deeper than money or medals. Here was an athlete on the cutting edge of science, propelled not only by technology but his own courage. London 2012 was his chance to join Bolt and co in the worldwide consciousness and he expended every ounce of spare effort to make his story heard.
With all this swirling in our heads, the news that Pistorius had been charged with the murder of Miss Steenkamp at his home in the Silverlakes complex in the Boschkop area of Pretoria arrived as two possibilities: accident or crime.
Either way it has wiped out the sporting narrative.
To leap from recollections of Pistorius sharing the London stage with Usain Bolt, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis to an image of fatal gunshot wounds was indeed a shock. Whatever the truth, this is one more good reason to stop thinking the lives of top sportsmen and women are somehow superhuman and blessed.
The jolts keep coming. In the last few days alone we have heard allegations of industrial-scale match-fixing in football and a "widespread" performance-enhancing drug problem in Australia. In Madrid, a major doping trial is sucking in sports beyond cycling, itself reeling from the Lance Armstrong scandal. Paul Gascoigne, one of the most talented English footballers since 1966, has put his life at risk through drink.
Strictly, there is no connection between these events and the terrible news about Reeva Steenkamp. But they tell us not to think the gods of the sporting world lead better or simpler lives.
Paralympic sport was desperate to find a way out of its minority status. Pistorius led it by the hand into the big time. London 2012 was its great leap forward, drawing record TV audiences and establishing a new crop of heroes. Pistorius was the one the whole world knew. But he will no longer be known as the Blade Runner: the man who led disabled sport into the bright lights. His global renown will be much darker now. He will always be the man on "cheetah blades" who picked up a gun and, whether by accident or deliberately, dispatched a woman to oblivion.
In that sense his part in London 2012 already reads less like a triumph over adversity than a cautionary tale.


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Raptis was recognized for his work in bringing down a suspect connected to dozens of car thefts in the last several months.
Captain Thomas Conforti delivered Raptis and Arias their plaques, and said for Raptis, it wouldn't have been possible without his patience and persistence in bringing down the suspect.
"They sat there for hours and hours paid off," Conforti said, describing the night of the arrest. "Lo and behold, an individual came along with a flashlight, and broke into a vehicle right in front of him (Raptis)."
Conforti said officers chased the perpetrator for three blocks before later nabbing him and bringing the perpetrator to justice.
"These officers really contributed to the reduction of crime in these areas," he said.
Arias was presented his award for leading the squad in bringing down a suspect connected to a string of arson fires last month. Conforti said without the hard work from Officer Arias, the suspect responsible for the four-day, 13-fire spree would still be on the loose.
"This arsonist went on a rampage and started his terror in the 110th Precinct by setting fires at Best Buy and Macy's in Queens Center Mall," Conforti described. "As that fire was going on, the firemen were coming in and battling it, the smoke was coming through and people were evacuating, these officers really had the frame of mind to lock down the mall."


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8 comments:
- ScottT said...
Awesome pic. I like the filter effect that was used to make it look like a faded photo from the 70's/80's.
- October 6, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Sideshow Bill said...
OUTSTANDING blog. This is the sort of stuff that feeds me joy during October. The photography is outstanding, and the jack-o-lanterns are uniformly amazing. I stumbled upon you via a Dark Chicago link on Facebook, just to give credit where it's due. Thank you, and I look forward to pouring over everything, and sharing with my equally enthusiastic daughters.
- October 6, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Rot said...
Thanks, man.
So glad you dig.
- October 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Kilkennycat said...
I was wondering how my picture got so many views! Thanks for blogging it! Was taken simply with the Korean iPhone app Pudding Camera-didn't want to bring out the Canon in the rain.
Absolutely fabulous blog! Will return to see what neat things you find/post.
- October 6, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Rot said...
Thanks for stopping by.
LOVE your photos.
- October 6, 2010 at 1:58 PM
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- October 6, 2010 at 3:03 PM
- Rot said...
They're drowning.
- October 6, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Love the big witch on the front porch!
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Johnny Depp and the Dark Shadows team were in London tonight for the UK premiere. Is it freaking you out too that Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz look and act the same age? It's a compliment for one and not a compliment for the other. Obviously no one here approaches the amazingness of Helena Bonham Carter. Full Story
Who is good enough for Nora Charles?
I am fond of old romantic movies, which may be surprising, since my heart is made of roofing tar and ashes. But I do love them, I really do. To Have and Have Not, Love in the Afternoon, Roman Holiday, To Catch a Thief, Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday, and my all-time favorite, The Thin Man. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be Nora Charles, the smart, sarcastic heroine played by Myrna Loy. Full Story
Two in One
A nice treat yesterday at the Dior show during Paris fashion week: Eva Green who's been low key for a while and my Marion Cotillard celebrating her 33rd birthday today, both all French and elegant and effortless... It was a rather varied celebrity audience to support John Galliano yesterday - these two beauties on one end and then Lily Allen barely holding her sh*t together on the other, tossed in with a little bit of Katy Perry whose boyfriend looked like he just came from the skate park, and that was totally ok. Full Story
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The lake levels and the ongoing drought are major headlines right now. But a secondary issue seems to be the water quality or at least perceptions about the water quality. According to the City of Wichita Falls latest water quality study, our water is safe and of 'superior quality'. But many of us have noticed a smell in the water. Officials tell us that its a function of several things, but nothing harmful or unnecessary is the cause.
The old school notion has been that the lakes were 'turning over'. That is not exactly one of the reasons, however. Algae bloom, low lake levels and differences in temperature in different areas of the distribution system are some reasons cited by city officials in the past. Many people have simply resorted to bottled water. Home delivery of bottled water has skyrocketed in recent months. One manager at a local Wal-Mart location tells News Talk 1290 that the demand for bottled water there is 'almost as hot as the demand for ammunition'.
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Paul Dewhurst wrote: Quik wing first flew in the late eighties - it was called the bandit then, and was a small q derivative that was sold abroad as a one plus one. It sold best in Italy where Poalo Rossi mated it to his trike? I flew one in a competition in the early 90's in Italy. it was a darling then.
The story goes that Pegaus didn't sell one for some years then had an order, and decided to test fly it themselves as they hadn't done one for a while. They flew it under b conditions on a classic trike. It was just after the UK rules changed to the stall speed definition. After the test flight the light bulb was lit, and fin was hacked off, some extra reinforcement added A frame shortened, trimmer added, and it was stuck on a quantum 912 trike with shortend pylon. After a bit of rework on trike wheel fins Pod area and windscreen the Quik proper was born. And quite a revolution it was.
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Christian M. Connell
posted on Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 6:45 am
I'm conducting latent class analysis with scores from an 8 domain instrument representing different areas of functioning/problems. The domains are rated on a scale from 0-30, but in increments of 10 (i.e., you receive a score of 0, 10, 20, or 30 depending on severity). I'm wondering what the best way to represent the scores in the LCA would be?
When I model the scales as continuous variables from 0-30 I get a solution indicating 4 classes that make conceptual sense for the population. However, if I convert the scales into a 4-point likert (i.e., 0-3) and run as a continuous variable I only get a 3-class solution, and the relation of covariates to class membership makes less conceptual sense. The final alternative I'm considering is to run as a 4-level categorical variable (though I haven't tried that, yet).
Any thoughts as to the most appropriate method given the above description?
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Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 8:08 am
I would not treat a variable that cannot take on values between 0 and 10, 10 and 20, etc. as continuous. If you rescale the variable by dividing by ten and then treat it as continuous, I would be surprised if that changes the results. If the variable has floor or ceiling effects, I would treat it as categorical.
Madison Aitken
posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 7:58 am
I would like to run a latent profile analysis and eventually a latent transition analysis. My data are 4 independent variables from a screening questionnaire, each with a possible range from 0 to 10 (n = 345, clustered in 51 groups). Two of the variables use the full range of values but two do not (ranging 0-8 and 0-7). The data are positively skewed with many zeroes. I am considering the following options (although I would be grateful for other suggestions):
1) Use the data as continuous variables in a latent profile analysis. In this case, is the normality of the variables important?
2) Refer to the variables as count data (when I do so, the estimated means for my classes do not match the estimated means provided in the graph of the classes across the variables and some means in the output are actually negative, which should not be possible).
3) Dichotomizing the data into at-risk vs. not at-risk based on the screening questionnaire scoring criteria (my sample size is relatively small so I am concerned about using more than two categories due to possible sparseness).
What would the best approach be? I would be very appreciative of any inpput as I am quite new to both Mplus and mixture models. Thank you in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 10:47 am
I would treat the variable as a categorical variable which can deal with a piling up of zeroes. There is a limit of ten categories so you will need to collapse categories on the two with 0-10.
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NHL is looking puck-er again.
When I fired up my PS4 to review NHL 17 it brought back so many great childhood memories but this time there was not that predictable feeling of disappointment which usually greets next gen iterations of cult classics.
That's because NHL 17 arrives as a sleek and altogether puck-er (sorry had to get it in somewhere!) installment in this much-loved series from EA Sports.
EA's big test with NHL is how to bring a predominantly North American sport to the masses in this day and age?
It's not an easy task and ice hockey faces its own battle for the market share with other more popular sports in real life.
Back in the Megadrive and SNES days you didn't have to know about ice hockey or play it or even live in a country where you could play it.
The video game was revolutionary back then and all most kids needed to know was that at any given moment a rough challenge could lead to the gloves famously coming off and a full blown punch-up ensuing.
Nowadays much more is needed to get gamers to part with their hard earned cash for a minority sport simulation.
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Newcomers to the series will appreciate the amount of options at your fingertips but perhaps less so the difficulty in terms of picking up and playing.
It is tough to get used to initially but does offer veterans mature gameplay that addresses several bug bears from previous games.
NHL is a solid and true to the sport video game but outside of the hockey fans and sports lovers EA will struggle to attract the numbers which come naturally to the likes of FIFA and the various basketball and NFL franchises. That is not the game's fault, though, more a wider issue that the sport itself must tackle.
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Tiger Woods found lakes, bunkers and cart paths to stall his third round charge up the CIMB Classic leaderboard yesterday, as Bo Van Pelt grabbed a share of the lead after flirting with golf's magical 59.
Defending champion Van Pelt double-bogeyed the last to sign for a nine-under-par 62 and sit at the top of the leaderboard on 16-under 197 alongside overnight front-runner Robert Garrigus (69), with Woods (69) a further five shots back in joint-10th.
Heavy rain led to a second day of preferred lies at the soggy Mines Golf Course, leading to supreme scoring with only five of the 48 players in the field going over par in their third round.
Woods had raced to the turn in 30 after five birdies and four pars but his round unravelled on the back nine as he dropped five shots to offset two more birdies on another stifling day in Kuala Lumpur.
"I made a couple of bad decisions, bad swings on top of that, just all-in-all made too many mistakes and on a golf course that is playing this benign, you can't afford to do that," Woods told reporters.
"I'm going to have to shoot a low one tomorrow, something similar like Bo did today, but probably being this far back, I'm going to need some help," he said. "A great round tomorrow might not win that's the only problem."
Starting the day five behind Garrigus, Woods roared out of the blocks, holing a 12 foot birdie putt from the fringe on the short par-four first as he finally found some form with the short stick after two days of struggles.
Four further birdies came by the eighth as he raced to 14-under and held the lead on his own in the PGA and Asian Tour co-sanctioned event, which will become an official tournament on the US circuit next year.
However, the rest of the field were also taking advantage of the ideal conditions and Woods was joined at the top by four others at one stage, including Van Pelt, who had started the day seven back but turned in 29 to make up the gap.
Van Pelt added further birdies at 10, 11 and 12 to make it five in a row as he moved two ahead of Woods and set up the chance of joining the likes of David Duval, Chip Beck and Stuart Appleby in the 59-club.
While Van Pelt charged, Woods was enduring a difficult start to the back nine as he lost his second shot to the par-five 11th way right, the ball bouncing off the cart path and finishing up with an awkward lie on a bank.
Standing on the path, Woods chipped down to 20 foot but missed his birdie effort. He also failed to get up-and-down from the edge of the green on the next hole, missing a downhill four-footer for par to drop his first shot of the day.
After rolling in a straight 15 foot effort for birdie on the par-four 13th, Woods' approach to the par-three 14th came up short and rolled down the bank into the lake, leading to a double bogey after a duffed chip.
Woods rattled in a 20 footer for birdie on 15 but he dropped another at the par-three 16th after failing to get up and down from the bunker and then three-putted 17 for bogey after missing a short putt.
Van Pelt had few such worries on 16 as he rolled in his 10th birdie putt of the day before narrowly missing a lengthy eagle putt at 17, when his curling effort across the green at the par-five just brushed the edge of the hole.
Needing a birdie at the last for the magical but unofficial 59 due to the preferred lie rule, Van Pelt drove through the fairway to the left of the tee before putting his approach to the par-four in the bunker right of the green.


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Nelson Figueras describes his childhood in Cuba during the 1950s. The son of a revolutionary, Nelson describes living under Castro's oppressive regime and his father's eventual execution for crimes against the state. This horrific event was the catalyst for Nelson and his younger brother to be sent without their parents to the US in 1962 in Operation Pedro Pan.
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INDIANOLA, Iowa – The Simpson football team gained 466 yards of total offense but turned the ball over five times in a 35-26 loss to Gustavus Adolphus at Buxton Stadium on Saturday.
The Storm (1-1) out-gained Gustavus Adolphus by 100 yards, but two turnovers – one fumble and one interception - resulted in touchdowns.
"The bottom line is, we can't turn the ball over and make those mistakes and expect to win," head coach Jim Glogowski said. "There were a lot of positive thing that happened today, we just can't make those type of mistakes."
Donte Green recovered a Taylor Nelson fumble in the endzone and Torey Asao returned an interception 55 yards for a touchdown as the Gusties (1-0) won the first-ever meeting between the two teams.
"We have a pretty talented football team, we just have to get out of our own way," Glogowski said. "If we do that, we can be successful this season."
Nelson and Taylor Rogers each had big days through the air. Nelson completed 29 of 55 passes for a career-high 441 yards and Rogers caught eight passes for a career-high 187 and two scores, but Simpson managed only 27 yards on the ground.
"When you get down you have to wing it," Glogowski said. "We don't want to throw it that many times, but we do what we have to do to score."
Jeffrey Dubose ran for 119 yards to lead the Gustie ground game, which accounted for 211 yards.
Simpson started the game well, leading 17-7 mid-way through the second quarter.
Down 7-3 after the first, Nelson opened the second quarter with a 63-yard touchdown strike to Rogers. Later, Brad Vogel found himself on the receiving end of a 9-yard touchdown pass to cap off a massive 11-play, 99-yard drive.
That's when the problems started.
Dubose caught a 64-yard touchdown pass from receiver-turned quarterback Muresuk Mena to close the half, making the score 17-14. Then, on the Storm's first drive of the second half, Nelson was sacked twice. The second resulted in a fumble which Green jumped on in the endzone to give Gustavus Adolphus its first lead of the game, 21-17.
Two drives after Asao's pick six, Nelson was sacked and fumbled a second time. Andrew Lonneman caused and recovered the loose ball at the 15, setting up a touchdown catch by Jordan Rudenick on the next play to give Gustavus an insurmountable 35-17 lead.
Defensively, Mark Cronin had a game-high 12 tackles for Simpson. Lonneman was the star of the day for the Gustie defense, making three of the team's six sacks with a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
"This isn't the end of the road; we have a lot of opportunity to get better," Glogowski said. "You want to win and learn these lessons, but when you lose you have no choice but to say 'how can we get better?' Hopefully the lessons taken from this game will serve us well in the long run."
Nelson's 441 yards through the air is the third-most in Simpson history and the most since Mike Donnenwerth threw for 516 against Upper Iowa in 2003. Rogers' 187 receiving yards is sixth all-time and also the most since 2003.
Simpson is off next weekend and returns to action Sept. 22 when it travels to Eureka for the season's final non-conference contest. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.


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